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THIS PRESENT EVENING, their Majesties' Servants will perform THE DUKE OF MILAN. , L am m Mr. Zeta ; Francisco. Mr. Rae; Paean: Mr. maim"; Hernando, Mr. Barnard; Tiberio. wags& ; Si... u re powidlS Macchio. Mr. Ozberr, ; Medina, Mr. Kent. radb i r4 2 /:arilay; Isabella, Mrs. Beeman ; Mariana, Miss 1 0 7 0 Mrs. Horn ; Margarita, Mrs. Scott. - To which will be added, — 7AT t,I&XTI Ib Pay ON Debra;lerferWhat Neat. ; with What Nest , ?t P " ---- THEATRi-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS PRESENT EVENING, will be per. • formed, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. sr leer Teazle, Mr. Forcett ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. T im; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Liston; Joseph Surface, Mr. Yom; Charles Surface, Mr. C. Remble; Crabtree, Mr. ; Css.dass, Mr. Hainerton; -Rowley, Mr. Chapman • Woes, Mr. illzossos; Trip k ifir. Farley ; Snake, Mr. Clare: am t. Lady Task MisoffNelll (her first appearance in Co say in England); Lady Snetrwell, Mrs. Eau& ; Mrs. Can bpr, Mes. Gibbs; Maria, Miss Foote. 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Cato and Latins; or, Essays ion Old Age and Friendship, Ova Abhor& Fitaosburne's Letters on several Subjects, written by Me!meth, 4671 cation, tlegantly and uniformly printed with the above, Lately publisbed,in Seven very large Vols. svo. price es. se. or With the Maw, elegantly coloured, 441. *is. AGENERAL SYSTEM of NATURE, through the three grand kingdoms of ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, 1 , aad MINERALS. trailskted Tian Gnielin's and Wuldenaw's _s' Editsms of tbr . celebrated Systems Natural. By Sir ClIAILtil I4N NI. Amended and enlarged by the improvements and Dia eoveries of later Naturalists and Societies. By WILLIAM **ORTON, M H. Fellow of the Liana:tut Society, Ste. Ste. The expediency of a translation of the Systeme Natural bas lsng b " . " aeknowlNdg. d, and the want of it often lamentedh—tbs Prumpst view'of the present kditor has been to deliver k in 14 4ilac. correct, and melul a torn, as the nature of such - a lobo gm`4,, sudettaking would admit. Tbst Linoman terms are fen-, "t 4 is , nearly as possible to the idiom of the English language, awl a &need explailaiory tlictiotiary of such as are peculiarly ap ieataane curiae science, alhx.ci to Ilse last volume, which also alatalus... a klugraph ica l account an d P or trait of the Author. The 4. wara k also accompani e d by su ch 'Capper-plates as are properly olicrodoctory to the several Departments of Birds, Fishes, In. PM% Botany, Sm. 44 Wong keritoot for Laskingtoo ao4 Co. Flasbory-square. AMICABLE SOCIETY, FOR INSURANCE OF LIVES, SERIEANTINNII, FUET-STREE r, LONDON, ed by QUEEN ANNE, 1708. • T HE DirijigaTO RS hive now to offer to the atten don of the Public. Tablesof Rates, which have Woo W ei / completed, for the INSURANCE of LIVES, at the various Ages front 8 to 79 ; either for the whole Life; any specific number of Yeari ; the'comingency of one person surviving another; or for the joint eosti nuanee of the Lives of two . Persons, the Inthronce payable on the Death of either. Insurances In this °lice are effected in certain awes tit t redno a.:2 • a rier"..ll4BWlba whole 440 t fl to e Insurances may be effected from X2OO to stSOOO, and evert kind of Insurance however short the period of continuance. r a ys entitled to a participation in the pecuniary advantages accruing to the Corporation. These advantages are wholly appropriated to the bonen: of the Instired, in proportion to the amount of each insurance, as circumstances arise in the year in which the death happens. In the last Year Insurances on Eighty-five Shares beams pay able; of these Seventy-sii having made Nine Yearly Payments , or more, received additions amounting to Ss per cent. Three Shares having mad* Seven Yearly Payment*, 36 per cent.; Four Shares having made Five, and Two Shares having made 'Three Yearly Payments, 88 percent. In addition to the sums originally insured. Abstracts of the Charters sod By-Laws, with Tables of the Premiums, maybe had at the 011ie, Where attendance Is given from Nine WI ihreeo'Clock. By Order of the Court of Directors, J. PENSAM, Registrar. FAMILY FISH WAREHOUSE. PATRICK, late BAYLEY. T PATRICK respectfully informs Families and ti • innkeepers residing in the Country, that every description of Fish of the primest quality may be obtained, at his Wholesale and Retail Warehouse, No. 20, Newgatit-street, corner of Rdse street, Nrivgate Market, and pledges biniwif that their orders shall be executed with the same punctuality and fidelity as if pre sent, and on such very moderate terms as will insure a cOntinii ance of their favours. N. B. Country Dealers supplied. CHINA, GLASS, AND EAR I HENWARE. rrHE extensive STOCK at Mr. JAMES MIST 11 is continued on Sale on the same advantageous terttis —A large square Deicending Stove, with double Fire and Fenders, calculated to warm a spacious Building ; also a useftil black Geld ing, with two Carts and Harness, to be diipused' of by ordet of the Assignees.—No. 82, Fleet -street, March 6, 1816. ISLE OF WIGHT. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Order of the Honourable Commissioners of his Majesty's - Customs, at the Custom-I%oov, EAST COWES, on WenNes- Dar, March 20, 1616, v Eleven o'clock In the Ferenoon, THE UNDER-MENTIONED GOODS, which have been seized and legally condemned, viz. SFIRITS.-430 Gallons Brandy, 770 Gallons Geneva. Per Home Consumption, at not less than the duties, viz. liss. iod. per Gallon. TosAcco.-140 lbs. Untnanufactored, 225 lbs. Manufactured, 40 lbs. Segars, and 5 lbs. Snuff. For hsportation, Duty-free. . Also, 94 Sails, 6 Anchors, 4 Masts, 4 Bowsprits, and a variety of Materials, Planks, 'limbers, Knees, &c. of four broken-up Vessels and seven Boats. To be viewed and examine , ' three days previous to the Sale, .on application to the Warehouse Keeper. MAIDA-HILL, EDGF.WAR E-ROAD. Genuine, Elegant, and Fashionable HGOSFAULD FURNI TURE, FIX IV RES, brilliant Plates of GLASS, I.US FRES, MIRRORS, CHINA, GLASS, LINEN, a small SERVICE of PLATE, and PLA ARTICLES, &c. the Property of a Lady. By Mr. ROBINS. •u the mmtses, No. r Mate. sues, ZdseWouip reia r aft Mess sax Marc; In, at Eleven o'Clock, THE Genuine and Splendid HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, enmprising capital four-post Bedsteads, with Mahogany Pillars and handsome Chintz Cotton For. nitures, Canopy, e - nt, and other Bedsteads and Furnitures, prime seasoned Feather Beds awl Bedding, ,elegant Suites of Drawing and Dining Pariour Curtains, with fringed Draperies in Chintz, Cotton and Morine , Japanned Drawing roam Chairs, Couches, Soles, ()unmans, ac. Turkey, Brussels, and other Car pets, excellent Cabinet Agt.cle's in Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Bookcases, Cud, Pembroke, Sofa, and Loa 'l' shies, in Rose wood and Mahogany, brilliant Plates of Glass, Lustres, Mirrors, Alec. Mahogany Frame Dining-room Chairs, seats in Red Mo. rocco, handsome Pedestal Sideboard. Cellaret, capital Set of Pa. tent Dining Tables, China, Glass, Linen, small Service of Plate, and Plated Articles, Bronzed Figures and Candelabras, hand some Register and ocher Stoves, Fenders and steel cut Fire-irons, numerous Kitchen Requisites, Mangle, and various other Effects. To be viewed, by applying en the Premises, on Friday an , l Saturday preceding the Sale, where Catalogues may be had, at Is. each; o! Messrs: Long and Kinderly, Solicitors, Gray's km. court ; and of Mr. Robins, Warwick-street, Golden-square. DORKING,. SURREY. FREEHOLD LAND for BUILDING, and BUILDING MA TERIALS of a DWELLING•HOUSE, iu Lore, to be paled down. By Mr. ROBINS, On the Premises, In South-street, Dorking, on MONDAY, the 25th instant, at hleven o'Clock, ADESIRABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE, eligibly situate at Dorking, in the County of Surrey. LOT 1. A valuable Plot of Ground, situate in South-street, in Dorking, occupying a Frontage upwards of 93 feet, and running back a considerable depth, a very eligible spot for building upon, being the scite of the present House and the Pleasure Ground. Lox. 2. A Piece of Land fronting the Turnpikeßoad to Nor sham, at present used as a Timber-Yard, and in the occupation of Mr. Steut, with a part of the Field behind the same, contain ing a Frontage to the Road of about 155 feet, and in depth about 228. Also the valuable Materials of a Dwelling-House, situate iu Smith-street, Dorking, late in the occupation of Mr.Wa rneford,i consisting of good Deal Flooring, excellent Timbers, in various scantling, Sts-panneled, Moulded, and other Doors, Glazed Sashes, Frames, and Shutters, a quantity of Wainscoting, stair case with Wainscot Baluster and Hand-rail, Marble and Port. land Chimney-Pieces, a quantity of Lead, good Biriek-Work,: plain and other Tiles, Yorkshire and other Paving—all con-4 vertible to useful purports. . To be viewed on Friday ani Saturday preceding it Sale. Ca talogues may be Won the 1-reosbes; at the Red Lion, Dorking; the Hare and Hounds, Burford-Bridge ; King's Arms,Gulldford ; Swan, Leatberbied ; King's Head, Horsham ; Spread Eagle, and Queen's Head, Broom; Bull's Head, Ewen; and of Mr. Robins, Warwick-street, Golden-square. SELECT AR FICLES OF ESTABLISHED REPUTATION. HEME's ESSENCE of PEARL and PEAR t 'r DENTIFRICE, which excel, both in elegance and efficacy, every Mk+ preparation for the Teeth and Gems, price 2s. 9d. cash. The Earnests particularly recommended to Parents and per sons who have the care of• Children as the greatest preservative' of Young and tender Teeth. None are Genuine but what have the words, "I. Hemet, Bayley and Blew, Cockspur-street," en graved in the stamp. CATHARMIAN WATER,, for the general improvement of the Complexion, the tare of an cutaneous disorders, and the bites and stings of venomous insects. Pints 7s. ed. Half-pints 45.fkL each. BAYLEY% TRUE ESSENTIAL SALT of LEMONS fur taking ink spas and stains out of Lace and Linen. The genuine is signed "W. Bayley" on the Box and Wrapper. Also HIS SCOURING DitOPS,for taking Grease out of Silk, Stuff; Wool . lea Cloth, Ste. price ls. each. Veritable POMMADE DIVINE, price as. ed the glass. Sold Wholesale and Retail by Bar Lev and ',Lew, Perform's, and Manufacturers of Dressing and Writing Cases, Calmar street, Loudon ' • where - also may be tied, Cadman's incomparable Razor Strap, th e best and most durable one over aubtniued to the public, price Si. sod 101.14 each. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH i 5. Counsel were further heard respectinr the Appeal Cute, " Lewes, Bnt. o. Morgan." To proceed again on Monday Thear Lordships then adjourned during pleasure; and at live o'clock the House resumed. • The Pillory Abolition Bill was brought up from the 'Commons . ' by Mr. M. A. TAT Loa, sod others, and read a first time. •3 b. Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the naittpshire Agrieoltural Sudety, relative to the state of the ob jects of their institielonratni_proyhtg relief.--Ordesed to Be -er r ' tbeiable.. _ Mr. WterceesTea , from the General Post Olice, presented at the Bar an Account of the Balances in the hands of the Deputy Postmaster at the conclusion of the last year. Uri STANHOPE presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of the district of Lamb et h, i n t h e couhty o f Surrey, aga i nst t h e • continuance of the Income Taz, and the proposed Military Este. documents were ord‘red to lie oo the table. QUAKER. Earl STANHOPE presented a Petition on, he said, a most important :topic, and to which he re quested the particular attention of their Lordships. His Lordship then proCeeded to state, it was from a respectable individual of the sect commonly called Quakers.. His grounds of complaint were divided into four distinct heads, and made the subject of so many petitione, which he should afterwards have to submit to their Lordships. The prominent circum stances were the refusal of a certain Attorney whom the Petitioner had applied to ; and also an Officer whose duty it was to furnish such things, but who refused to take out for, or to grant him a subpona. This instrument was an order for the attendance tof person to give evidence upon a trial. An omission of this kind, they knew, may make a mm lose his suit. It was tantamount so far to shutting up the doors of a' Court of Justice. A more flagitious or dangerous instance than that before them he never knew. The Petitioner had been advised that the Attorney he' employed had put in a wrong plea ; lie remonstrated with him upon the subject. He was told, that because his Bill was paid his subpana should not be served, though the next were the day of trial. With another Attorney he was not more successful. He then determined to go himself to the Officer of the Court. The officer gave what may Ise a justifiable answer—it was, that though his name was to the subptenas, it was not his business to grant them. He next applied to the Deputy without suc cess. The Petitioner afterwards applied to a Coun sel, who said, that if he did not bring an Attorney, he would not be his Counsel. This was not the an tient practice. Two Attornies left him. He could not get a subpasna, nor a Counsel to plead his cause. This seemed to him to be of a different nature from the petition of Mr. Butt, which he had objected to present, but it being afterwards presented, he thought their Lordships had properly disposed of it. In the case of the petition against the Jailor of Gloucester, the Noble Viscount at the head of the Home Depart ment, had acted like a true friend to the Constitution, in causing the evils complained of to be redressed... ; The p..seot was a case worthy of their serious atten tion, and be trusted their Lordships would therein endeavour to vindicate the justice of the country. The Petitioner's case, as he stated, was divided into four heads, and on each a distinct prayer to their Lordships was founded. The LORD CHANCELLOR trusted that in such a case their Lordships would agree with him in the propriety of postponing any proceeding until they had an opportunity of looking more into it. The not receiving a Petition was different from taking it into previous consideration. There were many cases of the kind where the Courts 'of the country were fully competent to afford redress to individuals; and it was a consideratibn with that House to be cautious as to an interference in cases of original jurisdiction elsewhere, which may subsequently be submitted to its own appellant jurisdiction. He would therefore recommend that the consideration of the Petition should be postponed. Earl STANHOPE thought there could be no ob jection to the reading of the Petition. None being offered, The Clerk proceeded to read the address, which was-4' To the Upper House of Parliament, com monly denominated the Lords Spiritual and Tem poral." The LORD CHANCELLOR doubted the pro priety of receiving a Petition so addressed. This idea gave rise to a conversation between Earl STANNOPE and the Noble and Learned Lord, upon the technical correctness, in point of form, of such a designation, in which the former contended for its admissibility, as that House was described as the Upper House, in Commissions for declaring the Royal Assent to Bills. And, besides, he thought the well known custom of the Quakers should be allowed for. Being farther read. the Petition appeared to be ;From Thomas John Walker ; but, before much more of it was read, The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM-rose and sug gested to his Noble Friend the propriety of withdraw ing the Petition for the purpose of its being rectified. The LORD CHANCELLOR pointed out some farther objections to its being received in its present state. Lord HOLLAND seemed to coincide in the pro priety of withdrawing the Petition. Earl STANHOPE said, if it were the sense of the House that it Were better to withdraw the present Petition, he should do so, although he still believed the House was properly described therein. The Petition was accordingly withdrawn. PROPERTY TAX. Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition from the Cordwainers' Ward, in the City of London, against the continuance of the Income Tax. The Duke of SUSSEX stated that he had three Petitions to present to their Lordships on the same subject. The first was from the Merchants, Bankers, .and Traders of the Metropolis, and signed by more than 17,000 persons, and which his Royal Highness moped should be read. The gist of this document was against the conti- nuance of the Property or Income 7raz, the piaci- apt. For We led SEX ad a fA,olt7erva- H*4.qi4o.r;'.*•4m4l,,iips:',,r.. of their Lordships to the point of who these Peti tions came from—from the. Citizens of London, who bad mere than once so patriotically come forward, particularly in 1792 and in 1798 ; in which latter pe riod they pronounced tl • e strong resolutions, in cos. sequence of which the Property Tax was introduced; and these very individuals now coming forward against the Tax, was a circumstance which merited their Lordships' serious' consideration. ':here were two words, his Royal Highness observtd, in our language, nearly alike in pronunciation, but very different in their signification, namely 66 lissatisfac tion"And 66 disaffection." The former naturally gave rise to reasonable representations in the way of the petitioning; but if such should not be attended to, and their reasonable expectations disappointed, it may naturally be expected in some degree to lead to the latter. His Royal Highness then glanced over the progress of the National Debt, and stated its amount at different periods since the year 1700, ythen it did not exceed ten millions, to its present amount, which he calculated at 830 millions. He then ad. verted to the extensive proposed military establish• ment, which, if determined on, must necessarily in volve an extensive taxation for its support; but for such an establishment there could not be any nem. sity for proposing a continuance of the Income Tax. He thought material reductions in the establishment might be made ; and if that for the Colonies were re: trenched, a proportionate reduction might at once be made in the home establishment. The keeping up so large a portion of troops in France, he thriught, may be attended eventually with serious political colic. quences; and, as events may turn our, in very diffe. rent or opposite ways. His Royal H:ghness con. eluded with a few observations on our military sys. tem, as it referred to Continental politics, and in a point Of ♦iew of which he stated his disapprobation. The above Petition was ordered to lie on the Table. REDUCTION OF THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. The Order of the Day having been read tor enve. ing on the question of the Military Establishment, as proposed by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, his Lordship rose, and called the attention of the House in the first instance to the numerous and urgent peti tions from all quarters, and from all descriptions of people in the realm, from the proprietors and renteis of lands, from the cultivators of the soil, from the con sumers of its produce, from the merchants, the tra ders, the manufacturers, from the artisans, from all Classes and descriptions of people, which loaded, and were still pouring in upon the table of that House.— With one consenting voice the Parliament was called upon in those petitions to redeem a pledge to which the people deemed the Legislature bound for the mitigation or removal of the excess of those bar dens to which the public had cheerfully submitted, while the necessities of an unpreCedented state of war called for them, but which, when that war no longer had existence, they naturally expected would likewise cease. The public, so far from their reasonable ex pectatiens being gratified, found only an-intention, on the part of Miniiters, to continue the most odious and intolerable part of their burdens, in the strange and unprecedented extent of a peace military establish maim Reference had been made, and some undue inferences had occurred, relative to the part which he land some Noble Friends had taken on a former oc cation. They had then acted only according to the strict and immediate necessity which had been impo sed on them by previous measures, aed which could not at once be overcome. Reference - had been made to 1786, and likewise to the peace which terminated the war, called Lord Chatham's war, in 1763. But nothing in those periods, or in their relations or bear. jags,• was at all applicable to the public dissatisfac don at the present time. The difference in the value of money had been mentioned too ; but he was sup. ported by the admission of a Noble Lord opposite, in saying, that little or no applicable or adequate change in that respect had taken place. In considering the , military establishment, he would willingly leave out the thirty thousand men maintained in France ; that lie would concede to the faith of treaty in the present instance, though it well became their Lordships to look a little farther at their leisure. He would con , tent himself then with adverting to the military esta blishment at the time of King William, in the year 1697. when 24 thousand men were thought fully sufficient, even under the apprehension of a contest from disputed title. The colonial allotments were enormous. He would part , cularly call the attention of their Lordships to did East Indies, where no less a force collectively than 28,000 men was demanded ; that too in a time of - profound peace, although the ex perience of preceding and brilliant times had shewn, that with less than twenty thousand men, opposed by the active and enterprising hostility of nati ye chiefs and against the power and influence of 'France, Hol land, and almost all Europe, we were -triumpliaa there. He next alluded., to t!re extraordinary force which it was intended unnecessarily 'to keep up in other settlements. The force at Gibraltar was inten ded I. be increased, although the destruction of the Spanish lines had removed all apprehension of dan ger in that quarter ; and although the Spanish Go vernment was as incapable of doing mischief, as it was of doing . good. (Hear, hear.) He could not also help expressing . his surprise at the large force in tended to be kept in the lonise, Isles. These were possessions which had not been claimed by us were put into our possession' ifira re the o't powers did not know other t o e d o is d pese b of them, causetbeyietuired hotobew dcfedy a naval and force ; " . ~:,~ . . it ~— A ,. .a, • ,• :.