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11 i► ;i 1 , - • I 4, This day was published, ptiee Is. Bd. sewed, r L EASONS liir tile 1M NI EDI ATE REPEAL of the TAX on FO it 1:IGN WOOL i . By JAS. B:SCHOFF. Loadan: Pr used :'or John Richardson, Royal Exchange; Hurst. hobinNon, aild Co. Chearide ; J. latchwrd, Piccadilly ; and 11,n1w.11.ind :11...rtin, New Bond-street. HUSBANDRY. On Monday the first of November, will be published, By Rum -Aix, Caanoca, and JOT price Two Shillings, a New and enlarged Edition, being the Fourth, of ALETTER to FAR3fERS and GRAZIERS on the Advantages of Using SALT, in Agriculture and in Feeding Cattle : with a copious Appendix of Proofs and Illus trations. By SA UEL l'A R K F. L.S. Sce. Author of the Chemical Catechism, Chemical Essays, a& ice. This day was published, in Bvo. price 91. boards. The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged, T ECTUIIES on the 1 3 111.NCIPLES and INSTI CUTIONSof the RO‘tAN CATHOLIC RELIGION; with an Apper.!ix, containing and Critical Illustra ti.ins. 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Sermons on several Subjects. Fifteenth Edition, 2 vols. Bvo. 16s. in boards. 11. Tracts, on various Subjects ; all of which have been pub lished separately before. Fifth Edit. Svo. 9s. in boards. • 4. On the Beneficial Effects of Christianity. Fifth Edition, Bvo. gs. 6d. 5. The Works, complete, of the late Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. with an Account of his Life and Writings. By Robert llodgson, au. Dean of Chester. Handsomely printed in six vols. !Ivo. with a Portrait of his Lordship, from so origi nal Picture, price £2 Ss. in boards. rr The Life of Bishop l'orteus, which forms one of the .Volumes, is sold separately, price 7s. in boards. LITERARY DISCOVERY. There has been discovered in the Ambrosian Li brary, at Milan, a manuscript copy of the Iliad w Ibincr, which has singularly attracted the attention of the learned; first, for its antiquity, which appears to border on the fourth century ; and by sixty pictures in it equally ancient. We know that the first manu script upon which all the editions of Homer have been founded is posterior to the tenth century ; the newly-discovered one bears a text more ancient by about six ages. The characters are square capitals, according to the usage of the best ages, without dis tiaciion of words, without accents, or the aspirates; that is to say, s% ithout any sign of the modern Greek orthography. The pictures are upon vellum, and re-' present the principal circumstances mentioned in the Iliad. These pictures being antique and rare, copies of them have been engraved with the greatest exactness. They are not perfect in the execution; but they pos sess a certain degree of merit ; for they are curious, inasmuch as they present exact representations of the vestments, the furniture, the usages, the edifices, the at ins, the vessels, the sacrifices, the games, the ban quets, and the trades of the time, with the precise characters of the gods and heroes, and other infallible' and numerous marks of their antiquity. M. ANGELO MA to, a Professor of the Ambepsian College, has caused the manuscript to be printed in one volume, with the engravings from the pictures, and the nume-! 1.,,us scholia attached to the manuscript. These new scholia fill more than 36 pages in large folio ; they are all of a very ancient period, and the greater part of them are by authors anterior to the Christian era, and to the school of Alexandria. The auth ors quoted are 140 in number, whose writings have been lost, or' arc entirely unknown. There are among them titles' of works which have not come down to us, and un edited fragments cf Poets and Historians ; they quote the most celebrated manuscripts of Homan, such as the two Of A NISTA MA lUS, those of ANTIMACHUS, Of A ItGOLICOUS, the common one ; in short, all the best of them; but no authorities are so often quoted . as those of ARISTA WOGS, A R ISTOPII A N 68, and Zuwo- Dorus ; that is to say, the learned men to 'whom the Poems of HostEn arc indebted for the most ingenious corrections. The manuscript, however. does not con tain the Iliad entire, but only the fragments which relate to the pictures. . THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE CiCLCCK Bank Stock '214 213 213 k S per Cent. iiejuced 65;i11 3 per Cent. Consols G6it 3/ per Cent. 74 1 1 i 4 per Cent. 834'1 5 per Cent. Navy 1021.1 i Bank Long Annuities 171746 India Stock 204 —India Bonds 7 9 pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) 3s. 2s. dis. . Omni= 4 n dis. Consols for Acct. 66fif. Consols this morning commenced at 661, but fell in five minutes to 66i. At one o'clock they were done at 66f. The denial that there was a difference between Government and the Bank of England, is said to be incorrect :—lt is asserted, on the contrary, that such misunderstanding does exist, and that it has materially assisted to depress the Funds. Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday arrived this day : their contents, however, are still unimportant. 'On Monday, Baron D'ULT RICHT; the Saxon Minister, had an audience of his MAJZSDY, to deliver a Letter from his Sovereign, notifying the Marriage of his Royal Highness Prince FREDERICK of Seas with the Archduchess CAROLINE of PRUSSIA.. Count TATISCIIEFF, Envoy Extraordinary from the Court of Russia, has quitted Paris, on his return to Russia. French Funds, Five per Cents, 70f. 95c. At a late hour last night a Flanders Mail arrived, with Brussels Papers to the 22d instant, from which the following are extracts : • MADRID, OCTOBER s. There is more talk than ever of the cession of the Island of Cuba to England, upon conditions which are not yet known ; but which are variously spoken of. In the mean time the inha bitants of that Island offer to the Mother Country an Immense sum if it will recognize their independence, for they cannot bear the idea of being transferred to the British Government. It is now doubtful whether the proposals will be accepted. The fever has stopped at Seville, and has not penetrated fur ther into Andalusia. Cadiz is the place where its ravages are the most terrible. Fifty or sixty persons die there daily ; twelve Captains of transports belonging to the Grand Expedition have died in two days; all business is at a stand, and every where images of death meet the eye. Of course there can be no thought of sending an army to America against the Independents; nor can it be foreseen whether it can be done when the fever has ceased. All the regiments are dispersed and disorganized. The cordon in the Sierra Morena, to cut off the communica tions with La Mancha and Estremadura, is very strict, and the reason fugitives cannot find an asylum in these two provinces. In the midst of our misfortunes, the entry of our new young Queen into this capital will be on the 19th of this month. • The fetes on this occasion will have a melancholy air, which must Beet the feeling heart of the young Princess. It seems more and more certain that the fate of the Exiles will be alleviated, and that many of them will be permitted to return to their country. Though the measures adopted in Andalusia to prevent the spreading of the contagion to those parts of the kingdom in communication with the capital, must dispel all fears of its pass ing the bounds drawn, it has been thought proper to place a de tachment of troops at Ocana, ten leagues front Madrid; to esta blish a Municipal Junta of Health ; to shut up all the small gates of the city ; and place guards of citizens at the five royal gates, to watch all strangers entering the city. The news front An dalusia is still alarming. VIENNA, OCTOBER 14. The Emperor Alexander and several German Sovereigns were expected here at the time of the Congress, which it is supposed will be protracted beyond the period now fixed for the re-open ing of the Diet ; and various subjects will be discussed, which will contribute essentially to consolidate the Confederation; and to all appearance the Institutions, the want of which have been hitherto felt, will be established. Mr. Itutizar, the Ex-Conven tionalist, died on Thursday, after a lung and painful illness. A Dutch Mail arrived this morning, and brought Papers to the 27th instant. The funeral of the Princess of BRUNSWfCK took place on Tuesday last, and was performed with due solemnity, and every mark of respect for her memory. FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 19. The Town of Elsingur has just addressed a Re monstrance to the King of Wurtemburg . against the measures lately decreed by the German Diet. At the moment when the nation was indulging in the fairest hopes, founded on the Constitution, which gives ad vantages hitherto unequalled in any German State, grief and consternation are excited by the publica tion of the transactions of the Diet, which are incom patible with the independence of the States, and with our constitutional rights. In the absence of his Ma jesty, the Petitioners apply to his Majesty's Privy Council, hoping soon to receive explanations on the subject, which may revive their hopes, strengthen their confidence in the triumph of justice, and main tain their attachment to their King and Country. The Official Gazette of the Grand Duchy of Baden, after publishing the Provisional Resolutions of the Diet, in its I.sth Sitting, announces, that Ordinances will be immediately issued for the execution of these Resolutions A similar notice is gizen by the Official Gazette of Darmstadt, of the 18th, respecting the Restrictions on the Press; and stating, that the other Resolutions will be also put in execution. In Austria, the measures respecting the Journals are also en forced. The Editors are obliged to sign them. M. Pilat, Private Secretary to Prince Metternich, sigm the Austrian Observer, of which he 4 Proprietor aad responsible Editor. Private Letters from Kandeish (20th March), men tion, that General SMITH having been called away to the siege of Asseerghur, the reduction of the Bhul 'Chieftains was most successfully carried on by the !separate forces under Colonel Hosaissox, 67th KL giment, and Colonel 111‘Downt.t., and Lieutenant- Colonel JERDAN, of the Company's 'Service. The last Arab body in that part of the country surren dered in the end of December. The Null Chiefs defended themselves in their mountainous district, covered with jungle and prickly shrubs ; but their weapons (bows and arrows, stones, and a few match locks,) were unavailing against their persevering as sailants, and huttce after puttee of those who resisted, was taken and destroyed. DUSSOT NACK, NACK, BOORIIAM KHAN, MEER KHAN, And other independent and powerful Leaders, had been either subdued or brought over; and this dreadfully ha rassing warfare, in which the troops were worn out with fatiguing marches, unsheltered and ill fed (their provisions being carried on men's shoulders), was fast drawing to a desirable close. Advices hom the Cape of Good Hope arrived yesterday. Every thing appears to be quiet in that Colony. We extract the following Proclamation issued by the Governor, Lord CLIARLES SOMERSET, to improve the state of Orphan Children, both Hottentots and others : PROCLAMATION By hi. Excellency the Right Honourable General Lord CHARI.EIi Hagar Sonasure, one of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, Colonel of his Majesty's lit West hitlia Regi ment, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty'. Castle, Town, and Settlement of the Cape of Good I lope, in South Africa, • and of the Territories and Dependencies thereof, and Ordinary and Vice-Admiral of the sante, Com mander of the Forces, &c. Whereas, by a Proclamation bearing date 23d April, 1819, the respective Landrosts of the country districts have been au thorized to apprentice all Hottentot children v.'hu have attained their eighth year, for the term of ten years, to ,uch of the in habitants in whoop service they may have beets born, and by whom they may have been maintained during the above-men tioned term of eight years, under the restrictions and regulations therein prescribed. And whereas'it has been represented to me, that it would be highly advantageous to the class of poor and unprotected in fants, either Ilottentots or others, who may at present or here. after be found in this Celoity, and whose situations are not pro vided for by the said Proclamation, or by any other law or usage at present in observance in this Colony, if some fin ther provisions were made for their protection, I have therefore judged proper to order, as it is ordered, by these presents:— That in future, in case of the death of I lottentot or other fe males in the service of inhabitants, or otherwise h.aving behind them an infant or infants without means of subsistence, and whose cases have not been provided for in the Proclamhtion of the 23d April, 1819, or any other law or usage at present in ob servance in this Colony, or in case of any other accident by which such children shall have been deprived of lawful protec tion they before enjoyed, the inhabitant in whose family such in fant or infants, at the time of the decease of his, her, or their mother, or of such other accident may happen to be found, shall make due report of the same within three months in Cape Town, to his Majesty's Fiscal, in the country districts, to the respective Landrosts; and in Simon's Town to the Governor resident, on pain of 100 rix-doUars for every person neglecting to do so. And his Majesty's Vocals, the respective Landrosts, and the Resident of Simon's Town aforesaid, are hereby authorized and directed, in the same manner as is prescribed in the said Procla mation of the 23d April, 1819, to place all such Hottentots, or other unprotected infant or infants, as by the laws and usages of this Colony are not otherwise provided for, with Christian in habitants, of known and acknowledged humane dispositions and good character, binding them as apprentice to such individuals until they shall come to the age of eighteen years, or to the time of their marriage. And that no person may plead ignorance hereof, this shall be published and affixed as usual. GOD save the KING! Given under my hand and seal, at the Cape of Good Hope, the Bth day of July, 1819. (Signed) C. H. SOMERSET. By his Excellency's Command, (Signed) C. BIRD, &c. By accounts from Halifax, the Lieutenant-Governor had issued a Proclamation, giving the substance of a Dispatch from Earl BAritt:iisT, in, answer to an ap plication of the General Assembly of NOVA Scotia, to annex the Island of Prince Edward to that Pro vince, in which lie stated, "that the PRINCE REGENT sees no reason to make any alteration in the existing Constitution of the Colony, nor to sanction any change in the forms which are now observed as to the appro priationofthe Colonial Revenue." The Duke of CUMBERLAND has been invested with the Order of St. Andrew, at Warsaw. On the 17th instant, at eight o'clock in the even ing, her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of M LENBURG STRELITZ was happily delivered of a Prince, to the general joy of the Country. The Right Honourable the Earl Of CLANCANTY, his Majesty's Ambassador to the Court of Brussels, embarked fiom Dover on Satur day for Ostend. The Bishop of LoNDox is gone down into Essex, to consecrate an additional Burial-ground, in the Parish „pi So uth m imter. r The Marquis and Marchioness CORNWALLIS, and the Duke of NORFOLN, are active and liberal patrons of the Bury St. Edmund's Theatre. The Marquis and Marchioness of WoßcFsrEn have arrived at their house in Park -street, GI osvenor. square, from their father's (the Duke of BEAUFORT) seat, Badmington, Gloucestershire. C. C. WESTERN, Esq. M.P. has left England for the South of France, for the recovery of his health. COVRNT•CTA RDEN TII KA ACRKADY list night made his second appearance in Richard at tkis Theatre. The success of his first performance attracted the most numerous audience that has been assembled durin* the present season. He was received through out with the, most enthusiastic and well-merited ap plause, and Ric-hard the Third was announced frit. Monday nest, amidst reiterated cries of " to-mct w." rliE AnAty. SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA, Act:mi :, . A coltneoNtENt.) The Mail will convey to you suthe;eno, news of the ravages which the fever is amongst us. Pal tof the 92d and 50 t h 1,, their escape on hoard the SEKAris, „} been roofed in, and mos: h:aldsornely .a n d given up by the Admiral, for the use of The loss in men stands about thus: 30th , 1"0. The sSth and 61st ale scatttered; all I can learn, their loss is not gre at . ing is a list of the officers and their relati have fallen victims in the course of this month : Lieutenant-Colonel Sparrow, Deputy AI/iota:kJ Litutenant-Colonel Blainey, 924 Iterimrut. Lieutenant-Coloud Hill, 50th Re;imtut. Major Rowe, .50th liriiimenrsson-iu-law to' goalery, of the 10th. Mrs. Rowe, wife of 11..it,r whom she few hours, and daughter of P.r,masttr Muntgomerr. Major Alontgomery, 50th, !on of Paysia , ter Mh• Mrs. Montgomery, wife ut ditto. Assistant-Surgeon Brown, 50th, sou-in -lase tit attii. Lieutenant Richardson, ;,oth. Lieutenant North, 50th. Lieutenant and Adjutant Lyon, sntb. Two Misses Lyon, daughters of Adjutant Lynn. Lieutenants R. M‘Donaltl, and George M irkie, !i2!„ Ensign Barlow, 50th. Doctor Alcock, Medic,,l Staff rlptlin and Paymaster Turner, 58th. Th• 3lis.es Baxter, daughters of Quarter-M: The scenes which have occurred during mortality have been most distressing. i t been confined to the Military, Icr have even out-numbered them. Monday, the Company of the 6th Reg, tioned at Aberdeen, marched, under the c.* Lieutenant MALLONY, to juin tLeir II Edinburgh Castle. The 90th Regiment are arrived in Shrewd Ten additional field-pieces, with a prop number of artillerymen, lave been ordered vernment into the Districts under the c‘r Major-General Sir JOHN llvxc, and we !la to think that they have already arrived there. THE LATE DUKE OF RICIIMOia (From a Morning Paper.) We are requested to state, that the account, Duke of RICHMOND'S death, which appeared' Paper of Wednesday last, purporting to be aL ficial Dispatch from CHARLES CAMBRIDGE, Earl BATHURST," is erroneous. %%e copieJ tick from The Belfast Aims Letter of the= No such dispatch has been received at the Office; and we are further iuformel, that ment is in many respects incorrect. The following is a copy of a private let, Quebec. It gives some particulars connected the death of die Duke of IttcuifoND, fore unknown here, and as it comes from a spectable quarter, it may be fully relied up l: " QUEBEC, SEPTEMBER 6, " You will learn from the Quebec Papers lancholy event of the death of his Grace the' RICHMOND; but notwithstanding what you serve in them, it is confirmed that a case of hr was the cause of this sad catastrophe, and it serted to have origitrited from the bite of afo the 28th of June. His Grace having left this about the 2•bth of June, on an extensivetor the Canadas, after his arrival at NN illiamllen: miles up the River, whilst walking about the with his little dog, Blucher, met a fox place, with which the dog appeared sociable, they entered into play together. His Grace much pleased, and expressed something likt that the fox should be purchased. Accordingly was attended to by a servant belonging to' who purchased the fox the same night. Nest ing Sir CHARLES SAXTON, seeing the fox tie tent pitched for the accommodation of the and apparently much irritated from his restrain tuation under a scorching sun, desired that tl mal might be removed somewhere into the He was then fixed to a wicket gate in front house. His Grace, on coming out in the me observing the fox, which he knew to he the had seen the day before, went up to him, sa) ' Is this you, my little fellow ?' and on offers put out his hand to caress the fox, Sir CHARLEI vox touched the Duke on the shoulder to pr , " apprising his Grace at the same time of the of the fox, and that he might bite. No, no, 'his Grace, the little fellow will not bite men patting out his hand, the fox snapped, zit! three scratches on the back of his hand, which blood. His Grace quickly drawing it back, Indeed, my friend, you bite very hard.' 111 morning his Grace found an uneasy sensation shoulder ; but ything further eccuired till , turning from his tour, when at the new back ment of Perth, on th e 2''2d or ‘);Id August: aft. ing returned from walking, his Grace done , servant to make two glasses of w i n e an d water himself and Major Bowtss. As sons as the . took the wine and water, he observed to theN that he felt a strange sensation on thinking it. the way from Perth towards the Ottawa river, of his servants observed his it titability and co aversion to water on crossing the smallest soon' in the woods, and they cou:d scarcely get bitnio!' On his approaching a small hut on the Ottae . 3 o rather than go into a house d os e t o the turned :lola., and ran into a barn; at a mtlier he ran from them into tip woods, as if to sight of water. His disorder was now rari l •!* creasing, and on arriving within six miles on t:' $ of the newly; named place of Itichmend, feting most excruciating torments, he ,!iod. $' o'clock on Saturday morning, the '2t , th of .11:8'. Major-General Sir H. Tart.on, K.C. B. 3111 . HAWKS LOCKER, Esq. last week laid the fottiallt stone of the two National Schools to be erecti. Windsor, for . the eJucation of the children e! poor of that Borough and its neiglibourlicoil , prlncTles of the Church of England. t r 'tl.Y s td` , 112. re i .' whi4 h um. it of e ph . Ith, 2 , ,x ); red ; b Gt ' Le , flip ' telatin 'le4 i n is it cnt h : n ast4i tat4 .11 SOOlerc, r: ei MtLtvr,.. in. dicu, Lynn. of -Master E.. 11 uric tliii lg. I: :a, , I Regiment the c.imme ti it Regi.., Shrewsb , a proper* ordered by the corner I we have d there. ilmoia to account appeared ig to be an - untreoz, L. e topic.] if the ‘22di:, at the 1, that tile- ivate letter s connected ),_Which from a uFol: P.MBEIt 6,1 c Papers the ;race the :hat you wi:i ie of hydro • ie, ar,d it is bite of a fox, tig left this . ' sire tour I I iam I lenry, about the v . .. a fos ahem red sociable, is Grace st thing like a :ordingly the' ring to the ;ht. Nest .he fox tied of the his restraint; red that the t into the J: in front ca : in the :no he the so! o him, say • d on offeii - 4 it CHARLES: der to e of the No, no, lot bite me!' ILL Icio , ": i 'h e n a lr a t i P i ;slti td ed s :i . d : l t t iayl l i rd c i t , . e id ai .b ei ksao st't d .‘: st a ti i' l %: i d c i .l' ti t i h d 'a' s t ,it : :ka ti. lc i ° : cei b . i f,lict . r e j i ine: ,:i g d , ' .:, ' y get him thethuwa rr to the Rive r, . at anctlicr is if to Jura t, now rati-':f miles on ell's! mend, atte 7 he ,'.led. at sth of I the fottildg' to he erectei children et. itl