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2.IIRABEAU ' S PLAGIARISM. The Count de Mirabeau was one of those extraordi nary and highly-gifted minds which broke to! th in France in the early stage of her Revolution ; it is al most incredible that a genius of his cast, lei tile in elo quence as he was, and fill; of resources, should commit a plagiarism so singular and so curious, as that ‘vhic.: we are about to record, and that iron) so distingMslied a public s Titer as Mr. Burke, whose works ale In the lit rary of every scholar in Europe, and whose Pariia entar,y speeches, from their celebrity, would seem to render detection unavoidable. Yet such is the extraor dinary fact. The Count de Mirabeau, in a pobiication of the year 1788, Aux Balaves sur le Stathourlerat, thus addresses the Republican party, wh•ise designs had been overthrown by the Duke of B.unswick's march into Holland : " Q.ll si one lutniere prophetique 'eons eta revfile les evenemens futurs, Its mans que vous avey soulferts, et ceuz que volts souffrez encore, en cc c..s ineme vous aurlez du prendre la reso!ut" que volts avez prise, pour pcu que vous eussicz respecte votre gloire, et vos ancetrcs, et les jugeelicas de la posterite. 0 illustre disgrace ! 0 victoricuse defaite! I'uisse cette memorable epoque etre gravie dans les annales du monde en caracteres itictfac tbles, et st gloire rzster totijours nouvelle pour vos derniers neveu ! Alf ! Soyez jamais ignods de quicnnque tie saura pas qu' ayant a conibattre la tyratiiiie au-detlaus, la force at. &hors, la legerete de vos voisitts, vous avez succombe en attendant la cau.e tie l'honneur, la cause d. la Patric, la cause tie l'espece humaine ! Peut-etrt Ia furtune trioutpliera.t.elle de la renommee, comme elk a triomplie de la 4ertu. Alois votre conscience, du moil's, bravery SCS atteintes, et le souvenir de cc que you, avez tente habitera sans cease au fond de vos cceurs; it y reposers curium en on sauctuaire; it n'en aurora qu'avee la vie. " The Reader will find on comparison that this beau tiful buist of oratory is an almost literal translation into•Firench of the following passage in Mr. B,URK g'S celebrated speech, made on the 28th of February,l7Bs, (three years before) on the Nabob of Arcot's debts, spoken in allusion to Mr. Fox's East India - Bill : " It is not necessary that the Right Honourable Gentleman should sarcastically call that time to our recollection. Well do I remember every circumstance of that memorable period. Goo forbid I should forget it. 0 illustrious disgrace ! 0 victorious de feat! May your memorial be fresh and new to the latest •,ellera lions! May the day of that generous conflict be stamped in cha racters never to be cancelled or worn out from the tecurtis of time! Let no man hear of us, who shall not hear, that in a strug gle against the intrigues of Courts, and the perfidious levity of the multitude, we fell in the cause of honour, in the cause of our country, in the cause 'of human nature itself! But if fortune should be as powerful over fame, as she has bhrn prevalent over virtue, at least our conscience is beyond her jutisdiction. My poor share in the ,support of that great measure no man shall ravish from me. It shall be safely lodged in the sanctuary of my heart, never, never, to be torn from thence, but with those holds that grapple it to life." Such an instance of plagiarism as this has no prece dent in the annals of literature. k„ ."•«. qr IS • VORE t% ,4111 4 tc 'LT A. Ns•- - THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. The admirers of works of art wiil, in the ensuing season, experience a rich treat. Independently of the annual exhibitions at the Royal Academy, and the In stitutions in Pall-mall, a new Gallery will be opened in Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, to be entitled the Exhi bition of the Society of British Artistti. It must not be disguised that this Society has sprung out of the offence given to a number - of very distinguished-and promising Artists, •who felt themselves neglected or ill-treated, by Ore refusal or bad disposition of their several works in the Academy, arising principally from the inefficiency of the rooms at Somerset House. Among many other, equally conspicuous names, we perceive already en rolled those of Heaphy, Hotlierni, J. Glover, Wilson, Wyatt, Rossi, jun. Linton,. Nasrnyth, Wright, Barnet, C. Heath, Vincent, Ranson, Henning, Martin, Meyer, Elmes, Smith, Maliphant, &c. The regulations are upon Vie most liberal principle, and all artists in Painting, Sculpture, Architectute, and &r. :tying, will have an opportunity of displaying their several works to advan tage. Thelast art, as is known, is wholly rejected by the Royal Academy. The profits of the Institution will be appropriated to the relief of distressed Artists,their wi dows, and orphans; as also to the purchase of the works of' British Artists. The Gallery, which is on the eve of completion, will be entered by a handsome Doric portico, in Suffolk-street. Pall-mall,East, and will consist et a suite of six rooms, well proportioned, and severally adapted to the various classes of alt. The want of classification has long been telt at the Royal: Academy, but from a defi ciency of space it has never yet been effected. The ex treme length of the building is 120 feet. The large gallery 60 feet by 40, and four other galleries, each 30 feet by 20, all leading immediately in a line with the gland apartment ; there is, in addition, a small side gal lery, of nearly equal size to the four end ones. The entrance is by a noble flight of steps of easy ascent, • presenting on each side a space for the reception of works of art. The gallery lights ale admirably ar ranged,. and the building appears to us to be well cal culated for the purposes of exhibition. ANTIQUITIES. At the Anniversary Meeting o die Antiquarian So ciety of Newcastle, on Wednesday se'nnight, an inte resting paper by Mr. XV.Chapman, was read to this Meet ing, giving an account of the antiquities and curiosities discovered in digging the Canal from Carlisle to the West Sea, under that Gentleman's direction. The most interesting part of this communication related to the: discovery, on the shores of the Solway Frith, beyond Brough, of a subterraneous forest of oak, imbedded in a stiff blue clay, and lying from two to three feet below the foundation of the Ltoman Wall, which passed over it. The trees, which were of large dimensions were all lying towards the north ; the stumps of some were in their natural position. And what is more remarkable, the wood of these trees was in so perfect a state, as to be scarcely distinguishable from Ire ill oak, although. it is evident that it must have lain there some thousand years, as the period of its growth must have been Jong .ante rior to . the building of the Roman Wall., • ,S 0 pe•teuly son►nd was the wood that it was used for the purposes of embankment, &c. along with• other woad. • A 'piece of it was exhibited and presented to the Society. The An tiquities consisted principally of a rudely-carved horned figure, supposed to be a Bacchus, and a small coin, both found near 13rough. These were both presented to the Society by -Mr. Chapman ; as was also the (rag meta of a red earthen bowl, found in the station at Wall-end, on the first sinking of the colliery, and which was long in the possession of .the late H. Horuby, Esq. Tilkysqsa. The course and terminetion.of. this .mysterious river is on the eve of being filially nettled*" Private.let ters hare been received from the African travellers, Dr. Oudney, Lieutenant Clapperton, and Major Denham, SU kale as the middle of July last, from Bornou, whet:. they still remained under the protection of the Melt:. waiting their further proceeding to the Eastward until the rainy season shall have ceased. In the Mean time they have not been idle, having traced back the stream of die Niger from the great lake of Tsad, into which it falls full tt‘i; hundred miles to the Westward, and within one hundred miles of the lake Thife, into which Hornemanu had traced its course. Its name, it s , Tms, between the lake Niffe and the lake Tsad is Yaon, and on its banks are many pleasing villages and several large cities in ruins, particularly that of Old Birnie, which is stated to be nine miles in c►rcumference, and he horses mostly of brick. It was pillaged and laid w.►cv.e by the Fallatas, a most powerful tribe of blacks of Soudan, about fifteen years ago, when those I:tre cities of Konka, Engornou, and Birnie, near the Great Lake, were founded by the present Sheik of, Bunion. We have seen a letter from Lieutenant Clap. Perron, in which he describes in raptures the beauties of the Tsakl, and its numerous islands, clothed with ver- dure, and the tall and elegant Papyrus waving its plumy head high above the rest. The natives navigate the lake in large boats, fifty or sixty fret long, sewed together like those of Mastilipatam, and they have others with sciaare sterns on which sheers are erected for managing their fishing nets. How far this inland sea extends to' the Eastward had not been ascertained ; but in an in• teresting account, in the last Number of the Quarterly Review, of the progre3s of these travellers, it is conjec tured that its waters may be discharged into the Nile of Egypt. Clipperton mentions the height of the lake to be 1200 feet above the level of the sea, which is about that of the source of the Mississippi ; the length of this river is :;000 miles; the distance from she lake to the Mediterranean is little more than 2000; the fall, there fore, is more than necessary for this purpo s e. - . TOMBS OF GALILEO AND MACHIAVELLI. FLORENCE, AUG. entering the church of Santa Croce, the interior of which is melancholy enough, I was a little astonished, and very nearly fell down by placing my foot on a sepulchral stone, sculptured in relief ; an involuntary movement of curiosity made me read the name of him who had thus attracted my atten- don in his tomb. I read, Galilcus Galilei, philosophus et medicos, the mantle and cup of a doctor were the dress of this person, whose lean and serious countenance is half defaced by the faithful and the curious who visit the church. The title of physician had hardly made me aware of my error, when I noticed on the wall to my left, the monument erected to Galileo Galilei, the Florentine Astronomer, who is, undoubtedly, a descen dant of the other. In seeing this tomb one cannot help making a singular reflection, which is, that it is formed in the place where the Tribunal of the Inquisition was held when it existed in Florence. This is a consoling species of contradiction, for it proves that truth, reason, and religion, make at last common cause. Galileo gave a great impulse to the mathematical sciences by proving that the earth turned round ; but he gave as great an impulse to moral sciences by demonstrating that phy sical truths do no injury to truths of a higher order. In 1683, the Court of Rome condemned him to abjure his opinions. In 1737, a monument was erected to his memory in the Church of Santa Croce. Glory to GOD, and may the earth continue to turn on its axis! The tomb of Machiavelli, which is at Santa Croce, wat placed here in 1787. In writing his name, it is not necessary to add, that it is of itself sufficient praise, for all those who are acquainted with the works of that au thor, think well of him on hearing his name. The epi-1 tapli is, however, unintelligible for the ignorant, but all' the world must be taken into the account, particularly in a church. I very often read the works of this great prose writer, and am delighted to repeat to you now what I have often said to you, that he is as profound as Tacitus, and that his prose is as clear and elegant as the prose of Voltaire. His writings contain wen a little of the salutary pedantry of which Bocacio has given such repeated examples in his imitations of the ancients. Ma chiavelli did that for the science of politics which his predecessors had done for unfolding thought and polish ing language.—Extract of a Letter to a Parisian, on Italy. THE COMET. At the Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy, Jan. 23, Dr. ButNKLEY communicated the Elements of the Orbit of the Comet, from observations made at the Observa tory of Trinity College, Dublin. Perihelion distance, 0.2640, the Earth's mean distance from the Sun being Unity. Time of passage through Perihelion, December Bih-13h. 7m. ON. mean time at Observatory, T.C.D. Inclination, 754. 47m. 301. Ascending node, 302 d. 51m. 40s. Perihelion, 269 d. 30m. 30s. Alotion, retrogrAde. It does not appear that this Comet has been recorded to have been observed before. The Comet of 1677 nearly agrees as to its perihelion distance, and the inclination of its orbit, but not as to its other elements. At this time (Jan. 26) the Comet is distant from us about forty five millions of miles, and is now somewhat nearer than it has yet been, but on account of its greater distance from the sun, its light has become much weakened. Its distance from the earth will now increase, and its dis tance from the sun continuing to increase, both circum stances will soon render the Comet difficult to be seen. ANOTHER COMET.—A correspondent in the Dumfries Courier, states that a second comet has been discovered. It is in the constellation Draco, nearly half-way be tween the Greater and Lesser Bear, and within a short distance of Alpha Draconis, over which it throws its tail. That unlearned readers may the more easily dis cover it, they may attend to the following directions:— The Plough (Ursa Major), about seven o'clock in the evening, points almost directly downwards. At this hour, let them look at the second and third stars of that constellation, counting Upwards, and then cast their eyes towards the left, and they will see, at some distance, two other stars, which form a parallelogram s ith the stars first mentioned. These are the two brightest and lowest stars of the Lesser Bear... Now, about half. way between these two points, they will observe a single star, which is the Alpha Draconis that we haste mentioned as enveloped in the tailof the comet." Monday, an In4uest was -held on board the Alto:m um/a., on the bodies of John Sparway and Ander son, two of the unfortunate persods who were lost with Captain STEWART, a short time since. The body of Sparway was picked up at the top of Long-reach, on the beach, at high-water mark, by the oyster watchman. Anderson was taken up near the same place, floating on the surface of the water, by Lieutenant DIXON, R.N. Standgate Creek: Verdict—Found proumed. Monday, as George Eaton, a private in the Royal Marines, Chatham; was repairing a chimney at the top of the Hospital, he fell to the ground, a distance of forty five feet, and died the same evening. F- r' POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE A young wotpan, named Jane Moore, was charged with hnving stolen plate to an enormous amount, the property of her master, Mr. Kitwan,a merchant, residing in Riches-court, Lime-street. Mr. Kirwan stated, that the prisoner had been a short time in his service, and that he took her upon a written character. On Thursday night he went to the Theatre, and left the house in care of his two female servants, and his two clerks. On his return, he was told that a serious robbery had been attempted, and on ex amining his plate chest, which was deposited in a closet adjoining tu his bed-room, he found that it had been broken open, and that a great quantity of plate had been taken out. The plate, which was here produced, and spread over the table before the Loan MAYOR, consisted of spoons, tankards, knives, and a great variety of articles. Nothing was found about the prisoner when she was taken into custody. The prisoner, w hen asked what she had to say, was very much affected, and said she had done what she had in consequence of the embarrassment of her husband, under whose controul she acted. As the charge was of a capital nature, Mr. Kirwan appeared de sirous of making it as light as possible, and seemed willing even not to proceed against the prisoner. The Loan MAYOR said the whole case must be proceeded in, and remanded the prisoner. BOW-STREET. Orsanoati3arraay.—:%e;sl. Jase Solomons and Miehae! Isaacs were eirargectevith having assaulted Mr. David Alartin. The'parties are all orange-merchants in Ccvent-Garden Market. -Mr. David Martin deposed, that as he was standing by his mer chandise, about the hour of ten yesterday morning, courting some Money he had just then taken from a customer, he suddenly re ceived " a squashy, well-damaged St . Michael's vo;: in his right ear ," and upon his turning round his head to see where it came from, he received another, equally squashy, tap in his left ear. Then, turn ing his head to the left, he received another in his right ear ; and so on—left* right, left, right, for nearly two hours, withot.t 116 b e ing able to find out where they came from. " But at last," saii he, " by a curious skvint of my two eyes at tonne, I catch'd both these ere gemmen in the fact." Messrs. Michael Isaacs and Joseph Sobnions solemnly denied having done any such thing, and assured the Magistrate that Mr. David Martin was " a man what wasn't to be believed upor his oath."—Nay, Mr. Joseph Solomons offered to prove this, beforr his Worship, if he would give him leave. 1-16 Worship gave him leave; and setting his arms a-himbe, whilst he stared Alr.Martin full in the face, he demanded—" Now, Mister Martin—for that's your name you know—you have been sworn, havn't you ?" 0 Ver gout," replied Mr. Martin, I have shworn." " Very well then," cantinued Mr. Solomons, "non, upon the solemn oath you have took, didn't you—this very morning—whilst I was calling out to Aaron Levi, throw a great big rotten orange smack into my month— " That is where oranges ought to go!" observed Sir Richard, interrupting him. " But nut rotten ones," yottr.Worship, rejoined Mr. Solomons, and then continued his cross-examination of Mr. Martin—" I say, Mr. Martin, didn't you throw a great big rotten orange, which took my customer on the whisker, and came slap into my mouth just as I was calling to Aaron Levi, by which means I was almost choaked ?" " Upon—my—solemn oat—l did not," replied Mr. Martin, with much emphasis. - " Oh, LORD !!" exclaimed Mr. Solomons; and he and his friend were both held to bad. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday, Mr. Burrower, brewer, of Back-hill, Hatton-garden, applied to the Magistrate for his advice under the following circum stances :—lle stated that he discovered that an interesting looking young woman, about twenty years of age, had slept for the last three nights in the yard of the brewery, and such was the state of ex haustion in which she Was found, that if he had not humanely given her some food, and brought her into his house, she must have ex. pired. The girl stated that her father and connexions were of the highest respectability in Worcestershire; but that, owing to the ex treme severity of her stepmother, she was obliged to fly to London, and take a servant's place. Her naturally delicate constitution, and her not being habituated to labour, rendered her unfit for servitude, and after pawning all her clothes to support herself during the last three weeks, and pay her lodgings, she was at last turned into the streets. To save herself from infamy, she took shelter on those pre mises, in the hope of dying there. The Magistrate expressed his commiseration for her situation, and dispatched an officer with her to the Mendicity Society, requesting that they would attend to her situation, conceiving her case to be well deserving their consideration. John Fußbrook, James Ward, Rebecca Curtis, and Rebecca Burton, all under sixteen ye:a ; of age, were brought up by Dsxrington, one of the day patroL He stated, that knowing the parties to b re puted thieves, he took them into custody on Thursday, in Holborn, under suspicious circumstances. On their persons were found a number of new sUk handkerchiefs, silver snuff-boxes, pencil-cases, and various trinkets ; and on searching the lodgings of the females, beaver hats with ostrich feathers, pelisses, and an elegant assortment of ladies' dresses were found. An immense number of duplicates of unused linen-drapery, pledged in all quarters of the town, were found on them—They were remanded for a week, that the property might be traced. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday John Prezentan and Rachel Barber, his wife's sister, a girl about sixteen years ()Cage, wete brought before Sir Glosor FAaRANT, at this Office, from St. Giles's Watch-house, charged with cruelty to the infant son of the male prisoner, a boy only three years old. The child appeared half-starved, with its flesh torn in some parts and bruised all over. Both commmitted fur want of bail. UNIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JANUARY 30. Saturday last, being Bachelors of Arts' Commencement, the fol lowing 220 Gentlemen were admitted to that Degree. Those fif teen Gentlemen whose names arc marked (a) were Compounders. Kixo's Coct.rce.—Mr. Wilder. Tarim Court:E.—Messrs. Barham, Beaumont, Browne, Camp bell, Cresswell, Edwards, Foster, France, Gibson, Gurney, He neage, Jerentie, Kinsey, Lawton, Landon, Lockwood, Lodge, Mackay, Malkin, Martin ' Pigott, Remington, a Ricardo, a Ro binson, Rotimell, Smith, a Start, a Sturges, Tennant, Thistlethwaite, a Thomas, Thornton, a Turner, Utten, White, Wood-36. Sy. JouN'd COLLE.GE.—Messrs. Benson, Benyon, Blundell, Bra milow, Brown, Carrighan, Carter, Clay, Coleridge, Cowling, Day man, Dighton, Dovell, Drake, Duck, Dundeldale, Ferris, a Fos ter, Francis, Gatenby, Grant, Green, Halton, Hannam, Hepper, Hills, Huxley, Hyde, James , Jesson, Latten, Lawson, Lewis, Longfield, Lutwidge, Miller, Newcatre, Osborne, Parry, Peart, Place, Pyne, Ruddock, Steele, Villiers, Wake, Wilde, Williams, Wilmot, Wilson-50. ST. PETER'S COLLFGE.—Messrs. Berry, Beville, Cobb, Dearden, Evans, Rockett, Wilson-7. CLARE HA LL.•••• Messrs. Bazeley, Calcraft, Lagden, Lakes, Tee son, Whiter-6. I's-steam:a Ha t.L.—Messrs. Arlett, Atkinson, Pooley, Rising, Sandys, Turner, Winbolt, Worsley, sen. Worsley, jun.-9. CALUS COLLFUT--Messrs. Arnold, Clayton, Cory, Guest, Image, a Maxwell, I%loore, Sendai!, Sentker, Twiss, Walker,Weeding-12. Coarus CHRISTI liowstead, Cock, F.yrc, Greaves, Hammond, Herring, Ilooper, Spurgeon, Thomas, Tor , ner—lo. QUEEN'S Court/E.—Messrs. Atkinson, sen. and jun. Burn, Dunn, Dunning, Fry, Garton, Godfrey, Law, Layton, Longhurst, Mad den, Mange, Meyricke, Padwick, Pickford, Ramshay, and Whit ing -18.. CATIIARINE HALL.-3IvSSES. Beaver, Camidge, Caries, Frost, Gedge, Hall, Montague, Sidney, Wailes-9. Jesus Cou,soc—Messrs. Arthy, a Ashworth, Atkinson, Bartho lomew, Bower, Crosse, Langdale, a Manley, Moore, Palmer, Phillipps, Phillips, Shaw, Spencer, Spurs, Wade-16. Citazsr COLLEGE.—;Messrs. Baines, Baldwin, Bloomfield, Budge, Collins, Fisher, Hersiey, Prentis, Severne, Raters, Walter, Wedge wood, Worley, Young-14. MAGDALENE COLLEGE.—Messrs. Blackburne, Crawley, Crosland, Evans, Finch, Ford, Hall, Hodgson, Owen, Wortham-10. EMMANUEL COLLEGE.—Messrs. Fearon, Gery, Green, a Harford, a Hotchkin, Lloyd, llishworth,Valpy, Wardell, Watson, Wrey-11. SIDNEY SUSSES COLLEGL—.Messrs. Adams, Buckle, Fulcher, Fur long, a Knight, Napleton, Saunders, Tucker, WeUs---9. ' DowNetaa COLLEGE.—Messrs. a Crawford, Heberden-2. The following 48 Gentlemen passed their examinations but were not admitted to their Degrees, in consequence of not having kept the full number of Terms: Titihrn- COLLLG E. —Messrs. Batman, Duette, Flood, French, Hopkinson, Hirst, Johnstone, King, Lefevre, hellish, Patteson, Pearson, thickens, Vesey-14. Si. Join's a. —Messrs. Chabot, C. Clark, R. Clarke, eodrington, Fielder , Holmes, M'Call, Maxwell, Powell, A. Smith, Wheat..-11. Sz, T Itle 6 Cou.sua.—Messrs. Hamilton, Laing, West-3. Coirtri CHRISTI COLI.LG C. •••-:11r. Pratt-1. Quitx's Commit.— Messrs. Buck, Biagnall, Courtney, Jeckell-4. CAVIAIUNX HALL.••••MCSSIII. Coaeu., Murray, Wallaril-3. • Jesus Cott Ilenry—l. CIIR/ST CoLLter.—Messrs. Brice; Butter fi e2-2: RAIIIANUFLM.Adnutt — I. SITINEV SUSSEX , Cia.accra—Messrs. Eteei - o d, a G dtskell, farjue, Weaver-4. DowslNe Couxus.—Messras &gnat', Chichester, I onge, To t : lor--4. CLASSICAL Tatros.—The Commencing Bachelors of Art:;, who intend to offer themselves candidates for 0.• Cinssical Tripos, ate to signify their intention on or before Thursday next, to the Ex aminers, the Rev. T. S. Hughes, of Emmanuel College ; the Rev. J. Scholefield, of Trinity College; the Rev. T. slielfold, of Corp. Christi College ; and the Rev. H. Law, of Sr. John's College. -- ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. The Vcry Reverend the Dean of Christ Chu:ea is appointed to the valuable Deanery of Durham, vacant by the death of Earl Cornwallis and Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. Rev. John Frederick Doreton, to the valuable and united Rem ries of Neils and Leigh, Somerset. The Earl of Stanhope has appointed the Rev. Joseph Gedge,. M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Ilumberstoz, Lincolnshire, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains. Friday se'nright, the Rev. Edwin VAlwards, .A.B. was licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Ashticld wi h Thorpe, .in Suffolk, on the nomination of Lord Henniker. The Rev. Joseph Varenne, B. D. is empowered, by dispensatiat, to hold the 'Vicarage of Gray's Thurrock, Essex, with the Rec tory of Staplelntrst, in Kent. The Rev. Wm. Oxnam, M. A. Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter, and Rector of St. Pesrock, in that (ty. has hosto .-ell.tted to the Vicarage of Cornwood, in the county of Devon, conferred on him by the Bishop, void by the death of the lZay. Duke lounge. The 11ev. John Coker, B.C.L. and Fellow of New College, Ox ford, is presented to the Rectory of Itudclille, Backs, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. Boys. The 11th inst. the l'resbytery of Stirling met there. A presenta tion to the parish of Sr. Xiniati's, iu favour of the Rev. Mr.Gret, of Lesslie, was unanimously sustained, as also a presentation to the parish of Alva, in favour of Mr. Jas. Smith, preacher of the Gospel. EGITT.—We have been favoured with the following communications from Alexandria : A vei y a:riindant coal mine has just been discovered in Syrir, a few miles from the coast, from whence the Pasha of Egypt can draw such supplies as will enable him to adoet mole extersively the use of steam-engines in his &minion:. Measures are now in progress, also, for erecting and es tablishing a lazaretto at Alexandria. This circumstance proves incontestibly the enlightened mind of the present Ruler in Egypt. Were similar measures of precautiol adopted in other ports in the Levant, the terrible scourge of the East would soon disappear. It is the fatalism of the Turks which occasions the wide and spreading ravages of the plague. We...rmissioned some time ago the arrival of a giraffe, or'eariiplpopard, at Alexandria, and of its having been shipped froftl thence on board the Titus, to Constantinople, as a irmscot to the Grand Signior. The vessel, we hear, was kit off the Dardanelles, but the giraffe, and twenty-ooe Ara bian horses, were brought safely to shore, and con elucted by land to Constantinople.—Cambridge LA7O4- The " yew tree shade," and the oraves " many a mouldering heap," so pathetically describetl'hy Gaav in his beand• ful Elegy, remain nearly in the s .me state in which they were whelk the Poet was alive, in the picturesque Church-yard of Stoke. DIED. tan. 19, at his house, York-place, Clifton, aged 71 1 the Rev. Thomas Grinfield. Jan. 11, Captain William Nivel'', late Surveyor of the Customs, at Greenock.—By fame he was reputed the son of that facetious and well known character described in Roderick Random, under the title of Strap. Saturday, in liryanstone-street, Portman-square, of a pulmonary complaint, Miss Anne Philpot, aged 17, only daughter of the Rev. William Philpot, Rector of Everdon, in Northamptonshire. Jan. 23, in his 31st year, James Claverhl, ha' late of the 14th Regiment of Dragoons. Sunday, at Winkfield, a?ed Si, the Rev. George Iloyce, more than 50 years Curate of Winkfield, and Master of the Grammar Schools there. NEW GATE Amo•LEA H ALL MARK Icfs, JAN. $O. Beef Mutton PRICES or HAY AND STRAW Y EST ERDAY. ST. JAMES ' S. Hay 31 Ss 01 to 51 103 Od I Hay 41 Os to 51 68 Od Clover 41 lOs Od to 61 Os Od I Clover 51 5s to 61 6s Od Straw 21 Ot 6d to 9.1 14s (hi I Straw 21 2i to 21 Bs Od PRICE OF HOPS. NEW SACO. 160, to WI 147 s to ]bus 150$ to 200 s Kent Sussex Essex SOAI', &c. per 112/b. Ditto rough ........ 18t od Yellow Ssap Mottled ... Curd Palm ............ ....... NeV TOC li ZTS. Kent 170 s to 240 s Susstx Essex Farnham.— 161 Os to 211 Os PRICE, or TALLOW, Town Tallow 39s Od Yellow Russia Whille ditto Soap ditto Melting Stuff ... PRICE OF CANDLES—From Tallow Chandlers' Hall. Candles, per 110 Z. 8s 6d—Motild6, 103 Od; 6d. per dozen allowed for ready money. PRICE OF LEATHER. Butts, SO to 561bs each 22i to 23d per lb Ditto, 56 to G6lbs each ....... ............ 24d to —d Dressing Hides .......... ........... lB4 to 111. Fine Coach Hides... .............. ...... 2od to 21 Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for eals tutting 174 to Ditto 45 to 50Ibs Calf Skins, 36 to 401bs tad to *4- Ditto SO to 701 b. 44 to el Ditto 70 to 80Ibs 224 to 244 Small Seals (Greenland). iii is .19d Large ditto « , }Ad to 1114 Tanned Horse Mae% l4l to 124 Spanish Horse H, RAW HIDES. Best Ileifers and Steers (par Ordinaty ... 2s 4d to 21 61 stone) Middlings ... 2s dd to Ss 101 Eng. Horse Os Od. tO Os Od COAL MARKET, JANUARY 30. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Pric. , 75 Newcastle - 26 - 344. 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