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sad contrast to coty halls, of which he had so •• • lately been the !skit brilliant and favoured guest, and which were possibly, at That vert - rucimeit,lighteek up !!94 crowded with gay cunpany, unmindful of him sw thin those prison walls: . . - • " Toolse's-court, Carehorigreet, Thuriday, put Two. • "I* have done everything in my power with the solicitors, White Isadirbwnea, to obtain my release,. by stilasthothqg a better security • .for them thait their detaining nii—but in vain. 64 Whitbread. putting all false professions of friendship and feel ing but of the question, you have no right to keep me here!—foe ft is in truth your act—if you bad not forcibly withheld [min, me the £14,000 in consequence of a threatening hatter front a Weenie ble swindkr, whose claim you in reticular knew to be a he, I should it least have been out of the reach of this state of miserable insult-4er that, and that wily, lost me my seat in Parliament. And I assert that you cannot find a lawyer in the land, that is not Ofthdr esaturathoen fool or a corrupted scoundrel, who will not *thee that your conduct in this respect was neither warrantable orletal‘s-but let that pass for the present. ' Independently of the 41,000, ignorantly wiiiiltsld from me ' :4111 the day of considering my last claim, I require of you to answer the draught I send herewith on the part of the Committee, plesig lug myself to prove to them on the first day I can personally mist them, that there are still thousands and thousands due to me, both legally and equitably, from the Theatre. My word ought to be taken on this subject; and you may produce to them this daces ment, if one among them could think that, under all the circum stance,. your conduct required a justification. 0 Goo! with what mad confidence have I trusted your word—l ask justice front you, and no boon. I enclosed you yesterday three different securities, which, bad you been disposed to hate acted even as a private "Mogi, would have made it certain that you might have done so without the smallest risk. Those you discreetly offered to put into the the, when you found the object or your humane visit satisfied . by seeing me safe in prison. " I shall only add, that, I think, if I know myself, bad our lots been reversed, and T had seen you in my situation, and had left Lady E. in that of my wife, I would have risked 6001. rather than have left you so—althoug h I had been in no way accessary in bringing you into that condidon. " R. B. SHERIDAN." S. Whitbread, Rs* Even in this situation the sanguineness of his dis position did not desert him : for he was found by Mr. Whitbread, on his visit to the sponging-house, confi dently calculating on the representation for Westmin• ster, to which the proceedings relative to Lord Coch-i rane at that moment promised a vacancy. On his re turn home, however, to Mrs. Sheridan (some arrange ments having been made by Whitbread for his release), all his fortitude forsook him, and he burst into a long and passionate fit of weeping at the profanation, as he termed it, which his person had suffered. He had for some months had a feeling that his life was near its dose; and I find the following touching passage in a letter from him to Mrs. Sheridan, after one of those differences which will sometimes occur beta een,the most affectionate companions, and which, possibly, a remonstrance on his irregularities and want of care of himself occasioned:—“ Never again let one harsh word pass between us, during the period, which may not perhaps be long, that we arc in this world together, and life, however clouded to me, is mutually spared to us. I have expressed this same sentiment to any-son, in a letter I wrote to him a few days since, and I bad'his answer—a most affecting one, and, lam sure, very sincete—and have since cordially embraced bun. Don't imagine that lam expressing an interest. ed apprehension about myself which I do not feel." Though the new Theatre of Drury-lane had now been three years built, his feelings had never allowed him to set his foot within its walls. Abtnf this time, however, he was persuaded by his ftiend, Lord Essex, to dine with him and go in the evening to his Lord ship's box, to see Kean. Once there, the genius loci seems to have regained its influence over him ; for, on missing him from the box, between the acts, Lord Essex, who feared that he had left the house, hastened out to inquire, and, to his great satisfaction, found him installed in the Green-room ' with all the actors arcund him, welcoming him back to the old regions of his glory, with a sort of filial cordiality. Wine was im mediately ordered, and a bumper to the health of Mr. Sheridan was drank by all present, with the expression of many a hearty wish that he would often, very often, re-appear among them. This scene, as was natural, exhilarated his spirits, and, on parting with Lord Essex that night, at his own door in Saville.row, he said tri umphantly, that the wails' would soon hear of him, for the Duke of Norfolk was about to bring him into Par. liament. This, it appears, was actually the case; but death stood near as he spoke. In a few days after his lkst fatal illness began. SHERIDAN'S CHARACTER. 11\ It has 'been seal, by a letter of his sister already ' given, that o .when young, he was generally accounted handsome; bet is later years his eyes were the only testimonlide of beauty that remained to him. It was, indeed, in the upper part of his face that the spirit of the man chiefly reigned ; the dominion of the world and the senses being rather strongly marked out in the lower. In his person he was above the middle size, and his general make was, as I have already said, robust and well-proportioned. It is remarkable that his arms, though of powerful strength, were thin, and appeared by no means muscular. His hands were small and delicate ; and the following couplet, written oa a cast from one of them, very livelily enumerates both its physical and moral qualities:— • Good at a fight, but better at a play, Godlike in giving, but—the Devil to Pay ! Among his habits, it may not be uninteresting to kr.ow, that his hours of composition, as long as he con tinued to.be an author, were at night, and that he re quired a profusion of lights around him while he wrote. Wine, too, was one of his favourite helps to inspira tion : u If the thought (he would say) is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it, and, when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it." Having taken a cursory view &his literary, political, and social qualities, it remains for me to say a few words upon that most important point of all, his moral character. There are few persons, as we have seen, to whose kind and affectionate conduct, in some of the asNt 11. teresting relations of domestic life, so many strong and honourable testimonies remain. The pains he took to win back the estranged feelings of his father, and the filial tenderness with which be repaid long years of parental caprice, thew a bean that had, at least, set out by the right road, however, in after years, it may have missed the way. The enthusiastic love which his sister bore him, and retained, unbligbted by distance or neglect, is another proof of the influence of his amiable feelings, at that period of life when be was as itt unspoiled by the world. We have seen the romantic fondness which he preserved towards the first Mrs. Sheridan, even while doing his utmost. and in vain, to extinguish the same feeling in her. With the second wife, a course, nearly similar, was run r e —the same scatterings and eclipses' of affection, from the irre gularities and vanities in which he continued taindulge, but the saMe hold kept of each other's hearts to the last. Her ugly letters to him breaths a passion little ~.~. ' sliort of a idolatry, and Let ctevotell attentions beside hit gdatth-ba, eteiredlhat the essential part of the-feeling still, remained. - - '7:7 7 - - To ebtim an ermption for frailties and irregularities on the score of mitts, while there are such names as Milton and Newton on record, were to_be brad to the "example which these and other great men have Irk of the grandest intellectual powersoombined with the most viituous lives.. But, for the bias given early to the mind by education and circumstances, rebn the least charitable • usay be inclined to make large allowances. We have seen how idly the young days of Sheridan were wasted—how soon he was left (in the words of the Prophet) "to dwell carelessly," and with what an undisciplined temperament he was thrown upon the world, to meet at every step that never-failing spring of temptation, which, like the fatal fountain in the gar den of Armida, sparkles up for ever in the pathway of such a man : " Un fonte some in lei, the vaghe e monde Ha Vacque si, she i rigitardanti asseta. Ma demo ai freddi suni cristalli monde Di tosco cstran malvagita steam." PAPAL SLATES. To enable our readers to judge of the intrigues of the Court of Madrid at Rome, we have thought pro per to publish the following documents. By them it will be seen that Senor Tejada was upon the point of departing from the Papal States, in the month of Octo ber of last year, in consequence dim order. forged, we have no doubt, by the Spanish embassy. But his Emi nence the Cardinal Secretary of State was so indignant at this proceeding, that he immediately ordered a suds factory apology to be given to Senor Tejada. This circumstance, added to information that we pos sess, of the publication, in the Gacde de Madsid, of Pastoral Letters from his Holiness, exciting the people, of America to the violation of their oaths and to anar chy, induces us to suspect that Spain, finding that she cannot reduce us to subjection on the field of battle, is determined to see what advantage she can obtain by disquieting the consciences of the feeble-minded. We nevertheless are too well assured of the good sense of our fellow.citizens to apprehend the consequences of such maneuvres. The enemies of America still think that we are as unenlightened as the aborigines of our continent, and consequently propose opening the cam paign with spiritual weapons. Let us then prepare our selves, and we shall not find much difficulty an dissi pating the brooding tempest. After the storm a calm will ensue, and with it, eternal and undisturbed tran quillity. In the meantime we can state that Senor Te jada is at present at Florence, with well-founded hopes of shortly attaining the object of his mission. " Boum*, Oaroass 11, Is 2 " MOST &caustic Stn—An agent of the Govern ment has just made known to me an order of your Excellency, or more properly speaking, of his Holiness, to depart from his States in the shortest possible time. " Although I was not entitled to expect an order of this kind without knowing the motives of it, nor to be treated. as I may say. like'a criminal, my only object in coming to Rome having been to demand spiritual assistance for the Catholics of my_ country, I am, not withstanding, disposed to obey it, however reluctantly, as soon as the above order is sent to me in writing, and my passport, which is in the office of the Governor of that city, is returned to me ‘ 1 In the meantime, I beg of your Excellency to re fleet for a moment on the disastrous effects which the publication of what has already taken place in Rome, and is actually on foot ai Bcleina, with regard to my mission, must produce in America, and even in Eu rope, and what will be the consequences. " I have had the honour to point them out to your Excellency, with all the clearness I am capable, in my letter of the 27th ult. and having thus exonerated my self from all blame on the part of my Government and my countrymen, I shall myself go and inform them of the unfortunate issue of the steps which I have taken to attain the object of my mission. " I hope your Excellency will reflect a moment, pre - emus to deciding definitively on a question of so much delicacy. I even venture to hope I may be allowed to remain here for the answer, and I trust it will be such as may render unnecessary the painful duty of an nouncing to my Government, that the Father of the Faithful refuses to listen to the supplications of the Ca tholics of Colombia.—l have the honour to be, &c. " IGNACIO TEJADA. " To his Eminence Cardinal Sornogsglis, Secretary of State." " Sts—Senor Chiaven has delivered to his Eminence the letter which you addressed to him on the 21st of this month. He has learned by this letter, with 'the greatest astonishment, that an agent of the overn ment had signified to you by his order, or rather by order of his Holiness, to depart (tom his States with the least possible delay. His Eminence immediately as sured Sr. Chiaven that he had never given an order of the kind, and professed extraordinary surprise at a thing of which he was perfectly ignorant. He assured him at the same time, that his Holiness could never have given such an order, because his Holiness would I certainly have spoken of it to his Eminence. But an intervie ea last evening, his Eminence learnt personally from his Holiness that the latter was equally surprised. His Eminence has ordered me explain to this to you, and to re guest of you at the same time ro acquaint him with the name of the conunissar, who delivered it into your house, the local authority who sent it, whether it was in the name of liondenere the Vice- Delegate or of his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Boleyn; of the Po lice Magistrate, or of the Senator of the town. " I beg of you to return an answer upon this, and in fulfilling the orders of his MIASMIC. the Cardinal Secretary of State who has charged me to assure you of his esteem and eessideration, I have the honour to subscribe myself, with perfect esteem and respect, " IBRONIMO GALANT!. " Clerk in the Secretary of State's Mee of his Holiness. " To Dr. Ignado Triads." the Emperor of Meiotic° with several men of war. A CApialn has been appeieted to the awsnmand of the brig sold by Sardinia, and three others are going - to be named for the Ametican vessels which are tithe point of airiving. - 7t hiiot yet known whether these latter are to be considered as a purchase or a present. These armaments give some uneasiness to the Consuls, on account of the project of the Moors to cruise in the Straits and molest the vesols they may meet with. E F. VENI N( STA R EMPEROR OF MOROCCO. We yesterday noticed the meditated declaration of war against some European Powers by the Emperor of Moaocco. It appears, however. by the following ea. tract horn the Preach Papers, that his BIAJUTI has work enough at home:— mot viissesessea WIIMINMAT. TANGII2II. Ifirr• N. • The Sweeny et Silesecco, aver owing wmered Mar hiez. with out s *op, yes Dam Ord to leave it lapin in the night, for hat ef 6sisd surreumlied by the some tees who had facilitated his eatrenee banshee agkaL 1m Prince, after having consented to melee die dogsleds= of some tribes br flesnection against hlin. whops, bins a present of 50,000 piastres, mused 500 of those same neon to be choked, and they were sent to Alcassar, three days' journey from Idelnines. The Commander of the escort received orders to cutoff the beads of those who should not be able to perform the journey. Fifty-dire persons were put to death, the others are in the prisons of Aleassar. This conduct has excited a rebellion. The Essruon has returned precipitately to Fes. Tr. Govetuoseat of the United &ate. stems disposed to supply - LUN I lON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 18?5. 3TOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consuls opened at 881 J for the Account, and for next time SS/ 1, with scarcely a bargain doing. In the Foreign Market little or nothing is doing. Current Prices: Old Spanish 171 I, Russian 9.11, Mexican Bonds 711 /, Austrian 97/ 91, Colombian Bonds 751 1, Peruvian Bonds 67%, Brazilian Scrip 9 8/ disc. Greek Bonds 30, Greek Strip 24 23/ discount. Pit ICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stuck Shut. 3 per Cent. Red. Shut. per Cent. Cons. 88 1 / 4 8 4 1 4 31 per Cent. Shut. 4 per Cent. New 103 1 / 2 Ling Ann. Shut. £l,OOO Excheq. Bills 2 1 3 prem. £5OO ditto 2 3 prem. 4:100 and D 2.00 ditto 2 4 ptem. COll6. for Acct. 88 1 / 4 shi FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Austrian Lids 5 p Ct. Alex. Scrip, ISIS, 91 1 9 dia. Brazilian Bund., Ditto Acct. 9 11/ 9 8% dis Ditto Acct. Neapolitan Bonds, 1824 Do. Scrip,spC.lll2s, Ditto Bonds 5p C. Ditto Acct. Peruv. Bonds, 6 pC. 67/ Buenos Ayres Bonds NI Ditto Acct. Chilian Bonds, 6 p Ct. DittoScrip,lB23, 6 pC. Colombian Bds,6pC. Portuguese Bonds Tina Acct. 77 Pruss.. .822,5 p C. Ditto Bonds 1824, 7.5} $ 76 75# Run. Bonds, 1822, 6pd 95} Ditto Acc. 75} 76 75# Ditto Acct. 93} Danish Bonds, 5 p Ct. Span. 5 p C. Cons. 171 1 1 Do. Marks Banco Ditto Acct. Ditto Scrip, 1825, Spans p. Cs. C. 1823, 131 Greek Bonds 501 Ditto for Acc. Do. Strip 5 p Ct. 233 dis. Frenchßentes,spCt. Ditto Acct. Exchange Mex. Bonds, 71} Frenchßestes, s p C. Ditto Acct. 711 1 Guatemala Scrip, 4 dis. Do. Bonds,l 825, 6pCt. Ditto Acct. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK. MAIM PAID. SIJCIL I MARL 100 50 80 50 5 • 21 e 100 5 6 3 it 100 5 . 11 to 50 6 4% j 100 1 11 40 20 40 10 2S 20 2 13 100 • 25 • 21 2 6]' I=== • THE QUARTERS' REVENUE.. • t, Although the Returns of the Revenue fur the present Quarter will not be made up until Monday evening, yet we are enabled in some degree to anticipate the official statement, and to announce to the Public, the growing Anglo Mexican S pm. Bolivar _ _ Pasco Peruiian - Potosi, La Paz, & Peru,. Royal Waldeck United Mexican Ditto New Protector Fire British Iron Company • Imperial Berate prosperity of the countty, in the increase of the Revenue notwithstanding the large reduction that has been In the Taxes, and the amount of Duties remitted. The account of the Customs for the Quarter ending the 10th of October, 1824, was 5,240,0001. while the amount for the Quarter which will end on Monday will not be less than 5,400,0001. exhibiting an actual increase in the Customs alone, for one Quarter, of one hundred and sixty thousans pounds, or at the rate of more than a million a year. The gross receipts of the Customs, for the present Quarter, indeed, amount to 5,200,000, but of, these 1,800,0001. consist of trans ferred duties from the Excise. The produce of the Customs for the three Quarters, ending October 10, 1824, amounted to 7,430,0001. the produce for the corresponding three Quarters of the present year, amounts to 7,950,000, exhibiting an actual increase in the Revenue of the .. Costoms, for three quarters of a year, dive hundred and:twenty thousand pounds exclusive of all transferred duties. The gross receipt of the Customs is about 11,450,0001. but from this sum is to be deducted articles transferred from the Excise to the amount of 3,500,0001. The other branches of the Revenue are, we learn, equally favourable. On Monday or Tuesday we shall publish ,the offici 11 details; but, in the meantime, we cannot but congratulate the public on the flourishing condi tion of our finances, and the consequent prosperity of the country. Some short time ago we inserted a copy of the Re port of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, on Friendly Societies ; our limits did not admit of our inserting such extracts from the evidence, as might have been thought likely to be generally interesting. In that evidence, however, there is to be found inci dentally, some very curious details, resulting from a scientific investigation into the duration of human life, which has for several years been carried on by Mr. FINLAISON, actuary of the National , Debt,' ender the orders of Government, and which, if fully vetified, as we see no reason to doubt, is of the utmost importance to society at large; inasmuch as it will establish a cor rect measure of value for the vast amount of Progsrtx which is held in this country, in one form or other, by, the tenure of lives. To elucidate this subject as famat we are able, without attempting to print any part of the immense :pain of Calculation appended to Mi. FINLAISMA evidence, it is necessary to premise, that the first idea of a table of the duration of life from actuakobservation, originated with the celebrated Doctor HALM, from the Bills of Mortality at Breslau, in Silesia. This was followed up by M. Knasszsoon, in a work little known in Ibis country, on the Duration of 'Life among the Dutch Government Italillitantl• ' Min succeeded M. de PARCISUX, an .v4 l calculator, who, in 1745, published a table d e d, from the French Tontines, and from the R e , ; ,...." 1 many Convents in that country, Thi s Was by tables formed on repeated statistical survey s s i whole population of Sweden, and by some 04 4 important tables in Germany and Switzerl an d . these succeeded tables drawn from certain o • on the Bills of Mortality in London, by M r , and Mr. Suirsox, which were the basis of Li e surance in this country, until the whole weft ceded by a table of observations formed by th e brAted Dr. Paw; on the Births and Burials at N el ampton , i n 1780, which table has ever since S, adopted by the Equitable, and all the other Li ll surance Offices in BritAin, and has till lately b ee . 4 most universally considered to be the only con measure of value for the duration of human life Lastly, in 1815, Mr. JOSHUA MILNE, th e emit _ actuary of the Sun Life Insurance Office, p u bli shed Table resulting from the hills of mortality at C a di s i which differed in its conclusions so widely f:cm t h e n sults exhibited by Dr.Patcs (the latter awning, k r i, stance, that the mean duration of life arter the age six, was only forty-one years, whereas fronatbe fora►, it appeared to be fifty-one, and from M. de ham; forty-eight years), that it became impossible an d t nn to place confidence in the Northampton Tables, meantime this question became very importantto community at large, no less than to Government. Tables of any authority other than those abort merated were ever computed, and Life loan Offices had greatly multiplied; besides which, thee missioners of the National Debt, by order of an passed under Mr. P&RCIVAL, in 1808, had begin to or exchange Life Annuities to any persons choosing mode of investment, in lieu of stock. These cirn stances led to the employment of Mr. Fonaison,l appears from his evidence about six years as on complete investigation of the law of mortali t y n prevailing in England. It was obvious that Northampton Tables malt be wrong. Daily e perience proved, by the overflowing and it, profits of the Insurance Offices, that they had under-rated human life; and the fact was ar in a public Report from Mr. AIORGAN, the nephe Dr. Petra, to be, that they bad, by long expert found that only two persons died in reality for three thht were presumed to die by the Northam Table. In plain truth, the Premiums of all the have turned out to be excessive to the surprising of SO per cent.l.-- It appears that neither parochial bills of m much less statistical tables -were to be depended ou affording the nectisarr'datit for constructing con observations ; and Iam•PINLALION states, that he tb fore resorted exeledvely 'to the' Government Ron V MA s.ri nil sad Dm oho tbe i E the t SAC emir 11u gero: Mir new alrea Batt folk. to pi Lem 4hily Ku Cal Jon the nigl Bui i cm!: fok the facts.4ntresminernted the separate darati , lift which occurred to each one of no less than 25 iwitiiijoi 4iln . Annuitants, carefully separating two sexes, which had not before been done, and ing down his observations to the latest period. We regret that our limits preclude our f !foci any length; the remarkably curious conclusion be has drawn from those authentic materials, which we presume have established, on an immo basis, the law of mortality now prevailing among and females respectively. We can only briefly a that it appears the duration of life a century a: England,, was only three-fourths of what k is at sent, andithat this is true in respect of each sex also appears that the life of a woman is vastly so to that of a man at every age above infancy, and the consequence of this difference is enormous is niary interests depending upon lives: for if two sons, a man and woman of the same age, for i thirty, were the one to purchase an annuity of 11 be enjoyed by the other in widowhood, if the male chased in behalf of the female, the pension wota 4661. 14.5. 6d. ;whereas, if the female purchased' half of the male, it would cost only 317/. 15.% It likewise appears that in France the duration was, a century ago, greatly beyond that enjoy England at the same time. We can only find - room for one other fact, of a prising nature. It appears that the waste of in! among the poor of the metropolis is most fright Out of every thousand children born, only 54 alive at the time of the mother's next pregnancy; is, icarcely more than a half survive nursing. The French Papers of Wednesday and Tit have reached , us. The Etoik of the latter day stat the CamFis br Bayonne and Perpignan will break the 10th instant, and that of the four ilegi . Bayonne, two will be marched to thelSoilb, allay the apprehensions of the alarmists. A letter from Iran, of the 97th September, . that the project of a loan terSpairi is;n6t let aban' as it is hoped the Spanish Government Sill) en. to amiss snonnyfloni. Out Sputh. American :Re as the prieemf acknowledging their independence. terms whichiSpahvesids Are- lit ewhat exorbitaa tlinit, l 4ll elk/IMO& 'di francs; or abott fort! millions 'stall " th r r . tl vit . are I 0-a : ts • Iv si! J o ci . ,. ng i clt c • • . ) , EBANKFM E MPZEDIABB 3q. Plilfiat i rrins into the Constitntionateareg. vinces og sop is and Pcimerinta', the Thets i Vehtel ar e ) idihnAktkl • I itid etioa, which aid ca ll e d Mena of diet, have hied Ilan drink ton The sus tietwaso &to Ilvinit op fa Vassa l ..,. ,c, ~ , .. ,r e„ ~ XI IA (IA TIM A lICH IPELA G 0) 4 II lIGUS T. I An Ammlcan.fliyipoq,cs l istlng of,a }9Aptilyealol. a f n j two collect*, has just gassed "our island. - Thesp you* in to Paros, add thence to Mytnene and &Ayres. •We u . that two veal or the line and two frigate, et the sante at Gibriltariand will speedily join the above division. Pallas Oct. se---$, per Cents. 591. 5Sc. 5- per Cents. 7 1 Rent de Ripka, Certif. 1 1 4 86( 40c. Bente or tXwagne, lg. Spanish Loan, 18e5, slit Eaare ex Lotomm.—Dne month, 25f. 15c. two 54 1 rent, And ,• , tria I the 4 Seel am CUrt Wri sere Alro bind .k C Or A near "U Isom facet be* had was 111211 spf..c sad t te.ll Gii brio of Pet. do h.:: hot fan Prq Bo tre 1,1 tail oth is i ab eel Tt gra Tlli at be .111; a tai ilk Iri GI of 11 ab