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LITERATURE, FINE ARTS, the DRAMA, 4c. —....- . LINES VROM ST. EVREMONDE. To chase from the sad memory The secret friend, We suffer worlds of misery, For fruitless end. The sweet but exiled fancy yet Comes as before ; And thinking that we should forget, We think the more. FROM AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. The sun is set ;—day's last pale shade is fleeting, The dreadful thunder of the fight is o'er. With painful throb my ebbing heart Is beating— Ere morn's first trumpet peal—'twill beat no more. Slain by my side., my generous steed is lying ; Wide wreck and carnage mark the scene around ;—• • While friends and torsi. thousands dead and dying, In prostrate heaps bestrew the battle ground. Lo! comrade. take my medal—kindly bear it To her a widow now,—l loved so dear, TeU her to kiss the precious badge, and wear it, For him whore faithful love deserves a tear.— Embrace my boy, I charge thee, friend—aid give him This honed sabre—'twas my Prince's boon— Tell him 'twas all a veers. bad to leave him. Who died the death befitting a Dragoon. _ _ _ ENGLISH OPERA. Again—another offering from that public-spirited Ammo, who does more to encourage writers and composers than all the other Theatres united. His praiseworthy seal in thus giving to our lan .guage and stage the operatic novelties of our neighbours is rapidly improving the public taste ;—and we are delighted to find crowds assisting with pleasure at a feast of regular music, with whom a few years ago it would have been " caviare." How hard is it not for Mr. Alum" after having devoted his fortune and years in the meritorious endeavour to engraft the legitimate opera on the drama of this country, to find himself neglected by the Vandals in ambo. city; who, indifferent to the arts—perhaps cursed with a timber tympanum, and a soul mere shaped for business than refinement, coarse in their own pleasures, and careless of delicate improvement with the public in matters of enjeynaent, care not whether we have a theatre or not,—or if we have one, whether it is of the highest or most despicable order. Let any one remember the Incongruous dramatic mixtures, thinly sprinkled with piping ditties or blustering songs which, strung upon a paucity of notes, shook the very galleries with their bellowing swell and eternal *hake. It was then, with a taste perverted by ignorance or bar barism, the public advocating their vulgar taste for the unformed harmony of the country, readily expressed the strongest contempt tar science and delicacy in music, to laud the iron lungs of our un. skilled vocalists and the homely staves they sung—just as a rude Cos sack advocates his dish of tallow, garlic, and fish-gut, to the dis• paragement of a more refined cookery ; or as a coal-beaver prefers this gin and beer to the ambrosia of the sparkling champaign, and the delicious bouquet of the nectar of Burgundy. Contrast this with the new school of music just introduced amongst us by Mr. Aaxous, and cultivated with so much success, and then let the public judge of a Lord Chamberlain who, to the disgrace of the times, and deterioration of the arts, continues to refuse a perma nent patent to the English Opera, built under the express pro. mist of one ;—nay mere, under the Royal motif e this, too, at a time when our capital teems with despicable theatres of mummery and stage wretchedness at the lowest description. But hold—of this another time. We have now to notice the new production brought en Tuesday evening before the audience at the English Opera. It is specified to be a free translation from Wu.- mum Aug. Woistraiicr., and adapted to the music of MISR= It is unfortunately upon a subject exhausted -within a few years under the multitudinous pens, pencils, .gravers, and piano-fortes of France,England, andGermanyosamely • upon the Eastern superstition of Vampyres. Heavens! what variety of trash have we not been afflicted with upon that mat ter. The small-fry dramatists amongst ourselves have set it before us to satiety, while Paris has served it up in a hundred shapes—now at the Porte St. Martin, ass nselo-drama ; and then at the Feydesu as a Satanic opera. Nay, it imagined a polichineUe Vampyre, and danced the monster in a Ballet. Scarce a town in Germany has not produced some musical attempt on the subject ; sod it is only two years ago, the talented" Directeur" of the Theatre and Orchestra of Ghent. Mona. liimsoeu, applied to us to assist him in bringing before a London audience a piece of consummate merit, composed upon the same hatknied material. We advised him against the project from an apprehension of his failure, after so great a surfeit of this goblin stuff. Bruxelles, Liege, and other Flemish towns, tried also their strains upon the same captivating suing, till our very .ears ring with Vampirism. It was therefore with no slight trepidation we proceeded to the English Opera, to witness a new piece under so alarming a title as that of" Der Vampyr." Unhappily we found little or nothing to console us for our temerity : the music is, from the beginning to end, composed in the genuine spirit of modern German taste. harmony—harmony, without one refreshing pas, sage of melody and natent,—orchestral effect,—experiments on concords and partition, delightful merely to the student of musical mechanism alone, characterise this child of Hue Hann:ice Maas .cusaa ; recitations of an assassinating length, concerted morsels In eternal counterpoint, and airs tenaciously holding to learned monotony. It is the metaphysic of music, the doctorial pedantry of sound, the difficulty of the art without its inspiration ;—and would require a stomach loaded with sour krout, and patience for. tided with German beer and a pipe, to enable us to dedicate our hours with pleasure to such heavy harmony. We know the musical grammarians and instrumentalists will spurn our opinion,—just as your University poets of half Latin Odes despise the simple natural ; but as the task of either requires no heart, and as it is the heart we particularly seek to gratify, as well in sound as In poetry, we shall leave them to the wisdom of their ears, and court the enjoyment of feeling with a more playful musk, in which melody is not considered as unmet:till—. Pniturs, with his pure vntricking English voice, redeemed the piece. Miss Berra sung the little allotted to ber with brilliant effect ; and Miss H. Caws' surpassed what we have hitherto con sidered as her furthest compass ; but Sario—the awkward unmean ing Sasso—with his kolbach stuck on the back of his seeming in philosophic skull, opening his eyes and mouth like a Dutch nut cracker ; and I . IIOIIIZ, like &names traveller to the Promontory of Noses, astonishing all eyes with his projecting feature, which betrays afar off all the inanity upon which it rests, us suelcient to damn any piece of any master. Sane, in particular, ought to coaling himself alone to concert sing ing, and not embarrass a stage with his incapacity.— Taoses should never venture beyond English country lads, and endeavour to avoid all that requires finery and acting s his extra vagant face on Tuesday evening looked like a mask, and provoked universal laughter.—The scenery did honour to the Artist ; and some of the costume was class tally faithful. Instead, however, of uniform white carman dresses, a variety of colour should always be studied for effect in theatrical grouping : s Cossack village, par ticularly, should be represented in its distinguishing rugged diver sity. Attention to these details most powerfully conduce to the Interest of a piece ; and there is nothing mere shocking than Igoe taut liberties taken in these matters.—To the =travelled and unread, stage-dress is all alike--provided it be line ; and a Stage Manager and Cesrunsier—once they give a liberal quantity of spas & and sew-saw—consider their duty performed. 2 1 . s y d will dress you a Husgerims Dams in a Higilessdiffei sod a • the Isles In a Thotgoriers pelisse I —cootoundlog all times and places, autemiscious of their error.—But we must not dismiss the subject, without complimenting the Traosletor, who has treated us to less exceptional verso than opetscisengers general. We know all the difficulty of &lapdog words co none ; sod his labours deserve our compliment& THE ARMY . Ile following ie a statement of the Effective Niißury Force of Great Britain : Fieldslarsbals, 110 Generals, 250 Lieutenant-General, 240 Major-Generals, 240 Colonels, 781 Lieutenant. Colonels, 820 Ma jors, 1,699 Captains, 2,572 Lieutenants, 1,230 Comets and Ensigns —7,805 number of Officers. CavaLay—Two Itegim;nts of Life Guards—Cuirassiers; one Regiment of Horse Guards (Household Troops); seven Regiments of Dragoon Guards. three Regiments of Heavy Dray> ns, (14, Yd, and 6th); five Regiments of Light Dragoons (3d. 46. 11th. 13th, and 14th) ; four Regiments of Hussars (7th, Bth.lolll, and 15th) ; four Regiments of Lancers (9th, 14th, 16th, and 17th) ; Royal Horse Artillery; Royal Waggon Train. Ix►axrar—Three Regiments of Foot Guards (Household Troops), 99 Regiments of the Line, one Rifle Brigade, two West India Regiments, one Ceylon Regiment (Riflemen), one Cape Corps, one Royal African ditto, three Royal Veteran Battalions, one Royal Malta Fencible Regiment, Royal Artillery, Royal En gineers, and Royal Staff Corps. Dirarrmitsys--Ordnauce, Commissariat, Medical, site. Forming a force of about 140,000 effective men. Horse Guards, August 20, 1829. At a General Court Martial, held in the Gaol of the County of Limerick, at Limerick, on the 20th May, 1829, and continued by adjournment to the 23d of the same month, Brevet Major William Butts, of the Royal Artillery, was arraigned upon the under mentioned charges, viz. : " Ist. For having, on or about the 7th day of May, 1849, dis honourably obtained from the Provincial Bank of Ireland the 'um of 550/. being the amount of certain moneys then advanced to the said Brevet Major Butts, by or on behalf of the said Hark, by way of discount upon a certain hill of exchange presented by him, purporting to be drawn by him-elf, the said Brevet Major Butts, and accepted by the Rev. Edward Drury Butts, and thereby holding forth to the said Provincial Bank of Ireland that the said li es , E. D. Butts would pay the same when due, or in failure thereof, that he, the said Brevet Major Butts, would pay the said bill ; whereas he, the said Brevet Major Butts, well knew, at the time he received the said 3501. from the Provincial Bank of Ireland, that the said bill would not be paid according to the tenor thereof, and which said bill has not, in point of fact, been paid, such con duct being anbecotning the character of an Officer and a Gentleman. " 2. For that the said Brevet Major Botts ►eing Indebted to Mr. Jacob West in the sum of Sit. Si. Id. for certain goods, he, by false representations, induced the said Mr. J. West to ac:ept in discharge thereof a certain bill of exchange, purporting to be drawn by himself, the said Brevet Major Butts, and accepted by the Rev. E. D. Butts, payable at Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Co. army agents, for 1801. thereby holding out to the said Mr. J. West that the Reverend E. D. Butts would pay the said bill, as acceptor thereof, at Messrs. Greenwood. Cox, and Co.'s, army agents ; or that in failure thereof, be, the said Brevet Major Butts, would pay the said bill, as drawer thereof, amid thereby inducing him, the said Mr. J. West, to pay to him, the said Major Butts, the sum of 128/. 14s. I Id. in cult, being the dfference between the said debt of 511. ss. Id. and the amount of the said bill for 1801. he, the said Major Butts, well knowing that the said army agents, Messrs. Greenwood, Cnz, and Co., had no assets in their hands belonging to the Rev. E. D. Butts, nor to him the said Major Butts, and that the said bill would not be paid according to the tenor thereof, at Messrs. Greenwood, Coz, and Co.'s, and the said bill, or the amount thereof, has never yet been paid to the said Mr. J. West; such conduct being unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman. a' 3d. For having dishonourably induced the said Mr. J. West to accept divers orders and checks upon Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Co. In and for the payment of certain sums therein mentioned, and in discharge of the debt due to him from the said Brevet-Major Butts, as in the last charge stated, falsely re i presenting to the said Mr. J. West, from time to time, that the same would be paid according to the tenor thereof ; whereas he the said Brevet-Major Butts well knew that the said Messrs. Green. wood, Cox, and Co. had no assets belonging to him in their hands, and that such orders and checks wield not be paid, and the orders and checks still remain unpaid, such conduct being unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman. " 4th. For that he, the said Brevet- Major Butts, being indebted to the firm of Messrs. Alexander, of Limerick, for certain goods sold to him, to the amount of 8/. 10s. be, by false representations, induced the said Messrs. Alexander to accept in discharge thereof a certain bill or order for the payment of money, purporting to be an order made by him upon J. S. Cooper, Esq. of Dublin. for the payment of 351. 10s. thereby holding out to the said Messrs. Alex ander that the said J. S. Cooper would pay the said sum of 351. 10t. according to the tenor of the said order, and thereby inducing them, the said Messrs. Alexander, to pay him the sum of twenty-seven pounds in cash, being the difference between the said sum of 81. 10s. and the said sum of 35/. 10s , he, the said Brevet-Major Butts well knowing that the said J. S. Cooper had no mete or money in his hands belonging to the said Major Butts, and that the said bill of 351. los would not be paid according to the tenor thereof ; and the amount of the said debt was not paid to the said Messrs. Alexander by the said J. S. Cooper, upon their application for the same, according to the tenor of the said order, and the said sum has not been paid to them; suc► conduct being unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman. " sth. For that he, the said Brevet-Major Butts, being In debted to one Wm. O'Donnell. a butler, in Limerick. in the sum of 91. for goods sold to him, and having, notwithstanding re peated solicitations by the said Wm. O'Donnell, for a long time dishonourably neglected and omitted to discharge the said debt, he, the said Brevet-Major Butts, in the month of March last, induced the said Win. O'Donnell to accept, in payment of the said debt, his promissory note 91. 4s. whereby be. the mid Brevet-Major Butts, undertook to pay the amount of the said debt mentioned therein, according to the tenor of the said note, but which note was not paid when it became doe ; such conduct being highly dishonourable on the part of the said Brevet-Major Butts. All such conduct as set forth in the foregoing charges being unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and highly prejudicial to the honour and character of his Majesty's service." Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision : " The Court Martial having duly considered the evidence given In support of the charges against the prisoner, Brevet- Major William Butts, as also his defence, is of opinion thereof that with rcpect to the first charge the prisoner, Brevet-Major William Butts, Is Guilty. " With respect to the second charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is Guilty. " With respect to the third charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is Guilty. " With respect to the fourth charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is Guilty. " With respect to the filth charge, the Court is of opinion that the prisoner is Guilty. " The Court doh therefore adjudge, that Brevet-Major Wm. Butts be dismissed his Majesty's service. " The Court having performed a gainful duty In passing the above sentence on the prisoner, begs leave, is the strongest nunner, under the distressing circumstances in which his large family is placed, his length of service in the army, and his present unhappy situation, humbly to recommend him to his Majesty's merciful coosideration." His Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the find ing and sentence of the Court ; and the General Cummanding.in- Chief directs that the foregoing charges preferred aptinst Major William Botts, of the Royal Artillery, together with the finding and sentence of the Court. shall be entered in the General Order Book, and read at the bead of every regiment in his Majesty's service. By command of the Right Honourable General Lord Hill, Commanding In-Cbief. HERBERT TAYLOR, Adjutant-General. On Wednesday last an Inquest was taken in Oxford, before Mr. Cam, the city coreoer, on view of the body of Sarah fkabright. Mary Sylvester deposed—l was at Mrs. Seabright's house about 11 o'clock yesterday morning ; she was at home abase ; she was then in good health. I had been accustomed to sleep at Mrs. S.'s when I was out of place, and I used to leave my clothes there.— When I called yesterday morning, I asked Mrs. Seabright for the things I bad left—and she gave me a petticoat, a night-cap, and a pocket.bandkerchief. I said, Mrs. Seabright, you have not given me ode of my caps. She said she bad not got one there. I replied, I saw it on the table when I was here last. Mrs. Seabright then said, " I wish GOD may strike me dead and I may never go set of the house any more if 1 have kV' I then left her in the house. end went into the house next door but one, and in less than ten minutes after I had left, Mrs. Randall (who lives in an adjoining house) called me into Mts. Seabright's. I accordingly went, and caught Mrs. Seabright as she was falling. She said, " Oh ! Mary," several times, and asked me to help herop stairs. She was so heavy I maid net get her up stairs. She died the same evening. 1 have heard her several times lately complain of a pain in the bead. Stephen Wentworth, of the University of Oxford, surgeon and apothecary. deposed—l have this awning examined the body of Sarah Seabright. and I have no doubt but she died in a St of o ppipxy. Verdict.—" Died of Apoplexy." After the Duke of RICHMOND'S horse Chico had run the int heat at Goodwood Races, on Friday se'nnight, for the Waterloo Stakes, be attached the groom (Grunt) whilst proceeding to wash his mouth, knocked him down with his bank tins soh" Mat by the hip, and carried him to a dish, dissent shoot twenty or thirty yards, when It was with comilkeekte Mosity.dse son. needing spectators could prevent his deb. tardier Serb which he attempted, by flexibly pressing the man seam the sena with his knees. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. 3:mts Alonzo Tim DAT—Dublin I—Waterford I—Rance 1.-- Flanders I—Lisbon I. Dux, Aura. 26.—His Majesty's ship Philomel turned away to westward. FALMOUTH,. Amt. 25.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrived the Le vant, Pugh, from Port-au-Prince : sailed 17th July, and brings accounts of the loss of the Brig of Workington. Potts, on bet way from Port-au Prince to Trieste, on the island of Imyna, on the 13th July—csew and part of cargo saved. Arrived t►e Sandwich packet. from Lisbon. Sailed the Lord William Bentinck trans port, for Malta ; and Dispatch, Richie, for Oporto. Ptaxourn, Auo. 23.—Wind %V .N.W .—Salled the Priam, Red path, for St. John's; Sylph, Cummins, fur Malaga; and Maria, Cummins, for the Mediterranean. PORTSMOUTH. AUG. S.S W.—Arrived the Success. Ledchle. from Dentate ; and Spencer, from Bahia. Livtaram., Auo. 25 —Arrived the Elizabeth Brooke. Potts. from Laguna; Shepherd, Hughes. from St. Vincent's; London. Wallach., from New Orleans ; Pacific, Crocker, trout New York ; Ann, Bird, front Philadelphia; Ire, Heedless, free% Cadiz; Dart, from the Mediterranean; Crown. Fisher; LaUa Ruukh, Fullarton ; and Fortuna, Greaves, from St. Petersburgh. Cacti, Mao. 26.—Arrivrd the Mariner, Ireland, from Rio de Janeiro; and Agnes, 11..rding. from 31..tatizas. Ilaserco., Ave. 23 —Arrived t►e Fame. Young, from Virginia. blantaasz, Aro. .26.—Off the port, the Milo, Stark. from the Cape of Good Hope. Garattocz, Aca. `l3.—Arrived the Catherine, Orkney, from Jamaica ; Ariel, King, from St. Andrew's, N. 8.; Margaret, Walsh, from Archangel; and Experiment, Walker, tram St. Pe ter sburgh. BATTLE - OF hAVARIN. COURT MARTIAL rrox CAPTAIN DICRRNSON, R.N. 1 1 011111110C/11, WILD 44444 1' haft DAT. (Fu4n WM CORKIIIPONDUIT). At an early hoar this morning, the Victory, on board which the Court Martial WAS held, was surrounded with boats, crowded with the fashionable+ of the town. At nine o'clock the signal gun having been fired, all the boats drew to the side of the vessel, and the rush to get on board was great indeed. When I entered the Court. I found the Deputy Judge Advocate swearing the members which being door, the Court consisted of the following distin guished characters : Sr Robert Stopford, President, I Captain Schomberg. K.C. B. Captain Elliott. Sir Henry Blackwood, K.C.B. Captain Inglefield. Rear Admiral Otero, K.C.B. And the Hon. Captain Wm. Captain Mundcy. Gordon. The Court was crowded with Naval Officers of the fir.t rank, and immediately behind the President's chair stood Sir Edward Codrington and several other Meets. Crptain Dickenson was accommodated with a chair at the end of the table, around which the Court was assembled. Ills Solicitor, Mr. blinchin, sat at a table with his assistant taking notes of the proceedings. The Court were all dressed in their full naval uniforms, wearing their stars and other emblems of distinction, and bad altogether a most in- teresting and imposing appearance. The Junos AD WATS having read the charges which were con tained in a correspondence from Sir Edward Codrington to the Admiralty. they were specially as follow : Charge lst. That for not making proper use of the springs, di rected by the orders of the Vice Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, on the 19th October. 1827, to be placid on the anchors, the broadside of the Genoa was not directed to her regular opponent in the Ottoman line, and that in such a position. ►be could not fire any other guns except those of her stern and quarter, without en dangering the Asia, and others of the allied squadron on the lar board side, and the Albion and others on the starboard side ; con sequently the shot which injured the Ada, and came in that direc tion, were apparently fired ►y the Genoa. Charge 2—That the Genoa did positively fire into the Albion, which ship bsd an English ensign at her head to prevent such a mistake. _ _ Charge 3—That Captain Dickenson had been reproved by Vice- Admiral Sir E. Codrington, for not using springs. and be accounted for it by his inability to get the men from the guns,notwitbstanding it was asserted in the ship's log-book that springs were used. Charge 4—That the log-book says. that the Genoa had three Ottoman ships opposed to her starboard side, three rizty-gun frigates on ber larboard side and a-head, and a double►bank frigate a-stern. Charge s—That Captain Dickenson reported Captain Bathurst as killed, and procured the Surgeon's signature to a certificate, al though he did not die until next morning, and retained his faculties to give orders during the whole time of the battle, through which hi gained an honourable distinction, which perhaps might not other wise have been conferred on him. Charge 6—That the refittal of the Genoa after leaving Nevado was unjustifiably slow, and that the same slackness prevailed on her way to Malta; that the Genoa's mast was suffered to go for want of being secured; and that she fired atter the battle was over, to the probable injury of the Allied squadron; and further his getting t he ship's company of the Genoa to sign a letter, or otherwise a mewl robin, requesting to appoint only him, Captain Dickenson, to the Genoa. This was an act of insubordination. Sir EDWARD Coommisom addressed the Chair, but from the din. tenet we could not distinctly bear him ; but we understood him to have said, that it would be impossible for the Court to judge of the nature of the evidence which he should be obliged to give from the letters which bad been read, without reading the intervening ones, which he now offered for their perusal. He at the same time ex pressing his strong objections to the present proceedings, and which he thought, at this period, were not called for. The Gallant Ad miral then presented Sir Roarer &formats, the President, with copies of the letters which he had addressed to the Board of Admiralty. The Prism= ordered the Court to be cleared, and after a lapse of a quarter of an hour the public were admitted. The busi ness then commenced with proving the log-hook more immediately, in which the detail of the engagement was mentioned, which was done by Lieutenants Morris, Sturt, and Captain Robinson. The PRZUDZNT then inquired it there were any gentlemen con nected with the London Press, and said thit he would permit the substance of the evidence only to be published fur the present, and not the detail, and most kindly ordered a place fur their accom modation. The ADvocars GENERAL said, that the mode which the Court intended to proceed was to take charge by charge, and that the de fendant could not be allowed to ask any question as cross-examina tion, except what specifically bore upon the charge immediately before the Court, and the first that the Court would go into was the use of the springs. Sir Edward Codrington was then called, and on the ►ook being banded to him to be sworn, be said he was apprehensive that he could not give his evidence satisfactorily without mixing up with it much of his personal solicitation, and the quality of his testi. mony would require him to interlard with it, observations con nected with his own situation, though it did nut immediately relate to the charge before the Court ; yet he was very peculiarly situated, In making the statement he did, part was from common report, and part from his own observations. He thought it rather unusual to be called upon to prove that which be had only from the report of others, and so stun, it in a letter to the Admiralty ; and yet he receives a letter from Mr. Croker requiring him to do so. He dis avowed the adoption of such a proceeding. It was a princip e laid down by him never to do so, and acting upon such, he bad even refused the Judge Advocate all information upon the subject. The Panamint: interrupted Sir Edward Codrington, and in quired If he was aware of the manner in which t►e Court intended to conduct its proceedings, which was to confuse itself strictly to the object which engaged their attention; and as the observations which Sit Edward was making did not relate to that object, they, under these circumstances, could not entertain them. Sir Hesse Da*cawoon begged to state, that the letters which had been put in, as explanatory ones, by Sir Edward Codringten, bad not beets read by the Court. Sir EWALD CODDINGTON observed, that in the charges committed la his statement there were distinctions to be made in them, and explanations given. It was particularly necessary floss a person brought into Coon as he was, against his wish ; on the contrary, ►e was anxious to avoid a Court-martial. However, it was his duty to bow to the superior judgment of the Admiralty ; and it being their pleasure that such an investigation should t .ke place, he was willing to give them every as.is•ance in his power, and of this he had already bad She honour of informing them. Sir SAWA 113 Commonage was then sworn—The order which he gave to the combined fleet oa the 19th of Octobrr. 1827, was then read, and it concluded thus, " To use the words of Nelson—no Captain can do very wrong who places his ship aloogaide that of the enemy." - (Signed) E. CODIUSGTOK. He was then requited to state generally as to the conduct of Captain Dickenson at Navasin. Sir EDWARD said, he should state what he knew from his own personal knowledge, and it was a difficult task to do so, at this time of day, baying destroyed several parrs of some two years ago standing ; the want of which be had very severe proofs of, in his own peculiar situation. He then went an to state, that be had observed the Genoa did not make use of her springs during the battle ; and alter entering into a minute description of the relative positions of the vessels, he expressed it as his opinion that the shot which struck the Asia came Irom the GOMA, from their direction, to the best of his judgment. After the engage ment he reproved Captain Dickenson for nut making use of the springs. Captain Dickenson accounted for it by stating, that be wss unable to get his men away from the guns. He was not aware Viet the Ada could be struck by any of bet opponents. He never saw the Genoa in any position except what she could be raked by bet opponent. She generally had ber stern towards her opponents, and broadside towards the Asia. Did not apprise the Genoa of her situation. Could not say who was her Commander when her fire struck the Asia. Captain Curzon came running to him and said, " there is shot coming on us from an quartets." He replied, " Never mind, let us destroy our opponents first." The period which the shot struck the Asir was about an hour, or an hour and a half. After the action had begun, there was no signal made to the Genoa to desist Nothing was dose of the kind ; they were about a cable's length distant ; it was impossible for the Genoa to hear if she had been hailed. A plait of the hay and the ships arranged for battle wig put in, and a lung explanation was given by Sir Edward Cod rinvon of it. Captaiu Dicumisou-1 do not admit that plan to be a correct one. I shall produce one on my defence, which shall .how the Asia in a different position than that In which she Is represented there. Sir Edward Codrington would not say the plan was a correct one ; it was taken from a general rough sketch which V/14 made when he otdered the engagement. Ile said, that at the desire of Sir Robert Stopford, he laid it before the Court for general In formation. Captain Dickenson was asked by the Paismourc, like hid any questions to put to Sir Edward Codrington? Captain Dickenson then erou•exammed Sir Edward, as to whe ther, instead of reproving him, he not only thanked him and his Officers, when he came on board the Genoa, but repeated the same commendation on board the Ada ? This was denied by Sir Edward Codringion, who said, that when he came on board the Genoa, it was to see Captain Bathurst, to learn how he was, and the nature of his wounds; and it was Captain Dickenson who conducted him to the cockpit, and he and Captain Bathurst conversed about the engagement ; and on his expressing his approbation at the manner in which the Genoa had taken her station previous to the engagement, Captain Batbunt said, " Oh! thank you, thank you (grasping him by the hand), now 1 shall die easy." Sir Edward Codrington being pressed, denied having any conversation wilt Captain Dkkenson, as to express his approbation of his (Captain D's) conduct on the day he went on board the Genoa, or with any other Officer; yet he admitted, so much was his mind ab. sorbed by the scene he bad witnessed in the cockpit, of wounded men and bawling women, be would not be positive. Sir E. Common** said, on asking Captain Dickenson bow he came to return Captain Bathurst dead, Captain Dickenson replied, that it was a mistake ; whereupon he (Sir R. Codrington) observed that it was a very serious mistake; and it was fortunate that he Put a note to the report, stating that Captain Bathurst did not die until that night ; otherwise he should have gut himself into an un• pleasant situation with the Admiralty. Captain Curzon was next examined.—His examination was chiefly technical, as well as that of Captain Baynes. MR. BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES. We have already noticed the impression which Mr. Buckingham's Oriental Lectures made on the inhabitant. of th e western metropolis of Scotland ; ■nd it gives us pleasure to notice the effect produced at their conclusion. Mr. B.'s last lecture in Glasgow was on the great India quo-tion, and when the applause (says the Chrousie) which accompanied its close bad subsided-- Lansaw' Btu., Fsq. rose and expressed his regret that some one in the assembly, better qualified than himself, h.d not made some proposal of suggestion, to evince that Mr. Buckingham's lectures had not been lost upon them, and that they had given rise to some beneficial result. However, the conviction hr felt of the import ance of the subject on which Mr. B. had just addressed them, com pelled him not to allow the meeting to separate without offering them some resolution. With this view be would propose : " That after the repeated and convincing proofs which Mr. Buckingham has given to the would, and of which we ourselve. have been this day witnesses, of his rarely united qualifications, to advocate the great cause of a more catenated intercourse with India and China, by his abundant information, hls unwearied seal, his great eloquence, and his capacity to brin,r all these into operation in the most crowded and intellectual assem►lies, it is the opinion of this meeting that a subscription should be immediately opened, and a Committee appointed for the purpose of taking such measure. as may be most expedient, and likely to make Mr. Buckingham's ta lents and information available to the country, and as may be most conducive to the desirable object art a free trade with the east ern world, and beneficial to the other important interests involved an tbat groat question." John Wile n. Iraq. of Thornly, in seconding the resolution, said, he considered it as a tribute and a testimony due to Mr. B. fur his zeal and talents in a great cause, and for his delightful method of conveying infonnatiun, with a view to the promotion of that cause, to the understanding and the heart. The resolution was unanimously carried amid the acclamation of the Meeting.— Mr. Buckingham, evidently much affected at this unexpected de monstration of regard. briefly returned thanks. Whatever might be thought of his talents or capacity, be hoped no one would call in question his ardent zeal in the cause ; and which, if it were ever his lot to :.ddress another assembly, be hoped would not be found to have become relaxed in the slightest degree. Were he reduced to the alternative of devoting his life as a sacrifice to accomplish his design, he took heaven and earth to witness, that like a true Roman, and though attached to a family he laved a• himself, yet he would cheerfully comply, rather than spend the re msinder of his days in quirt under the present system. At a Meeting held vetterdav, at the King'x Head, Poultry. of respectable Minters of SPitalbeWs. and other patriotic gentkmen, and some operatives, to consider the proposal of rating land as Deaf as may be to the ',Metropolis, fur the purpose of fur nishing occupation for such time as may nut be blled up in *ilk weaving. The proposition was approved, and *tick sups directed to be taken u may best promote the object. At the same time cionmunicatioo was read from Lord Tarinaw, who, it seems, bad benevolently made application to the Duke of Wasuacroi for a grant of mme Crown Land, bat without sures*. Sir SAMUEL SHEPHERD, the Chief Baron of Sect land, and his Lady experienced a narrow escape from a severe ac • ddent on Wednesday evening, when returning from races to Essington'. Hotel, Alalvens Wells. where they have been no- Owning for some time When opposite the Belle Vue Hotel, it Malvern, the horses took fright at a group of deckles and th. it attendsots, and, plunging from the road, threw themselves down the steep declivity on the left band. Fortunately, however, the wheel of the casriage took one of the posts, and the vehicle was thus prevented from following them, or the consequences must have heen serious. By great exertion, Sir Saunas and his Lady were removed from the carriage without injury, and, the horses being disentangled from their hanwu, were enabled to proceed on to the Wells, with no other unpleasant restate from the accident than the alarm, and the horses being slightly bruised. 'I