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QUESTION. THIC IV. rf my last letter, related ta A have been observed b y )f DON MIGUEL. I m ust t. This country certainly ity when, by cannonadin g hindered from landing at reed pro and colt on thi s essiou of Great Britain, i n ease, still remains unjuen.. 's Government would n e t le by form the landing of ' nits of Portugal, and ho w n the Portuguese are bin ding on an Island, which A they acknowledge, an d rery moment recognizes as ! It would not be without r, for the lawful Sovereign ), and arm soldiers in Eng maiming the rebels of his is not that ; the Porta -1 at Terceira, neither had I and organized in Great le British ports in quest of his.country never denies to 'ere already soldiers, rep 'ere momentarily scattered it was the consequence of ounter, and of the want of mild impede them from de cier they had on their ar apposing that any law or ;mese soldiers sailing from U such laws could only be it Britain, or in the adjoin waters of Terceira, where and where his Britannic jurisdiction. The sailing arances does not alter the nt has no right to compel o follow the same voyage red at the Custom House ; for merchant vessels, even ourse wherever they please, the inspection of which ies of the port where they been adduced that, as the fitted to Terceira the arms last August requested per ils, with the express condi ) sent to that Island, the my of the unarmed sol if they had taken arms rrect ; to go to Terceira, I not equivalent to going I. The Portuguese, who were ready to disembark at o with what the Brazilian promised in August, 1828, a needed no permission from ermnent, nor could this Go ate on a permission generally .ountry. Terceira does not permed from the rest of the it surround it, and the dif obeys : and when the British to protect it from the attacks U they be able,without offence faithful subjects of Donna defence of that Island, from The shots fired against those erceira, as far as regards the in aid of the Usurper. le resembling impartiality, it it previously to the sincere dd be the bounden duty of the ralize the advantages, which a the favour and assistance re best intentions ; and if not, reign other advantages equally ight be re-established on both ity will be nothing but a mere 1, an abstract might easily be trages offered by the Porto ent of his Britannic Majesty, national honour loudly de -1 the repeated acts of violence • A us forget the utter contempt counsels ; still, will it not be e to trample under foot the tendered in the presence of nd repeated at the Court of mildest perfidy those political ompletion of which the Infant 'the positive offers of kind in :ousts of Austria and London ? nt to have constantly treated opposition of his future mar 'Maenad, and afterwards not act of his future espousals, by but also to require the (self to request him to engage in umstaace alluded .to in the F the same FAtates, published it year, No.lBl ? Can there o request the detention of the support him as Regent, and mistanee to usurp the crown. tyled) of the three Potato', is well as the other Cabinets of g acknowledged. Don Pena& ous faction ? In the same act it the Austrian Cabinet, and: that of St. James's, for they 11 accord in this matter, em ployed compulsion to extort from the Infant the oaths and promises to which he subscribed at Vienna? Such gross indignities can only be superseded by the unex ampled forbearance with which they have been borne I should however this patience be finally exhausted, every one will find more than sufficient reason for the most rigorous interference. To oonclinle the task I have undertaken, I should feel gratified here to discuss, which means, either of armed or unarmed interference, would be most efficacious fur the easy and sure re-establishment of the legitimate govern ment in Portugal ; but this is a subject still reserved for' the private consideration of the Cabinets ; it has not yet been brought before the public ; and till then I must post pone my observations. For the present, I shall content myself with calling your attention to the future interest of British policy. Although it may be as difficult and hazardous to prog- 1 nosticate respecting the future, as it is easy to judge of the past, still there is no doubt that coming events will be the offspring of those which have preceded : in the physical as well as in the moral world, events are linked together in a progressive series ; and it is still undeter mined, whether from time to time there are any new creations, having no precedents from which to originate. The usurper of the crown of Portugal is but a mortal ; should he die without issue, who is to fill his place in the usurpation ? The troops, which in the end of July 1826, hoisted the standard of rebellion in Alemtejo, and deserted to Spain, proclaimed, at Villa Nueva de la Serena, Don MIGUEL King of Portugal ; and in his default the Prin- 1 CBS/ Donna MARIA THEREZA, who, by the laws of La mego and the stipulations of her marriage, is absolutely debarred from the succession ; and again, in her default, her son Don SEBASTIAN, who is by birth a Spanish Prince. That Princess has never ceased to take the deepest interest, and to act a most conspicuous part, in the progress of the usurpation of the crown of Portugal, which she still entertains hopes hereafter to possess. It is also equally true that, when the rebel troops entered Traz-os- Mentes, they proclaimed at various times and places, FE R DIN AN D VII. Emperor of the Peninsula. The same shouts were afterwards repeated in 1828, after Don MI GUEL'S arrival in Lisbon, and when the usurpation had already commenced. The military officers attached to these two parties, so nearly allied in opinions, were last year distinguished in Lisbon by wearing a scarlet cockade, and obeying exclusively the mandates of a certain high per sonage, who is not the usurper. On these all-important features of the case, I will not hazard my opinion ; but I may be permitted to ask whether it is consistent with the interests and policy of Great Britain to suffer an usur pation to exist in Portugal, the clear consequence of which may be the union of Portugal with Spain ? The wishes of some, and the despair of others, might probably, lead to the same end by different ways ; and when Great Britain shall be induced to change her policy, perhaps the l political existence of her most faithful ally may have ceased ! Having thus given you the result of my reflections on this important question, I shall now conclude, by solemnly declaring, that, in judging of the facts by their ostensible ap pearance, it has not been my intention to throw the slightest imputation on the pure motives of his Britannic Majesty's advisers. The lawful Queen of Portugal has received in this country such distinguished, and repeated marks of the most sincere and cordial friendship, that it would be the greatest injustice on the part of her subjects, for a moment to doubt the lively interest which the Ring,• his ministers, and the nation at large, feel for her cause— the cause of honour, justice, and legitimacy. I am, &c. J. A. LUSITANUS Accounts in the French Papers state, that a battery at Gibraltar fired three guns loaded with ball at a Russian corvette belonging to the Russian needy= in the /dealt/name& DETROIT, MAY 28.—1 t is computed that about eleven hundred passengers have been leaded at this port since the 10th inst.—they are marl/ all settlers. The accounts from Constantinople state that, since the tgth May, 24 ships bad arrived, laden with provisions; 'therefore there was no further fear of a scarcity of that article In the capital. DISCOVERY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S MANUSCRIPT. 'The son of Mr. Lemon, the keeper of the state papers, has dio teovered, on recently examining some of the papers of the reign of Rthiolseths a paper in the hand-writing of the Queen, marked -"TM Third Book." Cooceiving this to belong to something of .importance, be placed it ceiretelly aside, and by a diligent stare!' has at length obtained the papers of four other books. which tern 'out to be an entire translation of " Reedits de Consolations Philo. sophim." Nearly the whole of the work is in bee Majesty's own liand.writing, bet there are parts evidently written bT her private Secretary From a curious documeat jest found. it appears that lter Majesty composed the manuscript at Windsor during five weeks of tie winter season. ARILCDOTE OF MADAME ROLAND.—" I ARS struck," says Madame Roland, "with the terror . With 'Which Robespierre seemed ed on the day of the King's Sight to Varenoes; be to me then an Ikeierrolk man, whose bad language end tiresome elocution I pardoned in femur f kis prineipla. Hound Mm In the afternoon at Petioles, where be remarked, with rasa anxiety, that the Royal Family would not have takes this step seldom having its Paris a party who would mitre there a St. Bartholomew tithe patriots, and that be did not ect ti be Mies more than twenty.four hours. Peden and . &Mak said that the public mind ought tole prepared for repubikaniall. nobaterketet la his sneering manner, biting his nails, asked' whit a republic meant? I know no terror which can be'coinpared that of RebaePlerre in these circumstances. • We were Tidy MIMI* se Ida account ; Roland and I went to 'lds house ass Blued di dyers t, but he had already quitted his residence."—Gaimat *Fromm • ' Nearly all the Portuguese refugees witotlasembled at this poet ohm Maths. since. to the nuns* of are Sow dis persed. Netwidastanding the severe aid eatinazy pact of the "gl' Government, and SW nischinadons of Doss Miguel, Abair 2 , 00 0 have effected' a 'mediae' Mt the idea of Terceira, which is still governed in the name of their legitimate * wen t': Dona Maria. Beverel.litiodrede titian at Breit, under the caw mend of General Saldanha ; and as equal number are for a while settled at Ostead.—Firesenth Jeurnal. • The letters from Havre; received yesteiday; state the . arrival dike 2 Rumba ships, the Moiler and Senjavio, from a voyage of discoiery. They bade been roatid the World: Thicoilections et new plants, of natural cvioskirs, sad of solneials, are Slated * to bi griper tbantitnes #ide.in any former - The Voyagers landed at St. Helena, visited the *alb Napoleon, and have also otheted a variety of relies from' that 1164 'II2EY SOLOIIOII3.—T4 lengthined lately Matrtmlin the gapers. r,i1411; to 410:4piere (and 44aits el e e to ihkeollalt7). 9l alManatiirkitseasaracter„ supposed to be yam of ndat i on, bang as this fib& aitb o ritles Mee met received pity tidings to thateSect ;rum the. co al PepartinePt at Valialea's Land; Np4iredsoce given to the report, it havialkeeit 6witsined to eloanate fried two Israelites for the purpose of Whims. So aillellevhte a Jew is the father et Duty, who called at Niigata en Tneiday, that be declares there le not " von " Ed O* r littA t tffie bite -Owes IbErrlegiged Ur. arris, ono at the pria4mtitrakeys, ti) 4 * digt byre von line" should be'beir any further tidings " for sure and certain." -__..~ THE BING. WINDSOR, JULY 15.—His MAJESTY took Mailing Lek evening in the Great Park, accompanied by the Lord Steward, General Sir Herbert Taylor, and Sir F. Wat son ; his MAJESTY stopped at Cumberland Lodge and inspected several of his stud ; after which he drove to the Fishing Temple, Virginia Water, where he continued until nearly nine o'clock. His MAJESTY left the Royal Lodge again this evening for Virginia Water, where he is expected to pass the evening. His MAJ err y will leave the Royal Lodge to-morrow, to hold a council in London. The KING is expected to return to dinner. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of GLOUCESTER, attended by Col. Hioo IN% Major Foams% and Captain Swims, left town yesterday morn lag, in a carriage and four, for Cheltenham, which town it was expected his Royal Highness would reach last night, stopping on the road at Witney to dinner. Previous to the Royal Duke's de partam. his sister, the Princess SOPIIIA Mamma. came to OM. from her residence en Blackheath, and took leave of him ; the Princess Sevnu also visited his Royal Highness early In the morn ing to take leave. The Duke sod Duchess oft LA It ENCE and the Duchess of fials.Wxnua visited the Duchess of Guiementa yesterday, at Gloucester Howie. The Duke of Wilt.t.tato TON arriVed in town about two o'clock yesterday afternoon front Widmer Cede. Kent. The Earl of Ammons had an interview with his Grace after his arrival. The Marquis de BARBACENA had an lntervi•w with Earl of Assam= yesterday, at the odes of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Secretary PEEL left town on Monday morning, on a visit to Mr. Baum, at his seat near Brandon, Norfolk. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Reverend Thomas Burnaby. Mrs. Hornsby, and the Misses Burnaby, at the Berner Hotel, Berners-street, from Leicester ; Mrs. Gillispie and Miss GllSspie, at ditto, from Edinburgh; Capt. Carnagie, at ditto, from Edinburgh Andrew °labors., Esq. and Mrs. Maxima, at ditto; Mrs. Francis and Miss Bolton, at ditto, from Hetherset, Norwich ' • Barnard M. Caner, Hag. at ditto, from Breen Uaks ; Lord and Lady Granville; from the Dube of &vow. shire's seat, Cldswick; Spencer Mackay, Esq. at Ellia's Howl, St. James's-street, from his seat in Surrey; Captain sad bits. Patter son, in Grosvenor - street, from the Continent; Mr. and Mrs. Hussy and family, at the St Janses's Hotel. Jernsyn-stress. from a tour; Count Nortek, of Putbus, and Count Make, of Pathos, at the Bronswkk Hotel, Jermyn.wset. from the Continent; Capt. and Mrs. Platt, at ditto, from Hoses; Mr. and Mrs. Broken's' ditto, from Ireland ; Sir John and Lady Sinclair, at ditto. from. Scotland; James Hallett, Esq. Mrs. Hallett and family, at na da'''. Hotel, Oztord-street, from Holland; the Reverend Coventry Payne and family, at ditto, from Essex. DEPARTURES. The Estl of Ease:, front lielgrave-sqoare, for his seat, Cashio bury Park, Hens • the Right Hen. H. A. Addington and suite, front Crawley's (la te Cook's) Hotel, Albentarlooreet for Frank fort; Sir Frederick Barnard, Bart. from &able-yard:for Surrey; Mr. and Mrs. Melville and family, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Chelmsford; the Hoch Misses Arden. from Alhoosarle.street, for Lymingtoa ; Mr. and Mrs. Bootle and 0. Springer, Seq. from the Brunswick Hotel, Jenny's street, ( or Hot. land; Mrs. Newcombe and Miss Forbes, from ditto, for Ireland; Mr. and Mrs. Gilley and family, from ditto, for Hens; J. P. Tudway, Esq. from ditto, far Wells; Major Ramsay, from the British Hotel, Jennythstrset, for Brighton ; Charles Knight, Esq. from ditto, for Girard; Mr. and Mrs. Earle, from Fladoag's Ho- tel, Oaford.street, for Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Crow...from ditto, for Brighton; C. Cumberlege, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; N. Cumberlege, Esq. from ditto, for Kent; S herlock, Esq. from ditto, en a tour. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mann Amoroso Tuts Dar—Dublin I—Waterford I-4mm 1— Guernsey and Jeneys—Hamburgh I—Flanders I—Jamaica 1. The Mary, Oyestoo, from Jamaica, is supposed to be arrived ul Hastings. Two smacks cause Into Portsmouth harbour yesterday with goods from the Carobrea Castle. Nearly every thing landed op to this period is in a very damaged state, sod sot estimated at a vales of more thaw aye per cent. Deal. Jinx 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived from London the Itkhoond Hill, Mauer, for &. Andrew's. PORTIINOUTN, JULY 15.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Elizabeth, &idiot*, from St. Thomas's. Arrived from Leedom the Upton Castle, Thacker, for Bombay. Sailed the Lady Nugent, Whoble, far Calcutta; Caps packet, Dewar, for New South Wales; his hfs)tuy's ship Pallas, far Calcutta; and Mount Stewart Elpltin stew, for Bombay. PIANISM' JULT 14 . — Wind S. W.—Arrived from Portsmouth the John Craig, Younger, for Ceylon. PALMOVII4 JIILT . I4.—Wind S. W.—Arrived ski Spey packet, from Canfisagena—selle!l 24 Jane, from Jamaica 10th, sod from crooked Wind the Min. Lifeline', Joie I*.—Arrived the Riiiabeth, Prater. from La Goers ; Barger, Roberts, from &familia ; Loa, Brown, from Quebec; Monarch, Hodgson,. and Columbus. Joan, from Mira. midst ; and Margaret, Gentian, from New Orleans. Bunn, Juts IL—Arrived the David Dale, from Quebec; and Louisa, Cerstrit, from Cadiz. Hournitaa,Juar 14.—Arrived the Henry,TrinireasChariesion. Graznoca, 13.—Arrived the Janet, Leith, from St. Via cent's; Crown, Baird, from Charleston ; Cherub, Wee, from Montreal; Rebecca, Laurie, and Thames, Adams, Imo Quebec ; Rankin, Mohan, and &. John's, Nicholls, from Sc. John's, N. B. Helen. Gibbs, from Newfoundland; and Paddy Carey, from Bay Amman, Jinx IL—Arrived the Herald, Goldle, from Sa vannah; 'Quebec packet, from Quebec; Brilliant, Barclay, from ditto • and James Licutsden....--. from Jamaica. Bltltief, Jinx IL—Arrived the Abeam, Roger, Earl of Aber. deer, Tom Bowline, and Hero, Wilson, from Quebec; and Reglaho, --, from &. Übe's. • The Princess Augusta, the Duke and Duchess of Glou meter, and Princess Sophia, dined on Friday with the Bishop of Rochester, at Bromley Palma. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Ditched' of Clarence, the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, Prince William', Princess ' and Slur party, risked the Royal National Menagerie, Rift's blesn,yesterday morning. His 9raccithe Duke of Wellington irrived in Canterbui, CO livadai eirealog. ,Boat cis o'clock, and', after Changing Mines , proceeded to Weiner HL Grace Wanda tilling up his mildew; at the Cud*, we hear. for some time.—Kassish Omsk& Yesterday the Lord Mayor entertained at dinner, in the grand Isaisgaerlog mai at the Marinas' House, the Marsilius Oa the rota at the resent Swims, the Ory Gliders, 'Purim Thomsen, M.P. tied about 40 of hisLordskies rebuts Meads. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury entertained a distinguished party to dinner yesterday, at her home in Arlington. street. Lord yarborou g h, in his Yacht, the Falcon; last week made an monk, to Jersey . Mis Great the Duke of Norfolk and the Esti at liehister have made their appearance at Spithemi, in their ftshrs yachts. • .E. P. Bastard, Esq. one of our county members, has returned to his estate at Kicky. Lewis Wiliam Meek, Egs e eon el the numbers for this thy, has returned treat Lau*, to his seat at Dadliess, in the north of Devels.AltreerAlfred. • • 'A fcireigner of distinction, - sojourning at a hshionable hotel at the west mad of the town, lost, a few days Awe, while re. turning home la a hackney coach, a lOW. bank note, which was the nest day retained to his by the coachman, who teprived sal. as the reward he was entitled to for Ms honesty. A letter fa in town from Oporto;which Mites that an English sGentientaa, of the Mune Of Sariesufs in pima's' Coimbra, by order antis. of Miners satellites, sad it is resumed that the fact has hitherto been kept from the knowledge et the lkilash Government. A letter from . Brest of the Bth July statics that the English Mete Seriegapitam hatarrieed is the Muir roads. She is destined for the Brasil, and It ring to take is bard the Consul- General far Rio Jaseito. The Royal Mariad there is entirely Inactive. Lettere from Constantinople & the 18th June state that they expect the,atrival there of .S 6 lidasy liseldb, who L to' saris in the naval coeiclis. The Ottoman forms at present are aid to amnia of 500,000 saes. They are daily o x i oisiolog new *locate. Gerard Callaghan, whd • was paused last • week ' Member for the City of Cork lathe room of Mr Nicholas Celthorst, at in the last Parliament fee the borough of MM..., • MEXICO. Istracto Ws the cerrespoodescs of a Mezicaa in the Csurviir des Plays Bss : No. 11. Bassin, Pratte, and jingland hate forbidden Turkey to under take any operations maims the Government*? IL Cap (liaise— s.* that they meant to Worms, in the affairs of others. but because they would 01* pewit sww mistenenes to be produced. Very well.—ls Spain. then, to be spend more than Turkey ?If Spain should wry war into Colombia and We:ice—if she should emits dvil war ? rwreet the scaffolds ef veupance—would these Dot be misfortunes aka becoming the guardians of humanity to prevent ? The same if Mexico sad Colombia, convinced Cuba in the bands of the Spaniards would always be a possession fatal to their comp Matins and happiness, should think on extirpating them from that eoleay, cedes psi odic Nothing easier ; three battalions and !MOO muskets solace for the insurrection of the slaves. They have nut yet done it, but patience has a term. When necessity enemas, morality is silents then, indeed, unfortunate Cuba ! unfortunate Antilles ! After all, the first duty of a government is to protect the pro perty and the interests of its citisens—to prevent dangers however remote. Lord Bolingbroke said to the ministers of Louis the XIV*, Ido not know if it be just that France and Spain should be governed by the same family, but I know that it Is set suitable for Ragland." Lord Bolingbroke did not then interwar in the affairs of France and Ragland, but be exercised a lawful right in protecting English interests. Supposing Lord Aberdeen should say to Spain,'' I do not know 'lf you have the right or not to reconquer Mexico; but If you make the attempt, successful or not, I know my countrymen will, front the ravages of the war, lose ten or twelve minims steeling em ployed there, and therefore I will Nader you from doing them this prejudice, until you guarantee them that amount of capital, by placing it first in the bank of London." Is there a single man of good faith in any country who would not say be acted right, and as became as Enlists minister charged with the interests of the British empire ? Suppose France, Russia, Holland, the Hans Towns, and North America demanded the sane guarantees, would they do wrong ? But will Spain br the loser by this restriction? is', She will gain all the surplus revenue of the Havamah, without any draw back for armaments and useless warlike expenditure. 24, This same Havannah will acquire an immense Increase of revenue by an increase of trade. 34, Me will gain a market for the wines and the brandy of Ca talonia, which so one drinks in Europe. but which are meek in fawner in America. The same may be said of all the vintage and fruits of Malaga. 41. She will be able to sell her dlks of Valencia, which certainly are not equal to those of Lyons—her cloths of Zolins, which ate inferior to those of Germany and Flanders—her paper of Alcos, which is not saleable but in the New World. There, however, such a force of habit condones, that the German merchants are obliged to glee their merchandise, sent out to South America, a Spanish physiognomy, to assure their immediate disposal. S. She will renew her ancient easnmercial rannezions, and insensibly recover their direction—the same religion—the same babitodes—the same prejudices. These are the tree privileges which no Treaty can take away, and no other nation can dispute. Look at the profit which England derives from America, without any expense! These are the advantages which Spain loses by bet blind obsti nacy, and what bet friends permit her to lose by their foolish con descension. LIMERICK, July 11. Moines Connor, a lad of 12 years, was murdered at Castirgregory. county Kerry, Sunday sennight, sad already 13 persons are in custody for ammoniate. The fair of Hospittle, as Thursday, was well provided with cattle of all sorts. Hones were in good request, but the holders asked such prices that very few mks could be effected; some very handsome colts sold well, one beautiful animal, of 1 • bands high, would have brought almost any sum could a match be found for It In the fair. Yearlings sold remarkably well. The fair of aßries's Bridge passed of ea Wednesday without any riot. A party of police,with Sir H. De Massy, Ban. attended and prevented confusion. lbe fair of Quin, (county Clare), on Tuesday, was the worst fair that came this mum, neither price nor demand for any kind of stock. At the fair of Swineford, on Thursday evening, a dreadful riot took place between two factions, the Darkens and Harkens. among whom a feud has existed fur nearly forty years, and which has frequently led to similar outrages of the peace. The parties fought In tbe most determined manner for upwards of half an hour, with bludgeons and stones. till at length the police succeeded in sepa rating the combatants. About thirty men and women wen more or less injured—one man named Derkan died the following day, and another named Carney now lies in the County Infirmary, in a very dangerous state.—Mays Free Pros. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. ~~ The importations of foreign corn are continued to a very large extent, and in the course of yesterday between 60,0001. and 70,0001. were paid in duties on taking fo reign corn out of bond for consumption. The specula tions already entered into for buying up corn in the north of Europe are exceedingly great, and from the Baltic a very considerable quantity of wheat is expected. Up to tiniest dates from St. Petersburgh eight vessels were lLoden with grain bound to this country. The accounts of the state of the wheat crops from most parts of the country are favourable. Much of the bay has been spoiled, but sufficient has been saved to pre vent the price from rising coosiderable. 11T.! S w IT!! I .—YeAerday was a - day of some interest ewer ir the speculators for a rise in corn. Their hopes did fears were excited in no ordinary degree—their hopes by the prospect of rain from a• passing cloud, and their fears. by- the prospect of a succession Of fine weather; should the saint not kindly interfere for their especia benefit. About•three o'clock, however, it rained in the vicinity of Mark-lane and the Royal. Exchange, .and, though the clouds yielded but a fleeting sterner, prices shosied a tendency to advance. This anxiety on the part of those who are anxious for high prices in grain that rain should yesterday fall cannot, the enlightened year 1829, be attributed to the possession of any faith in the saint in this respect. Things, thanks to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, are now better wider stood. The occurrence of rain falling in the middle of July, from the state of the planetary system, is likely to bad to a- continuance of wet weather, the like causes always producing like effects. The Coventry fair opened last week, OA usual, with the singular procession of Lady Gediva on horseback, which forms the most curious and indecent pageant ever wit. awed in this kingdom. The advanced ranks, composed, lam Usual, of the city guards, accoutred in their black ar mour,.with the band of the lancers, immediately preceded the pages of Lady Godiva, personated by one of the frail beauties of the town in a flesh coloured silk dress, fitting tight to her skin ; then came the different trades of the City, decorated in the most splendid manner, each preceded by their respective bands of music, and accom panied by their children fancifully arranged:. - This procession peeved as usual through most of the streets of Coventry, which, unlike the original procession, were crowded to excess, and peeping Toms were there in .thousands. This is only another proof of the tenacity with which Joint Ball still clings to ancient usages, however reprobate they may be in themselves. COLLECTANEA. MENAI BRIDGE. The following account of this national and splendid work is taken from an interesting little work, entitled the Cambrian Tourist : ' But as we approached it nearer, while it will retained its light and elegant appearance. the stupendous size and immensity of the work struck us with awe ; and when wa saw that a brig. wit► every stick standing, had just passed under k,—tbat a coach going along appeared not larva thee a child's toy, and that foot passengers upon it looked like pigmies, the vastness of its proportions was, by contrast, fully apparent. The whole surface of the bridge is is length 1,000 feet, of which the part Immediately dependent upon the chains is 590 feet, the remaining distance being supported by seven arches, four on one side and three es the other, which NI up the distance from the main piers to the shore. These main piers rise above the level of the road fifty feet, and throng► them, two archways, each twelve feet wide, admit a passage. Over the tap of thew piers, flour rows of chains, the eversible, of which ars firmly secured In the rocks at each end of the bridge, are throws ; two of them nearly in the centre. about four feet apart, and one at each side. The door of the road is formed of togs of wood. well covered wit► pitch, and then strewn over wit► granite broker very small, forming a solid body, by its unseal= to the pitch, impervious to the wet. A light lattice work of wrought iron to the height of about cis feet, prevents the possibility of accidents by falling over, and allows a clear view of the scenery os both sides, which can be sees to great advantage from this height. Having escrowed our admiration of the skill evident in the eon atruetion, at axe se simple and so useful. and having satisfied our curiosity on the top, we descended, by a predpitous path, to the level of the water, and gazed upwards with wonder, at the int. muse fiat surface above us, and it. connecting gigantic arches. The road is 100 feet above high water, and the arches spring at the height of silty fret from abutments of solid masonry, with a span of fifty-two tee. nue abutments taper gradually from their base to where the arch commences, and immense muses as they are, show no appearance of heaviness; indeed, taking the whole of the Menai Bridge together. a more perfect union of beauty with utility cannot be conceived. It has been erected to bear a weight upon the chains of SAW boos; the whole weight at present imposed is only 500, leaving an available strength of 1,500 tons; so that there is an easy remedy for a complaint which has been made of its too great vibration in a gale of wind, by laying additional weight upon it. The granite of which the piers and arches are boar, is a epochs of marble, admitting a very high polish; of this the peasantry in the neighbourhood avail themselves. and every oue has sane specimen of polished marble ready to offer the tourist. There is so much inagniliceses, beauty, and elegance. in this grand work of art. that it harmonizes and accords perfectly with the natural scenery around, and though itself an object of admiration, still in connection it heightens the effect of the general view." SITE OF TROY. " I believe that. where the miserable town of Baurearbashi now Is. Troy stood sense three thousand years ago; that the lovely streams whkb laterseet the plain are the Steals and the &sounder. where the daughters of Priam washed their garments. and the rival goddesses bathed, before they Illsputed the prise of beauty. M Of this city, tike all the others founded by Alezaoder in the East, nothing is left to attest Its termer magnificence but broken cam= and shattered trines. At a dale distaste* are the Mos of a once-spkadid temple, said to baste been dedicated to the Soo. “ We neat proceed to the promontory of Sigettm, now Cape hoissary, which was supposed to have sheltered the Greek bet DM this are the tombs of Achilles and Patroclus; and in the former the French Ambassador, some years ago, discovered • metal urn, a fragment of a sword, and a small statue, with such ornament. as are found on the statues et the Egyptian Isis; they were mock decayed. and Thornton questions if they were taken front the tomb. Neer the shore there are evident uses of a moat, and $ redoubt, probably the remains of a Grecian camp. We west o v e r the ground. with Homer for ear guide; sod if the different eminences, mounds, and rivets had been described but yesterday, their sites could sot have bees mare accurate. There is only one dilculty in the junction at the &wail and Scaniaoder, and that one even Chevalier did not explain to our saddaction. Nine miles from the shore, at the bottom of the plain, and at the foot of Mount Ida, is the site of Troy, the modern asernarbashi. Not one stone of that celebrated city is now standing, and not one particle of sculp ture is to be met with, to throw light on the subject of its ruts. "After I had been is vain searching all the morning for some ves tige of the past, I discovered near the Mosque, a marble seat, with a ?bin surface; I was in the act of copying it when I was pre vented by the Imam of the mosque, who thought I had no bribes se near his sanctuary. I have no doubt but it was very ancieet, and probably it had not been seen by say other lioropeao. The sources of the Scamatade are ekes to the town. as Homer describes than, near the Sedan gates. The spot is beautiful, shaded by trees, and several women were washing their garments in the stream ; use. of them thought proper to abuse us, bet this did not prevent our examining the temperature of the various swum the thermometer; the, appeared to be no difference whatever, not withstanding some travellers confirm Homer's account of the hot springs. Os an eminence above the town, supposed to be the Per. gaols, stands the tomb of tketor—s pyr amid of disjointed stones, uslike all the other barrows, which consist suds only. From this tomb the view was sple ndid; the Simon and the &amender were teen meandering along the plain, at the ettrenthy of which the tomb of Achilles, the promontory of Sigma, and the mouth of the Hellespont were to be discerned ; in the centre rose the im mense mound which bears the name of Bus ' • and a little on the right, that whici, according to Strains, is the tomb of Cesytes.— Madden's Tarim end Egypt. The Ediabstryk Literary Joartuil of Saturday, notions the anted of Mr. Buckingham in the northern capital to the fol lowing flattering terns :—" We have to announce that Mr. Boob- Ingham has arrived in town, at the British Hotel, sod that his Lectures on the Estero World are forthwith to commence.. The interest excited throughout the country by Mr. Buckingbant's Lectures ea the state of India, especially, and the evils of the ex isting mooopoiy, wettest' us in expressing our belief that th-y will he found worthy the attention of the inhabitants of ildiuburgh generally." Lady Morgan has visited the archives of the kingdout. She was accompanied by Sir Charles, and attended by Si N. Car at ssrthe, Alexandre, Le Noble, and several other persons. She was much delighted with a charter of Chlidebert, on the bark of a tree, and as immense roil of parchment, stating the genealogy of the world sins the stades the date of the. parchment being the fourteenth century. She was also shown the ins closet, containing several treaties with England, the keys of the Bastille, the platina ty of the Metre and the Hilo, the autograph testament of Louis pe L Bt.—Pend "per. An old man named Ellis, between sixty, and seventy, 'has been committed to Devises gaol, charged with marrying sin wives, three of them now living in different parts of the country. The defaulter in St. Ann's parish is Joshua Dab ins, counter of the sew rents, churchwardens' dues, and paving rateit. ills total deficiency is 2,3051. 6s. 7d. At a nateethig of the it.habi-• tams so Saturday, the pariah agreed to take 3s. in the pound. A decision lately in Westminster Hall, has established the point, that parish Oases receivinf a porticulornins pervious is the birth, from the father of an illegitimate child, to free litoi tient future claims on account of sueb child. act illegally ; and that she oncers cannot, according to law, do mote than accept a avow, w indemnify diparish. A gentleman (Mr. Comerford) of Killarney, while Gib ing en the lake tri .Watereille, billed an estratudioary weighbig . hiilbo. which, when opened. was Woad to coolant in its saw a small caSsorr of Lambkin's thuff, and a part of an epaulette Isueit got there is the question, but et she fact there is no doubt.— ' are Ceseetihehees. _ . - - CLARA Fisirgit.s—We have seen the medal intended • to he presented to Miss Clara Felber, by she Athiciatien ut the Friend* of Iftlend I. Charleston ae a complinsensuy return lur her libenlity towards Atm. The design and workman.hip as e beandful. kis ea Irish harp, richly set with emeralds; the head of the.harp Is a diaismod; the harp is encircled by a rind. repre senting a wreath of shamrock, richly peaty coloured gold. . The metal le about as inch and a half Itl aiamet:r, and is &endued fora nick ornament. Attached to h . is a kaideuene chain, with chased links, nod a very tick lushes, repereeethig a chaster of the shaannek, thidslyAncerspereeti with. emeralds. :Ilia lack of Ike medal is a smooth surface, designed for an appropriate inethiption. The usseallic material of width it is node is very In, goad. It is as Aiwa siessseial et Irish pstriodess and LW gratitude.— Cherie* Perm