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,/d9A I.A4Ae> N;' tl I 1 K THE GAZETTE OF VARIETY, THIS MORNING, Sam t 9, 111 +r .:+ 11.- A FEW WORDS ON DANCIINO. " Had, lorclitst an tbou cars all hearts insnare, And make the fairest still appear more fait. Hence with her shier arts, shall dancing claim An equal right to universal fame; And Isaac's rigadnon shall lire :u tang As Raphael's painting, or as Virgil's song." SoamE JEN TNII . II Essay on Darwin;. AN HISTORICAL EPITOME, including the ART of WRITING LETTERS of INTRODUCTION. MEMOIRS of MINA, MARMONT, GERARD, HOUR MONT, LAFITTE, and TALLEYRAND. The FAMILY and EARLY LIFE of the late Mr. HUSICISSON. COMPARATIVE PAY of the FRENCH and ENGLISH ARMIES. ACCOUNT of the NETHERLANDS. ORIGINAL DISQUISITION on DANCING. SELECTED POETRY and LITERATURE. ACCOUNT of an ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENT. EMOLUMENTS of the CORONERS of MIDDLESEX. LONDON and CHELTENHAM THEATR ICALS. MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. MATERIALS FOR GOSSIP, • If D Sir WALTER SCOTT'S BOOK on DEMONOLOGY and SPECTRES. .lx 16 Royal Octavo Payee.—Pucs Foul norm To be had at Temple Bar; and No. 1, Pickett-place, Pickett. street, Strand. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, Regent.street, London. PARIUMNI AND TRUSTIES. THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, THE MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD KING, Ike. &c. nnuscsoas. J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. Fir Richard King, Bart. Francis Coast, Esq. Sir F. B. :Worland. Bart. Sir George Duckett, Bart. Lord Northwick, Earl Ferrero, Hon. Thomas Parker Sir John Harrington, Bart. William Praed, Esq. Hon. Frederick Hotham Sir William E. Welby, Bart. &c. &c. &c. CAPITALS, A MILLION STERLING AND UPWARDS. The Premiums are returned after paying Lou.. and Expenses. The COUNTY FIRE OFFICE has never failed to return from 25 to 20 per Cent. to all persons insured, which is more than has been accomplished, for a continuance, by any other Fire Office. In the PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, the parties insured have , bad fourteen parts in fifteen of the profits allotted to them. These peculiar and realized advantages have been shared by many thousands of persons insured in the above Offices, during the last quarter of a century. MILITARY Mtn are not charged additional, unless called into ACTUAL Service. Persons are at liberty to pass and repass to the Continent, under limitations, WITHOUN LICINCE AND RITILA PRZMIUM. Persons removing to Unhealthy Climates. or subject to Bodily Infirmities, may insure. If any Person die by Suicide, Duelling, or the Hands of Justice, the fell value which his Policy bore on the day previous to the time of his Death will be paid. No Admission Fees are required, nor is any Charge mule for Po licks, except the Stamp Duty. ry• Agents are appointed in all the principal Towns. SALE AT LEEDS POSTPONED. WHEREAS Pursuant to an Order of the High Court' of Chancery, made in a Cause " Benyon v. Benyon," all that lately erected Fare-proof FLAX MILL and MACHINERY therein , and several Cottages or Dwelling Houses, and other Elections and Buildings, and a quantity of Land near to or adjoining to the said MW, situate in Meadow-lane, in Leeds, in the County of York, and lately advertised to be Sold at the Hotel, in Leeds aforesaid, on Thursday the 7th day of October, 1830—Now this is to give Notice, that the said SALE is POSTPONED until further Notice. C. WILSON, Southampton-street. SALE AT SHREWSBURY POSTPONED. WHEREAS, Pursuant to an Order of the High Court' of Chancery, made in a cause, " BUTOW v. BECTON." all that Freehold FLAX MILL, and the Machinery and Premises thereinto belonging, situate at Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop, and at the Main, in the County of Stafford, was lately advertised to be Sold at the Lion Inn, in Shrewsbury aforesaid, on Thursday, the 14th day of . October, 11130. Now this is to give Notice, that the said SALE is POSTPONED till further Notice. C. WILSON, Southampton Street. MARGATE REGULAR STEAM PACKETS, MAGNET, DART, fcc. THE Public are respectfully informed, that these fast and commodious Vessels will run, till further notice, at REDUCED FARES, both from London and Margate, daily (ex. rept Sundays) at Nine precisely; and that all the extra Packets have dbcontinued running for this Season. Office, 55, Fenchurch Street. J. MILLER, Secretary. N.B. Steam Packets from St. Katharine's to GRAVESEND Daily, at Nine, Tea, and Three; and to SOUTHEND and SHEERNESS, at Ten. THE WAGER. LORD B-- who in cock-fighting took great delight, Orce offered this wager to lay : Tbat when put down together the cocks should not fight, But run from each other away ; For that he a greater attraction would bring An they to each miler would prove, A charm so alluring, that round the wide ring they should follow wherc'cr he should move. The wager accepted, the cocks trimm'd and grac'd, (What a concourse encircled the ground!) And they were no sooner upon the turf placed, Than each cock turned suddenly round. They viewed not each other, but made a short stand, Then swift at his lordship they flew : (Ills bouts were by Warren's jet Blacking japano'd Ac .urprivingly shone to the view.) -ccret wJa out; but the wager was won, l•or the image of each was displayed, to Ow high p"!ished boots that so brilliantly shuns, Artl cacti cock attack'd his own shade. 'thin shouts of applause echoed loud from the thoong, rci hi, lordship's sagacity due; list it prate to his lordship's invention belong, Warr-it ! what must be given to you? Far without your jet Blacking his boots had not shone, Nor have had such a lustre to boast, The humour had tailed, he the bet had CIO I woo, And the sport of the day had been lose. Each nobleman present then quickly declared, Warren's Mackin& alone he would use, Ant tack one to Warren as quickly repaired. In buy his Japan fur their shoes. ibis Easy Shilling and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by L / e?// 7/1 t/i 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID in Bottles, Gd. 10d. 12d. and Did. each. A'. PASTE BLACKING, au Pots, Id. 12d. and 15d. each. gir Be Particular to inquire for BT. WARREN 'S, 30, STRAND. AIL 07111 f ILS COVNTIMIT. ../E N°. 13,591. PROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. 28.. WAR OFFICIL, SDI. 28. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet Edward Stanley Curwen to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kennedy, who retires ; Charles Tharabill, Oset. to be Cornet. by purchase, vice Curwen. let or °tanager Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and Cap tain John Ord Ilaaeyman to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Clarke, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant John Dunlop to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Hooey man ; Percy Augustus Freke, Gent. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dunlop. 3d Regiment of Foot—To be Lieutenants—lieut. William Thorpe, from the 14th Foot, vice Johnstone, appointed to the 33d Foot ; Lieut. Alexander Talbot Eustace, from the 14th Foot, vice John Can, who retires on half-pay 14th Foot. Stb Foot—Lieutenant William Greene, from the 6th Foot, to be Lientoosat, vise Wood Camberley, who retires stpiso Wilsey or the Ist Feet. - • - 6th Foot—Captain John Atherton, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Campbell, appointed to the 47th Foot. To be Lieutenants— Lieutenant Maurice Griffin Dennis, from the Royal African Corps, vice William Curteis, who exchanges; Lieutenant John Gray Wil son, from the Ist Foot, vice Greene, appointed to the sth Foot. To be Ensign, by purchase—John Edward Young, Gent. vice Egerton, appointed to the 18th Foot. Bth Foot—Lieut. Sampson Hugh Cox, from the Retired List of the late 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Paymaster, vice MacDer melt, who has retired. 18th Foot--Ensign Alex. Boddam to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Reed, promoted ; Ensign Thomas Graham Egerton, from the 6th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Boddans. 19th Foot—Ensign John Semple to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burns.promoted ; Richard A. M. Franklin, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Semple. 40th Foot—Lieut. James James Kennedy, from the half-pay of the Royal West India Bangers, to be Lieutenant, vice Chas. W. Combe, whO exchanges. 33d Foot—Lieutenant John Johnstone, front the 3d Foot, to be Lieutenant, •ice Jacob Glynn Rogers, who retires upon half.pay, 14th Foot. 37th Foot--Assistam.Surgeon Francis AV Donough, from half-pay Hospital Staff, to be 38th Foot—Lent. John Watson, from the 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant vice Vernon, appointed Paymaster. 41st Foot—To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant Richard Jenkins, from the 14th Foot, vice Charles Alexander Sheppard, who retires on half-pay 14th Foot ; lieutenant John Maclaine Ross, from the lit Foot, vice Alfred William Horne, who retires upon half-pay Ist Foot. 44th Foot—Lieut. T. Collins, from the 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Crowther, appointed to the 80th Foot. 47th Foot—To be C.aptalns—Captain James A. Campbell, from the 6th Foot, vice Clarke, appointed Paymaster • Capt. lion. Stanhope Hawke, from the 94th Foot, vice Wm. &Ctrs, who retires upon half-pay 6th Dragoon Guards. To be Paymaster—Captain James Clark, vice Mum, deceased. 48th Foot—Lieutenant James Brown, from the lit Foot,to be Lieu tenant, vice Hull, appointed to the 69th Foot. 57th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Shadforth to be Lieu. tenant-Colonel, without purchase ; Brevet Major Robert Hunt to be Major, vice Shadforth ; Lieutenant James Brown to be Captain, vice Hunt. To be Lieutenants without purchase—Lieutenant Robert Ball, front bait-pay, 59th Foot ; Lieutenant William Frederick Putnam, from half-pay 101st Foot ; Lieutenant William John Saunders, from the 75th Foot ; Ensign William Lockyer ; Ensign Edmund Lockyer ; Ensign Robert Alexander ; Ensign Charles Henry Darling; Second Lieutenant William Justin MacCarthy, from the Ceylon Regiment; Ensign Francis Baynes, from the 88th Foot ; Ensign Rowland Be yen, from the 77th Foot ; Ensign Thomas Capel Loft, front the 92d Foot, vice Brown.—To be Ensigns—Ensign John David Blythe, from the Ist West India Regiment, vice W. Lockyer ; A. T. Allan, Gent. vice E. Lockyer ; John Spence, Gent. vice Alexander ; S. F. de Saumares, Gent. vice Darling. 60th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Scott M'Credie, from the 65th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon. 65th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Miller, from half-pay sth West India Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Credie, appointed to the 60th Foot. 69th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Hill Hull, from the 48th Foot to be Lieutenant, vice John Russell Vernon, who retires upon galf.pay lit Font. 74th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Stewart, from half-pay 6th Foot, to hr Assist-Surgeon, vice Hughes, whose appointment has - - not taken place. 77th Feot—James S. Atkinson, Gent. to be Ensign,without purchase, vice Bevan. promoted in the 77th Foot. 80th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Crowther, from the 44th Foot, to be Lieutenagt, vice Thornley, whose appointment has not taken place. 83d Foot—Ensign Hanwsy Howard, from the 58th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Watson, appointed to the 58th Foot. 86th Foot —Ensign William Stewart to be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Grant, promoted ; John Dowman, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Stuart. 88th Foot—Ernest Augustus Hawker, Gent. to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Baynes, promoted. 92d Foot—Donald Stewart, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Loft, promoted in the 57th Foot. .:93d Foot—Ensign James Macpherson Grant, to be Lieutenant by purchase, •ice O'Meara, promoted; William Bernard Ainslie, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grant. 94th Foot—Captain William Mackie, from halt-pay 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, paying the difference, vice Hawke, ap pointed to the 47th Foot ; Ensign Thomas Cunninghame to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Workman, promoted ; John Thomas Bligh, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vie* Cunninghame. 99th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Spencer Bunyon, from half-pay 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Canny, who exchanges. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant James Palmer, from half-pay Royal York Rangers, to be Lieutenant, vice Arthur Macintyre, who exchanges; Godfrey liawstorne, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Blyth, appointed to the 57th Foot. Ceylon Regiment—Lieutenant Louis Clare, from half-pay 60th Foot, to be First Lieutenant, vice William Keen, who exchanges ; John Heyliger, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice iU'Carthy, promoted in the 57th foot. BILIVET.—To be Major- Generak in the Army—Colonel Alexander Bethune, half-pay 16th Garrison Battalion ; Colonel William Au. gust's Johnson, ball.pay 3d Ceylon Regiment.—To be Colonel in the Arsny—Lieutenant- Colonel Sir Dudley St. Leger 11111, half-par unattached, be having repaid the difference he received on ex changing to half-pay—To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army. —Major Colin Pringle, on half-pay 6th Line Battalion King's German Legion ; Major Henry Bristow, halfpay 38th Foot.— To be Major in the Army—Captain George Pinckney, of the I Ith Foot. MamoaANnia. The titles of the under-mentioned Officers have been changed, in coo formity to his Majesty's warrant of the 29th July, 1131 To be principal Inspector-General of the Army Medical Department Principal Inspector Sir William Franklin, M.D. To be Inspectors-General of Hospitals--Inspectors William Augustus Burke, M.D, Alexander Baxter, M.D. To be platy Inspectors-General of Hospitals--Deputy Inspectors John Erly, M. D. Thomas Draper, James Strachan, M.D. James Forbes, M.D. Joseph Skey, 111. D. Hugh Bone, M.D. Daniel Mac leod, M.D. To be Assistant-Inspictors et Hospitals—Physicians Theodore Gor don, M.D. James Weir, M.D. John Clarke, M.D. Arthur Stewart, M.D. John Davy, M.D. William Sibbald, M.D. To be Assistant Surgeoos—Hospital Assistants Augustus Henry Cowen, David Pitcairn, Joseph Edmondson, Wm. Reid, Boleyne Gordon Webb, James Sheikh M.D. Robert Wm. Scott, Alexander Campbell, Michael Nugent, Thomas Fox, M.D. James Johnston, Thomas Coke Gault's., M.D. John Donald Grant, Jaws Clapham, Minto, Andrew Halliday Hall, Peter Bilrd, M.D. John Young Skelton, George Henry Gordon, Alerander Sherif Mitdeinnel, James Jackson, M.D. John Clark, M.D. Jelin Leithead, Henry Thompaou, Robert Prirserose. Henry Joseph _Hun, Robert Allen, Adam Thomas Jackson, Samuel Maitland Hatikway, Steplaessl Lawson, John Caw. M.D. Gregor ffl'Oregor, William Campbell Robertson, John Stewart, John Waldrop Moore, Thos. Galbraith, Logan, M.D. William Robertson, Robert Bell, M.D. John Tully, M.D. Peter Daly Murray, M.D. William John Fagg. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 29. 1539. 71). Commission in the Royal Radnorshire Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Radnor. Henry Fits Gerald, Esq. to be Adjutant with the rank of Captain. Commission in the Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset. Pala Meilen., Esq. to be Captain. FOREIGN OFFICE, Sum ilk 100. The King has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert Slythe as Consul at Malta for his Majesty the King of Sardinia. DECLARATIONS OP INSOLVENCY. WILLIS, VALESTINI, Luton, Bedfordshire, scrivener. Du, Jour Ems; Lamb's Conduit-street, tea dealer. &NMI, Waterloo-reed, Lambeth, money scr ivener. BANKRUPTS. _ _ Cams. Jose, Tansmill•street, - Clerien well, pawnbroker, to surrender Oct. 1, 12, and Nov. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Fawcett, Jewin.street, Cripplegate, and South Sea Chanabars, Tbreadmeedlo-street. &MOTT, Turmas, Soodiailiptaa.row, Bloomsbot7, grocer. Oct. 3, at ten, 12, and Nov. 0, at eleven, a• the Piurt of Commissioner.. Attorney, Mr. IL Matland, Memutt.street, Statnford-arreet. HODSOIII, BLEU SD, Birmingham, currier, Oct. 5, 12, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. J. Bailey, Ely-place, Holborn. Puma, Prance bloactan, Liverpool. commcui brewer, Oct. 14. 15, and Nov. 9, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Attorneys, Messrs. Bebb and Canning, Great Marlborougb.streec ; and :11r. Armstrong, Queen-square, Liverpool. Bees, ltiouaan, Swansea, Glamorganshire, ironmonger, Oct. 15, 16, and Nov. 9, at twelve, at the Globe Tavern, Birmingham. Actor. neys, Mr. J. Bull Ring, Birmingham ; and - Dlr. J. Boor- Mon, Winchester-street. Lowsoon, Enw.can, and LOUDON, Rocca, Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, anchor manufacturers, Oct. 13.14, and Nov. 9, at eleven, at the Monkwearmouth Shore Hotel, 3lonkwearmouth Shore. At torneys, Messrs. Bell, Brodriek, and Bell, Bow Cburch-yard ; and Mr. W. Allison, Montwearmouth. DIVIDENDS. Oct. 19, T. J. Sutton, Scarborough, Yorkshire, master mariner, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—Oct. 8. C. Baglehole and J. Redgrave, Mark lane, merchants, bt eleven, at the Court of Corn naissioners-oct. 2.2, B. Kerby, Stafford street, Bond-street, book seller, at two, at the Court of Commissioners—Oct. 21, R. Hans. ford, Weymouth, grocer, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Dor chester—Oct £B, J. Atkins, Hamstall.Ridware, Staffordshire, miller, at two, at the Cup Inn, Yoxall, Staffordshire--Oct. 20, J. Bates, Buxton, Derbyshire, innkeeper, at eleven, at the King's Arm Inn, Derby—Oct. 20, J. M. Gilchriu, Liverpool, merchant, at twelve, at Mr. J. Lowe's Office, Liverpool—Oct. 27, H. Halo, Musbury, Devonshire, sheep salesman, at eleven, at the George Inn, Crewkerne, Somersetsbire—Oct. 20, W. Graham, Bristol, linen- draper, at twelve, at blesses. Parker and Johnson's Office, Bristol— Oct. £5, T. Stone, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, innkeeper, at eleven, at the White Cross Inn, Albrighton, Shropshire—Oct. 20, E. Hors man and J. Dorman, hipping-Camptlen, Gloucestershire, bankers, at twelve, at the Crown Inn, Evesham, Worcestcrshite—Oct. 19, T. H. Leeson, Douglas, Isle of Man, draper, at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. CERTIFICATES.—Oct. 19. R. Hudson, Norwich, wholesale stationer—D. Lloyd, Brecon, tan ner—R. Thomas, Liverpool, house builder—W.R.W. King, Snowhill, tin plate-worker—W. Dean, Manchester , stationer—G. Worthy, Manchester, porter dealer—. Helm. Museum.street, Bloomsbury, pawnbroker—P. Homden, York House, Five Fields, Chelsea, bookseller. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. T. Newman and G. T. Hermes. Golden-square, auctioneers—, 0. and J. Allen, York. surgeons—R. Kitchen and J. T. Peacock, Sheffield. merchants—G. Hiller and H. Kamp. Bermondsey -equate, varnish manufacturers—T. and W. Read, Kingston-upon-Hull, hosiers —J. and J. Goodwin and T. Bridgwood, and E. Hanle, Lone-end, Staffordshire, earthenware manufacturers—J. Laidman and Co. Liver- pool, merchants, (so far as regards Abe said J. Laidman)--G. Topple and P. Christie, teachers—W. Heygate, H. Mason, and J. Heygate, jun. Calvert Mill, Derbyshire, cotton spinners, (so far as regards the said J.Heygate, jun.)—E. Emery and J. Tindle, Bleeding Bean-yard, Hatton-garden, plate glass grinders—J. Sykes and J. Tozer, Charles. street, Haymarket, boot makers—W. Pratchett, W. Wilma, and R. Woods, Liverpool, common brewers, (so far as regards the said W. Lsidman). THE LATE WORCESTER MUSIC MEETING. The following following is a statement of the receipts for admission, daring the three days, to the Cathedral, Concert, and Ball, at the late Worcester hlusical Festival : s. d. C. s. d. TUESDAY.-At the Cathedral, 823 Choir Tickets, and 877 Gallery At the Concert, 458 Ticket 5............... 240 9 0 At the /341, 37 Tickets WEDNESDAY.—At the Cathedral, 413 Choir Tickets, and 651 Gallery At the Concert, 912 Tickets . .. 478 16 0 At the Ball, 429 Tickets 515 1 6 - 1359 4 0 THUESDAY.-At the Cathedral, 589 Choir Tickets, and 701 Gallery At the Concert, 716 Tickets.. At the Ball, 271 Tickets 1440 1 0 The aggregate Receipts of the Meeting are u follow : 21314 6 6 a. se. s. For the Charity lOO6 13 0 For Admission X 4340 0 0 WhiCli is a diminution, as compared with the Receipts of the Meeting in 1827, of For the Charity ... ............. 78 2 101 For Admission . £7UO 16 10i REGISTER OF PUBLIC SALES, SEPT. 28. AUCTION-MART. Mr. Newton.—The absolute Reversion in and to £2Ol. T h ree per Cent. Consols, receivable on the demise of a Lady aged 78.—Knocked down at 90 guineas. The Absolute Reversion in and to £lOO sterling. secured on freehold property, receivable on the demise of a Lady aged 78.—£55. A Post-Obit Bond, dated January, 1827, fur £3,960. to secure the payment of X 1,980. and interest, payable six months after the death of a Baronet resident in Kent, the father of the granter—Xl4o. Messrs. Stevens and Brenchley.—A Copyhold Estate, comprising a residence, with warehouse and wharf, and a dwelling-house, No'. 4 and 5, Fore -street, Lambeth--£1,400. The Leasehold 4 511 of Vitriol Works, on the banks of the Thames, Battersea, with plant and fixtures; held for 15 years, at 501. p.r an num-980 guineas. A Leasehold House, No. 1, Fair-place. Fair-fields, Stepney, and a Cottage adjoining ; let at 221. held for 53 years, at 81.8 s. ground-rent —961. A Leasehold Residence, No. 32, Alfred-place, Bedford.square ; let at 951. held for 74 years, at 441. 19s. a year-5401. A Policy in the Guardian Assurance Company foe 5,0001. effected on the Life of a Gentleman aged 56 ; subject to the annual payment of 2051. 16s. Bd.-6001. One Sha-e in the Grand Junction Canal, producing a dividend of 131. per annum-2321. In estimating the cost of the New Police it does not seem to have struck any one of the objectors, that the police are on duty both night and day, and that the watch, which they superseded, were on duty only during the night. This must of necessity call for a greater number. The watch only were charged on the parish, the day patrol were paid out of another fund. A cousiderable extension of the foot pavement is now being made in most of the principal thoroughfares in the city. From the recent immense additions to the metropolis, and the consequent in crease of passengers in the streets, this improvement will materially con duce to the contort and safety of pedestrians, whilst it will tend to the benefit of trade by inducing the aged. the delicate, and the timid, to venture abroad more frequently. Tile propriety of dam: ng has been much controvmed by theole.,•,tat4 Anions the Fatirtni, St. Chrysostont,—“ the most eloquent or the Saints."--assures us that feet were not given for dancing, hut t., stalk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels. Basil, Augustine, and Anihrme, are equally hostile. I/anen t :4'as more than once -xpressly forbidden by Council., as that of Laodicea, •.n. 364, tiaa sl: Agatha in 430. and that of Ilerda in 515. Jo many others the hition extended to ecclesiastics only. See note 11. article ALDEGONDE, SAINT, of BAILeg Dictionorg, for a very curiae% account of the ettls of dancing ; and also Vol. it. p. 273, of BURTON'S Anatomy of Ye/eine/to:9. Apollo is called by Pindar the dancer ; and hunter introduces Lim donating to the music of hi, harp. Arhetueus says that dancing its the wilier ages of Greece, was a thing becoming persons of honour and wisdom. The great Scipio Africanus amused himself" with exercising Lis warlike and triumphant bodic in dancing, (not foolishly as wen are wont to doe at this day, with refluences and tricks that are mote than effeminate); but as the ancients were aunt to dance in their :pow and festival dates, with a decent and comely behaviour, whilst no disli,,no, or reproach might emote, though he bad been noted by his very enemies. —LODGE'S Seneca, p. 654. Socrates learned to dance at an advanced age; it is no wonder, t h ere. fore, that such honoursitle mention 13 made of dancing by his disci l let, Plato and Xenophon. The people of Sparta and Crete went tad.: atsaek, dancing. On the other hand, Cicero reproaches Galbinus, a consular man, with haying danced. Tiberius expelled the dancers front Rome ; and Doom ;a . excluded several members from the Senate, for having danced ; bu. the acts of these hrpedal despots, may be considered r athe r as the sugg,.6. Dons of cEppice and folly, than as the dictates of wisdom and virtue Hippnclldis lost the hand of the King of .Irgors's daughter, o ...- count of his love of di l r.cing. -HEnotroTt's, ti. 129. Aristoxenus preferred the dances of the .11antitteans, on account of the quickness with which they moved their kandb.—AettemAus, i. 19. The Phrygian donee seems to be closely imitated on the annual re. tont of the Ilindoto f,..tivitv of ablution in the waters of the Ganges. Dances formed part of Nunsa's religions c,tewonies, PM:MAK:II ; the Jews also made it a religious act, Ban/. :0. 20 ; a itsi. 19; NC Ili. The dances of the nettling consisted of an imitation of the mazes id' I outlets of the Labyrinth ; and, with various involutions and evolutions, performed in regular time.—PLuTAactt. This kind of dance, as 11:. crearchus, a scholar of Aristotle, informs vs, was called Crane; I,e -cause, says Callimachus, cranes usually fly in a circle. This dloica, after a lapse of 3,000 years, still exists in Greece. Sec M. Guys's Hist. Lit. dela Greco', Let. .riii. Before the time of Theseus, stye Eustathius (Comm. 11. xviii.) men and women always danced rate parties ; but that Prince first united the two sexes ni this amuse ment. The martial deuce of the (innians is thus descriii•ti by TACIT US, dc Merit.. Ge-man, c. 24 :--- They have only one kinti of public spectacle, which is exhibited in every company. Young men, who make it their diversion,dance naked, amidst drawn swords and presentA spears." Those who wish for minute information on the dancing of the an. cients, may turn to LuctAx's Treatise on Dancing, vol. 1, p. 217 of TOOKE'S translation ; PLUTARCH'S Sywposioea, baok ix. quest. 15, p. 655 of llot.LAxo's translation ; PLATO'S Laws, book vii. vol. I. 1). Of TAYLOR'S translation; and the Dissertation Of BURETTE, in the lifemoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions. Our ancestors used to keep the sport up till midnight, and it was au indispensable accompaniment of weddings. The monks used to dance in their dorthitories. Swords, called Dancing-Rapiers [mentioned by SUARSPEARE, Titus Andronicus, act 2, scene t], were worn in the dancing-schools ; which schools existed in the Universities, in Evelyn's time. In the grand rebellion, a clergyman was charged with having taught, in the pulpit, that we ought to learn to dance, and that if we could not dance we were damned ! In the time of Queen Elizabeth, " at a solemn dancing, first you had grave measures, [as now minuets], then the corrantoes and the galliards. But in King Charles's nine, there has been nothing but french-more, and the cushion-dance, omni ea. gatherum, tolly, Polly, hoite come toite."—SELDletea Table Talk, art. King of England. Dugdale says (Orig. Jurid.)that the students of Lincoln's Inn an. ciently had dancings for their recreation and delight. And, he adds, that in the year 1610, the under banisters, for example's sake, were put out of commons by decimation, because they offended in not dancing on Candlemas-day, when the judges were present, according to an ah t Pent order of the society. William of Alalinesbuty, p. 86, gravely re. tat's the following account of an extraordinary dance in the words of true of the performers: " 1, Ethelbert a sinner, will give a true (!) relation of what happened to me on the day before Christmas, A.D. 1012, in a certain village where there was a church dedicated to St. Magnus the Martyr, that all men may know the danger of disobeying the commands of a priest. Fifteen young women, and eighteen young men, of w:tich I was one, were dancing and singing in the church-yard, when ere Robert, a priest, was performing mass in the church ; who sent us a civil message, intreating us to desist front our diversion, because we disturbed his devotion by our noise. But we impiously disregarded Iris request; upon which the holy man, inflamed with anger, prayed to GOD and St. Magnus, that we might continue dancing and singing a whole year without intermission. His prayers were heard! By our continual dancing we wore the earth so much that, by degrees, we sunk into it up to the knees, and at length up the middle!! When the year was ended, Bishop Hubert came to the place, dissolved the invisible ties by which our hands had been so long united, absolved us, and reconciled us to St. Magnus." A merry set, called the Dancers, arose in the Netherlands about the middle of the 14th century. Persons of both sexes danced with such extraordinary violence that they fell down breathless ; and during there intervals of vehement agitation, they were favoured with wonderful visions. See AlosnErm, cent. .rig. chap.& viii. The celebrated Castrucci° the patriot of Lucca, when reprehended by a friend for dancing beside his dignity, replied, as Machiavelli reports in his life, " Qui aspic interdin, vix unquam noctu desipit," which may be interpreted, "If a man be wise all day, he may, if be so pleases, dance like a fool at night." See p. p. 165 of Carne's Letters from the East for a description of the voluptuous performances of the eastern dancing girls of the preterit day ; and p. 160 of CRAWFURD'S Embassy to the Court of Atha tin air account of those of that country. Some of the Dutch dances are singularly curious. In one of them, the man turns his female partner round on tip-toe several hundred times together, without the smallest intermission. The estimation in which dancing was held in the reign of Henry VII. appears from the following curious entry in his Exchequer.books Paid Pechie, the Fool AO 6 8 Richard Men, for writing books - 010 0 The young damsel that danceth - 30 0 0" !! At the feat of St. Martial, apostle of the Limousin, the congregatilth retained the custom of dancing in the choirs till the middle of the seven teenth century; and instead of the doxology after every psalm, they sang out, in that country dialect, " San Alarceau pregrats per nous, et nous erngaren per bons " Le. " St. Martial pray for us, and we will dance for you." Country dancing, many persons believe to be a rustic way of dancing borrowed from the country people ; but this mistake arises from erro neous orthography, corniry-dance being a corruption of the French contredanse " CONTR•• DANCE, n. [Fr. contredanee ; It. contraddaiszo ; COUNTER-DANCE, Sp. contradonsa.) A dance in which the partners are arranged in opposition, or in opposite lines."— Ens That's English Dictionary. Marshal Bassouipierre, speaking of his dancing country dances here in England, in the time of Charles I. writes it expressly eoniredansei. Memoirs, iii. p. 307. The dances of the people of Tongataboo, one of the Friendly lalaLds 1 1 in the South Sea, are perfumed by the light of torchi a, formed of the old bark of the cocoa tree. I'hev dance it. companies of eighty or • hundred, performing thiir complicated evolutions with a promptness not to be exceeded. They commence early in the morning, and keep up the dance till midnight ; sometimes till the next morning, one set relieving another. Lewis and Clarke, in their Travels to Me Source of the .Wissouri River, informs us that the American Indians dance to the music of three instruments ; a buffalo-skin across a hoop ; a long stick, to which the hoofs of deer and goats are hung; and a small akin bag with pebble% In it ! The Margravine of Anspach relates several instances of the sur prising good fortune of female opera-dant:en. She informs us, that Mademoiselle Outman was looked upon as surprisingly moderate, since she cost the Prince of S. only 100,000 Byres a year for her table, and 50.000 for her menus p/oisire! Baron de Grimm tells us, that one day young Voids performed wonders at the ballet, when his father (the dime de la dense, as h,. styled himself in his Provencal accent) exclaimed in rapture, " If he goes on thus, I have agreat gift in store for him ; I will allow him to bear my name !" Alfieri had a sovereign contempt and abbonstnee for dancing. His own account of the origin of this antipathy, is exceedingly singular alai characteristic. Memoirs, vol. i. p. 83. The Quakers striedy prohibit dancing,*and for which they give four reasons, which may be found fully detailed in CLaassores Portraiture of Quakerism See part iii. book ii. cb. 9 of LErrireau's gratulation of Punts Ilisttry of tke Waldemar or vol. 2. p. lg 4 of Sou THEY'S Ossitsiast a. fur a most unwessured tirade against dandng. ,, The later Puritans, of course, were open-mouthed against :this abo tnination and iniquity ; and the snm of their arguments may be found arrayed in a little volume entitled XOPOOEOAOrON-1667. 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