Star. — London, England, 1830-08-21 00:00:00

FRA,CE. SITTING OF THE 17th ♦UGUST. After much precious discussion, chiefly relative to the acceptance rejection of the oath, M. Marachal, after having examined the existing law respecting the oath, proposed the adoption of the amendments which follow " Art. I. All public functionaries, whether of administrative o r judicial order, the officers of the army and navy, must take on oath in there terms I swear fidelity to the King of the French, obe.l dience to the Constitutional Chartet, and to the laws of the kingdom. "Art. 2. Nothing shall be added or changed in the formula of this oath unless by virtue of a law. " Art. 3. All functionaries now employed, administrative or ju. dicial, and all officers now employed or disposable for the army or, navy, shall be allowed fifteen days from the promulgation of the present law to take the oath, on failure in which they shall be con- Bidet-id as resigned." The Chamber decided on discussing this to-morrow. The Minister of War then presented a Bill for fixing legally and ' I definitively the arrangements of military and naval officers. Up to the Ist of February, 1829, the treatment of these officers had been compromised by rigorous measures ; before that time numerous claims had resounded through the Chamber. Government at length determined on doing justice, and the ordinance of the 18th February, 1829, appeared. This ordinance but very imperfectly effected its object. Now, it was necessary to fix definitively these arrangements of the officers of the army, awaiting the code which was to rule the conservative principle of the rights of officers. " Louts Philippe, &c. " Art. I. In future the officers of the army can only lose their rank by resignation, or by being cashiered ; in all other cases they are in active service, ou half-pay, or in retirement. " 2. The King, as supreme head of the army, regulates all that concerns active service or half-pay. " 3. The bases of the allowance of half.pay and pensions to the widows and orphans of soldiers can only be determined by law. 4. The pensions of the land forces are in future to be regulated by a Tariff annexed to the present law. "b. The allowances of military pensions made up to the present time are and remain confirmed. " 6. There is no change made in the regulation in force for the liquidation of military pensions, as it is settled by the laws, ordi. nances, and regulations on that head ; but in future no modifica tions can be made in it but by virtue of a law. " Arts. 7,8, and 9, regulate the distribution and source of the pensions. . _ _ " Given at the Palais Royal, &c. (Signed) " LOUIS PIIII.IPPE. " Secretary of State for the War Department, (Signed) " COMIC GERARD." The Chamber gate leave to the Minister of War to bring in the bill, and ordered it to be printed and distributed in the bureau. The Minister of the Interior stated the heads of a proposed law, as follows : " Art. 1. Every Deputy who shall accept a public appointment with a salary shall be considered as virtually giving in his resignation as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. " 2. Nevertheless he shall continue to sit in the Chamber until the day when the election which his acceptance of &public paid situ ation has occasioned shall take place. " 3. Officers up to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel inclusive are ex cepted from the first article. . _ _ ." 4. Those Deputies who, by reason of their accepting public office, shall cease to be members of the Chamber of Deputies, may be re-elected. " 5. The present law shall be applied to Deputies promoted to public appointments since the opening of the present Session." The Chamber gave leave to the Minister of the Interior to bring in this bill, and to send it first to the bureaux for examination. The 31inister of the Interior then stated the articles of a proposed measure to give employ to the workmen, and to furnish the necessaty funds to pay for these works. The bill ran thus s " Art. I. An extraordinary credit of live millions is opened, on the tax of 1830, to the Minister of the Interior, who wilt use it for public works and other urgent wants, for which it is indispensable to provide. " 2. He shall render an account of tke use of this credit, in the' legal and usual form.' The Minister announced to the Chamber that the works had commenced, by virtue of a Royal Ordinance dated yesterday. M. Jars spoke in the name of the commission charged with the examination of the proposal of M. Delessert, relative to the recom pense and pensions to be given to the wounded, the widows, and victims of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July. He proposed, in a few words, the adoption of the law which the commission has amended, as follows: " Art. 1. Recompences shall be decreed to all those who were wounded in defending the national cause in Paris on die glorious days of the 26th, 27th, 20th, and 29th of last July. " Art. 2. The fathers, mothers, widows, and children of those who have fallen, of may fall in consequence of their wounds, shall receive a pension or relief. " Art. 3. A medal shall be struck to perpetuate the remembrance of those events. " Art. 4. A Commission shall be named by the Government, to make the necessary inquiries to decide on those who, in confor- Inky with the preceding articles, shall be entitled to pensions or relief. The progress of this Commission shall be reported to the Chambers. " This Bill shall be discussed at a public sitting, immediately after the Bill relating to the oath." M. D. de Tracy stated, at great length, a proposition for the abolition of the puniAment of death. M. de Montigny opposed the immediate consideration of this, as them wi..re wore urgent ameliorations required in the penal code. Gen. Lafayette (profound silence)-1 think, contrary to my ho. nourable colleage, that the abolition of the punishment of death is a principle which may be decreed before making the ameliorations which are proposed, the necessity of which I feel. It is not a novel idea ; the abolition of the punishment of death has been demanded at all times iu the well-known constituent Assembly. It is so now in the Senate of the United States. You perceive it is no new idea, and each person may have his predetermined opinion on this point. As to me, I should ask for the abolition of the punishment of death till I have the infallibility of human judgments demonstrated to me. The punishment of death has always inspired me with a feeling of horror, since the execrable use made of it during the Revolution. Our revolution has a different character ; it is the revolution of pa triotism, courage, and generosity. I believe, for my part, that it will be suited to the commencement of this revolution to do a great act of humanity by abolishing the punishment of death. I vote for its being now taken into consideration. M. Lepelletier d'Aubnsy called for an adjournment. M. de Tracy opposed it. M. de Rambateur opposed the consideration. The adjournment was negatived, and the question taken into consideration. M. de la Pinsonnierc proposed as follows All those Deputies,l who shall nut have taken the oath or given in their adherence before the expiration of 15 days from the promulgation of the present law, shall be considered as having resigned, unless in some case of public hindrance." On all shies—Seconded, supported. M. de Alartignac—l claim to be heard (a movement show. ing great interest and curiosity.) I easily conceive the mo tives which have dictated the proposition that you have just heard, but I still hope that it will be useless to have recourse to this unusual procedure ; and I sin about to submit to the Chamber some obervations which it will do well to attend to. It is doubtless important, in the grave circumstances In which we are placed, that all interests should be represented in this Chamber, and that every past of the country should possess an organ here to represent its wishes, its necessities, and its complaints. Such is the importance, it appears to me impossible that it should not be felt; and it is precisely this fact which leads me to regard the proposed meanie as useless. A single obstacle retains at their homes mid from this place some of the members of this Chamber; and cer tainly, for the honour of human nature, we ought not to be uto. nished at it ; this obstacle is the necessity of a new oath. There Is in this an engagement to abandon those who have been proscribed, and to transfer the ath of fidelity made to one King and one dynasty to another King and another dynastyy—ootnething which alarms the conscience and rends the heart. This mo. sal resistance can only yield to a duty still more imperious; and such a duty must be studied to be comprehended. What is de manded from us—from us Deputies of France ? It is the necessity of examination ; and I hesitate not to m here the result of this examination, convinced as I am tral c t i l a i i ere is no genuine senti ment or conscientious opinion which cannot be circumspectly delivered from this tribune with freedom. My political Meads and myself attached to the Royal house which has just fallen, have done every thing prescribed by conscience and reason to prevent this new misfortune. We have known for a long time the wishes, the wants, and the re,ousees of France, and we have not to reproach our selves with having concealed them in a memoir which we composed in October, 1828, by the Cabinet of which I formed a part, and from which I am able, without injury to becoming decorum, to ex tract a single passage. of whatever we said to the King afte r having explained our plan of conduct:— " Any other means of security—any measure of a different nature—cannot enter into our minds, for our notification will not admit of others, and we are unable to suggest any thing beyond what is here presented . The wi s d om o f two Kings has made great concessions to France, and France has with great fervour adopted them. In the actual state of the public mind, and with the feelings which these concessions themselves have tended so deeply to Impress, to think of withdrawing, sus~g, or ma difying them would be to make a question of the ex of royalty itself, and doubtless no In France will have the fatal courage to give such counsel to tri u lng"--(" Bravo, bravo.") This fatal courage, resumed M. Martignac, others have shown, and their foolish presumption and inexplicable ignorance of the state of the country have shaken down in two days a throne which has existed for eight centuries. We have not witnessed without profound grief this frightful overthrow. We have accompanied with our regret, and with the respect due to august misfortune, these unhappy Princes, who wanted nothing to enable them to fulfil their exalted destiny, than a proper distrust of false friends, and a better under. standing of the country they were called to govern, and of the times in which we live. We wish in this great shipwreck it was possible to abide by the principle of legitimacy. that conservative principle which the Chamber has recently de. signated as yet more salutary for the people than for kings.— Such has not been the case; the nature of things, the force of circumstances, and the power of events, have not permitted it. Menaced with all the evils which attend anarchy ; yielding to the law of necessity ; receiving from that necessity a mandate which no other authority can dispute, you have declared the throne of France vacant, modified the Charter, annulled promotions to the Peerage, drawn up a declaration of the rights of the country, and pro. claimed a King and a dynasty. My friends and myself, having taken no part in these acts, find ourselves in the presence of a deed accomplished. It is in this situation that the grave consideration is presented to us, whether we ought to abandon our posts, or submit to the oath which is required of us. It is granted that, until now, we have been divided on this question; I con fess it. I had doubts when I saw my noble and generous friend, M. Hyde de Neuville, adopt an opinion contrary to my own. It re quired a profound conviction to enable him to resist the force of his example : but-this conviction I entertain, and it is not for me to conceal the voice of my heart, when I feel it to be emphati cally that of my conscience. Nothing is more simple or more easy than the part of retirement. In that is to be found peace to the heart, and repose to the mind. It may be aided that it is un attended with danger, for the organs of prevalent opinion are pro digal in praise of those who retire, and hold them up with no incon siderable ingenuity as a model for all those who are in a si. miler position. But is this really honour? Is it the clearly-un derstood performance of duty ? Ido not think so, and I boldly say so. Deputies, we hold our mandate not from Royalty, but from our country. This mandate was given to us under other cir cumstances, for a state of things more legal and more regular but ought we to desert it because circumstances have become more grave, more menacing, more difficult ? The soil of our country is still rocking with the violent shock that overturned the throne.— Ought we to abandon those who labour to make it firm at the risk of subjecting society itself to fresh shocks? Convinced as we ought to be, since we profess to be so, that our principles are the wisest, ought we to renounce the making the expression of them heard, when we have received no express mission so to do ? Laws on which the tranquillity of the future entirely depends are to be submitted tophe Chamber, on which we have aright to put forth an opinion, and to give or refuse a vote. Shall we leave without an organ at this decisive moment, the country which has nominated us—the opi nion which we represent—the interests of every kind which have been confided to us ? And if misfortunes which we might have avoided ate the consequence of this unconsidered revolution, should we not be responsible in our own eyes—in the eyes of our fellow-citi zens, for the mischiefs which we h ave a ll owe d to be done ? Aotl if our example were followed by the electors who have invested us with our power, could we calculate the consequences of such imprudence ? For me, Gentlemen, I have no doubt, and my duty is as clear to me as the light of day. We arc at a moment of effervescence and pre. possession. I will oppose with all my strength the dangers of pre cipitation : I will wait with patience for reflection. I will resist being led away. I will combat all that appears dangerous to me.— When they shall speak to me in the name of liberty, a language which I understand full well, I will speak in the name of order, and all the world will understand me. I will oppose experience to theories—the interest of my country to the interest of party. I will demand the exe cution of the laws, if I think I see them violated. If I see our streets-- our squares, filled with ignoble images, or the misfortunes of the great handed over to derision and outrage, I will invoke the public I decency, which in France has also the authority of the law. I will call upon her until justice be done—until there only remains shame at insulting unfortunate old age and fallen power ; and I am sure no man will disavow this.--(Universal cheers.) This, as I conceive it, is our duty. What would be thought of us if we acted contrary to honour ? and what idea would they entertain of our honour who should blame us for our choice ? Have we here any personal interest to consider, any ambition to satisfy ? Are we the creatures of a new power, :taking for favours, and founding on a change of l a ngu age a nd doctrine the hopes of new fortune? Are these the results we seek ...the triumphs we hope for ? It is not for us, destined to contend against a measure which drives us on, that triumphs are reserved. A laborious task—one difficult, and condemned beforehand by those who are renounced. Such is our sad lot. But the lot which our fellow-citizens have cast on us is preferable to a useless inac tivity, however borourable the motive on which it is founded. These are some of the considerations which determined us ; it was time that they should be clearly explained. This explanation, to which we shall not revert again, was called for by the proposition which has been made to you. (Much excitement.) I cannot believe but that, after having heard us, those of our colleagues who still hesitate will feel the necessity of retaining the post to which they are called, and remain generous citizens, after having been faithful subjects. Ido not oppose the taking the measure into considera tion • but Ido hope that, before the law a intervene, it will have become useless. (Much excitemeny which lasted a considerable time.) The proposition was taken into consideration. The Chamber then rose. SPIRIT OF TILE JO,IIIIIALS. CmtoxicLE—The novenn — t of England is a confederacy of I a certain number of families, to make the property of the commu nity available to the furtherance of their separate interest. The machinery by which this purpose is effected is somewhat compli cated, no doubt ; and the leaders are compiled to share the spoil with a number of others, without whose aid they would fail. In boroughs, the patron is somewhat in the situation of the head of a Company. The various partners in the concern must have a share in the profits, corresponding to their influence. In counties, the leading gentry agree on individuals of their kindred or connection, and in general the freeholders have no further concern with the elec tion than voting as their landlords desire them to vote. Cnaonrcxr—We some time ago stated that attempts bad been made to detain the Spanish exiles in this country, by refusing to allow them to embark without passports, which it was im. possible for them to obtain. There is no law authorising any functionary of this country to keep foreigners a moment longer in it than they choose to stay ; and we are utterly at a loss to under stand on what authority Custom-house officers demand to see the passports of persons taking on themselves the risk of embarking without them. The Courier at the time chute to deny that any attempt was made to detain the Spanish emigrants. It is al. ways best to come to particulars. We may mention then that M. I Ponce, an emigrant, was stopped at Dovet on the 17th instant, when about to embark in the steam-boat--that a Custom-house officer Insisted on examining him—that papers of an important and serious nature were taken from him in the name of the British Government (and we know not on what law, papers can be so taken from pas. angers). Several individuals are ready to depose on oath to the particulars we have stated above. The poor foreigner, by this treat. relent, lost the expences of his journey and passage, and was corn. Felled to return. Timas.—The sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the 17th inst. was distingiushed by a remarkable proposition. Its object was to abolish the punishment of death in tosses like that by which the late French Ministers, if found guilty, will W l :subjected to the fearful award. The Marquis de Lafayette spoke warmly in favour of the motion ; and no one can oppose it, when, if it be rejected, offenders are ready for the axe. The truth is, with respect to revolutionary executions, France stands in a peculiar situation, and she evidently feels that she ought to redeem herself in the eyes of the world. The first blood that should now flow upon the scaffold would, from the recollection of what has already taken place, inspire universal horror and dismay ; no one would think or believe that the lives of the guilty Ministers would be the last to be sacrificed. We therefore hail with joy and gratitude any measure which will relieve Europe from the apprehensions that past scenes are to be re-acted. The speech of M. Martignac is not less remarkable in its kind than the preceding proposition. He says that when he was Minister, (and his removal from that station will always be regretted,) he in formed the King, " that if measures contrary to the spirit of the age were attempted, Royalty itself would be endangered;" but added the opinion of himself and his colleagues, " that no one would have the fatal courage and the inexplicable ignorance to recommend such measures to the King." M. Martignac was, however, mistaken in the ignorance and presumption of those by wh o m the exieting ministry was succeeded : some men were found who had the fatal courage to recommend measures, not only contrary to the spirit of the age, but violating the written organic laws of the constitution of France as it then existed. And behold the result ! However, we receive gladly the assurance of so sagacious a man, since confi rmed by positive facts, that France will not suffer her liberties to be trampled on. Long may she continue in that mind, always recol lecting that popular violence and faction are as fetal to the enjoy ment of liberty as regal despotism. We recommend the whole of M. Martignac's speech to attention. It is understood that General Baudrand is a bearer of a letter from Louis Philip, the King of the French, announcing his accession : he will sp eedil y be followed by a regular Ambassador. There cannot, of course, be a moment's hesitation on the part of our Government to recognise tbe constitu tional Sovereign of France. HZIALID s great error, and 000 into which none but unreileetbv or uninformed minds can bare fallen, to assume, and then es reason upon that assumption, that in the recent troubles in France gnat cations were netemeary, sad _ _ 4~+s ~.. were used, to keep 'he people from committing outrages, and to constrain them within the bounds of moderation. It is equally er roneous to suppose that the moderation they have displayed was produced by a fear of interference and attacks from foreign powers. Whoever hu been, for the last ten years or more, conversant with the habits, dispositions, spirit, and intention of the French people, must be convinced that they are now even more remote, and more averse from a spirit of revolution, than they had ever been before the year 1789. But they have since acquired, and now possess, that which they had never acquired or possessed before, that is, a habit of thinking and judging for themselves —the cant of which habit, and the prostration of mind produced by long continued despotic sway, made them, In spite of their great local and eminent advantages, much inferior to their neighbours of the Continent, and especially to the English. The people of France had acquired this habit of thinking and judging for themselves, from a greater dissemination of elementary instruction and general knowlege, which their experience and sufferings have matured, and which it will not be contended they have wanted for the last forty years. It is superfluous and idle to seek for the causes of the recent display of ►moderation in any other mo tive than genuine common sense, and a return to good feelings. The French are a well-informed people. They are fully and suitably impressed with a conviction of the misfortunes entailed on their country by the excesses and cruelties committed by the former generation ; and, grown wiser by experience, they find mo deration to be the best guide of their public conduct, and they put ' sue it. There is no supernatural agency in this, no hidden cause—no preconcerted check or precaution ; it is only the result of common I sense; but then it is the common sense of a reflecting people, who have found out that reason, justice, and moderation, are the safest guides and the best policy, and who are anxious to obliterate the re collection of their predecessors having acted upon &different system. If any doubt were left on our minds as to the correctness of this rea soning, we need only look at the event which has excited our admits tion. It is well ascertained that no preconcerted agency of any sort was employed during the last four days in which the last revolution was effected ; but we find that, firm, determined, and courageous as the people were, yet they unanimously allowed themselves to be guided by forbearance and moderation ; nor is it to be doubted that, but for the recollection of excesses committed on former occasions, they would have been less so on the present. A happy, very happy change, when a people can so uniformly and so steadily take a prac tical lesson from past errrors. Where mobs thus demean themselves, and achieve such deeds, what may not the collective wisdom and courage of the most enlightened and best part of the nation do? The spontaneous and unanimous conduct of the Parisians in the late in surrection bas perhaps no parallel in modern history. It becomes useless to attempt a refutation of the opinion that the moderation displayed by the Parisian people was produced by the fear of attack from foreign powers. The display of such courage is no symptom of fear in the men who can thus coolly and deliberately leave their workshops, run to the scene of danger, and lay down their lives in defence of their rights and liberties, and hurl from his throne a despot. Such men will not fear foreign tyrants. But there is ano ther and a greater error well worth refuting, because its adoption in this country might not only be productive of injurious conse quences here, but might lead to a similarly unjust feeling in France, where, at present, I am confident no such opinion is entertained. I do not allude to the aspersion thrown upon the Duke of Or. leans' character and principles. Such calumnies which, I have no doubt, are not believed, even by those who have cast them; and, consequently, need no refutation ; but I allude to the want of confidence expressed by some, as to the future con. duct of that Prince. If such an erroneous opinion exist, it is much to be deplored. I have good reason to believe he is fully entitled to the utmost confidence, judging from the whole tenor of his public opinion, life, and the universal opinion entertained of him by the French people. It is highly important, at the present moment, that the confidence, to which he has so just a claim, should be frankly given him : it is so important, and so necessary, for this country, for France and Europe, he should receive, from all foreign powers, at the present time. As it was my lot to become acquainted with this Prince and his two brothers, in the United States of Ame rica, and to witness, for a long time, his patriotic, uniform, and consistent conduct and deportment, at a time when, I am quite confi dent, he did not expect to reap the fruits of such consistency of chant. ter, I may, in a future communication, furnish you with a few facts and observations, calculated, I am persuaded, to establish the princi pal traits of his character and views, as well as the true grounds - on which to rest our hopes of his future administration. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. Last night, the gardens were splendidly illuminated in honour of his Majesty's natal day, though that auspicious day did not ar rive until the 21st of August; yet, as these gardens are not open on a Saturday, it would have been a disappointment to the public not to have had this early opportunity of showing their respetful attachment and loyal feeling, until the day was past ; and though it was began by anticipation, yet after midnight it was no longer so, and the day was hailed by the cheers of a vast and elegant assemblage of true hearted Britons, and graced by the smiles of many of the fairest and beet of the softer part of creation. The proprietors had made great exertions to produce an arrangement worthy of the occasion. In the front of the arcade was a splendid arrangement of lamps, so placed as to give an excellent idea of the stern and quarter of two line-of-battle ships, one the Britannia, and the other the Victory. Between these was an immense crown, supported by a scarlet cushion,with the words" WILLIAM,OUR ROYAL PATRON," surrounded by wreaths of laurel, &e. The vaudeville was got up Ina very good style ; and the songs by T. Cooke and Mrs. Fits. william were encored ; the music, by Bishop, not new, but in his former good style. The other entertainments, such u the Fan. toccini and the fireworks, were particularly well managed. The Hydropyric Temple, in particular, was produced in a very supe nor style ; and at the finale, there was a triumphal procession of sea deities, attended by Naiades, sea horses, and all the classic monsters of " the great deep." The delusion was extraordinary-- we never witnessed a scene of the kind so complete in all its pans ; it was loudly applauded. The gardens were very well attended, and there could not be less than from three to four thousand per sons present, of the most respectable description, and every one seemed pleased at the announcement that the same brilliant and ele gent display of scenery and fireworks would be repeated on Mon.. day evening next. COBURG THRATRE. The naval piece entitled the Mutiny at Spilhead and the Nom, or British Sailors in 1797, has been performed at this house dur ing the week, and deservedly with great success. It is by the author of Black-eyed Susan, and is s happy specimen of his talent in that description of developement of character. The story of the piece is acknowledged to be borrowed from the popular novel of the Zing's Own, which hiving once received the touches of the novelist, and these a little extended in breadth by the fancy of the dramatist, af fords a plenteous store of matter for stage erect, without destroying the historical material. The language in many places is pathetic, and admits of scope for the powers of the actor, without his being under the necessity to tear words asunder by brute force, at the ex pense of the ears of the audience, or insulting common sense. The hero, Richard Parker, was erformed by Mr. Searle, and it equals any of the parts we have ever seen him attempt, which, con sidering his fine judgment and chaste taste, is saying much for the performance. Mary Parker the wife of the gallant mutineer (Miss Watson,) was another grand feature in the piece. Towards the clam in the last act, when the fate of poor Parker is sealed, and the interest of the business rests chiefly on the struggles of af fection and fortitude, the author has furnished the part of Richard Parker with expressions of manly feeling : he is ready to meet his doom bravely ; and when the grief of his wife presents itself to him, and he anticipates the last separation from her and his only child, a boy, he does not dwindle into blubbering squeamishness, but gives vent only to what is wrung from him by the genuine feelings of pure humanity, in the style of a hero indeed, who dare be brave as a lion, and yet can feel as a man. The scenes between Parker and his wife are finely touched, and are very affecting, and were beauti fully acted. Jack Adams, a good portrait of sailors as they were, had an able representative in Mr H. Helms, who blended the serious with the comic, and was every _inch a ace. Tunodia Bubble, a grasp ing old man, gave Mr. MoaTIBIZIL an opportunity in his line, and he did his author great justice. Dicke, Chicken, Bubble's servant, was in the hands of Mr. COMQUEST, and his performance of Dickey confirms the opinion we have formaly expressed of him, that be is a rising actor of much promise. The last scene, of the execution on the deck of the Sandwich, is well got up. Mr. Sneer s interpolates Parker's celebrated farewell speech ' • but the interpolation is no deformity to the original a—it is, as Air . Scala gives t, " Here's a health to the King, God bless Oki—confusion to my enemies, and salvation to my soul." In the original, we believe, the words in italics were not spoken by the un fortunate man, and the word " peace" was used Masao! the word " salvation." There are, however, one or two remarks we moat needs add. The author causes the wife of Parker to express her boner at seeing him in chains while under comiannatioo, and it b common to ex pect to see a malefactor on booth of ship in fetters. yet Mr. &ode appears without the bilboes. If this le occasioned by negligence en his part be is blameable, and if U is from mother eases, that he thinks himself warranted in the tembreitm, we are inclined to think that lee has not considered the NOW in die beet light. The wile of Parker and his little boy are both NOW to be present at bin execution, and this drcumstance, although k may add a little on the score of effect, we think exposes the author, needlessly, to an imputation of drawing too far upon the bulk of Widen, and quite outraging' probabWty. The piece, however ' is excalbon, and we have an doubt will meet its merited eappert, by being as anceedve, the ensuing week as it has been fie the lam week. ALL A HOAX. A NEW tiONG—IN WANT 01' A TI NI:. Man always to man should behave like a brotha, And oft the benevolent heart it provoke., When mortals thus formed to assist one ar.othe:, Stand stiffly asunder like two stubborn oaks. Fait Rosa once thought so, but soon found e lUto Who gave her much cause the mistake to discuver ; He, like other lovers, could flatter at d coax : Vow to make her his wife ; live witltrat strife ; Or finish his life, with cord, pistol, or loiife ; But alas! it was only —to hoax. The doctor talks gravely of forming progrosih, While the raven above him in prophecy croaks. He rlys his poor patient with all kinds of doses, 'till at last the poor fellow in agony chokes. The lawyers in all kinds of hoaxing so far gore, Turns right into wrong with his teehnical jargon— His Rocs and his Does, and his Stiles anti 11', 'jai • He stretches his jaws, loses your cause; Blames the chinss mid the flaws, that ir. Cre But pockets his fee for—t!.. hoax. The Parson—but hush—l must mind what Um r.ayin , , For Parsons, we know, are all mighty want tAks ; There can be no hoaxing in preaching and prayi..g. But I must have a rhyme—so the Patsons (I.)A, . And when both the Parson and Doctor are wai:ing, It must be a fact beyond any debating, Death cannot be long ere he end all our j3kes. So this life, I'll engage, we shall find in each stag.:— Youth, childhood, or age, to the fool or the Is nothing, at best, but—a hoax. " Can the Poet, then, hoax, too?" cried Laura, de;ec ed " The Poet who constantly Cupid invokes ! " Is the bliss, then, all vanish'd, I fondly expected. " While the altar, on which it was promied, still smoke; %." " All! no"--1 exclaimed, wits wrong to have said so, And cruel, to vex my adorable maid so ; Your Poet his fictions most gladly revokes For an Angel like you, thus confiding and true, If we look the world through, may be seldom teen*s du., But Is one thing in life not a hoax." TILE FINE ARTS. All the public exhibitions of painting and scithoute in this city have been, with one exception, closed fur some time. The r. etipts at " the Royal Academy" arc stated not to have been so got.tt this year as they have on former occasions ; neither was that of the mo. dem works of art at the spring exhibition of the " Briti.h Institu tion." The " British Artists" in Suffolk.s.reet, are said to hay..• had better receipts than in any former season, but the exhibition which has succeeded beyond all others this year, is that of O. works of the late Sir T. Lawrence, at the lt•itish Institution, Pall. mall ; many circumstances have fortuitomtly combined to product: this pleasing result; of these the commencztuent of the new rep, though at first It operated unfavourably ; yet, by keeping the town full of activity, and attracting absentees towards the rising sun," it caused a guater influx of company than has ever bten kilov it at this season. Another circumstance that insy have produced ed. ditional visits is, that most of the Monarchs end 3i iittary (Advt., who warred against France during 25 years, are here collected, as it were, in Council, and certainly a very foolish-looking Non of 14 Council it is at the present moment, with the sNception of IW' pr Monarch. who decidedly had nothing to do with that ert. sade against the liberties of mankind. which, in the polo.?, v.v... tioned, caused the slaughter of millions of human being , , and overspread the fairest portions of the globe with misery and .desolation. For those insane projects we are loaded a debt of enormous magnitude and paralysing influe..ce ; and after the change has been forged, and rivetted on and worn for fifteen years, it is withered, burst. and dissipated in a moment. by the great indignation and irresistible expansion of the human mind; yet here they are now assembled. "the Allied Sove reigns," or, as they have been impiously designated, "the ;Heat hers of the Holy Alliance." One only is absent, who, by a strange anomaly, could not be a member, though he was the superior of this pious fraternity. PROVIDENCE showed great mercy in remov ing hint out of the way in good time, just before his favourite object, that of forcing a King upon a foreign nation, was shivered into a thousand atoms, like Alnoshku's basket of glass. We cannot sup pose that any disrepect was intended to our present sovereign ; but we could wish that the committee of this institution had not re. moved the portrait of his late Majesty, who was properly the head and chief of those empurpled politicians, to make room for one of our present gracious sovereign, who neither Iliad, nor ever E 141,1 any polideakfeelings in common with men who never showed mooc h f or rat i ona l We wish this picture had been a llowed to remain in the Palace, and reserved until it could be seen in better company than Prince Metternich, Oa! late Charles X. of France, the Cardinal Oonsalvi, &c. whose mole. like contrivances have, at length, blundered into day, and outshme the inverted wisdom of the celebrated men of Gotham. But to re turn from what some would consider an epirode,we have great satis faction in stating that the gallery is extremely well attended, even at this " eleventh hour," realising, upon an average, 1501. per week ; and it is believed that, after all the expenses shall have been de. ducted, the family—that is, the nephews and nieces of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, will have to receive from the Treasurer of this Royal Institution, a sum not Ism than, but probably exceeding, 3,oooL—Morning Pewee. - ---- SIR ROBERT WALPOLE and COURT PATRONAGE. When intelligence arrlvetTOrre7leath of George 1. his son and the Princess were at Richmond ; thither Sir Robert Walpole, then Minister, hastened immediately, under no little anxiety, for he had lost a good master ; and he well knew that those to whom he was going to be very obsequious, had a strong personal dislike to him. He had, indeed, grossly offended them both in the manner of doing it, and under circumstances that rendered it doubtful whether it could ever be forgiven. At the time when the difference between the late King and the Prince were at the height, a negotiation was going on between some of the opposition members and the ministry ; in the course of which Pulteney, afterwards Earl of Bath, took upon him to ask Sir R. Walpole whether any terms had been made for the Prince ? " Yes," said Sir Robert, with a sneer, he is to go to Court again, and will bare his drums, and his guard, and such fine things." Being further asked whether the Prince would be left Regent in case the King left England ? the answer was "No ; why should he ? He does not deserve it ; we have done too much for him already, and if it were to be done again he should not have so much." The treatment of the Princess was still mere course. During the schism among the Whip, Sir Robert, who led his party, objected to the proposed plan of forming a junction with the Prince ; ob. serving that, however he might depend upon his Royal Highness, there was no relying upon the sincerity of his fat of a wife !" This was reponed, with more offensive exaggerations, to the Ptin cess,wlso had so complete an ascendancy over her husband s that every one made sure of the downfall of the Minister in .the event of the King's demise. Sir Robert was well aware of the error he had committed, and of the advantages his imprudence had given to his opponents; but he had address enough to ward off the danger by an appeal to that feeling which he well knew email subdue even Royal resentment. Having heard that it was the inten tion of Sir Spencer Compton, his intended successor. to propose a dower of 60,0001. a year for the Queen, he contrived to let her Me. jesty know, while be waited in the hall of Richmond, that if he was continued in office he would secure her a settl,ment of 100,0001 and considerably enlarge the dvil list into the bargain. This had the desired effect; and Royal Caroline said to the negotiator, " Let Sir Robert know that the fat has forgiven him I" Accordingly she seised the first opiortunity of persuading her husband that, consi dering how well Sir Robert had served the late King, she thought he would be equally useful in the present reign. The hint was taken, and the corrupt minion, to the surprise of the political world, instead of being dismissed, was allowed to continue his flagitious course. UNI VESSITT OF ST. PETIRSIIIRG.—The report read at a convocation held on the 21st of June, at which the nil. nista of public instruction, the metropolitan, and other distir.. subbed personages attended, states that the number of studenth, which was no more than NI in 18211, had now risen to 177. A great increase had also taken place in the number of scholars fn. questing the public seminaries within the department of St. Pt. tenbutg ; they now amount to 10,200, which is 1,300 more than in the year 11120.—Athenerunt. POPULATION OP G/lENT.—The recent census of thi .i " Netherlands Manchester" shows that an increase of one child I bas taken place in the number of inhabitants since the year 1814. Their resent amount is 83,779, exclusively of the garrison and in. divided* under confinement.—afikeneunt. HALLAM'S MIDDLS AGES.—A foreign critic, speak ing of Leoni's translation into Italian of this excellent work, ob. etwves—" Hallam has brought to the treatment of his losportact argument that unwearied diligence, that acuteness of jud nt, and riety of expression, without which such a task not have been accompl."—.444swases. Yesterday morning, Jane Jonas attempted to drown herself near Bbalicelon.bridgi, bat was saved by a gentleman 1 1 named Buckley, who jumped in aka her, sad brought her ashore. L I Police constable, 46, L. took her to the pollee station in Waterloo. 1 rood, and Inspector Smith kindly mat her to his ton house, where, after having dried bey Hakes, and gives her woo refreahmert, hd conveyed her to her aunt's, Hrs. Davis, residing in Hishopsgste. street. She stated the cum for cermahtlitg the rash act was *Sued by a quarrel wilts her rather, a milkman. , . •