Star. — London, England, 1829-11-05 00:00:00

MILITARY AND MINISTERIAL MADMEN. FOR THE STAR. 48 Heroes are still the same, the point's screed. From Macedonia's madman to the Swede."—Pon. When HENRY IV. of France was, on one occasion, recapitulating before all the Court, the names of the most distinguished warriors, he placed his hand upon CR I LLON'S shoulder, and said, " Messieurs, voici le premier Capitaine du Monde." " Vous en avez menti, Sire,—teat vous,"—was CRILLON'S bold yet mo dest reply. The character of HEN RY, em blazoned as we are told it has been by fifty historians, and five hundred panegyrists, poets and orators, maintains no exclusive pre-eminence in the temple of Fame ; whilst the manly frankness, the unaffected sin cerity, and unassuming deportment of CRILLON • have been but indifferently emulated by " the great Captains" .of succeeding times, or even of our own age ; who, when it has been their " cue to speak," have indulged in the self-complacent practice of echoing back the praises heaped upon them—and betrayed an open and indecent contempt of the very land that gave them birth. Some of them, indeed, not content with giving to the world a poor reflection of the worst qualities of COROLI ANU S— hia dangerous self-sufficiency—his scorn of his humbler fellow subjects—and his love of oppression,—ape " the fantastic tricks"of ALExAwnza,—and aspire with CRoar e ELL to the undivided and uncontrolled exercise of the executive power. When POPE; who was no mean politi cian, nor ordinary observer of mankind, said that" party was the madness of many for the gain of a few ;" he might have added that " inordinate ambition was the madness of a few for the ruin of the many." I shall hereafter illus trate this position more fully, not by an elaborate discus sion, but by a more minute reference to the lives of the most memorable MILITARY AND MINISTERIAL MAD MEN—those of them, at least, who stand distinguished from their moon-stricken brethren by State-influenza— that extraordinary aberration of the intellect produced by . _ for • the delusive notion of their exclusive fitness wielding the destinies of all the world this mode of treating the subject I have resolved upon, in compliance with the dictum of the Poet, who tells us " The argument most apt and ample. For COMMA use is the example." But it would ill become those who affect to write " for all time," to let slip such an occasion of " reading a great moral lesson" to posterity, whilst they inculcate upon our own generation, the imperious necessity of setting bounds to the vainglorious wishes of every spoiled child of For tune—to some one of whom, this page may prove a glass, " where they may see the inmost part of them," and contemplate, at one view, the growth of their wild desires—the consummation of their most towering hopes, and the slow but certain fate of that " vaulting ambition which doth o'erleap itself, and fall on the other side."—The catalogue of our Heroes com mences, par excellence, with " Macedaisia's Madman" —though, to confess the truth, his case is marked by so few of the worst symptoms of the disease—such as dissimu lation, hypocrisy—treachery, and usurpation ;—and he was beside " every inch a King" by birth as well as conquest, that I should pass by ALEXANDER THE GREAT, were there not an incident involved in his his tory, which ought to be read once a month at least, by all who aspire to thrust themselves into the Chair of State before 'tis empty ;—unbidden and unworthy occu pants.—Thus then is the affair narrated by Pt..u acii :—" One day ALEXANDER having stripped for the refreshment of oil, and to play at ball, when his attendants went to fetch his clothes, they beheld a man sitting in profound silence upon his throne, dressed in the Royal robes, and with the diadem upon 'his head. They demanded who he was ? and it was a long time before he would give them any answer.. At last, recovering his senses, he said, " My name is Mow vs tus, and I am a native of Messene. Upon a criminal process being instituted against me, I left that place, and embarked for Babylon. There I have been kept in chains a long time; but this day the God Serapis appeared to me, and broke my chains, after which he conducted me hither,and ordered me to put on this robe and diadem, and sit here in silence." After the man had thus explained himself, ALEXANDER, by the advice of his soothsayers, put him to death."—Now, rational as the poor man's speech appears to be, yet be was mad : and, mercy on us ! if all men who make rational speeches, even when predicating their own madness, were to be put to death, there is one head at least that would sit un easily upon its shoulders.—The next victim of the insatiate thirst of power, has claims to attention founded upon something more than even his own demerits ; since in him we recognise the guilty prototype of many a more successful betrayer of Royal confidence : ALVAREZ DE LUNA, a favourite of Joix 11. King of Castille, was celebrated for the prodigious ascendancy which he gained over that Prince, and Tendered still more notorious by the exemplary punishment which closed his career. Of the forty-five years which he passed at Court, he enjoyed for upwards of thirty, such absolute power over the King that nothing could be done without his express command; nay, it is related by MARIANA, that the King could not change an officer or a servant, or even his clothes or diet, without the approbation of ALVAREZ. At length, this arbitrary Dictator became so obnoxious, and his designs were so palpably developed, that he was seized, on a charge of having madly invaded the rights of kingly Majesty, reduced the whole Court into his power, and made himself absolute master of the State. He was tried—found guilty—and condemned to lose his head. —Be it known to all ambitious favourites, that Atv .4 REZ DE Mr): A was executed on the 4th day of June, 1453. And now, like the figures which scared Macbeth, even in the spectral mirror,—l might bid " The line stretch out to the crack of doom."— but I shall close my descriptive catalogue with a sketch of OLIVER CROMWELL—A sketch taken from the details of History, as ZEUXIS painted his celebrated picture of HELEN, from the description of HOMER. If there be found in the mental attri butes of any living Personage, some traits which conjure up unpalatable recollections of the " fortunate madman," as the PROTECTOR has been styled, far be the applica tion from my thoughts :—Like Costard in that pleasant Comedy of " Love's Labour's Lost, he may read so far and exclaim " not a word of Costard yet ;" but if he read on to the end, let him not fit the cap to his own head, and cry out at the close of every " untoward" sentence, " Me —me'—still me'—oh me !"—And so proceed we • —Om vER CROMWELL, at the onset of his career any military command or civil appointment. Hum E. tells us, that the whole military autlunity was bestowed in appearance upon FAIRFAX but in reality upon CROMWELL ;—of whom he says " The strokes of his character are as openly and strongly marked, us the schemes of his conduct were, during the time, dark and impenetrable. Carried by his natural temper to mag nanimity, to grandeur, and to an imperious and ebnni neering policy ; i.e yet knew, when necessary, to employ the most profound dissimulation, the most oblique and refined artifice, the semblance of the greatest mode ration and simplicity." FA lItFAx, or more prcoerly speaking, CROMWELL, under his name, introduced at last the new model into the army, and threw the troops into a different shape.—The Council of Officers and Agitators were moved altogether by CROMWELL'S direction, and conveyed his whole will to the army. Though one vizor fell off, another still remained to cover his natural coun tenance. Where delay was requisite, he could employ the most indefatigable patience ; where celerity was necessary, he flew to a decision. And by thus uniting in his person the most opposite talents, he was enabled to combine the most contrary interests in a subserviency to his secret purposes.—With the negociations at St. Al ban's, " commenced the encroachments of the military upon the civil authority. The Army in their usurpations on the Parliament, copied exactly the model which the Parliament itself had set them, in their recent usurpations on the Crown."—When CROMWELL has obtained full controul of the Sovereign's person, " that artful politi cian,. as well as the leaders of all parties, paid court to the King"—who " had no suspicion that one born a private 'gentleman could entertain the daring ambition of seizing a sceptre transmitted through a long line.of mo narchs. While CROMWELL allured the King by these expectations, he still continued his scheme of reducing the Parliament to subjection, and depriving them of all means of resistance." It was even demanded that the militia of London should be changed. So far H :—another writer, tells us that " CuomwELL's forte lay in watching and seizing opportunities, not in creating or inventing them." And Mrs. HuTCHINSON, in her portrait of his government, says, " He at last ex ercised such an arbitrary power that the whole land grew weary of him, while he set up a company of mean silly fellows, called MAJOR GENERALS, as governors in every county. These ruled, according to their own wills, by no law but what seemed good in their own eyes." In Jonwsox's life of WALLER, we are told that " CROM WELL was very desirous, as appears from his conversa tion, related by WHITLOCK, of adding the title, to the power, of monarchy ; and is supposed to have been withheld from, it partly by fear of the army, and partly by fear of the laws, which when he should govern by the name of king, would have re strained his authority. When therefore a deputation was solemnly sent to invite him to the crown, he, after a long conference, refused it, but is said to have fainted iu his coach, when he parted from them." Let us pass briefly to the close of his guilty greatness. Soon after his second inauguration as Protector (which took place at Westminster Hall with all the pomp of a coronation,) he was much annoyed by a pamphlet called " Killing no Murder," in which the author boldly maintained that one who had violated all law bad forfeited all right to life.— The troubles of OLt vEn accumulated daily, and the death of his daughter Mrs. CLAYPOLE, and her re proaches, made a deep impression upon his mind. He fell into a deep melancholy, and at last became delirious. What a fate was his, as COW LEY has described it, " by the severest judgment of ALMIGHTY GOD, to die HAR DENED, and MA D, and UNREPENTANT, with the cu RSES of the present age, and the DETESTATION of all to succeed ?" . . " It is not possible," says JOHNSON, " to read with out some contempt and indignation, the poems of the same Author (WALLER) ascribing the highest degree of power and piety to CHARLES the First,—then trans ferring the same power and piety to OLIVER CROM WELL; now inviting OLIVER to take the crown, and then congratulating CHARLES the Second on his re covered right. Neither CROatwELL nor CHARLES could value his testimony as the effect of conviction, or receive his praises as effusions of reverence ; they could consider them but as the labour of invention, and the tribute of dependence."—But, were Jon :ism; now living, what would he say of the " labours of invention, and the tributes of dependence" which debase and degrade the " leading Journal of all Europe ?" To-day ad vocating the rights of the legitimate QUEEN OF PORTU GAL—and to-morrow pleading the expediency of recog nising as KING of that country—a blood-stained tyrant —a perjurer—and usurper:— ••••ma. " A vice of Kings, A cut-purse of the Empire and the rule ; A thief, that from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket!" Can it be, that having deserted the public service for the service of despotism, the apostate veils beneath his " damnable dissimulation" an atrocious design to sap the very foundations of public principle by palliating the guilt of usurpation, which he dares to tell us " is purged of the vices of its origin by long continuance, and be comes, as far as national intercourse is concerned, legiti mate authority,"—and justifying, on the ground of poli tical expediency, the foulest treason against GOD and man ? Can it be, that the slave has thus " thrown up a straw to see which way 'the wind sets"—that he may prepare us to recognise usurpations neare, home. Nov. 4, 1829. JOHN OLDHAM. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM arrived in town last evening about eight o'clock, by the Lord Liverpool Steam Vessel from Ostend, and this day proceeded to join his amiable family at his Grace's seat, Avington. This day being the Anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, the bells in London and Westminster rung a fre quent peal ; and at one o'clock the Park and Tower guns were fired on the occasion. VACANT FELLOWSII IP.—There is a Fellowship vacant on the original foundation of Brasenose College, Oxford, which will shortly be filled up in rather a peculiar manner. The first class of candidates will consist of natives of the parishes of Prescot in Lancashire, and Prestbury in Cheshire ; the second of natives of such parts of Lan cashire and Cheshire as were formerly within the ancient diocese of Lichfield and Coventry ; the third of natives of all parts of that diocese ; the fourth of the old diocese of Lincoln ; and the fifth of the members of the University at large. The natives of Prescot and Prestbury will have the first chance, but, if none of them should obtain it, the natives of the parts of Lancashire and Cheshire men - will FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. THE LATE MARQUIS OF HEADFORT. . . ••:: • e The present Marquis, in conjunction with Sir Alarcus Somerville, for many years represented the county of Meath in Par liament, the patrimonial estates of the family being situated in that part of the country, and during the last three general elections his Lordship was re-elected without opposition. His Lordship's se cesaion to the Marquisite necessarily occasions a vacancy in the representation of Meath, although that event dues mot enable the Marquis to sit in the House of Lords, his late Noble Parent not having been created a Peer of the United 'Guidon'. The Marquis is thus similarly situated to theAste Marquis of Londonderry, who, succeeding to that thie.lale2l, was obliged to retire from the representation of the County of Down; and to enable him to retain his seat in the House of Commons, be was elected for the Borough of Plympton Earle, it appear ing that the Articles of • Union with the Sister Kingdom dis qualified Irish Peers in - their own right from representing any County, City, and Borough in Ireland in the British House of Commons, although their Lordships were rendered eligible to be elected for English or Scotch Counties and Boroughs. The Marquis is thus excluded from both branches of the Legisla ture,:unless he should be returned as the Representative Peer in the room of the late Marquis. Lord George Taylor, the Marquis's youngest son, assumed the name of Quin on succeeding to the es. taus of his maternal grandfather, and he married Lady Georgiana Spencer, second daughter of Earl Spencer; but her Ladyship died in 1823, leaving one daughter. Lady Mary Taylor, the present Marquis's eldest sister, has for many years been attached to the establishment of She Princess Augusta, in the capacity of Lady of the Bedchamber to her Reys.l High ness. The late 'Mat quis's elevation to the dignity of a etrawberry leafed coronet occurred simultaneonsty with the advancement of the present Marquises of Ely, Sligo, and Thoniond to sinstlar ho nours, at the proitli of the Union, in 1300. The Hon. Clot worthy Taylor, brother of the Marquis, assumed the name of Rowley, and has been raised to the Peerage by the title of Baron Langford of Soaterhill. The deceased Marquis rarely delivered his sentiments on political topics within the walls of Parliament, and, for sets, ral years prior to his dissolution, lived in comparative retirement. R 1 ~~ ' RADICAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. A Meeting of the Members of the above Association was held at the Necks:lies' institution. on Illouday circling latt. Prior to the of the business, the Theatre was crowded to excess ; and, after the Secretary had read letters from Messrs. Candelet, Blake, Foster, 'and Hunt, A Mr. LAWS stepped forward to submit a sales of Resolutions. declaring, first, that it had been admitted in the House of Commons that seats therein " had been hired and let like stalls in a mar ket," by a few individuals, while a large majority of the people had no vete ; and suggesting that means should be adopted fur the pur pose of obtaining a seat In that House for a representative of di upsrryireseisied portion of the people. The second Resolution called for one penny from each person, to raise a fund fur the accomplish ment of this object ; and the third provided. that on subscribing the peony, every person should alto present a piece of paper, folded up, "whereon shall be inserted the mime of the person whom the . - subscriber wishes to send to Parliament, so that as near an approach as possible be made to voting by ballot." The Gentleman who pro posed this Resolution supported it in an eloquent speech, remark ing, among other things, that there was some truth in the observa tion that the people were virtually represented, for it might be said of them, as of Members of Parliament, that they were pretended patriots, with public spirit on their lips, while selfishness reigned in their hearts; for it had been shown by many examples, what the peo ple resolved to have, that they obtained. If they wanted to have an honest House of Representatives, they had only therefore to unite their energies to obtain Universal Suffrage, Vote by ',allot, and Annual Parliaments. The Government possesses all the pens and all the bayonets, and the people, in measuring arms with them, bad always come off second best ; he hoped therefore, they would never again renew such attempts, and only measure heads with the.r opponents. Imagine, Gentlemen, said Mr. Latte, the powerful moral effect upon the country of having a representative chosen upon the plan prescribed in the Resolution, by a million of the unrepresented people ! The pennies would be nothing in comparison to the moral effect of such a union ; for when a poor man has given his penny, he takes an in in the cause. The Resolutions were opposed by Mr. GRADY and Mr. FRINCH, and, after several other Gentlemen had addressed the Nirvana, thy further consideration of the subject was adjourned till the first Monday in December, at eight o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAUI ARMED TM! DAT.—Dublin 1-.—Nliaterford I—Guernsey and Jersey 2—Randers I—France I—Holland 1. The Resolution, Penner, of Workington, was totally lost at Bay Chaleur previous to the 29 September. The Arriola Victoire, from St. Petersburg', to Havre, ran on shore off Renal 14th ult. during a gale. She bad previously been aground on Eden holm, and threw part of her cargo overboard. The Ventura, Chapman, from ht. Petersburgh to Glo'ster, ran aground near Berkeley Pill on Sunday, but got off with consider. able damage. She had five feet water in her hold. Mat., Nov. 4.—Arrived the David, Clark, Villa, from Bengal. Arrived from London, the Ina. Thom, for Tobago. Pormarsouen, Nov. 4.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Cornwall. Smith, from Riga. Animism, Nov. 3.—Wind S. FALMOUTH, Nov. 3. —Wind S.S W. Livraronc, Nov. 3. Arrived the St. John, Smith. from Ja maica • Dalhousie Castle, from New York ; Metcalf. trims Quebec ; Mary Ann, Gilbert, from Malaga ; and Boyket% Fletcher, front Bourdeauz HULL, Nov. 3—Arrived the Belina, Christie, from Archangel. The Two Brothers, Tuck, front Yarmouth to Sunderland, has been got off, and carried into Grimsby. The Durham, of Sunder - - land. remains on the Strand, and has BLIMAMed considerable d mage during a gale from N. to N.N.E. on the 31st ultimo. Thy Elizabeth. bl'lntyre, is still on shore at Turley Rock. The Vu. lunteer, lacknun, from Davis' Straits, broke her windlass, and lost an anchor, during the gale on Sat urday ; when the Sincerity, Large, from hence to Sunderland, slipped her anchor, &c. and put into Grimsby. LOTH, Nov. 3.—Arrived the Jean, Jack, from Memel, and Linnet, Johnson, from Dantzic. Mimeos., Nov. 4.—Arrived the Anne, —. from Quebec. Coax, Nov. I.—Arrived the Good Intent, Edwards, from Qus. bec, and John, Tedder, from London. St. PETERSBURG'', Bth AUGUST.---Count cawrTz is shortly expected from London. DARMSTADT, 30th Ocr.---The obsequies of Her Highness the late Grand Duchess, took place last night, without any pomp, according to the express desire of the deceased. FRANKFORT, 31st OrT.---Yesterday arrived her Serene Highness the Princess of Low tcz ; and to day, the Grand Duke CoNsvANTINF, who will make a short stay, and then return to Warsaw. HAGUE, :31st Ocr.---In the Second Chamber of the States-General, the project of a law for the marriage of the Princess Ma at ANNE. to Prince ALBERT of Prussia, was unanimously agreed to without discussion, and trans mitted to the first Chamber in the usual manner. In Indigo the produce of 1828-9 is almost entirely out of the market, and our quotations are nominal. Advice', I I i i cry out at the close of every " untoward" sentence, - fire at large. LEW lIRLIVICS IJI r ICOWL IS/111 z - reatuury Ivan inivc o —me—still me—oh me !"—And so proceed we: the first chance, but, if none of them should obtain it, the tended a man who keeps a petty broker's shop in an ob- mitted to the first Chamber in the usual manner. I , l' —OLIVER CROIIWELL, at the onset of his career, was natives of the parts of Lancashire and Cheshire men- scare situation in Mary-la-bonne. A short time since, In Indigo the produce of 1828-9 is almost entirely out ~,, a young man of no account in the nation---but having timed above will have the second, and so on th rou gh the he attended a sale of decayed antique furniture, amongst of the market, and our quotations are nominal. Advice s i raised a troop of horse, he soon became distinguished different classes enumerated. All the can did a t e s m ast which were several old pictures. The pictures were oil from the country of the growing crop are very flattering ; i by his military zeal and gallantry—received the have taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts, an d must be paintings, not framed,.but merely fixed on what is called and the chances are in favour of a heavy crop, say thanks of Parliament, and was raised first to the of not less than eight years' standing.—Herald. a attaining canvas. They had been inspected by sup- 120,000 to 130,000 maunds, against 96,000 maunds last rat& of Colonel, and next to that of Lieutenant-General. THE FLOODS IN SCOTLAND.—Returns have been posed judges previous to the sale, who estimated the season, Of the last crop, about 70,000 maunds have been He had no sooner reached this elevation, than he dis- made of the losses sustained by the floods in Inverness whole, ten in number, at 5/. They were accordingly put shipped for Great Britain, and 19,000 for foreign Europe, i played a passion for exclusive authority, and was mainly and Morayshire, which amount to nearly £ 50,000. in at that sum on the day of sale, and sold to the broker Sugars look down ;in Saltpetre the market is very firm ; instrumental in the success of " the self-denying ordi- Of that sum theinjury sustained by the Dcke ofGounow, for 51. 125.• Since the purchase they have been in- and in Silks we have heard of no transactions ditring the i ance," which excluded all the members of e ither H ouse the Earl of SzerteLE, and their tenants amount to no I spected by the lovers of virtu, and by them are estimated week ; but the holders of new are asking higher prices , n . lat 2,000/. They prove to be ten of the Ctesare by T iti an . In raw g oods w e are without improvement. o f Parliament—himself alone excepted—from holding more than 37,0001 . , 1 1 c CHANGES. The Dowager Duchess of Manchester, yesterday, at her house in Berkeley-square, from Ramsgate; the Marquis of Anglesey, Slim Beau Desert. in Staffordshire, on a visit to Mt. Coke. M.P. at Hoikham. in Norfolk ; the Dowager lilerchioness of London derry. front her seat, Bolderwund Lodge, Hants, for Christchurch ; the Earl of Rivers, front the Grand Tour of Europe, on Tuesday, in Piccadilly ; the Earl of Oxford, in Berkeley-square, yesterday. from Nottinghamshire ; Lord William Russell, tor Corfu. from Malta ; Lord Lilford, at his .eat, Liiford Hall, Northamptorishite, front a tour; Sir Thomas and Lady Farquhar, at Lord Dacre's seat. the Hoo, Herta, from the Marquis of Hertford's seat, Sud burn. Stffolk ; the lion. Colonel sod Lady Eleanor Lowther, ter the F.arl of Lonsdale's seat. Cottesmere. Rutlandshire; Captain 51ontresor, in Albemarle-street, from Gibraltar ; Major and Mrs. Waugh for Bath ; Major and Mrs. Nicholson for Brighten; the Hon. Col. Windsor Mr Suffolk ; Mrs. Baugh in Devonshire-place ; the Rev. Robert Walpole in Gloucester-place ; Major and Mrs. Chauncey for Rochester ; Mr. Peter 51.Evny in Cumberland place; Captain arid 51rs. Gwatkin for Bath; Captain Commereli, from Plymouth. for the Isle of Guernsey ; 31ajor Montague. in Piccadilly, front Paris; Colonel Walter Sneyd, for Keck Hail, Newcastle, trom a tour; ;Major Yorke for the Rot Cliff, Brighton; Major Snow, for Canterbury ; Lieut.-Colonel Elliot, for Queen square, Bath ; Colonel Burrell. in P.ll- Mall, from Malta ; Sir }rands Burdett, Bart. in St. James's-place from Brighton ; Capt. and 51rs. Hornby, in Brook-street. from Paris; Captain and Mrs. Mookhouse. from Patk-sorter, for Bath; Captain Crompton for Brighton; Sir Wm. and Ltdy Chatterton, from Seymour-place, to Lord Gambier's, near Windsor; Lady Mildmay, at her *mat, Doginerstifekl Park. Hants. from a tour ; Capt. and Mrs. Ludlow, in Regent-street, from a tour; Capt. Patterson. from Park.ltne, for Paris; the Earl of Ashhurnham. at Greillon's 1-low!, Albe marle-street, front his vat in :4ussex ; Sir John, Lady, and the Misses Nlordaunt, at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their pat in Worcestershire ; Henry Fellowes, E.q. from ditto. for his seat in Hants; William Temkin% Esq. from ditto. fur Ox ford ; Captain and Mrs. Wyndham. from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for their *eat. near Guildford ; Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard, front the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for their seat in Oxfordshire; Captain Patterson, from ditto for Brussels; Sir James and Lady Jelf, Major-General Shaw, J Andrews. Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Forster. and J. °Croft, Esq. at the Regency Hotel, Quadrant, Regent-street; E. Tupper, El. Mr. Cooper, anal C. Miller, Esq. from ditto ; Charles Barnet, Esq. I%lro. Barnet, and family, at .Bryant's Hotel (late Warne's) Conduit street, from their house, Stratton Park, Bedfordshire. His MAJESTY'S Palace at Brighton has, within the last few days, been preparing for his reception. Uphol sterers have been employed in uncovering and preparing the furniture. Fires have been constantly kept, during the last two or three weeks, in the different moms. Though no direct intimation to such an effect has been received at the Pavilion, yet we have much pleasure in stating, from our own sources of information, that it is decidedly his Ms.,EsTy's intention again to honour this place with his presence in the course of the present, or during the week ensuing.—Brighton Guardian. Dispatches were brought on Tuesday night, by a Mes senger who came from Ancona, from Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, for the Colonial Office; from Sir PuLTENEY MALCOLM, in the Mediterranean, for the Admiralty ; and from Lord Stu AUT DE RoTtisAY, at Paris, for the Foreign Office. Dispatches, dated August 14th, were received yester day at the Foreign Office, from Colonel CAMERON, our Charg6 d'Affaires to the Government of Colombia. When these dispatches were sent off, there was every prospect that peace would be speedily concluded between Colom bia and Peru. It was stated that Guayaquil was to be restored to the Peruvians. General SANTANDER, the Ex-Vice-President of Colombia, had obtained a passport, permitting him to leave that country. Dispatches ar rived also yesterday at the Colonial Office, f;•ont Sir Fein. ADAM, dated Corfu, the 23d of October. The Russian and French Ambassadors, and Count MAETREWITZ, had a conference, which lasted nearly two hours, with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office, yesterday afternoon. The American Minister had a long interview, yester day afternoon, with Mr.VEsLy Furzt; r.a.u.n, at the Office of the Board of Trade. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA left Broodstairs yesterday morning, attended by Lady Catherine Jenkinson, Baroness Dehzen, and Sir John Conroy, for Kensington Palace. Her Royal Highness, we understand, on the way, is to visit, with the Princess, at the seats of the Earl of DARNLEY and the Earl of LIVERPOOL. _ _ _ Saturday evening their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland entertained the following distin- guished persons at dinner, at the Vice-Regal Lodge, Phoenix Park :—The Primate and Lady Anne Beresford, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Dublin, lard Talbot, lard Francis Leveson Gower, Lady Charlotte Greville, Lord Plunket, Lord Strangford, lard George Beresford, Bishop of Meath, Bishop of Kilmore, Bishop of Ferns, Bishop of Raphoe ; Bishop of Cloyne, Bishop of Killaloe; Master of the Rolls, Colonel Freeinantle, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. B Percy, Dr. Radcliffe, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. Hume, Mr. Gregory. His Highness the Duke de BORDEAUX arrived at Fontainbleau, and at nine o'clock at night his name was entered as a common traveller in an humble inn, at the very time that the Commissary of Police, accompanied by one from Paris, and an agent of police, but not gendarmes, visited the house. They demanded a pass port of his Highness. He was unable to present one, and had only a card of his former route, without seal, without visa, and not even stating that he had been on his way to Fontaiablean. His Highness said that he was a lieutenant-General in the army, and expressed a wish to be taken before Baron DAMAS, in order that he might be identified. His Highness was accordingly ac companied by the police officers to the Baron's residence, which was but a few steps from the inn ; and Baron DAMAS, upon seeing the Royal Duke, instantly pro claimed all the styles and titles of the prisoner, which he himself had before declined to communicate to the Com missary or his assistants. RETIREMENT OF THE GRAND DUKE CONT.% NTINE. —The Correspondent of Hamburgh states that the re port is spread at Mayence that a foreign Prince is about to purchase a large estate in the Rheinish provinces, and establish there his future residence. It is added, that the climate of the Northern countries which he has in habited until now is little favourable to the delicate health of his wife, and that this consideration has induced the Prince to renounce the active functions he has hitherto exer cised as Viceroy of Poland, in order that he may enjoy all the sweetness of a private life in the bosom of his family. The death of General DEN TZ EL, who succeeded Ge neral CHURCH in the command of the Greek army, has caused much lamentation.—(Letter from Navarin, of the Bth of October, in the Courrier Francais. An extraordinary instance of good fortune has at tended a man who keeps a petty broker's shop in an ob scure situation in Mary-la-bonne. A short time since, furniture,