Star. — London, England, 1829-08-08 00:00:00

MR. LAWLESS AND MR. WYSE. ' -...,.1.- . 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SIR,—I shall feel much obliged if you copy into your excellent paper from the Morning Herald or Standard of the 6th instant, my letter to Mr. Wyse.—l feel an xious that my correction of the errors committed (I be lieve most unintentionally) against me by that Gentle- man, in his account of my mission through the North of Ireland in the months of August and September last, should be as widely circulated as possible, and knowing the anxiety of the public to see your paper since it has come neer its present enlightened direction, I conclude that my letter will enjoy a large portion of circulation through the medium of your columns. I have the honour to remain your very obliged, JOHN LAWLESS. _ _ _ London, August Bth, 1829. V , We have much pleasure in obliging Mr. LAWLIIII—Rs. COURT CIRCULAR. Dispatches were sent off by a King's messenger, from the Foreign Ma, on Thursday night, for Lord Hirrassuar, our Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersbursk. The Earl of EOSSLYN and Sir GEouou MURRAY visited the Duke of WILLISOTON yesterday, at the Treasury. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had an in terview with Mr. Secretary Peat., at the Home Dike, yesterd.y. The Marquis of Donau left town, at an early hour yesterday morning, to 'join his maker. the Machete of Wacuse. von, at her residence, Stratblielduy, Hants. ARRIVAL OF THE DUCHESS OF CUMBERLAND an. Panics Gnonsa.—Her Royal Highness and Prince Gamins, with their sake, left Rodin the 24th of July, and arrived at Lida -on the Sib instant, where she was met by her illustrious consort, who left blades on Tuesday morning at four o'clock, and pro ceeded front Deptford is the Lightning (Government) steam par. bet. His Royal Highness arrived at Calais at two o'clock on Wednesday morning, where, after partaking of some refreshment. Ate left for Lisle, which the Royal Dube reached that night. Their Royal Higirosmes kft Lisle at ten o'clock on Thursday morning, and arrived at Calais the same evening, where the Royal' Duke and Duchess, with Prince Ononoe and suite, embarked on board the -steam-packet which wss in waiting for them. The vessel left Calais at three o'clock yesterday morning, and arrived at Greeswich about four o'clock In the afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses im mediately landed. Twn of the King's carriages were in readiness to convey them to town. The Duke and Duchess, with the young Prince. rode in the ant carriage. In the second were the Coun tess Smatuntesco and Miss Coma (Ladies in Waking to the Duchess) and the Rev. Mr. Jar (tutor to the Prince), together with Mrs. Foam, a female attendance(' the young Prince. The re -malodor of the suite followed in the Duke's carriages. Seen after el: o'clock the Duke of Cumenat.ams left town ois a visit to the Knee, at the Royal Ledge, Windsor Park. In the course of the .evening Prince and Princess Ifersturase. the Dowager Duchess of Ricintann, Earl and Countess Gowns, and a number of other per ms of distioction called to make inquiries after the Duchess. The answer was, that her Royal Highness was is good health consider lag the fatigues of so long a journey. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Colonel Davis, at Ellies Hotel, St. James's-street. from Lewes, Sussex ; J. James. Esq at ditto, front Paris ; Lady Bakes sad the Misses Ord; at Thomas's Hotel. Berkeley-square, front their seat, Haekwood-park, Hants; J. Hail, Req. at the Burlington Hotel. /root Thighton ; Mrs. Phipps and family, at ditto, front ditto; and Mrs. Benhoku. at ditto. front a tour; Sir obs Trollop', Bart. at ditto, front ditto ; Lord and Lady Rendieehans and fa mily, at Lung's Hotel, afford's-treat, from Chatted's.' ; Charles Gardiner,Esq. at Crawley's (We Cook's) Hotel. Albemarle -street. from Pads ; the Earl and Countess of Onslow and famitzt o ls o e St. George's Hold, Albanmele-stroet, frost their sat, Surrey ; Mrs. Dooms and Imlay, at ditto, from their seat in at •on ; Yr. and Mrs. Mdolla aell family. at ditto, fronttheir seat in Estes • Mrs. Faint* and family, at the Bath Hotel, Arlington street:from Choked's= ; the Rev. Mr. Guist, at ditto, from Oxford ; Mrs. and Misses Street, at the Berner' Hotel, Dereurs street, from Derby ; the Rev. J. Watts, Mrs. Watts, and family. at ditto, from Leditury, Hereford ; Colonel Clayton, in :from Spain. • DEPARTURES. The Miss Hangltons, for Stone, Staffordshire ; Lord and Lady Anson, from Brighton, on a visit to the Bari and Countess of Bel fast, in the Isle of Wight ; Mr. and Mrs. George Byng and family, From St. James's-square. for their seat, Wrothun Park ; Sir R. Hoare, Bart. from Warren's Hotel. Regent-street. for his seat, Stourhead House, Wilts • Colonel and Mrs. Harefield, from ditto, for Scotland; the Earl of Gosford, for his seat in Ireland ; Yin:mutt Duncanoon, for his seat at Roebampton • Sir Jamey Boswell, Bart. from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's). Albemarle-street, on a tour; Mrs. Newcombe and family, from the Burlington Hack for dui -seat in Norfolk ; Mrs. Charles and Lady Catherine Cavendish, on a tour; the Hon. George Apr and Lady Georgina Ellis. for Tun :bridge Wells ; Mrs. Reed and family, from Symmones Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, for Canterbury ; Sir John and Lady Pilmey, from the Bath Hotel, Arlington street. for Hens; Capt. Micklethwaite, from ditto, for Hants; Cornish. Esq from do. for Exeter ; Major Lane. from ditto, for Berke • Capt. Roberts them the British Hotel. Jennyn-stteet, for Brighton; Willies: Cumming, Esq. from ditto, for Worthing. ARRIVALS Al MILTOWN NIALBAY.—Mrs. Howly and the Misses O'Shea. Mr. and Mrs. Crush, of Cabirbasse; Captain Creagb, Mr. and Mrs. Crawford, of Rapla •' Colonel 'Vendeleur, Colonel Armstrong, Captains Croasdaile and Vaughan, Mr. Drummond, Counsellor Dowdiest, Mr. Connell Fitzgerald, Mr. Roche, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Gabbett, gte. &c. &c. LAVES OF KILLARNEY.—The following have arrived at Gorham's Hibernian Hotel, Killarney : Mr. R. Cantrell, Sher. Sold; Mr. Rogers, New York, America ; Mr. and Mrs. Shed wad and party, Waterford; Sir. Gillman Captain Fitzroy, Mr. Parker, Miss Keating, and Miss Heacock ; Mr. Delacheross and party, Donagbadee ; Lord Beigrave and Lady Elizabeth, with many other respectable families. The Marquis and Marchioness of EXETER are on a visit to W. S. Poems, Esq. at Cowdray Park, Susses. Thursday the mansion of THOMAS CLUTTERBUCK, Esq. at Bushey, Hertfordshire, was thrown open, and formed into a bazaar (under the immediate auspices of the Countess of CLA RION* and several of the Nobility of the vicinity), for the sale of fancy articles, drawings, arc. for the purpose of adding to the funds of the Hertfordshire Western Infirmary. The whole of the articles exposed for sale were the production of the ladies in the surrounding neighbourhood. Amongst the numerous visitors on the Brat day (the ode continuing for two days—Thursday and yesterday) were the Earl and Coontessof Clarendon and family, Earl and Countess of Grosvenor. and family, Earl and Countess of Yerulam. Lady S. Grionton, Countess Cowper and family. Sir John &bright and family, Mrs. Masson and family, Lord and Lady Manson, Mrs. Rebuts and family, Hon. Mr. pell and family, and upwards of 500 of the neighbouring gentry. The receipts amounted to nearly .5001. and yesterday the company was equally numerous, and the receipts likely to equal those of the preceding day. Mr. Sergeant BOSANQURT and Mr. GURNEY • SS well as Mr. BOLLAND, whom we before named, are now severalty men tioned as likely to succeed Sir Joys Houscx on the Bench of the Exchequer. Tbe late Baron, although be fell far short of the ex pectations formed of him on his appointment, was by far the most able ludp of that Court. which has long stood at a very low ebb In respect of the professional estimation of the persons presiding in ft. The escluslon of the great body of monde. from practising in the Exchequer, is, no doubt, the principal abuse which has re duced the business transacted there to its present pitiful amount ; but the comparative inefficiency of the Judges has also had a very powerful operation in discouraging suitors. If there be a real dis position to place the Court on such a footing as shall enable it to take its fair share of the business of the Country, Won Hottocz's late brethren must have associated to them, in his stead, some able and active man, in the prime of life, from the foremost rank of the profession. With such a man, and a successor, alike able, to theCntar Banos (whom we expect to see shortly in his proper sphere, exe cuting the Equitable jurbdlctiou of the Court), the Exchequer may regain reputation and business ; but if persons of inferior talents— though respectable station and character, are, by virtue of a Coats. CIILLOA good-will, to be, as hitherto, fitted with places on this Batch, we may expect to see the Court continue to rise each morn ing after a ten minutes' sitting. Whether the Gentlemen—all or any of them—named for Baron Hottoces place Woos. in talents and legal acquisitions, to the one class or the other, it is fee the Professioo, and not for as, to say; but Lord Lessmeast knows, as well as we can tell him. that he is in no condition. were he eves allapseed, to bestow preferment after the fashion pursued by his predecessor. All eyes are on him; and be cannot ailed tomato a bad selection. If be do, be is a far less sensible than we take his to be.—Merniog Clrenick. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mama Assyria Tins Dar—Dublin I—Waterford t. Venn. smug wtru—The Victory. flan Hull to Quebec, on the tint ult. off &. Paul's Island ; and the Carrick., of Carlisle, for Quebec, on the 27th. is lat. 51. long. ff 7. The Darius. Hunter, sailed from the Mauritius Sth February, for London, and has not since been beard of. Auci.6.—Wind &W.—Arrived the Lord Cochrane, from India, and Prince Coburg, from Tobago. Auu. 7.—Wind 5.E. Faarsouvn, Auo. 6.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrived the Concordia, ---, from Smyrna . Pouvosoulli, Auo. N.—Arrived the Canning, Laws, from Riga. Ltvaaroot, Ave. 6 —Off the port, the John, &meted, from Oporto. Arrived the Rona, Wallace:from Nasmu. The Pioneor, for Virginia; the Robert Kerr. for F.auport ; and the Johanna (not Juliana), for Pillau, which were on shore, bare been got oil'. An outward bound brig, with a figure bead and bright side., has been aground ht the Rock Channels. ---------- Garasoce. Ara. S.—Arrived the John Campbell, Spence, from Grenada; and Cassandra, —. from New (Means. The Hector. *Donald, to Demerara, will commence discharging to morrow, to be docked. The Penelope, M'Farisne. sailed from Port Gies gowld inst. for Deaserara.and put back this morning leaky. Dumas. Ara. S.—Arrived the Frienls. Taylor. from Quebec. Bziowrow. Ave. 7.—Off the port, the Rusehill, llentoa, from °Porto. PLYMOUTH. AUGUST 6. The Dutch frigate 'lupe!, Capt. Ferman. arrived on Wednesday from the Tezel, and sailed on Friday for Batavia. In Hamoase, the Britannia, Kent, Ttinculo, Lightniog, Vigi lant, Reynard, Swallow, Eclipse, and kleteur steant•vessel ; hi Barnpool, the Ariadne. The Pickle schooner, of 3 guns and 36 men. commanded by Ueatenant J. B. B. 111' Hardy, captured on the 3d of June.uff St. Domingo Keys, after ao obstinate fight ut an hour and a h a lf, t h e Spanish slave 4clootter Boladora, mounting lulu long guns, with a crew of og men and 345 slaves. The Pickle had two men killed and eight wounded ; the slaver had 10 killed and IS wounded. . Jobe AUeott, who has been 25 years Storekeeper of Ports. stands Dock-yard. as been superannuated. and is en be succeeded by Jr. W. Pennell—Mr. J. Thompon (eon of Commissioner Dear Thompson .) succeeds Mr. Pennell as on, Officer and Agent Victualler at'the Cape of Good Hope. THE ARMY. (mamas.) Horse Guards, 1829. Sia—ln ques of representations which have been received from the Geogr . Post Mice, the General Commanding in Chief Ands it necessary to direct your particular attention to that part of the General Orders and Regulations of the Army, which relates to the " Postage of Soldiers' Letters," and to desire that the same may be read to the regiment under your command once every two months, with the Articles of War and occasionally to each com pany hy the onion in command of it. Lord Hitt. further desires that you win take every opportunity of making the tan-commissioned officers and soldiers of the regiment sensible tithe incoovenience to which they rapine them. selves, their fanzines, and other relations, by fraudulently abusing the liberal arrangements made by the Legislature of their country, to enable them to carry on their correspoodeoce at home and abroad, at an almost nominal rate of postage ; also, that by thus attempting to injure the public revenue, they may impose on his Majesty's Government the Necessity of recommending the repeal tithe Act of Parliament which caterers he valuable a benefit upon them. I have it specially la command to refer you to the following ex tract from page 144 of the General Orders and Regulation.. and to signify Lord Hill's most positive Injunctions that you rigidly act up to the determinations therein expressed upon the pan of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York " Any non-conunissioned officer or soldier, who shall present to his Ater a letter to be rendered free of postage. which is net JONI Ask kis own, will be *Why of • fraud, and a breach of discipline , [ - for which it is kis Royal Highness's express command that every s(eoder shall be tried, and no alleviation of whatever punishment may be awarded must be expected." I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant. H. TAYLOR, Adjutant-General. Saturday morning three of the reserve companies of the 24th Regiment, under the canntand of Major Hughes, marched into Preston, from Manchester, on route to Carlisle, for which place they pr oceeded on Monday. The temainig company is ordered to the Ida of Wight. The Regiment Is about to embark for Canada. We understand theta detachment of Royal Artillery from Wool wich I. expected in a few days at our barracks, to be permanently stationed tbere.—Lessis A troop of the 4th Dragoon Guards, quartered in this town, marched on Monday last to Blandford, to remain there during our assists. The half-yearly review of the Regiment, by Sir H. Vi vian, Bart. M.P. will take place the last week in this month.— Dern Onosty Chronicle. Friday two companies of the 4th Regiment landed from the Eclipse steam packet, front Glasgow, and will proceed on their route to Newry. which is to be the bead-loaners of the Regiment. The second detachment, under the command of4t. Graham. ar rived os:lenday, in tbe.Fnik steam-packet.— eat New /ouster. INDIAN ARMY— lwo Cana's 'no. Foss Se. Gnomes. Fes. 3, intl.—The Right Honourable the Governor in Council is pleased to publish the following ',tracts of a letter from the Hon. the Court of Directors. In the Military Department, to the Upraise Government, and to direct th.t. If any pensions of the nature thereby prohibited have been granted at this Presidency, the Superiotendent of Pensions shall take im mediate measures for their being discontinued, reporting the same for the information of Government. _ _ _ Par. 411.--°' the widows of oaken transferred to the Pension List have no claim whatever to be admitted to the benefits of Lord Clive 's Fond." Par. 42.—" The widows of oaken or soldiers, who at the time of their death may be peosioriers on Lord Clive's Fund. are only endtkd to the benelits of the fund if they Mall have beets married prior to their husbands having became producers oo the Mod." ALLOWAOCIS OF AIDOS•OR-CAML Pose Sr. Gnomes. Pea. 13.11119.—The Right Honourable the Governor to Council is pleased to publish the following extract of a general letter from the Honourable the Court of Directon, in the Military Department, dated the 11th of June. 1623, in conformity to which the General Order of the 47th of June, 11123, by which Aides-de-Camp were authorised to draw their eateries Irons the date of appointment, Is cancelled, and these Officers will in future receive their staff allowances from the date of joining their stations, on the general principle applicable to all other appointments. Pea. 7.—" We can perceive no sufficient reason, for excepting Aides-de-Cansp from the general rules which affect other Micas appointed to the Staff. and desire that the regulations brought to our notice in this paragraph may be cancelled. " Antenna Yeonanar CAtratatr.— Wednesday se'anight this fine regiment, under the command of Uffluenant•Culonel Crawford, was reviewed en the Sands at Ayr by Major Graham, of the 11 h Lancers, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, and a number of Noblemen and Gentlemen attending. The Reviewing Officer spoke in the highest terms of their appearance, conduct, and disci pain*. Refers Ilse review Lady Glasgow proolsoted she emir, with , three splendid stands:cis—one for the right, bearing the Klieg'. Anne, with the motto of the district of Carrick ; not for the centre, bearing the Igen of St. Andrew and the motto of Kyle; and the third for the left, with the Sore of St. George and the motto of Cunningham. They were presented by her Ladyship with the usual ceremonies. and consecrated by Dr. hi' Lend, the Chaplain to the Regiment. In use evening a dinner was given by the in. Been of the Regiment, at which the Lord Lieutenant and a num ber of Nobility and Gentry, with their Ladies, were present. On the previous evening a splendid ball was given by the Corps in the County Rooms. LIMERICK, Atmore 5. Monday last, the two pieces of Ordnance stmioned at Clore castle within the last ten days, returned to this garrison, under ai l escort of the 60th Riles. - - - - - - - Captain Keith's Company of the aid, have replaced Captain Walter's Compaoy at Nroagh. The beadirarters of the let Royal Regiment enjoy ezeeuent heath. at St. James's Barracks, Trinidad, according W letters re• calved here. —.--- --- Captain Hastings Doyle, 24th Regiment, is appointed Aid-de- Camp in ordinary to his Ezcellency the Lord Lieutenant. vice Lieutenant Burma, id Foot Guards . Lieutenant Mackenzie, 106th Regiment, is appointed to tbe re cruiting district at 'overtime, vice Lieutenant Kenny, 56th; Lieut. O'Neill, 16th Foot; is appointed to Bury &. Edmunds; and Lieut. Hassard, 37th Radom., to Reading. The following changes have taken piam in the tecrulting district through Ireland :.—Liemesant Glabcot, 66th is removed from En niskillen ; Lieutenant Brown, 53d, is appointed to Dublin, vice Lieutenant Brown, 31st ; Lieutenant L' Estrange, 71st, from Car low to Cavan ; and Lieutenant Sheekburgh, 33d, truss Cavan to Carlow. Ligament Stuart, 44th Regiment, is entered at the Royal Dli asey Mee odik ay Lieutenant Norman of the sense corps. Captals !id Regiment, is withdrawn front the once of Mar pt e ab l ,at , from the Atldilla• . half-pay, is appointed Deputy-As , 1 shwa initterimeter•Gawral at Barbados*. LITERATURE, the FINE ARTS, DRAMA, ¢c. A communication from Mr. LAW LESS will be found in another pl tee, requesting Mt to re-publish from the Standard his letter to Mr. Wrsn. Wu tl.) this the more readily, as the correction of historical errors is always important to the public ; and the history of the Catholt. Association has a peculiar interest yet. Our attention,' indeed, has ben directed to it before we received this refresher front Mr. LAWLESS, and we thank him fur thus reminding us of a purpose which we already enter tained, of giving front time to time passage.* from Mr. Wyses book. The following brief description of the Association is front the Introducti,m, awl is a pod pre liminary to our future extracts The .tssociation was supposed to be a mere tumultuary body. starting up from a chaos of confused and ungovernable elements, the creature of excitation, and with views as inconsistent with general constitutional liberty, and especially with the order a.id se curity ist the /Meek Constitution. as any of those sudden assem blages of Catholics and Covenanters. which were flung together at the outset of the civil wars in either coign. ry, by the first fury of our religious diseentions. But this was judging rashly ; 412 Ca tholic Association was a coalition of a very different order : it had a method in us madnss., and an object in its tumult, which a close observer and a dos. attention only could discern ; it was not pos sible to combine, iu the -anie mass. greater powers of popular ea citation, more undisputed sway over the popular heart, and more minute attention to the nice machinery by which the detail, of public business (the business of many millions of men) require to be conducted. Neither was it a mere ebullition Duns the rank passions and the turbulent ambition of modern times : it was of long, and slow, and patient growth ; its strength was not known, until it had been brought into direct collision with the Government ' • it was not even fully appreciated by the very hands which wielde d it, until its femur had been brought out by hood. attack. It was then suddenly perceived, that a body bad been growing up unnoticed. without the Constitution, which might its due season disturb from its foundations the Constitution itself, co emensive with the immense majority of the population, and re decting, in its utmost energy, the entire form and pressure of the popular mind. 4 Of the power of this singular anomaly, surviving penal enact ment. and flourishing in the midst of civil restriction, it is at pre sent unnecessary to speak : the chain which bound its strength together, the magic life by which it lived, has pasted away at the Voice of a still more powerful enchantment—Khe confident expecta tion of immediate and entire justice. But it may not he without its interest and utility to trace the progress of its formation, and to show, by what sure though tardy progress, the omnipotence of public opinion is ultimately, though gradually, brought to bear upon the most unmanageable questions of public policy, and in its good time to work those mighty moral changes in the national mind, which to the unphilnsophie (Absolver appear little less than miraculous, " The Irish Catholic may lank back with a just pride on the honourable efforts which have so well deserved their actual remu neration, and the English constitutional Protestant read with in sustains' and satisfaction a lesson, that will not cease with the moment, hut guide hies also in the future struggles he may have to make for the restitution or improvement of national rights. In such a contest nothing is small ; nothing is to be despised. Cathodic emancipation, it will be seen, has nut been achieved by a comp de amiss a liberty has not come to the Catholic by accident ; nor is it, as has been falsely surnaise.l. the gift of a few leaders ; but its seeds have, year after year, been plentifully sown in the mind of a whole people, until the appointed moment for the sure and abut:- dant harvest bad fully arrived. Tile moral force of patient and unceasing effort it a just cause, colliding fully la the Gus of justice and its own might, has been adequately proved : the certainty of anal triumph, when truth and teas in are the combatants. i. placed beyond a doubt ; anal if this great IC$lOll, and no other, had been taught by the late struggle, it would have been well worth all the sacrifice and delay. Every day, the chance of regenerating a nation by the coarse expedients of physical force is, thank Lion! becoming less and less. There is every day a 'seater confidence in the power and efficacy of mere mind • there is every day a more Inn assurance the strength and suficiettcy of ussmoisted reason. France and England are now the great scenes for the fullest deve lopment of this important problem. From these two countries must Sow henceforth the political education of Europe. France, with greater advantages, has, within . As last few years at least, made a more rapid Pride in this first of human sciences ; but Eng ' landless nut-forgotten her old renown. A nobler alliance than mere state expediency can ever hope for, a prouder rivalry than the mere emulation of arms can ever boast of, is at length spring. lag up between us! To confer the greatest share of human blessing on the governed by means the must general, the most simple, and the must permanent. is surely a glorious art. An Englishman should not now have to learn it ; he ought to be the first to teach it to all mankind. The suppression of restrictions on personal liberty, on the liberty of the press, the amelioration of the elective code, new guarantee for the rights of publicity and opi nion, a more popular municipal organization, are portions of the same system in France, of which the approaching emancipation of the Catholics is a still greater portion in England. He who hanks upon such improvements. such testimonies to the enlarging wis dom of the age, with local, and ephemeral, and sectarian views, sees little of the lesson or the advantage. It is in their carnelian with the entire system, as precedents to be laid up in the recut lection of every tree citizen, that they obtain their full value. Is this view, the following sketch is presented. It is a page only of a great work. Every one may find in it some evidence of these wholesome truths, some lesson applicable to his own case. lot the fundamental axiom is applicable to all. In order to k fre e , there is one thing necessa ry, and only one—strongly, deeply, and perseveringly, to sail it.' COSITESSE DU HARRI. From the introduction t, the interesting' " Memoires de Madame la Camtesse du Bari," we this day make the following extract, to prepare our readers for further selections front the body of the work : " It now remains for its to speak of the law years of the Countess 4. Barri, beginning fruot the month of Oetobet, 1789, when she left off her blemish... We have said, that 'lsom' Ibis period, the Countess du Bari be gan to have the most melancholy forebodings of her impending fate. In fact, from that moment to the time of her death. her life was nothing but a .tries of misfortunes and disagreeable events. In the month of November, 1789, some imposters, threatening is infamous libels against the Countes., affi cting bet ft-un tatrralsocceeiled in extorting considerable sums from ter. Two years after, it. the month of January,l79l, rubbers availed thonsielves of bet absence to break into her chateau at Luctenne, and carried away an immense quantity of jewellery. &W this was nothing. T►e following year, Mr. de &lime. her &liver, perished on the scaffold. It is related, that the sam► moaners who already prepared her own downfall, brought before her the bloody head of the new Chevalier mesa rear et mast-creche, and sadieWit on a table iu the saloon whet, she was sitting, ea claiming : 1 . rims, mild, la Sete deltas unseat /" Look here, behold the head of thy lover . (In the $l4 September 1793, the Countess du Barri was arrested She bad the mortification of seeing among her twist implacable enemies a servant on whom she had bestowed the greatest kindness, and treated like her ma. She bad been obliged to make four joumies to London in order to follow up a law ~it undertaken for the recovery of her stolen diamonds. She was accused of having gone to that capital for the purpose of conspiring with the enentie. of the Republic. of having lent money to the emigrants, and, tnureover, (cud this was con sidered the greatest of her crimes,) of having worn mourning for the unfortunate Marie Antoinette. She was arraigned--in other words, condemned to death. The Countess du Bari preserved a great deal of firmness until the last day ; but when, un the 9th of December, 1793, ►he saw the fatal cart approach, her courage abandoned her altogether.— During the progress to the place ut carcinoma, h. r paleness was so excessive, that she might have been taken fur dead, if her continual lamentations had not announced that she was still alive. When she turd arrived on the Place de l Revolution, and had been delivered into the hands of the esearioner, she called out loudly. saying." What? me—me?" words which either the horror of death suuested to her. or that the hoped the people would have Interfered and saved her from tion. The ezecutioner, how ever, prepared to perform his office Another moment," said she, " another moment, Sir, I im plore you ." the same instant she ceased to eaist.— ' fntreductery part itheAlleasairs V Madam to Cloaks" do Barri. On this in teresting publication we shall enter more particularly next week.] THE DRAMA. We last roguing assisted at the representation of the fierprones pro-a hole-drama, harrowed as natal front our Gallk neigh boars, se far ahead of au la these days for steak fecundity and I limeades. The plot, fosaded as a story that has often raised carry bale of ore bleeds Is Wain times, is the all other productions of this lame descriptioa, teeming with terror, mystery, end insproba bilitr—aell yet the ammo of betobest sod preemies leode so Interest to thie trifle we have rarely etperienced in thine sprints half-caste wildtursers conceived betwixt tragedy and comedy. The incidents, for wonder in melo-drama, are simple and succinct ; the charactirs few. and well distributed.—Miss Kelly bestows her characteristic talent here with great effect, only we think she oeea aiooally Overstrains the trepidation, the incoherence sad cunning breaks of voice. We admire the courage with which she ventures to express these tones of natural speech, together with the manner and attitude of every day life—tutal yet one may essay the natural touch too far, and thus at last give to the genuine trait an air of fastidious study. A soldier's wife and an old campaigner inSpain, as she professes *emelt to be, ought to do more hun..ur to the camp, by the exercise of a certain dimness in &auger. "Pilch would nut the less secure the anxiety of the audience in her favour : this, front recollections of the nursery tale, her situations, and the words she is made to speak, was the undoubted intention of the author. Keely's acting was equally good and fresh with a "lumen( " that promises much for an yowl( an actress : if s'lr adheres ro her present method, we venture to predict she w 11 one day oe un rivalled in the " Soubrette" characters. Keely's drawing idiot isms extorted the usual roar which English iodic , ces an readil; pay to butruniery. ware highly gratified to find a friar fAith• ful attention to costume than is geiteral.y paid to this essen tial particular on our rage. Miss Kelly dressed the port with her usual judgment, and looking precisely oh,' she peromated, compelled our sympathies by appeatirg real. Zs. Kerry w as exact in every detail of costume, as worn by French peasant girls in the " 'Mouraine." We be{ her to receive our compliment., and continue to conciliate the audience by a cal istant regard to propriety of this kind. Smith. the professed representa tive of devils and dare-devils, is always correct in this mope ; at least be always looks the thing we would imagine : his " bl..use " hoots and ear-rings were perfectly true ; only we wools' wi.la had lent to his longitudinal fe..tures a li!tle white and blue, of which the terrible Old Gentleman, his Master, had too ntuzh.— White lead shades the murderer's cLerk, according to general corception, better than carmine. lizely's drawers were well for a Greek sailor, but wot.lsl create a mob in any valor in Fr knee ; the rest of his guise was unobjectionable. Ilartly's dress was better than hi. acting ; his crowing trick of voice is very disagreeable, and is of the worst of mumnierys-it Can only succeed with children. We have now to rent irk, whenever an English actor personates poverty, however abject, he sonorous himself with merely dressing in the fashiou ut an humble station, without cyst' exhifrting ;hose marks of raggedness and patchery. in which sc ors on the for, Igo stage never tad to attire copied sniaery.—Dennis (11a:hews), GA-- pad (South). Robin (Kelly), for instance, looked more like easy residents of a thriving tarn, than the inhabitants of a deserted twits. If we have descended hits these detail., it is because our attention was drawn more favourably to the subject than has hitherto been done, by the actors of this theatre, in purees of greater importaii.:e. Gretna Own and D. 7 Fresschists followed. -roe COSMOStA MA. We were yesterday induced in our rambles to visit the Cosmo rama in Regent -street, after a Wog absence from that interesting eaWbition. The magical effect of its optical illusions, rendered more powerful by much improvement in detail, together with a wonderful amelioration in the exercise of light and shade since we law saw it, increased the fascination we tormerly experienced. The view , of Constantinople is particularly interesting. tut a time when every mind is full of thoughts connected with that glorious seat of old Greek—and now of the modern Ottoman Empire. The interior of the Cathedrals—Canterbury, St. Gedule, Sr. Paul's, and St. Peter's—are represented with marvellous side. lily. Familiar with the originals, we almost forgot the lapse of time and distance siuce we last beheld them—imagining ourselves in reality tiansported back to the contemplation of their awful magnificence in the veritable sculptured stone. In ' deed, we think the astonishing effect ut this singularly Ingenious invention part.eularly excels in the burrnal perspective of build logs. The gloomy sublimity of St. Guthard's and Te-uvios made the struagest impresseuo stn our ntinda ; and the manner in which niechatikal cunning has aped the life of nature, in causing mimic waters to tun—vapours to rise—fires to blaze—clouds to undulate —and shadows to come and go with the force ut necromancy, in• spired vs with the warmest admiration. This beautiful disc very, and the daily improvements in judicious distribution of light and shade, promise to be of liscalculatue advantage to the student in I painting ; and the scenic artist in particular might here borrow I hints that would render our theatres like nature itself. We hope the public will continue to give it its due share of encouragement. GAELIC MESSENGER. Mr. Coleridge, the poet. is said to have exclaimed, on finding a tattered copy of Thomson's Seasons in • village alehouse, " This is trite (ante." If thisbo the true test of popularity—and we con fess we think it is—the following incident is worth meat 'suing : Two gentleman from Edinborgh, who ►ad been luseriating among oar Highland scenery. happened a few days since to meet • little ragged Celt busily engaged by the road side in poring over the pages of some slight publication. A wager we. instantly laid hr. twessi the tourists as to the nature of the book ; one bruin, chat s was • collectioo of ballad., or some marvellous Tom Thumb story; and the other, from the grave and serious aspect of thst boy, maintaining that it was the Shooter Catechism. On ito•pec ' tion the book proved to be the last No. of the Gaelic Messenger ur Journal, and t►e Alodern Athenians were u much mortised at find ing sloth • wait in the hands of a boy. as Addison, in his amus ng simplicity, was us hearing the children in Calais talk French. l'he little fellow. however, soon proved that be was no novice at the study; be rattled over a page or two of the Journal, explaining the meaning in English afterwards. and informed the travellers that the b oo k would only cost his father tenpetice a year, as six persons had joined with him in taking it out. The gentlemen rewarded the little fellow for his attention, and were so flls eh pleased with the incident, that on their arrival in Inverness they extorted a pro. ' tram u. that we should chronicle it in our page., that Dr. IP loud (the excelkto and patriotic Editor of the Gaelic Journal) might •ee how successful was his attempt to instruct and amuse the Higblauders iti their ancient mother to►gtne.—lnaeretru Lorna. PORTRAIT OF FAIR ROSAMOND. A picture of this unfortunate woman, the mistress of Henry IL and the cloths ut his Queen's jealouty, stipposed to ►ave been painted in the time of Henry VII. was, at the commencement of the last century, in the possession of Samuel Gale, Esq. the anti quary. It consisted of a three-quarter length, painted on pa tool, and attired in the costume of the period ; a dress of rad vt het. wit► a straight low body, and large square sleeves, faced with black lowered damask, lathed up above the elbow, Iron, whit!' Jr. sanded a close sleeve of pearl-coloured sat►n, puff-d out. and buttoned at the wrist ; her Loom being covered with a Iliac A.ivo red linen, gathered close at the neck like a ruff. Ilet hair, which was of • dark brown colour, was parted Irons the middle of the line. head ; on hit head was a plain etilfure. surmounted by a gold lace. cuveredwith a small, black, silk cap. In her right hand, which was richly decorated with rings, she held the fatal cup. st the cover to the left. Rehire her, on a table covered with titack damask, lay an open player-hook. Her complcsion was fair, with a beasitithi blush upon her cheeks.—.lfirrer. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The wheat crops throughout the County Clare pre-:ent a most flourishing aspect, and in the County Unserkk the oat field. are w. aderfully improved. The wheat crops ate in fact genets:ly good through Ireland. THE NORTHER); lIERRING FtsinNo.—A va r i e ty of statements having „lately appeared In the newspapers, tending to prejudice the minds of speculators in the herring 6,llnry against the coast between Dutinethead and Cape Wrath, by re presenting the quantity of fish caught there as too incoodderab e to be worth the Uvulae or anentior a fish and the quality so inferior as to render them usisaleabk in the Dutch and Ilaniburgh markets, it may be necessary tut the information of the public. to state a few facts calculated to obviate the miscouceptions to which these statements have give, ris e . Herrin g , a b oun d no this pan of the coast erne) , year from %lay to October. The fish taken so early ai the month of May, however, are Nektons of a good quail y, or such as ought to be sent to the market ; although, we believe, a considerable number of barrels were in the Hamburgb market in the beginning ut June last. Btu every week in Jotie, and since. the qu .1 ty ut the bah improved ; aissl we ate assured that It is now equal to that of any taken upon the %Vick coast. And this h.dds to tea.on, because It is well Lawn that duo lag the months ut June and July the herrings are so improved as to be reedy for spawning in August and September, the very time of the Wick fishery. One of the first people from the Smith country who vetstareil to toy herring lashing nit the Wick coast was Mr. W alter Banks from Fi.henow, who has regularly plyed it tali' now. Since the latter end of May, however, be has fished off Monist. head with a few boats, and though nut ever•successiul during June. In consequence of frequent north winos, yet with pram*. worthy resolutiou, be continued to fish every night it was prudent to do as; and we believe he has now no occasiots to regret his prise- VtieDlN, for no the Wick coast little ur no fish have as yet been taken, notwithstanding the boats have beer nut for more than ten days past—whereas so the 30th of last month, the boats of Mr. Banks had each from IN to TO traftell, and one bolt had upwards of 30 cranes of fish of very superior quality. A good many boats also continue to fisb west from Sandside Bay to Cape Wrath, and all are getting more or ine—say several crann—which shows that Ash of good quality may be taken there dating the months of June, July, and August. the season beteg early enough to enable idlers to ply their vocation both on this and the Wick coast. We state then circumstances memo the setMrioy ut a correspondent, who is not sainted by any prejudices to Wick, hot by a regard for both sides of the country, aid who conceives it may be beneficial g le e publicity to these st itements.—Cbirdwsion Mercury.