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SPIRIT OF THE JOURv.ILS. TisiEs.—Don Miguel has listened to the only argument which such being can understand—the threat of the Immediate application of force —and has restored the captured vessels to the English owners. An a rousing instance of the fears of this cut-purse of the kingdom is exhi ',iced in the Lisbon papers : be has caused to be published the infamous teems of the Pol*nac Mhsistry which dethrd Charles X. bat not a 4yllable is suffered to appear of the consequences of those decrees ; -.0 that, as far as the public press is concerned, Portugal is entirely :gnorant of the great events at Paris. Tines.—The great Courts of Europe, we fear, if the King of the Netherlands should listen favourably to the demands of his people, may t ell him it is an illegitimate example, and must not be shown to man kind. Should a federative connexion be granted to the Belgians, will not Prussia anticipate a similar necessity, some day, for yielding to the lemands of her lthenish subjects, and giving them a representative con. Ititution, with &separate government and name ? Poland has, indeed, the shadow of an independent state • but if Belgium, by bullying, gains thesubstance, why should not Poland likewise ? So, in case of the Prince of Orange on his return reporting to the people of Brussels that the King has acceded to their wishes, how, we beg to ask, are the taxes to be distri buted ? Will the Flemings continue voluntarily to pay the interest of the large debts of Holland? or can they, by any exercise of their roll. tion, compel France to admit their goods across her frontier? The rrievances, therefore,—the main grievances we imagine,—which have really _pressed upon the spirits of these Belgians, must remain unmiti gated,%otwithatanding their sacrifice to the proud theory of indepen dence should have been accepted, though it is probable that the anger and distrust of neighbouring States would throw embarrassments in time King's way, too powerful to be overcome by any wish on his part to in dulge the solicitations of his subjects for a division of the realm.— The only other alternative which presents itself being to reject the proposition with which the Prince of Orange is said to have charged himself, every body who has watched the course of the insurrection may be judge what must the consequences of such a determination in the King...a civil war, of which no man can see the result. It is right, therefore, that allowances should be made for the great and numerous difficulties which beset the question, and that men's minds should be prepared (though we trust in Once they will be disappointed) for the contingency of a long and painful struggle. The march of foreign troops to assist either party, we deprecate as the most dreadful of all ex pedients r for sure we are, that in such a case there is not a power of the first or second order in Europe whose troops would not soon be in the Tr sas.—lt will be perceived that the new government of France have introduced a new mode of address among the Peers of France, and even among the great functionaries of state. There are to be no more "My Lords among them—no longer Monseigneur but M. le Ministra Now there is no country in Europe in which ' the distinction between Peer and Commoner is so marked as in England ; and that owing to the existence of those absurd and even profane addresses " My Lord," as applied to the former; and " Your Lordship," " Your Grace," and " Noble Lords." Foreigners are disgusted wit:firs on this account ; and think that with the freest institutions, we are the basest people, to suffer such a distinction to exist in daily practice ! No one would or could inter fere with a Lord as a Legislator in the Upper House—a member of the House of Lords, if you please ; but Lord Grey, for example, or Lord Grenville, would quite as well discharge all the duties of that sta. tion, if addressed " Sir ;" " Yes Sir;" "No, Sir ;" as when called that which they are not, " the Lord" of him who addresses them. We should like to see this profane and disgusting foolery put an end to in England. :It exists nowhere else. It is not worth the while to inquire how it crept in hen; but this is !the last country where it ought to find a place ; and we have no doubt but that being once branded, It will very soon vanish hence. The sooner this takes place the better; and no time so good as the present. It is remarkable also, that the servility of practice outruns the formality of the law in this respect. The law allows no titles to the younger sons of Dukes or Marquises. It is George Gordon, Esq. commonly called Lord George Gordon; yet each of thine persons is now aMy Lord l—a My Lord ! ! Cato:neut.—All those who have an interest in the continuation of abuses—all those who have interests at variance with the interests of the community at large—bate the instruction of th e people, be. cause th ey found, on the want of such instruction, the division of the different classes of society from their mutual fears. When the news of the French Revolution:Gist:reached this country, the cam. tenance of all who are connected with the Macaw visibly I= coed. The respect for property, the humanity of the lower the aversion to the effusion of blood, filled them with horror, for they saw in all this the chance of the termination of that jealousy a; home which has secured to them their rule. The intelligence of the crusades against machinery, on the other hand, will ill them with inexpressible delight, for it revives their hopes of the conthiu. ance of the divisions of the people. We say that the great object with all men, who wish good government and the preservation of order, ought to be the instruction of the people. To this object let them give their utmost efforts ; for as the physical force is with the people, where the working classes labour un errors on national points, a revolutionary movement cut hardly tall, sooner et low, to. rebelve an unfortunate direction from that ignorance. Htnat.n.—ficonte tumultuary hoed.. in Paris, who are evidently it to disturb the public pesce, under the 'weans of attacking printing machinery, have succeeded in checking the art of printing, to which. more than to any other power under Providence, France owes its glorious regeneration. Whoever may be the persons or the party that have instigated those desperate men to acts of outrage, we are con. viand their avowed cause is too unjust and absurd to fled many abet tots among a people so far advanced in civilisation as the French. They know that printing is itself a mechanical substitute for the tedious pro. nese of transcribing, by which formerly books, and all productions of the mind, were multiplied so slowly and expeuivery, that know ledge was necessarily confined to a few, and threw no rays of beneficent intelligence across the deep ignorance that settled on the mass of mankind. The Turkish empire, with its thou sands of amanuensis and no printers, at least until very recently, is an instance of the barbarism that degrades the human ape. vies in the absence of the machinery of knowledge. Without the Press. nations would know nothing of the moral effects produced by the rapid and electric communication of thought. If the Press be but a mech.- nical contrivance to abridge the , and lessen the expense, by which knowledge is diffused and opinion circulated, why should not that mechanism be improved, that the benefit of each great results should be augmented ? If a people would be considered deplorably barbarous who cannot estimate the advantages of the art of printing, what should they be called who would prevent its mechanism from being improved; would they not deserve to be called the enemies of knowledge and the helpmates of barbarism? We understand that the greater portion of the persons who have attempted to exercise terror over the Press of Paris ore not printers, and we believe it. AnYzaTraxit.—Not many years ago the only_ttpparatus in use fag Printing newspapers was the ordinary press, by which workmen were only able, with great difficulty, and with an excess of labour, which caused great and early mortality among the pressmen, to obtain from 400 to 500 impressions per hour. In consequence of the slowness of this method, it was necessary that a newspaper having a circulation of several thousands should be set up in what were called duplicates, so that by sending to press three or four more forms of type at one time, and with several presses, the proprietors might be able to supply the demand of the public. This mode of printing, although attended with a heavy expenditure for mechanical labour, soon became unequal to the increasing desire for newspaper reading, and the invention of a printing machine, by means of which the proprietors of a paper could supply the public at the rate of nearly 3,000 copies: per hour, arithout the necessity of set ting up or composing the paper more than once, and therefore mate. rt4y reducing their expenditure for labour, was an improvement well calculated to meet the approbation of all persons who valued the spread of information, to say nothing of the gain to humanity in the economy of human life. Of course, when these machines were introduced, some workmen were thrown out of employ, but this was not the case to the extent which might have been expected, for newspaper reading, par ticularly in France, became more general, and new papers were started, so that journeymen printers were able to obtain employment at very fair wages,rtmost of the pressmen were engaged at the machines, and thus earned the same wages as formerly, with a great diminution of labour. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. (FroneGolkotteni's Afessesper of Saturday.) M. Saym, an attaché of the Spanish Embassy to London, arrived in Paris from 31adrid on Thursday, and after delivering despatches to Count d'Ofalis, continued his route to London. The despatches men. tion the arrival at Madrid of the Count d'Ofilia, who quitted Paris on the 19th ult. to announce the events in France up to the embarkation of Charles the Tenth; but this fact was not made known to Ferdinand, and it is impossible to depict the dismay into which the partisans of the Camarilla were thrown by the news. On Thursday also Portuguese courier was despatched to Madrid, to communi. Cate to the Spanish Cabinet the acknowledgment of the new French Government by Great Britain, and the departure of General Mina for the frontiers. The recognition of the Government of King Louis Philip by England having been communicated to Bourdeaux by telegraph, th e int e lli gence was announced in the evening at the Grand flisatte, upon which the orchestra immediately smelt up the sir of "UOD save the King," amidst the reiterated acclamations of the spec tators. This morning, the Dukede Tarentum, Baron Pasquier, Presi dent of the Chamber of Peers, and the Prefect of the Selne, had an audience of the King, after which his Majesty received deputations from 'tie National Guards of various provincial towns. At 11 o'clock, the king held a Council of Ministers, who sat in deliberation till three. Extract of a private letter of the 28th ult. from Toulon t..—" The early amval of the Alga, bearing Admiral Dupe sag, is announcevi. The approach of the autumnal equinox rend ers it neeetwary that all the large ships should leave Algiers, as they cannot remain without danger. A despatch from Paris of the 18th ult. orders that the division of the fleet that is to remain in the ports of Algiers, Boos, and ()ran, shall be under the command of Admiral Alassieu de Clerval, and be composed of the frigates the Siren, Victoire, Bellone, and Circe ; the sloops Perle and Creole • the brigs Cygne, Hussar, Asses, and Ducouedic; the store-ships B onita, Lybia, Adour, Rhone, Caravan, and Dor dogne ; the tenders Vigogne, Robust; Astrolabe, Lamproie ' Truitt., Charneau, Garonne, and Bayonnais, and any other vessels Admiral Duperre may think neccuary. There will be left tor the conveyance of despatches three sloops, seven brigs, and four steam boats. The following ships will return to Toulon, and remain in the roadstead s—the ships Alger, Trident, and Breslau ; the frigates Gael. elite, Dldon, Artimise, Calypso, Thetis, and blagicienne • the sloops Victorieuse and Echo; and the brigs Cuirassier, Ruse, ' Fauns, and Zebre. There will be sent to Brest to be dismantled two ships of the line, six frigates, one sloop, for brings, three steam-boats, and four gun boats. There will remain dismantled, at Toulon, six ships, eight fri gates, three brigs, and eight gun.bosts. These arrangements are, how ever, to be subject to such alterations as Admiral Duperre, on his return Ito Toulon, may think necessary. The Journal du Commerce says—" We publish, upon information which we believe to be authentic, a list of the citizens at whom a blow was to.be aimed by the tyrannical measures of the late Administration. 1 We are assured that warrants had been signed on the 26th of July, although they bear the date of the 26th. The Aliuisters, influenced by a singular scruple, dared not to lay their hands upon citizens invested with the character of deputies, and they imagined that their ordinances of July 26 had the power to deprive them of it. Thus the Members of the Chamber whosenames figure in thelist arequalified former Deputies.' A sentiment, which will be appreciated by all generous and well thinking men, induces us to conceal the name of the magistrate of the Tribunal de Premiere Instance who signed the warrants of arrest which were issued on the 26th of July against the follow persons : Messrs. Eusebe de Salverte, GenuaiDemarcay, General Count Clausel, General Lsmarque, Tircuir de Cornelia, Benjamin Constant, the Count de Bondy, Darla Dufresne, Viennet, Daunon, General Mouton, Count de Lobau, Labbey de Pompiercs, Mauguin, Advocate; Devaus, Ad vocate ; the Marquis de Oramniont ; Mercier, President of the Tribu nal of Commerce at Alen= ; Colonel de Briqueville. Colonel Jacque. mina; Dupont (de l'Eure), and Audry de Puyraveu, all former Depu ties; lambert, Advocate; Odillon Barret, Advocate ; Alerilhou, Ch. Dunoyer, Publicist ; Lieutenant-General Pajol, Chatelain, and de L 2. penauze, editors of the Courtier Francais ; Ch. Fabre, editor of the Tribune des Deparionerm ; Erariste, Dumoulin, Cauchols Lemaire, and Anneea, editors of the Constitutional ; L. Pillet, editor of the Journal de Paris ; Roqueplan and Bohain, the editois of the Figaro g Bert, editor of the Journal du Commerce ; J. Coate, Battle, and Barbarous, editors of the Maps • Gauja, editor of the National ; and P. Leroux, editor of the Globe: Seeing the ur. gency of the case, See warrants of depot were issued against Messrs. de Schonen, Counsellor at Paris ; de Podenas, Counsellor at Toulouse ; Chardel, Judge of the Tribunal of the Seine ; and Bayou:. Judge, all former Deputies; and Atadier Montjau, Counsellor at Nimes. Orders were also given to exercise surveillance over Messrs. Jacques Woe, Banker; Casimir Perrier. Banker • Baron Louis, formerly a Minister: Lieutenant-General Count Gerard Lieutenant-General Dumas, General Lafayette, Destult de Tracy, jun. and Vatismenil, Minister of State, former Deputies; Colonel Fabvier, Vice-Admiral Truguet, Peer of ' France ; Montalivet, Peer of France ; Charles Comte, formerly editor of the Censesor .Ettropeass ; Barthe, Advocate; and Leon Thiesse, Journalist. CITY OF BRUSSELS DESCRIBED. This city, which seems again destined to be the theatre of strange events, has at the present moment a population of 80,000 persons, sad shares with the Hague the distinction of being the capital of the king. dom of the Netherlands, as it is, after Ghent, the most important place in Flanders. During the wars of the 17th and 18th centuries, of which the Netherlands were the principal scene, Brunets underwent its share of suffering. In 1605 it was bombarded by Marshal Vllleroy, when 14 churches and 4,000 houses were destroyed. After the battle of Ramifies, it surrendered to Marlborough, but it was taken by the French under Marshal Saxe in 1746, and restored at the peace of Aix la-Chapelle. During the revolutionary war it again fell into the hands of the French, to whom it remained subject till the peace of 1814. While under their government, it was made the seat of a Court of Cri minal and Special Justice, a Chamber and Tribunal of Commerce, and a Court of Appeal for five Departments. Most of these privileges are still retained, and it shares with the Hague the meetings of the States. General. Brussels has always been eminent as a manufacturing town. The making of lace gives employment to upwards of 10,000 persons. It Is also celebrated for the manufacture of camlets, carpets, and car tilages, which are equal to those of London in cheapness and elegance. It also enjoys a considerable share of commerce through the numerous Omsk which lead to the Scheldt. The:present flourishing condition of the dty is also owing to the great influx offoreigners, particularly French and English To the latter It has been peculiarly attractive from its con dimity to the plain of Waterloo, and we believe it at one time bad 5,000 English residents of wealth and distinction within its confines. As early, indeed, as the time of Cromwell, it was marked 7n the annals of England as being the chosen residence of Choke IL and of his brother James 11. during the greater part of their exclusion from their native country. The interior of the town itself elks much to attract strangers. In the new part of the town the streets are spacious and airy, and the custom of painting the outside of the houses with some lively colours presents an agreeable variety to the eye. There are many good squares, which seem to have been the theatre of the late tranactions. The principal are—the Place Royale, the Great Market, the Place St. Michael, the Corn Market, and the Grand Sabina. Of these the Great Market Place is the finest, and, although of different styles of architecture, its :general effect is exceedingly pleasing. The Fish Market, although erected but a few years, is one of the neatest In Europe. There is also a market for frogs, which are brought alive in pails and cans, and prepared for dressing on the spot. The hind limbs, which are the only parts used, are cut from the body with scissors by the women who bring the animals for sale. The fa vourite place of recreation is the Park. It is a large pleasure ground adjoining the Palace, laid out with great taste, planted with a variety of fine trees and shrubs, and diversified with lawns ornamented with foun tains and statues. In the centre is a fine basin, stocked with gold and silver fish. On each side of the principal walk is a valley, planted so as to exclude all annoyance front the sun. A fountain in one of these is marked with an inscription, stating that Pete: the Great, during his re sidence here, sat down by its margin to drinks bottle of wine. Another version of the story is, that he fell Into it while strolling through the Park after dinner. Both may be true. The Palace of the States-Ge neral is a magnificent building, supported on pillars of the lonic order. Its entrance leads to a spacious WI, on each side of which is a noble staircase ; one conducting to the Chamber of Peers, the other to that of the Deputies. This latter is a semi. circle with $ capacious gallery for the people, who are freely admitted, both male and female, to hear the debates. The town-hall is a beauti ful Gothic building, bat so irregular, that , its tower stands at a great distance from the centre. It is 364 feet high, and surmounted with a statute of St. Michael in copper gilt, 17 feet high. The statue turns on a pivot, and serves as a vane to show the direction of the wind. The Orange Palace, generally called IA Vieille Cour, was formerly the resi dence of the Governors of Belgium, but is now occupied as a museum and library, and cabinet of natural history. There is also a botanic garden, containing 4,000 exotics. The Philosophical College, which has been but a few years inexistence, is founded on a liberal scale. The great hall is capable of accommodating 1,209 persons. Each stu-4 dent has a room furnished at the expenee of the government; all the courses of lectures are gratuitous, and stipends are allowed to a number of pupils, whose means are not adequate to defray the moderate expences of their board. The principal Church is that of St. Gudule, erected on an eminence, and adorned with towers, which command an extensive prospect. The Church of St. Augusda Convent was used as an hospital for the British army after the battle Waterloo. It is now applied to the use of Dutch Protestants in the forenoon, and at noon to the English. The Dutch service is attended by the King and Royal Family when the Court is resident here. The cemeteries are detached from the Churches, being outside the Bade. yards. David, the French painter, it buried in that without the gate of Luuvain. In the village of Lacken, about half a league to the North of Brussels, is the splendid Palace of Schoenburg, originally in. tended for the reception of the Governor of the Netherlands. During the reign of Napoleon it was occasionally his residence, as also that of his brother to the late King of Holland; and it is a favourite abode of the present Royal Family. The interior of the Palace is laid out in a style of great magnificence. A aubterraneous grotto, and some temples con nected with it, are much admired. The most interesting object to an Englishman in the vicinity of Brussels is the field of Waterloo, and from the immense atunber of ThitOTS to that celebrated plain, it must have proved a source of the greatest profit to the inhabitants. Brussels is about 155 miles from Paris, and 23 from Antwerp. LISBON, Ilifset 21. In quiet, but firm, expectation of a speedy and happy change. the Liberal party here enjoy, with mutual congratulations, the prospect before them . • while the unfortunate partisans of the existing Govern ment, struck with the greatest dismay, seem to have been totally at a loss to know what rational measures to pursue In the present ominous junc ture. The glorious triumph of the Press in France seems for a time to have shackled still more, it possible, the Press in Portugal. It is scarcely credible—but it is the fact—that the Porhywse Gaulle takes nonoda of change of affairs in France—so anwi lfag is the Government that intelligence of such pernicious import to the cause of absolutism should reach the inhabitants of the provinces. But reach them it doubtless wiD, with an overwhelming infiutsce, rendered more formidable by delay ; when these very men, the uninformed peasantry, who, a fortnight ago, as Don Miguel approached the Caldas tie Rainha, fe ll upon both knees, as it were to a divine personage, and, striking their breasts In outward token of humility and respect, exclaimed, My Lord and my King !" will see, with open eyes and invigorated intellects, the folly which, in their simplicity, they have committed. As a recent instance of the ef fect of absolute power, an anecdote may be mentioned that occurred, during the royal visit to the Caldas. A Spanish giathanan, who is near-sighted, lids sitting in a public room when the King entered the Spaniard, seeing a stranger enter, rose, took off his hat, and then resumed his seat. The royal attendants rushed forward to inflict summary yen. pence upon the unfortunate iirmiard, but the King interfered by an order that he should be immediately imprisoned, for returning his hat and resuming his seat in the royal presence. Bekaa sent up a petitin apologising on tl:c ground of his near-sightedness; but he still remains' in confinement. The affair of the captured vessels seems to have given extraordinary trouble to the Government, so slow and deliberative have Ministers been in their measures. The mall-bag of the tit. Helena packet was delivered up on the 12th instant, but not till it had beets cut open and examined : the vessel had not been liberated till the 19th, the other three vessels were still detained for further deliberation on the propriety of the measure. The demand made by the British Government, of re muneration for delay and damage. has been a formidable topic of dis cussion. The Galatea frigate, which brought out the formal demand for their liberatioN arrived in the Tagus on the 16th, and time was given till yesterday for a definitive answer; but it was not till the last moment that their liberation was granted. It is expected that they will be ready to mil, after their cargoes shall have been examined, about the middle of next week. The police guards have been strengthened at every quarter of the town, and have been doubly vigilant to prevent disturbances, of which there seems to be so little sign, that Lisbon was perhaps never, in appearance at least, more quiet than at the present moment. All eyes are turned anxiously towards Spain, as if some extraordinary burst of popular feeling was immediately to be expected, and not wiisout reason, from that quarter. Several British merchants at Cadiz are breaking up their establishments, and p to have, in expectation of the coming troubles. Don Mig r u e e ) l 6l 2 Queluz yesterday for Lisbon, and is said to have been busy in making , s pee ches to the soldiers, to animate them in his support. Conde de ms, the Minister of the Home Department, has given in his resit - nation, in consequence of the affair of the captured vessels; but, as he is so able a Minister, his 31:1jeaty would not it. Notwithstand ing the quiet appearance of things to which ae l e tve alluded, several persons have been taken cap in the dead of the night, and conveyed to prison, for merely speaking of the affairs of France. A French frigate is expected in daily with a new Consul It is said, when the present French Consul announced to Viscount Santarem this expected arrival under the tri.colourcd Sag, that the latter declared his master knew no such flag, and no such person as King Philip !—Discount upon Go. verninent rupee 30i. MT CHART INTELLIGENCE. PARRIAXA : or Notices of Ilse kiln. Samuel Parr, LL.D. By EH. Barker, E.g. vol. 2. pp. zed. 768. Our limits will not permit us to attempt to give our readers any thing like an adequate idea of the great variety of useful information, curious literary anecdote, and learned criticisms, contained in this interesting. but very miscellaneous volume; we must therefore content omelets with merely pointing out some of the more important and striking por tions, referring the reader to the work itself for further particulars, which we do by asserting that we have rarely perused a work which united, in so eminent a degree, the agreeable and the instructive. This volume, which is in every respect decidedly superior to its m anta, commences with a very interesting biograp hical sketch ofJottx Limo, the talented but eccentric author of the once celebrated Letters lessacerning the present state of Poland, from the pen of our great lying Jurist--amictu lanniani ye/IM4B--.IEREMIT BENTHAM. This admirable and truly graphic sketch the additional recommen. dation of being the only biographical notice hitherto published of this wary singular and gifted person. Lind, when a young man, accompanied our Ambassador to Constantinople in the capacity of chaplain to the embassy ; be had not been long, however, in this situation, before it was discovered that the ambassador's mistress regarded the young divine with too favourable an eye, and Mr. Lind was ordered forthwith back to England. Upon his return to London, he doffed the clerical habit, spotted a mistress, whom he afterwards married, assumed the airs, dress, and vices of a man of fashion, and was subsequently called to the bar: Shortly after his arrival the public were presented with his far-famed Letters on Poland ; a second edition of which was very speedily called for. At the breaking out of the American war he was employed by the Ministry of that day to draw up a manifesto in justification of that most I unjust, impolitic, and ruinous measure. His next publication was a Itsvieuqof Me Acts of the Thirteenth Parliament; a work to which Mr. Bentham contributed, and which Dr. Parrcharaaerised as the ablest book be ever read In defence of the American war. He also wrote a quarto volume in defence of Lord Pigoes Madras Government, and for which be received one thousand pounds. Mr. Lind died on March 1781. His English style was highly commended by &lguy, Lomb, mid Lord Grenville; yet bad he taken a very strange grammatical no tion into his head : where any body else would any biasses{ f, he wrote his eel f. Mr. Bentham has in this communication favoured us with several interesting anecdotes of his own situation and opinions in Uri, life. The second article comprises various notices of the a profoundly pU. Ilasepifear Dr. NATHANIEL Foarres, of Colchester. He was en. zeole/itrenal years in compiling an Index to the House of Comeau'sad was remunerated with three thousand At p. ID the author has a long and able note in pounds. defence Dr. Paris pialsaleses, Bishop PORTIUS, in reply to an abusive and illogical tirade, equally evisarkable foe its illiberal spirit and the incorrectness of its statement, inserted In the Barrint Carrtc,for January 1928. This article is no less deserving of commendation for the soundness of its views and opiates, than for the eloquence and ability with which they are develspfl end enforced. The Rev. Reviewer's virulent and malig. neat attack richly merited the severe and Archllochean castigation it has received from die justly indignant Mr. Barker. Prassow.—See p. 83 for a curious and valuable extract from his pro. hand work on the Creed, by which it appears that thirty-one years be.. Are the publication of Locke's gnat work, he had briefly but ably pro. Navigated the doctrine, that all our ideas proceed from sensation and Deflection. Weasontow..—By indefatigable research Mr. Barker has collected a large mass of very curious matter relative to this mitred Sophist, and which throws considerable light both on his moral and literary character: " The eloquent passage In the Introduction to WASBURTON'S Jo. Ilan, was probably suggested to the Bishop by a passage equally elo quent in Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S MAIM where he is speaking of the fall of the Roman Empire." p. 117. It is something more than pro. lab* since Warburton himself quotes this identical passage in Isis =into the Canoes of Prodigies and Miracles, and exclaims, strength of colouring ! What grace, what nobleness of eapres. den 1 With what a majesty does he close his immortal labours ! A wore serious charge,lhowever„ may be safely urged against Warburton; be did not rest satisfied with closely imitating his great predecessors, but sewMlwa pillaged from them in the most audacious manner. He thus deem the above quoted treatises " Methinks I see her, like the mighty ogle, renewing her immortal youth, and purging he opening sight, at the unobstructed beams of our benign meridian sun ; which some pre. tend to say had been dazzled and abused by an inglorious pestilential meteor; while the ill.affected birds of night would, with their envious bootings, prognosticate a length of darkness and decay." Now bear the immortal Republican ;—" Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation musing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muting her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the 'full mid-day beam ; purging and unsealing her long.abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she seems." Blivrox's Prose Works, vol. 1. p. 318. At p. 297, Warburton is accused of having borrowed his phastasy about the sixth Anicd. from a curious but now almost forgotten book, entitled Cleanings from Antiquity, by Joss BEAUMONT, 1724. See also p. 330, where his whimsical delineation of Puritanism is ?hewn to 1 have been borrowed from fludibras ; and p. 330, where be is charged with stealing from The Life of Mhos, and from Ls Geese. And yet this is the man who says in his Letter to Loath, " 1 will venture to beast again to you, that 1 believe no author was ever more averse to take te Mosel( any thing that belonged to soother." [! I] I remember (says Air. Barker, p. 112) that Dr. Parr once observed tome, that Bishop Warburton was the only great literary character of 'his day, who was personally unknown to him." We also learn from gossiping Boswell, that Johnson and Warburton only met once. " lf," said Johnson, " I had written with hostility of Warburton in my Shalt speare, I should have quoted this couplet (nom Savage) : " Here learning blinded first and then bcguill, " Looks Jerk as lgnoranu, as Frenzy wild." Both Parr and Chalmers erroneously attributed Remarks we Humes Natural History of Reliyios to Iluid's pen. Mr. Barker very sada factorily proves that Hurd only wrote the rrarodudion and the 'lna elusion, and that the acrimonious Remark: were the composition of the great Dictator himself. Hu :—The mean, dastaftliy, and nauseous cooduct of this wily and sycophantic Bishop, is circumstantially re. corded ; and the truth, so often doubted, and not untrequently denied in the most positive terms, is established and confirmed beyond the pow s bility of future contradiction. Mr. Barker has [p. 310-420] most completely and triumphantly justified Dr. Parr's treatment of this cle. rival toad-eater—a term most appropriately applied to Hurd, in the first instance, by a shrewd writer in the Critical Review, and subse quently by ?Jr. D7araeli. For specimens of hie fawning adulation, see p. 100, where he tells Warburton that he equals Longinus and Aristotle. See also p. 318, for a sketch of his character u drawn by himself, in which his perverseness, spite, apiece, and prejudice. is proved under his own hand; and which must, as Mr. Barker both justly and eloquently observes, satisfy every unprejudiced mind " that Hued was perfectly incorrigible, and that he could deliberately 'tin beyond she grave, and seek to immortalise malignity." Osstax.—Mr. Barker is one of the most able and ddantined of all the advocates for the genuineness of the Oasiank Poems. He has en. toned vety minutely into the subject, and brought forward many pow. erful and novel arguments in support of their authenticity --See pp. 420-474, 747-768. • We have only room to add, that Mr. Barker bas collected, from va rious mums, very carious and valuable particulars relating tO LELAND, LOWTIt, TAYLOR ' 'rocas', SUMMAND, POTT KR, l ' TOUT, BRYANT, CAPRL 6LorT MARINADE, MONTRIQUIE V, Poison, kintrutv, Weisner" atrLST , and other eminent literary elk.. Meter% Yil FAL INTELLIGENCE. The following vessels had arrived at the rape of Good Hop , p viout to the 23d of June.—The Wave, Lister; Genii, Will:; Fan. .1, Bundy ; Wilna, Tait; Wanderer, Williams; Alfred, J rekro,t . 'Eclipse, Davis; and Edward Kemp, Freeman, all from Londe.. • blary. Cock, from Bristol; and Peace. Gurris, from Rio Janeiro At St. Helena, the following vette!, arrived previous to the it.h Jply :—Morley, Halliday, from China ; Claudine, Hathune, fro.", Msdru ; Meta, GaskiU. and Pheasant, M'Cullum, from laurir.ut The .Cabinet, Feon, from Quebec. has arrived at Dungatvon. The Ellen, Patterson. bound to London, and the Silence, Jacht• bound to Mauritius. were driven on .hove in Table Bay on the 701 ..1 June, during a severe gale at N.W. The former has been got a w, little damage, and the latter condemned and sold. Dial, Sim 6.—Arrived the Charles Grant, Everett, from Chi and Bolivar, from the itttlirerranean. Porramouvw, Sen. 6.—Arrived of Portland. the Constitirii-t Dunsterville, from the Cape of Good Hope. Off the port. the Francis Burton, Reed, from Rio Janeiro. Arrived the Henry, Ai., strong, from St. Petersburg& I.3VIRPOOI. Sen. s.—Atrived the Panmure, Potter, and Jar:: Bailie. Jackson, from Sc. ;Andrew's (N. 8.); Julian, Sprole. fro Africa; Caledonia, Martinson, from Stockholm; British King, ,t derma, from Buenos Ayres ; and the Mary Ann, Robertson. Jamaica. INFERIORITY OF BRITISH LINE OF BATTLE SHIP.: TO AMERICAN, OF THE SAME DENOMINATIOA TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Stn,—Many of your readers will be surprised at the inferiority o • British litie-of.battic.ships to those of some foezign natim a, particulativ the American, which, if not remedied, may prove of serious consequent : to the nation at the breaking out of a war. What might be considered a proper sail efficient mode of armirg th navy twenty years ago, no longer remains so, tro:n the alterations a:.: improvements of other rations ; the heavy ships of the Americans at. their very superior armament to British ships of the same denomit A lio'', render a change in our system absolutely necessary, if it n wished to meet them on an equal footing ; atm the British navy have had sufficient experience to know they arc not to be despised. No m meat is so fit as that of tranquillity to prepare ships capable of coping with the best of other nations, as the first success of a war will fix Itself in the minds o° the victor and the vanquished, and be felt in every st.c cceding contest. As a specimen of the American navy, I will take the Frat.klin 76 gun ship, though she actually mounts 84 gun.. All those on the lower and main decks, are long 32 pounders ; she has four long 32 pound on the fore.caade, and four long 32 pounders abaft, ti.e other guns on the quarter-deck and fore-castle are 32 pounders earronades. I say nothing o the guns she carries on her tops. You perceive she carries guns of on • calibre only, (by which much confusion in action is prevented,) viz. ' 4 2 long 32 pounders, and 12 carronades, in all 84 guns. At this montert few men in England doubt the equality of an English 80 gun ship to the one above described, and would visit with censure the captain tit t suffered himself to be taken. The following explanation will show the difference between the two ships :—The Engli.b 80 gun ship is anted with 30 long 32 pounders, 32 light 24 pounders, 8 12 pounders, 12 32 pounder carronades, and 624 pounder carronades; that is to am, 88 guns, of four different calibre. The American ship has 72 long 32 pounders, from which she can throw effectually, for a considerable time, two shots from each gan, and one from each of the c.arronades, the weight of the broadside being 2,40131135. The English ship in conse quence of having light 24 pounders on her main -deck, could only throw one shot with effect hem those guns, for reams, assigned in Bauch ant's Naval Gunner; therefore, the weight of metal returned to the American would only be 1,778115. allowing two shots from the guns of the lower deck, one shot teem the guns of the main deck, two from the 12 pounders, and one from the carronades, a differ. ence of 7201ba. of metal every broadside, or nearly one-third. Tb Americans boast the superiority of their ships, and it is perceived, not without reason, the difference of the weight of metal thrown is nearly equal to one-third more guns In favour of the American. Is it just or prudent to task the courage of the British seamen so in. adequately? Have we not a:reputation to sustain ?—which alone doe . so much for us wherewith* British gag le con . : .why risk it then so unnecessarily ? The Franklin, when in the Mediterranean, in the year 1828, carried near WO men; the best mamas were English. It is notorious that 1. large portion of the beet men fa the American frigates last war were Englishmen, and so it will be again, foe no art will be left untried to in. duos them to serve. An English 80 gun ship carries 760 men ; the compliment of the Franklin was 860. who, every afternoon the weather would permit, were exercised at the guns; they, consequently, were tx. pert in handling them. When in their own poets, the American sailors are exercised In batteries fitted with guns and tackling in every respect, as on board their ships, where they are taught to appreciate the power of the weapon they have to handle against an enemy afloat. by practising with shot. It appears, therefore, that the American are superior to the British two-deck ships in metal, men. and discipline. What ought to be result ? and on whom should not the blame of the defeat of the British ships rest ? Not on the English seamen 1 If the ship at present composing the British navy are not capable of being armed so heavily as the best of other nations, let a new claw be built, equally manned and disciplined, when our wit es and children may still place that reliance in our wooden walls which have ever pro. tected them from foreign insult. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. B. MR.COBBETTS LECTURE AND CONCERT. Yesterday evening Mr. Cobbe - 77=7 — ered his second lecture on Reform to the working classes in the Rotunda, Blackfriars-road. The kotunua yes crowded to the ceiling by persons who, in general, appeared to be of the same station in society, as Mr. Cobbett expressed it, with those who had achieved the really glorious Revolution in France. Mr. Cob betes appearance was hailed with plaudits that would have satisfied the appetite of the most popular performer of the day, and throughout the lecture, which took upwards of two hours in delivery, there wee a continued succession of bursts of applause and laughter, in the letter of which he frequently joined, to the ;peat amusement of his well pleased auditory. After the long-continued rounds of applause with which he was received had subsided, he commenced by ob serving, with sarcasm in both his eyes, how highly gratified their rulers must be to see so large an assembly of the working classes assembled to receive information. They, who had trade so many exertions to inform the people—who had inundated the country with cheap tract*, inculcating obedience to those in authority, which, for the purpose of rendering more extensively useful, they published at a farthing a piece, or a penny a doyen. But while they were so intent on enlightening the people themselves, they had a great dislike to having any fellow-labourers in the good work. It was proper that all the people of England should know that Polignaes plan of keeping it down in France wag hatched in England. The French people, notwithstanding that the Bourbons had been forced hack on them by upwards of a mil lion of foreign soldiers in British pay, retained a Chan.ter of De isuties elected by the people by ballot, and they being so elected, kel the honesty to tell the King that unless he dismissed Minhotre, boom to be the enemies of the people, they would give him no taxes. The boroughmongers of England saw that this proceeding would be of dangerous example to them. It' the people of France should aluinue free, the people of England would not continue enslaved ; therefore the plot was batched for Polignse to make the Parliament of France resent ble the borotightnongers' Parliament in England. After a long enumeration of the advantages of reform in the reduction of taxa non, and of the wasteful extravagance, with which the taxes are DOW given to boroughmongers and their families, Mr. Cabinet recommended that no time should be lost in presenting petitions to the Kilos praying for • reform. It WY forty years since the people ha d been allowed to peoition the King; but tow their petl time were received and replied to by the King. wl.o was determined to reign in the hearts Bois people.—(Loud cheering.) Be fore, they might indeed address a petition to the King, but they were oblii.ed to deliver it to the Secretary of State. and neither King nor people heard any mere of it. If 300 petitions for reform were presented by the workingmen of London, he was c..nfident his Majesty would require that they should be attended to. He was in Paris in 1791, when he saw the working young men of Paris going forth to meet the army of the Duke of Brunswick. followed by their fathers and mothers blessing their spirit and praying for their success. They all knew bow they 'swept the invader from the land t and he was confident that the workit.g people of this country, and of every county,. would, if necessary. act the tame noble part (Immerse chering.) The you", melt of Paris. when they marched out against the Invader, sang the :starsellois Hymn, composed by an officer of the army who still lived, and the present cil:isen King of France had bestowed on bin s pension for the good service he rendered the cause of freedom. ((heat applause.) There was then a °macro= present who mad sing the Manieillois Hy.un, and would be happy to oblige them. (Loud eheers).--A Frenen • Gentleman Jeer Mr. Cobbett then stood up, and after complimenting the audience sod Mr. Cobbett, sang the Hymn, Mr. Cobbett jawing in the chorus with more than theatrie ; ticulation. The 'boots of applause that followed are nut to be desalted . O ~"Y