Star. — London, England, 1831-06-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. The King arrived in town yesterday soon aftef Jae o'Clock, from Windsor, escorted by a party nr light Horse. At two o'clock His Majesty held an Investiture of the Most Hon Order of the Bath. Sir George Nayler, Garter i i ; elea tosist of the Order, had an audience of the King to I take hit Majetty's commands. The members and officers of the Order had assembled in the t obing.room ' and being dressed in their robes, Mr. Greville, Bath King of Arms, called over the names, when the following answered is—Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Cumberland and Glocester, Field- Marshal Sir Alured Clarke, General Lord:Howden, Viscount Beresford, General Lord Hill, Lord Combermere, Sir J. a l io, Sir H. Clinton, Sir James Kempt, the Duke of Gor ion, and Admiral Sir George Martin. They were introduced •ti the presence of the Sovereign by G. F. Belts, Esq. Gen. Loom Usher of the Red Rod ; Sir G. Nayler. Garter Ge ieslogist ; Algernon F. Greville, Esq. Bath King of Arms; rod Captain Michael Seymour, Registrar and Secretary. Sir Henry Trollope was then introduced, when his Majesty . C. 48 graciously pleased to invest him with the Order of a Knight Grand Cross, iu the room of the late Sir William Johnston Hope. The Hon. Sir Robert Stopford was introduced, and in , eested as a Knight Grand Cross, in the room of the late liirl of Northesk. • • Sr Benjamin Hallowell Carew was invested as a Super. 1 I amerary Knight Grand Cross. The Knights and Officers then retired, making their obel. .:reet , . ' ' The King shortly after held his Entriio Levee, when the fiillowing dirt inguished personages were introd u c e d and had audiences: The Count St. Martin d'Aglie, Sardinian Mi nister, to deliver credentials from his new Sovereign. Mr. M'Lane, American Minister, to take leave, on his i•eing appointee' to the American Cabinet as Finance MI. rister. Prince Esterhazy, to deliver a letter from his Court. Monsieur Tellier de 'Booties, Chief Secretary to the french Embassy, was presented by Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador. 'filere were also at the Entree Levee, the Duke of Cum heilArd. the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Gloucester (at. tended by Colonel Higgins), Priace Leopold, Prince Estee. ham the Russian, Austrian, French, and Netherlands Am. Pa... Sailors ; the Russian, Spanish, Danish, Sardinian, Nea politan, American, Bavarian, Mexican, Hanoverian, and ilucnos Ayrean Mi3isterti ; the Count de Hardenberg, Grand Master of the Court of Hanover; Mr. W. Irving, Secretary to the American Embassy ; the Lord President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colo:Mil Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Captain of the lion. Corps of Gen tlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the Commander of the Forces, the Master-General of the Ord. ranee, Viscount Combermsre (Gold Stick in waiting), the Vice. Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, 601 Master of the Hounds, the Master of the Ceremonies , and' the Lord Registrar of Scotland. At the General wee, were— Dukcs—Gorelon, Wellington, Richmond. Marquis— Hastings. Earls—Gosford, Manvas, Normanton, Sheffield, ma. noon. Viscounts—Beresford, Newark, Cole, Donne, Tumour. Lords—Byron,Maryborough, Burghersh, Arden, Henley, S..ltatin. llo:.ourattles— Rev. W. Eden, Broderick. Sirs—W. Pym, J. Whatley, A. D . F.ste, George Nayler (i:trter) R. B. Philipps, R. Brooke. T. Stanley, J. Strange. .1. Trollope, J. Astley, H. L. Baker, G. Dashwood, M. Brute, P. rey Egerton, R. C. Pollock, T. Gooch. Bishup of Chichester. Rev. Doctors—Cursham, Jones, Macleod. Rev. Messieurs—C. B. Rasenberg, E. B. Sparke, E. Evans ' Ford, John Byron, Joseph M. Parry, J. Clayton Glyn, R. C. Wilmot, J. C. Tyler, A. Montgomery, Edgeil 11 yatt Edge'', Lee, T. Hardwicke Rawnaley, Richard Musgrave, James Dunne. Doctors—Whitelaw Ainslie, A. Todd Thomson, Johnson Messieurs--Norton (of Elton), Thomas Lowndes, Nixon, Cradock Hemp's, Cavendish, Scott Kerr, Ashhurat, Old. mixon, A. Spottiswoode, Belts, Onley Sava" Onley, John Poynder, Leader, J. Andrews, Warburton, Weyland, Hanbury, Kingston, Mills, H. Arbuthnot, J. Hudson, M.P, Commissioner Lewis, R.N. Cottrell, Dehany, Mac leod, T. Somers Cocks, James M. Arnott. Felix Boding. field, Wyatt Edge'', Stanley Cary, Henry Kingscote, Pur. cell, Taaburgh, Assheton Smith, Littleton, Tennyson, Bruce, Taylor, F. Cottrell, Dundas, Dewar, Andrew Fountain, Charles Trefusis, Swettenham, Towline, Craven, H. Simpson, Houldsworth. i Field-Marshal—Sir Alured Clarke, Bart. Admirals—Sir H. Blackwood, Sir Robert Stopford, Sir H. Trollope. Sir Henry Heathcote, Scott, Lambert, Sir B. H. Carew Sir Robert Laurie. Generals—Sir John Brown, Shrapnel, Hardwicke, Mais. ter, Hanbury, Sir Lionel Smith, L'Estrange, J. P. Murray, ..eir A. Bryce, S. Bown, Sir E. Stopford, Thornton. Colonels—Sir Charles W. Thornton, Higgins, Gibbs, Ya rnell. Pemberton, Lightfoot, Sir Robert Harvey, Sir H. Wyatt. Garrard, Custance, Stisted, Sir C. B. Vero, Barnard, Chapman, Jones, Pakenham i Wells, Allen, C. B. Majors—Sandham, Pytehes, Hyde. Captains.—F.. H. Green, Sir T. S. Pasley, R.N. Gawen Roberts, R.N. Portman, Aylmer, R.". H. Bloomfield, T. Bonnor, Spencer, Jeffreys, Lye, R.N. John Lyons, R.N. George Martin, R.N. 'l adhaur Locke, B. Edwards, Pater son. Cathcart, R.N. Manners, R.N. Fair, R.N. S. E. Cook. Westmacott, Hope, Stacey, Trollope, C.B. Bowlby, Gibson, Doyle, Green, Anstruther, Sir A. Clifford. Commissioner.—Lewis, R.N, Sheerness and Chatham / Dvckyards. Commanders.—Charles S. Timins, Boss, Smart, Dllke, George Delme. Lieutenants.—Wyndham Portman, R.N. T. A. Lewis, B N. R. H. Elliott, R.N. G. Rabett, R.N. W. C. Freeman, J. Steane, R.N. N. S. Airey, R.N. Beazely, R.N. Sandham, Willoughby, Halsey, Carr G. H. Caeerdish, Blackiston. Earl Grey presented addreues from the following places, thanking his Majesty for dissolving the Parliament :—The parishioners of Woolwich, the inhabitants of Staines, Kin cardine ( Perth), Cowrie (Perth), Neilson (Renfrew), John stone (Renfrew), Cumbra Island ( Butesbirr), Galston (Ayr. shire), Largs (Ayrshire), the Corporation of Tailors, Glas gow. the trades and inhabitants of Rothesay, the Aricul rural Society, Rea. ewshire, the Journeymen Bakers of Glasgow, and the Incorporation of Barbers, Glasgow. Mr. Scrjeant Wilde, M.P. and Mr. Hume presented an address from Edmonton. Mr. Hume, M. P. and Mr. J. Marryat presented an ad. dress from the inhabitants of the island of Trinidad. Mr. Hume presented an address from Islington. The King gave audiences to the Marquis of Winchester, 'Viscount Combertnere, Viscount Althorp, Earl Grey, Vis count Palmerston, Lord Hill, Sir J. Graham, Sir W. Fre mantle, and the Marquis of Lansdowne. Colonel Chapman, of the Royal Engineers, lately appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda, was pre- tented to his Majesty in the Royal closet, on being ap. Pointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian truelphic Order. His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which two new seals were agreed upon, viz, a caehette for Scotland, and one far the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. The Honourable Wm. Bathurst attended as Clerk of the Council. Lord Byron was the Lord, and Sir H. Blackwood the Groom, in waiting.— A little before six o'clock, the King left the Palace, on his return to Windsor. l'he Duke of Gloucester honoured Madame Pasta's performance of Tancrcdi with his presence on Friday evening. Yesterday, his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester and suite honoured the Queen's Bazaar, by making stieral purchases, and afterwards visited the whole of the exhibitions of that attractive establishment. IMPORTANT FISCAL ARRANGEMENT.—PVC understand that the Postmaster-general (the Duke of Richmond) has been busily engaged for some days past at the General Post-office, with Sir Francis Freeling, in making arrangements for having the covers of all newspapers (transmitted through the Post-office) stamped with certain rates f postage, as may be agreed upon, immediately after the assembling of the new Parliament. it is now generally believed, that newspapers will shortly ►ie entirely exempt from a stamp-duty ; and that tie mode, for the future, in which they will be made a source of profit to the state, will be by char ging a certain sum for every paper passing through the Post-office ; to be regulated, according to dis tance, the same as letters. THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND THE NEW BEER TRADE In a Letter to one of the New Ones. You were correct, my friend, in the remark made by you, that I must be tolerably cognisant of the evils derived from the mode in which the generality of Public Houses were re cently conducted, and of the positively immoral tendency of manners to be found in a great number of them. Many years of close investigation into the dishonest practices engendered in some, and fostered—nay taught—by a kind of college tui. tion, in a few of them, lung ago convinced me that the Trade in Beer and Drams required Ittfermatlon. Nor did I keep secret the discoveries that a close and laborious personal examination enabled me to make. into those and other abuses. Such a ceurse wits far from my desire; my object was publicity, my hope to benefit the public ; and the result of those enquiries....which appeared in 1817, in 1819, 1820, and 1028, I am gratified to find adopted into practice, beneficially. Accordingly, under the present circumstances of recrimination, you suggest that I should draw attention to the comparative merits of the old " Licensed Victuallers" and the new " Beer Shope," as they are respectively termed—a mode of proceeding I should not myself have recommended any of you to pursue, in public discussion at least, seeing that the mlsdoings of one set would be bu toorly defended, by adducing graver charges of delinquency against the other. Were we of the new trade advocacy to bring forward facts " as strong as proofs of holy writ" (no difficult matter, by the way) against the old sys tem of management, your situation would not be bettered one jot, but the contrary ; for you would thereby place in the hands of the puritanical party—who long time have ruled and fettered the goings forth and the comings in of the lower and middle classes of society—arguments and reasons for further restraints, adduced from among yourselves, (both of ye,) and therefore (they might say) unanswerable ; fcr after all is said and done, the o'd trade and the new trade in this respect, are identified, and must stand or tall together, before their overrighteous opponents of the starched phiz and sepulchral voice, the people of rigid observances and little works. Obviously prorer for both parties of beer-dealers as such moderate counsel would be found, no power within their reach has been left unmoved by the o'd and corrupt to de grade the new and genuine vendors; and we are driven from our neutrality into a coalition of interests, se defensio, to undeceive the public on certain points; arid the Loan knows the materials for such a contest lie in profusion at all hands. They themselves drag on the comparison we would have avoided. Almost sufficient for our purpose is the well known fact, that it had been found necessary by successive legislatures, that the trade of the Licensed Victuallers" should be circumscribed and bound down by such a numiter of Acts of Parliament, Police Regulations, and Magisterial interferences, as never beeurst any other trade, occu pation, or calling, in these kingdoms. This goes to show the distrust of which they had been objects, as well as the moderate imposts paid fur their monopoly.-- Defended without from overstepping prescribed boun. darks, enjoined to certain observances and visitations indoors, and his trade forefended by exclusive licenses, the vendor of an intoxicating beverage seemed to resemble a town besieged, with lines of circumvallation marked with. out, and of contravallatlon within. The men thus painfully circumstanced often deserved pity at our hands, and would have received some degree of commisseration from the more considerate frequenters of their houses, but for the reflection, that they had themselves at full age deliberately made choice of their painful calling ; and that the major part of them, by their previous habits, were well drilled to osedienee, which they thereby did but transfer from the mandates of some lord or squire, to those of their customers, their brewer-landlord, their magistrates, their excisemen, their bondholders, their in formers, and other:supervisors. The management of a buttery, or attendance upon a domestic family, do indeed appear very proper preparative for performing similar offices in a public house ; and the novices usually took measures to reimburse themselves at all hazards for w many humiliations—if they really ever felt any. Haw they conducted their houses ; how they amassed fortunes by their exclusive trade, demanding large premiums for good-will ; how they managed their beer, and adulterated their spirits, let the public records tes tify. Long discussions In Parliament,—numberless excise prosecutions, police examinations and convictions, foe many years rung the changes of their misdeeds; and the govern ment then, after mature deliberation, laid open the trade in beer, partially, with one hand, rendering it cheaper, and laid a shilling a gallon upon gin with the other. The latter part of the new law was introduced to please the porter-brewer-party in the Honourable House, and to pur chase their acquiescence, or their non-interferet ce, in the proposed opening : hereby also were the puritan 51.P.'s cajoled to content to the whole scheme, though the addl. tioaal shilling could not check the quantity of gin actual', i drank, but put the whole duty that was defective in the I Excise books into the pockets of the smugglers. This, how. ever, by the way. The publicans. who lived mostly upon their draft of beer, were hugely displeased at the new measures, that thus rescued the public from their clutches; and, looking at the thing as men of business, let us allow that they had sonic right to be so incensed ; but they had no right to throw dirt at those whom the Legislature, in its wisdom, let in to a parti cipation in the trade ; they had no right to make false charges against the new brewers ; they had no right to fasten the errors, the late hours, the misapprehensions of a few, very few, among the new body upon the whole; for the informations against the new beer shops went no farther than such minor transgressions. Further, the old ones had no right—they were likewise fools for their pains, to incite com mon informers to levy contributions on the new trade, ftr such mere peccadillo offences, as they themselves commit daily, and more grossly. They were equally short-sighted, silly, and ill-advised, in persuading the Bishop of Bath and Wells to denounce the new beer shops as the cause of the agricultural disturbances of last year ; an accusation more preposterous, more lying, was never preferred before any man in authority, with a view to his retailing it out to his corn. peers in Parliament. For, it will be borne in mind, that the new tystrm of vending beer did not came into operation until the 10th of October, and the new licenses were barely at work before those disturbances broke out; whence people are left to infer, that as the causes for rioting must have been sown much earlier than the breaking out, they were so sown in the old victuallers' houses, if any where; though I am very far from imagining that the disturbances were plotted beforehand in any house or houses whatsoever, but were purely the effect of the un happy state of the country. In this conclusion, 1 am sup ported by the evidence given upon the trials of the offenders, b, their confessions, and the concurrent testimony of re spectable eye-witnesses. Then, wherefore, did the old ones bring this charge against the new ? Why did they and their party stir up a Grand Jury to make the declaration, as uncalled for as it was absurd and ill-timed, that vice and dishonesty h►d been promottd by the new beer shops ? Why do their friends try to vilify, misrepre. sent, and abuse the new beer trade altogether; and those who are engaged in it singly, whenever an accident or an in formation brings one of them up for adjudication ? Do they really hope to procure a repeal of the new bill, or any mod'. ficatioo to their purposes of the manner of dispensing the article? We know they wish it, and they may wish.... to get it ; but let them not lay the flattering unction to their poisoning souls ! Let them never hope again to take possession of the health and lives of the bard working part of the community, numbers of whom owe to their horrid mixtures, the paralysed limb, the in flamed stomach, the obstructed liver, that renders so many fine grown tradesmen, (generally thefinest), cripples, and beggars to the end of their days. Let the enlightened chemist, the discerning apothecary, the doctor of every grade, tell his unhappy patients, for the instruction of , their fellows, in what manner the sophisticated beer acts upon the snettnde rig, by painful eructation of a morning, by darkened feuces, by parched lips, by tertigo, and occasional delirium, and someti nes terminates in confirmed madness; for this is partly the dory cf metlicA men thropically inciioeil, and a very proper retzliatiun upon those base men, who in derision, and mocking the sufferings of their victims—term their copperas, brown postlers, arel their escharolics--" THE DOCTOR." When su mixed up— those persois—in furtherance of the joke, I presume, con. shier they are dispensing ri. hear, and dub themselves vic tuallers every one, though very few of them furnish sub stantial food, and neatly effscc the ein•sitrp front. _ _ J. D. TORY DINNER AT CIIELI:sv?:RD. On Tuesday the dinner, so long talked of, and 'slid, was to consist of all the anti-reformers in Eases, took place at the Shire Hall at (,helmsford—lilr. ROUND, of Danbury, in the chair. The party, which was certainly very respec table as to their rank, and character of the members who composed :it, consisted chiefly of clergymen, and persons who had some interest in the Church and lur emoluments, though rot exchtsivtly so, there being present some very respectable persons of the Laity. Indeed, nearly the whole of what may be call d the Clergy and Squirearchy of Essex, with the exception of a very few learned and scientific indi viduals, who never join such political meetings, were rtssem. bled, to testify their abhorrence of the reckless 111'111111a in which " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill" is insisted on by the Whig party ; not one single member of whom, nor even one moderate liberal Wellesieyite were resent on the occasion. The whole company consisting of roryganti-reformers, who, to the number of about 270, sat down to a collation, consisting of hot soup and fish, and the other culinary articles cold, at half-past four o'clock. The room was hung with blue banners, bearing the old motto " CHURCH men liten," and other similar inscriptions : mottos very appropriate—for, from the number of black coats seen parading the streets of Chelmsford, during the morning, one would have imagined there was some public mourning, instead of a festival. The " gentlemanly" as. senibly was, however, conducted with moderation, temper, and tameness, and though there might not be any remark able brilliancy of wit, or display of talent among the speak. ers, yet on the whole, there was nothing to remark as indi cation cf violent feelings or language : Tory principles, and Tory persons, received a moderate share of laud in rather a subdued tone, and such as clearly demonstrated that the beaten party, conscious of a well-merited defeat, had no real hopes of ever regaining political ascendancy in the county of Essex. That they may return one Blue member out of four is probable, and from his gentlemanly and honourable conduct, it is more than probable that that member will he Colonel Tyrell, who arpears to have given univer.al satis faction to his friends, and to have convinced his political enemies, that he can both stand a contest, and bear a defeat, with the temper and moderation of a gentleman. One circumstance which certainly gave an additional éclat to the meeting, is tile d.cided unpopularity of the Whiy party in HUM. The Wellesley party or Liberals are strong and popular ; but though the question of reform has induced them to unite their efforts to support Ministers on that par ticular question, there is, nevertheless, no real amity be tween them ; and from all we can learn from our Essex friends, the old aristocratic Whigs are not more disliked by their exploded enemies the Tories, than they are suspected and sneered at by their talented and enterprising rivals the Liberals. Colonel Tytell at last election had near 1,000 plumpers, and nothing but the question of reform, and the assistance of Mr. Wellesley's supporters, could have secured the return of any member in Essex holding the equivocal principles of the old Vi'higs. LIBERALITY has, in fact, outlived and rendered perfectly nugatory all such bombastic and foolish distinctions of party and then, such distine sions being abolished, with their appropriate colours, the distinction, between man and man must be founded on com parative talent and disinterested virtue. Mr. Dawson made a very spirited, and indeed we must allow, able speech, and Colonel Tyrell's speech was, as usual, distinguished for good humour, good feeling, and moderation of language; indeed he has all along shown himself a man of more useful talents and ability, than ever hitherto suspected : and when we consider his connections, his family, and his resources, we must feel convinced, that it was his being against the Port:tea 31zestrax alone that lost hint his election. mat s it • :cho • tl rou ie h • eel. ght ul a ' sed abbe ) thi n r? or t .emed Gha case g op ebbs lead lbject t ma vett. caste lic ooki. e th pet s, t reate le pa ppre let t ted med ight er a ad t • a the , xi th • POPULATION RETURN& CHATHAM.—The population of Chatham, by the census taken last week, is—Males, 7,534 ; females, 8,961; total, 16,486. Population in 1821, 14,754 ; increase, 1.731. There are inhabited houses, 2,840 ; families, 3,598 ; houses building, 29 ; houses uninhabited, 201. CHELMSFORD.—The following are the correct numbers of Chelmsford ;—Males, 2,514 ; for.ales, 2,925 ; intrvase since the last census, 445. Ex ETZl—Accoraing to the rpulation return just made for tie ell and tour ty of the city of Exeter, it amounts to 13,887 females, and 12,675 males; total, 28,242. In 1821, the .•amber of females waa 13,144—males, 10,336. The increase of population in ten years is therefore 4,763. FAY ERMAN— lales, 2,117; females, 2,312; totals 4,429. GLOUCEST E R —The population of Gloucester has been ' , taken this week by the several °Towers, but the return of one of the parishes not having reached us, we are unable at present to submit a full statement to our readers. In the ()ther nine parishes the returns exhibit an increase in the po pulation of 2,093 since the year 1821. I.uvis:s.—ln the census of 1821, the poinalw ion of Lewes, includirg the mean parhhcs, amounted to 7703. Ily the cinsus just taken, they amount to !1290, makin,; an increase of 1587. MACCLI3FIt I.D.—The population returns fur the town. ship of Macclesfield hove not yet been completed, but tile aggegate amount exceeds 23,080, exclusive of the adjoining townships of Sutton and Hetdslield. the returns fur which are not made up. 'I he following will show the comparative increase for the law 30 years-1801, 8743 ; 1811, 12.299 ; 1821, 17.746 ; 1831, 23,600. . PL . V MOU TM —The population returns for Plymouth show an increase in ten years of 8.4:8; the population in 1821 being only 21.570, while the present census makes the num ber 30,998, nearly half as many more, which is shout the average progress of population. In Dcvonport there ix also a to :siderable increase, but the teurns not being complete, we cannot state precisely the amount. The total. however, as far as it has been ascertained, exceeds 35,000, which gives an increase of about 3,000 over the census of 1821. Sit EMILD.—The census of the population of the town. ship and parish of Sheffield has been complete], so far as respects the delivery and collection of schedules; although the results have not yet been officially made out. We may, however, state generally that the number of soels in the township will have increand from 42,157 to about 55,030, and of the parish, from 66,275 to rot less than 83,000, and probably the number will not be far short of 90,000. The number of houses is rapidly increasing, and the population ts keeping full Face with the prnvisions made for its accom modation. So generally are the houses occupied, that we understand those which are untenanted do not amount to one in twenty. The prosperity of Sheffield, and the wages of workmen, were, perhaps, all things taken into account, never so great as at this moment. STOCK foßT.—The census for the township of Stockport has been taken, and the increase over that of 1821 is much less than had been looked fur, the increase in ten years being only 3,723. The returns are—males, 12,233—femalea, 13,218—total, 2:.,449. The returns for Heaton Norris give the population of that township at neatly 13,000. Woscs Ts a.— As regards Worcester, &considerable aug mentation In the population will, we have no doubt, be found to have taken place since 1821, when its population and the parts adjacent amounted to 20,236. In the tithing it has already been ascertained that the present number of inhabi tants is 2.513, being an addition of 1.169 persona in the ten years, And that there are 497 inhabited houses, whereas, it. 1821, there were only 283. I PIWICII.—The following is the result of the census for this town :—Houses, 1049—male inhabitants, 8,911 — females, 10,731—total, 12,642—increase since 1821, 2.713. Woo Dis Ina z—Blitlea, 2.2B6—females, 2,623—t0ta1, 4,olo—increase since 1821, 850. ih St NA PAL arrstudexcE. • e. FALMOUTH, JUNE 7.—Wind variable —Arrievl his Majesty's ketch Vigilant, Lieut. Luny, from Lisbrn— sailed on the r.ith, consequently briugs no news subsequent to that brought by his Majesty's steamer Carron, •hich has arrived at Plymouth. She left in the Tagus his Majesty's ships Ariadne and Dispatch. After landing her trail, she immediately proceeded for Plymouth. Also atrivtd, the Albion, Allan, from Laguna de Termini', in 62 days; and the Thames steamer, Dounan, from Lor.don. Fused the port, the Olenalvon, Rickaby, from the Mauritius (Isle of France). for orders. Sailed the Thames steamer, Dounan. for Dublin. VAUXHALL GARDENS. We were yesterday evening pte,ent at this pleasing place of public amusement, and cannot but congratulate the pub lic on the return which is, this season, made to the original character of ti.e divertissements provided f. r the visiters.—. Thr music in the open Garden is much more amusing. and de veid of inconv.ns rce, than the attempt made, on former eccasions, to co:tett: the Rotunda into a theatre—necessarily r incenventrot and int fficient. As we are sincere well.wishers to Vauxhal:, we it ay be allowed to sttg ;est an improve ment to the c..to!'ol of the visitors, and the profit of the proprietors. It is, that seats should be provided li. Lerally for the company, through the Gardena, free of acc.:ss to those who take refreshment, but to be paid for by . those who do net, at such prices as to make them pro. Jiitale to the proprietor. ‘Ve feel convinced, were the boxes 1 to be let for the evening, without any restraint as to r.. freshtnent, that they would all be paid for, and the ocean , modat:on they off: od Lecome themselves a means of securing I a sale fur the refreshments provided. This arrangement we i have long thought would make Vauxhall more frequented by the public, and more productive to its proprietors. The performance of yesterday evening, gave great plea. sure to a crowded audit nee. The songs were all happy efforts to catch the public feeling ; and the vocal and instru tnental:mu-ic e xcellent. Michael Boni, the chin-musician, is truly an object of great curiosity ; and to bear the OVi f. Sure to LoiloisAa peiformed by him, is of itself well worth the money paid for admissitri to the thudens. TILE LATE MRS. S'IDDONS. This lady, who, at no very distant period, was not less emiment for the splendour of her mental endowment., than fot the towering majesty of her person and demeanour, pad the great debt of Nature yesterday morning at nine o'clock, ! at her late residence in Upper Baker -street, Portman-square.. Ihe announcement of this melancholy fact the public was in part prepared for by the recent appearance of paragraphs, which spoke of her illness and of its alarming tendency.-- , We hear that her life was wholly despaired of by her medi cal attendants on Saturday last, since which, however, she rallied a little, and alight hopes were entertained by some of ' her friends that she might for a time longer be spared to them. The disorder for a very little while manifested signs of abatement, but returned pith accumulated force, end she sank under its effects at the day and hour above stated. To readers in general, and to theatrical readers in particu. lar, it may be an object of curiosity when recording the death of an individual so eminent in the theatrical hemi sphere as Mrs. Siddons once confessedly w.ut, to know something concerning her birth—her parentage—as well as of her career upon that stage which she rendered so celebrated and which, since her secession from it, " has never seen her like again." Sarah Siddons was the eldatt daughter of Roger and Sarah Kemble, and was born at a small public-house at Brecknock, in South Wain, on the loth of July, 1"55, wanting therefore only five weeks to have completed her 78. h year. Her father was the Manager of a strollmg com pany of Comedians, and we have the testimony of 31r. Holcroft, whose words we are about to quote, that it " was more respectable than many other companies." Her first appearance on the stage is narrated by Mr. Holeroft in his memoirs: it was for the benefit of her father, when she was extremely young, and she repeated as her coup cressai the fable of the frogs and the mice. From this period it appears Miss Kemble performed regu. !arty in her father's company, but rarely in tragedy, as she was accounted an excellent singer, though she knew nothing of the science of music. At this time, Mr. Siddons, her future husband, was a member of her father's company, and, though he was valued for his versatility, and "could do any thing from Hassle! to Harlequin." yet were not his attentions to Miss Kemble approved of by her parents, in consequence, it is pretended, of her extreme youth, her age being then but 15 years. She was, therefore, placed " two years under the protection of Mrs. Greatheed, equally removed front her lover and the stage." Here she acted in the capacity of lady's-maid to the lady above named, who resided at Guy's Cliff, near Warwick. However it seems, that she panted for the enjoyment of those plaudits which ' had encouraged her early efforts ; but, in all probability, more ardently for the society of one from whom absence could not estrange her affections. In fine, she quitted her situation, and a journey to Scotland was probably averted, by the consent of the parents to their union. Mr. Kemble himself gave his daughter's hand to Mr. Siddons, before she had completed the eighteenth year of her age. This match, as our readers may guess, was rather one of affection titan of prudence, for though it tray not be disputed that "she was every thing to him, and he to her was every thing," yet the young cou pie had an establishment to form and support, and an at tempt was made through some influential prisons who had witnessed her performances at Cheltenham with great satis faction, to procure fur her en engagement in London, for which purpase Garrick was applied to, who engaged her, more, it is supposed, to keep her talent from the rival house than for any service it was likely to render himself. Her first appearance in London was in I . ortia, in the Mer chant of Venice, at Drury-lane Theatre, on Friday, the 20 h December, 1775. She afterwards appeared as the Queen to Garrick's Richard, and .Ilrs. Strickland to his Ramon., and other parts. Henderson first saw her in 1776, at B rating. ham, and was immediately truck with her excel'ence, aid pronou':ced that she would never t e surpass al.— ! He was at this time the hero of the Bath stage. and wished for the support of such talents as he saw in Mrs. Eddons. Ile reco: ttt t ended her accordingly in the we meat manner to the managers, but without success. She, however, in 1777 appeared on the Belt stage, and was received with mentid applause ; and in 1782 she took her leave of it in a poetical address. On the 10th of October. of that year, she returned to the metropolis, and appeared at Drury-lane theatre es Isabelta,on which occasion, we are informed, the house over flowed. So great indeed, was her success that her salary was doubled, arid an extra benefit was granted to her —besides rebid), the. Gentlemen of the liar raised a sub. niietion of one hundred guineas, which was tran.mitted to her with a complimentary letter. In 1781 she vi sited Dublin, and again in the following year, when she also visited Edinburgh. At both places she received flattering encomiums and splendid presents • amongst others, a large silver urn, on v.h . ch was inscribe d •• A Reward to Merit." Tire donor, it is said, was never known. In 1765 Mrs. Sid. dons had first the honour of reading a play before their 11a. jades, at Buckingham house; and after this pram" she had her brmber, John Kcieble, were frequently sum nettled there and to Windsor Castle, fur a like purpose. In 1803, her brother John having become a proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre, she appeared there as 15.:14 , .a, en the 27th of September, in that year. Here she continued occasionally to perform until the 20th of June, 1812, whim, in Lady Macbeth, she sock her tins! leave of the stage, Af cr the dream scene the house rose, and would not allow the play to proceed to its termination. After a shirt pause, the curtain rose, and 11rs. Stelduns delivered an address. At its conclusion John Kemble entered, took her by the hand, and 1. el her ofd' amidst a toreent of applause. Notwithstautt. ing this forma! red-chum, on the 21d of June, 1813, Mrs. Sidelons performed Lady Randolph, for the benefit of the Drury-Lute Theatrical Fund ; in the saint ycer she also ap peared as Lady Macbeth, for her brother Charles' benefit ; and in 1816, she performed Katherine tor the same kitidob. ject. On the fish of June, 1617, she consented to appear in the character of Lady Macbeth, to gratify the late Princess Charlotte, whose indisposition prevented her from attending. Mrs. Siddons, note/ ithetamling, went through the p.eform. suce, and seems tohave loan little of her power in the tour years of retirement from tit.: star. Mrs. Siddons in person was majastie, het features b au .ifully Roman, and most poerfully expressive. S.r Joshua Reynolds's painting of her as the' ftagic Muse,' several by Lawrence, and the ctlebrated Trial et Katherine' by gar. lowe, will convey a correct idea of her permute' dignity ; but what pen or pencil can justly impart die expressive power of her flee countenance ? Mrs. bidden* heti three children, one of whom, Mr. Henry Siddons, appeared at Covent-jar. den to 1802. He was but an indiff actor. He is known as the author of Tease's a Tell-tole,' and other drame:ie pieces, besides novelle. Ile was latterly, we believe, the manager of the Edinburgh Tneatre, and died there. Mr. Horace Twists, her nephew, and the children of her brother Charles, are, it is said, likely to inherit bee property, which , i s spoken awe cmeid:rable. • .: • POLICE lIEPCRTS. MAIY.LA aorrara.—Sir Marks Tbhetwn, liart• arrtat ed to I.IIOW cease why he refused to pay for a smi.ire t t Was', which he vat chatted with breaking in a Itsckhey newt,. The driver stated that ln.twetn a fortnight and titer weds ago be drnvc Sir two, Piccadilly to Qiecti Anne.strcet, where he got out at a geatlariai,'s i.,:.,PC• mcdiatAy as Sir Charles was gettinz out of the climb the driver beard one of the witoinas tall; and, kiln the sound, fearing that the glass we• broken, he get dawn, examined it, at.d fnuad such to be the fact. He knocktd at the i:a3 door, and acqm.inted the Ken ant with what had taken plat:, but he denied all knowlerhfc of the gentleman further than that he lived bomewhere in Sr. James's. Aftet waiting some time. and threatening to c dl a constable, and give the gentleman in charge, he was inform... 4 that his name was Sir Clothes Heatlicote. Thistlet• n, one of the nfFr:•r aaid he got rl,e suninto:;l6 to serve, but, after numb:rim inquiries. v a. u• able to dile. cover any tiir Charles Heat! cots: at all. He called at house in Catleen Anne-street, hut the sen3rt thin: told him he knew nothing about the vntletnan. At length he lamed Sir Charlea Iblietson's name and address in Dok..-street, St. James's-square. Str Charles alleged that the window was broken before, and appeared very indignant at the se-errion that hi. name or address was denied at the house in Queen Anne-street. Mr. Onirriwit : The coachtna•t has sworn that it was denied. Sir Charles: But I can swear the servant told me he gave my name and address as soon as asked for Mr. Gatremr t What the servant may have told yeti is no evidence; you must pay the man for the whitlow. Sir Charles —What ! though I tell you I did not break it. Mr. Ontyrtvw.—The man i, on his oath; and he terve it. Sir thatles.— But take my oath.— Mr. GRIFFITH —You can't; you are the dcfentla it. Sir Charles.—Then you are going to take a hackney coachman's word against mine ? Mr. GnirriTti—(rising from h ss:at in great It is not nue, is nut true. lam not taking his word, I am taking his oath, and I am baund to take the oath ul any man, however humble in life, against the U!.EUrirOrtvtl ebser ion of aly other man, no matter how high his rai.k may be. Sir Charles (with correspond:n.7, warmth)— But I see you are taking his sord against mile —I see you are; and I will take is before a higher tribunal—l'll consult my solicitor upon the subject. However, he ore Sir Charles left the c.ffice. he raid the coachman the expenses of the window, as well ashis expenses for loss of Vine in attending before the Ma glivrate. IitCuMPINSE 505 THE Loss or A DAT.-.-7110Mas Todd, an Lisk labourer, sal brought btfure Sir C. S. Hum. Tait, who sat for the Lord Mayne, charged with having, when disguised in liqtoir, given klich..el Grvirg, a w .tcli. man. and an Irishman asst, a knock oil the head, which in:eaten' with his duty, by preventing him from crying the hour. The complainant said that, as he was going along, at eleven o'clock the night before, and just about to cry the hour, the defendant bawled out " Silence !" and struck his hat down Over his eyes, so that, when he tinned about to see who did it, he touldlit see nohJcly (a laugh). When he afterwards asked what was that for, :IC was told that he haJ no right to disturb the ether wa•chmen, who were all going to sleep, and that if he did, lie should be put to sleep with a poke: himself. Sir C. S. Hunter : Well, I suppose he had taken a &up too much? The complainant staid that such was certainly the case. They had never seen each other before, and the blow can.e quite unexpected. Sir Claudius : He didn't hurt you. lie br, ke no bones, I hope ? Complainant: No, your Worship, I can't say he did, but he abstracted me in my juty. How can a watchman do for the public, if he meets with such obatropulous fellows ? Sir CLAUDIUS : Well, I suppose you locked him up for the night in the watchhouse. Now what would you have me do, my good fellow ? I dare say he's sorry enough for what he has done. Complainant : Why, my Lord, I've lost my day through him, and I want to have it made up to me by him. Sir CLAUDIUS : By him ! Why, look a. him. Do you suppose he can pay you for a day's work ? Come, come, he has been in the watchlteuse all night, and if he wanted to ate the fraternity in a state of repose, I'm WIC he must have been fully gratifitd (laughttr.) Defendant—God b les s your Lordship, I didn't know that I struck the gentleman • fur I was carrying a lead, and I got a glass or two, that ma de roe as drunk as a lord, and then I ' was dragged to the watchhouse. Sir Claudius—Are you able to pay this man for the lop of his time, at have you any friends that are able to do en? ' Defendant—The Lord bless your Honour, I haven't a friend in the world, barrio ' myself and yoursel f; and the d-1 a farthing I'm worth in money, but owe it to him. I'll make it up to him some way or other. Sir ('laudius—l hope you don't mean to pay him in the same coin he complains of—over the head ? (Laughter). Defendant—l'll gi 4C him something to drink ; something good. Complainant--1 won't stoop to drink with you ; I want to be paid for the loss of my day. Sir Clauditts—He says he'll give you something good to drink. I'd have you take him at his word ; but I'd have you take care bow you drink too much. Come defendant, what do you intend to give him ? A nice pot of cold spring wirer ? (Loud laughter.) The watchman, (who looked very grumpy all this time)_ Please your Worship, I don't want to have anythirg to do with hint. Sir CL A ussius.—TAke my wnrJ far it, that he woi'tgise you anythirg that will injure you. Ile looks as if be was able to give you plenty of watcr. I wish that all the watch. men would deal at the s;gn of tl e P Imp. (Great Laughter, in which Alderman F..rebrother, w!:o was pre:ant, most heartily jnined.) The Watchman.—T don't want to drink anything with him. Sir CLAUDtt•a.—You mean you e t wart to drink Mrn'a alc wish him. I'm afraid 30.1 don't fancy the flavour. 'Tis very few of your countrymen that do. (L .ughter.) Detendant.—please your ilmiour, I don't happen to have any money about me nuw, but_ fir Clat - ad!to‘: I know you haven't. tut you can give him plait)) to drink the all that. I'll tell you wl•al you'll do. Give him your dad : (a laugh.) Exchange cards. and meet to-night in Leadenhall-street. At what time do you go upon duty, watchman ? Watchtnan : At Intlf.past tight, please you, my Lord. Sir Claudius a Very good. Then meet together exactly at eight o'clock, and have half an hour's carouse together at Aidgate pump : (great laughter) There, the case is at an end. Yuu may as %ell go now and settle the matter in the way I advise. But def. ntl..nt. I d have you give up your national contempt for cold water, or you'll get into some desperate scrape or other. TOWN HALL —PADDY •xn HIS Two Wtves.—A gay little !chow, named Patrick Coghlux. trom the 'is er Isle, wits brought before 3lr. Alderman Awseew, in custody of Kinsey, the officer, to answer the charge of deserting his wife ard child, who have become chargeable to the par eh of St. Mare's. The wire, Julia, a very dew t body. having attired that Paddy had deserted her for the hat for night, went on so say that she had learnt he was since n +wield to another woman—. " Gan paidon his auto/ for it, few herself wits lawfully Mat. ried :u him nine years since, at tie Catholic Chapel of Bris tol, had brought him three fine children ;" and ore of them stood by her side, a girl, eight years of age. Ahleimen ANSLAY—Now, master CoAhlan, how comes this shout? Are yeu really n ar:ied to another woman ? Paddy ()watching his Itead)—Faith and I am, your Wor ship, worse luck to trio.-- I'm kilt entirely with the thoughts tit it—(here Paddy threw a sheep's eye at J is wife, and con tinued—l'm a misfortunate man, and the divil's women sure etaiugh, fur making me fond o' them. Well, then, I won't be liouliling your Worship long ; but your 11:.110of must be multi bat I was at %Vhitruntide fair, and tar ladies got tickling me till I wa.n't myself at all at all; and I—l-1 et bothered, and I nth ! blood and twos, saving your Worship's presence, it's 0 use 10 COIW.SIe marred one of 'em next morning at Carol erwell church. " Paddy, Paddy !" exclaimed the wife, " dos't be teli ing me ahe about the bal. VII like ye the worse far ii ; only say yell never du the likes that again, and ni forgive you. You've been a good boy to me many a day ; ax his t • onour's pardon, and mine, and I'll pray for your sins, and there'll be no more about it." The laughter occasiontd having subdded, at the request of the wife, the Testament was handed to Paddy; a hu, kissing it with reverence, fell upon his knees, and vein, mently protested never to he tickled again by any lady hut his own wife; to cherish Irn and his child as bits m he lived, and abstain from all unlawful delights, especially en Whitsunday. I 1 1 i , , 1 nd tc of int. jOtt Ct. and prr An hut 11; lools that lade said r the , 4th loav w•aa ICI'Or son, 1 his has the It is firm .clron per- I be the 'ould /ould 11 be ,t. Cur think nber mry ience tegu- .acti ed to [sting been icy of ill be aW—•-• -Pro- Icy— t and ' untryl I they' leave luring peo d the them, other. cent. econl for ,o thi toket sucl