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.• 44. a4_ 1105... tr z 4• /ON JA• ‘4 ‘ •. • it, _••. : 1474r . ` ' Y SA • - . 2 ; . Iw . • a.: • a , • far. 4 41 1 • ' I A I ^7^r Nu BEA 10 669. FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1821. PRI: E SEVEN-PENCE. Speedily will be published, elegantly printed in Four Vols. H E It. AL I N E.--BY LETITIA-MATILDA HAWKINS. .Printed for F. C. and J. Rlvington, No. 62, St. Paul's Church yard; and No. 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. Of whom may be had, by the same Author, A few remaining Copies of " The Countess and Gertrude ; or, Modes of Discipline." The Second Rdition, four vols. Bvo. 165.—And Rosanne; or, A Father's Labour Lost. Three vols. ftwo. £l. 7s. LITERATURE. THE FAVOURITE OF NATURE; a Novel, dedicated, by permission, to Mrs. Joanna Baillie.—Though the sanction of the excellent person to whom this Novel is inscribed might seem a sufficient support to public favour, yet it may not be altogether unnecessary, here to state those particular qualities and merits, which have entitled It to such a distinction. The Favourite of Nature exhibits in in details a thorough knowledge of the human heart, deep reading, and still deeper study; but above all, It breathes occasionally (though without intruding more of serious thought than is desired in a Novel) a spirit of genuine and unaffected piety. It is clothed in elegant and flow ing language, and in point of deep pathos and interest, is not ex• ceeded by any similar production of the day. The eye of sensi bility will often be unconsciously moistened with a tear, as it glances over pages that tell the mournful wreck of Nature's fairest and best gifts, by the ruthless power of froward passions and desires :—Such being the distinguishing qualities of the " Favourite of Nature," we may, without prophetic inspiration, safely venture to predict that it cannot but become the" Fa. vourite of the Public," and long outlive the ephemeral existence of many of its cotemporazies. NEW NOVEL NEW ANNUAL REGISTER, 1820. This day was published, price One Guinea, in boards, THE NEW ANNUAL REGISTER ; or, General Repository of History, Politics, Arts, Sciences, the. Fine Arts, and Literature, for 1820.—This Volume contains a View of the State of 'Periodical Literature (including the principal Newspapers), of the Fine Arts, and of the Diama for the year 1820. Besides a variety of Miscellaneous Articles in addition to the usual Historical, Political, and Literary Contents. The future volumes will be executed on the same plan. er Gentlemen are earnestly requested to complete their Sets. A General Index from the commencement of the Work is in the Press.—Published by Thomas 111‘ Lean, 26, Haymarket. This day was published, dedicated (by permission) to Mrs. JOANNA MILLIE, price 21s. boards, THE FAVOURITE OF NATURE. A N ov a.. In Three Volumes, 12mo. " This is a well-written Novel, in which Wmale character, and an intimate knowledge of the human heart are ably pourtrayed. The vices of the rich and gay are well sketched, and the fate of their youthful victim, Eliza Rivers, is such as must deeply affect the sensitive mind."—Monthly Mag. April, 1821. Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Line. Of whom may be had, lately published, 2. Sucn is sitz WORLD, a Novel, in svas. 12mo: price 21s. NAVY-OFFICE, 3LIY 3, 1821. irHE Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners -L of his Majesty's Treasury, having appointed Money for the p ay m e nt of Half-pay to Sea Officers, from the Ist of Ja 'nuary to the 31st of March, 1821, according to his Majesty's establishment in that behalf, These are to give notice, that the seve ral Payments will begin to be made at the Pay-Office, by the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy, at Ten o'Clock in the kforning on the following Days, viz. 'On the 14th, 15th, and 16th of this month, to Admirals, Cap tains, and their Attornies. On the 17th, 18th, 21st, 7.2 d, and 23d of this Month, to Lieu tenants and Chaplains, and their Attornies. On the 24th and 25th of this Month, to 'Masters, Surgeons, and Pursers, and their Attornies. After which the Lists will be recalled the first and third Wednesday in every Month, that all Persons may then, and there, attend to receive what may become payable to them ; and bring with them an Affidavit as required by the Order in Coun cil of 30th July, 1819, the forms of which were published in an Advertisement front this Office, dated IGth September, 1819, and may be procured at the Office of the Treasurer of the Navy ; • and in case any of the said Officers should not be able to attend themselves, but employ Attornies for that purpose, that the raid Attornies do produce the like Affidavit from the persons they are employed by. Where Officers are Abroad on leave, their Agents are to pro duce Attested Copies of such Leave, before the IfAlf-pay ern be pAid. And as by Act of Parliament passed in the 35th year of his late Majesty's Reign, entitulcd, " An Act for establishing a more easy and expeditious method for the Payment of Officers belonging to his Majesty's Navy," it is enacted by the 20th Clause of the said Act, " that if any Commissioned or Warrant Naval Officer, who shall be entitled to receive Half-pay, and shall be desirous to receive and be paid the same at or near the race of his Residence, he may apply to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy in London, to have such Half-pay paid at or near the Place of his Residence, &c. in the manner pointed out by the said Ast." And by a further Act passed in the ,6th year of his late Majesty's reign, entituled, " An Act for ena bling the Officers in his Majesty's Navy and their Representa tives, to draw for and receive their Half-pay," it is enacted by the Ist and 3d Clauses of the said Act, " that if any Officer in bis Majesty's Navy, who shall be entitled to receive any sum of money for or on account of his Half-pay, shall be desirous of drawing a BiU of Exchange for Abe same, upon the Commis sioners of his Majesty's Navy, instead of receiving the same by Remittance Bill, he shall signify such desire, by Letter to the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy ; and that if any Officer in his Majesty's Navy who shall be entitled to receive any sum of Idoncy for or on account of Half-pay, shall be desirous of hav ing his Half-pay paid to him by Extract, at any of his Majesty's Bock-yards, where Clerks. for the Payment of Wages for the Navy shall reside, instead of receiving the same by Remittance Bill or Bin of Exchange, he is to apply either to the proper Clerk at the Navy Pay-Offiae in London, or at the Pay-Office at such Dock-yard, signifying such his desire." Notice ishereby further given, that the Half-pay ending the 31st of March, 1821, will commence paying on the 14th of May. and all Per sons desirous of drawing for, or of having their Half-pay remitted to them, may apply as above directed. MFm.—Bills of Exchange drawn under or by virtue of the Aet above recited, are not liable to the Stamp Duty. N• Persons residing out of his Majesty's Dominions are en titled to the privileges of the Act. COOMI3E HOUSE, CROYDON, SURREY. ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, LIBRARY BOOKCASES and TABLES, FARMING and GARDEN IMPLEMENTS, a capital Waggon, two Black Cart-horses and Harness,a Patent Mangle, and various other EFFECTS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick -street, Golden-square), On the Premises, Coombe Dom.? ' Croydon, Surrey, on Mow- DAY next, May 7, at Eleven o'Clock, THE REMAINDER of the Elegant HOUSE HOLD FURNITURE, Latethe Property of &mon LON(a, Esq. deceased. Comprising tufty double screwed Four-poat, Couch, Tent, and other Bedsteads, and handsome Chintz-Cotton Furniture.; prime seasoned Feather Beds and Bedding ; Suites of Chintz. Cotton Frenzh-rod Window Curtains, Sofas, Couches, and Chairs, en suite; elcelletit Cabinet Articles, in Rosewo od and Mahogany, Lon, Card, Sufa, Pembroke, Library, and Dress ing Tables; Winged Library Bookcases; Wardrobes; Chests of Drawers; Cabinets; Pier and Dressing Glasses • Carpets, Fenders,and Fire Irons; a capital three inch wheel c lose-bodied 11 aggun ; two Black Cart-horses, and Harness ; Farming and Garden Implements; Green-house Plants; a Patent Mangle, and numerous other Articles. To be viewed : On Friday and aturday previous to the Sale; and Catalogues bad, at One Shilling each, on the Premises ; the Xing's Arms, and of Messrs. Blake, Croydon ; ilonre and Croom Streatham; the White Horse, and Old Ship, Brighton; Red Lion. Dorking ; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Robins, War wick-street, Gulden-square. RUSSELL-SQUARE Elegant HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, costly Suite, of Crimson Tabouret French-rod WINDOW CURTAINS, fine-toned Grand and Square PIANO-FORTES, CHIM NEY-GLASSES, LUSTRES, GI RAN DOLES, excellent CABINET ARTICLES, and various other EFFECTS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. ROBINS, (Of Warwick -street, Golden-square), By Order of the Executors of Sir VICARS' GIBBS, deceased. An the Premises, Ns. 67, on the East side of Russell-square, on WiIOIIIIDAT next, May 9, and following day, at Eleven, ir irrilE Elegant HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE ; Comprising capital lofty double screwed Four-post, Couch, Tent, and Press Bedsteads, and Chintz-Cotton Furnitures ; prime asserted Feather Beds and Bedding; costly Suites of French -rod Crimson Tabouret Drawing-room Window Cur tin*, Couches, Sofas, Chairs, Ottomans, &e. en suite; Czbi sets with Marble tops; Chimney Glasses; .hand me Cut Lus treil Girandoles, and Compo-Figures to support Lights ; excel lent Dining•room and Library Furniture, in Suites of French tod Morine and Damask Window Curtains; two handsome MalkoPny in-laid Pedestal Sideboards; Sarcophagus Cellarets; Set of Ave feet six inch Dining Tables, twenty-two feet long; Ilinalogany-franed Chairs, in red morocco and hair-cloth ; Library Tables and Desks; high folding and other Screens; Itirkel, Brussels, and other Carpets and Hearth Rugs; well tasde Cabinet Articles, in Rosewood and Mahogany, Loo, Card, °T v , a, Pemb ro k e, and Wurk Tables; capital Wing and other Z at ir"bes; Cheata nf Drawers • Dressing Stands and Glasses; Ws of Hall Chairs, Grecian La mps, ' Fenders and Fire Irons, nornerous other Articles. A capital Stanhope Gig and Bar tell, the property of a Gentleman, to be Sold in the above SAle. T. be aimved on Monday and Tuesday preceding the Sale; !Id ettair gues had, at One Shilling each, o n t hy Preis:las ; at "Pam tiarraway's ; wt: of Robins, Warwick -street, Wohlerm 3. Locnirt.; or, the Field of Culloden: in 3 vols. Price 211. 4. A LEGEND of Aaoyca; or, 'Tis a Hundred Years Since: a Novel. In 3 vols. price 21s. Z. WINTER El/RIVING TALLI, collected among the Cottages in the South of Scotland. By James Hogg, Author of 'The Queen's Wake,' &c. Second Edition, in 2 vols. 12mo. price 141. boards. ALL IN ONE DAY, 17TH MAY. SWIFT and Co. solicit the public attention to the Scheme for the Drawing of the LOTTERY on the 17th THIS MONTH.—Ticket and Share Chances for the 4,007 Prizes sure to be drawn on that day, are now selling at SWIFT asd Co.'s Offices, No. 11, POULTRY; 12, CiimuNG-Ct.044; and 31, ALDOATE HIGH-STREZT, at the following reduced Prices, viz. Ticket - £l4 14 I Quarter - £3 17 0 Half 713 Eighth - - rl9 6 Sixteenth only Twenty Shillings. Every Chance must be decided on the 17th MAY, when the following Capitals are sure to be drawn, viz. Two of £21,000, Two of X 4,000, Two of £l,OOO, Thirty-seven of £3OO and £240, &c. &c. and the first 100 Numbers drawn will have an Extra Chance for Two of X 20,200, Two of £2,000, Two of £1,050, Twelve of £5OO and £2lO, &c. &c.—Schemes at large may be had, gratis, at SWIFT and Co.'s Offices, where they Sold, in the Last Lottery, No. 44 a Prize of X 21,000; 2,122, a Prize of X 2,000; also the very last £30,000 Money Prize ever drawn. A LLNUTT'S FRUIT LOZENGES, for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throats, Hoarseness, fltc. &c. prepared solely ' by the Proprietor, S. Awn= Chemist, Portsea ; who returns his best thanks to the Public for the very extensive patronage which he has already received, for Ms highly useful FRUIT LOZENGE, and begs to assure them, that he still continues to prepare them, with the.same scrupulous care as to the medicinal virtue cf the fruit, which has obtained for them so distinguished a reputation. fn Coughs, Sore Throats, and Hoarseness, they have been particularly useful, the acid (which is solely from the black currant) tending greatly to allay inflammation, and to pro mote a free expectoration; they are perfectly harmless to the most delicate constitutions. 1k careful to ask for Minutes Fruit Losenges. Sold in boxes Is. 1 id. each, by all Medicine Venders in the Kingdom. THE PATENT SEIDLITZ POWDERS. AS several Druggists and Medicine Venders, in London, Bath, Cheltenham, &c. are imposing on the Public by selling spurious and inefficacious preparations under the name of SEI D LITZ POWDERS, with pirated labels and directions, the Inventors and Patentees think it necessary to ir form the Public, that the Medicine cannot be genuine unless the names of " Savory, Moore, and Davidson, Chemists to the Royal Family, 136, New Bond-street," are printed on the wrap per, and each Bar and Bustle is surrounded with a stamp, on which " T. Paytherus and Co." is engraved. THE GENUINE SYRUP OF DE VELNOS: THE only Depot for this useful Medicine, is N 0.52, Berner's-street, Oxford-street, where it is prepared accord ing to the Recipe of the late Mr. Swamson, intrusted to his Ne phew and Successor, PtIr.THONAS CANISAM, alone. The experience of nearly a century, has proved this Medicine to be the most inno cent and effectual alterative. It corrects and purifies the blood; and those who are afflicted with Scrofula, Leprosy, Scurvy, and many of those melancholy diseases arising from impurity of the blood and juices; those who suffer from diseased liver, and for the dissipations and indiscretions of their youth, or whose con stitutions are broken down and debilitated by mercurial, anti monial, or arsenic medicines, should submit to a regular course of the Vegetable Syrup. The effects of this Medicine are such as not to interrupt either business or pleasure; it operates on the animal juices, and re quires only the common restraint of moderation in diet. It is dissolved in the chyle of the stomach, is conveyed by the circu lating fluids, and corrects their tendency to all those diseases which originate in vitiated blood. It is a safe, though a power ful substitute for mercury, and removes those evils which an unsuccessful use of that mineral occasions. Tt is prepared and administered in Berner's-street, under Mr. Canham's immediate direction, where it is sold at 13s. a bottle ; it is also sold at Mr. Atkinson s, 198, Bishopsgate-street Without ; and by Mr. Cauham's other Agents in London, and in every con siderable Town in the United Kingdom; and the Concentrated, for warm climates, by his deputed Agents in the East Indies, viz. Messrs. Mackintosh and Co. Calcutta ; Messrs. Forbes and Co. Bombay; and Messrs. Papcll and Jchrson, Madras. . 111F.DICA T. BOARD, NEAR BLACKFRIARS-ROAD. CONCENTRATED AT CHARLOTTE-HOUSE. Sir FRANCIS C. DANIEL, Kin. M.D. Treasurer. MESSRS. COOPER and Co. Member s of the Royal Colleges of Lonnow, Maximum, and DUBLIN, ranking high as Physicians and Surgeons in his Majesty's Ser vice, offer the result of forty years' experience in different cli mates, on those prevailing maladies, the bane of happiness and domestic cum fort. Recent cases of infection are by them removed in two days. Derangements of the Generative System, associated with a train of the most agonizing feelings, both bodily and mental, the con sequence of relaxation and debility, enfeebling the powers of manhood, are completely restored with a success and skill—and with that secrecy and honour which has received from their pa tients the most flattering testimonies of gratitude and attachment, after having been impr:iperly treated by persons unacquainted with so important a branch of the profession. Messrs. Coorsar and Co. address themselves to both Sexes, who are on the eve of Matrimony, requesting them to pause till they are assn ed of the state of their health, that no disappoint ment may disturb their future happiness, and which they pro mise to complete, if previously consulted. FISTULAS and Ih•ercxra are known, by the experience of hun dreds, to he etExtually cured without cutting. Messrs. 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The arrival of Valerius in the capital of the world, is picturesque and impressive; but it is impossible to particularise the parts of a work which lays equal claims to erudition and ori ginal fancy. The following extract contains a spirited descrip tion of Gladiators at the Flavian Amphitheatre : " Their masters paired them shortly, and in succession they began to make proof of their fatal skill. At first, Scythian was matched against Scythian.--Greek against Greek—Ethiopian against Ethiopian —Spaniard against Spaniard; and I saw the sand dyed beneath their feet with blood streaming from the wounds of kindred hands. But these combats, although abun dantly bloody and terrible, were regarded only as preludes to the serious business of the day, which consisted of duels between Europeans on the one side, and Africans on the other; wherein it was the well-nigh intransgressible law of the Amphitheatre, that at least one out of every pair of combatants should die in the arena before the eyes of the multitude. Instead of shrinking front the more desperate brutalities of these latter conflicts, the almost '- certainty of their fatal termination seemed only to make the as sembly gaze upon them with more intense curiosity, and a more inhuman measure of delight. Methinks I feel as if it were but of yesterday, when--sickened with the protracted terrors of a con flict, that seemed as if it were never to have an end, although both the combatants were already covered all over with hideous gashes—l at last bowed down my head, and clasped my hands upon my eyes,to save them from the torture of gazing thereon fur ther : and I had scarcely done somben Rubellia laid her band upon my elbow, whispering,' Look, look, now look,' in a voice of low steady impatience. I did look, but not to the arena: No; it was upon the beautiful features of that woman's face that I looked", and truly It seemed to me as if they presented a spectacle almost as fearful as that from which I had just averted mine eyes. I saw those rich lips parted asunder, and those dark eyes extended in their sockets, and those smooth cheeks suffused with a steadfast blush, and that lovely bosom swelled and glowing ; and I hated Rubellia as I gazed, for I knew not before how utterly beauty can be brutalised by the throbbing. of a cruel heart. But I looked round to escape from the sight of her—and then the hundreds of females that I saw with their eyes fixed, with equal earnestness, on the same spot of horrors, taught me, even at the moment, to think with more charity of that pitiless gaze of one. " At that instant all were silent, in the contemplation of the breathless strife ; insomuch, that a groan, the hrst that had escaped from either of the combatants, although low and re luctant, and half suppressed, sounded quite distinctly amidst the deep hush of the assembly, and being constrained thereby to turn mine eyes once more downwards, I beheld that, at length, one of the two had received the sword of his adver sary quite through his body, and had sunk before him upon the sand. A beautiful young man was he that had received this harm, with fair hair, clustered in glossy ringlets upon his neck and brows ; but the sickness of his wound was already vi sible in his drooping eye-lids, and his lips were pale, as it the , blood had rushed from them to the untimely outlet. Neverthe less, the Moorish gladiator who had fought with him, had drawn forth again his weapon, and stood there awaiting in silence the decision of the multitude, whether at once to slay the defence.. less youth, or to assist in removing him from the arena, if per chance the blood might be stopped from flowing, and some hope of recovery even yet extended to him. Hereupon there arose, on the instant, a loud voice of contention; and it seemed to me as if the wounded man regarded the multitude with a proud, and withal contemptuous glance, being aware, without question, that he had executed all things so as to deserve their compassion, but aware, moreover, that even bad that been freely vouchsafed to him, it was too late for any hope of safety. Bat the cruelty of their faces, it may be, and the loudness of ;he'r cries, were a sot. row to him, and filled his dying breast with loathing. Whether or not the haughtiness of his countenance had been observed by them with displeasure, I cannot say ; but so it was, That those who had cried out to give him a chance of recovery were speedily silent, and the Emperor looking round, and seeing all the thumb. turned downwards (for that is, you know, the signal of death), was constrained to give the sign, and forthwith the young man receiving again without a struggle the sword of the Moor into his gashed bosom, breathed forth his life, and lay stretched out in his blood upon the place of guilt. With that a joyous clamour was ui I.ftel by many of those that looked upon it, and the victo rious Moor being crowned with an ivy garland, was carried in procession around the arena by certain young men, who leaped down for that purpose from the midst of the assembly. In the meantime, those who had the care o f suc h things dragged away with a lly hook the corpse of hint that had been slain and then, raking up the sand over the blood that had fallen front him, prepared the place, with indifferent countenances, for some other cruel tragedy of the same kind—while all around me, the spectators were seen rising from their places and saluting each other; and there was a buz of talking :a universal as the silence had been during the combat; same speaking of it, and paying and receiving money lost and won upon its issue; some already laughing merrily, and discoursing on other matters, even as if nothing uncommon had been witnessed; while others again ap peared to be entirely occupied with the martial mnsii which ever struck up majestically at such pauses in the course of the cruel exhibition; some beating time upon the benches before them, others lightly Joining their voices in unison with the proud notes of the trumpets and clarions." 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