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Por ( out -'art . ~_ N l~ ~ ~ `, • [3! 1 1 • • ilt.A\ r.(4, 4f -.-. 011.1.11 Mr_vw P .q - Ar.at J)) .• • I j i):. '4;l, n• 'C .2=7 - - NUMBER 10,801. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1821. PRICE S1•;\ EN-PP.NCF. COTTAGE GARDENING. This day was published, price 2s. 6d. SPAIN. LILIGINA I I THE COTTAGER'S COMPANION ; or, Com plete System of Cottage Gardening : to which is added a descriptive List of Plants growing wild, which are useful for cu linary purposes. By WILLIAM SALISBURY Published by John Souter, No. 73, St. Paul's. REPRESENTATION or Tun MEMBERS or ♦ PATRIO TIC CLUB is Ter CITY or 'VALLADOLID, AND or 0211111 CITIZENS, To Tot KING or SPAIN. Publisted October 1, price 9s. 6d. THE LONDON MEDICAL JOURNAL, now Edited by Dr. GRANVILLE ; containing, besides its usual variety of useful information, under the head "Collectanea Medics," " Critical Analyses of English and Foreign Medical Publications," and " Medical and Physical Intelligence," some valuable Original Communications from the following Gentle men, viz.—Sir Gilbert Blanc, M.D. Physician to the King; A. Copland Hutchinson, Esq. Surgeon; E. Macleod, M.D. A. B. Granville, M.D. Dr. Nanctt.de, Mr. Tripe, J. Howell, Esq. Surgeon, &c. &c. Printed for John Sourer, 73, St. Paul's Church-yard, and sold by all Booksellers. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Eaabliahtd by Royal Charterin the Reign of King George I. SrTripura, 1821. PERSON'S whose ANNUAL PREMIUMS fall due on the 29th instant, are hereby informed, that RE CEIPTS are now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices ever die ROYAL EXCHANGE and in PALL-MALL, as wallas by their respective Agents in the several Counties ; and the Parties assured are requested to apply for the Renewal of their Policies on or before the 14th of OCTOBER next, as the usual Fifteen Days allowed for Payment, beyond the date of each Po licy, will then expire. SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Sec. rr Attendance is given daily at the said Offices for the Assn pace of Buildings, Goods, Merchandizes, and Ships in harbour, i n dock, or while building, from Loss or Damage by Fire ; and also for the Asarance of and Granting Annuities on Lives. N.II. rue Policies will be issued free of expense to the As sured, where the Annual Premium amounts to 6s. or upwards. BRITISH FIRE OFFICE, STRAND AND CORNIIII.L, STABLISHED in 1799, for Insurance of Houses, E Buildings, Manuf.ictories, Goods and Merchandize, Ships, Vends, and other Property, on the most equitable terms, and on principles affording solid and permanent security to those insured. DIRECTORS, Z.z.c. JOSEPH WARNER, Esq. Chairman. Hon. DOUGLAS KINNAIRN Deputy Chairman. William Marsh, Esq. Thomas Maude, Esq. George G.. Mills, Esq. Richard C. Plowdcn, Esq. John Some, Esq. G. H. Sumner, Esq. M.P. Robert Taylor, Esq. John Varnham, Esq. James West, Esq. Rd. Williams, Esq. Solicitor. ARD BARNES, Secretary. Rt. Hon. the Vice-Chancellor Sr John Cox Hipyis!ey, Ilstu Nr Robert Wigram, Hart. William Agnew, Esq. J. P. Autiol, Esq. John Hebb, Esq. S. P. Cockerell, Esq. James Henry Deacon, Esq. Charles Freeman, F.sq. Walculm, Esq. RICII COUNTY FIRE-OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, Regent-street, London. TRUSTEES. His Grace th , :. Duke of NOILVOLE, Greco, the Duke of RUTLAND, The Most Noble the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, Lad BRATEROOKE, Lord Klem, &c. &c. &c. • And SIXTY DIRECTORS. Managing Director—J. T. Maims BEAUMONT, Esq. F.A.S. THE distinguishing principle of these Offices is, that they combine the stability of Companies having a large Capital, with the minor Advantage of abasing Profits as in Union Societies. Permanent Capitals amounting to X650,00J have been formed in addition to the fluctuating Capital arising from the Premiums; and it is expressly provided, that these Funds alone shall be an swerable for Losses, whence Persons insured are effectually se -cured front liability for the losses of others. In the Frac Orrice, Returns of 20 and 95 per Cent. have been innriably paid to all persons who have continued insured seven years—whether their Policies were taken out for seven years, or were renewed annually, which Returns, during the last seven yeas, have exceeded £30,000. Is the Lira Orrice, Bonuses of £l3. Rs. and £26. 12s. per Cent. have been divided during the last fout teen years. TO COUNTRY GENTLEMEN, MERCHANTS, AND MANUFACTCRERS, VISITING LONDON. JOHN WARREN, of the York Tavern, Sweetings' Rents, Coral% respectfully informs them, and the Public %general, that in consequence of the present reasonable Prices sf Meat, Fish, Fowls, &c. he is enabled to afford excellent Ac tanowdation on the following liberal Terms, having made ar tagernents by which it will be observed that the whole expense Bach Day's Eating will only amount to ss. 6d. viz. Breakfast - - - 1 0 Dinner - 0 Tea - * - 1 0 Supper - - 1 6 S 6 Dinner each day at an excellent Table d'llote, or Ordinary, which is ready at Two o'Cluck and Half-past Four o'Clock precisely, each day (Sunday excepted) ; or Gentlemen may die solus, or in parties in the Public Dining-Rooms, or in a Private Room, at any hour of the day, at the same charge of 4s. each. rt Comfortable Sleeping-Rooms, ls. 6d. per night. Bottle. Pint. 1 Pint. Bottle. Pint. 1 Pint. (M Port 4s. 2s. la. I Lisbon 41. 2s. Is. Do. Sherry 4s. 2s. Is. Vidonia 4s. 2s. Is. Fine Cape llueellas 4s. 2s. Is. ofMadeita 2s. ls. Gd. Mountain 4s. 2s. is. favour Carcavella 4s. 2s. LOOKING GLASSES AND FURNITURE. eEVERAL large SECOND-HAND PLATES, S are now on Sale, at Coorea and SON'S Manufactory, 93, Ibliopsgatc-street-Within.—Some of the larger sizes are admi t*, adapted for large dining-rooms and elegant drawing-rooms. Afar assortment of rich finished Chimney, Pier, and Cheval Fates, with New Glasses of superior colour and brilliancy ; Iblyfices reduced beyond all former precedent. Plate Glass for windows, Carriages, &c.—This article may Ibahe manufactured as high as 150 by 72 inches, 110 by 80, or bay given dimensions. Xoblem en, Gentlemen, Surveyors, Proprietors of Hotels and *es, will find this Warehouse descrying attention, from its extensive variety of excellent Cabinet and Chair Work. The . 1 4beistery arrangements display some new specimens of pecu liar neatness and elegance 9 with the still greater advantage of economy in the charge. Some superior Second-hand Furniture is enting-rooms and bed-chambers, to be disposed of on pro lecticoate terns. Furniture delivered to any part of the Country, without risk iulory or expense of packing. • THERE is no Class of Disorders to which culti vatell Satiety is so subject as the Nervous, which invade 2 like the delicate female and the robust and seemingly vigorous you.h• listlessness of mind, impaired strength and appetite, Ltalence, headache, vertigo, and dimness of sitzht, arc more or less übservalik in them all. No remedy has hitherto been so &acuity benefidal in Nervous Disorders as the CORDIAL. BALM OF GILEAD, which has now maintained its reputa tion inr a long series of years and has become the stated resort, la ghat numbers of invallds.—lt is *old by. Mr. Johnston, 68, G irithili: Mr. Sanger (late Bacon and Co.) 150, Oxford -street, orPosite New Bood.strect ; and all Medicine Venders, in bottles, lls. and ass. cad. Of whom may be bad, price Ss. that scarce, interesting, and useful Family Work, entitled; A Gums to Ilium'; or, AO% to both SV.N GS, in a variety Camuusirs. By S. Solomon, containing a 'lreatise on Female Diseases, Nervous and Hypochondriac Complaints; also Central Remarks on those Diseases with which the Human I Gily is most frequently afflicted; eeplaining the symptoms, ode of treatment, and remedies most propetly adapted for soul Debility, &c. &c. of il at STATE LOTTERY. PITON, Stock-Broker, 2, Corollill, and Lombard street, begs leave to recommend to his Ir.,st Friends. the I'uhic, the Scheme of the present GII.I N D MONEY LOT TERN, which commences Drawing 30th Tuts MoNvir (Octo ber). There are Three Prizes of £30,000 Money, besides Thirty other Grand Prizes of £5,000, £2,000, Bc.c. &c. Each Ticket decides its own fac—no Classes—and the old grand System re. yived. of not Two Blanks to a Prize. EYTON being so confident that it will give such general satisfaction to the Public at large,that he anticipates there will be a great rise in the price of Tickets and _Shares, therefore he recommends an early purchase. Envy( in the lest Lottery, was particuhrly fortunate, having sold 9,982, a Prize of £7,500 ; 2 , 091, £tioo,4lsities several minor Capitals. ••• All Business in the Public Funds transacted with fidelity lind dispatch. EXEC UTIOA S. TO THE EDITOR O THE STAR. Snt—Will you permit me, through the medium of your Pa per, to put a few questions, not in the vexatious spirit of angry con tention, but purely for the sake of truth, justice, and humanity. Was not the law of capital punishment en forgers'and utterer. of forged Bank of England notes—though deemed by many, and among them the writer of this, uncalled for by the offence, and not calculated to check it—enacted for the protection of the Pub 1k from forged Bark notes? Is not this protection, by the re sumption of cash payments, if the I'ublic chooses to avail itself of it, now attained? If the Public does not choose to avail it self of it, should it not take the consequences of its own neglect, refusal, or delay? So far the question is viewed in respect to the Public as a body; now, as individuals, if the Public neglects, refuses, or delays, to avail itself of the proffered security, may or may not any person, if he chooses, demand in payment cash instead of Bank notes? It he may not, and he takes a forged Bank note, is it not fair that he, as a part of that Public, should take the consequences of its own neglect, refusal, or delay? If he ,any demand cash instead of Bank notes, is he not thus se cured, if he chooses? And If, in this case, he will take notes, and is imposed upon by a forged Bank note, can he conscien tiously prosecute the offender, and by so doing take away his life, for an offence which he might so easily have prevented ? It appears by the public prints, that the Bank of England has resolved to cease from prosecuting capitally the utterers of its forged one-pound notes; and is it not probable that this resolu tion has proceeded principally, or solely, from an assurance that the Public, if it chooses, is, by the resumption of cash payments, protected from forged Bank notes? and would it net be just that the same forbearance, for the same reasons which formed its humane determination respecting the utterer. of forged one pound Bank notes, should extend to the utterers of notes of whatever value, and forgers also? If therublic be protected, if it chooses, from forged Bank-notes by the resumption of cash payments, would it not be just for those Authorities who have the power, to spare from execution those offenders who have been or may be convicted or sentenced to death by a law, the object of which is now otherwise attained —that is, all forgers and utterers of forged Batik-notes,hy whom soever prosecuted? It is hoped the friends of humanity will watch over and save from death, if possible, all such offenders. It has been remarked that, notwithstanding the determination of the Bank of England to cease from prosecuting capitally the utterers of its forged ael Totes, a person charged with this offence has been, within these few days, found Gully—Death :—it is not remembered by Whom this person was prosecuted. I am, Mr. Editor, your's, &c. HUMANITAS. SAFE-COACHES. A case of some importance to the patentees l and proprietors of the new safe coaches was decided on Saturday last by the Magistrates for the Deptford Division, Kent, of which the following is a brief ac count :—An information had been laid against the driver of a Chatham safe coat, charging him with carrying two grown persons on the coach-box,besides himself, contrary to the Statute, and on Saturday the proprietors attended to answer the information. —lt was contended, on the part of the proprietors, that the Statute of the 50th Geo. 111. cap.4B. did not extend to coaches of this description when it enacted that no more than one person should sit on the box with the coachman, because this was a patent safe coach of a new description, having no coach-box, but merely a front seat (usually in other coaches as well as this) attached to the front of the roof, and being 16 inches wider than the box of any coach ; whereas a box extends only two-thirds of the width of the coach, and is not in any manner attached or affixed to the roof. Now this coach, by authority of this Statute, can legally carry three persons on this front seat; and the proprietors, for the greater safety of the passengers, have built this coach with out a box, and placed, besides the coachman, • two persons on the front seat, as they had a right to do. It was further contended that the 21st section of the same Statute protected, in the clearest manner, all coaches of this description; fcr this carriage does net carry the smallest quantity, of luggage on the roof ; but in a fore-boot, and beneath the body. And the Statute enacts, that as several of the restrictions imposed by this Act would be rendered less neces sary if no luggage were carried on the roof, all coaches which should in future carry all their lug gage in a boot or beneath, should be licensed to carry twelve instead of ten passengers ; , and, without stating where such, additional passengers should be placed, goes on to protect the owners or drivers of such coaches from any of the penalties imposed by the Act, notwithstanding any clause to the contrary. Upon these grounds it was submitted that the infor mation should be quashed, and the fine remitted.— After some deliberation the Magi,trates decided that the front seat was not a box within the meaning of the Act, and released the defendants from the penalty , of the information accordingly. " Stan—The undersigned citizens think that the time is ar rived in which their sacred duty of looking not less to the safety of the Stite than to that of your Majesty, authorizes them to speak a language which, far from being deficient in respect, is the sincere expression of the most ardent patriotism, and the warmest affection to the person of your Majesty. Individual petitions against a particular abuse of power ought not, in the present moment, to be the object of the declaration of free citi zens to your Majesty. Such declarations have rained like dew upon your palace, but they are either concealed from your view, or receive a sinister interpretation ; theinfore they produce no other results than such as are contrary to expectation. " The unforeseen fall of General Meg° may be considered as the exciting cause; but it is not, in truth, the principal nor the sole cause of this exposition : has lot, whatever it may be, can never be indifferent to Spaniards who love their country; it is, if we may use the expression, identified with the Constitutitmal system, and the whole !ration has fixed its eyes on his prosper ous or adverse fortunes. " Publicity, Sire, is the soul of Representative Governments; but although it were not so, neither justice nor policy would ad vise that the violent measures of Government should be covered with the veil of mystery, which, although they affect one indivi dual only at first, may in time compromise, as they really have comprised, the public tranquillity. Let his crimes therefore be declared, if in truth he has been so misled as to make an attempt against his country ; and let the sword of the law fall upon his head, exhibiting before the face of neighbouring nations an act of justice, which will at once du honour to the Spanish name, and to the sacred code of our liberties. But it. as it is to be hoped, and as it has happened, not for the first time, that he should turn, out to be innocent, what inference are we to draw from his dis missal, which, although it is in the power of your Majesty to or der, ought not to be effected by mere dislike or caprice? The only inference is, that it has been the work of the sante hand from which proceeded the unjust attempts committed daily by those who held the reins of Government—that it has coincided with the peculiar tendency and sinister end with which repeated ap pointments have been made and are making to the first offices, in the persons of men the most unfit for such situations, and disaf fected to the present order of things—that efforts are nude to op pose the spirit of those liberal institutions by which we are go verned, in order that under their shade past evils may be perpe tuated. " On any other supposition, how can we explain the conduct of the Council of State, which, since the persons employed in the administration of justice were suspended by the Cortes, with the intention that, passing through the ordeal of examination, only such should be nominated as are truly worthy of occupying posts so important, has replaced them all, indiscriminately, and with out consideration of what repeated Decrees had provided? This is, Sire, if you will permit the expression, to give the National Congress a slap in the face, and to place yourself in discordance with its deliberations, in order to paralyze the majestic and tran quil progression which we have promised ourselves from a change of Government without convulsion. Such may be said of that idea of a Republican faction, which has been so often and so vainly declared, and the assertion of which doubtless has no other object than to impose upon the unwary, to intimidate the weak, and to kindle the fire of discord which burns and consumes us. AU these, Sire, are direct plots against the plots and machinations conceived, perhaps, in the wretched clubs of a foreign policy, and seconded by these who have ac quired an ascendancy over the meek and docile heart of your Majesty. Those persons have endeavoured to tear up the Con stitution from the Spanish soil, but it is firmly rooted in the hearts of more than two millions of Spaniards resolute and de cided, and can only be rooted out from Spain along with them. Such measures, Sire, conduct us directly to a revolution which has not yet begun—to a revolution horrible to name, the epitome of all the calamities of the human race. Horrible and bloody would it be, since the Liberales of the year 1821 are not like those of 1814; and what would be its consequences? We tremble when we contemplate them ! Revolutions, like tempests, discharge their power preferably upon the most elevated points. —What, then, would become of the sacred person of your Ma jesty? Who could answer for it then? It is sacred and invio lable, Sire; but that inviolability is not like that of the Alps and Pyrennees. It can only be effective under the shade of law and order. In a revolution all things are overthrown. In the same revolution died the just Louis X VI. and the monster Robespierre. We must speak plainly, Sire, since, perhaps, this is the only time for doing it. The person of your Majesty is sacred and inviolable; but as long as that great Charter which secures you that prero gative is disregarded, as long as Spain contains one enemy of that Charter, It behoves you to act as if your inviolability did not exist. By any other conduct your Majesty will at every step be surprised, and exposed to a precipice; and what Is worse, perhaps, ignorance and malevolence will attribute to your Ma jesty the plots of foreigners. " Far, Sire, from your Petitioners be the idea that your Ma jesty can be the least involved in these plots ; but, Sire, you are the image, and there will not be writing ignorant men who will Impute to you the faults of your Priests, as thousands have im puted to our holy religion the vices of which they themselves were guilty. Preserve, therefore, your precious life. Preserve the vessel of the State which is on the point of foundering. Be a King for once. Place yourself at the head of that great nation which, loving your Majesty with the greatest affection, deserves in return the peace and the happiness for which it sighs. " By not enjoying those blessings at present, its members tremble and threaten a complete dissolution: by not having en joyed them in the year 1814, you were made to appear a horrible monster of ingratitude ; by not having enjoyed them for the last 6 i: yearn, you have been the object of attack among foreignerl and of compassion among the sound part of your own subjects; and, finally, by not now enjoying them, you appear under con straint while performing an act the greatest, the most spontane ous, and the most worthy of your magnanimous heart. Be a Kin, Sire, we repeat, and while the greatest and the best of men desire not to play the least part in the history of Kings. " Condescend, Sire, to accede to the wishes of your faithful subjects, who thus supplicate you, and who incessantly pray to the ALMIGHTY to preserve the life of your Majesty through a long course of years for the good of the Monarchy. " Valladolid, September 12,1821." [Then follow the signatures of the individuals composing the Patriotic Club, ant many of their fellow-citizens.] (Flom the " Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," in the last Number of the London ifiaazine.) I now pass to what is the main subject of these latter confessions, to the history and journal of what took place in my dreams; for these were the imme diate and proximate cause of my acutest suffering. The first notice I had of any important change going on in this part of my physical economy, was from the re-awakening of a state of eye generally in cident to childhood, or exalted states of irritability. I know not whether my reader is aware that many children, perhaps most, have a power of. painting, as it were, upon the darkness, all sorts of phantoms; in some, that power is simply a m ec h an i c affection of the eye; others have a voluntary, or a semi-vo luntary power to dismiss or to summon them; or, as a child once said to me when I questioned him on this matter, " I can tell them to go, and they go; hut sometimes they come, when I don't tell them to come: Whereupon I told him that he had almost as unlimited a command over apparitions, as a Ro man centurion over his soldiers. In the middle of 1817, I think it was, that this faculty became positively distressing to rue : at night, when I lay awake in bed, vast processions passed along in mournful pomp ; friezes of never-ending storks, that to my feelings were as sad and solemn as if. they were stories drawn from times before CEdi pus or Priam—before Tyre—before Memphis. And, at the same time, a corresponding change took place in my dreams ; a theatre. seemed suddenly opened and lighted up within my brain, which presented nightly spectacles of more than earthly splendour.— And the four following facts may be mentioned, as noticeable at this time :. 1. That, as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states cf the brain in• one point—that whatsoever 1 happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams ; su that I feared to exercise this faculty; for, as Midas turned all things to gold, that yet baffled his hopes and defrauded his human desires, so whatsoever things capable of being visually represented I did but think of •in the dark ness, immediately shaped themselves into phantoms of the eye ; and, by a process apparently no less inevi table, when thus once traced in faint and visionary colours, like writings in sympathetic ink, they were • drawn out by the tierce chemistry of my dreams, into insufferable splendour that fretted my heart. 2. For this, and all other changes in my dreams, were accompanied by deep-seated anxiety and gloomy melancholy, such as are wholly incommunicable by words. I seemed every night to descend, not meta phorically, but literally to descend, into chasms ani sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that I could ever re-ascend. Nor did I, by waking, feel that I had re , ascended. This I do not dwell upon ; because the state of gloom which attended these gorgeous spectacles, amounting at last to utter darkness, as of some suicidal despon dency,• cannot be approached by words. 3. The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutter able infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millenium passed in that time, or, however, of a dura tion far beyond the limits of any human experience. 4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or for gotten scenes of later years, were often revived : I could not be said to recollect them ; for if I had been told of them when waking; I should not have been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past expe rience. But placed as they were before me, in dreams like intuitions, and clothed in all their eva nescent circumstances and accompanying feelings, I recognized them instantaneously. I was once told by a near relative of mine, that having in her child hood fallen into a river, and being on the very verge of death but for the critical assistance which reached her, she saw in a moment her whole life, in its mi nutest incidents, arrayed before her simultaneously as in a mirror ; and she had a faculty developed as suddenly for comprehending the whole and every part. This, from some opium experiences -of mine, I can believe ; I have, indeed, seen the same thing as serted twice in modern books, and accompanied by a remark which I am convinced is true, viz. that the dread book of account, which the Scriptures speak of, is, in fact, the mind itself of each individual. Of this at least, I feel assured, that there is no. such thing as forgetting possible to the mind ; a thousand accidents may, and will interpoe a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind ; accidents of the same sort will also rend away this veil ; but alike, whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains for ever; just as the stars seam to withdraw before the common light of day, whereas, in fact, we all know that it is the light which is drawn over them as a veil—and that they ' are ivaiting to be revealed when the obscuring day. light shall have withdrawn. AMERICAN EivEts.—Dr. RANDALL and Lieutenant HULL, both of the Army, have fought a duel at Pensacola. The latter was shot through the body, and died in a few hoots. On the 7th of August, a' duel was fought at Baton Rouge, between F. L. AMELUNG, Esq. Sheriff, and Captain JONES, of the United States Army, in which the tnrmer fell. The ball fairly blew out his brains, and he may be said to have died,on the spot, although lie breathed for the space of nearly three hours after he was shot. His adversary received no injury. The distance was only five steps. •