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fr if • i ‘. . . LADY 11f0iM4N'S ITALY. • TO vir. F,DTtOR OF TITF. STAR. SIR —Being on the Continent at the time of the pub lication of the last Numher of the Quarterly Review, 1 had not, until lately, an opportunity of perusing the article purporting to be a review of Lady Morgan's Italy ; and had the Reviewer confined himself to the usual routine of criticism in his remarks on this pub. lication, I should not have presumed to interfere; since nothing can be farther from my wish than to enter into any political or literary discussion : but fir,ding the article in question, a mere tissue of asser tions and insinuations equally false and malicious, re lating exclusively to the management of this publica tion, I feel it, incumbent on sue to notice this novel mode of attacking a work through the Publisher, in stead of pointing out the error. of the Author, r giving even a single extract from the Work reviewed; and I think I shall prove that the dignity of criti , cism," of which the Editor of the Quarterly pretends to be so sensible, has been lamentably forgotten on this occasion. With respect to his first charge, I think it necessary to declare, lest any person should temain in doubton the subject, that the criticisms, which, in justice to the Author, I thought it my duty to disseminate in va- Timis Journals, were the unbiassed and spontaneous opinions of the several writers, and that I have never paid a single shilling for their inei tion in the Chro nicle, or any other Paper in which they originally appeared*. So much for the charge of puffing. which comes with an ill grace from this Reviewer. who, whenever it suits his purpose (as in the case of review ing his employers' publications) adopts the system in the most flagrant manner. !tut let this Quarterly puffer-speak for himself: al We understand that the sum an liberally given for T.ord %Val. degrave's Memoirs, has awakened out of the family ..erutoirs, Memoirs of his own Time, by Horace Walpole! that Mr.Mur. ray has purchased them AT A MAIIINIVSCILST PRICIL, and that they are in the press, and will shortly be given to the world. We con fess we eapeet Memoirs Irons Horace Walpole with much impa tience."—Qyartenty Review. Octave, p. 414. This, it moist be confessed. is an admirable specimen of the puff preliminary, and heats It, !low my "dig nified and emphatic ailivertiseinem" of the 17th Janu ary, as quoted by the Quarterly Rev-ewer : Preparing for the Press, Ivatx. By Lane MORGAN.' It is now nearly twelve months since these Memoirs, respecting which we have just read the puff-prelimi nary, were also formally announced in a " dignified • and emphatic advertisement;" yet, because ITALY was announced on the 17th of January, as preparing for the Press, and again at the end of August,as having been lately published, the ltea,iewer brings forward these facts as a root - that the work would not sell! Independently of advertising Lady Morgati'sWork before and after it came out, and owing to a !wort that an octavo edition was printed, circulated with a view of stopping the sale of the quarto,ljudgedit necessary to state that, in consequence of the large sum paid for the copyright. no cheaper edition was then in contem plation. I also mentioned that the work contained nearly 90() closely printed pages, to spew that there was no foundation for the outcry that had likewise been raised against the price of the work, which was extremely moderate, compared with many other Books of Travel t. This simple and necessary statement, however, is miraculously converted by the Quarterly Critic, into another proof of the dullness of the sale; and though in the affair of Lady Morgan, this Reviewer thinks a great price paid to an author a great evil—quality everything, and quantity nothing, yet the case is quite altered when he takes up the pen to puff his employer: sl caking of Waldegrave's Memoirs in the same number, page 413, he says— '. This leads us to make an observation or two on the price*, this book. It is a thin oto. of 176 pages, and contains not more letter-F.3s than might till 50 pages of our Review; and there fore, although the paper and type are very splendid, the price of twenty-five ebillirgs charged for it may appear enormous, and so we confess it seemed to us, till we heard of the esweinous slits glens fur the eqwrightt." And again, p. 414: " We are afraid that, after all, large prices will be found the surest stimulant to valuable publications." So much for the consistency of this Quarterly Critic! His intemperate zeal roust, however, defeat its own object. When he has the effronteryto assert that theTra weis were announced before the jonrtey was commenced ; that the price of the work paid the expenses of the tour; that hr has mot heard of any voluntary reader, who has been able to get through if:first volume;—that the work dropt still •born from Me press ; —that Me Public do not cure °boot the book; and. that the Public will not buy --1%. ho believes him? And what opinion must the thousands of buyers and readers of the work form of this Editor and his Review? But to strew, in the most satisfactory manner, the ' inefficacy of such ,!tempts to crush a most interest ing writer, I am ready to prove, that five hundred copies of this work were sold on the first day of pub lication ; that more copies have been disposed of during the last month, and since the appearance of the Quai terly Review, than in any preceding one since the da: of publication ; that a new edition is in pre paration ; that two editions, amounting to 4000 copies, have been printed at Paris, and another in Belgium: and, as a further testimony to the value of Lady Mor gan's writings, I seize the present opportunity of pub licly declaring my entire satisfaction at the result of the undertaking; and that I shall be most happy to receive from the author another work of equal inte rest, on the same terms. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Candtlit-street, Nov. 24, 1821. HENRY CO LBU RN. • The pwagraph alluded to by 44 John Bull," is an extract from the " Dublin Weekly Register "ajownal which the Quar terly Reviewers pretend not to recollect. These Gentlemen were, however, always aware of the convenience of a short memory. y Among sfty other examples of Books of Travels, more ex pensive, may be mentioned Eustacea Italy,two vols. 4to. £5 ss. - Hughes's Travels. two vols. 4to. £5 Ss. Sm. &c. This enormous sum was about one-fifth of the price given tor Italy. We copy the following explanation of some of the statements in the Quarterly Review, on the subject of Lady MORGAN'S Italy, from a contemporary Print consequence of some observations on the pries given for Lord Waramoaavit's Memoirs, which appeared in the Quarterly arsine of October, and have been lately quoted in a letter from Dir. Coati:air, printed in this Paper, we are requested to state, that the passage in the Review is founded entirely on a mistake. The Memoirs of Waldegrave; so far from awaltetatti oat if Me/easily scraggly Memoirs e bb own Tiste, by H.►ace had slept with them some years in that scrutoir, accompanied them as a sort of adjunct or appendage out of it, end were sold together woh them, or, tv um the auction phrase, in the same lot, v the Lama wort at kloaaen Wausau, which is now in the Press. As they,were thus purchased together in a lump, it is' not perhaps easylo distirgulsh th e p recise sum given for each. The whole, we ooderstand, wai sold for X 2,500. The b thatulk of of Lord WALDISGRAVeII wo rk is not equal to one-fifth of Moues WaLrozr, and the character of the author was COM. paratively little known before the publication. Nothing, then- - fore, beyond one-fifth of the purchase-money can be computed to form any part of the price given for a book which bears in size so small a proportion to the whole. If the book is considered by the best judges to be • an acquisition to the history and literature of the country,' the sum of £5OO for the copyright may be al lowed to be liberal, but will hardly deserve the epithet of titer- MOW bestowed•uponit so haailybyterterly Ravine THE STA R. LON DON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1821. PRICES OF srocas Tills DAY AT OWL O'CLOCK B an k Stock 2391/2-3 per Cent. Reduced 77% 1 / 8 3 per Cent. Cons. 78 1 / 4 -5 1 / 2 per Cent. 87 3 / 4 4 per Cent. 96% 7 8 5 per Cent. Navy Anns. 1107 b % Bank. Long Annuities 19 9-16 • India Bonds 665. 675. prem. Excheq. Bills £lOOO, Is. 2s. pre. par Ditto (Small) par, 4s. pre. Cons. for Acct. IS 1 / 1 3 77%. How little we hear now of Radicalism, in spite of the efforts of some injudicious time-servers to keep np the alarm ? How comes this ? In fact kind Pao- VIDENCE has so overruled everything regarding the supply of provisions that the industrious poor may new—after long starvation—fill their hungry bellies with wholesome food. Peace, it has been commonly observed, always brings Plenty in its train, in spite of every effort to maintain the enhanced prices occa sioned by the wastes of a state of warfare. It is not many months since our labouring population were in the most distressing circumstances, being unable, by their utmost industry, to obtain a supply of the ne cessaries of lift —A most unnatural state of things ; for the labourer must ever be worthy of his hire ; and his wages, according to all sound economists, should ever be equal to more than his bare mainte nance. Can it excite surprise that, in such circum stances they should have been loud in their complaints? Now, however, the outcry is in another quarter. The farmers cannot obtain prices for their produce suffi cient to enable them to pay their rents; the income of their landlords suffers a proportionate diminution; and in many instances the lattercannot induce tenants to occupy their farms, but are obliged to take them into their own hands. This, to be sure, is very dis tressing, but the landholders have never yet, with all the evils that press upon them, experienced the pains of absolute hunger, as thouEar.ds were compelled to do when they were wallowing in luxuries. But .how come the pike of provisions to be so llow ? They are not lower than they ought to be, the supply being now greater than the mouths to be filled can consume, owing, as we have said, to the waste of war being terminated. But if the prices be so low now, what would they have been reduced to if the doctrines of MALTIIUS and his admirers had keen practically pursued to the extent which these wiseacres —to be consistent with themselves—must have car tied them, if they had the power? According to them, the mouths that were crying to be filled some time ago, had no right to be supplied. Let this be kept in recollection, and along with this let it be also observed, that these very mouths have become regu lar consumers—and in great quantities too—of the abundant supplies now brought to market. But for these consumers the prices, which are now thought so inadequate, would be much lower than they are. Blind infatuated men! to imagine that your own wealth could be increased by a diminution of the number of consumers. These men complain alsosssand it will not be de nied that they have much reason to complain—of the weight of taxes by which they are pressed down, at the same time that their incomes are so much di minished. But let diem estimate, if they can, how much more heavily the zases would press upon them, but for the consumption of taxed articles by the very class which at one time, if they could, certain men would willingly have seen extirpated from the face Of our whole soil. The evils of which our agricul turalists complain are partial and light compared to those which were endured by the community when they found no reason to be dissatisfied. That state of things which dispenses happiness to the greatest number of individuals, is ever the best for a community genet ally. This is an undeniable axiom in political economy ; and, taking this view of our present circumstances, we must hold that the country is in a much better condition, than it was no very long time ago, when our labouring classes were in such a state of destitution as to leave them a ready prey to the machinations of evil-minded men. Let people generally be only able, by their industry. to supply their own wants, and they will never listen, for a moment, to those who . would make them in struments of mischief. But let them be subjected to such a state of privation as was experienced when our corn was high, and the wages of labour inade quate, and no casuistry will suffice to keep them quiet. It is not in the nature of things that men can sub mit, without a murmur, to privations and want, when willing to labour, and surrounded with plenty. In such circumstances they know there must be something radically wrong, and nothing can be more natural than that they should seek for a radical re medy, however ignorant they may be both of the real causes of their suffering and the proper means for obtaining relief from their sufferings.—ln one word, Radicalisat—tbat convenient term, so often in the mouths of the real enemies of the country, has been cut up root and branch, by our return to rational and moderate prices for the necessaries of life. CONFIRMATION OF THE FALL OF LIMA.. LLOYD'S, NOVENIBF.R 27:1421. The Baltic Merchant arrived in the Downs yester day from Valparaiso, from whence she sailed on the 18th August, and brings a confirmation of the fall of Lima. General SAN MARTIN eMered that city on the 12th of July. PRIVATE LETTERS. " Lima was entered by General SAN MARTIN and his Staff on the 12th July, the gates having been thrown open to him by the inhabitants, and their in dependence declared." Another letter states—" An Army of the Inde pendents is now marching against Quito." FALL OF CARTHAGENA. - - - A Jamaica Mad arrived this day, bringing Papers to the 7th ult. FROM THE ROYAL GAZETTE OF OCTOBER 6. By the schooner John we have received accounts of the City of Carthagena having capitulated, on the 25th ult. to the Independents. On the 26th, Colonel Miguel Martinez, Aide-de•Camp to General Montilla, arrived express at Savanilla from Turhuca with the above intelligence, and with an order for all vessels at that port to discharge their cargoes, and proceed to Carthagena to take the Governor-General Torres, and the garri , on of that fortiess, to Cuba. The schooner Hall, of Bristol, and the sloop Greyhound, were both taken possession of in consequence, and an Officer and .fifleen soldiers put on board each, with directions to call off Santa Martha. — When off that port, they fell in with the Nautilus , brig, of i 8 guns, who sent the soldiers on shore, and ordered the vessels to return to Savanilla and take in their cargoes. On their going back to Savanilla, they were seized and sent away, under protection of two gunboats, for Boca Chica, from whence it was expected they would take the Spanish troops on board and depart immediately for St. Jago de Cuba. We learn that General Montilla, previous to the capitulation of Carthagena, had bombarded that City from the Popa, and done much injury to it from the fire of six long guns and two mortars. The intelligence from South America received this' morning is of the highest importance. The fall of Lima is confirmed. General SAN MARTIN entered the city on the 12th of July. To this intelligence, so interesting to the commercial world, we have to add, that Carthagena has also yielded to the Patriots. This city, which, from its peninsular situation, and the strength and regularity of its fortification, was capable of making a strong defence, capitulated on the 25th of September. Independent of the great probability that the war in South America will soon be terminated, and that the whole of that vast Continent will become inde pendent, the fall of Lima and of Carthagena, of themselves open a most extensive field for European commerce ; of which it is to be hoped Great Britain will not be the last to avail herself. The advantage-' ous situation of Carthagena, the extent and security of its bay, and the great share it acquired of the commerce of the Southern Continent, long rendered it the most esteemed settlement and emporium of the Spaniards in the New World. Carthagena was chosen as the port in which the galeons should first begin to trade on their arrival from Europe, and to which they were directed to return. It was the mart to which the inhabitants of the neighbouring provinces resorted ; and the merchants of Santa Pe, Popayan, and Quito, not only disposed of all their stock, but also laid out all the money entrusted by commission for such goods as were most wanted in their respec tive countries. Although Carthagena has suffered by the change which has taken place in the Spanish system of trade with America, yet the wealth which it is known is collected there, now that the city and province is inde pendent, must find or create employment for itself, or may be turned with advantage to some new channel. Its harbour is so safe, and so conveniently situated for receiving commodities from Europe; its merchants have been so long accustomed to convey those into all the adjacent provinces, that it is probable they will still retain this branch of trade, and Carthagena re-assume the commercial impertance which it so long possessed. Lima is the grand entrepBt for the whole Vice royalty of Peru. Its wealth is chiefly derived from the mines in the Provinces to the north and south.— It has an extensive intercourse with the neighbouring I coasts; and there is not a Province in the whole of Peru that does not transmit to Lima its produce, and supply itself with the necessary imports of other countries. As Spain will scion be compelled to recognize the independence of South America, we trust that we shall soon form a commercial treaty with every inde pendent Province, which would be of the most sig [ nal service to the commerce of this country. Saturday evening the Duke of YORK arrived in town from Rendlesham Hall,Woodbridge, where his Royal Highness had been on a shooting party. The Duke of CLARENCE came to town on Friday morning, and returned to Bushy the same evening. The Duke of CUMBERLAND and family will, it it. expected, return to this country to reside, at the desire of his MAJESTY; the residence of their Royal Highnesses, in the King's Kitchen Cour ► , iy prepa? In fur their reception. DISTURDAIVCES IN IRELAND. The Dublin Evening Post of Satur&y, account of the Inquest on the bodies of the unfost s , nate persons so cruelly murdered in the Cou nty Tipperary, and of which we gave an account day. The Jury, on proceeding to the hou se o f deceased SklEit, counted the bodies which had i t 4 taken from the ruins: they were sixteen in nu m b er, Their names are as follow : Ed mon d Shea, Mary Shea, Edmond Shea, jun. Mary jun. Nicholas Shea, jun. Margaret Shea, Mich ae l B ah l. Mullaly, Michael Mukahy, Catherine motaret : shoo.' M. ty Power, Win. Rice, and three men unknown. After the examination of the witnesses, the 351. y turned the following verdict: " Burnt to death, by the wilful setting o n fi re of the he ,g Edmond Shea, on the night between the 19th and. dith ut as vember instant." APPREHENSION OF THE MURDERERS Or Tilt MA L An account has just ieached our Office that fourpz sons have been arrested upon suspicion o f b e i ng or, cci ned in di; horrible outrage.— Kari/ M o de,,, tv Upon this barbarous murder theLehnter Jorr + . observes, " we have received some i nformati on a s t , the pro'bable motive for forming the conspin e , perpetrating these murders, which it would be 's, dicioas to publish at the present moment. Wi wi to say Shea was a land-job!ier.' DUBLIN. The Magistrates of the Police Divisions ofl - street and of Monmouth-street have had all the* licans w•ithiu their jurisdiction assembled, ;tad, a i te a suitable admonition on the vice of drunken„, * cautioned them to discourage all meeting; in the, houses for improper purposes, and hoped they ire:i co-operate with the 'Magistrates to preserve the c e 3 uncontaminated from the crimes of the south of land; when Messrs. Gaynor and Kennedy, on bet 4 of their brother-publicans, promised to lend ern aid in their power. KILKENNY. Last Tuesday night a notice (which now Lei tl our Office) was attached to the door of a fame named RocuE (a tenant of WILLIANI STRANGEWA Esq. for part of the lar.ds of Scort, in the Enid Dungowan, in the County of Kilkenny, and clan about seven miles from this city), requesting ki ll and another tenant on those lands, of the nana si KEREVAN, to quit possession within four days,ua& the penalty of receiving a visit from "M o //Do: and having themselves murdered and their bozo and property burned. Thursday being the day for holding the Fairs Templemat tin, in the Barony of Gowran, and will a mile and a half of this city, a notice was Os i s sip posed at an early hour in the morning) posted a s gate opposite the Custom-gap, leading into thebir green, threatening " to card any person from hal to foot" who should pay tythes or taxes therda notice. This placard, which was signed Star," was torn "own by the Rev. Mr. Tomato, a Magistrate of the County, about twelve o'clock; but in about two hours afterwards, was rephadiy another of the same tendency, which was taken don by ROBERT BARTON, Esq. another Magistrate. We have been informed that similar notices were posted up at other places in the same Barony, and in tie immediate neighbourhood of this city.—Kilken Moderator, Nov. 23. COME . . _MURDER NEAR ICATURII. We haVe, with much regret, to place on rend another most sanguinary act of those misguided*, deluded wretches, who continue to disturb them of the County. By accounts which reached taw, terday, it. appears that a numerous party rata on Monday night to the house of Jartemtnu Scut who resided near Kanturk ; having dragged bias a short distance from his house, they shot then* fortunate victim ; and Cher, having prepared abl fire, they threw the body into the flaming pile. 11 crime alleged against SCuLLY, was his being* petted of having given information to some ci I neighbouring Magistrates.—Cork Chronick, Nal LIMERICK. A Meeting of the Magistrates, Gentlemen, Landholders of the Eastern merick, was held at Linter% ber, when, among others, were unanimously agreed " Resolved, That we are of , sent into a part of this District, suppression of the regular night) we beg leave to mcummend to cs i ssity of a farther distribution finnan, Cialballa, Rallyorgan, at which places there is {ufficirui of cavalry and infantry. " Resolved, That we are of ordinary military force being arc confident it will he ineffect be re-enacted ; and we strongly support the Rill when brought A person of the name mitred to Sligo Jail, for the Ballina Yeomanry ; Gallagher, in whose possession some pars , uR learn, of a seditious tendency have been fotiad,iiT tamed in the guard-room of Ballina, w aiting tbel cision of the Government, to whom thosepPer° been submitted.—Mayo Constitution. CLARE. ENNIS, Nov. 22.—The tithe Proctr A. DAVOREN and the Rev. J. ()TWA' of their tithe hooks a few days ago, i hood of Miltown Malbay ; they rev injury, but were cautioned hy the coming to look for tithes for the fut determined, they said, not to pay any, COUNTY OF LIMERI LlmitßicK, NtAr. 21.—At the eat o'elock on Sunday evening last, the CARTE, Esq. at Birdhill, county of entered by a gang of ruffians, and hi This is the first attempt of the ki bourhood, and w•e ate sorry to sa' subordination are fast sowing in di; able dist: ict. Saturday night, a man of the residing on the lands of Carbatie. on his way home from this city, 'Graloe, by some men, who beat of voiles and other weapons. An trig( dy t W Fe d to i bis t Watt own *At cat te cane. gh tbe I song cf as 0 1 mod pawl the . - 004 ? ;tat with Jest , Gee doe: two tali loos Jaw Ea do. Ism 8:, Fell Pro Dy artr Gm ow ; RUA Loo iso bag obi OW Is b !id im !rn port of the county al . eric k, on the 21st of ' a, the following Reid d to : f opinion that the , troops* art perfectly inadequris ghtly dhturbances that ottli, • the Government the sill. 1 to the following plaon,4 o Garryspleane, liltuu , sad 6 0 u( accommodation for brier° opinion, notwithstandingsst. stationed in the country- 10 ctual, unkss the Inwrrectiril ;ly call upon our Reptesenno it forward in Parliament." MAYO. of Gallagher 61, taking a musket Waco!" and a man named *P 3ctors of the ,.... t. A y, were ogr in the neight o j ceived nor!' peasantrisej. 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