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LITERATURE. 14; •1 ! 4 The Truth respecting the Revolution which broke owl ix Paris, is the month of Jtcy, 1030, its gasses oralits roavegnences.-2e. ed. This pamphlet is a manifesto from Holvrood, and, there- 1 fore, a political and his;orical curiosity. If the rapacity of courtiers was compatible with the tights and interests of people, it would be a good case. It is, however, proper to hear both sides, for hitherto the evidence has all been one way. The cause of kings is ruined by their hangers-on ; these again Ly a second set; and the second by a third set, increasing in each grade in rapacity, insolence and intoler ance. kings, who do their duty, should look at constables, overseers and sheriffs officers, and not judge of their govern ment by the smooth-faced and well-dressed gentleness by which they are personally surrounded. When in France we judged of its government, by the impertinence of its custom house officers, and yens d'armerie, not by the urbanity of its king and his ministers. France, after pushing her victories, and her conquests beyond all rea sonable bounds, exhausted by so many cffons, and, in her turn, van quish.d and subdued, owed her safety (says the writer) only to the ha tsrvention of that august house de Bourbon, against whom those con cerned in the July events have evinces! so much ingratitude. 'foe restoration, consequently, was a great benefit, and this benefit was crowned by the enactment of the charter. Every sacrifice was made for the reconciliation of parties ; for the mutual guarantee of those interests arising out of the revolution and the empire even for the foundation of liberty, the name of which had scarcely been heard under the imperial government. The restoration, alike generous and confid ing, as far as was possible, hastened to give to the established order all the requisites of strength and duration, not only in the formal provi sions of the charter ; but also by the creation of two political Chant ben and their co.operation in the exercise of the legislative power. This new form of government was modelled from England ; and the Bourbons, in establishing it in France, bad reason to expect a difficult development, and consequently were warranted in adopting every pre caution to prevent the gift from becoming fatal. The Bourbons forget that they were restored by a conven tion, the terms of which were expressed in the declaration from Hartwell. But pride led Louis to convert the condi tions into the grace of a charter—a change which generated all the subsequent discontents. In France, an aristocracy was scarcely left. In vain had the charter restored their titles to the ancient, and preserved those of the imperial, nobility. An invincible spirit oiequality, the consequence of past po litical storms, repelled all prerogatives in the distinction of ranks. In France, scarcely was any political force retained by the landed interests, owing to their property being incessantly subdivided by the civil legislation; and, instead of social habits, the offspring of time, which preserve their families and strengthen their influence, ideas of am bition and instability rose up, diametrically opposed to the division of classes. In a word, in a great part of France. even among the most influential on account of their central position, little faith was placed in religion and less respect entertained for its ministers. Snell was 012 situation of France, at the period of the Restoration, and most assuredly it was easy to foresee that the establishment of a constitutional government could not there be effected without difficul ties and danger ; that the freedom of the tribune and of the press, in a nation naturally inflammable, could not fail to embitter the passions • lead parties astray, and afford fresh opportunities to the revolutionar y faction, greatly reduced in number and much despised; yet always to be dreaded, owing to their audacity. Tice Char er, in preserving the Imperial Nobles, went no further than to restore to the Ancient ones their titles; but, through the revo lution, the latter had lost useful privileges and rights. The clergy, who had not been reestablished, under the Empire, except in a political point of view, and justly thought that religious considerations would in fluence the minds of the descendants of St. Louis, had. in like manner and through the very same causes, been stripped of great prerogatives, as well as territorial revenues, of considerable extent. The various losses, which had become irreparable, through the ac cumulation of interests which had availed themselves of times of anar chy, as well as owing to the tendency of general Wars, the Restoration had considered as no longer redeemable. Its adversaries, however, cal. lumniated the good faith of this determination : arraigned its sincerity, and, under these odious pretexts, hastened to threaten the present pro prictors and cultivators with the early return of feudal rights and tythes. In vain had the Charter confirmed the national sales of the immense propctty of the church and the emigrants, made to an infinite number of purchasers. The same men and the same journals constantly indulged in these insinnations. with a view to alarm the holders re specting the duration of their bargains. Finally, every engine was em ployed to propagate errors ; to wound the self-love of the nation and to excite fears and alarms ;—to revive pretensions and resentments. Thence followed inevitable dissensions. Parties were formed, whilst, on the one band, the most exaggerated ideas were engendered, and, on the other, and this perhaps among the greatest number, distrus gra. dually sprung up. It coal under the Influence of this baneful spirit, that the law of elections was made, in 1617, and afterwards converted ism a funda mental one , after being modified in some of is provisions. The charter had established, as a principle, that no one should be an elector who did not pay three hundred banes of direct conni butions ; whereas the new law, by straining the interpretation of this article, extended the electoral franchise to every indie vidual, paying this sum, which does not represent more than 15001 francs income. From this it resulted that the small proprietor', infi nitely more numerous in the electoral colleges than the large ones, and naturally jealous of the latter, controlled the elections which, carried on under the progressive ascendancy of the same distrust, added to the leaven alecarry worknig in the public mind. The revolutinaary faction, whose strength heal been increased by the One Hundred days crisis, and to whose handiwork the very distrust entertained of may be attributed, had proceeded onwards with an ha bitual perfidy. by adding thereto all the other topics of alarm which bad faith caull invent. These their Journals incessantly spread abroad and the tribune re-echoed. Soon emboldened, this same faction dared to n i:roduce the doctrines of Jacohinism under the name of Liberal Opinions, and with them France became infected; the distemper not even stopping at the frontiers, of which proofs were soon afterwards exhibited. The election of a regicide anti other symptoms had already excited the uneasiress of the government. when a horrid and revolting crime, the assassination of one of the Blood Royal, instigated by political fanaticism, unveiled the whole extent of the abyss and loudly called for a remedy. Changes were made in the Electoral Law ; and the two- Wths of the Depivics, whose number was augmented, corresponded to the large landed interests, the departmental colleges ; whilst the ether three-fifths were derived front the disoict colleges, in which the small proprietors continued to prevail. Precautions were at the same Cote taken ag.smo the licentiousness of the periodical press, to the ex.' cess s of which soy justly was attributed she commission of that crime which had Jas.+ before czrried terror and dismay throughout France. S son after the direful assassivation which plunged the whole of the Furth into rmurning, revolutions, produced by the same causes, broke out in Spain. and successively in Naples and Turin. They were soon subdued in Piedmont and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; hut the scourge continued to desolate Spain, and was there only overcome and the King re-established on his throne, in 1023, by the aid of a French army. led on by a Plince of the Blood Royal. Noble enter prise! conceived in that spirit of loyalty and reciprocal feeling which led to the strong and immutable engagements subsisting between the Sovereigns of Europe, for the mutual security and happiness of no. Lions ; and, during the progress of which, the army and its august Commander acquired so much glory by their success, as well as by those sentiments of generosity and moderation which marked their whole conduct. Such ate the mistakes by which princes fondly deceive themselves. The Duc de Bourbon was hated,—and the tri umph over free principles in Spain rendered his brother and family equally hateful. If they had compelled Ferdinand to give to Spain a Constitution, how different would have been the public feelings! The interval which elapsed between 1820 and 1827, witnessed the publication of numberless volumes, containing the anti-religious and anti-monarchical doetrin.s which had most contributed to the revolution of 1789. in these incessant publications, were seen figuring, with equal profusion, select extracts from historians= pretended histotical Memoirs, composed by the coalesced talents of young adepts, in which the facts were either changed, imaginary, or perverted, in order to present no other than a tissue of defamations against Kings, Priests, and Nobles. The greater part of these books were of the pocket Mae, and sold at low prices, in order to be within the reach of the people. All this while, the periodical papers, devoted to the party and seconded by pamphlet. of Leery kind, rivalled each other in bitterness and perfidy. All a consequence of the overthrow of liberty in Spain and Naplcs, and the intimate confederacy of France with the despots of Europe, in the teeth of that Charter, of whose liberality this author so inconsistently boasts. During the progress of this systematic plan of warfare and in MM. a new reign commenced for France. Charles X. succeeded to the =pit Author of the Charter, and, like his predecessor, shewed himself the scrupulous observer of all its enactments. His frankness : his noble trl anity ; his unwearied benevolence and that warm effusion of heart, " the lapse of years, disarmed the most embittered sad tint those who had hitherto stood aloof from the threes, ing received with eagerness and kindness by a King who loved, without ceasing to be obeyed. tetion beheld with fretfulness and chagrin. lotffectuallp ;:e• t f the new reign directed to the suppression of the CS& montns previously and under Louis XVIII. opined so abuses of the most intoterable kind. Those Journals which had most contributed to the adoption of the meanie, were again eager and ready to indulge in the pleasure of ingratitude. In like manner, the other branches of an inimical press aimed their envenomed shafts against a popularity which alike alarmed and wounded them. Their audacity, bad faith and the activity of their publications, surpassed all bounds. The dread of tythes and feudal lights, so long wielded fur insidious pur poses, bad at length become ltarmkvs, and for it the terror of Jesuitism was substituted. AU the unfavourable recollections relating to this Order, long ago suppressed, were drawn fotth and wantonly exagge rated Soon, the same denomination was extended to the whole clergy, and successively applied to all men, openly religious. All was an extensive conspiracy, it was given out, which, ere long, would subvert the established order ; tyrannize over the consciences of all, and raise up a fanatical dominion over the rcople and the throne; notwithstanding it was well known that, throughout the whole king dom, there only existed seven atablisinnents for public instruction, held by ecclesiastics belonging to that ancient corporation, under the name of " Fathers of the Faith," allowed lu France even under the Imperial government ; to whom were added a certain number of missionaries. Such means of delusion and defamation, copiously and actively em ployed, would at length have perverted the public opinion of the cold loot nation—one the most strongly imbued with oppokite sentiments. With greater reason then must expedients like these have continually agitated the breasts of the French people, susceptible of the liveliest impressions, and who, in consequence of what had been happening fur several years past, were predisposed to the admission of errors of this kind. Hence the elections of 1827 soon shelved the fatal effects of these baneful doctrines, and the impulse then given and continually kept up by precisely the same manoeuvres, was never afterwards stopped. Soon afterwards those Ordinances were Issued which closed the esta blishments of the jesuits; excluded the ecclesiastics of this Order from all public and religious functions, and prescribed, in regard of small seminaries, prohibitions sal restraints which distressed the Clergy, although die sacrifice was demanded at the shrine of liberal opinions. Other concessions were made to the order of the day, by the law that relieves the press from every possibility of censure, and diminished the securities required for the journals; by the law respecting the deem ral lists, which subjected the administrative authorities to suspicious and incessant investigations, by rendering their operations subordinate. to the rival authority of the tribunals, and delivering them up, almost defenceless, to the attacks, from that time legal, or party spirit. Concessions, of a still more extensive kind, were to be found in the projects of a law on the departmental and communal administration, presented to the Chamber of Deputies, &e. hut, however great the sa crifices made, within the short spate of eighteen months, to liberal opinions, they only rendered the party more importunate, without breaking, or weekening, their connection with the inimical faction in the train of which they still continued to move—that faction which be. cave more implacable in proportion as it approached the object to which it bad been tending, ever since the restoration. But all these concessions were extorted, and nothing was conceded, nor half so much as was secured by the decla ration from Hartwell, or even by the Charter which had adroitly mystified the former. The author of this observation wrote the declaration from Hartwell, and the restoration was its coosequence. He was in Paris in 1818, while there were five insurrections, and the king paid him the compliment to send for him, but he declined to see his Majesty, and replied in seven words, " Respect the Charter, or return to exile." The royal power kal already experienced too many aggressions anil saw itself surrounled by too many hostilities, to allow itself to lie ex. nosed with impunity to the dangerous consequences of nn nttempt, of the must grievous character, levelled against its most essential tights, by the majority of the Chandler of Deputies, composed of 221 mem. ben. This Chamber was prorogued t.nd shortly afterwards ills. solved. _ _ In the interval, no pains were spared] to enlighten the electors, du rirg this new appeal to their own amscienees. A royal proclamation expressed the affliction caused by the inconceivable refusal of 7221 them. hers to concur ; the blame thereby incurred, jointly with the most pa ternal sentiments of the King ; his religious attachment to the charter; together with his full determinsdon to allow or nothing opposed to the rights and liberties of the people, which he identified with the rights and liberties of the Crown. Fruitless solicitude ! The liberal journals calumniated the language then uttered; in the character of masters, they dictated the will and wishes of the directing Committees and leaguing themselves with the ramifications of that Club. spread all over France, they boldly com manded the re-election of the 221 Deputies and were blindly obeyed. A deplorable success followed, which equally bore the character of a real outrage. The Crown was thus reduced to the most painful extremities. It was necessary to submit—the royal dignity was to be degraded by tamely enduring the insult offered ; or, the moment had arrived to re- I gain the strength, requisite for its very existence, by preserving theirs tegrity of the kingly authority, and this was now no longer to be done, unless by extraordinary means, all the ordinary ones having been al. ready exhausted. This conspiracy, the centre of which was in Paris, nevertheless, did riot reckon in its ranks and among Its auxiliaries, any other than a weak minority of Frenchmen. The whole of its ascendancy was wielded by the press ; by the journals acting under the orders of its leaders and the eager propagators of their doctrines, as well as through the exten- 1 sive chain which, issuing from the directing committee, stretched out to all the departments ; the secondary links being however managed more by dupes, than accomplices. The very elements of this conspiracy, a arrange compound of turbulent spirits, trained to corruption, impiety, sad unbridled ambition, which could only be satisfied by the expedient of an usurpation, were in themselves incompatible with the restoration, of which the impulse and the laws incessantly caused the princi ples of order, peace, probity and religion to prevail in society; and. in the exercise of the regal power, preserved the habits of moderation, jus tice and liberty. It was precisely in this spirit, and within these bounds, that the Ordinances of the 26th July were drawn up. They were acts of the moment measures of safety, of which an account was to be rendered to the Chambers, at the opening of their session ; that hi, before the ex piration of two months, since one of the very Ordinances fixed the , opening previous to that term. The first, preceded by an exposition of the motives fully unfolded, had for object to suspend the ravages of the press, and with this view re-produced the provisional law of 1014, attaching thereto the means of execution. _ _ The second was calculated to withdraw, in the elections to which it had been deemed necessary to recur, the electoral colleges from the despotism of the journals and the directing committee. To this end it enlarged the electoral share of the landed interests, particularly of the larger dais, and temporarily put in force several enactments of the Charter, which subsequent laws bad modified. The third pronounced the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies, newly elected ; convened the electoral colleges, and fixed the opening of the parliamentary session. If the crown had formed the intention, maliciously attributed to it, of thenceforward freeing half from the constitutional trammels and preparing the enunter.revolution, would its ministers 1 - nre confined se or,!i 0. 2 Ningt r'.“`l , . 01' . nn. Tee Arank and too open-hearted sus eft, supported by an armed force, in which all the disposable means were collected, and waiting only me favourable moment for an explosion, would have been the result. Hence was it that, on the very first day, the tri.coloured flag was seen floating, and the cries of " Death to the King and Royal Family," distinctly ' were heard ! As early as the Monday morning, the Marshal of France on duty ; in command of the royal guard. and at the same time governor of the military division of Paris., had received orders from the Ring further to take upon him eelf the command of this cum.. The armed revolt which had broke oat on the Tuesday, having shown that it was a matter of the greatest urgency to carry the means of defence and the preservation of public order still further, a royal ordinance, issued on the Wednesday morning, declared the city of Paris to be in a state of siege, conformably to the provisions of the ex isting laws, in all similar cases of insurtection. The Marshal com manding. therefore found himself, by virtue of this ordinance, which was immediately forwarded to him, invested with the civil and military powers. The forces under his command scarcely amounting to 8,000 men, he confined himself to the occupation and defence of that part of the city, situated on the right bank of the Seine, and conformably to this determination his arrangements were made. On the Wednesday, by eleven o'clock, the revoke,s were at their posts and ready to act. The contest commenced a few minutes after wards, and continued, with increased ardour, till night. The troops, confined in the streets of so large a city, compelled to form separate detachments, and unable to support each odicr, or to keep their oom inunications open, fought, under every species of disadvantage, against adversaries eight, or ten times their own number, and consequently in a situation to renew their attacks; uniformly retaining the attitude of assailants and fighting from the tops of houses; from behind intratch *nous and frequently from behind masses of the people, attracted to the scene of action by curiosity. Towards eight o'clock in the, evening, in obedience to the orders which he had just recieved from the King, and of which mention will be hereafter made, the Marshal, seeing besides that with so small a force, already diminished by severe losses, it would he out of his power to continue the defence on so large a scale, directed all the troops to draw back and take up positions only on the Louvre, lea Tuileries, in the neighqourhood, and the Champs Elyseee, re-establishing on the latter point the communications which, for several hours, bad been in terrupted with St. Cloud. He at the same time, despatched &regiment to Vincennes, to procure ammunition and artillery, having only, in the course of the day, been able to bring up six cannons, of small calibre. The insurgents, however, being assembled in great numbers on the di. rat roads, this regiment was forced to pursue a long and devious march and thus prevented from returning to St. Cloud before the fol lowing day, when Paris had been evacuated. After nine hours fighting, of the most painful kind, as well as the moat unfavourable, in every respect, the were concentrated in their new positions, morally and physleallyltined. They had taken no h.freAment since the morning, when they rat quilted their quer ters.—Twelve bows bud elapsed and no rations were prepared to dis tribute to diem. _ _ _ _ On the following morning, no better supplies of food were to be had than during the preceding evening. The ammunition also began to be eahausted, in the course es the night, so that, on the Thursday, the position of the troops was rendered really distressing, in every respect; whereas the audacity and number of tho revolted had considerably in creased, through infatuation and success. About noon, a Swiss battalion, posted in the court yard of the Louvre having seen the surrounding buildings evacuated by another battalion, at the time in charge of them, and immediately afterwards invested by the insurgents, astonished at these hostilities 'lox it was supposed that a suspension of arms had been agreed upon, and conceiving that they were abandoned, or betrayed, marched off towards the Tuileries, where this ntovetnent communicated the same impressions to a part of the troops stationed there. The incident then gave rise to a precipitate re treat towards the Champs Elysees. Soon afterwards, the retreat became general on St. Cloud, conformably to the orders just issued by the King. The Duke de Montemart ' on duty at St. Cloud, was appointed mi. Meter of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council of Ministers, and sent to Paris with the full powers required. The King relied on his early return, or, at hart, on a quick dispatch, so that he might be able to learn the result of his mission. He did not return—he did not even write. Nevertheless, Charles X. bound by his word, far from sus pecting all that was going on, at that critical moment, in the secret councils which were disposing of the destinies of France, in so arbitrary a manner; supposing that the negotiations of the Duke de Montemart met with delay in some quarter, or other, it not being possible to ac count for his silence in any other manner, and much less to doubt his intentions, anxiously awaited his return, or letters from him, scrupu lously abstaining front all measures which could in the least obstruct the road to conciliation that had been opened. It being found impos sible, at St. Cloud and in the neighbourhood, to procure the provisions requisite for the troops, whom it was besides expedient to remove from' the temptations of all kinds with which the numerous emissaries of the revolted assailed them, he merely determined to depart on the Saturday morning from St. Cloud, in order to proceed to Versailles, and after wards to Rambouillet, where he arrived on the same day at eleven in the evening. It was not till Sunday, the let of August, that the King was in. Muted by a faithful servant, just arrived from Paris, that about fifty ' Deputies had assembled on the Friday eveningg, the 30th of July, and declared the Duke of Orleans Lieutenant- General of the kingdom, withou. entering into the question of Legitimacy; and that, In the course of :Saturday, the Prince had taken upon himself to accept the appoitatnent. The King at the same time learnt that a municipal coin ...time, the members of which had been sitting for two days, at the Town ihdl,untler the presidency of M. tie lat Faette, whom they had also appointed Commandant-General of the Na tional Guard, thus dia. positig, as If by sovereign authority, of the numerous forces, armed and drawn togetler by means of the insurrection, were meditating re ,olutiona still wore fatal. On receiving this news, Charles X. deeply afflicted with the misfor tunes which um about to beEd France ; ever anxious to diminish them, as much as he could ; desirous of affording to his cousin all the means neectsary to accomplish this wish, as well as to withdraw him from the labia position—the painful enibarrasment in which he must have been placed, in his own eyes, by an appointment so arbitrarily conferred upon him and which he had considered himself bound to accept ; rely ing also on the loyal intentions of the Prince , as well on account of t he fatally tics, as the bandits which he had received from the King Louis XVIII. and also from himself Charles X. appointed him Lleutartnt (lateral of the Kingdom • and, going still further, on the very next (14, confided to him the itegeney in tin Mt containing his own abdica tion and that of his son, M. le Dauphin, in favour of his grand son, the Duke de Bordeaux. The Acts of which mention is here made, haring reached the Duke of Orleans, the King was about to choose the place of nis retreat. when commissioners were sent to hint on the part of the municipal committee of l'aris, inviting him to hasten his departure from the kingdom. and on his refusal to receive so indecent an injunction, a party of the rc. yoked lett the capital in order to proceed towards Runaboutllet. The Dauphin, justly irritated, at that moment wished, as he had done some days before, at :st. Cloud, to place hintsek at the head of the troops, in order to punish so daring an insult, or to shed his blood in sustaining the rights and dignity of his noble Family, The King however, ob. jetted, and his detarnination being irrevocably fised, be set out for Cherbourg, accompanivl by the persons belonging to his household, heart-broken at the calamities which he was leaving behind him ; at the consternation prevailing along the line of road which he was pur suing, and the mournful affliction depicted on the countenances of the military of all tanks and classes, who were performing, without con. ceiving why, the painful duty of accompanying the last steps un their native land, of an august family, united to France by so many rights, recollections and benefits. _ _ The new King of the French WS% soon afterwards, not consecrated— not crowned, but merely installed, by means of a ceremony similar to that adopted'. at the installation of the resident of a court, a prefect, or a mayor by convening thereto the authorities, or public functionaries, his equals , or inferiors, in precedence. No more show was now seen around the throne—no royal guards—nothing that could gratify that just self love, or corresponded with the advanced state of civilisation in Prance; notwithstanding this new King was called upon to take his place, and in the foremost rank, among the sovereigns of the other states of Europe t to t a nation too great and too proud to bear any comparison, calculated to inflict a wound in the person of its august chief. In the mean while, that child, the pure Mood of thy Kings, lives and grows strong under the shelter of the Sassotuary. Heaven seems to rejoice in forming his heart and his mind; in revealing to him thy qualities and thy wants, and the miracle of his birth holds out to thee the prospect of happier times ! Such are the illusions of royalty concentrated by flattery and fostered by education and self-love This is not the time to taunt a fallen race with instances of their positive infractions of their own charter, and with their own fretful dominion under what they considered its irksome restraints. Kings and ministers are too apt to consider the world as blind, or capable of being blinded. But the days are past when soothing words and self-sdulation have influence, for the press and general illumination rendering the governed as wise as their governors, facts and nothing but facts are the instruments of durable power. PAN ()MAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. SUSSEX ADVERTISER, APRIL 25. (For the Election New see our third page.) Two fires took place on Wednesday night last, on two different farms in the occupation of Mr. Philip Jenner ; of New Close, in the parish of Keymer, on one farm. a COTll4ttek was consumed, and on the other two stacks of hay were destroyed. The improvements in the Royal Pavilion pleasure-grounds and gar dens go on rapidly—they include a handsome range of buildings, with white brick fronts, which is intended, perhaps, to extend the accommo dations designed for the immediate visitors at the royal palace. Th e e 1. n ,0 rnyll. in PrincegA'gplace, is undergoing improvements. 'Tile organ gnu.. j La vt,; intivve. tAzan, ty Flight and Co. is to occupy the site in which lathe royal pew at present. Two new suites of Baths, the one for ladies, the other for gentle. men at the southern extremity of the Chain-pier, are to be set about forthwith. Zoological Gardens, upon rather a splendid plan, are contemplated here—the situation pointed out is the Cricket-ground, to the south of the " Royal Brighton Gardens," so called by the late King, which are to remain undisturbed. The designs have been made by Mr. Wilds. The principal building is to be in the shape of a cross, extending 120 feet, with a dome in the centre rising nearly 00 feet, which will con.' lain a conservatory, &c. Dens for certain classes of animals are to bel included in other pans of the pile. Two large fish, distinguished as the marble fish, not often seen In this part of the world, wcrc brought to shore by one of our boats at the beginning of the week past which have since been exhibited under an awning on the beach, and with tolerable advantage to the fishermen. In length the said fish measure about 12 feet. MARRIED.—At Shoreham, Mr. William Linton, of Horsham, to Sarah, second daughter of the late Mr. Charles Child. Hursperpoint, Mary Ann, only daughter of Hampton Weekes, Esq. aged 19. EAST ANGLIAN, OR NORFOLK HERALD, APRIL 26. The Horticultural Society held their second spring meeting on Wed. peachy, which was graced by a more numerous assemblage of elegant company than we ever have witnessed upon any former occasion. From 12 till 2, there was one continued influx, and so large a portion of the beauty and fashion of the city, combined with so full an attendance of country families, never congregated within the walls of the Exchange. Iwcixotaamm.—On Tuesday night last, at twelve o'clock, a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. Buck, of Audition Grange, which consumed the entire roof of a very large barn, containing live waggons loaded with corn in the straw, a quantity of dressed barley, a large wheat stack recently got in, three dressing machines, one thrashing do. a hay cutter, and vats other valuable property, the whole of which was destroyed ; also a long range of bullock sheds were consumed by the devouring element. The circumstances connected with the death of Henry Hogge, Esq. Betch, have plunged a highly respectable family into a state of deep affliction. The unfortunate gentleman had, for some time, been very much Indisposed. Recently the greatest caution had been observed to prevent those fatal and distressing consequences, which often result from mental aberration. Various rumours have been circulated, and it Is to be much regretted that, when such an aMietlng event traropir e ., relative feelings are seldom respected. The following are the lament. able facts of the case :—On the night of Wednesday sen`night, m e . Hogge was conducted to his chamber at an early hour : his attendap , retired to get him his supper, and, upon his return, after a short ab. mace, found that his master bad left his chamber. A diligent send, was immediately commenced, which terminated in the discovery A m , his body had been found by some lighter-men Boating In the ri ft , which runs within a short distance of the deceased gentleman's residence NORWICH CORN libtaizir.—Wheat trade very dull, _prices fro nt 351 to 375; Barley 16s to 21s ; Beans 199 to 405 ; Grey Peas 20s to 21s; Oats 14s to les ; Malt 36s to 38s; Coals 30s 4d to 324 4d. Nonwics CATTLE MAUET.—There were not so many s ot , Beasts on the Hill as last week, and I think the prices may be qu ote d rather lower. A greater number of short-horned beasts than has beep on the Hill a long time, and very good prices from 3s 6d to da 3d pe t stone. A few small Devon.. Est beasts not so many as last week.— prices much the same. Cows and calves selling well. Homebred , continue much the same. Hoggets come freely to market, but slow u. sale. Some very good fat sheep, prices from Id to 7d per pound. But few horses. Very little variation in the price of pigs. MARRIED.—At Heydour, in Lincolnshire, the Rev. J. I nu i t , Eller, late of Yarmouth, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the Rev . Michael Thorold.—Mr. Lunn, of Fakenham, to Miss Newton, co Lynn.--Mr. Edward Fisher, of Little Masaingbam, to Martha, unit daughter of Mr. Adams.—Ebenezer Randall, Esq. of Rotherhithe. Surrey, to Sarah, only daughter of Wm. Sedge fi eld, Esq. of Devizes. DIED. —At Wymondham, 78, Mr. James Parker.—ln Bungay, Mrs. Hester Gamble.—At Ipswich, 82, Mrs. Ann Ruud, of Bu tt in g . ham Hall..—Mr. Benjamin Varni.h, 59, of St. John's Sepulchre. DUMFRIES COURIER, APRIL 26. The Helen, Douglas, and Isabella, which sailed a few days ago front Anoan, carried out between them upwards of 150 passengers, chiefly agricultural labourers from the surrounding district. The same week, 160 persons, also labourers, and with hardly an exception from the county of Roxborougb, crossed to Msryport, for the pus. pore of embarking for the city of Quebec. Such of the emigrants as had come from some distance and previously taken leave of their friend a , appeared to be in excellent h ealth and s pirit and in reference to the far country whither they were bound, we it may be said in the worth of Byron, that most of them have " some friend or brother there."-- This is a very great advantage, and obviates to a very great extent, the thousand.and-one difSculties and discouragement' which beset the path of the original settlers in a new colony. The Helen Douglas, which not infrequently completes the outward passage in nineteen days, is still the reigning favorite with emigrants, and the owner we understand, was I under the disagreeable necessity of clearing the vessel of a number of persons who had applied too late from an apprehension that there might Ibe a short.eoming of water. By law every vessel carrying emigrants must lay in 50 gallons of water for each person on board, and the same number of pounds of stuff bread—that is, in the shape of biscuit or other bread, barley-meal, potatoes, or Sour. This salu. tary regulation is rigidly enforced by the Custom-house officers ; and though the ordinary, class of emigrants provide their own provisions, the vessels rewire to be doubly victualled qua the crew, to prevent ac. eidents arising from individual improvidence. In the name of passage. money, 31. are demanded for full-grown persons, and half the sum for children. Where the families are large a libe ral discount is given to parents, and many cases occur in which they are allowed to take two, three, or four bairns into the bargain. A ewe, supposed to be of the Leicester breed, belonging to John Patterson, an industrious labourer in the pariah of Johnstone, was found the other morning with three lambs at her foot, to the no small hoy of the happy family ; and what is very remarkable, the same ewe as produced and nursed to maturity, within the Ault space of four yews not less than 14 lambs. We have all heard of the far-fam e d " Evho wi' the crooked horn," but sic as this " was never born, here. abouts or far awa." MARRIED—At Kircudbright, Mr. Charles 31'Mune% to Mims Margaret Kissoek. DIED—At hlilkaide, Richard Johnston, Esq. late writer in Moffat. On a careful and minute inquiry into the condition of a portion of the female sex in London, it has been calculated that the number of females of a certain class exceed 80,000; that there are at present 15,000 girls, children of the poor, who have no visible means of subsistence, the greater part of whom are trained to every variety of vice—and are with. out shelter or home. It is also ascertained that the number of female servants in London, is 165,732. That the time each servant remains in one situation, by an average taken at seven different periods, is 462 days, consequently, on an average 358 leave their situations every day. Seven out of every ten are young women front the country ; and by an examination of the calendars of the principal prisons in England, and by the acknowledgement of the parties them selves, it is also ascertained, that nine out of every ten of the female prisoners either are, or have been, In a certain condition of life. BIRTHS. The 28th inst. in New-street, Spring-gardens, the Lady of Francis Baring, Esq. of a daughter.—The 28th inst. in Woburn-place, the lady of Frederick P. Ripley, Esq. of • moo. MARRIED. On the 20th inst. at Christ Church, Marlebone, Mr. Henry Pesrm. of Camden Town, to Mrs. Elisabah Hemming, widow of Mr. Joseph Hemming, late of the same .place. The 28th inst. at St. Mary.loStrand, Mr. .7. Sale, of Derby, to Ellen, the youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Morris, of the Strand.— The 20th inst. at Trinity Church, Southwark, Mr. J. 8. Brenta, of the Borough, to Mrs. E. Ann Fisher, of Holland-place, Clapham.resd.— At St. Pancras new Cherch, Mr. A. Tate, of Combridgootreet, Golden. square. to Elisabeth, daughter of dm late O. Fife, Esq. of Church. stmt, Chelsea. DIED. On the 17th inst. Mr. Thos. Owen, of Great Russell-street, Covert Garden, in the 52d year of his age. The 29th inst. at her house in Harley-street, in the 79th year of her age, Collo, relict of the late J. Baillie, Esq. of Invernewshire. North Britain, and M.P. for Horsham.—The 25th inst. at Brontpton Ctrs. cent, Mrs. R. Steward.—The 28th inst. Sarah Jane, wife of Mr. Sta dler, of the Excise-office.—The 28th inst. at Islington, the Rey. W. Loggia, rector of Long Marston, Glocestershire, aged bd. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL—THIS DAT. By the Carease.—Per stone of sibs. Beef 21 10d 3s id 5. Ind I Mutton 51 6d is 9d is 441 Veal Ss id 41 Bd Ss Od Pork Ss id 4110 d Ss Od Lamb .... 5s 4d ... Gs 4d. FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY. Bur—Finest Roasting, 8d to BLd per h. Boiling, 5d to 6d. Elul. row—Leg, Bd. Shoulder, 7d. VIAL—Leg, Bjd. Fillet, 104. Pons, 6id to 9d. Lam, 10d to is. SMITHFIELD HAY-NIARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 ss. to £2 15s. Useful ditto, Al Os. to AI 15s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay. £4 Os to £4 4s. Clover Hay, £3 Os. to £5 10s. Oat Straw. £1 14s to X 1 18s. Wheat Straw, £1 Its. to seit Os. per load. CUDIBERLAND HAY-MAHKRT—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, .22 Si. to £2 10s. Mehl ditto, £2 10s. to Z 5 10s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gust Hay. £4 Os. to £4 ss. Clover Hay. £5 Os. to £5 Sc Oat Straw. £1 12a. to £1 16s. Wheat Straw, II 18.. to £2 2s. per load. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET—THIS DAY. There was a small quantity of Green Peas at market this morning (about a pottle), for which ss. were asked. Gooseberries sad otbtr Fruits and Vegetables were in abundance. NUCLEI. Green Peas, Os per pottle. Strawberries, 9d to Is 3d per onto. Pines, 10. to 16s per pound. Forced Grapes, 10s to 25s per lb. Cucumbers, 2s to 4s per brace. Mushrooms, 9cl to la per basket. Asparagus, 38 to 7s per bundle. French Beans, 2s to 2a tld per 100. Sea Hail, is 6d to 314 per punnet. Rhubarb, lid to Is Oil per bundle. New Potatoes. Is to 2s per pound. Brocoll. Is to 3s 6cl per bundle. Apples, 3s rid per oalf sieve; do. for dessert, Is 6d to 4s per doyen. Pears, 2s 6d to Or per dozen. Summer Cabbages, 91 to Is lid per doz. Filberts, Os Od per i.ound. Spring Turnips, 21 Oil to 3s Od per bunch. Carrots, Is 6d to 2.s per bunch. Spring Onions, 3d to 6tl per bunch. Radishes, 6d per dozen bubches. Horse Radish, Ss to tts perbutgle. Old Potatoes, Os 61 to bs per cwt. Old ()pions, 2.s 6d to 4s per ms sieve. Ballad, 3d per small basket. Celery, Is to 21 per be Gooseberries, 6d to Is per quart. Oranges, 46 to 14. per bundred. Lemons, 44 to 10s. Spanish Nuts, 3s 6d to 4s Od per peck. Pair Grapes, 9d to la 6d per lb. Almonds, 7. per peck. Uxsamos—Wheat, per bast (40 bushelt.) £l5 Os to £2l 1041..__ 18 .* ley, per qr, 42s to 411. ; Oats, 32s to 313 s ; Beaus, 42s to 495; trwr —s to —s. Hatoze. Hasmruit--Whtat, per load (Rve bushels), 42s to 4. 1 ; Beans, 25s to 30s ; Peas, 25s to 303 ; Barley, per qr. 42s to 401; Oats, 291 to 32s Od. HostroaD—Wheat, per qr. 00s to 775; Barley, 341 to 48s; °au' 291 to 34 8 Demo, 38s to 4th t Peas. 38., to 42%; Rye, 34s to 365. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORRO W. Morning 4u. 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