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•-, - • B ARTS Amu rLEGANT LiTER.ATIALEi OE PECULIAR /24- TEREST AND VALDE, OFFERED TO THE NOTICt OF PERSONS OF TASTE 'THIS DAY. tiontistestx erected to the Memory of Mrs. Hodanzii By JOdEPii NeLLICCENS, Esq. R. A. IMO tlty Ireride I commend my Spirit, for thou hest redeemed me, 0 Lord God of truth." Waits the third daughter of Assailw Lard ARCHER, Was *tarried to Hexer Howsao, on the 29d of November, 1788 ; and died frith her infant daughtef, on the 9th of November, 1789 ; in the 2Sd year of her age.—This tribute of affectioll is paid to the memory of her who approached near to perfection, by the afflicted Huiband and Sisters. In the 'Church of Corby Castle, the sett of the family of the HOWARD3i It the Colin!! of Cionberland: T H IS most beautiful work of Art, Which is acknow ledged to exceed any thing-that has been' hitherto introduced In England, has been moot correctly outlined by Mr. Beanie, undef the inspectilia of Mr. Not:taxa:vs, and Is introduced in the }resent. Number of La Bait 'Assails's:ex, (being No. 29,) published this day, price Half-a:Crown. Eicept in this outline, no engraving of this Work has ever been published. The titual dead-ads:tat of this Number ransist of a most beauti ftil likeness of the law unfortunate" hit Tit DA, Queers of ben sitlix," sister to our most gracious and beloved Sovereign—en graven by permission, and by desire (in order to complete the act bf Royal PM-traits) titan the origiral Picture in the King's Col lection.—This Number likewise contains the Fashions for the present month; Foreign and National Costume; Song; Patterns, &c. &c. The literary department contains a copious and intefesting Biographical Membir of her late Majesty the' Queen of Denmark, with the usual *trim Of Miscellany, tin the most interesting Sub jects.—The Prints in this Number are incomparably beaut iful. All the Cartoons of the immortal RA mart ' seven In number, finely engraven in outline, are given in the 26th and 27th Numbers of this Work,—together with a most faithful and correct Outline Print of the celebrated Picture of the Death of General Wolfe, by B. West, Esq. President of the Royal Academy, engraven by his permission from the original Picture. No. 28 contains a most faithful and correct Outline Print of Death on the Pale Horse, or the Opening Of the Seals, from Re velations, chap. vi. from a Sketch by B. West, Esq. as exhibited at the Louvre, in Paris. These Prihts are given in addition to the ccual Embellishments and Collection of Elegant Literature, which enrich the Monthly Numbers cif LA BELLE ASSEMIELIE. London : Printed for John hell, Proprietor of the Weekly Messenger, Southampton-street, Strand; of whom all the pre ceding Numbers may be had, restored by new Engraving to their originalstate of perfection. _ FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, MARCH 23. The . Mositair of yesterday contains the intelligence of the march of the Russian troops into Fir.land, and the arrest of the Russian Minister at Stockholm, With the scaling of his papers, &c. It adds the following remarks : , 4 Such an outrage on the rights of nations, which is known only to barbarians, has roused the indig nation of the whole world. Of what does the King of Sweden complain? That Russia has declared war tgainst him! More than six months are passed since Russia intimated to. him, that all the principles of neutrality had been broken, and that his alliance with England could not be suffered, so that war must ne cessarily follow. On the other side, a French army is entering Zealand, and all preparations are making to send these allies of England to America, that they may reign there. The King of England may doubtless congratulate himself again in Parliament, as he did before, on the new power which he grants to his ally: it is pretended also, that England is to give St. Tho mas's to the King of Sweden as an incLmnification.• Thus the brave Swedish nation, after having seen their commerce annihilated, is torn to pieces by a war in their interior. How dreadful a calamity it is for a nation to have a King, who is governed by levity and fully ! PARLIAMENT...Mr PROCEADINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 31. After Lord WALnzoa.tvz had taken the oaths and his seat, the House resolved itself into a Committee to bear evidence on the Liverpool "petition. . Messrs.. Bell, Hinckley, Cropper, /Cinder, Allen and Pollock, were interrogated by Mr. BROUGHAM, in support of thelmti• lion, principally as to three particulars. I. The comparative state of the American trade with this country during the last and present year, to shew that the Orders in Council are the cause of its stagnation at this dim. 2. The state of the Manufactures in America, to prove that a temporary suspension df this commerce will terminate in its an. nihilation. 3. The motives of the embargo imposed in the United States on its own Shipping, to testify that the expectation of some simi lar measures to the Orders in Council was the cause of that expe dient of American policy, and not the Berlin decree, to which it had been attributed. Mr. Kinder, one of the witnesses named, produced four newspapers, from Philadelphia, New York, and other places, to indicate, that prior to the reception of the Ord:rs in Council pn the western side of the Atlantic, such was the ex pectation there. Lords Auckland, Hawkesbury, Holland, Erskine, and I.auder dale, proposed a variety of questions to the witnesses. It was subsequently ordered, that the further testimony be received on Monday, and that Counsel sum up on Wednesday next. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Committee was balloted for upon the Dungarvon Election. A message announced the Lords' agreement to the Irish Bank- Token Forgery Prevention, the Malt Duty, and the Croydon Canal Bills. A Person from the Post Office presented, pursuant to order, • an account of the Authority upon which the sum of 25,097/. was paid, for the conveyance of Government Expresses to Ireland. Ordered to be printed. 'The Orders in Council Indemnity Bill, and the Indictment BM, were read the third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords. The Irish East-India Trade Regulation Bill was reported, and eedered to be engrossed. The House resolved itself Into a Committee on the Irish Im ported Merchandize Warehousing.—Ordered to be reported to morrow. 'The Call of the House *as postponed until Tuesday net:. ' The Innkeepers' Soldiers' ,thowance Bill was read the second time, and committed for to-morrow. The House resolved itself iato a Committee, to consider the expediency of permitting the exportation of Wool to Ireland. It was resolved, that !cam be asked to bring in a Bill to allow of such exportation, bond being previously given for the due landing such Wool in Ireland.—Leave obtained accordingly. REVERSIONARY PLACE BILL. Mr. BANKES presented his Bill " to prevent the granting of Places or Pensions in Reversion, or for joint Lives, with benefit of survivorthip, for a time to be limited, and to vacate such grants already made.' —lt was tend the first time, and ordered for the a ucond reading to-morrow. Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for an account of all Offices in Ireland granted for two or more lives. The Ri;ht Hon. Baronet had, some time since, moved for a similar ace cunt ; but the re turn to theorder then made did not state all the places so granted ; for there were five principal places omitted. His motion was, therefore, for a full account. This occasioned a conversation between the Right Hon. Mover red Mr. FOSTER, concerning the date of the former return, after which the motion was agreed to. Mr. PARNELL gave notice of a motion on Monday nest, for tertian accounts respecting the Post Office in Ireland. The Leeds Cloth-workers Regulation Bill was read ths :cc )nd time, and referred to a Conunittm up-stairs. Stibatti i'oLwt full* on the nadtiod 6f Sli AlitHl,7lt iifFle-v-ALEY, the Order of the Uonse reipeethig the beceed readings of contested Private Bills, so fai as respoited this Bill, was suspended, ansithe Bill Was read t Seagull:Mu and committed, trs fert;hs, to afford dose to have the =printed. and transmitted to bublin. The farthei consideration of the Bill was appointed for Thursday, the se& of Apra/ COMFENSATI6g TO THE NABOB OF OUDE. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON made his promised motion, for compensation to be made to the ' Nabob of Oude, for the losses be had sustained by the seizure of one-half of his territories, and the very em barrassed state of his finances, occasioned by the mea sures of the Marquis Wellesley's Government in India. He observed, that the papers laid before the House, and the recent debates upon the Oude question, re lieved him from the necessity of trespassing again upon their patience by further details : the House had indeed, come to a resolution upon this subject—final, he Would admit, as fit?' as concerned the conduct of Marquis Wellesley. To this resolution, as it was the sense of e majority of that House, he was bound to defer, though he could not give his private assent to it. That resolution went to vindicate the conduct of the Noble Marquis, upon the ground that he was ac tuated by a zeal for the public service, and for the interests of his country. But no man had ventured or could attertapt to deny, that the Nabob of Ou de had been treated with a degree of tyranny, oppression, cruelty, and injustice, almost without parallel, and which no conduct on his part deserved ; and that he had been forcibly deprived of one half of his territory, without even the semblance of justice. In violation of all prin ciple, he was forced to sign a treaty in 1801, totally different from that in 1798, and plundered of his pro perty, in defiance of every principle of national jus tice. It was therefore but an act of common equity that the British Parliament should make some recom pence to that Prince. The Directors of the East In dia Company themselves, having perused the docu ments respecting this affair, were so impressed by a sense of the sufferings and oppre?sions heaped upon this unfortunate Prince, that they had cotne to a reso lution that compensation ought to beenade to him— but the proposition was defeated by the Board pf Con treul, under the influence of the Noble Lord opposite to him (Lord Castlereagh) who acted on that occa sion in violation of the principles of justice, and the honour and character of the British Government. — When two authorities in the same branch of Govern ment, like the Court of Directors and the Board of Controul, were at variance upon a point so highly in teresting to the character of the British Government, he thought that House was the proper tribunal to de cide the question. The Noble Lord considered this transaction as paralleled only by the late outrage on Copenhagen. The Noble Lord read a variety of ex tracts from the Oude papers, comprehending the se veral treaties from 1793 to 1801 ; and also letters from Lord Wellesley to the Resident at Lucknow for the time being, and the answers of such Resident — from these he argued at great length, on the impolicy, injustice, cruelty, and oppression practised against the Nabob, contrary to the faith of treaties v.hich had been approved by the East India Company, and for which he thought the Nabob entitled to compensation. He concluded a speech of more than two hours, by moving a string of resolutions, reciting the substance of the several treatie- from 1793 to 1801, and draw ing inferences from the same, and his last resolution purported : " That the East India Company ought to revise and reconsider the treaty of 1801, and indemnify the Nabob for the damages which be had sustained by being forced to sign that treaty, which was a violation of air the other.." Mr. R. DUNDAS (the President of the Board of Controul) said, it could not be expected that after the very full and ample discussion which had so recently "taken place on this subject, he should be under the necessity of trespassing Much on the time or patience of the House. When the question was agitated a few evenings ago by a Noble Lord, the House had, by a very great majority, determined that the con duct of the Marquis Wellesley had not only been jus titiable, but praiseworthy ; and all the resolutioUs pro posed by the Noble Lord on.that occasion -had been met and disposed of by the previous question, except the last, which received a direct negative. The ar gument urged on that occasion was, in his mind, a complete answer to the present question ; and it would be a most extraordinary circumstance if the House should now act diametrically opposite to their former decision, and that so very recently made. He should therefore move the previous question on all the reso lutions of the Noble Lord except the last, which he should meet by a direct negative. Mr. MAR TIN supported the motion, on the ground which was generally agreed upon in the last &bate, viz. the breach of treaties, and the injustice, cruelty, and oppression exercised against the Nabob by the Marquis Wellesley, in order to promote his own aggrandizement—and as the East India Com pany had almost unanimously disapproved of that Noble Lord's conduct, he thought they ought to make compensation for those injuries which the Na bob had received in consequence of the acts of their servant. It had been said, that this having been done it was now too late for the House to interfere—but he hoped it would ever be the honourable principle of that House to say, that when an act of injustice had been proved to have been committed by one into whose conduct they had a right to scrutinize, that it was never too late to make compensation.—He con cluded by giving his hearty assent to the motion of his Noble Friend. Mr. R. THORNTON began by saying, that on a late occasion he was prevented from giving his opinion by the impatience that many Members shewed for the question. He disapproved of the violent mea sures that were taken in Oude, because he was sure that the Nabob was ever willing to take the advice of the British Ministers; and he believed the Vizier was equally willing. • He had read of a maxim which prevailed at a corrupt zre of the Roman empire, " My son, get money, if you can, honestly ; but, at all events, get money." He thought a simi lar maxim had been adopted by Lord Wellesley in the business of Oude. It was, " My brother, get money and character, if you can, honestly ; but at all events, my brother, get money and cha racter." He co ns id ere d t h e fnendship we shewed to the Native Powers in India as very like the fra ternal embrace of the Galilean hug of Bonaparte to his allies in Europe. When it was said that he and others of the Directors approved of the system.of the Marquis Wellesley, he would answer that they were not then acquainted with the circumstances of the IMO.- At the same time bt wished that it should ararif bit understood that when he spoie of the sys sr . elt4the Marquis Wellesley, he did not mean to ;peak personally of that PlOble Loud. He blew that he Was supported by very great authorities in this country. He spoke of the system merely as a general system, which the Court of Directors disapproved of, as considering that it involved them in wars which were too expensive fot their finances. Mr. HOWARD disapproved of the system of the Marquis Wellesley ; in consequence of which, altho' the territories of the Company were extended, the ex. pences exceeded the reventie by above two millions.— He felt no fears with respect to the threatened invasion of India by the French armies. Tne House then divided. Few the previous ques tion, 80; against it, 20. Majority, 60.—Ad:.mrned. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 1. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOtK. Consols, money, 64i—for April acc. 6411-onusium 3.} 4 pre. Navy .5 per Cad. 97—Exchequer Bills, 3s pre. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 9 per Cent. Cons. 6:1 Ex. Bills, Is. a is. pr. par is pr, 5 per Cent. Navy 9 ' English Tickets, 21L Ss. India Bonds, 2s. 9s. Cons. for ace. 6411 There was a report yesterday in the City, that seve ral flags of truce had recently passed between Gene rat JunoT and Sir CHARLes Corrox. It was said that JUNOT, finding it impossible, in consequence of the strictness of our blockades to provide subsistence for his troops, And for the population, proposed to eva cuate Portugal, upon certain conditions. The nature of these conditions, or the manner in which Sir CHARLES COTTON had treated the proposition, was not mentioned. Indeed, we are not inclined to attach any credit to the statement. We mention it merely as the rumour of the day. No further accounts have been received respecting the reported naval victory in the Mediterranean, and, as we stated in yesterday's pkper, the report from Holland is not sustained• by any known authority.— This, however, is not to be expected. The tyranny exercised by the French in every country which - they occupy, makes it very unsafe for persons of respect to have any political correspondence with their friends in England, and therefore we receive only unsigned communications, and in feigned hands; but there were letters froth Holland stating the fact of the total overthrow of the Carthagena feet. DRURYALANE.—Last night a Comedy, the avowed production of Mr. KENNY, the author of several suc cessful pieces, wai performed at this Theatre, for the first time, without a negative voice, entitled The World. The principal Dramatis Persona are as follow : Cheviot, Echo, BANNISTaII. Davenant, Wamionvots. In iex, MATHIAS. Subtle, WIWITZIR. Social, PURSER. Lady Bloomfield, Mrs. Berkeley, POWELL. Elinor, The plot exhibits two principal characters, Cheviot, a generous enthusiast, the sport of fortune, ignorant of his birth, but who at length finds a father and mother in two friends, whom he encounters accidentally in his struggle through life ; and &he, antqtially generous Child of Nature, warped from his genuine purpose by a short intercourse with a vitiated world. The business that leadyto the denouement of this piece, which ends in the marriage of Cheviot with. the amiable Lady Bloonejeld, and the sister of the former with Echo, is well conducted. Many of the sisuations are extremely interesting, and the dialogue is at once elegant and animated.—The character of Index is perhaps the best in the play : it is that of an old batehelor, who, with nothing to do, really does mare than half the men of the business in the world. He is popping in every where, knows every body, and will do every thing, for— ,, he has nothing to do." The character had its full effect in the hands of Mr. MATHEWS, who was warmly" 'welcomed from his late confinement.—Mr. Berniisrea shone in many parts of his character-- Mrs. JORDAN, in the few that were in her line; and Mr. alarm:, universally shone. An Epilogue, playing on the title of the Comedy, was admirably spoken by EL. Lisros ; but we have but little to say in favour of the Prologue,.delivcred by DECAMP. The play was given out in the midst of a general roar of applause. COVENT GARDEN.—At this house, after COOKE'S in teresting performance of Sir Pertinax Macrycophant in the comedy of the Man of the World, the novelty of the evening was, as the bill expressed, a new tragic, comic, pantomimic, melo-dramatic Galamathias, called— Bonifacio and Bridgetina ; or, Me Knight of the Hirmi. (age; or, the Windmill Turret; or, the Spectre of the North-east Gallery !—The idea of this piece is taken from the French of M. MARTAINVILLE; and a comic conversation, supposed to pass in the box-lobby, be tween the author, box-book-keeper, and one of the audience, is introduced, by way of prelude, to inform the public what species of farce they are to expect.— From this we easily anticipate a travesty, after the manner of Tom Thumb the Great, or Chrononhotonthologoz, in which we are presented with every species of pa geantry usually exhibited in pieces of a more serious nature; interspersed with robbers--edivened with caves and spectres—and finishing with a combat and con flagration! The Music accompanying the action is in the same burlesque style, as are also the words of the songs. Messrs. Stiersows, FARLEY, and BLAN CHARD are the heroes—Mrs. GIBES and Mrs. Lines the heroines, whose tragi-comic adventures diversify the Piece, the scenery of which is extremely showy, as are also the dresses, &c. The applause bestowed upon the performance was not, however, altogether unqualified. If the piece had been assisted, hike the tragedy in The Critic, by the intervention of the sup posed author, it might have seemed a less miserable work : but, as it is, we can only regret, that Mr. Diann/ should have employed his time, and the Pro prietors their money, on a thing which seems likely to increase neither the reputation of the author, nor the profits of the theatre. NAtIP/CAL INTEL LIG PORTSMOUTH, MARCH Arrived his- Majesty's ships port _ pha, from a cruize. Sailed his Majesty' , taur, for the Downs ; and the Ant, wit Guernsey and Jersey. His Majesty'. is appointed convoy for the Brazils.—:. The following men of war sailed Downs, being part of the fleet intended Mars, of 14 guns, Captain 'AMIN: Orion,, 11/tomtits ; Polyphemus, of 64, Captain Hartvoeta ; sak ette Daphne frigates ; Insolent, Thrash er , Hearty, Steady, p m t Orastesand Redbreast, SHEERNESS. MARCH 91. Arrived his Majesty's brig Escort, L. &Erni, and sailed up to th e Vi ctory, with the bat yt . gage of Sir JANfE9 SAC MAREZ . Sailed the cutter to the Northward. The Success and la art frigates got under weigh to proceed to the North ? * with the North West ships, but, owing to the id' wind, have been obliged to bring up again. A n i eed the Duchess of Bedford, PATTERSON, with loss abet rudder; the Good Intent, Pitomos, ha v i ng trtung a . leak on her voyage to Jersey ; the Fox tra itipen, BnoottE, with loss of an ancho r ; the olive L e e; of Lynn, SMITH; and the Fleckneys, Twerp the , former with loss of a cable and anchor, and t h e itte with the loss of an anchor only. Sailed th e A meti , can ship Wanderer, SHE?, for the Downs. Arrived several ships from the River, to join the Gutted utgli convoy, which are to sail the momer.t the wind ccroet fair, under escort of the Monkey and Ttabni nt gun-brigs —Wind E. DEAL, MARCH si. Arrived the Kangaroo sloop from the Nom, and Sparrowhawk sloop from Plymouth. Sailed' the Pandora sloop for Sheerness, to refit, and Shylarh sloop on a cruize. Last night, in a very thick squall of snow, the - sloop, Cole master, with a carp of groceries, &c. from London, bound to Dartmouth, got on shore near. Walmer Castle, where she stiff remains; and it is feared while the wind cottinuesk, blow from the N. E. she will not be got of these springs..-.P. S. A large fleet of Merchant vessels ba re arrived froth the River, and sailed through. Th e Osprey sloop has the signal for a convoy eying, tolls West! ard. Remain in the Downs, Princess of °singe, Centaur, Trusty, Goßah, Clyde, Euryalus, Tribune, Ranger, Kangaroo, Sparrowhawke, Magnet, Vulture, OIL lenger, Osprey, Lightning, Zebra, Minx, Desperate, Indignant, Firm, Tickler, Featless, Intelligent, Pier. cer, Tigress, Urgent, Phosphorus, Arrow, Pigeon, and Wrangler. YARMOUTH, MARCH al. This morning arrived a sloop of war, with a &et . of Merchantmertt from the Baltic, and sailed again this afternoon. Sailed the Majestic, Admiral Russtr..; the Sappho sloop of war for the Texel ; and Safe. guard sloop, with ships for Heligoland. Yesterday the Providence of this port, THEOBALD master, front London, with goods, sunk in the harbour, in cons. quence of which a great part of the carp is very much injured, and some of the hogsheads of solar are quite empty. In the F.oad the Roebuck, mat DouGLAs.—Wind GRAVE:tEND, MAP:CTI Si.—Passed by the Dart, Wwt, tl Cottenbur&h. Salad the Bengal, Sharp, for India; Edh, MME art, for Jamaica; Adrisfral Berkeley, Irish, for the Brads; Wm! garet, Ansell, for Cask, and Unanlmit y, for Dublin. A private letter received by the last conveyance from ll°lland states, that Count BENriscx has arrives at Paris, in Order to seek the re-establishment of the neutrality of Kniphausen, of which that Nobleman is Sovereigin. The Count has had some interviews with TALLE-YRAND. Mr. PATISSON, the brother of the ci-elevam Zvi f JEROME BONAPAATE, who is just arrived from the Continent, brought no dispatches from General Aart. STRONG. A number of Horse Transports are ordered to the Nore, from which they will proceed to Ramsgam Sir RICHAED STRACHAN passed Alboran, a little to die westward of Carthagena, on the 1 1 th, the day after the Carthegena fleet sailed. Ho was working up the Mediterranean. Alboraa is on the opposite coast to C.artkagena, but not far distant. Captain, C. M. FABIAN, from the Sea Pcncibles, is promoted to the command of the Mutine at Ports. mouth. BRITISH NAVT.—The Naval force amounts to, this day—in commission, 151 sail of the line ; from 50 to 4.4 guns, 22 • frigates, 173; sloops, 22 2 ; &c. 222: total, 790—Building, and in ordinary, of* line, 110; 50 to 44 guns, 15; frigates, 8.3; sloops, &c. 75 ; gunbrigs, 30 : total building and in ordi• nary, 322s—Grand total 1112 vessels of war • being an increase, within the last month, of 3 2 vessels. On the death of the President of Trinity College, Oxford, the Literary World oct of the UniverotY expected that Mr. KETT would of course be electei• The Literary World did not know the policy of the College. They did not recollect that Twos Wflasurow was set aside at the last Election! The rage for pedestrian feats has reached the Uri• versity of Oxford ; but the Oxonaas, we observe, make all their attempts on the road to Londe's. CORN EXCHANGE, MARIC.LANE, APRIL day's supply of Wheat is again short, and sales thereof support last prices—Fine Barley in demand, and full as dear—Malt and Peas vary but little —Very few Beans of the two kinds, which are at higher prices-- Oats are likewise in short supply, and this article font supports the late increase in price.—The prices of Floe, continue without alteration. NNNNN AL CURLINCT •3 UNDER: Wheat, 48s. 60s. 725. Beans (old) 541. 605. od. Bine ditto, 765. 78s. Tick ditto (old) 525. 561. 04. Rye, 465. 30,. Oats, 345. 38s 403. Barley, 425. 475. Od. Poland ditto, 425. 4ss. ed. Mak 675. 778 Potatoe ditto 00s. 456 Id. White Peas (boilers) 158 s. 168 s. Rape Seed, 32L 35.06. Grey ditto 625. 51. Yule Flour 555. 60s.—Seconds sos. 555. 1147C2. 1 91. t Mahon and Ai !sty's ships LE D 4, with a tonvoyfw gig 's ship Presidet N. yesterday for ' ied for the Balti on, of 74, &jMn • sg