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•P. SHIONA BLE I VTEI LICENCE. Lord Holland entertained Lord and Lady William Russell and a select party at dinner yesterday, in St. Jamei - s-square. Sir Richard and l.sdy liurruugh entertained the Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Lather Lennox. and a distinguished party, at dinner yesterday, at their house in Portland-place, Montague Burgoyne, Esq. had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Oloucester.piace. Emily 31archioress of Londonderry arrived iu town yesterday, from bur seat. North Cray, Kent. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury arrived in town yester der, front Heikki. Th. Earl sod Countess of Bristol have left town for their seat in Surrey. The Earl and Countess of Coventry arrived in town yesterday, from Surrey. The Earl and Countess Monntcharles arrived in town yesterday from 1V indsor. The Countess de Grey has arrived in town from her seat, Putney Heath. Lord and Lady King arrived in town yesterday, from their scat, o:4ltam, Surrey. Lord and Lady Dyoevor and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Price Trevor arrived in town yesterday, from Barrington Park, Oxford shire. Lord and Lady_ Colchester anl family arrived in town yesterday, from their seat, Kidbrooke. Sussex. Sir John and Lady Sherbrook and Miss Poynder arrived yeoter slay at the London Hail, Alin:marle-street, from their seat in Not. ttughamshire. 3lr. and 31r.t. George Dawson arrived yesterday at their house ir, Upper Grosvenor -street, from a tour. Anneals at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street :—The Marquis el Queensberry, from his seat iu Scotland ; 3lr.Young and family, from Eton. Arrivals at Blake's Hotel, Jermyn.atreet :—General Duff and E School", list!. from Scotland; Saladin, Esq. and the Baron Von Bercnem, trom Geneva. Arrivals at Gould's Hotel, Jertnyn.street :—J.Veitch, Esq. and H. Sligo, Esq from Scotland ; Capt. Hamilton, from Bath. De. varture :—Tlte Rev. Mr. Frcland, on a tour. Arrivals at the British Hotel, Jennyo-street Bsiloy, DN. from the Continent ; and the Hon. Richard Quin, front Hants. Depertures :—Captain Fitzgerald, for Ireland; J. Lam. lam. East. for Oxford ; and C. liciAlcy, Esq. for Paris. Arrivals at the St. George's lintel , Alberrerle-street :—Lord and Lady Somers and family, from their seat in Surrey; Lord and Lady C. Stopford, from Lord Montague's, Ditton Par k; M. and Mrs. S. Mackenzie, from a tour. KING'S THEATRE. Last night the performance at this theatre len resumed for the first time since the repairs have been completed. The interior of the house exhibited no appearance of alter ation, except that the giiding on the pannels had been cleaned, and new festoons and curtains added to the boxes. The opera was 11 Dan Ginranni, in which the characters were 'use tint d by the same performers as in the last season, with the exception of Madame Castelli, in Elrira. It IV US stated that this debutante appeared for the first time on any slage; however, we observed no trails of awkwardness; on the contrary, she appeared to be perfectly used to the busi ness of the scene. Her voice has considerable flexibility and compass, and her figure, though under the middle size, is good, and we think the will prove an acquisition to the theatr!.. After the opera, " Gud save the King" was sung by Mesdames Renzi de Begnis, Vestris, Caradori, and Mesas. Curioni, Begres, Porto, &c. The house was crowded to excess in every part. r MASQUERADE-ARGYLL ROOMS. Last night " a grand masquerade and carnival," as the programme had it, took place at the Argyll Rooms. Mas querades have never become property naturalised in this country, nor are they ever likely to equal in brilliancy and effect similar entertainments on the Continent. Thereason of all this is very evident. John Bull is 'uut little of an imitative animal—he is " himself alone"—one and indi visible ; and is utterly incapable of going out of h i mself, or shaking off the trammels of his individuality in search of either profit or amusement. If he condescend to be di verted, it is much ; but he never goes cut of his way in search of amusement, and least of all would he contribute to the amusement of others. In the lighter and more ele gant arts, the mouldings and ornaments which adorn the structure of society, we must yield the paint to our more mercurial neighbours : we claim to surpass them in the fundamental principles and solid portions of the edi fice, and it is to be hoped we do. However that be, in music, dancing, and most of all. the " merry masque," we are, as well from nature as habit, infinitely their inferiors. The principle of an Englishman's character is mcentration : those of a foreigner contrast and variety. In Italy they wear the mask in the pursuits which consti tute the slopk of their existence: consequently carnivals arc nothing more among them than ordinary existence a little sublimated and heightened ; and, with the aid of an exalted temperament, they delight in rushing into the midst of its vortex, and assuming characters the most gro tesque aryl !emote from reality. We are in a perfectly thusimil r and opposite situation. These entertainnw.nts are ea o lc; in our climate, and, notwithstanding all our care end cultivation, are Lot soon likely to take root in oar colder ar d more sterile soil. The masquerade of last nigh: was a complete verification of these remarks. But w.! pause to do justice to our friends at the other side o the Channel, wbo distance us as much in those slain; as they themselves are inferior to the Italians. This by way of parenthesis, as a tribute to he inhabitants of the Emerald Isle; and now to get hack to our f ienl C. Wright and Regent-street. We had 1 st nig' t much noise and little novelty—characters and dres, es a tt ng tint .• upon town, and both the worse for the wear. There wore dosses as s doer as parsons, and harlequ'ne who had the gout, Scotchmen who had never crossed the Twe.d, and sailors who didn't know the difference between a bridle and a bowsprit. Then there were as usual, milkmaids who had never been off the pie?, Turks who spoke English with remarkable fluency, Spaniards without cloaks, ballad singers possessing every requisite for their profession with the exception of a voice, and several blackamoors of the fair sex, as an Irishman who stood by us ob served. Add to this classification, tipsy hermits, stale virgins, modest barrister, and a quantity of " barren spectators;" and you will hays a very fair idea of the motley group. But not to indulge our exaggerating propensity too far —seriously to speak—the Masquerade of last night was, in many respects, inferior to other similar exhibitions we have had in opportunity of witnessing in the Argyll Rooms. We are desirous of giving praise where it is fairly due,accordingly we do not mean to withhold it from the music, which was ex cellent, as were also Mess:s. Wand and Wright's supper and wines. Among the characters best supported, were an Irish Lucky Molly, who excited considerable attention, and a Wild Man who looked savage enough to play the bear at Messrs. Hippolyte and Monq's, in Threadneedle-street. If any accident should happen the original, and those rival hair-cutters find a difficulty in getting a substitute on the Stock Exchange, we recommend them to apply to the gentleman who enacted Orson last night. There was also a good Torkshizetnan, Distressed Mother, Little Pickle, and Old Maid: are doubt whether the latter article was g;nuine. There was a vast deal of dancing, and the majority of the' company contrived to keep it up till an advanced hour this morning. Thursday last a meeting was held in Barnstaple, to ad dress a p?tition to the Legislature against granting further concession to the Catholics. Yesterday the Lottery began and finished. No. 9,19.5, a prizc of 20,1001., was sold to a society of upwards of forty gentlemen, by Eyton, at his Foreign and British Stock Office, No. 2, Cornhill, and Lombard-street. Yesterday No. 8,185 (class A), drawn a prize of twenty thousand pounds, was sold by Hazard and Co. in a half and eight sixteenth shares ; in addition to which Hazard and (70. sold in shares, No. 9,579, a prize of two thousand pounds, and eight other capitals. Hazard and Co. are contractors for the new 'Grand Scheme, containing prizes of 30,0001., :0,000/. 3,0001. &c. &c., all to be drawn Slat May. The Ticket, No. 7,031• (class 13) drawn yesterday a Prize of 20,000/. was sold by Swift and Co. of No. 11, Poultry, IV. Charing-cross, and n, Aldgate High-street. Y EST E RDAY.—Bish ' s luelcags in conspicuous.—No.J,o34, a Prize of 20,0001. was sold by Bisb, in sixteen sixteenths. He also shared and sold ten other Capitals, viz.— .... 7,034, s Prize of 20,0301. 474 a Prins of £1.1 4 i3 6,31i3 a Prize of £315 7 2:2 - - 1.01:5 521 . - - 220 !4443 - - (U 2476 - - .....ii C,oril - - - 213 7.522! - - - 220 9.063 313 5.111 - —The fortunate holders may. as usual, receive thii value of their respective shares on demand, at Bish's offices, 4, Coruttill, or 0, flaring-caws. .~~ INAUGURATION OF THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. , M I At twenty minut es p u t twelve the W Mars ASIIINCITOX haIs made t h e ARC appear. sore in blue scarves, succeeded by Hie °keep of both Houses of Congress, who introduced the President Elect. lie was followed by the venerable 1:x-President and fAmi!y, by the Judges of the Supreme Court in their robes of office, and the Members of the Senate, preceded by the Vice-President, with a number of 3letn beet of the House of Representatives. Mr. Adams, in a plain suit of black, ascended the steps to the Speltlet's clan, anti took his sesta" The Chief Justice was placed in front of the clerk's table, baying before him another table on the door of the Hall, on the opposite side of which sat the remaining Judges, with their faces towirds the Chair. Silence having been proclaimed, anti the doors of the Hall closed, Mr. Adams rose and read, with a clear and deliberate articulation, the subjoined Address. The time oc cupied by the delivery of this address was about forty minutes. As soon as the last sentence was pronounced, a general plaudit, com mencing in the galleries, but extending in a degree throughout vhe whole assembly, continued for some minutes. The President Elect then descended front the Chair. and placing himself on the right of the Judges' table, received from the Chief Justice a volume of the law's( the United States, front which he read, to a loud and clear voice, the oath of office : at the close of which. the plaudits went repeated, mingled with cheers from the spectators who filled the galleries, and immediately followed by the discharge of a salute of artillery. The congratulations which then poured in from every aide, oc eupied the hands, and could not but teeth the heart, of the Presi dent. The meeting between him and his venerated predecessor had in it something peculiarly affecting. General Jackson, we were pleased to observe, was among the earliest of those who took the hand of the President; and their looks and deportment towards each other were a rebuke to that littleness of party spirit which can see no merit in a rival, and feel no joy in the honour of a compe titor. Shortly after one o'clock the procession commented leaving the Mall, but it was nearly an hour before the ehrtering groups which had crowded every seat and avenue had completely retired. The President was then escorted back as lie came, and, on his at rival at his residence, received the compliments and respects of a great number of gentlemen and ladies who called upon him, who also generally paid their respects at the Mansion occupied by the Ex-President. Of the several Inaugurations which ;re hire seen, that of yester day was mosttnearly approached by the second inauguration of Mr. Madison, as President of the United States. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. In compliance with a usage coeval with the existence of our Federal Constitution, and sanctioned by the example of my prede. ceesors in the career upon which I am about to enter, I appear, my fellow-cid:ems, in your presence, and in that of heaven, to bind myself, by the solemnities of religious obligation, to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which ' I have been called. In unfolding . to my countrymen the principles by which I shall be governed, In the fulfilment of those duties, my first resort will be to that Constitution, which I shall swear, to the best of my abi lity, to preserve, protect, and defend. That revered instrument enumerates the powers, and prescribes the duties, of the Executive Magistrate; and, in ha first words, declares the purposes to which these, and the whole action of the Government, instituted by it, should be invariably and sacredly devoted :—to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to the people of this Union, in their successive generations. Since the adoption of this social compact, one of these generations has passed away. It is the work of our forefathers. Administered by some of the most eminent men who contributed to its formation, through a most eventful period in the annals of the world, and through all the vicissitudes of peace and war, incidental to the condition of associated man, it has not disappointed the hopes and aspirations of those illustrious benefactors of their age and nation. It has promoted the lasting welfare of that country so dear to its all; it bas, to an extent far beyond the ordinary lot of I humanity, secured the freedom and happiness of this people. We ' now receive it as a precious inheritance front those to whom we are ' indebted for its establishment, doubly bound by the examples which they have left us, and by the blessings which we have en joyed, as the fruits of their labours, to transmit the same, unlit]. paired, to the tucceeding generation. In the compass of thirty-six years since this great rational cove nant was instituted. a body of lees, enacted under its authority, and in conformity with its provisions, bas unfolded its powers, and carried into print-al operation its effective energies. Subordinate departments have distributed tile Executive functions in their va rious relations to foreign affairs, to the revenue and expenditures, and to the military force of the Union by land and sea. A co-or dinate department of the Judiciary has expounded the Constitution and the laws ; settling in harmonious coincidence with the Legis lative will, numerous weighty questions of construction. which the imperfection of the human language had rendered unavoidable. The year of Jubilee, since the first formation of our Union, has just elapsed ; that of the Declaration of our independence is at hand. The constimmation of both wits effected by this l'onstitution. Since that period a population of four millions has multiplied to twelve ; a territory bounded by the 3lississipi, has been extended from NU to sea ; new states have been admitted to the Union. in numbers nearly equal to guise of the first Confederation ; treaties of peace, amity,. and commerce, have been concluded with the principal dumunotiffoCAhe earth ; Riffpbople of other nuking., In. habitants of regions, acquired...not by etmiquest but by compact, hare been united with us in the participation of our rights and du. ties, of our burdens and blessings ; the forest has fallen by the axe of our woodmen ; the soil has been made to teem by the tillage of our farmers; our commerce has whitened every ocean • the do minion of man over physical nature has been extended by the in tervention of our artists ; liberty and law have marched hand in hand ; all the purposes of human association have been accom plished as effectively as under any other government on the globe ; and st a cost little exceeding, in a whole generation, the expendi ture of other nations in a single year. Such is the nnexeggerated picture of our condition under a Con stitution founded upon the republican principle of equal rights- To admit that this picture has its shades is but to say that it is still the condition of men upon earth. From evil, physical, moral, and political, it is not our claim to be exempt. We have suffered,' sometimes by the visitation of heaven, through disease ; often by the wrongs and injustice of other nations, even to the extremities of war; and, lastly, by dissensions among ourselves—dissen sions, perhaps, inseparable from the enjoyment of freedom, but which have, more than once, appeared to threaten the dissolution of the L'nion, and with it the overthrow of all the enjoyments of our prelim: lot, and all our earthly hopes of the future. The causes of these dissensions have been various ; founded upon dif ferences of speculation in the theory of Republican Government ; upon conflicting views of policy in our relations with foreign na tions . • upon jealousies of partial and sectional interests, aggra vated by prejudices and prepossessions which strangers to each other ate ever apt to entertain. It is a source of gratification and of encouragement to nie, to observe that the great result of this experiment, upon the theory of human rights, has, at the close of that generation by which it was formed, been crowned with success, equal to the most san guine expectations of its founders. Union, justice, tranquillity, the common defence, the general welfare, and the blessings of liberty--all have been promoted by the Government under which we have lived. Standing at this point of time ; !coking back to that generation which has gone by, and forward to that which is advancing, we may, at once, indulge its grateful exultation. and in cheering hope. From the experience of the past, we derive in. structive lessons fur the future. Of the two great political panics which have divided the opinions and feeling s of our country, the candid and the just will now admit, that Will have contributed splendid talents, spotless integrity, ardent patriotism, and disin terested sacrifices, to the formation and administration of this Go vernment ; and that both have required a liberal indulgence for a portion of human infirmity and error. The Revolutionary wars of Eurom commencing precisely at the moment when the Govern. menu of the United States first went into operation under this Constitution, excited a collision of sentiments and of sympathies, which kindled all the passions and embittered the conflict of parties, till the nation was involved in war, and the Union was shaken to us centre. This time of trial embraced a period of five-and-twenty years, during which the policy of the Union, in its relations with Europe, constituted the principal basis of our political divisions, and the mime arduous part of the action of our Federal Govern ment. With the catastrophe in which the wars of the French Revolution terminated, and our own subsequent peace with Great Britain, this baneful weed of party strife was uprooted. From that time no difference of principle, connected either with the theory of government or with our intercourse with foreign nations, has existed. or been called forth, in force sufficient to sustain a con. dotted combination of parties, or to give more than wholesome ani mation to public sentiment, or legislative debate. Our political creed is without a dissenting voice that can be heard—that the will of the people le the source, and the happiness of the people the end, of all legitimate government upon earth—that the best security for the beneficence, and the hest guarantee against the abuse of power, consists in the eedom. and purity, and the frequency of popular ilec tions—that the general Government of the Union, sod the separate Governments of the States, are all sovereignties of limited powers ; fellow-aerviints of the same masters • uncontrolled within their re- spectivespheres; uncontroilable by eiteroachments upon each tithe.— that the firmest security of peace is the preparation, during peace, of the defences of war—that a rigorous economy, and accounta bility of public expenditure., should guard against the aggravation, and alleviate, when possible, the burthen of taxation—that the military should be kept in strict subordination to the civil power— that the freedom of the peers and of religious opinion, should be inviolate—that the policy of our country is peace, and the ark of our salvation union, are articles of faith upon which we are all now agreed. If there have been shore who doubted whether a confede rated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled. If there have been pro jects of partial confederacies to be erected upon the ruins of the Union, they have been scattered to the winds. if there have been dangerous attachments to one foreign nation, and antipathies against another, they hare been extinguished. Ten years of peace at home and abroad, have assuaged the animosities of political con tention, and blended into harmony the most discordant elements of public opinion. There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuate throagkout the nation, who have heretofore followed the mondani@ of political party. It Is that of discarding every remnant of ran cour against each other; of embracing, as tvuntryMen and friends. mod es yielding to talents and virtue alone, that confidence. which, " - ~-.. ~~ THE .BAITISII. PRESS. • in times, of contention for principle, was bestowed only upon those who bore the badge of party communion. The collisions of party spirit, which originate in speculative opinions, or in different views of administrative policy, are in their nature transitory. Those which are founded on geographical di. visions, adverse interests of soil, climate, and modes of domestic life, are more permanent, and therefore perhaps more dangerous. It la this which gives inestimable value to the character of our Go vernment, at once federal and national. It holds out to us a perpe. teal admonition to preserve alike, and with equal anxiety, the tights of each individual State in its own government, and the rights of the whole nation in that of the Union. %Vhatsoever is of domestic concernment, unconnected with the other members of the Union, or with foreign lands, belongs exclusively to the administration of the State Governments. ll'hatsoever directly involves the right,' and interest,' of the federative fraternity, or of Foreign Powers, is of the resort of this General Government. The duties of both are (*virtue in the general principle, though sometimes perplexed with difficulties in the detail. To respect the rights of the State Govern. merits is the inviolable duty of that of the Union; the Government of every State will feel its own obligation to respect and preserve the tights of the whole. The prejudices, every-there too commonly en. tertained against distant strangers, are wionawar, and the jealousies of jarring interests are allayed, by the composition and tonctions of the grant National Councils, annually assembled from all quarters of the Union, at this place. Here the distinguislie;l men from every section of our country, while meeting to deliberate upon the great interests of thole by whom they are deputed, learn to estimate the talents, and do justice to the virtues, of each other. The harmony of the nation is motored, and the whole Union is knit together, by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship, fornted between the Repreasn. tatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis. Passing from this general review of the purposes and injunc tions of the Federal Constitution, and their results, as indicating the first traces in the path of &fey in the discharge of my public trust, I turn to the administration of my immediate predecessor. It has passel away in a period of profound peace ; how touch to the saute faction of our country, and to the honour of our country's name, is known to you all. The great features of his policy, ingenuous ton• currence with the will of the Legislature, have been—to cherish peace, while preparing for defensive war; to yield exact justice to other nations, and maintain the rights of our own ; to cherish the principles of freedom and of equal rights, wherever they were pro dangled; to discharge, with all possible pinneptiewsks 4 , e national debt ; to reduce, within the narrowest limits of efficiency, the military force ; to improve the organisation and discipline of ' the army ; to provide and sustain a school of military sci ence ; to extend equal protection In all the great interests of the nation; to promote the civilization of the Indian tribes; and to proceed in the great system of internal improvements within the ' limits of the constitutional power of the Union. Under the pledge ' of these promises, made by that eminent citizen, at the time of his first induction to this office, in hi. career of eight years, the in- ' ternal taxes have been repealed; sixty millions of the public debt ' have been discharged ; provision has been made for the comfort and relief of the aged and indigent among the surviving warriors of the Revolution ; the regular armed force has been raluced, and its constitution revised and perfected ; the accountability fur the expenditure of public moneys has been made more effective ; the Florida* have been peaceably acquired, and our boundary has been extend.. to the Pacific Ocean ; the independence of the southern nations Y this hemisphere has been recognised and recommended by example and by counsel to the potentates of Europe; progress has been made in the defence of the country by fortifications and the increase of the navy—towards the effectual suppression of the African traffic in slaves—in alluring the aboriginal hunters of our land to the cultivation of the soil and of the mind—in exploring the interior regions of the Union, and in preparing, by scientific researches and surveys, fur the further application of our national resources to the internal improvement of our country. In this brief outline of the promise and performance of my im , mediate predecessor, the line of duty, for his successor, is clearly delineated. To pursue, to their consummation, those purposes of limprovement in our common condi:ion, instituted or recommended by him, will embrace the whole sphere of my obligations. To the tooic of internal improvement, emphatically urged by him at his ina t uguration, I recur with peculiar satisfaction. It is :hat from which I am convinced that the unborn millions of our posterity, who are in future ages to people this continent, will derive their most fervent gratitude to the founders of the Union ; that, in which the beneficent action of its government will be most deeply felt and acknowledged. The magnificence and splendor of their public works are among the imperishable glories of the ancient Republics. The roads and aqueducts of Rome have been the admiration of all after ages, and have survived thousands of years after all her con quests hare been swallowed up in despotism, or become the spoil of Barbarians. Some diversity of opinion has prevailed with regard to the powers of Congress for legislation upon objects of this nature. The most respectful deference is due to doubts, originating in pure patriotism, and sustained by venerated authority. But nearly twenty years have passed since the construction of the first National Road was commenced. The authority for its construction was then unquestioned. To how many thousands of our countrymen has it proved a benefit ? To what single individual has it ever proved an injury ? Repeated liberal and candid discuasions in the Lesidature have conciliated the sentiments, and approximated the opinions of enlightened minds upon the question of constitutional power. I cannot but hope that, by the same process of friendly, patient, and persevering deliberation, all constitutional objections will ultimately be removed. The extent and limitation of the power of the Gene ral Government, in relation to this transcendently important interest, will be settled and acknowledged, to the common satisfaction of all ; and every speculative temple will be solved by a practical public blessing. Fellow-Citizens, you are acquainted kith the peculiar clreum. stances of the recent election, winch have reaul,ed in affording me the opportunity of addressing you at this time. You have heard the exposition of the principles whieli will direct me in the ful filment of the high and solemn trust imposed upon me in this sta tion. Less possessed of your confidence, in advance,than any of my predecessors, I am deeply conscious of the prospect that I shall stand, more and oftener, in need of your indulgence. Intentions, upright and pure, a heart devoted to the welfare of our country, and the unceasing application of all the faculties allotted to me to tier service, are all the pledges that I can give, for the faithful performance of the arduous duties I am to undertake. To the I, guidance of the Legislative Councils ; to the assistance of the Ex ecutive and Subordinate Departments ; to the friendly co-operation of the respective State Governments ; to the candid and liberal sup port of the people, so far as it may be deserved by honest industry and zeal, I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that, except the Lord keep the City, the watch. man waketb but in vain, with ferret supplications for his favour, to his overruling Providence I commit. with humble but fearless confidence, any own fate, and the future destinies of my country. RIO DE LA PLATA AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. A numerous Meeting of the subscribers to this Association was convened yeaterdny at the Crown and Anchor T avern . Sir J. HARRINGTON took the chair a little afterone o'clock, and 1 1 Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT opened the business of the Meeting. He wouli. u briefly as possible inform them of those particulars which it was necessary for them to knew. The Deed of Associa tion, the principal object of the Meeting, would then be read. He wisaed it in the first place to be distinctly understood, that the Association did rot owe its rise to the present mania for Joint Stock Companies, for it had been in contemplation for eight years past. He would in the next place satisfy them that it was advantageous Ito the country, and then that the objects of the Association could not be effected by other means than a Joint Stock Company. Ile apprehended, therefore, that it did not come within the Act of 6th Geo. I. so injurious to commercial speeulatiar.s, nor indeed could it be censured by any individual. In 1817 a proposition was made to the Government of Buenos Ayres for the establishment of • Company of this kind. This proposal originated in the purest motives, tor at that time, as many of them might remember, the greatest distress prevailed in this country. That proposal was not, however, then acted upon. Again, in the beginsing of 1819, a tai nilar vapor's! woe made, and was taken into the consideration of Congress. Since that period his proposal had been more favour. ably received, and he had, in consequence, sent out s hundred fami. lies, as an experimental colony, to an estate he had there purchased. In what they were about to do they were morally and politically right. When the population pressed upon the means of subsist trace, as was the case in many parts of this country, nothing better could be done than to carry off the surplus to countries where they might reap the reward of their labour. They would be removed from a country where they were nearly in a mate of starvation, to a land abounding in all the necessaries of life, where the fruits of the I earth actually rotted for want of mouths to eat them, and where they themselves might live in plenty, and then( posterity for generations after them. The country itself to which they went would be equally benefited by the acceerion.of an indus trious population. It was also no little pride to an English man to reflect that he was spreading the fame, muse, and race of his country. With regard to the means of convey:pee. they must be aware that emigration could not be conducted without extensive eo-operations ; it required in consequence infinitely more funds the. could be furnished by a private individual. The question then was, whether Government could do it ? Government had not shown any backwardness in advancing the necesuey funds for the late plans of colonisation ; but that was to our own colonies, and it could not thus act in the present case. It could, denture, only be done by a Joint Stock Company. It could net be deemed a nuisance, for he had already shown that it would be of the greatest benefit. About five weeks ago he had entered into • very ad vantageous contract, by which he had bought nearly a million of acres of the beat land in South America. There y ere many gentle. nun present who hail visited that country, and elm could testify that the province of Entre Rios, in which these mates were situated, was the most fertile of that fertile country. The principal estates were on the rivers Uruguay and Paraguay, with in 129 Wiles of Buenos Ayres. There was already on the land a million head of cattle. Maps of the country and plans of the estates erre handed round. In answer to a question made by a Gentleman, whose name we could not learn, Mr. B. BEAUMONT informed the Meeting diet all religions were tqlcrated in that country. The deed was then read, and among other previsions was one, Ire which Mr. Beaumont was at the dissolotion of the Company to have one hundredth part of all the land belonging to the Company. After the deed had been read, the opinion of an eminent Barrister was put in, purporting, that in his (Onion the Company was not illegal. A Resolution was then passed, that &deed similat to that which bad been read should be prepared for signatute. The Melting :hen brAt up at a little before four o'elo:k. , - . _ . COAL, TRADE. COLLIER DOCKS, IN THE ISLE OP DO(ki. • . A meeting ofillt large consumers of coals, the buyers, factors, ship-owners, end others interested in the coal trade of the port of Eiontldn, vas held yesterday at the City of London Tavern, IlishopsgSte-street, for the purpose of taki ng into considetation the most effectiie means of opposing the prohibitory clause in the Bill now before Petliament to compel the collier■ to deliver In dock.. The meeting was vet, numerously and resrectably attended. At one o'clock l'stant.ES BARCLAY. Es 9. was called to the chair. The Ctrantitaw) after having briefly stated the objets of the meeting, said, that in taking the chair he had obeyed the sum. mons of several nits* respectable gentlemen; anti he had done so, because he was well aware of the importance of the subject. not only to all who were in any way interested in the coal tra.le but to the metropolis at large. It was a Matter of surprise, that rotwith standing the project of forming docks in the Isle of Dogs, and of obliging all colliers to discharge their cargoes in those docks, no complaint had erg been made by the City of London, from whom a complaint, if there had been cause for it, would have properly come; but it was left to a few individual:. to find out that the River of the metropolis was blocked up by the colliers • and that, for the Wet& and the comfort of that metrupolin, it became necessary to bind docks for the purpose of rqiving them; and , moreover. that thorwdocks should be built in thsle of Dogs. He ' ' had found but one feeling on this subject In the publi: mind, and that feeling was most decidedly against them ; Eft he wax sure that none would oppose thin), if they thought that on principles of free trade those docks could answer the purpose for which they ought, in common justice, to be intended. Those who agitated the plan say that there is no compulsion to coal vessels to enter those docks, but they knew that sash vessels could enter no other docks, as their expenses, although Very great, would be less than those of others, and they knew that in the West India Docks, which were ' always full, a much greater inconvenience would attend them ; so that, in reality, their plan would compel the coal vessels to enter those docks, and to enter no others. He should have thought it unnecessary to argue at all the question of expediency, but that it had been asserted those proposed docks would be a public benefit. He resided in a part of the country (the neighbourhood of Pal mouth) where he had frequent opportunities of noticing the effects of contrary winds in obliging the coil vessels to remain off, until two or three hundred of them were forced to enter the Channel to. etcher. What than would be the consequence if all those colliers were forced at once to enter the docks ? . He knew also that we in this country sometimes experienced a continuance of frost for six months in the year, and in such a case the consequences would be • far more injurious than under the present arrangements. Aoother powerful objection was, that • considerable additional epense would necessarily be entailed on the country. He did not find in I the Bill any calculation of this expense; but the Bermondsey I Docks were referred to in that Bill ; and it wan stated that the ex pense on coals in those docks was 24. per choldron ; but would not the sum in the proposed docks be far greater, and would they not be attended with increased inconvenience as well as experrie ? Even according to the calcala:ion of ffs. per chaldron, the annual sum amounted to no less than 10,0001. The next objection was as to the obstructions in the river ; but it• there must be an obstruc tion, would the obstruction in the Isle of Dogs be less inconvenient than the obstruction in the Pool? The West India Company had already taken the alarm, and had petitioned, on the ground , that if a number of barges were kept waiting, it would materially I annoy their trade. He wished the Parliament and the people to I consider the situation of this great metropolln—the emporium of ' the world—the chief city of &great manufacturing country—and to consider that if companies were allowed to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the public trade, what the result would naturally be—what but that of enhancing the expense of every thing, neces sary as well as luxury ? The consequence already was, that a great portion of the trade of London had been carried to Liverpool, and that city had thriven because of the restriction* on the trade of the former. It was the duty, therefore, or all the metropoli tan mercantile classes to unite, in order that no additional charge might be put on, but that as many as possible might be taken off. He had heard men of rank and influence in the other end of the town complaining of the obstructions in the river; but they looked upon them with a jaundiced eye ; they should behold them only as so many proofs of the prosperity of the country. If Parliament permitted this Bill to pass, the public would next year bear of bills to form docks for borne vessels and for coasting vessels, which might be very handsome and very agreeable to those who occa sionally went down the river to eat white bait at Greenwich. but which would be highly detrimental to the best interests of the country. Mr. GILLESPIE said, that as the oldest member in the coal market, he felt it his duty, in proposing the first Resolution, to accompany it with a few observations, and to state what had taken place relative to the C.immittee, whi ch the meeting was aware was at present sitting. The coal trade, being naturally jealous of any attempts that :night be made to infringe upon their rights and customs, had appointed this Committee to watch over the progress of Parliament, and if any penal enactments should be meditated against them, to take every constitutional step to oppose them. It was first proposed in 1791 to form docks in the Isle of Dogs ; but when the matter was referred to a Committee of the House of Commons, it was found that they would be very inconvenient, and the idea wart abandoned. The subject wan again agitated in 1812, and it was then decided against the pmject ; the difficulty of going into those docks being always a sufficient argument against them. There were then four projectors of those docks, but they had now merged into one; and of all the companies that bad ever been formed for this plan, he never knew one which had a higher or more' respectable Pet of directors. The public might hence *appals that..l they were in aide hands, but however eminent those gendemen , might be for worth and talents, they were perfatly ignorant of the coal trade, and it was impossible :hat th e y cou ld give tbewsatter their proper attention, as they had sufficient to do in attending to the business at the India House, or at the House of Commons, without troubling themselves about collier docks. The coal trade felt, that although they would not be the sufferers, as, of course, if they bought high they must sell high, it became their duty to call together those who would chiefly suffer. And notwithstanding the coal dealers would be greatly inconvenienced, tneir loss's would not be great ; he hoped the odium of the measure would not lie upon them. One circumstance it was important to consider, that the coal trade were unanimous in their sentiments concerning the Bill. He would conclude by moving the following Resolution : " That in the Isle of Dog's Collier Dock Bill, now before the House of Commons, n penal clangs is introduced for removing Col liers from the stream of the River. •• It is expedient, therefore, that the sentiments of the Consumers of Coals in general should be expressed (with those of the Coll Trade), on so great a &cage in the manner of carrying on the same." Mr J. HENLEY seconded the Resolution. Mr. DAVEY said, that the coal trade had been carried on in the stream from time immemorial, and that it was impossible to carry it on in any other way with so many advantages to the metropolis. All who knew any thing of that trade, knew how many expebses would be incurred if the colliers were obliged to enter the docks. This expense rook! not be paid by the coal dealers, but by the coal consumers; and it hpd, therefore, been a duty in those coal dealers to call the public together, in order that they might not be blamed if the injurious plan were carried into effect. The expense would not only consist in the lighters having to proceed farther down the river, but a different kind of craft would be necessary, and a larger capital must be therefore employed. If the vessels were compelled to enter • dock, whether they would or not, it would be a great shackle on the free trade. The better way would be to let the spe culator build those docks, and allow the vessels to go in or not as they pleased. Mr. Davey then moved the second Resolution-- " That the Coal Trade of this Port is one of the greatest magni tude, in an article of the most indispensable nature, and has been carried on in the stream of the River from time immemorial." Mr. DADICII•RD said, that it was impossible that bent tidal re sults could follow the building of the pmposed Collier Docks. A vessel now frequently discharged no chaidron of coals in three days, and the duck% could never increase this quantity in so small a apace of time. The supply of coals to the metropolis WAS always equal to the demand ; it certainly did happen last year that the want was greater than the supply, but this was the fault of the harbour muter, Who might have elented away the vessels that others might enter. The coal trade only required two hundred vessels, and there was room in the Pool for two hundred and eighty. It would be im portant to consider what the consequences must be in those docks, if a fire were to take place, and such an event would not be impro bable, as the colliers were not like the West India vessels, in which the men did not reside—the colliers were the sailors' dwellings. All vessels coming into the Pool were now cleared out much sooner than the law obliged them to be. but this would not be the case if 160 or 200 vessels entered the Pool at once, and such certainly could not be the case if they were obliged to discharge their cargoes in docks. It was said that a railway was to be built from the - Isle of Dogs to il'hitechapel Church ; but this would be of very little use to the inhabitants at the west end of the town. In conclusion he would move-7 "That experience has proved the convenience. despa,ch, and economy' with which the trade has been hitherto conducted." 111 r. Haw ES observed that the plan, if carried into effect, would greatly injure the poor, who were already paying highly for their coals in consequence of the port charges. He was glad to see the Chair surrounded by coal.dealem, who, although they would not be the prhicipal sUffevers, had discharged their duty in giring this public warning. He then moved the fourth Resoulutlon— " That if the statements of the Projectors of the coma Docks. averred in the preamble of their Bill, be correct, of affording ' better accommodation for ship! and ves.els laden with Coals; they ought to make the Dock% at their own risk, and on tie prin ciple of free competition in trade, and to exclude all penal enact ments." Mt. BMICTIAIin then read the following petition:— •` To the Hop. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, " The humble petition of the several persons whose names are hereunto suberibeil, being manufacturers ernplowiag steam entine‘, and being all of them foasumers of Coals in the part of Lindon, showetb, " That your petitioners observe that by a Bill now before your Honourable House. for making and constructing Wet Docks and other work 4 in the Isle of Hogs, it is proposed to make it pens' for colliers and vessels laden with Coals to deliver their cargoes in the stream of the River. " That experience has proved the convenience, despatch, mid economy, with which the trade has been Oitherto conducted. `•That the projectors of those Docks aver, in the preamble or their Dill. their intention of affirrding ' better acrommodatisn' foe ships and weasels laden with Coals, and to act on the • priociple of free competition in trade,' and • without any exclusive psi. vilrpe or immuoivles.' That your pet:troners, being well aware of the additional es- ;k::i~+ %+fin IMK ':;,•. 150- . pews-. and increased delay. which would arise from Inch new VA untried measure, to the enhancement of the price of noels to them selves in their respective lines of business, and to the public at large, are induced to express their sentiments to your Ifoneuralile 4' That if thesubwribers to the said docks are correct in the 4 House. - views of the advantages to be derived by the change, they ought to leave the experiment to it. own nitrite, and make the docks at thine own risk, leaving tp your petitioners that option which their own interest will naturally lead ther.i to pursue. " Your petitioners thereforehunibly pray, that your Honourable House will not Pass ssch penal clause, but permit them to be heard be themselves, Counsel, agents, and witnesses, against thcasidi 11111. " And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ewer pray." . Fir. BANCHAID then moved, " That th e p et i t i on now read be adopted, signed by the gentlemen present, and left at the bar of this tavern for signature until Thursday next." Mr. Alderman ‘VOOD said, that the object of thy Gallant A. mind Mir Joseph Yorke) who brought into the 110 ; 13t of ('nm. mons the Bill that had been alluded to, was to keep the river cleat of shipping; but, in his opinion, that Gallant Admiral would have better succeeded if he had obliged the Harboue-masters to perform their duty. ft was strange diet on. of the five causes of the evil.. complained of should be the very first to bring these evils into no. rice. HetAidermen Wood) had heard that it was intended to omit the compulsatory clause of ihe Bill, but he did not believe it, NI without such a clause the docks would be useless. He would with pride and pleasure support the petition whenever it was pre sented. Admiral Durmast said, that in justice to his friend and thotbet officer, the gallant Admiral who had been alluded to, he felt it his duty to remark, that his object was solely to clear the stream of the river or the shipping, and to benefit the country. There we le many circumstances that made stich a measure appear to be neces sary, although lie (Admiral Durham) was not one who thought it expedient. Tnoxas Wlt.sosr, E•n• M.P. uid, that his cpinion wee always adverse to the comptilmoty clause in the Bill, and wheys the gallant officer (Sir Joseph V.orke) moved its, second reading, he had intended to oppose it; but that accid en t a ll y h e had fides% to catch the Speaker 's eye, and found that he had proceeded to s . different business. Ak!erman Ilotnoas said, that he should cor d ially oppose the oompulsetory clause. The tellowing Resolution, were then morcd by 31 r . B a t. " That a subscription be fortli,ith entered into, for ea: parrs)* of defraying the necessary expenses, " That a Sub-Commtttee, of the Chairmen, Meths. Wm. liorne, James B entley, and. H. W. Berchart, be c h o s en t o wait un.on Charles .arclay. Esq. to state the foregoing Rreolutiona, and that they be empowered to alter or vary the Lim; ad to theft* mar seem tit." The thanks of the Meeting were then voted to the City 3letnbetl, for opposing the compulutory clause, and for their attendance. The 3leeting then separate& DINNER TO MR. LAWLESS. Yesterday a dinner wan given to 31r. Lawless at the City of Lott• don Tavern, at which Mr. Hunt presided. There were ThiPt mare than twenty or thirty gentlemen sat down, and there was nd President. Soon after the cloth was removed, the Citatastaw rose to pro pose the health of the King, who was, he said, the most powerful professed friend of Ireland. This toast was thin drunk with the customary honours. The next toast was, " The Constitution, and may every dual spetidily participate In the whole of its benefits." " Civil and religious liberty all over the world," was then given after which-- The CHATRMAX rose ant! addressed the gentlemen present at some length, detailing the circumstances under which the measure had been set on foot, and the motive of it, which was to ascertain the opinion of the public of the metropolis respecting the two wings. as they were called, of the Catholic Bill. If the name of any great man had been given to the public's the intended Chairman of such a meeting, he doubted not tl,st hundreds of such a person's friends and adherents would have made it a point to be present, bit thin would have proved no test of public opinion. On the present ores. Rion not a single ticket was sent to any human being but Mr. Law less, and these two circumstances combined were sufficient to ac count for the smallness of the assemblage. He thought likewise that the absence of ninny was owing more to apithy with regard to the question at issue, than to opposition ,to the views of Mr. Law_ leas, It had been the good fortune of Mr. Lawless to stand in ths gap in defence of Ireland. in doing which he differed from his dearest friends, as well as front the other delegates who came hither from the sister country. The measure of Emancipation was clogged by two Bills, ore of which would go to impose a burthen upon the Protestents of Engldnd for the payment of the Irish Priests, and the object of !h• ether was the disfranchisement of half • million of men. These Bills Mr. Lawless manfully opposed, and de ()Ir. Htmt) fully conc:trred with him. For his p ar t , h e h a d rather see all the Catholic Peers kept out of Parliament than that one forty shilling freeholder should be disfranchised. He conchidsd by pro-. !swing the health of their pest, Mr. Lawless, which was seems). Ingle drunk with three times three. Mr. LAWLESS, In returning thanks, assured the gentlemen assembled, that he felt the honour they had done him so very grew, so overwhelming, that he could not give adequate ex. minion to his feelings of gratitude. He declared that his ,opposition to the Bills for disfranchising the freeholders, sad pensioning the clergy, was founded u p on th e best judgment he could form on the matorest deliberation. After speaking in the highest terms of his frinid Sir. Hunt, he enlarged at some length on his feelings of gratitude to those who did him the honour to attend. To that part of the metropolitan press which stood most opposed to his sentiments, he felt much indebted, especially to the Coarser. The object of th e p resent meeting was to cal l forth an expression of public sentiment in this groat metropolir; and from what he then 5e..., he meet acknow. ledge that its sentiments were not popular. (Cries of " No, nor") I He bad often before been in a minority, but be had lived to see his opinions prevail. The principle which be advocates! here was un. ' successful solely on account of his inability. In differing from the great men to whom he was opposed, he did so with hesitation tar Francis Burdett was a sincere and a powerful friend to Ire land, and one from whose opinion he almost feared to dissent; he was therefore surprised to find such a man nut only willing to abridge the suffrage of Ireland but of England also. The au. thorities of Grattan, Burke, Hood, and others of high note, wcre in his support; and even the evidence of Mr. Frankland Lewis went to show the weight and importance of the forty shilling freeholders. Was it to be borne that t 00,000 men should be di.- franchised in order to bring into Parliament a few English and Irish Peers, and perhaps twenty Commoners? The forty-shillii.x freeholders were laid to be corrupt, hut he affirmed that those of 501. or 1001. were not less so. The true object of emancipators should be not to aggrandize the upper ranks, hot to tranquilize the peasantry. He trusted that the peasantry of Ireland would not be loyal to the Constitution until justice was done to them, and that they would be loyal only proportion to the privileges they en joyed. On the authority of a Noble Lord, with whom he re cently had the lionaur of an interview, he could assure them that the Catholic Bill would experience a signal defeat in the Upper House._ Mr. Litwirss then sat down, and in a few minutes afterwards, got up to propose the health of their Chairman, Mr. Hunt, which was drunk with ever, demonstration of respect. Mr. HUNT returned thanks in a suitable speech, in the mine of which he observed at length upon the two Hills, and repeated Ida agreentent with the principles on which Mr. Lewis*, acted. - Dr. GILCHRIST proposed as a toast —" May religious persecu tion cease in all quarters of the world." (Applause.) Mr. Ilu we then proposed the health of Dr. Oilekrist, which wa: received with much applause ; and the Learned Gentleman r• turned thanks in an appropriate speech. The next toast was, " 'fin health of Joseph Hume, Esq."- - Three times three. Mr. Lawsuits, after eulogking the genius and integrity of 31 Cobbett, adverted to the circumstance of his absence, and rest letter on the subject, of which the following is a copy :-- " Kensington, April 12, 1824:. " y DEAR Sta,—'"liia is to inform you, that I shall not at the dinner tmday ; and here are my reasons for it. I am, at all times, ready to acknowledge that you hare manfully done your duty in opposing the project for disfranchising your countrymet. I am ready to show my respect for your zeal and you r t a l ents , i s any way that does not make me seem to be of a party amongst th. Catholics. Upon reflecting on what you told me het evening, rt• specting the opinion of an excellent judge of the natter, I Mid great weight in his objection ; and while I do really see that there a great danger that the dinner will tend to the creating,of disis. -t amongst the Catholics and amongst their Protestant friends, I at. resolved not to do any thing which I think has such tendency. It it my anxiout wish to see full justice done to the Catholics of boos islunds: I am a labourer in this great rouse: I have the tkir; most sincerely at heart: I labour now with prodigious erect: but. to be able to continue to do this, I must stand clear of those pate, influences and imputations that may be found and may take plsoe amongst Catholics themselves. " This objection to my being at the dinner did not occur to v until you yesterday told me what our friend had said on the st jest. I did not so clearly see it at first r, but, on further reflectiv I am convinced that, by going to the dinner, I should do harm t the Catholic cause; that i s t o sa y, t h at I should, by ranging is self with a party, lessen m y p ower o f doing go od is that nose; and therefore I am resolved not to go. •• I am, yours most faithfully, " To John Lawless, Esq. " Was. CORNETT." Mr. LAW LEss, after a few other ebterrations, conelut/ed by p: - posing •• The health of 31r. Cobbe.t."—Drunk with three awe • three. Tie bealths of bunt Grey and Mr. Ensor were given. ass 7 . se►eral other toasts, after which the emitter part of the comp• 7 left the room, while the remainder continued to partake of chap!, .- sores of the table to a late hour. The Decocq has passed up the Channel, for Antwo7 , She quitted the Isle of France on the i9th December, and left the Owen and Resolution ready to nil for Eng laud. . A Romance of peculiar interest, entitled Faustus: inis I.fle,th, and Deaocnt into Ile/1, will be published ke • few days. It is from the German, and altogether or the FreiNa;tar school, faustas being the CaspErve cite. • . - - itt.s .1 I 1 " z I i I 9 r, 1 li Il i 1 I • ~~ r • . . •