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PHILIPP'S LINTEIRSS. [nuns ♦ bosun rairsa.] To • frilled, lobo was levidi h estolliag the • solbyuiab powers of same came he hod heard but incr. Dr. Jaime's sipilleantly whispered—" tee ageiis ;" swayed by. this sage admonition. I ti..oe !maimed's! my sialisian of Philipps till now, that I can truly ewy II did " see Alm write," sod yet inocr-..witis wag.rweif adatirstion and delight. t would Far emceed the due lignite of a cooameni I ation like this, to attempt a fell report of the novilty and ttiusplieiey of his precepts—the pee. apecisity tied elegance of ha diction.--the happy adoptaboes seed still Nippier execution of Iris Moe. :,oi!ouo—iviish the long of eaters of many other opposite adjuncts to elscielase and embellish his t ea 4ing design; sod were all these minutely de *ailtd with tveu such reset Aden''', it would still i.e necessary to ',mind ,the reader of the Greek Orator's possitioate eselommien—m Oh ! "shot would have been raw applanes bad you heard it eielicered by himself." . On the secood day we had so air from Win ter, and a few others from Haydn and Handel, elven with a facility of execution, tiled truth of • xpression, that forcibly remitirled me of the best t Waite, of the beat days of the unrivalled Vigenohi. .11 'moue specimen of the nature of these thdrciic 'eclair% I srleet • passage front the Bret, inure a view of recalling to its auditors the inten.e pleasure it .Routed them, Ohm in the idle hope of • oriveyiug an red orate notion to those who had nut the hisppiisres of hearing it. iftftervientoostrriting the superiority of the l'alisn *Tie, and alA'rniog that the cadences of ninny iiiisers were often Italian, without its being eons ti 44444 ly thought so. he instanced locledon, alto ha I hero a pupil of Itatizzisii, and commenced with a hwe inittat:ori of him io " Whim the buts of the I illuge." . 1 his, thou4li a perfect "fee simile," I really thought might as well have breu clepeet l'arkieli or Chim se, and that Italian was a soil ims `nomer.. Hut one should never be "too sure that lie is a beef-eater ;" for after the coarse and deforming mind was gently pared riff, but without the snuille4 laceration of the tire body of the butt, it vies 'tie. totenly, end like magic—ltalian to the eery core; thr-happiest exemphlication of the "alter et idea" that was ever, perhaps, exhibited. Should Ur. P. devote hip talents to the labour of instruction, dust die will souls bete a hast of applicants mny he safely predicted. From the qualilieutirms his Lectures • have so conspicootply displayed. even rivals most purely join in the general •utf.age, that of all the leachers of their inv.:l'l,lmq art, Mr. Philipps is— Prineeps." Plasoaim vs. PORT OF LONDON SOCIETY. Cto Tomboy 'the Anniversary Meeting of this Society, trim+ has fur its object the pronstdiou of religious among penmen. was held in the treat Hall of the Freemosmos' Tavern. -C rca t Qilren-street, The Right Hon. J. C. Vill.ers, M. P. was sumaiimotisly celled to the Chair. He was supported by R. H. Marlyn, . 'E.q the Treasurer. Mr. I..icir rend the Report of the Proceeding' of tie So. Viet,. Is stated, that the cult of the purchase mod Siting up hra Majesty's ship .tirerrig, as a Chapel fur the Port of Luoiloo, had hero little short of 3,000 t tuwt the secoautioda. tion is cumplete fur OM hearers. The Society had incurred a debt of a few hundred pounds, and their first object was to pay off this (lilt, and then procure inmost suti•triptious, to keep up the important works which they hsd begun with so much helmet-Metier and zeal. I.eittra were read from Mr. Varsitlart and Lord Gs/attire, who could Not sliced the tuter:ng, but each of whom en closed handsome donations. The Earl o f it OCIL SAVA° in • nett sperch . . the Society to She kiteling, which had for its object to bring tier brave seamen to a knowledge of that religion, to know hid) waseternal life. He proposed the krill Itesollitiou. De. Timers seconded the liesoluti4s, and in doing so isialogised our mimes for their bravery, and of their necessity to oar conimivcial greatness., We owed them nut only an asylum in Greenwich [Nevi ial in old age, bat also an ever lasting asylum under Ike cross of Christ. The motion was then carried. _ _ _ Mr. WILe RRRRR Clt acknowledged, in moving the second Resolutionoliat he bail been tartly, except by his poor Sub. ocriptious, iu advsocing this great cause. Ile lanaelord that women in genetsl had out fern the education of ordinary men. It had been said by some that to make seamen re. hgious would damp their courage. Oa the contrary, that mutt make our seamen still enure courageous, which, so the Iwyr of death's tart arm, could reader even the tender Leart of woman brave. He thank. d his Honourable Friend (Mr. Marlyn) for haring given them an opportunity of spew_ rug, in so imposing a manner, their gratitude to our seamen fur the astonishing services they had rendered their country. The day might anon arrive when every one of our seamen . - wuuld become iu some sort missionaries In curs the im portant truths of the Gospel to the benighted iubabitaats of the most &stout lands. Admiral SPItANCIER seconded the Resolution, which was .carried unallimousty. The Hun. said Rev. GtMUD For moved the third He rr:dation, and in doing this he would not place it uu the grucod of ■ ditty owing to the sailors fur their important se►viees, but us, the higher grounds of their duty, which required them to glee religious instisreimo to every en lightsued being. TI-e Rev. Mr. ALicn, front America, seconded the Remo lo Mr. MA:tvvr read 11 kites from the Director. of the Port Sammy of New T ur k, siatnie, that places of public worship had been established fur stamen a Roston, Philadelphia, and •Charlestrin, ■nd al.ii giving an account of the great surcem ui libtif own lostitution. The Resolateens was times carried. The Rte. Mr. STRATTAII propossil the fourth Resolution iu a short speech. Lieutenant SAUID74III, .of the Royal Navy, seconded the Resolution, which was carried uuartimou•lv. After speeches from Mr. Stephen, the Rev. Mr. Thorn, the Rev. W. Cook, Mr. Marlys, etc. thanks were voted to the Chairman; and after considerable sobscripenme had been . Meted into, the Meermg separated, much gratified with Ike anoctediugs of the day. c 1 11 i. tj s I le 11) CORN EXCHANGR, l'Esatu.say 14. The Wheat trade was eery hea►y this mornine, and but few sales were made. A eunsiderable quantity of Monday's supply remained urer tor this day's nark, i, the *middy of which being very 'uterine, no idlers were made fur ii, but prme samples supported Aloiedey's prices. rtue Malting Barley being scarce sold at Muuday's price; nu &assail for ordinary mai pks. In Henna, Pease, sod Oats there is tau allerlitiva. Flour remits's Slaloooary. COAL MARKET, FEBRUARY 14. Skips at Markel. Ships Sold. Price. 61 Newcastle 321 3lls. 3d. to Ids. OIL 61 &Nader Wad 31 33. 6d. to 331. 6/. ASHDOJYN PANIC COVRISMO inutinte. inuasse, svasuay • TER Cli/P. 1. Mr. 6. Crippes bit Ekawar beat Kr. J. Lames bib UWil• 2. Dr. Nvyricht lota Magnet beat Mr. Chmedlaiset Mk Game*. 3. Lard Crave.'. yel Camilla beet Mr. Lovelies'. bit lAN. 4. Mr. Clippies br Crazy beat Mr. Pettait's wb Pleasure. b. Mr. Goodialte's blk (14.414 beat Dr. Mersekt Madeek. 6. Mr. Heatbeete's yel Hogunit beat Mr. iletroSee bria Beverley. 7. Mr. liratlwrote's wk kleapiat beat Mr. C. Lees% bit Lorene*. S. Mr. Devespores yel Dewdrop beat Mr. Capers bilk NA wh Juggler. SWEEPSTAKES. 1. Mr. J. Loaf's I;beaster Castle beat Calomel Mastro Mrs, sap. Mr. Drowse's Brusher beat Mr. Pesten'. Pickle. . 3. Mr. S. Urethane's Hayslett beat Mr. E. Gipps'. Bliss. 4. Mr. Capers Mk Jeweils beat Mr. Dareopores wb Doe. MATCH ES. 1. Mr. Driscoll's Mk Bub(al beat Mr. E. Cripples Easily. 3. Mr. E. Crappa's Ilk Express ►eat Mr. J. Lmog's Loots War. 3. Mr. Dsvesopures blic thane brat Mr. Capers Mk Jody. SECOND DAY, Fasauaay 7. CUP—FIRST Ti B. Lard Crevew's Camilla beat Mr. S. Heatbeotes Bestgiet. 2. Mr. S. Heatheute's Hugartlo beat Mr. Daresport's Dew drop. 3. Mr. E. Crippo's Klemm , beat Dr. Meyrirk's Mag•et. 4 Mr. Goodies's% Granby beat Mr. Crippes Crasy. SWEEPSTAKES, FIRST TIE. 1. Mr. S. liestbewte% Haymow twat Mr. I. Long's Looms. ter Castle. 2. Mr. Browne% Brusher best Mr. Capers Jareliw. NEW SWEEPSTAKES, FIRST CLASS. 1. Mr. Browses blk sad wk Bumper beat Mr. E. Grippe's Una Eagle. S. Mr. linuillake% Garnet beat Mr. Pettatt% wh Pleasure. 3. Mr. Capers Jaggier heat Mr. Dsveopures bib Doak. 4. Mr. C.l.oag's Silk Ladiswick beat Mr. Cripires blk Campo. NEW SWEEPSTAKES, SECOND CLASS. 1. Mr. Hookermlles yell and wit Bistiei fly beat Mr. J. Loses Lumps% 2. Mr. S. Heettocoies Halbert beat Colowel Stead's Mrs. Slop (late Gem). THIRD DAY, Fasattoow S. CU P—bECON I E. 1. S. Fleatbrose'd Flagrant beat Mr. E. Grippe's Klemm 2. Mir. Gvudlakes Granby beat Lurd C % SWEEPSTAKES. Hsyston beat Brusher, awl rue she !maitre. NEW SWEEPSTAKES--(FIRST CLASS). FIRST TIE. 1. Mr. Capers Juggler beat Mr. Goodlake's GmbH. 2. Mr. C. Long's Ludowick beat M►. Brownie's Bumper. NEW SWEEPSTAKES--(SECOND CLASS). Me. Borkerville's Snottily beet Mr. Heatbmite's Halbert, sod num the stakes. MATCHES. 1. Mr. J. Long's blk Lawrence beat Mr. E. Cripps's Express. 2. Mr. Capri's bik Jester Mat Mr. J. bung's bik. Lark. 3. Mr. Peitaies brim Plicebr brat Alr.C.Loug'a bik arid white Landscape. 4. Mr. Pei tat es W Pull beat Mr. Guiallake's Gunshot. b. Mr. Browses Wm belle brat Mr. Guudiake's white Gay Lass. 8. Mr. Capers bik hostler beat Mr. J. Long. white Levis. than'. S u u. 7. Mr. Darrupures while Desperate beat Mr. Cripps's Cur uauraat. 8. Mr. Guudliike's bik Gipsy brat Mr. ' a rtistes bik Prioress. 9. Me. Capers bit Jessuisasue brat Mr. Daveupures fawn Dolly. 10. Mr. Lovedsies bl. Lavender beat Mr. Cripps's Comedy. 11. Mr. Capers bit Miss Jam brat Mr. C. Long's Letose• 12. Mr. Luvr.awes bit Laura brat Mr. Cripples cm Clots. 13. Mr. Bturrieres wit Hostler beat his. Davempurt's ►lk Heil/tut. 14. Mr. Browne's bl mad w► Brilliant Saul Ble.e:Lameablik Lydia. Ira. Mr. Davenport's yel Dunes, best Mr. C. Leas's Lope tau. 16. Mr. Davenport's kik Da-doing beet Mr. Capers wh Juba. 17. M►. Cripps's Wit Cusiguu beat Mr. Capri's blk Jumper. lb. Mr. thuwite's bttu Beverley suit Mr.Creispe's wb Cis. reuce.—NO COY, se, third dug loose. FOURTH DAY, FFEIRILLMIT 9. Mr. Heallmote's Hagar Ils beet Mr. Guudlake's Granby, alai wuu the Cup; Guitar, woa the Goblet. Mr. Capers Juggler beat Mr. C. Lung's Ludt/wick, end won sue Filet Close of the New Swerpotakes. MATCHES. I. Mr. Crippes Coagou beat Mr. Briscslrs Bashful. 2. Mr. Bruwue's belle and Mr. Guudiahr's Gay Lass—as. decided. 3. Mr. Browne's Bumper beat Mr. Cripps's wh Castor. 4. Mr. Gtaidlake'a Gored beet Colonel Str.i.`'s Mrs. Slop. b. Mr. Guudlakt's Gipay brat Mr. C Limes Lawn.. 8 Me. Capri's 1.1;k Jester beat Mr. E Crippa's blk Express. 7. Mr. (:al.rl'► blk Jost' and Mr. Tritiated wu Pronto—un decided. 8. Mr. Ddreerpoi es Dewdrop beat Mr. Capers Mist Jame. 9. Mt. Davempureb Dully best Mr. Browne's blla Bet. 10. Mr. Doveuport's nu Desperate brat Mr. Crippa's Cur• Murata. 11. Mr. E. Cripples brio Eagle beat Mr.Spiecei bik Hazy. It. Mr. Velum's bik Pull beat Mr. Gautllake's 13. Mr. Haveupured Hiedalust brat Mr. Pttiates bit Pharaoh. 14. Mr. E. Cripps's Eleanor beat Mr. Davenport's blk Dimple. 15. Mr. E Crippv's Emigrant and Mr. Capers Juba—nude coded. 18. Mr. E. Cripps's blk Eger brat Mr. Capers Judy. 17. Mr. Capri's blk and wh Josephine best Mr. C. Longs Larissa. NAVAL lATELLIGEACE. ►ORTSMOUTH, ►IRRUART 13. Arrived the Trafalgar, Headerwa, rause' Nava.. PLIMOLTH, IrCeRUARY 12. Arrived the ‘Vooillark, Illiddlrion, from Smyrna; Duke pf York, Finlay; and Vow., Williams, hoot St. blif,jwilea; Harmony, Dudwith, float Lvglturu; sad CadoustiTil hil lock, front Savannah. FALMOUTH, FFBRUART 11. Arrivcd the Mint, Paton, from liumr, fur Portsmouth; sad Susan and Letuis,Juues, twos Leghorn, for Loudon. cowas, aaaa ua HY 13. Railed the Baroness van der Capetian, Cansberesan, for Antwerp. GRAVFSEED, FEBRUARY 13. Sailed the Waterloo, Alasigar, fur Indic • HARWICH, FIBRUAILY 13. Arrived the Beaufuy packet with. marl Crum Cuxisaven. IDEAL, FEBRUARY 19. Came down from the River and sailed the Atalanta, Bar grn ; Restdutiou, Thorp; Dorothy Foster, Suwdea ; suit Ale)on, Chapmsii, for Jamaica; Joseph, Ckristupher, for Demerara; Adam, Coffin, fur the South Seas ; Heury Wil liam,Werts. fur Malta; Washington, Mount, fir New Yurk ; Alpha, Brooks, fur Madeira; Flora, Leighton, for Lisbon; Sarah, Nicholson, for St. Michael's; Sslacia, Church, fur Trieste; Express, Barrett, fur Gib raltar ; Caw, Hutton, fur Antigua; and Hiram, Brown, fur Leghorn. Arrived and remain the-William, Petty, frowt Alieant. PRICE OF STqCkill TEKTIVIDAY. 3 per Ct. Red 7311 5 per Ct. N. Asp... 1061 721 isi 1 1061 . 106 3 per Ct. Con.. 721111 I India Stock 2291 2301 31 per Cent B2ll Ditto Bonds.. 41 42 pr. 4 per Crisis 9l Be. Bills. 2.... 4 3 pr. I 901 911 Lottery 'rickets 23/. 184. Bank L. Au. 182 19.16, Cow. for Ace.. Magi Imp. S per CI. Au. 7l t 1 • Coadoreet was so enthusiastic admirer of Voltaire's grafter, and could rapist, without am error, Ilfty verses •f his tragedies, offer heariag,lbent once recited. t Is coaversisg with woollies, he would talk about ribbon sad lace s as readily as area atetspbysies sad history with gnu. • I really Musk that in this point he wee equalled. People might soy whatever they pleased of him, he remained perfectly indifferent ; bet he became a lion when the prin. tittles or permits of his friends were attacked. He was particularly muscled to Bilb more them four or five, Messrs. Turgid and D'Alembert, the Durham d'Amvills sad us. t This anodes to his attack on 11. Neckar, from which sour of his friends could dissuade him, themes at all oilier tiara be was ready to the whatever they desired. Om this occasion M. tie Comdoreet advocated Tomtit's - cense against NI. Neckar. and be was the mire webrimrist, because be was more attached to the person of M. Torgist the* to his poli. tical principles. It was after this attack that D'Alembert gave hiss the appellatioa of le mouton enrage Woe mad sheep). It was D'Alembert, too, who first called him, 01111 fietoll it t of the extraordinary habitual serenity of bin temper, " a 'Maio. covered withewww." I He bad bat few persoaal wants, sad cave away almost all ikal lie possessed. LONDON. [EXTRACT PEON A PERIODICAL PUBLICATION UNDER THE ABOVE TITLE.] 'Almon ! thou comprehensive word, What joys thy streets sad squares afford ! Think out thy warm admirer If he shall add thy lutes mad alleys! Advice to Julia. ' Eve►y'toan that has visited the diffeiesit capitals of Europe, has been struck with the decisive supe riority of London. Other capitals indeed have buildings more magnificent, points of view more striking and grand : thus, nothing can be finer than the view of the edifices on each aide of the Seine, if you take your stand on the Punt de Loris XVI., or the Tuileries. as jou be hold it f the Place Louis XV., with the palace of the Chamber of Deputies, formes ly the Meals Bourbon, on one side of the picture ; and, on the other, the range of baddiags that extends nearly from the Place Vendome to the entrance of the Champs Elysies. Nothing can be more mag nificent and imposing than the entrance into Rome by the Porta del Popolo, or the ,view of ancient and modern Rome from the lower of the Capitol, accom panied, as it must he, with the recollection of the mighty part which that city has played in the history of the world. Turin, Vienna, Venice, Berlin, Dres den, Peterrhurgh, may each, perhaps, boast of a greeter as lobes of magnificent edifices than London. They are richer too in aqueducts and public rou e . tains, bat, it most be recellected,that our aqueducts ore toot *evil, but extend to every part of the capital ; and that if we have no public fountains it is because they would, for Key useful purpose, be unnecessary, every house having a fousituiti within itself, from which itdrrives the convenience of an ample supply of water at all tedious. lit Paris, the employ ment that occupies most hands in the streets is the selling of water. But I yield without hesitation, and to speak the nude without much envy, the palm of magnificence to other cities. It was Hot on this ground that I built my tissertiou of the superiority of London ; and, indeed, mere magnificence can never constitute the charm and delight of any capital ; and, who that has viewed in detail tl•ese splendid minnow', has not been shocked by the little attention to couvem ence or even to cleatiliness; every thing sacrificed to show, nothing to comfort. That which strikes our bight and excites our edmiration at the first, soon ceases to interest us; the glow of enthusiasm warms us but for a short time, and scenes and buildings which we beheld with astonish ment and aduairatitin, are suiveyed at last al. most with indifference; the heart is no longer enchanted by them, but turn, to other sources aid meats. of happiness and enjoyment. Flavius alma Hamelin sums its building a palace dot should eclipse every other. %%Plitt] it was finished hr exhibit ed it with pride and triumph ; the admiration that was expressed, the compliments that were paid to his taste at first delighted him. NV lewe appetite tar pieties was ever more gratified ? But praise soon palled upon him ; he shared lest , and less in the transports that were either felt or feigned by los guests, till at last he begat, to wonder that they were felt at all ; I called on him 11 it teneyears after his palace had been finished, but how was I sur prised on approaching it to liud the cabeuteuts closed, the windows closely shut, as if the master of the mansion had just paid the debt we modal! pay. 1 knocked with hesitation and apprehension ; the door was opened with caution, but the old servant knew me and I was admitted ; I followed him through a long range of magnificent apartments now de serted, the furniture covered up, the %modems ad mitting only a doubtful and uncertain light. I found my old friend in a suite of small apart ments belonging to the old building ; I welt about to express my surprise, but he cut me short by bidding me congratulate him upon hav ing come to his senses. •• So long as that source of vexation was open to all coiner. I had not one moment's peace; I was to act the showiness to each, and doomed to hear an endless repeti tion of extlaniations of delight which no longer afforded me pleasure, and of comphineests to my taste, the eedulgetice of which I execrated from the -bottom of my soul. I would have sold it, but nobody would he encumbered with it; and at last I determined to have it shut up, as if I were either dead or gone a long journey. I have resumed possession of my former opaitatents, where, thank Heaven! I enjoy some degree of quiet and repose." What FI/IVIVI felt, every one will feel who ex pects that the magnificence of a capital will email , bute to his happiness. It is by things and objects • that strike us less that our real comforts are peas tooted; and what capital is so calculated to pro. mote - them as Loudon 1' In the heathes times We should have placed Comfort amongst the goddemea a and raised a temple to her as the tutelary goddess of the Euglish capital. London convinces us as once that it is the capital of a great and • free people. In other cities there is too much contrast; the hovel and the palace are too near; magnificence and meanness, wealth and po verty. reside too close to each other. There is n• gradatioo, no sea le of a►cent and descent ; every thing is abrupt, nothing in proper proportion and kerpnig. In Paris, we are irresistibly temptc,l to exchin., that it must ha►e been built fur a court nod not for • people. Lt London, we discover ai once that it was built for • people bat slot for * Court. I n other nations the King is every thing; in Loudon, an far as regards his palace, the King is nothing. There is not a building deserving the uanie of a royal palace, for nobody will dilci:sfy Carltott•hous e with that appellation. And the Monarch of such a people, " the lords o human-kind." sees every day round his throne nobles and officers of his household, who are more apleudily lodged thou himself. It iron the harmony, in the giadition of buildings, if I may use the expression, adapted to all rooks and to all wants, that the charm dud excellemv of Loudon consist. There is nothing that utteods or moults the various classes of its inhabitants by the Osruptsd• or rudeness of trantition—the eye neeer passes at unce from the palace to the hovel. IVe have first our squares, theta the large streets brauclung Perna them —streets of the secoud older—of the third and fourth, lanes, alleys, residence* fur all ranks, ri►i o g in size and importance from the huanble me diatee to the small shopkeeper. The trade►- man, the merchant, the Peer, and the Prince, each enjoys his intlependeuee in his own way ; none are so high or so low, so rich ur so pour, as not to find heighbours 111 the mime situa tion as themselves. In London, less than in any oilier capital, dare the rich presume to tie woolen'. or the poor dread being spurned and despised. As the lively poet from whom I have selected the tIIOUts for tins number says, with great truth, that to London liv'n the lone dwellings of the poor And suffering are, at least, obscure; And, in obscurity, exempt From Poverty's wriest scouter, coutempt. Unmarked the poor man seeks his des ; Unheeded hisses forth spin. Wherefore appears he? none inquires, Nur why nor uSither he retires All that his pride would fain conceal, All that Shame blushes to I, The petty shifts, the grovelltug cares To which the suns of Want are heirs; Those ills, which grievous to be home, Call forth—not sympathy, but scum; Here hidd'sa, dude the matching eye Of callous Curiosity. But it is this scale of ascent stud docent, this absence of strong and powerful contrast, that snakes London an little attractive to a foreigner at the first comp d'crii. He rosy admire the magni ficence of Otte of our bridges, thrown over such • river as the Thames, compared with which the Seine is but a ditch. He may be struck with the mode in which every part of Loudon is lighted°. He Mast ba-pleased will► the mariner in which our ►treets are paved—he feels comfort at terry step ; for, its Pan., pavemeuts are almost unknown, awl a walk slung the street", at, far. from bring an aniusemeie, is a bossiness of difficulty Blowup, anal tint unlitquently of danger. There is its escape from the drivers of fiacres and cabriolet* but in flight. The perfect security which the paved footpaths of Loudon allied, is one of the few objects that eh:ills-Ns % from • foreigner im. mediate and unqualified appmlitena. But our streets appear tun the houses too much alike, and he Clllll/01 reconcile himself to their being built of brick, forgetting that at Pans the houses have been coestriictea a stone, because the mate rial was ►o near, a n d to be had at so cheap ■ rote. He complains too that the houses are too small, and the rooms not sufficiently lofty or capacious. He looks iii Vlllll for enlaces ul marble and hotels of stone. Our cheerful coal fires, which we find so con ducive, tint only to comfort hut to health, please him less that the wood tires cf I.is own country; which, I have often thought, are the chief cause to which foreigners may aita abuts that weakness of sight, winch is none common lo every part of the comment than than in England. l'es !it is in these houses, uniform and brick-built as they are—it is in these mums, that seem to be tots small, that we collect and concentrate every thing that can cout►ibnle to our comfort. What care to assemble every thing that can render the place of one's residence a real home ! • I have read somewhere a Mussel only of an Ambas sador, who m,king his entrance iutu Lundou, by night, am. struck with lice brilliancy and tiusnUer of the lamps, rind conceived them to have been displayed in honour of his ar s oval. Seeimr them rept sled for three succesaive sig►ts, he seat to lbe Sreretsey of State, expressing his deep end grate• fu I sense of the aplenoluur of his reception : but !toping, as the t :pease must be enormous, that it would coo huger be tricot red on his areuntit. Tt•e Secretary, witawisk .1414_ iug Mien, replied that be had nn dealt, lois Eareflentriiwtield see the same sight every MOO tlireighuut the year, so churned were the peoples& the peace thus happily restored betimes the Iwo coutiries! DEATHS. At Tyringhain, Burls, the itev. John Freed, youngest son of William Pried, I:sq. On Saturday last, is his 60th year, Mr. Wm. Kier, of Moulton, in Suffolk. At time in the anemias he rode to his Heath Farm, where he was seared wish ■ St, and having reached his horse was put to bed, sad died Ware I I ulainek, le►ving a widow and ten children to lamest the loss of us kind • husband amid tender • parent as ever breathed. On the 6th instant, at Imudham-ha!, in Suffolk, is t►e 72d year of his age, Jsenb Whitbread, Eaq. He *rived the office of High Sheriff for Suffolk in the year 1796. Ou Sunday lie'linight, aged Id, Thomas, rldnt son of Mr. %Vain, merchant, of Cambridge. The death of this pro. wising youth was occasioned by being throws from • spirited hunt, which he was riding on the permitter slier noon, near the Senatelsouse, by which eufortunste snidest he was su dremdfidly injured, that, alter lingering about 29 houn, be expired. HIGII WATER 'PHIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE. Mersin 7 after I. I Eremiag 33 after I. Pnated sad Nabsbed et Toe Bairns ram ad Toe ewe* Moo, No. Stra.4, h C, CVSPWIII.I., Sr tbo Otrool. mu rat AND COANAOPEN OP M. DS CONDORCST. NT MADAME WARD. -011.- Mon a lb Now Monthly Magastne."l trestetedse frow our Paper of Monday lad.] Ns had asked M. Suard whether he could and hint an asylum. M. Simard replied, that he would cheerfully sacrifice his own life for him, bat Nat he could nut dispose of mine; he would spa& is me, though he was sure that my senti ments would correspond with his. Condorcet alusertreds "That I sin perfectly convinced of." " But." ohserved M. Suard, " we live is a very bed tinotaddie, mid if you were to remain here, you would yourself be exposed to the greatest danger, fge we have but one maid -servant, mid her we commit depend upon : still I hope, without risk either to you or to my wife, to be able to lodge yen For on. night. I shall now go immediately to Paris to see some of our old friends, and if possible to procure a passport for you. Return ut eight o'clock this evening, when the maid shall be out Of the way; we will find you accommodation for the night s and then, provided with • passport, you will be able to go wilithee you think proper." He acknowledged to M. Suard, that he appre hended most danger in the early pert of the day, but weakest concerned about the evening. He did net dissemtde the pain which he felt on account of the course of public affairs and the state of the party to which his •mbrious hopes had isiduced him to attach himself; and 1 have it in sty power to affirm that be was certainly not the author of the scandalous papers against the King, which appeared in a periodical publication of the time, subscribed with hien/saw. He had indeed permitted the pub lisher to use his name, but this man had abused that liberty in the most miwarrauteble manner. M. Sward walked to Paris and returned much fatigued, but in high spirits, because Cabanis, the physician, had procured him a passport. My joy was equal to his. We gave our servant permission to go oust till ten o'clock, and fastened the door of the staircase leading to our apartments, so that there was no other way to them than through the garden. Condorcet was acquainted with this arrange ment : it was intended that lie should glee:, on the sofa in the hall, whither provisions, wine, linen, snuff, and whatever else he could want, were car ried. I told M. Suard, dist, as there was danger (for the municipal officers Wight appear, and then we should all three have been lust), I would share it, and see the poor fugitive also : cer tain that my sincere pity would give bins pleasure. M. Suard assented ; but we waited for Into in vain till ten o'clock. We thought it probable that he might be gone to Auteuil, where his wife and daughter resided ; hut on our paying a visit in the evening of the sleet day to a iseiglibuur, he asked those about him, among whom was el. Sword, whe ther they had heard that the person found dead that morning in the prison of Bourg-la-Reine was supposed to he M. de Condorett? M. Suard was thunderstruck. " Pray, Sir," said lie, " speak softly, that my wife may not bear you, mid tell me what you know or the affair." Ile then related that on the preeeding day a stranger had entered the Clantort(near -- • iootroai), and ask. id for eggs; 'hardy afterwards some municipal officers arrived, and being struck by Ins dress, they inquired who he was, whither he was goiwg, and in sisted on the production of his paper.. As his answers betrayed embarrassment, and he had no passport to exhibit, they declared that they would take him to Bourg-la-Heine ; but being unable to walk, he was conveyed thither in a cart, and found dead next morning in the prison. His Owl, of very fine hien, was marked with the letter C, and in hi. pockets were found some money and a Horace. There circumstances placed the matter beyond all doubt. The news of his deplorable fate, when af terwards communicated to me, cost we many bitter tears. 1 'hall here take the liberty of introducing a portrait of M. Condorcet, which 1 sketched lung before the revolution, and in which nut one quality or virtue is *scribed to hint that he did nut actually possess. IVhilut residing in the country, aoou slier I had become acquaintrel with this philoso pher, whose conversation wss highly interesting to mr, I wrote as follows to Suard . My philosopher often convinces me of the truth of a sentiment which lie yesterday uttered, namely, that we become better in the society cf a good mail. We feel indeed good and happy in the proximity of the mild and kindly virtues. It seems as though they communicated to those around them something of their characteristic serenity. All petty passions are silenced, sorrow is alleviated, amid the soul feels peace nod content in their con verse. This impression I have many times experi enced ia the cowpony or our nuttily friend, Coo doreet4. The pleasure Obit+ I receite from it does :tor spring so much from that luxuriarce of ideus which et the same time entbr.,ers the natural end moral sciences, all wfateeer behrogs to fancy and taste; neither dere it result front thst penetration and sagacity which detect the whole man from a siegle word that escaper him; while on the other band he is blind to all the defects of those who are dear to his heart. The pleasure which his society if. fords me, arises from the feeling of his steadfast and invariable kindiress, which may be compared with ti copious spring, that is coestantly flowing without ever being exhausted ; it proceeds limn that friendly attention which ant icipates every wish, and is the more gratifying, because, from the complete for getful:masa self, it has not the slightest aniressarice of a sacrifice; from the affectionate indulgence which encourages us to expose to brut a hundred little foibles, which he pities as if he shared them with as ; horn that sublime simplicity which seems not even to suspect the admiration awakened by his virtues and the astouiehinent excited by the capa city mid superiority of his understatirling; from that natural condeecenthou which, even when iiiteresting itself in the most tviat things t, loses none of its characteristic greatness ; it arises from that perfect composure respecting every thing that eoneerns himself stone, *herrn lie is roused into the utmost activity wheomur misfortune or frieod 'ship claims his aid ; from that pure philanthropy, which is reedy to exert all its energies sod to make any sacrifice. even of its own reputation ; horn that utter indifference to personal wrongs, while the least injustice done to the obj ec t s o f hi s love kindles in him a zeal which one would not suppose to he compatible with the natural mildness of his disposition°. and the excess of which could not have been excused by his friends themselves, except because it was in him the excess of a virtue. In the space of twelve years I have known him to be guilty of but one great injustice of this kind t, which pained me mach. because it wouuded one of the tenderest affections of my heart. But what would one not forgive so happy • combination of mildness, generosity i, kindness--of virtues so us. tural, that the respect due to them is absorbed in the love which they inspire I"