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I 1. 11 • I I 1 • A ! 1. r t. l l 1: TH .---- PRICER OF BRITISH STOLES YESTERDAY. Bast Stock 2W I Long Ann. 19} } } r wo Cost. Red.lll} 79 } India Stock 9 pew Cali. Cons. Ditto Acct. 250 UMW Aso. 12} 19211 $ll 121 Data Bonds 30 43 40 di. 1 1931 lis. Bills 1 Ad. 1.0001.33 Odle 34 Isst Gest. 94} Ditto, 3001.30 45 40 dis W Ws Ct. Red. 111 84. Ditto, small 30 di. A notion Bonds 90/ • Ditto Ant... .ltnaiiiaa Bonds 67i . .Dirms &rip 1/teloAoct. 13 16 die Illsen A ern Bonds 73 Dille Acct. 73 ;Chelan Bonds . I`adoinbian Bonds SS : Ofiin floods (1824) WI ast 60i • !9t Ditto A 6ol ter. oei co 1 591 601 - eel ,ll Danish Bonds Int Mitt. Marks Banco -lotto Bonds (1825) 59 French Rente.s per Ct. 95r. 'Enabling. 23(.10e. STOCKS V EsTERI►4 V. ?nosh Rentes S per Ct. 114 f. 63f. ex die Exchange 2if. Greek Bonds Ditto nondpoß2s) Ditto Acct. 15i 17 Mexican Bonds Ditto Acct. MI Ditto Bonds (1825) 63 2 f 11 2 I t Ditto 2 Acct. MI 2 3121 . 3t Peruvian Bonds 43 44 Ditto Acct. 42 Russian Bonds (1822) 884 64 t 6 t 6 Ditto Acet. 87 Spanish Cons. 141 14 ' el REEK LOAN, 1823.—The Second Half-yearly Di inland on the Bonds of the above Loan, due on the Ist of Jan. neat, will be paid on the succeeding days, st the Counting-house of J. and S. RIC ARDO , Warnford-court, Throgmortnn-street. The Dividend Warrants, with a List thereof in numercial order, mass be left, at least two days previously, for examination. Eht r • DRURY-L.4NE THEATRE. this Evening. TEWDAV. Dec 13, will be performed the Opera of DER FRLISCHUTL. Adolph, Mr. T. Cooke Caspar, Mr. Horn Bernhard, lir. Bedford : ibrrasit. Mr. 6. Smith: Milan, Mr. Fitzwiilum. Linda. Wes Orad• .14e: Rest, Klee Poesy. After which the Dlvertlsement of THE CAMP. • Principal Moser., Mr. and Mrs. Noblo, 1 Dom.& Mirors, Mrs. To eontlude with the Comedy of TilE PANEL. LassieLilo, Mr.). Russell; Muskat°, Mr. Harley: Yates; Beatzlee. Miss Kelly, Te.morrow, The Rivals. and The Wager. COVEN7V7ARDEN THEATRE,. rms Eemaing, TrESDAY. Dee. 13. will be performed thp Op.ra of 'FRC MARRIAGE Of FIGARO. Count Almaylra. Mr. Jones; Figaro. Mr. Duruset : Antonio, Mr. Fawcett: Cherubim). Mrs. Chatteriey. Countess Almarint, Mies Pat.nt; Susanna. Madame Vestrla. • After which the Operatic Place of W AS I. prlnelpal Characters by Mears. Duruset. Keeley. ream, arid Prue. Mtu Jones, Madame Vestrle, cod Mrs. Deresport. To conclude with the Melo-Drama of JOCKO, THE BRAZILIAN MONKEY. I be principal Characters by Messrs. Connor, Meadows, and Keeley; and Misses Gardner and J. Stott. Jock°, Monsieur Mmurier. To-morrow, The Three Strangers, and 'Twos Th- BRITISH Pans commenced publishing ynterday morning at five ocack. LONDON, TUESDAY, Decimal. 13,11115. . Lut night the Paris Papers of Saturday arrived, with the Etoile dated Sunday. Their contents are of little importance. The arrival of the Turco-Egyptian fleet at Navarino is again reported, but no authority is given for the statement. The differences between the Emperor of AUSTRIA and the Hungarian Diet, it appears, have been settled by the mediation of the Archduke PALATINE. The nature of the explanations offered to the States is not however known. On Saturday there wu a further and considerable de eine in the French funds. In the Fire per Cents. there was a fall of Soc.; the Three per Cents. suffered a de pression of 63c. [From the Stoik dated Sunday, Dec. 11.1 VIIWN - A. DEC. 1. The Emperor, taking into consideration thereqUesofliaronde Vincent, his Ambessider at the Court of France, after more than luny years` service in the military diplomatic career, has deigned to allow him to retire. His Majesty has appointed Prince Paul Ester hazy, now his Ambassador at the Court of London, to succeed him se Minister at the Court of his Most Christian Majesty. Count Apponey, Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See, succeeds Prince Extertazy at London.—Court Ga.teite.—Metalliques 937 ; Bank Stock, 1191 3,10, Pazseneon. Nov. 29. The Royal resolution of the 9th November, in answer to the com plaints of the Diet, has made a very disagreeable impression ; and the Slates were on the point of repeating their complaints, perhaps in still stronger terms, but, on the proposal of Tome his ardent members, the Diet resolved to ask the mediation of the Archduke Palatine, who, on taking this business on himself, only per formed the constitutional duties of his office. He set out for Vienna, and represented the real state of things to his Majesty. The sittings were interrupted during his absence. At length the Archduke has returned, and the gracious declarations of his august brother, of which lie is the bearer, have tranquillised the minds of the Latates. The friends of the Court affirm that they are going to debate on the royal propositions ; but it is asked, what are the explanations given by the King, are they written or verbal? The public hope that the most important papers relative to the present session of the diet will be printed and published. PARIS, DEC. 10. It es said that the Turkish and Egyptian fleet, consisting of 139 sail, armed at Molon and Neverino on the 4th and 3th November. (From the Journal des Wit; of Saturday.] Accounts from Rome say that, at the desire of a foreign go►ern. merit, the police has seized the papers of the Prince de Montfort, (Jerome Bonaparte) in the solitary chateau near Fermos, on the shores of the Adriatic, where he passed the last summer. Ma dame SI urat has asked permission to reside at Rome, but has been refused. The Count de St. beta (I.ouis Bonaparte) wants to la►e Rome, and settle at Florence, but has not yet found a pur. caster for his palace at Rome. Flew 'me FUSI3II —Rams, DEc. 10.—Five pee Cents. opened at VA, lowest 981. 60e., closed at 961.: Three per Cents. opened at 6•!f. 7k., highest 621. Bk., dosed at 62f. ; Rank Stock, 2,00.; Rente d'Espagne, I lf. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 4I f. ; Hayden Loan, soaf.—Etode. When a daily Journal, instead of being the medium of public information, which it ought exclusively to be, be comes the engine of a party, and devotes itself to the pur poses of that party, not only with an utter disregard to the interests of the public, but is even prepared, at any time, to sacrifice those interests to the accomplishment of its own object and the attainment of its own views, a more prolific source of mischief can scarcely be imagined. The Times has shown that this is its character ; and the evil which it has produced in this character has been of a nature so serious, and has been so publicly felt and observed upon, that it in vain attempts to ethos it. This Journal always watches very cautiously the turn of public feeling, and is always prepared to abandon any opinions it may have supported, the moment it perceives that it is no longer its interett to uphold them. From the first commencement of those embarrassments which have led to the present crisis, the constant effort of this journal has been to excite distrust, to propagate alarm, and to aggravate—as it unhappily succeeded in doing to a very great extent—the severity of commercial pressure, by creating the most unfounded apprehensions, and by endea vouring to destroy public credit and public confidence in every quarter in which they could be attacked. Feeling that it has given great offence in the Cit), and finding that it wool•! have been most to its interest to have taken up the, opposite side to that which it has supported, it forsakes its p2ri . ry for the present, with the hope of getting hack the ground it hart lost by what it new perceives to have been an indiscreet adherence to it ; and hence proceeds its leading erfiqe of Saturday, which we now proceed to observe epos. It commences, with perfect composure, thus : " The City authorities most to be respected appear, from the accounts of yesterday, to have a conviction that so touch of the recent alarms u were caused by an apparent scarcity of gold and silver, may be securely laid aside, gold having fallen below the Mine price—a proof, undoubtedly, that there is no lack of the precious metals in this country." And after pouring out this cup of consolation, it adds, with great simplicity— " But if there had been such a want, why should any apprehension have arisen? Could skill, or intlivitry, or their joint produce—manufactured property—be at once annihilated? If not, then the means of bringing back gold, to whatever amount it might be called fot by the public convenience, were still in our possession, and the gold would have flowed in upon Great Britain as quickly and as naturally u it had ebbed away from her." But if, as the Times has suddenly discovered, there really was no evil to be apprehended from a lack of the precious metals, the want of which must of course hare been supplied by an increase of paper circulation, how came this journal to be inveighing, day after day, against the evils which would arise from the increase of Bank issues ? Why has it been disclaiming, from the very beginning of the present distress, that no relief ought on any account to be given in the way of discount to any merchants by the Bank of Eng land, lest the further issue of its paper should occasion a run upon it for gold? How can the same journal, that insisted upon this so urgently three weeks ago, now ask—what ill was to be apprehended from any lack of the precious me tals? The language it then held was this— " Our own most hearty and earnest prayer to the Bank Directors would be, that nothine should induce them to ex tend their discounts, if the condition of the commercial world be truly described in the statements which we have just now given." " Is it true that the foreign exchanges have declined— and that the Bank apprehended from such a circumstance a re-exportation of the precious metals? Why then the Directors are justified in looking for a fresh run upon the gold coin of England, and but perform their bounder. duty to the Bank itself, and to the nation, by contracting the issue of its notes. " From the elportation of gold one inference is unquestion able—namely, that the circulation of the country has been forced beyond its proper level—that there it, in fact, too much money afloat—more than the real wants of society call fur—that money has fallen in value here, as compared with its worth in other countries—that every thing else in England bee risen to an unnatural price, as compared with its value in other countries—that, in short, we have been overwhelmed with circulating medium, and ought to have less of it amongst us. " We say, then, that if the `immediate' cause of the dis tress now complained of in the City be the extreme caution' exercised by the Bank, the remoter but more ef fective cause has been the extreme want of caution pre viously exhibited, as well by the Bank as by the merchant. Instead of the trading world being justified in crying out for more accommodation, it is as clear as light that the ex isting mischief is nothing more nor less than the fruit of ex cessive accommodation—of the adventurous and gambling spirit thereby generated ; and that new demands for increased accommodation have grown out of the facility with which former indulgences were granted, and of the gross improvi dence with which those favours of the Bank itself, as well as of private bankers, have been in numberless cases mis applied. The disease has been an excess of circulating medium. Discounts are called for to increase the quantity —that is, to feed and aggravate the disease. Discounts might, perhaps, defer the day of reckoning for embarrassed men ; but it is obvious that such an expedient could not cure the evil." In this style and manner it was that it exerted all its influence against the granting any commercial facilities, whether by the issue of bank-notes or by private discounts. Its words then were:— " If any CRASH is to come, the sooner it arrives the less terrible will be the ruin. Fictitious credit has been hal- meted up too long; prices have risen too high : the Bank with their over-issues, and Me Government with its Corn Laws, are to blame, in great pa►t, for both these calami ties. The remedy for over-issues is twofold—an export of money, and a Locum; VP or NOTES." And it adds, in a tone of insulting self-importance-- " We feel for our City friends unfeignedly, but we must not administer to them the fatal notion, that by pampering their disease the Bank would remove it."—Timer, 23.1 November. After having spared no pains to bring the Bank and the Government into odium—having systematically endea voured to bring the solvency of both into suspicion—hav ing aggravated the general panic to the utmost of its means, by spreading the apprehension of danger into all quarters of the country, and so agitating the public mind by its pre dictions as to induce numbers to draw out their balances from the different banks at which they kept cash—having laboured to destroy public confidence, and having succeeded in embittering the distress of the merchants in the City by its exaggerated alarms and mischievous insinuations—it now turns short round, and says— "As for the famous alarms,' the agitations,' the fore bodings' of disaster, which have been harped upon for so many weeks, we feel them not, and have never felt them.'• Never felt them ! Why, then, have they endeavoured to make the public feel them ? Has not the scope and tendency of all they have said been to produce this effect and no other? Who that can turn to the language held in their columns, from the first appearance of the present con vulsed state of public credit up to the day of their jesuitical apostacy, but will read the following paragraph with contempt?— " We knew that public credit was secure ; that individual credit, where it.reposed on solid property, was intangible; that no man had reason to be intimidated, but the adven turer who had previously dared too much ; that let the storm rage as it might, when the clouds should disperse, and the horizon resume its customary brightness, all the great landmarks of the national wealth and prosperity would be seen to occupy their stations undisturbed, and commerce and confidence to pursue their march, no longer oppressed by those unsound incumbranees which the fury of the crisis had detached and utterly dissipated. This was our view, from the . first, of the lute embarrassments in the City." Let, then, the Times reconcile the above with the im. pressions most injurious to public credit, which it so anxiously contrived to circulate. Why were the public told in its columns—and falsely told—that a warm dis cussion passed between Ministers and the Bank, the final re sult of which was—" that Government must reduce its debt to the Bank, or that the latter establishment trill not be able to fulfil the important functions of a discount hank, so as to carry the trade of the country through the amroach ing crisis."—Times, Nov. 22. For what malignant purpose were the following un founded anti mischievous insinuations spread abroad ? "We understand that the GOVERNOR. and DEPUTY COVE It NO ft of the Ita ?la had an interview yesterday morn ing, at their own request, with the CHANCELLOR of the MITI 'R - FAIS. MICHIQUIft, and no doubt is entertained in the City, that the meeting has arisen OUT of Me difficulties in which the Bank is at present involued."—Times, Nor. Yi. Why was Lord Ltvritrool. falsely affirmed to have de clared at an interview with the Bank, that— " By their own conduct the BA NE DIDECTORS had . brought themselves into a situation too s •7 ions to be t, sated with disregard, though the evil, in his opinion, would work its own cure; but in any case lie was not aware that assistance could be g;cen to them by Me Government"— Times, Nov. es. If the Times, as it now declares, knew all along that public credit was secure, what could be its object in pen ning the following paragraph?— " To fund Exchequer bills is a measure not to be ac complished without a loan, which must be authorised by Act of Parliament, the early summoning of which as sembly might create still further alarm in the public mind, and yet to suffer the period for calling in Exchequer bills to pass over, would, be a confirmation of the difficulties which the GOY MINK Mr is supposed to be at this moment pretty eztensirely sharing with the Banc or ENGLAND."— ' Times, Nor. 24. The space to which we are limited precludes all com ment on this mass of contradiction. We will dismiss it with one remark, that if the Times fears that it has lost its reputation with those " city friends," for whom it so " unfeignedly" feels, it will assuredly gain nothing by this attempt to redeem itself. . CITI. MOND•Y ETTYING. No language can describe the alarm and confusion that prevailed this morning in the Money Market, on the an- nouncement of the failure of Sir Peter Pole, Thornton, and Co. This melancholy intelligence was accompanied with a groundless report affecting another respectable banking establishment. This malicious rumour, for such, in truth, we fear it was, was met by a prompt contradiction, and stopped from further circulation. To give some idea of the panic and the pressure for money, we select the prices of Exchequer Bills and Reduced Stock. The advertised Bills, on which the parties had given notice at the Exchequer for money, and which were payable to morrow in cash, sold to-day at 255. discount per 1001. The Bills not advertised, at .5-Ss. discount. Reduced S per cent. Stock at 791 and 80. Various sales were reported of Consols for money, to be immediately transferred (an in dulgence very properly granted by the Directors of the Bank of England, though the Stock has closed previously to the dividend) ; but these were all rumours set afloat to spread wider the alarm and the panic of the day. The re ports circulated this morning surpass in their wickedness all the previous attempts of the industrious stock-jobbers. The Foreign Market has been comparatively neglected, but all the Stocks are lower. Colombian about 60 ; the Mexican 6 per Cents. about 62 ; Buenos Ayres, 7S; Brazil Scrip, 13 dis.; Austrian, 90 ; Russian, 87 ; Spanish, 14. In Shares no transatliona worth reporting; indeed, the prices are nominal. The Brussels Papers of Saturday state that " the Austrian loan is finally concluded with the house of Rothschild. It is for twenty millions of florins, and it is said that the terms will remain secret. This will be the first instance of such ad operation." The letters from Holland received yesterday mention a fact extremely interesting at the present moment. The exchange on London was quoted at 12: the bills on Holland last post day were 8, being a difference of two and a half per cent, in favour of England within two weeks. The British and American Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent arrived at Albany on the Sth of Nov. There is every probability that their labours will termi nate in an amicable and satisfactory manner. The last letters from Rome possess some pleasing infor mation for travellers who wish to proceed to Italy. The Roman and. Neapolitan Governments have joined their forces, and resolved upon a plan of proceeding against the banditti; they have all surrendered on being routed, so that the roads may now be passed in safety. NAPLES.—Authentic letters from Naples, of the 19th November, assure us that the Sicilian Government does not mean to contract any new Loan for the year BM and in consequence of this resolution, the same letters add, in more precise terms, that that Government will not have recourse to the means of creating other Reutes to be inserted in the book of the Public Debt. The Assembly of the Provincial States of Saxony was closed on the 27th ult. after which M. Von Klewitz, the Minister of State, gave a grand dinner to the President and Members of the Assembly, and to the Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical Authorities. When the health of the King and the Crown Prince were drank, the Members of the Assembly expressed their gratitude for the benefit con ferred on the province by the introduction of a provincial Assembly, and the hope that it would produce many happy effects. An article dated Stockholm, Nov. 25, in the Hamburgh Papers, states that the little theatre in the Swedish capital was discovered, on the 23d, to be on fire. Happily it was not very full, so that the audience all escaped unhurt. All efforts to check the progress of the flames were in vain. The great opera-house, which adjoins the little theatre, was for a time in great danger, but was saved by the ex"r tions of the firemen, encouraged by the presence of the King of Sweden and the Crown Prince, who were on the spot all night. '1 he loss is considerable; a workman belonging to the theatre and two female servants perished in the flames. Accounts from Greenland, received at Copenhagen, state that the smallpox bad been brought by an English ship to Dog Island, where several persons had already died of it, and the disorder had begun to spread further ; but as the vaccine matter last sent over had turned out well, and vaccination was becoming more general, it was hoped that the smallpox would not prove very fatal. It is staled, in a letter from Itome, that important dis coveries of antiquities have been made at Tusculuin. Not only has an ancient theatre been found, but the streets leading to it have been cleared. An aqueduct, a public fountain, baths, vases, a head of Jupiter, other marble ornaments, elegant paintings in fresco, and other prccieus objects, have been brought to light. , , ROMAN CATHOLIC ALLEGIANCS.- Many attempts nau been made to refute or disprove the maxim of Lord Liver pool, that the l3,amanl.;atholics yielded buts divided alle giance to the State, and therefore were only entitled to li mited political privileges; but it remained for the Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford to establish this principle be yond all contradiction: for he had made, on a late occasion, a declaration from the pulpit, in reference to the expected contest between Lord George Beresford and Mr. Stuart, in the following words:—" THE CATHOLIC WHO SHOULD VOTE AGAINST HIS RELIGION, AT THZAPEROACHING ELECTION, WOULD BE GUILTY OF 4 MORTAL SIN."- Here is a grafting of political on spiritual allegiance, and making the former subservient to the latter. Let the ora tors of the Association get over this proof of Lord Liver pool's maxim, nom the mouth of one of their own Bishops, if they can.—Dublin Correspondent. The active Glasgow Magistracy, in conjunction with the River Trustees, have drawn up a code of judicious regula tions for the future guidance of the numerous steam boats whidi navigate the Clyde. Just as we are going to press we hear that a fire of a very alarming description is raging in the Liberty. We have not time to ascertain the particulars.—Daldia Aforn log rust of Saturday. The largest silk throwster in Watford discharged nearly 100 hands on Saturday last, on account of the forthcoming reduction of duty on foreign silks. At the Middlesex Sessions on Saturday, John Mitchell was convicted of fraud, by making out a false porter's ticket for several parcels directed to the prosecutor, thereby receiving lld. over and above the charge made at the bookinit-office, and sentenced to hard labour and one months imprisonment. It is not generally known that this offence may be visited with transportation. BRAZIL. The following De:ree, issued by order of the Emperor of Brazil, and received by the last packet, is a proof that personal security and the Liberty of the Press are inure re spected in that country than is generally imagined : " DECREE Disapproving the conduct of the President of the Province of Maranhao) towards the 1:!.tor of the Journal called the Censor. " The despatch of the l'resident of Maranham, dated June 4, has been laid before his 141.a:e.ty the Emperor, in which he relates the conduct he h a d pursued with J. A. Garcia de A branches, Editor of the Journal called the Censor, at length forcibly embarking him for Lisbon ; and so rash and unauthorised an act being by no means justified by what is stated in the aforesaid despatch relating to the sentiments published in the above mentioned journal, notwithstand ing they seem to tend to destroy established order, and much less so by the motive alleged of the said Editor having attacked the con duct of the Marquis de Maranham (Lord Cochrane), as if it were forbidden by Law to censure him ; his Majesty has, consequently , thought proper to disapprove of a proceeding so unjust, and one that discovers in him who carries it into exeeution, either a perfect ignorance of the legal forms applicable in similar cases, or a crimi nal determination to trample under foot rights guaranteed by the Constitution ; and he, therchue, commands that, through the me. ilium of the Secretary of State for the Affairs of the Empire, the same should be made known to the aforesaid President at the nine time, reprimanding him very 3ettrely for having coluloc*l himself in this affair in such a manner as could only meet the ap probation of a Government actuated by self-will alone, and not by regard for the laws. (Signed) " ESTEVAO RIBEIRO DE REZENDE. " Palace of Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 3, 1823." M F.XI CO. The following is an extract of a private letter, written by an individual high in the Givernment of Mexico, to an intimate friend in London. It is entitled to implicit con fidence in the view it exhibits of the growing prosperity of that country : AITTICO, SEPT. 29. " As nothing is more satisfactory to you than to hear that which relates to the prosperity of the Republic, I make known to you that its progress is in all respects gi gantic; that its industry, commerce, and agriculture con tinue to advance without limit ; and that the mines now working flatter the hopes of the parties who have devoted themselves to those important labours. The most pro- found peace, tranquillity, and order, are established throughout all our wide extent of territory. The Govern ment depends for its support on public opinion, and la bours in the hope that prospects so flattering will never be clouded. Not only public institutions, but likewise the private establishments in these States, have gained that degree of solidity which, in ordinary cases, can alone re sult from long perseverance. Mexico unites all the vigour of youth with the maturity of a nation which has grown old from the lapse of time. How much shall I rejoice when you come to be witness of the fulfilment of all your desires—the union of all the elements of strength. Hasten hither, my friend, and the day of your cowing will be to me that of my greatest satisfaction. " Very great, also, will be my satisfaction, if the treaties between England and Mexico shall be ratified in the same tettns agreed upon here, as I c3nsider the interests of both powers to have been therein provided for with a pro phetic eye. " The arrival of some of our ships of war, and the adoption of all the means placed at my disposal, authorise me to announce to you, that, before the conclusion of this year, there will not exist in Ulloa any Spanish force." DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last night the Comedy of The Merchant of Venice was performed at this Theatre, and a Gentleman named Preist made his first appearance in the character of Skoh,ek. It is unfortunate for him and ourselves that we are unable to compliment him with the couplet applied to Macklin, in the same " This is the Jew " That Shakspeare drew." Mr. Preist's Shpock by no means realizes our notions of the character, as designed by the great master-spirit of the English drama. In person the performer is below the mid dle size, and singularly ungraceful. His features are not of a quality, either in expression or formation, to redeem the deficiencies of his bodily appearance ; and his voice, though tolerably distinct, is occasionally husky, and never impressive. With these disadvantages of personal con struction, Mr. Priest can lay no claim to the redeeming quality of genius. His conception of the character is as common-place as his countenance. Sometimes he appeared to imitate the restless and tottering action of Kean, but the resemblance was strictly confined to exter nals. In all the passionate and burning intensity that characterises the style of that actor, our aspirant for thea trical honours possesses no share; and his resoling was so inaccurate as to excite our surprise at the boldness of his attempt. But folly is proverbially inconsiderate, and " fools step in where angels fear to tread." The boldness of the actor's tearing could only be attributable to the confidence likely to be induced by considerable experience in provincial performance, or the settled equanimity generally attendant upon dulness. The expression of his face was harsh and exaggerated in the scenes which demanded exertion; and the performer appeared to strive to compass by extravagance what he lacked in delicacy of ' expression. Not unfrequently too there were instances of very gross deficiencies in orthoepy, scarcely to be expected from any man bold enough to attempt the ordeal of a metropolitan theatre. We have only to assure Mr. Preist, that in selecting the mimetic art he has mistaken the pro fession indicated by nature as suitable to his talents, and to entrtat him for his own sake, and that of the public, to select some pursuit snore germane to the matter. If. in spite of our sincere and friendly admonition, he feels dis to persist in his rash and ill-considered election, let rt ( i ) o s n ed choose comedy in preference to tragedy. A man may be a very tolerable Caliban or Dennis Brulgroddery, who cannot soar to the height of Romeo or Richard. It is rumoured that the Committee of Management at Drury-lane have engaged Miss Foote, and that her first apptarance at that Theatre will be in the latter end of Fe bruary. Farley, whose success in the superintendence of Panto mime and Spectacle has seldom failed, is prepared with his Christmas banding at Covent-garden Theatre, which the chit-chat of the Green-room reports to be superior to any of his former productions. The younger Barrymore has been preparing the Christ mas Pantomime for Drury-lane Theatre, of which report speaks favourably ; it is quite ready for representation.— Barrymore and his wife have left town for Milan, where lie has engaged to produce a Pantomime after the genuine English fashion, which is to astonish the natives of Italy, early in February. MR. LIM/N.—The following certificate from Sir Matthew Tierney will explain why this favourite actor has nut commenced his engagement at Drury-lane.• Subse quent accounts, we are happy to hear, give promise of his first appearance early next week:—" Sir Matthew is of opinion, that a week or ten days will enable Mr. Liston to resume his avocations at the Theatre ; in the meantime, it is of great importance that Mr. Liston be kept tranquil and quiet, both in mind and body." AMERICAN Hulsooß.—The Editor of the Rutland lie raid says he has been presented with a potato this season, measuring nineteen inches and a half in circumference. It should be shipped to Ireland. The National Standard states that a Mr. Royal Stetson, of Randolph, has this year raised a pumpkin vine six hundred and seventy 7 five feet is length, which produced thirty-two pumpkins, twenty of which were of the ordinary size. Mr. Randolph must have procured the seed from Ohio, where, we are informed, a gentleman resides who planted a pumpkin seed over night, and on the following morning, finding the vine had commenced running, he mounted his horse and rode in vain for several hours to overtake it, but his horse becom ing tired he was forced to give up the chase! By the by, our friend of the Cleareland Herald denies that the cucum ber, from four to five feet long, grew in the same harden where the crow-bar shot forth innumerable branches of , brads and spikes. We were therefore probably mistaken. It was in the garden of another gentleman near by, whose radishes ran so deep in the earth that they were stolen by the Antipodes, wino pulled them through !—New York Paper. The whole of the materials of the houses, guard-room, and lodge to the Lower Mews, Charing-cross, were yesterday sold by auction, ine;uding the Mews Gate Public-house. PAS II lONADLE I.VTELLIGRNCE. The Duke of Norfolk left town yesterday, for his seat, Foray. Suffolk. The 'Marquis and Alarchioness of Cholmondeley and lentil, rived yesterday at their house in Piecadilly, from their Iti z Cheshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde arrived ye st at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond.strett, from the Right. Hon. Hushissun's seat, Earth. Sussex. lord and Lady G. H. Cavendish and Miss Cavendish hare town for Brighton. Lord Altherp has left his seat in Yorkshire, for Northarept. shire. Mr. Secretary Canning and Mrs. Canning arrived in town terday, front the Right Hon. W. Iloskisson's seat in Stmts. Sir Wm. and Lady Rumbold and family arrived ott Sett at the l'ulteney Hotel, Albemarle.etreet, from Paris. T. W. Beaumont. Esq. M.P. has left town for Brighton. Everittle Price, Esq. arrived yesterday at the Waterloo E Jerinyn-street. from Oxford. The lion. Mr. Frere arrived in town yesterday from .51r. kissun's seat in Sussex. Mr. and Lady Catherine Cavendish left town yesterday fa Ventlam's mat, Oorharnbury, Herts. THE SING. Wrrnap L D 4, Ins Majesty this morning attended divine it, which was performed at the new Private Chapel by Rev. Dr. Sumner, his Majesty's Chaplain. This afternoon, his Majesty, accompanied by the Steward, left the Royal Lodge, at two o'clock, in his phaeton, and proceeded down the Long Walk to the \\ tie. The King made his entree through the new g ate , into the quadrangle, where he alighted, and *at through the corridor to the north-cast corner of the Pal His Majesty remained a considerable time isepecting octagon tower at that part of the building, and then c tinned along the east, and also the south fronts, pi. through the two suits of rooms, remainit , some tiny each. Mr. J. liryatville conducted his Majesty, and , mired many flattering notices of the general advancerth of the improvements and the execution of the work. Majesty left the Castle at four o'clock, and returned to Royal Lodge by Frogmore. His Majesty, yesterday afternoon, took his usual ai in the Great Park, and in the evening was pleased ti tertainhis Suite at dinner. On Friday evening the Marquis of Hastings and Si Long arrived at the Lodge, and dined with his Mai and Suite. - The Noble Marquis and Sir Charles 4' the Royal Lodge, and bad the honour of taking a drj, with his Majesty, after which they both left for tbki apective residences. THE LORD CHANCELLOR. ( From the/averse:a Courier.] Our readers will recollect, that at a general meet the county of Ross, held on the 13th day of Oct 1821, it was unanimously resolved, " that the thar this county be respectfully tendered to the Right John Earl of Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of I Britain, for the eminent service he has rendered Scot) by applying his great talents, and extensive legal ki ledge, to the improvement of the forms under which the is administered in our Courts ofJustice; a service fan a worthy sequel of that unbounded labour and psi anxiety, bestowed by him on the decision of cases it Supreme Appellate Jurisdiction, which have justly deared his name to the people of Scotland." To this highly complimentary resolution lilt Lords was pleased, in a letter to Sir James ‘Vemyss Mackei Bart., Member of Parliament for the county, to make following answer, which will be read with interest, that the important judicial improvements alluded n which his Lordship was the active promoter, are come full operation:— " Monday, Nov. 1,182 S " Sir,—Upon my return to to wn on Saturday last I sec in the favour of your letter, enclosing the Resolution of the Fri holders, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace the county of Ross. " It cannot but be very gratifying to me to learn that, in opinion, I have usefully assisted In the improvement of the F , of Proceedings in the Courts of Justice in Scotland. " Throughout the whole of the period in which I have had honour to preside in' the House of Lords, I have acted under a v painful apprehension that in the decision of matters, depend upon an accurate knowledge of the Law of Scotland, tend 'wh ought to be decided in strict conformity to that Las), I might f quently fall into errors, prejudicial to the people of that country. To protect myself and them against the mischiefs consequent upon such errors, I have deemed it to be my indispensable dui , bestow upon the decision of Scotch cases all the labour and psi could exert : and it is a great gratification to me to learn, that County of Ross is pleased to record that I have anxiously et 4 toured to discharge that great, but obvious, duty. " I have the honour to be, with much rayed, " Sir, your obliged serene, " ELDON TIKE CHUIiCH. On Tuesday last, the Lord Bishor of Exeter haat the Rev. Henry William Marker, A.M. Chaplain to Right Hon. Lord Nairne, and Vicar of Ailesbeal Devon, to the Rectory of Southleigh, in the same cow on the presentation of ('harks Gordon, of Wiscombe 1'; Esq. void by the death of the Rev. Samuel Howe. On Sunday, his Lordship held a Private Ordination his Palace in Exeter, when— Samuel Lane, A.B. of Exeter College. Oxford ; Rueben Randle, A.B. of Jesus College, Cambridge; and Rowland Hin ot Sidney Sussex College. Cambridge, were admitted to the Order of Deacons ; and Thomas Twysden, A.B. of Mertes i. lege, Oxford ; and Henry Stoneman, A.B. of Pembroke Collets ' Oxford, were admitted to the Holy Order of Priests. The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Royal Hotel, .-. Birmingham, on Wednesday evening, tad proceeded on Teddealey-park, the seat of E. J. Lyttjetott, Esq. BY. REPRESENTATIVE PEERAGE OF IRELAND.—StaIe votes ; Lord Farnham, 40 ; Lord Mounteashel, 37--tri jority for Lord Farnham, S. Peers who voted yesteriliv for Lord Mountcashel : the Earl of Moira and Viscous; Haberton. Lord Farnham has got no vote since Tatulay last. There are 26 Peers yet to vote.—DuLlia Dee. 10. ROYAL. ACADEIIY.-011 Saturday evening the MO: meeting of the Royal Academy to o k place, for the eledo of officers and distribution of rewards. Sir Thos. Lay/tore was re-elected President; H. Thompson, Esq. lima; and Henry Howard, Esq. Secretary. The following gen tlemen were appointed Professors—of Painting, 'Dim , Phillips, Esq. ; of Sculpture, John Flaxman, Esq.; of Architecture, John Soane, Esq. ; of Perspective..! M. W. Turner, Esq, ; of Anatomy, J. 11. theta, Esq. F.A S. Mr. Hughes Ball has sold his fine pack of banes commenced practical farmer. lie has taken uncle immediate management a farm, consisting of upwr eight hundred acres, and it is no unusual sight, neighbourhood of Oatlands, to sue the beautiful 11 dotti Ball and her husband, the former in the russet , and the latter in a fustian farming jacket, persmbui the ploughed field, on that extensive and fertile do= Erening Paper. DEATII OF REAR-ADMIRAL RING HAM. -It feelings of the deepest regret that we have to annow death of Rear-Admiral Bingham, who was on the proceeding to the East Indies, as Commander-in-C his Majesty's ships on that peanut]. This respectaL worthy Officer had just completed his arrangemew London prior to his departure for Portsmouth, wit" was to have hoisted his flag on board the Warspite, in consequence of getting wet through, he was on the 2d instant, with a sudden attack of eryl which, notwithstanding his previous state of health, baffled the skill of his • physiciims, and term fatally on the Ioth inst. Rear-Admiral Bingham hair tcrruptedly served until the conclusion of the sr was esteemed a most correct and zealous Officer. vate life he was beloved.for his integrity, sineeni domestic virtues, and his memory will be long ch with affectionate regard by his brother officers and circle of acquaintance, as well u by his beloved who are left to mourn his untimely.and irreparable There is no truth in the statement published Itoening Post of Tuesday, that an altercation took the Hall of the Four Courts, that day, betweci J. O'Gorman Afahon, the friend of the Acessrs. and Mr. Payne, the Barrister, who was the friend Leyne.—Dublin Correspondent. Captain Cotaingbam arrived yesterday morning Foreign Office, in Downing -street, with despatches Lord Strangford, at St. Petersburgb. sTA2 TO T 1* comnie e corntnerc • .;) We stop Iris just bet " blesses. clrcirmstance t 0 acquaint 1 arrangement: unity every The banl born, of No 'hen they sudden ao day, they d present, at claims upol plus. --.Ai tn. ti• tbe r7 pr ,f . 3 i r h e' s I v e 1 .( ‘ l3 ll ' u se r r i: :::l 6v , ::;:i . 1 1 . 11 lan:r: : and 0f devs N l pa yable in y • the di g nity t mai . es meat of the l''- t f rr' su i7 l e '''il-i': ;moa tlll'e'l::avidivtiecne 'll' ro. D ii)': ' le. n, P 6, :Cm 1. 1 FAIL I ds P iurt. 1 ic.;,11. ittibt serv l , .)"--......,(.„ I by 1 ''" 5 1.,. faculty, he L ot sasele rtd . 11 Pterrat 4 444di" ts ti o "itt ' s P 4lden of I: Pal act tourse ~ itl ll a l "wards 0 , , m e ail ico l,l3)Ct"Ldlidl'lalklehil‘ f ithileelniall.riliel k llnattl t e: G ai°°lliP° l iTi n i(km..r a erbangl o r ser4'teist ti l ea lhiCil. w ill.'. . 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Brc °N ... arwhelilXitch; a il n eir ha Bank min ß eit a tt2 heat; d es county. e l men of tha st i tutel credit, we to tle information rear. i, Br idol Jou to Pat',:. Smith, I. Bank stop] ition • t the hr, s r Four Or fit Ha ,,,,, that their e .:),0 li.0:, great croak Coo Ik . - tetday, ar.e Cu!.. ve ten, Ind oder his car's," i s a Suds of I wish you in the your Pa per Meter). till im port;port, et Pun , luivn of the bulging of Your stat amnia.— fader to exn is with l eralog ? e (t unee the Yomrker, :21 1 point sire li ne of tierceof IA able and one of these ne ws in New York there be as their ma : i h r e w jr: conl cegoinolg ertoawi, YniPeiss' Stales. 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