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\ s •"-. • U • - • -•• _ • ‘, THE ARTS. The Attists of this Country have made consider able improvement since last year, as will be abun dantly manifested in the ensuing annual display of their produAions at Somerset liouse, Among some of the best efforts in the line of Portrait-painting will be a very fine pkture of the present Make Glouerstrr, from the hand of the late excellent Artist. Mr. Opie. There are other works, horn the same Artist, which will confirm the public regret on the loss of so great an oroansent of the British School. Owen has some charming works, the chief of which is A Reed-side, with rustic travellers resting by a mile-stone. This, we prediit, will be a great Isvourite with the Public. Hoppner has the best likeness of the Pr;rwe of Wales that has yet been seen. It is painted with a bold and faithful pencil. Thpmpson has distinguished himself chiefly in The whining School-bey, from Shakspeare, which be has painted with taste and charaftetiAic expres sion. . _ _ Northcoto will be conspicuous in • fine Eques atian Portrait of His Majesty, intended for Lancaster Castle I.4wrenee has an admirable Portrait, of the con ver►•tiori kind, in which are introduced some of the family of Sir Francis Baring. Westall has • series of small Pictures, exem plifying striking incidents in the life of the immortal Loutbetbrsurg. Bourgeois. Daniel, and other ,Artiets of established fame, will Cully jus , ,fs , the re put..ti.in they have acquired, on the approaching oc- CU. " Turner has a Piaure. exhibiting an effca of fire, which is in his best manner. Wilkie will again excio• surprise and admiration, by GA interior of a cottage, and the variety of his ra.tic charaCters. Calton, who has progressively increased in merit, M. reads still greater advances in the province of -e. Indeed sse ' nniple reason for saying, that all the Artists whe h.c,: • -.I :...•ir renown will gair new laurels. and that many juve..ile Painte exhibit talents that are likely to insure a high distis.flien in their respective provinces. F OIL OE ROSS. On Monday last, died, at his a;•artments at the West End of the Town, LAVILENCL H W PAR.. sops, Earl of Ross, Viscount Osmantown, and Baron Oxmantown. His Lordship married Lady Saws Ks iso, eldest daughter of the first Earl of Ltsosrow, by whom he has left one daughter, who is married to Lord Esats, the nephew of the Countess, and who now inherits the immense for tune, real and personal, of her late father. The title devolves to Sir LAVIttIICT PAR4ONS, Ban. the Earl's nephew, now Earl of Ran. The deceased Noble sse& will be keg regretted by his family, tenantry, and friends. He was of a retired disposition, and great improver, and lived in the most princely stile is Ireland. His equipages, horses, and liveries, were always most magnificent. His Lordship bad only just arrived in town, from Ireland, to attend his Parliamentary duty, and was accompanied only by his servants. His Lordship was otte of the Re presentative Peers for Ireland. Yesterday morning, His Mammy, Princesses &PRI A and AMILLIA, &c. took an airing on horse back, in Windsor Park. tier Ma) air If Princesses ks.izaarra and MART, took an airing in a ba rouche to Englefield Green, &c. A Punster hearing that Sheriff Milts had lately received the bonnie of Knighthood, observed, that it was natural to expe& tbsys at this time of the year s but that M make a agar of Aides was an ex tension quite out of season. Messrs. Quick and Moron are in treaty with Mr. Warsost, the Manager of the Cheltenham Theatre; and Mrs. L sw, a lady of some theatrical celebrity, from Belfast, is en.; ;Aged. Miss Baisrow took Mss Sr/. NI. IC'S place, in Ma r.ler GiOlt, last night, and appeared to great ad vantage. The sending of Lord 31,1,,ne,s to Ireland, is no doubt a proof of the of the present Ml sisters. Mrs. SIDDONS IS prevented from appearing be- Inn the public, this night, in the part of Mrs. Be. wrier/. by the death of her mother, Mrs. IC ow es s. Tle Haunted Tower and The Wood Daewoo, at Drury-lane Theatre, were last night most nume rously attended. A Paper of yesterday says, that at the Marchio ness of A Rumour's party, on Thursday night. is St. James's•square, 4. her Ladyship's vat of Ammar, an immensely - large Ottoman, called a woolsack, was covered with a rich chintz of a Grecian pattern." Thursday, being St. George's Day, the Society of Antiquaries met et their apartments in Somerset. place, in pursuance of their Statutes and Charter of Incorporation, to cleft A President, Council, and Officers of the Society, for the year ensuing. The Society afterwards dined together at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. Thursday night, in the midst of a grand pie given by Mrs.W. PLIkl a, in Montague-square, the curtains of the front drawing-room took the, and created the greatest alarm, as the room was full of ladies. The confusion and shrieks were great. Fortunately. Capt. M•Nev, of the Navy, rushed to the spot, and, by tearing down the flaming drapery, stepped the conlagration. Day after day do the 101. Prizes, in the present Lottery. enable their holders, with a little addition, to stand in the same situation in which they started at the commencement of the drawing—namely, that of possessing chances to gain both the fixed and floating great Capitals ; every one of the latter, in particular, being still in the wheel. This un common lvantage will be experienced again on Sa turday meat, when another princely Prize of 50,0001 will sows the First.drawn Number, and every odor rosiaabar, throughout t h e day, prove a rsiac. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF SING'S BLNcH, Wcsrmatasse, Aram 24. Edward Juice was brought up for judgment. having been convicted, under an inf irmation filed by the Attorney•Genetal, for obstruainz and as• saulting two Officers of the Revenue, in the dig. charge of their duty. The Court sentenced him to eight months' impri sonment, in Maidstone Gaol. Thomas Oleg& was als3 brought up for judg ment, being cencicrei of having unlawfully in his possession, a quantity of naval stores, belonging to the King. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the Gaol of Maidstone; and, during that pe riod, to stand in the pillory, between 12 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, on a market day, in the town of Rochester. itußizuGti OF THETFORD. The Avroari ev•Geic tam. moved for leave to file a Criminal Information, in the nature of a (1119 Warraisto, against Mr. Thomas Wether Gill, eallii!g upon him to thew by what authority he exercised the privilege of a Capital Burgess of this Ern ough This was moved upon an aff:Javit, stating, that Mr. Gill as one of the persons who were in the minority of votes upon the election, as stated upon a forme* application. but whom the Mayor thought proper to swear in.concezeing that lie was go:chief, in preference to oth,r persons. who had the majority of votes, being of tie con.anonalty, while the others were only inhabitants. Mr. Putts* moved for a similar rule against Mr. Purr, upon the same grounds. Mr.Wi LSON also moved for a sinsilsw rule against Mr. James Theodorick, to spew cause why he rant cited the (Ace of Burgess, having been one of the persons elected. without any previous summons being issued to the seleiEt body, composed of the Mayor, Recorder, and Coroner of the Borough of Thetford, contrat y to the Charter. The Court granted the usual rules in aU these cues. • SN AST, Qui Tam, 0. SMITH. Mr. GA atiow moved for a Rule in ti.!‘ c ice, for Mr. Rush wcrth (not Rusbforth, as be:ol e erro neously stated) to answer the matters of an affidavit. This application was similar to that moved against the same Gentleman. mentioned in our Paper of Thursday last. The aftion being nomi nall; :nought by Snort, who swore be had nothing say to it. but Mr. Rushworth requested to use his name.—Kule granted. DUBLIN. API I L 40 CATHOLIC MEETING OF SATURDAY'. (Col,Hoded.) Mr. Idessav, Mr. O'Goausts, and Mr. MA. now, thought that the Catholics should not sacri fice priori.* to expediency ; and, therefore, the former of t h s • Gentlemen moved the Question et Adjouinmen., or, in other words, a recommenda- tion no proceed with the Petition. Their arguments were answered in a most lumi nous, liberal s and manly speech, by Mr. (Moons t., in the course of which he took occasion to pour forth the most animated strain of g. atiiude to His present Majesty, during whose benignant reign the most galling of the Penal Statutes wa. repealed. The speech of this gentleman afforded evidently relief to the small minority. On the question be. ing put, however, the original motion was carried, with the dissenting voice of Mr. O'Gorman only. It was then moved by Mr. K gong, " That a Committee be appointed to prepare ac Address to their Protestant Brethren, explanatury of the views and principles of the Catholic Body."—The Motion was carried. An Address of gratitude and thanks to his Grace the Duke of Bealord, was moved and carried. Lord Fingal having left the Chair, and Sir Tho• mas Esmond being called to it, the thanks of the Catholics of Ireland were returned to his Lordship. The meeting then adjourned, sine die. • Yesterday, his Grace the Duke of Richmond ar rived from England. His Grace the Duke of Bed ford met him at the Pigeon-house.and accompanied him to the Castle, where the usual oaths were admi nistered, previous to his assuming the Administra tion of this country. There was a Levee immedi ately afterwards. The different regiments on Dub lin duty received his Grace with presented arms, in the various streets through which he passed on his way to the Castle. His Grace the Duke of Bedford will have a Levee to-morrow, previous to his departure lei England. The Right Hon. W. Pluuket is arrived in this city from England. Lord Donoughmore has resigned his situation as one of the Joint-Postmasters General of Ireland; ru mour has appointed many successors to his Lordship, but, we believe, as yet without any certainty. The fund of the King's, or Blue-Coat Hospital, in Oxmantown-green, will. we are happy to hear, la • prime* an is eeeese of $OOl. per ann. after the first of May next ensuing $ and by the fine of the High Sheriffs Heft, for the City of Dublin, J ohn Claudius Beresford, and Henry Charles Sirr, Esqrs. who have declined to serve that office, a further sum of GOO guineas will be added to the treasury of the hospital. M. Di Lozaa.—This Gentleman lately d;ed in Switzerland. He was a native of Geneva, and first distinguished himself in this country by a work on the British Constitution, which he had evidently examined with profound judgment, and philosophic spirit. The work has long been a standard book, and, among other flattering tributes of applause, it received a high eulogium from the pen of Justus, who pronounced it " deep, solid, and ingenious." Ds ULM/ had a surprising extent of knowledge on all subjects, and could almost have rivalled Buae e in all the variety of his illustrations. He was re markably temperate and simple in his mode of liv. ing. He possessed an admirable temper, with a woo: tern for humour. All he slid, indeed, npoa the most serious sebjeas, was marked by something of as arch shrewdness. He did ant much sacrifice to the Graces in point of dress and peisimal deli caey i but his eonsers:stinn was alway• valuable, and it is much to be regretted, the nun of his talents and information, was not • I by patronage against the necessities h e issiot have produced m try u ' . . • wanks. SPAIN. Or TUT TRUANT STATE Or 111 C aostritomnir AND TWA POLITICAL llALAtleht Or SPAIN. With vele trd to the first, the Government, it May be safely declared to be in that state of degradation and decay, which precedes and announces gieet re volutions. The King is a man of good intentions, but of confi .ed understanding, and .1 mere slate to the pleasures of the chase, witch forms, not only ho sole divers on, but his primp.: occupation. His thoughts are constantly engaged by pattridg: - , hares, and wild boars ; and Ida greatest exploit is to have fired so many guns in the course of t):e dry. These are constantly presented to him ready losses ed by his Luntsmen, as fast as be can discharg , them, and hence the slaugl ter which i.e some times niakes is almost incredible. It must he owned that he is an excellent marksman ; hut what is more to his credit, he seems to be aware of the fatal orffeds of this blind passion in the Mo narch of a great kingdom, and has given Buiel orders that his inns aksuld not be allowed to ac- quire similar propensities. In his person. he is very tall and stout, and is generally healthy, owing, no doubt, to the constant exercise which he. t/ke., and his temperance in thinking, water bring bis sole be verage. Such is the present King of Spain. His consort forms the reverse to his insensible charalier, bring intriguing. revengeful, and a slave to far other passions than. those of the chase. 4 , It is through her," say th:". Spaniards secretly, " that Royalty is degraded, and the Spanish rime disho- noured. Tn. gratify her tiewrittliy passions, a wretch has been raised from the ranks, to domi neer over oar Nobility, and sell our country to France." Such, however, is the case. The man oi the greatest power at present in Spain, is the Priace of Peace, as he has been entitled, formerly a lite-guardsman, and raised with rapidity to the highest honours, merely for being the Queen's paramour As die has, however, long lust the charms of yotttb. - this man treats her with great negleft. and maintains himself in despotic power merely by the influence of France, or. in other wards, by strielly obeying the smallest man date of that ccurary. 1 he Queen in her turn now detests him, and has lately taken into favour a young man, not yet twenty years of age, from among the guards. Out is is too late s the power of the slave of France is not to be shaken by a bad woman's wiles, and it is a foreign Government alone that can deprive him of it. He is universally hated; but that is in private: before him, even the Grandees of Spain must wear a smile, and Ma drid is full of bis spies. He is, however, sagely aware cf the uncettaisity of revolutions, and is said to have deposited large sums of money in foreign banks, besides having great quantities of specie, se cretly hoarded in his own possesson. Meanwhile, he maintains the state of a King—his dragoons, are magnificent; and his own regiment of dragoons, always near him, mount guard at his gate, and s nd detachments to attend him wherever he goes. have witnessed the secret curses that attended his progress : but the sabres of bis dragoons use sharp, and woe betide the Spaniard who is heard to mur mur. In his person be is tall and well formed, of a ruddy countenance, not unlike an Englishman ; but he has not their air of freedom; and is, upon the whole, a man of moderate talents. Such are the component parts of the present no minal Government of Spain. I say, nominal, be cauie the real Government is that of France, and whatever French General may be the Ambassador at Madrid, is in effort King of Spain. When-a Government is thus composed, it may bq known what to think of that Government. When a nation is in such a state as secretly to curse, and yet openly to clmish that Government, it may be known what to think politically of that nation. Englishmen have sought their liberties through seas of blood, and have obtained them. France was at least cheated with a semblance of liberty duringolte fleeting pe rind of her true enthusiasm. But all the country between the Pyrenees and the surrounding oceans, with its double race of monarchs, queens, prince., and nobles, has never even followed the phantom of liberty ; but awaits the decrees of the French Go. eminent. The inhabitants of all this immense trait are generally bold with the knife in the hour of darkness; but they tremble at the bayonet in the face of day. Yet, strange as it may appear, the hatred of France and Frenchmen, is unive-sal throughout the whole of this &stria. In talking of Frenchmen, there is a mixture of hatred, con tempt, and yet of tlreed. not to be conceived by those wiio havenot witnessed it. If every Spaniard or Portuguese had a single Frenchman within reach of his long knife, the contest would be short. But other nations must meet their discipline, their bay onets, and their artillery. With regatd to the tincontrouled dominion of the French in Spain I could bring many proofs; but why colledt single instances, when a great, a gene ral, an undeniable one is hanging over the country. Should this not take place (unless prevented by other powers) it will prove the fallacy of ill my remarks; but when it happens (and the day is fan approaching) it will supersede the necessity of all such petty documents. And yet there is one so gross, so glaring. that: I cannot refrain from suot ing it. A vessel was brought into a pert in Spain by a French privateer, and was acquitted, ship and cargo, by a Spanish Court of Admiralty. The French captor, not content with this deciiii.n, ap pealed to a higher court, the cause was again beard, and the case being clear, was again decided as before, But there still remained to a Frenchman in Spain. a higher court than the Spanish High Court of Ad miralty. A court was formed entirely of French. men, at the house of the French Consul, the cause was heard for the third time, the vessel and cargo adjudged good prize, sold as such, and the proceeds distributed to the captors. In the present political date of Europe, and in deed in all times, the propriety of England culti vating a close and friendly intercourse with Spain, is so apparent, that we cannot but feel surprised it should have been so long negleaed On inquiry, we 6nd t h e causes of this to be various. An. cient wars; alliances between the two former mo narchies of Fran* and Spain t and the lemmas of the latter country. and of England, badly under stood by hods. Yet, I affirm. that such are the dispositions of the Spaniards towardi the knglish. that with a hula careen the put of the GOVWS. mere, the two countries might become united. It a here .sat we ought to look tar balance to the power of Fiance io the West. It in this ccantry, perhaps, unfavourable as app e , awes tray now he, that the [Leedom of Eur d mined to commezce. The Hignlasideri of J; tam may still MAW to 1111116, in a killidr-ki !alto. their C.rlt:c briihrest in the ranuotaio s of Hiscsy, ; and even esteud their . shi' m• •r the plains to the c.ntre of the C (11,11-4. d the. ma:int.:in of Airagon and Coelho/AN:, But the gre it r vents, stun tntabe place country, mock the va'n spirit of propLecy. Adieu, tar Spain, and should spot, with stTyvt, in!iy mountains. its almost boundless &elightfel climate, and the many snoiiimients of departed ; but I bare been altrays and 1,.1 breathe the air of freedom, and around rs. see nothing but slavery, stiflrel indignation s tr l misery. its happy natural situa:im is overbalanced by political errors, and the blindness of derpot;,. power ; and, whilst we regret that so 2 a own , should be almost abandoned to ramie, is , cm , but feel tome small portion of contempt f u , inhabitants who permit it. (I; ram Stevie • j aw . is Spain sad lrrrly ) NAVAL IA mu. IGANCE. POItTsmoUTII. APRIL SAIICI lltsjesty's ship bAirpslowto , wen Convoy for Guernsey ; the Liana atil n er d y o , 4 ctstise.—Wind S.W. emir slowest, arm 2e. Came in the Spanish ship Prince of 4ettaria., from La Cuira, laden with cocoa, bark, and indigo, prize to the EateraM frigate, which was left in chase of another ship from the sansa place ; F„,„ man of war, from off Rochefort ; Insolent gnu brig with a fleet of light ♦iivallers, from off Brea; and the Anal( dila, of 16 guns, and 90 men, captured ,? the Anserall off Cape Finisterre; she had been oat two days, and had made no captures. Sailed thelkllerojeboa, Stettin*, and Princess Char. lone, on a cruise._ Arrived the Patna. 74 guns. Captain Bennet. from off Rochefort; Lue/ea and Chad, brigs; ALA! Eliza aid Jane tender. Came in also, a French privateer, 14 gum; and a Spanish merchant ship, names unknown, prim to the Amereld, Capt. Maitland. DEAL, APRIL 21. Sailed from the Downs last night the Zebra bomb, with the outward-bound, Sec. under covoy for PVIS. mouth ; and the Sea-gall sloop of war, on a cruist. Arrived the Basilisk gun-brig from a cruise; also the Lie.perate, with a detained ship, (name un known), under Hambro' colours, which she fell it, with between Calais Mid Dunkirk. Early this rnornin;, that lit Battalion debt 6t Itegim.mt, consisting_ of upward* of Ito° me at . marched from the North Barracks to Rant:gate, for embarkation.—Wind S.W. . • THIs AfARKL•IJ. . CORN EXCHANGE, Arats.l4. • CURRENT MICE OF GRA*. IVhnne 4;s. Cm. Tbs. bons 414 47. Fine 04.. Dd. Txt Bonn (11.15/s. 40. 0 . k 4o+ 45.. 04 Oslo - I.llllls 164 V. bane, 144• 40+. 04 Poland+ .44.31+. 04a•t 64.. /06. *Tape White Poas 844. 901. 01. Fins Flow Ol .60s. Cite, P..+•+.• • . 4 430. OA. Soon& os. t PRI= Ur HOPS. PASS. /Vegan. Kent 51 Os to II Oe lost .S 1 5s is a lei Sussex Ail llps to 31 iCs Sony: bl --6 to 51 it i Ksftex 41 16, is al los carnharn... gl -54 to 91 13 PRICKS Ulr HA' nom r AND STRAW. ;asar• IT SAMSON'. WIIITIC &&&&& • Hey 31 a 61 II al Hal 41 0; a 51 11 5trew.....31 Jo a SI 9. 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