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'9 r ti 4p ,'.."' ~ I v • i) t i :~ BEIGHTON, Dic. 88. It is still uncertain when the Prince will re-enliven this place with his presence. His Royal Highness's house-steward, Mr. Becke, and the greater part of the Prince's Brighton Establishment, still, however, continue at the Pavilion. 'bat his Royal High ness, therefore, will shortly be here, is yet the pre valent opinion. Mrs. Fitzherbert returned to her mansion here on Thursday evening, Lord and Lady Castlereagh also returned to this place about six o'clock on Sa turday evening. The Earl and Countess of Albe marle arrived here on Thursday, and took posses sion of the elegant apartments that had previously been engaged for them at Donaldson's Library General Ramsay has been on a visit, for some days past, to his sister, Lady Campbell, at Pol lard's. Among the fashionable arrivals here are, likewise, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Egremont, Lord Ellenliorough, the Hon. Mrs. Freeman(le, the Hon. Mr. Pomeroy, and Mr. Antrobus. General and Mrs. Harcourt, it is supposei, will be here this evening. The house, No. 4. Marine- Parade. has been some time since engaged for them. Lady Julia Howard will be here in a few days. Lord and Lady Ellenborough, Sir J. and Lady Copley, Lady Campbell, Lady Bathurst, the Mar '. quis of Exeter, Lady Stuart, Lady Mordaunt, and others of rank, have, occasionally, during the week, increased the promenading parties on the brick pavement of the Steyne. Sir Thomas and Lady Clarges have been generally of the number of eques trians on the rides. The weather, during the week, has been far from pleasant ; the military parades, on Marlborough Steyne, consequently, have not bad their usual number of elegant spettators. The Earl of Egremont, soon after his arrival here, on Monday last, with that generosity and hu manity for which he is so truly conspicuous. sanc tioned the subscription now carrying on for the wi dow and infant children of the late unfortunate Captain Hollands, by the handsome donation of iso ;silicas, in aid of the fund. RERKALtY IVITIES. Saturday last, being the birth-day, and the cele bratien of the coming of age of Lord Wesley, the eldest son of the Right Hon. the Earl of Berkeley, his lordship's numerous tenantry were invited, agreeably to annual cnstom, but more particularly in honour of this event, to enjoy the hospitality of this venerable castle. The tables in the Great Hall were loaded with a profusion of good Old English fare, and a cask,coataining four hogsheads of strong beer, (brened when Lord Dursley was born.) was tapped, and justified all that had been anticipated of its good qualities by the honest yeomanry.— After dinner, Lord Dursley's health was joyfully drank, with three times three; and immediately twenty-one guns, answering to tl.e years of his Lordship's age. were erred from the walls of :he Castle. IX Mist the happy tenantry were thus co ins log themselves, his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence arrived at Berkeley, and a royal salute of twenty-one guns immediately announced the event to the surrounding country. in the evening. re paratory to the commencement of the dancing. the was most superbly illuminated with nearly 5000 coloured lamps, disposed with great taste ail! elegance, in a variety of devices, by Messrs. Smith and Stillman, from Lon fern ; and the arch of the centre window was ornamented with an allegorical trpasparent plinting. by Mr. Hardwick, of Glens. tester. When the dancing commenced. his Royal Highness the Duke of thrence, tie Earl and Countess Berkeley, the Countess of Clap-, the Karl of Craven. Lord Grantley, the Hon. Mr. Moreton, Mr. and Mrs. Norton, Admiral Prescott, Colonel Dalrymple, Colonel Kingscote, and many other Gentlemen, his Lordship's friends, went from the Drawing-room to the HaU. Immediately on their appearance. the ancient arches raechned with the cbeartul congratulations of the tenantry. Seats were erefied at the end of the Hall, where many cf the oeipjibouring genii y,who wished to become spec tators of this joyous scene, were accommodated. —ln the course of the evening, a party of Gentle men entered in masquerade, and afforded abund ance of amusement to the whole company ; they afterwards joined in the merry dance, and kept up the hilarity of the evening till supper was announc ed. His Royal Highness, with the Earl and Countess of Berkeley and their friends, then with drew ; but the dance continued, and the spirit of it was enlivened by two immense bowls of punch, each containing twenty gallons, the same which were formerly filled when Earl Berkeley came of age. Being Saturday night, this scene of festivity and mirth was necessarily closed somewhat sooner than it otherwise would have been. Last evening, a Ball and Supper were given at the Castle, to the principal Nobility ant Gentry of the county. This day an ex will be roasted whole, lo► the populace of the surrounding neighbourhood; and the numerous workmen, of every description, employed by his Lordship, are to be regaled vrith a goad dinner at the different iuus in the town of Berkeley. A New York paper says. " Sir JAis as H. CRAIG, !74 rain-General and Governor in Chief of the Bri to!) Provinces in North America, lately arrived at (2itet,ec, is said to be in so bad a state of health as ro dfford little espeaation of recovery. His com plaint is dropsical, with an affeetion of the liver." From passengers by the India fleet we have re ceived pleasing information concerning the state el affairs in that quarter of the ,:.obe. HOLL AI is in a state of despondency ; be no longer prnjeas any further sets of enmity: on the contrary, no disquietude remains on the part of the natives under our authority. At Bombay the iatetest has fallen from 9 to 6 per cent. From the same quarter we have received intelli gence concerning the Greybostid, commanded by Captain TkOWBRIDGE, son of Sir THOP4 AI Term. as root. This vessel was sent in quest of the wrecks of the Weioherns and JaVe. She had arrived at the Cctpe, whence she was to proceed to Madagascar and the contiguous islands. At the sant: time had also arrived at the Cape Ave ships, with troops from England, which were to sail under convoy of the Uri:ideas nra of war, the same which had concluded the &sang vessels to the Cape. SONS OF COUWEXCE. Yesterday a audreroos and respeelable meeting of this Society, celebrated their anni y at the N.lw London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, where a most excellent dioaer and the ben wines were pro- vided. After the usual routine of toasts and semi ments, Mr.Fitasimmous charmed the company with many delightful songs. The following was written and sung by Mr. W. .1. Doane, and received with the most rapturous marks of applause : Through life', rugged passage we weather the gale, And Fortune's foul tempests so angry *pores. us; Despair, haggard phantom, dejected may rail At quicksands and rocks, yet there's Hope left to bless us. A reef we extend, in the cause of a friend, Whose foresail's abaft with a cargo of woes ; The harbour's in view, while hit thooghts are on you, Hail/each true Son of Commerce wherever he goes. With wisdom and caution but one of a trade late this society can be elected, Te nautical worthies exception is made, Whose character fair must be ever respected. In unity's voice, such men are our choice, Should changes in trade their misfortunes expose, All poignant distress, meets with speedy 'edges., From each true Son of Co where' wherever be goes. Our rules, ►rodly framed un the ►asis of truth, Restricted, though happy. manysesal our meeting; Respecting old age and the merits of y. wih, - . - Alike in pale want, or ht opulence rooting ; While each, hand in hand, an ininrrirnable Imo% All psrty disrutes with 11.4 humour .prse. Our molt• I upriglit,let out toast b. this ought, Each true Son of Commerce w ignorer he goes. May Liberty'a banner around us entwine. And Peace her green °rive dninoire to the wend, With Cna•rty, Justice, and Ittiondehip divine, Thmugh regions unknewn be their emblems unhturii. Then nation, moulder*. man with TWA shoot .1 agree, Am 4 bravery Ambition sad Party oppose; Then T!ransiv% rail, would be welco•-i. i by all ; And each true Son of Cam neve. let •revsr he goes, RIGHT HUM. LO I) Bt+UH'INLOW. On Friday morning last tit-J, at his seat at Belton, in Lincnlns are, in the 64t.1. of his age, the Bight Hon. Browniovr Cult, L 1 Brownlow. He was the only son of the late Rignt Hon Sir John Cast, But. Speaker of the House el Commons ; in remu neration of whose services in that high Mice, he was advanced to the peerage in 1776. His Lordship was twice married; first to Miss Drury, daughter and ce-heiress of Sir Thomas Drury, of Ooerstone. in Nerthampronlire, and sister of the late Countess of Buckinghamshire; sod secondly, to Miss Ba‘.kes, only daughter of Sir Henry Sankt% of .4 imbledon, by whom he has left a numerous issue. He is sac. ceeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, the Hon. John Cust, M. P. for the Borours of Chiltern. MRS. CL.I N , Kka V. 6. This literary La ly, of much ingenuity, whose death we lately an piunced. resided at Ipswich. in Suffolk. Her first publica:ion was a trans lation fi th• Latin, of the fine old Romance. al Barclay's Argenta," which made its app.:wanes in 1772 in four duodecimo eviheuies, ender the title, " The P. ain z ; or. The History of Polvarchus and Argents" the neat 111111 " The Champion of y i ii tt e," a G ot hi c Story. which ee po'llished in 1777. and was re-published i tt # to footing seat, under • e tole it has ever sine retained, v:z. " The English Baron" Mrs. Rates has .inee that time wr,t •n, " The Two sl n on; a ..fodern Story ;" 6. The Progress of Romance. tarnugh Countries, and Manisets." in a course ot in teresting and well-iFeitieti evening ci• " The Exile ; or. Memoirs of the s.:041211 d.• stadt," the principal incidents of wh:ch are h.ri fisted from a novel by M. D'Aess AUL, "Tar tie • t. , r Widows," a Novel; Plans nt Edueation, Remailis on the System of other Writers," in • duo decimo volume; and " Memoirs of Sir Roger de Clarendon. a natural Son of Edward the Slack Prince, with Anecdotes of many other eminent Persons of the fourteenth Century," in duodecimo volumes. It is hardly nec.ssary for us to arid, con. I earning a writer so well known as Mrs. Reeve, that her works discover her to have had cultivated useful knowledge with considerable success ; and to have applied that knowledge less trivolonsly than is Ste quently the case with female Authors. AITIMORDINAR I IRRUPTION. A letter from Johnstown. Montgomery County, mentions, that the country in the vicinity has, this Autumn, been uncommonly inte4ted with bears.— About 250 have been killed within the circuit of eight or ten miles. The CAOSt of this irruption, as it may be termed, is supposed to be the scarcity in ' the back parts of the state, of chesnuts arid beech nuts, which compels the bears and squirrels to resort to the more southern and produaire traits. In. stances have been known of a whole cern-field being stripped by these marender, in the coarse of a night. A singular instance of strength in a bear, occurred lately in the neighbourhood—A young one, nearly full grown, was taken in a steel trap of 2l lbs. weight, to Air* was annexed an iron chain of 231bs. —his hind lag was broken, notwithstanding which, he dragged both trap and chain above two hundred yards, to a large hemlock tree, up which be climbed, until the chain became entangled in the branches, and checked his progress. In the morning he was traced to his retreat and ahot, and it was found ne cessary to cut the tree down to get possession of the body. A panther of considerable size has likewise been seen, by several country people. lately prowl ing in the vicinity of the town. A farmer, when in the middle of a field, was alarmed by the ap proach of this unwelcome his only refuge was the stump of a tree, on which he mounted. and with a rope halter that he had in his hand, kept up a constant noise. by beating the same against the trunk ; whether deterred by this or not, the pan ther contented himself with walking several tunes around him, and then, without any particular seer, took a French leave, and retired to the woods.— (1 en; Yeti Peps.) ussmsmimeeresese A ship from Holland arrived in the Downs on Sunday. Tat. atrit•mo had not meshed Utrecht when she sailed but he was daily ',twitted. Rini: Lou is's health is rapidly declining. and as be intends to visit France, it is supposed that l'at.tteitasis will be declared Regent drain his abieace. ; 4,1 4' OXFORD, Dec. !6: At a meeting of the Dean and Chapter, held on Wednesday meriting bet, in the Chapter-Hothe of Christ Church, the following Gentlemen were cleft. ed Students of that House i the Hon. F. North Douglass, eldest son of Lbrd Glenberrie : William Venable, Vernon, Esq. third son of the Archbishdp of York ; Et. Cleaver, Esq., lon of the Bishop of ' Fernes ; Williarp Wickham, itoltiri - Ourdon. John Mackie, Thomas Sater,*Chatleelltonsevoad Henry Cotton, Esqrs. " 49 - ,t . On Tuesday lesti a jthesi c tif. Isaac Bacon, It A. and Fellow of Queen's ege, was presented by that Society to the Reetorf kit Ittelebrigdoo, in this county, vacant by the dtaithcof the Rev. James Coward, 11. D. .6. On Monday last was married, at St. Oilers Church, in this city. Mr. YRoissas Freernari, of Launton, to Miss Mary Clifssio,e4 . l3icestar. zasa—,..--..aasssipm, IRE LAA D., nuattsi, um 26. On Sunday, their Grams the Duke and Duchess of Richmond arrived at Florence Coon. in the County of Fermanagh, the seat of the Earl of En oiskillen, where they were received by the Noble Owners with their accustomed hospitality and politeness. Their Graces were met at Florence rt by the Earl and Countess of Reimer,. The following day the party took the amusement of she field, and had excellent sport ; his Grace Med five and a half brace ef woodcocks, in twelve shots; on the succeeding day the sports were re. snmed, and, with equal diversion and success. His Grace will set out for Derry on Monday next, nose cArnpanied by her Grace, who, with the Countess of Enniskillen, and the ladies of the party, all go to the princely mansion of Castle Coole, the seat of the Earl of Belnsore, near Enniskillen, where they will remain till the return of his Grace,which is expegted to be on Thursday. The house of Mr. Sylvester O'Halloran, in the liberties of Limerick, was lately attacked by an armed banditti. Mr. O'Halloran fired at, and killed me of the villains, who attempted to wrench the bars off one of the kitchen windows. The test effetted their escape. ;LI on, Bac. 24. On the 9th of last month a Cuo, t Martial pro ceeded on the following trials :—E.isign Power, of the city of Waterford Regiment, Captain Magill and Captain Nugent of the We,tmeath—the first gentleman on charges preferred against him by an Officer of the 15th Regiment of Foot, and the two latter on charges m &de by LoM Delvin. After a taro•! minute itivestigitien„ and hignly honourable to ilse Officers who composed the Court, all the gentlemen were acquitted. and returned to their duty. A Deblin paper says, '• Cite new arrangements in the General Post Office have, under the govern. mem of the harts of O'Neu t. and CL•PICAaTT, added cot only to the cnmtorts and ease of all the subordinate depanments under those Noblemen, but must materially contributed to the publ e ac comino.ation. For the eorrelt discharge of the duties of an office, there is no better guarantee than the value of it to the possessor, and we have heard with real satisfaanits. that those intalltgeht and allay. Noblemen have raised the salaries of all the clerks in the Post Of f ice from the low pittance at which they mind, to a more liberal and adequate renitvratioa. —We are also glad to perceive the institution of s veral new lsost.t)ffices, throughout various parts of the country, and mom granted upon a true regard to public utility, without their being given or denied on account 14 political connexions or party vari ance ; and we hope to see still further arrangements, which are in progress, that futther instance the 4.sitity and industry of those Noblemen at the head of chi. General Post Office." The improvements alluded to in the above para graph we: e, we believe, all suggested, if not strongly recommended, by the late Chancellor for Ireland, the Right Hon. Sir .10111/ Ncwroar ; but this is not the o.dy imitarice in which, as well as in the 101. per c .nt. Income Tax, the present Ministers have reaped, where their predecessors had sewn, and where the real labourer has not been thanked for the harvest. fhe Joseph, ---., and Baltimore, of and from Baltimore, to Jamaica, are taken and carried into Cuba. The Li, mar, —, from Halifax, to St. Domingo, and drlantic, horn New York, tor ditto, have been taken, retaken, And carried into Jamaica. The haperuntnt, from Vir i imia for Jamaica, is taken. The Cli., FIROUSON, hens Loudon to Tobago, is strutd.d nn the coat og France. The cisse, Saaacn, from Cuba; and Antoinette, from St. Domingo, both for BaWeave; Losior, Haatev, from St. Domingo, to Savannah; For, prom St. Domingo to New York; Horatio. from New York to Honduras; Haar, from Guernsey to St. Domingo; and the .Woitarrh. from St. Do mingo to Guernsey, are detained, and sent into Jamaica. A copper-bottomed Guineamen (supposed to be the Braver), belonging to Liverpool, cm IS guns, with 230 slaves, last from &abettors, is taken, and carried into Cuba. Estrattl of a letter from Captain ht•Ls am, ot the Many, dated off Dover, December VI :—•• I sailed from Cape Francois, on tne 29th silt. in com pany with the Lady Warren ; when off the Carcus shore, I hove•to, to speak bet, she being then on our weather quarter ; when she came glillfrit with in hail of us, to my Meat surprise. I saw her put about, and sued in-shore Item us, end saw no nose of her. I left at the Cape, the afleraansr. Wat,T C 4140011; --+; and Dale of rove, Llum By a vessel that arrived is Tuesday from a Trench prqt„ several private letters have been received, which state that Colonial produce has not expert @aced any advance in France. Our Orders ot Coun cil were known at the time these letter were written. A letter from Boureesue, nt the 10th inst also confirms the (att. A letter from Gibraltar, states that the Algerine Corsairs are peculiarly Adis, against the Americans, nine of whose vesicle they have already captured. Yesterday the LOU) MATO% ordered the price ot bread to be raised nig au assize, to take plate to-anirrnw. %%hen the quarters loaf wheats will be. NW tot 1 1 id, mil ipasshoLi 93. s. i ~~ noirwir tin?. Os hketitY evening, KG Deane,.. of 1) err lane tbieriii,Nalref with, its wife us Comet.Gerdee Thsatte, to we the nes Plotontianr. Senn after the perforntatitaitionlibutotk hll 7 wilter l4 t'be lor of the adjoiniag boa opened by tbelonvet epee, aid I gendernan thett, who rem irked; that Ms friends were not inibiebox, hot they were in that in which Mr. Decanip wis-; the boa-k -epee then opened the door of that Nix, and - Mr. Decamp, apposing his friends were in. the front, lifted up the seats end trade way for him to pass ; the g•ntleman inifne• diately seated himself before Mr. Decamp, and took his piece ; Mr. Decatip observed to him, fw pre. sussed' Ms friends were not in that box, and. it being full, be could not remain in his place. After seine trieffedual remonstrances at t..is u ngentlerean like behaviour, Mr. Decamp became peremptory. insisted upon his leaving the seat, and forced him out ; a seufile ensued, and the intruder struck Mr. Decamp a violent blow, and core off the left side of his coat. Donaldson, the Constable, and R;vett, the Bow. street Officer, were called to keep the peace. The parties went to Covent-Garden watch-house. where the intruder gave in has name as James Wade, Dad endeavoured to persuade the Constable of the Night to take his charge against Mr. Decamp ; but the Constable observing the violence with *WA Ma. Decamp had been treated, refused to take it. Yesterday morning, the parties attended at the Office, when Mr. MUM. the Sitting Magistrate. ordered Mr. Wade to find bed ; they. however, set tled the business after they had left the Magistrate, by Mr. Wade paying Mr. Decamp two gammas and a half for the loss of hi. coat. waestosi.notem Yesterday Mr. David Seaside, son et a Merchant in the Abscan trade. was charged before the Loan Maros with ots.trolting the Geoid if the Chesser Mail on Saturday evening lest, and #se with me. melting several other persons. It appeared, that as the Gnard was pasting along the pavement to the coach, with the Mail on shoulder, Defendant desired tom to go to this ether side, which he declined, when be was shoved of the pavement. On his return be was followed by Defendant up the passage to hie. Asgill's Offiee, where he gave him in enarge to a tameable, wiso advised Mr. Samuels to go away from the place, which he refused, and struck the ceastable several times, when a sculls ensued, and be was taken into Mr. Asgill's Office, where Lee struck a Mr. Wilint. son and severak-other persons. Auer toe cosaics had s oar, he was taken to the Poultry Compter. .Pmciser, in his defence, stated, that :.e Accent.. 'lied some friends, who were going off in the Li. erpool Mail, to the Post Office; the coachman told m he had not rams for their luggage, when Mt. %meek, to aatisfy himself. ascended the positively, denial vying seen or shoved the 'guard. Alias ht came "aown he heard some winds and two or ;Large ris_n came and collared him ; hi; desired them go, and tie would walk with theta. They refused, an: be, an to drag him along. when feeling himself aggrieved, he resisted ; be was dragged into one of the offices, and forced Into a chair. - Mr. Manly, a gestlensan who accompanied Defendant, said that the Guard, who gave evidence against Mr. Samuels, shoved against him while conversing with a friend of his, when he desired him to go to the other side. which he refused. In about two minutes after witness saw three or four roes bolding Mr. Samuels by the collar. Ha interposed, and &bleed thus to let him go, at. they bad no right to use him in that trisnner. They told him they would not let him go, and dragged ..ins away; when witness went with them, and got into the office. Atter they had got so, they began to shake Mr. Samuels very much. The Officers put witness out. While he was in the office, Defendant did not strike any person. The Loan MAYOR advised Mr. Sonnets to male a suitable apology; when the Solicitor to the Poet. Office informed his Lordship, that as apology would have no effect at present ; it the Post-Masters Ge neral instituted a prosecution. Defendant might. ny sending an apology , induce them to atop pr , ceeniagt. Defendant put in bail to ammo the assaults at We Sessions. A few days ago, as Jaseas GRAN•IIt, EN. of Barrock-lodge, Cumberland, was proceeding in hit carriage to pay a visit to the Archbishop of Yoaft. at Rose Castle, in passing over liawkeicale bridge. sae of the horses, being very spirited, made a plane over the battlement, and hail auspended in that dangerous situation, until, in ruder to prevent the carnage from being dragged over, the traces were cut, and the animal precipitated into the bed of the river, and killed oa the spot. On Saturday evening ao affray happened at a well-known house at the foot of the Castle-bill, 1) ,ver, between a party of the Sl:ropairsie arid a party of the Sorry regiment of militia, between whom there appears to he a considerable degree of aoinsosity One of the Sorry militia was carved to the hospital so much beaten, that his life is de spaced of. A guard is to be stationed in future. to prevent persons from resorting to the house at which the affray took thee. The New State Lottery Scheme. just launched, may be justly compared to a first-tate ship that is just off the stocks—srornd in all its timbers, and winch wilt hear the vrietest ecaosiftatieto from stem to sum. That it will; in conseqaesce, soon have its lull complement of early aid ardent adventurers, is not to be (forested by any woo are capable A making distinaions. W. , it w at no publication that contains more information on the sunjea, or is better adapted for geotlemen going to the East Indies, than Johosex's Urre.diri VO . G11 1 111", (just published by J. Abreast', Corunill, puce los. 61) A respeaable Literary Journal says, "'This volume forms a code of in stru3too ter young advrrntuzers, who, it is well .known, are often ordered out to India without any pterfutts knowledge of the country, and also at a time when they cannot possibly furnish themselves with books cont%ining the necessary information ; to tab, the Author's sole objeff ia to furnish a lases in companion en the first visit to the Oriental World, and the means of preserving of health in ho; sismates,and p tang those resimus coatequeaces drat malt Um iatcaverance," &c. Sec.