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~' '9L ?RICKS Or BRITISH STOCKS YESTERD % V. 3 pet Cent. Cams. 93 , 1 i 1 South Sea New Annuities Ditto Acct. ki 94 1 Ex. Bala,' it 1.1,000/. DS Se SS pm Si pet Cent. Dili 1 I Ditto, 100:. 16 58 66 pm Mew 4 per Cent. 106 i 1 1 Ditto, fmaill 56 58 54 pm buns Bends IR pat Lottery Tickets, Itli. I9s. 7RIOES OF FONE.ItiN Scuthap Rands 80f I Mao Scrip (1825) 3i on Noe Avid. Si pat Ilesnos Ayres Bonds 92j t 611111^n Ronk 901 t 3uabitat Bonds 101tto Bonds (1824) 92} Ditto Acct. 921 thieftb Wilds 101 nitfo Al uks Banco 101 French Rents 100 f. 100 f. 76c. Exchanes 23f. Ik. Must Ace!. 100 f. E‘cbsinge W. 10c. Sleek Bends bk Ditto Scrip (1825)13 dis Ditto Acct. lf 1 do gTOCKS_Yr,I:I: PA Mexican Bonds 81j j 2 11 Ditto Acct. 81j 2 Ditto Scrip (1824 4 ) 4 3; pat Ditto Acct. a pm Pollol'll 110;m11. 3RI ..„ Ditto Acct. 88S .PortugueseßotAs Ditto Acct. 91 Prussian Bonds Ditto Bonds 0E221 Ditto AC& Russian Bond. (1922) .. 1163 3 Ditto Acct. Spanish Cont. 243 I Ditto Acct. 143 3 Ditto Vous. (1823) 193 3 3 20 193 .IADA Y. IRON MAILW•YII. adon and Birmiog. 1 1 1 ndon and Northern 21 MISCILLAWZOI , I I . atlantic and Pacific 121 12 Australian 31 British Iron Company 121 111 Bristol Ship Canal 11 Colom. Colonial C0m.115 17 pm Gas Engine Carriage 9 Gen. Steam Navigation 10 Great Westminster Dairy 21 Joint Stock Corn. 6 pm lediterranean Stearn 4 3 pm lexicas Company 201 Metro. Akleroey Dairy 61 Metro Fish Company 31 New Corn Exchange 91 9 Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 23 1 Prov. Bank of Ireland 131 Patent Bricks 6j Patent Steam Carriaffe 12; put loyal Seminary 61 pm FESTEP" COUBAIN _. n ihmatasilaat C. F. la MO, at sight - 11 li fistassallsaa - 12 3 A =weep - - 12 3 Ilaosburgh - $8 11 Altana - . 37 0 Faris, 3 days' sigh t 23 13 Ditto - - 23 48 Bourdesux • 23 48 Berlin - 7 5 Frankfort.on. - tht-Main 1514 Petresburgh - 2 Vi enn a • - 10 2 'Crime - - 10 2 Madrid - . 313 L'adle • - 34 Bilbao' - -33 i Barcelona - 33 Orville - - 34 Li ,brsltar - - 3 l 3l _ AGE . _ _......-A Y. Leghorn . - 483 Genoa - - 4 41 Venice - - 27 31Alts - - Naples . - AO Palermo - 119 Lisbon - - 51 Oporto - • 313 RioJanatro - 48 Bahia . - 50 Dublin - 9 Cork • ti • • 9 IN. 3i o t .." l:7Pllrtret -- --- L. s. cl. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 104 Silver in barn 0 0 0 gite rtitoll WOO. THEA7'IIR ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. le.morrow Eveninv, THURSDAY. March 10. will be performed A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sth Gtes Overreach, Mr. Xeeal ; Wellborn, Mr. Archer; Harrell. Mr. Terry; Juettce Grcvdv. Mr. Cattle. Lady lillworth, Mrs. Knight ; Margaret. Iftee Smithson. After whleh Hate) a new Farce, called CHANGE PARTNERS. Tia Principal Characters Pobyny M . oen. and Mtn Wall Yates. ace. Knight. and Harley; TIfEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. To-morrow Lyonlog. THURSDAY, March 10. will be performed A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Sir Mark Chase, lir. 'Fawcett kilted Highdyer. Mr. /inlet; Fixture, Mi. Rayner. Maria Darlington, Miss Foote. After which. CHARLES THE SECOND. Ling Charles, Mt. C. Kemble; Lo td Rochester, Mr. Jones; Captain Copp, Mr. Fawcett. Mary, Miss M. Tree. To conclude with THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. tirintoff, Mr. Farley; Karl. Mr. lianehard Lothair, Mr. Cooper. C landau). Krattalaiii Ravin. Mrs. Fatten. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ORATORIOS. on FRIDAY NEXT, March 11, under the Direction of Mr. H. R. flisbop who will pre...de at the Organ and Plano Forte, a GRAND SZLEeTION of MUSIC, from the Works of popular and classical C.miposers, interspersed with some Sacred Pieces. PART I.—To commence with Karl Mar* Von Weber's Overton to K.uryantbe. After which, fur the td flute In this country and by per mission of his Most Gracious Majesty, Weber's celebrated 'Cantata. nailed "IrJusiFf and Sift: in commemorstion of the Battles of La BeHe Alliance and Waterloo. With Seleetions from the oratorios of the Messiah. the Mount of °Urea and the Cfeation. Lod of Part L a Concerto OD the Violoncello by Mr. Lindley. Pear IL—UK...Moos from Weber's Abu Hassan; Mozart's Requiem: Israel In Crypt : Handel, Pessuseb, Frederica. Bishop, Between the Second and Third Parts a Concerto on the Oboe by Signor Alvarez. Peat 111.—Selections from Weber's Preelosa and Handel's At!, and Galatea; and from Dr. Clarke, Mozart, be. Pit pelmil Vocal Perfonr.ers--Mesdarnes Stephens, Love. Bedford, Wad GraMon ; Madame Caradori; Messrs. Braham, Horn. Bedford. Robinson. and Tlnney: Heater Edmonds: and Mr. Bellamy. The Orchestra a II be on the extensive scale usual on sueb twos. alone. and led by Mr. T. Cooke. The Choruses udder the Superin tendence of Mr. Watson. rel.. Dramatic Free List does not extend to these Oratorios. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. ORATORIOS. This Ereninr. WEDNESDAY, March 9, will be performed Peer I.—A SELECTION front ALEXANDER'S FEAST, eswpostal by O. F. Handel. • Pane IL—A SELECTION from PRECIOSA, composed by Carl Marla Von Weber. Pear 111.—A SELECTION from ABU HASSAN, composed by Carl Marl.' Von Weber. In the eourse of the Evening a variety of Vocal and Instrumental Musks. Principal Vocal Performers—AllssGraddon; Madame Caradori: Miss iLire ; Miss Harn roe reley ; Mrs.Tennant ; Master Longburst ; end Silas NI Tree; Messrs. Brehm:it, Study. Pearls:an, E. Chapman, Ttnney, Robinson. and Bellamy. Leader of the Rand, Mr. Mori. Conductor at the Olean and Plano Fop , . Mr. S. Wesley. 'I he Choruses, under the direction of Mr. War. redl he numerous and eomplete, sainted by the Young Gentle men of hie Majesty's Chapel Royal and St. Paul's Cathedral. The onuli: under the superintendence of Mr. Hawc.. rLa Dramatic Free List dose not estend to the Oratorios. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. STRAND. fhe Public are respectfully informed that they will find MR. MATHEWS AT HOME Tt MORROW, when they are incited to the °centrist:it Mr. Mathewe's " MEMORANDLM 11001(." ios.ri—" Memoranda In Confuslon"—." Night Coach"—" Bubble.," a mond Sorg—" Match"—'• Old and New Timea"—" Public -Deice. Row street PART Monopolylogue, to be called THE CROWN IN DANGER. Doll.' open at Seven ; the Performance to commence at Eight. Caurrop.—The new Entertainment will not Le prated: and all 13..,0k3 professing to coo taln Any parts of It are gross Impositions and fetal& on the Pui.lie. TffEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, STRAND._ °poorie tiiiterio;Mee. LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY Arid the PHRNOSIENA of the HEAVENS and o: the EARTH, To be delivered by Mr. BARTLEY. on the WEDNESDAYS and FRI- D tYS during LENT. The Theatre will be constantly warmed by large Stoves In various parts of the House. Tickets of Admission for Families to be had on nrriterate Terms at toe n•la -office --Doors to be opened at half-put Six, and begin at Seven. Tbeßp.ryrsei rIILCSS commenced publiAlung yesterday morr.ing at balf-pest five o'clock. LON! WEDNESD.AY,MAicit 9, 1925. The Paria Papers of Sunday ate filled almost entirely with extracts from the .London Journals of the preceding Wedoesdly, relative to the decisive success of Bo LIVAR in Peru, and the debate on the Catholic Question, in which great interest is evidently felt on the Continent. The discussion of the proposed amendments in the Law of indemnity was continued on Saturday, but these de tails ere wholly uninteresting to the English public. One proposition was for the appropriation of the Sinking Fund to the purposes of the Indemnity, in order that the grant might be made immediately to the Einixrants. M. DE V raLar.r. opposed this amendment as an attack on the rights of the public creditor. The further consideration of it was adjourned till Monday. In the Upper Chamber M. DF. Sauna liir; brought for ward a proposition to allow the direct heirs of the Peers to be present at the sittings of die Chamber after they have aitained the age of twenty-five years. The Afem , ,irr of Fouthe are again coming before the Tribunel i, and their authenticity will now probably be decided. The bookseller LEROUCE has commenced pro ceedings against M. ALPHONSE BEaUCHAMP, to recover from him the amount of the damages for which judgment was given in favour of Fooessa's children, and other sums PRICES OF SHARES SOSIIIIWICS CONTAKIIN. ALlianectrh. and For. 191 Diets Marine Si aunt,. Anglo-Sit:ion Ateglo-Chilian 114 IS Au Arigna Iron and Coal IS Bri Solana' 525 pm Bri Brazilian IN 221 Col Chilian ?ft Oat Colombian 411 Gel Lien. DI .ning Ranadatiall44 Gre MLbemian 12, • Hit Pasco Peruvian 0 Me Beal del Monte 100% Rio de la Plata slier Me United Mexican 1411. Me Dino New $2 14 pre Nei Welch Iron and Coal Se I Pea GAS 110 ST AND CONS COM. Pro trams. I r'ri a ! eattMenzal 11/ Limbed Omani Ro. COURSE OF EXCHANO Anatolia= C. F. 12 2 I Leg IL. ~"""J' : - ... . ~ - 7 - r 110' THE PAR, v 7IMWMOI -4 64 . ►RITISEI PRESS. paid to him for editing the Memoirs, according to a written agreement, by which he rendered himself legally respon sible as the anthot of the work. This new cause is en tered, and will be argued in a few (lay. • Last night we received the AilAremi ice Zrif wig of the sia inst. The only intelligence it contains relates to tne Greeks and the revolt in Berrie. At Trieste, it appears that a report of the surrender of Patras was current. Prince Alt , coact', the Turkish Governor of Servia, has issued a cir cular declaration respecting the insurrection, Which he asserts was entirely the work of some malignant people, who were grieved at the peace which he and the country enjoyed.", lie loudly vaunts his fidelity to the Sublime Porte, and dwells with such emphasis on the suoceasful resistance he made to the " fruitless endeavours" of the conspirators to induce him to rebel, that it seems evident to us, either that he is insincere in his allegiance, or that the power and ramifications of the insurgents were consi derable. TIIESTE, FED. 19. V. bare no late news direct from the Moles, but letters free ' Venice of yesterday's date, just received, mention a report of the surrender of Patras to the Greeks. The confirmation of this im portant news is impatiently expected by the Greeks in this city. SEMLIN, FEB. 17. Prince Milosch has sent the communication annexed to the Com. mending General here. In contradiction to this important declaim. , Lion, which pretty plainly alludes to far-extended ramificatioor, it is affirtned in Belgrade that detached corps of insurgents sties' rove about in Servia : t (COPY.) " Sir—Your Excellency Is doubtless already informed of theist! unpleasant occurrences In this country. Being convinced that yeep feel an interest in every thing relative to the welfare of this country and mine, I hasten to give you a concise account of all these even There were some persons who were grieved at tharace which I wtl this country have enjoyed for years, during a ientleal period, eagerly wished to disturb it, and to bring me and this country I rebel against the Sublime Porte. For many yams these people eessantly laboured to effect a breach between me and Power. They had, however, no reason to boast of their reds etas with me, and were obliged to see their rims fail. After these fruitless endeavours they at length took the means to indisS the district of Samandria, and a small part of that of Krairojiv to compel me by force. and with arms in their hands, to dee Lati against the Porte. But as I am too well acquainted with the lnl tercet •of this country, and love tranquillity and order, and agile* summonses to return to order did not avail to dissolve the armed hands, I resolved, with the help of God, to restore peace by alms. I sued, and about 20 rioters, with the ringleaders, the Ex- Print Elite Po?ovies, called also I)iak, and his brother. 31 flies, were taken alive, and shot in the presence of those who had been The remainder were disarmed, and thus tranquillity was felterALSAggicelisousal now again go on as it did before this in lerruption. I beg you to take notice of this, as your Excellency must be interested in being informed on the subject. " 1 have the honour to be, with esteem, " Mll.oBCli OBRENOVIES, Kale: of Susie. " Knignjivaz, February 1 (13), 1825." • :" - EXCHANGES. HiII3I7EGIi, MARCH I.—London, 36 3 2 Us. 36. ' PITERIIIIIIJEGH, FEN. 16.—London, 9 13-16. LEIPSIG, FEB. 26.—London, Three months, 6 14i. Brum', Frs. 26.—London, Three Months, 626. A lISTEIDAM, 31ascif 4.--London, Two Months, 39 10 ; 397. We have received an important official report of the actual state of Greece. We had intended to have inserted the first portion of it this day, but the pressure of the Assize intelligence compels us to postpone it till to-morrow. A further confirmation of the important intelligence from Pent has been received. Since the communication we published on Saturday, from our Correspondent at Liverpool, we could have no doubt of the authenticity of the de , patches to General Sou n LETTE. In another co lumn we have given an abstract of the official documents, detailing the successes of the Patriots. The contest with the combined Royalist forocs continued during three suc cessive days, the 7th, Bth, and 9th of December. The result our readers already know—the entire and a. final subversion of the §panish power in every part of South America. GeneracSucae had the honour of completing the deliverance of that immense continent, by a victory as brilliant in its military character to the arms of the Patriots, as it is beneficial in its consequences, immediate and remote, to the permanent welfare of mankind. On the 7th of December, a division of the Liberating Army eatexad Lima, commanded by Bot IVA ain person. In two days afterwards all the Royalist Chiefs were his prisoners. The confirmation of this news, in all other respects so 'gratifying, is accompanied by the painful intelligence of the sudden death of Mr. Rowcnorr, who was killed acci dentally by a sentinel of the Independent Army occupying Lima. The conduct cf Mr. Rowcnorr, in this melan choly transaction, appears to have been marked by some of that eccentricity for which he was occasionally remarkable in his native country. However deeply we may lament the result : we cannot pretend to doubt the extreme imprudence of leaving a garrison, like Callao, almost in a state of siege, and disregarding the challenges he received from the ad vanced post of the blockading forces. It appears, also, as if to have invited the catastrophe, that the unfortunate gentleman was dressed in military uniform, and followed by his carriage, which was mistaken by the sentinel for two pieces of artillery, known to be stationed at the ene my's advanced post. It is consolatory to learn, that every attention was shown to Mr. Rowcnorr by the authorities of both the hostile parties; and that, whatever private ca lamity may have ensued from this lamentable event, it is not calculated to give rise in the slightest degree to any unpleasant feelings between this country and the South American States. It does not often happen in these speculative days, that we find the English Market lighter than the. Foreign ; but 'that was the fact yesterday. It was a lively market in Consols during the whole morning, and the prices conse quently looked up. The money bargains were done at 931 j ; and those for the Account 94j 94. The Foreign Market, to a certain extent, was depressed—at least it was heavy. Old Spanish Bonds were at 2411 ; the New were at 191 f ; Colombian, 921; Mexican New Scrip, 4; Brazilian, 9$ I ; Old Greek Bonds were at 551; and the New Scrip at Ito 1 discount, but there was no doubt that it would improve, and a good deal was actually bought at the above quotation. The Mines and other Shares con tinued steady. Pasco-Peruvians were worse; they were done at 34. The new Mexican Company's Shares were at Jot. The Astantie and Feeifie fluctuated between 11 anti' 2i. There was but little doing in the Rail-road Shares. The Colanial Market was heavy, and but few sales made. Plantation Coffees, at the public auctions, were ss. to 6s. lower than last week. We cannot quote sugars at any i other than Friday's prices, because there were no bargains concluded; but we apprehend bona fide purch st . iee s would not have given them. The Deputation of West India Merchants and Planters waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, with a memorial praying that the duty on rum may be reduced proportionally with the reduction of duty on British spirits. The Right Hon. Gentleman did net promise that he would altogether accede to the request, but the Deputation left Downing-street confidently anticipating that the duties on rum will he fixed on a scale much more favourable to the West India interests than was originally proposed. On Monday a Meeting of merchants and others was held at Liverpool, for forming a Company to effect a direct canal and road eommunication between Liverpool and Lon don, by means of a combined aqueduct and roadway across the river Mersey at •Runeotn, embracing also r direct canal communication between Liverpool and Manchester, through the lines of the Duke of Bridgewater, Sankey, and the Mersey and Erwell canals. Several Resolutions were en tered into, and a Committee formid to obtain estimates, &e. &c. preparatory to another Meeting, to be called oa an early day. There are letters in town from Odessa to the 11th February. The quotation of the price of Wheat is the same as by the last *deices. UWE. INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, Alaace 8. Baring's Divorce Bill was read a second time, and ordere.l to be committed to-morrow. SUFFIELD said. he rose to present a petition from Staf ford Cooke. The petititn, his Lordship observed, was respectfully worded, but he knew nothingof the party from whom it proceeded, nor did he undertake to support the prayer of the petition ; that prayer was for their Lorrighips to suspend their judgment relative to the Stafford Peerage. In proposing that it be laid on the table, he felt it necessary to observe, that he would not do so it it con tattled anything disrespectful towards Sir George Jerningliarn, now Lord Stafford.—The petition was then laid on the talc. SCOTCH JURIES BILL. On the motion of Lord MELVILLE, the Scotch Juries BM was read a second time, and ordered to be committed tomorrow. The Earl of BOSEBERY was of opinion that the pervone most interested in the Bill which it was intended should pus. into a law, the Judges of Scotland, were the persona who would be moat pleased at the circumstance. He was sure that the power they pets ' 'eased would not be misused, but he thought it would be better to take all responsibility out of their hands, in order to prevent any ukylcasant report/ that they did not do justice. GLEBE LANDS BILL. The Noose went into a Committee on the Glebe Lands Bill, and the Bill was reported with amendments. The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMO N S, Tuts!)As, hlaacm 8. At four o'clock there being no Member ht attendance, the Speaker was unable to take the chair, and' the House adjourned to to-morrow. • HOUSE OF COMMONS THIS D.T. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill to consolidate the Laws relating to Ju ries ; and for regulation of Social Juries. Mr. Home Drummond—Bill for the more easy recovery of Small Debts in the Sheriff Courts in Scotland. Sir George Hill—Bill for the regulation of Co•partnemhips of Certain Bankers in Ireland. The Lord Advocate of Scofisnd.-Bill for continuing the Act for .rendering the payosent of Creditors more equal and expeditious in 'Scotland. The Lord Advocate of Scotland—Bill for regulating Fees in the Sheriff Courts, and Courts of Burghs in Scotland. Mr. Dickinson—Select Committee on County Rates. FASIIIONABLI IIV 7 ELLIG Eivcs. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbu ry entertained a lug! party of fashiunables on Monday ereaiog at her house in Arlington. street. The Countess of Arran had an elegant evening party yesterday at her house in Dover.street. The Countess of Essex 1134 a dinner and evening party yester day at her house in Hill-street. Berkeley-square. • The Earl of Darnley will give a grand dinner this day to the Directors of the Ancient :Music, and a distinguished party, at his house in Berkeley.square. Dowager Lady Neste entertained an elegant circle of fashion. ables yesterday evening at het house in Albemarle-street. Lord Boyne has arrived iu town from his seat, Burwarton House, Ludlow. Sir Robert Gunning, Bart. bas arrived in town from his seat, Horton, Northamptonshire. Colonel Howard arrived in town yesterday from Lichfield. Admiral Douglas left town yesterday.for his seat, Beaconsfield. The Hon. W V. Powleu left town yesterday fur his seat, Somerby, near Melton blowbtay, Leicestershire. T. Cunliffe, Esq. arrived in torn yesterday from Newcastle, Staffordshire._ • . . _ ... _.__...._. The lion. Colonel Lygon has arrived in town from his scat in Gloucestershire. Sir George and Lady Nugent and family arrived yesterday at Gowld's Hotel, Jerrnyn-street, from their seat in Bucks. Mr. and Mrs. Hodson left the Waterloo Hotel, Jermynatreet, yesterday, for Liverpool. ' Departures from the Pultcney Hotel, Allsernarle.street :—Sir Aleaander Don, Dart. M.P. for his seat in Scotland; and Mr. and Mrs. Turtota, for their seat in Kent, Departures from Miller's Hotel, Jermyn.street :—Tbe Bishop of Chichester, for Chichester, Sussex ; and Mr. and Mrs. Doubig gin, and Major-General Peel, on a tour. CHELTEXIIAX, MARCII I.—List of Arrivals to this dater— Sir Charles Pratt, Colonel Burke. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Rev. G. Caldwell. Rev. J. Clarke, Capt. and Mrs. Shaw—Captains Claxton, Dand, Marsden—Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar, Worth—Messrs. J. C. Anderson, Austin, Bailey, Barnard, Coxwell, Collins, Con. stable, Elves, Green, W. Grieve. Gibbon, Holt Hughes, Har vard, Jackson, Knox, Kingamill, Loekyer, Marsden ' Oakes, Pettitt, T. F. Smith, Skelton, Strachey, Sir.glcton , A. Smith, Vignoles, \Welling, Wintle, Writ:all—Mistresses H. Butler, &a field, Clarke, Pay n, Riggs, Sawyer, Hanbury, Tracy, Misses Corpu, Claxton, Jones, Ktngsmill, Rooke, His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief gave audiences yesterday, at his Office in the Horse Guards, to General the Earl of Cavan, the Honourable General Tay lor, the Earl of Bristol, the Earl of Courtown, Sir Wm. Maxwell, Lord Wm. rawlstt, Lieutenant-General .bait land, Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray, Lieutenant- General Sir William Clinton, Major-General Molyneux, Major-General Paterson, Major-General Sir Win. Inglis, Major-General Riall, and about thirty other Officers. Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York. Mr. Secretary Canning was so much recovered yesterday that it was understood to have been the intention of the Right Honourable Gentleman to have attended the House of Commons. Mr. C. was visited by his usual medical advisers. We regret to state that about an hour after the Speaker had taken the chair on Monday, he received intelligence of the death of his brother, Colonel Sutton, of the Guards. The Right Hon. Gentleman's sister died only a fortnight ago. Letters received in town State, that Colonel Stewart, M.P. for the county of Tyrone, in Ireland, wax so dan gerously ill that very slight hopes were entertained for his recovery. The natal day of the Earl of March, on which his Lordship completed his seventh year, was celebrated at Goodwood, by his illustrious parents, the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, on Monday. The surrounding nobility partook of an entertainment, inclusive of a ball, at thetr Graces mansion ; and the Goodwood tenantry and the populace, in the true spirit of genuine English bospitijity, were regaled and made happy in the house and in the park. Colonel Berkeley's annual hunt ball was held on Thurs day se'nnight at Cheltenham. One hundred ladies are said to have refused tickets. M. Rothschild has purchased a magnificent mansion in Piccadilly, where he is going to reside after Easter. The Haymarket theatre, armed with a seven months' license, will open fcr the season on the lath of April, under the stage-management of Mr. Percy Farren, from the Dublin theatre. Mr. Farren is said to be a clever vivacious actor, partaking of the qualities both of Jones and C. Kemble. The Company will be strong in comedy, comprising Liston, Dowton, Ott. Farren, Harley, P. Far ren, Wilkinson ; Mesdames Vestria, Gibbs, Chester, Chat terley, Faucit, Glover, and George ; but of these, Wilkin son and Madame Vestris alone can appear on these boards until the middle of June. In the interim, it is the deter mination of the manager to proceed with a large corps col lected from the provincial theatres. The second Exhibition of the Society of British Artists will open on the 28th of this month. At a gland masked ball, recently given by Lord Burg hers'', at Florence, the beautiful Mrs. St. Felix appeared iu the character of Queen Elisubeth, and Lady Hawarehn as the lovely but unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. Lord Hawardeu annoyed the Noble owner of the mansion, by assuming the garb of a poor Irishwoman en famille, and swearing that Lord Burghersh should pay for his naughty behaviour in having " minstrel an unfortunate young crater." All the English people of any consideration now in Florence were invited to thia masquerade. NATIONAL. MONUIIIINT.—II is confidently expected that this great national undertaking will be commenced in the course of the present spring.—Culedonion Mercury. The first atone of a new church was laid at Little Hamp ton on Monday, by R. Watkins, Esq., as proxy for the Duke of Norfolk. Mr. Watkins made a neat address on the occasion, and a prayer was offered by the Rev. A. P. Kelly, Vicar of the parish. The Rev. George Gumbletor has been presented to the united parishes of Anne and Aglish, in the county of NVaterford, by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Mr. Godfrey Mason of Hensley, in Yorkshire, has proposed to pay all his crediters who received only divi dends under his late embarrassment, which he has sur vived, the full amount of their debts, which are consider able, out of his newly-earned estate, although such cre ditors have released, and have no legal claim upon him. Such instances are rare, and are worthy of imitation. We understand it is the intention of his creditors to present him with a piece of plate, to perpetuate their sense of his integrity. LIBERA77ON OF PERU. Advice, were yesterday received front Lima to the filth of December, which fully confirm the authenticity of the despatches ft om the Colombian army in Peru. The fol lowing is an abstract of the official details respecting this important eveht:— " The battie took place at Gaamanguilla, which is within three isogon of Gumming'. General La Sucre commanded the Patriot troops, Mies: having gone to Lima to meet the reinforcements frutu Panama, and having conceived that the campaign for the time was finished, the Royalist troops having been driven across the Apurimi.c. General La Srrna, however, interid;rg to make a rapid movement upon Lima, left Cusco, and re-crossed the Apu rimac with s force of from six to seven thousand men. Upon this movement, General Sucre detached General Lamar to occupy Cusco with a body of troops. General Sucre being thus left with the Colombian forces, amounting only to six thousand men, the Viceroy conceived it a favourable opportunity to make an attack on him, which he put in execution at Guamanguilfa. lle was wounded early in the action, and taken prisoner. The greater part of his wing of the army was either killed or wounded. Very soon afterwards General Valdes was taken prisoner, with the troops under his immediate command. After these reverses, General Cantanie rallied his division of the army, and gained a height about half a league from the scene of action. On the dawn of the day after which the battle was fought, General Cantarac, seeing the total defeat which the army had experienced, and that all the chiefs and officers of distinction had fallen or had been taken pri loners, capitulated, with 2,600 men, and stipulated the immediate delivery of the castles of Callao, and the total evacuation of Peru by all the Rpanlvh subjects. "Accounts from Pis:o, of the 19th December, state, that at the I I date of the last accounts, all the Royalist Chiefs were prisoners in the Custom-house of Ousmanga." DEATH OF MR. ROWCROFT. The fallowing details of the unfortunate death of Mr. Roircroft, the British Consul-General for Peru, have been communicated in letters from Lima, dated the 21st of fiber:— " Mr. Rowcroft was proceeding from Callao to Liens on the 11th December, and was unfortunately shot by the ad vanced guard of General Bolivar's army. The Royalists, at the time of this distressing event, occupied Callao, and the Patriot forces the capital, Lima. The advanced poets of the garrison of Callao, with two pieces of arttl lery, were very near to the advanced posts of General Bo livar. Mr. Rowcroft having to cross from the one post to the other, was hailed by the Patriot troops. Instead of answering the signal, and stopping his carriage, Mr. Row croft got on horseback, and, with his servant, continued to proceed forwards. The sentinel again hailed, but received no answer, and conceiving, from the noise made by tho trampling of the horses' feet and the rattling of the *heels of the carriage, that the enemy, with two pieces of artillery, was advancing, fired two shots, and unfortunately one of them struck Mr. Rowcroft, which occasioned his death. Miss Rowcroft, the daughter of Mr. Rowe oft, was in the carriage, and returned with him to Callao, where he expired the next morning. It is stated that all the aitthoritics, both Spaniards, Patriot., and English, evinced the utmost concern for this unfortunate event, which ap pears to have been purely accidental. General Bolivar, in particular, appears to have shown an unusual degree of sympathy, and called himself upon Miss Rowcroft to con dole with her upon this unhappy event." According to other accounts, it appears that at the time of this melancholy accident, Mr. Rowcroft was dressed in ' the full uniform of the London Light Horse Association, to which he had formerly belonged.—lt was known at the outposts of the Independents, that the Royalists had two pieces of cannon not far distant from the route in which Mr. Rowcroft was proceeding, and on the supposition that he was followed by the guns the shots were fired, and he fell dead from his horse. The dusk of the evening, and the circumstance of his uniform not being that in which, as British Consul, he had usually appeared, caused his per son to be mistaken ; but on the body being recognised, the consternation and sorrow expressed by the officers and sol diers were extreme, an.l the body was immediately removed o Callao with every demonstration of respect. Mr. Roweroft's remains were to be deposited at Lorenzo, but it was intended, when the new English church was built, that the body should he removed thither. The letters received from Paris by the last arrival express a very confident belief, that Mr. Stratford Canuing has succeeded in the object. of his negociation with the Ca binet of St. Petersburgh. A gentleman has arrived in town from Paris, for the purpose of purchasing various articles for the use of the King of France, and the Royal Family, at the approaching Coronation. A letter from Zante, dated the 30th of January, states that 7aimis and Londos have been taken, and conveyed to Napoli, where they were to be tried. Letters have been received, dated Rio, the Bth of Ja nuary. They announce that the Emperor has appointed Ministers to the Courts of St. Peteraburgh and Paris. Guamanga, near which the fate of Peru was decided, is the capital of the province of the same name, and is about 200 miles in a straight line west of Cusco, and about as far east and north-east of Cancte and Pisco, the nearest sea ports, respectively. A report prevailed in Linta, at the date of the hit letters, that some Spanish or French vessels had arrived at Chiloe. If it be any aid for the Spaniards in Peru, it will have arrived too late. The Hamburgh Papers received yesterday are still chiefly filled with accounts of the late inundations. Some of our reader' may, perhaps, recollect that the young Princes of Brunswick, when at school in this country, took the whole of their pocket-money to Mr. Ackermann, in aid of a subscription fur the Germans. The same disposition still distinguishes these generous youths; and accounts from Hanover state, that their Highnesses the Duke of Bruns -1 wick and Prince William, his brother, have subscribed' 10,000 rix-dollars for the relief of the sufferers by the floods. It is said that a collection will be also made in the Duchy of Brunswick. There is a report that two regi ments (one of them cavalry) will be disbanded for some years, and that the sum saved by the reduction will Le applied to the repair of the dikes. Time will show whe ther this report is well founded. The clergy have been it:- sited to impress on their congregations the extent of the ravages caused by the floods. SLAVE TRADE.—The iniquitous traffic in slaves is at present in a great measure covered by the French lag, and the mode of carrying it on has been so dextrously arranged by the merchants of that country, that they are : enabled, in a very great majority of cases, to elude the vigi lance of the English men of war stationed on the coast of Africa for its suppression. The sea-port town of Nantz, in the South of France, is the spot where moat of the en-1 terprises for capturing slaves on the coast of Africa are planned, and it is said there are few merchants in that I place who possess capital who do not largely participate in t1..2 trafEe, to which their cupidity is strongly attracted by the immense profits resulting from it. Indeed, to such perfection is the system carried, that insurances on the venture can readily be effected at from 40 to .50 per cent. while the profits in general average 300 or 400 per cent. that is, return three or four times the amount of capital so employed—the whole voyage, including the bringing back a cargo to Europe, seldom occupying more than six months. Advices have been received within these few days from Cuba, of the arrival ;here of a vessel named the Orphee, with more than .500 slaves on board, which vessel was fitted out for the voyage by the merchants of Narita. It is said also, that some merchants in Antwerp are sharers in the profit and the disgrace of the undertaking. Extract of a letter from Roucn, dated March 1 :—The City of London packet, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company of London, is busily engaged towing our merchants' vessels. These two latter days she has been towing eight vessels together at each tithe; and al though theme was at first great opposition to bring towed by an English vessel, now the people at Houtfleur and Quillebeuf are disputing who shall be first taken in tow, and threatening that if they once get hold of the steamer, they will not let her go till she has taken all their respective ships up to Rouen. The object of our Chamber of Com merce here, to endeavour t o get b ac k t h e l ost commerce of this place, begins now to be understood, because the bene ficial results are daily felt. THE REV. DU. PARR. __-........._ This great literary character breathed his last on Sunday evening, at his residence at Hatton, near Warwick. His last attack was so severe, that for several weeks past all hopes of his recovery had been-given up. His extraordi nary mind was to the last unclouded, sad its fortitude un• subdued. Dr. Samuel Parr was born at Harrow-on-the-Hill, where his father exercised the profession of a surgeon wi t h considerable reputation. He was placed, in 1748, at Harrow school (a seminary long celebrated f or pro ducing accomplished scholars and distinguished charge tell), and was head boy at the ag e of fourteen. Dr. Slimier, then master of the school, held his talents in such high esteem as to appoint him one of the sub preceptors in a few years after; and it was, we under stand, by the admonitions of Dr. Parr, that Mr. Sheridan, then a boy on the lower forms, was roused from his natural indolence, and induced to cultivate, with care, those extra• ordinary powers which were afterwards displayed with so much brilliancy in the theatre and the rename. Previously to his appointment as principal assistant:at Harrow, lie had been entered of Emanuel College, Cam bridge, where he soon became conspicuous by his classical acquirements, and the spirit and energy with which his academic exercises were written. On the death of DI. Sumner, he waeprevailed upon by the advice of his friends to become a candidate for the place of muter; but a!though their hopes of success were sanguine, his south proved an insuperable objection. Disappointed in time attainment of an object which promised an affluent and respectable settl e ment, Dr: Parr left Harrow, and established a school at Stanmore. After a residence of some years at Staninore, he was appointed in 1777 master of the endowed achcol at Colchester; and was next year promoted to the superin tendence of the grammar school at Norwich, a situation of considerable emolument. Although lie had been ordaineg , in 1769, while at Harrow, he had been either negligent of acquiring fame as a preacher, or no proper opportunity had presented itself since that period, for we find that his first claim to eminence, in the eloquence of the pulpit, is • derived from two sermons delivered at Norwich, for the benefit of the charity schools of that city. These discourses which were justly admired for soundness of doctrine, pa thetic invocation, 'and perspicuity and force of l anguage , have been since published. The patronage of Bishop Lowth, obtained, as it is generally supposed, by the ex traordinary merit of his first sermon, conferred on him a prebend in the cathedral of St. Paul ; and in 1786 he was presented by Lady Trafford to the perpetual curacy of Hatton, situated in the vicinity of Warwick. He was ad mitted in 1781, by the University of Oxford, to the degree of LL.D. while at Norwich ; and having resigned his school in that city, he retired to the village of Hatton, where he confined himself to the tuition of seven pupils. With the exception of his Sermons, the Doctor was hitherto unknown as a writer; but his preface to the three books of Bellendenus de Stalu, and his dedication for each part,rendered him an object of general inquiry and euloginm on the part of the learned, who candidly admitted, that, in point of strength of sentiment, purity of style, and the ruricsa felicitas of expression, they were not inferior to the most finished pieces of modern Lainity. His reply to Dr. Conihe's " Statement of Facts" also gave him a distin guished rank as an author in his own language. In 1789 he caine forward as the editor of Tracts, by Warburton, and a Warburtonian, not admitted into the collection of their respective works. To this publication he appears to have been induced by the marked neglect of the Bishop of Worc:•ster, by ahem the Tracts were omitted in his superb edition of Warburton's Works. The dedication and preface to the Two tracts of a Warburtoidan, which conclude the volume, are perhaps the happiest of Dr. Parr's compositions. Dr. Parr married Mies llaisendale shortly after he was ordained; lie was married to his second wife within these few years. We shall not attempt, in the short space which we could allot to such a task, to delineate the character of this dis tinguished scholar. He was manly the last, if not the very last, of the Old School. His learning was extensive, and his Memory was stored with the richest treasures of classical literature. He had these treasures always at command ; he had also at command, what is infinitely more va luable, the exhaustless riches of an original - mind—of a mind cast in a mould of its own--eteleived with powers of the very first order, and with an energy which exercise • could not weary, nor application exhaust. With griefs he united a disposition full of benevolence, and a heart replete with social kindness. He was the firm friend of civil and religious liberty. There was nothing of selfish ness about his character; all his sentiments, whether in religion or in politics, partook of that liberality which made a part of his nature. He made a present of the whole of his plate to Sir Samuel Rcmilly, some time previous to the death of that great man, as a testimony of the high sense which he entertained of the integrity of his principles, and the purity of his patriotism. Dr. Parr's powers of conversation and of controversy were unrivalled. It was in this sphere he shone, and it was in this sphere that he delighted to live and move. He was conscious of his own strength, and he was never slow to mani:est it. In private, when he had no care for fame, and his polemical talents were at rest, he was a most endearing and excellent companion. It was in the summer-house of his Parsonage at Hatton, which he need good humoundly to call " his den," that, divided tem,en the charm of social confidence and the delight of his pipe —which was hardly ever out of his hand—he gave out freely all the researches of his philosophic mind, and all the resources of his lively and luminous wit; and then it was that he shone to admiration. It is with the remembrance of him at such a period now strong in our memory, that we feel, in all its force, the impressive truth that " whin death makes such a dispersion of knowledge and intellect —when such a man is carried to his grave—the mind can feel but one emotion : we consider the vanity of every thing beneath the sun—we perceive what shadows we are— and what shadows we pursue. The French Government is putting down all clubs ia Peril; even such as exclude all politics are not excepted. A gentleman has been in the neighbourhood of Montrose lately looking out for hunting quarters for Colonel Gordon, of Cairnese. The habits of this celebrated character are no less remarkable than his disinterested generosity. He ge netally rises every morning at four o'clock, and remains in his library till eight. After breakfast he mounts his horse, and continues the chase generally till four or five, when he spends the evening with a few friends. Independent of the personal exertions of the Colonel in behalf of the Greeks, he has presented them with no less than 20,0001. in aid of their cause.—Montrose Review. Vens.—The practice of giving veils to servants was grown to such excess about fifty years ago, that, that eminent character Jonas Hanway wrote a tract eipressly on the subject, entitled " Eight Letters to the Duke of ----, on the Custom of Valle-giving in England." Mr. H. being once politely reproached by a friend in a high station for not coining oftener to dine with him, "Indeed, my Lord (replies he), I cannot Ilford it." It was Sir Timothy Waldo that first put Mr. Ilenway writing respecting it. Sir Timothy had dined with the Duke of ,N ---, and on leaving his house was conttie Luting to the support and insolence of a train of servants who lined the hall ; and a: last put a crown into the hand of, the 000 k, who returned it, saying, "Sir, I do not take silrer." "Don't you, indeed !" said the worthy Baronet, putting it in his pocket," then I do not give gold." IN•crivirr.—Polybius relate, , that when the battle was begun which was to decide the fate of the Macedo nian empire, Perseus basely withdrew to the city I'ydna, under pretence of sacrificing, to Hercules—" a god (revs Plutarch) that is not wont to regard the offerings of cowards, or grant such requests as are unjust; it not being reasonable that he who never shoots should carry away the prize-- that he should triumph who sneaks from the battle—or he who takes no pains should meet with sneers!. To Emilius'e petition the god listened, for lie prayed for vict or y w i t h his sword in his hand, and - was fighting at the same time that he implored the Divine assistance.' There are some who base too mean an opinion of their own abilities, abd by fancying themselves to be useless, become so, and dare not attempt many things in which they are capable of suc ceeding, and which they ought to perform. This be. haviour arises mere from indu.irtice or yneancholy than from humility. of tl aradc Con ♦isit all it in t c:( Chat 'boa' thir4 be tl afbir soldi snoil suud situ the d sytte Inn ••• ~,. .••• rirs - PL mete freqi frier disk day. porn aucb an it diun taint notl, TeSCi Pat'‘ war( AI who and u(111 has 1 . T