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Mr. inanehard ; Dsi Id, Mr. Meadows. Odle Languish, Ma umee Vestrfs; Mrs. Malaprop. Mrs. Davenport; Julia, Miss A. Jones; Lon, Miss Jones. After which (sth time a new Piece called THE SC APE-GOAT. 'Fbe Chasidism by Messrs. Blanchard; Cooper, W. Farrell. and Maslow.; Misses Jones and A. Jones. To conelpde with the Mel,-Drama of • A TALE OF MIN EERY. • Cot Romaidl, Mr. Cooper; Francisco, Mr. Farley. To•metrow, Hamlet, and The Scape-Gost. ?be BIIITII/1 Pacer commenced publishing yesterday men. Ing ] t five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, Drcsmsta 1, 1825. The Paris Papers of Monday and the Etoile of the fol lowing day have been received. The judgment of the Royal Court with respect to the Conitituti9nnel had not been given. On Monday M. Msamnou was heard in defence of the Courrier Francais. An abstract of his speech will be fottnd in another column. The Emperor of AUSTRIA, it appears, had quitted Presburg hastily, in anger, on account of the strong language in which the Hungarian Diet had stated their grievances. An answer expresstse of the imperial dis plec•mre was returned a few days before the Em re noa left • 2'apbu rg. There ■re still, it would seem, doubts as to the time of the• actual sailing of the " Turso-Egyptian fleet (rem The French fun& have again .uff►'ted a further decline to tr micas extent. {from the Mosireur of Monday.] Vtxxxs. Nov. 16. ire bye been agreeably surprised to.day by the unexpected ream of their imperial 31ajesties. They ware not looked for ti ',l neat weak. This morning, however. a report was spread that they would arrive in the course of the day. Immediately all the pope. Lakin was in motion, and all the streets through which their Ma. Saadi own to pass were crowded with spectators, numbers of whom 01,111111 1 1 be road towydi Presburg to meet them. Thus our be. . • ialliklibravign arrived between twelve and one o'clock, and was seiesesst With the most cordial acclamations. We were happy to • . me that the Emperor. though a little pale, appeared quite recovered falai Ins indisposition. The Emperor had ordered that no prepara tion of any kind should be made for his reception, and that none of h.. family should come to meet him. He went immediately to his apartments. We are now certain that their Majesties will stay the whale winter among their faithful subjects of Vienna. The Qom* and Princess of Bavaria us expected in eight or ten days. We cannot give any very satisfactory news respecting the Hun. gorier Diet. It is no Wager a mystery that the grievances addresdtd to ilia in the name of that assembly were stated in a min ium calculated to displease. Sane days before the departure of his Majesty horn Presburg, the Diet received the royal resolution in an. swrs to those grievances. it is affirmed that it is very circum. stantsal, sad drawn up with great energy—that it will he printed— red that the dignified language in which it is conceived will meet, in general, the greatest approbation. It is affirmed that it was drawn up by one of our mast distinguished statesmen. We have received letters from Constantinople by the courier de spaded. teem Pus the 26th October. They are not of much im p/mama es far as Turkey is concerned ; but we find in them a film WWI Is really curious, if it should be confirmed. it is, that dee Turkish and Egyptian expedition, which letters from Trieste have floe same time announced as having arrived in the Archipe lago, sad seen in the port of Suds., is not only in the port of Alex andria, trot that it was not to sail till the end of October or the isegluoisig of November. It remains to be seen whether the cor. respondents at Constantinople or those at Trieste are the best in. fanned. TIM Bauder of Ibrahim Pacha has left Constantinople for the Mona, with instructions recommending the greatest activity with sperstiona, in order to subdue the Mores before the winter. Fozwcz Fo nos.—Parris, Nov. 2&—Five per Coots. opened at 94F. 71c. 4 closed at ieffec. ; Three per Cents. opened at 64f. 30c.; dosed at Of. I Dank Sask. 11060 f. t Neapolitan Eentes, Tr. 7k. Exchange on London—One Month, 24f. 9k. ; Three Idestia, 941. 75c,—Coors Autlitntique. CITY. WEDNESDAY EVENINO. This was a kolyday at the Bank, but still there were large bargains done for to-morrow, and the Account trans- actions were also very heavy. At the commencement of Lust:Jest the price of Consols for to-morrow was 83/, and 1, for the Account 8t; but a violent struggle afterwards took • piece between the Bulls and Bears, in which the latter went triumphant, and consequently the quotations declined, for money to-morrow to nil, and for the Account to 83;11. The closing prices for the Account were 831, and for to-morrow 821. Exchequer Bills not due were 15s. 13s. 16s. les. discount; and advertised due ones were from Is. to es. discount. Friday is a Tea prompt day at the East India House of 61110,000/., and the public probably are not aware that over . due India Bonds will be taken at per in payment for this prompt. Over-due Exchequer Bills will also be taken for duties, so that persons paying them may realise 4s. per cent. premium. There was but little bissineen doing in the Foreign market; Colombian Bonds were at 62; Mexican 6 per wilts. 63 Greek Bonds 18 20; and Spanish ditto, 16 to 1 1 . . • remelt Threes came over as low as 62f. 26c. The Sugar market continues languid. There were a . few more inquiries for Coffee. In Rum nothing was doing• We understand that a merchant vessel, the Shaloyeare, from Colombia, with a very rich car, o, consisting of silver, copper, indigo. hides, &c. was yesterday entered at the Casstain-houae. The silver and copper are the first produce o tie mines worked on Brit:ah account. FRENCH' PAPERS. If rom the EOM dated Tuesday.) }oats, Noe. 18. The restoration of the Pope's health, which is the subject of 'general satisfaction, m a y b e considered complete. The 'smilaxes which he gives, the business which he transacts, sufficiently prove that he has regained all his strength t and the decrees which ema nate from his wisdom prove his ceaseless solicitude for the good of his subjects. PARIS, Nor. 28. It is announced that the King of Spain left the Escurial on the 22d instant to return to Madrid. It is added, that his Majesty will arrive at the Prado, two leagues from the capital, soon after the oth December, the Queen's birth-day. The Duke del Intantado has just returned to Madrid. The Count de Essallores„ Ambassador from Spain to his Most Faithful Majesty, has arrived at Lisbon. lie has been received with the customary formalities. 'f he presentation of his credentials will be delayed, in consequence of the state of the King's health, who still suffers too much to be able to keep up. M. de Velum, who has held the situation of Charge d'Affaires to Spain since the departure of the Duke de Villa Hermosa, is recalled to Madrid, and will be replaced as First Secretary to the Eirbsssy by M. tie 'lea, brother to the Minister of that name. Letters from Lisboa, undeiTlXOf the 12th instant, state, that an extraordinary Council of S:ate was called at dlufra. to receive the communication of the treaty with Brasil. Every thing encourages the belief that the King will be advised to may this treaty. At the latter end of Octobes M. Castello j attached to the Spanish Legation at St. Petersburgh, embarked at Cope.Magen for that capital. Soon indisposed by sea sickness he was put on shore at Christianstadt. to continue thence his route. but though he was the bearer of a courier's passport. given by the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, the ((overt:yr of Christianatadt would not permit him to prosecute his journey by land, and sent him beck to Elsinore, whence he returned to Copenhagen. The Swedish Ambassador offered him the passport of • Swedish courier, with which he Pro assdatl, without encountering any new obstacle,. Though the King 01(41esiOns has reproved the conduct of the (iovernor ut Christian litte affair appears to be viewed with considerable acri ' sides. SPAIN, Extract of a private letter from Madrid, dated Nov. 17, 1112.5: + as The Minister h disappointed many of the UitITA by his mem d there is ground for here, that , if be continues as he Woo, n luny yet be rescued front the fate which menaced her. He has annulled many of the demo; against the Constitutionalists which were passed during the Ministry of M. Zea ; who, it seems, had not sufficient influence to contend against the fanatics, and has declared to the Foreign Ambassadors that he desires to see the interests of the Church and State identified with those of Civil and Religious Liberty. Every thing here, however, sad throughout the country, is in the most wretched stare. The roads are covered. with banditti, who now carry on their depredations in safety, the volunteers by whom they were frequently routed having been in most places deprived of their arms, which they were ton prone to use against the defenceless Constitutionalists. The condition of the army is desperate--desertion and rebellion are very common. We bear from N'alencia that the garrison of that place has re volted, from the want of rood and similar events are to be ex. petted in many other places. You have perhaps heard that the crops have been much injured by locusts; so extensive was the calamity that the Gazette contained a circular from the Council of Castile, pointing out the means to be adopted against these ene. macs. In many places they have made the face of the country barren. The new French Ambassador appears ro Fe rather in favour, notwithstanding that he is said to be the bearer of a warm remonstrance from France, and indeed of an Oat:vaunt. Two days after his arrival at Madrid he had a private audience of the King, at which he explained to him the views of France. Imme. diately afterwards the following was circulated among the Spanish Grandees, as an authentic abstract of the principal points in the French ultimatum. I send It to you without undertaking to vouch for Its authervicity, but it is so generally talked of here, that there is reason to believe that in essence. at least, it is correct. •• let. The immediate payment of twenty-five millions of francs, the first instalment of the debt due to France, and already consider ably over due. •• 2d. The publication of a full and entire amnesty to all persona who were promised protection by the French Authorities. " 311. The appointment of Commissioners to treat with Com missioners from South America, on the subject of the recogni tion of its independence, under the mediation of France, or of any other European Commercial Power, to be approved of by _France, it being considered by all the Commercial Powers of Eu rope that a further delay must be inimical to thairinterests. It is understood that the basis of this negotiation wont, bb a liberal dou tem to Ferdinand. " dth. Such an arrangement of the finances of Spain as would present a guarantee of the debt due to France. This being done, and a constitutions; charter promulgated, the French troops to be withdrawn, bid the French Oovernment to bind Itself by treaty, wish the concorreoce of Xngland and re rtugel, td lend troops to assist the King in the event of any attack upon his constitutional authority." Titan is a great deal of discussion here about the Vign Bay scheme, for recovering the galleons that were sunk in the reign of Philip V. An extraordinary courier arrived here last week, with Intelligence that some of the ships had been discovered entire, but buried up to the gangways in mud, so that it will not be an easy matter to raise them ; but as it is proposed to work slowly by means of the diving bell, the treasure may be got out, if it be true, as re. ported, that they are whole. It is, however, • question hare, whe ther much, it not all, of the treasure was not removed before the vessels were sunk. It is true, indeed, that there is no record of this sort in the Spanish treasury, and the Ministers declare the contrary; but as Ferdinand has all to gain by the experiment, and nothing to lose, it is not likely that he would he candid enough to slate any doubts which he mien feel on the subject. A letter from Alvarado, of so lat e a date u the lvt Octo ber, bag the following extract:—" Several vessels of we have come out for this Government, and are now off the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, waiting to attack the Relevo, daily expected from the Havannah witb supplies; and if they should succeed in beating it off, the Commander, Gen. Coppinger, will soon be under the necessity to surrender. Besides, a frigate and two brigs of war have arrived from England. The Eioile publishes the decree of the Peruvian Go. vernment against the commerce of Spain. extending the confiscation of Spanish goods to the vessels which carry them as wcU as the goods themselves. _ _ A letter from Leipsic states, that as scon as they knew in that city of the failure of the house of• Williams, of London, one of his partners, who had been at the fair to make some considerable purchases, attempted to put a period to his existence, but was happily prevented by some of his friends.—Etoile. The letters received from St. Petersburg)] attracted great attention yesterday. The weight. the contents, and mea surement of goods imported into Russia, must now be put in the body of the bill of lading, and if tin re is any error, it will subject the ship and cargo to confiscation. This very extraordinary and new regulation will throw still greater difficulties in the way of the commerce of this country with Russia. Accounts from Elmina, a Dutch settlement near the English fort Cape Coast Castle (Africa), dated 18th September, state list the Dutch Governor h so incensed at the English General. Turner, who charged insti gating the natives in the late attack on the English settlers, that he will immediately proceed to Holland to lay the whole affair before the Dutch Government. We have received Quebec Papers to the Ist instant; They give no intelligence worth extracting. -Os* of rheas papers mentions, that during the hoe awful fires, not only has the whole surface of the earth been burnt up, but that in many cases the earth has been burnt to the depth of two and four feet. It recommends this fact to the consideration of the men of science in England. The last letters from Lisbon mention the arrival of two English line-of-battle ships, the Spartiate and Albion, in The Tagus, on the 9th ; the Spartiate from South America, in a very leaky state, with her main-mast sprung, and making nearly two feet water an hour; she was met with at sea by the Albion, which kept company with her, and saw her safe into Lisbon. The Albion being from Gib raltar, was put under quarantine. and still continued ao when these advice* came away. The Superb was to sail in company of the Spartiate, for England, on the 20t1eof last month, and, from the prevailing winds, may be hourly expected. THE COTTON SPECITLATION.—A Boston Paper of the 4th November says—" We have seen several private letters from New York, which mention that extensive failures, growing out of the late cotton speculations, were daily cog curing in that city ; the bank had positively stopped dis countingland confidence was impaired, and a general gloom prevailed in the mercantile community. One letter from a commercial gentleman says, ' The merchants along Trint and Pearl streets are cracking like parchetl corn.' l It is stated that the debts of five of the mercantile heuses , which have recently failed in New York were estimated at 2,500,000 dollars, and that the available funds would not exceed 76.000 dollars." The East India Company haireontributed to support mercantile credit in the present en t gency. The Directors were On Tuesday applied to to discount bills to a large amount drawn oft them from China, and having several months to run, which they literally consented to do at the rate of 4 per cent. THE BRITISH PRESS. TRI.IL OF THE COURUIER FRANCAIS. On Monday, M. Merillsou, the Advocate for the Cour ritr Francais, was loud before the Royal Court of Paris in defence of his ciients. After having noticed the diGicult circusnatances undtr which be appeared before the Court, Monsieur M. proceeded as follows: " Rchlion alone is the pretext of the attack upon my clients, and yet they have never denied the doctrines nor the revelation of that religiou s nor the historical facto connected with it ' --they have re spected its do trines, its mysteries, and the hierarchy devoted to its .service. Whet reproach, then, can be made against the journalist ? He is reproached with what is caned his hypocrisy,—that is to say, his circumspection, his prudence, the discretion and respect with which he spoke of things which he was bound to respect-with his very innocence. Be la reproached with rot having been sufficiently cud pablein the eyes of those who have attempted to put an oust to the Motorcars of legal opposition. The first accusation of tendency rested upon 182 articles, the preceding process included 80 articles, and now, when 16 months have elapsed since your last judgment. that is to say, upon four hundred and eighty numbers of the Journal, the public Ministry bare reduced the obnoxious snicks to 83. The public 31inistry does not deny the false miracles, the lictiiotts relics, and the canonizations at Home, which have not been ad mitted in France, yet we are prosecuted for saying that there are false miracles and fictitious relics. The Ministry acknowledges that Ecclesiastics may have committed faults, and yet, because we relate the faults of some Ecclesiastics, we are accused of having stated before the Ministry what they have stated after us. The public Ministry complain that we do not, like them, admire cer tain Ecelesistiod Corporations ; and yet they carrot deny that Catholicism may flourish without Monks and without the Sot. bonne. You hare heard a great deal of the Trappists, or the lirotiters of the order of .Charity, of the Missionaries (freers ig norantinr), with respect to whom we have meationed only a few objections. and on this head we are told the discussion is aban doned. But nothing has beeo said to you of the Jesuits, whose ambition we have exposed; yet it most be apparent to every body that the re.estoblishment of that society is the only motive for the plasm process; and because the joumals are and will be an obstacle to its re-establishamot, it is found necessary to attack thew. ' What you ray is tpricent., what sou is true, but you Int/Mien is criminal.' Th It this langulge which is addressed to us. Whatever may be the Idea formed of the accusation which is submitted to you, the insult will be of great durable importance. It is a cone, d'essai of the ecclesiastical power to render the Clergy invulnerable. to place as impenetrable veil between their faults and Ifeeblitity. It is the supplement to the Law of Sacrilege, and that by d-grees we shall succeed in aecacing le the agents of au thority impunity under the penalty of a process of tendency towards sedition, while the Clergy will be made filially mate by the threat of a prosecution for tendency towards irreligion." The Court having heard M. Mcrilliou to considerable length, adjoitrued the cause until Motiday next, when he will resume his argument. . it i • • ES OF FORTIMN 9 YESTERDAY. . , .Ronda 91 90 4.461 Week -•-••••• Dine S (MO 18 19 ...i.a. Ounilensall siiils , e 191 14 Ma Me 9Celli. Otis Ayras Bands 781 6 Dina ANC 9 10 die . ilo tri Mexican bonds s 84 Ditto Beads (18251 611 3 4 i 1 4 ..... tia01.1)115 99 I 9 Ditto Ant_ 649 43 9 99 9 Ilij 29 99 II 9 2 9 Peruvian Hoods 47 6 ' . used Ditto Asst. 67 ru..... NIKO IN Portuguese BondsBl9 lIIIMMI 6 per Ct. Wilk. Ditto Acct. SI * NI . Ilis. Prussian Banda 93 49 NI lec. Russian Bonds OM) 88 11 9 : .04 $ per . . s t Ct 66f • panisb Can. lb Ditto Acct. 119 _ E tekirda W. 19e. Ditto Cons. (10113) PRICES OF SHARES YESTERDAI. MIWES. Share. Paid. Premium psr Share. Ittit.lllazican XlOO 35 20 224 25 ..... . - POPTRY. STANZAS. ;ROM ♦ VOLDINE OF POEMS SITI ettIILDIEYD. BY D. L. RICHARD/ON. Yea—l have loved and lionoured thee,— Nor guile, nor fiar of guile, were mine;— But, oh! since thou cane faithless br, I'll grieve not for a heart like thine ! Lady, when first thine azure eye Met and controlled my raptured gaze, 'line was the fond and pleading sigh That fervent adoration pays Could I have known, what now I knots, Its beam but brightened to betray, In vain had shone the spurious glow That led a treating bears astray. net an eye of brightest hue Can Woman's nobler spell Impart,— Fidelity and Feeling true Forge the strong fetters of the heart. And the brief charm hath lost its power— Indignant Pride shall now rebel ; For, cold and cal* One ! from this hour, fily soul is free.—Farewell—Farewell I FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Hertford Ores a grand entertainment this day to the Doke of York and a diatinguished party, at his house in ulilly. The Dowager Ms/chimps* of Irmliebury had • *elect party at dinner yesterday, at her house in Arlington-street. The Countess of Mansfield arrived yesterday at her house itt Gmevenov square, from her seat, Richmond-hill. The Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith arrived in town yesterday, from South Wales. Richard Gascoyne, Esq. arrival yesterday at the St. James's Hotel, Jennyn-strest, from his seat in Yorkshire. J. E. Westcombe. Esq. has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond -street, from his seat in Nottinghamshire. Captain and Mrs. Gregory have left ditto, for Brighton. George F. Hatton, Esq. arrived y esterday at Read's Hotel. Lower Grosvenor-street, from his seat in Kent. Departures from ditto : Captain Gordon, P. N., for Plymouth ; Win. Littledalc, Ebq for Oxford ; Charles Mackintosh, Esq., for Scotland. Arrivals at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street:—E.H. Impey, Esq. from Sussex ; Gordon, Esq. from Scotland; Rev. Mr. Gooch, wont a tour; —Latouche. Esq. from a tour; fleathcote, Esq. from a tour ; Monsieur Deger, from the Continent. Depar tures :-- Stapylton. Esq. Mrs. and Miss Stapylton, for Bath ; England, Esq. Royal Lancers. for ditto ; Thomas !Amor, Esq. for flenlcy-upon-'fnames ; Kerrison flurry, Esq. for Nor wich. Arrivals at Meares Hotel, Lower Brook-street:—Sir Edward Mostyn, from Oxfordshire ; John Powlett, Esq. from Warder Castle. Departures:—Lady Warren, for Derbyshire; Lord Arun. dell, for Wilts ; the Rev. L. De Burgh, for Cambridgeshire. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. (From La Belle Assembler.] __ HOME COSTUME. Dress of canary yellow roe de Naples, trimmed at the border with three broad bias folds of the same material ; the sleeves very full, and confined at the wrist with three bands of the same silk as the dress. The corsage is plain, and made partially low ; but the boson' is shielded by a double pelerine of white crape, 'tauten-, scalloped at the edges, and fastened in front at the throat with a bow of scarlet and yellow striped riband : this tippet is surmounted by a small frill of Urling's lace: the head.drels consists of afte/tu negligee cap of the same manufacture, with long pendant strings of !scarlet and yellow riband. FRKNCII MORNING WALKING DRFS9. A high dress of lavender-coloured gros de Naples, trimmed round the border with three rows ofthe same, of full fluted flounces, plaited in the middle ; the sleeves en Apt, confined at the wrists with straps of the same material as the gown. A pelerine rape falls over the shoulders, trimmed all round, the same as the skirt, except that this trimming is narrower than the flounces; over the pelerine falls a double collar of fine Mechlin lace. A bonnet of white chip is worn withlit‘s dress, whim is more simple, and more n l'.4sg. hare than any we have lately seen from Paris. This bonnet is or namented in a novel manner, which takes from it the summer light ness it would otherwise have, but which we do not much admire; it has bias routeaux of chip entwined all over the crown, and reach. ing over a part of the brim. We would advise our countrywomen who admire this dress to have the rouleaux of white satin. We only describe it agreeably to the statement of it front our Parisian correspondent. It has s beautiful full bouquet of blown roses, with their buds and ferlinge pissed in front. The Duke of Clarence came to town yesterday morning, from his residence at Bushy. His Royal Iliglincss ho noared the Scottish Corpotaticn, of which the Royal Duke is President, with his company to dinner, and afterwards left his residence in Charles -street, Berkeley-square, on his return to Bushy. The Earl of Liverpool wits expected at Coombe Wood yesterday evening, from Sittinghourmi, on his return from Wollner Castle. Mr. Secretary Canning arrived of his residence in Downing-strect yesterday aftttnoon, from the seat of Mr. Ellis, at Seaford, Sussex._ We regret to state that the Duchcss of Rutland departed this life on Tuesday morning, about eleven o'clock. at Belvoir Grade. Her Grace was taken ill on Saturday. Sir Henry Raiford. Bart. left town express on Monday, and arrived about three hours before her decease. Her Grace was in her 434 year. Madame Joseph Bonaparte has arrived at Rome, with her daughter, who is about to be married to the son of Louis Bonaparte. _ _ The foll Owing arc the names of the performers attached to tits Italian Orme, who hare arrived at New York:— Signor and Signora Garcia, Signotette Garcia, Signor Garcia, jun. of the King's Opera, London: Signor and Signori Ferri. Don Fabian, Giovani Cavelii, Paole Rosich, Signor Felix Angrlsani, Giuseppe Pasta, Giovanni Carlini, Cricofarto Constantino, of the Italian Opera. worst. SOClETT.—Yesterday being St. Andrew's day, the Royal Society met at its rooms, Somerset House, to choose its officers for the ensuing year. The following is the list of the new Council:— John Barrow, E. 7.; John Rostock. M.D. ; Sir Aqtley Poston Cooper, Bare.; Benjamin Ownperts„ Eaq.; Stephen Groombrielge, Eq.; Sir Abraham flume, Bari.; Daniel Moore, E , q. • Richard Earl of Mount Edgecumbe; Peter Mark Roger, N.U. ; Jama South, Faq. TABLE-TALK ABOUT KU hAN. [From the New Monthly Magazine, published this day.] Mrs. Lum, whose " Readitgs" were commemorated in my ferment's Letter, has removed into Berners-street. I cannot say that I a dmire the street, frowned upon as it hi by the Middlesex Hospital : however, there she is, and her first dinner-party was composed of Lord Robert Ranter, Colonel and Mrs. Nightingale, Sir Hans Dabs Oliphant and Iris Lady, Augusta Thackeray, and Mr. and Mrs. Mndfortl. Mrs. Lum, who is a very intellectual woman, had rather not give dinners et all ; hut people won't be read to on any other terms. " Now, I am going to he sung at," said Madame Yestris, with a distasteful air, as she walked upon the stage to encounter " Water parted from the sea." For myself, I would rather be sung at, titan read at, on any day in the year, especially when Ma dame Vestris is the singer ; but every one to his liking. Mrs. Lunt's soup and fish passed off very well, bring en livened with the Cayenne of Mailicws's old joke, played of by Augustus Thackeray, viz. that the talk of the table, if it turns upon the table viands that then graced it, must ne cessarily be soup-or-fish-ial. The first course too passed away, without any accident; but, between its disappear ance and the advent of the second, there occurred one of those bitches in the scenery, which, when they take place at either of' our winter theatre', are honoured by a hiss. flow cooks manage as they do, is to ire a miracle. To bring so many dishes to bear upon one given moment, not- 1 withstanding the irregularity of guests in arriving at the place of appointment, appears to me a feat that may cope in merit with the skill of a Marlborough or a Wellington 1 in bringing armies into the field. Upon the occasion en I question, however, the cook, like Gen. Mack, was at fault. i Lord Ro'airt Ranter saw ars. Lum's distress, and gallantly stepped forward with a story about Sheridan to relieve her. " Did I not see Moore's Life of Sheridan, in the drawitia- , room ?" inquired his Lordship.—" You did,' answered ' the lady : '• I mean to read it to you this evening, pro vided we get through Southey's Book of the Church in tolerable time." Lord Robert bowed his gratitude, and continued: I am surprised that so clever a 1110.11 as Mr. I Moore should have omitted the story of Sheridan and the i plate-warmer. Your servants recent rencontre with that machine reminds me of the anecdote." Mrs. Lum looked towards the door, and, finding it still closed against the second course, smilingly requested to hear it. " Sheri ' dan," resumed Lord Robert, " was dining at Peter Mcore's with his son Tom"—" Whose son Tom?" inquired Mr. Mudfortl.—" Sheridan's, of course," answered his Lord ; ship.—" Oh I did not know," said Mr. Mudforel; " I thought Peter Moore might have a son Tom—he was your last antecedent "—" Well," resumed Lord Robert, " pier Tom was at that time in a very nervous debilitated state. I The servant, in passing quickly between the guests and the ! fire-place, struck down the plate-warmer. This made a deuce of n rattle, and caused Tom Sheridan to start and ' tremble. Peter Moore, provoked at this, rebuked the ser vant, and added, ' I suppose you have broken all the plates?'—' No, Sir,' said the servant, ' not one,'—' No, ! exclaimed Sheridan ; ' then damn it, you leave made all that noise for nothing.' " Lord Robert, while narrating this anecdote, like a skilful general, kept his eye upon the door, which opened with a boiled turkey, as he uttered the words " nervous debilitated state." The narrator spoke in slow time, to allow of the deposit of the partridges and sweetbreads; came to " start and tremble" on the arrival of the trifle and plover's eggs; and concluded the anec dote with " noise for nothing" as the last dish was placed on the table. " What kindness and humanity !" ejacu lated Mrs. Lum to herself, " thus to draw off the atten tion of the company from an empty table-cloth ! But his talents shall not go unrewarded, I will give him 811 extra erening's reading; he shall have M'Culloch's Political Economy all to himself." Every guest at table secretly determined to make the most or this story : but from lack of Lord Roberts tact, they none of them produced any effect from repea!ing it. Augustus Thackeray carried it off on the next evening into the city, to a dinner given by a Blackwell-hall factor, in King's-arms-yard, Coleman-street; and, aiming to ex tend Lord Robert Ranter's two-set piece into a flve-act comedy, completely spoilt it. He thus prefaced- it—" Your mention, Sir, of Harley's peeping Tom reminds me of poor Tom Sheridan. My first acquaintance with him was on the coining out of Curartacus—a scriabs panto mime—at the late Drury-lane Theatre. I believe Tom wrote the wrestling scene between Wallack and Miss Brictowe--thrn two children. But of this I am not cer tain." At this period of his narrative, Thackeray had obtained " the ear of the court," as the phrase is in West minster-hall—and had he " got over the ground," he might have " whtained his rule." " Mr. Duntler," said the late Lord Ellenhorough to a barrister of the overlaying species, " the Court is already with you, unless, by perse vering to plead, you wish that it should be against you." A hint like this would have been of' immense service to Thackeray, who thus went on—" On the night before its representation 'Tom Sheridan was in the green-room ' and so was I. Tom was engaged to sup with Sir John Carr in the Temple, and asked me if I knew whereabout his chambers were?—Yes, said I, in Garden-court. I am going that way, and will show you.—' Thank you,' said be. Poor fellow ! I never saw Lim afterwards. Let me see, where was I ?"—" In Garden-court, Sir," said a com plaisant bill-broker, who sat on 'l'hackeray's left hand. But by this time, from the length of his prologue, Ids au dience had dwindled away, one by one, until, to adopt the Rev. Sydney Smith's phrase. " he had preached himself bare to the very sexton." Still, however, be proceeded, and was in the act of enlightening his solitary listening bill-broker upon the subject of Sheridan and the plate warmer, when a rival annalist set the table in a roar, and effectually drowned poor Tom Sheridan by the following story. " You all knew Charles Tessier—(cmnes, " all all" )—Well ! after living some years in Austin-friars, he took to high life, and went up to Grosvenor-square. lie was invited one day to dine with a dandy colonel (whose promissory note he lead indorsed) in Upper Brook-street. In stalked little Charles at seven: and meaning to do a bit of grandeur, exclaimed, " I cant think whatcould be the matter with my horses just now. The coachman could hardly manage them. He was obliged to drive them three times round Grosvenor-square to make them quiet." —" Why the fact is, Tessier,' said Dawes the banker, " they were frightened—they did not know where they were. If they had been in Finsbury-square, they would ' I have were., quiet enough." This sally fell so harrnoni i ously upon the ears of a set of dwellers in Old Bethlern, Tokenhouse-yard. Lothbury, and Savage-gardens, that Thaelceray was regularly floored. The conflict rang h came upon him " like a roaring lion from Topher," TrMiy Tie so bold as to steal a simile from the gay de ceiver of Moorgate. Sir Hans Dabs Oliphant went away from Mrs. Lum's, [ with the anecdote in his sensoriutn, and thought himself perfectly sure of an audience in Lady Bromley (a very quiet deaf old woman, who will listen to anything), in a private box at Covent-garden Theatre. Unluckily, Miss l'aton performed Mundane ; and Sir Hans, who has no taste for anything but Shakspeare, was telling the story, while that lady. was singing " Fly, soft ideas, fly." The state of Lady Bromley's auriculars rendered it necessary that S.r Hans should tell his tale rather in alt: this the audience, who have got a knack of being attentive when Miss Paton sings, took in dudgeon ; and accordingly cries of " Silence, turn him out", throw him over, put Sir Hans' soft ideas to the rout ; and Sheridan's plate-warmer was once more thrown prostrate. Mr. Mutlford tetok the anecdote to the table of a " se rious" family at Gravesend ; but being in the act of moult ing his profane feathers (he has been since regularly evan gelised by his wife), he told Sheridan's retort with the oath, and consequently " missed stays." Colonel Night ingale conveyed it to a House dinner at the United Service Club; but unfortunately the company, jointly and seve rally, had gotten into that vile tried( of telling a parcel of stories, one after the other, about Sheridan, consisting of the old hash of, composer of wine and importer of musie— making a creditor trot his horse up and clown C:arges- stre:t, while he bolted into May-fair—Cumberland and his new tragedy, The Forty Thiesys, which was nicknamed at the time Sheridan and his thirty-nine thieves—et hoe genus omne. In the midst of all this the poor plate-warmer could only " take its turn, and be forgotten." Mind I ain not blaming the 'tor -tellers: every man, especially 'at a club, has a right to tell his own story ' • brat for myself, where conversation, or rather narration, take, that turn at table, I make it a rule to call for my hat. There i to enduring it. I really believe I know every story that w k . ever told. What would 1 not give to b e possessed (wits; wisdom I Whenever a man asks me at table, " Did yo u ever hear the .anecdote of—" I constantly interrupt Lino with " Yea," without waiting for Asti noun rubstantise. • Shakspeare talks or evil deeds ? which "reruns to plagu e the inventor." It is the sainewith stories . Lord Robert Ranter, on the day se'nnight which succeeded his narre t h, actually had his own story told to him at table by a eltiii man from Dundee, who would not be stopped do what hi, Lordship would. Dill your Lordship ever hear a reinavi, ably good story about Sheridan ?"—" Yes, Sir, I h oe heard them all.'—" It happened at Peter Moore's :-... teu must know poor Nom Sheridan was far from well, a t ui'_.. —" I'd thank 'FOY for' some bread ;"—" So, Sir, the Set., vane in going too near the-.."—" A glass of water, if so u please ;" — "' ' F ire-pact; lutocked down--&—" Lady's°, triers, shall I have the pleasure of—"—" The plate. warmer— " He e Lord Robert called out, the whole po ;ee comilulas, and the narrative danced on to the following miscellaneous tune. " Upon which Peter MAnre said ...r . —" No potatoes—"—" Feeling for Tom Sheridan....... —" Sherry for me, but take which you like—"---o 1 „p . Ipose you have broken all the—"—" Champaigne by a ll nierins."—" No gravy, but I'll trouble Capt. 'Wats.- —" No, Sir," said thwyeettent—" But"—" Peter !d 0 .,„- -" More brecoli and no Wolter." To such casualtits rep the most undaunted narrator be subject, who tells he storks when people are hungry ! At'ter all, the pleasantest people at table are those wh o never tell stories at all. The merest trifle that Apri tig , from the occasion is worth a hundred of the best jokes o f narratives that ever were transplaKest. It is the tam , ur, the steno. The moment when Sr. A. says to Mr 4 Pray be seated ;" and sprawling out his legs, conuoek ee with " It is now fifteen years since I tint became le , quainted with your father, then on foreign servic... A t the commencement of our friendship an incident (mun e ! —" From that epoch I date a buts of inattention free pit, box, and galleries. Not that I mean to banish story. telling from all places. There are several dull street, where they may be resorted to with propriety. Old But. lington-street and Stratford-place are very good story-tell. ing streets, especially when the Opera House is not open . When that seat of sony, is accessible, people are plaguill apt to ring fur their earriicees, and leave you in the middle of your catastrophe. A friend, of mine, in fact, ouzel the Opera season, was cut short in the midst of a lament. able fire of his that happened at Birmingham, by serer men jumping from table to go and hear " Cherry ripe" e the little Theatre in the Haymarket. Ever knee he ha looked at the play-bill before-hand. The dinner hour in London is now so late, and there are so many music lion and lionesses prowling about up stairs in the two drawing. rooms, seeking n hat of Mozart or Rossini they may devout, that it requires the agility of Mazutier himself to whip i., an anecdote at table. 1 have two very good stories of an own, that I have been trying to tell these seven years vritL: out success. It is as difficult as getting a writership u India. One of them, however, I contrived to fire off it Drury-lane green-room, under the bust of' Mrs. Siddons I knew my cue as well as the actors who heard me. The play was the " School for Sbandal," and I knew mud sure of Mrs. Candour, Lady Stieerwell, Sir Benjamin Bari. bite, Crabtree, and Maria. The call-boy, I was avow would leave them alone for three long acts. They itad w where but the green-room to go to. The story was a follows:—Old Wewitzer was joking and laughing at n. bearish, instead of minding the business of the were. Raymond, who was then stage-manager, took hint to tea for this, and said, " Come, Mr. Wewitzer, I with yes would pay a little attention."—" Well, Sir," answered Wewitzer, " so I am—l'm paying as little as I can:- My other story is about Sheridan and Delpini the c!opl, —the man who, on the Prince of Walos's refusal to wi: Harris to give him a benefit, said, " Very well, Sir, dm I must go to your Papa's Bench." This, however, is us: i the story in question. What I have been dining out is long to tell, relates to a quarrel between Sheridan sad Delpini. There is no time like the present: I will tell it now. Sheridan and Didpini fell Into high words Wants to an arrear of salary due to the litter, as Mau Friday in the " Robinson Crusoe" of the formes. Sheridan, pro yoked at what he deemed the insolence of the pmtomimist, told him that he had forgotten lift station. " No, indeed, Monsieur Sheridan, I have not," retorted Delpini: "1 know the difference between us perfectly well. In birth. parentage, and education, you are superior to tne ; b u t. ito life, character, and behaviour, I am s u perior t o you!, G IVENA PPE MINING Calf ?ANY. resterdsq, pursuant to advertisement, a meeting of the origiral Sharehol&rs in the " Gwenappe Mining Company" was held': the Crown and Anchor Tavern. The tollowingcircula;;illLfE:iently show the ground ow 'hid the fleeting was called : ` 7 G WkgiIAPPE MINING COMPANY. " 12, Bucklersbury, Nov. 26, 1823. "Sir-1n consequence of an anonymous call of a Meeting ty Advertisement, at the Auction Mart, this day, our Secretary E. tended, and the Directors held themselves in readiness to do :be same. provided such 11leeting proved to be respectably convened, or attended ; but no person appeared to take the Chair, or induct Shareholders to act, or to unction ouch Meeting. This circuit. stance, coupled with other anonymous proceedings, are convincitv proofs that this Company have some hidden enemies. whose sole motives are to create dissention. The Directors, therefore, deem :: advisable, and have cone to the determiration not to admit at We Meeting, to take place at the Crown and Anchor Turn c: Wednesday next, any but original Shareholders. " You nre therefore requested to produce to the Secretary th letter (should you attend the leeting) to insure your admiss , , and to prevent the intrusion of unintetested parties, .pr of pima , who have made the Shares of this, and other Companies, a tyitem of stock-jobbing, and not for the hotwurable investment of prom) " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most bumble tenant, " By order of the Board.'• Sec There were present about fifty shareholders. Several polo presented themselves at the door claiming to be admitted: tact admiesion was refused, on the ground that their shires ►rt froarfrr, and not original. Lord Nugent's Solicitor, a transfer shareholder, also sought s!• mission to the room ; and on its being refused, he called upue ttt gentlemen near him to bear testimony to the fact. At half-past one o'clock 31r. HAYWARD was called to et Chair. Mr. COOKE, the principal acting Director, then commenced LW statement. Ile said the Meeting was called for the purport'' inquiring into the state of a Company formed for working tones' valuable mines, and which promised to be one of the most w:• cesaful investments of money ever offered to the public. It wo his intention to depend solely on the facts he had to tiorratioka to those who heard him, to exculpate himself and the other Dirtt• tors from the charges brought against them by persons who was not connected with the Company, and who, to say the least, was unprincipled men. It was not however his intention to sack to prejudice any one, except when his own reputation was at ran After having rated the origin of the Company, which seefefio some persons conceiving that the prospects from those mires wa s •ufticlent to warrant the establialonent of a Joint-Stock Canna , to work them, he proceeded to read the following stalemate/ IL/ funds of the Company at the present time. STATE OF TIIE FUNDS OF TILE OWENAPPE 311513 N COMPANY. To amount r cnived on the distribution of 1,330 share., on which a deposit of 31. is paid . £3,9110 0 1 To •70 shares allotted, but not yet paid up - 1,110 0 1 .t 6,400 0 1 ---- By cash at the London Basket's - - C 2,21 0 0 Forwarded to ao Agent sent by the Directors to Cornwall, to make the various purehases as agreed or by the Directors . . 1.690 0 To travelling charge of the deputation journey to Cornwall - - - 21 0 Palatine in the bands of the Bankers in Cornwall 70 0 • (Deduct 470 1130 t paid, but for which feuds can be obtained) - - . 1.410 d 0 --_—.-- • 16,-00 0 To amount of aubaeript ion from the Directors, to pay for advertising, printing, &c. . !MU 0 Ev. y therefore, had been paid for the ''area transferred, and it should he borne in mind that neither r nor officer of the Company wan to reczive a single shilling until . mines had made a return. and then not until that return att.'” licient to warrant such payittrn:s. the original spectates; , •e'' Director was required to hold twenty 'Marta, but that ruinti,a s , afterwards increased to :id; every Director, therefore, new AO *harm he himself held a greater number tr cause ate bests t tem. Ile hail made it a rule, had conaiantly abided by we 11 always so Al, never to refuge any inform then :It power tirgive; and he thought it esirenicly hard that ele ter_y: teem of any man should he attacked as his had been. Wocdien, a shareholder, had been present, he would hate Imre '*!, on this paint to hire, berauae this individual had dared to n•, wrong statement before the Lord Mayor,whokir.dly and V r e en bad given him (Mr. Cooke) an opportunity to refa:c it. of tt Din vela ?Is i MO 1 w" n ylo , TOO gt• 60. Al al It fat tip% free 1 . 1 6 11 11l g oo lir t o ich Mr Ht blt 11: arcer Lot C 111 woe *AY c' A smovi 111 don 42Y, IWO iti 14) b ralat