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Mi Ditto 1110 Bd.. 20i 1 Ditto 86 Ras. Do. 6 per Cents. (1823) 16 Ansi° Mex. Alines United Mexican Mines Fr. Renter; 100. 60c. Do. Ex. 26f. 40c. 46c. 40c. Do. Scrip. Ditto for Acct. Russian Inscription TO CORRESPONDENTS. Letter of " Cot.oxus" in our next trite alrelso. NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. TlMV6aleit MONDAY, Key ad, min be performed EMMY WIVES OF WINDSOR. ehlaia 1111161, Mr. &ratan; Malltlaimder, Mr. Harley: Fore, sins ?eaten. Mr. Hors. Mrs. Mae Stephens.; Mrs Mame Velarlet Anne Page, Iltee Pevo;y. After withal. ZOROASTER: or. THE SPIRIT or THE rrAs. Twebernew. The UMW fur Mendel. enth Sped& Oakum mad I,ew, igew, law. 66 Physic. THEATRE ROYAL., -COVENT-GARDEN. This Ensuing. MONDAY. May SC - win be PerDMIMM The First Pert ad KING HENRY THE FOURTH. IRMaw the iO " tn 7 th.;lladeri:;; Truce o f Mr. Coop*? s , Mr. Young i Sir John Femur, Mr. C. Kraal* s Pains. Mr. i Maeda. Kr. Blanchard. Lady Purdy. Mee F. D. Bell 1; Mrs. Davenport. After which, CLAM. no Dabs bleak% Mr. Abbott; Rosa, Inr. Fawcett, Clart. lOr K. Tree; %mina. Miss Low. Sodipatztne, Prides WWI have a Fan. wttb inutbar and Slater. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. MR. YOUNG'S NIGHT. On Wit DNISDAV Evening, Key 90. wMipe performed THE MN!. M Y OON. The Duke, Mr. Young; the , Count. Mr. Baker; Jaques, Mr. W. llVRAlbans, Miss Chaster; Ytessitt, Mae F. N. EMy Hasten. trunport; Zamora. Wee Jones. Attar which, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. Countess Abneylva. Miss 7stou; Susanna. Mies M. Two. nrsATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. MATHEWS AT HOME! This Evening, MONDIY May 24. W? Me ANNUAL LECTURE on PECULIARITIES, CHARACTER, end MANNERS; rounded as Observations ant Adventures luring Ma late TRIP TO AMERICA. In Three Parte. Par TIL—A WanalwAylogue, called ALL WELL AT NATCHITOCHES. Mlle Characters of lbs Evening's Entertainment to be represented by Mr M tTHEWS. RC:be opened at Seven—Performance begins at Eight o'clock. to be taken of Mr. Steinman. at the Iler Gahm Strand En. Vergite. from Ten tin Five. NEWSURREY THEATRE. tHIS TVD NINO, and dialog the Week. the Hello-Drams of inticA AND THE RIVAL NARRIORS; or. The TIMER HUNT. After .bleb'---- _ TIIZ AXIFANTAGIS OF I113;b74;.'110IT TO GIVE A ROOT. To conclude with MATZ; or. THE CATARACT OF 'THE MOUNTAIN. SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. TR' LIMNING, and during the Week, tbelhaeletts of SHARP AND PLAT. Afton' w bleb. tML lIPLOATINO 111E1CON; or. THE NORWEGIAN WRECILI With, A CALEDONIAN DIVERTIVEMANT. To rowelege with WIZ AND LAUDANUM' or. PHYSIC AND MURDER. DAVIS'S ROYAL AMPRITHEATRR. svistY ;YAWN at Halftone Eta. the Tressfiniftelly magnificent Repressmatton THE BATTLE or WATERLOO. WPA SYtf ltillitan't Review ef the English and newel Arraiss, end faithfully depleted Portraiture of the Battles of Quatre Bras. and Wateriso. 111 mower Duenewis uniqPrformance of &WWI in the Melt , eunsiadttig wit hi. matchless Pests cm Two UncaparWoned Horacce After winch, THE SECRET. n• liarrsen Pius commenced publiettingoo &today morn lag at eizo`cloel. LONDON, 113ONDAY, VA 'AK 19.4. The Catholics of Inland, we fear, hawe neared hostility and defeat, by the way in which they hive prepared their Petition for Jibe redress of grievances this Session. This document, which will probably be laid before both Houma within the present week, has already met with etwattg olijeetion from Lord Grey and Mr. Brougham, to whom it Was suit for presentation. Not content with the simple and ordinary prayer for relief, the Petition of this Seelon, prepared by the Association in Dublin, prays for • reformation in the temporalities of the Irish Church Establishment; it then prays for the better regulation of Juries. The Petition also calls for the disfranchisement of Corporations in Ireland, and concludes by praying for the semoval of the various disqualifications to which Catholics are subject. The Petition, by thus calling for too much, will, we fear, obtain nothing, and only bring down powerful hostility on every side, the moment his announced in both Menses. Catholic emancipation we consider indispensibk to tb. piaci and prosperity of Ireland; without it that distracted country cannot settle down into tranquillity, or become an integral part of the empire at large. But the Catholics non can secure advocatt•a by unfurling the broad banner of hostility against the Established Church. They have gained much by reason and at-vomit, but nothing can be hoped from the wild crut.ade the assembly in Dublin an soli pursuing. The jury system may need reform in Ireland, and the different serporations call for some change; teat such subjects abitdd have been avoided ht the Cath•- Hain the Petition for retell= religious aisabilities, ' l ue their feelings againit the Established Church base been what they may, they should not have been vented in this annual appeal. The petitioners now come forward, for the first time, in the characters of wholesale Reformers both of the Church and State. This injudicious Petition, we are sure, is not in accordance with the feelings of the peat body of the Catholics ; all that is respectable or re flecting in that community must dissent from it ; and we only reglet that their interests should be compromised by the violence of the party who for some time have usurped the conduct of Catholic affairs in Dublin. When we advocated, some days since, on the principle of fair competition, the incorporation by Parliament of new Ma rine Insurance Companies, we had no idea whatever of re flecting on the useful and highly respectable establishment at Lloyd's. We are perfectly aware of the important bene fits this great establishment has often rendered to British eil commerce in every part of the civilised world ; and we nnot be ignorant of the important information constantly derived from its numerous agonies, spread through almost every part of the habitable globe. The correspondence of Lloyd's is indeed immense, and must be attended with pro digious labour and expense. An opinion, we thought, seemed to prevail, even in the House of Commons, that Lloyd's was a chartered body, possessing a monopoly in right of a legislative enactment ; but the fact is, that important. establishment ham neither charter, incorpora tion, nor immunities of any sort; all its power and influence proceed from the extended commercial pursuits and influ ence of its members. Nor is there anything whatever of, monopoly about it: the very correspondence of this house, often so valuable, is freely given to the public at large; the rooms at Lloyd's are all open to subscribers, who pay a sum of four guineas annually : this is but a moderate charge for the accommodation afforded, and the interesting information which the subscribers often receive. The Committee are always anxious to increase the number of their subscribers, so as to extend the resources of the estab lishment, and the amount of the business done; every new member, therefore, is considered an accession, and there is no restriction as to any particular rank: merchants, broken, underwriters, respectable traders of every sort, and members of the public press, have all, in succession, been admitted. Of course no admission can take place but by ballot. The Committee have a right to see that the individual who seeks to be a member of this establish ment is respectable in his character and pursuits. But in this there is certainly nothing of either exclusion or mono poly ; nor could we mean for a moment to insinuate that this establishment was founded on any such principle. What we then said was, what we repeat now—that if the respectable underwriters at Lloyd's insure on equal terms with the new companies, and pay their unquestionable losses as readily, they can have nothirg to fear from the most extended competition. Every individual concerned in the proposed company will be rendered liable to the ex tent of his entire property for any losses sustained. The sub scribers therefore must pause before they commit them selves in any speculation of this hazardous description. But should Sink* _Company be ultimately formed, we can see nothiwg the underwriters at Lloyd's can have to apprehend, if their insurances be effected on equal tiros. and their indisputable losses made good without cavil or 1 unfair delay. LThough Mr. Croker disclaimed any ulterior view in moving on Wednesday night for a return of the registered freeholders in Ireland, from the year 1793, we hope that when the return is made it will be followed by a proposi tion from some Honourable Member, of information and influence, to abolish the forty shilling franchise altogether in Ireland, and raise the necessary qualification to ten 1 Inds. hi several counties in Ireland, there are at present upwards of twenty thousand registered free holders, the majority possessed of only a forty shil'ing franchise; and few having, in reality, my franchise or right to vote at all. Many of these leases or equitable ar ticks, out of which the peasant has registered, are founded on chattel property; and in every case almcst a rack rent is imposed, leaving the wretched tenant no interest what ever. These demises of an acre, or half an acre of land, with sometimes a mud cabin in ruins, are made bj the landed proprietor or his agent, solely to create an election interest in the county. On their summons, the peasants attend in droves at the Sessions, to swear to the possession of a forty shilling interest, generally granted for some in firm life. The agent, or driver of the estate, attends with their leases, which seldom are entrusted to the peasants' hands. The Clerk of the Peace makzs out his bill for the Magistrate's fees, and those of registry, which the agent pays together at the close of the Sessions, and re ceives the affidavit, and the lease or equitable article, which he holds as a check upon the wretched voter ; and when an election approaches, the absentee eau didate canvasses the landlord, or his representative, in the county. The peasant he treats with the same disregard that the haughty Mu ssulinan does the Egyptian fellah ; the miserable voters are counted and set off according to the letters of the alphabet with which their names cone , spond, in baronies and half-baronies, and driven in to the hustings or booths, like herds of oxen, ignorant almost of the name, and knowing nothing whatever of the character of the candidate for whom they are compelled to give their franchise. By this vile system pauperism is multiplied, population is endlessly incensed, the minute subdivision of 'and leads to early and unprovided marriages, and a long . train of attesdsnt evils ; oaths are disregarded, perjury' , becomes a emistant t neeirenee, and a whole pea sentry are utterly demoralised. When Lord Milton, the II whose opinions we have a very great respect, spete "of the representation in Ireland being far too limited, and the elective franchise confined," be could not surely have been fully informed on the subject. In the great counties of Cork, Tipperary, Down, and some others, almost univer sal suffrage prevails; the peasantry are registered in thou sands ; whole baronies are marched to the an :les town on an election contest,but their votes are the absolute property of a few great proprietors, who divide the county, and unite their strength for the return of any one or two fa voured candidates. Again, in the great towns, the present system has enabl ed many of the lower orders to swear to the mockery of a forty shilling interest, arising from the possession of a cabin in the town, or a plot of ground in the suburbs, and thus possess themselves of a right to vote : the result is, that those places have become an open market for corruption, where nine-tenths of these freeholders are purchased at the moderate rate of about five pounds per head, and a majotity is thus secured by flagrant venality. Surely the abolition of such a system could bring with it no nulled regret. The peasant enjoys no franchise under it ; on the contrary, it is to him full of fraud and coercion. If the qualification was restricted, at I the lowtst, to ten pounds, it would diminish the number of freeholders; but it would throw the right of franchise into different hands. 'f he present system) is one of the great evils that afflicts Ireland ; it is pregnant with poverty and crime; and we trust that, on the return Mr. Croker moved fur, and which was ore'ered on Ifellnesday night,' beteg laid before the House in the next ti ssion, the! important question will be taken up by sonic Member well ! informed in the details, and a proposition brought forward to remedy the monstrous abuses that now disgrace the right of franchise in Ireland, and impoverish and demoralize the hulk of its population. PifRIONA II LE 1747niunRYCi• ARRANGEMENTS FOR TOE WEEK. THlff evursols. The Duchess or Wellington's wood grand assembly, Apaley Douse. Piccadilly. Lady . Hulse's mut. New Burlingtow4arect. Lady laingforrs assembly, Barkley lug. lied and body Ile*rave's entertainment, Ornivemor-scsare• Lady Ruse's ball. Old Palace—yard. Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Apr Ellis* party, Spring-gardens. The lilargais and Marchioness of Chultaondeley's party, Pic cadilly. To-wortitow. Dowager Lady Ansoe's party, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of lihnicester, Curzon.strest, May-fair. Lady Campbell's assembly. Baker-street. Dowager Lady Sahowl's ball, Cumberland-.crest. Sir Deorge K arrender's, Hart. party, Whitehall•plaos. The Countess of Arran's party, Dovee.street. Almack's grand ball. Earl Brownlow's entertainment. Cavernlish.aquare. Mr. and 3lrs. Egerton's party, St. James's-square. Marquis and Marehionass of Clialmandeley's party, Piceadilly. TIIIOIUPDAT. Giantess Lleven's first grand boa sad sapper, Ashlsumbim House. Mrs. Hope's rout, Mansfield-street. The Earl of Derby's party, Groarenor-arittare. Sir George Warrender's party, Whitehall-place. Hon. Mrs. Pethanes grand rout, Connaught-place. Fll 'oaf. The Duchess of Northumberhpd's second grand oesteet. Northumberland House. The Countess of Easee's party, Hill-street. lion. Mrs. Edward Cust's ma, (heat George-street. Mrs. Win. Canine's ball, Manalleti.arstet. The lion. Mts. Wm. Gosling's assembly, Portland-place. /ATV ateart The Marquis and 11arehloness or Salisbury's party, Park-place. lady Smith's entertaiumest. lieeddik• --, 111UNPAY. The Duke of Sepses's entee Kanabigton Palace. Counteis St. Anesnao's con lianowsr-scure. The Dowager Marchioneet 4 Salisbury entertained a distin guished party at dinner yesterday. at her hdone in Arlington-street. The Duke of Grafton hid a dinnef party on Saturday, at his house in Clareerstreet. George Bankes, Esq. M.P. had a dinner and evening party on Saturday, at his house, Beyansteneaquare. The Bishop of Linc oln had a large psety at dinner on Saturday, at his house in Connaught-place. The Duke of Oaten, Dowager Lad y Cawdoe, R. Knight, Esq., G. Banker, Esq. M.P. Sir Charles Helm, Bart. and Mrs. - relieves, had dinner parties yestrday, at their respective re sidences. Mrs. Alike has based cards of invitation for a ball on the Bth of' . June, at her house in Gloucester place. - -• The Duke of Gloucester entertained a large party at dinner on Saturday, at Glouceste• Hesse, Perk lace. The Marquis and BMdtioness of Lanadown gave a grand din ner on Friday to the Duke of Argyll, the Earl and Countess Cowper, Lord and Lady William Russell, Lord and Lady Hol land, Lord and Lady (iwydyr, &c. at Lansdown House, Berkeley square. The Alaninis and Alarchionese of Camden entertained Emily Marchioness of Londonderry, and a distinguished party, at dinner yesterday, at their house in Arliegton-street. Mr. Secretary Canning had a large party at dinner yesterday, at Gloucester Lodge. Lord Alvanley had a greed dinner party yesterday, at his house, in Park-place. Charlie Ellis, Esq., M.P., had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Audley-square. The Marquis of Chandos left town on Saturday, for his seat, Wootton, Bucks. Lord George Beotinck arrived yesterday in town, from his father's (the Duke of Portland) seat, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. Baroness de Willoughby, the Hon. Miss Burrell. and Mira Elliot, left town on Saturday, far her Ladyship's villa, at Rich mond. Robert Vyner, Esq. has arrived at his house in St. James's. square, from Paris. Hon. Mr. and Lady Corolla. Lamb left town yesterday, for their seat, Brocket Hall. Arrivals at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street :—Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, from Plymouth ; 31r. and Mrs. Childers, from a tour; Mr. Airs and the Mimes Carter, bans left ditto for Eton. Win. Markham, Es 9. has Inlaid at Geuld'a Hotel, Jennym Arms Cram his ecal lel_orkshite. Departures from the Watellaugsmi t hempmetsegf.: r -Ris Mehl. bald and Lady Christie and fo _RC - for Mamas ; Mem ad Mies Bermingham, for their mat, mar Farnham, Hampshire. Arrivals at Blake's Hotel, JerMyn.sturet :—Mr. and Mrs. DOMICIL from • tour; Mr. and Mrs. Waddington • and Edward Knight, Esq. Departure .._ dasayallr. MM. sad Mies Law. son ;T. S. Gooch. Esq.. M.P., sell HIM 044 W-ft Beflialk t Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ward, for Backitigheuisbire. PARLIAMENTARINNIELLIGENCE. -ram.-- NOTICES OF MOTIONS Cline DAV). $ Arthur Chichester-Bill to mead A*4 George IV., so for ea ale tame relates to presentments of Won& to their Officers by Ottod Juries of Counties of Towns and Cities ia Ireland. Mr. Hume-BiU to Repeal the Combinsidon Laws. Mr. flume-Bill so Repeal the laws whisk prohibit Anions frail leaving the Country. Mr. Hume-Gill to Consolidate and Around the Arbitration Lem. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Peer Regulation (Scotland) Bill_ Sand Reading. Mikhig Banks Bill-Further Consideration of Report. Judges in Wales Bill-Third Reading. • View Sou* Wales Bill-Almond Reading. portation a 011aders Bill--Second Reeding. oiling Dianna (Ireland' Bill--lecood Reading. 'ties InquaLßM-Second Reading. aßelief Mind) sin—Second Raiding. County Courts • TMed Reading. New Street (MoryJoillioe) Bill.-Committer. 'Exchequer BM (111. MN.) Bill-Commlttoa bancsater Cosny Cain MIL-Soosnd Bonding. . • asr ==non seit Ir e T sber illt- c = he Fished, • at Reps. Cetimplie Ksedigss 11111.-Cuenailttera Duda sui—rwour cairdemba of Report. Whose 6111.-Cseinittse. . .. i • be (t gl eieeit 11111.-Thie Rtedtsg. 1 111118 ".1 . .. - 11111. 1 1 outiteeet Coosternsum etagere. . • IPA* ►ltem " . sag wens) Bill-Third Readin a R port. '• . RIB-Further Consideration of .Soratil ev pl as Duties (Ireland) Bill-Report. Iteau a Seek Bill-Report. • ' ria Th n ird ber ß Cem endi 4Mill og. ti°D of Report. kdMe r Oak 11111-Qmsonizeoe. ries likiedond) Bill-Report. pt Lows Aosedassot Bill-Punber Occeitletstice of ila rioulldsseb t Amendmeet Bill-Wa rma ss 6 4E% . :=err Court Fees levemetset Turnpike Bill Boading. .Nev Menthes 11411--Seesed Wale* Sot ladle (feeds Aets-Committees thsrespse. THEATRES. Kt UtE. The opera of Il Tancredi *at f irmed on Saturday evening to one of the most crowded and brilliant andiences we have beheld this season. Before the commencement of Bassinfa splendid overture the pit was completely full, the avenues soon became impassable, and many a light form, apparently composed et " nought but gossamer, feathers or air,' must have ',edema no little inconve nience from the pressure of more earthly bodies. Madame Pasta executed the music and sustained the character of Tancredi with judgment and extraordinary skilL Roasinre i compositions often require the embellishment of a per former, and this Madame Pasta is disposed to bestow, when ever she can do it with good taste and effect. tier lower tones, on Saturday night, were more than usually harsh, but this we attribute chiefly to her study to imitate a manly voice. She was loudly and deservedly encored in the beautiful air and recitative of Ta the accendi. The duetto between Madame Pasta and the fascinating De Begnis,coromencing Lasciorni, non lascoito, was given in most admirable style. Signor Curioni was excellent in the part of Argirio, and Signor Benetti as &buzzer:o. During the whole performance the audience manifested the strongest feelings of approbation. DRilitY-LANE. Her Royal Highness the Princes Augusta, accompa nied by several of the Nobility, honoured this Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening, to witness the veteran Munden perform, for the last time but one, the character, in which he is unrivalled, of Old Dornion. His acting was as eseallent as we ever remember it, and we regretted that we should in so abort a period behold him in his professional capacity no more. Mr. Ellistnn performed, in admirable style, the part of Henry Dornton ; and Mr. Harley, as Goldfinch, sustained his part with his usual humour and ability. The afterpieee of Lose, Lass, and Physic followed ; on which Mr. Liston, as Labia Log-, made his auditors laugh, as he alwayr. does. His Majesty has sot bad a party to dinner since his arrival at Carlton Palace. The King'■ health is quite recovered, and we believe our Sovereign never looked , better. - Yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Blomberg performed divine service to the King and the Royal establishment, at the Palace in Pall-mall. The Duke of 'York, die Ductless of Gloucester, and the Princess Augusta, visitt the King yetttertlay. The Princess Auguitif IRIPOded difine Ilerytee reterdar at the Chapel Royal. In the afternoon her Royal High ness took an airing in her chariot and four, attended . by Miss Wynyaed, in the neighbourhood of Putney-bridge. Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Duchess of Clarence, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Leiningen. and the Princess Feodor, attended by Capt. Conroy, honoured Mr. ' Bullock's Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Mexico, in Piccadilly, with their prefect.. The Royal party were received by Mr. Bullock to the private view, who conducted them through the rooms. On Saturday morning, at eight o'clock, his Royal High nese the Duke of Clarence left town in his travelling car riage and four, and proceeded to Woolwich, where the Royal Duke went on board the Royal George yacht, com manded by Capt. Adams. Capt. Wolmer had arrived the previous day, to make preparations for the reception of the I Royal Duke. The Royal yacht sailed without delay, after his Royal Highness got on board, with a fair wind, for 1 1 Plymouth, where she was expected to arrive las t evenit.g in time for the Royal Duke to dine with the Port Ad miral, preparations having been previously made for that purpose. Saturday night Prince Leopold honoured the Italian Opera House with his presence. _ _ _ r llis Royal Ilighnes; Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, with the whole of his suite, are now residing at Marlbo rough House. Cards of invitation are issued for the 4th of dune, for a select and distinguished party to dinner • avail evening entertainments throughout July will take pla ce. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor and Earl Bathurst had' audiences of his Majesty. It is reported in the ?taut toys that Captain de Roos will soon lead to the hymeneal altar the accomplished Lady Georgina Lennox, daughter of the Dowager Duchess of Richmond. DESTRUCTION op I.nnn nrnoVis MANU- SCRIFTS OF 1115 LIPS. [PROM THE LAST 'NO. or THE LITHEMIT OBOISTEILI The destruction of the work, to which so many had looked with an anxiety proportionate to the deep interest with which they contemplated the character of the gifted and extra ordinary Irving who was the author of it, has been the atbject of some astonishment, and much speculation, as to the chief cause of the proceeding. It had been whis pered that it contained some secrets, which, for the sake of the divine as well as the dead, it would be better should ne ver meet the public rye ; and it was well 'known that the uohle poet hail examined himself with as h severity as he had examined others, and with a severity of which few persons are capable. But tiros, limited rep rte had only served to excite public curiosity ; while at was the uni versa! topic of conversation throughout .Great Britain, the production was destroyed, and the world fur ever pre vented from ase.rtaining the actions, the feeling t, the mo tives, and the °hopes, of him who was not of the common order of' men. There can be no doubt that the destruc tion of the work was an act justifiable in every sense of the word. We know (and we have authority for the user non), that the name of the great poet would have descended to posterity less respected than that of almost any other man ; and that the world would have marvelled more than ever at the union of a head and heart which had so lamen tably differed. The following circumstances relative to the subject we have alluded to, have been communicated to us by a per son whose opportunity of knowing them cannot be ques tioned.; and on whom, we believe, we may place perfect dependence, as far as it relates to the truth of his statement. We have deducted from it much that we fancied might have been exaggerated, and we have altogether omitted se veral circumstances that we thought it would be impolitic and illiberal to lay before the public. We repeat, that our authority is the very best. About the middle of the year 1821, Mr. Moore received from Lord Byron the manuscripts of his life. It was written on detached sheets of paper, and was evidently not a second copy. It contained his Lordship's remarks on his conduct and feelings, from the earliest period of his recol lection, down to the year 1816 ; and explained many of those circumstances on which the public had most specu lated. It is wall known, and delicacy need not withhold an allusion to the fact, that Mr. Moore was, when he re ceived it, in considerable pecuniary difficulties, and that the motive of the gift was, to enable him to return to the country from which he was an unwilling exile. Mr. Moore first offered it to Zoos. Longman, who declined purchasing it on any terms. Mr. Murray bought the Ins nuscripts for the sum of two thousand guineas ; and his friends say. that his chief reason for so doing was to se cond the views of the Noble Lord on behalf of the exile d poet. There is some ground for this assertion, when we recollect that Lord Byron was likely to outlive Mr. Murray many years, and that the work could only be of use to the heirs of the latter gentleman. It will be remembered, that the publication was prohibited until three months after Lord Byron's death. It was in November, 1621, that Mr. Moore received the money. About twelve months afterwards Mr. Moore called on Mr. Murray, and stated to him that the produc tion in question contained' much that would be alumna' prejudicial to the character of the Noble Lord and to his own, and applied an expression to the work which we de cline quoting. He therefore requested Mr. Murray to em power him by a bond to make such alterations as he might deem necessary, and to be appointed the editor whenever the work should be published. To this Mr. Murray agreed, but demanded from Mr. Moore a bond for the %OWL to se cure him the money he had paid for the work, io case Mr., Moore should wailer it as to render it an unprofitable epe culation. Mr. Moore agreed to the proposition ; the bonds were given, end thus the case stood until February, 1824, when Mr. Moore brought the assignment of the work, which had not been previously delivered. Mr. Murray then stated to Mr. Moore, that he was dissatisfied at the power he had given of altering the work according to the Ideas of the latter, and that he wished either to get back the bond which empowered him so to do, or to cancel the agree merit, and to deliver the work on receiving the 2,000/. ; al leging as his reason, that " he did not wish to be the keeper of Lord Byron's honour." Mr. Moore said, that he would choose the latter alternative, arid promised to call in a week with the money, to receive back the work. This Mr. Moore deferred ; at any rate, this he did not do. On the 14th of May, the news of Lord Byron's death arrived, and on the evening of that day Mr. Moore called on Mr. Murray, whom, however, be did not see. The next day Mr. Murray went to Mr. Wilmot Horton, the friend of Lady Byron, and stated to him all the circumstances con nected with the *fair. Mr. Wilmot Horton was satisfied, to refund Mr. Mutray the sum advanced, and to have the] work destroyed. Subsequently the 1 arties met at the house of Mr. liobhouse, where Colonel Doyle appeared as the friend of the Hon. Mrs. L. igb, Lord Byron 11 sister, and it was agreed to destroy the work. Mr. Moore objected to' the right which Mr. Murray claimed over it, and asserted that it was his property. Mr. Murray denied this claim, on the ground that the bond given by him to Mr. Moore only allowed him to withdraw the work, and to return the money, any time Afore Lord Byron's death, but that tyter such an event, it was to be exclusively Mr. Murray's pro perty. The day after, the parties met together at Mr. Murray's house—viz. Mr. V. Horton, Mr. 110bhouse, (7olonel Doyle, Mr. Moore, Mr. Luttrell, and Mr. Murray. Mr. Murray then declared that he hail no claim whatever on Mr. Moore for the sum paid that gentleman, while Mr. Moore persisted in his right to tile work. It is asserted that Mr. Moore did not mean to have it destroyed—but this we do not for a moment believe. Be it as it may, the pro duction was torn and burnt in the room of Mr. Murray ; and burnt, as our informant states, without the consent of Mr. Moore. The circumstance has since been the topic of much conversation in the higher circles, anti each of the parties has been considerably blamed by the friends of the other._ _ _ _ _ _ . Although we have stated these facts, and again repeat that we have them from the best authority, we do not wish to comment on them. We think it. however, our duty to ' mention, that the gentlemen alluded to expressed, in the highest terms, their sense of Mr. Murray's conduct, u a gentleman and a man of honour. This much is certain, that, if Mr. Murray hall chosen to publish the work, he would have made a fortune by it; and that, in sacrificing his interest to his principles, he has acted as few tradesmen would have done. We are certain that Mr. Murray re ceived for the work no mere than he had paid for it. The present Lord Byrn► (lstAy C:aptais George Anson Byron), it is said will commission the Blonde, 46, ordered site brought forward immediately as Woolwich . - --Seel.4= tlntplon (Arafat.. Captain Charles Fox, we ere sorry to hear, has met witha serious accident, in coustquetice of a fall from his horse. Saturday evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer antl Lady S trail Robinson, left town for the seat of Lady Buckinghamrhirc, Charlton : Rent._ The remains of the Duchess of Devonshire were re moved on Saturday from Devonshire House, for interment in tile family vault, All Saints. Derby. It has been remarked that the bete Duchess of Devon shire died at the same hour, the same day of the month, and in the same month, as her predecessor. Satur,lsy a Committee of the Lords of the Council u sembled at the Conned Office, Whitehall, to hear Appeals from the Island of Jersey. On Saturday, at two o'clock. a Cabinet Council was held at t h e Foreign Office, in Downing -street, which was at tended by the Earl :of Liverpool, the Earl of Westmor land, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, Mr. Bus kisson, Viscount Sidmouth, &c. The Cabinet continued in deliberation till about five o'clock. DE•TH Or SIR HENRY CLEMENT THOUTION.—This gentleman died suddenly in the King's Bench prison on Saturday night, where he had been confined since March last. His day-rule had been provided in the morning, but sudden indisposition prevented his using it, and before ten o'clock in the evening he fell suddenly from his chair. Messrs. Easton and Ward were prompt in rocuring me dical assistance, but the spark of life was extinct. The Newcastle theatre is advertised to be let. Mr. Manse! is one of the candidates for it; the others are Messrs. Macready, Butler, Bunn, and Oxberry.—Kell Packet. LORD BYRON. Bit Castro Gordon has just published a pamphlet " Oe the Life and Genius of Lord Byron." It is written main. featly " rwrrente edam'," with all convenient expedition for publication, and is the first of a series of painphkts which the public may expect on a enbjs ct which few bare discrimination rodisenas, or well-authenticated information to communicate. It is to be regretted that the burning 0 ( the auto-biographical memoirs of the Noble Bard has left the public dependent for a knowledge of his life on the 015 flits of Isis admirers and his enemies, whose represen. tations, acconliaig to their respective Isis. of opinion, will not fail in extenuating match on one side, and " setting down much in malice" on the other. We have had specimens of both styles of writing even within the short ptTiod of time since the melancholy intelligence of his death reached this country. As his memoirs of himself are now beyond the reach of recovery, it is idle to raise a question as to the propriety with which those passages et which his surviving relatives, it is presumed, might be wend ed or shocked, may have been withheld from puhlicatioo, and the remainder given to the world. However, i n vain regret is a very dull anal profitless feeling to indulge in, we must content ourselves with gleaning the par. titulars of his life from those numerous productions tibial follow fast upon the departure of a distinguished charm- • ter, and which arc " but half made up, and that so lamely and unfashionably," that they more generally de. 1 tract from the merits of the individuals whose charaqu o they undertake to discuss, than add to the celebrity ef their fame. The pamphlet of Sir C. Gordon rank, amongst the better sort of publications of this kind. If not a very clever and discriminative estimate of the genius of Lord Byron, it a pleasing and very readable Tittle book. written in a tone and spirit of liberality not in suited to the 1 - 101011 in which it appears, as a correcir e of some political acerbities we have lately met with, which would , even deny to the great man who is no more even the sacred sad immunities of the grave. We extract the following from the narrative part of the publicatiou. The anecdotes here recorded " have no relish" of Gam thropism in them:— " A gentleman of the sister kingdom, one of those indunrious persons who nn engage to do any thing, and who let nothing es cape them for the want of seeking, heard that Lord Byron was about to set out few the Continent; and upon receiving t h e Intelli gence, it instantly gashed upon the mind of this umversal arador. taker, that it would be a good raising of the wind to procure the ei. ruatien of private secretary to his Lordship. Upon this be made himself u spruce and as interesting as possible, and ott' he set for the Albany, the place where Lord Byron then lodged. His Lied. skip was at the door, in the act of stepping into his curricle, whsa he was arrested by the candidate for the pnvate secretaryship. He began by a long dissertation on his own powers; proceeded p ass equally long topography of the route which it might be the east elf. pike to pursue; and ended by an inquiry as to the time at whist they would set out. • My dear air,' said Byron, with much naivete, • we set out this instant; but you see that I cannot aecommadme you,—there are but two sesta in the curricle, and my servant, she rogue, has got into one of them already.'" " A young man from a distant part of the country. who had quarrelled with his father, in consequence of having squandered small sum of money, was friendless, and almost pennyleas, is the metropolis ; and at last mune a little poem, or rather a soccesskia of bad rhymes, which he offered to the book se ll ers . Most whim rejected the proffered poem with scorn ; but at last the writw salt with one, who said that if ten pounds were gives him, he maid publish it, and give the writer half the profits. Elated with this, he sallied into the streets, and had wandered as far as Piccadilly, ere he knew what lie was about or whither he was going. Exhausts ed at last, he stood still at the front entrance of the Albany. with his manuscript in his hand. Byron happened to pass; and his no. dee being drawn by something peculiar ui the young m ar e s appear ance, he occosted him. The whole s:ory came out; and the ruck rhymester was taken into the apartment of the bard. • And so_ you say you have quarrelled with your father ?' said By ron . • Y es ,' said the young man , hanging down his head. • And you could get a chance of half the profits of your peem fee tea pounds? • Yes,' said the young man again, raising himself up. And foe how much could you be reconciled to your father?' said Byres again. • Tor ten pounds, also,' said the young man. ' Thou,' said Byron, ' there is ten pounds; give it to him, and let him pub. lisp the poem if he pleases ; and there are other live for yourself, to hasten you on your way.' The young man was astonished; and before he could turn round to thank his benefactor, that bondman had disappeared." It may net he uningreotittg to refresh our readies' minds with the following particulars of the Noble Bard and his father. They are not altogether new, but we have bees of late so engaged with the more active part of Lord Byron's brief career, that public attention has been little directed towards the period of his boyhood, or those traits of character which marked his early genius : " Lord Byron's father, who was born in 1751, received an ex cellent education, and had held a commission in the Girard& tie was so dissipated, that he was known by the name of • Mad Jack Byron.' He was one of the handsomest men of the time; but his character was so notorious, that bin father was obliged to desert him ; and to be but seen in his company was eonsidated • stain. , There was no dissipation, and hardly a vice, except those coming immediately within the penal stame' of the country, in which he did not occasionally, or even habitually engage. In his twenty seventh year be found means to seduce Amelia, Marchioness of Carmarthen. who had been but a few yearn married to a husband with whom ate had lived in the most happy state until she formed this most unfortunate connection. The noise which thisfintx pat ocem oned was very great as well on account of its awn enormity, as of the perfect happiness which had previously subsisted between the husband and the wife, and of the great reluctance which the husband had to believe in her guilt. That, however, was ultimately proved in a manner but too cons ming c and alter one fruitless attempt at reclaiming the lady, she was divorced by her husband, and aban doned to her fate. That fate was both hasty and hard. The friends brought about a marriage between her and her seducer, which sif ter the most brutal conduct on his pan, and the greatest mieeryaad keenest remorse on hem, was dissolved in two years by her sinking to the grave of a broken heart. In about three years after, Cap- Min Byron sought to patch up his broken fortunes by matrimony; and having made a conquest of Hasa Gordon, an Aberdeenshne heiress, het spent her fortune in a few years. and left her mod her only child, the subject of this memoir, in a destitute and dadence lens state. He went to France to avoid his creditors, and died at Valenciennes in 1791. little more than three years after the birth of his son. to whom, in the meantime, was given his mother's nameof Gordon." " George Gordon, the late noble bard, was born on his miter's estate in .1 berdeennhire, on the 22d day of January, 17311; an his mother and himself were soon afterwards deserted by his prolL gate and dissipated father, the whole care of his infant years de volved upon the mother; and emnridering the state in which she iras left, it is but natural to suppose that one treated the boy with every indulgence within her power. Tenderness and indulgence in his early yearn were rendered the more necessary, that, besides bar. ing one of his fen deformed, he was of a very weakly constitution. For these reasons, he was not so early sent to school as is sometimes the case, but allowed to expand his Pules and wrengtben his limbs upon the mountains of the North. This initiatory education was evidently the best adapted for giving strength to his bodily frame; and the sequel showed that it was far from the worst for giving tone and vigour to his (mod. This period of his life palsied unheeded ; but we find traces of its influence in many parts of his works. The grandeur of nature around him; the idea that he was upon mous. taios which had never been permanently trod by the foot of a con queror; the conversation of a people whose amusements at that time consisted in a great measure of the recital of heroic expleite wieat invaders ; feats of strength, and demonstrations at indepadence, mingled with all the wild goblin stories, usual among such a people, and In such a place; and, above aH, the being left at leieara and without dictation, to contemplate those sesnes and hat, to those re. Muds, afforded an initiatory education for Byron, fat MR poetical than that which be could have obtained had he Wee nursed at the Abbey of Nirmaganas and numared after die &aim of Its lords, in the Oreadast those of thabigh•aphatid, but lotted, wad sad TW IN/it faisaly." Lord G err Seymour and the Iron. Mr. Trefois, are coming to this country, to have the management of the I t ish Re ern ue.-I.inier ick Observer. Mr. Bayly has withdrawn from the contest for the city of Kilkenny election. The Corporation intend to appoitt Mr. Staples, a northern barrister, as their candidate. — frisk 06aer . err. We understand that Messrs. Orlando and Luriottis, the j Greek Deputies, have signified their intention of attending the Westminster Anniversary Dinner this day. We omitted to mention on 'Thursday last, Strong the numerous presentments, the nam es o f Si r J o h n S ewe ll and Lieut. Gets. Spencer. The Paris papers of the 18th contain an extract of a letter dated Barcelona, 9th instant, which states that Sir Harry Burrard Neale bad arrived at Port Mahon (Mi norca), and that an arrangement had taken place with the Dry of Algiers. Letters of the 9th from Barcelona, re ceived direct, do not mention this circumstance. We are informed - that a Chinese lady, the first which has come to this country, has lately arrived in London, WIJ Batavia and the Mauritius. She is accompanied by her husband, and will shortly permit the public to wanes-+ what we hare so often heard respecting the &maim ss and shape of the women's feet of this most interesting and sin gular people. These natives of China have brought sill them many rich dresses, and splendid specimens of the in genuity of their country. An apartment bas been fitted up, in the Chinese fashion, or.iamented with their house hold deities, and on receiving their visitors next week, 05 hope to be able to give some particulars of the inhabitants of the " cokrtial ewspti v." I• 4 I f~~~ l '.