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f laturc ' that • have [ Mutes f tun a g reat worthy v ith a oPrs arrence Itlonan .o c urt' that a ncc and d wag° luselves ry t ion. tele statutes ; on the contrary, machinery of the most compli cated and cumbrous description is every day exported. Mr. liutne's motion for a reference to a Select Committee, we arc glad to say, was carried, and the Membem to compose it named ; among whom were—the mover, Mr. Hume, Mr. Iluakiason, Mr. C. (:rant, the Attorney-General, Mr. Frankland Lewis, Mr. Grey &nett, Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Peter Moore, Mr. Thomas Wilson, Sir That. 1). Ac land, and others. The business committed to their charge is a must important one, and will, we trust, be soccessinl in their hands; it is closely connected with the bust in terests and prosperity of the country ; the welfare of the labouring classes is in a great degree committed in the result. TIIE KING. The following is a copy of lua Majesty's Answer to the Address of both Ilouses of Parliament, on the Lords Com missioners' Speech on the opening of the Session. The Answer was deli\feted to the Lords by Lord Liverpool, and to the Commons by the Hon. F. Robinson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Tuesday even ing:. • " I . thank a you - tot this dutii;il and sllctitionate Address. Nothing - can be so gratifying . to me as the espmetion of ynttr cordial participation in my sentiments ; and there is oothingso near to my heart as to maintain the greatness of the Itritisii name, and to pmtnote the welfare and prosptrity of my people." The King's Speech is usually deems! the " Ministers' Speech," because they are held responsible; but the above Answer is understood to have been personally penned by his Majesty. BRIGHTON, FEB. 11.-11 is Majesty gave a dinner party yesterday, being the first since his indisposition ' at which were . present the Earl of Bristol, Lord and Lady A. Hervey, the Karl of lkshorough. Count and Countess Munster, General Upton, Mr. and Lady Ann Beckett, and li Sir Abra ham Ilume. Lady G. Hervey, and Mr. and Mrs. Hope, joined the company in the evening. In consequence of the King's recovery, the only answer now returned to' inquiries at the Palace is—" The King is well." The usual instruetions of the physicians to the porter have been altogether discontinued. The King's recovery is in fact complete, although we believe his Majesty yet feels a little weakness, such as is always experienced after an attack of the gout. We regret to say that his Majesty leaves Brighton to-morrow fur Windsor, to which place he will travel direct, without passing through London ; and we have reason to fear that some considerable time will elapse ere his Majesty's return. It is understood that the King visits Windsor for the sake of taking exercise in the Park, where he can he more private than at Brighton. We trust that the dampness of the atmosphere, arising from the frequent Hoods in the adjacent country, will not prove unfavourable to his Majesty s health. Yesterday morning, the Duke Of Clarence arrived in town from Bushy Park. We are informed, and happy to hear, that his Grace the Duke of Bedford has been progressively recovering for the last two months. Yesterday, Mr. Secretary Canning transacted busineas at the Foreign Office. Wednesday night, Mr. Williams, the King's Mes senger, left town with despatches from Earl Bathurst, as Secretary for the Colonial Department for Corfu, in reply to those received a few days ago, announcing the melan choly tidings of the sudden death of the Right llonourable Sir Thomas Maitland, his Majesty's Lord High Commis sioner of the lonian Islands. Prince Louis of IVirtemberg is at present at New Or leans : he has been engaged for nearly a year in traversing the western wilds in pursuit of objects of science. lie has ascended the Mississippi and Missouri, and endured every hardship and fatigue to explore and develop the interesting natural history of this immense region. His collections are said to be very numerous, and will add greatly to the en lightened view which the German literati arc taking of our young and vigorous Republic.—Philadelphia Aurora. Two of the most important vacancies occasioned by the death of the late Sir Thomas Maitland, have been filled up. The Marquis of Hastings is appointed Governor of Malta, and Sir Frederick Adam Lord High Commissioner in the lonian I slant la.—Star. Baron Gifford has selected St. Leonard's, near Exeter, as the family appendage to his title. This is a pretty but obscure village, where the family of the Baron originated, and where they possess an estate. — Taunton Courier. RAT*. or INIXNEDT. - 11. tuseting of the Bank Directors Was held jenterday, and it is undo: stoat that the Petition of the Merchants of London, praying that the Bank of England would reduce the rate of interest from I to 3i per cent. per annum, was rejected. NEW COLON 01• N LOAN.—Nlciars. Bailey and Mr. I. L. Goldsmid posted the following notice at the Foreign Stock Exchange yesterday : Maws. F. and .t. aide, and I. 1.. Goldsmid beg leave to inform the Gentlemen of the Stuck Exchange, that they under. stand a confidential agent is about to anise in England front Colom bia, for the purpose of negociating a loan for the Government of that country, and that they are forming a list for such loan.— Those Gentlemen who are desirous of having their names in serted will please to send their letters of application as early as possible." The New Greek Loan has not been taken by Messrs. Baring, as was generally rumoured in the City on Wed nesday. These Gentlemen, however, are said to Ow it much countenance, and to have a lugs interest in its success. We feel much pleasure in observing, that a Committee is now actively employed in furthering the subscription already raised in the Principality towards ere:ting a monu ment to the memory of the brave and lamented Lieut.- (Materal Sir Thomas * Picton.—Hereford Paper. ('apt. A. 1). V. Arbutlinott having been appointed to the Redwing, is , from the Jasper, at Portsmouth, on IVednes day, the crew of the latter ship made hint a present of a magnificent sword and belt, as a mark of esteem for their late commander. The sword is richly mounted, and the belt superbly embroidered. LIMA, SEPT. I 0.—( Extract of a private letter.)—You will see by the Gazettes I have sent you, that Santa ('sus liar entered La Pax, a town of 10,000 inhabitants, where independence oine,y w i as ;enerfaA it proclaimed wit w ber g husiasm. H raisede has been in Salta and Tacuman. General Miller, with his force, was in Arequipa. it was supposed that ('anterac and Yalikz weie in or near Cusco. On the first of this month Bolivar arrived from Guayaquil, bringing with him his sivalry, and leaving troops to follow, to the amount of .3.000 men. He has to-day called a meeting of the mer chants, and a very handsome su' • sription has been raised to carry on the war with vigour. Ile has been treated here as he deserves, with the highest enthusiasm, nothing but festivities and rejsi •ings being seen in Lima. The streets are always hung with the national flag. however, b. is not the man to lie idle here ; and, from their press ing the balls, dinners, &c.. so fast, it would appear that t'sey do not expect him to remain lung in the city. Which was he will act against the enemy is not known, for as yet I believe little business has been attended to. In consequent.? of a requisition respectably signed, our worthy Mayor has appointed a meeting of the inhabitants this city, on Friday lit xt, for the purpose of petitioning Puliament for the melioration of the situation of the slave 'pulation in his Majesty's colonic's—Hen:pis/ Pare. It is said that accounts have been received from Deme of a late date, which announce that the Island is en- ;rely restored to tranquillity. It was confidently expected at Sullen, the 3lissionary, would be pardoned. Hoess or LOT: rrE A LD.—IVCIINCRIIIy was the and day for hearing appeals before the house of Lords. he Lord Chancellor took his scat on the wuolsack at ten chick. The hearing of the "Queensberry causes" was 1. There were present Lords Liverpool, teddies % and iralshighstn, they being the three Peers named, natant to the new regulations, to attend ; but the cele 1Y of the causes and of the Counsel retainers to plead at attracted many other Peers. The Duke of York was 'tent, and remain( el lid two. The crowd below the bar is about es great its on :;ray clay of the Queen's trial, and eraugers" k e pt constantly passing in and out. Mr. levy, Mr. Cram:touts and Mr. Nloncrictr, we re in attend ''rt Mr. Man:fit:lf vecupied the whole morning in sressing dit it Lordship; oil behalf of the respondents. rcaely this year there have been nearly double the of bags of cotton importeel into Liverpool that i 4 were at this time last year. I lls reported that measures will be taken forthwith to 'out a ch a in su s pens i on p i er f rom Deal beach, similar st one at Brighton.—A/shistone Paper. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Lord Berwick entertained s distinguished party at dinner yeeter. day, at his histise in tiruiteenor.square. Sir Thomas Farquhar, Bart. had a dinner party on M'ednesday, at his house in Mt. Jarnees.street.—ln the evening her Ladyship bad an elegant circle of fashionable,. ... - •—•.----..-..- Dowager Lady Neave had yesterday a dinner and evening party at her house in Albemarle-street. 3lrs. Evans had a liahi:lna'Ale party yesterday evening, at her ham in Hertford -street, 31av-fair. Lord Melbourne had a dinner party yesterday, at his house, 'Whitehall Earl 'Whitworth and the Duchess of Dorset and family have ar rived at thew home in Grosvenur.aquare, front their scat, Knole, Kent. Sir Gilbert Ileatheote, Bart. has arrived in town from his seat, Norninnton Park, Lincolnshire. Lind Eardley and family have arrived at their haute in Lower Grosvenor-atreet, from their seat, Belvidere, Kent. Lord Kensington and the lion. Mr. Edwards have arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat in Itialet. Lord Gkuuniia has arrived at his house in Baker -street, from his scat, St. Paul's Warden, Herta. * Captain Mous, 11.. N. arm yesterday at the Waterloo Hotel, Jernsymatreet, from Portsmouth. Mr. and M. Mire and family arrived yesterday at the London lintel, Albemarle.street. front Bath. Colonel t tallow arrived in town yesterday, front Brighton. The Marquis of Winchester loss arrived at the 'loyal Hotel, St. Jautes's.street, from his seat in Hants. Al r. and Alr;. Frankland and Ist;i1; have arrived at their house in Curion-itreet, Alay-fmr, front their seat in Yorkshire. John Mitchell, Esq. has arrived at his house in Charles-street, Berkeley -square, front Bath ; and Alr s . Alit : h e ll, h ow Brighton. Lord Volkstone has left town for Hastings, Sussex. Departures from Reads Hotel, Lower Dromtenor-street :—The Earl and Countess of Wicklow and family, for Tunbridge Wells ; lion. Thumpton Vannaek, for his seat in Suffolk; W. H. !kn itter, Esq. lot his seat, (heat Brick Hill, Bucks. Lord Mihail has arrived in Hrosvenor-squroe, from Yorkshire. Captain Strachey, R.N. left town yesterday fur Portsmouth. Sir W. and lady Reinhold and family hare arrived at the Pul teney Hotel, Albemarle-sheet. FOREIGN I NTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. We have just received the Paris Journals of Tuesday last, from which the folk/wing are extracts:— _ %ANTE, JAX. 8. The friends of Greece in England and Germany, including many of the clergy of both countries, as well as a grad number of distinguished persons of both sexes, have just sent the fheelts some assistance of a nature such as they had not hitherto received since the commencement of their glorious and persevering contest. 'mfr. pendently of considerable sums of money, as well as ammunition and clothing, we have seen pass through here, towards Missolonghi, persons who are anxious t t give the aid of their talents and experi ence in founding a wise administration, and establishing a general economy throughout the whole affairs of the Greeks, by means of organizing and regulating the different branches of the public service. Two printing presses have been established at Missolonghi, for the purpose of publishing the acts of the Government ; which would be set to work on the first of January (old style), by print ing a daily Paper, or Journal, intituled the lir&nit. Chronicle. Thus Europe will not be any more at the niercy of the :flirt*fulcra Oriental, and the ..lusiriau Cihrerver, which have hitherto enve loped the affairs of the East in darkness ; but any one will be able to know what is passing in these newly regenerated countries, which are now for ever withdrawn from the dominion of the Sultan. Odysseus, who invaded Carystos in the Isle of Eubeus, is now besieging Ecythreus. The Stiatarcloi, Ifiamantas and liouras, after having occupied the fort of Cara Baba, which formed the prin cipal point by which they penetrated into the Isle of Eubcus, have blockaded Negropont. The castle of Parise is so much crowded, the several Turkish families have already obtained permission to retire to fiaustoni. The Greek prisoners that were found there have been released by the besieged. Maurocurdato has, on his part, besieged Lepantc and the castle of Cape Autirrhion, so that all that part of occidental Greece will be subjected to the standard of the (mss before the opening of the next campaign. They will afterwards be able to set (if time will permit) against Epirus, for the plague which desolates Arta and Janina is so terrible that our guerrillas which now cover the shores of the Ambracical Gulf dare not penetrate on that site of the Mae rinoros. PARIS, PER. 9. The Spanish Government has just acknowledged a debt of thirty four millions to France. But it is not true that it has effected the payment of that debt by any produce of the public revenues of Spain. It is a simple acknowledgement without any promise without even an indication of any future means of payment. When all the details of our interference with the affairs of Spain shall be made known, and the coneention for our troops remaining in that country shall have been signed and communicated to the public., it will be seen from what principle of generosity France wed in that memorable enterprise. Yesterday the King did business with Viscount Chatesuhriand. Minister of Foreign Affairs. To-day, before 31ass, his Majesty received in private audience, Lieutenant-Generals Count Villate, and Viscount Rebid, 31. Hay, and 31. Rousseau, Presidents of the Electoral l'olleFes as well as the Officers of the Garrison of Paris. At eight o clock in the evening his Majesty received the Ladies. Her Royal Highness the Duchess de Berry will set out for Rainy on Saturday next. The Ministers met yesterday in Council, at the House of the Keeper of the Seals. His Grace is quite recovered from his late indisposition. We hope he will assist at the Council to be held on Wednesday next. Letter. front Orleans of the hl February, state, that several bat talions of the army front Spain had arrived there during the last month, and that thcy were received by the inhabitants with the greatest enthusiasm. The homage thus rendered appeared to nut ter the heroic companions in anus of those illustrious liners who were led on by the immortal courage of Henry the Fourth. The ball-room of the City Hotel was decorated with military mblerns, and a rich trophy placed opposite the bust of bouts \l'l{l., to which all the Officers were invited by the Authorities, to an elegant and sumptuous repast. Love to the King, the fie ncral.in-Chief, and to all the August Family of the Bourbons, was testified by the utmost enthusiastic toasts. The next day the (Miters of the two Battalions of the fah Royal Guards, gave to their comrades a 1.1.11111)I110111 banquet, to which they invited all time public functionaries. Nothing could be more interesting anti amiable than this family feast, where every thing was provided ; and which was ended by the toasts so dear to all good Frenchmen. [Fruni the Comelier Francois.] HOME, JAX.'26. We have heard from Spoletta that the Countess de Alongalli, sister of the Pope, was at the point of death. His Holiness im mediately sent his physician, Dr. Candi°, to her relief. 'flie alniost sudden death uf Cardinal lions/ski, the grievous state of Cardinal Si;veroli, and the news from Spoletta, have produced a very powerful effect on the spirits of the Holy lather, and affected his health. The office of Secretary of Briefs, filled by Cardinal Gongslv', will be given, it is said, to Cardinal lialeffi, and the rich Abbey ttf Grotta Terrata to Cardinal Sivendi, should he recover (min his indisposition. tionsalvi has left the greatest part of his wealth, and all the precious things given to him by Foreign Sovereigns, at the conclusion of divers concordats, to the congregation of the Propaganda : this legacy is valued at 100,111,0 Roman crowns. lle has also left a considerable sum fur the rebuilding of the Church of St. l'aul front the walls of Rome. Pans, Fr:s. 9. M. Mg**, an agent of the Minister of War, has just been ar rested. lit is charged with forging the signature of the Minister to obtain brevets of members of the Legion of Honour and of the Order of St. Louis. Twenty individuals, who have obtained crosses by this means. are also in the hands of justice ; we are assured that they formed a Committee, to fabricate all the cvrtificates required by the Ministry. Among the signatures him's' is that of the Duke of Bourbon. It is said that more than MO false certificates have :ten prepared. The death of Sir Thomas Maitland is likely to have some effect on the fate of Greece. It is well known that the Greeks had nut a more determined enemy than Sir Thomas; and his last Order ot the Day, relative to the Prince 3laumconiato, speaks loudly of his hatred towards die Christians of the West. i From the l'onstitofioameLl PARIS. FEB. 10. Spain has just engaged to pay France the sum of thirty•four mil lions. Baeieles. she engaged by the convention of 11123, to pay England 22 millions, making together a total of sfi millions. This is, at least, as much as the two loans of the Cortes have produced to her : but has she had the real and substantial enjoyment of these millions ? Quite the contrary,- for those two contributions are n 111,1.304 for damages sustained by the commerce of the two States in the course of the war between Spain altli l'ulombia ; so thet the sif millions of francs may thus be called a perfect loss to France. England has watched over the interests of her commerce ; France I has done the same, and with the sameveasun. Spain mortgages the produce of the salt-nines of Arragon, and that of the customs of 31iranda, tin the payment of this debt. The last point requires explanation. The provinces of Biscay and (lull:warm were out of the line of the Spanish customs; it was one of the many privileges of these provinces. The fortes, however, eatended the customs even to the frontiers of France, owing to the animosity of these provinces to the l'onstitutional system. Ferdinand has not sought to re-establish the interior customs; they were broken down by the resionuino, for the revival of privileges made • part of it. 'llium (lea public interest of the monarchy has been sacrificed to the private interest of these countries, and to the system of a restma. Lion to privilege. This is always the end of such practices. The diseliarge of the 31,000,000 francs will require a great number of years, foe the salt mines and custonis arc far from being equal to so large a sum : besides, in thus alienating the revenues, with what will } evdinand pay the I $ ax (ns well the old as the new), and the whole of the maritime and civil establishments of the country, and if, in her turn, England dennuids the customs of Cadiz or Bar celona as a security few her debt ? Spain. then, is like a vessel that we se,! gradually disappear, till it is swallowed up in the abyss. In the present day the world has before its eves two great lessons in what is passing in Spain and Turkey ; the • larity between the two political carcases is complete. Turkey is as impotent against );recce. as Spain is against .Imerica ; Spain has no more money nor credit than Turkey. The linens of Constantinople re. seinble the monks of Spain; and, for its instruction, the world beheld' these two countries without power, without credit, land without money. A hundred volumes against absolute power would not say more than these two examples. At the same mo ment. England, with her liberty and civilization, beholds her pub lic funds raised to 14.5 francs for live byres renter; whilst the funds of France, with an inferior portion of liberty, have risen to 100 francs for five litres. After this, then, cry Against liberty—in voke, admire absolute power. There it is, in its native purity, and with all its blessed effects. ( From the Journal de Tonlonse of Feb. 1.1 'We hear trim Paris, that the question is entertained trore than ever as to the reduction of the interest of the public tleht to foot. instead of five per cent. It is said that the Government intends to raise a loan front soft.e foreigners, at the rate of 3 per cent. the pm. duce of which will enable the State to pay those fundhnlders who may elect to receive their interest. It is calculated that the Go vernment will save by this measure fifty millions per 211111U111 on the public debt ; and that the plan will have the advantage of aug menting the value of property by the abundance of specie which will be thrown into circulation. It is also reported, that a great book will be opened for granting indemnities to the emigrants. The Doik having announced that the Chambers would open their Sittings an the 7th of April, in commemoration cf the day on which the French troops crossed the 'Edam*, the Coestiisnowirl justly remarks. that the period for opening the new Chamber was fixed by the l)rdoanance which dissolved the old, and that it is the 24th of March, which leaves but comparatively a short time for accomplishing the great and campliftted work of the elections. Last night we received the following:- Bv. PETZRIIIIIIIIIGII, TAY. 16. Account of the Duties of Customs, and other imports paid on goods exported and imported aeSt-Petersbargit, in the year HUI : it able\ 3,3711,103 18.028,021 (7ustoms on Exports Cu►toms on Imports Other Duties, such as trans t, raise the sum to 21.398,836 - 22.3114,586 . . . Vsiue of goods imported and exported at St. Petersburgh in the year 1823: . Exported. Imported. . 37,586,835 61.2/k1,191 • 63,911,140 43.151041 2,024 268,1138 570,525 1;93.7tti 562,000 By Russian merchants - By Foreigners - . By Passengers . - By l'aptains Transit goods - - - 104.11710,324 I 10:n960,719 Total Imports and Exports 210.040,043 rubles. Excess of Importation 1,1199,394 ditto. 11A1.1111 , 1IGH, JAN.3I. It deserves to be mentioned as a very singular phenomenon of the present winter, that the owner of a garden, a league front this city, btu found in it hundreds of May-bugs alive, of which he has brought a number to town with him, and ahewn to many persons. Root►., JAN. 22. According to the accounts of the Missionaries in the Eastern kingdom of Tonquin, l'hristianity makes great progress there. The 11Iandarins of the Ist and 24.1 class favour the labours of the Missionaries, and protect than in the exercise of their religion, the disturbers of which are rigorously punished. The learned men in particular are easily instructed. ant: break their idols to pieces after a few conferences with the Missionaries. In June 1821, a whole district sent deputies to ask to be instructed in the Christian faith. SWITZERLAND, JAY. 30. The negotiations with the Piedniontese Government, for the purpose of opening a free intercourse between that State and Switzerland, over Mount St. Bernard, have not yet led to any satis factory mutt. To attain the object, a new commercial treaty must be concluded between Switzerland and Piedmont. It is said that anew Sardinian Plenipotentiary will go to Rome in the course of the next Spring, to commence a fresh negotiation upon the subject. BAMBERG FEB I . Count Joseph of Stubenbcrg. Archbishop of BaMberg, and Prince Bishop of Eichstett, died at Eichstett on the 29th ult. at the age of 114. His funeral will take place on the tl. His death is an irreparable loss to the poor, to whom he was a father.—Fratrle jbrt Papers, Feb. 5. VIENNA, JAN. 29,—Metalliques, ; Bank Stock, 9431. Amstriax Observer, Jaw. 30. The Lord Chamberlain has appointed George Colman' Eaq. Licenser and Reader of Plays, in the room of the late Mr. Larpent. This appointment is a mark of honour due to the talents and genius of Mi. Colman. The theatre of Cremona was totally destroyed by fire on the 16th ult. Mr. Vandenhoff has been playing Sir Edward Mortimer, Sir Giles Overreach, and several other leading characters, at the Edinburgh Theatre ; and the northern critics speak of his performances in the highest terms of admiration. FUNERAL OT THE COV:irt.Sll Or HAREINGION.— , Yesterday morning, at nine o'clOck, the remains of this distinguished and esteemed lady were removed from the Stable-yard, St. James's, for interment in Westminster Abbey. The procession was splendid in the extreme, and attracted the attention of crowds of p ers on s . It proceeded, in the following order through l'all-mall and Whitehall to the Abbey : Mutes on horseback. Gentlemen with scarfs ankwands. Vootners of thirelnambers,ttitrin on crimson cushion the Ducal Coronet of t he deceased. THE HEARSE, Drawn by six black horses, the traces ornamented with the family armorial bearings. Mourning Coach and Six, Containing Lord Petersham, as Chief Mourner. Mourning coaches and a long line of carriages, among which were those of the Royal Family and the most distin guished of the Nobility, closed she procession. At the principal entrance to the Abbey, the Dean and Ehlers received the coffin, and proceeded to the tomb in the great aisle, where the solemn funeral rites being read, the coffin was lowered into the grave, and the ceremony terminated. FUNERAL. OF SIR Hue O BATEMAN.—thI Saturday brat the remains of Sir llugh Bateman, Bart. whose death took place at Bath on the !tsth ult. were brought to this town for interment. The procession arrived about noon, in the following order : The Beadles of All Saints Church. The Town ('tier, in his robes. The Undertaker, on font. Twenry-six of Sir Hugh's Tenantry on horseback, in complete new suits of mourning. Four Mutes on horseback, with staves. Board of Feathers, carried by an attendant, with two supporters. 'the Hearse drown by six horses fully caparisoned, and attended by eight of the Tenants as Bearers. Two Mourning Coaches and four, containing the Mourners, viz. Captain Bateman and Mr. John Bateman (Nephews of the deceased,) Sir Alex. flood a nd Mr. Scott (his Sons in -Law,) the Rev. Thos. Gisborne and Mr..lohn liisborne (hers.in-Law of the deceased,) and the Rev. John Gisbome. A Third Mourning Coach and four, in which were the Agent and professional Friends of the deceased. The private Carriage of %Valiant Evans, Esq. M.P. closed the procession. The mournful spectacle proceeded s'owly through the streets, amidst a large concourse of spectators. On arriv ing at All Saints Church, the body was removed from the hearse, when the exterior co ffi n in which it was inclosed appeared richly ornamented. It was borne into the Church, and in the course of the service, which was very impres sively read by the Rev. C. S. Hope, was deposited in the family vault. During the whole of the funeral, the utmost solemnity and decorum prevailed.—Derhy Mercury. Friday afternoon the remains of Lady Martha Harley, of Ilarley-street, sister to Lord Oxford, passed through Il'orcester, on the way to Brampton-Brian, Herefordshire, where they will be interred. T. SPRING RICE AND W. O'GRADY, ESQRS.—Every exertion is used by the police to arrest these gentlemen, but, to a late hour last night, without success. We regret ex ceedingly that the principals in this affair have not been ar rested with the seconds, to prevent further consequences ; there is no Irish Member whose life is more valuable than that of Mr. Spring Rice : no Member, since the short period of his being returned to Parliament, has rendered more essential services. We understand that this affair was caused by some offensive expressions applied to the Earl of Limerick by Mr. O'Grady, in the hearing of Mr. Rice.—Doddin Morning. I'o2l of Tuesday. GLOUCESTER AND BERKELEY LANAI..—As a measure of vital importance to this city, and intimately connected with its increasing prosperity, we have observed with very great satisfaction the energy and activity which now mark the progress of this undertaking. Mr. M'lntosh, the contractor, has been for tome months proceeding with it in the most efficient manner. and with means fully adequate to ensure the full completion of this most important work in September 11415. Were an additional proof wanting of the favourable point of view in whi c h it i s regarded by te subscribers and the public at large, the Meeting of the Company held on Saturday last afforhed a gratifying instance. Since the contract entered into by Mr. Wlntosh, certain additional works were suggested by Mr. Telford as necessary to the efficiency of the plan, whereby an increased expense of 13 or 11,0001 would he incurred, and the Nleetingalluded to was called for the purpose of taking this subject into consideration, when, such Aas the confi dence felt in the success of the work, that the requisite l sum was immediately subscribed ; and we have the best authority for saving, that, had 540,000/. been called for, it would have been raised without the least difficulty. We know that one gentleman alone was empowered to subscribe V 3,000/., had so much been wanted.—Gluacrater Journal. ILLUSTRIOUS CHARACTERS OF 7 4 11 E LAST' CENTURY. DEATH AND CHARACTER OF FREDERICK PRINCE (IF ll'A LES. The Prince of liVales had been ill of a pleurisy, but was so well recovered as to attend the Xing to the House of Lords on the 12th, where he was very hot. lie went to Carlton House to unrobe, put on only a light frock, and went to Kew, where he walked sour:• time, and returning to Carlton House, lay down upon a conch for three hours i n a ground room next to the pollen, caught a fresh cold, and relapsed that night. lie had had a blow upon his stomach in the summer by a fall. from which he had often felt great pain,. Drs. Wilmot, Taylor, and Leigh attend ed him, and Hawkins the surgeon. On Monday, filth, a thrush appeared ; however, he was thought better. On Wednesday night, between nine and ten o clock, Wilmot and Hawkins were with him ; he hail a fit of coughing. Wilmot said, Sir, you have brought up all the phlegm ; I hope this will be over in a quarter of as hour, and that your Royal Ilighaess will have a good night." Hawkins went out of the room and said, " Here is something I don't like." The cough continued ; the Prince laid his hand upon his stomach, and said, ".le tens la mod." Pavona rius, his favourite German valet-dle-chambre, who was holding him up, felt him shiver, and cried, "Good God, the l'rince is going !" The Princess, who was at the foot of the bed, snatched up a candle, hut beeore she got to him he was dead. An imposithume bad broken, which, on his body being opened, the physicians were of opinion had not been occasioned by the fall, but from a blow of a tennis ball three years before. Thus died Frederick, Prince of Wales, having resem-, bled his pattern the Black Prince in nothing but in dying before his father. Indeed it was not his fault if he had ' not distinguished himself by any warlike achievements. He had solicited the oarnmand of the army in Scotland during the last rebellion ; though that ambition was as cribed rather to his jealousy of his brother than to his cou rage. A hard judgment ! for what he could he did ! When the royal army lay before Carlisle, the Prince, at a great supper that he gave to his court and his favourites, as was his custom when the Princess lay in, bad orde red for the dessert the representation of the citadel of Carlisle in paste, which he in person, and the maids of honour, bombarded with sugar-plumbs! Ile had disagreed with' the King and Queen, early after his coming to England ; not entirely by his own fault. The King had refused to pay what debts he hail left at Hanover ; and it ran a little in the blood of the family to hate the eldest son : the Prince himself had so far not degenerated, though a better natured man, and a much better father, as to be fondest of his second son, Prince Edward. The Queen had ex inks' more authority joined to a narrow prying into his conduct, than he liked ; and Princess Emily, who had been admitted into his greatest confidence, bad not for-, feited her duty to the Queen, by concealing any of his secrets that might do him prejudice. Lord Bolingbroke, who had sowed a division in the Pretender', Court, by the scheme for the father's resigning his claim to the eldest boy, repeated the same plan of discord here, on the first notice of the Prince's disgusts; and the whole Opposition was instructed to °Mr their services to the heir apparent against the crown and the minister. The Prince was jsen sible to flattery, and had a sort of parts that made him re lish the characters of Lord Chesterfield, l)oddington, and Lyttelton, the latter of whom being introduced by Doddington, had wrought the disgrace of his protector. Whoever was unwelcome at St. James's was sure of coun tenance at the l'rince's apartments there. He was in vain reprimanded for this want of respect. At last, having hurried the Princess from Hampton Court, when she was in actual labour, to the imminent danger of her's and the , child's life,* without acquainting either King or Queen, the formal breach ensued ; he having added to this insult, a total silence to his mother on her arriving immediately to visit the Princess, and while he led her to her coach ; but as soon as he came in sight of the populace, lie knelt down in the dirt and kissed her hand with the most respectful show of duty. Ile immediately went all lengths of oppo sition and popularity till the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, when he was reconciled to, though never after spoken to by, the King. On Lord Granville's disgrace, he again grew out of humour ; but after having been betrayed and deserted by all he had obliged, he did not erect a- new standard of opposition till the Pelhains had bought off every man of any genius that might have promoted his views. Indeed, his attachment to his followers was not stronger than theirs to him. Being angry with Lord Do neraile for not speaking oftener in the House of Commons, he said, " Does he think 1 will support him, unless he does as I would have him ? Does not he consider that whoever are my Ministers, I must be King ?" His chief passion was women, but, like the rest of his race, beapty was not a necessary ingredient. Miss me, whom he had debauched without loving, and who hail been debauched without loving him so well as either Lord Harrington or Lord I lervey, who both pretended to her first favours, had no other charms than of being a maid of honour, who was willing to cease to be so upon the first opportunity. (If his favourites, Lady Archibald Hamilton t had been nei ther young nor handsome within his memory. Lady Mid dlesex was very short, very plain, and very yellow : a vain girl, full of !:reek, and Latin, and music, and paint ing, but neither mischievous nor political. Lady Archi bald was very agreeable and artful, but had lost his heart, by giving him William l'itt for a rival. Ilda though these mistresses were pretty much declared, he was a good hus band, and the quiet, inoffensive. good sense of the Prin cess (who had never said a foolish thing, or done a diso bliging one since her arrival, though in very difficult situ ations, young, uninstructed, and besieged by the Queen, Prince's Emily, and Lady Archiliald's creatures, and very jarring interests), was likely to have always pet served a chief awes tint over him. Gaining was another of his passions, but his style of play did him less honour than the amusement. He carried this dexterity into practice in more essential commerce, and was vain of it !. _ One day at Kensington, that he had just borrowed five thousand pounds of Doddington, seeing him pass under his window, he said to Hedges,* his Secretary. " That man is reckoned one of the most sensible men in England, yet with all his parts, I have just nicked him out of five thousand pounds." He was really childish, affectedly a protector of arts and sciences, fond of displaying what he knew : a mimic, the Lord knows what a mimic !—of the celebrated Duke a Orleans ' in imitation of whom he wrote two or three silly French songs. His best quality was generosity—his worst insincerity, and indifference to truth, which appeared so early, that Earl Stanhope wrote to Lord Sunderland from Hanover, what I shall conclude his character with—" He has his father's head, and his mother's heart." The Princess staid four hours in the room after he was dead, before she could be quite convinced of it. At six in the morning they put her to bed ; but she rose again at eight, snd sent for Dr. Lee, and burnt, or said she burnt, all the Prince's papers. As soon as he was dead, Lord North was sent to notify it to the King, who was playing at cards. He immediately went down to Lord Yarmouth. looking extremely pale and shocked, and only said, " // cat mod!" He sent a very kind message to the Princess, and another the next morning in writing by the Lord in Waiting, Lord, Lincoln. She received him alone, sitting with her eyes fixed ; thanked the King much, and said • It was (Lady Augusta) the chlest, "afterwards Ihrchesit of Brunswick." As it was necessary to have the Privy Counsellors present at the birth of an heir-apparent to the crown, which was prevented by this rash step, the Prince sort messengers. as he was upon the road, to Chiswick and Lambeth, to fetch Lord Wil mington and the Archbishop of Canterbury: hut they arrived tea late. The Princess was put into a bed that had not been prepared, for which the Prince and Lady Archibald ilamilton were form to air the sheets. The Queen followed their* early in the morning, and asked Lily Archibald how she dared to bring away the Prin cess in that manner ; who turned to the Prince, and said, " You see, Sir, 1 told you it would be laid upon me." 1' Jane, daughter to Lord Abercorn, and wife of Lord Archi bald Hamilton, was mistress of the robs to the Princess of Wales, and tar some years governed absolutely at the Prince's Court. she had contrived to have the Princess told before her arrival in England, that Lady •••• was his mistress, to divert any suspicions front herself; and had planted an many of her own relations about her, that one day, at Carlton-hostse. Sir William Stanhope called everybody there whom he dill not know. Mr. or Mrs. Hamilton. Lady Archibald quitted that Court soon after Mr. Pitt accepted a place in the Administration Grace, daughter to the Lord l'iscount Shannon, and wife of Charks Saekville. Earl of !lliddleses. Master of the Horse to the Prince. Site succeeded Lady Archibald liamiltua, as mistress, of the mhea. § Charles Hedges had been Minioter at Turin: and was Secretary to the Prince. Ile wee a inan much :n (elation, and a pretty Latin poet. she would write as soon as she was able; in the mean time, recommended her miserable self and children to him. The King and she both took their parts at once; she, of flinging herself entirely into his hands, and studying nothing but Ilk pleasure, but with winding what interest •he got with him to the advantage of her own and the Prince's friends: the King, of acting the tender grand. father; which he, who had never acted the tender father, grew so plcas<sl with representing, that he soon became it in earnest. When he was called the morning after the Prince's death, they found him dressed, walking about his moot, and extremely silent. SHIPPiNGINTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, Fru. 12. ENTERED INWARDL Henry Wellesley. Luke (Botilcott, broken, from South Sees. Sir lit:rm/Stanhope, Eisen (Burnett, broker), from St. Nichaers. lndestri:, Beat (Hall, broker), from Lisboa. FEURVAIT 11. ENTEREDOUTWARDS.—The Carobs.. Providence, Confidence, and Neptune, for Elsineur; Dart, foe thtimd ; Mary, for Barba does; Prosperity, for Havre; Burlington, for Halifax ; and brie Vrienden, for 'Rotterdam. CLEAn iv; Ouvwxuns.—rie Union, fcr St. Michael's; Scotia, fur Lanzarotte ; Colonist, for Burbadoes ; Eliza, fur Rut. :adman ; and Smyrna, for !)myna. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. FAtnnt•Tlt, FEn. 10.--Sailed about twenty coostaro, bound round the Land's End. PLYmour sr, FEB. In —Arrived the Mercator, Jacobson, from Drontheim for Trieste, fifty days out, with loss of bulwarks, cook house, with everything nameable washed overboard, s ail s s plit, vowel leaky, and one man drowned ; also, arrived the Hibernia, Richards, front Boston in twenty-three days. PILVAIOI:TH, FEN. ll.—The steam boat Sir Francis Drake towed the French ship Jupiter, Le Nord (from Ottadaloupe for Havre), which put in here with damage, from Turnchapel into the sound, and she will immediately proceed on her voyage. PORTS mourn, FE,,. Il.—No arrivals IT sailings. I/Ear., FEB. 11.—The Dominica, with the rest of the outward bound, sailed this forenoon. Arrived and remains the Voyager. Richardson, from the Cap* of Good Hope. The transport brig B, passed this morning to the \Westward. vEaroor., FEa. 10.—The Panther, for New York, got on shore this morning in the River, in proceeding to sea, and will have to return to do„k to be repaired. Arrived the Christian. Smith, front Malaga. Sailed the Alexander, Baldwin, for Phila. delphia ; Herald, Dawson; and 31• Vernon. Hawes, for Boma Plato, Beckett, for Baltimore; Mary, Cairnes, for Barbadoes ; and Rocket, Aywhford, for Jamaica. Cowry, FE.. 11.—Put in by contrary winds, and James and Ellen, Payn, from Antwerp for Jersey. GitavEsEwa, Fes. 11.—Arrived the Minerva, Richards, from Messina; Tamerlane, Bristow, from Leghorn • and Sir Henry Stanhope, Essen, from St. Michael's. Sailed the Jane, Rickard, for Valparaiso; and Lion. Dillon, for Jamaica. KINAALTIY, FE n.9.__ The Peggy, NV cmyss, with a cargo of coal, hound to Leith, left the harbour of \Wemyss the evening of the 7th instant, but as it came to blow a tremendous gale, she ran back for Veiny's, !MI being ebb tide, she grounded off the harbour • a boat attempted to go off several ti mes , y et t h ose on board perished, consisting of the master, and another man, with two passengers, before she reached the vessel ; she is a total wreck. WIIITEHAVEN, FED. 9.—The Aurora, ite, from Dub i lin to this port, was dri ven on shore yest erday mornint, e r e. e Allonby. The Mona, Robinson, frot Magoon to having experienced bail weather, has put into Kirbeudbrigtst, and will be obliged to discharge, having shifted her cargo, stal it is supposed has sustained damage. The Malvina, Slacken, front Peteraburgh to London, was at Mandah the 21st December, much strained. The Marquis of Huntley, Smith, from Riga, for Arbroath, put into Cmnstadt. The Erinnerurtg. Straus'', from Liverpool to Stettin, with loss of two topmasts, put into Egvoy. The Torsigtigheden, Schuh, from Stockholm to Lisbon, very leaky ; Osprey, Harding, from Petcnburgh for Boston, leaky; and the Carl Johan, —, from Stockholm for the Mediterranean, with loss of sails, all three put into Christiansand. The Juliana, Thuren, from Copenhagen to Lisboa, has put into Arundhal, leaky. ARRIVED.—At Ifavie, the Eagle. Barclay, from Savannah; Hope, Clark; and William Henry, 111`Lehan, from Charleston ; Indian Chief, —, front New York ; Imperial, —, from New Orleans ; and Jules, Piton, from Guadeloupe. At Rotten, Deux Jsrdin, front Cardiff. At Lima, Catherine, Young, from London; Globe, Pinter; Swallow, Nicolson; Bruce, Ord"; and Romeo, Johnson, from Liverpool. At the Havannah, Themia,, Lobeck ; and the Polydore, Fick, from Iltunburgh ; Adler, Kett.. land; Clemens Albert, —; and Auguste and Emmeline, , from Bremen; also the Active, Bergveld. from Amsterdam. At Cuba, Augusta Molina. 31rem, from Bremen. At Cali!, the Bristol, Buckham. from South America. At Barbadoes, Rosalie, Atkinson, from Newcastle. At Genoa, Amphitrite, Morgan, front Odessa. CITY BUSINESS. Yesterday a Court of Common Council m held for the despatch of public business. BILLINUSGATE MARKET. Mr. Alderman Ilaow sr presented a petition from Mr. Stewart. complaining of his having been removed from a stand in the market. to which he had been appointed by the officers in the usual man. nee ; and moved that the consideration of the petition should be referred to the Commiuee of City Lands, and that till such time as they reported thereon, and an order of the Court was made, Mr. Stewart should be renlactd in the occupation of the stand. A very long discussion then ensued between Mr. S. Dixon, Mr. N. Saunders. Mr. Savage, Mr. James, Mr. R. Smith, Deputy Oldham, and other Member, ; and, on the question being put, the Lord Mayor declared the Alderman's motion to have been agreed to. PRICE OF COALS. The Court pmcceded to consider the report of the Coal and Corn Committees on the result of tlitir inquiries into the mode of deliver ing Coal Ships, and the price of Con necessary article, in which they recommended the present vacancies of Deputy Coal Meters (being three) to be filled up, and twelve additional Meters to be elected, which was introduced by Mr. Southgate, the Chairman of the Committee, who concluded his observations by moving the Court to agree with the Report. Mr. Deputy Route opposed the Report, and moved a long aeries of Resolutions by way of amendment, which finished with declaring, that forty additional Meters should be forthwith appointed. The Report was supported by Mr. Ilererinthe and Mr. S. Dixon and opposed by Mr. James, Mr. F ave ll, Ald ermen W oo d and Lucas, and other meinbtrs; and on the chew of hands being taken, the amendment was curried by a considerable majority, and the Committee directed to proceed to the election immediately. The Court, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Wool), agreed to a petition to Parliament for a reduction on the duty on coals brought into the port of London, which was ordered to be pre. sented by the Sheriff's, attended by the Remembraecer, in the usual fonn. The Committee of City lAnds presented a Report respecting New:ate-market, for erecting a covering over the ares of and im proving the poultry-market, which was read and agreed to. The Irish Society. the tnnttitissioners of Sewers, and several Committees of Me Corporation for the year ensuing, were ap pointed. Wesr I Di rs.—ln our publication of the '2d instant, it was mentioned that odthe Frontier Estate in Jamaica, where the disturbances lately commenced, the slaves had been treated with the greatest indulgence, and the utmost attention had been paid to their religious and moral instruc tion. We have since learned that the worthy proprietor of that estate ronscientionsly declines taking any credit to him self for mere than usual attention to the religious instruction of his negroes, they having been on the same footing in that respect with the slaves on oilier well-regulated estates in that neighbourhood. When on this subject, we may no tice the distressing and desolate situation of the white po pulsticn in cases of insurrection, from their not know ing whether they can place the smallest confidence in any one of the negroes around them. It has been al ready mentioned, that eight of the ringleaders on the frontier estate were executed. Of these the chief was lVatson, and of him the overseer, in his letter to the proprietor, speaks in the following terms:—" The head cooper, Charles Watson, was the man I placed most confidence in of any on the estate; and had such an attempt been made without my having time to get the assistance of whit e p eo pl e , h e wou ld have been the first I should have called to stand between your property and destruction ; indeed his conduct since I have been upon the estate fully justified me in forming, however erroneously, such an opinion of him."—G lavas, Paper. Jews' Fare. Se riont.— dinner took place at the Lon don 'Tavern on %Vestries/lay, to celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the School for the education of poor children of the Jewish persuasion, in Bell's-lane, Spital tielils. Having stated the object of the Institution. it is unnecessary to say that it is deserving of support ; but we may be showed to add, that it appears to be as well con ducted as any society of a similar nature in the metropolis. After dinner, several children of both sexes were intro duced to the company; each of them bore a specim sn rf his or her proficiency an penmanship or needlework, an I an interesting little boy, about II years old, recited some He brew verses, expressing the grstkude of himself and bar companions to their benevolent !rations. In the course of the evening, 'Air. Joseph, who presided, Mr. Van Oven, Mr. Joseph Cohen, and other gentlemen, addressed the assembly in behalf of the Institution ' • and we a.e happy to say, that upwards of Soo/. were collected. Mr. Brahma was present, and delighted the company by the exertion of his extraordinary powers.