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PD - 4- ORIGINAL POETRY. ODE FOR MS MAJESTY'. BIETH-DAY. Soot 4, 1603. Wrato extempore by ToomAs Mooas, Esq. Poet Ltureat of !reload pro &ampere. Where is now the smile that lighten'd Er ry hero`a couch of me? Where is now the hope that arighton3 Honour's eye and phy's breut ! 11+,6 we lust the wreath we beaidtd irof our weary warrior men? la the faithless ohee faded Must the Bay be pluekl again ?awing hour of stinny weather! Lovely in your ligiit, the while. Peace and Glory, Wed together, Wander'd through our fairy tale ! And the (lei of peace would glisten. Dewy es a morning sun, Whoa the timid Maid would listen To the deeds her Chief had Acne ! la the hour of dalliance over ? Mu•t the maiden's trembling feet Waft her from her warlike lover, To the design's still retreat! Fare you well ! with sighs we banish, Nymph so fair and guest so bright 4 Yet, the smile with which yea vanish, Loamiesbehind a soothing light ! lkeeekidg light that long shall spark's Chr year warriors sanguine we), . flare' the field, whele h.•rrnrs deride, Shedding hope's consoling ray Long the sails Its heart will eteridl, To its absent idol true ; While around him myriads perish, Salty still will sigh for yses ! Issened chain! from heave demeaned. Chain! that Schein calls her own, Which by Attars, rum and splendid, sind'it a people to the throne ! Bleu we hail the morn, that shining Fait and welcome from above, Twat' ties so sally twining, Adds another link of love Srightly may the chain be lengthened Throe the lapse or future hours, When the links, by glory etrengthenl, Peace again shall deck with flow'rs ! DINNER AT NORWICH. it the Meeting of Colonel Wndehonse's friends. at the King's Head, oh 'Thursday last, upwards of 100 gentlemen sat down ..to Wode house took the chair. and at the other tables, the Hon. Edward Harbord, and Sir Roger Kerrison, presid+d —Tbe other steward, Sir Robert Buxton, was Absent from indisposition. Amongst the toasts given were the follom : The KING The Queen and Rot el Family. The Prows of Wale.. The Duke of York and the Amy. The Duke of Clarence and the ?Pay. Prosperity to , the Could, of Norfolk, and Independence to its future elections. The 31016, who dared to assert their rigltb, and may the jus ticc of their cause obtain the triumph it de.crvas. MA England ainglc• handed, with a clear star and no favour The Norfolk Yeomanry. and if our Enemies try to pl.ot themselves es our sou, may they be taught Use uses of the Norfolk Drill. Mir those who would grind down the It of real Free- Ibeildlara eture the disgrace of rho. Nttitilricx The intuit Times, and while we prat& our Wool lot Rn saparte be welcome to our id me. SURREY VALUNTERRS. The long talked of Review of the Surrey V•3lun tams will not take place. It was the intention of the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of the County, to have reviewed the .chile of the Volunteer force of Surrey, on Wimbledon Common, next Monday; but on Thursday counter-orders were received. The Earl of Harringt'm informed the Colonels of the South wark regiments, that he has always considered them attached to the London Distri:t that tram the great distance they were from the 'head-Tim:et s of the County of Surrey, it was certainly for the ad vantage of the service, that they shraild be so con sidered; and the General, in consequence. ordered them, in future, to be under the command of Maiot-General Grosvenor; and that the fulluw ing regsments be considered AS one of the London Brigades: %RIC , ADF. 1., Reg. of f.oyal East-India f I.', 41 I..tiu` , th Volunteers I Chn.trhureft 114 1/itto T/itto St. Julitt . • SI Dyto 'Mtn Kutner:lane Lord Suuthwark I St. 01..‘,e).. Ist Surrey Some of the Surre , hive a tieltl%lay on b; ISM roluateers, however, will Jay, at Wituuledon Com- A fatal accidat occurred at Weymouth, last week : a boat Jailers with Portland stone was cross ing Portland Road. when a sudden gust of wind filled the boat with water, and she instantly sunk: two men, and a child about four years old, were in her at the time ; one of e men, not able to swim, it is supposed clung to the i ging, and went down, nor has be since appearCd w other man, animated with the spirit of .1 true Brill. •r, caught the child in his arms, and at the almost ain risk of his life (being upwards of two miles rom the shore), plunged into the sea; . most forme. ly a boat, wit b some Gentlemen in ,t fishing, hap ned to be in sight, and came to the assistance of brave fel l". in Cme to save him and hi. charge. is boat, thi prod ice of his meritorious earnin., , ., in t. avy, w.is tot illy lost ; and here again we - have a stet • instance of the British char. ifter. A snhscripti was set on foot, at Harvey's Library, which prog duced nearly twenty pounds, in about as many hours. L ktItES COMMITTEE. ZOOM front an Account or the LadieaCortunitace for Fens ing the FAutalion and Emp.,, fluent of the Female Poor. A! a meeting of the "• Society for bettering the condition of the Poor," Match 1804, the Committee direeted an address to be sent to those Ladies who were sebscribers to their funds, and to some othets, proposing the formation of a Ladies Committee, for prs•moting the education and employment of the Female Poor. 'The want of instruCtion, and of the means of occupation, are causes which have contri buted fatally and extensively to the prevalence of profligacy and misery among the lower classes of females in England, and have called for the union anti co-operation of the more el-vatcd and enlight ened of the sex, for the correaion of so general an evil. The objets proposed for consideration were class. ed under three heads—l st, The forming of similar Committees in provincial towns and in the metro polis 2d, The promoting of the moral and religious education of the female poor; and Illy, The sup plying of them with healthful and domestic enip,oy ment. The plan included the formation of a semi nary for educating the unisrovided daughters of clergymen, officers, and others, as teachers, and v vernesses, fur private families and female boarding schools. The establishment of such a seminary, at the same time that it constituted a very desirable and es,ential part of the general 'la did certainly cre ate a considerable portion of its ditficulty. With a view, therefore, to antLipate ohjetion and facaltate arrangement, a sugges,ion of some hints, ue rather an outline on the Subjesct, was circulated with the other !papers. The plan, as sonn as it was arranged, was sub mitted to Her Majesty ; who has been graciou-ly pleased t o app rove it, and to command her name to be inserted as Patroness, and those of the Princesses as Vice• Patronesses, of the Institution. With this powerful advantage, and with the permission of the Ladies who compose the primary Committee, notice of tilts Institution has been ordered to he circulat4, and to be inserted in some of the public papers ; aisT the pntnary Committee having been originally form ed, and the first arrangement made, with the Queen's approbation, it has been established that no elec tion of a Member of the Ladies Committee, nor any rule or regulation for their government, shall be valid, until it has h'td ! let Majesty's sandion. OESERV•TIONL It may appear unnecessary to trouble the reader with any remarks on the justice and propriety of restoring to women those employments, which de cency and moral fitness seem to have exclusively marked for their own. To men, the extended com merce and increased manufadlutes, the unbounded enterprise and unrivalled prosperity, of Britain, will supply countless occupations, adapted to every turn of mind, and to every shade and gradation of talent. At the present crisis, and probahl,' for some years to come, the strength and vigour of every male arm will be wanted, for the defence and promßion of our rnried country. To %omen, there can be opened, at best, but a limited scope of aaion ; and it is for the benefit of all, looking to the increase of the general fund, that they should not be precluded flout contributing their portion of produalve indus try. Not merely the husband, the father, the bro ther, are interested in their possessing the means of employment, but the community at large, every member of society most feel the benefit of sn great an addition to natio :al produce, and moral virtue. Is charity the nbjeit ?—Reason and praaical ex perience will demonstrate, that to enable even a few individuals to live by the exertions of industry, and to preserve them from vice and indigence, is an ea cf greater and more useful charity, than to feed thnu•:mds in gratuitous idleness. The operation is in itsiU more easy; and the effea once produced, the labour ceases, and only the pleasure and gratification remain• Ti.ese are general motives, applicable to every period and region of the world : but they must have ten-fold weight, in the British empire, at the present hour. A pestilential disease, of the most malignant nature, has corrupted the morals and mental sanity of a large portion of Europe. In older to exclude the itifedion, some line of demarcation is necessary to be drawn between Britain and the infeaed re- gions ; and, if more cannot be done, at least that set, to whose early care :aid instrueion, we owe the religious and virtuous impre►sions of the infantine ansi youthful age, should be preserved pure and im maculate ; so as to be rendered the instruments of health and safety to others, whom curiosity or inat tention may have exposed to the contagion. If we will take the trouble to compare the moral and religious state of England with that of France and Italy, and to appreciate the probable charaeter of masters imported from either of those countries, we may judge bow far it can Se wise and j :elicious, or even fit and decent, that the instralion of our daughters and sisters, in music, drawing, French, and the variety of crowded and incumbered accom plishments, which do now make essential parts of female education in every rank and station of life, should be intrusted to such adventurers, tin.tured as many of them Must be with foreign habits and vice; and this too, of young women in the bloom of youth, at the period when the female charafler is to be formed, and when every exertion ought to be made to fix 114 elensal and ancaried print/ides' ,f religion end rinse on Vie mind. Those who have had any opportunity of appreciating the superior de gree of taste, talent, refinement of fePling, and sym pathy of chArafter, which many English women pusseu, may correily ascertain, whether they are by nature unfitted to communicate instruCtion to their own sex, and how tar the employment of fo reign men, for the education of English semen, is a necessary and incorrigible evil. The personal attendance of male hair-dressers, shoe-makers, and stay-makers, in the dressing rooms and private apartments of our fair countrywomen, has beet frequently noticed, not only as indecorous, but as derogatory to the charafter and intrinsic pu rity of the sex. It should seem natural fee lemale delicacy to accept, as an attendant at the toilet, the assistance of a virtuous and well educated English man, in preference to men, unknown, unaccree dick!, and no otherwise reeonunended than by hay ing beet. imported from Use shores of Fraace or Italy. It sheiid also seem natural for ladies who feel what is due, either to their own charaner, or to the unprotected of their own sex, to desire to fre quent those shops only, from wh.nce the employ ment and assistance of women are not entirely ex cluded; and to avoid- those, where files of athletic men, ranged in order behind the counter, are em ployed, like Hercules in the service of Omph tie, in the most minute, trivial, and effeminate occapations of the female sex. In the execution of the proposed plan, it is of great importance for those ladies, whose talents and dis cretion will dire the efforts of their benevolent co• adjutors, to caution them not to attempt too many, or too extensive objects; an attempt, which may.ex cite the jealousy and hostility of some, who might otherwise have been disposed to have given, 11 , 4 merely their wishes, but their aid, to the attainment of proper and practicable objects. If, without car rying the war into the aggressor's country, the fair sex can only regain the territory which h is been wrested from them,—or (to drop the inerAph , -) if, without interfering with any occti; , ation which pro perly belongs to men, they can resume those which do peculiarly and exclusively appertain to their own sex, those which public monds and female de-ency require to be in the hands of women, and which the candour and good sense of every unprejudiced man would admit to be proper for women only; and if to this they can add, for the benefit of the ignorant and unproteted of their own sex, such a degree of ed 'cation, as may make them useful to themselves and to society, and may impress them with the prin ciples of religious and moral truth ; millions, who might otherwise have sunk in misery and vice, will live innocent and happy; will live to commernoraie the viruses, and record The names, of their benefte tress^s; as the friends, not only of their country, but of the human race. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. FoarsmouTu, JULY 13.. . - Sailed the Prospero and Meteor bombs, to join the squadron off Havre; and the Scourge sloop of war, with a convoy for the Dosvns. The Orpheus frigate, and the Ranger sloop of war, were ordered to be fitted for foreign service. The Prolpero and Meter sailed by signal, in con sequence of the gun-brigs at H.svre having been reinforced, and ready to come out. _ VIAL, JULY 13. Sailed His Majesty's ship Rezalas lot Yarmouth. Arrived the //innev sloop of war from Yarmouth. Came down the nigstow armed ship, and remains in the Downs with die ship :13 per last. ir•L;LucrH, Jur y U. Arrived the .I.::ktand packu, Capt:tin Sbuyler, with a Mail from LiL'-on, in eight days passage. Sailed the Priocr .1.601p1.us packet, Captain-Boul derson, for Barbadoes and Jamaica; the Dirties. packet, St. Aubyn, for Lisbon; Princess Apulia packet, Captain Stevens, for Halifax, and New York ; Led.. and Squirrel sloops of war, with the following ships under convoy, viz. the Ant, Bowles, for St. Vincent's, Dish of Palialetl, Barclay, Diaae, Barnard, Rebecca, Prolamin, and Charming kilts,, Hodgson, for the South - fleas ; and Little gone, l . attin, for Africa. HisNalesty's ship Gibrakar, of 80 guns, with a fleet under convoy from the Mediterranean, arc ar rayed off Portland.—Wind N.E. FROM LLOYD'; LIST. Guava/ash, Jct.? 13.—Pa tad by the I)..rt,llll'Lana ; The. 11.1..ckie ; Bellona, Munro; Kinguon, Swam; Rambler, Richards, Brothers, Fahz.la; and Sprightly, Dun, (run. the Sutall Sr•aa; r.wreuer, firm M..gadore; C nnmerce, from Bartel.mil Lucian.. Sagnatary, Surradge, &owl Kam; Howard, Horn, from llautaie. Sailed the Chriatiaua Ellaibeth, and the Wellart, for &elation. IREI.AND. DUOLIN, mr.y In Saturday, Mr. John Munk!, of the co. and Mr. Wm. McDermott, of the co. Westmeath, farmers, State Prisoners, confined some time back in Kilmainham Gaol, were liberated. Yesterday, Mr. PAC. Dunn, And Mr. John Pat tet son, State Prisoners, were transmitted from Kil mainham to Naas Gaol; they arc residents of that town. The batteries of Westmorland, Camden, and Carlisle for the defence of Cork harbour, have been put in complete order—their ditches have been deepened, their embrazures new sodded, and many of their guns mounted on traverse carriages of such a construaion, that a single man can point the hea. viest 24 pounder in any named direCtion. They are manned with a seled detachment of the Royal Ar tillery, and one of the garrison battalions, which is now as expert at the great gun exercise, as if trained in the praCtice of Woolwich. The new fortress iw tended on Spike will be a regular hexagon, the area of which will comprehend nearly half the island. Saturday morning, arrived in Cork harbour, the Ceres, of Arundel, T. Leewick, in fifteen days from Bourdeaux, she brings the account that, though there prevailed the usual tranquillity in that city, yet great indignation was apparent at the elevation of the Usurper to the imperial Dignity, of which no intimation had been received there, until it was formally and irrevocably annuu:,:cd.- 1 , IVaterford Horn, .1 TaAttt. juNr Friday 1-4,t, in digging under part of the founda tion of the Castle of Tidier, the remains of three human skeletons were found : two of the skulls were perfect, but the third in pieces. These are suppi sod to be the bones of Henty Davers (D'Anvers, or I)avels), Micah (or Meade), two judges, and Ar thur Carter (or Charters), camp master of Munster, who were treacherously murdered in that Castle by Sir John Desmond, brother to the Earl of Desmond, in the year 1579, when they :topped in this town on their return to the Lord Deputy (Sir Henry Sidney) in Dublin, after delivering a commission from him to the Earl of Desmond, to join the Royal Forces; which he refused. Two more skeletons were dug up from the foun dation of this Castle, on Tuesday, supposed to be the bodies of some of the attendants on the above Commissioners, who were also murdered by the partisans of Sir John Desmond, as Raymond, a Ulack, and others, are particularly mentioned. and that oily one kith lacquey escaped the slaughter. -- • CORONER` , INQUEST. ik. '. On Saturday Saturday an inquisition was held on the hod ! of Mazy Lac, who expired late on Friday n i g h t a t ' - "I St. Geerge's Hospital, in consequence cf a fall from a two pair of staft - windoto in Market -lan e 'r •, Sr. James's market. The poor suff erer, i t - ' -Tea , - ed, supported three small Childriu by t a ki ng j a w- as'Ang, and war. hanging some li nen out t ( , dre when she unfortunately fell into th e Ftreet, ar,.: f:-.‘,Fni-ed her skull. Two Surgeons i n t;.e n.igls- h,.mhood were sent for, who gave iinn:c.iiate a, ; ,.;. :rice, and sent the deceased to the H ospita l , - while mu she di , d in t few hours after her arrival, Verd i a n • .1,.. Lulea/ a nth. Ei relemism ......40, AirrriN.:s OF CREDITORS, A r GUILIHIALL, TO•111(.11110W. It R . .1•,:,n I lehrett, Piccadilly, books-uer • • 1) 1 lea s Briggs, Belvidere Owe, 5:. Georg.% -fielil4, bone L dealt . . • . . • • 3 1 In William Mont, late. of the Shand, trusamakrr , 3 Samuel Watson, Btakeney, Norfolk„ onto iners•roo.• s .:, r, J011(55 Percival, a priemer in the King's Beryl, 1•., • •ri, stable keeper . . . • 3 • i ... .frihr , Field. XV,rtforrl, Herta, pilfer . • I.` r Genres: Corr 4. irai, t.orey•street. bury-at.hle•keeper . 1 ; 41 J DIVIDENDS. 36 Dodlr.r Jolmaon, St. Paul's Clturchiard, trunk maker . 10 Abraham Dane., Maidenhead, ill rrks, bran.lyanierellaut 1$ II mlli ai p ramards, New Bond ..ti.at,•,- - 'd.aaith . ,Ig CERTIFICATE I„ William Smith, Were Bromwich, Stafford, butcher. , William float:Alison, Little F.anchem, merchant. Thomas Shipley, late of Waket, tkansonst, eoach-matter. . . .... PRICK OF srLars. OAT '' '''' • II per Cent. Reduced stl4 • 4 per Cent Centel* . —. - . gper Cent. 5avv.........•.............. Ail g per Cent. I. :yalty ..........„...95 i 2, Lung Anroto•i a lin penal 5.. o Cent . • 33' Ditto Annuities 9 9 I .. Onininm . 344 M Camels ter opening l7 T. SKI', .itack Ke i t, 4, Curohill. ale! 9, Charily Cm,. 801 PRICE OF IRISH Stua:AS,Jeam 7. Government Deb. 31 per Cent 6li Ditto stock 34 per c ...1 Grand Canal Loan, 3 per C.-nr . a Royal Canal Loan, 6 :er u.sior ... - ' COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Fato4r. JLior la Anasterhos .... 37 10 8 U• V.:nice 7l i Ditto .4 sight .. 37 d Na..les Rea-edam C . T. .11 18 8 11. L-siesei Harnburglo..... 33 7 111 U. Ill:aorta Altona SS 13 941 J Uulrlin Paris 1 •lay's (Lot , : 05 4 foe Ditto ..... 25 12 2U. •111.1100. 4. I. A LI Bourdeaux .2) 12 I Portugal C. rhino C iin 1 Maria - -in Paper i per OIL UV , Cadis —uo Paper New, Ihillars Dino l4i infra. Silver ii. nits...—. 0 o o fliltroa .. . $5 ! . 4•1 L.,,,,10 -aeb ..„ 11 t • '• Leghornat it:4l3 on th- Rank et lia:1-13 ipt Gen•,a An • I 44 per Cent. Dublin on Loot4em (July 0... • I II a 4 P. 'i.,.1 con London (July 6! l4 B •Ifast on Doblin (July 6; MIR lift. Si At Hash, the Lady of Re ninon Clidulterre Es'. lea If Se .., Brortorirk 4..:hinne7v, )I.otatot a 4011. Ant At Cans ,ek ) near Standnrd, the Lady. o:Sir Jain Tailess, Bart. da detester. el MAR RIAGER. el Thomas Charles Stuart Culry, ESA. of Rottman. oh ;lbs Monaghan, and of Badiebona', oa. Cavan, to Mia AMY DI .401. 100, a.eond daughter of Sir Join Dillon, of LIANAS, it. Meath, Bart. IP • Charles Ogle Wdif, Esq. late of London, to Me Tams of Cayel.street. At Cor'oo, Win. Jenkins, E. to Miss immilim, Millell •i of the late Dr. Tressilian of 12 Milan. —as Lately. ila Scot: and, ;tr. o-n. Siiar,Te, of Louth, to Nit ICI Onset, only daughter of john Chair; Esq. Wybaso II ,ire, . Lincotnsh're. On W"lnewill; by this Rey. John Praise, renew d Et. John's College, Cambridge, Roger WO:vet, Esq. si Talibill. Yorkshire, lately Commandav of the Piince Willem Wm, ir l fast homman, to Miss Fairer, eldest olii , •:ghter of the 9 8 1 . lb Thom.. Foster, of Titsweß, Rotlnn 'shire. 7 10, DEATHS. MIN Winter, one of the (1 •vernesses of the vmint farlies 16 Seminary at Stamford, suddenly, 011 %V. 4111,1114 V 114. 'or dr J breaking of a blood mail. A few minutes before she INS beer. in apparent health. On Wednesday morning, at his house in R ichmood•pless . Beaeori•hill, near Bath, Benjamin Bucknall, t.q. 0.1 Monday last, at he. lodgings on the Neil) Parade, Beta wh,re hr hail unrest but a few hoots before, Comsat II sehe, Eli. lie had occasionally vis test that city, and *Who 190 tat tame house, for upwards of th rty years, sraying each ' cle No about a week or ten days. Hc paned ha life it, a r.. 0 '.•" 1 the round of travelling, generally on fiat, and always imam rredo through a sanely of cou nt r i es . Th e l e t, Nitro Thichnon a 1 EA. had met Mr. Kelton in mina peas of Elamite i 555d0 51. 'n -^ recollect aright, once in AilllctiCl. He espmial him as so La- te:lrv-in and moth: naive r hiramer e ; but (like himself ) Terre.' centric, anti always w.roderdog. lie was remarkaler for maid 9 his payments M guirioas that appeared new, or weltahowdel: upv.od. of 800 .1 witch were in his I nimessiou at ehe tow el' ho 'leash. eel At Tralee, in the bl o o m o f youth, Miss Ellett Dow. second doughtier of Edward Dunne, Esq. M. I). u: that tc..a. sp i On Wedu ..sday evening, in his lid year, Wilheni MO IA more, Esq. nit..ullev.street, Womaninatatr. Rk ~.. On Friday last, in Little Argyle-street, Mrs. at —ow- elm • maw 1 ht. of John Howells ' Esq. of Prinkuaalo Park, in Glouceacishi:e. Lately, at her Lowe, in Great George street, tVeatinualvt Ch Newenham. . 4 , On Saturday, at his house in LiarelBl%. lll9- Fie ll s M ' M OM, one of Me blaster, in Chancery. Same duly. Mr. Oldfield, who was also • Maas i . ie Chs ll,4 ; for fifty ye..., and is said to have died Worth helf.a Silbg. 5 : money. Thi. gentleman was Wiwi Mr 110M0 VDU. 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