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ill a f be q II 4.A.MPOr ... ""Oir PAnitAMENT.IRY INTELLIGENCE. F 1 il • PRICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Barak lli I I i i Dittu Acct. 95/1 I:'! , :nsii Roads - 78i 9 I 5.A..) Aut. 734 C..loiiih. Ron& 85 i 1 ii lbws Aco. Iri 4 pi.to Scrip, par j I I I I AI II . . ; pin . I Ditto Acct. I di* I pm par I 4 . ... .. . lOd 4 , 11111 a La's ri Bo iv lirzA SaM 10 9! dis Vit.., :tea. 10 din A'..Airm Burials MI Di:' , i 1 In 2i 3 pm Dmo Acct. 4 11 0 111 J jTI :;.; 2 : 3 Pm Nrapolit:m lkindi 91 i„ ' Bilbao - Barcelona Seville . 42ibraliar - 351 301 ",i; ~. 1 4j LI; '1! i~ Ir ~' I 1, •' ' I i i' „ ' l~ NOTICES OF MOTIONS THIS DAY. Mr. Hume—Return of Coaandunents by Magistrates in Eng lend, Scotland, and Ireland. Mr. Monte—Cowther's Inquest at Lewisham. Mr. Martin (of Galway to abolish Bear-baiting, and other cruel sports. Mr. %latterly—Return of expense of PavVig, Lighting, and %Fetching the 'Metropolis, foe the last seven years. Mr. Hutchinson— fo present Petition from Cork, regarding tho Claims of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. ORDERS OF TIIE DAY. Superannuation Mond Bill—Committer. Cutlery Trade Regulation Bill—Second Reading. Entailed Estates (Scotland) Bill—Second Reading. Tenants Relief ( Ireland) Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Land TIM Redemption Bill—Coutniittee. Saving Banks Bill—Third Reading. Law Expenses (Ireland) Bill—Committee. Examination of Witnesses Bill—Report. Horses Slaughtering Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Lancaster County Courts Bill—Committee. Warehousing (helmet) Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Salt Duties Repeal Bill—Third Reading. Grand Jury Presentments Bill—Third Reading. Dublin Police Bill__Report. Duchy of Cornwall Bill—Third Reading. East India Trade Bill—Third Reading. Fisheries Bill—Third Reading. Cs spnrators Ireland i Bill ti coed Reeding. Haleborough %Valk (Northampton) Inclosure Bill—Third Reeding. Transportation of /)Winders Bill—Third Reading. Newfinindland Marriages Bill—Report. Public Credit (Ireland) Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Etrhequt.s. Bills (Public Works) BiU—'f hird Reading. Magistrates Indemnity Bill—Second Reading. .TfiEKS I'INTERDAr. PC111 , 6211 Iti)figh Ditto Scrip 6 4 tlis Ditto Acct. Portuguese Bonds 914 Ditto Acct. 911 Prod* 11ortits9ti In Bonds (1112.2) 99i I Ditto Aces. Russian Bonds my Ditto Acct. 9:4 Spun. Vann. 214 Ditto bid &mils Ditto 179 & 2fril Bonds 201 Ditto Kr Bonds French Recites 104 f. Exchange Ylif. Stk. Ditto Scrip 16 1 pm Ditto Acct. iti 7pm Ditto Bank Shares COURSE OF EXCHA NOE YESTERDA Y. Amsterdam C. F. 12 4 Leghorn Ditto, at sight - 1 Deno* Rotterdam . 12 5 Venice Antwerp . 12 6 31alta 11a-nhurids . 37 7 Naples A Irons - .37 8 Palermo Path, 3 days' sight 25 45 Lisbon Ditto - - 25 75 ()ports Bourdeaux 25 75 Rio Janeiro Berlin - 710 Bahia Frankfort-on-the.3lain Imq Dublin Petersburgh - 9 Cork View' . 10 9 Trieste - 10 V Alsdrid Cadiz i 7 1141, bU. be. 9 9 1 DULLION• C. s. d. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 Forelin Gold in bars 3 17 0 New Doubloons 0 • 0 New Dollars 0 4 !IA Silver in bars • • • 4 1I i rein laritifsh flregiO. 7'H.EATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. TAI. Evening, WEDNESDAY. June 9. will be performed CHARLES THE SECtIND; or. THE MERRY MONARCH. King Charles the Second. Mr. t'. I:amble; Lord Rochester, Mr. Sonny Costa:it Cupp, Mr. Fawcett; Mary, Ulu M. Tres. After which. TWELVE PRECISELY. Brass. Mr. Yates; Amelia, NFL ellilterleY• To conclude with CLAIM 'fly! Unke Vivaldi. Mr.AbbMti Kolanw,. Mr. Fawcett; Clari. Wee M. Trim; Vesidna. /no Love. To-nnirrow, The Man of the World. and The Castellan'. Oath. R0Y,41, GARDENS, VAUXHALL. The Pimpriethei respectfully announee, that the Entertainments, which have reeelved such unbounded applause every evening since Vie comeneement of the present Seasim. wUI be It:PEATED Tills EV m ENING. WICDNEsUAY, June IS. and FRIDAY Pit:NT Yapper !loxes may be engaged. Woes opeu at gaireti.-- Ad mComer t isatua 3er commences at Eight dauck. dd. The BRITISH Pa cas commencedP4lli' , string 7esteeday enerniag at five LONDON, WEDNESDAY, Juxx 9, 1944. France, it appears, is endeavouring to revive her In dunce with the Porte, and taking measures to extend it, if mrsiible, in Persia, and throughout the East. Gullie s:inlet, the new Ambassador from the Court of the Thuil lerits to Constantinople, had sailed from Toulon on the otli of May, and was expected to reach the Turkish capital •by the close of the month. lie was accompanied by a nu merous suite of diplomatic characters, and also by several able officers of engineers, beside his Aid-de-camps, who served with bin. in Spain. Some of these individuals were appointed on missions into Asia, particularly, it is said, to Persia, where the French had been intriguing before. France was the ancient ally of the *Ottoman, from the period of the hague between Sultan Solingen and Francis the First, formal against the powers of Charles the Fifth, and which drew down a load of reprobation throughout Europe on the French Monarch. Franee possessed a large portion of the Levant trade previous to the Revolution, and had secured by treaties many valuable privileges in her in tercourse with Turkey, which it is the object of Gunk minors mission now to revive. Lord Strangiord's influence had fur waue time sunk with the barbarous Divan : the Porte was indignant at the aid afforded from this country to the Greeks, and nothing but jealous apprehen sion of the power of Russia, to control which the superior ascendancy of Great Britain was considered textuary, enabled our Ambassador to succeed against strung preju dices, and obtain a promise of the evacuation of the Prin cipalities. France cannot wish for the destruction fur the destruction of the Greeks, and she meet be opposed to the dangerous designs of Russia on the Turkish Provinces. The influence of Guilleminot will not, therefore, be op posed to that of lord StrangFenl; but, en all occasions, we' should tspect, be giaeu in aid ; as the views of Great Itri min alll4l France, as rtgard use political state of Turkey, and the situation of the Greeks, must be in a great degree the same. The object of our Calrinet is le prevent Russia front gaining a morecutended footing in the South East of Europe, and monopolizing the whole commerce of the Black Sea, besides raising a dominion, dangerous, from its ttbOUIVeS and extent, to the independence and tranquiPity of ether natit us. The policy of France must be in avoidance with these views; we eon, therefore, anticipate fuelling prejudice' to the interests of this country, or to the struggle of the Christians fax liberty in Greece, from, Gmlioninot's present mission to the Porte. Some of the Wait India islands, we regret to state, still appear to be far from tranquil. Letters from Demerara to late date in April, the substance of which are given in' the Glasgow Currier of hat Saturday, state that the militia and King's troops were both under arms In that island ; and that all business was utterly suspended. Information, i iv stated, was given to Governor Murray, that a g i ctieial 11iurrevtion of the slaves was concerted for Kamer Monday, and that their plan was to destroy the ...attire of the white population. The militia, in consequence, were all asat•m bh il in arms at the different depots, amounting, with the King's troops, to about 1,5t0u men. The slave population of Demerara a said to exceed 70,000, of whom near one third are ellvetive, able-bodied negroct. Whether this was alarm, or the rcn,:weil attempt at iinurrcetion wse really meditated, we cannot now attempt to pronounce ; but such a state of things is dreadful, and cannot endure; some change must take place. The protracted discussion on Mr. Smith's case will not act as a sedative on the minds of the negroes or the planters; it will be touch more likely to inflame both still further. Should another revolt have broken out in Demerara, dreadful consequences must have followed. We are inclined to think, however, that the 'alarm was unfounded; but precaution could not, under re cent events, go too far, and the strong array of determined opposition, and a large military force, must have had its efFect on the negroes, and probably have stifled any insur rection that may have been organizA. But in what a state must the white inhabitants be, with such nightly terrors around them, looking for insurrection in every bell that tolls, and surrounded by thousands of incenwd and hostile slaves ! The picture is indeed a dreadful one, almost too terrible for calm contemplation. Sergeant Onslow's rejected Bill for repealing the laws of this country against usury, and substituting other enact ments in their pine.% is worthy of notice during the present short recess ; and the subject of sufficient importance to command attention at any time. The three great sources. in any country, from which individuals derive a revenue from a fund that is their own, proceed either from labour, from stock, or the rent of land. The revenue had from labour is termed wages ; that derived front stock, by the party employing it, is rifled profit. The income derived, from it by the individual who does not employ the money himself, but lends it to another, is called the interest, or the use of money ; it is the compensation which the borrower pays to the lender, fur the profit which he has an opportunity of making, by the use of the money; part of that profit naturally belongs to the borrower, who taker on himself the risk of employing it, and part to the lender, who furnishes 1 ' with the opportunity of making that profit. The interest of money is always a derivative re venue, which, if it is not paid from the profit made by the employment of the money, must be supplied from sonic other source, often by contracting a second debt to meet the interest of the first. The man who borrows merely to spend must soon be ruined, and the lender is often in the same situation ; loans for such a purpose, except where gross usury is practised, consequently seldom take place: the security is too frail, and the chance of recovery too hazardous. As the quantity of money to be lent at interest increases, the profit which can be made by employing such capital necessarily diminishes. It becomes gradually more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capitaL The competition of capitalists raise the wages of labour, and sink the profits of stock. The interest of money, in the early periods of our history, was double its present legal rate; even the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, it was ten percent. A statute, passed in the 37th year of the first monarch's reign, enacted that no person should take or receive for forbearing or giving day of payment of money, wares, merchandise, or other things, above the rate of ten pounds for the hundred, by the year, under the penalty of treble the value of such money, 'wares, merchandises, and treble the value of any lands mortgaged, and under pain of imprisonment, and making fine and ransom at the King's pleasure. The 13th of Elizabeth, intituled " An Act against Usury," declared all bonclsand contracts, far the payment of money, on which a sum for interest above It percent. should be reserved, utterly void ; and all brokers, solicitors, and drivers of bargains, in the language of that statute,were subjected to the penalties of premunire. This statute went on further to declare, " That m all usury being forbidden by the law of God, is sin and detestabk," that all usury loan and forbearing of money, whereon more than 10f. per cent, should be re served, was to be punished by forfeiture of so much as should be reserved, by way of usury, above the principal lent; and any persons offending against the Act of Henry VIII. were to be punished according to the eccle siastical laws against usury. By the 21st of James 1., which Act was made perpetual by a statute, passed in the third of the reign of his unfortunate son, the first Charles, the rate of interest was reduced to S per cent. The 12th of Charles 11. reduced it to six ; and by the 12th of Anne, passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, it was brought down to its present rate of 3 per cent., this enactment still preserving the spirit of former statute', by rendering all contracts by which a greater rate of interest should be reserved, void, and rendering the parties taking a higher' me of interest subject to the forfeiture of treble the value of! the monies, wares, or merchandise lent, bargained, or ex changed. The sth of t korge IL, passed in the Parliament of Ireland, reduced the interest of money to 6 per cent. iu that kingdom. These arc the leading statutes regulating the interest of money, and rendering all contracts iu which more than 5 per cent. is reserved, in (heat Britan, and 6 per cent. in Ireland, null and void, and subjecting the lenders to treble forfeitures. These statutes Sergeant Onslow's Bill went to repeal. Mr. Locke, Mr. Law, and the celebrated Alontesquieu, with other writers, have given it as their opinion, that the discovery of America, and the consequent increase of the procious metals, was the great cause of lowering the high rate of interest through the greater part of Ettr.:pc. These metals, they say, having become, from their increase, of kss value the use of any particular portion of them became of les s value too, and consequently the price which coald be paid for it. This statement has been denied by Mr. Hume, and re futed also at considerable length by Adam Smith. No law, this celebrated economist adds, can reduce the common rate of interest below the ordinary market rate, at the time when that law is made. Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which LottisXV. attempted to reduce the rate of interest from 6 to 4 per cent, money through France continued to be lent at the higher rate of interest, the law being evaded in various ways. The ordinary marketriee of land depends almost everywhere on the rate of interest : when it was at In per cent. land was usually kohl fur ten and twelve years purchase; as the rate of interest sunk in the different countries of Europe to six, live, and four per cent. the price of land rose to twenty and thirty years purchase. The rate of interest has long been higher in France than in England. arid the common price of land is much lower: there it seldom rises above twenty years' purchase; here it generally sells at thirty. The MO sate of interest in early tins may be accounted for by the unsettled state of things which then prevailed. Among the barbarous nations who overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, ' the performance of contracts wen: left for many ages to the faith of the contracting parties. The Barons, who borrowed largely from the Jews and merchants, sel dom thought of re-payment ; enormous interest was there fore extorted fur the risk. The high rate of interest among all Allnuulmau nations is accounted for by Montesquieu, not from their poverty, but from the difficulty of recovering the money. In Bengal, and through • great part of Bin dostan, the ordinary rate of interest is at present twelve per cent. ; and in put times money was frequently lent to the Rayahs, or farmers, at forty and fifty per cent., while the succeeding crop was mortgaged for the payment. Be fore the fall of the Human Republic, usury of this sort appears to have been common under the ruinous adminis ' truth'', of the Pro-Consuls. The letters of Cicero inform us, that the virtuous Brutus lent money in Cyprus so high as eight and forty INT COIL Consider it its we may, the repeal of our Usury Laws is a most delicate and dangerous sultket. Su many settlements, deeds, and contracts are now connected with their existence. that it bt comes most hazardous to meddle with them The interest of money will always he regulated by the Ptepply. From the Arm dance of capital in this country, it has long been below the ' legal maximum : there is therefore no present necessity for the Bill of Sergeant Onslow, which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman has so often brought before Parliament, and means agaiu to revive in the next Session. . . „ of Ole drama. Actors, like other men, should know their proper grade and station. It is quite painful to see a man fit only to be a mute at CAssar's funeral, play the part of Brutus. Whilst other senseless things appear To know the limits of their sphere ; While not a cow on earth roniances, So far as to conceit she dances ; it is humiliating to human reason to witness men, who might pass over unobserved in the list of incumbrances in the chorus, expose themselves to unnecessary censure by undertaking the most difficult male characters in the whole range of the drama. Of Mb.s Courtensy we will simply say, "we cannot praise, and will not blame her." Amongst the annoyances of the night, a throng of noisy women at the box-door was not the least, brawling the sale of box ickets at half or a third of their price. years past, especially since the mission of the Marquis and which has been so long neglected on se:4'mi of the state of po. Mies. are now to be redressed as fur as possible; Count Guilleminut will therefore urgently demand the restoration to the French of all the privileges which they formerly enjoyed in tke Levant ; and however detrimental this may be to the interest of arother ranee, it is still hoped that he will attain his object. It'e understand that he is the bearer of magnificent presents for the Sultan, and for the 3linister uf the Porte. CADJZ. The following is an extract of a private letter from Cadiz, received yesterday : CADIZ, MAT " We exis.,rienced one of the most severe. , gales of wind on the 7th and Nth instant that has IN en witnessed in this bay for many years. It began to bb w from the north east. and cast on Saturday, and on Sunday it increased almost to a hurricane. " Nearly all the ships in the bay suffered, more or less; some, indeed, became total wrecks upon the rocks, and others di ifted over on the Port St. Mary's coast. The Spanish Patriot, of London, Captain Brea, was obliged to cut and put to sea, and the greatest fears were enter tained for her safety in passing the rocks, before she got clear of the bay ; however, she very fortunately escaped, and is now just returned to anchorage. An American vessel, laden with quicksilver, with her milts overboard, and dragged from her anchors, and deserted by the cap tain and crew, was seen at Svc o'clock on Sunday morn ing, on the opposite coast. She has since been got off with damage. " Sir J. M. Doyle left this place the other day for Lis bon. He succeeded in selling his steam-vessel to ad vantage to the Guadalquivir Company ; but owing to some private arrangements entered into at home with an other individual, he had many difficulties to surmount be fore the sale was completed." Greece ; ti Byron ant a Congre his death. rocordato.. • we are au of the L 4 ment. Tii hands of Mr. Blaqu not to pay ratified, no so that no of the boot tee intend until all th Paper. [The I Royalist p Eth of Ma On the a courier sioner to gurio Las following parted, having al the men% " Gm , sera Al would nu on the 5t the 7th II enterpris neral Co oration a stuck, 11 of six co of Legit does it of infant Colonel Tsleria ; be in a r Governs Mend ILI VIOCUait) .I.wweinredratirwe:latiAtifiteisr 1 FOREIGN I ATI: LLIG EXC 1111 11 111. E. L TII T. 47 RES. n Monday COVENI'.6.II{DEN. : ii.c r t r t a ii i i i . kfort Papers arrived yesterday, from evil' ' I IItANKFOR'f PAPEIti. --4.- followin. , articles. 'The oliservatior ,e ale ; 1 1 , , ,/ :a p t i re ne la ll s , t which iligi:t ,wtai,,l the x n c t i::. % 4 . I i t n n g e l l y o. w d r e a l! , i p a t. performed t i n !Li .ca w e 5 ,.. sx:k S , .wer Gros. i •S lir.:4. , i , , }l ,. lid' it lest. Una a IMM was repeated, with increased success. Nlarseilles, letter, on the mission of General Guilleitiinot t o ! c tire Portland- . 1 On the fall of the curtain, the applause was waon ant' ge- neral ; and, inflect', if the piece itself bad no Int :it (which 'Turkey, will he read with interest. i l ditll.rt iambics. LI:II.SW, MAY 21. _on the entertain-The fair is row ov er, or ,d 1 I we arc tar from insinuating, for we ri aro/ consider it one of ained good to the end. It goods hat e been i I general satisfactory, tho u ; h era, d ee : ' contracting tinguished th e best of its kind), the good aetitr:, 'Pi' Mrs Faucit and th er e leis not beeri so good a fair for these 3 Rei n g now • years, noire, tomes/tr. in a iiiilessle than in retail transacti (1 7, 7 cassiliis, T. P. Cooke entitled them to the reoard they received. ens, lent' ENGLISH °PI:11.141M 'sE. roco mlato, ead, lion , in tior bankers tool not Sit-anent money mi s zolongit In the very admirable 1.-prey:Matto,' of the peculiarities * to honour the liills‘drsur• of " Jonathan," which Mr. Mathews exhibits to very pecu o liarities. tthe principal of them applied on the 1:411 M ia ; . 1 , , eve ,ral iim invitationconcluded t imberland crowded audiences at the Englisli I tp:ra-llouse, we were f,. repay „...,,,in 4 ic i i i Ti , mi , i i i . :., ,, :i n ai d lartf irec tl , i t ars , , ,e7, hich ty peen.:se.l h t.. ac he 1 per c•-ri t l on ., • any f i particularly amused with his account of a visit to the interest. As 05.11 •as the King of Saxony was informed tit' ii u ' • 111, on the 1 African "Eheatre. Ile there saw the tragedy of Hamlet • widles lie ordered :ost.iiiiir dollars to be ii in • ' r iediattl i expla.iPed t i au. .re. I vacceS to the six hmkers who arts*. • • .h I • 1..... ,i a , fi r i x r e, me i d 4. that a liar sem for tut.. other wit.iout in gentlerl llll crrs . Ihe other :thst,li millers are sty be grar.ted them on . and the several parts entrusted to sable represent- , t , .. • • , •Lr t contraffict I otit on the 1 n at e i t v r es a' . One of the semi-barbarians , petcion of their request. and to be lit're bthe Ist f June. 4 r '' . u ticularb ; th tingulshed flumfet, and he, la ir excalence, was denominated the Afri- - Tire first :00.1100 dollars arrived the day .. -barbarians, of course, p;"rsonateil before yesterd ay • treet. I can Roscius. Although we have not visited this theatre, we bankers, however, do not accept the loanwlthou Y • aY . de- : I ' "P litt .tl / 4 1111 'nation for I fancy that last eve •g we witnessed a rwrformance exceed- I clam' they will pay it for the benefit of some eha t rit n aTil ' t* b i ut .c -.. e instau..en, : the ° the il ! . , which t h ey l ea ve it to his 111 se his' rimly like that which Mr. Mathews ii p seribes. There iii t . -. 'it. yto determine. This is 2 Om, : conduct w 1 • 1 ay, at 0 i. g proof u t h e . noble sentiiiitnts of the Kirg and of liii subject. , condition . was this difference—and alrrocr this onry —that the tra- ' • her .'; has to y, for n , play selected for misrepresentation last evening was not licia, beeanie more numerous towanls the middle i" "'in " Gal. I Mud, I, but MacheM : but in other respects, in speaking there was, consequently, a greater demand flue silk, wouiler . .Fr uld .4 bY t he tit at the St , i • a language which the actors did not understand ;inan ' and cotton manufactures, than we have •had for many y ,.;: er ' • 1 VrhiC VI i Almost all articles , in fact, have been more or less in 1;0 , 4 tet:uw , fro i xon, En. !apparent doubtfulness wheth 1' a farce or a tragedy w " and many manufacturers le f t d us before the end of the f 1-, (~saes: wi to be performed ;in a perfect ignorance of the history of dispose of their whole stock. It is said we may expert 0. , : t„,:.,...,.. . .14 .lampion, the period, of the romantic feeling associated with it, and ' giant and • • h americans in • • i sou: to be, future, constant visit i -Me re; Sniith ! of the deep and varied pas.sions in which it abounds,—both ; i MAIrsFiLl i• May ir p a and 31ins i performances were we should think !precisely similar. A It is calculated that General GLIM • ' •• * • i• .• em ino r, our new A ait‘avtat.ol , o ini , Rev. 1). ! Mr. Barry played 21fa,beti : it was his flit appearance, and • the Porte, who sai:ed front Toulon on the hill, will arrive at tor. 1 . we i i i s sea t , the novelty consisted not oily in the person but the per- ' stantinople by the end of this mont h. lie is accompani e d. not . ai 111 tly by s e veral diulionatic ' • char& ters, but by serend able officers tb d Thomas formatter ; there has been no precedent we believe of such , o ol t . • engineers, beak es his old Aides de I 'amp, so that his rttinue it an nal• has acting, and it would puzzle posterity to find its parallel. i ft; very siumemos. Nome of these persons are intended fur missions wh llt had at least the merit of originality, for it was as unlike to Asia, especially to Persia. whither's()) e ,fthe off also t ir ath Hotel hi ' i Kean, Kemble, or 'Macready, as it was anything rational :he seat- On the whole, Guilleniinot appears to have special order; I I , Odium, lor even remotely intelligible. It is really surprising to ^eel tie,! 'piny all the means in his power to restore the in fl uent? of ani I fifth rate t rance, which has to greatly declined since the Revolution. The I persons who might be tolerated as fourth or esent state of thing s is very , favourable ro this plan. of a His serene !actors, aspire to the assumption of the leading characters I I. The emmilsints which the trench • merchants love auditor madly uniting Victor von I ....e at— .I---- a —.-- 1tt.......et.—. in... ch..1”1.1 t•,...., ilw.ir veses ssacr - ..........4.11...;...... a,- .- MUSICAL PRODIGY. We were yesterday gratified by hearing Master George Aspull perform on the piano -forte, at his lodgings in Cork-street, Bond-street. Our readers are already aware of the notice bestowed upon this musical prodigy by our revered and gracious Monarch ; and there can be no one who delights in " the concord of sweet sounds," but must hear Master Aspull with astonishment. He is not yet nine years of age—he has all the external appearance of placidity and quiet; but a closer inspection, particularly during his performance, shews an intensity of mtnd, which the poverty of language prevents us from describing. Master Aspull plays as a master ; you can see the keys and the notes, but you are astonished at the rapidity of his finger, and the evenness of his tones. Give him any sub ject and he instantly seizes it—he then runs through the most surprising variations in every possible key, and resumes the subject with an enticrty of power, which almost exceeds credibility. His father and one of his 'brothers have been his only instructors; and we under stand that it is not more than three years since they made the first discovery of his extraordinary musical genius. lie is seen to most advantage while at the piano -forte, with which he almost seems identified. We heard him for nearly two hours, and did not our duty call us from him, we could have heard him for any time. This may seem a little hyperbolical ; but let Master Aspull be heard, and we are confident what we have said will scarcely do him justice. Mrs. Davison appeared at the Inverness Theatre on Wed nesday last in the character of Lady Teazle. We understand that the King and Queen of the Sand wich Islands intend honouring the White Conduit Gardens with their prewnce, on Friday next, to view the ascent of Mr. Graham's magnificent balloon. We observe, by the arrangements making in the Gardens, that Mr. Gra ham has taken two houses on the right-hand aide of the Gardens, which, we hear, arc to be fitted up for the recep tion of their Majesties. THE C.ALCCLATING BOV.—The patrons of George Bidder, the celebrated calculator, (whose juvenile powers excited so much mtonishnient in his day,) have obtained for him an appointment in the Royal Engineers. Ile has recently joined the party now stationed at Cardiff; em ployed in the great national survey carried on by Major j Colby, in order to be instructed by an eminent professor in the surveying department, for which his natural talents so eminently qualify him. lie is a very tractable, promising I youth, and has attained a good classical education, under the gratuitous direction and tuition of some eminent who- - ---• lays at Edinburgh. Ile retains the power of memory and', Last night, at a quarter before eleven o'clock, the King calculation un i mpa ired in the slightest degree !—Gloucester arrived at his Palace in Pall-mall, from Windsor. Journal. Princess Augusta rode out yesterday in an open car- st ...LATH or THE SICILIAN DWAIIP..—Mre are sorry to riage and four, in the neighbourhood of Chelsea. announce the sudden demise of this most interesting child. The Duchess of' Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester I visited Prince Leopold yesterday. She had been for some time afflicted with a cough, and the untoward changes in the weather, during several days of The Duchess of Clarence dined with the Duchess of hat week, had a visible effect on the general state of her Kent, at her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensington. health. On Thursday last she was exhibited as usual, The Royal Duchesses honoured the Italian Opera Howe' and received upwards of '2OO visitors; towards the evening with their presence in the evening, i a languor sppered to come over her, and on her way from Tue DUKE or YORE 'S LEVEE.—Yestertlay afternoon , n , the exhibiuon-room she expired. Miss Crachami, the at four o'clock, the Duke of York held a Com- . name by Levee, as Of ce in the Horse Guards which she was known, was the daughter of a wander-in-Chief, at his O , which musician ; she was born at Palermo, in Sicily, and on was attended by— account of her diminutive size was considered' a ',hello- I The Marquis of Bute. herd Brtidencll, Lord George Mcrenford, General Cockburn ; bieuienaat-Genernle--.Sir Thomas filakT, , mime. The Duchess of Parma . and a few distinguished Sir Warren Peacock, Sir John Oswald and I/inborn ; Major Ge.. I persona, were allowed tone her, but she was .not to nerale—the lion. Branch, Sir C. P. Haan, sir John lsl. h Lexhibited until she was brought to England, in t te latter colm, Sir Victor Von Aretitshchildt, Sc o tt, Hamilton end of last summer, since which she has been exhibited and Mainwaring ; Admiral Markham, and scar fifty other M I ili- at Oxford, Birmingham, and Liverpool. and of late in t tare Officers. Landon, anal was unquestionably the moat curious of all The Archbishop of Tuam, and Lord Dyneror, are the dwarfish candidates for public favour that have visited amongst the latest arrivals at Cheltenham. I his tintropolis. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Sarah Re- I Avery interesting meeting is to be held to-dae, at the binson, arrived in town yesterday morning from Charlton. ] , ,_.s. The Marquis of Exeter and his bride are entertaining a 1 aemesim s atom, to take into consideration the f o rmation of a ship canal between the English and Bristol Channels. select party of friends at their stet, lurleigh, Lincoln- , At Seraniore (the seat of the Baptist Mission in B.mgal) shire. i on Sunday the 1 tae December, the sacrament of baptism I An ele g ant villa and grounds near Boulogne-star : was administered to a respectable Jewess, daughter of 1 is announced for public sale, at the Hotel in that town.: Jos,pli Levi, by Fre de St. Augustin°, Vicar of the Roman We believe Mr. George Robins will be the first of his pro-' 'Catholic Church at the above-mentioned place. She was fission whose aid has been required . for the sale of estates christened by the name of Maria. in France. It is rumoured in the political circles, that Mr. With< r force will conclude his parliamentary Ills 11htiesty a steam packet Harlemdn, Captain Evan s, exertions w i t h t h e 1 arrived at Milford at ten o'clock on Friday morning, with speech he intends to deliver on Mr. Brougham's motion, re _ I snail at and passengers, in eight hoursfrosu Dunmore, in li'a- Lien pe g to the Rev . Mr. Smith, the Mirasionary, on Friday i terford harbour.-I)ablia Patriot. next.—Muening l'aper. I Dr. Napier, medical practitioner at Berrie, deprived We are happy to state, that the paragraph that appeared ' himself of existence on Wednesday, the 19th ult. by open in the newspapirs a short time ago, relative to the death of ing veins in six places, and consequently bleeding to death. Mr. George Dawson, the brother of Lord Portartington, is The deceived was touch respected, when living, and is now false, as we have seen a letter, dated 7th April, from a greatly lamented, particularly from the awful manner in Gentleman, who was with him at Puerto Rico, at which which he relinquished time for eternity.—Caledonian time he WAS in perfect health. At errnry. AFFAIR or lloisoea.—A duel was fought yesterday To DETECT ALUM IN RED IVise.—Add to the wine a morning, at the cross roads, beyond the Brewery Docks, sufficient quantity of a strong solution of chlorine in water close to Beggar's-bush, between a Mr. Dawson and a Mr. (oxygenated inuriatic acid), until it is changed to a yellow Itynd. In the list round the shots inked; in the second, colour; let the precipitate (composed of the chlorine and Mr. Rysid received his antagonist's ball in the right breast. the vegeto-animal matter contamixt in the wine), which The bullet was found in the grass. The wound is not immediately forms, become settled ; then filter the liquor, mortal. 'flee cause of the duel is not known.—Dublin and evaporate it to one-fourth of its volume; it will then, E _ rrning Fiat. _ . _ in consequence of the presence of the alum, b are an angels- Yisronnicsa—Normanby. Lords--Stanley, liendleaham, Lynedoch, Arden, Graves, J. Thynne, 0. Reresford, Prudhoe, G. Cavendish, Rivensourth. Ladies—Tullamore, Lucy Clive, C. Lennox, H. Laseelles, lenborough, Hendleshant, W. Wynn, E. Montagu, Graves, C. Becket, 'forma, rt. Percy, L. Norman, H. Chichester, APFarlane, Frances 11. Lucent-a. Ambassadors and Ministers—Russian, Prussian, Danish, Hano verian, Neapolitan, Portuguese, SVirtemberg. Ridwp—London. Rizht ilunonrables—Gen. Canning, W. Huskisson, J. Beckett. Sirs—J. shelley, A. Barnard, W. W. Wynn, H. Terms, A. Murray, J. Kemp. Generals-42mm% mot, Bayley. o)lo444—Watley. Cuptain—l'unroy. Ali...ars—Cullol smith, Disbmwe, Bolton. Mialressrs—Manners Sutton, Conroy, l'alinter, Bolton. Misers—Threc 3lanners Sutton, Liddell. We understand that four gentlemen of the Irish har have just been raised to the dignity of King's Counsel, viz. Messrs. Warren, P. Crampton, North, and lkll.— DuLlua r,,5,._ . geut, sweetish taste, and will furnish a while precipitate, on the addition of nitrate of l'arytcs, which is insoluble in water and in nitric acid. It will give a yellowish-white precipitate with pure potass, that is soluble on the addition -- The - new Novel of the Creat " Known Unknown" was to have been delivered in London the first week in June. . . of nit excess of the potass ; and a precipitate, of the same coAmr, with the sub-cartxmate of soda, which is deaom- The author, we understand, has taken a more enlarged an.ll pmted, liv the action of heat, into carbMiie acid gas and liberal view of one of the main incidents in the story, and alum, sul)stanctil easily to be rceognized by their charas thereby occasional a short delay. ' fcristics.—Etiowntist. COLOMBIA. We yesterday received a series of the Carsceas Journal, El l'enezuFano, to the 10th April inclusive. The following are extracts:— `l . CAMILCCAS, APRIL 3. " M. Chamserian, charged by the French 'Government with a commission to that of the Republic, arrived in this city on the 27th ult. The character in which this Envoy presents himself, gives ground to hope, and even warrants our assuming, that his mission hither has no other object than the establishment of friendly relations, reciprocally advantageous to France and Colombia. It would be im rudent on our part, further to hazard the slightest con.. Jecture in regard to his mission ; let us confidently hope for the best, until the period arrives far making it known. " In the mean time we are enabled to demonstrate to the public the sentiments which now animate the French Government in vgard to this country. They are expressed in the following letter, addressed by the brave Governor of Martinique, General Count Donzelot, to the Intendant of Venezuela. (Ilete follows the letter alluded to, and which was given in the British Press of Friday, the 4th instant.) THE WEST INDIES. We quoted yesterday, fronM — Glasgew herald of Fri day, a paragraph stating, that the Paragon had arrived in the . Clyde front Demerzra, whence she sailed on the 20th April, at which time all was perfectly tranquil. The Glarguu• Courier, however, which has frequently tarly in telligence from those Colimits, contains the following Tay diffetent account of the state of Demerara.. From the (iltitgoi,. Coot ier.i By the Paragon, arrived in the Clyde last Thursday a ft ernoon. we have received tiles of Demerara Papers to the _llth, and also private letters to the 21st April. These bring us the intelligence that to that date nu open revolt had taken place, but that the most alarm and anxiety prevailed. Every man was at his pat: but let the following extract of a letter, written on the evenbig of the Pith, by a well-informed and old resident in the Cology, speak to our readers the true state of affairs. The reported insurrection in Surinam io by no means impropable, and will add to the damp.: of Demerara. LITUA:.'T OF A LETTER yr.om Dr.xtitEnA, RECEIVED IX TOWN. OF IJTII APRIL LAST. " We have all been under arms for the last ten days, care. queutly no business has been done. About the paled just tutu. tinned, information was giver: to the Governor, that that was to be a general rising of the slaves, on Laster Mor.day (this day), and that it was their intention to destmy the whole of the white popula tion. A discovery, however, has fortunately prevented the attempt at least till the hour I am now wri:ing (7 r.nt.) Our eauntry Militia arc all assembled at the different depots, and we bare about four hundred of the 27th regiment ; altogether about 1,2n0 under arms. Our slave population is 70.000, of which 20,020 are efftc tire able-bodied men, yet we consider ourselves more than a match for them. But the system now pursuing at home, will, in a very Mort time, effect the total ruin of the Colony. It Is quite im possible to do any business, from the constant sghation in shich people's minds are kept, and we see no probability of a aptedy to - mination being put to this sate of thlngs. " P.S. I hear there has been an insurrection In Surinam, and a great many lives lost." I We Tepee extremely to observe„ from a Barbadoes Paper (Tie Globe), that a dangerous spirit of insubordination is rapidly ex tending itself amongst tt:e slave popuhtion of that Colony. The master's authority 1.11 generally disregarded, and treated with der aims and contempt. Hence proceed acts of violence. and continued and open scenes of dissipation and debauchery, which no threats of punishment tan deter. Such only pioroke insoler.ce and defiance in mum. The strongest measures of precaution are recom mended. " Every day, ' says the alter, " discovers sore re' cause of alarm.' SCARCITY AT MADRAS. The statements respecting the scarcity of rice at Madrm which we copied yesterday, and the fears esressA famine, are, we are happy to find, greatly - The accounts received in the City arc from CaJeu::.: of ,the and Bengal of the '2sth januaiy. The rice had seriously failed in the vieMity of :Vidras, and ce: s.- dcrably about Bombay (as we stand scm:. time ago). I slightly in the usher rice districts; and from the tpumti:y . left over from previous crops, no f e ar s w e r e e nt e rtained o f a famine, though the pressure fcr grain at Madras early in January was considerable ; supplies would,. however, doubt pour in from the other ports, and we do net fin: the prices of grain so much advanced as might be ex pected. From Calcutta !reports 22d January:—(;rain in brisk demand; Moongy rice has risen considerably, other 5:7:4 have little varied. Premmt Prite. Late Price. Moongy Ist, 3. 3. a 2. 4. 2,1, 2. 0. a 2. 2., Wheat Dotida, 2. 7. a 2 3 Patchery and Ballum rice no alteration. No Pails cr Rauree at market. Such was the great abundance of money at Bengal in Jaruary, that the interest of the Government Bank had fallm from Sand 6 per ce.:t. to Ti. PANITIOV.IBtE IWTILLIGE.VCE. The Countess of Groseeno r gave a splendid rout on evenir.g, in l'pper Groseenor-street : the grand andspaciotc ing rooms and library exhibited great brillianey.—'l here w , sent upwards of fou r hundred of the /Nat Ito. Lady M. NValpole's rout on Monday evening, in Lot. venor-street, was very numerously ant fashionably attended. Mr. and Mess Ditprit's ball, on Monday evening, in Po place, WWI attended by upwar.fa of 200 distinguished fashional The Dowager Marchioness of Cs e'er gave an elegant ment on Monday, at her house in Privy-gardens, to a thati party ; among whom were the Earl and Countess of 1 Earl Fortes:pie, Lord and Lady Loraine, Lord St. Helm, TillllllaMl Cecil, Italy Wm. Wynn, Mr. and 31 rs. Greathead, Mrs. Bennet, Charles Moore. Esq. Mt. Boyd, kc. ka The Duke of Northumberland has issued cards of for a wand entertainment on the 28th instant, at Northui !louse. Lady Alvanley has fssued cards of invitation for a ball 22.1 instant, at her house in George-street, Ilanover-uptare Lad y lk Clifford has issued cards lf invitation tin a mu Ist July, at her house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-,uptare. ('.tout and Countess Dever. entertained another dial party at slimier yesterday. at .Islibitrnham-htntse, I htver.st The Marchioness of IVaterford has issued cards of invc a rout on Friday nest, at her house in Mansfield-street. J. B. Simpson, Esq. had a grand dinner party yesterda) house in 14aville.street. Emily 3ltirchionevs of Londonderry left town yesterday, seat, North I 'ray, Kent. Lord and Lally Fntnpton and family have arrivtd Petcrsburgh Ilotel, I/over-street, from the Contjoent. Arrivals at the British Hotel, Jermyn•street :—J. Ilhxi front Ireland ; and Win. Bilks, Esq. from Bristol. Arrivals at Jordan's Ilteel, St..lames's-street :—The CI, Mrs. anti Miss dry ke, from their sent in Lincolnshire lilarriot, Esq. from Cambridge. Sir Thomas, Lady, IVinningnm, and Miss Taylor, have left for Paris. Arrivals at Featon's Hotel, St. James's-street:—The Petiworth, from Stowe Market ; Colonel Dalrymple, from in Surrey ; Sir Wm. Cockburn, Bart., front Bath ; and ' l'age, Esq. from his seat, Cobham. George Sdvertopp, left tor Paris. Captain Mitcham, :Id Dragoon Guards, has left the Bath Arlington. erect, for Leicestershire. Lord and Lady Kin; have left town for their seat, ' Surrey. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—His highness Prince de la Lippe; M. General Baron Victor von Arentsschild ; P. Ewart, Esq. from Liverpool; and Earl Gott, from Ireland. S. Walker, Esq. has left for his seat, Derby. PRINCE LEOPOLD'S ENTERTAINMENT. Monday night Prince Leopold gave a grand entertain ment at Marlborough House, the London residence of his Royal Highness, to a numerous assemblage of the Nobility and Gentry, and most of the Royal Family in London, who are most affectionately attached to the Princti, whose , amiable manners and disposition endear him to every one who experiences the gratification of knowing him. Every necessary regulation and precaution had been pre viously observed to preserve order and regularity. Some 1 of the pavement had been altered at the entrance of the mansion, to prevent the slipping or falling of horses, which had formerly been the case. The Court-yard was additionally lighted with gas, u well as other lamps being put up to guard against accidents or confusion. Townsend and Sayers, the officers, were in attendance, and also a number of police officers under their direction, to preserve order and regularity with the carriages, &c. which they accomplished in the fullest extent, as no confusion occurred during the whole of the night. The livery servants appeared in their state liveries, and lined the entrance, and also the grand, lofty, and spacious hall, which was brilliantly illuminated with very band- some or-molu Grecian lamps. It was perfumed with the must choice growing flowers, exotics of various descriptions, as well as orange and other trees bearing fruit. The whole of the eight rooms on the ground floor were thrown open upon the occasion, which were illuminated with Grecian or-molu lamps and wax candies. In the principal drawing-room at the west end of the house, in which the Prince received his distinguished guests, a grand concert was given of vocal and instrumental music, under the direction of Signor Rossini, who presided at the grand piano-forte. Thc following were among the distinguished person ages present: — The ihtcheas of Clarence, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Augusta, Princess Sophia Ma tilda, Prints of beiningen, Prince Aeias, and Princess Feodore. Dukes—Leioster, Somerset, Grafton, Rutland, Atha!, Welling. too, Argyll. Darlesset—Dowager Rutland, Rutland, Argyll, Bedford, North umber/and, Richmond, Somerset, Wellington. Dfuryniso—Bath, Huntly, Winchester. Nan•Meisesses—Londonderry, Hertford, Waterford, Winchester, Cholmonieley, Westmeath, Midweek. Enriff—Hatewood, Weettnocland, Lauderdale, Mayo, Derby, Bristol, Forteseue, Cassini', Grey, Grosvenor, Templetown, Ross. lyn, Kiloton, Brownies, Shaftsbury, Manvers. Comatesse•--Harewood, Dowager Harcourt, Derby, Cassillis, Graham, Surrey, Mayo, Manner, Clarendon, Bathurst, Essex, Ruston, Lansdale, Harrowhy, Lieven. rieromes—Clive, Nuntuusby. "A,