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// o‘erb l i -4 i- 5 V --C- , s oof?' "V " -- ,1 ,/,' ,. e‘ .144 , e- 1° . , • , '''.:AIL• 7,7. ''' . ' A"' Tr! I-V 5.7 S. -4.7"......- . 4 ~. ts 4. a 44 1 / 4 -11 • - , O 6 r in 4 "1 E t I E • 7 - e 44 1 14 e4 4 .... t \ _ • . . , . 1 •• 2. ....• : : N . 1 . 0 1 re •••""""" , '';r, .2 1,- -. . e • - 1.-.7 WA! vale le MP_ .. SW: 1 . l _ •-.... NuMM: THEATRE-ROTA L, COVRNT-GARDIM • - - - - - The Public are most respectfully informed, that during the reef.* the Decoration, of the Theatre have been entirely re embellished, and that a most material improvement hi. tweet effected in the PYosrenifsue, which, ois ocreeiou s of Spectacle, can be raised to nearly double its former hetet!. THIS EVENING. SATURDAY, Sept. 11, will be acted the Opera of THE MAID OF THE MILL. T.Ord Aimworth, Mr. Philipps, with the following song' :- 4 ' l.r•\ - c's young dream"—" Eveleen's Bower" Sigh hid for Love"—sust " Let Fame sound her Trumpet."-1u Act 111. • " My mantling spirits." by Mr. Philipps and Miss M. Tree; So Harry Sycamore, Mr. Fawcett ; Mervin, Mr. Minuet; Ralph, Mr. Emery. Lady Sycamore, M►s. Davenport; Theinlinia, Miss Matthews; Patty, Miss M. Tree (from the Theatre -Royal. Rath, being her second appearance in Lou don). ist which she will introduce " Sweetest Idol of my soul," and " Young Love;" Fanny,iffrs. Liston. After which the Farce of LOVE. LAW, AND PHYSIC. Dr. Camphor, Mr. Blanchard ; Flexible (after the manner of the original Performer of that character), Mr. Yates ; Loin,' Log, Mr. Liston ; Andrew, Mr. Emery. Mrs. Hilary, Mrs Gibbs ; Laura, Mrs. Sterling. Door, opened at Six a Cluck, sad the Play begin at Seven. Boxers 75.; Secon.l Price 3s. 63.—Pit 3.. 6.1.; Second Prig. i—Lower Gallery 25.; Second Price I pper Gal lery Is ; Second Prier 6d. Places for the Mixes to be taken of Mr. Brandon, at the RusooNce. Hart-street, from Ten till Four. A Private Box may be had for the Season, or nightly, of Mr. Brandon, at the Rox.ollice. On Monday, Pizarro, with Mother Goose. Ihi Tuesday. The Devi Bridge. On Wednesday will be produced a new Comedy, called Tile Steward. LAST NIGHT BUT ONE OF THE COMPANY'S PERFORMING THIS SEASON. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMA 'mgr. THIS EVENING. SATURDAY, Sept. 1 1 , will he performed a new Comedy, called PIGEONS AND CROWS. The Principal Characters by Messrs. Liston, Jones, TerilYs rus,di, .1. Russell, Connor, Barusrd, Mrs: Davenport, Miss E. Slauchard, an Mrs. Gibbs. After which, THE ACTOR OF ALL-WORK; Or, FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR. Yclinspeck, Mr. Cwanor ; Multiple, Mr../. Russell. Assumed Characters—Mailliew Stuffy, Mr. J. Russell; F. end' Tragedian, Mr. J. Russell; Rubio Scrawky, Mr. J. Russell; Andrew MacSilierarip, Mr. J. Russell ; Mrs. Mac. Slllerg.rp, Mr. J. Russell; Fat Coachman, Mr. J. Russell. To conclude with the Musical Entertaiument sir LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKS - MITI-IS. Tigil, Mr. G. Smith; Ca idnin Behlare, Mr. Barnard. Tot. tenon. Mr. Walkinson ; Risk, Mr. J. Russell. Lydia, Mrs. T. Hilt. Wary 51.—Pit, I,.—First Gallery, 2a.—Second Gal- erv, le. The Door, to be opened at Six o'Clock, and the Perform met to begin at Seven. on Moodily Pigeons and Crows, The Green Min, and AT,t Weather—being the list 'tight of the Company's per f vtakst iIIN fromooo. TH EATRICRO Y L, ENGLISH OPE EA- HOI7S - --------- - STRAND. frills PRESENT SATURDAY, Sept. It, will be performed, for the 13th time, a new Musical Mimi, called THE BROWN MAN. _ _ Reflood°, Mr. Dowton ; Franconi, Mr. Rowhothain ; 1E1.114 Mr. Wrench; Manfredi, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Mr. Harley. Clara, Miss Carew ; Cecile, Aliso Kelly. After which a favourite Operetta, called BACHELORS' WIVES: Or, THE BRITISH AT BRUSSELS. Moneienr Le Grand, Mr. W. S. Chatterley ; Captain Mel fort, Mr. Warman ; Captain Gaylove, Mr. Wrench. Emily, rfli..s Kelly; Madame Lt Grand, Miss I. Stevenson. To which will he added, the Grand Serious Ballet called THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK. Europeans—Captain Cook, Mr. T. P. Cooke; his Lieute nant, Mr. A. Jones; Lienteuant of Marines, Mr. Hart; Ituairrrain, Mr. Wilkinson. Native's of the I•laad of Owhylire—T boo, Mr. Fisher; NIT. Goarirt. Enisi, Miss I. Stevenson; Jia.tai.yrau i-cce.suli, Mi•s Love. Ti, Act 11. the admired Trio, " Ching Chit Quaw." Duties to be opened at ilalf-past Six o'Clock ; the Par. fsitmattire to begin at Seven. Boxes, ss; Second Price, 3s.—Pit, 3s. Second Prier, Ts. 64.—toirer Gallery, Is Scud Price, ts.—Upper tisltery, la,; Second Price 6d. Boxes, Pisces, Tickets, Admissions for tie Season, and Private !loses (with the advantage of a separate entrance in Exeler.dreet), to be bad of Mr. Stevenson, at the Bus Of See. Shama entrance, Nom Ten till Four; and of Mr. Fearnises, Library, 170. New Bond. street. Ott Monday, The Distona : Don Carlos, by a Gentleman iliciiig his first appearance on any Stage); with The Wood tint. fort THE BENEFIT OP Mr. T. DIBDIN. SURREY THEATRE. ON MONDAY NEXT, September 13, will be presented (14th time), preceded by Gluck's Grain! Overfkre so 4phigeat., a Grunt Legendary Alelo-Drause, called RICHARD THE FIRST; OR, CCEUR DE LION. Richard, Nina England, Mr. Watkins; Blonde!, Frieed of the King, Mr. Gibbose; Seueschal of Normandy, Mr. Branton; Flormitan, Governor of the Fortress where Richard is confined, Mr. Leonard. Matilda, Queen of England, disguised as • blind Minstrel, Mies COprialill. In Act W. a Comic Ballet, by Mr. Giroux, Mr. Wyatt, 31r. Dore, awl Miss Adcock. After which ( acted) au entirely new farcical Barletta, iu one act (with old Characters), called SPOIL I) CHILDREN ; Or, THE MANAGER'S NIGHT. Old Pickle, Mr. Adcock; Watty Cockney, Mr. toady with a new comic Song, called " The Margate Steam Yarht." Little Pickle, with " The sailor boy canerinz sabore," Was Bence; Priscilla Tomboy, Miss Copeland, "ho will perform on the harp and piano.forte; Maria, by a Young Lady (her first sopaorance on any stage), who will introduce two favourite Songs, and. arcompaisied by Miss Copeland, will perform a Duet on the piano-forte and harp. End of the Barletta (11th time) ass entirely new Serio-Comic Melo- Dratue, called THE PRESIDENT AND 'THE PEASANT'S DAUGHTER. - - - Prince Xavier, Mr. Cluniery ; Jiilins (the Prince's first Pirsalent and Favourite), Mr. Huntley ; Von Senek (Lord Chamberlain), Mr. Fawcett ; Werner (the Peasant), Mr. Ltrord; Ja co b Spi n dl er ( a Village Carpenter), Mr. Fitz • illiant. Henrietta (the Peasant's Daughter), Miss Taylor; Roams Vogl Sena (I)4militer of t h e Lord Chausbrrlaim), Nta Copehuld• Tickets and Mon to be bad at the Theatre, and at No . 2,. Hlsekfriarb.ruad. ARMY CONTRACT. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT, TREASURY CHAMBERS, SEETEMRICR 10, 1919. OTICE to h,psl gtvess to all Persons dew N sirous of contracting IQ supply his Majesty's Troops that now are, air may be stationed at Forts George, Augus to+, and WlMilne, with OATMEAL, and at Fort Char lotte, with OATMEAL mod SALT REEF for One Year. from the 251 h slay of October, ISIS, to the 24th slay of October, IS4n. both days itirlosive. That Ilse Deliveries are. to commence on and fur the 25th day of October next, that Proposals sealed up and marked " Tender for Army supplies" will Ise received at this Office, on or before SINN DAY, the 27th 1111 of this month (bait hone will be received arks-Twelve o'Clock on that day), and if sent by Post, Ilse postage smut he paid. Each Proposal must have the Letter annexed to the Trader properly filled up, by Two Persons of known Property, ea gaging to become bound with the Person Tendering, in the amount stated in the printed Particulars, fur the sloe per formance of the Contract ; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the prices expressed i• wools at length. Particulars of the Contract may he had upon appneation at this Office, between the Nostra of Eleven niml Five, rod at the 011Ve of Deputy-Consuaissary.General Young, at Edinburgh. BANK OF ENGLAND, Serramium 11, 1019. rpHE COURT of DIRECTORS of she IL GOVERNOR nod COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND, pirf. !Vot ive, That a GENERAL COURT wi!l be hrlJ at the BANK on THURSDAY NEXT, the 161 h Instant. at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, to consider of a DIVIDEND, which will be one of the Quarterly Geueral Courts ap poiuted by the Charter. ROBERT BEST, Secretary. MR. MONTGO3IERrS NEW POEM. 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The principal material is silk; in appearance it surpasses the finest beaver, is equally light, and will wear twice as long; its beautiful colony and shape it retains to the last, resists all weather, and, unlike the heaver, it never spots with rain. Price 265. The Patent Hat is sold wholesale and retail, at 424, Strand, corner of Bedford-street ; 10, College-green, Dub lin; and 61, New-buildings, North-bridge, Ediaburgh. HUMBOLD7'S TRAVELS. The following interesting description of the lost dreadful catastrophe which here! the city of Co nceits, is taken from Humesldes Trerels, jest published : " A great.drooght prevailed at this period in the province of Venezuela. Not a single drop of rain had fallen at Caraccas, or in the country ninety leagues round, during the live months which pre ceded the destruction of the capital. The , 26th of March was a remarkanlv hot dry. The ai► was calm and the sky unclouded. It was Holy Thurs. dap, and s great Fin of the population veer assem bled in the churches. Nothing seemed to pres4ge the calamities of the day. At seven minutes after four in the afte►noon the first shock was felt ; it was sufficiently powerful to make the bells of the c;surclies toll ; it lasted five or rix seconds, during which time, the ground was in a continual undu— lating movement, and seemed to heave up like • boiling liquid. The danger was thought to be past, when a tremendous subterraneous noise was heard, resembling the rolling of thunder, hot louder, and of longer continuance, than that heard within the tropics its time of storing. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south and from east to west. Nothing could resist the movement from beneath upward, and undulations crossing each other. The town of Caraccas was entirely over thrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses ,and chinches. The procession had not yet set out ; but the crowd was so great in the churches, that nearly three or four thousand persons were crushed by the fall of their vaulted roofs. The explosion was stronger toward the north, in that part of the town situate nearest the moun tain of Avila, and the Sills. The churches of La Trinidad and Alta Gracia, which were more than 150 feet high. and the naves of which wve sup ported by pillars of twelve or fifteen feet diameter. , left a mass of ruins scarcely exceeding five or six feet in elevation. The sinking of the ruins has been so considerable, that there now scarcely re main any vestiges of pillars or column.. The bar racks culled El Qnartel ael Ssti Carlos, situate farther north of the church of the Trinity, on the road from the Custom-house de Is Pastors, almost entirely disappeared. A regiment of troops of the line, that was assembled under arms, ready to join the procession, was, with the exception of a few men, buried under the ruins of this great edifice. Nine-tenths of the fine town of Caracca■ were en tirely destroyed. The walls of the houses that were not thrown down, as those of the street San Juan, near the Capuchin Hospital, were cracked in such a manner, that it was impossible to run the risk of inhabiting them. The effects of the earth quake were somewhat less violent in the western and southern parts of the city, between the princi pal square and the raviu of Caragnata. There the cathedral, supported by enormous buttresses, re mains standing. " Estimating at nine or ten thousand the num• ber of the dead in the city of Cowes', we do not include those unhappy persons, who, dangerously wounded, perished several months after, for want of food and proper care. The night of Holy Thursday presented the moat distressing scene of desolation and sorrow. That thick cloud of dust. which, rising above the ruins, darkened the sky like a fog, had settled on the ground. No shock was felt, and never was a night more calm, or more re ne. The mooti, yearly full, illumined the rounded domes of the Sills, and the aspect of the sky formed a perfect contrast to that of the earth, covered with the dead, and heaped with ruins. Mothers were seen bearing in their arms their chil dren, whom they hoped to recsl to life. Desolate families wandered through the city seeking a bro ther, a husband, a friend, of whose fate they were ignorant, and +whom they believed to be lost in the crowd. The people pressed along the streets, which could no more be recognised but by long lines of ruins. " All the calamities experienced in the great ca tastrophes of Lisbon, Messina, Lima, and Rio. baroba were renewed on the fatal day of the 46th of March, 1814 ; the wounded, buried under the ruins, implored by their cries the help of the passers by, and nearly two thousand were dug out. Never was pity displayed in a more affecting mall.. tier ; never had it been seen more ingeniously ac tive, than in the efforts employed to save the mi serable victims, whose groans reached the ear. lm !dements for digging, and clearing away the ruins were entirely wanting; and the people were obliged to use their bare hands, to disinter the living. The wounded, as well as the sick who had escaped from the hospitals, were laid on the banks of the small river Guayra. They found no shelter but the 10. liege of trees. Beds, linen to dress the wounds, instruments of surgery, medicines, and objects - of the moat urgent necessity, were buried un.ler the ruins. Every thing, even food, was wanting dor ' ing the first days. Water became alike scarce in the interior of the city. The commotion had rent the pipes of the fountains ; the falling in of the earth had choked up the springs that supplied them; and it became necessary, in order to have water, to go down to the river Guayra, which was - r•Paieß Id. considerably swelled; and that vess:ls to convey the wate► were wanting. " There remained a ditty to be fulfilled toward the dead, enjoined at once by piety, and the dre.d of infection. It being impossible to inter Ito wary thousand corpoe P. half-buried under the ruins. coon micsaries were appointed to burn the bashes an d for this purpose funeral piles were erected beio rto the heaps of rums. This ce.emony lasted several days. Amid so massy public calamitier. the people devoted themselves to those religious duties; *kids they thought were the moat fitted to appeal', the wrath of Heaven. Some. assembling its protesiinsie, sang funeral hymns; others, in a state of distraction. confessed themselves aloud in the streets. /tin,. town was now repeated what had been reihnketl iu the province of (,Quito, after the tremendous ran; . quake of 1797 ; a number of ns IrriaKet , were col.- tracted between perso•nr. who had aeglected for tuum , y yews to sanction their union by the sace►dotal hone. diction ; chtldrems found parents, by *brim they never till then been acknowledged; rem;ii attains wen• promised by !permits, who had never heed accused of fraud ; sod families, who had long bee n t'.r. lilies, were drawn together by the tie of commo. calemity."—pp. 12-17. Humboldt also gives time foil/ D imi ng enr i nu s count of the manner in which time [whims calm's the Ryaraoli, or electrical eel.. by (hiving hor•vi into the pools, and driving thew out of the mud I.• which they lodge themselves i— " The extraordinary noise caused by the horse,' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mod, and e x. cites them In combat. These yellowish amid Relit eels, resembling large aquatic serpreits. swim oa the surface of the water, and crowd tinder the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between .01- mals of so different an organization furnishes a rely striking spectacle. The lodinate, provided svitti harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, flee branches of which extend horizontally over the stir face of the water. By their wild cries, sod the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away and rrachitig the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, decrial them selves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. During a long time they seem to prove victorious. Several horses sink beneath the violence of the invisible strokes, which they receive fro all sides in organs the most essential to life: and stunned by the force and frequency of the shucks. disappear under the water. Othe.s, panting, wit's mane erect and haggard eyes. expressing anguish. raise themselves, and endeaviiiir t. flee from the shwas by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the turbans into the middle of the water ; but a small number succeed in eluding the ,Mitre vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted wish fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric slit', is of the gymuoti. " In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, bring five feet lung, and press ing itself against the ,wily of the hussies, make.. a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines. and the plexus eceliacus of the abdominal nerve-. It is natural that the effect felt by the horses should be more powerful thus that produced upon man by the touch of the same fish at only tow of his ex• tremiiirs. The horses are probably toot killed but only stunned. They are drowned from the impos sibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle bra tweets the other horses and the eels. " We had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of t!,• unequal combat dimiiiisl etl, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost of galvanic force. The moles arid horses ap pear less frightened ; their manes are no longer bristled, said their eyes express less dread. The gymouti approach timidly the edge of the mars!). where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the curds are very dry the Indians feel no shock in raising the fish ions the air. In a few minutes we had five large e els, the greater part of which were but slightly writitel.d. Some were taken by the saute Wesus toward the evening." —pp. 348—5.50. M. de Humboldt says it would be temerity to expose oneself to the first shocks of a large and strongly irritated gy 1111 l otos ; that a stroke Irvin such a fish is productive of more pain and numburse than from the discharge of a large Leyden jar; oral that he received so dreadful a shock by insprudsvii!y placing his feet on one just taken out of the water, that he was affected the rest of the day with a via lent pain in the knees, and in almost every jivitir. He adds, that the electric action of the fish depends entirely on its will, and that it has the power ci directing the action of its organ. to any particular part of the external object that miry iitf.ct 1 , , or towards the point where it finds itself the most strongly irritated. We have now a dissertation of about steers's' pages on the nature and +ratify of the electrical action of fishes, of *lnch we can only find room fur the following (anions paragraph The presence of the gy ati is considered as the principal cause of the want of fists an tiw ponds and pools of the Lim's. The gy tt kill many more than they devour ; cud the Indi tns told us, that when they hike young alligators and gyintiott at the same time in very strong nets. the !after never display the slightest trace of a +tumid, bee cause they disisble the young alligators before they are attacked by norm. All the iiiiishltdots °I . the waters dread the society of the gynniott. Lizards, tortoises. and frogs seek the pools, share they are secure from their ection. It became vier:est:iv to change the direction of a road near Urituco. be cause these electrical eels were so winierusi• irs outs river, that they every year killed a great number of males of burden as they forded the w a ter."—p. ;374. In the following anecdote he describes the ,u. us