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LlOO ab 321 die 100 8 5} dis 100 14 2 pm 100 30 26 dm 400 13 131 die 400 80 10 014 40 20 belie re ld die .•••• •• •• • •••••• Analo-eltidaio trasilian ..... Britt-h Iron ••• ******** • ••"•••• •••• Mexican . ........ ....... •• ~ t ed Slexican • • ....... ••• n'tich Iron and Cool 15101111.14 100 15 Hi die I'r,)Cincisi Hank of Ireland gfie Preoo. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. The Public are mom respectfully informed that this Theatre will open on SATURDAY TARRA NEXT, JulyßF:, T 1„ HE whe TARTARn will be pCHlEe rform F. ed the Opera of Turas'', Mr. Saplo ; Ater, Mr. H. Phillips ; Artenio, Mr. J. 0. Atkins ; A!taraore. Mr. Perkins ; Calpigi, Mr. Thorne. Astasla, Miss Hamilton; Nioetts, Ulm Paton ; Elamir, Him Goward. After which the Comic Opera of FREE AND EASY. Sir John Freeman, Mr. Wrench; Mr. Coortly, Mr. Bartley ; Ralph, Mr. Ificeley ; Michael. Mr. W. Chapman. Mrs. Courtly, bliss Goward ; lupine, Miss Carr; Gertrude. Miss Kelly. vt: ; , • ,-4,;-_-_,;.. - -7 , ,. - i al, .. .- • -_-_,... ,_,.., 0! , 7 4 0 0 , t . ...aik• .•• _ z-,........!-... 2— t. 4 , .. -----, • - - _ -- •,:-.-.._ ..,. _ _ ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL . Under the the especial Patronage of hie Most Gracious Majesty. Tomorrow Evening, FRIDAY, June 30, the Amusements will com mence with a GRAND CONCERT, in Two Acts, In the superb new oncert Rom, at Half-past Eight o'Clock. Principal Vocal Performers—Miss Stephens, and Miss Posey; Miss Lore, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden (her :id appearance' ; .311. e Cooke, and Madame Cornega Mr. Brahmin. Mr. Sinclair, and Signor De De t roit ; Mr. C. Taylor, Mr. Horncestie, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Tinney, and Master Barker. Leader of the Band, Signor Spagnoletti. Composer and Conductor, Mr. H. R. Bishop. Blackmore, the celebrated young American, whose engagements in Italy have hitherto prevented his appearance at the Gardens, haring just .erived in England, wit), go through his astonishing Evolutions on the k Rope. The new Military Ballet, called THE SOLDIER'S FESTIVAL, will immediately follow the Exhibition on the Slack Rope. Leader of the Band for the Ballet, Dlr. Rooke. The Entertainment. will finish with a GRAND DISPLAY of FIRE. WORKS. Al the conclusion of which, Mr. Blackmore will make his ...faint terrific lowest on the Tight Itope, to the summit of the tower, ~ad descend enveloped in showers of are. Miss Travis, of the King's Ancient Concerts, Is engaged, and will shortly make her appearance. Doors open at Seven o'clock.—Coneert commences at Half-past Eight. Admission as. Particulars respecting Admission Cards for the Evening, and Private Ii itei for the Season or Nightly, may be bad upou application to Mr. Andrews, Bookseller, Bond-street. Caution.—The Public will please to take notice, that all Song Boots ofered for sale on the outside of the Gardens are spurious ; and, as the selcetion varies every Evening, no Rooks but those sold Inside the Gar. dens are to be depended upon. The Barden Pages commenced publishing yesterday morr. ins at a quarter pact five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY,'JoNs 29, 1826. While the Corporation of Norwich are conferring the highest honours on Mr. Secretary PEEL, which they have it in their power to bestow, and in a manner the most flat tering that a public man could expect, there are some jour nelists who, in the mere wantonness of opposition, seem anxious to invent implied subjects of accusation against the Honourable Secretary, whom they are, at the same time, compelled to admit to be one of the greatest Ministers that ever devoted his time and talents to the internal adminis tration of this country. We fully concur in the propriety of investigation in the cases where the military have inter fered at elections, and we lament, as deeply as any one can kk do, the necessity of such interference. Mr. Peet. partakes of the imperfection of human nature; he is neither en dowed with omniscience nor omnipresence; he must trust to the ordinary means of other men. Mr. Peet can only form his schemes on a calculation of probabilities; and as it is probable, according to the hackneyed axi an, that many things improbable will happen, it would not be surprising if, in some cases, he were mistaken. But Foal eth ng incalculably superior to mere abilities seems to be required of the Right Honourable Gentleman. Even the gift of prophecy would not have secured him from accusation ; for though he had foreseen every thing that has happened, it would have been totally impossible for him to reconcile contrarits—todo justice and please the criminal. It is very true that the introduction of the military is an evil, and an evil of no ordinary magnitude; anti we do participate most fully in all the feelings of jea'ousy which arc entertained on that subject; but we are placed between two evils, one of which we must choose, nd we cmainly prefer the constitutional use of the bayonet to the far snore arbitrary and unconstitutional tyranny of the bludgeon. The real cause of what is com plained of is, that the Election has been conducted with very little of that concealed species of bribery which has sometimes been practised on such occasions. The extra ordinary circumstance occurred more than once, of electors going in quest of candidates, and it was therefore obvious that candidates were not disposed to snake many sacrifices. Hired acquiescence and hired opposition are equally dull and unproductive of extraordinary incidents; but when popular opinion is left to itself—when it is allowed to take the channel of passion without any thing to lead or restrain it—it assumes a new character : instead of the calculations of interest, it has then nothing to listen to but the dictates of inclination. This is the true cause which has led to the interference of the military in most cases; and that very circumstance of military interference, when we consider the cause from which it has proceeded, is the best possible proof of the almost entire absence of ministerial influence at the elections. Men like Mr. Peer., and other Members of the Administration, stand in need of no influence to secure the return of their friends, but that which arises from the universal eonviction, in the' minds of the electors, of the uprightness of their motives, the soundness of their principles, and the extent of their abilities. By these remarks we would not be understood as intending merely to defend Mr. Puce. We should consider that • work of supererogation. The Right Honourable Gentleman stands in no need of defence, for we are convinced that those who pretend to be his enemies are not serious in the faint charges which they bring against him. Our object in these few observations was to 'thew that the cause of the frequent disturbances at the elections was nothing hut the greater spirit of democracy which has pervaded these elections. If that is to be regretted, then. and then only, can we accuse Ministers either fur permitting disturbances or suppressing diem by the military. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The British Funds were very much depressed during the whole of the day, and Consols, shich opened at 7943, tell to e. and closed at 79, without any immediate cause for the decline being assigned. The Jews. however, are buying largely, which chews thst their opinion is in favour of en advance. The New Scrip was gi prem. In other English Securities there his been no variation. In the Foreign market there has been little fluctuation. f.,lombian Bonds were 384; .Mexican Six per Cents 54 ; Peru , ,an 2;4 t Brazilian 55; Russian (sellers) at 80. In (peek no transac tions. The Share market has been greatly:depressed, in consequence of further " calls ;" and as these demands produce many sellers, PARTIES. The Duke of Beaufort had a large party of distinction at dinner yester day, at his house In Grosvenor-square. The Duke of Grafton had a grand dinner party, yesterday, at his house In Clarges.street, Piccadilly. The Marquis of lansdown had a grand dinner party on Tuesday, at Lanadown House, Berkeley-aquae: among whom were—the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Lord and Lady Holland, Lord Auckland, Honour able J. Ahercromby, Mr. Rogers, dtc. Earl Verulani gave a grand entertainment on Tuesday, at Ns house In Grosvenor-square, to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Doke of Wellington. the Marquis of Hertford, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl of Chatham, Lord and Lady Frederick Sentinels, Lady Louisa Bentlnek, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Plerrepoint, &c. In the evening her Ladyship entertained a large party of the haul ton, among whom were—Prince and Princess Polignac, the Dowager Duchesa of Leeds, the Marchioness of Hertfoni, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Allesbury, the Dowager Countess of Warwick, the Countess of Antrim, Countess Cowper, Countess and the Ladies Bathurst, Lord and Lady Maynard, the Countess of Jersey, the Countess of Trinkerville, Lord and Lady John Fitzroy, Lord and Lady Belfast, Lady Deering, Lady E. Lowther, Lady Ann Beckett, Lord and Lady Frederick Bentinck, Lady Elisabeth and Miss Palk, Lady J, Illatchford, Lady Strachan, Lady Paulett, Karl of Cardigan, Lady illizalwth Sirup, Lady Gordon, Sir Cullen and Lady Smith, the Vice-Chancellor, Lady Bromley, Mr. and Mrs. Deering, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Talbot, Mr. and Mrs. Baring, Miss Paget, Ste. Lord Berwick bad a dinner party yesterday, it his house in Brianston- Square. "cf ri PI NA 6. 4 ,C 4 • - A _ _ tr MOVEMENTS. The Martinis of Anglesey has left town, for the he of Wight. The Marquis of Camden left town yesterday. for Bath. I.ord Colville and family bare left town v for Scotland. T. T. Drake, Esq. M.P. arrived yesterday at the London Hotel, Albe marle-street, from his seat In Bucks. _ . Koht. Bristow, Esq. tett town yesterday, for Ms seat, Broekruore Lodge, Hint.. L. Hemming, Esq. left town yesterday, for bin seal In IwlceetersOire. Major Preston has arrived at Fenton's New lintel. St. Jaoreesattreet, from a tour; R. For, Esq. has left ditto, on a tour; and Vander. horst, Eaq. for Brighton. Arrivals at the Brunswick Hotel (late Blake's), Jerroyn.strert Bedlngton and family, from Bucks. Pepartutes :—Sir Edmund and the Slisses Bacon, for Norfolk. _ _ Departures from the Royal Hotel, St. James's...street :—G. Thompson, Esq. for his seat in Hants ; C. W. Tupper, Esq. on a tour ; the Rey. 0. Dealtry and son, fur Yorkshire. Arrival at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street .—Mrs. and Miss Preston Halton, from Southampton. Departures :—SIr Tyrwhit and Lady Jones and family, for their seas Stanley Hall. Shropshire ; Colonel Brotherten, (or Hampton Court. BRAZIL. [From the Etoik, dated Jene27.l Rio DE JANEIRO, 3Lav 16. OFFICIAL ACT. '• Don Pedro, by the grace of God and the unanimous acclamation of the people, Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil. " We make known to all our subjects that the people of this Empire, asseruhled in the Chambers; having asked of us that as noon as possible we should take and cause to be taken, the Oath to the project of a Constitution, which we presented to them foe dis cussion, in order to attend immediately the new Constituent Assembly, .hewing their most lively desire that this Act, which 1103 their entire approbation, and for which they expect their poll, tical felicity, generally and individually shared, be considered as the Constitution of the Empire. " We take the Oath to the said project, to observe it as the Con. stitutional Law, which shall henceforth govern this Empire. "The Constitution is of the following tenor-4 Here follows the project of the Consti:ution.l " We therefore order all the Authorities, whose business it is to know and to execute this Constitution, to take and cause to be taken the Oath to it, to execute and cause it to be executed, in its whole extent and tenor. "The Secretary of State for the A ffairs of the Empire is enjoined to have it printed, publiahrd, and circulated. " Given at Rio d: Janeiro, With March, 11126. (Signed by the Emperor.) " JOAO SEVEREANO MACIEL DA COSTA." THE BRITISH PRESS. LIT'ER.4TURE. • MRS. RADCLIFFE'S POSTHUMOUS WORKS. It is a common and a true remark, that fa ye is seldom advanced by the publication of those remains "skirl the zeal of friends and admirers interposes to snatch from oblivion, after the grave has closed upon an author's career. In works undertaken merely to fill up time, or - to exercise the porter of composition ' or to try the capabilities of a subject, or to relieve the langour of sickness, or to flatter the infirmity of intellectual decay—nay, in works which have not received the last touches of an author's pen, it is seldom that the public .recognize those beautiet which first attracted their notice, and subsequently insured their applause to the productions of a favourite writer, Some times the failure has been so complete, that even the most superstitious regard for genius must fail to trace the shadow of former excellence in the posthumous illusion. Both, indeed, spring from the same mind, but they seem to stand in diKrent relations towards their original—one, as the light it flings before, the other as the shadow it casts behind it. Mrs. Radcliffe's posthumous wfrks consist of four vo lumes; containing a romance called Gaston de illandevilk, or the COllll of Henry 111. keeping Festival at Ardenne ; and a collection of poems, the principal of which is an exceedingly long talc; entitled St. Athan's Ahhey. We do not mean to apply our opening remarks in all their force, even to the poetical, or rather metrical, portion of these volume;; but we cannot help wishing that the editor, who, in devoting the profits of the publication to charitable purposes, has raised himself far above the suspicion of sordid motives, hail been satisfied with giving the romance to the world unaccompanied by its ambitious and dangerous associates. There is more sweetness of cadence, more con ciseness of expression, more passion, more esiergy of thought and feeling, requited to satisfy the Muse of Poetry than any other of the heavenly sisterhood; and though Mrs. Radcliffe often succeeds in drawing an imaginative picture, or working up a romantic situation, in verse, it is certain that she seldom does it with the same felicity as when her ideas are permitted to wander in the diffuse, unmeasured, and arbitrary language of prose. Resides, there is no fact more firmly established in the history of the human mind than this, that it is possible for a writer to r.sseas a fruitful fancy, an active sensibility, a copious and elevated diction, without being aWe to confine their charms within the boundaries of measure and music. The laws of poetical rhythm are certainly restraints, but restraints which operate on the truly poetical temperament, like the banks which confine a mighty river, irritating and impelling its course until it drowns its thunder in the ocean. It would be a tedious process to search over the waste grounds of conjectural criticism, in the hope of discovering by what determinations of habit or of accident this dif ference is impressed upon minds, in other respects so con genial. But, we may observe, in allusion to our present subject, that when writers postpone to the decline of life those essays which require a peculiar turn of thought and language, the result has generally proved that judgment was more conspicuous in their forbearance than in their undertaking. _ . The author of the preface, which contains some judi cious and spirited remarks on the character of Mrs. Rad cliffe's genius, has introduced a timid hint of approbation with respect to her poetical talent, glancing only at the verses interspersed through the romances. His words are these :—" The verses scattered through all the romances are so inartificially introduced, that they have little chance of being estimated by an impatient reader ; but when ex amined, they will be found replete with felicitous expres sion, and with rich though indistinct imagery." Now, in the first place, though we are willing to allow, as a ge tient truth, applicable to composition in all its branches, that there are latent beauties of style which appear to sleep in the page until they are awakened by the assidui ties of repeated perusal, we must say that such beauties are seldom to be found but in writers who are alto remarkable for the bolder and more striking ornaments. It is so in the great hook of Nature herself. The field abounds with minute productions that vie in sweetness with die rose, but the sun must point them out with his burning fingers, and stand as it were amongst them, creating their loveliness and our admiration. In the next place we will candidly confess, that with respect to the particular verses alluded to, they always seemed to us to partake too much of the nature of occasional poetry, under which the greatest geniuses have sunk ; and to be kept in too much subordina tion to the main purpose of romance-writing, ever to propi tiate the favour of atioffetuled muse. But, however this may be, we are certtin that the praise of elegance and animation, nay, even of " felicitous expression" and" rich imagery," cannot be extended to the more elaborate and elongated of her poetical performances. What, for instance, can be more grating to the ear than the following allusion to an ancient portal ? " No furrows deep upon its brow The frown of seven stern centuries show." In the following description, which we select almost at random from a great variety spread before us, the reader will perceive the struggles of a brilliant imagination de prived of its full lustre by the disadvantages of a harsh style and an ill-chosen metre : Within the pillared arch unseen, Ile stond and looked beneath, Transept and aisle lay deep between This ant4le and the nave's long seen* Of suffering and death. Obscure in that far distance, lay This scene of mortal misery ; And when tall arches rose, Each arch discovering the way To what beyond might passing be, Did some dread group disclose. Pale phantoms only seemed to glide Among the torches there : And stoop upon the tones low side, In busy silent care. Unseen the deathly form below, . Unseen the pale reflected war, On miens that each woe share, The sable cowl appeared alone, Or glimpse of helm or corslet shone By th e re d torches' glare." In short, the literary reputation of Mrs. Radcliffe stood too high before, not to suffer some abatement from the publication of such pieces as make up the poetical part of those volumes. The romance of Gaston de Blondeville, however, affords a much more favourahlr specimen of the writer's talent. It embraces, ia its compass, a period of not more than seven days, and is limited in its action to a few simple incidents connected with the discovery of a murder by supernatural interference. The plot may be despatched is five lines. Gaston tie Blondeville, a young Frenchman, the favourite of henry the Third of England, having in early youth been concerned in the murder of a gallant knight, is de nounced as the murderer by one Woodreeve, a merchant, many years after the commission of the deed, in the pre sence of the King himself. Henry, indignant at the im peachment of his favourite, and the interruption of his fes tivities at Ardenne, throws the accuser into confinement; but the accusation is verified and corroborated at last by the interposition of the knight's ghost, who, after playing many posthumous pranks, to the great delight and wonder of the courtiers, not only vindicates the merchant, but inflicts on the murderer the permit, of death, and that too in the very first week of his mar, riage. Such is the ground-work of the romance—a pro duction containing some faults anti many beauties, and likely to attract, in no common degree, the attention of the literary world. It differs, in this respect, from the other enchantments of the same magician —that, in former in stances, the ghost was summoned, with due pomp and ceremonial, only to be betrayer. eventually into the plain day-light of common sense; whereas, in the present, it is permitted to march out with all the honours of supersti tion, earth shaking, thunder rolling, instead of being re solved into some insignificant and paltry mistake. One thing, we apprehend, will strike all the readers of Gaston de litondeville, as tending, in a great measure, to weaken its supernatural terrors, and that is the inappropriate scenery and accompaniments to the ghost's appearance. Instead of gliding through the desolate apartments of ruined castles, the dee- Itade of ii 'able woods, in darkness and dlifti has been less careful to deepen the gloom of her scenery, than in any of the preceding, the delicacy of het sentiments, the force and beauty of her reflections, and the splendor of her imagination, arc conspicuous in every page. The work will never become as popular as the Italian, or the Mysteries Id Udolplto—that is altogether impossible; hut it *lll rank above some of her early productions, and thtfefore may be described at once as worthy of het pen. In style, it is an imitation of our elder prose writers, and the fiction of its being the production of a venerable monk, with the moralizing habits of whose order it is made to correspond, casts an air of agreeable singularity over the whole composition. Nor did Mrs. Radcliffe think it necessary to act like some of our modern imitators of the ancient style, who deprave the language with every obsolete and crabbed word they can find, as if they were actuated by a spirit of morose imitation, which could sympathize with none but the moat barbarous sounds. On the contrary, being freed from the shackles of poetic numbers, which in her case produced the clanking as well as the confinement of chains, she employed her freedom to better purpose, and, by a truer imitation of the great originals of past days, con sulted harmony when it could be done without the sacri fice of vigour. The two following quotations will give our readers an idea of the moral and descriptive power which pervades the whole. After describing the gambols of the squirrels in the trees, the author proceeds -- " There were, I fear, sonic overborne by their own evil passions, and galled by the consciousness of them, who might look up ro those poor animals with momentary envy. And, doubtless, many who had not these painful reasons for choice, thought it even bet.er to live amongst these vita:Hands in blessed ease and sprightly health, than confined in the golden trammels of a Court, where every feeling was checked, that it might only move to certain steps of order ; and nature was so nearly forgotten, that if perchance she did appear, she was pitied and reproved for a child of ignorance, and straight altered after their own fashion. And there were few who, when they came abraad amongst the hills and forests, and the free air and the open sunshine, and heard the joy of birds, and saw the playful grace and glee of animals—there were few who felt not their spirits dance, although they knew not it was in sympathy with free and guileless nature, which if they never more could resume, let could they never, even in spite of themselves, entirely cease to ove." _ _ Again, after the death of Gaston de Blondeville, the change that took place in the castle is thus described : " All was changed to grief and silence. The footstep* only of attendants were heard along the halls and galleries ; no voice spoke there; it seemed, indeed, as if every one were tearful of speaking. When perchance the door of a chamber was opened, no burst of merriment or song came forth, no harp sounded, or hum of voices. The impression of this whole change muy be hest signified by con ceiving what one might feel on another chant,e on a smaller scale; that in one hall, for instance, of thissame edifice, which shoukl have been lately deserted of its splendid guests, where the few lights still burning might serve but to chew its lonely grandeur, while one heavy step proceeds about the tables to extinguish these ; and then the long sound of the closed door denotes the vaguest and emptiness of all that space." Upon the whole, the world of letters will be gratified by the addition of Gostun de Bionderille to its prose collec tions, and we apprehend will experience but little disap pointment at discovering that its poetry was not destined to be enriched from the same source. vherance and Mires:fitting attention to their interests, he 0 004 feel that some part of the debt was discharged, though enough would mill remain unpaid to stimulate hint to future exertion. on the ccentriry, lie was no: abls to obtain this acknowledgment. but had disgraced himself by forfeiting their opinion, he would rather the bond that was between them aliould he gently untied than rudely cut asunder. If thus diseraced, he would rather retire into private life than taupe pertinaciously a eituetion which he . felt himself incompetent to fill., His Honourable Friend who pre sided had alluded to the Cern Laws, a subject which he (Mr. %V.) had never mentioned during the Elettion. He had refrained from doing so, not because he was ignorant of the importance of this question, but that lie was desirous to wait and are w h it the api„ culturtats themselves meant to propose. He conceived theyelfould have patience, and hear what they meant to do for thernselme, be fre they forced their views upon them. Thus much, lie thought was due to the agriculturists. from their importance and respectability. Clem the Catholic question hie object Wits distinct : he conceived it . a most important question, at d he did not wish to go beyond hie depth. This he might say, howeverohat to no man in this city, . er this kingdom, was Ills religion dearer thin it wax to him. (Ap plause.) It NM not necessary for him to say that his religion was that of the Establi4sed Church of England, aml Ile need not add that the spirit of that religion was marked by the greatest forbearance. When catechized on this subject, he h:t he might become liable to a charge of bigotry as great as that often ascribed to the Roman Catholics. if he pledged himself for the long period of seven years to oppose their claim% He *mkt conclude his ob servations on this subject by remarking,. dist he could not sacrifice the feelings of his er nititaents without also sacrificing his own, and that he telt grateful to those who had not pressed him to pledge himself on this question. .11e knew the difficulties which would oppose him on entering the House of Commons. In contra diction to an assertion ohen made, he believed that the House of Commons cent dried many men of the highest integrity and greenlet ability. (Hear. hear.) During his clic-lion, the independent Mae he assumed was nit from hit'-gratulation, bnebierhuae be felt be Was aspiring to represent the mole independent body in the world, and there'ore that independent tone would ill become him. (Cheers.) On ell subjects he would endeavour to avoid prejudice. On many subjects lie hoped he ward be up to zero, but never below it Upon matters of 'thee he must be allowed a latitude. • Trade was subject to so many fitretrations, that what was goad at one time wasbad at another; and on a'l questions of that nature he should only prornisoto act to the best of his undqrstending. Them was one kind of preM lice to which bemuse plead guilty. He con fessed hr felt a prejudit c for things as they are ; fia had no dislike to the bridge that carried us over, nor to the system which pro duced a state of unparalleled prosperity. It was not his wish rei destroy ;he system under which we had flourish 44 thissendel be a bad brg'nning . and where it would end he knew not: 1(e welb.d not take tip their time longer, than by again thanking theft flit' the manner in *which they received the proposal of the on. Ban. He could mit forget that 4,910 of the Livery of London had voted for him; he could not furget the kindness with which, he was treated on the hustings ; and he begged to lie allowed to indulge his feelings, by concluding with proposing e. the Lively of Lon don." ((treat applause.) The CHAIRMAN said he was now about to acquit "'jimmy of a most gratifying duty. Wlim he addressed them last, he e ngratu lated thou oa having selected Mr. Ward, after being deprived of the valuable services of his lion. Friend Mr. Wilson, than WIWISI; the City of Landon could not have a beet . Representative. ifie, spoke the untmen s of every merchant' and trader, when ha MIA that no one hal ever applied to him in vain, nor had he ever in terested hie:self in vain tot any one. The fact was, Mr. Wition'i character was duly apprecia ed in the House of Common*, ae both sides of the House. lie never rose to peak without full coreldera tion, and he never rose ni.hont being attended to. Whilst they congratttlated tbeinseleet, therefore, on such a substitute at Mr. Ward, they must be allowed to expecte, their regret at the re tirement of their late worthy Representative. He retried, however, into the bosom of his family with every enjoyment the Could await a good man. Ile shou'cl say nothing more, but propose " The health of they la's worthy Iterreviutive, Mr, Thornhi Wilson," which lets drank with acclamation. isle. les° x rote to return thanks. He said this honour came upon him by surprise, he bed no itlea of having the attention of the Meeting directed to him. He had o ply attended to mule hie u. defection at the return of his Hon. Friend, which he did not think it proper for him to do during the election. He shruld be insensi ble, however, if he did not feel flattered by the mtenher in which his health ha d been received. Ito had been rettitned under very auspicious circumstances; but his Hon. Friend had a brighter course before him. He was called upon to represent a most respect able and intell gem class, c. mpos .he mercantile community of Loud .n. Six ot seven and twenty years ago the Corporation of London and the merchants of London were the same', and all re. sided within the city. Since that period, however, the Metropolis had extended, some resided in the west end of the town, tome in the co intry, and as intercourse became lees frequent, it had become more nec misty that the mercantile interest should be represented: it was said that the shopkeepers of' the metropolis should W repre sented, and tide he did not deny, because sir entertained a great resew,* for that class of traders; but if it was true of the shop. keepe with far more reason most it apply to the mercantile interest. He congratulated the city of London on the choice of a Representative, whose services they were already disposed to value by anticipation. It was most advantageous to his Holt. Friend (Mr. W.) thit he had to render an account to persons so intelligent, so considerete, at d so indulgent, as he was sure his Hon. Friend's constituents would prove. Under such circumstances his Hon. Friend need r ot fear to elver the House of Commons, and might well feel pleasure at tieing called on to fill the proudest situation in which a citizen emit I be placed. He would have the gravest advan tage a commercial man could have, namely, constent communica tion with his •corstiatents. As for his (Mr. Wilson's) part, be • wou'd retire erlih the conviciion that he had born valued far be yond his deserts: Again he congratulated them on the choice they had made, amt. in con lotion drank all their good heaths. The next toast was—" Prosperity to the City of London." Mr. CHARLES PARCLAY then rose. He said he had been selected to peoptem the health of his valued friend the Chairman, and in doing so he felt he wive performing a most acceptable duty. Many of them, no doubt, were acquainted with t h e respectable sad. Honourable Baronet, end appreciated these mime virtues that made hint so popular. Nor could they forget the claims of his family, and how well his revered father had served the City in Parliament. (Applause) His Honourable Friend hail always maintained the priticiples nnder which his country had flourished. Ile had sup ported the Cloyernm , nt and Constitution, and uniformly opposed that spirit of rancorous hostility and violence, which was too often • exhibited egaM•t tlte measures or his Majesty's Ministers, when the citiz tn. ot London know that those measures were best calcu lated :o pro ote the real interests of the empire. (Cheers.) Hilt H nourable Fr:end had alluded to• the period of 1688. but he might be t x _used if he did not begin at that period to ettew the inc neistency of th se opposed to the present assembly in political opt . i ins. There were three periods. however,when the City of Lane • d, n had cli•tieguished itself by rallying round the Government, and sueporting Cie Ministers of the Crown against those who had a mind to render themselves popular, by undermining all that was V Lluah'e. At the period of the Fr. nch Revolution, when the people were mad with absurd ideas of liberty, when corresponding a cietes were formed throughout the emu:try, and acquitted leans disturbed the country, it was not the Whigs, the friends of liberty, as th y were called, that came forward to support the Con siittifon. No, it wes the loyal citizens of London, conducted by the Honnural le Baronet's father, that tallied round the Throne. Agin, wh n a new heto arose, when Bonaparte was to have de stroyed tells country, and made it dependent on France—.who came forward to oppose his mad and daring schemes of ambition, and set an example of defiance, backed by 305,1100 volunteers? He felt p-'de in iay ng that it was the merchants and citizens of London, o then came f nwar 1 in support of our Constitution and liberties. W e lt, the eth rgs a sed away, and in its turn came Parliamentary Reform. 'f his was the. great panacea of the Whigs and Opposition. But tl•ey hal lived 'o ter enough to turn over the psees of history ; and he b.lie.ed it sat only with i tto last year that it was slated, in Major C irtWrig . C. Memoirs, what the opinion of Mr. Fon w s on the goes iot of Parliamentary Reform. Mr. Fox thought Ref ten an excellent subject to discuss at Covent-garden hustings, but that it was practically absurd. Mr. Moore, in his life of Sheri 'a 1, el omentiolied that Mr. Sheridan, who was a great poetic advotette f. r Reform, was in the habit of saying to his psi. va.e friends, " I always vote for annual Pailiaments and UDlVersta eutfrage, becalee they are too ri.liculous ever to be carried." With • such sethorides he could not be blamed for being a little prejudiced and obstinate, in favour of the exit ing order of things. He had the honour of a seat in the House of Commons, and was therefore a lit tle more decided in his political principles than it was reasonable to suppose his lion. Friend, with whom he hoped in future to act in. • concert, c uld be. lie returned to Parliament, determined to eup• port those principles under which the country had arrived at t s prevent prosperity. If we altered our system, it should be slowly ands dolly, for latterly he found we were travelling too fire. (Ap t lone.) By pureeing this course, he doubted not we shoelt rise to a still higher state of prosperity than that we bad lately wd nested. It was the triumph of those principles which they were advocating wheel they selicted his Him. Friend 10 serve them in Par- • insolent, and such were the principles uniformly supported by the Hon. Baronet, whom health lie now proposed. Sir CHARLES PRICE returned thanks. He conceived the city of London I ad a right at all times to his humble services. • He could not sit down without adverting to a charge made Nominee Mr. Ward's Committee, of which he had the honour to be Chair man. His Ho: minable Friend, Mr. Ward, had refused to pledge himself on the Catholic quee.ion, and notwithstanding this distinct refusal, it wra said that hie Committee had taken advantage of the popular cry eg iinet the Catholics to red his election. A placard was a - ude.l to, which he (Sir C. Price) had never seen, and cf which he distinctly denied having any knowledge. Though the same avowal had been niasie by his Honoorahle Friend, however they could not succeed in convincing Mr. Alderman Wood, who had vitiated h:m (Sir C. Puke) on this occasion with sornethieg like peremial diereepect. (('ries of " Shame.") Ile thought the declaration of hie Honourable Friend and himself were suffictent on this point, but as it did not strisfy Alderman Wood, he (Sir C. Price) urged him to find out the author of the placard. He thought it necessary to advert to this subject, as a 11 their eisractal were in some decree involved in it. (Hear.) He trust say he did not think the Alderman's con inet ups a it at all calculated to ad. trance his pretensions on any four e se anion. - Lora Mayor. and "lie Chairman bri derived from OATH OF THE EMPIRE. " T swear to nuintain the Catholic Apostolic Roman Religion, and the integrity and indivisibility of the Empire ; to cause to be observes!, as the Political Constittftion of the Brazilian Nation, the present project of a Constitution, which I have prescribed, which the nation has accepted, and desired it should be sworn to as soon as possible, as the Constitution of the Empire. " I swear to respect, and to cause to be respected, all the laws of the Empire, and to promote, as fat as shall depend on me, the ge neral welfare of Brazil. " Rio de Janeiro, 25th March, 182 g. [(Signed) " THE EMPEROR." The Duke of York continued in the- same favourable state of improvement yesterday, having passed a good night. His Royal Highness took an airing in his carriage on Tuesday afterno'n in the grounds adjacent to Mr. Greenwood's villa at Old 13rompton. The Princess Au ;plata visited the Royal Duke yesterday. Sir Herbert Tay lor transacted business on Tutaday with his Royal High ness. The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex transacted buei ness yesterday, at the S:cretary of State's Office fur the Home Departmont. Earl Fitzwilliam completed his 78th year on the 30;1) of last month, and has enjoyed his title and estates nearly 70 years. Lord Milton is just turned of 40, having been born May 4, 1786, sixteen years after the marriage of the Earl and Countess. He has three sons and five daughters now surviving. Mr. Marshall is said to be 6t years of age. The Hon. Mr. Duncombe's age is, we believe, about 28, and Mr. Wilson's about 50. Our late Member, Lord Warncliffe, is in his 50th year.—Yorkshire Paper. The Berwick election terminated cn IVerinesdav, in the return of Captain Beresford, and our townsman, Dir. Glad stone. The opinions which he has expressed on the sub jects of the Corn Laws and free trade have excited great surprise in this town ; for we believe it was generally understood that he was an advocate for a revision of the Corn Laws, and a supporter of Ministers in the repeal of those laws which fettered the commerce of the country. But it will be seen, on reference to his speech, that we have ' been mistaken when we ranked Mr. Gladstone amongst the enlightened individuals who supported Mr. Iluskisson, Mr. Canning, &c. in the liberal commercial measures which they have introduced into l'arliareent in the two last Sessions.— Liverpod Advertiser. 'Tees BANS, STOCKTON.—It may be important for parties interested in this concern to learn, that at a meet ing of the creditors held at Stockton, on Thursday, the 15th instant, pursuant to an order of the Lord High Chan cellor, for a new choice of assignees, if the creditors at such meeting should think fit, the previous election of Messrs. Richard Dickinson, Thomas Stanwix, and Thomas Rich mond, was confirmed by a majority in value, of about 70,0001. We hope that this decision may be the means of preventing further litigation, and of the creditors ob taining an early dividend. Tire BLUE PARTY.—NItICII inconvenience was felt in passing the George Inn, in Coney -street, on Thursday and Friday last, the thoroughfare being nearly stopped up by the thousands of Blue freel,olders resident in this city and neighbourhood, who were getting paid five shillings each from Messrs. Wilson anal Duncomhe's Committee, for their attendance in the Castle-yard on the day of election. AVe observed the majority of these freeholders were lads of from sixteen to eighteen yearn of age.—York Courtin!, Tuesday. SINGULAR DEATII.—A farmer of Thoarout, in Flan ders, was following a swarm of bees in the heat of the day; at length seeing the bees hanging on a branch of an ash, he presented the hive to them, but unfortunately the queen bee took her station on his face, and in a moment the whole of the bees followed their sovereign, and the unfor tunate man was overwhelmed by this cruel species of at tack. In a quarter of an hour he was dead. A person who was with him to assist him in the operation, rad away from him. _ _ At rr.awctinr.T OCrtritr r NC r.—During the sailing match on Tuesday, for the silver cup and cover, as the vessels were sail. ing through Busby's Hole on their return to Blackwell, a violent squall of winl came on with heavy rain and thunder, which laid of further "calls ;" and as these demands produce many sellers, squall of winu came on Wll ll [wavy rain anu munuer, woe.. omi o o - • he before onaerveti to all uommtttee, mat in one sense iney wire • who are under die necessity of disposing of some part of their them on their beam-ends, and they were obliged, for a time, to or the deep shade of impenetrable w oods , in dark:ism and not his friends; they had made him their debtor for life, and no vance his pretensions on any btu . oc anion. sh ores t o rty th e calls on the others, and as there are no buyers strike their canvas, to right themselves. The Morning Star , lion- in solitude, " the extravagant and erring spirit" is here insolvent Act could avail him. (Applause and laughter.) It was The next toast was, "Tote Lord Mayor and the Corroration of o f suc h commodities at present, the market is in a dreadful state. ever, a vessel which accompanied the match, was upset , and im- ushered into crowd e d aaatniblies, into halls, and feasts, and a debt of the heart, and as long as On heart vibrated it must re- Lond. n," in proposing which the Chairman briefly adverted to the United Mexican Shares were 0 discount; Anglo.2llexican 324 dis- metliatcly sunk. There were tire persons on board, and tt was re- tournaments, where he - amuses the company, like a show- main unpaid. It was a satisfaction for him to acknowledge the a 'vantages which this coentry derived from its unpaid mfrs. ) debt, although he could . not nal it. However, lie wra di t!rmineil to trarY• cflunt Tlalpuxahua were at 8 to 10 discount. Colombian. on ported three of them met with 14 watery grave; but upon further in. man , or gladiator, all the time that he is performing the which 151. is paid, were sold at :IL 'Chew are generally what arc quiry, we learn that four were picked up, but the fifth, a Captain 'unctions of a witness at the Ohl Bailey. have recourse to a practice well knewn on the Royal Exchange—he A lav Ear XIV, whose name we did not learn , re umed thank,. c tnsidered marketable Shares. Tne minor schemes yet in unit- of an Indiaman, whose vessel now lays in the Docks, was unfonu-would aueamt ;o pay what he owed hriostalments. If they let Serval other toasts were subsequently given. aid the eontivieliir cote • ' are uo..h•able at any price. palely drowned. . But though in this, the Jut of her romances, Mrs. Rid- hint know, at the end of every year, that he was not deficient in of the eve tog wen tupt up to as advanced koar. • . • • DINNER TO MR. WARD. About 380 gentlemen sat down to dinner yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, to celebrate the return of Mr. AVard for the City of London. Amongst th.company we noticed several of the merchants and bankers of the metropolis, who are most distin. gnisheil for opulence and respectability. Sir Charles Price, Bart., filled the chair, and was supported on his right liv Mr. Wart, and on the left by Charles Barclay, Esq., M.P., Mr. Thomas Wilson, the late Member, &c. The cloth having been removed. and the customary toasts given from the Chair, anti drank witit the usua honours. The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the health of Mr. Ward. ' lie was satisfied that it was quite unnecessary for him to occupy ' their time, by entering into the merits of thegentlernan whom they ' had assembled to congratulate on his return. Yet he felt he might ' disappoint their expectations, and do injustice to his Honourable Friend, if he neglected to advert to his qualifications. The situa- 1 tion of the country, at the period his Honourable Friend was called upon, was very peculiar; and he must say that at that time he 1 conceived the situation of the City of 1. union was most (info' tons% i as they had just been deprived of the valuable services of ' his Honourable Friend to his left (31r. Thomas Wilson). (Cheers 1 He was gratified to observe that his lion. Friend still continued to I receive the applause which his public principles and private corduct so well entitled hlm to. They bad been deprived of the valuable ' services of his Honourable Friend, and it then became necessary for the commercial body to support the election of some gentlema connected with the commercial community, as a substitute for their ! late esteemed Representative. lie was assured they would agree with him in thinking that it was matter'saf congratulation that they had obtained the consent of Mr. Ward to fill the place which had been vacated by Mr. \Wilson. (Cheers.) During the last twenty or thirty years the country had been agitated by many important political questions, and in some instances Parliament was called upon to suspend the best and most valuable principles of the Con stitution. We were now, by the blessing of Providence, enjoying a state of tranquillity, as regarded our connection with foreign nations; but it must be remembered that we were running a course of commercial rivalry with many nations of the Continent, and that it required the most extensive ability and the most indefatigable seal to grapple with these commercial questions. Situated as the city of London was, it now sent four Itepreaentatives into Perlis ment, of which three were from the trading classes, anal the fourth was his Honourahle Friend, who was sent from a most important class, and one which it was especially necessary should have a suit able Representative. (Cheers.) It was necessary that the Re presentative of the mercantile interests of this great metro polis should be able to consult with the 3liaisters of the Crown on all queotions connected with the commerce of the country, and that heshould be able to get up in his place, and state his senti ments on every subject of importance to his Constituents. He should not enter into all the important t pea which were Mel) , to be introduced to Parliament during the nexs Session ; bat h i hoped he might be indulged if he adverted, perhaps not discreetly, to one or two which appeared to him to be of paramatint impnr'ance. His Hon. Friend said lie would not go into Parliament pledgei ; and considering the importance of many of the questions upon which he must be called upon to decide, he conceived this caution on the part of his lion. Friend was prudent and honourable, (Hear, hear.) Many who did not cordially agree with the present assem bly on political questions, boasted of the Revolution of 1689, :or which we ware certainly indebted to the Whigs; but in his (Sir C. Price's) opinion the Whine of 1688 were more like the Tories of the present day, than those who (now assumed the nam eof \Whip. ((Treat applause.) In sl'uding to what was called the Catholic question, he was one of those entitled Ani-Ca tholics ; but though he could not get a pledge front his Han. Friend to vote against the Catholics, upon other grounds he had given him all the support in his power ; though hail he (Sir C. Price) been returned, he would base said it was his intention to (T -ome the Catholic claims. But on the Catholic question, he was sure Iris Hon. Friend's discretion was the better rat of valour. (Ap plause.) His Hem Friend's principle was, that he ought not to undertake the duty of representing thent isliasi:lsd by Wedges. The next question in public etinsitleratioo was the Ctirti laws, sni can.. sidering the close depentleneeiof ono interest with another, he could not avoid expressing his regret, that this question hail been pressed in such a way as to excite hostility between the sgrieultutal and trading interests. He hoped his Hon. Friend would pay his bits: attention to this subject, and, when lie entered the House of Com mons, would consider himself the Representative of every el, ss of his Majesty's subjects. These were the leading questio .s of a domestic nature; but there were ether most important qua it ris connected with the Navigation Laws, and our commereisl in er course with other nations. On this subject he conceived it was most important that changes should be made with great csuti in, because if other nations found that we injured ourselves to their benefit, they would never recur to that system of re ciprocity which was the basis of free trade. Nor sh old it ever be forgotten that we had arrived at an unparalleled state of prosperity under the old system. He begattl not to be understood as admiring that system only because it was old : no, he venerated it because under its influence we had acquired atrenttli . and riches, and, notwithstanding the late convulsions in the City, he might add, we were the most favoured of nations. On these questions he confided with the greatest satisfaction nn the judg ment, penetration, and discretion of his Honourable Friend. lie was sure his Honourable Friend would not be willing to get rid of the old system without first ascertaining that the new was a proper substitute. With respect to the question of the Currency, which had such important effects upon national intercourse, lie conceived that the city of London was peculiarly fortunate in the selection of Mr. Ward, as no man on the Royal Exchange had applied his mind more laboriously and advantageously to that subject than his Honourable Friend. On-the whole, he thought it was a high ho nour to the citizens of London to have chosen a man so capable oaf rep eventing them adequately. He would not detain them longer; he thanked them for their attention, sod would conclude by pros posing" The health of W. Ward, Esq. their Representative in' Parliament." This toast was received with the most enthusiastic apPlause, which continued for several minutes. When itiiiiti subsided, Mr. Ward rose, and was again cordially . greeted. lie declared himself overwhelmed with the applause with which i.e was ho. Poured, as well as with the kind manner in which his health had been proposed and drunk. He felt it was cause of proud congra tulation to him to have been called upon to represent this great city, whose traffic extended to the furthest ends of the earth. It was im possible fur him not to value this honour, but he must repeat, what he before observed to his Committee, that in one sense they were . . . . ... i~ f