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771 E COURT. r a tardsy, WOO after two o'clock. (be MAysayit Il m Orate Levee, which was attended hy— Am\bishop of C.u.terbory ; tbet Archbishop 4.1 York ; $.1,,,p o f cloglier the President of the ; Ant L a rd uf the Treasury and Chsweellor of the La- Im r ; tie three Secretsries of State ; the First Lord of A d m iralty ; the MastenGeseral of the Ordnance ; the rr,efit of the &mud of Cowin's, ; the Curaussu'levist tim Lord Chamber' ; the Lard Steward of the *hold; The Calash* or the Geollemea Pensioner.; the Ikeof grupswiek ; The Al 2//e/ of La slows ; E.rts schelsra (Lord in waitiug,) Herrushy, Warwick, Airing. mr d W. ilestiork ; Lords Wrens, and Ilenthfirld (gold 1); Admirals Otsay amid Dittos; Geserabs i r ps, Ach;ol, Wyttyard, Despard ; Colonels Hunter, kraddyll, ithaire, Cotquitt, and TA) ; Captains ylor, )1. Vidou,aail H. HoatbeoSsi; Messrs. Fawkeuer arid - - - The following had the honour of being presented His Nisi EST : iv i iier-Crereral Arland, upon ►in return from Wal- e. Taylor, upon his being appointed Leutruant-Colonel be Clisthom and Dartford Limit Militia. teoant.Cohmel Sabright, of the Ist Regiment of ski, mom his poninotion. LiCaltallet-Cekbasel bradilytl, of the Coldstream Regi of Foot Guards. upou his retort' inns Walsh...on. 'dilemma CoJoael Shaw, is the 7oth Regoneut, upon his Its from Waleherea. • tesstit.Culouel Culquift, of the Ist Regiment of spas his pruntott,s Heathkehl, upon Is. appointment to the command he Ist Itr:toicitt of Lkagoas Gnards. r Marsilius floater, spa his promotion to be Colouel t he Bina' West Luistioa Militia. be Mamull , of Issasloos, sport coming to his title. Isior-Gentral W. Milroy's/4,1/11,1a kis hem' ormsated sa ry to His Majesty. sjor-fsearral Elwia, upon his promolista asieuant-Culusiel harrowas, id the lath Regiment, opus warn (rum Wis. tentemant 4 - sclera' Des_pard, upon his being appointed be Codsorl of the 4th 'Nest Italia It egimeat. aptaiu Muuslay Diann, upuo hn promutiou. 'uvula N. Hemittote, of His M.ijesty's ship Lion, span retire from China. odilariril Dix"' spun his seises from the Sadie. he Earl of Alstag.b:n„ upuu his marriage. AM William Bautiack, upon his beiug appoint! to the ftercaeut of Drsgoiis. Admiral Wray, spots kis sitars frogs the Scheldt • teasst-Gearral Nampa, epos his being appointed to Paymaster of the Royal Marines, by Lord alalgrare. sts.Gencral liamusied, apes his prismAiusi, by Lord hall& he Ikaliop of Climber, epos his being appusated to that prick, be the Earl of Castles. usstsColorrel Geordie, spits his cetera from Wal 1, by use Earl of Warwick. Waal B. W. Taylor, a. M. epos his retest from the reassess. [LA Rtv Las delivered to Ilia MARMITE the Col laid Onler of the Bath, vroru by •tbe late Sir ILLIAN PITT. 1414 MAJE*TY gave aialieneee to Mr. PRIMEVAL. id the •rbt of the Cat:lust Miaistera preheat, and it Dams DuliiDAL THE PERSIAN AMBASSADOR. Yesterday woo the day appended fee the intro betel' of his Excellency this to lire AlssErrs, ishich was arranged to be acted with equal attention sod splendour to tof the introduction to HIS MAJEATT. Soon r two o'clock. Her MAJUTIeII carriage .4 I six aiifta bay horses, iith tisreelootosen, shy, to 11,r with the coaAus tan and postilion, were std in .rate liveries, iii every respect, as If lo •t -ied Her MAJESTY, except. wearing bats, inroad i , elvet caps, arrived at his Excellency's buti..e iti lausfseld•otreet. hoop after his Exceltercy's 15,711 of the Mu Lk* rud PAO!, Set ofFiii his Ex 4litocy's carriage to the Quit an's Palace, with the vseuts ;nought by his Excellency' groin hit Court Her Alrr err v. In • short time after, his Exec:. ary (mafiosi! iii Iler MSS LSTY's carriage ; • nu in ir of persons Isere attracted round his Excellency's sae, in cousequence, who behaved in a very re pectin' mariner. His Excellency arrived a few nooks before three o'clock, at the Qurss's Pi. , preceded by the carrier of Sir STEPPE:II MULL, the Master of the Ceremonies, and pooled in tier Mavis/es carnage by Mr. mu, the Assistant Master of the Ceremonies, STarwall CorratLL bang indisposed, and GORE OuseLcir, lira Excellency's Interpreter. s Excellency was conducted by Mr. Ono. a. to (id IN aJaSTY'II I)rairiil4-rOwywi loud ,ens ' , Ott elt'rel to Iler MaJerre by Earl MOlllon, l i re MAresre's Chamberlain, with the same op sad NMI as if Her MaJaIITT was hold -4 a grand pnblic drawing-room, all Her Manse it's stet atten.lauts heini present ; Consisting of oloitel DxsliaoW. Her .IfiAJIATT's Viie-Chtin erlain; Earl thuotyrr, the Nlaster of the florae ; trlisnel Urrom. the Equerry; Master ANSON, Her Ilsrtsrt's Page of Honour, and the other Pages; di-v .1. Timing mud ELY ; Misses COURTS rt• UDEN Et,L,S. COLES' 411. Sold WILOTTIMLV.Y. Her AJES FY was accoespanied by the Pai%cessEs, il the 'Nikes of Kgar,Caalaallorix, iWid Ballms tlci. Ili. Excellency delivered his credentials to ler MAJESTY. which were nrost graciously re- Vlietl. Ills Excellency also delivered the pre -I.rits fruits ilia Court. consisting of three boxes of toil., several choicer shawls, and a curious carpet, Ihirh were also most graciously received. His Excellency was in the Palace about half an bar : then returned in Her MaJlisre'a carnage rrai g h the Park, mod got into his own carriage. Hi, Excellency is expected to attend Cie Draw ii-rrstri, this dly. at St. J.imes's Praisers 's cele iaio of Her MAreerv's birth-day. A Ste broke out at three o'clock !a , at ritorniisg. 4 loal4ing.laouse in Old Gravel-lane, BI tckfriArs ‘l, which cipnigiuleiceted to the White 'flirt pith "44llll,. the corner ol Gaorge.street, N. e atm ly *Aimed th e h ouse , except part a the hair, which 4 , oared lay the activity of the 6rr,ateu. The luX oi the accident has out lereu aractrt allied. Nu ON e hut. ,At the late Chelmsford Quarter Sr Minn, Jto l in and Jolts Tunbri.fge, were eon% icted of draw -1,00 "iira%ans, on the highway, in. the town of .n a very rations manner (r )pposed to be ` t41 .11, and thereby overturning aatl. breaking the Inlet or MI. SNEPPARD, in whiff h s! e and her were tr.abtlawg, soul nlio,v eye watch hum. 4 bl ; ti.rlt f tit io imminent ilai g , T. The I/v -.1114 were s e n t ence d to scum! um e the imprison- Itt,t. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. • TO THE. RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD ILLINIti, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR. LETTER 111 Twice have I addressed your Lordship on the subject of that placard which is suffered to sully the walls of the Hall, where the Court of Chancery is held ; twice, with a prophetic and warning voice. have I advised you to rescue your character front the odium a hich will attach to it. if you should de scead from your high office, without previeu . .ly ob literating that illegal and uncoustitutionul bye-law of an egoistical Corporation, who have presumed to declare, that men, who have writteu fur the Jour nals of the only free country under the canopy of heaven, shall be excluded from the profession of 'be law. and shall not he entitled to do those exercisi s, which are to enalde them to be called to die liar. It was my intention to have represented to you what would have been the effect of such a vicious system of partial exclusion, if, instead of having its date within the period of your Lordship's influence. it could have been traced to an sroa, anterior to that in which literature so eminently 11..uriehed in this cowl/rye It was my purpose to have sheen, what sort of persons were lekrly to have come within the prohibition f but. meow reliestion, 1 find I . should be taking too wide a range ; my Address would ex ceed even the prolixity of • bill in Chaucery ; 1 should have to enumerate ncarly all the celebrated writers of the lest century. from Addison down to the Learned Judge, who now administers the laws of England tv the inhabitants of ludostan. It nas been reserved fur your judicial existence to engender this monstrous productiou ; and future historians will have to say, that ;tale Lord Eldon, the candidate for the Chancellorslep of Oxford, held the seals, such an edict was suffered to be promulgated by a junta of Lincoln's-Inn Reochers, acting immediately nodes hi, eye cod authority. Wnh the assistance of thtse instruments, you have date all in your power to degrade and lower in society, a class of oven. who, in every nopre jud;ced point of view, pere entitle! to your re: sped. You have made the Court of Chancery like the desert that surrounds the Upas-tree. You have exhaled an atmosphere in which genius and learning can neither thrive nor even exist. Yon Ilan rendered it inaccessible to all, except those who. by tile adveatitieus circuenstauces of birth and longue, are destitute of that stimulus which cen alone render them useful to the public, sad urge them to exertions, without which celebrity is nu attainnble in any profession. Let me ask )our Lordship. what there is in the character of a writer for the public journals, which should justly suhiect h►m to be treated awes alien. to the British Constitution, sod to be considered unworthy its protection ? Who, when the inveterate and hereditary rivals 5011 enemies of this country threatened to *min its sac►ed sod with our own blood, and when rumours were abroad of an immediate iiivasion by their hos. tile haniti, who, I say, seized the truininit of Fame and blew a blast so loud and shrill, that it was heard from one extremity of the kingdom to the other ? The writers for the newspapers. Who, at that awful moment. waisted the Government in arming 400,000 brave men ; who. 'under able direction, would have scattered to the four winds of Heaven, all the armies that could have been brought against them ? The writers for the public journals did this. Who, at that eventful crisis, caught the spark of patriotism, fanned it to a flame, and, by dilating it, warmed the bosom of every Briton ; converting, by • species of magic, the sons of in dustry into warriors ? The writ. re for the newq.A. pers. Who, when (dreadful to be remembered !) a mutiny in the navy Will on the point of giving France those fleets she never could have conquered; who, I ask, prevented this catastrophe, by convey. ing to our deluded seamen the words of wisdom and admonition, which flowed from the lips of the country's most revered representatives ? The writers for the newspapers.--Who have instrueted the people of England ; srui, while they have made them as competent judges of good govern ment as those by whom they are governed, have in fused into them, or, et least, eminently encouraged, that spirit of loyalty and affection to their King and Constitution, which induces them to bear, with pa tience and resignation, evils at which • less eulight 'lied nation might revolt ? The writers for the newspapers have done this ! And are these the ruen who are to be disgraced, to be lessened in their own estimation, and itt the opinion of the public, by a hon-dereript, self-elected assembly of /leachers, sitting in conclave in Lincolies.lnn ? Why. the hu man mind shrinks from the contemplation of such a prodigy-1 am ashamed that such men should have ever breathed the air of England—they are adapted to is different meridian. They should have been placed among the members of that subservient Senate, who debase the nobler attributes of man, by their al+ ct submission to the worst of tyranny Those who, because they vainly think they litre the power, would trample upon the rights Of ail clam. of their fellow -citizens, are unworthy to be deo.- nsisated Englishmen. I new pmcresl to a very material part of the h the ins estiKatiOn of the extraordinary Ouse I filet to that plat aril, which, to my utter astoeishment, you hate not yet removed from sour presence, repetrenting, as 1 hare Area,ly olaitrved )ou tto. a Sovereign, who has ever bee.' ambitious of being considered the ritron and promoter of learning. The wont. to which I refer are these— No person who has written, fur hire, in the new*. papers, shall be called to the Bar. Now, tivan what ground is is, that a motive which applies to all the transactions in which mankind can possibly he concerned, is selected, in 0r....1r to deprive a pars titular class of their civil and politicdl rights? If we could extend our nbservance to every part of the universe, we shostbd hardly tia.l t single idi vidual engaged in any inirsilit whatever, so engaged for hire ut gJiu, *loch are conveeiible terms, • What can be more honourable tlian the clurac ter of a Critisb merchant ? Vet does lir freight his ship. and rimque his merchaiirlize without a piii spect of gain ? Dues not his hire vousi,t in that advantageous return he receiees from the persons with whom he traffics ? Dow is his commerce conducted ? Wholly by persona, who, in their different departments, serve huts for hire. Would those who navigate his vessels. trust themselves to the perils of the deep. by day, and by night, if they were not hired to thrive the dangers of adverse element'', with which they ne cessarily have to conten.i. But, to proceeds De gree beyond this, what are our armies composed of, from the highest to the lowest rank Why men, actuated. in a certain degree, by native valour, and • thirst for glory; but mainly impelled, as soldiers ever have been and ever will be, by the hire they are to receive. I believe few instances can be men , booed of ;;;; ies keeping the field. after their pay or hire has been withheld from them. • Look to our wiry, our intrepid awl invincible seamen—is there a Mao, from the Admiral to the common sailor, who would be found in the service if he was not hired? I deprecate any invidious construction being put on these observations ; I am merely using. in my own defence, an ar g ument, which pride and a false view of the subject rave forced upon me. What are the persons who, from time to time, compose the Ad cuiaistrations, that are supposed to rule the coun try ? Why. the hired servants of the public ; end pretty high wages they receive, considering what sorry servants some of them are. Did any one ever hear of a Minister giving his services to his country gratuitously ? Coussil4 Mr. Perceval ; if that be not conveoient. The Red Book will answer this question. What are you? Lord High Chancellor of England—hut are you not Lord High Chancel lor for hire i• Would you sacrifice your time and your domestic tujoymenis. if you wa. not paid fur it? Would )011 tat, from morn till eve, is Lin. coltes-Inn.Hall. and from eve till morn, in the . Moo of I.,osda, if you was ass kited Westerns' take the pains you do to execute justice between parties. in whose concerns you have no personal interest, if you derived no reward from your exer tions? Would you, as I frequently observe you do. after hearing for hours the tedious arguments of Connael. take home with you verbose proceed ings, to read which must occupy many additional hours, in order to make assurance double sure, and be morally certain, that your decree, which is to affect the property and interests of others, shall he free from every exception—that it shall be satis factory even to the unsuccessful suitor sad be founded on those unerring principles of justice and equity, which shall make it a beacon to guide future Chancellors ? Would you do all this if you did nut do it for hire—could it be expected of you I am far from wishing to infer that your emolu ments are even adequate to your labours—l blame you only for having adopted that uncharitable and Anti-Christian principle, which has urged you, who twee been so liberally dealt by yourself, to act with illiberality towards others. This is s subject which isgricvous to me to pursue. If you rightly consi der it, I sin persuaded it must overwhelm you with confu,ion, and I hope with repentance, that you should have sat one instant in the Court of Chan cery with such a placard—such a memorial of ir nonince—stasing you in the face. If I may use a language, cortaiuly not vary classical. but familiar to you, I say you have mortgaged the fee-simple of your fame to Prejudice, subject only to a proviso of redemption, in case you should, by your restore. lion to a better way of thinking. be enabled to make sati4faction. Your estate is on the point of being foreclosed. Let me advise you twavail your. self of your equity. and, by an art of justice, trans. mit the inheritance uniocumbered to your pos terity. It was my ihtention to have made a few remark► with reference to sum.• of your honouni bit Bendier', whose muses I find in the list, particularly one of them, who was himself a writer. at a very humble hire indeed. for the newsprper, of winch the late Mr. Woo(Ifall was once prop-u•tur ; bur, as your Lordship's conduct is my theme, it would be • art* of time to throw anzry a word upon le o ul t ircts. • lu addressing your I.ord:.hip, I have scquitted mi..elf to my ovin teeinsz.. and hare done so hat I could. to shelf, my aunt htuent to the uncurls' Insti tutions of my country. as they existed before you was Chancellor. The mow. ; t I folitid that all tlllUrt,r 1 authority had destroy ed oue of the c. of owe freeGoverntsteut. closing the gate which leads to distinctive+. against • partic,alar class of todividuals. and had writteu over it, Lucia. bid it shall not be *pewit to you," that Ibbakent determined to appose sus► am innovation. • It would harm been a reproach to the remise period of our history, if, when an insidious and fatal blow was aimed at the liberty of the stibject, and the freedoea oY Vie press, there had not bees one men found to protest 'against it. I have pro te.ted , and do protest against it. All that remains to be done lay me is this : if I can find, and I,t would be impious to suppose I cannot. one among the Representatives of my country, who will pre.. sent my Petition to that august A►serdbly, front which alone red►e,. is to be obtained, 1 suh-ainly pledge myself to statethis grievance in terms whit ► ►hall completely bring it within As powerful jun.. diction. The cause will thew be out of my hands, and whatever may be the result, I Ault here the satisfaction of having done what I think my duty. If I should again sea this placard, to which yew attention has beeo so repeatedly draws. in defiance of all decency, disgracing ■ Coiirt of Equity, 1 shall he confirmed in the truth and justice of all the inferences and observations I have addressed to you. ; shall be assured you still entertain the sees timents from which it sprang. As these are mainmasts by which no man, pnew mired of learning hiraselt or capable• di iratiem • istog and asconeagiag it io ethers, can be actuated, I *hall congratukte the University of Ozforil urns the good store and prndresee they yid have ma nifested is net having chosen yen for their Chia. cellor. I remain. ke. ONE WHO WAS ♦ WRITER FOR THE NEWSPAPILLS: TII E PA RIC& The Canal in St. James's Park had yesterday sa . most carious appearance, • row of accommodation larbien and planks being placed close to the item. ratting, and the banks of the canal being !Med with furniabed with ref . rshotents and cordials, such as hut elder wine, gin,- brandy, itc. &e. gingers' bread, hot in 'moo-pies. &c. The asnessiblage ea this congealed element sonsisted of upwards of Sub, persons, chiefly from the neighbeerhood of Wei*. sinner. Malty of the/Slur/Rues attempted te.sterw_ their skill arid agility in this art of shaking, hat were very deficient. The banks of the Serpratiee river were lined Kith fashionable compimy, wha were highly gratified with the appearance of se elepet female, in a green spotted drew), with a scarlet Spanish mantl e, _ attended by tee Geattirmen. They were alloaed by the ainateute to be perfect masters of the art ; but the Gentlemen were decidedly ens celled by the Lady. Among other peels of inseit t she cut out the letters 0. P. with a previa°, *ad neatness truly astonishing. The Duke of Argyle, who was ricaniegst the same time, did Dot depart until dark. . SHOLKIAG ACCIDENT. • tkeiselfsparteli o'clock, 6O Tuesday. erie co bona. No. 4, in the King's powder mull* ea lt vershain, blew up with • elms& leetiorodeuo eia plosion. Of the ox men employed in the building at the time, four were bluets to pieces, and that bodies and limbs were @mineral I. a distance if upwards of 190 yards from the seite of the hail& ing. One of the arms wes found ea the top of 41 high rho tree. The fifth man was token up eLee r but no hopes of his rec over y are eistrrtaiut& The sixth man, George Holmes, the foresee of the work, singular to relate. was found alive also. sib. ting in the midst 'of 'be smoking reins, with his clothes burning; but be was otherwise not mach injured, and it likely to do well. At the door of the corning.house was standing • tumbril. or covered waggon, with two horse*. and • driver. The waggon was blown to oirces, sod the driver end horses were killed. Of three horses employed within the building, two have peilsbed, het the third is living. The scattered real:mins of tan of the men were collected last evening for ieterniert ; those of the other three had not been found. circumstances have transpired, flout which so opi. lAOII can be fanned with respect to the cease of the accident: it is the third a the kind that has bap. petted et these mills within these seven years. Private letters. hum Ss eden. express strong sips prehensioas of an attempt at a counter-revolution iu that country. The adherents of the deposed Save► sign err represented as being extremely active, and hourly increasing. The existing government was without either energy or respect. la case of the dissolution of the reigning Sovereign, it was sops toiled that a competitor would 00t be wanting to Prince Auovseasinsio. Letters of the 11th inst. were, onTuesiay, received from Holland. They state. that e s cay of Frank. flirt had been annexed to the kingdom of IVeatptua. lie. King Lovts had not returned, nor wee it kuowu when he would. Wttddess BATLEY, EN. of Ipswich. Is appoint. ed Collector of MAMMY'S COMM! at that port, in the room of Joni: LLOYD, E..q. deceased. Un Thstradoy hut the powder.osills near Guildford, Wow op with a dreadful explosion:. ProvidPotially no perpoos were hurt. On Suuchl erehang the house of Mr. ANYELL, io Sion-upiore, tV hitechape I, we. broken iido, and rob-. I.eil of a huge Tonally of wearing aware!, and some plate. Friilay the IVolooll mail-coach. golog.to Bir— ruiughtsur. wag rubbed of r valuable padtvige. sir trotted for the Loudon ru.irket. Thtte tuna Y ruarr.age solemnised on Ihe 2741 November. in the parish church of cronthweite, year Keswick. at which wcre present-2..brOtbers i 2 sisters. and t cousins; 3 husbande and 3 nivrivv; 4 fathers and 4 ~other; 4 sons and 4 datightt(l4 taucles moil 2 aunt.; •2 liki.hrwll end 2 nieces; and )et the part) convict. d of no more thou six perwa At a a,Cfand loattre given by Sir JOl2ll SIIIIMET, Yt (;...;snug. SuQnllC. on Mon lay se ' nuiglit, there wete 1.11., if I('7 phcaionitv, 100 bares. and 96 rabbit,. "1 . (ivg,tlentt ti silo ercescipanird Sir it , HN irere Cf.ERNIONT. tsar H onta4u, Sir ti. H Mr. Niatt.LE, Mr. blusts.aw, •.J Mr. Wturs*ume. I.IA t INN mr4 I bet 'obi lead cc is perk, rrTit Asa Lad west e hr 17,a • last we. NOl1" Vit. an DIM or tee Bit the uewr Irani teed- f Fa inlea tOl• 4101'