The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1826-10-11 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, October I'', will be performed 1.1.0 Comedy of THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. Doric:owl, Mr.Wallack . Old /lardy. Mr. Peyton ; Sir 1;4 , , Tn.,h• wood, Mr. Cooper; Flutter. Mr. Browne Saville, Mr. IMlnett. 1.1:101a Wordy. Mies Ellen Tree; lire. Racket, kin. Hartman. After which the Roatantie Opera or DER FREISCHUTZ. settoottr, Wt. Mercer ; Bernhard, Mr. Bedford; Adolpheldr. T. Cooke; Caspar, Mr. Horn; Kiiien, Mr. .1. RieSea Zanolel,, Mr. 0. Smith; 1.16da, Miss Oraddoa ; Roes, Mae A. Tie. COVENT:O:ARDENTHEATRE. This Everts; UiONES LIAIi, October 11, will be perf.asaird the • of GUY Prlhg/EIRING. • Henry Bertram, Mr. Santo; Sampson, Mr.W. Ferran; D 111106411 1. vr.ont. Mr. Beane. Lucy Itertram, Mist Paton ; Julia Maanerlug, Caws.; Meg Merrill's, Mr;. Fasselt. • After which, ‘. THE nCAT. i GOAT,. ty J Ragtime, Mr. Blanchard ; Charles, Mr. HoTrebow ; Ignatius Pallrecois - Mr.W. Ferree; Rubin, Mr. wl•nrs. Molly Magri, Miss Jones. To conclude with the Fuca of BANING THE %VIM/. Jr-ezny Diddler, Mr. Jones ; Plalaway, M. Blanchard ; Saul, Mr. Evans. Latina' Durable, Mr.. Darenport ; Peggy, Miss J. Scutt. • ADELPH I THEATRE. This Evening. WEDNESDAY. October IL will be presented the Nautical Melo.Dramatle Barletta of THE PILOT: or, A TALE OF THE SF.A. The Pilot, Mr. Terry; Lieutenant Permeable, Mr. Tates ; Long Tons t...03a. Mr. T. P. Cooke. captain Bonrrougbalf, Mr. J. Reeve. Nisi Katherine Plowden. 'Mrs. II u.theg , Cecilia. by a young Lady. After which the new Ballet Divertis,!:nant of LA FETE DES NATIONS, Caasl.ting of Characterhalc Mein's& (warmed and produced by Moog. Hain. To conchs& with the new Cootie !NOWA of OLD LOVF. AND VOL NO LOVE. _ . . . Went flunenberg. Mr. Elliott; Baron Roueobtrl Mr:Value; De* Clumps, Mr. Wrench. Jul t. 111 r. Terry , Frederick, Mn.lelt t , e Hughes. PoSITITF.LT NEXT WEDNESDAY ALL LOTTF.RIES END IN :•:lIS KINGDOM. SIX DE 430100, &c. st&A..4ko, IN ONE DAY. The Darnell PRESS commenced publishing yesteithy morning at Ave o'clork. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, ()cum.! 11, 1626. The Etoile of Monday states that the latellinister, CZVA L LOS, liar obtained permission to return to Madrid. It appears by the same paper that a curious incident oc curred at Cadiz on the 19th ult., has excited con c:dereble attention. A young baker ran through the streets, for three quarters of all hour, crying " Live the Constitu• Con !" followed by several persons, who did not, however, lain him in his seditious cries. After considerable resist ance, he was at length arrested. On information of these e'rcumstances being given to the Intendant of Police, be listened to take the most severe measures to prevent a re currence of them ; and, at his request, come French patreles, consisting both of infantry and cavalry, n er' dispersed to all part" of the city during the whole of the night. The police were doubled, and the Intendant himself was se t:rely engaged till a late hour in the morning. The Mi litary Governor, General AvorßlCti, has been directed to prosecute an inquiry into this affair. What a sad condi t'on must that country be in which feels itself obliged to resort to such extraordinary measures whenever some rtanise break; from his keepers, and tuns loose into the screen ! For it seems that this unhappy baker is a mad man, and has on other occasions given proofs of it. At least so says the Mile; though we dare say, In the tapi r ion of that Journal, all men are mad who indulge in the' cry of {'ice to Constindiun. No doubt a similar disposi tion to exaggerate (though from quite opposite motives) exists on the part of many of the French Liberal Jour nals, and that their accounts of the situation of Spain ought, perhaps, to be read with some grains of al lowance in that respect. The Arcadia Gez'tte of the Rltth I,li...evinces extreme indignation at the representations con tamed in the Journal du Commerce as to the state of tiling' in Spain, and particularly in Madrid. This Journal had described Madrid as being most delolate ; that grass was growing in the streets ; and that the public walks were peopled only by prostitutes and Royal Guards. The Ftoile is equally earnest in contradicting such report', ard says that, according to the papers it received en IVonday, neither the account given by the Journal des Debate of rho affair which took place on the parade whin a young of sainted Doty CA Ol.o3—lrtitliffr standard (a compliment due only to the Kins), tag, that- of the coatinuance of the troubles ti Cornea, were at all founded in truth. It wholly denies that any troubles had ever existed at Cornea. As to the repeated interviews too, which, according to the JuNroui des Drloafs, had taken place between FISDINAND and the English Ambassador, the Mode entertains very crong doubts; and observes, that it is not certain that our Itli n.ster bad a single private audience with the KING during Cie whole time If.s MAJESTY was at Ildefonso; and that one must be very ignorant, indeed, of the manners of the :lowish Court, to believe that such repeated communica tions could take place between the KING and the Itepre scotative of any foreign Power. It appears that a certain Member of Parliament, re markable for his accuracy in the lower processes of arith metic, has recently turned his attention to the subject of Ilse Royal Palaces. Several arguments have been founded on his calculations, both by the reputed friends and oppo nents of Ministers—with neither of whom we can, exactly coioeide on the present question. We, should think it Oar:Ter.—and t.ighly improper —to conne::his MaJarr v's name with any expenses that could possibly he avoided at time of national distress. ' With regard to the Palaces in question, it will he oheerved that they were all undertaken at a period antecedent to the calamities which have recently overr.keti the country—at a period of national prosperity, when the views of sound policy, and the almost unanimous voice of the nation, concurred in the propriety of enabling our Sovereigns to appear with as much magnificence, at lea,t, as the highest of the Nobility. Our Royal Family, it must be remembered, has been gradually stripped of all its private clams' is, and has not been enalital to increase its income in the sante proportion as that of the Nobility. While the heir' of WILLIAM the Conqueror have lost his forests ttad estates, those of his Barons have preserved theirs till they produce revenues superior to the private income of their SovereiAn. If we must choose between the Crown and the Aristocracy, we confess that we should feel in clined to prefer the former. At all events it is our wish that the Sovereign and his relative, should be lodged and main tained in a manner suitable to their rank; and, much as we value the high feeling of our Nobles, we should have more pleasure in contemplating the magnificence of Royal equipages and mansions than we could have in admiring the splendor of any Nobleman, whether Whig or Tory. Could a descendant of the House of Russell stand up in the House of Lards or Commons and blame the moderate ex penditure of our Sovereigns, knowing, as he must, that those very domains which now yield his own family such princely revenues were originally, in a great measure, the gift of Sovereiens who might have added them to their own es tates, and who have since stripped themselves, on the faith of national generosity, of possessions far Rose ample, se cured to them by rights of property at lessees inviolable as those by which our Nobles hold their present estates? Our Sovereigns gave up the Crown lan.ls in retcrn for a revenue to be fixed by Parliament. The consequence has been that every increase of income made by the • Crown has been watched with extreme jealousy; while cur landed propri etors, by the general improvements of the country, have tic:adict and quadrupled their revenues, and have come up in many instances with their Sovereign. We arc far from saying this with a view to cast odium on tl , e Aristocracy. They are a part of the British Constitution, as well as the Kixa himself; and the in crease of their revenues is not an object of jealousy, but of caegratulation. Atl we wish to show is, that his NIAJESTY ought not—as he is confessed to have done hitherto—to continue to he worse lodged than many of his subjects; and that neither a Duke of Bennie'', nor any of his family or party, has a right to complain of the expenses of a King of England. Ss much for the mstter of right. We shall next say a few words respecting the suppoed private feelings of his Mature. IVe have to Mettle a Ministerial Journal for fist misleading the public on this head, by an article which we noticed at' the time, and from which it was inferred that his I AJLSTY wished new plans of building to be undertaken at a moment when the country was plunged into distress. All the repairs of Palaces were undertaken at a time when the nation was considered in a state of the most unexampled pros perity—st a time, of all others, the most proper for restoring his MAJECI' to that relative pre-eminence above his subjects which i! ;a essential to a monarchy such as ours that he should ressess. It would hardly have con tributed to increase the respect of foreigners for this nation if our public works lust been stopped short by the same mews which interrupted the exertions of private specu lators. It is a wise arrangement of our Constitution which provides that our Sovereigns should not look to their landed possessions for their revenues; though this regulation has lkherto had an efltet almost always prejudicial In the in terests of our Kind. The Corn Laws afect his Majesty' as much as they do the poorest of his subjects. Every over-issue of Bank-notes diminishes the value of his an nual income ; every increase in the price of provisions d:minishes his means of supporting the establishment proper for his dignaal station. The KING and the people, in this respect, are one. The latter cannot be benefltted with out benestting the former—and that not merely in the way commonly understood, but more directly by increasing the value of his private income in diminishing the price of ne cessarit s, and consequently augmenting his means of pro curing the indispensable appendages of his elevated office. It would be paying a very bad compliment to the judg ment, not to speak of the humanity, of his MAJESTY and his Blot Brothers, if we could for a moment suppose them callous to the miseries of their countrymen. These Royal Personages possess establishments, which, for the credit of the nation, they must continue to support. Can it be supposed that they arc ignorant how much an in crease in the price of provisions augments the expense of these establishments ? The KING and the people, in every I question for the alleviation of the distress of the country, have precisely the same interest, speaking of his MAJESI v even in his individual capacity. It is our decided opi nion that the interest of the Aristocracy, whatever some of them may suppose, is really the same with that of the KING and the people; for their rents cannot be increased without increasing the expenditure in an equal degree, whether that expenditure arise from the mainte nance of servants and equipages, or from the consumption of agricultural, commercial, or manufactured produce. The ; Nobility have, in fact, already begun to entertain this opi nian. It would be some consolation to the vanity of the poorer Nobles to see the highest aspirings of their richest compeers, and still more of their city-bred ri vals, exceeded, and cast into the shade, by the unenvied splendors of Royalty. CITY. TUESDAY EVLIIINO. The operations in the Home Stock Market have not at all increased to-day. AU parties are engaged in prepara tion ter the settlement on Thursday ; indeed that of itself troehl sufficient,/ account foe the inaction, at the same time that there 'nay be etnnething additional arising out of the question as to the state of the Quarter's Revenue, which will be determined to-night. Consols have remained stationary at 801 1 for Money and this Account, and at tio; fur November. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds are as 144. The Foreign Market has, however, made up for the want of action in the Home. The lately long-neglected Co lomLian Bondb have stole a march upon their neighbours, the Mexicans, and have, for one day at least, eclipsed them in the Market. At the opening they were 36i to 36, rose rapidly to 381, suffered a reaction to 37i, and finally closed at 391 to 39. The reason assigned is, that letters have been received, via Port-au-Prinze. announcing the arrival of upwards of 500,000 dollars at l'cra Cruz, for the pay ment of the dividends, and that a policy of insurance bad been armed at Lloyd's on their shipment. The latter cir cumstance, however, is not correct ; but as the amount of spade agrees with that previously said to be at Bogota, some credence is given to the statement. Indeed, it has been evident for some days that a movement was likely to THE BRITISH PRESS. take place: a more desirable than that the report should be well founded,can hardly be conceived. It is necessary, however, to state that the last letters received direct from Bogota are dated the With of July, and are wholly silent on the subject. Atwater report was, that Messrs. BA KING were about to accept the agency. If there had been any evidence of money passing between La Guayta and New York, some authority would have at ! tacked to the report ; but as such has not been the case, it is not entitled to belief. It is very probable that the divi dend now due may be paid, but not probably by those who may be the future agents of the; Colombian Government. The understanding dui appears to exist between Bot.ivsx and l'aes is matter of considerable moment, and the anxiety of the former to keep faith with England is matter of notoriety. It is very probable that to-morrow will put the question at rest, and Colombient Bonds will either ad vance to a much higher quotation, or fall to what latterly has been their l'evel. This circumstance has assisted Chi• lien a little; which were not purch able under 39. Mexi can Bends, for the cause we have steed in revect to Cllom hien, have been a dead letter: such is the mutability of speculation in Transatlantic Securities. Greek und Spanish do not show any alteration. The letters from Greece would almost imply that this unfortunate people will lose that for which they have so nobly contended, by the cupidity and selfishness of the contending parties in the State. In Shares, the Del Monte are now at only 40 discount, while Brazil are at 12, and 'flak:oxalate at 530 premium. The Colonial Market remains fit a very depre:;sed state. Coffees .have gone down is rr hundred weight, and Sugar Is heavy, at a reduction i %of from GI to Is. on the same quentity. Indigo mid Cottens are also lower. Exchnuges are precisely the same, though there is more doing, as bills on account of imported Grain arc coining into operation. The Post-office regulation for an additional packet for Jamaica, Cuba, Hayti, and Mexico, has given the highest satisfaction to the mercantile world. The persevering con duct of young Mr. FREE LING, in following the steps of his father, deserves the highest commendation ; while the system of the Post-office, as consummated by the industry and talent of these gentlemen, will be a lasting monument to their memory. Perfection in any system is hardly to be attained : it would, however, appear difficult to itnrrove the system of English letter-carrying, which is at once the admiration, ■nd perhaps the envy, of the rest of Europe. The peseta regulation, which increases the means of com munication between the Old World and the New, is of the last importance. The Duke of Wellington visited the Duke of York on Monday, at the Duke of Rutland's residence in Arlington street. Viaccunt Sidmouth paid a visit yesterday to his Royal ffighners. The CommiEsioners appointed for building additional Churches had a Meeting yesterday wonting, at their Office in Great George-street. Lord Bexley came to town yesterday, from his residence in Foot's Cray, Kent, and, after attending the Meeting of the Church Commissioners, returned to Foot's Cray in the afternoon. The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town on Mon day from Wresthouse, Silsoe, Blfurdshire, where the Right Honourable Gentleman had been on a visit to the Countess de Grey, and after tramtacting business at his residence in Downing -street, left towu in the afternoon fur his seat at Blackheath. A Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held yester day at the Treasury Chanibirs, which was attended by all the Lords Commissioners in town. It was understood the accounts of the Revenue during-the last quarter were laid before their Lordships. The Spanish Ambassador transacted business yesterday afternoon at the Office of the Secretary of State for Futeign Affairs. Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Foreign OMee to Mr. Secretary Canning-at Patin ; also to Sir Win. A'Court, our Minister at Lisbon. A King's Messenger was sent off on Thursday night from the Foreign Office, with despatches to Mr. Secretary Canning, at Paris. The quarrel between Lord Ponsonby, Sir John Philli more, and Lieutenant Fitzroy, has, it appears, been made up, and no Court-martial will take place. .%dm. Monckton died lately at Havre, at an advanced age. His funeral took place on the Gth instant. The fu neral honours were performed by a battalion of the Both French Regiment. NA PL ES, Szer.23 —Lord Cochrane has been same time at Messina, under the name of Mr. Baring. His Lord- 1 ship sails in the Hermaphrodite rigged vessel purchased of Mr. Perkins, and there is every appearance of the latitude of Sicily being fixed on as the rendezvous of the vessels expected to support his Lordship and the Greek cause; but, from all accounts, the differences and jealousies are so great among the Greek Leaders, that no reliance can be placed on their cooperation. The South African Advertiser says, that of only two articles have any complaints been heard—the prohibition of voluntary field labour on Sundays, and the right given to the slaves to enforce their manumission on paying their value. The ordinance is in force from the Ist of August. On the Slat June an ordinance was published at the Cape of Good Hope respecting the treatment of slaves, si milar in most of its provisions to those already in force in I Trinidad and Demerara. However, instead of prohibit ing the flogging of females altogether, the Cape ordinance prohibits the public flogging of them. Slaves are to be allowed to purchase their freedom, on paying their ap praised value, on proof that the money has been acquired by lawful means. We find in the Jamaica Courant,, to the 13th August, which have reached the Jamaica Coffee-house, the follow ing arrival tnentioned:—" His Majesty's ship Harlequin, Captain Scott, in eight days, from Chagres, with 82 000 dollars, last from Cartbagena in three days, with 6,000 dollars." We do not know whether this specie has any thing to do with the specie, the reported collection of which at Carthagena has made some sensation in the Foreign Market. Mr. Dawkins arrived at Jan.aica in the Harle quin, from the Congress of Panama, which was prorogued on the 2.3 d of July, and to re-assemble in the city of Mexico. The suspicions which had led to the proestna don df martial law at Panama, and to some arrests, bad proved to be unfounded. We learn frcint London that, on Tuesday last the Chan cellor of the Eschequer made" atki an important commu nication, in reply .to ara ' to take or the duly on printed goods. lie amid that Ministers have resolved, in the next Session of Parlismasit, to introduce some measure, for the relief of the stomata illutturing interest, but that, to prevent any improper use being made of it, they withheld all statement of their views for the present. It seems not improbable, however, that the duty on printed goods will be taken off, ws it amounts to 1,500,0001. annually, of which not much more than 400,000/. reach the Treasury, so enormously expensive la the collection.—EdiaburgA Observer. ST•TIC or TRADE.-012 ibis subject we arc happy to announce a continued improvement in almost every branch of business. Our public works, with very few exceptions, are employed on full time. The various culenderers are busily engaged dressing Asa pa c king goods for exporta tion. The transit of commodities to and from all parts of the country has considerably increased; and the prices even of manufactured goods are on the rise. Every thing, in short, indicates a steady progression towards our wonted 'prosperity ; and we flatter otheelves tltat henceforth our meekly bulletin on this head May be altogether dispens e d with. Among the f ac t s w hi c h we have ascertained to enable na to make up the present notice, there is one which is quite decisive: a very extensive Shipping Company be twixt this and London have Dearly trebled their ship mates both outwards and havrartieduriog the last fortnight. —GAss i row Timer. • • r. fftax 7r h.." — rrEtr-VlG``)• - :5": v 'sarits 7 MOV ENTS. Prince Paul Lieven left tont; a le;:ii;Ys since for Berlin. The Marquis of Camila. left town yesterday, on a visit to the Dowager Msrchioness of Londonderry, at her 'cm, Boidtrnood Lodge, Hants. The Earl and Countess of Belfast are expected in town to. mcerew, from the Isle of Wight. The nal of Mount Charles hai arrived at iris scat in Ireland, from a low. The Countess of Sandwich ha left her house in Durer-ureet, for Paris. You'd and Lttrly Montague arrived on Monday at their sent. Dition Park. Bucks, from Brighton. Lord and Lady Havensworth have arrived at their set, Brad ley Hall, Durham, front a tour. Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street :—Mr. and Mrs. Aston, from Cheltenham : .md Charlton, Esq. from n tour. Departures from ditto:—Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Haw kins on a tour ; end Robert Wynn. Etq. for Berks. Arrivals at Thomas's Ilntel, Berkeley-square Mons rimer. Rom N'orkahire ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, front his seat in SulEdk ; and T. R. Wrst, Esq. M.P. horn a tour. Arrivals at Kirkham's thud, Lower Brook-street :—Mr. and Mrs. Gordon and family, fron t Tunbridge fells; Mr. and Mr.. 31orinith, from Scutland ; Mrs. Vansiitart and fn tidy. from their seat in Burks ; Wells, Esq., and Huntingdon. Esq. from Wat a icl:shire ; and Cap:am J. W. Dat is, from a tour. Depart:an% 1 . • on) dizto :—The Earl of Buckinglsamallre, for hit tea:, Hampden. Bucks; Mr. Dickenson and Lady Boughton und funny, fur Brussels ; Mr. and 31n. During and lanily, for their ..r.t in Macs. DRURY-L/INR TREATRF. Item evening the tragedy of Romeo and Joliet was re peated at this theatre ; upou which occasion Mr Sontiswell appeared for the second time in Romeo, and went through the part with, if possible, increased effect. O his first appearance there were several errors observant in pronun- 1 elation and emphasis, which we were happy to find cor rected on this occasion, and the whole perrormanc., was of the most impassioned description. Mr. flooper's Mee. cute), also, has gaited greatly by repetition, tutu iris voice, as he becomes more used to the capacity of the theatre, loses Much of the harshness which was obsei runt on his earlier efforts. qieen Mob's nightly tiay. Is were given with the most spirited effect; his q uarrel with Tyintiteand the " Plague ore both your houses, ' and death, were just what imagination leads us to suppose to have been intended by our immortal bard. In the masquerade scene his by play was particularly good ; and there is to nerally such a portion of gentlemanly manner and carriage about Mr. Hooper, that we feel cotifiiient he has oily tii apply him self diligently, to attain the top of the tree in that depart ment of the art which he has chosen. An able retresen tative of the characters performed by Mr. Jones at the other house has long been a desideratmn here. and we hail this gentleman as being the fittest individual that we have seen to supply the deficiency. In order to satisfy ourselves as to whether cur opinion is or is not justly founded, we hope to ace him shortly in some other character played by his contemporary—Toting Contrast, for instance, in the Lord of tie Manor—anti upon that, or indeed any similar test, we feel fully prerared to risk the correctness of our opinion. Mrs. West's Juliet it is im possible to pass over without the highest c tmmendation there may he some Jolicts equal to hees, but very few sit-' perior. The lady of Avenel followed, and has received some curtailment since last night : the k life n'er ht be yet, however, forth; r applied, without clanger to the piece, either as regards the plot or dialogue. Mr. Beasley is said to be anther ; if so he has not :Oiled much to the stock of his dramatic fame, for it certainly is not the best structure of the sort which he has raised. The Oi telt Centigee of M. Scribe supplied hitn with better materials than those which he has chosen in the erection of this romance. There is little of point in the dialogue beyond some breed d ou bl e enteNdrcs, about three pulls, and one common-place obser vation of, " 1i you wuuld but take my advice., but you won't," which Harley, of course, does not omit to let off with the greatest effect of which it is susceptible. A sped.' melt of the puns may be had in the following, where Harley begs of Horn, that if he is disposed to set up for a teacher of love, he will net take his (Hark y's) wile's eyes for his pupil. Having expressed our opinion of the prose part of this composition, it is but fair to advert to the poetic. In doing so we select two specimens, which afford a fair sample of the rest. The first is the recitative and air so beautifully given by Miss I. Paton, as the Spirit, the air being that of " Robin Adair." Youth of die dark eye, wherefore call me here ? Wherefore art thou here, if terrors can appal thee ? What I am, I must not show ; What I am, tho:i rould.t not know : S.mething that thy wit or will NI ay work thee good—may work thee ill. That which thou wouldst aisli to know, That my knowledge oily not show ; Spirit of the haunted well Bids thee fly to Avenel : Within its lowers thou inapt know That which my knowledge must not show ; Away ! away ! to Avenel. My time is past—my hour is come; The night.breeze culls my spirit home ; It ells me where I dare not tell— Away ! to seek thy fire at Avenel. Away! Away! Away! The next is the words of a chorus sung by the peasants' wives, on their decoying Father Philip down the mill stream. Merrily swim we—the moon shines bright, lioth current and ripple are dancing in light.— We have rotted the nightnven and heard him croak, As ere plasli'd along beneath the oak ; flood luck to your fishing, And merrily swim. Merrily swim ye—the moon shines bright, There's a golden gleam on the distant height There's a silver stain on the alder's dank, And the drooping willows that wave on the bank ; Good luck, &c. Merrily swim ye—the moon shines bright,— Downward ye drift, through shadow and light ; Under yon rock the eddies sleep, Calm and silent, and dark and deep; Good luck, &c. With these specimens, the latter of which is certainly very creditable to Mr. Beazley, we shall take our have. The house filled at second price, and the applause was greater at the conclusion than on the preceding evening. LIVERTOOI. Tettarsz.--This Theatre was filled to excess on Monday evening. Early In the forenoon persona were in attendance to secure places in the boxes. One gentleman wished to take five boxes for the whole week, but could not be allowed. Liston played reef Pry. The Steadfast Society, a political association established at Bristol about eighty years ago, in support of Tory prin ciples, has just been dissolved by a resolution of its own members. COUCH TO PIIHiSHYT SCA SICZNYSL—MT. Pratt, serf New Bond.street, is aolieiting a patent for a swinging elastic couch, to be used on ship-board, for the prevention of sea sickness. The contrivance is partly his awn, and partly the invention of a gentle. man in Paris. Two elastic seats upnn the French plan have been lately brought into England by the Baroness de Gavedall ()vines., who has satisfactorily proved by her own experience, and that of her maidservant, the effective operation of the contrivance, having, in her voyage, encountered a t u rb u l e nt sea , w i t h ou t feeling, while seated upon the cushion, any of those unpleasant sensations of nausea which are attendant upon the peculiar agitation of a rolling and pitching vessel. The French plan, which has been incorpo rated with Ale Pratt's previously cmcerteil contrivances, has pro. duced a simple pieve of furnitnre, which, on ship-fr.:l.d, will be found to be extrentelv desirable for the use of invalids, and all per sons who are susceptible of being affected with that distressing ma. lady, sea-sickness. The invention appears also to be capable of very extensive use on land, by adapting it to the seats of chairs, sofas, couches, mattresses, and particularly as beds for sick persons, the elasticity of every part of the cushion affording the greatest ease to the persons reclining upon it, by returning to its distended figure the moment that the partial pressure is removed, or shifted front place to place, which is not the ease with feather beds, or any de. scription of mattresses or elastic cushions that we h a ve h e re t ofor e used. The interior of these cushions are furnished with springs of a peculiar construction, covved on the top with a bed of horse. hair, and the space necessarily left unoccupied within may he con. ' veniently adapted to receive led-clothes ; by which means a bed or mattress upon this plan may be constructed so that with all its rip. panda ges it may be parked up in the dimensions a nd fo r m of a travelling portmanteau. The materials of which these couches are made being of themselves so simple and cheap, it is probable that they may be furnished to the public in a complete state at one-third the price of any ordinary bed and bed.stead.—London Johrnal of drat and Scieucu. RUSSI4 AND PERSIA. (From the Etak.] s*, 8w FT. 19. The irruption of the Persians has te e n the signsi f ar almost a general insurrection among the Tartars in their favour at Carahat, Schirwan, Chesis, and Elizahethpa The Russians base evacuated those provinces, as well as part of Seimketie. The mountaineers emiduct themselere, with extreme violence. The enemy has penetrated as far as Cuba, in the environs of Dertietet, On the side of the Caspian S^a, which it entirely surrntimle.. It appears that the Russians will not resume the offensive until the snivel of some reinforcements which have been required by deem • but in the mean time tie country is very much weave: It is said that th e Armenian tin rcha n t s are in a Ito , or extreme consternation ; so notch so, that all business is 31 an end, and they have m1.)(1.11..41 their payments. Tefli,, which was the In. gazinc fur all the merchandises that were either consumed in Georgia, or that were sent from throve into Persia, has lost t he most important outiq of its manu factures by the irruption of the Persians upon the fron.i.r provinces. FRENCH AC.4DI:',ItY. The Annual Public Sittings of the French Aestlemy of the Fine Arts tooklplaceon&murky last, for th e di str i hu. l i on o f t h e pr i zes fir painting, sculpture, architectu re , en. graving, and musical c o mp os i t i on. C hevalier Boucher- Desnoyt rs, first engraver t o t h e K mg, presided, an d it's sunported by M. de Quincy and NI. Grua. he assembly was the most numerous that had b. en known since tke Institution bad been established, at:3 th e ecene w hi ch took place was the most scandalous and unexpected. At the opening of the sitiitig, and after the routi ne b d . siness was gone thiough, the St cwiary came forward to ;earl a notice upon the life atal works of NI. lie.nnsol, ar chitect. The hearing of this notice, and the nature of the details which it contait.ed, appear( to exc i te considershie impatience among the company, altlmugh eres would have thought the favour of ailmiss.ou ought to have restrained thi in from r xpressing the least disapprobation. A report upon the works of the pensicners of the King at Rome was then read, and listened to with profound silence. The S. ereta.y mxt proceeded to read the history of the life and works of M. Utirtattlt, architect. Marks of disapprobation, lauchter, slid itonical plaudits, took place at every word. This conduct proceeded from those per. sons who were on the cast of the Tribune. Such was the uproar, that not a word could he heard, and the cries of " Peace, there!" " Silence!" only added to the conftision. At length orders were given, and a detachment of soldiers immediately appeared at the east of the Tribune to quiet the disorder, and to turn out these who bad occasioned it. At the sight of the military cries of " Down with the bayonets V were raised. Several of the ladies who were present leaped over the forms, and dispersed themselves in all parts of the ball. Every body now stood upon the cents ; and such was the tumult that the President and Secretaries threatened to withdraw altcgether. At length after a very long interruption quiet was restored, and the prizes were awarded. THE ,flt.lf Y. A Detachment Is:longing to the Roth Regiment of Infantry re. eared ortkrs to Tomcat from Jersey to Plymouth, for the pur. pose rf embarking for Gibraltar. A Detachment of the 4'2d Royal Highland Regiment is or. to proceed from Leith to Plymouth, in order to embark for Gibraltar. A Detachment belonging to the 93d Regiment of Foot hmi re. ceived orders to proceen from Lcith to Portsu.outh, for the putpcue of embarking tor the West Indies. Detachments belonging to the 94th and 95th Regiments of In fantry, have received orders to proceed front Sundtrland to Ports mouth in order to etnltark for the 31cditerrarean. A lietachment of the 7,h Fuelleers has received ortlers to pm. cectl from Liverpool to Portsmouth, for the pulp-se of embarking fur the Ilediterrmocan._ A Detael.ment belonging to the 80th Regiment 0' Frot het re. cciv.•d ordtrs to proceed from the Isle of Man to Portsmouth, in order alto to embarl• for the Medi-t rrancnn. TREATY WITH ItAYTl.—Accousitshave been received from Port-au-Prince, Eating that the Commercial Treaty hetween this country and Heyti had been concluded. it may be expected to arrive i i London in a very few days. Mr. Al'K- • tezie, the brother orthe Consul-General, was to be the bearer of the treaty. Briiisli goods, it is understood, will be admitted at .5 per cei:t. duty in lieu of 12. It is understood that there are very w alterations in the articles of this treaty from the original plan, which was submitted to his Majesty's Ministers by Air. Hendricks some months hack, arid who bad the authority for so doing from the Hay dein Government. To the writings and lectures of Mr. Abernethy we may ascribe the great praise of exciting and exemplifying a more scientific investigation and treatment of surgical dis eases. He was the first in this country to vindicate the natural rank of surgery, as a branch of general pathology; he taught us to extend our views beyond the narrow litnits of local cans , s and remedies; hr pointed out the general influence to which the diseases of parts owe their origin, and hence he deduced the general means of treating such affections. Ile has been accus.el of wishing to make surgeons physicians; the accusation does him the greatest credit. By excising surgeons to cultivate medicine gene rally, by thus re-uniting two artificially separated parts of one science, which require each other's aid, he has, at the same time, banetitted the public, and increased the respec tability o f own protesaion.—La!-renee's Last Leciare. Such is the fatality of the fever raging in Romney Marsh, that we hear there are 13 persons now lying dead in the small pariah of IVaretiorne. AWFUL DEATE.—WhiIe the Rev. Mr. Brandon was preaching on Sunday last, in Finnar Church, tear Bundo ran, and just as he bad uttered the worth, •• Let him that s!andeth take heed lest he fall," he was observed to sink down in the pulpit, and in an instant he was dead ! It is said that he had been ill for same time previous to this awful visitation.—Dublen Evening Pest. . . As the grave-digger was ope ring a grave in Carluke church-yard last week, the body of a black woman was dug out of it, which had lain there for more than forty years ; and, strange as it may appear, the skin possessed the natural colour ; the body was plump, as the person hail been in life ; under the akin it was perfectly white with fat. She died in full habit of body, arid was interred in a very wet grave. It is natural to cuppose that the great quantity of fat which it contained Intl preserved it for such a great length of time. Be this as it may, many opinions have been given as to the cause of this strange ---Gheiree Journal. 'loaner, Occetaexce.—On Friday af:ernnon, a man named William Timpson, residing in Park -street, in this town, presented !Unwell at the prison, and stated that he had murdered his wife. From his decisive manner, and upon further inquiries, the officers were induced to proCeeel to his residence, where, upon opening the door, they found the report but too strictly verified, es the poor woman lay in The kitchen with bar head nearly severed from her body . A large clasp knife, with which 'rimpsen stated lee had committed the act, lay in the room. Lpon being quevioned on the suhject, he said that he bad no ennmty towards'his wife, and could not account for he hav;na. been ac:uatcd to commit so dreadful a crime.— Birmingham Journal. Two fellows arc travelling from town to town, under pretence of getting signatures to pe itions to be presented to Parliament. The first is for presenting the hawking of books, pamphlets, &c.; the secmd, the hawking of linen and linen-drapery ; and the third, for confining the sale cf beer, soda water, ginger beer, &c. to licensed publicans. Their plan is to leave a printed petition at the houses of individuals who carry on the above trades ; and, on calling for it, pretend to he agents from some society in London, and, producing a skin of parchment, exert their eloquence to obtain a signature, for which they charge eighteen-pence, or as much more as they judge their dupe can be defraud ed of, under the pretence of paying the expenses of ob taining the Act of Revilement, by which all the benefits mentioned in the petitions ate to be secured to the humble petitioners. As the publ;cans' petition prays for a mono poly of the sale of ginger beer, pop, and soda water, to be secured to licensed victuallers, articles of the manu facture of which the aforesaid victuallers can know ye:y little, we should have thought the thing too gross to have deceived any one; but as we find they were pretty success ful in picking up eighteen-pences, even in this town, we think it necessary to caution the public in ocher places, against being so impaed 0n...--licading /If ereury. m=s= 01 0 : 11V J FST Awn itAm' NI . Accord • T I hid be. iastruc It i to Lty since, ippon coda servei Board On inept folios " Si mode. immei rect t TeZt. for th, CM( On 11411 4 . 1 roil° .1,11 In Ha.46' the er tettitt, must moan &WM N, effec meal July bum 164 1 IetICT Ii& 16cotl ape< flow Etiir. men Teen " I i aP?° qut!l to se path at Pt dein Sub. (nal to do 1 of . hi Cart diet ISM • tht Pre M Cat ft be as be Cl