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IRTir - by is Wed Istltift, istirs • VA. T. asp. Pries los. bawds, ASYSTEM of DISSECTIONS: Explsi o i ng the Asulomy of the Haman Body ; with the manner ar di yiwg the Pad', the distinguishing the Natural from •Eha Appearmeen, and Voniting Out to the Student tkeObjerts must worthy hb• attention, &trios a Coarse of Disseetioes. By CHARLES BELL. Priatell See Longman, Hoist Rees, and Orme, Pater tooater•rou. Qf whoin may be had, by the saute •utlior, 1, A SYSTEM of OPERATIVE SURGERY, fouuded ma Owlish' of Anatomy, i. 3 vols. royal eau. price ii. Its. T. The ANATOMY of the BRAIN, In royal et., yl. e•. boards. •. A SERIES of ENGRAVINGS of the NERVES, rice tl tr 6. ENGRAVINGS of the ARTERIES ii . is. hoards. S. ANATOMY of ExPaussioN to PAINTING, on. St Se. • 4. The ANATOMY of tb. HLTITIN. BODY, in 4 vols. „At' Royal Sow Ode 111. tel. hearth. THE CITY ADDRESS. The following 'is a List of the Members of the Commun Council of the City of London, who vot ed, on Tuesday, an Address to His MAJEsre, moved by Mr. WAIrmeAR, for an Inquiry into the failure of the Expedition to Walcheren, and prsy log an early meeting cf Parliament for the pur pose:— row Tar ADOlllrff. The Lord !tiny.* Aisrmnn Combs Hood 1•lomer leArlisT TIM D 011.2911. Alderman Curtis EARItiT Price Le.ghtott Hunter Dom. ille LLD,' Marks Air/rids* George Ku,:; Joseph Tama* George Blogg NViiliare Sharp Si ri .W . Anderson Atkins .TI Iran °. • Thomas Loveland John Rowlett ♦1 }Award Frisby Daniel Britten tut.Ltn Thomas Dartford ■tato' -- Cawthorn fir lvm ltaelias George Clude &lOW Nash SG 11Te. Thomas Greenax ay Arthur Ins iVni. Goul,l Jubepl% Gong,h Alexander Ross Ricltard Knight requder 'TRY FT. Zachary Langton lIIRELD• Wm. Bre!ford • Samuel Toisikina Jolla Elliott Sam. He 14 il2 d Yuight Spruce' Coleina.t alati William child rpoinas Roberto eimas Cartwright Prath. Saumlcts • Garrett 1 1110 A D • • 11 Biaslona James Ai thur Joseph Hearn Ey Iris. Joseph Welch Juba Gale Joseph Hampleby Joseph H uric), k lobert R uby CANDI CAITLIt D. fit il a g S r a ll" Wk. Hort ll Tiro. Fermium Joseph Hureombe Perrot /Memo I r ham E. ?sworn . Rk Clwesewright Jae Wrigltt P4f. Sassue: Hale SOLTNII•If Ilitthead Davies 1 CORDW. r.vt■LVT. John West Aeries W. Hick Edward Kasuble I Richard Abbey .I , shn Hammou W.u. {Yawn ;BILL. CORN, Barraud 13irr It ...-- Juke GRIPPI thaw lATr. Josh. there Wlllium Daidy louses Rirt G. brown Dolly Keel Trio —.... White Valance •••—•••-•-- tkilllloll Pt al 64.111 o'4-$lll'lllN. - Rotwi is rmdar - Waster !111-frulf Sckrtelser Ps .cber -- Caldwell - Dusts VVet ble Farranre if ARRINGDO' Waithineu T. Reeve W. Griffith - Henn( W. Re... 4. K. Brewer oN-WITHOVT, l'rook Lir'lan H3rper Mullrr Phillips Botl!ry MR K. Milts Maskrw LINE :Tat Vt. I Pt tee Ath ot L TO[TM I. - Flnment --.. Cu!aisle!' - At ktoses I William Hermon limy ----- Cotton spetwstrar. I lfilliso Graham .—.-- Hughes Ilassikark Pickering TOW XII. Slaw I Wright I - Stewart Dnokall Samuel Dickeys VI lITUT. W. Yosng I --- Brooks W•L 99999 . . , .. he I • Pearce ♦piwt 1 1 . A DGF. INER •TF. bowl I.•\i TEE PERSTAN AMBASSADOR. The ship ship that brought over his Excellency the Persian Ambassador, arm obliged to perfciriu qua. towline several days at Plymouth, before he could be landed. Ministers had prepared every neces sary accommodation fur his Excellency at Ply mouth, and on the road to London. Ile stopped at Bath, to view that city, also at the different towns of consequence he passed through. Mr. Hosea, who was appointed by Ministers as interpreter, met his Excellency at Plymouth, and travelled with him; he explained and described the towns and the country, as they passed along the road. His Excellency and suite, together with those appointed by Ministers to receive him, arrived at Demize's, at Hertford ' Bridge, on Monday afternoon, where he was re ceived liyone of the under Secretaries of State, and several gentlemen, belonging to the Foreign Office, when a sumptuous entertainment was prepared for him. His Excellency appeared highly pleased with the attention shewn him; ha slept there, and every possible accomnitalation the house could afford was put in requisition for him. On Tuesday, his Excel lency and suite, and also those appointed to attend him. arrived at a house, prepared by Government fur his reception, in Mansfield-street. IL RELATIONS. The fulloning obsenations upon the refusal of the President of the United States to acknowledge Mr. Onis, in the quality of Ambassador from Kibg Ferdinand, of Spain, are extracted from a Nen- York l'aper of the :sth of October : SPAIN. The duty of admitting Mr. Oois, as Minister of Ferdinand the Vllth., demands further attention. That a correct opinion may be formed by the citi. erns at large, is of the utmost importance ; and t h is circumstance must be our apology for continuing the subject. Omitting, for the present, all the more obvious considerations, which impel the United States to yield to Spain her dues, without diminu tion or hesitation, let us attend to the serious light in which the right of sending Ambassadors is re garded by Vattel. " A Sovereign," says be, " at tempting to hinder another from sending and re ceiving Ministers, does him an injury, and offends against the laws of nations. It is attacking a na tion in one of its most valaable rights, and opposing what nature herself gives to every independent so ciety ; it is breaking the band* by which nations are united, and offending them all."—A more di rect mode of hindering the exercise of this right is not possible, than a refusal to accredit the Minister sent ; which i, not only ef itself an act of hindrance, hut, in the peculiar ease before us, it holds out an example for the incitation of others. It annihilates the independence of Spain, so far as the sentiments of oar Executive can conduce to that end; and it is on that account the most mortifying insult that can be offered. Were we to consider the contest in Spain, as embracing:every feature of a civil war, it must be admitted, that as no power could arrogate a right to judge between the parties, the Ministers of euch must be received Ly other Rations, and, in this point ef view, the ditty of acknowledging Mr. Ouis is apparel.'. But no civil war exists in Spain. The character of the war is that of foreign invasion and plunder, both exterminating and unprovoked. Su powerful en invading army never before produced Tess acquiescence of the people. In every other part of the Continent where Bonaparte has carried his army, terror has kept the peasantry quiet and' si.binissive. Notwithstanding the dreadful exams; pies of vindictive cradty inflicted in Spain, nobody has favoured the cause of Joseph Bonaparte. but a wretched handful of traitors, who have sold their ceantry and their consciences for gold. The pre sent condition of Spain is that of an iaterre;ratiat and a foreign war. It would be equally unjustifia ble to refuse the Minister of the Junta, who are the Regency of the country, as it would be to refuse these of Louisse, the Mother of Francis the lot, during his captivity iu Spain, or those of Portugal since the Prince of Brazilassumed the Regency, on amount of' the insanity of his mother, the present Queen of Portugal. The pretension which Joseph Bonaparte has set up t• the Spanish crown, equally destitute of right and of possession, cannot vary the case.—lf his claim were better founded, und he had succeeded in conquering the Peninsula, he could not be ad united to the privilege of nominating its diploma tic agents, until it was conceded to him by a treaty of peace, in which should be i,ellicled every party, who could ultimately claim the buckeiwimi, accord. Mg to the constitution of the governmeut of Spain. For the law of tuitions does not acknowledge the right of the strong, or mere physical force, as esta blishing rights ; and hence the sovereignty is a country is not changed .until the title 14 arranged in form, and by consent of the former legiticuate soy-reign. Tiie American Executive has itself settled prin ciplcs, and that lately, which appear to decide the point, that Spain is not under the yoke of Bona parte. In applying the non-intercourse laws of the last isinl preceding sessions of Congress, a trade 'is pi.rmitted to every part of Spain, not actualq occupied by the French armie.. They have, therefore, totally overlooked Joseph's iiretensione, and considered them as not existing. Every part of the country is considered Ferdinand's, medic what is French, and that to considered Freitag. which is held by the soldiers, who, under the Dame of His Catholic Majesty's army. are elides veering to COMper the country for Joseph. If the latter was regarded as possessing the shadow of power or right of his own in Spent, a trade to his poesessinns emitd not he prohibited tinder the terms of those laws ; hut as the Executive is con vinced, drat he is nothing but one of Napoleon's fingers, moved by his soul, and employed in his work, they rightly enough prohibited American vessels from supplying the armies, called his, with nierc%ansfixe. Fol consistency's sake, they must therefore recognize Fertlinaud's Minister. F, ~- - • . . THE BRITISH PRESS. . -7. LONDON, THURSDAY, Monate& 7. Earl BATHURST yesterday resigned the seals of the Foreign Office, and they were given to Mar quis WIILLESLET O now Secretary of state far Fo reign Affairs. It would thus seem, that the idea of restoring Mr. CANNING, and of the removal of the Earl of CAROL !I, IS abandoned ; hut the present Ministry is one of perpetual revolution and change ; and it will not surprise us to find the mate rials which constitute the Cabinet, assentor a new shape and fashion, at no very great distance of time. Our readers must have observed, that; on the di vision in the Common Council on Tuesday, the pre. vious question. moved on Mr. WA ITHMAN'S motion, for an Address to His Msntsrv, was negatived, only by a majority of one, and the original motion carried by a majority of three. The smallnes . s of these ntajorities, has, it is said, encouraged a hope among the'ildinisterial party, that they may he ahle, by proper industry. to procure a vote for rescinding the resolution of Tuesday ; and their partisans, we understand, are now busily employed in handing about a requisition for calling a Counasii Council for that purpose. We this day continue our extracts front the French Papers to, the 49th lost, and Dutch to the inst. The Emperor or AUSTRIA was expected at Vienna on the sud last, the French haring un dertaken to evacuate it on the 19th. A Washington Paper, of • late date, in its obser vations upon Mr. Jacsson's Mission, says—" The public mind will remain, it is presumed, in a state of anxiety, until the meeting of Congress; for it would seem that the President of the United States has no power by law to alter in any manner the sub sisting commercial relations of the country, unless Mr. JACKSON had brought with him propositions equal to those of Mr. ERSKINE ; and we may fairly conclude, efts,. the Barrtsn KING has declared that he cau never agree to such an arrangement, that the new Envoy has no such power. 4. Whatever may be the instructions of Mr. JACK sow, it is hoped that his mission may terminate • amicably. It is certainly for the benefit of both countries, that peace should be the result of his labours. As to the idea that the gentleman has come hither to bully us, we hare a more respect able opinion of our country, and the thaiacter of his untlerdanding, than to suppose any such thing. A British fleet may hatter Copenhagen indeed, atitl thereby prostrate the Denes ; but as to compelling their country to yield to dishonourable terms, by bombarding a city or two, it is a mere fantastical conceit. Men of reflection smile at the notion df subduing • continent with floating artillery.—. Whatever nation would conquer us, must comae ashore; and, in case of war, the coining on shore is all an American need ask of his enemy, to insure his destruction. 4 . But we see no teal cause why Great Britain should attempt aukthing of the kind ; our Ad nuntstration appear* willing to come to terms ; Mr. Mauling does not seem to entertain a hostile dis position towards the 'English, aad it must, as things gn at present, be the fault of the latter if ■o adjustment of differences does not take place.— On the whole, we are of opinion, that it would be more advantageous to the Briti,ll natloil to be on pod terms with America, thun to irritate her by acts from which England finally &rites no benefit." We copied, yesterday, from The Gazette, the offi cial accounts of the surrender of the lonian Islands, of Zante, t ephale.iia , Ithaca, and Cerigo, to His MAJESTY'S forces. At a moment when BONAPARTE, master not only of Itely, but, in virtue of the re cent Treaty of Vienna, Sovereign of all the Aus trian Littorule," or maritime provinces, front Istria, at the head of the Adriatic, round to Cat taro, ie Dalmatia, poetesses both sides of the Gulf of Venice; the acquisition of these Islands may be of the last import:nice. It is, indeed, singular to consider, that this Corsican Emperor, who may be sail to compress Europe, from one extremity to the other, arid whose power on the Continent is unlimited, becomes impotent end powerless, the instant that he attempts to extend his Empire beyond the limits of the land. In 1809, when he has unquestionably reached a point of elevation, altogether without precedent, Wince the time of JUSTINIAN. he possesses only three islands, worthy of mention, in any part of the habit able globe. Even those three, he holds by the most precarious tenure. We mean, the Mauritius, in the Indian O'etaii ; Guadeloupe, in the West Indies; and,4asoy l Corfu. It is more than possible, that, in the Japseef another year or two, these may be lost to France, which will then exhibit the extra. ordinary spectacle of a revolutionary Despot, reiga. Mg virtually over all Europe, without p messing either an island or • colony. Such are the pre. digioits end incalculable results of a navy such da / • that of Great Britain. . s Of these islands thus acquired, Cephalonia is t1:4 11 , largest, and mar, if protected by wise laws, be come, under the British Government, one of the Mapco-1111gs of the Levant. It is in circuit fell one • . burnt*, ...a l e iaigy tailes pnnessing, on the South-West bids, alfery capacious harbour, named Atgoeto ; capable .of affording shelter to a larg e fleet, and land-Ineked on almost every quarter.-- Under the VeneginGoverinnenr, there were two forts upon it, tint they have been allowed to fall 'into -:3 Ile wines, as well as all the produc tions df Caylhalonia, are hi,hly esteemed: In its • sepirated only by an aim of the sea, about a league broad, called the " Canel (uiscardo,* stands Ithaca, or 'Penchi; the Little Cephalonia; su famous as the country of Ur.vssEs, and the resi dence of PEN ELOPE. The island is near fotty miles in circumference. Cerigo, the rick:lit Cythera, according to the My thologistv, the ancient residence of Velour, is situate to the South-East of t he More*, and it about 50 miles in .circuinferenee. The greater part of it is mountainous nod rocky, but the rest prixluces corn and excelleut grapes. 2--. The town of San Nicolo, in this island, has a fort, and a good road for ships. !ante is the last and most southern of this cluster of islands, being about twelve miles from Cephalonia, foul teen miles long, and eight broad. It is not di , . Cant from the Mores, arid yields to none or these already descrilred,io fertility. Its currants, nole,s than its wines, are celebrated du lugheut thecLe vent ; and it has a tine port on the south side, which portionof the country is said to be ahnost covered with fruit trees. Of the remaining lonian islands, Corfu, the most northern, claims neecedence, as the largest of the whole cluster. Though Ulterior in unignitude to Cephalonia; it is of fur superior importance in every point of view. Placed, by nature, ptccns lv at the entrance of the Adriatic, close to the share of Epiris, it may he denominated the key of the Venetian Golf. Under the Venetians, in the midrib: ages, and down even to the seventeenth cents') Corfu was esteemed the advanced bastion and bulwark of the Christian States, against the Ot toman Power, when the Sottatraix. and li.e Semis. Meeiiil4ll 'ltaly, no less thins the Ger man Empire. 'Situated in a beautiful climate, enjoying a salubrious air, and an exuberant soil. oear one hundred and twenty miles in circnm. *Vence ; its productions, of every kind. are of a Orr* quality. HONER has placed in Corfu, awn, gle!uplinated Pits/tele, the gardeas of King A it:lithos. It is only about fir y miles distant from Otranto, in Apulia, and was justly regarded by the Republic of Venitts as one of the most invaluable potseesint;.l4 tile — slate. There are in it several excellent ports ; but the circumstance which dis tinguishes it fruits all the others in its vicinity, is, the Corfu bas a strong, and almost itupregesble fortress. It stands, es does the capitul of the island, which it protects, in a central position, looking towards Epirus, built portly on a rock, surrounded by the sea r palely op the mount Sr. Mark. Though now in the possession of N•POLEnd, yet the diffi culty of throwing ;n supplies of provisions, ade quate to the consumption of the garrison ; a diffi cuify which will now be, greatly augmented, may nirr.'unprobably enable us to expel the French, and to reduce it to our obedience. Sir Joins STc• AAT'S unfortunate nod unproductive expedition to Ischia, might ninth more profitably have beets di. rectedagaiust Corfu. We do not hesitate to assert, that, in the newel possession of Europe, particularly . . as looking forivord to our future protection of the. Turks against France, this island is of more con sequence, t;ian Malta, Minorca. or the fortress of Ceuta. ' 6ta. Maur*, the Leucadia of antiquity, stands between Corfu and Cephalonia, and almost tomato the coast of Epirus or Achaia, to which it was un doubtedly joined in the early ages of the world.— Though only about seventy English miles round, yet it p►oduces, is abundance, oil, wine, graia, and fruits, of the most delicate flavour. The latitude of the lonian islands, from is deg. to 40, is one of the moat favoured of the earth, and many of the productions of both the Indies may be found, or reared in them. lei order to protect the Turkish provinces of ancient Greece against NA leeLtuta, it would be indispensable that the Porte should entrust to us the two fortrimaeWof Abdo's. and of (....#rom, both situate on the youth-west coast of the Moren, only about twelve English miles from each other. They constitute the keys of the Peleponnesus, and stand on the sea shore, in the ancient Mesisenis, near Pylos,the country of Nu- TOIL It is thus, that a Corsican Conqueror is loser. siblyconducting uito the classic scenes of Tet:ce t►toss,nf Pavans& 43, and of Xceortinit. We have already faced and beaten him in Egypt, es well as in Syria. It is highly probable that we may com bat, in 181&7, on the shores of the Hellespont, the Bosphorus, and of Asia Minor. We have received New-York Papers to the ed. and Boston Papers to the Bth last. The • Warp ar rived on the let at New-York with dispatches from Gen. AltustmetsG ot Paris, but the contents bad not trunspirerr. • The gentleman who brought the dill.. patches for Government stated, that Gen. ARFI• 31149 G luformeithito he hart accortiplished nothii;g, and liad nothing favourable in prn‘pett. V • Yesterefty a Cnurt of Directors was held at the Eest Inrha ll{wove. when 'tire lerruentiorted °spurns geore sworn into' the commatirt of thr.it .peetive via. Copt:lin P. llot LAM. e ilosioick. CINOM filreet ; C ?pt. M. CRAW. E/phirt- Ste/te, &mho". and Chula. The Court adjourned At Ea o%lack tdries , 'ay otat. - -P 1