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Mr. Campbell t Jerry, Mr. Poder I Logic. Mr. Williams; Dusty Bob. Mr. Welbustro. Kate. bln. iltrwtillam. After whirls. ALL A PIM* t The BKITISII PRIMI commenced pob/ishing yesterday moraine at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, &mantra 9, 1826. A gnat deal has been published of late respecting Greek imerests in this country ; but, in our opinion, nothing has leen openly said to the purpose. Every one who has, from e.eme cause or other, been induced to take a part in those affairs, complains of tnismatirement ; yet the greater part of the persons upon whom any blame should most natu rally fall are publicly and anxiously exculpated, anti even lauded as men whose hononrable dealings are far above the reteb of suspicion. All agree, however, that there is a ysterious cause, a hidden spring, from which has arisen the mischief that exists somewhere ; but the extent of that mis.bief, excepting the deplorable business of the steam sess.ls iu this country, and the frigates in America, has I..it so much as been stated or inquired into. But what is ti , e use of instituting Committees for purposes of inquiry, au:! holding out the expectation of speedy " curious Ells , !o , ures," when all the facts from which a judgment is to i.e.formed are already before the parties interested in know t7.7, them, and before the public? The Committee of gentlemen appointed by the Share lieiders, at the meeting of last Monday, is certainly not legally authorized to inquire into the " mysterious' siiministration of the funds which have proceeded from 16, Greek loans. Their powers are useless, both be .use they are derived from parties who are not them ,.:ivrs entitled to the right of giving ally to the ex tent that they are purported to be, and also because the %litters which they are meant to bring under cognizance have been for some time before the public, and were, on tl.c very occasion of the meeting, laid in a more authentic torm than they had yet appeared before the members pre sent, who were most concerned. We allude to the account eorrent furnished by Messrs. ORLANDO and LURIOTTIK to Mr. S F ANIOLACRI, and by the latter to Mr. BOIVRING, who read it to the Shareholders. The two Deputies, who alone were empowered to lay out the proceeds of the last loan in the manner that would appear to them most bene ficial to the interests of Greece, have done so, and have rtudered an account of the expenditure both to the govern ment of their country, and to the parties from whom the Iran has proceeded. It is upon this account, relative to which no mystery can any longer be said to exist, that the hitherto much complained of mismanagement is to be ascertained. LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF STAMPS, TO THE RIWIT HON. THOMAS WALLACE. Sta—ln thel3th and I ith Reports of the Commission of Inquiry, of which you ate Chairman, my name is made to receive a most marked and invidious distinction. lam even pursued with such a spirit of criminsting research, that many, who have read the Re. ports impartially, have been induced to suspect that there must be some latent grounds of hostility towards me prvoieely. The ma terials arc amply before me, to show that this suspicion is borne out by the fact. I shall proceed to lay my testimony in proof of this before the public, and leave it to produce its own cif:T.. I will set out not merely with admitting, hut insisting, that every man who, clothed with the requisite authority, exerts himself faith. fully and fearlessly in putting down abuses, and who sets the seal of reprobation upon those by whom such abuses arc upheld, de serves well of his country, and enti•lts himself to the respect and applause of every honest man. If, Sir, after the facts which I shall have adduced, you shall be found to have deserved this ho nourable sanction as your reward, Cod forbid that I should at. tempt to withdraw one iota from your claim ; and if. on my part, I shall fairly justify my own humble pretenslons, I trust that, in justice, I shall be allowed to put in for try share (if the same equi. table recompense. After the reflections and insinuations against tne, direct and indirect, with which you preface your Report, and which you give forth to the world as the condensed result of your inquiries, I hope I shall be forgiven if I ntivvrt a little to my own merits. lam the last man who would willingly be the herald of his own deserving; it is what I never should have done from choice, but you have forced it upon me as a duty. I have ever felt reluc. tant in bringing my name before the public : I have no ambition that way. I hate always, hitherto, contented myself with the conscientious and straight-forward discharge of my public duty, without seeking to proclaim either the Labour of my exertions, or the result of them. It may seem extraordinary that I should hold this languarre of self-approval to you, and this too in the very face of a Report emanating from yourself, extracts from which are circulating through every public Jr luta', to the uttermost corners of the kingdom. But I shall not come into Court without my vouchers, and I pledge myself to verify them, or I ant content that they shall go for nothing. I affirm, then, that the whole of my official life, both as Chairman of the Excise Board in Scotland, and, since then, as Chairman of the Board of Stamps in England, has been, more or less, employed—first, in striving to put down abuses ; and, next, in bearing up against the machinations which, to this day, have baffled all my Sorts to remove them. I had not been many months ap pointed to the Stamp Board in England. when the Lords of the Treasury,desirous of improving the Stamp Revenue in Scotland, ap pointed me, under their special warrant, to inquire into the system of management which prevailed in that part of United Kingdom. and to report to their Lordships the result of my inquiries. Both Lord Liver;utol and Lord Retley (thee Chancsllor of the Exche quer), in the interviews I had with them previous to my departure for Scotland, expressed their most earnest desire to enrolee whatever measures might be found necessary to rectify any abuses which might be found to prevail there. It is therefore quite superfluous for me to add, that, when I speak of the counteraction by which my efforts to discharge the trust which the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury reposed in me was defeated, tio p.irt of that counter action emanated from them—l speak this with the exception of Lord Granville Somerset. I do not state this, Sir, for your infor mation : you well know by what over-ruling influence I was from ! first to last opposed, and through whom 1.11 my effbrts to remove Mr. Bremner, the Solicitor of Stamps in E :inburgh, the chief agent in that shameless sys em of iniquity which i de:eloped, was frustrated and brought to nought. When I arrived at Edinburgh, the condition in which I found the stamp department will appear from the following letters, which I wrote at the time to my colleague, Mr. Btnilley ; I had kept no copies of these letters, which were penned on the spu r of the occasion, nor would they ever have come again to my possession but for the circumstance of his executors having, after his death, found them among his papers, and, seeing their contents, very obligingly for warded them to me. It is easily seen, fton the friendly unofficial style of confidential intercourse in which they are wri:ten, that they never were intended for the public eye; they ■re, however, the basis of the Reports which l eterwards forwarded in official form to the Treasury ; and I do not hesitate to call for the candid and sober judgment of the p:blic upon them, es contrasted with the charge of official in:Effie-trice to nt:- public duty which your Report takes so much and suet inc msant pains to fix upon me. No. I. "! Pi i~ 1 Young States can only gain wisdom by experience, and t'.e governing men of poor Greece want much of the lat ter before they learn properly how to frame their measures tinon the principles of the former. However, the Greek Goi.ernment thought they were doing their beet when they selected Mr. ORLAND() as Chief of the Deputation to sypointed for the important purpose of negotiating a new loan in Englani; not that any very high opinion was enter taxed in Greece of that gentleman's personal abilities, but ..tang to his local respectability in Hydra, and to his being possessed of considerable property. The other two Dep.:ties, Mr. ZAIMIS and Mr. Luarovvre, were (as we are rrtlibly informed) selected by him, and instructed by the Governtnent to act in a subordinate capacity to Mr. Da -1 A IS T.CT. It is not surprising that men, whooe sphere in life had till then confined them t 3 occupation. of a far in terier nature to those which their Government thus sud denly called them to, should have fallen into a mut tipleity of errors that many others, equally inexperienced, wou7d, in their place, not have escaped from. But it seems to liar( been the principal misfortune of these gentlemen, since tit it arrival in England, that they found themselves too meets in need of other persons' advice before they would at tempt any measure of importance, and suffacd themselves 'oo eaFi!y to beled away by the persuasions of others. Under such circumstances, it may be well imagined that their court oellcrsbecame numerous, and that many designing men were prorrpted by motives of personal interest to add to the number. Ilad the Deputies been men of the world and of energy, many of those cff,:cts of mismanageLient, which are now so much deplored, would not have been com- YORK CITY ELECTION.—We are authorized to state that it is rod Colonel Wilson's electioneering bills which remain unpaid in York.—/ or!: Chronicle. The Lords of his Majesty's Treasury have, within these few days, issued an order, " that all brandies which may have been warehoused for a period exceeding twelve months, in warehouses which, from being surrounded by walls, or otherwise, may be deemed by the Board of Customs to be warehouses of special security, may be delivered for home consumption, upon the payment of duty, according to the actual gauge and strength at the time of delivery— provided, however, that in no case shall au allowance be made for under-proof, to a greater extent than 10 per cent." Among the many important regulations which Govern ment have recently adopted, with the view of removing re strictions and bonito's from trade, there is not one that will be more sensibly felt by all classes than that to which we now allude. It will encourage the bringing of brandy to this country, to he warehoused in depot ; it will enable the owners of the brandies, which have for several years been locked up in our public vaults, to dispose of them for home consumption, which they have hitherto been prevented from doing, by having duty to pay on the deficiencies occasioned by evaporation whilst lying in the store; and it will thus enable the public at large to obtain those fine old brandies at moderate prices. " k's lietel, March 11, 1818. " My dear Mr. Bindley—l ou ; y 1 o; to have written long before this, and to have announced my safe arrival in this inhospitable climate, but I assure you I have been so occupied, from day to day, as to leave me scarcely an 110111 . 6 leisure. It is quite impossible to describe the state of disorder which the Stamp department here exhibits. On my first arrival I proceeded to the Stamp Office. It is situated at the end of a low dirty alley in the Old Town, and, from its appearance, has never felt the refreshment of soap and water since the Union. After paying my respects to the official tenants of this delectable mansion, 1, after a time, sent for the key of the ware-rooms, and found the stock (amounting, I think, by their last return, to upwards of haft a million in value) lying in complete disorder on the floor and shelves, without a single label of any kind, no arrangement of the different class of vamp.; but all teemed thrown together, like so many pippins and rusectins into an apple-garret. I found, upon inquiry, that there was no neer/muse. keeper, and that the whole lay at the mercy of the porter, who is sent (or one of the clerks, if he is absent) to fetch whatever empties are from time to time required. I next inquired how often the Riding Inspector took the stock of the different distributors in Scotland, and I was informed that it was taken once In two years. The fact turned out to be. that Mr. Waddell, the Insyector, el joys a very lucrative office as Clerk in the Court of Session, and can only be spared for a few weeks once in a year, in the summer vacation; that he consequently divides the kingdom into two circuits, north and south; and when this period of recreation arrives he mounts his gig, and (wind and weather permitting) sets off in one or other of these directions, and ?miner from the different distributors their account of the stock on hand. Now, it's very obvious, that as they know to a day when he will arrive. they may very easily, shoula they remit a few thousand pounds short, send up for the requisite amount of Stamps from their agents, to make that amount appear in stock, and afterwards return the supply. This, I have reason to suspect, is no uncommon practice. " All this will require the Board's consideration ; but I fear there are mutters that will come before them of meet greater mo ment :a Afr. Bremner's department, and which ore cannot wil !Overt to without considtrable seriousness and anxiety. The fact is, I bought that the first and most regular step would be to take the stock (finding things in the state thrive de.cribed), and I thtre fore spoke with the Excise warehouse-keeper, who has requested ten days' leave of absence, and, with his son, are employed in so doing from about ten till five every day. Finding no regular office for the deposit of inventories and copies of wills (which you know are required by the Act to be transmitted from the different Com missaries to the Solicitor of Stamps at Edinburgh), I went up to Mr. Bremner to inquire where, and in what manna, they were kern, and he accordingly opened a closet or two in his office, in which they lay in dusty heaps quite wnarraagcd, and, in short, in a most shameful state of disorder. I immediately said, a Mr. ' Bremner, this is really a sad mode of keeping documents of this kind, which arc in the nature of public records, and which it may be necessary at distant intervals to refer to.' His answer was, ' Oh, I can very readily lay my hand upon any of them.' Why, I said, ' that may be; but suppose any accident were to happen to you, I am quite sure it would be impossible for any oilier person to lay their fiend upon any thing; and, indeed, 1 very much doubt wheiler it could be very readily done even by you.' (Recollec:ing that, among many other persons, Mr. Ramsay, of Bamington, wit was a near neighbour of mine when in Edinburgh, had died worth immerse property), I immediately said, "Fore Low, for instance, Mr. Bremner, to the will of Mr. Ramsey, of liarnington, who, you may remember, died about see year ego, and was reported, I recollect, to have died worth half a miilton of money.' lie in. atantly hesitated, and looked eery much confused. After a few moments' consideration he said, • there has not been an inventory yet delivered in of dlr. Ramsay's property ; there was some ?Aix. take about the stomp, or something; I believe he got out a wrong lump, but I have written frequently to Mr. Gibson, the executor, to ledge an inventory ; in fact, 1 wrote to him but yesterday.' • Well, but Mr. Bremner,' I said, • I wish you to explain this a little more distinctly; for it re ally appears to me a very extraor dinary circumstance that an interval of six years should have elapsed, and not only no legacy duty have been paid (when, to my knowledge, lie left his daughter., and I believe there were nine of them, ten thousand pounds each ), but not even an inventory lodged.' He said, ' lie really could not tell why it was not (lane; but at any rate Mr. Gibson had got the stamp; so that that was paid for.' Finding that he gave equivocating answers to every question I put to him about the changing the stamp, I rent fur Mr. Fender, the Comptroller. Nrhen 1 began to inquire from him, he requested a brie time to look into his books, afficting not to know exactly whether the stamp firstobtained was changed for another of greater or less amount ; at last the fact turned out to be this :—Mr. Janice Gibson, the executor to Mr. Ramsay, firm obtained an inventory stamp for 2,7001. Willi person was the Soli. ritor of Stamps during the .port administration of Mr. Foes Airs Bremner being his deputy) ; this stamp lie kept by him for some time, and after a conference with Mr. Bremner, it was returned to the Board as having been taken out under too high an estimate, and a stamp fur 1,050 e was obtained in lieu of it, and of course, I suppose, Oa sum of 7501. was returned. A long period has clai sea L cu I an - p f which no mystery can any longer be said to exist, that the i Department, at the Colonial Office. ""/ """t '''''' —"' '—' "" " ''''''' '"' "—"-- '''"'" doing from about ten till five every day. Finding no regular office self into a doubt on the stiffiCien•y of this clause for the purpose 01 terday, however, three men, named Duke, Webb, and I hitherto much complained of mismanagement is to be - ' Mr Wilmot Horton left town ester a y d y for the seat Dorsey, incautiously tookcandleof 'd theA' t ransmutedf ey,a into the place; one are require by for the deposit of inventories and copies of wills (which you know mceecution. However, Mr. 13reitinees doubt arose on the p a re:- Act to be from the diff e r en t Cunt. thesis; his legal readin; of it was this :—' The silver must be a of Viscount Palmerston, near Romney, on a visit to his t ascertained. them was proceeding to knock some of the nuts off the ma- missaries to the Solicitor of Stamps at Edinburgh), I went up to bro ug ht to be marked, and it cannot be expose! to sale , t 4 il Lordship. chine, when the candle immediately ignited the gas it con- Mr. Bremner to inquire where, and in what manner, they were being marked ; but then It says, 'being if the ttii dant directed I Young States can only gain wisdom by experience, and A Board of the Lords of the Treasury was held on Thurs-ke"t, and he accordingly opened a closet or two in his office, in by law,' and their silver is Ma o f the s!n,dard, and theref, re the,' I paired, and theblew ' • lesion gasometer up witn an exp that tiro governing men of poor Greece want much of the fat- day, at the Treasury Chambers. . shook the whole edifice, burying the unfortunate men in whic they lay in dusty heaps quite emarr.anged, and, in short, in don't bri,:g it to be Ina, Ird and I don't see how we can ;vow te h 1 lof disorder, I i r I said, '3l ' The will . 'surprised I h •rg state er before they learn properly how to frame their measures A King m messenger was sent up from the Foreign Office the ruins. Two of , D d Duke , them, Dorsey an were taken a most s ame.uithout Bremner, this is really a sad mode of keeping documents of this as grossly stupid a construction of the law fiom a Soh- i on Wednesday eveninre with despatches which it was l ro wain the principles of the former. However, the Greek s " . . " from underneath the rubbish immediately, very much kind, which are in the nature of public records, and which it may eilor of Shaw ls. I need not detail any of the diseu'uon understood, were for the British Ambassador at Con- 1 • Y • ioi•erninetit thought they were doing their best when standee le. injured, but their more unfortunate companion Webb was be nccessaty at distant intervals to refer to.' His answer was, which passed upoit the subject : It ended in his wimps- ' Oh, I can very readily lay my hand upon any of them." Why, lodging it very likely that we might succeed in prosecuung. 1 not extricated for nearl an hour when his bode nresented I dray selected Mr. ORLANDO as Chief of the Deputation to The health of the Countess of Eldon has slightly im- Y - • • • I arid ' that may be; but suppose any accident were to happen to that it was nut too late to prosecute the veodera of that et:- a frightful aspect, being shockingly mutilated; lie was im- i doubt he should a new proved within these few days.you, am quite sure it would be inm use ible for an y other person waniped plate which was in the office (bought in IMO, and that r 1 li I he appointed for the important purpose of negotiating loan in England; not that any very high opinion was enter- We perceive by the bills that Mr. Honeyman, of the Surrey Theatre takes his benefit on Monda next Wei , little mediated y conveyed to St. Thomas it Hospital, where ot o l a y their ba nd upon any thing • anti indeed , 1 very in • t ho were entertainedof his ; Duke •also :mg course of my inquiry on subject, that lie had ne eer es en tali pee i paired in Greece of that gentleman's personal abilities, but • 1 '• y ' conveyed to the same place ; and Horsey, after having been that, among tunny other persons, Mr. Rontsny, of Bantington , wit i t he Lo r d Advocate's opinion, with re. i ard to the Aril,' he ente sineete y wish him a bumper, for the able anannerin which le I bled, 'was enabled to proceed home. It is but justice to state was a near neighbour of mine when in Edinburgh, had died worth earned on this clause of the Plate Duty Act, nor instituted . a sing I owing to his local respectahility in Hydra, and to his he has conducted that Theatre. ' immense property), 1 immediately Nod. • Turn Low, for instance, prosecution , by way a trying the pint, during the !turfy -fur 1 that the ofthe Coburg House have shawl' being possessed of considerable property. The other two Yo RI CITY EL e erre) a:.—We are authorized to state proprietors.. I • . very disposition in theirpower to assuage the afflicted r id, Dev...tties, Mr. ZAIMIS and Mr. LUaIOTTIS, were (as we are that it is nut Colonel tl'ilson li electioneering bills which every of the sufferers. you may remember, died . about six y ea:: a g o , and was reported , ~ seized by tl:e Inspector. es Milt; b lfw the standard and nnstam-• I recollect, to have died worth half a million of money.' lie in. to lie locked up in his office, and th e oftenders in all parts of next- a remain unpaid in York.— /ode Chronicle. credibly informed) selected by him, and instructed by the Ti his At the Shaftesbury Borough Sessions, on Saturday last, st a nd), hesitat«l, and looked 'dory touch confused. After a lew land to dilland the re 'one and evade the fere, during all the I le Lords of Majesty's Treasury have, within these the N g moments' conaidevation lie said, ' there has not been an inventory period without check or control. Governtnent to act in a subordinate capacity to Mr. Oa - fewdays , issued • e l issue an order, " that all brandies which may fa istrates manifested a very tliff•tent. spirit from that t yet delivered in oh Mr. Ramsay's property ; there was some rain. " This statement, I think, sill sufficiently account for the &- LANDO. It is not surprising that men, whose sphere in have been warehoused for a period exceeding twelve months, ,• Mr. Rankes and other Justices are reported to have take about the stamp. r something; I believe he got out a wrong firieney of the prole rimy. in warehouses which, from being surrounded by walls, Or'. done at Wisuborne on . F r id ay . O n the entrance of the stamp. but I have writ ten frequently to 3lr. Gibson, the executor, - I don't recollect whether I mentioned that I had been to Glas- 1 life had till then confined them la occupations of a far iti- terit r nature to those which their Government thus sod- otherwise, may be deemed by the Board of Customs to , • ' • he warehouses of special security , may be delivered for Reporter into the Justice - room, before the other Magis- t o lodge an inventory ;in fact, I wrote to him but yesterday.' R ow. I found every thing there kept in greet order, except the tramsbada • IVell, but Mr. Bremner: I said, • I wish you to explain this a books of account, books of Inventory, &e., all which were in sad I t mired, he was recognised by Charles Bowles, little more di s tin c tly ; for ally appears to me a tror confusion. They hare now procured • new PC: of books, and de lenly called them to, should have fallen into a mul- home co •the • ' consumption , upon payment of duty, according Esq. the worthy Recorder, who said, " Mr. Reporter, I y no legacy duty have been dinary circumstance that I an interval of six cars shou ld hav^ who will in fu ure now pt under propor alohabetical entry and I tip!icity of errors that many others, equally inexperienced, to the actual gauge and strength at the time of delivery— a . m very glad to see you here, and you may depend upon elapsed, and not only y •' ' e 'regular tr ' 1 ert 1 wou!d, in their place, not have escaped from. But it seems to P rovided, however, that in no case shall an allowance be it that at these Sessions you will never find hindrances, knowledge, lie left his daughters, and I believe there were nine " I shall write again soon, but lam a , incissantly occupied, and I have- been the principal misfortune of these gentlemen, since Govern-made for under-proof, to a greater extent than 10 per cent." .. but the utmost accommodation that it is in our power to of them, ten thousand pounds each), but not even an inventory so much fatigued, that I need plead no other apology for the inter- Paid (when, to my index of reference, and brought into o. icia arrangem . • o yours faithfully, . . r afford you. lodged.' He said, •he really could not tell why it was not done; val that may pass between my letters. Among the many id peed, regulations which the it arrival in England, that they found themselves too went have recently adopted, with the view of removing re- but at any rat e Mr. Gibson hail got the stamp; so that that was " With best wishes to the Board, belies, me, toy dear Sr. Sir AIFLICTTNO COINCIDENCE.—It seldom occurs to us to 1 t-iecit in need of other persons' advice before they would at- strictions and burthens from trade, there is not one th at " Jas. SEUGwIt. a. have to record a more melancholy instance of the visitation of Di. pai d questionfor. Finding that he gave equivocating answers to every . Esq." we are a b out to S t a t e re l a ti ve t o t h e 1 put to him about the changing the stamp, I rent "J. Bindley, Within the apace of i will be more sensibly felt by all classes than that to which family of Mr . Mills, of Nu. 79. Dttiry-lahe' at vine Providence than the case tempt any measure of importance, and suffered themselves t ut Mr. Pender, the Comptroller. 11' hen 1 began to inquire No. 111. we now allude. It will encourage the bringing of brandy to • iso !WRY to bekd away by the persuasions of others. Under a tew days, the wife, her side, and beheld and now widow, of Mr. Mills, was seized with from him, he requested a lisle time to look into his books, affecting . " Dumbreck ' s Hotel, 211th April, MEL , " My dear Mr. Ilinalev,—l am extremely obliged by your con - 1 this country , to b e warehou se d in depot •it will enable the the small-pox , underwent i that state the goings of labour , buried not to know exactly whether the stamp tirstobtained was changed such circumstances , it may be well imagined that their coun- owners of the: brandies, which have for several years been o i ne child,sa her husband i b i teethe his last by h w u r si t m w n o d r w en as ia r i c ising fatherless ba . . for another of greater or less amount :•t last the fact turned out to muniesvion of this morning, end the more so, because 1 knot s t sellorsbecame numerous, and that many designing men were locked up in our public vaults, to dispose of them for home hes pining for want. The body of her be this :—Mr. James Gibson, the executor to Mr. Ramsay , first letter of four sides to be the product of no slight exertion to both 1 t inventory for 2 700/(this • t he Soli obtaineda 1 stamp , . person sus - your hands and your eyes, which, however, though you say they ;,, °milted by motives of p erso n a l interest to add to the e i onsumption, which they have hitherto been prevented from creature, unable m • have hail their best days,' do certainly bear no very decided testis 1 os t • o ed i f e o a r ve the h p er ur b p e o d se . ionfabesitangteidnfietrhreerml, d a s n t d p t , h i e dn p u tio ri r t Going, by having duty to pay on the deficiencies occasioned anguish, is thus left helpless Much to the praise of the (her. ribs of Stamps during the short administration of Mr. Fox, Mr- Bremner being his deputy); this stamp he kept by him for some mot yto the truth of year assertion. eumber. Had the Deputies been men of the world and of by evaporation whilst lying in the store • and it will thus seers (particularly Mr. Silk, of bong-acre). every assistance the pa-our last re niftvnce improved upon its ••aergy, many of those effects of mismanageLient, which enable the public at large to obtain those fine old brandies rochial funds would allow has been a estimate , pre d ecessor s • i declare to time, and after a conference with alr. Bremner, it was returned to 'I am glad to hear that ate now so much deplored, would not have been coin- at moderate prices. a subscription will be instantly set an foot to alleviate the awful and a stamp fur 1,93 y. was obtained in lieu of it, and of course,_ I fraud, irregularey, and connivance which prevail in . every s ;f is t e d ; an d we u ,g entats i the Board as having been taken . out under too high an _ .. .Heaven it astonishes me, ~,ee n. I seethi t r t.e , I visitation. suppose, the amp of 4 30/. was returned. A long period hiss c l ap sea con , tetel with the Si: mp Revenue here, haw our remitioaces b at e • h i r 1 / :1 , . I . . ..; I %^ I i • ' . t a , , • • - • - - - . . . [ARCM YESTERDAY. begborn Gonoo Venice . Naples Palermo Oporto Rio Janeiro .. • • Bahia Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' slain ...... Cork ....... per e 5.114 4sol 49 in arsLiov, Pia 01. L a. d. Portnral Gold, In coin .. 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, In bars. . 3 17 4 New Doubloons ...... 0 0 to New Dollars ....... 0 4 0 Sllver„ In bars. standard.. 0 4 II plained of ; the means placed in their hands would have rtceiveil a more speedy and more effective destination ; and the stlec!ion of auxiliaties necessary for the promotion of such objects would have proved more judicious. The 4117emeine Zeitung to the lat of Septcmbet has been received, from which we make the following extract:— Romr, Avo. 17. The Pope proceeds in his political reforms with indefatigable activity, though almost incomparable obstacles are every where thrown in his way. Even many well-disposed men, to whom Heaven has given more good-will than energy to carry it into Oren, are said often to advise to let things alone ; tut the Pope does not seem ItspOSt ti to listen to them. Posterity will bless him for this, even if his contemporaries should be so short-sighted as to desire the return of the old abuses. I have frequently men tioned those that had cr apt into tt.e administration of the Customs. The Pope, of his own ace rd, without consulting the Board of Finance, 'which was just engaged on a very different plan, has dis missed all the officers and subalterns, anti half the soldiers of the Customs : the other half is to be ncw.organized. The chic guard, or rather its general staff, which alone existed, and had a bureau, which occasioned considerable expense without doing any good, is dissolved, and the officers placed on half-pay. The Administration of F,cclesiustical Estates in the provinces has had the same fate, being wholly abolished, and unitel with the Ministry of Finance. The most important reform, however, as it seems, will be expe rienced by the Chamber, espe-ially that part of it called the Com p- fiateria. A few days ago the Chief Itevisore and eight of his sub akerns were dismissed. The new Itevisore has received orders to ,rate accurately the number of clerks lie wants, and to choose among the most able and honest individuals in the office ; the others will be discharged. The chase and the fisheries, ei impor tant branches of the subsistence of the people, have likewise at tracted the Pope's attention. It is said that all restrictions on both will be shortly abolished, only of course continuing the pro hibition of them in certain seasons of the year. CITY, FRIDAY EVENTINO. The intelligence from Portugal by yesterday's mail was a sufficient hint to the depressionists to spread rumours in ' pl,n'y this morning as to further news of an alarming nature from that country : they were, however, totally 1. void of credit. Consols were named at 79 at the open ing of the market ; but there were no takers at that quo tation. At an early period some heavy money sales took pace, which, in conjunction with the reports we have mentioned, perhaps, sent them down to 781, and they closed at Is': for money, and for the Account at 7f4 79. The report of Mr. CANNING being about to visit Paris is again the ; indeed, if report is to be believed, he is now in his post-chariot on his way to the French capital ! In the Foreign Market there has not been much doing. Mexican have varied about one per cent. There were reports of letters being in town from Mexico by the Antelope, which was mentioned, in the Ship News of yesterday, as being cff Torbay ; they ec•ild not, however, be traced. Ihe Orozembo, from New York, arrived at Cork on the 3d inst., where she was waiting fur orders, having out sailed the packet ship. She left New York 15th August, but is not the bearer of any news. Tha arrival of the packet, which is hourly expected, will, in 911 probability, decide the question of the Mexicar dividends; the Bonds closed to day at MI, ln other Foreign Stocks there is little or nothing doing; indeed, partridge-shooting has robbed the Stock Exchange of some of its most devoted and obedient servants. The only Shares quoted at a pre mium are Brazilian, which arc 7. The Colonial Market does not show any particular move ment : demand and prices retain the same steady character as for some days past. In the Curn Market prices show littlo variation since Monday's market. There is an evident backwardness on the part of purchasers at present, and the holders of grain arc not at all disposed to recede to the level at which per ms are prepared to put prices, until some more correct idea :an be formed of what is likely to be the scale, as re gards the imported articles. Cargoes arc constantly ar riving in the River; and it would seem, from the advance of prices which has taken place on the Continent, that with the proteeti.ig duty the effect on the English market will not be very material. Exchanges generally show a disposition to advance. Sir Henry HaWord and Mr. Macgrigor, Sergeant Surgeon to the King, visited the Duke of York yesterday. The health of his Royal Highness continues in the same favour able state it has been for some days part. The unfavour able state of the weather yesterday prevented his Royal Highness from taking his usual airing. Prince Pulignac, the French Ambassador, and the Mar quis Palmella, the Portuguese Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday afternoon with Mr. Secretary Canning, at his Office, in Downing-street. The Earl of Liverpool transacted business yesterday afternoon with Mr. Canning. at the Foreign Office, Down ing -street, after which his Lordship left town for his seat, Combe Wood. The Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Secretary Canning, &c. dined with the Corporltion of the Trinity House on Thursday. Lord Howard de Walden, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, entertained a select party at dinner yes terday, at his residence in South Audley-street. Among the company were some of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was occupied yesterday morning with the Earl of Liverpool, at his Lordship's re sidence at Whitehall. In the afternoon the Right lion. Gentleman left town for Charlton. Lord Charles Somerset transacted business yesterday with Mr. Hay, Under Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Wilmot Horton left town yesterday for the seat of Viscount Palmerston, near Romsey, on a visit to his Lordship. A Boa . rd of the Lords of the Treasury was held on Thurs day, at the Treasury Chambers. A King's messenger was plat up from the Foreign Office on Wednesday evening, with despatches, which, it was understood, were fur the British Ambassador at Con stantinople. The health of the Countess of Eldon has slightly im proved within these few days. We perceive by the bills that Mr. Honeyman, of the Surrey Theatre, takes his benefit on Monday next. We sincetely wish him a bumper, for the able anannerin which he has cowhietell that Theatre. vet bey has br` .Acie°l2errtathrirn'r::: , nor an tl d o y i e t t hramti e n o k i i t n lodged,sinee thin iii no s r ea le n g p acy wa d s ut P r paid, to pay any; and suspect the 750/. to have been trawl:Mir : 7 trained, as one who Itad been a Solicitor of SouT to have ipr osobeoithTer alleleat ec t t ( l the valuben t t o o f m th ; e 3 p "o r ! i c y. pbell will be able 4 aseertatn the periods when the %tamps were respectively p rocured '• This letter is rather prolix, but I have written itt haw, ul must make the same apology as the person did film f . or vy that he had no time to make it shorter. I hope all are aeli nll ^. Board : If you have a spare moment 1 shall be very h 4t happy lob ate a line front you. Farewell. " Believe me, Met faithfully . youre. " JOS. "ATM VICL" NO. 11. I al a tp `: ars 3 t3 l . day ,, V igneo tth:o.o 3 : l g : e h this dy.e.—:44.11)! peditimi, when your letter arrived. In attempting se a e e '• no hope of coming close to the Pule ; at present , I think, as f ar . ' i can is.ke my observations with any correctness, I ant at the fares ridiein, but the muss of corruption is so solid and compact, d r ii • e s hud 4o b f further ireu i n c. ksittaken detaililt r y :tn , e oi lu' ' Al m a y r e h pee,3° I ti • , tinl tn,,ettio.. as it has b een, ta r this last half century. that th" eis Wipe of its re eking away in fragments, like t h e polar iceailwra open a way theme h i•. Howes er, we roust do as well as - You ask if I think they had any intima t i on o f my coeneink; do not think I carne upon them quite enerpectedty, as the Lora Advocate, whom I had seen in London about a fortnight befit had given intimation of it ; but it 'was an useless warning, " a„..-erer were not in a condition to avail themselves of i t; had , lin ' be e p it; any tot-ea/ref order before hand, they might h ave bet.irved -• ' - ori je — ". ; selves a little, and have lisd oil in their lamps ; b ut even this p Faration would have been useless, for they had uo lamps Sill fur instance, I wanted to refer to the inventori es o f two or thalta; prevailed up totlati'dete, persons, I desired Mr. Bremner to tern to his General Index it a which be did with great snlem.-:y. Mr. Forbes anti 31r. Hammy wire the names I wanted; but as he dil not seem to turn to them very readily, I desired he would hand ire over the hone ; a this, be was obliged to confess "they hadn't got ar . ,crr at later 11." I then took up the book, a fine pm,:rraus fruit, to see how tt they had got, when I found t•.ey hail gat as far as truer A T under which twelve names were entered. The fact was, d in ; c S o ell t, t ru h l it io d n etiedn irregularity, introduced t t l i le ere d fo a r y e, b w e i t t ine ich , for the Oct tan •io se never had been an Index Book kept in ;he °dice. and the pm you may easily Imagine. '• With regard to the Plate Lieense Duty, which you *dent toss being apparently very ill collected, I proceeded, on the reotipto your letter, to make some inquiry into this. Thirking gallon best to begin et the beginning, I sent for Ale cur instate! tor, and desired lie would request the Goldsmiths' Company to Sc a day. when I - would attend during the process ofaassyin gan a marking the plate, which I did on Thursday last. I found every thing conducted with extreme exactness, awl an anziety to give every information. The senior members of the Corporation, to. pellet with the Warden arid Assay Officers, were present. A per. son of the name of Scott, employed by Mr. Bremner, brim the pigtails with him (the instrument with which the mark is iaiptened on the difletent articles of plate brought to be stamped). slid talas it away with him reline the marking is dorm, keeping it, in ' the mean time, in his custody, or in Mr. Bremner's, till the next suss day. Of this circumstance the Corporation very grievously complained ; and they explained the origin of it, which wan this:—lt seems that, many years ago, a member of the Corporation, of very unprioci e led character. privately affixed the mark to different articles of pl its, without accountiog for the duty : this was &tette by the War en, tad h • Corporation in. , stand, sent no its of the transaction t t the Stamp-office. The °feud. r immediately fled the kingdom. Mr. Bremner f ort h w i t h ' took the instrument of impress from the Corporation, and either keeps it in his own possession or Mr. SCOTS, the person he rm. pointed to at and with it, and who has ever since attended with as above described. Now, u the most respectable ptesons, and at the most tri: din why, compre this Corporation, is very nets. ' ral , hat they iould feel indignant at the public an it and perpetual re. fl ction upon them winch this deprivation conveys. anti that they , should be neat anx ou to have this stigma removed. 1 told them, • t''erefore, wh n they urged the subject, that I was quite sure that i t sets not the wish of the Board of *amps to adopt, or to sanction, any meesure 01 pregiution which in itself implied a distrust of the integrity O r t e Gohismitlis' Company as a telly, and that they would v ry p neltly discontinue that measure in particuler, whit was e t by chi rn to coovee tha imputation. I undertook total thus mu It, be awe, in the first pate, I most conscientiously thrught that in j u thee they dem-reed it, and in the zest place (which it was not necessary to tell them) because I apprehend the measure i:self to be nothing more or less than an illegal or. authorized act on the part of 31r. Bremner, winch is made subservient to his own speculauinns of private profit. 1 think it quite clear that the taking this instrument of office out of the hands of the Corporation into his own private custody is rot within the legal authority of any individual, and my only won her is that the Company submitted to if all, much more for so long a period. Then, so far from being a serorke to the Bet error', It It quite the reverse; for it is enacted by the Act (Stat. 24 tiro. 111. e. L3l the.. defrntt of re...thing the ditty, the respective Coo:. pani. s or Aesay.offieers shad be accountable fir the said duty. as if admen/ rtes is , ed.' - Now, if this Mr. Scott were to connive with any individual of the ami.i.ny, and were secretly to furnish Inn with the porei, it is quite clear that the Company and Assay-otti. eerie would stand relieved from the responsibility to which they are here subjected, by this special interference of an officer, acting, as they would urg, under the Board's authority, show acts they had no power to crone d. If, moreover, an individual of a Car-preening, with the Cle ck of he Warden, and under the eye of the Assay-ME- C •ts, may a .ilelently use this instrument in marking plate, what shall peeve , t . n individual out of a Coreoration, with this lout men: in his private possession at all hours, and with no check of any kid d, from mak rag the some improper use of it ? ' • Then as to the coil of lids preventive. I suppose Mr. Bran. ner may pay the man he thus employs about ten shillings a week (he is in at ietlance about an hour and a half, three days in the week ; Mr. I' remner never yet was present himself), and in out item of an stem nt which he showed me of some charges incurred, when in Lando , sore time since, was twilie hundred pounds foe this duty of reel erinlendenec at Cord:milks to secure As prate duty. So that he means to punch the Board out of this, at any rate, let what will become o f th e instrument. When hs spike to me ale ut this charge and the allowance of it, it was before I h: d made the present inquiry, and I of cootie told him, that as • the tra • saetion cut of which it arose occurred before I cause to the B. azd, I could }hie no opinion whatever upon It. " Now, as to the zie e t state of the plate duty in Scoilasl. One should naturally have thought that one who had taker so strorg a measure to s• cure it at head-querte in would at least hare been a tfficientiv vigi:an ia the tubordiume districts. But I leaned at Goldsmiths' Ball that very little plate was stamped hut what was manufactured at Edinburgh, and that it was the common practice in all the Northern towns in Scotland to sell it below the standard. and without the legal mark. I inquired of Mr. Waddell, the In. spector, how all this could happen ? who told me that lie had per. caased plate of this description at :girth and Aberdeen, for the purpose of proaccu ing the venders ; but that Mr. Bremner was of opinion that the law as it stands would not reach them, and til l plate so purchased in 1815 lies still at the Stomp Office. ea/ t.nward I went to the Stamp Office ; after looking into the Art, and inquiring front Mr. Tr rimer if this statement was correct, he said, ' yes, it was ;• I told him I hail been looking into the Act, and that it scented to me to be quite sufficient for prosecuting any of these frauds; and I then requested he would point out where. in his opinion, the detect liv • upon this he turned to the rearming clause of the 24th Gee. 111. c. 53. a. 11. No goldsmith, silver s:nith, or other person, dealiug in gold or silver wares, shall ex . nose to sale any gel d or silver wares, or manufacture of gold or • liver, made after the said day (lot December, 1784). or export the same out of Great Britain, until the same (being of the standard directed by law) shall be marked with the King's head, besides all other marks, directed by law, on penalty of Me ; and fee default, &c.' It would be difficul to gu Is how any man could puzzle him. self into a doubt on the sufficieney of this clause for the purpose of moiecutinn. However, Mr. 'Bremner's doubt arose on the peen the.ie; his legal reading of i: was this:—' The silver must be brought to be marked, and it cannot be expose I to sale without being marked ; but then it says, ' being of the stir deed directed by law,' and their silver is net of the standard, and there:Fre thee don't bring it to be marked, and I don't see how we can prom to them.' lhe Board will be as much surprised as I was at h.arerg AO grossly stupid a construction of the law fiom a Soh- Herr of Stamps. I need not detail any of the discussion which passed upon the subject It ended in his acknow. ]edging it very likely that we might succeed in prosecuting. that it was not too late to prosecute the venders of that u:- 'tramped plate which was in the office (bought in IMO, and that he should proceed against them immediately. It turned out, in the course of my inquiry on this subject, that he had never even taken the Lord AdVIICAte'S opinion, with re . tarel to the doebt he enter tained on this clause of the Plate Duty Act, nor instituted a single prosecution ' by say of trying the point, during the Ih;rfy,f;,,,r years which have parsed since its enactment, but muttered the plate seised by the Inspector, es being b *re flue standard and wish, erptd. to lie locked up in his office, and tee offenders in all parts Mascot. land to defraud the rev,7tire and evade the law, during all that period without check or control. " This statement, I think, will sufficiently account for the de. ficieney of the prate duly. " I don't recollect whether I mentioned that I had been to Glas gow. I found every thing there kept in great order, except the books of account, books of raven tor y, dtc., all wl.ich were in sad contusion. They have now procured a new set of books , an d the whole will in flume be kept under prop:r alahabetical entry an d index of reference, and brought into regular official arrangement. " I shall ante again soon, but I am a a incessantly occupied, tied so notch fatigued, that I need plead no other apology for the inter val that may pairs between my letters. With best wishes to the 'board, believe me, my dear Sir. " Yours faithfully, "J. Bindley, Esq." " JAS. SEDGWIL No. 111. " Dumbreck's Hotel, 211th April, 1818. 44 My dear Mr. am extremely obliged by your cote• municarion of this morning, end the mote so, because 1 know letter of tour aides to be the product of no slight exertion to both your hands and your eyes, which, however, though you say they • have hail their best days,' do certainly bear no very decided t:sti. mot - ) to the truth of your assertion. • I am glad to hear that our last re nlitence improved upon des predecessor* t I declare to Heaven it astonishes me, when I see the fraud, irregularliy, and connivance which prevail in every thirg comlectel with the Si: mp Revenue here ; haw our remittances here THE BRITISH PRESS. PARTY. The Marquis of Clanricarde entertained on Thursday Mr. Se cretary Canning, Mrs. Canning, Wm. Horton, Esq., Mr. Burka, and a select party, at dinner, at his house in St. James's-square. ItIOVEMENTS. The Duke of St. Albans and Sir John Dashwond King, Dart. left town yesterday on a shooting excursion at Mrs. Coutti sent in Essex. . _ The Duke cf Rutland arrived yesterday at his home in Arling ton-street, from his seat, Belvoir Castle. Emily Marchioness of Londonderry has left North Cray, Kent, on a visit to the Earl of Mount Edgccumbe, at his seat in Devon shire. The Earl and Countess of Leitrim and family arrived yesterday at their house in Great Cumberland-place, from a tour. Lord Stowell left town yesterday tur Buxton. Derbyshire. The Hon. Colonel Anson, M. P. yesterday left the Marquis of Salisbury's seat, Hatfield, on a visit to Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansunger. Herts. Colonel and Mrs. Stapleton arrived yesterday at the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street. from Oxfordshire. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baring arrived yesterday at Thmuss's lin. tel, nerktley.square, from Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs bare left ditto for their seat in Huntingdonshire. Mrs. Clifton and Mrs. Bowie yesterday left the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle -street, far Brighton. Captain and Mrs. Beauchamp Procter and family arrived pester. day at the Brunswick hotel (late Blake's), Jurmyn-street, from their scut in Norfolk. ........... e0 „,,,,....4 °. .."-,.i:---y;----, -,,..- •-.- ...,,,-., 7" - ?, " . e . ' " ".... •zi O: ' , • ......r . s — ii's' V .: -4 " t."--' _-, -., iNTEI,Lt`', ...-•,-- • -.-!!" , =t74:= 1 1 '-..' ''- - ..* EAST LONDON .11ECIIANICS' INSTITUTION. - On Thursday evening, a General Meeting of the Members, was held at the Rooms of the Institution, near Stepney Church, for the purpose of electing the President, and other Officers, for the next year. when thc tid low ing gentlemen were elected ; President, Dr.ll i rk. heck; Vice Presidents, Dr. Black, Rev. Joseph Fletcher, Abraham Gole, Es9.ltobert M` Will isms, Esq. Dr. James Mitchell, and Wm. Stone, E.g.; Trustees. Messrs. Bambry. Browning, Munn, and Peche. The first public meeting for the establishment of than Institution wss held in June last, and since that time it has proceeded with great activity. A Lecture Room has been obtained. capable of accommodating six hundred persons; convenient rooms have also been formed for classes, Scc. Nine teen lectures have been delivered. on various branches of science, by Messrs. Pariington, Mitchell, Peche, and Fowler. Classes, which are numerously attended, have been established for drawing, arithmetic, mathematics, and geography. A commence ment has been made for forming a library of circulation and re. ference : and front the number of members, and their zeal and ac. tivity, there is every appearance of the Institution proving eminently successful. CITY OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. A General half•yyearly Meeting of the members of this Institu. tion was held on Wednesday evening. 'I he chief business of the Meeting was to confirm some regulations proposed at a former fleeting, to raise a fund for the building of a Lecture-room. It was reported that a public subscription hod been opened for this purpose, and that in less than a month upwards of SOW. had been subscribed. During the late distre_sveit in trade the number of Members belonging to this ■s well as to the minor Institutions of a similar description had considerably diminished. But it was now reported that the deficiency had been snore than supplied, and there was not the slight. est doubt that its present prosperity would increase with the return of commercial prosperity in the city. Much zeal was mani fested in favour of' the Institution by many citizens who were desi rous of obtaining other alternatives h,r the amusement of the com mercial and professional youth of the city than the saloons and the t seems. Twenty-right harken: had not only subscribed them selves, but had opened books at their houses for a public subacrip• tion. Mr. Whitmore (of the firm of Whitmore and Co. the bankers) reported the funds for the current expenditure of the Institution to be in .. good condition. A large stint h.itl been applied to the purchase of a library, and the entries of books taken out to be read, amounted, since it was opened for circulation, to upwards of 4000. The Report was agreed to. Thanks were voted to Mr. IL Grote, jun. the banker, for his conduct in the Chir, when the Meeting separated. COWES, SEPI MUER 7. ROYAL V.A.AIT CLUB. • Lird Belfast and Mr. Weld, on v the commencement of this week, made up their minds to sail their two vessels, the Harriet, belonging to the former, and the Arrow, be longing to Mr. Weld, for 150/. aside, and to wart from Cowes Castle (this morning), to go round the Nab 1411 t, back through Cowes Roads, round the Warden Ledge buoy, in the Needles Passage, .rad horn thence to a vessel moored off Cowes Castle. They started at twenty minutes to one p. m., with a double-reef mainsail breeze from the W.S.W. ; a strong wind, and every appearance of one of the finest treats of nautical science that have yet occurred in the Noble Club. On starting, the llartiet had great advantage, by being ahead a cable's length or more. At this moment (four p.m.) we have only time to tell you that the Arrow is ahead about four miles, and Lord Belfast's yacht has carried away her boom, apparently close to the tafrail ; therefore having a distance of 25 miles yet to go, the bet is decidedly in favour and certain for the Arrow, should she not meet with a similar accident. An alteration has taken place in the sailing of the first class yachts for the gold cup of 1001.: instead of going to Swanage and back of the island, it is arranged that they shall sail inside of the Wighte. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT THE COIWRG THEATRE. —Yesterday morning the whole of the neighbourhood sur rounding the Coburg Theatre was thrown into a state of very considerable agitation and alarm, in consequence of the explosion of a gasometer within the theatre. About two years ago it appeared that the proprietors of the Coburg had a gasometer erected at the extreme end of the house, on a level with the stage, which was intended to supply the whole of the interior with light from oil gas. The design, however, failed, in consequence of the offensive effluvium arising from it, and that method of illuminating the house was consequently abandoned from that period, and the regular gas-works brought into action. The old gasometer, however, remained in its situation, and, within the last two days, on account of the stench pro ceeding from some stagnant water that it was supposed to contain, several men were employed in pumping hoist. Fire not having been introduced into the place where the men were at work, no accidents of course were anticipated, par ticularly as no individual connected with the theatre had any conception that foul air was within the gasometer. Yes terday, however, three men, named Duke, Webb, and Dursey, incautiously took a candle into the place; one of them was proceeding to knock some of the nuts off the ma chine, when the candle immediately ignited the gas it con tained, and the gasometer blew up with an explosion that shook the whole edifice, burying the unfortunate men in the ruins. Two of them, Disney and Duke, were taken from underneath the rubbish immediately, very much injured, but their more unfortunate companion Webb was not extricated for nearly an hour, when his body presented a frightful aspect, being shockingly mutilated; be was im mediately conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where little hopes were entertained of his recovery ; Duke was also conveyed to the same place ; and Dorsey, after having been bled, was enabled to proceed home. It is but justice to state, that the proprietors of the Coburg House have shawl' every disposition in their power to assuage the afflicted families of the sufferers. At the Shaftesbury Borough Sessions, on Saturday last, the Magistrates manifested a very difFaent. spirit from that which Mr. Bankes and other Justices are reported to have done at Wimborne on Friday. On the entrance of the Reporter into the Justice-room, before the other Magis trates had arrived, he was recognised by Charles Bowles, Esq. the worthy Recorder, who said, " Mr. Reporter, I am very glad to see you here, and you may depend upon it that at these Sessions you will never find I trances, but the utmost accommodation that it is in our power to afford you." ARFLICTTNG COINCIDENCE.—It seldom occurs to us to have to record a more melancholy instance of the visitation of Di. vine Providence than the case we are about to state relative to the family of Mr. Mills, of Nu. VI, Drury-lane. AV ithin the spare of a few days, the wife, and now widow, of Mr. M ills, was seised with the small-pox, underwent in that state the pangs of labour, buried one child, saw her husband breathe his last by her side, and beheld her trio remaining fatherless bakes pining for want. The body of her husband was removed for the purpose of being interred, and the poor creature, unable to l eave b er bed, in a state of the most poignant anguish, is thu s l e f t h e l p l ess . Mitch to the praise of the (her seers (particularly Mr. Silk, of Lospaere). every assistance the pa rochial funds would allow has been afforded ; and we undentand a subscription will be instantly set en foot to alleviate the awful I visitation. se yes( low frel 14/11 /IN COI Ohl