The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-11-06 00:00:00

IVTELLICLA CR. The 31crqui. are 31ar;leoness lit StalTere and family left town estordas, ts.ir their vil Pt m The Ctionte.s of Nos, left town yestertar ntt tour. roderiek Var.:nut. .q arrived yesterea3 at his ho inc in Stable -oat, Jsm-s's. llenersl Un.lnw cm ye d yemenlay at Fentor's Urea. St. James's lase. thatit Ii tut ir goat ire. The Rev. 1). ..lutray has left ditto, .rf his seat. WA++. '.jrAo Clue has arrived at Blake's Hotel, Jurryn-street, from feir. Bonoorable Mrs. Wadlow nnil family hare mitred at f•eitt Soielatal. r Barirg, :sq. has lit .1!10, for his , t , • Henri ant.. Arrivals at Kirkitam's Iloilo Loe a Brook.m.m.t and Ifs. lietsis. thettt the to. •' „eat ; Mrs. and .Mina Jones, f.om their a•, Norfolk. 31ra. Nash and family hate loft the St. Georges Hotel, Albe • ale-street, on a to Arrivals m Long's Mee% Borilsstreet :—Sir Jamey Carpenter, 'man Brighten ; I Wiiistall. trout a tour : J. Thompson, :sq., from Paris. liittirtur , s:—rapta i n for Bath; Mr. 3:”. dx ; Sir 'l'. Harvey, for Nor •'l/4 ; Wrm Ildu L, s. . f or Brighten. Mr. and Mss.Cuttetill Mtee loft the l'ultoney Hotel, Albemarle :met, Or ll.th. Lord Lilferd Mt• arrived at his seat, N., lismpeofs'iv, flout {:heron Hall. Lace :shire. The Couotees tif Essex hay a-rived at her haute, Hill-street, Ilerkeleysmiime. from • !OUT. The Dawsger Maietiviiiess of Eerier I as Li. t two, for tier seat, axiiamptim. out Langford It s left town for his seat. Coop sr's Hill, Surrey. Ars:vals m Nerm llot;I, 4:Ml,mi-street :—:.)r. Chalets, Mts. Wien, and )list Challen, from °Storm S :sus : 3irs., Captain tirr.y, and homily, aid Miss Elhinmon, from Rams ate. Written , : t o lonel a. 3lrs. 1) n , as, for Sentlim ; the Bertourskle Mrs. 6tridy and Cie Misses Graidy, fur Illorrions *ore. PuMitt. Areivals at 3livart's lintel. Lower Itrook-street Smith, Lit+, from Rath; Miss Da Burgh, from Drayton. Departure+ :- 31r. sad Mrs.llamiltnii. 1., Ic•io it. POETRY. ORIGINAL VERSF.s RV LORD BYRON. The following verses (says an Evening ravel), were written by the late Lord l(yron, in the Alb= of the Union at Chu mown, near Geneva, WO 011 are now printed tot tlet, Brat ti3ie : AU hail, Merit !S;a:ie! Mont en Vert, With thee I can, associate still; And. should all other plea.ures fail. I'll stretch me by the nmr.tering rill, Or into split u•te 'il And comminse with the DEItY ! Far from the pride and scorn of man, The waalele..ohjects of their care, The works ..f Natere I can WM. And son.etimes yet fearful, dare Ewes. those 11-rho -% kindly g:veo By the bcrevoloice of II EV/ Aloe: I come! alone Igo! Ale unnoticed and unknown Fresed by a weix!et of lasting woe, Front East to West by tempest blows; No rest ! nn peace ! until 1 9y Front Time into Etemny ! yet why—yet why should I complain 2 Are not some other joys my ow^. ? r s wbielt tb m u ltitude disdain, To dull.v, happier souls unknown! Ye., I will Irately dare my lot Emil I die, and be forgot No reed to odd my humble name, Ne'er nientionA yet by babbling Fame; Few demaco to w:.otn be'ang These transport. of a Child of Song, One who would wi.h., with Poet's fire, And dating hand. to nr eep the lyre! LORD BYRoA AND MR. MURRAY. Copt:in Aledwin's " Conversations of Lord Byron" sevtrid statements relative to Mr. Murray, his Lordship's publisher, which that gentleman has deemed it Lecemary :o controvert • and this be has dune must success in a small pamphlet, which has been privately cireu iatid. Mr. Jlunay has vet against the allegations of Cap tai t extracts from Lord Byron's own letters, in wlikh the noble Poet uniformly bears tustiniony to the fir awl iibersl conduct of Mi. Murray, and exprisses towards him the most friendly sentiments; La example, his Loid ih:p thus addictive' his publisher in 1819:- 1 have a g• est respect for voile rod and gentlemanly qual:ties. x•J return vt ur persona friendship towards me. • • • • • • Ica deutve and tows. the esteem of three whose (*teem is worth liming, and of none snore khowrver useless it maybe) than " Yours, very truly, BY RON." Captain Metloin makes Lord Byron ray, that Mur ray had offered hint 1,000/. a Canto for Dun Juan, and 4neroards re 'need it to 500!.. on the pleat of piracy, and cAop!ained of his dividing one Canto into two.—lna letter to Mr. M., dated navtinia, Feb. 7, le's 4 ), his Lordrhip •-- " I have coral and cut the third Canto of Don JiICV: into two, 'muse A was too long, and I tell you this beforehand, because, in tAs2 of r.y reckuniag between you and me, these two are unly to go tor cu , s, this was the original form, and in fact the two together en not Unger than une of the first; so remember that I have not wa !;.is division to d,:itble upon pt, but iusrely to suppress LICIM taibousness in th- aspect of the thing. I shuald hare &erred ya &pretty trick if I had sent you, fur example, Cantos of fifty mums rub." —.- To the statement in Captain Medwitia book, that Mr. iirourray had to chcose brtwer n giving up Lord Byron or the Navy Lot, Mr. Murray expressly declares, that it is alike absurd and unfounded in Met. There are several orh..r anertions in the " Cony, rsations," which a reference to I.Jrd leturs crmpietcly disproves. Vie pass them over, howevt r, for the purpose of noticing the last correc tion of Mr. Murray, ard which, av he ohs:lves, " demon watts that desu!tory, ex-parte conversation!, even if accu lately re Forted, t ill often convey irr.perfect and erroneous hoions of the speaker's re. sentiments. Lord Byron (according to Captain lkledwiri) said— '. Mr diferereA with Murray are not over. kt' hen he purchased • sia, • The Tan Fosea.i,' and • Sardanspaltis.' he sent me a d,ol, which yon may Yemen bet. sitnessing. 11%11; atter its re. Lim to kngland, it was di , ne ,vend that it tvutain..,l a rleuse whi h b:rn ittratlac...! without eny bunch do. a clause by vhich I cow tet i sey to off r Mr. Murray uti my future camp:Wane. 11:4 I shall uk: no notice of it." To this Mr. Murray renlies— "ite words of italic ate :runic which were suppressed in the two ttiitiJno sa . €spiatri Medsvin's book, and which Mr. Murray Liantnt:.d ;ion, the publisher after the foregoing statement was rtttd• lie ha+ only to °brave upon the subject, en re. 1 - ,11 c:o the dent it, gurstion, no alien clause is to be found; thrt hue 1113, !lig.:ed in Lor.dori y the lion. Duughis Kin_ Laird, as Lord 11)n:ifs procuto;or, and witnessed by Richard use of toe partners in Mr. Kinnaird's bankkg. Luta-et and th at the sognsture of Curtain .11ed win is nut affixed." Loup Blio)N'S POEMS. The following are the sums paid by Mr. NI array to I.a•d Byron for his several Pc. ms : t'hi de 1. 11. A:600 - 1,575 . 2,100 525 . 525 513 7+lo 525 425 315 525 - 1,525 - 1,525 . IM.O - 1,100 525 515 - - . Mei& of Abydos Corsair - - Lara Siege of Corinth Parisins - 1.431.) . • slanfrel Ileppo Don Juan, I 11.- - 11/. IV. V. - - Doge of Vvni:e - - Sadanapalc‘, Cain. and t osean (11 :i*n b. a nal • - - Tn!al - E 15,453 T.; • rill. EDITC.11 . 0!•"EllE BRITISH PRESS. SIR—A Ismer having bet hired in%) your paper, of the 4th rmert me to my published st dement respecting the author of the Bard on !•-ir John slootc, and b-;riig the sigmcu-0, 11. AL M' which letter is row said not to be authentic, I I:vin it e.•;:is.ary to adil, to what I have al:t ady advanced in the 4.4 "i'le. that I am astopishol a commp.iMsn so roars:, w.ak, and `Anew sh mld, for a moment, havo omaitied currency as the pro. i!aat:111: (4 any man of taste, feeling, or editere ion. :Mould, indeed, rizliitti , C is I!.ehnit:e. 1 Crl only affirm Ma• the writer. who lays ' . . 311, 1 0 lerr.N al - .61 excited the admiration of Lord Byr4i, has abundant older:ec that he a escapable a being iii , 4 "til"r oc any t'at g not by a thorr rla-sir regiutt that. limb-street, of a hihb a, e.. vy !Ilan that of the banciatl. rentait...;:r, _ .. Your ob•dient humble *errant, I. GAT JOHN SYDNEY TAYLOR. .-rourt, 3lidale Temple. n,p RV,. Mr. bingtr, at a country Bible Meeting, has denied t:iat there an Orange Ledge in College.-1)--144 7111.-11, BY JURY. Yesterday a meeting was held of the friends of Trial by Jury, and also of the trivial, of Parliamentary !Limo , , at the Crown and ,►nchor Tarim Dinner was sent up at six o'clack, am! though the fare was frugal. and the repast extremely nnalerate, there was enough to satisfy the appetites of those whose luxurious longio1;11 THE BRITISH PRESS. COYMERCIAL PROSPECTS OF IRELAND. 'From the FOCllinr Anti There are various indications which induce us to beieve, that a new and favourable prospect is opening on the in dustry end resources of Ireland. The farming interest has dev;iloilly revived ; stock and corn have advanced to a re 1111111CrItillg !nice, if not beyond it. We stop not to in l;uire into the Causes Or this cheering revival—whether the riresent dawn of prosperity be at!rihutahle to the Small Note .% et, which, in Mr. Cobbett's opinion, has been, pro truth, a virtual appeal of Mr. Peel': famous bill for re storing the e..rrencv to its healthy state—or whether it arises filen the hie:cgs:nit cleirethd for the produce of our fields, which the flourishing state of commerce in England has pro hie, d. Neu'ter 410 we feel it nee essary to inquire, wheat( r the prospect be temismary—whether it he nicely to I receive inert-111)6ml from a misunderstanding with foreign I nations, or from the deepening disc-inn:fits of Ireland., or from a revulsion, which the plethora of what is called prormeritv may modue roomer or lan r. even in England herself. We content ourselves with sta: ing the facts, that the Irish fa: mers are again hot ling up their heads—that the land owners arc again receiving their rents—that masons, car penters. and bricklayers. as well as all the trades dependent an agriculture, are reviving—that the professions. particu larly the law. are recovering—that there is a prospect of considerable litigation, the undeviating companion of mer cantile prosperity ; and with, perhaps, the exception of sotne classes of shopkeepers, that Ireland is much better off than she was for any year since the conclusion of the last pence. It is to be observed, however, that a considerable change has token place in the mercantile pursuits of the country, or rather in the mode of. conducting those pursuits. Whether the change be for the better, we shall tint say ; but a change of a very important nature has commenced, and promises steadily to continue. It is this, that the im mediate retail dealers have become importers themselves, that those persons who !nth , rto depended upon the mer chant for their British cloth, for their teas, for their cali coes, now import, to a very considerable extent, these ar ticles on their own account. The superior rank of grocers have their London brokers ; the woollen drapers, instead of applying to the cloth merchant, as formerly, have their correapondents in Leeds and Gloucester; the dealers in muslin and calico go to Glasgow or Manchester for supplies. The repeal of the. Union Duties has re moved the itnpeslinteirts which heretofore existed, and by redecing the commerce of the two islands to a coasting trade, it has really put it into the power of any man, with a moderate capital and fair character, to undertake himself that part of his business which was formerly consigned to the mana g ement of an importing merchant. On the other hand, su ch are the small returns which the capitalists (whether their capital be invested in manufactures or commerce) can make, that the most considerable houses in England have agents in almost every part of Ireland, for the purpose of taking and of executing orders. This system, it will readily be seen, must, in the processof a short time, do away the necessity of even the country dealers applying to Dublin. As for the dealers in Dublin, they have only to cross over to Liverpool, and to go thence to Birmingham or Manchester, make up their assortment, and such is the expedition, owing to the establishment of steam-boat trailers. that in four or five days the English goods will be exposed for sale in their shops. That the vicinity of Ireland to such an immense work shop as England must, MOW that all international restric tions are done away with, ultimately prove beneficial to this country, there can be no doubt. But, independent of the immediate advantage, we are satisfied that much con tingent benefit must an e to the poorer country. At no teriod, we are satisfied, since our first connexion with England, has the mind of the people of that country been more strongly turned to Irish affairs than it is at the presort moment. Indeed, they . have grown up to such importance—they have, even in an imperial point el* view, become so deeply interesting, that not only the merchant and the capitalist, but the statesman, has his eye steadily fixed upon us. During the last summer, there were more English Senators in Ireland than at any former. Even the Absentees, alarmed, as it would seem, for their property, returned to cast a glance on the miserable serfs. by whose sweat they were enabled to live in splendor. But, we confess, we are better pleased to mention, that merchants and manufacturers—that men of capital and men of humanity have come amongst us. Last week, we understand, that Mr. Cropper, of Liverpool, ar rived in this country, and that he purports to make a tour through the South and North of Ireland, with a view of collecting information, which he will use, as we are given to understand, before a Committee of the House of Com mons. This Gentleman and others will be enabled, from ocular demonstration, to communicate the most irre sistible evidence as to the state of the country. There can be no doubt, if any manufacturing concern could be estab lished, that it would be, within one year, a profitable concern. wereluore to t1;e • food of mind thau the food of lo%;y: Ahem 139 persons w. re present, md fir. THELW ALL SW:I3 una nimously celled to the chair. lheeer, being over, the Cowin MAN' said he would promote no reticular form of grace. as he wished to allew every tuan to thank Ids God fee the blessings he hail received from hint. After a pantie of a few minute.. The lin AIRMAN observed, that hr had little title to the hnnour conk:Ted upo i him. Ile was, however, grateful fer the honour, and I:c would do all he could to evince his gratitude. "Gentlemen, met as we are, the first toast put can all anti: Mate. ll'e are a portion of the people: from the people ail power is derived ; end with ahl tine reepect to the opinions of other men, I shall give mite as a toast—" The Sovereignty of the Pumice" (Applause.) The CHAIR MAN —'ll:e next toast, Gentlemen, I shall premise to you is, `• 'Tied by Jere." Gentlemen. if you knew Trial by Jury in its old and original state. pm would duly appeeciate it. for it deserves all that it. warmest advocates can nay of it. The Jury was chosen by ballot ; the names acre drawn out by ballot; and well it might be said, that a man could say. he wait " tried by God and by hie country.'"Ptilly, in such a mule of aeilecting a Jury, Provihenee, or God. did interfere, and mikes they adinittiel the strange idea of a world govemed by accident. &Jury so selected was one of the country, chosen by Providence, and still preserved in the forms of the words themselves. now coastituting.luriee. With such a Jury injustice could not be done. and we ought now to pro for its restoration, and not knee it to the Master of the Crawo OffiZe. (St indieg, and three tunes three.) Volunteer sung, Mr. Dudley—" Mime= my fate, where'er I roam." Tile CHAIRMAN.—In giving you this toast, after which 1 shall conelothe I shall not billow the usual course of presenting to you LIT health of the opulent. for some there are who think the yellow dirt of the earth the noble.' pan or our =Mg. Neither shall I offer to you the titled or the powerfill. who are often the depression wet overtop, of their fellow-men. I shall give you the health of one who is, and has been, a man of virtue—the proper attribute of num- -a man of eotind integrity, and wherever its waters touch, the verdure 1:10.111111 and the flowers blossom; integrity is of hitter teem., when exercised by the humble, and in a cause which at once eigniliee and adores human nature. The plain honesty of Thomas Handy (shouts. of appleuse), over the united wealth of this realm, and despite all the arts attempted against hint--and the sword of the lea made an aseesein's dagger, still did the leme.ty oh Hardy break down the powerful combitiation opposed to him. Right, in his cause. had trampled over might, and lie hoped it would long continue. I pinclude by giving you the unadorned epithet, " Thomas lhrdy." (A tiplewie.) Mr. 11 AHOY (evidently overcome by his feelings) observed, that lie had tot words sufficient to thank them, and he would merely return then. his best thanks for the honour conferred upon him. lie nest entered upon a history of die origin and object of the Correspondieg Society, which he declared pi have been only in- t meted for the purpose of procuriog a Reform in Parliament. The Sotee:v first met on the 2.ith January, 1792. Eight persons signed the rule, and he was appointed Secretary and Treasurer, but the first week the whole euteteriptions amounted only to 3d. In three weeks 2 persons were enrolled ; and, on the 2d April, 1791 the principles of the Society were published to the world ; and, before the mil of the year. the Society was in correspondence with every Society throughout; E :lel •id for Reform. (Applause.) 'l'lm CHAIRMAN here read to the 3leeetng a letter tram Mr. F. Place, Charing-cross, in which he requested him to state to the Meeting that he was engaged in writing a History of the Come spending Society. (Applause.) Mr. IIALLOWAY begged to impress on the Society the necessity of affording to 3lr. Place every information, for the purpose of completing t ile important work, and one so use ful to set the public nand right with 'exert' to a Society whose views and objects had been so long abused and calumniated. Ile himself had many papers which would have been of use; but the Government had seized some, the timidity of friends destroyed more, therefore all his wishes to aid him were in vain. However, the members of the Society could do something, and that something he hoped they woultlenter upon with ardour and enthusiasm. Volunteer song by Mr. Taylor—" Fall, tyrants, fall." Mr. GALLOWAY, efts r a very handsome eulogium on the con duct end talents of the worthy Chairman, proposed his health, with three times three. (I.oud applause.) lie had known John Tbelwsll for thirty years, and a inure conemtent and upright individusl he • bad never been mimed tied with. fir. Tilt Lw ALL returned thanks foe this mark of respect from so numerous and respectable an aseenthly of his fellow-amens. The worthy Gentleman then entered into an epitome of the various public transsetinns in which helmet been engaged, as well as that period of his life in which family considerations precluded the pro priety of his joining h:s former political friends. He bad never, however, forgotten the: i. He was forced into retirement ; der no lees than seven times was his life assailed, and after that, though his bean never failed hint, it would have been madness to have larger Mewed the enemy. But he did not retreat till his antago. Inlets first left the f.eld. Even Ma brother-in-law could not dare to keep I:ii portrait; and those who walked with him were pointed 1 out as suspected persons. lle then went to Wales, where he suf fered great calamities, and then he eunnuenceu as • lecturer, to provide for the subsistence of his family, and to mitigate the evils mot:ding many of the dearest of his eeveral relatives. Them causes produced his retirement; but a second time he entered the field. never having bowed to wealth or succumbed to power. lle lived by his =croons, which, though severe, NM still sweetened by the reflection. that they enabled hint to maintain his Vide pendenee. (loud applause.) The CllAlumA a; proposed the heelthe of John Bsster and John Hitcher, the survivors of the State prosecution in 1794. Mr. BAXTER returned thanks, and =premed a hope that the Meeting would never lose sight of the necessity of annual parlia ments, and voting by ballot. It was well known that the people of England had a constitutional right to those things, and it was also as well known, that the Common Council of London, the East Lelia Company, and other public bodies, resorted to votes by ballot when they visited to hnve justice done, and U161)720= voting to be freed from censure for their votes. Property. it was true, should be represented ; but ingenuity and labour were as much property as the lands and money of other persons. Wealth would be of little value, if there were out labour and ingenuity to direct and improve it. (Applause.) The CHAIRMAN gave " The Memory of John Home Tooke, Thomas Holcroft, Stewart Kidd. J. A. Bonney, Jeremiah Joyce, Matthew flare, and Thomas 11'arthell, and t&e other patriots of 1724." ((hank in solemn silence.) The CHAIRMAN next gave "The three independent Juries, who acquitted Hardy, Thelwall, aLd Tooke, in 1791." (In solemn silence ) The next toast was " The Memory of Muir and his companions, who were the victim% of Scotch Law, in 1793." Volutteer Song, Mr. Evans—" The Standard of Freedom." (Loud applause.) Toest.-" The Memory of Thomas Erskine, the supporter of truth, and the unbending advocate of the People's Rights, and Trial by Jury." The Clime MAN pronounced a glowing panegyric upon the yell, the ability, the honesty, and independence of the Noble Lord, and , contrasted his coietuct at the tone of the trials of 1794, with that ; of the yielding of the barristers of the present dsy. \Vito, in looking at the contrast. could help glorying in such a 111311 ? Volunteer Song, Mr. Dudley." 'Pis love, 'tis love." (Loud applause.) The CHAIRMAN next gave, with a suitable commentary, the " Memory of the I.ot:don Corresponding Society ;" and in doing I se. centeeded for the right of Annual le•eliaments. He insisted ; ' feet Parliaments, in imposing taxes, had been gainers. and the people only sufferers. It was wrong to say that tax-payers only smodil be repreeentee, for it often happened that those who im p seal the taxes increased their own rent-rolls, whilst the wages of Labour remained little altered for the better. The worthy gentle men then entered into a biographical history of the more distin guishedntenthere of the Society , and concluded by recommending 1 the toast to the cordial appmhatton of the tneeting. (Applause.) Toast—" The memory of Major Cartwright and Richard Hay ward." (Drank in solemn silence.) Mr. FEARON proposed the health% of Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Alderman Waithinan, as the :nitride of liberty, and the advocates of the rihts it their fellow-then . Neither of these gentlemen were wholly faultless. but generally their services were for the improve ment of the human species. (Applause.) Toast. by Mr. GALLOWAY—" Washington, and the Patriots of Ainerius" " The Liberty of the Press"—propoted by Mr. BeLL, of the IVeekly lkspitch. 'l'he worthy pentlemsn dcientitd the purity of the press generally, and observed, that wh In portions of it acted erruiteously, the grew. mejeray ac ed in fareur of the liberties of the people. Several other toasts w re proposed and drank with enthusiasm, and aLout eleven eicleck the miming teparated. " Too bite for tie wedding, Tco soon with the Istddieg " This burden of a very old song was fairly exemplified Ira Tuesday. A jolly brisk young tradesman, raiding not an hundred miles from the village of Ilalnaker, wad observed gaily mounted on his nag, " all in the morning so early," entering the parish of Berated. '• Where so fast," brawls nn ii.quisitive friend, who at the same t ime presented his un welcome front to our trarelL.r —who, it liectes,was bound on what he►u ppo sl• d a seen t matrimonial trip—"where so fast, my hey, it d'ye sea, you are for the church, why you may es will tutu your horse's head homewards. because as how the lady can't came, d'ye see, she having, half an hour back, been put to bed of a main fine girl, so can't come to-day." " 'Bout ship, helm-a-lee," was the action of the intended bra,uroom. who, together with the lady, are not unsiesnrving teprelansion, as the parties art' respectable, and tin re teas nothing in their ages or otherwise, to have remind an rarly tutiun, (he being 20, and she years of r.ge ; j the father and brother of the laity, we understand, are much butt at die utfair, but let us how, that though at present the fair one's fame is sumer. hat of a dingy hue. yet the will noon i.e made wii:r.--874' , 1c1 Gl7:ette. DEATH OF THE REV. MR. 3fATURIN. Died, Saturday evening, after a protracted illness, the Rev. R. C. Matutin, M.A. Curate of St. Peter's. In him the poor have lost a kind friend, our religion a firm sup porter, and literature one of its brightest ornaments As a preacher, Mr. Maturin was highly esteemed: his sermons were masterly compositions, his reasoning incontrovertible, and his language the most calculated to subdue the heart, and to demand attention. His six controversial sermons, preached during last Lent, have been lately printed, and are now before the public. They show the author to be'' a profound scholar and en acute reasoner. Never, since Dean Kirwan's time, were such crowds attracted to the parish church, as during the delivery of these sermons; neither rain nor storm could subdue the anxiety of all classes and all persuasions to hear them ; and did he leave no other monument whereon to rest his fame, these sermons alone would be sufficient. But Mr. Maturin 's genius was as expanded as his learning was deep and various; his novels and plays, if they cannot be ranked amongst the higher pro ' dttctions of this kind, evince wonderful power of Wuxi ; nation, while the beauty of his language stands unrivalled. Indeed, we have seen it observed by some of the Reviewers, that there was no writer of the present day who had a greater range of thought, or greater command of language than this Rev. Gentleman.—Dsblis Oirrespindent. EFFFCTS or MELANCHOLY:IH the hospital tot luna tics, founded by Dean Swift, a man was placed by his friends in the year NOY. To converge with him would give the impression that he was perfectly sane, nay, his ar guments and his eloquence were admirable. The fact is, that he was sane in every particular except one, and that was upon religion: this topic tiro excited enthusiasm, and then incoherence ; he would throw himself down and weep " fur his sins." Often has he translated Latin and Creek lessons for a friend and fellow pupil of ours with an ele gance that delighted. This unhappy young man was, by the physicians, permitted to walk about in the company of an old man, his keeper. In one of these excursions he went to see the salt-works at a village near Dublin, called Rings End, and stool a few moment, gazing on a salt-pan filled with boiling fluid. Presently he clasped Ins hands, and cried out, " 0 God, I cannot do enough to expiate my sins !" and plunged into the pan, where he was in stantly destroyed. The effects of melancholy are truly deplorable. When the mind that becomes tinged with this dreadful malady, is the time to make strong exertions against it. Pleasant society, nay indulgence in moderate drinking, should be adopted. with frequent drastic pur gatives. All causes should be combated. Pleasure and change of scene are the best antidotes.--.lraliral AdricT. Last week neatly all the colliers in Ayrshire struck work, for an advance of wages. On Friday Se'nnight there was a large meeting in Templeton Wood. near OM Cita:l -nca, which was attended by aleuntations from all the sur rounding coPieries ; the ohject of which meeting was to I concert measures to indite: , the masters to raise the price of coal, and give them a ris:• of wages. New Commack pro duces the best coal in Ayrshire. There are two seams. one PI and the other 9 feet thick, partly dross and partly light coal. There are large quantities of it sent to Dumfries, Ayr. Kilmarnock, Sze. for the gas works and the iron foundries. It is sold at the hill at 4a. a-ton. Th e carr i age to Ayr anal Kilmarnock costs a-ton additional ; to Dumfries the carriage is :275. El. The colliers n:akc from ies. to wo. c-week. MR. PERKINS'S STEAM GUN From the London lieg7sicr.l Much as inny have been said of the power and effeets of steam, and great as have been the improvements in engines, and in the application of this powerful agent to the pur poses of iriatim'ieetore and the lots, it s tes:eveel for Yr. Perkins to astonish us. even at a period wheel we imagined , that the ingenuity of ma!' had itself to the unit ,st. We could nil several Fees with an etiumeratien of the improvements iteroduesal peg s Mr. Perkins, but ills:sr:lee which we in net devote to the in Celli ion Mon:abet-1y 1)....':re us, will not permit it. We will brie fly oliseree, that to him we ow^ the ievertion of safe ty joints in steam pipes, which resist the presgure of a thousand pootels to the square inch, whereas formerly they were to ex kplosion at a pressme of only :bay pounds. Mr. Per ins also we owe much of the knowledge which we now possess satire to high pressure steatte engines, and which has given us so decided a superiority over cur continental competitors ; steel we cannot help noticing as a powerful testimony to the skill and science of this gentleman in all his ersperimeutg, for ascertaining the powers ei steam, nett the nodes of placing it under command. that he lies never met with a alt tee accident. Explosions, indeed, he has had without number, hut they have been coutined to parts of the engine in which ten danger could atise to the persons near to it, becanse, for the v: r} put pose of asscrtaining the amount of pre7sore which pips wotad bear, end which was frequently two tleasisitel pounds to the square inch, other pipes were placed in various parts, of such construc tion, that they must burst at a pressure of only rice thousand. Now, however, all danger of explosion in this way is at an end, as the pipes are constructed so that they will bear all the pressure which can he placed upon them. To come, however, more immediately to the subject of this article, we must observe that w, were enabled on W, dnesday last, through the kindness of .Ir. Perkins, to examine minutely, at his manufactory in the It gent's Park, the extraordinary piece of mechanista, d the Seam Gun. The gun is simply formed by introducing a barrel into the steam generator of sly engine, and by the addition of two pipes towards the chamber of the gun, introducing a quan tity of balls, which, by the act'on of a handle to the cham ber, are dropped into the barrel. and fired one by one, at the rate of from four to five hundred in the minute. The explosive force of the steam which rushes from the genera tor and expels the balls is about 70011 w. to the square inch: with this force a musket ball theri against an iron plate at the distance of 100 feet from the gun, is completely flat- tened, and when a force of sloths. to the square inch is applied, the ball is actually driven to pieces in such a way that none of its fragments ran be collected. As the gun is now fixed, having a direct communication through a wall with one of Mr. Perkins'a engines, it cannot of course be removed from the spot, the barrel merely being susceptible of alteraion : but in the event of the invention being ap plied to purposes of warfare, it would be easy to attach a portable steam engine of small demensions, which could be removed with as much rapidity as any piece of ordnance now in use. The cost of such a machine altogether would be comparatively small, and as Mr. Perkins is about to construct a 4-pounder, which can be moved about with great facility by two horses, the public will have a good opportunity of judging of its practical merits, of which, however, there cannot be a doubt, after die experiments already made at the manufactory. The most extraordinary part of the afair is the smallness of the expence in charging artillery of this nature compared with that of the present system. In Mr. Perkins steam gun, owe pound weight of coals Is found to produce the same effect as four pounds weight of gunpower in the ordinary way, viz.—one pound of coals will generate safficietit steam to expel, with equal force, as many bars alfi ur rounds of powder. Of the rapidity with which the WA:ha-gni are made we say little, after what we I have observe.l of the mode in which the balls are expelled, but there is another great advantage, which, on the score of humanity. &serves complier:dation. An explosion from this gun is next to impossible ; for the greater the rapidity of firing, the less is the danger, as the stream of vapour rushes forward without check, and finds a vent in the open air. Ilow many lives, on tlse contrary, have been lost by the bursting of our common field-r-ieces, and how little re liance is to be placed upon the greatest care in cleansing them in the heat of battle. Ten guns, upon this principle, would, in a field of battle, be more than equal to two hundred on the present system ; and a vessel of only six guns would be rendered more than a match for a seventy four. We think we hear it said, " What a murderous in strument ! What barbarians to recommend such a mode of warfare." Gently, good friends—if you will reflect for a moment, you will find that if Mr. Perkins's Steam Guns were introlucevl into general use, there would be but very short wars ; since no fecundity could provide popula tion for its attacks. War is a very pretty pastime now a days, when it gives chances of promotion to many pretty fellows, and tenths to remove any superabundanee of the earth, if we are to believe what we should very much doulit, that any reasonable creatures were born to be sacrificed to the ambition or folly of few individuals—but it would be a very different thing, indeed, if some fifty or sixty thousand men, on either, or both sides, were swept away by Perkins's exterminator. If any two rulers of the earth were to know, that in the event of declaring war against each other, a plague or pestilence would blast both armies, and sweep them from the face of the earth, they would pause before they made such a declaration ; but what plague, what pestilence would exceed, in its efl'ects, those of the Steam Gun ?-300 balls fired every minute, and one out of 20 to reach its mark— why, ten of such guns would destroy 150,000 daily. If we did not feel that the adoption of this mode of warfare would end in producing universal peace, we should be far from recommending it, for we have some antiquated no tions about christianity and ambition, and consider that it is not the pomp and pageantry of war that removes its moral offence, and that the commission to kill of an tat-tidy potentate, would by no means set aside the mandate of "love thy neighbours." • Let us, however, turn from the consideration of the sub ject in the light of warfare, and consider what a vast field of information is opened to us by the invention of this in strument, as a practical proof of the power of steam. After this who knows where the thin- , will end ? Thirty years I I ago, when we heard of steam boats in America, we laughed heartily at the joke ; and even recently, when attempts have been made to deprecate the use of SO powerful an agent ; and yet to what does England owe its present greatness, but to its steam inventions ? Why are the ma nufacturers of Manchester busy, whilst those of Rouen in France are idle ? Because the former have more and bet ter steam engines. Why are the facilities of coast and inland navigation greater, and therefore the chain of coin nitwit-Atkin more regular here than on the Continent ? Because we have more steam boats. It has been with I steam, as with gas—the interested in opposing its applica tion to practical purposes, and the unenlightened, who could not understand it, have been alike its enemies. Ri dicule, too, has been resorted to, to prevent its pro gress, but ridicule can avail nothing against facts. Such improvements must eventually triumph, and who knows where the perfection in them must find its acme. Mr. Perkins, than whom we knew no better authority in these routers, would seem to consider steam discovery as in its infancy, for he says he is convinced that a steam engine might be made to throw a ball of a ton weight from Dover to Calais, we had aim( written from Calais to Dover, but God forbid such steam improvement as that would be. and enable us to keep our advantages to our selves. We have heard, but we do not vouch for the fact. that the Emperor of Russia, who has more knowledge of the importance of steam than some of us Englishmen, has sent an agent here to procure a supply of Perkins's :team guns. which that gentleman's patriotism will not allow hint to offer. IMPROVEMI'NTS ON Tits GROPVT:NOR ESTATt. Knightsbridge, on the south-side, now presents ene of the finest rows of edificcs in the Western outlet of the metro polis, which modern improvements have brought to light. In the rear, streets and squares are marked out ; hut the meat extraordinary part of this revolution is, that a contract has this wee,: been cnu•rcd into by Mr. Cundy, Lord t;rosvenor's architect, with the present proprieters of the Amphitheatre at IVe4minster-bridge. Mr. Cundy under takes to erect, by the next season. a temple upon the model of the Pantheon at Rome, and upon a suitable eFt of ['round in use rear of Main. street. SALES OF - 711 F 01010NDE ES lATEN, BY MR. OEO. ROBINS. We have obtained the following inff,rination on the ject of the sales of she Orman& climes, on the aceurac. allich we e:tit r..ly. 'f: , e (start 1 in cri,stion, which arc sitnatNi ;winch, at Stitton, and the tinier adjoining lordships of thickii too, Norman:on. roll Itrairmbni, in the vicinity of Il• tertield, and at (Wear and lleunor, near Alfreten. in 1 1 byslibe, wilt s•rm! others, were ea:tired by Walter, re Marquis of Ormonde, upon his inarria,-.;e -,...it1i .. Price Clarke, the heiress of the Clarke family, whost c•stors porch ti the Sutton estate ahorit eighty y%ars in additirm NI true o.ber estates, which had tht•ii h...e , the fami:y far c.oituries. At the time of his Et.,...-ed•!! il •ath, in l'• 2 0, these estates, with the ancient fatsjy in Ireland, ware subject to a debt exceeding in ninOtin gnu of 400,0 , 24 d., and by his will, his Landah'.;) dirt the payment of all his debts; but fur reasons, - of. cr unknown to i's, he made Lis Irish estates the vrimary i for tivir fliselurge, directing the sale of his L -- ;;l es for that purpose, only in case of the previous insttre! 7 of the pr , cliiu fa . .his Irish property. When his will to he carried into eff.et, it was soon manifest that tk rangeintnt was injudicious, inasmuch as the Irish es! however valuable to the family, as connected for so' centuries with the title, and indeed with the taste Ireland itself, trete not in their nature saleahle, tel making such sacrifices as would be ruinous in their et while the English estates were not only valuablr in n selves, but also capable of an easy and advanineme poial. The &deo, therefore, of the present Noble . as soon as circurnstames would allow, was to apply to L.-;.rislature for an Act to alter the order in which the • under his 'at • brother's will, were directed to be made which seemed absolutely necessary, for the rensons stated, and to accomplish the earnest wish of both, il full and pro:inapt discharge of all the debts affectim estates. The Act haring born obtained during the last F 1 ,.. of Parliament, no time has been lost in bringing the e to sale ; the smaller and detached estates having been ranged to be sold in the country, and the larger consisting of Sutton Hall, Chilcote, and Coton Par London. The first of these sales took place at Chesterfield on 22d and 23t1 ultimo, when 68 lots were sold, prod' exclusive of timber yet to be valued, the sum of GS, and averaging in general about 40 years purchase. A continuation of them took place at Derby cn the and 28th ultimo, in a further sale of 52 lots, and prod a sum of 59,5771, with equal average of years purch The third of these wiles was held at Newcastle •untlet on the Ist instant, but which consisted only of a small at Berry 11111, divided into 4 lots, the yearly rem which, (except c'-!ring the late year of distress, in abatements were made) averaged a sum of 1701. ai more, and this estate owing to a fine vein of coal rut through it, produced after a sharp compct:tion, the prizing sum of 23,910!., or en average of 140 years chase on the rental. The fourth and last of the country sales took plal the 3d instant, at Coventry, when two small farms of • 90 acres each, with a email fee-farm rent of 61. 3s. able by the Corporation of this City, produced, after active competition, a sum of 13,7761. or an average 1 years purchase on the rental.—And it is a curious fact, indicative of the great rise in the p-ice of land, that these same farms were offered to sale in November, for the discharge of the Land Tax from the estates at and when the rental rather exceeded the present, were bought in for about 9,0001. only.—The several making a total of upwards of 160,0001. exclusive of tit From the experience produced by these sales, the . Earl may look forward to the discharge of the entire by the sale of the English estates to the convenient tnent of his ancient family estates in Ireland, with a unincumbered income, enabling him to fulfil the fir jest of his ambition, by setting the example, in a bourhood where from his high station, that examph the utmost importance, of a domestic and resident Nobleman. It is hardly necessary for us to inform our readers, the present Noble Earl is the representative of the prated Dukes of Ormonde who have made so conspi a figure in the history of this country and the sister L and that be inherits the ancient Irish earldom, a creation of Edward 111., and the premier one of Ireland, whi-' untouched by the attainder of the late Duke, and estates were afterwards purchased and brought clown same line as the title. Ilia Lotelship is also by at' an English baron, the marquisate and English baron• joyed by his brother not passing to him, owing to having been limited to the heirs of the body of that Lord, while the more ancient titles of Ireland did him, being deseendible to the heirs general. The sales to come are, Sutton 11411 (the leviathw with the park, and 3,300 acres of land, estimated at 1( per annum ; the Chilcote estate, near Tamworth am ton, includ-s a whole parish, producing, at low 0,600/. a year; and the Como Perk adjoining, of m acres. Tile value of these are stated at 490,0001. sales take place in London on the 18th inst. The intended railway from Birmingham to Lit will form a stupendous undertaking ; it is proposed 75 feet in width, and from 90 to 95 miles in eaten, quiring, it is statt , (l, a capital of a million, which Ir• is declared as totally inadequate, from the indernni will be required by the landowners in its route. Th posed time of duration for the completion cf the woe not been mentioned. MCLANCHOLY ACClDENT.—AberyShrith, Oct. 3' Monday last, the weather being favourable, and a pi of a good take of herrings, a number of boats, as this place as along the coast, collected for the put fishing. All went out in the night, without suspi, impending danger, and their hopes were in a great, realised ; but at five o'clock in the morning a storm at west, and continued to blow hard until about o'clock, when it increased to a perfect hurricant boats which had previously came to their anehorsg instantly driven from their moorings, and sent in al, Lions on shore. At this time all tees bustle and mu( the alarm bell ringing. houses unroofed, and w broken, to an extent seldom known before ; but choly to relate, in the midst of this horror, a melt a scene presented itself, by the appearance of two boats advancing towards the bar, and both soon after most distressing slate stranded. The one got on v the north of the harbour, and with the greatest di her crew were saved ; but the other sunk in the ht mouth, and seven pcor men perished in sight of hundred spectators, who, although very near, c possibly render them the lent aseistance. Ti.us, wi, neatly similar instances at different pet iods, have w tnent the want of a place of safety for versels in die the harbour being open to the wt st, and dangerous proarli in had weather—when, at a comparatively expense, a tier might have been erected. which would have saved the lives of these poor felloes, be others, and pre-pert!) to an immense extent. Six of dies have since been thrown en shore, but the ( yet, has not appeared. A melancholy accident occurred nee: Decksitle. Kirkgunzeon, Ihunfriis-shire, lately. In the ahtsel her parents, who were digging potatoes in an adi field, a fine later rid, about five years old, and day John Hanlon, labourer, thoughtlessly gathered a niargrass, and amtisNl h•rsell by throwing it pie the fire. While thus employed her clothes cal and, as th- oth r children could do nrithing to , she ran. loCrean.il. p, for help, to her afTettel parent few moments she was all in a blaze, and the rer easily coni!eive the ne:ther's feelings on rereeiving ful situation of the child. The father advaticul the innocent, lifted th'r in his arms, aail did every, his power to smother the flames, but finning he iv progress, he next ran to a burn and imnr..7:d her In this he succeeded. hut not until the child was fully scorched, that. after suffering extreme ag died in the court^ of twelve hours. In the disti the moment, the port man for,zot to attend to hist ty, and afterwards discovered that his hauls and been sadly burnt. In addition to this, he il.slei ankle incoming to the burn. and :a nirs cy-sflned of toy givat iiistret3.—r.4op;.o ne7.414. 1 • 1 l i fiLl ' i 1 EN, - 7 , -, 4 1 , • • ' t the sib- • uraey of ' .li inelytal'y ' ackinaea , ii(hes- . , Din er-i . • ter, the th••Nlltii 0 Lose art- • v ews :1 it!, been in • :•-elsbip's ray on' °tint the , directed if. enurre . •i, nry fund 11 cstat a ~, i :1 - I , •lency ' rill tame • i i t this ar- t estates,',olitnv iii.tc,y f.:l* .1 ' without " j ' if effects, . in tio•tr.- .• i • . eous tie- 1 I)ie Earl, 113, to the the vales. ,t tale, and its hefcrr h, in the► 1 cting the t . , st Session lie estates been at- i ler one:, Park, in 1 , Id on the i l i , 4 nwltteing, , ' 63,429... • . . • the 27th 4 ?rod using ischase. it • ' let-Lune, . l • mall farm I rental :..f v IL in which I. and no ' ' 1 running ,l , the sue- 'ears puts 1 7. t place on it" r. s of about 3e., pay- - i fter winch • age of 45 • i i fact, and that when • . ber, 1709, t J s at large, tent, they It '• 1 feral sales 4 of timber. t 1 • the Noble Mike debt . • ent enjoy- flp i ' th a large 1 e first oh- , a neigh- mple is of dent Irish • I I ' . . 4 tders, that r the cele- t onspicuoes 't 'ter island, :4 I a creation which was t• • A and whose own in the $ 11 )3 . creation barony en- „ ng to their that Noble did pass to 1 . . athan lot), l-4 at 10,0004. i and Bur- t• • low rents, • • if neer 300 ' 1001. The 1 . . Lire:pool . wised to be extent, re- , , it' be some .• !minty that Thu. sup- . , - r works Las .1. 31.—0 n 1a prospeet 'l,, • .. , as well at .. ' purpuse ei uspicion of eat measure storm arcse tbout eight cane. The I ; - . 4 orsge. were , . • in all three- confusion ; 1 ,7 i I A windows but, melau- -': i . st appalling wo thlaing- 4. , after in the . . on shore to .:. at difficulty ;', le harbour's it of several %. • r, could not I , .. `' ... with many :f ee we to li- n distress-- .t •-• ;emus to an • 1 , rely triffit.g Hi ro: only , • , s, but met, x of the ix:- ;t the other, as .. . , de. parish of / , absence of n adjoining i 1 daughter of : 1 a bunch of , iece-meal ea caught fie, i o waist her, . . rest,. In .: , • reader m I ay -• * I ig the dread - cid to wee: ~ • verything in e made little her in water. - as so dread- agony, 61441 iswaction of tis own safe- I tel arms had • , .slccated 42 net is a Mali • , t = :13. this war I the will Ilion may 'acts ce is, It to ight, from g his Cl, as ever sect knot u 7 m rs. do mode whom est in which ~'ll~'1:9 ng the ck the Chair. lidatu ads in y ale LLCMs: I aril - strike bison. it has ill the tw:bs sud h ace of were alatoo, of t 1 e y 7t.1. ; sarre 'Unica Ic t 271. Mr. re i'oo itheir r. 11.* • n$ hid in the ruoutb 11 Ne!- roisiog of il:c :k hi r. lie fore r. itigfp:r !le rota v. t that at the ladar ss IfFtrin.; ul y lnp ?rP t Data. then - - er, no• by the le' 'from