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Tickets of Adinteetuts for taandlea to be had ott moderate terms at the Stravtike. ADELPHI TkEATRie,STRAND. N. HENRY has the honour to announce that he will Exhibit, THIS Ci UNINO, KLUN►:SU.tV, March 31, and ►'HIUAV. April 2, his [...lng and magnitleent display of UNCONIMoN ILLUSIONS, Wouderiul lietairamphome, and Intere.ting Illustrations In Essen mental Chemistry ; together with the Muskat' Glasses, Phantas magoria, he. Oman open at Six and eommence at Seven; Half-Price half-pant Light. " now, in order to obtain even the trifling interest of the " Dutch money-market, and to prevent their debtors from " breaking, thousands after thousands of pounds must be " sent over to prop the credit of the Dutch planters, while " our own colonists cannot raise a shilling on good seen " rity. The enemy knows this golden rule, and allows us " to take his starved concern off his hands ;—he is sure " that we shall restore it in the best possible condition. " But we, whose fate it always is to pay the reckoning, " must continue war after war in the same train of " dupery ; and, not content with paying all our allies in " Europe for defending themselves, we must needs bestow " donations upon our enemies in the form most acceptable " to his wishes and wants. We are happy to think that " there is some chance of such fatal impolicy being at last " abandoned : and we rejoice in the wholesome substitute " which the Cape furnishes for it." This has been proved, by sad experience, to be the language of un faithful augury. Precarious fravests, affording at best I but a scanty supply, are often destroyed by rust and drought--cattle and sheep are -xposed perpetually to the depredations of wolves, tigers, leopards, the wild dogs, and the jackalls, which, impelled by hunger, make excursions from remote forests in quest of prey. The Re port of the Committee of the Society for the relief of the distressed Settlers is before the public; its statements are painful and melancholy in the extreme. It is consoling, however, to observe the interposition of British humanity on the subject, and to remark the warm feelings of sym pathy which their sad fate excites. We touch upon the subject for the sake of giving effect by publicity to the subscription which has generously been set on foot in their behalf, as in this country the distress of our distant fel- I low-creatures only requires to be known to be relieved. On the Slave Trade Piracy Bill coming before the I Upper House last night, the Lords dispensed with the wonted formalities of going into a Committee on the Bill, so as to save time, and let it pass at once; the object being, that it may reach the United States before the Con gress is up, that the Treaty between both countries may be ratified immediately, otherwise the Bill should stand over until November next, when the Congress meets again. The Marquis of Lansdown shortly expressed his warm approval of the measure, and hoped that some stipulations in the Treaty would be inserted, by which the two nations would bind themselves to extend its provisions so as to make other Powers adopt the principles of this Treaty, and that they, in return, should bind themselves to extend the great principle also, and make it imperative on those Pow..rs within their influence to adopt its humane provision.. This Bill at length puts the abominable traffic, so long an outrage on humanity, on its proper footing ; it makes the man-stealer a pirate and felon. The two great maritime powers of the civilized world, by uniting their voice and leaguing their strength in this sacred compact, will give a great example to the nations of the earth ; and it is impossible that France, or Spain, or Portugal, can longer persist in the in fernal traffic, with so memorable a lesson before them. This Bill, like the Abolition Act of the great Fox, is every way worthy of the present li beral Administration of this country, and most ho nourable to Mr. Canning in particular; it strikes at the root of the evil, it annihilates this detestable barter at once: no power can license it for the future ; shame and fear both will prevent the continuance. We have had occasion, from time to time, to give the humble meed of our unqualified approbation to many of the measures of the present Ministry—measures most creditable to them selves, and equally beneficial to the country at large. But this Bill is a great concession to humanity in general; it is the redemption of Africa; it proscribes the accursed slave trade in the only way that can annihilate it alto gether ; and we may now really hope to see a close to this abominable traffic throughout the civilized world. Mr. Batticr's statement has at length been met by a counter one on the part of Lord Londonderry, the Colonel of the loth Hussars ; and a statement of considerable length, on the same subject, from Sir Herbert Taylor, has been put forward, avowedly on the part of his Royal High ness the Commander-in-Chief. Both parties, the humble and the powerful, have thus appealed to the great tribunal of public opinion,—that judgment-seat before which the prowlest are obliged to bow the head in deference, and from which neither wealth nor rank can give an exemp tion. We unfeignedly believe that the Commander-in- Chief is most sincerely disposed to exercise. his high office through the army with the strictest and most honourable impartiality; but we yet, in reading both statements atten tiveiy, cannot conceive Sir Herbert Taylor's letter, on the part of His Royal Highness, at all satisfactory or conclu sive as regards Mr. Battier, and the uncourtly treatment he experienced from the officer of the Tenth Hussars. Sir THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. &V PILIINIYIIOIII 01 , TIM LOUD CHAMISIMAI/11. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. Mr. TIIILLWALL'S tiIIATORICAL arid CRITICAL LECTURES ou SHAKSMEARE AM the DRAMA. die. This h:veaing, WEDNESDAY. March 31, IBM Introductory Itscitatiou—Satauls soliloquy ; Obtervatius sublime of bliltuu. Lecture—Much Ado About Nothing: Comedies of the Age of Shak dream. School fur Seaside! Comedies of Sheridan, tr. Five AM Perces of the Day. Criticism cm Actors, &a. Reeltatloa: first Speech of Cosmos: beautiful/If Milton. on the ea the gay and Lecture 1111 L —Macbeth and OttwUo, and the impassioned sublime of Shakapeames Tragedy cunt:sand with the bombastic mosistriwitics of the Old Dalkty. Treace,. • and Melo-Dramas of the day. Lord Byrtni sad the Indus • • Writings ou the Dramatic and Literary Taste of tie A. Doors or Ilr. 'lardy/ham al tet Days of Leetulb. NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. To-morrow Evening. THURSDAY, April I, will be performed 'EMS MERCHANT OF b ICE. Ihyloet. Mr. Kean; Deranto, Mr.Wallack t Lanneelot, Mr. Liston Poetic, Mrs.W.West. After which, SYANISH GALLANTS. T., conclude with the Farm of ALL nit WORLD's A STAGE. half-past Seven. ..neelZut T.O to roar, on the - -•--- - - THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. To-nsurearw Evenlug. I'HUKSDAY. April I. will be performed NATIVE LAND. The Principal Cliareetore by Meows. Einelalr. W. Ferns, Cooper. Vawnttlllill.resncitroa. with tr i od i M. Tree. ro THE MUNTEIL IJF THE ALPS. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MIL MATHEWS AT HOME! Tomorrow, THIWSDAV, April I, and SATURDAY, With kis ANNUAL LEC FURS on PECULIARITIES, CHARACTER, and MANNERS; Founded on Obtervationsand Adventures during his late A TRIP TO AMERICA. In Three Harts. Pam lIL—A Monopolylogue. caned ALL WELL AT NATCHITOCHES. All the Characters of the Evenings Entertahunent to be represented by Mr MATiIb:WS. Doors to be opened at Sqven—Performance begin' at Eight o'Cloek. Reiss to be taken of Mr. Steerage''', at the box °ince, Strand am t.:wee, from Ten tin nue. P:aves cannot possibly be kept after half -past Eight delock. The BRITISH PR EIS coaamenced --- pulaliahing yesterday moraing at 84 *Week. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, M ticti 31, 1824. We know of no body of people who have so pressing a Herbert's letter acknowledges, that " upon Mr. Battier's e in., both on the charity of the country and the considera- " joining the Tenth Hussars, he experienced a resep .eun of the Government, as our unhappy countrymen at " don and treatment from the officers forming the the Cape. We are quite satisfied that Lord BATHURST " mess of this corps, which neither his apparent inca was grossly misled in colonizing this worthless settlement. " pacity and unfitness for the duty of a regiment of Indeed this is a truth of which be must himself long slime " cavalry, nor any exception taken to his manner and ap have been but too seriously convinced. In the mean time " pearance, could justify, and which were, upon his repre the English settlers are reduced, many ofthein, to the last " aentation, censured in the strongest terms by the Corn stage of wretchedness--an of them to a wane cond!tion of " inander-in-Chief, and drew upon those concerned the ex suffering than experience in this climate can give any con- " pression of his Royal Highness's unqualified disappro ception of. Mr. Ita ailow's Travel, in &maser* 4frica " bation." It thus is confessed that the antipathy of the contributed, we believe, very considerably to beget that Lordlings of the " Tenth" was manifested to Mr. Battier false estimate of its value which led our Government to on first view—that without waiting to find out his qua colonize it, at a time, perhaps, when an abundant and lineations or failings, they became " qualmish" at the discontented population rendered it advisable to encourage sight of him at once, and generously put him into instant the spirit of emigration, without making very nice &cilia- Coventry. On meeting strong reproof from the " florae tiros as to the likelihood of realising the discovering of milk Guards," through Lord Combermere, these heroes of the and honey in the promised Lind. The EDINBURGH Re- moustache and sabre were obliged to come down from their vr zweas, also,—it is now twenty yeara since,—strengthen- high ropes, and, as the letter in question says, " acknow ed the favouraide but false impression which this work was ledge their error." But did they subsequently act towards calculated to produce, by its strenuous support of the ape- Mr. Battier like gentlemen, who, conscious that they had cushion on thi s subject, which it so eloquently recom_ offered him unmerited injury, sought afterwards to atone mended. " We have seldom," says this Journal, in its for the offence by kindness and frankness of conduct ? No notice of Mr. Barrow's book, " attended to a discus- such thing : they still drew the line of demarcation be " sion in which all the reason seems to be so entirely tween " their nobility" and the untitled individual who upon one side. That the Cape ought never to have been had presumed to come amongst them. They had too " ceded—that it ought, as soon as possible, to be regained— much personal regard for themselves to come in " personal " and that no inducement ought to make England part collision" with Mr. Battier, but they heaped every negative " with it at another treaty of peace, are positions proved insult they could upon him ; they maintained with him, " to a demonstration in the w rk now before us, and re- as Sir Herbert Taylor admit,., " no easy or familiar inter " commended to our statesmen with all the force of obvi- course." They were obliged to meet him on the parade, " ous necessity. One further consideration, not hinted at and at mess; but it was clear they were restrained, not by "by Mr. Barrow, has great weight in our minds. If we their inclination but their fears, from flinging every sort of " do not make war on one point, we must in another ; if: insult upon him ; and this not from any defect in Mr. " we do not attack the Cape, we shall probably attack the Battier's character or conduct (for both are allowed to be " Dutch and French settlements in the IVest Indies:— uninipeached), but because these " lordlings" chose to turn " And that such a policy is unwise in the extreme, who up their noses at a man whom they imagined not to be as " can doubt, that knows anything of colonial affairs ? wealthy or high-born as themselves. It is strange, that until " The conquest of Guiana last war enriched the Dutch Alr. Battier came among the " Pandours" of the Tenth, " planters at our expense. Our capitalists poured into those defects of discipline, afterwards so apparent, were " their service above sixteen millions in loans, tempted by never found out. Sir George Quentin, most impartially " the profits on consignments, which, after the re stitu- no doubt, quickly reported the new officer as " utterly " Con of the colonies, they could no longer receive ; and " unfitted fcr his duties" as a cavalry ofL•ccr, and the " improbability there was of his ever being sufficiently " improved, by drill or instruction, to become capable of " doing justice to his situation or the regiment." Yet this officer was of some years standing in the army: he had been both in the Sth Dragoon Guard's and the 18th Hus sar, and produced to his Royal Highness the Commander in-Chief testimonials of the highest kind, signed by those respectable officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, of the 6th Dragoons, and Colonel Murray and Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, of the Dith Hussars; and they spoke, Sir Herbert Taylor admits, " erithowt reserve," of his qualifications as an officer and a gentleman. Yet on the report, for the first time, made against him by Sir George Quentin, and confirmed by Sir C. Grant (the latter, certainly an officer of h ig h character), Mr. Battier was told, by order of the' Commander-in-Chief, that he hail better remove from the 10th Hussars, by retiring to half-pay ; or, as there was nothing in the reports made which could affect his character as a gentleman, he had the option (gene rously given him) of purchasing a haft:pay Lieute nancy of infantry, whenever an opportunity should offer. This was a very splendid provision allotted to Mr. Battier, no doubt !He was permitted to becomes half-pay Lieute nant, by purchase. How wondrous kind ! Mr. Battier's great offence, it appears, subsequently consisted in pre- 1 suming to appear, on the evening of the Y4th of Novem ber, at the mess of the loth Hussars, after having received leave of absence. Lord Londonderry dined with the regi ment on that day, and as Mr. Battier's appointment did not originally come through his Lordship, he probably felt no very violent friendship for one he looked upon as an intruder, and did not relish his company on that day. On the whole, we are far from being satisfied with these statements. We think Mr. Battier has been excessively ill-treated by the aristocrats of the Tenth, and that impartial justice has not subsequently been dealt him. The army in general will not be satisfied with this decision, or think it just or fair that the prospects and profession of a young man, of unex ceptionable conduct and character, are to be sacrificed to the unworthy prejudices of a knot of assuming Lordlings, whose unbecoming conduct has roused universal indigna tion,' and drawn upon them unqualified contempt, from all that is discerning and respectable, where they now are quartered. Such is the feeling of those who have had an opportunity of seeing and appreciating the unmanly and ungentlemanly condvt of several of the officers of this regiment, to whom Mr. Battier's want of wealth or title has been so offensive, and who, on this pretence, thrust a respectable officer into Coventry. THE KING. Wta [mom, Maacii 30.—Soon after two o'clock this day the King took his usual ride in his carnage in Windsor Great Park. Yestriday Count Munster arrived at the Castle, on a visit to itis Majesty. This morning the Earl and Countess Bathurst, Lady G. Bathurst, the Duke of Dorset, the Earl of Bristol, Lady A. Hervey, Earl Ancram, Lord and Lady Mary borough, and the whole of the distinguished party, on a visit to the King, left the Royal Castle. Tile DUKE or Yoxies Lever.—Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, the Duke of York held a levee, as Com mander.in-Chief, at his office in the Horse Guards, which wr.s attended by the Duke of Athol, the Earl of Carbamp ton, General Gascoyne, Lieut.-General Sir George Cooke, Major-Generals Guard, Turner, Moshairn, and Blandon, and above forty other military and distinguished Officers. The Princess Augusta received visits yesterday from the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia. Her Royal Highness's new residence, in Stable-yard, Bt.. James's, was yesterday thronged with the female brandies of the Nobility and Gentry leaving their cards. On Monday evening Prince Leopold, attended by Rim Stockmar, left town for Claremont. Yesterday Prince Leopold, attended by Baron Stockmar, honoured Covent-garden Theatre with his presence. Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the residence of the Earl of Liverpool, at Whitehall, which was attended bv the Earl of Harrowhy, the Earl of Westmorland, Mr. Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Huskisson, and Lord Bexley. This was the tirat Cabinet that Viscount Mel ville has attended since his indisposition. They sat in deli- 1 beration till a quarter-past four o'clock. The Earl of Liverpool was better yesterday. Yesterday letters were received from Constantinople which confirm what had been stat_ s i in th e Augsburg!: Gazette, as to the news of the Pacha of Egypt having de clared himself independent of the Porte. This news had caused great consternation in the Divan, as the declaration was attributed to the intrigues of Russia. A large Turkish army has been ordered to assemble at Sophia, the usual point of preperation why.' war is dreaded with Russia. Letters from Gibraltar state, that the King of Spain has granted an exclusive privilege to the Guadalquiver Company to import British manufactured goods, upon payment of a duty of 25 per cent. A private letter from Madrid, flat( d March 18, states, that the confinement of Mr. Matthews, whose case we no ticed a few days ago , was become less rigorous, and that his release was hour ly expected. This, however, had been promised from time to time to Sir W. A'Court, and was always delayed upon some pretence. A Madrid banker had been permitted to visit Mr. Matthews in prison, and to give him some assistance. We have seen a private letter, dated St. Martha, the 2d of January, from an officer on hoard the Isis, the frigate ' in which Sir W. G. Halsted sailed to take command of the West India station. It states that all on board were in excellent health, and that the patriots of Santa Martha were most proud and happy to see them, the Isis being the first English man of war that ever saluted the independent fag of Colombia. The heat at Santa Martha was most op prmive when there was no wind, and with the gentlest breeze the dust rises in clouds. The Isis was to proceed to . Jamaica the following day. THE 10ru Iluss•aa.—We have heard from good authority, that the above regiment, the officers of which have fallen into a degree of unpopularity, unprecedented, we believe, in the military service, will be ordered to India. —Diddin Morning Post. Time NOBLE TENTH.—Some officers of the 10th—or rather some persons in the costume of that regiment —were not many weeks since invited to a party given by a lady of fashion residing in one of the squares in Dublin. The in vitation was accepted, and the lady, anxious to lose no op , ' portunity of contributing to the entertainment of her I guests, seeing these affected coxcombs standing aloof from the social circle, and appearing to look discontented, asked them to join the dance. The stiff and conceited reply was, " The 10th don't dance." She then asked them to go to the card-table. The reply was, " The 10th don't play cards." The lady, even after these ridiculous replies, still anxious to please them, asked them to join the party in the muvic.room : " The loth don't like music" (and we should be surprised if they did, for that would be a proof of some civilization), was the reply. The lady, naturally chagrined at such impertinence, left them to shift for themselves till supper time. On supper being announced, she expected the 10th would be consistent in their negative character, but having more regard for their appetite than their con sistency, they were proceeding to the supper-room, when the lady said in a loud toile, she supposed the 10th did not sup. The gentlemen went off, regretting the loss of their supper. SILK TRADE.—intimation has just been received at the Custom-house, that there is no objection to several sm a ll holders of silk and silk manufacturers uniting and deposit ing their joint property, amounting in the whole to a quan tity not less than 300 lbs. weight, to be deposited in ware houses in the name of one party, at one and the same time. —Caledonian Mercury. - - According to the opinion of persons largely engaged in the si!k trade, the amount of drawback to be allowed on silk that has paid the duty will be between 300,0001. and 400,0(0.4. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Jibs. Wm. Wynn has issued cards of Invitation (Si a rout on the 9th of April, at her house, Whitehall-place. The Earl and Countess of Rciseherry will bays. grand dinner party on Friday, at their house in Piccadilly. Lord and Lady Ortydyr hate Issued cards of invitation for an entertainment on the 6th April, at their house in Piccadilly. lilt. Hope will give a splendid rout on Friday, at her house in Manafeld.strfet. The Marchioness of LanuidWngaie her third rout, for the season, on Monday evening, at Lansdown House, Berkeley-square, which was attended by a very elegant assemblage of distinguished fashion ables ; among whom were—The Duchess of Somerset his Excel lency Count Lieven, Count t unchall, Count de Villa Real, CoUnteas St. bleu:, the Earl of Essex and Miss Capel, Marquis of Bath, the Countesn of Sandwich. Earl Clare, the Earl of Sheffield, the Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Rochester, the Earl of Jersey, Lord anti Lady Belhaven, Dowager Countess df Warwick, and the Ladies Oreville, Countess Morley, Lady llarriet Herbert, Lord Auckland, the Countess of Huston, Lord and Lady Nugent, ' Lady Charlotte Lindsay, the Earl and Couutess Listowel, Lord Bearchaven, lady Caw dor, Sir Henry and Lady liunbury, Lord arid Ludt lilorpeth, Mr. and Lady Harriet luseelles, the Ladies Elliott, Mr. and Lady O. Stanley, Lady and Miss King, Sir Robert and Lady Macfarlane, Hr. and Mrs. Las , wiles, Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield, Mrs. F. Lewis, Illr. and Mrs. Frankland, and Miss Murra7, Miss rox, and Miss Vernon, lion. Henry Fox, Mr. and bits. E. Drummond, Mr. George and bliss Villein', the Misses Berry, Mr. and Mrs. O. Phillips, Mr. Ken nedy, Lady Farquhar, Mr. sod Mrs. Ord, Mr. White, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Joy, blr. W. Backe', Re. Emily Marchioness of Londonderry gave another splendid rout on Monday evening, at her house in St, James's square, which was attended by the Duke of Wellington a.l upwards of a hundred of die hind tom. Lady Alvanley's musical party on Monday evening, in George_ street, Hanover.square, was very numerously and fashionably at tended. Mts. Goode had a musical party on Mends y evening, at her house In Brywnstone-square, which was attended by his Excellency Baron Easel and a large party of distinction. The Bishop of Lincoln had a grand dinner party yesterday, at his house in Connaught-place. The Marquis of Anglesey entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday at his house in Old Burlington-street. The Duke of 'Dorset arrived in town yesterday, from Windsor Castle. . ... The hart and Countess Bathurst arrived in town yesterday, from Windsor Castle. The Earl of Bristol and Lady A. Hervey left Windsor Castle yesterday morning, for Brighton. The Lan and Countess Cowper have arrived in town, front their seat Passenger, Herts. The Hon. 31r. and Mrs. Robert Smith arrived on Monday at their seat, liayhutst, Bucks, from the Duke of Rutland's, Belvuir Castle. __ Lord Hervey arrived in town yesterday, ftom Windsor Castle. The Earl of Lauderdale arrived yesterday a At'arren's Hotel, Regent-atreet, from Windsor Castle. lady Caroline Lamb arrived in town 0.1 Monday, from her seat, Brocket Hall. Sir Thomas Ormsby, Bart. has left the Royal Hotel, St. James's street, for his seat, %% ivenhoe Park, Eases. Sir Henry Blackwood, But has arrived at his house in Welbark street, from Brifhton. J. 14PLean, l.sq. has arrived at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, from Scotland. Mr: and Mrs. Connor arrived yesterday at Gould's Hotel, Jer myn-streat, from Brighton. Arrivals at the British Hotel, Jerrn3rn-street :—G. Bailey, Esq. from Coventry ; the Rev. Mr. Wells, from a tour ; and Benjamin Aislaby, Esq. from Cheltenham. General, Mrs. and Alias Brown arrived yesterday at the St. Pe tenburgh Hotel, Dover -street, from Cheltenham—His Excellency Baron Strogonoff has left ditto for Paris. Arrivals at Long's Hotel, Bond-street :—Colonel Campbell and Major Newton, from Paris ; and Mr. and Mrs. Selby, from Brighton. Departures from ditto Oolifte, lVebster, Bart., far his seat, Battle Abbey, Sussex ; bred Thomas Hay, foe Ox ford ; Francis Popham, gsq., for his seat, Clarendon Park, Salis bury ; and Capt. 'Musgrave, for Cheltenham. Colonel Gore has relinquished standing for the County of Leitrim. Mr. White will consequently be returned without opposition.—lrish Observer. The City of 'Waterford will, it appears, be contested at the next election : the friends of Sir John Newport are al ready in the field, to prevent his being ousted —Limerick Paper. Mr. Goulburn, our chief Secretary, is, it is reported, to be raised to the dignity of a Baronet of the United King dom.--/riah Observer. Government have ordered a commission to inquire into the actual state of the peasantry in the County of Galway ; • portion of them is represented to be in an actual state of starvation. The remains of the late Sir Thomas Plumer, Master of the Rolls, arc to be interred in the Rolls Chapel, adjoining his late residence, this morning. M. George Stackpoole, the litigant in a cause that has occupied much attention in France, as well as in Ireland, died at l'aris, on Thursday evening, of an attack of the gout. He was 90 years of age. The celebrated Roustan, the faithful Mameluke of Bonaparte, arrived in London yesterday, from the Conti nent, decorated, as is his invariable practice, with the superb suit of arms—pistol, sabre, and carbine—presented to him by his late master. A Woas OF MILTON'S DISCOVERED.—We mentioned some time ago the discovery of a posthumous work of Milton, by dr. Lemon, Deputy Keeper of State Papers. We have ourselves had an opportunity of seeing this MS., and the proofs, which are singularly complete, of its au thenticity. The existence of such a work, and its title, were mentioned by Wood, in his Athence Ozonienees, and afterwards by Birch in his life of the poet ; but, until the discovery of Mr. Lemon, of the State Paper Office, no clue was possessed for tracing this valuable literary trea sure. It was only known, upon the authority of Wood, that the MS. bad been last seen in the possession of Mr. Cyriac Skinner, a merchant .of London, and, as all the readers of Milton know, the intimate friend of our great bard. How it afterwards got into the State Paper Office, cannot now be ascertained ; but it is a singular fact, that when discovered the MS. was wrapped in an envelope, with the address upon it, " To Mr. Skinner, merchant." This circumstance alone, were there wanting other evi dence of its being genuine, would decide the point. His Majesty, as was stated last night in Parliament, has or dered the MS. to be published.—Eresing Paper. The thirty-three West India Islands contain an aggre gate of 10.5,000 square 4.50,000 whites, 1,600,000 mulattoes and blacks, 2,050,000 total population. Fifteen of these Islands belong to Britain, five to France, three to Spain, three to Denmark, four to the Dutch, one to Sweden, one to the Colombians, one partly independent and partly to Britain. KINGSTON (JAMAICA), FF3. 12.—Wellwood Esq. qualified, and took his seat as one of the Judges, and afterwards presided at a Slave Court. Since last winter the condition of the Religieux of Great St. Bernard, in the canton of Basil, has been sensibly ameliorated. These men, so devoted to philanthropy, and so useful, passed the winter in cells, wherein the thermo , meter of Resumur was sometimes as low as IS degrees below zero. A subscription, however, has provided the means of establishing pipes to transmit heat through all parts; and the temperature of the cells, in times of the greatest frost, is now from eight to ten degrees. SKr Go tsNO.—On Saturday morning a curious seizure was made at the quay, Greenock. On the arrival of the Swift steam-packet, from Belfast, the crew of the Custom house boat went on board in quest of smuggled articles, when they found the end of a log of timber, about two feet and a half long, made in the shape of a buoy, and strapped with ropes in the usual manner, carelessly lying on deck, which, on being minutely examined, was found to be hollowed out, and full of window-glass, containing about SO or 90 paues.—Glavoie Herald. Hillman, a tulewaiter at Shoreham, seized on Sunday last a very considerable quantity of cambrics, say 746 pieces, nearly Soo yards of silk, a quantity of shawls, scarfs, &c. &c. The goods were found in sacks, and it appears that much difficulty exists as to saying where the goods came from, in such considerable quantities, so mira culously found, the same having been discovered lying exposed in a garden. Report states that the officer will make from 8001. to 1,0001. by this seizure, unless informa tion money should dip deep Into the officer's share; how ever, that will make only one-third less, leaving a very large sum for an inferior officer. Wi N es.—Our mountain wine comes from the mountains around Malaga. Tent is Tints), tinged or red wine. Sherry from Xeres (the Spanish X is pronounced 5h or Ch), in the south of Spain, where the great battle was fought between the Christians and Saracens, that ended in the conquest of Spain by the latter. Malmsey was from Ilalvasia in Pelo potinesus. This rich wine was afterwards propagated at Alicant, the Canaries, and Madeira. . _ [Myer tiriment.]—EcoNo itN.—Families who are de sirous of using the best articles that can possibly be ob tained, having tried most oldie Establishments within die metropolis, have found the best qualities at the China Genuine Tea Company, 23, Pavement, Nleortields. PORRIGN IArtELLIGENCL FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING Or TUX t7th NARCIL. we yesterday gars an account of the opening Of the d of the nth, on the subject of the admission of hi. B. Constant ffto the Chamber ;we supply to-day a perfect account of the dub* After the reading of the pricer verbal, the President annousees that the Order of the Th y it the continuation offthe INIVIONiSiI at' the Electoral Returns: M. Benjamin Constant ascends the Tribune t the Muni alone, reigns in the Assembly ; he addresses the House in the follotring terms :—fientlemen, I shall begin by thanking. the House fet its kindness in granny" me a delay, in need of which I steed. At tacked in my profession of citizen, which I have possessed se well by my own tights as by thistle of my father for thirty yeses t at , tacked in my hono u r, b e i ng accuse d o f having deceived the House, as also the reporter who :mus e d rite t o b e admitted a Detyllye years ego; attacked in the memory of my (ether, who hseff Zs accused in his grave of fraud, because they wish to Injure his moo; I have felt, I must confess, when I stepped forward to vindicate 'ltch dear interests, an emotion which might have troubled my Ideas; however. I shall not deviate from the question which calls forth a my attention; 1 shall only mention facts, which will prove to sets dente the rights which are now contested. The 32d Allied! of the Law of the 15th December, 1790, is thus wooded ; " All individuals who, being born in foteign countries, deemed, in whatever degree it may be, from a French man or • Frisch woman, expelled front their native land fur motivd of rap me declared }rend, citizens, and will enjoy all the prerogatives at ached to this quality, if they return to France, reside there, end take the civic oath.' My father claimed the benefit of that law at the 9111 November, 1791. Here is the extract of the deliberations of the 31 unicipal Council of the Commune of Dole, dated theses°, day „Lig e Lewis Constant Rebecque, of Acre, in Artois, atifflitiftd into the Council Hall, declared, that he presented himself i• ante to claim in his favour the benefit of the Ist article of the 911 thle of j the French Constitution, requesting to be allowed to take the civic oath, in order to acquire the quality of active citizen e upon which Rebeeque having proved his origin, a certificate of his presentation and demand ass delivered to him, and he immediately took the above...mentioned oath, signed ch, the register (lethal and Bruise, notaries." I beg of you, Gentlensen, to pay attention to these words, " having proved his extraction," aild deign alto tolnmeadel that it Is not in • village, and before some ignorant men, father has presented himself to prove by stealth his origut. lam ashamed, Gentlemen, to be compelled to justify la his grave a man whom eighty-six years of benehcaice and of a virtuous life ought to have sheltered against a similar suspicion and t reproach myself for being the i nnocen t cause o f the basalt bestowed es his memory t but, since I eon condemned to it, I shall esdessoltt to fulfil the painful task. Ilene are then two positive facts wi.:4lse justification of out origin by my father, whieh justilastisie is at. tested by a man capable of verifyin g It, and incapable Of 1= eating in any base fra u d ; an d t h e constant residence of V' during 23 years, and at the end of which period he did 011 the property which he had purchased in France. Having be ton! Wu of • Frenchman, I joined my father ; bought a domain near Paris, where I fixed my residence, and I have enjoyed the rights conceded by the law of the 3th beeember, 1790. Gentlemen, you are acquainted with all the document, whi-e solve the question in illy favour, and are able to deeds lip= the ' matter with a thorough knowledge. I Mash your judgment with confidence and respect." 31. Benjamin Constant was listened to with the greatest attn. tion. The Honourable Member laid on the table all the doctunents in support of the.facts set forth in his speech. After some farther discussion on the same subject, during which MM. Dudon, General Foy, taxi 31artignse, were heard, the house decided that a more thorough examination of the qutilificsa tins of M. Benjamin Constant shall take place diet the definitint organization of the b ureau . The House pronounces afterwards the admission of the Depatias of the Departments of the Seine, of the Seine infloesair and Hl's ral others. The Sitting is raised at half-past Ave, and adjeuraed till Moodily. GERMAN PAPERS. Papers to the 4&1 ult. reached us yesterday. The fo1• lowing are extracts:— Coact?, Fab. U. On the Yid of this month news vu received hire, that Corns surrendered to the Greeks on the 10th instant. At the same tinfe, we received from illissolonghl a confirmation of the news of the taking of the outworks of Lepanto, on which occasion the English officers of engineers, who are gone to the assistance of the Greeks, particularly distinguished themselves. Lord Byron had returned from Tripoli.= to elisotilolol, and had been everywhere received With honour. CoxstastYlwortn, Frs. 94. The armaments in the arsenal and along the channel continue. and Nerd to announce an active campaign. Meantime it is as serted, the M. Mlnalscky has made but little progress in hie ne. gociation, and some persons prophecy that it may be a long dms before the desired result is obtained. It is said that the Gre-ks have again effected a landing near Caraburu, in Macedonia. Daman, Makers 4. A ship which has arrived here from Constantinople, after an ea tretnely short passage of only forty hours, brings the important, and for the Porte most alarming, intelligence, that Mohamed Ali Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, flu st length thrown aside the mask, and declared hiir.self independent. It was long ago known in Constantinople that he meditated great things, and the Porte therefore tried every means to weaken him, and lately ordered him to furnish 10.000 men, to combat the Greek insurrection. Moha med resolved, instead of complying, to declare himself indepen dent, and fur this he has certainly chosen the most favourable moment. Those alone who are competent to form an idea of the situation of the Turkish empire, can judge what may be the con sequence of this event, respecting which we look for farther parti culars. and which may perhaps shake all the eastern provinces of the empire, not to speak of the situation of the capital itself, which derives so many supplies from Egypt. We presage that this event will complete the emancipation of Greece, and give the death blow to the power of the Porte. THE NEW DOCK. The Bill for establishing a !dew Dock at St. Catherine's, near the Tower, is now printed, and is such • nsorerar, that we are tempted to make our readers acquainted with some of its provi , Mons. The present reign will probably be far more conspicuous in history fur buikling churches than that of Queen Anne we cut therefore surely afford, without tarnishing the glory of our " Most Gracious and Religious King," to pull a few down. • Provision Is made in the New Dock Bill for the total demolition of a church-yard, d,c. ; but, anticipating the tender regard which the Legislature always shows for the feelings of the relations and friends of the dead, the projectors have voluntarily prescribed to • themselves the mixed duties of resurrection men and undertakers. Execution Dock is not far off, and we may confidently predict that, ' if that now projected is ever completed, it will, not unjustly, ac . quire the appellation of Resurrection Dock. A large portion of the property required belongs to the " Mu ter, Brothers, and Sisters of St. Catherine's Hospital;" among the rest, the " Collegiate Cittinh or Free Chapel," which, u de clared in the Bill, " it is necessary should be taken down, and the site thereof, and the burial-grouud belonging thereto, used and ap plied for the purposes of the Act." Passing over the provisions for erecting a new " Church or Chapel, and some burial place suitable to the Masters, Brothers, and Sisters of St. Catherine's Hospital," and all the charge of the job, which the Court of Chancery is required to take, we shall pro ceed at once to the resurrection clauses. The first is as to the nomuments, and declares it to be " for the heirs, executors. administrators, relations, or friends of any person or persons whose monuments or tomb-stones &rein the said Church or Chapel, or in the burial ground belonging thereto, to remove or carry the 'sole away at his her or their own expense ! and to put or place the same in any Church or consecrated ground, at his, her, ot their own free will and pleasure." Our readers will hardly believe that we quote literally, but we assure them that we do; and, although they may Lc staggered at the injustice of re latives or friends being compelled to pay the expert of the removal, we must remind them of as advantage which is given as an equivalent, leis that the monuments may be placed either in St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey, and that without any for to the Chapters—at least so we read the bill. In the margin of the following clause we find the words, "Graves to be disturbed as little as possible I" (that is, as little as reavatine the whole of the earth above, and some ten or fifteen feet below the said graves will admit); but now again due consideration i s s h own for relatives and friends, " whenever it shall be necessary, in pur suance and in execution of this Act, to open or disturb any grave 9r graves, or any burial vault or vaults in the said church or chapel , or burial-ground of St. Katharint's Hospital aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the heirs, tke. to remove or carry away the remains, and place the same in any church or consecrated ground, the expert:, of such removing, Ste- (not exceeding, in any one case, the sum of ), to be paid by the said Company," de. , With respect to the removal of the remains of their relatives, therefore, while the parties hare the same power as is given them in respect to monuments, viz, depositing them wherever they please, they hare the additional advantage of being allowed certain sum by the undertakers—the blank is yet to be filledup ; but we understand that Mr. William Cobbett is to be called before the Committee, and that, aided by his experience as to the expense. of removing the bones of the dead, they will have little difficulty in filling up the hiatus. We are abort afraid of being accused of levity upon a subject which, we acknowledge, is a grave one; but speaking seriously, we are neither disposed to trifle with our readers, nor to see Parliament trifled with by projectors. The Bill upon which we are commenting is ond, among numerous others, which, during the:present Session, has been brought in without due notice; the Standing Orders of the House have been dispensed with, as we believe (in the use of an opposed Bill) unprecedentedly ; is, therefore, not from the country at large that we call for atten tion to its provisions, so much as front those Me m b ers of both Houses of eprliament, who may deem it of importance to maintain that ripest for legislative measures, which can only be preserved by some little regard to private interests and private feelings, and can in no way be better upheld than by a rigid adherence to the Standing Orders. An additional proof of the increasing prosperity of the country may be found in tha fact, that the number of writs which passed the office of the Under Sheriff fbr Somerset, in the last Term, was upwards of ona hundred less than in the corresponding Term of the preceding year. 0. .1 I ° I _ k r ) ' 1 ut IS. a. kt his ad the ich :by ana )ped able !err r o f y: e to end this .w.- Kite tht •een