The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-03-29 00:00:00

FzE fl lON ABLE INTELLIGENCE. twit, Mart -Moneys of Londonderry, will give a rout this even • , at her house iu St. James'a-aquare. The Marehione‘a of Lanadown will era a grand rout this even ing, Si I t atonlott Iterkeiryompiatv. Lady little Pinker will have a party this evening, at bee house in tired Climb( ricntl-1 Lad t Alvaiili.v will have a nmaiwil patty this evening, at het la home !lams( r-squarr. The Bishop ti Lin don entertained Emily, Marehirmeas of Lon. donderry, and a cli.tinguislind party, at dinner, on Saturday, at his Rouse i n sr..larinta%•stptate. J. G. Lembinn, Esq. M.P. had a grand dinner party, on Satur day. at his house in Clereland-wpare. an Thomas Lethbridge. Hart. entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturdav, at his house in \l'hiteliall-plate. The Marquis. of Hertford will have a musical party on Wednes dap at which Slone Km.ini will preside. The lion. Mrs. Agar Ellis will give a root on Thursday, at her home in Spring-gardens . Alrs Tape will have a rout this evening, at her house in ;It.janies !Or J.. 1.41 and Lady Copier will have a grard dinner party on Thursday. at their house in George-street. ilanover-square. The Lariat' Limerick grand cr.tertainnunt to the Duke of Gloueesttr, at hi, house in Mansfield-street. Viscount Ci.rleron will have • grand dinner party on Wednesday, at his house in Gtmge-street, Hanover.square. The Earl and Countess of Horeberry . will entertain a distin gei.bed party on Friday, at their house in Piccadilly. Siv C. Viewer. Bart. will give a grand entertainment to the Duke of York and a distingui.hed party on Saturday. Mr. and Alm. Hope will give a grat.d dinner party on Friday, at their house in Alarslielil-,.tweet. The of Lincoln had a grand party dinner on Saturday, his house in l:ticoanglit-place. The Duchess of Kent hail a grand dinner party yesterday at Kensington I'alace. The Duke of Norfolk eatertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, t house in St. James'ii-synare. e .1. Aliensomby, Al. P. entertained the Marquis and Ai ambient.% of Lansdown and • large party at dinner yestcr slapat his house is New .street,Spring-gx.elens. Abe Countess of Sandwich entertaintd his Excellency Count Liven and a largo party of distinction at dinner yesterday, at her house in Denrrt-street. Godfrey Wentworth, Esq. had a grand dinner-party,) sterday, at hit ate in George -street. Hanover-square- John ltlackhurne. Esq., AI.P.„ will have a large party at dinner on Saturday next, at his house in Patk-street, IVro estinsier. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland ant family arrived OD Saturday • - . . , Saturday at Northumberland House, from Alnwick ::.owager Countess de Grey left town on Saturday far her scat, 'ulteney Heath. Lord Lynetloch arrived on Saturday at Warren's Hotel, Regent. erect, from his seat at Bury St. Edmund's. The Honourable arid Her. F. North has left Warren's Hotel, fur hi. seat in Hants. The Earl of Bristol, Lady Augusta Hervey and Lord Hervey, who arrived in town on Friday from Brighton, left on Saturday lug Windsor Camle. nn a vi.it to his Mojeotr. Lord Chatica 'rovinshend arrived on Saturday at Gould's Hotel, iermyn.stret t, from hi. seat in Norfolk. Colonel Thornhill, 7th Hussars, has arrived at Stephen's Hotel, Clifford-outer. Arrivals at the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-street:—His Ex. saliency De Strogennfi; from Vienna. —General Bmwclow, from Cheltenham, and Captain and Ain. ft. Campbell and fanlia-;uia Departures : Patrick WV.: am Sbeddon, Esq., mid Mrs. St and family, fur India. MASCO ; A TRAOEDV; IN FIVE ACTS. DE DISSTIN ARCHIE SUET, ESQ. D.A. Excluded from the Stage by the authority of the Lord Chamberlain " The art of printing." says RIC•UT, " is absolutely prohibited among the Turks, because it may give a subtilty of learning, which is dang.erous to their government. ' At far as the policy of despotism goes, this is right etioigh; bitt in Eliglan.l, and it. this enlightened era, to find the erne spirit acted upon—to find the power of the Lord Chamberlain exercised in a manner at once so arbitrary and so uneourteous—this is really what we were not pre pared to expect, and arc grieved . to witness. A power in itself unconstitutional ought never to be applied but with extreme caution ; in no case Might it to be resorted to but where the utility an in; from the exercise of it is obvious, and ever then, the remedy may be considered as the worse evil of the two. We are really inclined to consider the suppression of this tragedy of " ALAICO" as a libel on the administration. Under a corrupt government it is not diffi cult to account for that jealous anxiety to suppress every public representation that might excite a sympathy in fa vour of freedom, or that might beget an impatience of oppression ; but why throw this oditim tau his present Ms jesty's Government? Why raise this unworthy presuinp non against his Ministers Why make them r.:ipear thus anxious to decry every liberal sentiment, and to stifle every honest feeling ? We really cannot ace the fairness of all this in the Deal or Moxvitose, tor the fidelity of it in his. representative. In the reign of the firs/ CH•aLls, such a proceeding would have been in character. Playa and other public diversions were stopped in his reign fur half u year. Sev..ral Lords protested, because it was not for perpetuity. This was 1641. The year following was the last of his reign. Ile died a Martyr, but he left a valuable iesson of instruction behind Aim ; he left behind him an example n. vex to be forgotten, that the truest po licy is to patronise. the public spirit of a nation, not to ex tinguish it. The btaieticeut Ruler of a tree p - op'm has nothing to fear; a government well administered may defy the most patriotic tragedy that ever was penned. The sappreesion of it by a licencer an serve no other purpose than to bring the views of men in potter into suspicion, and their character into disrepute. The author of " ALAsco appeals from the prohibitory sentence of Mr. Colman, to the deliberate judgment of th e public, and he makes his appeal in a tone of Manly indig nation, which, we think, the wrong he has suffered fully justifies. • I am not unaware that a strong sense of the injustice which I think I have rwprrieneed--an honest indignation, on finding my. self forced before the bar of the public, us answer for my production and my principles—may possibly give to my remarks the tone of resentment. I have been shut out from a fair field of honourable antifition—obstructed in the honest exertion of my feeble powers —to sustain my character and station in society, with such little credit and consideration as may be attainable in my humble sphere. Thus circumstanced, when the official stigma which has been cast on my womb is considered in all its bearings—in its origin, its object, and its eff..-et—l feel confident that no generous spirit trill be surprised at a warmth of exculpation, which time coosciuus sem of that uprightness of intention which has been acknowledged, and that innocence of offence which I assert, might be reasonably expected to produce. " The office of Licencer of Plays had been, for many yew.. ad. InillillaTed by its late possessor with great gond sense and divert. bon. Its powets, at all times obnoxious to a free people, were Lather arrogantly displayed, nor vexatiously exercised. No cont. Plaints were sawed by their severity, and no evils resulted from their relation. All, in short, was harmony and peace. , . •go mild he swayed the do m i s plea s ed domains, • That bards and actors ha- dly felt their chaos.' " Bet s sew era was in preparstun for the Thmpian tribe; and when the reepeetable functionary here alluded to was gathered to his fathers, tie semie soon felt the infitlence of a busier, if oot a better, spirit. The new Licencer, it seems. felt it his duty to tuns over a new lesfa be resteved to shame the sinecure sway of his predereasor, andAadafge in all the luxury of active molestation. He disdains to be a theatrical Kiss Log ; and, to the terror of us pone dramatic tad-poles. he sets about to stir up the puddle around him, with stork-like vigour and devouring effect. " A more effectke dramatic police has been established ; a new committee ef public safety hao been organized in the Chamberlain's j taco t thezeuntry has been declared in danger, and a dictate( ell unquestioned qualification appointed to watch over the welfare of the State. " Unfortunately I have been the first victim to this new vigour— the first offender under the new axle which it hwi been determined to enforea—ctinvicted without trial, and condemned without ap. There ars some cases of suflizing iu which a self-ap proving sonscienec does not always bring with it a su cient cussolatioo. Mr. Sate, whose talents justified him is looking forward to fame and profit as the reward of his tamers, could not be intimated likely to acquiesce without remonstrance in this unexpected disappointment of his hopes. fie svordingly addressed a letter at some length to the Duke of Montrose, on the conduct of his deputy, in refusing to permit the 'representation of 11:112:11, a copy of he inserts in his preface, and to which letter the following answer was returned:— . 'l' " arusvaner..4 wire, Feb. 19, 1934. " 51k-71A:thing ffie,Cittleitan a very sueleient judge of hie duty, tml_oll I ameba his (from the account be has given me 4foireoj. I do conclude, that at this dri.e, without onlissibn, the tragedy should nut be acted lad whilst 1 am pssonadad that your intentions are upright, I con 'lee that it is penowelyairtbis reason (though it may not strike riot!) that it ,at bow usswisdes of the Legislature to have an ueouler appointed, and poems given to the Chsmberlain of the n" l "alikti to I:l=betber aandla plays should be acted at all, u* sod times. " 14s sot nassn'ts ewer low an argument with you. Sir, on the 111 hioe4 but think that yaw latter, conceived in polite terms to n• cub upon ma io smuts an weer, showing that your tragedy Kara well convidired, " I remain; Sir, sub stow, your obedient servant, II" Ott TAO S& Harder Melee, See, 11A. asevitsAat." • We deem this epistolary document, rem vo the Kw* et cornpo"itient, to be much more open to criticism than it ought to have been; but cur concern is with the reasoning, which, we think, is illogical and ineonclosive, even beyond the licence included in the privilege of the Li. encer. If a dramatic writer, known to possess a strong republican taint—like the present POET LAUREATE, for instance, when he warmed us with the transports of VV ATTv us s—if such lone, wishing " to saves venal state against its will," should embody the I .. .celings of faction and disloyalty in the 'noel impressive sentiment and speeches of his drama, it is not unnatural that the public 'icenerr should forbid its representation, and thus crush all his hod intentions in the bud. Such proceeding is intelligible, but we are really at an utter loss to comps. hind how his Grace of VON TROSE should be I rees,,,,d,d that the intentions or the writer are apt igld, and cone ire that it is precisely, ji,r this ct town that the Legisla lure, in lls /Ciao/NAM` power to thCCO A Mllt. It LA I N Or TO 110 t LOOI n to judge whether his play should be acted or not. The intentions of a dramatic writer, as such, can only be collected ferm the drama itself. There can be no other interyr, ter. ItlattitrAto (probation( non link:ens ; and how, with live proof of Mr. ,/:re's ',pi:At intentions then before him, he could sanction the suppression of the very tragedy that had hecot in him this good itnprestion, is to us a mystery. That it should be pre..iselyihr this reason, and to fit itself to such a case as this, that the Legislature en dowed him with this stretch of prerogative, is equally in explicable. The force of this reasoning will certainly "not "trite nathots," u the parenthesis in his Grace's letter censcientiously str=ests: we arc not ours Ives blessed with the gift of authors'. ip, hut we are satisfied that no individual, either in the dramatic world or out of it, can reconcile this 'oppression to ally maxim of justice, or the reusun _tir it to any rule of common sense. There is an end to the inspitations of all dramatic genius if a writer cannot put into the mouth of 11;s characters those feelings and u• pr. ssiens without which they cannot he drawn. What would have become of the fine Odin. a tions of Shakricare's historic fancy, if his fervid isnagina ' don had been fit, red by the ',to of Mr. Cot MA N , or sub jected to the dominion of the Duke of Mo nose ? If the impulse and emotion to be given to an audience by the emanations of his 'nighty mind had been first calculated by a Chamberlain of the Household, before they could have got a permit, where would the great treasure of his works have been ? nu- act is quite preposterous ; it is as if the soaring pinions of the eagle were to be clipped and cut by the owl. It is an insult to the Enrlielt public thnt they are not to be trusts d with the hearing of such passages as it has pleased Hr. Cons •s; to run his pen through. IVhat foundation has he for thus insinuating that the springs of loyalty are so dry that every sentiment of freedom is a spur to fac tion ? Mr. Stine has marked in italics the lines upon which Mr. Colman paned his sentence of condemnation. We really could not have suspected, till this tragedy came before us, that such a distrust of popular feeling prevailed in any part of the t :owe rnenent. e consider this marked manifestation of it mire as injurious as it is unjust. Of all the passages marked by dot. Licenser for e.miteion, we do not Red ore that can in the slightest degree authorise it. There are none throughout that might not, we should think, have li.en uttered without danger to the Day at any private theatricals in A Lot Las. In act three, scene one, for example, is the following passage : Iralsineurse. " Dangernws, A mantha ? Grant me paornee ! What! have 1 held my lila On war's I'7:ail tenure, still, and undisniay'd, In eve- face of larger look'd on death-- Now to be scared by this mock majesty ! Am I au lightly held—no low in estimate, Tn h?ouk dill/amour from a kuate to Asa, And crouch nil, likr a pliant underling, As if a thunder-chord discharged its wrath. In his official frown ! By !leaven, not so! , • The skive shall answer me I will avenge This outrage on my child." The line lwre marked in italics is struck out as inadmis sible. There is nothing in it, that we can perceive. at which even the Viceroy of Tests need to have taken alarm. The Council of Janiessies, we are quite sure, would have disregarded it. In truth, that Government, be it what it may, meat be a very barley-sugar fabric which can be shaken by any allusion to knaves in place. Abuses in Government would be of very short duration, if they hail any thing to fear from so slight a shot as this. We were surprised to find the following short speech of Alsseo's expunge .1 : "'Tie not rebellion to re,i.t oppression ; virtue to °rev; oar country's wrongs, Ablit acti.lcietire re r:rike at as scarper." It has cost Great Britain a war of well nigh half a cen tury to teach the- doctrine, and seller having preached it at an expense of nearly eight hundred millions sterling, the cost at which we at last chained NA POL EON to the rock of St. Helena, behold this passage, which sums up the whole in three lines, is struck out, as if such language ought never to be heard! To what purpose' have the apostles of /tritium/7/ spent their breath, if they are to be I thus warmly disavowed? Besides, the spectator is to sup-1 pose himself in POLAND, where the scene is laid, anti the sentiments, however patriotic, want no other defence. Cr as k, with whose writings Mr. Colman must be fa miliar, says - " Plays should let y'u see, Not only what you are, but ought to be." The Deputy Licenc•r appears to set his face against both ; he acts as if he were the agent of a Government, *Conscious of guilt, and fearful of the light" For this the Government owe him no thanks. His objec tions have nothing of conscience or honesty about them; they are the r!roples of a sycophant and a time-server, and can have no other result than to bring discredit upon his principal, and contempt upon himself. Lpon the tragedy of ..-1/aseo we have no room left to offer any remarks. It is now before the public, and the cu riosity which its suppression is calcolocd to excite, will place it in the hands of judges infinitely more competent to appreciate it at its true value, than either Mr. Colman or the Lord Chamberlain. FVNEIAL or Sur Gr oac a Cuzi.tia.—The remains of this lamented officer will be interred in a vault prepared for the family in the New Church at St. Pancras, on Wed nesday next. The funeral procession will have his brother's house in Fitzroy-stn et precisely at one o'clock. The Sarearang, 2s, Captain Sir William Wiseman, Bart. is ordered to be fitted for the North American s:atior. Major-General Sir Howard Douglas, appointed to a command in North America, and suite, will go out by her. We stated in a former paper, that the North Pole Ex , petition, under Captain Parry, will be accompanied by the Harris transport. Lieut. J. W. Pritchard, for the purpose of carrying out propelling wheels, to be used on the ships among the ice. It is now intended, that another transport shall proceed at once with canoes and various necessaries lOr Captain Franklin's part of the ser vice, which canoes are to be forwarded to the mouth of Mackenzie's River, to which spot Captain Franklin will proceed early in the ensuing year, to endeavour to penetrate from that spot westward to Behring's Straits—i. c. making. the North Pole passage. The canoes are of a light de wription, but as they are to he carried over the projected headlands and proinuntor ics, they are to be inflated when used. Captain Lyon will endeavour, by the use of similar canoes, to trace the cost from Repulse Bay to Copper- Mine River: whilst Captain Parry will again pass inta Lancaster's Sound, and. in the neighbourhood of Melville Island renew his endeavour to make a successful passage thence to Bebring's Straits, and thus accomplish the great object of the expedition. Every care will he taken to prevent similar privations to those experiencel by the for liter land expedition. — Hampshire Telegrapa. WiNcHasTra, Mmicli 27.—A Court Martial will be held on Monday nest, in this city, on Brevet Mitchell, of the 9.1t11 Regiment (of which General Wul drington will he President), on a charge which originated in his appearing in un-regimental attire. Fifteen officers .are to com pose the Court. WOOL Ti•Dr.—We are happy to find that an arrange.. ment is likely to be made with regard to the export of wool and yarn, calculated to operate in some tolerable degree as a protection to the British manufacturer. The arrange. meats on this head arc not finally concluded, but it is pro bable that a duty of two-pence per lb. will be imposed on wool exported, which is equal to about 17 per cent. upon its value, and that an ad valuren. duty to the same amount will attach to the exportation of yarn. Parsons interested is the worsted trade, of whom it is said there are not fewer than 700,090, ‘re much- indebted to the Yorkshire dtle pilots for their devotion to the public intrrest.—Lerds Mercury. THE KING'S THVIrRE. The patrons of this theatre experienced on SatUrdey night another of those agreeable disappointments with wench the Managers have been pleased so often to indulge , them during the present season. Ifirciardrr e Zuraidc, a second-rate Opera of Rimini, had been announce l for performance, but the illness of !Umlaute Vestria and Sig nor Garcia, rendered it newt teary to find a substitute. Ca talani, with a promptitude at once grae•fal and honour able to her, proposed to repeat the part of Aristra, in t'entatiett. This was "not in the bond,' hut it is another of those many benevolent traits which are peculiar to this, in every way, highly-gifted female. if Fanatic° is a sit perior production to Ricciardi. It is more original, 'spi rited, sparkling, and dramatic. It has nearly all the ex cellencies of German music, and much of the gaiety, bril liancy, case, and beauty of the 1 Mayer, the Wm- LNter, was a German by birth, and spent a grea t p art of is life in Italy. The influence of a genial climate, and a sunny sky, shed a grace, softness, and delicacy over the rug ged harshness of German s..ntinient. Hence it is that Mayer is more able than any other northern musician (Mozart being maxi exerHione major) to struggle with the supremacy of the Italian artists. II Fanatic, is one of his highest comic ! operas ; it has a fair portion of humour, and a good deal of that sort :ef expression which may he termed musical wil. Ari.dsa is a character in which Madame Catalan:li gained ninny years since a whule harvest of laurels. We believe that she performed it more frequently than any other, and certainly with greater success. It presents occasions for the display of all lier great and peculiar powers. Since her return to the London stage, she has omitted some of the airs which once gave such great de light, and has replaced them with others from differ. at 1 composers. To this we certainly have more. than one oljecrion • it ja an injustice to Mayer, both because it 1 breaks the utak) , Attil tornastency of his composition, and I because it institutes an immediate comparison, to •vhich he had not made himself a party, and which might be inju rious to the fame of his opera. Madame Catalani, on Ss turosy, introduced Ombra ildfirata, bons the Opera of Romeo e Jalietta, of Zingarelii land Oran, from La DlI llf a el.l Lugo. They were both executed with her wonted pre cision, • ower, and beauty. The latter was singularly hap py, as being less highly ornamented with the cadences, di visions, and . fiarimenti in which the genius of this lady so much delights to revel. There was a weakens,' and deli cacy about it, which ehewed that Madame Catalani, in all her accessions of energy, mastery, and execution, had Jon nothing of few milder and sweeter graces for which iele was formerly renowned. There is no passage in 11 Fanatico in which Madame Catalani is more successful then in the !tumorous duet with Don Feheo, "con p: urea." It is a kind of musical trial between the composer and the singer, in which all the difficulties of the science are assembleeL No thing could exce.d the facility, promptness, and vigour of Madame Cstalani's execution, unless it were the comic hu mour and spirit with which she managed the dramatic part. Altogether, her performence was equal to any that we remember of this lady, and superior to that of any other. We do rot perceive much change in h• r style, manner, or power, since her former appearance here ; perhaps she has gained precision and facility in the difficult parts of the science, and her tones are even more powerful and gigantic than they were. !ler step and march here become more state ly and queen-like. This might be supposed to arise from her intimacy with Royalty on the Continent, if we did not know that it is not in such circles grace and dignity are always to he found. Madame Caradori Allen was obliged to relinquish the airs and concerted pieces of Celestina, in conseqlience of Indisposition. A printed apology was cir culated through the house, and the appearance of the lady Lore but too cle:.r a testimony to its truth. Fortunately, ' her illness is one which will soon pass away, leaving behind it, we trust, a pledge for her continuance in a country where her musical talents ' her gentle and un affected manners, and tier amiable disposition, have won for her so many admirers and friends. Curioni has so little to do in the opera that we are absolved from the necessity of et iticising his performance. In the trio, Eternit re:ti is trot.., his :ire manly voice and simplicity of exe cution appeared to great advantage. De Ilegnis, in Don Felwo, is delightful. His humour is not unlike that of Blanchard, only a little more extravagant in degree. His instructions to the orchestra are given In the genuine spirit of comic acting, and can scarcely be exceeded. As for Signor Rosichi (we believe it was he who crud:eel for Biscronia), we could not help reverting to the Act, ar d for once in our lives (may the omen be averted) felt ;disposed to acknowledge that casts might occur which cab. el for its application. In the course of the second act, l a gentleman (whose !tante we did not hear) perforined a concerto on tbe violin with extraordinary skill. If this difficult piece had been halt' an hoar, or even an hour, shorter, it would have been completely successful; as it : was, not a little censure was mingled with very general applause. The opera itself went of with great appro bation. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. AIATIIEMS. A sketch of Mr. Mathews's plan of entertahiment has been already presented to our readers; we will nut do this gentleman the injustice of further enumerating in detail the items of his catalogue of the peculiarities and manners if our American brethren, for his voice and action impart a comic fascination to his description of them, which we own our pen is not sufficiently contagious to catch or to convey. leaved, the principal and peculiar merit of his performance is, that it can be felt aml appreciated only by I those who are eye-witnesses to the versatility of talent it displays. Criticism cars only convey a vague and unsatis factory idea, where the subject for its comment is a person, not a play, and where " nods and becks," not words anti sentiNienta, furnish leading matter for observation. Al though the lecture of Mr. Mathews own its principal at trr'ction to the ever-varying and comic • countenance of the lecturer, yet it also communicates some very useful know ledge, conveyed in a very pleasing and popular way. Much, however, as we admire the ingenuity with which Mr. Mathews has collected his observations, and the dis crimination with which he has arranged them, yet do we more admire the sentiments favourable to the American character which Mr. Mathews has imbibed, and which he eudcavours to inculcate on the minds of his countrymen. No vulgar prejudice —no national antipathy—no scornful sarcasm, disfigures the talent with which be represents the ' peculiarities of " Jonathan." This is not only good acting—it is more :it is good feelin g . And the present surely is a titne'when a kindly disposition betwten .linerica add this country cannot be too earnestly . recommended and encouraged. An American might espy a laugh at his eccentricities, as Mr. Mathews " Mews em up," as heartily as we laughed ourselves last season at our own peculiarities and ,grange vagaries at Epsom and other places of public resort. The weapon of his wit is a sword of brightness, thit •" never camel a heart-stain away on ha blade. ' His imitations' are so perfectly humorous and inoffenaive, that Mr. Mathews might fairly be permitted in this way to share with poets and painters the • Equs petrels* quidlibet audendi." The village of Natchitotches, of the inhabitants of which the third part consists, besides the objection we have already made of being introduced merely fur the purpose of showing the rapidity with which Mr. Mathews can change his dresses, is liable to the still greater one of pour fraying a Frenchman, an Irishman, and a Dutch heiress. If we adopt the legal rule of determining the construction of an Act of Parliament from the preamble to it, how are we to account fur the prominent intrusion of tl o ec fo reigners in a lecture oil American peculiarities? The sketch of the American Judge is admirable; that of Pennington, who imitates Curran, is not quite so touch to our taste. 'fliere is something so painfully interesting iu the history of the period in which that extraordinary man flourished, that we could wish his name were spared the ridicule even of Mr. Mathews. The puns are somewhat too numerous; many of them might be advaniageously omitted in the next lecture. If it he true that " the liminess of a pun is a test of its merit," Mr. Mathews is fully en.itlesl to the benefit of the paradox. A Sunday paper has the following announcement:— " Newman Knowles, Esq., the Recorder of London, died on Friday night. Ile had been load indiapoaed."—Ano tber Sunday journal contradicts the ie in the following manner:—" The Rteariler, who bat bees very unwell, was yesterday sulleiendy recovered to moo down into his tirawing-recut." INEETINC of Me WOOL aid WOOLLEN TRADES. • . lbstottrib it general 3leeting of personb intertwiled in the above trades, took Owe, at the Guildludl Coffee-hoiae, for the porpoise •C receiving • report of the proceedings of the Committee appointed at the Omen! Mogiaor held on the 17th ult. James Bischoff, Phq. was called to the chair, elated that it was his duty, as Chair man of the Commit:en, appointed at the late Ueneral :Meeting, to report the proceedings which hat bean adopted by the Cunimittee, and by the Deputation, Which had had an interview with the Chancellor of the );:chequer on the subject of reducing the Tax on foreign wool. lie, with them arrence of the Committee, had reduced to writing a statement which embraced the Mein facts af fecting t'ae general interoas of the different briinchre bf the wool and woollen trades, which he submitted, in the shape of a Report, to the consideration of the present meeting. The follbwing lie. port was then read : _ . . . . • •• 'I hat In pursuance of the Resolutions of the General Meeting, they have used their utmost encleavouts, bout by representations to his 51ajesty's Government aoti by interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to obtain a return of duty of all wools, duty paid, remaining in title original packages. •• They adopted that COURe p.inly from the declaration of his Majesty's Govetoment, that it any return was made h trou:d not extend beyond that line, and partly from the difficulty, if nut ab. solute intpossibility, to define the proportions ot foreign woad, either hi pmeess of manufacture or maaufactured, and from the full conviction th.tt in order to get any return it was necessary to con: fine that return to Wool in the bags as imparted. " Finding at an it ICS' which a deputation of the Committee had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer oh the 25th inst., at which they were aceoinw.tried by Lord Edward Somerset, the Hou. W. La;,eellew, Sir W. Guise, Ban., Sir J. Lethbridge, Bert., J. S. Wortley, Esq" 51. P.. Thomas Wilson, Esq. 111.1'...• G. Brydges,' Esq. M.P., R. 11. alVieS, Esq. M.P., and Cul. Irebb, that the Chancellor of the Exchogur: had received memorials front the ma nufacturing districts, praying • that the holders of manufactured goods might be put upon the sante footing as the holden of wool,' he hal deterinitted not to glee a return to one branch which could not be extended to all ; and seeing that all hope of obtaining back was at an end, the Committee esrnestly requested the Chanc;llor of the Exchequer to let his intentions as to die reduction of the tax be made public sx sown as possible, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer consequently stater) in the House of Commons lest night, that he should recommend the tax to be reduced from 6d. to on the IVO' of ritliterubet next, and Insult 3d. to ld. on the Ilth of December." Mr. RIL/Y proposed, and Mr. HAZARD seconded, a resedu don "That the report be now read and adopted," which was ear. dad unaoiinowsly. . . . . . _ Mr. Mout.uex said, that he hoped printed copies of the re port would be cuter.sivtly enrol itcd throughout the manufacturing districts; and expressed his apprehensions that the tax would be again imposed a. no very distant period. The (:tint lima,: amid, fur his own part he thoug'•: the fears of the gentleman were groundless. lie hoped the tax was now en tirelyset at rest. A Gentleman stated that he did not believe the tax was act at rest, particularly the tax upon long wool. It was then moved, and seconded, •• That the Report be print ed, and circulated throughout the utanul•xturing districts."--Car tied unanimously. It was then propo.ed, •• That the thanks of the meeting be given to the Chaucellor of the Exchequer for granting the inter view, and to die different Members of Parliament who attended on the occasion;" and carried unanimoubly. It was next resolved, " That the Comnottee be requested to at tend the of the Bill through the House." The fo lowing Resolution was then proposed :—" That the thanks of this Meeting be given to John Maitland, Esq who, fur the space of forty years, has, with great honour to himself, and with as much advantage to the trade, been the Chairman of the Wool and Wool len Trades, and during that long period has devoted his time and active exertions to measures which have greatly contributed to increase and prosperity, and whose ...buena from indisposition this meeting deeply laments." The Cam 'mac begged to offer a few words before he put the motion. For the last seven yeses he had witnessed the unremitting exertions of his absent friend, to the interests of the Wool and Woollen Trades in all their branches; and, in all their fluctuations, he had proved himself the steady friend of that branch of industry. The trades were chiefly Indebted to him for the reduction of the present tax. Ile therefore cordially supported the motion. It was carried unanimously. It was resolved, that the Resolutions be inserted in the different Journals. The Chairman having left the Chair, a very complimentary vote of thanks liras passed to James Bischoff; Esq. for his conduct in ,he Chair, and ilia ;. aloes excrtians un behalf of the Wuol an d ‘Voollen Trades on all occasions. The Meeting then adjourned. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. fide, lege, rt cred:. " England expects every man to do his dun."—Loon NELSON. " Every body's business is nobody's."—Paux Kam. Srit—The British navy consisted, in 1814, according to Steck": Ida. of 1,040 vessels, of which 1139 have been condemned, sold, and broken up, between 1814 sad l&.'U, aid during that time 439 have been built, which seems corroborated by the Navy Estimates, stating the navy nowimnaists of 529 vessels. Here I conceive is ample, but melancholy, proof of the incal culable danger, sans, and loss, arising from dry rot ; neverthe less the Comptroller of the Navy lately stated toy 'treatise on it was all talse, but it Is equally easy for any man to say so of the Bible. Pray, then, bane Navy Boards voluntarily destroyed ou► old navy and built another (at the loss of so many millions sterling) ? or are these really the effects of naval dry rot ? The dry rut certainly originates from building with " bark bar. vest timber" (contrary to the statute of King James II.), whereby at the rate of MI worth of oak is saerilicAttl, in order to save the value of 251. in tan. The Henna, Howe, Nelson, Rippon, Boyne, Dreadnought, Queen Charlotte, and many others, are dry rotten, and all the new ones must shortly share the same fate, es no human power can ar rest the secret action of dry rot, when ships are built with sappy thither. I undertake to prove these and many more alarming facts, if a Parliamentary Committee be appointed, or at the bar of the House, if this vital business undergoes examination forthwith, in nine to avert Britannia's Ban g er, by reforming oar dock-yards, and rebuilding with winter hewn oak, or all other moans may prove too late, if longer neglected, after ancient and modern experience ; because America and France are actively and diligently eniployed in multiplying their navies on the very principles which were finally abolished in England about thirty-four years since. Under al! these must deplorable events and prospects, surely it is Sir Thomas B. Martin's duty (not in justice to me, for I freely forgive him, but in justice to our native land) to give the public something snore satisfactory lhan his ipar disii that dry rot has de clined, or been generally cured by salt water, coal tar, &c. ; which none can credit who impartially take time and trouble to examine into these particulars, on this occasion, which is of greater COMO quenee than all others for the preservation of British ships and crews, and coussquently of trade and navigation, in defence of our sa:red liberty, laws, and moat gracious Monarch's throne, who has frequently declared, in Parliament, his constant anxieties to hand. these invaluable blessings, under Divine Providence, unimpaired down to posterity. I have much more to add, but I must conclude by appealing to every Edi t or is the kingdom, iv:so inserted Sir Thomas's charge against me, in full reliance that they will insert also this, my answer, pot bond public.), toe without due naval reformation we shall forfeit Britannia's trident, which Britons base so long and so proudly waved round the globe with universel envy and ad miration. I inn, Sir, yours truly, JOHN BURRIDGE. . . . - Nelson's-square, March 26, 1824. - ----- --- Another bark harvest is close at hand, and I write; from Irre sistible impulse, tin time to save noble oaks (styled Kings of Fo- rests), from fatal axes this spring, and let Lad-owners pause and reflect before the fatal blows are struck, thattras which appear cen turies growing to full sites and perfection, generally consume (un der our modern fatal system) in eight or tan years, and frequently with incredible rapidity, quite unlike " Old liaigland's wooden walls." _ _ IV henever this business is investigated. I am convinced the charges made agaitist me will rather apply to another gentleman's book (although it is dedicate!, bylertnisaion, to bard 3lelville, and the Navy Board arc subscribers for the author lholdirk • Secretaryship) rumens. that winter. wr oak is heavier than bark harvest timber, and contains more sap than ;he latter. In abort, he attempts to prove that " the laws of nature cease to reign ;" ' whereas I prove that suirtmer.hcwri oak is much heavier in my book, and that every 74. gun ship built with summer hewn oak is above 340 tons heavier than if built with winter oak, so that every 74 carries a cargo of 360 tons of sap, alias dry rot. " Sic Misfit gloria marlin !" A copy of this circular has been transmitted by me to the Admi. ralty, Navy Boards, his Majesty's Commiasioners of Woods, Fp. rests, &c. bud the Hight lion. George Canning. COMPARATIVE REVIEWS Or TUX BRITISM XA•Y. The Niivy of 1793 consisted of 123 sail otitis Los, including 12 Bt.e. Ditto 1814 ditto 131 ditto 17 do.° Ditto 1820 ditto 149 ditto 22 cw,lo3only rated eeserthy in 1040, beiniiltus than in 153% at which era 113 were calculated fit for sew garnet ; whereas, in effect, the number was 10 less, because there were 110 MOM building us 1020 than 1703. All dories in 1793 consisted of 411 work, or 4413 . ,1134 tons. Ditto 1814 ditto 1,610 ditto 833,111311 do. Ditto 1820 ditto NIP ditto 3:34.237 do Bowen 1314 and 1820 the Royal Navy las inentaaed sod de creased, viz.:— Broken up, mold, and Bolit mode:med. Ships of the line kll 144 litotes, bloom brigs, ke. 330 733 4.1 v 71 SW 71 Remain a ear.6l4 navy 418 1,11.1 R untUed 1814 far , or naming from Stier s List , BB (hand Total in 1614 1,041 !Imam supensbundanee of seaterlias to Moot, _aad asp to. marks scent notch tir:e and yaw limits must defer for swabs, oppbentoite, except our Nand dicers condescend to east a (boa at then. • *Ad Idlys V. r i'll 4111? It i e s Eeet of three months helfr ai g l o the retieselgreo his y a laud forces. so the Nth incledirig hew toter, on the Irish astsbileireamet, coanswitee eh Tow day. the Ilith of April next. The 7th (the Quess's Own) ftinsent of light b dragoor(h i t um), hot received ciders to me we Monday next. Mtn to Hampton CO.lll, where it will segue on the Est ism. A troop of the llth headers. wailer Ike COMORO ef C. O'Donnell, marched into liaiduse• rententa f , note from Canterbury to Chichester, to relives it troop of ie 1111iontle hussars. TO THE EDITOR or T uk limns,' PRE3S. Sta,—Perceiving in your Paper of Saturdayellses dog to the coneeetstiou ut the new CillarCil of *- t es well, 11, as en inhabitant, request to be permitted tO adios glee le therein stated of the untrurthy exclusion of nutty trespable habitants, that it has been ind us t t ioddy cimulout firm the desk, that this church is to be coaitudVreti as the speaal property of those alone. who ``as betorvnientionedf subscribe so 'Meier ac atm mtestions. May 1 ash, Sir, by whom, bed at Whore Experts' this structure has been e r ec t el, and with wham ma? tbft Govern.' meatre advance is to be paid ? if understand ri from emeog, and am possessed of common intellect, I conclude did Wow mot posed °mike parishioners at large, who, by tide decree, are (eery many) denied admission, end the building claireqd r prrrpro. W perty : hence such right or ezetusion is derived., 1 imaginal. your smiepoodcut Journal to learn, and am, Sir, yours, • AN iNIiAItITANT OF ALBANVAPLAChit Tilt.Te 11 0. rtV -STR 'Err . On Rate.rder John barley, &lea ;Mos Mrieree, woll 3 lWerght . beer the klagt.trates, in custody of Avis and W. elinid‘ sue picion of having Lurglarioesl7 entered tale dwelling at Aleut: Choise and Ryan of No. 4. New-ttreet, rovenr-geelles, during the night of Mond a y ley, and stealing therein a vele, a( proreny, co:meting of plate, a watch, treeing apparel, tortoise shell comb., perfumery. tobacco, ttec. The prosecutors occupy the bowie In question Jolntry„ Mr. Choise as a tobacconist. and Mr. Ryan ea • perfitaserldit , lower part of the house being divided into two distinct shops fie that norpose. They entered upon the premises about two eeethk ago: •sd the priewrr is their landlord. OA Monday last h.• celled spas 3lrs.Choise. in the absence of her huVersod. and borrowed tkehl 111, the key of the back landing windily, saying be wished to p w re, pair the leads, and inspitt the gutters. In a fee minuets Mee. wards he came down stares, returned the key to her Ltd went strait When the families rose next morning they found the hawk tad been robbed during the night, by some persons who had mend that wi.tdew ; and as he had borrowed the key only th! day bthrr, upon what apps red to them to be a strange preteste d they natu rally suspected him of some participation in the robbery'. A seenk warrant was obtained in consequence, and the olEcers pieerseded ter his residence, at his father-in-Isere house, 36, Breok-seest, Hal. born, where they found a quantity of Puritan tobacco, lieu Mpg nigh perquille. a coigne of amber cigar tubes, some astobs, a bottle of Nlecaosst oil, &c. whist the prosecutors identidsd som e of the property SWIM from them. The primmer was thee, end the offices took him into custhdy, and they feud NW of glue combs concealed in his fob, underneath his itateb. Mr. ALLEY attended before the Magistrates en i* bthalf, and crosa.examined the witnesses and the Priadhar hints&a a number of questions to them touching the lieselbaky of their swearing to the property produced, tho u he Ass espeitin* <ad.. noncd against so doing. In his defence, hi said he bought the Mimeo° from a waggles in the street, and the other things of a yew* man "kit wham be was intimate. but whose residence be I'M sot know., • He wet fully committed to Newgate Ike triaL game weeks ago, Mr. Vekiii*e Grandsons ba y ' acceustist the Marlborough Savings' Beak, abseeaded from MI inira mad a hand-bill was published, Asia: with minima heads and felonies on the mosso of the end amiss a reward he Ids apprehension. One if theme We she heads of Awls. a patrol, en Saturday. and r hellr i lieA AIR be andiett ib l e ttli met Mr.Vslentme Orandiess Daywi Weed akin the He was immediately brought beim ze tacitly admitted that he was the penes In the and Darla was ordered to carry him dens ie 111 st coach. Accounts from Demerara to the 14th nit. eMannibiaild intelligence of the arrival of his Majesty's pirdad Is 4111 Missionary Smith. It is rather a singular that the pardon arrived on the day on which be his last, and, we are sorry to say, the recognition or hljs innocence was never known to the unfortunata nano} was received by the Governor on the morning of the OdO February. Smith was then in the agonies of dolt& • . The &collate lately from Egypt state, the rite/ of the cultivation of cotton, and the general impre tmsedie 1n that country, exceed the moat !=a%uine espestaiiises which were entertained : it has atuucad Hriaah and merchants to such an extent; a that sem of = L i t specie has lately been shined fo r gnat quartet: • Ur money was taken on board ships of war to Malta, rind from thence re-shipped to Pent. Last weekabove 1,000 - bags of cotton from this quarter were sold is the city; ant at Liverpool, we understand, the arrivals during a walk; have frequently amounted to 2,000 and 3,000 bags of dee finest cotton wool. Within the last four years the revenue of Inland has decreased half a million. Lox DON Balm; e.—(From a Corrrespondent.)—Thcre has been so much said about the coat of this untakingo. that we hope the manager thereof will avoid all eapenscs. which are not absolutely necessary ; and we wish to re. mind them that stone to make a road is not subject' to say duty. Although every road is not a bridge, yet every bridge: over which carriages pass is a road, and therefore this. duty ought not to be paid merely because it is rnandetli... u has been the case with some other bridges. The saving of this duty will make a difference of 20,0001. a sum too large to be pale away without the inatureat consideration ;. • much less then ought it to be given away. The Lord Chancellor is sitting for his portrait to the. , President of the Royal Academy, and to Kr. Sievier for . his bust. IL A w Paossor to tc s.—The lamented death of Sir The- mu Plumer leaves to the nomination of Government the Master. ship of the Rolls, the second dignity In the Coon of Chancery: Sir Thomas, who was a conscientious and honourable man, eosin; --' sound lawyer, perhaps accelerated his dissolution by the nersci • ! verance with which he continued to discharge Ms public duties; long alter his health had been seriously allhetel. It is belieie'd that he will be succeeded in his high efSoe by the present Lora Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; as serlnout which w il l • ar er id great convenience than at present gains his Lordship's ••• attendant* as Lord Deputy in the House of P In this evert Sir Robert Copley will of course be raised W dee vacant Chief Justiceship, and Mr. N'ether e ll will b ecc in e Ansemy-General. It - has been for some time understood that Mr. nodal, who evinced • so much legal talent on the late Queen's trial, would be mails So- .. licitor-tieneral on the drat visaing. As Lard Glares accurate • acquaintance with the law of Scotland renderehim peculiarly at to. preside on appeals from the decisions of the Scottish Courts. so his .. thorough knowledge of the law of real Ti e ? longotarkial • him out, to all persons acquainted wi t h i ; i ce , as col. culated to adorn the Equity He . His es inteUeetual • acuteness is great ; his rise to his masses ameba has been the result "of steady persevering talent ; and be Mat this time as le warkable for unremitted exertion u he OW wberi be firm came to the bar. We are not ablicieptly sassommat With the history of the Court of Chancery to kniqr slumber sheillemership of the Rolls has • 'use been held by • rem; bet In IMlNP.Olifteee. A .......--..t..a, within the option of Sir Wen. Groot SlNlGAgiellfs before be retired from the seat be so and so ably Is[ The (Mice is, atell• events, one of high rank • and Lediellerd, If be removes to . I it from the Common V kola triple a mop la professional prem. dence.—Costrier. EIRCUTION.--011 Monday, pellhallal to hie sentence, Janis Rridgeman was hanged at the imp be bans of the New =. 0861, for the murder of IlMor Going. The astasppy man resigned and pay for his fate i be heat that he avowed his guilt in the mil, tiediately before his anneaden ; he confessed that he was at the imirder, but that he did bet Ile any of the shin% The clergymen who aniseed him sepses& hs their robot. This is the third pawn who has been enamel fee this of[ nor ; and wa trust that the erect his fate must Isom pledeced on an immense multitude who were present. will Il k qe:Ve lithe hest e ff ects and tend to let those mutable and creatures se-, that the vengeance of God and the laws, Memo a Moment delayed, is certain to perwle the persuasion if Awe outrages which dispp our country—Limerick Obeeveer. COLONIZATION.-10•the Cauliablitt Genetic of the 7th of Deconber last, we find the following paragraph :—Tbe Government of the Republic, in virtue tithe special aid*. rite of Congress given on the 7th of June last,' has granted to the ancient friends and servants of Colombia. bettors Herring, Graham. and Powlet. of the commercial house of London, a contract entered into with tladr agent on the Vitas of the preceding Notember, 110u,o01) filsegadas of land (a quarter of an any, or an extent of ground re. quiring *freers of seed), with t e design of promoting an emigration useful to Europe. laid lands shall be of the best quality to be found in the provinces of 111criels, Caraceas, and Chow. - - - - Si At the last circuit arum Cartra county, the case of Parnell Moody r. SlOsh Baker, excited a. pe. culiar interest. The Ceyere _Re / a/Mires says, it co n cerne. the character of the young lady, which bad been slandend under peculiar circumstances. Special damages were laid in the iou of marriage betwees the plaintiff and the sou et the defendant. After a long iorestigatiott, during who the defendant Made ne attrtapts to 11117 the thb words laid, the jury found a 'edict 1430 dollars, and coats; a fair wanting lurk yopt r. i iovvedgation, during whir* •. a to prate int+ trial: of M. verdict for the plaintiff, fee wanting to slanderers—Myr ria as a. lie OM far ate 1.- 4011 ; Ma 110 i eget It• OD& Da. riOVO aims r 111 rile woe. MW low g d ow- l: FIPS irwf ltew sPlo Peg' car P's garel