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14 an Is WAWA, rice 33 A GRAMMAR 01 the LATIN TONGUE. Fee the C+e of Schools. By 1. JONES, Sather of the Greek Grammar. Proofed foe J. Slawnsau, tit. Poultry. nu Gramma! it iepreseniedorbilti it is adapted for the • 4ilet of Mealiest attegle lestuer, by its simplicity, pretisiou, and brevity, is, at tits woe titar y calcistatipl to 'pierce& the philasettcal teacher, by lb* utioclby awl solidity or its .Prinitt • . • . "CHRISTMAS VACATION. • TO SCHUOLMAS MRS EXCLUSIVELY. Just published, I A ii. aTALOG UEI of DICTIONARIES. Gosereasro. Greek and Lads Classics, ud other Weser with a selection of the best %Turks, adapted faiths isayetureaseut sad reereatiou of y smog persons, as Preoests. or yrta•-loasks, whirls are suw mellow, wholesale, by Laskiastsa i Spa r sad Co. Temple of tbe Muses, Fins bery-assare. This day is published, price Is. AN ACCOUNT of the SEVERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANIES ESTA BUSHED in LON DON, coistaiaiai a Trey of their respective Merits lid Advaatages. By FRANCIS DAILY. Sold by Jobs Rieliardsos, Royal Exchange. I,4NCIRORNE'S PLUTARCH L BY WRANGHAII. Tina day ss published, neatly prided ins vulvales I sail). pica 11. ilia. boards, LOLifiTARCIR'S LIVES: Translated from the risisisll Greets ; wills Notes, Critical and Historical ; sad.a Lies of Plutarch: liky JOHN LA 6iiiii - it NE. D.D. and WI LLI A U LANG. HORNE, A M. A new Edition, In eight Tolson, wit► Correction sad Addition, by t►e Rey. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, Matta far .1. Mammas •' F. C. and J. Riving-tea ;W. Molar sad Una; Wilkie sad Robinson; J. Walker; G. Robissos• Cada and Davies; F. Wingrave; Longman, Moody RC#l, and Orshe• Derma and Harvey • " B. C..thiby - sod Cu .; J. Richardson; J. X. Richardsna ;J. Booker ; yk, Parry, sad Kingsbury; J. Illstray; J. Reichard; Z &hairy ; J. ; J. Faulk,; Mates and Hewer ; bad Wits es wad son, Turk. Of Atom may be had, anetlicr editiso, handsuisali twisted is Ins eals ars. price 31. as. a' 4, ,,* The Asthor of as Essay upon Parratery, addressed to Mr. PiRCILY•L, 1. illitirlllllld, that tbere le too 1111eciafre la big etnapositioa for the *abject. Tlte bearitifal little Poe., tatitled-. 0 77i• Placenl;" alias f! re. i•ibe ef ay Mut," dedicated to Lord Et.non, by . • asettlealaa, oboe. writing is midi hire, sad who sights to become a Practitromer at the Old Maley, bas bees received. tba Eros= epos Mts. CLaaara Garters, subscribed . but that Lady to Calmat WARDLIt, and reeouneseaded ma a rye for a aerials purpose, has too sharp a sting is its tii oaaolideriag the wive rendered by that Cioatisasaa to 16 asestry. M The Ssigging lieu," sr " Patriotism Rewarded," ems*, lapetted, fur a wmiir reseme. THE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, JaNCALY 4. It is raid that the repents relative to Italia be e/ease ever day retort alariniug. The measures of aeon eiliatian hithito lied been nuritecessful, *bd . the invulaorslination of the troops iv said to bevel broken lust into sets of great violence.. We trust, 'believer, that there is no funadatiou for that part ter the report which states that Su. G. BARLOW had Seen 'melted by the troops and put to death, and that Lord !Witty:, was kept in close ceufinerucut. , His Ifs'Env's Levee was very thinly attended, yestrnlay. Neither the Eel of IYILIT3IO tt o tosetho Earl of CAMDEN was present ; and the re port gains ground, that they are both to resign iiii usediataly.—Are lately mentioned, that the spirit of jealousy and disenioa •survirm the removal of Mr. Caesium and Loki C 4STLSIIt Sail, and that Mr. PSI/4;1,1f AL and Marquis WILLS/LEY hive already tilled a little..—This stateasest. the Treasury Jour nals have ventured to contradict ; bat it is not therefore the less true. They will contradict every thing unfavourable to their employers. They pledged themselves, that the most perfect harmony prevailed its the bete Cabinet. They asserted stiffly stud stoutly, and spins estAority, that the reports of the eaisteoce of its feuds and jealousies were totally groundless. np to the very moment when they were prechsioned upon Pitney Heath, at the mouth of the pistol, by the two Secretaries of State. Ise our peepers of yesterday and Toml iy, we gave pert of the correspondence hedgers Mr. JACKSON and Mr. SMITH. We this day give the correspond- Face with Mr. Easels' which preceded it, and is ma terra' to • complete view of the subject. The conclu sion of the Correspondence between Mr.J scaso* and Mr. &INTL we beiieve, has not been yet received. We will defer oar observations at length upon it un til the whole is before oar readers. From the papers published, it appears that Mr. J ACKSO/4 went to America without instructions to temili:r any precise terms fur the general arrai.gcinent of differences. We are not surprised at the deep and eager in treed which this country, sod own of all parties, appear to take in the discussions now pending, or, rather, we regret to say, suspended, beyond the Atlatitici. They are, a we reflect nit the Pi:ll:dim of Spain, of Holland, and of the whale Enropesis Continest, of vital import:ince. If N.41'4140,1 could, or can involve us in a ritiiture with the American States. he will str.ke a ,evrrer blow at nor commercial prosperity, than by all his edicts a id coati...cation% Nor would the calamity end there. Are we aware of the defenceless state in which the peewit' imbecile and infatuated Cabinet has left Canada ? Do we know of what number of troops the garrisons of Quebec and of Montreal moist ? Those important possessions bang by blender thread. and may, we fear, have been lost at Talaveiia avid at Waleheren. Mr. Maoist)* knows .101 their rtspei:tive strength, though we men to - be ifiaorant or it. Is tlie siege of C i kebcc. ' by Colonel Mos roomier. iu 1777, already obli terated (rein the recollection of our Ministers ? Or does their retrospective information not carry them so fur back iu the present reign ? We have already lost the OCCIISiOII, which mmy never return, of militia/log the Island of Guadaloupe, in come-. (pence of our most thlwise ditc,irences with the American Government. For, in the present deli cate, and, indeed, almost desperate state of our ne gociat ions at Washington, our Comusander-in-Chief at Halifax dares not spare, or withdraw, any part of the military force in that quarter. The fact is, that neither Canada, nor Nova Scotia, nor New Brunswick, are secure for an instant, after war commences with America. They would not, in all probability, remain subject three years to the Bri tish sceptre. Our Ministers, in addition to their duels, expeditions, intrigues, and suisfortuues, will find their culpability not a little aggravated, if they Minx war to the banks of the St. Lawrence. The pro.ligious length of the Correspondence, and other documents, which have already appeared in the course of the short communicatious between our Minister and the American Secretary, as well as the degree of uncertainty or obscurity that per vades certain parts of Mr. ERMINE'S instructions or explanations, while charged with the negocis lion, render it impossible to pass any decided opi nion on the question, in a comprehensive sense. —That there exists, in the American Execu tive Government, a spirit by no means placable or amicable towards Great Britain, cannot, as we fear, be denied. Without entering into the causes and reasons of that fact, or examining how far it was natural, and, perhaps. in some measure , venial or excusable ; the knowledge of such a cir cumstance ought to have led a prudent Ministry to have been peculiarly careful not to fan the spark into a flame. They were warned to be on their guard, in the selection of the person whom they should send out to America. Nay more, we can as sert, that it was plainly hinted to Mr. Caxistea, that Mr. Jamul( would not be acceptable; as his well-kuowu conduct, during his mission to the Prince Regent of Monastic, had made an unfa vourable impression beyond the Atlantic. The same persons who gave to His Msatorr's servants this wholesome advice, pointed oat to the Secre tary for Foreign Affairs, the, Member of the Corps Diploetatique who would have been most agreeable to the PRESIDENT and Members of the Congress; we mean Mr. Lstrros. That Gentle. man was, indeed, recommended for. the service, by common seism. and by every possible considera tion. Farther advanced in life than Mr. Jecnsolt, calin, temperate, phlegmatic, caul:toms, silent, he possessed, f ro m constitution and natural formation of mind, the leading requisites for a negotiation so liable to rupture. But, in additionsto all these, lie joined local knowledge and information, obtained by a lung diplomatic residence on the Delaware. It warp thought sufficient here to reply, that is Mr. JAMIoN 'tinting upon the list for foreign employ ment." Thus! our Ministers act. And can we wonder at the consequences ? We shall have too many occasions to resume this subject, with more ample information. It undoubtedly is not, or was not, usual, in the European Courts, es they ex isted previous to the French Revolution, to sus pend, or to termivate, a treaty, because the person, or expressions. ei t f the Envoy, bad given umbrage, or offence, to the Government. Yet we may recol lect, thist CATHERINI the lids for a personal act of our Envoy. Lord MACARTS LT, at which she was hurt, insisted ou his recall from Petersburgh. Lord NORTR menaced the Prussian Minister, Count MALTzAti.'with breaking oft* all communication with the Court of Berlin, if he were not, in like manner, recalled. Even the prejudices of the American Government, President, and Public Functioueries, should have been respected. On the style, composition, and respective arguments of Mr. JAclitlON and Mr.SKITH. in their correspond. enre, we shall reserve ourselves to give an opinion wken more completely in possession of the mate rials on which it ought to be formed. The letters of our Minister are marked by sound, close, and se vere animadversion. Conciliation don not charac terise them. Yet eon they Dot be accused of as perity, or of a wish to widen the breach. In con eisenes, amid compression they seem to us to be very tirfteieut. Mr. SMI'M has there all the advantage and the auperioritj. It has always been the policy of Bell APARTS, whatever might be his conduct to other states, and whatever hi, disregard of the opinion of the world, to conciliate the favour of his own subjects. The action- to o liosh he has been driven, iii the pursuit ai 1111 inordinate ambition, have rendered it impos sible for loin to ecocral his character from the world at I al ge, or even from the thinking part of his own station ; tout the great body of the French people have acipites-e.l in his conduct, because its bad parts lwre hitherto been displayed towards foreign powers, and every good ingredient appropriated to the lane navel neptien. If he thought proper to plunder Rolland. It was easy enough to paint out a justafic.ition to those who were sure to benefit by that pkiler. If the fall of Austria, or Prussia. or Spun, was necessary to his views, it was not diffi cult to reconcile his own sal,iects to that necessity ; even if the &post ion of the Pore himself was thought expcdtrut, ihi. dl consequences of his tea poral poirer upon his spititual character, pr•aented such a reason is was irresistible to Chose who did not care aOg fur his tidiness. But, in all 1 . 1)04 . instances, the people of France were speeu4o4 upon distant objects, which did not very iota k. concern themselves; and which, perhaps, as far a. they did concern themselves, promised too • immediate benefit to , the Exchequer, to permit the • cool abstract of right and wrong to occupy much of their consideration. In his divorce from the Em press Juserati NE, BUNAPA:ITE seems to hare for gotten his former policy. Its error was mint in ne glecting to assign some reason for it, founded upon the good of the state ; but in forgetting that it was too much of a domestic question, too much within the country, within its feelings and prejudices, to be hazarded at all. •The violation of a great moral principle abroad, may pass over, without reproach or notice, while the disregar.l of a poiut cot etiquette at home, is punished with exemplary indignation. —How dangerous, then, for a man in Bona- PAMITh'S situation, to introduce a question, not of etiquette, but of feeling,—a question upon which the understanding of every individual in the coun try must be exercised, and from which the reason, mill, what is worse, the passions of all, will be occu pied in drawing inferences. Certainly, if there was any thing amiable in this man's character, it was his sup posed attuchment to the &tram; that, we are per suaded, went further to recommend him to the affec tions of his subjccts than any other circumstance. A people may be dazzled by spleadid talents and important victories, but it is the couternplatian of private domestic virtues which engenders that af fectionate respect for the great, which partakes something of the nature of friendship. Boma- PARTE has done wrong to open the eyes of the peo ple to this delusion. It may be said, that it was not without the consent of the EIIPIIIISS and her family, lie came to the determination. True, it appears so; Jostrutan has made a fine harangue about great sacrifices and public good ; but who com Posed, who dictated that harangue who but her " august Consort" himself? Why did Jo. mentos deliver it ? because she dare not do othkr. wise. It is extremely improbable indeed, that she concurred willingly in such a measure. lothepeadeat of that reluctance with which a asperiar sittuitios is always relinquished, whatever trouble, inconve nience, or danger, may be attached to in she bad to struggle against those conjugal affections which many years cohabitation must bare strengthened. It is easy to talk of magnanimity; bat if try there was an act ascribed to magnanimity, of which it became us to be suspicious, it is sure• ly when a wife surrenders up 'her husband on a skikt-hausting speculation. B4llllArAitti has power enough to account for the acquiescence of Josseutsx, without ascribing it to any su pernatural effort of patriotism. But, if it may be permitted us to question the magnanimity of the asinine herself, how much more should we hesitate to ascribe it to her relatives, who have taken a part, to all appearance, as public-spirited and disinterested ? Can any one suppose that they, submitted willingly to the displacing of their great advocate with the FItENC/1 Estrzaoa, from a 1.1 , • tootles) which gave her such power, amtthem.such interest, importatice, and consideration ? Sup. posing, then. that JOSEPAINI was induced by magnanimity, was it from the same priaciple that all her family agreed? No; it requite tho powerful assistant, fear, to effect such a co.ciparaie tion. Magnanimity, as a motive of human eons . duct, has not such a catching commnaicati►e im pulse; it acts too rarely and too distinctly to be ascribed commonly and universally to mankind.— The family and adherents of the EMPRKIIII must be hostile to such an arrangement—and they are no insignificant party. But what will be its effect upon the people in general ? Will they not see it in its true light—as the vicious whim, or wicked policy, of a Monarch, intoxicated by success ? And, beholding his chief, his only claim to morality, thrown aside, will they not relax in their attach ment ? It is not always in the power of specious pretences to deceive and cajole a nation ; and though the French may be inferior in thought to others, it would be too bad to conclude that they are inferior in feeling also. Yestenlay a Court of Directors we. held at the East lo,li t House, when the ship. Sir Stepdea Lieskingturs, Captain Jaws liar, was stationed for Boiabay and Madras, instead of Bombay di rect. The following Captains were sworn into the cam:nand of their respective ships, yin. Capt. Starrork, Prestos ; and Capt. Ritasoka, nook ; for Madras sod Board. Captass Joha Locke, jan. David Scott; for Madras and Colo". Thr Court adjourned at seven o'clock till to morrow. Lord 111'AT:trims gets the First Dragoon Guards. and Lord WILLIAM BLNTINCI succeeds Lord II ATxFtsl D, us the _oth Light DrigOOtiv. Governor SONTAG. Earl Ustuousta. General RAY (Royals). Gen. Moscattrrs, Cul. WALKER. Stith. and Col. STEwast. all from Waldman, have arrived in town. The 79th, or Cameronian Highlanders, marched into Portsmouth, on Frid:y and Saturday Igst..for embarkation for Portugal. Captain Lirojvka's troop of Horse Artillery, destined for. the same ser vice. still remains at Canterbury•, mid it is tspceted will not march till such tune as the infantry are embarked at Portsmouth. We geed hardly add, that the destination of these troops mill probably be changed, iii consequence of the events which have recently happened in ludia. • . . - '4... _dlr . .. -1 - : / . • ...' V . % • 7 ....-.1./". / I ' ....- . • - .♦ . es. ....., •-• • A 4 14 rt . ..• -.b. , . - e — l \ ' IFN. go • a ‘ • 1 COVENT GARDEN THEATICE. 'Dr. Toyota's Tragedy of The Revenge,iavt n i t iiltiXt e he Theatre compl e t e ly by the risiii; of 1 1 curtain, and the audience manifested nincii 11 „ ptohation, on seeing Mr. Kttssce coun t f oray) oh th e s t age , as t h e representative or Zeng o , fn the first time this sesson. During the early pa rt his performance, however. we were much ilisapp,,„, ed. in observing, that he laboured under so sev en ., cold us to be unable to give all that effect to character we have before lens him impart. 'rh o languor of indisposition precluded the possibility 4 uniform exertion; an d it was on l y in select part that the spirit of the author called forth the 4 4 rivalled powers of KERISLIt. Yet, as the pia thicken .4, sod the actor warmed, Mr. Kelmt began to display some of the fi nest t ouc h es • which the histrionic art is su sce ptible; and, toward the do-e of the play, he towered above the expect s tious of the house. In the last act, particularlij, was very grand and impressive, andextosteci ay plume to such a pitch, as to cause the loam of oil tine passages. The scene with .Ilonsa was ed am bly Riven: The passageK-- . " Burn for 'oar use---1 lire bet to oblige you. • Kau*, then, 'twos 1 !" and " Your wife is inaueeet, that's owe rapture to as ; And 1, 11.11 you of it, that's another;" were so electrifying in their effect, at to draw de after a pause of admiration, repeated thunder. applause. The 'expression of the word " indeed. when Mentso declares that he never gave mort.i fence, was also exquisite, and highly apple —Mr. C. Kuitardi performed Alone. and elry we merely say that he shared liberally and dr•ett4 edly in the epprobation bestowed upon his lint* we are by no mesas doing hyo justice. Ile p al ,, trayed the distraction of naiad. and highly-amnia lore of the noble Spaniard, to admiration; and wag of his transitions, in the scenes with Leoriorr were deserving of the utmost praise. The Liouri of Miss NORTON also challenges great commend. tion.—Though rather too food of the ntuado ore, and the declamatory manner of speech, ye, 'the parts where tenderoess, love and feeling, ser e required, she forgot to act. and performed is admiration. Baiirivos. in Dow Cork,. ar.l Met Humming. in this 'magnificent part of Labelle, did silt that their characters demanded, and is. ceived. with Ibe principals. the 'Letitia et andience. • The new pastoisiste succeeded. to the great jr, of thejnetiable part of the honor. of which thtn was a veep greet proportion. Her Royal Highness . the Princess of WALT oo Monday evening. at Kensington Palmy. Most superb ball and *upper to all the Nobitn acid. Fashion ones in London. The arrangeraris were in the first style of magnificence. His Royal Highness the Duke of You retinae to town, yesterday. from Outlands. Teas Duke of Rau itswicit has ordered as elegem newserrice of plate. .. There was no Cabinet dinner yesterday. The Duke of Baueswice's sous were at Ca. vent-garden Theatre, on Tuesday evening. H is Royal Highness the Prince of WALL; gs a trawl dinner, yesterday, at Carlton-house. Earl and Counters CtiouttomieLaT are gut to their seat at Thames-Ditton. The PORTUGUESE Atreaset►o} gave a grand dinueio.eateiday. at hi► house, in South-Audlt). stmt. We email but rejoice to see, that elegant sot ornamental part of dress (ostrich feathers) so our aerially worn, which cannot fail to be the ewe, while Miss But.Loca's. of Pell-mall, Caledonia Cap, continues tt be so much the rage. Th beautiful head-dress is equally appropriate for hot full and undress, by changing the oresameots oul _ _ „-• AS BONAPARTE has declared solemnly that ne d retains alibis ejection for his old wife, it is imps• Bible that he can he fond of a young one. Colonel BEAU•YotNT and Eundy are expected next wrek at their house its Portman-square, hem Yurk• shire. Sir Arsitsesu Hintz returned yesterday to his house in Ffilkiltrert, Berkeley-square. Lord Sousa' is espected at his house in Car•a dish-minor?, the latter end of next week. trots NA seat et Kyr-rate. The Marquis of DOVIMSNIIII returned on Toes. rlsy to his mother's bruise. in Hanover...4oam, froill Ireland. Dr. A. PSIVIF., late Dean of Ely. happening no Irfay to call a Clergyman a fool, who, in fr.t, little otherwise, the latter threatened to cowl" t• the Bishop► Do." repli7l.l the Dean. •• *hewn you please, sad his Loii;.:iip will confirm you." The Countess of SliArrussuar had a &poi. yesterday, at her bouse, in Puttland-place, which was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Bourioug, Juttasroms, and seseral other Fashionable,. Lord and Lady Bu LK &Ler have returned to their house in Stanhope-street, May-Fair, from Engle 6.ld.green. The Countess Dowager of Sgrrow is indi.red witha cold, at her house in Hall -street, Berite:tY• square. Lady Le Dtarcxcat has returned to her boo* in Hanoser-square. His Lordship is expected belt week. A bar wig, according to Ntr. PIRCEVAL , " all the virtues of Fortawar's cep. It metro man every thing he can wish. A statesman, sP" litician, a financier, an orator, and even a a Secretary to the Admiralty. Gamins J amisTox a. Esq. M.P. and family, all returned to their house in Hanover-square, from visit to Sir JAN= PULTBINCY. at his seat, folk. . • Lady JONNITONE. with that munificence whirl has so long formed a prominent and amiable 1 ell tare in her character, has given an additeo,4l mol of her philanthropy, by paying into the hands J Mr. STaysl.se, the keeper of York Castle, thews of six, guinea.. to effect the discharge of IN it ant 0 Tumult, who was incarcerated for a debt of e lr.ct pouhda. He is upwards of 80 years of art 11;4 , labouring under a very *evert alums. 3151 sof, ' KEN — TI ea to Lie lkii toon kis pr tap - Medi. of Ow Maj reed iiN war Mr. arose Mr. Ti I Mr raj ebaar Mr. at Pa Mr. tfaira Hi' ite Lai Ail take three In PITT Irraa, Bate Thy .hurel leeth ire •e! it mi gtf o %AM IT tectot be wi NI, The on, *rine der i 1 111,111 en ti rEarl,