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PRICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Ditto Roods,Strip, be I be be e pr. Chilimn Bonds, Ditto fur Arc. Colotnts. Bonds, 66 61 Do. for Account, 66 6 Neapolitan Bonds, 1 Pnissisn Bonds, 911 Ditto for Account, I kit° Bonds (1;;21), Russian !binds, 99 ttli Ditto for %A:rt. Ditto 3lettallic Stock Portuguese Bonds, Mex. Minn, )t4 9 pr. KING CHABLIS'S MARTYBDOIL—IfuIIiIay at 1111 the Public Offices this day. Vie Stittgiit I'VE BRITISH Pti zoo commenced pubbahing yestuday morn ing at Ave o'clock. LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUMIT 30, IS2$. It seems to be generally underatooti that the King will not open the approaching Session of Parliament in person ; but the spnech from the throne will be perfectly pacific. Alini&tors, it is said, with the aid of America, have succeeded with the Cabinets of Paris and Petershurgh in preventing any attempt on the independence of South America ;and the present repose of the civilised world is not likely to he disturbed. This is a consummation every way important to this country : the page of her glory is full ; but the continuance of peace is essential to her grow ing prosperity and greatness: her commerce now fills both hemispheres ; Ilindostan and its millions are, in fact, an ap panage of Britain ; and America, North anti South, presents an exhaustless wart for our manufactures and trade. All the sources of our industry arc now unlocked, and in fall activity. Our influence abroad is undiminished; anti then: is little discontent at home. Ministers, therefore, v: ill meet the mining Session with the most favourable claims and prospects. The foreign policy of the Cabinet 1139 beet. honourable and successful. The domestic burdens of the country have already been reduced, and may yet he considerably diminished. The past and the present Session open under different auspices. In February, 1823, the e!ouds of hostility were gathering nn the Continent, and thickening around Spain ; it was feared that the character and influence of England were involved, and the cry of war Jaen the Opposition Benches was general and loud. In Pelt, Spain is in basest bondage; but 4 ;relit Britain has her strength anti influence unimpaired, and not a murmur of war prevails through civilized Europe. The declaration of Republican America is one of the most important events that has occurred for years; her league with Great Britain would shake to their foundation cvtry throne in Europe. If the diplomacy of our Foreign Minister has accomplished this alliance, it was a most masterly stroke of policy, and places him in the first rank of British Statesmen. With such an ally, this country never can have any thing to fear. The pros perity and resources of Great Britain are now rising ra pidly ; with the energy of her people, and the industry of her merchants, no bountis can be assigned to her greatness. The union of the entire empire, on principles of universal conciliation and concord, is now most earnestly to be de slrt ;it should be the first great object of Ministers. Ire land has an enlightened and an excellent Viceroy ; hut that , flue reentry yet remains discontented and disturbed ; its peace ought not to be sacrificed to the politics of a faction, however powerful. The Catholics should be etnanei pated, and the union of 1800 be assured. Let the bar riers of proscription be levelled in Ireland,—bigotry will quickly disappear, and its people, with good go ♦erntrent, become one. We shall then no longer need the large military array kept up in that islanti for coercion ; live-and-twenty thousand bayonets will no more be neces sary. and an additional load may be taken from the burthens of the country. Thus cultivating, with a wise and careful band, all the blessings of peace, we shall be strong for war, whenever a just anti inevitable call is made upon us to arts. While the nations of Europe arc fettered by bondage, their energies withered, and their resources destroyed, liberty will shed its benign and fostering in. listener: over our people. The sun of Britain's glory, in place of growing dim with years, will burn brighter and brighter, until it sinks at length in the night of ages, anti is lost for ever in the depths of eternity. This is the great career now before her, if wisdom anti moderation continue to preside over the councils of this country. STOCKS YESTERDAY. Spanish b per Cent. Cons. 241 1 Ditto or Acet. 241 p Ditto 1711& 233 Bonds, Ditto SA ditto Ditto b per Cts. 0823) 164 Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds 11828). Fr. Roues, !4 Bf. 2k. Do. Ex. 251. Da. Scrip. 71 4 pe. Vanish Bonds, Ditto Marks Banco, 92/ 3lex. Scrip, 44 4 4# r. THE. KING. We are happy to state, that his Majesty was on Wed bes,lity conshicred still better than on the preceding day. el".;c answe r to inquiries, doling the morning and after noon. wes as follows: The King has had a favourable night, and is considered better to-dsv. •• Wednesday, Jan. !8, 1824." The following is from the lirez,rhion Gatette of {Yreka day : —‘• We regret to say that his Majesty is suffering un der a return of the gout, which came on early on Sunday 3;:orling. llis Majesty had, we understand, felt slightly i.alispoall the pree.ding evening. The attack was rather severe ; but we have the satisfaction to learn that his Ma jesty is recovering from its eftl.cts, and is now considerably bett,: . . The answer to the nunwrous inquiries at the Pa lace yesterday, and up to a late hour lat.t night, were of a very favourable nature. It is not expected, under there circumstances,. that hia Majesty will he able to fulfil his that intention of opening P.irliament in person, as, though his 17t - 41:cal attendants confidently expect that a few days will re,tore the King to the pt session o r perfect t w iaih, yet i: would be hardly considered prudent to sanction a journey to London at this s,ason of the year. We under .:taud that his Majesty will hold a Privy Council at the Pa vilion, on Saturday rest. The Duke of York haA been extremeN fortunate in all hi, shooting panics this seaant ; in fact fiis Royal 11101- 111.:;. liven what is called the best shpt of the company, pprC; yfarly lam !intraday, at the sent of the Karl of Vero- I.e.', is llrraord3hirc, when his Royal Ili;zliness kiPetl 914 pit: aunts, derides othcr game. The Royal hike con tinuer! the pursuit of his sport till dark, as is his Royal A ' s custom, and afterwards dined with the Earl ar d countcss; stopped to all t•vcnint party, and left I London between one and two o'clock, and arrived in town on Sunday moruicg , about four o'clock. Iris Royal wilt to attend divine service at twelve o'clock, at the Chapel Royal. The Din hcss of Kent is on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, at Bushy Park. the ClianeellAr of . tht• ExArquer gave a grand dinner party to Prince the Fivoeh Ainhaseador, the VA tnbas,adoe, and a number of other disdn go;.i. Ye' rLey , at two o'clock, ant - Altar Cal •1 Council was tieb! at the Forei i . , ll-ollici., which was attenikal by the. Lord Ci,aur llor, the Earl of Ilarrowliy, the Duke of D'elfd:7ton, the Earl of Westmorland, Mr. Peel, Mr. Cannini.. Earl 11-thurst, the Chancellor of the Esehc quer, Viscount 3lcivil:c, and Air. Wynn. The Council of it. di.,:lteration till aixtut a iitialer past live o'clock. Pert .relay, beim; the anniversary of his Majesty's acces sion to 0.4 throne. the morning nliS ushered in with the' I.:tiling of hells • the standard of England was hoisted on the stock:e•s of churches and our public buildings. The York anu Tower gun. tired a double royal salute upon the 1 . oioctsion. FASIIIONABLZ INTELLIGENCE. • Charier W. Wynn, Esq., M.P., entertained another dis 'Saguia/led party at dinner yesterday, at his house, Whitehall place. Lord Melville had a dinner-party yesterday at the Admiralty. Lord James Stuart has issued cards of invitation for a grand dinner-party on Wednesday next, at his house, Whitehall. Dowager lady rave had a select circle of fashionable. yester day evening, at her house in Albemarle-street. The Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry has left town for her seat, North (my, Kent. Lord Bruce has left town for Oxford. The Earl and Countess Morton have arrived at their house in Park-street from a tour. Sir Francis Wines. Bart., has arrived at his house in Charles. street, Berkeley-square, (rein his seat in Herts. Arrivals yesterday at the Royal Hotel, St. James-street :--Sir Hussey and lady Vivian, front the lion. 31r. Fines seat, Ful beck, Lancashire; tine lion. Mr. Barnwell, from Ireland ; and Captain Stewart, from his seat, ,3letley 'astle, Scotland. W. C. title', Esq. arrived yesterday at the British Hotel, Jer myn-street, from his seat in Staffordshire. The Hon. Col. Arden has arrived at the Waterloo Hotel, Jee wyn-itreet, front his seat, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Ralph Milbank, Esq. has arrived in town from Earl Cowper's seat, Pantanger, Herts. Departures from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street :—James Graham, Esq., for his seat in Cumberland ; and Capt. Raymond, for Ireland. James Muse, Esq. left the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, on IVidoesday, for Melton' Mowbray, Leicestershire. Arrivals at nlivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Lady War ren, front a tour ; and H. Middleton, Esq., from Yorkshire. 'the D ik e and Duchess of Bedford and family are expected in town on Monday next, from their seat, Woburn Abbey. Viscount and Viscountess Hampden are expected in town on 3loi.day, from their seat, (ilynde Hall, Sussex. Lord I lolland NU taken a house in Sackville-street. The Duke of heeds is in treaty for Viscount Oranvilles house in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. • • A7'ILE NEUM ASSEMBLIES. The first of a series of French musical entertainments, confined entirely to subset ibers and their friend*, took place in the gradfk concert mom of the King's 'theatre last night. A temporary theatre, with boxes stage, &c. has hen erected with some taste, and at very considerable expznse. It wan originally intended to have represented the regular pieces of the French drama • bet in omsequence of some opposition in particular and interested quar ters, that purpose was acidities' for concert and recitations, consisting of scenes aid original trifles of a light whimsical nature, under the authority of a licence from the Lord Chamberlain. The performance rommeued with a lively satirical allegory, under the title of Armrest:elm, alluding facet' ly, and with considerable wit and good humour, to the prejudice excited against French actors in this country. Ara.zteerterm (Mons. Warnet) a distressed actor, is discovered in his garret in the very extreme of misery, lamenting the effort of emended prejudice. Merl] (31Ipdasne Palris) appears, and bids him be of - goud cheer, for his fortune may improve by assuming another garb. She directs hint to adopt the English costume, anti proceed to the house of Aldermen Pe e-1 juilice (.tons. ltirhaid) where he must engage himself as bider, and by inveighing against every thing French, he will succeed in tarrying off Miss Fashion (Aladame Negrini), the niece of i'rcjiidicr, who is already in love with hint, but whom her uncle compels to dress in the costume of two hundred years since. .ii...suirsinon succeeds in his scheme, and eventually convinces Prejudice of his mistaken notions, and marries his niece, who is now attired in the most fashionable costume of the day. Nevette then aderesses the audience, implores the English to be liberal, and judge them by their merits. Such is tits outline of a very humorous little allegory, which was well represented, and met with considerable applause. An overture lay Moults follow's', the enamour himself presiding at the piano, supported b a well-selected band, consisting of Nicholson, IVilman, Fuzz, Mackintosh, Spagnoletti, It. Ashley, W. leioley, and other mu sical names of note ; it is almost superfluous to say that this part of the entertainment ga ve great satisfaction. The Second Part commenced with • se lection from a comic opera, entitled " Use /!rare de ftfuriu,se," and was highly applauded. A clever actor of the name of Juliet, men., played an old gentleman very hu. moroualy, and Mad. George sung one or two airs with consider. able science and execution. The entertainment concluded with a melange of song, music, and recitations, in which a good deal of original talent was perceptible. The company was by no means numerous, not exceeding, we should think, MO persons; among them, however, were several distinguished characters. particularly the I.:nurture of Antrim, Earl of Fife, Ladies Fitzroy Somerset, liwydyr, &e. Rossini and his wife were also present. The strictest attention to the principle of admission was preserved at the doors, and the whole of the performances appeared to give great satisfaction to the subscribers. An Evening Paper states, what 4 very unlikely to be the fact, that "his Majesty's Speech, on the opening of Parlia ment, will contain a full recognition of the independence of the South American Stotts. A correspondent assures us that the Marquis of Lens down intends to submit, early in the Session, a motion to the House of Peers on the state of Ireland. From an other quarter we are informed, that the Duke of Ducking ham has, during the recess, devoted himself, very much, to the affairs and situation of this country, and will, at an early period, move for a Committee of general inquiry as to the present state of 'lreland.—(Dahlin Paper.) A petition to both (louses of Parliament for ameliorating the condition of the W. st India negroes, is now in the course of signature in Derby. The vacancy in the Representation for the county of Louth, caused by the Hight Honourable 'l'. 11. Skeffing ton's promotion to the Peerage, will he filled by John Leslie Foster, Esq. nephew to Lord Oriel.—Drogiedu Journal. Henry Bonham, Esq. has declared himself a candidate for the representation of Sandwich, in the em of the late Mr. Marryatt. Saturday, the friends of Mr. Fox met in the Black Bell Inn to celebrate the Anniversary of his Birth-day. Nearly eighty gentlemen sat down to dinner; Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, in the Chair; Sir John Maxwell, Croupier. A number of appropriate toasts were given, and several neat speeches made, in the course of the evening, and the whole I was conducted in the most harmonious and convivial man ' ner—Gbisgoir Herald. Lord and Mrs. Johnstone have left Paris for Bordeaux, where, we understand, it is their intention to pass the remainder of the winter.—Dully Purr. &reams is reported to have taken place in the highest quarter, which has occasioned pumiffid inconvenience to a party nearly interested. 'We wait, however, until we are enabled from unquestionable authority to state the parti culars.—Peening poprr. The Patriot General Quirooa and family, with sever a l persons of distinction, intend honouring the New Surrey fhestre with their presence this evening. It is highly gratifying to us to state that a number of the most respectable persons in thh; town, have commenced a liberal subscription in favour of the distressed Spanish Patriots.—nunion ('e e rier. us Aar y.—l tetacbments belonging to the Fifth and ith Regiments of Infantry marched yesterday from the Isle of Wight for Chatham, to einharl for India. De tachments belonging to the 46th,, 4lst, and:kith Reg' mtb of Foot, will march to-day from Portsmouth to Chatham, for the purpose of embarking for Madras. Asst:srot; Tsxt.s.--lisErNwtett. —On an appeal made on Thu►aday last to the (7omminiotters at the Green Man, on Blackheath, all the landlords who were charged by Mr. Thinehou as; occupiers of houses let in distinct tenements, were relieved from the burdens intended to be laid upon them. LONDON Tarn 13.—MA VI/OVG A L V. Postai ra.—A ques tion, relating to the tithes of the London Clergy, came be fore the V ice-theneellor en ednesday, but was adjourned till IVednesday nest, when the Recorder and Common Sergeant will attend. A bill has been filed by the plaintiff for a reference to the Master, to take an account of what MUMS *ere clue for tithes from the defendant as one of the parishioners of St. Ilelen's, Bishopsgate-street, from the , 2.',th of March, 14?2, to the 25th of Mardi, WM—The plainta states in his bill that he is entitled to receive these tithes, as the lay impropriater of them, and the rate itself was fixed by the 37th of Henry VIII. on the award of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and enrolled in the Court of Chancery. The question in fact is, whether clergymen claiming tithes under the Act abovename,l, are hound to produce the Act of Enrolment to support their right. The city is neich interested in the case, which will probably go to the Reuse of Lords on an appal. The Theatre of Panua is so constructed that a piece of paper tern at the very back of the stage is heard all over the house. A person, signing himself W. Vamplew Holmes, in I Wispier-street Compeer, kindly says, that, as be wishes ea be a friend to mankind in every possible way, he shall give his body to the doctors after his demise; and he ad - Vial* others to follow his essmple. Tbe remains of Mr. t :aseoyne were removed on Satunlay morning, for interment at Barking, in Essex ; the Mar quis of Salisbury, and l'oloncl :ascoyne, brother to the de cesied. were the chief mourners. Mr. I:stacoyne, it is said, died worth 150,0001.. exclusive of landed property. The quantity of gold removed from his' house in Great Stanhope-street, since his death, is said to be immense. SPAIN. Private letters from Cadirrthe Ath instant, which we yesterday morning received, mention the arrival there, on the preceding Saturday, in the steam-boat, which plies re gularly between Cadiz. Malaga, mid Gibraltar, of Nlajor Bristow. This gentleman, as our readers may rtnieiti her, made sonic figure when the constitutional cause was in vogue, and Sir Robert Wilson (by the bye, what has become of him ?) was to drive the French out of Spain, at the head of the City-of-London-Tavern-Brigade. On the Major's arrival at Cadiz, the Spanish authorities, itseems, sent a communication to the British Convil, desiring him to furnish the Major with the usual passports for any other part of Spain he might choose to visit , but that in Cadiz he would not be permitted to remain. WI::11 Major Bristow was informed of this, he waited personally on the French Ge neral, whom he did not see, but his Aid-de-Camp granted him an interview. The purport of the communication made to Major Bristow was, that " no interference could take place between the Spanish Authorities and fureignere sho were obnoxious to them on political grounds." Major Bristow had previously called on Mr. Braekenbury, the British Consul at Cadiz, who advised him, by all means, not to call on the French General, and he (Mr. B.) would endeavour to do all he could for him. Having disregarded this advice, he of course did not again apply to Mr. Brack enbury for assistance. " He then had recourse," says our correspondent, " to Sir John Mille) , Doyle, who very kindly recommended him to General Mahoney, who is second in command, and from the friendship which existed between him and Sir John, he undertook to settle the matter with the Spanish autho rities, not being exactly aware of the situation in which Major Bristow stood. He accordingly wrote a note to the Spanish Governor, and sent it by his own orderly, and the Major remained in his apartment till the answer was re turned. The Spanish Governor, however, informed Gen. Mahoney, that the person in whose favour he had written the note, was so objectionable to the government, that he would be allowed only a few hours to quit Cadiz, and in the event of his not complying e foree would be employed. The note was handed over to Major Bristow, and all further interference of course declined. At eight o'clock the same evening, a positive order was communicated to him, through the British Consul, that he must quit the city in a few hours, and on the following morning he embarked on board the Willing Mind, Captain Fowler, for London." The following is an extract of another private letter of the same date:— _ _ " The French are quartering all the soldiers on the in habitants of Cadiz, owing to some defect in the barracks. The change has produced some unpleasant altercation, but nothing of a serious nature. " 1 sin informed, upon good authority, that several of the Spanish refugees in Gibraltar, aided by some English men, hold secret sittings, and that an active correspond ence is kept up between the different towns iu Spain and their former deputies, as well as between the friviuls of the Spanish Revolution, both in France and England. I communicate to you, in confidence, the name of the indi vidual, an Englishman, who is said to be the person ap pointed to carry on the correspondence with the latter. " Sir John Milley Doyle arrived here a few days ago from England, by way of Paris, Madrid, and Seville, and he reports that during the whole of his journey from the frontiers he met with no interruption, and that every thing appeared tranquil. The steam-packet which Sir John sent out from England had been sold to the French at Puerto Santa Maria, previously to the surrender of Cadiz, for the purpose of towing the French ships of the line into the bay of Cadiz, at the enormous price of 14,6001. The parties who negociated the affair were Captain Bisset, on the one side, and a person of the name of Groves, on the other ; but, unfortunately for Sir John (although, as I un derstand, Bisset had not his approbation to sell the vessel), Cadiz surrendered before the sale was completed, and, not withstanding all the preliminary documents were signed on both sides, Groves managed ale matter so well, tlett the French got off from their bargain, fora few hundred pounds. It is understood that Sir John's object in cowing out now, is to sell the vessel to wher.ver will offer most." DUTCH PAPERS. Yesterday we menisci' theiollowing by a Dutch Mail FRANICTORT, JAN. 20. The Aulic Counsellor. F. Afurhardt, known as one of the libnal German writers, and as correspondent in this city of several French and Herman Journals, has for a considerable time attracted the at tention of the Diet. The publication of some of the sets of that Assembly In the French Journals, which none of the Deputies tau publish without a violation of his duty, caused, in the beginning, the late Minister for Wurtemburg to be suspected. The latter de manded a strict investigation, and in this 111 r. 31urhsrilt appealed to the deceased Hessian Alinister, Von Hauler, with whom he never had any connection. This and other things have induced the Diet to resolve on the proposal of Austria, to prohibit Mr. Mur hardt from residing in Frankfort. After various negotiations during the period of six months, last Saturday, the utmost time ' allowed to 51. 3lurbardt, expired, and he was obliged to leave the city on Sunday. His intention was to go to the Bavarian doini nions. Though be is a subject of the Elector of Item, and well known as a distinguished partisan of the late French Westphalian Hovernment, and though he has had a great share in the very vio lent writings of the purchasers of Westphalian domains, he ven. tured to appear publicly at Hunan, where he was, however, imme. diately arrested. In the followifig night his paper. were veiled. The reason assigned by the Hessian Government is the suspicion tinder which he lies of • secret connection with one Belch, who is also an object of suspicion to the Hessian Government. This Kcich has lived a long time in America, and some time ago, being at Mentz, expressed himself very freely on political subjects, in the presence of two Members of the Central Committee, on which account he received a very serious ripriniantL HAANLINGEIf, JAN. 15. _ _ . The number of ship.: that arrived here last year wa. 3119, ;ailed 379; of the first, 232 were Dutch. end 107 English; of the latter, 232 I)uteh and 103 English ; of other nations not exceeding nine, .:xcept Ilanoveri-ut IS, and Danish 12. A !IST Ell DAM, JAN. 23.--Exchange on London, 39-10; two I months, 3'.l.7.—Drach Parr;, Jan. 24. JAMAICA PAPERS. Jamaica Papers were received yesterday to the 9th ult. The 6,tzette of the '?9th Noventb:T contains a resolution of the Assembly, rejecting the petition of persona of colour being put upon a footing of equality with the whites, in respect of voting. Ire extract the following correspondence between Commodore Sir E. Owen and the Mayor of Kings ton, from the same paper:— " Serapis, Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica, Nov. 23, 1823. " Sir,—ln reply to a request 1 hare received from several mer chants that I will appoitst a convoy on the Ist of lleextruber next for rimmeachy, I have the honour to acquaint you, for the informa tion of those concerned, that (shall be able to provide a convoy for t!'e above place by the 3d of next month. " 1 remain, Sir, " Your moat obedient and humble Servant, " E. W. C. K. OWEN. Commodore. " To the lion. the Mayor of Kingston." -The ibliewhig cormenvitiiiiseirai received this day by his Ito. nour the Mayor, from the Unewdsodure : " Serapis, Nov. 28, 1923. 6' Sir—lt having been stated t, me, by certain merchants of this place, that it would afford important accommodation to the mer cantile interest if the Niemen, 26, was ',emitted to call at the Ha vanna!' and New York, with a view of aflimling those having funds at the former place an opportunity of transmitting ahem the latter, where at present greater fictlities exist fur making re mittances to the Mother country— ,' I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the parties interested, that having already consented to postpone the sailing of the Niemen until the al DeceininT, I do not think it would be right to cause more delay, unless for some specific object, whose importance may it justify the inconvenience which would pro bably be suffered frontfrontby the public service. " I hare the liormur to be, Sir, " Your mom obedient humble Servant, " r' 11 , C. It. OIVEN, Commodore." __..... " To the lion. the Mayor of Kingston." Another journal says—" It will be recollected that the free per - eons of colour lately presented a petition to the lfouseofAssembly, coinplaining of the restrictions under which they laboured, and claiming a greater participation in the rights of their white fellow. citizens than they had hitherto enjoyed. The moment selected CH I making such an application was certainly not the most propitious ; and from the spirit which the Assembly hail displayed in its first sittings, we anticipated nothing less than the total rejectinn of the petition. A wiser course, however, has been pursued. The de mands tending to the acquisition of political power have alone been rejected ; those claiming the reword of inconvenient restrictions have been admitted, anti a bill hart been ordered to be brought in for the purpose of giving them effect. Amongst the privileges which it secures to the free persons of colour, will be that of being received as witnesses in all cases, without being compelled to pro duce, as heretofore, certilicawi of licedmil and baptism. As this was one of the objects to which the petitioners seemed to attach most importance, there is no doubt that the compliance of the Aa. sembly will produce the effect for which it is intended—that is to say, in the words of the Resolutions—will tend " to promote good order, and to encourage habits of itniustry, a contented diapositien, and a cheerful obedience to the laws, anions people of free condi tion." It is only to be lamented that the Assembly should not evince s e much temper and good sense in its transactions with the Mother Country, as in its &taints with the frcit black population." NEW SOUTH WALES. We have received, within these few days, a document of a very interesting description, considered in relation with all the attendant circumstances. We allude to the " first Anniversary Address.of the President of the Agricultural Society of New South Wales." This Society was instituted on the dth of July, Iren, and, es appears by the Presi dent's Address, has not or.ly flourished during that short interval, hut " was tot fonned a single month before it was wahted." The Patron of the Swiety is his Excellency Sir T. Brisbane, Governer of the Colony ; its Vice-Patron, Frederick Goullern, Esq. I'olottial Secretary. The Pre sident is Barron Field. F.sq. Judge of the Supreme Court. There arc corresponding inettite•rs, a general committee, a building committee, a premium committee, a horticul tural committee, subseriheta, and, in fact, all the neces sary adjuncts of suds an Institution ; and this Institution, together with numerous other establishments, indicative of an advanced state of society, are now flourishing on a spot where duos than forty years ago the naked savage roamed sole lord of its inhospitable shores. We are sure our readers will peruse with interest the following extracts from the l'restdent's Address, whether that interest be excited merely from the recollections connected with those who hold official situations in the colony, or have gone thither as free settlers, or from the more philosophical reflection of what may be the future condition of a country where the English language and . English customs arc destined to be preserved perhaps for age s We have the pleasure of welcoming many most respectable free settlers in the cour.e of the past year ; but I hope we shall re eeive twenty timesthe number next year. The fine settlements of Hunter's River. Bathurst, Camden, and Argyle, have been literally thrown open by our local government ; and I was happy (in looking at the map of hunter's River the otherday) to see the whole banks, and even some of the back lands, coloured with names. One of the most skilful and intelligent inembers of our General Committee, who has manufactured the best cheese yet seen in the Colony, has removed his family to Bathurst. Other respectable settlers are hillowing his example; and I find we have increased the number of out subscri ber, during the past year by twenty-one. We shall doubtless see many more free settle,* in this country, now that the parliamentasy emigration to the Cape of hood Hope has failed, as soon as our l'omminioner of Inquiry's report has fixed the future policy and government of the Colony, and when the advantages which New South Wales possesses over Van Dkman's Land come to be more universally and correctly known. We can have no ill will to that dependency : at the contrary, we benefit by her prosperity. But it is important that emiYeants, from so vast a distance as Brest Britain, should not be ruined by disappointment. Of the so peyiority of New South Wales over Van Dienum's Land, I am de cidedly convinced, in some degree front p ersonal observation , and much more from authentic information. But Van DiCITI3II . II hand has gotten the name at home ; and it always takes many years to pot down false pretensions, and to make known true outs.' " 'pon tb, subject so vitally important to the prosperity of the colony as the exportation of fine wool, I am truly happy to report that there went home from this settlement alone, during the past' year, 720 hales, or 1111,100 pounds of wool, besides a small quantity,' chietlyoflantb's wool, which remains to be sent with the next shear ing. At only Is, lld. per pound, clear profit, this will amount to nearly 111,0400. styling. Nothing can show the superiority of our wool over that of Van 'Semen's Land in a stronger light than the following extract from s London Commercial Report, dated 20th Septemher, 140 bales wood from Van Diantan's Land, 441. to I Id. per lb. (2 lots 2s. 2d. to 2s. 7d.) 13 bales wool from New South Wales, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 4d . per lb. " Besides the increased Australian capital embarked in whaling since the repeal of our oil duty, and in sealing, our cedar and other ship timber, having been relieved from duty by an Act of Portia. silent consequent upon .11r. Ifigge's Report, has been found to an. ester the exportation to England, and a ship is now spins home entirely laden therewith. In the event of war with the Northern Powers, our timber would become still more valuable. The Put. rotor of the Navy Beard reports very highly of some of it, parti cularly the stringy bark. " Our Prospectus, which introduced the able papers of one of our Vice-Presidents, Dr. Tosmston, has been published and diffused in' considerable numbers, both here and at home • and fifty copies of it hove been sent to all parrs of the globe, inclos ed in a circular letter, requesting the contribution of foreign horticultural productions; for I have the pleasttre to report that we have engrafted on our Society a Ilorticultintil Branch, with a small separate subscription. This subject is under the management of a Special Committee, of which Mr. Bell, a Corresponding 3lcmbcr of the London Horticultural Society, Chairman ; and, on account of this subscription, 301 has been remitted for the purchase of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, in England, by the halals of Dr. Anderson, of the Marshal Welling ton, wlto alio conveyed &letter from our Patron to the Navy Board requesting free moot lon the decks of vessels for our plant boxes. anticipate great benefit to the Colony from the importation of these choice fruits and vegetables ; and have no doubt that the Loudon and Caledonian Horticultural Soc i eties, a well as many of their corresponding .tiernhers in foreign parts (who have been written to), tall send us some very valuable ter." " The Subscriber* to our St .fund have. as long ago as by the Shipley, remitted the sum of 1,00111. to their Agents in London, to he expended, one-half thereof in Merino sheep, chiefly ewes; Stall. thereof in horses; and the remaining 2001. in horned cattle. F'urthennore, on account of the General Fund of the Society, 1001 has been rtanitted by the hands of our associate, Capt. King, R.N. of the !fathom, to be laid out in grass and corn seeds, and agri cultural books." "To this head of premiums may be referred a letter which the Socicty have written to the Secretary of the Society of Arta Ma nufactures, and Commerce, upon the subject of their premiums fir 1!1•22 and It! 211 4 to the person who shilr,r s the ! years 111.24, 1823, and manufacture and import the finest specimen of oil, not less than ten gallons, the produce of olives, grown in New Smith Wales; and to the person who shall im port, in the years 1824 ur l:125, the float wine, not less than twenty pillons, made from the produce of vineyards in New South It ales. Our ty have not failed to express their due sense of the benefits which our Colony will derive from the honourable premiums, Koposed by the tfockty of Arts, both in the former year and in the pres,m, for both quantity and quality of fine wool exported ; but we have ventured to suggest, that there having been till the past year only one inlet: tree in the Colony, there can be no competition fur the oil premium so soon as the year 1826; and that the Society's medals would be more beneficially offered Ice pro pagating the olive -tree, or for the greatest plantation of young trees: so of the twenty gallons of wine; it would not be very difficult to make that quantity from the table grapes in one's garden : the pre mium should rather br, either for a much larger quantity, for a real exportable cargo, or else for the greatest number of acres planted as a hearing vineyard, or fur the greatest number of bunches of grapes ripened. " tl'hile I am upon the subject of the olive.- - prolent tarde crescentis - the slow pr.aluct of inerva's tree, I am to report that young plants have been introduced into the Co. limy during the pit year by .%lr, 11. Itl'Arthur, one of our Vice- Presidents, and by 11.. l'arlylc, an intended settler, so that the olive is now in the hands of a:viral more than one individual, and will certainly be to our posterity an article of export. " Tobacco may be considered to be now fairly domesticated as • deni.en ef Australia. The Government Agricultural Establish went at Emu Plains has greatly contributed to this desirable ob ject; and I underemnd from our Vice-Patren, that New Zealand flax is to be made the next experiment of public cultivation and manufacture. Our patron has succeeded in raising this plant from seed; and, although chemistry has not yet been able so completely to free this yarn from glutinous mutter as to prevent the thread into which it is spun trout beim; knotty ; yet rope made of this flax was found by the master of the Ittometlary store-ship, to be gnarly or.e.tliird stronger than English rope; and, even if this ar ticle should not, as long as we are at peace with the Northern Powers, he able to c,inpete with the cheapness and quickness of trans's:lll%6°,l.ot Baltic hemp, yet a small quantity of it will, as I am informed, by the most rtpectable mercantile authority, easily supersede the Italian hemp, which is required for the strength of shoemakers' thread." MARITTME LAWS.—ApprftViCeS Act, 4 Gao. IV. c. 23. This Aet provider•, that, after the Ist January, 1w24, every ship exceeding eighty tens shall, on clearing out, have on board one or more apprentices under the age of seventeen years (whose indentures are to he enrolled at the Custom house), in the following proportion to her registt r tonnage, viz.— Ships of 110 tons, and wider 200 toes, 1 apprentice 200 . 400 2 ditto 400 Nil 3 ditto 500 - 700 4 ditto 701.1 and upward% 5 ditto Every apprentice so enrolled is to be exempted from serving in the navy, until he shall have attained the age of twenty one years, provided he is regularly serving out his time with his first master or shipowner, or with some other to , whom his ind e nt ure h as b ee n transferred. The first mate of every ship exceedin. , eighty tons, and the first and second mate of every ship exceeding 300 tons, are also , exempt from being impressed. CONSVAIPTION OF BUTillEit ' S MEAT TN LARGF.TOWNS. —A comparative statement of the quantity of Aleat con sumed in a Seetch and an English town : WA. Bullocks. Of 11 I' f. Sheer .N• Lambs. Total. Glasgow - 16,840 9,3:1 124,979 151,1541 Liverpool - 15,217 19,0711 85,993 121,0811 Difference . Lon 10.5:19 38,911 30,070 The population in Glasgow, in 1023, was - 150,000 And in Liverpool - lao,ooB It is understood that a conslilernble part of the shipping is supplied with fresh meat flout the Liverpool market, while the shipping belonging to Glasgow is supplied with fresh meat from the Greenock and l'ort Glasgow market, except ing a few bullocks for one ship in the Greenland trade, which was supplied fretu the Glasgow market. EDMUND BURKE AND THE COUNT DE MIRABEAU. EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF PLAGIARISM. The Count de Mirabesu was one of those extraordinary and highly-gifted minds which broke forth in France in the early stage of her Revolution ; it is almost incredibl e that a genius of his east, fertile in eloquence as he was, aad lull of resources, should commit a plagiarism so singul ar and so curious, as that which we are about to reconl, and that from so distinguished a public writer as Mr. Burke, whose works are in the library of every scholar in Europ e , and whose Parliamentary speeches, from their celebrity, would seem to render detection unavoidable. Yet such U the extraordinary fact. The Count de Mirabeau, in a publication of the year 1788, Asz Barters srr Mallows. deral, thus addresses the Republican party, whose design s had been overthrown by the Duke of Brunswick's march into Holland:— " Que ai une lumiere prorTetique rotas efaerev6l4 lee Ereaernent future, lee maux que vous avey soufferts, et oeux qua trout soutfrez encore, en cc cas meme yaws auriez di rendre la resolution got vous avez prise, pour pcu que sous mules respecte votze gloire, et vas ancetrea, et les jugentens de la poxterite.-0 illusive disgra ce ! 0 victorieusc defaite! Puirie cease memorable. epoque etre graves' dens les mauler, du monde en earacteres tactfaciables, et sa gl o y a rester toujoura nouvelle pour von dernirah nevelt: ! Ah ! :Toyer a jatnais ignores de quiconque lie sacra pas qu' sprit i tombattre bs tyrannie au-dedans, la force au dettors, la leterete de vas voisie s , vous area suconmhe en defendant la cause de l'hooneur. la auto de la rattle, La cause de l'sspere hurt - mine ! l'eut-titre la fortune trionaphera-t-elle de la renommee, couture elle a triomphe de la vertu. Mali voter ronscieice, du anoint,. braver* ace 'Relines, et le souvenir de:ce que vous art. tente Isabitira sans cease au fond de yes mural ; it y terser& confine en tan saLctuairc; II teen sortira qu'arec la rata'. _ The reader will find on comparison that this beautiful burst of oratory is an alinost literal translation into French of the following passage in Mr. Bu i‘ . ea celebrated speech, :made on the 2Stil of February, 17N3, (three years before) on the Nabob of Areot's debts, spoken in allusion to Mr. Fox's East India Bill : " It is not neeessary that the Right Honourable Gentleman should sarcastically call that time to our recollection. Well do I remember every circumstance of that memo: able period. God for. bid I should forget it. t 1 illustrious disgrace ! 0 victorious d e , I feat ! May your memorial be fresh and n e w to the latest genera. tions! May the day of dist generous conflict be stamped in cha racters never to be cancelled or worn out from the records of time! Let no man hear of us, who shall not hear. that in a struggk against the intrigues of courts, and the perfidious levity of the multitude, we fell in the cause of honour, in the causes/ our co u p. try, in the cause of human nature itself! But if fortune should be as powerful over fame, LS she has been prevalent over virtue, at least our conscience is beyond her jurisdiction. My poor share in the support of thnt great measure no man s h a ll rav i s h f rom me. It shall be safely lodged in the sanctuary of my heart, never, never, to be torn from thence, but with those holds that grapple it to life." Such an instance of plagiarism as this locos no precedent in the annals of literature. TO THE RIGIIT DON. THE LORD MAYOR, ____ MY Loan,—Perusing the British Press of the 21st 'want, I could not help taking a walk to the Royal Exchange, where I ob served the correctness of the criticism respecting the repairs and beautifying the statues, labels, and building, and found too woe the Justness of the remark*, to the national disgrace. It therefore in. duees me to call your Lordship's attention to the subject, as being, by virtue of your ()Mee, invested with the privilege of being Chair man of Gresham College. If this is the case, I wit fully persuaded it is only necessary to request your Lordship to view the internal part of the Royal Exchange, to cause justice to be done to as linos pile of building as can be found in any country—to nacre dila pidated and neglected beauty to its pristine state; and no Irma starer the just sneers and contemptuous sarcasms of foreigner to continue, who describe the citizens of London more fond of good eating than of adorning their beautiful public buildings. SPRING CIRCUITS, M. Nononl.i—Lord Chid Justice Abbott, Mr. Barna Graham. ini.astn—Lortl Chief Justice Gifford, Mr. Baron Bullock. 11 o E —bard t 'hid Baron, Mr. Justice Best. NORTHER ?I —Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice rickey& Garman—Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Baron Garrott. ES't tax—Mr. Justice Burrough, Mr. Justice Richardson. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have 'removed Sir Rose Price, Bart. from the presidency of a district Association in Cornwall, in consequence of his avowal of Unitarian doctrines, mad his intention of disse minating them by all the means in his power. Sir R. P. has asserted, " that with respect to the Trinity, he knows the King is of the same sentiments with himself."—Terta ton Courier. A correspondent remarks, that in buildings where ps light only is used, the risk from fire is not, in most cases, one-tenth of what it formerly was ; and suggests that those who use that light ought to be allowed a proportion ate reduction on the rate of their insurances.—Edinburgh Paper. .I;I:ORTANT TO PU8L1C•1411...-we have awn in office copy of a case lately submitted to the Judges, on the liability of publicans to be charged for their windows, which were considered to be exempt from duty as shop windows, and the charge accordingly appealed against and allowed. The Judges, however, in the instances referred for their opinion, decided otherwise, and declared them subject to the tax.—liirrninghunt Gazette. AMERICAN LEGISLATION.—Among the bills reported in the Kentucky Legislature, during Its present session, we remark one fur the benefit of Matthew Harper—" a cripple with twenty children." The bill allows him "to retail spirits without a licence." JEWISH I.lsena elev.—A letter from New Orleans, dated Nov. 23, says,—" The Piesbyteriai church in this city was sold last week at auction by the Sheriff, to pay the debts owed by the trustees. Mr. Judah Truro was the purchaser for 20,000 dollars. Although of the Jewish ea suasion, he bought the house that it might not be convert ed to any other use than that for which it wu intended." New Oitieztes.—This city now contains upwards of fifty thousand souls, and employs two hundred thousand tons of shipping. In the year 1761 it contained only one hundred barracks and three or four stone houses: this change has then been brought about in sixty years. NORTH CAROLINA GOLD.—We have seen several ac. counts in distant papers of native gold having been found in Montgomery and Anson counties, in this State, as well as in elabarrus ; but, having received no satisfactory CCM. munication on the subject from any of our friends, we have never noticed these discoveries in the Register. But thee is now in the possession of Mr. B. G. Barker, a northern merchant in this city, a specimen of this gold we have seen. It is a lump of the pure ore as found in Anson, weighing about 1 1-3 lb., worth about 340 dollars ; and we learn, from a geotleman well informed on the subject, that larger pieces than this have been found in the first men tioned counties, and that there is, at present in the branch of the State f lank at Salisbury, a bar of this gold, which, after been:- purified, is words .5 or 600 dollars. We have not heard that any ivrson of science is engaged in the NI. SION& These large pieces of gold are met with occasion ' ally, though what is collected by the persons who are en gaged in the search, is mostly in small particles, which do not much more than compensate them for their labour. — //A lirgisler. . . _ Ater three days' examination, at Shrewsbury, Robert Cross, of Manchester, leather-seller, was, on fhnrsday last, commiutil t, the King's Bench prison (whence he had been brought in the custody of the tipstatf ), for re fusing to give a satisfactory account to the Commissioners of the disposal of prorrty to a large amount, which was proved to have been in his possession a short time before the act of bankruptcy took place.—Ghoicester Jour al. On Sunday last, during divine service, some mischievous fcljow aecnred the outer gate of the new meeting-house. at Bedford, with a strong chain and padlock, and made pri soners of the congregation, till tools were procured to force open the gate.—Darks Gazette. Among the Italians, the court-cards are named, king (re), WVIII4II ( donuts ), and horse (corolla). The hli• Meter, Tonucei, a man of great talent, but whom the Queen could not bear, having, at her instigation, Iwo dismissed, to make way for the Marquis of Sorrbeica, who was absolutely destitute of abilities, some one bed the au dacity to deist on the de sr of the antechamber the follow ing pasquinade:- 11 consign° e compost° di tee, Donna, cruel°, a re. At the late Warwickshire II unt Ball at the Lion Ilote, Stratfotil.on-Haan, Jo.eph Moore Boultbee, and John Ihisi• water, Emirs. officiated as Stewards. .Imong the leading periikl present were :—The Karim of Chesterfield aad ('lonmel, the Coos: tees of Clonmel, Ladies C. Greville H. Ferrari, li. scan. 0 4 I" lloulthee ; the lion. Mrs. Barnard, the Hon. Sir J. C. West? , K.C.B. Sir C. Skipwith, Ban. the Ilia. Mr. Foresee, mit. 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