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MEXICAN MINES. We understand that a letter has been received from Mexico, which states that the English mines in that coun try, under the direction of " Chief Commissioner" the Chevalier Rivafanoli, have yielded a net profit of 30 per cent. for three months. The mints under Ote superintend ence of this gentleman were among the firat put in a state pr grcssive operation since their destruction by the Re volutionists, and, although not now completed, arc so far so ae to yield the very handsome profit mentioned above. The Chevalier is a gentleman of great practical as well as scien tific knowledge, of the business of milling, and il2ll exer cised much discretion and judgment, in not introducing too many improvements upon the old mode of cerrying on such operations, as practised by the former proprietors, at once choosing rather to suffer a temporary inconvenience, than to excite the jealousy of the natives, by making inroads upon the established usages of the country. His policy is to accustom the workmen to the habits end manlier of working, as pursued by the Europeans, by degrees, so that abey may become initiated therein so gradually es to wirer no violence to their feelings or prejudices. This course will take him somewhat longer before he can reap she full advantage of the many improvements made in ma chinery, &e. within the last few years, but he will ulti mately effect his ohj, , et without making enemies and gene rating heart-hurnings and jealousies, which are not easily allayed when once brought into activity. BRAZIL. Letters from Rio Janeiro state that the Emperor seems deter_ rained not to 'Men to the preporial of Lord Pon.onhy to ertabladi the Benda Oriental sr an independent province, and it about lug. riming hb forces in that quarter. In relation to this subject, the ,aufthetore American informs 0% that the Cabinet of St. James's has undertaken to protect the Republic of Beene), Ayres; and that, as an earnest of that protection. the English will keep for them. trivet; the Banda Oriental under their tutelage, it being a new-horn state, to mall and feeble that it cannot exist without a gusolinn. It will be borne in mind that the present war between Brazil and Etienne Ayres arose frcm the incarporetion of the Benda Oriental into the latter republic, as soon as its inhabitants had thrown off their allegiance to the Emperor of Brazil: and we cannot, therefore. believe toe republic of Buenos Ayes would for a moment entertain • oroposltinn from that Government. which would so seriously effect her interests and standing as an independent nation. It is well known that the influence of the Doltish Court at Burnam Ayres is aireedy felt in a greater degree than is consistent with the independence to which the Inter aspires ; and should the Engliah, under the apeciel pretext of constituting Monte Video a tree port, under their auspices, once obtain preeocrriomof that im- IyOrtant poor, the Republic would soon enjoy little else than her utle as a free nation. Boot we trust that the patriotic principles whit+ have urged her to throw off the yoke of Speni.lo &epentant will actuate her to preserve, through all dangers ~red trials, her hiaerties pare and unsullied. To little purpose, indeed, would she be waging the present or.erotor war with Brazil, it the contest were to result in the promotion of the potitical and commercial views of England. On the other hand, the Emperor of Brazil, if we have a ;ust perception cf his chata.ter, would never consent that Monte ideo should he held by England. and we doubt whetter the nhed States would remain unconczrned spectators of such an esMb - --- A letter from Rio Janeiro, dated 12th July, after stating that the I Vockede of the coast was so effectually enforced that no vessel could possibly pass, says—" So long as the Brazilian squadron preserve weir present ground, Commodore Brown can do little or nothing ss.th them; and should the squadron expected from Chili appear 2r7 the river, it will probably be taken. The American brig lAnui des. from China, with a cargo of 90 000 dollars, bound to Buenos Ayres. not knowing of the w it, was caught by the barrier squad ron. and is sent here a prize: but she isnot justly liable to the penalties of the bl,ckaale. A part of the cargo, however, is stated by the metros so belong to Buenos Ayres, which they may have a yet to Amdemn, hut noshing more. The major pact of it is said to belong to English houses at that place, and a portion to A meri *A.'s. The Chsrge d'Affaires of the United States and of Great Zritain at this Court will look to the interests of their respective countrymen, and. if peasible, release their property from the Im penal grasp. By the last accounts from Rio Grande. we ham that t*.e Patriots were on the march for that place in considerable force, and apprehensions an entertained for its safety. It is said they were already on the frontiers of the province." According to a law recently enforced there, 1111 foreign yea ee:s are prohibited from transporting go rds coastwise, unless in v.a same vessel in which they were imported. It is required for all vessels to have a Brazilian Consular certificate and a bill of nsalth. COLOMBIA. (EXTRACT Or • LETTER room CARTHAOEXA, DATED I JULY 28.) The movements of Peet in l'enezuela have been looked upon 4 Core with the greaten indignation. We are, however, anxiowly waiting the arrival of the Liberator, when firronews and decision will soon 'restore tranquillity. None of the other provinma have pined in this rebellion. • The utmost tranquillity prevails in every other part of the Re. public. The credit of the Government, which received so severe a shock by the failure of Goldsmith. has revived. To this the im. mediate acceptance of hills to a very large amount, drawn by the Consul-General in the United States on the Treasury Deptrtment at Bogota, has greatly contributed, and we understwid that 170,000 dollars are now on their way to this city to meet the payment. (EXTRACT OR • PRIVATE LETTER.) You wish to know our opinion of the state of things in this cc: ultra , ; it is a question which demards a candid and definite answer. We can only say that ours and the general opinion of the political state of the country is bad; the pecuniary distress is great, tee taxes hare been considerably augmented, and they talk of levy. it:g contributions; the troops are not paid ; and they have deducted one-third from the pay of the officer , . They have also committed a great breach of confidence in stopping the payment of the fourth documents, (certificates receivable for duties,) which event has created great discontent. Representations against this proceeding p a ., b een transmitted to Bogota, both from British as well as native merchants, though we expert no favourable results from trove remonstrances. In fact, affairs at thecap . ital appear in great d 'order. There is no douht that Spanish Influence still mans. Tile friars hate shown a rebellious spirit Ixtelv againe foreigners— t: ey wish to make the people believe that inc earthquakes are ne t:wooed by the number of heretics in the city. By the last post car received intelligence of the murder of 31r. Fudge,, the Ameri can Consul, and that the British C maul had been stoned, or mitre. wore Insulted. while driving out with his wife in their carriage. quire few of the friars hare been charged with having distributed poignerds among the populace fur the purpose of destroying all the foreigners. rhe schooner Frances arrived at Savannah on the Situ of Septem. b It% in 111 days from Omoa, haying nn hoard I'. P. de (aiPgan, Es't., beerier of despatehes from Guatimala to the Minister Pleni potentiary in this country, A. J. Cana. 31r. Cagigan has in charge the renal of Mr.tanas, who has been appointed Minister of Finance to the Republic of Onatimala. The relation between the United Sates and Oustimala being now settled, it is understood that a Coterie d'Affaires merely will be sent out, and that 31r. Gonzales, f;:erner Secretary of Legation, will be appointed. Mr. Ceeigeo left Omoa on the I Ith ult. and states that all the tcpresent , tives from the states of Smith America had arrived at Pa name. A letter from the legation received in Goad:lde mentioned that in consequence of the want of pros i.ions, the general poverty of Pantos a, and from Guatitnala being the very centre of the re. pubiies, the Congrets would remove to that city. Mr. Anderson had been expected for some time. an. C. likewise burs Ike ebonies' awaakai wereernment to A. ri Palmer, of this city, tot cutting a canal between the Atlantic anti Pacific Oceans." but we understand oays the Sal.usolish Gros. vim) that the el.clus'tve privilege of the right of toll, Oct. is but for seven years from its eotnpletian, instotd or twenty as stated In the cutthern papers. The contractors have also the exelo-ive right of a:want-boat navigation during the above period, and the canal is to be commenced within ten months, and two years allowed for its completion. it is raid that Colonel 1/e Betteski, the agent of the ctrt - pany, who negotiated the enntrnet, receives 150.000 dollars for hie services. The influence of Nr, Williams, our Charge d'Affaires, war of great service in tifs business." This accounts published to the Boston papers. dated Omoa. July ;13, are said to be rely incorrect. Central America was raising no troop, among the Charibs. The company of miners spoken of were only thirty in number, and they met with no other difficulty than what arose from the transportation of their cumbrous machi- Der. !SOL IVAR.—By the following later it would seem that the Chi. linos (as well as the Peruvians) umrust thc principles of the Libera. wr. Tbe disinterested pittrionsm which has heretofore marked the car of that distinguished officer will not permit us to believe t. St such distrust has any other foundation than a mere misunder cf. oiling. Tbe latter conduct of Bolivar has given Chili cause to suspect Vim be aims at governing all South America. Ile has protected all the revolutionary characters sent from this pket., and they daily e.it at his tilde, The troops of Citilue have revolted, and want 011iggir.s back. Title was mused by a person sent from Lima. it is said, under the protection of Bolivar. As th e force of Chiloe is small, sod the natives have not t a k en p art w i th them, the Government hem is sending an expetlit;on that will soot mats the business, and show Olibigins that lie has not one friend !CI anvils people of Chili ; and Bolivar, that if he ina I hOeeato e.pus views (of which he is suspected) all South A nicriea will join *spinet him, and his fa.e will be that of Iturbide in Mexico. You mention. that you have Lima Papers, which do not olio favourable accounts of Chili. This is not strangle, when these Rapers are edited by the very individuals that have born scut out of Pull for their revolutionary PHICFS OF BRITISH Rank Stock :01/ 202 201 k Ditto Acct 206. 3 per Cent lied. 79: 9 1 per Cent. Con,. t lO .l Ditto Acct tnik I k 14 per Cent. 8 31 per Cent. Red. 861 STOCKS YESTERDAY. New 4 per Cent. 961 Long Ann. 19 1-16 India Rondo ai 32 pun En Dina 10011/, 17 Dip. Ditto 600 L 19 rpm Ditto Small 21 24 pm Lottery Ticketa 2.11 2a. PRICKS OF P'ORKIIOOI Austrian Rut& Drarilion Roods 63 4 !Immo., Arts , : Honda ClMinn Bonds 39 96 9 vino Arc,. 1:3 Colombian Itontis3B4 Ditto liontis:lB24)3B4 92 6 41 4 0 1 6 f 401 14o) 11 49 Ditto Acct. 391 8} 40 *9 41} 401 211 I !L 40} 1; !MO(' Ki 4 I Es rEitirAr. Greek Roods Ditto Ronde .'10211) 141 Ditto Aeet. 14 kle‘lean Ronde Ditto Hondo (11125 ) 424 i 3 a 2 4 Ditto Acct.62ll t 1 ' 0 Perat•lan Hoods 34 295 Ditto oil. 30 Seankb Bonds 10; 11 4 Ditto Aeet. 101 PRICES OF SHAT 511. gralhian . LES YESTERDAY. 111. Share. rold. Provinc!al Rink of • __. 33 dim ..... . 100 20 17 pen .ANuous. 100 20 4 die mtscaLL, gilt Brttith tircoo. DRURY-LANE. THEATRE. ThLi Evening, THURSDAY, October 12, will be performed the Corned.; of THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. Doricourt, Mr.Wallei k ; Old Hardy, Mr. Denstop ; Sir George Touch. wood. Mr. Cooper ; Filßer, Mr. Browne; S vilie. Mr. Bennett. Letitia Hardy. Mier Mies Tree ; Mrs. Rneket. M re. Darleoe. After which the Romantic ftrera of DER FREISCHUTZ. Ottorar, Ifs. Mercer: Bernhard, Mr. Redford $ Adolph, Mr. T. Cooke; Casper, Mr. Horn; Kilian, Mr. J. Att./belt; Zamlel, Mr. 0. `Smith; Linda, Ml.. Graddon ; Bo", MI.. A. Tree. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. This Ends& TUUSSIDA Y. October 12, trill be performed the of VENICIIIRIZICRI-E1). lacer, Mr. C.lCemble: Pkrre, Mr. Vnnn✓, Belvidere. Mrs. Stoma's. After which the Magical Entertainment of TIIE CASTLE OP SORRENTO. The Governor, Mr. Power ,11Iloral. Mr. Gurnee . Count Murrill', Mr. J. !semi Germain, /Ir. Blanchard. Roetna, Miss Cowen. POSIT7VF.LY NEXT WEDNESDAY ALL LOTTERIES END IN THIS KINGDOM. SIX OP 430,00 u, kc. 4.019,000, IN ONE DAT. The BRITISH PRESS Commenced publishing yesterday morning A t five °Mork. LONDON, THURSDAY, OcinaEß 12, 1b26. Notwithstanding the gloomy anticipations of many jlur naliats, it does not appear that the deficiency on the whole quarter's revenue has come up to what was asserted to be its amount in the head of the Cu:toms alone. The de crease on the quarter is 690,(101.-1 large sum undoubtedly, bat not nearly so much as might have been supposed in the depressed state of our commerce. The decrease has taken place in the Customs, Stamps, Post-office, and Mis cellaneous Items, and is in some measure to be ac counted for by the financial arrangements made by Par liament. There is an increase of 71,n6.11. in the article of Excise, and an increase of 12,1911. in the taxes tinder the management of the Commissioners of Taxes. It may be somewhat difficult to account for this, as one might na turally suppose that the produce of our domestic taxes would fall off in proportion to the supposed diminution of consumption. The feet is, at least, a proof that the prin cipal deficit has arisen from the diminution of our import trade—a circumstance which must be extremely gratifying to the alarmists of the old school, who apprehended an inun dation of foreign merchandise on the abolition of our re' tric live system. Every one knows that our export trade adds little to the amount of our Customs; and the only way in which the falling off in the Customs can show a falling off in our export trade is by arguing that the quantity of cur imports is regulated by the quantity of our exports—a principle for which Ministers have all along contended, be cause it shows clearly that the only way to increase our exports to forein countries is to adroit their goods into this country in excharge. If our export trade do not in crease, it is foolish to suppose that our import trade, of grain or of any thing else, will become so great as to in jure our own farmers or manufacturers. If we deduct from the Revenue, before the late reduc tions of taxes took place, the amount of taxes which have been reduced, the result will be much less than the amount of our receipts is 'likely to be on the lowest scale on which we can reckon it even at the present moment. If no reduction of taxes had taken place, the amount would have been .58,900,000/. The amount of taxes re pealed in thz last seven years has been 30,712,000/.; and making every allowance for the depreciation of the currency in 1816, and for other circumstances, the net reduction cannot fall short of 21,000,000/. The amount of the Revenue should not therefore exceed 31,000,0001., whir,:cs, even in this year of extraordinary depression, it is certain that it will exceed 16,000,000/0 reckoning it at the very lowest. The Revenue, therefore, has received an actual increase of 12,000,000/. It is true we bad imagined that we might continue to reduce taxes, and keep up our revenue for ever; and if Nature had fixed no bounds to the extent of our markets, we might have continued to increase our trade in proportion to the dimi nution of our taxes ; but our manufactures having now reached, and unfortunately exceeded, the utmost height which they can attain under our present circumstances, it becomes the duty of the Legislature, by diminishing theprice of necessaries, to diminish the price of our manufactures, and thus still more to increase the extent of our markets both for manufactured and agricultural produce. If this be done, our Customs will again flourish as much as ever and will continue to increase as long as the world conti nues to advance in the path of improvement and prosperity. CORBETT and the Times assert that there has been no diatioution of taxes, because irnoney hac inorcacoll in value nearly in the same ratio that taxes have been re- duced. According to this supposition, 31.,000/., the amount of taxes seven years ago—after deducting those which have since been repealed—would be equal, at present, to .;8,000,000/., the former amount paid. The 1.6,000,000/. actually paid at present would consequently be equal to 78,000,000/. CORBETT indeed wishes the gross amount of the revenue reduced; but it is obvious that its continuing so high as it does is a proof of increased consump tion; and COBBETT surely would think it no loss to his friends, if, instead of saving so much in consequence of the repeal of taxes, they continued to spend it in 0 promot in,, their comfort. . We have received United States Papers to the 18th ult., extracts from which we have given in another part of our imprelsion. An article from Santiago de Chili of May the 20th attributes the concurrence of Buenos Ayres in the Panama Congress to an article in the A'acionul, calling upon the Government to imitate the example of the United States. They also contain a correspondence between a Brazilian officer (who formerly served under Rn A PART E), relative to some deserters, which is rema►kahle only as ahcectaining the fact that there arc many Austrian officers in the service of Don PEDRO. An article headed " Increase of the City of Albany," may serve as a text for the Times to show that the pro• THE BRITISH PRESS. sperity of other countries is injurious to us ; but, as we do not think so, we do not extract it. For the other parti culars contained in these papers we refer to our extracts. Our contemporaries are completely mistaken in asserting that the correspondence between Itos►Nsr. and PINTO GULDEs appeared a month ago in several London Papers. It appeared exclusively in the British Press, and was re raarked upon by us; but none of our contemporaries at that time thought it either "curious, interesting, or im portant," though they all consider it to be act just a month after our first publication of it. It may seem invidious to put the public in mind of these things so frequently as we have been obliged lately to do ; but it is only a piece of jus tice which we owe to ourselves, to claim that which of right belongs to us. We have avoided doing this in many cases —such as that of the war in Persia, which was first an nounced by us, and afterwards placed to the credit of another Journal ; but the pres e nt instance is one of so flagrant a nature, and the silence of our contemporaries at the time appeared to us so inexplicable, that we cannot for bear putting them in mind that the documents, with almost the same comments which they give on October loth and 11th, were published by us on September 12th and 13th. An allusion was made yesterday to the calculations of a certain Member of Parliament, who is understood to have made the subject of the Royal Palaces one of the principal objects of his attention, undertaking to show that a million at least will be expended on them, and founding upon that erroneous assumption a variety of observations, not more derogatory to the honour of the Crown than discreditable to the generosity of the nation. Our object in speaking of this Honourable Gentleman has always been to do him full justice for upright motives and well meant exertions; but we cannot help entreating him to extend his views a I ttle more—to look farther into the consequence of things —and to cease acting the one day in a manlier which he will find the next to be in direct opposition to his own views. If a man is obliged occasionally to employ a physician, it would scarcely be the duty of his friends to dun his ears continually with the enormous expenses of medical attendance: yet this is the invariable Course pursued by the Honourable Gentleman to whom we now refer. Ile ought to know—if he is not aware of it already—that the increased splendour of the Crown has become necessary in our present circumstances, to secure the rights of the people. Can any one be ignorant of the fact that bankers and money-dealers begin to eclipse the magnificence of Royalty, and that the bulk of our Aristo cracy are already thrown into the shade by the opulence of this new oligarchy, which has got possession of the pro perty of our old Nobility ? If Mr. I%ume wishes to pro mote the good of the country, let him adhere to that party (if it can be called a party) which is composed of the KING, the bulk of the Nobility and G miry, and the People themselves. These have all one intersst, and that interest consists in diminishing their private expenditure, and con sequently increasing their disposable meala by lessening the burdens of the public. if there were any oligarchs who would lose more than they would gain by the diminu tion of the public burdens, the KING, the Nobility, and the People, would be equally interested in the destruction of the system by which they arc encouraged. CITY. WEDNESDAY Evr.stwo. This has been a day of considerable excitation, not so much from the portion of business done as from the ex pected proinulgation of the account as to the state of the Revenue. The amount of the defalcation for the quarter was stated during the morning to be 890,000/., and which appeared, on the receipt of the particulars, to be correct within .50/., the falling off being principally in the Customs and Stamps, while the Excise showed an increase. This event had been fully anticipated; indeed rumour, for same days past, had placed it at a much higher amount ; and, under the circumstances of the country, in consequence of the alterations in our commercial policy, the state of the Revenue cannot but be considered as presenting a very fa vourable view of its resources. Its effect on Consols was sensibl) felt, by there at once appealing plenty of buyers at 60,1, and for the November Account at being the quotations of yesterday. In Exchequer Bills and India Bonds there is no alteration. The Foreign Market has presented a highly feverish ap pearance, in consequence of the excitement in respect of Colombian Bonds. As noticed yesterday, the report of money being at Vera Cruz, for the payment of the divi dends, was the cause. At the opening of the Market they were done at 39i, and rapidly advanced to 42, in conse quence of a positive assertion that a policy of insurance would be opened at Lloyd's for 600,000 dollars by twelve o'clock. At that hour, however, such an event had not taken place, and considerable sales were effected, which took them down to 40. Matters, however, did not long remain in this state, for the order for making the insurance was declared, the policy being for 160,000/. This cir cumstance, however, did not occasion the Bonds to reach their higher quotation, as the market closed at 40 to 401. The conditions of the policy are-40a. per cent. premium, to return 19s. if by ships of war—the underwriter to retain Ss., short interest—the specie to be shipped between the Ist of August and the 12th of January. At four o'clock the amount written was 35,0001. Some doubts were thrown around this business by the cer tainly somewhat singular circumstance that the proceed ing is stated to rest upon the authority of letters said to be received from Vera Cruz, by way of Port-au-Prince and France, slated the '2oth August, there being letters in town, received direct, to the 13th of August, which ate wholly silent on the subject of any specie having arrived at Vera Cruz, or of its being expected. As the difference between these data' is only seven days, it is by some thought strange that so unexpected an arrival should have taken place without sn anticipation of such a probability beiges 'fated in the baton of the earlier date. Still this does not destroy the possibility, because the state of the country, probably, had been of that nature to preclude such information ; and, if strong and sudden measures bad occurred to enforce the tax which had been imposed, no doubt the money might be forthcoming. There is one cir cumstance, however, which perhaps ought to put conjec ture at rest ; and that is, that the insurance is effer ting under the directions of M. Huns-Aro, the Colombian Minister, himself. It certainly is possible to open a policy without a prospect of the transaction to which it refers ever being completed; but it is as impossible that any Minister representing the Colombian Government here, much less M. Hu RTADO, could lend his name to such an act of deliberate misrepresentation. lie must know that the money is forthcoming. His written order to the highly respectable house which is effecting the policy must be conclusive as to the regularity of the transaction in ques tion. All other transatlantic securities were more or less af&eted by this movement in Colombian, Buenos A vrcs be ing 61 to 3; Chilton 3s to 9 ; and Mexican, poor Mi xican, which have been so recently the pet of the market, 621 to ! Greek are 13/ to 141; and Spanish stationary at tol. In Shares the Del Monks are improving, inasmuch as they vary from 40 to 30 discount; in others that are quet ble there is no alteration. In Mark-lane, in consequence of the very large supply of Oats which has arrived this week, prices are disposed to give way a little, there being a break down of from six pence to one shilling per quarter. In other grain there is little or no variation, and the market rather heavy. The Colonial Market is looking up in point of activity, some considerable transactions having been effected to-day, at prices fully agreeing with last sales. • _ - • •.• 7. • - ‘ l ' • • • -•• - MOVEM ENTS The Earle( Mexlmrough has arrived at his seat, :11e!chley Park, Yorkshir-, from ts tour. lend Althorp has left his seat, lViseton Hall, Yorkshire, for his fathces, Earl Spe c ter's seat, Northamptonshire. Lon' Irimedorl) arrived yestcrd.ty at Warr_n's Hotel, Regent- WriA, from the Hon, 'lces. Viscount has arrived at Earl Ficzwilliam'. seat, in North amptonshire, from a tour. The Ladies Aslthurnham arrived yesterday at their house in Upper Urroivenor-Atrect, from Leamington, Warwickshire. Alajor Cartwright arrived yesterday at Allpreses Atbe msrle•atreet, front a tour. „ . Mrs. Gratis left town nn Monday for Brighton. Arrivals at the Clarendon lintel, Bond.strept :—Cnitnt and Cottntevs Chalian, from Bucks; Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis, from ditto; rind John Eminertnn Westclmhe, Esq. from Paris. Dm:attires from the Briti‘h Hotel:—Mr. and Jim. Lawford, for Mdlvern %Yells; Captain 31'Donnell, for Scothnd ; aid Capt. .llon!ague, for Portsmouth. r. A tri vitls at the Burlington Hotel. Old Burlington and Cork str‘o-co4 —The Her. E. Smith, ?Ira. Smith, and ~.mily ; and Coe.vrll. E , rl. from Etowx. Depari urns. : —Mrs. B,llingltam and firmly, for taines; J. Stein, Esq. for ditto; and Captain :11itcltell, for Kent. Arriv.ihi at Retiirs Rotel, Lower Grosvenor-street .—Sir Thns, and 1,1.1 y C. Shepherd, from Tunbridge ; Mrs. O. Turner, from ditto; and Thos. Fylcr, Esq. 31. P. from his seat, Tythrop douse. kfordshire. Air. and Mrs. Robert Aberdeen have left ditto for Brighton. The Duke of York took an airing yesterday afternoon for upwarda of two hours. Sir Herbert Taylor transacted official business with his Royal Highness in the morning, previous to proceeding to the Horse Guards, to hold a levee as Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. Sir henry Ilalcord, Dr. Macmichael: Mr. Macgregor, and Mr. Simpson, visited his Royal Highness yesterday. The Yrir•.ceas Saplda Matilda arrived in town yesterday from her residence on Blackheath. -------•----••- The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Feo.lore, and attended by the Baroness de Spardth and Captain Conroy, honoured Covent-garden' Theatre with her presence on Monday evening. • The Duchess of Kota entertained the Princess Sophia Matilda, and a selec► party, at dinner yesterday, at her apartmenta in the King's Palace, Kensington. Sir Henry Halfortl left town, on Tuesday afternoon, for the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, on a visit to the King. Sir Henry left the Royal Lodge, about eleven o'clock yes terday, on his return to town. Yesterday all the remaining capitals, &c. that were in the court-yard of the British Museum, were removed by the detachment of the Royal Artillery. These magnificent ruins were presented to the present King, when Prince It-gent, by the Bey of Tripoli, and were taken from the ruins of an ancient Greek colony, situate about nine miles from Tripoli. They were conveyed in eight artillery waggons to Windsor. _ _ _ The east coast of Spain has been thrown into a state of great agitation by the appearance of an Algerine fleet of six vessels of war. The squadron is reported to have cap tured about fifteen sail, chiefly coasting vessels ; and the Spaniards are so electrified by the c vent, and the dreadful prospects of slavery, if taken, that none of the vessels can get a crew to proceed to sea. The fleet appeared off Bar celona nom the 20th to the 30th ult. We learn frotn the National Intelligencer (American Paper) that the American Congress of Deputiea, which asst ridded some time ago at Panama, has adjourned, to meet at a village in the neighbourhood of the city of Mexico, and to hold its Sessions there. Si. .1 . 11031 AS.S.—By the brig llelen, at Savannah, from St. Thomas's, in 1.5 days; we learn that strong patrols were kept constantly on duty in consequence of the continued attempts to fire the town. One evening all the people wire alarmed, and remained up all night. There were in the fort about 200 prisoners, a part of whom were said to be wretches from St. Domingo, who were the instigators to crime of those who would otherwise have remained quiet. An entertainment was recently given at Brazil by Lord Poivionby, the British Envoy, to Capt. Sir John Phillimore, whose generous exertion in saving the lives of American seamen on the coast of Spain has been acknowledged. Copt. Elliot, of the United Sates navy, was a guest at the dinner, and gave as a toast:—" Britain and America.— May each be emulous in the performance of tltoec acts which may bring back the kindly feelings of parent and child." It is almost unnecessary to add, that the sentiment was received with enthusiastic applause.—Amer jean Paper. Ow Ex's SYSTEM .—The institutions and principles of Mr. Owen, of New Harmony, are vigorously attacked in the Wittois (Shawnee Town) Gazette. The critic says— . In the ridiculous attempt to introduce perfect equality at New Harmory, as whole system is disorderly and inefficient. Its arrangement+, which were to put the Old 11 orlil to the blush, are themselves fit subjects for the keenest ridicule. To allow the phy sienl strength of the female to be equal with the male is a great point with these modern I I pa...wipers—field work is e ndeavoured to he introduced, but meets with proper and suitable resistance by the niece vintuma and industrious of the fair sex, while the home idler.. submit to their task in the field. Hence the necessary and visual employments, contributing so much to the comfort and conve nience of a man, become r o ach in disuse, and a clean sheet has been a scarce article M New Harmony." Sic K NESS A r MOM I. L.—Extract of a letter from a lady in Mobile, to a lady in the city of New York, dated Aug. 11 : •• 1 have been delaying my answer to your kind letter in the hore of laving something better to tell you than forebodings of viekneaw and death ; but our ill-fah d city continues to be the scene of both—the fever rages with great violence, and seems to bath every effort of medical skill. A very Lively woman whit whom I was well acquainted was in church last Sunday, and to-day (Friday) was carried to the grave. AVe feel as if we were in a ti• Id of battle, and know not where the next ball may strike. One would suppose that this state of things would bring men to pause and 'effect aeriously ; but ft is not so. The very danger breeds s recklessness of danger—a fearful lightsomeness of nia• ner, which speaks a seared heart. We have an excellent clergyman ; but, alas ! in this disease the bed of death is also that or insensibiiity ; the first state is that of guttering—the last of utter unconsciousness. I could repeat instances of personal agony and domestic misery which would make your heart grieve to hear. We have adop ed every necessary precaution, and have abandoned the town, but whether we are entirely safe here is to be proved. I ought to apologize for wearying you with these sad deatila, but in truth my head and heart are full of the sufferings around us. I believe you knew David Rue, formerly of Johnstown, in your State; we have just heard of his &tell at Caliawha." H A NOV re, Ocr. 4.—Yesterday died the Russian Gene ral Count V. Benningsen, at his country seat at Banteln. He was born in the kingdom of Hanover, in 1745. His life was full of remarkable events, connected with many of the most important occurrences of our times. The great proofs of ability and velour which he gave in the war in Poland, obtaintd tim brilliant rewanls. lie rose rapidly, and was concerned in all the great events in which Russia was inte rested, both at home and abroad. In ISO 3 he led a corps of Russians against the French, which, however, did not arrive till the war was decided by the battle of Austerlitz. In ISO 6, he commanded first undcr Kemanskoy, and after wards bad the command in chief of the whole Russian army, and fought the celebrated battles of Eylau and Friedland. Oo the conclusion of peace at 'filsit ire retired to his estates. In 1812 he had no command till the remit, of the French from Moscow; but in 1813 he was at the head of the army of Poland, as it was called, and took part in the decisive battle of Leipzig. After the war for the deliverance of Germany, in which he fought itr the north of the empire, he settled in his native country, and ended his life in the besum of his family. Detailed memoirs of his life would be a valuable addition to the history of our times. vsTEat ot.s night the inquest on Mary Ann Coxall was resumed at the Light Horseman, in Orange-court, Leicester-tiAls, when several witntsscs were examines!, but nothing was elicited to implicate a y . nilividual. The brother of the deceased was present, and stated tl at Aaron Brookes, the young man xho had pro mised her marriage, had always acted honourably towards her, and was not suspected by him of any tiolence to wsrds her. She had two sovereigns, it appears, when she left Mr. Leary's house, but when she was found in the pond they were missing, which left the case in some toys tery. The Coroner intimated to the Jury, that in the ab sence of satisfactory evidence they could return a verdict of Found D.oatned, which would leave the case subject to future investigation if necessary. The Jury at ten o'clock mutated that verdict. •,------__ —,.., —..-. 44. , __-P , r A ai i 84 :: ' -i-- / -7 0:, - v, i_ 0., ' ' •c? r - N-0 - GS: 4 • '-' - .4: :---- ,/ N r 1.1.. --- - DEATH'S DOINGS. , A volume, und er th e a b ove t i t l e, h as been published to illustrate twenty-four plates designed and etched by ft, Dagh y. In hi e P re f ace M r . D ag l cy modestly states that' in his etchings he emit a soured to show how writings ofa taro class may be embelliehed, without resortin g to those highly-finished engravings, which, however admirable as works of art, are so expensive as to exclude the works th e y ornament from general circulation. With this view, Mr. Dagley has published a series of plates, in effect, gre at l y superior to the best wood cuts, and but little inferior to the most elaborate copper-pl a t e e n grav i ngs . T he executiem of those plates, whil s t it d oes cre di t to t h e artist, affords the best assurance of th e a d vancement o f t h at particular branch of the art, and displays th e w id e an d promising field which rltir e• ‘ se oe n a t tio tine " grim ty rant " labour , and, with out respect for it opens for perseverance an d emulation. But, ex ce ll ent's is the execution of those et c hi ngs , we esteem the design, m ing uel i i ii i , n ie o f re at . iga T bi l; i ey n rank, age, sex, or circumstance, abruptly intruding when least expected or desired, and affording a striking illustra. Lion of that important and subduing truth, that " in t h e midst of life we are in death." Personifications of what is superhuman or spiritual are seldom adequate: the exe. cation rarely realizes the conception, and the attempt usually gives place to disappointment, which consoles itself with ridicule. The emblem which represents Death is sin exception to this observation, and is, perhaps, of all others, the most fitting and best conceived. 11e tee the King I of Terrors in his works ; and what can imprew the mind with a more forcible idea of his potency thou wh en we see the effects of his power, and behold the skeleton form and tnarrowless bones of that " w;lich once lived, and move d , and had its bring ?" Yet, even in this form, Death ha v i ng become familiar, is no longer awful, and the pen and the pencil have been busied in rendering it a subject of ridi. cule, by conveying ludicrous noti ns to the eye, and hue moroua associations to the mind, connected with it. In the work before us the artist has avoided the beaten track, and by endeavouring, in some instances, to give a real solemnity to the emblem of Death, has evinced a thee rough knowledge of his art. Ile is particularly successful in that plate where the heartless mother is engaged by the attractions of vanity, whilst Death, in the disguise of a nurse, is poisoning her baby. The plates representing Death trailing on the glutton, and drawing th e l ast b ottle for the wine-bibbers, al s o aff o r d very favourable specimens of the artist's ability. The compositions illustrative of thoze pieces consist both of prose and vers e . Th ey are numerous, and, as they eae the work o f many h an d s, evince various degrees of merit. Amongst the contributors are to be found the well-known names cf Barry Cornwall, W. 11. IVatts, J. F. Pennie, Mrs. Hofiand, L. E. L., W. Jerdan, and mzny others of leis note. The following anecdote of Hngarth appears in a tale entitled " DeoM and Me Artist,' to illustrate a plate in which a young painter is seen just finishing a picture of Time, what Death steps in and finishes him:— '• flogarele, who drew from the living that mortal drama which immortalized hit genius aril his name, having accomplished his gee t and muliitirious corks, took up his palette and his other painting tools to make that last study—FlNlS, which, with his usual fiinese, beinc about to bid adieu to Life, he dedicates to Death. Where sill you name the hero who met the mortal enemy like lie ? " A few months before this genius was edged with the malady which deprived society of one of its greatest ornament,, he proposed to his matchless pencil the work in (plug:ion ; the first idea of which is r,r.id to have been elicited in the midst of his friend., the convivial glass was circulating round his own tweet hoa-d. ' My rent subject,' said the moral painter, *hall be the END OF ALL T ' • If that be your determination,' said one, 6 your busineu will be finished ; for then will be the en. , of the painter's self.' " • Even so,' returned the artist ; • therefore, the sooner my work Is done, so much the better.' Accordingly, he began the next day, continuing his eles'gn with all chligerce ' secs' !v rsith an apprehension that Ire should not li ve to complete the cmtpo,i. tint. This, however, he did, and in the most Ingenious manner, by g'ouping every thing which could denote the end of all things: a broken bottle—an old broom worn to the stump—:he butt.end of an old musket-.a cracked bell—a bow unstrung—a crown tumbled in pieces—tower, in ruins—the sign -post of a tavern, called The ‘‘'orld's End, tumbling —the moon in her wane—the map of the g!ohe turning—a gibbet falling, the body gone, and the chain which held it dropping down—Phoebus an d his horses dead in the clouds—a vessel wreeked--Time, with his honr-glass and tithe broken, a tobacco-pipe in his mouth, the last whiff of smoke going out—a play-book opened, with exam( wanes stamped in the corner —an empty purse—and a statute of bankruptcy taken oat against Nature. • .Ito far, so good,' exclaimed Hngerth: nothing remains but this'—raking his pencil in a sort of ;sropbetie fury, and dashing off the similitude of a painter's palette broken—• FINIS!' exclaimed the painter; • the deed is done—all is over.' It is remarkable that he died within a month after the rosmtletion of this tail-pieee, I t is also well known that lie never again took the pencil in hand." The opening lines, in the poetical contribution entitled " The Artist," afford a favourable specimen ai Air. Ren nie's talents. They arc as follow : And what is genius?—'Tis a ray of Heaven, 'Burning dim mortality ; a gleans Tat flashes on our glootninens by fits Like summer lightnings, whi c h, in radiant lines, In wreath the midnight clouds with tints divine; It gilds Imagination's darkest scenes With splendid glory. like dime meteor gems That spread their richnt es o'er the polar skies. 0, 'tie • straggling sunbeam, through die storm, Flung 'on the eluster'd diamond. w*h reflects, In burning brilliancy, the borrowed blase: It is the morning light, outpouring all Its flood of splendor sin the bloomy bowers Of flare own Paradise ! Perhaps the best of the poetical contributions is that in tended to illustrate the plate in which Death is represented as tntering to sot free the Captive. The writer of this poem is stated to be the Rev. Henry Stehhing. The Cap tive is supposed to mistake the vision of D♦a:h for that of Liberty, which he addresses in lines replete with warmth, and sustained with force. We can only afford space for the opening stanzas, which must for the present complete our selections from this nucleating work:— Lih::rty ! Liberty ! thou hut heard My weary prayer at length, But the plumeless wing of the captive bird Is shorn of its buoyant strength; lam too weary now to roam • Through sumlight,and the air, To hear me to my mour.taiu home, Or joy if I were there. Liberty ! Liberty ! thou hue been The prayer of my burning heart, Till the silent thoughts that were within Into life and forts would start ; And, oh 1 the glor;ou, .airs that roli'd, Like scenes of things that he, Ake voices of the night ii•a: told— " The captive and the &aril are free !" Liberty ! Liberty ! I have prayed To see thy form again. And borne, with spirit undecayed, The Oungeon anl the chain ; But darkling art thou come to me, In siietice and in dread, And round thee many a term I see Of thine own tombless dead. Oh ! altered is that glorious mien, That burning brow of pride, That shone before me in the scene Where patriot thousands died ; Oh ! chang,il since when I bore the Lraral In glory :mil in youth, And saw my leagued brothers stand k'ur Freedom and the truth. Long years of woe have chili'd my brew, And faint my spirit grows, • • • • • Comma THEATRE.—A new version of the popular novel of Guy Mannering has appeared at this Theatre, under the title of the Gipsy's Proplacer, which bids fair to rival is attraction any drama that has yet been produced on the subject. In adapting the story to a minor theatre, it has been judged expedient to embody all the earlier incidents in what may be termed a preliminary act, which serves effecttially to develop the characters of Meg Merrilies and Dominic. Sampson ; besides the advantage of saving a long narrative, always tedious on the stage. The greatest attraction, however, is the performance of Mrs. Egerton in Meg Mcrrilies—a character which her excellent perso nation has rendered exclusively her own. The rest of the characters are very ably supported ; Davidge is exceedingly successful in Dominic. Sampson ; and Bedford and Miss Boden, in Harry and /.yelp Bertram, introduce some pleasing melodies, which agreeably contribute to the ge neral effect. The whole of the scenery is new and effective, and reflects credit on Mr. Danson, the artist. 'the Theatre has overflowed on each representation of this piece. 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