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Jul ; 24. a ill be performed the Opera of SEMIRAMIDS. After ,E PAG the Opera E the favoludte Ballet of I INCONSTANT. A,pgneltlons resprstimg Boxes to be made to Mr. Spsula. at the Opera udlce, 103. Quadrant. NEN' ROYAL, DRCRT-LANE. FOR THE. BENEFIT oF MADAME C ATALANI. This Evening, SA 1 ERMA% July 44, the F.titertainniente will tom incur* with Dud save the King, by Madan* Catalanl, with full After which THE LIAR. inung Wilding. Mr. Mean; Paplillint. Mr. rattle. After the Comedy A PASTORAL BALLET. To which will be added, THE CITIZEN. Young Philpot. Mr. Browne: Marie, Mimi J. Paton. In the tour.. e the evening Madams Catalan' will sing • Home, so ect hums'—' Abode's Vartatkee-J Hone who ha'r wi Wallace bleg'— and Wand Scene. • Son Region: foam Seiroiranikle;'—after which will take leave In •Rule Britannia d : To renegae ',Alt THE inuoars MAID. Gado. Mr. Shemin Pbtain. Mho S. Booth. THEATREkOTAL, HAYMARKET. Tai. evenlarg, SATURDAY, July 24. will be performed 11111111 ED AND SINGLE. Beau ; Blekerton, Mr. Pope: laciford, Mr. Cooper: raaris.W.W.We,tl Scamper, Mr.Yining. Mr.. Bickerton. Mr , Olurxl Mtn. Khatterly, Mrs. C. Jones; Panty, Mn T. Hill. After which. LOCK AND KEY. • 1141611114e117, 11r.W1lUaste; Ralph, Yr. Liston. To conclude with KATIiARINL AND PETRI:CHIC , . Peerne, Mr. Cooper; Katharine. Mime Cheater. Oa Mmday. M ed and Single. and Sweethearts and Wives. THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OI'ERA-HOUSE, - - - STRAND. Ms Cecinas, SATURDAY, July wIU be performed. fur the third ;Jett In thls country, a new Mud Perfurnautce, of an ertraertllnary character, called DCA FRT.ISCIIVTZ ; ur, THE SEVENTH RUM F.T ! Mr. Sart/eel Cadger, r. Henn...l; Rudolph, Mr. Brahma; Llama. Mr. I tyleurel Rangel, Mr. T. I'. Cooke. Agnes, Mts.. Noel mu+, %Ilea Purr). After which f7U.:rtcs. llJuelaor Tetenr. Wr. tlan:erl Colonel 1 elfruut, Mr. Power: ClD te'r. : , rancour, Mr. Pearumn; name. Kr. Wreneh. Julie. Mu P. 03). ArFir SURIIkY THEATRE._ Thlt Evening. SATIAIDAV. July 21. will be presented a new Melo. Urania, called BLANCA RUBE.. TIIE HEROINE OF PADAU. After which s new Ourtetra. exited N %TUBB WILL PaiFVAIL • To eonelaide with a Slelo-Drayna. ealled THE 01P112114,10i1i 7 r; or. TN6 CAYF.H V 5 - 4 - HriHi. CLYDE. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. On BOND %V EVENING. July WI, will be A API-PATIO GALS FETE inkier the espeelal Patronage of his MI 1. With a constant succession of Amusements from Eight till Twelve 0•Clork Losviating of a grand Concert of Vocal and !instrumental Wade, lu which mill be introdueed a Grand Battle Sluhmks • composed by Mr. Itookiis the surprising Perfonnaswes of the French Juggler. have toast the apmstrttlon of nrarly all Europe the grand new lis t-oulmes new ftr. formasiee of t h e admired Fantoccini; Tight and `:act Rope; DOW Castoonunas; Fire-work,; terrine .tecent of the young Aawrkwase ism be. Daum epee at Seven. Concert commences at Eight. Adoilesion M. lid. e.• em, of repented solicitations to resume the favourke Baikt of The C nese Bedding. the Proprietors respectfully announce too k will be formed on Monday evening se X, and Mr a lew t.:tetmattly with the grand new Pantomime. The 51111T1In Purse commenced publishing yesterday morning . at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1824. Ire yesterday gave insertion to a letter of a cones- 1 pandent on the subject of die press of India, not, as he story justly supposes, because we coincide with him in opinion, but because we look upon it as but fair to hear what those who are opposed to us have to say upon any question, more especially when we feel quite convinced that we can refute their arguments; and this, in the pre sent instance, we have no doubt we can easily effect. But.before we commence, we have to complain of the unfair mode in Which our correspondent has stated his care. He has with some art and management mixed up t we questions, which are of themselves perfectly distinct' and different, and which, far the sake of being correctly viewed, must be separated: the first of these cases is-- 1 %holier Mr. Adam was justified in sending Mr. Buck ingham out of the country ? and to this we might reply, that as Governor-General, Mr. Adam has the undoubted right peremptorily to dismiss any British subject from the presidency, whom be and his Council may deem dan gorous to the Government, without assigning any reason for so doing, and that this bas been done in many in stances, and the right neither doubted nor questio-wd. But we do not require to take this view of the subject to vindicate the conduct of the Governor-General In this: country sedition is comparatively harmless, both because 1 1 the mat :ratjority of the population are attached to the laws and government of the kingdom, and because, should t!:ere exist for a time a mental fever in the public mind, which threatens to subvert the Constitution, the Executive hive.a strong force in their own hands, and a strong party the nation, to prevent matters going to extreinities, and to g;ve the public mind time to cool. In India it is widely diflirent ;-Ltiitre a population, amounting by our corms pordent's own caicidation to one hundred millions, is kept in subjection by as European force, not exceeding (civilians included) thirty thonsaud men ; so that a ge neral and simultaneous discontent, with or without reason, excited in their minds, would deprive us of India in the course of half an hour. Is not, then, the Go vernment of India justified in using the most prompt and vi k sourous onsifterev to guard against the bare possibility of ouch a eataie, in the same manner as the master of a merchant ship at sea is justified in severely punishing, (w -oven putting to death, a mutineer, who, if lie succeeded in his plans, would endanger the lives of every soul on board? Or are we to judge of his conduct, under such circum stances, on the same principles which would guide us were the punishmentinfiicted in harbour, where an'app4al could be made to a competent tribunal. - But we have spin to complain of the unfair way in which our correspondent has stated his case; and yet even from his statement we gather that Mr. Buckinghtnn was repeatedly warned; and knowing, as every man in India must have done, the power of the Government to send him out of the settlement, he still persisted in the same line of conduct, as if he actually dared the Govern ment to the proof. IVlrat opinion would the natives and native pitwers have formed of a government who tamely submitted to have their power questioned , and t heir orders set at defiance? they must have been convinced that it was weakness, and not forbearance, that was the cause of sucli conduct ; and that is the last sin which such a Govern ment as that of India can with safety plead guilty to. On the question that the press is the best mode of im proving the morels, and with them the knowledge of the people of India, we are by no means at issue with the , author of the pamplet, or his commentator ; but it is a new mode of improving morals and the understanding, to make men discontented with those under whose sway they live ; and we would thank him to prove, that in this country those are the most moral who arc continually finding fault with the measures of Government. That the press may be, and is highly useful in civilizing nations no one can deny; and were such books as the Mechanic's Magazine, or The Friend qf Isulia (stripped a good deal of its cant, and other matters offensive to the prejudices of the natives, and tending to no good) translated, and widely circulated throughout Hindoostan, no doubt can exist, but that they would create a spirit of inquiry, and give rise to new energies among the natives; but political bickerings, and frivolous complaints against their rulers, can only call forth the 'cr wont passions of their nature, and retard every possible kind of improvement. That our Government in India, with all its faults, is better than any native Government, no one can doubt. That the natives are decidedly of this opinion is evident from the very simple fact, that whenever a province is ceded to us, an immediate emigration flour the neighbour ing provinces, which remain under the rule of their native Newsubs or Rajahs, uniformly takes place; while no class of natives quit our provinces but decoits and lout wallahs (robbers aud thieves), who are driven away by the terror of the vigilance of the police in the protection of property, and the incorruptibility of the Judges in the execution of justice. For an instance of the first of these cues, witness thi provinces ceded to us after the conclusion of the last Alarrliatta war: and of the second, the speedy retreat of the numerous decoits from the provinceof Buudwau, under the magistracy of the late John Elliot. Admitting these facts, and not denying that it is of vital importance to this country to retain possession of India, can he be called the friend of the millions of Hindoos and Mussulmans of Hine dosten, who would by any means detach them from the Government of Great Britain, such as it may be, and place them again under the tyrannical and capricious sway if their own native Princes, where neither life nor property would be for a moment safe ? An able political writer • has long since proved, that a free press and an arbitrary Government are quite incompa tible with each other. If it can be proved that the inha bitants of Ilindostan have attained a state of moral or intellectual power sufficient to govern themselves by a free representative Government, in God's name let us sacrifice every advantage which we may derive from the possession of India, and leave them to the blessings of reread:lt and independence. But till that can be proved, every argument that has been advanced in favour of a free press in India would apply with equal propriety to esta blishing a free press on board every man of war in his Ma jesty's fleet. • Junius. A considerable sensation has been excited by the trial and conviction of Mr. Robinson, and his case has been taken up with more seal than judgment, by some of the Morning Papers. Among other means used to induce the world to believe that he was innocent of the crimes of which he was accused, was rather a bandy gratuitous assertion, that the Jury had repented them of the verdict they bad given on their oaths, and that they had misconceived the evidence laid before them. The conclusion that is drawn from this assumed fact, too, is not quite what we should have . expected, from men advocating the cause of one of whose innocence they were fully couvireed. " Because." say .they, " the Jury were misled, therefore Mr. Robin son ought to have a free pardon." Now we cannot see the force of this at all—a pardon presupposes guilt—the royal mercy-is extended to one whose life or liberty has become forfeit to the laws of his country. Should Nfr. Robinson escape in this way, the question of his guilt remains just where it was—tilt is, the guilt is admitted. We should rather, therefore, expect to see the friends of Mr. Robinson demanding for him a new trial, that his innocence may be established, beyond doubt or cavil, in the face of his country, and the perjured witnesses brought to justice. But, as will be seen in our Paper of yesterday, the Jury have cut this argument short, by indignantly repelling the allegation, that they either regretted the verdict they had given, or thought that they had been misled by the. wit nesses • so that the justification of Mr. Robinson rests now, first, on the improbability of a young gentleman in his circumstances committing a theft; aild second, on the pos sibility of his personal identity being mistaken ; and these two points we shall consider in their order. When evidence against a prisoner is presumptie e, when cit. curnstances seem topoint him out as thepersou who has com mitted a crime—when he has not, from various casualties, tl‘e means of proving an alibi—then it becomes the Court to inquire into his motives, the temptations which may be supposed to have induced him to the commission of the de linquency with which he is charged, and then, and then only, evidence of character becomes of the very last import ance ; because, as the evidence only amounts to e pre sumption against him, former irreproachable character con stitutes a much stronger presumption in his favour. But when direct testimony is brought against a man, character can go for nothing. Thus suppose any man, Sir James Mackintosh for instance, were accused of a fraud,' and the testimony a-ainst him only circumstantial, the known integrity and uprightness of his character would render him, what lawyers call suvieitme Ingit:r, and any Jury would throw out the bill with indignation ; but on the other hand, suppose that eight or ten honest men, without malice or prejudice, positively swear that they saw him commit the alleged crime, all evidence as to character must be totally useless, as it stands to reason, that it is much more probable temptations, to the Jury unknown, may ' have induced him to the commission of the alleged crime, than that the senses of so many witnesses should have de ceived the in. As to the second part of the defenco, viz. that Mr. Ito billion is not the real Simon Purei that requires a little more consideration, as no doubt can exist that mistakes of rr +tonal identity as extraordinary have freqzently occurred, though to us it seems somewhat strange, that so vigilant a body as the police of London should let a Mall slip so easily through their fingers, whose crimes were committed so boldly, and with so little apparent precaution. To exemplify this, we shall quote some cays from an excellent work recently published by Dr. ck, in Ame rica, on medical jurisprudence, and which, we learn, is now in the press for republication in this country. " Martin tint-ere hut been absent from his home for the space of eight years. An adventurer named Arnsuld Luting, who reseal-1 bled him, finned the design or taking his place, and actually sue. ceeded so far as to be reamed by the wife of Alartin as her how band, and to take possession of his pniperty. Children were born to this union, and he lived three years in the family; with four sk i tees and two brothers-in-law of Martin, without their suspecting his identity. It became, bowerer, a subj:et of tlivute. basted witniisei were examined. *beet thirty 0? OM, SWIM that be was thit real ,11satin Open I surly' d the sank. bee, that he was Ainauld whil e 46 " semaiblaricte between the two men was we I'.m that t ".17i coucot decide decide whether the trriMeer was an immune or hoc e persex. manof the Judges on this Iteasitan was very great ; ' on tin spite of y thinprhat wakened his cause, they were the point of deciding in favour of Austad, when the arrival of the true Mar. lin developed the deceit. Even when confronted, the impudence and 'Outer, of Dutille was such as to lead many to doubt, until the brother aud'siaters of the absent person fully recognised him." " A child, called Francis Noiseu, born at Paris on the 22.1 of December, 1754, *as put to nurse in Normandy. When about sixteen months old h was taken ill, and in consequence was bid in the right den. It had also a cicatrix on the inner sided the left knee, from a dithering which had been cured by causfies. • " On the Int of August, 176 d, this child, aged three years and eight months, was lost and could not be found i but on die 16th of June, 1768, its godmother, seeing two boys peas, was struck with the voice of one of them. Site called him to her, and became con vinced that it was her go&oo. The knee and arm were examined, sod the cicatrices found. " In the meanv.hile another person, the widow Labrie, claimed this 's her Inn. It had marks of the small pox on its body, sad this was, on investigation, deemed a strong argument in her favour, since it was not pretended that Noiscu had laboured under this die-. ease previous to his being lost. 4leny witnesses also attested to its being her child. After seeml ruminations before various Courts, it was decided that the boy was the son of the widow Labile. • " The Sieur De C e, being a Protestant, fled to Savoy, at the period of the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His son died before his eyes at Vevey. Some yeses after, an impostor pretended that he was the son of tMs person, and claimed the succession to his pror7erty. He was imprisoned, and his cause remained before the Pahlansent of Aix for seven years. Hundreds of witnesses (among which were the nurses and domestics of the family) swore that he was the son of De Caine, and the public sentiment was strongly in his rawwet ee be was 4 Catholic. Testimonials , sent fro m S tellate. land, that the real me was dead, were of no avail, and the Parlia ment declared, in 1706, that he was what he admit to be. The wife of this impostor shortly after discovered, tbat although she had been silent, yet his elevation would not profit bee. She deem. fore began to mention litho he actually was, and de appall the cause was to the Parliament of Paris. The 'Whites adduced 'hewed t the late s pe d De Caine had sortie distin guishing peculiarities in shape an mike. He wad of smell height, sod his knees approaches! each other very clo sel y its walking. A long head, light chesnut hair, blue eyes, aquiline noes, fair com plexion, and a high colour, were his other characteristics. The mature of the impostor (Pierre Mogi, a soldier) was, on the oft wary, five feet six inches, and his Mick hair, brown and thin com plexion, fiat nose, and round heed, sufficiently distinguished him. from the former individual. Other physical conformations were observed, which it is not necessary to mention, but which strength. ened the testimony against Slegi. The Parliament accordingly decided that he was an impostor. " It is not, however, in foreign countries only that these diffi cult eases have happened. An individual was inuicted and tried before Judge Livingston, at New York, in 1004, on a charge of bigamy, and the whole evidence turned on the question of his identity. He was exiled Thomas Hoag by the public prosecutor, but stated himself to be Joseph Parker. Several persona. swore that they had knot' n him under the name of Thomas Haag, email whom was a female whom he had married, and afterwards de serted. It was stated that Hoag had a scar on his forehead, • small mark on his neck, and that his speech was quick and lisp. in;. All theses peculiarities were found on the prisoner. Two witnesses deposed that Hoag had a scar under his foot, occasioned by treading upon • drawing-knife., and that this scar was easy to be seen, sad had been seen by them. On examining his feet in open Court, no scar was to be found on either of them ; and it was fur ther proved, that at the period of his- alleged courtship of the es. tend wife in Westcheater county. he-was cluing duty as a watch man in the city of New York, The Jury acquitted him." These cases at least chew, that it is within the pale of possibility that Itoblnsmi may not have been the perpetrator of the crimes with which he is Charged, but, at the same time, we are fully eouvinced, that the jury were perfectly authorised, by the circumstances of the case, in returning the verdict they did, and would have been highly culpable had consideration of the - character, crr rink in life of the prisorwr, induced them to return auy-other. PASHIONAIiti INTELLIGENCE. The Dowager MarchiMwas of Exeter had a dinner party yester day, at her imbue io Privy.gardens. fhe Right Hon. Win. Hoskisson entertained the Duke of York and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his residence, Somerset-place, Somerset House. The Duke of Grafton has issued cards of invitvion for a grand dinner party en Monday next, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of York. Count and Countess Lieren will entertain a large party at din ner to-morrow, it Ashburnham House. Countess Cowper had a grand ase‘mbly yesterday evening, at her house in Little hlaildox.street, which was very fashionably at tended. • The Merquis end Marchioness of Salisbury have returned to town, from their seat, Hatfield. Lord and Lady Holland will leave Holland House this day, on a tour ihrtnigh*DevOnshire and Wilts. Emily Marchioness of Londonderry left town yesterday, for her seat. North Cray, Kent. The Hon. P. Ashbumham has left town for his father's (the Earl of Ashburnham) seat, in Sussex. The Earl of Beverley has arrived at his house in Portmamaquare, from France. Count and Countess de Craton have arrived at moo's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Portsmouth. Departures :—Count and Countess de Chatteleux, for Paris; and the Hon. Thomas Ord 'owlett, for Hams. Sir Robert Gunning, Bart. left Stevens's Hotel, Clifford-street, yesterday. fur his seat, Hamm, Northamptonshire. Colonel Drotherton left the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, yesterday. Arrivals at Read's Hotel, Lmrer Grosvenor-street:—T.B. War ton, Esq.. from his seat in Suffolk ; F. Fasrant, Esq., front Bath ; J. Arkwright, Esq., from his seat, Harm Court, Hereford thin ; and B. W. Knox, Esq., from Ire bard Nugent has left town for his sent, Lifter' Bucks. The Earl and Countess and the Ladies Ashburnharn are shortly expected to leave Sussex for the Continent. Arrivals at Lotli n Hotel, Bond-street g—Colonel Fiandre and Captain khans, Spain ; William Felix Riley, Esq., from Windsor ; and Colonel and lin. Batten, from Paris. De. nurtures s--Colonel and Mrs. Miles, for Paris; Lord Thomas Hay, for Scotland; and Colonel Dean, for ditto. , - • • MAXIMS OF MR. ODOHERTY. [From Blackwood's Magazine.] I.—ln whatever country one is, one should choose the . dishes of the country. Every really national dish is good —at least I never yet met with one that did not gratify my appetite. The Turkish pilaws are most excellent—but the so called French cookery of Pere is execrable. In like manner, roast beef with . Yorkshire pudding is always a prime feast in England, while John Bull's Fricandeasa souffles, &c. are decidedly anathema. What a horror, again, is a Bijilick of the Palais Royal ! on the same prin ciple—(for all the fine arts follow exactly the same pin ciples)—on the same principle it is, that while Principal Robertson, Duald Stewart, Dr. Thomas Brown, and all the other would-ht-English writers of Scotland, have long since been voted tame, insipid, and tasteless diet, the real haggis-bag of a Robert Burns keeps, and must always keep, its place. 2.—Never take lobster sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or I should rather say, of the ruse. The only true sauce for salmon is vinegar, mustard, Cay enne pepper, and parsley. 'fry this able, my dear Dr. Kitchener, and I have no hesitation in betting three ten pennies that you will never depart from it again while the. breath of gastronomy is in your nostrils. As for the lobster, cithet make soup of him, or eat him cold (with cucumber) at supper. 3.-1 talked in the last maxim of cold lobster for sup per; but this requires explanation. If by accident you lave dined in a quiet way, and deferred for once the main business of existence until the night, then eat cold lob • Sten, cold beef, or cold anything yen -like for supper; but in the ordinary case, when a man has already got his two bottles, or perhaps three under his belt, depend on it, the supper of that man should be hot. " Nunquatu aliud Nature stint SaW.entia docet." Such is my simple view of the matter ; but a friend at my elbow, who is dways for refining on thinis, says, that the philosophical rule is this—" When you have been drink ing cold wine or cold punch, your supper ought to be a devil, or at least wanething partaking of the der:! character; and, on the other hand, when volt have been swallowing mulled wineo.or hot punch. or hot toddy, something cold, with vinegar, aalloul, &c. should form the supper." I have given you my - friend ' s theory in his own wo:ds. If men o' sense irould but c.:ounteiticate the result of their different experiments to the public, we should soon have abut:dant data for the settlement of all these disputes. 4.—lt is a common thing to hear big wigs prosing against drinking, as " a principal source of the evil that we see in this world." I heard a very big wig say so my self the other day from the bench, anti we have all heard the same cant, ad nauseam stripe, from the pulpit. There cannot, however, be a more egregious mistake. Had Vol taire, Robespierre, Bonaparte, Talleyrand, &c. been all a set of jolly, boozing lads, what a mass of sin and horror, of blasphemy, uproar, blood-thirsty revolution, wars, I battles, edges, butcherings, ravishing's, &c. &c. &c. in France, Germany, Egypt, Spain, Sicily, Syria, North America, Portugal, &c. had been spared within the last • twenty or thirty years ! Ilail Msliomet been a comfort • able, social good fellow, devotedly fond of his pipe and pot, would not the world have avoided the whole of that humbug of Islamism ?—a superstition, reader, that bas • chained up and degraded the intellect of man in so many ' of the finest districts of the globe, during the space of so • many long centuries. Is it not manifest, that if Southey ' I had been a greater dealer in quarts, his trade would have been more limited as to quartos? It is clear, then, that loyalty, rclig,ion, and literature, have bad occasion, one and all of hem, to bemoan, not the wise-sop, but the milk-sop; ; propensities of their most deadly foes. • s.—Never boozify a second time with the man whom you have seen misbehave himself in his cups. I have sten I a great deal of life, and I stake myself upon the assei don, ' that no man ever says or does that brutal thing when drunk, which be would not also say or do when sober, y - lie thirst. B.—ln literature and in love we generally begin in bad , taste. • I myself wrote very pompous verses at twenty, and my first flame was a flaunting, airy, artificial attitudinizer, several years older than myself. By means of experience, we educate our imagination, and become sensible to the charm of the simple and the unaffected, both in belles and /:I/es-letters. Your septuagenarian of accomplished taste discards epithets with relig:ous scrupulosity, and prefers an innocent blushing maiden of sixteen to all the blazing' duchesses of St. James's. 7.—Nothing is more disgusting than the coram public° ; endearments in which new-married people so frequently • iudolge themselves. The thing it obviously indecent; but this I could overlook, were it not also the perfection of ; folly and imbecility. No wise man counts his coin in the' presence of those who, for aught he knows, may be thieves. I B.—There are two methods of mail-coach travelling ' —the generous and the ;paring. I have tried both, and give my voice decidedly for the former. It is all stuff that ; you; bear about eating and drinking plentifully inducing fever, &c. during a long journey. Eating and drinking • copiously produce nothing, mind and body being well re gulated, but aleepinea—and I know no place where that inclination may be indulged less reprehensibly than in a mail-coach, for at least sixteen hours out of the four-autl- I In travelling„ I make a point to eat whenever I I can sit down, and to drink (ale) whenever the coach stops. As for the interim, when I can neither eat nor drink, I smoke, if upon deck, and snuff, it' in inside. • N. IL Of course, I mean when there is no opportunity . of flirtation. 9.—Shew me the youngdady that runs after preachers— ' and I will shew you one who has no particular aversion to men. I J.—Your highly popular young lady seleom—l believe ! I might say newer—inspires a true, deep, soul-filling pas , stun. I cannot suppose Julie d'Etange to bare been a fa vourite partner in a bail-room. She could not take the trouble to smile upon so many fops. The Duke of York honoured Mr. Secretary Canning with his company on Thursday. Among the distinguiahed guests present to meet his Royal Highness and Prince Leo pold were the Dukc of Wellington, the Countess Harrow by, and the Ladies Ryder ; the Chancellor of the Exche quer and Lady Sarah Robinson ; ', d otal Howard de Wal den, &c. Prince Leopold honoured the Marchioness of Hertford and party with his company on Thorstlay evening, at her residence io Manchester-square. A ('abinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was attended by the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Liverpool, Harrowbv, Wtstanorland, and Bathurst ; Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, Viscount Sidtnouth, &c The Cabinet sat in deliberation till six o'clock. Yesterday morning l'iscount Melville, Sir G. Cockburn, and Sir G. Clerk. Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, left town in an open carriage, attended by Mr. J. Bartow, Secretary to the Ailmiralt7 for Portsmouth, to inspect the Dock Yards, and other ofhcial business. Yesterday morning Mr. Hunter, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Af fairs, with despatches from Sir IFm. A'Court, our Ambas sador at Madrid. The marriage of the Austrian Archduke Francis Charles with the Princess Frederica Sophia Dorothea, will take place in September next, at Vienna. Captain Boxer, R.N., is appointed to the chief com mand of the Coast Guard duty on this station, eke Cap tain Gambier, R. N.—Weyntoeth Paper. On Sunday evening the Duke of Lancaster steam-packet arrived at ‘Vaterford from Bristol, having on boned the re mains of the late Earl of Tyrone. They were attended by Lord George Beresford and Mr. George Nleara ; and, im mediately on )nArg landed, were conveyed in a hearse and six horses to Curraghmore, to be deposited in the burying place of the family.-IForerThrt/ Mirror. On Wedneslay last, as the lion. Lieut.-Colonel Finch was returning to town from Lucan, and driving a cabriolet with four horses he, and three ladies who sat in the vehicle, were overturned, and, we regret to state, the Crdonel's leg was fractured in two places; one of the ladies was hurt in the arm, the other touch bruised in the face. One lady escaped totally uninjured. The Colonel was removed to the Spa-house, Lucan. We are happy to find that he is in a fair way of reeovery.—Dublia Pllper. The town of Folkestone, has, after many applications to the Treasury, obtained from their Lordships the privilege of having a eltaring office. It appears that the sittings of the Portuguese and Bra zilian Commission for adjusting, the differences between the two countries, are held in Downing-street. Great in terest seems to be taken in the proceedings by the Austrian Secretary of Embassy, and also by Prince Esterhazy him self, since his return from 'Vienna. . . BRAZIL.—IIy the Caroline, arrived at Liverpool, letters have been received from Maranham, dated the 10th June. They state that political commotion had again broken out 'in that place. The members of the civil government had been arrested by the Governor-at-Arms, with the intention of shipping them off for Rio. .1 • re-action. however took place on the night of 4th of June, the members of the government were released, and the Governor who had seized !hem whivetgerbto abet-mut The disturbance was chiefly confittel to ti.e barracks. Duril ' , the commotion some b!sotl, we regret to state, was shed, and the brother of the Gcnerai assassinated. n the Caroline sailetl, tranquillity was restored to the city but the peaceably disposed did not scion to consider the danger over. Several passengers came in the Caroline, and some in the George, which sailed in company, and arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday afternoon. et/I.O3IMAX Loas:.—We understand that another at tachment was yesterday laid upon the monies raised for the Colombian Gov,rnment in the hands of the contractors. This attachment from the former, inastuueb as the individuals commuting the Government arc now sued, in stead of the " Government of Colombia"—no such Go vernment, or any other of the South American States, being recognised in our Courts of Law. It is now con tended. that the individuals above alluded to are responsi ble, like any other individuals, for contracts entered into by them, or by their agents duly authorised. It is as crted that debts to a large amount have been incurred by such agent; ; and the question will speedily te determined as to the liability of the individuals sued. We untlerstatd that the parties included in the process are Simon Bolivar, I P i PINT CO NG E Ail (TN - or Aieacc -, :v.—The fact of met. F'. P. Santamity, Jose AL Strabo, P. Gual, B. Crba- curl, becoming solid was first discoverva by a cc id en t. sego, J. M. Castello, and P. B. Afetalcz. The claim is: A Professor Braun, at Pewit:burgh, in 1739, taking *dean made by Mr. Walton,.who, we believe, was for some years tape of a very severe frost, plunged a thermometer in a agent fur Colombia in Igngland.—Erening Paper. ; mikture of snow and salt, to ascertain the degn e of cold Azcitrat.—On Thursday evening a grand display of produced. Observing the mercury stationary after it was archery took place on the beautiful lawn at the house of withdrawn, he broke the bulb of the thermometer, and the Rev. Chancellor Law, its Lichfield, und e r th e p a t ron ag e found the metal frozen into a solid mass. Since then, mer e Lady Charlotte Law. The evening was remarkably cury has frequently been frozen ; and in this state, when tine, and a large assemblage of spectators were present. touched, it affects the hand with a sensation similar to The successful candidates were the B e e. T . 11. whi te an d touching a piece of heated iron, the hand having the same appearance that it assumes when burnt.—Chemirf. Miss Proby.—B;rntingliani Gonicle. FRENCH PAPERS. Yesterday we received the Paris papers of Wednesd ee The Momilerr contains a Royal Ordonnance, dated the 'nth of July, at St. Cloud, indemnifying the Duk e of Orleans for giving to the city of Paris his rights and pei, vileges on the River and Canal d'Ourcq, which were valued at 800,000 francs. The indemnity is in certain houses i s the Rue St. Vonore, adjoining the Palais Royal, whisk with the three arcades of the Palais Royal itself, are ees . firmed to the Duke and his heirs for ever : the rev • iu default of male issue, to be to the Crown. On Tuesday the King gave audience at St. (lon to I Chancellor ; and received a deputation of the (*harsher,/ Pens, who presented five Projects of Law, whi c h d a Chamber had adopted on the preceding day. His Mak i afterwards rode out. The proceedings in the Chain* g Peers are of no interest ; and those in the Del wits mum confined to the Budget, which Ministers are, notwitli. standing the opposition made to it, carrying forward a ,. easefully. In the Lower Chamber the influence of il. de Villele is undiminished. IFrom the Journal des 'Jebel:4 Pasts, JULY 21. M. Raves, President of the Chamber of Deputies, paid a vi yesterday to M. Pozzo di Bar, which lanced an hoar. Yesterday evening, at nine o'clock, Count Porno di Baron Vincent, the Austrian Ambassador, and the !lisleliffst Prussia, had a conference with Count de Villele, President tills Council of Ministers, which lasted two hours and a quarter. They write from Versailles the following t-- " There arrived to-day the third battalion of the 7th reg , meut the Royal guard, returned from Madrid, and the 3d battalion the BA rqgent." _ [From the Immo, dr [omfrierre.) Count Vißale transacted businaa with his Majesty. The IN went out at two o'clock. N'e base letieraTr;ii Madrid of the 14th. N. Russian Minister, arrived on the likh. It appears be brings is. sanctions which will establiah harmony between all the FOlllip Ambassadors, and above aO, upon the important question In is. Irma to the situation of Spain. Count Ofalia is exiled to Moult.. - the very day this Ina written to us, it was elspmad that the Xi. Mater of Mar and Minister of Finance would be displaced. 11. Cardenas de Santa Cruz, Colond in the service of his Cathtit Majesty. arrived yesterday u courier at Bortheux. He diately had an interview with the Spanish Ambassador, aft, which he set cff immediately for Paris. It is said he is the butt of important despatches; but the lifeweerial Bordelais stated, s t following day, that Colonel Cardenas did not bring any despatebit !From the Courier Fraseeois.l Prince Metternich is goin , r from Johannisberg to the waters a Ischel, where he is expected on the 24th July : it is thought is will not return to Vienna till August. The Echo di Midi states, that the Commission establish"! fit Toulouse. for the purpose of investigating the accounts relative is the army in Spain, had terminated the)r labours, so fie as "lon to the year !RAJ, and had proceeded to Bayonne to examine there. counts for the year 10.4. The persons who were tried at Toulouse on charges of beariag arms 'garnet France in Spain, or keeping up intelligenre with Are enemies a France, were on the 16th all acquitted by the Jen. That body retired at six o'clock on the 15th, and returned dill verdict on the 16th. at eight o'clock. The intelligence from :HUMd is to the Bth instant. latelligews had been received of the King and Queen's arrival at Cuenca. It Rppears., though fur what reason is not raved, that the royal sera wu unexpectedly changed. The King will return to Madrid at ire end of the month, and afterwards repair to St. lid/Souse with as Royal Family. It appears that the Spanish Oorcrnment exercises its autbcrity with some rigour, in order to secure tranquillity and tie crushed the laws, and in this it is assisted by the French forces. At resorts and Borja, in Arrugon some royalist volunteets had ear. mined such excesses that it became necessary to send a part of ar French garrison At Saragossa to both places. They dimmed volunteers, and seising the chiefs, conducted them to the pairs of Saugoasa. (From Golignees Messelagrr.l The Arehduchera Maria Louisa embarked on the Ist lest. c Naples, on bowl the Christina frigate. for Palermo. lianas, formerly a Member of the Directorial trovernmeni. has lived in retirement for several years at Chaillot, is dangnoeq indisposed. The Stone contains long extracts from the Modal Gazqlr, which Bolivar is represented to have lost half his army in a rot battle, and to have been compelled to re-enter the Colombian" tory. No dates, however, are given, and the whole is manifiudy deliberate fabrication. _ . PARIS STOCK EXCHANGE, JI:LT 21 (CLOSING PIIICV.1;-- French Reines for .11oney, !alt. 50c. ; Elul of the itlooth, 45.: Scrip. 11r. ; Bank stock, ; Neapolitan. 83; lei; Excaangc. (one month), 25t. Se.—ttheee months), 241. 90a DUTCH PAPERS. We copy the following from the Dutch ropers cini arrived yesterday : FIIANXFOIIT, JULY The Congress at Johannisberg has broken up. M. de I.e.s chelf, the Russian iNlinister at Vienna, arrived here to-day. T. morrow we expect Prince Metternich, who will stop tao desy.. Tie tint day he dines with M. Rutlnichild, the second with the Pie. 'Mem of the. Diet. . . . . . . We have nothing particular from the Levant, except ett:t these. clouts from Constantinople of the 13th mention the arrivni Gm. Suilleminot, the French Ambassador, with a 'WIC of thirty.v.ree nons, among whom is a Mainote, of the name of Speti.nttnia This Embassy draws great attention in Pera, which is pro , ,,a occasioned by the unusual behaviour of the General to the WM,. diplomatic characters, to whom be has mereqy sent his card, mile haughty manner io general. Some persons already fancy testa do something in favour of the 0.-ecks, but this is nit prehait:t.- His negoetations is this field, which is not very the to Las 11. peen plomrey, may perhaps be facilitated the ptesoad quaintance of toe Grar.d Visit, Ghalib w he stet s;' in IIW7, at the conclusion of the armistice of Sloboje, hem Russians and the Turks. This is probably the reason that tat... Pacha initweliately sent a Dragoman of the Porte to comp)iten him, to whom the presents front the King of France to the wins were delivered. It is not, however, to be expected, that Net will now recover that infinenee in the East which it pussessof fen vious to the year 1816. Private letters from Constantinople, of the 11th June, a landing effccteel by the Capitan Pacha in Negrepont. on fdaj , occasion the Greeks, who voluntarily submitewl, are said wt...te bee. massacred after they had laid down their arms. The Chi reports, however, make no mention of it. GE)tEVA, JcLT. Our lunatic asylum and our hospital‘ ore filled with utitot! persona of both sera, whom religious fanaticisu has deprival 't their reason. Of late years we have had to deplore several proceeding (tom this species of madnes, which the fa.ultt. fin constant experience, consider as the moat difficult to be cured. Hnoux. Jt,ie The extrordinary heat of last iVetlneatll7,titelitti,tras sc. seeded early in the morning of Thursday, the 13th, by a cir's which, according to the accounts we have received, emendhi wm the whole province of Holland. over Utrtch, and some neigh 0 0 ing places, accompanied for the 1110,4 raft with a hlrlarinds, ning, torrents of rain, and in some places hail lo the environs of this town, and more to the south, tbi' "b irl did only trilling damage ; but more to the north, as abort Haw• lent, the bail broke the eau of almost all the windows I:014 Li the west, and did infinite mischief to the green and bot.hr:ta. tad to the standing arra. A public-home at the Helder mit istti the lightning, but nut much damaged. EDUCATION IN IRELAND.—We understand that eirro'.: s bare been issued from the Commissioners ncentlY aPT'' ed to inquire into the state of education in Ireland. circulars are in the form of queries, nineteen or twr number, and are spread out on an immense beet of blanks are left opposite the queries, to bc filled up persons to whom the precept is directed. Having lu a glance at the form, we cannot be particular as nature of the questions proposed; they are, bower can undertake to say, very diatiurt, and apply to the topics on which the country desires information , the number of Schools in each palish—the nut Pupils—the names of the Masters and Mistress Funds from chich they are am:orb-A—whether t in connexion with the kildare-street Association, w Hibernian, the B..ptist, or any other Societies —t the Bible is a class-book, or the New Testament on version, whether the authorised or the Douay—th dim.nts which the system has received—the moti objects of those impediments. This manifestly re the interference of Catholic Clergy, in certain ca-t intcrft renee to which they are bound by their The question of Proselytism is also put ; and the the book► read at the different Schools are visa ed. The ansreers are to he returned on t ) before a Magistrate. We like this ;it wdl give and: to the answers—a quality which the Reports of Societies, not excluding that of Kildare-strert, much in netal.—Dah/in I. r. !so SHAVING—A vnintry larm:T cumin. to Lem, passing through the city, not a tnik tt ,, to the ha House, entered a dashing hair-dres , cr's shop reeed up stairs, the el), vatic' of b:!:It in. w:11. , ;"•` . Mimed by a light-hundol dipper Knight ci who upon being tendered payment, re:ere: d t: to the mistress below—‘• how much, )swam '.• crown, if' you please, Sir," said she. " Hair acm was only shaved," said he. '• W't' aiway, chary.• Mg, and half a crown'v. regatr." stlcb . rite," said the astoniihed fartm•r, throwing dmn and leaving the shop, mutterimr, " I: 1 g''t L—nh-11 woe . , luau a ez:v Economist. Yesterday the East Ind l aming the f The minus The Chair of nine prop/ props In In& otritaf. Mr. Hu ai _set as thi Ile owed as dr MOM rotten li Tedamin in Bibs admitted thal formation sr no party feel, a fair rod to puha/ press samba by di here had the that sow/thin went of Mr. I E:e ro al gum ed Gent wog he woul law, which elm owe, the kr fOr Jae/wed sitti lees than dam /wird no ons, Inquiry reboil people of En‘ whisky AIL I destruction, is to unravel. I chartered mere reigaefrom Sovereigns nal altogether eha balm there Om I I I. i the aad bilge, sad a I pp int *M. get itten lie head the dirt OWN unli . . :;mod: vac sill to sa wino woo object should I could be, wild trained. KM England, boat' biesune of the let the report weeny. Eve acainst the f we had not Aron of eve counniteed. 1 we be ht thspeselbility Tided it we. all the variouu G ) • The Pro-Con"t noes of the Jiff; thisohoulti PUC ourselves, or a i attention too p fee. if 1/1011 wer he thoaght it a posed a (tee or Await, then let premed. Ever at way, peas? He WIS the T wen ty-fdt able to convince Lion. The dill several gemlem points, as if out agency of a free If any one indi fort, and the It We for It to hit arty they weal Uwe, were sub called upon the wish fur the iii: the freedom of t /tin contrition. M public! W dames and loy sad School Soca No, no. But et fa Calcutta, and Meer (Sir JMI:1 Sir J. 31At.c hot is a . oy other kb. Iry w a..— to the conduct o 'not view 31r. B. rchMr. Ada hos/ who pee petty &alit alt dime practised 2 the reignie,T, ; inslivislual cat the puhlic. In I tyranny ; and ill •ask if all letters I transmitted, tin; of the letter Willy that Kul Ituvesl, " Nat tre I aird he a Mould . an oneon wastn9vsly a Wag • illiZT craw: t wo ::.... ..... s . ... : ,, ,up ei s _ .7 .l l ll, l ,l the peorle wilt he ass useful. s Mete w amen, whethe bonho his Wilma, a Adam was incon of Alr. Backiegt when receiving a Urns of the Ind to show that tit disinfL Regist, r different subjecn leffclie was stems totemeitese...are"2-411ac7thlwilitra:line-t istdelri:44.7ll6:o4:l:esra:sw?".leenclenrstlitgenia:whidrl:.tirte::lh:llwiny'mlinththtea,:rhilillateTcnn''emen'laex,",ete:l,l4atiohlwilk::wilnrilnern:3l‘ sneth e em d tkr e .l n ti i i , i , tt sl i lt irs . ..... d u l i rt ,i, ilifli t 4 l uii c . u ,n.r t ir: e lh ri tt y lootiv .. ti th . e t s i l t -. 1. V 7 a to t th a i lyj e igewy wiductaeteb of ilit.t,i f,_Act ..8, tl press an evil, wile P r lnenOcs of sej j their notice to att meter of 31r. 114 Buck.Mo,, wet fence's; wh y, m went tel India r ii gil he. t~titia : .. . I :‘ ,c ,n m e l 4 : ha eloJtel•nabie p • Pablic pr e.ectit;on tl r s ` J. not think of t c u ni e n b ‘ e d zi t el T n milli_ (man nondu Pal r e m " Winn pr • ! l ariat of arbit 7 In Itter. e an d s T ! 2 the Director s be %t il e% that he c . O l atet of the 4- Ve in a recen t hideett „ t l. t langui , Z•c,. we n d ) , wa :r metly el the ctam the i l 6 e* trete c am one o r t h e i e T'l e ....the libe rty n th tt r e * be more "vt land of .3 tultiZet: i 3 It Ind the ferrt.i wk rd, ara hr icy tem.) Ina ort.take.- as to bus et+o met ia 4:wera be hat 1,11.di oinpUsest the :Aka 1;1. rc hat Pets lle &cord pre. ann id was ~ece hoe eeri e fro his tLr At un! . ..P.v. •vi t :116 : :1 so NV' p a i l , a Cr:. * al 19!,1 ore acW rt I el '-'• a I rite{ free ltdt .an tide out 11 dim L- ": 11 , and be d cirrif tieni et t 1. Th.': • sad trrtn Ist of 1 alum pp tv • Mei! ,•,•• 21.• a.. • . trot s to tr . : be er.T, s' ! , man me 4 e ' fain la , ct Press tt iche7 pr o); tset• e. • • • tic{ i,h tenre Wtiit Ile Al, cirri 3,▪ 1 to be NI tenni r,• ; .•zi • Bil n • t erpr:sn t objee. i Pabti It . csod dehh, tur n , 3 malic j 4 , a tee !semi Itt i :t ..tedc rs•!: t . /13: r ope I the da oe diet !or tem r r ' celled u m , thpt p tuitib