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• POETRY. A POET'S APOSTROPHE TO VIE GOUT. " ►trange. that thou ehould'et leave the downy bed ► Thu Turkey carpet, and the soft settee: ItAfald'st leave the board with choicest dainties spread ► To fie thy odious residence with me. 'rt. strange ! that thou, attach'd to plenteous eau, Should's' leave thou dwellings for a roof like mine, Where plainest meals keen appetites appease, And where thou wilt not find one drop of wine. rte passing strange! yet, should'st thou persevere, And till these bones with agonizing pangs, Fiero as a rock thy tortures 1 will bear, And teach the affluent how to bear thy fangs. Yes! should's' thou visit me, capricious gout Hard fare shall be thy lot—by Jove! 111 starve ?hew oat. Poi's, issr E. Hustusog. FAISHIONABLE INTELLIGKXCE. Arrivak at Mrivart's Hotel. Isswer Brook-street s—Colonel and Mm. Robbins and family, from the Continent ; W. H. Arundel, Noggin, from Devonshire. Departures —Ball Hughes, Esq. and Mrs. Hughes and family fur Oat land Park. The Marquis and Marchioness, of Cholmondeley and family have left town for their sent, Cbolmondeley Carole, Cheshire. The Countess , of Beauchamp left town on Saturday for Spring Iltil, Worcestershire. Lord Rivers has left town for his seat, Hair Park. Newmarket. Curdles Mackenzie, Esq. has arrived at Hohne's Hotel, Perlis ment-atreet, from his seat in Shropshire. Departures from Warren's Hotel. Regent-arrest:—Count and Countess Honspeseh, for Datehet ; Mrs. Is. Stuart, for Florence; J. N. Walla, Esq. and Sons fur Cheltenham. J. W. Beaumont, Esq. M.P. has arrived at the Royal Hotel, St. Jamm's-street, from IVorthing. Departures:—Mr. and Mrs. il•Kay and family. for Paris; Hon. Mr. Tarleton, for Bucks. James Burners, Esq. arrived yesterday at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place, from his seat in Suffolk; Mr. and Mrs. O'Reily, have left ditto for Ireland. Tba Rev. James Slater and Thomas, Esq. have left Jordan'. Hotel, St. James's -street, for Ireland. Colonel Moore arrived yesterday at Gould's Hotel, JermySsl surest, from Paris. Arrivals at Milker Hotel, Jermyn-atmet :—Count Chabot from Paris; .1. Webb, Esq. from a tour. Departures from the British hotel, Jermyn-street :—Mr. and Mrs. Grattan and family for Yorkshire; Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins and family fur their seat in Staffordshire; Dr. and Mr. Bridge* and faintly on a tour • and Thomas Rawlins, Esq. for Bath. Mr. and Mrs. lismiton left tows yesterday for Paris. Arrivals at Thoirm's Hotel, Berkeley-square:—Mr. and Mrs. Wilbraham and family Rom the Continent ; Mrs. General Bowls, and Mr.aod Mrs. Bowes and family from Oxford. Departures tram slitto:—Lord and Lady :Mandeville and family for their seat in Auntiaglionehire ; Lord W. Montague and Lord F. Hay for ditto; the there Misses [sermon Gower fur Suffolk Jamie Fraser, Esq. arrived;yesterday at Kirkhain's Hotel. Lower Brook-street, tram hardens]. DCpailUtell from ditto at.d Mrs. Howard Galton and family for their seat neer Birmingham; Mr. and Mrs. lemma and family fee Dublin ; and C. Archer, Esq. fur Isis seat is Devonstur... Departures from Nerot's Hotel:—The Rev.Mr.Cholmondley and Mrs. Choltuondeley, on their utartlage; E. Protheroe, Eeq. and Mrs. Prod'. rue ; Mr. B. Morel! and Mrs. Motel! and family; Lulaoel and Mrs. IVilson. COBURG THRATR F. It seems of late to have been the taste of the minor theatres to fight Baniparte's battles over again, and we are not inclined to rind fau!t with this predilection; for however Englishmen may differ in opinion as to the for. reation of his mind said the treatment he experienced in his latter days, few, we believe, will be inclined to lament the conclusion of a career that prevented Europe from being at peace for so many years, and must always have rendered peace precarious ; and the prominent part that this country took to bring about that conclusiou, is naturally a spirit btirring reflection, because it recalls to our remembrance the enduring thinness which Great Britain evinced in the most important contest that she was ever engaged in. The managers at this house have chosen the close of the battle of Waterloo as the commencement of their operations for lutroducing Napoleon to their audience, which are brought down (every intervening circumstance being introduced) to his funeral at St. Helena. There is more of dialogue In this piece than in those at Astley's, in which the Es- Emperor is brought forward, but we cannot felicitate the author upon its merits, although we can with great truth congratulate the scene painters upon a variety of very beautiful scenery. Indeed we ought to qualify our disap probation of the dialogue, fur the Gods were somewhat noisy on this geod &int Monday night, and the only words that we heard in the last set were from Mr. Bengough, and to the following—" A hornpipe iu this scene would ent4ely destitay.tho almost of the piece, hut you shall have a jolly good one in the burning of the Kent." Now, as Mr. Benin - ugh did not accompany this speech b y the courteous commencement of " Ladies and Gentlemen ," we may imagine that the authorship in this part was of a most interesting description, and that the acter's patience was exhausted at the little attention that wee paid to it. Mr. Henry Kemble enacted the exiled Napoleon, but his performance of the character was out of all keeping ; and when we say that he ranted and cried, with great difficulty got his snuff box out of his pocket, awl when be did get it out took scuff with his glove in his band, we are sure that we need say no more to convince every one that ever heard of Bonaparte or his habits that lie was tot well represent. d t.y Mr. Kemble. Sallies of isn't n are very different from continual ranting, in which the Emperorof the Coburg indulged. Mr. Kemble should also recollect, that although his father cou'd play Shak speare's fat Knight without stuffing, it does not follow that Le, the son, shoed.' be able to play a French Emperor with elt such aid. He looked more the representative of the stripling General when he was making the campaign of 1796, than the corpulent Emperor at Waterloo. Besides, his surtesit was not the grey great coat, lined with white, that Napoleon ever.. and which appeared as natural to him as Ms snuff box ; but it was a plain drab, rather of a light culour to be sure, that every linentlraper's apprentice, wears on a Sunday. And this inaccuracy of costume upon the back of a descendant of John Kemble, representing an emperor, did, we confess, surprise us, although it was at a tumor theatre. The piece appears to have been got up with great care, as far as decorations, scenery, and me chanism go, and we doubt not that ie hero of it, Mr. Kemble, will receive other friendly hints besides our own, which will ultimately make him a fair representative of the extraordinary Conical]. The house was crowded in every Pam On Tuesday his Serene Highness the Duke of Bruns. with, attended by Baron Bulow and Captain Bowles, ar rived at the Royal Hotel, from England. He leaves town to-day fur the Highlands, where he will probably join his brother, Prince William, to whom, if rumour may b e cre dited, he has eNled the principality of Vela, in `Silesia--,a territory containing about eighty-five thousand inhabitants, and yielding a rtvenue of fifteen thousand pounds a-year. His S lent Highness has remained quite private during ' his stay in this dity.--.Edieburgle Observer. The Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar, recently arrived at Boston, is about 39 years of age. He is the second son of the reigning Duke, and has distinguished himself as a war rior. The object of his visit is to inform himself, by per. anal observation, of the institutions, resources, and cha ncier of our country. Ile is represented ro be a person of highly liberal principles and unaffected manners. The noble example set by his father, in being the first German prince to give a free constitution to his subjects, will pre- POWS& the American people in favour of the son.—Phi ialatAier Paper. Ths &V. Rowland Hill still continues in the neigh. heu-hood, and is constantly attended in whatever chapel be preaches by great crowds of hearers.—Dettonshire Free holder. Letters were recently received front the War-Office by the late Town Majors, Sirr and Swan, permitting these ',sidemen to retire on their full salaries for their lives. I'amain White is now the sole Town Major of the garrison. lin Evening I'ust. We understand a clue has liven found to the names of the Penns who lately %blew down the statue of the Duke of Wellington in the Crescent, Ramsgate. A word dropped' a t a convivial party discovered what the reward of 40 guineas failed to do.—lt'seffliag Paper. The first shaft of the Thames Tunnel at Rotherbithe It 1105 sunk to the full intended depth, via. 80 feet, which n2O feet below the bed of the River. The excavation 1000,01 will now 1100 I) commence, and, to all appearance, 'Nh every prospect of success. nntrov Jevicrton RAIL-ROAD.—We undentand that In consequence of the proprietors of the Liverpool and Manchester rail-road having adopted a new line, which re dacts the distance nearly three miles, it has been resolved to unite the Bolton and Leigh rail-road with it ; the din-, tatiteof Bolton from Liverpool will then not exceed thirty Loi lea. - -..ifartchester Guardia". • ANECDOTE OF TALMA. 1 The French are notoriously delicate in murder upon the stage ! In the height of the Revolution, when the guillo tine was permanently patriotic, and the judges fell asleep, wearied with signing sentences of bloodshed, a dagger lifted upon the stage would have thrown the whole mob of, regenerators into hysterics. On the first representation of I Othello, the death'of Desdemona before the audience raised len universal tumult. Tears, groans, and menaces resounded from all parts of the theatre, and what was still more de monstrative, and more alarming, several of the prettiest women in Paris fainted in the most conspicuous boxes, and wore publicly carried out of the house. Ducis was alarmed for his tragedy, for his fame, and for his life. The author of so much public combustion might have been sent to ex piate hie temerity in the Bastile. He took the safer mode, and altered the catastrophe. At the moment when Othello lifts the dagger over Her/dinette (the name of Desdemona was too unmusical for Parisian ears), °dal& rt! the hero ine's father, Loredan, and the Doge of Venice, rush in. The latter personage seizes the dagger, exclaiming— " Itlalbeureux, que tain-tu ? Tu vas de ce poignard immoler la Term !" The play was published with both catastrophes, for the Pa risians to take their choice, and the coteries found an in teresting and unending topic in the respective merits of the denouement _lunette and denouement heureux. But the actor, probably from his English education, was less tender, and more natural than his audience. The denouement hcureux sat uneasily upon hint; and a few nights after its adoption, as Ducis, the author, was passing behind the scenes, he saw Telma striding away in one of the dark passages, in full soliloquy. "Shall 1 kill her?—No, the audience will not suffer it !—Yet, what do I care—l will kill her—they shall learn to suffer it—Yes, I have made up my mind— She must be killed !" Duds, who stood aloof from the whirlwind of' this debate, now came forward. " What is the matter with you, Taltna ?"—" I am determined—l' must put her to death !"—" I am of your opinion, Talme ; but what then?"—" Her fate is fixed ! —" Then go through your determination!" The actor went through with it, to the surprise of the general audience, and to the peculiar agonies of the most obviously handsome and fashionable ; but there was so much' truth and dramatic feeling in his performance, that the death became the established mode, and Talons had all the honours of a successful intrepidity. LORD COCHRA A* E. On Wednesday afternoon this distinguished Nobleman, accompanied by his Lady; arrived at the British Hotel, Edinburgh, in a travelling carriage and four. Thursday forenoon his Lordship and Lady Cochrane, attended by Mr. Hobert Scott Moncri e ff, drove to th e C as tl e i n an open carriage. The carriage remained on the esplanade while they walked round the fortification. On the party return ing, the crowd assembled at the barrier gate gave them a hearty cheer, which his Lordship acknowledged by a grave but affable inclination of the head. Tile) , afterwards pro ceeded to the Parliament House, and the Advocates and IVriters to the Signet Libraries, where a similar testimony of respect was shown by the populace; and subsequently visited Holyrood House and the Calton Hill. Yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, his Lordship, ac companied by his Lady and suite, visited the chain pier at Newhaven. About an hour previous to his departure, the spacious street in front of the British Hotel was completely blockaded by hundreds of anxious spectators, who greeted his Lordship with enthusiastic cheering as he passed to his carriage. Their enthusiasm, however, slid not stop here,—they proceeded to disengage the horses, with the. view of - dragging him along Queen-street in triumph, bad not his Lordship politely declined the honour. To-day his Lordship leaves town for Vally field, where he' will remain fora day or two. It is expected that before his final departure from Scotland, he will return to the Britsh Hotel. His Lordship has apparently suffered no constitu tional injury from his long exposure to a foreign climate, and every species of danger to which his profession is liable. His frame is athletic, and, but for a slight bend in the neck, would he erect. His complexion is hale, and by no means indicative of a long residence under a tropical sun. He was plainly dressed in a blue surtout and one of those nar row crowned hats lately come into fashion. Lady Coch rane is an elegant petite figure, with a considerable share of beauty. Her features are highly expressive ; and an olive tinge in her complexion, together with very black hair and eyt a, give her a Spanish cast of countenance.—Scotrtnan. It is very generally reported in the political circles of the west end, that Lord Cochrane has sent in his formal re signation to the Emperor of Brazil, declining hereafter to serve under his flag; and the motives which led to this singular measure have, we understand, been, within these few days, the free topics of discussion in certain clubs, chiefly freqtiented by persons of his Lordship's own cloth. That his popularity had greatly declined, or rather that a host of enemies bad risen up against him at Rio, even in the very palace, previous to his going to Pernambuco and Maranham, was mentioned in a variety of letters written home at the time. After the signal services his Lordship has rendered to the cause of South America, and particu larly to that of Brazil, such a termination to his naval career in the New World would almost require an expla nation, particularly as his Lordship has many friends and some enemies in his native land.—Morning Paper. New CAT-BLoce.—Yesterday a newly-invented cat block, intended for the Druid frigate, fitting at this port, was tried on board his Majesty's ship Britannia, to prove I its strength before sending to sea, and the result being per fectly satisfactory, it has been delivered over for sea ser vice, in order to ascertain the merits of the invention. This improved block, we understand, is the invention of Mr. Bothway, gunner of his Majesty's ship Belleisle. It has been got up in the dock-yard here, by order of the I Honourable Commissioners of the Navy Board, under the superintendence of the inventor, and should it be found to I answer, of which there can be little doubt, its general adoption will be a great conven;ence to the service. The chief merits of the invention consist in the decreased weight of this hitherto cumbersome article (the present block only weighing about two-thirds of that usually employed), and in the very great facility with which it may be hooked to the anchor, in consequence of the alterations in its con struction. It is rather remarkable that there had hitherto been no improvement in the form of this machine within the oldest memory. We may remind our readers that Mr. Bothway is also the inventor of the excellent machines for raising and supporting invalids in bed, now introduced Into the public hospitals and medical establishments, with the high approval of the faculty.—Devonpert Telegraph, Sept. S. ASSAULT THOM COMBINATION.—Yesterday morning, I between the hours of seven and eight o'clock, a bricklayer, (named Patrick Collins, was severely beaten by two men, also bricklayers, in Bamck-street. It is supposed that the tense of this assault is, Collins having refused to join " the body." The assailants have for the present escaped. —Dublin Evening Bat of Saturday. STATE or THE CIIOI.I IN SCOILAND.—The weather for the last fortnight has been extremely favourable for the operations of harvest, which are in an advanced state. — The wheat is all cut down, and the greater part carried off the field and secured. We may safely say, this crop has turned out little less, if any, than one-fourth beyond an average, and the quality is of the first description. Some parcels have already been delivered, weighing 631 be. to the bushel. Barley is nearly cut down, and will be about an average, and of fine quality—perhaps superior to that of last year. A parcel of 21 bolls has been delivered, weigh ing 20st. 4 lbs. Dutch, per boll. Oats on carne and dry field lands are particularly short of straw, and, as a crop, may be expected to fall considerably short of an average.— On the contrary, this has proved an excellent crop on the moor lands, and is now nearly ready for the sickle. Beans on the whole will prove short of an average, and of rather inferior quality. Potatoes, particularly on clay lands, have failed, and as a crop will not come near an average, although the quality will be good. Pastures have improved, but not so much as to afford a full hite.—Stirling Journal. , A few days since the Hon. Mr. Hill's keeper, at Rea Rice, near Andover, lately found a hawk's nest with five young ones. He took three at tha: time, and shot one of the old ones, leaving two young alive in the nest, and baited a gin with a mouse close to the nest, to catch the other old one. Next day he went to the nest, and found the old one caught in the gin ; but before it was caught it had worked hard to get food for the young ones ; for in the asst were found twenty-four small buds of different , kinds, all very cleanly picked, and without heads.—Hamp shire Chronicle. LITITARr of EA*.+G.f. No. XXIII. SAXON IDOLS WORSHIPPED IN ENGLAND, WHENCE THE NA MES OF OUR DAYS A HE DER[ VED. The Idol of the Sur fl'om which S u nd a y is d er i ve d, among the Latins dies .;:ofis, was placed in a temple and adored and sacrificed to.. He was represented like a man half naked, with his face like the sun, holding .e burning wheal with both bands on his breat, signifying his course round the world ;Auld by its fiery gleams, the light and heat wherewithe warms and nourisheth all things. 2. The Idol of the Moox, from which cometh our Man day—diet I unrr, anciently MooNday : this idol appears strangely singular, being habited in a short coat like a man: her holding a moon, expresses what she is, but I the reason of her short coat and lung-eared cap is lost in oblivion. 3. Talmo, the most ancient and peculiar god of the Ger mans, represented in his garment of a skin, according to their ancient manner of clothing; next to the sun and moon, they paid their adoration to this idol, and dedicated the next day to him ; front which our Tuesday is derived, anciently Tutsday, called in Latin dies Mortis. But this idol is very unlike Mars, whom IVodeu much nearer re !sembles than he does Mercury. 4. Wodrn was a valiant prince among the Saxons ; his 'image was prayed to for victory over their enemies, which if they obtained, they usually sacrificed the prisoners taken in battle to him. Our Wednesday is derived from him, an ciently IVouENsday. The northern histories make him the father of Thor, and Friga to be his wife. 6. Thor was placed in a large hall, sitting on a bed, ca nopied over, with a crown of gold on his head, and twelve stars over it, holding a sceptre in the right hand; to him was attributed the power over both heaven and earth, and, that,as he was pleased ur dispiattel he could aril thunder, tempests, plagues, &e. or fair seasonable weather, and cause fertility. From him our Thrirsday derives its name, anciently Titoasday ; among the Romans, dies Joeis, as this idol may be substituted for Jupiter. 6. Friga—this idol represented both sexes, holding a drawn sword in the right hand, and a how in the left, de noting that women as well as men should fight in time of need : she was generally taken for a goddess, and was re puted the giver of peace and plenty, anti causer of love and amity. Her day of worship was called by the Saxons, FRIOZDAEIi, now Friday, dies Irearris ; but the habit and weapons of this figure have a resemblance of Diana ra ther than Venus. 7. Seater stood on the prickly hack of a perch t he was thin-♦isaged, and long-haired, with a long beard, bare headed, and bare-footed, carrying a pail of water in his right hand, wherein are fruit and flowers • and holding up a wheel in his left; and his coat tied with a Ion; girdle: his standing on the sharp tins of this fish, signified to the Simons, that by worshipping him they should pass through all dangers unhurt; by his girdle flying both ways was shown the Saxons' freedom, and by the pail with fruit and ' flowers, was denoted that he would nourish the earth. From him, or from the .Romau D ty SATURN, comes Saturday. ORIGIN OF THE NAMES OT THE PRINCIPAL 'maritime, STREETS, &C. IN LONDON ♦ND WESTMINSTER, ?Roil STOW, SPEED, KAITLAND, Adle-street is in old records called King Adel-street, from KingAdelstan the Saxon. Aid-gate, i.e. Old-gate, was one of the four original gates of the city, being mentioned in King Edgar's reign, in 967. The late gate was re-built in 1609. Ave-Mary-lane was so called in the Popish times, from text-writers and bead-tnakera who dwelt there. Barbican took its name from a watch tower, or burk kenning, which stood there, and destroyed by henry 111, in 1267. Bloomsbury was anciently a village named Lomsbur7, in which were the King's stables, till they were burnt in 1334. Blossom's-Inn, Lawrence-lane, was so called from bay ing for its sign St. Lawrence, the deacon, in a border of b ossoms, or flowers. Bridewell, so called from its being near a spring called St. Bridget's or St. Bride's Well, was fortherly the King's palace, till, in 1593, Edwiedirl gave it to the city as a workhouse for the poor. It was burnt in 16G8, and rebuilt in 1632. - - • . ". Change (Old) waren carted tenni the Ring's Exchange, kept there for the coining of bullion, 6 henry 111. Canon-row, from the Canons of St. Stephen's, West minster, who dwelt there. Charing-cross was so called from a cross set up by Ed ward 1,. in memory of the Queen, on the s p o t w h ere King a Charles statute now standei Charing was then a village. Charter House, or more properly Chartrcux (so called from the monastery which stood there, and was dissolved by Henry VII I. (was founded and endowed at the sole cost of Thomas Sutton, Esq„ who purchased the house of the Earl of Suffolk, for 13,0001. It was opened it October, 1614. The estate is now above 60001. per annum. Cheapside derives its name from there being a market there, which in Saxon is a cheap. Clifford's Inn was a house granted by Edward 11 to thefamily of (Affords, and. afterwards leased, and then sold to the students of the law. Covent (i. e. Convent) Garden, was formerly a Garden belonging to the Abbot and Convent of Westminster. It was granted in 1552 to John Earl of Bedford. Cripple-Gate was built bilbre the conquest, and took its name from the Cripples who used to beg there. It was repaired in 1633. Crutched Friars tool its name from a roonestry of the Holy Cross, suppressed by Henry VIII. Fleet Ditch, was formerly called the River or Fleet, being navigable for merchant ships as far as II olborn-bridge. Goodman's-fields were in Stow's time, the fields and farm of one Goodman.. Gracechurch-street, formerly _ called from grass or herbs sold there. Gray's Inn was a home belonging to the Grays of Wil ton' who resided there from 1315, till th e re i gn o f Ed ward 111, when they demised it to the students of the law. Hick's Ball was erected for a S.asions Hons.; in 1612, by Sir Baptist Hicks, a mercer. Holborn was formerly a village called Old-bourne, from a stream which broke out near the place where the bars now stand, and ran down the street to Ohl-bourne-bridge, and so into the River of Fleet, now Fleet-dash. This was long ago stopped up at the head, and in other p'acea. Holborn was first paved in 1535. House of Commons was formerly St. Stephen's Chapel, being founded by that Kiig. It was new built and en dowed by Edward 111, in 1347, anti suppressed by Ed ward VI, since which time it has served as a House of Parliament. St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, belonged to the priors of St. John of Jerusa lem, being the chief seat in England of those religious knights. It was founded about the year 1100, and suppressed 3`2 Henry VIII. King-street was so called from its being the Ring's corn moh road to and from his palace at ‘Vestatinster. Langbourn (or Long Stream) was a great stream break ing out of the ground iti Fenchurch-street, which ran swif ly west, across Gras church -street, and down Lombard street, turning south down Sharebon-lane (so styled from sharing, or dividing) ran in several rills to the Thames. It has been long stopped up at the head, and the rest of it filled up and paved over. • London Stone, of the antiquity of this there is no memo rial, save that it is mentioned in a gospel book, given to Christ Church, Canterbury, before the conquest. Long-acre, in 1552, was a field, and went by the nave of the Seven Acres. was BO St. Martin's-le-grand, so called from a large college of , secular priests, founded in 105 G, and suppressed in 1348. Mark-lane was originally Mart-lane, being a public mart. Mewse, so called from the King's falcolna there ancient ly kept, was new built for stabhs in the reigns of Edward VI and Queen Mary. The north aide was rebuilt by George 11. The Minorics was an abbey of Nuns of the order of St. Clare, suppressed in 1339, 30 Henry VIII. Moor Fields, in 1417, were a moorish rotten piece of ground, and impassable but for causeways, made for that purpose, and so continued till 1603. Paternoster-Row was so called from the Stationers, or Text-writers, who dwelt there, and who wrote and sold all sorts of books in use, via. A B C, with the Pater Noster, Ave, Creed, Graces, &c. There dwelt also turners of beads (for Catholics) and they were called Paternoster makers. AMERICA' PARrtis. A democratic writer inn Kentucky Paper (the fret sales rommoniveuith) draws the following picture of what in the United States is termed the Federal Petty. The late :struggle between the two principal candidates for the Pre sidency, Adams and Jackson. appears to have revived party feeling very strongly. The following sketch, theft= ore, made by a writer of the Democratic par t y, will n .be without interest to our readers on this side or Atlantic Soon after the Government of the United States bas •organizod, two parties sprung up, distinguished by the names of Federalist and Republitan, who fur many years, irith unabated zeal and par:y spirit, struggled for the ascendancy. The Federalists were advocates of a strong goirunment ; they wished it to be Monarchical in fie cha racteristic features, or so energetic in its constitution as to enable the Executive and Judicial powers to control the prOonderating influence of the people. They contended, that the British Constitution exhibited the ;best model of a rational and moderate Government known to the world—and such a one as was worthy of imitation by the American people. And they contended *at "separate orders of men were necessary, in all well organized and good governments, to fix the balance of power, and to insure their stability. In accordance with thew sentiments, when the convention had under Consider ation the adoption of a constitution for the United States, they exercised all their talents, ability, and influence to give that in . :drument such features, as would insure the object of their wishes. Alexander Hamilton (the idol of the party to this day), John Adams, Timothy Pickering, &c. were the leaders of this party. Hamilton was the leading champion, he was a man of pre-eminent talents, bold any. daring in all his measures. He actually proposed to the convention, in his form of government, that the President, the Senate, and the Judiciary should be elected for life. These principles, he, in corlainction with his party, zealously advocated and defended, with all their ability and influence. ' The two first they failed in, but succeeded in the third. John Adams (afterwards President of the United States,) wrote a book which he was pleased to call a defence of the American constitution, in which the admiration of the writer for the British system was manifest and glaring. He was on one occasion heard to say, that he hoped he hould live to see the day, when certain of the Republicans of the union would be convinced, that the people of America would not be happy without an hereditary chief magistrate and senate, or at least for life. After the saviour of our country, 'Washington, retired from office, John Adams was elected by the Federal party Pre sident of the United States. They had by their teal, alai (Laity, talents, and management, become the prevailing and fashionable party. Every man pretending to good so-' eiety was expected to be of Federal politics, and the oppo sition was considered as including chiefly, the poor, the ig norant, and rabble. They were backed by the banking in terest, the mercantile importing int'ziest, and all the monied aristocracy of the country. The judiciary seemed to have fully acted their part also in the high-handed measures. The Republicans were now denounced by this party jaw bins and rebels, and hardly fit to be admitted into genteel society. About this time the RtOttblicans saw that the liberty and independence they had obtained at the sacrifice of so much blood, toil, and treasure, was shaken to its foundation, and that if this party was permitted to rule, that they must again bow their necks, and receive the yoke of a hereditary monarch. They, therefore, with Mr. Jef ferson at their head, determined to make a bold stand. The Federalists Were so enraged at the opposition made by the Republican party, and impatient to secure the free fruition of supreme power, that Mr. Adams procured the free passage of several laws by Congress, which, in their nature and practical effects, struck at the foundation of the liber ties of the people. Supported by a majority of the mem ; bens of Congress, who were Federalists, he blindly gave him self up to the guidance of wicked counsels, and, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, made rapid strides to absolute power. Among the means resorted to in furtherance of his views, the alien ar.d sedition laws were the most obnoxious and dangerous. The first authorized the President at hit pleasure to order out of the United States all such aliens or foreigners as might be obnoxious to him, not to return under the severest penalties. The second, called the sedition law, made j,.t, highly penal for an 7 person to speak or write any thitig against the high dignitaries of the union, and any persons who should dare violate the ;law, were emir:4W so judicial punishment, by fine and imprisonment. In addition to those hateful measures, and as auxiliaries thereto, may be enumerated a large standing army, a great augmentation of the navy and heavy and oppressive taxes, all conjured up to aid and further the party in placing an hereditary monarch at the head of the Government, and subverting the liberties of the people. The party at this time had gone to such lengths, that the eyes of the people began to open and see their true situa tion, and Adams and his party began to see the clouds rising above the horizon. When they were drawing the last !breath, they endeavoured to strengthen and fortify themselves under the judiciary ; that power that was installed in Office for life. They made sixteen new Judges as their last act. The peole now rose in the majesty of their strength, and elected Jefferson President of the United States, which may appropriately be called a second revolution. The first congress under his adininstration repealed the law creating sixteen new Judges and the alien and sedition laws. The repealing of all those laws was violently opposed by the Federalists. Under Jefferson's administration the Government was re stored to its health, and all things were:well ; but his task was an arduous one, as the artillery of the Federalists was incessantly levelled at him. After Jefferson, Madison followed pretty much in his footsteps. The Federalists still kept up their cpposition, but to very little purpose. Monroe's object appears to have been to destroy that rancour and party spirit that was still alive, and to reconcile parties and bring them as near together as possible. But, alas! in the Judiciary—that power installed in office for life—are found yet to exist those seeds of aris tocracy, which the people of this day are called upon, by the voice of liberty and republicanism, and by everything that is near and dear to themselves, to check and destroy. AULD RODIN GRAY.—We copied lately from an Eng lish paper a paragraph, claiming this exquisite melody as the production of the Rev. Mr. Leeves. Rector of Uring ton, Somersctshire. This is a mistake, whether originating with the Reading Mercury, the paper alluded to, or the Rev. Mr. Leeves, we do not pretend to know. It is well known in Scotland that the beautiful ballad alluded to was written by Lady Ann Lindsay, an accomplished Scottish lady, sister to the late Earl of Balcarras.—Caledonian Mercury. REMAREADLI SAOACITY..--SOMe time ago, a child was walking out with the maid-servant in George's-square, Edinburgh, where, it would appear, the dogs are remark able for wisdom and benevolence ; the child was throwing a ball before it, which happened to run into the middle of the street, and the child followed it. The servant just then happened to meet some one with whom she stopped to converse, and at the same moment a carriage came quickly round the corner of the square towards the child. A large Newfoundland dog, which was lying upon the pavement, darted forward, seized the child by the clothes, and laid it safely down at the feet of the servant. No won der we have epitaphs on Newfoundland Dogs.—Edinburgh Star. On Wednesday morning, a person of the name of Ben nett, an engineer, from Staffordshire, attempted to com mit s uicide in a field at IVootlhouse-lane, in this town, by first cutting his throat with a razor in two places, and then by casting himself into a well containing ten fret of water. In this dreadful situation the instinctive love of life pre vailed over his previous determination, and he preserved himself from sinking by grasping a pipe. How long he re , maincil in this situatlma is not known, but soon after six o'clock in the morning, he was found by some brickmakers, who were going to resume their labour, and whose mien ' tion was attracted by a bloody razor lying upon the ground. Ile was then up to the neck in the water and evidently ex . hausted, and if assistance had not thus opportunely ar rived, his fearful purpose of self-destruction must have been fully accomplished. He was extricated from hi s p er il o us si tuation, and taken to the Infirmary, the wounds in the throat, though very scrims, arc not likely to prove fatal, and he is now in a fair way of recovery. 'f he unfortunate j man was induced to make this attempt by a depression of I spirits, produced, business. Leeds e ?Tut. y. it is said, by an excessive application to • ills atolat The Rev. Ralph Harvey aire hailosen iastitakeil to the Rectory of Longford, Shropshire, on the preaseatioso of Ralph Leeke,Bsq. of Longford Hall. The Rev. Geocre Thomas Pretyrnarr, L.L B. was on Friday installed a Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, in the room of•tho late Rev. C. A. North. The Ret. R. B. Paul, M.A. Fellow of Exeter has lrecn presented, by the Rector and Fellow of that Su dety, to the Vicarage of Lvng Wittenham, in that 'aunty. We were prematbre in announcing Mr. •Prttyiran's presentation to the livings at Alverstoke and I-Oayant. • We now understand that these Vacancies have tie! yet beters supplied.—llumprhiee Chronick • lIRItTFORD DISTRICT FOR THE PROMOTION OF CBAISTIAtt MAW! LEDGE. _ , .. • TICe Imbue' meeting of ihe above Society was heel oat Monday last at the Shire-liall t Hertford, *Myst-end Dr. Ridley in the Chair. Cliog to the eicaidtitgly tan farcurable state of the weather as meeting - u bet thinly attertlect. . The Rev. T. Lloyd, the Seerefitt reed tile-benual port. It stated that the distribution of the Scrgtturei,3le; for the last year, had materially advanced in, . comparison with the preceding one. The number of Eitlas this:Year distribtited amounted to upwards of 50,000; New Teets menu and Psalters 69,000 ; Common Prayer Books, 183,000; and other Religious Books and Tracts, 94R,000 The number distributed by the Hertford District Core.; mittee during the first year were, Bibles 103; Testaments 151; Common Prayer Books, *l3; Psalters, DS; other hoOks and Tracts, 174; indepeddent of vast number distributed by intlividuils who had Waived their books frotri.the Parent Society. The London Society had granted 1,9004 to the Bishol , of Nova Untie for the benefit of the Univetijty ertablishpi in his diocese, to train up a well-instruetpd provincial Clergy, and. fll.tt the promotion of other religious °Nests. In order t.aisseminatir the Scriptures as widely art pos' sible in India, and to have the native children' educated under the management of the Society, it has determined to transfer its control over all its Indian Miasioneries so the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel', that by the concentration et the exertions of both, thO good achieves! might 1.):: infinitely greater. The report enlarped upon the advantages to be derived frow a general diffusion of education in India, a measure that met the de. , cided approbation of the late Bishop Middleton, as well as that of his amiable successor, the present Bishop Heber, and dwelt with much pleasure upon the success of time Society's exertions at Calcutta. A separate hind for this particular object has been established, to which the SotietV have contributed 5,000/.; and this has been increased b % an anonymous donation of 1,000.., jfkl another of 2007. The report concluded by exhorting the frientiss& the Go pel to contribute all in their power to its propagation. Some n ew annual subscribers were added to the list, snd the meet ing separated. The following gentlemen were nominated Stewards for the ensuing year : The Rev. H. Pepys. I Rev. R. Rideilsle. G. Nicholson, Esq. IV. "ranks; Egg. A7IIOCIOUS PARRICIDE. (From the American Norfolk llerald.l A disclosure has been made since the Inquest tffi Rudder, which has given an entirely new face to this horrid trans action, and stamped it with features Of a much more exe crable cast. It will be recollected that the evidence given by the family of the deceased at the Inquest, stated that he was murdered by a coloured man, who entered his room be tween the hours of 7 and 8 in the evening, and perpetrated the deed in the very face of his wife and children, who were sitting in a contiguous room. As the deceased was known to have had some dis turbance with a fret coloured man named Lam Cuffee. suspicion immediately fell on him, and a warrant was named to appreheni him. Still, however, it was difficult to conceive how he, or any other man in his senses, whether instigated by revenge (and there could have been no other inducement in this case, Rudder being a poor labouring man) or by plunder, should have gone into a hottte where there was so large • family, to commit a murder almost in broad day-light (for the time the murder is stated to have been committed could have been but a few minutes after sun-down)—how he should have known of Pudder's going to bed at that uncommon hour—and haw it was that no effort was made by the three stout females present to rescue the unfortunate man from the grasp of the murderer. Dark surmises and suspicions began to arise, and in quiries to be made, all too well justified by the sequel, for, by the voluntary confession of one of the children, the horrid deed was proved to have been committed by one of Rudder's own daughters! The whole family were upon this discovery sem moned before a Magistrate; and Betsey Rudder, the young woman charged with the horrid deed, was committed to gaol. The rest were discharged, the evidence of their participation in it not being sufficiently strong to warrant their commitment. The witness, Nancy Rudder, stated, that her sister Betsey effected her bloody purpose by means of an iron pestle, with which she literally beat in her father's skull ! Some other facts have been related to us. which it would be indiscreet to publish for the present. Enough is known to shock and disgust every reader of or dinary sensibility. Rudder is represented to have been a bard-working and rather well-disposed man ; at tunes addicted to intoxicative, when he was apt to be cross; sad en the whole lived upon very bad terms with his wife and children. District Societies, for promoting the building and eh largeMent of Churches and Chapels. have been established at Exeter and Plymouth, and we shall feel much pleasure in seeing the examples set by those places, followed by the laree towns in this county.—Winchester paper. • There are now living in one house in New -street, Great Torrington, two men, each under 40 years of age, who have had six wives. It is said that the next Old Bailey and Clerkenwell Ses sions are likely to be heavier, in point of number of pri soners and the nature of some of their offences, than has occurred for some time. The crime of horse-stealing is still carried on to an amazing extent, and scarcely a day passes that information does not reach the police Wee' of one or more horses hav ing been stolen. On Sunday night five valuable horses were stolen from a field near Edgeware, belonging to a Mr. Thompson, of Kilburn, who, we believe, had the care of them. They were valued at above seven huntlred gui neas. One of them was stated to be the property of Chief Justice Best. Connell, who was tried for th iw e ase l rt a eb te ypro l e i ns o ee r n r o i t h f, l a e tlhid n e t int it y ril i)tu lf ge coaches. A w n e u n m t off ber on of pe Sunday rsons of them he was cheered, which compliment he teturtied by bowing to them, and taking oft' his hat. He appeased to he in high spirits.—Chester el,ronkle. J.11.1E8 PATTEEN.—A letter was rec e iv e d ytEerday morning from the Secretary of State's office, by Mr. Tat nail, the keeper of our county gaol, stating that Mr. Secre tary Peel having fully considered the ease of James Pat tern, now under sentence of death in the gaol of Warwick, he could not, consistently with his duty, advise his Ma jetty to grant the prisoner any extension of the royalinerey. Pattern will, therefore, be executed this morning.--;-Bie mingham Journal, Sept. S. ACCIDENT THROUGH AN Ext•Losiow.—The family cf Mr. Connor, North -street, Cavendish-square, being ex pected home from France in a few days, the servants were yesterday morning busily occupied in cleaning, and em ployed a man and two charwomen to assist them ; they made a very large fire in the back kitchen, and while sir. ting near it at breakfast, the whole house was suddenkt shook by the fire exploding with a loud noise, and with such violence as to shatter the tire-grate, copper, Stc.'and throw down not only them, but everything in the place; the man, who was sitting tkrthest from the tire-place, had his skull fractured by the falling of an iron weight or smoothing iron ; the housemaid was sodreadfully scorched and burned in the face, that it is feared she will lose hat sight ; vise of the charwomen was very much injured in her breast. The cook was also hurt by the hot wiser burst ing over her. Two of the injured persons were removed a to ppe the ars, lifiary for w i a r . m otvasio medical nettbya advice. vaperof accident,' wder,wh ft tab had been placed most carelessly in a cornet of the grafts ivw days ago. si. wt ge. M. 04 vim• n• bout two held• h• In to T. ho The Pr. I him M Po wait lie it pc,- 'okri' We :fora