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The 4 •ntanet, and the new Pantomime. I (sooseqtienee of the 'revere indi,pueltion of Mr. Mikeready. TM* *..:al P... r) red n fen , data, THEATRE Pr)V Al,. COVFNr-GARDEIV. 1 his Errultu.7. T MAY. nee. 30. win he performed TII:: IMEIICHANT OF VFNICF. A ntcrio. Mr. Firertog ; fLuAnnlo, Mr. Cu:4mq: CrutlAur, Mr.Ystre Mr.thirlowr: Sltylock, Mr. J. IturAell tio:IIF his grit sperm unr. r.n thIA Ata.:e thaw four years.; Culda, Sir. lininenard ; Lau ra eo:.e. Mr. Vr id.ncr. Portia, Mrs. *lonsin ; Melissa. Wm Lees 01.1iCA. ll:ounler4ley. AI lef "mai tImAI a new Comic Partten.sime. caned 11AUL141.:IN ANTI TI4K MI At:ON Or MANTLEr I Ur, Mt iNR OF Alt PKE II MT. Marlequin, Mr. Filar; I'ant4o.m. Mr. Itnriore; Cluwa, /tr. J. IL Oil. Codonsblne. Mi.. lt,pnWr. Lo-uurrrow, A Never % rxr. and the new Pantomime. ADELPIII THEATRF, 11; CR AND. it Tven:neg. TIIURS DAY, n»?. wlll 1.. preminted Dow CutnN ttnrim tn. ca! , (4l 1,01: Me AN A e're,R. TA, Primplpal Clea;a;:teral4 ai,.asia.llietieh,.l. Reeve, 1111kInenn, I.r•, C8,8404(.11, Salter, andlaws &Awn, l.ady, SIMI le, rot Myatt, ko. he. After whlrh a new Camlr Thrvonilma, called c 11•1 or, MAIILTQUIS AM) THE 1%11111.4 OC THE ROSE. It..;:aquin. 4r. klrLy; Pantalooo, Mr. KII 0)1 Clown, Sliuur Paulo. Columbine, Mrs. Fr.irle. hr BntTl.o rlll[3B commenced publirhing yesterday abormlag at tire o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY. Dacsmaza SO, 1824. II , 1 ei 1 I I r !' I I L . I The Paris Papers of Monday reached our Office last night; they contain no domestic intelligence of the least ietcrest in this country. The conduct of the Prefect of the Seine towards M. Hammerer. appears to have excited a strong sensation in Paris, as indeed it was well calcu lilted to do, under any Government not avowedly despotic. Our readers probably remember the facts of this extraor di!'ary ease. M. Bo m pit:R:lr, an eminent wine-merchant of the city of Paris, rented one of the public cellars, from which he anal his stork were ejected, without any previous verger, because lie roted at the last general election against the Ministerial Candidate; M. Bowel rant brought an a, Lion against the Prefect for this scandalous wrong, and recovered damages to the amount of Soo francs, and the r •ititution of his cellar. We are glad to find that indivi 41:als have the courage in France to sue the agents of :Jverninent, and that the tribunals have sufficient inde yrideece to award redress to the suffivers. Whatever plitical errors the Boca Cu as may commit, their throne will be safe while jnitice is in this manner fairly admi iiist..reil to their subjects. M. nay. z has been again appointed President of the Ci.amber of Deputies ; and the two other Vice-Presidents hsre been chosen in the persons of M. MARTIGNAC and Culllll. rl.l T. The Chambers were still occupied with the preliminary business of the Session. Ac:ording to the .If,miteur, the Greek corsairs are (lois log all over the Archipclagl, anal carrying away prisoners awl booty from the Tnrkish coasts. Smyrna itself has been saved only by the interference of the Foreign Consuls. The Creeks, we are told, meditate an expedition against the de of Candia. The success of such an enterprise would es4ablish indisputably their maritime superiority in the Levant over any Ottoman force that can be brought against th4bm. It would also matetially augment their power and ret•erue, and to that extent diminish the resources of the enemy. We may exp •et great results the nest cam paign from the well-d!rectssl efforts of their now firmly confederated tlovernment. No SUCCtTS can exceed the 11 , ...;crta of this heroic people. The prepares us for the restoration of the "Holy Tribunal" of the FERVirrasn, it is said, has r .1 pi given Lis consetit to the measure, and it is therefore n.t absolitrely "certain." This language, how ev.,r, leave s no doubt, that the horrible project is formally under Whim that atr“ ious machine of lyrstiny :.1.1:11 he gut &ley into operation, we shall no Img r hear even the groans of its vieti tu!s. The King of Meats t• e lied, in his resolution not to acknow !ge any virtion of the debts he contracted to defray the exp,nst.,. of his palace miler the Com titutional system. a. at h a , .!, lh merit—such es it is—of a per 'et cutler-oily at till the parts of his hateful character. I'M: 1,. Itt.E. -!1w per Cents. opened n: If %I. I . l , tval at litY. t ; Neapolitan Five per Cevit, ; rt" ; Itoyal Spaniiii Loan, I trl, 1:x::!:•!!2 OD I.oneon, ono month, 2.4. three snotubs, dat ;vie, ner. N'e Lave ol)serveil with t egret, that the great body of sleriers at le me by inundation have L. en passed over as if unworthy of r Thvr.• have been, it is true, a few v!scriptiom•t raiitol to b•e app!icil locally ; but the tiutne- I ( .15 coxes of diet., ss spread generally over the surface of Collffiry 113% C IbCCII wholly tierleete.l We are not bla•ning the p•rrties by whose es;;ltioris the partial benefits have been 40..1:1i1a-O. It reflects great credit up 'n them that they did not ::Landow the interests of those with whom they ar: e.. une vtr•l by the claims of viciiire and other tics sof s:rr•.ilar fens. %V e lieve, llowev:T, if at: npae•.tl hail m:ui.• renrri!v for :1 I to ali the sirl!'erers by dation U.:ow:boat Enhinil, that even the p'..aces for which, sub :iesiptions have been separately raised, would have re ceived, as th , it dividend of a viler:el subscription, a rcl ;bl.• 41 , : , :h!ellee. To our s% their tinota, mil would be instituted sustained w rious tosser, part of the ecustry they tray dwell ; and to us this appears to be the only fair principle on which the public at large can be expected to come forward with adequate means to repair the extensive damages caused by the inundations. If it should be said that the time has passed by for this work of beneficence, we beg leave to remind the objectors, that the sufferers are per haps at this moment feeling most bitterly the evils of their situation. The progress of winter will aggravate their dis rem,: all the worst is before them. Surely then some effort will be made in their behalf. A large SUM Wu; been sent to Germany for a like purpose. This was honourable to the national generosity; but we owe something also to our unfortunate fellow-countrymen, and we trust that this patriotic debt will not go wholly undischarged. We are comident that if a beginning were once made, the public would readily come forward wish seal and liberality. It has been for some years a just matter of complaint that Local Acts arc frequently obtained too easily on the representation of the parties applying for them. The general burden and inconvenience that may result are either not clearly foreseen at the time, or disregarded from an opinion that the trouble and expense of opposing the Bills would overbalance the probable loss from suffering them to pass. In no respect, perhaps, has the want of attention to these proceedings operated more injuriously than with regard to the heavy and constantly increasing charges imposed upon travelling. No taxes produce greater mischief, in proportion to the sum levied, than the duties on the transit of goods. In Spain this system of taxation was, under the old Government, carried to its highest pitch. Custom duties were taken no' only between every kingdom of which the Spanish monarchy was composed , but between every province, and a! lost every district, into which they were subdivided. In France, at this day, all provisions conveyed into Paris, in like manner, are subject to an imposition by no means inconsiderable in its amount or pressure. Every head of cattle, and every bottle of wine, pay a fixed sum as if imported from a foreign soil, on passing through the barriers of the capital. But this tax, unequal and unjust as it is, does not affect the general prosperity of the country; more particularly as the French metropolis is not the seat of any principal manufacture. In England, however, the growing charges on the turnpike roads have become a sensible burden on the proprietors of public conveyances, and through them on the internal trade of the whole kingdom. This is a subject well worthy of grave consideration; and if the evil cannot at once be remedied in every existing instance, it may, by timely warning, be prevented from being spread further. We have been informed, on good authority, that the tolls flow London to Birmingham, upon a daily coach, amount to the sum of 771. 1 6s. 10d. every month of twenty-eight days. This sum has been greatly increased within a few years, in consequence of many Local Acts leaving been obtained for altering the vicinity of the city of Coventry, and for improvements" in several trusts on that important and much-frequented line of road. The charges are in themselves so trifling and the increases° contrived, that when the Bills are before Parliament the evil wholly escapes the attention even of such Members u may be dis posed to go into the subject ; but as measures nominally local, they are, according to custom, mostly left altogether to the management of the Gentlemen connected with the district. The travellers can never be sufficiently interested in any one change to bring them forward in opposition to the Bill, and they are thus gradually saddled with an enormous expense, from which they ought to be quite free. Roads and highways, as matters of public convenience, should be maintained at the public coat. There would be as much propriety in erecting a turnstile under Temple bar, and levying a contribution on every passenger for keeping the streets in cleanliness and repair, as in choking up the public roads with turnpikes, and burdening travellers with charges which the county qr pariah should defray. The expenses ou the Oxfoed road are, we under stand, daily increasing, and bid fair at no distant period to rival the extortions of the way to Birmingham. Despatches, dated the 30th of September, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Mauritius ; they contain's' no intelligence of importance. The Ilero, Humeri', arrived at Jersey on the 90th from Bahia. The Captain teports that, previous to his sailing, there had been serious disturbances, party violence running very high. The Governor had 'wen shot at by some undis covered person. When the llero sailed tranquillity was restored, but it was feared that it would not be permanent. The Russian Finance Minister has published an official statement, tending to tranquillise the mercantile world in general on the results of the inundation. The injury to goods in the private warehouses of merchants and others has certainly be. n considerable, but yet much less than re • I port had stated. The brcattst loss fell on sugar, salt, hemp, and potash. We have accounts fruit Canton of the 7th May, at which time cotton was in good demand, at IS to 14, to be ae (wiling to quality. Opium was quoted at 1,080 to 1,100 dollars per chest, for old Patna ; and 1,030 to 1,030 for new. lkiinhav Motive was 800 to 820, and Bengal ditto 1420 toss°. Ohl Bemires sold at 960 to 980, and Turkey was 1,000 per is col. Pepper is stated to be very dull, and the meek undiminished. The Company's Treasury was opened at 'lO7 on Calcutta.—Bernboye Courier. The King of France has just bought the fine collection of Anequities lelonging to Mr. Edward Durand, one of the largest and best chosen in Europe. It contained nearly 7.000 articles. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and of the Middle Ages. Among these were no less than 1,230 of the Italo-Grecian vases commonly called Etrus can ; near 1,800 bronzes; besides many lamps, terra cottas, ancient glass, jewels of gold, enamel, mummies, rolls of Papyrus covered with hieroglyphic writing, he. he. tnaking 2.300 articles of this class. M. Durand is said to have acted very liberally in the negociation for the sa l e o f this collection, which lie was imams to see devoted to the public servic.:. A iiiliculous env-dote hay been in circulation for some days in the circles of Paris. One morning, as the King IV:1,! going to pear mass at the Royal Chapel, an old emigrant placed himself in his way. " Sire," said he, " I have an important secret to communicate to y o u." " Speak," replied the King. " Rut. Sire, I wish to have a private audience of your Majesty." " No, nu; speak, speak openly." " Site, there is a conspiracy against you in your own Palace." " Pray who conspires?" "I am protinmilly grieved to be obliged to say it is the Dauphin." At these words all the attendants lost their gravity. and a general burst of laughter, in which the King could not help joining, was the only answer received by the unlucky revealer of this wood, Kul secret, who retired in confusion. The amazing success which has attended the invention of the steam-vessel, givis an interest to any ciremustanze connected in the most distant degree with this important mechanical application. In searching (fur a very different puipose) the puhhe records of Friburg, we find, that in the beginning of the year 1;01, a mechanic of Burguinly, of the name of I Iron it;e, precuts from the Government of Friborg, for himself and his heirs male, an exclusive privilege for estaMishing on the S.wine a novel species of Twat, which was to be propelled neither by oars nor sails, nor yet drawn by horses, with which he proposed to navi gate the river, for the cony:lance of passengers an I mer chandise. Ile unfortunately did not explain the substitute by which he meant to effect this pnrpme ; and we are also as completely in the dark as to the obstacles which checked his undertaking. It may be that the inventor was fearful of incurring the ill-will of a people, buried at that period in the blindest cuperstitiou.—Courrire F..ascals. THE BRITISH PRESS. POETRY. FIDELITY. One eve of best;ti,;l;tr; the sun IV:is on the streams of uadalquiver, To g..ld converting, one by one, Tile ripples of the mighty ricer; Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl with auburn hair, Aud errs that might the world have cheated, A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair ! She stooped, and wrote upon the sand, Just as the hiving sun w:ui going, With such a soft, small, shining hand, I could have 81110171 'MIX silver flawing. Her words were three. and not one more, What could Diana's motto be ? The Syren wrote upon the shoro— " Death, not inconstancy !" And 'hen her two large languid eyes, So turned on mine, that, devil take me, I set the air on tire with sighs, .. . And was the fool she chase to make me. Saint Francis would have been deceived 11 tth such an eye and such a hand; But one week more, and 1 believed As much the woman u the sand. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Bishop of Ely and family have arrived at their house in Dover-street, from the Palace. Ely, Cambridgeshire. Lord Rivers arrived yesterday at his house in thomenor-place, from his scat, Hare Park, Newmarket. The bodies Cornwallis have left town for Brighton. The Marquis of Lothian left town yesterday fur Richmond. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, bower Brook-street :—Captain M. Grey, from Paris; Charles Tyrrell, Esq. from a tour. Mr. end Mrs. Rowley have left ditto for their seat in Norfolk. Departures from Rod's Hotel, bower Drosvator-street :—Bir John Frederick, Bart. for his seat. Durwood House, Surrey; Cap tain Job Hamner, R.N. for 13.1ghtou ; Messrs. W. and James Drummond, on a tour. _ _ Major Marone* lett town yesterday for Brighton. The Dowager 3larehioness of Exeter has left town for her seat at Roehampton. Earl (lower has left town for his father's, the Marquis of Stitt: ford's, at Pultney. Lord Clermont has attired at his seat, Clermont Ledge, Nor folk, from a tour. Departures from Long 's Hotel, Bond.street :_Captain Holmes. R.N. for Chatham; William Roberts, Esq. for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Maria, for Brighton ; and C. Phipps, Esq. fur ditto. WINDSOR, Dec. 29. The weather continuing so very damp and unfavourable, his Majesty has not left the Royal Lodge for any out-dour exercise since Sunday last. During the greater part of yes terday and this day his Majesty's time has been mostly oe , Tr n upon public business, despatching messengers to London from the Royal Lodge . Last evening his Majesty again entertained his Royal visitors, Lord St. Helens, Sir A. and Lady Stanhope, atid others of his suite, at dinner. _ _ _ Yesterday afternoon the Marquis Convngliam, Lonl St. Helens, Sir A. and Lady Stanhope, and fir llilgrove Tur ner, arrived at the Castle in two of his Majesty's travelling carriages, with outriders, and inspected the various im provements; after which they returned to the Royal Lodge in the Great Park, where they had the honour of dining with his Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg arrived at Paris on Sunday morning. lie waited on the King of France the next day. We understand that an express has arrived in town from Italy, bringing the melancholy intelligence of the death of Lord Mount Charles, son of the Martinis of Conyugham. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Inland enter tained the following persons at dinner, at the Vice-regal Lodge, on Christmas-day:—The Bishop of Raphoe, Arch deacon ltishopp, Sir C. Campbell, Sir George Rich, Sir William Bedlam. Colonel Hill, Colonel Gorr, Colonel Shawe, Captain Malcolm, Captain Norton, Captain Mack lin, Captain Vignola, Mr. Johnston, Dr. Hunter, Mr. Sterling, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Trans, Mr. Gore, Mr. Wood, &e. His Excellency Count Lieven entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at Asliburnham Howe. Lord Wm. Lennox and the late Miss Paton, with two of the Noble Lord's friends, occupied a private box at Covent garden Theatre on Monday evening, to witness George Barnwell and the new pantomime. Madame Vestris and her friends were in an opposite private box.—Evening Paper. Viscountess Bulkeley, independent of her innumerable charities throughout the year, has been distributing at her different houses, to the neighbouring poor, r..veral hundred yards of flannel, blankets, sheets, clothing, lice, coals, and money, during the last few days. Mr. Wilmot Horton left town on Tuesday night, on a visit to Lord Bigot, at Blithfleld, near Lichfield, in Staf fordshire. _ _ _ A statue of the late Lord Cornwallis, says a Bombay paper, which was subscribed fur by the Society at Bombay, and sent out from England several years ago, is about to be erected on the green, under an appropriate building, the foundation of which is being laid. __. Nothing can exceed the success Sir Richard Vy'.yan has met with in the western part of the county. Ile has per.. sonally canvassed Penzance and Newlyn, being forced to limit his canvass to towns. Ile has been really enthusias tically received ; at the end of Lariggan thidge they met him with flags and laurels, and took the horses from his carriage, and carried him in a chair through Newlyn and Mousebole to Paul, where he received almost unanimous 'assurances of surore—Ezeter Parer. George Lane lox, Esq. IMP. for the Borough of Beverley, last week, caused 400 blankets, 600 stones of flour, and 250 pairs of children's stockings to be distributed in that town. Upwards of 600 families, and 1,500 children, have been partakers of this bounty. The venerable and wealthy Mr. Farquhar is arrived et his house in Gloucester-place, from Fontltill Abbey, appa rently in better health than he has enjoyed for several years. The bracing air of Wiltshire has evidently reno vatetLithe strength of this enterprising gentlewan. The foundation-stone of the intended North Devon In firmary will be laid by the Right lion. Earl Forteseue, on Wednesday, the 13th of January, when there will be a public dinner at the Fortescne Arms, the Noble Earl, Pre sident ; and in the evening a ball at the rooms, tinder the patronage of the Right Hon. the Counters of Fortcscue.— Exeter Paper. Friday the Rev. Andrew Quicke, A.M. was insti tuted to the Vicarage of Newton Saint Pyres, in Devon. The Rev. Henry Parr Beloe, A.M. is presented to the Rectory of the united parishes of the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Guildford. Surrey, void by the resignation of the Rev. J. Weller, D.I). who has been Rector upwards of 51 years. At the sale of M. Motteley's collection of batiks, which closed on Friday last in the Rue Des Bons Entails at Paris, a number of valuable Elzcvira were disposed of. Among these was a tine :,atin Psalter of 1633. There were also various books which belonged to Henry 11. King of France, particularly the Latin Bible of It. Etienne 13 ts ' and Plutarch's Lives, N'aseesan 15. 9. 'lliere were a bea utiful Persian manuscript 13:6. with 13 miniatures in gold and colours; • superb GutLic Mystery 1541, richly bound by 'l'houvenin, &c. &c. R~caetiNG IN Reuse UPON AN F.,;(I4IIELC•—The shell must be a thick one. ll'ash it well in fresh water, and dry it carefully with a linen chnh. Melt some tallow or fat, and, while very hot, make any figures you please with it upon the shell, either w i th a pen or pencil. Take the shell then by the two ends, and lay it gently in a tumbler fiikd with vimgar, or diluted aqua! fortis, the acid of which, in *bent three hours and a half, will havo cot rod.:(l so much of the shell as to leave the parts drtwn upon in relief, the vinegar having no influcuce upon the fat which covered them. COrIITING 11Y MOONLIGIIT.—RANSGATS, DEC. '27. An accident that nearly proved fatal occurred brie a few nights since; a lady and a gentleman enloying :he pure brezzes of a cool December evening on the Cross Wall A our Pier, by some unlucky manteuvre ventured too near the edge, anti were precipitated into the water, and Lut fur the timely exertions of Mr. Edward Foster, they would hare met with a watery grave ; he was on duty mar the spot, when throwing a rope mud the lady, she had suf ficient presence of mind to hold by it until safely landed ; the gentleman, although an excellent swimmer, sunk twice, when luckily Mr. Foster's boat, prowl - ill his WIMPS, onhaNaL AND SELECT. The !Mowing lines from SUENSTONN are frequcutly found written on the windows of inns:— " ‘Vl:oe'er has travelkd lifes dull round, rAriot.a stage bath her., 1111ist vgli to tidi 1. hr oft has found II is wamint wekinne a: an Inn." A friend, with whum I was on a tour to the North, see ing this cotoptinictuary inscription on a paur of glakr at tit. inn we (hurt! at, at I; verpoul, tool• out his diamond, which he alwafs carries with Lau, and wrote underneath— •• fie tau, lun e f eod, whiriAr licea, While he had r:oh, they'd : , :kt Lwt it ; %%Men he h:.d tame, he finned, no doubt, flow gracefully they beard via." - - The followiug extract of a letter from Voltaire to the King of Prussia, not only furnishes us with a record of the age and wonderful spirit of this inexhaustible wrier, but makes us regriLt that he bad not survived to the present time, to witness the successes of the Gret-ks apiiiist that race of rogues towards whom he kit 60 strong an an tipathy : " Fcmcy, lot Febmary, 1773. " Sire,—l tfutr,k you for your von-of:On. The King toy mister Ins no liner. ltut 1 thir.k you much more for what you have taken from tne thmt fur what you have girt a me. in your last Ismer you have cut off nine whole Ms front my age. ever did our ton. troller-(:mend of the Finances make a more extraoriliaury alters. lion. Your Majesty has the yomlntss to compliment me on my at taining the /WC of seventy. Vim see how iiino are always tiecurctl. I um sesentr-nine, it ,ou please, at it upon the stroke of eight). Thus shall I tit v r see, what I have so passion.ltt.!y wished for, the destrud;un Mote no(. yrs the 'folks, uhL .h::t I.p tie women, l and do not en!ti. - ,51.. ti:e • lne• arts." At the present moment, when the policy of subjecting, am v class of the slate to political disabilities on the score of a difr.Tetiec in religious opinions, is a subject of such press ing and important discussion, the following letter fro-.: the Empress f'Arit.mtiNt: of Russia to 51. de VoLTAIIIE, well deaervei to be read with attention:— " Sir.—Thc brightness of the nortla..en star is a mere Aurora norealis. It is nothing more than glyingst Vile,. superfluity some thing to one's neighbour; but to he the ndcwate of human. kin.% the defender of oppressed ham:et:re, that is, indeed, the way to immortalise you. The two causes of t alas and Siteen, have giecn you the veneration dee to such miracles. You nave combated the united enemies of mankind, superstition, fanaticism, ignorance, chicane, brut judges, and the power reposed in theist al together. To surmount such °bombes required both talents and virtue. You have shown the world thee you poestased bosh. You have carried your point. Yon desire, r ir. some small relief for the !Skeen family. Can 1 possibly re:use it ? Jr should yon praise me for the action, would there be the lea. t atom for it ? 1 own to you that 1 should be much better pleated if my hill of exchange could pass unknown. Nevertheless. if you think that my name, unharninnitius as it is. may he td any use to those victims of the spirit of persecution. I leave it to your discretion, and you may an. pounce nie, provided it be nu way prehelLial to the panes. `• The nii.fortutie of the Bishop of Itostuff has been publicly talked of; and you, s_ir, may communicate the memorial at your pleasure, as a piece of intelligence you canto by honestly. " I have read with a good deal of attention the book that ac companied your letter. It is ditiieult to reduce the principles it coitains to practice. Unfortunately, the majority will long be against it. It is possible. neverthel-ss. to shake the (inundation of those opinions which tend to the destrnetion of mankind. What follows is, word tor word, what I have inserted, amon;st other matters, in tny instructions to the committee for rectifying and re. publishing our systein of laws. " In a gr:at empire, which extends its dominions over as many dilTerent people as there are dilferent religions in the world, the fault most pernicious to the moose and tranquillity of the subject would he the intolerance of tlithrrent sects. A musing but is seise toleration, equally conhistent with right relicioa and sound yauliey, can bring home the wandering sheep to the told of the faithful. Per/era/ion irrits trs ; the spirit gilt is always bad ; the sacred dutirl of conscience shon,',l be everywhere re:pea:J. A contrary police is fatal to the repose of the Lim:roman, and the union of the Ilmreos. " he little Count ".".;houyalor, on his return to his country, told me the interest you take in every thing that concerns mc. I con chide with every sentiment cf gratitude, Exc." The rceo t.Aiat is tlefinl by 1)r. Jon NSON to be a figure of rhetoric, by which more words are used than are neces sary; but this definition is objectionable. inasmuch as that a beauty and a fault ought not both to to by the same name. A Pleonasm is that expression which amplifies a phrase to give it strength ; and when: words are multiplied without adding to the idea, it is, correctly speaking, a Peeisaulogy. " {Vireo we say--I hare seen it with my eyes—t her heard with lay ears-1 told him it himself;—there wads.—with my eyes. with f are redundant, and might ha ...e been omit. ted, because we t mond ace without ies, we cannot hear without ears, and /, inter?, is already described by him ; nevertheless, in all these instances there is a fLonuent, ar.d hot a prristology, a beauty, and not a defect ; because the expression is thereby tigthened, and what we advance more forcibly impressed. AVlien l'ltcrltus, speaking of those commotion; in Athens which gave l'isi ss rams the mews!' of usurping the government, says it was done conspiratisjitctionunt pirtibas, he falls into a pleonasm, 11Tel:tenons anti parties are sytionithous terms ; yet this expression is not faulty hoe, because the word foci: nee is only added to parties in an epithetical capacity, to give the idea afflictions parties. " is on the saute e.tcount that the noun is repeated in the I Oriental lauguspes, as in age of ages, flame of fame, wind of wind: the repetition supplies the place 01 the adjective, and gives the idea of time without eud, a prodigious fire, an impetuous wind. " This kind of p/trar.• is • remnant of the primitive language, which, while it consisted chiefly of nouns, frequently repeated them to give the sense of the adjective. ill. lieuusim proves very well against Le Clere, the celebrated Hebert-an, that the Oriental mode of expression, in repeating the verb at the same time as a circumstance and as an action, for in. stance, eating they did cat, steering they did sleep, has its proper weight and peetdiar energy ; whilst lee Clem maintains the eon. trail. This shows that taste is superior to science. be Clem de. nied that this form of expression had any mercy, as he denied that the fables of antiquity were allegorical. In both these instances he showed a want of taste. " In short, phrases of this kind, ilia flow, atst.n•E 1.1:r, des dentaludes tespedires Ue reinT ET ovoir tnal• SA fete, ft vale •LLER, r ALIAS Cht , 014 , , he . are perissologies, faulty redundancies. because the expressions mare Lei, depart a &mare, so, &c. add nothing either to the strength or meaning of the words thew accompany." To these observations of a French writer we shall add an in. stance or tan of this made of expression in our own language : High heaven the footstool of his pet he makes. Pope, Ilom. IL At ones the chaser, and at oece the prey. lb. Win. For. . . When frost has whiren'tl all the NAKED groves, Where doves in Hocks the kajless trees o'ershale. lb. Win. Far. II cre, of his feet, the second at owe, and leafless. are evidently perisvolug les. W 11 ISKEII.4 N 1.105. The Chester C%uoai.le obae•rvcs-IVe have heard, but we by nu 'mans vouch for the fart, that Mr. Houldsworth intends rtsiguir.7, his scat for Pontefract in favour of his brother, for the purpose of offering himself for this city, in opposition to what is generally called the " Egertcn In ter( st." We F .ar that a few of the spirited inba° Rants of Ken nington and is vicinity, are about to revive the Surrey Asse.alies, which for so many years enlivened that respect able neighbourhood. The first bail will be held the latter end of January. In the year 1:11, Mr. John Stewart' (grandfather to a most worthy and hiAlp-respectable gentleman now living) was chosen into the utike of parish clerk of a church in the deanery of Readetilisll, and whielt he held till his death, in 1762, wh,:ii the present parish chrk succeeded him, who has ever since filled the other, and that of svxton with it, 'ail is at this time 41ile to do all the duty ; he can :ead the se Trice, ring the 1.), il, and dig the graves, and appears to be likely so to du fur some years longer, although now at the age of 1 11:.—Essex Herald. hiatini AGE or CorsiNs.--It is a mistaken notion that first co u sins may marry, but second cousins cannot; the civil law prohibits liNt cousins from intermarrying, but the canon law prohibits both. A 4 lencrid Bill of all the Christmings and Bitrials within d ie city of London and Bills ut Atonality, from Dec. 17. 11;•':i, to Div. l t. l'hriuenrd in the 97 parishes within the walls, 909—Buried, 1,1.,. . . . .c;ristned in the 17 Parish-e without the wells. s . l 7 6 —Mteied, 3.917. _ Iniatened in the °I out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey. 13.132—Ittniel, , . 41 in the 10 parielven in the city and libertics of Vrart mitibler, d,:;ll—Hurled, 2 - 8 Christened 31 " - 14 12 e ll } In all 25,738 Few s . . . 71 Buried r 111 ` . ' s 1"4 ' 45 I In all 20,237 1 Fen.3!...1 - - - 2, 6 ;2 ./ 11 - hereof have died-- Under two Tears of ate:" C. 171; rtfly and misty Itvtaeen two .o.d live 2,103 Misty and seventy 1 - I‘e and ten 70H Seventy and eighty Ten nod twenty . 764 Eighty and ninety Twei.ty and 11,irty . 1.206 Ninety anti a hundred Thirty and forty - 1.144 A hundred and three l'ony tint! E!ty - 1.1N19 A hundred and seven Decrease h the Burials this year, SSC - 1.712 - 1.715 Lai SO 64 - 1 L 4 ; j touch greater amount of ehirint' k I knowledge, many ilitlivitlttati have under an iniprission that a fun, to give relief to all who have a by the late fuoili, in whavver PARIS. We lave receivcil the followin g letter from Paris, and we lay it before our readers, as we think it will be ( (Ain , ' to possess 60111 C interest, though our regular Correspohilm has anticipated most of the topics contained in it:-- PAI. The King't speech is still t h e pr i nc i pal subject R or `. Dar it is e.i>4' , .%%C11, commented on, and interpreted in all itianef;,,,.. ways. Every ore gives it a meaning pertectly cenforreati, blame every t p•., t y l et i i ng i t 'a ver t i iiiritobtsriti;:te.hafiat:.itiel::(er;ur,a,niiild.etio of X :tial . l}tet sa itisal y i ete s rep , l iti t ens it i. l 3n tv i: rs as, joi •p , ,rolalion., and politics. Force Set: ef f ., 4 : positive tl e speech, except that there will certainly be a Lw rev inn which the speech dors not aff;trel. gjaintYlertht:t'ilfityli:egiurorma, lauu.brr rill Not 1 its r.spect to the indemnity, it is very uncertain what will b, the regulations. The King has &elated that the wo tik ; t of the Revolution • iil Ire chord without new taxes, wit'ex: injuring public credit. Such explanations only render tie reaf fn , name obscure, for how shall the nation give as indemnity 1100 or 1;00 millions. without feeling it? /41. de Villt le will ettttk. less clear up the ditEculty, for he is never at a loss about rlthine. The Royal Sitting attracted a great concourse of sp.ao.ator.. was, in fact. interesting to bear the new Monarch , peok to hit paa plc fur the first time. Louis XVIII. used to deliver his sprer4 a , from memery ; Charles roads his. In some passages his di rt , n , was noble and *Hiking : his voice, if not so loud as lit peedee t .,,,, m. was as full and sonorous. Ile laid a taricular sterol on the 11011'41 courage," and •• firmness;" but in other parts he read io pithily as to be Imrtily understood. Louis XVIII. was never P. eeired with louder aeclatnations than Charles X. was, loth entering nod quitting the Chamber. The :ming did nut hu:sbove half an hour. The labonrs of the Chandlers will not properly commerce berm, the middle of next month, till which time they will he engag,,i preparatory measures. The formality of the ready of the Owners to the Kinh's speech, which will be given In a few day% is not uc. important. A cemiling to tie custom since the restnr af f ns , wet has been a kind of paraphrase of the speech, hut the Iteret:et in the last Session des fated a little front the pracuce, by es: ot ..„ a wish for the adoption of measures hot mentioned in the vp s vd,. It is probable that the present Members will Imitate the preceding, and ask for the Clergy institutions of which the King pus tpuits, in an extremely vague manner. It seems that the Prince de Polipae is going to retort, to Lot. don, having been completely disappointed in hie expectation', which many circumstances had encouraged, that he shock: obt aie the post of Minister for Foreign Aff a irs. M. de Villele. It wens, not willing to have a rival in the Minister for Foreign Anis. ea-- trived to keep M. de Polignae mat of it, bat clfered him the nide" , of the Marine, which the Prince, who pretends to bight: thMgt, refused. FRENCH PAPERS. [From the Etoile. dated Tuesday. 1 1 1.ttutilD. Dec. 16. The re-establishment of the Inquisition, about which 6O mirk has been said, is net yet certain. Although in many of '1..1. dresses several cities have implored his Majesty to restore the Z,..ty Tribunal, the King has not hitherto consented to do it. Notwithstanding the incessant applications to our Unit MO. nsrch, by foreign bankers, who offer him nioney on cent:taunt's: the leans of the fortes should be recognised, his Majesty persists more than ern in the firm resolution not to consent even Ins psi. till recognition of them. M. Zea ltitrtrutlez. hits declared Its intention of rather resigning his tare, than contribute to a met sure, which, in ev6ty point of view, is more likely to be a. tended with mischievous than beneficial consequences. [From the 2lfoailear of Monday.] The official part contains only the notice t his the Prince of Cl.. telocaLs has presented his new credentials, confirming liim m :re pest of Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Napki t 3 the 1 French Court. (Non-official Pan.) Auctions°, Dr.c. 11. We have 'reelect! by today's post. lenera from several pans of the Archipelago, which come down to November 10. They OM that a considerable number of armed Greek cossets, &tin,/ fran c the main fleet, cruise in all parts of the Archipelago, and laid Far. ties on the Turkish mans, to make booty and carry off privimen. The roasts of Asia Minor are also threatened, and even Smyrna i would not be secure against a rump-tie-main, had not the Conic: Consuls intervened with the Greek Government in favour cf city. Resides, that body would not like to run be risk of a year , red with the Maritime Powers of Europe, who are all interested in the fate of Smyrna, which is in the centre of the Ciropesn com merce in the Levant. It is affirmed that the news of the defeat Of Ibrahim Parha, near Stanchio, has induced the Greek Government at Hydra to order an expedition against Candia, the possession of which island, under present circumstances, would be of innku lable advantage to the Greeks. CASSEL, FacAti. Yesterday, at ■ grand drawing-meets in the palinv of the Elora, the Ministers of the Household and Foreign Affairs deduct. the usual form, the marriage of her Royal Highness Princes* Mu., of Hesse, with his Royal Highness the Duke of base LFrum the JOSITVICI des Iliats of Sunday.] Ex trass. e.s. Dec. 2. The law fur the paying off the old debt, so little favoorable to the Exchange. has passed the Second Chamber, by CA to XL Is the speech of M. Stapart in favour of the law, the following pillage is worthy of remark :—" The new law will no doubt escrow an in fluence on the gambling of the Exchange; but does thia rrpetnal stcs - k jobbing, which withdraws capital from useful purposes— does this stock jo'Aring, which so often ruins fortunes, and destroys delicacy, honour, and honesty, deserve eccourare ment ? Ought it not.on the contrary, to be discouraged by every means ? Is it just that we should go on increasing the burdens of taxes, in order that we may hold oat a premium to gamblers'" Some one yesterday contended that we should not check the rising of the public funds, because incresaing the riches of an i:. dividual is increasing the wealth of the State. This is an shine of the maxim, which is very true as applied to freth res , uri es by in dividuals. by agriculture, or commercial industry; hut false when money itself is the commodity. I doubt much whether the con tributors will applaud this logic. I dislike, as much as others, fre quent financial revolutions. I wish that the laws were stable; but it would be a pity if we could not review certain finance law*. which were incompatible with public prosperity, and when we fist them bad we ought to give them up." From the Coosa/idiom:el of Sumter.] 3 Our skilful and celebrated physician, CasteliAol„'withino' recentlynre it Js. Played so much ability in the piotracted labour of the Imam Donna Maria Francisca, has been ordered into exile without sun cause being assigned for it. . . . . _ . Thera is a f r esh rumour of a disembarkation of the constitstiroi abets In the neighbourhood of .thcant, but this repot, which originates in the departure of game regiments of prooin:ial to that town, Ii adroitly circulated by the crap. dus. she find it, advantage in influencing the Governmemt, and in ununtairing the high party system which follows of comse. The payment of tithes begin to be in ill odour with err pessato and farmers, who, contrary to their ancient custom. are mire Au to the woltiere of their honour than to the priopet kr of the l'hurri. They are now falling into arrear. The Bishop of ltierco has ad. dressed to his diocese a ;mineral letter on this subject, wherein complains that the tithes are rot paid regularly, and require to be more punctual. This letter commerres thus--• Faithful and well.beloved, the obligation of paying tithes is imposed on is by God." There is a talk here of a new customs tariff; which will be c. forced on the Ist of twit January, by which cuttiin others much worn in Spain, will be admitted on pot ing a thity pee cent.; but there is some cub . went as to when the cuitoni-housest shall be. on account of the freedom of the prinhic , s which are contiguous to France. This duty of 20 pwr not. muds by two-thirds, as we know that the ii.surers of Bilway and Bayonne will enter any cosintaxlity, even to this tuna, at a Fault:iv. t.f 12 per cent. on its prime cost. Loan BYRON.—Th, booksellers, A. and W. Ciipani. Baudouin Brothers, and ('harks Cosselin, are about to publish " the Corrrspontlence of Lord Byron with s Friend, with the addition of Letters written to his Mlo•hrr from Portugal, Spain, Turkev, sn.l (;recce. flections and observations," caked by R. ' work, the publication of ',Holt has 11 London by an ivjunction of the Lord anxiously expected. Lord Byron, in th. spondence, which was intended to mit opened his whole iniad. his letters or of his numerous travels, his opMicns on political matters.—ratis Nper. - The Lisbon Gcr:etie or the Nth ii Royal Decree, confirming to the royal privilege granted in 17,41, 151.2, and la: exclusively, certain documents, missal. hooks, and books of laws, which had been in consequence of an order from the (7ori , Admiral Krusenstivo his written to of Woolwich, a very satisfactory and con on the result of some experiments made Russian navy at tronatadt, with the gu recting the errors of the mariner's compass-1 local attraction of the 'hip's pins and ei and the Russian Government, in corseir: orders for all their ships to he furnidi.. compass-plates, similar to those now fittin of our navy and mini. of OUT Tl:erehntit ti A letter posted at tile New England day, dated Liverpool, D e c. 'l7, says—" TI to blow excessively hard from the wvatwai bound remain, amonest which is the pier and Leeds, for New York. The appearanc this evening indicates a continuance of bad freer of ti free toad tioo, by I ibe y Ads than mi and ' a Iry undi Baba veer cealn and 1 tubji ilispc f4ta free I,neet eirm tneril then, trib u watt the b ee. ,s wit 3A n cat . c. 1)271a5. been ititeri'.iet;il ir, l ec.a a thincor.or, wa- it . ty thk intimate tone- • mr.iii private. h:.> till i•ontein the accent': „Lai ligious, ell it r•d trir :1 u instant contains h e Tel I rr st, t o t af i n t o } d et , Den interferttl w ith of :a ;es . Profess4n pti :non nay len. r •• ; lisit op t clan .i e t s I l! ott. othera cr have loet h n ship ir of 0, 1 v. iilt cern•cting ilia Lea are Chi of • It der Idcewoofattitlierra..par i !~ ~` Migi Ur 4 citabl cries 'llan 1 ITC a nd 1-,rlra of thi 41 quirt . 31111:11'1 ;e lettlanil l bg Its:lel:I:1'i 14;ftit• arc las sl cowl ito tli Ikmg more State .anil land to 11 in 1 Nap the then ag!'