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/1” IA I. •dy et, NI, watt!. At, . Webs. U. ntry Llnittet arthig- I Lady in e, he Is S lere , 14 r Bug- muned 7u7tiay n Chef. ay frora honour As. 1 yeiti. S nu.h it • ' occzantif d faui:y Manz: of J I Arnie romet tios out. hi: L ' ■ Bii"4 ern bai 7~.~ W..~ a :b-es.,• ; ran•s ;1, - . Ili wr tivol• f ogre; 'PT diem punts for aims A ROYAL FAIRLY. • WE V owVTR, err?. 19. Yesterday afternoon, after. His NI AJLIT v had ar rived four[ ii e tesoew id the Hanoverian Light 'l mops, he wolkrd on the Esplanade tbr near an ur, accompanied by the Dukes of Kiwi., Susses. and CAM RI. MCA. and attended by Ecrls Poiret T, 11x: ounce. and ROSSLYN, Generals Galan, MAN- IrRS, MANNING:taII, and Fazes:sir, with several oh the German Odict rs. - His NiAJLSrY, with his usual of conversed w;th Lily Sr. Pieta and Children. for some time, on the Esplanade; aster which, His Ililaacrry in 'peeled the troops on the Parade, and the whole of them marche.i before His Maim:Tv on the Sands. This morning, at six o'clock, His Manor v mounted his horse, and, accomp.tn: , .d by the Duke of Sesscx, and several Officers, took a ride to the came of the Somerset Militia. .tt eight o'clock, the Princesses Auocsra and : , ..rtitA of CI. , ACEsli to bathed. Alter breaktAst, His Nlatssry rode throuOt the ri.uket to the Esplanade, and alighted at Han- X Nia'S Library, where This Mat rot's- continued in conversation with the Officers oI the Staff, who ac companied him, and in inspraing several new pub-. licotions, for an hour or noire. lla MAJi sly rode on the sands for a short time, and then returned to the Lodge, wlvae Lord HAR ROWDY was waiting for im audience. The time being arrived for the ltuv AI. CA AMY to go on board the Royal Sovereign yacht, His NI aassry took Lord tiaaaowev, and the :.fessenger, who had just arrived with dispatches front :.linigters, with him on board; and, Just in time for the rett:rn of the Royal Mail, the Messen ger landed again vi oh his i• patches. About one o'clock, His Royal Highness the Duke Yoac ATTiVed at the Lodge .At six o'clock. His hi aatorT landed, after a very pleasant s iii of near six kagoes, and repaired to the Lodge, and had an intennew with His Royal Big:miss the Commander-in-Chief. la the evening, the ROYAL FAMILY went to the Theatre, to see Mr. Coe Mates elegant Comedy of C',, destine Marriage, and The Irishman da Lon e/Is. Mr. Ns, toit supported the part of Ermth, Mr. S AND rOl u that of herd 0,;. , ,,0 / , and Mrs. jaky. tot that of Mrs. Ile •c w i th great propriety, and were deserve 'l. ipo:aucted. After the play, Mr I. Arts e. slr.g t.lr. Hooa's favouri.e song of Tim walls of Old Erg/And; in a very seperior stele. for to-morrow night, Their MA. p:TILS have commanded the Play of The Youn. Ores:rr, And P 71. i. From this Place. the ester knt company of Comedians, which have man bated so notch to the amusement of the ROYAL T A itA, :and rile company, with which our town has of late ever-flossed, will repair to Guernsey. The Roya: .c.ht is come into the harbour in rep.t7ati, it fur the very brilliant wroth llis hiaJts I a' intends gising on Saturday neat. Arrivals at the King's Ilead Hotel : R.., R Roc! and 1.4,tr, land and and Mrs. litright, Mr. Hruvru, Mr.. 0-ombes. THEATRICAL aiNCING. EIS 0.1 A F11101111:11 ft is only'in the course of the last century, that we have attained iu dancing that high degree of petfniion, which has place.: our dancers anove a:: the Ai ti,t• of Europe. The art nt Pantomime, in bcasted •1 by the Romans, 'vas apparently los- ; far, trim the third centure, they were nbl,gtd make thertisAves und-rstool, to roTit , e a man at the edge ol the stage, who explained in a kid VOICe lie aftion they setae ening tr perform. We rated not notice ttte art of thocintr amnnini the Frei ch, (runs the founantion of the unn,arcke, to the reign Lwais ale 14 unfired!. t;+re tha illus:: i"us epochs, it consibtei of rothing bat un;. form inntrinents, without art, and without llut compositional' With was quite unknown. The science n ' dying was confined to the c. ail Lass nr coma! y cI • CC% which were usually executed at balls, or at tile public fines. It is to be !wesunassl. that there was a time w'ien inciug was by no mears a frivolous arraoerneid, destined only for the ple..sor• of boys and girls tar, dating many centui Ws, dat.cong made a past of e pWalic worship, aad, in many churches, they dance at the least of the pasYlvar, while they sang " 0 /hi, And fie . " Tor faithidi of broth saxes held esr').ther by the hand, and 4i-ufurrnad a very ani mated circular dance. Every 0.. e knows that the conw.eil of Trente was opetted by a hall, and that the wire doitors thtie danced with much decency wad dignity'. fu the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, they had ballets, but tisey nen- v,” impel-tea: by wiling", dialogues and soldny.c.., thee explained what ails intstided, a .J these aanitary resources very much resembled the public criers, spoken of by Saint Au gu -tir.. The Greeks appear to have be-n :he only people I.;id excelled in the art of expression, by more tam'', and gestures, and it was from them that the t urostea oi art wad derie d. Th. is, according to Plutarch. a mute r.v:rsation. a lively and :urinated piZtate ; the Leis. of which consist In ihe motions and the 11,,;tat3 in the pestures. .1.1m0,t all the;r dances had a particular remit-ion, ;mended to deliorde a sen t ment, an affeeion, or a len...scion of the mind ; aNI we must rot forget Lere to ren:ark, that the dine* of the .Ce*et, so . :lebrAted, for•sinne time, gi a hrilliast invention of Lady r.as very well known among.. th • beatitoul ladie , •• rr , '‘i performed it wi h thAr ve.is. if the emulation wh.cn animates our dancers emitir.ue to soprort ai.d invigo. Ile them, we shall iik a s Attain amongst us that pelt:dim' t,allets so replete with race and fancy, w!...ich embeldilled the fa-4 of the Greeks. ta uhnin se bear so strong a reienililance. I Volnesday cssratchrs were received from Ad• "+• :1 Cos vs. A L I.ls, off Brest. dated lioarJ the Wsr4. est !-3 guns, the I . 3th fast wl le t weie t-r -irw,inl to Lord Nisi.% ILL at Wimbiedln. Lord Carno ar has been for sons: days con- LaeJ to his room by indisposition, consequence. RI his great exerions in visiting and exercising the thrPr at the diff4rent enc.anpmeuts ia lrelanJ, duing the last two months. - , PRO Art CORR ESPONDENCI. UPPER CAN *, DA. _ SION ritrAT., ♦VO. 2. I have just been upon a three months tour in the United States of America. As, it was for the first time I visited this pretended land of liberty and liberality, I knew it only from the description which I had read, and was, of course, much prejudiced in its favour. being accustomed to the civil beha viour, even among the lower classes of my own countrymen, the Cendians, the first that struck me in the United States, were the uncommon brutality or rudeness I experienced in conversing with its citizens, from the governors and magistrates, down to the lowest mechanics, or the most petty farmers, except in the large towns, even the fair sex seemed to want that softness of temper, delicacy of expres sions, and gentleness of behaviour, which, in pleasing, commands respea, and excites admiration. Every where I observed selfishness tied avarice, the pre dominant passions of one sex ; and want of educa tion, aad hypocrisy, the faults of the other ; the men only calculating how to accumulate, and the wo men only studying, not how to please, but how to rule, to be applanded as political oracles, or re. vet ed as religious saints. The political as well as the re ligions fanaticism prevails in all the provinces of the United States, where seas and parties are equally intolerant ; there being hardly an example of a Federalist, or anti-Federalist, of a Presbyterian, or a church of England man, visiting, much less per mitting their families to intermarry. They are as much at variance, as a Bonaparte and a Louis XVI 11. ; and more so than Pius VII. and the Arch bishop of Canterbury. The present President, Jef ferson, dues not by his condua evince or inspire more liberal sentiments. tie declares as opealy his partiality for France now, when it is enslaved by Napoleon the First, as he did, ten years ago, when Robespierre the First was her tyrant. All his set ants are Frenchmen, and his most familiar as sociates and friends are of the same nation. Ile rides himself, however. upon the appellation of a friend of universal liberty, of religious toleration, and of philenthropy. Most of the persons appointed to offices by him are as great Gallomen as himself, and de every thing in their power to humiliate, to harrass, and to persecute their opposers. They are so much the mote obstinate in their vengeance, as, with few exceptions, they are generally very igno rant, confoueding their own narrow and selfish no; ions with the rights of ther races, and the laws of their co Isere. ro'ravel, therefore, iu a Repub lic governed by such chiefs, and inhabited by such a Ise spit, can, tberetme, not be very agreeable to a foreigner of a benevolent disposition, of an inde pendent fortune, and of generous principles.... When this must he the case, what have no; those unfortunate emigrants, from England, Scut land, and Ireland, to suffer, who land in the American ilepu , !ic, as indebted vagabonds, and whose first acts is this Lind of liberty are to sell their persons to pay their passages; to present themselves before apstert, and, of course, insolent magistrates, to submit to fetters, and a transfer to oppr, ssive masters, who often treat them worse than their brases of burden, and, to e hem, the negroes on mar West-India plantations are comparatively freemen. 'live numerous examples of misery and .1 lespair which I have we nessed among these emigtant British subjects, pierce my very heart. I have seen, on their lauding, husbands and wives disposed of to difeient proprietors, and their children to others. Their prayers and lamentations to remain together avail nothing. They separate, not seldom, meet to meet again. or if to meet, to bewail their shame or Fally, their dishonour or ruin. I beard many shocking avaetclntes hardly credible in civilised Ea rope, where the liberty and happiness of the Ame rican eititeas are so often the topics of the praises of the discnntented, of the envy of the disaffected, and of the desire of the misled. I have beard of families and of individuels, wito sixteen years ago sold their liberty for five years, and sehncontintsestill, and pro bably for life, hi bondage, their cruel masters taking advantage to keep them in debt, either by giving them trl.ng sums to support sickness, want, or extravagance. 1 have beard of others, who, in despair, for such and worse treatment, and not sir ing an end to their sufferings, have committed the most terrible su:cides. destroying, at the same time, themselves, ther wives, and children. Others have run away, been taken, dogged, and worked in chains Juries the .:ay, and are shut up in chains during the night, as the mast culpable a criminals. Famine, beside, often forces them to commit petty thefts, and when discovered, to avoid publicity or disho. nbur, or to escape punishment, subscribe new bond, of slavery, and. for the value of a dollar, condemn themselves to bard labour for years. They ate uni versally despised as outcasts of society, having re neunced their privileges of British subjeas, withe„r: obtaining the rights of American citizens, A Bri tish minister cannot linen to t!..c:r coni 4 - Leints d - relieve thesr misery, regarded 1 3y the Arertiean laws as the consequence of their refaidoey Tenon ciation sf t!,eir freedom. How very different is the situation of tht'e emigrants w:.O land in Canada, or in Nova Scotia. It they have a passage to pay for, th?y work fur it as crediti a's, not as slaves, being prote.led by tl c sante FAIN! i-.. 11 g.ivernment which flutes the motiwr country ; and, as hands arc scarce, and labour dear, a short time dears •hem !tom debts, and, if sober and industrious, butt f..tw years are re quisite to . be quietly and comfortably settled. OF two hundred and fifty Scotch emigrants landed fifteen months ago at Quebec, most are now cal. tivating lands cf their own, or serving masters cf their own choice ; not one has died; whilst in the United States, it is generally calculated, that of European emigrants,twenry in a hundted die within twelve months after their landing on the American Continent, either from hardships, or by broken hearts, the consequence of irremediable disappoint ment. Besides, in British America, the climate is healthier, and the yellow or putrid fevers entirely unknown, and, provisions, of every description, sell fifty to eighty per cent. cheaper than in the United States !" CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. BY OLD NICK, Wlln t with an eye to their inbcrtion in a fiel,e caitinn a the " Curiosities of Literature," gives and Clem to Mr. D'lsraeli, and ins heirs fur ever. THOMAS HICKATHRIFT. There are few who have not read the exploits of Tans 11,(4104 , :,?; and it may not be a matter en tirely unworthy of curiosity, to observe, that the origin of this hero and his atchievements, which afforded so much amusement to us in the days of our youth, is founded in fad, and by no means the pure invention of a mini studious to divert and instrua the rising eenft ition. Quoting from the penny Bator, of Thomas llickatArip. I shall remark, that in the third chapter of the first part, ii will be found, that " a brewer of Lynn, in Norfolk, hires l'om to carry beer to the marsh, and to Wisbeach, in which marsh lived a giant, the terror of the sur rounding country. Going to Wisbeach one day, unarmed, he meets the giant, who runs for his club ; during winch time. Tom turned his cart up .ode down, takine tAr attetrer and steel for tin ,:,,rd and booth?, and excellent they were on such an emergency." p. 13. It is well known, that not withstanding the giant's contemptuous languatle on seeing his arms, Tom slays him, and, for this signal service to the country, is " no longer called plain Tom, but Mr. I fickathrift." In Sean', lets, ; e r Topozrapiiont Msesry of Nor. Pk, p 138. Oxon. 1670, is the following passage, the citation of which will be sufficient to prove the truth of what has been advanced: ‘" Cum de agri writer ohm dimica turn r . set inter fundi dominum et villarurn incolas nec valerent, hi adversus eum consirtere ; cedenti bus occurrit ifokifoicas ateorne elcutrenn a carru ogretl, eo wict Fiedid WU! TOM. invasotes repulit ad ipros quibus nunc funguntur terminos. OstenJunt in Ccemiterio Tilaienso sepnlchrum sui pu A ilis diva van rota inscelptum exhibens." rem THE TRAVELLER. Men occasionally meet with circumstances so far removed from the common course of things, that, notwithstanding the certainty of their existence. any attempt to promulgate them is sure to induce an impeachment of the veracity of the narrator. Such was the fate of the ingenious and indefatigable Bruce, whose relations were once deemed fabulous ; but, having been since confirmed by the experience of later travellers in the same quarter, are now generally and deservedly believed. Amongst other strange things, he notices a cus tom, which obtained with a certain people, of cutting from a live beast, so much flesh as the exigence of the moment required, and then sending it forth until their future cravings inclined them again to seek the same animal. Nut having Bruce by me, I cannot point out the page in which this particular fad occurs ; but I well f ememher that it vr.s greatly ridiculed, and, as it has since appeared, without justice. However much Englishmen might be shocked at tie inhumanity of the a;.lt, they had but little cause to express so much stupid wonder at it, since the subsequent quotation will prove, that the •ery identical thing was formerly praffised in their own dominions. HARLEIAN NIISCELLAVY, rot 6 p " Their cruelty descends to their beasts, it being a custom, in some places, toildat a Irving roar ; they tic her in the middle of them, near a great fire, and then cat collops of this poor living beast, and broil them on the fire, till they have abing.ed her all to pieces; nay, sometimes they pal ariy .rr 4. as watch as quill suttlti, thew present appehtel, and let Ate go. till their greedy stomachs call for a new supply; such 11, , rri'Jle cruelty as can scarce be pa. rafleled in the while world."—A mod 0: n topmost aj „„ Bngli.h Gent4,cs, M Iti7U. Ut supra. Satarday last, at Egremont market. wheat from 2‘2,. to '4ls. the Cvniherland bushel; oats from 10s. to 41 s. 6J; barley the same; and potatoes as ed. the stone. A fat sheep. supposed to be the roo.s so of any ever seen in that market, was sold the same Jay. It was a one-shear wether, bred by Mr. Isaac PLAII4OII, farmer, at Catgill Hall in that pariah, *and killed by Mr. J 014114 PONSONSV, butcher. l'he carcase weighed 1`2.51b. the fat 261 b. and the 11.41 V.:lb. The head 101 J for 2s. (id. and the plu;Y for 1 44. A wager of two guinea was 1.4.1 between two butchers, about the weight of the " the other. that 0 .sor. One Lid of h: • we Orin atilt sheep was the weight ~ -•• cow hide, allowing him 2nii.—The owner n' the vow hide won by the cast of the beam. suppo se d to be not more than one ounce. The e:.-.1- w as ki11.... • . Mr Moos Selects., butcber in F. ." u I . . ME TrAtP. r . S4I3f;VSISIJ tY, ficrY 19. • At our RaCN, se+iieh cunrnenced vester lay, ;11 , .. Mai.len Purse id :oat. *One, Ow gift of Sir Wil liam Pulteuey, Bart. and the Hon William was run for by J+lrß CI .toa ti •-• b f I , isephina, 4 yrs. 014 . I Sir It S. Glynn Ran c. m 4 y..• 44 . . 2 2 Fivrrster, 3 yrs. old . . . 4 3 M. M ollingtri i't bl. In. 4pi old . . . . 3 Th e following are entered for the G-nil Am-n's Sub scription of AOI. to be rerrfor this day : Jelin Clifto.., Eset.'r S r tlhc ‘44Cillisot, 4 rs. ,14.. Mr. li.llingtou's b. c. Forr,. er, East of Stanford s b c. Gay elan, 3 yes M. And for the Ilandlcap Sweepstakes to-morrow : Mr. hn'.b h NCH •s, 5 I'm. old T L Brook 4, Esq.'s b. h. IL, Mustori, .5 yrs. old. F. L. Astley, h. h. Cit,r , s, sr.! On Sunday evening last, or early or. bfon,lee morning, ehitty sheep and lambs were stolen from a field near Lee Bridge, th • property of some gra ziers in the country. I his of late has become a common praftice in the vicinity of London. On Wednesday night, about ten o'clock, as Mr. Lupton . , of Caimui,-sheet, in the city re'. or ing to town on horseback, he- was 'slapped by two highwaymen, armed with pistols. One 0: the eilems held the horse by the head while the other lobbed Mr. LI: tit.ow of what money he had about him, which was upwards of eight pounds, with winch they rode off. Thomas and William T,ss,, the two boys who were committed to Dorsi:ester ga.ol a. lOW 4141)4 age, charged with attempting to sitik the schooner Betsrur off the island of PustlAnd, which design, it is said, they did not attempt rt. , deny before the slagistrietes s but in the most hardened manner regtetted that the ship did not sink before the m ister had time to run her on shore : one of them 14 t years of age, the other only 10. The water had increased we 6 feet deep in the hold, before the sinking state of the ves sel was diseoveted t on her retching the shore, the two boys made their escape, which led to suspicion, and they were shortly aio•r apprehended, one at Pool, and the other at Blamlford. It is suoposed that nearly 30,000 Mils. of pilch ards have been canght and cured by the Devon and Cornish Fsherrnen this season, which will average Ins. or 21 s. per barrel ; besides .1. 1 ./001. received ior fresh 6,11, sold for present use in the market. It is an undoubted fag, but which will hardly be believed, thit a hare war shot, a few dais atop at Banstead, in hurry, by Trios. Bat rift's keeper to J. JUDvOK, l'eslworth House, which, on opening, was round to COOL4III four young ones all alive The circumstance appearing so estrarwelnary to the keeper, he wrapped themlqsin a sill, hand kerchief, put them into his bownia. and carried them • home to his wife, Who determined to d.i all she could to preserve diem. Accoriingly she warmed some milk, and gave it them. One or the little animals died, but the other three are likely 6. live. IVi-dnesday, a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Barley Mow public-house, in Is /mit •street, on the body of a female, who was taken front the Serpen tine River, on Monday night. Several witnesses. who knew the deceased. stated, that she was a straw hat ....1 1 .4isr, wiewris, ~rd seis AltsluCt 111 tlr.ti fits. She had gone for a walk im tie evening of her death.—Verdia, Ace:deotal Deed:. .4;.,‘ l ttalh el is the Annals If Lotterit,. . . . of . . . • 420,000 ...of . . . . 1(1,01Y) 3...0f . . . . .%000 NEXT MONDAY The Drawing begins. .C 40,000 Given to the purchasers more than in the!ast Lottery. TICKETS and Snsass, Consequently, Ore Found Ten shillings cheaper, Are selling by Hoarisav S Co. 2ti, Cornhill. ••• All Prizes, whether of .C.:10 or £20,000, paid on Demand. The great, th' irn;ortant day approaches fast, 131,‘ with the fate of unity thousand Tickets At Cooper's Ilall, Dante Fortune bold. her court, And then diipenses showers of shining goad To these who court her smiles Corse Nrward, then, ye Cai.Jitl.tre for Ve-31.11 (Without which, honour% but an empty name), And spew your owl to gain the highest pin g By pu,chasiug, without the least delay, • At Fortune's lieens'd temples, Tickets; Which many thousand points may pis. There is little doubt but that the few rernalnirg Tickets left for sale will be quickly disposed of, as the Scheme is so much approved. Huass• v and Co. remind their friends and the public, that the State Lottery begins drawing the 124th of the pre. ant month. N. B. Orders, by letter or carrier, for Tickets and Shares, executed 'sadly on the same terms as if present. ••• All ?riles. whether of 201. or et. ),0001. paid on demand, at the old established Sate Lottery Oi lice of Hoaxsar and Co Cti, Cornhill . The Grand Scheme of the approaching Lottery will commence Drawing on Monday nest, and con tains near Seven "Thousand Prises, exclusive of Nine large Capital:, vit. Three of 20,0001. Three of 10,0031. and 'Three of 5,0001. each, and only 25,000 'I kkets.—Messni J. Jon .sots and Co. most respectfully solicit the atentson of their nt.nterous Friends and the Putlic to an iininediam Purchase s as they will adeaneo every Jay ; and inform them, that the 'Pickets, halves, qtarreis, Ei g hth s , a nd Sixteenths, are selling, in a grcat variety of rum berg, at the lowest prices. at th..ir old and truly fortunate Licensed mate Lortery Office, No. 3. Pope's Head-alley, Loo,bri, established more ti.en Thirty Vedrs. TM' present Grand Scheme is so well adapted to the very spirit of a Lottery, that all descripti. •. are anxious to secure their claim to the Capital ['rites, by purchasing T,cketa and Shares before Monday next, on which Day the Drawing commences.— There are only 25,000 lickets, some of which moat gain Three Pri-es of Tseory Thorma,,cl Pounds, Three Prowl of The 7' 4 .7e,enrl Pounds, Three Prim. eTbad•*e.:d Poundi, besides several other Capitals, stilts° Prize l ass t h an wenty Pounds. AIL