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T7/EA7'RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening, MONDAY. Jan. 31. will be perfurmcd A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBT*. Sir Gl:es Overreach. Mr. Kean; Wellborn. Mr. Ascher ; Narrall.•Mr. Terry; Justlee Greedy, Mr. Cattle. Lady Allwoeth, Mrs. Knight ; Alsre,aret, Miss Smithson. After which. OLD AND YOUNG. Mr. Mllford, Mr. Terry; IStillam. Mr. Brown; Peter. Kr. Spight. Matilda MolvM ay, Miss Clara Fisher. To concliide with HARLEQUIN AND THE. T ALKIND RIRP, THE titNi.ING TREES, AND GOLDEN WATERS. Harlequin, Mr. told'; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard; Closes, Mr. Kirby. Columbine, Mies Barnett. Tuanurrow, Der Fraisenutx, and the Pantomime. THEA77?E ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. Till's Evening. MONDAY. Jan. 31. will be performed -RING HENRY THE FOURTH. !Mr Ilenry the Fourth, Mr. Egerton; Prince of Wars. Mr. Cooper; Hot,.pur. Mr. Bennett; Sir Johu Falstaff, Mr. C. heinbie. lady Percy, ?Mot F. H. Kelly. After which, HARLEQUIN AND DRAGON OF WANTLET ; Or, MORE OF AMR,: HALL. Harlequin. Mr. Ellar Pantaloon. Mr. Barnes; Clown, Mr. J. S. Gri maldi. Columbine, Mist Romer. Tomorrow, Native land. and the Pantomime. The BRITISH Prtess commenced oubliehing on Saturday morn ing at live o'clock. - - LONDON, :MONDAY, JANUARY 31, MC We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday. The discussion of the Ministerial projects is con tinued with increasing warmth and gravity. It is evident that the mind of the Frenchlpeople is seriously agitated by the extravagant and alarming measures now before the Chambers, and the apprehensions they have produced u to what nanq, end - indeed, in consistency with the principles on which they are framed, mast follow them. Since the proposal of the indemnity to the sufferers by the Revolu tion, every one is on the alert to bring forward some proof of his sufferings. All arc anxious to prove themselves in some respect the victims of the Revolution. " Happy times," exclaims the Co:: rria Francais, " when the vic tims are distinguished only by their honours, their splen dor, their places, their pensions, their carriages, and their servants! since the business of suffering has become so lu crative, everybody wishes to prove himself a sufferer. Deeds and parchments are examined with care, and every man seems to say to himself—Who knows if I myself may not also havebeen a victim, without ever suspecting it?" The in-A quirks are not, however, it appears, altogether confined to researches for indemnities. The holders of the national domains have been looking back at the history of those who are now such ardent champions of the emigrants, in order to ascertain whether they have always bud similar feelings towards them, and it is found not only that the very M. CAISIMIE eas PCYMAURIN, who lately, in the Chamber of Deputies, denounced the present posses sow; of the estates of the emigrants as no better than rob bers, is himself the possessor of one of those estates, but that M. DE VAL'DI.AxC and H. DE PASTOMET, who are now appoi n ted by the French Government to support the claims of the emigrants, were, during the Revolution, their roost decided enemies. On the Ist of December, 1791, M. nr VAVILANC, at the bead of a Deputation of the National Assembly, addressed Louis XVI. and urged him ro adopt energetic measures against the German States,which were favouring the " criminal designs of the emigrants." Ina previews sitting of the Assembly, M. DE VAUSLANC had made an jtnpassioucel speech, calling for the severest enactments against all the emigrants. Yet it is this very man vrbo, 33 it were, in mockery of public decency, is al pointed to prove that these same emigrants are sufferers who deserve to be indemnified for every loss they sustained in promoting dick " criminal designs." Generally speak ing, in England we have no idea of the excessive pro fligacy of the French public men. This instance of M. on Van csaree, by no means singular in France, will in same degree illustrate the dunking state of public morals in that c runtry. As the question of irstlenthity is farther con sidtae.l, fresh difficulties arise as to its mode of execution. The Ministerial project provides for the payment of the creditors of the old proprietor, previous to the con fiscation, but no provision at all is made as to the new ere ditors of the emigrant, nor as to those of his represen tative. As the renter granted by way of indemnity cannot for any purpose be assigned by the emigrants, ortaken from them, the two latter classes of creditors will in fact be comploely excluded from all chance of payment. The budget of 182 ti, h is stated, will not be laid before the Chambers until after the report of the Committee ap pointed to inquire into the expenses of the army in Spain. The ultra royalist papers are quite elated at the diffleul tits into which they suppose the English Government will be plunged by two recent events, deeply affecting, as they , • j! prltems to believe, the independence of the new American &Aka. '1 he AeiJtatytze announces, that the Colombian Envoy, who was dispatched to Rome, has found it neces sary to re.T:3i!l at Bologna, and that, according to all ap pcarancus, Lr Ica. obtain no aliswer whatever from the Pore, who, •✓I. arc told, is desirous of maintaining the most fritnily relations with Spain. This story we have every reason to consider wholly unfounded. The POPE, we know, Las sanctioned the ecclesiastical arrangements of some of the new States, though perhaps his tiouniss • views with displeasure the inroads the new Governments have made in Colombia and Chili on the property of the church. We wish he was advised to quarrel outright with them: w• might then expect the formal overthrow of his usurped authority over them. The other event, so dan gerous to us, is the Boston story of Bot.ivAit's defeat. " What will the Cabinet of St. James's do now ?" asks the Quotidienne with diverting importance. Poor Cabinet, " Almost afraid to know itself!" What the prices of Shares will he to-day we know not, for the Quutidienne gives the mining speculators fair notice, that the King of SPAIN will not recognise their claims.' They could not expect him to do so. They knew that he would not pay his own debts. They relied upon his in ability to interfere with them, and they have nothing yet to fear, in spite of the Boston Centinel and the Quutidienne. We cannot refrain from transcribing the advice given by the latter to Mr. CANNING; it is irresistibly ludicrous:— " Let him take care. It is perhaps yet time to revoke the recognition of independence. If it be deferred later it will have the appearance either that he is diappointed in his calculations, or that he yields to his fears!" Prodigious! These are the piliticians of thej ultra school ! These are the men who are to be indemnified for their wisdom and patriotism ! It is stated in the Monilear that Marshal SUCIIET is recovering. PArits, Jaw. 28.—Fxxxcu FIIIIOII.—Five per Cents. opened ICU. 20c. ; closed at 103 f. 35c. ; Bank S.eck, 1,980 f. ; Rente de Naples, certificate Calconnet, 881. 95c.; Recites d'Espagne, lit ; Royal Spanish _Loan, 1823. MA. Exchange en London, one month. 241. 113 e ; three ditto, 241. Sec.—Court Authenlierse, Jan. 28. From the Etrile dated Saturday we make the following extracts from the Madrid Gazettes of the 20th instant. The news from South America is, our readers well know, wholly untrue, yet the extracts arc perhaps not altogether unworthy of perusal, as specimens of the excellence to which the art of fabricating intelligence can be carried, where the mystery is confined to licensed hands. In our extracts from the private correspondence of the French Papers, it will be seen that the determination of the British Government to recognise the new States had reached Ma drid. 'Fite wretched Cabinet had despatched Notes to the Great Powers, invoking, we suppose, their pity and assist ance. Whatever compassion FERDINAND may obtain, aid he will have none : indeed, if the High Allies were disposed to give it they could not. How could they interfere with arms but to his prtjutlice ? The Crown of the Indies has passed for ever from the brows of the Botnaoes. They have justly forfeited it. FERDINAND, however, will reign as long as he can—in imagination at least. It will be the business of the Madrid Gazette, by way of Puerto Rico or Boston, to solace him with continual victories over the "rebels," long after all the commercial States of Europe shall have acknowledged the independency of his revolted colonies : " The King continues to accompany Prince Maximilian of Ftaxony, to all the public establishments. His Majesty, consider ing the &teat age of Don Ignsee Martinez de Villela, and the mul titude ut signatures he Is obliged to give every day, both as Pre sident of the Council and of the Camara, has authorised him to sign simply I.M. tie Villels. except when the KiuYg himself signs. " Our last letters from Mexico are of tad Nov amber. At that time the Republicans continued to tear each other to pieces. They have beta beaten in the provinces of Tabasco and Yucatan, which continue to trade with the Havannah. _ . " Accounts from Terra Firma say also that the most sanguinary anarchy ruses in Guatimala and Chiapa. " The Government has also received despatches from Callao, dated the 17th September. , They are of the most satisfactory nature. The junction of the Vice Roy and Canterse. and the de parture from Lima on the preceding day, of a column of cavalry, which marches on the flanks of the rebel Bolivar, drawn into this position by the able manceuvres of Camerae ; every thing ptoinised a complete triumph to the King's arms. General Ramirer had just taken from the Insurgents 360 prisoners, arms, horses. &c. " In Chili there were such violent cosimotions that it wasimpoe sible but th en should be a reaction in thht country in less than a year. •• The faithful Royalists of the soi-disent Republic of Co- Innib!a, imit.ting the example of the unconquerable Guerillas of the Peninsula, which diJ w much injury to Bonaparte, have or ganised parties, under the command of Cisneros and Ramirez, which spread terror even to the walls of Carew. " The Pastures have levied a considerable corps, which is marching against the Colombians. " We see," says the Gazette of Madrid, " how much we must distrust the lying narratives of certain public journals. Their ob ject is to delude weak and credulous minds, and to make them believe in the solidity of the Republican loans." • This is the game day that Bolivar's defeat mast have tsten place.—Note tf UK Etui:e. We have given from the French Papers the latest intel ligence respecting the Greeks which we believe to be authentic. The Etoile considers it to be quite confirmed that the Egyptian fleet, after its defeat off Candia, was again beaten at Spino Longa, with the loss of several ves sels more. There is an idle story in the Elate, represent ing the Greeks to be divided into three factions—Macao (ol..l)ATO for England, VAitvAxi for Russia, and CoLoco •rsoNt for the Turks! According - to more credible .accounts in the same Paper, it appears that the Insurgent military chiefs have been completely defeated, and that Cotoco vrtom has offered his submission. His allusion to his former services, and the death of his two sons in the revolt, is deeply affecting, and may, we hope, on certain conditions for his future good conduct, atone for his offences. The Austrians are endeavouring to pick a quar rel with die Greeks, but after this manifestation of the firm ness and solidity of the tireek Government, we may expect that its enemies will treat it with somerespect. The revolt' of CoLocovaotri, so easily and- speedily subdued, has proved that Greece has nothing to fear from intestine dis cord, and as to the next campaign of the SULTAN, if there should be one, they who, disorg2nised, divided, and with out resources, have frustrated four attempts to subdue them, have nothing to dread from the fifth attack of a de clining power, which they have so often defeated in the fulness of its strength. On the 11th December M. MINZI.• MAY bad a conference with the Reis Effendi : it was long and very friendly. On the 13th he announced to the Di plomatic Body at Constantinople that lie had entered on his functions, and he has paid the customary visits. By the Lisbon Papers we rneived yesterday we observe that the King of NATI:GM. manifests a sensitiveness, with respect to the press, which gives us but an unfavourable augury of the political course he intends to follow towards his people. His Most Faithful MAJL STY, by one order, withdraws his patronage from a Periodical, because its author had not followed the principles his M•JESTI approved. We can conceive no degradation of the royal authority greater than this paltry intermeddling with these ephtnneral productions. Caws w et.r., when urged to sup press some daring libels on his Government, said wisely, that he carol not for paper shot. It would be well for other Rulers, we think, if they could fuel or would affect a similar contempt of the pamphlets of the day. A Govern ment has the strongest interest to know what is the state of public opinion as to its proceedings. How can it arrive at this knowledge if no voice is to be uttered but that of praise? We hear nothing further regarding the Consti tutional Charter which JOII'N VI. promised to grant his subjects. He should be advised to strengthen his throne by supporting it with the affection of his people, instead of issuing mid D:crees for the regulation 2f the periodical press. THE BRITISH PRt,ESS• The conduct of the Times with respect to Mt. K EA); deserves to be noted. By favour of Mr. Alderman Cox, this journal obtains a mass of private letters, which it wantonly publishes to the world, and then abuse, the sup posed writer as an obscene wretch for having composed them. For this offence, the act of composition, we mean the publication being wholly the work of the Timmer, it then proposes, in deference to outraged morals, to hoot KEAN from the stage. Laboured articles are sent forth to prove that he who could write what the Times had thought fit unnecessarily to publish, should be proscribed -as a monster only a little better in degree than " Ile NT, the friend of Tnuar e it., and joint mur deter of We AaL." For two evenings, by a small but well organized party, the theatre is rendered a scene of the most disgusting uproar : after the first, the Tiotestleclares that the house was packed by the performer's friends, and, as an in stance, states the fact chat KEAN bad given his tailor free admissions for all his men, who (doughty champions !) were sent to cry down the Times and public morals. On the second night, unfortunately for the dainty Journal that made the o'oseene publication, the turbulent faction uithdrew at the end of the play, when they considered their work done. The house however remained, to all appem - ance, as full as ever; and, after the Pantomime had commenced, the Manager, who, while the rioters were in the house, could obtain no hearing, was called forward from the box in whit& he was sitting. Mr. KEAN himself was next produced, and heard patiently. The Times itself gave his speech the next morning, professing to repeat the very words he uttered. Where were the " friends of public morality ?" Gone to rejoice at their rendezvous over their supposed success; the unprejudiced public remained, and they heard what was addressed to them, What then does the Times? Compelled to contradict its falsehood as to Mr. KEAN'S tailor, and finding its malignant efForts defeated, it ex claims—" Wo be to us as a people if the cireenscs occupy our thoughts as objects of national interest !" I{ - ho attempted to make them so but the Times? A week ago, if KEAN was not hunted down, our public morals were gone for ever ! Not able to glut its malignity with his ruin, it takes its fill of revenge on the audience: " They wore blanket great-coats, which concealed (and per haps it was so much the better that they did) all the rest of their garments. They seemed to be that active, if not honest, fraternity who usually ply about the stage coaches, and arc called cods.'" This is the descrip tion given by the Times, of the company in the pit. This gross and indecent attack has given such general of fence, that even the party opposed to Mr. K LAN are dis gusted with it. Any private individual, whose character is not known, may borrow the cloak of a Saint, and pass for one; for, in getieral, taking the world as it gots, Hypocrisy will serve as well T. propagate a cause as zeal: So round white stones will serve, they say, As well as eggs, to make hens lay. But for the Times journal to set itself up as a guide to the English public, as to how they should think and act in all matters connected with moralitN, it is too laughable. In all the circles where the Times is known, we ace '- Laughter holding both his sides." This " obscene" journal first strives to foment the most rancorous feelings of vengeance against Mr. KEAN, and having prostituted its columns to gratify the basest pur poses of envy and malice, and failed in .its object, it ex claims, " Wo be to us if the circenses occupy our thoughts." Saturday being the anniversary of the King's Accession, was a holiday at the Bank, and therefore no business for money was done on the Stock Exchange. The time bargains were done at 93a 1 and e. The market was heavy throughout the day, and the prices rather on the decline; indeed, the quotations that we have made are proof of that. The foreign market was a shade better in all securities. Austrian Bonds were at all improved price. Old Brazilian Scrip was 151, New 311, Buenos Ayres 911 and 1, Chili 871 to 8, New Colombian 901 Danish Sterling 101, Greek 571 and 7, and still looking up, Mexican 811 to 81, Neapolitan 901, Peruvian 834, Old Prussian 1001, New 995, Spanish 22 to 211, Russian NH, New Spanish 15t, French Renter 1031, the Exchange 25 10, French Scrip 141. The principal business seems now to be doing in the Foreign Stocks and Mines, which were all better on Saturday, and the English Funds appear a secondary con sideration with the speculators. During the week the Consol market was heavy, and the Account prices on Sa turday, which arc all that we can quote, it being a holi day, are the lowest of the v The Address upon the King's Speech will, it is expected, he moved, in the House of Lords, by Viscount Dudley and Ward, who sat in the House of Commons as the Hon. J. W. Ward, and made some speeches of great promise, one particularly in favour of the Catholic Question. In the House of Commons, the Address will be moved by Lord Francis Levison Gower, son of the Marquess of Stafford. _ _ Mr. Crouch, a King's Messenger, arrived at the Fo reign Office, Downing-street, yesterday morning, bringing despatches from the Right Hon. Henry Wellesley, the British Ambassador at Vienna. Mr. Draffen, another King's Messenger, also arrived yesterday at the Foreign Office, with ckspatches to Mr. Secretary Canning, from Sir F. Adam, the Lord nigh Commissioner of the lonian Islands. There has been a great mortality in a abort time amongst the Monarchs of the Continent. Within one year, France, Sardinia, Tuscany, and Naples, have lust their rulers. _ _ The Oriental Spectator, the paper published at Smyrna, in the pay of the 'rucks, states, that the Report of Admiral Miaulis, respecting the battle near Candia, is full of ex aggeration, and that it would, appear, as soon as the wind was favourable, whether the Ottoman fleet had sought a' port from fear, as the Greeks had affirmed. The same Journal of the I 4th Dec. says, " The fleet of the Viceroy of Egypt, about 110 sail, left Marmariza on the .sth Decem ber, for the Morea. Authentic accounts state, that Ibrahim Paella, according to hit father's instructions, will stop in Candia, unload, and send away all his transports, ant convey the troops to their destination in the ships of war. Many inconveniencies will be thus avoided, and no trans ports with provisions or troops will run the risk of falling in a storm into the hands of the insurgents." Tire Boast est: 11'916—Although Government has not received any recent official despatches from India, an offi cer has, within these few days, arrived from Madras, who has communicated some extremely interesting details relat ing to the Burmese war, and the views entertained on that topic by the most able and intelligent of stationed in that country. Of the result of the war there exists no doubt in any quarter; but, for the sake of numerous petty Governments which are entirely dependent on the British Power in India for their tranquillity, and the peaceable possession of their legitimate territory, it is deemed abso lutely necessary to show, that we can, at any moment, in crease the number of British troops, a force every way more formidable than the native army. It is also import ant that no violation of the dignity or rights of England, or her East Indian allies, should be committed with im punity. The Burmese troops are stated to be, principally, a sort of militia force, and, although not formidable in the field, there have occurred some extraordinary examples of passive courage in the stockades, where they have suffered themselves to be cut down without any attempt at surren der or self-preservation.—Currier. In the time of lidward the Confessor, who died in 1066.1 • the lands between the Mersey and the Ribble yielded to I the Crown, in which they were vested, the annual revenue of 113/. '2s. 4d. and to the Thames 41. 14s. Bd.—an amount in our present currency of 16,4841. Ils. 6d.; I/. at that period being worth about 110/. of our present money. . From a valuation made in 1814, for the purpose of the property tax assessment, it appears that the estimated value of the sante hundreds waS then 2,319,711/.--.saturday'll Lirrrpocl .Id:•crtiar. I .4 - 1 ‘ THE BRITISH INSTI7'UTION. This excellent Institution opens to the public this day. From the cursory ♦iew which our time permitted us to take of the pictures which form its present exhibition, it struck us as containing less of prominent excellence than we have witnessed in former years. We clo not consider this as owing to any retrograde movement which the Arts base taken in England, but to a want of that effective patronag e which can alone ensure their advancement. The almost exclusive encouragement bestowed on portrait-painting, combined with the preference given—nine times out of tea undeservedly—to the Old Masters, has tended greatly t o the discouragement of native talent, by withdrawing front it that employment, to which its exertions give it s fair and forcible claim. Nothing is so easy as to find fault, and to lament the want of merit in this picture and in that; but let us first ask ourselves, is there a sufficient public disposition shown to incite to excellence, and to reward it? That there are wine ardent and generous patrons of living artists we well know, for we could name them ; but we know also, that the majority put their judgment and their vanity under the guidance of picture-dealers, and are duped out of thousands for a Flemish or Venetian picture, whiff the genius of many an English artist, with its utmost ef forts+, can procure him bread, and nothing more. In the exhibition of this year at the Louvre, we observed several pictures, fresh from the English easel, that were very highly and* deservedly admired: in particular we n. marked those of CONST•BLE ' and COPLLY FIELDI NG . Of the fonner we recollect " Use charette d fin tearer. sant un gue au pied dune fertile," which was a landscape of great merit; and by the latter, "A View nfllasrisos, and " A View of CHLPITOW CASTLE," which we remcm. bcr the French, who, by the way, never spell an English name tight, whether of place or person , were pleased, in their catalogue, to call the "Chateau deCHETSTOR ." and these productions, with several others of the English school, readily found purchasers. But the rapid improve ment of the French school of painting is strikingly visible: in the historical department it is far superior to ours ; in landscape, in which, till of late years, it was greatly deficient, it is making rapid advancement; in portrait it is, at least, our equal. We are speaking of the exhibition at the Louvre. The "Portrait de feu M. le Dec de Richelieu," by Sir THOMAS L•WRINCI, wa s rivalled by others on the same walls, and by even mor: than one, which, with all our patriotism, and with all ou: partiality for the President, we should certainly havr preferred. There is no dearth of genius and talent in the Englisi school, but we regret to say that it is not called forth by adequate excitement. We could wish to observe less apathy on the part Of Government on this subject. That . there is a leaning towards its patronage we admit, but it is without energy, and producer nothing elevated. There is a mass of redundant wealth in this country, a part of which, if it flowed in this channel, would, we are sure, be employed with infinitely more profit titan in imaginary mines and speculative pearl-fisheries. ADELPH( TH7A7'RE. The life alas Actor, though played on Saturday evening for the forty-ninth time, still continues to draw crowded houses, which shows that whim and wit never fail of at. traction, and that excellent acting, in every walk of the drama, be the theatre major or niinor, is always appre6. ated as it ought to be. &NEVE, in the part of Delawhang, was, as usual, inimitably comic. It is the great charm of this performer that hia acting is never overstrained; is whatever part he is cast, he is the representative of real life. His excellence, in this respect, arises from his greet pliability of talent being combined with a native fund of humour, and from his rapid and correct perception of all the leading features of individual character. Mr. Wilkin son, in Raol's, Parsnip, with his mirth-inspiring dryness and drollery, drew forth peals of laughter ; and Mr. Salter's Muzzy Aferryweathcr was, throughout, an excellent piece of acting. His manner of playing "Sweet Home," out of all time and tulle, as leader of the band at the Theatre Rural, was in perfect keeping; it was a choice sample of the burlesque, and was relished accordingly. Mr. Wrench played Peregrine Protects, in his usual arch manner. As as aspirant to Thespian honours, lie applies for an engage ment to Delawhang, the manager, who hints to him that his vivacity must not betray anything of a too lively tem perament, and gravely adds—" if I engage y o u, Sir, you must be very cautious about morality now. " This was caught up by the audience, and, applying it to Mr. Kw:, they instantly gave a round of applause, which strongly manifested the feeling which they entertained towards the cant and malignity of that paltry faction that are so savagely attempting to sacrifice him. TILE LOVER'S TUG. 'I The stratagems of lovers have been so complicated in all ages, and so diversified in their operations and effect, that when any new one reaches our ears we feel a pleasure in making it public, for the benefit of our amorous young readers of either sex. The north of England has always been noted for the de1 . 172 and sentiment with whim the tender passion is expr ;—there is so much softness, so much feeling, and breathing of love, in the dulcet tones of pure Yorkshire dialect, emanating from lips which in red ness may vie with the beet -root, and in thielness with say of the favoured tribes who pant in sooty greatness at the torrid zone. We soulless creatures of the south are con tented that our admired ones shall drop their Fars that we may entwine the amorous epistle in its concealing folds, but mark how difFerent is love-making in the north :—A dam sel, who lives at Carlisle, was in the habit of receiv ing the addresses of a spruce-looking mechanic ; and, at the earnest solicitations of her lover, she consented to admit hint into the house after the family had re tired to rest. To accomplish this, however, it was ne cessary that our heroine should go to bed herself, for the purpose of deceiving the family ; and it was agreed that she should tit a cord round her great toe (how senti mental!) the end of which was to be eitspended from her bed-room window, where the lover was to attend at the appointed hour, and to warn her of his presence by pull ing it. But the ardent Adonis, being rather " loose of thought," communicated, in the course of the day, the happy plan his ingenuity had hit upon to two of his shop mates, who afterwards mutually agreed to precede him, and have the first pull at the cont. Accordingly they went to the place a little before the time appointed, and did not wait long till the end of the cord was dropped from the window; they both seised it ; the cord was strong, and the men were not weak; they kept pulling away most unmercifully. Meanwhile the luckless wench, enduring more torture than tight lacing ever inflicted, and unable to hold out all longer, by her reluctant screams raised emry inhabitant in tho house, who were no loss alarmed than herself, and who were by this time rushing into her bed ' room to ascertain the cause. The scene which followed was humorous enough ; the "plot " was " discovered ;" ,and the eenfueeil Belvidera had no alternative but to con fabs —Sunday Paper. STII•NGR PIRTINACITV.—A landed proprietor, a few miles to the eastward of this county, was, a few weeks we, dangerously wounded by a spring-gun which he had canoed to be set in his plantations ; and, in so grievous a manner as, on his recovery, to induce hint to offer up public tha:,kt. giving in the parish church : vet, so powerful was his re gard for his pheasants, that because(' the dreadful machine to be again ehargetl for their protection, and the gune keeper became the victim ; and, we regret to say, waS much more seriously injured than his muter; inha it is scarcely expected he will recover.—Cambridge reptr. To BREW •1.11 ON A 57TA1.1. SCAI.E.—Put a banitell of malt into a teakettle, and fill it with water rather under 4 boiling heat. 11 hen it has stood some time, pour it of: and fill it up again, but with boiling water. Contime pouring it off' and filling it up till the malt is tasteless; then boil the liquor with a few hops in it, and, when hike warm, add a liti• • yeast to ferment it. One peck of m' I and four ounces of hops will produce ten quarts of ale, much better than porter.—Econoritist. IliteAtceAttr FOR CONSUMPTIVE PATIRNTS.—Tbofi e of a spare habit, and disposed towards affections of the lungs, should breakfast ou the following :—Boil a dessert . spoonful of ground coffee in about a pint of milk, a quartet , of an hour ; then put into it a shaving or two of kinglaw. and clear it ; let it boil a few minutes, and set it on the tide of th; Ere :u 2ne, few:lt:tied with sugar, , _ _ ~,,, 1 ., 44 z ... go, •-•• ••••• • • Ulc4l:J , ', 111144 13 VC:lttl{ arm clear ; let It uou a rew minutes, ano set ll some of the new States, though perbsps his tioun ism I press, I Lir- , Toci .Id:•crtiar. I (IQ artist Cf the 114 MC of Jet3et. I t:cle of al; Ere :0 fine, sweetened with sugsr, 1111 r 4. F . \ POETRY. SONNET. ON LEAVING INDIA. [From Riciardsm's Poeau, just published.l Now for luxuriant hopes, and Fancy's flowers, That would not flourish o'er thy sterile soil, Or are of the M'anderer, where disease and toil Have swept their countless slaves ! Though danger lowers Above mine homeward path, ho shade o'erpowers The soul's exulting day-dreams. Love's sweet smile, And Friendship's fervent voice, so void of guile, Delight ar.d cheer the visionary hours! Hail, twilight Memories of past Delight! Hopes of the Future blending in my dreams! Your mingled fornis of loveliness and light, Fair u the summer morning's orient gleams, Chase the dull gicom of sorrow's cheerless night, And gild the soul with bliss-reviving beams ! IASIIION.ABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdown, and family, are expected in town this day, from their seat, Bowtiod Park. \Vika. The Marquis of Worcester arrived in Town on Saturday, from a tour. .Marquis of Donegal arrived on Saturday at the St. James's Hotel, Jennyn-street, from his seat in Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Falmouth and family. arrived on Sa turday at their house in St. James's-square, from their seat in Berks. Earl Bective arrived on Saturday at Gould's Jermyo street, from a tour. Lord and Lady F. L. Gown arrived on Saturday at their house in Albemarle.street, front the Earl of Groevenor's-sea:, Eaton If all, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Radnor are expected in town te. nits-i•ow, from their scat, Longford Castle. Wilts. Departures from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street :—Sir Williiun and Lady Twisden fur their seat near Tunbridg-i Wells • Henry Grey, Bennett, Esq. M. P. for the Duke of Bedford's, 'Woburn Abbey. Lord Harvey arrived on Saturday at his father's, the Earl of Bristol's, in St. James's-square. from a tour. The Hos. Thomas Grenville has arrived at his house in Cleve land-square, from the Marquis of Statibrd's, West 11111, Surrey. George Silvertopp, Esq. has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street. from his seat in Northumberland. General Conran has arrived at the London Hotel, Albemarle street. Defaming from the Pulteney Hotel. Albemarle-street:—Cheva lier de Broglie, for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, for their seat in Oxfordshire. Arrivals at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street:—llia Ex cellency Count Mandersloh, Envoy from Wirtemberg , and suits; Lady Warren, from Bogner; John Dauncey. Esq. from Kent; J. W. Spencer, Esq. and family, front Bath. Departures :—Mr. and Mrs. Protheroe and family for their seat, Gaddesden Park. Captain Bulkeley, Mrs. Bulkeley, and family, have left town for their seat in Devonshire. The Duke of Norfolk entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house in St. James's-agnate. The Dowager hlarchioneas of Salisbury entertained a select circle of friends on I.'riday, at her house in Arlington-street. Saturday morning, it being the anniversary of his Ma jesty's Accession to the Throne, the same was announced by the ringing of bells in the different churches in the metropolis, which also displayed flags on the steeples. At seven o clock the Royal Standard was hoisted at the Tower ; at ten the guard mounted for the day. The band of the 3d Regiment, in full uniform, played several select pieces of music. At one o'clock the cannon was discharged. The dill rent ships, in the river and various docks, also displayed their colours upon the occasion. Yesterday the Duke of York visited the King. The Princess Sophia visited his Majesty on Saturday. Count Munster had an audience of his Majesty yes terday,- in consequence of receiving despatches from Hanover. Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the King's Palace, Pall-mall, by the Rev. Dr. Blomberg. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wel lington, the Earls of Liverpool, Westmorland, Ilarro% by, and Bathurst; Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secrtqary Can ning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount MelNillo, Mr. Wynn, &c. The 'Council broke up at ball-past give o'clock. _ _ _ A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at three o'cloek, at the Secretary of State's office for Foreign Affairs, at which were present the Lord Chancellor, the Eal of Harrowby, Mr. Wynn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. the Earl of Liverpool, Earl Bathurst, Mr. Secretary Peel, Via cunt Melt ills, &c. Mr. Secretary Canning was not present. The Council broke up at abetut a quarter before five o'clock. On Saturday the Cabinet Ministers, the Great Officers of State, and other official Gentlemen, assembled at the bons:: of the Earl of Harrowby, in Grosvenor-square, to arrange the list of Gentlemen nominated in the Court of Exchequer the beginning of last November, before the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lords of the Council, to serve the office of Sherra' during the present year, for the purpose of laying them before the King in Council, in the course of a few (lays, to prick for one out of the three nominated. The Noble Earl Harrowby, as Lord President of the Council, entertained the numerous assemblage of distinguished personages with a sumptuous dinner. Last evening the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town for Charlton, Kent. Mr. Canning's journey to Ireland, res t ecting which there were so many various reports at the time, was made in the hofc of prevailing upon the Marquis of Wellesley to undertake the especial mission to Rio de Janeiro, and to visit the King of Portugal on his way. The advanCed age of the Noble Marquis was, we understand, the cause of the refusal. These important missions have very properly been assigned to that experienced diplomatist, Sir Charles Stuart.—Sunday Paper. A courier is arrived from Paris, announcing the death of the Earl of Thanet. His brother Charles, the present Earl, is now in Paris, and had an interview with his Lord ship when his illness took a serious turn. The Viseounteas Mandeville was safely delivered of a son, at Melchburn Howse, on Manila); evening last ; and we are happy to add, that both her Ladyship and the in fant are doing well. The Non. Mr. Twialeton, the eldest son of Lord Say-and- Sale, and the grandson of the late venerable Lord Hadley, will be proposed as a Conservator of the Bedford Level, at the ensuing Whitsun Meeting. The election of a representative for the borough of Cam bridge is expected to take place on Friday next; the day, however, cannot he fixed until the arrival of the writ. It is supposed that no opposition to Marquis Graham will be offered on the present occasion. It is said that Mr. Claughton, one of the Members for Newton, will vacate his seat early in the approaching Session, and that Sir Robert Farquhar will be returned for that borough. Batt AT MonaisoN's.—A very splendid Ball was given at Morriscu's on Tuesday night, for the bentfit of the Memlicity Society. It was extremely select, tickets being attainable only through Ladies, who acted as Lady Patronesses ou the occasion. The attendance was most fashionable and elegant. There were no less than three hundred present, amongst whow we noticed the Mar chioness of Westnteatli, Lord and Lady Comberniere, Lord Clitrunorris, the lion. Mrs. French, Hon. Mrs. Baird, Mrs. Calcraft, the Ladies Patronesses, Messrs. Caletaft, Mr. Talbot, Sir Charles Vernon, and the Aids-dc-Camp of the Castle. Dancing was kept up until a very advanced hour of the morning. 'f he band of the 4th Dragoons was in attendance, and played several waltzes and agreeable airs throughout the night. Refreshments were supplied in great profusion, and altogether the Ball went off in an ex ceedingly gratifying manner, which induces us to hope that it may operate as an example and stimulant for imitation in favour of some of the other excellent Charities of this City.—Dublin Paper. His Majesty, we understand, has been pleased to grant a patent to our well-known fellow-townsman, Mr. William Hirst, for a very important improvement in the spinning mule, as invented by Dr. Cartwright. The mule itself is said to glint' a saving of three-fifths of the expense of spinning by the jenny invented by Mr. Arlwright; but Mr. Hirst's improvement will save half the expense of spinning by the mule, and consequently four-fifths of the expense of spinning by the jenny.—Ler;l2 Infriligencer. A new square building is erecting in Hyde Park, op posite to the Piccadilly entrance, for the exhibition of a very large picture of the battle of Waterloo, ithiciz is painted ry an artist of name of Jcsavt. ; ~ I nth of • Incl 'raft Cat ea has fa r the Eg: CTOI ant few tho 101 .0} pOl tbi