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E. Owen, W. Brewn, 11. Mlloan, J. Nevill, Webber, R. Carr, R. Lenie, J. Santporn. Serjratit Copt y. Archdeacon Thomas Hnok. Gni-prows— Camrnol, Farquhar. .4datirals —J. E. Douglas, Dixon, Sprenger, Sir Thos Griffith, Sir E. Buller. P 31aIrtilm, Sir T. Knight, Sir B. Martin, and Sir J Goarrotr—Janies Balfour, linnirnr, St Jnho„Cartirritiii, Sir C. Colville, Sir J. Lyon, Sir C. Green, Sir G. Malcolm, Si, D. Park, Sir J Ih.ylr, Skinatr, K. Bullion, storlesol, Sir H. Johnson. G. Cookson, Montresor, Haunting', Smith, Dyntr, P. K. Skhuu c, Ire, Wemyso, Thornton. Fortwo, .1. It.lfonr, Wetherell, Cooppage, R.A. Hull, T. Wirliliogion, F. tlsitlaud, Muntgornerie, H. Fane, Huron% Sitheiiii, Taylor, Rortlosick, Brown, Coloorris--Strvilisou, Palmer, %Ali/alley. Sir W. Rolle, Sir Harilincr, Addison., Filtrzihhen, Krlninf r , Vernon, Sir B. Snetwer, Graham, S4lOlOll, Milling, Sir G. %%Moil, Mulmiler, l'oattr, Achrano. Slrolt, 11. Blair, Bilbao, Cll.lpninn, Pallier., Dr Russet, Thorni 1111 l Cereeval, 11fylly, C. S.ui tt , Gar. is, Gibbs, Sir C. Camplwll, Railelyffr, T. J. rtivrs. Csitimi, Sir It Jackson, Sir It. Hill, J phinstioir, Maw., Wes., &Army, Umbel I, Itc.cs, Sir It. A I Inithool, Thorn, Sir N. Campbell, ar.lr,id, Deism, Barrow, Hoick !iv, C. Stapleton, I.vgion, Macilooslil, Sir Cantlibell„ Hutt loins. .10inrs—Pet , ro, Moberly, Hon C. Gore, Moore, Stewart, Lane, enVen.ll , ll. Bolearris, Webber, Wells,. A F. Dvs..n. Ceptaier—sothelie, Person, Linn:irk, Chartenon& Far quhar, Murray. Clones, Hauck. it. Dukinfield. Bast ird, G Wahlecri ire, Carter. Fuller. P. Cuss, Mactrllrr, C.N. Wollaston, It N. Has tactic. R N. IN•llow, Rood, Knight, R. Cr...'. .1 Rows, Frail, 111 n Percy, Sir RI Many/cll. Conroy, Landam. Claim& Pagel, For rest. Samuel Pechil. limiter. Lord .1. II ay, St. Clair, Slating, Kortrielit, G. W.-spivs% 6 Sey Moulagur, Elrinelotts Heil 'ger, J. H• 1111 l er, Gremlin, 31ason, Clay, S. M. Gardurr, t•iist. (.ernlennnh—A nfrirr, H. Tlrynne, Bacon, Hon. E. Gorr, Store. It. Cnpywce, F. isteclarrnee, liars, Bullock, Downes, Idtur, Norton, Burrard, Cnlebrooke, lame, G. Casio. i• t, Slehehn, Robe, R.A, Rube, R.E, Cole lir ...kr, T. s. Corhela—Kilight, Watson, R. W. Currie, Wright, G. J , mes, Starr. )frvar Lister, Porker, B Wilbraham, Albert, A. s u nlit, I: 0 %1,1s, H. Johnson, W. Roe, Drummond Delip, Hart Daria. Eliot, Courieney,Pliillip, Hunter Blair, Wm Wad& Egrrtaii, 4 *vok. 1. Ass•l, 1111$ Ir, Melville, Pulleii,Guyinte.Crickst, H. Graham, Vial .on. Taylor Illarkburiir, Roberta, Hor sey, Nlechiun, A. J V3loy, Penn. Frederick St. John, Komi. Capri Hatihory, Turner, Albany Saville, finny Hondas IN .rs•t, C. Harvey, Chester, Rio hard Mauls', Martin, Brent, Smith, Carlisle, A. C. Grant, Wirdliairs h'yndham, Leah. Diibrione, Peary", Brogileo, Mackenzie, V.. Peel. T. Botch Western. J. Carlo!. Edward Ilyam, G. 1.. Blount. Pianri• Pitcher, J Fime, It. Ward, G. W. liaison, Fitzhugh, l.n. Abbott, Henry G. Ward, B. Mosisfield, !iforsili n. 11111 l allot v, Leonard, Gerard Callaghan, %Volker, Ball, W. Jr. via Rickidia, Havoc, Niel F:linonstone, V. Colman, E. Granville Elliot. Henry Cowper. George Almond. Iteresforri, Jones Calthorpe, H. Butler, Edu ar do', Quarnie, Round, Lnahington, S. Bourne, A. Wright, Lewis, Gulstoti, C. Grant, C. J. Ellis, Cochrane, J. Wal. lace, J. Cali , . rt. Lecke, Nicholls. W. Bellasyse, ley, Hently, .1 Perveval, M. A. Taylor, Cooper. Greenwood, R. Adair, Dudley North, Edwards, Dirkrlt.ets, Northey, Freeniantle, Clover, J. Manus at, Fretting, A. Stan hope, Ha:smudgy, °raker. The following were ninon the numerous presen tattinls to the PltiNct; ithCiEKT. Tloo Edo I irt Poo aolalbane, on hit return Cum the Conti torso. NI r• Shrill' Go e line. upon his r oomi n d ! into offi ce . 't he lerd 11 oyot of Laudon, by the Recorder of Lundlon aii4 Sir C. tin NI NI. Chi over, on his oppubitment of Avoistant-Moster acd Mar•loal of the Ceremonies, by the Lord in %Visiting. Wojor G. o. I .1 Ramsay, uu his return to his Government of Ai-thesis. air Albert, on his appointment as Sorgeron Extraorob iry to In. 14..)31 Highness the Prince liegeot. The Nee. Mr Webber, Prttrtodaiy of Westminster, by the Art lohishop of York. Near-A.lmi. sl S.r Byam Moulin and Sir William Con frere, with an Address from Plymouth Mr. Wllll. 1 , 4.1 h au Address frmn yoorthmd. Sir. Sic r 111 Nolo rt•, nn bog tong so e s 11 ,1 0 ssffsee, ~,,,, "s tmo grO:s n e v a' Si r It illiain 11. Robinson, on his re loin room Canada, and on hat ing had the honour of Knight. boot conferred .114 him, by General air George Sugcut, Hart. Dr. Grey, by :Mr. Lushingtoon. Sir Jarub A•tlev, by the Earl of M o .boirosiglo. John Courson, Eedr M.P. by Viseon.ot Carleton. Mr. Viol. r.Slorrili 'ruiner, by Mr. Sheriff Norberto. En•igir lbsclis. by tilt father. Mr. Erato &liver the jewel of the Order of the Bath worn by 11w late Sir Phillip Francis, deceased. 1.4 ustississt-I' „ bstsrl Isy the Martinis of Winches lei on hn ap p.oorimo on at liroum of the lleddletromber. Mr. 17 oodler.Sheriti Pnlltu, loy Si.. Sheriff Gwytisse. Ibiltrusitst Robs., Rts)ssl Artillery, 011 his 1011111 from Framer. lieottnant Colo brook, 'loyal Ai tint ty, on his return from Ireland. (I,rmainderill'rerenfatiots in ;morrow.) Mr. l'ot performed the Stranger, io KoizE. play of that name, at the 'Newcastle Theatre, Oil WeilOrl.4lss 1441. The %yolks for lighting. Gateshead with gas h a ve been coin 1. and teat ancient borough is now about to shior with the lustre of the black diancoul. In the sentry of fourteen months, the Duke of ATtioi.t. ',looted tha enormous quantity of 3.600.000 trrea. The late Dom B. COLYEAR, son of Lord Mir,. tv•rovrts, who died of fever at Home, brought on by the pen:moil ill usage received from a banditti, was in his ‘2.3il year. On his attaining the age of 23. he would have become possessed of landed pro. perty of the late Duke of ANCASTER to the amount of 300,0001.. which slow goes in equal shares to SamtlFr. GREATHEAD, Es q ., of Guy's-court, and General MosiAtill MATHEW. Extrail of a letter from Buenos Ay. es, dated 13,e, tri II is reported that Lord COCHR•NE arrived at Valparaiso about the 13th ult. His or. libel has been anxiously looked ha, on which the expedition against Peru would be put in motion. There is every reason to believe that the whole of that l'Oillary IA now in readiness to meet nit the most f.vourable terms with any independent force." The issues of silver from the Batik of England to the Loudon Bankers re-commenced on Wednes day. Each house, we are informed, may now receive a liberal supply, equally beneficial to their own con cerns, and essential to the general accommodatiou of the public. It is probable, too, that the issues of gold may also, in a short time, be increased with dety, as sovereigns, which lately bore a premium for exportation of 10d. each, will now produce wily 3d. above the nominal value. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.--An old servant to the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, at Gnnby Park, , • ! GREAT PEDESTRIAN PERFORM:INCE. Anthony rotron, the Hampshire postmen, who was bark. eil by somelfallish-looking countrymen, after the sports at 31oleriey Horst, on Tuesday, to perform 15 miles in no howr foul thirty lire miners. started ye.terilay mornitig, sin a piece or toil on the forest, ►ix mile. from hot, to do the match, for It* guineas Betting was six to four staiimt him, and the ground over which he ran was one mile, agrees ble to articles. He dui the miles a• follow Mk. Nee. 1 5 42 3 5 44 4 5 44 5 6 7 6 12 Mk. Nee. 6 15 10 11 12 . 13 14 15 46 43 4$ 0 The match was won by seventeen seconds ; and it ap peared that the couniryintn had brought up their man well trained, In raids the town rognotrooli. He did the ten miles within a miuutunine the 'mar, and betting was 8 to .1 uu lirne. The match is nearly equal to the best recorded performance. - -•— MEETING A r THE MERCHANT SEAMEN"S OFFICE. -.0- Yesterday, in emisequenee of an advertisement, stating that • Meeting of British Merchants, whet had suffered by the seizure in 1810, in the Baltic Ports of Husain, of the cargoes of IV vessels, would take place, a few Getitlemen attended ■t the Mere bent Seamen's (Mice. The erase's were, it seems, tinder neutral flags, with licenses, and un der the convoy of Sir James Saumarex. The professed ob ject of the present Meeting was to receive front the Com mittee the Report of the Deputation of last xi 11111 l ler to Pe terelotorgh, and of the liberal observations made sun their Memorial by his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and of the assurance given at Aix-la-Chapelle of a further eonsideration of their severe loss, upon the return sif' bits Imperial Majesty to Peteisburgh. Mr, Rowcnorg said, that Lord Cvlbeirt 11,61 penenred him all possible facilities at the Russian ('ourt, a here he bad applied ou behalf of the injured Individuals, who sent a Memorial to the EMI ptillf. His Imperial Majesty bad de clared that lie was most eager to ersicw the howls of amity, that bound the countries to earls other, hot he could not ins prior upon himself the obligation to make restitotiose of the funds of thee 1111 l knitted cargoes. The great node st i n w hirl, Europe hail been cum; d 'minuet the power of France had been, in the Emperor's opinion. materially streed by the ap plication of ['mac funds, and so declining, to restore them he should only act upon the principle ohisrrveel under simi lar circumstances to the forfeited prisperty of his own soh jeets. Mr. Ruweroft said, that, notwithstanding this reply, it hail been thought expedient to press the Consideration of the grievance upon his ImptriAl Majesty again, to elo whirls he IMr. llowcroft) set otY for Ala.'s-Chapelle, where be bail an interview with Count Nemclroile, the Emperor'• Minister, and saw emingle to convitice any rational man that his Imperial Majesty was slot under say authority. the 114.6144111 umoi sswb eases entirely depending upon hinverlf, without the slightest interposition of his Mi nisters. The difficulty in procuring an interview with Cuitut heaselrode was great. 'That Milliliter, however, kindly consented to have some emivenation with Mr. R. relative to the claims of the Merchants, and after having heard him fully upon the subject, gave him a ter 1111 l tse that the subject should be submitted to his Imperial Majesty on his Felons to Petersborgh, sod should have the advmstage of his fur ther cousideratiou. 'Else case of the Merchants was precisely in this aitultion. They hoped for an mimeo from his Imperial Majesty, fa vourable to their Petition, in the propriety of granting the prayer of which all concurred. Mr. Row CROFT having made this statement, and read several documents upon the subject, the Meeting broke up. MELA2VCIIOLY EF'FE'CTS OF IMAGINATION. A Coroner's inquest was held yesterday in the Board room I of St. Giles's Workhouse, on the body of a poor WmMut named Catherine Ellis, who resided at No. 1, ley-street, George ,street, Bloomsbury. It appeared from the evidence of James Perhly, a shoe maker, and Sarah, his wife, that the deceased and her hus band lived in the next mum to them ; that the deceased airs confined to her bed aeveral da s oil wou ld Hu t h e mime d, to leave it, imagining that she was dead, and frequently asked them why they kept her so lung without burying her ; she would not be persuaded to lake any nourishment but toast and water, of which she drank a great deal. On Monday a Doctor came lo visit her, whose opinion was, that she had a brain fever. He prescribed some medicine. After the Doctor was vine, she called to Sarah Pinkly, and desired her to take the heel from under her, and lay her sat the sacking, and cover her over with a sheet, as she was dead, and to send for a coffin, .41 have her interred. The deceased continued all that day in a very &raisond state of mind. She look the mciliciiie that wax prescribed, and about five o'clock on Tuesday evening, inking advantage of the absence of her husband, she got up and threw herself out of the wisolotv. She was immediately taken up and carried to the workliiiese for medical and surgical assistance, but she died the Next day. Verdiell.--" Insanity." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17. Arrived the Antelope, from the West Indies. YARMOUTH, MARCH 15. Arrived the Grace packet, with mails frirM Rio Jaueirn, sailed 7111 January; spoke Itith February, in lid. 20. t 2. lung. 38. 41, the Wanalead, of and fur London, from Cal cutta, out four mouths; the Sandwich packet was going into Rio Janeiro as the Grace came out; also arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, with mails from Lisbon. cowls, MARCH 17. The French brig Jupiter, from Bourdeaux, for Boulogite, with whir mid brandy, is on shore at the back of the island, near Gauge Chitty. DrAL, MARCH 17. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Richard, IVillianismi, from Demurrers ; Rambler, We'burn, from !Whoa Friends, Harrison, from Limerick; Robert, Clark, from Cardiff; Willisms t Williams, from Dubliu ; and several others, names usitnuarsi. Came dorm from the River and remain, the Rose, IWTag. gad. fur Maths. , and Bengal; Langford, fur Rerbice; Tent, for Bermuda ; Diana, far Carlin; Warren Homilies, for China ; Pitt, hi, St. Kitts; Lavinia, for Leghorn ; His• tannin, fur Mt. lh go ; Misery*, fur Madras and Bengal; and several others, stature at present unkauwn. Livrasmot., MAUCH 16. Arrived the Heroine. Tapley, from Rumpus Ayres, sailed 16.11 I,ecensher ; mot Harriett, Fieldford, from Maraerham, sailed 111th Jannary ; no the Ist Mot. iu fat. W. long. 13. spoke the Allll Marta, from Liverpool, fur New York. Tire William and Henry, and Margaret, for New Orleans, sod the Ervdrrick, flail, fur Leadun, have put back. LAW INTELLIGENC . R. ViCECIIANCELLOWS COURT, LiscoLlVl-INN, THUIPVIDAT, MARCH I. 1111141‘.1)ICTION OF THE COURT. us: La r. nisitNALES. Sir AR*Mint Pit:GOTT staled, that this was a b:!; tiled by the exrentors of the Plaintiff, who had been a resident agent in this country of a tradtitg corn. wily in Spain. during the war, against the De• frod.lot. who Watt thie accredited agent of Ferdi. vitriol VII. King of Spain, to recover the rum of 6,0004 nattier the following circumstances:—The Plaintiff ha I dime business for tile Defendslit, in the lotto's r:ffirial capacity a. agent of the King' of S l oan), relating to prizes made by some of his Britanoie Majesty's ships, of the ships of the De. fend:lnt'. Royal Milner, and Imd rypewried to the amount of (00U/. in that hosiness. The Defendant received the proceed , of the 'slips by the able ma.. iiirgement of the witch amounted to a suns of not less than '20,0001. and 64% his refu.inglp pay the amourit of the Plmitiff 'a (trillion!, his executor. filed the present kill for the reco.. very of it, to which the Defendant had put in a plea, denting the jinireliction of the Court, and the Plaintiff had demurred to the plea, and is Ilia shape the clurstios, Came to be argued Istfere his I1••110111. Ile (Sir Arthur Piggott) kid to contend that the plea was good,. inasmuch as the Court could rot have ilni6di , :tion in a suit instituted against the King- of Slants, therefore it could riot have it ..ver his accredited agent, who was cloilied with the attune, protection HS was wisely thrown over Ambassadors cf Poten tates in foreign countrie., where they represented their Itii ) ,4l Abode's, Therefore, will tit could be Aeon by his Learned Friend, that a suit against King Ferdinand the Seventh could be stistaineil its that Court, the plea must be allowed, and the bill dismissed. Mr. PEPYS followed on the same side. The VicE.CtiallicEft.on—w Is the Defendant residing in this clonal v ?" Sir A. Plater TT said lie was, hut at the time the transaction took place lief went him and the Plain tiff. lie acted to his official capacity of an agent to the King of Spam, for %Inch hr could nut be made responsible in its lineal.. capacity. Mr. WETHERELL, Counsel for the Plaintiff, ro-r The litca-Ctialicet.t.oa—" It 14 not necessary for me to hear you. 11r. Wetherell, as on Str A. knit's own %hewing, 1 have 110 hesitation in giving my opinion, that the idea is bail, and that the Court has if King Ferdinand the Screoth was iu this country, he would be amenable to the orders of it—and it lie was in its jurisdiction, lie would not he entitled to any greater pilbilegy than John TI il4. or the most humble individual in the land, therefore I disallow the idea." or roe ! mum.. •• r •------, , ; f of gold may also, in s short time, be increased with has made up all the charters for slips waisted for Coate Amen from the rover a arm irrW s . l dety, as sovereigns, which lately bore a premium the Cadiz expedition. Those obtained in Liver - earl. fur Hailer , and Bengal; lAintford• • for exportation of Iod. each, will now produce o nl y pool , we u nderstand, are hired at 0 04 . tier for Bermuda ; Vinin4 (A Dinno• for Clelis fur China ; Pot, fur St. Kitt's ; Lavinia, 3d. above the nominal value. ( Evening Paper.) I tannin, Sur 31. Da ; Misery*, fur A SHOCKING Accinzat.—An old servant to the By advice' from Surinam of the ltith January, and several others, trarars at present unk Earl of IlucztaciwAststitaz, at Gnnby Park, received in the City, we learn that the Government 11 t ! (kit to take care of the house in the absence of the of that colony has published air O r dinalice of his Arrived the Heroine. TAoks, from lainil)), met with a very serious accident a few BELGIAN MAJESTY, prohibiting the Slave Trade siti December • rod Harriett, Fieltlfur railed 10111 innnit • n the Ist intl. nights back, by firing an old blunderbuss, which under the severest penalties, but permitting the spoke the Ana Ma rY lll;, ' f i rma livrepool, I Lots*, and took away the greatest part of his left I tra n sit of s laves from a Dutch or foreign colony to William and Henry, awl Mergervt, for 15... d. another Dutch colony in the West Indies. the Frederick, Usli, fur bandun, have p h: • . . F.441110.VA8L1! PARTIBS. Thai Marellinnees of Salisbury entertained • *elect party of fasbiunablis yesterday evening, at her Wow in tutt.strvet. The IJuragrr Countess of Esses had a select rard party last night, at her house in Cargiiit street, May-fair. Miss Horningha has issued cards of invitation for a grand runt, nit the VW. instant. lit her I 1111 l se in Berketes-wmarc. Isvid Henry Howard bad a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Lower G r oover-street. The Earl of Harrington entrrtainerl a ruled party yester day, at his bootie in the Stable-yard, St. J•mes's. Mrs. Freeman,le, of Slanhope.street, May-tiir, has issu ed cards of invitation fur a splendid root tin the 291 h inst. THE TURF. RETYING AT TAITEKSALVA YESTERDAY. RI DU LESWORTII. 7 to 2 opt Troquourcr II to 1 opt Sir J 7to I opt lAbrol Fulry I cult out of Cret.scy. 7to I apt Blue Stockinet • Autry. 6! to 1 apt rupliratee 14 14 1 opt Pleat ,. I 19 to 1 opt Ins. lb to I apt DuniLuir. 01110. 7 to 1 agst Noma I 10 to 1 oast Dodooa. S to 1 apt Blue Stockings I Nu alteration Sn the St. Leger, Port, Claret, and others, 'ince our last. AL.V.4erS FALL. l i ken elegant room•, on Wednesday evening. were more numerously and fashionably attended than any weeding evening ills SCIRSOII. Among oilier tlistingnisliell personages prmesit Wl' CP... His Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximilian and strife. Dsike of Wellington. Dwehecies— Richmond and Argyll. Marquis of Dew nshire. Norchiontsses—Hach, Dawnshire, and Hunily. Aucram, March, Westmorland, Win. n, and Alheinarle. Com alesses—Bai hurst, Lieven , March, Dowager Warwick, Mmintilorrio, Forfescue, Carsoarvon, and Mansfield. Lords—A. Hill, Arley. Amherst, Melville, H. Thymic, Palmerston, Castlereagh, Crisiiburne, Nu, manhy, Wallscouct, and NI C. Churchill. Ladies—Lenmix, Bathurst, Amherst, H. Windsor, Shelley, Primp, C. Puulett, Torreon., Brownlows, H. Thymic., Page's, E. Rligh, C. Land., Grevilles, G. Cumming, J. Amiesley, P. ingle, Chetwsnil, .1. G Egerton, G. Four, Forteseurs, c. Kipple, II Herbcri,J and C. Shrrosnl, T. 'Nigh, Flit Palk, lanzford, Ehrington, Normanhy, C. Murray, C. F. Halton, H. B. intent 11. Sirs—G. Murray, H.Torrens, J. Murray, Wm. Pringle, T. Jones, T. Croft, J. G. Egerton, K'. Bore oughs, W. Cumming. General Thornton. C0MPU11..41.149.1.1, Ca Mne. Fs...amanita, Davie', Robarts, Hon. Percy Bowater, Steele, Macdonald. Caplrsins--Nixon, d'Este, Gronow. Messrs.—Hon. Clive, li. Peel, Hon. F. limb, lion. W. Gordon, C. Gore, LuAington, How. H. Molytieux, Hun. A Barrington, H. Mililmay, G. Anson, R. Colhostrne. Mesdarsey—Long Wellesley, Arbuthnot, Beaumont, Percy, Fraser, awl K Colbuurne. Misses—Hon. Cita, Bligh, Caton, Fitzelarences, Inalsington, Hen. Kiunaird, Palk, Hon. &miry, and Braniannt. Muliwtir de Newmann, M. Porto uii forgo, M. Made, Count d'Aglie, Comet Caramasi, &c. 70 THE EDITOR OP THE BRITISH' PRESS. Slit —Seeing a letter of Mr. Campbell's in your Paper of yesterday, as to the claims Of my late uncle, Doctor James W•lmot, to the Leiters of Junius, 1 beg leave to remark, that it was not the Doct•tr, hut his hrothcr.in-law, Captain Read, who declared that but for Doctor IVilmot's having wan-Aced the Whig Interest, that he could have elevated himself to an Archbishopric, and also have made him (Cap tain Read) a General. Doctor %Vilmot and Captain Read had been several years at variance previous to the death of the latter. Mr. Campbell's other statements are pe►fectly correct, as ■ scaled packet was not opened until the year 1815 of Doctor ‘Vilinot's; ■nd another, of the late Earl of Warwick, slot mild the latter end of the year 1516, after his I.ordship's it/ob. Marry families have had important secrets as well as that of the late Doctor Wilmot. 1 am, Sir, your obedient Servant, OLIVIA W. SERRES. No.l, Contberland-street, Ner.roarl, TO THE EDITOR. Defend me, Sir. from all this dismission in the House Omni seperseditie " Climbing Boyi"—autl using , 6 Machinery .r" Why mit.Sir, at finer idrike at the root of the evil, aud offer a prenaiiim of 501. or lt.ol. to an artist, who would con struct a lire•plece that by a proper draft would consume the smoke like an Argiroirs lamp ?—then there would be nei ther smoke, soot, or Climbing Boys. The thing would be done in a nark, and the town air rendered as sweet and clear as that of the country. Yours, dam. FUMA. TO THE EDITOR OF TIER BRITISH PRESS. Stn—My hours are at this moment too much, and I am proud to say, too well occupied, to be ikvoted to such no. worthy subjects as the lOWAN and its author; hut to con fute the malicious propagations emanating only from a corrupt heart and little 'Mud, I think it n ry to state, through the medium of your Paper, that no such con Misr ever passed between Mr. Burke and my. self as the public prints have specified, ■nd that Miss Kelly (whose talents I look on with enthusiastic admire- i Lion) never was, to my knowledge, allotted any character in the play. Mr. Peter Moore, one of the Drury.lane Com mittee, mind with some ability say personal compas sion for Mr. Burke, in consequence of which I undertook to act in his play; and bad it been produced, I should have done my utmost to have fulfilled my duly to that public whose name I teach my child to bless, to whose protection my gratitude alone is due, and over whose unprejudiced mind I malevolence can never have an influence. On reading the tiagedy of" Deranged/ale/leer (for that was the name it was known by its the Greenroom) to my professional brethren, the only feelings it excited were oncontrullable laughter, and pity fur the author. From this criterion I took the liberty of suggesting to the management, the impropriety of proriticing a play winch must have been attended with considerable ex pense, when there was not in it one gleam of hope for it. suc cess. There is certainly some pretty poetry in the character which was to have been sustained by Miss Cithitt ; and after that, I will say, in good set terms, Mr. Bloke's tragedy is the wriest of the bad. In this opinion I ant joined by the whole of the dramatic corps that were to have been concerned is it, and particularly by the present aching manager, whose jodgment as an artist, and conduct as a man, form an impregnahle bulwark in my defence. The publication uf Deranged Intellect" is all the answer necessary fur the author's attack upon my judgment; and fur bra inventive fabrications I publicly tell him, that he has cot uttered use word of truth in the whole of his aspersions; and I thus leave him to Isis contemplations, with disgust fur his falsehood sod pity for his fully.—l have the honour to be, You► Mat obedient Servant, ll,Clarges-strett,Masch l7 . EDMUND KEAN. The election of a Scots Peer, in the room of the late Earl of F.mtoi., took place yesterday at Holy rood-house. Edinburgh, when it is expected Lord BELHAVEN will be chosen by a considerable ma jority. The Earl of SELKIRK is the other Can didate. We are informed that the Spanish Commissioner has made up all the charters for ships waisted for the Cadiz expedition. Those obtained in Liver pool, we understand, are hired at '204. per tots.— ( &emir% Paper.) By *deicer from Surinam of the loth January, received in the City, we learn that the Government Ordinance of his Slave Trade . permitting the foreign colony to Indies. ETI NG. r Yesterrley a General (.quarterly Court of Proprie tors was brill at the Batik to declare the half-yearly dividend, which the Chairman proposed. as usual, bllOlllll he 5 per cent. A Proprietor then proonswl A motion, often repeat ed and rejected, that the Court of Directors should lay h, fore the Proprirtora a statement of the Com pany's nadirs, and of the tattooers in hand, agree ably. as lie said, to the word' of the Charter. Another Proprietor, who recently applied to the Court of King's Bench, to compel the Directors, by legal itroceedinge, to make this disclosure, se conded the motion, adding to it some udditioual RlWier. Sir THOMAS TURTON, though agreeing io the propriety of making the disclosure, thought the motion should be postponed till after the Restric ts Committee of the House of Commons had made their Report, an there some such information would probably lie found. Mr. Iticaftuo spoke in favour of the motion, complaiiiing. the Directors gave the informatoni to the Committee of the House of Commons which they refused to the Court of Proprietors. He ask ed, whether thew was 'tot a balance of six or seven, or at least lite sterling in the hoods of the Bank, and ' , dished to know why it should not be di vided ? A Proprietor spoke against the motion, referring to the Charter of the Bank, and quoting words f it to phew the Directors obeyed the rules there laid down ; but that it was provided the Court of Proprietors could by by-laws order other. wise. They could order the disclosure, if they pleased. The fault was not with the Court of Di rectors for refusing the information, hut with the Proprietors at large for not demanding it. This Gentleman, at some length and with great clear ness, *hewed the wisdom of the conduct of the Court of Directors, and the impolicy, the unneces sary folly 01 making the desired disclosure. The CHAIRMAN read a Resolution of the Court of Proprietors, which had been agreed to by ballot in March, leil6, when the same yursuon was urged. That Resolution negatived the disclosure by a majority of 394 to 69. The aineurlineett was negatived, and the Retro-. lotion to divide 5 per cent. on the profits being spill put, A Proprietor proposed to divide six per cent. Sonic discussion arose, and the impropriety of devia ting front the recommendation of the Bank Di rectors, 'rented to be t ;enerally felt. Mr. RANDAL JACKSON deprecated the motion, and referred to the conduct of a party of Pro prietors of the East India Company, who many years ago were continually varying at the General Courts the amount of dividends, thereby produ cing great fluctuations in the value of Stock. and giving rise to much stock-jobbing ; a practice which Mr. Pitt at last found it necessary to stop by legislative interference. Mr. RICARDO said, lie hoped Mr. Jackson made no allusions to the conduct of any Geotlematt oft the present °cession. This Mr. J ACkSUIt disclaimed. • The motion to divide 5 per cent, was theft put and carried by a very full Court. On the thew of hands for disclosure, three were held up fur it, while about 300 were held up against it. At the aides on IVedimoiay in Mincing-lune. Bengal cotton produced wily .5.141. per II). The Rune snick, tett ke 'amain ego, 'F.:. purchased for I Id, SCHOOL FOR INDIGENT BLIND. Yesterday the A •ersary Festival of this Ion;t. able lustir►►tion was celebrated at the City of don Tavern, lin.linpagate-street. At about hall -I►ast five o'► lock near two hundred persons wit dins ii to d er, consisting of every delicacy the swa•oui could Ward; the Lord Mayor the Chair, sup. ported on the right by Sir Claudine Stepl►en Hunter, Knt. and on the left by Win. Matitin.g, Ern. M.P. and other distinguished characters. Several Centleute►► made long and eloquent speeches, recommending the interests of the Insti tution. .The Lord Mayor 14-ft the Chair at an efuly hoar, when Sir Claudius Hunter was proposed to fill the situation, which he acceded to, and with the company passed the remainder of the even►ng in social conv►viality. TEST ACT AND IRISH CATHOLICS. Jeremy Taylor, in considering whether it be lawful fur Prince to give tuleratimi to several religions, observe, that " it is no more than whether he may lawfully persecute any man fur nut I.s. lug of his opinion." And Sir R. Steele makes thin distinction between the Church of Rome and the Church of Engiand: the former prrteilds to he infallible ; the other, says be, is always in Ike right. We du not miicb approve of imitating the Stuarts, but in this ca-c it would he better than in 'whets, which may be thought more agreeable. An thony Wood, on a visit of Jamcs 11. in Oxford, says, "Then the King going to the great door behind the theatre in Canditch to take coach, be turned aside In the Pict- Chancellor and Doctors, and said, " I must commend unto )e arable, love and eliaritie, that there be a right un derstanding arming you. I must tell you, that in the King, Inv father's time, the Church of England's men and the Catholics loved CAI is other, and were as 'mere then, all One j lint now there is gotten a spirit, wlOcb is quite con. wiry ; and what the reason is, I cannot tell. Three are sonic among you, that are the occasion of those things; hut I know them, and shall take notice of them in future." Extract of a letter from Barbadoes, dated is. nuary YS, !sig. The following information was received here by the brig Fival, di.patelied ex. pres.ly with it by the British Vice-Consul as Para, to Lord COMBERMSBE : " The schooner Flying Fish, Wormiaglon, of Darbadnee, was detained at Para, the 2d lost., in consequenee of in formation being given that the master had the command of an Insorgent privateer in June last, and captured the Pur im/one ship Lord Wellington, of and from Lisbon for Para, off the Cape de Verde. This information was laid by a boy who was MI hoard the Lord Wellington; but when be was couilaieted on hoard the Flying Fish, to identify her tieing the privateer, he said it was not the same vro, e l Captain Wormittettin hail she misfortune, in June last. to be in priorn at the city of St. Domingo spun informsf of a similar nature, equally nufounded, and notwithstasoliog having proved the alibi, the Perteguese authority pers. erre in his detention, as well as the vessel. Admi►al Harvey has prnmiiied that the first vessel of war which may arrive, shall be dispatched to Pars to demand the liberation of C.aptaiu Wurmington, and his vessel, tio unjustly detained. The For titude, Smith, was boarded the lst instant, in lat. 37 lone. 15. by the Buenos Ayres privateer brig Irresistible, but pro fessed to belong to Baltimore, and detained her six hours • they took three bags of bread, and gave Captain Smith ass ender on Comma, for payment. The Fox packet was also boarded the slay previous." • - - Letters from Manchester state, that more than 500 young poplars have recently been cut from a single plantation near Stockport, for the purpose, as is supposed, of being emrloyed to form the handles for pikes. Great fears are entertained througloont this important manufacturing district, that the inf &rings of the labouring classes will lead to a act of a desperate nature; but the Magistrates, whn are well aware of the extoting state of things,' will be prepared, it is believed, with efficient measure, for preserving the public peace.—(Everting Paper.) On Friday a Court-martial was hold on hoard his Ma jesty's ship Northumberlaud, at Chatham, fur the trial of Captain W. E Wright, late of his Majesty's brig Griffon, WI a charge of smuggling ii yards of nape, Si: yards of silk, two pieces of Bandanna handkerchiefs, three 1.11 lAN, and I 1 Ilha. of tea. The evince for the prosecution has lug closed, the Court adjourned till Saturday 171111111111 f. when, on the Court being re-assembled, Bear-Admiral Sir V. Malcolm, soil Capthin Sir M. Seymour ' the Presidi ii. of the Court martial, as evidence in favour of the Prisoner, gave lons 1 a most excellent and ho 11111 l rahle character as an (Biker ands Gentleman. , Other evidence was also brought forward in 1 favour of Clpl2lill Wright, who was then heard in his de- I fence; after which the Court retired to consider of their vas i did, and, after • long deliberation, they sentenced him to he I dismissed his Majesty's service. This sentence the Couit was imperatively bound to deliver, under the eircunist titers of the case, and agreeably to the provisions of the ar Wes i of war. . .- • - -- MBETINGSII4iF CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL, M M. . . J. Jackson, Upper Thames-street, sus arlscfor J. H. Wilbeam, Isle of Duck-head, rt ciify ing.diatiller 3 Id R. Wilk., Chaucery-lane, printer G. Powell, Little Trinity - lan e, baker 3 10 P. Caunsont, Old Broad - street , m erchant P. Campbell, Hai y-le-Bone-stirci, wine-nn reliant E. Smyth, St. Martin's - court , shoemaker M. Marchant, Poplar, cowiterper R. Whates, Wapping-start, anchur•smith 3 11 L. Levy, Great Prescott - st reet, merchant T. Taylor, Leadruliall-strcet, mariner J. Stein, Butcher-row, rectifier J. Cox and Co. Gutter-lane, wholesale glovers 1). Campbell and CII. Ohl Jewry, merchants J. White and Co. Ecuningtou, dyers A. Leslie, Size lane, pro v i s i on.merchant W. Starkey, Ilethual.green - road , bri c k la y er T. Herbert, Chequer-yard, cotton merchant .. W. Picot, Ratcliffe-highway, gruct r H. Newton, Marshall-street, tailor 1 11 J. Masters, Dartford, grocer W. Burton, Cornhill, auctioneer W. S. Evans, Chapel-street, bricklayer T. Teatime, Newlyn West, Cornwall, baker J. Howe, Einabury-p!ace, livery -stably-kart DIVIDENDS. J. Phillipps, Pimlico, coal-incechoit J. and C Bernard, Mauche.ter, Itrivii-drapers J. Uickiusou, Guildhall passage , warehou seman E. Read and Co. Great Russell-street, !into-drapers PRICE OF sTOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 per Ct.Corrb. 74 74i I Inds I liorld.r.. 38 36 pr. 74 74} I Es. 3 dr.. Slier Ct. N. An. 1042111 Co.'s. for Ace... 74111 DEATH. At his house, Great Georgr•sueet, Dublin, Doctor %%ii lissa Harvey. _ . HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDoN Moraiag 24 after 7. I Evening 2 after H. LONDON . Printed mad Publicised at the Office, No 127, Slimed; where Advertisements ad received, Ana Len (pneiapaid) must he addressed.— C. SMITH, N., I Clewed% lee, Politer.—J. WHITE, Is - e 111, Strand, Publi ober. F *