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Mr.NallaekTlMM Mr. Harr • Jaques, Mr. Maeready: [giver, Mr. Bedford; Adam. Mr.Terrys William. Mr.ltnight ; Tooth stone, Harley. Rosalind. Mra. Votes; Cella, Mrs. Bedford; Pcabe, Miss Poesy ; Audrey. Mrs. Omer. After which. THE ROVOLT OF' THE Lysander, Mr. Penley ; Harean. M. knight Mrs.Waylett. On Monday, Der Frelsehuta. THEATRE. ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening. S TURritY, Nov. £7, will be performed A WOMAN NEVER VEXT : • Or. THE %MOW OP CORNHII.L Henry the Mirth. Mr. Raker; Foster. Mr. Young: Stephen Teeter. Mr. C. Enable; Poster, Jun. Mr. Cooper; Walter Rrown, Mr. Eger ton; Slr Godfrey Speedwell. Mr. Bartley; Master Innocent Lanihsh Yr. Keeley; Clown. Mr. Rlanenard. Agnes Waisted (the ti Idol. of Cornitlll), Miss Chester; Mrs. Foster, Was Laey; Jane, Miss June.. la Ain V. the Lord Mayers Show. as It passed through Cheapalde, Ia • the year 1444. After which, ))THE FROZFN CAR[. The Grand Duke o..Muitbla. Mr. Burley; Prince de Nenbourig, Mr. Jones: Martens de Valborn, Mr. J. Isaacs; Count de Linsherit. Mr. Paarman ; ilhei:n. Mr. Keeley. The Prinees% Louisa, NI 14We; Baronets Matilda de RusefeldL Miss M. Tree; Countess de Nalstein, NISI Hallande. On Monday. Isabella. and The Frozen Lake. ADELPHI THEATRE, STRAND. This Evening, SATURDAY, Nov. IL will bo prossaSed asi sow komantle BurJetta Speetaele, called VALMONT)] ; Or. THE UNHALLOWED SEPULCHRE. Titse Principal Characters by Merin. Gamer:in], Power, Les. Parse, sad J. Reeve; Mesdames Roden and Parroek. To ecinelude with the Burlesque of QUADITUPF.DS I Fritnelose. Mr. Wilk:nom; A brahamides, Mr. J. Itioet. The DnaTlati rllllOll Commerical ytqllishing yesterday meriting at five o'dock. LONDON, SATURDAY, NovYHDz■ Last night we received the Paris Papers of Wednesday. The Greeks continue to gain fresh successes. The insurrec tion against the Porte spreads in every direction. Amongst others, the Paella of Syria has shaken off the Ottoman yoke. This, we have MO doubt, will prove only the com mencement of a series of rebellions, by which the Turkish empire will be finally dismembered. IBRAHIM Nara, the son of the Viceroy of Egypt, is, it appears, the prisoner of the Greeks, together with Ismw. GIBRALTAR, the Egyptian Admiral. The negotiations for their ransom will, it is highly probable, lead to the accession of the Viceroy from the contest. The Turkish troops are com mitting all kinds of excesses in Moldavia and iVallaeliia, which they seem to have no intention whatever to evacuate. In the critical review of a new work on contemporaneous biography, in the Consfitutbmnel, we find the following sketch of the French Professor, M. COUSIN, whose seizure by the Pot ian police has ezeited such deep and just in dignation among his countrymen M. Victor Cousin was born at Paris in 1792 ; from his earliest youth he evinced a strong passion for study and the sciences, and crowned his scholastic success by obtaining the psi aof honour, which exempted hint from th ,, ennscrimion. lie ass the first pupil in the Normal school, which had just then been founded, and he-these speedily became Master of the Conferences. His early merit. appreciated by till dime who knew him, did nut escape the notice of the Visitor, 31. Royer Collard, who being summoned in 1815 to discharge more impor:ant duties, fixed on 51. Cousin to act as his substitute in the chair of History, Illtilortophy, and the Belles Lefties. A profound judgment. united with a knowledge of affairs, and a ready eloquence, nre indispensable to the person executing these duties. They were all possessed by 31. Cousin. A continuance of ir.creasing success made it almost thrgotten that AI. Cousin wan not the actual Professor in his own right. Ile had • mode of instruction which imparted great interest to his lectures; he never separated moral from sperulative philosophy. Notwithstanding the services of 51. Cousin, he was dismissed in 1820, owing his disfavour to the sharp-sightedness of the Minirtry, who were of opinion that his doctrines out;ht not to bend to the principles (the morality or interests) which lw was endeavouring to establish at that period, and which were gaining ground more and snore : thus he was disgraced at the l'Mversity, at the very moment that M. Royer Collard was disgraced in the higher department. FRENCH FUNDS.--PArl:', Nov. 21.--Five per Cents. opened at 101 f. 75c., closed at lUlf. 115 c. ; Bank Stock, 19721. rAk. ; Neapoliton 6 per Centsi, ird ; Bonds, 92 ; Rentes d'Espagne, 1134 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 1833, tAI.-I:schanrre on Loader )ne month, 2:1. ; three months, 2.1 f. 20e. Ceara Asihent • . Nov. The A• -, •erdam Papers of Wednesday, which arrived last night chiefly tilled with narratives of the exten sive calami:ics produced by the floods, which arc now slowly subsiding, and leaving to view tlic ravage; they had occasioned. The dikes have been broken down by the immense weight of the waters, which have risen in some instances from forty to fifty feet above the ordinary le7el. The cities of Hamburg!' and Amsterdam we re both in considerable danger.—ln the extraes from the Prussian Papers we find a sort of justification set up for the arrest of the French Professor, Coe SI N. We are told that some student, whose natty!, however, is not given, has made depositions, according to which NI. Cot six was concerned in some revolutionary intrigues in loa ! If be was guilty s .f any serious offence, either then or at any subsequent p.,viod, why was he not regularly demanded from the French Government? No; there was no charge against him, and therefore it was preferred to lay in wait for him, N(iE YESTERDAY. Leghorn — - Genoa . - Venice - - 17 Malta - ...--- - Naples Palermo - 11.1 )pot _ I.h.bon ( Rio .laneiro - iii Rants - - 411 Dohl in - 94 Cork - 91 WILLSON. -- - _ - t. r. (1. Portugal Gold in coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New I►ollars 0 4 10 Silver in ban I • 0 till his own inadvertency, or mi►taken confidence in the sacredness of public law, led him to put himself in the power of his enemies. By a private letter from Madras, we are sorry to learn that, in consequence of a drought of nearly eighteen months, a famine is ravaging that Presidency, and the people arc actually (lying in hundreds daily. This dreadful calamity is the more to be deplored at this particular time, as Madras can only be supplied with provisions from Bengal; and as all the shipping of India is at present occupied by the Burmese expedition, great havoc must necessarily be made among the population before any relief can be given. A Mcrning Paper, which published the fullest and most disgusting account of the late pugilistic contest at War wick, yesterday attempted to offer an apology to its readers for the part it has taken in assisting to deprave the public taste. This article opens with the two following sen tences:— " As hi►torians of the day, we are often obliged to describe scenes which reflect honour neither on the parties who figure in them, nor on the national character. Among the most disgusting exhibitions of the age, boxing matches certainly occupy the first rank." From the latter proposition, we believe, no person of cor rect sentiments will dissent; but with respect to the former the agreement will not be so general. Is it the business of an "historian," if he sometimes is obliged to describe disgraceful scenes, to narrate them in the brutal slang of common thieves? Is it the business of a sober "historian, having unhappily to record what he admits to be one of "the most disgusting exhibitions of the age," to commence his narrative in this manner?— " TIP-TOP MILLING AT WARWICK. "In spite of all that has been said—in spite of all that has been done to check the good old practice of Baring—whether for love, for honour, or for profit, the taste of Jain Bull and his frolicsome family seems to be unchanged ; and you have only to hold out to him the prospect of a good mill, and lie is careless of what labour or expense he may incur in the gratification of his appetite. In vain do you talk of crosses, and of ?Weeks, and of deaths—only tie a couple of fighting men at the end of a string, and draw them across the country, and like hounds in a drag hunt, you are sure to have a few thousands of the Fatt..y in full cry at their heels." The censorial power of the daily newspapers is con fessedly very great, and it should be used with due regard to the important consequences that may flow from its mis direction. Many things, we know, are of necessity made public which it would be desirable wholly to suppress, if greater evil were not to be apprehended from the suppres sion than the publication ; but in these cases, though t':e facts must be made known for the public good, ott;lit the writer to adopt the cant phrases of the criminals, and palliate their offences by disguising their real nature with the false jargon invented to conceal it? On the contrary, is it not his duty to strip off the covering of fraud, and hold up the transaction to public indignation in the strong language of truth, and the pure idiom of his native tongue? Our contemporary remarks, that— " To a coarse and sluggish disposition, the view of men covered over with blood, their faces laid open with deep gashes, placed in a state of insensibility on shutters, with the ghastly look of dcath discernible in such of their features as can be seen through the gore—all this must be a pleasure of the highest order." _ _ . But surely it is not the " historian's" province to pander to such " pleasures" as these, though it may be his painful duty to record that there arc brutal wretches who indulge in them. There are enough of coarse and cruel disposi tions to delight in blood without our countenancing their sports with seeming approbation. The truth is, however, and we regret to state it, that the public press is deeply disgraced by the scandalous avidity manifested to purvey for all appetites, however gross and disgusting. We are told, indeed, that newspapers would not exhibit the age if they did not exhibit this very prevalent, though dis graceful taste. We answer, that the proper business of newspapers is most certainly not in this way " to hold the mirror up to nature," but to reflect only such matters, and in such a mode, as ought to be exhibited. We know not to what lengths the doctrine of " exhibiting the age" would lead, if every taste, however " disgraceful," was to be exhibited, because it might be " very prevalent." It is admitted, however, that boxing should be checked. " The tute itself may be met in two ways, either by the ?strong hand of the law, the worst mode that can be adopted, it is like skinning nrcr a bail sore, or by the improvement of the general cha racter and the general tame." This is not very elegant, nor indeed very clear. The taste, we arc informed, may be met most eff:ctually by the improvement of the general character and the general taste. A had taste mav, no doubt, he most effectually cured by substituting for it a better taste ; hut by our con temporary we are left nearly as much in the dark as ever, as to the mode of improvement. In tenth, he who had so eloquently expatiated two days before on the " Tip-top Milling at Irartriek," could hardly he expected to declare all at once, that it was his duty to have discouraged and de liotine..ll it: but he says, " It is useless to raise one voice against an evil which seems almost interwoven with the national character. To cure it more than palliatives is required. So long as the exhibition has its sup. port in congeniality of disposition, it will be continued in spite of all the strictures of the Press. just as the taste fir horses, &e. on our Sta:;e, was proof against the Theatrical Critics." One voice may, under some circumstances, do much to wards putting down a nuisance. No voice is raised in vain to condemn public vices. But admitting, that one voice can do little to suppress the evil of prize-tighting, ought it, thery:,re, to chaunt the praises of this brutal sporting? There was a time, when the paper to which we allude would rather have ceased its publication than have de graded its character by such an exhibition as it made on Wednesday last. lieu quantum routatus rib lido ! Every tit ing continues extremely flat in the Consol Market. (hi the whole. three securities were rather depressed during the course of yesterday. The cause of this depression is unknown, but it was partially owing to the r::ry little business that was transacted. Mexican and Colombian Bonds also fell during the day, but towards the close of the market they recovered themselves. Spanish Stock has experienced a rise of rather better than 1 per cent., and this is ascribed to intelligence said to he brot:glit by ex press, that the Spanish Government had ren guised the Loan, but refused to pay the dividends. Vie c tunot con ceive any rea:am why this should produce a rive in these Securities, as we cannot ~re of what importatiet• it Call be to the creditors of a pennyless bankrupt, to know that th,:ir claims are acknowlcdged, when thatacknowledgmont is ac companied with an assurance, that they can never be paid. According to the last accounts from Lima, Yr. Row ' croft was there fulfilling the functions of Consul -general. He called a meeting of the British commercial resii lents on the 30th of June, to whom he exhibited his rutin oission, and read extracts from the instructions given hint by Mr. Secretary Canning. These, it appears, did not pert Mt hint to carry on trade, nor to charge any .commission, but au thorised him to certify any instrument as a notary, and to claim a remuneration for that service. He was particu larly charged not to encourage any illicit traffic, either against the laws of England or those of the country in which his official residence was fixed. No mention is made of Mr. Roweroft's having presented his credentials to the Spanish authorities in Lima. THE BRITISH ' PRESS. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Rooney' de Willoughby. Hon. Miss Burrell, and Mks Eliot, arrived In town, yesterday, front her Ladyship's seat at Richmond. Lord Alvanley has lett town tor Edinburgh. The Earl and Countess Spencer arrived in town, yesterday, from their neat, IVin.bledon. . . 'the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury arrived in town, yester day, from Hattield. H. Dawes, Esq. arrived in town, yesterday, from his seat in Sussex. _ _ Lady Affleek left town yesterday on a tour. Lord Folkestone has arrived in town from his father's, the Earl of Hadnor's seat, Langford Castle. Sir George Nugent, Bart. has left town for his seat in Bucks. General Sir Hobert Bolton, Hart. arrived yesterday at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place, from Hants. The Earl of Cassillis has left town for his seat, St. Margaret's, M itld lege K. Sir Charles Long, Dart. has left town for his seat, Bromley-hill, Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Erskine and family arrived yesterday at the Lon don lintel, Albemarle -street, from Kent. Departures from hong. Hotel. Bond-street :—Captain and Mrs. Forbes for Bath ; W. Gooch, Esq. for Brighton; and J. Hodgson, Esq. for Cheltenham. ( aptain Norton, R.N., for Portsmouth. Lord and Lady 31ontagu hare arrived in Bath from their seat in Bucks. _ Su* (Aarlea and Lady Brenton and family arrived yesterday at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle street, from the Continent. Departures from Read's Hotel, bower tiroavenor.street and Mn. Holmes for their seat in Leicestershire; Captain Lloyd for Bath ; and W. Nevilk, Eaq. Inc Ostbrd. Yesterday the Duke of York transacted military business with the King. The Duke of Gloucester came to town yesterday morn ing from IVorcestershire, in consequence of the continued indisposition of his Duchess, and visited her Royal High ness for AMC time. The rt.lort of the state of her Royal Highness yesterday was, that the Duchess had had rather a better night, and continued a little better. The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Feedor, the Princess Sophia, the Duke of York, and the Duke of Sussex, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. We understand that hio Grace the Duke of Wellington has been invited by the King of France to be present at his Majesty's coronation at Rheims, but the state of the Noble Duke's health has been for some time such as, we fear, to render it probable that his Grace will be obliged to decline the honours that would be rendered to his personal attendance. The distinguished compliment, however, has been felt, and we have no doubt will be acknowledged as so high a mark of royal favour deserves. Yesterday afternoon the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town for Beckenham. Yestenlay Sir Charles Bacot transacted business at the Foreign Office, previous to his departure upon his embassy at the Netherlands. Yesterday W. W. Burton, and Walmesly, Esqrs., were called to the Bat by the lion. Society of the Inner Temple. On Thursday the Nth inst. Samuel Crompton, Esq.. one of the representatives for the borough of East RetfOrd, visited that place, for the purpose of dining with his con stituents and Sir Robert Mtlas, at that gentleman's can vass dinner. The burgessvg, and a great number of the inhabitants proceeded on the north road to meet the car riage, which came up a liule after one o'clock ; the horses were immediately taken off, and the carriage was drawn by the populace into the town and round the market-place, and afterwards to the White Hart. The eagerness evinced fully proved the high estimation in which Mr. Crompton is held, not only b)• the burgesses, but by the inhabitants of Retford generally. The dinner afterwards took plac at the Town-hall. Mr. Vandenhoff played Cato on Monday evening, at Liverpool, for his benefit, to a numerous and most splendid auditory. The receipts exceeded 28/. A Noar C HEW' I: .—tharles Mathews, the Comedian, whose love of his prorission is proverbial, has, it is will known, made a most splendid collection of Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Books, and Rusts, connected with the English Stage, many of them 'mire, and forming a most interesting Gallery, at a very considerable expense, all of which he states his determination to bequeath to the na tion in such a way, that they shall never be again separated. This resolution is worthy of Mathews, and will, indeed, be a lasting memorial of his gratitude for the unprecedent ed patronage the public have continues' to bestow upon him.—Morning Paper. LONDON CItYMICAI. SOCIETV.—The inauguration of the officers of this Society was performed on Thursday night at the City of London Tavern, in the presence of a very numerous assemblage of Ladies and Gentlemen, the greater part of whom had become members of this Insti tution, for the promotion of one of the most useful and im portant branches of scientific knowledge. At half-past seven o'clock the President, Dr. Dirkbeck, entered the room, accompanied by the Vice-Pmeidents and Committee. Mr. Mareco, the Chairman of the Committee, took the Chair, for the purpose of opening the business of the So ciety. He announced that the labours of the Committee for the formation of the Institution had terminated ; and the Secretary then read their Report, which detailed the origin and preliminary progress of the business of the So ciety. Dr. Birkbeck then took the Chair, and delivered an eloquent introductory lecture, explanatory of the objects of the Society, and of the general principles of chymistry, illustrating, cs he went on, by practical expe riments, the elementary parts of his discourse. The Committee of General Purposes for the City of Lon don lament, with the public, the accident which occurred at Blackfriars Bridge on Saturday last, and had previously given orders to the contractor to use all possible despatch for its completion. On the receipt of a letter from the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Chairman of the Committee called an especial Meeting, to consult what measures should be immediately taken for the protection of the foot passengets, and orders are given, which will, they trust, prevent the recurrence of such a disaster. CATOOLIC RENT.—According to the Limerick Papers, Mr. Goulburn has forwarded circulars to the different Chief Constables of Police, prohibiting them from subscribing to the Catholic Rent, or from having any communication whatever with the Catholic Association. A similar order has been killed to the Army by the direction of the Coin mander-in-Chicf. CONSOLATION.—The Captain of an English vessel once sailed from Cadiz with a number of passengers on board, and among the rest a Frenchman, who very anxiously expressed his fear lest the ship should be taken by the cruisers which at that time infested those seas, and many of which lie well knew were of superior force. " Don't alarm yourself, my worthy," said the British tar, " for before I'd suffer m 7 ship to fall into their hands, I'd blow her op in the air.' Lose. rev.—There are at present living in Garstang 25 persons, whose united ages amount to 24300 years. On IVedneslay evening, the organ in Waterloo Church, which was opened a fortnight since, had its pliwers dis played by Mr. Jacob, before the clergy of the Church, se veral of the heads o f parish, and some professors and amateurs. The organ consi.is of twenty-six stops, three rows of keys, and pedals. The performance lasted about two hours. Mrs. Plant, of Last Retford, has purchased a large site of ground near that place, on which she intends to erect a manufactory for the spinning of cotton on a very extensive scale, the building at present in use being far too small to supply the increasing demand for that artiele.—Lincula Paper. LADY DELICATE.—A few evenings ago, a servant girl, living with Mr. Barlow, of the Marquis of Granby public house at Retford, undertook (after having partaken of a plentiful potation of tea) to eat twelve penny pies, on con dition that if ,the ate them another person was to pay for them, if not, she was to stand paymiaress herself. How ever, she soon devoured them, and afterwards took a good supper of cold beef and roasted potatoes, showing the ad vantage of good teeth and powerful mastieation.—l,Mean Paper. The property of the unfortunate Mrs. CAECA, otherwise Donatty, whose dreadful murder excited so muzli horror about three years since, has been divided, by direction of the Lords of the Treasury, between two females who de clared themselves near of kin to her, and the relatives of the late Mr. Donatty, with whom she cohabited, and from whom by will she derived it at his death. The unfortunate coimst between the cotton-spinners and their masters still continues ; and thousands who have nothing to do with the matters in dispute, are famish ing in consequence. —Glit.T.Qw Free Press. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile of Thursday, Nov. 261 CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT- 19. Lord Strangford, before he left this capital. had several con ferences with the Ottoman 31rnisters. He received from them a formal promiseof the speedy and entire eracitation of 511.ililavia. His Lordship, in cor.eipience, proposed to 31. Minziacky to as sume his diplomatic character. But on a sudden, news arrived that the Turkish troul'. far from evactiatirg Aloldavia„ were com mitting the most horrible excesses there. One of the grand tligni. tares ha. been massacred by there barbariana ; other. are threat ened with the same lute. AL 131 in:juicy, therefore, persists in living as a ni..ve private individual. The issue of the campaign. so disastrous to the Porte, greatly embarrasses the diplomatic body. It seems that they had calcu lated on the idea that the Greeks would be overpowered their com plete triumph, therefore, deranges many combination.. Nobot l 2, however, apprehends that open hostilities could result from this. Letters from Smy ma say, that the Pasha of Syria is in com plete insurrection against the Porte. The evacuation of Wallachia does not seem to be nearer than that of Moldavia. [From the Jokrool des Debuts of Wednesday.] LPRITATE CORRESPONDENCE.] CORFU. Nov. 2. The insurrection of the villages of Acmeerauma it complete; the inhabitants have raised the standard of the ('toss, from ltuthro. tum to A tibiae. Letters trout Epirus sup, that the Argyrinne. the 3lusachi Konitzs. are united for the cause of independence. /day_ rocordato has just sent a summons to the Turkish Government of Arta. (liner t'rione is said to be surrounded or killed at the defile of the Five Wells. In a short time you will hear astonishing things. Axcox*, Nov. 10. Extract from a letter, addressed to a subscriber of the Journal des Ikbats, at Paris, received 23d November:— •` I beg you to send me a letter of recommendation for the Greek Government at Napoli de Romania. Ibrahim Pacha. son of the Viceroy of Egypt, and Ismael Gibraltar. Admiral of our Viceroy of Egypt, bring prisoners to the Greeks, I would give the half of my bloed to he useful to those two illustrious prisoners. You, my dear friend, will do mea most signal service by employ. ing all your credit for the relief of those two persons, and by writing on the subject to your powerful friends at Napoli, that they may be treated with attention and re►pect. You are not Ignorant how much I am attached to the Viceroy of, Egypt : do then all the good you can to his son without delay and without li mits : the ransom of these prisoners will be better to the Greek. than a loan. Act, speak—no sacrifice will be too great. Ismael Gibraltar is at this moment at Hydra." s. - - PARIS, Nov. 23. The following is the Prussian Ministerial circulta, addressed to the public officers, and to the diplomatic body residing of Berlin, on the marriage of the King of Prussia. " Ilia Majesty desiring that the marriage with her Highness the Princess of Liegnitx should he considered merely as a pnvate mat. ter, has not thought fit to have it officially published in the journal of this capital. But his Majesty has been pleased to consent that the annexed article might be inserted in the liiazette of Hamburg!). (Stgned) •s WITTGENSTEIN. " 11th Nov. 1824.' The article alluded to has already been given from the Hato burgh papers. [From the CoNstitutiomed of Wednesday.l AIAnRID. :NOV. 11. ..... ..„ .—..... The uncertainty in which we have been for some time past as to the result of the negotiations between France and Spain, gives rise to a thousand rumours, which are swallowed with avidity without at all inquiring into their probability. It is said to-day that the Queen will not stay at 3ladtitl. if the French troops quit it; that the Infant Don Francisco has fears for his family, and wishes also to remove himself; that the departure of the King for Burgos is at hand, and that relays are already ordered for that purpose; that the Queen and the Infants have themselves written to Charles the Tenth, entreating him to leave sonic troops in Itladrid. On the other hand, we are assured that the principal Members of the Apostolic Junto have offered to the King, in the name of the Clergy, a hundred millions of rials if he will consent to the de parture of the French.—Jadiesrear of Bordeaux. PARIS. Nov. 23. The history that we gave yesterday of the arbitrary west of 31. M— W3ll not quite correct. 31. M— was not conducted to the prefecture of Police; he was kept in custody at 31. Franct.et'a, for it stems that he is not only surrounded by is.nsfrarnses but by d ungeons also. DUTCH PA PI: RS. ST. PE T E esaraoll. Nov. R. Tie Grand Doke 3lichael arrived here from 'Warsaw on the 28:11 of I.oa month. the Emperor has now retutned from his tour, it is expected that the Imperial Family will conic in a few days to the capital for the winter. STOCKHOLM, Nos. 9. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave yesterday a splendid ball, in honour of the Queen, his mother, at which the Royal Pannly. the Chief Officers of State, and the Foreign Ministers, The new ship of the line, the Charles John, of 80 guns, Iris launched at Carlscrona on the Bth, as were also the Gustavus the Great. of 88 guns, and the Camilla, of 41 guns, which have undergone a thorouvh repair. ‘Ve receive the melancholy news, that on the 11th October a great number of ships, among which were seven Norwegians, were lost on the Dutch coast. COPENIIACIF.I4, Nov. 13, Many ships perished on the west coast of Jutland, in the storms at the latter end 01 I.tst month lituLlw, N0v.13. At the concert of M. 31oseheles the numerous audience was most agreeably surprised by the appearance of the Princess of I.iegnitz in the royal but. We perhaps never saw the public mare eager sad impatient, for the marriage or his Majesty had nmained a secret till that evening, and of 1,000 persons at the concert five at most hrought the news into the concert mom. The Princess of a,iegnitz is by birth a Countess of Harrach. Her parents have lived for these many years in Deemlen: her mother was a Baroness Heiaky, and a brother of the Princess is in the Austrian Army. One of her uncles, Count Charles Von Harnett. lives at Vienna, and is Doctor of Physic, to which science he has devoted himself from his youth with great ardour, and which he practises for the benefit a the poor with equal humanity and sneects. The Princess herself is 2s; years of age, adorned with all the charms of youth, grace, and beauty. M. Mang, Secretary to the French Legation., who went to Pa ris on account of the arrest of Professor l'intsin, has now returned. The arrest of this gentleman is said to have been caused by the de positions of a student, whose name has been often mentioned, who was a considerable time in London, Park, Upper Italy. &c. and long contrived to elude the strictest search. 31. l'ousin is said to have taken part in tevolutinury intrigues in Germany, in 1821. 'IAMBI' RGII, Nov. 111. The accounts of the inundatiur.s in various parts of Germany, continue to be very melancholy. Though we have not had such destructive inundations in our city, yet we have had this month continued rough and stomiy weather. aril very high floods. such u we have not experienced for these thlr,j years. 4).1 the 3d of this month, the water rose to the height of 17 f.et 9 inches ; and me the 18111, to that of 19 feet 3 inches, by .. ...!, a great pact of the city was laud under water: happily they both happened in the day time. and the damage done was not considerable ; but in the islands in the Ellie very great thunage has been caused, especially by the giving way of the dikes. liaaat.Ex, N0v.2,2. - The man received to-day from the lowci;;;;;rs,;;;It,;71;;;ter to have faro :I inches at Vianon, and iI at the tirehbe. The ac counts from the upper rivers are tome favourahle. These accounts are the more agreeable to the inholitiatita of a great part of Holland, and t trecht, because, though we are well assured that there is no immediate far for the North hike of the l.ek, it must he owned that a continuance of the high flood might he attended with nerious consrquences. A breach in this dyke would cause the water to overflow the track of land between Donne. on the sere-coat, the Rhine, the hills of Amerstoort, sad the V. The consequences of such an event may he appreciated, when we stay that the water on the Lek is now at Wyk-by-Dunistelle, 0r . 27 feet higher than the usual water-level at A Insterdmi, and teem all to al tett higher than the watermark in twiny of the ttriiined marshes. 'l'iter is every reason to hope that the w..•er will combine to fall, and that part of the country, a•id the city of Ainstenbon. will b:• saved from so great a misiortune. A MSTEM•AM. Nov. '23. Though the dangnr for thi. city ii not ebtinly passtd over, it aps pears that the 1., It has fallen sensibly. The If fivemment of Utrecht does everything to avcrt the danger, and secure the safety of the country. . . . (The Dutch PAyrra are almost entirely taken up with the ac. cousit4 of the state of the river.. EXCIIA NI/ l:g. HAIIIIIrRuIt. Not•. Iv.—London, 36 11; two Us. 33 101. YETI: itvat• ;Rm. Nov. 2.-I,ondoo, 9 11.16. AusTi.nowm, Nov. 23.-I.or.lort, 39 6 ; two months, 39 4. GERMAN PAPERS. FAANLFOCT, Nov. 10. The Prussian Journals of the 13:11 say that the rtsalt of the in. vtstigation r.,ie‘st.ng Professor Cousin IA not yet known. He was arrested at Dre,den by ag.nos of the Gentian I het, and sent to Berlin on the demand of the Prtim•iati Government. Ile is accused of hating taken a very active part in the several intrigues which have been c..rried on in Germany. In reply to the Paris Journal these papers add that the arrest of the Prati , stit is not contrary to the law of nations, because an individual who goes to Germany with criminal intentions, is hable to arnat in all the countries of the Confede-ation, which must be consider( el in this point of view as 'loo t ing ly one state. It should seem ?bat the accusations brought against the learned Pro les,or are not of so serious a nature as some papers wutild insi nuate, since the French Government itself has interfered in his 14%1nm _ The fall of the funds at Vienna gives rise to reports of all kinds. Some perions pretend that in the next spring an Austrian Army of Olitirration will be stationed in the Ir oresea bard ring on To.kcy. It 14 added that this nerds confirmation ; that the Porte, whose embarrassments dally incr. cse, has lirioli..d to several Courts for tbe execution of a tre.oy guarantri.ing the integrity of its tenitory It does not appear how it ern obtain the asstnt of Russia„ while the o..tottnut continue to tinupy 31oldtvia ant Wallachia, which is directly contrary to the treaty of Du. i.bartat, concluded in InIV. THE SHETLAND ISLANDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sta—The Shetland Islands, though capable of b r i ne made productive of far greater advantages to our co mmen ; as well as much greater wealth to individual spee s d aso 4 than they have ever hitherto been, have never yet had thre e advantages at all explored, nor the sources of wealth which they contain at all appreciated. The people of En g ' ili d are, for the most part. as utterly ignorant of Ouse as if they were in Kentucky or Kamschatka. p ree no details of any consequence, or of any accuracy, rd c , to them. The limits of your pap t r will not , lam aware° permit me to enter into any lengthened detail, btu I a th d you, et..aprescing them u much at I can, the oh,-erratio,, which I bad the personal opportunity of making 0 , 1 sh,„ during the three years ending with the present year, IN The appearance of Shetland, as you advance toward s ~ is not prepossessing, and a nearer approach does not add ; its beauty : you have hills of moderate elevation, ennead with the brown heath ; and, drawing close in -shore, s t, face of the country has a slight tinge of g ibs, high and low shores alternately, from the high rl4 where the ocean is in continual foaming aurae, the somewhat low slums where you hear the b ass , rushing of the spray on the stony beach. The round Shetland, from whatever point the wind 1,101 4 , is waging continual warfare with its shores ; and the a t .. mense waves, rolling with the full sweep of the 5t e;! „,„ Ocean, carry their huge macs of waters with tt nine ':ta• deur against the high promontories, while the dashing carried up the dills in whirlwinds, completely 0v,17..i., 3 the mind with sublimity and awe. In a gale of tine when the hills are covered with thick fog. and the %vim, the most dreadful commotion, especially between 1: Island and Sunburg Head, the situation of the mr'n r s awful beyond description. On the other band, front turbulent ocean to the mow!) placid loch, is hot a I minutes sail, where you anchor in safety, and to which tb. inhabitants come off is their little skiffs, with fowls, ter, eggs, stockings, and numberless other articles, Na y for barter. Shetland is truly blest with a superabundance title • finest lochs, sufficient to contain a large fleet, me of access, and within which vessels ride in the greatest to It would be a great improvement in the navigation if Shetland, were the Commissioners of the Northern Lieu to erect a beacon on the treat side I,f Shetlnnd, where tle stranger, not being able to weather the land on sae tack, not knowing the land. and seeing the sea hnak eat long reef to leeward, is wholly lost ; whereas, if a lean were erected, and noted in the charts and direction tele, he would immediately be able to steer boldly for Sta. bucks Mine, Hones Voe, or for Valley Sound, where lt would find mast excellent anchorage, completely lane. locked. A beacon stioukl likewise he erected on thew side of Shetland, on the Skerries, which would direct th stranger into Yell Sound, which abounds with safe Incise age; or into Colgrave Sound, where, as soon as the mewl has got round the Isle of Hascosca, she is in safe anchorage Had Shetland the climate of England, or wire it situated where the Isle of Wight is, it would be an earthly Pats dice. Even as it is, and with all its disaivantages, Shet land is a cluster of fine islands : there are large turner wastes of very fine improvable land, but which, beingfit the most part in common, are totally neglected. Tress the proprietors have tried, which do not thrive; because, tee stead of planting seedlings from the Scottish or NorinTin fir, they wish to have nothing less valuable than the oak, ash, elm, plane-tree, thorn, and suchlike trees, of a finer climate and a more genial soil. With the scedliegs of the former, there is not the least doubt but they would succeed, while in raising the latter sort of timber they at necessarily fail. Arthur Gifford, Esq. of Busts, has sti excellent copse of wood, but mostly all of the ash, eke, plane-tree, and thorn, and there are some other, but (Zee anent generally is not much studied. Proprieties ale have a few ornamental trees, look more to the ocean than the land—the cod, ling, and tusk fish, is what they look to; while they find profit here, they are content—the picturesqu • they leave to nature. The Shetland proprietors, shilosii Gentlemen of the greatest urbanity, possess a luerer.: monopoly, and do not fail to ensure the lull bins t•: By letting their fishery stat ions to tacksmen and factorcley keep the lower class in a very dependent and eje c t s ea. Each proprietor has a number of factors, who take chi:! of the fishing materials, and as merchants furnish the habitants with what necessaries they may require, the land is divided into what are called marks, which, in (latter: places iu the islands, have a different value, according a the rent that is paid for them, and which they are malted at: for instance, they have fourpenny, sixpenny, tints penny, and twelvepenny land; that is, land for which tle respective prices are given per ,-nark; ninepenny land a about an English acre, and twelvepenny about a Scetc'e acre ; but the several values arc only known amongst then:- selves, and they turn this exclusive knowledge to gaol account. According to the number of marks of Lind at tached to each little township, the tenants furnish so mar boats' crews, each family having one, two, or three marls— about an acre and a half or two acres of English measure ment; and as the lands are undivided, each eccupies much cattle pasturage, or free common, as he pleases: the consequence of which is, that the whole is grazed sit!: a half-starved race of cattle, sheep, and shelties, cioprins 3 miserable herbage, barely sufficient to Lap them in Isis.- ence. The tenants pay from 40s. to SOL a-year for their houses and land ; they receive about four shillings per cat. for the green fish, froth which, on the settlement of secants. a part is deducted for boat and lines, and for necessaries ler the wife and children, which generally absorbs t!,, u!:ele; and, if the fishing has been unsuccessful, the factor or jai:Lumen sells the cattle of the poor tenant by auction, fee the arrear of rent ; and thus their sole reliance for seppert through a long winter, and every article the poor wretches have, is taken from them. The Almighty and the roes, — that is, the creeks or hays, which, penetrating tar into ti land, intersect the different parishes,—is th, is their 0r..? resource ; their neighbours tale them in—the roe set: plies them with sideles (the name given to the fry of fe'e fish with which their rots abound) and potatoes, and e s the spring the young men proceed to Greenland or Dan, Straits ; those that have land, to the fishery, and the s ,e men to veir the land (that is, tilling it for the next lee: spring crop). - The higher chases here are opultnt ; p. rs, n s rmy be far• worth from 40,0001. to 50,0P0/. ; and. wit Lord Iturte advertised the j; duty ( t rround-roals) for FAL.. th le , e . themselves, with the exception of one or two. up, and thus became freeholders, exenne froet e!:'•'' control, and exercising an authority over is ;ea tlivin well fitted to demonstrate the ex tjtit of tber premacy. The middling and lower 0:1,4 srf 11 0 bi tants of Shetland are an honest induetriee- 4 , 1 extrt mely penurious and saving, hoarding ev.l7 in the shape of coin that they can obtain. Tie• this provident disposition was singularly t time ago when the old coinage was ; titt I u.l 4 i credibly informed, being then on the sp.it. t! at the for the Banks in Edinburgh carried :max Q 7,0410/. of old silver, which was dopesited as a pree7l-. against a rainy day, in the chests of these prudent landers. The nwn are a set of hardy bray , fishermen, 3: the greater part of them excellent sailors. who st'l , P - Greatlimd and Davis' Strait ships. Their ti:'!ing-hosts got from Norway, and arc about from '3t4 :.1311 feet I'"- and six feet broad. These they call ei.r s ; that ta e carry six men. Their provision is a kite! of rott:1 1, oatmeal and barley cake, called buref,.s. f w eggs, soured milk, called Amen, which 0 , , , y keep in SI IL , . cass, and which is always best after kept for two three years, it becoming then an acidous spirit, like Russian or Tartar 10,ilmiss. With this hotudy and their frail bark they go 30 miles out to eea before the. go a line. 1 have oft: n SWAMI in-shore with them, wind, and have been astonished to see with what co. , :ts -- ; and dexterity they managed their bolts in a lee-way arn 1 have frequently heard them &dare that they ye"r feared danger until they came within two miles Of Me shore, where the tide or the current oee3sioned the ses t' break. The reason of this is manifest. for their oven are not fitted f - this desperate encounter with the menu; and it would be well for hummiitv's sale if could be enabled to substitute small decked vessels. ci daily in the spring and autumn of the ye: in a s , w , fel fishery they Ire from twelve to fourteen poune,!..i... The women knit StilaitiS, mittens, and ether art,:.e