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MR. GOURLAY. The following letter from Mr. Goutlay to the pecker of the house of Commons, was 'delivered to the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday : —• Prison-room, (louse of Commons. Jour 20, 1821. Sit—According to your orders I an't visited daily by one or two Doctors—the game who reported me of unsound mind. 1 trust before the end of the Session they will &cant, and report me quite the revers:. That they may know me the better, I talk to them freely, and am sorry that there is not a window in my breast foe them to see my heart, instead of judging by conversation only., They have not yet handled my head; and unless they ask leave, I shall believe them to have more sense than mere phreneologista. As it is an established fact, that " great wit to madness is allied," we shall not quarrel because of the first report. It was vc-y like the act of a madman, to whip a Me . ber of your Honourable (louse within the threshold; but so were a hundred deeds of greater men than your prisoner, to say nothing of those of him who should be an example in all things. I was, Sir, from in. fancy, of a sanguine, speculative, and enthusiastic temperament; and the concatenation of events conspired to heighten this. Just now, six years ago, after being most cruelly, 1,1104 t unjustly, most illegally, and nowt unnecessarily imprisoned for six months, I was still more cruelly, unjustly. illegally, and unnecessarily, shut up within the room of the prison for six weeks, by the cod of which time, weakened and camp:rated, my nervous system was seriously I injured; and being banished without proof of crime--banished from a country where I had property, friends, good intentions, and great hope of accomplishment ; 1 cime home to Engl..nd only to discover greater misfortune , and to be exposed to the greatest of all trials.—Four years, Sir, have gone by. in which, were my history detailed, the wonder would be, how I had strength of mind, end sufficient good principle to sustain me. It is only a month ago since real comfort gowned upon use through a decision of the Lords, which insured bread to my children, long most us. justly withheld; and it is only within this mo nth that I have enjoyed any thing like unalloyed happiness, for these mast four gloomy years ; only within this moadi that I have felt assured that I may yet recover from trial, and make • 'advantage of it. This, Sir, is Sunday—a day which I was l'bred up . to bold sacred, and which 1 shall ever revere, even as a civil institution. This is a day on which you ought ito reflect seriously ; on which, treeing your mind from all the fashions of men, you should think abstractedly of pure good. nevi. 1 hove petitioned Parliament Oh great subjects , systentati- I eally, for eight years ; and my petitions of the last four years have been recorded in the Parliamentary Journals ; say nothing of my private ionterns, in which I can produce documents to attest my cor.zetness—accounts and correspondence regularly filed through a period of upwards of twenty years ; say nothing of my having been beset, for the greater part of this period, by law persecution. and in every instance having come al conqueror ; say nothing of any being shut up here, and reported of unsound mind, when the very Doctors themselves will, by-and-by, be brought to a better opinion -, say nothing of all thin—but take my printed petitions of 1020, 11321, 11122, 1022, and 1824 ; take these petitions, and let me be judged by them. These petitions, Sir, will not only acquit me from charges of being unsound in mind, but if you will this day peruse them (and they arc not unfit for perusal this del)—if you will on this day, stirred to truth and goodness, seriously peruse these petitions, you will think me worthy of being heard at the bar of Parliament : or if you would rather have it before a Committee in this room, to plead speCially on the prayers of my petitions, to answer to interrogatories, and to amplify. The subjects are out of sight, the most important I'm inquiry of any which now concern the welfare of England—l may say, the welfare of the world; poor law reform, and emigration connected with it ; the improvement of the British peasantry earths;nd the spread of industrious, honest men I throughout the God. I am your obedient grrvant, ROBERT GOLTRLAY. The Right Hon. the Speaker. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS. From time immemorial it has been the practice in the Corpora tion for the Lord Mayor to name those Gentlemen whom it is intended to propose as candidates for the offices of Sheriflis of Lon don and Middlesex, by drinking to their healths at the civic dinner preceding the 1 1th of June. It has been the practice to drink to the healths of nine well-known gentlemen of wealth and rupee. ' tabily u candidates. The Lord 'Mayor then sends in their names to the Court of Aldermen before the 14;h June; and, on the day for choosing the Sheriffs, they are formally nominated to the Li very. But the circumstance of drinking their healths at the Corpo ration dinners has been, in point of fact, the real nomination hi therto. It was also customary to name those citizens who were old or infirm, and whom it was judged were averse to public offices, particularly those of such a costly nature. The expense of serving the office of Sheriff, if it is stistained on the narrowest scale of li berality, is not less than 3,0601., and it generally happens that some of those nominated as above described, every year pay large fines to be excused from serving, and being obliged to incur so heavy an expense. The father of the present Alderman Garrett was pitched upon for his opulence as a fit person to be nominated, and he was chosen in the regular manner ; but he was, from his frugal habits, extremely averse to serve, and he at once paid the tine. This cir cumstance exceedingly embittered him against the Corporation, and there was found after his death an item in his books ; " Robbed by the City of London of 400/." There has been no instance of the omission of this practice, except during the Mayor alties of Wilkes and Sawbridge, who refused to adopt it. As the custom has been attended with severe grievance and annoyance to many citizens, the present Lord 3or has followed the example given in the Mayoralties mentio n; he has this year refused to mike any nomination, and has sent no names into the Court of Aldermen. The candidates talked of for the office of Sheriff for the ensuiug year are Mr. Alderman Key and Mr. Alderman Brown. Mr. Alderman Garrett stands on the rota as the candi date for the Civic Chair. Parliament will be prorogued on Thursday next ; but it is not yet known whether his Majesty will do it in person or by Commission. The Right lion. Lord Yarborough is arrived at his seat at Appuldurcombe Park, in the Isle of Wight. Major-General Murray arrived on Satuttlay &liming at the Colonial Office, from Demerara. It is said, Sir John Mortlock has retired from the Irish Excise Board; but on what grounds we are not yet id , formed.—Catribridge Paper. The Bristol Gazette, on the autbority of letters by the Pitt, says, " There is every reason to believe that Sir C. WCarthy was sacrified after the battle, and his head sent to the King of the Ashantees ; and that Mr. Williams was in the hands of the Dutch Governor of Ebeling, as a host age, on certain conditions." The Kent herald contains the following paragraph : " We have authority to state, that S. R. Lusliington, Esq. M.P. for this city, has declined accepting the appointment of Governor of Bombay, and that the situation has conse quently devolved upon Sir John 'Malcolm, who will, it is understood, forthwith proceed to take upon him the Go vernment of that important part of our host India posses sions. This was finally arranged during the last week.' Letters from Buenos Ayres, dated on the 31st of March, describe that rising Republic to be in estate of gradual im provement, and to enjoy profound tranquillity. . _ VALUE or •x OA TH.—A Norman was telling . another lenta. —The latest intelligence florn Bengal ststes, It great absurdity as a matter of fact. " You are jesting," that perfect tranquillity reigned throughout the Com said the bearer. " Not I, on the faith of a Christian." pany'a poisessions, but that hostilities were con fi dently " Will you wager ?' t "No I wont wager, but lam ready expected to break out between the Birmans and our Indian to swear to it!' Government—l'he following intelligence has been re ceived at Lloyd's, from the Agent at Holyhead, dated June Flawierss.—When Sernbajee was brought before Au -17 :—" The Lotus, Field, arrived off here from Bengal, rungzebe, he offered him life and rank in his service, if he bound to Liverpool, sailed from the Sand Heads the 14th would turn Mahomedan ; he answered by an invective February, and from St. Ilelena the 230 April. She beings against the Prophet, and in laud of his own gods. On accounts that Lord Amherst was in good health , and all which be was dressed in the fantastic dress and ornaments quiet in the Company 's own possessions, but a war with the of a wandering Indian devotee ; in this garb he was tied , Binnans seemed inevitable. Mr. Chew, a Bengal b r a n c h backwards, upon a camel, and led through the camp, call was seized by the Birmins and sent to the capital, ing on the Rajpoots he saw to kill him : but none dared. PP °t, ummerapoona. A large detachment of troops, with a train After the proce ssion, his tongue was cut out, as the penalty of artillery, had marched towards the Libman frontier, of blaspheming Wiahomet. In this dreadful condition, and it was reported that the 13th light infantry, under Aurungzebe offered him his life, if he would be converted Colonel M'Creagh, were to proceed thither by water from to Islatuistn : when he wrote—' Not if you will give me Calcutta. All articles of Indian produce were high, parti your daughter in marriage.' cularly the finer sorts of indigo, owing to a great failure SOUTRAN PTO X L Jr NE 19 k . . company has been formed of the crop, which was only one-half of fonder years." and the necessary funds raised, for the erection of a chain Sin Roe ERT Waerot.E.—George I. did not understand pier, from our platform (similar to the pier recently erected English. George 11. spoke the language pretty well, but at Brighton), to serve as a promenade and landing-place. With a broad German accent. My father, "brushed up Its length is to be 75n feet, and its width ten feet. —The his old Latin," to use a phrase of Queen Elizabeth, in order est imated expense is 10,0001. which has been raised in to converse with the first Hanoverian sovereign : and ruled shares of 1001.—In connexion with this Company, it is both Kings • in spite of even their mistresses. On the de ath proposed to establish a Company for erecting cold and of George 1., my father killed two horses in carrying the warm baths:-3,000/., it is calculated, will cover this et.. tidings to his successor; and, kneeling down, asked who pense, and it is proposed to raise the amount in shares of should compose his Majesty's speech. The King told him The cold baths will be floating; one for ladies, and to go to Sir Spencer Compton. That gentleman, unused one for gentlemen ; built on the most approved plan. to public business, was forced to send to Sir Robe rt, to re. Mr. O'Connell goes special in the great ease of O'Hara, q 1 uest his assistance in the composition. The Queen , upon to be tried in Carrickfergus, at the next Assizes. This is t is, asked the Kim -, if it were not better to employ his fa the fifth special case in which he has already be en retained ther's minister, who could manage his business Without the for the ensuing Assizes.—lrish Ol,scrver. help of another ? My fathet was instantly re-appointed. Vice-Admiral Lord Amelieus Beauclerk is appointed to' Somebody had told the Princess, afterward, Queen Ca command his Majesty's ships at Lisbon and on the Coast roline, that Sir Robert Walpole hail called her a fit b—h. of Portugal. His Lordship will proceed to his command It was not true. But upon settling her ' J ointure by Par in the Blanche. liament, when she was Princess of Walce . „ and 50,0001. be- Rear-Admiral Willoughby Lake, C.B. sailed from Ports- ing proposed, Sir Robert moved at"' obtained 100,0001. mouth on Friday, in the Jupiter, 60, Captain D. Dunn, The Princess, in great good hurno%tr, sent him word, thit to succeed Rear-Admiral Fable, in the North American the fit b—h had forgiven hint—elfralpoliana. command ; who will return home in the Salisbury, 60, ... M YST EalOr S AFT' Al R.—ln•Jur publication of yestetdal, Capt. Maude. we noticed the discovery of the bc try of a female, in a very putrid state, in a cellar, in Old Churet.t-sueet, under suspicious eircum. Quica PASSAC.V.—The Spring, Captain Henry Gale, stances, An Inquest was held, in consequence, yestcrday, sailed from Stanton's Wharf, London, on Friday, the 11t h Church-street watch-house, where the body had been removed , instant, instant, and arrived at the Old Crane, York, on Wedncs- before Alderman Tyndall, and a respectable Jur The inmates' day, the 16th.—Yeek Chronicle. of the cellar, an old man taf the name of Byrne, marl BO years of The Medina, 20, Captain Charles M. Walker, was to age, thetn j e n , n thei h r i :la w u i gtrr k a w ap or l an re a d brut b :o, up w w h nr o d i s l i d "o, rd ed c ti sail from Portsmouth yesterday, for Constant:nople, taking custody since Tuesday evening, uaderwent a lor.g . and very n minute William Turner, Esq. Secretary to his Majesty s Embassy exam in amation, as did also a boy, of the name o" John Byrne, other at the Sublime Ottoman Porte.—Lord strangford returns wise Fitzsimons. who had first observed the toOdy. Nothing, how. ever, was eliciv.A that could at all crimintov the prisoners, and the to England fora short time.—Private Letters from Greece f at o o ll m ow en ing w verd e ict oeto wa e s is th o ere ni f t or oo e returr,edi— state that the Turks have effected a landing in Candia and"d We n End that a r h as otei ;lu ot n teet, u en de d r I to he to btf l k e Negropont, but at the first-mentioned place they were re- staircase of the house, No. 142, Oti;. pulsed with great slaughter. The force of Ulysses at evidence before us, we pea of theo.,anion that she came by her death -Negropont was considerable, and it was fully expected that through want."—The rioners were forthwith discharged. It is s to upp e o d sed that the d ecease d i the utmost extent of the evil of the arrival of Turkishsae., a poor old woman, who was accus me mansion of : i t o to oe th s ) w f ret ot e' ti l s i talh el ol e tet (the re eoi t t o b e at ing h t e i e n io doo; to troops, would be to prolong the resistance of the fortress of I th i down on her Negropont. No details are given of the affair in Candia. " wad of st raw,' lS () it :Pressed With age. cold, Intit r mi a ty m According to this letter, the Turks have abandoned all idea I want, " and all the jAls that flesh is heir to," she gave up' of invading the Mores this summer. the ghost, silently. '..v.41 died without attracting the notice of anv EQVESTRIAN MATCH FOR Two HUNDRED SOVEREIGNS. human have bei ng. nu It seems extraordinary that Itymee family could --Mr. Dertveux, a gentleman of fortune, in Milner-place, under- 1 hohcoon the ir '.O live so clew to the putrifying corpse, without iook, on Saturday morning early, to ride from the three to th e ani v l hibi t erase of smelling offended by it ; but the en acting to" filth of the place. has been mentioned in explanation thirty•aix mile stone, on the Oxford Road, and back to the seven- of • the ease arnstance.—Dabliz Paper. teenth mile stone, forty-nine miles, in two hours and a half, horses' Limited to not exceeding eve. 1I e started on Felix, a famous hunter, A C sETION TO SWEARERS.—Thomas :Mullins, lately and performed 10 miles in 29 minutes, 39 seconds. The second residir - g with a person of the name of Jones, at Exbury, near horse gillopped 12 miles in 36 minutes 19 seconds. The third Bea' fieu, in the New Forest, signifying his intention of changing horse performed 12 miles hi 36 minutes 21 seconds. The fourth , hit, residence, was asked by his landlady to settle her demand of horse, got hy Traveller, performed 7 miles 'n 21 minutes 7 se-' ',me shillings, previous to quiuing her house, when with great tends; and the rider mounted Felix again, and did the remaining i vehemence he exclaimed —" 31n. Jane., may God strike me dead II miles In 24 minutes 42 seconds, winning the match clever',, if I owe you more than one shilling !" The words were scarcely with I minute and 62 wecwwds to spare. The fiat code under, 1 i uttered before be droppzd down, and expired.—liampsleira stone. Telegraph. IrENRY THE FOrRTII OF FRANCE. A modern hi:torian accuse; the Duke of Lerma of the murder of Henry IV. " This," says he, "is the best established opinion." This opinion is evidently the worst established. It has never been heard of iu Spain ; and in France, the continuator of De Thou is the only one who has given any credit to these vague and ridiculous suspi cions. If the Duke of Lerma, Prime Minister, employed Ravaillac, lie paid him very ill, for when the unfortunate ,an was seised, he vas almost without money. If the Puke of Lerma either prompted him or caused him to be prompted to the commission of the act, by the promise of a reward proportioned to the attempt, Ravaillac would as suredly have named both him and his emissaries, if only to revenge himself. :lc named the Jesuit D'Aubigny, to whom he had only shown a knife—why then should he spare the Duke of Lerma ? It is very strange obstinacy not to believe what Itavaillac himself declared when put to the torture. is a great Spanish family to be insulted with out the least shadow of proof ? Et roil: josternect comme on ierit l'histaire. (Yet thus is hi3tory written.) The Spanish nation is not accustomed to resort shameful crimes; and die Spanish grandees have always possessed a generous pride, which has prevented them from acting so basely. If Philip 11 . s,:t a price on the head of the Prince of ()range, ate bad, at least, the pretext of punishing a rebellious subject, as the Parliament of Paris had when /he set fifty thousand crowns on the head of Admiral Coligtii, and afterwards on that of Cardinal Mazarin. These political prostriptibns partook of the horror of the civil wars, but how can it be supproed that the Duke of Lerma had secret communtei tions with a poor wretch like Ravaillac? The same author says, that Marshal D'Ancre anil-hh wife were struck, as it were, by a thunderbolt. The teak I is, that the one was struck by pistol-balls, and the other burned as a witch. Ali ass assination and a sentence of I death passed on the wife of a Marshal of France, an atten dant on the Queen, as a reputed sorceress, do very little honour either to the chivalry or to the jurisprudence of that day. But we know not why the historian makes use of these words:—"lf these two wretches were not accomplices in the King's (Lath, they at least deserved the most rigor ous chastisement: it is certain that even during the King's life, Concha and his wife had connections with Spain in opposition to the King's designs." This is not at all certain, nor is it even likely. They were Florentines ; the Grand Duke of Florence was the first to acknowledge henry IV., and feared nothing so much as the power of Spain in Italy. Concini and his wife had no influence in the time of henry IV.; if they in trigued with the Court of Madrid, it could only be through the Queen, who must, therefore, have betrayed her hus band. Besides, let it once more be observed, that we art not at liberty to bring forward such accusations without proofs. What ! shall a writer pronounce a defamation from his garret, which the most enlightened jeidges of the king dom would tremble to hear in a Court of Justice ? Why are a Marshal of France and his wife, one of the Qrteen's attendants, to be called two wretches? Does Marshal' D'Ancre, who raised an army against the rebels at his own expense, merit an epithet suitable only to Ravaillac or Car touche—to public robbers or public calumniators? It is but too true, that one fanatic is sufficient for the commission of a parricide, without any accomplice. De meins had none ; he repealed four times in the course of his interrogatory, that he tommitted his efirnesolely through a principle of religion. JAMES WATT. to a recent puhlicatiorT(rospectus of i'vrork entitled, Analysis of the Statistical Account of Scotland," by ti Right lion. Sir John Sinclair, Bart.) a short account it given of the inestimable services performed by this eminent charactdr, both to this country and to mankind. Undet this heal, (Manufactures), the improvements made by Watt, in the steam-engine, merit peculiar anew , tion. though not the inventor of this machine, yet it was to his improvements on its original construction, that we are indebted for its extended power and unbounded utility. By his admirable contrivances. it became alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility ; im the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributA, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can rend an oak, or pick up a pin, is nothing in comparison to it. It can engrave a seal, crush masses of obdurate metals like wax before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossa mer, and lift a ship of war, like s bauble, in the air. It ern weave cloth,—embroider muslin,—cut steel into rib bands,—forge anchors,—and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves. The benefits of the steam-engine, thus improved, are in fact inestimable. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered the materials of wealth and prosperity everywhere cheap and accessible. It has armed the feeble hand of man with a power, to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and la'd a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power, which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man, too, that all this is mainly owing ; and certainly no man ever befuic bestowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled inventors of the plough and the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contempora ries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the inventor of our present steam-engine. This will be the fame of Watt with future generations, and it is sufficient for his race and his country. NATIONAL BENEVOLENT INsTrterrox. The Anniversary Meeting of the National Benevolent Institu. , tion was held on Saturday, at the Freemasons"favern. An de- 1 gent assemblage of ladies aid gentlemen were present, amongst 1 whom were Lord Archibald Hamilton, Lord Stourton, the 800. Mr. Clifford. acd the Hon. Mr. Shore. The object of this institution is, to provide for persons of eduea. lion and respectability, who, in the decline of life, fall into distress. Lord A. 'HAMILTON, on taking the chair, read a letter of apo logy from the Marquis of Lansdown, who was prevented from at. tending in consequence of the dangerous illness ..f his lordship's eldest son, the hart of Kerry. Ills Lordship warmly approved of the Institution, and enclosed a draft for twenty guineas, as his sub. scription towards its funds. A letter of apology was als o; read from his Royal Highness Prince Leopold. A series of resolutions were passed in approbation of the proceed ings of the Committee, and the general management of the Insti tution, on the motion of several Reverend Gentlemen, who ad. dressed the meeting very eloquently. The Hon. Mr. SHOILE complimented the ladies who were pre. sent, for the zeal and sympathy they always displayed in the cause of charity, and moved that a Commute of ladies should be formed, to investigate the cases of female applicants. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. PETE a IlEaor, the founder of the Institution. read his an nual report, which was generally applauded. One case in parti cular deeply excited the feelings of the meeting. Thanks were then voted to the Noble Chairman, who briefly ex. pressed his obligation foe the honour conferred upon him. MR. O'CALLAGHAN. During the whole of Saturday a great number of respectable in. dividusls called at llorsemonger.lane prison for the purpose d making inquiries after /dr. O'Callaghan, and notwithstanding the heavy rain that fell the whole morning, the prisoner and his friends converted through the double iron gratings which separated them, without any shelter whatsoever from the inclemency of the weather. We understand Mr. O'Callaghan has received several letters since his imprisonment from distinguished individuals, who had seen the account of his trial, expressing their surprise and indig nation at the sentence which was passed on him by the Surrey Bench of MaOstrates. On Friday last, arm Captain O'Callaghan'a friend left Horse monger-lane gaol. the Rev. Mr. Mann entered the yard where Mr. O'Callaghan was pacing up and down, and addressing himself to that gentleman, said, " Mr. O'Callaghan, I hope that you now feel well, and that your mind is satisbed and more composed than it was." To which inquiry Mr. O'Callaghan replied. that he felt well enough in health, although his mind was far from being satis fied ; and added, that he still considered a harsh and unjust sentence had bccn pronounced upon him, for an offence which every honourable man must feel he did not deserve. The Re verend Gentleman proceeded to say, that it was impossible to be happy where there was no religion.. Al.r. O'Callaghan, in conse quence of what had occurred between him and the Chaplain the preceding day, replied, that he was not at all anxious to have any communication with him, and was about to enter his cell, but on hearing the above remark directed to him, immediately said, " and, Sir, 1 must say, that where there is no charity, there can be no religion." kl r. Mann asked him if he meant this as an allusion to him ? Mr. O'Callaghan observed, that he was cruelly treated, and that the present was no time to tamper with his feelings on a subject upon which he had already expressed himself. The motto, " Palman qui meruit fens," he added, could not be claimed by his prosecutor. Mr. Mann then said, " I tell you now, Sir, that I can do nothing fur you." Mr. O'Callaghan replied, " Thank God you cannot; for if it was in your power, I do firmly believe' you would add to, instead of diminish, my punishment." The interview then ended, Mr. O'Callaghan having walked into his celL—Senday Paper. NEW SYSTEM OF ROBBERY. A new plan of committing robberies has been lately introduced I' by the thieves of the metropolis, and which has been put in fre. quent practice at the west end of the town, of which the following is an instance : Ott Friday last, a gentleman of fortune, residing in Devonshire, and his family, arrived in town, and drive dp in their carriage to the door Of Mr. Criddle, hatter, in Bond-street. the upper part of *hose house had been engaged for their use. When the door was opened, and the luggagc about to be removed from the carriage, a man, dressed as a very decent porter, was seen actively employed in as. slating to carry it into the house ; and as the gentleman and his servams thought the man was in the service of Mr. Criddle; and Mr. Criddle thought he was employed by the gentleman's servants, hok passed unquestioned, and was suffered of course to carry acre. ral articles up to the apartments. During this time, the gentle. man was preparing to change hilt dreis after his journey, and pulling out his gold watch, worth 60 guineas, laid it on the table in the drawing-room ; very 6.KM after "Mai the active porter was missed, without having demanded any thing for his trouble, and with him it was found, that the gentleman's witch had als o dis. appeared, nor is it likely ever to re-appear in the same place. Persons cannot, therefore, be too cautious whom they stiffer to interfere in such removals. THE ARMY. The fid regiment of Life Guards is ordered to march IMm the Regent's Park barracks to Windsor, on Wednesday next. The Bth for the King's Royal Irish) regiment of light dra goons (hussars) arrived on Saturday, at Ipswich. from Norwich. The royal regiment of Horse Guards is ordered to tr•irch on the inatant from Windsor to London, and to occupy the barracks. in the Regent's Park. The 3il (or Prince of Wales's) regiment of Dragoon Guards ha arrived at Liverpool from illanchester, and will embark forthwith fur Ireland. The 97th regiment (Sir James Lions') in Winchestei Barracks, is now complete ; Ceylon is its destination. The 15th Hussars will leave Brighton this day (Saturday) for the neighbourhood of the metropolis.—lt is said that they wiII be succeeded by the 12th.—Smrsex rarer. Saturday, the Kilns, transport, Lieutenant Burdwond, sailed from Portsmouth for Liverpool, to embark the 94th regiment for Halifax, and take the 68 th regiment thence to Barbadoes. The Princess Royal, Lieut. Hewett, will sail to-morrow, on the same esvice. • The genial rains have greatly improved the Barley and Oats in this neighbourhood ; the II heats are just coming into ear, and look remarkably fine.—Sonthampton Paper. I N E STING CASE.—We beg to draw the attention of humane persons to the interesting ease of a poor German boy, who calls himself Julius Berends, and states that his father was an offi. eer in Bonaparte's service, and Is now living in affluence in Dant zic. The boy says he is sixteen years old ; that he was, at the age of thirteen, placed by his father as an apprentice to a cloak, and watch-maker; and, while in that capacity, becamz acquainted with • man of the name of Ditcks, who, by false reptelehtations, tempt ed him to leave Dantzic and go to London. where he resided with Direks three years, as an instrument in his hands to fabricate false bills. in this situation, he states that Dircks tem detected, and effected his L.-cape in the night, leaving this boy destitute. From Landon he was supported by charity on the dro Macao. field, where he was informed that work was pl enti ful; but, on his arrival there, he was taken up as a vagrant, and sent to Knuts ford, to be confined a month. He was there noticed by a humane person, who, believing his story. supplied him with the means of reaching Liverpool. in order that he might return by sea to his fa mily and home. The boy writes an excellent hand, and hu a taste I for drawing. Should this statement meet the eye of any person disposed to assist him, his place of residence may be known by applying at the Mercury -office. —Liverpool Mercury. LETTER FROM MR. FiUMl'ilifEY NIX6Y, DE OMNIBLIS REBUS ET QUIBUSDAM ALfiS. Prot' the Loadow Alagwrine.l Stit,-Mrs. Gale, woman, who fives up by the church, and keeps a port of suntl-shop, whereby I mean that she deals in strings, stone-blue, IlVitish-lace, ?Myer of mustard, Tins. single Gloster, soap, and the unlike, isitind enough to say, that she will see to the delivery of this letter scot-free (a curious fact'.:-Its I did not know that the Scotch could send their letters free), by the which she intends., as I opine, to inclose it in a letter to Messrs. North, Hoare, Manson, and Simpson, the great grocers of your city, London, in her next remittance for teas and the similar. We are all hereabout greatly astounded, that so many men should be grocers in one house, and we cannot but think they must hinder each other sadly.-Howbeit, Minis their look out, and not ours. No doubt their counters are merit. As this letter will not distort, much of the money in the till (tor I suppose you keep a till, like Mrs. Gale and all other respectable tradespeople ) I shall, without I stint or measure, pour fourth my mind on a subject which has caused much commotion in these our parts,-whereby I mean, in Topsham, Lympstone, Exmouth, and the little town of Star- MIN, whichvillage oppodte .1-that on the other side of I the water,-the water of the river Ex, whereby it is named Ex- moeth,--othergates, the mouth of the Ex. Yon must know, Sir, that I borrowed your book from Mies I Langford'' , library, being a subscriber thereto for the sake of the new novels (though they are mostly old, and not altogether in awn- I plete icts)-you may guess my surprise, which, to say the least of I it, was considerable, when I read, in the number for December last, your account of the wrestling match, written, certainly, as I opine, whin you have been here fir your herith, if you have no health ; a romplaint which authors are subject to, as I hear. We none °fuses!) settle where you lived, or what you are like,-hut we all surmise In our own particular: though I cannot say that I know what to think. Mrs. (iale says, you are a stout pensive gentleman, with a short straPpish wife, and two little children down with the mearles. But be that as it may, I don't quite get Into Mrs. Gale's opinion. Nevertheless she is a worthy judicious woman, and does not give it up. My sister, Alba Nixon, (a maiden lady, and un married), wanderfill into divers and many conjectures. all myste rious and unsatisfectory,-but she is sure that you bathed periodi cally, that is, now and then (a word you gentlemen understand), and that early in the morning, as she used to meet you, when she went to the fish market, running along, with a white great coat on, like • lapwing. I mytelf am not these ways minded ;-I incline to the notion, that you lived at Manchester-house (a charming lone)y, and extreme windy spot, but strongly built, and maintaitd by cleanly and civil people)-I hold to having seen you looking through a telescope ; which leadeth me to conjecture, that you must be either an asmonome a.• an author, • the former of which ' I was not favoured by its being day-light when you peeped-when it is of little use star-gazing. Nevertheless; I like to have my guess, though it may run a little untoward. Mrs. Gale does not think with me-but she is a good deal busied in the shop, and chandlery I does not conduce to just conclusions. I should not omit to men don that toy daughter, by a first wife-and indeed I may say, myj last,..-for I have had none since,-though not last in the sense o f precluding myself from marrying again-which mould be wrong, and against the law,-Parthemssa Nixon (a name given to her by an old maiden aunt, who promised to leave her well, but who un handsomely died, bequeathing her little all to the Rev. Mr. a gentleman of the Evangelical persuasion. Ah, persuasion, in. deed !--u the facetious James Johnson the eldet very wittily turned one evening, with little or no forethought, In the double sense of alluding to his power of persuasion over the lady, and the phrase as used for ell-my daughter Parthendsa for short, called Parthi-decbtres that you are young, ind some. thing not amiss from I. itzaubin, in one of Miss Langford's books. Howbeit, thil I cannot say, because to my open knowledge I have not seen you, and certainly I never penned the book. Newman. less, you may be like, and she be right-which would be an odd co incidence-but on this I cannot decide. However, whoever, and whatever you may have been. it does not belong to me to be ettrious inquiring,--though this is not Mrs. Gale's way, as she midi a particular interest in people, and the more so if she has no knowledge of them,-which is liberal, you'll say, and di s interested-though a disintrrested interest seems • contradiction. Howbeit, the cause of my addressing this letter to you must not longer be kept from you, and It is to make known • few observations of our little circle of gossips %bison several of none I observations, which truly appear to some of us not altogether im. pa r tial -not that we mean to accuse you of &cooling any one in particular, because we cannot give in to the belief that )"ou gentle men who write at sight, as one might say (for my style ill clean the contrary, being extreme slow and open to remark), have MI pre judices or bickering*, or partialities,--or the like, or the unlike, being above the failings and sinkings of other illiterate potpie. Our being on the spot, and familiar with the wrestling good deal and the village,-and your book having been talked over a deal df , an evening before the rubber, or after a pool at qu adrille (I held but week a superb hand,-played in hearts.--Alone ! to the great detriment of Mrs. Gale's temper,-though she is mild in general, and loses her fish like another woman-but, perhaps, I should ex plain that we used shells for fi sh, which is a curious coincidence, as I Ash are said to build and inhabit shells, as man does • house or costar, or the like)-Well. as I was haying (before I was inter rupted by my parenthesis) your book liming occasioned much per tinent and lively observation, particularly in Mrs. Gale, who reads • good deal in the back parlour, with one eye to the boa, and an other through a little window covered with white muslib, that com mands an extensive prospect of canisters, and so forth-I was begged to convey to you !that is to express to you, for Mts. Gale has promised to convey my letter to you, through Mr. Nuncio, but I have seen the word used for express) divers and several remarks on the subject, touching what you have discussed. You speak of Exmouth with the eye of • correct observer. Mrs Gale only . takes exception to the passage " the village is sealed, as its name intimates, at the mouth of the fiver Kit," she says she has been used all her life to say, that "it stands at the entrance of the river," and she does not see why . a stranger should alter its po aition.-But you must not mind this in Mrs. Gale-learned trifling it may be called-only Mra. Gale is not learned-and certainly no trifler. The warts as you say, ay. extfnmely to the point. Bet I did not know that ours were better than those of other people. Rut all places ate ceiebated for something in particular-Devon shire for its cream-Cheshire for its cheese-Dorset for its butter, and Exmouth for its sunsets. The other evening we had one as ruddy as though the sky were one garden of crimson eatnatioos. I stood on the quay (near Manchester House)-tbe water Ina out far off-in the nod! a black fishing-boat, with one mast, lay side ways on the clay shore. The light *as reflected in long krew streaks on the wet and flat and extended bank.-All seemed one intense scene (is this right ?) of lateness, stillness, and light. The melan choly of glory !-The pomp of evening !--The poetry of the sun. Mr.-- the curate,t who stood with me, made these remarks as Dearly . as I can recollect them, and they seemed to me so jest and pertinent, that I intended to send them to your Magazine. I know the very house yo es u allude to. You comp lain of the wind justly ;-1n;-1n that part it blows, through a "-- ing tzumpet. But touching your purchase of a basket forte shells, and walks, and enjoyments by the sea, I do not altogether min your meaning. How you should buy a shilling basket, and enly fee' shells, surpnzes me, in a gentleman of your erudition t-And than to pick n' shells afterwards (you dill it call, but I do not hold to the word, as we are not speaking of flowers) is most weak. As to your great delight in watching the waves-tint may be. But weep you not always walking with the whist elderly lady, who toil - Mrs. Gale that she seamed when she was is the water ' end ear qualmish when she was es it-and who only came to be miserable at the sea-side, because it Was healthy. If this was the VW. haw' could you delight to see the waves weave their untumultuous fringe of silver foam," (feces by the bye is not silver.) Tell me this, Mrs. G. says that the old lady and the sea were two, owing to some damage doge toe pens-erects slipper, by a wave that curled about the kid, and walked off with the colour. People talk of the beauty of the ocean, but if you saw it as often as !do, you would find a good deal of sameness in it. It is all Very useful to the ;ships ; and the bathing machines are, perhaps, waisted by it-bat Ido not go the lengths that you writers do; in thinking it the grandest thing in I, nature. It is flat, as James Johnson, the elder (heretofore al. I luded to as a Wit), has said-and you knelt it is flat, in reference to its surface. I now come to the part of your papa referring to the Wrestlers, which is ingenious in portions, but not altogeth er kind and just I (Mrs. Gale knows " the little Coast Hercules, " as yen call him). remember the day yon mention. I know the very spot of ground', think I see it now !-I think so, because I do. The meaning j was indeed wet ; it was wet through ! I was there; and I stood near Mr. Roe (kind Mr. Roe, you may call him, fat he is 'tg man and a skilful medical!) Mr. Simpson, and one or two others, were also there, under the awning and near the Canna. I must say a word or two about the men of the Moors. Mr. —, the curate, has looked in Squire —'s library, and has found the book on wrestling which you quote, and I and Mrs. Gale, and Mr. Norris, and Miss Knowles, have thoroughly read it (the old quarto book with wood prints , and a powerful retort of the Baronet) to the end that we might discuss your remarks the better, end comment upon them in return. And so without mare ado I proceed with my letter. It is not in Mr power, neither is it in Mrs. Gale's, to talk of the early wrestler* of this country, except to rejoice in the laudable pert which the primitive Lord Mayors and Magistrates took in supporting the sports of the poor. It gratifies us all to know, that the men of Devon have been celebreaed, time out of mind, for their skill in throwing their neighbours. And I see, by an extract from Robin Hood, the poet, that the Mnutientent it of great antiquity : foe by the language, I g'mess Robin to be an old writer. Mrs. Gale protests that Miid Hood, near the Post-office, is a grand daughter of Mr. Robin the bard.-but she only surmise*, and from no very potent point& It may be so. Heaven only knows !- I do net think Mrs. Gale does. You have described the Cams very favourably. We were aot aware that they were half such fine men as you say they ate,--not that we do not believe it now, fur they are Devon-Dom, like Mrs. , Gale and myself-and therefore they may he well grown. (him I Gale is • tali woman of her size, and I am hard on the heels of dye feet nine inches, which, as men go, is not diminutive.-In proof ofl this, When I was young, the grenadier company in the militia, I panted to possess me.-But I was not warlike--1 could never fight at school. A musket gives me a turn et all times, heir I have my ' mother's idea that "it may go off") Well.-The Canto are very respectable young men,--fanners on their own land. They come to the holiday meetings to increase the fame of the family, and to gladden the eyes of the country girls (nay servant Sukcy inclines to the youngest,-but Mrs. Gales Elizabeth leans towards die second one with dark hair). I do not wish to take from the reputation you • We do not see exactly how a telescope denotes a man to bra a* author. Mr. Humphrey Nixon should have explained this. Mr. - said that the wonder before us was an (* on Erraing by Apollo himself. But this was extravagant, and as Ale. Co ll ins, of Chitties:et, had written on the ascot subject first so Mrs. Oak says), Apollo would hardly follow. . . hare given them, but I like fair play. And guestioti your treatment of the men of the Moors. What had Widdleomb of the Moen done, to &mtt your dark representatio4 (Mr. . the curate, says thus much)—was he not tin— manly. well.a l .ape d powerful ana.couragee&s 7—Had he the feeling if thrxtrol with tom 7—Was he mein gt ignoble to his ploy, We iCe.l Low that hc and all the rik..7f the Moors are silent but sensitive.-.rude. but honest. awl I.l7ave' , and good men (li'iddicomh purchased a trifle at Mrs. Gale's slinp).—Do not. Sir, therefore, because the popular voice was wlth the Calms. Mr. sake the men of the 310 Ors. trin not sreatt my own lahguage here, for I do not write after this fashion, nor indeed. slier any fashion , for fashion in writing Seems a couttmdietion.—l quoit the words of Mr. the curate, Oho wrote to me, in a letter, his feelings on the subject. And Mrs. Gale and the rest think iv' much. Cams was thrown :—Remember that. Widdicestib %liar. "rustle with Cann for three guineas—a great rum you'll my, anti torreAly—any day through the summer and the money is really at the Dolphin. We do not very well understand SirThomto Parlixns, inasmuch as he writes in a way not very well to he undeis•ood; his style being aged, mysterious, and not altogether k;ngliiit--but cern poundetrof Geeek, lAtin, and, dare py, Welsh, At env rate, he is ton fond of uttering wortls whtdt we not most intelligible to me. being of languages out of my sphere. That te may *peek to the purpose, Ido not deny; but the is beeps! me. Mrs. Gale thinks his book a joke upon wrestling—but Mr. Norris holds to its having been written for political purposes. They both may be right—there's no saying. The length of my • ?tier surprises me, and the more particularly ' as I have written it all since December Last; which you will own in easy writing. I trust you will not dislike this first ynbb • attempt. which conveys the sentiments of otbers besides myself. Mr. Norms tsays, the style is nut amiss: and Mrs. Gale, clause name I have Menioned to you before, thinks that I hive written to the point. 1 am. Sir, Your obedient Servant, DUMPS MET NIXON.. P.S.--Circumstances may prevent me from writing to you again very 'weedily— I am going to change my condition. Mrs. Gala will in a few days be Mrs. Nizon. Von are down r cake. NAVAL EL . LitiliNCF.•.. C.aptain H. Price Is eitioint t - 1 •11 7 1n.-- o the service of relying men fo his Alajesty'a fleet at Liverpool % The Orestes. Captain Liichlield, was coinmistloned at Ports mouth on Tuesday last. The Newcastle, 60, is intended to be 'employed as • lazarretto is Milroy', Haven, for which purpose the Is fitting at Portsmouth, - and will shortly pyoceed to that Rlace, The Asp tend. :r arrived at Portsmouth on Snrday, with mu.. and sailed, on her return to Chatnam, the following day. The Viper tender arrived at Ptirtaindith on 31onday, from a cruise. On Wednesday the Arrow cutter sailed from Portsmouth on a cruise. The Princess Royal will lila from Portsmouth rest week for Liverpool. where she receives troops for Halifax ; thence proceeds on to IBarbadoes to bring back troops to Portsindutli. The Cattle transport, Lieutenant Burdwood, Agent, is also ordered to perform the lame service. Ships at Spitheed :—lnfernal and Calliope. In harbour:—Vic tory, Bulwark, Wellesley, Albion. Royal George, Serintapatam, Niemen, Medina, Champion, Herald, Britinnart, Linnet, hcorpion, and ViPer. Mr. W. Kimber is appointed to the Britortirr, as Purser, in the room of Mr. Jermain, whose appointment to that sloop has been cancelled. 1 1 Telegraphic diaifittehis given in ,tile lifewitettr, announce that the Trident, of 71 gun's, Captain Moil*: anti the Vestal frigate, of 21 guns, Captain Simonet. arrived on the 11th Mat. at Brest, Ifrom the Antilles. On the same day the La Pruden*, a ciliate, dispatched from Bahia, in Brasil, on the let May, commanded by ' Captain Lesaulnier de la Get*, cast anchor at Brest. The disastrous intelligence of the defeat of Mittniops under Sir C. M'Carthy, on the Gold Coast, has, we ate sorry to learn. received itit confirmation by, the arrival of two vessels from Cape Coast Castle, during the pelt week, at Portsmobth, The Hope schooner erith.the official accounts of these trandictinns, sailed as long bacir k as February last; the Borodino transport left the same place en t e March. The following are the Naval Promotions in that quarter:--Captain W. Coortenity. to the Owen Glendower. acting; W. Woolethnbe, to the Bann; Mr. C. H. Binstead to Sr Lieutenant of the Owen GlendoWnr, vice Torrane t C. G. Lloyd, from the Blnn, Acting Lieutenant in the Owen Glendower ; Piddle, 'Midshipman of the Owen Glendower Lieutenant of the Bann. vice Wilson—The Bann had tailed foe Siars Leone; the Owen Glen dower and Swinger were at Cape Coast Castle. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Captain Fits Studdert has commissioned the Champion. Cvtain Ilenyy Litchfield the C and I:spaLin Francis Fad the Pylades. new experimental sloops of war.—Captain Gamma Vernon has commissioned the Bntomart. Pi, at this port. Captain E. F. Scott is appointed Inspector of the Coast Blockade, at Whitby lYticitshirei Captain Scott to raise seamen at Livapooi. Lieutenant W. Nevin to the 'maw. 111 The folloWing appointments have taken place lately :—Liatts C. H. Seale, R. Maiarty, Lysett t H. Stroud, F. Al. Williams, and W. H. Brady, to the Ramillies, for the service of the coast blockade. Lieuts. R. F. Gambier, the Hon. H. H. Talbot, and Mr. J. Brown Ca) Purser, to the Blonde Mi. S. I. Butcher, Put. set, to Ike Jaseur ; Lieut. W. Tucker (bi to the Pylades. SNIPPING I'NT'ELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-MOUSE. iuxi 19. _ ENTERED INNERDS. Devi*, Wells (Blifteeley,broker ) , from Gibraltar. Stared Life, Butcher (Hadopel, from Cephalonia. !Longwell. Spawn (Hawkins), from Hambro'. George, Betts (31'CuthY), from Cadiz. William Niles, Beadle (Brinlky), from Bengal. Hero of 31olown, Garrick Olszett), front ditto. Coburg,. t arms (facksin), from Trieste. Thetis, Otto (Rordanz), from Mini& Caledonia, Brown (Castendeick), from Stettin. William and Henry, Hatfield (Drolenyaux), from /timbre. Cam, Becker (Benham), from Memel. Arend, Elbring (Ds Die), from Antwerp. Juntina /deforms, Groen (lowden), from Rotterdam. Heretiles, Ererling (C neck), from IllemeL Regenten. Ostiberg (Valfyyl, from Gefle. Twee Afwesgie, limners Boa . (Simon), from Amiterdaor. Hector, Howlett (Hardman), from Jamaica. Susan, Bibbins (Jackson), from Gallipoli. Three Sisters, Frost (Ayres), from Rotterdam. Nautilus, !topper (Bentley). from Memel. Sarah Alargaret, Sbeader (lholeoraux), from Hambro'. ‘Villiam, Noble (Dennison), from Memel. Elisabeth, Lurigridge (laingridge), from Smyrna. Two Sisters, Hayes (iliiclueion), from 13anuic. FRO3I LLOYD'S LIST. Facmoven, Judd 17.—Arrived the General Phipps, from Bahia, in GJ days. Off the Yon, the Thomas, Naylor, from Bahia t Alice, —, hem Van Diemsn's Land • Colonist, Smith, from Barbadoid t and Calliope, from N ew York. The Duke a Bedford, Cunningham, from London for India. wait spoken with, all well, on the 4th of April in lat. 4. S. long. 23. W. PORTSMOUTH. JUN* tik—Arrived the four Brothers. DID. lop; and Hope, Scott, from Dant:ie. Sailed his Majesty's ship Jupiter, for Halifax. Dort's, JUNE 18.—John Brown, a seaman, belonging to the Phenix, of Oreenock, Lindsay master, from London to Carthego na, is landed here from the Swedish ship Pelee, from Lisbon to Stockholm. and reports that the Muria ran on board the Pelee on the 3d indent, had her bows stove in, and it is supposed foundered. Brown states, that be was forward clearing the wreck, and got cn. tan_gled in a.rope, by which he was dragge d on board the Pelee. DEat, Jbus 18.—Came down front the River and sailed, the Antelope, Aim, Scotia, Symmetry, Liverpool Packet, Hope, Sufi folk, and Cosmopolite. Arrived the a nd a, Head, from St. Domingo; Orion, from the East Indies; Royal Oeorge, Key. nolds, from ditto. Lir E n root., JUNE 17.—Arrived the Charlotte, Sim, from Charleston; Vine, Jay. from Leghorn; Nancy, Candler. from Catania ; and Robert, 31.51iillen, from Rigs. BELTAST, J U NE 16.—The Duke of Richmond, frcm MIT! for Liverpool, took fire, and was run on shore in the Bay of C..• en. dak on the 14th, Arrived off Dever. the London, Turner, from Jersaica : Elisa beth, Rosa, from Trieste; and Union —, from Messina. About fifty sail of homeward.bound ve ssels are hi sight, besting up Channel. Off Portsmouth, the Harrington Canny, from Jamaica. Off Brighton, the Cambridge . Mason, from Jamaica. Off Penzance; the Waterloo, Wilkinson, from Jamaica. The Harrington, Canoe'', arrived oft' Portsmouth, sailed Cron Jamaica about 43ii ult. in company with the Louisa, Frederick. Nancy, and Britannia. for London, under convoy of his 3$ 's ship Thracian, and parted company 16th ult. off Cape Florins. On the 20th. in lat. 39. long. 52., spoke the Wellesley, from Ja maica for London ; on 11th inst. in lat. 45. long. 25. spoke two *fps from the East Indies to London, out six weeks from St. Helena. Vie Lotus, Field, arrived off Holyhead from Bengal, gives the following shipping intelligence :--Sailed from the Sand-Heado I 14th February, and. St. llelena, ApriL The Rockingham. Beach, from Bengal. was daily expected at St. Helena. bromic been left to the eastward of the blaurmus at the end of a burn.. cane. The Minerva, Prohyn, was expected to leave Bengal about the 20th February. The Elias, Johnson, and Lady Campbell. tit• ham. were expected to sail in two or three days after the Lotus. The Commodore Hayti, Manuel ; and Mary, Aodlie„ it. was expected would sail the Ist March. On the Ist cost. off the Western Islands, exchanged colours. with a French linoof.hattlei drip, and a frigate, standing to the northward and Eastward ; and on the 10th spoke the Nile, Davidson, ftion Bristol to Quebes. The Oscar, from Newfoundland, arrived at Oporto, spoke the for. low's g vessels, on the 14th RM., TH. : , —Frances , mrld Harriet, of Shields (having on board the crew of the Hyperion. from St.. Andrews. New BlllllllriCh, which vessel f at seal, and Emerald, of Shields, for Pictou, with loss of topmasts. The following whalevarrem in the Bay of Tslanda, nth Decent.. ber• 1823, viz Harriet, Angleton, 600 barrels of oil ; Van.. *Wart, Bacon, 68 don ; Asp, mind, 1,280 ditto; Fanny, Rule. 1,000 ditto; Rochester. Worth, 366 ditto; Fmacia, Boot, end Saracen, Dunn, clean. It was repeated at Rio Janeiro, the Ar from theme. to Buenos Ayres, had got Bank, shoe* the 241 of APni. The (ompetitor, Arcough, from New . posed co be arrived off Portsmouth ; letters matted by ha. I i t• A geno pe t it ilste HoppeUN. a on the Ohm w Swath Wales, is sup- tiers bare been rust/sad • , 4 • , • Y , . TI F,. Ire. to ; tairk Mr. :lift. The hem." erforn Fran- .'dot rister. mice, i 7Ulii * I