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FRANCIS MASPRES, cuiszroit BARON OF THE EXCHEQUER. We byre to announce the death of this distinguished 1 1 i n dividual, who yesterday morning rinsed his long and valuable life, at the advanced age of nicety-Three. Baron m a uves was of a refugee family ; his grandfather came .v.r with King William; and his mind, as might na ,,,ntly be expected, was early imbued with a hatred of ,wry thing in the shape of religious persecution. He was 3 Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and very early dis.l g lared that profound knowledge of mathematics, to the ' r eeuliar study of which he had devoted himself, and to ,high he was no doubt excited by the many celebrated ❑nus which, in this department of science, have done locour to that celebrakd University. lle published, as ,oly as 17f.9, ■ work on the negative sign, 311 which he . . .• ..veal against the received doctrine of negative quantities ; did sometime afterwards published his valuable collection the Pripet/era Logurilhndiei, in six vols. Sto. ; a work Life Annuities, and several historical works, among shicb WV' Al an 's Hi:fury of Me l'orliamestfp lid Lad : o's Ltllers. It was to the liberal and enlightened vitronage of Baron Mown* that the public are indebted the Rev. John Ilellina s valuable translation of 1)oN r • Nlasli/n::iosi Analutiehe. It had been translated .aany years before by the then late Professor Colson, the ;nquisions commit ntatiw on the Flexions of Newton. Baron llaserm• who in his early life had known Colsuo, and had room to infer, from his conversation, that he had written a treatise en the higher geometry, which he had never published, was desirous of discovering this manuscript, and of giving it to the world. In his search be found, not the sork he looked for, hut the translation just mentioned ; and after removing scone pecuniary difficulties, which, without such generous assistance, would probably bev3 been for ever withheld from the world, he obtained a copy of it, and put it into the hands of Mr. Hellion, who under took to become its editor, and under whose inspection it was printed in INDS.* In private life, the disposition of Baron Menem was liudne st i tse lf ,and his integrity was the result of a mind gliciplined front early life in all its feelings, and disin terested in all its habits. In politics he was a Whig of the Old School; averse from all wild innovation, hut loving liberty for the sake of humankind, and despising all coo promire with despotism. His religious tenets were thine of a strict and staunch Unitarian, but with perfect poll feeling towards every one of different sentiments, and doming it the lwight of injustice to chastise any man's enoicience, or to silence any man's opinion. Ills memory— at will often happen with hose Moose lives have been de voted to abstract studies—had faikl him almost totally for many months before his death. lie teas never married, 311(1 lira left no very tics, relatives ba l lot !dm. Ile (lied his house at Reigate, in Surrey, to whish 'Ace lie had Ism removed some time before his death, W:teevcr is appointed to the vacant situation of Cftrsitor Baton the li:chequer will probably have duties to perform b;:vinid those which have been hitherto annexed to it, as the e:c pedisucy of making sans arrangement in this respect has been, we know, fur some time under the consideration of Government. • Vidt rdldrergh Review. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last night Mr. KIWI MIS to have appeared as Ri e hard Vie 'Third, fur the first time since the Easter recess at this theatre. A fuller house assembled on the occasion than teen his celebrity in this part led us to expect. There appeared to be an increase of curiosity to see him, which arose, it in to be presumed, solely from his long absence. However, to the great disap pointment of the audience, he did not appear. Mr. Dunn (the Stage Manager) come forward before the rising of the curtain, to bespeak the indulgtsice of the audience fat Mr. Nlacready, who had consented to play the part in emnequenee of the indisposition of Mr. Kean, who was at Derby. Mr. Bunn offered to read a certificate of his Hines, and utter inability to attend to his professional 'fha• audience did not require the document to be read. but there was an immediate buzz, and not a few ill-natured whisperinga breathed, which were not very charitable, and which wen•, we hope, not very true. Mteready's Richard is not much to our taste. The re is not hustle enough in his style of acting to All the stage as Kean glues, in the two last acmo at the play ; am! in the early WOWS there is a dark malig nity in his voice and manner, which is quite inconsistent with the character of Richard as t+hakspea►e drew it. His ►:cent with Lady .Inn walla scene of barefaced villainy ; it had "no relish of hyponisy" in it. Mr. Kean has been winning his way lately with the public, and such competi tion as Mr. Macready a Richurd is nut likely to bring him into disfavour. P4SIIIONADLE INTELLIGEXCE. Mr. and /10. Mitdaellive a grand dinner on Sunday to the Ead Kinsman _Lord Bb Caroline and Mho Ma'am, him Philips, Miss Cavendish, Mr. Susie, Mr. M. Grant, he., at theta limos an Charles-street, Iterkeleyouitiare. Lord Chief Justice Hest will have a grand dinner-patty on the 111th init., at his house in Iletlford-square. Mr. at Mr.. 14torton had an elegant dinner-party on Sunday. it their house in St. Jantes's-squasr, swung whom at re Sir R. and Lady Vauglian,Sir A. Edmonton, Mr. and Lady Sophia and Miss Grey. Admiral and Mrs. Sotheron, Mr. Stanley, Cul. llueknorai, Mr. and Mrs. Hallett, de. AA. Ead flower and Watson Taylor, Essi. had dinner-parties Sunday. Lord and Lady llelgrave have issued cards of Invitation fur a p on thet4th inst. at their house in Ifrooverior.stivare. Amiga Lady Anson has issued cards of invitation to a distin guished party, to meet the I lake of I.i lUtiCrikl ea the 26th Inst., at tier (''use in l'urson•street, May-fair. Junes Stirlen, Esq., M.P. will have a grand dinner-party to at his house in New -street, Spring-gardens. The Marquis of Bath had a dinner-patty yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Lord Melbourne bad a select party at dinner yesterday, at his house Whitehall. Alr. , and body Caroline Puulrtt gave an elegant entertainment on Sand*, n , the I)uke of Rutland. the Carl and Countess of bona. dale, tue Earl and Countess of I/Arlington, Earl Vestmotland, bard and Lady Ilamard, Mr. laambtun Mr. anti Lady Ann _Hackett., Mr. Maxwell, itc., at tbor tiouse a Curzon.stteet, Mfy.sab. ConTli'illia m Lennoß bait arrived in town rroni Itrighton. The Duke of Rutland arrived io town on iiaturday, from New. market. The Dubs of Leeds arrived yesterday at his house in Bruton meet, from AN got, Hamby Itpalle. Yorkshire. The Dowager ihschees of Rutland has arrival at her house in Sactrille.atreet, from Itelveir Castile. P liir IVWisn; end Lady Jan; 11%1 ston left town yesterday for ori& (;, sesenfell, Ys,l.left town yesterday for Stoke Pars, flecks, the lot of . Earl . . ,Ilturda Charles aid Robert Mannar:4 have arrive') in town Inwn *"l7. l ".ark . . . . .. . Walter liaretil, Kati., M.P. arrived yesterday at the British Jerrnyn.street, front his sem intimater. Arrivals at the iVateeloo Hotel. Jermyn-street :.-3lrs. Robert. men, (ion) Tunbridge %Veils; Mr. and Mrs. Barrington Price, trent their scat, liasiemere. Surrey. . . . . .Irrivala at tiic linth lintel. A;linstorvestrees—Lord Northesk and Sir Jaunts liardincr, Part., front a tour; Mr. and Mr.. 11"ns. Murray. *mil Baits.—Captain and Mr.. Malcolm have kit ditto, for Brighton ; and Mr. and Miss Templin, for !Molex. The liirquais of Lothian left town yesterday foe Scotland. Arrivals at Long's Hotel, BondAtreet :—Earl lasmore, from Brighton; lion. Mr. hisiton, from a tour • Lonl lieorge Lennos. Bcparturis from ditto:—Sir Robert Stee l, for Dovsetahire ; f . ..sens, for Chatham; Win. Jlantllnel, Ks+, fur Madrid; Mr. and Mts. Ewing. for Brighton. Arrivals at lilake's Betel, Jersaymotreet and Mrs. Coventry and Miss Coventry. from Cray Place Kent; Mr. and the lbws, Lister. fmni Paris; Mrs. and Mis;Whithy ; and J. W. S•cuart, Saul. from his scat Se Berks. llepartum from ditto:— Caps-sin and Mrs. Beauchamp Procter, for Southampton; Captain anti lairs. Matson, anti 3lra. rector, for Cheltenham. Mr. Liston is engaged next r at the Haymarket, at a ulary of no guineas p.-r week, and two deur I o is engaged for the next winter season at Edinburgh awl tublin, and consequently he will not appear on the Lon don hoard.:.—Hellish 31 , ffiiba% Mr. Hunt, of the I.:eon:ince, is to attend the Court of hiot:'s Item+. on Thursday. for judgment. In Friday Mr. Lawrence Peel M.A. of St. John's Col (.3111111Ill:Te. was eallal to the Hat by thy Honourable Soeiety of the AliAltHe TeMpie. flout Lisbon, of the utth of April, say—" The expedition to Itrazil is decreed; it will consist of 9,900 in t u. mc con otminlvr-in-1 'hid' will he Bernardo de ; the second in command, Carlos de Sahlanha. The troops have orders to he ready to depart within a fort mght at the latest.'' 'There are :lemmas in town from Pernambuco of the 17th of M.ach. .At that date every thing was tranquil. IonEIGN ArI'ELLmENCE. BA VONNE NEWB. Yesterday we received the following intelligence from Spain, rigs Bayonne: ll•vonsE a MAY I. The letters from. Madrid of the 26th ult. speak of a body of FANO men in npam, pan or when are to be employed in attempt_ hag the reconquest of the American posseseions; but as money is wanting, it Is said that an application will he mails to the Philip pine f;unspany, winch has money in its coffers. A change of Mi- Meters has been mu c h ta lk e d of, but does not seem probable the present being implanted by M. Lgarte, the favourite, who has un inl cited inffuebre with the King. The paribiens of the lam system continue to he tread's' with severity. The ancient t;orregi dors of Madrid, who are in prison, have been informed that they will not he released unless they reimburse the a aaa s they bad in their hands; but as it in known that they employed them in the service of the Constitution, they cannot repay them, and may ex pect their imprisonment to lie perpetual. Letters from Toledo announce the departure of their Majesties, and that the Royal Family would be at Madrid by the 15th of June, after visiting the Kecurial cul the baths of baredon. The French Andramailor wan going to set out for Paris, to defend him aclf against General Ikiuntiont, with whom he has differed on several points relative to the policy of the Spanieh Government. Should the reports of a change of Ministry really prove true in the end, it is pres u m e d t h at t h e new Ministry would be composed as The Duke of San Carlos, Foreign Affairs. Don Victor Saes, Justice. Baron WEroles, or General Csmpana, War. Vincento ' the Finances. This would be a purely Royalist Ministry. Thirty of the principal persons at Vittoria have been arrested. The brat column of the troops going to reinforce the army in I Spain will pass through here on the 4th. There has been an affray, attended with bloodshed, at (tithes, between the soldiers and the citizens. AMERICAN PAPERS. We copy the following articles from the file of New York Papers, just received : _ MEXICO. A correspondent of the l'ldiadelphia Gazette writes Clem Alvarado, under the date of Manb 211th, that humilities between the Castle of Ulkia andithe city of Vera Cruz, after a cessation of MOM than two months, recommenced on the lllth ult. The Spanish launches eapture:l a vessel under the Mexican flag on the 17th, at Port Macomb°, three miles from the Castle, and on the following day the Governor of the Castle sent a boat to the I'. S. arhooner Spark, which was tired on by the Mexican fort at Ms— can't)°, and Immediately the batteries of the Castle were opened upon the city of Vera I'ruz. The prospect of continued peace had allured the poorer chosen of Inhabitants to their home, in the city, after three months of bitter suffering, sickness, and the death of at least one-third of the families. . _ " The scourge of Spanish tyranny and superstition has fallen heavily on the Mexican nation; and what is most astonishing to behold is, with what patience and forbearance It is suffered. The old Spaniards, in numbers, arc seen every day in the streets of the principal cities and towns, pursuing their usual avocations un. disturbed. The native Mexicans, and the Creoles, are mild humane, indolent, and docile—their vices may be safely .diarged to a horrid despotism, and a depraved and crafty superstition. Sooner or later the law of retribution will he enforced. Has the Spanish nation yet expiated its awful debt to the natives of America? Cruelty, oppression, murder, and worst of all, entail ing on the races to coins, superstition and Paganism—for the re ran practiced here is not Christianity. bit ts , Ihe Gangrene at Mexico is engaged in endearouringto plate t h e m urk -, of the country in a good state. As et they have not succeeded. Projects of reform are before that body, whose task Is a d i ff icu lt one . Meanw'ile confidence is uncertain and vaeillat ing. The funds ot . the nun:toile classes are detained in the in. tenor for want of proteetion lie transportation to the mast, either because the government cannet or will not do the needful. I believe the defect is in the feeble stn n of the administration, which appears to be well disposed. " Cargoes arriving on the coast find no sale ; they are forwarded to the populous cities of the interior, which pre at Pr of glutted with almost every species of merchandise. " No public paper is printed here—lndeed Alvarado bus 110 i press of any kind. " Ansencan results now in this port :—Brig Colombia, of New York, for Ilavanna, with passengers, to sail in three days; brig Nymph, New York, bound to Havanna, put back in distress, and condemned ea unseaworthy." The new Constitution of Mexico establishes the Roman Catholic religion. :is the religion of the State, and tolerate' no other. The form of the government is that of a popular representative federal snub& ; the states of theconfederacy to be free and independent as respects their internal affairs ; the legblative, judicial, and ex seutive departments, to be separate and distinct; population forms the basis of representation : the national legislature to be composed of a chandler of deputies, and a senate ; her general Congress had fixed the salaries of foreign ministers at the following rates :—Her :Rainier to the United States, 11,004) dollars_ S ; Secretary, 4,0111 dol. brs. Great Britain, Minister, 12,000 diallars, fleet Lary, 1,110 dollars. To Colombia, Minister, 6,000 dollen ; Secretary, 2,000 dollars. _ _ FROM PARA. Accounts to the 10th ult. — represent that everything at Para re mained in an unsettled state. 31arejs, and some other small, islands in the vicinity, were in the posetsslon of the Camula In- surgenta. A Brazilian frigate and sloop of war were about sailing, which it was thought would be the signal for the Insurgents to arm nienee plundar and murder, and overthrow the Government. The British Consul had allied protection for himself and British sub jects, but was informed that the Government could not protect itself. The Consul, anti nearly all the British merchants there upon left the place, for the preservation of their lives, without being able to carry off their property. I '01A)1IBIA Accounts from Bogota to the - tld Jan. received by the brig Prince Edward, (nun Laguira, confirm the previous intelligence of Riau Agnem having been given up by his own so/diersto ien, who sent I.iin to San Iglu is lilexieo. The amain an ac.. fount of a splendid entertainment given by tre P V7ce.President of the Republic to Mr. Andorliom Minister of the United States. Forty of the principal officers of the Republic were present. FROII NEW ORLEANS. arc have I Papers to the 30th of 3received. A meeting of the citizens of St. Francisville, had nominated Jobn Quincy Adams for l'resideut. Ilebolutions were brought forward in favour of William Crawford and General Jackson, for the same office, but were rejected. A New Orleans Price Current of the 29th ult. states, that the season for cotton-bagging was over. and a lam s supply remained on hand. Cotton had been brisk the preceding week but no ad vance in price, 6,0010 halts having been mold. Arrived there during the season, 1g1,737 bales ; exported, 1iti,9913, leaving in warehouse, 29,139 bales. Domestic cotton goods brisk, and the quantity of line goods becoming scarce. NO3IINATION (IF PRESIDENT. Areably to invitation in the public papere, a meeting of citizens of New York. friendly to the election of Andrew Jackson to the office of President of the United States, was holden last evening at the Tammany Ilan. The assembly was highly respectable In number and character. The apectious hall was about two-thirds tilled ; and we think it due to the meeting to remark, that we have never witnessed at any . popular meeting at the same place so much regularity and order en - the proceedings. The meeting was called to uwdee by Samuel Swartwout, Esq. who moved that Morgan Lewis,late Governor of this State, take the chair, which motion was ca rried unanimously ; and Cadwallader D. Colden, late Mayor of this city, was unanimously chosen Secretary. Mr. Swartwout then stated, that the object of the meeting was to nominate and recommend General Andrew Jackson. the hero of . New Orleans. for the office of President, and with that view he offered Mc Resolutions, which he read to the meeting : ItesAveil —That it Is the right, and, at the present crisis, the duty of the people to assemble and express their opinions and wishes as to mutable candidates for the offices of 'President and Vice-Pre...Went of the (united St41(11. . . ltesolved.That the public opinion on this subject, thus gene-1 rally arrirtained and reciprocally expressed front the different 11111n11 of the Union, will furnish the safest guide to the colleges of elen ton, and, In the most salutary way, insure the supremacy of the will of the people, in conformity with the spirit of the Constitution. Itesalved—That In consideration of the Revolutionary services of Andrew Jackson. his continued and firm devotion to the Repoli liClUl institutions of our country, his repeated and brilliant victories at the head of volunteer and militia forces, thereby developing the prowess and elevating the character of this important source of na tional defence. hi, glorious defence of New Orleans, embracing, in its consequences, the preserration of the western half of our empire, together with his unltiiritily energetic conduct, as well in his civil as his military capacities, we nominate him for the office of Pfeil. dent of the United States, and recommend him as worthy of their confidence the approbation of the American people. Resolved —That we coincide in sentiment with the democratic cot izensof Pennsylvania, assrm bled in I'i:invent/on, In the nomination of sine of the purest patriots, firmest statesmen, and bravest com manders that this country has ever produced ; and we will cordially unite with them in effecting his election. Resolved—That the election of Gawp Washington and James Monroe—associates in 111111, in the struggle of our revoluti o n...4 o the Chief Magistracy of the Union, are examples worthy to be followed by the election of one of the last of our revolutionary patriots, to the lint office in the gift of the nation. After Mr. Swartwout had read the preceding reallutlons, he addressed die meeting in a speech of about twenty minutes, in which lie took a brief view of the cannv of (letieralJarkson, from the early period of his youth, when he enlisted as a soldier in the revolutionary army, up to the present time, and replied to the charges which have been arrayed against General Jackson, of over. stepping the bounds of the constitution, of manifesting a tytannkal disposition, and exalting the military over the civil authority. Mr. Swartwout then spoke of the propriety of nominating • candidate for Vice-Prriiitlivit, and briefly adverted to the talents and 114. TV ices of Mr. Calhoun, and concluded with submitting the fol. lowing resolution i— liesoircil—l'hat we cherish unlimited confidence in the talents, the integrity, firmness, and republican principle,' of John C. Calhoun—that we remember with 'wide and gratitude, his bold, manly, and patriotic awry on the door of Congress, and his wise and vigilant conduct as a member of the Cabinet ; and that we therefore recommend him to the people of the l'oited Mates, tor the office of ', ice- President. ' .31r. Meade then addressed the meeting in a few observations in cippori the resolutions, When the quailing was put on times relating at the nomination of lleneral Jackson, and carried vtioni wwwi/N. The resolution nominating Mr. Calhoun for Viet. President, was carried with a few dissenting Mr. Swartwout limn oltirett a revolution in favour of bolding a Convention at I 'tiri on the 4th of July, for recouiniending Electors of President and Vire-President. Oil the motion of I:tilers' Bog -Ardis., the resolution was amen d e d by adding, "Mid also of nominating candidate% for (An-emir And lacitt—linvernor ot this State ;" so that it read as follows, in which form it was unaniontruiJ, adopted : " kesolved—That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is expedient that a Convention of I telegates, to be elected by the people in the 1 several counties of this State, be holden at by on the 4th of July next, for the purpose of recommending elecmrs of President and Vice-President, and also of nominating candidates for Go-' senior and I.icutetaint-tiuov erect of this Stmt." It was then voted, that the prom:Amp ol the meeting, signed by the (;hainuan and Secretary, be published in all the daily papers: end on the or tieneral llogardue, the meeting was ad journed, to meet again on the dna Monday in June, at such place as the Chairnuin and Secretary stay appoint. COMMERCIAL. Chenlwo( the Secretary of State of the Republic of Hayti to the Collectors of Customs in the different ports of Hayti. In confiimiity to his Excellency the President's proelemation of the 29th March, present year, and to avoid any misunderstanding, I have by his orders, to communicate to you, that after this day, said proclamation is in full power, you allow no ve , Nel to enter which has touched in any of the West India Islands. In order to ascertain this more exactly, you allow only to enter such vessels which have cleared in Eunqs., or the continents of America, direct for your respective ports, for which the master of his vessel must deliver you his custom-house clearance, from the port where he took his cargo in ;_ besides the clearance, you require from the cap tain a manifest of the cargo, mentioning the place of departure, marks, numbers, and package, contents, names of the shippers and consigners; this manifest must be delivered to you twenty-tour hours after the arrival of the vessel, and is to he signed by the master and consignee, both giving security that the vessel has nut touched in any of the West India i.lOotiA. Vessels cleared in foreign countries fir the West Indies or Hayti in general are not alloikd to come to an entry. Should a vessel, however, be forced by distress to enter the har bour of the Republic the lirhour-master will, in this case, rend a guard on board, who shall remain there until she vassal will be ready to go again to sea,' and the vessel shall be free of tonnage duty. Shedd it he necessary to discharge, you will have the cargo stored in the government's warehouse, of which the COny misury of the government sill have sold under your inspec tion so much as will he wanting to il4ray the expenses of repairs and duties ; in this cue the vessel must pay tonnage duty and fees. Any contravention against this circular tem have to declare Rothe commissary of the government, who will give orders for the seizure of the vessel, and whatever may be on hoard---lialf to the pp& of the informer, the other Milt to he ,paid into the treasury. Port-au-Prince, 31st March, 11124. AVER.4GES OP GRAIN. The gentlemen of the ('urn Exchange who are interested in howled grain, waited on Mr. iluskisson, at the Board of Trade, on Friday Imt, respecting mine clause in the Hill at protein before the House of Coitunotis, which they con ceited affected their interchts, wheri that gentleman read to them the following letter ; and the importance of the ob servation contained in the concluding paragraph will nut escape attention : lloard of Trade, 29dm April, 1021. SIR-1 yesterday received your letter of the 21th inst. written on behalf of the Chamber of Cmnmeree of Cork, for the purpose of soliciting the attention or the Board of Trade to the incorrect mode of striking the average weekly returns of Grain of the twelve maxi. time counties. In proof of the defect of this mode, you refer me to the London Return for the week ending the 13th instant, front which you inter (and I have no doubt in my own mind that your inference is rot without foundationo that a price considerably exceeding the real average was returned from London. ' From other quartets I have received complaints, resting upon sintsments apparently equally well founded, of the price returned tie ether markets being depressed considerably below the rd erase of the week for which such return was made. A. I have reason to believe that, in both eases t the forms and condition! prescribed by the Law have been complied with by the parties makkig such mums (however much they are made in violation o f th e ai sirit and true intent of that Law), 1 am afredd that the evil complained nf is one Incident to the present system s which will prevail in a greater or less degree, whenever the market price o f G ra i n . fur a f ew wee ks before the striking of the quarterly ave rage, which relates to ihe . opening or shutting of the Ports to foreign Grain, shall be such as to make it doubtful, whether that contingency may no be determined, the one way or the other, by these improper and conflicting practices. These practices arc cer tainly not rer.dered the less impropet by their tendency to neutralize one another, iammuch as they derange the natural course of the markets, interfere with the speculations of the trader, and open a door to transactions, not only immoral in themselves, but in consequence of which neither the grower no r th e consumer can place any reliance on that tueastre of protection, which the law intended to afford, according to the loos fide state of the Corn Market, to the one or the other. nut whilst I fully admit these evils, I math for that, so long as the present system of avenges is retained, it will remain liable to the imperfections which I have stated ; and I own, that I sin the more apprehensive that it will be found very difficult to apply an effectual remedy, because, whilst I find the evil acknowledged on all sides, and statements in proof of it pouring in upon ire from the most opposite quarters, none of my numerous correspondents on this subject, however practically tonversant with the corn trade, have been able to suggest any effectual remedy, or indeed any ma ter's' legislative improvement, which can be made in the mode at present prescribed fur ascertaining the averages. I have tniublod you with thr explication, that you and the, l Chamber of Commerce at (.'ork may be satisfied that the subject of your letter is one to which I have not been inattentive, and that am es anxious as they can be fur the due enforcement of the law re specting the averages. At the same time, I candidly own, that the occurrencesof the last twelve months, and what is now taking place in the corn-markets of this country, have greatly tended to confirm all the objections which induced me individually, when the subject was wider the consideration of Parliament, to state my preference furs constant free trade in foreign corn, subject to a proper protect ing duty, over a system of alternate exclusion and admission, ac cording to any scale of average, or mode of fixing that average, which could be devised fur the regulation of that trade. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your moat obedient, humble Servant, W. lIUSKISSON. To the President of the Chamber of Commerce, C'ork. SUICIDES. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE BRITISH PRESS. Sta,—The number of suicides, which has increased to such an alarming extent of late, has drawn the public at tention to this crime; and as prevention and not punish ment is the only means of putting a stop to this dreadful practice, I would ask how Is it that these means, wisely appointed by our ancestors for this end, arc rendered for the most part entirely nugatory ? I need hardly particu larise what I allude to, viz. the Coroner's Inquest. Ido not impugn the conduct of the humane juries who com pose such inquests ; but I would submit that this institu tion is become a mere form, whilst in forty-nine cases out lof tifty the verdict is the same. lam aware this is no new 1 complaint ; it is at least as old as the time of Young, who I alludes to it in a pointed manner in his Night Thoughts. If you think the following extract, from one of our old ecclesiastical writers (Wheatly), wiU be the means of in ducing a stricter inquiry into cases of self-murder, it is at your service ; and I only wish the suggestion at the end may not he thrown away on the parties to whom it applies. If they would but act up to this advice, I am Confident we i should have fewer instances of this horrid crime than now disgrace the national character. - ... I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, 1,ont1" Slay 8. " The scandalous practice of Coroners and their inquests, not. withstanding the strictness of their oath, in almost constantly re turning every one t, , uilty of self-murder to be twit comets niextir (though the very amrists:tees of their murdering themselves are frequently a proof of the worminess of their ;mites) ' sufficiently shew how h their verdict is to be depended upon. They plead, indeed, that it is hard to give away the substance of a family : but these Cattlemen should remember that they arc not sworn to be charitable, hot to be just ; that their businese is to inquire not what is convenient and proper to be thine with that which is forfeited, but how the person Mlle by his dattli—whether by another or by him , self ; if by himself, whether he wss fish, de se or son rumpus metals. the cr, indeed, summons srl he pleases on the jury, And then delivers to them what charge he pleases, it is easy enough for hint to influence their judgments. and to instil a general Rupp°. anion that a self-murderer must needs be mad, since no one would kill himself unless he were out of his senses. hut the jury should consider, that if the ease were so, it would he to no purpose for the law to appoint a formal inquiry ; for, according to this supposition. such inquiry must be vain and impertinent, since the tact itself would he evidence sufficient. It is true, indeed, there may be a „,,,,„/ • imu i nois; that is, a misapplication of the understanding, in all self-murderers. Hut this sort of madness does not conic under the cognitance of a jury ; the question with them being not whc- • ther the understanding was misapplied. but whether there was any understanding at all.—ln short, the hest rule for a jury to guide themselves by in such a cass is, to judge whether the signs of mad nom, that are now pretended, would avail to acquit the same per son of murdering another man if nut, there is no reason why they should be urged as a plea fur acquitting hint of munlermg himself." • Voting say--" I grant the deal is nuttiness, 11,1 t the niatltstms of the heart." eniTISII A VI) FOREIGN Arnow, SOCIRTY. The Nineteenth Anniversary of t h is excellent institution, in.' ferior m none in general usefulness, &AI superior to all„ except per. haps its goat conteitipmary, the-British and Foreign Ilible Society, in the magnitude and conipreheltsivencss of its object, was Mo.! prated voiced/it , in Freemasons Dell, Great Queen-street, Lin. roln's Inn-Odds, by a most nunmrous and highly respectable com. 1 party, among whom we distinguished his Royal Highness the Duke ' of Sussex, Lord John Russell, lord iii dusts, T. F. Buxton, Esq.' M.P., Wm. Williams, Esq., 31.1'., Dr. Morrison, Itoltt. ()wen, I . Esq., et New Lanark. 31. Benito, of Milan, to. hr., but the , number of Jodie' rensiderahly prevailed. Ills Royal llighcos the Duke of Sussex was to have taken the' chair at twelve o'clock, but that having long passed by, and the Royal 1./uke not being arrived, it was apprehended somethlng had occurred to prevent his Royal Highness from atteeding the Meet.' Ing, and it was therefore thought advisable to proceed with the Mt. ! sinesa of the day by calling Lord Jolts Russell to the Chair. 11l is Lordship had not, however, been long in it before the Duke of : , 1114,,X was announced. and wlmo , ton coaxing thereon, *as meat entbuslestiesilly applauded. The Noble Lool inimorliately quitted the Chair. and the Royal I)ukc having taken it, rose and stain! to the meeting that he' was sorry he could not come hetiwe, hut his carriage had experienced an obstruction in the street, or he sliott!:l , tive arrived sooner. -.- His Royal nigline.s then said, " IV , motto do Ireful, perhaps, in making up for the time lost that by proceeding at once to the loudness of the slay, and therefore I shall call upon the Hee- Ale- Cramp to read to you the Report of the Committee." The Reverend Gentleman then read a. very full report, which, in reference to the State of the Soci.ny's funds, observed, that although the permanent income had received but We max ohm, yet the Society was then obeyed from is large portion or the heavy debt with which it bad been MI lung encumbered. At the end of the year 1822, the amount onliquidated was 76'J11. A se. pante subscription set en foot for dirt purpose, had proititrod already 16701. its, (.d.; and those gentletivn to whom the Society had been indebted for loaned 2kOL retspce!ively. advanced by thi ni for the erection of the Cattail School, had generously agreed to relinquish 1004 each; togetlfei 'with three years' hottest on the triode sum g and by this means the debt wall then reduced to :it The Fishmongers' Company had contrihuted since the last annual' meeting tem A donation of 304 had been received front the Cluthworkene Company • and also a legacy of 6001 bequeathed to the Society by Miss Catl:erine Wedgwood. There had heat a new auxiliary formed for North Middlesex, including FAmontiol, Tot tenham, and the neighbouring village s. Another had been esta blished at Birmingham. In Southwark an Association had bees lately natituted, entitled the " Southwark , Lancaeterian School Amocia on," and which bad chiefly - originatd with young men who b receirtol their education at the Central School. To the auxili existing at Bristol, Bath, Uxbridge, nigh WYeomber 1 Plyinon , and.Tavistock, the !Society was indebted for important aid. The report then proceeded to recommend to the friends of • the Instintion to associate themselves together, and canvass the several districts in which they, resided, for the formation of further 1 auxiliary branches, on which the Committee conceived the future I prosperity of the Institution greatly depended. The report then stater!, that since the establishnsiot of the' central schools, nuncio+ had been supplied by them terla,Off•boys, and 7,1;23 girls. Un doubtedly great benefits had been thereby conferred on the Bo rough or Southwark and its vicinity, in which the Central Schools were situated, which might be considered as the best.eiluattad dis trict in ik metropolis. Mt . the object of this institution was not local. 'lle central establishment might be regarded as the main spring, which set the whole machinery in motion, and wan Ind. neatly connected with every port. These schools were the centre of a cutlet, whose circumference Included all nation. The report then stated the result of a public examination of the boys, at which ' T, f. Buxton, Esq. presided, and which was of the w sot satisfac tory d ocription. They were examiner, in their knowledge of the • facts, doctrines, and precepts, of the Bible; and their answers, expressed in appropriate passages of Scripture, excited lively in. • taut among all present. The Committee believed that the en , gagent nos of the day not only proved the superiority of the ban easterian method of education. hut oho produced a conviction that the object of the British and Foreign School Society was, to give in the strictest sense of the whida, a Bible education. Mention was made at the last annual 'meeting of two Greek youths from the island of Cyfrus, who were placed unda the care of that Society, by two ( lent alien of lanidon. Their names were Georgia% Con stantine, ant Demetrius Piecidi : the fanner was 17 years of age, the latter 14. When they were admitted into the echoed they knew nothing of the English language. but they could then read fluently and write correctly ; they were able to converse with pro. priety, and at the public examination, their replies to the mica uons proposed were prompt and satisfactory. The three Madagascar lads, who remained in the school at the last Ger.cral Meeting, were shortly afterwards removed, and placed • under the care of respectable persons at Manchester, in order to be instructed in the occupations for which they were respectively dd. tined, , previous to their return to their o Daring own land. Dang the pest yaw' 1. persons had !camel the system at the Central Schools, with a view.to employment as schisilinasters. fifteen schools had been permanently supplied with masters, and sixteen others had received temporary Assistance, during the illness of their teachers, or in order 4 to effect tatelexe-oroantzation. Four missionaries had also attended i for instruction ; and in mentioning that, the Committee suggested • the desirableness of allowing to all missionaries, before they left this country, sufficient time to acquire a competent knowledge of , the British system"; as they were convinced that early religion In. • 1 unction would be found, under the blessing of (lott, one of the , twat powerful means of destroying superstition and vial. 'BUM. gence laid been nearside( fourteen rico schools having been funnel during the past year. From the schools already existing (of which there were supposed to be 0:1 the British system about 4011) but few reports had arrived. laudable diligence continued to be exerted in securing the attend nu of the children at some place of worship, to be chosen by their parents, on the Lord's day ; this was a measure which had been constantly practised at the central schools. That the good effects of 'capitol instruction are witnesatd in an improved state of morals • among the lower classes, began to be unlined, as it had been some time anxiously looked for. Examples of juvenile delinquency , were lit was true) deplorably numerous; but it should not be for gotten that much greater publicity was given of such occurrences than at any former period of our history, and that for one authen. anted instance of an educated offender, hundreds of individuals eel* be rented to, formerly pupils in the Central Schools, whose characters were correct, and whose lives would bear close Invest!. galas. The scripture lessons were becoming increasingly popular: A third edition, in the Bvo. rise, had been published since the last Leo sal meeting, making a total of 6,1510 copies. The Committee had been informed that those lessons had been reprinted at Beaton apd • New fork. It was intended to proceed forthwith in die publics , don the third part, in the tabular form, in the modern Greek lan guage. Jr would be mutat:Meted that the about-mentioned portion of the lesions had been already printed in the Russian. Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese languages. To Ireland the Com mittee turned with feelings of grateful exultation. Disgraceful as had beat the ouuages conintitteal there, it was sonic n'Jeviation of their regret to know that they Intl been ermined to the least educated districts. In the diffusion of scriptural knowledge. " The Society for proinoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland" was advancing with gigantic strides. The success of the past_ year was moat es hilarating. Aid had been given in the establishment of 325 new school*, and 3114 grants had been made of books, stationary, and school requisites. The number of schools in connection with the Society was upwards of 1.000, containing more than 70,000 scholars, and 121,888 cook& of useful hooka had been circulated in the past year. making a total of 704.4 depositary 0 since the opening of the in 1817. Lending libraries for the poor were also becoming very counuon, and fur these 07 grants were made in the course of the 1 year, co:„.isittoyfel(. 2 :eyotene B :l4lclie'nint I"it t i n o l, n 'in r u i s dea t eventually promote, promote, in a high degree, both the temporal and the spiritual wel fare of Ireland. In proceeding to furnish a condensed accouet of the progress of education in foreign countries, the Committee felt they had to undertake a task partly pleasing and partly painful. i The Society would hear of di ffi culties and dirtimragonents in some quarters, and of cheering success in others. Of France the report rim again untavourable. Government hid withdrawn its assistance, and hostility to Scriptural instruction , mooed lamentably prevalent. It eau thought there might he still 1 00 to 100 schools in France. The number in l'aris •aa 22, and I were supported by the City, and contained 5,000 scholars; they • were reported to be going on well. Very little intelligence had been received from Spain. The flou rishing schools at Seville bad been suppressed on the appmach of the French army, and it Ins not improbable that • similar disaster ; had occurred iu other place. The central schools, however, in Madrid were pmspering. assisted by the direct patronage and per. sonal superintendence of the Inke del Infautadore The accounts from the Netherlands were very encouraging. DO Excellency the Baton de Fah k, the Minister of Public In. struction, zealously promoted the sprees! of education among the pnor, which object was patronised bk his Majoty the King of the Netherlands and the Prince of °rang:. By a communication front Copenhagen, It appeared that the Bri tish system had been introduced into Denmark, under the auspices of the King and Queen of that country. M. fierelius was irrosecuting his labours in Sweden, if not with splendid success, yet not without beneficial results. The number of children receiving instruction in that country wen shout 3,500. By the persevering exertions of the Russian Bible Societies, great progress was made in the design of supplying all the nations and tribes of that immense empire with the sacred .... Scriptures : and the general establishment of Schools would be necessary appendage to those efforts. The Model School at St. Petenihurgh, erected and endowed by the Emperor, and superin tended by Mr. Heard, was solemnly opened last year, in thy pre sence or Prinre Alexander Holitzin, the l'rincess dleshtehersky, and several other distinguished persons. The School for Foreigners had been eminently suemsfuL The numbers thronging for ad 'Masson were so great that a large building was found requisite, and a line hall, capable of accommodating children, had been engaged. In the lonian Islands the cause of education prospered, which it was hoped would facilitate the measures projected for the improve ment of I irrece. A master was shout to be sent out to that moss interesting country, mad intelligent tireeks were much delighted with the plan. And the Conimittee beg to he allowed to ex mos their assurance that at no very distant period the land of Socrates, disenthnilled and regenerated, would again become the birthplace of the wise. the great, and the good. The accounts Rom Malta were not to tocuuragirg, arising from the need of more ample pecuniary supplies. In India the cause of Scriptural education gradually advanced : many thousands of children were then under instruction. The Alissionaries at Madras had recently fortwil a new Education Society, for the instruction of the young on Scriptural principles throughout the provinces of Peninsular India. for this purpose the British system was to be adopted. 'Phe ifevirableness of extending the benefits of StctiprOml instruc tion to :he iohnbitants of t h e Chit/ray empire world be felt and ae knowladged by ali. It might be hoped that thepreseC vipit of Dr. Morrison to this country would lead to WOK plan for the mom. plialuxent of thot important object. At the last general meeting mention was made of an association having been formed in Madeira. contemplating the establishment of schools in every part of the island. The Committee were able to state that that design wan in a fair wav of being realised. In reporting the state of education in the Colonies, the Cotmnhteet begged to remind the Society that their plan was better adapted than any other to the existing circumstances ofiliose parts of the empire. ithen the population ordinarily consieual of persons wittily (Mil ing from one another in religious 'endows+ , and jealous of foreign Interference, it was obvious that no sectarian or exclusive mode of instruction could succeed. The British system, be merging the distinctions of sect, and opening the door of knowledge to all. was }nowt in be wlniirably tutted to the lute of society in the colonial possessions of this country, and had deservedly obtained general approbation. The Report then gave a favourable account of the of education in the Isle of France, the Cape of Good lope, SIP' Wert India Islands, Nova Scotia, sod Canada. In the United I States of North America the importance of early Instruction wee , justly app rec i a t e d. N ew E ng l an d an d New York in particular hail set a r.oble example to the rest of the world. In New Eng laed education was secured by law, and supported at the eublic ex- I pane, a tax being levied on the inhabitants for that purpose, than which none* was :adorn more cheerfully paid. The estate of New : York had appropriated upwards of a talliloll of acres of I tnd to that okiect, by the 'ale or whi c h a f u nd wou ld bc_provided fur the i encourageninit and at... Leann of schools. The o ffic ial returns on the subject of education in the state td New York, for the year ; 18,n, contained scoounn of nearly 8,000 schools, in which more than 40011 0 children were instructed. Many of these sclieols wore . established on the lleitielisystern. From Staab .Irnerica lade M- I telligenee had been received during the pest year. Mr. Townson, to wn.ose real South America was so MAC.' Indebted, bad recently , org mired a model school at Linn. The Governmert not Peru warmly patronised the plan, and the funds were supplied from the public treasury. Still more edit:wally to secure the apremi of edu cation, it was seamed, by one of the articles of the new Conatitu-. Iliation, that alter the year 1340 no one should enjoy the privileges of citizenship who was pot rile to rood and write. Numerous ono& d been previously established in Colombia, Buenos Ayres, and in Chill, in which the scripture lessons were used under the sere, tion of the legislature ; and an inert:Ant demand for bibles hod been one of the first fruits of that measure ; thus affurdiug another proof of the identity of 'lie objects pursued by that Institution sod the British and Foreign Bible Society. Thin, yeses had not yet elapsed since the system of mutual instruction was first prornuL gated by Joseph Lancaster, within which period several millions of children had received th'e benefits of scriptural education. Lord Jotter RUSSELL rose. Ile said that he could hardly have presumed to present himself thus early to the meeting, were it not that his father had luid some care in the first establishment of the Society which they se-e then met to support; and that althoulth bit Nelle parent was unable, by indisposition, to attend that day to , testily the continuant eof his most ardent wishes for the success of the Sc&ete, he begged to assure his Royal Highness and the meet. kg, that his heart was present witli them ; ant he was himself bap.: Ipy a• the opportunity then afforded him, of decllring his atneh mint to an Imoitution, tehetioned no lees by the Loa:lies. tif itabb-: ject than by the illustrious patronage it received. They Vierd not then met together to prove to the world the unfits! that Society, ot t•i demonstrate the great benefits that w accrue to mankind by the enlightenment of the human mind. Those things were reitnowledged by all ; their goodonw admitted by all who had either in themselves experienced the bodge In.: luence of their operations, or had witnessed the ameliorating and happy effects produced by dint in others. I/id the, ever hear any man who had been educated say that lie regretted it, as annum stance fraught with calamity, and as a source of many of the illy 'which possibly he might have had to encounter? Or, on the other hand, did they ever hear any who had not been educa ted say it was their happiness, and that their social enjoyments were relished with a putter zest by the absence of an enlightened intellect? Cel t/duly not; therefore the present assembly must feel, that in *deo• ruing so philmothropic • cause as that of universal instruction, they were, in fact, greatly promoting the real happiness of the pow. His Lordship could not repress Ins joy at their having the con tinued support of his Royal highness; it. was an ineontedible proof that there prevailed a wish iti the hearts of Royalty to pro mote, by their own personal 'abeam, the welfare and happiness of the lower cleseeti • indeed It gave him unalloyed satisfaction, to con template how closely were the interests of the two grand classes of society interwoven with each other. Wealth and rank were not backward in mskirg this recognition; and the general diffusion of knowled_p would, ha trusted, more and more blend them together Wit h reg ard to the report which had been read, he could not help remarking, that while' there Were some thiap Sandalled in it which were calculated to make them rejifice, them wain others that had a yore di ff erent tendency. Ile s h o uld not touch upon smany of the point* containd in that report, but at that part of it which spoke of Ireland—unhappy Ireland I—he certainly felt considerable pleasure. When he reflected on the con dition of that ill-fated countij, whose portion it had been for mane age to drink deeply of the bitter waters or adversity,—when to thought upon the relates ha which that Island had long stood with respect to England, chilled anal oppressed by the wikintiest acts of power, with net one kindly sympathy shewn Mtwara her, and wheat he reflected that that relation was now going to bt tumid into be netolence on the o;:c hand, and gni...Bade on the other, he could rot I rodreln expressing his most ardent hopes, that the destiny of that country, was about to be changed, and dist the bond which ought ever to have naked her with this kingdom would at length be drawn , closer and Omer, until the happiness of the one Isle was identified with that of the odor, and the Immune both promoted, by one all-embracing system of an enlarged and liberal policy, founded on reciprocal confidence end good feeling. He had said there was on: part of the Report which he regretted. It appeared that there was a coldness existing on the part of some of the powers on the Continent tower& the scheme embraced by that Society. Education was contemplated by those powers as the fosterer of sedi tion, anti thin to have enlightened subjects was the same thing as having rebellious ones. But such opinions well bespoke the nature of the Governments which promulgated them. It was well known that Where the eatablishments of a country were liberal and en lightened, the education of the people would teach them to per oßve the advantages of those witablisdments and be the means of binding their allegiance more firmly, if pussilile, to their king, and drawing forth their attachment more *gin and devotedly to tbo laws and constitutions of their country. He was happy to perceive this tacit acknowledgment on the pertof devote to the overtoweving power of education, and to find that the enlightened portion of the world were thus held sworn and inveterate enemies to • every snecies of tyranny. It gave him pleasure to observe, that notwithstanding these partiaj obstructions, yet the die fosion of education was taking a tepid stride over the continent of Europe, and extending its benefits to the most distant parts of the world. The Noble Lord then moved the first re solution, which was, that the general diffusion of scriptural educa tion, b6th at home anti abroad, afforded great encouragement to the friends of knowledge, and called for gratitude to Almighty Clod, `who had so eminently blessed the measures adopted by that So ciety', and that the Report then read be approved and printed. T. F. Br :tow, Esq. M.P. rose to "wood the resolution. Us observed, that the Noble Lord hes mid that his motive for appear log before them was to testify the hereditary interest he felt towards the British and Foreign School Society. It had afforded hint, in deed, great pleasure, to see that cause, which had been and con tinued to be so well patronised by the father, so ably supported by the son. But his motive in coming before that meeting wee to declare his support to a Society towards which he had, he acknow ledged, long tell a very different attachment to what he then did. Belied not been an enemy; indeed, to the Society ; but, what the Report said was as bad, he had been a cold, suspicious, doubtieg, inactive friend ; and as doubts bad appeared to hitt% and direst views prevailed in his mind, perhaps he should not do amiss by t *hewing how he had differed, and in what those differences became removed. The object of the Society, as far as education was con e mod, had always been his favourite subject; but, in its diffu sion, he certainly hail entertained an opinion which circumstances bad since changed. Ile was once much with a gentleman whose judgment he was bound to approve, who always told him that there were three things detrimental to the poor, and that those *Teething' were—reading, Ailing, and arithmetic. (Laughter.) Ones soy petty theft was comituttid in the parish, he used so reds:no— " Thero—ses the fruits of educatioo--that conies of SenCbilt t i p m poor to write!" Or if ever husband and wife were known to e, he would say—" What wonder is it ; why they an both ? ' There was one thing, however, he used to say, which I man whir. could read and write could never do—he could never keep amonnw. "For instance," said he, "there was a man in my perish who could neither reed nor write, and yet he was • better keeper of accounts than any Other person in it. As the Hon. Gentleman was anxious to learn this curious method of book-keeping, which seemed to pos sess cunsidetabie notrity in Its plan, he went to the person's house, who shewed hint bis journals, ledgers, and waste-hooks,eurioedy manufactured in all respects, and with the same materials of a cheat of drawers. The* he examined, and found in one corner a numba• of peas, In another beans, here a few corns of wheat, and there of barley --and thus the learned arithmetician developed his syoteir.. Well all went on right enough, and his time ea a calculator thee rishesi ; but alas ! on one unlucky day a rat gut into the hooks, red made desperate havoc with the cash accounts, mernorandirms, te:d balance shectsuf our accountant, and all the line !nitric of horse-heal mathematics became depusited in the belly of the rat. Now edti- MINI could nut be thus devoured. The 11one:ruble Gentle:re" teem proceeded to state, that he hadknowu that the Society gave i- , • Auction, but he did not know whether it give the best ie. grunion. He always considered educabon to be of great ore; but mere education, without religious instruction, appeared tti him to be comparatively nothing. A child of good moral education, though incapable of reading a singe wad. was infinitely happier than he whose intellectual mind alone was informed, but whose moral nature remained debased. The Ho .. Gentleman then said, that he had been invited by some gendemea to attend the public e•amination of the boys at the central schools, and that he had accordingly done u'; the result of which was a cotivicion on his ' it, that the institution did, in the most ague factory manner, combing a religious with a general educatios, and that while he was supporting the British anti Foreign Bible Su -1 ciety. he was advancing the great cause of Christianity throughout the world. WM. EVANS, Eaq., moved the second resolution, being the thanks of the niectiiig to the different Auxiliary Societies. He • said, that having heard that his Koyal iligliness was likely to be dm pr i r aryft e raci nt a etl tito:ch at at t m end ste7 i t t i l i g t,,g. t t h hn i ie n s n gru iet oL t rta in e g .,li ..ise wight et z i . i .. d. w i enm nt m e . n. l finto telp ,it: fee swu l it i .b. : ,:x.re. g 7, the son of our late revered Mooatch. w ho, at • time when preju dices strongly ceis•ed, had expreseed an aketioutee and enlight ened wish, able to read the Bible. The Rev. Gentleman then bore testimony to the exemplary manner in which the bOyti ail 6rls had . ac that all his subject, deroughoott his dienisions might bo s ci a tt i i d t , u t s o l t see hem th se e lves den at usn t a he .r 7 hu buc t zlni y h a st r int so si mid ll es e luementelyted,by theho , 1 l l'