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THE CITE-RCM. T::e Rev. James Hamilton John Chichester, M.A. of Magdalene Collegth Cambridge', Chaplain to Earl Dal- Lous.e, and Rector of Arlington, Devon, has been instituted to the Rectory of Loshore, in the same county. Th e Rev, Daniel Nantes, M. A. of Trinity College, rambridgi, has been instituted to the Rectory of Powder- I Earn, Devon, void by the death of the Rev. Edward S•nedley. The - Rev. James Bi.ker, spiritual Chancellor of the dio o-re of Durham (son of the late B. Baker, Eaq. of Stam ford), has been preferred to the Rectory of Nuneham Ourtenav, Oxfordshire. Patron, Earl Harcourt. The following gentlemen of Cambridge University were erlained at Bristol, on the str3th ult. by the Lord Bishop of that diocese : DEACONS—Archibald Hamilton Duthie. M.A. Trinity lege; John Henry Bright, 8.A., St. John's College; George Au. gasiur Frederick Chic hester, rt.A. Downing College; John Pun. km 8.A.. Clare Hall; Edwin Windsor Boynton Sandy., M.. 1., 'trinity &live: 'Wni. thinning, S.C.L. Christ College ; and A u . giants Philip Clayton, 8.A., Cetus College. Parasrs—Morgan Deverriah, 8.A.. Jesus College; Henry Crsre Brim 8.A.„ Christ College; Wm. Johnson, B.A. Sidney sows colleges and Thomas Hollway, 8.A., St. John's College. The Lord Bishop of Bath and %Veils preached on Sun day in Bridgewater church, in aid of the funds of the In a:care; the colketion at the church doors was unprece tlentedly large. His Lordship immediately afterwards quitted Bridgewater for Banwell, a distance of 22 miles, where he preached the same afternoon in behalf of the pa• risk schools; after which a collection was made of upwards of 211. A handsome piece of plate has been presented by the Dr. Jobson, Vicar of Wished', as a mark of his eitcm, to the Rev. Wm. Ilardwicke, M.A., who for more, , thaa ten years officiated as Lecturer of that parish. THE ARMY. The 33a (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot has received orders to march, on Monday next, from Chatham to Portsmouth. Tbe depot of the 13th Regiment of Infantry embarked, on the 7th inst. on board the Zephyr transport, at Cowes, for Chatham. . Detachments of Invalids. belonging- to the Royal Ar tillery, the African Colonial Coro, and the 2d iVest India Regiment, arrived, on the sth instant, on board the Mar quis of Huntley, at fortrmouth, from the coast of Africa. _ _ OENERAL ED3II/ND STEVENS. The late Generel Sevens entered the service on the 6th of April, 1760, as a Cornet in the 21st Regiment of Dra goons. was appointed, on the 18th November, 1760, to the Ist Dragoons, obtained, on the 19th May, 1761, an En signey in the Cokistream Guards, was promoted, on 2d December, 1769, to a Lieutenancy in the same corps, and was appointed, on the 16th May, 1778, to / Company in the Ist Foot Guards. He obtained, on the Bth August, 1792, a Majority, and on the 7th May, 1793, a Lieutenant- Coloneley in the same corps; was appointed on the 11th of October, 1707, Colonel of the 65th Foot,-and succeeded on the 9th of February, 1814, to the Colonelcy of• the Bth Regiment of Infantry. He was appointed, on the 20th of November, 1782, Colonel in time Army, and Aide-de- Camp to the King; on the 14th of October, 1793, Major- General, on the latof January, 1798, Lieutenant-General, apa, on the 26th of September, 1803, was raised to be rank of General. BRADFORD COMBERS AND WEAVERS. [From the Leal* lodeMgt...arr..] The Bradford masters, some of whom have blamed Its for censuring their resolution to stop the mills, last week bore the best testimony possible to the justice of our opi nion. At a meeting at the Sun-Inn they determined to at the mills running again, and they are accordingly now at work. They also resolved to address a circular to the mas ters in the neighbouring towns, explanatory of their own v ews and requesting the co-operation of those whom they &thrum!. The object of the circular was to impress upon the worsted-spinners and manufacturers in Baildon, Bing ley, Cleckheaton, Darlington, Halifax, Keighley, Lao cuter, Leeds, Morton, Rochdale, Steeton, Sutton, and Wilsden, the necessity of uniting with those of Bradford in stopping their works altogether, and thus effect the sup pression of the workmen's Union. If the other masters should not concur in this plan, the Bradford manufacturers will then, it is said, give the advanced pricesrequired, and ' let things in consequence regulate themselves alterwards. The following letter we received last night from our cor ropondent in that town:— '• Bradford, Sept. 7, 1825. " Nothing of moment has yet been done by the masters, as I iappose the circulars addressed by their solicitor, Mr. Moulden, to the masters in the neighbouring towns and villages, desiring • defi nite answer to the proposition of the Bradford masten.to make com mon cause with them against the Union of the wool-conibers and weavers, had not been answered on Monday last t when they had a meeting), either by sufficient numbers, or in such • manner as to induce them to come to a determination either to continue the con test or to give the wages required. Their determination will very probably be made at their next meeting, and it is strongly anti. dpued that it will be to give the advance. In that case Keighley or HaLtax, or both, with the neighbouring villages, will be the scene or the next snake, unless the wages demanded be immediately Linz." IMPROVED AMERICAN STEAM-BOAT. There have been several objections raised against steam boats, as they arc generally constructed; and if by the adoption of the following, or any other plan, those objec tions can be obviated, we apprehend it will eno little be nefit, both to the proprietors and the public at large. j From the Philadelphia Freeman's Journal.] The Trenton steam-boat es constructed upon an entire new model. Her boilers rest upon the guards projecting over the water, from each side of the boat. This leaves the deck entirely unobstructed, and forms what may be called a premenade deck. The space usually occupied by the boilers is converted into convenient and elegant dress iug-ruems. Should any accident happen to the boilers, the water would be thrown directly into the river, and not in ti Inst injure the passengers; and, what is likewise im portant, the unpleasant and annoying degree of heat in the cabins is no lon;er felt. She was built at Hoboken, and it tea) be fearlessly asserted that the improvements in the arrangement and disposition of her machinery, are far greater than any that have been yet made since the intro duction of those boats into.our waters. The Turks Web' punished:a - Pirate by saying him Are. They began at the bead, but when they came to the breast, the man-died with the agony.—T'urner's Tour is the Leract. We understand that Captain Kitson, of the Royal En- Omura, has been sent to this town by the Honourable Board of Ordnance, to construct two large works, for the defence of this important port. The one to be erected on the Rock Perch will contain a number of very heavy guns, And krto be built of stone ; the other will be constructed on the site of the North Battery, on the North Shore.-- TA:Jr:dais Lieerpool Advertiser. .1 greater sensation was excited in this city (Exeter) Yesterday, than we recollect for many years, by the dis oirery of an embezzlement of cash and notes to au un heard of ester!, bv 111111 am Henry Ellis, a confidential shopman and c!erk in the employ of the very respectable house of Newman and Co. grown. He underwent hat rcning a long private examination before the Magistrates, id was remanded, with orders to be brought up again at o'clock this morning, when the examination was iv "red, which did not terrnfnate until three o'clock this fternoon, when he was fully committed for trial. The tilder by this man seems to have been systematic, and friction fur years, during which he has accumulated, iii Cali and notes to the amount of nearly 6,0001., rich were seized at his lodgings, amongst which there le above 10001. in silver, about 7001. in gold, together th AMC roletus of bank notes of 10001. in each, the sole of which has been lodged for safe custody in the teter Bank. The prisoner conducted himself with great rontery during the examination, and while being taken proun coolly made some remarks on the weather. He lent in stature, and has rather a feminine appearance.— cier Flying Fitt. HOSPITAL, SEPT. 7, 1323.—Monthly inn of Patients from Ist to 31st August, inclusive:— In-Patients admitted by letter - 128 ',el, Accidents - 24 149 107 149 290 139 170 Olt.Patients admitted by letter limo Accilltnis In.Petients dinehar4eil Itemeining in the Hos?ital which 4h0., 011)4 . 4 l i g d an .. eeci Mt) e aua".. ten )re 0 hew h= l . fie 1;c1 1' rarr `..Ya 1. 210 210 'ver 210 I:p2 1 195 vfic o ttr •ze istso • tfrc spo. D tc P rIC. tic room • It:, obit- rctr trio 1a R ti co ale LITRR4RY GLIIANINGS. No. XXVI. LAST HOURS or Sea WALTZ* RALEIGH. —The of the life of Sir Walter Raleigh was as extraordinary as many parts of his varied history : the promptitude and sprightliness of his genius, his carelessness of life, and the equanimity of that !great spirit in quitting the world, can only be paralleled by a few other heroes and sages : Raleigh was both ! But it is not simply his dignified yet active conduct on the scaffuld, nor his admirable speech on that occasion, circumstances by which many great men are judged, when their energies are excited for a moment to act PO great a part, before the eyes of the world assembled at their feet—it is na these only which claim our notice. We may pause with admiration on the real grandeur of Raleigh's character; not from a single circumstance, how-'• ever great, but front a tissue of continued little incident., which occurred from the moment of his condemnation till he laid his heed on the block. Raleigh was a man of such mark, that he deeply engaged the attention of his contem poraries; and to this we owe the preservation of several interesting Particulars of what he did and what he said, which have entered into his but all has not been told in the published narratives. Contemporary writers in their letters have set down every fresh incident, and eagerly caught up his sense, his wit, and, what is more delightful, those marks of the natural cheerfulness of his invariable presence of mind ; nor could these have arisen from any affectation or parade, for we shall see that they served him even in his last tender farewell to his lady, and on many unpremeditated occasions. Raleigh one morning was taken out of his bed, in a fit of fever, and unexpectedly hurried, not to his trial, but to !a sentence of death. The story is well known. Yet plead ing with " a voice grown weak by sickness, and an ague he had at that instant on his)," he used every means to avert his fate; he did. therefore, value the life he could so easily part with. His judges there, at least, respected their state criminal, and they addressed him in a far differ ent tone than he had fifteen years before listened to from Co xe. YE I. xiiTO el, the Attorney-General, said,—" Sir Walter Raleigh bath been as a star at which the world have gazed ; but stars may fall ; nay, they must fall s when they trouble the sphere where they abide . " And the Lord Chief Justice noticed Raleigh's great work :—" I know that you have been valiant and wise, and I doubt not but you retain both these virtues, for now you shall have occa sion to use them. Your book is an admirable work ; I would give you counsel, but I know you can apply unto Yourself far better than lam able to give you." But the Judge ended with saying, " execution is granted." It was stifling Raleigh with roses; and it was listening to fame from the voice of death. He declared, that now being old, and in disgrace, and " certain were he allowed to live, to go to it again, life was wearisome to him, and all he entreated was to have leave to speak freely at his farewell, to satisfy the world that he was ever loyal to the King, and a true lover of the commonwealth • for this lie would seal with his blood." Raleigh, on his return to his prison, while some were deploring his fate, observed, that " t he world itself is bat a larger visor:, out of which some are daily selected for execution." That last night of his existence was occupied by writing what the letter-writer calls " a remetnbrancer to be left with his lady," to acquaint the world with his sentiments, should he be denied their delivery from the scaffold, as he had been at the bar of the King a Bench. His lady visited him that night, and amidst her tears acquainted him, that she had obtained thefavour of disposirg of his body ; to which he answered, smiling, " It is well, Bess, that thou mayst dispose of that dead thou hadst not always the disposing of when it was alive." At midnight he intreated her to leave him. It must have been then that, with unshaken fortitude, Raleigh sat down to compose those verses on his death, which, being short, the most appropriate may be repeated : " Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth our joys, our all we have, And pays tis but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all out ways, Shuts up the story of our days !" lie has added two other lines expressive of his trust in his resurrection. Their authenticity is confirmed by the writer of the prevent letter, as well as another writer, in closing " a dozen verses, which Sir Walter made the night before his death, to take his farewell of poetry, wherein ho bad bees $ scribbler mu hew his youth." The enclosure is not now with the letter. Chamberlain, the writer, was an intelligent man of the world, but not imbued with any deep tincture of literature. It is peculiar in the fate Raleigh, that baying before suffered a long imprisonment with an expectation of a public death, his mind had been accustomed to its contem plation, and had often dwelt on the event which was now passing. The soul, in its sudden departure, and its future state, is often the subject of his pots : that most original one of The Farewell, On soul! the body's guest, Upon a thankless errand, die. is attributed to Raleigh, though on uncertain evidence. But another, entitled, " The Pilgrimage," has this beau tiful passage:— " Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My st!rof truth to walk upon, Illy scrip of Joy immortal diet ; My bottle of salvation ; My gown of glt,ry„ Hope's true gage ; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage— Whilst my soul, like a quiet Palmer, Travelleth towards the land of Heaven." Raleigh's cheerfulness was so remarkable, and his fear lesaness of death so marked, that the Dean of Westminster, who attended him, at first wondering at the hero, repre hended the lightness of his manner; but Raleigh gave God thanks that be had never feared death, for it was but an opinion and an imagination; and as for the manner of death, he had rather die so than of a burning fever ; and that some might have made shows outwardly, but he felt the joy within. The Dean says, that he made no more of his death than if he had been to take a journey; " Not," said he, " but that I am a great sinner, for I have been a soldier, a seaman, and a courtier." The writer of a ma nuscript letter tells us, that the Dean declared he died not only religiously, but he found him to be a man as ready and as able to give as to take instruction. On the nioniing of his death he smoked, as usual, his favourite tobacco, and when they brought him a cup of excellent sack, being asked bow be liked it, Raleigh an swered, " As the fellow, that, drinking of St. Giles's bowl, as he went to Tyburn, said, that was good drink if a man might tarry by it.' " The day before, in passing from IVestminster-hall to tht. Gate-house, his eye had caught Sir Bunn Berman in the throng, and calling on him, requested that he would see him die to-morrow. Sir Moon, to secure himself a seat on the scaffold, had pm vided himself with a letter to the sheriff, which was not read at the time, and Sir Walter found his friend thrust by, lamenting that lie could not get there. " Farewell !" exclaimed Raleigh, " I know not what shift yon will make, but lam sure to have t place." In going from the prison to the scaffold, among others who were pressing hard to see him, one old man, whose head was bald, came very forward, insomuch that Raleigh noticed him, and asked, " whether he would have aught of him ?" The old man answered, " Nothing but to see him, and to pray to God for him." Raleigh replied, " I thank thee, good friend, and I am sorr I have no better thing to return thee for thy good will . ' Observing his bald head, he continued, " but take this night-cap which was a very rich wrought one that he wore) for thou bast more need of it now than I." His dress, as was usual with him, was elegant, if not rich. OLDYS describes it, but mention - 4 that "he had a wrought night-cap under Ids hat," which we have other wise disposed of; his ruff-band, a black wrought velvet night-gown over a liair-coloured satin doublet, and a black wrought waistcoat; black cut taffety breeches, and ash coloured silk stockings. . _ . He ascended the sCaffuld with the same cheerfulness he , had passed to it ; and observing the Lords seated at a die tauce, some at windows, he requested they would approach him, as he wished what he had to sal , they should all wit ness. This request was complied with by several. Ills speech is well known ; but some copies contain matters not in others. When he finished, he requested Lord Any N`be that the King would not suffer any libels to defame him after death—" And now I have a long journey to go, and !must take my leave." "He embraced all the Lords and other friends with such courtly compliments, as if he had met them at some feast," says a letter-writer. Having, taken off his gown, be called to the headsman to show him the axe, which not being instantly don. he repented, " prithee let me see it. DOB/ thou think dial lam afraid cf it?" He passed the edge lightly over his finger, anti smiling, observed to the Sheriff, " This is a sharp medi cine, but a sound cure for all diseases," and kissing it, laid , it down. Another writer has, " This is that that will cure all sorrows." After this he went to three several corners I of the scaffold, and kneeling down, desired all the people to I pray for him, and recited a long prayer to himself. When be began to fit himself for the block, he first laid himself doWn to try how the block fitted him ; after rising up, the executioner kneeled down to esk his forgiveness, which italeigh with an embrace did, but entreated him not to strike till he gave a token by lifting up his haiul, " and than fear not, hid strike home!" When he laid his head down to reoeiVe the stroke, the executioner desired him to lay his face towards the east. "It was no great matter which way a man's head stood so the heart lay right." said Ra leigh: but these were not his last words. He was once more to speak in this world with the same intrepidity as he had lived in it—for, having lain some minutes on the block in prayer, he gave the signal ; but the executioner, either unmindful or in fear, failed to strike, and Raleigh, after once or twice putting forth his ha ids, was compelled to ask him, " Why dost thou. not strike? Strike, man !" In two blows he was beheaded; but fram the first, his body never shrunk from the spot by any discomposure of his posture, which, like his mind, was immoveable, In all the time lie was upon the scaffold, and before, says one of the manuscript letter-writers, " there appeared not the least alteration in him, either in his voice or coun tenance; but he seemed as free from all manner of appre hension as if he had been come thither rather to be spectator than a sufferer ;—nay, the beholders seemed much more sensible than did he, so that he hath purchased here in the opinion of men such honour and reputation, as it.is thought his greatest enemies are they that are racist sorrow ful for his death, which they see is like to turn so much to his advantages" The people were deeply affected at the eight, and so much, that one laid, that we had not such another head to cut off;" and another " wished the head and brains to Ibe upon Secretary Naunton's shoulders.izen, and great " The observer , suffered for this; he was a wealthy cit news monger, and one who haunted Paul's-walk. Complaint was made, and the citizen summoned to the Privy Council. He pleaded that he intended no disrespect to Mr. Secretary; but only spake in reference to the old proverb, that " two heads were better than one!" His excuse was allowed at the moment ; but when afterwards called on for a contri bution to St. Paul's Cathedral, and having subscribed a hundred pounds, the Secretary observed to him, that " two are better than one, Mr.Wiemark !" either from fear or charity the witty citizen doubled his subscription. Thus died this glorious and gallant cavalier, of whom °shone says, "his death was managed by him with so high and religious a resolution, as if a Roman had acted a Christian, or rather a Christian a Roman."—D'lsraeli, TliE MAN OF Ross.—Mr. JOHN KYRI.E, commonly known by the name of the Man of Ross, was a native of that place, which is situated in the county of Hereford. He died in the year 1724, at the age of ninety, and was buried in the chancel of the chu rc h at Ross. He was a bachelor, possessed of five hundred pounds a-year, of which there is a tradition that he spent only fifty pounds: for the support of himself. He distributed medicines to' the poor gratis, and, when the advice of a physician was necessary, he sent for one at his own expense. lie re deemed poor debtors from prison, and gave them small sums to begin trade with. In almost all disputes he acted as a mediator, and prevented the parties from going to law. He bought all sorts of coarse cloth, which he canoed to be made for the use of the poor, and distributed to them meat and bread. So celebrated was he in his time for hie sin gular virtues, that Pore, whore voice was fame, cele brated him in the following poetical dialogue : But all our praises why should Lords engross? Rise, honest Muse! and stag THE MAN or Rossi Plcas'd Vega echoes thro' her winding bounds, And rapid Severn hoarse applause resounds. Who hung with wood, yon mountain's sultry brow? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns cost, Or in proud falls magnificently lost, But clear and artless, pouring through the plain • • Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. • Whose causeway parts the vale whit shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose? Who taught that heav'mditected spire to rise? " THE MAN or Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the M arket - place with poor o'erspread ! ilasilax or Ross divides the weekly bread . ) De feeds yod alms-house, neat, b ut vo id o f auk, Where age and want ad smiling at the gate ; llitn portion'd maids, &pounded orphans blest, • The young who labour and the old who rest. Is auy sick? Tut MAN OF Ross relieves, • Preset ibes, attends, the med'cioe makes a nd gives. Is there a variance ? Enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts. and contest is no more. Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now en useless race. R. Thrice happy man ! enabled to pursue What all so wish, but want the pnw'r to do ! Oh say, what sums that gett'eous band supply ? What mines to swell that boundless charity ? P: Of debts and taxes, wife and children dear, This man possest—five hundred pounds a-year : Blush, grandeur, blush! proud courts, withdraw your blaze ! Ye little stars, hide your diminish'd rays. H. And what ? no monument, inscription, stone ? His race, his form, his name almost unknown ? P. Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name: Go, 'search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the histcry Enough that virtue fills the space between, Prov'd by the ends of being to have been. Dr. Jotinsox, however, with an air of sceptical shrewd ness, observes, that " this praise of Kvat.E, the MAN of Ross, deserves particular examination, who, after a long and pompous enumeration of his public works and private charities, is said to have diffused all those blessings from ! Eve hundred a-year. Wonders are willingly told and wil- 1 lingly heard. The truth is, that KYULE was a man of known integrity , and active benevolence, by whose solicita tion the wealthy were persuaded to pay contributions to his charitable schemes. This influence he obtained by an 1 , example of liberality exerted to the utmost extent of his power, and was thus enabled to give wore than he had. This account Mr. Victor received from the minister of the place, and I have preserved it, that the praise of a good man being made snore credible, may be more solid. /star. rations of romantic and impracticable virtue will be read with wonder; but that which is unattainable is recom mended in vain: that good may be endeavoured, it must be shown to be possible." There is an old portrait, painted on a wooden panel, over the fire-place in one of the parlours belonging to the Ki No's ARMS INN, at Ross, known by the name of the, MAN OP Ross's HOUSE. When or by whoni it wac! painted, does not appear. Probably it was placed there: when Mr. Kyrie resided at the above house. The first Annual Meeting of the Chester Auxiliary So ciety for Promoting Christianity among the Jews was held or. Tuesday evening, in the Town Hall. The flail was filled with a respectable assembly, the greater part (as is generally the case at Bible Meetings) were females, many of them ladies of rank and consideration in the city and county. The Earl of Rocksavage presided. The bridge of iron rods thrown across the Rhone, uniting Tourimn to Tain, was opened to the public on the '23d of August. It was a day of rejoicing all over that part of the country. The strength of it had been tried on the evening previous. It has now been proved that on fifteen months a bridge fit for every purpose may be built across the Rhone for 200,000 francs (8,0001.), uniting solidity with a lightness and beauty not to be imagined without basing seen it.—ConstiletiortneL SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Friday last on inquest was held in Stamford raron, on the body of Stephen Black, aged 29 years, who was run over by the Express coach about twelve o'clock the preceding night, near to Horn•lane toll bar, on the north road. It appeared that the deceased lay in the centre of the turnpike-road when the accident happened, having, it is supposed, fallen into a fit as he was proceeding homewards. Ile was a labour ing man with a wife and two children, and his occupation was that of digging atone fir the road in the pits near Strctton. Verdict—" Accidental Death," with a nominal &Wand. The deceased was well known by the name of Ramsey, and it is remarkable that his father was killed on near the same spot by a similar accident a few years ego.--- Lincoht Allercury. A SIONDRRD YEARS AGO. The following curious and correct sketch of the manner of li4ing in London in 11Qt,, is given by a sensible writer of the name of Als city, and is extracted from his " Jour ney through England," a work which has now become very @carte : " lam nudged in the street called Pall-mall, the ordi nary resitlenke of all strangers, because of its vicinity to the .King's 'ilulace, the Park, the Parliament Home, the theatres, and •the chocolate and coffee-house, where the best company frequent. If you would know our manlier of living, it is thus: we rise by nine, and these that fre quent great men's. levees find entertainment at them till eleven, or, as in Holland, go to tea-tables. About twelve the beau-monde assembles in several chocolate and coffee= houses, the best of which are the Cocoa-tree and White's chocolate-houses, St. James's, the Smyrna, and the British cape -house, and all thee: so near one another, that in less than an hour you see the company of them all. We are carried to these place:: in chairs (or sedans), which are here very cheap, a guinea a week, or a shillirg per hour, and your chairmen serve you for porters to run on errands is ; your gondoliers (wateeciesi) do at Venice. If it be fine weather, we take a turn in the Park till two, when we go to dinner ; and if it be dirty, you ate en tatcained at picket or basset at White's, or you may talk politics at the Smyrna and St. James's. I must not torget to tell you that the parties have their different places, eAere, however, a stranger is always well received ; but a Wig will no more go to the Cocoa-tree or Ozind4s, than a Tory will be seen at the coffee-house of St. James's. " The Scots go generally to the British, and a mixture of all sorts to the Smyrna. There arc other little coffee . :uses much frequented in this neighbourhood. "At two we generally go to dinner: ordinaries are not so common here as abroad P • yet the French have set up two or three petty good ones, for the eonvehiency of foreigners, Iv uffidk-street, where one is tolerably well served; but , general way here is to' make a party at the coffee ' house, to go dine at the tavern, where we sit till sir, that we go to the, play; except you are invited to the taLle of some great man, which strangers are always courted to, anti nobly entertained. " There are three very noble theatres here: thit for Operas at the end of the Pall-mall, or Hay-market, is the finest I ever. saw, and where we n:e entertained in Italian music generally twice a-week : that for history, tragedy, and comedy, is in Covent-garden (a Piazza I shall describe to you in the sequel of this letter), and the third for the sante, is by Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, at a small distance from the other. " The theatres hero differ from those abroad; in that those at Venice, Paris, Brussels, Genoa, and other parts you know, are composed of rows of small shut boxes, three or four stories in a semi -circle, with a parterre below ; whereas here the parterre, commanly called the pit, contains the gentlemen on benches ; and on thefirst story of boxes sit all the ladies of quality; in the second, the citizens wives and daughters;, and in the third, the common people and footmen ; so that between the acts ybu are as much diverted by viewing the beauties of the au dience, as, while they act, with the subject of the play ; and the whole is illuminated to the greatest advantage. Whereas abroad, the stage being only illuminated; and the lodge or boxes close, you lose the pleasure of seeinp the company ; indeed the English have reason in this, foi no nation in the world can show such an assembly of shining beauties as here. " The English affect more the Italian than the French music ; and their own compositions are between the gra vity of the first, and the levity of the other. They have had several great masters of their own ; Henry Purcel's works in that kind are esteemed beyond Lully's every where; and they have now a good many very eminent masters: but the taste of the town being at this day all Italian, it is a great discouragement to them. " No nation represents history so raturally, so much to the life, and so close to truth, as the English ; they have most of the occurrences of their own history, and all those of the Roman Empire, nobly acted. One Shakapeare, who lived in the last century, laid down a masterly founda tion for this in his excellent plays: and the late Air. Ad ' dison hath improved that taste by his admirable Cato, which bath been translated into several languages, par ticularly into Italian blank verse, and is frequently acted to Italy. " Their comedies are designed to lash the growing fol lies in every age; and scarce a fool or a caxeoinb appears ht town, but his folly is represented. And moat of their same:liars, in imitation of Moliere, have taken that pro vince; in which Mr. Cibber, an extreme good player, bath succeeded very well. " They seldom 'degenerate into farce, as the Italians; nor do they confine their tragedies to rhyme and whining, as the French. Br short, it' you would see the greatest actions of past ages performed over again, and the present .follies of mankind exposed, you must come here. " After the Play, the best company generally go to Tom's and Will's coffee-houses, near adjoining, where there is playing at picket, and the best of conversation till midnight. Here you will see blue and green ribbons and, stars sitting familiarly with private gentlemen, and talking with the same freedom, as if they bad left their quality and tlef , r ees of distance at home: and a stranger tastes with pleasure the universal liberty of speech of the Eng lish nation. Or, if you like rather the company of ladies, there are assemblies at most people of quality's houses. And in all the coffee-houses yin have not only the foreign prints, but several English ones with the foreign occur rences, besides papers of morality and party disputes. " My bills of exchange oblige me now and then to take a turn to the Royal Exchange, in a hackney-coach, to meet my merchant. These coaches are very necessary conveni etudes not to be met with any where abroad; for you know that at Paris, Brussels, Rome, or Vienna, you must either hire a coach by the day, or take it at least by the hour; but here you have coaches at the corner of every street, which for a shilling will carry you any where within a reasonable distance; and for two, from one end of the City to the other. There are eight hundred of them licensed by Act of Parliament, and carry t heir number on their coaches ; so that, if you should chance to leave any thing in a coach, and know but the number of it, you know presently where to lay your claim to it ; and be you ever so late at a friend's house in any place of this great city, your friend, by taking the number of the coach, secures your safety home. "The Rover. Exert ANC r is the resort of all the trading part of this city, foreign and domestic, from half an hour after one, till near three in the afternoon ; but the better sort generally meet in Exchange-alley a little before, at three celebrated coffee-houses, called GA ItRAWAY'S, Ro- BIN'S, and JONAT H A N'S. In the first, the people of qua lity who have business in the city, and the most consider able and wealthy citizens frequent. In the second, the Foreign Banquiers, and often even Foreign Ministers. And in the third, the buyers and sellers of stock. " You will ace a fellow in shabby clothes selling ten or twelve thousand pounds in stock, though perhaps he may not be woith at the same time ten shillings, and with as I much zeal as if he were a Director, which they call selling a BEARSKIN ; and these men Sod bubbles enough to get bread by it, as the others do by gaming ; and some few of them manage it so, as to get pretty large estates. " Near this Exchange are two very good French eating houses, the one at the sign of Pontack, a President of the Parliament of Bordeaux, from whose name the best French clarets are called so, and where you may bespeak a dinner from four or lice shillings a-head to a guinea, or what sum you please ; the other is Caveack's, where there is a constant ordinary, as abroad, for all corners without distinction, and at a very considerable price. " I am told, that while wagers were allowed to he made on taking of towts, and gaining of battles, during the last war, this Exchimge-alley was the sharpest place in the world ; but the almoe of intelligence, sham letters spread upon the Exchange, and private letters coming before the mails, made that practice so notorious, that the Queen and Parliament wisely thought fit to put a stop to it by a sea sonable provisional Act against it, as they have endea voured to do by another Act against excessive gaming, being both equally looked on as a cheat and imposition upon the well-meaning subject. However, some great men have not disdained to be deeply concerned in both, and have got good estates : for tricking is not here reckoned so despicable a quality as abroad, when it is cleanly done ; therefore, try friend, when you come here, play not in England, nor venture to lay wagers, except you know your company very well, or are sure of your fact. The fatal South Sea scheme, and the wicked execution of it, proves what I foretold yini to be too true." Was there ever This is a question being as he bids his frame braced beautiful Septemi which there is never, perhaps, genial, that the March dust was and kindly bid sluggard ; and was speedily nui the dripping stn beams of May. iner glory; ;iui heat; August auspices, the gri pastures, whose , __mg _ the wear, were prankcd in a second holyday suit of green. And now we have September, chilly, indeed, as befits Ins character, but in every thing else as kind and considerate as the best of his predecessors. The leaf may be sear, but it has not yet fallen, and nothing can exceed the appearance of Nature even as seen in our northern clime. '1 he skirts are still without a cloud—the streams limpid—the meadows green—tile mornings healthful—the evenings beautiful beyond description. Day closed sooner in the west; but when the sun sinks behind the hill, and evening effaces the last faint traces of the gorgeous throne.he had roused around him, the " bonny lady moon" diffuses far and wide her chastened radiance, And leaves us little cause to regret that a greater luminary has retired from the scene. Under her influence the patient husbandman can prolong his labours ; and it is pleasant to hear at the hour of vespers the waits rustling along the stubble field, or the swain, as he up. heaves one by one the lusty sheaves to their app o i n t e d place in the ba rn -y a rd, anticipating the joys of lespeerga home. Now, therefore, is the time to travel—to trireme. highland lochs and hills, or even districts that are only in teresting from their great fertility—to rejoice in the altered circumstances and prospects of the poor. • In feet, it is now universally admitted, that over the whole southern (iirition of the kingdom, every kind of grain is above an average, and though very few parcels have been brought to market, not a doubt can exist that it will both weigh and mill well. We have beard of wheat that, even in the soft state, weighs fully sixty-one ' pounds, and, after it is fairly dried and hardened, the average will probably be sixty-three. Smut, rust, and blight, are althost totally unknown, and slate harvest could be said to be at all general, the weather has been so un usually warm andelry,rhat a heated stack would be a per fect phenomenon. In rainy seasons much loss is occasioned, and expense incurred, by the frequent opening up of the sheaves, but one binding has sufficed this year ; And though we bad trio stormy days in the middle of August, the damage done by shaking was very inconsiderable. Regarding prices, it is difficult to speak with any thing like certainty; the farmers are too busy in the fields to pay much attention to the barn-floor, and the shippers, who have been resting on their oars for weeks past, will, in all-proba bility, continue tarn so for weeks to come. In London and Liverpool, wheat has declined about 3d. and oats about Id. the Winchester bushel ; but this was to be expected, and though the fall should be much more considerable (and there will be a greater fall at first) the farmer has no occa sion to feel alarmed, for reasons we stated not bang ago. Fat stock keeps wonderfully up in price, and if we may judge from our own and some other markets, the demand for lean beasts is again reviving. Lambe have sold un commonly well ; wool, whether laid or unlaid, brings double what it was worth in 182`-2, and, altogether, it would be difficult to point out a period of out history that promised better for the whole country. In some parts of the country, the crops ripened so ra pidly that there was a lack of hands to cut them down. In this way higher wages were obtained in inland districts than in the immediate neighbourhood of considerable towns; but still 2s. per day, with Id. or 2d. allowed for milk, may be taken as the highest price given in Dumfries shire, and fnern what we have heard, the rate has not vie tied greatly in most other parts of Scotland. From what ever reuse, far fewer Irish shearers appeared than usual, and that not in one, but in many counties ; and this deser tion of our old visiters we are inclined to regard as a happy omen for the people of Ireland. ~~ fi ... • , , . . VIE PIINSENT! SEASON'. . • [From the Dumfries Courier.] ever a season so favourable as the present ? Ilion which quivers on the lip: of every human ds his friend or neighbour good-day, and feels' :ed by the invigorating influence of another tembet morning—a question, moreover, to - I is one, and only one, unvarying answer— in the memory of mair. The Spring was so c cleaning process suffeed no interruption ; as a common commodity; the aced got a dry .d ; weeds grew only in the garden of the 1 the b;tird, however, delicate at the fir.t, 2 • ursed into strength and luxuriance, both by bowers of April, and the alternate ;Jews and June followed in all the radiance of his summa Illy diffused a still greater portion of !alai wept as well as smiled, and under her kind r • ;rain was not only completely tided, but the le clothing seemed the worse for the wear, NEW DISTILLERY LAWS. The changes made in the Distillery Lawa, by Acts of last Sescion, &c. are likely to be of the most beneficial ten dency. About half a dozen of the English distill, , s, with perhaps a million at their command, have been in the habit of dictating to the market and sie consumer ; and they therefore may not be very well eased with the infringe-. ment upon their monopoly, not Only by allowing the use of much smaller stills than were heretofore legalized, but in permitting the Scotch chanter to send his manufacture to England for sale and consumption. This was a complete triumph of the Scotch over the English distiller ; or ra ther, it was a signal and resolute act of justice and poli c y in ie Chancellor of the Exchequer in breaking down old precedents, crippling monopoly, and equalizing the laws and the advantages of the two countries. The character of the change is that which few of the'public are capable of appreciating. The whole provisions of the chief Act will take effect in the course of two or three months. The most important change, perhaps, is that which will, after January next, remove the restriction as to the article to be used by distillers—they will no longer be limited to corn. They may then use molasses, sugar, ruin, &c. or whatever they can procure the requisite spirit from. The first great advantage of these changes undoubtedly is, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has had the coinage and the good fortune to be able to kick from before him same musty, unscientific, and impolitic precedents, by which most regulations on this subject were heretofoie guided. This has cleared his way a little for future operations. The next benefit (without dwelling on that of legalizing smaller stills) will result from no longer trammelling the distiller as to the article he shall use. If corn be cheap. he will purchase that article; if sugar be a drug in the market, and consequently low in price, he becomes a pur. chaser of sugar; and similar will be the case with rum, &c. Such purchasee will improve the markets for all those articles ; and by such operations those interests that require relief, from their produce being a drug, will find it in in creased demand, which will of course tend to improve their pricis. The distiller will of course, if the law permit him, resort to that article in the market which is the cheapest; so great a customer appearing there, requiring, as he does, such large supplies, must relieve the market, and thus where the market most wants relieving, where ankh" are a drug, or low priced, the purchases of the distiller will ex tend the required aid. The duties are still to be levied on the wash, not on the spirits; a change on this point has been urgently pressed on. the Chancellor of Exchequer, by those most conversant with the subjcc d as he ha 4 made so good a beginning for the distillers a the country generally, should the policy of the required alteration in the mode of collecting the duties be proved to 111 r. Robin son, doubtlessly no long time will elapse before it he re commended to Parliament. The present beautiful season has attracted a greater number of fashionable tourists to the Giant's Causeway (for the purpose of viewing this natural curiosity), than has ever been recollected on any precediagoceasions—lriLi Paper. To RESIOVI UNPLEASANT ODOUIS.—The unpleasant P bt a t i t n t t u i l e xi be o s f t w r a e re o r v l e-dbl daced li v ni en e :i l la o t t io i n tew ; i i i n al t e he am a d pa a r t t m me s n li t il w er d e l act more rapidly ; with this inconvenience, however, that the gloss of the paint will be destroyed. Unpleasant smells from water-closets, ozall articles of furniture connected !with them, may be modified by the application of lime enter, to which, may be added the soap suds that hare ' been used in washing, which neutralize the pungently of fensive salts : a little quick-lime put into a night-chair will destroy all disagreeable effluvia. Aromatic pas ilea of the following composition may be butned with gr..; success ; take of camphor, flowers of bensoin, powdered charcoal, powdered camellia bark, powdered Turkey myrrh, and powdered nitre, each equal quantities ; beat them with syrup sufficient to forma mass, and divide into tiles of a conical shape. They may be mixed up with I P" ' turpentine ( fi l edoil) sprit of turpentine t !vett or any thing that is infiamtr.able. Syrup does best, uit is must adhesive. ell lid Ili. KO T. : to ear the rho I be Ith- ard. d do Tho I the into e CT. ming few d:c 1 7. t . xllOl. miles The➢ — The Ken 0 th $1 6 etch ' . t