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((conquests. Thus Austria is quite out of the question as soon as Russia and England came to an agreement ol the subject. As f•tr France her means of opposing these designs would be formoishle, If the nation were unanimous. Besides England has been in formed 1 , i ts in agents in Egypt and °NKR, that the negotiations of the French 31inistry in favour of Mehemet Ali and lbrahim Paths have for their object to assist Egypt, in forming an independent Mooorchy, in which French influent. should prevail over that of the English. The English cabinet has no confidence in a policy which meads officers and soldiers to the broke of the N.le. Thus Vitae and Metternich would derive no adiantort from their blichivelian policy with legated to the (links, Luc the discrncefuy result of being obliged silently toots:tar in the decisions of others. I: is supposed that the two powers would gusrante: to the Porte the resumption of its full authority in Egypt ; that the P.flopor sous. with the islands. would be given to the English, Moldavia std Wallachia to the Ruosians. These provinces would then bream the asylums of the (heck nation, who would live there iler their own laws, but under the protection of the two allied ruffs. England and Busts would immediately occupy these provinces, and afterwards invite the Porte to accede to these sr. rsagentots. The Porte would name Ibrahim to the Government of Janina or Larissa, and Mehemet Ali to the Government of Inuosseus, in crier to watch the remains of the Wehabitev. It would oblige the Pacha to disband his French slid Italian trait a. ggypt.erould be divided between two new Pschas, and if Mehemet awed to di• obey, he would be abandoned by the Turks and Alba. e ids, as Ali Pecha formerly was. FRISCH Fauna.--..PAIIIS. APRIL IS —Five pre Cents., 961. Y,c.; Three per l'ents.„ flit. 7k. ; Hank Stock. 2.0101.4 Re to ee Naples, 73f. Rio .; /loyal sponish Low, 4.11 e on london, one month, 261. Wes. ; Three ditto, W. 3.c.—Ceara .4 sttentiyae. W c have received letters from venom; correspondents, eall uur et - anion to the unprecedented number of petition, Cut have been recently presenetl to both Houses, praying t r the abolition sr slavery in our W..at India Colonies. We think the e lilt of most meet, who are accustomed to reflect and to Ti SSW, must by this time be pretty well mad, up upon this topic. No one can have looked much abroa I In the world without petceising that upon this, as upon uthsr subjects, there is a considerable portion of oltr:1 hu amity afloat—a sort of humanity, that those who watch it tu all its operations may very easily distineuish from those kindlier feelings o' the heart, the owne - of which, —thcugh alwa s alive in doing good--iltes it in the spirit of real usefulness—elooking before and after—and taking a steady gal comprehensive survey of what consequences are in volved in the exercise of its beneficence. Unquestionably a sound, satiate), and well-regulated freedom, is good for all men, white mud black. No one could sit down, at this time of day, to write an essay upon theblessings of slavery ; but as little would any man of common sense be inclined to enter into an offcusive alliance against the West India Cob - ts s. What, then, are we to shut the door against all improvement Gf the Negro's condition? Are we to perpe tate slave labour? No; we certainly ought not to do either the one or the other. But, to improve the condi tion of the plantation Negro to any real or useful purpose , we must first cultivate his character, habits, and modes or thinking. To turn him loose upon society is not to give Isinn freedom. Thus to act would be as unwise on every principle of particular policy as of general justice. Th abolitionists are brimful of commiseration for the black ser %ants, but thew very little consideration for the fate of the white masters. They describe a system of oppression which has long since passed away, as if it was actually In full force, and they go on to exasperate us with details of hard ships that have no real existence. But we must take their pathetic accounts with great abatement ;—we must take them, not cues croon sulls merely, but with a whole bushel. " Excessive toil," says Mr. STEPHEN, in his ' 51e:eery of the West India Colonies delineated,' " excessive toil, hunger, pain, imprisonment, exile, and every poesib's species of human sufferance, are inflictions within the legal range of the master's authority."—Within the legal range! Really the writer takes great liberties with matter of fact. Who but must wish well to the cause of revolt among the Negroes if this representation were true? But these state ments have been confuted over and over again. IVhat pur pose can such fabrications answer?—what purpose can they be intended to answer ?—but to embroil the West Indians with the Government at home, and at the same time to ex cite all our worst prejudices against the Colonists. It is not sarprising that the latter should express themselves somewhat angrily under all this irritation. Lord DcDL!T and W•un, in his excellent speech on Friday evening, in the House of Lords, on presenting a petition from the Brant of Council of Assembly, in the Island of Antigua, ad- Joined that" The petitioners indulged in expressions which might, perhaps, be consider( d as harsh against a certain class of persons in this country, who were known as aboli• tionists; but whilst he acknowledged that some of the ex pressions contained in the petition might be so considered. Le thought it just to observe, that the Colonists themselves had been the objects of unmeasured invectives; and it was not to be wondered at if they had not confined them selves within proper bounds when speaking of their oppo nents." Assuredly the abolitionists, when we consider the piny to which they more especially belong, might at least se the example of Christian temper in the discussion. As it is, they only provoke the Proprietors to contumacy, while they goad the Blacks to rebellion. It is not good to make wild experiments upin human rature. A sable population of nearly a million, with a omparatively few white inhabitants, is not a community ta be rashly tampered with. The Negroes enjoy many and great comforts, and they are grateful for them. The work of emancipation is gradually going on, and we wish well to its progress; in the mean time, let not the West Ind'a proprietors be defrauded of that esteem to which they are justly entitled for their exertions, both as it respects the moral and civil condition of their slaves, and the laws passed for their protection. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. A great deal of the attention of jobbers and speculators has been occupied in the making up the subscription foo the funding, which closed to-day at one o'clock. The New scrip has been done at about 4 premium, and at one time there was considerable anxiety evinced by persons in tile Cashiers' Office to set down their name. as subscribers. consols were in a feverish state throughout the day, open ing at 7911, and after being done at the intermediate prices closing at 76;. This depression may be caused by the' funding upnalitm, and also by the advices from the country this morning, which speak by no means favourably of the rate of trade in mail districts during the last ten days. Bank Stock W[:4 tl(re ; India ditto 20 ; Exellecitter Bills Cs.es. pretn. ; and India Bonds 6s. prem. It bas been a matter of surprise that the notice to fond eight millions of Exchequer Bills, whi was announced at the Stock Exchange last Wednesdaftsobas produced so trifling a fluctuation in the price of Stocks. But the Mi nister.' intention having been so long known, it is presumed that the Moniol Interest has been quite prepared to meet it. The prie. , of Consols. wh , n the funding was announced, was 79i on the following day (Thursday) they reached 501 4, and nit nn uu SdIllt• evening to 79_; from which price to 794, they ha ve s i nce fl uctuated, and they left off oat Saturday at 79i, both for money and time. A great quan tity of stock, for time, has been sold by the speculators, who are sanguine in their expectation of a fall ; but while there exists so great a scarcity of money stock of all (It itriptions, we cannot foresee any great alteration in the Stocks, unless any political event should intervene, or un less the commercial world should he again visited with the scenes of distress and difficulty from which it has now, at least in some degree, recovered. The report of a new 10311 for Colombia has seriously af fec.eti the South American Stocks. The bonds of that State were to-day at 38, but they afterwards rallied and were quoted at 40, 41; Mexican 6 per cents fell to SS, but they also sully (latently recovered and left off at 60. Chi ban bonds were 38, 60, and Peruvian ditto 2s. We understand that the Peruvian Minister in London is most aoxions that the money affaits of the Peruvian Go vernment should be immediately investigated. Ile was no party to the loin, but he vv ill afford every facility, as to information,, on ally point connected with the important atraire of the loan and dividend. Illissian Stock has declined to 751; Greek bonds were 14, IS, and Spanish ditto 91. There baa been a further fall in the French Funds, probably arising from the ru mours in circulation in Paris about the Russian ultimatum to the Porte. TheS per cents. on Friday were at 96f. ISc. ; S per cents, 64f. 40c. The anwunt cf Exchequer Bills sent into the Bank yes terday, pur►uant to the Treasury circular which we pub lished in our last, was, we understand, 8,84.2,0u0t. A Gentleman has just landed at Dover from Calais. who left Constantinople on the 2341 ult. Ile states that Misso longhi was not then taken, but it was expected to fall dsily. Tile scenes of human butch , ry between the Turks and Cheeks he describes as shocking in the extreme. In one of the Gre k islands which was conquered by the Turks, the whole of the inhabitant', 3000 souls, were put to death ; after which the Greeks retook it, and finding there about 6000 Turks. massacred them without quarter. The bodies were left in heaps above ground, but did not become offen sive on account of their being literally parched and the in tense heat of the sun.—Cinque Ports Herald, April 15. By an extraordindy conveyance, accounts reached Lon don yeatt rday from Constantinople. to the 21st ult. The English Ambassador, Mr. Stratford Canning,hstl been well rective.l; he hail delivered his credentials, and hail several interviews with the Turkish Minister. The Divan had many secret sittings, reported to be of the highest interest, as to the affairs of Russia and the I;reeks. The Turkish Government had granted a day of audience, (the 22d March), to Mr. Stratford Canning, when affairs of the ut most importance were expected to be discussed. _ . Private letters from Lisbon state that the Secretary of Sir Charles Stuart was daily expected from Brazil, charged with a secret mission of great importance. The commu iication with England was almost daily. It is said that in addition to the fifty millions of crusadas, in gold coin, left by the King, there are two millions in gold bars, two mil lions in gold (lest, and a leather bag full of diamonds, of inestimable value. We have received Gibraltar Papers to the lot instant.— On Saturday (25th March) at half-past one p. m., his Ex cellency the Marquis of Hawn NGS and suite re-embarked con board the Herald, and immediately afterwards proceeded on their return to Malta. Ills Excellency was received by guards of honour from the 64th and 43d Regiments, at the Convent and the new Mole, and saluted with 19 guns. 1 t is stated, in a letter from St. Petersburgh, that the Russian army is ti be reduced. The saving will be fifty millions of rubles annually, although the pay of the re mainder will be increased. The American S rate have confirmed the nomination of Richard C. Anderson, of Kentucky, and John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, as Commissioners on the part of the United States, to attend the deliberations of the Congress; and Wm. B. Rochester, of New York, is appointed Secretary to the Mission. The question on the expediency of the Mission was determined by a vote of 2t to 19. The no mination of Mr. Anderson, by a vote of 27 to 17 ; and that of Mr. Sergeant by a vote of 2.6 to 18. . . A Leeward Island and a Brazil mall were received in Glosgow last week. By the former we received Trinidad and Barbrdoes papers to the Ist March. Some alarm had been occasioned at Barbadoes from a quantity of powder having been stolen front a powder magazine, and from the fact of several fires having occurred in different places in the island. The weather continued to be exceedingly wet and bois terous throughout the islands. We are glad to see the colonial press, so long sunk in apathy, rousing itself to de fend their cause, and to repel and to refute the slanders and poisoned darts of their adversaries. Truth will at last prevail, and dispel the clouds of error and ignorance.— The letters by the Leeward Island Mail come down to the loth March, from St. Thomas, and from other islands to corresponding dates. The commercial accounts are not very cheering. Bills are not to be had in Colombia, and though money is to he had, it cannot be brought away from the country. The letters by the Brazil Mail come down to the 13;h an 15th February, from Rio de Janeiro. These contain no political news of interest. The stock of goods was decreasing by sales, but prices were rather dis couraging. • Advices from Bahia of the 6th, and from Pernambuco to the 16th of February, state, there were great prepara tions making for the reception of the Emperor and his Court. The exchange with England at Bahia was 54 to 55; at Pernambuco Si. It appears by the papers from Bogota, that a decree, which passed the House of Representatives of the Congress of Colombia last year, for raising a loan to be applied to the extinction of the domestic debt, was about to be intro duced into the Senate, and to all appearance was likely to pass into a law. The proposed amount of this loan is not stated officially, but some of the private accounts say that it will be for 10,000,000 dollars, about 4,000,0001. sterling. The Colombian Senate, in discussing this project, could have had no knowledge of the state of the money affairs of Europe, which would make the project of contracting at pre sent a debt hearing interest, to extinguish debt not bearing interest (which is the case with the domestic debt) absurd. The project is, however, condemned in the Constitutional, a raper published in English and Spanish, in Bogota, in the strongest terms. " If," says the Editor, " the case be one of extreme urgency, which we are really not aware of, better at once to increase the amount of taxes; and if the state of the country be such as to preclude the adoption of such a step, it only adds additional strength to our opinion of the impolicy of raising a loan, and thus still adding to the permanent burdens of a nation whose resources are in adequte even to a mere temporary exigency. With regard to the justice of paying our creditors, we should be the last to deny such a proposition; but we think that other plans might he adopte I much more advantageous to the interests of the country, than that of exchanging a debt, the greater part of which bears no interest, for one which does, and which is accompanied with the circumstances which we have just eimin,trated. We acknowledge their claims, and hope that some means will be taken to satisfy tits m. but we are not quite quixotic enough to prefer what, after all, is but an appearance of generosity, to that which is in rigorous justice due to the rest of our fc}iow•citi zens."—Eesniug Paper. The Delphina, Martin, arrived at Antwerp the 14th nst. : she sailed 7th Dec. from Java. Several battles had bet n fought between the Dutch and Javanese, without any thing decisive on either aisle, but with a result, on the whole, ruinous to the Dutch. The insurgents, when pressed, continually retreated into the rice plantations, which afforded them sufficient shelter. The Dutch Gene rals hail decided that it was not possible to repress them without burning all the rice plantations on the eastern side of Java. General Vats Geen had given it as his opinion that thousands must perish if such a measure was resorted to. The Dutch force? were so reduced that if reinforce ments do not speedily arrive from Europe, the island must be altogether abandoned. A very small quantity of coffee could be sent to Europe, as the coffee and the plantations had suffered greatly from the conflagrations, which had been general both in the towns and in the country. All the store-houses for the sale of produce to the eastward, Samarang, Souraba, &c. were shut up, and the merchants were retiring to Singapore, and other places, with the remnants of their property. The following, however, is a copy of a letter by the Delphina, received by an eminent house in the City, which gives a different version of the affairs of Java : " Batavia, Dec. 3, 1825. " With regard to the war in the native provinces we have no. thing to otter both parties will most likely reiLain inactive until the cntnmearement of the fair monsoon. The country is at present apparently quiet." THE BRITISH PRESS. FASIIIONADLe INTELLIGENCE. The Doke of Norfolk gay! a grand dinner, on Sunday, at hie house In James M-square, to the hart of Darnley, the Kid of Brlrtol , Lord Clif ford, Sir John Nrwpnrt, Bart. the Monaural,'" George Agar Edit, Mr. Manclearm, the Honunrable J. Ahercmmby, Mr. Wilton, Mr. Price, Wr. Blount, Mr. itrownlow, Mr. Littleton, Mr. Throekmorton, Mr. )I'Vonald, Mr. C. Grant, kir. Gage. and Mr. Petre. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury's eenversazione, on Snnday evening, in Arlineton.atreet, was attended by an elegant ►ssemblage of the baot ton, among whom were—moat of the Foreign Ambassadors and their Ladies, the Dowager Duchess of Leeds. Emily Marchioness of London. derry, the Marchioness of Hertford. the Marquis and Marehioneor of Salisbury, Count and Countess Ludolf, the Colonies,' St. Antonio, Baron. Cult°, the Earl and Countess of Sefton and Or Ladbm Molynemr, the Earl of Westmorland and Lady G. Font, the Earl nod Couoteas of Bel fast. Lord Ashley, Lord and Lady Tunamorr, the Conntem of Clare and Lady Fitzgibbon, Lads Deere, Lady De Cligmd, Dowagrr Lady De. Cli fford, Lord and Lady liorgherah, the Earl and Couotr.or of Charleville, Lard and Lady William Rowell, Sir Gore, Lady, and Silas Ourley, Sir William and Lady Rowley, Lady Farquhar, General Keppel, Mr. Giles, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Orernwood. hr. Tito Countess St. Autouio'a Intended party on Sunday evening. was podpred. _ _ hord Fran 14 0411 or ne mire an elegant entertslonsent yBiterday to the Marquis of Carmarthen, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh, and a distinguished party, at his house In New Norfolk street. The F:srl of If arrowby bre Issued earls for a grand dinner party on Fri day, the 28th Imo. Sir Thorns* Leonard, Bart. entertained a large party at dinner yester day, ad hi • I , rare In lirvanston.sqnare. J. Mit, bell e Esq. had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Chute+. street. R ritaley.square. Arthtir etanhore, Esq. and John Weyland, Esq. had dinner parties yesterday. Mrs. klornby has issued cards of invitation for en assembly on the 24 of )lay. Mrs. lknyon entertained a seleet part of fashionabler yesterday even ing. at her house In Grasveno;-synare.• The Duke of Dockingham has left Stowe, for his sett, Arington, Rant.. The Duche4l of Buckingham left town on Saturday, for her scat, Ming ton, Hants. The Dowager Muchlone,* of Exeter arrived yesterday at her house In Privy Gardens. from hrr seat at Rochampton. The Earl and C wawa' C.usper arrived In town on Sunday, from Brlshton. The Countess of l'emSroke ha: arrived In town, from her ►eat, Wilton Rouse, Wiley. The • Dosinge r Countess of Rosslyn left town yesterday, for firightm. The Earl and Cowden' of Scarborough and fsmily hove arrived at their house In Portman.square, from their seek Sandbeck, Yorkshire. Lord Lyned och arrived yesterday at Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, from his seat, Coutrove Priory. Lord P:twent has arrived In town, from 611 seat, I Illeys, Buck.. Sir R.lbert Gunning, Rant. arrived in town yesterday, from his seat In Northamptonshire. C. H. Tracy, S:.q. arrived yesterday at his Amite In Dover-street, from his seat, Toddington, Gloucestershire. , . ('colonel ani Mr o. o:aionotort arriVed In town yesterday, from their teat in Derk•., • _ Mr. and Mr.. Philipv arri►ed yesterday at CJulson's Hotel, Lower Brook +treet,frorn, their *eat In liantl. A. Anton, F. arrived In town yt•.te•dsv. from Ms seat In Lancashire. T. A. Smith, Esq. left town yesterday, for Hastings. T. G. Ent:mart. Mai. M.P. wrlved in town yesterday, fmm H. Becieford Fags arriv-d in town yesterday, from his seat. Maley Hall. Arrivals at Penton's New Hotel, Bt. James's-atreet:—Sir. and Mr,. fteortre Ackers, from their seat is flerkn ; Colonel Wood, fum a tour ; Thomas Whitmore, Esq. M.P. horn ■ tour; Hub!Jason, Eno.; Colonel Austin, from Brighton. Departure:—The Rev. Dr. Brooke Boodsby, fur Brighton. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last night, the Theatre !Civil Haymarket was opened, for what, we trust, will eventually turn out to be a profita ble season for all concerned in it ; and, indeed, it cannot fail to be so, if we might take our augury from the crowded state of the house last evening, long before the curtain was drawn up. The claims of this Theatre to ptiblic patronage rest upon the solid foundations of anxi.tus desire to do all in the power of the proprietors, manager, and performers, to deserve it—on a company stronger in comic talent, cer tainly, than any of the other Theatres can boast, and on a fair supply of new and diverting pieces. There was, in deed, no novelty produced last night; but when we had first Wilkinson, as Ruble Ruza,rh-lirad, and next Liston. in Paul Pry, we desired nothing newer, for we almost despair of getting anything. As all the performers did their duty ably, it would be invidious to particularly individually. The earliest novelty in the Haymarket The atre will be a new farce, by the author of Paul Pry, and a new comedy, by Kenny, will be produced shortly after wards. The Duke of York arrived at his residence in South Autlley-street, on Saturday morning, from Newmarket. Yesterday the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess So phia, and the Princess Sophia Matilda visited the Princess A ugusta. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Duke of Devonshire had an interview with Mr. &crew) Canning, at the Foreign Office, in Downing street, to make arrangements previous to his departure for St. Petersbureh, as Ambassador Extra ordinary from our Sovereign at the coronation of the Em peror Nicholas. His Grace remained with the Right Hon. S:cretary about an hour and a half. - Yesterday Sir Charles Long had on interview with the Earl of Liverpool. Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office, fs om Viscount Granville,ourAmbassador at Paris. Mr. Ideates, the King's Messenger, who left London a few nights since, is gone to meet the Duke of Wellington on his return to England. Mr. IVard has signified his intention of offering himself as a candidate for the ropresentation of the City. We understand that H. B. Pt tern, Esq. of Hotham Hall, near South Cave, has declined offering himself as a candidate at the ensuing election for Beverley.—liall Ad vcrliAer. Hugh Scott, junior, Esq. of Merton; Sir John S c ott Douglas, of Springwo od Park, Bart. ; and Sir William Elliot, of Stobbs, are the three candidates who have started for the representation of the courty of Roxburgh, to suc ceed Sir Alexander Don, of Newton, the late member. 'I'HE Recise ABDUCTION.—We understand that Mr. Edward Gibbon IVakelield has caused notices to be served oil the solicitor for time prosecution, stating his anxiety to thinit himself to any judicial inquiry, and that for such urpose he will attend at any time and place his accusers may appoint, provided six days previous notice be sent of such appointment to Mr. Harmer, his solicitor.—Sunday Paper. A short time since, a gentleman, who was requested to value the books of a deceased Clergyman, found, to his surprise, that many of the most valuable works were im perfect, having leaves torn out. Upon asking a servant who hail lived with the Divine fur some years, if he knew any thing of the circumstance; lie replied, after some hesi tation, " why, to be sure, Sir. I (lid now and then tear a leaf out, but I never went twice to the same book, so it could not be of much consequence !” Friday a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Stansfeld, Briggs, and Stansfehl, was held at the Hotel, Kirkstall. From the statement produced it appeared that within the last six months there had been a depreciation in the value of their property to the amount of 63,000!. The total amount of their engagements was 199,8701., the amount of their assets 186,583/., leaving a deficiency of 13,000/.; but it was also explained, that for about 78,000/. of their en gagements securities bad (teen given, which, of course, would have to be paid in full, and which would diminish the assets left for the general creditors; but that there would then remain 108,535/. to discharge engagements amounting to 121,870/., which, after making allowance for contingencies, would makes dividend of about sixteen shil lings and sixpence in the pound.— Leeds Mercury. One afternoon last week, five pheasants, in attempting to fly across the Southampton river, from the New Forest, fell into the water, from exhaustion, before they reached the opposite shore; when some boats putting off' from the quay, they were all taken up alive. MINING INTELLIGENCE.—Copper Ores sold at Red ruth, April 13, 1826, 1487 tons, average prwtuce Bit quantity of fine copper, 121 tons 4 cwt., amount of sale 9,487/, 93. 6,1., average standard 1111. 17s. Copper ores sold at Swansea, April S: total 165 tons. DEATH Or THE DOWAGER VISCOONTESS CRP:MORNS. —On Friday the 14th inst. died at her hone: in Stanhope -street, Mayfair, in the 86th year of her age., the Right ilonourible Phi ladelphia Hannah, relict of the late Thomas licount ('removes, and Baron 1) irtrey, of the Kingdom of Ireland. tier Lyclyiship was the grand-daughter of William Penn, founder of Pennsyl vania, in !cords America. and was born in its capital of Philadel phia, after which city she was named. Those to whom shi was known, will be sensible of the difficulty of briefly delineating a character combining so peculiar a variety of attractive and endear. ing qualities, adapted to every order In society, tiom the highest to the lowest. ELOPF.MENT.—Thursday week, two gentlemen arrived in a gig at the White flur•e, Milton Ke3nes, Bucks. one of whom remained in the house whilst the other went out. The next morn- ing a young lady, the daughter of an opulent tanner of Filgrove, yr h o was on a visit to the house of a farnor in the village, went away with the gentlemen in their gig. The friend at whose house she was visiting, on learning tier departure with persons with whom they were totally unacquainted, sent instantly to her pa rents. The mother arrived the following morning in a state of distraction, having heard no tidings of her daughter. We na e not heard which route the parties took, or whett:rt the fair fa.;itirts has since been discovered.—Backs Gazette. LITERATURE. AIR. 31ILMAN'S NEW POEM. Amongst the publications of present month, we flod a dramatic poem by the Rev. 11. 11. Milman, on the sub ject of Atm.; Boleyn, to which our attention has been na turally attracted by the name of the author. The suceeas of Fazr, the eldest born of his muse, seems not only to have encourage.' Mr. Milman to great industry, but to have procured him readers to an extent which announces a growing reputation ; lie is, ther fore, precisely at that point of his career where the question of his merits obtrudes itself 111051 t forcibly upon all persons who take an interest in the adjudication of literary clai:ns. . The story of Ante Boleyn is, as Mr. Milman has justly observed in his preface, " peculiarly adapted to the pur poses of poet; y."fhe circumstance a her exaltation from a subject to a Queen, is tine. The cause of that exaltatiou is perhaps still filter • for though beauty do e s not consti tute a very ration a l Claim tri empire, it is certainly a most poetical one, and was so, long before ever Venus thought of rising out of the sea. Then the great reverse, from the throne to the sett:fold, front the arms of Royal favour and dalliance into the hands of the executioner, and all this heightened by the consciousness that it is authentic misery we are cotitenaplating—surely, if ever there was a theme calculated to awaken the very genius of pathos, it is the story of this unfortunate and lovely sufferer. Yet strange to say, the heaviest charge we have to bring against Mr. Milman's work is, We total absetice of anything like a ten dency to attect the heart. There is grand declamation, there is pure morality, there are elevated sentiments; but nothing to agitate, nothing to control us, nothing to draw tears or suspend criticism. The Queen is from the begin ning so much addicted to religious and philosophical /elision ings, that one cannot hesitate as to the propriety of leaving her to such undoubted source.; of consolation, and keeping our tears for those who exhibit less fortitude in adversity. This we cannot help considering as peculiarly unfortunate under the circumstances; hut perhaps it is the nature of all great subjects to confound the genius or mind, which, from some inexplicable cause or other, they have failed to inspire. Next in importance to the charac ter of the Queen it that of Auqeto, a furious zealot in religion, front whose bigotted attachment to the Church of Rune the whole plot of the accusation against Anne Buleyn is made to originate. In the filling up of this portrait it was impossible that the author should avoid every indication of a controversial spirit ; but again, as in the Queen, he abandons the high ground of his art, and gives us only the opinions and actions, unanimated by the passions, of the fanatic. Joge/o might have taken his station in a frigid essay on the subject with as much, and indeed with more propri e ty, t h an i n any effusion of the muse. King Henry himself appears but little in the scene, and never appears but to be execrated. The man who " loved as others hate," is fairly, though not fully, repre sented. The character of 'lark Seneutuu might have had a little more life in it ; the situation in which he is placed as the accuser of the Queen, whom he passionately loves, anti whom he knows to be innocent, but whom he devotes to sham_ by perjury, under the influence of a superstitious regard to her soul, afforded some noble opportunities. The motive by which Angelo inducts hint to bear false witness against her is explained in the following passages : Angelo.—Now, as a heretic, I love her not ; But yet my charity would not she were cast Where she must perish, body and soul, in hell, I'd have her live—live on in shame and sorrow ; Fur sorrow is the mother of true penitence. Angelo.-11r the King, Oa some just plea (and these new gospellers Do admit none but foul adultery) Were but divorc'd—how long, how honourably. Liv'd the Imperial Catherine—which were beet— The spotless name be tainted, or her body Writhe on a scafEild and her soul in flames. Upon this persuasion, Mark Smeaturt undertakes to swear that he had criminal intercourse with the Queen, and upon the evidence so given, both he and the distant object of his idolatry are doomed to death. Instead, how ever, of pursuing any farther either tha windings of the story, or the traits of the different i n dividuals brought be fore us in its progress, it is time that we should produce some specimens of the poetry, which, though destitute of pathos, is not only musical in its general construction, but diversified occasionally by striking images and splendid declamation. The following description of the Queen's charity, by her wretched and fatal admirer, Smeaton, is glowingly expressed. _ . I know not What she believes—l see but what she does. her audience Is of the wretched, destitute forlorn: The usher to that court is Beggary, And %Vent the Chamberlain; her flatterer,. those Whose eloquence is full and bursting hearts; Iler parasite!, wan troops of starving men Hound the full furnished board—pale, dowerless maids— Nuns like thyself, cut forth from their chaste cloisters, To meet the bitter usage of the world, While holiest men are ever in her prat:sr.'. Nor can their lavish charity exhaust The treasures of her goodness. Of a different and far higher tone are the reflections by which Angelo justifies to his own conscience the atrocitits of which he is guilty fur the sake of his religion. 'Tis but the wise relentlessness of Heaven.— ftith the dread earthquake feel remorse, that makes A populous city one vast tomb, where guilt And innocence lie side by side ? Does pity Pale the blue cheek of pestilence that blas ts ) IVliole nations? Doth the sweeping deluge pause, And hold suspended its vast weight of waters, To give the righteous time to fly the ruin ? The best, the wisest, holiest saints and pontiffs, Have sent fierce war, with undiscerning vengeance, To waste the heretic's land ; for though just Heaven Turn from the field of carnage—from the city Made desolate, far rattier it beholds them Than the fierce tossing% of the infernal pit, And Hell made rich with everlasting souls. But the author departs from his usual style of rational or elevated sentiment, when he falls into the following wretched paraphrase of the old " credo quia impossibile.' " Oh ! pardon, Sir, my thoughts do swim so strangely. Things all so monstrous and incredible Have come to rss, there's nought that seems too strange, And nothing is but what could never be. • That thou a man of such strict saintliness Shouldst be so false, finds credit with me only Because it is impossible and far Beyond the reach and scope of our belief." We regret also to have found in the production of a scholar, too liberal, one would have supposed, to be infected by pedantry, such phrases as " internecine knife," " ter rible deletion," and " lie desecrate in ruin." The trial scene in the fifth act cannot fail to suggest the recollection of that of Queen Catherine in Shakspeare's Henry VIII. ; and to say that such a recollection is unfavourable to the modern poet, is only to express in faint and feeble terms a judgment, which every mind capable of kindling into enthusiasm at the magic of a name, will be ready to predict on the authority of its own emotions. We have now stated enough to intimate our opinion that the poem of Anne Boleyn is not likely to shed additional lustre on the poetical reputation of its author. We have stated candidly, at .d without exaggeration, the grounds upon which we have come to that opinion. Air. Milinan's literary character stands upon too strong a foundation to be subverted or injured by any unfair attack. Even where the strictures are just, he may appeal to his popularity and deny them. At least he may console himself with re flecting, that however we or others may pretend to deter mine in his case, the opinion even of the judicious is only criticism, while that of the multitude is fame. • " And nothing is but what is not."—Shakopcsre. TILE DUKE OF YORK'S SPEECH. The following is an extract from a pamphlet, entitled " A Defence of his Royal nighties, the Doke of York, and of the sentiments delivered by him on the Catholic Claims." Rirington. •• In the provision made to secure comfort in the decline of life, to the disbanded soldier, has any dirioction been niade by the Legislature on the score of religion ? Has not British bounty been extended with equal justice, to the Roman Catholic as to the' Protestant? Dries not Chebtea Hospital open ha gates to shelter,' without distinetl in, the oil see of him who has serrsAl his country, whether he kneels in its chapel or treaters his devotion to the 131W 110.ite. '• There is a pride of country which every honourable man feels : there is a national character which every good man wishes to put port. Ireland has 'wit one to whom cite gave birth raised to the pntudeat stAtion humanity can enjoy t illustrious for sn►ices ren dered to ell Europe : every mac will at once apply this to the Duke of Wellington. Yet 'nave we witnessed 111 r. l/Connel lin trothicing that great name with slight and disrespect, and hie degentano . countrymen listening to him with applause ! Is there a mown in Europe which would not glory In having given hits birth, ilea have protirily adopted him as Theis crrintryman--crtcept his orb/ N.l! that stain shall not *tick to the character of Irishmen: belii wit to the Roman , 2atliolie Irish alone. The Priotest frets-A hail him as a drlivcrer, a nd th e y are j o i ne d by a reeisn a llin VOTE tram every natl..) in Europe; well might he esslaim lies gratis palria tie sue quidem huh. bis !" did not the Prolamint pa. pulation of it renew) their mina, from that disgraceful reprise& on the national character. " I give the rummage from Mr.O'Connel's speech to which I hoop just alluded, io atom the temper and feelings of the Homan Carillons Association ; for any other purpose its absurdity should redeem it front observation. As another pore specimen of Mr. O'Coontellr• oratory it deserves to he recorded. " Och ! (says Alr. O'Connell) I would look through the unio verve, from the WOWS of Siberia, where Alexander, decorated it a dandy, appeared upon his despotic throne to all the old boys so/ all the young boyp that wore diadem.; I would throw in the grow Wellington to boot :—where amongst them all could be foiled • Protestant to compete with my own Bolivar ?' (Cheers.) " Alr. O'Connell here has taken a wide range. He goo AM north to find a couch whereon to repose, and at hat finds a stela fortabk one in the snows of Siberia. He takes his position nine Cie north pole, and all the earth is subjected to his gaze. He We his hearers from whence he takes his view, but he does not infanta them what is to limit it. lie probably, therefore, meant to easiont rt to the Sloth pole, though he might be prevailed upon to hw sat iNfied with die Tropic of Capricorn. He then unfolds the tale of what presents itself in thin commanding prospect. He sew Ainaw wider decorated as a dandy, with a group of ruing boys and okll boys in diadems surrounding him. The designation of Alexandria as a dandy, is as original as it is full of imagination t his taste hat dress was a trait in his chancier. the knowledge of which seem ill be confined only to Mr. O'Connell. " Having discovered Alexander in the imposing dress of a danft,, he is anxious to press him into the service of the Roman Catse Association. Oeh !" says Mr. O'Connell (uttering that deep and emphatic interjection, as if shivering in his own person. ander the snows of Siberia), ••• I would look to all the old boys and young boys that wore diadems. I would throw in the great Wellington In boot." Here we nattirslly ask, into what the Duke of Wellington was to be thrown ? he has not informed us; we may th.sefore tako in fur granted, that he meant into purgatory, to punish him for voting; a4ainst the Roman Catholic question, and so depriving Mr. Creaint r,ell of the honour of a silk gown." BUENOS AY RES. The following is an extract of a letter from a pissimptik on board the Thalia : Arcane AYRES, Jags:ANY 2, 1326. I write to inform you that I have arrived at Buenos Ayrea theta 6 days in safety, leaving Mrs. S. and all the youngsters quite watt at Ensenada de Barragan, a small village 33 miles from here. Abu S. would have come with me had It not been perilous, ha comm. quence of the River Plate being blockaded by the Brazilians. We very fortunately passed the city of Monte Video a day or two below the blockade commenced with any degree of vigilance, since Chide time they have stopped nearly every vessel that has come up the River Plate. This city is in a elate of alarm, In consequence of the rapid rise in valve of all colonial produce, which in many *raw clew is 150 per cent. within a fortright, with the expectation of io still further rise. There appears at !present not very great energy in the government with regard to military matters. Colonial peer duce is taxed here front 23 to 25 per cent. Sugar is about 2s. pet lb., tea ilia., butter 25., bread 6d. per lb., eggs about Id. each, beef Id. per lb., mutton about Id. per lb., wine from Is. to IN the bottle, liquor about Cr. the gallon. Every thing that requires the least labour Is exreedingl , y dear, and one thing I am fully pas. pared to say, that if any English labourers could make up lII* minds to work here in the way they do in England, they might live as well as any person in England; they would get plenty of meet at Id. air., and, by giving little for their iand, they e.nild afford as raise vegetables and wheat, as the land is certainly rich enough fee bearing any thing. The climate is exceedingly tint'. but being now the midst of summer here, it is excessively hot; qualm as hot as the extreme of heat, last summer, in England. Its tegsrd to the natives, I never saw so lazy a set in my life; in the villages they are is a state o nature. You can. not picture to yourself a set of people so completely diA vested of cares as is apparently the happy Village of Erma. nada. Nature supplies them with all they want. There ap pears nothing done in the shape of labour, except it is a man riding on a horse perhaps, drawing a barrel sliding upon the ground he. hind him, or perhaps a few bushes tied by the butt end of theft dragging after him. He of course is mounted, if it be only to go 100 yards. The oxen are quite as hoe ones as the Hereford Ipa England, and as tine eating as the English beet. I have often heard company at an English dinner say, in a tone of exultation, " Foreigners never sat down to such a meal Ss this in their lives t w but I can assure you I never saw tables set out more senristurnisly than at Buenos Ayres. I sat down to write this letter intmedistely an my return front. witnessing the declaration of war in Baena Ayres, and was as.. rims enough to go through the principal streets with three band, of music, about 200 soldiers, and about 200 spectators, that escort ed a private soldier, who in about ten different places tend the de.. claration of war, which was received (except in one instance of r few crackers being let off) in sullen silence throughout the city; est a single demonstration of enthusiastic feeling. I came to Buenos Ayres with the Captain, to endeavour to pos cure a large boat, for the purpose of removing the cargo from tha ship Thalia. which brought us from England ; but such is the me. sternation of the Iluenos-Ayreans, that no price we could Om them could prevail on them till to day-to send their boats out; foe fear of being taken. We have now prevailed on one man to swell his vein* on condition that we accompany it, which we horn agreed to do. SEA lIATIIIN6I. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE 13R1VISH PRES& Si 124—The late learned and ingenious Bishop of Lancing, Dr.WaTsoN, has said in his Chemical Essays, that " the self in sea-water applied to the skin is not absorbed." I cos fess myself of a different opinion. That some of it is ab sorbed seems to me certain, or why is not rain or any other pure water equally efficaeious, when applied to scrofulous glands? As this is a question of great importance to thousands who repair to the sea-side at a considerable es pense, either to improve their general health, or to remove local complaints, by sea bathing, the public would be greatly indebted to any of your medical readers that should, clear up the doubt which is thus thrown by this eminent divine upon a point of such very general interest. I am, Sir, yonr s, &c. ..... . AN INVALID. A paper, containing a statement of Exchequer halation; of payments in the year ending ith January 1826, boa been printed by order of the House of Commons, the go neral result of which may be seen by the following ab. stract:— sth January, 1325. Balance in tht _ sth January, 1826. Balance in the Ex- _ _ chequer - X 9.552,522 chequer - cs,sokaml Reeeip:s in the year 57,273,889 Payments in the year 51,6211091 C - Debt created by sale Funded and unfunded of Exchequer Bills 28,734,050 Debt redce.ned 38,634.77 i .1:05,514,411 Ronitrat.—Some thieves, with their faces blackened, entered the premises of Mrs. Griffith", Mumbles, near Swansea, ott the morning of the 10th inst., anti stole 451. They tied Mrs. Griffiths and another lady together in bed. The servant girl, sleep ing in en adjoining apartment, which they could not enter, hearing the disturbance, got tip to the window. and gave the alarm. Tba neighbours collected at the front, but the visitors made their escape through the back door. At - kfontgomery a dreadful accident occurred on Afonder night week. Aa dire. Weaver, of the Post Office, was sealing up the letter bags, a spark communicated to the gunpowder kept for sale in the shop. The explosion was frightful. Parts of the frost and back walls of the shop were driven out, and carried nearly across the street: the house is balf-timbered, elite probab the whole would have fallen by the chock. 3lrs. Weav er i s deplo rably scorched and lacerated; but although there were fourewa persons in bed in the house, not one of them hu sustained any injury. From the small-pox making its appearance in several parts of the parish of Wimborne, Dorsetshire, the churchwardewe gave notice for a meeting of the inhabitants on Tuesday last, se take into consideration the most effectual means of staying this dreadful malady, when it was agreed, by .very large meeting, with only three diaseraing voices, to have a general vaccination throsilt.. out the pariah, and that notices should he posted through the pas. rich cautioning all persons hissing the small-pox against appearing Li the stieets or King's high-road, under pain of tine or impriewu ment, as the law directs. Thursriay evening a barbarous murder was committed near Falkirk. As a man named Boyd, with another man and tee women, were going home from the fair, four young men came up and insisted on the girls going with thorn, at the s a me ti me usi ng them very roughly. ' Boyd interfered, telling them it was s shame to behave in such a manner, when they desisted. After pre— (ceding a little farther they separated, Boyd's home being in a Mifereut direction from the others, he was followed by the young men, who knocked him down, and stabbed him, nay even ripped him up in a manner too horrible for description. lie was carried, to the nearest house, and medical assistance got from Falkirk, bat in vain, as he lingered iu great agony till next morning, whim kat expired. lie has left a wile and two children. Three of the was deters were next clay apprehended and sent to Stirling Castle. Titer names are Armstrong, a butcher, 111'Nals and 31'Laree labourers; the fourth, who has at present escaped, is a shoe:nab; of the nanie of Inglis. They are all from IG to 18 years of age. ERMAT A.—ln our introduction to the German Papers yesterday, for b• whose Editor reports the same thing," reed • ow. peatt the same thing ;" and again, in the reference to the Prod.. sident of the United States' ',lessee, Instead of " Queen Bees as bar limn of Carts,," wad " to ha Rouse of Covatines."