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TRADE OF CHILI. The direction and development which the Chilien rommerce will assome, should free institutions meet with lull success in the country, and its population increase in proportion to their natund effect, can be but in a slight de cree estimated from it; condition under the Spanish Go vernment. Ity a refinement on the villainous policy of their colonial sye.::2m, rill direct communication between Offhand the mother country itself was prohibited, till the year 1718. The vice-revalty of Peru was made an inter mediate mother country between the Chilians and the Spa niards; and nothing cattlil be imported or exported be tween them, but by the way of Callao. It will hardly be believed, even of Spanish navigators, that the voyage Rum Callao toConeepcion was, for a century, comities...it as a year's work ; till a pilot, who had obstriall the 6,e:cession tithe winds, performed it in a month. The Inquisition, that venerable institution of the Spa nish monarchy, as th; official Russian Gazette rroni.unced it last sunniser, caused this bold wight to be arrested, and it was only by exhibit ing his log-book that he caul(' convince them be had made the voyage by no worse art than that of navigation. In 177+4 >Fll the ports of Spain were opened to a direct trade u ith Chili, and an e etinty before unknown was introduced into commerce. At the period of this improvement, the Citilians exported to Peru, hides, dried fruit, copper, salt 'limit. horses, hemp, and wheat ; and received in exc hange tobacco, sugar, c woe. earthenware, some roanufletures of Quito, and articles o European luxury. To Paraguay and But nos Ayres, 081 exported, landscise wines (a very valuable article of Chilian produce) , brandy, oil, and gold ; and received in return, mules, wax, cotton, the herb of Paraguay (matte). and TIMMY, of whom a few only are held in slavery in Chili. A considerable part of the Euro pean trade with Chili also came overland from the River la Plata, till the merchants of Lima bribed the Spanish Ge verntnent, and pictured an order:that it should take the route of the Isthmus of Darien and Peru. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Tbc late changes in the revenue laws of the United States have excited a very strong and general feeling in the Southern and Western States of the Union. A letter has been published at Washington, the object of which is to show, that while the valley of the Mississippi, as an essen tially agricultural territoty, cannot be ultimately benefited by a system of bounties on domestic manufactures, all south of Ponnsyleania will be sacrificed to it at once and for ever. The following extract is a specimen of the tem per with which this unwise measure of the Ameri can Government is viewed through a great part of the Uhion : " Throughout the whole Western Country, every man is a fanner, and every man is, to a certain ext-nt, a mer chant. They stand arrayed, then, in a double capacity, against a system which, on Its front, is opposed to the agrkultural and commercial interests : a system which proposes to feed an insatiable appetite upon those interests; which pounzes upon the rich banquet that nature has spread before them, and will defile what it cannot de vout-- ferds.ima rentr:s Tmluvies, uncle que mantis, et pallida temper Om fame. I cannot butregrct the whole Western States as insepara bly combined with the Southern, on the subject of the Tariff. The primary interest of each is agricultural, and ' each &vends upon a free commerce for its wealth ; our sources of prosperity are the same; our losses will b the same. "There is no question of the effect of the propesed Ta riff on the cotton and tobacco-growing states, and no st tempt to disguise it. It is open, undisguised war upon Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and half of Tennessee. They are to be sacrificed without measure or mercy ; no compromise to comfort them ; no diplomacy, no temporising, no pro mises of admission into the co-partnership of robbing ; but open. naked, and undisguised force. They are to be passel under the yoke; to become the vassals of the cotton spinners; the staves of the woollen weavers. Every owner of a manufacturing establishment will have as many cities for his tributaries, as the barbarian king gave to Themis tocles ; and from his clattering castles of looms and spin eing-jennies, will levy his exactions upon as wide a ter ritory, create as much dismay, and perpetrate as nitwit ty ranny, as ever did the most determined litter of black wail." ROYAL NATIONAL 8.47 . 11 COMPANY. The estsbli-hment of this Company has excited no aroa`l interest, and we consider it of sufficient importance to give the following extracts from their prospectus. It appears not only likely to afford ample profits to the proprietors as a speculation, but to offr at the same time a great national benefit. " Of the rtecewity which exists for the construction of public baths, there cannot be two opinions; whether it be considered as air >reline , the means of indulging in a recrea tion so essential to health, in a crowded neighbourhood, with a dense and trolly atmosphere; or as the envois of removing a great public nuisance, as respects the indecent exposure of thoweands daily, which banishes the inhabi teuts from the most salubrious spots around the metropolis ; in either case, these objects cannot but meet with extensive public , support. " Amonost the most serious evils which aria: from the wart of porn baths, the numerous instances of drowning cannot be forgotten ; the acellents which happen to bathers in the Thames, the Serpentine, and other rivers, from the inequality of the depth, &c.daily exhilti" melon eholy proofs of premature mortality, and involve whole fanidics in grief ; these would he remedied by the forma tios of convenient baths, miller proper regulations ; for w!lere all the attendants will be professed swimmers, and the baths of a kn o w n d e pth, a f at al accident will be next to an impossibility. " The establishment of the National Baths can scarcely be deemed a speculation ; unlike the building of bridges. the excavation of canals and tunnels, or the snaking of nods, whirl; in their progress meet with innumerable un foreseen difficulties, this undertaking is merely mechanical, tad is susc e ptibl e o f ca l cu l at i on t o the last fraction of ex pense ; this enabba the projectors to demonstrate, the; the Pfohsble 'norms to proprietors for capital invested will be tame ample than those of the most promising undertak inr• In eakulating upon the patronage of all classes, it roust not be forgotten, that what is loudly called :or Co all bawls, as the means of gratifying the public, and what is reemmostell by every member of the faculty as a re tywater vat preservative of health, cannot lose its virtue by Poneni m, or its efficacy by facility of attainment." "In the construction of the berths the Company will be Is:steel by the practical experience of the most tuembtos of the faculty, and the leading scientific men of the age, and the Company do not propos: to enter °' for a moment any , of those schemes, the result of wh ich may he doubtful. Folly convinced, from the nnitel homy of all ranks and professions, that the objects they enntemplate will prove extensively beneficial t o the erromnnity at large, they confine themselves entirely to plans which are known to be practicable, and to pro 'fills's which cannot but be patronized by all re classes. It iS Prollarsell to construct the baths of all the chief e . stl.li s h tnents upon a scale of magnificence which will do :rem to th e arc hi tecture o f t h e country, an d b ecome L'en'lnl ornaments to the metropolis ; to combine all the arietks of hot, cold, salt, shower, vapour, medicated, and hlett7re bathi ng , w i t h the add i t i ona l grat ifi cat i ons o f tea, 14 N-roorns, 1:111,17, and other amusements. ,9ther B at h s, su i ta bl e to the relat i ve con di t i ons o f th e nanftants, will also be constructed in various parts of I 'e ,c:ty and sitheirbs, so that all ranks of the community '" he netlikd to mejoy the benefits of bathing." tow ' , • .dsvcrt.-11itch interest is eveited in the aquatic da " 1 r"v 1 ; ni th a. ch., hich is arrounced to take place to 4. 1 . 1 , . fur an , crry and minor prIZCP given by the Lzalica O ,,,le t • rn of Vatixtutll, South Lambeth, and Kennington, by P, Pair, of oars, in two heats. First Ilcat —To *tart from Vous. 11,77 , 1 1 Fe at 1, ^ . clock Preci•cly, up rcnnd a boat moored off * ';' , lse—return down the Surrey chore round a boat moored ▪ t ," tr.anufaetory. hack to the Prise Wherry „,... inib erlystl.ra,dcrs. The four first boats will he entitled to o. , .Grand prin. The Second Ilcat the same as the tiro. sadgains the wherry ; the second boat will be sad 0,, : :I, r ","; , ^screitrns; the third tw three, the &Oh . t,^ . .^ll, and 7th, to one sovereign such. This ors , whid i c ' fur b y . I 'anshi,ll watennen onl . The Prise SI nert b I )v;ng cuntwill be Presenl . . ~,..I,,,cf.i.rtioiste winners in the n ßoyal Uardtrs, Veuxiien, t." GREECE. According to the last accounts from Zante. no part of the two re mittances received there on account oldie Greek Loan had been advanced to the deputies of the Greek government, owing to the! difficulties which had arisen front the death of Lord Hymn, and the return of Cidenel Stanhope to England. nod which induced the! agent at %ante to wait for further instructions from England, be fore he paid ovor the money In his hands. Meanwhile a few thou-' sand dollars had been ebtaiced from ',,lase mercantile houses at 7.antc., fer the Perrier of Wtriefli Greece, where the most RITCMIOUS effiirts were making in order to turn to account the feuds which had broken out rmong the Ottessran Chiefs in that quarter. l'he re. posts of the defection of Omar l'ricmi are fully confirmed. He had invited the Greek Albanians to range themselves under his banners, and has placed Kiapha, the famous castle of Soon, in the hands of a certain tribe, which had beets dependant on the family of.Maaeo Boszaris, before the commencement of the present con test. (hoar, It is said, latery routed a body of two thousand men, sent atrait.:A him by the i'orte. The Paella of Scutari had 11 force of 3,6011 turn at Seat, but manifested no dispcsition inset swainst Omar. is ru supposed he would set up for himself, like his pee. decease's., Ali Paths. A body of troops marched from llissolonghi araimit Arta, ',Loin the middle of June. The Greek population klezzova, Agrapaa, and Trica!a, had taken the field in great numbers. The following is an evtrnet of o letter from Prince Marrocordato, received at Znott on the 111th of June : " The news from Prev esa concerning Omar i'rioni is folly eon. firmed. The expedition against Arta is orgratized, and our troops must have cussed the hernias yesterday. I hope that this More went will have the most brilliant results, while it will serve as an answer to our enemies, who urly complain and censure, while we act, notwithstanding our poverty. You will be happy to hear that the triumph of the government has been most complete, and every thing is going on as well as the friends of the cause could wish. It is hoped, therefore, that this state of things will teed greatly to fa cilitate your opt rattons at %ante, hut you know our situation." BRAZILIAN PAPERS. Testectlay we received Bahia Papers to the 19th of June. In the /Nticocodt ma Conslitsirinwe! there are several long articles upon the threatened attack upon 'trail by an expechti an from Por tugal: and in that of June the 7th is a Proclamation from SenhOr Francisco Vicente Vianna, President of the province of Bahia, in which he says, " I announce to all the inhabitant: o f this pro vince, that though the news front Enrhtnd of 3,1 April contradicts the reports brought by an American shin from Lisbon, and though the weakness of Portugal, and its convulsed state, are sufficient to allay our ayprehensions of an attack on this province, or other parts of Brazil, yet an it is bettr to have troolts well disciplined, and or= in our hands. till the conclusion of the treaty of recognition, independence, and peace, to negotiate which there are Portuguese Envoys in laa.,lon, waiting for the Envoys of the Empire of Brazil ; and as it is advisable to animate by these preparations Note timid Persons, who, instead of defending their haves, it' is their duty, already begin to leave them ; I call, thtrefore, upon all the inhabitants of this prnvinee, frmn the age of fifteen to that of forty, to appear at the Palace of the Government, to be cn rolled in the troops of the first ants second line." In the numbar of the Itch of June, there is a second Proclama tion, in which the Governor states that "a sufficient number of persona not having nprricad in answer to his first summons, he de dares that it is absolutely necessary, for the defence of the country, I that his invitation he attended to. lie promises that those who ap. pear within eight days shall receive a certificate exempting them from military service as soon as the independence of iiraeil shall be recognised. Those who do not come of their own accord are liable i to the usual rezviations for the recruiting of the army." AUSSIA. A Correspondent at St. Petetsburgh Las sent us the fol low•ing articles:— ST. PsTT.RgRVRGR. JAN. 17.11. (OS.) COX ICE VIEW or TED: BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE vntrt art or NITA!!.%, Drill Y 0 THE TEAS lfe.ll. After the lint published by the Holy Synod, and which comprises only those who pray:, the (:reek religion, there have been born. during the rear 1821, 1108,000 boys, and 737,171 girls—total, 1.313.679 children; therefore, 21.720 less than In 1820. The births of bovs and girls ere in the p.oportion of 100 to 91 2-10. There hive died, 482.071 men, and 46,3,017 women—total, 913,088 ; consequently 27.4011 more than in 11129. In the num ber of deaths one reckons 2.51,G32 boys before the age of live yearn, making about the half. Amongst the male individuals (the agesof women rot haring been !;inn) 71.101 have attained the' age of more than 60 vears 41.790 more than 70 nears 17,:36 more than 60 years ; 4,47 a more than 90 years; 1,999 wore than 93 years ; 724 more than 100 years ; 22i more than 103 years ; 120 more 110 yearn; 78 more than 113 year.; 49 more than 120 years: 16 more dm 125 years; I) more than 130 years; 1 has arrived at the extreme age of from 143 to 130 years; in short, I hit, Mired at the slccrepittnle of front IZO to 153 years; the tint wan born in Mohiletf, and the second in Tambnff. _ . It remarkable, that, with the excepting of the ten tint veart of infancy, the greatest mortality has taken place at front to n 5 years of age ; at this age have died 1i1,4A3 men, consequently the tith part of the whole. The number of births has exceeded that of the deaths tiOtt.s9l. There have been celebrated 3:29,7011 marriages ; therefore 11,945 more than in 1W.9. cONEARATITE STATEMENT OT THE 'MEM Azrn DEATHS AT IT. ricrr.asneltett, DURING Tux YE•11 1022. In the course of the year 1822 WAS born at St. l'etershorgh, 4,195 boys, and 3,884 girls--total. 6,072 children ; 425 leas than in 11 1 21. In this number 1,077 Ce:holics and Protestants, forming mare than the eighth part, and 1.112 illegithnate, forinini the seventh part of the total. The grtatest number of births (410 of the Ilene Church), have taken placz in January, and the least 001) in December. The number of births amongst the Pro. testena is to that of the Catholics as 5 4$ is to 1. - Died, 7.2110 men, and 3.803 women total, 11,481.1 individuals ; fer/Requently 1,377 mole than in 1821, and exceeding the births', 3,001. In this number there are 1,230 individual* (the ninth part) ' Catholics and Protestants. The number of deaths amongst the Protestants is to that of the Catholics as 5 is to I. Besides have died by 'evident 297 men, and 56 women—total, 353 individual, ; amongst which 75 drowned, 9 hanged themselves, 1 cut their throats, 6 shot themselves, and 4 children found dead. The most mortal diseases have been convulsions, which have eerried o 6 3,028 individuals, almost all young children ; putrid fevers, 2.101 ; consumptions, 1.1114; unfortunate accouthements, 31'; small-pox, 193. The greatest number of deaths (1,080 of the: Greek Church) have taken plate in June, and the least (.Bus) in December. Before the age of 5 years ha ve died 3,1'211 individnals of the (heck Church. nearly the third part; between the ages of • and II have died 213; from 10 to 17 years, 171 from 15 to 20 fears. 321 t front 2.0 to 23 years, 1,329 ; from 25 to 30 years, CB ; rom 30 to 35 years, 1.131; from 33 to -10 ,years. 411 from 1 0 to 15 years, 717 ; front 45 m 50 years, 21:0 ; from LO to :15 years. 421: from its to GO years, 171; from 60 to 63 years. 267 ; front 63 to 70 years, 121; limn 70 to 75 years, 211; from 75 to 110 years, 62; from 841 to 35 years. 95: from 85 to In) year.. 19 from 90 to 9.) years, 21 ' • from 95 to 100 years , 1; and I aged lOU years; 1311 individnah Itaee attained an age of more than 110 years, 22 more than 90, and MVO years. There have been 1.1611 Greek marriages; 2041 Protestants; 1 . 3 Catholics and II tirctks united—total, 1,565; consequently 1111 marriages less than in 1321. The greatest number of heck mar riages (314) have taken , place in January ; not any in March and December ; in the wont.; of June only 2, on account of the fast. ST. PrTERRIIITRCII, Jr - wi 5, 1824. 0.6. METEOROLOGIC:II. 1111:11.BVAT1ONS! We have experienced for six weeks a temperature which appears , extraordinary. even to the inhabitants of the country. In the months of A pril and May, ar.d until the 4th of June (16th N.S.), the thermometer of Resumer has scarcely reached ten degrees dur ing the day, and from three to live during the night. Such a dis order et the moment when nature retakes a new lide is not, however, so singular as one thinks it. It is felt equally this year in the southern parts of the empire, as well as in Germany, }ranee. and Italy. The news from these different countties prove that they are not mere favoured. As at St. Petersburgh, they there wear their wink? clothing, and the spring seems to revive in spite of the con trary clement& One seeks the reasons of this apparent irregula rity, without referring to astronomical and distant causes, w.uch, perhaps might not be mote demonstrative ; it suffices to observe, that in the climate of St. Yetersbu•gh there arc during the year, mean title (terme moyen). 118 days entirely covered (converts), I:.`i n o ire or loss cloudy, 12 degrees of heat (litaumer, always mean time) in the six months oil summer; 1143 days of wind, blowing principally front the west and north-west, and that, in short, the months of April and slay are gencrally accompanied with hail or cold rains .......—. ..... We shal add a remark for those who attribute some influence to the revolutions of the moon it ix, that this year, li 1. is the open. ing of a new lunar circle (period of 19 years). Although this epoch may have been introduced only to estimate the comparative march of the snn and moon, and to adapt itself to chronological enlenlations, it will perhaps be able to draw the attention of some obsrrvirs, al. use these periodical returns to explain the changtai of the atmosphere. TOE FRONTIERS OF The author of A Joss racy frost Moscow to the Frontiers of Chime says—" The line of demarcation between the empires of Russia and China extends from the river lloukhtornia to the sea of (/khotik. There is a space between the two of seventy yards, which belongs to nobody. It is extraordinary enough that these frontiers are rimmed almost every where on each site by two chains of mountains, between which ts a flit level ground which forms die neutral space. after the disposition of the places, and the number of inhabitants, are established guards five, ten, and twenty. tire verste.s • apart, but which are always in sight of each other. They are obliged every day to patio: in order to prevent all suspi. : elms commonirations between the inhabitants of the two countries, and the vio!stion of the limits. The 3lunoles have such a Oen ing sight, that Olen even they are on horseback, the least trace of man or beast cannot escape them. In order the better to confirm these boundaries, they have amassed heaps of earth and stones on the highest places, and in the thickest fitrests; and in the places where the limits are formed by rivulets, they have driven in .stakes on both sides, between which they have spread horse-hair.'r' • A worst is about two-thirds of a toile. The ophilon in Dublin k, that the bonded oats will be suffered to come into the market. but that the Foreign will he excluded. '1 he oat harvest is now pretty general in England and lre!aml, it is one of the ri c hest ever re _ menfly.red. of other grain, the accounts from all parts of the d Kingdom continue to be highly favourable. T 111? L.ITR C. 3PCIRTHY. As we copied from a Sunday paper a statement, autho ritatively put forth, that Sir Charles M'Carthy was " roasted alive," by the savages into whose hands he fell, we lay before our readers the following extract of a letter dated Cape Coast Castle, May ti, written by one who was taken prisoner with Sir Charles, and who narrowly escaped the fate of that lamented Officer. CAPE COAST CASTLE, MAT 8. Mr. Williams, the Colonial Secretary, who was taken on the disastrous 21t:t of January, and Who was with Sir Charles, Blickle, and Wethenll„ at the time they were killed, and is now at Fllmina, having been fer!unate enough, through the interposition of the Putch (iovernor, to be al-. lowed by the Ashantees to remain a prisoner at that place' until the war may he terminated, relitis the following par. Oculars of their deaths. Ile rays, in their retreat Sir Charles tirct had his arm broken by a shot, and was after wards u(Fundefl in the chest and fell: he thinks the wound was mertal. Buckle, Wetherill, and ~i inself, then moved Sir Charles, and put him under a large tree. a litre they sat with hint for a few moments, it retiring that their fai was inevitable, the enemy having sel!rountled them. He (Mr. Williams) then received a ball in the thigh, and saw poor Wetherill, who was lyinfr close to Sir Charles, having been also wounded, cutting at the Ashantees with his sword as they were tearing the clothes elf Sir Charles. A t this time be received another she', which having hit him in the bead, stunned him ; when ke came to himself, he saw the bodies of Sir Charles, Buckle, and 11 etLtrill, headless trunks. Mr. Williams's ►ife *aa saved by an Ashantee of superior at `tovity coming up at the titre they were about cutting off his bead. ST. JAMES'S PARK. " In the time of King Henry VIII." says a ncte to Dr. King's Poems, in Chalnlet's collection ' " the Park was a wild wet field ; but that Prince, on building St. James's Palace, enclosed it, laid it out in walks, and collecting the waters together, gave to the new-enclosed ground and new raised buildings the name of St. James's. It was much enlarged by Chants 11., who added to it several fields,' planted it with rows of lime trees, laid out the Mall, formed the canal with a decoy, and otln r ponds for water-fowl. The lime-trees or Min, whose blossotns are uncanunonly fragrant, were probably planted in conse quenee of a suggestion of Mr. Evelyn, in his F,,ruftegiatn, published in 1661." Charles 11. was very fond of the Park. Ilia habit of walking there, attended by his dogs, both sad and merry, i has been noticed before. II is ducks, which he also amused himself with feeding, inhabited a spot called Duck Island, which was erected into a " government," in order to fur nish the French exile and wit, St. Evremtmd, with a pen sion. Bird-cage-walk must not be forgotten, which was an aviary of Charles's raising, and retains it appellation.— Waller speaks of the improvements of St. JaineT s Park in the gratuitous style of a poet. The libertines of the Court were to sport about the canal, like the harmless wantons of a golden age, while Chatles walks among the trees in all the dignity of a Numa, and settles the desti , Aett of the world. fhe Park is the scene of some of the most libertine plays of that period. I do not know where the Mul berry-garden stood, which gives a title t 9 one of the co medies of Sedley ; perhaps on the site of Spring-garden, which was a place of entertainment up to a late period. The milk fresh front the cow, which is still sold under the trees at the entrance from that quarter, and which has a pleasing effeet on emerging front the streets, appears to be a remnant of the former traffic. Marlborough House, now the residence of Prince Leo pold, was one of the national acknowledgments to the Duke of Marlborough. It was built partly in a garden belonging to the Queen. Her Majesty had thus her de fender and her old friend the Duchess by her side; and on the other side, in the palace still called by his name, lived her old friend and admirer (who they say courted her in his youth), Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. Ile married her sister, natural child of James 11. by the daughter of S:r Charles Sedicy. Sheffield built the mansion and laid out the garden. He adorned the four sides of the house with inscriptions, one of which is much to the purpose:— I ustidiusus apertatar uhi malady,: " A fastidious spectator is his own annoyance." This is die nobleman of whom the Totterspeaks as the " Duke that lives at Marybone." A strange story is related in Pennant, of his giving a dinner to " the most infamous sharpers of the time," who gam bled at that place, and of a toast with which he concluded it:—" May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet hire again." " I remember," says Pennant, " the facetious Quin telling this story at Bath, within the hearing of the late Lord Chesterfield, when his Lordship was surrounded by a crowd of worthie s of the same stamp with the above." I cannot help thinking that the company was more suited to the author of the Letters than the writer of the Minor Poems. Sheffield is one of the " twinkling stare in the " Miscellanies," and has a lurk ing goodness in the midst of his libertinism. He has been accused of pride and arrogance, but they say he was ami able in private. His sharping contimions do not look like the man of whom his widow specks so highly in his Remains; but it is astonishing what strange things come together in high life, and with what accommodating philo sophy the Great regard their own contradictions. St. James's Palace was built by Henry VIII. on the site of an ancient hospital for lepers. The name was the name i of the hospital. The palace was fitted up by William for the l'rincess Anne and her husband, Prince George of Denmark. She retained it as her residence when Queen ; and it has ever since been the head-quarters of the British Court. Pennant bays, that although the outside is un sightly, it is the most convenient Palace for legal parade of any in Europe. There were some interesting pictures there in his time, probably still remaining. One of them was " The Diminutive Manhood of Geoffrey Hudson." " Here," says Pennant, " is to be seen the famous picture' by Mabuse, of Adam and Eve." In books of fifty and a hundred tears back, if you meet with a hungry gentleman who did not know where to get a dinner, you always find him sitting on a bench in the Park. Others generally accompany him, most of whom are politicians. Bickerstaff meets here his acquaintance the Upholsterer, who lets his affairs tun to ruin in his zeal for the King of Sweden. People do not app oar so patient now-a-days to hunger and thirst, thouLli their politics are more zealous than ever. It would appear from novels, that the Park enjoyed some privilege from arrest. In Fielding's Amelia, if I re member, the hero often walks in the Mall, when he can go nowhere else. Dining the existence of the old Cathedral of St. Paul's, the inside of that chur 41 was the resort of the hungry ; who, iu allusion to a tom b supposed to contain the body of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, gave rise to the saying of dining with Duke lipmphrry. The Mall, is so called from the fame of Mall, to which Waller alludes. Charles 11. transferred it from Pall-mall. It is a great pity that these and similar exercises bare been left off. Without canting clout the degeneracy of the times, it is a reasonable deduction from our abandonment of healthy and manly games, that we are an inferior rate I to our ancestors in point of bodily grace and vigour. But more of this another time. _ _ In a house looking into 1 Ilentham's garden, in Bird cage-walk, lived Milton. The front of it is in York street, and, without being the anciont one, is in very squalid condition. ..... The Horn-guards was in poor condition in the time of Charles. The stables looked like the open corridors of an old inn ; and a toy of a building, with a staircase outside, appears to have been the guard-house. These conclusions are drawn from the print in Pennant. I thought the de sign of the present building was by Vanbrugh ; but Pen nant says he believes it was the work of sn architi-et of the ; name of Vardy. The structure is not older than the reign of George 11. There is something fantastic in the custom of setting two soldiers a horseback to mount guard iu those tenements at the entrance, like a couple of live statues. But they are fine speciinens of the weight and steadiness of a pair of English dragoons, and keep a gravity becoming their situations. Some sav they have been seen eating pudding and apples; but this is what I will not believe. The band on parade is worth hearing. They play some of the hest pieces of Mozart and Haydn, which the wind carries hither and thither in trininpb.—Eraminer. We learn that the first day of the sh9oting sexton af forded excellent sport. The attendants upon the sports men returned heavy ladcu with the spoils of the Moors.— Glasgow C orier. Pontsmourg, Aua. 16. TJi l ut morning arrived the Duchess of York transport, Lieutenant Scryingour, R.N. agent from the West Indies. She left Harbadoes on the lYth of July, at which time all the Islands were remarkably healthy, and every thing very quiet, and had been so for some time. The transport has tircitight home invalids, under the charge of Lieutenant Rainsforth, of the 35111, and Staff Surgeon Dcase. The sth regiment was at St. Lucie and Dominica, the 9th at Grenada, 21st at St. Vincent's, 27th at Donetara, :15th and 93d at Ilarhadoes. This afternoon his Grace the Duke of IVellington ar rived here in his travelling carriage and four, and immedi ately proceeded to view the dock-yard, after which hi. Grace went on board Sir George Martin's flag-ship, the Victory, where he was received with the salute due to his exalted rank. to Sunday, at the New Sally Port, his Grace was met by Sir Geerge Martin, the Port Admiral, Sir James Lyon, the Lieutenant-Governor, and the re spective heads of di ?aliments. Ili. Grace immediately on landing walked to the Port-Admiral's house, to the en trance of which, he was eccompanied by an immense con course of people, eager to get a sight of the illustrious warrior. E.IST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrived the Potion, IVelhank, in the Down.. Sailed from Bengal Ist March, the Cape Itth and St. Helena 17th June. PAIMEINTGEII PER POTTON.-31r. Brotlie, MTS. Brodie, two Miss Brodie.. Mr. K. Lithlake, Comet Rigby Collins, of his 614- jesty's 16th Laneera. Master Harrowell. Arrived at St. Helena. the Patience, Kind, from the Cape, 16:h June. Sailed from St. Helena, his 31.ti.:.ty's ship Asia, Currie, for London, the 12th June ; and Copernicus, il'Oregur, for Landon, 13th June. SHIPS SPOKEN WITH. ........ - The Patience, Kind, from the Cape to London, on the let Aug. in lat. 40. N. long. 34. W. The C,opemicus, 3Pliregor, from the South Seas to London, on the 17th July, in lat. 27. N. long. 41. W. The Denbo, Dobson, from St. Helena, at Bahia, on the 11th June. _ Tla Charlotte, Stevenann, from Bombay and London, at Cu.c. haven, 11th August. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. 5311 . 001,1NG ON THE PORTUGUESE COAST. The following letter from the Portuguese Consul-fieneral was yesterday evening received at Lloyd's;— Portuguese Consulate, London. Aug. 17, 1824. Srit,--1 beg leave to acquaint yoir, for the information of user. chants and others concerned in the trade of Portugal. that his Most Faithful Majesty by his Royal Edict, wider the date of the Bth tilt., has been pleased to order two vessels of war to be put in cow mission on the preventive service, to cruise on the roast of Portugal, to gaud agrit.st smuggling to be carried on in the ports of his do minions, granting liberty to the officers commanding the same, to board and search such vessels as may be bound to said ports, and to seize those that may not have their papers regularly authenti cated by the Portuguese Consuls, or their delegates, or that may be found in the act of landing any part of their cargyes contrary to law. This regulation is to be put in force in three months from the date of the said Ediet, on vessels coming from the ports of Spain, Italy, and the Mediterranean, France, and Holland ; and on those from Russia, and other Northern ports, in four months from Ilse sante date. I ant, he. (izigned) John Bennett, Lloyd's. S.l M YO, ROCKS OFF OALITA. His Majesty's Ship Nalade, of the Wand of June 11, 1821. Stu—Having employed the boats of his Majesty's ship under my command in sounding upon two very dangrroul shoals hying off this island, the bearings and situation of which may not be generally known to the trade coming up the Illeditemineso, I annex a de scription of them, by means of which they may be easily avoided. I am, Sir, eve. (Signed) R. C. SPENCER, Captain. The Chairman of Lloyd's. "To the westward of the Island of Galita are two dangerous beds of rocks under water, bearing from each other East and West, by compass, and distant about one mile; the extent of the easternmost is not more than half* mile in length each way, with only three feet water on some sharp-pointed rocks ; the westernmost is about three cables' length from Cast to West, and one cable's length broad; it also has some sharp pointed rocks with not more than bac feet water on them. The western shoal bears from the bill on the the centre of the island of (Mita, W. 3S. by compass, distant ni miles; its lat. is 37.2 J. N. long. 8. 111. E. allowing the centre oh Galita to be in long: 8. M. E. In most of tlie 31editerranean charts Galita is laid down too far to the Northward—lts correct lat. is 37.32. N. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. FALMOVTIT, Aro. B.—Arrived the Tobago, Lardler, from Pert Metway ; and Glory, Bryden, from Quebec in 28 days. Oil the port, the Good Intent, Roaby, from ditto. Pr.rStorfili; A eiT, to.—Arrived the Lord Exmouth, Barrett, I from St. John's. New Brunswick ; Jane, Sammond, from Prince Edward's Island; and Elizabeth, Thomas, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Oil the pert, the Pacific, —, from Boston. POSITSMOVTII, Aro. 18.—Arrived the Duchess o f Y or k tr a ns_ port, from Demerara; and George, Hodgson, from London for Demerara. _ _ _ DEAL. AVG. In.—Arrived the Potton, --, from India; and Hope, Dean, from Africa. A deep yellow-sided ship passed through at four p.m. making the signal from St. VineeJtt's, cop_ posed to he the Chieftain. Came down from the River and sailed. the Thomas, Winspenr, for the Cape. l'ut back, the Juliana, Fotheriegham. for China. GRAVESEND. Aurt. la.—Arrived the Briton, Purdy ; Thetis. Rogers ; Woodford. Lambert ; Hearn ; and Soarfield, Suttery, from Jam.dea ; Sir W. Curtis, IVirtingham. from Ha vannah ; Theodore, Loran, from Finland ; M incrva, Crates, treat Petersburgh ; Shipley, Carter, from Gibraltar ; Lovely Ann, I Higgins, from Bahia ; Feridbcrg, Carby, from Montserrat ; and Preston, Thomson, from Quebec. Sailed the Ceres, Becker. for Elsinor • Romulus, Vie, for St. John's, N.B. ; and Sarah, Cop. penger. for Elsinor. HARWICH, Arc. Ill—Arrived the Carl, Zacharias, from Palau, with deals, for London, with loss of anchors and cables, near the West Rock; reports several vessels having received damage by riding too close together. It has blown very hard all day front west.lsy-north. laYsaroor., Arc. 15.—.1rrived the Mars, Todd, from Jo. main; Mariner, Henderson, Imo' Buenos Apes; Minstrel, Budgets, from Bahia; Marmion. Petre, from Charleston; liat ham, Dyer, from Savannah; Ajax, Armstrong; Cornet, Sims; and Isabella, Elderton, front Quebec; and Vigilant, Christie, from Archangel Sr. Asr rat w's (N. 8.), Jrr.Tls.—The brig Heart of Oak.' Phillip+, upset in a squall abou t sic miles from this place, and stink. She has since beet got up, and, with her materials, will be sold on 23d. Ctrativitsv ow, Jury 10.—Arrived the schooner Ann and Adelina, Little, from 3lotanzas, in four en} s. 3lhe brig John, of Boston, for Matanzas, was captured 4th of Jnne off that harbour h, three piratical boats, and plundered of money, loathing, &c. Pirates ner Motaazas have become very numerous. - tees s'Esstr.s SPOKEN Wert[.—Corinthian, from Liverpool for New York, 4th -lugust, by the Pandora, Curry, arrived at Liver. pooL—Wellington, Cotes, from St..lohn's, for Liverpool, j lath ult.; and on the 22d, his Majesty's ship Samarang. front Portsmouth and Madeira fur St. John's, N. 8., by the Stakeshy, Johnson, arrived at Liverptad.—Nautilus, Smith, from Plponaskt for Illiramichi. 30th July, by the lVatterloo, Dudnee, arnyed . at Liverpool.—l'ietou, from Pictou for Liverpool, nth inst. by the Cottager, Cornish, arrived at Liverpool—Nile front Bristol for j Montreal, tilst duly, otY St. Paul's; and on the 2d inst. the Al hion, from Dublin for Quebec, by the Broderick, Peart, arrived at Liverpool.—New Ashley. from Dublin for Quebec, 31st ult. . • 2,11 inst. the Reward, of London, outward h o und ; 7th inst. the Adel phi. from Liverpool for Halifax; and on the 9th inst. off Cork. j the Kains transport, from Liverpool for I lalifax, by the William, Short, arrived at Liverpool—lntegrity, from Mirantichi for Liver pool, 10th i , st. by the Mariner, arrived at Liverpool.—The Sir William 4'urtin, Whittingbam, arrived in the River. parted coin• bany from the Retrench, front Ilsvannah 27th July. spoke the rig John Dunn, of St. Andrew's, Inc Demerara; and on the 6:11 inst. the ship Nautilus, from Jamaica for London, all well.--Suf folk, Ellison, from London., 24th July, by the Spelt, arrived oll' Cork.—Hero, of Whithy, from Quebec foe Liverpool, all well, by the Trent, arrived at Cork. HERRING FISHERY. irtcx. Aro. 3. There are from :AO to Cll3 boats here just no;. I;;;;EWEich already enceetl 150 cranes. The take of fish last night was eery great tray boats bad upwards of sixty cranes. Average about 20 cranes per boat. This place, and to tlythness, has been par ticularly successful, at Clyth In particular. The general price is front Os. to 9s. pet crane, with the usual perquisites. If the weather continues favourable, a few such days as this will fill all the mate rials at present on hand • little or nothing doing in Latheron Bay. There are about 19(1 frish and West Highland smacks fishing upon this coast. It is said they are doing well. A man briongiag to Cockenvie expired on board his boat last night at sea, of an apoplectic fit. A number of acts hare been lost at sea. AI*GI'ST 1. When about to put the inclosed into the Post Office, I observed • change in the weather for the worse, ani 1 sun sorry to say that the Watcr!oo Pilot boat. with H. Taylor, D. Manion, and two Orkney lads, has gone down off* Ness Head. Taylor only saved. It was owing to having too much fish. The fiA of to-day exceed yesterday, and many curers are already out of salt and barrels. EART H tar AI( r .—On the morning of Sunday sennight, about nine o'clock, a smart shock of an eartlititt4ke was felt at Comrie, in Perthshire, and its neighbourhood. Some of the houses in the village were perceptably shaken, and in one house in particular the motion was such as to overturn the fire-irons placed upon the grate. The ttoisc heard seemed like that caused by a heavy wagon rolled rapidly ' on the cavieway. • liOltfle CIRCUIT. LEWIS ASSIZES, AUIDOST I. 'the Auizes for this county commenced here to-day, before Mr. Baron GRAHAM on tbe Crown Side, and Mr. Justice flu Ram -Gut on the Civil. Their honiships dined yesterday at the Earl of Chi chester's, by whom an eleg a nt entertainment was given, as well to the Learned Judges as to suveral of the leaders of the Circuit. CROWN SIDE. TUE SUM e. THOMAS This prisoner had been committed to take his trial under the 117th George 11. for fehniously and unlawfully assaulting. with other persons unknown, near Circkniere Haven, in the parish of Dean. In order to ai:l and assist in the i ll eg4 running of uncut tomcd goods, and also for having wounded Ai - Miasmal!, a seamon of the Preventive Service. The King's Sergeant (Ossi.on t now moved to postpone the trial until t h e next Aosisda, on as affidavit that Williamson was so dangerously , ill as to be unable to attend the .Issizes to give evi dence !n support of the indictment, and also tbat another material lona necessary witness was unavoidably absent. Mr. Al:Mitres, for the prisoner, endeavott WC] to resist the ap plio-ition. and requested time to answer the affidavit, but Baran GRAHAM said this was an unusual course. and u he w:ts bound to presume that the affidavit produced was founded in ti-uth, he had no alternative but to postpone the trial, according to thy exigencies of further justice. The trial was postponed accordingly. liewriell was convicted of w:lful and corrupt 'perjury in support of an information against a gentleman, named Mr. Luke l'pperton, for purchasing game contrary to the statute of b Ance, and was sentenced to twelve soonth::' imprisonment in the counawa gvg: If, my Ballo* and Samoa Lonnie were convicted, upon thc clearest evidence, of stealing. at e.tngteton two hoe.. and the rear, the prnperti of W a lt er Esq. - honer of 1).• was recorded. lIISTERN CIRCUIT. DEVON ASST s, E , Atctsr CIVIL SIDE. IBeibre des Loan CIIIRE JUSTICE.] GRIM. C4)24. rotas V.. LASE. Ma. C. F. IVII.LIAMS opined the pleadings in this eke, and Jlr. Sergeant PE I. ,. IttAtt:4l it to the Jury on the part Af the plain . and observed that it was an henna brought by his client to iecover compensation in d. :nages for the injury he hai sustained in consequence nt the defendant having had criminal conversation with the plaint:ll'a pito. Slaving informed the Jury of the nature of the rase, he did not feel it necessary to ask from them their marked attentian t he should hare it he was quite confident, for every Gentleman whom he had the honour of addtcssing must feel w:th him, that this case involved an injury of the deepest kind that one ma:: could inflict upon another. for it was no less an injury than tearing: the wife ot his bosom front hint for ever--thewantan he had selected front the rert of the world for his companion for life, who was to be the sharer of his joys and misfortunes. Actions of thts nature involved points peculiarly. their own ; every one of tbe:n differed; but the very f.,ct o: an action being brought by one roan against Another for criminal conversation wit, his alk involved in it an injury of a very deep description, the deepest probably that one human being could inflict upun another; for how could man's feelings be my.a deeply wounded titan under the shame and disgrace that a teamsaction of this kind involved him in. The par . . Onion this occasion did not Maintain a high rank in society r they moved in en humble sphere of lite ; hut he thought be might say for his client, Joseph Tibbs, that he had, during the whole period of his intercourse with his wife, conducted himself in such a man ner as to discharge most fully the duties cf that relation of lite. Ile was foreman in a most respectahle commercial home in this citr— that of Mesas. Wilcox and Co.—sad i.e bad filled that situation with great credit for nun, years.. llcre Mr. Sergeant and life. Sergeant Wilde. who appeared for the defendant. consulted together for a short tinie. Mr. Sages:lt Pmt.t. then proceeded, and observed, that it was painful fur him to advert to a case of this description ; for no man who possessed any of those feelings 'illicit dignity and adorn human nature could hear, without the deepest pain, such details u those which it now became his duty to state. Under the circumstances in which his client was most distressingly placed, he bad no alter. native left but to bring his action, unless he could make up his mind to endure his wrongs in silence. If in a case of this nature any thing like criminal negligence au imputed to the plaintiff—if it could be shown that there was any thing in his condom to justify any improper familiarities with his wife--lic admitud that, und,r such clrcunistances, the husband had link cause to complain. In the present case, however, not the slightest negligence mold he im puted to the plaintiff. It would be his duty to detail to the Jury a story which in many parts he was sure it would be extremely pant. ful fur them to bear, and which, in others, was highly discreditable to the defendant, proving strongly that he had formed a deliberate design of ruining the domestic peace and happiness of the plaintiff. lie wished that he could avoid entering into the details of this case, but, having no alternative, he must proceed to discharge his painful ditty. The marriage of the plaintiff' with his present wife took place in Inlft. They were each about 27 or 211 )are of age. ft rasa marriage founded upon reciprocal affmtion. The plaintiff's wife was the daughter of a Mr. Howe, and he should call the father of the lady hrfore them, and other members of the family. e would prove that they lived most happily together. The deteints .t iratethree or four.years older th , stn fieill2lntrrs wife, and he we, sorry to add, that he was a married man. Mere Mr. Sergeant and Mr. Sergeant 'WILDE again err. suited, and the former Learned Gentleman. in a few minutes, it.. formed the Jury, that for reasons is ith which it was unnecessary to trouble them and the Court, the parties ill the cause had agreed to a compromise, and the plaintiff would accept a verdict tor 44.11. damages.) A verdict to that amount was accordingly taken against the defendant. atchirN SIDE. Imre Arer ran indicted for assaulting Itett♦ Iloare on the King's highway, in the parish of Woodbury, on the 24th Jul., between nine and ten o'clock in the evening, and forcibly taking and .sal_ tag from her person one basket, tile property of linger Nicks. and one sieve, and divm quantities of flue, the property of Matthew :sack% The proseentrix stated, that she had been sent out by her master on, the evening in question, to take scathe fruit as a present to • neighbour. On ber way she met the prisoner, sho came to lirr and endearourcd to kiss her. This she resisted, and he struck her a violent blow, which stunned her for the moment. The prisoner thon threw the basket over the hedge, and the sieve into a the erital out " Mt.rder !" end the prisoner ran away. :411e was very much alattneil hut in • few min.ktes she recovered, and walked towards Exmouth, when she met Mr. Marshall. _ Charles Marshall deposed, that he was goirg tr.. the road towards ' Woodbury on the 21th of July, between mine and ten o'clock, when he heard cries of" Murder." In a few minutes a c-an ran towards I him, whom he was eermin was the prisoner. ll'itness asked what i the cries of murder were ? Prisoner said he did not know, and en ! deatourcd to pass on. Marshall. however, suspecting the prisoner Ito have been the cause of them, knocked him down. fleet got up and endeavered to ruts away again, but Marshall knocked him down l a second and a third time, when two men came up whom he thought would assist him In securing the prisoner ; bat on Marshall telling them that he had heard cries of murder, and ttat he thought the I man he ill4l knocked down knew something about them, they re. commended Hoer to ran away, and they followed him. Illarrhail did not like to pursue three men, and he waited in the road a few minutes, when the prosecutrix and Mr. Nicks came up. They pursued the three men, and ultimately succeeded In taking the prisoner. Mr. Nicks stated, that on the 21th of July he had sent out his servant Hoare with a basket of fruit. She had not left the house long when he heard a cry of murder. tie ran into the road, and met her with the last witness, whom he assisted in captorio g the primmer. Mr. Baron el ARROW summed up to the Jury, and left It to them to say if they could have any doubt of the guilt of the prisoner. The Penman. in a very few minutes, returned a venal of Chilly. His Lordship immediately ordered the prisnoer to be called tip far lodgment, and observed to him, that if there had not been an error in the indictment, by which the alphal part of the charge was dime away with, he should have thought him a tit object to have been left for execution. As it was, however, he shriek! consider it ' his duty to send a man nut of the country who had felt ro remorse at brutally striking a girl of apparently weak form, and robbing her of her master's property in the King's highway. The sentence of Ithe Court was, t i n: he he transported Sir seven years. I As soon ea sentence WAR passed, one of the Jurors said, " I Lard, we are not all agr, ed." lii. Lordship expressed his regret that their Foreman shout., have pronounced a verdi:t before he wens satisfied of the sarnit of his fellows, and desired them to re-consider their verdie. Ina few minutes the Jury aisinretnrnei;vetlict;l(;oilly. The Learned Jcnot then passel a similar sentener to the on ly: lisd previously declared, when the Foreman of the Jure 1110, in the that instance, by mistake. pronounced a verdict of guilty. lloasE JOCIEEVINt;.---tt Lanadown Fair, on Toes:lay, a farmer was duped out cf a valuable more on the Down, I. two fel.. lows attiresi as livery servants. who inquired the price, lusting that they wanted just such a mare to match with another for light phaeton belonging to their mistress. In a short time a bargain was 'pale—the sharpers agreeing to give an interior :101.c which they had with them a n d 31? in money, in exchange for tho farmer's mare. A transfer of saddles, &c. accordingly took place, one of the fellows holding out the money wbile the Oilier mounted the mare and rode off; the remaining sharper soon disappear...A among the crowd, and the fanner was left with an animal worth about 51.--Glourrstrr Journal. Not many weeks since. some miscreants stole the coins deposited beneath the foonialion.stcme of the New Market House building at Berkeley. We have now to notice a theft of a similar nature: considerable 311:Tail071/1 having been mi.kirg for some time in the plan of the Alythe Bridir, at Tewkesbury. iu sonde qUrnee of which the foundation-stone way moved from i.; original position; and, on the following morning, it was discovered that enemy coin, even to the farthing, was stolen.—Gieveestee Psyvv. MItACVII.OII'S ESCAPE.—A few days ago a g, ntletnan at Mar pact, Cumberland. having got his will cleaned out, and an pieced Mr. John A %Midge. master mason, to repair the stone.work, while he was at work the whole of the - calling and rubbish aced. dentally fell in. and buried him up to the height of I: feet. After assistants yes procured, and every effort used for upwards of two bouts and a half, they got him rescued from his ;Inflow: situation with life, to the great joy and surprise of the spectators. He after. wards walked home with assistance, theme! much bruNed, and hopes are ertert.incil of a sl ritoecry ! r i :~ ; i 0 41 1 1 I. l A i' i i i i I: I I ,tl •) It , . , tl t.::. i. i ill 1 IT er an% slutt: is etc' t it to : 0 nn. a.. 2'l C 1111 1:P lin j Pc . ' g U 1 ar e a 07, 2 , tt t 0: ~i,~e. wornin vc010"!, o' l exP( ~ tl tOrl11 e ITJOr (clip ~ ,s e tO O krt . k .nd tl fool* I