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This day is published, in 2 vols. livo. with a fac-simile of the rare whole-length Portrait of Henry, by Gaultier. price 245. bards, MEMOI RS of the COURT of 11 EN RI t he GREAT, No epoch in the History of Europe is PO pregnant with events of consequence to subsequent relations of society, as the Reign, of Elisabeth of England and of }lorry the Great of France, contemporaneous in period, and rivals in the splendor anti genius of their respective Courts. Miss Aikin's elegant volumes have introduced us to a close acquaintance with the poky and in trigues of the great officers who directed the councils of Elizabeth, and those of the Court of France during the same period are recorded only in the works of Sully, Pretixe, and the lighter productions which develop the Memoirea Secrets during the reign of Henry the Great, and which form the basis of the present bisto:7 of his reign. That the present work Is ably written, and exhibits a spirited narrative of facts, will be manifest trom the extracts which follow. The account of the massacre of St. Bartholomew is the fullest in star language, and so curious that we have judged it proper to trans fer the entire article, for its own sake, as well as to exhibit the talents of the author."—Monthly Mag. Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury.square, London. This day is published, in 3 vols. crown tiro. with Portraits and Autographs, price U. 16s. ORIGINAL LETTERS, illustrative of English Ins spry ; including numerous Royal Letters, fmm Autographs in the British Museum, and one or two other Collections. With Notes and Illustrations. By II ENRY ELLIS. F.R.Q. See. S.A. Keeper of the Slanoscripts in the British Museum. This Work contains Portraits or King Henry the Eighth and his Jester, Will Somers. from an Illumination in that Monarch's own Psalter, still preserved among the Royal Manuscripts in the British Museum; a fee-simile of the Plan (hewn be lewd Iturghley's own hand, for the arrangement or the Trial of Mary Queen of Scots ; and a fac-simile of the Seal and Signature to the Carte-blanche which Prince Charles sent to the Parlieme.rt to save his father's lite; also from Autographs in the British Museum. " Mr. Ellis has performed his task in a manner an satisfactory and as ahle, that our respect for his judgment and intelligence, high as tt was before, has been greatly rained. The letters are chosen with much discrimination, and not only throw strong lights upon many interesting points of our national history, but in a remark ati!e manner illustrate a number of political questions hitherto in voiced in inexplicable intricacy."—Literary Gazette. Printed for Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, Finsbury-square, Lordon. This day is published, in • truly corporate volume, filled with a plenitude of type, price half-a-guinea bound, THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER ; being the entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus; Democritus, the Merry Philosopher of Greece; and their illustrious disciples. lien Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq., Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcott, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, • and others. Translated into our vernacular English Tongue, By JOHN BULL, Esq. With numerous Additions, interpolations, and Improvements, by the Editor and different Branches of his Family. " Laughing is the high prerogative of man, and that sublime and noble quality which distinguishes him from the brute creation. Theme who cannot laugh gracefully, heartily, and by the hour at a time, scarcely ought to be ranked among the human species. The sayings of Mornus, the writings of Democritus, and the attic works of Joe Miller, should therefore be studied in our Universities and tap-rooms, palaces and cottages, drawing-rooms and kitchens, not only for health and pleasure, but from due regard to the dignity and honourable distinction of man."—O. A. Steevens. Published by Sherwood. Jones, and Co. Paternoster-row ; John Anderson, jun. Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin; and to be had of all Dealers in Classical Literature. PRICES OF BRITISH Bank Stock 2291 30 /hue Acct. S per Cent. Red. 941 I I 3 pee Cont. Cons. 931 1 j Ditto Acct 954 35 per Cent. 101 3; per Cent. Red. 101 1003 101 New 4 per Cent. 106 1054 Inetts Stock Ditto Acct. Limo Bonds 9996 pm PRICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Bonds Ditto Acct. Brazilian Bonds 86 88 Ditto Acct. Ditto Scrip 13 1 13 16 pin Ditto Acct. 134 13 1 14 16 pin Buenos Arms Bonds 97 4 Dlt a Acct. CIA ion Bonds 87 64 Dino Acct. 88 Co:ombian Bonds Ditto Acct. 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Ulla, few Stephens; ILetberine. iddon ; Ohlta. Mae Nleol. After which. HARLF.QIIIN AND THE TALKING BIRD. THE SINGING TREES. AND GOLDEN WATERS. HarlequJu, Mr. Auld; Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Columbine, Mlle Barnett. Der Freiechuts. ly popular new Pantomime ovary Evaning• The very - - THF:ATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, WEDNESDAY. Jan. 12, will be performed INKLE AND Y Alt Ico. Sir Christopher Curry. Mr. W. Farrel): kale. Mr. • Captain Catipiey. Mr. Pea:atm' Medium, Mr. Meadows: TrAtelge. Mr. Parr. eett. Parfet.. Min M. Tree: Narcissus, Mi.. I I " T " . " 1 " ""W"i ' Mass Love: Patty, Mrs. Gibbs, After . HARLEQUIN AND THE whichDßAboN OF IVANTLEY; Or, MORE OF MORE HALL. Harlequin, Mr. Eller 1 Pantaloon. Mr. Karnes; Clown, Mr. J. S. Gri maldi. Columbine. Maa Homer. To-morrow, The Ineenetant. The new Pantomime every Evening* TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter Oa the Conaiwation Laws shall certainly arpesr to-morrow. The BRITISH Pits, commenced publishing yesterday owning at five o'clock. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 12, 1823. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night. They contain no intelligence which we have not anticipated by other channels. The recognition of the new American States continues to divide attention with the legislative measures before the Chambers. The Journal des Debals, the organ of the royalist opposition, exluecses itself on the sullied in the following terms. Its observations and in terrogatories are more worthy of notice, as illustrative of the feelings of the Royalist party, than the remarks that might appear (if any did, which is not the case,) in the ministerial papers, as they are necessarily more guarded in delivering their sentiments. " It is now certain that England has concluded commercial treaties with Colombia and Mexico, of which the basis must tines. sarily be, the recognition of the independence of those Colonies., because no treaty could be had with a dependent power, it not having the authority either to sign or enforce it. " The consequences of this measure to the world are very serious. What part will the European Continent take? What part will France herself take? " And it is at this critical moment that an indemnity is proposed, at other times so desirable, but founded on a project of eventual prosperity, which would require at least five years of peace to realize. And is it at this moment that the rentes are to be reduced, and fresh securities created, and the whole system of finance to be overturned, and the fats of fortunes to be risked, on a desperate game of chance ? ".Mr. Canning plays better than ourselves. While we were triumphing in Spain, while our credit was upheld by the rejection of the law of the Rentes, he took care to blink a question in which we might have interfered with so much effect but when he saw how little we had profited by the success of our army in Spain , and by the glory of the Dauphin—when he saw us entering on our disastrous financial specu'Ation, then he discovered that the moment for acting had arrived. " And then what does M. de Villele do ? By the very nature of the ministerial projects of law it is evident that he has foreseen nothing ; that he has adopted no system ; aid that he has paid no sort of regard to our foreign relations. " By and bye ! Bmides the discussion, of which we ga►e an abridg ment yesterday, respecting the petition of the men of co lour from Martinique, it appears that some agitation was excited in the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, by the report of a petition from one of the new proprietors, who having purchased a ratification of his title from the old proprietor, prayed to be allowed to share in the indemnity to the extent of the sum he had paid the emigrant. It was proposed to refer this petition to the Committee on the in demnity, but M. de Puystacatx, and some of the Ultra Royalist Members, insisted upon passing it over without any notice." What !" exclaimed this Deputy, "shall we give the gainer an indemnity as well as the loser ? It is as if we were to listen to the request of a robber who had the audacity to claim a part of the compensation given to his victim." This violent and indecent language threw the Chamber into confusion, and it was not till the President had rung his bell once or twice that order was restored. The petition, in spite of the opposition it received, was referred to the Committee. The llfoniteur is almost entirely filled with the proceed ings in the Chamber of Deputies. It contains nothing official ; but it at last notifies that the royal ordinance for levying 60,000 men, to which we have before alluded, will appear in the next number. The following are ex tracts:— PARIS, JAN. 8. An Ordinance of the King, dated 18th December, the text Of which we shall give in our next number, orden the levy of 60,000 men of the class of 1824. Towards the end of December the coast guard of St. Jean de Mont (department of Lavendee), found a bottle containing s note, written with a pencil, partly torn, with these terms— We, passengers on board the Elizabeth, Captain Lecomte, re quest the yerson who shall receive this note, to be so good as to inform M. Bouchon, that the Elizabeth was this day, 29th Sept. 1824, with the wind on the quarter, steering E.S.E., at seven knots an hour, towards Madeira. All the aew and the passengers on board, whose names are an nexed, are well. Half-past two o'clock. Last night the Brussels Papers of Sunday reached us. The States-General are employed in amending the laws regulating the commercial intercourse of the Netherlands with ether countries. The agriculturists, it seems, are complaining of distress, and urge measures of reprisal on their neighbours. The only sure remedy for these de rangements of the social machine is time; to which we have no doubt the Dutch Ministers will refer these eternal petitioners for relief and protection. Certainly no en lightened nation will now encumber its Statute Book with fresh enactments against the freedom of trade ; we ought rather to expect the abolition of all remaining restrictions. BRUSSELS, JAN. 0. Yesterday there passed through this city a British Cabinet Mes senger, sent from Vienna by Mr.Stratfurd Canning, with despatches, said to be important for the English Cabinet. The Second Chamber of the States General, after four Sittings, -mployed in discussing the project of law foe sonic changes in the Tariff of Customs, adopted 'J yesterday, by a majority of 72 to 23. In these debates the distress of agriculture was frequently men tioned, and several Members expressed a wish for measures of re prisal against the French commerce. AVltile a subject of such interest to our country was debating, with equal judgment and patriotism, 31. de St. Cricq, President of the Board of Commerce and Colonies in France, proposed to the Chamber of Deputies, in the Sitting of January 3, some changes in the Tariff of Customs. In the exposition of the grounds fur this measure, we observe the following phrase :—" The best commercial legislation is that which most effectually protects the agriculture and the manufac:um of the country ; and this protection ought to go so far as to insure to those in the home market a great preference above foreign agricul ture and manufactures. Let us, however, not forget that foreign commerce is also a means of acquiring riches ; that exchanges are the aliment of it, and that we must provide that exchanges may be made on reasonable terms." The fever of speculation which raged on Monday in the American mining shares, has, we are glad to find, begun to subside, and, with the returning sobriety of the public mind, there has been a corresponding decline in the nominal value of these attractive adventures. There was an average fall of at least 25 per cent. yesterday on all the shares that were in the market. No business was done in the Real del Monte project ; the shareholders who had asked 1,500!. on Monday being, we believe, yesterday'afraid of offering to sell at all, on account of the ludicrous contrast the prices they would realise would make with the lofty demands of the preceding day : according to the old adage, however, it is very probable that they may go further and fare worse. It is not likely now that the delusion is losing its power —that prices even so good as those of yesterday will again be attainable. The decline, we expect, will yet be greater. These are not the times when bubbles like the South Sea scheme can be blown, and thousands of ignorant persons duped out of their property by the artifices of daring spe culators. The press is now ready to canvass and expose every attempt to work upon public credulity, and the suc cess of imposture must necessarily be very limited both in extent and duration. It gives us pleasure to know that we have contributed to allay the insane ardoLT that was prevailing in respect of these Alining Companies. The check they sustained yesterday may be justly regarded as one of the beneficial effects of the vigilant and enlightened control exercised by the daily press over the public welfare. General principles are too commonly neglected in the consideration of particular mea sures, or the purchasers of these shares would, if they had known anything of the subject of their speculations, have been aware that the larger their profits, the sooner they would be at an end. The depreciation of value that re sults from the increase of the precious metals, is fatal, in the nature of things, to those dreams of boundless wealth in which all mining speculators have indulged. Mo tyres- QUltlf, in treating of the causes of the decay of Spain, which he ascribes to these very American mines, observes,', " As the specie of Europe soon doubled, the profit of Spain diminished in the same proportion, and the Spa niards had every year but the same quantity of a metal which was become by one half less precious. In double the time, the specie still doubled, and the profit still diminished another half, and even more." Headds afterwards, " but if mines should be discovered so fruitful as to give a much greater profit, the more fruitful they will be the sooner the profit will cease." But perhaps, after all, es facts speak more eloquently than words, we think it not amiss just now to look back to what passed in this city a little more than a century ago, when the mania for schemes raged in its utmost fulness, unlimited by any of the circumstances to which we have before alluded. The strength of the de lusion re•.pecting the great bubble of that day is thus de scribed in " Applebee's Journal" of August .5, 1720: " Our South Sea equipages increase every day; the city ladies buy South Sea jewels ; hire South Sea maids ; and take new coun try South Sea houses; the gentlemen set up South Sea coaches and buy South Sea estates, that they neither examine the situation, the nature or quality of the soil, or price of the purchase, only the annual rent and the title: for the rest, they take all by the lump, and give forty to fifty years' purchase. This has brought so many estates to market, that the number of land-jobbers begin to increase to a great degree, almost equal to the stock-jobbers we had be, fore." Parliament had previously interfered to crush the petty frauds, which had mult;plied to an amazing amount. Ac cording to a calculation in a number of the London Weekly Packet for January, 1720, it appears that the stocks pro posed to be raised by these schemes, exceeded 28,000,0001., " above twice as much," adds the journalist, " as the cur rent coin of the nation, nay, more than the third part of all the payments the circulation of that current coin performs in the whole kingdom." In the same paper there is a list of ninety of those schemes, from which we purpose to-mor row to make some curious, and, in these times we hope, not uninstructive, extracts. With respect to the general question of mining schemes, we would advise those who are about to embark in them to ponder well first on the observations of ADAM SMITH. Let them then look around them, if they have superfluous capital, and see what feasible projects there are at home, and if they must speculate, let their enterprise be directed to the improvement of their country. " Projects of mining, instead of replacing the capital employed in them, together with the ordinary profits of stock, commonly absorb both capital and profit. They are the projects, therefore, to which, of all others, a prudent law-giver, who desired to in crease the capital of his nation, would least chose to give any ex traordinary encouragement ; or, to turn towards them a greater share of that capital, than what would go to them of its owa ac cord. Such, in reality, is the absurd confidence which almost all men have in their own good fortune, that wherever there is the least probability of success, too great a share of it is apt to go to them of its own accord. " But, though the judgment of sober reason and experience eon. cerning such projects has always been extremely unfavourable, that of human avidity has commonly been qtthe otherwise. The same passion which has suggested to so many people the absurd ides of the philosopher's atone, has suggested to others the equally absurd one of immense rich mines of gold and silver. They did not con sider that the value of these metals has, in all ages and nations, arisen chiefly from their scarcity ; and, that their scarcity has arisen from the very small quantities of then which nature has any where deposited in one place: from the hard and intractable substances with which she has almost every where surrounded those small quantities ; and, consequently, from the labour and expense which are every where necessary, in order to penetrate to and get at them, They flattered themselves, that veins of those metals might in many places be Lund, as large and as abundant as those which are commonly found of lead, or copper, or tin, or iron. The dream of Sir Walter Raleigh, concerning the golden city and country of Eldorado, may satisfy us, that even wise men are not always exempt from such strange delusions. More than a hundred years after the death of that great man, the Jesuit Gurnila was still con vinces' of the reality of that wonderful country; and expressed with great warmth, and I dare to say, with great sincerity, how happy he should be to carry the light of the gospel to a people who could so well reward the pious labours of their Missionary. _ _ • " In the countries first discovered by the Spaniards, no gold and silver mines arc at present known, which are supposed to be worth the working. The quantities of those metals which the first ad venturers are said to have found there, had probably been very much magnified, as well u the fertility of the mines which were wrought immediately after the first discovery."—WEaLett or NATIOXS, Book IV. c. i. The proceedings of the Irish Catholic Association on Saturday, which will be found in another part of this day's paper, are of considerable interest. The meet ing was unusually numerous, and the speeches seem to us more impressive than usual—perhaps because they are much better reported than generally in the Irish Papers. We have not space for a lengthened commentary, though the growing importance of the question renders it every day of greater magnitude to the welfare of the empire. Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, the Duke of York held a Levee as Commander-in-Chief, at his Office in the Horse Geards, which was attended by between forty and fifty Military Officers. A Board of the Lords of tho Treasury was held at the Treasury Chambers yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer came to town yester day morning from Beckenham. Official notice has been given, that, in consequence of the intended augmentation of the regiments in India to their full complement, an addition of three or four thousand men is required to be raised. For this purpose extensive recruiting parties are distributed throughout Ireland, where, it is hoped and expected, from the heroic character of the people, that the whole augmentation will be completed in a very short period. For some years past the Colonial Department has been harassed by a continued reiteration of complaint, and ap peal from New South IVales, which his Majesty's Govern ment have resolved to terminate by an entire change in the civil administration of that colony. Without entering upon the many grounds of disapprobation which have led to such determination on the part of Ministers, we may observe that it is understood to arise from a eonviction of the ab solute necessity of an immediate and effectual change in the colonial system of Government in New South Wales.— Even isg Paper. A private letter from Brussels of the 24th ult. mentions the mysterious arrest of an English gentleman of respectable connexions, long resident in that city. Ile was taken out of bed by three officers of Justice, and hurried to prison. On the remonstrance of Sir Charles Begot, he was, after an examination in the Hall of Audience, discharged, with out any specific charge being brought against him. Two Ships have been lately built in Sir Robert Wigram's yard, for the Colombian pearl fishery, with diving bells, &c., and are nearly equipped ; one is shortly expected to be launched, and the ober also in the course of a few weeks, and will proved to continence the pearl fishery. Eea.sTeM.—ln our notices to Correspondents yesterday, was the following :—" The subscription will be forwarded to the Spanish and Italian refugees. It was not respired when it was first sent." For " when" read " u/mere. The 99th regiment of Infantry, now in Edinburgh Castle, will embark forthwith for Portsmouth, preparatory to its proceeding on foreign service. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Emily Marchioness of London(Terry arrived yesterday, at her seat, North Cray, Kent, from a visit to the hlarchioness of Hertford, at liastirr, Sussex. The Marquis of Conyngharn arrived yesterday, at his house in Hamilton-place, from NVindsor Lodge. The Earl and Countess of Stanhope have arrived at their seat in Kent. for Brighton. Earl Gower has left town for his father's, the Marquis of Stafford's seat, in Surrey. Lord Hervey arrived in town reaterday from his father's, the Earl of Bristol's seat, Ickworth Park, Suffolk. ' Sir W. Knighton, Bart. arrived in town yesterday from Windsor Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Luttrell have arrived at 'their house in Grafton street, from their seat in Surrey. The Honourable Mr. de Roos has left town for Brighton. Lord Rivers has left town for his seat, Hain Park, Ncwmat kit. Honourable Colonel Howard, 31. P., has left town for his seat, Aslitead Park, Surrey. The Marquis of Litchfield has arrived at his father's, the Duke of Portland's, Welbeck, Notts, from a tour. Departures from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street :--Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew, for their seat in Norfolk; J. Stratford, Esq., for Oxford. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE BRITISII PRESS. Sta.—An error of some importance has, I am confident, mos t unintentionally crept into your Report of the proceedings of th e Electing which took place, on Sunday evening last, at St. Patrick' s school, Meant-street. for the purpose of organizing the mode of col lecting the British Catholic Rent. Your Reporter has stated' " that the money received was to be paid into a bankee's hands• and remitted to the Catholic Association, in Dublin, every month." The fact is not so. The intention of that meetin was to supply a fund which should be at the disposal of the ' British Catholic Association. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JOHN ROSSON. THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND MARSH AND CO. \~ . THE BRITISH PRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sra,—The day has at length arrived to prove whether the Bank is serious in its determination to resist the pay ment of dividends to those parties whose stock was sump. titiously abstracted by Fauntleroy, for the benefit of the firm of Marsh and Co. The payment of the dividend to the public commenced on Sitturday, when the ordinary application was made by some of those parties, who were informed by the Clerks that there was no stock in their names on the bank books. What course it is fit the stock holders so situated should take, is subject fur mature and deep consideration. The law of the land has laid down the principle, that the surreptitious transfer of stock, by a fraudulent instrument or forged power of attorney, cannot in the slightest degree affect the rights of the lawful pro prietor, and that tho Bank of England is liable in the same manner as a private banker who pays a forged check. The parties who in the present instance have had their stock ab stracted fraudulently, are directed by the Bank Circular , to prove their claims against the estate of the bankrupts, as it is alleged by the Bank that the proceeds of the fraud found ,their way into the banker's till, though it is notori ous that the Commissioners of Bankruptcy will not allow their claims to be proved. If, under such circumstances, the party proceeds by ac tion, he is peremptorily told that his proceeding will be met by a Bill in Equity. What fearful odds would an in dividual have to contend with !--st protracted suit in the Court of Chancery ; and, for aught he knew, afterwards an appeal to the House of Lords. Such a state of things is fearfully alarming, not only to the British Stock holder, but to the suljects of all fo reign States, whose confidence in British national securities must be shaken for the first time. Why does tot the Bank, who has committed the error, fairly and candidly replace the stock which it has suffered to be surreptiti3usly abstracted, and then call upon the in dividuals to afford their assistance in recovering the pro perty, and bringing the delinquents to justice ? A banker who pays a forged check might as well shut up his (loos as refuse to refund the money so paid in his own wrong. The Earl of Clanricarde left London on Saturday last, for Paris, where (says a Dublin Paper), according to the report in the fashionable circles, the marriage between his Lordship and the lovely daughter of a celebrated States man will shortly be solemnized. The Earl of Lisburne, Dowager Lady Smith, Hon. Vesey Knox and family, Hon. 'l'. Coventry, 'Admiral Young and family, General and Mrs. O'Loghlin, Colonel Henderson, Rev. Dr. Moore, Captain and Mrs. Browne, Captain Mantel, R.N.; and many other fashionables, are amongst the latest arrivals at Cheltenham. DisNEa TO SIR JAULS MACEINTOSH.-It is intended on the part of the Whigs of Glasgow, to invite Sir James Mackintosh to a public dinner in the month of April, when he is to be here at the installation of Mr. Brougham as Lord Rector of the University. A public dinner is in the course of the same month, as we formerly stated, to be given to Mr. Brougham in Edinburgh ; and thus the two chief citiea in Scotland will afford, about one and the same time, the gratifying spectacle of paying a tribute of respect to two of the most eminent statesmen of modern times. Sir James was invited to a public dinner here at the time of his instal lation as Lord Rector, but this invitation he, from circum stances, was under the necessity of declining.—Glasgow Free Pres:. We hear that that able Judge and excellent man, Lord Glenlee, has some intention of resigning his situation as one of the Lords of Session. Lord Glenlce is now at an advanced period of life, and has discharged the duties of his high office in a manner that will make his resigna tion a subject of regret to the whole country.—Glasgow Free Pres.E. Dasris OF DR. LINDSAY, BISHOP OF KILDARE. — On Thursday last, we regret to announce, this venerable Prelate paid the debt of nature, at his Lordship's Epis copal residenae, Glasnevin. His Lordship was conse crated in Isol. Ile was the brother of the Scotch Earl of Balcarras, and brother-in-law to the Earl of Ilardwicke. He was Dean of Christ Church ; and was translated from the Sec of Killaloe, to which he had been elevated in 1803.—Dublin raper. At the next Quarter Assembly a motion will be sub mitted for a Petition to Parliament, praying a removal of that great moral nuisance, the Roman Catholic Associa tion.—Dublin Evening Post. Yesterday the despatches for Bengal and China, by the ship Hyihe, were closed at the East India House, and de livered to the purser of that ship. We are authorised to contradict a statement in some of the Morning Papers, of the death of Mt. Robert Jobling, of the Hon. Company's ship Ilytlie. An unfortunate ac cident occurred at Gravesend on Saturday evening, which deprived the Company's service of a valuable officer, Mr. Wm. P. Bignell, the second mate of the Ilythe, who was drowned by falling over a small boat, in which lie was proceeding to join the ship. We have not yet heard of his body being found. A fork ry has lately been tliscoverey at Leipzic, which has caused an extraordinary sesnation there. A. M. Rower, of Dresden, against whom a hue and cry has been issued, but who is said to be in London, was made by will heir to a wealthy lady in the capital ; it seems she lived too long for him ; he forged papers, and by degrfes got possession of sixty or seventy thousand dollars of her property. Ile is said to have been assisted by a Counsellor Schreiber, who absconded, but has been arrested at Marienburg. He is now in prison, and as we hear, lays all the blame on Rower. The affair would not have probably come to light if Rower hail been able last Michaelmas to pay the interest, which the lady had till then duly received. However, she perceived some irregularity, and being induced on this ac count to visit Leipzic, the affair was discovercd.—Nur4m burg Correspondent, Jan. ft. Livssroot., Jas. 10.—An extensive robbery has been committed in the shop of Mr. J. Kind, jeweller and silver. smith, at the bottom of Church -street, between Satur day night and this morning. The robbers are supposed to have gone down the chimney. They have talon twenty , gold and fourteen silver watches, a great number of ladies gold watch and neck chains, twenty-four gentlemen's gold watch chains, several gross of gold seals and keys, four dozen of silver and gold snuff and vinegar boxes, a great number of gold finger rings, set with precious stones, and a number of other rings, ear-rings, brooches, fee. &c., two dozen sliver table-spoons, one dozen dessert-spoons, and eighteen dozen tea-spoons, besides many other articles of jewellery and plate to a great amount. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATIOX DUBLIN, SUNDAT, JAY. 9. Yesterday the fullest and most respectable 31 eetirg of the Ca. tholic Association which has been held since its formatien, •wk place at the Large Rooms of the Association. The late 'norm. tion of 31r. O'Connell naturally excited a mote than ordinary d egree of interest. . . At the usual hour of meeting (three o'clock) the rooms we re crowded ; there were between six and seven hundred members p►e. tent. Many strangers also attended, among whom we noticed se. veral persons connected with the Castle, and holding high official situations under Government. The lion. PIERCZ Itrxr.rn WAS caled to the Chair. On Mr. O'Connell's entrance, he was receit cd with a bust of applause from the meeting. It was announced, that 5401 3s. Sid. had been received during the last week, on account of the Rent. Mr. O'Cox NELL gave notice of a motion respecting the objects of the Association. llis wish was, to rescue the Association horn the calumnies that had been heaped upon it. He referred to the statement of 31r. M1)onnell, in the London Papers, respecting the conversation which that gentleman had with the Rev. Hugh 11• Neil, in which that Rev. Oentlemar—having been pressed by Mr. M`Donnell to state upon what authority he had asserted that "Pastorini's Prophecies" had been circulated by the Irish Priests-- was unable to give ano other account of the book, than that he had received four copies of it from his uncle, the Archbishop of Dublin. The Learned Gentleman dwelt forcibly upon the heinousness 0• uttering so gross and unfounded a calumny. 31r. O'Connell then referred to a circumstance which occurred on Christmas morning, at Powerscourt, in the ecunty Wicklow. The people, as they were going to Masa, long before daylight. heard a volley of shot fired over their beads, and many of them were naturally very mud frightened. Mr. O'Connell considered this circumstance well worthy theattention of the meeting. He also stated, that several political set. mons *ere preached onChristmas-day and the day atter, by Ih.3lagee and several of his relatives. He expressed regret that the King's troops should be employed in the mean and unbecoming occupation of spies. He said that the Association had been the mesas of es. tablishing the tranquillity of the country. Ireland, within his me. mory, had never been so peaceable as she was now, and this happy state of things was to be attributed to the exertions of the Assoc'. Lion. Mr. O'Connell next noticed the various attempts which were made to misrepresent the motives and objects of the Association. Hs particularly alluded to a petition which had been recently agreed on at a meeting of the rector and vestry of Bristol, In which the conduct and intentions of the Association were in the grossest manner misstated. He proceeded to say, that the following letter had been prepared to be addressed to the Courier newspaper, lie (Mr. O'Connell, would give them an opportunity of establishing the truth (if they could) of genie charges against 3laynooth College. It had been invariably his practice in his profession to waive all prosecution for libel, when the truth of the charges could be esta. blished, and discountenance and oppose that iniquitous doctrine, " that the greater the truth the greater the libel." Mr. O'Connell, after a few 'orifice observatious on the expediency of wiping of the calumnies of the Courier on the Catholic priesthood, read - the lowing letter, which had been forwarded to the proprietors of the Courier : " January 6, 1 us. " GENTLE at Es—T am directed to inform you, that a proiec. tion is intended to be instituted against you for the many sidestate. »tents respecting the Catholic Clergy and Laity of Ireland, and especially respecting the Royal College of Maynootli, contained in your Paper of the 16th of December. " Thls prosecution will, however, be abandoned, if you deem it right to give up the author of the publication in question, who, in that case, will be the only person proceeded against. " I am also directed to inform you, that whether you decline to give up the author or not, the attorney for the prosecution will en. ter into a written consent that the defendant, or defendants, in the prosecution, shall be at liberty to give in (vide; co, it he or they an, the truth of the matters stated in the publication, so that if the publication can be proved to be true there shall be an acquittal. " I am further directed to state, that if you are unable to dis. close the name of the author, and will, in that case, candidly ad. mit that you have been misinformed with respect to the College of ' 3laynooth, and now recognise the error, the prosecution will rot be proceeded on. " The object of this prosecution is solely to bring to the test the allegation contained In the publication of the 16th of December_ that you were ready to give dates and names, and to prove the truth of those assertions, which we deem calumnious. " I have the honour to be, 6e. &c. " E. DWYER." Mr. Fare was opposed to this prosecution. The Association had received great benefit from the Press generally, and he dere , eated the prosecution of any part of it. The charge was a ca. loamy ; the Association declared it to be such ; it dehed the Con. rice to the proof ; and that, he thought, was all that was necessary ' to be done in the business. 3lr. Sum f. being loudly called for by the Meeting, came for ward, and was cheered on his appearance. He said the prosecu tion of Mr. O'Connell, and the issue of the legal enterprise in which the provincial Government of Ireland had so fantastically adventured, called for an intimation of our sentiments. I rise to propose a series of Resolutions, which I have drawn up with a view to suggest the feelings of the Irish people, rather than give them their full expression. I move the following Resolution : " Resolved, That the prosecution of Mr. O'Connell has excited the amazement of the English public, and is calculated to awaken a stronger feeling than one of mere astonishment in the people of Ireland." (Hear.) Yes, air, England was amazed, and Ireland was more than assn. r.ished. If there is ground to congratulate Mr. O'( onnell upon his triumph, there is ground to congratulate Mr. Plunkett upon his defeat. His victory would have been disastrous to his country and to himself. The blood of every honest man would have boiled in his veins at the successor this deplorable experiment. As it is, a feel ing of regret is intermingled with the sen inventor natioral displessuta 11 e lament that Mr. Plunkett should have given to his enemies an election to make either a martyr of .Me. O'Connell, or a victim of himself. ll'e survey this abortive proceeding, with all its train of miserable results, "more in sorrow than in anger." 11'e do rot forget the ties of political cordiality which united 3lr. Plunkett and the Roman Catholic body. We reel as if we had snatched a poig. turd from the grasp of an antagonist, and beholding in his face the lineaments of in early friend, instead of turning hack the dagger upon his bosom, exclaim, in the accents of mingled reproach and sorrow, "Is i: thus that you requite us !" God forbid that we should indulge in the language of contumelious triumph at the failure of a measure, which carries with it its oan retribution. The a capon which was pointed at us with so deadly a level has burst in .Mr. Plunkett's hands. (Loud cheers.) I hope it has not s h a n er , : d t h em . It is enough for us that he should have missed his aim. We cannot fail to remember that there is in the detesta tion of our inveterate opponents (we must not suffer ourselves to be deluded by them) a kind of redeeming virtue, and instead of co. operating in their designs, we abstain front the manifestation of any indignant feeling, and all indulgence in any ungenerous vaunt. kor the sake of the country, and of the distinguished in dividual who is identified with its interests, and holds so high and so permanent a place in its regard, we rejoice at the failure of this preposterrus prosecution. But we are not drunk with an absurd and delirious joy. In these political Saturnalia we do not forget the ignominy of our condition. We remember that there is no substmtial ground of exultation. It is but an ephemeral advan tage: we are still the underlings of Orange tlwnination ; our pe nalties and our disqualifications are still upon us ; and in lifting up our arms, we feel the heaviness of the fetters, which we cannot long sustain in the attitude of triumph ; they draw us down again, and weigh us to the earth. (Cheers.) But we owe it at the name time to sound principle and to the abstract dignity of truth to record our condemnation of this marvellous paoceeding. Gracious God ! what motive could hare prompted an undertaking so extra. 'agent ! IVhen Mr. Plunkett read the words attributed to Mr. O'Connell, did he ask himself, " What is the provocation given to this man ? Who is he, and what am I?" I know no: whe ther he administered that personal interrogatory to himself; but this I know, that if he did, this should have been the reply—" I have raised myself from a comparatively humble station, by the power of my own talents, to the first eminence in the state; filmy pro fession I am without an equal; in Parliament I once had no snre rior: I hare obtained great wealth, greet fame, great dignity, and great patronage—when I was out of office I brindled the popular passions--I enlisted them upon my side—l was fierce, virulent, and vituperative—the Minister turned pale before met at last I have won the object of mu Ide—l am Auorney.General of Ire:aid: if I had been a Ronten Catholic, instead of an enfranchised Presbyte rian, what should I have been ?" (Loud and repeated cheers.) 1 can tell him he would have pined under the sense of degradation— lie would have felt like a man with huge limbs where he could rot stand erect--he would have felt Lis faculties " ciir bed and cabined in," and how would he have borne his humiliation ? Look at him and say how would that lofty forehead have borne the brand of Popery ? how would that high demeanour have borne the stoop of the slave ? Would he have been tame, and abject, and servile, and syco phantic, a.ih moderate? No; lie would have beets the chiet demagogue, the most angry, tumultuous, and virulent tribune of the people; he would have superadded the hottest gall of his own venire to the bitterness of political resentment—he would have given utterance to ardent feelings in burning words—ire wank!. in all the foam of passion. have gnawed the chain from which he would have found it impossible to break. And is this the man who prosecutes for words? If (to nee a vulgar phrase) the tables were turned: If Mr. O'Connell were Attorney-Gereral and Mr. Plunkett the great leader of the people--if "Antony wer,: Brutus and Rrutua Antony," how would the public mind have been influenced ! what exciting matter would bare been flung among the people! what torrents of Lava would have been poured out ! The stones of Rome would rise and mutir.y." 11"ould to Heaven that not only Mr. Plunkett, but every other Protestant who deplores our imprudence in the spin. of a tastiduous patronage, would adopt the simple test ot nature, and make our case his own and he would confess t h e. if similarly situated, he would give vent to his emotions in phrase as vehement and exasperated, and participate In the feelings of that great and disfranchised isommunity to which It vowel be - his mis fortune to belong. There is not a man of ordinary candour who will not rather intimate his wonder at the moderation, than his surprise at the imputed violence of Mr. O'Connell. With fortune. rank, and abilities of the first class, lie is shut out from honours accessible to men whom the law has placed before him, and whom nature had cast at an infinite distance behind him. If he were to adopt, or, if his country were, at his suggestion, to assume the tone which is prescribed to us, the people of England would not believe that we laboured under any very substantial grievances " I do not believe you" (said a celebrated advocate of antiquity tc a citizen who stated to him a resent* enormous wrong)" I don't believe you." " Not believe me !" "No." "What, not believe me ! I tell I .1. •• 1