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• , , , .......,,.. 4r • •.-; • .2 ,i i____ ) ... -: •A‘ ,: -....‘,...-. 7 , ~ e‘ ,- t-- - sh - I •; , t w o : \4 2 ios . 7-7 / • . .- . s - e# .: . .. t t , . • . -.. - we ~,...... IIP •.. lb. . . . ~ . _, t b t 41 NI 61 ri t .: ......1 0114 AC . i irt LI 1 L " i) . .0.... I vtme.,,, . • -, ...---,—. . . , . 'SW • .-., .. • '~'!! , - 4 1 .4 • 1 s i • \i 1 ,0 I j I ~ ~i ~~- L9NDON. THURSDA' NUtilliEll 0212 OCTOBER 31. 1822. Pima 7d. NEW THEITNIC ROYAL, DR(IRY-LANE. 11 Evroing, THURSDAY. o.lo l wr sl, MsfojeSifs &MOMS wilt perform the Custody of WILD OATS. Bic bitti~e thus ler, Ile; barium Rower. Mr. Ellistss ,• mi n .1114•4tri, Mr. P• 0 4 ,7; Saab., Mr. Powell; Jebel Darer, Mr. Terry; Ephraim Ilsowsth, Mr. hl linden ; Sirs, Mr. Koichi. Lady Assarastb,•Mrs W. West ; Amelia. Mrs. law"; Jose, Mrs. Orger. After which (lest tire), a new Bend Divertisestest, elms pouted I.y Mr. IVEgville, entitled VENETIAN NUPTIAI,s; Or, TUE GUARDIAN OUTWITTED. Lorenzo, Mr. NOlllll (his drat appeseasee ow this stsge); Itinekle. Mr. INBIssolt; Astesin, Mr. Gesarier PeCtillis, Mr. Oster s r .,. areas. Mw. Mark (bey Arse a•P"cufe VisOßWir MP Troll * 11 1 0 . 6 4: 11116 e i lWr To merle& with the Croce of THE RENDEZVOUS. Quake, Mr. Cattle; Roiliest, Mr. Mercer; Charles, Mr. Damara; Kintrott, Mr. Harley. Sophie Mrs, H. H•ghes; Lucretia, ; Mine. Mies Smitli:enn. The NW/ will be apprised at Half-past Six o'clock, and the Perfevvitasees (roomette, at Seven. Boxes 7s• Serowe Price L. Id —Pit Se. ed ; Sensed Price 2L—Lower tv. ; Second Price los—Upper Galkry Is.; Second Price 64. Places far lb* Boxes to be takes of Mr. Sprits, at the Bon. 0116“, is the Rotunda, where Family Boxes (for Ole savors. modalios of Pares' coming late to the Theatte) nosy be rooted, soda Private Box bad sightly; as elan a Mr. Floskhasa. of Pond weft, who is appuisteel sole Agree at the West End of the Tows for the miehtly disposal of Pr-- sate Boxes beloagiwg to the Lessee of this Theatre. 43911TUCT4 FOR SUPPLYING CONVICTS cox- FINED ON BOARD HVI.I“, WITH PROVISIONS, cLormiNG. NECESSARIES. RED. DING, COALS, CANDI.C4, OIL, AND SOAP. COlll3lllll/AltilLt TftrillVlT CmArgras, Octosta !4, 18tt. the virtues, deer pirdr• sod oustepast of those lute.; , fee, itialitiesei the head loud h art, (ambits/al oil% attructive ekteinal charms, which, by their almost exalt them i Olt anielocclusracirt. lax.' lotion loud isikttryi cant song:glee fur existence. hoett. made its 'nth a cold. sellish. plodding nation, that we should be base Indeed; *ere h not f,.r the &Au teresteduess sqd.euthusierm.of. our females, obese romance even is met-emery to qualify the psis'sl nudity of our existence. And yet, from the first moment whea I began to rarer, I have ethosis thanked God that I was not bell' el 11 / 0461 1 11 • them the lies e l; r ;s pt rather doe nftt i ls loess ;tbe lame !cacti hoarse Loot ie nratioirs • l'ambeig over the early period of be fife; With: however. is one of perpetual restraint shil ugliaried subjection to the most self-denying forms and oh , *essences. we will suppose a female to have eittined • fitting age for that great and paramount end of her bring—marriage. Men here a thousand objects in life—the profeetione, glory. ambition, the arts. authorship. advancement, and money-getting, in all their ramification., etch ouflitieut to absorb their minds and supply enbatihates in case of primary failure.; but if • woman succeed not in the one sole hope of her hazardous career, she is utterly loth to all the purposes of esertion or happiness, the past has been all thrown away, and the future presents nothing hut cheerless desolation. Love is only a luxury to men, but it may be termed a necessary to women. both by the constitution of society and the decrees of nature, for she has endowed them with superior susceptibility and overflowing affec tions. which, if they he not provided with a vent, perpetually corrode and gnaw the heart. And what are her feelings end chances in this fearful lottery? A constant sense of degradation, in being compelled to make her whole life • game, a me nceuvre, • spetulation; while she is haunted with the fear and shame of ultimate failure. And how alarmingly must the number of these involuntary nuns increase with the yearly augmenting distress of taxed, and luxurious. and expensive England. where the moral restraint of Malthus, while it in flicts no privations upon the man, condemns the female to an utter blighting of the soul, aggravat ed, perhaps, by dependency or want. Blistered be the tongue that can ridicule, and paralysed the hand that can libel those victims of an artificial and unnatural system, who have been unfeelingly taunt ed as old maids. Well could I excuse them, if, in the bitterness of sickened hope and the idleness of unjoyous solitude, they were even prone to exercise a vigilant censorship over the peccadillnes of their more fortunate rivals; but I repel the charge. and 'can safely affirm that tome of ohs moss amiable. kind-tweeted. liberal women I have ever known, were in this cohnsniated class. his osernegt vow, and is still a marvellous wow' gentleman ; he may siosoriate with iirofligetes. ottd gis friends exclaim, " Poor loan ! he hos het I driven to this by a had wife!" If the deserted and iojurril wom■n. nviansinse, seek relief Goa, her stuns in the Rine( innocent recreation, spite, with 14s Argus eye.. keep' watch upon her door. and onthsainv doge her footsteps. fuming at her wiik its timaitand tongues, sod spitting out hes and poison fills every on.. Let ins mutt choose me fur umpire in • coi.jugst dispute. I need not ask who is the dolinqueut nip ►east Jut. decided against him by onticipstian. . Sank I shall Dili t. a wake(' tineWesto r tsisti anions; blot it is a atistake so suppose that men seek congeniality iu their wises. In friends' who • are to share their spurts and pursuits; to accom• patty them in shooting, hunting, fishing ; to talk politics or religion over a bottle; they naturally se lect similarity of tastes; but women are to do no thing of all this, they are chosen for their domestic duties s and ei these are perfectly distinct from the man's, he looks out for contrast rather than unifor mity. hence the male horror of Bluestockings. the sneer with which every blockhead exclaims; "Our wives read Milton, and our daughters plays !" the alacrity with which he assumes that such learned ladies must necesserily "make slippy tea, at d wear their shoes down at heel ;" and the convincing self applause with which he quotes the trite epigram— " Though Artemisia talks by its Of eons cols, fathers, classics, ails, Reads Mallsraacbe, Boyle, sad Locke," ice. bee, stared by ins friend who hod just svek.a. he did not find it necessary to say any thong no the ' , object. farther than propose the fullowsug Result:- lions • QUCH Persons as ore tieiiirohe of contracting 1::`, so son* the abovententiovied 'Artirles. fur the use of Convicts assailant on bosre Hulk. as Portsmouth.' Wool wich, Sheermeee, *ad Chatham., may reerive pordeohes of the Gannets at ibis (tact, hetweeo the haws of les aa4 four, sod detour their Trodere at lbe Comasimarist Ofistr, sealed op sod diverted to the aoperioseadeat of Convicts. inetkina therms "Yonder fur as or before Thonslay, the 14th Nonualvdr ; bat sone will be received after teulva o'Clarlt on shot flay; use wilt say illrensoal heasesasoeZ made as at 11611111714 to a printed Per allOsional she " Inserted hi Wards at Imola; raw Wiliam a Lett•else yobjesissed se such Prilpsent aimted by peruses of blows peoperty roaagiog to Iseceme board with the , party 'material is. the !lain fiefessed in the Particulars fur the dee perfoesnowee of the Contract. . - I. Thst the present norm-viewed I'4l i• the prier *fall arriessiturst produce, has iavolie-d the propnetors aid o r. cowers of tondo its the memie.t distorm ; Nd tbid it. CI.1111• suntion now threstitoe their twat rata. 2 Tlrot the diapnaponion hstarost the wire dap ivots rat produce, and the expense ur entente at, and Wham the increased value of the circulating nterl•nne, and the hardorve char/ethic epee land, reader the nericul.nraliel UTllblr 1,, pay the rent and takes, or evot to cattiest, the soil with any profit t. itimattelt. S. That ie this stale of general calamity. it. le deunvehle Omit ilbe airsaam apiothe of the *tonic handed teormati• !dyed sheteld he ancerteieM, sed fix dear purpose that a Seamral Committee. compneed of Snh Co m m i tte r . Tram the areatal mantles, should toe •ppoisted t. assemble et Edit, hunnufi sa early se potuttble. • 4. That a Committee shoold be appoiated to Ira. up. faithisiiii, a Report, stating the &Scotties and distress's ise ibis particular county; and what may occur to them as tno•t sweater? In be done to remedy these evils ; ■ad that the Committee alorsild similitude three or more of their number to meet sod deliberate with Ike Gemmel Coansiiitte at Edin burgh. b. That the Sub-Committee sppolutrd to meet with she Oeseral Committee iu Edinburgh, be requested to meostwowt tate so this comity the result of their deltberatioas: aid that another meeting be called for this comity, a take list Repurt of their Committee and bab,Cominiiter into C 0111.111111,11- tins ; sad, if judged expedient, to apply to Parliament fur relief. SATMISTS OF WOMEN. CHANCES OF FEMALE HAPPINESS. (Fe', file Neer Monthly Magasinc] " Bat what es pow which ?silos* longue. will pare tare wicked wits have libelled all the fair." Pert. " On me when ttnitee's are satiric, I take it fur a paaettyric." - - To-sorrow, The School for Scandal—and Love in Humble Life. Ott Saturday, The Suspiricior Hoishand. . A Monday, Illaeheih—and Giovanni in London. lb. Kean will appear early In the 'easing month; Mr. Brabant very Overtly; Mr. Liston and Mial Stephens at the termination of their provincial ensagetneate ; and Sirs. Annie (from the Theatre Royal, thibliu) in a few days. SW',?. The Resolutions being seconded by Dr. Clark, were unanimously carried, and the hillowtog (iSlit mittee accordingly appoiasted:— Lord Be!hares, Admiral Flemintr, Sir Meaty Stewart, Bart , Sir Jodie, Stewart, Bart., Mr. Motwatan, Ur. Cork, M. Stow*, Mr. Morels Lockhart, Colodal Gerdes, C•ptu„ °Afraid, Mr. Was. Waddell ; of winch Coanwittee Sir Mo•ry Serwart, Bart. was • soloed Csasesur, sod any throw declared • Qenrum. Let us imagine, not a patient stock-flth, like Gristlds. but an sccianplished woman, " pairtd, not matched," with "a sullen silent sot, one who is ever musing but never think.," an soimul who, like London small beer, geta sour if not soon drunk ; or united to a drone and a dunce, who lounges all day lung before the tire. spitting into it like a great. roasting apple; or submitted to the caprices of a men who keeps his good temper fur company, and his bad for his wife; abroad as smiling said 'Komi.- trig as a Siberian crab. while at home his heart's core is sour; or tormented with a profligate. who I most have done, although I have not half finished, fur I might stretch the line to the crack of doom. When I consider all the hardships and trials to which the fair sez are sub ject, by those unjust institutions of society which exact the greatest strength from the weakest vessel, and reflect. moreover, that nature has unkindly imposed spat it all the pains and penalties of con tinuing the race, I can only reptirt once mere, that 1 thank Heaven for not &whoa made me a woman. The Duke of HANtwrote said, he hail in his head • communication from Sir J. Sinclair, in which 4a• wait into various details by which relief might be obtained. Several counties had already agreed to send Deputies to Ediuburgh, to consider the subject. The piper was referred to the consideration of the Committee, as was also a Resolution, which wet put into Admiral Fleming'shand, which stated that Scotland should be placid on the 11110 Ir level as Ire laud, as to a free trade in spirits. THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. THIS Ereo;ng, THURSDAY. October 31, will be performed she Comedy of THE JEALOUS WIFE. Lard Trisket,lllr. Isn ; tiir Hasty Beagle, Mr. Fawcett; Oakley, Mr. C. Kimble; Major Oakley, Mr. Bartley; Glades Oakley, Mr. Abbott; Russet, Mr Blaochstd ; Capt. Matter, Mr. rO/11101. Mrs. Oakley, Miss Chester; Lady irreelewe, Mrs. Gibbs; Har►iet, Miss Love. Alta •rbkh (41b time), a Piece, is sae set. called THE IRISH TU T OR; 0, . NEW LIGHTS. The principal Characters by Messrs. Chapman. Heel, Riancbord, OMNI, Ills J. Scam, sea Nina Lilac. The uest subject brought forward was the mode of wilting the fisgs. Admiral FLZMING said, We wao a very impor tant matter. The clergy wowed s higher rate,sint he heard that the Lott! Advocate waiving to bring Bill iuto Parliament On the subject. sod he twoetd that the subject be referred to the Getterali Com mittee. Mr. MOSINAN seconded the motion, sod it wsi unanimously carried. Ou the motion of Lord BELHAVBN, the thanks of the meeting were given to the Duke of Hs for his conduct in the chair, end the gen tlemen retired. Ts wbieb will be added (11th Owe) a new Grand Serious Meeladrana, plied ALL PACHA., Ali Parka, Mr. W. Fines; Atli., Mr. Abbott; Zewlea, Pk T. P. Cooke; Haim. Mr. Farley ; Talailloa, faun ; Motichlar, Mr. Norrebow. Helm's, Miss Love. • Doors to be opened at Half-past Six—the Play to Win Akan. Sines Ts. ; Aineesd Mee S. 6d.—Pit IL 1341.; Second Price 41.—Lower Gallery Ss.; Second Price fs.--Upper Gat. lery Is.; Snared Price ad. Platt; fur the Boxes to be bad of Mr. Braadoo,st the DOZ. 011ee, Hart-weer, from Tea OR Four. A Private Bus way be had fur the Beason, or Nightly, of Mr. Brasdos, at She Bs: Office. Tomorrow, The Way to Keep Him—sad AU Paella. On Saturday, the Opera of Fontainebleao. On Monday, Isabella: Isabella, Miss Lary. A nen Open, I. three acts, is in rehearsal (the Music by Mr. Bishop). COUNTY f Porno.* to regatimitiosios very respectable meet ing of the Nubility. F reeho Id era. J ustices of the Peace. and Commissioners of Supply. was held yesterday seinniglit at Hamilton, for the purpose of con sidering • commutation relative to the agricultural state of the country, which had been transmitted to the Lord Lieutenant of the county ; and also for considering the price of labour, connected with agriculture. and articles of consumption of the rennin interest. On the motion of the Honourable Admiral Fleming. his Grace the Duke of Hamil ton was unanimously called to the Chair. Some letters from absent gentlemen were laid on the table. upon which some observations were made. One chance of " single blessedness" in still re armed for these Celibates. Their affections, un claimed upon earth, sometimes seek is recipient in the skies; responding to the manifestations of divine love which they see on every side of them, they draw down religious 14htning direct from Heaven. while men seek conductors, which only guide it towards the earth. The devotion of the former, as it is founded upon feeling, may he uninquiring, and have a tendency to enthusiasm, but it will be cheerful and happy, because emanating from the heart; the latter approach this subject with their heads—a process which not unfrequently makes them sceptics, or bigot., or hypocrites. But let us suppose the happier case of a young woman, who, from her beauty or fortune, is sure to receive offers—thot is to say, who will attract fools or 'harpers, and he taken as a necessary appendage of her face or her purse. Even here, how little selection is allowed to her :—.he may reject one, perhaps two, but if the third be merely free from positive objection., prudence urges his acceptance, relations second prudence, and she monies a man bream., he affords her no good excuse for hating him. The Circassians of Europe have little more choice than their namesakes of Asia. "The happy pair" begin by committing a greet mistake—they misfortune themselves from the world to spend the honeymoon together; familiarity produces its usual effect., they see too mach of one another at first, and the results are exhaustimi and enure. She who marries so idler, who will !wing upon her society till he is wearied, and then seek recreation elsewhere, has not so many chances of happiness as the woman whose bonbon(' in compelled to tear himself from her company fur his duties, and gladly returns to it for his enjoyment.. PIRACY. CIIARLICSTON (AMERICA). SIIIIT. 18. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Ocrosea 30, 1822. ILHE COURT of DIRECTORS of she UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND, tradiog to the EAST INDIES, do keret,' give Notice, That • QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY min be held at these House in Leadeohalt. WPM, OM WEDN ESDAY, she 18111 Lk•rember meat, at Elect* o'Clork isi the Forenoon, for the purpose of &dor ms DIVIDEND from Midsummer lam to Christmas Neal. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCTOBER 30, 1825. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG. lAN°, imam, S. DM EAST INDIES, do hereby glee Notice, That the TRANSFER BOOKS of the 'aid Compaay's Stork will be SHUT on TUESDAY, the 3d Doembee nest, at Three o'Clock, and OPENED again us THURSDAY, the ISib hamar', 1823. And that Dm Dividend %Tamale on the said Stnek, due oft the sth January, 1853, will he ready to be delivered uo *outlay, the Bth ut she WIC Month. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE. Ocroseß 30, lett. PRE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND, frothy to the EARL' INDIES, do keit*, give Ao/tre, nut the COMMITTEE of BUYING sail WARE. HOL'SES be ready t., receive Proposals in writing, tested op. on or before WEDNESDAY the 13411•1' No wisivr, lett, from such Person. es may be willing I. supply IlteCompatty witb— PIG LEAD; awl that t►e Conditioaa of flop Contreennor be Dees a ap -I.l.,atnin to ihr (*.i...1c of She said Container, with .hats haparaata woo b. hat hefore Eleven of the Clock um aud 1131 h day of Notroother, niter which hoer the Cotta• 1a f.ec will ail oaten, say Tender. JOSEPH DART. Secretary. This day was published, price One Grimes, in boards, THE ENCYCLOPE DIA METROPOLI TA NA. PART VII.: enestainiag, amours • variety oher Artists, lse fullevriar Samoa as.—Greosnor. Mixt') •110 APP11.111) betssetts —Plane Astronomy, turapleted.—Nowliail Astronomy. Iltnostv *PM Rsooaasor.—Suerates.—Greek Pl,ile. opky. Archinscsks.—Grrik Mathematics. Grecian On m.scp. Alexander the Greek Dionyriss she Elder. Deny s,us the Yosognr.—Tissoleoo, Demertation so the Gnash,- l ily of the Lady Kaman History. 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Anacreon bring asked, why be addressed all his hymns to women, and none to the gods? answered, " Because women are my deities;' and the ladies were, no doubt, mightily indebted to him sod similar voluptuaries, who set them up in their homer, as certain barbarous nations did their Lyres and Leinuree„ for playthings and ornaments, to be deified when their owners were in good luck and geed humour, and vilipended and trodden under foot in every access of pension or reverse of fortune. Little flattering se is such praise, it is still observ able that the ancient writers seldom abused the sex " in good set term.," or carried their vituperation beyond the excusable limits of raillery mood • juke. Socrates vented only witticisms against Xantippe : Xenerchur, the comic poet, in noticing that none but the male grasshoppers sing. exclaims, " Row happy are they in having dumb wives !" and Eu. bales. another old Greens, jester, after mentioning the atrocities of Medea. Clytraioestra, and Phaedra, says kis but fair that he should proceed to enume. rate the virtuous heroines. when he suddenly stops short, wickedly pretending that he cannot recollect a single one. Among the Romans we know that Juveyal dedicated his sixth Satire to the abuse of the fair sex, hut his worst charge only accuses them of beiug as bad is the nava; and if we sae to infer thane ,the tiesoaimisemos of his ,own life was at all equal to the grossness of his language, we may sorely presume that his female acquaintance were not among the most favourable specimens of the race. The unnatural state of monschi.m has been the bitter fountain whence has flowed most of the ' still more unnatural abuse of women ; the dark sees have supplied all the great lorninarie" of Misogyny, who have ransacked their imaginations to supply reasons for perverted religion, and excuses for violated humanity. Valerian% Letters to Ru finial, the Golden Book of Theophrataus, and Saint Jerome's Exhortation' to Celibacy, have furnished all authors, from the Romance of the Rose down wards. with materials for this unmanly welfare—so Barrow is the basis ou which are grounded all the sorry jests. shallow arguments, and pitiful scandals of ribolils and lumpooners ; and so easy is it to obtain a reputation for that species of wit, which, as Johnson says of scriptural parody, " a good nom detests fur its immorality, and a clever one despises I fur its facility." Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Merchant's Tale, &c. all borrowed front the shove-mentioned source', were little more than good-humoured, though gross caricatures; Boileau, whose tenth satire is a more bitter denunciation, should have recollected, that he was naturally as well as 'professionally compelled to celibacy, and might have consulted hi. friend Fontenelle upon she Fable of the Fox and the Grapes: it was perhaps to be expected that the melancholy Dr. Young. who undervalued human nature and happiness. should have levelled his shafts against the masterpiece of one soil the dia. pettier of the other—Woman ! But what shall we say to the contemporary satiriete, Pope and Swift. each of whom, after trifling with and inveigling the affections of two accomplished ladies, who sacri ficed every thing to the promotion of their happi ness. slunk hack from marriage, or. if married, were not only mean and cowardly enough to con ceal it. but ungrateful enough to publish heartless libela against the whole sex ? Let this be always recollected when any one ventures the hacknied quotstioas from Pope : " Every woman is at heart a rake ;" "Most women have no characters at all:" " The love of pleasure and the love of sway ;" with other citations equally just and novel. As to Swift, he can luckily be seldom quoted in decent corn pony ; yet even he could confess that the gross. oess and degeneracy of conversation obaerveable in his time were mainly 'attributable to the exclusion of womeu front society. Conscious that this 'elf. spotting calumny is somewhat like spitting against the wind, later writers have generally had the good sense to avoid putting themselves in the way of its recoil ; sod. if • living author delight to vent his spleen against the sex in general, and his wife in particular, he may plead in his defence that which I believe might be adduced by all similar libellers : " Forgives's. to the jointed doth belong, They never redo& who cosonsit ibo wrong." Nor be it forgotten that each men may be only ex. amplifying the. fable of the Painter and the Lion. Ifor it is easier to traduce fifty women than practise one virtue. - " MOM west the war To praise their deals, bet rats west deeds me praise." I do not merely admire women Si the most bettor tiful objects of creation, or love them is alto*, sources of hoppinem but I reverence them me thit redeeming glories oftumsairy, the seeetuaries of A man's love generally diminishes after marriage, while a women's increases; both of which results I might have been anticipated. for that appetite, either of person or purse, which the bridegroom too often dignifies with the name of love. disappears with enjoyment ; while the bride, whose affections wire :perhaps little interested at first, finds them imperceptibly kindled by a sense of duty, by the consciousness of her dependence, and the gratifies. tams and novelty which ber total change of life in variably presents et the outset. Awakening from this trance, she has leisure to •discover that she has made over to her lord and master, strictly and truly an designated. not only all her present possessions, hut all her future expectations, all that she may even earn by her talents :—she has not become his servant, for servants. if may depart, and ' try to better themselves eleevrhere, but his serf, Fos slave, his white negro, whom, according to Judge Buller (himself a married marl), he may correct with a slick of the same thickness as his thumb, whatever may he its dimensions. We hear of rose fetters, the silken chains of love, the soft yoke of Hymen, but who is to bear the soul-grinding bond. age of dislike, contempt, hatred ? How Is a woman to avoid these feelings if die he maltreated and in. salted ; and how is she to redress her wrongs ? The laws, made by the men, and therefore flagrantly in 'their own favour, provide no remedy; if thecae her vale weapon, the tongue, she is proclaimed scseold. '-is shrew. and remindkd of the duckint-mooltif she make his own hoot* uncomfortable to kV llisallm4itt, every body's else is open to bite; he iweiNelete .••••• The Duke of Hanivrou said, they were met upon a subject of great importance, a subject on which he would be happy to herr the opinions of the freeholders. The situation of the landholders was critical in the extreme, and if some relief were not soon obtained. their condition would be distress ing indeed. He would not at present repeat his own opinions; they were well known to the meet ing. He long held that extravagance in the public expenditure was sure in the end to produce urea distress. The interest of the landlord and tenant were obviously inseparably connected; and any landlord, who would not unite end sympathise with his suffering tenants, was unworthy of the situation in which Providence had placed him. He was WI. aware of any other plan that could be adopted at present, but that every possible means of retrench ment and economy should be practised by the Go vernment for the relief of the landlord. Having made these few observations he would sit down, and thee would commence the business of the day. • Dr. CLARK. of Esater Moffat, then addres-ed the meeting in a long speech. He began by consider- ing the causes of the agricultural distress. The , first cause was toxstion; the next, a change from war to peace; the third, was over-production. Since the year 1763. or thereby, this country has been uniformly an importing country. till of late years. The experience of half a century induced most persons to form an opinion that this country was not able to supply itself with bread corn; this opinion. together with the great consumption dunng the war, which has now failed—the protection supposed to be given by the late Corn Acts—the opening the ports without restraint betwixt Britain and Ireland —all these causes together have occasioned an in creased cultivation. and a glut in all the markets of the kingdom. flow far these causes rue lasting, or only temporary, perhaps we have not had suffici ent experience to determine. The cure, however, mast probably consist. like that of the former, in the erreets of an increasing population and trade. causing en increased consumption and extended circulation of money. The fourth and lest cause was the derangement of the currency. • cause, pro bably, productive of more evil then all the other causes before mentioned. The Honourable Gen tlenian, et great length, pointed out the evils which had arisen from the depreciation of the currency, and contended. that Government. by keeping the letter of the law with the monied interest, broke it in truth with every other class of the community. He concluded by saying, that he should not make any motion upon the subject at present, but as a Committee would probably he appointed, t• co operate with other counties, he should leave the matter to their ettosisteestam, • • Sir EOM ' 144; pita slut had 4 0 . 4 ' '.L Arrived the French brig L 'Ammo. Lsulhe, from Vera Croix, nut 38 days, bound to Bourdeoux ; pot in here in distress, with part of her cargo, consisting of tobacco and sarasparilla. Sailed from the port. of Vera Crux, on the Ilth of Atigost, with a valu able cargo on bawd. Experieuced light and vari able winds, until we arrived off Bay floods. in the blood of Cubs, on the 3d September. At seven o'clock iu the morning of that day. saw • sail di recting her course towards us; at eight, made her out to be • schooner, which, by her superior sail*, was nearly up with us at half-past Moe, ',thwart the wind was very light ; at half-past ten she Bred a gun. and hoisted the American flag.—Pereeiviag that we had no chance of escaping her, we hove to, and hoisted our flog. At eleven o'clock, she gran a second gun. which compelled us to stand to , me& her, although we considered her a suspicious' vessel, particularly as we perceived she had two carriage guns, and • platform for one in the muddle of the deck. She had appa rently about fifty men on board. Ranging to windward of us, she ordered us to hoist out our bort, arid come on board her with our papers, which was complied with; at the same time de manding where we were from, what was our cargo. and if we had any pasretigtrs. As our mate velt‘ approaching her, she dispatched u host to stet (its, manned with ten men, mostly appearing to be officers, and all Spaniards, armed with sabres and daggers, who soon boarded us, cod &mouthd this surrender of all the gold and silver we had en board me which condition alone they would allow us to proceed; and at the acme time observinw, if we at tempted to conceal a single dollar. the Captain of the privateer would come en board, and kill every one of us. At the same moment the Captain hailed his officer, and emitted him to stand in for the land ; and prepare to come to anch.,r at the first cntivenieut place. where they would burn us, if we did tint surrender all the gold and silver we hod on hoard. Under these alarming cncumstanceo, most in order to save our vessel and cargo, we gave op all the specie we had, besides' a trunk and botAlle of old plate, amount to ahnnt 155 Ihs. in weight ; besides two-ivy-five watches, 14 of which were gold, and 11 of silver, being a purl of her cis*. Not satisfied with this they made a very rigorous search. during which they f I a few dollars. which exasperated them very much, and induced them to continue their search, although without um tees. The stnotero of specie thus given up, •was 2,621 dollars, besides 1,700 belonging to a pa isetiger. Captain Laulhe now hailed the of the privateer, requesting him to allow the brig to proceed on her voyage according to hie prosoile, with the rest of his carer). The smolt was, dist he was himself et Vera Crux at the time we mess loading, and that he knew very well that we And gold and silver ou board. and that teem view* he was determined to make further search; nail he make the smallest discovery of emery. Ite rts &red his officers to cut off our heed. oilfield Ifie