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4 I \ 41 4 I . It! I I I I I 1.. 4,1. tam beer in the gentleman's face, exclaiming at the same time, " There's holy water for you ; there's trope s ----- for you." The greater part of yesterday was occupied, at Col lege-street Police-Office, in taking the examinations of different witnesses, amongst whom was r. Barton, leader of the Orchestra ; the info'mati fivst 7 rally forwarded, as soon as filled, to th Attorney- General, who was waiting at the Head Office to re .tie thew. We understihd thaffhe Aftellnei-rrene , sal proceeded from thence direct to his Excellency, at the Viceregal. Lodge, Phtenix Park. The committals, dike prisoners were first ttiadioir for the Sessions, ;''bat we have heard that' the Attorney-Gengral has • islittee -even directions that they shall be sent for trial • 'ore the Judges at the Comnaission. Lie consequence of a riot having been expected to .blitte place at the Theatre, on Saturday night, Serjunt • Rya , and eight of the Horse Police, in coloured dl es, were stationed in the Upper Gallery. Mr. 11 1111kodison, and six Peace Officers of Collcge-street C" Raids, were placed in the Middle Gallery ; and Mr. •••)111kiell, Chief Peace Officer of the Head Office, with !..',l* other Peace Officers of that Office, were dis • +*ed through all parts of the Theatre. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, s r. THURSDAY, DECIMHER 19, 1822. The French Papers of Monday contain materials for reflection and animadversion—none, for informa tam. That Castor of our Pollux, L'Etoik, enumerate: the forces of the Faitb, by way of shewing that the great and all-interesting cause of absolute Royalty has yet a chance. It is very pleasant, and, to speak candidly, very poetical, to rely upon ideal re sources. Nom twit audit° .obis -foetus, et Arpi : At Messapus erit, felixque Tolumnias, et quos Tot populi misere duces ; sec tarda sequetur Gloria detect*, Latta et Laarentilms agris. last et Vulsoorum egregia de game Canaille, Agmea ages' equitum et fiorentes sere catervas. It is, indeed, matter of interesting, and, perchance, salutary reflection, to see accomplished editors and patriotic deputies straining all their ingenuity to say something (Or poor old decrepid Royalty, without one ' fact, one decent fiction, or one honest disguise for their preteniions. There are men now fighting in Spain against the Constitution. From what motive ? Loyalty, in its highest, vilest, most degrading *ease, is not an innate passion. Do hundreds and .thousands quit their homes and expose their lives from pure love of seeing a King in Spain able to do whatsoever be pleaseth ? This would surely be madness. This sort of thing called absolute power does no good to its possessor; on the contrary, it only enables him, and, in fact,l indium. him to injure himself and destroy others. If, tlmne he is deprived of it, why should any one wish to *lege it? Should we see a reeling drunkard upon thesiden with a bottle of brandy in his hand, aed should a 7etlout friend of the hapless Bacchanalian deprive hiss of the means of making himself still more furious and mischievous, what could be said for those who would peril their lives for the sake of restoring the brandy bottle to this infatuated ? Yet such are the Royalists of Spain and the Ultras of France. In this country the Highlanders made a chivalrous effort for Royalty, but it was for a Prince who appeartd personally among them, who threw himself on their generosity, who was entirely depen dant on their . . gallantry. Is it so in Spain or in Frage*? The Highlanders were wrong and passion ate; their apology is, that they shielded the helpless, as g brave man would protect a worthless woman who threw herself on his generosity. .What plea in the court of honour—of prejudice—of blind feeling— or of generosity, have the madmen of Spain ? PARIS, DECF.II,IIICR 16. Yesterday, aller breakteat, the King transacted business with M. the Duke de Montmorency, Minister of Foreign Affairs. After mus, the King received the Miaisters, M. the Prince de Talleyrand ; the Marshals Dabs, d'Atbufera, Treviso, Dalmatia, and Reggio; the Chancellor ; M. the Marquis de Secsonsillc, Grand-Referendaire of the Chamber of Peers; a groat number of Peers and Deputies, Military Ofliorra of all ranks, and M. the Prince de Castelcicala, Ambassador of Naples. Oa Saturday, at four o'clock in the aftereoon, M. the Mar. shal Duke it'Albsfera had the beaver to be received by the Duke d'Angouleme, and remained with his Royal Highness nearly three quarters of aa boa►. The Cosigross of Verona may be considered as terminated. The Emperor Alexander was to set out on the tat's instant for Yeniee,'wbence he will proceed directly to Warsaw. Ills Imperil and Royal Majesty has appointed an interview with the tintof Wirmanbarg at Inapt**, sad another with the Grand Duchess et Weimar, ate sore disbud ton o.—(Joarnel des Debate.) M. de Chateauhriand is expected in Paris before the 20111 instant. It is affirmed that the Royal Ordinance fur the convocation of the Chambers on the nth of January will be published forthwith. M. Hubsrd, beaker, will set off la Use course of this week for Madrid. Yesterday his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs gave a grand dinner. Their Ezoellencies the Ministers, the Foreign Ambassadors, and the Dyke of Wellington, were present. According to a private letter from Figeeires, a portion of the Army of the Faith has spin rallied, and marched against and taken possession of Puycerda, in spite of the efforts made by the . enemy to defend that fortress. Belanes has also been retaken by the troops of the Ilkith. The battle, says this letter, was a very bloody one. A great number of amok', who fought in the ranks of the Army of the Faith, fell Hy the hands of Mina's soldiers. It was remarked that the fury of the Constitutionalists was principally directed against these ecclesiastics. The following details respecting the various positions, &c. of the Royalists in Spain, are calculated to thew that they have no cause to despair of the noble cause which they defend. Baron d'Eroles has re-entered Spain, and his movement is combined with those of the chiefs of the divisions, Caul prod°. and Solstice. Merino, en extraordinary man, nominated Major-General during the war against the French, ranges the mountains of Old Castilla, Din Fos, and all the left bank of the Demo, as far as Ostia, Dear Valladolid. He boa I,ooa sea under Isis orders. Zebeia, a peasioasid wl* lo• moo, r keeps the Constitutionalists in awe in this part of Old CU tillu bordering Arragon and the province of Alava. Gerbille, • partisan chief in the independent war n ranges Biscay amt a portion of the Asturias, and of Old C 6.1111 64 as tar ss Pence/40. Charles &Donned, Llent.-General, occupies all Navarre, fir as Alfarii and Tedcla, with 6,000 men. .Pereira, one of the Members of the Apostolic Juala (which was formed on the breaking out of the iLvolutioa), i$ in Ga licia, menacing Coruuns, and ranging as tar as the frontiers of Portugal. El Rojo de Valderos, an ancient and valorous partisan, tinges Valladolid. Mature), Seliumisco, Mile, and the whole kingdom of Leon. In Estramadurs, three parties= have upwards of 2,000 men under their orders. Zaldiva ranges the whole province of Oldie 1 he has been seen to enter Xeres, ban-Lucer, Arcus, Cdrelova, Butexera, and Roods. Two partisan Chiefs are in La Marche. One front the mountains of Toledo, came close to MaOrid. The other is in the Province of Cuenca, and supports the partisan Montdi. deo, in the province Guadalexant. In Arragon there are six partisan Chiefs. Five thinned `men are in the vicinity of Huesca, Mequinenza, and Sara gossa. It is known that twenty thousand men have appeared in Catalonia, under the orders of Baron d'Erolrs, Minas, Flcyne, Mallavills, Mosen-Anton, Sapera, Valero, Rouiagosa, the Trappist, Mirales, and Valongo.—(Eleile.) The Jennies! des Debate has replied, in a very satisfactory manner, to the reasoning of the Suotidiensie, the Drapeer Blase, and the Gazelle, relative to a war with Spaiu. Its arguments are similar to those of which we have more than once availed ourselves to support the cause of peace. Not withstanding this coincidence of opinions ou the question, we cannot help o b serving, that the Journal des Debit* treats its adversaries is the Drapean Blanc, and other papers of that complexion, with a tone of contempt and haughtiness by no means in conformity with the rules of politeness. It ought to be satisfied with having fixed on them the name offonalies, an epithet which will not be forgotten.—(Constiftifienuel) Amidst the rumours of peace which are in circulation, and the uncertainty in which r•ulitics are still enveloped, there is one thing worthy of remark, and which doubtless has not escaped the attentive observer : it is natural indeed that the ministerial journals should be the organs of ministerial opi nions, and that the opposition journals should maintain a contrary line of argument ; and yet, if it be true that we are to have peace, the case would be quite otherwise under the circumstances. The journals called Ministerial would tun out to be those of Opposision, and the Conalitationnel, the Afireir, and the Courier, would become official journals. This strange transformation is an additional reason fur being cenfirmed in our doubts. We shall not readily be lieve that the Constifutieneef, the Courier, and the Mireir express the wishes and the will of the Administration.— (Notidienue.) The Fosses opened at 89 f. 90 C. ; closed at set 56 Neapolitan 6 per Cents. 771 ; Bank Stock, 1,645 f. 80 o. E:change on London, one mouth, s 3 f. 46 C. ; three months, 23 1. 30 e.—(Coors Authentipe, December 16.) MADRID, DRCRMBRR 6. Yesterday a pia took place at Court, oo dse occasion of tho anniversary of the Queen's birth-day. Although some pamphlets were designedly circulated the preceding evening, in w hick ",the servile homage paid to privileged families" was ridiculed, the circle ass pretty numerous, and the Queen, although in a state of suffering, addressed herself in the most arable manner to the faithful a is who were admitted to offer her the honour of t heir respectful attachment. The ancient Political Chief, M. San Martin, to wbom the Descamisados have given the nick-name of Tie-Tin, bas been the object of most furious declamations at the Club Landabu rian. Fears were entertained fur the life of this magist►ate, from the vociferations of the citizen Romero Alpuente; but M. St. Martin, who joins to great personal courage a good re putation, disconcerted the brawlers by presenting himself at the sitting, sod demanding a repetition of what bad been im puted to him. The Descavaisados, as cowardly when they are resisted as they are (ermines when they excite fear, remained afelo, god the people were inclined to applaud tho Political Chief. To redeem this cheek, the heroic members of the Club broke - up, and went away singing the Tr/49We. Rome groups went towards the palace, sad were dispersed by the patrols. The situation of the Royal Family and the peaceable people of Madrid i 3 very critical. The condition of the Infants bes not been changed in any respect. Tim King, to whom the air is salutary, goes out sometimes. It is new long since we heard the cry, Eve el Re, in this capital. The song Tragala regains favour, and the most odious verses are sung by the most audacious wb the King leaves his palace.—“Lotidineme.) VERONA, DECEXIER .5. (Erra•cr OP • PRIVATE LETTER.) Yeolerday and to4lay new conferences have been held on the subject of the affairs of Italy. It appears that a foal de• cuioa has been adopted respecting Naples anti Piedmont. Various versions are in circulation here respecting the mode in which the gradual evacuation of the Sardinian territory has beep. regulated. However, up to the departure of this letter, nothing afeial on this subject has been published, and no extraordinary courier has been dispatched to Turin. With regard to the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, we are as• cured that it will continue to be occupied by the Austrian army, with the exception of some arrangements which will be made by the Neapolitan Ooveroment, to render the pre sence of 40,000 troops in its territory less burdensome. It is thought that the staffs of the divisions and brigades, which ere very numerously composed, and which consequently cost the Neapolitan treasury much, will undergo some re I dootions, which will so far annulate the burden of a foreign 1 1 peen pat ioo. Priem de Metternich received another courier from Vi. cans yesterday. The dispatches of which he was bearer relate to Turkey. The advices from that quarter must have been of great importance, for the Austrian Chancellor of Foreign Affairs instaelly communicated them to Count de Neselrode. This latter Russian State Minister, last evening, dispatched a courier to Rt. Peteroburgh. It is reported that new conferenoes will take place oa the affiiin of the East, and that the extraordinary circumstances, under which the EiripinwriiiseCreacent is placed, will necessitate gnat mo difications in the mission that Lon{ Strangford is charged by the Congress to fulfil at Constantinople.—(Juirreel de Paris.) OZNOA, DECEMBER 4. Letters frees Trieste inneunne that a vessel belonging to Tscheasne, jest arrived is that harbour, hes brought intelli gence that tbe Turkish Seel had suffered a gaud deal by • tempest near Tcnedos, on the 7th of November, and that it hed lust a frigate and three brigs. Lord Byron has been here for some time put. Ife resiies in one of the fine palaces on the hill of Albero. Previous to his arrival, he bad a pretty srbooner built, which he has nam ed Bolivar. It serves to transport his effects and fur his aqua tic excursions. TILE MINISTERIAL PRESS. England is thought by Englishmen to be at least on a level with the neighbouring nations of Europe, in literature, taste, and elegance ; and it would be presumed by any impartial man, that the Government of England could command as correct and even ele gant expounders of its sentiments and wishes as any Government in Europe. Is this, then, the fact? It will be necessary to consider whether there is a government paper in this country. Of course no di rect evidence can be given on such a point; but the reputation is, that the Courier is the evening organ of Government. h the name of decency, then, are we to have language like the following from the organ of the English Government in the year 1822 ? •• Their indigsation is now turned against the Marquis WU: Luster, bocat6e, under his sandon, a useless, and worts than useless, a mischievous ceremony the relic of a period width should have perislita with the feuds that produced It), has been abolished." Now for the meaning of this language :—" Period perished," and " period produced by feuds." Why this is too terrific for a human understanding. " Time shall be no more" is a sublime expression of Scrip ture; but time, or any "period" of time, has perished, is an energy of annihilation beyond mortal compre hension. The fool, in HOLACE, expected nothing like this. lie hoped, indeed, that the Hood would roll away, and leave him dry ground to march over ; but that it should have flowed back, and made affi davit before the Lord Mayor of its fountain, that it had never flowed at all, was an extravagance beyond the efforts of his foolish fancy. Dr. Jonsson says of SITAKSPEA RE Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toiled after him in vain. But the Courier makes a period of time perish. Awful organ of dread destinies, and dost thou really possess the power of making that which has been to hare never been ? Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hoar. But yet again, a "period" of time was " produced" by "feuds." MILTON'S Saran, Sin, and Death, were clumsy things in the genealogical line, compared with this. Feuds produce a period. Well, truly the Courier is a scholar : it is the organ of the English Government in the Consulship of the Right Hon. GEORGE CANNING• There it another lowly creeping thing that fain would have a name, as the souls of unburied, un honoured unfortunates claim the attention of passers by to give them burial : Continuo audits Tots', •agitus et Ingens, Infantumque slims flentes in limine primo. We allude to the wretched wight who left the realms of DAY and entered on a new nnhonoured species of existence. This miserable being is, in his rage, bent on mischief, and causes dreadful terrors to the sober inhabitants of our earth, who are cursed with the sight of his inauspicious spirit. In plain terms, Dr. Slop, fiendishly and insidiously gives vent to his bitter hostility to the Christian re ligion, under the mask of zeal and fury against the Edinburgh Review. The very name of the writer whom he pretends to condemn we will not mention, because we wish it not to be the object of curiosity. But what is to be said of the grave writer who, under pretence of warning against infidelity, saps the surest foundations of our faith? Yet such is the conduct of this infamous man ! Under pretence of guarding against the incidental and harmless criticism of the Edinburgh Review, this gross and vulgar person quotes an able, artful, and eloquent declamation against Christianity. Who is besotted enough to, think that -the terms, in italics too, of in famous, detestable, atrocious composition, are suffi cient to counteraet the studied, pointed assaults of an able infidel? Dr. SOLOMON was really a less de graded, less detestable, less pernicious quack than this Tartuffe. The mercenary, unprincipled as sailant of religion and motals eoncludes his base drivelling by eulogizing the " Association." They are his handy work, created for his purposes, sup ported by kis agents, defended by his columns, and conjoined in his infamy. To any person who has not read the New Times of yesterday, our language must , appear too strong ; to those who have read it without disgust and abhorrence, we are ambitious to be ob jects of disgust and abhorrence. We have given full details of the outrage in the Dublin Theatre. It is a subject so fertile in remark that w•e cannot trust ourselves iu any observations until we enter deliberately into the elimination of all the circumstances. In the mean tone we may say that the LORD CHANCELLOR may be proud of the bottle-finger, and Mr. PEEL vain of the hero of the rattle. What part would the University of Cam bridge have prescribed for their Mr. BAN ES in the Theatre of Ireland? New York Papers to the 20th November, Charle s ton to the 19th, and Philadelphia to the 21 at., have been received, from which we extract the following : [FRO* Floarou[ MOON, OF NOV. 14.] An intelligent gentlest's, arrived here last night in the seboriner Dart, from C.ardiagesa. whkb be left on the 20th of October, states the respective positions of the Patriot forces at tie time of his sailing. General Moven.l.4, who had just been appointed Commander-in-Chief of all the Colombian forces employed on the seaboard, was at Rio-rk-la-Haelse with 500 mem, and expected to be joined by 400 men. General RUM was engaged in the siege of IPorto Catello; and General BOLIBLITTII betweca Valor:fie and Carreras. The last advices received at Oarthagevut, from Moasuss, state*, that be had marched from Maracaibo into the interior, upon a smarm expedition., leaving 200 num to garrison that place. General &Livia was at Oturyull, about 140 miles south-west of Quito. and two ex ex had lreen di‘patched by ' 'Government requiring his imweaintterreturntoCotomhls. !Mach dissatisfaction was anticipated ordlim pampolttib Congress, at his late nievesteals. -an_ [MON THE mostomlMPlll, OF NOV. 15.) By the tort hope, Captaiu hits from Madras, we received puperstothe hof July. A violets; storm and inundating rain Were - esperleseed in Ind* coil in June, and near!) dmilmded l in the Indigo plants. A great amount of property has been lost by the iseadahons. and some lives have been lost. It was that on the Small Chore the greatest part of the partial's= perished: 1t.060 rues were subscribed at Calcutta for the sur viving euffirrers. The rice harvest bee paiticularti failed at Ma sills WILLOCX, the British Charge de Moires in Persia, had refused a ppq the usual tribute, mai demanded hi* passports: This has produeiW a repom that there would be a rupture between Eisgland and Persia. A good understanding is said to be after wards restored, and Mr. WILLoCC left the Persian Court in gut amicable manner, to proceed to England to consult his govern ment. Ou an important point, mention ie made of a Russian Officer having been found in dim/wire in the neighbourhood of Dolio.— Viers has been several important failures among the Nellie mer chants wbobase speculated in Cl4lOll. CALCUTTA. .11 NIA A most violent stone burst over Calcutta in the night of Frith, - lain, the 7th instant. Accounts from Diaspora menthol that boats without numbers hare hiien lout in the Ganges, and the shone *ere covered with wreaks. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were thus timed, viz.— . For Madras and Bengal—Princess Charlotte of Witlea and Marquidlof Wellington: to be afloat the Ittli of March; 1813 sale W Gravesend the *Gth of March. stay there thirty dabs ; and lobe In the Downs on the tat of May. Ror Bengal—Minerva and'Thoesas Grenville to be agoat the 14th of Aped, tatty sail to Gravesend the Potts of Mav stay there thirty days i, and to be in the Downs the Lithior June. We are informed by one Of the Jurors on BRlnti's trial, that the assertion that the Jurors refused their guineas, if it comma of Batntt's pocket, is without any foundation in truth. epit ,vis tl s g . • 4 I NFP,i I , J 4 \ • ,14 trf , - FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. - Lord Ellenborough has arri.ed at his seat, Roehamplon, from Brighton. Lord St. Helens bas left town on a visit to Wm. Fremantle, IN*. M. P., at his seat, Englefield .green. His Excellency Sir RNlph Woodford, Esq., Oovemor of Trinidad, and suite, have tell the Royal Hotel, St. James's street, lin. Falmouth, on their way to Trinidad. Arrivals at Mivart's llotel,l4iwer Brook-street t—The lion. Oen. Walpole from his seat in Hants ; J. King, Esq. from Cambridge ; and B. Lytton, Esq., from ditto. Mr. and Mrs. Dieken left the St. fieorge's Hotel ' Übe marle-strcet, yesterday, fur Brighton; and J. Manning, Esq. for his seat in Oxfordshire. Arrival* at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square s—Mr. and lady Elizabeth Heatheote from Rams,ate ; Wm. Haile, Esq., from his seat in Herts. Departure :—Th. Mariviis of Exeter fur Newmarket fur a few days, ou hi* way to his seat, Burleigh, Lincolnshire. Mark Singleton, Esq. has arrived in town from his scat in Surrey. Captain R. Fox bas arrived in town from Northampton shire. Captain and Mrs. Fraser left Hodgson's Hotel, Dover street, yesterday,tor Brighton. Arrivals at Kirkbam's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Earl of Leitrim from his seat, Ki!dew, Comity of Kildare, Ireland ; and Lord and Lady Chetwynd from Oxfordshire. De partures :—The Earl of Meath for Earl Darnley's seat, Cob ham Hall, Kcnt ; Hon. Mrs. Traverson for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery for Ireland; 0. (Day, Esq. for Brighton ; Mr. mod Mrs. Freeman on • tour ; Lady Oat rosy and the Hon. Messrs. Moncton fur her Ladyship's seat in NOW. The Earl and Countess of ralcdon have arrived at the Earl of Hardnieke's seat, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire. The Earl and Countess of Pembroke are expected to leave ton u this day fur their seat, Wilton House. Wilts. 'l'. T. Drike, Esq. M.P. has left town for bis seat in Bucks. T. Thistlewaito, Esq. has left the Coburg Hotel, Charles street, Orosvenor-square, !or his seat in Hants. Tea Sterrens or rue House.—finsitinsw, one evening, in the midst of a long debate io the House of Commas., took an opportunity, on perceiving a Member rise trite wasvemark able fur ionising, to retreat fur the purpose of taking some refreshment. He remained absent for some time. On his return, be saw near him several Members, who, harlot fallen into a nap, were reclining iu very indulgent attitudes on the scats; one among them, remarkable for his corpulency, was snoring in an elevation ut tune that at intervals might be very distinctly heard, when the dramatic wit, entering in n hurry, exclaimed in the words of Sees •' What's the busineios? "That such an hideouts trumpet calls to parley ?" A PORTRAIT CAPITALLY RXRCOTED.-10 R bookseller's cata logue lately appeared the followinf article : Memoirs or C mugs the b irat e with a head capitally executed !" A SUDDEN N►r.—Two Oxford scholars slept in the same room at College. "Jack," says one, early in the morning, "are yea asleep l"—" Why ?" n plied the other. " Ilecause if you are not, I will borrow hall a crown of you."—" Is that all? Then I am." Joyner summit vo VAWIIII.—•It was debated before Aricsit.Aus, n het her courage or justice was the greater virtue ?' " There would be no occasion for valour if all emu were just," replied the Kase. Tam Beim—An ignorant young spendthrift wishing to borrow some money as privately as possible, was startled al reading the beginning of the bond, Be it known to all men," and declared his unwillingness tto sign, as it must cer taluly come to his father's ears. MILITARY INN.—When Marshal TALLIED was riding with the Duke of MARLBOROVeII, in his carriage, after the victory of Blenheim, " My Lord Duke," said the Marshal, " you have beaten to.dsy the best troops in the world."—" 1 hope," replied the Duke, " uu except time who have had Use Amour of beaten them /" Inscription upon the grave of a glutton who had a remark ably large mouth : "Stranger! tread lightly on his sod' ".For, if he gapes, you're gone by 0—!" A Pansourriou.—When the celebrated Beau Nasal was ill, Dr. C wrote a prescription for bias. The next day the Doctor coming to see his Idica, 'inquired it be bad fist ' lowed his prescription? "ro, faith, Doctor!" said NAM, " if I bad, I should hare bruits my neck, for / threw it out of a two pair of stairs 'chador ."+ It is a cannon saliva in Italy, that !widen the hours of tWo and four, none but Englishmen sad dogs are seen out. The Inn at Reddgelert has for its sign, a goat, with the appro priate motto beneath it—" Petrie wed; petra"—lly estuary es a rock. On allot stone in the nave of Conway church, is the followiag isseriptlo•:—" Here Iyeth the body of Nicholas Hooke", of Con way, Oeat. who was the fort?' -fiat child of his father William Hooker, Faq., by Alice his wife, and father of ti children; w►o died the *oth day of March, Urn." A Ociiikman of the Bar, well known *,r a chain determination of miad, and ao unaecouuoudatiug rtrength of resolution, aas perceived to be very active on a trial: it wee prepped to refer the case to the arbitration of this Gentleinasi. (ht the other side an objection was raired, founded ea the knew■ sternness of his character; and it was also remarked, that his iron leg wan wiliest part about him: •• Oh, surely," said • Barrister, ••that must be irony." The first book auction la England, of whirls we have any record, is of a date as far bark as 1676, when the library of Dr. Seaman was brought to the hammer. Prefixed to the catalogue the.. is an address, which thus commences :—" Reader. it Meth sot bees 11.4 u al here in Englsuith to make sale of books by we of assaiea or i-bo will give must for them; but it haviag bees poetised is other coumnes, to the great advautage of bWb buyers and sellers, it was, therefore, conceived (for the encouragessest of learning) to publish the sale of these books in this wow of way." " Sir W mum Payer, says Evaxvii, w was the son of a mean man some where is Sussex, and sent from school to Oxon, were he studied philosophy, but was most eminent in mathematics and mechanics; proceeded doctor of physic, and was grows famous as for his learning, so far his recoveri g a poor wretch that had been hanged for felony ; and her body barter been begged ((as the comma is) for the anatomic lecture, he bled her, put to bed to a warn. woman, and with spirits and other means re stored her to life. The young scholars joined, and gave her a little portion, and married her to a mask whebad several childr e n by her, she living fifteen years after, as I have bees assured." It will be reman, ered that during the silt* ti the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, in 1818, the KING commanded Ws Tilolllll LIWIIINCI twlio was not at that time President tithe Royal Aca demy, Sir KGNI %MIN Wine being still ia life) to repak thither to: the purpose of painting the portraits of the Severely's, their Mi nisters, the Ambassadors, and the Generals most prominent in the various battle% towards the close of the continental war, for his Mummy's private collection ; and to *WA, this gm* Mast to eteente this commission with more facility, a temporary and portable apartment was built in London, and shipped to Antwerp, which was afterwards come) ed to Aix-la-Chapelle. alter all, this tent was not brought into nue. for the upper epit omes of the Hotel An hie. at Aisela-Chapelie, being Itilltr aloe ligh was assigned to the artist. After theCilegire had sepereemay Sir Trams visited %icons and Route, and various other parts of Germany and Italy, in order to complete this very hitmestiag series of portraits. When these painting+ arrived in Regbutil they were deposited at Rockingham House, and there inspected by kb and the fatoured few who were fortunate mmagh is obtain the Royal permission to see them. The Sovereign was perused to express his pleasure that these picture+ should be pub. lily exhibited. There was, however, a difficulty as to a room calculated to show them to advantage. Buckingham Mouse, • Royal residence, conk' Not be converted into n plate where mosey as to be received; and the old Exhibition Room in Pall-mall was sr that time in such a ruinous condition, theta pervious repair be came indispensably necessary. Thus the Exhibition was oetes eerily postponed. Last year Vie twitter was agaiu retired, but his MixtIVITY'S engagements were so various, that lie could Not be spoken to on the subject. The affair is ago* revived; and as Me" (Ed Exhibition Room has bees eidmensitially repaired, there seems no further cause for delaying tide splendid assemblage aim longer. We bate not healed Am any portraits unconnected with Royalty are to be included. 'W - ep_artioularly call upon the PM sident not to 0111il entreating his Ali 4J INT Y So be permitted** is elude the Portrait of young Nteutuu%, which was taken by Sir TIIOIIA6 at Vienna, and which is nut only as exquisite picture, but a most correct and spirited likeness of an extraordinary boy, who must Necessarily engage an extraordinary share of the attri tion of Europe Wt learn from Germany, that the Dramatie Censor of Austria has caused the denouotent of IV Winn Tell, a tragedy, b.) SCHILLIAS, to be altered. It iv uo longer true that Gaoler was the tyrant, and Tell the Liberator of Switzerland. In the new history which alum. has any Hann to swear on the boards, Tell misses his airs at (;ruler three times, who pardons his as often, dad the piece concludes with lung lire the' Asettiats, long !ivy (Jingler l—Freterla Paper. MILDN ESS OF NV FATIIER.—As a proof or the ex traordinary mildness of the weather, several bicsis' nests have been found in the parishes of Chilham, and Gedmersham ; some with four, others with five eggs, and the old ones sitting on them. There is also in the parish of Woreborne, a pear-tree is blossom, as beau tiful as in the month of June.—Maidstone Journal. THE CHASE. The Earl of Derby's stag' hounds will mee t t 0 .,, r0u Purley Downs, two miles from Croydon, when one of best deers will be turned out, and a pod day's *putt esC ed. Cheshire fox. hounds on next at Fox; Harrel; Tuesday at Dartington Heath ; Thursday at ii Leigh ; and Saturday at Delau►ere ilouso—each day a t L past ten o'clock. The Lewes harriers have had some capital runs lat They throw off to-usorrow at Swanburgli at ten o'clock. Sir Jacob AOley's hounds threw of at ltingstead Coven Friday last, and taunt, near Sumerheld a fine dog lux, at ;iroke corer in gallant styli•, and proceeded with the a blowing north-west across Somerlield terra, by the set. flocking Town, user a fine country, to Stanhoe, Barn. and Creak ; here the dogs cacao to a chuck, and alter minutes casting they hit upon bias Iwo), and pr..eee lout droit over Leicester-square Farm, to the front of Cr mer Hall, to Seulthorpe, whore he was viewed across tin. held lip to a cottage garden, within a mile of Vaketib when the hounds bceame at fiult. Alter cracking the af in the ditches to no purpose Res card was spied on the t of the cottage, when a general cry was raised 10 save him, the•portsmen dismounting caught him as ho fell oft the I by the cottage doer, and drove him in, when Res nal d• secured in lately and taken home in a bey for another di sport. The run was about 16 miles, and :too horses sic in the chase. PIGEON .114TCH. The match between eight slats from the counties of 11. and Berko, with one from the .tshton Club, and right or fordahire and Wiltshire, with one from the Midglmm took place on Tuesday on Bagshot Heath, fur lice gnu each, at seven birds from the trap, twenty-one yards from gun, which was decided as follows: Ilants and Berks. Killed. Capt. Horton Mr.Bouverii• Hankey Phillips Holles 5 Shelton Kemp Humphreys Dawn 3 Oam and Wilt:. Mr. Jebb Humphries Hopeywood Hardinge Meadows lierriot Tleadows King. ......... Knott Messrs. Hanley and Honey: Clubs. The winners lost one hounds more than a hundred losers ire. man were the Members of bird, w hick was killed 0 yards ftom the trap, and The conduct of the LORD Crimscassoa in the distriln and refusal of coifs and silk goffss is become matter of general conversation at the Bar. It is said that Mr. W and Mr. STORKS have made the usual application to the I . CHASCSLLOR to be made Sergertets—a degree which been heretefore supposed to be open to all barristers of dant standing who chose to apply to be admitted to it. which certainly has not bees refused to many, very inferii professional reputation to either of the., Gentlemen. TM pllcations of Mr. WILDS and Mr. Prongs are said to I been refused ; and the surmises at the Jar are, that the e. have been withheld from them because Mr. WILDS was on the late Quarles Counsel, and that Mr. Proems is into . in the decree of exclusion merely became his application made at the same time with Mr. WILDE'''. What seen strengthen this conjecture is the well-known refusal of gowns some time ago to Mt. Baouonswaod Mr. Dens the late Qt: tot's Attorney and Solicitor-General, who, the office they had held, the reputation they enjoy on thrill spectite circuits (to say nothing of general reputation), entitled to the precedence, on account of which the how appointment of King's Counsel is alone coveted. It is true, certainly, that the legal power of withholding these , . . pointmenta is in the Crown ; but it is equally true with res to this as with respect to all its other powers. that nothing be more unjustifiable or unconstitutional than to turn s. which should be exercised for public advantage, to gn. factious purposes or ',visage revenge. According to the r of the profit- sion, the lawyers who enjoy the honorary pointesents of King's Counsel, or the degree of timer are esmitled to precedence ; and long custom, founded the (Unrest view of the convenience both of the public the Bar, his made these appoiutmests, as it were, right of those lawyers who are most sought after by cli to take the lead in their causes. If this rule were not nerally established, on the one hand those Barristers were ntA fitted to take the lead in causes, however so end valuable ttek other talents might he. would, as grew sad at the liar, lose their business; and, ee the ere clients would be often obUged eitlwr to take incosupe Advocates to lead their causes, for Use sake of able yuniers to pet up with Inexperienced } odors, for the sake of favors Italie/1. There has been heretofore the greater Willi; grantiag these titles to jsreeedeoce, because a lawyer of business took them at his peril; foe if he rashly aecepte right of precedence, without those leading talents which a that precedence • general matter of convenience, the unit effect of it was to deprive him of the secondary *ewe which be before eejoyed.. We have stated these amid boos which are so fainter with all who are toqualoted with Courts of Justice, that the repetition of Ahem sill am superfluous, because we have on former occasions oboe persons treating ail points of legal precedence as question mere personal vanity or interest. What the aotives of Loan CHANCELLOR have been, it is as difficult wetly to vise as It is to co/melee that they have been good ones. cannot of course say whether he octet) wider tbedirgatloo of own prejudices, or made himself subservieut to the.. lambi bat lila certainly the worst policy la the wend, wi h a to the preservation of the Crown itself, to deprive all the be • which surround it, of the sabstantive strength which ens them to afford support to that which they are suilleigady terested in uphold*. To wake all the Ittstitatioat of country parasitical and dependant—to make them all shift shake on the caprice of a King or of Ministers, is the very to deprive them of all dignity and all strength. The dismiss* the venerable Earl FITZWILLIANI from his Lientenattey, cause he attended a County Meeting—the cashiering of ROBERT Wss.sos, because he paid his respects to the rem: of the Queen—cord they attempt to strike at the ietiepe ence of the Bar, by carry* considerations of ministerial dileetions or Court prejudices into its mt•re arrangenseats, tit to be, though different us their degrees, either parts of sane impolitic mid mischievous system, or indications of same mean sad petulant passions. —(Fr ogs The Traveller. We are requested by Mr. De LAPOIIII, of Rat bone-place. Dentist, to state that his removal to house in George-street, Hanover-square, is uneven ably postponed to the beginning of March. DELICATE Disccoavess. --We understand tl some circumstances have lately occurred in the WI of England, which are likely to lead to disclosures so delicate a nature as to involve in their consequent the everlasting happiness and regulation of wht families. We do not at present profess to be inform of all that relates to this affair ; but knowing only moth of it as we do, we sincerely hope that sober judgment, or the interposition .of friends, will avert the threatened ruin, and keep the world in ignorance of the subject.---.S.A•riterwe Mercery. ANOTHSII PRIER OF 20,0001. SOLD IN SHARES BY Ci,uroLl..—No. 3,425, drawn on Tuesday last it Prize of VO,OUOL and No. 16,M, drawn last Friday w eek (December 6) a Prize of 20.0021.—were both sold in stterm to; CARROLL. who alao sold Six other Capitals to the present Lottery. On Monday the Lottery ends—there are 6 capital.- In the Wheel, amongst width are OHS of 10,000/. Two or 10,0001., besides others of 2,01.1011., 1,0001., MOW., &c. &c. the whole of which must be drawn on Monday next. Warranted indrawn Tidets and Shares are Selling at CARROLL'S krrtit maw Meow, 12, Cornbill, sod 26, Oxford-street. . IMPORTANT TO TAVERN KEEPERS.-Mr. sum, the Magistrate of Bow -street, has decided that the publicans within his jurisdiction shall not be compelled to close their houses on Sundays, except between the hours of eleven and one in the morning, and three and four in the afternoon. On Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, as the watchman of Mary-k-bone was proceeding his rounds through Oxford•street, his attention was attracted by a man lying on the ground, weltering in his blood. and on being raised up evinced no symptoms of on taking him to the watchhouse a large wound was discovered to have been inflicted across his head, from which the Wood had proceeded: he so far re• covered as to give his name, " Hyenas," but nothing more whatever ;—whether he was knocked down for the purpose of being robbed still remains a doubt ; but he was, however, taken to St. Geotg •'s Hespitsl, where he now tie, in a dangerous state. • r i v ' a • a -I