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BRITISH CATHOLIC ADDRESS. The following Address, with near twenty thou. sand pis / natures attached, was yesterday presented at the Le -vet to the King, by his Grace the Duke of Notfolk, Earl Marshal, accompanied by the Lord Clifford ; Sir Carnaby Huggerston, Bart.; Sir Richard Acton, Bart.; Sir Thomas Clifford, Bart. ; and Edwa►d Jerningham, &c. " SIRE—We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, Roman Ca. 11.1,( s a Great Britain, most humbly approach your Royal s• • : We most respectfully and sincerely costdole with y „,,, t 1 sly on the severe and 'Akio less which your 111.jrsty and your people have sustained by the death of your 51 jest y's most excellent and venerated kilter : _ We 0101 ever remember, with affectionate gratitude, the bigh and multiplied obligatiosa we owe to oar late Sove• toga : After two centuries of ever-increasing severities, his gra cious ear first listened to our humble Petition for relief: " If our existence as a Body is now acknowledged by the State; if we are now, by law, permitted to offer at the foot of the Throne this tribute of our affection and loyalty; if even the most private exercise of our religious duties no longer subjects us to sanguinary punishments; if our chit. &en are no lunge raged by law in the violation of the unrest uud d t lies of society; if we are no longer re. gardcil by our countrymen as a proscribed and degraded race; to the oi.rea.itiK and paternal benevolence of his late Ma jesty we owe these inestimable benefits: We Irnst that we have proved ourselves not totally unworthy of them ; by Del :and by lain: we have bled among the foremost defenders of country,unr and our conduct at home has uniformly evinced tor love of peace, order, and loyalty: That allegiance which we swore to our late Sovereign, we, in all humility, offer to your Majesty; and we indulge the animating hope, that we shall still continue to find in the Thrones friend and protector : Accept, Sire, our sincere and fervent wish, that the reign of your Majesty may be long, prosperous, and happy; and that for ages yet unnumbered, the Illustrious House of Brunswick may continue to rei uf a loyal and grateful people. Norfolk, E.M. Surrey Shrewsbury :fogyism: Newburgh Irntou Kinnaud Sintirlfau rtlro Willow, Gibson, Pie. Apost. ign over the persons and hearts Hugh Clifford Edward Siourton Charles Langdale Philip Stonrion Charles Prire Philip Roper Charles Clifford William C d, Bart. Edward Hales, Bart. Heavy Ettrlefirld, Bart. Hrury 'ricaborne, Bart. George Jeroingham, Bart. George Throckmortou, Bart. Edward Blount, Bart. Carnaby Haggerston, Bart. F. Richard Acton, Bart. Thomas Webbe, Bart. Richard Bedenlifeld, Bart. Edward Smythe, Bart. Thomas Slinky, Bart. Thomas Gage, Bart. Henry Lawson, Bart. Pyers Moslyn„ Bart. James Gordon, Bart. Thomas Clifford, Bart. &c. &c. &c. &c. the Nor hrrn District haus Ma!isrr, Vic. A post. is the slullatt.lArict in the Wt;iterts Ditthriet Iriltrim Rqui.r,yie. Apost. ii, iltr Lo;141.1s I)istriei Thoma• Smith , etmajuior i• the Northrvii District Alexander Cainerou, Vic. Aposi. in the Lowland District of Scotland Ronald Mac Donald, Vie. tie Highland District Altaawitiry Paterson, Vic Ayost. in the Lowland Disirict, And newer& of 300 CI Mrsi.hr re of every Coll blishisient in Great Bri Rye wish the Superiors and :sale and Ecciesiastierl Fats- I wn. MERINO SOCIETY S:IL ly OF PURE ,MERINO SHEEP, Yevtertl.ty the sheep, fleeces, and pieces of cloth, Ntfr a'l arrived at Mr. Sadler's yard, that are in 'emit.: to compete for the premiums liberally of fered this riff' by individual Members of this company present to view and examine tlo, sever"! merits of rack anlllllll were more flume. root durtaq great part of the day than we have vi , nr•ywil for some )ears past, and the sheep exhi bited seem to shew. that the pure Merino sheep are cails".;•• of producing fine wool and a good ‘Ve noticed among the exlubiters of vitt k The Bight Hon. Lord Visconnt Castlereagh, a ram and fart e s; C. C. Western, Esq. M.P. eighteen sheep; T. Too r. , Esq. one ram; John Fane, Esq. M.P. two inn,' and fife sheep; John Cawslon, Esq. two rams and four emi s ; and I :limas Henty, Esq. three rams. Tweavy•sis ram and ewe fleeces were exhibited, weighing Lnm 4 lb. to 10Ib. each ; and six pieces of beautiful su. profuse broads loth, made from British grown wool. A nurrilrer of ingenious agricultural implements were extubtred. Mr. Fisht is wet and dry weather•plough ; a hand flax. creaking machine; Mr. Heppe - Hagan, a patent circular rhaff.cutter ; Mr. Cherry, a portable forge; there was also a portable hand meal grinding and Milting machine; a hand threshing.inachiem ; sod Mr. Webb's specimens of the effect of his American Fluid, in softening old, dry, and hard katlicr. The Judges appointed to award the several pre— miums were very busily engaged all the middle of the Alloy in determining and settling the prises; our Reporter could not obtain their decisions, but we are in hopes of being able to lay that in furmation before our readers to-morrow. ROBBERY AND ARSON.—On Friday morning, emu' three o'clock, the Rectory-house at Cod diugton, occupied by the Reverend Archdeacon CLARKE, was discovered to he un fire; and before any effectual aid could he applied, the building, with nearly the whole of the furniture, was entirely c..t,snmed. From the circumoini , ce of the family kis nig in Chester at the time, it was manifest that the premises had beret wilfully set tire to, and the probable conjecture was, that it had been dune for the purpose of plunder. This probability war strengthened by the following circumstance :—On Ow swore morning, about eight o'clock, a man left two bundles at • house in Boughton, in this city, saying lie would call again for them, but never afterwards made his appearance. In these wete contained a surplice, gown., cassock, and some westing apparel, which were identified as articles stole n from the premises. The man who had left the bundles above referred to, was yesterday traced to a lodging-house in Boughton, where, after an st'empt to escape, he was seised, together with • woman with whom he cohabited, and who had for "lt'll,' been in Archdeacon CL•aas'a service. They are both contained for the of eoce.—(Ches- Ler raper.) TIM ROYAL CENOTAPH. Mr. WYATT has just fiiiished the model for the monumental group for the Cenotaph to the me mory of her late Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTK of Wales and Size Coburg. The Artist's desciipti )))) of his work has the merit of brevity, and is as follows : " la the lower part is represented the sacred corpse upon • bier, at the mouth of the tomb, surrounded by figures overwhelmed with grief, to indicate the lamentations of pets. pie from alt quarters of the globe. Ii hos been endeavoured to keep this part of the group as solemn as possible, to. excite and accord with the sympathy of the spectator, and to make the swinger contrast with the upper part of the composition, where angels bearing the iatant, accompany their sister spirit, who should seem to soy, Lem!, lend, your "flues! I 011/11111 ! 1 fly! 0, C ! where is thy victory 0, Death ! where is thy sting The Artist also states that— 6 ' The übjevt of this design is 10 commemorate the general lamentation fur the early loss of a Princess, whose virtues and superior mental eudawnieuts bad already endeared her to the Diderot. Tu call that grief heartfelt and universal would not be extravagant, fur uu that solemn day, when the loath closed upon her sacred remains, whole congregations and multitudes of the people wept as for the loss of all that was hopeful and endearing. Mortals justly may lament so fair a promise thus early snatched away." That Mr. WYATT felt the interesting subject which he has so well described, is very evident from the fine model he has now produced to the public; it is the answer, and the best answer to the inquiries of those who with a laudable eagerness to see the monument erected, have remonstrated against what they considered the delay that has unavoidably taken place in the progress of the undertaking. The composition and execution of a work destined to convey to future times the public sense of such a loss as that incurred by the death of the beloved Princess, must necessarily be the result of much study, much laborious consideration. In the study of such a work there must be as much to alter as to conceive. The Artist has to encounter the opinions of others, his own views fluctuate, and the very im portance of the work induces him repeatedly to pause and consider, step by step, the course he is taking. IVe rather wonder, therefore, that Mr. ‘VYATT has so soon completed his model, than en tertain soy surprise at the delay which has taken place, and we have no doubt that if the same dili gence is used in carrying the remaining object of the underisking into effect, the entire monument will be completed in a much shorter period than marked the progress of any other public work of the came magnitude iii this country. The lower figures, as our readers have perceived in the Artist's description, are entirely veiled by drapery, and some objection has been taken to this mode of denoting the anguish of grief, as if it con cealed the expression of the group; but it has no such effect ; the downcast attitude, the humiliation inficird by the stroke of Providence, all the un utterable anguish of absorbed grief, is sufficiently developed iii the figures; while the delicate folds and arrangement of the drapery which encompasses them, and falls in drooping lines to the base, like the branches of the willow, produce a still end fu nereal effict, which is its the highest degree interest ing. Besides, the lower group is admirably cal culated to give full effect to the upper, which consists of three figures—the centre represents the beloved object of the nation's wit f, in the attitude of uscriediug to receive the reward of her virtues. She is represented as moving with all the dignity and grace which we see in the principal figure of some of GUIDO'S sitar pieces, but still with as much of the display of that healthful vigour which was the cheerful characteristic of her person in Ile, as was essential to denote the abrupt termination of her mortal existence in the spring time of youth, and in the enjoyment of all her personal attrac tions. The supporting figures to the principal, which is an excellent and exp►e►sive likeness of the beloved and lamented Princess, as well as a good delineation of tl►e contour of her figure, are two attending angels, one of whom clasps the still-born infant iu her arms. They form au admirable group fur the upper part of a monument destined to com memorate so much worth s ■nd will, when the Cenotaph is erected, seem as it were to recede from the eje with cigelic buoyancy. On the whole, this model for the Cenotaph appeals to us a com plete work, and we ►hall rejoice to see it erected. ROYAL ACADAMY. (Castiosisal five 'former Pape%) The principal portraits in ibis Exhibition are, as usual, by Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE. The President has five this year, which are in his best style. The portraits painted on the Continent by Sir TMOMMI fur his MAJCsTY, are out, we understand, to be publicly exhibited; they are to be placed in Carlton Palace 84 soon at suitable arrangements can be made for their reception. Sir WILLIAM Brrenzr, JACII*OII (his portrait of Conoco in particular), Pnittirit, Sntg, and Owen, do more than maintain their respective characters. 1 hey have all made unusual efforts, end with eminent success We have out room at present to enter upon any ob tions respecting the architectural drawings and miniatures, some of which are excellent, and display great taste stud skill, and we shall take an early opportunity of noticing them. THE SCULPTURE. There are fewer works in the Sculpture-room this year than there were in the last, but we are glad to slate, that what are now exhibited drew au evident improvement in thus most difficult branch of art. That improvement is nut alone confined to busts, which, like portraits, are in greater de mend, but it is displayed in a higher and more meritorious elation of art; we find it in the poetical subjects which now adorn this department of the Exhibition, and in a branch of study, the cultivation of whirl, is now more than ever de sirable, as we live in times when the gratitude of the nation is called upon to commemorate, by sculptural works, some of the brightest epochs of oar history. At the head of the works in the Sculpture-room, we uudoubledly place Mr. Bat Lei's Itre at the Fountain " As I bent down to look, just nppusite, A simile wahin the wat'ry gleam appear'd, Bending to look un me : I started back ; It started back ; but pleased, 1 soon returned ; Healed, it returu'd as noon with answering looks Of sympathy sad lure " (Milton's Paradise lost, B. IV.) The Artist has in his personification of throw beautiful lines sheen • justness of conception and delicacy of feel. ing, which at once stamp hint a ulster in his art. Ills at tempt was indeed a bold one, for lie undertook to give to the eye a palpable represeotalion of that fine form just street from the Creator's hand, in all the perfection of primeval beauty. What is the standard of that original form must to us be purely ideal—the cations of eta proportion must be in the Artives uwti mind, and his mace's. in the delineation must depend on the eor•' redeem of his judgment and purity of his lute; fur though individual nature eau furnish him with materials for his observation, yet it is upon the hippy selection and judicious eosabinetion of those materials, is fact, upon the use which the Artist stews he can wake of then, tint his character noun be tailwind. la the figure of Ere. Mr. BAILICT has gives us the finest form and synosseto), with as angelic expression of features, and an attitude natural and graceful. The first sight of her own sha d ow reflected through "the wst'ry gleam," Peens at once to gladden and sisrprin her—it gives her the first ides of the existence of say being, and her pure pe►ceptiuss, struck at the novelty and grace of the reflected object, are at once attracted by its loveliness and beauty. Mr. CIIMITRY is, as usual, prenniinent in his Busts; he has also a figure of a Sieepkg CAIN, which has all the truth and delicacy of nature. Like the sleeping children on the monument executed by him two or three years ago, and now in Litchfield Cathedral, it conveys at once to us the representation of innocence and the stillness of intention beauty. Illgeratacovi bee an alto reliever in marble, representing Hero and Leander. The adventurous lover is received by the object of his idolatry as be steps out of the water, and the Artist represents him as nearly overcome with fatigue. The forms are good, hut the drapery Is rather mannered and too systematic in its folds. FLAX/SA/II has a basso-reliera in marble for St. John's Church, Manchester. It is intended to repre-ent Religions Inetruellott, and the figures are those of children in the act of receiving - it. They are in the ordinary dress of the day, which is unfavourable for the display of that skill in sculp ture which Mr FLAXMAN so eminently possesses. Koss! has a large sketch for a group, representing Cran don and Amelia, from Trouson's u Sonsirus," which is very prettily designed. There is is the room a h•lfsiar group, representing A Nymph playing frith Cupid, by Mr. Heerrasaw, who, if we do out mistake, had • tine figure of Achilles in the last Exhiljitiun. The Artist represents • Nymph dis arm i n g Cupid, who appears clinging to her in • supplicating mti !ode, imploring the return of his arrow, of which idie had just despoiled him, while she beholds his efforts with ma air of triumph, and enjoys, with a playful smile, the perpleaily she has caused. There is • pleasing harmony in the group ing, and a fleshy softness and delicate symmetry in the figures. The expression of the boy is full of innocence, and his efforts to regain his lost arrow are blended with all the tenderness of supplication. There are many other works in this Exhibition well worthy of attention, when we have time and space to re sume the subject. TO MR. BOWLINE. (VIDE BRITISH PRICH OF 8111 MT.) DWI Toff—The truth of the old and common adage, " Many men are of many minds," is once more illustrated by the different feeling produced in you and me by the dream of one of the executioners on • ate occasion. Now I hap. pencil to bear the account read at the Ship, iu %Tapping, " where Tars meet in such jolly parties," and it was under stood by •Il present to be an assumed character, calcu lated to display the fearless daring courage for which English sailors are famed all over the world, but nut intend ed to insult, injure, or degrade them. Your loving Cousin, /I ay 9. JACK JUNK. CAMBRIDGE, MAy 8, 1820. Air W. Browne's Prizes.—The two medals not disposed of informer years were ou Tuesday last adjudged as follows : For the Latin Ode, to Mr. IL Thompson, Scholar of St. John'. College ; for the Greek and Latin Epigrams, to Mr. S. Oakes, Scholar of King's College. The Senate have not agreed to the Report of the Fits trillium Syndicate, relative to the site of the intended Museum. The following Gentlemen were on Tuesday admitted to the mule-1.-mentioned degrees:— Doctors in Divinity—The Rev. Dr. Elrington, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, admitted ad eundenn; the Rev. R. Roberto, of St. John's College, Rector of Aldwoukle All Saints, in the county of Northampton. Honorary Masters of Arts—H. A. W. Fellow's, of Trinity Hall; E. G. Huruby and G. of Trinity College. Mailers of Arfs.—Wns. T. Rayne and J. T. Austen, of &John's College. Bachelors qt .- Arty—G. P. Thomson. of Bt. John's College; E. Cut leis, of Sidoey College; and J. B. Crowe, of Pembroke Hall. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. At four o'clock yesterday afternoon, as some bricklayers' labourers were cleaning the brick• of ■ house which bad been burned down about three week• ago, in King.street, Holborn,•bout eight feet of the trip of Site party wall fell in upon them. One man was killed on the spot, whose body Now lies at the Red Lion, for the Coroner's Inquest. Three were taken, dreadfully mutilated, to the hospital; but one of them, who had big back broken, died on the way. We understood that each bap left a wife sad family THE ARMY. Major Chester's company of the Royal Artillery, quartered in Limerick and Clonmel, have recei►ed orders to proceed to Cork, to embark for Canada. The division stationed in the former place marched on Saturday, louder the command of Lieutenant Pester. They have been replaced by Major Lacy 's company, from Dubliu. A detachment of the 3d Royal Veteran Battalion marched into Limerick on Wednesday vennight, on their way to Nenagh, to relie►e a party of the Roth regiment, ordered to join head-quarters. A detachment of the 42d Royal Highlanders arri►ed in Clonmel nn Friday from Cork, on their return to Dublin, after conveying by sea to Cork some con►icts for trans portation. On Saturday sennlght the heavy baggage of the 10 hus sars wss embarked at Leith for London. On Monday Wooled, two troops of the 711, dragoon gnsrils, under the command of Colonel Dunne, marched into Piershill barracks from Preston. Other two troops ■re expected to arrive on the 16th instant. Two companies of the 33d regiment marched into Edit'. burgh no Thursday, from Newcastle. Weihrestlxy and Thursday two trolls of the 10th ho marched from Glasgow for London. Wednesday the first division of the 11th Veteran Battalion arrived in Glasgow from Ireland, WI their way to Aber deen. At the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday Sir JOHN PERRINO presented a Report from the Committee of Privileges, recommending that a criminal prose. cution should be instituted against the Chamber lain, fur refusing to uhey•the order of that Court for paying the hill of the City Solicitor in the suit against Sheriff PARKINS and Alden') WAITH IKA tv. The Chamberlain had been directed by the Court of Common Council not to pay the bill. After a good deal of discussion the Report was agreed to. This day the prisoners who stand committed nn charges of felony will he removed from the several gaols in the city of London and county of Mid. dlesex to Neargate, preparatory to taking their trials at the envuing Ses.iona at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, which commence on Wednesday next. The Sessions for the county of I .ldiddle.ex will begin at the Sessioos House, Cl•rkeiiwell-green, on Tuesday neat, when the trials of traverveis and others out on bail.on matters of assault, &c. will be proceeded in. LOUIS BONAPARTE. A eery interesting work has been just published. with the title of "Historical Docantents of Hol land." It is from the pen of Louis Bonaparte. lide King of Holland--and, as such. the accuracy of its intelligence respecting the Government of that country cannot be questioned. Equally au thentic must be the anecdotes of the Bonaparte Family which it relates, as well as of other di•tin gunrhed persons of other countries, connected with the political transactions of the period which it embraces. The following extract relates exclu sively to the iliminguished author, the 'internal mildness of whose government, when King of Holland, combined with his integrity. probity, and good faith, have raised him to a place in public estimation from which uo r of fortune can ever remove this very amiable and interesting mem ber of his House " Louis made his first campaign is the army of the Mg Mime Alps. He was present at the taking of Oneille, and the battle del Cairo. Napoleon wished to take advantage of these instances of aurcesa, to tors Cevs, and &emend into the fertile plains of Piedmont; and hr then communicated • plan for the invasion of Italy, exactly confulmable to that which he afterwards carried into 'amnion. Danier• bion, the General in command, thirst not adopt it. The representatives of the people, in whom the power was vest. eel, had sot the slightest knowledge of military affairs; so that the campaign ended with thine tint exploits, labia, though glorious in themselves, led to no results. " Louis was placed on the staff of his brother, without belonging to any regiment ; but a law obliged all the stair officers to join some regiment, and hr was wader the neces sity of accepting the situation of Lieutenant is a company of volunteer artillery, in garrison at St. Tropez, to which place he accordingly repaired. lie remained there several months. " At this lime a great promotion look place in all the armies. Napoleon received .1111001 Pf destination, being ap. pointed to the command of the artillery of the army of the West, that is to say, the army oppose.' to the Veadeaos. He was exceedingly discontented with this change. He re paired Sc Paris to complain of this crying injustice. He reached it two days after the period of the 2011. of May, when the people of Paris laid siege to the Convention, and ramose. cred Ferraud, the President. The destination of Napoleon had not merely been changed : be had even been removed from the artillery, and placed at the head of a brigade of infantry. This change was viewed by him in the light of an insult, and be refused to submit to it. He remained at Paris as a private individual to the sth of October ; that is to say, nearly five months. . _ " At this last period, all the military, and more partico larly•ll the General Officers, were summoned to the defence of the Convention, which wan attached by a great propor tion of the inhabitants of Paris. Napoleon was appointed second in command, but the representative of the people, who was invested with the chief command, submitied en tirely to his arrangements. In a few moments all the attacks were repulsed, the mobs dispersed, and the new Constitution, and the Executive Directory, were established. De was then promoted to the chief command of the army of the In terior, and shortly after to that of the army of Italy. " While Napoleon remained unemployed at Paris, his Aides-de-eamp could not, with propriety, stay with him. Junot alone, as the oldest, remained. Captain of artillery, joined his regiment, which was with the army of the Rhine: Louis repaired to the school for the artillery at Chilons-astr.Marar, to undergo his examination; but he was so unfortunste as never to be able to &Isiah his studies. After the bth of October, when his brother was appointed to the command of an army, he was ordered to join his stair at Paris: be refused for some time to quit Chhlons, as it was his wish to be received into the artillery; but he was at length obliged to obey, and be returned to Paris in the following month. " During the first campaigns of Louis at Nice, the Re primentatives of the people wished to confer on him the rank of Captain i but ■s he was then scarcely fifteen years of age, the measure was objected to by his brother. " Napoleon used to relate anecdotes of Louis, which, while they screed to evince the most ardent attachment to his elder brother, afforded, at the 'mole time, a proof of his courage and coolness. " The first time he was conducted by Napolroo into an en gagement, Louis, far from feeling any astonishment, wished to serve as a rampart to his brother. This was bt fore Saor gio, a village on the great road from Nice to Tends, exceed ingly strong from its situation. The enemy kept up a very brisk fire of mountain artillery ; that is to say, of Oren carrying balls of two or three pounds weight. Louis placed himself before his brother, whets lie proceeded along the outside of the entrenchments for the purpose of examining them. He remained constantly in this position during eke whole of this inspection, notwithstanding his brother's prohibition, and the fire of the enemy. . . 1, On another occasion, they happened to be at a battery upon which the enemy kept up • brisk Me. The breast works were what is called d barbel /e; that is, only three or four feet in height. The garrison frequeistly stooped down to shelter themselves. Napoleou remarked, that Louis imi tated the example of his elder brother, remaining immove able the whole time; sud by way of trial, be asked him the reason: I have heard you say,' answered Loris, that a French officer of artillery ought never to fear cannon : it is our best weapon.' _ _ " After the sth of October, Napoleon, on being appoint. ed to the command of the army of Italy, was preparing to set out for Nice, the head-quarters, wheu Louis ars teed from Chalons. He became acquainted at that lime with Madame de Illeauharnaie, married howl after to his brother, and with her children, Ilurteucia, theu 13 years of age, sad Eugene, who was 15. At the school of Chilton' lie had imbibed anti•repnhli. can principles, fr o m the society of the young artillery pupils. It is well known, that, at that period, all the young men made it their boast, that they were hostile to the re. publican government. a Certain impressions, which he hail received in his in. fancy, remained indelibly imprinted on his memory. The elegance, the amenity, the fascinating frankness, the polite effusion of heart, which were then natural to the greater part of the nation, bad filled bun with the keenest regret. " To Lim it appeared that the nation was no longer the same. He neither shared iu the euthusiaren of his comrades, who were overjoyed at the prorpect of entering ou a cam• paign, nur asseuied to the approbation then generally be. stowed on the fashions, manures, and customs, which pre. wailed at Paris. " He set out several days before his brother, travelling with the cavalry guiJea of the army. Napoleon took has de parture in great baste, and joined him brother at eliatillun ' sur-Seine at the house of Marmont's father, an eb.' ly gen tlemen of great respectability, with whom they bad remain ed several days un their journey to Paris some months before. The ant thing which Napoleon did, OM swelor again his young brother, was to it.k his opinion of Madame de Beau. heralds. (Janis arnmertil, that she was a charming woman, but that she was no longer young. When told that .he was now his sister-inlaw, he would nut at first rove eretlit to the information. He dad not hesitate to observe, Ihal all.' choice appeared to hint very unsuitable, on aeronaut of the too great disproportion between their ages. Madame de Reau• karnais was at that time near!) 87, while her husband was scarcely 28. " Louis was IS when he • second lime joined the irmy of Italy, then commanded by his hawker, to whom lie was Aide. de•Camp. He had roily the risk of Lieutenant. a He was of an observing and silent characte►. He fell vacuity of heart, and experieurid a feeling of regret, on seeiug himself impelled into of troubles and ambi tion. He sighed already for retirement, and a peaceful occupation." The walks in St. James's Pntk were yesterday strewed wiitt branches torn off the trees by the violence of the wind. One very large tree near the great mortar, was entirely broken across near the middle. and the head of it fell across the iron pa. bilitiete the pathway. ,Ito cat .4 4,4 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, WILDNIUDAT, MAY 10. APPEAL. DUNBAR., •PPiI.LANT; ■AIViT, NRSPONDENT. Their Lordships met at ten o'clock, sod heats! Counsel iit this ease (it is an appeal from the deci sion of a Scotch Couit) until one o'clock, at *kelt hour they adjourned until Friday. , , i 1 1 HOUSE OF COMMONS, %Vroximmr, MAY 10. At four o'clnck there having been but thirly-silt Members present. the SPBAKEIL did Old like the chair s and the House adjourned, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'i ISLNCH. .:it E4TlllllitTkil, WIDXUDAV, MAY ID. ELECTION BRIBERY. THE NINO V. WYNN. GOODING AND DVIIIIIIIPOED. These Defendants were courieterl before Mr. Justice liorrough. at the Cornwall Assizes. of having offered bribes to various persons to induce them to vote for Mr. Swann. at the Electinii 1818. for a Member of the Cummone I/owe of Parliament, to represent the b Kh of Prom). Mr. ADAM! aml Mr. I .t.'ll.DE were heard for the Defendants, and pot in several affidavits to their characters and respectability, which were reed. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL Wl4 belied In rep'y, and contended tint !lie affidavits put in were rat! er an aggravation of the origival ofTenee, ioa.mitch lot it would he highly if it could he %opposed that die respectability of the Defeoil•irit.' wuation in life ought to be regarded as any extenuation of their offence. Mr. Justice BAYLF.Y. in delivering the sentence of the Court, animadverted on the misellievems nature of the offence of which the Defendinte I:4d been guilty in this% attempting to poll ute the purity of election to the Douse of Commons. De dip tinguished, in aggravation of the crime as 'o Durr4- ford, that the evidence given by two of the -wits nesses at the trial was entirely different front that given before a Committee or the llouse of Com mons who had sat to inqui►e into this business. rt.:d his Lordship intimated that he thought it prohable the guilt of that testimony extended further than. to the persons who had so sworn. The *potence of the Court was, that' the Defendants Wynn ;sod Gooding should be imprisoned fur three months in Bodmin gaol, and that Durnsford should be im prisoned in the same gaol for one }rm.. THE SING V. JAMES AND BENJAMIN argsru.. These Defendants were h ght up In reeem - e judgment f►r ob.tructing an Excise Officer in the execution of his duty. They were sentenced by the Court to six wedcs' cublinement in Horsham Gaol. FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON. A rule Piisi had hveu obtained on a lima . er day to skew cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London to admit to the freedom of the City one Abraham Saul, a Member of the Gitild of Butchers, who had paid his fees to the Chain. berlain, and taken every oilier step cinch he Wel understood to be necessary previous to receiving his freedom. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now shewt.l dice against the rule, and contended that altliong!i Chamberlain had the privilege allowed him of a certain number of presentations for the freeflorn„ yet the Court of Aldermen had a discretionary power of refusing to admit the applicant svithinit assigning any reason for their conduct, though to the present instance there was a reason, which was, that the applicant was the son of a Jew, and Jews had never been admitted. The COURT discharged the rule Nisi. as their Lordships thought there was nothing in tho case to take away the discretion of the Court of Aldermen. CORPORATION OF TRURO o. LORD EXMOUTH AND ANOTHER. Mr. GAaELEE and Mr. DENMAN skewed cone against making absolute a rule which Mr. ticarlett had obtained on a former d.iy, for a mondonmr, to he directed to the Mayor and capital Burgesses Truro, to elect two capital Burgesses, in the room of Lord Exmouth land A. Bo.cswen, E..q. on the ground of non-residence within the borough. The COURT discharged the rule Arai, on tl.e ground that there were not words of Ifficreht clearwss in the charter to take this case out of the usual practice of the Court. THR KING V. SIR F. BURDETT. Mr. DENN&N rose to urge additional grooved+ to those already before the Court, fur a iitar trial ~1 this important Case. He would not, he saiei, sub mit any thing to the Court, which might more v.-- perly be urged in arrest of judgment, s:a;i0:1 step become necessary, but what he vv,, ti :d submit to the Court in the summing tip ..1 the Judge, in which it appeared to !Out he had :..'opted the observations of Mr. Serjeant Vauzl 411, in his opening, iii regard to that allegation of the iintict. meat, in which mention was made of the liorongb. monger.. which the Learned Serjeant h:ttl meant the governing powers of this couotry ; and the Learned Judge had so put it to the Jury. Mr. Justice BEST thought that he had put ;t to the Jury, that it was for their consideration, whe ther. taking the whole of the paper tozether. she words did not refer to the Government; but he did not think it was on the phrase " Borouglinionger.” or "Borouglimongering," that he had so remarked. as lie thought that teas not the strongest passage in the ibdictmetit ; but he thought the words " reign of terror and of Mood," more expressly meant the G iverimient than " flioron2litnoia_;ers." Mr. DEN St AN here referred to short-ii old mites of the trial, but the— CHIEF JUSTICE objected to his (WI T move than referring to them fur the purpose of refreshing I na memory. Mr. DENMAN Mild he was it using them. and foubd that Ids Lordship was come', as he hr. liewed it was afterwards the Learned .1 tit!. ! r Mewed to the Jury on the words " reign of ter ror," and had asked, to whom does thus apply lint to the Gown-mow ?" The Learned Judge had mid that a great deal was intimated by that panne. He would submit, therefore, that if .~ "ik , o