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merely diminish proportionally the receipts of the producers. But foreign commerce makes the matter a little more complicated. A den 3el e peopled country employs itself in manufacturing for a country that can employ its industry more beneficially in the cultivation of land. The con dition of the intercourse between the two coun tries is the importation of agricultural produce in return for the exportation of manufactures. To say that no food shall be imported is to say that no manufactures shall be exported. The agri culturists of England had the wild idea that foreign commerce could be carried on without returns. They imagined that the manufacturing population could be increased while the ports were shut against food. Supposino. England were to import freely in return ifor her manufac tures, the increasing manufacturing popula tion would always demand more and more ani mal food from the agriculturist, and all such pro duce as cannot conveniently be imported. Corn is but one of the productions of the soil ; and even corn would not fall much by the importa tion ; because, in all those places which pro duced for our market, a great rise of price would be experienced on a free intercourse. Jacta est alea. It has been otherwise decreed. The con tinent of Europe is becoming every day more manufacturing. Even North America—between which and this country a beneficial commerce of raw produce in return for manufactures might have taken place for ages—has been forced to act on an unprofitable restrictive system. We shall by and by have no other foreign commerce but that with the countries from which we im port wines, spices, sugar, tea, and other lux uries, that cannot be cultivated to advantage in England. In the mean time, as our mann ficturing population is excessive, the diminution of beneficial employment must be felt in the di minished demands from the farmer. But misery cannot be extensive in any branch of the popula tion without affecting all the other branches.— Things find their level, except through a process entailing much misery on large classes. Each endeavours to throw the suffering on his neigh bour by means of fraud and artifice ; for the path to poverty always abounds in vice and crime. Those who cannot subsist by industry must be maintained, and hence new burdens on 'he owners of land. It would be amusing, could one be amused with what has reference to so painful a subject, to hear the evils caused by restrictions on free trade placed to the account of free trade. The habits of the country are all formed on a different state of things from that which now prevails. The extension of trade caused by the extraordinary improvements in British machinery gave, from the demand for la bour and the increased reward for it, an astonish ing impulse to our population. Hence the early marriages—hence the miraculous increase of our cities and towns. The next revolution will, probably, be the destruction of the most of the present landowners. A diminished demand for manufactures, and decay of the manufactures, must be felt in a fall of the value of land. This must to a great extent place a mortgagee in the room of the nominal owner. There are coun tries in which the population remains nearly sta tionary from the resources being stationary. In Balbis s elaborate account of Portugal, we are told " that on the estates which have seigneurs (donatarios) the condition of the cultivators is as miserable as was that of the ancient serfs of Russia. Innumerable imposts,known under the name of , acoes de terco and quarto, ofjua b adas octaves dizmo coimas ; the harshness of re ceiver ; all this absorbs alinost all the gain of the labourers, to whom there remains hardly enough to support a miserable existence. The young people of both sexes, instead of yielding to the inclinations of nature by uniting in the sacred bands of marriage, pass their lives in libertinism ; others wait till they have made a little fortune." In a list which he gives of the males above seventeen, there appears . 310,914 celibatories, and to 631,371 married, and of the married 143,829 had wives above the childbear ing age. This country is not Portugal ; but we must lay our account, we fear, with changes for the worse.—Morning Chronicle. Two letters to the Duke of Wellington have lately been published by a Mr. John Matson, on a change in the present system of taxation ; assuring security to the fundholder, and attempt ing to show that bread, under the system pro posed by him, will be sold at Id. per lb.; beef at 3d.; tea at ls.; sugar at 3d.; porter at 14 e d. a quart ; and wine at ls. a bottle. This is a flattering title for a Pamphlet ; and, indeed, so flattering that very rational doubts may justly be entertained of the accuracy of the author's cal culations. Of the possibility of realizing such cheapness in the important articles enumerated, no doubt, however, can be entertained by any one who understands the mode in which taxa tion may be made to operate ; but we would beg to hint to Mr. Matson, and to all other tax• schemers, that the main points to be considered are, first the possibility of effecting an improve ment in the mode of levying taxes ; and, secondly, whether a reduction in the price of the articles which he has enumerated will benefit the country generally. Our pamphlet writer endeavours to convince the fund holders and the owners of property, that the scheme which he purposes would, if adopted, materially benefit them ; and so far, therefore, he is aware of the primary difficulty ; but with re spect to the second point, Mr. Matson does not seem to comprehend that the only benefit which the country could derive from the adoption of his plans would be a saving of a great part of the expenses attending the collection of the taxes now borne by the community. A change of the burthen of taxation from the shoulders of one part of the community to those of another, is not, it ought to be known, a diminution either of its pressure or amount. If the taxes fall ex clusively on the landowner, the rent of land— the price of corn, the wages of labour, &c., will be proportionally higher ; and the only difference would be, that the landowner would be a sort of deputy collector of taxes, instead of paying his proportion along with the remainder of the po pulation, into the hands of the state collector.— Any plan of taxation, therefore, which professes to benefit the public generally, must proceed upon the broad ground of reducing the amount collected from the public ;—whether it be in the expence of collection, or the amount; necessary for state purposes in other respects. All others, we hesitate not to affirm, are delusive in the highest de g ree. A property tax, if duly imposed (we s p ea k not of a tax on incomes, would undoubtedly greatly benefit the public, because it could lie collected at a very trifling expense, and would at the same time brings large amount of money into the Exchequer ; but the saving in the collection would be th e on l y b ene fi t ; for the additional. taxi as we have already stated, on one portion of the' community immediately Spreads it self over every other, and is no more a redue- L i o „ o f taxation l or a relief to the public, than tire confinement of a piece of water within nar rower bounds is a diminution of its quantity. Of the particular taxes, however, which Mr. Matson proposes to repeal, we have to express our unqualified approbation : and of none more than of the repeal which he proposes of the va rious stamp duties on newspapers—not simply because we arc interested in the prosperity of such publications, but because a repeal of them would greatly benefit the revenue as well as the public. A reduction of the stamp duty on advertisements and newspapers, would greatly facilitate the transaction of business, as well as add to the pleasures of the community, and the amount of the public revenue. The following extract from •the Pamphlet will shew the plan of the author, as well as its spirit and tendency : " Ist. As to the taxes to be repealed. In my opinion, the assessed taxes are the most injurious in their tendency, and of serious consequence to. all. " By the duties laid upon men servants, the gen try are deprived of their services ; a great many thousands are kept in idleness by day, and have to be supported by the poor's rate, who would else be employed as travellers, shopmen, grooms, gardeners, and in a variety of ways in which they are not, and at night go poaching and stealing, their labour being entirely lost to society, instead of its being of ad vantage to it. " The duties upon horses and carriages are also a great injury to the country. Many thousands of families of limited income are compelled to do with out them, or are driven to other countries where they can enj:)y them ; thus impoverishing the coun try from whence they draw their resources, and in juring the revenue to which they would contribute —give en - ployment to the tradespeople—and bene fit the agriculturist by the consumption of his produce. " The house and window duties are also a grie vous oppression, causing many families to shut them selves up in apartments or rooms without light and air, who would otherwise be enjoying comfortable houses, thousands of which remain untenanted, or are compelled to seek in other countries what they are deprived of in this. " The repeal of the malt tax, accompanied by a repeal of the corn laws, and to which the land owners could not possibly object, seeing themselves relieved inn such a variety of ways. This measure would give great relief to the manufacturer, the me chanic, and labourer ; by reducing the prices of the necessaries of life in this country, the Manufacturer would be able to compete with the foreigner, being on more equal terms: it would also cause a great many ships to be employed. "The repeal of the duties upon tea, coffee, and sugar, these articles having become part of the ne cessaries of life. This would not only relieve the lower classes, but materially benefit the shipowner and the East and West India merchant, in conse quence of the increased consumption which would take place. " The repeal of the duty upon soap and candles would also be beneficial ; the poor would be enabled to keep themselves clean ; and a great number of poor industrious women are great consumers of dose articles, and to them the tax is very oppressive. " The stamp duties upon transfers of property, receipts, bills of exchange, newspapers, ulmanacks, insurance, legacies, &c. . _ " I think it proper to mention here, that there are a great number of duties it would be improper and unjust to repeal all at once, I mean those by which vested interests are affected; but a scale of reduced duties might be adopted in order to their repeal; for instance, the duty upon coals carried coastwise might injure the colliers in the working of the inland mines; the proprietors of ships, manu factories, houses, &c., having paid heavy duties upon the articles of which they are constructed, viz. timber, iron, cordage, bricks, tiles, glass, &c., it would be a manifest injustice to them to allow others who had not invested theircapital in any thing upon which heavy duties had been paid, to be allowed to contend with them on such unequal terms, not hav ing to labour under the same disadvantages; but it would not be necessary to commit any act of injus tice, there being a sufficient number of duties to repeal without interfering with vested interests; and if not, the surplus might be applied as a sinking fund, or the tax on property taken at a lower rate." —Morning Advertiser. It may not appear to be a matter of much im portance to describe the relative situation of armies, one of which ought by this time, to be in possession of Constantinople : but there ap pears to us nevertheless to be points in them which may ultimately change, not only the com plexion of affairs, but also the anticipated result of the campaign. The Russian head-quarters are at Aidos—a small corps is in the possession of Jambol—another at Karnabat, and a fourth at Karabenaar. The possession of these posts or stations ought to prove of the utmost advan- tape to the Russians ; for Karnahat, on the one hand, stops up two main passes of the Balkan— Jambol, another, and Karabenaar is advan- tageous as an advanced position, in affording to General Diebitsch the means of moving either upon Kirk-kilissi or Adrianople, as he may please, or of supporting any corps of greater magnitude, which may be ordered against the latter. The positions are judiciously taken, and General Diebitsch has to thank the stupidity of the Turks for permitting them to be occupied. 011 the other hand, the Turks are apparently masters of a long line of the Danube where there is no Russian force of sufficient strength to oppose them, and threaten the Rus sian communications and supplies in the rear—a considerable army is in Shumla, possessing simi lar advantages, and should General Diebitsch so far forget himself as to diverge from the line of the coast, and endeavour to render himself mas- ter of the whole of the country as he advances, the army stationed at Adrianople might inter pose, and materially weaken his force. There is also another circumstance mentioned in our fo reign intelligence, which, although it is of a merely of an individual nature, may not be with out its influence—we allude to the report of Hussein Paella having been again appointed to the command of Slimla. This skilful and gallant Officer, it will be recollected, defeated the Russians last year in every encounter, and com pelled them, by his skilful movements, to seek shelter on the northern side of the Danube ; awl during the present carnpain, although he has not 6njoved the opportunity of performing equally brilliant exploits, he has been equally ac tive, and though twice reported as slain, or taken prisoner, always contrived to find himself (as our Gallic neighbours would express it) where his services arc most wanted. He is again said to have been placed in command of Shumla, and we shall be much surprised indeed if some signal disaster to the Russians do not announce his re storation to tlic Sultan's confidence. On the whole it remains with the Turks whether they will or will not be victorious. The Russians have acquired many advantages, and their posi tions are well chosen ; but a Napoleon or a Wel lington could extinguish them in a week. It only requires some combination and exertion on the part of the Turks to save their independence; but if they will not fight they must fall, and their fall will be as inglorious as it will be well deserved.—lbid. After a considerable silence, the Russian Go vernment, under the unassuming title of " Jour nal of Operations, frorn the 25th of July to the sth of August," has published n e w s from its army in Roumelia. To some, when they Con. sider the very unexpected inaction of that army during this interval, this modesty will not appear out of place, particularly when this inaction is coupled with the conduct of the Turks, which does not at all justify the representation which previous private accounts had given of it ; at least, they do not deserve the contumelious epi thets which certain writers in France and Ger many has e of late taken pleasure in bestowing upon them ; and, instead of being a despicable rabble, we have the admission of their opponents that they never evade any fair opportunity of measuring swords with the latter. On two oc casions they are mentioned as the assailants ; and, in one of these, the " impetuous attacks" of their cavalry are noticed by the party best able to appreciate them. On the former of these occasions, we are strongly inclined to suspect that the Russians, though they claim the advan tage, had decidedly the worst of it ; and, indeed, it would be difficult in any other way to account for their subsequent retrograde movement. We are told that General Krassowsky, who, upon the advance of the main army, had been left behind to watch the Grand Vizier at Shttmla, set out on the 27th from Jenibazar, where he had previously remained at a respectable distance from his op ponent, to reconnoitre the positions of the latter. However, the Turks, apparently not relishing this design to espy their situation, sent for ward two detachments, consisting of 10,000 men, to meet him, who immediately attacked, and though we are told that their attack was " repulsed," yet the victors returned to their old quarters the same day. Exclusive of our suspicion that the issue of the rencontre is not fairly represe►►ted, we further suspect that the ob ject of the movement is intentionally falsified, and that it was not a reconnoisance, but a fruit less attempt, supported by the whole of the forces under General Krassowsky, to prevent the Grand Vizier from marching off with the greater part of his troops, who, we learn from an article in the Paris Papers, under the head of Belgrade, has since arrived at Adrianople, where he has as sumed the chief command, confiding to Hussein Paella the care of defending Shumla. The next operation is also termed a reconnoisance, but it was undertaken by a division of the main army, in the direction of Jambol ; and here again the reconnoitring party had to sustain a sharp en aarrement with 15,000 Turks, infantry and ca valry, under Halib Pacha ; and here again the Russians ran away —or, in the words of the official despatch, " returned' to their former quarters at Karnabat. This appears to have been a very sharply-contested action, in the course of which the Turkish cavalry made repeated impetuous attacks, and a party of Russian cavalry is said "to have found its way" into Jambol—and, as no prisoners are mentioned, and the amount of slain is not given, we are inclined to surmise that the issue was not so favourable to the Russians as they pretend. As the Turks also fell back after the battle, a small party of Cossacks, who were left behind, occupied Jambol, where they found a consider able booty in provisions and military stores. All this time, Count Dicbitsch himself lay snug at Aidos ; and we learn from the Warsaw article, already alluded to, that he was still there on the 6th. However, his time, in this military Pat mos, was not wholly spent in inaction, having concocted there and drawn up a proclamation, of which the apparent magnanimity, we trust, will not mislead the Turks, to whom it is ad dressed, and which lie issued on the 31st July. Never were such terms offered before by a vic torious army to an invaded and discomfited na tion ; and it is either a rare instance of magna nimity and sound policy, or a misgiving with re spect to the serious risk of " advancing as far as Providence shall please." On the whole, we think the news less favourable to the Russians than their previous accounts had led us to expect ; and it is clear that, as they approach the long wished -for goal, their difficulties and risks will ac cumulate in a ratio nearly geometrical.—Morn ing Herald. The Court Circular stated yesterday that the Police Magistrates had made their periodical Report to the Home Secretary of the state of the metropolis. We should like to know whether this Report contained any allusion to the dis graceful state of the Strand, and other principal thoroughfares, where troops of licentious females parade in a manner most offensive to public de cency—insulting modest women with the gross est language, disturbing the peace of the neigh bourhood with incessant brawls, and assisting thieves and pickpockets in their nefarious depre dations. We should also like to know whether any notice has been taken in the Report of t:iose nurseries of banditti called flash-houses, where burglaries and robberies are planned, and spoil divided, in the very vicinity of the police offices. Indeed, the increase of burglaries in the metro polis of late is quite alarming, and shows that property is in a very insecure state, notwith standing the price which the public pay for its protection.—Bid. - - - - - EXPEDITION AGAINST MEXICO. The following notice respecting the expedition against Mexico appears in the French Papers " MADRID, AUG. 20. " Our Government has recived despatches, which announce officially that the expedition left the Ha vannah on the sth of July,—that it was composed of 3,600 men, a company of artillery without can non, 100 officers, but n) officers or engineers, as the chief of the expedition had declared that he did not want one. The fitting out of this expedition has cost half a million of dollars (two millions and a half of francs) ; and the treasury of the Havannah is in such a state, that if any extraordinary expenses were necessary, the Intendant-General would find himself in the greatest possible embarrassment, as it appears that during the season of the dog-days he will have great difficulty in meeting the ordinary expenditure of the island, as during that season the arrival of foreign merchant ships in the island diminishes very much, from she dread of the yellow fever—and, in consequence, the receipts of the custom-houses fall off. " The Government has received pretended copies of the proclamation that the Chief of the expedition is to circulate in the country as soon as he shall have landed. The place of landing is not known, as in the copies printed there is a blank for its insertion. " Letters from the Havannah do not augur well of the result of the expedition, in consequence of the smallness of the force and the incapacity of the Ge neral ; for the commanding officer is General liar. radas, and not General Miranda, as has been assert ed, the latter having declined. " The principal reliance of the Spaniards is upon the partisans they have in the interior. It is ex pected that they will declare themselves as soon as they see the Spanish flag displayed. " The packet-boat which brought the despatches for the Government did not quit the port of the Havannah until the expedition was in the open sea, and tap to that moment the place of landing was not known."—Journal du Commerce, Several families which had left town for the sea-side, it is paid, have been driven back again by the late tempestuoes weather. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, SEPT. 3. These sessions commenced this morning before F. Coast, Esq., and a Bench of Magi,trates. Thomas Barrable was indicted for stealing a watch, value 305., the property of James Postill. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN told the prisoner the Court was not disposed to deal over rigorously with him, and therefore only sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six calendar months. Several youthful offenders were convicted of pick ing pockets and other petty larcenies. Such of them as were known to be hardened thieves, were sen tenced to be transported, and the rest to various minor punishments. SHERIFFS' COURT, SEPT. 3. lIARDING V. ALLEN AND OTHERS. Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the case. The plaintiff was a butcher, residing near the Regent's-pack, and carried on an extensive business, by which he de rived a profit of about 5/. a-week. Two of the de fendants, Messrs. Allen and Anthony, were, he would in justice to them state, respectable solicitors, residing in the city of London. The other defend ant was a sheriff's officer. The circumstances that gave rise to the peseta action were as follow I—On the 29th of April the plaintiff was sitting at home with his family, when the defendant Sloman and an other officer called, and producing a warrant, ar rested him for a debt of 801., alleged to be due to a Mr. Norris, an attorney, at Manchester, for his bill of costs under a certain commission of bankruptcy. In vain the plaintiff declared to them that he knew nothing whatever of Norris, and that he was not the person named in the 'warrant. In vain he called up his landlord and his son-in-law, who confirmed his statement; .the officers would not listen to him, but dragged him off at once to Whitecross-street prison, where he was kept six weeks and two days before he obtained his libera tion. Ile then called several witnesses, who proved the case for the plaintiff. The Jury, af7er a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1501. The damages were laid at 5001. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LANCASTER, SEPT. 1. DOE, DEM. CROWDSON, V. EASTIIAM. This was an action of ejectment, brought to re cover possession of certain premises situate at Wigan, in 'the county of Lancaster. The plaintiff was the trustee of a building society established at Wigan in the year 1822, which was chiefly composed of per sons engaged in building, and the object of which was to increase the number of small houses in that town. It appeared that the society was a sort of joint stock company, consisting of 4,000 shares of 100/. each. According to the rules, which wete produced in Court, each member was bound to make to the society a monthly payment of 10s.; and whenever, by these payments, the sum of 100/. was raised, it was put up to auction, and was lent to the member who offered the largest sum for the accommodation. The party who was fortunate (or, as it would appear, unfortunate) enough to get the loan, was required to give a mortgage upon the building, to the raising of which the money lent was directed, in order to secure its payment. The bor rower; in addition to the 10s. a month which he paid to the society, was also bound to pay Bs. 4d. a-week, as interest for the loan of 100/., and there was a clause in the mortgage-deed by which the trustees were empowered to sell the property mort gaged, within a certain time after default had been made in either of those payments. The payments were to be made until the close of the society, which was to take place when each member had received 1001. In the present case the defendant had been a successful bidder for five sums of 1001., and he had given no less than 14/. and 2d. for the loan of each 100/. ; so that, as the latter sum had been deducted from the 1001., he had only received 851. 19s. 10d. for each advance. He had entered into the usual security for the money, and upon making default in the payment of the weekly sums, the plaintiff, as trustee for the society, had brought the present ac tion of ejectment. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff generally. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—Then do you think that the interest was not usurious, and that the society was not injurious to the public ? Foreman—We do. A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff, and leave given to the defendant to move for a nonsuit, on the ground that the mortgage-deed was impro perly stamped. Peter Greenough was indicted for feloniously ut tering, at Chorley, to forged Si. Bank of England note, knowing the same to be forged. Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up the case, and the jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty. Joseph Griffiths, Henry Moss, and Thomas Moss, were indicted for feloniously uttering, on the 14th day of March, a forged 51. Bank of England note, with intent to defraud Margaret Redhead. The prisoners (who arc believed to belong to an extensive gang of utterers) were found Guilty. No sentence was passed. Stephen Grocott was indicted for a similar offence. Verdict—Guilty. CHESTER CIRCUIT-CHESTER, SEPT. 2. The commission for the county of Chester was opened this morning at the Shire-hall, before the Hon. TIIOIIIAS JERVIS. The state of the calendar is as follows :—For uttering base coin, 4; bestiality 1 ; bigamy, 1 ; burglary, 3 ; cattle-stealing, 2; false pre tences, 1 ; uttering forged notes, 3; horse stealing, 5; housebreaking, 5; malicionsly shooting and stabbing, 6; manslaughter, 5; rape, 1: receiving stolen goods, 1; sheep stealing, 2; various other offences, 6 : in all, 46 prisoners. William Parkinson (80) was indicted for killing and slaying Joseph Fletcher. Verdict--Guilty. Sentence, two years' imprisonment. CHESTER CITY SESSIONS, SEPT. 2. &manual: Dr:it was indicted for manslaughter, in incautiously administering a quantity of laudanum to her husband John Duffy, in the city of Chester, on the 27th cf December last, without a malicious in tent. This prisoner at the last sessions stood charged with the commission of a capital felony, but the principal witnesses having absconded, the Recorder availed himself of the peculiar constitution of this court to adjourn the sessions for a month. Mean while the witnesses, conceiving all to have been ended, returned, and being apprehended were again bound over to appear and prosecute. They were not now forthcoming; and the Grand Jury returned a true bill for manslaughter. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL briefly stated, that on the 27th of December the prisoner and her husband had a quarrel. There was a lodger in the house, named Patrick Farmer, who went with the husband to the Ship public-house. In the mean time the prisoner purchased two pennyworth of laudanum, and going to the publi c -h ouse, put i t i n a p i nt of ale which she gave to her husband to drink, refusing to let another person partake of it, and stating that she wanted to quiet her husband. This she effectually did, for the next day he died. If it had been proved before the Greed Jury that the laudanum had been given with a malicious intent, a true bill for murder would have been returned; but as it appeared it had been administered incautiously, without malice afore thought, the offence only amounted to manslaughter. After the examination of some witnesses, among whom were several medical persons, who found no a ppearance of laudanum in the contents of the de ceased's stomach, at the suggestion of the learned Recorder, the case against the prisoner was here given up, and a verdict of acquittal pronounced.— She was immediately discharged, His Grace the Lord Lieutenant continues s lightly afflicted with gout, but is d a ily improving.— Dublin Register. ORIGINAL LETTER FROM MR. GAR- RICK TO MADAME NECKER. (From the Elgin Lit. Mag.) Hampton, June Mb, 1776. Madam,—l cannot say whether I am most happy or distressed by your very elegant and affectionate letter : such a sincerity of praise from such a lady has added a cubit to my stature, but the self-conviction I have, that I cannot answer it, as such a letter might to be answered, makes me miserable. I defy the whole French Academy, with my most critical and worthy friend Sicard at their head, to give such power to words as you have done : nor is it in their power to lower the joy of my mind, or the pride of my heart, from the present exalted state you have raised them to. Though every poet was a Voltaire, and every proseman a Rousseau, I now defy the Devil of Criticism and all his works. I can say with our Waller, " She smiled, and from her smiles were sped Such darts as struck the monster dead." I flatter myself that you will not be displeased to know that I departed , my theatrical life on Monday the 10th of June,—it was indeed a sight .very well worth seeing ! Though I per formed my part with as much, if not more spirit than I ever did, yet when I came to take the last farewell,—l not only lost almost the use of my voice, but of my limbs too--it was indeed, as I said—a most awjil moment !—You would not have thought au English audience void of feel ing, if you had then seen and heard them. After I had left the stage, and was dead to them, they would not suffer the petite piece to go on ; nor would the actors perform, they were so affected —in short, the public was very generous, and I am most grateful. . Mrs. Garrick, who has taken your letter from me by force and keeps it locked up, begs to join her most affectionate respects with mine to you, and Mr.. Necker. If my multiplicity of business would permit, I should be at your feet almost as soon as this reaches your hands ; but we have made a. vow to be happy as soon as our worldly cares will permit us : till when, we beg that our warmest and bes_ wishes may be presented to your fellow traveller, the Chevr. Chatteleux and all our friends—we never can forget them, or your most flattering kindness.—l am, with greatest truth, Madam, your most obedient and devoted D. GARRICK. _- __,l ~ THE CITY LITERARY INSTITUTION• On Wednesday a General Meeting of the gear hers of the City of London Literary and Seieritlik Institution was held in the new Theatre; in, AltiOF ' gate-street, for the purpose of receiving the Reporg,,, of their Committee, as to their p r o g r ess , and2W other business ; GEORGE GROTE, Eeq., of the fires of Grote and Prescot, the Bankers, in the Chair. - Mr. STACY, the Secretary, read th e R e p or t, whi rl represented the Institution to be in a flouritihing condition; and, as evidence of an increased d e mand, for literary and scientific knowledge in this Cirit mentioned the fact, that between one and two hun dred individuals were now enrolled as Members beyond the number of the same period last year. Professors of eminence in the German, French , Spanish, and Latin Languages, gave lectures and-ic• struction, upon improved modes, to numerous classee of the Members, who were engaged 'in commercial and professional pursuits. Mr. Partington, and other Lecturers had given them courses of scientific le - ctures on the useful arts. Mr. Adams had de' livered to them a course of lectures on' music, and a large class, consisting of between one and two hundred members, had been formed for the study and prac.• tice of that accomplishment. They had given two finished concerts to the body of the members. SW' rat gentlemen had given gratuitously courses of lee' tures. A considerable number of books had been' presented to the Institution for the use of the Mew . , bers in their libra r y o f re f er e nce an d circulation, and'. large additions had been made to it by purchase. ' l ' ). the historical and philological class, which `we° formed for the purpose of discussing historical kab• jects, and questions in moral and political scienot great progress was made, and the most valuable in' formation was often elicited. The Committee had taken upon itself the task Of revising their bye-laws, and they trusted they had made some progress for systematising the adminiv. tration of the affairs of that with similar institutions. They proposed to collect accurately and record the facts which tended to show the state and movement of their chief departments —their classes, their library; and their lectures. The facts representing their rein' tire attraction at different periods would form a de', scription of literary statistics which would be neW. and valuable. The Report was received with much applanses and the motion for its adoption was carried noani" mously. After an eloquent speech from Mr. Ewa?, One of the Managers moved that the Membered, the Committe e o f M anagement s h ou ld b e appo i nt ed a Provisional Committee to revise the general IRO of the Institution. The experience gained since its foundation provett the expediency of several alterations, and the necer sity of a code framed with a little more jurispruden" tial skill was every day experienced. The motios4 after some discussion, was carried. The Auditor's Report represented, that the debt incurred for the building of the new theatre had , since Mr. Denman delivered his inaugural addresh been reduced to 1,050/. Thanks were voted to Mr. Prescot, the Auditor; to the donors of literature and books ; to the Music Class, for the Concerts which they had given to the Members ; and after some further proceedings► chiefly relating to the private affairs of the InstituA tion, the business of the evening was concluded by vote of thanks to the Chairman. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKNIS DURING THE WEEK• rer Quarter. filandfibrd -- 8rigg......—.....—..—. 1 Wheat. Barley. CaliZridge—.,.,. Chard „.., Huntingdon= Long Sutton-- Louth ----, Newark NAtingham Peterborough ..-- Plymouth Pontehact--.--. Sleaford Uppingham Wisbech Oats. 8. to 8. 8. 8. - 36 18 24 58 65 69 56 70 61 70 56 70 60 '72 59 :0 62 en 55 70 5 , i 70 64 79 S. to e, 17 Qs 32 3S 27 32 55 62 60 '7O :6 72 L to O. 4 6 35 4 ° 42 SS 49 SS SE3 93 Z . 44 42 6 4 ' 37 46 24 28 29 34 37 40 30 Sit 33 35 30 38 24 30 10 24 17 21 SL 30 16 24 93 30 28 30 18 115 24 32 A.l 40 30 . R 6 ' 20 25 23 SO 18 x 4 AN UNEXPECTED VISIT. (From the New York Morning Courier, Aug. 5 ) About ten o'clock on Friday evening the oc cupants of No. —, Hudson-street, were not a little startled by observing the fore-feet of a gal lant steed unceremoniously obtruded through one of the windows of the third story of their resi dence. At first they believed it to be a visitor from the nether world, but on casting up their eyes they found the noble animal mounted by a gallant knight armed cap-a-pie and prepared for combat. The terror of the ladies in a measure gave way to their curiosity, and one old dame who is famous for astronomical knowledge, boldly advanced to the window and greeted the stranger as an old acquaintance, at the same time introducing him to her friends as the man of the moon. Whether the visitor was displeased with this ill-timed familiarity we know not, but certain it is, that he immediately descended to the next or 2d story, and here again his Bucephalus made his congee by protruding his fore-feet through a window. A monkey had quietly selected a place near this window for the purpose of enjoying an uninterrupted nap, after the exhaustion and languor of an intensely warm day—but alas, how often are the wisest pur poses frustrated by events the least probable to occur : Jacko had but half dosed through the first ten minutes of his siesta, when the huge hoofs of this unearthly charger came in contact with his tail, and severed it from his body ! One long, loud, and unharmonious scream proclaimed his agony, and told the inhabitants of the neigh bourhood that" murder most foul" was being per petrated. We heard the cry, and with thousands of our fellow-citizens hastened to the spot. We have looked death in the face—we have heard its leaden messenger whistle past us and smiled at his fruitless journey—but we had never seen a soldier mounted on a fiery steed suspended between heaven and earth, in an attitude which declared him other than mortal ; and at this sight our soul quailed with fear—our legs ceased to be at our command, and when we called upon them to bear us from this dreadful apparition, they were unable to obey. Thus compelled to remain, we ventured to look around us, and saw horror and dismay depicted upon the coun tenances of our neighbours and friends. We now began to revive, and felt that indescribable sensation on which is founded the remark, that misery loves company." We gradually grow more composed, and could calmly examine the object before us. The horse and rider were considerably above the usual size, but admirably proportioned ; both appeared to be in the full vigour and prime of life, and both had about them a gravity and for mality of manner which denoted them to be na tives of another sphere. After remaining sta tionary for some time, the horse deliberately wiihdrew his feet from the window, and with his rider commenced his descent. As he approached the earth, a large cloud which hovered over the head of the knight became distinctly visible, and some power from within it appeared to regulate the movement of the horse. Slowly and'majes tically he descended—a deathlike stillness per vaded the multitude, the combined effect of fear and awe. In a few moments they reached the pavement and stood before us apparently without life or motion. A thin column resembling smoke was seen to pass from the dense mass which hovered over the knight, and after a short interval the horse's feet began to disappear as if sinking into the earth ! The crowd was slightly agitated—the legs of the horse disappeared, accompanied by the feet of his rider—the body of the horse and the rider slowly sunk from view—not a breath was heard among the multitude, but a gentle waving in the rear told us that they had already lost sight of the dark mass that was suspended over the rider's head. This was still visible to us, who were in front, but gradually sinking as it were into the earth—in a moment more it was gone, leav ing nothing to be seen but a dark pile resem blii,g a horseman's cloak ! Notwithstandin g our fears, we cautiously approached and raised from the earth the only vestige of this singular visit ant. But who shall tell the sequel Were it not our duty, reader, we would not. We stated before that we raised from the pavement this remaining vestige of the apparition —a label caught our eye ; we hastily sei ze d i t , an d b y the light of a dark lantern, which we held in our hand, read aloud as follows This balloon, with horse and armed knight, ascended from Castle Garden on the evening of Friday, the 31st day of July, 1829, at nine p.m. The finder will be liberally rewarded on returning RiNTED and PratiISHED it to the Proprietor of the Garden r Onus) In, LEEDS CORN MARKET.-.Sept. I. There has been a small arrival of Grain up to this slic e market. —The weather has been tolerably fine since S e : turday, and some Wheat has been secured in fair cad" tion ; to-day the weather is very fine which has caused th e market to be very heavy, the finest samples of Wheat tail be noted Is. per quarter lower than last Tuesday, the tat dling qualities Is. to 2s. and for the inferior samples 0 1 New and stale OW little demand when offered' at &ftil l further reduction. Grinding Barley fully supports the price of last week ; Oats dull sale, and rather lower, 00- less for fresh short English which are scarce, and- far maintain the price of last week. Shelling 6d: to le. .Pe r load lower. Beans and Pease with difficulty support ItO week's price. Malt, Flour, and Rapeseed, without_ lo / material alteration. New Wheat of this year's growth is wanted by the millers to mix with Old. A parcel of NeW to-day has been sold at 735. weighed 601 b. • Wheat, Norfolk and SuffOlk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire G rinding Beaus Oats, Potatoe illeahng, Foreign 12d. to 1 3t1....Englisli 12)4d. to 14d. per l ": Shelling 325. to 345. per IL% Rapeseed, English, 271. to 29! Foreign, —l. to —l. per idn- LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Sept. 1. WnEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. Red - Scotch, Welch, and Mans Irish, White lO 0 1 0 0' --- Red S a 10 9 Foreign 9 9 10 5. OATS, English, Welsh, and S c ot c h, p er 451 b 3 3 9 s Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter— 34 0 39 ~ -- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 4 6 311 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4l 6 • 4 3 0 --.. Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3t3 0 ' 41 n Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 52 0 ~, n . k ..-... 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, p er 2401b s 29 0 30 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quart er ........... 56 0 . IMPORT of GRAIN for the Weer ending Aug. 31. Wheat.' Oats. I Barley Flour. I OPT,. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I I Foreign, We Irish, &c. Sckm. 1 . 0 '"'" 7,701 6,176 1,663 11,465 598 10, APPLES.—The crop of apples in this neign bourhood is unusually abundant, the trees being so ca l " pletely loaded with the gifts of Pomona that the branche!, are propped up in every direction. So great a hit of fruit as the present has not been remembered by the oldest habitants.— Cheltenham Chronicle. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. in Hereford street, the lady of Bernar d Brocas, Esq. of a son. At the Chateau du grand Egard, near Brust44 " lady of G. R. Tayler, Eq. of a daughter, ' MARRIED. • On the 21 inst. at St. James's church, Mr. T. Hal g e t. r s of Northampt on , t o F rances M ercey , t h e younges t dal"' ter of T. Oxenham, Esq. of Welwyn, Herta. On the 2d inst. at Sculcoates, near HuU, Mr. R. John' son, of Watling-street, to Sarah, youngest daughter of?* J. Bulmer, Eyq. of the Tyne tron,works, Newootl°' upon-Tyne. On the Sd inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, Mr. E. Sha r P of Beaumont-street, Marylebone, to Frances, o tly dative' ter of Mr. Vorley, of Islington. DIED, On the 2d inst. Charl es J o h ns t on , y oun gest so° of Lieut.-Gen. R. Bell, of Ormond-street. On the 2d inst. Mr. Henry Stokes, Brunswick - r ows Queen-square, aged 81. On the Sd inst. at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, El'eabctilo the wife of G. Cathrow, Esq. aged 59. On the 2d inst. at Clapham, John Henry, son of Iv, R. Hill, of Chancery-lane, solicitor, ag ed 21. On the 25th ult. at th e hous e of her son, Capta in J ' to Macdonnell, of Killichonate, Catherine, widow of the la John Dhu, of Aberarder, and the last survivor of I he children of Colonel Alexander Macdonnell, of KePr el3 who fell at the head of hi s o w n reg i men t in the battle ot. Culloden. Mrs. Mactlennell was a of the old school. perfect model of a lady by MORD° YOUNG, a t the Swig Arm, LOMAT,