The Sun. — London, England, 1823-04-03 00:00:00

UAItItIUK. As this may be deemed a theatrical age, every thing relating to the greatest actor that probably has ever appeared since the origin of the Stage, must be interesting, and therefore Ave are sure .that our Readers will be gratified with .the following character of the BRITISH' Rosctus, who, if this country had possessed a Gwent) during the time of GARRICK he would hate been proud to record his merits, as the -L o- ' Orator has immortalized the fame of the llosctus of his days.—The following account of our great Actor is taken from the memorable Correspondence of the Baron de Geist, a work . of so amusing and interesting a description that we wonder it has not appeared in an English form, at least in a judicious abridgement. if a foreigner, who cannot be supposed to have sufficiently understood the genius of SUAK SPEARE, and consequently of those congenial poiVers which gave vital energy to his best cha racters, could thus describe the latter, how superior must GARRICK have appeared in the eyes of his countrymen, , who are so much better 'able to appreciate the merits of both.— The late Mr. SMITH, of Bury, who was himself an actor of great merit, which enabled him to acquire a distinguished reputation even in the best days of Geititicie,:held him in the highest eetima tion,and hi a letter which we have the'pleasure possessing, says" Mr. GARRICK so completely embodied the .characters which he represented, that GARRICK himself was entirely buried in the parts which he assumed." Such a just and liberal tribute from so good a judge is well entitled to notice in this place. But it is time to return to G rum, who, however, seems to confine GARRICK'S talents to comedy, though it is well known that in all the tragic characters which he performed he was not only without a rival,but far, very far above all Competition. " This great and illustrious Actor, this Roscius of the English Stage, or rather of modern times, for great talents are not peculiar to any country, but belong to all those who know how to appre ciate them,—(lll3 DAVID GARRICK, in a word, has kept.his promise, and has passed six months with us on his return to England, after having travelled through Italy. Ile would be ungrate ful, indeed, if he did not regret leaving France, where he was received in the most flattering,man fier, and associated constantly with men of science and literary attainments, who regretted his defter tore. The English generally exaggerate their ad vantages, and extol Their men of genius, sometimes too highly above those of other nations.; but in this instance they are quite right. Garrick is really above all praise : no one can form any idea of his talents without having seen him, and it 'may truly be said that those who have not seen him have never seen comedy properly acted.— This Actor is the first and the only-one who has ever realized my conception of the talents and qualifications of a comedian ; and he has shewn me that the ideas which we form of perfection are not always so chimerical as some narrow - minded people would persuade us, anti that it is impossible to restrain genius within limits The great art of Garrick consists in a facility of changing his character, and of putting himself iu the situation of the person whom he repre sents ; and when he once thoroughly understands his part, he is no longer • G. but becomes the person whose part he is acting. Indeed, accord ing, as lie changes his part, he becomes so differ ent himself that one might suppose that - he changes his features .and .person, and would scarcely believe himself' to be the same man,— Me can easily imagine that a person may, with out, any difficulty, disfigure his face; but Gar tick knew nothing of grimace or of caricature, and all the alteration that you observed hi his countenance proceeded from his feelings. lie never went beyond the truth, and he possessed the happy faculty of ,deliheating his characters by the powerful aid of passion alone. We saw him act the dagger-scene in Macbeth in a private room, and in his ordinary dress, without the de ception of the stage ; and as he followed the ;logger with his eyes, whilst it was suspended in the air, his countenance expressed his inward feelings so forcibly, that it drew forth from the assembly one general burst of admiration. Who would believe that this same man counter feited, the next moment, in a manner equally perfect, u p . astry cook's boy who, carrying patties on his mead, stands gazing in the street, and lets his dish fall into the gutter ; and who at first seems stupified at the accident, and then bursts into tears ? There is as much difference in the physiognomy of Garrick when personating these two characters, as in the features of G. and those of Proville. Garrick performs equally well ell those parts which are imitations of nature ; the 'only parts that lie cannot act are those fictitious characters which resemble nothing in nature, and are the produce of the licentiousness or the barren imaginatiou of the poet. Ile asserts that if a per son is a good tragedian he must be a good come dian also, and I think he is right ; but if that is the case lie has pronounced a terrible decree against most of oor tragedians, and particularly against his friend Mademoiselle Clairon, who could never art any part whatever in a comedy tolerably, , -. de Carniontelle has a picture of G. in a tra gical attitude, and opposite to this portrait he placed another picture of G. in a comic charac ter, who surprises G., the tragedian, and laughs at bin). I wish this picture was engraved. Whilst he was sitting , for his picture he could not be quiet a single moment, and was 'continually changing his countenance from the expression of joy to that of grief, and even to despair and ter or. That may be called the gamut of the comedian ; for' why should there not be a gamut of passions as well as of succeeding sounds ? Garrick has an agreable and sprightly countenance, and. very -expressive eyes. He is extremely vivacious, pos sesses a fund of wit, ingenuity, and good Sense ; is naturally a mimic, and can imitate any thing lie pleases.' lie does every thing gracefully. lie has ;annoyed his great talents by studying na ture attentively, and by researches full of lege y and sublimity. For this purpose he fre quently mixes with a crowd, to observe nature in ail its simplicity and originality. One day, being on horseback with Preville, he said, " I am goingl to imitate a tipsy man ; suppose you do the same." They rode in that manner through the village of . Pussy, without saying.a word, and, in an instant, the whole village was assembled to see them.--' The young men laughed, the women were alarm•' ed lest they should fall oil' their horses, the old men shrugged up their shoulders and pitied them, or else passed on and broke out into fits of laugh. ter. When they were - out of the village, P. said to G. " Have I not aeted my part well ?" " Very well, indeed," replied G., " but you were not tipsy in your legs." This single anec dote allows wJaat .a nice observer of nature Gar. rick was." THE fRENafFRESS. IT there be any ,persons in this country who have encouraged the idea of the existence of such a thing as Liberty of the Press in France, the illoniteur of Sunday last will surely convince them of their error. That paper contains the Requisi tory against the Courier Francais and the Pilote, presented by Bellart, the Procureur-General, to the First President of the Royal Court of Paris. Our Readers may -recollect, that about a yeasr ago some very severe laws respecting the pros were passed by the Chambers. Among them was that called the law of the 17th of March, which authorizes the suspension of a journal " when its spirit, resulting from a succession of articles, may be of a nature to affect the public peace." For this offence, if so it may be called, a journal is liable to be suspended a first and a second time, and on the third occasion to he difinitively suppressed. The Requisitory com menced whitlow affected and hypocritical praises •of opposition, and the liberty of the press. The liberty of the press this French attorney allows to be entitled to the protection of the laws, 44 so long as it confines itself within the boundaries of sound policy and wisdom;" but what those boundaries are, he and his friends of the Royal Court, it seems, are to determine. After calling for the application of this infamous law of the 17th of March, against the Courier Francais and the Pilote, the Requisitory states the different ways in which the public peace has been impugned by these journals, which are the, following :- 1. By sowing hatred and discord among citizens. '2. By approving of all 'disorders, both foreign and domestic, which are described as acts of lawful liberty. 3. By exciting interest fa. the promoters of disorder, and even conspirators. 4. By censuring the measures of political autho rities, describing them as tyrannical, &c. Under each of these heads references are made to the two papers, and numerous passages quoted from them, commencing soon after the pass ing of the law. When articles may be thus arbitrarily selected, the , ultra lawyers cannot find it difficult to give to them any colour or spirit they please ; but it is curious that the gieater part of the pa-sages quoted are extracted from answers to the Quotidienne and other Ultra Journals. Many of the quotations relate to the war against Spain, and every strong expression of opinion, or decided deprecation of the policy of the Ultra faction which originates it, is termed libellous. Of the passages referred to, some of them are prosecuted because, in speaking of the Spanish Insurgents, the journalists have called them rebels: others, for attributing, the war to 64 Emigrants and the Fanfarons of Royalty."— The war, too, is called the war of aristocracy, and it is said that the Universities have submitted to priestly influence. Speaking of the Spanish revolution, these journals have coupled it irith the words 44 Spanish Liberty," and called Gen. Quesada a foreign malcontent, in arms against his country, &c. In this way five pages of the Monileur, very closely printed, are filled up,and the Requisitory thus concludes :—" This corrup tion of public morals, this league of journalists with the enemies of France and of Europe, these truly impious methods of.discouragiug, troubling, and alarming their fellow-citizens, for the ad vantage of a foreign nation, or rather for that of some ambitious demagogues, cannot be allowed to escape repression. This being considered, the King's Procureur-General requests that the Pre sident will be pleased to bring the responsible authors of the journals, entitled the Courier Francais and the Pilote, before the Court, in solemn audience, at the earliest day and hour which the President (considering the urgency of stopping the publication of such doctrines) can conveniently appoint ; and that he will also be pleased to declare, that inasmuch as the spirit of the said journals, resulting from the series of articles pointed out, is of a tendency to-violate the public peace, the two journals aforesaid shall be and remain suspended during one month ; that they shall be condemned to pay the ex. penees, &c. &c.—M. Sequier, the first President of the Court, has ordered the parties to be cited for the Bth of April.--(Times.) NUREMBuRO, MARCH 9.s.—Extract from a Private Letter.—" According to our advic,os from Vienna, the Austrian Ambassadarat Petersburg!) had received from his Government instructions to support the negotiations commenced by the British Minister, Sir Charles Bogot, with the Russian-Cabinet, and which have for their object the maintenance of peace in the South of Europe. It is nevertheless added, that the Court of Vienna has declared, that in the case of RusSia not ad hering to the political system of England, Austria cannot dispense with the fulfilment of the obliga tions imposed on her by her alliance with the Cabinet of Petersburg!), as welt as by the par ticular conventions concluded between the great Powers at the Congress of Verona. It is still asserted thgt the Emperor of Russia wishes that the same course should be pursued with respect to Spain as was adopted towards Naples and Piedmont in 1821, which makes it be presumed that Sir C. !Ingot will fail in his efforts to change the system of the Cabinet of Petersburg')." REMOVAL or ParsoatEns;—This dsy the prisoners who stand committed on charges of felony, , were removed from the several gaols in London and Middlesex to Newgate, prepari tory to taking their trials at the ensuing Sessions at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey, which commence on Wednesday next. The Sessions of the Peacc for Westminster begin at Guild. 111111, Westminster, on Monday next ; and the Sessions for Middlesex begin at the Sessions house, Clerken well-green, on . 1 Tuesday next. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS, An ACCOUNT of th6.Quantity of (;OLD imported into His Majesty's Mint, and Gold Monies Coined, from the Ist Ja .nuary 1822 to Ist January 1823. I Gold Imported into the Mint. I Gold Monies Coined. Year. I Weight. I Value. : Value. . ibs. oz. di. gr X. $, d £. s. ' d. 1822 94,734 02 22 4,•128,44614 3 Z,356,787 12 6 JAS. W. MORRISON, Dep.-Master and Wr. J NO. BARTON, Comptr. Mint Office, 2!d February 1823. An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be wanted in the Year 1023, for paying the Salaries of the Commissioners of • the Insolvent Debtors' Court, of their Clerks, and the con. tingent Expences of their Office, tbr One Year. Nine Thousand and Forty Pounds. S. R. LUSHINGTON. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, 26th Feb. 1823. PARTICULARS OF TIIE FOREGOING ESTIMATE. Commissioners' Salaries £6,000 The Chief Clerk - - 600 The Provisional Assieees - d i n lOO er Twelve Clerks and Officers - . - 1,8110 Taxes and, Rates of Office in Lincoln's•lnn-Fields - 120 Coals and Candles for the Office - - - 120 Do. do. for the Court at Guildhall, Westmin. stet', the Old Bailey, and the Exchequer, and for com pensation to the Court Cleaners and Officers, and for attendance at the two last-mentioned places, during, say MO days of sitting there - - . - 70 Printer • - - - ' .. - - - 250 Sundry Petty Expences - - .. - 300 Exchequer and Treasury Fees . - . - 400 To make good the deficiency of the Charge for the Year 1821 - - ' - - - - 400 £9,041 An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be wanted in the Year 1823 to pay the Salaries or Allowances granted to cer tain Professors in , the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for reading Courses of Lectures, for one Year. Professor on Mineralogy, at Oxford - . £lOB 0 0 Do. on Geology, at ditto - - - 100 o 0 Do. on Experimental Philosophy, at ditto 100 0 0 Do. on Chemistry, at ditto - - 100 0 0 Do. on Ditto, at - Cambridge r - 100 0 0 Do. on Anatomy and Philosophy, at ditto 100 0 0 Do. on Mineralogy, at ditto - 100 0 0 Do. on the Laws of England at ditto . - 100 0 0 Do. on Arabic and Hebrew, at ditto - 100 0 0 Jacksonian Professor, at ditto - - 100 0 0 £lOOO 0 0 To ptty the Fees and Charges on the Receipt thereof •58 5 0 XlO5B 5 4) One Thousand and Fifty-eight Pounds Five Shillings. An ESTIMATE of the Sum Which niay be wanted to defray the Expellees of the Houses of Lords and Commons, for the year 1823. Fifteen Thousand Four Hundred and Forty-six Pounds. An ESTIMATE of the Sum that may be wanted to defray the Salaries and Allowances to the Officers of the Mouses of Lords and Commons, for the year 1323. • Twenty-three Thousand Two Hundred and Thirty-seven - • Pounds. An ESTIMATE of the Sum that may be wanted, in the pre. sent Year, to defray the Extraordinary Experce in the De. pattment of the Lord Chambetlain of his Majesty's House hold, for Fittings and Furniture to the Two Houses of Par liament._ __ Four Thousand Eight Hundred Pounds. An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be wanted for His Majesty's Foreign and oth,:r Secret Services, for the year 1823. Fifty Thousand Pounds. An ACCOUNT of the Sum that will be wanted, in the present Year, to defray the Expences incurred for Printing, by Order of the Conunissioners for carrying into execution the Measures recommended by the House of Commons, respecting the Re. cords of the Kingdom. Ten Thousad One Hundied and Forty-seven Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Elevvn-pence. An ESTIMATE.of the Sum that may probably be wanted to defray the Charge:for Printing Acts of Parliament, f or th e Two Houses of Parliament, for the Sheriff's, Clerks of the Peace, and Chief Magistrates . throughout the United King dom, and for the acting JuStices throughout Great Britain; also, for Printing Bills, Reports Evidences, and other Papers and Acconnts for the House of Lords • for the year 1823. Seventeen Thou san d iounds. An ESTIMATE of the Expence that may be incurred in the Year 1823, for Printing 175 Copies of the 78th Volume of Journals of the Honourable House of Commons, being for the,prescnt Session of Parliament. Three Thousand Five llundrud Pounds. An ESTIM ATE of the Sum that flay be want2d to defray the Fspenee of Printing the Votes of the Honourable House of Commons, during the present Session of Parliament. Three Thousand Five Hundred Pounds. • An ACCOUNT of the Sum that will be wanted for the Defi ciency of the Grant for 1822, for defraying the ixpence of Printing the Votes of the Honourable }louse of Commons, during the last Session of Parliament. Eighty-eight Pounds Eight Shillings. An ESTIMATE of the Sum that may be wanted to defray the Expence of Printing Bills, Reports, and other Papers, by order of the Honourable !loused Commons, during the pre sent Session of Parliament. - Twenty Thousand Pounds. An ESTIMATE of the Expence that may be incurred for Re-printing Journals and Reports of the „Honourable 'louse of Commons, in the Year 10n. 'Three Thousand Pounds. An ESTIMATE of the Sum 'which may be wanted for the Year 1823, to enable Ilia Majesty to grant Relief to Toulon ese and Corsican Emigrants, Dutch Naval Officers, St Do 'pingo. Sufferers, and others who have heretofore received Allowances from Ills Alajeaty, and who, from Services per. fdrmed, or Losses sustained in the British Service, have spe cial Claims upon his Alajesty'sjustice and liberality. Toulonese Emigrants - . ..C4,765 0 0 Corsican Do -, • - - . - 3,195 0 0 French and other Persons having special Claims 5,,540 0 0 Dutch Naval Officers - - - 1,150 0 0 St. Domingo Sufferers - . - 1,500 • 0 0 £16,150 0 ,0 Sixteen Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Pounds, Clear of all Fees and all other Dedtieticnrs. An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be wanted for the Relief of American Loyalists, for the Year 1823. Seven Thousand Pouads. Clear of Pees and all other Deductions. An ESTIMATE of the Sun which may be wanted to defray the Expence of confining and maintaining Criminal Lunatics, for the Year 1823. Three Thousand Three Hundred and Six Pounds Ten Shilings, Clear of Fees and all other Deductions. An ESTIMATE of the Sum which may be required, in the Year 1823, for paying the usual Allowatices to Protestant Dissenting Alinisters in England, poor French Protestant Refugee Clergy, poor French Protestant Refugee Laity, and sundry small. Charitable and other Allowances to the Poor of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, and others. Protestant Dissenting Ministers in England X 1,695 17 0 Poor French Protestant Refugee Clergy - 1,673 17 0 Ditto - Laity - 2,200 0 0 Poor of Martin's-i n - t h e . F i el d s, et a l. - 1,166 14 10 X 0,738 8 10 Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-six Pounds Eight Shillings and Tenpence. BLACK' SCHOOLMASTERS.—Among the present ments by a late Charleston Grand Jury was the following most liberal and Christians We present, as a grievance, the number of schools which are kept within the City by persons of colour, and believe that a City Ordinance, pro hibiting under severe penalties such persons from being public instructors, would meet with general approbation !" L 0 N D 0 N. FOUNDATION OF TILE OTT, At what preiise period the.metropolis of the British empire waa founded, remains to this day hidin obscurity. Several of our earlier chroniclers have, it is true, settled the point : for posterity in a very circiunstantial manner, but without the smallest regard to evidence of any sort. According to Geof frey of Monmouth, and all the retailers of his fables, London was founded in the year 1108 before the Christian era, by Brute, a lineal descendant of Eneas, and called by him, after the great scene of his ancestor's exploits, Troy Norant or NeTr Troy, whence the inhabitants received the name of Trinorantes or Toinobuntes ; and so, as we are further told, it continued to be called for a, thousand years end more, till the sceptre having devolved on King Lud, a native of Britain, he gave it the name at Cuer Lud, or Ludstoun, which in process of time became softened into London. Mr. Pennant, rejecting this romantic story, has framed another of his own, on the basis of a derive , tion in Baxter's Glossary, which seems nearly as fanciful. " London," he says, " certainly existed prior to the invasion of Cesar • it was, at the time of his arrival in this island, the capital o f 'rrinobantes, who had recently come from Bel gium, and composed one of the small nations into which Britain was formerly divided. The name of this nation, as we learn from Baxter's British Glossary, was derived from the three following British words—t ai nova hunt, which signify the inhabi tants of the New City, the ancient name of the renowned metro polis of Britain."—lf it were in the usual order of things, for people to bond cities first, and then to be called after them, this definition would be plausible at least; but since we know of nothing of the kind in the history of nations, we are forced to conclude that New City and New Troy belong equally to the domain of fiction. " The Romans," continues Mr. Pennant, " soon fixed their eyes on this new town, and great numbers of them settling in it, they gave it the name of Londinium from its situa tion, and Augusta for its grandeur ; and in a little time it became the largest and most opulent city in the island." —Taeitus, who is the first Roman author who speaks of Lon_ don by that name, does say, that London is so called from its situation, and Augusta from its grandeur."—(Lib. xiv. c. 23.) But he does not say from whom it received these different appellations ; nor does there seem the least reason to infer, with Mr. Pennant, that they were both conferred by the Romans. The name given to it on account of " its situation," Was doubtless derived from those who chose that situatiot ; and there is no better proof that the city had an existence peat to the invasion of the Romans, than that it is in the . language of the native Britons we find the explanation in the name.— " Lyn-Din," in the ancient British signifies the town on the lake ; and this we may readily suppose to have been a correct enough description of the situation of London at the rim, of its foundation, when the waters of the river, not confin e d as they now are by buildings and embankments, spread over a vast portion of that large flat which 'lies between Wands worth and Deptford. From Lyntlin to London the deviation is slight ; and in Londininm, the original British name merely ac quired a Latin formation. Augusta, the name which it subse quently received on account of its magnificence, was evidently .altogether Roman. ___ . _ Ainmianus Illarcellinus, who flourished Liter than Tacitw, speaks of Londiniunt as the city of Trinobantes ; and this is the most decisive evidence that we have, that it is to this people the honour of founding the British capital belongs. STATE OF THE CITY BEFORE THE HOMAN INVASION. When we read of London being " the Capital of the Trino bantes," the mind naturally completes the ideal picture, by .supposing it to have been, at the arrival of the Romans, the seat of a regular government, and of a numerous and fixed Population .; but the term is altogether misapplied. We may rest satisfied that Ctesar does not deceive us, when he relates, in his Commentari es that " what the Britons called a town was nothing more than a thick wood, su r r ound e d by a dit c h, and fortified by a rampart, into which they retired when ap prehensive of invasion. The proofs are indubitable, that the Britons had not as yet emerged from a state of barbarism ; they knew nothing of brick-making, an d h a d never , so f ar as the Romans cou ld observe, attempted to raise one stone above another. No traces of building have ev;r been discovered about London, which could with any probability be ascribed to a pe riod anterior to the Roman invasion. Of natural advantages, however, the Britons were probably as good judges as the lto mans themselves; and we find, accordingly, that as far as re gards the site of. London, a stronger one for purposes of defence could scarcely have been chosen. The heart of their city was on the sumnut of an angle of rising ground, (about where St. Paul's Cathedral now. stands), bounded on the one side by the broad and marshy Thames, on the other by the Fleta, a stream or torrent since covered over, which emptied itself into the Thames, near to where Blackfriars-bridge has been since erected ; and behind this naturally entrenched mount there was a thick wood, wbich extended fkr into the interior. We haVe , only in imagination to cover this mount also with " thick wood," to complete the idea which Clew presents to us of a British town ; and unless it had been actually so cover ed, there is little probability that it would have become the ' chosen fastness of a naked and houseless people. So slowly, in deed, was the wood cleared away, that so late as the reign of Henry 11. all the northern parts of the city bordered on a thick forest, were beasts of the chace roamed at large. When the Romans, under Ciasar, advanced to the Thames, the Trinobantes were the first of the tribes beyond that river who sent proposals of submission to the invader ; and there is every reason to believe, that they formed no part of that na tive force which, under Cassivelaunus, attempted to oppose his progress. When victory declared for Clesar, and he had effected , the passage of the river, he found not only a friendly people in the Trinobantes, but in their city or stronghold in the wood, as advantageous a position for encampment as the in vader of an unknown territory could desire. It was such' as a very slight application of the Roman skill in fortification could render impregnable to any attacks from the still hostile nations of the interior; while, on the other side of the Thames, that noble stream secured to it a free communication with the sea, and with all the 'earlier settlements of the Romans on the Bri. tish coast. STATE OF THE CITY UNDER THE ROMANS. The Romans conquered only to civilize. They chewed the Britons bow to fashion the clay of their soil into bricks and domestic utensils ; to build houses for themselves, temples to their gods, and courts for the administration of justice ; to drain and embank ; to cut roads and erect caseways; to lay out their towns in streets and square, and to surround them with walls and towers. The Britons chose the site of London, but to the Romans we must allow the praise of adorning it with all those monuments of art, which procured for it the name of Augusta. It was soon perceived by this sagacious people, that Lon don, though well fitted by its natural strength for a military station, was still better qualified to be a place of extensive commerce. Seated at a considerable distance from the sea on a broad and navigable river, which, after w a t er i ng some o f t h e , Fairest portions of the island, discharges itself into the ocean almost in sight of the Continent of Europe, it seemed calculated to 1.):: at once the mart for a great domestic and great foreign trade. The Romans, however, were warriors, and not traf. tickers ; anti they contented themselves with directing the Britons to the, cultivation of those advantages, which have raised their capital to the proud pre-eminence which it now holds among the cities of the earth. We find accordingly, that London was n ever ,. like other settleme nts o f the Romans, formed into *hat they termed a military colony, exclusively Romqn. Here the Roman prefects resided; and from this point, as we learn from the Itinerary of Antoninus, branched most of the great roads into the interior; both decisive proofs that they regarded - it as the most important station they pos. seamed in the island; yet neither did they occupy it alone, nor did they subject it to the inconvenient restrictions of a gatrixon town. London remained a free city, where Roman and Briton mingled amicably together, and to which strangers from Al parts were encouraged to resort with their commodities. So rapid was the progress of London,in commercial import ance, that as early as the revolt of the celebrated Boadicea, it is described by Tacitus as having become famous for the vast number of merchants who resorted to it, and the abundance of every species of commodity which it could supply. The first interruption to its prosperity arose from the early triumph s of this illustrious heroine. The Roman General Suetonius, unable in the outset to encounter so formidable a rebellion, was obliged to abandon London to its fate. Boadicea and her troops, edger to punish the ancient defection of the Trinobantes from the common cause of the native powers, and irritated by the spectacle which London presented of Roman greatness, massacred every soul they found in the city, and setting fire to it inseveral places, nearly red uce d the whole to ashes. e Romans , however, agai n reco vering the ascendency, a ian new city speedily arose on the same favoured spot, devoted as before to the peaceful pursuits of commerce, and flourishing by them. In the year 389, no less than eight hundred vessels are said to have been employed In the exportation from London ofcorn alone. On the decline of the Roman empire in the fifth century, London had to lament the departure of the beneficent founders of her greatness. There are various statements of the period when the Romans abandoned Britain ; all that is certain is, that it took place not later than the year 450, when a dominion which brought many blessings to this island had wholly and for ever ceased. . Ace I * 0, M ifr onda 3 y l , 4tlBq i Nl' pril_ Cl e Ny ...' T I: LC:I4S I V li o *\" it io NEXf NVt :7l ' 7, ....T o;rpo -4 )r . . " N ‘ oa, 5, 10, 27, n, 89, 213 22:1, 289. Quart. t in , Court Iloy's School; I t 1 COUNTRY. Nos. 20, 64, 72, 1 0 : 4 "' -8, LONA ON. N ( 364 : s t 99: 1 ; 81 2 :: 336' 502, 2, il 14) 1 244 2 3 , 25 : 71 3 9 0 29 ': , 9 8: 30 6° 79 ( .1 '' , 'l '' 34)31 367, ' 421, 479. ... 1 AK 211 COUNTRY. Nos. 24, 67, 1a0,i,,,, , 263, 292 427 684, 1 9 ' 16 7 7 9 668, 714. A° , 7 Wednesd*Y> -9, LONDON. Nos. :1, 11, 16,'1..„, 9, -',,,,,,'' 96, 237, 2371 .h" , ' 4:15. COUNTRY. N1)11.4,1;1494,, 2 4 1 4 : 0 % " 4 . , 4 1 2 5 : 4 2 1 3 : 7 1 : 478, 647, 661. , n , - 10, LoxpoN. Nog. 6, 18. 2 8 6, in: 271, 299, 301;338. j 7 Quart. Oen. Court Igal, School at 12. . 1721 C OUNT RY. Nos. 110, 111, J 33,,,,,,/ 178, 269, 278, 3N, 1"'" Oh 540, 391. - 11, LONDON. Nos. NI, '27 5 . 04 Cour/Tar. Nog. 52, 282, - IRELAND. o ' . Tuesday, April 8, CORK . . • N0.:1___1.:...............____ ------ Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, F STOCKS ON t: O . COC X. siniolituliitaah if:15t0C,eamdk55.....0,......k...........:,.....,...;.i. i: 1. ... ,.. 0 1 ..,... , 11t . Old Annuities ........ •::: . ; 3 „ r . Ex. Bills . , ........... 1 4 . r, PRICEins" or OF FORE I G N ST 0 C DlClBn:aiSdtnitl!x.ftSf:ool,)}4'l::POc rrit. D . i 1.:: : :.;c0 : :.. 1 .t:: 1 11:4r.: :IP: r --.... AT ON E O . CI,O CK. Five per Cents. 713. Russian Six per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) Ditto New 711. onds, 67 1 N ea p o li tan f Five p er Cent. B. Scrip, 00. Fiv M e t a llic) e per Cents. (M Austrian w..m. • tt Spanish {Five per Cent. Bonds, . New I)itto, 291. Scrip, 00 disc. Prussia f Fire per Cent. Bonds, t 2. Danish n 1 Ditto New, 79i. Chili Five per Cent. Bon ds, 81. t'obian 68A ex div. Peruv lom ian Six per Cent. Bonds, 58. New Loan, 00. (Bank Shares T2l Ss. Six per Cent. 0-99. American ) Five per Cent. 95i--91. Url ire e per Cent. 70. French 0 .310 10" ;: A WTER A T SDON Rag; F: o tt, 31"ning, 6 minutes afte r 8. i Evening, :)bini THE SC • t • j g A SOLSM QUIS DICER E rpv- LONDO N, 103 _: , THURSDAy; jpRI s shallof the arrival lg ; but. a y e%P ec , receivedre io tool We have n I' ouch J Lord , this morn' n o t an y tali t ' n ! nd 01 of an Express from Paris, a or , receive hasten to • ay 1 the intelligence which w e Pi ..., by it before our Readers' Every hou is ots,tilat it is _,.,, r now so pregnant with eve ity , ii , umscutt so far to relax from the lute° toe. a which i expectation has. been stretched, 95 11 or triu mph upon its own soil, may a ua calm view of the present situation of 911.51 ;r, re n eful retrospect of circumstances of rerentroce, ce . Every one feels that the fate ar top, perhaps single of Europe, depends upon the eve n II 0 be'eday. That of Spain is not so sold° la , is ter tit determined. A long course even of o''' elk and en e arms of a nation struggling for its i' 1(1 . 11 t t,,e f o o f re j i u g s n tic a e rt a• discomfiture of the Molders, t'ertbe be followed rii),i' oie fi ii e e ultimate a" instruments of said other The stabilit— of I the French Governinentlurtiitd in ter hand, pegndstate o f , t"ings in the French iNlooarß 11 ! 30 1 Thetles and if the entirely upon the fidelity of the ar""dle'4ree of troops should even enter wit h n ' ') ic of' the pern innency of Ibie dr vice alacrity on the disgusting and iit'ill°''twitly ongda opcaet r il l t o l tdi $00100:10; standing which they are to be emplold' iwortios uing the strong symptoms of dis° ord which are to have already 1111, 0 amongst them, of their sustaining a to there .arc' none so sa" ,14,11:::: „to the event event severet; 0, upon .-their continued ob e 1 ,ber i; from ti, the Spaniards, or encountering 1 io , carte S • _panish e belleVe E I • people, may, atm w nod heroically exert themselves to resist so ' 00; to produce a miseries of an unfortunate ir, /heir Pre Government E , oP , violent change of le of and institutions. Th e i e trot; France w 1 p co o' • to. !it be s'e are convinced, will 011 r_foit 1 almost wholly passive, if froro ar e f ° their own o f llY" armies, or the irroptioil , o f IP formidable force he standar(' , 1, from Spain, t • , fl ei . surrection Goce' against the flotialt°l4 . rf. Should be tilt° planted within the Fretieb te EXPRESS FROM 11.01,. ( Too ' e bare received the Paris Par rs ° W da y , but at too late ke e /fr nor do an hour to ru°o of V' they indeed contain any ne loot portance, being chiefly filled ‘ l vi t t . i- d —li e llft4'i : debato . which had taken place in the C"'" vit., ID,Ee_puties7 in the course of which I oich OF " stated, that the last news I . oOf French Government had received ( PRICE 0 TIII3 DAY AT Bank Stock shut 3 per Cent. Red. Ihut 3 perC,ent. Cons. ' ' 74n 3i per Cent. shut I Per Cent. { Old shut 1 New 9411 5 ,ier Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann. shut Imp. 3 per Cents. —