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, (), e NUMBER 9551. ALBION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS, EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL—ONE MILLION. INSURANCES falling due at LADY-DAY will expire, unless renewed within Fifteen Vali from that period. The Company's Rates and Conditions are of the most rea- lineable description:--no Charge is made for Fire Policies, 'Alen the Premium exceeds 55.:--no Admission Fine is charged on Life Insurance ;—a liberal commission is allowed %Solicitors, and others, who effect Life insurances;—and every facility is afforded by which the interest and conve %ince of tbe Public may be promoted. WARNER PHIPPS, Secretary. ALL MONEY PRIZES. • NEXT WEDNESDAY. SWIFT and CO., solicit the attention of the Public to the present Lottery Scheme of only 14,000 Tickets, having 83 Capitals. including THREE of £20,000, • - TWO of 4:5,000, TWO of £2,000, Six of XI,OOo, &c. &c. to be drawn in Three Days. All the Prizes are of Money. On the First Day there will he wily 5,00 I) Tickets in the Wheel, to which MUST be drawn a Prize of £20,000, and 52 other Capitals, all fixed for that Day;--in addition to which, every Ticket drawn the First Day, a Prize above Xi°, will entitle the Holder to an (indrawn Ticket for the Second Day, so that a Purchaser may obtain Two Capital Prizes by the pur chase of One Ticket or Share. - Schemes at large may be received at the Old and Fortunate Olbees of SWI IP l' and Co., No. 11, Poultry; 14, Charing- Cross ; and 31, Aldgate High-street; where 2,154, a Prize £4,000, and Nine other Capitals, were Sold in January last NEXT WEDNESDAY. £lO,OOO Money for the First One ! £4,000 Money for the Next Two! ! £4,000 Money for the Next Four! ! £3,000 Money for the Next Six !! ! £3,000 Money for the Next Ten "." £G,OOO Money for the Next Thirty "II I 11MI, of the Old State Lottery O ffi ces, 4, CORNIIILL, and 9, CHARING-CltOsS, respect fnllY reminds his best Friends, the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY begins NEXT WEDNESDAY (nth of THIS MONTH, APRIL), ors which Day the very First Prise drawn Will receive ,c 20,000 Money more, and the next 52 Prises Will each have a Capital in addition, making a grand Total of rIPTY-THREE CAPITALS in the Firit Quarter of an Hair ! The Scheme contains Three Prizes of £20,000, and Eighty ether Capitals, All Money. Zekets nod Shares are selling at 1.11511'S Offices, 4, Corn. and 9, Charing-Cross. • iq the Last Lottery Contract, DISH sold 37 Capitals, and the r north of Apt it has alwa.s been fortunate for DISH'S Offices, that tumuli I he Grand Lutlery or 1215 was drawn, Which contained Three £30,000 Prixes DISH SOLD. THEM Prizes, !!! G RAND STATE LOTTERY WILL BE.. GIN 9th of AP11.114. THREE of ,04 0,000, nod EIGHTY OTHER CAPITALS! All Money. „ 440,000 for the First Prize; and the Fifty - two following rflies will be All Capitals; to•be decided in the Villa Quar lerof an Flour t• Tickets and Shares are Selling by EVTON, Stack-broker, CORNHILL and LOMBARD-STREEI', where All foci best in the Public Funds is transacted with fidelity and diems Patch. Speedily will be published, i n 'Phree Volumes, tituio. R INGAN CaLitAtZE ; or, the CO VE. NANTHRS. the Author of " Annals of the Parish," 4 ‘ Sir Andrew Wylie," " The Etitail,"&e.. Their conitati - cy in torture and in fleNth,— These oh Traditiim's tongue still live, these shall On History's honest page he pictureot bright To latest times ." —(Grahatne's Sabbath.) Printing for Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; and G. and W. B. Whittaker, London. WRITING PAPER, of the best quality, made by the justly Celebrated J. WHATMAN, of Turkey Mill, to be sold at the following low prices s--Excel lent copy, 7d. the quire, or I Is. the ream ; good laid Post, Od. superfine thick, 9d. and Is. the quire, or 125., 13s. Oil. and 17s. Gd. the ream ; superfine Bath, 9d., ditto, hot.pressed, 104. and Is. quire, or 13s. 6t1., 165., and 17s. 6d. the ream ; very best thick Bath gilt, Is. Id. the quire, or 20s. the ream; , good Foolscap, ls. the quire, superfine Is. 24. 'and Is. dd. a quire, or 21s. and 26. the ream ; superfine large Bank Post, Is. the quire or Ins. the ream ; best thick lined Brief, ls. 4d. the quire, or 26a. the ream ; very good Copy Books, 3s. 6d. per dozen ; best Sealing wax, 4s. tid. the lb. Also for sale, the new-invented Steel Nib Pen ; it has the elasticity of the quill, with the durability of the steel pen, Prke Is. Q. each. throng Brown, Od 104 and ls. 6d. ; Small Hand, 44. the .1 .1 quire. At H. and W. SMITH'S, 192, Strand, Second House front the Crown and Anchor Tavern. Account hooks made to order, of any size or pattern. Draw ing Paper and Bristol Boards, equally low in price. EXTRAORDINARY ADVANTAGE FOR CASH. AWAR MO LI, and COMPANY, patronized Pun • try the Nobili t y an d G entry, allow greater Advantages than any, Establishment in the Metropolis ; The -East India ComPany's Tares upon all Chests, One Ounce in the single Pound, A t And Half- a -po un d a ll owe d i n every Six Pounds. the NOII,FOLh and Slink/LK TEA WAREHOUSE Up No. 23, LITT LE BELL ALLEY; , . T okenhouselard, at the Back of the Bank of England, London. All Teas sold at this Establishment are of the choicest kinds, warranted e rR. G enuine, selected and t as ted by the moat eminent Tea Ilrok i n T ir he lame - advant age allowed upon Turkey, Java, and West en freem. Sugar s k ept f or t h e P u b l i c. wi th ° unpaid Letters .receiVed, unless containing an Order remittance for .C. 2 and upwards. Inen,",r ! . .essifeetable Person wishes to Sell for this Establish- To w n or Country, a Written Order for any quantity, illi s te lYffig 'the price, with a remittance, will be sent irtnne tariZy, wet) secured In Leaden, Packages. ~i ll)P "lntrnent, Pinch and Co.'s Superfine Durham of it s r i „, re ion'ed by the Nobility for the combined superiority . PonenKfh. flavour, and beautiful colour, at only 2s. per con' Matte up in Lead for the Country, 1660 a, am. • line Strong 'inuchong Tea, superior fine fine4" 4l, :'b'Un. t'chong, is.";' beat ditto, fls. to 10s. ; remarkably ' stn, Ilyson kind, Bs., to os. ; real Hylton, very tine, at h el'f avian, 12s. ; Gunpowder Tea, 13s. ; fine Coffee. a ' vettitLe 411.; best :Purkei Coffee, fid. to fis. No com m on or Teas or Ceffees kept, TO THE PROPRIETORS Ok' EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY being appointed for WEDNESDAY, the 9th • of April next, the favour of your Vote and Interest is requested for the following Gentle men, viz.:— WILLIAM STANJ.EY CLARKE, Esq, • JOHN HITDLESTON, Esq. RICHARD CHICHELEY, PLOWDEN,' Esq. GEORGE ItAIKES, Esq. GEORGE ABERCROMBIE ROBINSON, Esq. JOHN THORNHILL, Esq. Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most humble Servants JAMES PATI'ISON, , WILLIAM WIGRAg, JOSIAS DU PRE ALEXANDER, WILLIAM ASTELL, JOHN BEBB, JACOB -BASANQUET, ROBERT CAMPBELL, JOSEPH COTTON, .LAMES D.ANI ELL, NEIL BENJAMIN EDMONDSTONE, WILLIAM FULLAItTON ELPHINSTONE, CHARLES GRANT, HUGH LINDSAY, . JOHN LOCH, CAMPBELL MARJORIBANKS, CHARLES MILLS, JOHN MORRIS, EDW'A RD PARRY, CHARLES ELTON PRESCOTT, JOHN CiOLOSBOROUGH RAVENSHAW, THOMAS REID, GEORGE SMITH, SWENY TOONE. East India House, March 29, Its 93. TO THE PROPRIETGRS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. Lames AND GENTLEMEN, AVING the honour of being recommended to you by the tnitEurolts of the EAST INDIA COMPANY as CANDIDATES for the DIRECTION, to be chosen this Year, we lake the liberty of retiorslinx the fa vour of your Vote on the Day of Election, Wednesday, the 9th April next. We are, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obedient and tno,t humble Servants, WI LLIA S PANLEY CLARKE, FAq. - JOHN HUDIEsTON, Esti, RICHARD CHICHEIAY &LOWDEN, Esq. (;14:0ROE RAIKES, Esq. GEORGE ABERcItoMBIE ROBINSON, Esq. JOHN THORNHILL, Esq. East Iran House, March 1893. ' ,"' ` , J;.'" -,. 1 774 r7::s!F;Fr.Wi-'.ri7.'":' 1• ', i •1 , ',.,.k. • . 1- ....: ...:, ..: ,•• ~. 4 .. - 'i"p: . Ty - ''-'"';‘; 1 ii * '• ', ", ~. 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I'TM) PARENTS and 'GUARDIANS.—The WIDOW of a PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN, of the most respectable Character ' Is willing to take CHARGE of ONE or TWO YOUNG PERSONS, whose Parents may be deceased or abroad, or of any Lady or Gentleman whose nunds may be affected by age, infirmity, or natural weakness. The Advertiser has always been accustomed to a genteel Establish• mein, and, being of domestic habits, will readily devote her time to the care and com f ort o f any Persons of the above de. scription. Her residence is in an airy part of the town, in the vicinity of Portland place..—N.ll. The use of a Carriage, if the rank and situation of the person may require such an accom. modation.--Letters from real parties, addressed to A. 8., Sun Office, Strand, will be duly attended to. HAYMARKET and—NEIGHBOUItIIOOD. CONSTRAST .DETWEEN THEM ANC;EXT AND PRESEN T STATE. The Haymarket and its neighbourhood, on part of which such magnificent improvements are now carrying forward, it appears, was only partially built on, and that in a very indifferent manner, as late as the reign of Charles 11 1 Colonel Thomas Penton, from whom Panton-street, on this spot, received its name, was one of the first builders who be gan to cover tle site with regular handsome houses, and other wise to improve its It the petition of this gentleman, present ed to the Privy Council soon atter the Fire of London, " rela tive to the plot of ground near the Haymarket, called Penton. square,"" several curious particulars are stated illustrative of the topographical history of that and the adjoining neighbour hood. In this petition It is set forth, " that the petitioner had been at great charge in purchasing a parcell of ground laying at Pickadilly, part of it being the two bowling-greens fronting the Haymarket ; the other part lyni , T on the north of the Tennis Court; upon which severall old 'houses were standing, which the petitioner demolished to improve the same and wake the place more uniform° : in reference to which he had set oat the ground, laid severall foundations, and built part thereof before his Majesty's Prolamation as to building was issued ; and praying permission that he might proceed in his said intended building, according to the draught delivered to his Majesty's Sarveighor-Generall." The matter: of this petition being submitted to the Ding's Surveyor-General, who was to examine and inquire whether (should the request be granted) " the buildings would cure the nnysamenees of the place, and how the ditches and sewers could be kept sweet ; and to report thereon,"---he, on the 24th of May, 1674, returned for answer, " that having reviewed the said place, he found the petitioner`e assertions, as far as be could judge, to he true, and that the design of building shewn to him might be very useful to the publique, especially by open ing a new street from the Haymarket into Leicester-fields; which would in some measure ease the eat passage of the Strand, and wo u ld cure the nonsamen i ess o that part, and, he presumed, might not be unfit for his Majesty's licence, pro vided the said Thomas Panton built regularly, according to direction ! and according to a design to which his said licence migh refer; and that he be obliged to build with brick, with party-walls, with sufficient scantlings, good paving in the streets, and sufficient sewers and conveyances for the water, and other good and reasonable recommendations." Having, in consequence of this report, obtained the Royal permisinon to proceed with his buildings here, Colonel Panton, in a subsequent petition, craved leave " to build and finish certain houses, in continuation of a certain street, named Wind mill-street, from the upper end of the Haymarket, to the high way leading from Soho to Ayre-street and Paddington ; on the east-corner towards the Haymarket, about 100 foot in front; also on the same side, about 200 foot in front, opposite Windmill-yard towards St. Oiles' s on t h e west s id e of Wind mill-street, in the two bowling-greens between the Haymarket and Leicester-fields, and to build " a faire street of good build. between the Haymarket and Hedge-lane (marked in the MS. to be called Fantail-street, after the propneton, and other faire building" fronting the Haymarket, upon the said ground." All of which improvements the Colonel had leave to complete, upon condition of building as before directed, and allowing of no brewhouses, melting-houses, or other noisome trades. Another eminent land proprietor, Sir Malin' Hydolfe, an inhabitant and owner of large estates in St. Giles's parish, pre sented his petition near the same time, praying " that certain buildings erected by him in th e rear o f St. Gilea's ChUrch, leading from thence to Piccadilly, built contrary, but prior to his Majesty's Proclamation, might be finished," who - liltewise ob tained his request, on similar conditions with Col.Penton. And the Surveyor-General himself (Sir Christopher Wren), by way of furthering these improvements, also petitioned the King and Council, as to "divers buildings lately erected, and many foundations laid; and more contrived, in Doe t Field;, Wind mill- and the fields adjoining to Site several other places without the subu r b s of London and Westminster, the builders thereof having no grant nor allowance from the King, and which'had therefore been prohibited and hindered by the petitioner as far as he could. But that, notwithstanding, they proceeded to erect small and mean habitations which wool,' prove only receptacles for the poorer sorts, and ofrensive trades,. to the annoyance of the better inhabitants, the damage of the parishes (already too much burdened with poor), the rendering the Arovernthent of these places more unmanageable, thereat hindrance of perfecting thercity buildings, and others allowed by his Majesty; the choaking up the airof his M ajesty's Palace and Park, and the houses of Nobility.uthe infecting or total loss of the waters, which, by many expenceful drains and conduits, for merly derived from these.fields ' the palace of 'Whitehall and to the Mewes ; a manifest decay of which water, on complaint of his Majesty's serjean t-plu ber, and Office of Works, he, the petitioner, by frequent views and e xp er i men t s h a d lbund." In consequence of this petition, so replete with foresight and good sense, and the check it gave to these sort of buildings, the public now owe the healthy district of Soho and the Hay market. * Amongst other curious statements in the first of these petitions, that respecting the noisomeness of the ditches about the Haymarket appears particularly atriking, seeing it as we now do, open, airy, and covered with line buildings.— This sort of nuisance, however, it seems, was common to vari ous other places in the suburbs Hear this time, and partly ex isted in the metropolis itself; a proof how much we have in creased, amongst other things, over our ancestors, in the article of cleanliness. In a tract printed IBA intitled " Certain Rules, Directions, and Advertisements ns to the Pla gue " ( w hi ch that year rage d violently iu Londou), the author says, " Let not carkasses of horses, dogs, cats, &c. lye rotting and poisoning the aire, as they have done in More and Finsbury 1 fields , -and elsewhere round about the cittie." . . " Let the ditches towards the suburbs, especially towards Islington, . and Pick Hatch, 61de-street, and towards Shore ditch and Whitechapel, be .. well ; and it it might be, the water of the New River to rtinne through theme ; as also the like to be done through the Burrough of Southworke." " Let care be taken that the streetes, especially the narrow lanes and alleys, to be kept from annoyance of dunghills, vaults, or houses of offices; the common sewers and canals be well purged and scoured ; the dung farmers tied to their stint of time in winter, and not sutrerisl (vnlesse vrgent necessitie re quire), to perfume the streetes all summer long, especially at this time of contagion." And a second tract, called " Medula Pestilently'," publish. ed at the beginning of the great plague, year Iti6s, adverting to the same subject, observes— . -." other causes there are of this putrid plague, namely—all sorts of unsavory stenches, proceed ing either from carrion, ditches, rotten dunghills, vaults, sinks, nasty kennels and streets (strewed with all manner of filth) seldom cleansed. These fetid smells are the maintaining cause of the contagion." Another," Reflections on the Bills of Mortality, UM, in stating one supposed cause of the plague, acquaints us still fur ther with the state of the metropolis at that time, and it s de feets,—" that it was incr e a se d by turning Noblemen' s ho uses there to tenements, as the Lord of Winchester's, Alderman Freeman's, and be ]let; the be Mot; the Earl of Arundell's, the Bishop of London' s P a l ace , an d t h e D ean o f Paula, the Lord lliver,'B 3 and Dukes Place." The increase, however, he goes on to nonce, was removing " into' more open and free air ; and the trade from the 'dirty and narrow places in Canning street and Watling•-atreet, to Paul's, Ludgate, and Fleet street; from Bishopsgate and Fenchurch, to the Strand —men avoiding those places that were crammcd with old and dark houses, and building more new and lightsome ones, near and nearer to 11 1 / 4 /trhall, in tt more convenient and healthful ti:r." These removals from the heart of the city, near to Whitehall, account for the " diver buildings lately . erected, and many foundations laid and contrived, in Dog's Fields, • Windmil l Fields, the Fi e ld s a dj o i n i ng S o h o, " &c , stated in Sir Christo pher's petition ; anti acquaints us with the fact of this whole district's beginning to be built on just before the Fire of Lon don. The improvements subsequently made have been noticed, and with those now making, render the -contrast between the ancient and present states of this neignbenrhood more striking. than that of any other spot in town. Of the appearance of the Ilaymarket, Hedge-lane, the site of Coventry.street (formerly called " the waye to %%tinge ;" and the whole Of the adjoining land, before it was arcelled oft into the different fields mentioned, we are furnished with a tol erable representation in the large plan of London, WO. This, with various particulars of the very early state of the spot, has been noticed in a former paper, and need not be•repeated,— Great part of it was then called " Le Won" (the Down,) and used as pasture. Of its marshy nature originally, and inter Section by ditches, evidences were found in digging the foundation f or re b u ildi ng St. Martin's Ch ur ch. O n this occasion a Roman brick arch was discovered at the bottom, laid with a strong cement of un usual composition. In the whole length Of each wall was a duct, nine inches squar e , a n d severa l ot h ers side by side. 'Vida building was below the springs, upon a gravel. Among other antiquities, a brass seal was found In digging near the spot, with a tree and squirrel, and an inscription round it. Gibbs, the architect, mentions likeWae his discovering of laillidoese heads. And Sir Hans Sloane had a glass vase shaped like a bell, which was found ammo; ashes in a stone coffin, taken up in digging up the foundation of the portico of the church, four teen feet under ground. A trench traveller, over here in IG3B (be Scent), speaks of the inunediate vicinity of :it. James' s P a l ace as being then cul tivated and partly built on. " year its- avennet,' says he, "is a large meadow, always green, in which the ladies walk In summer. Its great gate ham a long street in front, reach seemingly joinin g to t h e fields ; al thou igon almost o os ti t ti ot si l t t le or of ld i g t h, is t ,bounded by' houses, and on the other side by the Royal Tennis C ourt . The two gardens of. the Niue, arc bounded by a gr ea t Pa r k , with many walks, all around covered by the shade of an infinite number of oaks, of ancient growth, anti which are impervious to the- rays of the suit." The Tennis Court here mentioned was nrobitbly the same al hided to in Colonel Panton's petition. The bowling-greens at the top of the Ilaymarket, noticed in the same decument, were, a little before that period, great places of fashionable resort.— Sir John Suckling, the poet, was one among the distinguished bowlers hero. Aubrey, in his " Irivek," m e ntions his sisters, whose fortunes he had partly gambled away, " coming to the Peccadillo Bowling Green (which name it was then called by), crying, for feare he should lose all their portions." Elmees Life of Sir C'hristopher Wren. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday evening an Inclust was taken at St. Bartholo mew's tospital on Biunem. , -Ildw.H oo d c h at , 11.1,Shoc lane, Fleet -street, stated, that last Wednesday-week he saw the deceased on the top of a ladder, in Stonecutter -street, cleaning the windows, when the ladder Suddenly gave way, and the deceased was precipitated to the grond ; he was taken up sense. less and conveyed to a surgeon's in Fleet Alarketi and thence he was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Richard Stallbrd, Forrgeon to the Hospital, stated he saw the deceased last Wednesday week ; when brought to the Hospital, he hod a dreadful contusion on the eye, which produced inliamation on the brain, of which he expired on Tuesday last. Verdict._Ac. eillental Death. An Inquisition was taken on Vi r ednestley, at the Golden Lion, Dean-street, Soho, on the body of ~Mrs. Penny Bur. cher, aged tifty-six, who fell dOwn and suddenly ex peed in the street. Mrs. Elizabeth Pinion,. Soho-square, mud that the deceased came to her on Sunday morning, a b out nine o'clock. She observed, that she . , complained much of a pain in her head, and evidently , laboured under an asth. I t t li t:ti b e ed eo , :r w ip h l i a c i h nt s . be l id I; i itt:ess advised her to to and rest on and remained there all the day.— A bout nine o'clock in the evening she went on' to _go home, NVitness accom_panied her, and m going through WardOur street, the fill down on the steps of the door et the Two ),Irewers. Witness called to the landlady, who came, but never expressed any wish to affbrd assistance; and when witness asked for a little water, refused to give it, and said there was n one i n t h e house f 'anti further desired that the deceased might he remov ed; for the should not be b r o ug ht into her Rou sts . A yottng man passeti byet the time assisted i n supporting the deceased, and sent fur a surgeon ; hilt b e f ore h e cou ld arr i ve the vital spark had fled.-- -' Thomas Illin c hi n t on , No. I, Sloane-street, Chelsea, corroborated the aforesaid testimony, adding, that his attention was first drawn by 'the crowd of spectators. Ile sent for the beadle, and she (deceased) removed to the Golden Li0n..... After a short address from the Coroner, the Jury returned a ver dict—" Died by the Visitation of Gad." An Inquest him been held before the Coroner for Kent, at the Red Lion Inn, Shooter's-hill, on the body of Cecile Jiletn Duvel t a French Lady, who died on Monday last , at the abo ve piece, in consequence of the dreadful injury she had received by the upsetting of the Swallow Dover coech, the pertioulare of which accident have -been already inserted In Tux Sox. Jt appearing that the melancholy occurrence was accidental, the Jury returned a verdict accordingly. - CItA %/ATI A NA. There are some works of Rush pre-eminent im portance that they do not reqnire the aid of our labours to draw the public attention to them; their title alone is sufficient to ensure them suc cess. Of this number is the Craratiana, or a General Treatise on Cravats, their origin, their po litical, physical, and moral influence, their forms, their colours, their species. It may be said that, after having made known to our readers the ap pearance of such a book, our task is accom plished ; that any observation would be useless, and all praise superfluous. As to Criticism, would caution it to' be silent; for who would dare to find fault with the Cravationa. The Author first treats on the origin of cravats, which, according to him, is very annent. Cravats; if we are to believe him, were worn soon after the deluge; but does he not go back a little too far ? Is it admissible to take the collars of the Assy rians for cravats ?. Though this opinioil is enter tained by many learned men, I cannot accede to it ; since there are strong reagons for believing that cravats are of more recent origin, and that they were not known either to the Assyrians or to the antient Persians. lam also very sorry for the Greeks, for they have no claim to the honour of this discovery. We are indebted to the Romans for the invention, hut to their shame be it remarked, they did not see all the advantages that might have been derived from it ; for these Romans, I say it without meaning any oll'ence to their admirera, remained a long time ignorant of many important things. Would you believe it that they took five or six centuries in learning how to put on their cravats? We ought not, however, to be much surprized at it when we consider how wretchedly ill their women dressed their'heads ; it excites our pity, but, perhaps, we ought to lay the blame on their form of government, for a Re public is no great friend to the toilette. Every person has a peculiar modo ,of vie wing things. Some philosophers imagine that the countenance betrays the most secret thoughts of the mind, and so firmly. do they believe it,. that they do not hesitate to pronounce an honest man a rogue merely on account of his physiognomy, without waiting for more ample proofs, Others see the bottom of the heart by feeling the skull, or, ac cording to them, every propensity, good or bad, is manifested by certain external bumps or or. gaps. As to our Author, " it is simply by study ing cravats that he has acquired a knowledge of man:" this mode of observation seems to me as good as some others, still I think that he at taches too much importance to it. No person will believe him when he says that " the cravat is the whole man ;" whilst, if he had wisely been content with remarking that it was a great part of man, all enlightened minds would have been of his Opinion. Let us not, therefore, seek in the folds of a cravat for more' than we can reasonably hope to find, fly such exaggerations do we w ea ken our arguments. 64 What portion of the toilette is best cairn , lilted to establish a most decided difference be tween the gentleman and the shopkeeper ?" This question, which does not, au some superficial spirits might suppose, interel only the toilette, but also very wilily concerns the higher brunch of politics, has been, to the Author of the Gra. vatiana, the subject of ory long and serious me ditation, nod he confidently hopes that his work affords an answer to it : butt am convinced that he is mistaken. It seems to me demonstrated, thanks to the present state of our manners, that the problem which has occupied so much of his tune is incapable of being resolved. In league with the spirit of the age, and of our institutions, Fashion delights in confounding all ranks, levelling all conditions, and effacing all external distinctions. Society resembles a masked ball ; no person can there be recognized. Let a Noble Duke, a Marquis, an Earl, a Viscount, a Baron, appear in the Park on a Sunday, the most experienced eye cannot distinguish him from his tailor or his shoemaker. Their dress is as studied as that of his Lordship ; they have the air of men comme ilfaul ; and to render time illu sion more complete, they discourse very learned. ly on politics, and even quote Lord Byron and Walter Scott. The time is gone by when every person was habited according to his rank in society Every body now dresses according to his own boomer, and may wear a long waisted coat, illaoreluke trowst-rs, a waistcoat with a standing collar hooked close up Me chin, and a Cloak tilo Nina. This anarchy in the toilette is, I confess, a great scandal, which afflicts me as much as it does the Author of the Cram/lona. I ft-el like him thut it is very desirable there should be an end put to it. If we were "to Create a cos. tume which should re-establish social distinc. tions," we should at least then know whom we were addressing. But the evil has made such progress that it is scarcely possible to remedy it. In vain are we told that the art is difficult, that it' requires time and pains, that "it is not the work of is day to know how to put On a cravat, and that it is even daily the occupation of save.. gal hours." Every dif f iculty will soon be over come by the vanity and the pride of the lower elasses ; and, perhaps without wishing it, the Author himself has facilitated the means of ac quiring this att. By following the rules laid down in his Treatise, every cravat will now' be put on w ith the same elegance, the same taste, and we shall relapse into the same confusion. A recent instance ought to have convinced him of the inutility of his efforts. When highly *torched cravats were first introduced, wo all thought, and so did our Author, that they would only be worn by certain classes, and that they PRICE SEV EN P tINCF. ould serve to distinguish the gentleman from the shopman ; but, contrary to our expectations, before the end of a week these stiff cravats be came general. The Author may endeavour to found his soda' hierarchy on the difference of cravats, but, for my part I despair. With respect to the advantages that the art of the toilette ought to derive from the CravaiLna, they are incontestable. The Author explains to you fourteen modes of wending the cravat, two or three of which are of his own invention. I know the merit of these discoveries will be lost on moo of learning and science, or those who wish to pass for such. The Author, however, will ob. tarn more honourable suffrages ; he has written to please men of fashion, and he may rely on their gratitude. Indeed, it would not surprise me if they were to present him with a Cravat of Honour. C. THE DUKE D'ANGOULEME. GRAND REVIEW O 1 TRoors 11Y .1.113 ROYAL hIGIIXER. Evtrart qf a Letfier,from Perpignan, March 24.. Although the weather was notaitogether fine, the mad from Perpignan to Canet was early, in the morning of yesterday, thronged with carriages and passengers, on foot and on hone. back. Not only the villages near Canet were deserted, but a considerable number of persons from more distant parts, as Prate de Mollo, Ceret, &c., resorted with the greatest earnest• items to witness the grand review. The troops h av i ng assem bl e d on the plain (plaga) of Cane about ten o'clock, were formed in line of battle to wait the arrival of his R o y a l Hi g h ness the Duke of A ngotleme. They were composed of two battalions 'of the 7th regiment of the line, two of the 111th, two of the 20th, one of the 32d, one of the 60th, and another of the fish, also or the 18th and 23d mounted, chasscurs, to which are joined the two squadrons newly arrived from Careassone, and of 250 foot and 00 horse artillery, with Iso soldiers of the train. The whole of these forces amounted pro bably to' 0,000 men. His Royal Highness left Perpignan at eleven o'clock with Marshal Monecy. As soon as he arrived on the plain he rode along the line, and the troops were then quickly ordered to form a square.,, in the, midst of which stood an Altar. It was hn imposing spectacle to. witness the Prince , assisting at the religious eeremonicti in an immense plain, stir. rounded with 6,000 soldiers, and an almost equal number of spectators, penetrated with one sentiment of pious devotion. " After 11Ma the regiments performed some mancruvres, and tiled off before his Royal Highness with cries of Noe k and Vive k Dec d'Angoulboe. Several of the officers and sol diers, abandoning themselves to their enthusiasm, manifested, by reiterated exclamations, their joy at the presence of a Bourbon Prince. The truth is, the Cottnt Curial had, in the order of the day, allowed of some relaxation of discipline on this occasion, , The Prince returned to Perpignan at half-past three o'clock. Although Marshal Moncey was present, it was Count Curial who commanded. The Baron d'Eroles and his stair were near,the person of the Prince. The cannon an nounced to us to-day, at half-past nine o'clock, the departure of his Royal Highness for Toulouse. " All the troops returned this morning to their cantonments. 'rho two titiedrons or mounted ebasseurs from Coreassone are united to two regiments in this department, and will form the Ist squadron. The troops which tbrrnerly were No. 1. will now be No. 2., and No. 4. will be No. O. No couriers from Spain." TontoneE, Mancti 27.—•. The T)uke of Angoultme, who has returned fturn Perpignan, la to depart this day, at twelve o'clock, for Bayonne. CAMBRIDGE, Arm 3: Thp cPlebrated Mr. BEr4oNr, who &Nerved! y holds the first rank among the most enterprising of it elein tea, Yellers, has preiented to the Fitzwilliarn :Museum the lid of it Sarcophagus, found by hint in one of th e tom b s of the King* at Thebes, in Upper Egypt. This interesting relic of antiquity arrived here on Monday, and after considerable difficulty (its weight being upwards of three tons) was placed in the court of the Museum. It was brought to England with the rest of the Egyptian - mointmenta, which Mr. Salt, his Ma. , jefity`a Consul at Cairo, was enabled t o collect, principally through the zeal and ingenuity of Mr. Belzoni, and depo. sited in the entrance court of the British Museum, from whence it was removed by the Rev. O. A. Browne, last week, by virtue of an order from Mr. Belzoni. The 14111 i) is compoicil of a single,block of red granite; its length when entire exceeds* probably ten feet, its breadth is about five feet. The Sur- IN WC are informed. ily wiall that its fin a l f i e n p i l ts tag w t o t s y i f t s r e o l n f i , i t ;; i s t y w p h t i , c h a n t d h l i s f t w ic e ! o h n v g u a rt , destination may be the same. The Museum would then pos. semi an admirable counterpart to the splendid present it recetvi from Alessi% Waddington and lianbury,—we allud e to t h e mummy, which, together with its ease, is one of the most per feet and beautifill that can be fpund in any known collection, —.On the surface of this granite lid, executed with unccui. men spirit, and in fine relief, repo. es the effigy of the trio. tiara, whose remains were pl a c e d i n the Sitropitagus self. The figure is perfect, with the exception or the lege, which are Mutilated. On either side of the linag.e (within whose bends are tin emblems which Osiris constantly carries) appears tho profit; of female figure, whose hands lOtleh the hotly. On a 'line with these figures, we can clearly trace the Egyptian snake, that invariable companion of all the ir m y st i c and sepulchral processions , as we behold theta represented in the plates to Belz o ni' m v o l ume; whilst a snake of uncommon size encircles . nearly the whole of the slab. Several hicroijly. Odes arc very visibly and distinctly carved on the rim ; atx to the reader's of hieroglyphics we must look for Information a regard to the name of the monarch, whose effigy is here repre wilted ; nor indeed do we despair in this respect, since very ex traordittury discoveries t owar d s the decypftering of Egyptian inscriptions have been lately made by Doctor Young and ethers, but more especially by an ingenious Frenchman, named Champollion, who has addressed a letter on this tstihj,;,et, to the Secretary of the French Academy, in which he has de veloped his plan, and has apparently established almost an en tire alphabet of the sacerdotal characters in Egyptian inscrip tions. Mr. Champollion, we are informed, reads with fa cility the mysterious writings on the wills of the tomb of Rimini. (or rather of Petosiris), which Belzoni constructed at 'Paris, and explains them with great fluency. A fae-sii mile is taking of the hieroglyphics in question, and as they are extremely distinct ' and are occasionelly'contei led in a eort of cylinder, or as it is it at I by Chittopoill, rt i 4 011010444' which was always the MSC *llO a profier 4 , 444 intoned,. it is far from improbable that sometlitog more than Conjecture may be obtained th.regerd to the name of vie royal occupant of the Sarcophagus. WC cannot close this par.igralli without expressing our sincere hope that Mr. Belzoni, in the arduous Journey upon which h e is now emb ar ki ng , may meet with similar success to what has clowned his former eftbrtit. No one certainly more fully tlemaiiiis anti deserves n trust` n the dial or pt e l s onti eteryilt e yierincemitultioritaii,gvee:iteftntehtigtofr well earnedteo.tithtetimen an , exped y , übli find army firlit moment, both in regard to the extension of knowledge and to the benefit of manitind.—(Ceeittifike (-'hreakie.,)