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entirely composed of soldiers raised in Lithmatia. Volhinyea, Padolio, or the Polish provinces, in corporated with the Russian "Empire. In return, r egiments of RusSian soldiors from the interior have been detached from the banks of the Da tube, to the Polish frontiers. Polish' troops are employed in preference, in* General Kuiusow's army, but notwithstanding these reinforcements, his army has suffered a considerable reduction. The active army does not exceed 50,000 men, and Including the garrisons of the strong places, .the k'liole of General Kutusow's army at the very lit tlest, does not amount to more than 70,000 men. p ro eoinplete the regiments, many recruits are raised among the Greeks of Wallachia, Bessarabia, giiid Moldavia. General Kutusow has entrusted the command of the troops stationed opposite Rudschuck, and in part concentrated near Giurgewo, to General Langeron. General Marcow still commands in Lesser Wal tcina. General Essen . has hitherto had the vornmand of the left wing, but his speedy depar ture for Lithuania has been announced. It is supposed Marcow will take the command of the left wing of the army, and General Sass resume that of the corps d'armee in Lesser Wal lachia ; his revuest to return to Russia has not been granted. General Kutusow is still et Bu charest, but as his head-quarterslaVe been trans ferred to Brailow, • it is supposed he will shortly proceed thither. The Turkish Plenipotentia_ies have- not yet ?eft 'Bucharest. The Grand Vizier's army remains on the side of Schumla, and is to receive large'rein forcernent. VIEIINA, MAY 9.—On the 7th, there was a con ference of the Council of State ; it is supposed the principal object of this conference wad, the formation of a new corps of reserve, the command of Which would be confided to Prince. Hohen zollern. BOURDEAUX, MAY 14.—T0-day, in presence of all the authorities of the town, the Temple which the Jews hare had constructed for the ex cise of their religion., was , clianlnly inaugurated. Tire THEATRE.—The illountaincers was repre vented last night at the Hal - market Theatre, and Mr. SALTER made..his first appearance in the par t of Octavian. As this part was pUrposely *ritten for the chief tragedian of the age, and Il aspeeuliarly adapted to his powers, every suc essur must of coulle labour under great disad vantage. We cannot give a very favourable ac - eount of Mr. S. even without any consiaeration of °lnparative merit. His person is tolerable, but his fae4 is not capable of much expresSion. There is an I nequality in his voice, some of his tones being /i e-ry strong, and others very feeble. In an inferior lank he niay'be found a useful actor, but he does 11 , 1 0 t seem qu alifi e d f o r -th e hi g h er range o f th e Pima. A Mrs. DALTON also carne forward, for the first time, in the part of . Fioranthe. Her /lesson altogether - is rather interesting, aiid she Il eetned to play with feeling, but was much too redundant in her action, p a rtiCularly in' the use of i -er arms. Mr. GRANT made a respectable stand 111 Roque. MrS. ILitAi4s was the Agnes, but * le seemed to have r s little conception of the part 4 : 4 , of the proper manner of dressing it; for instead ppearing life a Moorish; Girl, she was attired 4( e a Bond-street Belie., The play altogether was Veil received. . ACADEMY.—We 'regret that we have so little opportunity of attending to the Ex ') oition this year, as it contains many works that. d eserv e a very commendatory notice. • No. 6.—The Rev. Dr. BELL. W. Owt?:, R. A. t This picture we noticed 'before, and we recur it with pleasure not/only as it is a work of Feat merit, but. as it' represents ' a Gentleman a glose character entitles him to the highest re= pt. It is a portrait of Dr. Bell, to whom the eblic are indebted for the introduction of a new: request of Education, and it was painted at the i i e gLiest of his Indian Pupils.—lt is certainly one of tti l best works that ever carrie from the pencil of to lt' ingenious artist. .The likeness is exact; the th ° l iring is natural and vivid,, and the whole. is aracterised by force and spirit. I N - 0. Ilamptoh.l s . A. W. - CALcolr'r, R. A. Caicott is one of our best Landscape '6 lll trs, which is 'saying much in his favour.— l a the is great spirit in, this picture, with . , more iety than the subject seemed to admit. -- There freedom of touch through the whole. 45.—View in Tabley Park, Chegiire. H. TnomsoN, R. A. I, l his is th e fi rs t wor k i n th e p rov i nce ' o f mere Tosca e which we have seen from the hand of r- Thomson, and it is so excellent, that we sho uld Wish to see him devote his attention to that .ti r° vince, if h e did no t p ossess so muc h mer it i n s lat of portrait, and subjects of a poetical de . al t . l iption. W e t hi n k , h owever, t h at h e h as b een N/ 1)() sed, in some parts, to imitate the style of, z.. Turner,, an admirable painter, whose style b rid be a proper model for an arti s t o f p ower s t : °W that of Mr. Thomson. The -whole, how t,_er? bea rs a n or i g i na l sp i rit, and an air of na , 0 7, and may, b e cons id ere d as a work of extra= hi merit, without any consideration of the gh Powers of th e i n g en i ous ar ti s t i n ot h er de 'artulents. f op l 'c'rty prisone rs h ave b een se l ecte d at L ancaster rial, and t wen ty-five at Chester. Dania( Isa ac Eaton, for publishing .a part of tiki 1 / 1 " Paine's works, is to stand in the pillory s day Stlitlttsir CCiCNTI 7 AItETING, ASSASSINATION OF M PZIICE :'.'_L. A Requisition baying been presented to the High Sheriff of the County of Surrey, 7 . - IF a great number of Noblemen and .Cientieu, , ,:‘,. ft; convening aMeeting'to address the Prin;:at on the : atrocious r6urder of the Right Iloilo t. role Spencer Perceval, the Meeting was held yez;.-.fday at the Spread Eagle, Epsom. Soon after one o'clock there was a very full at attendance of the most distinguished Tenons in the County. Among those present, we observed the Duke'of Norfolk, the Earl of Roches, Lord Viscount Cranley, Sir John Prederick, Sir Thos. Turton, Messrs; H. and R. Thornton, Mr, lio!me S'uniner, Bz.e. The HIGHSHERIFF Statetityßequisitism andthe object of the Meeting, and hoped that the subject would be impartially ( and fairly considered, and that every Gentleman would 'receive a patient hearing. lAA Viscount. CRANLEY then came forward to propose an Address upon the subject. The Noble Lord ,observed, that. the Meeting was assembled for the :purpose of shaping an Address to his - Royal Highness the Prince Regent, expressing their regret 'at the late ,melancholy catastronhe. He had attended a Meeting upon the same sib-, ject in London, at which an Address had been proposed and adopted, so, framed as to meet, the ideas of all present, whatever was.. their political bias. A paper. of that description he now held in his hand ; it had been shown to ( a Noble Per son present, (the puke 'of Norfolk) who approv ed of it entirety, and he trusted itj Would meet the approval of the Meeting also. lie had to observe; that the Address was to have been moved by Mr. Howard, and to have been seconded by Sir. Yoseph l'4awhey, but from unadvoidable causes those Gentlemen could not attend ; the, task therefore had fallen upon him and his Noble Friend, the Earl of Rot„hes. The Noble Lord then read the • Address, which of course was expressive -of the loss which the country had sustained,. and con doling his Highness upon that loss. To this Address the Noble Lord hoped there would be no objection. The Earl of ROTHES seconded the Address e and regretted, as the Noble Mover had,observed, that the task had not fallen into abler hands. There was, however,' little to be said upon the subject, for the Address seemed to be so very upbjection able, that he thought it would meet 'the unani mous approbation of the meeting., There could be but one opinion of the private character and virtues of the late lamented Mr, Perceval ; and the attrocity of the crime which deprived the world,of his abilities, must excite the abhorrence of every person in the empire. The Address was then read by the High Sheriff, Mr. R. TITORNTON, M. P. could not avoid'ex pressing the high gratification which he felt at the unanimity iviiich pervaded this most respectable and numerous meeting. It was what he had ex pected from .the county. At the same time that he congratulated them on that unanimity, he could not but sinc,erely, lamer:. the loss of a man like Mr. Perceval, whOse private virtues' had called forth so strong and universal an expression of the public fettling. In calling forth that feeling, it was ob servable that there was no description of ptnone, whatever were their politics, but lamented his. loss.. With-respect to the crime which had deprived _tie country of his services, ,for an individual like the culprit to take vengeance for his wrongs (if, as he supposed, 'they were wrongs) into his own hands, was a principleeso dangerous to the well being of civilized ,soeiety; as could not be too strongly reprobated. But the very satisfactory letter . of,Lord Leveson Gower ; the British Ambassador at the court of RuSsia, had removed all doubts of those . wrongs. The' injuries, of which the culprit complained, had occurred' in consequence of. a private debt which he owed. That debt, which he 'resisted the payment of, was referred to the "arbitration of four persons; two of them English : men, and two Russians, and they aWarded it to , be .due;', for the non-payment of that debt the culprit was imprisoned. Upon representation to the British ArnbaSsador that a British subject was. aggrieved, he interfered; and though the matter was of a private nature, yet, by his kind ness, the culprit was liberated, and came home; and then, 'though it appeared that the Governs ment had nothing to do with his supposed wrongs, he. wished them to ; take them up on public grounds; they could not interfere . ; and then he committed that act which was so abhorrent to the nature of t ngliShrnen, and of which there was but one opinion and one sentiment. After con gratulating the Meeting'upon the unanimity which • was apparent, he said he should not touch on any' subject which might disturb that unanimity, and excite a discordance- of . opinion. The present, hoWever, was a crisis of great public moment, to which the public attention was naturally and anxiously directed, he trusted 'and hoped that the result of the measures now on foot would lead not only to the permanent happiness and tranqui lity of this country, . but of the empire at large. At all times he should be proud to obey their wishes. On the question being put, Sir THOMAS TURTON expressed his. cordial ap probation of the address. No man could more sincerely participate in the regrets which it con tained. But having for Several years acted in po litical opposition to Mr-Perceval, he might be allowed to say, that to the moment of the death of his lamented departed friend, he had felt the. utmost personal attachment for him. The situa tion of the country had been truly stated by Mr. Thornton—a situation which required the great talents of Mr. Perceval—his loss was therefore to be deplored in a public point of view, for the loss of such a man was indeed a loss to the country ! Mr. H. ,THORNTON, M. P. Sympathised with those Gentlemen who had preceded 'him, in the loss which the country had sustained. , He was happy to state that the crime was committed by 'an insulated individual, unconnected with any other pers?n, or attached to any party. All par- . ties had agreed in expressing their abhorrence of the crime, andiu'sheaving their discountenance of any 'violation of the law. The . Address was then put, and carried mously. It was thee proposed, that the High Sheriff, attendert by the Alembpirs for. the County, and other Gentlemen, do present the saine 'to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.—Ordered. Tim 'llimks of. the Meeting were then voted to thb iii h Sheriff', who returned Ids acknow ieth;nient.i. „ . .. . ore difficulty arose as to the time and luariner ..,),f. In*entiiig • the Andress. - - - T hn"N e nuke of oRFOLK ..observed, that the nc nessiiry form was fox those persons appointed to pr6ent au Address - to attend ,the Lever':;; and in quire of the Lord in Waiting, ;*-lien his Royal .}..T.Wiines.s :would be pleased to receive the Address. After some 'observations from Mr. li.,Sumner,, Mr., R. TIIORNTON observed, that he would make the necessary inquiries, and inform the She r i ll' and the Gentlenien of the time when. the Ad d ess could be received, and .then he should be happy to see them at his hotve to go up with it. The Meeting was then adjourned. /Yesterday morning Lord ELDON and the Earl of LIVERPOOL had audiences of the PRINCE RE GENT at _Carlton House.• A little before font* o'clock, the Marquis WELLESLEY arrived at Carl ton House, and' had an interview with the PRINCE REGENT fOr near two hours. Mr. CANNING ar rived about six o'clock, having been sent for, and had ;in interview with the PRINCE 'REGENT for a considerable time. Yesterday forenoon Mr. ,CANI4ING had a 13ng interview with the i‘larquis AVELLESLEE:, at A'ps ley House. the. PRINCE . REG - F3.:T Of POIITUGAL has- con— derred the honour of the Order of the Sword and the'TOWer, oa Marshal BERESVOT.O3 On Saturday the Earl of BUCKINGITAMSHIETZ i'as sworn in as Chancellor of the Duichy of LANCASTER; in the room of the late Mr. PERCE. VAL. The reason assigned for this is, the pre ceptscito summon a jury and witnesses foeetheriat of the rioters could not issue Witheut the Chan ce-tic-Ws fiat. We. presuine, therefore, , that this appointment is merely of a temporary nature.. The Times of tbis morning contains the follow ing paragraph e--,-We have heard that the' Author of the threatening letter, for whose discovery a thousand pounds were lately offered in the Gazette, has come forward.. We do not pretend to ascer tain the motives which could' have induced, the dealer in this haeardous and lofty correspondence, to make "iasenrance, double sure," and save him self from alLtrouble of evading Ministerial and Princely Indignation. It has been. said, that the offer of the I'oool, was too tempting for his4ove of privacy ; and that he came forward like the libeller On Sextua the sth, to receive the reward of hi§Own discovery. We hope, however, the Pope's ex-, ample will not be followed in the present instance, and that the offender will be let 'loose unmulcted either of his tongue or his fingers. He turns out to be the person who has so long persecuted the Duke of Norfolk by claims on the title.; and is, -as we conceive, obviously not a suitable 'subject for any species of punishment: There is, however, a more reasonable account of the detection. A few days since, shortly after the threatening letter was received at Carlton House, this Mr. H. called at JefferY's, the bookseller, in Pall Mall, and begged of him to stop a letter, addressed to, the Prince Regent, and which was then in the. Ge neral Post Office boX, in the window. He was, of course, told, that his request could not be complied with. Yesterday it occurred to Mr. Jef fery to conannuticate this ciecurastanceto Colonel Bleotinield; and fab discovery followed. The CartWe Journil, received yesterday, states that tumult and disorder at patseat prevail in that neighbourhood;: and to - a greater extent than at any time sinie the disturbances first broke out. — It then procee,eda to enumerate. a' variety of sjnce the I.sth e 'on Which day. the corn -mill at Menkhill, near that city was broken into, and plunlered by a number of persOns. Eyenethe aSyliim of the poor is not spared by these offeit ders;—On 'Monday night. the wOrkhouse of St. Cuthbert's paristi;.at Harrawby Hill, was enter'd by one of the windows, nud e a quantity of bacon and hams taken away. , The Leeds Mercury says, the arms--stealing system still prevails in the vici-, nityiof Haddersfield ;; but we have . not heard of any fresh outrages in Lancashire. Ensign Madden, of the 30th Regiment, was assaulted at Leeds, on Thurs e day eventing, by three men, emeOf whOm slightly' wounded him with a sword in the thigh. . . ' At ,a Regimental Court-martial of the Ist Regi .ment of OXfordshire Local Militia, three privates were sentenced and committed to Oxford Gaol, one for twenty days, and the other two for four teen days each, for ab§ j enting themselves from the assembly of their regiment on the 2nd of May, and not joining.till brought by a serjeaut's escort on the Bth instant :, and. agreeably to the 45th sec. of the 52d Geo 111. c. 38, those men so imprisoned forfeit all their past services; and are compellable to serve the full period of four years in the Local Militia, after the expiration of such impiisonment. Genius is shewn only by:invention. That the , Contractors for the, present Lottery have a fair claim to the possession of it; will not be disputed, when it is seen, that although their Scheme con sists_but of 3,000 Tickets, yet they have managed to give Prizes of 20,0001. 10,0001. 5,0001..3,0001. '2,0001. 1,0001. Bte. tizc. &c. Many a person will haVe cause to appland their genius on the 4th of June, A Gentleman of the name of Pall undertobk on Satuiday, for a wager of one hundred guineas; to go on foot from the fop of Oxford-street to Bea consfield, twenty-lbur miles, in three hours. He did eight miles and a quarter the first hour, and. herformed sixteen miles .at the expiration of two ours, but he was.heat out of time in the next mile and resigned on the . London side of Gerrard's Cross in a very exhausted state. Yesterday being Trinity Monday, the Cerpo ration of Trinity 'House held their Anniversary Meeting, and proceeded in barges to their Hall at Deptford, where the Right Honourable Earl CAMDEN wa,s nuatimonsly re-elected Master for the ensuing year ; and after attending Divine Service at' the Clinic') of St. Nicholas, where an excellent Sermon was preached by the Very Rev. the Dean' of. 'Windsor, they returned td dinner at the City of London Tavern, where were pre sent many Nobility, AdnaiTals, and persons of distinction.. ' " - OzroaD, MAY 23.—0 n Tuesday laS were adjudged to the following Geutlemen :h: Fri es The Chancellor's Prizes. : Latin Essay—" Xenephottis res bellias, bus ipse interfuit, narrantis turn Co...Sare cempa ratio "—to Mr. John Keble, B. A. late',Sc'.•.•.:l-,r of Corpus Christi College, and now Fello , v of Oriel College. :English Essvy—" On trrnslation from Dead Languages"—te the same Gentleman: Latin Verse—" Colonal) Anglia ad Amtri.:_•,azi inissi "—to I,Fr. Henry Latham, undergraduate c Br.azeu-zioie Sir Roger Neted4ate's Prize. English Verse---“ Apollo Beividere'--410 Mr. ' Henry. Milman, under graduate of Braten-nose College. On Wednesday, the first day of Art Term, one gentlenian was admitted to the-degree of 8.C.L.; thirteen to the degree of M.A.; and twenty-one to the degree of B. A. On Thursday, tWo others were admitted to the degree of M.A. CAMBRIIIGE i MAY 22.:---The . gel , . J. Davie, Master of Sidney . Sussex College, wds on. Wed nesday admitted Doctor in Divinity. The Rev, FL Boulton, of St. John's College, was on the same day admitted Bachelor in Civil Law. And Mr. T. Hateli, of King'S C.ollege ' • Mr. n. Tiaey, of Queen's College; J. Gordon, Esq. of St. John's Ciillege 3 Ri f Halton, Esq. an Mr. J. Paley, of Magdalett—were admitted Bachelors of Arts. EDMOND MALONE, ESQ.—The friends of litera ti:tie and private worth, 'end particularly the ad.- our great dramatic Bard, still join with uS in sincere re?-ret at, the death of this gentle man, which took 'place yesterday morning at his house iii Foley-place. Few men 'enjoyed hnlth less interrupted than Mr. Malone,' until the vt;'..l powers suddenly lost their tone; and, from t'ce early symptom-, ,liis,friends 'were not allowed to de ceiVe themselves with any expectations oftccovcry. He had the consolation of shis sister's affectionate assiduities in his last moMents, and the anxio:ll inquiries of alcing list -of 'illustrious friends. ' Mr. Malone had the great happiness to live with the Most distinguished characters of his time ; he seas united in 'the closest intimacy with Dr., Johnson, Mr. Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Chariq mont, and the other members cf a soci:rty, which for various talent and virtue can never be sup- Inirers passed. • • , Mr., Malone is best knoTji to the world by the distinction upon which he most prided himself, his association with the name of Shr.kespeare.— Like Mr. Stevens; be devoted his life and-his for. tune to the task of making the great Bard better understood by his countrymen. As kn editor this is the peculiar fame of /Edmond Malone, that he could subdue• the temptations to display his cams wisdom or wit, and consider only the integrity of his author's text. For,rnany years, 'Shakespeare's page was the sport of innovation and men, who knew nothing of the ancient language of their country, suggested as arnendinents of a corrupt text, phra seology that the father of the British Drama ne ver could have written. 'Mr. Malone, still more pertinaciously than Mr. 'Steevens, adhered to the ancient copies. To obtain them was the great effort -of his life, and a large part of his very derate fortune was devoted to purchases, to him of the first necessity, to many collectors, of idle curiosity. - The library of Mr. Malone was acces sible to every scholar, and in any difficulty his sa gacity and experience were received, and grate fully acknowledged by.men themselves of profOund The' last article which he printed was a sketch of his friend. Windham's character, and he distri buted it privately among his acquaintance .---Since the year 1/90, 'he had been Ze;dously continuing those,laboiirs; Which in' that year produced his edition of Shalispeares Plays and Poems; Had a he .lied to carry a second edition through the press, :the world'wculd have received a large ac cession to; its knowledge - of Shakspeare. From the careful habit Which he had of entering- every new acquisition in its proper place, and the ac• curate references, which he made to the t;ources of his information," we should apprehend there will be little difficulty in the carrying this design into effect; With such a stack of materials as perhaps no otiler 'Man than Mr. Malone could have Collected; the executor of his critical will can have only -a.`delightful task. Mr. Malone died unmarricct He.wa.s the bro ther of ,Lord Sunderlin; and, had he survived his Lordship, would have succeeded to the title, the remainder being in only remains to' notice the moral qualities of this lamented charac ter: Few men ever possessed greater command of teniper ;• it characterized. his,virtues 5 . they were all Of the gentle, yet steady kind. To form new friend ships could hardly be ?expected from one who had survived the most distinguished ornaments of the werids; but they left their priiicipleS to him as a le gacy; and hdnever lost an cpportunityof stigmatisi ng the innovators, who, tinder the pretence of reform ing, were really debasing the oh.3racter of the'c onn try : this erigendered. a knot of enmities, which tried to , annoy him by daring falsehood and dull ridicule.. His reputation as a critic 'will vindicate a man, he needs no -vindication. Dr. B. E. r3PARRE, now Bishop of Chester, i 3 gazeMa' irr the usual form Bishop of ELY, the room . of Dr. DAMPIER, the late Bishop, de', Ceased. The . Rev. Dr.. DIITRIcS, who was native of France, but who had for a long period resided in this county, and enjoyed a large benefice, with however, a very scanty knowledge of the language, died on Saturday, in the 84th year of his, age. The Druid-frigatt, Capt. SEARLE ) has sailed frOm Alexandria for Tangiers, conveying to the latter'place the Emperor of Morocco's son, who has performed the pilgrimage to Mecca. Mr. Thomas Turner, of the Stock Exchang, was killed . on Sunday by a fall from his horse. Ile had dined AN)ith'a friend, and' wasA turning home in the evening, when it is supposed that his horse threw him, and dragged him in the stirrup, for he was found on the road with his skull fractured, and died the next day. 4 Phew . mentnz.—There is at a farm-house, near the Abbey Town, Holm Cultram, a bird of the thick species, that every other year changes its outward appe':irance as to Its sex, one year being feathered as a duck, the other as' a drake. , • 9,50