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V - illt U l. 4 , tY ' r ~. *, • i Tut'sd a v. - 31, LONDON. COUNTRY. NS. 492. Saturday, February 1, LONDON. N O . 173. ConNTRY. IRELAND. • 111.0 ridaY, Jan. 27, Conx. No. 27. Friday, 0 * • NORTHUMBERLAND. • MASONIC FEsTlvar..—llis Majesty King GEORGE the , Fourth, Grand Patron—His Royal Highness Prince AU GUSTUS - FIMPERICK Duke of S,ussrx, Grand Master. • NEWCASTLE-UPON-TY-NE LUDGI7,, No. 26. , • Notice is hereby given to the Fraternity, that the above Lodge will be duly congregated at Freemasons' Hall, on Monday the 7th instant, to celebrate the Birth-Day of his Royal Highness the . -Du RE or Sualix, Most 'Worshipful Grand Muster, and to instal .Officer' for the ensuing year, when the Worshipful Master, Officeri, and •Brtitlirm lit ryuest to be hono ure d w i t h the , • presence of as 'any lifaster.. • asokt of the - neighbouring' Lodges as can cont , eide.ntly'atecin . The Lodge will be opened • . precisely at one O'Clok., l the Ifiethren will afterwards dine • together at Brother,(l.-Y. ftiChardion's, - Three Indian Kings, Quayside. Dinnerim the table at Three o'clock. - • '• • By Order of • • Sir Charles Loraine, Ban. W.M. . • •111 R4Ns• • - • • -Tieltets Od. each, to be had at the Bar. uli, Sec. Freemasons' Hall, 15th ,Tan. 1223. For TERI' . PRICE 0: TIITS 1).%.Y AT :k Mink Stock . • 2431 244 3 wr Cent. Red. 7814 3 Vet Cent. Cony.' ... 77 , 36 pet C ent 9Ol A { Old W, y ; 4 per Cent. New 971 93 ti z)N• tent,s. 1797 t .. . ' Ban!: Long Ann. ........ ...... 201 insp. 3 per cenp. ............ -- irs, see our Fourth Page. E STOC KS ONF: cr•cltmc India Stock • India Bonds • - 395. 411;:. South Sea Stock Old. Annuities 1;)G Bills II 1114.)r, Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. • Cons. for Account 77 • • :24 • )TICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, JAN; 01 AT ONF, O'CLOCK. French Five per Cents. 134 A. Six per Cents. 82. • Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 78- . ( Ditto 'New 791. Neapolitan F Five per Cent. Bands, 71i. • ( Scrip, 734. Auitristi Five per Cents. ( 83. Five per Cent. Bonds, 1, New Ditto, 411! . ... (Snip, 21 disc,— I Five per Cent, Bonds, /le,. 1. • Ditto'New, ' • Five per Cent. bonds, 09. 74 • Six.per Cent. Minds, New Loan, 76. (Hank Shares £2l 50. A • J Six per Galt. 904'7-9[1.• A Five per Cent. ItA.--t4C. kThree per Cent. 696. Spanish Prussia 4 114niali Chili' Colombian Peruvian WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, Morning, O•mintites after - O. 1 Evening,' ulcer 12: . • .. 4 - S ITTINT SyLEN QUIS DICEttE PALS u AVDEAT 2 LONI)()N, 771URSDilY, J4NII3RY 2.3, 1823, f riion A CORKESPONDENT.I4 STOCK. E.I.CIIANt;E, Haf-past TioClve p'Clock.— :Itt , qvilig been a holiday at PRTill on the 21st (the .death of ,Louts X 1 7 1.) no' regular price of the :French Funds can come, but we understand that -an Express has arrived with the French Papers, ;which has not had any effect upon the Market Alp to this hour, consegnently. they cannot con- Win any political information, of importance. :Conso4 opened this morning at 77,' 1, went up ;to i4aud are now 1 Y. New Spanish Bonds 'opened at 1 ,4 . 1. L gut *up to 451 '7, but the most business was doing in Colutnbia, which ()pellet! at 55, got up' to SG, 57 2 58 59v ' , The came of th e ()have rise is attribute , to d to the !great Bear Account. At the close of.ihe Stock Exchange., yesterday afternoo n , it was generally ireportod that the 'French 'Governtnent had left tire 'affairs of Spain to the mediation of the British Cabinet. Other reports Fn say-that th e Ki ng of .tscc is resolvecrto leave tin) determination of Peace or War with Spain to the LegislatiV e Corps, which opens on the'2Bth inst. It is this moment reported that Spanish Bonds at Pad, are 421, and left oflat 413.1, one o'Ciock.:-.lWitivin this half hour the Punch are very heavy—Consols are 774, and ,• • • Spanish The private bargains done at Paris on the 21st, in Rentes, were 82, and Spanish 411. A reportprevails that LA CARD r is upon'the eve of lehving Madrid. IV° yesterday Inserted an outline of the Re port of the Portuguese :Minist er for Foreign Affai r s, on t h e F oreign Relations of Portu ga l ; and the day before we laid before our Readers a sketch of the Address of the Spanish Cortes to the KING, on the Notes of the Allied Powers. R oth were taken from the French Papers • ; but having been very meagre and inaccurate, we I tcltr Publish these documents to-day, translated from the original Portuguese and Spanish. We 41 2! induced to do so, in Consequence Qi the great . - MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. tNGLAND. Monday, January 27, Lortpox. Nos. 4, 40, 71, 91, 104, 305, 321, 407, 458. COUNTRY. Nos. 97, 227, 246, 320, 360, 437, 490, 524. 546, LK 578, 597, 643, 707, 710. - 23, Lox nom. No. 316, 349. COUNTRY. Nos. 38, 67, 68, 87, 130, 145, 285, 340, 427, 477, 537, 592, 640, 649, 668. Wednesday, - 29, Losnov. Lodge of Benevolence. COUNTRY. Nos.-54, 112,, 121, 164, , 472, 513, 549, 563. Thurld:ty, 30, LONDO N . N 29 05. 1 7, 327. (len. Cont. Fern. Sch. at 12. COUNTRY. Nos. 51,110, 115, 1.76, 453, 606, 657, 670. * • • , importance of the State Papers alluded to, and because they could not be properly understood, from the imperfect translations previously given from the French Papers. Whatever may be the result of the present alarming political crisis, our Readers now see that in all that has passed, our information has been correct, and our views consistent both with the Policy of the British Government and the best interests of the British Empire. When the appearances of war were the most threatening, and at the very moment when they first, burst forth and appalled Europe, we calmly examined and pointed out the reasons Is hich then induced us, and which still induce us, to hope that so great a calamity will be averted ; and we at the sometime firmly and unhesitatingly announced, that in the event of those well grounded hopes being disappointed, England could not, consistently with her dignity and her interests,' and would snot, remain an indifferent or a neutral spectator of the conflict, but would be found both willing and able to resist the accom plishment of projects directed not less against her rights. her prosperity, and her power, than against the independence of the nation whose unhappy state of agitation furnished the pretext on which those dangerous and ambitious projects were formed. The strong assurance given by the Eng- Hsh Ministry to that of Portugal, after England perceived that the time was arrived to chew its opposition to the projects which could not now be (herded," or after " the changes in the English Ministry had caused a change in' its view of the projects of the Holy Alliance,"---the strong assur ance given by Great Britain," that if ever, con. oars to expectations, the independence of Por tugal should be menaced, his Britannic MsJEsTY would 'never be an indifferent spectator of so im portant an event,"—establishes the strict cor rectness of the first position which we assumed, and of the first intimations of the policy of Great Britain, which we alone, at the very instant that policy was formed, announced to the public. Our next declaration was, that a Commer cial Treaty was on the lapis between Eng land and Spain ; and which, , though imme diately and positively contradicted by the ad vocates of war, and by those persons who pre tended to affirm, that in the event of war, Great Britain would preserve a strict neutrality, is now proved to have been substantially correct, by the measures in favour of British commerce adopted by the Spanish Government. The third stage at which we arrived, was the intimation that the French Government had de, termined. in favour of peace, chiefly copse-, quenco of the knowledge of this country; and of the knowledge which it had obtained of the po licy which the British Government Would pursue in the event of a Spanish invasion. The Report of the Portuguese Foreign Minister Proves that we were equally well-informed on this. .point, as on the preceding ones ; for it says"-- " The clear and pOsitive expressions (of C3reat Britain) soon rqsOunded on the banks . of the Seine, and the .Government of his Most Christian Majesty protested thatit had never conceived any hostile, intention . towards ~..Port ugal; th a t, as 'Constitutional Uovewntnent, it not only considered as unjust, but would, be. ashamed to maintain so absurd a doctrine as, the interference of one'Power in the internal po litical organization of any other ; and that, not withstanding the 'fears which the army •of the. Pyrences might nalaraky e.ccite, it u:ould never pass the frontier line unless it were first ululated by the Spanish troops, which, engaged: in the hor rors of a civil war in the provinces adjoining to France, obliged the latter to take every • precau tion against the evils of all kinds which such ' a neighbourhood gave room to apprehend." Nothing can be more positive or satisfactory than these evidences of the truth of every thing that we have hitherto stated. It is true that there still may be war bo.wven France and Spain ; but, if there is, its commence ment will be attributable to the French Ministry ; but, either to the piedominance of the war Party in the French ,Legislattire, to the occurrence of som e act of aggression ott the part of Spain ; --and we repeat, on a view of the whole question, that war, thott , , , ,h possible, is EXCEEDINGLY IMPROBABLE. EU.ENCJI FUNDi.—JAX. 20,6 Five per Cents. Moo itt .. :. . . F. 83 10 c. Bank Stock For the account 83 f. 65 c. Neapolitan Five per Cents. ... ...... .. . 7 1520 f. c, 01 F. Spanish Bonds 1821 Lxcliange on London— One Slonth 25 f. 35 c. Three Months 25 1. 40 c. • - On Tuesday night N.Jr..4cKsoN arrived at the Foreign 0111ce in Downing-street, in a chaise and four, from his mission to Madrid. Mr. Secretary CAN:VING arrived in town yes terday from Sunning 11111, Berkshire, where he bad been since Sunday. In the afternoon the Right - lion. Gentleman proceeded to tin Fa reign Office, where he transacted business for a considerable time. - '['l►e CztANcutott of the Ex'curntiutt transact ed business at the Treasury yesterday. I THE THE4TftES. DRURY-LANE.---The juxtaposition of Messrs. KEAN and YouNo seems to be as attractive as at first. The tragedy of GJmbelhuc, if a tragedy it may be stiled, last night brought these two popu lar performers before the public,again in emula tive zeal, and the house was crouded. KEAN was animated in Posthumus, and displayed great feeling in those scenes which particularly called for the display of strong emotion. YOUNG has too often been seen in lachimo to need any other notice than a repetition of applause.—A Lady, named WttaaArits, came forward for the first time in public, as stated in the play-bills, but some of the Morning Papers intimate that she has appeared, on provincial boards. The part which she performed was Lunen, one of the most amiable in the whole round of female characters designed by our great Dramatic Bard. Miss M'ILLIAMS is about the middle stature'. Her face is expressive, and her voice in general , pleasing, but occasionally somewhat harsh. Her conception of the character was correct, and she supported it with evident feeling. As the daughter of a King, somewhat of a deportment more courtly and graceful might be expected.— She was well received, and therefore will pro bably appear to more advantage when she re sumes the • character. The play altogether ex cited attention and applause. COVENT-GARD.EN.--The splendid Drama of King Henu the Ili,ighth, in defiance of the wea ther, drew a very numerous audience to this Theatre last night. The object chiefly noticed able was the re-appearance of Mrs. OGILVIE in Owen Katherine. Our favourable opinion of her talents was fully confirmed. For characters of matronly dignity, perhaps she has at present no rival on the London Stage. Her merit last night, as indeed before, was chiefly conspicuous in the trial scene, when she rejects Wo/sey as her Judge, and reproaches him for the pride and subtlety of his character. In her concluding scene also she described the character of Wacey with meek yet dignified firmness. Her reception was highly favourable throughout, and for the province to which her p owers are adapted, she is a valuable acquisition to this Theatre. &mt.- ToN was again uncommonly successful in the en er gy and jocular turbulence of King Henry ; and Cs. KEstar.E, as usual, modestly impressive in Cromwell. The last scene is It fine display of courtly magnificence.: DOVER, JAN. 22.--Carne into th© Roads this morning his Majesty's steam packet the .eirrozo, from Calais, from which was landed in the Bay his Royal Highness the Prince of SAXE Comma, the guns at the Heights firing a: salute. Ilk Royal Highness, after a de eunh at the Ship Inn, and without waiting for his carriages from the packet, set MY in a coach and four for Lon don, but when near the town's end the pole of the carriage broke; his Royal Highness got out ? and walked some distance on the Canterbury road, before another carriage, Wi:ch *as pro cured with all speed, cevertook him. TEIR DUK E otr are-heppy to say his Royal flightless the Duke of YORK was yes. terday pronouoced "a little better." Mr. Secre. tary Pcci., and most of the Cabinet-Ministers, called at fork-house to make their dutiful in, quirks, as did Lord ilcur.seono and a number of personages of distinction.- Most of the inquirers walked to York-house, owing to the dangerous, state of the, roads and streets. Sir If EntlEftr T , tyt.ott, the Royal Duke's Military secretary, and Mr. DliavroN, the principal Clerk at the Commander.in-Chief's Office, attended fora con siderable. time at York -house 'during the morn. ing, to transact military business with his Royal Highness after the arrival of the general post letters, &c. The Right Hon. NICTIOLAS VANSITTART re tires from the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, in which important office he is to be succeeded by the Right lion. F. ROBINSON. While his attention to business, and his unsullied integrity procured him the respect, his amiable manners secured jhin, the favour of all parties. Mr. V.VN,- S/TTART is to 'be appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the room of the (Light Hon. CIIAILLES BATHURST, and is to be raised to the Peerage.—Oforning Post.) .:Sir RoHowr GARDENER is gone to Dover to meet the Prince of Conurtc, ivho is expected at Marlborough House every day. There is some talk of 11;s marriage to a certain celebrated beauty, but we do not credit the report.—(llforn in,r Chronicle.) INSTITITTION.—.It Will be very grati fying to the Public to learn that the distinguished Directors of this great Asylum of the FIN!: ARTS continue their praise -worthy efforts, and have derived another admirable collection of Paintings by the first Artists, from private Cabinets, which are on the eve of b e i ng su b m i tted to general in speetion.—Tliese occasional exhibitions of the works of former Masters have been found highly beneficial in the improvement of national taste. SiNcLAta, whose talents at Covent-Carden as a vocalist of the first order were so justly appre ciated, and who has been for some years making a tour in Italy, ,has been heard with rapture by the Emperors of It ussrA and AUSTRIA at Venice, where his exertions were crowned with the most signal success. A Correspondent, 11110 considers Mrs: Itr,AND the best ballad singer of the day, enquires what is become of her ? whether she has retired from the Stage ? as he has not seen her this seaso— ItfortringTost.) n.- - they S, at t r e ,. j r u —: tly T en li t e iti P et u i t to a e : o s e e s Zt h n le r r P et tl iti n c i ti r o c h t:o n n th t e i i n r u p a ri j e l e y: to be apprised, that in all the articles of domestic and other uses, but that although the reduction of the duty has taken place s since the present year bega n Of f o u r t een shillings in the po u nd toning, .yet in B read, Butter, and other articles of daily consumptutn, they have nut yet reaped one farthing 'of h e. nefit. The purchasers of Salt, and the manufacturer of every article in which it is used, are now reaping an the profit; without granting any to the cons umer ; nor does there seem to he any by of it, until thi s su bj ect shall be publicly investigated attthority of the Chief Aiagistrate.— (.3forning- Alper.) 'i 11',q- , _.: f ., ra s - N . 07 ,' ,• 0 ~,,..: -,)z r ,„ 1 ".. ,) . ..., 4,' 1 / 4 ifi In '• • 1,. ~-'4 • fi ' ," ,„ ', 4 ..i... . 1 ,/,..) \‘ 4‘ r ,' '' '':: 4 Z , .; -!'*''' .4• 1 7 t.. \9.. 1 - , -. 4 .. :." '''' ~ .kr, *=l, 2 .' • :2 , - ...,-. 11 :5 i 5" 41 i ._i l' 7 , 1 ' Nit :; t -• .4R O'E x_.-- 4/ 7 f* 46' 4 I* FASHIONABLE AaRI VA LS. The Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, at Harrington house, from Oakley, Bedfordshire; the Earl and Countess of Derby, and the Ladies Stanley, from Knowsley-hall, near Preston, Lancashire; Earl of Glengall, in Lower Grosvenor_ street, from his seat in Ireland ; E. Ellice, Esq. M.P. and Lady Ellice, in Nesv.street, Spring-gardens, from Brighton • Air. llobhous e , M.P. f rom t h e Continent ; Mr. Calcraft, M.P.' in Hanover-square, from Corfe-castle ; Mr. G. It. Pillips, M.P. in Hill-street, from:Chickitell; Mr. and Mrs. George Byng, and family, in St. James's-square, from Paris; Sir William and Lady Duff Gordon, from Brighton ; Sir George Staunton, Bart. in Devonshire-place ; Sir George Warrender, Bart. from Scothuid. CSIANGES.—The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, from St. James's-squ a r e , for Woburn-abbey ; the Dowager-Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Lennox, at Hastings, from Good wood, Sussex; Earl and Countess of Caledon, at their seat, near Tonbridge, from Wimpole-hall, Cambridgeshire; Earl of Clanwilliam, on a tour ; Earl Gower, on a tour; Viscount Dawne, at Comick-hall, Yorkshire, from a tour; Viscount Middleton, for Pepper-harrow. Surrey ; t h e C ountess of Car narvon. at ' Petworth, Sussex, from a tour ; Lady Mackintosh, for Hastings; the Hon. W. Lamb, V.P. for Alelbonnte, near Derby, The inhabitanta of Wevbridge have erected a monument to the memory of her ROyal Highness the Duchess of Yonx.--- It consists of a simple column of considerable elevation, and records on its tablet, in feeling and affictionate expressions, the virtues and great benefits this village derived from the tai -1 perintending care of her Royal highness. There are on one side of the column some doggrel verses, which might advan tageously have been omitted. The .-column is placed in the broad way opposite Lord..Portmore's estate, not far from the entrance to Oatlands Park, on the Weybridge side. The Christmas Dall„.hehl at the Devon and Exeter Sub scription Rooms, on AVednesday evening last, notwithstandin g - the inclemency Of the weather, was. attended by most of the fashlonubles of the County and city. The Philharmonic Society's first Concert for this season took place on Thursday night, and notwithstanding the unfavour- • .able state of the weather was very numerously attended. The; excellent selection, and the admirable style in which the Over, tures, Glees, and Miss Sugden's Songs, were performed, highly delighted the audience; and we regret our limits will not allow us to enter more • fully into the particulars.—The complaint of the coldness of the room Mr. Chanted the arehitect will imme diatelY remedy, by the introduction of stoves with air-pipes, and which desirable addition would haVe been made but for the room's being engaged till the day on which the Concert took place.—(Leede latelligeneer, Jut. 'el.) P Q E T 1{ V. LIFE. ' Life's but a winter's day, short, cheerless, cold ; A tale of trouble, just begun and told ! '2li but a vapour, vanishing While view`d, Or floating bubble, which our hopes delude. 'Tis like the snowdrop, drooping in its bloom, Whose early birth - ensures an earlier tomb. 'Tis like,the rose the hawthorn props and bears, Which budS, eSpands, delights, and disappears. 'Tis like the herbage of an eastern scene, Scanty and bare, and russsetcre 'tie green ! Or as the dew on, the bespangl'd lawn, Offspring of night, and short-he'd as the dawn ; Or glirmniring meteor; which the Ihney fires, FolloW'd 'when Seen, and when o'erta'en - expires. 'Tis like the tinge that gilds . an cv'hing cloud, Which night envelOpes with her sable`shroud ! Or like the bow, forni'd by a wat'ry sky, 'nigh clouds disperse, and all its glories, die ottsstissamm.. _...-- elk•Ortz, in his atniiing and instructive " His. tort' qf Greenland," gives us the' Id, low ing ren .'., soiling of a Groeidander to a Danish Inigsionaty, . , . ant • . ~ of Con : • " ft is true isays be to the topouary). we , w6O ignorant heathens, and atew uothihg !, rid or a !•.iztviour ; and, .iced, who should tell us t .ni all you Lein!? . ?lot yot4 must not. imagine that no : 'fa.rdantier thinks; silent these things' I mysc/f have often 4kioglit it 1..70,0: (which is a little boat about six yards long; sharp at the head and stern like a a weaver's shuttle. in which- thejtireenbunler goes a tishingh li te e. hit all its tackle `aLd implementit, does ,not grow into exist, ence of itself, but nmst be. matle,hy the labour and ingenuity. of man—and one that does not 'understand it would directly spoil it. Now, the meanest bird h. far tunre - skill displayed in its structure than the best kajak, and no man can make a bird: Bnt the is still a ?aureate! art shewn in the fortnation of a roan than of any ether creature. Who was it that made him ? I bethought me, be proceeded from his parents, and they front, their parents ? But some must have been the first parents ,;. whence did they come ?' Common report informs me they grew; out of the earth. But if so, why dots it not still happen that men grow nice of thckeitrth ? And front whence - did thi s .: sanit earth itself, the se a , the sun, tite moon, and:the stars. f arise into ? There Mast he some Beirig who made all these! things --a Bwing - that always was, and can never ctwe to be. 1I must be inexpressibly-it ore mighty, knowing, and wise, than the; Wisest man. flethust be very good too, because every thing that , he has made is m41011;0111, and necessary for us. Alt ! did I; but know him, bow would I love him, and honour hint ! : Burkwho has seen hi n f? Who has ever conversed-with him ? Vet there may be men, too, that know something of him. 0 Co u ld I but glee!: with such ?---Thereftire, as soon as I heard soli speak of this great Being, I believed it directly, with all my heart, because I had so lung /haired to hear it.'" . , Extract of a letter dated York fan. 20.--" We; expect but a very thin meeting, in consequence of the in 4 clemency of the weather t but all appe ar to be _la rftetly pared to give Cobbett it - proper reception, if lic Nhollia inakti his appearance m this county. The Vol-k J / t ip,' c:,: lit. sattes,i that he has recently been made the holder of a small frteho4 at Rufrurth, :t small village about four miles front Verk.. , . NVooler, whom Cobbett has rt.Tommended to attend here, , is only to copyholder in the count- : - his right.;to address the county as a freeholder will . probably be diatracti . on; that account. You will judge of the intensity of the cold' here, by the fact of the guard - Of One of the London coaches' having been so benumbed by it, as to have dropped front his seat near Newark tide morning. The paasengto did not find the lasi t h e y had suataintal tilt they reaelool Tux:Arra n coach was then dispatched back to find Imo bat tticl not s a c ; teed. it was at first supposed th at l ie had fallen into the 'Trent' anti was drowned but 'v:: have learned by the mail that this is not the ease, and, that after sufrering severely front the cold, he' picked up by one of the coaches that followed his owa." At the late Kiltnainhatn Meeting that distin. guished and eloquent Patriot, Mr. 11—e, Kino co unse l, said something rehttive to the indivitlinds " who are about Lord Wellesley," to, the effect that the re i s no one, upon whom he can depend but air. Plunkett,' We understaud that shortly after the Meeting Mr. B. received a visit front the S —r Much conversation of rather a cool and argumentative kind, grounded on the report of Mr. Ir.'s spe e ch t h at appeared the papers.;.was the consettuenee. The fi--r point i ,d to certain expressions, and presaell Mr. B. to avow or disavow them.. This Mr. B. declined doing, upon the ground that his compliance would recognise a right in every clbilr in the Castle to call upon him for an explanation of phrases' not specially applied to any individual ; and would beside*: ir.volve what he., should consider an infringtme.nt of the freedom of discussion. The departed, giving 11.1 r. B. reason to conclutle that the affair had not terminated.- In 'some time fliterWittaX Mr. B. received .'visit' from the elder Alr. sca n of a vi.devant legal functittnary. A conversation ensued, similar in tendency and result to that which had before taken place. At the departure of this gentleman Afr.;ll. intimated, as the matter was sun unsettled, that he would be prepared by ti particular time, •• to appoint a gentleman to confer with Mr. make S--n, anti anjarnmgement which might appe a r expedielit or fleet:J ury. This intimation drew front Alr. B—nan observation, that Mr. B. was not to understand that he had yet come. to fix upon any definitive. Course of proceeding, and that Arr. - H. might expect again to bee him. In a short time Mr. paid a second visit, and cloaed the conference by annotincing that his friend did nut think himself called upon to proceed fur.. titer, as 11r B. declined explanation on the ground that cont_ pliance would, in his mind, Involve a. surrender of, the freedom of diseussion,—( Dab/hi %Jerald qj MERCANTILE Siff PPING-. ' USE OF LIFE BOATS. Extract of a Letter from Hartlepool, dated January 21 : " Eleven brigs ands ketch, coal laden, were driven on shore near this place last week, and two of them are wrecked. The Hartlepool Life Boat brought on shore the crews of most of the vessels without any loss of life ; and those who saw her say that she went through the tremendous seas like a bird." DEAL, Jaw. E.l,LE—Arrived this morning and sailed for the ltiverlihe Resolution, Greenag, from Jainaiaa and Plymouth. HALF -PAT Sm.—The Resolution hay brought up agaiD, and remains with the Ajax, for St. John's, and thrz, other brigs, bound to the Northward. FALMOUTH, JAN. 211).—Wind E.--Arrived the itingdov2, Orchard, from Newfoundland in 32 daft. HALF -PAST ONE P.M.—The Eastern mail is not yet ar rived, owing, it is supposed, to the quantity of snow which fell last night. '•* PORTSMOUTIt, JAit. 22 .—Wind!N.E.--Artived the Georg:: and William, Bulche, from Bo r d eaux f or Antwerp ; also th., Edward, for London. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind E.—Arrived the Pelican, Manuel, in 7f days from Rio Janeiro, bound to Jersey. liAnwtcri, Jwx. 22.—The Aurora, Blomlzg, from ilrosa to ilavre, was lost the 20th instant on the li r entisit Knozk-- ere w saved. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the, East , irfiht House, when Richard Th omas Goodwin, Esq. VIVI appointed to a seat in Council at Bombay,' in the room of Guy Lenox Prendergast, Esq. ; and James Joseph Sparrow, Esq., was ap. pointed a Provisional Member of Coundl at Bombay.- LXIENSIVE ROBBEIY. lIIANSTOV-IlOtiSE.--:Thomar Clarke, porter at Mr.. Flint's, on Fish -street-hill, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed the. premises, in conjunction with his brother Richard Clarke, who had formerly been in the service of Mr. Flint, in the same situation. The latter was charged with being the receiver. Mr. Flint stated that Richard 'Clarke had lived as portetin the house for three years, and then left the service on pretence of ill health.* Witness took the brother, Themes Clarke, into the situation, and hnd reason to believe that huh had robbed hint to 0.-considerable eanount,the facilities being rendered very greet by the f act o f the brothers being well acquainted with every part of the concern. . Mr. Sharp stated that he was superintendent of Mr. Flint's business. On Friday, the 17th Mee, two Cyprus &ems and. some plaid earsnet were missing from a drawer at the back cif the warehouse, and when Mr. Flint came to town it. was write!. that a general earth should be made, as well in the boxes of el/ who were employed in the concern, taeeleewhere. - When wit_ ness asked Thomas Clarke for the key of Ids box, the Jetta produced four keys, gave them to witnese; and urOn said, cctake eate of the erift•ty.box.'? Thomas Clarke w as i n the habit et sleeping in a Amen room or elOset by hit»self, and slit' witn e s s intending to ex a mi ne t h e other parts of the house first, lock t d the door of the room, and proceeded in his search. Upon re turning to the door soon afterwards, he, found it had been juet broken open, and on further examination he found that thew , — goner's leet had been also forced open, and that the person who had committed the violence must have wounded hiniself, 'as there were marks of blood about the box and on the articles con. tarred in it. Witness sent for a oonstahle ; and on making in qniry after Thos. Cl ar k e , le arne d that he wee not at home. The prisoner howeierearne in soon after with his hand bleeding e and said he had scratched it in taking down the shuttees t 'Jr;e hex cons tined ;ionic articles which Mr. Flint belleeVatte" i.e hie property .The witness ask e d t h e porter Vb. , ',,0 e money of which he had spolterrwas, an r.ot'S not having found . eb: to which Th omas Clarke replied that h e could isie arty to-, i I such a plai'e. *Between the bed and bedstead siir,c droperty w,t..; . forthri, echich was iientified by 'Mr. Flint. The sum of 'et, if,:e. was rental upon.Thotnas Clarke. . ' l e tk; Mr. Fl in t !' - aveevidence ocidirist Richard Clerl.e, broth ee to Thorium //e ' , euspected that the two Li uteri welt; cozwel'iid in plunderin4 itiAtie and - went, accompanied by Turnpenny th olfieer, to th e jibu se of ltichard Clarke in Cartein-road, where be fennel a main ht or imitation shawls end toule, of all tort s , which be telleved to 1:e his property. _Amongst them vtre lota pair of cuK; which had beerrin his drawers on the 9th of the. month e . Th e officer tonna Ain thlt., which .31r, .I,liet N... lieeed to .be part of the produce of the goods steku from hint. ThePtiseners mid the money 'whi c h was taken from tleett had been left to them by a relatton'tet his death, and that they knew nothing of a,lly Jobbery upon :MI. Flint. Air. 'Mho,: adtielo d his former eividi,ic, thet Thomas Cl rice. rice. hall denied all.knowledge of hie brother's residence, as wile. the circumstance of having seen`inin fair Some day*, and that Itieltord admitted that they had met at the house in Curtait._ mash a day or two before.-2-The prisoners were tally ceuntele:ei for trial. Ed q'ard the Confessor seemed to have boic.it the fir s t, who m a d e use of a seal hangin g to th e eime;,,r,i.m. grants, Some of which are preserved to this nay. Among thi . , charters prior to his time, which are still renunaing, it has observed that there is not any seal found, nor is the re any it p. penance of their ever having had any. :The first tittie that Zt coach went from Ox.fotd to Lcindon in one day was in April, 2669. t contained six passengers, had a boot on enelt sid.,t, and was 13-Itours Oil this road. Asinnole s Diary of iris Life, is the in" passage 1581. April I. took eltiv • • in the mornmg, a good dose of elixir, Un:l 11U!!g -three 'spiders about my neck, and Alley druvtl my ngue ev away. Deo gratta,s. ,• b'i'}lis,—From the inclemency of the tllt'r, no UYSter smacks have arrived at Billirrgete sin- • Thursday ; and most of the dealers have not been shit nib ec dish for their best customers :in fact, *zecely any been brought to the London market, fold those only ;! carriage. On Monday one witgg,tin load arrived at 'gate, which w as of seized by the principal fishmon g . four guineas per bushel, a price unprecedented since the ye;i ; when. the River, as now, sat; rendered uo-naxi FG Oi F,y the intensity of the frost. The demand for the tew • arrived was so great, that much squabbling ensuktl4,,ttra's-- ripos conseflutgices might have ensued, but Ito the &To 'Orot-ly,lltet. ilet. or a Poltee-oificer, 'who was aiwohtt e cleiid..r COMES first served." Sul D Coroniats !ugliest ‘vls ht-itl terday nt two o'clock, before Mr. Slit:V.l'o"qt rOlsPr, itt 'Sty Theitiasls tiospitnl, 'tlit the l'hotnas hoope, aged sixty yeats, who put a period to hi s existence:, by cutting leis throat Jury toturned tc verdict of-4"; Mental' de rangement." •' A'rTl: Atrp:l) Sctoter..---, estflrnay niorninv; young wotn.ul, respectably attired,vT nangy, was observed wAlking in a th,ireted Vauxhall-bridge, and suitfacion being exxited t , • bl,e drowning herself, a nun and a boy watclo.-d ' r unfortunate woniatt at oue thbe aPI" in prayer, and immediately aftrwords !. • ThitnJOS, where lit 4• rssh lott otions we; t ftr . Haptitade Of the roan, who vonveyed neighbourhood. 'V lie unhappy creatnre acct ttitt oI hersclf Mr some woe, but we 4‘-,. length make dinlostires, induct. 4 her r c ward her to her Mends in Weanninster. We gave ttri account of the execution ar:,l regsion of Hartley iii our lit'; t , is stated ott °lva au#.loll ty, father formerly kept the Sir, John t ub is li o c ; us j e t;st l ( l i e 4 1 1 V t il t7 ° lt i 1 0 7 : 4 S ( . 1 t) u ) o:e a s that the Arr. liar/ley sons both of wham tiled 111 the navy ago ; the proofs of which we have to :1„ sit vertittr.) The Ceres, 'Mathews, is arrived at Crookhavn from Rio Janeiro, with loss of bowsprit, bulwarks, sails, &c. bound to London. The Two Sisters of 'Whitby, Alert of Yarmonth, Friends, Gof/f Clfty, Expedition of Seuth Shields, and of Lynn, were driven on shore last week near Ilartlepool— crews saved by the life-boat. coact trot 'itn''ss with Mess —she to see idiot Of C her ut.l _._~