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Ms. : - iill-roora inlaid rose-wood-Dniwing-room Trafalgar Chairs 1N ...4y id with buhl. 201.-Table, 2 Covers, and Sofa, 181. '--Diti,, lttu 11 . Is.-Drawing-room Sofa 61.6x.--Ditto , 71. 75.; 4iii to4 i . 88 . -Horse-hair Cushions, each ss. M.-Covered, W. TH URNELL, Agent. 0,, COUNSEY DEALERS SUPPUED. k irs Packed free of expence, except the materials, and sent Parts of Great Britain, and to the East. and West In hinet-7-oesi.ltains fitted out, and merchants supplied with Ca.. 0 00 s for Exportation.llol 4 Portrnents Furnished at a few hours' notice, and w o or four days. BRAZIL. Co4cluded from Yesterday's Sulz.) A t t „ 101) t No. 1 Por o'clock in the afternoon . of the 6th of September, the 4a4 a reite frigate Voadora entered under the flag of its nation, tlyi n three- quarters past three o ' clock the same fl ag was st ill tuy„g• This 'we attest, and swear to be true. (The signs- Theff several officers follow.) ° rt of Villegaigon, Sept 17. o. 2. 444 es t e t in N the afternoon of the 6th of September, the Portu -4t thr ee g i tte Voadora entered under the flag of her na tion, and we atte s t n arterl past three the same flag was still flying. This °ere t T e ftild swear to be true. (The signatures of several to . h e iv.) P 110 Santa Cruz, Sept. 17. ttie No. 3. 41,iv of •-v4ore.mentioned corvette having °Fended against the nlitions, by entering into this port under an enemy s 14491.t11211t any preliminary communication, or even that t h e qnbir,„ l " 4 l3 of truce, the governor of this port orders - m e t of the said corvette shall immediately haul ow "g' and unship his rudder, which shall be afterwards sent NTO • &Int. n JOSE DA CUNA LIMA, Captain-Adjutant. •dept 17. Port u tato rnent of the Portuguese frigate having entered the ri11 e ,,..4qr the Portuguese flag, and of her commander having hr,4..the order of the Government of Santa Cruz, follows.— " I tnnlent is signed by all the officers of the fort.] Se ] • 4 nbor i . No. 4. Mit 14 ,"s.nierming for the present your Majesty that your 1:1 9 mated -4en tst brother, and sister had, thank God sustained 114 ; 41 ch ange in their health when lieft the port of Lis tiki...pn the 80th of July, since only the King. our Lord eon, hag47,4tunder an attack of his disorder in both his legs, which Ste hoe (I Crline, and threatened no badresult ; I have further °ur to communicate to your Blajesty, that I hold in my hen& family letters to be delivered to your Majesty ; but-,this deposit being so highly respected by me, that I should Consit:er every point of delicacy and scrupulous honour to be offended the sald letters did not pass directly from my own hands into the august hands of your Majesty. In the mean while I avail - myself of this opportunity of assuring your Majesty of my con stant and uninterrupted respect, being persuaded that your Ma jesty throrimghly knows the sincerity of my sentiments.--four Majesty's most humble servant ItbiScs your august hands. CONDE* DA RIO MAIOR. On board the corvette Voadora, Sept. 17. • • N 4. 5. The undersigned Secretary of State for the 'Affairs of the Empire,' and for Foreign Affairs; notifies to the Conde do Rio Mawr that the letter which he:addressed to the Emperor from on board the Voadora was presented to his Majesty ; in. which letter it is stated that the Conde holds in his hands other letters from the King of Portugal and the rest of the Royal Family, but that he would consider every point of delicacy and honour to be violated if the said letters did not pass front his hands in to those of his Imperial Majesty, The undersigned is ordered to reply to your Excellelidy that his Majesty previously desires to be informed of the real objects for which ou have been scot to this empire, since, in the state of war in which Brazil and Portugal are placed, and after the solemn separation of those countries, his Imperial Majesty is resolved to listen to no propositions on the part of the Portuguese Government, nor to enter into any conferences with the emissaries of that Government, without a preliminary recognition, of the sine qua nan condition of the independence and integrity of the Brazilian empire. In pur suance of these principles, the undersigned declares, that in the case of your Excellency not being furnished with legal powers for the said recognition, - .in the name •of his Faithful M ajesty, you caanot be admitted to the presence of the Emperor, nor can he receive the letters of which you are the bearer. Meanwhile the undersigned, in reply to the idea of yout Excellency having come on a mission from the Portuguese Government, must ob serve that a circumstance has' occurred which gives reason to doubt of the reality of such mission, since the corvette which conveyed your Excellency hither has entered this port in a man ner inconsistent with the laws of nations, by which it could alone be protected, under a hostile flag, without previous com munication, and without a flag of truce. It caanot be surpris ing to your Excellency, that the insult given to this port by the said corvette, has caused the removal of her rudder anti the adoption of other proceedings against her, conformable to the practice of belligerent nations in like cases, until a competent tribunal, to which this m a tte r s h a ll be submitted,i shall decide upon the seizure. The undersigned, requesting a prompt and precise answer, avails himself of the present opportunity to as suring your Excellenaey of his particular respect. JOSE JOAQUIAI CA RNEIRO DE CAMPOS Palace of Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 17. To the Conde do Rio Major. No. 6. The undersigned, Count da Rio Major, Member of the Council of his Most Faithful Majesty, and Gentleman of the Chamber, has the honour to inform his Excellency Senhor Jose Joachim Carneiro de Campos,' Councillor, Minister and Sec retary of State for Foreign and Domestic Affairs to his Im perial Majesty, that he received at one o'clock in the morning, on board of the corvette Voadaora, lying at anchor within range of the guns of the fortress of Santa Cruz, his Excellency's note, in which: he acknowledges 'the receipt of the letter which The • undersigned directed to his Imperial Majesty on board of the same corvette, stating that he was the bearer of letters from his august Father and from his Royal Family, to be delivered to his Imperial Majesty, judging that it would be transgress ing all rules of delicacy and propriety- if they did not pass im mediately from his to the auguit hands of the said Senhor; and states that he has his Imperial Majesty's orders to reply that his Imperial lilajesty wishes to be informed of the true purposes for which the undersigned has come to this port : for that, in consideration of the state of war in which Brazil and Portugal are placed since their solemn separation, his Imperial Majesty is resolved not to receive an propositions on the part of the Portuguese Government, not to enter into conferences and agreements with emissaries from the same Government, without a preliminary recognition, as a sine qua non condition, of the In. dependence and integrity of the empire of Brazil, declaring, in pursuance of these principles, that in default of legal power to make the said recognition in the name of his Faithful Majesty, the Count above-named will neither be admitted, nor will his Imperial Majesty receive the letters with which be is chard. The undersigned, before he repli es t o th e first part of his Ex cellency's note, thinks it proper to remove the misunderstand.. ing with which he is therein supposed to be the hearer of letters from his Faithful Majesty different from others from the Royal Family, while the undersigned in usin g th e ex p ress i on . " Fa mily letters, to' deliver to his Imperial Majesty," merely wished to express familiar letters from his Faithful Majesty, which are in fact two—one for the , Emperor, and the other -for the Em press, hifi august son, and daughter.in-law ; and in considera- • tion of the quality of the laid letters, and of the impossibility of their being immediately delivered by the undersigned, as from motives of respect he desired he has no objection to deliver them to any one whom his Imperial Majesty may authorize to receive them.; The undersigned cannot refrain from calling his Excellency's attention to another circumstance worthy of atten tion4,--that.m:the letter which ho had the honour to direct to his Imperial Majesty; lie could not -have had in view the commu nication of any public negociation with :which he might be charged • for neither could - he do so on his own account, nor would the unexpected intimation of suspended communication, made:by the officer of the Custom-house Fort to the commander of the said corvette, permit him to Tfo so ; and therefore, re laving this declaration - of commission with which his Faith- fuljetty had 'charged him until after his disembarkation, or until it shOultb be in any other manner. required previously to such disembarkation, he confined himself to directing to his 'lm perial 4ajesty theletter written in all the sincerity with which it witaconceived, and the sole object of which was to announce the existence of the aaid'ewo familiar letters of his Faithful Majesty for his august son and daughter-in-law, and' the desire of the undersigned to deliver them imtnediately, for the reasons above stated. • And since his Excellency, 'in the aboVementioned note, re. quires by order of his Imperial Majesty, to be informed of the real purposes for which the undersigned has come to this port of Rio Janeiro, he has no hesitation, but rather the greatest satisfaction and glory, to inform him that his Faithful Majesty, -when by . his orders the corvette Voatlom Sailed with a corn. mission; fiom Lisbon to this court, could not and even ought not to haVe: supposed, according to the well-known feelings of his heart and the new political relations of Portugal, that Brazil,- and much less his august son, was at war with him or with the kingdom of Portugual ; or that such an event could be expected ; and the undersigned cannot but feel penetrated with a full sense of the hostile and inhospitable reception given to a pacific ship of his Faithful Majesty on her entrance into thie port.-.a thing which certainly never would have happened under similar circumstances to any vessel from Brazil in Porto .gal. With regard to the satisfaction required of him on the subject of the purposes for which he has conic to this court, the undersigned has the honour to state, that as the nature of the late events in Portugal rendered it indispetisable that his Faith ful Majesty should make a proper communication of them to his august son, the idea.thence arose to order the cessation of all the hostilities witich, contrary to his wish, were carrying on in Bra zil ; and at the same time to send in commission confidential per. sons, who being furnished with Royal letters of the date of the 21st of July of the present year, should be by them authorized not only to treat of the mode and terms of the evacuation of the forces, both military and naval, which are now in Bahia, whither his Faithful Majesty had previously dispatched a- ma ritime courier to suspend if possible all hostilities (as cannot but be already evident to his Imperial .Majesty by the arrival of the Camp Marshal Luis Paulino de ()liven° Pinco de Franca); but also to accelerate a suitable reconciliation of Brazil with Portugal, without being at all authorized to recog nize a sine qua eon condition the absolute independence of Brazil. One of the consequences also of the powers with which the commission is vested, is to treat of the condition of the different European Portuguese now in Brazil, to whom his Faithful Majesty owes every protection ; being permitted to the fullest extent to treat of this business, if feeling* of hatred and revenge should not obstruct in this particular what is due to justice and humanity in similar cases. %%Tith respect to the last part of the above note of his Excel lency, •in which a doubt is thrown on the reality of any coin. mission from the Court of Portugal, without any other founds don than the fact of the corvette Votithira, on board of which the undersigned has Come, having entered into this port with the colours of a hostile , nation flying, without any previous pre.: liminaries, a nd without having made u s e of a flag of truce..-. the undersigned begs leave to inforM his Excellency that every thing connected with the present circumstances tends to prove that this is rather a pretext than a reason forjustifying the pre- cipitation with which, withOutmaking any further inquiry, the hostile act was resorted to of unship ping and retriovitig to the arsenal the rudd er o f t h e corvette, end keeping the vessel', up to - this moment, in a danOrotts situation, aryl her crew without if i vt necessary succours. The corvette, Voadora brought a.pass pory.for a flag of truce, which was communicated to the ofli; eer, %who came on hoard of her, and such was the opinion which ht:s Faithful Majesty entertained of Brazil, that this passport' u;•ts given to her, not so m uc h Ito enable her to enter WO thr .faneiro, as to avoid hostilities on the HerlS ri dung her vdriNts; tor his Fisithful Majesty, sincerely con sidering his' real ~ feelings and relations with the state and powers of .Brazil, teished 'to avoid every thing .which might possibly give an idea t t of war between them ; and therefore the commander of 3)10 - i.•.',:vrrette received instructions to hoist the flag of truce (IVA the event at . its being indispensable; but the corvette haling been`, 'recognized by her flag, and no Opposition havinelte4m - manse liy the fortress to her en-' trance, this cirsummt,ipee, togetteFr with those before men tioned, seemed a proor that- the entreoce was not clo s ed to her. There exists, thirefetsiit 0 motive for t!he port to inks offence, since the flag.. being ere , signal, and t.rit an infalable proof of the neutrality of the vessel which bears 114: , the momentary want of that dag could o n ly serve to expose it' to some sudden hostility, and not to deprive it of the protection ;.c'liell belongs to it by flee right of nations;whin" itsnegotiatdry t quality may be more evidently and really prayed by competent deumentl, such as is the passport which would be presented when retpired. Nor can his Imperial 31ajesty fail to know that the cori',e,tte hoisted the flag of truce as soon as s h e l earne d f rom the clispatt'!li of the Adjutant of the Fortress, who commanded her to lowet4, the Portuguese flag, and to unship her rudder, that she was riot recognized as a mere Portuguese vessel, if, notwithstanding all this, his Imperial Majesty's Government should continue to insist on the continuance of so hostile a detention, such a pro ceeding must appear most extraordinary in the eyes 'of the world. The undersigned cannot refrain from finally protesting against such proceedings, which create a war at the very mo ment when peace alone is candidly and confidently desired. The undersigned takes this opportunity to offer to his Excel lency the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. CONI)E DE RIO MAWR. On board the Portuguese corvette flag of truce, the Voadora lying at anchor in the Rio de Janeiro, Sept. Id. 11123. To his Excellency Jose Joachim Carneiro de Campos. No. 7. The undersigned Councillor, Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign and Domestic Affairs of the empire, acknowledges the receipt of the , note which the Count tie Rio Alaior member of his Faithful Majesty's Council, and Gentleman of his Chant. bee, has directed to him on board the corvette Voadora, under date of the Illth of September instant, in which, in reply to the note which he had receiv e d the ni g ht b e f ore from the under signed, requiring to know, on the part of hi s i m p er i a l Maj esty , the real purposes for whi c h he had come to this port; he states that the nature of the late events in Portugal, rendering it ne cessary that his Faithful Majesty should make a suitable corn .munication of them to his august son, the idea thence arose to order a cessation of hostilities, and at the same time to send, in commission, confidential persons, authorized to treat not only for the evacuation of the• forces, both military and naval, now in Bahia, but also, as a consequence of the powers of the com mission, to treat of the condition and situation of the different European Portuguese now in lirazil, to whom his Faithful Ma jesty owes every protection, without being at all authorized to recognize the indepthdence and integrity of this empire. The undersigned is therefore under the necessity of inform. ing his Excellency, that as lie acknowledges himself, by his answer, to he charged in effect with a commission front the. Government of Portugal, but without Wen; furnished with powers for recognising in fintie:' the independeace and integrity; of the empire of Brazil=-a recognition which is required as a preliminary condition to all and every proposition or negocia tutu which the Portuguese Government may have to owlet and his Majesty having, in conrormity with the sentiments of the General Constituent and • Legislative, Assembly, and with public opinion, which has been clearly demonstrated, taken the precaution to order to be declared to his Excellency, finmcili ately on his arrival, that he would not be admitted, nor his propositions heard, without the essential requisite before men tioned, which his Excellency confesses himself to be mew thorised to offer ; the undersigned, therefore, considers impro. per all anti every ulterior discussion on the subject of the an. nuanced commisston. In the mean time, the Imperial Cabinet cannot witness with, insensibility . the erroneous •opinion Which fatul prejudice or inaccurate information has excited in the Portuguese Cabinet relative to the present state of Brazil ; and considering hOwl much its elucidation will contribute 'in (011ie to the suspenSion of hostilities, which are so repugnant to humanity, and'whieh' his Imperial Majesty 'on his side Is ready to make to cease, whenever it may be conuttatible with the interests and dignity, of this empire, the undersigned hastens to Inform the Conde do 'Rio' Al that the Political independence of Brazil has the general vote of all its inhabitants • that the proclamation of it was the effect of the manhood of :he people—of the only inha. bitants of the New World who still remained dependent on the Ohl ; that their own consciousnetts of their faculties, pmgress, and resources, brought abotit.their emancipation : nor is it to be presumed that the revolution of Portugal, the injustice of. the Cones, or any other precarious events whatever, could he , any thing more titan occasional causes of the aceeleration of this natural event ; that a great nation, after having ranked in the list of independent nations, never retrogrades front its po litical representation ; that be the fide of Portugal what it may, it will never have'sny oilier influence over Brazil titan that which is naturally derived front the, general system of ditferent political societies one with another; that all the efforts vshich Portugal may make to remove th i s , empire from the leetrals winchit has solemnly proclaimed, will be fruitless, particularly, when • it is attempted to bring it hack to the form of absolute. government ; and in place of conciliating the minds of the people, as his Faithful Majesty seems to wish, and as is pro. perly the object of the Royal heart of a wise and virtuous Mo. narch, such eflbrts will contribute, on the contrary,' to prolong .resentment, distrust, and asperity, anti with them the epoch of a peace advantageous to Portugal lienielf. The Imperial Ca hien then perceives that this annotineed commission, instead of embracing more ample objects, And the only once which the circumstances would pre scr ib e , i s limi te d, Ist, to treat of the evacuation of the troops front Bahia, which tire' no longer there, having been already expelled by Brazilian ve lour; 2d, to the protection of European 'Portuguese resident in Brazil, when it must be evident that the Europeans re ferred to, having either spontaneously embraced the cause of this empire, or refused to follow it, have constituted themselves. in the Mrst case Brazilian subjects, anti as such independent of the Portuguese protection, and participating in the rights and prerogatives which are inherent in them; and in the second, those who at the period of , the dismembering of the old molter city, preferred the Portuguese party, retired from Brazil ; and some, having afterwards changed their'opinions in proportion ail tine independence became generel and consolidated, and the rights of individuals guaranteed, united themselves to the Brazilian nation, by which they are treated with the generosity which eharacterisea it, and which it could not have denied them without manifest injustice. To none of these does the protection to which your Facellency alludes, apply; for as to those who never' adopted the cause of Brazil, they no longer tziat here ; such being the generosity of the Brazilian nation, that even the prisoners have been sent -heck to their country ; and those who have embraced it are Brazilians, and require no other , protection than that of their Government. As to what relates to the conduct pursued towards the Portu guese corvette Voadora, which his Excellency considers hostile and inhospitable, it is sufficient to observe, that it was the effect of circumstances and of the system which has been adopted; for not only did she come armed and furnished with warlike stores, contrary to the custom of flags ortroce, but she neglected to make use of the proper signal in Mite tune. In the mean ti me bia.lmperial Majesty has issued his imperial commands that this atteir be tried before the colopvton tribunal, conformably to the laws of nations, which arc respect ed in this empire as in ev, ry other civilized nation. The un. dersigned, in repeating his determination not - to enter upon any discunsion on the subject of the commission of his Excel kney, from its having tailed in the condition required; has only to assure his Excellency that his Imperial Majesty is re solved not to receive, even through the hands of a*tldril person, the letters of which his Excellency is the bearer ; and iltat pro per orders Will'be given to enable his Excellent 'and the rest of the passengers of - the corvette; to t4ke their departure with promptitude, and With every - assistance that they ins}}' require, Phe undersigned take this opportunity to repc.at to the Conde de Rio Maier the prittestations of his highest consideration and perfect esteem. JOSE - joAQUIM CARNEIItO DE CAMPOS. Palace of }din de Janeiro; tiipt, 111,11T33. To tile Conde tie Rid Major, &c. • S MIT/1F11440 CLUB CATTLE SILO‘V. 1:111110 DAY. •: On Aionday the fine exhibition or Fat Animals in Sanimrn's Yard, and that Iruplernents and other tisefid -things exhibited, drew together a crowd of respectable and orderly persons beyond any precedent since the Smithfien club has existed ; from ten till two o'clock it was literally_ im possible to move but with the stream of persons, ,up one side of the yard, round it and !through the lofts, and down the other side of the yard ; .- yet all seemed gratified with what they saw, and the whole went off' plezvituit. Jy. , Mr. Plenty exhibited several valuable Ploughs and other implements, omitted by inadvertence in our last account. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Members of the 1.111 t) assembled at the Freemasons' Tavern, and held, the Annual General Meetin„.*: Sir John S. Sebright, in the 1.'hair......,. t this meetingia Nobleman and three others were elected vgi c , hers, 'elf. Lord fltmtingfieltl, antrAttia rs . Inskip; jun: James Wetherell, and Robert Todd.—Charles Ch n mpion, C. and John Inskip, jun. Esq. were apPointed the Stewards for the year ensuing ; and all the other officers of the Mil) were re dacted. The premiums and conditi ons o f t h e next Show were settled ; the Hill thereof ordered to be .printed and circulated ; and the Club adjourned to the first day of the next Shew. INNER. Soon after five o'clock THE near D 100. of the Members and their • friends sat down to an excellent dinner, Sir John S. Sebright, hkart. in the Chair, supported on both sides by long ranks of brCMers of opulence and great experience, On the withdraw ing ot'lle cloth, Sir John gave " The Kink." A lutriAsome desert of Apples, of five Itundred and seventy distinct ar,ts raised by, and p resente d to t h e Meeting, by Mr. ficonarie,l3llillipp4, of Vauxhall-road, was then set on the table; and t.ti p toasts proceeded with " Th e D u k e of York and the Army," t`' The Navy, the Wooden Walls of ), Eng land," The business th en ommenced by the Chairman reading from the Minute - Book 6:1 the Society the awards of the seve ral Premiums, as they., W LAZ*4 stated in our Paper of M on d ay. last. , . . On reading the adjudicati on Q.!: the Prize, in Cl ass I. to the Marquis of Exeter, Sir John took' occasion to p a y a' high , com pliment to his . Lordship, and to those' Nobleme n w h o cont i nue by example and encourageMent to stin;,nlate their tenant s an d farmers in gener a l t o exce l'i n improvemer:ta of their live stock, and .proposed, his Lordship's health, whit was drank with strong marks of respect. - The -Ist Prerniuni of Plate in Class 11. was nexit, preSeuted to Mr. Richard R ow l an d , whereupon Sir John complilmented this young man, as the nephew and successor of Mr. W;stcur, so famous in the annals of this Club, and said he trusi. , %i that through his eiertions the honour of Creslow Farm would long be supported. • Mr. Richard Kitelee's health was next drank, on riveiving` the 2d Prize in Class 11.---Mr. Drayson was next toa,;ted for the Ist Prize in Clams III.; and Mr. Senior was next drank to for the 2d Prize in Class 111. " Mr. Joseph B u ll" was next toasted, as the .. tion-in-Inw of Mr. Masters, a distinguished Exhibitor at the Club's - Shews, on receiving the. Ist Witte, in Class IV. On presenting the 2tl plate in Class IV. to Mr. James T. Senior, Sir John complimented him on his youthful enery and success; and conjured hi m t o. pers a v a ranee in the road to further, improvements. . • " Mr. Adams' health" was mut drank, on receiving the lst plate . in Class V., and that of Mr. Ourrier, for the second prise nn this Class. Sir John then read as follows, from the Cattle Judge's award, viz.—The Judges consider the present as the best exhibition of Scotch Oxen which they have ever seen; they congratulate the Club in the excellent competition in Class I. protine,al by the young Durham Steers, shewn by Charles Tibbits Esq. and Mr. 'William Smith. Amongst the Extra Stock, they cannot but commend the fi ve years old Hereford Ox, shown by Mr. Richard Kitelee, the six Durham Oxen shown by Charles bits, Esq. and th e 34- years o ld Durham Steer, shown by Chas. Champion, Esq. (Signed) THOS. T. CARTWRIGHT. 14714.1.1 AM GIBLETT. THOMAS ROSS. Sie . JOIIN then stated, that the opinion of the judges and others ; as to the great excellency of the Show this year, in Class 1. had Induced the Club to withdraw the notice of discontinu ance they last year gave,..and to continue this premium for early maturity . in Oxen, any how" fed; at their-f u t ure Shews. lle ledielutied by thanling the Cattle JUdges, In the name of the Club, for their arduous services, and ,proposed their healths, which was drunk with' throe times three, and applause. The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to read 'the award of the Sheep and Pig Premi ums , an d t h e company drank the health of ,Mr. Pawlett, as the successful candidate—lst and 2d in Claw VI. • Mr. AI. T. Goode was next toasted, on receiving the Mend 4th Plate in Class On giving 'Mr. Granth a m, t i s t h e w i nner of the Ist and 2tl' premiums in Class VII., Sir John observed, that several years ago helloed himself to gain South-down Prizes at Lewes Slim,: though now' Mr. G. would 'outstrip him. He (Sir John) hid a son, who, he hoped, would, ere long, chew play as a breeder with Mr. Grantham. The 3d and 4th Plate in Class VII- was then delivered to Mr. Ellnian, junier; his health was drank, and 4 high compli ment paid to his father, who WAS absent. Mr. John Hodgson neit receiVed the Ist Plate in Class VIII. and his health was drank ; and the 'seine .as to Mr. William Hayward, with the 'ld Plate in the same Class. The conclu ding remarks of these Judges were then read, as follows, viz.._.. We notice with pleasure thti great merit and extraordinary ' lightness of oftkl, of the A new Leicester Wethers shewn ats extra stock by Mr. William Adams; the great merits of the . Marquis of Exeter's two new Leiceiter Wethers ; also the ex cellency of the South Dom* shewn by Sir •Thomas Dyke, part. ; also of the 3-year South Down Wethers shewn by Mr. Grantham ,; and likewise of the 2,-year old Sow, shown by Howards. (Signed) OgORGE INSKIM (4EOIIOE J4C05111; .unawn. Similar compliments were p a id t o these G 10 ITN entle P men as to the others, and their healthy wore drank with three times three ;• for which ~Mr. Patient] returned thanks in the name of all his colleaguot. Sir JOttx then rose, and refaced a toast h e was a b out to give, by a high and just ettlogium on the House of Russell, from whose zeal in the cause of improvement their Club had sprung, and from whence it had so lank received munificent support the health of " The Duke of Bedford" watt then drank with rapturous applause. Mr. AsT LEI' next rose, and e proposed the health o f t h e Chairnin, •t Sir John Sebri g h t .' Mr. Coirrs seconded the pmpostd, and paid a just tribute to the virtues of Sir John, anti the toast was drank with three times three, anti long anti loud plaudits. Sir Joitx, in returning thanks, renewed his offers of con tinued and most strenuous support to the Club, and observing that the plentiful dessert of apples and pears had disappeared from the tales, he gave the health of the donor, " Mr. Phil. lipps." Soon after; Sir John, having an engagement elsewhere, left the room, and was succeeded In the Chair by Richard Ast. ley, Esq. the Father of. the Club; who gave, " The Duchess of flatland, Lords Althorp and Iluntingileld, and the other new Members of the Clubs" which was mach applauded, and drank with three times three. . _ followed, ."' Air. Cripps"—” Success to the Smithfield Clidi"—‘ , illr. 41stley. the Cbairmbn"—" Oitr absent Mem. bets"._.' fir. Reeve 1 —" Mr. Coke:" .1 Iting list of other Friends of Ariculture wer e afterwards drank in the exce ll ent wine provided Mr the occasion, which kept the room ne ar ly f u ll and in great hil ar ity, unt il an unusually late hour. WHIM) it ENtooF.:---LOVIN XV. sometimes talked to his Courtiers in a manner extremely disagreeable to them, without intending to give them pain. One day that Cardinal de IitTYNES was paying his respects to him, " Cardinal," said the King, " your grandfather died of nn apo plexy, your father• and your uncle died of an apoplexy, and you look as if you would die of an apoplectic stroke." Sire," replied the Car dinal, " fortunately for me we do not live in the times when Kings were Prophets." ifr, 1 o'4* , • t - 4,- ' : k f 4 i A 0 .. —...., --_,_ .., r ' • ' „ ..' -.' , p* - ", La* ajw* l ilk. ,avatali,",x, ' , c11.!. ! ..7.:)V 5 7t,',1• -l ' ,i,,11 , ' ' 111014 r . . 4 \ ' ./1 3 / 7 44114 tri bliffit •.4140 , 1tva*, , v•-z: : . . \ . , •1 , -• r, =-I.',- '`, -=, - ~-`t t.'. , ~ .. - . • , . . • •- bl ~..--.... - , .44.--iito. • A . 4k., . ' t 2 .. ' ....-...._ _ _i f .i. , ,,, e)- 4f.1-1,,0pt_... ...,..n. . ~_ ...., • ..... 1 Pt.. ' .4 tbtk. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17, 1823. 1•vr~ PRICE S:Ek'F.ISPEIN;(4;. , )11 MECHANICs. Two very interesting weekly publications, en. titled, the Mechanics' Magazine,. and the Iffeekl;lJournal, are now regularly is. sued fro.lp the press of the Metropolis,.undrcsii. not fail to , stxercise a great and beneficial influence over the purgikits and the habits of mind of the wolrking classes., lit the former of these new. pe riodical 'works, tie proposal for founding the London Mechanics"Anstituto originated, and the promptitude with whi s ch the suggestion has been adopted proVes that its ionthors had founded an accurate calculation as to the probability of its success. The Mechonice Wee4jJournal,,which is of more recent origin than the'. l llagazine, very properly seems determined to exercise a whole some vigilance over the proceedings ipq th e M e _ chunks' Institritc, and to use every exelitfo o for keeping its managers to the.strict-performamce of their obligations, and to a rigid adherence to ells: principles and views on whiEli the Institutioto is professedly founded. The followinv ticle, which we quote from the sth number of this miscellany, will suffice to convey to our readers some idea of the spirit which the Me— chanics' Wechly Journal fulfils this part' of its duty : . (Prom the lifechanie.o Treekly Journal.) On tho LONDON lIIECHANICS' INSTITUTE, anti Si. pillar Societies. - TO Tax EDITOR or Tali; MECITANAC'S WEEKLY JOUIWAL. Stn,—On perusing the rules and orders of the "Mechanics' Institute, of which you will no doubt furnish your readere with a copy or abstract, I was much struck with the jealous siokof visitors; a singular feature in a London association. well know that the University of Edinburgh makes visitors pay five shillings for a sight of their museum ; and that many tit the inhabitants of that city feel so ashamed when an English'per son, or a fbreig►ncr, desires to be led to the 3lmteum, as to send beforehand and pay the demand themselves, in the hope of the imposition, for so it must be really called, not being ails. covered by their Southern or foreign friends.: but I did not ex pect that any London Scientific Society, (for so ,I suppose this London scientific institution expects to ho called,) would re. quire the written recommendation of twomembers, the personal introduction of one, and a payment of five to see heir rooms, or hear a lecture, by . frigning to Income Is member. Ily this jealousy of access, and the extra payment which is to be made for the admission of sons and apprentices, either to the lectures or the schools, the expence,althoughin appearance less, will be greater than in the present societies, whialt allow the liberty of introducing visitors —even females. As to the obligation, in some of these societies, of each member reading a lecture in his turn, this turn occurs so seldom, and the &ens small, that the obligation may be said to be merely noMinal. In the sociefi with which I ant acquainted, a shilling a-yeer will cover the fine. The projectors of the Mechanics' Institute el'idently suppose, I think very unjustly, that the mechanics of London PM 110,eat tremely ignorant as not to perceive, that if they are to paylla.'64, a-quarter for each of their sons and apprentices to attend this . lectures, and another N 6d. to attend the schools, they might As well pay is. a-quarter at once, and make them members. r -" We have heard so much of the mechanics having the, ma . * nagement of the concern in their own hands, that I expected every member might have attended the Committee of llionages nient, if he found hi mse lf i nc li ned, - as in the Society of Arts, &c. ; but it turns out that the members have no other share in the management but a vote in the annual choice of officers ; that the managers in possession, hx'acting in a body, and seta r ing the votes of their Immediate friends, will always he able to perpetuate the management in their own hands; and the .ioe dependent subscribers have no other resource but to leave the Inatitution I think it would be more desirable that, instead of thin single institution, the old societies, of ;e similar mauve, ehould ruse their existence more public; and I observe, with pleasure; that you have mentioned, in your tinnier numbers, the rules orthe principal societies of this kind. In those manufacturing district* which have not any societies of a similar nature established, it is to he hoped that some active Spirits will institute societies upon the same liberal plan as,the old tineledes. As the. mahu &nitres of London are mostly carried on in the outskirta the town, this circumstance, added to the immense ant! continually increasing size of London, renders:a single institution very in. , convenient. J. 11, Li T14;i7;2115: ° IC L. KONINCISMARKE, the LONG I :I4Z I / 4 7 . 1. " a Tak of ll ' Nt;IV World, In Three Volumes. " r The succe,is of the : various WAstmvoTort IRVING has excited no small de. gren c,f interest in the public for the produrtiom of our Trans-. Atlantic, brethren ; and ire Aver,. consequently not surprised at the announcement of a new work from the pen Of an American, Thu novels ,of the 44 Great Unknown" have, it seems, been very favourably received irt.Anwrice, aud the avidity with which they have been pet used has had the effect of putting its Nov'elisfs on their mettle. The Work before us is avowett*, ly written in the style of ths4 Ctlraa(4lllP94.lMS the realm of novel-writing —th e unity of fiction and historical fact. it is merely justice to tho Author to say, that even after the Scottish No vels his work will be read with touch interest. Some of the scenes are described with con siderable power, and the characters are in general n ell pourtrayed. The Meg At er .. rifles of this novel (for no writer in the style of tin Scotch Novels can do without Meg Merrllies), appears in . the person of Ambit- - of the Frizzled Head, a caysterioni#idy, quite in the secret with the Author, and causing notch distress to tho different characters, arid mach speculation to the Reader. The heir Piper and honest Lob Dotterel are well imagined, and equally well sustained. The Reader is, Perhaps, kept too long ignorant of what Koningsmarke really is, but de guslibus, &e. this may he thought by some to augment the interest. We much 'regret that a press of other matter pre cludes the possibility of giving any extract ; we must, thert-fore, be satisfied with recommending the Work to our Readers, confident that our re commendation will be sanctioned , by their ap. proval.