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f i~~~ ~~ / 41%,i's;• jst!ttl-.)4J!,(1 `,~` .~ , T NUMBER 9552. CONTR.IC Y' FOR - C..-/NADA GOODS.. Nary-Office, March 21, 1823. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and . 'COM ISSIONERS op HIS 2114.1.E51"S NeIVY do laTchy give Notice, That on Iredneaday, the 9th qfc-ipril next; at One o'Cloch, they will he read to treat with such Person. as may be willing to Contract for supplying His .31-ajesty'ssercral Inch Yards with C4N,-119.1 GOODS, consisting of MASTS, Y4RI)S, BOWSPRITS, FIR TIMBER, and ASH 0412 441 , TE I:S. hiairOution of the "irides, and a Form of the Tender, I). esen at this Office. No Tender will he received alter. One o'clock, on the Day of Treaty, nor. any 'wilted, unless the Party, or an ihrent for him, attends. Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter ad dress e d to the Navy Board, and signed by two responsible PersONS, g"ga hl g to become bound with the Person tender ing, in the Sum of ,C 3,000 for the disc performance of the Contract. NOTICE TO ARTISTS. A R OYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSE I` HOUSE. LL WORKS intended for the ENSUING EXHIBITION must be SENT IN on MONDAY. the 71b, or by tiic o'Clock on TUESDAY, the Bth .of APRIL. NEXT, after which time none can possibly be received. "The Regulations necessary to be observed may be obtained by application at the Royal Academy. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. A GENERAL MEETING of the SUB -42.. SCRIBERS to this SOCIETY will be held at NEV I'IJRNIVAL'S INN HALL, HOLBORN, on THURS DAY, the 17th day of April instant, at Two for Three o'Clock in the Afternoon for the 1 'nri u )ose of receiving the RE PORT of th e COMAIITTEE othe Matters referred to theut at the-last General 1 1 leetitig, to pass the Rules ' and Re gulations which they have framed ; to fix'a day for the Elec tion of Offi cers ; and, I ncreasing the Number of also , S tohar consider the necessity of again es. Each Subscriber will be furnished with a Copy of the Rules and Regulations, upon applying personally, or by Letter, to Illr. Anderton Qua Chancery-lane. po By Order, temp.] JAMES ANDERTON, Secretary (pro to the Committep• Cs°M N 1 ITT E l', for li, E 1,1 Me of the SCR CITY and DISTRHSS of the SOUTHEI? and IVESTERN PROVINCES of IRELAND Alai 18-3. Aipount of Subseri ti p ons already advertised 75, Old Broad.s . tr ed eet, 'A1 2 r 7 i 2 1 , 4 4 ,i t ri2 7 3. 1.,_ , ai ctit Furt her Subscriptions received ..: 4, second rem rum un ac count - • - £4,000 0 0 ittanta,oce from Calcutta per Messrs. , 1 \ Rickards Macintosh hnd Co. ' - - j,..%)00 0 0 Pr d.., Sit. Helena, to the Honourable East In- „ . 1 . 1 1 ~ la Compan susc...ripti - - .0113 0113 made and remitted from various l' lt tes, Towns, and Ports of England, Scot- and, and (II h. Wales, in Money,. 3' 000 0 0 Rentitt in &c. about - Clothte(inl Provilsi . on!,. . 4, !front London in Money, Provision!, 253,039 10 5 LI and sundry appropriations ------......____ M. W. TROY, Hon. Secretary. . orptcE, Eit a. m o i l ,Y,” l- . k1.-EXCHANGE, ASst. r . '''eu by Royal Charter in the Reign of King George the 'First. 1623. pl::11,SONS, whose annual Premiums fall due are n : n the 2Atli instant, are hereby informed, tlttlteee:= , ti le w ready to be delivered at the Compan)'s Offices, 'l4l spectiExchange and in as well as by: their re e agents tl • several Counties ; and the I arnes : as aies, request e d to l apply for the Renewal of their I n or before the 9th of April next, as the usual r uli en I) aYs allow ed for Payment, beyond the date of each . icy, will thett expire. tics' MUM. FENNING..Iun. Secretary. **** Attenda• nee is given, daily, at the said Offices, for the Ausnrance Of Buildings, Goods, Merchandises, and Sltips : itt r )l l,rnir) in Duck, or while Buildin from boss or Damage ntiiti e r , e ,',: : n i d ,ii a e l s ett for the Assurance 1 an d granting An -0 , mi N re .r : P l i re s will be issued free of Expence to the As wards'. l ere the Annual Premium amounts to (is. or up- B. Attendanr Filday or Easter Monday. NEXT WEDNESDAY. X.,20,000 Money for the Vim One! .E 4,000 Mi , ney for the Next Two! ! .f.:4,000 Nloiley for the Next Four ! ! ! X t,OOO Nliiitey for the Next Six !! I ! . X.i,uoo 'Money fur the Next Ten !!!! ! , lIISIXt4OOO Money for the Next Thirty ' ' 1 ' ' • {, of the Old State Lottery 0111cCs' 4, CORHILL, - m a 9 (a/ u tlNG . cß o s s , I.,,t,liielests fully reminds his belt Fri.tis,' the i'ulilic, that I HIP, LOTTERY begins NExT WEDNESDAY (9 1 h ''r • AIONTH, APRIL), on which Day the very First Prize dr;T: will receive )00,000 Money inure, and the next Si Prizes the 1I A , will each har e a cripitai iii addition, making a grand , t , of FIFTY-THREE 011 11 ! ' ntlib r The and . Eighty ITALS in the First Quarter of 4 Scheme contains Three Pt izes of .020,000, c4Pilals, All Money, , neliet and Shares are . s . elling hill, anti 9, Chritie-Cross. the at BISH'S Offices, 4, Corn „,:l" t ,l , e Last LutteiY Contract, RUSH sold 37 Capitals, and d L ~;`) : :1 6 of Amil has always 'teen fortunate fur BISH'S O ffices , mi l l e t , 1 I lint month the Grand Lottery of tato was II contained 'Pliree ..C30,000 Prizes, 81 XH SOLD , i THEM ALL ! .. _ API T IL and Six Inclo. .ii`ie,, ; - nriEHOLD RESIDENCE , . 'Rod- of Meadow Land, Tithe Free, and Land Tax eetned i n adjoining Theobald's Park. Perm TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, _, Ptorily, b W LEIFCHILD, by order of the 1 ro- P a rietor ~ 1i• _. c CAI 4 by, April 30, at Twelve, at the bellti.a`-'N . I ‘ l4 'lliT, ' London (unless previously disposed of ~ii va te Cont'ract of which due notice will be given), /rel"' Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE ; celienicanlPrising. a spacious FAMILY MA.:'NSION,. in_ , ex- PIP-6reP,ai; delightfully situate at BULL' s , CROSS, LN nr.l-4.,, ien gibedm from London, containing, on the upper tire s l „, es ' 10 airy -chambers, with convenient closets, two Ni,it 7'hg-roorns, store-room, and water-closet ; principal story, hl it entrance hall, an elegant lofty drawing-room, 31 feet fert feet excellent dining parlour, with bow windolv, .4/ li g h t Y . ' 8 feet, breakfast parlour, morning rcioni,., hanosome pantr.4ll convenient staircase, housekeeper's room, butler's With 4,„caPital kitchen, larder, brew-house, and wash-house, tlah.,. , vt"uP of boot! spring water; on the basement, a tx:iol th,, and 'capacious cell.aring for wine, malt liquor, and coals. ~. e eetacl iedoffic es • double coach house, stabling for g ve 1 comprise a - ) . 4 1, I° es, with gardener's room and lofts over, situate in Wi th n ett court yard, inclosed by folding gates, a farm yard, Peoi tt . “g stable, and lofts over, cow-house, coal,, wood, and op en Y h ouses, and other convenient outbuildings. The House „ tu _s at ithe .back front upon a handsome lawn and pleasure I1 0 ,7: 1 t.ls, with turf and gravel walks, shaded by timber trees, kt()c-Oug shrubs and evergreens, productive kitchen garden, I,o,,!'eedlvich well-selected fruit trees, in full bearing, green st44 ~, with stove and flues, a gardener's shed, with loft over, 4,,,'"it-t-house fish -pond, and several Inclosures of rich Mea- Acr es 4 ? ll di lying contiguous, containing altogether Twelve 4.... , (ne the same more or less.) The purchaser to take the lit,i flatures at a fair valuation. - • ' . is f a ll I'EII"CHILD respectfully informs the Public, that he con_lieuthorised to dispose of the above Propokty by Private orb", t, or to receive offers to rent the same, either on lease, A/ tue year. 1114,,1,Y_1?e viewed, with Tickets only, which, with particulars, p atti `ged of Vir . Leirchild, Baker-street, Enfield, Middlesex. arid Itt vrzi ilia] at all the p r i nc i pal Inns in the neighboarhood; tne Auction Mart, London. . ~ • . otk,..ittill , ‘ , ~,- ~ , ~,..„ • . --,..., , .....• ...:„. .4 .', --- • '. . f. --: n e, . __..... V.: - 0 . 44,- ',' ~„,,„, ..,....,, sA - . - / .e.e."l_ /-7 /A! /18:7444**- SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1823. REDUCED FARES, and UNEQUALLED TRAVELILNG, TO DOVER, DAL, RAMSGATE, MARGATE, AND CANTERBURY. FOUR INSIDE .COACHES. AND KEEP GOOD TIME, By S. A. MOUNTAIN arid Co. SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNER STREET, SNOW HILL, LONDON. THE following LIGHT POST-COACHES, and MAILS, &C. set out from the above Inn:— . . , The " Telegraph," DOVEli,l.);l,7iCirusgate Margate, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Fe vers h am , aw l Sandwich, new Post-Coacb•- . --eVery Morning at a quarter past Seven o'Clock. In consequence at the decided preference given to the above Coach, .the Proprietors are determined no expence shall be spared to render it the first conveyance ou the Kent road. BROMPTON, Chatham, Rochester,' Gravesend, Stroud, SittingboUrne, Rainham, and Ospringe, Morning, Quarter past 7, at Reduced Fares. The " Royal Eclipse," FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodmin, Penryn, Ashburton, Totness, Weymouth,. Dorchester, Dartmouth, and Salisbury, every morning at Seven ; through Honiton, Axminster, Bridport, Blandford, Stockbridge, Sutton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, and sagshat. The only Day Coach to WEYMOUTH, (driven through with Two Coachmen only), through Bagshot, Blackwater, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchnech, Andover, Woodveats, Cashinore, Salisbury, Blaudford, and Dorchester, at a Quar ter past Five o'Clock in the filo , ning, at reduced Fates. The " Union," SOUTHAMPTON, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Winchester, Basing take, Hartford Bridge, Black water, and Bagshut, New Four Inside Coach, every Morning at half•past Seven r,arrives at the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by Five. This is a most delightful Conveyance to the Isle of Wight, Jersey, Guernsey, St. Maloes, Havre de Grace, Cher • bourgh, &c.—The Proprietors of the above Coach hope to receive a continuance of that support which has hitherto been experienced since the commencement of the " Union." The " Champion," a New light Day Coach to DOR , CHESTER, in 13 hours only, through Bagsbot, Blackwa ter, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, Salis bury, Woods eats, Cashmore, and Blandlord, at a Quarter past Five o'clock in the morning. The Proprietors of the above Coach are determined no expence shall he spared to render it the first conveyance on the Western Road. BATH and BRISIOL Post-Coaches, through Chippen ! ham, Caine, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every Afternoon at one; arrive at the Greyhound Inn, Bath, the London Tavern, Thomas-street, and Swan, Bristol, early the next Morning.—Coaches to Wells, Bridgewater, Taunton, and' Plymouth, at reduced Fares. The "Umpire," a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only one Night on the Road, carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at One ; arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Five, tin ought . Woburn. Lathbury, Northampton, Al*elford, Luttermirth, Hinckley, Atherstone, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, Knots ford, Warrington, and Prescot. SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Shilfnal, Light Post- Coach, every Afternoon.—Guarded. The "Union, "WEYMOUTH ; through Dorchester, Bland ford, Salisbury. Andover, Overton, Basingstoke, H artford Bridge, Illackwatcr, and Bagshot, new Post Coach, After noon, at reduced Fares.—Packets from Weymouth to Guern 'sey, Jersey, Cherbourg. St. Nlaloc's, &c. every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, at Two o'Clock. BARNSTAPLE and Southmolton New Light Post Coach every Monday, Wednesday, and - Friday Mornings, at Seven Tke " Rockingham," LEEDS light Post Coach, sets out every Afternoon tit Two; and passes through Baldock, Big gleswade, Eaton, Beckden, Stilton, Wansford, Stamford, Greetham, Grantham, Newark, Tits ford, Markham Moor, Retfoid, Bawtry, Doncaster, and Ferryhridge, to the Goblets Lion Inn, Leeds, next Afternoon, at Reduced Fares.—Lug gage and Packages only 3tlper lo.—Notwithstaudiug the uncommon Expedition ut this Coach. it is allowed to ha the most agreeable and complete Public ConVeyance' on the North Road, being unevialled by any other. H A 11110WGATE and Ripon new Light I'ost Coaches, every Afternoon at Two, and Eight in the Morning. GLASGOW, Longtown,Gretna-;rreen, Annan, Dumfriel, Brown bill, Thornhill, Sanquhar-Kiln, Cannock, Kings well, and all Parts of Scotland, a light Four inside Post Coach daily. The " Express," to YORK, Scarborough, Whitby, Sltields, Sunderland, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, a New • light Four inside Post Coach, with a Guard throughout; sets out . , every Nlorning, by way of Newark, ItettOrd, Doneaster, Ferrybridge, Tadcarter, Darlington, Northallerton, Durham, Mut petit, and Berwick, and arrives at York the next Morn ing at Twelve o'Clock, at reduced Fares. Passengers find ing themselves fatigued on the journey, may rest what time they please, and then proceed without any additional Fare. MARLBOROUGH and Swindon, four•inaide Day Coach, through Aldhourn, Reading, Lambourn, Parton, Lyilington Pewsey, Wootton Basset, Ramshury, Hungerford, Newbury and Maidenhead. BUIDGENORTH, IValsal, Shrewsbury, Salop, and Holy head New Light Coach, every Afternoon, at reduced Fares. The New Itoyal Patent Mail, BOSTON antqLonth, through .Royston, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Stilton, Pete' borough, Evening, at Half intst S S P e il v s e b il ' o' A C i l f oCk d ; Sunday, at t a a nt Q l Quarter before New Light Four-inside Post Coach to CARLISLE, Penrith, and Nl'hitehaven, goes with Four Horses, and a Guard all tree way, passes through Appleby, Brough, Bowes, Greta-bridge, Richmond, Catterick, Stilton, Biggleswade, and th D am m:caster, Newark, Bawtry, G ro r u a gr ha ri 2 e s , ta t in 'e f r , r ,r y d b , ri u dg re e r , Baldock. Sets out in the Morning, and performs the jour ney with the greatest facility; at reduced Fares. Passengers detained on the Road by business or pleasure, have the pe.• culiar advantage of their Seats being secured in the next Coach.—The only. direct Coach to Carlisle. The New Royal Patent Mail, VAMBRIDGE, through Ware, Buntingford, Buckland, and Royston, Evening, at Half past Seven o'clock, Sunday, at a Quarter before Seven. KENDAL, Lancaster, Preston, Kirby4...ousslule, Bolton, Chorley, Ot =kirk, and Garstang Light Post Coaches, every Afternoon. The'' Royal Express." Now Light Four Inside Post Coach, to LIVERPOOL, in 29 hours only, through Warrington, Prescot, Congleton, Lawton, Newcastle, Rudgly, Knut.fard t Stone, Stafford, and Litchfield, (only One Night on the Road), every Afternoon ; arrives at the Suracen'i Head Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool, next 'Netting, at Seven, at reduced Fares. WAKEFIELD Four inside Post;.Coaches, every Morning and Afternoon, at reduced Fares, CHESTER, Newport, Whitechurch, Tarporley, Nampt wich Northwich, and Middlewich Light Post-Coach, every Afternoon. SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarm Light Post Coach, every Slorniug, .to the George Inn, Sunderland, at reduced Fares. Mountain's " Express," to MANCHESTER, Winslow, Congleton, Newcastle, ‘Volsal, Wolverhampton, smith Knuts ford, new Four Inside Post-Coach, • every Afternoon.---Only One Night on the Road, at reduced Fares. • SHEFFIELD and Rotherham New Four inside Post Coaches every Morning, called " The Express," and also 46 The Rockingham," every Afternoon, at reduced Fares. The "Royal Express," New BIRMINGHANI Light Post Coach, sets out every. Afternoon, carrying Four Inside only; passes through Warwick, Leamington, Sontham, Weedon, Daventry, Stoney-Stratford. and Towcester, to the Saracen's Head, Bull-street,„Birmiughant, early the next Morning, at reduced Fares. x h p c i t: 4, 7s e: ;l a ° wNdcewn and.ig Light t i) P o lt a C s t o e a r e , h e , v t e t r i y H N I I UL, t a t - t c o . 1 1 :1 1 , 1 N '4 o r E t Eight o'Clock, to the Cross Keys, Market-place, ; and also the Rocking ham" i n the Afternoon at Two o'Clock. HERTFORD, Ware, Hojdesdon, and Chesbuitt Coach, at reduced Fares. TO'rI'ENHAM and Edmonton Coac,ltierks,daninlay, Doncaster, Luggage Half-past Two, Five, and Eight o'clock. ••• At Reduced Pares to Leeds, l Luggage and Paelmges at only 2d per pound. S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co. respectfully acquaint their Friends mid the Public, that they will not be accountable for any Parcels. Passenger's Luggage, Writings. Plate, Sec. of more than Five Pounds Value, if lost, stolen, or damaged, unless entered as such, and this Insurance paid accord ingly, at the Sarsccies Head lath Skinner-street, Snow-hill, London. Shortly will be published, AVOICE from LONDON to the VOICE from ST. HELENA ; or, The PITT SYSTEM DEVELOPED, in a Publication, from Autographs of certain Missions from the British Ministers to France, in the Years 1788, 1799, 1801. Prefaced by a brief Sketch of Napoleon's Pacific Views, and the existing State of Things, arising out of the system pursue/1 to procure " Indemnity for the past, and Security for the future." By PETER MOORE, Esq., M. P. One of the Representatives of the City and County of the City of Coventry, in Six successive Parliaments. - " Cedant arena togce."—CteEftcr. London: Published for the Editor by Stephen Couchman, 10, Throgmorton-street ; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 20, Paternoster-row ; and to be licul . of all Booksellers in Town and Country. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Site,—The foregoing communication has been withheld from the Public, in expectation of the Documents which were to have been laid before Parliament, concluding7that those Documents would exhibit the unreserved Manifesto of the British Cabinet on the present unsettled state of Europe. This official delay has disappointed the Public, and rendered it doubtful, whether the information, when given, will be as full and satisfactory as the Nation unanimously expects froni official Trustees. Historical record exhibits a manifold variety of Manifestoes. Amongst others, the very extraordinary—the famous Manifesto of the Duke of Brunswick, when the Confederates of Pilnitz, the Monarchs of Russia and Austria, blew the trumpet of war upon the People of France. In similar terms, we have now before us the Manifesto of Louis the Eighteenth against the People of Spain. By the " development of the Pitt System, the world may be amused with something in the character of commentary on the general system of diplomatic Manifesto ; which, in the Kesent instance, in the absence of royal, may be denominated popular auspices : and of popular auspices, why not take the designation the most congenial, and call it,—The Coventry Manifesto ? which, by attentive perusal, will be found, and unanimously decided by the universe, to be far better calculated for the peace and welfare of all nations, than all the conjoint Manifestoes and Declarations of all the Con spirators in the Royal Confederacy, artfully and designedly levied against the natural and acquired rights of the whole po pulation of the universe. As one of the Representatives of a populous commercial city, I have felt this little exertion a duty, to assist every individual of the community interested in the issue to form his own judgment of pas;ing events ; and I lament that this Coventry Manifesto has not before been sub mitted to the national constituency. The Right lion. Secretary for Foreign Affairs has given us his Motto (I hope his Official Motto), in a Public Toast, at a very populous Meeting—" Civil and Religious Liberty over n il the World." The Coventry Manifesto most commensu rately embraces it : and I hope, that when all others are referred to, the Coventry Manifesto will be r,:ad with them, and issue fairly joined. _ Neutrality is professed by , our Ministers ; and, for consist ency, it cannot be doubted that the Documents, when delivered, will be found to correspond with this profession. But the Neu trality now professed, in 1823, only resembles the fume of that professed by the Cabinet in 1792, without its. fire; and the result may be the same in a less degree. Attend to times and things : 'What the Confederacy of Pilnitz was, in h os tili t y to the French People, and in amity to the Cabinet of Versailles, the Confederacy of Verona is, in hostility to th e P en i nsu l ar Nations, and in amity to the Magnanimous Ferdinand ! The British Cabinet is now, as it then was, professedly Neutral as to outward appearances,—but, in truth, it was decidedly , friendly to Louis XVI. That professed• Neutrality was too hollow to deceive the People of France ; and the nature of the present lamely disguised profession does not—cannot, escape the con. fidence of Louis :X.VIII. and his determined Confederates of Verona. In short, our professed Neutrality is the abstraction of all impediment to their designs upon Spain. Our Plenipo tentiary at the Congress has not given any Public Certificate that he was not a voluntary Subscribing Party to their Despotic designs, and the present march of their Confederacy against the Domestic Arrangements of Spain,—at least, I have not heard of any Protest of our Plenipotentiary at Verona; and •I am yet to learn that lie made any. Had our Ministers taken a more decided Position, with regard to the Confederacy of Pilnitz against the French People, the late infamous War, which I uniformly opposed, must have been averted. The Jugglery of Conduct then, seems now inevitably to conduct them into a like error, in 1923, after a woeful experience of 32 years. In proof, let us look briefly to the present hot& of these Ministerial Trustees, of the Moral Influence of our Cabinet over the Monarchs of the Holy Alliance. These Ministers have uniformly affirmed, that this Moral Influence has been exerted to the utmost, to avert the Iniquitous Attack on Spain. —The present Position of things proves ghat this boasted In fluence is a Nullity,—divested of the corrupt influence of Ittßney, far, far worse than a Nullity: and that, if our Moral Influence ever did. exist, the Curtain for ever dropt at the last Act of the Farce at Verona. I believe, our only Moral In fluence was exclusively vested in our Money ;—I do not believe we ever had any other Influence ;—and that, our Money gone, the Moral Influence fled with it. . . As to any specific grounds for averting the evils consequent on the threatened war, what ground more specific can he re quired by our State Physicians, than the hostile array and de clarations of Louis himself ? What more specific ground than the toast of our Right Honourable Secretary himself?—" Civil and Religious Liberty over all the World !!!" And what does the declaration of Louis XVIII. aim at other, than the destruction of Civil and Religious Liberty in all the Peninsular Nations, and through him, the, destruc tion of Civil and Religious Liberty throughout the world. Our declared neutrality, and its effectS, are not on a par with their notable boast, that the finances of this country are in am ple condition to enable us to go to war. If so, instead of that moral aim of war, why not have. taken a more decided line at Verona? An animated protest, and the departure of our re. presentative, would have worked wonders. Such an-appeal to the British people would have spoken a voice of thunderouire vibrat ing throughout the nations of. Europe than the united thunder Of the four Gentlemen of Verona; and more effectual in avert ing the threatened attack upon Spain, than the calm neutrality of the British Cabinet. If our finances were so flourishing, why not arm, so as to prevent the entrance of the hostile armies into the Peninsula, rather than suffer them, Arst to occupy the soil, and then attempt to drive them out again. For this, if successful, the Spanish and Lusitanian people will thank von no more than the desired Louis will. Prevention is better than cure ; but, in this case, the first means of prevention have not been resorted to. Every means of peace, from that of A ix-la.Cluipelle down to that of Paris, proves, that victory abroad is utterly useless to obtain indemnity for the past, or security for the future, in the absence of wisdom, or, if you like it better, of politi. cal sagacity in our negotiators. The appearance of a Bri tish Fleet in the Mediterranean, and of British bayonets, with the patriotic Mina in the Pyrenees, would have done more for the real cause of Civil and Religious Liberty over all the world, not even excepting Greece and Naples,than all the moral (or immoral) influence our Cabinets ever possessed ; or, what is saying a great deal, would have done more for that sacred cause than even the Speeches and Toasts of the whole British Cabinet ; which; however calculated to be the grace and the ornanuTt of Oratory, have not thunder enough to frighten the four Gentlemen of Verona from their purpose of stifling rational and national Liberty in. its very cradle. I have the. luinour to be, Sir, • Your very obedient Servant, - Epping, April 4, 11123. I'. MOORE. • SUN. LITERARY NOTICE. GERMAN POPULAR STORIES : translated from the KINDE a and HA u s MARcitEN, collected by M.M. GRIMM' ti from oral tradition. Second Edition, London, 1823. This is the most entertaining little book that we have read for some time ; it has carried us back to the days of our childhood, and recalled the delightful associations, with which we then perused the redoubtable histories of " Tom Thumb," " Jack the Giant Killer," and the other worthies, who, when we were young, formed the heroes of the nursery. It is translated from a collection of tales, compiled with great industry, 44 by the , diligence of JOHN and WM. GIII3IM, two antiquarian brotTiers of the highest reputa tion," and we conceive that the _public are highly indebted to the translators, and to the publisher. We are no friends to that system of education which has banished from the nursery the popular tales of our country ; and we shall be happy if this attempt at bringing us acquainted with the superstitions and traditions of the continent, should, by instituting an inquiry into the common origin of these tales, cause more attention to be paid to our own national ones, which can be ct proved to be of the highest northern antiquity, and common to the parallel classes'of society in countries whose populations have been long and widely disjoined." We perfectly agree with the translators, that, 44 The rich collection from which these tales are selected, is very interesting in a literary point of view, as affording a new prlinf of the wide and early diffusion of the gay creations of the . imagination, apparently flowing from some great and mysterious fountain bead, whence Calmuck, Russian, Celt, Scandinavian, and German, in their various ramifications, have imbibed their earliest lessons of moral instruction." It is singular that, as we 'learn from our trans lator's preface, the German and the Neapolitan Tales, though the latter were till lately quite un known to foreigners, bear the strongest and most minute resemblances. Referring to the North, -perhaps the most • remarkable coincidence whiCh occurs is in the English .and German versions of the song to the Lady Bird, or ' 4 Nlarien Warm chen." In England, we have never heard more than one stanza—the second ; but it appears that the entire` song, as found in Wunderhorn, consists of three stanzas, a translation of which is now given to the public. We are sure that our young readers—and many of our old ones too —will thank us for an opportunity of perusing it. " Lady-bird ! lady-bird ! pretty one, stay ! • Come, sit on my finger, so happy and gay ; With me shall no mischief betide thee : No harm would I do thee, no foeman is near ; I only would gaze on thy beauties so dear, Those beautiful winglets beside thee. " Lady-bii:d ! lady-bird ! fly Away bonne ! Thy house is a-fire, thy children will roam ; List, list! to their cry and bewailing: • The pitiless spider is weaving their doom, Then lady-bird, lady-bird ! fly away l!ope! Hark, hark ! to thy children's bewailing. " Fly back again, back again, lady-bird, dear ! Thy neighbours will merrily welcome thee here, With them shall no perils attend thee : They'll guard thee so safely from danger or care, They'll gaze on thy beautiful winglets so fair, • And comfort, and love, and befriend thee." This is altogether the cheapest volume that has for a long time fallen in our way ; as, inde pendently of its fair proportion of good letter press, it contains twelve highly humorous etch ings, by GEORGE CRUIKSILANIE. The translators think with us that" the popular tales of England have been too mach neglected ;" for, as Lord BACON has somewhere in substance observed, " the occasional perusal of works of ftsncy and fiction has not only a delightful but a highly salutary effect in elevating and expanding the human intellect. We could be well content to find, in the nursery, somewhat less of philosophy, and somewhat more of poetry and romance." ESCIIEAT TO TIIE CROWN !-WM. LOVETT, of Sapcote, in this county, farmer and grazier, was, in his lifetime and at the time of his death, seized m possession, free from in. cumbrances, of a farm-house, with suitable outbuildings, and about 30 acres of freehold land, situate at Sapcote aforesaid. —He died intestate on the 16th day of June, 1805, leaving his only daughter and heiress-at-law, Cattarn Hill, widow, him surviving. Sometime after his decease, Mrs. Hill in termarried with Mr. Henry Townshend, of Aston 'Elam- Ville, in the County of Leicester, farmer and grazier. Mrs. Townshend also died intestate, on the 28th February, 1811), without having had any issue, leaving the said Henry Town shend her surviving, and in possession of the said estate, Mr. Townshend had an estate for life in the premises, by a deed of settlement made prior to his marriage with Mrs. liill ; but upon his decease, which happened in the year 1810, the uses of such settlement were at an end. Since the decease of Mr. Townshend, diligent search has been made for the heir-at-law of Mrs. Cattarn Townshend, and advertisements for such heir have appeared in the London Gazette, and some of the provincial Newspapers, but without success. On the 12th day of October last, a commission of escheat from the Crown respecting this estate was executed at the Three Crowns' Inn, in Leicester, the Under-Seriff and a respectable Jury, when after the examination of verysatisfactory evidence as to the seizin of the said Cattarn Townshend, and her decease without heir, such estate was seized into the hands of the King, upon the discovery of Charles Wild, of Hinckley, in the County of Leicester, Gentle man, made by his . memonal to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, bearing date the third day of Februaiy, 1821.—( Leicester Journal, April 4.) DUBLIN, Arius. F,AN commenced his engagement of one fortnight at our Theatre last night. The character chosen for the occasion was that in which he achieved his fame and fortune--/?iehard the Third. He has performed she wily Glo'ster in this city so frequently, and so lately, that we do not think it necessary to offer any particular remarks on his effort of last night. We do not observe that any change has taken place in Mr. KEAN'S appearance, or style of acting, since we had the pleasure of seeing him last in Dublin. llis reception on his entrance, was, as usual, highly flattering. The house was not remarkably well attended, ,but this wait not sur prising on Easter Monday. To-night he plays one of his most celebrated characters, Sir Giles Overreach.—( Dmblin Paper.) COWES, APRIL 2.—Yesterday Lieut. .Moour:, R.N.. coni rnanding the Newtown preventive boat, crept up 91 tubs orcon traband spirits in '!'hornets Eay, where they had been sunk by the smugglers, and deposited them in the . custom-house this morning. PRICJ SEVEN PENCE. FOR THE SUN. BEER. MR. EDITOR—The CHANCELLOR of the Ex. CHEQUER having brought a Bill into the House of Commons to allow the brewing of weak Beer, at , a reduced rate of duty, in breweries used for that purpose only, and for selling it for out of duo r consumption in other places than alehouses, allow me, through the medium of y our Paper, to make some observations on the said Bill. I consider the measure to derive its chief im portance more from its being the commencement of a change in the Beer Laws, than from any great advantage that the consumer or the farmer will derive from it. It is the common practice in the town from which I write (13ridport) for the publicans to sell a mixture of strong and small been, in different proportions, according to the wish or the means of their customers. Now,it is easy to brew those beers sufficiently strong (and in fact it is done so), that when mix ed in the proportions one-third strong and two thirds small, the mixture shall be considerably stronger than what is now proposed to be brewed at the lower rate of duty, (which by the by fully equal to that on good strong beer, in pro portion to the different . strengths), and as the ag gregate duty which is paid by the brewer for such is only about 4s. 3d. per barrel, (near 9d. per barrel less thah the proposed low duty), do not see any great advantage the poor consumer can draw from the change. The beverage will be too weak to sustain the operative Mechanic, or for the farmer to give to his labourers in harvest time ; nor will it prevent the poor from resorting to.the alehouse in search of a better article, which can only be done by enabling him to get every kind of malt liquor through a cheaper channel. Had the strength allowed been that of about four barrels to the quarter of malt, it would still have been a weak beer, but good enough for common purposes, which the farmer in the busy season of the year would gladly have taken from the brewer, rather than have been at the trouble of brewing, at a time when the attention of him self and family requires to be directed to matters of more consequence, by which an additional re venue would have been gained. But in fact the plan of restraining the brewer from using more than a certain quantity of malt, in proportion to the strength, is a bad one, and may often oblige him to pay the high duties, and subject him to penalties for brewing a forbidden✓' quality of beer in his stinted brewery, if the mis take of his servants should bring the quantity a few gallons less than is allowed by law. Why not do as is now done with table beer, that is, fix a price above which it is not to be sold, and allow the brewer to make it as good as a free competition, and favourable circuit,- stances will enable him ? The obliging a man who already has a brewery sufficient for the pur pose to build another solely to brew this weak beer, appears to me to be needless : at present both strong and small beer are allowed to be brewed, not only in the same building, but also in the same utensils ; and the chief means the Excise have of preventing frauds by mixing, is, (independent of the certificates lately intro duced, and which are in general paid but little attention to) by having the different sorts kept in different cellars, and the casks used for stor ing and for sending out the small, marked with a large 'l' under heavy penalties :—now if this is sufficient for preventing frauds in beers where the duties are so different in amount, surely similar means might be used with equal success when the temptation to fraud is so much less. The proposed law is a kind of experiment, and there are very many places where it is quite uncertain if the kind of beverage will take; in such situations few Kill be inclined to lay out a large sum in building a brewery upon so great an uncertainty, when they would gladly make the trial if they could be allowed to do it on their oldpremises. When enacted it will be but an infant law, which no doubt will subsequently undergo great alterations; and it a person could be induced to risk his property in setting up such an establish ment, by the time he has got it compleated, he may find that all he has been doing is rendered useless, and he will have expended a consider able sum for nothing, There is one description of poor whose com forts are not provided for by the bill, that is, the poor traveller ; he is not even allowed to stand up on the premises and drink his beer. !light he not with propriety be allowed to rest himself for one quarter of an hour ?—and might not others be allowed to drink their beer standing on the preMises, as is done in gin-shops ? J. W. Mer..tsrcuoLY llE.turn a builder, late of Salter's-buildings, Connon-street. road, St. George's in the East, who was missing from his house for three days, was yestvrday morning discovered hanging by a cord from one of the joists in the ground floor of an untenanted house in Batty's-building's, Berner -street, Corn. mercial-road. The unfortunate man was observed for some days back to be in a low desponding state. lie had lately purchased several houses (in one of which he was found hanging) to con• siderable disadvantage, in the neighbourhood o f the Commercial-road, which is supposed to have affected his mind ; ho has left a widow with six orphans to bewail his loss. e e d~ .c