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fact, thodkht be eoula not Ozerttiso his ip; parent and new sovereignty more advantageously than. in reality despoiling himself, and appointing the-General in Chief of the British Army to the Supreme command of the Sicilian forces, and pub licly. and .solemnly - acknowledging him in that ',capacity. "Thus British policy has crowned its loyal and amicable intrigdes, which, according to the Mes sina Gazettes, had no other objea than the pro teetion of the independence of the Sicilian Go- Vernment. CAROLINE retiring, or pretending to retire, !tom the thoughts and perplexities of this world, 6 8 gone to the solitary distril of Termini. 1 - 1 ,, w many evils would the world have bectn spared had Sh e adopted a similar resolution in other times when reason ought so to have advised her, without waiting . 10 be constrained to it by the force which at 'pre sent protean her !" PARIS, FEB.' 3.—Peniscola, 13 leagues from Tartosa, has just submitted to Marshal SUCHET.— This fortress, situated upon the borders of the sea, by Which 't is almost surrounded, upon an extremely elevated point 'of land, is between Tortosa and Va lencia, and very difficult of access. Marshal Su- CtIET eumentrd himself with watching it, during Ills operations aga 7 nst- BLAKE'S army. After the surrender of Valencia, he commenced the siege of Which presented new obstacles to surmount and fresh glory to be acquired. - There now remains nn place to be subdued from Tortos a to Alicant, hick t;ie Duke of A LBUFERA is Preparing to besiege hi form; his army is already in Motion, and will soon be under the walls of that P l ace, to which the wreck of BLAKE'S army has refired. • SRMLIN, FEB. B.—The Servian Senate has re-, te iteel very important dispatches from its agents, W hich it forwarded to the Rossign head-rpiarters.— report was'immrdiately circulated that the reply • of the Russian Court to the last propositions made b• y the Rolle had strived at Bucharest, which was, Bs had been foreseen, viz, that Russia 'found the pre lensitms of the Porte as exaggerated as those of Rnssia b• ad appeared to the Porte. This reply has, it is sa id, been sent to Conw,ntinople by the Turkish 14• 'e gociators, who expect tresit instructions from the ir Government, which will, in all probability de cide the question of peace or war. NrtRuNA, Fits. 12.—A report . was circulated to• ; 15 ' on_ the exchange, that the negociation4 at Bu c l atest wele entirely broken off, and that hostilities W° uld insmed;ately commence' after the time fixed ler the denunciatiOn of the armistice. This im- Portant intelligence requires confirmation ; but what gives it a gt eat - appearance of pro'oability, is, that all alleletters which arrive from Bucharest have never ceased to repeat that no progress was made, and t hat t he negociators could tiot agree on any point, but in general our news' from Turkey is - very uncertain. It i 3 difficult to comprehend that nothing should be 116 % 1, n with certainty since the middle of the month (:)f October, either relative to the Grand Vizier or t o the army shut up in Rudschuck, or indeed any fact whatever. VIENNA, FEB, Ht.—The Russian Minister at our Court has received important dispatches from Ge neral KuTvzow, dated Bucharest. kNothing has /e t been made public on the subject, but persons 1.11 r) Pretend to be well informed Assert, thatthere s lk , longer any probtlxiity of the re-establishment i p e ace betwe en th e P orte an d Russia. The Rus. Stan Gen era l s, i n tact, are beginning to make pre ar4ti°ns, which seem to indicate that hostilities will be r esum e d in the spring. i V. "4INa, Faa. 12.—Some per sons p reten d t h a t "e Grand Seignor has addressed new Haiti Sho - ifs 10 t he Pach as o f t h e prov i nces, to summon them to 1 urtl isb• more numerous contingents of ti oops.— ; he se ord ers h ave even been addressed to the ac h4s . of Asia. Great exertions are likewise made to reinforce the Ottoman fleet, which, as soon as the weat her shall be favourable v-111 sail for the Baltic. Several eommercill letters were to-day circulated 134 our exchange, announcing the rupture of the ne gotiatio ns b etween t h e P orte an d R uss i a. The l et ters are from Temeswar, Herm3nstadt, and Pest. We ought, however, always to be cautious how we act upon intelligence with respect to the afli4irs of. Turkey, as experience has sufficiently proved that a ny speculators invent it with interested views. esterday Lord COCHRANE had an audience of . th e PRINC E REGENT, at C.4lton House. t R er On Sunday L or d CASTLEEAGH had a long in view with the Marquis WELLESLEY, at . his house PiceaJilly. Yesterday the Earl of WESTMORELAND had an t r s it erview with M r . P ERCEVAL, at hi s h ouse i n 1-I°W ning-StrCet. Yesterday Lord CASTLEREAGH. held his first ' L o evee for t h e F ore i gn Ministers at the Foreign Q , l nce, since hi s appointment to be Secretary of ' for Fo re i gn A f f a i rs. T he L evee b egan at three O'clock. L Yesterd ay morning the Duke of YORK, was so alu e h recover e d as to b e a bl e to lease town for Oat land. NAVAL NEWS: PORTSMOUTH, MARCH. 2.— Sailed his M:ijesty's ship Muros. A transport brig is on shore on the 8136 Rock off the Needles, belonging to the Lisbon convoy. Sir ROGER CURTIS assures us, the West India convoy will sail to-morrow, if the wind be fair. Arrived to-day his Majesty's ships Redpole, Specu lator, Regulus, GiVin, and Sprightly, with a large convoy from the Downs. Sailed the Warrior and Linnet for Cork. DEAL, MARCH 2.—Came down from the River, the Lightning, for St. Michael's, and with several others sailed.to the westward; the Barbara schooner take convoy to • Portsmouth ; the Pearl, CROKeR, came down last night and sailed with the Specula tor's cotivoy. LEITH, FEB. 20.—The Hele armed ship sailed from Leith Itoads on Thursday, with a convoy of 13 sail for the Baltic. Arrived yesterday, the Eseria sloop of war from a cruise. She captured a Datlish gallica last Mon- di)'. The Dex‘erily, Thomas and Ann, 11/illivn and Ann, and Raiih, went out of the harbour yesterday, to the Roads, for Davis Straits ; the William and Ann gor aground going out, but Was fortunately got off without any damage. The Sarpedon sloop of war went out of the hat bour yesterday, to the Roads, after being refitted. The Mary, MUNRo, with timber (ram Pi6lou, arrived on Thursday, in Leith Roads, after an asto nishingly tedious passage of eleven months. The_ Leith, PYBIE master, arrived yesterday at Leith from Hull, after a remarkably fine passage. Oa hundred men of the 2d iattalion of the 79ih, and Go men of the 2d battalion of the 26th regi ment, from Glasgow, were embarked at Leith yes terday for Gravesend. On . Sathrd.w last his Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER -removed from Portman square io Gloucester Honse, late Lord ELGIN'S, in Park-lane, Piccadilly. MUSIC.—MeS+rq. KNY VETT and VAUGHAN cOrninerc , id the season of their VOCAL CoNCERT last night at the Hanover-square Rooms. There was a large and able supply of Performers, vocal end in-strumental. • The chief vocal Performers were 8(4r1A31, NALL)] • the KNYt'ETTS, the VAuGIiA Ns, Madame DUSSEK, Signora GRIGLIETTI, SALE, ion. aod Hsi - sot-IER. With such a list, of course, the - dmu[crus had reason to expeM a. hits treat, and they were not disapp"ointed. The first a a con,,isted of a judicious selection from various .Composers, and the seccy , d of the first acct of Don Juan, composed by AlozArtT, an exquidte 1 iece of music. It is but justice to say, that the whole of the compositions received all due support from the Singers and from the &Ind, which was most a 41 4, hed by WErcHsrf.i.. The only encore. of the night was a Duel in Don Juan by Frscnen and Mad. DUSSEK. FISCH all, as we predt&ed, is more relished as he is more heard. He is an excellent musician, and when he has accommodated his style more to the English taste, will become a great favourite. We have not room to2particularize the merits 61 this Concert which altogether was highly applauded. The atidience was numerous and elegant, among whom were the 'likes ul CUMBER.LAND and CAMBRiDGE the Archbishop of Yorm, Lord and Lady DERBY, the Lords FORTESCUR and MOUNT EDGECUM3E., &c. &c. &c. • Baron BARnIE, late Governor of Ciudad Rodrigo, Lieutenant Col. HusioN, Captain 'I VAULT, and M. Ds VALUER, Guarde of- Artillery, with two servants, arrived on Tuesday at Portsmouth, in the Brune, trom Portug.al, in eight days. They were to be landed yesterday, 'and proceed to Leake, in Derbyshire, on their parole. JAMES DRUMMOND, Esq. otStrathalian, is a can didate for the county of Perth. The other candi dates are, Sir PATRICK 'MURRAY, and Lieut.-Ge neral Sir THOMAS GRAHAM. .The late Dr. GARTIISHORE is reported to have died worthsnear.2oo,oool. He hid not made his will till within three or four days of hi, death, and has left the whole of his tune lo a very distant rela tion. Many of his friends in London, it is said, had reason to expect to be remembered in I►is tk ill, but it appears that they have been wholly forgot ten Mrt. ALLINGH4M.—We are sorry to inform th e public of the death of this gentleman,- which look place on Frichly last at Islington, after a long conti nued illness. He was the author of several of our beet modern farces, and had strewn his dramatic powers in two or three comedies, which were much admired, and which merit a more frequent repre serita:ion. He was a manly intelligent character in private life,and,much respected by a numerous train of friends. BREAD.—This day the Lord-Mayor and Alder men, after inspecting the returns, ordered it to ad vance Id. per peck. The (pattern loaf 161 d. On. Tuesday evening last, about ten oc'clock, as the cart iage at Sir James Like, Bart. was w siling for the family at the door of J. P;i r hes, Esq. in Wal wick, the post-boy having left the head of the horses,. they set off at full speed, and every effort to stop them %vas, ineffeelual ; the next morning they were dis covered at the gate Of a farm, at Radford. It ap peared that they had passed through the toll .Dates of Myttin and Radford, unperceived that they were without a driver, when they fortunately took the bye road to- Mr. Ayres's farm, where they were stopped by a gate, and remained till morning : for tunately neither carriage nor horses sustained any PoEtitY. EptLoGue TO THE HOUSE OF MORViLLE SPOKEN BY MRS. EDWIN. A Plays a law-suit, quaking at the end on't, The Plaintiff, Author, sues the Town, Defendant: The Judges you —the Students further back— The Prologue's the Solicitor in black : The Counsel I .—My Lords, nay, no denial, Linove tomorrow night for a new trial. Rule granted ? Thanks ! Tit' effe‘t my fee secures ; This hand is nobly paid when you clap yours. But hold—no joking. Veil me, tragic fog I Crave Plays demand a gloomy Epilogue. Suppose me ya fi et—may I beg yon Beau To treat the Public with a It.mio Here's a clear stage, " exceeding snug :" Nay, why So bashful, man ? Then both the parts I'll try, And " You, the I ily.ss, bear a wary eye." " Lady, by yon bright moon I swear." Be steady : " Don't- swear by the Moon I You're mad enough already. (Nurse.)—You can't sit there: what are you about, Sir ? I was in; Sir. No, Sir, there you're out. Silence, you In's and Out's—" We'll part no more— Fly to these arms !" —Box-keeper, shut that door " I list, R9me9, hist! Love fears no harsh rebuff:" " Yes, I am Rwnen hist, that's plain enough." (liouse.)—Encore! Ha! Off; off.—Go -on—don't stir Send in the Manager 1,-(Afrs E.)- --Your pleasure, Sir? - (1 - kuse.)—Psha l stuff! —What, you the Manager ? A Woman ? (Mr s . E.)—.. When married, Sir, you'll find that's not un, Common." " Sweet, while I live I'll love, won't you 1" Oh, nol 4 ' My plan's quite different—while 1 live I'll crow !" , Thus blown by fashion's gale awhile to pun, Down folly's tide still floats the bubble, fun: Comedy the gilded vapour quaffs From Sati►e's cup, and as she sips she laughs, Soon shall the Muse in yonder classic dome Find a graced welcome, and a splendid hofne; • Each day we see her growing fame arise, Till, like a Phoenix, Drury seeks the skies ; Nor fears, while dills the Giant braves the wind, That 1, though small, will long remain behind. No I dreading from the distance to look sihaller, I'll mount an Elephant to make me taller! Give our poor Bard nine nights, he'll nor repine, Cats have nine lives—a White Cat five times nine. Oh ! joyful pledge—that smile dispels our fear, And bids the House of Morvilleprosper here I ROYAL ACADEMY.—Mr. FLAXMAN gave his . third Lecture on Sculpture laSt night. It commenced with a summary recital of the treasures of Ancient Art and Literature possessed by the Moderns, not withstanding the des!ruction of time and war, and the ingenious Professor spewed that those remains are, in general, sufficient for our information, con cerning the state of knowl,,dge in different periods of antigaity, as well as to form the principles, and stimulate the exertions of• all who dire6t their attention .10 such studies. The Professor proceedei to animadvert on the barbarous state 01 Sculpture in the d , ys of D/EDALCS, .E 1,11.- DII<US,,SCYLLI4, and DIPMNI3, and upon the slow progress of the Art, , occasioned by the unsettled stale Qt society. He. adverted to the ARGONAUTIC Expedition, the THEBAN aiid TI-P•SAN Wdrs,,A hid), of course, were impediments to the adtauces of Sculpture, and produced no great alteration in the In:inners or policy of the Greeks. • The contest with XERXES, however, which struck the titst lat.d blow to the Persian power, and made way for the third great Monarchy of the world, the Grecian, stimulated the spirit of Greece to the greatest exer tions. Then in the constellation of illustrious cha raelers, SOCRATES, PLATO, ANAXAGORAS, TIADES, CYMON, JESCHYLUS, EURIPIDES, SOPHO qLEs,.PH/DIAS, &c. &c. appeared, and superintend ed the erection of works , that were to excite the wonder arid admiration of all future ages.—.. Mr. F. touched upon th e b u ildi ngs patronizedc' by PERI CLEs, and particolmized the temple of MINERVA, her statue of gold and ivory, thirty feet high, OLYMPIAN JUPITER of Elts, which rose to sixty feet, the Venus, Cupid and Satyr, by PRAXITELES, upon which the Prolessot bestowed pecuii.ir atten tion, as well as the Venus Aphrodite of CLEO MENES, the groupes of LAocooN, of the BOXERS, and that of ZETHUS and AMPHION tying DIRGE to the horns of a wild Bull, &c. &c. The chief Schools of Sculpture of Antiq'iity were, he ob served, the ATHENIAN, SICYONION, and JIM/DIAN. The Lecture was illustrated by a number of dr.,w ings and cast:, and as our Readers will perceive by this brief sketch, abounded in valuable and i.,te- testing matter. Mr. WiwiTox, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, a Gentlemai of acknowledged talents and learnine,, and Of the most respectable character in priyatelite, has written a Poem, the purpo,e of which is to do hosiotir to his country. It might be ' thought that a Gentleman of this de:cription, writing up .n a matter of taste, not related to poli tics, would have escaped the attacks of party spleen. A dill : ea:lice in 'political principles . , however, in these tunes, stifles every liberal feeling, and accordingly We find in an Opposition Print of this day, a sarcastic notice of the Poem in question, and of the Author. It is hardly necessary to say, that if Mr. WoARTON'S politics 'were favourable to Opposition, thi s v ery Poem would, in all probability, have been held forth as a-striking production of origioal genius, and the author have been represereed as one of the most distinguished ornaments of his country. It is touch to be regretted that the Muses cannot escape from party virulence, and that political con tentions destroy all the urbanities of private life. A most singular ad of bravery was displayed a few days since at Plymouth by a Mr, Holmes, mid shipman of the Diana frigate. During one of the late heavy gales, being ordered to strike their yards, a seaman aloft lost his hold and fell overboard; Mr. Holmes sprung over after him, and secured the man with a rope before;he scarcely drifted astern of the ship. Mr. Holmes has twice performed the same galiaetry, and has been promoted to the sank of , &OILY. PALtiltotO BAY, JAN. 2t.-.-Since the appoint* ment of Lord Wm. Bentinck as Captain-a-neral of all the troops in the island., Major-Genera! M'Far lane has been appointed to command at this place. The Queen has been in a sad rage at the fugitive Princes returning. There were more than ri'o carriages went out of Palermo, on the Montreal, to meet Prince Belmonte and the rest of the Princes, who have not, however, arrived, owing to the bad ness of the weather; as yesterday we had a dreath., ful gale of w i n d, w h en t h e Ch at h am tr a nsport, Captain Weldon, went ashore, with an ordnance store-ship, and both must be lost. I The E.perviei' gun-brig cut away her masts. The Millbrd and other ships in the Bay were in a' perilous situation. The Swallow is arrived this day frOm the By of Naples ; and the Espoir from Utica, with the Prince de Achi. The Swallow Was . chased by a French frigate, which the Menelaus, Sir Petet Parker, went in cha9e of. Lord Wm. Bent mck was to have gone to Messina . this week, in the illiy'ord, to inspect the troops, &C. but the Sicilians were in such alarm and ferment, lest they should, front the want of his presence, fall a sacrifice to the rage of ihe Quten's party, that' hi Lordship gave up his intentions 'for the present. Had not the matters in dispute been adjusted, ihtt - massacre would have been dreadful, train the ani• mosity the Sicilians bear to the Queen's party.--4 Lord Wm. Bentinck is held in the highest estima tion for his firm and judicio . us 'condu6t in this busi ness. The increased duties on our merchants' goods are already taken off. Letters have been received froM Malta o 1 the 25th ultimo; they contain nothing new of a poi,- tical nature, but state that the exchange had, risen 17 per cent. and was at that period as high as 6 . 8-. PROMOTION BY PURCllA§R.—Returrs of all Offi cers prepared to purchase Promotion ate to be rep+ lady transmitted from each regiment and corn: in the service, on the 25th days of March, June, September, and December, 10 each year, to the Commander in Chief' s Military Secretary, Horse Guards; London. The Returns must be prepared according to 'the prescribed form, and must p Ird culatly state where the money of each individual who is desirous of purchasing is lodged, or to be obtained. The Nottingham Riper of Saturd.”, does not make any mention of' disturbances during the last week : but a disposition to tiot, we regret to state, has manifested itself near Huddersfi in Yorkshire. Last Saturday week a number .of persons assembled near the premises of Mr. Joseph Hirst, of Marsh, with their faces blacked, and their persons in other respeas disguised,' and having forcibly obtained admittance into the dressingi-shops, proceeded to destroy all the 'machinery used in the dressing of cloth, such as dressing frames, sheats,and other implernents;used in what are commonly called gig -mills, the whole of which they coin pletely demo lishe.d. The same, or a similar party, then proceeded to the workshops of Mr. J. Balderson of Crossland Moor, where michinery of a sihair description is employed upon which they committed similar de predations, completely destroying or rendering use less the, whole of the machinery. Thedepr,-dationi appeared to the MagistrAeslo be of so alarming , nature, that they were induced to apply to'Getterol Vise, at Beverley, for military, aid, who dispatched an express to Leeds,• with art order for the troop of Scotch Greys stationed there, to proceed immedi ately •tO Huddersfield. It not thing t hoogl4-expe,- client to leave Leeds without ; military, a squadron `of cavalry was marched from Shetfild, and arriv4d about nine o'clock on Tuesday morning ; and in the afternoon of the same day a squadron of the 2d Ora goln C'Tuards, stationed at the barracks near York, ~,e re dispatched to Huddersfield, to relieve the Scotch Greys, who returned to Leeds on TiiklrB lay. A divi;ion of the Scotch nova's has passed thro' Chichester, on their route to Portsmouth, for ern.- barkation. The exhibition of cattle in Smithfild yesterday evinced, in a striking manner, the highly improved management which the spirit of agricultural im provement has introduced into this country. The sheep attracted particular notice, and the Merino breed got up, from the day's show, full twenty per cent, in general estimation. Wild rabbits throughout the country have, we are informed, alarmingly increased since they were put under the protection of ►he game. laws. The consequence is, that held crops of almost all kinds suffer greatly. Wheat (espe cially if it be sown on thin gravelly land) is their favourite winter food ; the damage' done by theirs to such crops is incalculable, many acres of this most valuable grain in the different counties be ing annually much injured, or totally destro.ie(l,. Sri the great detriment of the farmer,-and most seriotts loss to the public. The fecundity of the rabbit is truly astonishing. It breeds seven times in the year, and generally-pt o duces eight young at a lime ; from which it is ealcu la,-ed that one pair may increase, in the course of four years, to the amazing number of 1,274,840 ; so that, it frequent reduelions were nth made in various ways, there is reason to apprehend they ;souk soon ekceed the means of their support, And over- run the face of the country.—lu Spain they formerly in creased to such a degree, a's to becorne so noxi ous , that the inhabitants were obliged to procure tenets from Africa to destroy them. The fruits of the earth ought not to given up a prey to vermin, especially at a rime when our crops are defective, and the means of procuring a foreign supply is both so difficult and unprofitable ! Rabb is are the greatest enemy of the planter; their ravages among young plantations are well-known : frus trating, where they are numerous, all attempts of the kind. Young hedges and the tops of seedling trees (which might furnish a fu ture navy), are to them a choice repast, disbarking those whose tops they cannot reach ; and. wire they are suffered in a wood, and occasionally shot at there, the trees seldom escape being so Is. ccrated by.. the shot, that their growth ;is im peded, and the timber turns out .inferior. To all this may added, their burro - ws not on;y endanger the limbs of cattle, but waste and disfigure the surface of the ground. Under these impressions we think that something should be dont, 11,, th.