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a dispoitiusa on the .oppoiite side to votipnne the rootio., ot the thou. Mviiiber tor I'4s3eX (Mr. : 't‘ tvitich stood for Tuesday, to a foure. (lay ? This being, ob . yeted to, after a :shot t con versation, in %vhich KroitghanC, Mr. F'. Lewis, Lon! ljilt,ltt, Sir C. littskisson, and Tirrney participacvd, it was agreed .that Mr. Western's Motion should come on this day, and that : the Adjourned Oebate , shoold be resumed to two row (lVednesday.) . The Ifoio;e.thett resumed, and after a tew itn jrnportlipt ppers had been bron , lit up; adjourned at Tao o'Ck.Jcit (Lis morning. THE SUN REVIEW. (No. CXXI.) .1 .7.ll,fp:rry4it al Dictionary Of the Living .4 Whips Great If, and Ireland; colorizing Literary Nletnoirs and . of their Liyes and aClironolo;ieal Register e‘ of their Vnblications, the number of Editions printed; notices of some Foreign Writers, whose wort.' le.ve bet -a occasionally published in England. Illustrated `l.l a valiety of communications from Persons of the first ''itiiiiten're . in the world of, letters. SAO. pp. 4.1 n. price 14s. • iietiTy COlburn, Lendott, 1316. • . . . , -. IYo seize the, earliest possible opportunity Of 'noticing this publication, not only because we Itave seldom seen one wore useful mill entertain ing-. but because the sooner the attention or the literary world is attracted to it, there will be the better opportunity for inroving subsequent editions. - 1r is heolly necessary to dwell on the utility of such a worl. as tire above title page announces. The design is admirable, and the only qnestioe for teßeview is the execution of' a plats hi itself so 'eeellent. The gut/alum eteruit Tots on this point, and we rejoice to he able to state, front a careful Inspection, that the labour, diligence, and ability devoted to this Dictionary are equal to its eon eeption. Abort ten thousand names are recorded - 7 -the army of existing writers in this age of au thorship. And these are Hot seellown like • the ary roll-call of a reetment. Short biographical sketches in some, pleasant aneerlOtee in otheri 4 end the cntalogue of their productions in all, let the Reader as it were into the private history of the whole host. We !wee thus been greatly amused by opening the volume, as if trying the Soqes rirgitianx, end discovering here one that we know, hut never sespected of the crime of printing before : there another, whom we 'knew to be " one of the fraternity," but with the number of Whose wriiks 'we were previously unacquainted : ;mini lists of tW) pohlications of cc:Marked abthors : attic nritiees of elution; and poblicationa , rit whom and of Which we' nevertheard till now'.. Merl' indeed are the eulogituns on surviving books in these pages, and not less numerous are the with the name and description of the dee:erred.' Peace Abe with their. dust---we can avmpathize 'both with the living' and the dead, 11 1 , 1 1 while pleased with the'praise of the former, ireave a sigh to the memory of the deceased. We were prepared for innumerable cunissions, nihrepresentations in a compilation like the present, and were must agreeably disap pointed in our eNpectations. To say such a wink, ‘04 , 4 s;i , r ieet , would he to speak absurdly, but we Can etateesoit truly, cle!t, there are fewer errors than Could have been enticipeteil by the most sanguine. Th e paint en quiry, the industry, and skill Which hive been , applied 'to render it worthy of the p u blic, have far exceeded any pre-conceived idea that we mild have ventured to. form on the per-, feetion which Was attainable. Doubtless the voluMe .may 'and - will be much augmented and . tmentled '; hut literary men must step forward to Aid the Etlithrs brads respect, and thus make the fdtiire editions , (we speak with confidence, spired by the nature of the work of other and. numerous editions) of a publication so' peculiarly. interesting to literature, still more deserving of i :iversal patronage. It is a ditty which ereeyAuther niece to him. self and to the communitylo which he belongs, to etiotrihetie all the information in his power towards tlili object. Such -we.knievelo he the intention of Many renitent characters who (mite - with us iii iiioity apereciating she value of the Biogra phical DictiOnery. • The Editors , will, however, still have a dilli ettly testi 'to perform. Personal vanity will press. Hiyoh them fiatteriug views of individual merit,--- Writern are the judges of their own produttious tine least to be relict! upon. _To preserve the ju . .. tegrity of the wort:, therefore, the. Etlitoys-ontst re J e er all opinitios,-- ! they most-adhere - to simple , fads, (ci'lffirts atane 'The only eeniureweitave trabestow quo their labour as it now appears, is that they have occasionally departed frOnt this system, and given characters of men and their writings. This is a dangerous coin!*, anti must belivoided.if they. desire to stern!) a real end raters! *aloe upon the hunk, it is ,impossible butt that such opinions matt be , purtial in themselves and besides, they liable to this objection, that they are still more decidedly partial . in ' not' being common to A slight 'biography, where it ean be obteine ed, is All excellent aruh entertainiag feature, bet e strenUOUSly advise that no' further attempts.be tnittle to characterize those whose writings alone ought. tri'arteak tor them in it publication of this description. the.rolitovs tell the Public all they know • (the 1110 re the better) and leave-it to (aria its own 'judgment.' it i 5 lett jeet to mention that the fault we have noticed is very rarely committed. Having introdueed that to our Readers which will introduce them to a prodigious acquaintance air, and greatly delight them by theformela, we: for the preaent, take our leave of " The iliogtaphicalpietionery of Living Authots," t pree atoning to ednimendjt as every Way worthy of gr. veobakitiaanti tuconrag (anent,. • The Paris Editors either have no news or are prevented froni telling us what they know. ,Their publications of' Friday are " lull of barrenness.". The Chamber of Deputies lvas decided on some important points of the Law to re4ulate their own Elections. On the 29th ult. M. Da ViLtat.e, the Reporter of the Committees, delivered a de. , tailed reply to all the arguments Which - had 'been urged againt their Project. He concluded by re ducing all the points in dispute to a series °flues tions,9 in number, of which the three first and most imp' taut were immediately put to the vote, and, after some warm discnssion, were thus carried Ist, That the Chamber shall not be renewed (it the revoluqonary manner) by yearly 'poi'tions, hut (according to the English system) by an entire dis solution at the end of five years, if not before dis solva by the royal authority ; 2dly, That the age . fur eligibility as a deputy 4141 be thirty-five years if single, , or thirty if married or a widower and,. 3/11y, That the ounibcr of deputies shall be 402, in conformity with the ordinance of the 21st July 1815. The other questions were adjourn6d to the following day. The number of deputies under the- Usurper was only 256, Orl-16 fewer than is now fixed under the lawful Monarch. German Papers contain a letter from a Greek of Corfu, daikeribing the general joy felt by his . Canntrymen on: the transfer of the lonian Islands to Ilritish protection. Ile expresses a wish that the moderuGreek language may be cultivated 'in these Islands. The only political article worth tran scribing from these:Journals, is a statement that tl:e • . Saxon Minister, M. Gt.ont9, s somc weeks at Berlin before' be watt it Guided 1,9 an audience of the KING of Pltu , st.t the reason of the delay was not known at last he was admitted to see the KING, who is stated to have said on this occasion, I hope that my brother your KING will be again toy friend, and that we shall' remain gontl:neigh. bums. :What has passed was inevitable; ona must try to think no more Of it." We have given some e4racts from private letters from various parts of Spain. Our com mend:ll Readers will be gratified to learn that an opening fpr their exports is likely to be made at Cadiz. The Array Estimates were last night examine:l in detail. 'I he Opposition hate not been table to lay their fingers upon one item which ill admit of reduction. Could a more direct acknowledgment be afforded that Ministers 'are rigidly .practising the svholesome eeonnmy recomaiended in the Spcech with which the Session was opened i -Ministers gill flo their duty in submitting to Parliament the proposition t for a modified and limited Income Tax ; they will develope the rea sons on which they ground its ueeessity,—they trill deation'strate the advantages which such Tax possesses Over any other measure of revenue that can be devis'ed,---they will .shew its , egna. City of pressure on those most able to bear tax titian, its justice in principle, its fairness and cheap ness in levy, and Its slight bearing upon the most oppressed and tower orders of the community : it will then be than duty of Pgrtiumnit to decide on the validity of these alignments, and we trust that they will decide wisely for the country. It is net the multitude of names which may ou any occa sion be procured as appendages to Petitions, especially Petitions against a Tax, that ought to bias a legislator oif a 'question which, if' any Tics lion ever did, appeals so rurcibly to die exercise of his own jmigemeot—to his own information, which most he supposed to be superior to the informa tion of thc Petitioners individually or collectiiely.. Ilels bound to examine the naturd did thing itself with all the lights which his understanding affords, - aml deliver himself of the great trust re posed in him according. to his conscience. The man who does this will not only hatve his reward in the consciousness of having thine his doty ; he need not fear the General 'Election Which is raised as 'a bugbear to intim..date those who dare b e honest, and despise the threats of duinagognes, cvlo lave neither the love, tle contideret, hitt the respect of the Public, %dote name they pre slime to usurp. The Debate in the House of Commons !Intl bight , ,fte is replete with interest. The exaggerstetiAlSt . retva the Country, the phantom dangers of the 'Alilitary Club, the cuckoo-song of Ficoncimy, which ispni versally declared to be. necessary (froM the throne and by the Ministers as sincerely ashy the ()Km vents of both), and all the other column-places of Opposition,, were - pressed into 'diseusslOri for the' twentieth time. 'One Member (Mr. Lott-. mots), with a good - deal of hardihood, as sures us, tbk we, have gained nothing by the peace; another, Mr. DrpttaNsoN, tells us ! ,that fifty persons are emigrating daily, and them f ore, because eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty individuals are, according to his own state ment, leaving the country annually to spend the income they derive from . it in foreign parts, he advises tlu Minister to abstain from laying cn a tax which will, retain at least five per cent. of their incomes for the benefit of the native tend , . they desert. Lord LAscet,Les, than whom few men- will contribute 'more towards an Income 'Pnx, very honourably avowed himself to be faiOurable to that measure, with such modifications as we know it to be the most.. anxious wish of the Governtnent to introduce.. What can be ac complished to remove all reasonable objee- . tious to the impost will assuredly be attempted, and, as for modifying it to pleAse those whose business is &know and who Lave no object but to embarrass the Cabinet end embroil the Colin• try, that task is too ridiculous to merit a thought. I , rt 11.111.5. AR Hulhagh, I Sul - in:oil, 1 (anernorey ad Jersy. lltic—t Fragice, 1 iiautburgh, 3 Guttonbargh, i liubtrn ) 3 Watetfurd. - riticr. of TIVS )Air AT T Ralik Stack 2SI& ZVI 3 per Cent.Pted. 3 per ren4. Cc nu . 61 4 per Cent 77-U • pew ct. Navy Ann. 90 if Bank L. Ann. k but F STOCKS 'weLvr. o'c If) , " K . India itoitthf :ii 4s. pr. ' • Extbrq. 11;114; 2s. kis. es. pr. Onoirimu, 171 Dittu for nyatent, • 1 Cum. fur AcCutillti 19. f ; wAT :It d e r RID A LOO 13G F, To-mcputow. ‘iorniti g , 40 after Evening . , 2 minutes OAT- 7. Ti 14 1 .4 SLI j. So LEM QUI! littieftE riasusi AUPCAT ? LONDON. TLIESD.2 Y, Ite If 5, IslB. NAVAL NEAVS MAacidt . 4.—ArriVed the Auckland packet silt!' a mail and passengers from Cuxha ven; Prince of Oraiige packet with a Mail and passengers fruits Holland.—Wind W. FALMOUTH, MARCH 2.—Arrived Quern the t.ineen Charlotte packet with mails from Surinam . ; she sailed from Surinam the 2d January; from Deme rara the 14th January, .antl'from Guaddloitpc the 2d February. The ship Richard, for London, sailed from Demerara with the packet. ,The Mon tague packet arrived at• Barhadoes the 21st Ja nuary, and sailed eu the 2241 fur Join=tica.;--- Wind S. ( . .;()IlitEZE‘3, COBLIATZ, FFB. 7;---We shall soon hove a very renttarkAble tri“l here, the issue or which is lookvd to ; by the public with great :itripatience. One Goerres (Editor of the Rhine Mercury); who h a s been employed for the,C two years past in the prepurtalon of .a pretty corrosive cury, wrote, about . six months ago to the Prus— sian Commissioner Saik a 'letter, - Which is' also c if • c." rather a corrosive nature ; the effects of it even not perceptible at firot. Lint now that' ' Grierres has few public lixbonrs, ,and consetpientlY more. time to attend to private concerns, his adversaries had brought an action against him far defamation ; and demand that he shall be sent for six mOnt!ts to the ilmise Of Correcti► n. The affair will b e publicly tried on the 17th of this month, and the accused has resolved to be -his own Council. If it is true that the effects of poison are the more fatal the longer they remain concealed in the.sos, ton, the accuser may well be pardoned - if •he thinks six mouths correction not unseasOnrible'.—. (Areineis Gazette, Feb. 20.) • LORD SOMMVILLE'S CATTLE Yesterday morning the aninial.i for exhibition having arrived in. Mr.,Sailler's yaid, the . 9entle 7 men who had been 'appointed by,Lortl Somerville as judges for decidiipg on the comparative merits of several animals in each class, for the pre• minims, began their examination of, the animals and certificates, and continued in kscusslons thereoO dialog most of the day, preparatory to their award, intended to be opened and read this day by his Lordship, after his dinner at free- masons` 'l"averrt, beftifelhe middle of the day a very' hill and 'respectable misplay kW assembled, and'at some itsiinds the yaid wits tiwalictuwded. Ammo{{ the company scetiuticed—. 1411.4 nt .Bedford, Earl Taltiut t I. Samerrille,•Sir Wathin William Wynne, V,`illiaut Nurthey; Esq. Mirka'. Western, , Esq.•Walterßurrel, F.sq, tt. U. Gordint l Esti, tea. Lord Somerville, whosegenerouiand ctipaefOns mind embraces so many objeets'af, seemed to take considerable interest: in the :41itt butiaa, in the yard, of ,the.proposals for further extending the beneficial efforts of a Society' be gratuttously•relieving.t.he Ruptured Poor. The ruNcE Rif-GEN r T . is so much recnveretr-as to:he wipreted to leave the Pavilion at Brighton, for Cartron.hottse, about the middle of next week; .._— Ydstenky, at two o'clock,, a Cabinet Council was held at the.Foreigu Office, which sat tilt about baltpast three.: . • , .. __ . „_ ..... A Crim. Con. cause, o f s ome notoriety, is ex.. petted to be heard at the castling Asbizes at cheltrisford, Mr. Setjeant - VatrattAN was sworn` lii it If Mita Seijeant, Mr. - BunitOW King's Cotinsel;.k fore the Lunn CHANCELLOR yesterday, in his pri.: va le room at.tho House of LorAss gn C.6!4a) VAIITION. . SUN-t,FFICE, 'Nutt: o'Cr:3ci. ' r i q't hive just reeeiVeil l'ari§ to ►lle 3+l of March : we lave holy time to make tile. fullowint extracts " The Monital'r, in the afliciai part; announces the argatiliation of tl;e'Tribuunel3 of the First In. stance of Nogent-iur-Solne ) Condoe,"Veline 4 Vesoul, and Alby. Marsha 111ask'etia.basyt.st't ptiblished a %c' morial in his justification.. "Accounts from GeneVii . stAtc., ibottlerennik t hum France have arrived there. " On the s:b Fartiary, a ship left Cadiz foi' the 'Alediterratican,-with two frigates and a brig: report says that this expedition was destined to go, in search of King tharles IV. and his Family. U They write from Brussels; that Courtin., comprised in the °Monti ance of July 2-111), Uri obtained passports . for Louisiana. '" 1 SPA I N. 4 CADIZ, JAO. s.—We have no news here; the weather is exceedingly fine ; the bay foo " f ' 145 exchange on London Vt V low ; the "911 14"iti q the poople quiet and contentel, anti trade pretty brisk. The house of Messrs. Glass, John 11 ' 1i anti Iii "„ Co. have Just recaiveti a licence. from th e for tile importation of cotton goons, which W I). rnises great individthal benefit 28 an encourageo"t for home manufactures. SEVILLE,.. JAN. 3 . —General Sir John Dosr lo arrived at the Palace, from M a drid, on the 27/4 ultimo. o JAN'. is reported that thy King :II at here with his Brother to meet their nieces 4 ,. 11 .- brides'ilie Princesses of the House of and that Gener a l D own i e i s a r r ived to ' Ad preparations tit the Palace, of which he is 61 " vernnr ; however, noticing authentic is yet h anwi jAN•'2.—ices Highness Prince 5.3"' nitz has presented his ' credentials to the Thr °l ; c : - oil - .which occasion he made a n o r a tion to ° jesty. - His Highness hi's been admitted to the honours of a Family Ambassador, with tile P u j i‘ rilcge of Entre, Ace; etc. One of the the Embassy, the Count Kauffstein, is grol" ds :', 3 of the celebraced General of that tonne, goishei n the'Seven Years War. The dity before'yemterdity, or rather the il ' t „ night of the old year, the n o tch AnthaSsatior ;07 sr gnvid Kali ; knit •on New . y e „c s Duche.slthtimlci Fete waz attended by tiie Or . ' ll ‘ S ti t a t! t wc t g "lord' the t Pc i chicle: cpisirt 1 'i o c:Pc 1 ) : 1 14( ;: t : 1-11' f lit' ; it:The,"Csti)i t tPrtti'fle.M":)ntmorency, •ion t () Ltinit', the French Ambassador has left thii": PitHt for Paris. The Pvimie is making preP B i llti gr t . i i . tor a G-ala; but it ‘6ll not be held till ktf" r ri Anhiversarl of the NlArtvrtloin ot, Limns :57‘:"„ FRENCH PAMRS. - - PAS'S NLUICIt 1.. —The new organization 0(.1" iVnr thrice. 'is definitively arinnged. %Ve " 1 “ I ' l '' stand that hi consequence 230 - clerks and Bs3is* tants will be reduced.. Yesterday, the 'Duke of Angnuleine re ou '',`, the Royal mud National 'Unrolls on din v . '''''''' were !mustered toilhe purpose in the Cotri a 04.; Carousal, l jflrta 7 The tour hitely 'made by' Lucien Buono through the Papal States, induced 'the belier he u-a.-r about todepart privately for t hi lt the supposition was itutounded, as In point of Lucien has returned to Rome, and tiro 15 no !II:: Vearattee of his intention to depart tor•the.o(ll"' hemisphere. In the Chamber of Deputies of Feb. 29, the bate on the newly proposed artangethent Elections of the Deputies Was c On t in tt ed. . ns Letters from Milan state, that the negoci3tw-._ between the Cour:3 of Vienna and 'lrwin are ', e ~ rit;naterl amicahly, and that Sardinia has agicc"." the Session of Alexandria. - to Marshal Massena has PUblished rtat ' answer to the Petition tr um - the 1:01 1 ) 1 "7 - „ d ; I :s Rhone, presented to the 'Chamber - of the sitting 'of the 7th of February. TO THE IWJTOH. 01? THE sU)I• The income 'Of the 36 City Rest nisitiouistrP.,,i the Mansion liouse Meeting to-nuarow" ts , F o baps, taken together, and we hope; fur lbc ir s 4 ii and their cotintry's advantage, it is Wan il ,-T c o ; below its real amount to them, at .9 4e2,50, 0 tiv year ;of conrse, their persottal-inter e st in th e ' continuance of the Income Tax is An ecooonli..q' tilt:lust:lves, of .7E12,500 to x6'15,00 a year h ic u . it is ccrti.in, dOnbtless, that they are hot t bi t n b il ing of this large ou* nor thegiSelVCS in ntatter, but merely of die lic m uir an (If 20 , 0 - 0 . year, olio return iirg about one-hall (00100044 'of 13 years)' will have 5/. to pay each, il.t h e y Ca 4 for two years, " and. no longer." March 5. StARI.6O. • t tnd er tots .t : e l- 4 : l :ti r - d n a P.N; a r t : J, :trt i .:t r , tll ;;nt s e ili kt s 4 . r tr r A b l i •di j .:: l l l , ti t l4 o 3, N v ri o'lu '' ll ' l") ` l, 4l. lll : rt 4 Mauctior kolitd Ltatighter of lIIED. ~‘ la el , At the lint Weill, near Brisloly •Anne,„ wiilaw of i•i' c l ' a :f- . Idittegue, 114,1 't!Juettcr of WO,liaul and t a tllj.in' - nay, anti sicger to the tan: Earl tifitur. if Of Sunday last, Wiliam kincr, vidgil sap of t'lllio rP t i e' C"" ,r, Es4-uf Clavn lila Coranion, in the -,) ye:lr of 166 :17 . :5: in Ctiper UnilJfortl-strett, or. Fr.,l.it 1,,,, , r liwplegY. , Develt EA. of Dank;ide, Si;:itlit rkariil rawlikiltul, F ` '°l. '' ra ______:.........;......._....r..........,...,:.......„,,,,.....7V fl-0 00• LONDON Pritaed {it J. n. rithlistxtd by W. A. vf At the St' x.Orrica N 9, ;40 14 : aut.e. Slizats Orlt Ltttcti 1.0, 3 uur ci