The Sun. — London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

MORNING SUN COURT CIRC ULAR. Yesterday morning the following most gratifying 11 4 11 eitn . of heresty 's health was issued at Bucking- Palace : "Buckingham Palace, November 18, 1841. " Half-past 9, A. N. • T Queen is convalesce n t. " T he infant Prince is as well as possible. . , " JAMES CLARK, M.D. CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D. RICHARD BLAGDEN. lier Majesty's recovery is so far advanced, that no M ore Bulletins will b e i ssue d." At three o'clock yesterday afternoon, the Countess of • e s h 4 rlemont, L a d y i n W a i t i ng on the Q ueen ; t h e E ar l cleit i lardwicke, Lord in Waiting ; Captain Meynell, " I. °"ln in Waiting ; and Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in ,vaiting, re ce i ve d t h e f o ll ow i ng L a di es an d G ent l emen at E uehinsfham Palace, viz.:—The Countess of Caledon, countess of Mexborough, Countess of Haddington;Coun tAs Dowa ger o f Li stowel, Lady Stratheden, La d y Lang 'Pe, Lady S tuart d e Rothsay, Lady Sarah Sav i le, L a d y • D . "gaoa Buller, Lady Emily Seymour, Lady T. Lister, Lady So merset. Lady G ra h am , L a dy S e y mou r, Hon. Miss s 'a,tn 7,,pbe11, H on. Miss Stuart, Miss Somerset, Mrs. Blom ;.!(1, Mrs. Mellish, Miss Gifford, the Misses Clifford, 3sG. Seymour Miss Campbell, Miss Georgiana Bushe, Villiers, Mrs. Hicks, Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon sister, the Duke of Leeds, the Earl Brownlow, Sir 6ngustus Clifford, Captain Seymour, and Mr. He- Ile o alSe, M.P. ' a udle having been served, a number of the above u 14 : 1 the gratification of being conducted to the north -i ,„ 11 5_ to see his Royal Highness the Infant Prince. s .,..' s ne Lady in Waiting will not receive Ladies for i11 7 4 7_ 1 e fo r the future, Yesterday being the last day for reception by her Ladyship. 11, 1118 Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Phil testbal called at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon Hirlikeuire after her Majesty and the infant Prince. er Royal Highness' the Duchess of Kent visited her A y yesterday afternoon. tli;', lll °L)g the Nobility and Gentry who called to make dutiful in qu i r i es y es t er d a y at B uc ki ng h am P a l ace V e, the' Belgian Alinister and Madame Van de k c i Yer, th e Portuguese Minister, the Sardinian Minister, s o , Russia n Mi n i ster an d B aroness Brunow, Baron ci'lsini tz, Prussian Charge d'Affaires, the Danish di sh d'Affaires and Countess Bille Brahe, the Swe k,,l Charg e d'Affaires and Baroness Rehausen,. Baron tae ll ; 11 n, Count Revel, Count and Countess Zichy er skine Lord Chancellor and LadyLyndhurst, the Duke Clliis'inehess of Somerset, the Duchess Dowager of smond, the Duchess of Inverness, the Earl and .: ..ft , (11141 1 t ess of Grosvenor, Earl and Countess of Glengall, s the - V Countess of Rosslyn, Viscount Duncannon, and 44ssern, • Miss Ponsonby, Lord and Lady Petre, Ikt k r °l eY, Lady and the Misses Foley, Lady Charlotte Ati„,,,lts, Lord George Loftus, Lord Forester, Lady and tese t - `l,°, l ' o , Miss M. Gore, Lady D. Gordon, Sir John Z: 3 r R. Jenkins, Lady and Miss Ramsden, Lady V4l l4 a"gton Sir E. ad Lady Antrobus, Sir W. Newton, ~ pi el Sir Georgeand Lady Couper, Lady Rods]. Sir it 4cll Semour the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem h sth • s',rs• Alexander, Archdeacon Pott, Rev. R. F. Bar ,kit-;,4310nel and Mrs. Arnold, Lieut.-Col. Thornton, 4 1; - s il d Mrs. W. Blackwood, Miss Ravenscroft, Mr. and itlfB;,,'awrence, Mr. Lynch, Mr. P. Williams, Q. C.; Mr. 1) -4 kontgomery, Mrs. Brotherton, Mr. Fleming, Ir a. ' a nd Airs. Fleming; Mr. Dennistoun, M.P., and ennistoun. b uchess of Cambridge visited the Duchesof 4cester at Gloucester House on Wednesday. e _ THE QUEEN DOWAGER. 4 1 - is s - „rerene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar fron i - ` at Marlborough House on Wednesday evening Sudbury Hall. q tC r s Ser ene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, tlesi h er arrival from , the Continent on Wednesday ba P'left Marlb oroug h H ouse , accompan i e d b y h er sets tis _ ri nne Edward, and paid a visit to her Royal ,7High beDuchess of Kent at Clarence House, St. James's. lt Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe dinar'. the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, and Prince Ed a 'fit S axe Weimar, left town yesterday morning on Th ei t to their august relative the Queen Dowager. 1144 Serene Highnesses travelled by the London and m t tl g.hans Railway, an d l e ft th e E us t on . square termi sns!ne o'clock f or S u db ur y H a ll. z ulletin of her Majesty's health, received in town (ye ne e dnesd ay evening, was exhibited during the day 14 4 0 L (I4 .Y) to the Nobility and Gentry who called to enquiry after the state of her Majesty. I g - - "ERE A TAX ON IMPORTED BREAD ? Is T O THE EDITOR O.F THE SUN. l a r-. 0 of el n a careful perusal of the Journal of Trade, Co ot discover that bread or biscuits under the head t1 1 , 1 ,;; 1 1 or Grain, are at all mentioned, or under any w itted c ad ; consequently bread and biscuits can be ad o under the following head of duty 4 8 not particularly mentioned. (See p. 55.) 01 °°(13 b • • 4 , 1 11 - n ot enig• either in part or wholly manufactured, ancil'eig e numerated, nor otherwise charged with ? eat net Prohibited to be imported into, or used in Britain or Ireland, of 1001. value, 201. Ihe above circumstances, I consider that bread se can be made in the Islands of Guernsey, 1 :o na 4 4 kiz s e e r i', or Alderney. Flour, &c., can be procured N the easter n or elsewhere, to any amount. London its and Li o Parts Can get supplied immediately from ke our engllerres •• am, &c. • pondent we cannot find the article any where enuerated' in the Tariff', or in "Ellis's Ni34nd Regulations of the Customs. We remember, Ibna4t)°.cr, that in 1838 or 18 39,proposition was made to ,4111141 Bread -...Making Conp a aninHolland, and int tpr by steamers fro m that country ; and we believe j t kl4 l. l)o sition was not carried . into effect, becauseit was 4 *...... 6 b ed that the importation would be contrary to 1, • Sun.] ell AND FLANDERS MAIL. ,N 4 nP 1 3.8, N 16 —For some days past the ixed t Y - s i . l3 e si cn - of Navigation of Antwerp has met very f l t4t n ; quently. It appears that the twerp, of the - : 1, '` .10 11 are very much advanced. This is the cause k :Attt n %s.'ence of M. de Brouckeil, the principal Belgian M 34 'ner, from his place in the Chamber of Repre es. - xi • EtJesty has commu t e d th e sen t ence o f d ea th PThe t Y the Court of Assizes of Brabnt on Vander hard labour for life and the pill ory. o k trs t 3' before yesterday Mesers. Vandersmissen and o t itt 1411(1 Maclaine Vandermissen, were examined at 40th by M. Delcourt. tr,lll-crd..}' afternoon General Vanclersmissen, accom stit4 th e Y A l. Van Bursel, Commissary of Police, went „ ° ise os trison of the Petit Cermes to see his mother, i i ":_ n ed . to her bed. The General remained two Theurs with the patient, and was then conducted ,Ihi 3 PriSen. H Aeutlle de Touinai of the 13th says : ittw:siTel)o4 report has been circulated since Thursday even -111) st ft ,"lts dreadfully alarmed our fellow-citizens. its els s i t r, hat an attempt had been made to blow ,„tce these'el.. We subjoin a notice, which will put an k r „ . ' 4 11% p ab surditie u s j n ee Ccimm . andant thinks it his duty to in the re 4tv4 ens that there is no foundation whatever P° 4,,, D ,° 11 that an attempt has been made to blow up 'ttfes-t Inagazines o f the citadel, and that they may iv kNo l v a itsy in that respect. eu) " CHARLES DE LA PLANQUE. 1,,, g r , th t ,1f e at °v 13 1841 " Vauxhall is announced, which will `'`h j 11. 01 ,i 4 (? English residents in'Brussels, in honour 1410‘,„ Prince of ales. 1, ti c . • ; 41 0 ., 04(1 N, "01 great advantage to our city has been • 4 .hi s 1 4 A co nsequence of which b the cargoes hitherto 1 4 9 , tq qJ t -1 w ere, will, in future, be brought to our fir f ( * n . Meirs, , of Brussels, to whom we are itioed a r fge first realisation of this idea, has just , s tli s (tt 1.3,1,.. 4 !‘g0 of figs, oranges, cork, &c., by the lis 6l an ship) from Villa Vova direct. U, lcoV. 12.—His Majesty, as Grand Duke ii‘, l l r 'iste r t g,',, has appointed M. Voll Scheriff to be e i 'v to th i mipotentiary to the German Diet, and W -t Y , e Courts of Hesse Cassel and Nassau, and nto ''rankfort. .° earnt, from what we consider to be good th,N t• hat • ' ri r , Majesty- has been pleased to appoil . it thq buch ce Alexander, to be his representative in ,4 9 tn i A tt. ..,t1 FU ND3.—AMSTERDAM, tissti Per Cent 14;;d t.te die 5 per cent. 1°„. . 3 54 Per ce nt 7.; 70 0% 6 a.' o mPany, per cent 1554 ;55% N a .!.5 and 1 837)5 per - tent. 'knae'ns percent. 97% "" rtden, One month l2 16 Two months 12 0 l 'ultburgh, One month 35 75 Two months 35 56 1 4 A 41 e ' -Papers, Nov. 17. ▪ tkii-u,slAag UNDS—Ballliegli, Nov. 16. I:4lnet:i-rrt , Neer Cent 101 53 U Mi ' llt er s,4per Cent. 92 Seer cent — . 71›....... ty.6, ve I -- 0340) -- 3 ,,0: i 4 t (!f city, 1.'3'2, 4 per Cent 94% 'NZ ,',91 Cornawrce, 4;iper Cult lOl% 14ti °. nelgitn, 5 per Cent 74 kxo(l)lialS%ciety • .._ 4 ,1 , 13 e on I.oncloyi (ghot t) Oti --'artotaeis Pagers, Nov' 1 " P l 4 ST ttl At 4 UN DS —VILNNA, Nov. I,ll•74iterrtttlis.Dletalliques • . 105% n. is "%k t," Conte 74 414/ e ": 0 7 , 8 , . . ... 1564 .. e . % . . ~ .......... .... ... .. k 4ellun g . Nov. 13 kt k:" I 'Q ------------- ----- 7 0 mon. ti Nu k °F THit CHARTISTS.— tl . ~,,' ty, ,thic 8 meeting tiV.tii --",°ase, Straker's-passage, Fossage, in this "It. fro 4 zoctUre was delivered on the Charter by a 4414 ° " 1:11 l ' ° " (1 ° 11 After the lecture, it was stated, 1611hq"Nuence . that day in the )t ua t ~ wi t h of the proceedings Lk 1, .liettio reference to presenting an address . cr t ' l 4 ' l4 ee t'll to the Queen &c., on her safe deliverance )1.„ . 4 L ~ the Chartists , 1% 4 1Q 00r, r e had sent a deputation to tht Fay 44 ' l ildi,, ttesting that he would allow them the ust 4 th ki, ir All that evening, for the purpose of agreeing 1,411,4'4,1:e1:ar0 °f a cin gratu - l ' ation, and also petitioning i t , i l tt ;o th t e;'1..11 political offenders, and for an in l iti t t.li t dt o th slang distress of the people. His Lord .41 ,, ,‘ ittii%torti t o e deputation that it was contrary to the I ) - vti 4 -4 th e ,use the ball at night, but they might it if L gay ti n , q, 4 4 , . e, and he would preside over thee, 1114. Ind a ..,Y wished it. It was now therefore mole!: N I 4 41 04 r. and seconded by Mr. Cordukes, tha .• '4ll l`h,llretii,eoeir.l the Lord Mayor,. desiring him t( 11 44 4 t s l-, (14 , (to the working classes, in the Guildhall. 4- 0 - , e t it , - . -t at3'), at 12 o'clock, which was agrees. 1 ) 11 , 1 t : 41, I, Qt .. ink& 4eparated.-York Courant. i, i tt yt°,ltrte even i n .Who shall say there is no want b r , p,,- nia rt ,In Cheltenham, when they are told , Altkeklas Wer e ° ' - APpeal on Friday last, upwards o. Of 11, excused their poors' rates, en the ,-""rtY Cone I--Cheltenham Examiner' ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. FIRES OF LONDON. Last evening we were one of a group of nearly one thousand persons who heard with infinite pleasure a lecture delivered by Mr. Abraham Booth, F.S.S., Pro fessor of Chemistry, upon combustion, spontaneous and artificial. By artificial combustion we mean, fire pro duced by mechanical means, controllable, if cautious measures were adopted. This seemed to us to be the chief object of the lecture, and Mr. Booth was very suc cessful in his demonstrations illustrative of it. There was some difficulty in obtaining for the lecture a proper attention. His diagrams, hung round the gallery and intended to illustrate his lecture, served to divert the at tention of the aulience from the important subject which he was endeavouring to explain to them. We can do the public and the Lecturer no greater • service than to repeat as nearly as we can the words that fell from him. Mr. Booth said that of all the calamities which afflicted man in social life there were none so destructive, or severely felt as those of fire. Pestilence may ravage our districts, and our houses may be assailed by the midnight depredator, but the awful calamity of fire despoils human life, and ravages our property with all its insidious uncertainty and suddenness. By improved modes of living, and availing ourselves of all the aids of professional skill, we may secure ourselves with some immunity from disease; and increased vigilance in protection may defeat the plans of the nocturnal marauder; but fire, regardless of all cau tious attempts at security, seems to set at defiance all our endeavours. No class, neither sex nor age, are exempt, for it ravages alike the mansions of the rich, and despoils of his all the humbler abode of the cottager. The last few 3 ears have been particularly rife in these calamities. We have witnessed the destruction of a senate house, in which the eloquence of our land stood conspicuous ; the destruction of a Royal Exchange, the centre of the commercial transactions of the globe ; of an Armoury, containing munitions of war which have led to conquest, and trophies resulting from their triumphs ; of warehouses abounding with property; 91 mansions adorned with everything rich and reciter* in luxury ; and of Town-halls; the centre of commerce and intercourse in their different localities; as well as theatres of great and national interest. Mr. Booth next analysed, in a very interesting man ner, the causes of all the fires in London for a period of five years. These lie resolved into, controllable and un controllable causes, the first class embracing a very large majority of the cases. The diagrams contained a large mass of statistical details, which length will not allow us to specify. Mr. Booth's remarks on spon taneous combustion as the cause of fires, were par ticularly deserving of notice, as they elucidated the origin of many fires, the causes of which were previously unknown. We understand that this ingenious and scientific gentleman has been examined before the Com mittee of the Board of Ordnance, sitting at the Tower, on the question of the origin of the late fire. After the Board retired, an unanimous opinion was expressed that Mr. Booth had clearly shown that the fire might have originated from circumstances over which none of the persons in attendance could have any control ; and that, however strong might be the suspicion that there was incendiarism, natural causes were sufficient to account for the catastrophe. The Infant Harpist afterwards delighted the crowded assemblage with her surprising performances on the harp. The powers of this inspired pupil of the Muses have already been described in this paper. The performances. of Mr. Emanuel upon the piano, and of Mr. Sedgwick upon the concertina, were very warmly applauded. These gentlemen deserve more especial notice than the subordinate part which they take in the orchestra enables us to give them. THE DAGUERREOTYPE.—The few days of clear wea ther with which we have been lately blessed, notwith standing the interposition of occasional feg, have enabled M. Claudit to produce life-like portraits by the operation of the rays of the sun alone. We have seen a likeness .stamped upon the plate with all the force and truth of real life in one second, by means of M. Claudit's im proved process, when the sun had hid himself behind a thick veil of nitrous and carbonic cloud, and seemed ashamed to look upon his own work. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—In the solemn name of Heaven, what—prior to hat relaxation of the Provision-laws, which you advocate --is to be done for the starving thousands of Leeds and Paisley, and similar districts That event may be yet distant. But, in the meantime, it is to be hoped there are many who, like myself, may not be versed enough in political economy to be decided in viewing that mea sure as the surest or wisest plan of relief ; who are yet startled at the appalling idea of their fellow-countrymen going down, victims of famine, to the grave. Will you not implore the humane to summon their bestAboughts, and devote them, with combined zeal, to the raising of sufficient present funds, and the still more important object of arranging some permanent plan of employment and subsis‘ence ? Will you not call on the wealthy (and how numerous are these, and such as have, to say the least, a full competency !) to prove the genuineness of their humanity by no stinted sums ; nay, in pity to themselves, to avert the curse of. Him who cannot unrequited see them enjoying luxuries and possessing abundance, yet regardless of their fellow-men perishing from want 1 Surely, if a hearty effort were made, a remedy could be found. That abundance does exist somewhere, it would be equally . absurd and profligate to deny, till we could shut our eyes to the indulgences in every kind around us, and forget the accumulations of capital owned by thousands. And are we to despair that the patient, earnest deliberations of many, con centrated on this point, may devise some scheme of relief—when, employed on almost any topic that man_ chooses to take up, we see them effectual ? _ _ Strange it seems that there can be found those who will contentedly feel themselves in the midst of plenty —commanding, and perhaps in the use, often in the day, of every gratification of the palate, splendour of dress, fur niture, and equipage, and whatever may minister to taste and sense; yet conscious and unheeding the overwhelming misery of their fellow-creatures ! ,Methinks it would be a natural impulse. For myself, I cannot resist the feel ing—to dispense, each, with every article of superfluity, each unnecessary enjoyment, till we knew that they pos sessed at least a sufficiency of common food and clothing. 0, diffuse, good Mr. Editor, this feeling ! Sound the piteous appeal in the ears of those (and, not least, such as have realized, wealth by the toil of the artizans them selves)—who count their means, not by hard-earned shillings, but unemployed thousands, reaping leisurely interest—who roll in carriages, and repose on silks, and sleep on down—who drink in sweet music, and arc mas ters of their own time, and share, unharrassed, all the delights of society; and ask them, what is their profession of humanity worth, if they suffer this horrible contrast? If they do not respond ; if the energies, the affluence, the contrivance, the compassion of Britons, and, most of all, Christians, be not roused to place the masses on the footing they—as fellow-men, and fellow-heirs of another world—are entitled to, fearful will be the result, on the part of some, but convulsion pervading all ranks ; the innocent and the guilty alike victims ; disgrace and self condemnation the lot of all. But, of all monstrous things, the height is, that this should pass among a Christian population, that, at least, it should go on unstayed by a large section of the commu nity claiming to be more especially enlightened by Heaven, and in communion with God and their Redeemer! Sorrowfully yours, yet very truly, S. [We can only second our Correspondent's views by in serting his letter. At the same time, we must observe that the people do not want the charity of the rich, they want justice. An Order of Council to suspend the star vation laws would spread prosperity, as by a charm, through every town in the empire.—En. Sun.] BANK MEETING A Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of Bank Stock was held in the Court-room, in Thread needle-street, yesterday, for the purpose of consider ing addresses of congratulation to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert upon the late auspicious event—the birth of an Heir Apparent to the throne. At twelve o'clock the Go . vernor, Sir John Henry Polly, Bait., the Deputy-Governor, and most of the Di rectors, entered the Court, when the minutes of the las► Court were read and confirmed. The GOVERNOR said the Directors had called a special Court for the purpose of considering addresses of con gratu!ation on the auspicious event which had recently occurred—of course they were all aware that he alluded to the safe delivery of her Majesty and the birth of a Prince and Heir Apparent to the throne. The Court of Directors, anticipating what would be the wishes of the Proprietors on the subject, had drawn up addresses which they thought suitable to the occa sion. They would be read by the Secretary, and put as resolutions for the cousiderAtion and adoption of the Court " To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. " Please your Majesty, " We the GoverAtis and Company of the Bank of England, in General Court Assembled, beg leave most respectfully to approach your Majesty, to offer our sin ....ere congratulations on the Birth'of an Heir Apparent to the Throne of Great Britain and Ireland, an event which has excited in your devoted subjects the most lively sentiments of joy and thankfulness. " We desire to express our gratitude to Him who is the giver of every blessing for his merciful preservation of your Majesty, and our fervent hope that your Ma jesty may long be protected by His graci ous P rov id ence to reign over a loyal and prosperous nation." " To his Royal Highness Field Marshal Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and GOtha. "May it please your Royal Highness, " We, the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng land in General Court assembled, beg leave to approach your Royal Highness with our most sincere congratula tions on that auspicious event, the birth of an Heir Appa rent to the British Throne. " Trained for his high destiny by the precept and ex- Ample of his illustrious parents, we earnestly hope that Hider the Divine blessing he will at some distant period :naintain the dignity of the British Crown, and the love And affection of a devoted and grateful nation." The addresses were put separately and adopted, only ,re hand being hell up in opposition. It was further moved that the addresses be signed by he Secretary, and sealed with the Corporation seal ; and that the Governor and Deputy-Governor communi :ate with the Secretary of State for the Home Depart nent, with respect to the mode of presenting the same. Agreed to.—The Court then adjourned. Wednesday afternoon a fatal accident occurred n Pedlar's-acre, Belvidere-road, Lambeth, to a young man named James White, a drayman in the employ 01 Hessrs. Barclay, Perkins, and Co., the brewers. lie wat. returning with his dray, and endeavoured to clear an other vehicle which was passing at the time, when he took hold of the bearing rein of the second horse of the team, and in so doing his foot, owing to the frozen state of the road, slipped, and the near wheel of the dray went over his chest and head, and he was killed. • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, S'O' ElVllitli 19, 1841. LITERATURE. MACKAY'S MEMOIRS OF EXTRAOI?Db NARY POPULAR DELUSIONS. 2 VOL Bentley, London, 1841. Lord Byron's well-known remark that "Tr, is strange, stranger than Fiction," was never more forcibly illustrated than in the instances of the Mississippi Scheme, and the South Sea Bubble —two Wild, unprecedented projects, that turned the heads of _France and England about the commencement of the last century. In the pre sent volumes Mr. Mackay has given an interest ing account of these romantic schemes; and from his details, aided by our own recollection of the numerous memoirs of the period, we shall pro ceed to state a few curious particulars respecting them. And first of the Mississippi humbug and its projector;- John Law, of Lauriston. This shrewd adventurer was born at. Edinburgh in 1671. His father was a rich goldsmith and banker, and his son for three years laboured in the countincr-house, where he acquired a good. insight into business. At the age of seventeen, however, on the death of the elder Law, he with drew entirely from the desk ; and fancying him self handsome, though he was so scarre and seamed with the small-pox that his face resem bled a cauliflower, and being besides of a restless, enterprising, mercurial turn of mind, and inordi nately fond of female society, he determined on quitting Scotland and pushin g his fortunes in London. As he was well endowed in point of pocket, he found no difficulty in procuring the means of enjoyment. He gamed; flirted with the women ; fought a duel in which he killed his antagonist; was found guilty of manslaughter, fined, aniLdetained in the King's Bench, from which he contrived 'to make his escape to the Continent—as poor as Job, for his fortune had been all lost in gambling. After travelling for three years, he settled himself at Amsterdam, where he devoted his mornings to finance, and his nights to play. Thus accomplished as a • worldly adventurer, he quitted Holland, and continued to vagabondise for years, support ing himself chiefly by gaming. At length, he decided on taking up his permanent re sidence at Paris, and trying there his skill in play and speculation. At this period the Duke of Orleans ruled as Regent, during the minority of that scamp of scamps, Louis the Fifteenth. Mr. Mackay, cursorily alluding to the Duke— whose character, by the bye, considering the con spicuous part he played in the MisSissippi scheme, should not have been disposed of iu a sentence— tells 113 that he possessed " wit and amiability." "Wit" he may have had, for this was common enough among the French aristocracy of the pe riod ; but of " amiability" he had not an atom. Capricious ; tyrannical ; physically brave, but morally .a coward; hating all State business as the Devil hates holy water; a heartless sensual ist; and as selfish as Louis the Fourteenth, with out any of his redeeming qualities;--who can recognise in such a character, the germs of any thing like "amiability?" Smollett states•that he " was endowed with shining talents for empire ;" but when we look for proofs of the historian's assertion, they are not to be found. In a word, the Duke was just the reckless, greedy, unscru- pulous man to - be made a tool of by tiny clever financial experimentalist, and to go the whole hog with him in any scheme that promised their mutual benefit, no matter at what cost to France. When Law first made his bow at the Duke's levee, the finances of the country were—as Mr. Mackay truly observes—" in a state of the ut most disorder." The corruption and extrava gance of the preceding reign were now telling. with ruinous effect on all classes. The national debt was of an amount almost incredible, when the value of money at that time is considered. The currency was depreciated one-fifth. The right arm of commerce -was palsied. A cloud of . tax-collectors, like locusts, overspread the country. And what was the system of policy pursued by the Regent in this alarming crisis ? He had none. In vain one Minister recommended the declaration of a national bankruptcy, and another, the assem bling of the States-General; he listened to all, but pinned his faith upon none. . France might be delivered up to the wildest anarchy, and even blotted out from the map of Europe, provided the young and witty Marquise du Duffant, then a mere girl, scarcely seventeen years old, did not look coldly on his love ! But Law now appeared on the public stage, and henceforth, for a season, all was to be changed. He soon contrived to in gratiate himself with the Regent, and to exercise that quiet, despotic mastery which a strong mind rarely fails to exercise over a weak one. His in fluence was first shown in the 'permission which he gained from the Government to establish a bank, under the name of Law and Company, the notes of which should be received in payment of the taxes. So adroitly did he manage this con cern that, in the course of a year, his notes rose to fifteen per cent., and so widely was his credit extended, that branch-banks were forthed in Many of the principal towns and cities of France. Law's prospects were now hourly brightening. lle was on the high, broad road to fortune, mid was not the man to stop while aught of ambi tion's career remained to be run. - Strike while the iron is hot, seems to have been his motto ; and strike, God knows, he did, and this with a force that stunned France, and resounded through Europe! Shortly after the formation of his bank, the beneficial effect of which was soon felt, be proposed to the Regent—we quote our author's words—" to establish a company which should have the exclusive privilege of trading to the Mississippi, and the province of Louisiana on its western shore. The region was supposed to abound in the precious metals, and the corn pany supported by the profits of their exclusive commerce, were to be the sole farmers of the taxes, and sole coiners of money." Delighted with the success of Law's Bank, the Regent assented without hesitation to this new proposal, and letters patent were issued, incorporating the Company, in the year 1717. And now began that rage for speculation which brought France to the vergo of ruin. Despite the opposition of Parliament the applications for shares in the Mississippi scheme increased daily; additional' privileges were bestowed on - the Company ; and Law promised a yearly dividend of two hundred livres upon each share of five hundred ! From this moment the game was in his own hands— the ball at his feet. • People of all classes, and of all- professions, the young and , the old, the rich and the poor, speculated in the rise and fall of the Mississippi bonds. The high-born dame quitted her boudoir—the secluded scholar his closet—the merchant *his counting-house—the Minister the Council-board—the actor the green-room—and the artist his studio—to go and buy shares of the jobbers in the Rue de Quincampoix. From the remotest provinces sanguine speculators flocked by thousands to take part in the one grand scheme of the day. So astonishing, indeed, was the infatuation, that the price of shares sometimes rose ten or twenty per cent. in the course of a few hours ! The con sequences may be imagined. Men's social posi tions were changed in an instant, as if by magic. The Lazarus of yesterday was the Dives of to day. The tradesman, who rose in the morning comparatively poor, -by a lucky investment, be came before nightfal rich beyond the wildest dreams of bis ambition. All that can be con ceived of the' romantic and the marvellous, of the desperate and theiinfatuated, was realized in Paris at this period. The barriers between the patrician and the plebeian classeS were thrown down. Pride offered itself up a willing,'" sacrifice, at the shrine of-avarice.. France, in short, was mad , stark, staring mad, and society fairly turned topsy-turvy. And Law, the arch' con juror, whose power had worked all these won-. ders, where was he ? 'What was the extent of his authority during this season of phrenzy ? Mr. Mackay shall inform us : During this time, Law, the new Piutus, had become all at once the most important personage of the State. The ante-chambers of the Regent were forsaken by the courti ers . P eers , j u d ges , an d bishops thronged to the Hotel de Soissons ; officers of the army and navy, ladies of title and fashion, and every one to whom hereditary rank or public employ gave a claim to prece dence, were to be found N 4 ailing in his ante-chambers !o beg for a portion of his • India stock. Law was so pestered that he was unable to see one-tenth part of the applicants, and every manoeuvre that ingenuity could suggest was employed to 'gain access to him. Peers, whose dignity. would have been outraged if the Regent had made them wait half an hour for an interview, were content to wait six hours for the chance of seeing Monsieur Law. Enormous fees were paid to his ser vants, if they would merely announce their names. Ladies of rank employed the blandishments of their smiles for the same object ; but many of them came day after day for a fortnight before they could obtain an audience. When Law accepted an invitation, lie was sometimes so sur rounded by ladies, all asking to have their names put down in his lists as shareholders in the new stock, that, in spite of his well-known and habitual gallantry, he was obliged to tear hiniself away par force. The most ludicrous stratagems were employed to have an opportunity of speaking to him, One lady, who had striven in vain during several days, gave up in despair all attempts to see him at his own house, but ordered her coachman to keep a strict watch whenever she was Out in her carriage, and if he saw Mr. Law coming, to drive against a post, and upset her. The coachman promised obedience, and for three days the lady was driven inces santly through the Own, praying inwardly for the op portunity to be overturned. At last she espied Mr. Law, and, pulling the string, called out to the coachman, "Upset us now l for God's sake, upset us no w I" Th e coachman drove against a post, the lady screamed, the coach was overturned, and Law, who had seen the acci dent, hastened to the spot to render assistance. The cun ning dame was led into the Hotel de Svissons, where she soon thought it advisable to recover from her fright, houses." Why the clergy, who were so mainly interested aud, after apolugising, to Mr. Law, confessed her strata- in.the lean clause, should have taken so m uc h i nterest gem. - Law smiled, and entered the lady in his books as in the first, is only to be explained on the supposition the purchaser of a quantity., •of India stock. Another that the scheme was projected by a knot of the fox-hunt story is told. of a Madame de Boucha, who, knowing ing parsons, once so common in England. The shares that Mr. Law was at dinner at a certain house, pro- of this company were rapidly subscribed for. But the ceeded thither in her carriage, and gave the alarm of fire. most absurd and preposterous of all, and which showed, The company started from table, and Law among the rest ; more completely than any other, the utter madness of but, seeing one lady making all haste into the house the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, towards him, while everybody else was scampering away, entitled "A company for cariying on an undertaking of he suspected the trick, and ran off in another direction. great advantage, but nobody to know what it is." Were But this state of things could not last. It was not the fact stated by scores of credible witnesses, it would be impossible to believe that any person could have high water, and the tide was about to ebb. The extraordinary increase of paper-money, when been duped ar such a project. The man of genius who essayed this bold and successful inroad upon public cre the rage for specul a ti on h a d i n some degree dulity, merely stated in his prospectus that the required abated, began to produce Its usual bad effects; capital was half a million, in five thousand shares of-1001 whispers got about injurious -to the credit of each, deposit 2/.- per share. Each subscriber, paying his Law's Bank; the stock jobbers took the alarm, deposit, would be entitled to 1001. per annum per share. conceiving justly that shares could not go •on How this immense profit was to be obtained he did n o t rising for ever; a n d many of t h em qu i et l y con - .rndescend - 16 inform them at t,114t , time, o ut pPo t nL e - d vetted their notes i n t o spec i e, an d sent i t. o ff to tint i n a wicait h full particulars sho u ld b e d u l y an ' foreiezn countries. llitudreds fellowed their ex ample ; and hundreds, toe, concealed what coin i . iounced, and a.cali made fur the remaining 95/. of the subscription. Next morning, at nine o'clock, this great m n 1 an OW in Col'llll4l, Crowds of people they possessed; so that in a short time the ope-, h a e 4 s( n ai o l f s e d -e o ( er, and when be shut up, at three o'clock, he rations of commerce -could no longer be safely / o „ n a t h at no l ess than one thousand shares bad been carried on. In this emergency, " Law hazarded subscribed for and the deposits paid. He was thus, in five the bold experiment o f f or biddin g the use of hours; the winner of 2,000/ Be was philosopher enough specie altogether." It was his death-blow. The to be contented with his venture, and set off the same the Mississippi s h ares f e ll a l most inane-. evening for the Continent. He was never he ar d o f aga i n , d value ie o ri 3 t ;' general distrust took the place of general confidence- ; th e B an k stoppe d pay- • The " Tulip-mania" is another singular chap ment ; and F rance , at l ength aroused from her ter in the voluminous annals of h uman f o ll y . infatuation, poured the vials of her wrath on the This epidemic raged throughout Holland about the seventeenth century, and made sad havoc devoted head of Law. Quack, impostor, were among the lightest of the charges brought against with the fortunes of the sedate, square-sterned bro. d-breeched Dutchmen. All the rich incr. _, him. Every ministerial blunder—every obnoxious chants - of a Amsterdam became suddeely smitten edict—was laid at his door. - He never appeared The iass e tulip-mart r pe 0 7 1 e the Ot. - t fa, tulips. .-0,-,..ersspeculated in the in public but at the risk of his life. If he beoTred •and fallofthese " ' rise hi . . -AP for a patient hearing, he was laughed at. it he with a rage for'T bh suggested a remedial v vast r istieunrse resort t tli o e f ill a . l I suddenly seized with deafriesa, Of 411 IliA fbi'v measure, the Court was hiolie-t Purl: co ' t clause, - 4 ' ' ' ' le liver c , Heir property into emi t , met friends, not one remained to cheer him in ----4 l ''' . • • amid t i flowers 4t 1 1. 1 i • •C-11401 the crash his adversity. Thus bereft of all influence— lnvested came, and then theesends of rtilned speculators stripped of fortune and of reputation.--the Re gent 4 at pees. I stare other, wondering ho w th ey could 's cape-goat and, the •people's abborrenCe-- have been such asses! Alas! in casts of this sort the unhappy man quitted I; ranee, and, after rest- men always' wonder too late; They are wise lessly wandering over the Continent, supporting r tl died . a step .4e event, when wisdom can he of no fur himself; as before, .by gamblinw l ~ me at . t ier use than to suggest the proprioty of their Venicein the year MO, . , being resigned to their lot. Nearly contempo- The above outline, brief and hurried though it rally with the -(‘ Tulip-mania" in Holland, was is, will enable the reader to form a pretty cop. the rise of that religious fanaticism in England, - j • rect estimate of Law's character. He seems to which Cromwell turned to such excellent ac have been a man of the world, in the strictest count, Mr. Mackay says not a syllable about sense of' the - term; of infinite self-possession ; this phrenzy, but he should have made it the ardent and enterprising to a degree; of ens subject of a chapter; and it would have been bounded confidence; fertile in expedients; and one 'of the most entertaining in his work, for the as unencumbered with principle as an inveterate Materials are abundant; and what mor e cur i ous gambler is apt to be. But Mr. Mackay, adopt- than a, sketch of the early reveries and preach ing Smollett's hasty, partial view, thinks other- ings of Fox, the founder of Quakerism, of the wise. He assures us that Law " was neither strange day-dreams of the Independents, and the knave nor madman, but one more deceived than still stranger fancies of the Fifth-Monarchy men? deceiving, more sinned against than sinning." . On the subject -of " "Witchcraft," which for Of madness we readily acquit iiiin; but as to many centuries was firmly believed i n through his being the deceived party in th e Mi ss i ss i pp i out Europe, our author is more than usually mi hoax, this is really too ridiculous. He knew nute and painstaking in his details. He is mis *ell the fallacy of his golden promises; and taken, however, in supposing that this supersti that Louisiana was by no means the El Dorado tion - was confined to the Middle Ages, for the lie asserted it to .be; for .among the more eh- Romans—even in . the enlightened days of lightened and adventurous classes, the hope of Augustus —had faith in it ,• and one of the most finding the precious metals to any ex t ent on t h e earn es t and energetic of Horace's Odes is ad shores of the Mississippi, had been ex inct for dressed , to the witch, Canidia. The creed -of nearly a century. The vague, ardent expecta- witchcraft, as it was generally received on time tions that had hurried our speculators across the Continent, as well as in England, is so extraor- Atlantic in time days of Elizabeth and James, dinary, that we subjoin a slight summary of it. had given place to a spirit of rational enterprise; • It was thought that the earth swarmed with and it was in South, not North, America, that demons, who were divided into seventy-two bat gold. was looked for. None knew this better than tailor's, each of which was commanded by a Law; but he trusted to the igno rance o f t h e Pri nce , or C apta i n ; Satan, of course, bei ng the masses, and, as we have seen, succeeded in Commander-in-Chief. These demons could as duping them. Then, what - absurd cant to talk surne any shape they pleased; and when male about his having been " more sinned against were called Incubi, when female, Succubi. Al than sinning'," when we know that he had spent though their supernatural powers were great, the best part of his life at the gambling-table, yet they had the greatest possible difficulty in and become notorious in every European capital concealing their tails, which used to stick 'out, in for his dexterity in games of chance, which he spite -of them. Sometimes, however, the male studied as a science, and pursued as a trade, with demons managed to hide these embarassing ap the plodding diligence of a s h o p-k eeper ! B ut p en d ages, an d t h en they would makelove to, not only does our author insist on Law's unso- and marry, beautiful young women, by whom, phisticated *simplicity of character, but he car- if they ever had children, such children could ries his nationality to a still more extravagant always be detected by their innate genius for height; in fact, he quite burlesques the feeling, kicking and squalling, and requiring five nurses for he dwells with marked admiration on the to suckle them ! One of the favourite tricks of personal graces of his hero, whom he ca ll s i. th e the Incubus, or male witch, was to transform handsome Scotcbman," notwithstanding lie was himself into an ass—a circumstance which ought specially described in an -advertisement inserted to make certain Tories unfeignedly grateful that in the Gazette, as 4‘ a very tall, black, lean man, such transformations are no longer believed in ; well shaped, above six feet high, with large pock- for were it otherwise, they would certainly be holes in his face, big-nosed, and speaking broad tray themselves by th e i r ears , an d b e b urned at and loud !" Unable to get over this awkward, time stake for wizards. The Incubus was also matter-of-fact description, Mr. Mackay insinu- fond of changing himself into a lawyer, which, ates that it was drawn up " with a view to favour by the bye, was a very natural and becoming Law's escape" just as if those whohad an interest metamorphosis, for there is a wonderful conge in the man's arrest, and themselves penned th e niality of mi n d bet ween t h e Dev i l and a advertisement, would have wilfully falsified the lawyer, especially if the latter happen to be also truth in a business-like Government Gazette I a Saint, and an unsuccessful candidate for a metropolitan borough. E ver y Friday night About the same time that France was con- the witches and wizard s h e ld their Sabbath, vulsed to the heart's core w ith th e Mi ss i ss i pp i ma - lady, England was running wild a b ou t th e South once a year on th e B roc k en , w h ere they set- Sea Bubble. This scheme or i g ia t t e d w i t h Si r tied all their busine ss ma t ters w i t h t h e punctu ality, and--it is to be hoped—with th e John Blunt—a cunning, plausible, unprincipled right integrity of stock-jobbers. It any o f th em scrivener. The pretence for his .proje c t was to Satan, w attempted to levant, they were instantly caught, discharge the national debt by reducing all the amid soundly flagellat e d by order of'wimp,, funds into one. On this occa s i on th e .dank and like a certain Noble Lord, had a fancy for fiogg the South Sea Company outbid each other •; but - the latter offering the highest terins,4hey were in refractory spirits on the Sabbath. At these accepted by Govern weekly and annual m e e ti ngs , B ee l ze b u b always Governor ent• and a Bill was ordered presided in time prepossessing shap e o f a lie-goat, to be brought into time Com , mons, formed on the plan presented by th e Co with one face in front, a n d anot h er i n hi s rear 1 affitir was in agitation," says Smompany - liett "While this When all the business-matt ers were disposed of, , "the stock the whole assembly stood u p f or a d ance, in rose from one - y hundred a n d thirty to nearly four which they were joined by toads and frogs, who hundred ;" and whe n th e Bill had received time Royal assent, the avaricious Hopes of' the people capered away on their hind-legs like mad, to the were excited to a degree thatenlivening music of the Devil' s b agp i pes , The bore the aspect of time wildest insanity. In vain Walpole in the dance ended, two or three of the superior witches Commons, and Earl Co wper in the Lords,-pointed figured in a reel, with tom-cats roun d t h e i r necks out the inevitable evils of the speculation ; the by way of necklaces ; and then the whole party country held fast to its belief that " the Corn- sat down .to a capital supper, Satan in the chair, puny, trading to the South Seas would be time at which they made a variety of excellent richest time world ever saw, and that every hun- speeches, till coek-crow,when they hurried away to dred pounds invested in it would produce hun- their respective homes; but not beingTee-totallers, dreds per annum to the stockholder." Day by the majority of them got so glorionsly drunk day this belief strengthened, till at length it be- that they actually tumbled off their broomsticks; came a deep-rooted conviction. Everybody and had they been discovered by any of the New rushed to purchase shares ; Exchange-alley was Police, they would most assuredly have been blocked up ; and Cornhill was - impassable for taken to the station-house, and next day fined carriages. In one week stock rose from five hurt- five shillings by a Bow-street Magistrate. dred and fifty to eight hundred and ninety, and Such were the superstitions the t for centuries a few days afterwards was quoted at one thousand held Europe in thrall; and this, too, at a period per cent. ! But the bubble was now full-blown; when Bacon, Shakspe a re, and Milton were dif trickery had done its best, and was to pay a pro- fusing far and wide the broad searching light of portionate penalty. After fluctuating for some their genius! The circumstance is one humiliat days, stock—notwithstandin g time contrivances of ing to time pride of human intellect; but how Blunt and his agents—began to fall as rapidly as much more so, when we bear in mind that among it had risen, and a general panic was the innne- the firm believers in witchcraft and its attendant diate consequence. In time first phrenzy of her absurdities, were such luminaries as Fairfax the disappointmeritsEngland, as in the case of France, translator of Tasso, Sir Matthew Hale, and the looked out for victims, and pounced upon time Viilosophic author of the " R e li g i o M e di c i !" Directors, whom they compelled Parliame n t t o ut indeed Mr. Mackay's volumes throughout punish with remorseless severity. Sir John are calculated to lower man's estimate of man's Blunt, in particular, was reduced to the verge of pretensions; for what are they but authentic re beggary; nothing could surpass the popular fer- cords of such errors, crimes, hallucinations, and meat against him ; and in this case the victim pitiable weaknesses, as exhibit human nature in deserved his fate, for he was so consum ma t e a time light of a moon-st ruc k idi o t ? O ne sad truth rogue—and a Methodist, in additionthat John they forcibly impress on our attention—namely, Law shows like an angel of light beside him. It that while Intelligence is the slow, laborious, is not a little remarkable that the pro u d, wea l t h y growth of years, }oily, shoots up a n d arr i ves at maturity in a day, as th oug h roote d i n a conge aristocracy of' England were as eager i n time sup- maturity soil. The nation th a t listened with imps.. of the South Sea scheme a s th e must d es - oral to time sagacious war n i ngs of' a 'Walpole, perate jobber on 'Cha nge . I n th e h ot pursu i t o f gain they stoop e d t o every meanness; and a de- welcomed with general enthusiasm t h e franti c offers of a Sir John Blunt ! We here take leave seendant of one o f th e P eers o f t h e N orman Con of our auth or , with the remark th a t hi s wor k queror might be seen in Cornhill h um bl y so li- of citing the patronage of some up s t art Di rector, will excit e grea t diff erences of opinion among his readers. A D emocr i tus w ill f i n d i n i t f ood who, like a mushroom, had sp rung b ut sestet _ for inextinguishabl e l aug ht er ; i n a ll erac li tus i t Erred most severely by this famo us B u bbl e was day from the dunghill! Among th ose w h o suf will call forth only a s i g h or a tear. " Wh en we says Gibbon, sp e aki ng o f th e inven the elder Craggsovhose son, time Secretary to the contrast,"tion of gunpowde r , " ti me rap id progress of this Treasury, is -now only remembered by hi s f r i en d, mischievous dis c o ver y w ith t h e gradual advances shiplwith Pope and Addison. O ur au th or tells of reason, science, an d time arts of peace, th e phi us little or nothing about the senior C raggs ; we losopher, according to his temper, will laugh or will supply his omissions, therefore, b y sta ti ng that lie was originally a barber, who by hi s t a - weep at the folly of mankind." lents and- perseverance raised himself- to emi nence. He became, in Euccession, Postmaster- General, and home agent to the Duke of Marlbo rough; amassed a vast fortune;- and was looked upon as one of the most efficient, if not time most honest, men of business of his day. His son, as well as himselt, was mixed up with the South Sea hoax ; and they died within a few weeks of each other, while the Parliamentary investiga tion into their conduct was going fbrward. Gay, the poet, was another of the sufferers. Poor Gay I he fancied, in his simplicity, that he was about to be put into possession of the wealth of Crcesus; and went about dreaming of parks, and palaces, and paintings, and such luxuries, as no poet ever yet acquired but in imagination but one fine morning,. his delusion was rudely diSpelled ; the Bubble burst ; and he found him self possessed of nothing beyond the shirt on his back, and time friendship of the Duke of Queensbury. Mr. Mackay's account of this cele brated hoax is—considered as a whole —the best portion of his work. It is neatly and conciselsr penned; the details are dexter o usly put to gether, and enlivened by apposite sketches of character; and there is a vivacity in the descrip tions that keeps attention on the alert through out. Alluding to the various projects that were set on foot during the continuance of time South Sea mania, he relates these curious particulars : Maitland, in his " History of London," gravely informs us, that one of time projects which received great en couragement, was fur the establishment 9f a com pany "to m a k e d ea l b aar da out of savi-dust." This is, no doubt, intended as a joke ; but there is abun dance of evidence to show that dozens of schemes hardly a whit more reasonable, lived their little day, ruining hundreds ere they ftdl 4 14 e of them was for a wheel for perpetual motion—capital, one mil lion ; another was for " encouraging the breed of horses in England, and improving of glebe and . church lands, and repairing and rebuilding parsonage and vicarage 1 1 - I rsha T i r Lo M ndo U n S , E lB S 4 . l. Sinlpkin R and W 1 ndll. A brief biographical sketch, pre fi xed to this volume of poems, gives us some curious and in teresting particulars respecting the author of them, Mr. John Critchley Prince, which impress us with a very favourable opinion of his character. He is, it seems, a native of Wigan, where he was born in the year 1808; his father was a reed maker- for weavers, and, having a large family, and but slender means of subsistence, he was un able to give his son the advantages of a good education. His mother, however, an intelligent woman, did her best to instruct him; and con trived with some difficulty to procure him ad mittance into the Sabbath school of a Baptist chapel in the neighbourhood, where he gained an imperfect knowledge of reading and writing. At nine years of age he was put to learn his father's trade, and worked at it from fourteen to sixteen hours a day. It was at this period that a love of books came on him like a passion. "When • the family had retired to rest," says his biogra pher, " full often would young Prince at mid night leave his bed, creep down stairs, and by the dim light of the slackened fire revel in Robinson Crusoe,' and the romances of Mrs. Ratcliffe and Monk Lewis." In his thirteenth year he fir s t met with the works of Byron, which produced, as might be expected, 4 powerfhl effect on his imagination, and inspired him with an ardent desire to become a poet. While yet not quite nineteen years of age, he " entered into the ma tritnonial state with a pretty and interestin g young woman of his awn rank of life," w hi c h . so crippled, his means, for a family came uickly upon him, that he was induced to leave England, and seek for work, which he had learned was to be obtained in abundance and on excellent terms, in Picardy ; unfortunately, however, when he reached France, he had found that the Revolu- tion Of 1830 had destroyed all his hopes, for busi neSs of every sort was at a complete stand-still. Under these adverse circumstances he decided on proceeding to the great seat of manufactures, Mulhausen, on the Upper Rhine, and repaired thither, by way of Paris, where he staid eight days, and saw all the lions of the metropolis; when, finding his finances reduced to the lowest possible ebb, he made all possible haste to Mul hausen. But trade here was little better than in Picardy, and Mr. Prince would have starved if it had not been for the generous kindness of the Mayor, who gave him such assistance as it was in his power to give. After a brief stay, our un lucky traveller set out on his return homo—not in the slizlitest depressed, though lie had to walk many hundred miles threugh a strange land, without a .ice c f ,r 4 d without money. It was in the middle of winter when he commenced his long journey, and purposely kept along the b9 - „I s Of the Rhine l bearing up againstprivaf_ans with a ch(Tri\Al spirit., hiS poetical e nt i l7tsiasm excited to the utmost by explorinw the beautiful land scapes and ruins that, lie along the course of that romantic river. On the first night of his arrival in England he applied for food and shelter at a workhouse in Kent, and was thrust into a miser able garret " with the roof sloping to the floor," which was tenanted by eight individuals, all of whom were serious invalids, and one of whom died during the night ! Next day Mr. Prince proceeded, penniless and shoeless, to London, " begging in the day time, and lying in the fields at night." ,To allay the cravings of hunger he went to Rag Fair, and taking oil' his waistcoat, sold it for eightpence! He then bought a penny loaf and fourpennywoxth of writing-paper, with which. he entered a tavern, and calling for some porter, proceeded to write out as much of his own poetry, which he had c om p ose d during his travels, as hispaper would contain. As soon as he had finished his task, lie went to a number of book Sellers, in the hope of selling his MSS. for a lbw shillings; but as a matter of course was repulsed by all, for who would have faith in the genius of an author without a waistcoat ? He stayed in London two days, " lying on the cold stones under gate-ways, or on the h are steps of rich me n ' s houses," and then started on his road back to Lancashire, " sleeping by the way in barns, under hay stacks, and hedges, with ballad-singers, match-sellers, and mendicants," and on reaching his home, found his wife and children in Wigan poor-house. Thither he im mediately repaired, and brought them all to Manchester, where lie hired a garret "without food, clothes, or furniture of any kind; and where he and his family s l e p t on straw for many months." At length, his circumstances began to improve; his poetry, some of which was in serted in the local newspapers, found admirers; a volume was soon after published by subscrip tion—the volume before us—and he is now, we understand, comparatively speaking, well off, in point of worldly matters. It is greatly to the credit of Mr. Princ e ' s h eart , and the divine art which he pursued with such enthusiasm, that poverty has had no power to sour, or corrupt his nature. He has passed through the fiery fur nace without so much as a singe. His poems show an innate refinement of mind, and a sweet, healthy tone of sensibility, together with a pure and ennobling morality, which speak volumes in favour of their author's head and heart. We cordially wish him success, for no man seems to have suffered more, or to have borne his suffer ing with such exemplary patience, and, we may even add, magnanimity. We conclude with a graceful and melodious passage from one of Mr. Prince's poems, entitled "A Vision of the Future :" There Woman moves with beauty-moulded form, First inspiration of the Poet's song, Her heart with fondest, purest feelings warm,— Soul in her eyes, and music on her tongue; Esteemed and taught, she lives above the storm Of social discord, poverty, and wrong; Graceful and good, intelligent and kind, The loveliest temple of the - mighty mind! Her offspring, too, unfettered as the fawn, With elfin eyes, and cheeks that mock the rose, Chase the wild bees o'er many a flowery lawn, Or gather pebbles where the brooklet flows: A little world of purity is drawn Around their steps; a moral grandeur glows, Serene in majesty, before their eyes, Moulding their thoughts and feelings as they rise. Oh, blest community! calm spot of earth! Where Love encircles all in his embrace; Where generous deeds and sentiments havo b Warming each heart and brightening every face; Where pure Philosophy, and temperate Mirth, The lore of Science, and the witching grace Of never-dying Poesy, combine To feed the hungry soul with food divine! THE FORTUNES OF FAITH. Fox,_London, 1841 The " Fortunes of Faitte 3 Is a didactic poem in the heroic measure, which Pope brought to to such perfection, and shows facility of versifica tion, if not the inspiration of the poet. There are some nervous passages in it, both as repects thought and expression; but the author is much too fond of alliterations, such as " veteran vice" —" valiant virtue"-=" graceless gaud"—" gain ful guile," &c. ; and the subject which he has chosen, is an unfortunate one , for no genius, however great, can ev er render the question of the impolicy of the union between Church and State an attractive theme in poetry. THE BARD. Simphin and Marshall, London, 1841. There are several pleasing poems in this col lection, possessing both melody and tenderness, but the author should beware of affecting the humorous, for there is nothing comic in the turn of his genius, as is abundantly evidenced by his would-be-facetious poem entitled " Pasquin's Pillar," which is nothing but an elaborate failure. LLOYDS' SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 17.—Wind this day at noon, W. STANGATE CREEK, NOV. 17.—Arrd.Margeret Thomas, Messina; Grecian Queen, Starry, Patras, Atalanta, Mogodore. DEAL, Nov. 17.—Wind, S.S.E., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Fasede, Westvvard ; Scipio, St. Domingo for Hamburgh. Arrd. from the River, Camilla, Resource, Henry Tanner and Tropic for Jamaica. YARMOUTH, ISLE of WIGHT, Nov. 17.—Ann Eliza, London to Bridgwater, which was on shore on Lymington mud, came off to-day without damage, and proceeded. BELFAST, Nov. 13 —Arrd. Thomas Gilston, Mira michi. Sailed Samuel, Mobile. YARMOUTH, Nov. 17.—A large quantity of tallow is being landed here. Arrd. Wasp floating light vessel, with loss of mainmast. BRIDLINGTON, Nov. 17.—Arid. British Queen, from Shields, for Mauritius, master ill. HULL, Nov. 17.—Emily of Whitby, and Three Sisters of Sunderland, have become total wrecks. RAMSGATE, Nov. 17.—Eight casks of tallow and about two casks of loose tallow, have been landed here to-day. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. the Rock liffe, Madras; Eliza, Warneck, New York ; Mary Bead path, Halifax ; Importer, al`Candy, Miramichi ; Ann Liffey, Cumberland ; Alcyone, Charles, Resolution, and City of Waterford, Quebec; Clyde, do., after being ashore on Jordans Bank ; Martha, Montreal ; Black Cat, Ches ser, Leghorn. Ski. William Lockerby, Calcutta ; Wins cales, Maranham ; Gipsy, Terceira ; Maid of Alicant and happy Return, Azores. Arrd. off, Alexander, Ed mond, Amanda, and Asia. Put back, 17th., Coronet, Buto, for Charleston, with loss of sails. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wind E.N.E. to E.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Aigle, eastward. Sld. Johanna, Be. tavia ; Imaum of Muscat, Ceylon ; Clarendon, Tropic, and Caroline, Jamaica ; Apollo, Greneda;; Jamaica, An tigua; Phoenix, Surinam; Java, Trinidad. • DARTMOUTH, Nov. 16.—Arrd. Flora, Sundersfoot, for Torquay, with loss of topmast. The Racer, f r fromo burgh, which put in here, 14th inst., with a leak under he counter, has had it stopped, and will pro cee d . MARGATE, Nov. 17.—The hoyal Eagle, m Water ford to London, got on shore on Foreness Rock this morning, but was got off, and proceeded. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Wind .Btar bulwarks o f , s t a h i e l in, &c., D e a m g e a ra l e r , a 2 , t l . r i s n O lo f n 7m 2 ; t E s i .n 7b . A oo rr m ti , FALMOUTH, Nov. 16.--Wind .to W.N.W , fresh breezes.—Arrd. Fame Aux Cayes, sail e d 20th October ; Harvest Home, Thomson, Mi ram i chi. Ski. Eliza Ellen, Ne ov. 15.—Arrd. Dromohair' St. John's, i Sivaß B G r s L tl T eN n o s w o,n wN e. Nov. 16.—Arrd. Carlton, S ummers, an d i w IN Dykes, l: 8 A f , o E m , NoN. Quebe c. .—Arrd. off the Old Head , Ann , Gordon, and Ann, Jeffrey , from Quebec. LONDONDERRY, Nov. 11 .—Arrd. Marquis of Aber corn, Quebec; Londonderry, St. John's, New Brunswick. ILFR4CoMBE, Nov. 17.—The Sarah, of Falmouth, abandoned, and with loss of rudder, is off this place, in tow of three smacks, and is expected in next tido ; crew supposed to be saved. SHIELDS, Nov. 17.—The Perlin, bound to Buenos Ayres, in proceeding to sea yesterday, got on the Herd Sand, but it is expected will be got off to-day after dis charging part of her cargo. SOUTH RONALDSHAY, Nov. 11.—The Lovesa, from lireog to Wick i s on shore in Widewall Bay, full of water, and expected tobecome a total wreck; crew sard• WHITBY, Nov. 16.—The Ovareld, from Amsterdamto Dronth etn , got i n contact on t h e 11t h i ns t., c in h Loli ge . 1 , , 3 E., with th e Ni mro d, Hill , arrived here from Ar and it is supposed t o h ave sun k w ith three of the cre w. It is with much concern we have to announce the decease of Mr. George Bush, the Civil Engineer ; he died on Saturday last, at his father's residence in Lans downe-place, after a long and painful illness. He was a young man of distinguished talents, and though only in his thirty-second year, had completed several works of great importance, particularly in South Wales. H e was much beloved and respected by a largo circle of friends and co nnections. —Brighton Gazette. WILLs.—It is not generally known (apart from the legal profession) that a Will attested by two wit nesses; devising freehold property, is as valid as if at tested by three or more ; the law WAS altered in 1837. MORNING SUN FREE TRAD,E. y tra ou de p , u a t n t ea brw l TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. Sirt,—T read with great pleasure the articles which forward in nyooturptp:spz:latoilyoffinertlie casuusjgeosftlio• where the subject is handled with any "ns-, so much ability, did I not know, that the obtuseness, or apathy, or indolence, or whatever quality or absence of qualities it is on the part of the public, that dooms them to oppression, was of that imperturbable kind, that reiteration of the sub ject and exposure of the oppression in every possible variety and shape was the only means by which their intellects could be enlightened and their slothfulness shaken off. If the Englisb I , ,eople are made clearly to understand the nature t: the oppression they are sub jected to by 1 - andlerli rule and colonial monopoly, there will be no All i- ...ttlty in overthrowing the oppressors, let their numb ~- e rs in Parliament be what they will. . The s ugge'fion I would offer to the merchant, to the artizan, 1 ":, the labourer, to the professional man, to the man of fortune, to speculators, to the whole community em ployed in industrious pursuits, is, that they should con sider not what is the present cause of their want of profits, their want of work, their loss of fortune, or their abortive speculations, but why these unprosperous times have recurred so often. and at such shortly intervening intervals within the last twenty years. Why did the. South American States swallow up so much of Eng land's capital in 1823? Why have the United States of America embarked in enterprises disproportionate to the growth and wealth cf the country? Why did muses of property go to Spain and Portugal? Why was the mere name of a railroad in Engles :(1 a signal for every man to become a gambler ? Why (lid knaves in Cornwall, and knaves in London, find dupes fur every atrocious joint-stock et; terprise ? Let men ask themselves these questions, and they will find but one answer. Restrictions upon trade have done it all. The capital of England was, I hope is still, pro digious; prevented from being reproductive in its natural channel by the different monopolists, that rode upon it as vampires, it was lent to whomsoever held out Use most remote, the most chimeneal, hope of advantage. The end was it was thrown away, and now the country suffers from the loss of it. The indomitable energies of the English people, aided by abundant harvests and new markets found out in the most instant parts of the world, have prevented for some tine the full effects of these great periodical wants' being felt, bat now the void is obvious to everyb:ody. Restricted trade has wasted the nation's capinL, by forcing it into unprofitable channels of employnKnt, and, by a wonderful retribution, has been detri'.'nental to the authors of the restrictions. It is n.otorious that the extravagance of the aristocracy has kept pace with their increased rents, and that the Corn law alone saves the greater part of them fro:n bank ruptcy. The rivalries of an aristocracy, a class of leisure, r necessarily lead to extravagance. The occupations of men of business as necessarily lead to habits of economy. If the aristocracy merely spent their natural incomes, the country would be none the worse for it; but they not only spend their own, they make a law by which they appropriate that of other people. The operation of their restrictive policy is thus universal ruin—ruin to themselves; ruin to the industrious, whose income they tax; and ruin to the capitalist, whose accu-' mulations they drive into unprofitable enterprize. The cry of distress is more general now than it has ever been; traders, manufacturers, ardzans, labourers, have for months, aye, for years past, flattered themselves that things would get better ; their hopes have been dashed to the ground, and yet many of them still believe that the causes of their distress are only temporary; they think that bad harvests, joint-stock banks, over-produc tion, too much machinery, too great population, rie. valry of foreigners, want of trade with China, the dis turbed state of credit in America, had all combined to in jure them, but in time will disappear. I should detain you too long, were I to attemj t to show, which I easily could, the fallacy of supposing that any, or all of these causes combined, - could do any serious harm to England. while she is in a healthy and natural condition. In truth, however, she is like a balloon, full of elasticity, but unable to ascend from the earth, because she is too heavily ballasted. She has the - aristocracy and the colonial in terest to weigh her down, and fill she throws away this ballast, .her elasticity will be of no avail.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. II Athena um, Nov. 16. . EMIGRATION. J TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin—l read th e art i c l e i n your Paper of the lath in stant, on the subject of emigration, ant! highly do I ap prove of the determination expressel therein, to oppose the system about to be adopted as a panacea against all the evils complained of in this country, such as Corn-laws, Vote by Ballot, extent of the suffrage, and free trade, &c., which require tilst to 133 attended to—the other will follow, of course, as people's inclinations may lead them ; but in no min.]: way should they be interfered with. To illustrate ~. lis, I take leave to give you a case in point, of the tknger of Government interfering in a scheme of th!s sort. It has been asserted, and is believed, by the many con versant in the matter of Governor Gawler's expenditure of money in Adelaide, that it was indispensably neces sary that a large outlay should be made in this colony, in order to keep people., who were dependent on their labour, together, by making employment for them, since the capitalists that were there had not the means in themselves of paying for such labou r ; an d if Govern ment had not stepp e d in as they did, these poor people must have starved, or have strolled elsewhere to seek employment, leaving the small capitalists behind them, who had over-speculated in land, to have looked after it. Now, Sir, the point is, if such misery as is here ex plained, which must inevitably have taken place if Go vernment had not come forward at a time when it did to have relieved the immediate wants of the poor settlers, what is to be the fate of those poor creatures should Go vernment here take it into their heads to follow out the scheme as propounded for an excess of emigration to re lieve the wants of the poor of this country,. by increasing the wants of those poor creatures in the wilds of Aus tralia or elsewhere, by pouring in an excess of poor to those parts, without providing capital for their support? for this is deserving of the first consideration of Govern ment before entering into an emigration scheme. Can they insure at all times an amount of capital to give full employment to the labour sent ? If not, the thing will fall to the ground, and Government must not interfere. This is my idea on the subject, which I have thrown to gether hurriedly, and which you will make what useyow please of.—l remain a sincere well-wisher to the poor of this country, and Nov. 18, 1841. NO JOBBER. GRAY'S INN, Nov. 17.—The undermentioned gentlemen wcre this day called to the degree of Barris ter-at-law by the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, viz., Hamilton Gcale, Esq., and John Archihidd Russell, Eaq Two hales were killed last week by the engines on the Carlisle Railway in the Alten-side Cut, close to the railway station, ilaydon-bridge. The first was found by the repairers cut asunder across the rails, and the other lying in the ditch, with some down struck off her bys the engine, apparently little the worse.— Tyne Mercury. THE YACHT FLEET.—The following is a list of the yachts, with their tonnage and owners, at present lying in Ilas1::r Creek, Gosport:—Schooners—Mischi e f, -221 tons, ownt r Sir Joseph F. Hawley, Bart.; Flower of _ ijanham,nGgEi.isaiqine. Cutters—Flower Yarrow, 141, Viicou l n o t 4, E l x l lo l t i t a t m li ;;T_ Adelaide, Lyon, 1 , 125, 1 2 M .1.4r r Hw q lo ui_ n a . of Ormond; Merlin, c l r son o , r Arundel, 210, Viscount Powerscourt; Norai, 70, Ma jor Janes Mill; Asparah, 50, Bill, Esq.; Matilda, 44, Quantock, Esq.; Giulia, 42, Earl of Tyrconnell ; uis Naiad, 40, —yawell, Esq.; Midge, 35, Colonel Pike ; I Yll 4 a. ; IFT A 7 n I l o 4ks p e' e r , 3; 90, Viscount ' Cl°O%3: Spider, 33, F. S. Greville, Esq.; Nymph, 31, -- - Bayley, E sq . ; Violet, 22, Hon. P. A. Berkeley; Louisa; Gipsy. The gross tonnage amounts to 1,711 tons.—Portsmoude Paper. INTOLERANCE. A North Newbald, the place, last week principal officer t a village not ten ' . when funeral of an Odd Fellow took . of the from as it frequently I miles happens, the Lodge to which the deceased be longs, reads the l fuller oration of the order over the grave, af ter t h at of the a Church is concliided. The officer was proceedin • with when . , the Curate his duty, and had almost finished lo . Curate stepped to him and him ' to desist, as he could not allow him to proceed, at the same time liberally poi • nting out that he might the hi g h way and "low long '' there finish if he thought proper. will it be, ere the Church purge itself of such imbecility,• pride, and absurdity, an d which can only exist in the minds of those of her ministers who are pro foundly • ignorant, and of the meanest understanding. — York Courant. DEATH OF AN ELICPHANT...—On Wearies day week one .of the elephants in tho menagerie of Mr. Wombwell, now exhibiting at Leeds, died, It was a fe male, and supposed about thirty years of age. The cause ef - death is not satisfactorily e xplained. It has becn sold to the Leeds philosophical Society for 201 ; the hide weighed five hundred weight.—York Courant. The banking house of Burbey, Loe, and Co., of Portsmouth, appear in Friday night's Gazette a s bankrupts. The partners have carried on a very extensive Irish provision trade. The Hatnpshire Telegraph, i n • announcing the failure, says, " The establishment com menced with an actually proud capital ; the personal ex penses of the parties have been rigidly economical." A benevolent family in Devonshire have corn: menced their annual distribution of coal and p otato tickets to the poor of their parish ; thus one hundred tickets will be delivered monthly for the five wi nte , months, to the great joy of the poor. ~ The population of Bavaria at the end of IPA)," says the Francon ian Mercur y ," com p rised 959,099 fami lies and 4,37 0,977 souls. Durin g the last three years, - the augmentation has been 55,000 souls. Mu n i c h con tains 95,000 inhal , itants, and Nuremberg 46,000. ,, A correspondent of the Dover Chronicl4 that the now w fas hich has been very high in state s Marsh, is t subsiding, and that many f a Rom ney pl ou ghing the land in preparation for seed timeri n--- are . Several of the Cabinet Ministers had • "kith Sir Robert Peel yesterday morning. Interviews Died at Sellack, near Ross, Herefordshire, - Mayos, aged 103 ; although bed r idd en t h e A ar y four years, she retained full possession last three or the moment of her death. of her facultiez to. CAUTION.—There are at present Lan don thieves in Bath, who disguise themselves many ,- variety Lon of ways that it is almost impossible in such them. Servants should admit no person to detect without knowing his name and business,pson into the house son should keep his door protected by l and every houses have have been entered by latch kes c ains, as several The NewporePagnel Steeple . Bath Chronicle. Chases come off on Friday next, and if we may judge from the numb e r of horses that stand in for the handi • cap, will prove a bril liant commencement to the s , tason.—Cheltenham E.t.a - miner: