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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GUINEA PAPERS. GEORGE TOWN, Nor. 13.—0 n the morning of the 3d instant, the funeral of his Excellency the Governor of Berhice• took place, and the re spect of all ranks of people was conspicuous in their numerous attendance on this melanchOly occaSion.— The procession, accompanied by the troops of the garri(,on, and the militia of the town (while - minute guns were discharging), moved from the King's House at about eleven o'clock, to the Colonial, Church, where a very excellent and appropriate discourse, taken from Isaiah iii. ver. 10 and 11, was delivered by the Rev. It. Austin. After the mortal remains., of his Excellency were committed to the " silentearth" beneath the'chancel of•the building, three Lollies were fired by the troops, and the surrounding multitude then dispersed, evidently much affect ed at the solemnity of the scene. (From the Berbice Gazette.)—With every be- • coming sentiment of feeling and respect, •'rce have this day to record that. his Excellency Hen . - . ry Wm. Bentinck, o•ir late Lientenont Gover nor, departed from this transitory state of existence to enter upon that of eternal life, on Wednesday - night last, the Ist, after long and lingering sut ferings, to the extreme grief of his many sincere friends, as well as to the general regret Of almost every member of our little commnnitv. The mild and humane character of this distin- guished individual' is too well known, and too . g , >nerally acknowledged, to stand in need of so : pMsticated - panegyric : let it suffice us to say, that he was a true friend to religion, justice, and humanity ; and we believe that there is scarcely an inhabitant of this colony who is not convinced that " he bath borne his faculties meekly in his • great office," notwithstanding much violent • though unmeaning opposition during his ad ministration. His Excellency Major Thistle thwayte, of the 2d, or Queen's regiment, has been sworn in Actin°. Governor. His Honour Henry Beard, Esq. President ' of the Colony of • berbice, has been reinstated, by Proclamation, in all the respective offices from which he had been suspended by his Excellency the late • H. W. Bentinck, Esq. his Majesty having been most graciously pleased to disapprove of such suspension. ['These Papers also mention the death of the Lady of J. P. SMITH, Esq. second Fiscal and King's Advocate of Demerara and Essequibo, which took place on the 9th of November.] ST. DOMINGO. The following Proclamation was issued by BOYER, shortly after the suicide of CIIRISTO PHE : " REPUBLIC OF HANTI.--0 B.DER. OF THE DAY. 4' JOHN PETER BOYER. PRESIDENT OF HA1"II " The Tyrant is nu more—he has done himself justice. " Christoptte, whose usurped anthority covered with mourn- . - • ing and wretchedness the nor thern and western parts which obeyed hint, terminated his days on Sunday last, the Sth inst. at half-past seven o'clock in the evening, by a pistol shot, at - the news of the defection of what he called his military house . bold, which, instead of opposing, as he wished, Grit. Richard and the troops of the garrison iit the Cape, who on the 6th had declared against his despotism, embraced them, and swore, on re-uniting to the Republic, henceforward to live united, sari as a 114 i ion of brothers and friends. " The President of Hayti hastens to express his satisfac tion, in the name of the Country, to all the inhabitants, who under these circumstances have profitably served the cause of liberty and equality; and to assure them that nothing shall be spared to meliorate their condition; the military who have delayed to yield their submission, should present themselves without fear. The Repifblic is merciful, because she is strong: she has only children to reconcile, and not enmities to crmbat ; the latter, alone, who shall dare to resist the wish - ul the people, by acting from private views, shall be deli tered to the sword of the law., " The Generals, superior officers,! and the military of all grades should use their efforts to maintain good order every where. It is forbidden to shed the blood of any person; he . who shall permit it, shall be considered as an assassin. " The President of Hayti is about to traverse the whole • northern part with art imposing force; not to conquer, hot to conciliate and pacify. The people wish to he free; they shall be so; the Constitution alone can secure to them this pre cious advantage, because the Constitution of the Republic is • the work of its Representatives. " Given at the National Palace of St. Mark, the 17th of October, 1820, 17th year of the Independence. 1 . 3 y the President, BOYER. " B. INGINAC, Secretary-General." AMERICAN PAPERS. We have received American Papers to the 30th ult. The proceedings in Congress reach to the 26th. On the 22d, Mr. Cobb ) of Georaia presented to the Ilous t of Representatives the following Resolutions, which were ordered to be taken into consideration by .a Committee of the whole on the State orthe Union 1, Resolved, That it is expedient that the annual expenses of the government should he reduced ; that, for the accom plishtuent.of this object, it is further 2.—Resolved, That all such offices as are not immediately necessary for the transaction of public business, and the abo lition of which would not be detrimental to public inte rests shall be abolished. 3. !Resolved, That the salaries of all civil officers, whose compensation has been increased since the year 1809, shalf be reduced to what they were at that period. 4. Resolved, That it is expedient to reduce the army to the number of six thousand now commissioned officers, musicians, and pirates, preserving such part of the corps of engineers, vyithout regard to that nimsber, as may be required by the public interests, and including such reduction of the general staff as tuay he required by the state of the army when reduced ' as herein proposed. 5. Resolved, That. it is expedient that the appropriations - - * lathe' erection of fiatifications shall be so made as to require or less sem .attr.ually, by extending the time within which they shall be.completint, 'CY ReSiAviid, That the Act making an appropriation of one Jxliilirxi of ilollArs per allfllllll for the increase of the Navy, be Tjc anmi.ded as' to extend the time within which such increase ' shall f ee.rn: l ti v: •-,a.ud. to reduce the annual appropriation to ilie'SUOV6l fire'huntfreit tiMusand dollars. . t. 7. Resolved ; - That it is expedient to recal from active ser ' qfle 7 lallof • the naval force now employed, and to place . :the same in ordinary. ' • ethßesicihttilon 'refers to the subjects of the preceding Re wires to.the paper Standing and Select Committeres.to bring .in fills pursuant thereto.. • Intelligence from Valparaiso. to a late date has been received. The expedition .had sailed from that port, and a • decree had been issued, announcing the coast of Peru in a state of block ade, allowing different periods of time for vessels from various parts of the . World. Lord Com ' RANE was entrusted with the power of naming ' the ports from which • the. property of neutral subjects should be exported. ;Previous to Lord COf.3IRANE'S sailing from : ValparaiSo, - he had some misunderstanding with the Government, in " cotsequence of which he had tendered. his resigna tion as Admiral in Chief ; •but it veas either not accepted„ or an adjustment of differences had tahen. place. • FOR THE SIM A NEW THEORY OF SENSATION. MR. EDITOR—No theory that is MA in direct opposition to common sense, should be withheld from the public, because, even those that are erroneous, by presenting objects in a new point of . view, have frequently led to important discoveries, and from the contact of opposite ideas, a spark of truth may be often elicited. Actuated by these motives, I take the liberty of sending to you the following theory, leaving you to determine whe ther you think it deserves a place in your Paper. I am, Sir, yeur's, Paddington House. A. 'Every person who advances a new opinion upon what ha' hero considered as well established facts, is immediately as sailed by numerons .objections, and surrounded by serious difficulties. In the contest into Which he engages, he stands alone, against a formidable array of ancient prejudices, the remotral of which can he no very easy task ; but great as these. obstacles may appear, they are not, perhaps, wholly insur mountable, and should not, therefore, discourage the man whose ohject is the discovery of troth. However singular a physical opinion may he, it cannot • be rejected as emmeous, uniess it be in direct opposition to the laws of nature ; which, I trust, is not the case with the idea I now advance, that man has only one sense, via. Feeling,, of which, tasting, smelting, hearing and seeing; are only different modifications. The .conclusions d rawn in support of this system, ale de l ir e( ' :r u m these two well known axioms of the Newtonian Philosophy. i. That no more causes most be admitted than are absolutely necessary to explain an effect ; and ad, That similar effects must be produced by one and the. same cause. The former of these.akionts is-founded upon the acknowledged uniformity "and simplicity of the Laws of Nature, stud the latter upon the principles of analogy. Simplicity is indeed a great charac teristic of the operations cif nature; hence an infinite variety of effects are often produced by a small number of causes. hui, the vivid It that enliven the gardens, proceed only fruits the refraction of, light, and all the musical tones that delight the ear, are only modulations of sound. Out: ideas of external objects arise from the action of these objects upon our organs. This action ceases, whenever they , are removed, or whenever -their'frce conontinication with our organs is'itOpedea : and when it has c.easedS we can no longer form any immediate notion of their different properties and qualities. It is, therefore, evident, that no sensation can be conveyed to the wind, unless there be a tree communication between objects and our . organs: or, in short, that oily seti s sations arise front the action of bodies, or of their particles, upon the nerves'destined to receive these impressiuos, and to convey them to the mind. To prove that this operation is wholly muchanieal, let its briefly examine how each of our sensations are produced, and it in all of then) we perceive a similarity of effect, they must he referred to a similar cause. Tasting is occasioned by the contact of our food or drink with the nerves of the palate and tongue. Smelling is caused by the action-of the minute and volatile part fetes that ema nate from odorous bodies, upon the olfactory nerves. Hear ing is produced by the action of the pulses of sound upon the tympanum of the ear. , Vision is caused by the action of the rays of light upon the optic nerve. Feeling is occasioned by the action, or contact, of bodies with .our organs of toitcl). Heitce it appears, that every sensation is produced by the action of external objects upon the nervous systeni. This is evidently the case in respect to feeling and tasting; which both require the actual contact of what is felt or tasted, with the organs of touch and taste. But contact, is requisite also to produce the sensations of scents, sound, and light and co lours. If the eye, nose or ear be stopped up, we no longer see, smell, or hear, because the communication between the rays of light, the effluvia of bodies, and the pulses of sound, with the-organs of vision, sinelling and hearing is, interrup ted. Then why not say, that since .no sensation can he prod uced r without the actual contact, or the action, of bodies, or of their particles, upstu o n e organs, or, in short, unless these organs feel those bodies, we have in fact only one sensation, viz. touch, which exists under different modifications, and con veys to the mind different ideas, because it resides in different organs ? Why not admit, that every sensation which cannot be produced without actual contact with the nerves, which are essentially the organs of touch, originate in touch only ? Man is a sentient being; as such, he must necessarily be MI feeling: and his other sensations, which ars incidental, hut not necessary, to his existeoce, are lolly various modifi cations of this sole and uoiversal sense, transmitted indeed to the mind through the medium of different organs. Being so constituted that his enjoyments arise, in a great measure, from the operation of external objects, man must possess a consciousness of his existence, and of his identity, and touch was given him for this purpose. Hence its organs are not limited to any one part, but extend throughout the *hole of his frame, and such is its intimate connection with his being— that it begins at his birth, aced terminates only with his es istenie. The loss of taste, of suielling, of hearing, or of see ing, deprives him only of some enjoyments ; but he ceases to feel only when he ceases to exist. Such is the resemblance between taste and touch that they can hardly be considered as two distinct senses, since they dif fer only in the situation and not in the nature of their organs. We can no more form any indea of the taste of a substance unless it Noel' the palate, than of its baldness .or softness, &c. unless it touch our hand or any part of our body. The similarity between touch and smelling is not so evi dent, yet let us remember that we can form no idea of scents, unless the odoriferous particles of bodies act or touch upon our olfactory nerves. such is, however, the analogy between smelling and tasting, which has been proved to lie only touch, that it is often rather difficult to distinguish the one .front the other; indeed most people must have remarked a singular coincidence between the ideas which both these sen sations prodiice on the mind. Now, if these sensations be only different modifications of touch, it cannot be surprishig, that they should produce effects nearly analog ous, but not exactly similar, because they are—conveyed to the sense . riunt, through the medium of different organs. Although the analogy of hearing and vision with touch, be not immediately obvious, I still hope to trace each of them to the latter source. When the extreme simplicity of the or gan of touch is compated with thewonderful mechanism of the eye and cif the ear ; it seems, indeed, difficult to admit at once that the different sensations they produce originate in the same cause. I may he asked immediately, how I can imagine that instruments formed with so much skill and so admirably adapted to produce the proposed effect, can be in fact, of no sort of utility ? But I do not contend that our organs are use less, nor that we could either see, hear, taste, or smell, with out the organs of vision, hearingonsting, an d smelling. On the contrary, I maintain that without these, touch could not he so modified as to produce in our mind five distinct species of sensations; but, considering touch as the only source of all our sensations, or as our only sense, I believe, that if it were possible to acquire a notion of colours, forms, &c. with out eyes, it would be by touch only, of which vision is a mere modification. It. is certain that this sense is mote acute in blind persons, than in those whose vision is perfect. It is not therefore absolutely impossible, that, in a person of great nervous sensibility, touch should become so acute as to be affected not only by the action of- the rays of light, but also their refraction. Such a person, if born blind, could not in deed acquire our ideas of colours, but it is not impossible that the different refraction of the rays of light by which tire va• ;ions colours are produced, should become so sensible to tine touch of such a person" as 'to etitiv - ry tb its mind an idea - ot the different manner in which colours affect the eyeS of those that are blessed with vision. Adopting the common opinion that man has five senses, feeling, tasting, and smelling, may be termed sensual, and seeing and hearing, intellectual senses; because the former minister chiefly to the preservation and pleasures of the body, and the latter to the enjoyments of the mind. These are nndoubtedly the principal sources of our mental plea• sures, and they are so remote from touch, that it must seem difficult to prove their identity. Yet 1 believe that we need only suppose, what is really the case, that the, organs, by which touch is modified, are propor tionably delicate, and their mechanism proportionably admirable. The sensations received by the eye and ear, are more complicated, more varied, and embrace a wider range than those communicated by the other organs ; and the substances by which they are produced are of a more delicate nature. Hence the organs must be also more skil fully contrived, and so formed as topetthe least icripiessions; and this we find is the case in the eye, still more than in. the car. The organ of bearing is certainly wonderfully constructed, and most admirably adapted to the performance of its object. But I apprehend that its .excellencies consist, not in its prU ducing a hew sense, so much as in its being funned so as to prevent .t he air from acting too violently upon the auditory 'nerve. As we live in• the midst yf a light and elastic fluid, which yields to tite ;past:impression, which is continually agi• toted by innumerable . isugulses, and which is the medium of sound, it was netessaty to consttuct the organ intended to-re ceive these impressions, and convey them to the mind, so that each impression should be successive and distinct. Hence the admirable but complicated machinery of the car. The air agitated by every external impulse, acts upon the organs of hearing, which are constructed all as to prevent this action of the pulses of sound on the tympanum from being tuu violent. Here we find that to produce.lhe sensation of sound, the agitated air must operate upon the delicate membrane Which Conveys the sensation to the mind ; and whenever the comMunication between the air and the ear is interrupted, so that the former cannot act on the latter, or the latter cannot eel the former, no sensation of sound is awakened in the mind. We find therefore that in hearing as well as in feeling, salting, and swelling, the operation of some substance on our nerves is requisite to produce a sen sation, and we may justly ask why effects so similar in their nature should not be attributed to the same cause, namely that of touch ? The mechanism of the eye is no less wonderful than that of the ear, and no less essential to the objects it has to accom plish. It is an accurate optical instrument, calculated, like all double convex lenses, to collect the rays of light, to con verge them tow focus, and to increase the intensity of their action. Light is so rare, that notwithstanding the amazing rapidity of its motion, its momentum would he very inconst dei able. Hence the fibres on which it is to act, are of a very delicate texture, anti its rays are collet:Ted by the crystalline humour, and acquire force sufficient to cause a vibration of the optic nerve. The sensation of light and of colours, is therefore produced by theiriet ion of the•rays of light reflect ed or emitted from every external object upon the optic nerve : and no such sensation can be produced, if any opaque sub stance be interposed between the eye, and the surrouud►ng objects. In vision, then, the optic nerve twist feel the ac tion of light, just as in feeling, swelling, tasting, and hear ing, a contact between the or gans of,these sensations, and bodies or their particles are requisite to create in the mind an idea of their qualities. In these five cases, the organs are different, the sensations produced are distinct, but their primary cause, or the source front whence they originate., the.satue. It is, like every other primary cause, simple in its nature, but diversified in its effects, every one of which hears the stamp of the sonice from whence it springs, and to which it may he traced, how much soever it may be disguised. Thus, at first sight, 'vision appears very remote from touch. Yet, if the action of light he increased by means of a burn ing glass, the sensation would he changed front one of plea sure to one of pain, because the action of the rays of light would be then too violent for the eye. But if a greater or a lesser quantity of light can suddenly so change the nature of our sensation as to produce pain instead of pleasure, is it not more reasonable to conclude, that it is because the organs of feeling adapted in the eye for the purposes of vision are acted upon with too much violence when we feel pain, than to imagine that the excess of light changes the nature of the organ, and transforms it suddenly into an organ of touch, in stead of an organ of vision? The sensation of pain, which Undoubtedly belongs to feeling, may he produced in every one of our organi. Touch or feeling is allowed indeed to reside ',in all our organs, and to pervade the whole of our frame. It is therefore, avowedly, the n►ost universal of our senses ; and this alone might create a suspicion.of its being the only source of all our sensations, or lather our only sense or sensation. The idea of considering all our sensations as residing in touch is not unnatural, since we find that all the colours are only modifications of light, and all the tunes of music, modu lations of sound. These two facts prove, that a substance may be modified so as to produce in the mind very different impressions. And why should not. this be the case in respect to our sensations ? '‘C by should not all our supposed senses reside in touch, and appear different only when they reach the mind through different organs ? It by no means neces sarily follows, that we ought to have only one organ, because we have only one sense. On the contrary, we may easily conceive, that the same sense may be as differently modified, by means of different organs, as light when seen through va rious coloured glasses, of as sound modulated or agitated by different iustruments. Touch was fully adequate to the iden tity and mere existence of man ; but to minister to his com forts, it was so modified as to produce all the sensations of which he is susceptible. It is undoubtedly the most import ant, and we have shown that it is likewise the most universal, of his supposed senses ; why nut therefore consider it as his only sense ? - By sense is meant only the medium through which different sensations and perceptions are conveyed and awakened in the Mind. But because these sensations and perceptions, and indeed the organs through which we receive them, are differ ent, we ought nut to conclude, that they are nut produced by the same cause, residing in distinct organs. We know that touch takes place only in actual contact, without which ❑o sensation can be possibly produced, But I have shown that actual contact is also requisite to produce every one of our sensations, whence I think myself justified in considering them as effects of our cause, or as modifications of our sole and universal sense, to which I give the name of sensation.— am led to this conclusion by analogy; and I adopt it because I find it consonant to the two principles which have been my guides, and to the acknowledged simplicity of the operations of nature, in which we unifolinly discover few Causes and many effects. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. 26. [This Gazette contains Loyal Addresses to his Majesty from the Inhabitants. of the Palish and Town of Kensington; from the Clergy, Churchwardens, Overseers, and other Inhabitants of the Palish of St. James and St. John, Clerkenwall ; from the Capital Burgesses amid Burgesses of the Corporate Town of Wisheels, and the Magistrates, Clergy, Gentlemen, and Yeomanry, of the said Town and Neighbourhood ; from the Inhabitants of the City of Peterborough.; from the Inhabi• tants and Householders of the Town of Thame, in the Coun ty of Oxford ; front the Inhabitants of the Town and Parish of Knutsford, Cheshire; front the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Dundee; from tire Inhabitants of the Pa rish ,of Wanner, Kent ; front the Mayor, Recorder, Justices, and Capital Burgesses of the Borough and Foreign of Walsall, Staffordshire; from the Inhabitants of the Borough of Stau►- ford and of Stamford Baron; front the Mayor, Recorder, Al. dern►en, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Newark-upon- Trent, &c. &c. BANKRUPTS. H. Fell, Walbrook, - merchant, Jan. 2,6, and Feb. 6, at twelve, at Guildhall. Solicitors, Messrs. Clarke and Co., Little St. Thomas Apostle. W. H. Harrison, Farnstield, Nottinghamshire, victualler, Jan. 4,5, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at tl►e Rain Inn, Notting ham. Solicitors, Mr tti .F. Stevenson, Lincoln's Inn ; and Mr. Rigley, Nottingham. It. Offer, Both - wick, Somersetshire, plasterer, Jan. 9, 10 , and Feb. 6, at twelve, at the Greyhound Inn, Bath. Solici tors, Messrs. Nethersoie and Co. Essex-street, Strand ; and Messrs. Evill and Co., Wood-street, Bath. T. Edwards, Alton, Hampshire, ironmonger, Jan. 16, at two, 17, at ten, and Feb. 6, at-two, at the Swan Inn, Alto n Solicitors, Mr. Dyne, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; and Mr. Trim mer, Alton. _ W. Kidd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, linen draper, Jan. 15, 16, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the George Inn, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Solicitors, Messrs. Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard; and Mr. Sey►uonr, Newcastle-npon-Tyne. T. Courtney, Oxford Coffee House, Strand, coffee-house keeper, Dec. 30, Jan. 16, at twelve, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at Guildhall. Solicitors, Messrs. Deunett and Co., King's Arms Yard, Coleman-street. M. Holt, Stoke, Coventry, watch-maker, Jan. 10, 11, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Castle Inn, Coventry, Solicitors, Mr. G. Edmunds, Lincoln's-inn ; and Mr. J. Carter, Coventry. DIVIDENDS. Fsh. 13, J. Peacock, Ball-alley, Lombard-street, mer chant—Jan. 16, T. Clark and C. Gray, Keswick, Cumberland, 11, E. Cane, Battle, Sussex, saddler— Jan. 16, J. Silver and J. Silver, Size lane, merchants—Jan. IS, W. Blackburn. Blackburn, Lancaster, shopkeeper—Feb. 0, W. John Son, Birmingham, tarpauling maker—Jan. 27, W. Longhurst; Toubridge, ironmonger—Jan. 23, Collyer, Gosport, and West Cower, Hampshire, painter and glazier— Feb. I, T. Clarke, West Pennard, Somersetshire, cheese dealer—Jan. 16, C. Battye and 'l'. Pilgrim, Laurence Num ney-hill, brokers—Feb. 6, J. J. Watt, Ratcliffe •high way, sur geon—Jan. 20,5. AIM burst,Market-st rret , West winst er,copper and iron manufacturer—Jan. 20, J. Hardwick, Mill-street, Lambeth, engineer—Jan. 6, C. A. Ansell,'Carshalton, Sur tey, paper maker—Jan. 16, W. Attleck, Berwick-upon- Tweed,grocer—Jan. 13, R. Collins, Maidstone ' dealer in bops —.Jan. 13, L. Williams, Nicholas-lane, Lombard=street, merchant—Feb. 6, C. Haut,. Mark-lane, merchant—Feb. 6, B. Cohen, of Bishopsgate-street, merchant—Jan. 20, W. Hancock, Bury St. Edmunds, cabinet maker—Jan. 17, C. Reynolds, Norwich, woollen draper—Jan. 27, W. Davies, Birmingham, brass founder—Jan. 27,T. Warwick, Hitcher], Herts, draper. CERTIFICATES, JAN. 16. R. Lincoln, St. James-street, Westminster, hatter—T. Bud • den Rochester, hatter—J. Batters, Southampton, grocer— .). 13ird., jun. Kingston•npon• Hull, cornfactor. I'AIiTNEIi:sHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Donald and E. Steuson, Oxford-street, London, dress makers—C. Cheatle and P. Hughes, New Kent-road, glaziers—E. Soave and J. Cherry, Coventry, painters—R. V. and J. C. Swaine, Leeds, woolstaplers—R. Appleton and Co. Manchester—W. Howard and G. Stevens, James-street,. Manchester-square, hricklayers—.l. and T. I.awes, Bruxelles, Holland—J. H. Bennett and T. Tims, Woburn, watch ►nakers. rOREIGN LITERATURE. VOYAGES ) TRAVELS, &C.—The last Livraisos of the Annals of Voyage, anti Travels, of Geography and History, by M. M. Mane_ Brun and Eyries, has been recently published. It contains the Narrative 'of a Journey from Fes to Tosubuctou, and tram the latter place to Houssa, with a description of these two towns, which are but little inown to us ; the continuation of a Memoir on the different nations which inhabit Turkey in Europe;. a fragment, entitled the Fair of Macario", extracted from a manuscript Journey through Asiatic itussialba disquisition on the state of Persia; a paper by M. de Krusenstern, on the Kurile Islands; a veil curious Memoir on the Maldivia islands ; and several inte resting historical and geographical disst rtations.—(Gazette de France, Dec. 20.) A Picturesque and Romantic JourneN througk dintilat France, by M M. Nodier, Taylor, and Alp. de Cail leux.—The first. t hree lirraisons of this Picturesque Journey appeared six months ago, and were consideree to exhibit the most perfect specimens of the Lithographic• Art : the three succeeding livraisotes just • published possess, if possible. greater merit. The whole of -the fifth livraisun is occupied with sixteen beautiful engravings, executed by the best Artists, representing the Ancient Abbey of Jumiegrsi founded in the 7th century by Saint .Philibert on a Penin sula in the Seine, and which is celebrated in the Annals Of Normandy as the Theatre of several remarkable events, and chiefly because Charles VII. resided there with the beautiful Agnes Sorel, whose heart was deposited in a tomb, which destroyed by the Revolutionary Vandals about 30 years since. Nothing can be more picturesque and 10111,111tIC 6311 the ill" posing ruins of this /11€11111/11elli, Which unites the efegaute and lightness of the Architecture at the middle ages with the thane and graceful ornaments of the. swine period. The de' seription of these mnaments, which are beautifully desighcdr may be regarded as valuable studies in the att of construct" jog Gothic Buildings.—(lbid.) EDUCATION.—A Treatise on Public and Prizmg Edlleall'Old in a Constitutional Monarchy, by P. H. Snzaitoe. —A Treatise on Education is not, nor can it be, an Eirclelii pcedia. The business of an author is to point out the course of studies proper for the different classes of pupil,, ac cording to their ages, the distribution of time, the heat modes of conveying instruction, and what hooks should be rem!. On all these points, the work of M. Suzanne contains excellent rules, which are the more valuable because they a re the result of thirty years' experience and honourable success' , This treatise is a very maid abridgement• to those persons' who are engaged in the instruction of youth, sod esp.:el - all/ to patents who wish to educate hAuselves their children.- -- e style is simple and cluar.—(Journal (le Paris, Dec. -20.) PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE 0-CLOCK. 3 per Cent, Red. 69i New Annuities 9 per Cent. Cons. ' , .per Ct. Nary Ann. South Sea Stuck shut HIGH WATER AT LOND( Nlorning, 41 itainittts atter 7. )N BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 6 nisimus 40., a• THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DIOERE F4LSUM 4UDE.IT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1820. We have again to announce the non-arrival of Paris Papers. Two days' Journals are due. It is now reported, that though Mr. CANNING has tendered his resignation, it has not been de cidedly accepted, but that he has been requested to pause, with an intimation that it shall be kept open for him. It has, it is said, been observed in a high quarter, that, in' these times, when principles are afloat calculated to involve all re. gular Governments in anarchy and confusion, uo man should desert his post who has any weight in public opinion, and that the talents of the person in question are of such a na ture as to afford powerful opposition to all such disorganizing principles. We pretend not to know the effect of these suggestions, which may indeed be considered as an exhortation, if not a remonstrance, against any who may think of re tiring into supineness when sedition and blasphemy are raising their heads, and disposed to avail them selves of whatever may tend to favour their :I.pe rate machinations. We understand,•that the Post occupied by Mr. CANNING, is still kept va cant, and if Mr. Pv.tf, cannot be induCed to accept it, it is probable that the ex hortations to which we have alluded, will be productive of the intended effect.— We see with pleasure, that Edinburgh and Dublin come forward with a patriotic zeal, wor thy of the Capital of our Sister Island, and it is gratifying to find that several important parts of the Kingdom sympathize in the same loyal senti ments. THE HULL PACKET.—Mr. SIDNEY, the Editor of The Bull Packet, who was lately so brutally assailed by a seditious Rabble, has in his last number given a wood Cut, representing that rabble in the act of burning him and his Paper in effigy. The miscreants were too low to de serve any notice but the contempt of all loyal men and the due lair isliment of the Law. Monday being Christmas-day, Divine Service was performed at the King's Palace, in Pall mall, by the Rev. Dr. STANIER CLARKE. On Sunday and Christmas-day, the Duke of CLARENCE attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duke of YORK attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal. Yesterday the Duke of YORK held a Military Levee as Commander in Chief, at his office in tt:e Horse Guards. We understand, that by a new regulation in the system of our East India trade, the Com pany's ships from England for India will sail singly, and not. its company, as heretofore, com mencing with the ensuing season.—(British Press.) Dr. EvEaAno is to succeed Dr. BRAY, as Archbishop of Cashel. Wednesday Mr. Serjcant BURTON was sworn in Fourth Judge of -the Cdurt of king's Bench, Ireland. The Earl and Countess of ERROL are arrived at Dublin. Ilis Lordship is A.d-de-Camp to Major-General GRANT. witl as Ad, this eve star but tior son wh an CL bf 2 ti ce