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'l'llll. LONDON -J-OURNALS. DAJLY Admits from the Mopping Papers, May 6. [MORNING 'JERALD.] Monday's Paris Papers arrived last night. The Journal des Dames, the most accredited organ of the French Cabinet, after the Moniteur, contains a - note by the Editor, on the London accountl of an alarming force of French ships at Brazil. The statement of a strong French force there is de nied. It is said not to exceed what is necessary for protecting the commerce of France, and of other countries also, to whi.ch protection is ex tended, and . one of the vessels named as being there, is asserted to be laid up at Brest. There is, however, an observation coupled with the de nial which tends to throw suspicion and doubt upon it. The Ministerial Journalist says, that though the particular statement be false, .yet " Brazil is on the eve of a great change." This looks very like a preparation for a coup de main against the liberties and independence of Brazil. When this great change shall have taken .place, the French Minister will be at no loss for a satis factory excuse to Mr. Canning, as after the inva sion of Spain. We have received a file of Mexican Papers, which come down to a recent date, and from which it appears that the new Constitution has not been received throughout the provinces with that unanimity which was expected. It is al ready known that several of the provinces were for Federal, and some for a Central Republic, and it would seem that the differences of opinion upon this subject have actually produced, in many places, occurrences of a serious character. In the provinces of San Louis Potosi and Jalisco, in particular, the proclamation of the Federal system has been strongly resisted. It is well known that certain jealousies have long existed in the provinces of Biscay and those of Puebla and - Mexico, between Mexico and Guadalajara, be , tween Lagos and Leon, and t*tween Colima and Zapotlan. The cause of those jealousies are not, perhaps, perfectly apparent, but theydo not, there fore, exercise the less power over the minds of their different inhabitants. Yet the new Consti tution, in one paragraph, unites all these discor dant elements in one mass, nithout paying the slightest attention to the prejudices which oppos. ed such an association. A Federal Republic, in order to be firmly established, must be composed of States which have common interests in the union, and are fitted, as well as disposed, to act in concert. But the papers before us contain 'several indications of disquietude, which show that no Such dispositions are common to more than three or four of the provinces, and that they are beginning to group themselves into partial Fede rations, which are incompatible with the con tinued existence of a general union. Indeed the immense extent of territory which the pro vinces most remote from Mexico occupy, the dif ficulty of communication with the capital, the con sequent delay in the promulgation of Govern ment measures, and the injuries which must thus frequently arise to distant communities and indi viduals, seem to ba circumstances unfriendly to such a form of Government. The late events. in Peru had been known in Mexico, and had excited a good deal of alarm there for the continuance of their independence. ." These events," says the Agui(a Mexicana, " must raise the apprehension of every Mexican who really loves his country, and desires to preserve its sovereignty, freedom, and independence ; but what shall we do with those persons who seek only for the conservation of liberty so long as the Government is carried on according to their own ideas and opinions."— (Ibid.) [BRITISH PRESS.] Within this day or two, in the absence of all other news from the Continent, an expedition from the Tagus to Brazil, to consist of from seven to ten thousand men, was confidently mentioned, on the faith of private letters from Lisbon, and vast alarm was excited 'by the appearance off Lisbon of a Freoih sloop of war, from Cadiz, with some invalids on board.' Now we do not believe that any expedition of the nature these letters mention is in either idea or preparation ; nor is Portugal equal to the sending out such a force. The party now in power at Lisbon could not muster two thousand soldiers to be relied on for such an expedition, and the necessary funds to.meet the expences are equally deficient. Don Pedro may have been intriguing with the faction at Lisbon, but the Brazilians are universally de voted to the cause of independence, and would to a man oppose the attempt to revive the supremacy of Portugal over that country. As to France, let her feelings be however strongly inclined, she will not venture a rupture with Great Britain, by an open attempt on any part of Southern Ame rica. The diplomacy of our Foreign Minister has been all through decided on this subject, and repose is as essential to the interests of France as to this country.; no attempt, therefore, will be made, either in Brazil or Spanish America, by a French force. - •• FirpORNING CHRONICLE.] The Catholic Association have resolved to with hold their thanks from I‘lr. V:n.sor, a gentleman distinguished by the constancy and ability with which he has advoca t ed the cause of Religious Liberty, because he has e:Wrgssed some censure of Lord Wellesley. This.is suite of a piece with • • • spirit by the bold, manly, firm, and independ ent which the acts o f th e managers of Irish . C atholic affairs are in gen era l marked. Doctor poy!e, more to the satisfaction of these pseudo patriots, and after the manner of his order, lauds the Lord Lieutenant in terms as courtly as even that Noble man's vanity could covet. But the Irish Catho lics have always crouched before power ; yet, bad as is the spirit manifested' by the Assoc iatk.o in this c a s e , we cannot a gr ee with a contempo rary in expecting better, things. of the Catholic Aristocracy. We, believe that, they are, with exception of perhaps 'one wan (rather estimable, however, for hiSnegative than positive qualities)) the veriestsic4hauts and slaves of power. They number arpOji,them some incli - viduals,'we k now , quite as tb.a is the basest of the Ultra-. Royalists • of the Continent. But Mr. Ensor's advocacy of the Catholic Claims will be unaffected by the slight put upon him. The greater the faults and vices of character exhibited by the Catholics, the more imperatively are we called Upon to promote measures for their emancipation and improvement. [THE Tisixs.] The dishonesty of the present Spanish Govern. ment, in refusing to pay the dividends on the Bonds, appears to have excited more indignation, or at least to have called forth more lively ex pressions of it, on the Paris Stock Exchange than on that of London. There was a general cry of " Down .with Guebhard's loan !" If Guebhard or any other agent expects to make a loan for such a Government as that of Spain, the interest upon which loan shall be secure, he greatly mis takes. A bankrupt may obtain fresh credit, if he faithfully makes over whatever effects he may possess to his assignees, and discharges his old debts up to the best of his ability : but one who by falsehood and chicane eludes his responsi bility, can never be trusted where he is known, except upon suchterms, and with such an acknow ledgment of risk on the partof the lender as would almost justify a second evasion (though the first was unprovoked and dishonourable), on the part of the borrower. Courts of equity, in all nations, at least go so far as to enforce the eessio bonorum of the debtor. This is the universal law of Eu rope. We do no t see , therefore, why Cabin e t s as well as law-courts should not conform to it, and act upon it. War, certainly, is the ultimo' ratio regum, and we do not desire our Govern meta to go to war upon this question; but we think it might urge such remonstrances, and take such measures, short of hostilities, as would pro duce a considerable effect on the mind of Fer dinand. We are assured that no letter has been re ceived at Lloyd's from Sierra Leone, as stated by us on Tuesday, nor has any intelligence whatever of the disastrous events in Africa been posted there, except our second edition (See THE SuN) of Saturday. The Britannia, which arrived at Cork on the 27th ult., from Sierra Leone, sailed from thence on the 12th of March.—(Mid.) [NEW TIMES.] We have the painful duty of stating, tha upon mature inv e sti ga ti on , we fin d too much rea son to believe the defeat of Sir Charles Mac- Carthy to be true. It still remains entirely inex plicable how the event could he (as it was) totally unknown at Sierra Leone 52 days after it took place; but this circumstance cannot out weigh the positive evidence we now have of the melancholy fact. On the 21st of January an action took place between the forces under Sir Charles MacCarthy and the Ashantees. Sir Charles commanded about 'four. hundred Black regulars and militia in British pay, and an allied force of 2000 Fantees. -,vias attacked by 10,000 Ashantees, whose great superiority_ of numbers, aided by a panic, terror on the part of the Fantees, gave the Ashantees the victory. The very few Whites who accompanied Sir Charles were all killed o r made. prisoners except two ; .Sir Charles himself was wounded in two places ; and the only hope remaining is communicated in the postscript of one• of the letters, which mentions a report that he had escaped to the Dinqueras, a nation hostile to the Ashantee Despot. A large British force is now employed against Algiers ; we do not hesitate to say, that the cru-sh ing of the Ashantee power is far more important to our best interests, and to our hollol.ll* as a na. tiou. Three or four British regimenis, with a competent train of artillery, would suffice to an. nihilate a bloody and ferocious despotism, which, if unchecked, will drive us with disgrace from the African shore. One powerful reason for the immediate intervention of Government is the large amount of British property now engaged in cultivation, and consequent civilization of Africa. One Gentleman has a coffee plantation on the Gold Coast, fifteen miles in the interior, where, if the enemy reach it, the fruits of four years labour will be annihilated - in as many hours. Nor will the devastation stop there; if successful on the Gold Coast, it will no doubt spread to Sierra Leone, where the injury to civi litation and the destruction of property will be infinitely more lamentable. But this is a pro spect to which we will not longer advert, satis fied as we are that the hoeour and interests of the country are in the hands of a high-minded, an active, and a vigilant Administration. [MORNING . POST.] Although fully satisfied of the force °Nile ar guments with which Captain Maberly's motion was met by Minister's on Tuesday evening, we think it was unanimously evinced by the !louse of Commons on that occasion, that the employ ment of the Poor of Ireland, by the application of some of our redundant capital, would best tranquillize them and eradicate the evils Which have so long and. so disastrously existed in the sister country. The only question then is, as to the most prudent and effectual means of attain ing this object. Loans from Government to the landowners or other persons having security to offer, we certainly cannot approve, and indeed it seems sufficient to state such a proposition to per ceive its pregnant impolicy. But may not efforts of another description be made without being liable to similar objections ? "What is the situation in which this country now stands towards Ire land ? It absolutely costs us an immense sum per annum above the Revenue which that island produces, to govern it for England, This assuredly is a case to which o r di nar y princi pies ,of legislation will not apply" at the same time that it behoves us to adopt some measures which may "re r lieve the people of Great Britain fFoz.)ro sustaining so heavy a burden, where they ought to . find a source of profit and strength.— W e may likewise observe, that no, relaxation frOm this drag on our finances can be expected but in the amelioration of the present condition of the and that th e fi rs t grea t an d e ff ec tu a l step to this resultis . to provide employment for, them. ,Ought .we.then to consider the application of Funds by9oVernment for this, purpose injudi cious ? Supposing, for instance, that a certain sum were voted annually by Parliament for car rying on extensive - public works, and otherwise improving the national advantages of Ireland, can it be conceived that the interest of those grants would dot-be doubly paid in the increase of the Irish revenue which= they - would produce, to say nothing , of -the- habits of industry and good order which .their expenditure must inevitably introduce ? That there,irainple scope in , the sis ter country for the advantageous disbursement of capital in the way we allude to, no man who knows any thing of it will question. Why not, therefore, undertake the experiment ? England is losing at present a vast sum annually by Ire land, and how could our wealth be better em ployed than in converting this loss into a profit ? Even were a few millions additional debt incurred, to effect so great a good to the Empire, such a pro ceeding would be perfectly consistent with the soundest policy. 'We borrow money without measure to prosecute wars, because the future welfare of the State demands the sacrifice; and shall it be said that we are not equally justified in raising loans to 'promote the happiness of six or seven millions of our fellow-subjects, and by that means to augment the prosperity and power of the Empire in such a manner as to bid defi ance to the machinations of the world against either ? In the present aspect of Europe, it will not do to dally with Ireland. Hitherto indeed we have acted towards that country on a seem ing consciousness that our tenure of it was frail. Let us convince the Irish in future that we look upon the Union of the two Kingdoms impe netrably cemented, and we shall inspire them with a similar belief, and with corresponding trust and confidence on British protection. It is disgraceful to reflect, that while capital is going to waste in this country, Ireland is enduring every evil which poverty can inflict on a gene rous people. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 5. BEER AND WARD—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR, at great length, reviewed the arguments in this long-litigated cause, and intimated that he would finish his judgment on Friday. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 5. LIBEL. • WEAVER v. LLOYD. Mr. TAtixTov applied to the Cthirt to enter a general ver dict in this case for the defendant. It was tried at Oxford, and the Jury . gave a shilling damages. Liberty was given to move the Court to enter a verdict for the defendant upon a question of law. The plaintiff, who is a draper at Abingdon, sought to re cover damages for a libel which appeared in the Oxford Journal. The libel charged him with atrocious cruelty in riding his horse in a state of supposed intoxication furiously through Abingdon, using his whip and spurs in a merciless manner. It was alleged that the horse when put into the stable had one eye literally knocked out, and the plaintiff ordered his servant to admit no one to the stable to see the animal. The Jury found every part of the libel true, with the exception of the eye being knocked out, and the order stated to have been given to keep persons out of the •stable. Two pleas of justification were proved to the satisfaction of the Jury, but they could not find the other pleas correct, in consequence of the deviation al ready described. The opinion of the Court in the present in stance was to be taken on the question whether the plea were substantially proved. The Loti:D . CitIEF JusTicE held that the pleas which con. tamed tbe false charges were not proved. The other Judges were of the same opinion, and Mr. Taun. ton took nothing by his. motion. '• C(tIMINA'I.. ;1 1 40.11MATI0N. • • THE K 1 WATERWORTH. Mr. BROUGHAM moVed'fo file a criminal information against a butcher named JohnlVdtevvorth 2 . for insulting conduct to General Whattani it'.slagiserdUe; in the East Riding of York. The application was inade• op the affidavit of the General and four others, stating thit'theconichict of Waterworth pre vious to December last, and sa,Cd„' had been most abusive and improper. The de£Prairit7'-'meeting the General on the highway, exclaimed, " YOu', tr 4 a Magistrate, have employ ed persons to go into iftiOsia 'land pillage the inhabitants; we intend to bring you before the Grand Jury for the robbery of Alice Hutchinson." The General in his affidavit, explain ed the defendant's alltisio'n.`.lnt h e execution of his duty as Magistrate, he had fined a woman, named Hutchinson, for keeping light weights in her shop, `but he denied. having acted illegally, or with unnecessary rigour.—The Court. granted a rule to shew cause. • COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 5. At a quarter past one o'clock, Sir WILLIAM DRAPER BusT, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Justice BURROUGH, and Mr. .Justice PAItIC took their seats on the B enc h. Ali... Justice RICHARDSON, the other Judge, was absent from indisposition, The Court was occupied in swearing in bail, and other mat ers of no public interest. • ..,„ SHERIFF'S COUItT.- 7 - (SUR RE Y.) CAPT.-TENCH V. THE SIigRIFF OF SURREY. This was an action br - ongld' by Captain Tench, of the Tenth, to recover damages for a - false arrest. Mr. Bitot: ottrim stated the plaintiff 'S ease. - the 28th of last May, he 'attended a Levee at . the'i•Commander-in-Chief 's, and upon returning to his lodgings •in Guildford-street was followed up stairs by a tailor. He addressed him in the name .of Jones, which excited his attention, and the tailor, demanding him to discharge a bill for 261., called up Town send, an Officer, who took him into custody. The Officer was assured they had the wrong person in charge, but they insisted upon conveying Mr. Jones, as they stiled him, through the streets, in the middle of the day, gaped at by crowds, who were surprised to see a military gentleman in such company, and finally placed him in - a lock-up house. He there refused to satisfy any pecuniary demand, and was con veyed to Horsemonger-lane, ushered in amongst the unfortunate inmates on the left side of the gaol, and nearly four days elapsed before his friends exertions could have any weight; he was then ordered to exhibit himself before his Judges; the scrutiny . commenced, and no one could recognize him as M r . Jones; for this series of injuries,• however wilful or mistaken, the Captain sought damages. Evidence was called, which proved the facts already stated, describing the accommodation in the prison as miserable in the extreme. Mr. ANDUEWS, for the defendant, admitted that the capture was erroneous, but the whole fault, in his opinion, ought to rest upon the tailor, who had directed the bailiff' to do his duty. —The Captain, he said, might.bave cleared up the business by sending to his agent, but his opinion was, that by enduring confinement, he anticipated a "golden redemption." frusting that the Jury, as men of the world, would not be argued into such a belief, he left the case in their hands. Mr. ABBOTT commented upon the evidence, and stated to the Jury, that although the action was brought against the Sheriff; the consequencs would fall upon• the bailiff. The .Jury, after having consulted for some time, assessed the damages at 101., which is less by 10s. than Mr. Brougham's fee. An Inquest Was held yesterday before 'Kilos. Saitur ON, Esq. Coroner, at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Elizabeth Rainger, who came by her death under the fol lowing circumstances appeared in evidence, that on Easter Nlondity last, the decea se d, who was 61 years of age, was lean ing against .an iron p ost i n Lower Thames-street, ,t the time a cart loaded with bags of wool, belonging to Mr. Edward An drews, of the Queen's- Head, Borough, was proceeding to the Custom-house quay. The carman, Richard Howard, to avoid the different carts that ply for hire, was obliged to pull close to the curb-stone, and seeing the dangerous situation of the deceased, requested her to move away ; she refused, upon which he ran up to the horses' heads, for the . purpose of stopping their progress; in this he unfortunately failed, and . in consequence she was knocked down, and the wheel pass ing over her. left leg, ,it was dreadfully fractured. She was placed on a cutter, and immediately conveyed to the Hospital, where the leg was set, and the wound dressed; a few days after mortification was apparent, and it was found - necessary to amputate the limb, which was done with her consent, but her constitution was so decayed she could not survive the painful operation, and died on Mon day morning, The Jury, being satisfied that no blame was attached to the carman, returned a verdict of " Accidental Death ;" deodand one shilling. FRENCH PAPERS. ( Frain the Moniteur of Monday, May 3.) NOTHING OFFICIAL. PARIS, MAY '2.—A letter from Rochefort, dated 19th April, gives the following particulars of a very deplorable event : The Cecilia, an American vessel from the Ha vannah, was' lost in the night of the 16th on the north point of Chatelaillou, near Rochelle. Of 27 persons who were on board, ten perished.— Among the victims of this unfortunate event are a Spanish woman and her five children ; her hus band, who was on board, after' exerting himself to the utmost to save his wife and children, has survived this misfortune. He is in a state of de spair difficult to be described. The Cecilia was bound for Bordeaux, and the cargo consisted of sugar, coffee, and cochineal.— The ship is quite gone to pieces, and the wreck remains on the most advanced rocks. The hogs heads and chests which contained the coffee and sugar came ashore quite empty, and, up to the date of this letter, nothing had been saved but two serons of cochineal. The necessary measures had been taken, both for the observance of the precautions ordered by the Sanitary Laws, and for the salvage of the cargo. ( From the Etoile, dated Tuesday. ) PARIS, APRIL 4.—A letter from Bayonne, of the 2d of April, says," A telegraphic dispatch has brought orders to the division of the reserve, to hold itself in readiness to march to Spain. Its destination is not exactly known, but supposed to be A rragon." GERMANY, APRIL 20.—(Letter from a private Correspon dent.)_" I can now give some positive information relative to the various threatening letters that were addressed to the Elec tor of Hesse Cassel, as well as the measures and arrests which have been the consequence. 'Without entering into any de tails of the Elector's Government, I content myself with re marking, that the most honourable persons greatly lamented the absence of her Royal Highness the Electress, and were no less grieved to see another lady, who could not claim much respect either by her birth or her conduct, should be nevertheless loaded with so roan y honours. 'While the Elector was at the baths of ‘tienndorf last summer, a letter was delivered to him, which contained a seri e s o f complaints against the lady, against the present Administration, and several Functionaries, and concluded with a threat that th e lif e o f th e El ector would be in danger if he did not remove the cause of these complaints. The Elector immediately returned to Cassel. He no more ap peared in public, except with a strong military escort; and every means of precaution was taken to protect the life of the Elector against traitorous hands.—The Ministry published a notice, inviting all citizens to communicate to the police what they might know of this affair, and offered a reward of 10,000 crowns to whoever should give certain information of the writer of the letter. A short time after a similar one was found in the palace of Wilhelmshohe ; and several other letters arrived, even from remote countries. Thus, for instance, the Post master of Wabern, near Cassel, received one which had been put into the post at Sarnen, in Switzerland, with orders to send lit immediately to Cassel, as regarding an affair of state of the highest importance. The police then doubled its activity, and not content with making investigations in the electorate, it sent its agents to Switzerl a nd, A us t r i a , an d' D enmar k . At length, towards the end of December, 1823, an ordinance of the Elector was published, which offered entire pardon to all those who might take part in any secret society tending to political and unlawful projects, no matter whether it still exists, or has been suppressed, provided that, in the space of six weeks after the publication of the ordinance, they should make to the General Board of Police, or to the Chief Magistrate of the circle in which they should reside, an exact and particular account of their own participation, and of what has come to their know ledge, of the members and accomplices of these associations, of their dangerous projects, their extent, their resources, their -in ternal organization, &c. It does not appear that this ordinance produced any important result; only the first notice was fol lowed by a mass of denunciations, verbal and written, from which, however, no certain information was derived. Several circumstances, indeed, led to the arrest of a great number of persons, almost all of whom were set at liberty after the first examination by -the police.. Particular investigations were or dered only in the case of a few persons. That against the Cabinet Secretaiy, caused • the greatest sensation, because the first threatening letter had been sent under cover to him, and he had the misfortune ,to, deliver the second, which was found at Wilhelmshohe. Another person ar rested, M. Robert, First Lieutenant - of Artillery, likewise ex cited the public attention. He is said to have declared in his examination, that he had _gone, to .Wilhelmshohe with the intention of assassinating the lady mentioned above, but it seems that this confession proceeded merely from his weariness of life, which was proved in the whole examination. He had already, endeavoured to destroy himself by opening several veins with a piece of broken glass. The third person, whose arrest had made much noise, is Counsellor Murhard, well known as a political writer. He had been Counsellor of Prefecture and Editor of the Westphalian Monitenr, under the Government of King Jerome. After the restoration of the Elector, he re tired to Frankfort, where he lived on very intimate terms with exiled Buonapartists, and was generally considered to be the author of the indecorous articles on the affairs of Germany, which appeared in the Minerva Francais', the Renontnzetc, and the Vrai Liberal. Being lately expelled from Frankfort, for having published, in a periodical work, a report made to the Diet, and for having, on this occasion, compromised the name of a deceased deputy, with whom he had no connection, this M. Murhard was arrested on his passage at Hanau, and sent to Cassel. It is not known whether these letters are the result of a conspiracy' against the life of the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, or whether they are 'connected with the general plan to revolution ize Germany, respecting which, positive and circumstantial information is impatiently expected. [The Journal des Debats, the Courier Francais, and the Coastitutionad, do not contain any intelligence. Mademoi selle Georges, the celebrated actress of the Odeon, has been hissed at the theatre, which made her quite indignant, - and she refused to proceed. This latter event comes at an auspicious time both for the actress and the Parisians, and the. Journals are already much occup i e d w i t h M a d emo i se ll e Georges.] NEFEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. BY R. BANKS. PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER. Thermo- meter. Weal her. I t , Z ..,.. t _,.,. ' I V. ?' . . ?. g ?' n k '"'. F . w:,. ~-. -7, ~... 4-, . - - .--.. p - • I " • 4 •'. 0 o I o Inches April 23 52 155 48 29.60 Rain Rain 24 52 55 46 30:00 .21 Fair Faii 25 52 55 52 .20 Cloudy Cloudy 26 154 59 481 29.80 .01 Fair Rain 27 51 59 55 . 85 Do. Cloudy 28 53 59 55 30.00 Cloudy Fair 29 58 69 56 29.86 Fair Do. 30 58 167 54 .70 Do. Fair of Rain h in the above lit da 'live fallen B. B. Agreeable to advertisement, a Meeting of the Freemen was held at the Guildhall Tavern yesterday evening, when Mr. THOMAS DAVE Y was called to the Chair, and after expressing his surprise at being called to that situation, he pro duced a written speech and resolution, which he read to the meet ing, and which merely stated there was likely to be another elec tion, and that the freemen ought to refrain from promising their votes. Mr. G. Lewin said, that no one could possibly oppose the resolutions, as they did not contain any information of im portance, nor propose any gentleman as a fit and proper person to represent this city in case of a vacancy, and he concluded by proposing, as an addition to the resolutions, that Sir - R. T. Farquhar, Bart. be considered by the meeting to be a proper person to represent this city in Parliament, in case of Mr. Lushington vacating his seat, which was sanctioned by the majority of the freemen. After which Mr. J. B r o w n endea voured to oppose the proposition, but the freemen would not hear him. After silence was obtained, Mr. John Clackett rose to move a resolution, that a vote of censure be passed on the per son or persons who called the meeting, and added, that there was no official intelligence of Mr. Lushington's leaving his situation, which was carried unanimously, and the meeting was dissolved. After which the freemen drank the healths of S. It. Lushington, Esq., and 'l'. Farquhar, Bart.—( Kentish Gazette, May 4.) LIT-ERARY NOTICE, The WONDERS of ELORA ; or, the Narrative of a Jour. ney to the Temples and Dwellings, excavated out of a-Motin. tarn of Granite, and extending upwards of a mile and $ quarter, at Elora, in the East Indies. With some general Observations on the People and Country. By Joux 13 ' SEELY Captain in the Itombay Native Inf a nt r y. We have never felt so strengly as on the pre. , sent occasion the necessity which our limits ix?' pose upon us of being brief in our remarks. We would willingly devote a much greater space t° our notice of this interesting description of one of the moat extraordinary instances of human perseverance and ingenuity. Capt. SEELY sets out by deprecating the censure of the Critics, by disavowing all claims to merit as an Author, and iv resting them solely on the importance of his sub ject. This is perhaps politic, but it is also unne' cessary, as his work is written in an easy mos' suming style, and his observations are those of 3 sensible, judicious, and impartial travelkr. Let us, however, turn to the work itself. Captain SEELY has passed nearly the whole of his life in India, to which he went at a very early age, and his manuscripts were composed without any view to publication. His work is not, however/ a mere description of the excavations at Elora his account of the country through which he tra' yelled; and his observations on the state of so' ciety in India, and on the manners of the inhs - bitants, are highly i n t e resting. It i s time, how' ever, to present our readers with a short descriP' tion of his first view of Elora. " Bruce's emotions were not more vivid or tumultuous 0$ first beholding the springs of the Nile, than mine were 0 01 reaching the temples of Elora. lat once rushed into the won' ders and glories of these immortal works ; but it is totally irn' possible to describe the feelings of admiration and awe excited on the mind upon first beholding these stupendous excavations . " On a close approach to the temples, the eye and imagine tion are bewildered with the variety of interesting objects that present themselves on every side. The feelings are interested to a degree•of awe, wonder, and delight, that at first is painful, and it is a long time before they become sufficiently sobered and calm to contemplate with any attention the surrounding wonders. The death-like stillness of the place, the solitude of the adjoining plains, the romantic be au ty o f th e countr y, and the mountain itself, perforated in every part, all tend to impress the mind of the stranger with feelings quite new, and far diffe rent from those felt in viewing magnificent edifices amidst the busy haunts of man. Every thing here invites the mind to contemplation, and every . surrounding object reminds it of remote period, and a mighty people, who were in a state 0 ' high civilization whilst the natives of our own land were barbs' rians, living in woods and wilds. " flow many ideas rush into the mind of an inquisitive and thoughtful man at the moment lam now describing ! Hop much delightful narrative might a more able pen than mine give utterance to on the occasion ! I will, however (though lacking the glowing descriptive p ower o f some o f oar rne dem writers), put th first view in plain language to the reader's imarr ' ination.. "Conceive the burst of surprise at suddenly coming upon $. stupendous temple, withi n a l arge open court, hewn out 01 the solid rock, with all its parts perfect and beautiful, stand ing proudly alone upon it s nat i ve b e d , and detached fresl the neighbouring mountain by a spacious area all round , nearly 250 feet deep, and 150 feet broad : this unrivalled fans rearing its rocky head to a height of nearly 100 feet—its lengtn about 145 feet, by 62 broad—having well-formed door-ways , windows, staircases to its upper floor, containing fine large rooms of a smooth and polished surface, regularly divided 11 rows of pillars; the whole bulk of this immense block of iso lated excavation being upwards of 500 feet in circumference , and, extraordinary as it may appear, having beyond its area , three handsome figure galleries, or virandas, supported by re' gular pillars, with compartments hewn out of the boundary scarp, containing 42 cur i ous g i gant i c fi gures o f t h e Ilindoo n . mythology—the whole th ree ga ll er i es i n cont i nu i ty , inclosi the areas, and occu pyi ng th e a l most i ncre d i bl e space ofanlout ly 420 feet of excava t e d roc k ; b e i ng, upon t h e average, 13 feet 2 inches b roa d a ll roun d, an d i n h e i g h t 14 feet BIN! a half; while, p os iti ve l y , a b ove t h ese aga i n are excava ted fine I hrge rooms. Wi t hi n t h e court, and opposite these ga ll e ries, or virandas, stands Keylas the Pr ou d, w on d er f u lly t ow eringts hoary maj es t y — a m i ghty fabric of rock, surpassed by no relic - of antiquity in t h e k nown world. " This brief outline will i m p ar t t o t h e reader some idea ' e f the Wonders o f El ora ! an d i f these temples do not excite in the mind em o ti ons o f aston i shment and delight, I have quite misunderstood my own f ee li ngs. T o b u i ld the Pantheon , the ar g Parthenon at Athens, St. Peter's at Rome, our own St. Paul's' or a Fonthill Abbey, is a task of science and labour • but we understand how it is done, how it proceeds, and how it finished: hut to conceive for a moment a body of men, NO' ever numerous, with a spirit however invincible, and resources however great, attacking a solid mountain of rock, in most pal s I'oo feet high, and ex cava ti ng , b y th e s l ow process of t h e c his el ' a temple like the one I have-faintly described, with its galleries, or Pantheon, its vast area, and indiscribable mass of sculptur e and carving in endless profusion—the work appears beyond b 1 lief, and the mind is bewildered in amazement. We fear that we have already encroached upon our limits,and must therefore unwillingly end with the above quotation, at the same time promisin% a future extract from this interesting publication' The engravings which adorn the work, and which we conclude, from the initials at the bottom of the pages' to be mostly from the drawings of Captain SEELY himself, are well executed, and much ail' sist the animated description of the writer. After this extract, we conceive that our R ea d ers w ill join'us in th i nk ing that Captain SEELY had no reason to apologize for a want of literary power , as the preceding extract will shew that he writes with acumen, taste, and knowledge; with O . ' zeal of benevolence, and the solidity of philoso' phic reflection. It is proposed to establish a permanent Refuge, for Destitute and Hous e l ess P ersons i n the Ci ty 0 1 London, and the premises now occupied a s the London Workhouse have been suggested as suited to the purposes of such an Institution. COAL-MARKET, MAT 5. ships at Market. Ships sold 89i Newcastle - - 52. 31 Sunderland - . 30 Prim. _ -31 s Rd to 396 uu -31 s Od to 40s 041 BIRTHS. Yesterday morning, in Stratton-street, Lady Jane Peel, of ll ' daughter. On the 4th inst., at West end, Hampstead, Mrs. John Dlileo , of a son. On the 22d ult. ' the lady of Wm. Gale, Esq. of Aldi ng han 3 T Lancashir e , o f a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth inst., at Marylebone church, Captain Francis Davies, of the Grenadier Guards, to Anna, eldest daughter 0 ' Lieut.-Gen. Dunlop, M.P., of Dunlop, in the county o f Ayr._ DIED. On Wednesday, the sth inst., after a very short illness, tl e widow of the late Right Hon. William Windham, at an ad'' van ced age. On Sunday, the 2d inst., at his house in Russell-place, Arch bald Cullen, Esq., of th e Middl e T emp l e, one of hii IVlajsstO Counsel, and youngest son of the celebrated Dr. Cullen. On Friday, the 30th ult., Mr. John Ten Brucke, late of 014 Broad-street. On the Bth ult., William Leckie, Esq., on his passage front Surinam to London. On the sth inst., at his house in Park-crescent, Portland place, John Brickley Cowell, Esq., in the 64th year of his age On Thursday last, suddenly, aged 54, Mr. Mawer, a Yell respectable draper, of Lincoln. Ile had just sat down to Wi per, and was seemingly in as good health as usual, when be was instantaneously seized with the pains of death, and was a corpse in a few minutes. Mr. M. was a member of the Wes leyan Methodist Society, and was a local preacher in that con , nection for the last 35 years. Printed . and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Set** . ()MCI:, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAiItS. . I :1 4:4 1)( ill LE lir th