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LITERARY NOTICE. The AGAMEMNON of ./ESCH YLUS ; translated by Jou.w SIMMONS, Ilsq. A.M. late Student of Christ Church. This work has not long been before the pub ; bat we hasten to hail its appearance as that of a work-reflecting honour on the erudition and the talents of the present age, and better qua lified to introduce the English reader 'to an ac .quaintance with the great Athenian dramatist than,any production of a similar nature which has Preceded it. One only translation of the great and sublime tEschyins has hitherto, as. we believe, been given to the British public ;—that we mean by POTTER : a version by no means con -temptible, but deformed with many errors, in consequence of its. author's inadequacy as a Greek • scholar, and of a character altogether so dissimi lar to-that of its venerable and illustrious original,. .as to-convey no just idea of him to any reader who is unable to converse with him in his own Athenian dialect. The present translator has -long possessed, in a wide range of , the commu nity, a high reputation for his acquirements in classic literature ; and his name has been diffu sively circulated, by his contemporaries at School and at College, with the honourable epithet ap pended to it of Greek. But with the exception of some articles of Greek criticism, which have been generally ascribed to his pen in one of our great:.Reviews, he has not produced to the Public any evidence in support of his title to the distinc tion which has thus been paid to him. We have the means, indeed, of knowing that, at - a very early age, and whilst he was yet at school, he wrote a translation of that difficult author, LY COPIIRON, and accompanied his version with some learned notes. This work, however, which would at once have placed him in the first class .of the Greek scholars of Britain, was withheld /from the press by the injudicious timidity, as we conceive it to be, of his father ; and it still remains in MS. in the family of his learned and - venerable Master, the late Dr. VINCENT.- The translation, therefore, of the _Agamemnon of "Esehlilus, which is now before us, must be re garded as the first exhibition of himself by Mr. SYMMONS to the public; and we cannot hesitate to Fay that it gives substance and permanency to that fame of him as a Greek scholar which had previously floated vaguely on the general breath. It effects even more than this; for it evinces not only his profundity in Greek erudition, but his sagacity as a critic, his taste as a writer, and his powers as a poet. This may be regarded as high praise : but, with his Agamemnon in our hand, we are fully prepared to support, with incontest ible evidence, all that we have advanced in his favour. In our projected remarks on the pro duction before us, we shall begin with the Pre face, with which it is introduced to us ; and here we are surprised and gratified with a profusion •of learning, unostentatiously poured out, and ,gushing, as it were,. from a spring, too copious to be restrained from overflowing. The first part of this composition, which altogether is not long, is ,an apology for translation in general, and parti cularly for translation front the rich and strong languages of Greece and flow into the far less .copious and expressive dialect of England ; or, as he might with propriety have added, of any ---of the most distinguished nations of modern Eu " The •tints, custom., religion, and ina-u -fiers," as he judiciously observes, are changed ; words which vibrated on the ear, and went straight to the heart of all Athenians, causing a thrill through his crowded theatres, are known to ..es only by the dim light of lexicons, context, and • glossaries ; and even when understood we search in ,vain for corresponding expressions in our own language. Words consecrated to religious usages, long since forgotten, become untranshiteable ; .how, for instance, can we render such a word as T?ocrpo7mto; ? (and yet, perhaps, tin mere coml.- -ciation of that word created an awful sensation, arising from the combined effects produced by the horror of murder and the terror of supersti -tion);and an infinite number of others relating to • laws, religion, and manners : 1 How render idioms so different from our own ? Without taking into consideration the great power and force of a lan guage appertaining to the most refined and civi lized people of the world, to which we are in .alebted for all our terms of civility and science, and in which one word would sometimes require for its translation a whole sentence of a modern `language ; as, for instance, szczaass - xxxp:,- a dis , position to feel pleasure at the misfortune .of others, which makes a sentence, and con stitutes a maxim in RocuerAucaueT. " II y a -toujours dans le million' d'autrue quelque chose --qui ne nous deplait .pas'." The mechanism, „also, of the ancient languages is so much . more perfect, being without the signs of inflexion and declension, those necessary sup ports of ruder and more unfinished dialects : :the building, to use their own expression, coal ,posed of fewer, but grander and more tompre ...bensive Materials (a.p.,:4E toctz words which would fill a. cart), presents a front of Cyclopian architecture, built for perpetuity, .whilst modern writers are compelled to raise their edifices with Act of Parliament brick." Our readers, as we are persuaded, will he thankful to us for gratifying them with this long extract from our Author's learned Preface, as it with a just view o f - presents them the great power of the Greek Ivigtiage, and, consequent illustrates v strongly the dial. .very cu ty o f translating from it, particularly' whea it • was em ployed by the sublime and daring genius of th e .ilellenic Musa, expatiating in the higher region s of imagination, and seizing for the vehicles of h er burning thoughts, on words that breathe, and metaphors that surprise. On the subject of the - metaphors, in use with the Greek poets, our Autho r rests ,for a moment to notice that of the hypaltage, .unknown, as he says, to moe dery lauguages, and almost inexplicable, as be furtherobserwes in a note on the place, to a mere English reader. In tins note, as it falls In his Way) he •remarks on a misunderstand ing of this figure, discovered by, the present learned Dean of Peterborough (Dr. MONK) in his edition of the Ilopolstus, where, in line 67, for altarEcEl:Xv the Editor substitutes I Najitc W'rtflrEpt ay at+4 2 .,, a made of • • expression not to be justfied by any example to be produc ed from either of the Greek tragedians. This unfortunate substitution was adopted, as we be lieve, by the learned Editor On the suggestion of Professor GAISFORD, under the' encouragement of the celebrated VALCKNAER, who objected to the• . common reading. But the common reading is here most firmly established by our author, who adduces many instances of precisely., a similar figure from the pages of the Attic tragedians. Of these the most extraordinary, as it strikes us, is the kl,ccitiatcs'ss-faC:ap.oci (the quadruped bridles) in the Phmnissm of Euripides. If he had not • written any thing besides, this note alone would bear unquestionable testimony to the learning the taste, the critical sagacity, and, as we might add, also to the candour and the good-nature of Mr. SYMMONS In a subsequent note, suggested by the mention of the tragic poet, Cwmtemots, some few and small fragments of whose works have alone floated down to us, our author has most happily corrected a beautiful passage of this Athenian bard's, preserved by Athanwus ; and has restored, as we feel to be unquestion able, the integrity of the original text. We shall let the critic, in this instance, speak. for him self ; and with this specimen of his powers in the province of emendatory and conjectural criti cism, powers not inferior to those of his great predecessors, BENTLEY and PousoN, we shall conclude our remarks on his preface, strongly -tempted as we may be to pursue it through . its rich course to its beautiful terminatioa. In some subquent papers, it is our inten tion to continue our observations, and to vx tend them through the translation, confirming them occasionally with citations from the poetry of the text, and the erudition of the notes. " But now I am on the subject of Chwremon," says 11 , 1 r. S. " I may be permitted, by the way, to restore a corrupt reading in his play of the Centaur, which stands thus in Schweighaeuser's Athenwus 7E: 1 0E% p..EY aVrC.CY sic arElpV2. G - 7 . FerOY ' AY.OECV , CCAOXWV EG-rf27EVCCC/r,3ovctic, whore the word caoxwy is evidently corrupt, and contrary to metre and sense. Schweighaeuser is very unfortunate in his conjecture, aF.-oozwv, dactyl in the second place), and Fiorillo in his ax.foiwycoy. I. read co4^/xccy (without spears), an epithet which much heightens the beauty of the description, and prettily qualifies the meta phor. After representing a field of flowers like an army in array, a description admirably adapt ed to represent their numbers and their thick ness, the poet, by the subsequent limitation, re moves what is foreign from his subject, the bris tling of spears, and restores to Iris flowers their innocence and their harmlessness. This manner of qualifying bold metaphors is very common in the Greek tragedians," &c. We cite a part only of this note, as the whole of it would extend our present article to too great a length. But, in the course of the note, two other corrupt passages in the fragments of the old Greek poets, one of liermesianax, and one of iEschylus, are amended by our critic With the same, or with nearly the same', felicitous effects. The scholar, as we are persuaded, will be delighted with them. COURT OF KING'S Br.NCll—(Tins DAY.) E KING V. COWLING. This was an indictment for a scandalous and malicious libel upon the character of Hilton JOliffe, Esq., M.P., for Petersiield. The de fendant did not deny being the author and pub lisher of it, which was proved in evidence. Mr. John Wells ,sworn—Examined by Mr. ScAnLETT. Saw the defendant, and asked him how he got on with Mr. Jollitre ; he said he had been annoying him with letters, and if witness would go with him, he would give him one of the placards, adding he had distributed several. Cross-examined by the Defendant —Upon your oath, did you not come on purpose to obtain that bill ? Witness—Certainly not ; have heard de fendant say that Air. Jollitfe had oppressed him and his family very much, but never heard that Mr.Jolliffe offered to allow him a yearly income, but heard the defendant say so. Defendant—Now candidly say, whether you have not heard it at various times from different persons, whether I was not the most oppressed and inj.ured man hi 11)1. kingdom ? Witness—l lave heard it from others, but don't know it as a fact. Defendant—What do you receive for coming here to give evidence ? Witness—What is ne cessary on such occasions. The Defendant then addressed the Jury from a written Paper, which was couched with the most vindictive lal►guage against M. Jo lliffe—it accused him of perjury in getting possession of the estates, which, he maintained, belonged to him as the heir-descendant, and also that Mr. Jolliffe had made-about 50,0001. by disposing of seats in Parliament to different Meer►bers. Mr. Justice 'ATTE.; DALE suniled up the evi dence, and the Jury, without hesitation, found the defendant Guilty. OLD BAILEY.—(Tars DAY.) POST OFFICE ROBBERY.— William Whalley, who stood charged withyurloining a letter con taining a five pound note, directed from the Military College, Sandhurst, was this day put to the bar to take his trial for the .of fence. The witnesses against him were the same as those who appeared on the various examinations at Bow-street, viz.:—Mr. C. Cas sene, the secretary to the College, Roger Mor rison, Richt!. Hammond, Wrn. Swi tilers, Mr. Wm. Wood, J. Poppin, and Mr. Cox. Mr. and Miss . Poren proved changing the note for the prisoner. The purport of the testimony of the other wit nesses were merely a repetition of their former evidence. The prisoner merely said he was in nocent. lle called five witnesses to character, and the Jury found him GuiltJ—jleatji. In The London Gazette of this evening, will be published the following average prices of Grain for the 12 maritime districts, in the week ending on the 26th May last : Wheat 635. 10d., laye 41s. 2d., Barley :13s. 2d., Oats 265. 4cl. Beans 38s. 51., Pme. 38s. 2d.,,per quart er .. , PARIS PAPERS. We have received the Paris morning and even ing Papers of Wednesday. The most important part of the contents of the latter relates to the proceedings of the Chambers. On Tuesday the Duke de LEVIS, the Reporter of the Peers' Corn tnission on the project of law for the conversion of the rentes, made his final summary of the ar guments v, hich had been used in the course of the debate against th e Ministerial plan, or, in o ta t k he e to the speakers who had ‘ a vor d d iff s :re h i i i s t reply vi,,w of the subject from that contained in his original report. A discussion thep commenced on the amendments. The fol lowing is the amendment proposed by Count Roy, (late Minister of Finance), which was op posed by M. de VILLELE, and supported in a reply by its author " The Minister of Finance is authorised to substitute rentes at 4i per cent. for those created by the State at 5 per cent., either by an exchange of the 5 against the 4;1 per cents., or a reimbursement of the 5 per cents. by a contract at 41. " 1. This operation shall only take place by fifths, or in a less proportion, by operating on every portion of the rentes in the same proportion, co►nmencing by those portions of the rentes which, united under one name, shall not exceed 100 francs. " 2. It shall not be renewed in the same six months. 3. It shall be reserved to the holders of five per cents. to make their election between the re-payment of their capital and the conversion of it into the new stock. " 4. They shall be allowed forty days to make this election " 5. The contract for the new 41 stock, for the repayment of the dissentient holders, shall be made at a public bidding, as prescribed by the law of the 17th of March, 1823. " 6. The reimbursement of the holders of rentes who may refuse their reduction, shall take place in the course of the half year which follows that in which the operation shall be termi nated, in conforming to the order of their inscription in the registers, which shall be opened at the Treasury. .. " 7. The new 41 stock shall not be liable to be repaid till after the conversion of the whole of the old fives susceptible of reimbursement." After the discussion of this amendment, the Chamber ad journed till Wednesday. On that day the Chamber divided on the above proposition, when the Ministers were left with a majority of only two, the numbers for the amendment being 112, and against it, 114. After the amendment of 31. Roy and the other amendmenti had been rejected on Wednesday, the ministerial project was agreed to, and is ordered to be carried into execution in the fol lowing manner : The operation shall be successively effected by fifths, upon each portion of renter; each fifth may be appropriated to the conversion or liquidation in the quarter which follows that in Which the operation shall have been effected, for another fifth. " To provide for the liquidation of each fifth, the Minister will open a loan upon the new funds, in 3 per cents. avid 4 per cents., by the medium of public bidding. '• The 5 per cents will be received in payment at par, and by preference an faux d'adjudication. " The surplus of the funds will be supplied by the capitalists admitted by adjudication, to charge themselves with the pay ments which may be required." It is said in the Pilote that M. Sartoris has surrendered his share of the profits that might accrue to him from his interest in the contract for the conversion of the rentes. ( From the Courier Franuois of Wednesday. ), TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER ERAN9AIS. Paris, June 1, 1024. SlR—The principal Editor of the Journal des Debats, after waiting two days, has returned me the enclosed letter, which he has refused to insert. As a subscriber, I think I have a right to complain, particularly as it was in that Paper the letter of Mr. Baring was first published, to which the inclosed is a reply, and it was of some consequence to me to destroy the impression which that letter might have matte on the readers of that Journal. Under these circumstances, I have to beg you will oblige me by inserting my answer in the next number of your Paper. I am, Sir, &c. UIt.I3AIN SARTORIS. (COPY.) " The principal Editor of the Journal des Delia: presents his compliments to I. Sartoris, and returns him his letter, and expresses at the same time his regret that he is unable to insert it.-.L.Paris, May 31." TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL DES DEBAT& " " Paris, May 29, 1824. Sin-31r. Baring's letter, inserted in your paper of this day, obliges me to explain myself with l ess regar d t o hi s teel , ings than I o b serve d i n my lifter of the 2ilth of this month. 31r. Baring knows very well that I did not make any commu nication to the Committee of the Chamber of Peers, and that I did not speak in the name of the three united bankers. I com municated with sonic individuals, Members of. that Commit tee, and - I only used the individual name of Mr. Baring. The real truth is, that I did not reproduce my plan at the time mentioned, only because he came himself to my house to de mand it of me, at the same time announcing that he came to apologise to me ( m e faire ainende honorable, these arc his ex pressions), that this Oar) * notwithstanding some inconve niences, appeared to him to deserve the attention of the Government, and to offer several advantages under the present circzmstances ; that he was disposed to adopt it, and that he would answer for the consent of 31. Rothschild. In conse quence, on his invitation, we read it again, di scu ssed it, and agreed to another mode of drawing it up, such as it is found iu the minutes of th e proceedin gs o f t h e Clamber of Peers. It was fairly written out, and two copies made ; he took one to oceed to the Ministers (I did. not think that it was to endea vour to have it rejected), and h e b egge d inc to proceed imme diately with the other, and wait on the Members of the Com mittee with whom I had some connexion. . " After this explanation, which is strictly true, the public will decide if Mr. Baring gave his consent to my proceeding. That public will appreciate his letter of this morning, his com ments on my plan, as well as his signature, affixed to the ex traordinary contents of the two letters of denial addressed by himself and his associates to the Reporter of the Committee, and to the Minister of Finance. " I am, Sir, your's, &c. " URBAIN SARTORIS." [Front the Etc'.le of Thursday.] MADRID, MAY 29.—We have received by an extraordinary conveyance the Gazette 6f Madrid of the 27th of May. It con firms all the news from Lisbon, which we gave in our last number of yesterday. The news f, cm Mexico of the 20th of February represents that capital, as well as the whole country, to be in complete anarchy. The troops of Lobat have threatened to pillage tilexico, if they did not-pay them what was due. They gave them 200,000 piasters, furnished' by the English, on which they were again quiet. Various bands of troops are flying about the country, and have pillaged a courier, carrying 80,000 piasters. A letter from San Jago de Chili, of the 12th of January, states that the Royalist army have got so great an ascendancy over our troops, that a great panic has taken place, and they have been beaten in every affair. Our coast is blockaded by the privateers of the Royalists, which have already taken 10 vessels. It is said that Valparaiso and Lima are blockaded. PARIS, JUNE 2.—lt is said that the garrison of Paris is going to be reinforced by two regiments of artillery. They also speak of the fonnation of a camp about Paris for the Royal Uuard. FRENCH Ful6s. — P An t s JUNE 2.—Five per Cents. opened at 104. 25. ; c l osed at 104. 50.—Bank Stock, 2,002. 50. Neapolitan 5 per Cents., N.—Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 64i. —Exchange on London, one month, 25. 25. ; three months, 25. s.—(Cours Authentique,) PORTUGAL. FRENCH EMBASSY IN PORTUGAL. " Lrano rr, MAY 3, 1824.—N0t knowing how far he can re cur to the ligitimate authority for the immediate remedy of an arbitrary act, against which he protests in the name of his So vereign, as he also protests in his name against all that was done and passed on the fatal 30th of April ; at least as far as regards the rights of the throne, the interests of all Kings, whom ligitimacy Unites together, and lastly, to the reciprocal 2-„ , laticrs between .states, as laid down by the 14w of nations; and not desiring to embarrass, by a claim of reparation, which may be unseasonable, a Minister always faithful to his Sove reign, Baron Hyde de Neuville, requests the Marquis of Pal mella to be pleased to send the annexed declaration, and the keys of the Church of St. Louis, to the individual who violated the possession of his Most Christian Majesty, in case the re lease of the Chaplain of St. Louis, arrested on the mere order of a subject of the King, without his Maj: - !sty's authority, cannot take place immediately —a release which would, at least, be a beginning of reparation. It is the duty of the Ambassador of France, as well towards his Most Faithful Majesty as towards his august Master, to perform immediately this act, reserving to himself to proceed in the sequel as the importance of the case requires. " Baron de Neuville begs his Excellency the Marquis de Palmella, to accept the assurance otitis distinguished considera tion and esteem." THE FRENCH, LEGATION IN LISBON. " LISBON . , MAY 6. " Senhor Marquis,—The Subjects of his Majesty the King, my Master, established in Lisbon, are so alarmed by the ex traordinary events of which we are witnesses, that I have to re quest your Excellency whether such a state of things is to be prolonged. If it does not cease, I shall have to ask of your Ex cellency passports for many families, who will rather embark for France, and abandon every thing, their commerce and for tune, than live in the midst of fears and anarchy. " Accept, &c., " HYDE DE NEUVILLE." " To his Excellency Marquis Palmella, &c." [Here follows the declaration of the French Ambassador to Joao Antoabo Meyer, Justice of the Peace, remonstrating with him on the violation' of the French Church of St. Louis, and the illegal arrest of the Chaplain, who was Also Chaplain to the Embassy. tie makes him personally responsible for this ille gal act, and for the neglected state in which he left the church and its treasure. which was in the care of the Chaplain. The Ambassador adds,•that Itihad caused the seals to be affixed by the French Consul, for the safety cf the valuable articles in the church, and to preseve it from profanation.] This Gazette contains also the Marquis de Palniella's circu lar letter, thanking the Foreign Ambassadors for their spirited conduct in the late transactions. THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN PORTUGAL. " The undersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary of his Majesty the King of Great Britain has the honour to lay before the Marquis of Palrnella, Minister Secre tary of State for Foreign Ailltirs of his 3lost Faithful Majesty, the enclosed representation which he has received from a number of English merchants - residing in, this capital, on account of the events which have taken place within these few days. " The undersigned, 'though as well as the petitioners he has no idea of interfering in the internal Government of his Most Faithful Majesty, or with the ordinary and legal administration of justice, cannot but feel himself justified in expressing with them, his own uneasiness at the view of proceedings which have been acknowledged to be irregular and illegal, but which proceed in such a manner and to such an extent, to every class of peaceful subjects, that if they do not directly comprehend the persons and properties of the subjects of his Britannic Ma jesty, attack ind I ectly their,princtpal interests, and threaten by their continuance to put an end to all commercial relations between them and the subjects of his Most Faithful Majesty. The undersigned earnestly requests his Excellency to lay this representation before his Majesty, expressing to him, at the same time, his ardent wish that his Majesty may be pleased to give the most positive orders to put an end to those illegal ar rests, and for the restoration of that regular and legal admini stration, which has for so many years happily conciliated the interests of the subjects of his Majesty with those of Great Britain. " The undersigned takes this opportunity to express, &c. (Signed) " EDWARD THORNTON. " Lisbon, May 6, 182.1," " TO SIR EDWARD THORNTON, ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF Ins BRITANNIC MAJESTY AT THE COURT OF PORTUGAL. " IVe the undersigned Merchants, English subjects, resid ing in Lisbon, seeing the extraordinary occurrences of the last few days, during which persons connected with us by the rela tions of commerce or partnership have been suddenly torn f rom their families and business, and thrown into pri s o n in t h e most unusual, and, apprehensions a sitseemtsb' illegal manner, - exc i t i ng t h e most r the security of our persons and the property which we confided to them, hasten to apply to your Excellency, to claim that protection which you may afford us, as Representative of our august Sovereign. Haring the most complete reliance on the spirit of justice, the benevolent disposition, and ardent desire, of his Most Faithful Majesty for the good of his people,' we are persuaded that by the inter vention of your Excellency, his Majesty will deign to order the adoption of such measures as will calm our fears and restore our confidence, without which our commercial transactions will be completely interrupted, and our personal security and property exposed to great hazard. We confidently hope that your Excellency will take such steps on the subject of our representation as will be the best calculated to attain the object desired. " have th:: honour. &c. " Lisbon, May 5, 1824." (The Signatures.) LISBON, MAY 24. , • The Gazette contains a circular letter, dated May 15, to the Generals in the provinces, informing them that all orders issued from the 30th of April to the Val of May, during which time the country was - in a state of anarchy, and which were issued by the intrusive chief of the staff, Lieutenant-General Nanoel de Brilo Mozenho, are null and void. • Another circular to the Generals is as follows : " The horrible consequences of a plan subversive of the esta blished Government of his Majesty, and of the public tranquil lity, being happily checked, and his Majesty having, by wise and vigorous measures, restored the order which perverse or misled persons sought to overthrow, his Majesty orders you to be informed that this happy event is by no means to cause any relaxation in the execution of all those measures of police, in structions, &c., hitherto given, to prevent the absurd and anti monarchical principles established by the faction of the 24th of August, 1820, from farther deluding any of his subjects ; on the contrary, the King recommends to you the greatest vigour in the execution of the said measures, and particularly to con cur with the magistrates of the province, in order that the pre sent events may not serve as a pretext to the said faction to con ceive new hopes against the Royal power ; and his Majesty, not having spared any means to cut tip by the roots the machi nations of the 30th of April, at the expence of the most pain, ful sacrifices, has hereby given the most decisive proof that he never will permit any faction whatever to dare to disturb the tranquillity of his subjects, or in any manner to attack the au- • thority which Providence has given him, and which his Ma jesty will always maintain with the firmness and dignity suitable to the respect due to his Royal Person and to the good of the people, whom he governs by the Divine Mercy, and who, from duty and love, are the first objects of his pa ternal care. " God preserve, &c. " Conde de SUBSERRA. " Palace of Bemposta, May 22, 1824." " TO THE RIGHT HON. Sin EDWARD THORNTON, G.C.8., HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY AT TEE COURT OF PORTUGAL. " We, his Britannic Majesty's Consul-General-and faithful subjects residing in Lisbon, beg leave to offer you our cont,Tra tulations on the happy issue of the late important crisis of pub lic affairs in this country. Sensible of th e a l arm i ng nature o f that crisis, and of the danger to which we were'exposed both in our persons and property, we feel deeply indebted for its speedy and successful termination to your able counsels and unwearied exertions, united with those of the other Foreign Ministers, which have been productive of essential benefit to ourselves and to our country. " While we congratulate you on the high sense of those ser vices which it has pleased his most Faithful Majesty to mani fest on the present occasion, permit us to add the tribute of our sincere thanks, and to express our ardent desire that you may long hold so distinguished a station in the enjoyment of every happiness. • _ _ "'We have the honour to be, with the most profound respect, " Sir, your obedient Lumble servants, " Lisbon, May 21." [The signatures follow.] (ANSWER.) " TO JAMES R. MATTHEIVS, ESQ. HIS MAJESTY'S CONSUL- GENERAL, AND TO THE DRITISII MERCHANI;: - " Gentlemen—l cannot express to you how much I feel my self honoured by the address which you have been pleased to make to me on the late crisis of public affairs in this country, and on the share which it has been my good fortune to have in puffin an end to it. " I can assure you for myself, and I can venture to say the same for my colleagues with whom 1 had the honour of co operating in this important work, that no secondary considera tions had any influence upon us in a transaction of which the consequences appeared to be connected not only with the order and tranquillity of this country, but with the peace of united Europe and of the world. Your good opinion of it, next to the approbation of his Majesty's Government, is a most gra tifying recompence to me; and animated as you are with Bri senttments and British feelings, I cannot but hope that the one which you have now expressed will be the precursor of the other. "Lisbon, May 21, 1824." __- PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • Veneris, 4° die Ana, 1824. Mr. SPEAKER. reported the Royal Assent—to Beer Duties Bill, BroMpton-squar,.. Improvement Bill,Vl aidstone Markets Bill, Leeds Gas Lightßill, and Glasgow and Yoker Bridge Road Bill. hi PR 0 V E;:lE T —Paddington—Petitions of Grand Junction Canal Oompany, and George Stapleton, against, to lie on the table. nA 11130 u—Brenogue (Ir.:land) MI AT Eity o RKS —Canterbury • TIT HE -- Lan caster • n . Id) NM NG DISTRESSES (Ireland) Bills read a3d time, COI; N TY GAOLS and passed. EAST INDIA .GOODS GONNOik nENEVICES II /011LAND . 01 ITHCI-1 ES ESTAT cs —.Marquis of Anglcsea's, and Maxwell's—Bills read a second time, wid committed. .icilicorse's, Smyth':, and Eccles Vicarage—Bills read a first time. CoiltraxtEs-Annuity (Ireland)—Bill read a second time , anti committed. British Gas Light—Two Petitions from Leeds, against,. to lie on the table. ROADS—Buckingham and Towcester) Bills reported, to be N C OSU (Cardigan)) ingr ossed. AsLl:nonovon. WA 1.1: INC LOS u E --Lill reported, and re connoitted ft:r this day. EX TA I EsTATEs (Scotland) 1 Bills read a first .MAGISTRATES INDEmsi T Y (I re l an d) time. lvQu T Atl.E LoAx SoctETY—Dilblill—Further time grant ed ier making the Report. I/ usTiNGDo:r lionouGit ELEcTrox—Order for consider ing Petition of Samuel Wells, Esq., complaining of that Election on Tuesday, 15th %lune, reed and diseharged,-1 0 be taken into consideration upon Tuesday, 7th Sq:emb.z.r,3t three o'clock in the afternoon. FnEEmAsoNs—Petition - from, of Ireland, complaining of Act of last Session, which prohibits the meeting of cerzain Socie ties ; to lie on the table. IDIr ESSMENT . OF St:A . MEN.Pe.ition of Seafaring men, &c, against, to lie on thy' table. VAGRANTS COCOA NUTS, &C. wills to be read a 3d time 'COMBINATION LAWS REPEAL . I this day. MASTERS AND Won - Kmus EAST INDIA TRADE 1\ ENV - CHURCHES • SALT DUTIES REPEAL CinAND JU RY PRESENTMENTS Bills reported. • DUCHY or CORNWALL TRANSPORTATION or OFFENDEItES NEWFOUNDLAND JUDICATURE (Bills considered Si.AuciftrEurNo, Committee. FismEittEs EXCHEQUER Bum (Public Works)—Bill read a second time, and committed. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS—That they have agreed to Charities Inquiry Bill, Hides and SkinS Bill, Leather and Paper Duties (Ireland) Bill, Distilleries (Scotland) BOIT . Lary, and Hammersmith Bridges Bills, and to Porthdinßae o and Pwllheli, and Bideford Roads Bills, without ameatdment• That they have passed a Bill, intituled, " An Act for exhibiting a Bill for the restoration of John Francis Erskine of Mar." Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act to enable the Vicar for the -time being of the Parish and Parish Church of Eccles , in the County Palatine of Lancaster, to grant building Lease of the glebe lands belonging to the said Vicarage." Also, a Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting certain part- 9 of the entailed Estates of Sir Thomas Smyth, Bart. situate in Essex, in Trustees, for sale, and for investing the pro ceeds thereof in the purchase of lands lying intermixed with other Estates in the said• County, standing settled to the like uses; and also for effectuating the exchange of part of such last mentioned Estates for certain glebe lands belonging to the United Rectories of Thoydon Mount and Stapleforti Thorncy, in the said County, and for other purposes." Also, a Bill, intituled, " An Act for confirming the in closure of certain Lands in the Manor of llowle, in the County of Salop, so far as relates to certain allotments made to Jolla Jelicorse, Esq. deceased, and other Lands purchased by hio and William Jellicorse, Esq. his son." Ellsi/CINE OF Mmt's---Bill read a third time, and passed. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Hipleborough Walk (Northampton) Inclost= Bill—Coto' rnittee. . _ . 2. Vagrants Bill—Third Reading. 3. Transportation of Ofli2nders 4. Cocoa Nuts, &c. Bill—Third Reading. 5. Newfotydland Judicature Bill—Report. 6. Combination Laws Repeal Bill—Third Reading. 7. Masters and Workmen Bill—Third Reading. :3. Newfoundland Marriages East India Trade Bill—Third Reading. 10. Fisheries Bill—Report. 11. Public Credit (Ireland) Bin—Committee. 12. Exchequer Bills (Public Works) Bill—Committee. 13. Magistrates Indemnity (Ireland) Bill —Second Reading- NOTICE OF MOTION FOR THIS DAY. Mr. Brougham—Bill to repeal 21 Geo. 2, Irish Corporatiat Act. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Wednesday, June 9. Mr. Maherley—Return of expense of Paving, Lighting , and Watching the Metropolis, for the last seven years. Thurs . day, June 10. Sir John Newport—To refer the Petitions against the Orange Association to the Committee on the Disturbed Districts irz Ireland, and to direct the said Committee to inquire, and to report how far the Act of last Session against Secret So cieties has been found effectual. PRICE OF STOCKS rti is Bank Stock 237a 238 . 4 3 per Cent. Red. 933- 3 per Cent. Cons shut 3;k, per Cent Dissented 4 per Cent. {Assd.... 100 Ni New Bank Long Ann Imp. 3 per Cents. India Stock shut PRICES OF FOREIGN F( A ustrianßds, 5 per cent. 941 Scrip Chaim lids, 6 per ct. 75:1 6per ct 81i Scrip . 8 Danish, s . per cent. Greek Scrip Mexican Scrip 1 dis. Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ...94 5 Peruvian Scrip Portuguese Bonds Scrip FOREIGN ARRIVED. I Guernsey and Jersey 1 Lisbon 1 Frenek 1 Brazil MOH WA TER Ai• LONDO Morning, 11 minutes after 9. Tilt,' S:7,JIN. SULEM QUIS 17.11,5 UM AUDE4.7 . ? LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1824. The following is an extract of a Letter from the Agents to LLoyns' at (1 enoa, dated May 2-1 " We have now to acquaint you that STEr.-10 CAPOLA, mastf:r of the brig N. S. del Carmine, under the Sardinian flag, who arrived here late ly from Gergenti, has reported to us that on the 30th ultimo, from the heights of said place, was discovered a numerous convoy of vessels, and that on the Ist instant, about five o'clock, A.M., the report of sundry guns was heard, which at first was taken for a salute, but as the rid DAY AT ONE 0-ELOCIC India Bonds 7 3 ,;- South Sea Stock -- Old Annuities -- New Ditto Ex. Bills, £lOOO n 2 6 Ditto 5OO 26 Ditto Small - -- Bank for Act. --- India for Acct. - Cons. for Account ...95i 94.0 NOS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto New Russian, New, 5 per ct 94 i Spanish 1821, sper ct. _M.7 - 1823, lditto --- Alliance Shares :131 l 4 Palladium par L; pm• Equitable Loan 1 i Irish Ditto: --- Manchester Ditto - French Rentes - Scrip - MAILS. DUE. 0 Lisbon 0 Holland 0 Flanders 1 America. N BRIDGE TO-31ORROIC' Evening, 43 minutes after 9' 1