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WEEKLY RETROSPECT. 4 t Vl:tidy, with Unefornzity," is said, by the iphilosophic IluTcniNsoN, to be the " soul of beauty." If that axiom be turrect, then certainly thei-CoßkonAmoli DF LONDON must be the most 1 - 05aptiful corporation in the. world, and must -- cpptain prettier WHIGS than any other part of the empire ; -for sorely nothing, or rather no two things, can form a finer contrast than the two re tent Corporate Addresses. The one from the Mayor and Aldermen, or more . _properly from some of the Aldermen, ac- icompanied.by the Mayor, loyal, just.,.liberal, yet decided ; the other from the Mayor, some Alder men, and some Common Councilmen—what shall we say ?—yes ! we shall call it deserving—highly deserving of the rebuke. which it drew forth from -the SOVEREIGN on the THRONE of the BRITISH EMPIRE !! I 64 Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignzts 'indite nodus," is indeed Ae rule of the Roman Poet, but JUN.- TER TONANS himself, though his thunderbolts -were intended for great purposes, Must yet have darted them, hart he been annoyed by wasps and tarantulas on Mount Olympus, the Pall-mall of the. ancient Deities ! At what academy the framers of that Address may have•ktudied we shall not pretend to say; but most certainly it was not at the 64 Academy of Compliments."—ln short, it reminded us of a • scavenger's cart ; • not rumbling over a jolting . pavement, and • merely spattering the passengers •e' passant, but fkiirly upset in the Court-yard o f • - Carlton Palace to the annoyance of MAJESTY • itself, and of all his liege subjects good and true ! But to treat the matter in more mea sured phrase, We shall say in the words of the sentimental STERNE—" Tile accus►ng CITS flew to the Levee with •the Address—the Recorder blushed as he gave it in—whilst the Sovereign, with a frown, blotted it out for ever !" It has been often said that the following secrets would be found out by fools:—The Longitude, the Philosopher's Stone, and the 'FULCRUM which ARCHIMEDES required in order to move the world ! The last of these, the wise it- . .en of London think they have discovered in attaining the Corporate power of becoming . . " Black Guards in Ordinary" to the Sovereign, and of presenting to him a jobation in. Regal state. It was long a contest between, the CitN and the Court, whether the Livery should or should not have the privilege of presenting their Addresses to the Throne, or only through the Home Setre - tarp. At that period, the Radicals of the day had possession of the Common Hall, hut not of the Common Council, nor the Court of Aldermen ; - svi:ilst his late Majesty firmly determined not to admit of any new privilege, and to receive no Addresses, except frorri the Corporation of Lon - 'don, upon the Throne; owing to which, the Wilksites, • and others since that, could only spit • their venom in Guildhall, or through the medium of the press. Now, however, an opportunity has been gain ed, and they have certainly availed themselves qt it—on which we can only observe, that if _ Ve r ..oon's drug pounders or WAITHMAN'S Shop men had dared to utter such a Round Robin to their Sovereigns, they would have been kicked out from the presence without ceremony !; or, as more elegantly expressed by the Hop-substitute- Alderman's compeer at • Brandyburgh House, " sans etiquette!" W e certainly feel disposed to censure the great bodF of the Corninon Council for permittin a • factious few thus to rule the roast; yet if there were a safe time, and perhaps none safer than the present, it Might be well to try the experi • latent of allowing - them to settle the affairs of the world by themselves, in presence of Goa and ArAc-on, whom the worthy wooden Alderman, in his .rage for improvement, has brought nearly on a level with them, instead of frowning from on high in -silent majesty. Those two Gentle men, with a fellow feeling for their brother blocks, will certainly ne.v2; oppose any thing that may be moved ; and perhaps it is as well that nobody else should. Debates, without op position, like that of Friday last, will soon lose all their relish out of. doors ; and our great Re formers in tile East, like their brethren in the West, having nobody else to quarrel with, will speedily fall out amongst themselves. • In the mean time, Loyal Addresses go on well. We take not our authority from the Glzette, but , from the Times, Chronicle, and Press, who e vi tuperation always rises in proportion to the fair expression of public opinion. The Brandyftrgh defencc now brought forward —that all, which was said, was really done, but all as a hoar—seems to mean more than either party imagine. It .has already been hinted, in answer to a London Address, that oven iii health . shall not tear a certain person away from her be loved subjects, but then thoSe loving subjects cannot do less, by and, by, than give leave for a Continental trip in search• of health ; and then what was once done as a hoax, may again be done as a joke, without fear of Public Clamour, or even of Pains and Penalties !- 1. G. N. We can confidently state that Parliament will certainly meet on the 23d of January for the dis patch of public business.---We have received pri vate letters and papers from Naples to the 26th ult. Until the 2:lth, while an Invasion on the part of Austria, though probable, was yet an un certaiwevent, it appears there was every demon stration denoting that a most vigorous resistance was preparing to repel any intruder. But on the 26th, when, hostilities were announced to the Parliament as actually inevitable, the scene was completely changed, and the leders of the new Government are represented to, have been as much at a loss, on this intelligence, as if they had never contemplated even the possibility of an attack. Desertions, not simply of a few men getting away by stealth, but to the number of upwards of 330 from one Regi:nent alone, had taken place - ;- the deserters marching off with their arms, baggage, and ammunition, and firing upon whoever endeavoured to oppose them.— Frequent assassinations were likewise daily dis gracing that unfortunate capital ; yet any gene ral system of reprehension or • police was of course considered as totally incompatible with the liberty of the subject ! Under this dilemma, it is said that the lit w had been requested to re assume the reins .qf (;overurnent, to put himself at .the head of the Army, and to enter into Ne gociations. ‘vith . 'the, Austrians, but that his MA JESTY had refused. Among the numerous and extraordinary subjects upon -which 'the Neapoli tan Parliament think proper, at this critical mo ment, to debate, one was, Whether the " Supreme Being was, or was not ) to be Consi " tiered as the Ruler of the Universe !"—We are, however, happy to inform our Readers that t i re -question was, • at length, carried in favour of tie Deity. Thus it unfortunately happens that schemes of Reform and attempts at Revolution are but too often and too fatally tainted with Infidelity. We, however, hope and trust that this unfavour able state of affairs may soon wear a less gloomy aspect. The firm stand made on the part of the British Government at the late Conferences, and the little expectation of support to be derived froni France, cannot, we should consider, but in fluence the Members of the Holy Alliance to temper their pretensions of interfering in the in ternal ,Government of Independent States; and the imminent dangers, coupled with the difficulties on all sides, which now menace the Neapolitan Metropolis, will, we trust, induce their present leaders to adopt, before it be too late, a more mo derate form of Government, by which the Rights of the People 'may fairly and effectively be assi milated with the just Prerogatives of the Crown. The Message of the AMERICAN PRESIDENT, which we had the pleasure of inserting on Satur day, calls for no particular comments, but must be gratifying to all friends of social order, on ac count of its pacific character. It is likewise gratify ing, as it concurs with all that has be - en said by sound, Politicians in this Country, in ascribing our Comniercial distresses in a great measure to the sudden transition from a state of war to a state of peace. The''friends of humanity in ge neral will also derive satisfaction from the apparent determination of the American Government , to exert itself resolutely in attempting to suppress the Slave Trade, a traffic so peculiarly degrading to mankind, in the present enlightened period. We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due this morning, have not arrived. Wednesday the. KING held a Council of Mi nisters, who afterwards held another meeting, at the residence of the Duke de Richelieu. To morrow is the day appointed for the assembling of the Chambers. The accounts from Troppau to the 30th ult. inclusive, state, that it appeared to be decided upon that the Allied Sovereigns, as well as the Ministers, should proceed to - Vienna, where they were to remain till the 20th instant, and then to continue their negotiations in a more southern town, supposed to be Laybach; but their meeting at all at the latter place probably de pends upon the answer received from the Neapo litan Government. The intelligence from Naples contains a letter from the PRINCE 'VICAR-GENERAL to the Parlia ment, in which his Royal Highness pledges him self, in case of an attack upon the Neapolitan territory, to place himself immediately at the head of the army. This letter, which is dated the 18th ult. is silent as to any communications received from the Allied Sovereigns. A person age of considerable importance from Russia, was expected at Naples the latter end of last month. FIVE PER CENTS. Wctine.day 7B f. 45 c. DEFERRED STOCK Of the 22d March, 1317 lOB f. 50 c. lid Sept. 1840 94 f. 6u 6. EXCHANG.E ON LONDON. One Month Three Months 35 f. 50 c. 25 t. 25 c. We► are authorised to state that the Gaelic Address presented to the QUEEN this day, and purporting to be from the Highland Society or Assembly in London, is not from " the Corpora tion of the Highland Society of London." Downside, or St. Benedict's College, is near Shipton Mallet, in Somersetshire, not Shropshire, as stated. The 'Architect was Mr. GOODRTDGE, of Bath. We have no objection to a liberal toleration of the Roman Catholics, but we trust that they will, in turn, refrain from attempting to make converts, and also check their hopeless ambition of being admitted to a share in political authority. The whole of the Cabinet Ministers are said to be summoned to attend a Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office on Wednesday next. Letters have been received from Batavia down •to the beginning of August. The - expedition against. Palembang had been given up, and tl►e troops were to embark for Macassar, to reduce to obedience the SULTAN of BoNI, the most powerful Prince of Celebes, who had proved re-, fractory. Their giving up the expedition against Palembang may be considered as conclusive of the weakness of the Dutch Government in the Archipelago. " Sincapore," says one letter, " thrives most wonderfully, and all the English here are in raptures with it. The situation is in every respect admirable ; and if your negociators give it up"they will deserve impeachment. The Dutch settlement of Malacca declines as Sinca pore advances."--(Morning Chronicle.) The answer given on Saturday to several of the Nobility who called at Carlton House, was, " His MAJESTY is quite well." FOREIGN LITERATURE. Mu.,tTAny litsTon.y.—We observe by The Gazette -de France of t Ire I Ith of this matith, that the first livsairon of a new Edition of the Histoire Critique rt Mill taire des fluerres de la Revolution, by the celehrut eel General Jomini, has lately been published at Paris. M. Jontini has distinguished himself by several scientific: publications on the Art of War, and about two years ago, by his translation arid illustrations of the excellent work of his Imperial Highness, the Archduke Charles, entitled, " The Principles of Strategy, or Military Science;" developed by a detail of the Campaign of 1796, in Germany. •In treating of this partivular period of the Wars consequent on the French Revolution, as well as on the principles of Military ',4Cience, much important and va luable information may be derived fr om the production of that illustrions warrior; and we anticipate that M. Jorniiii has availed himself of these advantages which will render the present edition of his History peculiarly desirable and inte resting. We understand ttiat the work will be enriched with numerous maps, engraved with great care, at d executed with such precision as veil triable its readers to follow the Opera tions of the different armies, and to .eoMprelrend with, the greatest case the strategical demonstrations occasioned by such operations. This production has rendered important services to the 'Military Art, and Will be extremely useful to youth destined to the professiore.of arms.. UNIVERSAL II APHY.—A considerable time has elapsed since the perblidation of the 44th Volume of the Riograpltie Unirerselle, aneienne et nroderne, arid we hare now the pleasure to announce from 7/e Journal des .I)e6ats. of the ilth inst., that the 25th and 26th Volumes of this Work have issued front the Parisian Press. Wowed not in form our readers that the Iliographte Unirerselle is under taken by a,soctety _of literary and szientific men, and that the two last. Viriumes,, aS well as those• which preced e d them, are the produCtion of the same individuals. The same erudition, the same judgment, principles, good sense, and talent, which characterized the former parts of this work, are conspicuous in the tatter l'eluiries. M. •Lacre tette, the younger, has contributed two excellent articles on the reigns of Limns XIV and Louis XV, - so which he has in troduced a vindicatiati of the charecteraff - Madanie de Main tenon front the calumnies of Saipt Simon. They will together form one vol. The merits of this ilistdrian are well known to be of the highest order,. and have been justly appreciated.. The Biography of the virtuous and magnanimous Malesherties is well given by ,M. Bonald; who describes hint as uniting the virtues of ancient tittles with the tipinions of the present day. M. Villemain has enriched these voluines With two important articles on Latin Literature, thoseof - Lucretius and Lucan, two great poets; the former exhibitiug the splendid flight of the •Renian Muse, the other its decline.; Locate was forced to commit siticide at the age of years, and Lucretius was • the victim of a voluntary death, it is said, at the age of 44 ..years. The shot t life of one and the . Obscure life of the other, do not furnish the Historian with many materials ; but tkis void is tichlksupplied by just and spirited reflections, try solid and ingenious literary opinions, and by masterly delinea ' tions ref the two terrible epochs -ill whicb the genius of these two Poets shore to, tha thus giving a greater in terest to his two articles ithan could have been effected by the recital of facts and anecdotes. Loran lived under the reign of Nero, whom he had the misfortune to offend, and the still greater mitfortune to flatter in the basest anti most disgusting manner. Lucretius had witnessed, more than a century before, the -ho;•rors of the civil wars, anti the • proscriptions of Marius and and his ardent imagina tion, deeply affected at this frightful spectacle, had imbibed in their contemplatton his gloomy and disheartening philoso phy. •" Not daeing to attribute," justly observes M. de For). tames, " the disordersiof his country to the-gods esteemed fur their wisdom mid justice, lie attempted to deny the existence of a Providence which seemed to abandon the world to the passions of a few ambitious tyrants." • M. Villvotaio palms in forcible colours these different : his pencil is vigorous, hold, and spirited. However, iq the article on Lucas , his judgment is trot always correct, -and his ititott and expressions are sometimes too far-fetched. —lle has: also been guilty of an inconeistency, which perhaps may be only an apparent not a real one• In com menting on the various and opposite opinions respect ing :the author of the Pharsalia, he says, 'Voltaire has spoken of hint with admiration; and a few lines further he quotes a passage, in which Voltaire expresses himself in terms of moderate commendation with justice arid taste. Of the two articles, we prefer that of Lucretius. The prose of M. l'illemain may take its station by the side of the elegant anti liarmoitions prose Of JI, tie Fantaries, from which lie has given two lone, extracts. We sti..h M. Villemaiii had been •able in this aiticle; to do justice to the talents of great poet of our tines, NI, De Lille, who, like Lucretius, haS versified the most unpoetical and abstract subjects; a poet less cf.. garous, less energetic than his predecessor, but possessing mote brilliancy, more elegance acid Taste. He applied these rare qualities to ,a better philosophy, and proved in equally elegant verse, in the eighth canto of the Aegne de la Nature, the great and important truths unknown and despised by Lucretius. These volumes contain - a variety of (Abet . '" mote resting and valuable articles; arid we have only spaCe to mention, that M, Dint lias-cuntrilitited his talents and abili ties to the celebration of those learned acid scientific charac ters, who are comprehended under the term savans. PRICE O. THIS DAY AT T F . STOCKS , WELV OCLOCK. S per Cent, Red. Gni Ex. Bills, Id. S per Cent. Cons, t) per Ct. Nary Ann..... shut HIGH WATILII AT LONIN Nlorning, 41 ttlinutts after 1. Xs; BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I Evenimr, t t minutes atter THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM dIUDEAT LONDON, - MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1820. FOREIGN INTELLIGtNCE. Mails from Flanders and 4famburgh arrived yesterday evening with Brussels Pa(,crs to Fri day last,. and Hamburgh to the 12thVst.; Ma' drid Journals also arrived to the 4tk just. Th e . following are extracts:— GRENADA, NOV. 25.—WiWn these few days a conspiracl has been discorered here, of Which the following seem to the particulars, viz. that certain individuals bad corrupted 40U men of the Volta (the glair_;, who were to enter the on a certain night, when four processions, directed by tb missionaries, wer e t o go ou t, wit: to excite he people agairr" the Constitutional System Ail these people were to assembl e in the square of Vicurrambia, wi.cre, after killing all Occult' stitutionalists and the authmities, an altar was to be erected; and to be covered with relics which they were to pretc" were rescued frOm the hands of-the enemies of the Constitu tion. The Magistrates being informed of their intention s, took the necessary measures to frustrate it, and in cruise" quence eighteen persons are already taken. MADRIIO. NOV. 39.—Since ysterday we have heard of the discovery of a conspiracy, the focus of which existed in' s house of Las Vistillas de San Francisco. It seems that solv e individuals are arrested. _ Dec. I.= , Letters received at - Cadiz by the schooner Celt' tella, iti 33 days from La Goira, state, that Bolivar was pre; pared to enter into negociations, according to advices receive" at Caraccas on the l3th of October. CONsTANTINOPI.E, Nov. I . 2.—fn the solemn audience which' the new English Ambassador, Mr. Frerc, had of the Sultan , on the 31st of October, an honour was slimn to him, winch was never before shewn to a Minister of second rank, and ti l l seldom to an Ambassador of the highest rank. After he ha' made his Address, the Sultan himself spoke, and ordered the Vizier what he should answer. In general he gives this orde r by merely nodding his head. FBA I'ICFORT, DEC. 8. 7 , -Amidst all the conflicting account' received from Vienna and other parts, respeking the deter" mination of the Sorcteigns in regard to Naples, it seen)" quite certain that war in Italy is deferred, and that the ferences with Naples will be adjusted, if possible, by net,_ °- elation. The hostile demonstration on the part of Austr', will, however, continue, and it is - even said that the ate'r stationed in Upper Italy will be reinforced. Public opinion in Germany is decidedly in favour, of the Neapolitan's, and Austria would he emit:lndy injured in th e , estimation of the public_ by going to war with them. . I .S`; German Journal has yet ventured to print the Note addresae' by the Neapolitan Minister - to all the Cabinets of Europe. though it has appez.red in 7'4 Monitrur. But it has hat read with -the rust lively interest all over Germany; and is generally allowed, that the political sophistry of The ill' s ; trian Observer will be unable to refute the truths containt", in it. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. (From " The British illOmtor" of Yesterdti q,) LISBON, OCTOBER 213.----It is now well as'cer." tained, that SILVEIRA, who brought. about the Revolution at Ot)orto,, and: wlio was the leader of the military coup-de-main at Lis bon, when he turned out at the point of the bayonet some of n the members of the Government , and proclaimed tl 'Constitution On the Spanish model, 'but who was afterwards himself dis placed, is, and has been, an. Emissary of the Spa niards, either of the Government or of a faction- Portugal is now divided into two parties, one is, for incorporating their country with Spain-the other is for proclaiming the young Duke of CA" DAVAL, King of Portugal, in case King 'Jottli does not return to his European dominions, and to which he was invited by the new Government- If his Majesty declines coming - , then the Duke of CADAVAL will certainly be proclaimed KING- This, I am sorry to say,may produce a civil war, as the Spanish party will no doubtdo all they can to oppose it, for they say, 46 that Portugal left ts, itself, will never be able to make a stand against the Holy Alliance, whose illustrious members are' determined to declare war against that Country, in case the King will not_ return ; but if Portugal is incorporat.l with Spain, and she is attacked by the troops of ' the Holy Alliance,' there can be no doubt but that the Cossacks and Croats of Russia and Austria will meet the same fate as BUONAPARTE'S invincible legions did." The new Neapolitan Ambassador to our Gourd Prince CIMITILI, arrived in town. last Monday, and on Thursday he was introduced to Lord CASTLEREAGH by Count LUDOLFF, the Neapoo litan Ambassador, who is recalled, but appointed to fill a similar post at Constantinople, where his Excellency had resided sixteen years as the Re-- presentative of his Court, excepting the time when the Throne of Naples was occupied bf JOSEPH BUONAPAItTE and MURAT. Prince Ct.' MITILI was only received by the Noble Lord as a private Gentleman, and not as a public Mi nister. To the honour of the Prince it must be said that he was net employed by. MuRAT; in deed he was quite out of favour with the Napo leonic gang ! 1 do not think that he:will there fore be a favourite with our Whigs and Radi• cals ARRIVAL OF BERGAMI AT BRANDENI3I.7IIag HOUSE.—I have just been informed that the celebrated Brrto.vnt is at present at Branden burgh House. It was stated in this Paper of last Sunday, on the authority of a private letter from Paris, which appeared • in the Morning, - Chronicle, that BERGAMI had applied for post horses to go to Calais. .1 have, since then, been credibly informed, that for the last eight days he was not to be found at Paris ; it was therefore inferred there,lhat he had gone.to England; and a Gentleman of respectability assured me last night, that he is actually at 13randenbur,gh House. Consequently he will also be presented with Ad dresses, and incense will likewise be offered him. by the Canaille of these realms. The Paris - Papers state, that BERGAMI is exhibited in the Phantasmagorie at Mr. Co 3crE's heatre•-,--( By the latest accounts from the West Indies, the fever has been severely felt in Tobago, gar risoned by two companies of the 4th regiment, who became so reduced by sickness, that early i❑ September two companies of the 4 21st Fusi leers were sent to that island from Barbadoes.— These last had no sooner arrived than they were attacked by tl►e fever, which proved fatal to Brevet-Major Cameron, Lieutenant Lindsay, and, Assistant-Surgeon Colvin. The latter fell a vic tim to his professional exertions. Of the four re giments which sailed from Portsmouth •in 1819, the King's Own has suffered the most, owing to the unhealthiness of the islands that fell to their station, viz. Grenada, Trinidad, and Tobag - o. They are now about to be moved to Barbadoi.s, which is extremely healthy, and to be replac*d in the above three islands by the 214 t fusileers. ` 4 f ba% 4 >IL t!,i lite, dr e a • ,t a I.