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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 1. [THE TIMES.] The Etoile and other Paris Papers continue to Auld out prospects of an amnesty from the gentle Ferdinand to bis wicked subjects. This boon, by whatever qualifications to be clogged or neu tralized, has not yet, it appears, been tho roughly resolved on, because of the expediency - -of calling up examples from the auspicious era of Charles V., who effaced every vestige of an ',lent Spanish liberty, and from the generous po litics of Philip N., who laid the foundation of-that enlightened and instructive Government 'which Spain has now enjoyed under five Princes of the Bourbon race. When the amnesty does come., it will prove, we dare say, a curiosity; and why it should not come, is, after all, sur prising. Let certain great men only do with their resentments what they had no difficulty in doing with their oaths, and the amnesty is settled. The Journal des Debats has a let ter from Stockholm, dated the 9th of Decem • her, which contains his Swedish Majesty's an swer to an address of the Diet, recommending that publicity be given to the proceedings of in ferior Tribunals and Chambers of Police. The King, in his answer, states -his conviction of the advantages of publicity ; but foi• several reasons, and chiefly because he wishes it to be seen how far the plan of a new form of proceedings, pre sented by the Committee of Legislation, may em - brace publicity, he, for the present, rejects the proposal of the Diet. [MORNING POST; French Paper: of the 30th ult. and the Etoile of Tuesday, reached us last night by express.— Their contents are unimportant. According to an article from Madrid, dated the 20th of -De cember, there were daily Councils of State on • the subject of the Amnesty, which was once more " on the point of being settled," though its publication was postponed to the 30th. The archives are said to have been consulted,in order • to ascertained exactly what had taken place in the reigns of Charles V. and Philip V. but what neces • situ there can be for a reference to ancient autho rities to do an act of common mercy, even sup posing it not to be one of justice, we are at a loss to comprehend. Amnesty is only another ward for pardon ; :rid pardon ceases to be politic if it 'be burthened with conditions which make it in effectual or insulting. A letter from Bayonne speaks. of .an affray between a Spanish battalion quartered at Estella and its Officers, in which eight of the latter were killed, after which the sold:ers marched out of the town, drums beating, and divided themselves into three columns, which 'had not since been heard of. The same letter also asierts that Saez was going to resume his place in the Spanish Ministry. Advices from Rome and Milan state that the new Pope's illness had become dangerous, and that the Emperor of Austria was expected in the latter city in the mouth of March. [MORNING CHRONICLE.I Paris letters mention that several Spaniards who had sought an asylum in the French terri tory, have been arrested by order of the French Government, and that others, who had come from the Low Countries, have gens d'armes placed in their lodgings. We have had an opportunity of reading the Manifesto of the Mexican Government, dated the Bth of October, in which the reasons for de claring that country to be free and independent are stated in a precise and spirited manner. — The accusations against Spain for violating the rights of the Mexicans amount to a fresh decla ration of war, called for by the wanton aggres sion of the Governor of the Castle of St. John de Ulloa. The two French spies, who had been arrested, and respecting whom, it will be remem bered, we, some time ago, published an official denunciation, pleaded that they visited the country merely for s mercantile purposes ; but on examining their baggage, a cypher and other matters calculated to excite suspicion were dis covered. On being asked for the key of the cypher, they declared it was lost ; but sufficient evidence was established to prove that they were there in the character of secret agents of the French Government, with a view to intrigue in the interests of the Holy Alliance, or for the purpose of establishing a Bourbon Prince on the throne of Mexicoom a plan similar to that of M. de Cate for Buenos Ayres. These emissaries continued in. confinement, and it was thought that they would be sent out of the country under an escort.—(lbid.) Letters from Bilboa give a melancholy picture of the state of that place. As soon as the late change of Ministers was known there, the fana tics went howling about the streets, proclaiming their abhorrence of the measure, and declaring they could trust no one, except clergymen, near the throne. Meeting two persons in the streets, known to be Liberals, they immediately put them to dead►, to satisfy their own thirst for vengeance. No person of learning or liberal ideas ventured into the streets after it was dark.—(lbid.) [NEW TIMES I We have received Siena Leone Gazettes to the 13th of September, and we are happy to learn from them that. the mortality occasioned by the fever in the preceding month of May was exag gerated in the accounts then transmitted to England. The visitation had been severe, but not to the extent stated ; and we collect from the present Journals, that healthfulness had been NA orecl in the Colony,. We find the inde fatipl,le Governor, Sir Charles MacCarthy, as usual, et.?ployeci iu tours . of' inspection from townt•hip t. , township, stimulating every be neficki e•:.(,-;i:.):1 by his countenance, advice, or assit , tai Even in the month of August, which hir; fleet; considered by sonic as the most pernirioes part of the rainy season in that cli mate, the rivernar in person visited the towns of Kisse' and Wellington. " In September he commenced a tour to the mountain establish ments, in the course of which he visited and in spected the towns of Gloucester, Bathurst, and Leopold. By occasional attentions of this kind to the local wants of the inhabitants, and by the personal encouragements which he is thus enabled to give to industry and enterprise, his Excel lency powerfully contributes to the internal pros perity of the Colony ; while on the other hand, by an energetic display of force, he renders the neighbouring Powers duly sensible of the impo- Hey of any unjust aggression on British interests. The Ashantees, as we have heretofore stated,are the most inveterate of our enemies in that quar ter of the world ; and by the horrid murder of a British Serjeant they had forced Sir Charles to take up arms against them. Captain Laing, who had marched from Cape Coast against these Bar barians, was not able to bring them to action, but had effectually stopped their incursions. He was on the 9th of August in camp at Yancomassie, near Mansue, about 20 miles beyond Donquah. [BRITISH PRESS.] The latest accounts from Madrid, to the 20th, state that the long-expected amnesty was still under protracted discussion, by Ferdinand's Council of State. There had been several sit tings, at which the tyrant and his brothers pre sided. The antiquated archives of Spain, cen turies since, were searched to discover pre cedents, from the tyranny of Charles Y., and the conduct of Philip of Bourbon at a later day, on which to raise exceptions in the forthcoming amnesty. The capitulations granted to the followers of the Cortes by the French Generals had also embarrassed these sage and liberal Councillors. The decree, however, is said at length to have been agreed upon,and was to make its long-promised appear ance on the 30th. Ferdinand is said to feel lonely without the company and support of The Andalusian Monk, his late Minister, and the return of the confessor Saez to the Ministry is anticipated in Madrid. All this is only what we expected. Ferdinand is incurable ; he is a bigot from - habit and conviction, and a tyrant from feeling: a liberal or enlightened act would he foreign to his character and that of the crew by whom he is surrounded. It is better his tyranny should be undisguised and unbearable, than that any half measures should paralyse that resistance which is now sure to spring up again in Spain. The last letters from Bayonne give the accounts of a mutiny at Estella, among the Faith banditti, who became indignant at the corporal punishment of one of their Officers. — The troops broke into open revolt, and in endeavouring to suppress it eight of their Offi cers were killed, and the Battalion of Royalists then marched out of Estella, with drums beat ing, and divided into three co lumns. The pri sons of Pampeluna, filled with Constitutionalists, were beginning to be slowly cleared of their vic tims; hut fines of from two to six thousand francs were individually levied from them. This is one way of recruiting the Royal Exchequer. No loan was yet arranged, or in any progress likely to be so. Spanish Stock on Monday, in Paris, was dull at 27k. What capitalist would lend to such a Government as now oppresses Spain ? There can he no confidence or stability in such a tyranny. [MORNING HERALD.] It is unfortunate for the people, and probably for the popularity of the present or of an y future Ministers, that there should be such a n odious description of agents introduced into th e n anage meta of the taxation of the country--one whose emolument is derived from a commission on the amount of whatever suns of money may be raised extra by virtue of his assessment. The gain arising from a commission necessarily operates as a stimulus to the agent to fix the assessment as high as possible. The more a man can tax the district to which he may be appointed, the more money he puts into his own pockpt. A Government may think itself very cunning to proceed.on such a principle ; but, in time, it will find its loss in the alienations of the affections of the people. The Ultra supporters of Government will say that people have their remedy if over charged. But what is their remedy ?—an ac tion at law, or a petition to the Lords of the Treasury. Now as to the first remedy, every body knows that it is worse than the disease; for our Courts of Law, in consequence of the in tolerable expence attending them, and the time it takes before a man can obtain his re medy, may be called Courts of torment rather than Courts of relief. And as to petitioning the Lords of the Treasury, look at the loss of time, the humiliation of such an application, and the expence. How few know how to draw up a petition in sufficiently crouching—nay, abject terms', for the perusal of their Lordships ? It is here necessary to get some Solicitor to do it, and commences expence ; for there must be a confer ence or two—the draft and the fair copy of the petition—the talk over each—together with the expences attendant on the Solicitor sending the pe tition by his clerk for the perusal of their Lord ships. We should suppose in every such appeal, that the Solictor's bill would amount to two or three pounds, and the person sustain a loss in time of a pound or two. And after all, probably, the sum to be recovered, even if their Lordships should be favourable to the prayer of the petition, might not exceed 51. It is very easy to talk about the relief to be obtained in English Courts of Justice ; but except the sum to be recovered be large, it is not worth any body's while to have to do with an English Court of Justice. If the sum at issue be to no great amount, an honest solicitor will advise his client to put up with the loss and not make bad worse, by an appli cation to his Majesty's Courts. If all the As sessed Taxes could be done away with, and a modified tax on income front real property be substituted, it would remedy this grievance of men and their families acquiring their living by causing their neighbours to be taxed as high as possible. We often wonder what the pa triotic part of eur Representatives have been about, that they should so silently permit such inquisitorial Bills to pass. These, and most Bills, are generally got threugh the House at nearly the close of the Session, whl it is well known to the makers of these Bills that there will be no more than 20 or 20 Members out of the 650 present. This system of survey is becoming a great grievance indeed—as bad, if not worse, than the Inquisition ; for the latter merely touched men's religious scruples, about which the mass of the people might probably be careless—the other their pockets, in the safe-keeping of which all have pretty nearly the same feeling of self. — We hope, however, that Mr. Robinson and Mr. Canning will alter this vile system of paying commissions, instead of giving salaries to sur veyors. ADDISON. Of the disgust of Mr. ADDIsoN at every thing like flattery or obsequiousness, we have a striking example in the following anecdote :—Mr. Temple Stanyan, who had long lived with Addison in habits of friendship, conversing on all subjects with perfect freedom, borrowed of him, under some pressing emergency, a sum of money. From this time Mr. Stanyan altered completely his tone of conversation towards Addison. He agreed implicitly to all that his patron advanced, and never, as formerly, disputed his positions. This extraordinary change in his behaviour did not long escape the notice of so acute an observer, to whom it was by no means as agreeable as it was expected it would be. It happened on one oc casion that a subject was started on which they had been a short time before entirely at issue. Mr. Stanyan, instead of contending the point, yielded silently and with, the utmost deference to the opinion of Addison, who was displeased, and rented his disapprobation of his companion's in sincerity by saying, with a good deal of impa tience, " Sir, either contradict me or pay me my I money." An anecdote is related of Addison and Swift, which is worth recording for its singularity. At. a tete-a-tete conversation between them, the va rious characters mentioned in the sacred writings happened to form the subject of their discussion. Swift's favourite was Jonathan, while that of Addison was Joseph. The dispute lasted some time, when the author of Cato observed, that it was very fortunate they were alone, as the cha racters which they had been praising so warmly were their namesakes, and they would conse quently, had others been present, have subjected themselves to the imputation of undue and fanci ful partiality. The moral character of Addison, whether it be drawn from his life or writings, will be found to be equally irreproachable. " Knowledge of mankind," observes Dr. Johnson, " less ex tensive than that of Addison, will spew that to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it. Yet it is reasonable to believe that Addison's professions and actions were at no great variance ; since, amid the storm of faction in which most of his life was passed, though his station made him con spicuous and his activity made him formidable, the character given him by his friends was never contradicted by his enemies : of those with whom interest or opinion united him, he had not only the esteem, but the kindness; and of others, whom the violence of opposition drove against him, though he might lose the love, he retained the reverence. He employed wit on the side of virtue and religion. He not only made a proper use of wit himself, but taught it to others; and from his time it has been genera ll y subservient to the cause of reason and of t ru th. H e h as dis sipated the prejudice that long connected g aiety with vice, and easiness of manne r with laxity of principle. He has restored virtue to its dignity, and taught innocence not to be ashamed. This is an elevation of literary character " above all Greek, and above all Roman fame." No g reater felicity can genius attain than that of havin g pu rified intellectual pleasure, separated m i r th from indecency, and wit from licenti ousness; of hav ing taught a succession of writers to bring ele gance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and, if I may use expressions yet more awful, of haviog " turned many to righteousness." ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. `ou Monday last (22d inst.), at a meeting of the Antiquarian Society, Dr. Hib bert read some valuable remarks, suggested by the resemblance which certain steinbartes (or stone-axes) found near the Hum ber bear to those of Orkney and Shetland. lie began by com bating the common notion that these and similar instruments of warfare are Celtic, and showed that they were Teutonic. It had been doubted whether the people who used these weapons had ever invaded England ; but it should appear from the dis covery of these steinbartes in Lincolnshire, that they had land ed there. Stone axes of various shapes and materials have been found in different parts of the world ; and it is suggested that different ancient tribes had weapons of shapes peculiar to their respective tribes. There seems nothing improbable in this suggestion—nay, it is partially confirmed by the portion of the globe where discoveries of them have been made, being limited. One of the steinbartes produced was of a very rare shape ; it was very nearly square, tapering but a little to one side; it was not quite half an inch thick in any part, and its edges were extremely sharp. It was supposed that it had ori ginally been inserted into a very long handle ; and it has been suggested that it was the predecessor, or archetype, of our mo dern halberts. (Hall-bartes, or axes, used for guard or cere mony in the halls of Kings or Princes.) A very singular draw ing was exhibited to the Society, from the pencil of Captain Jones (9th regiment.) It was a sketch from an ancient oaken panel, of the costume of an English bagpiper of the 16th cen tury. The original design had a great deal of spirit in it, and the bagpipe and the bagpiper were very well made out. That it was not a Scottish bagpiper was evident, from the dress being open in front, which is contrary to all the examples of our early northern costume ; and as a corroborative proof of the proba bility of the figure's being intended for a representation of an English bagpiper, an animal long since extinct, many quota tations from ancient authors were produced.—( Edinburgh Literary GDzette.) In Museum-street, Bloomsbury, the carriage way has been blocked up and rendered impas sible for some weeks, in consequence of a dispute between the Water Company.and the Commis sioners of Sewers, which is not to be settled but by a suit at law. It appears that one of the Companies opened the street for the purpose of some repairs necessary to be done, and it was ascertained the arch running in a parallel line with the street had given way, and partly fallen in. The Sewer's Company attribute this to the pressure of the Water Company's main pipes bearing immediately upon the brick work of the common sewer, which, the opposite party con tend, was so rotten as to give way. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. SURREY WINTER ASSIZES, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31. POACHING.—James Dare, Stephen Strudwick, William Gunner, James Holdforth, Stephen Windebank, Thos. Wheat ley, Thos. West, and James Williains, were indicted on the 57th Geo. 111. cap. 9, sec. 1, for entering into a certain wood, called the coppice, in the parish of Clandon, belonging to John Webb Weston, Esq. in the occupation of .4ord Cranley, in the night time of the 10th of December, armed with guns, with intent to kill and destroy game. The Grand Jury had thrown out the bill against a man named Spong, indicted with the above prisoners. Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. LAW conducted the prosecution. The transaction, as proved in evidence, appeared to have been one of the most desperate ever prosecuted under the Statute. It appeared in evidence, that in the evening of the 10th December, Thomas Pratt, game-keeper to Lord Cranky, in consequence of hearing guns fired in a wood in the occupa tion of his Lordship, went out, in company with four or five other men, for the purpose of apprehending persons suspected of poaching. They armed themselves with loaded pistols, and Pratt gave instructions to his companions not to fire unless their lives were in danger. Upon entering the ground Pratt saw six or seven men ; he said to his party " Here they are, come along." He advanced to the men, and four of them presented their guns at him, and said, " Stand off or you shall have it." He proceeded and collared one of them, and on the instant he received a violent blow on the back of his head, which felled him to the ground. One of the men fell upon him and held him ; he then fired his pistol, and the ball entered the neck of his assailant, who loosened his hold and surrendered. Some of Pratt's party then called out to him to keep the wounded man down. That person was the prisoner Dare. A desperate con flict then ensued between the poachers and Pratt's party. The former fought with the but-end of their guns, and shattered them over the heads clf the latter, who, without using their pis tols, overcame the poachers, several of whom ran off. The I gamekeeper swore to Dare, Gunner, Wheatley, and Williams, who were secured on the spot. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the case with great impar tiality, and suggested to the Jury every topic which was at ' all favourable to the prisoners. He told them, that in point of law, if only one of the prisoners was armed with intent to kill game, still they must, in the spirit of this statute, be consi dered as being all armed. This had been solemnly decided by the Twelve Judges. If they had any doubt of the prisoners' intention from the evidence adduced, the prisoners were en titled to the benefit of the doubt. The Jury retired for about half an hour, and returned all the prisoners Guilty, but recommended Windebank, Strud wick, and Holdforth to mercy, on account of their passive con duct in the affair. . Mr. Justice PARK, in an impressive address to the prisoners, animadverted in strong terms on their outrageous conduct.— Whatever doubts he himself might have originally entertained as to the principle of the statute on which they were indicted, he could not but now think that, as applied to their case, it wa : highly beneficial, considering the desperate lengths to vL, - ' l l their low habits had incited them. There were shades of wrerence in their respective cases, which he should cer tainly notice in the judgment he should pronounce. Towards some of them the severity of the law must be carried to its ut most extent. Under all the circumstances, he adjudged Dare, Gunner, and Wheatley, to seven years transportation, and the remainder of the prisoners to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. George Matthews, John Vickery, Thomas Twilly, and Thos. Monk, were indicted on the same statute as in the last case, for being found armed with guns, in a wood, with intent to kill game, in the parish of Cobham, on the night of the 19th Nov. and assaulting James Prince. The Jury found the prisoners all Guilty ; and Vickery, be ing the most active in the transaction, was sentenced to seven years' transportation ; Matthews was sentenced to 18 months, Twilly to six months, and Monk to three months imprison ment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Daniel Page was convicted of stealing at Effingham, on the 18th of August last, a colt, the property of John Hillick—Sen tence of Death was recorded. Sir Tstomas TURTON addressed the Court in the name of the Grand Jury, and informed the Learned Judge that they wished to bring a matter worthy of notice to his Lordship's at tention. At the last Assizes the Grand Jury had been informed that certain persons had compounded a felony, and the Grand Jury had thought it their duty to direct the High Constable of the parish in which the transaction took place to prefer an in dictment against the alleged offender for a misdemeanour. The High Constable had defrayed the expence of the proceeding out of his own pocket, and the Grand Jury wished to know whether, under such circumstances, the High Constable could be defrayed out of the county rates. Mr. Justice PARK confessed his regret that he could not al low the Constables' expences in a case of this description, which was only a misdemeanour. His Lordship had had fre quent occasion to lament a deficiency in the law in this respect as to cases of this denomination, and he for one should be happy to see misdemeanours placed on the same footing with felonies; but as the law at present stood he had no authority to award the expences. Thomas Hack and Edward Wright, the defendants in the case just alluded to, were indicted for unlawfully compounding a prosecution against Richard Hack and Parker Wright, their sons ' respectively for robbing one George Stone, on th e Ki ng ' s highway, by paying to the latter a sum of money for forbearing to prosecute. Mr. LAW appeared for the prosecution, and opened the case, but as Stone, who had b e en i n dicted with the defendants, did not appear, lie was unable to establish the fact of the alleged robbery, and therefore the merits of the case were not gone into. Mr. Justice PARK directed the Jury to find the defendants Not Guilty, for want of eviderice.—Verdict, Not Guilty. John Pugh was charged on the Coroner's Inquisition with feloniously killing and slaying a person unknown, of the 18th December, at St. Agnes the Martyr. Mr. ADOLPHUS appeared for the prisoner. It appeared in evidence that the prisoner was drinking at a public-house, No. 10, Upper Thames-street, in the afternoon of the 18th instant. The deceased came in .very drunk, and became quarrelsome ; he charged the prisoner with robbing him, and abused him in gross terms. The prisoner put him out of the house into the street ; shortly afterwards the prisoner went out, and the de ceased began again to abuse and charge him with robbery. The prisoner pushed him with his hand, and be fell on the pavement. The deceased, who was very drunk, attempted to get up, but in doing so fell again into the middle of the street, and at the moment a waggon coming by went over his body, crushed all his ribs, and broke his under jaw. He was carried to St. Thomas's Hospital, and died in two hours. Upon this evidence the case against the Prisoner was stop ped, and the Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bow-STREET.—Charles Hall, a pawnbroker, was sum moned for refusing to make compensation for damage done to certain property entrusted to his care by way of pledge. The property in question belonged to a Mr. Francis As siotti, a schoolmaster, residing in Hampden-street, Somers Town, who in consequence of pecuniary embarrassment had been obligated to pawn the principal part of his household fur niture, consisting of several valuable beds, tables, chairs, etc. which, on being redeemed, were found to have been most shamefully injured, the tables being so scratched, and other wise damaged, that their value was considerably decreased, and the chairs broken and cracked in such a manner that to all ap pearance violence had been used to effect it. The case had been but partially gone into, when Mr. HARMER, who attended on behalf of the complainant, requested that the present proceed ing might be withdrawn, as he felt bound in justice to his clients to advise them to seek for a recompence in another way as he felt not the least doubt but that equivalent damages would be obtained by bringing an action, the case being of such an aggravated nature. This request was of course complied with, and the parties retired to wait ulterior proceedings. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday Benjamin Burns, the celebrated pugilist, was brought to this office, charged by Richard Dexter (a gentleman's servant out of place) on suspi cion of having been concerned in robbing him of a purse, con taining eight sovereigns. Dexter stated, that on Monday last he went into the house of Burns, the Rising Sun, Windmill -street, when he was invited to have a game at cards for a bottle of wine, and Burns took him for a partner, to play against two persons named Evans and Sergeant. Witness was ultimately beaten out of a bottle of wine for which he paid, and received change for a sovereign which he took out of a purse containing eight others. Shortly after wards Evans snatched his (witness's) hat from his head, and a scuffle ensued, in which lie was robbed of his purse and the eight sovereigns. Burns afterwards got a light to look for the money, and told witness that it was under the table ; but, on picking it up, it was found to be empty. Sergeant, the person whp played, attended to give evidence in favour of Burns, but he being implicated in the transaction, was held to bail, to appear next Tuesday, until which day Burns was remanded. ltl ARYLEBONE-OFFICE.--YeFterdayfourhackneycoachmen were summoned before EDWARD GRIFFITH, Esq., on a com plaint preferred by Mr. RAWL ix s ON, a Magistrate also belong ing to the above office. The charge against them were as fol lows :—On Friday last, about seven o'clock in the evening, Mr. R. was in Goodge-street, where a coach rank is situated; there were several coaches at the time on the stand, but neither a coachman or other person was present, and he had to wait some minutes before any of the coachmen appeared. The defendants were convicted in Ns. each and costs; but subse quently the three first cases were withdrawn, and that on the latter e,nforced. THE REV. MR. CULBERTSON. The Rev. ROBERT CULBERTSON, of the As sociate Congregation, St. Andrew's-street, Leith, died generally regretted. To his sorrowful family his death is irreparable. By his bereaved flock, among whom he has ministered with exemplary fidelity and affection for about thirty-three years, his loss is most sincerely lamented, and will long be deeply felt ; to them he had endeared himself by every quality, that can excite esteem and command admiration and love ; ever highly re spected by them, their veneration for him has of late grown exceedingly, and their cordial at tachment increased to the last. The attach ment was mutual ; he lived in their affections, they were his peculiar care and his sacred joy. Not his family only, and his flock, and his per sonal friends, but his brethren in the ministry, the United Secession, Church, of which he was an active, conciliating, conscientious member; the Church of Christ at large; and the whole Chris tian public,-have reason to regret his premature removal. It is not easy, in a short paragraph or two, to delineate the character of the departed Mr. Culbertson. In him were united firmness of mind, with the greatest suavity of manners unassuming modesty, with becoming dignity; . warmth and tenderness of feeling, with decisive promptitude and vigour of action ; enfinent lite rary attainments, with godly singleness of heart. In short, he was a gentleman, a scholar, a Chris tian ; an able, faithful, diligent minister of Christ; as a friend, constant ; as a counsellor, prudent ; public spirited ; feeling an ardent concern to promote peace, and truth and righteousness on earth. In his public ministrations, his discoures were uniformly distinguished by elegant simplici-. ty of diction, purity of style, and perspicuity of arrangement, and often by minute and extensive biblical research. He possessed a happy talent of easily reconciling apparent incongruities, and of giving a clear and satisfactory elucidation of the most difficult doctrines of theology. In des cription he excelled, and when pathetic, which he frequently was, there was a touching tender ness of expression, which found its way irresisti bly into all the diversified stases of his hearer's feelings. Always correct and solid, he united in the pulpit attractive gravity with impressive fervency ; animation, with seriousness. There he appeared, doing his Master's work, as one who had weighed the worth. of souls, and who knew his responsibility to the Lord, whom he served with his spirit in the gospel, exerting his high talents and manifesting the lively workings of renovated gracious affections. While his chief delight was in preaching the doctrines of sal vation, through the once dead, but now alive, the crucified and glorified Jesus, his sermons. embraced a rich and instructive variety out of all the Scriptures, and often lie surprised and delighted his audiencosshsr treating common subjects in a new and ex ,; . ordinary way, en tertaining them with all the diversity of ap propriate scriptural illustrations. These charac teristics will be found in those excellent writings, with which he has favoured the public, through the medium of the press, and particularly in his late judicious and admirable Discourses on the Book of Revelation, which have already attracted the attention of the most learned, and received the merited high approbation of all who have had the pleasure to peruse them. " Being dead, by these works he yet spealiath." Ills name ,Ind memorial will not perish ; hut, we trust, through what he has done and through other works, which he has left in readiness for the press, will he cherished and perpetuated with cordial regard, so long as learning, and talent, and religion con tinue to be revered among men. If any thing can prove the high estimation in which he was held in the place where he was best known, it is the deep and general sorrow, which his death has occasioned, testified by the numerous assemblage of sincere mourners who attended in conducting his mortal remains to the tomb, on Thursday the 18th, and the feeling interests which the large concourse of spectators every where shewed, in witnessing the funeral procession. He has now gone, after passing through life amidst many trials, " keeping the noiseless tenor of his way" with faith and patience ; gone to enjoy the Chris tian's rewards. We cannot close this notice with out remarking, that he ended his ministrations on the 3d of the month, with a singularly striking, impressive, heavenly discourse, on the words— " Thou wilt receive me into glory." * 4E * The foregoing article presents so striking a portrait of the clerical character that we have extracted it from The Edinburgh Courant of the 22d ult. in hopes that it may operate as an ex ample to the rising generation of those who are preparing for the sacred Function. COAL-MARKET, DEc. 31. Ships at Market. Ships sold Prise. 634 Newcastle - - 8 -37 s 6d to 1511 OE 12i Sunderland - 0 - Od to --s Od BIRTHS. On the 29th December, in Mortimer-street, Cavendish square, the Lady of Colonel Hugh Baillie, of a daughter,. Yesterday, the Lady of M. B. Lousada, Esq., of Finsbury square, of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at the Grove, Kentish Town, Mrs. Cooper, of a daughter. On the 25th ult., at one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Morris, 19, May's-buildings, of two daughters. MARRIED. On Tuesday morning at St. Pancras Church, by the Rev. Dr. Moore, Charles George Christmas, Esq. of Gower-street, Bedford-square, to Jane, eldest daughter of John Landseer, Engraver to the King, and author of the " Sabcean searches," which we lately had occasion to notice. On Tuesday, the 30th ult., at Clapham church, the Rev. Joseph Simpson, M.A., afternoon lecturer of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, and evening lecturer of Clapham, to Ann, widow of John Long, Esq., late of Clapham and Christ's Hospital. On Monday, the 29th ult., at Hammersmith church, J. C. Clifton, Esq., of Stockwell, to Miss Turner, of Theresa-house, Hammersmith. DIED. On Tuesday, the 39th ult., at West-Ham-abbey, Essex, William Kebbell, Esq., proctor, Doctors'-commons, aged 42. On the 24th ult., at his house, Pleasant-row, Kingsland road, James Vincent, Esq., in his 65th year. On the 28th ult., at his house in Dyer's-court, Alderman bury, Mr. Joseph Mallet, aged M. On Tuesday last, at her residence, Laytonstone, aged 78, Elizabeth, relict of the late Philip Sansom, Esq. Lately, at Kinsale, Ireland, aged one hundred years, Mar garet Cotter, mother-of the once celebrated Irish giant, P. Cotter • O'Brien. Printed and Published for the PROPRIEWORS, at the SIM.. (OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. E. CARSTAIRS.