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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Petpers, June 12. =BRITISH rnEss.l German Papers, and amongst them the A llge nieine Zeitung of the 3d of June, reached our office yesterday. This intelligent journal contains some further authenticated details respecting the alleged conspiracy, by Joseph Von Horn, against William the Second of Hesse Cassel, on which Von Manger, the Inspector of Police, has been arrested and conveyed to a fortress. Accounts from Constantinople to the 10th of May state, that the evacuation of the principalities was posi tively det(:rmined on by the Turkish Ministry, and an assurance given to Lord Strangford to that effect. The Noble Lord, it is added, imme diately sent a courier with the important intelli gence to his Court. The Capitan Pacha having -passed the Dardannelles, his subsequent proceed ings were looked for with great anxiety. A re port from the Alorea was in circulation that Colocotroni and his adherents had effected a re conciliation with the Greek Government. The Turkish capital, it is added, was tranquil. The union of the Greeks must be decisive of their success. The Ottoman relied on the succours from Egypt to support the present campaign, and these have failed altogether. [MORNING 11FRALD.]. Wednesday;s Paris Papers arrived last night. The project for rendering the duration of the Chamber septennial has passed the Chamber of Deputies. The Journals continue to observe variously upon the disgrace (for such it is) of M. de Chateaubriand. His dismissal was so abrupt and unceremonious, that it affords one more in stance of the facility with which the great can sing aside, when they no longer want, or take displeasure at their most devoted satellites. The Journal des Debuts, the ablest by far of the French Tlinisterial Journals, has declared war against khe Ministers, in defence of the Viscount, who -was first a contributor to it, and next a patron. lie may now, and most probably will, return to his first vocation. It appears by some articles of German intelligence, that there was not yet an effective preparation at Constantinople for auy expedition against the Greeks. The honest Germans have, it appears, been thrown into alarm for their wool trade with England, by a letter written to Leipsic, by a German residing in London, stating that the King, Minister, and the Parliament had encouraged and aided asso ciate capitalists to lay out large sums in sending out flocks of sheep to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land—such was the extent of this speculation that it would cause a growth of wool sufficient to dispense with that of the Continent of Europe. EMORNING POST.] French Papers to the 10th inst. reached us last night by Express. They have brought the termination and the result of the debate on the Project of Law for rendering the Chamber of Deputies Septennial. That Project has been adopted by a very large majority, the numbers being - 292 against 87. Various amendments, si milar in their nature, though proposed by the Ul tras and Liberals, had been previously rejected, and the generality of the Deputies were too well disposed to augment their own powers and extend their political existence, to make it necessary for the Ministers to use any very extraordinary exertions to secure the adoption of an enactment which annihilates one of the principal dispositions of the Charter. The only other topic mention ed in these Papers, is the " disgrace of M. de Chateaubriand." The Journal des Debuts has suddenly espoused his part with even more vio lence than the Quotidienne, and in a style which makes us suspect that the Ex-Minister may have taken the Editor's pen himself. There is more than argument, there is personal feeling, if not rage, throughout the whole of the article, an idea of which may be formed from the moderation of the first sentence :—" The more the Ordonnance which dismissed M. de Chateaubriand is consi dered, the more is astonishment created at the in conceivable vanity of those who caused that Or donnance to be issued, or at their profound igno rance of the state of public opinion." In another passage the article asserts : " that all the political opinions of the country raised their voices in favour of a Minister, disgraced in a manner so little French and so savage, not to give it another name. Now it happens that in order to prove the services which M. de Chateaubriand has rendered France, this injudicious advocate (injudicious, probably, because interested) quotes the very acts of ag gression and injustice which have dishonoured the character of that country l The Spanish war, that monstrous iniquity, prepared by dark and criminal intrigueL, and carried on at last with un principled and unrelenting audacity, is made his claim to gratitude and to respect ! " That act of force and of good faith," as it was impiously called, was principally due to the fixed deter minatio of the Minister for Foreign Affairs" (M. de Chateaubriand). Had the bitterest enemy of this individual wished to devote him to the contempt and execration of posterity, he could not have done it more effectually than by pointing him out as the real author of the Spanish war. [MORNING ORION/OLE.] The Adjourned Debate on the ca se of the late Mr. Smith was opened last night by a powerful sp e ech from Dr. Lushington, who took the high est ground in the vindication of the deceased. — In his outset he stated—" I mean not to limit myself to the more.shewing whether the proceed ings adopted against Mr. Smith were legal or not go more directly to the great issue—l claim for, that much injured man his innocence, both legal and moral. . . . In my view of the case., it is not a question whether the conceal ment ()fan intended revolt was or was not high treason at Demerara. I am ready to concede, that if it can he shewn that iNir.Smith was a party guilty concealmentof to any an intended revolt, that he deserved to be duly arraigned for the cr i me , and if duly convict e d to suffer." In aj m asterly manlier he analysed t h e evidence of the Negroes, by which the concealment was at tempted to be proved, and shewed that it was not only utterly improbable in itself, but that all the witnesses contradicted each other. Even those who opposed the motion did not dare to vindicate the sentence. The Attorney-General said—" Looking at the evidence through the medium of the trial that had been published, he might not perhaps pronounce the same opinion on Mr. Smith's case that the Court of Demerara had done." The man must be strangely consti tuted indeed who would pronounce the same opinion. In fact Ministers have, on further consideration, found it necessary to take quite a different course from that adopted on the former night. Mr. Canning found, no doubt, that the feelings of Members generally would not allow them to go all the length which Mr. Wilmot Horton demanded, and so he at tempted a compromise by moving the previous question. After all 146 voted against him, leav ing him only a majority of 47.—We leave the Colonists of Demerara and the Court Martial to the undisturbed enjoyment of th e triumph of such an acquittal. Mr. Brougham's reply was peculiarly eloquent and impressive. [NEAT TIMES.] The renewed debate on the case of the unfor tunate Mr. Smith of Demerara gave occasion last night to several eloquent and powerful speeches. The discussio❑ was opened by Dr. Lnshington with a review of the evidence, which the Learned Gentleman analysed with great skill. He con tended that it clearly proved Mr. Smith to have had no idea of an intended revolt, and conse quently to have been guilty of no misprision of treason. He sheaved that the unfortunate Missionary was not the cause of the disturb. ance which took place among the Negroes, but that the real causes were these—the exacting from them excessive labour—the subjecting them to severe punishments—the restraining them from Religions Worship—and the withholding from them a knowledge of his Majesty's benevolent instructions for their good. Dr. Lushington fully admitted the respectability of Mr. gray's cha racter as a Civil Judge, but exposed with great force the impropriety of that Gentleman's con duct as a Member of the Court Martial ; and he concluded with a spirited peroration claiming for all classes of his Majesty's subjects in Demerara the protection of English justice. Mr. Tindal, o❑ - the other hand, delivered an able argument on the Dutch Law, by which he stated misprison to be equal to treason, and observed that under that law the planters would have been Mr. Smith's Judges ; from which considerations he inferred that the trying of the pri soner by Martial Law was favourable, and not prejudicial to him. Mr. J. Williams maintained that Martial Law was in truth no law at all, and depiecated the sanction of the House being given to an act of gross injustice, under colour of what ever law it might have been perpetrated. The Attorney-General said, he himself might not have come to the same conclusion as the Members of the Court Martial, but there was no ground to think their judgment malicious or corrupt ; and without some such motive they would not de serve the strong censure conveyed in the motion of Mr. Brougham. Mr. Wilberforce, in a speech replete with those sentiments of humanity and justice which have marked his long Parliamen tary career, defended the character of Mr. Smith, whom he said he must ever regard as a Martyr to the faithful discharge of his duties as a Chris tian teacher. Mr. Canning professed not to be sufficiently versed in the Dutch Colonial law to know how far it might justify the sentence passed on Mr. Smith., but thought the conduct of that individual, if not highly criminal, yet certainly blameable, in ❑ot revealing to the Local Authorities all he knew of the inten tions of the slaves. He disclaimed on the part of Government all indifference towards the interests of religion, and gave full credit to Mr. Brougham for the manner in which he had brought the subject before the House ; but thought the censure which was called for by Mr. Brougham's motion not justified by the circum stances of the case. The Right Hon. Gentlema❑ was followed by Mr. Denman. Mr. Brougham then replied, and the House divided, when there appeared—For the motion 147—Against it 193 Majority against the motion 46. [TILE TIMES. i The - Journal des I).,bats of Wednesday con tains another article, and an angry one, upon the dismissal of M. de Chateaubriand. M. de Villele is threatened with a powerfeul re-action, arising from the influence and reputation of the ex- Minister. The Quotidienne has suspended its la mentations. The Constitutionnel diverts- itself at the expence of both parties ; not " seeing " very clearly what liberty can lose by the (Hs " grace of Chateaubriand, or what she can t ,ain "by the continuance of his rival in office. The bill for extending the duration of the Chamber of Deputies to seven years instead of five, and re newing it integrally instead of by fifths, has passed' that Chamber by a majority of 292 to 87 votes. As the Peers have already given it their assent, it only now awaits the Royal sanc tion to become a law. This measure is stated in the Journal des Debats to be the concoction of M. de Chateaubriand, the Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, who intended to have defended it from the Tribune, on the day previous to his dismissal, and to ha've proposed some amend ments which would have rendered it less objec-, tionable. His colleague, Corbiere, who had, peihaps, in his pocket at the time the Royal Ordinance for his disgrace, could not subject either the Ministry or their victim to the humi liation of his performing this last service. A report has been furnished to the House of Commons of the several persons, by name, who have made returns of the sales of British corn in London, Liverpool, and Boston, to the corn in spectors of those places , : as also a copy of certain corr espondence between the Inspector of Liver pool and the Receiver of the Corn-returns. we do not see that much light will he thrown upon the proceedings of the corn-markets by these documen tc.—( In consequence of a cold caught at Epsom races, Mrs. MERCANDOTTI BALL has been dan gerously indisposed with inflammatory sore throat; but, we understand, that she is now considered, by her medical attendants, out of danger. (Morning Paper.) The late Mr. OxnEaRY was taken ill early on Monday morning last, while in bed, and the sy m p toms of a fatal termination were gradually developed from that time till the hour of his dissolution, about a quarter past o ne on Wednesday morning. The cause of his death was a disposition to inflam mation in the whole system, which state of excitement occa sioned a determination of the blood to the head, and baffled every effort of his medical attendants. The printing of the MILTON MS. lately found in the State Paper Office, will shortly be com menced at th e University PreSs, under the sanc tion of his IVl'AstzsTy. The MS consists of a bo ve 700 p a age ; translation,an and as it will be of considerable the work will be published with magnitude. —(Cambridge Chronicle.) Yesterday morning, about 11 o'clock, as a poor woman was cross i ng the London-r oa d, St. George's-fields, s h e was ](Hocked down by o n e o f the Mitcham stages which passed over her legs, and greatly injured them. • She was taken to Mr. Smith's, a surgeon, opposite to where the accident took place. She had only arrived from Manches ter the previous 'night, never before having been in London. OUTRAGE ON MR. BROUGHAM. At a quarter-past 4 o'clock yesterday evening,l as Mr. BROUGHAM was passing through the lobby of the House of Commons to attend his duty in Parliament, a person who walked behind him, and held a small whip in his hand, which he flourish ed, was heard by some to utter, in a hurried and nearly inarticulate manner, the phrase—" You have betrayed me, Sir; I'll make you attend to your duty." Mr. Brougham, on encountering this interruption, turned round and said, " Who are you, Sir ?"—" You know me well," re plied the assailant. Mr. Brougham perceiv ing the person still pressing upon him in a rude manner, passed on to fhe door of the House of Commons, and took no further notice of the assailant. The bustle, however, excited upon the occasion, attracted the attention of the con stables in attendance, and, we understand, of Mr. Littleton and Sir George Robinson, who were entering the House of Commons at the moment; the consequence was, that the individual was taken into custody by Cooke, the constable, and the whip taken out of his hand. The pri soner stated his name to be Robert Gourlay,— one with which the public have for the three last years been conversant in the Reports of Parliamentary and Chancery proceedings._ He at one time prssented Petitions which excited discussion in the House of Commons, complaining of oppression from the local autho rities in Canada ; he was afterwards heard of in Wiltshire, as being employed on the roads in pa rochial labouring work. He has lately been en gaged in a Chancery suit with the Duke of Somerset about the tenure of a farm. From the appearance of the individual yesterday, coupled with the eccentricity of his recent con duct, an inference would arise, more of a na ture to excite a feeling of compassion for this person, who once moved in a different situation of life, than to point him out as a fit person to be held sternly responsible for his actions. His appearance is decayed and debilitated ; and when removed into one of the committee-rooms of the House of Commons, in the custody of the constable who apprehended him, and Mr. Gifford, the messenger, he let fall his head upon his hand, as a person labouring under the relapse inciden tal to violent excitement. He complained of some neglect of Mr. Brougham's respecting the presentation of a petition from Canada, which we understand has no foundation ; and the course taken by Mr. Canning in postponing the consi deration of the breach of privilege, supports the inference of the irresponsibility of the individual, for a reason apparent from the very foolish nature of the act itself. On being in the course of the evening told that if he would express any contri tion for his , outrage, Mr. Brougham would in-' stantly move for his discharge, he refused to make any apology to Mr. Brougham, but said lie had no objection to petition the House. He added, that he was determined to have a fight with Mr. Brougham, because he had shamefully deserted his cause, and taken up that of a dead missionary. It is hardly necessary to add, that 111 r. Brougham is totally unconscious of the alleged desertion, and that Gourley labours under a complete and melancholy delusion. In the course of the even ing he was visited by Drs. Morris and Sather. laud. COAL-MARKET, JUNE 11. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 594 Newcastle - - '45 -31 s 6d to 40s Od 16 Sunderland - - 134 -31 s Od to 41s 3d 2 Stone Coal - - 2 -45 s Od to Os Od 1 Cuhn - - - 1 - —s oa to —s Od COURSE OF EXCHANGE, June 11 Artiste, dam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam Antwerp l2 flainburgl) 37 7 2 Us Altona Paris,3 Day's sight 45 0 Us. Ditto - • nntit tleatt,c, ditto Berlin Frani; fort on t he ,Nlain Petersburg h Vienna 'Trieste 7 10 156 i 1 4 .:x . Money 9 10 A Madrid Cadiz Bilboa Barcelona ieville 10 9 3^ Effective 36 Effective 353 Effective `35.1 354 Gibraltar Leghorn , Gel.,a ..... ..... 48i-Venice, Ital. Liv 27 0 Malta 45 -Naples 374 Palermo Lisbon Oporto rtio.l:tieiro Bahia • .. 50 Dublin .... 94 Curl; 9A pei Cent. BULLION Portor,alGold,in Coin .. L.O 0 0 pct Us Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 6 - - - New Doubloons ..... 3 14 9 New Dollars 0 4 96 Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 Ili STATE PAPER. TREATY between His BRITANNIC MAJESTY and the KING of the NETHERLANDS, respecting TERRI TORY and COMMERCE in the EAST INDlES.—Signed at London, March 17, 1824. [Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Comniand of His Majesty.] In the Name of the Most Holy and undivided Trinity. His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, desiring to place upon a footing, mutually bene ficial, their respective possessions and the commerce of their subjects ix the East Indies, so that the welfare and prosperity of both nations may be promoted, in all time to come, without those differences and jealousies which have, in former times,in terrupted the harmony which ought always to subsist between them ; and being anxious that all occasions of misunderstand ing between their respective agents may be, as much as pos sible, prevented ; and in order to determine certain questions which have occurred in the execution of the Convention made at London on the 13th of August 1814, in so far as it respects the possessions of his Netherland Majesty in the East, have no minated their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, the Right Hon. George Canning, a Member of his said Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, and his said Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; and the Right Hon. Charles Watkin 'Williams Wynn, a Member of his said Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Montgomeryshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, and President of his said Majesty's Board of Commis sioners for the Affairs of India : And his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, Baron Henry Fagel, Member of the Equestri a n C or p s o f the province of Holland, Counsellor of State, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Belgic Lion, and of the Royal Guelphic Order, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of his said Majesty to his Majesty the King of Great Britain ;—And Anton Reinhard Falck, Commander of the Royal Order of the Belgic Lion, and his said Majesty's Minister of the De partment of Public Instruction, National Industry, and Colonies : Who, after having mutually communicated the full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed on the following Articles : ARTICLE I.—The High Contracting Parties engage to ad. mit the subjects of each other to trade with their respective pos sessions in the Eastern Archipelago, and on the Continent of India, and in Ceylon, upon the footing of the most favoured nation ; their respective subjects conforming themselves to the local Regulations of each Settlement. ll.—The subjects and vessels of one nation shall not pay, upon importation or exportation, at the ports of the other in the Eastern Seas, any duty at a rate beyond the double of that at which the subjects and vessels of the nation to which the port belongs, are charged. The duties paid on exports or imports at a British Port, on the Continent of India, or in Ceylon, on Dutch bottoms, shall be arranged so as, in no case, to be charged at more than double' the amount of the duties paid by British subjects, and on Bri tish bottoms. In regard to any article upon which no duty is imposed, when imported or exported by the subjects, or on the vessels of the nation to which the port belongs, the duty charged upon the subjects or vessels of the other, shall in no case exceed six per cent._ . . _ lll.—The High Contracting Parties engage, that no Treaty hereafter made by either, with any Native Power in the eastern seas, shall contain any article tending, either expressly, or by the imposition of unequal duties, to exclude the trade of the other party from the ports of such Native Power : and tkat if, in any Treaty now existing in either part, any article to that ef fect has been admitted, such article shall be abrogated upon the conclusion of the present Treaty. It is understood that, before the conclusion of the present Treaty, communication has been made by each of the contract ing parties to the other, of all Treaties or engagements subsist ing between each of them, respectively, and any Native Power in the Eastern Seas; and that the like communication shall be made of all such Treaties concluded by them, respectively, hereafter. IV.--Their Britannic and Netherland Majesties engage to give strict orders, as well to their Civil and Military Authori ties, as to their Ships of War, to respect the freedom of Trade, established by Articles I. 11. 111. ; and, in no case, to impede a free communication of the natives in the eastern Archipelago, with the ports of the two Governments, respectively, or of the subjects of the two Governments with the ports belonging to Native Powers. V.—Their Britannic and Netherland Majesties, in like man ner, engage to concur effectually in repressing piracy in those seas : They will not grant either asylum or protection to ves sels engaged in piracy, and they will, in no case, permit the ships or merchandize captured by such vessels, to be intro duced, deposited, or sold, in any of their possessions. Vl.—lt is agreed that orders shall be given by the two Go vernments to their Officers and Agents in the East, not to form any new settlement on any of the Islands in the Eastern Seas, without previous authority from their respective Governments in Europe. VII.:-The Molucca islands, and especially Amboyna, Banda, Ternate, and their immediate dependencies, are except ed from the operation of the I. 11. 111. and IV. Articles, un til the Netherland Government shall think fit to abandon the monopoly of Spices • but if the said Government shall, at any time previous to such abandonment of the monopoly, allow the subjects of any Power, other than a native Asiatic Power, to carry on any commercial intercourse with the said islands, the subjects of his Britannic Majesty shall be admitted to such in tercourse, upon a footing precisely similar. VIII.—His Netherland Majesty cedes to his Britannic Ma jesty all his establishments on the Continent of India ; and re nounces all privileges and exemptions enjoyed or claimed in virtue of those establishments. IX.—The Factory of Fort Marlborough, and all the Eng lish possessions on the Island of Sumatra, are hereby ceded to his Netherland Majesty : and his Britannic Majesty further engages that no British Settlement shall be formed on that Island, nor any Treaty concluded by British Authority, with any Native Prince, Chief, or State therein. X.—The Town and Fort of Malacca, and its Dependencies, are hereby ceded to his Britannic Majesty; and his Netherland Majesty engages, for himself and his subjects, never to form any Establishment on any part of the Peninsula of Malacca, or to conclude any Treaty with any Native Prince, Chief, or State therein. Xl.—His Britannic Majesty withdraws the objections which have been made to the occupation of the island of Billiton and its Dependencies, by the Agents of the Netherland Go vernment. Xll.—His Netherland Majesty withdraws the objections which have been made to the occupation of the Island of Singapore, by the subjects of his Britannic Majesty. His Britannic Majesty, however, engages, that no British establishment shall be made on the Carimon Isles, or on the Islands of Battam, Bintang, Lingin, or on any of the other Islands south of the Straights of Singapore, nor any Treaty concluded by British authority with the Chiefs of these Islands. the Colonies, possessions, and establishments .which are ceded by the preceding Articles, shall be delivered up to the officers of the respective Sovereigns on the Ist of March, 1825. The fortifications shall remain in the state in which they shall be at the period of the notification of this treaty in India; but no claim shall be made, on either side, for ordnance, or stores of any description, either left or removed by the ceding power, nor for any arrears of revenue, or any charge of admi nistration whatever. XlV.—All the inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded, shall enjoy, for a period of six years from the date of the Rati fication of the prbsent Treaty, the liberty of disposing, as they please, of their property, and of transporting themselves, with out let or hindrance, to any country to which they may wish to remove. XV.—The High Contracting Parties agree that none of the Territories or Establishments mentioned in Articles VIII. IX. X. XI. and XII. shall be at any time transferred to any other Power. In case of any of the said Possessions being abandon ed by one of the present Contracting Parties, the right of occu pation thereof shall immediately pass to the other. XVI.—It is agreed that all accounts and reclamations, aris ing out of the restoration of Java and other possessions, to the Officers of his Netherland Majesty in the East Indies, as well those which were the subject of a Convention made at Java on the 24th June, 1817, between the Commissioners of the two nations, as all others, shall be finally and completely closed and satisfied, on the Payment of the sum of 100,0001., sterling money, to be made in London on the part of the Netherlands, before the expiration of the year 1825. XVII.—The present Treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifi cations exchanged at London within , 3 months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed' the same, and affixed thereutito the seals of their arms. Done at •London, the 17th ddy'of.illarch, in the year of our Lord. 1824. GEORGE CANNING. (L.S:) - CIIARLES WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN. Were follows a Note addressed by the British Plenipoten_ tiaries to the Plenipotentiaries of the Netherlands, with the Reply, which we shall give on Monday.] LITERARY NOTICE. The AGAMEMNON of lESCHYLITS ; translated by Joa SYMMONS, Esq. A. M. late Student of Christ Church. In our last notice of this learned and able pro duction, we took a slight and imperfect view of the Author's Preface, not extending our observa tions on it to its close, but producing from it some very striking specimens of his erudition, and of his peculiar sagacity in the department of emendatory criticism. Without resting any longer on this introductory portion of Mr. SirmstoNs's Work, which impresses us with as strong a feel ing of his candour and his modesty, as of his learning, his critical acuteness, and the singular rectitude of his judgment, we will now proceed to remark on the Work itself, from which we shall hereafter gratify our Readers with some copious extracts, presenting occasionally to the Greek scholar, in our progress, a few citations from the very learned and critical notes. We must, how ever, introduce our extracts from the translation, with some preliminary observations on its general character and the style of its execution. Faith fulness to his original, and an anxious desire to preserve all the thoughts, and to reflect all the images of the writer, whose representative he makes himself, seem to be the principle and the impulse on which our translator acts; and, it consequence, lie has sometimes been induced to" dilate the sinewy compactness of the great Athenian's diction into a bulk incompatible with strength, and sometimes to bring forward meta phors, to which the mind of the English reader cannot easily and at once be reconciled. Of both these instances of error, as we conceive them to be, occasioned by the resolute fidelity of the translator, we could adduce, if it were our in clination, more than one example. But as the beauties, springing from the same source, are more than sufficient to compensate for these trivial, and, on this rigid plan of translation, almost un avoidable, defects, we shall satisfy ourselves with merely suggesting them ; and shall turn from them with pleasure to the more agreeable part of our undertaking. To exhibit the venerable An cient to the British public, our translator has not dressed him in an embroidered coat, or tricked him out in meretricious finery to catch the eyes of critics of St. James's-street, but has ventured to show him to us in his own grand simplicity, uninjured by the littleness of any alien or mo dern ornament. Over the whole Work there is thrown a certain cast and character of antiquity, which must engage the attention of the possessor of genuine taste, and which must strike him like the hoary majesty of an old Grecian temple, placed by the side of one of the gay and fantastic edifices raised by Mr. NASH. Of the two parts of which the Grecian Drama consists, the dia logue and the chorus, we think that our trans lator has succeeded the most happily in the latter. He flings a bold and careless hand over his lyre ; and though we may be sometimes dis posed to censure him for the lawlessness of his execution,—for his capricious use and rejection of rhyme in the same ode, by which our ears are occasionally exposed to disappointment, we can not refuse to his performance the praise of gene ralfie,hehr erd e no f tus e cgp c oh t ,v , i ean r a lc sl principle es o mfo f radoc a : nhs wto constructed o o t s the op h fo a c% r y m eßr o A n yoo i fn o b u ai s dpv r ome e e s r t u yA l as t dos . 0: hurry us along with him, and not to allow us either time or inclination to notice his minor of. fences. In his dialogue, as we conceive ; he has not been equally felicitous ; for here he may be sometimes charged with that diffuseness of ex pression at which we have already hinted, and may sometimes be censured for a want of ease in its more elevated portions, and perhaps for a deficiency of dignity in some of its more humble. To his dialogues, however, we must as sign considerable praise, though we cannot regard it as entitled to equal commendation with his lyrics. But we must not any longer withhold from our Readers the means of forming their own judgment on the whole of the subject before us ; and we will begin our citations with the opening speech of the Drama. On his leaving her for the war against Ilion, Agamemnon had promised to his wife, Clytemnestra, to announce to her the capture of the hostile city by fire-signals, to be planted in a line of stations, from the Troad to the palace of Mycenw. Clytemnestra had, con sequently, placed a watchman (ovct)uAsE) on one of the towers of her royal residence, to observe the first appearance of the promised signal, and with the soliloquy of this man, on the night when the beacons communicate their long-expected in telligence, commences the action of our majestic Drama.* In a note replete with learning, but too long for us to extract, Mr. S. vindicates his version of Puvaixoc av3pCouMv....xEab " Our Queen, a man in counsel;" and remarks that POTTER, while he very properly censures STANLEY for rendering avaeonuAov, viro insidiantern," has fallen himself into a greater error, by rendering it, " thinking of her lord." There can be no doubt, as we feel convinced, of the justness of Mr. S.'s translation in this instance. In a note of equal erudition, which immediately follows, Mr. S. corrects some errors of SCHUTZ'S, and some of the Bishop of CHESTER'S, and MUSGRAVE'S. But we can do nothing more, from the want of space and time, than direct the attention of the learned R e ader to the note itself. We are obliged, by want of room, to postpone the So' liloquy till Monday. IRTxs. On Thursday evening, the 10tIlinst. in Serjeants' Inn, the' wife of 'William Elias Taunton, Esq., inst., a daughter. Yesterday morning, in Old Broad-street, the lady of Dr. Birkbeck, of a daughter. %IARItIEII. On Thursday last, at Guilsborough, Mr. John Baron HOWea , of Irthlingborough Grange youngest son of Richard Howo , Esq., of Northampton, and grandson of Mr..Pirkins, of East' cote, to Sarah, third daughter of William Lucas, Esq., of Hol lowell, all in the county of Northampton. DIED. On Thursday, the 10th inst., Mrs. Heaviside, George-street, Hanover-square, the wife of Surgeon Heaviside. On Wednesday night last, at Blackheath, in her 18th year, Louisa Katherine, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Chas- Bagot, G.C.B. On Monday, May 24, at Shenfield, Mr. George Berne, aged 83. On the 11th inst., at the house of her son, in Bishupsgate" street, Mrs. Susanna Cordell, in the 74th year of her age. Printed anti Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Stn OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CAUSTAIR S. C int 11( fro vol Pr, cey tic)