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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA I IX Extracts from the Morning Pepers, June 4, [BRITISH PRESS.] A private letter from Paris; dated .Tune 1, says—" I have received intelligence—the authen ?iciiN of which I can vouch for —that his Majesty is this morning much worse. He has a paralysis of the lower extremities, and sinks at intervals into a lethargy, from which it is difficult to rouse him but by the application of the strongest ex ternal stimulants. What result the event of his Majesty's death, in the present state of politics, will produce, is with many very doubtful. There :enough of hatred, and heart-burning, and dis trust, to form an ample fund of mutual dissen sion ; but there is, nevertheless, not much, I think, to be apprehended. The mutual interest of those in power to preserve that authority which , they have been at so much pains to estab lish, and to connect it with allegiance and public order, will induce them to unite in procuring submission to the laws. If the present rulers of France act with wisdom, and keep the 46 good citizens of Paris" in a quiescent temper, by avoiding, at this crisis, to create in the popular mind any hostile or dissatisfied symptoms, the event will pass off as in the order of Providence, and his successor will quietly fill the throne : if, on the other hand, the Ministers suffer, at this moment, a►sy strong causes of public discontent to prevail, and that successor, with an indiscreet zeal, shall so exercise his new authority as to open further sources of dissatisfaction, the chance then is, that dangerous disturbances will follow, and that one page more will be added to the His tory of the Revolutions of Empire. [MORNING POST.] The business in both Houses last night was not of much importance. In the Commons, Mr. 'Hume, having no longer want of economy on the part of his Majesty's Ministers to reprove, or reductions of poor and industrious clerks to pro pose, assumed a new office, and declared himself the patron of Deistical and blasphemous publica tions. He not only presented Petitions for their free sale, but he supported them with the little share of eloquence which, fortunately for the cause of Order and Religion, nature and art have imparted to him. The Petitions were re ceived, because they were worded in a manner respectful to the House, but their object, we are happy to say, was universally reproved. The Marine Insurance Bill then went through a Com mittee after several divisions, on Amendments proposed to some of its clauses, but we shall be much surprised if so uncalled for a measure be suffered to pass into a law. The dropped Order respecting the adjourned debate on the case of the Missionary Smith was taken up as a notice and fixed for this day week. In the Lords the Bill for continuing the Insurrection Act in Ire land for another year, went through a second reading without any opposition. [MORNING HERALD.] The following is an extract of a letter from Madrid, dated May 20, 1824:—" At seven o'clock yesterday evening the Supplement to the Gazette of this morning, containing the Decree of Amnesty, was published. An immense con course of people was collected about the Royal printing-office, and in the neighbouring streets. They tore the copies of this Supplement from one another, so impatient were they to see it. From the press and confusion several accidents took place, and numberless pockets were picked. To see what moral effect this decree will produce upon the public at large, we must wait a little longer. It has been reported these last few days, that the Queen of Portugal had solicited permission to come to the Court of Madrid , but that M. Talaru, the French Ambassador, opposed the project in the most determined manner, and *vett entered a protest in regular form against it. The circumstances in which the King finds him self leaves him no choice but to yield to whatever the French Ambassador proposes, who, it appears, enjoys the utmost favour and confidence of his own Government. And, indeed, in justice it must be said, that he is in many points deserving of this confidence and favour. He has, upon more than one occasion, by his firmness and mode ration, saved Madrid from impending calamities. Royo Capape, a kind of General by sufferance, being self-nominated, has applied for passports to go to the Baths of Molica de Arragon; but it is surmised that it is not altogether the state of his health that has moved him to this. It appears that the Duke d'Alagon, after mature reflection, has declined the Captaincy-General of Arragon, to which he had been nominated ; it is General Don Carlos Espagne who, it is generally thought, will replace him. But whoever may eventually fill that situation, will find it a task of no little difficulty to keep in order the Caffres of the Ebro (as they are now called). If he-should exercise his powers mildly, his authority will be scorned and set at nought, as is the case at present : and if he should resort to rigorous mea sures, he will make for himself a host of the most irreconcileable and deadly enemies. Such is the state of that part of the country, that no Intend ant of Police would dare to act up to his func tions as prescribed by t he la te regulations. If he did he would infallibly fall a victim zeal. rf the presence of the French troo to ps his in the capital of Arragon do not put a stop to the frightful excesses that are daily committed there, the place will be abandoned by every decent and well-disposed person. It is said the first step to he taken by the French, on their arrival there, will be to disarm the Canaille. The last letters from Corunna state, that the French troops there have adopted the most strict and vigilant precau tions, as if un d er t h e i n fl uence of extreme mis trust. This has excited the more astonishment, as the Only excesses lately committed in the As turias and Galicia have been by the Ultra- Royalists. The Bishop of Teruel, the zealous protector of the Jesuits, is now, it is thought in a hopeless stat e , i n consequence of a fall frau:his horse in the neighbourhood of Rubrelos de Mora. One of his arms is fractured and four of his ribs broken. The Marquis de Santa Colona, who held an important post in the Palace, has just died, and his widow has retired to a convent for the rest of her days. A Royal Order has been pub- ; lished in the Gazette, enjoining the Spanish sot.' (Hers and officers not to talk politics in the cafes or other public places. Viscount Digeon,the French Commander-in-Chief, has already returned from Aranjuez, where he had a private interview of his Majesty. It is his intention to reside con stantly at Madrid, and not like General Bour. mont, stupify himself at Aranjuez in the com pany of monks and curates. On Tuesday last, the Ist Battalion of the Royal Swiss Guard, about to return to France, arrived at the Prado. For two hours that they remained there, not a single Spanish soldier was permitted to enter Madrid, and but a very few officers were al lowed to come into the city. Government is at length actively occupied in the organization of the Royal Spanish Guard, which is to be corn posed of eight regiments of Infantry of two bat talions each, four Regiments of Cavalry, 200 Gardes de Corps (for the moment), and a train of artillery proportioned to this force. Workmen are already employed upon their uniforms and equipments, which will cost about 18 millions of reals (180,0002.) It is said the Spanish Body Guards have received orders to repair to Aran.. juez this day week, to do duty at the Palace on St. Ferdinand's day." ETIIE TIMES.] By his Majesty's ship Blossom, arrived at Portsmouth, letters to the 17th of March have been received from Rio de Janeiro. The packet had sailed two days earlier. Intelligence had been received at Rio of the embarkation for Por tugal of the Portuguese troops at Monte Video, which were expected to sail on the 6th. The EMPEROR had given proofs of the sincerity of his attachment to the cause of Brazilian indepen. deuce, by ordering the prosecution of those who had been apprehended on charges of endeavour ing, by seditious publications or otherwise, to excite doubts of his constitutional sentiments; and by the publication of the annexed decree for administering the oath to the Constitution, which was to take place in the capital on the 25th of March, and as soon as possible in the other parts of Brazil : " DECREE. " Representations from so many Chambers of the empire that they form a majority of the Brazilian people, having reached my Imperial presence, representing that the plan of a Constitution which I offered to them has been unanimously approved with the most patriotic enthusiasm, earnestly entreat ing me to swear to it, and order it to be sworn to as the Con stitution of the empire ; and considering the justice of these entreaties of the loyal Brazilian people, from the incontestable advantages which will result from their possessing, as soon as possible, their constitutional code, I have resolved, with the advice of my Council of State, to swear and order to be sworn to the said project, that it may be established as the political Constitution of the empire. This oath shall be taken in this capital on the 25th of the present month, and elsewhere, as soon as this my Imperial Decree shall be received by the re spective authorities. Joao Severiano Maciel da Costa, Mini ster Secretary of State for the Affairs of the Empire, shall take the necessary steps to execute this Decree. " From the Palace, March 11, 1824. " Signed by the Emperor, " J. S. MACIEL DA COSTA." —lt does not appear from the Rio letters whether any of the French ships of war in that harbour had sailed, but no mention occurs on the other hand of any accession to their number hav ing been made. The Blossom has brought no accounts from Peru of later date than those pre viously received. The advices from Chili extend to the 19th of January, but supply no political l events; the country was perfectly tranquil. The Blossom has brought specie for the merchants to the amount of 800,0001., who in this instance, however, have been made to pay dearly for the protection of a British ship of war, by the delay which has occurred on the voyage, a great por tion having been on board near twelve months. Notices of remittances having bee❑ shipped on board of this vessel have been received full six months ago. [NEW TIMES.] Advices were yesterday received from Rio Janeiro to the 20th March, by his Majesty's ship Blossom, whose arrival had been long ex pected, having on board a considerable quantity of specie on account of merchants. The French squadro❑ lying at Rio, respecting which so many absurd reports prevailed a short time since, con sisted, at the date of these advices, of two frigates and two corvettes, the other vessels hav ing departed, after taking in provisions, for their different stations in the Pacific, &c. The Em peror had appointed the 25th for the ceremony of swearing to the Constitution. Letters had reached Rio from Monte Video stating that the Portuguese troops were embarking, and the Brazilians under General Lecor were to enter the city on the 28th February. It was reported that two Spanish seventy-fours had touched at the Island of St. Catherine (about five days' sail to the South of Rio) for refreshments, on their way to the Pacific. By the Blossom letters were also received from Valparaiso, Lima, and other parts of the South American States; but their dates are full one month antecedent to our pre-1 vious advices. The Royalist troops, it appears by letters written by British residents at Lima, consisted of 16,000 effective troops of various denominations. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] It appears from the extracts from the Dutch and Brussels Papers in another column, that the Belgian Landholders are exerting themselves to put an end to the freedom of importation of agricultural produce, which, though beneficial to the nation, has a tendency to lower their rents. It would appear from the majority in favour of the Address to the Crown, that the Landholders are as 'formidable in the Legislature of the Ne therlands as in our own, and we begin to fear that the wise policy which the Dutch have steadily pursued for centuries, is at length in some danger. It is natural that a Legislature of Land holders should think less of what the na tion gains by a free trade in corn than what they themselves lose by it,though the one may bear no proportion to the other. The Belgian land holders we believ e , pl ace d i n more favour abl(c.e rsare,circumstances than our own with respect to the effect which Corn Laws would p ro d uce. A s little corn is grown in H o ll an d, t h e country very cannot, even in the most abundant years, supply the whole population with food, so that by means of a duty on importation the price can be main tained at any prices the landlords wish to have. The English landholders, on the other hand, can raise the prices as high as they please, in years of scarcity, but, unfortunately for them, there are also years when England produces more food than can be consumed, and when no laws can prevent prices from falling. If the English Legislature, indeed, were to follow the Dutch policy in the Indian Archipelago, and in years of abundance to keep the supply below the demand, by de stroying part of the harvest, then our Land holders might build securely on their restrictions. The great problem is to keep the supply always below the demand. So long as the rest of the population have the means of purchasing they must purchase on any terms. As, how ever, this bold policy is somewhat beyond the courage of our country gentlemen, and they cannot secure themselves by restrictions against the mis chief of abundant years, it may fairly be ques tioned whether they had not better at once con sent to a free trade. There is in fact no other method (the above bold policy excepted) of pre venting a fluctuation of price, ruinous to the owners of landed property, and to all persons connected with its cultivation. The advantage given by the restrictions is necessarily temporary, and against that advantage must be set off the in jury sustained in periods of abundance and de pression. DUTCH AND BRUSSELS PAPERS. We have received Dutch and Brussels Papers to the 3d instant, from which the following are extracts : THE HAGUE, MAY 28.—SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL.—The Sitting opened at half-past ten in the morning, and after the preliminary business was gone through, the Chamber proceeded to the order of the day, which was Mr. Barthelemy's motion for an address to his Majesty on the distressed state of agriculture. Baron HUSSART, the first whose name was entered to speak, painted in strong colours the distressed condition of the land holders and farmers, and shewed the absolute necessity of re stricting the unlimited freedom of the corn trade, unless we would see the entire ruin of agriculture, which must be fol lowed by the destruction of social existence of the nation. He voted for the address proposed by Mr. Barthelemy, without any alteration. Count HOGENDORP did not deny the distress of agriculture, but he did not think that restrictive measures would remedy it. He spoke at great length on the defects of the English legisla tion on this subject, but he said that the English seemed at present inclined to abolish the restrictive system, and adopt the liberal principle of free trade, which prevails among us. Many other Members spoke on each side of the question, in this de bate, which was resumed in the evening sitting, when it was resolved by a majority of 72 votes to 22, that an Address should be presented to his Majesty. After an animated debate on Mr. Hussart's motion to adopt the Address proposed by Mr. Bar thelemy, it was resolved to appoint a Committee of Five Mem bers to draw up an Address. DRESDEN, MAY 21.—Yesterday and the day before several waggons left this city with large sums of money for the Bank ers of Leipsig, in order to remedy the scarcity of ready money arising from the great number of bills of exchange which have been presented during this fair. It is very long since so much business has been done and such large sums of money been wanted as during the present fair. There are even Persian merchants who have made large purchases and bought a quan tity of gold bars. NATIONAL SOCIETY. Yesterday the Annual Meeting of the Sub scribers of this Institution for the Promotion of Education under Dr. Bell's system, was held at the Central School, Bald win's Gardens. We noticed among the cowpony, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Exeter, Worcester, Glou cester, Oxford, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Bolton, Dean of Wor cester, Ald ers h aw , Rev. Dr. Inglis, Archdea co n Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Rev. Dr. Beresford, Li eu t.-G enera l Thornton, Joshua Watson, Esq. Rev. Dr. NValinsley, and several other persons of distinction. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury being called to the Chair, Dr. War. MSLET, the Secretary, read the Report,which stated that the most iiiiportant feature to which the General Committee had to refer, was the special favour conferred by his Majesty's Government, in the grant of a Royal Letter, addressed through the Archbishops of the Provinces to the parochial Clergy, direct ing them to promote contributions throughotit the parishes in aid of the Society's funds. Through these means the sum of 27,3581. 13s. Id. had been already paid into the hands of the treasurer; and the Committee had thus in their possession a fund almost half as large as that which has constituted their entire expenditure from the first institution of this Society to the present time; a nd they anticipated the happiest results to the great cause of national education. The Report then entered into a variety of most satisfactory details, and was received with warm approbation. At the conclusion of the Report, His Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY rose to move that the Report be printed and circulated, and in an able speech dwelt upon the advantages of the Institution, which was calcu lated to afford considerable benefit to the poor, and lie urged a continuance of its support. The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. General THORTON here rose to make a motion, which he conceived would tend to great advantage towards the children educated by the Society. He could not but concur with the report in every respect, especially that part which alltided to the Royal Letter; but he was of opinion, that if the Society could couple industry with education, it would be most desirable; and he regretted that it had not ere this been introduced into the Schools. One hundred years ago, it appeared that reading, writing, and arithmetic, were branches of education by which individuals could get their subsistence; but now they had be come so common, that it was necessary that something else should be resorted to to make money, and by introducing sonic mode of industry into the schools, the children on leaving them might be enabled to work at trades, &c. to procure a - living. After further observations the General moved a resolution, that boys and girls should be instructed in industry, &c. His GRACE differed with the last speaker, that the plan of the Society was at all calculated to give room for depravity. It had been proved to the contrary by the exemplary conduct of those individuals who left the Schools, and he considered that the proper place for the motion would be after the usual business had been gone through. The Bishop of ExvrEn intimated as a proof of the excel lence of the Society's mode of education, that not one of the scholars educated under the system had been brought to Justice.—(Applause.) General Tifousvf:osr remarked, that he merely noticed the thing as an omission, the supplying of which might prove use ful to society. Lord CALTHORPE addressed the meeting in a short speech. J. WATsoN, Esq., read the annual account of the Society, with the expenditure, which elicited the warmest applause. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who returned thanks. Thanks were also voted to Dr. Bell, Dr. IValmsley, an d J. Watson, Esq. ; and a ft e r a short discussion upon G enera l Tliornton's motion, which was negatived, the meeting broke up. 'Nut: HolltsTy.—One of the young men of a respectable mercantile house in this city, on the way to the Custom-house of Leith, on Saturday, dropped the sum of 471. 35., at the Lower Draw; bridge, which was p i c k e d u p by thr ee h onest tars, whose names we are h ap py in rec or di ng, H enry Robertson, John Bowers, and Joseph Renny they immediately carried this sum to Captain Wilson, the head harbour master, and deposited it with him until the owner was found.—(Edin burgh Observer, May 31.) FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—The' rational amalgam of lite rature with politics, which evinces your discri mination in the selection of several very pleasing articles, peculiarly interesting to country readers iu remote parts of the island, induces me to trouble you with a few rapid observations on the recent death of a great Poet, and, I apprehend, a most unhappy man—the great and memorable Lord ByaoN. My opinions may not be the less called for, from the singular contempt and proud dis dain of the noble nature of the departed man of genius, transcendant confessedly to all his con temporaries, and assuredly the most truly ori ginal writer since the days of SHAKSPEARE. Lord BYRON was too proud to plagiarize, and where a similitude of creative effort had been perhaps anticipated by others, this great man seemed painfully solicitous in his notes to dis avow the unmanliness of the theft; Not the less interesting is the inquiry from the great faults in style and composition, the " brave neglect" of that vast creating and originating intellect, so justly termed, from the Greek radix, poetical. BYRON had his errors and foibles in the most lofty aspirations of his godlike genius, as well as in his commerce with that vile, ungrateful,fac titious biped—man, whom, in truth, he despised with sufficient and well-merited asperity ; and why should he not ? What had that vulgar rep tile in common with the Poet ? Once in five centuries, for purposes of inscru table wisdom, Divine and presiding Omnipotence sends down a mind to this nether and grosser region, tainted with lofty and abnormal aspira tion ; his incomprehensible essence opens one gleam in the vista of exalted ratiocination to some finer nature fainting under the effort, and punished for his daring presumption by years of misery and sad retribution of a life, wasted in apathy, despondence, and misanthropy. " Poor Bynox," said a greater, because a better man, " I know him intimately, and the lot of that wretched hind that breaks stones for our road to Melrose is that of a prince compared to him." Let, then, the few amiable and virtuous na tures, who are shocked at the levity and unpar donable insolence of the departed peer, pause ere they deal out anathemas to the memory of a great genius, and an unfo'rtunate and unhappy man. Shall I waste the time of your readers by inculcating truisms? know they not that the dazzling height of genius, that jealous and proud eminence, where those whose names are dear" as household words" to us, and will be so to our children's children, that these favoured sons of God's own ether, whose lofty and aspiring intel lect dare to originate hidden causation, and to lift the veil of futurity and Divine attribute that these are the beings to be punished for their short-lived presumption by years of desolation,', that noble mind who wandered after ideal excel-1 lencies amidst Alpine avalanches, amidst the 1 nameless themes of the frightful and solitary skreech-horn—that lively creative fancy which embodied new, unknown, and lonely animation ' ; —is this the miserable unhappy being whose heart and soul was so tensely toned, that he spurned this grosser and material existence—is this the mind lofty, proud, unconciliating, stung with real or fancied poignancies—is this singular being to be the but of ephemeral calumny, of blue stocking and gossiping anecdote —every chemical lady of the present day, r% ho takes notes at Sir liumrußEY's, in Albemarle-street, is a self constituted critic on the high behests of mascu line genius.—The whole herd of Evangelists and Fanatics are let loose, BYRON and BYSCHE SHELLY, LEE HUNT and the Liberal, block up the very avenues to dispassionate investigation ; the softer sex are outraged and wounded by the notorious contempt of the Noble Author for any of the loftier and more useful of the feminine vir tues; his ladies are all soft, and fitted admirably for reciprocation with ardent bravos, who use women as men do a fiddle, and lay the cremona on the shelf—what unfortunate elf induced the departed poet to become a husband, factitious and earthborn bondage was incompatible with the sullen, the sensitive, the warm, the cold, the kind, the cruel, the gentle, the ireful, BYRON.— Let us, however, divide the censure : there are really hearts amiable, virtuous, kind, and good, to whose nature the metamorphosis from a batchelor to a husband, is really formidable and abundantly trying. Perhaps the being calculated to impart happiness to such a mind was as rare as the creation of that mind itself—certainly. the female who lived with a poet and a philoso pher, or a pathetic migrator over Nature's vi sionary creations, must have evinced universal and rare excellencies—let us not then, as we really profess to be, admirers of the departed genius, fly from the defiling spots which, like occa sional disks, may obscure the scintillations of a planet, and retreat to leave its radiance the brighter; let us look to this great man, whom, in a few short days, the world has lost, and for whose fall Greece shrieked in her agonizing and impassioned fervour of grateful reminis cence for that heart whose fondest aspira tions were wound up in the godlike effort to emancipate her enslaved children. Sacred then be the dust of IhruoN, enshrined in a young nation's love ; may the warm tears of of the sensitive Albanian consecrate the memory, by the late and unavailing tribute of posthumous or sepulchral gratitude. To his friends and his sister his reminscence will be entwined with the most delightful and pleasing species of grief—it will rest on his shrine amidst the cold tresses of the inanimate Parian, but his name, his fame, his heroism, and his talents will live while the Eng lish language shall preserve its habitude—his writings will be placed in that confined, yet ex alted pitch of the great and the good, though they too often forget the best purpose sf the Poet and the Christian. To the admirers of Lord BYRON'S writings, it must he a subject of the deepest regret, that in early life he frittered down his great genius, in abstractive and occasional composition—a Canto of Childe Harold was the longest a nd best connected of any of his entire writings. sub sequent delightful and highly poetical fragments descended even lower, and had humbler preten sions ; he was too idle to venture on even an out line of the machinery of an Epic, for which his lofty genius so fully qualified him. One sole cha racter occupied his thoughts ; he was a weed thrown on some savage rock by the ocean's foam, and he delighted to revel in the sullen despondence, or to be enlivened by the hap pier hours of the noble pilgrim—as fancy/ constitution, health, change of scene, tended to promote or modify. One leading feature in BYRON'S character was his noble and manly avowal of all the vices and follies which other and more contracted natures would have con cealed ; in his noble poem of Childe Harold we see no attempt at effect, no deceit,--he tells us plainly what a peccant, poor drivelling biped man is in his undress of life—lie hides not the secrets of the library; he opens the human h e art, and dares to explore and explain his own strange and incomprehensible nature. This is the being gifted with those higher aspirations of pride which render nugatory and irrelevant the meaner appreciations of self-love, and self-im portance; BYRON lays bare the foul cicatrices Of humanity ; he spares not himself, and therefore his writings will live, because he has dared to be honest and manly. No book in our language takes so strong a hold of the youthful mind as the migrations of the noble bard with his " scalloped shell." We see the fox looking out of the deserted portal of neglected Newstead; we follow the unhappy pil grim to the clear blue ocean —our heart is on the waters with his, and we at that moment for get kindred and home, to follow a poor seared apostate, where the heart bleeds with sorrows of no mortal cast—who can coldly regard his noble aspirations for mankind's emancipation from the Despots, the very praise of one of the worst—the most cold-hearted calculating butcher of the mo dern military slaughter-house—the unfeeling and sullen despot of contemned Gaul—the exiled Autocrat of Europe ; all this is natural and in structive—pride was common to BYRON and BUONAPARTE ; both despised most heartily the shapeless monster to which their genus belonged in animal nature—positively in this they were congenial spirits—but BYRON was imperfect, and snsceptible of becoming the tool of the precious and the foolish innovator who dreamed of ideal liberty violated, of patriotism consecrated, or to be consecrated by a moral regeneration of Ea rope, each perfectly Utopian, and incompatible with the chequered associates which influence Kings, Ministers, Nations, and Armies. If you like this prommium, the pourtrait may/ at some leisure hour, be touched off more ill detail. COSMOPOLITOS. THE BALOON. MR. AND MRS. GRAHAM'S ACCOUNT OF THEIR AERIAL VOYAGE. Shortly after their ascension, Mr. GitanAg found it necessary to rid himself of all the ballast from the car, and indeed of every thing else of a weighty description. They kept the city in their sight for full halt an hour, and they lost all earthly views by the balloon entering a dense cloud, in which they experienced much cold. They passed through several,. others, and the eff ec t s o f w hi c h comp l etely deprived them 0 1 hearing. The thermometer, at this period, which was about ten minutes past six o'clock, stood at the freezing point, and in about a quarter of an hour after, it was as low as 20. The thirst that they now experienced was unprecedented, which they had no way of decreasing, having no liquid in the car but brandy. At length they reached a clear and serene atmosphere, and the sun shone forth in its brightest rays, the clouds below hav ing their usual appearance—that of snow -mountains heaped to gether. The tendency of the balloon to ascend was very great, and it was found necessary to open the valve a little, in order to discharg e a p ort i on o f gas, and to prevent the vehicle ascending. Having been in the air one hour and twenty minutes, they began to descend, and threw out the grappling irons, which were fastened to a rope 270 feet in length. Mrs. Graham looked over the side of the car, and observed that the irons a ppeared like a table knife. They now began as gradually to descend al they had ascended, and having obtained a gravity, in ten minutes they reached terra firma in a field belonging to Farmer Brown, in the village of Cuckfield, about fourteen miles from Brighton, in one of the most tremendous showers of rain eve': remembered. The car slightly rebounded three times on touch ing the earth, but not to injure it, or the adventurers. There being a club at the house of Mr. Webber, the Kin& Head, in the village, upwards of 80 persons came running to their assistance, and they were assisted out of the car, and eon' veyed immeditely after to the ab ove h ouse, where they expe rienced the most hospitable treatment. J. Sudwin, Esq,, near whose seat they descended, sent an invitation to them to hiS house, but Mr., and Mrs. Graham wishing to get to town, de clined the offer. At half-past nine o'clock, they left Cuckfiel", in a chaise and f our , on th e roo f of which were the balloon and car, and arrived, as we st a t e d yester d ay, safe at their house in Poland-street, Oxford-street, at half-past two o'clock Jester; day morning, where they were received amid the greetings c a their friends and committee. It is Mr. Graham's intention to make another ascent shortly. SOPHIA, not, as generally stated, JANE STOCE9, has mob' recovered from the effects of her late perilous Eerostatic excav sion. She is expected to be in town in the course of a day 9,, r two, and it is hoped, throu g h t h e medium of her friends, Will soon be placed in some creditable situation. The report of her having received 30 guineas from the gentleman who was to hav e ascended with the unfortunate Mr. Harris, has no foundation- A letter, evidently a hoax, without a signature, was forwarded to the committee to that effect. The amount of the subscrir tions received have been most ridiculously exaggerated. Tile committee, aided by the strenuous exertions of Mr. Rouse, the landlord of the Ea g l e T avern, f rom w h ence the balloon ascend; ed, have not been able to collect five pounds for the benefit 0 1 the parties concerned. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., the lady of Captain Franklin, R.N., of $ daughter. At Hotnerton, an Thursday, the 3d inst., Mrs. James Ed' meston, of a son. MARRIED. At Clifton new church, on the Ist inst., John Woollam, Esq of Hampstead, tro Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of D. Surges , Esq., of Bellevue, Cliftqn. On Saturday, the 29th ult., at Camberwell church, Mr. Nan• son, of Champion-hill, Camberwell, to Miss Talbot, of the same place. On Tuesday, the Ist inst., at the parish church of Bolton , William Harter, Esq., of Leaf-square, near Manchester, t ° Frances Williamina, eldest daughter of James Watkins, Esq. , of Mayfield, near Bolton. I DIED. On Monday, the 31st ult., Mr. Tice, of Ringwood, in his 80th year. On the Ist inst., at his residence, in the Crescent, 31inorieS1 Thomas Manners, Esq., aged 74. At Bath, on the 31 s t u l t . t h e L a d y o f Si r G eorge Abercrombie Robinson, Bart. On the 30th ult., at his house, Holloway-terrace, Islington' Matthew Moggridge, Esq., aged 66. At Richmond, on the 2d inst., John Christian Hoffmann , eldest son of th e l ate Ch ar l es G o df re y H o ff mann, Esq ., ° Bishopsgate-street, in the 19th year of his age. On the 2d inst., at his house, New North-st reet , R e d Lion square, the Rev. Edmund Garden, in the 93d year of his age' Rector of Kington, Wilts, and nearly 60 years Reader to Gray's-inn. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at ttle.bl►x' OFFICE, 112, Strand, by 4:13: CARSTAiItfi. t4 O , Tf, .6214 LL tll hit roc Sc', the Pri ii z tilt evil Dif( MT th(