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• if , n ntt tx , xo • //2 t•ill T;fr, R . ti p • ( ///i/L NtrI%IBER 9921. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1824. PRICE SLVENPENCE. ORIENTAL CLUB. "NTOTICE is hereby given, That the CLUB HOUSE WILL BE OPEN to the MEMBERS on THURSDAY, the.Bth of July. 16, Lower Grosvenor -street. CORNISH, Secretary. ARM Y.-HALF- PAY. N i TOTICE having been given in the Gazette I of the 26th June, 1824, by order of the Right Ho uourable the PAYMASTER-GENERAL, that the following Services, due on the 24th June, 1824, will be in COURSE of pAymENT at the ARMY PAY-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, an 'TUESDAY, the 13th July, between the hours of Ele ven and - Two o'Clock, the sane will be paid on that day ac- tordingly, viz.:— Half-pay to Reduced Officers of the Land Forces. General Officers' Unattached Pay. Royal Bounty Allowances. itetired Full and Half-pay. Military Pensions to 'Wounded Officers. Pay of Adjutants of Local Militia. Allowances to Reduced Adjutants and Serjcant-Majors of Militia. Foreign Half-pay. Foreign Pensions. EAST INDIA HOUSE, June 23, 1824. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of NIEItCHANTS of 'ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That a GENERAL couß - r of the said Company will be held at their House in Leadenball..street on FRIDAY, the 2cl July next, from Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon until Six in the evening, at the desire of the under-mentioned Pro- prietors, Randle Jackson Douglas Kinnaird J. Addinell JOsepli Hume , Wm.' Thornton Henry Gabagan James Paterson J. Doyle Jos. Maddox C. J. Doyle Thomas Lowndes, to Ballot on the following question, viz. : " That this Court confirm their Rcsoletion of the 26th ultimo, approving. the Resolution of the Court of Direc rectors of the 28th of January last, granting to the Carnatic Commissioners, so long as they shall be employed in the double duty of investigating Claims upon the - Gametic and Claims: upon Tanjore, a special Allowance of 3001. per an num each, from the Company, in addition to the allowance 0f.1,5001. per annum, at present enjoyed by them under the - Carnatic Deed, and fixing their allowance from t`•ie period when either Commission shall cease, at 1,5001. per annum, to continue so long.as.they may be employed, under the re maining Commission, and to be paid should the remaining Commission be the Carnatic Commission, as at present, and should it be the Tanjore Commission, from the Company's cash JOSEPH DART, Secretary. PROPOSED S BR I S TOL CHAN NEL from thNGLISH to the A T a Numerous and Respectable MEETING _AL of LANDOWNERS,' MERCHANTS, BANKERS, and Others, held the 9th Day of June, 1824, at the LONDON TAVERN,_ Bishopsgate.Street, Sir THOMAS B. LETH BRIDGE, Bart., 111. P., in the Chair, Resolved unanimously, That it is the opinion of this Meet ing that a Junction of the English and Bristol Channels, by mean s of a Ship Canal, will be of essential Advantage to the c o mmercial Interests of the Country, and, at the same time, promises an ample Remuneration for the Expence of its execution. - That the Capital of the Company he for the present limited to One Million, and the same be divided into Shares of 1001. each. That a Subscription be now entered into, and the Books, be afterwards left at the Banking-House of Meisrs, Bosanquet and Company, Lombard-street, for the purpose of receiving future Subscriptions, and that a Deposit of 11. be paid upon each Share at the time of subscribing. That the Subscription-Book be headed as follows, viz. : t 4 We whose Names are hereunto subscribed, authorize the ap plitation of the several Sums subscribed by us, in defraying. the Expences already incurred, and to be incurred, in the Sur veys, Plans, Engineering Estimates, and other Charges neces sary for preparing to apply to Parliament for an Act for mak toga Ship Canal from the English to the Bristol Channel, and the further Expences to be incurred in such application to Par- Eament ; and that in case we shall decline to take the Shares set opposite to our respective Names, the residue of the Deposit now paid by us shall be forfeited to the Company." That whenever One Thousand Shares shall be subscribed fbr, Mr. Telford be employed to Survey and Report his Opi nion•uPon the best Line and probable Expence of a Ship-Canal f ro m the. Bristol to the English Channel at Seaton Bay, capable o f navigating Vessels of all descriptions, of 120 tons and of 200 tonsburthen, Register measurement. i r T,l3.Lethbridge,Bart.M.P. William Hanning, Esq. Si r ChristopherCole,Bart.M.P. Richard Pemberton, Esq. c a ptain Bastard, M.P. Samuel Bosanquet, Esq. K.K.Tynte, Esq., M.P. Rob e rt C o l mer , Eq W yn dham Lewis, Esq., M.P. John Lee Hanning, 'Esq. John Bent, Esq., M.P. 'George Elwall, E sq . TheVerfßev.theean of York John Burridge, Esq. A v id Pollock, Esq. George Browne, Esq. Roy . D r . Palmer George Redman, Esq. 1)6 a c o mmittee, with power to add to their numberi, from Sub. seriptions of five Shares and upwards, for the purpose of dis (*giving expences already incurred, and to be incurred, and of superintending the survey, and defraying the expences thereof; out of the monies subscribed, and that three be a quorum. That when the Survey shall be complete, And Mr. Telford's Deport delivered, the Committee, now appointed, do call a General Meeting of the Subscribers, in order that the same may be considered ; and that such General Meeting may then adopt cult ulterior measures as may then.appsar proper. nlit the Resolutions of this day be inserted_ in such News- P 9 .l"`"o'n town and , imintry as the Committee shall think fit. Rtolved M aLM4S 13'. LETHBRIDGE, Chairman. ~ u ly That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Sir Thomas a . t'n the Ch c on c .1 -ethbridge, for his able and impartial Prospectus, and further- , T cu ti lars may be had at .the Bs kers, and the several Share ar ' th e city ; of Messrs. King and LaPanal.Brokers Offices in —Jicitors s, ' Gray , s-inn. square ; and of Mr. Clarke, solicitor, Cflais Somerset. • • BILIOUS AND COMPLAIN'tz--.. 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They are likewise peculiarly maculated to correct disorders arising from excesses of the T; de—to restore the • I,o • tie of the Stomach—and to remove woo Comp laints occasioned by Irregularity of the Bowels. hold ils Boxes, at 2s. 9d., 65., I is., and Ws., by Butlers, u se „ i i s ts, 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, 220, Regent-street, (near the Argyle Rooms), London; Waterloo-place, Edinburgh ; Sackville-street, Dublin; and by the principal Medicine venders throughout th e U n i t ed Kingdom. PROTECTOR FIRE ASSURANCE OFFICE. FROM unavoidable Circumstances, it has be come necessary to POSTPONE OPENING the PRO TECTOR OFFICE for the present. I, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. ROYAL-EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE. Established by Royal Charter, in the Reign of King George. the First. June, 1524. PERSONS, whose annual Premiums fall due on the 24th instant, are hereby informed, that Receipts are now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices, over the Royal Exchange and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their re spective Agents in the several Counties ; and the Parties as sured are requested to apply for the Renewal of their Poli cies on or before the 9th of July next, as the usual Fif teen-Days allowed for Payment, beyond the date of each Po licy, will then expire, SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary. ''' s t 'Attendance is given, daily, at the said Offices, for the Assurance of Buildings, Goods, Merchandises, and Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, or while building, from Loss or damage by Fire; and aith for the Assurance of, and granting An nuities on, Lives. • • N.B. Fire Policies will be issued free of Expence to the As sured; where the Annual Premium amounts to "Gs. or 112:- wards. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT- STREET, LONDON. PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES. The DUKE of RUTLAND The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON EARL GREY LORI) BRAYBR LORD KING, & DIREI J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. Francis Coust, Esq. Sir John Doyle, Bart. Sir George thicket, Bart. Sir John Harrington, Batt. Sir S. B. Morland, Bart. M.P. Sir David Ogilby LOOKE c. &c. &c. :TORS. Hon. Thos. Parl:er Praed, Esq. Lieut. Col. Samwell James Sedgwich, Esq. Hon. W. Shirley • Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. Sir Robert Wilson, M.P. &c. &c. &c. CAPITALS, A MILLION STERLING and upwards. l'he PROFITS are divided amongst those who now insure, as - well as the original Members, in just proportion to their respective Payments. In the FIRE-OFFICE, RETURNS, during the last ten years, to the amount of £45,000, have been paid to ail Per sons who have continued insured Seven Years, upon Annual as well as Septennial Policies, and whether they have been Sufferers or otherwise. In the LIFE OFFICE, BONUSES of £l3 Ss. and £26 12s. yer cent. have been divided during the last Fourteen Years; and other very peculiar Adv%tntages are afforded. THE - New River-built Ship CARN Ars-J. .r , BREA CASTLE, of. 600 T ons , THONIAS :4, - .= ' - '.. DAVEY, Commander, late of the 1-TonOurahle i A oh .. East ludiaC ov, o . n iTi a n i g q i ' i s i Stht. e t r l if o e , , r ,d i s i , r e,,c.rifdo.rb id -a n l d . : AUT . , CTA, _4 ll, n -,,- - has room for Three or Four Passengers. " - Application to he made to Mcssrs. IJUDDAII:I' a n d c o . Crosby-s q uare ; to Messrs. SMALLS ana LANE, Old Jewry ; or to JOHN PIRIE and Co. 3, Freeman's C4urt, Comb'll. NEW wEsT INDIA AND COLONIAL MAGAZINE. To-morrow, July 1, will hr pnhlish.d , No.II. of rpHE COLONIAL REGISTER, and WEST' INDIA JOURNAL. Containing—l. On the Agriculture of the Vest ludies -2. Management of an Estate in Barbados-3. Colonial Poetry —4. Cape of Good Hope-5. Bermuda; Governor Lumley and the Le ,, istature—G. History of the Tea Tree-7. Domi nica; Earl of Huntingdon and the House of Assembly -8. Ca nada • Application of Convict Labour to the Construction of Canals in that Country; New Company ; Crown and Reserve' Lands; Cultivation of Flax; Emigration from Irelantl 9. American Tariff—to. Canada and Eat India Trade Act -1 I. Parliamentary Papers-12. Proceedings of the Bermuda House of Assenibly -•- 13. Demerara; Registr ar ' s R epor t o f the Slave Population—H. Statistical Account of the Virgin Islands—Canada and Nova Swia Parliament:at y Intellitzence —Paclitt List—State of the Markets—Premiums at Lloyd's, &c• &c. &c. EUROPEAN REVIEW. This day was published, by E. 11 Pouchee, 7, Brydges_street, Covent-garden, price ss. the First Number of jr 4 HE EUROPEAN RE Vi EW, containing IL the following Original Papers :-Ist. An Account of the Present State of French Historical Literature, by M. (luizot, as preliminary to the criticism of French Historical Works as they issue from the Press ---2d. 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The exterior is finished, and as soon as the hand some front railing issues from the hands of the founder (TuomAs COOKSON,Esq.), the building will be opened to public view. In the interior, the Lecture-room is nearly finished, as is also the Museum. The plain and bold style of the former forms a happy contrast with the lightness and elegance of the Museum, and the more grand and tasteful design of the great room. The scaffold ing erected in the latter for the execution of the work in the ceiling, was removed a few days ago, when the effect—even to those most familiar with it—was most imposing, and excited the warmest approbation of all who witnessed it. The chasteness and elegance of its lengthened unbroken entablature, joined to the grandeur and magnificence of its pannelled and finely arched ceiling, enriched with the finest orna ments and mouldings, in the purest Grecian taste, produce, indeed, an effect of which it is not easy to speak too highly, and afford a happy assurance that this room, when finished, may vie with any room in the kingdom. FOR THE SUN. NEW NAMES. • The Germans form new words, and names of things, by compounding others of their own language ; but in England and France it is agreed that the best and most significant com pounds are formed from the G reek. •New in ventions demand - new name*, and as this is a very inventive age, the appearance of Greek learning is daily increasing in our language. The most beautiful invention, within the memory of living persons, is clearly that of the Panorama, Which gives a knowledge of any - place, as to its situation, aspect, and vicinity, almost equal to actual inspection. It makes us really travellers at home. BARKER, the very ingenious inventOr, anti admirable painter of these views, gave them a name taken fairly .from the Greek ; composed of pan all, and orama, a view or prospect : mean ing that they gave a general or complete view of the - place represented. The evident propriety of the name established it in England, and it soon became current in France and other countries. It was quickly understood that °Nna was the part of the word which signified a view.; and therefore, when other kinds of views were de vised, it was contrived to prefix different Greek terms to denote other kinds of views. Hence we have Cosmorama, from Cosmos, the world, implying various views in every part of the world. More recently we have had Diorama, which has puzzled some persons as to its mean ing ; but which is easily understood w hen the exhibition is seen ; there being two views, or scenes, and no more. Therefore Diorama im plies two views, or a double prospect, just as Diandria and Dionia, in Botany, mean two males or two females. Should the ingenious contriver of these singularly perfect scenes ever display three at once, he Will then, doubtless, call his exhibition Triorama ; like T,'iandria, &c.—All this is very well, and regular enough ; but, on a sudden, a monster of a word assails us in the tr, , w Nahirorama ; made from Nature, English, or Natura, Latin, joined with the Greek orama ; a combination 5o absurd, and contrary to all rules of Etymology, that no scholar can hear it with patience, or persuade himself to pollute his tongue with it. The fact is, that the exhibition is, as to its objects, the same as the Cosmorama; but, :if a new nam e was wanted, Physiorama would mean the same as the present word, and be rightly formed from Phusis na ture, &c. These terms, formed out of two different lan guages, are usually stigunitized under the name of hybrid or mule words, and are generally avoided, though one or two might be found in the modern chemical nomenclature, which is for the most part correct, and formed according to analogy. I will instance only in Hydro-carbonate, in which the first part is Greek,' the latter pure Latin. This, however, can form no justification for Naturorama, when Phy;dorama offered itself so readily. If you think this little discussion may amuse or inform any of your Readers, or if the publica tion of it may tend to get the error corrected, of which I complain, it is quite at your service. ETYAIOLOGIcUS. Last week two brace of young woodcocks were caught in the neighbourhood of Oughtibridge. They were found to have escaped from a nest hard by, which conned six young ones and a bad egg. LITERARY NOTICE. The AGAMEMNON of ASCIIYLUS. Translated by —JOHN SYMAIONS, Esq. A. M. late Student of Christ Church. (Continued.) Under the pressure of business, of another cha racter, we have been compelled to forego, for a longer time than has been agreeable to us, our observations on this superior work ; and now, as soon as we are at liberty, we hasten to resume them, with the conviction that they will, be as ac ceptable to our readers as they are gratifying to ourselves. We commenced •• our extracts from Mr. SY*. moNs's pages, with the . opening speech of the drama, not for its relative excellence, but because it was the first offered to us, and because it con stituted that point of the action from which its seqUells deduced. On the first appearance of the fires, which were to announce - the capture of Troy, the watchman hurries with the important intelligence to Clytemnestra ; and she imme diately orders the temples to be opened, and the altarS to be kindled ; thus proclaiming to the ci tizens. of her capital the arrival of prosperous tidings, and calling upon them to unite in a general rejoicing. In the meantime, im mediately on the departure of the.. watchman, the chorus, consisting of the elders of the city, make their entry .on the stage ; and amid their reflexions on the long. continuance of the war ; the omens which had signalized its commencement ; the predictions of CALCHAS, and the sad sacrifice at Aulis of the Royal Virgin,, IPHIGENIA. They express surprise at the re joicings, which were prevailing throughout the city, under Me command and by the example of the QUEEN. On her advancing to them, they question .her,.with much respect, as to the cause of what had excited their surprise ; and she answers them by saying, that the city of Priam was taken. In the short dialogue -which ensues, the Chorus inquired on what evidence CLYTEM. NESTRA asserted this important: fact, and at what time the memorable. event had - happened. To this she replies, that she spoke on the most cer tain authority, and that the hostile city was taken on the precedingnight. Their surprise is now raised to its height, and they very naturally exclaim— Kau 71; -rob' kocoir av aryEXv.Nl4axtic ; " But how ? messenger could come so fast;" The QuEEN's explanation of the wonder imme diately follows ; and we shall extract her speech on the occasion, as exhibiting a very strong burst of poetry, supremely brilliant in the original, and scarcely of inferior splendour in Mr. S's. translation. "Twas Vulcan: sending forth the blazing light From Ida's grove, and thence along-the-way Hither the estafette of fire ran quick: Fire kindled fire, and beacon spoke. to beacon, Ida to Lenltios, and the Ifcrnman ridge Next Athos, craggy mountain, Jove's own steep, Took the great torch held out by Vulcan's isle. Standing sublime, the seas to overcast, Shone the great strength of the transmitted lamp; And the bright heraldry of burning pines Shone with a light all golden like the sun Rising at midnight on Macistus' watchtower : Nor did Macistus not bestir him soon, Oppress'd with sleep, regardless of his watch ; But kindled fires, and sent the beacon blaze To distance far beyond Euripus' flood, To watchmen mounted on Alessapian hills; They answer'd blazing, and pais'd on the news. The grey heath burning on the mountain top. And now the fiery, unobscured lamp, At distance far shot o'er Asopus' plain ; And up the steep soft rising, like the moon, Stood spangling bright upon Cithreron's hill. There rose, to give it conduct on 'the road, Another meeting fire ; nor did the watch Slaep at the coming of the stranger light, But burnt a greater blaze than those before : Thence o'er the lake Gorgopis stoop'd the light, And to the mount of lEgiplancton came, And bad the watch shine forth, nor scant the blaze. They burning high with might unquenchable, Send up the waving beard of fire aloft, Mighty and huge, so as to cast its blaze Beyond the glaring promontory steep Athwart the gulf Saronic all on fire; Thence stoop'd the light, andreach'd our neighbour watchtow'r, Arachne's summit; and from thence, derived Here to the Atrida3's palace, comes this light From the long lineage of the Idrean fire. Such is the course of the lamp bearing games, When torches run in solemn festivals One from another, in succession fill'd, And the last runner and the first is victor. Such are my,proofs, and such the signal news, Sent by my consort from the plains of Troy. To different passages of this speech are ap pended some very learned and important Notes. But of these we must postpone the notice, till we can find leisure for the resumption of our in teresting subject. M. FLATTERS, the sculptor of the bust of GRETRY, at the Theatre Feydean, has just re ceived from London the mask taken from the face of Lord Bynox, at the moment of his death, at Missolonghi, on the 19th of April last. This celebrated sculptor will execute a bust of that illOstrious poet from this model, and intends' going to England to execute that of Sir WALTER SCOTT, which has been alSo demanded of him.— (Paris Paper.) _ _ A greater number of houses and warehouses are now in the progress of building in Liverpool than at any period within reeollectiou. FOR THE SUN. ON SINGULARITY. Mit. EDlTOR—Although there are many het-- .sons, that aini at singularity, yet in its nature it . is far from pleasing, and is pretty universally condemned. Every, one is more or less depend ent upon the established laws of society, frotn• which it cannot depart, without exposing himself to the disapprobation. of even those that may feel amused by his eccentricity. The love. of Singu-. laxity originates, indeed, in .pride or in vanity; and is more . commonly. the mimic of ignorance and of presumption, than of any real superiority of mental endowments or acquirements. But even the man of avowed merit or learning rather detracts from his merit, than he adds to it, by the wilfully _neglecting of the common forms oU society. Accustomed to live more in the solitude of his study than in the busy haunts of life, he naturally contracts a certain degree of awkward ness and of abstraction, which he should endea vour to overcome. The world is, indeed inclined to punish, and perhaps with too much severity, the errors of the persons who imagine that their knowledge of important matters . is sufficient to compensate for their ignorance of those of a more trilling nature. This is not the case, nor should it be so. Society is a sort of republic, in which all the citizens roust be, or rather must appear to be, pretty nearly upon an equal footing. Every' superiority must be carefully concealed, or be exhibited only under such a form as that it can alarm none of those by whom it may be perceiv ed. lience the opinions, the customs, and the practices of the many, must be respected - by the few ; -for, however repugnant they may be to the notions of the latter, as they have met with the approbation of the greater portion of their fel low men, and constitute, as it. were, the funda mental laws of society, they cannot be openly violated without exposing whoever does violate them to well merited censure. In short, the man who expects that his fellow men should al low him to set established customs at defiance, and exacts for his own actions and notions a deference he is not disposed to pay to those of others, may be tolerated, but he must not hope ever to be sincerely and fully approved. In whatever manner a man differs from other men, he must, of necessity, be regarded by thews. as better or as worse. If the former, he may gain admiration, but he will scarcely obtain love, and few, if any, men can sincerely wish to please by. inferiority. Whatever outward approbation may be given to singularity., it is but very seldom' that it fails being regarded without something of reprehension. . !n, persons devoid of intellectual powers, it is most readily and generally con demned, whilst in those possessed of superior abilities and attainments, it is regarded as a cloud which dims a lustre which our eyes could not otherwise be capable of supporting. But if singularity he thus reprehensible in per-. sons of superior abilities, how much more so must it not be in those that are placed on a level with the generality of mankind ? There is something certainly greatly like presumption' in any one concluding his merit to be such, that it may either require, or justify, singularity. Pride, which reigns more or less in every human breast, will not tamely suffer_ one who has no claims whatever to superiority to break . .the rules which society has established . with the common consent of all men, and to which : all men, consequently, bow down with perfect submission. It is evident, indeed, that any violation of established forms implies a contempt for general opinion - and of common censure, and an arrogant appeal from general laws to private judgment, which, while it arouses the pride of all men and excites their disgust, exposes him who thus differs from others, without posses sing any the least advantage over them, to the galling shafts of ridicule, and to the datiger of being hooted back into the common path, from which he ought never to have departed. There are, however, some instances in which it is noble, and glorious, and praiseworthy, to stand alone, and openly to brave the common opinion. In such eases a fixed and immoveable determination not to be led astray by the ex amples of others, is the mark of a laudable forth tude, and well merits the praises of all that are good and virtuous. Thus, to be religious amongst Infidels, to be sober amongst those that are ad. dieted to drinking, to be studious. amongst th e idle, or virtuous amongst the profligate,--ar e so many proofs of a mind superior to the blame of men, or to the tyranny of custom and of example, and capable of braving ridicule and persecution-. in the cause of virtue. A. P. DEATH HY FIGHTING. -- Information was yes terday given to the Sitting Magistrate at Mary. lebone Office., Mr. G RIFFITHS, by Mr. Nonni, a surgeon, of - Gloucester-place, of the death of a young man in consequence of injuries received in a pitched battle fought by him on Sunday last, with a man of the name of Fish, residing in Salis bury Mews, New-road. The cause of the bactie was not stated ; but it appeared that they fought in Quebec-fields, and that the battle was'very stubbornly contested.. The friends of the de ceased had given no notice to the Coroner of the melancholy occurrence, but had intended, with out inquiry being instituted, to bury the body.— This intention was however frustrated by the Magistrate, who ordered the burying to be de ferred till an inquisition had been taken on the bOdy ; and also gave directions for the appre hension of me to abide its result. Fish in the meanti me