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Mr. HumE brought forward his proposition last Ilight to enter a Resolution in the Journals of the house, declaring Members having a direct inte rest in any subject of debate disqualified from I'4:ging. After an interesting discussion the ques tion was lost, but in the course of it some facts ‘tere disclosed, which we trust will have their ` ll . l e weight with the public in estimating the merits, not to say the demerits of the various Sc hemes for new associasions, railways, &c. which 1147 e engaged attention for the last seven or eight 11101101 s. Mr. GURNEY mentioned a case which °c curred to himself, and we doubt not that many Ot her members might have adduced similar in stances of att em pt s to secure, by corrupt means, t ) I rliamentary influence, in support of the various il ''culations of the day. Perhaps the House has t°ll e Wisely in not legislating upon the subject, i.l °' it seems doubtful whether there are not great leclt4 litntional objections—but to the suggestion t Mr. PEEL, to challenge the vote of any Mem beri suspected of having a personal or pecuniary i lt erest, there can be no objection, and we trust Iv . lat it will be resorted to whenever necessary. e think too that Honourable Members will ut tll discharg e th e ir duties to their Constitu t4 and to the Country, if they hesitate for one at°trneut to di sc l ose t h e par ti es t o an y corru pt °. P t to secure the vote of a Member by the tliti er Of shares. We lament that Mr. GURNEY kith not last n i g ht ena bl e th e H ouse t o v i s it be just repro b at i on t h e sc h eme w hi c h i t h a d 4rietl a ttempted to p r omote, by the i m p u d en t : i disgracef u l means to w hi c h h e a ll u d e d ; b ut 4 110 doubt similar offers were made to other i lt em bers, we trust that amongst them one may ( Aind less influenced by unnecessary and 111 13r 0 — er ze4i v delicacy, f or one more s i ncere l y an d ti "sly attached to every constitutional prin itiPdle) Or m ore feelingly alive to the honour and li ,:Penden ce o f P arliament than Mr. GURNEY, 1 10 not hesitate to say there is not. ' 4: iract INDIA. a Private Letter, dated Madras, Oct. 9, ] 824 :- r We have now five Europe an an d twe l ve Na ti Regiments on Foreign Service, three of the tner and ten of the latter at Rangoon, and two r the former and two of the latter at Chittagong. nit ', "se preparations are making in Bengal for mnie neing the war when the rains are over. Sir .P A GET goes in person, via Chittagong. At Rangoon they are still very unhealthy, and much dissatisfied. An expedition of H. M. 89th ltegt. and 7th Native Infantry had sailed under Col. MILES for Mergni and the Ports to the South ward, and where I suppose they will meet with little or no resistance. We have had a most unhealthy season here, and the deaths are very numerous, and many of them awfully sudden. We have just been dispatching our Na pore force to relieve our friends the Bengalees, who gave it up with much reluctance. Lieut.-Col. Mc. Dowall commands. Capt. Hunter, Assistant Adjutant-General. - Steele, Assistant Quartermaster-General. Crokat, Paymaster. - Pace, Persian Interpreter. - Polwliele, Commissary of Stores. FORCE. 1 Troop Horse Artillery. 8 Regiments Light Cavalry. 2 Companies of Artillery. 2 European Regiments. Rifle Corps—Native Infantry. 2 Battalions of Ditto. The Kulladghee force has been sent on to Shaolapoor to relieve the Bombay troops, going to Asseerghur and Mhou. The Paris Papers of Tuesday are almost en tirely filled with debates on the Law of Indem nity. The Moniteur quotes from the Journal des Debuts the articles relative to the amnesty said to have been proposed by the King of SPAIN, which we published yesterday. The following are ex tracts from the Etal.:— " PARIS, MARC:I 1. " The Journal du Commerce reports, after a letter from Bremen inserted in the Constitutionnel two days ago, and which evidently comes from Paris, that the Cabinet of S; Petersburgh has replied to the communication made by Mr. Stratford Can ning on the part of England, that Russia would act according to her own views and interests, with respect to the affairs of the East, in the same manner as England had acted, according to its own peculiar interests, with respect to South America. " We are well aware of the degree of confidence which the correspondence of the C'onstitutionnel merits, especially with regard to Russia : witness a certain famous proclamation which it ascribed to the Emperor, and which was a base fabrication. Its correspondence at present is not more correct. The conduct of Russia for many years past proves, that it acts only accord ing to general interests, and in concert with its allies. What ever answer it may have given, we do not doubt but that it is conformable to the principles which have uniformly guided its policy for these ten years past." FRF.NCIT FUNDS.—Parrs, MARCIE B.—Jouiss. of the 22d of Sept. closed on the sth of March, at 106 f. 15c. ; Jouiss. of the 22d of March opened at 103 f. 75 c ., c l ose d at 103 f. 40c. ; —Bank Stock, 2,osof.—Neapolitan 5 per Cents, Certificate Falconnet, Olf. 35c.—Rente d'Espagne, 20}f—Royal Spanish Loan, 11123, 59g.—Exchange on London, One Month, 25f.; three ditto, 24f. 85c.—(Cours Authentique.) The Dutch Papers received this morning are chiefly filled with the lists of subscriptions for the sufferers by the late floods. AMSTERDAM, Mancn B.—Exchange on London, n. 9. Two months, 39. 7. The Nuremberg Correspondent of the 3d inst. gives, under the authority of a letter from Pera, the following particulars of the plan of the Turkish campaign to be under taken in the spring against the Greeks, for the execution of which preparations are now making. According to this plan the Porte will employ no less than four armies to subdue the Morea and the continent of Greece. The first of the to armies is to consist of the troops assembled along the Asiatic coast, and will be conveyed from thence to the Pel , )- ponnesus in European transports, escorted by the Turkish fleet. The Capitan Pacha, it is said, will not take the chief command of this fleet, in order to avoid all misun derstanding with Ibrahim Pacha, to whom the supreme direction of the entire expedition against the Greeks will be confided, and this in conformity with a Finnan of the Sultan long ago addressed to Ibrahim Pacha, and which is now to be renewed. The second army, under the command of Ibrahim in person, is to consist of the Egyptian troops, and to land in the Mores. The third and most numerous army is to be orga nized by Rechib Pacha at Larissa, and to consist ot'all the troops that catrbe spared in Rumelia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and on the Danube. A part of the garrison of Constantinople is to join this army, the nucleus of which will be formed of the troops now in Thessaly, which made the last campaign under Dervisch Pacha. The fourth army, which is intended to co-ope rate with the first, is to consist entirely of Albanian troops, for which purpose negociations are now carrying on with the Albanian Chiefs. This latter army, to be commanded by the Pacha of Scutari, will advance to Etolia, while Rechib Pacha penetrates into Livadia. After the subjec. tion of these two Provinces, all these troops are to be conveyed to the Mores. In this plan of the campaign, which certainly seems to have much to recommend it, neither the Greek naval force, nor the Greek army, is taken into the account. The Greeks are no more afraid of the Pacha of Scutari than of the Capitan Bey. They hope to be a match for Rechib and Ibra him, who cannot co-operate with each other. Brussels Papers of Wednesday reached us last night. The Session of the States-General closed on Friday ast. The Royal Speech was read by the Minister of the In terior. It congratulated the Chamber, generally, on the state of the country, and on their legislative labours, and expressed the deepest regret at the melancholy consequences of the late inundations. It is stated that the KING had in a great mea sure recovered from his indisposition. The Coronation of tl►e King of FRANCE is postponed to the 15th of May. The King of the NETHERLANDS has concluded two Treaties relative to the demarcation of the frontiers—one with France, the other with Ha nover. A private letter from Naples of the 9 1 s t Feb. states, that His Neapolitan Majesty has demand ed that the Austrian Army of O ccupa ti on may be withdrawn from his kingdom, declaring that he is desirous of confiding the protection of his subjects. It will throne and his rights to his own be recollected, that this Monarch h as a l ways shewn a repugnance to the occupation. The Ann arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday last from Maranham ; sailed the 22d of January. All was tranquil at that date. We have authority to state that th e S PEAKER ' S Parliamentary Levees w ill not take pla ce t hi s Session, in conse quence of the death of a near relation. OFFICIAL REPORT OS THE STATE OF GREECE. Four years have passed away since the Greeks began the war of Independence; their enemy has been discom fited wherever he has appeared. They began this struggle for freedom, for the most part, with the rudest weapons of warfare. They are now in possession of arsenals, and have possessed Viemselves of the important parts of the country, r•hich they have gained by their courage from the worn-out despotism of -their old masters. Prodigies of valour, not often exhibited even among nations the most advanced in Civilisation and the most perfect in the art of war, have signalised the triumphant strug= ;le of this nation, to whom their oppressors had even forbidden the use of - arms. Their continual successes—the distinction they have gained in the career of military glory—the determi nation they have manifested to deliver themselves from the ty ranny that bowed them to the earth—the manly and successful resistance they have made to this tyranny—all concur to demon- ;trate that it must be a vain attempt ever to bring them again u•:der t!ae 'Turkish yoke. ' The explanation, however, of the true cause which led to the astonishing and unexpected results of which we have .just spoken, may prove still more decidedly the impossibility that that the Turkish banners should ever again wave over the plains of Greece. A hatred of the Mussulman power worked in the heart of the Greeks for centuries ; the recollections of the ancient glory of the Hellenists, and the vexatious proceed ings of the Ottoman Government, had made this unfortunate people at length resolve to rescue themselves from the igno minious bondage which had so long stained their lineage and disgraced their name. From that moment all the population were committed, not only with respect to the ussulman Go vernment, hut every individual Turk. The Greeks of all classes have long felt that they Mitsreither triumph or be ex terminated. Now, as it is impossible to destroy a whole people, the Greeks have succeeded, and will succeed to the end. Besides, the great resources with the Ottoman empire com manded, anti which gave the Turks their immense superiority at the beginning of this struggle, have all been successively call. ed forth and exhausted in the different attempts they have made during the four campaigns against the independence of Greece. All these eflbrts have been hi , vain. In 1821 the Sultan brought forward all his disposable forces; but, harassed on all sides, they were obliged, at the commence ment of winter, to evacuate the redeemed territory of the tri umphant Greeks. In 1822, instructed by misfortune, the Divan combined their sea and land forces ; and profiting, at the same time, by the rich spoils of the famous Ali-Pacha of Ja nina, they were able to place at the disposal of their most skilful General Chourschid-Pacha, a considerable army, which began its operations on a plan devised by some apostate Chris tians to reduce Greece. The naval forces cruised round the coasts, ready to favour the operations on land. The design was to strike terror by some powerful blow, or by several simultaneous and well-combined attacks; and as soon as consternation should be infused into the Greeks, to offer them an amnesty, anti thus at once stifle the insurrection. In pursuance of this scheme, besides several bodies of troops who were marching in other di rections, an army of 32,000 men penetrated into the Pelopon nessus, and a body of 8,000 troops landed at Patras joined them. All is over with Greece, was the cry even of its friends. In a few days, however, the Greeks in the memorable battles of Argos and St. George's, slew the greater part of that army ; the affeir of Acrata destroyed the remainder, and riot a man of those 40,000 Turks returned out of Peloponnessus. An Alba nian army of nearly 18,000 men, under the command of the skilful and brave Albanian, Omar Vrioni, penetrated into Etolia, and besieged 3lissolonghi. Of all that army, the flower of Lower and Leases Albania, 3,000 men only regained Epirus. On the other hand, the vessels of war belonging to the Archi pelago blew up two T ur ki s h fl ag - s hips, and destroyed several vessels in the canal of Scio and in the port of Tenedos ; they have proved that it is not masses of wood, but men, that gain naval victories. The Government expresses itself in the fol lowing manner in its solemn declaration at the congress of Astros on the results of this campaign :—" Of the neunerous hordes gathered into masses front Europe, Asia, and Africa, main to subjugate Greece, more than 80.000 have, thanks to the courage of our armies, perished on the soil they came to drench with blood." In 1823 the Porte turned their eyes upon Mustaplia, Pacha of Seodra, in Upper Albania. The Albanians are reckoned the best troops of the Turkish Empire ; the Scodrians are the bravest and most warlike of all the Albanians. Among seve ral tribes of the Scodrians, even the women in their journeys go armed' with pistols at their girdles. illustapha Pacha justified the choice of the :Sultan by his courage and perseverance. flow ever tremendous the nocturnal attack of the immortal Marcos Botzaris (an attack equal, perhaps superior, to that of Leoni das at Thermopylte),that intrepid Albanian continued his march upon 3lissolonghi, an enterprise which every other Mussul man would have abandoned. The prayers of ell the officers of his Staff beseeching him, as they saw his army wasting every day, to raise the siege, did not shake his firmness. All his ef forts, however, only brought on the destruction of more than two-thirds cf his army; the remainder returned to their country in a deplorable condition. The Porte, seeing, on one hand the two most skilful and influential Albanian Chiefs, placed as it were hors de combat, and on th e o th er a ll the Eu ropean forces exhausted in useless endeavours, turned their views, in 1824, towards Egypt, and succeeded in engaging the Pacha in their struggle against the Greeks. Asia was also re quired to contribute according to its means. The regular army of Al ehemed Ali Pacha, to the number of about 15,000 men, and 300 sail of vessels, composed of the forces of Egypt and Barbary, joined to European transports, set sail from Alexan dria, under the command of Ibrahim Pacha. The Capitan Pacha himself had already entered the Archipelago with more than 200 sail. The Asiatic army was assembled on the coast opposite Samos, and ready to be embarked • another army was assembled under the orders of Dervish Pacha, in the plains of Thessalia. The whole of this mass of combined forces seemed on the point of swallowing up the Archipelago and the whole continent of Greece. In the mean time, a part of the Greek fleet, to the amount of 30 sail, directed its course to Samos; there it beat the Turkish fleet at different times, and pursued anti burnt a part, which comp e ll e d it to take shelter in the ports of Asia. The Asiatic army, being terrified, instantly disbanded. The same fate awaited the Egyptian fleet ; being beaten wherever they met the Greeks, dispersed and burnt, it only found safety in It may perhaps be thought that all these advantages of the Greeks arise only from their having to deal with a barbarous and impotent enemy; yet several European States, who keep up a navy more or less considerable, such as Naples, Sardinia, Spain, &c. still pay tributes to the Barbary Regencies, whilst the Greeks, who as yet only reckon in their navy vessels of commerce armed for war, have a most sovereign contempt for the squadrons of the Regencies. In the assemblage of the naval Mussulman force they look upon them as nothing. In 1823, wishing to make a diversion against these squadrons, they con. tented themselves with sending two Ilydriot fast-sailing brigs, in order to annoy the commercial shipping of Barbary. This they executed during an entire summer, in spite of all the na val threes of three I)eys. They attacked every merchant vessel which dared to show itself upon the seas. If one of the Eu ropean States tributary to the Barbarians had the means of the Greeks, no doubt they would obtain from those ruffians all the concessions they could desire. A thousand other facts, which the limits of a Memorial cannot admit, prove that the Greek navy possesses a peculiar strength, in consequence of the moral energy and the daily habits and genius of its seamen, ofgreater efficiency than mere masses of wood. The conclusion to be drawn from the facts we have related is, that all the efforts of the Turks have only served to procure Greece new triumphs, and that the Porte has at last exhausted all its resources ; Omar Vrioni and the Pacha of Scodra, after their bold and fatal at tempt, c.in no longer undertake any enterprize, however unim portant; and the Pacha of Egypt will, doubtless, refuse to co operate in an effectual manner in the approaching campaign. The same events prove, that the more the Turks enfeeble themselves, the more the Greeks gain in becoming more and more accustomed to war. There is, however, an other still more important fact, which we have not yet touched upon ; it is that of the finances, the chief sinew of war. From die first outset the Greek Revolution in itself struck a fatal blow to that powerful resource of the T ur ki s h Empire, the insurgent iinsieperinvtinpg it of those revenues w hi c h i t drew forth from provinces ; the taxes of the Peloponnessus alone, amounted to 08,000,000 francs. The Greeks were the soul of the Ottoman Empire : the Turk, in their pride, only deign to learn the trade of arms, anti are in that empire fit for nothing else but garrison soldiers; it was the Greeks who tilled the soil, trafficked, navigated, exercised every species of in dustry, and who, in a word, vivified the East ; and without that intelligent anti a ctive people, the empire o f O smanlis would long since have been nothing more than a lif e l ess car case; so that the insurrection of a part of the people h as struc k the finances of th e P or t e with a parallysis, great er t h an that caused by the Vast six years' war with the Buasians. In the short space of the present war the Turkish Government have thrice adulterated the circulating medium, which is reduced to one-fourth of its intrinsic value. It is this that occasions the Turks to keep on g ood t erms with that part of the G ree k po pulation which is still su bj ec t to their empire ; it has a l so ma d e them repel the proposal of th e general massacre of th at popu lation, a p roposa l t h at , i n 1821, was often debat e d i n the Divan. ~~-'~t .- ~-- - 14 7 T 444. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. The Marchioness of fie;WO;CientertainCd a large circle of distinguished fashionables yesterday evening, at her house in Manchester-square. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond entertained a distin guished party at dinner yesterday,, at her house, Waterloo place. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson Stuart entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday. The Marquis of Hertford has issued cards of invitation for an entertainment on the 23d instant, at his house, Piccadilly. Mrs. Tighe has issued cards of Invitation for an evening party, on Sunday next, at her house in St. James's-place. Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., had a grand dinner party yesterday, at Isis house in St. James's-square. The Princess SorntA visited the Duke of YonK yesterday. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. Caunitinc.E, 31Artcti 10.—At a congregation on Tuesday last, a petition from this University to both Houses of Parlia ment against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics, was voted by 70 to 38. At the same congregation, the Rev. Robert Jefferson, 8.D., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, was admitted Doctor in Divinity ; and Henry Revell Revell, of Catharine-hall, was admitted Bachelor of Arts. The Chancellor's gold medals for the two best proficients in classical learning among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were yesterday adjudged to Mr. John Frederick Isaacson, of St. John's College, and Mr. Richard Williamson, of Trinity College. The Vice-Chancellor has appointed Mr. Thomas Johnson University Marshal, in the room of the late Mr. John Challis. The Rev. John Haler Stephenson, B.A. of Trinity Col lege, was on Friday last instituted to the rectory of Dangle, Essex, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Robert Faithful. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATE or THE ODDS.—B] RIDDLE: 2 to 1 agst Rufus 5 to 1 agst Bolero 7 to 1 agst Sorcery ;TTIN G-ROO3l, MAncit 10 WORTH. to 1 agst Rufus 17 to 2 agst Muleteer 10 to 1 agst Bolero 12 to 1 agst Webb colt 9 to 2 agst Aline 9 to 1 agst Sorcery 10 to 1 agst Pastime I) E 11 DONCASTER 9 to 1 agst Memnon 12 to 1 agst Cleveland 14 to 1 agst Redgauntlet 15 to 1 agst Androgens 2:: to 1 agst Homer HUNTING IN 'MEETINGS OF HOUNDS : 7 to 1 agst Pastime 10 to 1 agst Actmon 10 to 1 agst Elizabeth tITY. 115 to 1 asst Phantom c., dam by Rubens 25 to 1 agst Illacdoff [ 40 to 1 agst 111r.Udny's colt. KS. 11 to 1 agst Attica 12 to 1 agst Tontine. gi le, . t i ~ x i- , ~.,,:....,::, ~, z,, . . 4 l ') l i op i { !A.., , • ' t.,,,. _.., .4.r itir. , '-' > ; • • 11 1 3':4- % 4* ,; IA a 6 ril. , , a ST. I. EG i: it . 30 to 1 agst Brigand 35 to 1 agst Aldennan 42 to 1 agst Dare Devil 50 to 1 agst Crow-catcher 100 to 1 agst Bob Logic. TELLICENCE. IN THE•' ENSUING WEEIZ. Sir B. Graham's Hounds, on Monday, at Sheriff hales; Wednesday, at Battlesfield ; Thursday, at Lee Bridge ; Sa turday, at Mont ford Bridge. Sir Richard Puleston's Hounds, on Monday, at Gallantry Bank; Wednesday, at Knoulton Bridge; Friday, at Duck ington. The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Shipbrook Bridgc Wednesday, at Toft Hall ; Thursday, at Weaver Hall ; Ba. turday, at Delamere House. 31r. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Shirley Park; Thurs. day, at Swarkstone Bridge ' • Saturday, at Elmhurst. Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Aversicy Wood ; Tuesday, at Abbott's Ripton ; Friday, at Fineshed Ball. A public dinner is to be given in Edinbugh to Mr. BROUGHAM. on Tuesday, the sth of April, on which day Mr. BROUGHAM arrives in that city. CREDITORS OF MARS}! AND Co.-There was another meeting yesterday, but nothing new or interesting oc curred. The Bow-street Office is to be removed to that part of the new street which is to terminate opposite St. Mar tin's Church. BiGGLEswAnu, Mancx 7.—f beg to inform you, with extreme regret, that the ancient family seat of Sir JOHN MONTAGU BURGOYNE, Bart., at Sutton Park, three miles from this, was entirely burnt to the ground on Wednesday night last, 2d inst. It is particularly unfortunate, as the house had undergone it thorough repair during last summer, and had a large sum of money expended upon it. It is a great loss to the neighbourhood. VAIL3.—The practice of giving vails to ser vants was grown to such excess about fifty years ago, that that eminent character Johns HANWAY wrote a tract, ex pressly on the subject, entitled " Eight Letters to the Duke of --, on the Custom of Vails-giving in England."._ Mr. Hanway being once politely reproached by a friend in a high station for not coming oftener to dine with him, " In deed, my Lord (replies he), I cannot offord it." It was Sir Thomas Waldo that first put Mr. Hanway on writ itllviasthe of N - ing respecting , i a t ild S o hn Timothyh i a l i d s dine hou d s e w co D n u t rkie buting to the support and insolence of a train of servants who lined the hall; and at last put a crown into the hand of the cook, who returned it, saying, " Sir, I do not take silver." " Don't you, indeed !" said the worthy Baronet, putting it in his pocket, " then I do not give gold." MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—The neighbourhood of the Westminster-road has been involved in the greatest agi tation since yesterday morning, in consequence of an elderly Gentleman, said to hold a Commission in the Army, lavi violent hands upon himself, at his house, Hercules-buildings. He had lately shown considerable attentions to a respectable young lady, and frequently would return home in a most dejected state of mind. Prior to the perpetration of the horrid deed, he ordered the servant to prepare breakfast, and on leaving the room she heard the report of a pistol. An alarm was made, and on entering the room the unfort u n a t e ge ntl eman was found with his head shattered in a most dreadful manner, and his brains scattered about the room. Information of the circumstance was forwarded to the Coroner for the Inquest to be held on the body. INQUEST.—:On 'Wednesday an inquest was held at the Crown and Sceptre public-house, at Brixton, before S. ROGERS, Esq., one of the Magistrates of the county, who undertook the office of Coroner, in conse quence of the decease of Mr. Jemmett, on the body of a man named Cornelius Seeker, who lost his life under the fol lowing circumstances :—On Monday last, about 5 o'clock in the morning, as an inhabitant of Croydon was on his way to town, he observed a man lying in a ditch, half way between the former place and Streatham, whom he at first thought was asleep ; however, on approaching the spot, he discovered part of the deceased's head to be buried in the mud; and upon dragging him up on the bank, he appeared to be quite dead. Surgical assist ance was procured, but it was of no avail. The deceased, it was stated, had been observed the previous night, in a state of in toxication, near Kennington-turnpike, and having fallen into the ditch, on his road home, was suffocated. On the unfortu nate man's person were found upwards of 40 counterfeit shil lings and sixpences, all of which were . wrapped up in ti ssue pa per, and sewed within the lining of his jacket. One of the Jury_ men mentioned that the deceased had been apprehended some time ago on a charge of passing bad money, but was discharged in consequence of the absence of a material witness. A verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. A very serious accident nearly took place at the Sunderland Theatre, on Saturday night last, between the play and farce. A deuce smoke pervaded the whole house, and the people from the gallery called out, " Put the fire out,—put the fire out !" A wood partition in the staircase leading to the gallery, was at last discovered to be in flames; but fortunately for the gallery audience, the door-keepers succeeded in extin guishing the fire. ' I'llE Tif EA.Tit ES. DatiRY4AANE.—The Comedy of A .New Wav to Pay Old Debts, in which Mr. KEAN perform ed the part of Sir Giles Overreach, and had the usual applause of those who admire his acting, was last night followed by a new Farce, entitled Change Partners, The plot was founded upon the love of two servants for each other, but be ing unable to write, the man servant persuades his good-natured master to write love letters for him. The maid servant is equally lucky in havl ing an indulgent mistress, who assumes the pen in her favour. The real writers of the letters are so captivated by the style of each other that they. conceive they are enamoured with persons of in ferior rank. But a denouement, of course, takes place, and wedlock follows. The piece. by no means intrinsically strong, but it is whimsical and amusing, and received great advantage from the acting of WALLACit, HARLEY, KNIGHT, and Mrs. YATES. It expe rienced some opposition, but not such as to be of a formidable nature, and when it is under stood that it was written by Mrs. ORDER, the Actress, she is too great a favourite to apprehend. any persevering hostility. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—The public , wena last night treated with many new .speciineps of the inexhaustible powers of Mr. MATHEWS, in the discovery and delineatio❑ of character. The entertainment entitled " Mr. Mathews At home," commenced for the season, and it is but justice to him to say, that lie was indeed perfectly at home in every character that he represented. Ile had many admirable strokes at the several Companies who speculate upon the credulity of the Public. Chemists, Artists, Old Men, Landlords, Waiters, cum multi: aliis, &c., pass in review, and all powerfully operate upon the risible muscles of his audience. The house was crowded at a very early period, and Mr. MATHEWS opened his Memorandum Book, as his present entertainment is styled, so much to the gratification of the au dience that every leaf of it was pregnant with point, wit, and humour. Aaarr.t. Rooms.—Madame C.tTAI.ANI gave the second of her series of Concerts last night. The Room was well attended, and the Syren ex erted herself with the same powerful effect as heretofore. Her execution of Itnonc's Varia tions, composed for the Violin, afforded a won derful proof of vocal flexibility. S.►rio displayed all his usual taste in the songs assigned to him. The whole was well received, and the fair warbler is likely to receive an ample reward for her surprising exertions. AIERCANTILE SHIPPING. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 9.--11 7 ind S.S.W.--Arrived the Caroline, Bibby, from Alexandria; she saved 14 soldiers from the wreck of the Kent East Indianian, having fallen in with her about two hours after she blew up, the rest had perished. (Note.)—" The above vessel is on Lloyd's Books the 2nd of March, as having arrived off Liverpool the 28th of February, and the accident of the Kent took place the lit of March ; there must therefore be some mistake in the name of the vessel, or in announcing her previous arrival." Also arrived the Ann, Ridley, from Maranham, sailed the 20th of January ; the Eliza. Ann was to sail in 4 days, the Jubilee on the lith, and the George, Wellington, Minerva, and the Jessie, in 12 days, all for this Port. DEAL, Maltcn 10.—Wind S.W.—Came down from the River and remain the following outward-hound, viz. :—Wil ham Shand, Kenn ; Pigett, Hodnet: Levant Packet, Candy : Melpomene, Johnson Margaret, Henderson ; Barbadoes Planter, Redman ; Congress, Goddard ; John Dougan, Leggct; Two Brothers, Woolacate ; and Lady Hamilton, Maughan. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind Westerly.—Arrived the Thalestris, Wallace, from St. Domingo in 46 days. P ot back the Madras, F a y ner , f or Madras. Sailed the Morgiana. (late sloop of war sold out the service), for London. FALMOUTH, MARcx 9.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrived the Meteor steam-packet, from Plymouth, with cloatiiing, &c. for the troops saved front the Kent East Indiaman ; also the fol lowing outward-bound vessels from the Downs, viz.: —Bri tannia, Reiley ; Providence, Wilson • Swift. Pyne ; and Louisa, Burn s . S a il e d t h e Harmony, Ifoss, for Hamburgh. COWES, MARCH 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Hero, Poppin, from Batavia in 122 days—spoke on the 24th January, in lat. 1. 24. N. long. 21. 44. W., the Duke of Lancaster, Hammery, from Liverpool to Calcutta. ....KENT EAST INDIAMAN.—The Carunnr, Capt. BIEEEY, from Alexandria, Egypt, has just passed up to the quarantine ground. She has on board fourteen soldiers saved from the wreck of the Kent. Capt. Bibbey states, we have been inform ed, that he saw the explosion of the ship, and made all sail in the direction of the place where the awful catastrophe occurred.' In about two hours afterwards he fell in with floating pieces of the wreck, from which he rescued the 14 soldiers mentioned above. They had, we understand, been blown up with the ship, and, falling into the sea, clung to the fragments of float ing wreck. The poor fellows were nearly exhausted when . , snatched from a watery grave by the providential approach of the Caroline. We need not add, th a t th ey were treate d with every attention by Captain Bibbey and his crew. The remain der of the unfortunate people who were on board the Kent when she blew up, amounting to upwards of seventy souls, all pe rished.—( Liverpool Courier, March 9.) THE MARK ETS. CORN EXCHANGE, MAncii 11. The arrivals of most kinds of Grain this week are tolerably large. There is a demand for superfine Wheat at :Monday's prices, but other sorts still continue to sell heavily. Barley re mains dull in sale, unless the parcels are prime. Beans soll very heavily, but not lower. In Pease there is no varia tion. Oats are plentiful, and hardly maintain the terms of last Monday. _ AnnivAts.—English Wheat, s,6so—Barley, 9,Boo—Oats, .3,soo—lrish Oats, 15,900 qrs.—Flour, 7,050 sacks. SMITHFIELD MAMET, MAncx 10. The following is an accurate Report of the numbe7s and prices at Smithfield Market this morning:— CATTLE AT 'MARKET Beasts 499 I Sheep • 3,`)60 Calves To sink the Offal, per stone of 81t. Beef 4s 4a to 5s Od I Veal Mutton 4s 10d to 5s 8d; Pork 5s 6d to 6s 4d Lamb Os Od to Os Od. HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD. Hay £3 Os to £4 10s__ Clover £4 Os to £5 lOs Straw £2 . os to £2 10s. BIRTH. On the 10th inst., Mrs. Leigh, Charlotte-row, Mansion house, of a son. MARRIED. On the Bth inst., Henry, only son of Sir Henry W. Martin, Bart., to Catherine, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Byam Mar tin, K.C.8., Comptroller of his Majesty's Navy. DIED. On the 9th inst., in Great Portland-street, aged 85, Mrs. Jane Ross. In September last, on his passage from Rangoon to Madras, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hodgson, late in command of a brigade in the force employed against the Burmese. On Sunday, the 6th inst., at the Hermitage, George -street, Battle-bridge, James Bassett, Esq., aged 74, Captain in his Majesty's 29th regiment of foot, and subsequently Deputy In spector-General of Emigrant Corps. On the 10th inst., at Camberwell, Isabella Maria, wife of Robert Puckle, Esq., in the 62c1 year of her age. .. x = . ~~ ~e' . 'r. • 7. ;