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THE DIRECTORS of the .ARIGNA IRON and COAL COMPANY hereby give notice, that a SPE- A u,•Pi G ENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of ll,aid Company will be held at' th e Ki ng ' s H ea d T ave r n in th e nry, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY the SEVENTH day 01 FEBRUARY NEXT, at TWELVE o'Clock at noon PRE :3".V, FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING THE RE ORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION ap pointed at t h e Half -yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders, ,hed on Thursday the 23d day of February, 1826, which ap pointment was confirmed by ballot, on Wednesday the 15th day of March following. By order of the Board, B. W. WHITE, Clerk. 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A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Curricle, Tandem, Fluthsti, Stanhope ar.d Chaise HARNESS, with every descry- Ition of Saddlery, &c. &c. for home use, East and West Indies, and South America, which merit inspection from their excellent duality, first style of workmanship, and moderate prices. All Ike Articles in this EstablXinnent are warranted, and the excellent plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered to, of but one Ready Money Price, from which no abatement -I '4ll be made. CHEAP WINTER CLOTHING for CHA RITIES.—Stout Knit Shetland Stockings of all sizes, 1 " ; ▪ . 6 d., 9s. and 12s. 6d. per dozen; L am b s ' W oo l an d Worsted, . to 14s. ; Thick White and Spotted Knit Jersey Underwaist- Coats, 265., 295., 325. ; Worsted ditto, 205., 235. ; Flannel ditto ;mod Drawers, 305., 31s ; Great Coats, 10s. 6d., 12e. and ! i s. 6d. each ; Grey Cloaks, 4s. 6d. to 9s. ; Flannel and Linsey °° ,. l leY Petticoats, 2 s . 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"trY, that the above form part of a very large Stock of Goods, SUitable for-Charitable Donations, a list of which, priced for the Present season, may be had on application at their Hosiery Pd Outfitti ng Warehouse, 84, Oxford-street, nearly opposite the antheon.—Wash Leather Waistcoats, Drawers, and Socks; Vi gania under-clothing for Ladies and Gentlemen, of peculiar soft ;8; and an extens i ve g eneral assortment o f Hosiery, Gloves, h ionable Cravats, Ready-made Linen, fine Welch and Patent Flannels, Dressing Gowns, &c. &e. at unusually low prices. Orders from the Country, with a remittance or reference, re- V ia rlY forwarded.—Gentlemen's Cloth Opera Cloaks, Three ujoeas each. COMMERCIAL ROAD WHITECHAPEL. trcCELLISNCE COMBINED WITH ECONOMY !-A GOOD ARTICLE AT A LOW PRICE! IN order to keep pace with the highly-improved De state of th e C ommerc i a l R oa d an d i ts env i rons, w hi c h, f or , 118 Pectability and Commerce, vies with the proudest thoroughfare 4 1 the Metropolis, JOHN LLOYD and Co., Kvsn's PLACE, corner of BATTY-STREET,•Commercial Road, are determined, in the selection, extent, and quality of every Article in their Stock of LINEN DRAPERY, HOSIERY, LACE, and HABER DA SHERY, to be equalled by few, and excelled by None ! At a time when distress and faniine have arrived at their zenith, 40 (1 the Manufacturing Districts are reduced to the last extremity, J. Lloyd and Company have. been induced by feelings of grafi tVe as w e ll as the desire of meriti n g' f u t ure f avours , t o pur `l4,se the whole of their large and valuable Stock of Winter e,°0(14 w i t h t h e i r ever accepta b le cash; therebyentailing upon their '''totners th e pleasing sa ti s f ac ti on o f a ll ev i at i ng the distressed, and i Nurin g to t h emse l ves a goo d art i c l e at a low price. —With such e a ms. to public suppordetermination to act with rectitude 4 " principle, they respectfully offer their well-selected Stock, a t Pri ces full 20 per Cent. cheaper than Credit Sh o p s can t a t for. ' ,-, Ilte folloWing curtailed List of PAces will enable the Public to j u dge of the ness of Che : IC 4 Linen, beginning at extreme low 6id. 350 pieces of ar real Chintz, he ibilu3silt Sheeting, 71d. Damask Holland; ilid. . ginning at 6id. Bed - Ticks, Sid. ar nalik Table Linen, yard and Gros de Naples and Lutestring, L a nd half wid e , l e . 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The Trustees and Comtriitt.ee respectfully inform the Nobility ited Trustees the Benefit that they still conduct the above Establishment for efit of industrious and ingenious Mechanics (who have tares'' fatui ties), by offering their Manufactured Articles in the p? ll inet Line of the best workmanship . , and cheaper than by any tj 'e in London, DO other profit being required . than to satisfy le warehouse rent and incidental expenses ; being satisfiedw with t tl ° l 4%tau t employment to enable them to support their families, A f number of whom appear by the Books of the last Quarterly . 4 : v oing to be 148. From the great patronage the Committee e receied, they are in hopes of increasing that number. . Go o d s Wfoallrorwanintegd la Specimen t'l e feet Mahogany of the Low Prices asked , all X. a . fi. Tent ditto Bedstead, four-post 4 10 0 /34 de ' d - - - 1 6 0 , i. ie Mattress to fit - 1 1 0 3 5. 0 - , gany Drawers with solid ends - 35 0 -.2ght Mahogany Chairs 6 10 0 - T4,4:llol;auy Pembroke Table - -2 0 0 ' ather Iled free from duet and smell, • D a .._,. from - .£2 12 otoB 8 0 ~.,,%%Ing.room Sofa, from £5 5 0 to 7 7 0 , ",i1 Bedstead ili a ] _ 3 8 0 I°+gauy Horse -Hair Sofa - _ 610 0 upwards ro,A_ quantity -ma, at nearl • Half of Paper Hangings for Bed, Dining, and Drawing attultion ) -price . • The Trade will find it worth their Few hour Furni s h e d at a few days' notice, and Apartments in a q ..,..°ri 'IIuRNELL, Agent, J. HASLER, Secretary COLDS, COUGHS, ASTHIIAS, &c. UTLER'S PECTORAI ELIXIR.-Expe rience during a vety long period has inconteetibly proved the ' a llerior e ffi cacy of this Medicine, in all cases of Comm, Counifs, ',t'd ASTHMATIC Arrecrtoxs. 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Cornelius Buller, Esq. John Baker Richards, Esq. Andrew Colvile ? Esq. Sir James Shaw, Bart. John Henry Deffell, Esq. Robert Slade, Esq. William Fry, Esq. Henry Smith, Esq. Robert Lang, Esq. John Smith, Esq., M.P. AUDITOILV. I John Horsley Palmer, Esq. IF,neas Darkly, Esq. Charles Danvers, Esq. CONSULTING PHYSICIAN. H. Lidderdale, M.D. Falcon-square. Two-thirds of the profits of the Company are periodically added to the sums specified in the Policies effected for the whole term of life ; at the same time the insured are protected by the deed of settlement, and the above ample capital, from every chance of loss by the responsibility which attaches to those who become mutual insurers of each other. Lives insured are allowed to pass by Sea from one part of the United Kingdom to another, and also, in time of peace, to pass in King's ships and packets, or other decked vessels, between British ports and such foreign ports as lie between Ostend and Havre de Grace, both included, without extra premium or spe cial leave of the Directors, as is usually required. No extra premium is required from persons engaged in the army or navy, unless when called into actual service. No entrance money, nor fine of admission, is charged except in case of non-appearance. Attendance is given daily at the Company's Offices from Ten till Four o'Clock, where rates and conditions may be had, or of any of the Company's Agents in the principal towns through out the kingdom. By order of the Board, SAMUEL INGALL. LITERATURE. NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS.—LoNnow : 1826-3 \rots The Arabian Nights' Entertainments the perusal of these magic words, does not recal the sweetest and most thrilling charms of its boyhood ? What reader, no matter how sobered and subdued by subsequent intercourse with the world, does not go back to his school days, when in the intervals of study, beneath the shade of a tree, or by stealth, in the school-room, he devoured these splendid fancies of the East, and read how Sinbad the sailor encountered, at every page, some monstrous ad venture ; how Aladdin, by the aid of the Genius of the Lamp, rivalled the proudest monarchs in their power ; how enchanters snatched away huge palaces in their arms, and whisked them, like so many butterflies, through the air; how. young Princes of surpassing beauty fell in love with Princesses of even superior charms; how they conquered every obstacle, b rave d every danger, and how, finally; - they married and lived happily afterwards : thus exemplifying the whole some a d age, t h at v i rtue i s i ts own rewar d. Th e Arabian Nights, to be enjoyed in full perfection, should be read in boyhood. At that believing age their miracles pass for so many realities, and no harsh critic steps in to say that all is irrational and tawdry. For ourselves we feel bound to speak of them with the greater gratitude, because we discern, in the common sense of the age, the sure forerunne r of their ruin. Yet a few years,• and our present mode of education, which spurns the ornamental, and cleaves.only to the useful, will have left little of the Arabian Nights but the name. Their delightful local ob scurities will no longer avail them. In vain will the Princess Dinarsade begin her story with the.well-known words—" In the interior of Africa there once dwelt a po tent monarch, who," &c. The misbelieving reader will instantly turn to Clapperton's late tra vels in Af r i ca , an d , if he do not find there the requisite inform a ti on , w ill ap ply to some friend whom (for we all travel no w - a -d ays ) the steam-boat has no doubt, at one time or other of his life, landed on the Slave-coast, or the Cape of Good Hope, and who must consequently have heard of him had such a monarch ever existed. The " March of Intellect," so conspicuous at the present day, seems in its hurry to have left imagination behind it. It has become the fashion to sneer at what was the boast of our ancestors, to laugh at the fairies, witches, and ghosts of Shakspeare, and to to lerate his fancy solely for his delineation of the human mind. Did we wish to be metaphysical we m ight attempt to trace the ennui, so prevalent in our modern times, to the want of excitement occasioned by this undervaluing of the imagination. No individual now retires to rest with the idea that he may be roused from sleep by ghost or fairy ; no one ever thinks with Milton, that- 7 " ltlillions of spiritual creatures wing the air, Unseen both when we wake and when we sleep." The consequence of which is, a conviction of safety (for even high-way robbers are put down, and Hounslow Heath is inclosed,) that lends a necessary listles s ness to the mind. The New Arabian Nights, from which we have thus wan tonly digressed, profess to be a sequel to the former ones, translated from the original MSS. into German, and from thence into English by Mr. Lamb. They are introduced by a light amusing preface, i n w hi c h t h e i r translatorin forms us, that like their splendid predecessors, they were derived originally from Persia, and circulated by the various Arabian story-tellers throughout the caravanseras of the East. The Mahometans, we all know, are delighted with this species of amusement ; at dose of day, when the voice of the Muezzin has ceased, they throng round their pro fessed romancers who indulge them at some public inn, with stories of a similar nature to those here translated. So far so good ; but the question now is, how far the tales before us are to be considered as genuine. Judgiug from internal evidence,.we should be inclined to pronounce them legitimate ; for repeated allusions are made throughout to the fatalism of the Mahometans . ; the similies, too, are all decidedly oriental, and the supernatural agency, such as none but an eastern romancer could invent. In point of merit, however, they are far below their predecessors. There are no incidents so awfully sublime as the City of the Dead—so lavishly magnificent as Aladdin—or so humorous as the Barber and his Brothers. In acquaintance with the familiar life and manners of the East, they are equally in , ferior, though enough still remains to convince us of their oriental origin. The chief defect in the first Arabian Nights is their want of personal interest. They have splendid fancy, exquisite humour, boundless invention, un :!easing incident, but little or no sentiment. We cannot recal one singleeharacter throughout their delightful volumes, that extorts either our pity or regret; all is cold, splendid, and indefinite. Hence, in the perusal of their wonders we are too apt to become sated, we are dazzled, but not touch ed; our heads, not our .hearts, are affected, and we turn for relief to our own more congenial European fictions, where, though the fancy is less exuberant, the sensibility is stronger. The present volumes partake largely of this charac teristic defect. The first, and perhaps the best tale, en titled " The Brazen City" is certainly imaginative, with a solemn vein of thought (like all Eastern apologues) pervading it, but it has no feeling. As a specimen, how ever, of its stately morality we quote the following des cription of a deserted palace found in a desert of Africa They came at length to a boundless plain, smooth as the sea in a calm, in the middle of which appeared a mass of smoke, and some object of dazzling brilliancy beneath it. Hastening forward, they found it was a magnificent palace, above the cornice of which were tablets of ebony inlaid with gold. The gates, of Chinese ‘teel, dazzled their eyes ; the pillars were of gigantic size ; and that which to the distant travellers had appeared like smoke, was a dome covered with lead. But within not a living creature was to be seen save the owls and ravens, who had there built their nests, and filled the air with their melancholy cries. " There is no god but God !" exclaimed the emir Mnsa, trans ported with astonishment. " 0 palace ! what is become of thine inhabitants ? They sleep the sleep of death, as if they had never lived. Where is the retinue of thy court ? Where are thy princes and kings ? God has scattered them, like the chaff before the wind ! But let us enter," continued lie, turning to the sheikh Abdussamed, who was engaged in prayer, and repeating the words of the Koran. " Perhaps ye will flee from that which would be profitable to you! God be praised for his innumerable i benefits and infinite grace. Rejoice, 0 prince !" said the sheikh, "we have escaped the desert, and have no wild beasts to fear. I have never, indeed, been in this place : but know it by the des cription which a traveller--who, like us, was going to the brazen city, and like us too had lost his way, and came to this palace, once gave me of it. We have a month's journey yet to perform to the city of brass ; and thence four months more to that part of the sea where the brazen vessels we seek are to be found."—" Can you tell," said the emir Musa, " to which of the ancient kings this splendid palace belonged ?"—" I know not exactly," replied the sheikh, " but believe it was Alexander." Saying this, he led the way, and approached the gate of the palace, which was shut. They first entered a fore-court, the walls of which were inlaid with gold and precious stones ; over the door was the fol lowing inscription, in Greek : " Enter bere, and learn the history of those who were once lords of the world. " They have passed by, like hasty travellers; scarcely have they had time to rest." The emir Musa melted into tears. lie entered the inner apart ments, over the door leading to which was inscribed, " What multitudes once walked these halls ! See now what time has done with them !" Musa wept again at reading this, and, with Abdulazlz and their attendants, wandered through immense apartments, all solitary and deserted, till they came to that covered by the dome. Here stood four hundred sepulchral monuments, of marble and gra nite ; Musa, who understood Greek, approached one and read as follows : "Of how many events have I not been witness ! How many sumptuous feasts, how rna:-..y splendid banquets, have I not enjoy ed ! How many cities have I not conquered ! How many laws have I not given ! " Preserve thy soul ! Enjoy life before death overtake thee. " To-morrow they will carry thee out, and say to those who ask after thee—he is dead !" The tale of " Nureddin and Maria, the girdle maker," though splendid, is absurdly extravagant. The plot is simply this :—Nureddin, a young merchant, falls in love with Maria, a .disguised Princess of course, but compelled to make girdles for her livelihood; and after unheard-of difficulties, and " perils both by sea and land," at last succeeds in marrying her. There is nothing in this very remarkable, but the oddity of the tale lies in the character of the girdle maker. She is, it seems, daughter to the King of the Franks, and having learned the art of war at her father's Court, practises it on all occasions. In at tempting, for instance, to escape with Nureddin from France, the master of a vessel and ten of his crew throw certain obstacles in her way, upon which " she cuts off all their heads." Shortly afterwards she is stopped by a horse stealer, " whom, without a single word, she thrusts through with her sword, while his spirit fled to hell"— the usual place, we should observe, appointed for all de ceased Mussulmen. The ver y nex t day the King learning her flight, despatches her three brothers, each with three thousand men, in pursuit; luckily she sees them in time to put herself action, and on the first brother approach ing to expostulate, she cuts his head clean off, " where upon his body (as a matter of necessity) tumbled from his horse, and his soul went straightway to hell." The next brother now arrives, but Maria, we are told, " left him no time for speech, but cut off his head and sent him to look after his brother." The third, who has by this time come up, endeavours also to reason with her, but his warlike (not to say affectionate) sister, " thrust her sword likewise through his body and sent him after his -brothers into everlasting fire." Not 'content with this, our inconceivable Amazon (to whom Hercules was a fool) attacks the whole army of three thousand men, puts them all to flight, returns - to her lover, takes him to the Caliph's Court, and marries him. We instance this tale as a specimen, not of oriental imagination, but of its ex travagance. Similar instances, though none so glaring, may be found scattered throughout the volumes, particu larly i n th e Tales entitled `f Hassan of Bassora" and " Mesrour and his Mistress." But, indeed, the chief feature of all Arabian fancy is exaggeration, whether of incident, character, or invention... If a King is introduced, he is superlatively rich; if a Prince or Princess, they are superlatively beautiful ; if a Magician, h owever, we judge thesehe is vicio talesu by s in proportion. yanordea w Perhaps,hir hthey were never meant to Pass. Measured by the cold severity of us European cri tics, they are certainly absurd; but as applicable to, and chara c t er i st i c o f , th e wild glowing genius of the country which gave them birth, they are Inimitable. Perhaps too, after all, the chief fault lies with us ; the world may have blighted our fancies, and taught us to sneer where we ought to admire ; and if such indeed be the case, it is hard to visit our contempt on these splendid fictions. A motive of gratitude besides should enlist us irrevocably in their favour. As we re-peruse their pages (long since laid aside), the past necessarily flits before us. We think of the times when their incidents thrilled us with fear or extacy ; the very Play -ground with its fine old elms, and the Thames flow ing through it, where we used to sit for hours absorbed in delighted wonder, again stands boldly out before our "mind's eye ;" and thought the world has since taught us a soberer lesson, are we therefore bound to despise our youthful favourites—the inspirers of our earliest day-dreams. Never : they are linked to us, first, by a sympathy which age may loosen but cannot wholly extinguish; and, secondly, by a tender regret arising from the consciousness, that their spell " bath ceased its power." (From the Liverpool Albion.) The speeches which Mr. Canning delivered in the House of Commons on the subject of the invasion of Por tugal have been printed in the form of a pamphlet. They have, it is understood, been revised and corrected by the Right Hon. Gentleman himself. The difference which is apparent between the speeches as they were delivered in the House of Commons, and the version of them now published under Mr. Canning's own sanction, has attracted the attention of the Metropolitan editors. He has, it appears, softened and qualified parts of the ora tions, which some of his friends, but more especially foreign powers, might deem, not merely revolutionary, but harsh and unguarded. Whole'passages, too, are entirely omitted; and the pruning knife has been applied most vigorously to the speeches generally. The alterations which Mr. Canning has made in his orations seem to hare excited some surprise in the coffee houses o f th e M etropo li s ; and var i ous sage conjeftures have been hazarded to account for them. The writer of this article does not, however, share in the surprise which he has seen expressed in the diurnal journals upon the subject. The truth is, that Mr. Canning is very fastidious Early yesterday morning the house of Charles. Ben nett, Esq., 21, Dorset-street, was broken into, and robbed of pro perty to th e a m oun t o f one hundred pounds and upwards. Tbt thieves broke through the area door, and stole all the plate they could find, together with some medals, and a Knight Companion' s Badge of the Order of the Bath. They forced every lock i n t h e kitchens, parlours, and drawing-rooms; cut some valuabl e port. folios, which had locks, to pieces; and injured the carpets b, most filthy conduct. - THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l hardly know whether I take a right view of your feelings, and those of the public in general, in at tempting to direct their attention to the Law of Copy right, and the rights of authors of books in general, but ths late trial between the trustees of the British Museum, and Messrs_ Payne" and Foss, booksellers, induces me to take the opportunity of offering a few remarks upon the law, touching the rights of authors. I trust in so doing, that you will give them insertion in your excellent jour nal, and if I do not interest, I shall at least escape giving offence. The cause before mentioned, was a suit for penalties incurred by the defendants under the Copyright Acts, for not having delivered in pursuance of those Acts, a copy of a certain expensive new published work (the " Flora Grieco") to the British Museum. The Attorney-General,in making his observations on this law, has thought fit to consider it neither more nor less than the legal enforcement of a natural right, as if the government of a State bad a right (the statute in question apart) to demand a copy of every new work at the hands of its author. This broad way of laying such a general prin ciple, not convenient to sustain by argument, is a very po litic way of getting over the difficulty, because concession is found to be yielded precisely in proportion to the auda dacity mid boldness with which it is demanded. The At torney-General never having favoured the world with any publication of his own concocting, was just the person to put forth this claim, because he had never felt its pressure. But surely a very little reflection will show that this mo derate demand for the protection granted to authors, is a very serious, a very heavy, and a very unendurable tax ; a tax, indeed, which no one's patience, but that incompa rable and never exhausted patience of a literary drudge, would have stood so long without uttering com plaints. The writer hereof is an author, has felt and has endured, to feel the weight of this very oppres sive tax, and now, for the first time, in very humble guise, has presumed to murmur. Authors consider publishers in general as by no means their friends, save indeed such authors as the author of Waverley, Lord Byron, D'lsraeli, Gifford, and some few more, the utterance of whose name in public is attended with a sort of prostration of opinion, and to speak in terms of non-admiration of whom is deemed a positive heresy. These gentlemen sway the public, and publishers are too happy to have their works at all to grumble at the price they give, or even at the eleven copies that they after wards dispose of gratis. But, in general, these eleven copies are made to operate as a set off on the author's pro fits, and so come entirely and solely from his pocket ; a very great grievance, us may be seen in the case of the Flora Grzeca, a grievance which magnifies itself in exact proportion as a work becomes laborious and ex pensive. Namque oblita modi millesima pagina surgit Omnibus, et crescit multa damnosa papyro. Quis daret historic° quantum daret acts legenti ? But this is not all. The author thus filched of a copy of his work, consoles himself in the brilliant prospect of im mortality, his name recorded in letters of gold on the back of his book and Alining, if not conspicuously, at least shin ing some where, in the book cases of the public libra r ies. Poor vain mortal, no such thing. Eleven copies of this work, containing the effusions of his soul, the toil of his hands, the labour of hours, days, weeks, months, and years, are delivered on publication to the Stationer? Company, are thence transferred to their cellars and dismal vaults, to await the calls of their respective proprietors, a call which comes not, and which even the last trump from heaven shall find expected. These copies, in the meantime, slum ber on, if not happily devoured by rats and mice, obli terated by damps, or burned at the periodical cleansings of this Augvean stable, a fate attending almost all the books that are published In the three kingdoms ; to be robbed, and then insulted, and all in due course of law, is the peculiar fate of authors—a race scorned and despised, although said to be encouraged and fostered. Poor wretches, who, with holes in their coats, and well worn breeches, inhabit the upper regions of the house; exalted truly, but by their own misfortunes, and . debated only by their own 'successes. Yet these poor starving hard-working people are made to pay a tax, without refer ence to their ability or the public advantage derived there from. Of what use is a book if shut within the cellars of the Stationers' Company ; and lam sure lam greatly within the mark, if I say that at this moment these vaults contain at least 12,000 volumes,published in and previous to 1820. It may be said the public libraries cannot be sup posed to make room for copies of every work pub lished. Granted; but in these cases, at least, re turn the _work to the author or publisher. Why is the author taxed but for the advancement of learning, and how is that advanced by works rotting in a cellar and shut from mortal eyes. Expensive works, and works filled with beautiful engravings, find their way into the public book cases, however frivolous the subject, or however bad the performance; but works of real science, works beautiful for composition and useful for the learning they contain, remain buried in the sepulchres of the Stationers' Corn pany, unregarded, unheeded, and unsought for. And why ! because they interest only a few, the Librarians of the dif ferent literary institutions not wanting them for their personal service, forget the public and the author together. Let this evil at least be remedied, and then, however grievous, however sore the pressure, I will submit my patience is not even yet exhausted, although, perhaps, Sir, my vanity is sorely wounded. A DISAPPOINTED AUTMOR AND LITERARY DRUDGE. MR. CANNING'S ELOQUENCE. ..'"4 , ~....., Sick; T. , f. .....,.. , Tht ,,,,,,,-E, I . iN.I.IPI ''''' 4 ;Kt — , ^P.:*-' -- "t 4 ''....,Z 4,10" k '••',,, 4 7.,. - : ( .." I* ./ ' ,0 ~" 1 , , AP , )., , ,!, I .' tt ~ ' 7,2 i ; ‘ ,l _ , - ..fs• - ' 74 ; I' . ~.,„4 :5 - -,,-1., , ;.-,„ -1 , ,,,, ,,, ./f, ~/ • 61.4..• ~.- • •-, ...6 ..kt-' • .r ---. l' ~,,fip < --' s 'l'lri4k if' %'i , 1 11 ' ' ~.... '' , F ...4...-..,: .J 10, ' 4143,4 i *- 1' '. .. - rjr.l.:l,Vl' in composition; He can selaem satisfy his own exquisite ttste. So great is his command of style, that, although be composes, with great rapidity, he is over-pron e to alter his composition, in the attempt to improve and to polish sot tences which ordinary writers would deem unsusceptible either of improvement or of polish. His speeches, being delivered extempore, contain, like the speeches of orators in general, many repetitions. These,'. when he peruses a report of them, he lops off without mercy, and which lopping off, whilst it frequently improves the discourse as specimens of classic composition, curtails them, at the same time, of what the bulk of his hearers! consider, perhaps, their " fair proportions." Nor is he less hostile to tumid metaphors. We recollect when, on one occasion, he delivered a brilliant speech in the large room in the King's Arms Hotel, in this town, he employed a simile which, although it was rather forced, produced a marked effect upon his auditory. A gentleman who had missed the favorite simile from the printed report, mentioned the subject to the Right Honourable Gentleman himself. " Why," said Mr. Canning, " the thing was well enough when uttered in the heat of extemporaneous speaking; but it would • not have read well in print." Under such subjection had the Right Honourable Gentle man placed his fancy, that he would 'rather sacrifice a figure, which he knew had produced a powerful effect upon his hearers, than run the risk of being charged with employing meretricious ornaments in his speeches. Mr. Canning is not, however, insensible - to the great importance of repetitions in speaking. Dr. Johnson, when asked by Mr. Boswell for advice touching a speech which the latter had to make in the House of Lords, on a Scotch appeal ease, told him to be sure to bring the leading points of the subject repeatedly before their Lordships; " for,"- said the Doctor,'" attention► is apt to flag, and you must frequently present the prominent topics to their mind."— Mr. Canning entertains the same opinion on the import ance of repetitions in extemporaneous discourse; for, when asked by the late Marquis of Titchfield ( a noble man who gave great promise of becoming a clever speaker had he survived) why he had erased a rather emphatic re petition from the report of a speech which he had just delivered from the balcony of the house of our resorted townsman, Mr. Bolton, and which was then under revisal, he exactly coincided in the sentiment of Dr. Johnson, which was quoted, at the moment, by an' individual present in the room. No person but one who has seen the manuscripts can form any idea, not of the corrections, but of the alterations which the Right Hon. Gentleman makes in his speeches,' when a report of them is submitted to his perusal before they are printed. He is fastidious even to a fault. He alters a word, changes it, and then alters it again. Some sentences he remodels entirely, erasing the words as ori ginally uttered, and interlining the short-hand -writer' s ma nuscript with the amended sentence. The writer of this sketch has seen many of these corrected speeches ; and has frequently profitted by observing the propriety and ele gance of the alterations which Mr. Canning introduced in speeches which were preparing for the press. Whole passages, too, were often omitted, as has been noticed in the speeches recently published in London; and the ora tion, however it might be heightened in beauty as a piece of composition, was, under the hand of the Right Hon. Gentleman, both " shaven and shorn." But his altera tions are not confined to the manuscript. What printers term a proof comes in for almost as great a share of cor-, rection as the original manuscript; and the speech is not permitted to go to the press until he has seen a revise. All the speeches which Mr. Canning delivered in Liver pool, from the year 1812 to the year 1823, underwent this rigid ordeal; and they may, therefore, be considered' as among the best specimens of his style as well as of his eloquence. We have known him to occupy from six to . eight hours in correcting a sp eec h which had not ta k en him more than one hour and a half in the delivery. Brilliant and argumentative as Mr. Canning's speeches always are, we have reason to believe that he seldom, if ever, commits any part of them to writing before delivery. We • have occasionally seen in his hand a small slip of paper, on which there seemed a few memoranda; but they were so brief that they could be of very little assist ance to the orator, whose speeches bear every mark of being extemporaneous effusions. Doubtless the Right Hon. Gentleman meditates his subject before he rises to make a set speech ; but the elaboration, unlike the tedious process which the speeches of some orators undergo, is purely mental. Mr. Canning is a great favourite with the reporters. There is some professional reputation gained by reporting his speeches correctly; and he who can transcribe a speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman's , • verbatim, which very few can accomplish, is considered an adept in the art of reporting. None, however, but one who writes short hand with rapidity can do full justice to Mr. Canning's eloquence. The mere long-hand note-taker may give a fair report of his speeches ; but the style of the Right Ho nourable Gentleman is so felicitous, and his choice of words so happy, that there is great danger that the note taker may, by altering the arrangement of the sentences and changing the phraseology, mar the beauty and sym metry of the oration. There is a great and striking difference between the num ber of words which the three greatest orators at present in the House of Commons, Canning, Brougham and Mack ;ninutes, intosh, will throw out in a given time. Mr. Brougham is the slowest and most deliberate speaker of the three. A very therefore, so dif ficultrapid long-hand-writer "might almost take down one of his l n d i l i s i t ug th i e s Hon, and a ni n p d id Learned in hi s deli very ,Gentlemandnd iwsi speaking.l speeches speak, v ver b at i m, aM t i l i i i e rn: s C P 'a' ace of from forty to 40 to 43 as many words as the former will throw out: . ' in so. But as some persons might im the task of reporting Mr. Canning is no t., agj:. - Je. The free, flowing style of the Right Honourable Ctentleman carries the re porter smoothly along, a_nd. - rend ers t h e task comparatively. pleasant. Sir Jameskackintosh i s t h e most rapid speaker in the House. Yew, if any, reporters can do his speeches justice ; and the gentlemen of the p ress wou l d almost as soon see his satanic majesty rising to make a speech as Sit' James. So difficult, indeed, is the task of reporting the Honourable and Learned Knight's speeches, that we have been occasion a ll y aston i s h ed on perusing what we deemed pretty accurate reports of his long and rapidly delivered orations. We have already noticed the extreme care with which Mr. Canning- corrects and alters his speeches before he commits them to the press. It will, no doubt, surprise most of our readers when" they are told that his Right Honourable friend and colleague, Mr. Huskisson, is little inferior, in this respect, to the Foreign Secretary. He alters his speeches as much as Mr. Canning, remodels sentences like him, and, like him, erases from , the short hand-writer's manuscript whole passages, which had been listened to with pleasure when delivered, and loudly ap plauded by his hearers;—so remarkably do these two great men agree in opinion, that sentiments uttered in the heat of extemporaneous speaking are not always fit for pub liCation, and that they must be carefully expunged when the oration which contains them is about to be ushered into the world in a permanent form, under the sanction of the orator himself. MELANCHOLY Acci erday morning a most heart-rending accident occurred to the eldest daughter of Mr. Jakens, residing near the Turnpike, Bethnal Green-road, which at present appears most likely to prove fatal in its conse quences. The young lady, it would appear, on entering the kitchen, had proceeded to the firerplaee, and while stooping to take up the poker, with the intention of stirring the fire, a large kettle of boiling water fell over her neck and shoulders. Every assistance was administered, but up to a late hour - last evening she remained in a dreadful state.: