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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY _E_ittraets- from the Mornirqf Pqpers Jan. 5, 1525. . • [THE TIMES.] Lord Charles Somerset seems fully bent on maintaining his ground in the public recollection. Fdr: the wholesome. exercise in which he has kept as, at least, and this Journal, we owe his Lord ship more acknowledgments than perhaps he svould like to receive. There are others also, more personally interested than we are (thank Heaven) in the conduct of this Governor, who seem desirous of making known to the world the rate at which they value . him. The settlers of Albany have presented a memorial to Lord Bathurst, respecting the hardships which they hav e encountered since their establishment in the colony. These annoyances, they say,---how justly we pretend not, of our own knowledge, to asseverate,—have been brought upon them through the sort of feelings with which they are regarded by a lordly personage at the Cape. It is observable, that these unfortunate exiles from Their own country are not in all cases of a mur muring or complaining spirit. They have spoken of Sir Rufane Donkin in terms of the warmest gratitude. That reasonable and worthy officer took pains for their comfort and security. He built the town of Bathurst as a centre and rally ing point for the inhabitants of the new dis trict—he fixed there the seat of a magistracy, and established an effective system of mili tary defence against the Caffres, with whom he thus enabled them to carry on a fearless and even friendly intercourse. Since the time of Sir Rufane Donkin, the settlement has made fast progress towards decay. The regiment left for its protection has been removed, and the safety of the colony committed to a corps of Hottentots ! These gallant and faithful de fenders have not, it appears, at any time, suc ceeded in gaining the public confidence them selves, or in securing any portion of it for Lord Charles. They are objects of dread, rather than reliance. They are constantly deserting to the Caffres, and had, it is stated, been actually en gaged in a plot for rising on their officers, and joining the public enemy in a body. The cattle and other 'property of the wretched emigrants having, from the helpless condition in which they were placed,. been frequently plundered by the Caffres, and grievances having accumulated upon them from every side, the sufferers were anxious to hold public meetings for the purpose of ad dressing the Governor; but in this design they aver that they were constantly thwarted by his agents, and the parties to the requisition diligently stigmatized and insulted. After a long endurance of such vexatious injuries, they had nothing for it but to transmit their complaints to England ; nor was such an expedient resorted to on their part, without a multitude of difficulties being thrown in their way by those to whom they were entitled to look for active protection and huma nity. In October, 18'23, however, they did ad dress themselves to the Commissioners of Inquiry then at the Cape, with a detail of their manifold grievances. They refer to many previous, but fruitless letters, which they had written to the highest authority in the settlement, without ob taining through them the least shadow of relief; and they have now finally thrown themselves on the mercy of Lord Bathurst. We ask, then, for the fiftieth time, is that a situation with which our fellow-subjects can be any longer left by an honest Government to struggle? And we add the question, which still remains unanswered—ls this man recalled, or Not ? [SEW TIMER] The Bill against Mr. O'Connell for seditious words has been thrown out by the Dublin Grand jury. We presume that nobody will be so much surprised at this event as the Learned Gentleman himself. He gave it as his opinion that there would be no difficulty in getting any Bill whatever to be found against him. Judge Moore, who pre sided, however, laid down the law most impar tially in his charge, and the Grand Jury were evi dently determined by it in their construction of the evidence requisite to support the indictment. A curious circumstance occurs in the list of the Grand Jury: among the 23 names which compose it we find both hone and Hunt ! This occur rence is likely to give new spirit to the Catholic Association ; and as its meetings have of late be come mere spouting clubs for young Barristers, we shall probably have a succession of philip pics against Mr. Plunkett, very appropriately mixed up with exhortations to employ against The Courier " the utmost rigour of the law."-- Opinions are much divided on the policy of pre (erring, such a Bill. Some persons ascribe the pro eeeding to a want of tact in the Irish Attorney- General, who, they say, is a man of a powerful straight-forward mind, but has not a facility in embracing all the collateral circumstances of a case, such as those arising out of any temporary agitation in the public mind. Other persons, on the contrary,consider the prosecution as properly a measure of the Irish Government, and regard it as intended to shew that what is vulgarly term ed an " Orange" Jury can administer justice fairly even where a Catholic is the party accused, and that Catholic Mr. O'Connel. [BRIVSII PRESS.] ft was stated yesterday, and we hope and. be lieve on good authority, that the French Govern ment has. resolved to follow the course of the British in recognizing the independence of such of the ,new American :States as have clearly shown their title to be considered firmly estab-' ]dished. This act, which must be strongly ob poxious to the feelings of the Royalist. party in power, has, we have no doubt, been forced. upon the French Cabinet by the commercial interest. France is again, becoming a great mercantile power, and, under a sound system of government, she may reasonably expect to enjoy a very high degree of.. prosperity in her trade and manufac jkirs- The-,Ministers cannot be indifferent to the . growth 91 the •public revenue, especially at this inc l a w"tl when they are about to bur theil. the "uatEY: with au. indemnity to the emigrants, amoun ti ng to 600 m illi ons o f greatness i s wholly incompatible with the francs at the lowest co mp u tation. While, there- I very principl es o f B r i t i s h prosper i ty . Th e fore, they cement the edifice of Ultra-royalism in . grand struggle between liberty and des k ranee, by " closing th e last wounds of the Re. potism will thus take a more animated turn ; volution," they may well consent, for the sake and be sooner brought to a decision. The issue of accomplishing so desirable a result,to sancti on we have no doubt will be the complete triumph the triumph of revolutionary principles in Arne- of liberal principles, whilst this country will have rica. F rom w h at f e ll f rom his Majesty's Mi- the honour, as well as the chief advantage of a nisters in Parliament last Session, the public victory, that will entirely alter, of course for the knew that it was their impression that the policy better, the face of the political world. of France, with respect to South A merica, agreed substantially N% ith that of England, though the unfortunate connexion with Spain and the Holy Alliance necessarily fettered the French Go vernment in its decisions, and disabled it from taking those frank and open measures by which we have preceded her in the formal admis sion of the New States to the right and advan tages of an acknowledged political existence. The Government of the Netherlands will be the next, and we may be sure, at no great distance of time, to recognize the independence of the American Republics. They may then wait with temper and patience for the approbation of the Holy Alliance, and the rejected Mother Country ; and it will probably neither grieve nor injure them much, if those Powers should, in their wisdom, resolve never to sanction the legitimacy of the American States. We foresee, however, that the certain and absolute loss of her Colonies must lead to some great and salutary changes in the political and social condition of the Peninsula. With out them, and under a rational system of go. vernment, Spain may yet again become, as her position would seem of necessity calculated to render her, a powerful and flourishing kingdom. We may expect soon, we suppose, to hear that some arrangements have been concluded with Portugal for the recognition of the inde pendence of Brazil. In the state in which the two nations stand with regard to each other at present, the British Government will of course refrain from interfering, except with a view to the amicable adjustment of their differences. The recognition of the late Spanish colonies will in all probability quicken Portugal in her tardy and re luctant movements towards an acknowledgment of the fact that her colony has at last outgrown the system to which it was formerly subjected. Whe ther this acknowledgment be made or not, Brazil is actually free, and will remain so, in spite of all that Portugal can do to prevent it. She had better therefore, to use a homely phrase, make the best of a bad bargain, and submit with a good grace to what will happen without her consent, if she be silly enough to refuse it. [MORNING HERALD.] It is amusing sometimes to observe the use or the abuse which a mere rhetorician makes of history. The most edifying example that could be.wished, appears in the Address of the French Chamber of Peers to the of France :- 44 The France of Clovis will be found again under Charles X.—the successor of Clovis will receive the Holy Unction from the hands of St. Remi— there will be another Clotilda, full of courage and faith, who has drawn the blessings of Heaven on the arms of her husband," Szc. There can be little doubt that this precious piece of histo rical erudition belongs to M. de Chateaubriand, who seems to advance in puerility as he advances in years, and whose head seems absolutely turned by the new reign, his grief for the old, his joy for the new King, and the extacies of his devotion at the ointing, which is to take place at Rheims. Who would suppose that any man in his senses could allow his ignorance or his ima gination to run the length of proposing as a golden age the fifth century, when ull in Europe without the immediate sphere of what remained of Roman civilization—and especially Gaul, was one wide scene of barbarism and bloodshed ? But let us see how far the Duchess of Angouleme and the Icing her father, or the Prince her husband, have reason to be proud of the parallel. Clotilda, it is true, was a devotee, and converted Clovis, her husband, to Christianity. " But though a devotee," says the historian, " she was not the less vindictive." This really looks like a piece of sly personal satire upon the Duchess. The words which immediately follow in the history are too well worth quoting to be omitted -. 44 Without doubt she believed her resentment just—a mistake into which pious people often fall, easily persuading themselves that injuries to them are injuries to God." The fact is, that she was not alone vindictive, but ambitious and sanguinary, and the cause of hur husband's worst barbarities. She ruled Clovis, and converted him. "If I win this battle (against the Romans)," said he to her, " I'll worship your God." Ile did so, and became a Christian. But what was the first act of the royal convert? Ile had the Roman General [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] Every doubt has now disappeared with respect to the immediate recognition by this country of the independence of Mexico, Colombia,and Bue. nos Ayres, which will be followed in due time brought—a prisoner —before him, and cut off his head. He next, under the influence of 44 Clotilda, full of courage and faith," murdered four Princes of his family, and usurped their dominions. Two of them—brothers—he dispatched with his own royal hand. Having them brought before him in chains, he addressed the one—a' Coward (said he), how Barest thou wear these chains to the shame of thy family ?" and with one blow cut off his head. The other remained. 44 And thou _ _ by the establishment of political relations with the other New States of that continent. Now,that this important and decisive proceeding has taken place, we are not sorry for the delay that interven ed; as it must blunt any objection that its enemies nay feel inclined to make. Ministers have shewt a forbearance towards Spain, which, considering the strong temptations they had to pursue a different line of conduct, as well as the inability of that Power to make the least resistance, is al most without a parallel in the annals of diplo macy. Every thing that magnanimity required of them has been scrupulously discharged ; and as Spain has to the last spurned at. reasonable concessions, though her circumstances imperiously enforced them, Ministers had clearly no other [MORNING CHRONICLE.] alternative left but to pursue the course which It is as we predicted—Mr. Plunkett has been they have irrevocably taken. Further delay would shamefully defeated ; his bill has been ignored be imputed to weakness, and not to generosity, by a Grand Jury, of which every man was a Pro besides exposing them to the suspicion of conniv- testant. We supposed he has had enough of ex inn at the designs of the H o ly Alliance, to the im- officio informations, after the loss of a bill, to minent danger of British freedom, and to the follow the precedent set by himself In the case prostration of British honour. As the resolution of the Bottle Treason.—Poor fallen Plunkett ! which they have come to at last must have —lf a thousand persons, Whigs, Radicals, and been taken at some period, a better moment than Tories, possessed of a decent education, had the present could not have been selected.— been consulted, whether the passage for which Fiance, if she harboured any resentment at the Mr. O'Connell was held to bail, was or proceeding, must keep it locked up in the re- was not seditious, we will venture to ,say, that cesses of her bosom, in consequence of the em- nine hundred and ninety-nine out of that barrassments in which she has involved herself thousand would have scouted the idea.— by her iniquitous invasion of Spain. Austria is so How comes it, then, that a man of the most terrified by the apparition of Greek liberty, that powerful intellect, a hard-headed reasoner—an all her senses are rivetted to it ; amid moreover orator, if ever there was one, of whom it has been her influence is neutralized when it attempts to said by Hazlitt, that Irish eloquence is redeemed mix in the affairs of the New World. Prussia is by " his manly sense and fervour"—How comes a mere cypher on this question ; and, if she were it that this unrivalled speaker, this close reasoner, not, her desire t o s h are i n t h e pro fi ts of Trans- who to English solidity a dd s an ar d our, i n de atlantic commerce, serves to counterbalance her bate, which pure Englishmen seldom or never arbitrary and legitimate propensities. Russia can possess, should, even in matters connected do nothing alone, for her million of soldiers are with the profession of which he is at the no better than ombre s chinoises for any harm they head, have not merely blundered, but blun can do the inhabitants of the New World.— dered once and again in the very same mans Moreover, the recent calamity by which her ca- ner, and so stupidly, that the most thoughtless pital has been visited, will occasion for a time of his countrymen must be struck with amaze such a drain on her treasury, as to preclude any ment at his indiscretion ? We have watched indulgence in ambitious projects ; and, when her Mr. Plunkett witn considerable attention. He present difficulties disappear, she will find food appeared to us, from the first moment we heard enough for the cravings of her ambition in the him, a singularly constituted man, full of fire, endless anarchy of the Turkish Empire. Mi- but devoid of feeling ; a good logician, without nisters have therefore selected the favourable any thing metaphysical about him, a man able, moment; and this circumstance completes their as it were, to stride vigorously onwards, in the claim to the gratitude of the country. It would path which he had taken, with little capability be greatly undervaluing this important decision, of selecting the right path. In the debate on if it were to be considered only in a commercial the Manchester Question, he excited disgust point of view. Its influence will be still more in the liberal part of the House, and startled perceptible in the political relations of this the Tories. His politics seemed derivcd from country, as it, separates her wholly, not only in the School of Torquemada. According to him, name, but in interest, from her Holy Alliance. to read or think in the body of the people was We have taken our stand ; and by the decision almost a crime—to allow them to read, in their we are placed in a situation, where the sup- superiors was folly—the life of the mechanics port of liberal principles becomes a question, should be passed in excessive indulgence ; he not of political convenience, but of imperious should drown his cares in the noise and revelry necessity. We have cut oil' all connexion with of the public-house, and renounce all participa the cause of despotism ; and a return, if it were tion in the pursuits which raise a man in his own practicable, would be unsafe and inglorious. eyes, and give to life its principal value. It As a decided opposition of interests is thus might or it might not be expedient to accede to established, and as the collision will be no the demands which the people then made ; but the slight one, this country must place herself at brutalization contended for by Mr. Plunkett as the head of the free States of the world, to the beau ideal of the working classes contem be able to counterbalanc e the confederacy of plated by the British Constitution, revolted even despots. Wherever commerce, liberty, and know- those who were most alarmed at the pretensions ledge are cherished, there we shall have faith- of the people.—ln like manner, during the last ful allies ; and it would be surprising if this Session, he scandalized every Member, by connection were not more than an equivalent an exaggeration with respect to the residence of for the hollow and selfish friendship of the the Irish Clergy, so gross as to defeat his ob- Great Powers as they are called, but whose e ject, and offensive to his hearers, as it supposed (said he), if thou hadst aided thy brother, he had not been thus ;" and with another blow he dis patched him too ! These are the models of royalty suggested by M. Chat eaubriand and the Cham ber of Peers. The address of the Deputies af fords a favourable contrast to this intolerable fustian. them destitute of common Sense. The Bottle Treason made him an object of peculiar hatred to the Orangemen. To shew this consistency, he seems to have thought it necessary to be as un just towards the Catholics as towards the Orange men. But the feelings of the Orangemen were even revolted at the spectacle of a kindred in justice to that of which they were themselves about to be the victims, and thus he is now de tested equally by Orangemen and Catholics.— We could say more, but we are unwilling to trample on the fallen. [MORNING POST.] The abstract which we gave yesterday of the last proceedings of the Catholic Association, con veyed a just idea of the liberal spirit which ani mates that Body, and of its affection for the freedom of the press. Castigat auditque, too, seems to be its motto; for while an " investiga tion" of the charges against Maynooth College is professed to be the object, the Committee in its report, signed by Mr. O'Connell, denounces the imagined writer of the paragraph as " a base and cowardly assassin, willing to do mis chief, but desirous to avoid responsibility." The Association besides is only anxious for a victim, and in its tender mercies blunderingly resolves, " that the prosecution, if possible, shall be against the Author of the publication, and not against any one connected with the public Press." Now if any one who, by writing in a News paper, is willing to mischief, but desirous to avoid responsibility, must of necessity be " a base and cowardly assassin," pray what were the anonymous libellers who published their rebellious effusions a few years ago in the Dublin Chronicle . 2 Mr. O'Connell perhaps, or Mr. Scully, the author of the Penal Laws, can answer this question. But, in the name of com mon sense, what has the individual thus com plimented to do with the merits of the case ? or what use in the idle bravadoing about allowing the truth to be pleAed in bar of the action ? Every one of the charges against Maynooth may be true, and yet not capable of proof in a Court of Justice. No man assuredly doubts the real objects of the Association itself, but still it might be (under a free Constitution like ours) a task of labour to convict it of overt acts of treason punishable by law. All tirades discharged by the Papists against Orangemen and Orange Societies have no other basis but moral evidence. Are not other persons then to exercise their faculties as as well as Catholics ? or because a set of cunning knaves, schooled in casuistry and versed in the practical dissimulation of Je suits, do not openly betray themselves, shall we be brow-beaten into an absurd confession of their immaculate loyalty and virtue ? If the purpose therefore of the Association be to thrust a vindication of Maynooth College down our throats, the menaced prosecution is useless. A legal verdict in favour of that seminary would do nothing to establish its character. The Papists themselves would consider it a mere ruse, and every one else would afterwards entertain the same opinion as at present. In point of fact, however, the zealous defence of Maynooth, under taken by the Catholic Association, and the pane gyric of the Priests educated there, lugged into the Report of the Committee, further corroborate the intimate union between the Popish Clergy and Laity, in the existing enterprise against the inte grity of the empire. We have always expressed our horror of this coalition. The Association can move the people only by means of their Priests, and the Priests will move them only through their bigoted zealotry for Popery--and with the view of exalting the Romish Religion upon the ruins of Protestantism, and sacrificing the interests of their country to the aggrandizement of their Church. We find too, that in aid of these schemes the Irish Priests have enlisted the whole body of Catholic females into their ser vice. In 1819 we had, share to remember ! fe male reformers in England, and now we have female rebels in Ireland! These amiable politi cians are loud and laughable in their admiration of Mr. O'Connell, for they at once make a Jupiter of him ! What piece of folly and fana ticism shall the Association be guilty of next ? PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From toe Liverpool Courier, Dec. 29, 1824.) IRELAND.—It is the manoeuvre of several of these public prints which have advocated the admission of the Papists to power in this Protestant and free country, to repre sent the proceedings of the Popish Faction in Ireland as either the work of noisy and clamorous men, without power to do mischief; or as innoxious and praiseworthy, because Popish Noblemen and Gentlemen are contributing their quota to the " Catholic Rent." They have argued, from the in nocence and harmlessness of the Papists, in favour of their claims being granted ; and now, forsooth, since it is obvious to all the world that they are neither innocent nor harmless, we are told, in order to hide, as long as possible, the evidence of their own stultification, that the noise now making is without danger, and the Catholic Rent a harmless fund, be cause O'Connell swells the one with his orations, and' my Lord such an one" swells the other with his subscription.— Thus several of the leading London Morning Papers hide the real case from the country, for the sake of the poor pride of ap_ pearing to be consistent, and give scarcely any report of those proceedings from the Irish papers which, if faithfully exhibited, ' would still more fully open the eyes of the country to the mo tives and proceedings of the Irish Papists. We ask, in answer to all these smooth and delusive remarks, hiding, as they care fully do, as much Irish intelligence as possible from their En glish readers ; we ask, what is the object of what is called " Catholic Rent ?" It is now a formidable and rapidly in creasing fund ; it is wrung, by all the arts of the priests, from the Papists, and by the threats of the Papists, from some Pro testants. Nor is it to be viewed like subscriptions for Hunt and the Queen's plate, and other radical devices, a fund raised from the deluded only, as a purse into which needy demagogues, who never keep their hands from picking and stealing, might dip their hands, and arrest in its progress to its intended objects. There are men too cunning and too watchful connected with the Catholic Rent to suffer this. What, then, is its object ? We defy any man to think of a rational and assignable one, except either to force what they call emancipation, by overawing Par liament; or to effect a popish revolution. If any man think that we put the case too strongly, let him attempt to form to himself any other reasonable conjecture as t o t h e app li cat i on o f a subscription so universal, increased daily by the application of a subscription so universal, increased daily by the application of the whole influence of the priests, extending to all classes, and swelling to so large an amount. We repeat, that this is ' impossible; and, indeed, is is scarcely hidden, that the Papist will now demand the ' rights" which they have so long pe titioned for; a proceeding in which the radicals of Lancashin were formerly tutored. It has in it, then, the nature of menace, and must be so used, as to render that menace influen tial. How this can be without a conspiracy we know not, an► without such preparations for enforcing and demanding, a must amount to a conditional declaration of rebellion, in cas the claims are not granted. It comes then to this : whether th Papists will content themselves with showing reasons why theh petitions should be granted, and bringing the public mind tt think with them, the only legal mode of proceeding, or whether they will resolve to fight for the power they claim. The exist. ence of this rent is a proof that they have chosen the latter; anc will any dozing, dreaming politician pretend, that if they fine themselves in a condition, to wrest this from the fears of Par. liament, they will stop there. No man but a downright idio could come to this conclusion. TO surrender one iota to fore( would be to surrender Ireland to give Protestant property to Papists, and Protestants themselves to extermination. So fearfu: is the risk which the Irish Government takes upon isself, in suf fering this engine of rebellion, little short of open a nd avowe r rebellion, to mature itself under its eye. We do not go to the other object, a popish rebellion, because it is included in the conspiracy to force " Catholic emancipation :" the one neces sarily folluws the other; and, therefore, the present conspiracy demands suppression just as much as if the latter object were fully avowed. But two questions are asked. What could O'Connell and the other brave barristers of the Association gain but " broken heads" in case of a tumult ? We be lieve, indeed, that this is all they would gain ; but whether they believe it is another thing . If this conspir ac y i s t o go on, commanding, as it will, th e deluded populace by the influence of the priests, many a demagogue has hazarded his head and his neck too on fainter probabilities of success. It is true they are also radical reformers, and, should a Popish Government be established, it would not recognise any thing approaching to radical ideas of popular liberty. We grant that ; nothing is more certain ; the struggle is to seal up the Irish people in mental and in civil slavery, for which Po pery is the best instrument on earth. But that is no bar to the radical demagogue : give hint power, and he becomes the veriest tyrant in existence. Who doubts this, whether Cobbett or O'Connell be in question ? And, as iris the popish radicals, let the cause but succeed, they will get absolution for all past liberality ; and give them power, and you cure them of all fit. ture tendency to offend in that particular. The next question which has been asked is, Can the Catholic noblemen and gen try intend a revolution ? Why not ? We see nothing absurd in this. Should they succeed, their interest will be promoted by it, and they will acquire the merit of making Popery triumph ant. It is not the case of nobles and gentry in England excit ing the mob, for they have here no means of governing it ; hut, with the priest, they can govern the superstitious populace most implicitly in Ireland, and establish a government as fa vourable to themselves as they please. Danger, then, there is ; and it is not to be avoided by concession, but by firmness and timely measures of precaution. JAMES ABERNETHY, the famous beggar, is now ' laid up for life in a hospital. He was born in Edinburgh in March, 1722, and was bred a cork cutter, which occupation he left at the age of eighteen, and entered the service of his coun try. He served abroad in a cavalry regiMent (it is thought the Oxford Blues) and was engaged in the 23d year of his age at the famous battle of Fontenoy, anti very likely is the only per son alive who fought on that memorable day. James gave a very imperfect account of this battle, having been too particu larly engaged to make general observations. On his regi. ment taking their station in the morning, and when he had a view of the combined army and of the French, he said that he had no idea the world could have afforded such numbers. He does not deny that he was afraid at first, but fear soon gave way._ Ile was several times unhorsed in the Brulziemcnt ; and found, to his surprise, next morning, his horse was black, having en tered the field on a gray one. The next most memorable event in James's military life, was being on duty at the wedding of his late 31ajesty, and he was fonder of dwelling on this than of Fontenoy. H e rece i ve d hi s di sc h arge shortly ater this, and coming to his native place, wrought some time in the quarry at Craigleith, where he niet with the accident that ingloriously lamed him. Having no pension, and being disabled for work, he took to beggary, and, till within two years, has been a regu lar traveller in Clydesdale and Ayrshire. He was in business nearly fifty years, and, during that time, it was calculated that he had, on an average, drank a gallon of whisky every week, thus having consumed 1,100 gallons of that precious stuff.— James could scarcely bo called a wit, although he had many stories and querks that passed for it in the country. Soon after the accession of the late Earl of Eglington, he one day. met James going into the house, and ordered him to turn. James, as his custom was, on receiving a repulse, was extremely rude, and his Lordship threatened to have him taken as a vagrant if ever he again entered the policies. James, on going out, met with another of the order, whom he endeavoured to persuade to return, as his visit to the castle would be unproductive. His brother, however, passed on, saying he knew the right side of the Earl. James, in his next journey, again approached the noble residence, and again met its owner, who, enraged at the presumption of the gaberlunzie, was not very nice in the choice of the epithets he bestowed on him. James never spoke, but made a circle around the Earl, eyeing him most attentively. His Lordship, alarmed at this strange conduct, demanded the cause of it. " Why," said James, " I have been told that your Lordship has aright and a wrong s id e , b u t I con f ess I see no difference. Ilis Lordship, on hearing this, laughed, and told James that lie would give orders he should have some thing to eat,—" and to drink," said James, " ay ! and to drink." James was quartered, some years ago, in a farm house near Strathaven. For a considerable time before, this farmer's cows had been unbound ever y n i g h t i n a mysterious manner. This made a great noise, and attracted public atten tion ; but when Abanethy slept in the byre, the cows were all found fast bound in the morning. Latterly, James had to be carried from house to house in 7asart, when he began to sate money, as he could not then get calling at the ale-house..— (Glasgow Journal.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Januard 4. Attistet dam 1m to, at Sight Rotterdam l2 3 Antwerp 12 3 Hamburg!) 37 0 Us. Allows Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto . 25 45 I L.. Rom dealix, ditto Berlin 7 5 Fiankfortim the Main Petri sburgli • 9 Vienna 10 0 • Trieste 10 0 Madrid • . - 36 Effective' Cadiz !Whoa 35i Etiectivis Barcelona icville Gibraltat . Leghorn Genoa ~.„ 4 4 3 / 4-Veniee, Ital. Liv. 47 Malta Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro 48 . 50/ Onblin ...• 9 3 / 4 Coil; 9 3 / 4 pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal Golil,lll Foreign Gold, in 13ats.., New Doubloons New Dollars..., Silver Standard in Burs, 1.0 0 0 per OS, 3 17 9 , 0 0 0' .. 0 4 10* 0 5 Of, BIRTH. At Boulogne-sur-mer, on the 31st December, the lady or T. C. Grattan, Esq., of a son. - - MARRIED. Lately, at Madrid, Count Brunetti, Austrian Ambassador at the Court of Spain, to the eldest daughter of the :Marquess of Camarasa. Ou the 28th December, at North Otterington, 'Yorkshire, Joseph Addison, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to June, eldest: daughter of the late Thomas Beckett, Esq., of Thornton-le- Moor. At Cardington, Bedfordshire, on the Ist inst., the Rev. Stowell Chudleigh, to Mary, wi4ow of the late James Palmer Hobbs, Esq., of Mount Ephreitn, Tunbridge Wells. DIED. On, Saturday last, the Ist inst., Miss Elizabeth Wright, of Great Ormond-street. On the 4th inst., at her house in Bromptooz-row, Mrs. Ana Taylor. On the 4th inst., in Clifford -street, Charles Hanbury, Esq., of Sloe-faun, Halstead, Essex, aged 58. On the 3(1 inst., in Dorset-place, Clapham,-road, Francis William Wilcox, the infant son of Mr. F. W. Co Lately, abroad, C. John Travers, Euston-place. • • Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the OFk'ICE, No. 112, itrand, by J. B. CsnaTAO.%