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LITILRATURE. PIIILIOTHECA PARRIANA. VOI, -- J. Peas. London, 1827. The celebrated Library of which this corpulent el oarto is the catalogue, was collected by the late Dr. Purr with infinite expense, after years of the most assiduous perseverance. It was said, by those who had seen it, and devoutly believed by those who had not, to contain accumulated treasures in almost every department of litera ture ; scholars coveted it, antiquarians dreamed of it,. authors meditated petty larcenies upon it, Feetriots proposed purchasing it for the public, and even Sir .Thomas Lethbridge, though there were not two hooks in the whole that he could read, and not one that he could understand, was heard to pronounce_ it a rather creditable collec tion for a Whig parson. Yet what after all is ehe fact ? Why this, that though voluminous it is far from valuable, consisting tor the most part of dull, obsolete, verbal criticisms (MSS. and otherwise), on the classics ; musty, theological, and philological tracts, bound up in quaint volumes ; editions of Latin and Greek writers, selected as much with a view to their scar ci.ty as their value ; and curious old manu eeripte picked up, no matter at what cost, in order that Doctor Parr might be enabled to say " I am the only scholar in Europe who pos seseee them." it .was well observed by the late C. Mills, that 1119,11 1 S mind. may,in,nine cases out of ten be judged.of.:byhis library ; apply the wet to Dr. Psrr, and it will prove him just what he really was, an erudite but net an enlarged scholar, an eeemplary grammarian, a shrewd verbal critic, a conscientious but useless party man. There was no book in the 'Greek, Latin, or English lan geages, that he had not read or could not in some degree discuss.. .His memory was a vast store house of facts,, opinions, and anecdotes, all which he retailed in the same dry faithful manner that La had received them. Hence his conversa tion, replete with matter, was delightful, but wanted that inexpressible charm which learning, when v: aimed by genius, never fails to impart. He would sit for hours, busily engaged smoking his pipe, and entertaining his admiring listeners (for the Doctor, we should premise, had all that pride of conversation so characteristic of the Johnsonian school) with anecdotes or opinions of ;ais most distinguished contemporaries ;language and correctness of fact were never wanting to Lend them importance ; .yet he knew not how to da - aw rn inference, or to render his stories illustrative of peculiar theories or arguments : he technically related one, then paused, shsok the ashes from his pipe, and proceeded to ano there As a scholar he possessed a vigorous ap petite, but a weak digestion. He com mitted whetic volumes to memory, yet rarely meditated upon one. They oppressed, not nourished his mind, like the food of the Ana -sondes, beneath the weight of which he lies inert and Useless. Look, for instance, at his far-famed Preface to Bellendenus. Though correct, in ieed, almost faultless in composition, it is merely ingenious patch-work, every word, every sen lence, every peculiar or striking paseege, being modelled on, and selected from Cicero. Look again, to his Spiral Sermon, which the Edin burgh Reviewers so humourously handled. It is replete with learning, full even to an overflow with quotation, yet where is the thought, where the pewee of imagination, which should teens such acqt rizeths , nts to account, convert them intoaa healthy Mental chyle, and then send them .forth regenaratvi, streOgtened, and W hall-informed, with the readers on eeuliar p ideas? Dr. Parr, though a boici man and ex emplary scholar , was b ut a shallow thinker ; he cuirelv adopted opinions as he fourld them in . books. unmodified and unamended, and without l•eferezics to time or circumstance. . On running through the present catalogue, we - find shat it fully warrants us in our notion of , Dr . • Parr as a scholar. It is voluminouS i t ercrigh for a public library, yet abounds for the naost part in trash. The classical and theolo gic portion are decidedly the best ; yet e ven here there is an immensity of lumber, such as , 6 C. T. Ammon Summa Theologice Christie nok"—a Treatise filled with the common places .of thehlogy " Apthorpe's Observations on -Gibboet"—dull enough to be episcopal; " Bella tny's remarks upon his translation of the Bible:" " 'Various readings on the textsof the Apoca lepse ;" and " Sermons by Matthew Booker" childish and feeble tied somewhat grandiloquent ; together with an infinity of others of the same s.;alibre in point 44 value. In the classical de -nerineent we find first and .foreenoet tragedies and frexgments, edited by Dr. Butler,mani festly praised on sen tation copy, account of their being a pre to which a flaming inscrTtion iu honor ‘, Oretatissimi Samueli Parr, is at tached, such, in fact, was the Doctor's vanity —such his inordinate swallow, that he could liment Two friends aegl: eat the most brazen 4-4. imp but a vile classic, of ours, one -ate exceiiere, 'writer of:English tragedies, the G.:4er a compiler of . ethids,- 'dispatched tr,,,eir respective v,,, , prks to Batton, ~~itli hyperbolical compliments (paaM h em . Nfeanwhile a bet in joke) . attached to t . was made between the par ties that e.:e• Doctor's eeatitutle would, if possib le, exceed than- admi ration; and accord in g l y a few days post }vane - lit -them both the expected answers ; in one the 'Doctor made use of the terms " learned, ornate, g'octuent, . and transoendant," in the other he Ipoite'of.hie beings" almost a proselyte to the exquisite poweie.of.logie.posseased by his gifted friend." N•- - 'To resume —Under the imposing lead of itetory," we find shell trash as " The His tory of Birmingham ; "—...“.;, ? nath , an Boucher 's American Revolution,' a compound Vieve of tse of re udico A nd stupidity Chateothriand's Travels to the Holy La nd (a work fillet; with affected piety s ad maudlin sentiment,turn where tinsel pol i t i cian h ever y thing by arid n othing long," drivels th ro ug h nearly. half a volume' over the c. crusade-struck Lewis, hi s own birth clay on board ship, and the n ettle which. grew on the tomb of Leonidas —a workws with his, in first lonshort, which a :school-boy .oettgro i- tailed coat) —an Abridgement of Bru ce's Travels," for schools ;—are " Account of the Opinions of the most Distinnpi.shed English writers on the French Revolutiene," pub lished before Burke's noble reflect ens ap - geared--a wretched " Translation of Froissart," " the most chivalrous and untransferable chroniclers—" Ilawkesworth's Voyages," a book mis-statements, and written solely for the trade``. Maurice's History of Hindostan," a '* °Tr 'SP"us but superficial production—" Street's 4-reign of:L cu i s XVI.," the vary quintessence of rti jr CI T ,OII- 1113.ce, both in style and: matter—" Tay lor (dia. - Plato n i st : s o Dissertation on the E leu e einiate. es, a work more m ysterious than the MYstaties themselves—" i,,. A Guide to .E xe ter Cathedra;".— ,, s History of lasznw lP Gibson of a Speech delivered a t Maideubeta ~43„,0„.....„ pocet Conspanioa for Oxford,"—together with a hun dred others of the same stamp, "quos nunc pra scrsbere longam ea." Under the head " Meta physics". we have " Beattie's Essay on Truth, a much over-rated work,—" Philosophical Re flections on the Virtues of . Tar Water," which reminds us of Dr. 3laginn's philosophical re flections on seeing a Hottentot in top-boots ; " Collard's Logic for Schools" (what sort of logic is that ?)—" A portable French Dictionary of Philosophy," wherein every thing relative to this world and the next is disposed of within the compass of an ordinary coat pocket ;—" Geddes' Essay on original Genius," which Dr. Parr has praised, but which goes to prove that g enius is nothing more than an acquaintance with the Greek and Latin Grammars ;—"John Fearn's Demon stration of necessary connection," a somewhat equivocal title ;—" Harvey's Meditations," a work in which, to the best of our recollection, the sentiment of Sterne, blended with the diction of Ossian, is wedded to the twang of the conven ticle (though the author, we believe, preceded all three)—" - Hill's Plan for Instructing Boys in Large Numbers,"—" Knox's Essays," the most trite and common-minded of its class—" Ozell Logic," a quaint ordinary treatise by, if we mis take not, the Editor of Sir T. Urqhwart's Rabelais, an author duly noticed in the Dunciad—" Watts's Logic," a dry scholastic, but perhaps useful (to those who can wade through it) treatise—and, lastly, " Wotton's Ancient and Modern Learning," a production which Swift has so justly, but unsparingly tenahawked, in his ironical and comprehensive Tale of a 'rub. In " Natural History," we find " Abbot's account of the flowers that grow in Bedfordshire;"—" Dod son's Rules for learning common Arithmetic," — Goldsmith's Animated Nature,"—an amusing but deceitful guide--" Knight's Treatise on Ap plea,"—" Lambe's Cautions against Water-pipes and Cisterns,"—" Levbourn's Mathematical Questions, proposed in the Ladies Diary,"—and " Mawe and Abercrombie's Gardener." Among the " Books of Pleasantry," we find the follow ing exceedingly funny works :—" Buchanan's Paraphrase of She Psalms,"—" Coleridge's Greek Prize Poem,"—" Dantisci Joannis poemata et hymni"—" Deliciat poetarum Bel gicorum"—" A very humorous disertation, in which Anonymous endeavours to prove that women are not men, and to which a woman replies that they are,"—" Hobbes's (Thomas) Ecclesiastical History in verse."—" Hermanni (Parr's idol) poesis sacra,"—" Fl oogeveen Car mina Elegiaca,"—" Hoyeri Trageedie."—Mil ton's Sampson Agonistes,"—and " Sacra Lyrica." Among the " English Miscellanies," we dis cover " the tons of Erin, or the cause of the Greeks, by a native cf Bengal," a Tragedy in which a woman hanging her head, is beautifully compared to a bunch of unripe grapes—" a Miss Carter's Poems,"— " Florence Miscellany," a notable specimen of the Della Crusca School,"—" Glover's Leo nidas," an epic now deservedly forgotten— " Ireland's • Shakepeare Forgeries," which Dr. Parr worshipped on his knees—" Poems by Chandos Leigh," sad stuff—" Zeluco," a very over-rated picture of life—" Pizarro and the Virgin of the Sun," two dismal German melo drames—" Watts's Lyric Poems,"—and " G us tavus Vasa," by an ingenious Eton Boy. Such taken from Dr. Parr's own catalogue, is a fair sample of its value. We should add that he praises those only among his contemporaries, who lavishly return- the compliment. He pre fers Herman to Poison, because the former larded him with eulogy... lie bestows notices ott the most worthless works of the day - ; while Burke, • Sir James M'lntosh, whose well-known “Vin diciee Garnett" is passed without a word—though immediately afterwards, Godwiit's pompous Pol. Justice, is introduced with respect) and Gibbon, men who were really scholars in the most enlarged sense, are not even mentioned or alluded to. The truth is, Dr. Parr, throughout his life, was an infinitely over-rated man. Ile did nothing for his age, he has done as much for posterity ; at the very hey-day of his fame he was at best but a li terary Gourmand : the learning of others as sumed no new shapes, no new combinations in his mind ; it was not, as with Burke and John son, impregnated with thought and sentiment ; as his information was received, so also in due season was it reproduced—a shapeless unformed mass. In his private character, how ever, the Doctor was all that could he desired. He was an excellent husband, (and in this in stance he was sadly tried) ; an indulgent father ; a devout, but not an austere, Christian ; a con scientious partisan ; and, except where his vanity was concerned, a staunch enthusiastic friend. With this praise let his admirers rest contented. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. s.—The subscriptions to raise a fund for the erection of a monument to the me. tuory of Mr. Canning amount this evening to 2,500/. At a meeting of the Common Council held. this day, it was unanimonaly resolved that the sum of 500/. from the cor poration funds should be appropriated to the same. MANCHESTER, SEPT. 6.—The inquiry for yarns has diminished again this week ; the recent advance has, therefore, been too short-lived to produce all the good that sas by some anticipated from it. There is a consi derable depio of gloom over the r.rn and raw cotton mar- kets : the latter is deohicuily heavy, with rather an indica tion of a decline in the price, Twist has not yet fallen, beiog already below a remunerating price. Neither does improve, and many of the spinners, particulrily those of low sii;enbers, have much diFeouragement to struggle with. No,. 20's water twist may be boug ht at lO i d., and • 21's at 11fd, ,per gib. In goods there is considerable b ness doing for the general c ountry trade. Some descrip tions are of course more wanted than others, ambngst which may be reckoned bleached quiltinge, which are re presented as being in unusual dernend: The silk manu facture, particularly in the branch of heavy and substantial fabrics, bap ackluired a superiority over that of most other places in England. It meets, therefore, avith a correspond ing attention front the buyeye, and that trade generally is in a state of rapid intproreme!:,,t• 'pie price of calicoes has I varied once or twice during the past ' week as much as three-pence per piece, and the demand has accordingly fluctuated in a slight degree; they are now, neWisver, seti4 at recent prices, and with a steady market. The table in the Maniteur specifies the quan tity of shipping which belongs to French ship-owners, and that which rs nariga. , ,ed under a foreign flag. Th e latter nearly doubles the foirear, being in 1825, as 400,140 tons ,c) 247,264.; and in 13226, as 4)2,672 to 2213,719. The number of seamen employed in navigating the French commerciat navy, is stated, in 182 f.), at .25,6 37 ; and 411826, at 22,551. This is exclusive of the trade of France with her colonies, which employed, in 18ifi, 4.39 ships, measuring 10,00 tons; and in 1826, 54 . 2 ves .,els, with 127,026 tons, The seamen engaged in this branch of commerce are stated, in the abate years respec -7,668. This tivelv, to be 6,413 and statement t uflicates a grey inwrovement in the French colonial trade within the sport spaq,pf a twelvemonth. In comparing this account of the shippin ,e . f France with th a t o f England and of the g United States of .11'merira, we both discover the great dis proportion between the extent a the trade of the latter two countries and the former, and likeiviee ske great difference hetwre; the,quantity of L ome and for e i g n vessels eTop;.2;.-ed in each. Th:. whole of the tonnag e employed in t he foreign cornmgrce.of France dill not amount, in 1826,t0 a half of that employed by theti nixed States, and to little more than a fourth of that employed by this country ; and while abont half the foreign trade of France is car.,:ied on by foraipers, .er4y one-third of that of Great Britain, and on e-tenth of that of tram-:!,4l brethren, ie en irossed by foreign 149ttca.6.,.-fivi. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (Front the Gazette de France, dated Sept. 6.) (BY AN EXTRAOSDP.44II.Y CHANNX.L.) CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 7.—The English Am bassador has received, by an extraordinary courier, the treaty concluded at London between the three Powers, (with which the Porte was already ac quainted) and the instructions of his Court. The Ministers of France and Russia expect theirs. it is supposed that as soon as they have received them, they . wilr simultaneously present the ratified treaty as the ultimatum. On the other hand it may he considered as de cided that the Porte will . resist : the known decla- rations of the Turkish Minister, as well as the dis position of the Mussulmen, give reason to think that at the last extremity the Sultan may very likely send passports to the Ministers of the three Powers. The Europeans residing at Smyrna are in the greatest alarm ; the English subjects have sent a petition to Mr. Stratford Canning, in which they represent the danger they are exposed to, to ask him for instructions. AUG. B.—The Porte, since it has been acquainted with the tieaty of intervention, seems resolved to, assume an imposing attitude. All the occasions that occur for any communication with the Ministers of the three contracting Powers, indicate that the Sultan by no means fears an open repulse, and that he rather hopes to take advantage of it to electrify his people. The Reis Effendi has openly declared that the time was come, when the Porte had no re source left but to put its hand to the work, and by a bold conduct to lay open all the diplomatic shifts; that the Porte knew what it intended; whereas the mediators themselves were not clearly determined about any thing connected with this mediation, which must become burdensome to them ; that the opening of the Seven Towers would solve the problem, and that the character of the Sultan was a pledge that they would be opened as soon as the Plenipotentiaries should dare to present the treaty in an official manner. The Ministers of these Powers appear, in fact, to fear the renewal of the ancient custom of the Turks : it is said that Mr. Stratford Canning has been in possession of the treaty for some time; that M. de Ribeaupiere received it a few days ago, but that they will not take any step till Count Gnilleminot can join in it. They expect, by acting together, to prevent the execution of the Sultan's menaces. The organization of the regular troops continues without interruption ; it is affirmed, that the amount of the regular army is 80,000 men. The Sultan unremittingly urges the execution of the new ordi nances ; and the aversion which the Turks formerly manifested against any thing new, seems to have given way to a kind of thirst of innovation. We learn from Greece, that Lord Cochrane has captured several Turkish ships of war, but that all his efforts to revive the martial spirit of the Greek marine have been in vain ; and that he is limited, to acting only with the vessels he has brought with him.—Augaburgh Gazette. VALLEE DE CAROL, AUG. 25.--It is announced that a corps of Royal troops has arrived at Berga, without meeting with any resistance on its march. It is affirmed that Joseph des Etangs has, however, not quitted the environs of that town, and that his band occupies the bridge of Rabenti, on the road of Cardonc and Bagua, on which a contribution has just been imposed of 1,000 rations of bread and about 20 quadruples. We do not know whether there has been any engagement : every thing appears very quiet on both sides: The several banls, it is said, continue to increase. The men belonging to them are paidregularly. The youths receive on enlisting 12 piastres, and rnarried men 15. The daily pay of the former is 25 sous per diem, and that of the latter 35.—Memorial Bordelal3. PARIS, SEPT. 3.--Prince •Yermoloffs, lately Go vernor of the Russian 'provinces beyond Mount Caucasus, arrived on the 31st of August at Frank fort. It is thought he is on his way to France, where he will fix his abode." (yen,. la., PAnts, SEPT. s.—The approaching return of Don Miguel to Lisbon, with the title of Regent, or Lieu tenant of the Kingdom, occupies at this moment general attention. Each party, according to its passions and interests, expects from this event dif ferent consequences. There is, in particular, one which does not conceal its joy, and which regards , the determination of Don Pedro as a victory. For' ourselves we shall say, that we do not believe in the complete realities of a triumph, which would be for all right-minded' people a subject of deep regret. — It is not to the military force, to the rebellion of a few malcontents, that Don Miguel owes his eleva tion. He has received it from his King, from Don Pedro, from the same hand which gave the Consti tution. It will hardly be supposed that the Emperor of Brazils and King of Portugal has intended to do two contrary acts, and destroy with one hand what he had built up with the other. We must rather suppose that this Prince has judged that the existence of the Constitution is compatible with that of the Prince Regent, who is now, greatly to the regret of those malcontents, equally his creation. Considerations, of which common sense !thews the truth, confirm the hopes that civilization always preserves in the midst of the most disheartening circumstances. Don Mi guel is not blind, and he will see from the e xample of a neighbouring State into what confusion a Go vernment must fall which substitutes an absolute for a Constitutional Government. The experience of Spain during the last five years will not be lost on him. He will not find the Portuguese as be left them. They are neither tranquil nor united; hut in the contest which has taken place opinions have be come classified, and interests distinguished. Opi nionF, are not to be commanded, and established in terests must be, from policy, protected. In the contest of parties, the Sovereign exposes himself, sacrificing one to the other, and the true object 7 the pacification of the country—will be promoted. The new Regent will comprehend this. When we re gard the interests of a country closely attempt ing to administer them, we find obstacles and im possibilities, Then we become enlightened as to the true. means of Government ; we nee the evils, and provide the remedies. The joy of the Apostolicals may, therefore, be only an illusion. The seizure of the pamphlet, in which MM. Manuel, junior, Lafitte and Mignet, published the description of the funeral of M. Manuel, has given occasion to the Gazette, and, after it, to the M on it eur , to express the;r wishes as to the issue of the pro ceedings begun in the Courts of . Law. Mignet t ve i2 t r ime authors alone has been interrogated;. but, if the seizure gives the two o o c th ca e of the pamphlet, will be tried. There will be another sriopnerstoonsa, toZ,OtNi:ieersgii.sn:tohedmosaebl question to decide--whether the discourses, pro nounced over the gave, and only published by the editors, being implicated , the authors o f these dis courses will be prosecuted, or only the edit ors ? jf time discourses are blam eable, the editors are not the only guilty persons, particularly if the p u blication took place with the consent and will of th e ora t ors . We can only hint our doubts, it belongs to j ustice to decide. The illoniteurlias pu blished a comparative state ment of the vessels which sailed from French ports for foreign countries and the colonies in 1825 and 1526. The retult is this :---- Tonnage. 1825---Vewla aailej, Foreign C9iiPtFin 9363_01,704 Ditto C o ;opiee. .. ....... 439-107,917 Total 9,902 754,751 16i6—Vessels tailed, Foreign Countries 8,355-66 1, 5 91 Ditto ............. ---- Tutal 8,897-788 ,417 From this it appears that Our exportation to f o rei , ' n countri es i n 1846, ' e Xceeded those Of 18'45 only by 147th, w hil e t he i n crease of exports to the Colonies amount e d to one:fifth. The .illonite ar a dd s .—lt m ay be remarked, by: comparing this with the importations previously published, that the excess of importations has been in particular advantageous to ports of the first such as Bordeaux, Marseilles, Havre, Nantes, while the increase of exportation has taken place princi pally from ports of the second order, such as Ba yonne, Rochelle, Brest, Cherbourg, Abbeville. This circumstance is of some interest. It chews that our large ports preserve all their advantages for importa tion, and attests at the same time, from the active part taken in exportation by ports of the second order, a marked progress in the industry of their vicinities. FRENCH FUNDS, SSPT. 5 . -NegntilitiOnA au Calliptallt 5 per Cent. Jouisa. of the 22d of March, 104 f. 45c. 50c. 45c. 40c. ; 3 per Cent. Jouias. of the 22d of June, '73f. Me. 30c. ; Bank Stock, 2,010. Foreign Funda.—Rentes de Naples Cert. Falc. 79f. 1.5 c. COLOMBIA. The following article, which is extracted from a Bogota paper of the 21st of June, throws some new and interesting light on that military convulsion which seems to threaten the southern provinces of Colombia, unless saved from it by timely energy on the part of Bolivar : " BOGOTA, JUNE 21. " The documents we have inserted in this day's paper, extracted from a pamphlet published by au thority in Quito, together with the official commu nications to the Government, completely confirm, in our opinion, what we have all along suspected in regard to the intentions of the Colombian Division on disembarking in the South of the Republic. It seems to us proved, beyond all doubt, that what commenced in sedition has ended in treason. " When the news of the deposal of their chiefs by the troops stationed in Lima first arrived, we incurred some censure for venturing to express our distrust of the intentions of such as sought to prove their obedience to the laws and their abhorrence of despotic and arbitrary measures, by illegal and un constitutional acts. This opinion was strengthened by the immediate change that was made in the Go vernment, after the mutiny of the troops ; and the fact of money having been distributed among them by the members of the new Administration did not Contribute a little to confirm us in our disapproba tion of the conduct of the division, and in our fears that the evil example they bad shown might prove contagious, and that when released from the Whole some discipline and restraint to which they had been before subjected, they might become as dangerous to the cause of liberty and independence, by their licentious behaviour, as they had before manifested themselves its ardent and courageous defenders. These apprehensions have been more than realized. The newly appointed chiefs have allowed themselves to be seduced by an implacable enemy to the rising prosperity of Colombia ; and the desire of per.. sonal aggrandizement, or perhaps a baser motive, has induced them to turn those arms against the Republic which the latter had placed in their hands to protect it against foreign aggression. While pretending to support the Constitution and the laws, and profes sing the most implicit obedience to the Government, they have been putting every spring in motion to effect the separation of the three Departments of the South, and their junction with the Republic of Peru; and the more ready to accomplish their designs, they have dispossessed of their authority the im mediate agents of the Executive power, and evaded the demand of the Commandant General' of the de partments of Guayaquil and Ecuador to place the division at the orders of the officer who had been appointed to take its command. Notwithstanding these acts of open disobedience, they still invariably maintained themselves to be actuated by nothing but a desire to rescue the people of the South from what they termed their oppression, and to support the Constitution and the laws, which every hour they daringly infringed. If some persons allowed them selves to be deceived by this duplicity, the Intend ant and Commandant-General of Ecuador had too much sagacity not to penetrate their designs, and too much patriotism not to attempt to subvert them. AIL' Jar._ on ce to Act-nand an explanationi W or his intentions from Bustamente, and his adViser, Luiz Lopez Mendez, and on obtaining an evasive reply, to effect a counterrevolution among the troops of that part of the division under the immediate orders of Bustamente, the result of which was his arrest, together with that of Lopez Mendez, and several other officers. At the same time, ac tive preparations wire made to resist the remainder of the troops who had left Guayaquil under the or ders of Colonel Delgado and General Barreto. The issue has not yet come to our knowledge. " A renewal of the disturbances which had so long afflicted the province of Pastos, has also been another consequence of the disturbances in the south, which ensued on the arrival of the division. Whether it has been the work of some secret emissary of theirs, with a view to favour their designs, or another of the attempts of the Peruvian Government to di vert our attention from the intrigues in that part of the republic : to whichsoever of these causes it is attributable it is certain that the insurrectionary spirit of the inhabitants of this mountainous district, which had been with so much difficulty repressed, has again burst forth, and threatens to involve them afresh in the calamities from which they had so re cently escaped. " Thus it appears that Colombia, after having for some time attracted the consideration of the other nations by the tranquillity with which she pur sued her march towards the prosperity that ba mense natural resources promised her, has within the space of one short twelvemonth, not only lost the brilliant reputation she had acquired, but dis covered to the world such seeds of future commo tions, as almost to make the most sanguine despair of the speedy restoration of tranquillity. So long as the disturbances of the republic were confined purely to a real or affected desire to promote its welfare, and no suspicions were entertained that foreign influence was at work, our hopes were always kept alive by the reflection that the patriotism of all was undoubted; and that although occasional deviations from principle, for the sake of interest, might be discovered, the determination of every one to sacrifice himself for the existence of the republic was firm and unalterable. Now it is different. The late occurrences in the south have shown that our army can be corrupted, that the flame of patriotism does not burn pure and unsullied in the breasts of all, and that the good faith and benevolence which we had fondly hoped would characterize the different governm'ents of the new Americau States, has failed to distinguish that one from which we had most right to expect it, if it were only on the score of gratitude for the immense benefits conferred upon 'eru. Still we are not without hopes that the dis affection and dishonourable conduct we lament has not extended beyond a few of the Chiefs; and that the stain which has been cast on the glory of the Colombian name may eventually prove to hav e fixed itself but on a few, whom a paltry love of g ain or • inordinate ambition has induced to deviate from the strict line of their duty, and postpone the g ood of their country'to their own personal view s and in terests." - -..: - DEATH OF ROBERTS, THE SINGER. —On Wednesday last, an inquisition was held at the Coach and Horses, Tunbridge Wells, touching the death of Mr. R. Roberts, a professional singer. From the evidence, it ap peared that the d ecease d h a d l a t e ly a rrived in Tunbridge Wells, from London, in company with Messrs. Padbury, tg Coutts, ,ing Brodie, atthe gaanrddeßrils ; andan(adlltvhoeeyalhisatvsi)ng been invited to the p9o3e of i the intoxicated ; but returned to th e i r l o d g i ngs excee di ng ly i and had mansion of a gentleman a short distance from the t own, had partaken t oo f ree l y o f th e i r h os t' s good cheer, Roberts being more in liquor than the rest of his com• ?anions, havi ng w ith some difficulty reached his bedroom , instead of g o i ng to bed had laid down at its side, where he 13 : r u sg s e e ttn ; ;11, was found a s h ort t i me a f terwar d s by the landlady of th e b apparen tly hoatted bleeding, but in va in . mpte dead. She immediate l y sent for a s The de cue about 2'7 y ears o f age , well known i n th e theatrical world, and was most deservedly respected. He has left a wife an d f am il y i n t h e inetropolis•'--Verdict— , Died from the effects of intoxication. 1 4 LONDON, 'ATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 18e7. Br the Gazette of last night, it will be seen :hat the appointment of the Lords constituting Le Treasury Board, is officially announced. Lord LEVESON GOWER retires. The appointment of the Right Honourable CHARLES GRANT, as Treasurer of the Navy, is also Gazetted. Mr. WlLmorr HORTON will, is said, succeed Mr. GRANT as Vice-Presi dent of the Board of Trade. In another column eve have given extracts from the Paris Paper:- of Wednesday, and the Gazette de France of 1 hursday. It would appear, by the last accounts from Constantinople, that the SULTAN was disposed to resort to harsh measures 'against the Ambassadors of Ragland, France, and Russia, if they dared to present the Convention entered into by their respective Courts for the pacification of Greece. The threat of his Sublime 'MAJESTY extended to the committal of the Ambassadors to the Seven Towers, and it is insinuated that the dread of this outrage had induced Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, who had received his copy of the Treaty, not to present it until the French Ambas sador should receive his also, when the three would act simultaneously, and so mitigate the rage of the SULTAN by their combined strength. This conduct is not only prudent but necessary, for unity of action will give greater force to their remonstrance, and may be the means of their attaining the desired end without having recourse to more energetic measures. We have no doubt that the SULTAN will bluster a good deal at first on the official receipt of a document so humi liating to his pride—and he may even pretend to revive the summary mode of vengeance and inti midation so frequently resorted to by his more passionate yet 'Jess politic predecessors—but we are much mistaken if he will dare to carry such a threat into execution against the Representa tives of the three most powerful nations on the earth. Imprison three Ambassadors from Eng land, France, and Russia! the thing is prepos terous. The SULTAN is a man of great firmness of character, absolute daring, and personal intre pidity ; he has effected mighty changes at home ; but he knows that by offering an insult of such extremity to these Ambassadors, he would be provoking other men, h canisown mo d dera e t s e tn t i h c e tin. i o r aage T r y w ra h n e t n s, p li e ke r_ sonal safety whispers forbearance ; but should the OTTOMAN so far forget himself as to carry his threat into execution, he will repent his frenzy when the exercise of reason can only aggravate his remorse by the assurance that he has too irretrievably sealed his destiny. Frankfort P apers to t h e 2d i ns t. have been received this morning, but they are rather barren of news. The following are the only extracts worth giving : VIENNA, AUG, 26. This morning the sentence passed on Sererin Jarovinsky, the murderer of the venerable Abbe Plank, which is to be carried into execution on Thursday, was read to him in the tribunal of this city ; he chewed great firmness. The con course of people was very great. His Highness Prince Trout-Mannsdorff was brought to this city yesterday, dangerously ill, from his seat at Wal terskirchen, near Baden, and has today received the sacra ment of extreme unction. The accounts from Icehel respecting the health of the A ollmutz, state that he was rather better, but reduced to such a state of debility that he is not co nsidered to be out danger. or rchduk e Rudolph,His Imperial Cardi na l and Prince his brother , who was at Gastein, lost no time in goin g to him. The public here take great int erest in the Plince's illness. Highness the A rchduke John, The tendency to decline which was produced on our Exchanged by the news from Constantinople, lies not eon• tinned, the Baal; Si.aree (of Vienna) have been to-day at 1 . ,074, and dosed at 1,074; Metalliques, 9* aua. 24. Soon after the return of his Majesty, who is expected on the 26th, the great autumn reviews will commence• The troops at.,embled on this occasion consist almost en tirely of regiments of Landwehr (local militia), which are encampeAl near Tetlow. The King has issued a strict Cabinet order against the piracy of literary property, so that it will now disappear from among us in every possible shape. NITREMBURQ, A. irc. 29. His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelite arrived here the day before yesterday, on his'way to the castle of Taxis, to pay a,visit to his sister the Prin cess Dowager of Tour and Taxis. Letters from Malta of the 23d of July, state that considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at the want of convoy and detention experienced at that port of vessels putting in for protection, • bound to the eastward. The masters of five 'English vessels have entered their protest against the owners and underwriters, for all damages or losses which may arise from their proceeding in the' prosecution of their voyage without convoy. The ships in question sailed on the 19th, under the protection of his Majesty's corvette Hecla, in company with them. His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir E. CODRINGTON had sig nified to the masters of vessels bound to the eastward, that for the future such as do not wish to remain in the port of Malta, till a convoy appointed, had better proceed to Zante, when one of his Majesty's ships will he instructed to protect them as far as Cervi, where they will be taken up by another to their destination. The happy adjustment of the Ministry has put poor COBBETT almost out of his wits. In his Register of this morning he is quite furious that his prophetic ravings have not been fal.f.iled. He has once more appealed to his old friends, the Radicals, for affectionate sympathy in their common calamity. He is quite in a rage at all that has taken . place. He abuses every one— and puffs off his own inconsistency with amusing complacency. Next week he pro mises to outdo the falsehoods and folly of the last—but if w: may judge from the Gpecinaen before us, even he will find it a difficult task. When he has doialibelling others; we hope he will perform an act f justice, and speak the truth of himself. Mat one word stamped on his character woulo cover a multitude of sins. New York rapers, per the Silas Richards, Capt. MunnDca, have just been received at the North and South American CofFee-Iw'-1.: ,o the 9th ultimo,. from which malCelhe col-- lowing extracts (From the Afereapatiit Advertiser, August 8.) By letters from Carthegma, of the 12th July, we learn that Bolivar was to depart For Bogota, on the.lsth or 16th, with a regiment of Tiradores, aboutl,2oo strong; fir these troops he is said to a great predilection. Thy have often distinguished themselves: The whole number of troops ;in this place, including the garrison, were 3,700: yiritiniv frigate, — 2)1 4 #4, was to sail to fain' %Joann...a . Cockburn -- was w 4-tube.:l„.;., L., return to England. These Papers conr.in long accounts of the extretna heat in the United States, which had burnt up and parched nil the pastures and gardenN, and from which much ineonvethente was felt. They recite several deaths, occasioned by the incautious conduct of the parties drinking cold water whilst in a state of perspiration. By arrivals from Natchit.mhes of the Sd of July, it ap pears that a body of eighty men had been enlisted in New Orleans, for the ostensible purpose of aunreying a grant of land from the Mexicans, to some English gentlemen. They ascended the Oudoute River ; when in the neighbourhood of the Red River, muskets, swords, and knives, were placed in. their hands, and the band as sumed a warlike aspect, under 'the command of a man named Legrand (said to be of Maryland). Their movements are mysterious, end conjectures are aenat that they expect tl'e assistance cf the Chmkees, and wilt =lc a descent on the fortress of Nacogdcchts ; the party. is composed of alt nations,--among others Abaericaus, and fear is entertained that this circumstance will cause the Mexicans to have unpleasant feelinge, it being acknowledged they had treated travellers and others with the utmost hospitality, and offered every assistance. THE FUND --(THIS DAY). t7ITY, rwwz a' ewes'. This has been one of the dullest weeks we ever recollect, both in business and politieal intelligence, and the spirit of speculation in the City sewies to have been laid dormant, 94 least fer a time. Con sole opened at 37-1 for mone y ; and 871 for ac count, at which rate one or two transactions have been effected, and the only variation that has taken place was their being, at one time, nearly 874, but they have now returned to their first quotation ; :Ex chequer Bills arc 59 60, and India Bonds, 92 /Wpm. The Foreign Funds are also in an extraordi lay state of inanimation, and the prices of several the Bonds a little on the decline ; Mexicen'are heavy at 661 Colombian, 29i 30 ;as relates to this latter security some surprise was expressed on ha hieing known that Mr. Cockburn had returned to Jane:aielt in his Majesty's frigate .Dra4d; whether this er,;ses from a desire, on his part, that Bolivar should ap pear free from centroul in his future measures, or whether it arises from a feeling of disgust at . the anarchy and uncertainty whifth appears to attend t "i• government of that country, cannot at present known; or it may be that he will remeia at - Island to await the result athe Liberator's exert;eine to restore order in diet:county - v. end heentar at heed that he may releitie tits funetioNe if effairs shoiltd wear a more pacific feature. Shares are very dull, Brazilian Minas heaif at 19 20 pm.; tha disco - ea on United Mexieee seems a little ee the increase, being 204 194. Three per Cent. Comets, 97+ ditto ff , i• the Account. S7l 4 ; India Bonds, 9; 4 pin. ; Exehequer Bills, 69 60 pr_:. FOKltilbili.—Uraxili , n, 67 I- Buenos Ayree, 62 4 ; Chilian, 21 9 ; Columidan, 18 4, 2 sq; Danish, 661 fi Greek, 15 16 • Mexican 5 per t ; Mite 6 per Cent.. 66y-Peruvian, 244 &4 ; tuzitest., ; Russian, 93i ; SPAni*h• MiNxs.—Angle. Mexicx,n, ;; 50 trui. ; Brazrilau, -19 61 pin. ; Colombian, 8 9 per share; Real dal Monte, par pm. ; United Alexiocn t 20 19; ilia. Two Ctoc z. The only alteration in the Consol Market is tlieir improvement to 874, buyers, for the Account, with scarcely any business. The Foreign Funds continue heavy, but with little variation since the morning. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols, 87k, buyers. FOUR, o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 87f 1 Danish Bonds 63 Do. for Ac. 871 Greek Do. 1825 , 151 Brazilian Bonds G7f Mexican Do. 16‘.:.5 06k Buenos Ayres Do. 614 Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 931 Columbian, 1824, 30 Spanish Du. POLICE I John Grui torn-hill, wit 41 own purpe ►ccount of abc tie received tl The prisons which affeete , iFoor in the et fo n nd his po afterwards he to work out Mr. Evans lad been getti meat he had moreover, tha kind that he l employed. kr: -Alder, Ru )1-AW pudent boy, ter, King-str , insolent and Mr. Hughes,: charged by ti away, and eta complained deal of trout'. The Mao] time for refl.( cent them bol ii eyer they fence, their Mary Si Ulu) Whited when• she prisoner the in betore ye knew, who would be nil ;e. She ht part. The if the Magic day, he wou eumetances. COINIRS dividnels in who were Limbrisk, been on the rion, sued were this u Edward L Bailey. the house 1! and hie wit prehended were not al hands, and that they apartment in the proc terfeit shill After a magistrate ; yrsa abject amination. As tool L icy d, at Mr. Montrail. Mr.' tu views 3 Baroi twansac t ed Desp s-Ckskuial I Chief of The shooting The/ prisoners Sessionzi, are for rr BuR actual pr the eartl . 0 11c.rteci A piece action n of ciatly th intense I from STA -toll • bourboa bouring 'The avi 10d. to will ma has bee Glasgoi can onl cell, it duetion not krc any pci chiefly JurrclaD more g it cane Tll of civil ken ny tiis .b e pr which tain E It is t tingui ,:ounti ruscEs OF STOOKS THLS Dank Stock - I 3 per Cent. Red. - 3,per Cent. Cons. , E57%V,i, 3ii per Cent. - I Ditto Red. 4 per Cent. New ... ...... 11l 1 - 1.7' Ditto, 182 Bank L. Ann. India Stock 1 Ditto Bonds pm. TWICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bands, 5 percent. Biazilizut Bonds Buenos Avres Bonds. Bonde, 6 pet U. Colombian Bond; Ditto, 18i4 Danish, 3 per camt. Greek Bonds Ditto, tBL6 Guatemala Mexican Bonds 53 Do. 132' 6694% PRICES OF SHARE'S iktu Brazilian Mining Co. General Mining Association Hibernian Mining Co. Potooi La Paz and Peruvian A PRICES OF IRISI Bank Stock Consols, 3 per mot. Gov. Stelt,*i par emt 104 Ditto, New 93X, 4 per Cent. 100% Gov. Dth. per cent - Royal Canal Stock ... 294 Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent 134illavt Office Deo. 3 p. ct - DAY AT CINN O.OLOVK. South Sea Stock OW Annuities New Ditto £l,OOO 9d. 59 6i) pan. Ditto 5OO 2d. 59 CIO pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Bank for Account 214 India for Account Cons. for Oct. SIN THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds I'ortuguese Bonds Prus.iian, 5 r.er cent. ... — Ditto, New New Spanish lan, 9 V , 1821 10 1 ,4 183 — French Rentes, 5 p.c _lo4t —c. —.-- Exchange 25t. 20c. --- 3 per cent. —f. —c. --- Exchange.— —f. —c. OAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Shrze, X2O 43 y 4, 5 B ' l N S 11 10}4 asoc. 3 tit 9s. 36. STOCKS, SEPT. 5. St. Patrick !astir. (pee ill.) Royal Irish Ditto — National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank illi Provincial Ditto Royail I risk Mine N Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings — NOF: YESTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCIIA Amsterdam C.F. 12 3 Ditto, at sight l2 0 Rotterdam . 2 U l2 41 Antwerp l2 41 Hamburgh 2SG U. 36 10 A Rona 2V, U. 37 11 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditty 2 U. 25 65 Bordeaux 25 65 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M.1:52 Petersburgh,rble... 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, edtctive fl. 2 M. 10 6 Trieste do. Madrid 3SA Cadiz 35% Bilboa Barcelona 34A Seville 35 Gibraltar 45 Leghorn 4B Genoa 25 55 Venice 46 Malta Naples 18N Palermo per oz. 115 Lisbon 484 Oporto Rio Janeiro 97 Bahia 46 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' big h t Cork Osi DIA Arrived. Due. O America e O Brazil 0 O Buenni Ayres I Dublin O Flanders 0 O France O Gottenburgll O Guerr-seyttJersey 0 BULLION, pua O. g. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 PI 6 New Bo oublooad New Dollard 0 4 91 Silver. bars, standard 0 3 Oi Arrived. Due. O Hamburgh 0 O Holland 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Leeward Islands O Lisbon 2 1 Malta 0 O Mexico 0 1 Waterford 0 IfIGII•WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mornmg...l4 minutes after 4. f Evening ....31 minutes after 4. next, comp aow 'OUTS aXO $1 with 4 horse i!stytined tined ariiv num witl ter par the to F the; hay ALE