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„ :nuidge to rise to An end to the wretch who is thl o,ragin of all their misery.” By letters from Malta, to the 7th July, the learn that Vice-Admiral Hotham tad arrived O0:1 in H.lll. S. St. %'ieeent, at eleven - o'clock MI the night of the Itith of Arline, and had succeeded Vke-Admiral Sir P. Malcom in the command of that station. H. M. S. Britannia sailed on the °3d of 'Tone, with Sir Pulteney for England, and may therefore be daily expected. The St. Vincent had been refitted, having experienced ore rongh weather, and had taken in a new topqtast, She expected to go to Naples in a few weeks. The same letter lineations also the arrival at Malta of the French frigate Artimese with the Prince de Joinville, third son of Louis Phillip. The Isis, 50-gun frigate, is ordered to he brotght 'for ward in the Medway for c3rnmission. this ship was originally put in frame as a S'O, tpon 'two tleeks, hut at the moment when the Americans &M"t us to build large frigates, her frame was polled apart in midships, and ten or twelve feet additional letr i rli put in, giving her a'Aother broadside port, and qispensing with the upper deck ; 24-pounders were likewise put upon her main deck, in stead of the 18's of her original battery. She was origi nally constructed after the reduced lines of the Christian the Seventh, a Danish ship taken at Copenhagen. We may, at least, say of the Isis, that there is no ether such shit-, in the British, or, in fict, any service. His Majesty's ship Samarang, 28, Capt. C. Paget, was paid Idvanne wages on Mondar, and sailed early on the (allowing day for St. Michltel's, to relieve his Maiests's ship Galatea, in the duty of affording protection to flritish interests in that quarter, during the contemplated attack on that island by the forces from Terceira, At Spitbead—Ariadne. In Harbour—Spartiate, Royal George, Winchester, Imogene, Rattlesnake, Tweed, Victor, Recruit, %racy ; Alban and African steam-veseels. PROMOTIONS, AreoixTmmrs, k0..--Cornmander J. M. Laws, of his Majesty's ship Satellite, has been removed by Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Owen, K.C.8., to his Majesty's ship Cruiser, vice Colpoyv, invalided. Com mander John Parker, of his Majesty's ship Southampton, is'appointed to his Majesty's ship Satellite, vice Laws.— Lieut. M. T. Hare, of his Majesty's ship Crocodile, is promoted to the rank of i (acting) Commander, Anti ap pointed to the Southampton, vire Parker, Lieut. R. G. Welch, of his Majesty'a ship Alfred, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Hyacinth. Lieut. John Adams (b) is ap pointed to the Alfred, vice Welch. Lieut. Owen Stan ley is appointed to his Majesty's ship Kent, vice bash wood, invalided. Lieut. N. H. Jones N appointed to the Coast Guard. Lieut. John Moore (a) is pro moted to the rank of Retired Commander at Ss. a day.— Mr. Thomas Woore is promoted to the rank of (acting) Lieutenant, and appointed to the Crocodile, vice Hare.— Mr. Wm. Peattie, surgeon of his Majesty's ship Tweed, and Mr. G. D. Me. Laren, Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Asia, are appointed to his Majesty's ship Magicienne. Mr. Benjamin M'Avoy is appointed Sur geon of his Majeccy's ship Pylades, vice Thompson, ill. Mr. George Incledon is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's brig Lyra, vice Allaway. Mr. William Bothwell is appointed Surgeon of the Tweed, vice Peattie. Mr. C. D. A. Newman is appointed Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's cutter Swan. Lieut. W. G. N. King is appointed to his Majesty's ship Dublin, vice Moore, de ceased. Mr. John Tulford is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. Mr. D. B. Conway is appointed Surgeon of the Ordinary at Chatham, vice Cunningham. Mr. John Gibson, Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship Alfred, is appointed to his Majesty's steam-vessel Pluto, vice Robin son. First Lieutenant A. Morison of this division of Royal Marines, is appointed to relieve Capt. A. Heriot, on the recruiting service at Basingstoke. 'l'he following Midshipmen were specially examined in navigation on Monday last at the Royal Naval College, and found duly qualified for Lieutenants, viz..—Mr. F. Lowe, of his Majesty's ship Samarang ; Mr. J. Richard son, of his Majesty's ship Rattlesnake; Mr. A. M‘Murdo, late of his Majesty's ship Blonde. His Royal Highness the Duke of Braganza and suite, arrived here early on Sunday last, and proceeded to the Admiralty House, where they partook of an elegant drjeune, provided by Admiral Sir Thomas and Lady Foley. His Royal Highness afterwards embarked on board the Light ning steam-vessel for Cherbourg (under a salute of twenty one guns from his Majesty's ship Samarang, at Spithead), to convey from thence to this port, the young Queen of Portugal, whcse arrival may be daily expected, on her way to London. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria will arrive at Portsmouth to-morrow, on their way to the Isle of Wight, having engaged for three months, the delightful castle, of the late Lord Henry Seymour, at East Cones. It is expected their Royal High nts•es will embark on board the African steam-vessel. The Skylark brig is ordered to be brought forward at Plymouth for the packet service. PRIVILEGES. MR. WEL LESLE Y'S CASE. Report of the Committee of Privileges, to whom the letter of the Lord Chancellor, stating " that he had issued a warrant for the commitment of the Hon. William Long Wellesley for a contempt of Court," and also a letter from the Hon. William Long 'Wellesley, com plaining of the same " as being an infringement of the privileges of Parliament," were referred, and who were to examine the matter thereof, and to report their proceedings, together with their opinion thereon. Immediately after the Committee had met to examine into tie matter which the House had committed to them, they received a letter from Mr. Long Wellesley, stating, that the Lord Chancellor had issued orders not to allow him to attend. This information was confirmed by the evidence of Mr. Butt, the Deputy Sergeant at Arms attending on the Great Seal, who attended the Committee, to state the reason why he had not obeyed the Speaker's wet rant. The committee were, in consequence, preparing to re port to the House this obstruction to the exercise of its authority, when the Lord Chancellor's Serjeant-at-Arms, Sir George Seymour, desired admittance, and informed the committee that the Lord Chancellor no longer objected to Mr. Long Wellesley's attendance. They therefore deem any further observation on this subject unnecessary. As it is manifest that no intention has existed of wil• fully infringing the privileges of the House, the inquiry limits itself to the question, whether Mr. Long Wellesley is entitled by those privileges to claim his discharge from this commitment,--a question, the determination of which appertains wholly and exclusively to the House of Com mons. To assist the House in the decision of this difficult and important question, your committee feel it to be their duty, first, to state the facts as they appear in the evi dence, and secondly, the law and usage of Parliament on such questions so far as it can be collected from the reso lutions and proceedings of both Houses. 1. Your Committee commenced their inquiry by call ing upon the Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms for the authority under which Mr. Long Wellesley was detained in his custody, when he produced the minutes, signed by the registrar of the Court of Chancery, directing Mr. Long Wellesley's commitment to the Fleet, for " his contempt," but not particularizing its nature, and two notes, signed by the Lord Chancellor, authorizing Mr. Long Wellesley's detention at his own house in Dover-strreet for a li mited time. Your Committee then proceeded to afford to Mr. Long Wellesley an opportunity of freely stating the complaint which had been referred to them. That statement, together with the notes of the short hand writer of what passed in Court at the time of his commitment, to which he referred in confirmation of his assertions, is in the evidence ; and though some parts of it appeared irrelevant to the object of inquiry, your Corn ntittee do not conceive it to he expedient to omit any por. tion of what he considered it essential to his case to lay before them. A detailed order of commitment for the contempt, which was not entered by the Registrar of the Court, so as to render it perfect, till Wednesday, the 20th instant (the second day of the committee sitting), was produced on the 21st, by Mr. Dicks, the Deputy Entering Registrar. Referring to the Lord Chancellor's letter to the Speaker, and the evidence, your committee are of opinion that the grounds on which Mr. Long Wellesley is pronounced in contempt must be taken to be those confessed by him in court, viz. his having removed his infant daughter, then a ward of the Court of Chancery, and having given direc tions to the person to whom he delivered her immediately to put her nut of the jurisdiction of the Court, and de claring his decided resolution under no circumstances whatever, ever to let his child be under any other guar dianship than his own. 1 hat this was a criminal contempt of the Court of Chan cery, your committee apprehend that no doubt can be en tertained. _, 2. ON TIIE LAW OF PARLI.AMIENT.--The earliest uefi nition of the privilege of Parliament p resp i ect s ing H a en rr r e y st y s Is . case, Rot. ar . tjb°43""llidl'arke's claimed by the Commons : 'irlitaikcit4 is thus ariem eat d'estre quietez Plztrai+Pretitt**.xr'o..,Court de P ~. ~, 4- 4 mi t i arA ,.. • a u rselyyre did C doiun rt t e i , ,a f t or o p i ri T se h p or u p r e t i r . n ezo th o e , 'fr "Iganje.,: - WiCi , rit:o l Z . `M s:" an when the quee r„gfc.,.:. ~'tit;' teams King, where, :.,,,,,,....,,,,,,.,,_,,..•-.lh,whether Thomas Thorpe ought to lie delivered from prison by virtue of privilege of Parlia ment, the Chief Justices, in the name of all the Justices, answer, " That they ought not to aunswere to that ques tion, for it bath not been used aforetyme-, that ths2; . ,tattice. should in any,vre de toitihe the prlVeletge Of this High Court of " the determination and and knOwlegte Ark prietegge belongeth to the Lordes of the Fa t rlenett, awl not to the justices ;" and afterwards', if any persone that is a membre of this qc.g l / 4 .-‘. Court of Parlement 'be arested, it s"hc cites as be not for treason, or felony, or de incite of the peas, or of a condempnatio'n hadde before the Parlement, it is used that all such p6.sones shuld be relessed of such arrestes, and malc , :: un attourney, so that they may have thei"s f t .'sedom and libertee frely to entende open the t'arlement " The same principle it maintained in the Lord Crum well's case tilt, 'entry of which in the Lord's Journale, 30th ~f ;itine, 1572, is as fellows : " In Parliament Chamber, where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal assembled on the day rtt.tsve saitly in anno decimo quarto Regino tbetbe-, etc. " Whereas upon complaint and declaration Made to the said Lords Spiritual and temporal by henry Lord Cruets well, a Lord of the Parliament, that irt a Caust between one James Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell de pending in the Court of hancerv, for not obeying to an injunction given the said Court of Chancery in the ab sence of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, at the suit of the said Tavernor, the person of the said Lord Cromwell was, by the Sheriff of the county of Norff t attached by virtue of a writ of attachment, proc!editg out of the said Court of Chancery, contrary to the ancient privilege and immu nity, time cot of intmory, unto the Lords of Pariiament and reel of this realm in such case used and allowed, as oil tLe behalf of the said Lord Cromwell was declared and affirmed, wherein the said Lord Cromwell, as a Lord of Parliament, claimed remedy. " Forasmuch as, upon deliberate examination of this cruse in the said Parliament Chamber, in the presence of the Judges and others of the Queen's Majesty's Learned Counsel there attendant in Parliament, and upon declara• tion of the opinions of the said Judges and Learned Coun sel, thee hath been no matter directly produced nor de clared, whereby it did appear or seem to the said Lords of Parliament there assembled, that by the common law or custom of the realm, or by any statute law, or by any pre cedent of the said Court of Chancery, it is warranted that the person of any Lord having place and voice in Parlia ment in the like case in the said Court of Chancery, be fore this time hath been attached, so as the awarding of the said attachment, at the suit of the said Tavernor against the said Lord Cromwell, for anything as yet de. dared to the paid Lords, appeareth to be derogatory and prejudicial to the ancient privilege claimed to belong to the said Lerds of this realm ; therefore it is, the day and year aforesaid, ordered, by consent of all the said Lords in Parliament there assembled, that the person of the said Lord Cromwell be from henceforth discharged of and from the said attachment. Provided nevertheless, and so is the mind of the said Lords in Parliament plainly by them with one consent declared, that if at any time during this Par liament, or hereafter in any other Parliament, there shall be showed sufficient matter that, by the Queen's preroga tive, or by the common law or custom of this realm, or by any statute law, or sufficient precedents, the persons of any of the Lords of Parliament, in such case as this case of the Lord Crumwell's is, ought to be attached or attach able, then and from thenceforth it is by this order intended that to take place which so shall be showed and warranted, as above is said ; this order or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding." CASE OF Mr. BRERETON.-Commons ' Journal, 3d Fe- bruary, 1605. " Roger Brereton delivereth a petition to the Serjeant, and Mr. Holt presenteth it ; showing, that being chosen a burgess for Flynt, he was committed for a contempt by the Judges of the King's Bench, 23d November last. Re ferred to these committees, Sir G. Moore, Sir John Heig ham, Sir Edw. Hobby, Mr. Wyseman, Sir Edw. Hobby, Mr. Pulleston, Mr. Rob. Bowyer, Sir John Boys, Sir Fr. Hastings, Sir Nath. Bacon.—Thursday, Committee chamber. " These Committes are appointed to consider of the petition exhibited by Roger Brereton this day, as also of other matters of the like kind, touching matter of privi lege, and to report their proceedings to the House. " On the 13th February, 1605.—Habeas corpus for Mr. Brereton read in the House. " On the 15th February, 1605.—Habeas corpus for Mr. Brereton. " Writ returned. " Mr. Moore witnesseth, that my Lord Chancellor wil not infringe the privilege of the House. " Mr. Brereton received." CASE OF SIR WILLIAM BAMFEILD.—ApriI 9th, 1614. " Sir Jo. Strangwish moveth, That Sir Wm. Bamfeild, burgess for Burporr, is c immitted by my Lord Chancellor, sithence the Summons of the Parliament, but before his election, and prayeth the direction of the House, which is referred to the consideration of the Committees for Privileges." 14th April, 1614.—" Question, Whether Sir Wm. Bampfeild committed after the summons and before the election, for a contempt. Ordered, upon the question, that he shall have his privilege by writ of Habeas Corpus." 16th of April, 1614.—" Sir William Bampfeild brought in with the Warden of the Fleete, by the Serjeant with his mace, to the bar, and there Mr. Speaker, with his hat on, shortly related unto them the cause of his committ ment, that the writ delivered to the Warden of the Fleet, and that now brought in by him. Desired to know the pleasure of the House." CASES OF THE PAGES.--Bth of February, 1620. . - " Mr. Alford.—That yesterday divers complained pri vately that their privileges were broken. Divers pages, servants to members of the house, abused themselves.— The Judges of the King's Bench have punished them. Moveth that the pages may be punished here. " Mr. Thomas Fanshaw.—That yesterday complaint to the Judges. They sent the officers to warn them. They affronted them more. Offered to draw their swords. That the Judges have sent one, and will send the other, to be punished here as soon as they can come by them ; and yet, but respect for this house, would have indicted them fir stroke in face of the court ; and many for less offences have lost their hands." CASE OF THE LORD Faux•-Lords ' Journals, 9th Fe ...,_ bruary, 1625. " The Lord Vaux claimed his privilege for stay of an in• formation against him in the Star Chamber." This case is about two months afterwards thus noticed in the report of the the Lords' committee, on the case of the Earl of Arundel : " Though a lord, at the suit of the King, he sued in the Star Chamber for a contempt, or not, etc., yet the buit is to be stayed by privileges of Parliament in Parliament time." CASE OF SIR FRANCIS WORTELEY.-sth July, 1625. " Ordered, Mr. Speaker shall write a letter for stay of the suit in Star Chamber." 18th April, 1625.—Report of the Peers on the case of the Earl of Arundel, on which it is resolved by the House of Lords— " That the privilege of this House is, that no Peer of Parliament sitting the Parliament, or within the usual times of privilege of Parliament, is to be imprisoned or restrained, without sentence or order of the house, unless it be for treason or felony, or for refusing to give surety of the peace, which is afterwards stated by them in a petition and remonstrance to the King." May 20, 1675. _ _ . . Resolution—" That by the laws and usage of Parlia ment, privilege of Parliament belongs to every Member of the House of Commons, in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace." The above eases all assert the privilege of Parliament to ment to the full extent of the ancient claims ; and it might be contended, on the face of them, that they appear even to establish an exemption of privileged persons, during time of privilege, from being proceeded against for misde meanours, or punished, after trial, by the sentence of any conrt of law ; but, on the 17th of August, 1641, the Com mons, at a conference, state to the Lord.,— " 1. That no privilege is allowable in case of the peace betwixt private men, much more in case of the peace of the kingdom. " 2. That Privilege cannot be pleaded against an in dictment for any thing done out of Psrliament, because all indictments are contra pacem Domini Regis. " 3. Privilege of Parliament is granted in regard of the service of the Commonwealth, and is not to be used to the danger of the Commonwealth. "1. That all Privilege of Parliament is in the power of Parliament, and is a restraint to the proceedings of other inferior Courts, but is no restraint to the proceedings of Parliament; and therefore, seeing it may, without in justice, be denied, this being the case of the Common wealth, they conceive it ought not to be granted." 14th April, 1697. Resolved,—" That no Member of this House hath any privilege in case of breach of the peace, or forcible entries, or forcible detainers." On the 16th May, 1726. The record of the conviction for perjury of Mr. Ward is laid before the House of Commons, who proceed to expel him ; but the Court of King's Bench appear to have passed no sentence upon him till after he had ceased to be a member. 7th February and Bth June, 1757, the Lord, reeolvti... " That no Peer or Lord of Parliament had plivilege of peerage or Parliament against being cottipeiled by process of tbe totirts in Westminster-hall, to pay obedience to a 'rat of habeas corpus directed to him:" On the 29th November, 1 763, it wag resolved by both houses,— " That privilege of V):l.rliament does not extend to the cese w'riting and publishing seditious libels, nor ought to be allowed to obstruct the ordinary course of laws in the speedy and effectual for the prosecution of so heinons and dangerous an offence :," and since that time it has been Connitled as established gererally, that privilege is not`, claimable for any indictable offence. Four Acts have been passed to restrain the privilege of Parliament in civil suits—viz. 1 James T., c. 13 ; the 12th and 13th William 111., c. 3 ; the 11th George 11., c. 24 ; and the 10th George 111., c. Cao : but in all them the immunity from personal arrest of persons entitled to that privilege is expressly recognited. In consequence of the statement contained in the Lord Chanoelhor's letter to the Speaker, " that the right of the Cohrt of Chancery to commit, in such cases as the pre sent, is unquestionable, and has been enforced against Peers of the reins ;" the Committee have made every in quiry in their power as to the instances in which such right has been enforced against persons entitled to privi lege of Parliament, but without success : two cases, in deed, appear to have been relied on, but cannot be consi dered as conclusive. The first, which occurred in 7 George 1., and is reported in 1 Peere Williams, p. 701, is that of Viscountess Wenman, who, being an Irish Peeress, and at that time entitled to no privilege what. ever in England, was committed for a contempt by the then Lord Chancellor. The second, that of Lord Ros common, an Irish Peer, in the 10th George IV., who was clearly entitled to privilege of Peerage under the Act of Union : an order for commitment for a contempt was made by the Lord Chancellor, but never executed, or even taken out of the Registrar's-office; consequently no op portunity occurred for questioning it in the house of Lords, the only tribunal which could decide on the extent of that privilege. The case of the Countess of Shaftesbury, 10, Geo • 1., reported in 2 Perre Williams, p. 110, in some respects resembles the present. The Court there directed a sequestration, but did not attempt to commit a Peeress, who had contrived and effected the marriage of her son, an infant of the age of 14 years, without the consent of his guardian. Your Committee having failed to discover any instance in which a Member of either House of Parliament has been imprisoned for a contempt (except by the authority of tl.e House to which he belonged) since the early cases above referred to, which are imperfectly reported, have proceeded to consider this case on the grounds of an ana logy and of intrinsic merits. The same principle on which it has been resolved by the House of Lords, that privilege shall not prevent the Courts at. Latv from enforcing obedience to a writ of Habeas Corpus, seems to require, by analogy, that the Lord Chancellor should possess equal power fur the pro tection of the wards of the Crown committed to his charge, and should be enabled to exercise the most prompt and effectual means to prevent them from being withdrawn out of his jurisdiction. The Committee find the right of courts of law to commit privileged persons for some highly criminal contempts strongly asserted by different writers, particularly by Black stone and Hawkins. Attachment for criminal contempt as been described as a judgment and execution, the conviction of an offerultr by a Court of competent jurisdiction, and the award of a sentence for his offence. Your Committee therefore, conceive, that the present case falls within the principle under which persons corn mi•ting indictable offences have been con'idered not to be entitled to privilege. Under all the circumstances of the case, the Committee have come to the following resolution : " That Mr. Long Wellesley's claim to he discharged from imprisonment, by reason of privilege of Parliament, ought not to be admitted."—July 26, 1831. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKIV 0 OD' S MAGAZINE.—PART I. There is no mistaking the author of the poem " Unimore, a tale of the Highlands," which very properly occupies the most prominent place in this number. It is professor Wilson's all over. Eyes—mouth—brow—figure—expression —all unequivocally declare its parentage. Never did poetic banding so closely resemble its father. In melody of verse, Unimore is far superior to the City of the Plague, or the Isle of Palms this delicious snatches of music may be found in both these striking poems—nor is it inferior in imagination. Its chief defect—and of what other poet just now before the public can this be said ?—is that it is overlaid with wealth. The imagination of its author seems literally inex. haustible. He is a perfect CI cesus in this respect. The following is one only of a series of descrip tions which in its own peculiar style, are equal, if not superior, to any thing with which we are acquainted in modern days. The words marked in Italics strike us as eminently picturesque, and bearing out what we asserted respecting the imaginative faculty of Wilson Morven and Morn and Spring and Solitude! In front is not the Scene magnificent ? Through the mist partly broken into fragments Fleecelike, and partly roll'd voluminous Higher and higher up what now is seen To be a range of mountains, blind-faced cliffs And hoary crags and blasted stumps look out Strangely, and all as if they were alive, From midst of that disporting glamoury ; While from yon indistinct and dubious gloom, Even.now as sable as a mass of night, Softening and brightening into woodiness A shadowy slope with loveliest lights bestrewn, (For see! the Sun is in ascension,) Emerges an old Forest. Haunt, no doubt, Of mans, a silvan shy, thick-spotted Roe, And RCd.(eer vagrant from the stony heights Below the eagle's eyry ; single trees, Each in itself a grove, at intervals Gigantic towering o'er a race of giants, Illustrious in the yellow glow of Morn. And now the mists from earth are clouds in heaven; Clouds slowly castellating in a calm Sublimer than a storm; while brighter breathes O'er the whole firmament the breadth of blue, Because of that excessive purity Of all those hanging snow-white palaces, A gentle contrast, but with power divine." The word " castellated" is a perfect picture in itself ; it brings the idea intended to be con veyed by the poet at once before the mind. The passage therefore should have ended with the line— " On the whole firmament the breadth of blue," for " castellated" implies the— ,. Hanging snow-white palaces," &c. The picture is over done. But how vivid are the lines-- .. Blind-faced cliffs And hoary crags, and blasted stumps look out Strangely, and all as if they were alive, From midst of that disparting glamoury." With the exception of Wordsworth, there is no living poet who can equal this in force and beauty and that creative faculty which is the first and truest test of genius. To us it has all the freshness of originality. But Unimore abounds in these fortunate touches. We will instance a few : " Sunshiny rivers set the straths on fire." " Just then a league-long line of moonshine streaming All o'er some palmy isle." " When bends the windward-beating bowsprit." The spirit of the region fills with pride 'lhe Chieftain's heart ; for are they not his own, Those dim blue glens, those shadowy mountains, all Those radiant ranges of sun-smitten cliffs; That meadow'd plain as green as emerald. With its wide river, of the cataracts Forgetful now, calm flowing to the loch." This is rich colouring, but indeed in every page Unimore proves that Professor Wilson blends a painter's eye with a poet's fancy. Claude might have drawn more than a hint from this description ; and Turner, among modern artists take it as a subject for the next exhibition. ,‘ Some passages in the Life of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin" are entertaining but extravagant. It is impossible to conceive them drawn from life. ,‘ La petite Madelaine" is an agreeable tale of the sentimental school, and the Essay on the " Modern French Historians" . discusses a novel subject in a worthy spirit. PA it r Consists of eight articles, six of which are full of rampant, political invective. Really Christopher i 8 overdoing the stale, trite, old subject of the first French revolution, As a bug-bear it is no longer of use, and as a theme for discussion is about as fresh and entertaining, and original as the ques tion of Mary Queen of Scot's guilt or innocence. Besides, Blackwood's politics are altogether of so extravagant a character, that if one can con trive to understand, it is impossible to sympa- thine with them. The only really valuable article in the present number is the criticism on the Agamemnon of ./Echylus, which is masterly and generous in its spirit, and evidences a quick ap prehension of the more recondite beauties of the Greek dramatists. The " Noctes" are neither better nor worse than usual. MONTHLY MA GA ZINE. " The State of Europe" should more properly be called the state of Poland, for it is confined for the most part to a sketch, pleasing, but vague and superficial, of the present condition of that much-aggrieved country. " Narrative of the late conspiracy at Cadiz," is worth reading, as its subject imports, and has the advantage of having been penned by an intelligent eye-witness of the facts he records. " Elliston's Eccentri cities" are incomparably the best Ellistoniana of the north. The anecdotes are truly graphic and full of breadth and humour. We know of no thing that can excel! the subjoined : " A gentleman of considerable merit as a provincial actor, once called, by appointment, at Drury-lane Theatre. lie found Mr. Elliston, who had then the management, giving some directions on the stage, and was welcomed by him with great politeness. The manager, however, think ing from the slight conversation that had passed, the gen tleman in question did not seem sufficiently impressed with the greatness of the individual whom he bad the honour for the first time of addressing, took an odd method of dis playing his power and consequence. Yes, Sir,' said Mr. Elliston, continuing the conversation previously commenced with a slow and solemn enunciation,—' the drama—is now—at its lowest ebb ; and—' then suddenly breaking off, in a loud emphatic voice he called First night Watchman.'—The man instantly stepped up, and making his bow stood for orders.—' Anti,' resuming to the actor, ' and unless—a material—change—' again breaking off, he called, OTHER night watchmen, with peculiar em phasis. The call was obeyed as before—' a material change —I say—takes place,—as Juvenal justly—' Mr. Prompter.'—The prompter came—' as Juvenal justly ob serves—" Box-heeper, dress circle, right hand.'—The man joined the group,—' but, Sir, a reaction must take place, when—OTHER Box-keepers.'—The other box keepers came Sir, I say there must be a—' Copyist.'—Copyist arrives,—' must be a—' First scene shifter.'—The man comes.—' Sir, I say it, a con vulsion, which will overturn—' OTHER scene shifter.' — They all flock round—' and eventually crush even the—' ' call boy.' Mr. Elliston having now, by the power of his wand, collected all these personages around him, without seeming to have an idea of providing for their exit, luckily thought that the easiest way to dismiss them, without de rogation to his dignity, would be to make an exit himself; beckoning, therefore, to the actor, for whose especial bene fit this display of authority was got tip, he said, in a slow and magisterial tone, ' follow me ;' then, in the most dig nified manner, be retired to his room, leaving the minions of his power to guess at his will. " A clever dramatic author once so far offended the manager, that, forgetting his dignity, he kicked him out of the room. This little effervescence of Mr. Elliston of course produced a coolness on the part of the other ; till the talents of the latter were so much iR request by the manager, that he condescended to apologize. Sti'l, how ever, the wound was hardly healed, and was alluded to in dignantly by the injured poet. ' Come, come, my good friend,' said Elliston, ' you think too much of it, many would have rejoiced, and with good cause ; for at all events it will make you popular !' " "If ever an actor obtained credit for identifying himself with the character he represented, it was certainly due to Mr. Elliston more than to any man on the stage ; for it is a well known fact, that, during the celebrated representation of the coronation at Drury-lane, Mr. Elliston was so car ried away by the enthusiasm of his profession, that he verily believed himself to he the royal personage he repre sented. When the mimic but gorgeous pageant left the stage, the acclamations of a crowded house were long and deafening ; until Elliston, forgetting that he was only the puppet of royalty, overcome with emotion, burst into tears, and stretching forth his hands, exclaimed in an al most inarticulate voice,—' Bless you, bless you, toy people."' " Johnson,' Boswell and Croket," is - a' slight and rather meagre account of a late serviceable publication. " Spanish High-ways and Bye ways is written in an easy natural style. "My Wife, a whisper," is spirited though far-fetched and strained in some of its attempts at humour. " Recollections of Scenes and Cities" will not derogate from the well-earned reputation of Mr. Inglis ; and the " Notes on Affairs in General" are happily selected and pointedly hit off. Alto gether the number is an excellent one. METROPOLITAN. A very able number, varied and felicitous in its selection of articles. " 'lie Retrospect of Literature," by the celebrated Montgomery, of Sheffield, the much-admired author of the " Wanderer of Switzerland," is penned in a se rious and intelligent spirit. It is the subject, we believe, of some lectures lately delivered to crowded audiences in Albemarle-street. " Anec dotes of Abernethy," are delightful. We take the three first : " The eccentricities of a man of genius usually constitute the most prominent feature in the personal character ; and in general, wherever there is talent of any kind, some pe culiarity of manner exists. With respect to Mr. Aber nethy there was no real moroseness of disposition ; and his impatience of loquacity and superfluous details arose from a great degree of sagacity, clearness of judgment, and a feeling of independence. He neither sought to recom mend himself, nor win his patients, by any of those tricks which are daily practised at the expense of sacri ficing opinion and feeling to policy. His mind disqualified him from adopting that affected interest which distinguishes many of the well-bred physicians, and he heartily de spised their little arts to acquire popularity. He seemed to feel as if he mentally expressed himself thus Here I am, ready to give my advice if you want it ; but you must take it as you find it, and if you don't like it, egad, (bis favourite word), you may go about your business, I don't want to have anything to do with you ; hold your tongue and be off.' In some such mood as this he re ceived a visit from a lady one day who was well-acquainted with his invincible repugnance to her sex's predominant disposition, and therefore forbore speaking but simply in r eply to his laconic queries. The consultation was con ducted during three visits in the following manner :—First day—Lady enters and holds out her finger—Abernethy. Cut ?' Lady. ' Bite.' A. Dog ?' L. ` Parrot.' A. Go home and poultice it.' Second day—Finger held out again—A. Better?' L. ' Worse.' A. Go home and poultice it again.' Third day—Finger held out as be fore—A. Better ' L. Well.' A. ' You're the most sensible woman I ever met with.—Good bye—Get out.'" " Another lady having scalded her arm, called at the usual hour to show it three successive days, when similar laconic conservations took place. First day—Patient, ex posing the arm, says—' Burnt.'—A. I see it,' and, h av i n g prescribed a lotion, she departs. Second day— Patient shows the arm, and says—' Better.' —A. know it.' Third day—Again showing the arrn—Patient, Well.'—A. ' Any fool can tell that. What d'ye come again for?' Get away. A patient consulted Mr. Abernethy for a pain of the arm, and, holding it up in the air, said, ' It always gives m e pain when I hold it up so.'—' Then why the devil do you hold it up so ?' " (( Convent Sketches" are, we take for granted, f ro m the pen of that practised traveller Derwent Conway, alias Mr. Inglis. They have no marked character about them, but are readable, nevertheless. " Naval Novels" falls foul of Smollett's Sea-sketches : the writer impugns the great novelist's correctness in this respect : as we are mere " land-lubbers" ourselves, we shall not enter into the discussion, though we should very reluctantly give up Smollett as a marine painter. Right or wrong his Tom Pipes, and more espe cially his Captain Bowling, deserve to be impe rishable. The latter character has always ap peared to us a model of truth and nature. " A Tributary Strain to Paganini" is sprightly, and reminds us of Tom Hood. " Riches" is me taphysical and somewhat elaborate. It is not much to our taste. The following epigram is smart : " Poor Bella and I were last night at a route; All gaily she looked, as if death she defied ; In the morn she was lifeless—her case who can doubt ': She dreamed St. John Long was her doctor—and died! " The Life of a Sailor" is the best articl e in the number. It is varied in incident, and in manner unexceptionable. The author possesses very pleasing and picturesque powers of descrip tion. " The Bridal of Pisa" is graceful written though too lengthy—at least for a Magazine. Biography of the late Mr. Howell, of Margate, will amuse many readers : it is not, however, to our taste. The subject was a tailor ; when we found out this, we lost all interest in him. We cannot fancy the Life of Snip. Odd recollec tions of goose, cabbage, crossed-legs, and the shop-board come across us, and make us skip the article. The Notices of New Works, are temperate, and, so far as we can perceive, im partial. ENGLISHMAN'S MAGAZINE. An intelligent number, but of the heavy and ponderous school. Elia contributes some amusing reminiscences of Elliston, en voici. " Those who have imagined that an unexpected eleva tion to the direction of a great London theatre, aff,cted the consequence of Elliston, or at all changed hie nature, knew not the essential greatness of the man, whom they disparage. It was my fortune to encounter him near St. Dunstan's church (which, with its punctual giants, is now no more than (lust, and a shadow) on the morning of his election to that high office. Grasping my hand with a look of significance, he only uttered,—' H a ve you heard the news?'—there with another look following up the blow, he subjoined, ' I am the future Manager of Drury lane Theatre.'—Breathless as he saw me, he staid not for congratulation or reply, but mutely stalked away, leaving me to chew upon his new-blown dignities at leisure. In fact nothing could be said to it. Expressive silence alone could muse his praise. This was his great style. But was he less great, (be witness, 0 ye Powers of Equani mity, that supported in the ruins of Carthage the consular exile, and mare recently transmitted for a inure illustrious exile, the barren constableship of Elba into Ain image of Imperial France), when in melancholy after-years, again, much near the same spot, I met him, when that sceptre bad been wrested from his hand, and his dominion was curtailed to the petty managership, and part proprietor ship, of the small Olympic, his Elba? He still played nightly upon the boards of Drury, but in parts alas ! al lotted to him, not magnificently distributed by him. Waiving his great loss as nothing, and magnificently sinking the sense of fallen material grandeur in the more liberal resentment of depreciations done to his more lofty intellectual pretensions, ' Have you heard' (his customary exordium) have you heard,' said he, ' how they treat me ? they put me in comedy.' Thought I—but his finger on his lips forbade any verbal interruption—'where could they have put you better?' Then after a pause— ' Where I formerly played Romeo, I now play Mertutio' —and so again he stalked away, neither staying, nor caring for, responses. 0, it was a rich scene,—but Sir Antony Carlisle, the best of story-tellers, and surgeons, who mends 'a lame narrative almost as well as he sets a fracture, alone could do justice to it—that I was witness to, in the tar nished room (that had once been green) of that same little Olympic. There, after his deposition from Imperil' Drury, he substituted a throne. That Olympic 11111 was his ' highest heaven;' himself ' Jove in his chair.' There he sate in state, while before him, on complaint of prompter, was brought for judgment—bow shall I describe her?—ono of those little tawdry things that flirt at the tails of choruses—a probationer for the town, in either of its senses—the pertest little drab—a dirty fringe and ap pendage of the lamps' smoke—who, it seems, on some disapprobation expressed by a " highly respectable" audi ence, bad precipitately quitted her station en the boards, and withdrawn her small talents in disgust. ' And how dare you,' said her Manager—assuming a censorial seve rity, which would have crushed the confidence of a Ves tris, and disarmed that beautiful rebel herself of her pro fessional caprices—l verily believe, he thought her stand ing before him—' how dare you, Madam, withdraw your self without a notice from your theatrical duties?' I was hissed, Sir.' And you have the presumption to decide upon the taste of the town ?" I don't know that, Sir, but I will never stand to be hissed,' was the sub joinder of young Confidence—when gathering up his fea tures into one significant mass of wonder, pity, and expos tulatory indignation—in a lesson never to have been lest upon a creature less forward than she who stood before him—his words were these. They have hissed me.' 'Twas the identical argument a fortiori, which the son of Peleus uses to Lycaon trembling under his lance, to per suade him to take his destiny with a good grace. ' I too am mortal.' " The subjoined lines by T. Hood, are emi nently beautiful, particularly the lines marked in italics : THE DEATH-BED• or T. 150013. We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro ! So silently we seemed to speak— So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out ! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied— We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died! For when the morn came dim and sad— And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had Another morn than ours! The " Irish Lord Lieutenant and his Double,' is a clever story from the vigorous pen of Ba Dim. " Recent Rambles in the footsteps of Doi Quixotte," by Inglis, are pleasing in descrip , tion, but want liveliness and character. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.-UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. By an accident these two periodicals did not reach us until it was too late to peruse, and comment on their contents. We must therefore defer a notice to some more suitable opportunity. The " Monthly Review also has only just (one o'clock) come to hand. EAST INDIA MAGAZINE-ASIATIC J 0 URNAL. Two works well fitted to their subjects, an( confined chiefly to Oriental topics. Both con tain much useful information. FRAZER'S MAGAZINE• The Portrait of Lord J. Russell, which adorns the current number of this work, is good as a likeness, and executed with spirit. The ac companying memoirs, however, are not fairly written. " Novels of the Season" is a pungent analysis of some recent works of fiction, in which a due meed of justice is not awarded to those who most deserve it. Crotchet Castle is very illiberally treated by a scribe who evidently thinks himself a far cleverer man than he is, or is ever likely to be. " Political plagiaries" is a curious and instructive paper, and brings honsi many sins of this nature to Moore. " Oliver Yorke at home" is lively and egotistical. The remaining articles arc of the usual calibre. The Magazine would be much more critertaining, certainly more popular, if it was less assuming and censorious in its toile. GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Loudon, a gentleman of known eminence,' n his own peculiar department, is the Editor .of his work, which will not derOpte from Yt4 reputation. LONDON PAGEANTS. At ti e present festive period a season4bil publication. Too much space, how:- Toted to the pageants of antiquity, aid to those of a more modern, date. LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS OF WAVERLEY NOVELS. The novels illustrated in .this part ar i' , ` Monastery" and " Red Gauntlet." The c gravings are of the usual average quality. I:ISH.ER'S VIEWS IN DEVONSHIRE , AND CORNWALL. Containing three picturesque scenes in Corn wall, accompanied by letter-press explanations. VIE U'S IN THE EAST.--PART 11. Consists of three engravings of places, re markable for their scenic beauty or historical reminiscences,in India. When completed, this will make a useful and entertaining work. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY• PART XXVIII. This part is very appropriately headed with alt engraving—remarkably well executed, though rather deficient as a likeness, and what can be said of few of Sir Thomas Lawrence's portraits , not flattering to the original—of Prince Leopold' the new King of the Belgians. The portrait is accompanied with memoirs, Flight, but pleasantly written. The two other embellishments are likenesses of Earl Howe and Sir T. Lawrence . Both ate good engravings. COURT CIRCULAR. The KING and QUEEN, accompani,d by the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE and the Duchess of SA X E WEIMAR, le t the Palace at Windsor in a carriage and four about thre e , wh l e o r e e k a o n fet S e a t c u h r a d o a ,p y e t a r f e te w r n a o s on g , v f e o n r R by os t e h e V rg F u o i l s ba s o l o i Marchioness of LONDGNIDERRY. Their MAJESTIES sui te followed in a second carriage and four. Their 'Alasecsti f A arrived at Rose Villa at a quarter pact five o'clock, were received by the noble host and hostess, who conduct ed t ., em to the dining-room. Th e Duke and Duchess '', CUMBERLAND, accompanied by Prince GEORGE a nd tutor, the Rev. Mr. JELL, from their residence at 1 ,4° 1 sad ihe Duchess of GLOUCESTER from Windsor Cas t, , arriv d shortly before the KING and QUEEN. Dinner o .j served to their MAJESTIES and the members of the ROY' Family in the dining-room, and to the general compe l l; c insisting of about two hundred of the principal nobili% ;,11.1 gentry, the Foreign Ministers and their ladies, in th . cmservatory, at two long tables. After dinner, the quadrille band commenced playing ? and dancing began in the conservatory. Their MAJEsTiSS and the Royal party promenaded through the gardens 0' tached to the house. In the evening the house and gardens were brillian tl y illuminated ssrth variegated lamps, and a display of fir e " works took place from two barges lying off the grounds° the Thaoles. The KING and QUEEN left about las If-past nine o'clock' and came to town to the Palace at St. James's. Their MAJESTIES and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER 01 : 1 tended divine service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, and b ear d a sermon by the Rev. Mr. LurroN, from the 6th chap of St. Luke, and the 37th verse. The service was res"' by the Rev. Mr. BARHAM. The Communion Servi e : was read by the Rev. Mr. Hotarns, the Sub-Dean. 1h Te Dtum, Jubilate , and service was by TRAVERS. J.; anthem was, " I will love thee, 0 Lord," by CLAW' which was admirably sung by Messrs. HOBBS and 13011 BURY. Mr. STAFFORD SMITH and Mr. COOPER pre ski at the organ. The Bishop of CHICHESTER was the C1e1„. of the Closet in waiting. Earl HOWE and the Marchio ner of WESTMEATH were in attendance on the QUEEN. lit The KING gave audiences yesterday to Earl GREY , 1 I Duke of DEVONSHIRE, the E al of ALBEMARLE, ViSCO °I • ANSON, Lord HILL, and Sir ./A3l ES COCKBURN. The Duke of SUSSEX, the Duchess of Gr.ounnsYl lil and the Princess SOPHIA, visited the QUEEN y e sterl and partook of a dejeune with her MAJESTY. P tis PAUL of Wurtemberg also visited the QUEEN yesterdaY• Her MAJESTY, accompanied by the Duchess of SA: e WEIMAR took an airing in the afternoon in an o pen c riage, and paid a visit to the Duchess of CAmmtivo s her residence in Piccadilly. S' The KING took an airing in a carriage yesterday afterne ei , l i Summonses were issued to the Cabinet Ministers ye sl 0 ' day morning, to attend a Cabinet Council in the afters ° : ol at the Foreign-office. The Ministers assembled bets' one and two o'clock : there were present the CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl G 11 % ' 4 Viscounts MELB O U R NE, PA LMERSTON, GODERICII, sss ALTIIORr, the Earl of CARLISLE, the Right Hon. CHAS I ' O I GRANT, Lord HOLLAND, Lord DURHAM, the Duk e RICHMOND, and Mr. STANLEY. The Ministers remained in deliberation about two hal l er , After the Council, the Spanish Minister had an it e , view with Viscount PALMERSTON at the Foreign On' Despatches were received at the Home Office on Ssll'o,l day from the M ag i s tr a t es o f Oxford s hire, relative, it is 11 derstood, to some disturbances in that county. of Despatches from Sir LOWRY COLE, the Governor h o the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday 111 Colonial-office. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER entertain' o s party of Members of the House of, Commons at dinne r r il l . Saturday at his residence in Downing-street. The r i osl consisted of Viscount Foßnwicn, Lord JAMES FIT Colonels CAVENDISH and CHICHESTER, Messrs. Ps, lf i o , RIDLEY COLBORN, H. HOWARD, HARconitT, G• NON, T. DU NCO3IBE, and PROTHEROE. The Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable odl Council had a meeting on Saturday, at the Ccu tio o, Office, to make arrangements for his Majesty's con:°.lo9 ' There were present the Duke of SussEx, the Arclall,'Or,/ of CANTERBURY, the Bishop of LONDON, the 100 PRESIDENT, the Duke of NORFOLK, Earl GREY , o ft DURIIA3I, Viscount MELBOURNE, Viscount ALTO op the Earl of CARLISLE, the Marquis of CleoLstosP ll o' the Earl of ALBEMARLE, Marquis WELLESLEY, th e of RictisioND, and Lord PLUNKET• . r: m ilt e The Prussian Minister had an interview with v' . " tow PALMERSTON on Saturday morning, at his Lord private residence in Stanhope-street. OD / The Spanish Ministers transacted business on Sa lll Atrs l at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign -- A P. E d BOOK OF THE SEASONS.—This iS, work well calcul a t e d, not only to breathe into the de every heart an earnest love of nature, but to carry mind to the gl a d, though reverential, worship of o°,ool Gon. Without the least parade of religion, that ,Z,4 spirit of peaceful piety and affectionate thanlog i d which softens and improves the human heart, Per; tb° every page of this most interesting book, and Clarocee, reader far away from the smoke and stir of this dim, ° I 0' world, to commune among the green pastures A ° waters, with the Great Shepherd who crowneth the, with gladness. So many exquisite descriptions, sa A t sound philosophy and moral comment are intersp e n ,' to render this little volume a pleasant and benefici a l l panion, not only to him wh o c an walk abroad W it ., 0 7 ture, but to him who must spend the long sulfur° a in populous city pent." t 7,,, SUDDEN DEATH.—A distressing scenvopiii place lately in a cana l b oa t near Mullingar. 1 ‘ le a P $ humourous fellow who was on board, having see tt j F ol o of Irish brogues, a sk e d who was the owner , O br ogi l ,,, general answer in the negative, when he flung the no g 0 into the canal. A serjeant's wife, who w as $ Vl, America, a fin e young woman, 26 years of age; di into an immoderate fit of laughter, and instant Medical aid was soon procured, but to no effect. It Previ ou into tile tu guese Th e i th e ausi %Per, f e the reps Tlie (F Aftet 111, (l ac ~ o ",T D ori ; 1 '4ion An Pat S paniel -liat e h e Th e uek ar Th e 144 fr( ea se "a to, "It d ul a Y 4 at r eign 0 W e I , en„ ,e of ' , oun ce and of The d er 'the and deg election pr o d w , t i t ! ‘ e ape