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CHELTENHAM and GLOUCESTER Light Post Coach, carries 4 Inside, through Oxford, every Morning at 6. ROYSTON and BUNTINGFORI) Post Coach, every After noon dt half past e o'clock, tv the George, Buntingford, and Crown Inn, Royston. New Safety hay Times Post Coach to NORWICH, (in 14 hours), driven through by one Coachman only, at 5 in the Morning. CAMBRIDGE. Tally Ho ! Fast Coach, in 5 hours, at half past 2 o'clock tvel y Afternoon, and from the Flower- Pot, Bishopsgate-street, at a quarter before 3. CANTERBURY Fast Coach, The Tally Ho ! every After noon, at half past in 7 hours. BBRIGHTONCoaches, , at half past 8, and half past 10 o'clock every Morning. * Parcels and Lu r 'ggage conveyed daily to all Parts of the North, and to every City and Manufacturing Town in the Kingdom. W. WATERHOUSE and Co. Proprietors. t.l.t The Proprietcrs of the above Carri . ages beg leave to inform the Public, that they will not be accountable for any Parcel or Package whatever, nor for any Passenger's Lug gage above the value of 51., unless tire same be entered and Paid for accordingly at the time of the deliv►ry of any such Parcel, Package, or Passenger's Luggage, to them or their Agents.—Goods insured at a moderate Rate. MORALS OF CHESS. [From the Asiatic ( 1 . 0241 • ;I'd.] " Human life. has been often compared . to.the game of chess. The vicissitudes of each so frequently proceed from the absence of .reflection and prudence. of fortitude and perseverance, that our imagination is forcibly impressed with ,the resemblance. How many times we observe an impetuous youth, who rushes eagerly into the great wAid, stopped in the outset by a fatal scholar's mate ! and - how often does a stale mate reward the vigorous struggles against misfortune of him who obeys the precept— Equam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem, non seetks in banis. So far the resemblance is obvious and hackneyed : we may carry it farther, and consider the different pieces employed in the game as typical of various characters met with in life. Had this idea occurred to Addison, he might have exhibited another specimen of that rich and truly Engli,sh wit, combined with moral instruction, which we find in his Spectators and Guardians ; .and which appears so advantaeottlly in his ini mitable comparison of conversational ~,r_talitiitt to instrutnental music. Let us begin with the pawn : this, the humblest of the heroes of chess, either advances slowly towards the opposite extremity of the table, its path-beset with difficulties and dan gers, exposed to the attacks of host of adversaries, against whom it possesses a very limited faculty of self-defence ; or it remains stationary, and finds safety in obscurity. In the for mer case, it derives its sole protection from dependence upon another, or from combination with its fellows.• It does hap pen, though rarely, that, by skilful and judicious plans, a pawn attains its ultimate object, and i s t ra n smu t e d into a piece of superior value. We may easily conceive the pawns to represent men of humble origin, who, when they endeavour to emerge from ob scurity, encounter a multitude of obstacles.—" Slow rises worth - by poverty depressed."—A servile dependence upon power, or the practice of low arts of paltry intrigue and de ceit among his equals, are the ordin ar y ex p e di ents w hi c h an obscure individual employs to lift himself into eminence. A pawn gains the prize generally by pressing directly onward, without being tempted by dazzling advantages to deviate from its road : so the man, who from a subordinate station reaches distinctiori, - lias generally Confined himself to the direct path of truth and integrity; inclining neither to the right nor to the left, however powerful the solicitations of avarice or passion. The knight is a piece, the movement of which is eccentric, and the value equivocal. - No bounds can restrain its incur sions. It skips with impunity over the heads of potent, grave, and reverend personages. Its extravagant motions generally surprise those bye-standers who are ignorant of the ganie. Small wits, pseudo-geniuses, men who'aim at being singu lar, whimsical, and extravagant, whose conduct is so far re gulated by that of others that they act precisely as other men do not, who " affect the fool, and are what they affect:" such characters have the knight for their symbol: the knight of the chess board is, as Dryden expresses it— . . " Knight of the shire, and represents them all." It must be allowed that the value of the knight is some times greatly enhanced ; so an eccentric character may prove a man of real genius. __ The bishop moves diagonally on the board; neither plod ding on, like the humble pawn, nor fluttering about with the levity of a knight. Its attacks are extremely dangerous from their insidious nature. • The bishop, therefore, ( absit invidia ditto ! ) resembles those who accomplish their designs by craft and artifice; flattery and deceit, duplicity and treachery: Such characters create a vast deal of mischief in the world, and make but little stir about it. There is an appearance of harmlessness in them, which mightily favours their schemes; by begetting supineness and security in those who deal with them, of which they seldom fail to avail themselves. Au agreeable aspect, an engaging address, a plau sible tongue, unbounded courtesy, an a semblance-of piety, are always found, combined or separate, in the character of a bishop. The rook's movement is simple ; either forward or laterally in a straight line. It never mixes early in the fray, and is bet ter adapted for defence than offence. . There is an obvious analogy between this piece and a plain, substantial, good-humoured specimen of the genuine John Bull species. The queen is the last we shall consider : it unites the mo tions of all the other pieces, except that of the knight. This valuable piece may be regarded as one of those rare and finished characters which seem compounded of the best quali ties of our race ; discernment and promptitude, truth and in tegriiy, fortitude and perseverance; spirit tempered with pru. dence, and energy adorned with moderation. Let us now look round fir examples ;—hiundungus is t pawn, who early in life pushed forward without prudence or foresight. His progress seemed easy : he soon stept out of his track into a gaming-house, where he took 4 few pieces. A bishop (alias a sharper) fixed his eye upon him, and lured him into his toils. Mundungus may now be found in the Fleet Prison. Probus was likewise a pawn : placed under the notice. of a man of tank, whose patronage - introduced him into the army, he soon distinguished himself there ; he advanced step by step, until, having headed a party of his men, who forced the enemy's line, - he gained a title. Pervicax is a knight. His motions are precisely those of his prototype. He sets out with the design of going due east, and presently bends north. You arc least likely to find him where he has promised punctually to meet you. - He seems oppressed with all the infirmities of - human nature, yet does not repine. At the age of thirty, his sight is very dim : his gait is feeble and decrepit. He hears imperfectly. His memory is so treacherous, that he tells you he often misses his dinner through forgetting to examine his memoranda to learn when he dines, although it is constantly at the same hour. My friend Vesuvio is a knight of another complexion. Lie has been pronounced mad, but is far too amusing to be impri soned in a mad-house. The ease with which he acquires arts and languages, is equalled only by the facility with which be abandons his acquisitions. He has visited a large portion of the globe, but has merely studied whimsical points of charac ter. He'can assume the garb and manners of a Persian or an Esquimaux, a Turk or an Otaheitan. He maintains the existence of dragons, unicorns, and griffins, as well as of the phoenix, the mermaid, and the sphinx ; holds that disem bodied spirits inhabit the moon ; and is now employed in com posing a treatise on the city discovered in that satellite by a German Professor, and on the language, manners, and amuse ments of the Selenites. An example of the bishop is found in Bathyllus. This seeming virtuous man has a crowd of admirers and eulogists. He talks of honour, integrity, virtue, and religion, with the tongue of an - enthusiast : but all is false and hollow. He is an atheist, and a sensualist. lie betrayed into ruin, for his own profit, the friend who trusted him, and then abandoned him to misery and reproach. He bestows, in charity, a pittance upon the widow of a man whom he secretly robbed of his for tune. This character is too odious to dilate upon.. Vicious propensities acquire intensity of mischief under_, the cloak of hypocrisy. Jucundus supports the character attributed to the rook. He is one of the best natured men in the universe. Though he weighs thirteen stone, he would walk fifteen miles in the month of July to serve a worthy man ; and so many claim that title by false credentials, that he sometimes loses weight in the ser vice of those who ill deserve the sacrifice. Jucundus has some points of character in common with Sterne's Yorick. Ile puShes along the straight path of life, so that he occasionally jostles against those who choose the zigzag tracks which inter sect it; but he seldom quarrels with them. He believes man kind to be better than they are; but if he discovers a rogue he never spares him. My friend Eudoxus affords a living example of the perfect character ascribed to the remaining piece. Partiality may be expected to heighten the portrait, but the real features are too noble to borrow from flattery any thing but deformity. He is wealthy, but has as much humility as would become a poor man. lie is a scholar, but displays the modesty of a learner. He has power and influence, but they are exerted for the benefit of others. The gracefulness of his person attracts our notice; the sentiments of his heart confirm our esteem. The qualities of his mind axe nicely limited and counterpoised. • His gene rosity is without profusion ; his compassion is unalloyed with weakness; his firmness is remote from obstinacy; his promp titude partakes not of rashness; and his gaiety is untinctured with levity. The virtues which cluster in his character rarely unite, or exist in such perfection when asunder. As the game of chess is robbed of its chief interest when the queen is re moved ; so life will appear to me divested of its charms should Eudoxus leave it before me." 31, A. .2111 NTJAIBER 10,085. PICTU4 L G-0 Ff ICE, Jan. 6, 1825. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL. • LING His MeIJESTY 'S N4171', ere. do hereby give Notice, that on Friday, the 141 h Instant, they will he ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the s "PPIY of all such . quantities of LOAF BREAD as ma y be requi re d b y the. Officers and Men attached to the Ist Division of the Coast Blockade for the Prevention of Smuggling in the County of Kent, from the 20th January to the 30th Sep tember,) 825, inclusive. The Conditions of the Cont rac t, may be seen at this Office, or by a ppl y i ng to Captain M•C(Illoch, at Deal, Mr. Stokes, Agent for the Victualltng at Chatham; or to the Purser of the Division. 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F.osuROKE, M.A. F.A.S. Author of " British Monachism," ." The History of Glou cestershire," &c. &c. We have frequently noticed with due commen dation the progress of this• important work, and have now, the pleasure of congratulating Mr. FOSBROKE on the completion of his arduous and useful labours. The whole forms two handsome quarto volumes, embellished with- numerous ap. propriate engravings and vignettes ; among which the plates illustrative of armour and of costume are particularly deserving of praise. Prefixed to the first volume, is a portrait, and an autobiogra phy of the author; and we sincerely hope that the statements respecting his labours, and nume rous disappointments, will attract the notice of some benevolent patron, who may have the means of rewarding his merits. The utility of this epitome of Archaeology speaks for itself. It furnishes Readers of all kinds with a variety of useful, often curious, in formation, scattered through rare and expensive works ; and so authoritative are their-respective subjects, that misinformation can only be a con sequence of natural human imperfection. " The work shows, says the Author," to what an uncommon extent the civilization affected by the Roman Conquest, has diffused itself over modern Europe; the inhabitants being on the main Romans, under a different garb and lan guage. Moreover, Archmology is not only a study of Curiosity and Instruction, but is highly auxiliary to taste. The Classical part of this Work has a peculiar bearing in the intention of the Author, to this important object. He has brought subjects to a head, which were before lost in dispersion, for want of distinct works upon them." In a former notice of this Work we detailed at some length, the Contents of the first SEVEN Ctt PTERS j we shall now enumerate those of the remaining FOURTEEN, reserving for another opportunity some amusing extracts, which we had selected as specimens of the able manner in which the work is executed. The subjects treated of in the EICHITII Chap ter are Greek, Etruscan, Gaulish, and British Vases, with an alphabetical List of the Vases of the classical era. This is followed by disserta tions on Gems, Rings, Seals, &c. The NINTH Chapter contains, in alphabetical arrangement, ample descriptions of Furniture, Utensils, and Mechanicals. The TENTH Chapter embraces Manufactures, Trades, Inventions, useful A rts, Ornaments, Avocations, Offices, &c.; acrd closes the first Volume. The Second Volume opens with the ELEVENTH Chapter, which describes Barrows, Camps, Earthquakes, Roads, Rude Stone-works, &c. &c. On these subjects, the Author frequently has to notice with just commendation Sir It. C. Hoare's splendid Volume on Antient Wiltshire. The TwELrrn Chapter treats of the Manners and Customs of Private Life among the Laity of all Nations. This Chapter contains a vast quan tity of curious matter connected with our Na tional Antiquities. But the THIRTEENTH Chapter will perbaps be found productive of more amusement to the gene ral Reader than any other portion of the Work. It embraces Festivals at particular Sea sons, arranged under each Month ; Theatricals, Jugglers, Tumblers,_ Rope Dancers ; Games of Skill and Chance ; Gymnasticks ; Field Sports; ltustick Sports ; Children's Sports; Dancing ; and Musicals. Distributions of rank and honour, and heral dick matters, as arms, badges, cognizances, &c. form the subject of the FOURTEENTH CHAPTER. In the FIFTEENTH Chapter the author notices. Druidical and other Heathen Super-titions ; in including lucky and unlucky days, &c. Also, obsolete ecclesiastical matters, with accounts of hierarchal officers, now obsolete ;--Anchorets, II emits, Monks, Nuns, Pilgrims, Continentes,&c. On these subjects, it is evident, that the author is quite uu fait, as might indeed have been in ferred from the popularity of his well-known and much-approved work on " British Mona chism ;" Liturgical Matters and Solemnities ; and Fasts, Festivals, and certain peculiar religious Rites, conclude this Chapter. In the SIXTEENTH Chapter, treating of Mili tary Antiquities, Mr. Fosbroke strongly recom mends " Dr. Meyrick's superb and learned work on Armour." This Chapter seems somewhat out of place, which was occasioned by the publication of Dr. Meyrick's work having imposed on the Author the necessity of remodelling his materials. In the SEVENTEENTH Chapter are classed, in separate alphabetical lists, accounts, as connected with Archaeology, of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, vegetables, and marbles. The EIGHTEENTH Chapter appears to have been compiled with great care. It treats of arms and armour of all periods. Every page of it bears ample proof of the importance of Dr. Mey rick's labours on those subjects; and must neces sarily excite public attention with regard to his splendid volumes ; but as they are unavoidably very expensive, we think Mr. Fosbroke has per formed a meritorious service in giving to the Public so well compressed a synopsis of Dr. Meyrick's work. The NINETEENTH Chapter comprehends sub jects similar to the preceding—Military Engines, Projectile Machines, and Fire Arms, here pass in review. The TIY EN TI ET 11C b p ter embraces the costumes PRICE SEVENPENCE of ail nations, commencing with the, Egyptian, Asiatic, Grecian, and Roman, and descending to the Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman, and English, as late as the end of the 17th century. Some general Remarks for ascertaining the Eras of Figures in the Middle Ages are concise and use ful. These are followed by descriptions of va rious articles of dress, alphabetically arranged. ThP 'TWENTY-Fl ST Chapter enters on the sub ject of Numismaticks. Some interesting ADDITIONS and EMENDATIONS are then given ; and the whole Work is conclud ed by , a very ample Index. Such is a brief outline of the contents of this elaborate undertaking. But the whole Work should be considered as a grand panorama, and not a collection of landscapes Or details. We again congratulate the learned Author on thus fulfilling his engagementsvritbhis subscribers; by presenting to them and to the Public in general,. highly-useful and standard Work on sub jects which have never before been so success fully embodied. BAHIA. ( From t 7 e Liverpool Courier, Oat. 5.) The-following is an extract of a letter received • yesterday.from, Bahia : " BAHIA, OCT. 25.—The Correa arrived here yesterday (Sunday) from Rio de Janeiro, bearing an order from the Emperor for the dismissal and arrest of a Colonel of one of the troops belonging to this province ; and further, to have him conveyed to Rio, to answer any charges they might have against him. When this was made known to the individual, it caused, as might be expected, a good deal of angry feeling on the part of the soldiers he commanded; the consequence was, a party of them immediately proceeded to the residence of the General at Arms (Feliz Berto domes), who, they had got it into their heads, was the can se of their commander's di sgrace,an d demanded an audience of him. After he had dressed himself (for it was now only six o'clock, and he only having retired at four to rest, having had a party of friends at his house that evening) he made his appearance, and requeSted to know their errand ; this they stated to be their determination, that their Colonel should be di.. rectly reinstated in his command. This, of course, the General informed them, was out of his power, being in possession of the Emperor's orders for his dismissal; but, as far as he was in authority, he would use it in the behalf of the individual. This proceeding of theirs, it is supposed, was only a pre text, a kind of a colouring for the violence which followed, and that they had some more weighty object in view. Upon receiving his answer, they began to show some spirit of re venge, and a. few shots were fi re d i nto t h e h ouse. Th ey next proceeded to demand his surrender as a prisoner to their party, which, he said, he was willing to comply with ; but being now rather alarmed, he requested an assurance his life should be in • no danger. This they seemed readily to grant ; and he was proceeding down stairs to surrender himself, when some dozen shots were fired at him, and the poor General fell co vered with wounds, and this, too, by the very individ ua l s who' had been loud in their acclamations, a short time ago, that he should. be raised to the dignity he held! The fellows have got possession of a strong hold, the fort St. Pedro, where they are now assembled with a fixed determination to support their cause. The other, or Emperor's party, are likewise under arms, anti arc only waiting the determination of the council of war how to act, when there is every probability of a battle royal, as each party, in point of numbers, arc said to be equally strong. In the mean time, daring outrages have been committed in the streets by the troops. Not above twenty yards from our office, at mid-day, we heard the report of a musket, when, very shortly after, we learned there was a man lay dead in the street, having been shot by one of the soldiers; one more that we have heard of has since shared the same fate. How this will end, God knows. Nobody to be seen in the streets but these lawless fel lows prowling about : all the shops are closed, and business of every sort at a stand:" 27.—Nothing decisive has yet transpired ; both par ties are still under arms, and the outrages are still carried on. —Yesterday morning we saw them carrying a poor fellow dead past our office who had just been stabbed by a party of soldiers ; and., during the night, we hear. a serjeant of the Mina troops was assassinated ; in revenge, the Minas laid hold of one of the other party, whom they immediately consigned to the same fate.—Business still at a stand ; shops all closed." COMMON LAW.—The appellation of Common Law originated with Edward the Confessor. The Saxons, though divided into many kingdoms, were yet similar in their manners, languages, and laws. The slight differences which existed be tween the Meruan law, the West Saxon law, and the Danish law, were removed by Edward with great facility, and without any dissatisfaction. He made this alteration famous rather try a new name than by new matter; for abolishing the three above mentioned distinctions, he called it the Common Law of England, and ordained that no part of the kingdom should be governed by any particular law, but all by one. The Com mon Law as contradistinguished from Statute Law, consists of those rules and maxims concern ing the persons and property of men, that have obtained by the tacit assent and usage of the in habitants of the country ; the consent and ap probation of the people being signified by their immemorial use and practice. DUEL.—A meeting took place on Tuesday on Ascot Heath Race Course, between a Mr. MICKLEWHIT and Lieutenant YEARNS, now or late of the 33d regiment, in consequence of a quarrel at a hunt meeting at Bagshot on the pre ceding day. The altercation produced an ex change of blows at the time, when this meeting was appointed. In the first fire Mr. YEARNS was wounded in the fleshy part of the arm, which was bound up, and he was conveyed to Sunning Bill, weak from loss of blood, but it is said there is no danger. LUXURY OF THE AGE.-The Hamburgh Cor respondenten of the 18th ult. says—" One of the of bus i ness, at on Vienna accotm I t ut sofan the el 4 a extraordinary nce w r i u t run which it is fitted up. The lamps are all of solid silver, as are also the decorations about the bil liard tables, the stretchers used for filing the Newspapers, &c. &c." On Monday morning, at ten o'clock, the re ecbdroetsicsllonttllieeeycfeoodul I l o tiot w rty i h n re mains of the late Lord EARDLEY were removed from his Lordship's residence, No. 10, Marine g etofamil Parade, Brighton, on its route to Belvidere, The procession arrived at about four o'clock at morn ing, when it proceeded to Riegate, and on Wed- Craw le Bel videre, where the body was to lie in state till Crawley, from,w,v where e e t h r n e e i n i t t c: r v e i s i a t i vault at Erith,