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FOREIGN INITILIGENCIL FRENCH. PAPERS , . . (From the Courier .Frcuicait of Priflty.) APPOINTMENT OF THE SPANTSTI • CHARG: D'AFFATRESI - PARIOIARCH 22:—The Nmistry'his not ipugh to deny the cauSei . Which 'we assigned four days agot to the reeal of M. Villa Ilermosa and' wheli. have been copied by most..otheil?apers ' from,ilaiS i Tournar, It is a reprisal of the Spancsh Government, which, displeased at the .reeal,of M, de, *ostler, does not wish to keep au Ambassador, at Paris, when France has only , a Charge d'Affaires at Madrid. The Spanish Government' is proud; it consents to re ceive Charity' from France ; to be guarded by our soldiers, ht . when -the point in question is decorum, it is intractable. In order to show itself freed from all bonds of gratitude and dependence as far as we are concerned, it would resolve on any thing except paying us what it owes. However, it avenges itself nobly for the.attack which we made on its dignity, in only leaving with it a Charge d'Affaires. It re calls its Ambassador; but the Charge d'Affaires whom it sends, is elected from the Apostolicals, a man according to the taste of M. Calomarde. This Castilian De Moustier who is in the secret of the Spanish Juntas, will be a useful medium between them and our Congregations. Measures have been taker' to have about him those persons only who are sure. (From the Quotidienne,) " MADRID, MARCH 20.—Nothing is talked of now but Mr. Lamb's efforts to get the offers of the Lisbon Regency accepted. It appears, that the Portuguese Constitutional Government being afraid of the consequences, if the Government of Spain should determine to support the insurrection, has proposed a treaty, one of the principal clauses of which is to contain an engagement not to permit the Spanish exiles to form a military corps. On our part, it is expected that we will agree to assume an attitude conformable to the security which such an engagement is calculated to afford. It is probable that the Regency understands ,_by these last words the dissolution of our Army of Observation. It even appears that Mr..Larnb insists very much on this last point. We know not what result his nego ciations may hare; but we apprehend that before consenting to disband the army, our Government will require strong guarantees on its part. Mean while, the Government, to prove its willingness to enter into an arrangement, has given orders for dis arming the Portuguese Royalists who may enter Spain. These orders have already been executed with regard to some parties of Portuguese who passed our frontiers on the side towards Madrid. We await the issue of Mr. Lamb's conferences with the Mi. nister for Foreign Affairs with the more anxiety, as we know that the King takes an active part in the discussions. It is reported to-day that an energetic reply has been made to a representation of Mr. Can ning, in which he had gone to too great a length in demanding the dissolution of our army. It is said that his Majesty has formally signified his determi nation to adopt no resolution on this subject so long as the English troops occupy Portugal." (From the Etoile dated Saturday, March 31.) PARIS, MARCH 30.—The insurgent Chiefs of the Portuguese refugees, Tellez Jordao, Montealegre, &c. who have been sent to the frontiers of Franca, have arrived at Burgos. The Marquess de Chaves, being ill, has obtained permission to stop for some days in a town on the other side `of Burgos. The fall of the" funds which,has taken place at Vienna, and which an evening paper ascribed to the pretended accession of the Cabinet of Vienna to the result of the conferences at St. Petersburgh, of 4th April, whence. it is inferred, we do not know why, the possibility of a between •Austria and Tur key; was really caused by a report which had been spread in ' that city of the assassination of the' Vice roy of Italy—a falsehood invented by those who spe culated on' the fall. ' LIES OF THE DAY. 174 f lel iirt4ll.9,,Debots,--Atutataxiinatiap-pf M. to the post ortharge . d'Affaires of his Ca tholic Majesty, is an infraction of the Diplomatic usages. The Journal , Du Connneree.—Mr. Lamb requires from Spain - the dissolution of the army assembled on the frontiers, 75 millions, for the expenses of the war, and the Island of Cuba as a security. PARIS, MARCH 30.—The 'King is much better. His Majesty hepeito attend Mass, in the Chapel, next Sunday. The Count de Beaurepaire has presented to the Ki n g of Spain the Reeredenticals of the Marquis de Mototier. The Contlitutionnel mays—" The proprietors and principal editors of several Journals had the honour to be admitted this morning before the Committee of the Chamber of Peers, which was pleased to hear their observations on the special interests in the esta blishments which they represented." (From the Journal des Debuts.) PARIS, MARCH 28.—The nomination of M. Uzos to the post of Charge d'Affaires, of his Catholic Maisssty at Paris, is a departure from the diplomatic usages observed in Spain; but it casts Fome light on the causes of the repeal of M. de Villa Her- mosa. The Ambassador was to have been replaced by M. de Cordova, First Secretary to the Embassy, to whom the functions of Chargé d'Affaires be longed of right, during the absence of M. de Villa Hermosa, or. who, at the least, should have been called again to the office of Secretary of State, in the case of a successor being appointed to hits at Paris. Our Spanish correspondent states to us, on the contrary, that M. de Cordova has just obtained leave to travel, a permiiiion which he had not soli cited, and that the Chevalier Uzos, who is nomi nated instead of him, is well known at Madrid for the moderation of his political opinions. We learn also, that the Count de Beaurepaire presented, on the 16th of this month, to his Majesty the letters of recal of ,74. de Moustier. It has been noticed that he is the first French AmbassadOr that has quitted Spsin without receiving the Golden Fleece. In spite of the sacrifices whif ! . 1 he is said to have made some months ago, in the hope of obtaining it, M. de Moustier has received only the decoration reserved for' diploniatists of an inferior rank. The organs of our Ministry are no where in great favour, not even among those whose ready instruments they have been. A translation of Morton's comedy of " Town and Country" has lately been brought out at Berlin, and met with great success.— Cingus Ports Herald. On Tuesday, a two-horse coach that runs be tween Manchester and this town, came from the former place with passengers, and immediately returned, without giving the horses either food or rest. The wretched animals had not proceeded far before one of them fell down dead.—Stockpert Advertiser. DAGGERS ! ! I—The first attempt at Assas elnatito occurred in Barrack-street, on Wednesday. A well-d e es,:ed and apparently respectable individual sought shelte r duriog one of the violent showers of hail and rain, in a public limo, nearly opposite the barrack-gate. There Were SOM* penon I in what appeared to be a public room Lefore him, Shortly fifer he entered, a " religious" dis sertation .2 ".• He ronutio - s4 for a considerable time per fectly At length he was in.taed to state his opinions as to wheth er " St. Pete' was ever in Rome." He an swered in a tone that discoveead him to be a katholic, and not niany minute s Passed before he was in conflict with * villain, who aimed a blow at bins with a dagger ! The weapon was wrested from. tla i assassin's hand—not, how ever, without inflicting some inju r y upon the party ass...li ed ; but the circumstance meet of all to be deplored, is, that the monster contrived, ,i -11 Confusion tliat ensued, to make his escape , We understand that the facts of the one lave been communicated to one of the Police Offices, and and diabolical as this has to hush up the we have heard that th t i l n ie;e ,, i: so ba i s n e e " bftioes e. if any "lel_oc .. ,ntemplated, it ' shall not be our fault if it b e not via — "" a ttbh exposed to the cont em p t and execration of 9) '" ( the Evening Post) live in a ei, ria l" . sa y s wea ,,on ?—We nevajl :heard of th-,,l4‘._.*Wd an Irishman's r , et into ''''''re--never until the country nas been turn down ( i es t 4 l;r le4elo i zau - wes4ha lana . by that execrable ! ystern i , s which, nutni_ festly driving the , C Second Reformation," m or _ za retP,l to the extremity 9f a Civil War. "'" 9 *ter, MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. We are concerned to find that common sense is creeping ilike a cloud over this Magazine, to the ex clusion of wit, humour, and fancy. Not that we have a contempt for common sense, far from it; it is a good well-wearing household stuff that will outlast many a yard of sound broad cloth; but still we do not see why it should be enthroned on the ruins of imagination. " The Surplus Population of the United Kingdom" is as usual a diatribe against McCulloch on his doctrines ; it is, however, ener getically conceived and executed. "A Subaltern in America" details in a very graphic manner the ope rations of the English army against Washington ; the description of a pitched battle with the Yan kees—of the treachery of one of their provincial farmers—of their cowardly mode of bush-fighting— of the death of the Subaltern's young friend—of the arrival at and retreat from Washington ; these are all pictures traced by the hand of a master. We shall hope to see them continued. Mr. Hogg's " Shepherd's Calendar" is spirited and descriptive, with a good sketch of character in the person of " Old Will o' Pileup." The Letters, entitled .4el wvn in Search of a Daughter," are, we are to find, brought to a conclusion ; they were really a lamentable infliction; and the mode of discovering the daughter in the present series, is a manifest plagiarism from the Vicar of Wakefield's discovery of his son. " Noctes Ambrosiente"—or Blackwood's Night Thoughts, resemble Young's much more closely than they were wont; the wit is gone—the heaviness remains ; some printer, we suppose, has written " stet" against it. On the whole, however, the present number is a good one. We extract the following : THE BLACK WATCH AIR-" THE FORTY-SECOND ' S MARCH. " This is our own, our native shore— It ne'er shall be the Stranger's ! May Heaven preserve it evermore, In Discord's hour and Danger's ! These hills have seen our banner spread, And o'er the dead and dying— O'er gallant hearts and broadswords red, Our Unicorn still flying ! We on the thistle pour our love, In our free soil-we strike it; On plains below, or rocks above. There blooms no emblem like it. To every sterling Scottish heart It tells a kindling story ; It bids us spurn at modish art, And think of ancient glory. Old Scotland's spear shall never turn, When Faith and Honour lead 'em; At Roslin and at Bannockburn, Our Fathers drew for freedom ; And that their sons are valiant too, Let History on her pages Write Egypt, Spain, and Waterloo, In blood, to coming ages. Land of our love—our native land ! Dear is each stream that dashes In whiteness from thy rocky strand, Dear ocean's wave that washes; Dear are thy forests, dear thy plains, Dear are thy hill- of heather; Dear are thy daughters, and their swains, Dear art thou altogether ! And beats from Thule to the Tweed One heart that dares to slight thee— One craven heart that would not bleed Rejoicingly to right thee ? . No ; thou art Freedom's choicest seat, Religion's chosen centre; And life in us must cease to beat Ere foreign foot shall enter ! MONTHLY MAGAZINE. A very good number, with more than the usual complement, apparently, of pages and papers. The first article, entitled " Trade and Profession," springs evidently from the pen of a practised scribe; there is both sound and subtle thought about it, mixed up with a dash of bitterness by no means unpalatable. The ' cc _ _ . usual run of Magazine poems : we wish we could say as much for Mr. Neele's verses on Similitudes, which seems (to us at least) the mere unconnected gleanings of a common-place book. "On the Plea sures of Body Snatching" is a magniloquent attempt at what iscalled fine writing ; it is true Magazine sublimity, which is not exactly the sublimity of Je remy Taylor, Burke, nor even of Johnson. We will give a sample or two :—" But my own heart was not silent, my soul was tossed about as it were, in a sea of thoughts, dark, incomprehensible, overwhelm ing, 'till at fengtli the harsh but deadened sound of a spade, as it was struck into the earth, threw a ray of light upon the confusion, terrible, but beautiful as the flash that gilds the tempest." Spirit of Apollo, but this is truly Pindaric ! a spark struck out by a gardener's spade against a flint, is terrible, but beau tiful as the flash that gilds the tempest. Indeed: so then upon the same principle must be the sparks struck from a tinder-box, and yet we have struck many in our life-time, without either detecting their beauty or even their resemblance to " the flash that gilds the tempest." But tastes differ, so let us pro ceed to the next specimen—" I scarcely cared for concealment, but hurried forward, though with sup pressed breathing, and step as silken as a cat's (quere, what sort of a step is a silk step ?) till I had gained almost the verge of the new-made and now unmak ing grave, where leaning on a tomb-stone I beheld the first but not the last scene of resurrection it has been my lot to witness. Three dark figures—whose very outline I was unable to discern—were busily engaged before me, two in shovelling the earth out of the grave, and one in• directing the others and keeping a look-out." And yet he could not discern even the outline of these strangers, although he could see what they were about ! The article headed "Full Lengths : the Jew Slopseller," possesses both liveliness and ingenuity ; the character, howe-,- ; is the work of fancy, not of nature. The review of the Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford, is the quintes sence of common-place, mistaking its insipidities for wit. A Lord Mayor merits a higher criticism than this gentleman is ever likely to put forth. If, in deed, it were the Review of his Lordship's lady's maid's visit to the University, the intellect of the Review and the Reviewed might be more on a level; at present there is a lamentable discrepancy between them. A classical University is the very last place where we should ever think of looking for a Lord Mayor ; how comes it, then, that so little is made of the anomaly ? " The Catholic Resolutions is a spirited and honourable paper; as good, in short, as any article in any Magazine of the month. We re gret that our limits prevent us from extracting it. " A Letter upon Aflltirs in General" is penned in a rambling, desultory, but very amusing style; it touches upon all subjects with equal vivacity, and will, we doubt not, be generally entertaining; it is, however, too long. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Is this month highly entertaining, whether as re gards amusement or instruction, 'wit, or fancy ? Among the contributors we find Mr. Hood, whose talents were well known as a humourist of very original cast. He has here given an address in poetry to Mr. Bish, which is very smart and pun gent. As an interesting extract, we give the fol lowing spirited portrait of Lord Byron : " All merit has a right to be recorded." So says Toni Davies in the outset of his Life of Garrick. The sentence smacks of Samuel Johnson ; arid perhaps it would have been more correct to say,—" MI merit ought to be re. corded," I respect the collectors of small anecdotes of great men. James Boswell has been ridiculed for his trivial anecdotes of Johnson. But what would we not give for a work equally trivial that should trace the private life and conversation of Shakspeare? I first became acquainted with Lord Byron in 1812, when the new Drury-lane Theatre opened. The com mittee (of which he not long after becam e a member) ap plied to him, as all the World knows, for an opening address,—none of those advertised for, b e i ng t o the ." He contributed it , an d Elliston s p oke it, a " all couplet in it somewhat like the following : ; i :r 'who beheld, with awe, the God o f flam e s l ila red shadow o'er the startled Thames. I quote kph; I n g in„ y couplet (tilt -T the coet t e tll4t caught my ear, on my entrance behind the scene. When my further acquaintance with Lord Byron authorized the freedom. I asked him whether he should pot have used the word " reflection" in lieu of shadow ; and whether a shadow could have a colour? Hs answered with a smile, —" To be sure it can. What says Wordsworth ? " The swans on sweet St. Mary's lake " Swim double : swan and shadow." There is a shadow with a white body, black legs, and a yellow back." I did not push the subject. When I first saw him, he was sitting in the Green-room of Drury-lane Theatre, on the right side of the fire-place. Mr. Whitbread was standing with his back to the fire with Lady Elizabeth on his arm, and was congratulating Pope on his engage ment at that theatre. So many people have risen iuto. life since the departure of that extraordinary poet, that an account more minute than any that has yet appeared, of his dress and person, may, perhaps, interest. The figure of Lord Byron was about the middle site: erect and well proportioned, with the exception of one of the feet, which was truncated of about half its quantity. This deprived him of the spring in that limb, and obliged him to use the leg as if it were a wooden one. His face was expressive rather of hauteur than of any other quality. It was void of colour, and had I met it on the shoulders of Mr. Tre maine, I should have thought it characteristically disposed of. His hair was dark brown and curly, and seemed to be set off with some unguent. He wore no whiskers : his eyes were light grey, and rolled in their orbit in a very peculiar way, as if they were surveying the attitude of the party to whom he addressed himself. Of his dress, the most remarkable part was his cravat. It consisted of a narrow slip of white sarsnet, and the shirt collar was rolled over it. I rather suspect he piqued himself on the beauty of his throat. For the rest, lie wore a brown or black coat, and in the morning white Russia duck troweers, very wide, with a broad strap under the foot. The object of this was to veil as much as possible the mutilated limb. In the evening his trowsers were white jean, equally wide. He had a handsome gold watch, and a,rich chain and seal of the same material. These were hooked into the third button of the waistcoat, and hung across in a semicircle : when any thing either tickled or troubled him (and this happened generally about a dozen times in the course of an evening) he would twirl his watch-key with nervous rapidity. I dined with Lord Byron at Mr. Murray's in Albemarle street : Sir John Malcolm, and two other gentlemen, whose names I have forgptten, formed the party. Lord Byron, at that time, had a project of visiting Persia, and asked Sir J o h n Malcolm what he must do to equip himself for the journey. " The first thing you must do," said the other, " is to cut off your buttons," (he wore a blue coat with gilt buttons ou that evening). "My buttons! pray why ?" " Why, to secure your life; a cloth button in Persia may get on pretty well, but gilt metal would cause you to be waylaid and murdered. .The temptation is too great." Perhaps this induced tht.Noble Poet to.give up his scheme. I observed that at dinner - he ate nothing but turbot, which he sauced with a considerable quantity of vinegar. He was lively and jocose in.hie conversation, with a tendency to sarcasm. I mentioned the drama of the Maid and the Magpie, which Miss' Kelly's talents had just brought into great celebrity.' .He said he did not think much of it. " Nay, surely,'-' said , l,." it is a very interest ing story." " I don't. think so," answered his Lordship. " Only put yourself in-the situation of that poor girl," re plied I. " I can't," retorted Lord Byron : " I never was innocent of stealing a silver spoon in all my life." After coffee, f ord Byron stood by the fire, resting his el bow upon the chimney piece, and his head upon his hand. I stood by him and observed what a parsimonious dinner he had made. ' He said, ." Yes : it is only to he done by ,starvation ; fat is an oily dropsy." I asked him what lie meant. He answered, "To be thin ;—nothing is to be done without it : no man ofgenius was ever fat." I men tioned Samael Johnson, Beattie, and Gibbon: " Men of learning," he answered, " and perhaps of talents, but not of genius." I then said, " What 'cla you say to David Hume ?" He answered, with a laugh-- " Thefattest hog in Epicurus' stye."- . . _ _ _ " When I was at school - at Harrow," continued Lord Byron, looking around him, and speaking in a lower note, " I was as fat as Lord Sligo. This disgraceful infirmity I afterwards determined to get rid of. Accordingly, when I quitted school and came to town, I got some dresses of flannel, to envelope me from head to foot. Thus dressed, I stood at the wicket, while my servants bowled to ine, two or three hours in the day." " your" Blair succeed?" " Pertly ; noreatirtge` - T\i;eirinit'lheO fuse perspiration!, but was not reduced as I eXpected. I therefore determined to effect the rest by starvation. You observed what I ate for dinner to day. Well, this is Satur- 41:4 ;irt tsSiog&aiai Indeed ! why ' mwr •• icw'iwyet;- - -so saying, he drew from his waistcoat pocket a snuff-box, and opening it, showed me several black substances, of which I could not guess the quality or use. " These," continued Lord Byron, " are preparations of tobacco. ' To-morrow I shall drink some green tea for breakfast; and at five o'clock chew three of these fi., , dinner. They will absorb the gas tric juices of the stomach, and prevent the sensation of hunger. I have told you how fat I was at Harrow ; lend me your hand what do you think of me now ?" Thus speaking, he passed my hand down his left side. " I can count every rib in your body." " Indeed?' lam delighted to hear you say so." • Any one who has seen, as I have, Lord Byron and 'Ma dame de Steel in the same party, has seen one star too many. The lady was fond of lecturing, and the Lord never condescended to that office : consequently lie was rather silent. Madame de Stael was attended by Miss Lydia White, who echoed her sentiments". "'I never could ma nage the mathematics," said Madame de Stael. " Nor I," said Lydia ; I never could even learn the multiplication table." " Nay, I cannot go that length," replied Ma dame ; and Lord Byron muttered " Fairly lurched." To return to the theatre. Daring Lord Byron's admi nistration, a ballet was invented by the elder Byrne, in which Miss Smith (since Mrs. Oscar Byrne) had a pas seal. This the lady wished to remove to a later period in the ballet. The ballet-master refused, and the lady swore she would not dance it at all. The muric incidental to the dance began to play, and the lady walked off the stage. Both parties flounced into the Green-room to lay the case before Lord Byron, who happened to be the only person in that apartment. The noble committee-man made an award in favour of Miss Smith, and both complainants rushed angrily out of the room at the instant of my entering it. "If you had come a minute sooner," said Lord Byron, " you would have heard a curious matter decided on by ale : • a question of dancing !—by me," added he, looking down at 'the lame limb, " whom Nature from my birth has pro hibited from taking a single step." His countenance fell after he had uttered this, as if he had raid too much; and for a moment there was an embarrassing silence on both sides. Jack Johnstone, one evening, talked of one of the Thes pian fraternity, who had got into what he called "the de vil's own scrape." " What, is he married ?" inquired Lord Byron. " Worse, my Lord." " Indeed," said the Peer, " can there be a pejority?" The word is not in the Dic tionary, but I think it should be. THE LONDON MAGAZINE. A monstrous specimen of bare-faced book-making. The five first articles are literally taken up with re views and extracts from them, so that nearly one half the Magazine consists of matter copied out from other books. And this make-weight lumber is to be crammed down the throats of the public as original —to be charged as such ; and we conclude, to be received gratefully as such ! May be so, but the .etch-penny will never do; it is a positive insult on the reader's most ordinary penetiation. The first Review—to make the most of what we can get—is of Mr. Wright's account of Cambridge and its amusements, &c. ; in the course of which the Re viewer, speaking incidentally of University dissipa tion, takes occasion to fulminate his unqualified ex communication against those youngsters who have been unlucky enough to spend all the money they could conveniently lay hands OH. Now this is being righteous overmuch. Many a man, who is now fast rising, or at least holding a respectable station in society, has become engulphed in the Charybdis of Cambridge gaiety, driven his tandem to Newmar ket (which the Reviewer looks on with so much horror, but which, if he had any taste, he would look on with pride; for a well-driven tandem is really a pretty sight), betted at Chesterton, shown off at the Huntingdon Assemblies ; and yet, not withstanding these enormities, has become a very exemplary member of society. If allowances for youth are any where to be made, they are at Cam bridge. We know not how it may be at Oxford; but at Grants a man is absolutely decoyed into dif ficulties. On his first arrival he is surrounded with tradesmen of every description; and, should a doubt linger on his mind, it is instrntly dine away with by the obsequimiscivility of his future dun, Be is honoured, electrified" — .the tradesman will tell you —with your custom ; money he' will not think o f for an instant; down go the itetos•to thertutar s bill; and, long after you have forgotten the circum stance (heedless, and flesh it stay be frcan your optics are delighted by the agreeable refresher of an account as long as one of Mr. Hume's finance speeches. The criticism of " Hood's National Tales" is sad trashy stuff; there are but two ideas in it, and both wrong ones. The " Living and the Dead" is not much better ; while " Vivian Grey" is worse than all. There is, however, one good article in this month's number, and that is---" Daw's Reminiscences," which accordingly we recommend, as a sort of peace-offering, to the notice of our readers. The following extract may perhaps be curious; it is called " Value of Sir Walter Scott's Literary Property." 1. Copyright of published works, estimated at the rate obtained from Constable and Co. for similar works St. Ronan's Well £1,300 Redgauntlet 1,300 'Crusaders £4,600 2. Eventual rights to works sold to Constable and Co. for which bonds to the extent of 7,8001. are granted, but for reasons above stated, no value can be rated in this state. 3. Works in progress. As none of these are com pleted, no value put on them at present beyond what is be fore stated as due to Ballantyne and Co. for printing works in progress, and in the value °Messrs. Constable and Co.'s paper on hand ; but ultimately will be very valuable. See Appendix as to these works. _ _ In the debtor and creditor account of Constable and Co. with Ballantyne and Co. the following item occurs on the credit side : —Sums advanced by Constable and Co. to Sir Walter Scott, being their two-third shares of sums sti pulated to be paid in advance for two works of fiction not named, and not yet written, as per missives, dated 7th and 20th March, 1823. N.B. These works being undelivered, it is considered the author has an undoubted right to retain them, II and impute the sums paid to account in the general balance owing to Constable and Co. In Appendix No. 11., being estimates of funds that may accrue to Ballantyne and Co. within a year, occur several curious particulars relative to Woodstock and the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. Produce of new works by Sir W. Scott, at present in the course of publication :- 1. Woodstock, 3 vols. 9,600 ; shop-price 315.. 6d ....X14,926 10 0 Deduct one-third, to reduce to trade price, and cover expellees of sale, 4,987 10 Cost ofpaper and printing(same as Redgauntlet) 2,225 0 Sum to cover contingenciel —l,OOO " 0 '--- 8,212 10 0 Remains 6,750 0 0 Add value of copyright, aftsr first im pression Produce of Woodstock £3,050 0 0 2. Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 5 vole. 8,000 copies, shop price 525. 6d £21,000 0 0 Deduct one-third as above 7,000 0 Ditto for paper, &c 3,706 0 Ditto contingencies 1,200 0 11,906 0 • 9,094 0 0 Add value of copyright after first edition... 2,166 13 4 Produce of Buonaparte's Life £11,260 13 4 3. Literary y fi p n r o i lu e d c t o b n a t : t b jo t S y r t pWu i Sco t h ed t though in the course of publication, which may be safely stated * This price is that given for the subsequent editions after the first of 10,000. t It is a condition of these bonds, that if they are not paid, the copyrights revert to the author; so that, in spite of the failure of the granters, it is supposed they will be paid. This alludes to the Life of Napoleon. II Were the right the other way, it would be a very dif ficult matter to enforce it. An author of works of fiction is tot to be delivered against his will—a legal process to force Sir Walter Scott to produce a couple of novels, would be the Csesar man operation in literature. . r%7, ;6, I EIIE' INSPECTOR.. - • ' We are much pleased with the •iitiprovernents made in this amiable and persevering periodical. It is conducted with great spirit, and wants but age to ensure it notoriety. " The Dia►y of an M.P.," in the jarlisaat hluinber, has much truttr-ond vivacity oi, description to recommend it; so also- have " The Metaphysics of Fashion," which our limits, how ever, prevent us from extracting. The remaining articles are all, more or less, deserving of attention. THE GAAI.E BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn.--•Allow an old spOrtsman, now worn out in the service, and therefore impartial - , to make a few remarks upon Lord Wharneliffe's Game Bill. It is admitted that poaching is an evil, and that the pre- Sent Game Laws are bad, but his Lordship's Bill will, I am convinced, prove a remedy for neither. The poacher has at present two difficulties to encounter ; first, in getting the game, and next in disposing of it ; and the latter his Lordship purposes to do away with altogether. A no table expedient for prerenting poaching truly ! and just about as wise as to expect to diminish theft, by licensing houses for the reception and sale of stolen goods. For be it remembered, that, let the price of game be what it may, the poacher will always be able to undersell the fair trader. I blush to make use of the term, when I see it about to he applied to the once high spirited nobility and gentry of England. His Lordship may rest mired, that he never can put an end to poaching, unless he can first put an end to thieving; and even if he could, it is very doubtful if the country would have any reason to rejoice at his success. In every town, and in every village, there will be some worthless, idle characters, who will neither work nor starve; prevent theni from poaching, and they will become sheep-stealers, footpads, housebreakers. Nothing is more pernicious than this crude system of legislating, without attention to consequences, as if human nature could be altered, and every evil remedied by an Act of Parliament. And, if his Lordship's Bill will not prevent poaching, I am at a loss to discover what other good it can accomplish ; for as to the nonsense about fundholders, and others not being allowed either to purchase or kill game, it is too contemptible for refutation. Such persons at present re ceive more game in presents than they would ever think of buying ; and if they wish to kill it themselves, they have only to be content with a little less interest for their limey, and convert a certain portion of it into land, and the pri viledge is theirs. But it is rather too much for these grumblers to claim one of the few advantages which real property affords, while they are unwilling to encounter any of its disadvantages. . If Lord Wharncliffe's Bill should pass, it will certainly annihilate the amusement of most of the smaller fund holders, who, I think, have deterved better treatment ; for as the lands of these minor proprietors now mix with and intersect each other, it will be impossible for any person not possessed of a large estate, or having permission over one, to go out with his dog and his gun, without the risk of being treated like a felon, and thus more ill blood and litigation will ensue, than all the game in the island is worth. Twenty other objections suggest themselves against this impolitic Bill; but as I neither like long letters nor long arguments, I conclude your obedient servant, a T. TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS. A meeting of the committee appointed to promote the signing of congregational petitions against the Corporation and Test Acts, and consisting of the Ministers and diffe rent members of the three Unitarian congregations in Man chester, was held in the Cross-street Chapel-rooms, on Tuesday when th e f o ll ow i ng r eso l u ti ons were agreed That it is the inalienable right of every individual to upon week, worship Gotl according to the dictates of his conscience, in ally mapper consistent with the peace and good order of society. That it is at once impolitic and unjust in the civil ma gistrate to infringe that right, either by direct persecution, or by the infliction of civil disabilities in consequence of religious belief. o f trust, the memb ers o f That the Corporati on an d Test Acts do infringe that profession of conformity w ith the Church of England, and r b i y gl s it t , by stigmatizing, as other religious de nom i na ti on s. uaanwaorqthuyalifi ca tion for civil office, t h e That it is expedient that Petitions, founded on the fore going resolutions, be p r esented, during the present session, to both Houses of P a rliament, for- the repeal of the said Acts.---21lancheeter Gazette. In the extreme parts of the north of Europe, eve n in villages bordering on Lapland, the poorest cottagere generally possess a mangle ; 'and as the erinstruetion ie 50 simpl e ; it may be wondered that they are nqt more gene rally used in our own► country. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. —. 3 per Cent. C0n5......... 32%34% IN per Cent. Ditto Red. 4 per Cent- Now SON% 8 Ditto, 1826 Bank Long Ann. India Stock — Ditto Bonds 63 pin. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds, 5 percent. Brazilian Bonds, ex div 64% Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 404)4 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds bitto, 18'26 — Guatintala — Mexican Bonds — Do. 1823, ex div OgYA % PRICES OF IRISH ?V Bank Stock 24 0 14 210' Consols, 3 per cent SIN Gov. Stock, 31,i per cent SIX Ditto, New - 4 per Cent. Goy. Deb. 3% per cent .... - Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. -- Ballast Office Deb. 4 p, ct. - FOREIGN EXCHANGER ON LONDON. AMSTERDAM, MARCU 21.-12 f. IN—Two months, llf. 95 97%. HAMSDROU, MARCU 21-37 N.—Two months, 36. 93i. PETERSIHIRGU, ➢[ARCH O.—Three months, 10. LElpste, MARCH 19.—Three months, 6. 17N. BERLIN, MARCH YO.—Three months, 6. 29. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due, O America U U Guernsey & Jersey. • O Brazil 0 0 Hamburgh 4 O Buenos Ayres O Donagbadee 0 0 Jamaica 2 Dublin 1 Flanders 1 0 Li►bon 0 O France O Gottenburgh 2 2 Waterford' U MGM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...17 minutes after O. Evening ...42 minutes after 6. tit • , oaAAA4 ft 44.41. 0 LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1827. The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday; and the Etoile of Saturday morning, reached us last night. 1 The Constitutionnel of Friday, which had prepared its readers to hear that the SULTAN had refused to accede to the propositions made by M. de RIBEAUPIERE, contains a private let • ter from Frankfort, dated the 25th March, stating that for the preceding twenty-four hours their exchange had been in the greatest agitation, caused by various reports brought to the banking establishments from Vienna, where the public funds suddenly fell on the - 19th—the Metal liques one per cent. and the Bank Actions twenty florins. Two causes for this fall were assigned, namely, the accession of the Cabinet of Vienna to the Convention agreed on at St. Petersburgh, bet Ween. the Duke of WEL LINGTON and Count NEssEL RODE, on the 4th of April, 1826, and the Strong probability of war between Russia and Turkey. The Etoik on the other hand ascribes the fall of the Funds to the report which, prevailed in Vienna .of the assassination of , the VICEROY of Italy, which - it self was a - farsehOod." such a circumstance, however, could have had but little influence on public securities. A.ll the ~Fxessch. Papers are filled with ob servations •on the recall of the Duke de VILLA MOSA and the appointment of M. Uzos as Charge d'Affaires, who is said to be a man of moderate political opinions. M. de COR DOVA, the late Secretary of the Embassy, has obtained leave to travel. From hence, and from the measures which the Spanish Government has recently taken with respect •to the Portuguese Rebels, and other circumstances; -it is inferred that the policy of the Cabinet of. Madrid: has undergone a considerable change. The Etoile states that TELLES JORDAO, MONTEALEGRE, and others of the Portuguese Rebels, have arrived at Burgos, on their way into France, but that the Marquis de CHAVES has been allowed to stop for some days at a town on the other side of Burgos, on account of ill health. Extracts of these papers will be found in another column. FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, MARCH SO.—Five per Cents. 99f. 35e. ; 3 per Cents. 69f. 93c. Bank Stock, 2,002 f. 50c. Reutes de Naples, 76f. 25c. Royal Spanish Loan, 54i. We received, last night, Brussels Papers to the 28th, and the Allgenzeine Zeitung and Frankfort Papers to the 25th ult. They con tain but little worth noticing. The G overnm ent of the Netherlands continues to e nlist men for OT, the Fren c h Am service in India. The men enter for six years, and receive a bounty of two duca ts. It is said from Frankfort,the Guards sent hi m by o n the auth or i ty o f the Oriental Spectator, of the 16th Febru ar y, that ass a dCooru, hasnt G dismissedu t,E I 14 the Porte, expressing his intention to choose them himself. An unsuccessful attempt , by the Greeks, to relieve Athens, is also m ent i one d f rom th e Universal Gazette of Greece. Hamburgh Papers of the 24th March have been received this morning, but their contents possess little interest. The following are ex- DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old AMUWei New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 41 44 pus. Ditto SOO 2d. 41 44 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Bank far Account India far Account Cons. for Account 1323,‘% THIS DAY AT ONE ta'cLocx. Neapolitan, 1824 Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. e. Spanish, 1321 12%14 1823 — French /lodes, sp. c. 99t 75c. Exchange 2sf. 50e. 3 per cent 69f. 75c. Exchange I rocks, MARCH O. St. Patrick Incur. (per 811.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Batik Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings tracts : VIENNA, MARCH 14• His Majesty has approved of the proposal of Chevalier Von Heiult, to establish a Joint Stock Company for foreign commerce, the plan of which is to be laid before his Majesty for his assent. The Society is to be formed for 96 years, and to have the name of " The Imper►al and R"Yel privileged Trans-marine Commercial Society in Vienna." There arej to be 5,000 Shares of 4,000 florins, which may be held by all persons, without distinction o' nation, religion, or rank. PETEILSBOILGII, MARCH 10. Counsellor Fleischer, formerly Vice Governor of Wladimir, has fully proved his innocence is eriminal proceedings instituted against him ; and orders are given to punish, ac cording to law, the present Vice Governor of Orenburg, .Kirjakow, by whom he was falsely accused. The Privy Councillor Prince Lapouchin has been so dan gerously ill for some weeks past, that his recovery is despaired of. In all the Governments of the Empire where there are communities of Jews, as in Lithuania, White Russia, Cour land, &c., lists of marriages, births, and deaths, are ordered to be kept among the Hebrews, that" proof may be bad of their descent. On the 6th of this month there was a dreadful hurricane from the North-West, which broke up the ice in the Neva, and caused the rivers to rise to a great height ; th e weather has since been very mild. A courier ha s arr i ve d thi s evenios"cgirn frwol.n)tCPh3lrAisaticansial,6;llo brings word that the King would set out on the 17th, t o return to Stockholm, A dd arrive here on the 23d. On the 14th of this m onth a Commercial Treaty between SWeden and livrwq on the one aide, and 11 0 5 itt on tile ether, the, terms of which on the whole the same as cit ( those of the Treaty with Denmark, was signed by Count Von Wettersted, Mr. Hoist, Norwegian Councillor of State, and Count Von Tarrach, the Prussian Ambassador- Although it is understood that the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires at this Court has not received advices of Preliminaries of Peace between Brazil and Buenos Ayres having been signed, yet there seems stron g reason to believe the reports which are in circulation on that subject. An eminent house in the City is said to have received a letter from Rio Janeiro, dated Feb. 2, stating, « that the packet from Bueno s Ayres is expected every moment, and by her M. GARCIA, who comes as Commissioner to settle the Treaty of Peace between that Republic and the Empire. Mr. GOItDON is the mediator on the part of Great Britain." Another private letter, of the same date, asserts " that Government was go i n g to make peace with Buenos Ayres, for which put• pose Commissioners were expected by the Eng lish packet from Buenos Ayres." Dutch Papers of the 28th ult., just received, contain some particulars of the war in India up to the 30th October, which appears to have gone against the Rebels : BATAVIA, NOV. 11. Accounts from Soeraearta to the 29th of Oetober, BAP that the various defeats which the Rebels have lately es; perieneed in the district of Padang, and in which many 0 ' their Chiefs were killed or- wounded, have obliged them t", abandon a great p ar t o f th e env i rons o f t h at place, a n d retreat to the southern mountains, and Mount Merapie.--- Reports received from various quarters, announce that Diepo Negoro had retreated to the river Progo, after having received in the action at Garok, on the 15th, two wound , ' one above the right breast, the other above the left thigh. A Missionary, who saw Negoro's wounds dressed, *sr' that the ball had been already extracted from the upper e l unr s eadt n ein , r u giv n i d twa e j r oor Co dw l e . nt e t ,och einopeo i , n t e, h wohs a iie d nhg g o o it n s e to sot o , i,,oe D p, ielfdaonrgvithniele: and p w or o another u p n o d m A of wm cheek the insurgents in their attempt. to penetrate through Padang to iocracarta, and to insure more and more the safety of the great post road. Letters from Magellan say, that the rebels from the dig' triat of Minorch having ventured with a small band t° enter the district of Magellan, very near the capital' Colonel Cleerens had sent a strong detachment of infant* with some cavalry and artillery, under Captain Meet to the Deese of Dentadjar, where the insurgents 13 0 long remained undisturbed. This expedition, whi° ll took place on the 29th and 30th ultimo, was vv . / successful, the enemy, after suffering some loss aban' doned their position and retreated into the mountains. The column then proceeded to Blabag in order to join the remaining troops under the colonel in person, and c onvei go provisionsito the district tothegar o ri f p so r n obo of in T i r g a o y . an, after which he woul d According to credible accoun t s f rom t h e west coa st d B o rneo, Mr. George M u ll er , i nspector an d agent o f the Government for the interi or o f B orneo h a d b een t h e v i c tisi of his unremitting zeal. Whil e on a j ourney t h roug h tbe into innermost part. of that isl an d, h e was perfidiously attaekel by the Dajakkers when saili ng up t h e r i ver, at the distance ° a month's journey from Sintang. All t h ose who accoine murdered,nied him were murdered, ex ce pt one Javanese. l: fruits of the travels through thOse u n k nown reg i ons, w hich no . European before kim had ever visit e d, an d which afoul' have been highly interesting and important, are lost. We regret to see the Agriculturists s o us' reasonable, or so blind to their true interests, oi to present petitions against the New Corn Bill' If the operatives had of late acquired a familito rity with the Latin Classics, along with thee other accomplishments, they would certainly IS / inclined to address them as the O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint- Agricolas. But unfortunately there is no persuading e ither of these great bodies to view the other with all feelings but those of a pitiful jealousy. Far froio feeling any anxiety about the prosperity of the ms' nufacturers, with which their own is absoluteli interwoven, the agriculturists seem impressed wit h the vain desire of triumphing on thei r ruin, as ii they expected to find some new customers to start out of the earth, in the room of those to whom they have hitherto looked for the sale 0 all their produce bodies of whom we mthialaetevtniele.nientbeen speaking produce ; a)' l . l tl the manufacturers 0 6 1 no ways behind hand in narrowness of mill' towards their supposed rivals. 0 bation 'of this Corn Bill we have already er pressed ; but we would entreat those tl"` I eakiog period rN c ,ieo o d n b s eo i s d ft eotrwi time, bestowed t ttho t ehriere reconcile t i : s cel ilo s wisest t rests, in the joint success of which oiu t o l ir t int e flho Y :scfv c toni a r ;i ga:P a uil l ; o :rtti r rege)l look for that political renown which m ust V e extremely dear to them, even if they are devoi t of any higher principle of conduct. There is 1 1 ° resisting the authority of facts, and if experierV shall prove those calculations to have be e n aro' 'loons, on which the present . Bill has been o°' structed, it will be competent for any person' of the humblest a bility to say that it doe s not work well, and that some change is nee' sary ; but really at present it requires some ; thing more than skill in ploughing or in —in short, it requires an acquaintance " the with multifarious interests o f t h at comp li ca te' thing State," add e d to pat i ent i nves tig ; tion and or iginal intell ect o f a hi g h order,--'l, requires all this , we say, to authorise any man 00 ' called a of the House to throw censure on a measur e sanctioned by such authority as that which re f commends the New Corn Bill to the subjects ° this Empire. It appears by an Account, printed by order of the House of Commons, that the following sun)s were voted and paid for the under-mentione d Services in 1826 Navy ........ - - 6,135,004. ......... Voted. Paid. Army 7,75 0 ,310 ............ 8,297,360 Ordnance Miscellaneous 6,540,634 Total £17,942,9 64 •••• •••• X 19,120,445 Mehemet e ful eetttneAruhlriainargfae°ll ----,_ Frankfort Papers of the 26th of March COe from Alexandria, of the sth of Dec., *ii i : tain the following extracts, but they app e ar to 1# of an old date :--- ,staseyt ohuetreonbetlaweaB24mthucohf engaged Noverobeor j.ot, surarte, FIB. 16. Illti:the impulse given by his presence. FS Cairo.,, o the organization of the Egyptian Marine ; every branc;,l, Arab recruits have been embarked •on board of P . i large vessels which are at anchor in the basin of the 11 ', Ai „,,,,1, where instructions are given, under . the di;t l tion of several naval of fi cers of the Adriatic. The oil of F . reneh and English naval regulations have been conscliu ° of onen work and translated, into the Turkishlangmag g e ORni , an Bey Nunedin, chief of the General staff of Egyptian army. These regulations' will be soon Frit! and put in force. EGIVA, Jilt. od A th r e a service Conduriotti has quelled the insurrection at Hydra, _ ma y has gained the ascendancy among4be Hydriots. It: 5,30 0 that Colocotroni agripe. With him, mule/ ell the tithor id oce arc iit r9F9I, C9lldtliieta iiii iio opipetitOr ju ts Or