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tither than to strengthen their liatzds. It lays them open to so many more points of attack, and presents so wide a frontier to be guarded and vigilantly watched. Such extended Government, amidst a peopl e jealous of your authority, and not sufficiently valuing the benefits of peace and security, and comparative liberty, is more than "14. Council can manage : its eyes cannot be fixed o n all points at once, and relaxed attention of som e of their Officers, officious zeal, or the Prospect of impunity or concealment of others, and worst of all, the immense distance and difficuty of communication between the Seat of Government and th e C apitals of frontier Provinces, may permit the commission of acts without the know ledge of the Government which may lead to hos tile aggression from neighbouring States, or excite rebellion amongst the subjects of the Empire. The probability of such circumstances occurring Proved by th e present Burmese war, which, as we have before chew that an em i n, arose out of the fact, of Av grant from t h e dominions of the King -• residing under the protection of the Company did, without the knowledge or even ' llB Picion of the Indian Government, raise an army and carry war and devastation into the ter , ritories of a. neighbouring State, and with such success as to cause the greatest apprehensions to the Government thereof. It is for this cause, we say, th a t if t h e country subjugated to the British arms in India is much more extended, its affairs wilt become too nume rous and complicated to be administered by any government, however vigilant, vigorous, and wise, and its frontiers too extended to afford a hope that they shall be adequately protected in all PQrts. the German Mail has brought the Austrian Observer of Jul f rom the y 7, whi c h contains extracts Hydra Gazette, confirmatory of the accounts lately published, of the fall of Nava rida, extracts from which will be foun be 111 e affairs of Greece d low. is the most interesting 'subject which our foreign relations present, and ,politicians i n London and Paris are equally ern- Pkleil upon them. The late successes of the lu rks ) and ti me the dis asters that have for some past attended the Greek arms on • land, catt l'e us " n greatly t o f ear the issue of this t est will not th e be such as Europe and Christian World could desire. A. French Paper. nd '"uwever, excites the Greeks to persevere, In'tm.4"gre present appearances to go on, It the es the examples of the North Americans in tnnte st , th e -ttn England, and assures them that lib erty, t 1 4.11144 the ileattgelroryi the fortune, and all the s'esult of their - now enjoy, was more the Perseverance than their valour. The C onstitutionnel o ticl e op th f Saturday has an at % e subj ect of Greece, which, how_ever, contains only the speculations of the Editor with regard to affairs there. I at re- Pre3euts that and METTERNICII had IDA COD ealed his opinion from the Emperor df A tis "tati, and that his til eans agre sway i n I taly was by no '4lPposed seeable to th e I talians. It was also that the success of th e Greek would *-oc our age th e of t o resist, and that therefore Pr0.4'4414) in alt conjunction with Rus s i a , f ormed a ject of dividin 14 Placin g Greec e i nto Principalities ur g ou t h e Throne of each some opean Prince. Prince the S ardini CARIGN.tN, the h e i r o f an Crown, was intended to occupy one 1) 1 . these new ton esof until he atoned for his adop li°4 the S panish C onst itutionvritg in Pied mont , b y 41 1' " Iv51 the against it at th e T rocadero.—Prince ‘ l. son of the Ex-King of SWEDEN, 4tid the Prince of SAXE COHOURG, are also spoken 4, 11 r al li kelY to be put , in nomination for the 11`'Nwns of these new Kined°"' We suspect, s"'ever) the latter Prince finds himself far too 4°tutf(44lble in England, to volunteer his services 1 tne fatigues; a Regal Government in Greece. VIENNA, JULY 7. Tlie A II trian Observer of this date has extracted from the — Ydr a Gt t:rettflecletitraa ri z s e a t t c e t i ( o f:ri:m the 9th to the 23d Illay, N. , S.) an . account hich preceding the capitulation of Navarin, w r 4etit , Y a gree, in all the essential particulars, with the state- Nil orl"qously given by the Austrian Observer, from the re h4ve b een Randeira. The capitulation of Navarin might thitt the 4 dkn. own at Hydra on the 23d May, but we may imagine 7411.1riee E t own of the Journal would not be in a hurry to an -1‘;0. 113aofpiece of news so discouraging to their countrymen. ~ Ai_ .t. the Friend of the Laws, of the 13th May, relates ,1 1 . 01. 7 I 11--While the Egyptian fleet, which the Greek squa t %Id not hinder from sailing from Juda, w as at. ettiPting itttitotea don land the 3d division of the troops, the enemy few 4 the land.eide Old Navas' the where there were only a alodotrie,eak:,nn.d,er General liadschi Christo, the Archbishop of who wit , 1: 44-zander Ilaurocordato, the Secretary-General, ii oz. :, e ftew soldiers had come the day befor e to this posi tiered from r00p.3 resisted till night, and the enemy was hin- Tkeu,: ,trt_ landang by our fleet. In the evening the enemy 1411(1'".1, vetrcchori and Jeloa, two nel hbourin pos i ts on the ileet 31cle• On the heath he resumed his attemptg by g sea, P and our thsetcrti:unfortunately at a distance eight of our ships an -440, the Middle of the Calf of Navarin, and Anastaseus 411,„4 or V..he, Middle of this division, landed on the little 4 itl 4 few ZigLa, there were General' Ana g n ostara and 7 Tsokri, Ps, Whithe r t h e Secrete and and bla followers No. 114, of the 16th of May, states, that the garrison of Old Navarin, after a fruitless attempt to cut their way through the enemy, in which Hadschi Christo, the Archbishop of Modon, and the son of the Bey of Maina, were take* prisoners, had been obliged to capitulate to the number of 1,001) men. No. 115, of the 20th, gives an account of the naval victory of 12th May, and makes the loss of the enemy amount to twenty ships, viz. a two-decker, two frigates, two corvettes, the others brigs, and a few transports. This account mentions, that it seeems that the fire communicated to the town, amd that several explosions were heard, whence it is inferred that the powder magazine in Motion was blown up. The Austrian Observer remarks in a note, that though it is now known from Major Bandeiroe'report that Modon suirered no injury, the Greek narrator cannot be blamed for what he says, since we know that Colonel Rottiers, who saw the begin ning of the action, found similar conjectures. No. 116 of the Friend of the Laws, of the 23d May, relates the sudden eruption of a body of Turks of 2,500 foot and 500 horse, who attacked Putatico and Peute Ornea, and over powered the 400 Greeks stationed there, of whom 200 fell, after killing 600 of the enemy. A panic seized the inhabitants of Salons, which the Turks occupied after the people had fled to Lutraki, with Commissioners of Government from Falters Greece. The military -stores and provisions, which were the chief object of the Turks, were saved, and the Com mission of Government having sent ships to fetch from Vos. litza 3,500 Epirots (who it seems should have been on the spot before), it was hoped that their arrival would encourage the remaining troops, and the enemy would have reason to repent this rash incursion, to which they were induced by the hope of finding plenty of provisions. The French Papers of Saturday contain no news of importance ; a few extracts from them will be found. below. FRENCH FUNDS.-FARIB, Jur.r 16.—Five per Cents, opened at 103 f. 30c.; closed at 103 f. 45c.—Three per Cents., 35c.—Neapolitan Rentes, 89f. 75c.—Spanish ditto, 17i. — Exchange on London, one month, 25f. ; three months, 2,11. 85 c.--(Cours Authentique.) THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—The daily attacks upon this venerable Pillar of the Constitution in Church and State, are too low and malignant to excite any thing but disgust and indignation against the rancour of the anonymous defamer, who can feel gratification in thus giving vent to his constant effusions of vulgar spite. They can never be authorized by any person of a respect able station in life, and the scurrilous assassin of character by this persevering hostility, shews that he is as destitute of taste as of common de cency. This is really a lamentable abuse of the glorious privilege of Public Press. PARIS, JULY 15.—Her Royal Highness Ma dame, having been pleased to consent to stand godmother to the bell of a church at Rouen, the King has given 6,000 francs to be employed on the occasion.—Th e Grand Almoner of France has sent to the Cures of the city of Paris 6,000 francs, which were given to him by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, with the request to have them distributed among the poor of the ca pital —Yesterday at midnight the thermometer of Chevalier was at 18.—Friday, at noon, 24. 2-10ths; one o'clock, 24. 5-10ths; two o'clock, 24. 5-10ths ; still rising. FRANKFORT, JULY 10.—Prince Gustavus, son of the Ex-Kinkof S we d en , h as j ust been ap pointed Lieutenant -Colonel of the Emperor of Austria's own Regiment of Hulans. This nomi nation causes some sensation at Vienna, on ac count of the report which is in circulation, and this young Prince will be proposed to fill the new throne which it is intended to found in Greece. The Kiss was to hold a Privy Council to-day at Windsor. The answer yesterday to the enquirers after the state of Mr. Secretary CANNING'S health was, that the Right Honourable Gentleman was much better. His Majesty's ship the Raj/a/ Sovereign has been taken into dock, for the purpose of b e i ng cut d own to a hulk. A piece of the quarter-deck and part of the qu a rter_ RAM, of the ship has heen presented to Captain ROTHE RAM, R.N., at that gentleman's particular desire, for the pur pose of being made into a piece of furniture; the wood being taken from that spot where the officer chieflrirg the battle of Trafalgar, he being Captain of th e Royal S y remained duove t reign at that period. Sir F. MAcsAcarre.s came home passenger in the General Hewitt. On leaving Calcutta he re-i ceived addresses and tributes of respect from all classes of society. The Hon. Mr. BATutrusT is appointed one of the Commissoners for victualin g the navy in the room of Mr. R. W. Hay, who is appointed one of the Under Secretaries of State for the Colo nial Department. had repaired, knowing that the enemy wu.eld attack this island: On this day the enemy's large ships remained out of the gulf to keep offour fleet, but 4fi others, including 5 frigates, 4 corvettes, entered and placed themselves between the Island and the Con tinent, keeping up a constant fire on the island, while 3 frigates guarded the entrance of the harbour to hinder our ships from ailing out. The enemy began the attack on the land side, where the weakest of the 3 batteries were placed. About 11, A.M., 50 armed boats attacked the island while they were repulsed with great loss on the side where Captain A. Tsamados was stationed with Colonel Stauro Sachini ; they overpowered our men on the other side, so that Tsamados was placed between the two fires. Sachini rush ed, sword in hand, into the midst of the enemy, and disap. peared. Our ships could not attack because most of our sailrs had landed to defend the island : many fell heroically, and many were wounded. When the enemy were really masters of the island, the remaining sailors went on board the ships, took the wounded and soldiers with them, and escaped through the midst of the enemy's fleet. Only the ship of Tsanandos stopped to take on board its brave Captain, who was wounded ; but he could not reach the ship, and was either killed or made prisoner.—Maurocordato, after losing all his people, was saved on board this ship, which, with incredible heroism, fought its way, and had to contend for five hours with 35 ships of the enemy ; yet it had but two men killed and six wounded. One of the enemy's schooners was burnt, and a brig sunk.— We do not know whether Constantine Zafiropoulo (brother of Gen.lPenajoli Zapiropoulo who was taken prisoner 9th A pril)was killed or only taken prisoner. Count Santa Casa, a warm friend to the Greeks, and an able engineer, fell in the engagement.— During the battle on the island, the enemy's infantry and ca. 'airy made a desperate attack by land on Old Navarin, but were repulsed with loss. ....A-1.54v.,.. _ , . , !if - .2 ,--. 4 ,--- ' -". s ‘l‘ ' t\\ , ; 14 . e,0-7,4- ym !,7 : 7(F1 ,--- ,, ,-:-\-". 0- :::,*,,,- ..,V e.) 4' --- . rtu -..;aßlVill'is* A t, ,7.,. THE KING,• Scc. WINDSOR, 11:—This afternoon the Kiss drove from the Royal Lodge in his pony phaeton, accompanied by the Marquis Conyngham, for the beautiful lake of Virginia Water. - The new pleasure boat has lately been put in order, and this afternoon his Majesty was sailing on the water for a considerable time. He dines at six o'clock, and mostly after dinner either walks in the grounds contiguous to the Lodge, or takes a second airing in his phaeton. Sunday at three o'clock the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, Prince. George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, went to visit Sir Herbert and Lady Taylor, at their house in Cadogan-place, where the Royal party partook of a dejeune. Afterwards the Princess Augusta took her Royal nephew and niece to visit Miss Fielding. Sunday evening the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Leopold, &c. went to a _tea party with the Duchess of Kent. Yesterday at three o'clock the Duke and Duchess of Cam- I bridge, the, Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, went to the King's Palace at Kensington on a visit to the Duke of Sussex, where they partook of a c2jeune. The Princess Augusta left Kensington a little before six o'clock yesterday for her mansion house at Frogmore. 'Yesterday morning the Duchess 'of Gloucester visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Leopold dined with the Duchess of Kent yesterday. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge dined with the Duke of Devonshire. FASHIONABLE CHANGES. Princess Augusta, for Frogmore ; Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, for their seat at Trentham, in Staffordshire ; the Earl and Countess of Lonsdale, for their seat, Lowther, in Westmorland; Earl Spencer, for the Isle of Wight ; General Sir William Cockburn, and Lady and Miss Cockburn, at Brighton ; the Hon. Mrs. Warneford, for Warneford-place, Wilts ; Major and Mrs. Dodd, for Cheltenham ; Lord and Lady (1 , .. Cliffbrd, for their seat, Kingsweston, near Bristol; the Right Honourable T. Wallace, for his seat, Tring-hall, Herts ; R. Sneyd, Esq. for his seat in Staffordshire; Colonel Beaumont, ALP., Mrs. Beaumont and family, for their seat, ' Bretton Hall; Lord Althotpe, for his seat, Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire ; Lady Brooke, for her seat in Cheshire ; Sir George Wombwell, for Norfolk; Colonel Hughes, M.P., Mrs. Hughes and family, for their seat, Rinmel Park ; Colonel Woolas:on, from t'enton's Hotel, St. James's-place, for his seat in Suffblk ; Major Aubrey, from ditto, for Cheltenham ; M. Wyrell, Esq.' from ditto, for, his seat in Yorkshire; Captain Miller, from ditto, for Paris. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Sir Charles Long, Bart. entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Privy Gardens. Mrs. Fox entertained the Duke and Duchess of Rutland and a large party at dinner yesterday, at her house in Stratton street, Piccadilly. Lord Berwick had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Dowager Lady Neave had a select party of fashionables yes terday evening, at her house in Albemarle-street. The rumours hinted at in the letters from Rio de Janeiro of the lath May, of the EMPEROtt having been fired at, is corroborated by the ad vices brought by the packet, which sailed on the 122 d. It is now said that two attempts were made, and that several persons had been appre hended and were in confinement at the Isla de Co bras. Much pains are said to have been taken to prevent the affair from coming to the knowledge of the public, and it is consequently involved in so mueh mystery that it is not possible to gain any accurate information on the subject. The packet has brought letters from Pernambuco to the 6th ult. The remainder of the troops concerned in the late insurrection, in number about 1,400, had been sent to Rio de Janeiro. The new governor of Pernambuco had issued orders for organizing the militia, and the town was well garrisoned. From Bahia the packet has brought no news of importance. The last private letters from Buenos Ayres present us with a favourable account of the state of that Republic. New buildings of every de scription, and to a vast extent, had commenced in the city of Buenos Ayres, for the most part erecting with British capital, which was likely to find in this mode very advantageous employ ment. The number of European residents was rapidly increasing. The stock of the new Bank at Buenos Ayres bore a premium of 42 per cent., and it is supposed would have been higher but for a forgery which had been committed of some of the notes of that establishment, and which had in some degree shaken public confi dence. The current rate of interest was I 2 per cent., notwithstanding which the Government 6 per cent stock was quoted at Si. Since the final defeat of OLA N ET t, in Upper Peru, a rumour was current at Buenos Ayres of an intention to erect the four southern provinces into a separate inde pendent state. The mania for mining specula tions, it appears, had infected the population of Buenos Ayres to a very extraordinary degree.— A Captain CHARTRES, of the Royal Artillery, the agent of some English companies, had passed through Buenos Ayres on his journey to Chile. The Cauneleon sloop of war, Captain LAMBERT, is fitting at Portsmouth for the conveyance of Captain CLAPPERTON• and Captain R. PEARCE to the coast of Africa, when they will land and pro ceed on an important mission into the interior. The several presents from the Sheriffe of Bar nou and the Sultan of Stockatoo, brought by Major DENHA M and Captain CLAPPERTON, have been removed from the Secretary of State's office to the British Museum ; they consist of various skins, as dressed by the natives, war dresses, &c. There are also several specimens of geology, mineralogy, and botany. Kew Gardens, to th e o p en i ng of which there had been some interruption, are now regularly opened every Sunday evening till half-past nine o'clock. In one of the hot-houses in the Bota nical gardens at Kew, there is a shoot f rom the willow that sweeps over and shades Buo naparte's grave at St. Helena. After having been cut from the tree, the little branch was put into earth, and it struck root. On arriving in England, it was presented to his MAsEsTy ; and as our KING wars not with the dead, it was ordered to Kew, and the memorial directed to be taken great care of. It is now hardly a foot high, but it is in full leaf ; it is taken special c are o f, not a l ea f o f it bei ng s u ff ere d to be touched. The KiNG of late has frequently visited Kew, and always on such occasions walk ing throug the Botanical Gardens. THE DUKE OF YORK'S MANSION. CEREMONY OF LAYING THE FIRST STONE. Yesterday was the day appointed for laying the first stone of the intended splendid mansion-house for the Duke of YORK, in the precincts of the King's Palace, in St. James's, commonly called the Stable-yard. A temporary plat form was erected, covered with green baize, to descend to the spot where the stone was laid, which was on the west side of the garden, nearly opposite to the entrance of the residence et the Princess Augusta. About half.past five o'clock in the af ternoon, the Duke of York, the Duke and Duchess of Rutland entered the gardens from St. James's-Park. They were re ceived by Mr. Phillip and Mr. Benjamin Wyatt, the Archi. tects appointed to erect the building. After waiting short time, the distinguished Personages were conducted t:r the spot over the platform as above described, the Duke of York lead ing the Duchess of Rutland. On the arrival of the Duke of York at the spot where the stone was drawn up by a windlass, all present and the workmen took off their hats. The stone being adjusted by a plumb rule and a square, one of the Archi tects presented the Duchess of Rutland with a silver gilt trowel i made for the occasion, with which the Duchess proceeded to spread the mortar under the stone previous to its being laid, with her lovely delicate hand, and afterwards the Noble Duchess struck it with a mallet. After this proceeding a square white glass bottle was placed in an aperture in tile stone, in which was put a sovereign, a half sovereign, a crown piece, a half-crown piece, a shining, a sixpence, a three-penny piece, a two-penny, and a silver penny piece, also a copper penny, a halfpenny, and a farthing, all of his present Majesty's coinage. This bottle was afterwards cemented in with rosin. A plate was also let into the stone with an appropriate inscription, de scribing for whom the edifice was erected, naming the Royal Duke's titles, rank, &c. as given from the Herald's College.-- As the Royal Duke was retiring from the ground, the work men cheered his Royal Highness with the .most rapturous and gratifying huzzas. The Royal Duke, previous to his leaving the ground, ordered every man employed on the occasion a liberal donation. The erection of the mansion will pgceed with all possible speed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATE OF TPIE ODDS.—BETTING-ROOM, JULY 18. DONCASTER ST. LFGER. 15 to 4 agst Memnon 30 to 1 agst Trinculo 6 to 1 apt Alderman 30 to 1 agst Defiance 7 to 1 agst Redgauntlet 30 to 1 agst Pastime 15 to 1 agst Cleveland 50 to 1 agst Rothelan 18 to 1 agst Altisidora 70 to 1 agst Fleur De Lis 22 to I agst Homer 100 to 1 agst Bob Logic 25 to 1 agst Br. to Addy 100 to 1 agst Camelina. 28 to I agst Whisker colt PRESTON RACES.—LAST DAY. Seventy Pounds, given by S. Horrocks and E. Hornby, Esqrs. for horses, &c. of all ages. lime's b. f. Guy Faux, 4 yrs - Yates's b. f. Fib, 4 yrs - Hutchinson's b. f. by Walton Roundthwaite, ch. f. Governess, 4 yrs Mr. Col. Mr. 1 4 1 4 1 4 3 3 2 2 dr NE WCASTLE-UPON-T YNE RACES. LAST DAY, FRIDAY. The Town Plate of 100 soy. given by the inhabitants for all ages ; three-yr-olds, 6st. 101 b.; four, Bst. ; five, Est. Mb. ; six and aged, Bst. 121 b. M ares and geldings allowed 31b. ; heats '2 miles and a distance. Mr. Gascoigne's bl. m. Elizabeth, by Walton, 4 yrs 1 1 Mr. B. Peter's ch. h. Bugle, by Asmodeus, 5 yrs 3 2 Mr. Jackson's ch. c. Rapid, 3 yrs 2 3 2 to 1 on Elizabeth before starting, and 3 to 1 agst Rapid.— After the Ist heat 10 to 1 on Blizabeth.--Won easy. A Maiden Plate of £5O, for all ages, that never won ; three yr-olds, bst. 10113. ; four, fist. ; five and upwards, Bst. 71b. ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Lambton's br. c. br. to Adam Blair, 3 yrs - 1 1 Mr. Smith's b. f. by Leopold, 3 yrs - 2dr 3 to 1 on the winner, who was rode by S. Templeman, and won easy. WELLS (SOMERSETSHIRE) RACES.—THURSDAY. The Gold Cup for Horses not Thoroughbred. Philipson's b. g. Uncle John, aged, 12st. 41b. 5 1 1 Molony's b. m. Madge Wildfire, aged, 12st. 41b. 4 2 2 Smith's br. Viscount, 5 yrs, list. 91b. 1, 5 3 .Jackson's b. g. Capt. Parry, 5 yrs, llst. 31b. 3 4 4 Bayly's gr. g. Grimace, aged, 12st. 4lbs - 2 3dr The Gentlemen's Plate. Puisford's ch. f. Aura, 3 yrs, 7st. - . 4 1 1 Small's Sir Uildebrand, aged, 9st. 81b. 1 .2 dr Dundas's b. c. by Pyramus, 4 yrs, fist. 81b. 04 dr Hooper's Rattle, aged, 9st. 21b. . - 0 3 dig Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. !KET, eyed on Epsom Downs on Fri tugscote Clubs, and decided in - - 108 • - 25 CRIC A Match of Cricket was ph day between the Epiom and K. favour of Epsom. KINGSCOTE. First Innings - Second Ditto - 71 EPSOM. • First Innings • 61 Second ditto 132 W Epsom won by 10 wickets. On Saturday last a Cricket Match was played at Harrow, between eleven Harrovians, and eleven Gentlemen of the Marylebone Club, which was won by the Harrovians, and five wickets to go down. 133 TUE WEATJIER.—The thermometer at half. past three yesterday, was 86 at the Royal Ex change. Ti ARMY.—On Monday next the First Bat talion of the Coldstream Guards will march from St. James's Park for Windsor, to relieve the First Battalion of the Grena dier Guards, now doing duty there. The Second Battalion of the Grenadier Guards are under orders to march for Ireland, to relieve the First Battalion of the Third Regiment of Guards. THE GREAT LEVIATHAN.—The following ac count of the failure in attempting to launch the great timber ship, Baron Renfrew, is copied from the Quebec Gazette of the 20th of June :—" We feel, in common with every descrip tion of good people here, the great disappointment of expecta tion, of the launch of the great ship Baron Renfrew, at the Island of Orleans, on Saturday last. Various are the reports and conjectures as to the cause of the launch not being com plete. We are glad, however, to learn, that there was no want of foresight, and judicious preparations. The ship started handsomely, but owing to the immense weight and great length, all the grease was burnt up on the ways (and these were on fire) before she reached the water; from this cause alone she stopped, and rests right-on the run, partly in the tide.— Perhaps it may be requisite to block tip the ship, and lower the war a little before the Baron displays all her grandeur in her proper element." COPENHAGEN, JULY s.—The late meeting of the Asiatic Company rejected the proposal of the Directors to fit out a ship for the trade to India and China. M. de LALINDE states that he received from Tarini himself (the celebrated composer) the following singular anecdote respecting one of his compositions, which :hews to what a degree his imagination was inflamed. lie dreamed one night that he had made a compact with the devil, who promised, to be at his service on all occasions; and during this vision, every thing succeeded to his mind; his wishes were pre vented, and his desires always surpassed by the assistance of his new servant. In short, i he imagined th a t h e pre sented the devil his violin, n order to discover what kind of a musician he was, when, to his great astonish ment, he heard him play a solo so singularly beautiful, and executed with such superior taste and precision, that it surpassed all the music he had ever heard or con ceived in his life. So great was his surprise, and so exqui site his delight upon this occasion, that it deprived him of the power of breathing. He awoke with the violence of his sensations, and instantly seized his fiddle, in hopes of express ing what he had just heard, but in vain. He, however, di rectly composed a pi ece , w hi c h i s per h aps the best of all his works, and called it " The Devil's Sonata!" He knew it, however, to be so inferior to what his sleep had produced, that he would have broken his instrument, and abandoned music for ever, if he could have subsisted by any other means. Mr. JOHN SINCLAIR, from London, who is now performing at our Theatre, took places for himself and.wife in the Umpire for Liverpool ; at the same time Mr. Jones SINCLAIR, of this town, took places for himself and wife by the same coach. Unknown to each other, the two John Sinclair: and their wives occupied the inside of the coach, from Landon to Liverpool. In the course of conversation it came out that the three children of the said John Sinclairs were of the same name—namely, their eldest daughters, " Christiana," their eldest sons, " John," their youngest daughters, " Catherina." —( Liverpool Paper. ) On Tuesday last, Mr. DUKE, of Bexhill, at tained his ninetieth year, and according to custom, celebrated hie birth-day, by giving an excellent dinner at his house to about fifty of his friends and neighbours. Air. Duke also or dered 150 stones of good beet to be distributed amongst the neighbouring poor. OXFORD. FOR THE SUN. EOITOR—I saw a letter in th? Globe,' and Traveller of yesterday, dated Oxford, complain ing of the neglect of 'duty by the Professors of that University,. Of its truth I know • nothing, but I must say. I was highly amused by that part of it which. Axes neglect on those Professors whom the Statutes oblige to lecture in Latin, by which all the interest of the lecture is lost. No doubt it is lost to the writer of that letter ; 'hut I take , the liberty of informing him that Lownt and COPPLESTON are' neither less beautiful, nor le4s admired, because he cannot understand them. But the Cockney College will soon arise, and academical darkness flee before it—LOWTH, COPPLESTON, and VAN MILDERT Will be heard of no more, when Rustic shall teach elegance of Composition, Alderman Wood lecture on Poetry, and .EDWARD IRVING instruct in Divinity. July 16. PHILACA DEM US MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, JULY 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived and sailed far th-..‘ River, the Frederick, P awe!, from Jamaica ; Henry, Weea. morland, and • Micwac, ---, from Demerara ; Busiris, Gardner, from Grenada ; Levant, Innes, St. Mitt's; Grecian-, , St. John's, N. B.; Margaret, --, and Elizabeth, Ekin, from St. Vincents ; and Newcastle, of Newcastle. • PORTSMOUTH, JULY 18.—Wind calm.—Passed by the Egginton transport to the westward ; and Ada, Cox, for Gucatan. Sailed the Arab, and Joseph Green transports, for Belfast and Halifax. FALMOUTH JULY 17.—Wind calm.—Arrived the Martin : Marlin, from iahia ; Dillon, ---, from London, for Neve York. Off the Port, the Lima, Smith, from Bahia, in 72: dap. The Auriga, Walford, for Valparaiso, is only waiqn4 for a breeze to proceed. Arrived off Dover, the Minerva, Henderson, from Demeran ; Young William, Mudart, from Surinam ; Ann Louisa and Rierste, Bate, from Bahia ; Hannah, Talbert, from New York Eliza, Hind, from Baltimore ; Roseville, Scott, from Cana. ries ; Vigilant, Smallridge, and Illercurius, Schult, from Oporto. _ Arrived off Hastings the Ann, Barker, from Havannaii Betty, Richters, from Baltimore; Abigail, Gibb, from IN York ; and Maria, Butcher, from Leghorn. The Swiftsure, Tully, from Vera Cruz, put into New York the 18th ult. to refit, having sustained some damage in the late gale. Passed in the Gulf several dismantled vessels and part) of wrecks. Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal by the ship Java, Cap! Wm. Younghusband, were closed at the East India limy!, and delivered to the Purser of that ship. WITCHCRAFT. (From the Suffolk Herald. ) N'o longer ago than Saturday se'tiniglit, a man was "swam for a wizard," at Wickham-Skeith, in this county, in the presence of some hundreds of people ! ! The particulars, as we learn, are these :—ln that parish lives Isaac Stebbings, a little spare man, about 67 years old, who obtains a livelihood as a huckster ; and hard by his cottage lives a thatcher, whose wife, unfortunately, is afflicted in mind. In the same parish there happens to be a farmer, whose mind is occasionally dis turbed. As in former days of gross credulity and ignorance, some one or other put forth the surmise, that these two afflicted persons were bewitched, and Stebbings was spoken of as the ' worker of the mischief." Story soon grew on story ; and ac cumulated hearsays were accepted, among the vulgar in the neighbourhood, as " proof undeniable." Among other:things it was said, that the friends of the afflicted woman had recourse to the means recorded in witchcraft annals for detecting the de vil's agent ; and whilst the frying. pan operation was going on at night, Stebbings came dancing up to the door, In his denial of this circumstance, Stebbings admitted that he did once call at his neighbour's with mackerel for sale, at four o'clock i n t h e morning, before the family w ere u p, and this admission was taken to be as much as he was likely to make. Besides this, the village shoemaker persisted, th at one morning, as'Stebbings passed 2 or 3 times before his house, he could not "make" his wax—the ingredients would neither melt nor mix. Dubbed a wizard beyond all doubt, poor Stebbings, ignorant as his beigh. hours, and teased beyoned bearing,proposedat length of hititsell, thegoodold-fashioned ordeal of"sink or swirn."Theproposal was readily caught at. Time and place were agreed on—the follow. ing Saturday, at two o'clock, in a large pond, called the Grimmer, on Wickam-green. Four men were appointed to walk into the water with him, and the cone table of the parish engaged to attend and keep the peace. The sides of the pond were crowded with spectators—men, women, and children.— Stebbings had on his breeches and shirt, and when the men bad walked with him into the water breast-high, they lifted him up. and laid him flat upon his back on the water. Stebbings moved .neither hand nor foot, and continued in that position for ten minutes. This was the first trial, and the spectators called out, " give him another." Another trial was accordingly given, for the same length of time, and with the same result. " Try him again, and dip him under the water," was then the cry. They (lid so ; one of the four men pressed his chest, and down went - his head, whilst lip came his heels; — in a word, he was like a piece of cork in the water. These trials kept the poor old fellow three quarters of an hour in the pond, and he came out " more dead than alive." Still, some'were not satisfied. Another man, they said, of his age and size, ought to be swam with hi m . S te bbi ngs agree d even to this, for he was determined to get rid of the imputation, or (lie. The following Saturday was appointed for the purpose, and a man called Toni Wilden, of Becton parish, near by, was named for his companion. The story now got more wind, and hundreds of people from all the neighbouring parishes at tended to witness the second ordeal. But, in the interval, the clergyman of the parish, and the two churchwardens, had in. terfered, and the swimmers were kept away, to the no small vexation and disappointment of the deluded multitude. It is now gravely told, that at the very time Stebbings was swam, the afflicted farmer alluded to above was unusually per. curbed 9 • he cried out, " I can see th e i m p s a ll a b out me ; I must frighten them away with my voice ;" and his delusion and his noise, as Stebbings did not sink, are put down to his account. To complete the affair, a respectable farmer in a neighbouring parish has been, it is s a id, t o som e " cunn i ng man," and learnt to a certainty that Stebbings is a wizard.-- The sum 3/. was paid for this intelligence, upon the assurance that Stebbings should be " killed by inches !" We have given up a larger space to this foolish affair than, in the opinion of some, it may deserve; but, if we may ue allowed to feel with others for the honour and character of the age, surely we may for the county in which we live. Exposure, though unpleasant, is often salutary. LAUDABLE CONDUCT OF A CLEItGYM ANT.—OD Sunday morning last, just after divine service, a poor little girl, who had accidentally fallen into the River Thames, was, w:th the assistance of drags, raised from the watery deep near one of the wharfs in Tooley-street, Southwark. A vast concourse of people immediately assembled, amongst whom was a gentle man dressed like a clergyman, and who, we were afterwards informed, was the Reverend Dr. Kenney, the Rector of the parish, perceiving the distressed state of mind of the unhappy father (who was present at the time his child was dragged out, of the water), had robbed him of all energy, and the multitude not appearing to know what to do, the Rev. Doctor caused the 'unfortunate little girl to be immediately taken to the nearest. druggist'sshop,where he had her instantly stripped, and wrapped in flannel blankets, which he had himself fetched from his own house. Nor did his praiseworthy exertions rest here. No medical man being at hand, the Rev. Doctor lost no time in sending messengers in pursuit of one, while he rubbed down the poor little girl with his own hands, and applied hot water bottles to different parts of her body. Professional assistance at length arrived, when the necessary measures for restoring animation were about to be taken ; but the father of the child (a poor Irishman) was unfortunately so obstinate in his determination not to allow them to be pursued, declaring that he would r•o• have his child injured ; Coat all the exertions of the Rev. Dec tor and the rest werecompletely thrown away. Had these mea sures been employed, there was no doubt but that the child would have been restored ; as it is, she has been made the vic tim of a barbarous prejudice. —(Morning Paper.) COMMENCEMENT OF TILE HattvtsT.—A field of Oats, the property of Mr. Shims, of the Field, near this City, was cut last week. The field contained twelve acres, and was sown with last year's seed. Mr. JONES, of the Black Swan, in this City, also yesterday cut a field of nye.— (llereford Independent.)