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M in i wered latter' igs erd a bilk e, had triable ilvra) 8 ton, At T was LITERATURr. SATAN, A POEM.—LoNuort, 1830. Mr. Montgomery, in the poem before us, has evinced very creditable abilities. He has sh own us that he possesses fancy, feeling, and an almost inexhaustible wealth of language. But his subject is ill-chosen, and has no more to do with Satan than the amiable author him self. With what consistency can the origin of e til, the foster-father of crime, the bold anta gonist of the Godhead, be made to inveigh against Carlile ? Surely if Satan had any thing to say on the subject, it should be in praise, not In disparagement of, this degraded infidel ? Again, with what justice can the Devil— nuless he be the Printer's one—be made to rave against the public Press? If this influential part of our literature be really as u nprincipled as Mr. Montgomery—and to few "as the Press been more favourable than to bin 's —would persuade his readers that it is, s urely Satan should be the very last person to cry out against it ! The worse it is, the better for him, and the more likely to swell the sum t otal of his subterranean population. But the S atan of Mr. Montgomery is not the Satan of either Scripture or of Milton. He is a well 4isPosed, loquacious, single gentleman, much smitten with the music of his own voice, and still more with his high pulpit eloquence. If We mistake not, too, he is fond of dancing, t hough he affects to discountenance the ball room, anathematize the quadrille, and go into hysterics at the sight of the waltz. Now this 18 incorrect, and unbecoming the dignity of a moralizing Devil. We have spoken, as in justice bound, against Mr. Montgomery's conception of Satan, but have little fault to find with his poetry. Our task here 15 of a pleasing description. It is one of great, though not unalloyed commendation.— wy versification—exuberant imagery—fre t 'Pent felicities of expression, occasionally of thought fine apprehension of the sublime and • b eautiful in nature—correct moral and religious fe elinge—tilese are the chief attractions of the Poem of Satan, and on these it may confidently rest its claims to public favour. We subjoin specimens of its descriptive powers : " But lo! the day declines, and to his throne The sun is wheeling. What a world of pomp The heavens put on in homage to his power ! Romance hath never hung a richer sky,— Or se a of sunshine, o'er whose aureate deep Triumphal barks of beauteous foam career, I t though the clouds held festival, to hail Their god of glory to his western home. And now the earth is mirror'd on the skies ! While lakes and valleys, drown'd in dewy light, And rich delusions, dazzlingly array'd, P° " 11 , float, and die in all their phantom joy. • At length the Sun is throned ; but from his face A fluith of beauty o'er Creation flows, That brightens into rapturous farewell ! Then faints to paleness ; for the day bath sunk Beneath the waters, dash'd with ruby dyes, And Twilight in her nun-like meekness comes; The air is fragrant with the soul of flowers, The breeze comes panting like a child at play, While birds, day-worn, are couch's) in leafy bowers, And, Calm as clouds, tie sunken billows sleep : The dimness of a dream o'er Nature steals, Yet hallows it; a busted enchantment reigns; The mountains to a mum of mellowing shade Are tumid, and stand like t e mples of the sight; While field and forest, fading into gloom, Depart, and river s whisper sounds of fear.— A dying pause, as if th' Almighty mov'd In shadow o'er his works, hath solemnized The world !" • • • • • • " E'en Nature in her elemental round Of living wonders, a re-action spews, In semblance to the moral law reveal'd By human destinies. The poise of worlds That makes infinity a beauteous thought ; The ocean, panting as the tide-queen wills, In ebb and flow of everlasting waves ; And that communion of the earth and sky, By heat exhaling water into clouds, And clouds returning in the showery rain ; All teach a balance of prevailing power. But thou, Reviver of departed days, By whom, a beacon light fur unborn time The past might well have risen, host forgot The law of retribution in thy love Of fame, and adoration to the dead. A war awak es !—what poetry is here For History to picture into life ! The armies rally, --vast machines of naiad Half demonized, with, one concenering heart . To animate and harmonize the whole; The clarion s r i ng , t h e banners chafe he breeze Earth trembles to the haughty-footed steeds, 2 _Anledncannons thunder, till the clouds are thrilled ! .mos your h ero spr i nkled w i th a s h ower Of .00d,—how gloriously sublime he seems!— , Yet kingdoms mourn, and trodden tnyriads lie All dead, and stiffening in the rawsnless air." RANDOM RECORDS. LONDON, 1830. There is much to praise, but still more to ce nsure, in th ese two h e t erogeneous vo lumes. They are livel ous, but at they, smartly written, and miscellane same time twaddling, dogmatical, and in one or tw o instances unjust. Why does Mr. George Colman, the Younger (now considerably upwards of sixty) sneer at such a man and such 11 . 1 1 . author as D r . J o h nson , mere ly b ecause h e not speak complimentarily to him, the said t ar seorn when a y oungs t er o f some four or five years old ? Sur e l y h e shoul d k now t h at w i t h b ac h e l ors , the lov e o f children is an acquired taste, like that of eating olives ! Why does the author of Broad Grins Poetical Vagaries," Sze.— a rks whose refined sense of delicacy and de rilm ru,. are by n o means th e i r grea test rccom eadation—grow maudlin over the indecencies o f Ter ence , w hi c h i n d ecenc i es M r. C o l man ' s o wn father was t h e c hi e f i nstrument o f ren d er i ng fa miliar an d i nt elli g ibl e to an E ng li s h p u blic ? Lhy to o d oes our righteous over-much " a c e nser drivel o v er th e improvements of the age, 14 -4 . B Ymptoms of its confirmed degeneracy ? wi ° re over, as we are in the interrogative vein, Y does he infer the unprecedented prosperity of t ile nation, from the circumstance—among ether amusing non sequiturs—of the streets thing lit with ga s ? We would thank him to " som e light upon these subjects : at pre etthey are obscure and unintelligible. Colman sets out on his " Records " with a confession that he writes them to " cure his e i ? rn s , "—an interesting acknowledgement which readers will appreciate accordingly. He then 140ceeds to assure us that he was once drowned ; 411 d) with a particularity singularly delightful, states that his involuntary baptism took place not far f rom W es t m i ns t er -b r id g e, in the silver 1, ames, near the southern shore, immediately Po§ite the pr em ises of Dickey Roberts.' 41 Eltickin g , notwithstanding that he could swim no better than "a pi : , of lead," Mr. Colman looks on as a very cna•;vfAii,us occurrence, forgetting that the satr.e thing cect:rs to at least seven out of every ten boys who have been educated at Eton, Westminster, heading, or any other public school in the - neighbourhood of an accessible river. His next impot tent disaster was in horse manship. Powell, the actor, had, it seems, presented him with a poney, on mounting which fbr the first time, he changed abruptly from the perpendicular to the horizontal, and tumbled down upon " the stones at the stable door." How strange ! To think that a young lad on mounting a horse for the first time should not only be unable to keep his seat, but even be com pelled to coniess an extempore acquaintance +•ith the stable-door ! Can any thing be more miraculous? We are next favoured, in words of suitable dignity, with Mr. Colman's opinion of the sea, and it. gratifies us to add, that he has a high idea of this element. " Its broad bulky waves," says he, " impressed me with a fearful conception of their grandeur when vexed, and of their fury when driven by a tempest." This is the age of discoveries, but amid all its stupendous discoveries, we know of none snore profound— more original—more singularly and emphatically instructive, than the fact that the sea is fearfully grand when vexed by a gale, or driven by a tempest ! But we will not part with the author in ill humour, and as we have pointed out his ani lities, it is but right to say that his volumes have many redeeming traits of wit, liveliness, and quaint original anecdote. They are also oc casionally eloquent, in proof of which we pre sent the reader with a character of Gibbon and Johnson, with which we must conclude our notice:— " The learned Gibbon was a curious counterbalance to the learned (may I not say Ices learned?) Johnson. Their manners and taste, both in writing and conversa tion, were as different as their habiliments. On the day I first sat down with J )linson, in his lusty brown, and his black worsteads, Gibbon was placed opposite to me in a suit of flower'd velvet, with a bag and sword. Each had his measured phraseology; and Johnson's famous parallel, between Dryden and Pope, might be loosely parodied, in reference to himself and Gibbon. Johnson's style was grand, and Gibbon's elegant; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish cf the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marclid to kettle-drums and trumpels; Gibbon moved to flutes and haut boys ;—Johnson hew'd passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levell'd walks through parks and gardens. Mann] as I bad been by Johnson, Gibbon pour'd balm upon my bruises-, by condescending, once or twice, in the c,nirse of the evening, to talk with me;—the great his torian was light and playful, suiting his *natter to the capacity of the boy ;—but it was done more suo :—still his mannerism prevA'd—still he tapp'd his snuff-box, — still he smirk'd, and smiled; and rounded his petiods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole, nearly in the centre of his visage." MONSIEUR TONSON ILLUSTRATED. Mr. Cruiksllank has illustrated this well known tale with all his usual richness of burlesque and huinourous knowledge of character. COURT CIRCULAR. The Kniu's dinner party, given after the holding of the Court on Tuesday, at his Palace at Windsor, con sisted of the Cabinet Ministers and some of the Officers of the Household. The Duke of WELLitearox awl Mr. Secretary PEEL left the Palace, and returned to town at a late hour on Tuesday night. Earl BATHURST, the Earl of ROSSLTN, the Earl of APARDIMN, and Sir GEORGE Munitav-, slept at the Palace, and came to town yesterday morning,. Mr. 1' VILLIA3I SIkfITII, M.P., the Chairman of the Com mittee of the Anti Slavery Society, Mr. BUXTON, M.P., Mr. SPRING RICE, M.P., and Mr. MacauLEy. attended yesterday at the Colonial Office, and had a "conference with Sir GEORGE MURAAT. Tl:e French Ambassador had an interview yesterday with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the Foreign Office. The Right lion. Sir GEORGE Hun (Vice-Treasurer of Ireland) arrived in town on Tuesday night, from Ireland. Sir GEORGE visited the Duke of WELLINGTON and the CHANCELLOR of the ExcitEQUER yesterday. Mr. HERRIES entered on hie official duties yesterday morning, at the Office of the Board of Trade, and was engaged there on official business during the day. The Earl of ABERDEEN, Viscount MELVILLE, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and the CDANcEr.LoR of the Exerts- QuER, had interviews yesterday with the Duke of WEL LINGTON, at the Treasury. Viscount MELVILLE held a levee yesterday at the Ad miralty, which was numerously attended by naval officers. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Co lonial Office, for Sir G. Dow, the Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. The Russian Ambassador gave a grand dinner yesterday I evening at Ashburnham House to a numerous party. The grand Parliamentary dinners, on the opening of the Session of Parliament, were given yesterday evening by the Duke of Wirmar:c.roN, at Apsley House, es First Lord of the Treasury, to a large party of the Members of the House of Peers ; and by Mr. Secretaty NEL, as Ministerial Leader of the Lower House, to a numerous party of the Members of the House of Commons. The company, at both parties, came in full Court dress. After dinner the King's Speech, to he delivered on the opening of the Session of Parliament this day, was read by the Duke of Witr.r.ixarort and Mr. Secretary PEEL, to their respective parties. Among the company at the Duke of WELLINGTON'S party were tie Loan CHANCELLOR, the Dukes of Buc cr.Ettorr, LEEDS, and MONTROSE, Marquisses of HERT TORD and CLEVELAND, Earls of CHESTERFIELD, BA THURST, JERSEY, ROSSLYW, Viscount MELVILLE, Lords TENTER DEN, SALTOUN, WllArorcurrs, MARYBOROUGII, HILL, &C. 14C. The patty at Mr. Secretary PEEL's was composed of the Marquis of G:IAIIAM, Earls MousTcHaELEs and DARLINGTON, (mover of the address), Viscounts Low- THEM. and CASTLEREAGH; Lords ELIOT, G. SOMERSET, STR.ATHAVEN, DOWNES, ASHLEY, E. SOMERSET, F. GOWER, the LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND, the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Right Honourable Sir G. F. HILL, Sir G. Munnay, Sir G. Cocßauart, Sir J. lizetioLLs, Sir J. BECKETT, C. ARBUTHNOT, J. CAL CRAFT, J. W. CROKER, Sir H. HARDINGE, and J. C. BERRIES, the SPEAKER. of the Plume of Commons, the ATTORNEY-(;EXERAL, the SOLICITOR- GEREttat., the Soucrroa..GF.NanaL for Ireland, Sir G. CLERK, Sir H. FANI, Sir W. J. HOPE, Sir B. MARTIN, Sir A. GRANT, Honourable J. 11. TowNsuEsn, General Plurrs, Colontl TRENCH ; Messrs. PLANTA, JOHN CALVERT WARD (seconder of the Address), H. Twiss DAWSON, W. PEEL, STUART WORTLEY, G. BANKES, SPENCER PERCEVAL, and T. P. COURTENAY. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Devonshire, from his seat, Chatsworth, Derby shire ; the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne House, Berke ley-square, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wiltshire; Lord and Lady F. L. Gower, at Bridgewater House, from Trentham Hall, Staffordshire; Sir George Hill, Bart. M.P. in Downing street, from Ireland ; the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at their new residence in Cavendish-square, from their seat, Good wood, Sussex; Mr. and Mn.s J. Calvert, in Old Bond-street, from their seat, Albury Hall, Herts ; the Earl and Countess Somers and Lady Mary Cocks, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire; Sir Marry Verney, Bart at ditto, from Buckinghamshire ; W. H. Wyndham, Esq. at ditto, from Norfolk; the Rev. Sir Abraham and Eady Elton, at Fladong's Betel, Oxford-street, from Brighton; Thomas and H. Lefroy, Esqrs. at ditto, from Ireland; Robert Holland, Esq. at the Colonaile Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's-square, from Highnam-court, Gloucestershire; Wm. Meryweather, J. and R. Itashdall, and Jelinger C. Symons, Esqrs. at ditto, from Cheltenham ; Captain and Mrs. Eden, in Grosvenor-street, from the Continent. DEPARTURES. Vi-count de Chabot, from ralke's Hotel (late Miller's), Jer znyn-street, for Brighton ; Captain Macdonald, from the Pulte ney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Canterbury; Wm. Oliver, Ecq. from ditto, on a tour; W. Barnes, Esq. from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Cambridge ; J. Austen, Esq. from ditto, ou a tour. THE SPEAKING 1 7 1117. NC By 3. V. DOUVII: PROFESSOR OF 'ME FRONCII L.Va;UAGE. No. 1, oho-square; and 2, LAwrcnez, Line, Cheap.itle, London. TILE THIRD EDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR.,-The French Language being usually studied with a view to conversation, this Graminar will be found par ticularly calculated to promote this desirable object. The rapid sale of two large impressions of the work, and the increasing patronage by which the Third Edition is daily distinguished, are sufficiently indicative of its merits. Extensive experience in teaching having confirmed me in the conviction that the English are peculiarly diffident in speaking-French, I have princ;pally applied myself to r e _ medy this mauvaise honte, by continually drilling the pupil on the Serbs, and the other parts of speech. By this means, anti the explanatory system adopted through out the honk, the student is kept in constant practice; without which very little hope may be entertained of ever speaking French. The Essays on the Rules are all col loquial, and may be considered as a repertory for conversa tion ; whereas the verbs are exemplified in quite a new and clear manner. The work is concluded by a Grammatical Analysis, and a Treatise on French Prosody and Versifi c t tion ; besides a classified Vocabulary ; a Collection of Familiar Phrases, arranged under distinct beads ; and numerous Models of Notes and Letters, with some forms of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Receipts. In the execution of the whole, in short, I have spared no pains in my endeavours to give the work the greatest pos sible degree of perfection ; and I flatter myself the present edition will he esteemed fully to justify my pretensions. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, London, Feb. 4, MO. J. V. DOUVILLE. N.B. The Key to the Essays is published. THE ARMY. General Lord Hill, G.C.P. and G.C.H., Commanding in-Chief, will not hold a levee to-day at hi 3 office in the Florse-•Guards. hlnjer-General Lord F. Somerset, K. C. 8., went through his list on Tuesday, at his office in the Horse. Guards. A few Generals, and upwards of fifty othtr officers, trans acted military business with his Lordship. The routes far the chauge of quarters of the Foot Guards hare not yet been issued. A detachment belonging to the 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons marched on Tursday morning from London for the Caralry Depot at Maidstone. A detachment belonging to the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot marched on Tuesday morning from London, on route to join the Regiment at Portsmouth. A detachment belonging to the 47th (Lancashire) Re giment of Infantry marched on Tuesday morning from London, on route to join the Regiment at the Isle of Wight. A detachment belonging to the 93:1 (Highland) Regi meut of Foot marched on TuTsday morning from London, on route to join the Reserve Companies at Stockport. The following compose the Staff, &e, of the Re cruiting. Districts of Great Britain : - LEZDS. —Consisting of the counties of Northumber land, Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.—lnspecting Field Officer, Lieut.-Colonel N. Ramsay ; Adjutant George Mos.s; Lieut. Paymaster 11. B. B. Adams ; Surgeon to the Forces, F. Loinsworth. _ SUPERINTENDING OFFICERS —Lieut. Metge, 45th Foot, Leeds; Lieut. Bayley, 21st Foot, station Leeds; Lieut. Hoxy, 61st Foot, Newcastle-on-Tyne. LivEaroor..—Consisting of the county of Che-.hire, and parts of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Shrop shire, and North Wales. —lnspecting Field Officer, Lieut.-- Colonel J. Jordan ; Adjutant, Lieut. H. Bertleis ; Pay master, Captain Woodgate; Surgeon to the Forces, J. Elliott. SUPERINTENDING OFFICERS.-Lieut. Hanlinall, lbw Font, Liverpool ; Lieut. Reardon, 22d Foot, Manchester; Lieut. Butler, 25tb Foot, Sheffield. COVENTRY.-Consisting of the counties of Hereford, Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick, Worcester, Shropshire, Stafford, part of Derbyshire, and South Wales. —lnspecting Field Officer, Lieut.-Colonel Ewart ; Adju tant, Lieut. J. Ross ; Paymaster, R. Jellicoe; Surgeon to the Forces, G. E. Griffin. SUPERINTENDING OFFICERS.-Lieut. APPherson, 64th Foot, Cove ntry ; Lieut. 11I'Lean,20th Foot, Nottingham ; Lieut. Kelly, 6th Foot, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Lieut. Leckie, 39th Foot, Shrewsbury ; Lieut. O'Grady, 62d Foot, Leicester; Licut. Lukis, 59th Fort, Birmingham; Licut. Trydall, 55th Foot, Boston. BRISTOL.-Consisting of the counties of Gloucester, Wilts, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, and parts of Hants. Inspecting Field-officer, Lieut.-Col. Brereton ; Adjutant, Lieut. Hodges; Paymaster, W. H. Phillips; Surgeon, 1. Q. Short (Dep. Insp.). SUPERINTENDING OFFICERS.-Lieut. APLeroth,3Bth Foot, Bristol; Lieut. Newhouse, 95th Foot, Gliaticester ; Lieut. Grant, 86th Foot, Salisbury. LoNnoN.-Inspecting Field Officer, Lieut.-Colonel W. G. Macgregor : Adjutant, Lieut. Blakeney: Paymaster, John Cockburn. SUPERINTENDING OFFICERS.--Lieut. Neale, 16th Dragoons, London ; Lieut. Rundle, 49th Foot, London ; Lieut. Eason, 60th Foot, Norwich ; Lieut. O'Nrile, 16th Foot, Bury St. Edmunds; Lieut. Daly, 14th Fcot, Stam ford ; Lieut. Hassard, S7th Foot, Reading; and Lieute nant Campbell, 46th Foot, Maidstone. The following compose the Staff, &c. of the dis. :ricts of Great Britain : NORTHERN.—Consisting of the counties of Northum berland, Cumberland. Westmorland, Durham, York, Che shire, Lancashire, Nottingham, and Isle of Man.—Ge neral Officer, Major-General Sir H. E. Bouverie, K.C.8.; station, Rotherham.—Aide-de-Camp, Captain Bolder°, Grenadier Guards. Staff A ss istant-Adjutant-General, Lieut.-Col. J. Shaw, half-pay; station, Manchester. Major of Brigade, Brevet. Major Wood, half-pay; statism, Rotherham. SOUTII-WEST.—Consisting of the counties of Wilts, Dorset, and Hants.—General Officer, Major-General Sir C. Campbell, K.C.B. ; station, Portsmouth. Aid-de- Camp, Captain Campbell, 3d Foot Guards. Major of Brigade, Lieut.-Colonel T. N. Harris, half-pay. WEsrEarr.—Consisting of the counties of Devon, Corn wall, and Somerset, exclusive of Bristol and its vicinity.— General Offie,r, Major-General Sir J. Cameron, K.C.B. ; station, Devonport. Aide-de-Camp, Lieut. Cameron, Rifle Brigade, Major of Brigade, Bt. C. H. Smith, half pay. JERSEY.—General Officer, Major-General Sir Colin Halkett, KC. B. and G. C. H. Li e utenant-Governor ; station, St Helier. Inspector of the Island, Colonel H. Touzell. GU HANSEY AND ALDERNEY-General Officer, Major- General J. Ross ; station, St. Peter's Port. Inspector of Cavalry, Major-General Sir R. Hussey Vivian, Bart. K.C.B. and K.C.H. ; station, London. Aide-de-Camp, Captain Vivian, 7th Hussars. Major of Bi igaee, Major the lion. W.L.F. Da Roos, half-pay. (From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.) The Bth regiment in Dublin, and 75th regiment at Fer moy, expect to embark shortly for the West Indies. Capt. England, Lieuts. Brown, Delancey, and Sutton, with two companies of the 75th, have relieved Capt Ham mond, Lieuts. Graham and Forth, stationed at Fethard and New Inn, County Tipperary. Ensign Good, of the 14th, is ordered to sell his coin mis.ion for insubordination, and Lieut. Lowther, 44th, is acquitted for misappropriation of regimental funds, pur suant to Court Martial at For t William, India. A Court of Inquiry was held on board his Majesty's ship Hyperion, yesterday, by Captain JOHN Hants, C. 8., of the Ganges, and Captain the Hon. G. Eworr, of the Victory, 'on Lieut. GEORGE PERCY ROSENBERG, by order of the Admiralty. We understand it to have been instituted at Lieutenant ROSENBERG'S re quest, in consequence of the unexpected termination of the trial of JORN O'DARa, who was acquitted of intent to murder him, in direct opposition to the charge of the Judge. It will be satisfactory to Lieut. ROSENBERG ' S friends to learn that the Court declared itself perfectly sa tisfied with his conduct, and entirely acquitted him of any imputation of oppression Or harshness towards JoHN O'llArtE. The result is highly complimentary to Lieut. ROSENBEAG.-Brighton Paper. On Friday week 'an eagle was shot in the neighbourhood of Bridgewater by a man who was in the pursuit of will fowl. Its wings only being broken, the bird escaped, and seated itself on the summit of a tree, front which it was dislodged by a second shot from a stranger who chanced to lee near. The eagle alighted on the arm of his assailant, and would probably have most amply avenged himself had not the man dexterously seized him by the throat, and, notwithstanding the repeated and violent blows which he received from the powerful pinions of the enraged bird, held it firmly until he was rescued fr:an his perilous situation by the first sportsman. The mijestie bird was then secured by binding his pinions.— Be measures eight feet from tip to tip of the wings.... Bath Chronicle. ST-> . m OF THE THAMES. The river, in consequence of the intensity of the frost and the heavy falls of snow, was blocked up ! yesterday in several places Le-low bridge, and conse quently all navigation was stopped for a time, and at length large vessels ►unore,l It anchor as near the t-liore as pce-sible, fearful of loin iFo!ated from all communication, as was the case yesterday morning with several lightermen and barges, which were so completely surrounded with ice as to prevent any assistance being afforded them, although boats were pat off to convey the crew, if possible, to shore, or assist them with provisions. In many cases, how ever, the boats could not approach the vessels, and the ice was too fragile to venture upon ; and thus the crews were hemmed in until the tide flaated them away. Off the tender ship a hawser has been stretched from the shore to the vessel, upon which the passengers are conveyed in a chair suspended upo❑ pulleys. Should the frost continue, the most distressing consequences will ensue : already the applications for relief are beyond ell precedent. The dock, are nearly frozen up, and all hands are em ployed in breaking up large masses of ice, which are dragged through the lock gates into the Thames, so as to afford facilities for vessels entering. Above bridge, particularly on the 'Westminster shore, the shoals of ce extend nearly half way across the river, and it is anticipated by those best competent to judge, that if the frost and falls of snow continue, the Thames will, at the end of the week, be blocked up from shore to showe. The Harlequin steam boat, with a vessel in tow, going down the river yesterday, was stopped and surrounded by the ice, off Rateliff-cross; and another steamer, with a brig in tow, was compelled to put back. NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 3. John Middleton, late a builder at Hertford was opposed by Mr. HALCOMB, on behalf of Mr. Evan Roberts. The insolvent originally came before the Court on the 18th ult., when it appeared that...he owed Mr. Roberts, his opposing crAitor, 200/., part of which consiqed of two dishonoured bills for 110/. and 117/. 12s. 6d. The first bill was due on the sth of August, the day previous to which he got a large quantity of slates, well known to the trade by the names of duchesses, countesses, and ladies, from Mr. Roberts, knowing that he could not take up the bill then coining due, and directly afterwards he left his home, and came to London. He stated that he owed a distant relation named James Mega, 3051. for money lent, but his father-in-law had settled that debt. Jchu Mega, the brother of James Mega, had arrested the insolvent for 351. due for deals and battens supplied to the insolvent in 1826 and 1827. He had inserted Jehu Mega's residence in Prince's street, Lambeth, but the opposing cre ditor had made a diligent search all through the parish of Lambeth, and could find no such person as Jelin Mega. Ile had also inserted in his schedule that Jelin Mega's attorney was Mr. Teague, but that gentleman attended the Court and swore that he did not know such a person as Jehu Mega, or the insolvent. As there appeared some doubt whether there was any real detaining creditor's debt, no such person being found, the Court adjroulted the case to pro duce him, and also James Mega. . . To-day the insolvent came up again, when it ap peared that no exertion had been made on the part of the insolvent to produce the detaining creditor; consequently be was not in Court, although it was ordered that he should attend. His brother, James Mega, was, however, present. James Mega stated that his brother, Jeh❑ Mega, was now at Weymouth for the benefit of his health, but, said the witness, " it is a just debt, I can take my oath." The witness and his brother Jehu had been in partnership as bricklayers and builders, in Prince's-street, Lambeth, until 1824. The deals and battens were, as the witness had heard, sup plied by his brother, to the insolvent, in 1824, after they dissolved partnership. Cross-examined by Mr. HALcomn—Witness had no claim now against the insolvent, though he had lent the insolvent 3051. at various times, from 1824 to 1828. Witness had forgiven the insolvent the debt. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Were you ever discharged by this Court ? Witness (after some hesitation) — es, Sir. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I thought so : pray, how long ago is it ? Witness—Eight or nine months ago. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Did you put this man in your schedule for a debt of 305/.? Witness—l did not. CHIEF CommisstosEn—Don't let us make a game of this Court. Witness-1 advanced this money previous to my going to prison, and I was in prison five years. Mr. HALcomn—You were in prison five years, and yet you could lend this man 3051.:'—Witness — Yes. Mr. COOKE said there could be no object in pur suing this inquiry, as the witness did not now make arty claim. The CHIEFCOMMISSIONER observed that whatever hardship might arise to the insolvent, he had only to blame himself. The Court was still in the dark as to whether such a person► as Jehu Mega was in existence or nor, and there was by no means any proof of any debt existing, as the Court did not give the least credit to the testimony of the witness who had been examined. Looking at the whole of the case, the Court thought it would be a gross abuse of the law to allow such a petition and schedule to stand, and they therefore dismissed the petition. Mr. Commissioner LAW expressed himself of the same opinion. John Cole, a butcher and cattle-dealer, late of Birmingham, was opposed by Mr. LIALcomB on be half of Mr. John Whythes. The grounds of the opposition were, that the insolvent had put his op posing creditor to an unnecessary expence, by vexa tiously defending an action s but the witnesses not appearing when called, the case was not made out. The COURT, however, found that in the adver tisement inserted in the country paper, au error had crept in,. which rendered it necessary for the insol vent to be remanded to readvertise. The Chief Commissioner observed that that error was much to be regretted. Mr. COOKE, the insolvent's counsel, said the ad vertisement, through the neglect of the printer of t he newspaper, had described the insolvent as of " I)roitwich, in Worcestershire," instead of Droit witch, 'Worcester, and Birmingham. He (Mr. Cooke) very much doubted whether an action would not stand against the newspaper for errors like these, by which the insolvents were in prison much longer than necessary. The COURT also thought that an action would lie, under these circumstances, for it was ♦ery gross neglect.. The insolvent was then necessarily remanded, to allow him to re-advertise, properly describing himself. The linen trade has lately experienced a marked improvement, and very large shipments have been made for London and Alanchester. —Dub. Morn. Register. COLMAN'S RANDOM RECORDS.—Among the numerous distinguished persons that figure in this work, will be found—GEORGE 11 1. --The Margravine of ANsrAcn—The late Duke of YORK— JOHN SHEFFIELD, Duke of Buckingham—Lord NORTH—Marquis of WEL LYSLEY—The late Lord GEORGE GORDON—Duchess of KINGSTON—Lord EasKlNE—Lord KELLIE—Sir THOMAS Mitt.s—Lord COLCHESTER (afterwards Speaker of the louse of Commons)--WILLIAM PULTENEY, Earl of Bath—Captain PHIPPS (afterwards Lord BluLcuAvE)— The late Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN—Sir JOSEPH B A NKEs—Sir CHARLES URN B. SIIERIDAN 3 FKY I.L--VINCENT BOURNE - Dr. JOHNSONGIBRON Dr. GoLnslutrn—BoswELL—CALEß WHITEFOORD DIS. BUSBY, FOUNTAIN, SMITH, VINCENT, &C.—GAR RICK, FOOTE, POWELL, HENDERSON, Miss FA RREN, JOHN PALMER, CHARLES BANNISTER, PARSONS, BENS. LEY, &C. &C. MR. OWEN. ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LEARNED AND THE NAVAL AND MILITARY PROFES . SIONS. GENTLEMEN,—You have been trained and placed, by the circumstances of the society in which you have lived, in professions, by which to r sin a liveli hood or distinction. No one who is rational can attach blame to you on this account. Your professions have arisen from two supposi tions—first, that it is impracticable to form arrange ments to produce wealth to satisfy all; •and, secondly, that man is capable of feeling and thinking; and, consequently, of acting as he pleases. The time, however, has arrived when, by a new power unknown to our ancestors, more real wealth can be easily created, than the inhab:;ants of the world can advantageously use; or than they will ever desire to possess. And the late progress of knowledge has been such that it is become publicly known, that it does not belong to the nature of man to feel and think as he pleases ; but that he is compelled to feel and to think according to laws of his nature, made without his knowledge or consent. In consequence of these changes in society, your professions have become not only unnecessary, but most injurious to yourselves, and to every individual of the human race. It becomes, therefore, your duty to yourselves and to your fellow-men, to aid in creating other ar• rangements to supersede all necessity for the longer continuance of your professions ; and your duty, in this case, will be found to be in strict accordance with your interest and your happiness. A priesthood will be no longer necessary in the world ; because, when the change of circumstances proposed shall be effected (and the knowledge now existing will effect it), each child will be so taught, trained, and placed, that he will be, of necessity, honest, sincere, and intelligent, and will possess unlimited charity and kindness for his fellow beings ; the practice of which virtues will consti tute the pure and genuine religion, which can alone be of any real utility to God or man. The profession of law will be no longer necessary; for individual riches under the new arrangements will give place to a superfluity of public wealth, which will by a rational application of manual, mental, and scientific power, be annually produced, to an amount greatly beyond the wants or wishes of all. No one will then be required by law to think, or to say that he thinks, contrary to his conviction ; or to feel, or say that he feels, in opposition to his im pressions; for all will speak only what they are obliged to think and to fed, and they will act acorn Under these rational circumstances, law, or the ingenuity of lawyers, will not be required. All differences, if it be possible for differences to arise in a rational state of society, 101 be speedily a& justed by the prompt decision of individuals, formed by a rational education, to be honest and intelligent, and who would be duly appointed to perform these friendly offices for society. •Physicians will be no longer necessary, fer every child will acquire sufficient knowledge of the ana tomy and physiology of the human frame to ❑nder stand the nature of his own organization and parti cular constitution, and thus be enabled to adopt proper measures for the prevention or speedy cure of any disease ; for, us each individual must possess a more intimate acquaintance with his own constitu tio❑ than any physician is likely to obtain, each will regulate his food and exercise as his feelings may dictate. Good nir, proper exercise, temperance in all things, and the absence of corroding anxieties, together with the enjoyment of full liberty to speak whatever they may feel and think, will tend to keep all individuals in the best state of health and spirits. Surgeons may be occasionally useful, but acci dents or diseases, requiring surgical operations, are not likely to be frequent, when all shall be trained from infancy to be rational; anl when, in order to produce this character, all must necessarily be sur rounded, through life, with rational circumstances only. Your professions have been generally filled by in dividuals who, under the old irrational notions of so ciety, were supposed to possess by nature superior intellectual powers, when compared with the other members of the family from which they were selected. In the improved society that will arise, when all shall he trained in rational circumstances only, the individuals naturally possessing superior intellectual faculties will become members of a new profession, in which their powers will be applied to the most valuable, instead of the most injurious purposes. — They will be taught to acquire a correct knowledge of the influence of circumstances, in giving a superior or an inferior direction to the human faculties, and will thus become " Professors of the Science of the Formation of Character ;" which science will soon be discovered to be, beyond all comparison, more valuable to themselves and their fellow-beings than all other sciences hitherto discovered. The practice of this new profession will become, in a rational state of existence, the most importan t of all occupations; and therefore the first depart ment in every society. In this new state of existence, when men shall be taught from infancy to understand the laws of their natures, and the conditions necessary for its happiness, no motive will arise to render it neces sary that men should be united, for the purpose of destroying each other's lives, their productions, and all the means of human happiness. They will dis cover that all such proceedingo, through the past ages of the world, have been the very essence of irrationality. The energies and faculties necessary to conduct war, or, in other words, to destroy upon a large scale, and to inflict misery upon nations, will, under the change which knowledge will speedily produce, he-applied to create real wealth; to preserve and to distribute it; and thus to promote the happiness of the community, to which those valuable powers belong. And the immense waste of human la bour, now sustained in the creation and support of the nava) and military professions, will also, under the change about to commence, be applied to the preservation and improvement of society, in order to secure to every one the greatest amount of en joyment of which his organization is susceptible; and of the nature and extent of this enjoyment no one yet can form a just estimate. No one portion of society will feel the magnitude and importance of this change in a higher degree than those individuals, who, by their professions, are compelled to murder some of the most noble and generous of their fellow beings; and to render void the labour of others, who, have been occupied in producing for the public the necessaries, comforts, and luxuries of life. It is not possible, irrational as men have hitherto been forced to become, for a member of the naval or military profession to reflect upon his occupation, without feeling deeply conscious of the misery which it inflicts upon the human race. Under the change proposed, those individuals who have hitherto been compelled to be the de stroyers of the human race, would become the most active promoters of its happiness. In hastening the proposed change—a change un der which the world will be governed by knowledge and not by ignorance, priests, lawyers, physicians, and members of the naval and military professions have all an immediate and deep interest. Permit me, therefore, to request your best atten tion to the consideration of the principles on which this change is proposed to be made; and of the con sequences which these principle s will produce in practice. ROBERT OWEN 49, Bedford-square, Feb. 2, 1830. A TIPPERARY PIKE.—AII enormous pike, of 241135. weight, was on Alonday morning cau g ht a t Mr. JOSHUA LESTER'S mills, at Turtula, near Thurles. In its s tomach was found another pike of 6i-lbs. ; and in the maw of the smaller pike a large perch, half of which was digested.— Clonmel Advertiv-r. I): 7 .STRUC;IIO:‘ OF 111 E TEMPLE OF Jr 11USALE11, BY FIRE, UNDER Taus. (From " History of the Jews," in " Murray's Family Library.) It was the 10th of August, the day already darkened in the. Jewish calendar by the destruc— tion of the former Temple 'by the King of Ba bylon : it was almost passed. Titus withdrew again into Antonia, intending the next morning to make a general assault. The quiet summer evening came on ; the setting sun shone for the last time on the snow-white walls, and glistening pinnacles of the Temple roof. Titus had retired to rest ; when suddenly a wild and terrible cry was heard, and a man came rushing in, announc ing that the Temple was on fire. Some of the besieged, notwithstanding the repulse in the morning, had sallied out to attack the men who were busily employed in extinguishing the fires about the cloisters. The Romans not merely drove them back, but, entering the sacred space with them, forced their way to the Temple. A soldier, without orders, mounting on the shoul ders of one of his comrades, threw a blazing brand into a gilded small door on the north side of the chambers, in the outer building or porch. The flames sprung up at once. The Jews ut tered one simultaneous shriek, and grasped their swords with a furious determination of reveng ing and perishing in the ruins of the Temple. Titus rushed down with the utmost speed ; he shouted, he made signs to his soldiers to quench the fire : his voice was drowned, and his signs unnoticed, in tip. blind confusion. The legion aries either could not, or would not hear : they rushed on, trampling each other down in their furious haste, or, stumbling over the crumbling ruins, perished with the enemy. Each exhorted the other, and each hurled his blazing brand into the inner part of the edifice, and then hurried to the work of carnage. The unarmed and defence less people were slain in thousands ; they lay heaped, like sacrifices, round the altar ; the steps o w f a eedTdeomw?llletlriaen‘vitlstreams bodies that lay of about. blood, mt which Titus found it impossible to check the rage of u. the soldiery ; he entered with his officers, and surveyed the interior of dic sacred edifice. The splendour filled them with wonder ; .:941 as the flames had not yet penetrated to the la , he made a last effort to save it, and forth, again exhorted the soldiers progress of tile conflagration. r.r . Liberalis endeavoured to force his staff of office ; but even res• )cror gave way to the furious he Jews, to the fierce excite o the insatiable hope of ylu saw• every thing around they which shone dazzlingly in flames ; they supposed t sures were laid up in the unperceived, thrust a libt hinges of the door ; the flames in an instant. 11 fire forced the officers to edifice w►as left to its fate. It was an appalling spec what was it to the Jew ? of the hill, which comman, like a volcano. One after a fell in, with a tremendous cm 4111 P unst , and )Idiers I gold, t of the trea- loved up in the fiery abyss. were like sheets of flame ; the soldier, eel' the mmit lzed ngs al- shone like spikes of red light ; era sent up tall columns of flame and he neighbouring hills were lighted ark groups of people were seen watchit. ble anxiety the progress of the destri he walls and heights of the upper city ); with faces, some pale with the agon ►ir, others scowling unavailing venge :he shouts of the Roman soldiery, as a to and fro, and the howlings of the int who were perishing in the flames, mingle-, ..►th the roaring of the conflagration and the thundering sound of failing timbers. The echoes of the mountains replied, or brought back the shrieks of the people on the heights : all along the walls resounded screams and wailings ; men, who were expiring with famine, rallied their remaining strength to utter a cry of anguish and desolation. The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from without. Men and women, old and young, insurgents and priests, those who fought and those who intreated mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate car nage. The numbers of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The legionaries had to clamber over heaps of dead, to carry on the work of ex termination. John, at the head of some of his troops, cut his way through, first into the outer court of the Temple ; afterwards into the upper city. Some of the priests upon the roof wrenched off the gilded spikes, with their sockets of lead, and used them as missiles against the Romans below. Afterwards they fled to a part of the wall, about fourteen feet wide : they were summoned to surrender ; but two of them, .Hair, son of Belgo, and Joseph, son of Dalia, plunged headlong into the flames. No part escaped the fury of the Romans.— The treasuries, with all their wealth of monoy jewels, and costly robes—the plunder which tha zealots had laid up—were totally destroyed.— Nothing remained but a small part of the outer cloister, in which 6,000 unarmed and defence- less people, with women and children, had taken refuge. These poor wretches, like multitudes of others, had been led up to the Temple by a false prophet, who had proclaimed that God commanded all the Jews to go up to the Temple, where he would display his Almighty power to save his people. The soldiers set fire to the building : every soul perished. It is a remarkable circumstance, that whilst Yorkshire and the Southern counties have been ♦isited by severe snow storms, Cumberland, hitherto famous for " the winter robe of purest white," hen been almost en tirely free from them. On Stainmoor so thick is the snow, that coaches and waggons lie buried in their depth, and the mails have with difficulty been dragged over, after inces sant cutting away. Around Carlisle the country is bare as autumn, and the roads for many miles thereabouts have remained entirely fres from obstrnetion.—Hull Packet. THE WEATHER IN THE IGH LA NDs.--. The weather here continues surprisingly mild and open. Snow there is none, save on Bea Nevis and the highest mountains ; the frost, if felt at night and morning, is scArcely visible ; the air is soft, the sun is bright, the burns and rivers pure and limpid as in May, and in many Oleos broom and whins, as well as garden plants and flowers, are putting forth blossoms. The grass has a fresh verdant ap pe :ranee, and, altogether, if the larch and birch trees had put on their glorious garniture of leaves, we might well be cheated into a belief that spring had again vi- sited us. This singular and pleasing contrast to the ri go: ous frosts and snowy blockades experienced at present in England, and on the Continent, ought to furnish a s:ihject for heartfelt thankfulness to all indwellers of strut!' and glen. Should Nature continue every year thus to reverse her ancient laws and order, the luxurious victims of ennui and disease must quit the banks of the Rhine arid the Garonne, and the classic scenes of Italy, to seek for health and comfort in the milder climate of the Scot ti-1, Highlands!.-.lnverness Courier. was in , ke and t noble laii-- par• - jutch e had plaint ht vie !iever such t had to a the n efito con- s►rre Debts vfore con .ciful &der. Ise of libel, case, That light was f the ~ ally was erica bees ither Ise!) ty to ;urns; oand 9d. sid. 1 was Jay's tspe attag ,boat arch/ ;;. el. 0 0 0 0 b l'' b 8 3 10 a 6 encb• ea.cb• 11 of short ~5 . d. 4 4 6 ~...--- E 2 15 0 0 1 0 5 0 A 3 -2 8 nary that th & ' un- ieone only nelr Fine &C. 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