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I , r • -mr- ek „ g 1 . 4* • • • • • • , .• " N . +'•• ` 4 W 4 10. -4 1 • , 101/4" •••‘.. ' no: _ S.; • • - • • „ • Z: • 11/C:7l-14/0 . ; ma i. • • NUIIiBER 9681. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1821 PRICE .SEVENPENC PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. OFFICE OF ORD IVANCE, Sept. 17, 1821 . TILE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of His MA JEsTr's ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that they uill SEL L, by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the TOWER, on THURSDAY, the 4th day of October next; at Eleven o'cioch in the Forenoon precisely, SUNDRY ZOT3 o f • NETT"; • OLD, and UNSERVICEARLE ST ORES, conszsting of Accoutrements, Canvas, Standing Vices, Anvils, Sand Bags, Horse Shoe Nails, Saddlery and Harness, Roofs and Pieces of Tents, and old hammered Iron and Iron Ordnance. The whole of which may be viewed upon application at the Principal S torekeeper's - Office, in the Tower, and at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, until the day of Sale, where printed Lists of the Luts will be delivered to those Persons who may apply for the same. FOREIGN LITERATURE. of nature are also cogged, and that it is.the work of a Great Power above ?" We doubt .whether the arguments of the Abbe Morellet possessed such strength and pointed, originality,- and per-- haps this may have beer the reason wily hii let ter to Diderot does not appear among his Me moirs. (FROM THE DUBLIN EVENINO POST.) CONCILIATION.—It seeknS that a complaint was made to Mr. GRANT, that the Lisburn Yeo. manry on the 25th ult. indulged themselves, and offended the public, by playing certain irritating party tunes. Mr. GRANT auswered the commu nication by the following letter : (No. XLIV.) abolished bY'a law long since Passed and rhich • 7; if it had then existed, the Abbe Morellet would not have exercised, I am Sure, without great,dis.. cretion. The Prior of Thimer . adnii - U that lie vas happy . i many others would liaVe b'r.;en . 4,4) . • with less';' but - his happiness was of SitOit Already all those symptoms, - the -I Pre-. eursors . of political. troublesl were - begintiiiig to' slim themselves, and we have no doubt tlia.einCli a• penetrating mind as the Abbe Mirrellet thu t . have perceived theiii; but he had no idea-thailbe events. then in contemplation; apart . of which ciniP . ' he had foreseen ; would take place. SO soon.' Be even suggested for their removal several inetrSiaeS, the. wisdom of ~which -has. -been - sin de ack n - 0 w ledged.; in short, contented with - his lot,'“tlfe• Prior. Of. Thimer seemed to gay•to-Alie- Revolutiou,. 44 if. thou art inevitable, •et . least =do mot- be' in hurry, btit :wait. until I -am morell- The Revolution, however,.. was ...not so polite ; .for it surprised him at the. very moment when he was improving his .priory,. and deprived him of. it, taking away, at the same time, his.pension.on the Abbey of Tholez, in Lorraine, his pension_ ou. the Caisse de Commerce, his ; pension on the Econ . °mats, &c. &c., altogether more than thirty thousand livres a Year ! . Those who have lest hothing - because they had. .nothing to lose, may speak of, it,with perfect . coolness, and I cannot help admiring their disin. 7 - terestedness; but if the losses of the A . bb Morellet made him 'rather angry, is it to be Won dered at ? At all events, no base motives should. be attribdted tb him for the opinions he has pub- . lisped in the second part of his Memoirs on the most deplorable events of the French Revolu tide. Those who knew him well have declared that "'he never .could tolerate in any person'a' bad action, or a bad reason." With such recti- - tude of mind and heart,. he. has been the anta gonist of all political follies and iniquities ; atid he would have been still more 'praiseworthy 11 .he had not confounded what should always tre kept distinct, weakness and crime. • MEMOIRES DE L'ABBE MORELLET, &c. i. e. Memoirs of the Abbe MORELLET, a Member of the French Academy, on the Eighteenth Century, and on the French Revolution. BvO. 'Paris, 1821. [Continued from Saturday's Paper.] We wish that the Abbe Morellet had spoken rather less about his own works, which, to s.ay the truth, are not now very current, and that he had told us more of the society in which he lived, and to which " his zeal for philosophy obtained him admission." The Monoirs he has left would have been more interesting. I need not men tier' what wit animated the circles in which he !Tned, nor what •an influence they exercised over public opinion. They were, every body kno'vs, a, combination of.,pulitieians and of literary cha racters. Not only, men of letters, but also per sonages of a very different kind of importance in the State, solicited the honour of admission : anti it was worth while to hear with what cont em pt these Courtiers. spoke of the Court ! with what warmth, with what vehemence these philosopher nobles attacked institutions, founded nevertheless for their advantage, little suspecting that the Re formation would begin with them, and that they would be the first abuse suppressed ! Our philosophers frequently met. at the .table of Madame Geoffrin,but„they were not so.,muclt at their ease there as at the Baton d'Holbac-h's ; they could not dispute pro, et contra Dco. She was,_ we are told, rather timid, and ilways, well dis posed towards the GoVernment ; a trifling fault, which the author of the Memoirs finds excusable loan old woman,partitularly as she was very friend ly and to men of letters. She - went one morn ing to the house . of . the Abbe Alorellet, quite un expectedly. " Good morning, Sir, what is your Christian name ?"--Audrew.--" Very well; call on M. Dosne, my notary, and he will present you with a deed of annuity for 1275 livres (about 53d. sterling)." -The Abbe Morellef was, it may easily be imagined, extremely affected at this act of kindness, and before he went to M. Dosne, " thanked Madame Geoffrin in a strain of gra titude a hundred times less than he felt," which proves that people were wrong-•in supposing that he possessed no - feeling. Twenty places in his Memoirs contradict this calumnious assertion'. I know nothing, for instance, more affecting than the regret he expresses when speaking of the death of Madame Helvetius. ". It is," he says, " verflamentable to reflect that I did not see her in her last moments; that I did not close her eyes, and that I did not receive from her one token of her remembrance." " Dublin Castle, Sept. 26, 1821. " Sin—l have the honour to acknowl e d ge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ultimo, and to thank you for the trouble you have taken in conveying the information it contained, which lost no time in submitting to the Lord Lieutenant. His Ex= cellency having accordingly directed an immediate communi cation to be held with the Brigade Major of. Yeomanry, in the view to the special investigation of the matter, his Excelleng, has the satisfaction to find, from his reply, that 'the tunes in question were inadvertently played, without , any intention of giving offence; but such instructions have been. issued as will, it is expected, fully guard against a like occurrence in future. " I have the honour to be, Sir, • • ",Your niot obedient humble Servant, " W. John Hancock, Esq., Lisburn. V. GRANT:" By Order of the Board, R. H. CREH", Sec•retary. T,EAST INDIA HOUSE, Sept. ID, 1821. HE COURT of - DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MEKHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, - do hereby .gier Notice, That the Conrt's AdVertisement of the 99th ult. for the hire of st tps nl of 800 Tons and upwards, Builders' Measure ent, and tire Tenders for whichswere to be delivered at this Irlo!is e on Wednesday.the 3d October next, is WITHDRAWN. bthe COURT further give notice that the Court will be eadY to rec e i v e PROPOSALS in writing at any time on or "re.WEDNESDAY, the lith of October,. next, from the Owners of such SHIPS of the Burthem of Eight Hundred ois and upwards, Builder's measurement, as have not per- Chinned more than S eve n V oyages to an d f rom Ind i a or in the C ompany ' s S erv i ce, sped i fying the Rate of F_ reight at which t h ey may be willing to LET such SHIP lot N E VOYAGE t o CHINA , i n t h e Company ' s Serv i ce. to TOhe Tenders, with the words "Ship Tender" on the Cover, _ b e severally sea l ed up au i l left with the Secretary, at or before o' Twelve Clock Isition,.on the. said 17th October, Ueyond which hour no Tender will be received. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. the particulars of the Terms and Conditions upon which h .'N e ,, Bl "Ps be geed for the Company's Service, - may be nTits..tetTo ofn application 1 / 2 0 the Office of the Clerk . to the Com-' Instant. Shipping, on or after Monday next, ttie 24th • BIBLE SOCIETY. We extract the following very important do cument from the Drogheda Journal:— - On Tuesday last his Grace the Lord.Primateleitt his An nual Visitation for this part of. his diocese, in St. Peter's Church. His Grace was accompanied by the Right Honour able Stephen Radcliffe, Vicar General. After Divine:Service an excellent Sermon, apposite to the occasion, was preached by the Rev. Mr. Ormsby, Rector of Ballymascanion. Immediately after which his Grace rose, and delivered• an eloquent and impressive exhortation. to his Reverend Brethren, imploring them to protect their flocks against the intrigues of sectarians, who were using every art to divert the weak and unstable from the establishment. He trusted that, through their pious -exertions; the evil would be counteracted. His Grace further stated, that he had withdrawn himself from, the Bible Society—the members of that body having, in his opinion, deviated from the original plan laid down for their government. His Grace, however, stated, that he- was a warm friend ,to the circulation of the Scriptures, and'to the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge and the Suppressi o n- o f Vice. The church was crowded, and his Grace's appeal on this momentous subject appeared to make a strong impression on the Reverend Gentle men, and the congregation in general. In this society. the Abbe Morellet passed fifty years of his life ; but no parties .recal to his me mory such pleasing recollections as those of the Baron d'Holbach, whose income amounted to 60,000 livres, 2,5001: sterling, of which he made, says the Abbe Morellet, the noblest:use.. '' Two dinner-parties regularly every week; besides occa sional meetings on other days, at which from 15 to twenty literary characters, men of fashion, and -the most distinguished foreigners were assembled. Good and abundant cheer, excellent wine, excel lent coffee, and much argument." I leave you to -judge whether the Abbe MOrellet vvas not well pleased ; argument was his passion. There was no political or religious topic which was not discussed pro and con at the Baron d'Holbach's. The Deity was often the subject of conversation. " Diderot, the good Baron, a Doctor named Roux, and some others, maintained dogmatically the • most complete atheism,, with an. edifying elbquence, earnestness, and sincerity." It may perhapS be imagined that our licentiate of the Sorbonne was. present at strange subjects of edification ; but evil be to him thai evil thinks. The Abbe Morellet could perceive, in these bold philosophical- notions, of which the System of Nature gives us- a. tolerably correct idea, only innocent speculations, and a peaceable exercise of the mind. Yf any one . had said to him at that time, . 46 Abbe," take care, the 'subject is dange rous ; you will_ lose your benefices and pensions, he would not have believed it probable. "They were," he would have said, "the Atheists of good company." lie could not leave them: their society was not only agreeable, but he also tells you it was of great use to him. . • • You will find, in the opinions of the Abbe Morellet on several writers of his time, other proofs of kis sensibility. nappy those who spoke well 'of him ! When very young, and after his first campaign against Palissot, he was introduced to Buffon, who-received him with kindness, and said to him very obligingly, " Persevere, Sir, you will write well ;" a prediction which, from • the mouth of Buffon, was equivalent to a fine eulo glum ; for he had, more than any other writer, felt all the difficulties of the - art. The Abbe Morellet recollected" this circumstance when he composed his Memoirs, and speaks in .terms 'of great admiration of the French Pliny ; which is very laudable on-his part, for all the philosophers whom he mast 'esteemed and respected; Diderot, D'Alembert, and Voltaire himself, thought very little of Buffo"). They regarded him in the light of a mere writer, a declaimer ; they treated him like a qyack, doubtless because he had no faith in their creed. . . . .[From" Tux GLASGOW COLTRIrR,' Sept. 294 Corros WOOL.--We undersiand an attempt has lately been made to account for the fabrics; from cotton wool, being.superior to those made in ;Great, Britain. It is alleged, that it chiefly, if not altogether, arises from the material, and not from the skill of the natives in spinning and iveavirig. It .is contended, that the annual plant, • herbaceum, yields the chief of the cofton wool cultivated in India and China,nnd that all the fine cotton wool of India is *front this plant ; that the cotton:wool of both Americas and Bourbon is from the biennial shrub barbadinse, or others nearly allied to it : that the.inven tion of Mr. Arkwright, and, the improvement in machinery -since his time, have occasioned a r e gu l ar progr e ss i ve d ec li ne in the use of India fabrics; that 'at this moment not a piece of this description of goods can be sold,. except at a heavy loss,, owing to the cheapness of British manufactures; that there has been for some years shipments making- to . India - of British cotton goods from .American wool, and that.. there. is every appearance of an increase thereof, which most, occasion great calamity to British India, unless prodbets of scime - kind can be brought to Europe in return. ..The objecties to India wool are, its dirty state when imported, short staple, and fast seeds adhering to the wool (the nature'of the Plint). The last cannot be removed by hand-picking, in this country, without a great expense, and the machin er y w hi c h . i s use d i n lieu thereof greatly destroys the staple: there is also a mill dice against its use by the man u f ac t urer s ; but the chief Objec tion, it is believed,_ arises from the- expence which would be' occasioned by the alterations of the machinery in the spinning-, mills. Yet it' is represented, that if the fine descriptions of India. wool were sent home in a clean state, by hand-picking, it would be universally used, and that the manufactures . of this country would acquire a 'character for durability and beauty, which at no former period they ever possessed." -- It . 'iSadinicted . that India cotton wool is infinitely more difficuk to clean than that of America, is less productiye, and being a more delicate plant, requires greater care in cultivation—all of which draw backs have been urged against its-being brought •into general use in our manufactories. But do not all valuable products require • greater - care, and are more expensive 'in their cultiva tion than coarse and. inferior articles ? • .And in - this instance, 'the labour of the' free people of India not costing, perhaps, More than an eighth or tenth, of. thd expense which theteame labour could be performed for by the slave popplation.of the Western world, convinces us that no advantage could possibly arise to the latter country,.,on the score of cheapness; and if the cotton wool of India should possess any suPeiiority - of quality • over that of, America, as -has -been contended for, then .thOse circumstances which have been represented as unfavourable to India, .would prove greatly to its advan tage ; for we do not believe any country oniearth could produce this species of cotton wool on the Same te rms as British India, China, perhaps, excepted ; which, however, r equ i res a greater supply than itlas . yet been able to cultivate. We conclude that the privileges .which have been granted to the United States, and other countries, to import Cotton Wool into this country, upon _the same duties as that which comes from our own Colonies are subject to, have been grounded upon the be lief of reciprocal advantages being obtained, on the admission of °Ur Manufactures into those Countries. But we confess we do not consider this -country on a fair footing -in this respect— we particularly allude to the United States, whence our . great supply of Cotton Wool is 'received and; in 'that country their ports appear to be rapidlyclosing against our Marmfactures, by duties, impositions; &c. It therefore ilUes appear to us, that GovernMent should bring forward ,somec.measure to give to its Colonies greater protection, and particularly in regard to the Cotton Wool of India; .for. should the same system continue which now prevails, that Country .must be ruined, and other States aggrandized in which we have no interest. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, E9tablished by Royal Charter, in the Reign of King George the First, Se . l. • • ERSONS, whose annual Premitmis ptember, fall lB2 duc on the 29th instant, are'hezelq informed, that Receipts the now ready.to be delivered at th e C o mpany' s Offi ces , over The o Royal Exchange and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their re.: "Pective Agents in the sev e ral C o unti es ; and th e P ar ti es as cured arerequested to apply foi the Renewal of their Poli ;'es on or before the 14th of October next, as the usual •Pif -len Days allow e d for Payment, beyond the date o f eac h Po "1'• Will therLexpire. • SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary.. N 'n• Attendance is t~ 14 given, daily, at the said Offices, for ie Ass urance of Buildings, GoOds, Merchaudizes, and Ships, Harbour; in Dock, or while BUilding, from Loss or Da "ge by Fire ; and also for the Assurance ofi and granting Annuities. on, Lives. ape d Fire Policies will be issued free of Expence to the Ai villere the Annual Premium amounts to Gs. or ul4- It should also be recollected that in 171) - 5 - , when the-storm seemed to be abated, the Abbe Morellet devoted his pen to the defence of the unfortunate. The Cri des Families and the• Cause des Peres, and other writings equally tne-- ,ritorious, were the fruits of .a devotion which ob tained for the families of the victims, if not all that they had a right, to demand, at all events much more than they had any reason to expect.. FOR THE SUN. But if. the Abbe Morellet vas. sensible of. praise, he was still more so of censure, and his Memoirs prove it ; r for men of letters, of whom he thought he had reason to complain., are treated by him with little„consideration,ly aban don to him the Abbe Arnault„ because this Abbe was,7to great thing; nor do I defend Chamfert, 4 spirit full of malignity, and who probably has to reproach hiinself for pore than one epigram against the Abbe Morellet; and it is. but right that Chenier should,be punished for having .said of the Abbe Morellet that 'he - was " a child at sixty of some'pretnise." But what had Laharpe done ? The „Abbe Morellet bad been on terms of intimacy with him;. he had received very friendly letters from him, which lie does not fail, to introduce in his Memoirs, and yet he tr e ats this old friend with a harshness which may be called cruel. "If his conversion," he tells us, " was real, I will enhance the merit of it by shewing you what he was before 'his conversion :" and then he transcribes all that the author of the Course of Literature had said and written at the: beginning of the'French Revolution, at the Ly 7: mon. and in the Mercury. lie delights in bring ing.forward all the errors and faults of Laharpe,. his oldfriend ; he pays no regard to the glorious repentance which has repaired. them, nor to the bitter tears which have effaced, them : and this man was a philosopher ! whence Conies then so much animosity, or rather such great rancour ? EXECUTIONS. • THIS MONTH. 11 A Z ARD- and CO: CONTRACTORS re : s FN .,, ~nlind th e Public, that the DRAWING of the PRE " ' I() NFY LOTVERY will commence ort the 30th ac stowedl 11 1 IS mnx r Ito „ - rH. They .have the greatest pleasure in L) led ging the repeated testitrionies of approbation be ou the Schenie, which combines all the points that t.Public have so long, called. for. There are TY THREE OF 030,000 ! O 1 HER ( 'APITALS:—ALL STERLING MONEY. NO , f"I'WO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. A ISO CLASSES !—AND NO STOCK PRIZES ! ti ''' • '' Z ARI) and C o . have already had the pleasure of 5e11.1.n4 . 1 . n4 ` .l) the XO,OOOl. P r i zes i n O , e _ Lottery, and hupe to re •!,t their good fort une i n the present Lottery. They shared 6 ' 0 " 'sold in the Lait L o tt er y, No: 15,702, a i 1,0001.! and 15,0001.1 at their old and very fortunate Offices, gal ROYAL EXCHANGE ; 26, CORNHILL; and 324, OXFORD-STREET. • He did indeed make a very useful acquaintance there in Lord Shelburne, whom he calls with reason his noble: beiiijaetor. His Lordship, on signing the. Treaty: of 1783 with France, re quested a Priory ,for the Abhe , Morelle,t,who had, he said,_ liberalized his ideas. The demand was rather singular, but it was however attended to; and as at that time all' those who were pro wised Abbeys were provided for until a benefice became vacant,. the Ministry . gave the Abbe Morellet, a pension of 4,000 francs_ on the Econo mats, which must have been rather surprised to find among their pensioners the theologian of the. Coffee-house ,of . Europe, the name given by .Galiani to the house of the Baron d' Holbach. It is but justice to.the Abbe Morellet to ob serve, that his name was always iiirolled On the 'list of those who spokepro Deo. He was very fond of the,Baron, and still fonder of Diderot, but he did not entertain the same opinions as they : did respecting the DiVine Being. I am rather inclined, to suspect that he had conceived the idea of converting Diderot; and Iregret that a copy of a letter which he wrote to 'Diderot with this design was not found among his papers: but if the conversion of Diderot had been practicable, most probably Galiani, and - not the Abbe Mo rellet, would have had the honour of accomplish - k . TAINs of RED PORT WINE, Tea, , ii : Fruit, Mil dew; and every Vegetable Matter, are' en /C~eir removed from TABLE LINEN, Cottons,. Muslin', j,es, and Other articles of Dress, by HUDSON'S CHEM! : BLEACHING' LIQUID : • it aiso removes -the above 1 1 4 '"‘ from Ladies' BUFF. Diesses, without injuring the it "f fC)gt..C°loor, and restore' all hintV of discoloured Linen to whitenisS, without injury to the texture of the • 1114 tkir IjrePtared and Sold by W. B. HUDSON, Chemist, 27, Hay r London ; sold also by most PerfumerS, Druggists, bi)„,mledieine Vend ers , throughout the United Kingdom, in ''"!s at 55., .35., and 2s. each. a rt r I% Hudson has no.concern' whatever with any other 'e to wl 1 the name of • •‘ Hudson" is prefixed. F ROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCT. 2. . We read •in the Litera►y Correspondence of Laharpe that " the public looked 'with a jealous eye on the preference given by the Academy to the Abbe Morellet over Sedaine ;" a very par donable observation,if. the Abbe Morellet knew liow to forgive. Besides, Laharpe told the .truth ; for there were things which gave such gene ral disapprobation,Thot that the Abbe Morellet was not as (it an Academic subject as mkny others. He had reflected deeply on the mechanism of lan, guages; . he was a good grammarian, and as the Academy were then occupied with a,dictionary of the French language, an additional gramma rian might be, desirable. So thought Laharpe ; but the public were of a different opinion, and fancied that Sedaine, who was daily applauded at the Italian Comedy, should have-been chosen before the Abbe. Morellet, the author of some works on political 'economy, of great value no doubt, but which were' little read. Observe, moreover, that Laharpe adds, " the Abbello relict is a man .of wit, and a very distinguished literary character ;" but this concession could not appease the inexorable Abbe Morellet. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, October 9. Amstet dant Ditto, at Sight l2 13 Rotterdam l2 17 Antwerp Hainburgh 57 10 ef Us Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 70 0 Us. Ditto Bourdeaux-, ditto Frankfort on the Pain Madrid - ',. 36 Ettectivt Cadiz . . 36 Effective Bilboa - - 354 Elfecti VI Barcelona Seville Gibraltar .• '3O; Leghorn Get oa 134-Venice, Ital. Lir. 97 60 Malta . 45 -Naples 39 Palermo - llBd. per Oz. Lisbon Oporto 11.joianeiro ' 48t . Dublin .... Si R. tx , -. BANKRUPTS. 29; at ny v aitehead, Wi t h ne ll , L ancash i re, corn -merchant, Oct. („,„, att at 'eleven and Nov. 13, at twelve, at the u . azi,em....,,0n. ' Solieitors,ll%lr., J. T. Greenhaigh, Manchester , 11. Nr SIS • Hall and Co. Great James-street, Bedford-row. St 1)4 ' eT . ea t,, l' •e 1 merchant, Oct. 29, 30, and , N . oy. /3, Alt ' Llna 4 1 r e Inn Dale-street, LiverpOol. Solicitors, 7 b l.i. I W I. 7 u s., P',l7ve g rpool ;, and Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane. • d , ~;L:",-,, . --, :•-•••1 r, Yorkshire, maltster, Oct. 9, 10, and Not . . wt's, ii v el.h:al . t l h e e Bell Inn,. Sa_rboroii . gh . Yorkshire. Soh arars.rr• w. D. Thornton., Scarborough , Vi and Mr. C. Lever, an. Oct. on DIVIDENDS. -...N„,. ‘ O , T. Cave, Hindley, Lancashire, dealer and chapman c .- r* u 2 , J. Blackett, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, innkeeper— Lla . "'• AL • Cohen, Devonshire-street, Queen-square, ex ,•age broker —Oct. 27, W. Williams and A. Whyte, New anti-street, hatters .N . 17, B. and a Troughton, Wood .‘,str.._ieet, silk ___. ov J. Ille l . "--00.. 27, T. Garbutt, Manchester, woollen -^4,-1-44aanufacturer. J. r CERTIFICATES--OcT. 23 EdinisZvsers,ufroik, u Lancing, s Sussex, farmer—.J. Dalton, Bury St.. eon S. Garton, Wood- s t ree t, Cheap •si!le, sill:-manufactur r fr--J — . Lawrence, Pimlico, 111iddlesex, Zat-tnerchant—J. W a ddi ngton, Reading, Berkshire, boot tjtake, a -er lt Gower, St.ent, Austell, Cornwall, linen-draper—J. Lewisham u ,.. master-mariner. - P ARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. P. R. Pedder, L. Readhead, and C. 11. 'Hackett, Gould- Gsqinar, shi-brokers--31. Greenwood and E. Eley, Thoinbury, r -- n °4eeste ranire straw bonnet-makers—W. J., and 11. Hodg t,v Poulton, Lancashire, wine merchants-LJ. Mills and R, b a lcer, ,A sh ' Lancashire, Derbyshire, - chymists —E. and S. 'White, Red Lio-street; Holborn, surgeons—T. Ely and T. Downing, reeve, NVapßing, wharfingers---J. Godwin, J. Dawes, J. tr eev'C ' IV' flips YortsmouthßickmanGosport, t?ct-butrhers_.....E. tlrish, E. '3. Whittaker and S. Perkins, Finchac -an-street, Southwark, chymists—T. 'D. and T. Cotton, Oentran, Cornhill, stock-agents- ents—J. G. Dallinger and l',. P. Y 5 Union-street, Southwark—E.. J. Pugh -and J. P. ;I:Tanall, Devonshire -wharf, Bankside, coal-merchants —J. Pretty, llls and J.iPlatt 1 ? -Live 1, cart-owners—J. R. ant! J. Brist ol, Bilston, StatfOrdshire, ironmongers —T. and C. Vining, lialif.a; c(in-factors-.—J. Thom, A. Smith, and J. V. Salter, A1:13\% Ilett s_srreet, ?va Scotia --0. Wilson, G. Browne, and J. d `; J. highway, brewers—J. Kay an a l I lury, Lancashire, machine-makers• BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 pet Oz. Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 101 New Doubloons . .... 0 o 0 New Dollars • 0 4 91 Silver'ln • Bar . s, Standard • o 4 11 By a Parliamentary Return it appears, that the annual constimption of British S'Oirits by each person, in most of the Northern Counties of Scot land,. stands at from one-tenth to two.k.nths - of a gallon, while in the County of Edinburgh, it is within a trine of four gallons. Galiani was not such a violent disputant as the Abbe Morellet, but a hundred times more ami able, and being one day,out of all patience at the Baron d'lfolbach's with•the observations he had just heard,. exclaimed, " Gentlemen philo sophers, you are going too far. I have no`fiesi tation in telling you that if I were the Pope' I -would send you - to,the Inquisition, and if King of France, to the Bastille. But, as I am neither the one nor the other, I will dine ith you next. Thursday, and you shall hear me with the sanie - patience that I have listeped to you." Very well, my dear Abbe, replied the atheists, let it be Thursday. When this day arrived, the party assembled, and after dinner the Abbe Galiani thus addressed them: ".Suppose the individual amOnst• you who is . most convinced that the world- is the work of chance ; suppose my friend Diderot were playing at dice, and 'his antagonist should throw not once, twice, ,and thrice, but constantly sixes, our friend Diderot, who would thus lose his money, would exelaiM without he sitation, ' there is sOme•foul play : the dice are cogged.' Ah, philosophers !. What, because ten or a dozen throws of the dice make you lose your money, can you firmly believe it is the ef feCt of some mantruvre, or some- well planned trick, yetin beholding. such a prodigious number of combinations in this universe,. a thou- . times-mere diffic u lt, more coMpricated; and more useful, have you no suspicion that the dice • There are s'ome men who are under great obli gations to their stars, among whom is the author of these Memoirs, though he seems .to doubt it. Loaded with literary honours, which, by his own confession, he never dared to expect, he obtained shortly after, thanks to M. Turgot, the priory of 'Timer, whichhis,Memoirs .will.immortalize. It iTas indeed .a very charming priory. " A de lightful house ;. a revenue of fifteen thoustna livres, which I soon increased to sixteen thousand," says the Abbe .Morellet,•," the : right of hunting, of.fishing," &c., in short all the rights of a Lord in feudal times, excepting that which had been • MR. EDITOR—WiII yoti ipermit me, through the medium of your Paper, to put a few ques tions, not in the vexatious spirit of angry cont tention, but purely for the sake of truth, jUs-' tice, and humanity ?—Was not the law of cap., tal punishment onforgers and utterers of forged Bank of England notes, though deemed by and among them the writer of this, uncalled rot' by the offence, stud not calculated to.check . it„ . enacted for the protection of the Public from forged- Bank-notes.? Is not this protection, by the resumption of Cash . -Payments, if the Ptfblic choeses..to avail itself of it, now attained • the Public does not:choose:to avail itself Of f should.. it .not take the consequences of its - .own; neglect, refusal, or. delay? So far the question . . is viewed in. respect • to- the Public as a 4iod- . F.• Now as.individualsr—lf.the.Public neglects,.re- - fuses, or delays tQavail . itself of ,the prolrezed• security, may .or. may, : not. -any .person, .if- he: chooses, demand in payment_Cash instead of Bank , -notes ? If he may, not .and be takes a 'forged Banknote, is it not fair that he, as -a par s t of that Public, should take the consequenc e s o f his own neglect, refusal, or delay ? If he may, demand Cash: instead of ,Bank-notes, is he not thus feCured, - if he choOses; and if, in this casee,. he will . take 'Notes, and is imposed,upon ky forged Bank-note, can he conscientiously prose..-. cute the - offender, and by so doing take away his life, for an' offence *filch he might So easily ,have, prevented . ?lt appears by • the Public Prints„ that the Bank . of England his resolved to cease from prosectstincr capitally the utterers of . its forged On Pound Notes;and it is not probable . that this resolution has proceeded principally, Or solely, from an assurance that the Public, if it chooses, is, by the resumption of Cash Payments, protected from forged Bank-notes; and vould it not be just that the same forbearance, for the same reasons which .formed its humane determii nation respecting the utterers.. of forged On& Pound Bank-notes,shoUld extend to the utterers of -Notes of whatever value, and forgers also If the Public be protected,- if it- chooses; from forged ,Bank-notes, by the. resumption of 'Cash Payments,..would it not be just for.those.Autho.. titles who have the power, to spare from execu tion those pffend'ers who have been, or may , be convicted or sentenced ,to, death, by a.law,. the object of which is now -otherwistk..attainfed.; that is, all forgers and utterers of,.forged .I.4tnk-notes, by whomsoever prosecuted ?—lt is hoped that the friends of htlmnnity will watch over, and save from death,. if Possible,, all such offenders.—lt has been remarked,, that, notwithstanding .the determination Of the. ;Bank- of England to .cease . from prosecuting capitally the utterers 4ts forged OtO :Pound Notes, a person has keen within 'these feW 'days' found . GuiltyL-LDea , 44 • it is not . temernbereds'hy whom .person was' prosecitted:'' ' • - I am, Mr. Editor, your's, &c. HUMANITAS.