The Sun. — London, England, 1821-02-05 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BFSCII—(TmsDAt, BIRMIN6iIANI THE KING V. CARTWKI6IIT.• EDIVONOS, WOOLER AND OTHErts. • Mr. Justice BEST sat in Court at an early hour, and disposed of the.reguiar motions of the clay. On the CHIEF JusTic": and the other Learned Judges coming into Court, the case.of Cart'; right and others, for a Conspiracy to Elect a " .Lcgis latorial" Atto rne y f or :;the Town of Birmingham was. called on. - • Mr. on the part of Major Cartwright, addressed the Court at considerable length,• in support Learned of the Mile for a New Trial. The Gentleman urged all the former objec tions to the Jury, in their striking, their summon :"ll' and to th e g enera l mo d e o f con d uct i ng t h e l a'. Mr. Wt,oler was proceeding to address the ,court 1% hen our Reporter left ; hut as•the Carer •fusncr. will hold Sittings,in London, there is HO Probability. of its terminating this day. • „ r. .i`cioNA.rAnTe...—We extract the following ar ticle from an American Paper : , " On the 14th of November the Juno hove too about two to windward of St. Helena, and in about 20 minutes after was boarded by a boat from the flag-ship Vie, 74, Rear. ,44raira1 Lambert, and very politely treated. the ship was P : mailt:d to approach Vie roads' by signal from the flag-ship, in half an litair the Vigo's boats came aloug;;ide with wa froia the shore, e.nd supplied it free of expellee. being la te in the day, and the ship a considerable distance - from the ltd, could not procwe any vegetables or refreshments from tlyz shore, and whica were rather scarce: was - informed that Ai.,:tericari ships passed the island the preceding day, sup_ 1 ,0,1 t.d.Lt0 be the Clay, of Boston, and the Caroline, of Salem. t ' 34-11 'oilli: was 1-11 by the 011kers of the Vigo, nontht the Yl,lr,perOr Napoleor W . 2.; in goodhealth, and received coni .Z•t!' i b r kePt him ' self entirely secluded, even from the Clover ,-;"le new palace at Lone;wood was so far completed as Empfarorto.live`in It is said•to a naugl ..„ ,Ilikang, and beautifully situateu. General Bertrand Lady still r.ir.ain with Buonaparte. The Russian and C ommission.rs left St. Helena sometime. since, and iv te o , r i ti.,. 4 "n s re - nains but a. - French Nobleman. Buona coD-....5---;-d to sec a single Person since Lord Am- Ilta lerst was &urn' itted ' t'O - an audience ; the natUre of that interliew rlat ranspired :at the Nand. A Lady of some rank, lately • r•turning fr omlndia, had entlea,voured to get introduced to fi li T l „,.'„ a rt n o d r f° to r given her n b o y the tice of th'e tion.. a "Lrd f..4ornerset, in returning from his nti cozenand at the (,ape, had also solicited. an audience, but onaparte refused to see him. It was observed, he had now Inziself so entirely- ssalluded for sa:h a length of time, t)at lie was &Mom the subject of. conversation, and was hardly • thotght of by .thOse, on the .le.land; and the latest news they T i t f °n'l rtim is frequently via England. His health was good. "le ,torn rePoited sometime since, of a ship apparently dis rnasted, having appea-od off. the bland, under suspicious eir t , , culnstance.s, had no foundation - in truth. A schooner had been !ignalled oftcm f . rom the.hci.hts for upwards of a fortnight,.and . !?3 , her superior sailira she eluded the is h Were It MlentlY in chase rd . " her: It is most probable she was a Pa • trios privateer war.:_qtirig anish Indininen. There *are 14otit.2,00ftinhabitants olithelsland at present. The number tzonp3 is lbw , ' 9 000 h the several stations all 6 •;:o - ' o occupy tual anti over the:islaati." Ramburgli and. Flanders Mails arrived last The Colycspondent states, that the De laration" of the . Allied. Sovereigns, which was Published in the:French and English Papers,and h icit called forth the expositi o n of th e views Of . he British Government with resp e ct to interfe r i en ce in - the - affairs of foreign States, was nevertt ended for publication, and . : was very incor 4(.115' printecl.--LThe negbciations of th e , Pro-. itant States' of Germany . Writh the POPE, are 1;1: - es sxpected that five Episcopal Sees will be If Raini tll he seen by an advertisement from the 'will : 4" ° lir first page, that to...morrow the Bank tlirect ors "dY to issue, such proportions as the the r i; ai tu aY think proper, current silver coin of t,, sterlitic, amount_ of•one million pounds . ! , 3 for B an k notes, provided iPPlicatin Rin g ° only nev i !, -e made for the same before the Ist of es tak - AMI Ly.--Hi s MAJESTY now . joani e d b n g s on horseback at Brighton, accom, Bloomfiep r I II c,k , Esterhazy and Sir Benjamin : ,t affeeti,onate most and is every where greeted with the . salutationu.:- , -On - Saturday and ...tylesit.,:erda.y tile Duchess of Clarence - took an airing th e s'ensul g t ", & --- e.Prince Leopold dined with Duches s of Kent . on Saturday, at her apart tnents in cjilt Hee th e Palace, Kensington. After , o c - their Royal Ili g h nesses l e f t, K ens i ngton proceeded to the residence of the Duke and Du chess _of Clarence. in the King's Palace, St. es's, and drank tea and spent the evening t he 4nd-Duchess.—On Saturday and de sterd l L y the Princess Sophi a v i s it e d th e D uc h ess t,,,,,arence.----.-Prince Leopold breakfasted yes- V4' l 3' with the Duke an d Duchess of Clarence.— ti at ter d,ay the Duchess of Kentthe Duchess of (4 10r,s e 4ce, Prince Leopold,. aid- the Princess • . , attended :thyme - Service at the k ing ' s _ j a i fTerman Chapel, in his Palace, St. James's. k oat ‘ Leopold afterwards left town for Glare- Ya r(4 l ' t- atc..' of the N avy an d th e R oya l Dock -1 r.l h l ll l 'Pquiritig a continuance of the present ,„ ) :., ti lereitt, a r e d uc ti on h as 'b een or d ere d' to 1-‘Q the rates of pay to th e 'workmen, this day. The Lords of the Ad -1(-c-tingr ti,. ti nderstand, have - thus determined on "ti.:: ' ! irl 4ll.. zro t ' en ecessar). reductions, rather than by : ° f the men, f rom k now i ng th a t t h ere P 4r(!'s I.stin g means of employ out of the Dock- . 1 ) . ' a nd tte it o „, ' s - mode of lessening the public ex j).-rt st a t -lc ' s till leave them a subsistence. - Re-in~re' , es that tn icurd_ ,the duck-yard at. Deptford is W 1 1 ," ii ? :" 4 - 1 no longer to be used as a build . 7 1.1., a s „ • I a SVI "'"qPot for , naval . .stores. The_ as vllll at • Is 'ln • G reenwich is also named as alio „ o y the (.1.;.E.n i_wnicti retrenchment will.be adopt •..cuar.ge o f ef ileers • • the Governor . and all the 4,1 'en o f se ' , the establishment of the 1, to ci "'non and marines is to be transfer i4oll,, . Hospital; and . . the building , t ttl to ° now used as the asylum to Ibe.appropri- . ° ft: th ° Nava...l College;to be removed front: d 't"tit h• •C.R . 1 . Sir iIAwEINs Wnrrstirn, •Jc°rtstrio,_!..is ppottited Commander-in-Chief at t 's . fl 4, " JAMES was expected to hoist J° . yes terday thu Queen Charlotte. Cap -1: It . (; vis appointed Flag-Captain, and (.1 L(4 " , Esq. Secretary the Admiral. tleeri Charlotte will be -paid off and re-corn- II °I " 0 W I n nesday next. Lieutenant W. to I, 1 r (first), and M. R. G oLD P , IN, UrS-4:l', are aPPOILIted, Ship NEWS. DEAL, _VE.d. 4'..Put back vesterdal.the lady Popham; and Thetis, for Jamaica;-,Levant for Tiinidad; and NarcisSus for Gibraltar. Came• down froni the River the Heart of WIC, 'Robertson, for St. Vincent's ; and Valiant, 1:alivlon, fot Trinidad. Arrived to-day the Valencra, Kinsman; front Shields for Demerara; Alfred, M., , •man, from Odessa; Mary, Gunton, trout Messina ;- mid Woodford, Chapin an, fro in Madras. The wind has got round to the northward, and the whole of the nutwarit-hound are tzeiting• under weigh. PortismouTH, Fee. 4.--Ari ; ivvri y,sterd iy the Isabella, Bushel, from Fiume. Sailed L'Amitie, Bail, (Or Havre.— Arri ved to-day the Montle'', •Ilohues, from Cephalonia.—. gaited the Ann, Ray; Mary GUnton ; and Lady Elomilton_ transport, for London. Cow Ls, 11113. ‘l.-,--Arrived the Dutch strip Baroness Van Capedan Ifoin Batavia, in 10; days. tlaawictr, Felt. 4.—At rived the Treel:M4 packet, with a mail from Holland. ,Saifed the Beaufoy packet, with a mail, for the same place. PLYMOUTH, Fin. 3.—Arrived, t he Set sy, Malzard, from the Mary Sane Isabella, St, Phenson, fut Rio Janeiro and the Coniruei c:al packet, Anderson, , for Lisbon. FALliOrTif, FEB. 2.—Arrived the athorrie pattet,,with mails from the l'.lciiiterrarreart ; sailed front Ntalta 26th Dee., and from Gibraltar 2 - 2 d January; al sir the Dorset, Cohort', from Sicily for Poole; and Maria, 'Tint, front Loadojr for St. Lucia ; the latfer has sailed again with the Duke of Keat packet, with a mail tur Lisbon ; and the . Orient, Brown, for St. 'Thomas's. LirßßPoni'., FEB. 2 ---.lrrted tlie Cottager, Cornish, front Lisbon; on *nth 3,111. spoke the Ntinaxd, -of F;alein, from London for .t fie West Indies ; ,she was zoing into Lithon, hoeing on hoard the crew of a j c .which had foundered, in (at. 41. loug. 31. The Perseverance, Nfiller, from LiverPm)! fur Bueno: Ayres, Was totally lost :A!lt January, near Strangfurd ; the master and crew, except One boy, savcd. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. . . TPar-Officr, Erb. 2, 1821. • tst Regiment of Dia:pion fluards--General Williath Cart vet ight, from the 3:1 Light I)ragoons, to be Colonel, vice (hit). Gwyn, deceased. Wegintent, of Light Dragoons-Lieut.-General StaPleffm, Lord CombertneCe, G.C.8., to hr Connie!, vice General Cart wright, appointed to the command of the RI Dragoon Guar,is. !Apr Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards 7 —Captaili Hon. Thomas !.;yittuitt Bathurst, from the 80th Regiment of Fo.t; to he Lietitcuant and Captain, vice Butler,. who exchanges ; Lientenaut .lolni Julius kVilliato Angerstein, front half p•..y of the regiment, to he Ensikii awl Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bathurst, promoted in the 8011 t Foot. 41th Regjattnt of Pout--Captain Williatn Burney, from half-pay of the Regiment, to he Capt:vni, vice A:obtuse Lane, who exchanges. • Sot la Ditto—Captain James antler, Irons the Ist, or Grena dier iteirnent of Foot Guards, to he Captain, vice Bathurst, who exchanges. Ist 'Royal Veteran Rattkiiion—Breret Maj, ChatleSDownes, from IheaOth Royal. Veteran. Battalion, to be Captain, - rice Griltitb4; who exchanges. • • - 10th Ditto—Captain Thomas Edward Allett Griffiths, from .the tst Royal Veteran Battalion, to ht Captain, rice Downes., who exchanges. , BarrEr..—Lit•utenant•Ci , lonel dames- Henry Reynett, on half•pay 52nd Foot, to hate the local rank of Colonel, on-the Continent of Europe only. GmtntsoNs.:-I.leuttlatit-General : Staph.ton -Lord Comfier mere, G.C.B. to be Governor of iSherrness,vire General Gwyn,- deceased. Commis3ioa Signet by the Lord Meuttnant of the County of Oxfoid. Francis Ptnrrcrn, juin. Ail t) htt Deputy L i eutenant. THE Tu EAT R E.- 7 LThe Opera of sArtaxerxes, and the new-Melo-drama.of Therese, or the Or. plain of Geneva, were repeated- on Saturday at Drury Lane Theatre, before an audience that coMpletely filled the House. iiiija WILsoN as -usual received great applause in the Opera, and the afterpieCe 'went off the utmost. success. WALLACK, COOPER, and Miss . Ki:Lr.v . , were Seve ra ay excellent. THE TARK,—The drive :in Hyde Park was thronged 'with horsemen and carriages for several hours yesterday, afternoon but the promenade -aa4hg but thtlitfattttntrd. Among the carriages were those of irianv of the first families. Friday arrived at Port&mouth the Lucy/ I I amil lon transport, from TrinconialeZs, whence,' she sailed on the Mit August last, having on board Lieutenant kV i IA m MILLs,• late of the Carliray, Mr. S. J. HuNT, Midshipman of the Leander, and twenty naval jai; alids from the squadron tin der Sir HENRY BLACKWauD ; and with returned naval stores. Th.:. Borodino transport, Lieutenant' STEWART, Agent, was to leave -Ceylon for Eng land, a shorn time after the Lady liamillon, and to convey home Captain FURS:EAU X and the Of ficers and crew of his Majesty's late ship Citrro)z, which was lost in the Persian Gulf. Also ar rived on Friday the Sir George Osborne transport, Lieutenant TuompsoN", Agent, from the Cape of Good Hope, with returned ordnance and victual ling stores. This ship left the Cape on the 20th November, St. Helena on the 9th, and AsCension on the 11th December. BONAPARTE, on the Bth December, was well—the usual signal was made on that day, at eight o'clock in the morning, and repeated at five in the evening, •to that effect : the Sir George Osborne sailed early on the fol lowilig-morning. ltuus - s. of Posirm. 7 —The streets of the city of Pompeii are said to be daily disencumbered.: Mr. WILLIAMS, a late traveller, informs us, that he. entered by the Appian. Way Through a nar row street of small tombs, beautifillly executed with the names of the deceased plain ant le, gible. At the gate was a sentry-box, in which the skeleton of a - soldier was found with a lamp in his hand. The streets are lined with public buildings, the. painted decorations of which are fresh and entire. There were several tradesmen's shops also discpcered, such as a baker's, an oil man's, an ironmonger's, :a wine shop, with money in the till s and a surgeon's house, with chirurgical instruments. Also, a great theatre, a temple of justice, an amphitheatre, 220 feet long, various temples, a barrack for soldiers, (the columns of which, are scribbled with their names and jests,) and stocks for prisoners, in one of which a ske leton was likewise discovered. The principal streets are about . 16 feet wide ; the subordinate ones from 6 to 10. IMPORTANT NorTcn.—Messrs. J. and J. SIVE WRIGHT, the Contractor's for the present Lottery, intended their advantageous mode of adventure should be open to the Public to take tfie.advan tage'of till Valentine's_ Day, 14th of this Month, as they expected therewouldbe Tickets sufficient but from the very extraordinary unprecedented . demand, it is more than probable, they cannot sup ply the Public on- those advantageouis terms for rtiore than a few days longer; therefore, those Persons who usually delay their purchases"' till the last day or two, are advisci to purchase this Week, as Messrs. SIVEWRIGIIT think, that on or. before Satdrday next every Ticket and Share will have been delivered. It is calculated, that by . the Census which is now taking, the population of the United States' will be•fOunzl to be about ten millions. At the ieriod of the last census, in 1810, it was 7,323,903. roam N LETiMAI U:1111. The mu.; ia t id 1-11gTJTIV or PA.r RN, front the earliest Ag . eg to the present dayi by J. A. DUL;AURE; Member of the Roy a 1 "E;o6ety of Anti- quarks of Franc. Fit st Vulteii4ei The-public ‘lll weicornd with pleasure. the important %Vork which we announce, written on a Subject which cv..s thought to he exhatistt d, ticcaule it has been lilt herto hot ficially treated. • Qui' learned Gritib, impressed with the im port anice•of his . subjkt, as well ;is with thc;extent and severity of hi,schttiei as an' historian, has followed an nniform arid general systetti; in whit It he has liti;oaht tog•ether a great variety of facts, ti,- ce`sskrily connected with. his inairtdesign, and has related them with impartiality. and. jcnlgnient. • Properly 'speaking., it. 'is Ihe philosophy of history, written in a luminous style, and abounding in useful red!ctions, admirably calculaNd for the instruction nf Kings and their subject's, avid - the itunetivenierit of their morality. His language is simple, but concise, and 'his cOnsequenees well deduced front his t..f7inciples. His por traits are not flattering, nor the reverse, but faithful terry. .sentations of trill a and natur e . lie deseribeS the usages, manners, characters, or physiognomy of every age,.frout leg:s lattve enactments, ill NOS, sit ppoord kid the aiithorily.of Councils, and that of Antbors,• either cotent p4ary with, or who immediately followed the periods in which those personages lived who are mentioned in the History of Paris. ' So rich # collection must lie the frnit.of long researches, in which the Author seerai to have put wider cant titnititio all the chronicles and annals of the times, the. -Archives of the Kingdom, all its - literary.-collections and politic libraries.— Since every page contains smite rentarlishle,facts or erident , s which deserve lobe <looted, any analysis is next to inipOsSib!e, linwever concise be. any are, thercriore, under the necessity of giving only a summaty•exposition of the 1. - tilualtle information contained in the first, volume - of this interesting , „ coAection. • • It comprizes six chapters divided into sections, each section treating a different subject. The first. chapter is intitlrd ." , 51eftistic, , a,'Piiyei,•al Peerf k ir .of Paria," and ettAt tains - a great ntauy details which arc not to he. found in any former compilations. They relate,chtetly, first, to the G,0•• graphical situation of Paris, and its envirints, to the co , rse. . of the hirers Seine and Bievre which run through it, to , the ore! tlowings of the' latt e r at particular p er i o d s , to th e rela. live height of the waters of the Seine. measured twin 'hi! year IMSI If, 1902 ; and ct tilt' rt. In pe rat ti re of this great - Capital. ascertained by a cwo - se or meteorological oh serrat loos, from which it appears that,. fora continued series' of many rears, in 9 lormost severe winters the thermometer has riot fallen more than IS dearees•beints, Zero, and during the hottest . S Hai nier it has newer .risen beyond 32 tic grecs allure that point.; arid that the mean temperature of Paris in Soot: mer is 13 degrees of hest, and in winter 3 or 4 degrees of cold. A portion of this chapter exhibits .the strata.of Paris ex piored at various •dep-ths, its sandy, argillaccouS, or cal• careons -lords, its fossils,. shells, animal awl .vegetable re mains, its quarri - rs, and cataeroubs ; these particulars are taken . from "the tiittA 'recent and authentic sources. The Origin 'if tlie l'arisirtx Nation is the subject of the -secouil.chapter, tii which the author, after having exposed the alisitrdity of th e tables which make this pet'yle descend in a direct line froni Pal is, or 'some of the families. who escaped trout the ruins oftTrov, priives that the city of Paris is ir.ot indebted for its name to the worship of lsis, a goddess un known to the ancient Gauls, among whom I'iSlt3 and Ce:r naunns divided the-honours with the divinities of the cap;tool; that this city first bore the name of I,lfte!ia, of small fort, situated on the largest of the three istatiea formed by the Seine, where the - adjacent inhabitants deiren Irons their own .count; - y, obtained from the t-It., Selenuncs, per mission to settle in that island, one of the froni tars. of tile latter people ; that these new settlers called it or, its. chatoge in the• first • letter, Phrisii, front the- Celtic word L.far, a frontier ; anti that in fact. they gave this town the name of Pari.sinstead of Luielia, about the year 355, at which-epoch Juintn, afterwards EMperar,• was the Govern, - of Gaul. • Our Historian gives a description, in the third chapter, of this rising capital tinder the Itomail yoke ; sit the altiethiLlS in its neighbourhood' ; - of tire altars, statues, inseript ions, and Detials found there ; of the magnificent Thermal Palace built "f7y the Emperor Constantine Chlorus, who resided id Gaul forty years ; of a Itornan camp near this Palace, and ton fLe very spot ,whiell is now the. Garden of the Luxembourg, where Jtilian was proclaimed Emperor by lii-. troops, and of a vast ceinetary winch extended from the Horse Alarket to different quarters of the fauxtionrgs Saint Jacques and Saint Marcel. He then proceeds to give an account of the Civil state of Paris tinder the Romans, whets this territory was go verned by two Prefects, 1/14e for the Parisian Navigators, the other for the Sa.'etiottiatts, a foreign Nita in who cilltivated the land between Paris and the Ili% et Cute. This state. of things, which- was at least tolerable; though not very desir• able, tootinned until the fall of the Raman Empire in - the West, at which disastrous - epoch the irruption of the Bat ha, riot's and the•occupation of Gaol by the Frani.s, destroyed. the rights of the towns - anti their-independent form of (36- vet ti intuit. The• fourth chapter contains a summary exposition of _the. state if Paris, tinder the first race of Frail 4 Kings. Clovis hating conquered a part of Gaol ft-nut the Goths and Borguti (lions, fixed his residence at . Paris in..sbs, where he died three years alt er, leaving four sons, Moo divided his Kingdom be tween them. One of his sous, Cioiltielseet, assoon-il the title of King of Paris, which descended to lois next heir, ClO thane, who died in 561. The latter left four children, 'Ulm tibert, Kin 4 of Paris, Goitttan , liiu g of Burgowty,'Sigebert, King of Metz, and Chilperic, King of Soissons. Thus tile Alowtrehy was again divided until when I ).te.obert re. maiiied'sole toaster of Gaul, and residetl'alutost constantly at Paris, tor near that capital. .11e was succeeded by his two sons, S,gebert 11. and Clovis it , bath orwhoin were theu liti-• der age. At that time the pourer of the Mayors of the Pa lace began to increase, to- the injary of the Itoril Authority. Sown atte - the Barons, Counts, and Daakes assumed the an thorny of the Sovei tign, governing' and oppressing - itie people . with impunity, without any other laws than the will ,t Ilse strongest. The Bishops, who had promoted-the ambitions views of the fruit 51..marell, and who had obtained from him great privi leges awl. riches, also usurped tlitor Share of the temporal authority, and took a prominent part in the atl,Cllllls W. 1 1 .5 waged against each other by the Princes of the first -dynasty, and in which, contrary to the principles of natiire, the son was-seen to contend in arms against his father, brother against brother, and the.uncle against his nephew. . " Nerri.theless, Christianity was already seated on the Throne to the Franks ; but, in the absence of all knowledge,. what moral influence could it be expected to possess ? The atotient worship was rather disguised titan abolished; and the new consisted only of a change of ritual observalices, in which the first Clirstiali Heroes wei - t substituted tor the Pagan Gads, by ;swans of a few legends, collested withmit any gehuisie belief in the truths of Christianity, and blindly adopted by the people. • • IVith regret M. Dulaure is compelled to relwe the fright ful picture of the usisfortuneS which .overwhelmed the Na tion, mid the oppressions under which the .people groaited, during the first dynasty of the Frank Kings. 'flie . ‘ruelties of Childelteet, the ungovernable passious oh - Fretlegotitle—ili a Ovoid, au uninterrupted series of Atrocious scenes which,, notwithstanding they are described by Gregory of Toots, and other cotempurary.writers, scarcely credible it we did not know that ignorance and the want of civilization can degrade man to the lowest degree... the filth •Cliapter,• the Author enter; on the second dynasty of the Frank Kings. The course tot the disorders of i lie preceding age was only suspended,-. - or rather abated .by the Comitiests and the Administ.:ation Acts of Chat !cologne. ('he taolocal vice yet existed in the ?monstrous form of the GO.. 011 tile nullity of the fttudainental institutions, and in the want of an egoilibrium betweeli the different Orders of the State. l'be form of Otiverinnent introduced by the Franks and Germans w.it atilt' preserved, and repro. ducat all the seeds of discord and violence. This Emperor tried in rain to restore Letters which bad (wen long loutish ed from leis States ; his efforts 'Doi). tended to prepare the mind for receiving civilization at a more distant period. He published a multitu d e "of laws which were badly executed during his life-tune, lint still worse by his feeble successors, . under : whom the Normans coat nun ted repeated 'and great ravages. Ile established in Gant private Schools ?sear the Episcopal residences, and Abheys. &c. P.iris a - as furnished with several, hot there were no - regular Professors,' nor had • it an •University before the reign of St. Lams. Ancient Lulelia having its the 911 i •troth Anti (;enturies ceased In he the residence of the Sovereign, lost initeh of its splendor and preponderance. It fell under the despotic rule of Counts, or Earls, and Vi . S.oollllt.S, two of whom-, Otho and Conrail, took noon them tl.e kingly title. These I).akes of France, anti Counts of Paris seized upon the richest :11/I.leyS, Anti Ilitell assumed the title of Mho, uniting in their own persons the . temporal and spiritual authority which th e y t ran s; nutted to their descendants. Hugh Cava t bus inliei it ed from' his fat her the Earldom of' Paris, the I)tietly of France and• several •:Ittsies, the large revenues of- which pared the way to the. Throne. 'rite other digoitaries„ Bishops or ;abbots, had usurped an unlimited jurisdiction, which they exercised in levying taxes - acid raising trootis, in op - pressing and plundering the frcehmlders, whom they compelled - to beat arms, or co:idea/tad to pay exorbitant fi n es. l'bey, . treated the..., btinew.en with 'mtg.. , -critelt) Iliau their do.;:ellic anl• mats: the whip, the rack, miltilltion, and death , were tin. .ordinary pl . ! nittnitentswhicti - these cinelar.ll pitiless masters I iiiffirVai on theft slfivet rot nit, sirglitcit iiff,.,-s ,'• .,... • . lii,tiorce•,lttilirmable thnei, ; ltisli. , . ~ .t 111//3L,1 dis Played till' niqst arrm.-.ant Itix.irv, and tra,stornied themselves trite fn - i'llridhli?e waiijors; itidulging in :Pt 0003 of liti'lltiotls6ess 'ind crack ici. ‘Vlien eminent .per , ona t :ei.:, who Otltr l 4 !t, hr 1:11t . ).de1.1 Of every .virttle,, lead such 5, , --andaly , is 1 ‘ iv.4.., can. we h. surprk , e - il iltai 'IN ba(i vx•tintitrs set hy titeir 5E , ,m1.1 IMO to de inoralixe all of lid' ',rant:S6f Prlclct ? The st,irs. tri..t,ed - .lty the NoC!es Were carried on at ll,e exi4)Ce of their yassals: . th., efctof s 0 ot:in clrt.. ei .1 in- their tarn, ogn:etateil the I'...'inirq:i'l • -. ~ • e of ;tit , wreLlied. '.l . lie lands every where . pillag•ed :Ind 1"0,1 .waste, , reinained noctictivated ; famine ant; the plagartput the.fitti•ltitiK, stithe to these seour!..es; 'and ill,the r space 0,t , :14 yeals We read e.I. 'tv.',..lve r ril)leble fautine4; ,arcompanied by revolt(( it harharitici, Silt! the app,ls (mice o f Se,,:i•Al•rlisor ! ler.. I -which bid neer: - I.itfi>re. been he•tril of. 'lii•sucti a slate of 111'1 . 11;4s,- commerce and agriculture ware annihilated, The ..11ark il s, of j, 1 ,,,,, r0 i c , ~yerspread the Whi.lc (If Gad!, and the 'pietntviif tliese tii...s 0111 y fails to be hidcotts, becatisi turfor -1 unately it ii hilt too trail. The hist (Ampler, and (vie of the mist important iii this V.ito ote , t xhibit s . th e st ate A f 'frraue under the Kings' of 'the third- ilyifasty; frion Hugh Collet, to Philip Aiigustus .Here the abundance of liisiiii teal rfuctuneirts itas diqermined the author to class the events pf this period under each suc cessive reigti, Iteaiithing witty . Robert IL surnained thei.ter7iott, who howerer Was in open hostility against. his,fult het, flitglt 'Capri, and against whom his own Milliken tool, up arins in their turn. Excommunicated by 11:e thunders . Of the Church fin having repudiated' his wife, be was not tle less ardent in fountlimg„,ieligions 'noinuments• ills t , igit, Mill that of the Princes who succeeded him, ex'ai 'it only a olisittre of Inithai Iry add super:titiuns. . 'il:c civil state of the king.- . (loin iiiiderjvcrit 110 sensible antenatal iiii, except Liiat the Mo narchs sot(' Jo stimelowns the right, which they could not however always grim - al:tee to -them, of governing themselves; buca)se the existence of the'rendal system : intestine wars, and the frequt"!tit incursions of I he'Normatis, Were eternal (lb .stacies to any «saint itiliolitiiiii. The. Criisarlei then began, and occasiutied the fustitution of the Knights Tim)plats, and the Order (if Saiht Sepulchre. Y.•t in the midst of these dirk cetifuries, the Capital Sent forth a ten gliminer , ings of light and 'Knowledge I front the .schoots of "the famous Ahelard and h's zealous 'flsciples.--, , `x race begun to be cultivated . because it led to 'honnitri, and while it mitigated file miseries of the times it ampunced the aurora of nipre serene days : thus out faithful Hi ,, tiCriat. 110111, i,,,t the. rt,r, ) t lint the progress of,civilization wilt reinter, limier his pencil, the picture of Manners fuss gloOnly and uttifhrtn. SPOI3.TING l i PELIAG ENCE, FOR. TILE PItEiENT '11)e Q.‘ortnicin' Manna.; nici , t on Wrilnt.sday, at -Widmer pool ; Ttiot , lay, at Winwswold ;• Satnr:l at Bunny. " 'llw. Pytchlel Hoonds,• 011 'Tuesday, at Lamport; Friday, at Badliv ; rday,,at Itthhtom, 'I he . htilitt: of Grafton's ll'ountis, on Wednesday,' at Gay. ton ; Friday, at Einford Wood. _ • ' • . _ The otl ley Hotta , ls, oi► l'iiursday, at Weston Wood ; Sa turday, at Ao..cood fluty. • Lard Aniaii's bounds, an Tiirscl-ty, at Draektow Fri day. at o.basta.a; Saturday, at Fishers Mill; Manday, at Sit itt ltridee. ' The tt'oree..tersiiire Fox [founds, on Weditestlay, at Kio fair ('iiitre ; Friday. at. Bvlltimitgliton %Tillage. The Eaki of Derby's titat; I:111110s meet on Tnestlay, at - Foxley; Thur3day, at the Hundred Acres; Saturday, at Ep som I).iwns. H. Jollillr, Esq.'s Fox Lionntis, on Wqdne“,lay, at Platt's Green; N,it.orday, ,at Chipsicati Cloud). The , urrey , F,;x 'Hounds, on T:11.1184.14y, at Ozted ; }';iiat VCII. • • • 'The flarricrOneet tvery day. . , • The Slieth rd Harrirr,, . . ..pi Frlday, at, Food I,old . clibronzzli's Fos Lion id,, %i'edneday, at Stain ton t% nod ; Friday, at (Irove The 14 . 41 X. 1401111,14,- on Toesday, at Sherwood Ball ; Tow .day, at SAydafi 1141; Y4atoi'daY: at Ilickletott. The tlatticid Harriers, OLI \‘'dnesd.t:', - , at lioiry r Friday. at Hatt:itid. DESTfiUcTION OF TIII. CA-x . roN PRIN I'ING-OFFICE; LIVERPOOL 1 This extensive building, situate on Copperas. 1 hill, has, we.are sorry to state, been.. t;ompletely destroyed by fire, with nearly the whole of the stock it contained. The following, .as far as we have been able to collect them, are the particu- Lars or this sad catastrophe. Tuesday morning, between one and two o'clock, as the captain of the watli as gain ;.his round, he discovered lire to- issue from a window in the north-end, of the building. lie immediately gate an Rhino,' and a crowd soon coll- , cied on the spot. From the first, the destruction of the premises appeared inevitable. The lire raged with' extraordinary violence,, and spread with- amazing rapidity through the whole range of the building. The paper 'in the different rooms fed., the flames, and, in little more than half an horn` after the discovery of the accident, the three upper stories were in a perfect blaze. The devouring element soon worked its way downwards to the third story, and.about three -o'clock the whole of this immense pile of buildings presented one sheet of flame. The roof fell in soon afterwards. • Very little of the immense stock on these ex terilive premiSes has been saved. The .contia gration was- too rapid to allow time or opportu nity for saving any considerable part of it. Cop : - per-plates -to a considerable amount, have, how ever, been saved, as well as . most of the account books, bills c 4 parcels, &c. Some paper:was also saved, but, in so daniaged . a. state as to '1).: unfit for. use. MI the types and Presses are dent We have not heard how this 'awful calamity originated. son - of Mr. Fisher went, as usual, through the different rooms, between eight and nitre o'clock, and 'at that time all was safe.— The building was heated by steam, and the man who attended the engine alSo . went round the rooms, without a candle, and he too found all safe. It is supposed the calamity was caused by the snuff from a candle, which, being thrown care lessly on the flotir, or left burning in the 'snuffers, after stwnildering for several hours, set fire to some pk!per near it, and eventually involved the premise: in flames. • The establishment thus unfortunately destroy ed was• the most extensive publiCation warehouse in the United Kingdom. The stock and Pre thises'were insured for 36,000/. ; but weknoW not whether this -sum will cover the actual loss. By the calamity, nearly one hundred . indiiduals are deprived of the means of-gaining a livelihbod by their industry.—(Leeds Mereuu.) . • Lord C.ISTLERENGII gave a 'splendid entertain- Ment yesterday, at his house, St. James'-s.squ'are, to upwards of forty distinguished Members of the . Holltie,Of Commons, including several of the Cabinet Ministers. The 85th regiment.Witl march into Portsmouth garriAon, from Brighton, in a few days, and em bark for the Mediterranean. Fro , n the mildness of the season, vegetation is scarcely ever remembered in so forward,a state as at present. In the gardens round. London,' the lilac trees are generally in bloom; and primroses have been cried about the streets. , Several dogs have lately been affected with hy drOphohia in the City of Exeter and its vicinity, in consequence of which the Mayor has ordered all dogs to be confined for at least a month. LlTta_litY and scusTivic, INTELLiorNer. • .• . tntot4 ifitthitri souFicLs.i • . RdYAL SOCIETY LITERATUIt.t.--lliS a. jest;: has intrusted the fdrmation of this instittt• to the •lerlied. find eminent_ Dr, Thomtti • Blirgesi - , - Bishop. of St: liairid's: diet' bra.nche of the Royal .have becorrte 66bscribets Min oiSte ,give.. their aid v ; many of, thP'most angst - 4404 atnotig ti x e cincl,ir in proinat in,,,i,the plan ; and the leading Meedberi of ,both Utiivcrsities are- among ; . its frietidS., 'Vhe s . fund are. already cons 4 al lerle.; 11isMajegty-may be cosi4eteci as. the personal as ..wO.l Founder and Patron. of the Society. .'Tie first Prize Questions to lie phlitised . ae as follow Pronititiisfiw the l'eui - s alit/ 1822. . 1. The Pretniain of O' th 1.1 'Endre 1 Guinects, for the hest,dissertation on the a,ge, triti;igc; and"genius of 2 .4orner •;• arta en the Stutz of Society; - l'raearnin4; and the. Arts, during that period; .colleCted ,froni titre writhip of Hower: . • 2. The Society's Premium. of Fijiy. G fiinea s, for..the be.'3t. Poem 011,17artnioar. . 3.. The Society's Premium ~ O f :Tre - entj. : fiz.s4 Guilieas,...ft4 the hestl.lsSay on the liiitory of the Greek Lanfinit,9,- . e. of 'the -present iian-guage of Greece, especially in< the lonian Islands ; and on the ditlerence between Ancient and MOdern Greek. . . . .. H W omta.—lt is knon that the first Manuscript.; from whiCh the Editions of Homer Were Made, is : of no-later date than . the 10th centiiry - :' - 4 recenC discovery has' taken place in the 'Ambrosian Li. brary -at Alilan, of a ' inanuScript, consisting of several fragtrints of the Iliad, which appears tti : be of the 4th century s b e i ng a b ou t Si x .hund red years more ancient. than the f ormer . The cha-; , racters.are all capit a ls, - an d o f a S quare fdr m , s i= milar to those of the most refitted agt , s; Without distinction of. words, and witty - . 4 aceents, - or any indica.tions of'modern orthography. 'This Matta.; script is embellished with sixty paintings 'on irel-; Inm., equally antiqcie ; the subjects represent the principal passages of the Iliad. ' M. Angelo Maio,- Professor at the Arribrosian: College, has caused the mantiscript.tO be printed in ,one volume, with engravings from the picture and the ,numerous - Scholiae which accompany them. ~ KRAUSE'S ' ILLUSTRATIONS or IlUmte..-Pro 4 fessor Krause, of Gottingen, has written and added a sixth volume to an unfinished work., comprisin2; Notes and Illtistrations on Homer's Iliad. The fist five volumes have been repeatedly reprint ed ; .new editions of them have appeared at Bonn and Hanover, .and the sixth volume. completes the whole series of Note's. They are stated to bear the impress of profound eru: dition. •• A similar commentary is • preparing on the Odyssey. . . h SCHOLIA ON JUTENAL.-=-114, Cramer, Counsul lor.of State of Keil, has published‘certain pass , ages of a curious M.S. which -he found two years ago ..in -the library of the convent of St Gall. It, is of the eleventh- century, and. consists of Scholia upon Juvenal ; they have the character of being. superior in value and'-eorreciness to any others now known. This programme ! which .was composed on occasion Of a fete given, by the :King of Denmark, h as th e titl e of Speci men 210VW Editionis scholiitstre iuvenalig. RESTORATION OF P:AtNTINGS. The white usel in oil painting: is .generally prepared froin lead; and forms the basis of many other 'pigments., and is extremely liable to turn brown or black, when affected by sulphureous vaPours. M. The• nard, of Paris, has restored a painting of Raphael's, thus injured, :by means . of oxygenated water. applied with a pencil, which instantly took out the spots, and restored the whi:e. The fluid was so weak, as to contain not more than five o r six times its volume of oxygen, and had ito taste: ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.—The late eclipse,-:con. ,trary to the calculations of astrOnotheyS, — „Wa3 annular at Florence for the space Of 1 min. 44'sec. The end of the eclipse took plade in that: city at 4h. 26 win. 6 sec. ;- that is 34 sec. 'after the time predicted by the astronomer Carlini, .and 28 sec. after that calculated by-Bridessor Lipari. LoNaEvrrir,The Foreign Journals give the following extraordinary statement:— The tables of .Longevity published fOr the year 1817, in the. Russian Empire, giVe the fol• lowing results : Amongst 828,561 Persons who have dieci,.all belonging to. the Greek Church, there appear: to have been as follows :--, I Aboie . 140 : 1 do. . 1:-15 7 db. . 130 21 do.• . 125 Gil do. . • 120 . 83 do. 113 . . 763 do. . 100 . Years of Age: do. du. do. The banks of Lake Chaniplain, in thelinited States of America, afford an instance of longevity which has seldom been equAled since the period of Holy Writ; the individual alluded to Is a German by birth, aged 135 years. This yene rable character belonged to Quceti "'AS Guards, at her Coronation in the year. 170, at which time he was 18 years old; and Navin served to the end .of the war, - he then \vent to America. He is still robust, and very strong ; he, sees and hears perfectly, and has still pro : - served his hair.; lie has a soldier-like air, and proud of his temperance, in having always ati. . stained, from spirituous liquors. His youngest son is 27 years of age, so that he was born when his father was 108 years old. The above coin. munication is frOm a-Mi.sSionary, and therefore its correctness cannot be doubted. Lady CAmpfirr.t. left the Admralty House,: Portsmouth, on Wednesday morning, with the , Honourable - Sir CirAnLEs PAGFrr, for his seat. Fair - Oak, slants, and thence to 'the Ranger's_ Lodge at Richmond. Rer Ladyship gave twenty guineas, on her departure, to be distribut4 among the poor. - Stanage Park,. near Shropshire, „ is said to have at this time more tide . plantations of of growing tiinber trees, particularly of oak, than any demesne of equal extent in the kingdom. Within a very few years mare th.,:n. half a million has been planted there.