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to the sale of Old Stores, by ttie departments of the Navy and Ordnance, such sales having been effected by private bargains or private contracts. Though he wished a return froth the Navy Beard, he believed all sales in that department took place by public competition. He did understand that a contrary practice existed fir the Ordnance department. Ile did not think that any Public' Board could act upon a system of private contracts, fit the-sale of public property, with safety. It had been the custom 40 or 50 years ago,and was ap plied to the most corrupt purposes. He should then contine himself to the motion, that there be laid_ before the House an Account of all Naval Old 'Stores sold under the authority of the Navy Bourd by private contract' or private bargain, specifying the provisions, the prices, the names of .The purchasers - for the years 1815-16.; - 1,7-IS- 1 ...9-20. And the like account for the same periods for the Ordnance. . Mr. W.san - did not rise to oppose the moe tioe, with an exception' to one particular part, which he should explain,—Sonme sales had taken place in the Department of the Ordnance ir , :ier private contracts, by which time was seiven to the purchasers, and the Board bound itself not to divulge the names of the purchasers, or the terms, until the expiration of that period. E lie agreed with the Hon. Member (Mr. Grenfell) that public competition was the most desi:able, . for every public Board, reserving to itself a discretionTof adopting a private sale, where the interests of the public recommended that course. He had.no objection on the part of the Depart .•rtent with which he was connected, to pledge - himself to that system. Ile only wished at pre : it , :nt to except from the' return sought by the pre ent motion, those contracts Which had been ef fected undera temporary secresy. Sir T. B. MARTIN stated that public competi tion was the 'uniform practice in the sale of old stores by - the Navy Board. There was an ex .et-Ftioh in a case where public competition was , frst tried, but where more advantageous terms to the public were obtained by private bargains. • Mr. GREN FELL did not-find any fault with such an arrangement, when it was the only mode they • could obtain. He wished no violation of the vAlic faith with respect to those contracts to which . a temporary secresy was pledged. -He trusted, however, that the Honourable Gentle .nean (Mr. Ward) Would have no objection to furnish an enumeration of -those contracts, in Which the stipulatiosinot to divulge, for a certain time, the names of the parties, was pledged. Mr. Alderman Woon wished to know how long it would be before the time for not divulg "inz the contracts of Mr. Samuels .and another p= sea would expire ? • Mr.-R. WARD was understood to say in August next year. Aft, r a few words from Mr. Alderman atisG-Es, and some farther observations from Mr: GRENTELL and Mr. R. WARD, the motion respecting the Navy Stores was agreed to with out amendment ; and that relative to the Ord nance; with the amendment moved by Mr. R. BANK ACCOUNTS. Mr. GeltEtirELL moved for accounts of the ba lances in the bands of the Bank, and a long series of accounts of Bank Notes, Bank Pest Bills, and Exchequer Bills,in circulation at various periods.— Q:d&ed. AFRICAN COMPANY. Mr. GOULBURNrose to move. for leave to bring in a Bill for abolishing the African Company. It was not meant by this measure to bring any charg3 against the Gentlemen forming that Corn par:y.. .1t did not originate iu any feeling that they had misapplied the means confided to their care, but from various reasons it appeared de sirable that. the business heretofore managed by them should be transferred to the Colonial De parlirsent. He movefl for leave to bring in a Bill to-Lbolisb the African Company, and trausfer'to ,his Majesty ali the possessions and forts hereto fere - vested in them. Mr. MARRY . A.I'T said, they had lately heard much of the injustice of considering those guilty who had not been tried, but in the present case the General Court of the African Company was treated as guilty after a trial, and after a most ho ne,drable trial, before a Committee. of that House in 1817. In that year a Committee, after a most laborious inquiry, had recommended that the Company should still be continued, and he could .wish to know what had since transpired, to induce Ministets to take a course direct ly opposed, to that decision. He knew that a report had since been made by a gallant OtFacer (Sir G. Collier) in which they were s l oe), ken of in the highest terms. He also knew that they had sent an expedition to the interior of Africa which had completely succeeded, and established a correspondence with the King of .Ashantee, from which they were likely to obtain more correct - information reSpecting the interior of Africa than had ever been obtained before.— This had been aCcornplished at a very small ex pealfe, while all the xpensive expeditions sent vat from Sierra Leone had failed. He was at a Joss to know - on what data this Measure Was grounded. 'Unless some new facts had transpired 1817, unfavourable to the Company, he coa;d not see the wisdom; of removing them from the situations which they had filled with equal credit - to themselves (as was in fact admitted by the Hon. Gentleman Ilimself) and advantage to the Country. • Mr. GoanoN had been a Member of the two Committees which inquired into the affairs of the African Company. They had decided for continu ing the sovereignty (so. he might call it) in the bands of the Company, .merely because they had bait a choice of difficulties. When. it was con tended that taking away their power was in ef fect a sarraaan ou-the country, it ought to be re membered that the Company was originally estate - Wished to encourage the Slave Trale; so when that was abolished, it might reasonably be ex .pected that the Company would be abolished also. He believed advances to .the amount of 30,0001. had been made to the African Com pany.; A saving of expeusa might now be effect ed. The salaries of 1001. to each of 'the Mem bers, .and 3001. to the Secretary of the' Company might be rediqed 2 wad the business could as well. be performed by the Colonial Department. He would call the attention of the Honourable Mem ber (Mr. Marryatt) and of the House to a pas sage in the Report of the Committee, which recommended the keeping up of the African Company and its establishment, upon the ground of expected advantages which might arise from their commercial and geographical discoveries. Now he certainly thought it a vain hope, that any advantages which might be gained upon that station, in a commercial point of view, should be equal to the expense at which the Company was maintained. With respect to the fears, that the present Bill was likely to be a dangerous increase to the power of the Crown, howevel jealous he might be of the extension of that power, yet he could not see how Court patronage could be much benefited by the appointment of a Governor to an African fort. And he did not conceive that any of bur young aspirwnls in diplomacy would be inclined to a residence in Tombuctoo. He should support the introduction of the Bill, but desired not to be considered as pledged to it thereby, or prevented from opposing any part of it when it came in de tail before the House. Mr. W. gNIITH wished the Hon. Member who had taked upon him the advocacy of the Af rican Company, would go back beyond the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and see what the Company had clone to compensate for the ex pense at which it had been supported during the last century ; what it had done, either in procuring information respecting the commerce, or the produce of the country. He would find that neither this country nor the natives of Africa had derived the least advantage from it whatever. The forts themselves were not fitted for any - purpose of defence, neither were they calculated to inspire the native Chiefs or Kings with any high respect for the English Government. He only regretted that such a measure as the present had not been adopted some years sooner, as it might have saved a useless and unnecessary expense. _ _ Mr. WiLuer.FotteE said, that to facilitate the objects connected with the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and the progress of civilization, it was not only expedient, but indispensable that the Go vernment should have the sole direction of the affairs usually transacted by the African Company. Mr. Go u I.nu as replied. The motion was then agreed to. On the motion of Mr. GouLs t uns, it was or dered, that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on Friday next, for granting a rea sonable allowance to such persons as should not he continued in th 4, management of the said forts, or retained in the service of Government. Mr. J. P. GIANT moved, that certain Papers be laid on the table, containing Accounts of the Funded and Unfunded Debts, and the Charges relative to the same.—Ordered. NEW SOUTH VALES ACT. On the motion of Mr. GOULBURN, the House resolved itself into a Committee for considering the Act of the 9th CT l eo. 111. relative to the Du ties of New South Wales, and the propriety of continuing continuing the same. The Resolution was agreed to, and leave given to bring in a Bill to that effect. AVERAGES OF CORN. Mr. ROBINSON gave notice, that he would, On Monday next, move for a Committe'e to take into consideration the Acts of the ROth, 44th, and 45th of Geo. 111., and submit a motion on the present mode of striking the average price of Corn. -The other Orders of the Day were then dis posed of, and the House adjourned at TE N O'CLOCK. THE LONDON JOURNALS. (DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.] [Morning Chronicle.] Though the account of the passage of the Po on the c2.9th ult. seems in some measure confirm ed by a variety of paragraphs in the French and German Papers, doubts are still entertained of its truth ; for, as by.the course of post direct in formation from Milan might have been received in England ten days ago, it is concei'ved,that had the event taken place on the 29th, we should, long ere now, haveheard of it by that channel. A little time will serve to clear up these doubts. Every re flecting man who considers with attention the con duct of our Government, the Circular of Lord Castlereagh, and the language held in the House of Lords by Lord Liverpool, must see that Mi nisters have not merely favoured, but actually laboured to promote the views of Austria, though, while they admitted the right of Aus tria and the other Italian States to interfere in the internal affairs of Naples (" provided only that they were ready to give every rea sonable assurance that their views were not directed to personal aggrandisement"), they felt themselves obliged, for form's sake, to protest against the general doctrine of interference laid down by the Holy Alliance. Austria, we suppose, is ready to assure us, that she has no views of territorial awandisament ; and she may therefore enter Naples when she pleases, with their good will. When Buonaparte entered Holland and Switzerland, he had always a protestation ready, that he entertained no views of territorial ag grandisement ; and when the Batavian and Hel vetic Authorities were obliged to dance attend ance at Paris, Batavia and Helvetia were nomi nally independent. There is no arguing with those who can believe that if Austria take mili tary possession of Naples, and dictate to that country what government it shall have, Naples will not be to all intents and purposes as much subject to Austria as Holland or S wit±erland was to Buonaparte. [British Press.] The Allies, in conjunaion with the degraded king (A Naples) act with reference to NaFles, as suitably enforced by the mode in which they ha ye undertaken to execute their projects. It hail been previously supposed that 'the Allies would have afforded to the Parliament and people of Naples some alternative, whereby they might, by prudence and moderation, escape the misery of a foreign and hostile invasion ; and it was even reported that the Duke de Gallo' had beea trusted with a certain proposal from the Congress of Laybach to the Parliament, for modifying the Constitution that had been previously adopted. No alternative, however, has been offered; the Allies proceed at once to extreme violence,• and no matter with what sentiments of good faith, moderation, or wisdom the mass of the people of Naples may chance to be influenced, the whole nation must pay the penalty of their pre sumption in daring to seek for freedom, and submit to the presence of an insulting enemy. — No sub►:►ission can ward off this dreadful visi tation, the Allies are determined to give the Ne apolitans a surfeit of revolutions, and nothing will satisfy them until they have elevated the standards of the Holy Alliance over the towers of San Elmo, or ostentatiously extended the pro tection of the Austrian tiag over the King's Palace from the neighbouring castle, to which it has long and habitually looked for succour and defence. [Tice Times.] Petitions are now pourin g into the two Houses of Parliament, complaittingof the distressed state of agriculture. It is a satisfaction to be able to complain, and to excite even barren sympathy ; and we fear it is not likely that much further good can result from these petitions. The House of Commons cannot create, by artificial means, that demand for the first necessaries of life which should remunerate those who produce them up to the ex tent of their wishes or the calls of their necessities ; and even could the price of grain be thus raised, the House cannot by any legislative act render the con suming population, now so impoverished, compe tent to purchase corn at a high price. At present, when the corn is comparatively cheap, are the poor too highly fed; or mechanics and manufac turers too well paid That which Government can do, without any violation of faith to the pub lic creditor, is to diminish taxation by reducing expenditure : and the effect of every measure of this kind would no doubt be immediately felt, both by the agricultural interest and the whole community. But Ministers have no par tiality for this mode of relieving the general sufferings. It seems to us that the petition ers have injudiciously changed the subject of their complaint. They and others some time ago called out against the pressure of the public burdens. In that case we think they were right ; they correctly specified the cause of their grievances ; and the Minister was in error who superciliously imputed to them " an igno rant impatience of taxation." But from the change /which their complaints have taken, we think the same Minister would now be justified in logic, though not in humanity, if he should charge them 46 with an ignorant impatience of distress ;" for though they feel the distress, they overlook the cause by which he and his colleagues occasion it. _FOR THE SUN. Mn.: EDITOR—Many persons have fancied themselves much interested in the question whether the QUEEN should be prayed for in the Liturgy ; and, among them, no small number who certainly care nothing for the QUEEN or the Li turgy, except so far as they max be employed to create some embarrassment to the Government. Large and increasing majorities in the House of Commons, have, it may be hoped, put ' an end to these attempts ;. and though some may murmur at those decisions, all must ultimatelyperceive the justice of them. But, Sir, I would fain ask that part of the QUEEN'S Ad mirets who really do pray, or wish to pray, what injury is done to them ? Can they not still pray for her, seven times a-day, if their hearts incline them to it ? There is no inspection into their private closets, nor, if there were, would any inspector make objection to an occupation so truly charitable. If they can not pray for her in Church, assistYdby the voice of the Minister, they may pray out the whole fervour of their devotion in the peaceful retirement of their chambers. Most edifying should I think the sight, if, like Don Cleofas, I could peep into the apartments of her legal Advisers, and see them on their knees, praying that she may yet be endued with all those virtues which even their must suspect her to want. Even their own defects or faults may suggest the subject of their prayers. I can imagine some of them praying for an in crease of modesty jointly for themselves and her ; some for the grace of loyalty ; some humbly begging even for a little com mon honesty ; for the gift of sobriety, of continence, and man; other virtues, of which they must feel the want in themselves, and may possibly suspect it in her. How pious "a Nation should we soon become, if all her Addressers should thus begin to occupy themselves. The example would be irresistible and the omission in the Liturgy would no longer ke felt, when every one who wished for her name in thatplace;was conscious of having offered much more enlarged and fervent supplications for her in private. There would be no sedition in all this, nor any thing ap proaching or leading to it ; .anti though I am not so ready to believe impossibilities as some of her Majesty's friends, de- dare that there is no Petition in which I would more fervently join, than in those which should tend to . make our present Queen bear any, even the slightest, resemblance to the Queen whom we have not yet ceased, to regret. 1 am, Sir, your's . TURG ICUS. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS: HOUSE OF COMMONS. Maras, 20° Pie Februarii, 1821 I CHURCZIES.—Petition for leave to present a Petition for a Bill for Croston Chura. AGILICULTITRAL Drs•rnEss.Petitions complaining of, from Truro and other parts of Cornwall, Northleach, Chel . thenham, Doncaster, County of Warwick, Alcester, Stow on the Wold, and Repton and Gresley. THAMES LAST AGE AND BALLAST Ordered to be read a BILL. f second time. • T174.13E11. DoTlEs.—Petition from Liverpool, in favour of. ABSENcE.—Leave of, given to Lord Clive and Mr. Mills, for a •month . . Hum. Poon. RATES.—Petition from Thorne against. CIEURCII BRIE'S.-11111 to regulate—ordered. Copts A vEitAGEs.—Aets relating thereto read ; Committee on ' - Monday. EAST INDlA.—Annual Regulations ordered to be printed. - ELECTIONS.—PETERSFIELD Borough, Petition of Appeal on the Right of Election, fixed for the 22d of May-next. PRICE 01 THIS DAT AT TV STOCKS it EFS E O'CLOGN. 3 per Cent. Ral ' 73 ki 5 per Cent. Navy Ann....1.011 . Ai 3 per Cent. Cons. 7lll India Bonds 4os. 41s. pr. 4 per Cent , 9 t Exekegter Rills 5 3 pr. Bank Long Ann. 18 13-16ths • Consols for 28th inst.... 72Agt 15-16ths HIGH WATI AT LONDOI N . Nriting f 2 wittotts alter 4. 1 IN BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I Evening, 14 minutes aitur 4 COURSE OF EXCIIANGi., F. 20. Artiste' darn , ' It 9 C. F. Ditto, at Sight • .:: Rotterdam l2 to Antwerp., l2 10 Hamburg!' 33 2 li I7s ,Mona Paris, 3 !)ay's 3ight Ditto nourdeaux, ditto Frankforton the Pain Niad rid. cadir l3illfua BaTcriona Seville (4itiraitar Effect iv, : 4 5 Elfcctivt . _ Leghorn . 464 Cl3e.lioa .13i-Veniee, ital. I,iv. E 7 60 Nialta 45 --N api es :..0= 4. Palermo Lisbon Oporto 49i itioJaneiro Dublin s , Cori; 8 per Cunt. BULLION. Portugal Gull, in Coin 1.0 0 0 per Oz Foreign Gold, in Bar; 3 17 10k New 6001)100 - ns ... .... 0 0 0 New Doßari 0 4 101 Silver in Betts, Standard 0 4 113 In the Court of Chancery yesterday, the Loud) CHANCELLOR ordeod the case of Queen's Col lege to staMd till Thursday se'nnight, intimating t hat he would on that day dispose of it. riutlE SUN. SOLB:11 OVIS:DICI! - ;11E FALSUM AUDE.IT, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1821. We have nothing more to say on the subject ' of Naples, and it will be just and candid in all parties to suspend their opinions till farther and authentic intelligence is received respecting the conduct of Austria in her future proceedings. Though the Allied Powers concur in the mea sures which Austria has adopted, yet the world at large have a right to more knowledge on the subject than those Allies have hitherto thought proper to impart, and it ought to be a strong ground of necessity, indeed, which will justify one State in taking possession of another. But the Opposition in this Country have obviously adopted the subject as a party question, merely to vent their spleen against Ministers, in order to bring disgrace on Government, and to raise them selves into place and power. They declaim upon the distress of the Country as brought upon it by a war which, however burthensome may be its consequences, was a just: • and necessary war, and which overthrew a despotism that menaced the overthrow of all independent States, and the reduction of Europe under the dominion of France. It is time, therefore, that Great Britain should be permitted to recover itself, and turn to domestic relief and improvement ; but the spirit of Party will not let it, and whatever may be the motives of Opposition, their arguments, or rather their declamatory effusions, have no other tendency than to prolong the agitation of subjects which unsettle• the minds of the people, to interrupt the business of the Nation, to excite intestine divisions, and to plunge us into all the evils of a continental war. SUN-OFFICE, HALF-PAST Two. COUIIT OF KING'S BENCIL—The Jury, after retiring for two hours, pronounced a verdict of Guilty against Mr. J. HUNT, the Proprietor of The Examiner, Sunday Newspaper, for publish ing a Libel of and concerning the House of Commons. BANDITTL-One of the numerous hordes of Ruffians which infest the mountains between Rome and Naples, has actually made an attack on the Town of Terracina ; and succeeded in surprizing the College for the education of youths in that city. The Superior, an Ecclesias tic, was slain, and f►fteen boys carried off by the banditti, who from their fastnesses have sent to demand a sum, amounting to nearly nine thousand pounds, sterling, for their release, and report-- afterwards asserted, that these mon sters had sent two heads to accelerate the termi nation of the negociation. SHOCKING AND FATAL EvEsrs.lN - Man Several families, moving in the first - circles ifs high life, have just been thrown into a state of the nt- most affliction, by the horrible depravity of a young man, the nephew of a Peer of the first consequence, who, in remorse of conscHice for acts the Most shocking, has terminated his .own existence, by blowing ont his brains. The de ceased was on a visit in the family of a Noble man ; and, while an inmate, he (horrible to re lats) seduced two of the daughters of his host, who both proved pregnant. Unable to .bear,' the stings of conscience,' he terminated his existence with a pistol. Letters, containing the distressing particulars arrived in town on • Monday last, in consequence of which the intended Assembly, at a certain great house, loss been ,postponed, and the inmates are plunged into unutterable grief.— The seduced Ladies are -both under age. One of them, it is said, attempted to destroy herself with Poison, when the shocking discovery took place.—(Morning Post.) BRIGHTON, FEU. 9.—The KIN T., in excellent health, has taken his salutary garden promenade to-day, and the Princess AuausTA, attended by Lady MARY TAyLoa, her usual carriage airing befo:e dinner. SOCIttY for. BUILDING CIIURCIIItg, &c. On Monday last a Monthly Meeting of the Committee of the Society for promoting the largement and building of ChurCheS - and-Ghapols, was held at No 32, Lincoln's inn:fields. It watt attended by .his Grace the Archbishop of C:1-; TERBU IC (who presided), the Lord BiAoit of London, Lord, Kenyon, the Hon. Mr, Justie Park, and many other distinguished persons Several grants of 001. and under were made to.; wards promoting the important ohject of the Society. The Society has now been formed three yours; and although it has only been in active operation for two nears and a hair, it has been the means of providing additional accommodation in parish churches for no less thau forty-four thonFand hundred and twenty persons, of which number thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty ara free and unappropriated. Another important and beneficial - effect of the operations of this Society is, thatit has as akened the attention of the public to the lamentable de ficiency of church room in every part Orthe dom; to which may perhaps be attributed in a great degree, that impiety and disloyalty which -intva widely diffused their poison among - certain Cla4ses of society. Nor could - any other effect he expecteci, 'when the great bulk .of our population has so long been 'excluded from the exercises of a rational piety, and a soand instruction in the doctrines anal duties of Christiiinity within the . palo of our ve nerable Establishment. We hope, therefore, to see the Society con thine its efforts; for though Nro do riot dispa rage any of the exertions of the other Societies Ict - Comiexioit 'with the Church, for, promoting a sound and Useful education, the circulation of the -.Holy Scriptures . , or any other methotil connected with the temporal and spiritual welfare of the people ; we may ferariess;y assert, that the system, of beueficent opera tions must be laCnentably deficient, until means shall have been made applicable to -remedy th 4, great want of pastoral superintendence-,' and of places set apart for the public worship of A'_ mighty God, according to the rites of the Churcit of England. SHIP NEWS. DEJi., Fen. 20.—Came down from the River, -and. a tit, the Retrench, Trott, for Tenerific; and Adelia,. Froat, • for :Marseilles,—Sailed the whole of the autward-bound.—Arrived and remain the Scipio, Sims, and Rambler, Knight, from T.1.;.- ragona ; and the Duke of York, from St. Michael's.. PORTSMOUTH, FEE. 20.—Arrived the Ilasg, David n. from Fiume; Lond.on Packet, Tracy, from London for Poe ton; Defence transport from the . River ; •and Fox ditto from the Downs.—Passed by down 'channel, the Veuisittartt Dal rymple, for Bombay and China. PLYMOUTH, Fan. 19—Arrived the, Zcpile, Davis, ff'orn Smyrni.—Sailed the 'Margaret, Revel, for Falmouth • Helena, Adey, for Poole; and Harriet, Cumirw,' -kr Bt. The schooner Royal George, Steel, from'Ross for London, in • attempting to pus to sea s morning, 1.-,m aground on tho Breakwater. The cargo has. been taken out, and the vese4el is expected to begot off - without much dams e. - HARWICH, FEB. ?O.—Arrived the'llli:aztr.lth and Ann, Rid ley, from: Retterdamto Newcastle ; with' trifling damage, and a broken anchor. Sailed the. Thetis packet, with a mail, for Gottenburgh. NORTIt SHIELDS, Frn..l9.—The Modesty, Miller, boolur to Yarmouth, got on shore on Snoter Pohlt, but was. got - Off next tide.. GitAvEsr - sio,-FMR. 20.—Sailcd the Charlc.'s (Trim ; &ort, for China; sad Orpheus, Finlay, for the Mauritius. Dlrr I•` - MAAILTIME.PRE311031F, 01" I.IfOTMANCr. At Lloyd's, the present premium from London to ;he Medi terranean is 3 - ss. per cent. whereas the pnrnium of the Inatr once Offices at Malta, from . list October to 3•14 t March, from that Island -to Great Britain and Ireand, was 'fixed at fawn 3 to 3.3 per cent. nearly double for.what the Instranee. can be Mi e eted n London. Other premiums at Malta were, as fol low :—From Malta to .Gibral'ar, 1..; to 1 per cent.—Ditto tv C3e;:h, 1 to 2 per cent.—Ditto, to lisbon, 24 to. 3 per cent , Ditto to Sweden and Denmark, sto per cent. FORRIGN TRADE.—The witnesses examined yesterday before this Committee werr, Mr- THOMAS TOORE, and ------- Q./LOWELL, Esq. ceiver-General of Lower Canada. THE THEATRE.--The excellent old Corned? of The Chances . , which used to be o'n6 cff th ° Stock-pieces of the London-Stage, was last idg't brought forward at Covent Garden Theatre lu the form of a musical' drama , , , and reduced into three acts, for the- introduction of songs, glee" , &c. Two of SHAKESPEARE'S plays. have ander gone the same transmographkation. We should enter our protest against this Mangling of pieces* which have received the.sanction of time and cri tical admiration, but that' the state . of the Patent theatres, and the taste of the town, which: eons now to have a strong bias in favour of music* render it necessary for manager 3 to try all m odes , most likely to attract an a idienco. The- piece is now called Don John ; or, tine Tito Violefla 3- Why the person who has tinkcred this st:FlO r : old Comedy should have - changed the name 01. the Constan - tias to Violettas he best knowF, but - there seems to 'be . no reasonable, cause, a s COfiSiaraia is the name identified of the two characters, and the alteration is ridiculous. On this occasion a young Lady, named JIALLANDE)i made her first appearance. Itc-port . tract at' pounced her as' atranscendant 61ager, but her fears were so great that it is hardly possli on ie tG judge of her powers in a situatioe, so ugibr i ng• Her voice seems to be extcilive tlnd powerful) particularly in the lower tones, and, as fay a 5 a candid judgment could be formed, sh:t seems likely to, prove an acquisition of no ordinary me" rit. Miss ST'EPHENS, in one of the played good talents as an actress, gs well as 'res t , ones as a singer. Mr. C. KEMELF:i ease, spivit , and humour, in Don: cannot be ton highly praised. Messrs.. JOXES in Frei/crick, and -11 , "" f TON iSI Fractiosa, - were also v e ry str o ng props °f the Piece, which was so very favour a bly receive", as to promise a successful career. Tiru DUEL AT CHALK' PAR.M.----A Hcaran res were yesterday morning so favourable in M r- Scores case, that his medical attendants ro w ' consider him' out of danger. He is, however, I " dueed to a state of the greatest debility, from tnc course which it was considered advisable to adol' t to prevent inflammation. , • . LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTA IRS, of No. "c':l. Ore: t Ormond -street, Queen-sva;- ; nod publirdwd by ( 4 ' 11 , . SCRIPPS, of No. 7, Solftb. Molton-sczat, wt tae TVI Orr it; f:, No. 112, Strand ; where` AT) ras ftrtsv T./17'f OILDEUti : LETTER (130:4-ilaici) mut. ;-adrcl'i""