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I 4 I -:-',, ...y. , ,,- -- ~---, s ; -....,4 — A' : l i :S -- A...W, ---- , ,z..;,,-;___,—, -74 -- •••-t...„:„,„:„. „ - „, ....s, . , .-iitir , t, ~ • ._. . ~a~~ -Tf; • ~...- . 7-7`).1. . ~,,-'," ; * c J' s /- /4 1,2 A„i,,,/ / ..," ~ , ~ c„,,5e,..e,/, '- • ' 7 ,-,,, r C." if t '‘.. , " ' /- • / - -e c NUMBER -9066.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1821. PRIC S EVENPENCB. FOR , 411.1X4 D METeIL SCUTTLE LIDS. Navy-Office, Sept. 14, 1821. T E PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and CO M.; MISSIbNERS of HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY do 11 " e6 .9 g . 7 . ve sVottce, that on THURSDAY, the 27th Instant, 4 : One o'Cloch, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying his Majesty's Yards at beptfurd and iVoolwich with MIXED METAL SCUTTLE LIDS, for Oval Illuminations. 4 Pattern of the Scuttle - Ling, and a Form of the Tender, "ay be seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after ° "e o'clock on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party, or an Agent for him, attends. E 'er.; Tender must be accompanied by a Letter ad dressed to the Navy Board, and signed by a responsible .Person, engaging to become bound with the Personetender int,i.c the Sum of 2031. fur the due performance of the Contreci. is to give notice, that in Pursuance of Directions from .tbe COMMISSIONERS for VIC TUALLING HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, I shall be ready at t his place, ouTUESISAY the 25th inst., to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), from such Persons as will undertake to Purchase the HIDES, • (except whariam be wanted for the Dock Ya r d s ) , and FAT that may be produced from the Oxen slau ghtered for the service of His Majesty's Victualling De pat taJents, from 'the Ist day of October next ensuing, until the : stst day of December following. The Tenders to contain clist i n ct Prices, expressed in words at length for each article, " t 1 to -be made separate for each port. The same' to be !said for at the end of each month. WILLIAM MELLISH. Shadwell-Dock, September 10, 1641: • • ISI MINSTER LIFE INSURANCE and ANNUITY OF FICE, STRAND and CORNHILL,'LONDON, S ' TABLISIIED in 1792, for Inurance on to Lives and granting Annuities, on the- same advan fieous T erms to the Public as have hitherto secured to this ablishment their decided Patronage and Support. L munaission is allowed to Solicitors, Agents, Biokers, &c. DIRECTORS, TRUSTEES, • AND AUDITORS. JOHN SOANE, Esq. Chairman. N . r 11 . )e iron. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD, D e p u ty Ch a i rman . si" •F. Hammon, Bart. - Fitzhugh, Esq. „I .„....ohn Cox Hip p i s l ey, Bart. Ralph Leycester, jun. Esq. Jillmin Agnew, Esq. Neill Maicolm, Esq. 1t n gbh, Esq. Get. G. Mills, Esq. . Brooksb an k, E sq. G . H . S umner , E sq. M.P. • F. Chambers, M.D. Siciney Toone, Esq, g sv e9ege Cum m ing, Esq. M.P. Rd. Williams, Esq. Solicitor. al es Henry Deacon, Esq. The r Pr o RICF is priet are. rescr the course ors of.paymeu pe t. ti AItD BARNES, Secretary. informed that the Dividend - • THE ESTATE OF HUGH STEVENSON, DECEASED. ,ALIT - PERSONS -having CLAIMS on the ESTATE of Mr. HUGH STEVENSON, late of Mount Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, are requested to IZ t - ) rw ,:t.rd the same to Messrs'. DAWSON, CAPRON, and oi tt . „„ L EY ISoliCitorto-Kr.Daoicl Stevenson, the Advil,. st rett 'u s 4 ,rl. at th e i r Savlle place, New Burlington sons i'lit'lnden, on or before the 29th Instant ; and alt Per lorthivitehts th e i r i j e uted to the said Estate, are hereby Solicitors, to pay to the Administrator, of hit said Solicitors, Sittile sil'aCe Sept. 1, lg2l. T O T HE DEALERS IN CATTLE AND. SHEEP. - PETERSFIELD .CATTLE AND SHEEP FAIR. 'NOTICE is hereby given, that *a FAIR • for th.. CATOC TLE and SHEEP will be held on SATURDAY, St h Of TOI3FR NEXT. The Cattle Fair will be held •ver l 'SF-114.LD HEATH, and the Sheep Fair in a Field Tii: ' ,„ -41 " - Tuatts. Coops may he obtained on reasonable A" , by application to SOHN CAWLEY of Peterifie yr Subscription has been entered into for the purpOse of is.iieaitodting the establishment of the above Fair, it being con bat the situation is most eligible and centrical, and S ' i w f . ' _'; I." render much advantage to the seller and buyer of :::::: F t n h Lig is ia ti n e t i i g . hbourbood' and the Eastern and Wester n . arts o f _ • August 99, 1821. VALI: A FREEHOLD MANORS AND ESTATES sEAumm AND DA WDON, DURHAM. In TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, • s'ne. Lot, (if not previously d i sposed of by Pr i vate Con , _ r „ a F,t), at th e B r i dge Inn, Sunderland, .on .Satinday, the , ' t " day of October, 182 i 3 at Twelve o'Clock at Noon, E by Mr. RICHARD FELL. Valuable and important FREEHOLD of s "TATES, in a Ring Fence. comprising the MANORS the EAHANI and DA WDON, which extend 3i Miles along ti,_Sia Coast, includinn. all Manorial Rights to Low-water Mark; Witt) the modern-built. FAMILY MANSION at Sea -o_4l. O ut - offices, extensive Gardens, with Vinery and Green -I'l.7l"ewell stocked, Pleasure (;!rounds, Timber and thriving stdillitations, an excellent Farm Yard, with Coach Houses and o f . tk ies . , and all suitable Offices attached thereto for the use sy h re alansion and Domain Farm. Also Eight capital Farms, i ""il Dwelling Houses, Gardens, and Buildings fit:a . the ' d ' rYs togeth er w i t h severa l C ot t ages an d . G ar d ens. in " e ge of Sealiatn ; the whole Estate being remarkably of 'Sell watered and fenced, and containing together 2426 Acres of t,, ft ble s Meadow, and Pasture Land, (exclusive of the Line Actat-between High and Lovi-water Mark), whereof 1084 cnstontre. Tithe.f ree on payment of two small =rinses or Al m t Y Payments. coij s i d I all the TIMBER, TREES, .and UNDERWOOD, , Of:-. rariotterable value, being of several years growth, an,. v. P ro „ ' kinds, and forming a beautifully rich ornament to the S ea cr Y, which is well stocked with Game. Lime-stone and quantitiesarr Weed (both excellent mauurei) are found . in great meat a t and furnish ample means of agricultural improve serer 1' expence, there being easy access to the coast at as - t 2 4, Places. The Limestone and Coal are so abundant, Prot g ' v e ready means of establishing a vastly extensive and 5.,, able trade. Since the commencement of the present , spirit u ndertaking Hetton, it has been ascertained by ()th e S urrey and examination of skilful Engineers, arid Ajanra, be st capable o f j u d g i ng ; t h at t h e coast w i t hi n th e I tak ." of Dawdon "presents the greatest natural facilities for th e l ugs sit the least elpence, a superior Port or Harbour for dist„ r i ece Ption of Shipping of great burthen ; and that the e ct between this and the coal field comprises . the best , 11 3, for the carriage and shipping of all Coals to be won from. qu 'l 3art of the adjacent country. • " P .....° 0 r Rates are very low. 1 T he rarms are let to respectable Tenants from year to yearPlCsy e Mansion, w i th its Farm Yard, Out Offices, Gardens, i,, 05ore Grounds and Plantations, are in hand. eat e am siu !' may ' be had at May-clay next. 'castle het 8s Puritans 13, is distant from Sunderland about 5 miles, New eoStockton 22. The mail and other ...i he . / Pastt the Lodge Gates daily. "tarisl aa en ._ a nto will thew their respective Farms; and the at s aa b am. . we• may be viewed on application to Mr. G. Aird, tonroarnfdurrther Particulars and plans, apply to Messrs. Whar- Middlet ° T d,6 2, Lincoln's Inii..6ekls, London ; Mr. Davison, Au etin .." Yas, near Richmond, Yorkshire; Mr. Fell, the Sur e jueer, South Shi elds: Mr. Aird, Seaham ; Mr. Bell, NeWeln W indmill Hills, Gateshead ; the Queen's Head, 1) ,;..i:!: the Bridge Inn, Senderland ; the,Waterloo Stock to '"kot ; King's Heart, Darlington; the Black Lion, ni 141 0 the Hotel, York. ST. THOMAS'S and GUY'S HOSPITALS. SIR ASTLEY COOPER WILL BEGIN his COURSE of • LECTURES on SURGERY, •u MONDAY, the Ist of October, it .Eight o'Clock in the Evening. ICHARDSON, GOODLUCK and CO - . .ILWS respectfully-acquaint the Public, that the NEW STATE LOT'T'ERY SCHEME contains THREE PRIZES OF THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS. Thirty other CAPITALS ; not two BLANKS to a PRIZE; 20,000 TICKETS ; no Classes, and Every Ticket decides its own fate ; will be Drawn in Four Days, viz. soth Next Month, 20th November, 11th December, and 20th December. The Prizes in this Lottery consist entirely of STERLING MONEY ! RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and CO. are selling TIC KETS and SIIARES in a ►atiety of Numbers, at their Old Office, BANK BUILDINGS, CORNHILL ; where they Sold Last Lottery No. 1235, a Prize of 30001. Consols, in One Quarter, One Eighth, and Ten Sixteenth Shares. r Tr &NH invites the attention of his best Friends, • the Public, to the Sterling Merits of the New LOT- Mar to begin s.l-rawing• 30th OCTOBER, (NEXT MONTH;. It consists of the whole 20,0001. Tickets in One Lottery. There arc Three Prizes of £30,000 Money, -30 outer Capi tals,—and nearly 6700 other Prizes. All the Prizes are Sterling Money!—No Stock Prizes I—No Classes !—Erery Ticket drawn singly ! TielietS hnd •Shares are on Sale at DISH'S OFFICES, N 0.4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, London, and by all his Agents in the Country. *** BISH has sold more than Half of all the 430,000 Prized that have ever been ; and in- the very last Lottery Prizes of 21,0001., 20,0001., 16,0001., and 16 other Capitals. * l ,,'" The Prices of Stocks are affixed hourly against DISH'S Office in Cornhill, by which the Public may ; see the fluc tuations. • WIDOW WELCH'S FEMALE PILLS have obtained the sanction and approbation of Gen tlemen of the Medical Profession, as a safe and valuable utedicin6 in removing obstructions, and relieving other inconveniences to which the female frame is liable, especially those which at an early period of life frequently arise from want of exercise, and general debility of the system. Th 4 create an appetite, correct indigestion, remove giddiness and nervous head ache, and are eminently useful in windy dis orders, pains in the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpi tations of the heart. ' Purchasers are requested to remark, that, as a testimony of authenticity, each Bill ofDirectiutis is signed with the name of ~a in writing. Sold wholesale and Retail, in London, by Wright, No. 46, Fleet Street; Barclay and Sons, Fleet Market; New hery and Sons, St. Paul's Church Yard : Sutton and Co. Bow Much Yard; Sanger, 350, ,Oxford Street, opposite Boud Street .• Evans and Son, Long Lane, Swithfield ; Johnston, Greek Street Soho; Butler and Sons, Cheapside ; Godfrey and Windus, Bishopsgate Street; .and by all Country Vendors; at 2s. 9d. per Box. ft! It is necessary to inform the publie that KEARSLEY'S is the only original and genuine Medicine, and has been pre pared-by them for more than thirty years. 4 NTIBILIOUS PILLS, invented 'by ED WARD HALLAM, Surgeon and Apothec.acy. This Preparation is justly esteemed for its agreeable and certain operation, by which it effectually remotes all Inaction ur Obstruction of the Stomach and Bowels, whether arising from Bile, Indigestion, Flatulency; or Cold; Sickness at Stomach, Head-Ache, &c. It operates by dislodging acrid bile or other crudities retained in the Intestinal Canal, and acts as an Alterative to the system generally. Free from any Antiumnial or Mercurial Preparations, it is at all times safe ; and has been given with singular good effect during Pregnancy. Its action is particularly adapted to Persons of Bilious Ha bits, and those of sedentary lives, where a sufficient action of the Bowels is not kept up, and crudities retained in those organs are frequently producing Pains and Distensions, Head- Aches, Languor, and Giddiness, or a sense of Weariness and Operession. A single trial will fully convince the Patient of their efficacy. The worst cases of Bilious or Sick Head-Aches are certainly removed by a single Dose, and in a much shorter time than could be credited, but from experience. The Pro prietor thinks it proper to remark, they will be found not only to act without pain or uneasiness, but to leave the body, ' after their immediate action ceases, free from that costive state which generally succeeds the operation of laxative Me dicines. • 'Sold by E. Edwards, 66, on the Footway, St.Paul'i Church yard, London, price 2s. 911. and. 4s. 6d. per Box. Sold also by Sangeraud Chandler,Oxfotd-street; Ward,Holborn: Strad ling,.Exchangc ; and Willmott, London Bridge. Where also may he procured, SPILSBURY's PATENT ANI'ISCORBLITIC DROPS, a Rentedy in Scurvy, Gout, Rheumatism, and Scrophulous • Diseases. Prepared at the Dispensary, 15, Soho-Square, Loudon, price 6s. 10s. 6J. and 11. 2s. Duty included. The Genuine has a BlaCk Ink Stamp. • FEMALE ROBl3Ell..—Thursday afternoon, the butler of J. RIPLEY, Esq. Clapham-road, whilst employed in the front pantry in cleaning and assorting the family plate, was suddenly called away to attend to some domestic affair, and in his hurry forgot to take the precaution of locking the area gate. In a few minutes afterwards the footman happening to come along the passage, saw an elderly woman passing through the area, who, on his approach, turned round, and in the most supplicating tone imaginable, asked charity of him in G on's -name. lIPr manner was such tliat he felt disposed to relieve her : but on cast ing his eye over her person, he was struck with surprise to see the handle-end of a silver-spoon protrude at her bosom ; he attempted to seize it, on which the old woman began to roar out for help, saying, he had designs upon her chastity ! The sturdy footman, however, after much resis tance, accomplished the violation, and succeeded in drawing from a bosom, Where the graces had long since ceased to dwell, no less than nineteen silver spoons, all the property of his master! The squeamish old thief was yesterday brought to 'Union Hall, and fully committed for trial. It was formerly the custom for bankrupts and other insolvent debtors to put off and surrender their girdles in open Court. The reason was, that our ancestors used to carry their purse, keys, &c. tied to the girdle. The custom of'wearing a girdle was so general among the Romans, that such as went without one, and let their gowns hang loose, were reputed idle and disorderly. A free pardon is offered by his MAJESTY to an accomplice, with a reward of Five Hundred Pouncls, by the Lords of•the Admiralty, for the discovery of the persons concerned in the late fe lonious array at Marsh Ban near Margate. PRO VINCI I. JOURNALS. [FROM THE BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD CHRONICLE, - SEVTL 3111 ER 13.1 It is with great pleasure that we observe the progress of the Subscription for the Life.'Geartis. Its very commencement proved that the libellous calumnies which have been so liber ally poured forth against these meritorious troops had not pro duced all the effect meditated by their inventors ; that the Morn ing Chronicle and the Times,- and the minor crew which fol low in their train, did not speak the sense of the metropolis, and that the Life Guards might expect to find in the unbiassed judgment of their coluttry.ample recompence for the insults and injuries which they have suffered. As the subscription leas ad vanced, new evidence has daily been afforded that this is the real feeling of the sounder and better part of our popula tion. The list is already graced by names, which are never, to be obtainted when mere party purposes are to be secured ; the names of independent, :-....+11-311ffging persons of all tanks, :-who are !mown ;o .as ./rxt,-..A supporters cf real liberty as they are decided euemirs of licaltiousness and anarchy. —Under such auspices we trust that this subscription will : go on and increase ; that it will be a means of registering the dis sent of the wise and good from the dangerous positions so ac tively disseminated by mob leaddts and party writers.— The attempts which have been Made by the seditious press .to check the progress of this subscription, show only their apprehensions of the good which may result from it. • It is their policy to represent the subscribers as persons who are anxious to change the constable's staff for the sabre of the dragoon, and to support the measures of Govern ment by the strong arm of military power. But a very mode rate share of intellect will enable any impartial man to'detect - the falsehood of such representations. He has only to refer to the language of those resolutions, to which, as a subscriber, his name would be affixed, in order to ascertain that no such wishes actuate the Committee, no such subjects could be within their contemplation. It is because the Life Guards, whenever they have been called in to aid the civil power, have displayed great forbearance, good temper, and discipline, that this mode of shewing the public approbation of their conduct is now adopt ed : they are applauded and rewarded, because when obliged to undertake a service of all others the most disagreeable to gallant and high-spirited men, these troops, who never suffer ed the enemies of their country to raise their hands against them with impunity, have patiently submitted to insults the most provoking, and injuries the most intolerable, from their own misguided countrymen ;—because, fat from taking-advan tage of their weapons and their military skill to avenge themselves upon their riotous and cowardly assailants, they have not availed themselves to the full extent of their undoubted right to resort to their weapons in self-defence. Such are the reasons which in duced the Gentlemen who met at the Globe Tavern in Fleet street on the 31st August, to open a subscription for their remu neration ; that public gratitude might bestow a different com pensation on the individuals who suffered bodily injury by tl - e attack of the populace, and that a more permanent testimony of approval might be given to the general conduct of the regi ment by no addidou to the fiild tot tte corulcut of the privates and their families. The subscribers pledge them selves to no opinion as to tho propriety of calling in the troops on that, or any other occasions, in aid of the civil power. All they declare is this : that they admire the steadiness, the pa tience, the forbearance of the men when so called upon by an authority which they were bound to obey ; that they acknowledge the right which every man possesses to defend his own life; and do not admit that a riotous mob is justified in assailing men with brick bats and other murderous missiles because they wear red coats, and carry swords, and are called upon to support the lawful authorities of the kingdom. It is indeed surprising that a question should ever be raised on such subjects : that any writer should be hardy enough to assert, any readers dull enough to believe, that the offscourings of the populace may at their plea sure take upon themselves to oppose the lawful commands of their Sovereign when carrying into effect by persons constitu tionally appointed for the purpose : or that the soldiers legally called upon to assist these personi when their own lives are manifeitly endangered, and they are obliged to use their wea pons in self-defence, will be guilty of murder, if unfortunately the lives of perions unlawfully assembled for a criminal pur pose are sacrificed in the contest. Such are the positions to which the public is called upon by the Radical press to assent; and the subscription for the • Life Guards has been opened in opposition to these positions, and with a view at once of chew ing a determination to support lawful authority against mob violence, and of convincing the gallant and injured soldiery, that the public is no party to the calumnies which have been vented iigainst them, and the injuries they have suffered. —lf any persons yet doubt, whether such a measure is ne cessary, or expedient, we think their scruples will be re moved, when they read 'what has been published in the pages of the " Morning Chronicle" on the subject. If they can be silent when such detestable doctrines as these are promulgated ; if they can approve of the infamous acts by which the pander of sedition continues to teach a:- deluded populace the lesson of resistance, and sti) point out to the mob the most effectual modes of opposing Cavalry ; if, in a word, they are advocates for the holy right of insurrection, or think it com patible with their duty as loyal subjects to sit tamely by and see that right thus daringly avowed and artfully inculcated;— then they may disapprove of the proceedings of the London Committee. But if they are uncontaminated by such doctrines, and desirous of living peaceably under a mild and good Go vernment, and of bequeathing to their children's 'children the Constitutional advantages which they have inherited, they will on every occasion, and by every means in their power, evince their determination to support lawful authority when lawfully exercised. There were nearly 90,000 sheep and lambs penned at - ‘I 7 :H.Tow FAIR on Wedpesday, being a greater number than was ever before exhibited at that Fair. The prices as at all the late Fairs ruinously low, and on an average nearly Bs. per head under those obtained last year. Some ewes were disposed of for Bs. and the best fetched no more than 235., being less than what they would have sold for as lambs last year. A lot of prime 4-teeth wethers belonging to Mr. NAVAIAN of Sturminster, obtained as high as 375. 6d. a head, but the gene ral prices were from 18s. to Us. Lambs went off at from ss. to 18s. The weather in the morning wakArery unfavourable, and the trade flat ; and an innnense number were driven away nnsoid. FOREIGN LITERATURE. (No: XXXIX.) VOYAGE aux'IIEGIO.NS EQUINOXIALES. du NOU.: VEAU CONTINENT : e. Travels in the Eqiiinociial Regions of the New . Continent, performed in and from 1799 to 1804, by M. DE HUMBOLDT and A. DE BOUPL-AND ; with two Atlases, one containing Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Inhabitants of America, and the other containing Geographical and Physical Maps and Plans. Vol. IV. 8v0... Paris. 1821. M. de IlustnoLnT proceeds slot'vly. In 1819 we followed him across the deserts of New An dalusia to the banks of the Oronoco ; nearly two years have since elapsed, and we still find this intrepid observer on tfk same river to which he has devoted almost the whole of the fourth vo lume of his important Travels. What can a writer say concerning a river to fill so many pages ? , This is a remark that will be made by unreilc4- lug readers, and especially by men whose opi nions are founded- on their prejudices and habits. Why does M. de Humboldt remain such a long time on the Oronoco ? The answer to this ques:- tion will give the best idea of this part of the Travels which we can offer in the narrow limit's of a newspaper article._ Let us imagine a river which, in the course of 500 leagues, presents frequently- a breadth of from 2,800 to 5,500 fathoms, the profound waters of which conceal the great amphibious 'animals of the ocean, and crocodiles 24 feet long. Let us figure to ourselves afterwards all the streams of water, tributaries of this great river, and we shall then find, not without astonishment, that many of these affluents equal the Danube, the king of European rivers; that these majestic afiluents are themselves maintained by rivers to' which none of our own are to be compared ; and that these rivers receive the waters of others which Europe would deem of the first magni tude. Without enumerating this fluvial hierarchy, we will terminate this description by one instance from which the relative prof)ortions of the whole may be conceived. The P insichin,,,a small current, which is lost iu the desert, and on which the natives scarcely bestow the name of cano (rivulet) is as broad and as deep as the Thames at Vauxhall. If physical magnitudes are of any importance in geography, the Oronoco and its enormous and numerous affluents ought properly to have occu pied a long time the attention of a traveller like M. do Humboldt. Yet, notwithstanding the breadth and depth of this river, the mass of its waters is not in propor tion with all those it receives from so many tribu taries : it is true a portion of them is diverted into other channels by the numerous cataracts against which the main stream dashes,.and another portion of them must he curried off by evapora tion, exposed as they are to a high temperature ; but as these causes are not sufficient to account for so great a diminution, we are inclined to suppose that a large part of them is absorbed by subterraneous gulphs. This 'phenomenon, of which we have already instances in other rivers, and especially in the Zaire, recurs in a most astonish ing manner in the kingdom of Quito, where the Yong° of Manseriche engulphs a part of the waters and the whole of the timber of the Upper Maragnon. Where do all these waters go, and where goes the whole of those trees which dis. appear from the surface of the globe ? I will answer by another question :-----Whence come all those waters which the earth concelds at greater or less depths ; and whence come those subter ranean forests which are occasionally discovered in countries which do not abound in timber ? A consideration of another order presented to M. de Humboldt and his learned fellow-tra veller an object worthy of their ambition. Dur ing nearly three centuries the Oronoco had bee❑ to natural philosophers and geographers as mys terious a river as the Niger is in the present day. It is true there was no question relative to the disco- very of its mouth ; on the contrary, this was nearly the only thing respecting which they did not differ; but they disputed concerning a branch, a communication between the Oronoco and the River Amazon, the greatest stream of water on the surface of the earth. This potamographical phenomenon has been a long time contested, and is continually discussing. 'A celebrated French geographer maintained that this pretended com munication was a monstrosity in geography. The maps then in existence were not capable of re solving this problem; indeed, their imperfection was such that we could not form any tolerable idea of this part of America. M. de Humboldt refers to some of these 'maps where Quito is placed under the meridian of Cumana ; I have one where Quito is much nearer the Atlantic Ocean than the South Sea, and on which there is no trace of the Orottoco ; but it is very remark able that among these maps, incorrect as they are, there are several which indicate, even at that time, a communication between two great rivers. I have now before me a map of the world, and a map of America, published at Rome in 1597, on which the Orellana and the Maragnon are re presented as two distinct rivers, flowing parallel from west to east, and in both of these maps a stream of water unites the two rivers at a spot where the geographer places a town of Picora.— By a- still more sino - ular coincidence, but no doubt accidental, 'the ancient geographer has placed his town of Picora, and the branch of the two great rivers, at 43° west longitude from the Isle of Ferro, which answers, within about five .degrees, to the position where M. de Humboldt has fixed the junction of the Oronoco to the Cas siquiari, a trifling error for the time when the map was engraved ; but the geographer of the ,sixteenth century places this branch to the South of the . Equator, which destroys all analogy be tween the ancient andd - rnodern notions.- From these glimmerings of light, which shine at intervals amid the obscurity of ancient geography,. e may conclude that th e juncti on o f t w o great' rivets,haS been long vaguely known, a nd, that tin.; phenomenon has been badly described and badly applied before the' discovery . of th 4 assi quiari, which establishes the communicatioa. lu the last century, some missionaries having 'passed from the Rio-Negro, an affluent of the . .2rnaion, into the Oronoco, without quitting their boat, it was no longer possible to deny the junction, and from that time it bechme necessary to renounce those chains of mountains and points of separa tion which were then so liberally trated . on all the maps. Even now, when geography has made such great progress, our maps are far from being quite accurate. However sorrowful a great los, may make our geographers, yet I am compelled to inform them, that they must give up for that Sierra-Mey, at the foot of which they, plz.;.ki the sources of the Oronoco, -and that .beautiful Lokc Parima, which figures so well in' Spaids!i Guiana. M. de llumboldt leaves us no hope of seeing thorn reappear in-future maps, for they do not exist. The communication between the Amazo - n and the Rio-Negro, that between the Rio-Negro and the Cassiquiari, and that between the laSt -men tioned river and the Oronoco, were known and very correctly marked on our most recent maps; but M. de Humboldt and M. Bonplaiid wished to be convinced of it by personal observation, and to determine in 'the most accurate manlier all the circumstances of this junction. It was in order to ascertain these facts that they performed in sixty five days a navigation of more than six hundred leagues, -twenty five to a degree:; that they submitted to be devoured by gnatcmuski tos, and the whole tipular race ; that they ex posed themselves to the ferocity of the- jaguars, and the voracity of the crocodiles ; that they braved the suffocating heats, and the putrefying humidity of so many rivers, whose waters are, even during the night, at the temperature of our warm baths ; that they descended undismayed the rapids and the cataracts of the Oronoco ; and that they. lived so miserably as to taste with de light—delicate viands doubtless, or exquisite fruits ? No,—the first piece of bread which was presented to them at Angostura. No, truly, it' was . not the auri sacra fames which inspired them with this courage : science,,as well as politics, possesses its ambition, but what a difference in the result. Rapid and concise as is our sketch of this navigation on so many rivers, which, notwith standing they take different or contrary direc tions, still bring back the bark of our travellers to the point from which it set out, yet want of space compels us to defer its insertion until Monday. [To be continued.] FOR THE SUN'. TO DRANIATICUS. Mn. EDlTOR—Permit me to inquire why DRAMATICUS is silent ? Where also is your correspondent H. H.'a Letter. A manly forbearance, certainly, and perhaps correct feeling, have induced you to withhold-my late reply to DRAMATICUS from publication, because, I imagine, it alluded very pointedly to the late QUEEN CAROLINE. I do not now wish to enter so fully as in my last letter I had'done upon the Object•bri which Dnalfa'retre had previously addressed you, namely, the 'Drama. I must, however, observe once more that Ditama.;rl - has not_Pointed cattle roNs ET onfoo aiai.r" which he desires to have cured, nor has he submitted any remedy for the disease that he has pointed out. To be brief, which time and. other occupations than letter writing oblige me to be, I own that the - Drania hag been polluted by the modern productions of the stage ; but it is not, therefore, a reason why Esott_tmATl cu's should.consider " the rag and bob-tail" of London, South wark,- and Westminster, ai" the Public." Does AftisrATl uns recollect that there is a iliffernce between the taste of the public, and bad taste publiclydisplayed ? Does DRAMATICUS think " the country would go to town" to support the regular Drama, either because the performance of it is restricted to particular . stages, and forbidden on Others? for in. the adoption of such a system, DnamaTiuusappears to think the titre may be effected; but he forgets the,iuinStice that would be perpe trated by the enactment of any-such LAW (for he mentions that awful word) to bind down the, Patent Stages to oneinecies of performance t -by such a method the Patent Stages,.ihich are opened nightly at the greatest expence both - to the Public and the proprietors, would be obliged to pursue a system, t‘ miens vel volens," which might be, when the public became tired, the " high road to their ruin." But let us for a moment consider where the fault really exists ; because-it is absurd to suppose that the Patent Stages would exhibit any performanCe which they did not believe "suitable to the taste of the public.— Such, " indeed, has been the taste of some people; and will be now to cherish the recollection of these innocent and so. cial scenes : but let such -people indulge such recollections, they may correspond to their hearts feelings,—England, fear noi, thou art safe, even if the wise and learned have such thoughts, as long as " thy ignorant and rude, but honest ploughboys, spurn the disgusting lies that vice would long to put upon them." These hastily written allusions will point out, perhaps, the genuine source from whence the • evil has arisen, that bas disturbed the patriotic bosom of DaamAzr cus. Rut, has no antidote been applied to the contagion of imthotality triat had gone abroad ? Certainly there has, or the moral character of this kingdom had suffered. I allude to a publication entitled JOHN - BULL; its motto, For. God, the King, and the People. I would say, considering the task it undertook, the time it appeared, and the literary poison it had ,to counteract, a poison which had been propagated with dis gusting impudence and effrontery by a daily press, it stands unrivalled, and deserves that which it has met with in the de cided suppor indeed, t, and hearty thanks of the majo r ity of th e coun try. Such, ndeed, is the general feeling here, and regularly, on the-seventh day, we hail and present our gratitude to .1 01114 - '111m1... I shall now conclude with one other observation, namely, that the termination of the QUEDN'S unfortunate career has prevented my 'replying more explicitly to DRAMA.. Trcus. "De mortuis nil rust bonum." I have to thank, you, 31r. Editor., for the attention you paid me. Wcathoven. H. H.