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t, ''') , •, \ f. l ) e)fr WAT C* , ll. 'kt sl; 4. rl ?r . 4- t -bi Per : 1 , ce;tv, ; , • - e Ttir "dC' e 4 1 ., 611 -I _llo-tty //2 e~ .1-t~ NUMBER 9108.1 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1821 PRICE SE\'ENPENCE CONTRACT FOR BRICKS. Navy-Office, ()rt. 30, 1 . 821. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS antICOM , 111 ISSIONERS of HIS ;MAJESTY'S NiirY do 4 '' r ekir git;c Aroizee, Vial on THURSDAY, the - Bth of No vember next, at One o'Cloch, they will be ready to treat with .coch person., as may be willing to Contract for supplying /4. ' 7 Iriajesty's Yards at Deptford, ff'oolwich, Chiahint, and Sheerness, with BRICKS. 41 Form of the - Tender ma' be s een at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock on the day of A , eaty, nor any 'talked, unless the party, or an Agent for him, attends. • Every Tender *Lust be accompanied by a Letter ad , rlieved to the Navy Board, .and signed by too responsible Peisons, engaging to becomes bound with the Person tender .., lag, in the Sun of 5034 for' the clue performance of the • Contract. • ADMIRALTY••OFFICE, October 81, 1821. WIDOWS' 14;NSIONS. NOTICE is hereby giveu, that the WIDOWS of COMMNSIO'N and WARRANT OFFICERS of the ROYAL NAVY, receiving Pensions from the Charity esta -I;lislieu for their Relief, will be paid their Pensions, due the artth Sertemher last, at No. io, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, l 'Y Edward Finch Hatton,•Esq. the Paymaster of the Cha 'it-Y, : Tite Widows of Flag-Officers, Superannuated Rear-Ad -51.11115, Captains, Commanders, Lieutenants, and Masters, "" saturd4y, the 10th of November ; the Widows of Sui g'"ns, Pursers, an d B oatswains, en :Monday, the lath ; nd the Widuw s of Gunners and Carpentets, on Tuesday, hr 13th of November, and on every succeeding Thursday, bet w ctn the hums of Ten and,Twelve. Awl Notice is further given, that. Remittance Bills will be tehtou the 10th of next Month, to those Widows resident ht Country, who have requested to be paid their Pensions bear their resPective Residences. .1. W. CROKER. 2 AY Ni OF PRIZES DRAWN THE FIRST DAY OF TUE FOURTH LOTTERY, 1820. LOTT H Y-0 F FICF., SOMERSET-PLACE, November 2, 1821., THE CO MMISSIONERS appointed for MA NAGING the • LOTTERIES do hereby give Notice, That N umbers of TICKETS and SHARES thereof in all 'preceding (Sundays Lotteries may be examined at this Of fi ce every day excepted) between the hours of Ten and Three, their Registers of Benefits and Blanks. 44 d th e C OMMISSIONERS appointed to take in the B ENEFI T TICKETS of the FOI , TH LOTTERY for 1820, 0 1 tre bY give Notice, That they will attend at their to Soinerset=Place, on FRIDAY, the 16th Instant, ir on , •,. - c'n o'Clock in the Forenoon to Two u'Clock in the Al tern / e iaw o to take i n an d enter the BENIWII ' TICKETS n oil ' 4av the 30th day of of October being the Ce r tifi7 df4 ' wl4 g the :.rule Lottery, to be exchanged tur 'll" ' " "aattito the Act of Parliament in that behalf. And for fti,ther dispatch, the persons possessed thereof 7: 'Lilco , ' to bring with their Tickets separate Lists thereof, 10 num er i cal order, and at the bottom of each t towrite the name, with prover additiOns, of the person entitled to the value of the said Tickets. 7 (1 the said CON INIISSIONERS also gice.further notice, hdt Ceitiacates - fur the value of the said Tickets will be de rTrereii - out on WEDNESDAY, : the 21st Instant, at Noon, after which the said COMMISSIONERS will take in and 711ter T icktts in their usual Monthly entry; and r all persons . itt, terest e d are desired to observe they must bring duplicates cif 466 .1' Lists when they come f ar t h e i r Cert if icates. T i . , :1:!'e. COM MISSIONERS also gi v e fu r th er notice, which, are 'l'hat ;its lorunglit to thi s Office f or P ayment, the Checks of ..ut rat or d estroyed, will not be entered for payment, .1% it 1 , - o, a B ond b gr ing given to indemnify the said COMMISSION- for antin g Certificates for the same. GAS LIGHT AM) COKE COMPANY. London, October 2, 1821. H " I lt k CE is he re by g i ven , Th at the ALF- Pi l i . OTI YEA RLY GENERAL COURT o f th e PROPRIE tf eLS‘t't " this COMPA NY, to be held pursuant to the Act pl a i 6 3th of hi s l ate Majesty George the Third, will take tl!'l.e °r, W EDNESDAY, the 7th d a y o f N ovem b er next , at CROWN and ANCHOR TAVERN, in the STRAND, in ", County of Middlesex, a t El even o 'Cl oc k i n the F orenoon. By Order of the Court of Directors, . u J. PEDDER, Secretary. • '-'••••—The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'Cluch pre riy. .ikt this Meeting . S wq, . the ANNUAL ELECTION of AUDI roll. ......2, Ise place. Is 'Y TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, . lily, Sp I , at his House, Wellington • Street, Wa .All a„.,(4)-Bridge, Strand, on 10ISDAY, November 5, 1821, Five following Days, ' at Twelve o'Clock, coop COLLECTION of MISCELL.A.- NRn . ‘ 3 f the — ,s'US BOOKS, incliading the unreserved I),,rtiun Clare n j''BßAßY of the Late GEORGE HARRISON, Esq. To "x King of Arms. of s a l e : viewed, and Catalogues (price ts.) had at the Place e RI CH WHEEL !—ALE. Ni()N.EY PRIZES ! 'ltitOLL, the CO NT it ACTOR, begs The r. leave to state, that althooL7ll 6,51 , 0 Tickets were drawn Se"..;,,rat Day, the following Rich Wheel remains for the P 111;" D ay, 20th November, when the FIRST-DRAWN will receive ,C 30,000 2 3 ............. of 2 ...... £5,000 2 • £2,000 ...... 4 £5OO Besides others of 300!. 2001. &e. &C. * AND NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE! dt t:. 'rickets and Shares, warranted undrawn, are on Sale 1.11, A R ROLL'i3 trul Fortunate Offices, No. 19, CORN a d 26, O.X.FOyRD STREE"r. pirThis Day was iiiihtistio.d, In Two Vuturtles, t 2 -130. 1..5 , boaids, o r IL ca lf g ilt, HE LIFE and . AD VENT URES of GUZ 14t__, fro m D'ALFAM.CHE or the Spanish Rogue, trans v.,(l LE SAGE. ' ' By JOHN H. BRADY. 11:;(11re congratulate the Public upon the addition which Mr. o ne 0 , has wade to their literary amusements?' " This is oz , r the most amusing works we tsnow."—(Earopean Ma t:4...e' May 18it ) me 13 d ' ittleli, :, ra y has executed bis duties as a Translator with ~ T T; :—, (New Monthly Max. 1621.). of t. a I rauslQor has produccil a very entertaining vers io n s _ Cht,Z,, adventurer, of that prototype of adventurers—pie , _7;iller Guma_.”_..... o (Literaiy Gazette, Ist Sept : 1821 ) tvrilZillian and LO. Paternoster-row; and J. XL Richardson, FIRE AND LIFT INSURANCE. The prudential . act of providing against the calamity of FIRE, and the still greater and more certain calamity which a family suffers by the death of its chief supporter, is becoming so gene ral, that it is necessary the public should be en abled to estimate the relative merirof the schemes which are offered to their choiee. These schemes. vary from each other in their minister details, but it appears that they are all reducible under one or other `of the four following heads Contributionship, or Union Societies; in these so cieties, those who desire Insurance, club toge ther : by their deposit of premium they raise a fund, out of which they indemnify themselves, but each man is individually liable, in his whole property, for any deficiency that may occur. If there be a surplus of profit, they divide it ; and this they.ought to do wholly, an 4 at short inter vals; for the members for the time being,who run all the risk, ought to have all the profit, when there be any. Any reserve of what they win would be a sacrifice of their property to benefit a succession of strangers, who took no part in their risk. But, dividing in this way, a partial run of tosses sooner or later creates a deficiency, whence it is that societies of this kind seldom last many years, before they break up through litigation, disappointment, and insolvency. To obviate these objections, COMMERCIAL COMPA NIES have taken up Insurance as. a business— they offer large permanent capitals in guarantee of their engagements—they take all the risk and all the profit—the first consideration, security, is, effectually accomplished on this plan, but the attraction of a return is wanting. A third prin ciple has been elicited by modern ingenuity in these societies ; it is that of making all the shareholders insure to a certain amount, at all times, whether they have real occasion to insure or not. This is a certain yviy of creating a busi ness for an establishment, which otherwise might have nothing to do : the appearance of business pleases the unreflecting, with the shew of profits arising out of their own needless sacrifices. But so far as the compulsion has effect, it is a last ing embarrassment and loss to the sharehol ders ; for if a shareholder be in want of an in surance, he will naturally prefer his own office, without compulsion, provided its plan be equally as beneficial, and, it be as well conducted as others ; but if he have no want of an insurance, it is ridiculous for him to compel himself to incur the - expellee*. As well might a company of apo thecaries be formed under a condition that each Member should take a given quantity of physic every day, to create a business. The folly of this scheme is made apparent by the event. Most of the Insurance Offices which have been set up within the last fifteen or sixteen years, have had the compulsion to insure foisted on their share holders, and in consequence the shares in all such offices have continued at a discount, which discount, in some instances, has been 60 per cent. ! others have broken up altogether. The Members of the Birmingham Life Office, formed on the above principle, paid the Provident Life Office, £20,000 to relieve them from the risks they bad undertaken, and the London Commercial Life Office paid the same Office £l,OOO to join it. The fourth principle is that of combining the attraction of Return of premium yielded by offices on the Union prin ciple, with the more important consideration of solid security, afforded by offices having permanent capitals of large amount, in addi tion to the fluctuating funds arising from the premiums. This principle has been ap plied by the COUNTY FIRE OFFICE and PRO- VIDENT LIFE OFFICE, with uncommon ‘Suc cess. The original Members formed perma nent capitals o ample amount, and all the members, new as well as old, share the profits equally, according to their respective contribu tions. These offices impose no compulsion on their members to insure—yet the increase of their business exceeds all precedent, and their shares have been as invariably at a great premium, as the other offices of a similar and more recent date, have been at a great discount. After all, the cha racter and conduct of the management of these offices is a subject of chief importance to persons who seek security. There are offices which are remarkable * for turning claimants round whenever they can, and for the disgraceful exposures they have sustained in courts of law and equity, these ought to be carefully avoided. TIE X 30,000 MART.—Brsn appears deter mined to keep up his celebrity for selling 1230,000 Prizes. Ile sold the .230,000 drawn last Tuesday, and is the only Office-keeper that ever sold Three in one Lottery. In fact, he has sold more than half of all the ,230,000 Prizes that have ever been, and whether he sells the Two now in the Wheel or not, (though it is by no means unlikely) we think his Offices well de serve the name of " THE X 30,000 MART ! ! !" WARD or CRIPPLEOATE WITHIN.--4D conse quence of the death of Mr. EnwXun HEATH, one, of the Common Councilmen of the Ward of Cripplegate Within, a Wardmote was holden yesterday at the Church of St. Alphage, London wall, in compliance with a requisition numerously and very respectably signed. Alderman ltVoon being out of town, Mr. Deputy VALLANCE pre sided at the meeting. The Wardinote having been duly open, Mr. JOHN Cm I,D, of Alderman bury, rose to propose Mr. neon llEttaos, as a fit and proper person to supply the loss which the Ward had sustained by the death of Mr. iILATti, who was seconded by Mr. Tuottow coop. Mr. IlttutoN was unanimously elected. THE LATE :',lll. RENNIE. M. DUPIN, who is so well qualif d to do jus tice to the merits of the late Mr.s.II.ENNIE, has, in a Notice .2Wcrologique respecting him, paid a tribute to the virtues and amiable qualitie:, of that distinguished individual, and given a brief but masterly account of.his principal works. - Mr. Rennie (says - M. Dupin) raised himself by his merit alone. In a country where education is .1.-Jneral, he received from his infancy the benefit of instruction, which he afterwards knew bow to appreciate. Scotland has the glory of -having produced moat of the Civil Engineers, who, for nestle a century, have executed the fints;; monuments of the three kingdoms, and the roost ingenious machines ; James Watt, John Rennie, Thomas Telford, &c. seconded with so much ability by the .Nihntios, the Jardines, the Stevensozs, &c. • , We have no wish to detr/tViiirit L.se merits of the individuals mentioned by M Dupin ) but we . think that many civil engine,rs might be named of equal . celebi'ity. Mr:v;tr:.fttitan -sled Mr. Milne were associated with Mr. Rennie in constructing the London Docks, the most splen did in the Metropolis ; and the former of these gentlemen was concerned in most of the Irish Canals, and, we believe, was successful in drain ing a vast bog in Ireland, long before Mr. Rennie undertook the draining of the Lincolashir*, Bed fordshire, and other Fens. We could also men tion several other persons to whom England is indebted for many noble monuments of the first order. Mr. Rennie began his career by mechanical works ; and after alluding to those which he executed for Messrs. Watt and Bolton, and to his application of steam to machinery for clear ing canals, rivers, basins, and harbours, M. Du pin observes : _ _ _ Mr. Rennie very soon learned from Smeaton the art of di recting hydraulic constructions ; he formed himself by the coun sels and the examples of that great engineer, and by the study of the works of a master whom he was destined to equal in some respects, and surpass in many others. M. Du* then adverts to the East India and London Docks, which were constructed under the direction of Mr. Rennie, and to his comple tion of the West India Docks, after the death of Mr. Jessop, and says— At the very moment he was snatched from us by itsp.th, lie was busied in finishing a new construction equally ingeniOus for its architecture and its mechanism. Vast roofs, supported by lofty columns of cast iron, present -in the middle of their structure aerial roads, on which carts 4re made to run, the me chanism of which is so contrived, that by their means, enormous mahogany trees kept in these fine magazines, may be raised and let down at pleasure. By means of this ingenious system, a few motions now execute, in a few minutes, what required for merly whole hours, and a number of workmen. M. Dupin proceeds to give an account of other works of Mr. Rennie, which attest his mechani cal genius and talents. In this enumeration he states, that " the works of Liverpool were con. " ducted with talent by Mr. Forster, according to " the plans of Mr. Rennie." We consider it an act of common justice to Mr. Forster to correct this statement ; for we are informed from good autho rity, that the new. Docks of Liverpool, which are the finest works there, were constructed accord ing to the plans of Mr. Forster, and that Mr. Rennie was only occasionally consulted in their progress. - We cannot deprive ourselves of the pleasure of relating an anecdote, mentioned by M. Dupin, which reflects the highest honour on the subject of this Memoir. The inhabitants of Perth, it is said, were desirous of improving the navig ation of the Tay, and applied to Mr. Rennie, who im mediately gave them his advice and assistance ; but when they offered him a remuneration for his services, he declined accepting any, and replied he had long received it, in the academy of Perth, where he first began his studies. Our limits will not allow us to follow M. Du * in detail through his narrative of the labours of Mr. Rennie : but among those which do most honour to his talent are the works executed un der his direction in our dock-yards, the break water at Plymouth, Waterloo-bridge, and the Southwark-bridge. We extract the following observations, with which he concludes his des cription of the breakwater at Plymouth : This unalterable solidity, secured by the judiciousness of the forms and the prudence of the dimensions, appears to us to be the essential and distinctive character of the great works of Mr. Rennie. This character is particularly remarkable in the two most beautiful bridges which adorn the metropolis of the British Empire. The ensuing remarks on the SiNthwark-bridge are penned with great truth and spirit : The Southwark Bridge is the first in which the, bold idea of using cast iron in solid masses, and of an extent gee-41y sur passing that of the largest stones employed in arche. The arches of this bridge are formed by metallic masses of a size which could only be cast in a country in which metallurgy is carried to the highest degree of perfection. Mr. Rennie derivEi from this advanced state of the Arts all the advantage which it could furnish to his talents. When we consider the extent and the elevation of the arches of this bridge, and the enormity of the elements of which it is composed, we imbibe a higher idea of the powers of man, and we exclaim involunt a rily, i n our ad miration et' this chef-Irceuvre, " this is the Bridge of Giants." We conclude with the following striking re flections on the new character which has been given to the public works of this country by Mr. Rennie : If from the incalculable effect of the revolutions which em pires undergo, future nations should demand one day which was formerly the New Sydon, and what has become of the Tyre of the West which covered with her vessels every sea ? Most of the edifices, devoured by a destructive climate, will no longer exist to satisfy the curiosity of man by the voice of monuments ; but the bridge built by Rennie in • the. centre of th e commercial world, will yet remain to tell the most distant generations— here was a rich, industrious, and powerful city. The traveller, on beholding this superb monument, will suppose that som e great Prince wished, by m a ny years' labours, to consecrate for ever the glory of his life .by this imposing structure. But if tradition instruct the traveller that six years sufficed for the un dertaking and finishing of this. work ; if he learns that an asso ciation of a number of private individuals was rich eno ug h t o defray the expence of this colossal monument, worthy of Sts s tris and the Gesars, he will admire still snore the nation i n which similar undertakings could be the fruit of the effhrts of a few obscure individuals lost in the crowd of industrious citizens. Ve are told that Mr. Rennie had a high opi nion of the works at Brest a.nd Che r b ourg , an d the bridges, canals, and cautetvays in every part of France. STATE OF BRAZIL. Rio DE. JANEIRO; AUGUST 20.--We ColaILIDe to enjoy the greatest tranquillity, but we ex perience at the same time a great stagnation in commerce. All imported articles sell at a loss, in consequence of the exchange ; and the demand for produce is so great that the high price does not admit the hope of a compensation by it for the losses on our sales of merchandise.—The bad state of the affairs of the Bank causes much un easiness : and the statements put forth by that establishment are so unskilfully drawn up that they injure rather than serve its credit. We al lude more particularly to the tariff, according to to which this Bank pays its notes, a short extract from which will be sufficient to convince you of the impolicy of the Directors, who thereby con fess that they cannot meet the demands. of the holders of their notes,which are payable at sight. Thus for payment of a note In, Notes In Silver In Copper. Of 1,000,000 is given. 800,000 150,000 50,000 100,000 . 75,000 15,000 10,000 50,000 •. . 40,000. 6,000 . 4;000 10,000 . . . 10,000 in consequence of this mode of payment, it was in vain that notes to the amount of 800,000,000 were burnt; the discredit still continues, and silver disappears from circulation. EVen copper carries an agio. From 7 to 8 per cent. is paid on silver, and as high as 28 per cent. on gold. This holds out -no prospect of advantageous deal ings, more especially' aj some Portuguese houses have just stopped, and feamare entertained for some foreign houses, the names of which I have not yet learned. AUGUST 22.—From the fetes which are given by the Prince Regent and the military, it might, be supposed that we were living in the most perfect security. Nevertheless, Bahia seems to set up for itself, and to disregard the authority of the Prince Regent. The dissension is so no torious, that the Buenos Ayres cruisers, which have a sort of tacit treaty.of amity with Rio de Janeiro, treat the Bahians as a distinct people, and take their ships, while they allow the vessels belonging to this province to pass untouched.— The Heroine of Buenos Ayres, after capturing two Spanish brigs of war from Lima, is said to have taken off Bahia a slave ship destined for the North of Africa. When it is considered that the spirit of the Cortes leads , them to treat this country as a colony, there .is reason to fear that we shall soon see a state .of things here nearly approaching to anarchy. The. people of this country 'are not fit for a Constitutional system.— Ignorance, venality, selfishness, and, the most silly pride ) are - with them inherent vices, which seem rather to require a Monarchical Govern ment, and which lead us to anticipate great mis fortunes, should the boundaries which retain them, if not in perfect order at least in a certain . habitual route, be removed. THE COUNTESS OF LAUDERDALE.-The follow ing account of a most MELANCHOLY AccinENT has been communicated to us by a Correspondent, who dates his letter quarter past five yesterday afternoon, and states that he had that instant arrived in town rather expeditiously through Dunbar, when the accident alluded to took place, about 20 minutes before his reaching it :—Dun bar Castle is at this moment a scene presenting a dreary blank The amiable Countess of 14.tu- DERD ALE departed this life on Wednesday even ing, about six o'clock, to the inexpressible grief of her Noble Eail and surrounding relatives and friends. Her melancholy dissolution alas ! been attended with unfortunate circumstances. —The Countess had just taken dinner, and had retired to her chamber for the purpose, and on the eve of enjoying her custom of an hour's repose on her couch by the fire-side, when a coal suddenly emitted a spark on her musljn frill, which, immediately igniting, disseminated its ravages throughout her dress with overwhelm ing rapidity.—Although every assistance was as prompt as seemingly effective, all efforts to sub due them proved abortive, until the most excru ciating agony had predicted the fatal result which ensued in half an hour. Her Ladyship was the daughter of the late ANTHONY TODD, in about be_r 57th year, and had for a consider able time past relinquished the busy haunts of fashionalile, for the more solid comforts of do mestic life ; in the full enjoyment of them, how ever, has all powerful fate thus interposed her inscrutable decree. In her Ladyship, the ele gance of geniusraste, and manners, never failed to excite general admiration,—whilst the virtues of piety, bknevolence, and charity, commanded the respect and love of all who possessed the ho nour of her acquaintance.—(.'llorning Chronicle.) The yellow fever was brought to Marseilles by a Danish brig, called the Nisalino. This, brig put into Pouiague to perform quarantine, with the dead body of a sailor on board. This un fortunate man having been attacked by the yellow fever, was according to the report of the physicians, most inhumanly left to himself in the hold. After death, the body was allowed to re main amidst filth and putridity for several days. On the 15th of September.an Ausi:rian brig from Cyprus unluckily anchored to the leeward of the Nisatino. The hold being then opened for the removal of the dead - body, the noxious effluvia was carried by the wind on board the Austrian vessel. The Captain of the Austrian brig and two seamen were immediately taken ill, and being removed to the lazaretto of Marseilles, died there two days after. FOR THE SUN. THE LANDED INTERESTS. Mn. EDITort-4t would be truly surprising . , after the glaring exposure of facts made by the communications of INvEsnoATo a on the.subject of the price' of Bread, as compared with that of Wheat, in . the two letters published,by yc,n the 26th and 31st of October last, if the Landed Interest did not. take it up with the fixed deter mination of causing- it to undergo a more prying scrutiny than it has ever yet received. Why the one bears no reasonable or relative proportion: in value, or rather in price, to the other, calls aloud for investigation ; and that too the most speedily practicable, so that the Agriculturists may not only be ready to make their complaint, but also be prepared in some measure to suggest an efficient and practicable remedy for this crying abuse : by which the consumer is defrauded, whilst the farmer is kept in a state of continual decline and fretful irritation, alike unprofitable both to the State and to the Public. The subject is one on which much has been said, and on which much more remains to be said, with out exhausting it ; but I - shall at present limit myself in calling upon the Landed Interest, whe.. ther acquiring that character simply as occu piers, or as proprietors, or in thosa united capa cities, to come forward openly and speedily and claim attention to their case. Let them now make application direct to the proper quarters of Go vernment and they will be heard ; it is true they have already made their appeals to the Legisla ture, more than once, and have not succeeded ; but let them not be discouraged, for their cause must and will ultimately prevail, if they are but true to themselves, and that too at no very distant pe riod : they must not, however, sit down passively with their hands folded in idleness, but be up and stirring. There never was a more, or even so favourable a conjuncture for their act ing in concert as exists at this present mo lt-lent ; the manufacturing population of the coun try is fully employed—the town pays a price for its bread, which would admit a full remunerating one for wheat, and is content so to do, whilst the farmers, at the same time, are d w ind ling, and Iv. n perishing, through supineness ; in not taking ad vantage of this unprecedentedly favourable con:- bi►►ation of circumstances, effectually 'to urge their claims. They certainly cannot reasonably expect to succeed, unless they will exertthemselves to obtain the object of their wishes, step by step ; there.. fore let them no longer be exhibiting the charac ter, nor acting the part of the waggoner, who only called for help ; but let them rather adopt the rational plan recommended to him, and apply their own shoulders to the wheel manfiffly ; they cannot, and will not, then call for help any more in vain. Above all things, they should not suf fer that dilatory, listless supineness, which like fatalism is and ever has been their bane, to usurp or encroach upon the province of deter mined action, for the matter is urgent ; circum stances imperiously and unceasingly press on their notice, and the time, as well as the opportunity, for beneficial and profitable exertion is fast wear ing away. It is no party question in which they have to move, but if they allow desponding apathy to prevent their movements, or usurp the place of well-grounded active exertion, they will here after have to utter unavailing complaints, and unprofitable' lamentations ; if it be suffer ed to be a neglected opportunity, when they might have laid a deep and sure foundation for obtaining their desired aim and end. They have heretofore been borne down in Committee and Debate, by specious flimsy volubility, back , ed by the groundless authority of names which could only for a moment impose upon dupes; but I have no hesitation in asserting, that a like re sult awaits their future efforts, if they again en gage upon the same arena, and enter the lists no better armed than before. Let them, therefore, arm and prepare in time ; they will find, if they begin to-morrow, that they have_no time to waste or be idle ; and had they commenced their exert tions earlier, it would not probably have injured their cause or its advocacy London, Nov. 3, 1821. BY-STANDER. Yesterday being All Souls Day, the annual sermon was preached at the parish church of St. Margaret's, Westminster, according to the will of Mrs. JOAN BARNETT, commonly called the " Oatmeal Woman," deceased. She left to 20 poor widows of that parish forty shillings a. year for ever by her will ; twenty shillings for a sermon, at which, if able, they are all to at tend ; twenty shillings to the officers of the pa rish for a treat, and one of the dishes at the en tertainment, in memory of her, is always to be an oatmeal pudding ; and two shillings and six pence each to the clerk and sexton. MUSICAL KALEIDOICOPE.—A very curious in vention has been made in the art of musical coin position. Cards are prepared, on each of which a bar of an air is arranged according to a certain rhythm and key. Four packs of these cards, marked A B C and D, are mingled together; and as the cards are drawn and arranged before a performer i►► the order of that series, it will be found an original air is obtained. The cards hitherto made are as waltzes, and succeed per fectly. The invention may be called Musical Permutation. It has received, however, impro perly, that of the Musical Kaleidoscope.