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GERMAN CONFEDERATION. REIVICNSTRANCE OF THE DUCHY OF ANHALT AUAINST THE COURT OF BERLIN. E.rfrart of a Letter, dated Frankfort,...fpri! 12. The -German Confederation has now to decide on a complaint of the Dake of ANIIALT COETHEN against the Cabinet of Berlin. The matter in dispute is important. The following is in sub s.tance the allegation of the Duke : we shall also give the answer, which no doubt will soon be made on the part of Prussia : " The Ptussian financial adr3inistration has planned and executed_a system of custom-house regulations that, :without any previous negocia *fon, subjects the DuChy of Anhalt, Which is sur rounded by the Prussean territories, to indirect imposts of the Court of Berlin. The Houses of Anhalt regard the proceedings as an open attack on their rights of sovereignty, and as a de facto meditization. The representations made on this subject, during two years, by the injured party, to tl.e Cabinet of Berlin, supported by the rights of relationship, of mutual obligation, and by the authority of various treaties, produced no result whatever.—Under circumstances so urgent, the Duke of Anhalt Coethen took upon himself in person the duty of attending to the interests of his house, - and during the conferences which took place at Vienna, in the year 1820, repaired thi ther for the purpose of procuring new guarantees for his rights from the different powers,of Ger many then assembled in that capital.—Prussia pretended that she was entitled to exercise an authority beyond her boundaries, to put in action a system entirely arbitrary, without the least re gard to the rights of the Sovereigns, surrounded by her territories, even to the extent of cutting them off at her pleasure from all free communication with the rest of the world.--A great question has ' thus arisen in what circumstances a European State is authorized to act within its own bodndaries without any other restriction than its own will, or if in its interior organization it is absolved from any responsibility with regard to its co-estates. — This difficulty, which now agitates all . the poli tical world, has been yet undecided. The Dukes of Anhalt ought to be convinced in seeing the relation they have to States in a powerful condi tion, that they ought not at once to attack the system of the customs, however they were hurtful to them. They ought to betake themselves, as their only resource in such a case, to treaties.— The Court of Vienna had declared the naviga tion of the Elbe, which traverses the country of Anhalt, free and independent of any custom whatever. It was of importance to the Dukes of Anhalt to preserve a channel of communication which Heaven, as it were, had granted them. As . they had succeeded in causing the stipulations of the Congress at Vienna in favour of the Elbe to he executed, which, besides, were found firmly and intimately connected with all the other sti pulations of the Congress, and which ought not to rest on a basis less secure than those which have been already adopted in relation to territo rial right, or the rights of possession in Europe, the barriers of Prussia, which command any of the commercial channels of communication with the German interior ought to be thrown back, and the country of Anhalt will not then fail of resuming its proper relation to the rest of Ger many-. Weighty considerations impelled the Duke of Anhalt Coethen to insist upon this important • object; and in consequence of his great efforts, the freedom of the river was confirmed is the most solemn manner, and expressed in the proto cols of the conferences at Vienna, in 1820, with the formal and declared sanction of the govern ment of Prussia. Besides, it was Prussia her self who, at the time of the congress at Vienna, in 1814, made the magnanimous proposition re garding the freedom of rivers ; and which already, on six several occasions, has in protocols and treaties confirmed by her signature the sacred promise of the several stipulations made at Vienna. To all these guarantees on the part of Prussia, nothing is wanting but their execution. It is very naturally asked, will Prussia stop the first vessel which afier the publication of the conferen ces at Vienna shall descend the Elbe ? Will she still demand upon this r i ver th e i n direct taxes from the subjects of Anhalt ? Six months have in fact already passed since the first vessel was stopper', and the reiterated representations of the government of Anhalt on this open violation of positive treaties continue to be unsuccessful. The Duke of Anhalt has found himself obliged to appeal to the Germanic confederation. All the -world is curious to see inw hat manner the Germanic' confederation will perform this first experiment of its competency ; and if in the year 1821, in the centre of Europe, a State of small consequence can maintain against a power of the first rank, a right which is at once without doubt and beyond all exception. The wisdom of great Cabinets will on this occasion be employed to make known to the world, that in the new order of .Europe the least estate may consider itself in perfect security by the side of the greatest. But, more over, it is the character, eminently just and ho nourable, of his Majesty the King of Prussia, which- will receive on this occasion the most un equivocal homage, when a neighbour, who in his circumscribed sphere might have to fear in a thousand circumstmces the vengeance of the. powerful, can march with a firm step in the way that its duties to its own subjects point out, and secure together with the honour of their family the imprescriptible rights of all the secondary States in Germany." FOREIGN LITERATURE. (No. XXI.) COMPLETE LATIN THEATRE, translated into FRENCH by J. B. LEVEE and the late AblA LE Mox- NIER, with Dissertations by M. AmatrnY DtivAL, Mem ber of the Acadeftry of Inscriptions, and M. ALEXANDRE DUVAL, Member of the French Academy. Much yet remains- to be said respecting the comedy of the antients ; translators and commen tators have more particularly considered it in re gard to erudition and archaeology, but very in sutfiCiently with reference to the dramatic art. M M. Du vAL.have in some degree treated the subject in a dramatic point of view, but being obliged . to be very concise in their remarks, they have in fact furnished notes instead of disserta tions, which have excited the reader's curiosity, and make us regret that they did not enter more fully into the discussion. We are very- sensible of the interest, instruction, and utility, of a work in which. the subjects, the plots, the moral and social decencies,the characters, dialogue,wit, and humour of the ancient Comedy should be compared with the' same qualities in modern comedy; a comparison which might be drawn by analysing in succession all the scenes of the best pieces of Plautus and Terence, and by making a distinction between that which is common to all nations and to every age, and that which is the result of pecaliar man ners and forms of government. This inquiry would clearly shew that there are two kinds of the comic of unequal merit, the success of which, however, is not always in proportion to their rela tive degree of merit : one founded on the nature of man would equally excite the laughter of the inhabitant of Bond street, or the Chauss6e d'An tin, and the resident of Devonshire or Picardy, the people of Paris and London, and the citizens of Rome or Athens ; the other, describing tem porary usages, institutions, and manners, holds up to ridicule the fops of a particular age, and acts more or less forcibly on a particular class of so ciety. A study like this not only makes us ac quainted with the dramatic art, but also furnishes lessons in history, morals, and philosophy. M. M. Duval had evidently this object in view, and they have developed it as well as their pre scribed limits would admit ; but they have been confined within too narrow a circle, and in their supplementary notes they seem to have only laid the foundation of a new work, which would throw considerable light on the mysteries, aim, and influence of the dramatic art. In justice to M. M. Duval, we shall begin by considering an observation which appears to us of some importance, and in our opinion exhibits the true character of the Latin comedy, and the object which its authors had in view ; at the same time teaching us how to estimate the works which have been handed down to us. Whatever respect we may entertain for such men as Plau tus and Terence, it is impossible to read their comedies without b e i ng di sguste d at, the incon sistencies, we might almost say absurdities, with which they abound. At first sight, these two comic writers would seem to have been ignorant of the first rule of the drama, which requires us to represent an action and not a discourse, to make the characters speak and not the author, and to exhibit to the spectators such faithful pic tures that they may be taken for realities. But every thing proves that the ancients never did, and never could, carry the art to this state of perfection ; on the contrary, every thing shews that they represented comedy as comedy, which will be evident enough from- the following re marks : Far from endeavouring to produce what we call illusion, the merits of which we perhaps estimate too highly, the Latin writers of comedy rendered it impossible, by making Greeks talk and act like Romans, and by laying the scene at Athens, while the streets, public walks, and buildings exhibited, represented those of Rome. We see a Greek go out of his house at Athens or Calydon to visit the Forum, the Velabrum, or the gate through which the Horatii passed to combat the Curiatii. It is precisely the same, as if in a play the action were to take place at Lon don, and the scene should represent the Place Vend6me or the Rue St. Vonore. This singula rity is repeated too often to be regarded as an inadvertency; and it is too palpable to have been permitteid by such men as Plautus and Terence, without some motive. The prologues of the Comedies carry us still farther from all illusion ; in one, the actor says without scruple to the spectators, " the subject of this play is an old Story which I shall present to you in a new form." in another, he says still more plainly,--" this piece, which we shall re present, is in reality only a play." In almost all, the author, who resembles in many respects an Italian improvis afore, explains the subject of the piece, descrihrs its progress, and even announces the denouement. In short, Terence,. in the greater number of his prologues, apologizes for his works, complains of a jealous rival by whom he pretends to he calumniated, and whom he calls the old Poet. In the play itself, the characters or rather the actors .relate not only what they have done off the stage, but likewise what they mean to say and do. At every instant they interrupt the course of the dialogue, by long speeches, spoken aside, to apprize yoU of the confidence they are about to repose in the interlocutor, or of the trick to be practised on him, or the reply they mean to make. Now, we see several persons seeking one another a considerable time, in a square or a street, though it is mid-day ; and during the search one recites a number of verses which are heard by another, while a third is sup posed not to know what is said. Presently, it is a vroman anxiously expecting the return of a slave, who has been sent with a message; she sees him coming, and instead of advancing to accost him, she retires to the back of the stage, lets him repeat . a long soliloquy, and just as he is on the point of quitting the place, she still says to herself, 4C I think I had better call him." . In a play, where a woman is brought to bed, we may imagine almost on the stage, as you hear her exclaim, Juno Lucina, fer opera mild! we observe the servant, sent in quest of the mid wife, stop to declaim a long sp eec h, t a k e part in a whole scene, and at length go offthe stage repeat. ing very composedly.: « I am going for the mid wife." It is also to be" remarked, that all these plays, without, exception, conclude with the word Plaudite, addressed to the audience, and yet i ." frequently the actor then informs the spechttors, that the denouement takes place in such or such a house, or in such or such a manner, for it is not always brought to a conclusion on the stage. - {To be continued.) FOR THE SUN. TO THE PROTESTANT ADVOCATES FOR LINRESTRICT LI) .POPISH EMANCIPATION. CAUSE and CONSEQUENCE of Sir HARCOURT LEES, Bart. 'Writing the A NTIDOTE, and other Works, in Ireland. There appeared to be a general conviction that Emancipation was to be conceded to Papists.— Protestants, from gross ignorance of its nature, were petitioning in favour of the measure, from the largest towns, as well as the smallest villages ; either an universal apathy, or an unmanly 'terror, prevented the well affected from stirring ; and Mr. PruNxETT, their great and „able advocate, had just declared, in a public Letter to a Chair man of a Popish Meeting,—" lie was at a loss to find a pretence for excluding Papists from Of fices of trust and seats in Parliament." Under these aWful circumstances of ignorance anti dismay, I sat down to write my. Antidote, and such was. the immediate sensation it occasioned, that in a few weeks it went through five large editions. The streets adjoining the printer's and booksellers' shops used to be blocked up.by• in quirers. on the days of publication ; the printing office was forced, and several copies • carried off, -even my private house invaded by Gentlemen in their anxiety to.get a copy, who insisted on coming up stairs for the purpose of requesting even the loan of one. In short, Protestants' eyes were at last opened, all Protestant Petitions ceased, and have not .since been renewed; and the Popish Petition now goes to Parliament, unaccompanied by a single Protestant Address. On my re turn to my parsonage, to convince me (I sup pose,) I . was .not far wrong as to the mercy and Christian charity of Papists, so fully detail ed in the Antidote, and many subsequent Works, they set fire to my house, and four of my infants, with many servants, were near falling victims to their hellish malice. They formed a conspi racy * to murder me, and even sent one of their sworn Ribbon .Agents to bribe my servants to let assassins into my house, whom I detected in the fact, in the middle of the night, and desperately wounded the villain. - Not terrified, however, I still persevered, and after several successive works on the same subject, not only Papists, but, in some instances, individuals educated for Priests, read their recantation, and, in letters to myself, confessed, it was in consequence of having per used my works. * The two principal Conspirators unfortunately escaped by flight, and have never since been heard of ; three of the others were tried last Summer Assizes, at Monaghan ;—an English man of the 3d Buffs, bearing the best possible character from his Officers, corroborated the information of the informer, who kept out of the way, and, on coming into a crowded Court,lden tified the prisoners, and swore home to their plan, which he had overheard.. The Popish Publican was then produced, " I sup pose with an absolution in his pocket," to swear that the pri soners were never in his house. at all.—Quere, Was this one of the present Pope's active or passive oaths ? PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ORDERS of the DAY, for Monday, April 30, 1821. 1. Conway Bridge Bill ;—Second Reading. 2. Jurors Attendance Bill ;—Report 3. Audit of Accounts Bill;—Second Reading. 4. Supply;—Committee.—(Army Estimates.) 5. Spoiled Stamps, &c. Bill;—Further Consideration of Report. 6. Church Briefs Bill;—Further Consideration of Report. 7. Nays and Means ;—Committee. 8. Steam Engines Bill ;—Second Reading. • 9. Supply ;—Reports. 10. Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill ;—Third Reading. 11. Courts of Justice (Ireland) Bill ;-Third Reading. 12. Stealing in Shops (Ireland) Bill ;—Third Reading. 13. Prisun Fees (Ireland) Bill;—Report. NOTICE .of MOTION, for Monday April 30, 1821. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer,—Bill to amend the Acts for building Churches. TO CORRESPONDENTS. COLUBER, and other Articles, on Monday. PRICE OF STOCKS This DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2231 ex div. 3 per Cent. Red.... 711 ex div. 3 per Cent.. Cons 72gi 4 per Cent. ' ...89.} ex div. 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. 107 ii India Bonds .... . 445. 435. pr. Excheq. Bills 3 5 pr. Cons. for May 72 HIGH WATER AT LONDO Morning, 53 minutes after 4. , N BRIDGE TOZIORROW. `Evening, 15 minutes after 5. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT? LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1821. Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this morn :ng. The following are the only articles of ariy rr)portance:— R PARIS, Aritri. 17. " A Royal Ordinance decrees, that 140,000 men, of the class of 1820, are to be called out. The distribution of these 40,000 men among the Departments is fixed by a table annexed to the Ordinance . ., The ballotting is to commence on the '2sth of May : the first day for, hearing appeals is fixed on the 25th of June, and the closing of the list of the contingent will take place on the Ist of -September. It will be de cided subsequently at what period the 40,000 men thus called out will be brought into active service as well as the mode of their distribution among the corps of the army. " The sale of the 9th and 10th volumes of the Precis des evencmens Militaires, by General Count Mathieu Dumas, has been forbidden in the Austria► dominions. They contain the History of the Campaign of 1803 and 1804. The Marshal Duke of BELLUNO published the foliowing order of the day on the morning after his arrival in Lyons : " LYONS, APRIL 8.— , -Called by the King's desire to the superior command of the 6th, 7th, leth, and 19th military' di- ions, I congratulate myself in having occasion to testify to the troops his Majeity's _ satisfaction at their good conduct, and At the sentiments which they have evinced in a difficult cincrgency. . - " Excited by the intrigues, corrupted by the perverse doc trines of men whom experience has not enlightened, and'whom the misfortunes of their country have not touched, some impru dent young men, and persons of the lowest class of society, thought that they might with impunity raise themselves against their legitimate King. The errors, the defection, the revolt of some factious persons in certain neighbOuring States, and vaunt ed as traits of heroism, had seduced some weak minds. The seditious pushed their audacity so far as to sully the remem brances of our glory, by raising ensigns which could never be aught but those of revolt and sedition. They hoped to make French soldiers forget the honour and the oaths which for ever bind them to thC standard cf the lilies. But on every point of ficers and soldiers showed a just horror of those who dared to believe them capable of dishonouring themselves, and they would have &awn down for this affront the vengeance autho rized by law, had not the speediest flight removed the seditious from their indignation. " Soldiers! Never forget that whosoever undertakes to seduce you, and overturn the State, is an enemy to his country, more deserving of your anger than the foreigner who attacks it with arms. • The one wishes you to sully your honour, while the other, on the contrary, offers to 'French soldiers only an oppor tunity of glory: . _ _ • . " The Marshal Duke of BELLUNO." '‘ The Gazette of flugsburg announces that a lie 29th of March a fire broke out at Pera, and the Chancellery of the Russian embassy and two neighbouring houses fell a prey to the flames On the same day a similar event took place a Scutari. " VIENNA, APRIL 7. " The insurrection in . Walachia and Moldavia 's here . the general subject of conversation, par- cularly among the Greeks. The deceitfu hopes held out by Prince Ypsilanti that Russia would aid the insurgents, have induced many persons to join them, who will repent of having taken this step as soon as they are apprized of the declaration of the Emperor Alexander, in which he disavows any knowledge of the enter prize, and shuts out all prospect of assistance 'ram him. " According to the last accounts from Constant nople, a formidable reaction is preparing against this insurrection, and measures of retaliation have already been resorted to in revenge for the cruel ties committed against the Turks at Jassy, Gala ty, &c. The Interpreter of the Porte, Jauxo Callimachi, has been beheaded, and several Greeks of the highest rank have shared a like fate." i FRENCH FUNDS. April 17, Five per Cents. Bank Stock 1542 f. 50 c. The following information, which we have re ceived from an authentic source, spews the neces sity of a more decided system respecting the State of the British Colonies in America, which demand the utmost encouragement and pro- ection LUMBER TRADE BETWEEN THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA, AND THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. Extract of a letter from St. Kitt's, dated March 17. " The Commander-in-Chief has opened this Island to the importation of all kind of lumber from Foreign West India Islands in English bottoms, and the Planters of Nevis have pe titioned him to do the same there, although that Island is ab. solutely groaning under the load of lumber of every descrip. on ; a great part of it was imported when the ports were be fore opened by the Governor to vessels under the American Flag. I am informed that the brig Mariner, SMITH, from Halifax, called at Nevis a short time ago, with a cargo of as sorted lumber, and that not an offer was made for it. This temporising policy in the Governors will, in the end, be of very serious consequence to the Islands, BECAUSE ALL ATTEMPTS TO INTRODUCE LUMBER FROM OUR OWN SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA WILL CEASE, AND OUR VESSELS ENGAGED IN THAT TRADE RE LAID UP, which will in time cause a scarcity." Pri•,-ate letters from Tortola, to the 4th of February, we are sorry to say, represent that Island as having of late been very sickly. A great many deaths had taken place within the last two months. The ad vices from Grenada also state that the Colony was sickly, and that great mortality prevailed, particularly among the white population. His Excellency the Governor-of St. Mitt's 12ad.caused the ports of that island to be opened for the importation of lumber, for the space of six months, in consequence of a Petition from the Proprietors and 'Merchants, complaining of the insufficiency of lumber to enable the cul- ivatorS to proceed with their crops. The Dublin Evening Post says—" We have ;he best authority for stating; that his MAJESTY'S intention relative to hir. visit to Ireland has never been altered. He certainly will visit Ireland in the approaching summer." On Thursday the Duke of YORK visited the Princess Kugusta.—The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Thurs. day.--Thursday Princess Augusta had a small party to dinner.—Yesterdav being Good Friday, the Duke and Duchesg of Clarence attended Di vine Service at the Chapel Royal, and heard a sermon by the Dean of Westminster. The sub- lime Air " He was despised," was sung as an Anthem by Mr. W. Knyvett most admirably. On the same occasion Divine Service was per formed in the King's Palace, Pall-mall, by the itev. F. W. BLOMBERG, and the Rev. Dr. S. Clarke.—Yesterday the Duchess of Clarence visited the Duchess of Kent, at her apartments in the King's Palace, Kensington.—The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, and Duchess of Gloucester, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. THE CHAR2keTERISTICS or A GREAT MINISTER. lie will not only have honest intentions of mind, but wit- F i n u fl l e u i n e e c n e c w a e i dom to plan and courage to execute.—fle will regard the in ml lo,onnt among the a ti o aGna utmost reena L Great.—He wi his ll i sl ?:ntat power, reaag:o u a p b ra o rt l ol i i s ad : e Ministerials:trnotayrpy party rint in terests of the Prince and the People, as INSEPARABLY united. a it r e e_ all b i l ne c n o , ns i e n cil t i h en e e s e up o p f htheewCilollmte mdiostninacntid national o th 7t is o , f ando a l t o w u el l f ' hated by the corrupt part of the Kingdom, high and low ; be cause their expectations of advantage can only arise from those distinctions, and that influence which RE lag Ours to The honest and unprejudiced part of the nation will uphold him for the contrary reason. —He • will be remarkable, rather for his knowledge in the great principles of wisdom and virtue, than in the oblique ways and mysteries of cunning. —He may be displaced once, and more than once, by the power of Fac tion; but the united voice of an uncorrupt people will restore him to the favour of the Sovereign, especially in a time of danger And the oftener he is cut . ..lawn by corrupt power, the deeper root HE will take in the affections of the Prince and the People, and rise and. flourish with renewed vigour.— His PRIVATE life will be consistent with his public conduct ; he will not adopt, but scorn the degenerate manners of the times. Above luxury and parade, he will be modest and tem perate; and his contempt of wealth will be as signal as his con tempt of luxury. He will be distinguished by his regard to Religion, Honour, and his Country. He will not despise, but honour the people, and LISTEN to their LINITE9 Voice.—lf his measures arc not always clear to the people in their means, they will always be so in their ends. in this he will imitate a' great Queen, or her great Minister—." whose policy was deep, " and the means she employed were often very secret ; but the " ends to which this policy and these means were directed, " WERE. NEVER EQVIVOCAT.."—As a natural and happy consequence of this conduct, should he happen either to err in a design, or, fail in its execution, an uncorrupt people will still confide in him. They will continue to repose on his general . wisdom and integrity, will regard him as a kind and watchful ' • father ; yet though wise, not infallible.—His principles and conduct, as . they will be hated by vile, so they will be derided by narrow minds, which cannot tnlarge their conceptions be yond the beaten track of present practice. If his little or no in fluence •' in Parliament be objected to him, he will answer as Henry the Eighth did with regard to Rochelle, " I do all I desire to do there, in doing nothing but what I ought."—lle will practise, " that double economy, which is so rarely found "or even understood. I mean not only that inferior economy, " which consists in the management of the receipts and issues "of the Public Revenue ; but that superior economy, which " consists in coniriving the great schemes of negotiation and " action.".__The laws he frames . will be generous and corn' prehensive ; that is, in Lord Verulam's nervous expression , " deep, not vulgar ; not made upo n th e s p u r o f the occa , %? , ...„ " for the present, b u t out o f prov id ence of the future; to "'a " the estate of the p eo pl e st ill more an d more happy, aster the ~, " manner of the Le g i s l a t ors i n anc i ent an d heroic 3 l t ti m m anners Above all, he will st u dy t o restore an d secure uPri h and principles ; k now i ng t h ese to be the very treno•th an; willput the vitals of every State.—As by all these means, he rind ; so h e natural and internal springs of Government into 7 0 ling ability e. trill keep up that. action in its full vigour, by e rn P ue, ill o f • and merit; andltencemen of genius, capacitY,and vi . rt eve ; 2.. course fill the most important public statons, he partment of the State..—To fulfil, this groat purpose' , search for men c a pable o f serv i ng th e p u blic, wit'nout regard , sr wealth, family, Parli a mentary interest, or connection.— despise those Mae claims of priority of rank, or soniar l ! . station, when they are unsupported by services pertbrTretb.l that rank and station : he will search for those, wherev , apacoi are to be found, whose active spirits and superior .c_ _ we e promise advantage to the public.—He will not abuse this r refer , indulged to him, of superseding superior rank, bl o P,. ring his own favouriteg. If he finds the a ppearance lity and worth among the friends or dependents 0 b' st mies, he will trust them with the execution of his _o ow° portant designs, on the success of which even his .are his ter may depend.,—Having no motive but the w i s t ure , 3 a s 1,4 . country ; if he cannot accomplish th a t by such inc 3 po iv:r' heart approves, he will not struggle fur continuanc,. but bravely and peaceably resign. AULD LANG SYNE ; OR, CURSORY ;I4°L g regISIr fsca ll et o hl w osa li ed t io t n l ug e t the best Princes can think tlietriscive -caurdea'c anHd o st w op d n an o: re t h ii.ea o ° - • tu erent, when they are backed by the hands of the How insecure 11'11 tb' . 1 . these Time designing heads are , 14 - How fatal total chanires often r rn ove rri to P inn o merous hands find that they have is^ 10° 1 °lel'' ' . ' rimololfueitnsth poison n i riftsehNo:evnri their .stuheo,bews: p t ln i eor Courts enhauedalajd.cesya ia. f or a ue l Is:oleo:8n; o f a esi. i c r t i ti astb:::ii4 itonig:: • How prr.iud* ' r' -, icial to the liberty of the sukic ct ' S troulable influence of one party. time of gi rl ~ How • instructive is the reflection that, in the , by , tac CHARLES, the Commons were as much Ward ev° ' - Army as they had lorded over the Lords. Onsideratioo i g the c as the i r How unsatisfactory to an Englishman that an Army might be as refractory to their Der •de . si , n . their Cornintiisoly Jo. Leaders had been to those who crave then' fecleracies or 0 seca... How impolitic, sometimes, .are Con the welfare $ . held liances ; the occasion Might occur wh en rity of one Nation and Government require that the tie:7olo, it, for instance, a pledge of a ^artieular nature to she U.3 _ . .d 110 . integrity, sectirity;:'igilt. should be broken ; is, then, the ' nour of a Nation to be sacrifieel to secret treaties or s ed and unreflecting Leadeis ? ,:ator:a ththeerniisnele;: CUSTOMS atcd that the n e a.Ev ex brothers their neads to the groliod, and w." I-1 '' w . b • . 04; 7 It is rel - divertise re. have an malts, comedies, shews, and rousicalcrtrantilfy ;sitters' black, but they to tramilc'ts; on duY' °flrt„.etie o'rreganottier bf bowing 11'Y mourn in white. 'They sF ~' ,t..,, ...oula 5.,,,,, heads,aodinay resp -t t any person, while they ow _i.. reckoned they clexterocu'sly9pull their feet out of their 000. I;. death, a favour to a-gentleman or soldier, under semen ! T' i s°o fi,Jl3l,lpan are P u l l! : i a k n - e t n s is?' t t :!, Pit* bellies; the -,',,tons of the criminal, es his father, un ', ri., , ... , ti to have the liberty of killing themselves by rnsf, . 04. way, wh; I is ' ' xpire ? the -c i so wed toncertcd, that all of them e _ _..., same children and infants, are obliged to die in the.n ,_, hour, though they may be 3t a great distance fre!.:, ‘t:ri.ey pass for cowards, and infamous persons, one another. If . an; Of them fly to shun this terrible desti!., ailing to lose the glory - .7r. —at they acquire by this , courage _,,"_ murder themselve The head of their religion is called PAP; . he r whom they adore Ii a God.; his residene,e is at Maco, s , . le , he keeps a stately court, and Qunfers titles of honour and :et siastieal d•- 1,111,...ie5. urn' In the city of Bengal, the barbarous practice of widows lo t t o so that none 51: ing.k__ themselves alive, is forbidden by an express edict a de , 110g1.11; yet still there are somp widows so possessed with 1'fr..51 sire of b u rning thernselves. thinking thereby to a cquire et e a to reputation, that they . brihe' the; govc:rners, and are allowe 4.„. do so, but with this formal the govc,rnors wake a slight„,;, gri st whether the widow docs this of her own choice, wir"o, makes,s them so ins:nimble, that when upon the constraint, violence, or suggestion. I. some places they s',lidi cow a mixture of opium`, bettel, and other drugs, 11:',„?, pile the/' a 0 lerar .cl9r, in good humour, anti take leave of their frint-' smiling counteranee.- .