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'St. / of wool was soil ing per stone° c was a CO: • priniaro lll , 375. ed. DVI , of Cal tle , en, a gre; e !s than 18' 4 -' ectable g' ° A , vere a g"" lay, at Od i ; hose at est sliov of d ; but the quantity ( ' 3i per o,t'; 'e weiglid; s to 10 1 6 ° : S to 5 1 "- s to 31 1() : s to 411_ . 4: : the SVI' IV. NUMBER 9230.] THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. LAS I' NIGHT BUT ONE. Under the Management of Mr. BOCHSA. TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY, March the 27t b , A GRAND SELECTION. From the great ap plause on Friday last. (and by express desire) as introduced in Handel's Sacred Oratorio, Israel in Egypt, the Recit. and Air, Mrs. Salmon—So shall the lute and harp awake—acconr- Pauied on the Harp and Organ by Mr. Bochsa and Sir George smart. For the second and last time, the SELECTION from a (MS.) Serious Drama, .entitled BAJAZET. Between the First and Second Parts, a New Concertante for Two Harps, Mr. Bochsa and Mr. Dizi, in which will be introduced the favourite Air, as arranged by Mr. Hawes—We're a' noddin. A SELECTION from the Oratorio of THE MESSIAH, with ti3e additional Accompaniments by Mozart. Between the Second and Third Parts, a Concerto on the Violin by Mr. mom. A GRAND MISCELLANEOUS ACT, including a S ELECTION from Mozart's celebrated Opera, entitled ZAUBERFLOTE, or THE MAGIC FLUTE. PRINCICAL SINGERS.—Mrs. Salmon, Miss Goodall, Mrs, ellchambers, Miss Povey, and Madame Ronzi de Begnis. Nlr. Begrez, Signor Torii, Signor de Begnis, Signor Placei, ATr. Pyne, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Tinney, Master Longhurst and Mr. Sapio. Conductor—Sir Geo. Swart, who will preside at the Organ. Leader—Mr. Smart. RICH WHEEL ! ARROLL solicits the. public attention to , the present rich State of the Wheel, which, with ONLY TWO DAYS to DRAW, contains 3 2,000 3 3 4 25 Besides others of £lOO, £5O, &c. (Aid Not Two Blanks to a Prize. The First-draw Pize n TuURSDAY NEXT (being the Last Day but One n r ); will receive £20,000, and the Ninth drawn Prize above £2OO will also receive £20,000! ! ! TICKETS and SHARES, warranted undrawn, are Selling 5 t CARROLL'S fortunate Offices, No. 13, CORNHILL, and 26 , OXFORD-STREET, where he Sold in Shares, the Last "ay of Drawing, No. 8,64.2, a Prize of £2,000, besides Other Capitals ; and in the Last Lottery he also Solid in Shares N 0.11,486, a Prize of 30,0001. and 18,602, a Prize X , 5,000. with mane smaller Capitals. THREE £2,00n PRIZES IN TWO DAYS! H BISII, of the OLD STATE LOTTERY • OFFICES, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, re spectfully reminds his best Friends, the Public, that there ar e' hut Two more Days to draw of the present Lottery; and `"e Wheel now contains 3 Prize of 2,000 3 3 4 25 . All of which must be drawn in Two Days ! 4 * * The very First Prize drawn NEXT THURSDAY, the 4 Rth instant, must be more than £-20,000 Money; and sere -141 other Capitals must he drawn the same Day. Warranted Undrawn Tickets and Shares are selling at tisri% Offices ' where FOURTEEN Capitals hare already been s o ld in the present Lottery ; and as BISH'S Offices are remarkable for selling First-drawn Capitals, he hopes and expects to sell the £20,000 NEXT THURSDAY ! IMPROVEMENTS IN smr—CLOTH, PVIIE -- PROPRIETORS of the ANTl i\impEw PROCESS have to announce the follow ing additional Testimonial : —• Messrs. BROWELL and Co. Feb. 14, 1812. I hive the satisfaction to inform you I have had a fore-top mast's stay-sail made of unbleached canvas, prepared by you, :)11 hoard the Latuna, fr o m L o nd on t o Shi e lds, during th e last four months, in which I experienced very heavy gales nf wind, the sail being wet and dry, and often confined in , ue net, and has no appearance of Mildew. JAMES PATERSON. This is to certify, that the above sail was made by us of B rowell and Co.'s prepared caws - as, and that we have this day examined it, and it has no appearance of Mildew. WALKER and HENWOOD, Feb. 14, 1822. Sail-Makers, Limehouse Hole. The Process is equally applicable to the whitest and dearest ds Well as to the brownest and cheapest_Canvas. It does not I ° the least diminish the strength, but improves the colour 41 1 softness of texture in all. It is effected in a few days, for Pire Shillings per Bolt, and is returned, when sent to them, t o all parts of the town *ithout expense, the same breadth at 'd length as when received. A red Crown and B, or the !lord s rr Anti-Mildew," are marked in various places to skew that th e B o l t h as un d ergone B rowe ll an d C o .' s P rocess .— 41 1-Cloth of various qualities, which have undergone the p rocess, may he had at the following houses, viz. Messrs. balmers and Guthrie, 9, Idol-lane; George Brown, 53, toad-street, Rateliff; Peter Walker and Co. 350, and J. eweng e 76, Wapping; and Walker and Henwood, Lime- Zo Wap ping;le. To 'l'. TAYLOR, Esq. No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. HONOURED SIR, BEG leave to inform you, that ever since the year 1790, I had been afflicted with the Lues Venereal, w hich, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine Prescribed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and un lergoing severalsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis eoarged from the Hospiial with little relief, would appear to b e of the most inveterate nature. In tl.c spring of last year 11 3' kihsorder had got to snch a head, as nearly to put a perio „ d `) my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, 4 5 an each arm, and my leg s were broke out in a frightful m anner; my right was dreadully painful, and had been in a r ate of ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also `Wo large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave me such excruciating pain, particularly when warm in lied, 4 s nearly to deprive me of rest ; in this lamentable state, I ‘‘'as recommended , by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so g r eat a cure by them here), to take your Leake's Patent Pills, ; v nich I began to do on the With N•lay ;in the course of a Qrtnight I began to receive benetit—in little more than a , i l "oth the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly healed -°Oll after, the sores on my legs healed also; leaving No, how , considerable discolouratmu in the skin, and pain in the he of the left, which, by the blessing of God, and a little e:oger perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided ; t he t l nodes dispersing, the skin regaining its natural, hue, and the nocturnal pains gradually going thus because, by rOr liberal advice and medicine, perfectly free from all my k rlaer complaints—have recovered my former spirits and ttilgth, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having ' 4 4i:sued many months, to the astonishment of all who knew is 'e, I am at a loss in what terms to express my morgratitude make but 45 you, for the good of other su ff ering tals, to is , 5 5 my as as public as possible, as I shall on- every occa -4°,1; i y n so doing you as greatly oblige Sir, your grateful, obedient, very humble servant, ALEX. MITRKER Swan's Close, High-street, Edinburgh. _ . Witnesses to the above Cure:- 411 n Thmepson, No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh, John 014 Assembly Close, Edinburgh. t,) repared and sold by the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY CR, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his ~,° l4e , No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; wheie, after a —4 , Stant residence of more than 40 years, in a practice parti rnll4rly dir ec t e d t o th e cure o f V enerea l C om pl a i n ts an d th ose cidental to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable I t ereey which m en o f hi s profession should always observe in s 11, 11 cases, he flatters himself the advice and assistance he F r atuitomsly administers to persons taking this Medicine, will at tainable, and void of all ambiguity. Also sold, by his appointment,for the convenience of those i lin g at a distance, at the Toyshop, N0..103, Oxford-street; Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. axr, Nth-bridge, Edinburgh ; Mi. Callwers, Dublin Band of ; t il e person in every considerable town in Groat Britain and in boxes of only 2s. 9d. each, stamped, and sealed up ;nth full an d p l a i n directions, whereby persons, of either e rt mayeure themselves with ease, spcidoetrtey, and safety. ' LIST OF THE MINORITY ON Am. HUDIE'S MOTION, TO REDUCE £lO,OOO FROM THE VOTE ON THE TOWER AND FALL MALL ESTABLISH MENTS. Barrett, S. B. M. Hume, J. Robinson, Sir G. Benyon, Benj. James, W. Robarts, Colonel Birch, J. Jervoise, G. P. Rumbold, C. E. Blake, Sir F. Lushington, .Dr. Scott, Janies Bright, Henry Macdonald, Jas. Smith, W. Bury, Viscount Maule, Hon.W. R. IVhitbread,'S. C. Creevey, T. Monck, J. B. Wood, Alderman Dickinson, W. Palmer, C. F. Fergusson, SirR.C. Pym, F. TELLER. Griffith, J. W. Rickford, Wm. Ellice, Ed. Haldimand, W. Ricardo, D. ROYAL-EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Established by Royal Charter, in the Reign of King George the First. March, 189.2. P ERSONS, whose annual Premiums fall due on the 25th instant, are hereby informed, that Receipts are now ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices, over the Royal Exchange and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their re spective Agents in the several Counties ; and the Parties as_ sured are requested to apply for the Renewal of their Poli cies on or before the 9th of April next, as the usual Fif teen Days allowed for Payment, beyond the date of each Po licy, will then expire. SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary. ' , V Attendance is given, daily, at the said Offices, for the Assurance of Buildings, Goods, Merchandize, and Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, or while Building, from Loss of Da mage by Fire ; and also for the Assurance of, and granting Annuities on, Lives. N.B. Fire Policies will be •issued free of Expence to the As sured, where the Annual Premium amounts to 6s. or up wardg. GT No attendance on the sth and Sth of April, being Good Friday and Easter Monday. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT - STREET, LONDON: PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES. The DUKE of NORFOLK, The DUKE of RUTLAND, The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON, EARL GREY, LORD BRAYBROOKE, LORD KING,. &c. &c. &c. And Sixty Directors. Managing Director, J. T. Barher Beaumont, Esq. F.A S. AT an ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Members of die COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, held at the SOCIETY'S HOUSE, in REGENT-STREET, on February the 14th, 1822, The Hon. WASHINGTON ,SHIRLEY in the Chair, _ . The following Resolutions were carried unanimously:— That this Meeting is highly gratified in observing that the Association continues to proceed in uninterrupted harmony and unexampled prosperity. That of Sixty-four Thousand Persons who have committed their security to the protection of the County Fire Office, none have been disappointed—Claims having been paid to One Thousand Three Hundred and Fifty Sufferers, and not a SINGLE LITIGATION having occurred with any Claimant! That the acenmulated Funds of the Association, amount ing to upwards of Half a Million Sterling, and the Provi sions in its Act of Parliament and Deed of Settlement, render the Security of the Policy-Holders ample and indisputable. That in the equal Distribution of the Surpluses or Profits, RETURNS of 25 and 20 per Ceut have been INVARIABLY paid to all Persons, who hare continued insured in the Office Seven Years, upon Annual as well as Septennial Policies, which Returns, during the last Eight Years, have exceeded X 30,000 That the Thanks of the Meeting are given to J. T.. BARBER BEAUMONT, Esq. Managing Director, for the unabated zeal, great attention, and valuable services, which he continues to render to this Office. That the Thanks of this Meeting are given to the Ho nourable WASHINGTON SHIRLEY, fur his impartial Con duct in the Chair. WASHING TON SHIRLEY, Chairman. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, At No. 11, Lombard-street, London, (the Entrance of the Pust-Otfice.) • THE principles upon which this Institution is founded, have been adopted after a mature inVestiga tion of the practice of other °faces, and will be found to com bineadvantages not hitherto offered by any other Assurance Company. he Assured of a certain standing, participate in the pro. fits every seven years. A subscribed Capital, amounting to One Million and a Half, secures thti Assured from the responsibility attached to Societies for mutual assurance. Claimants may have their demands on the Company sub mitted to reference. No charge made for Policies when the sum assured amounts to 3001. and upwards. DIRECTORS. STEWART MARJORLBANKS, Esq. M. P. Chairman. RICHARD MEE RAIKES, Esq. Deputy Chairman. W. C. Brandram, Esq. John Martin, Esq. M. I'. William Copland, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. William D. . Dowson, Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq. _. . _ . __ __ Sir T. Barrie Farquhar, hart. John G. Ravenhaw, Esq. . - John Garratt, Esq. Alderman Nicholas Garry, Esq. Wm. Halditnand, Esq. M. P. John Harvey, Esq. S. C. Holland, Esq. George Jenner, Esq. John Loch, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. Robert Rickards, Esq. John Shore, Esq. Edward Stewart, Esq. Andrew H. Thomson, Esq, John Thornton, Esq. John Tn[loch, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AUDI !ORS. AVilliarn Ward, Esq. 'l'hon►as Wilson, Esq. Lewis Loyd, Esq• A. W. Robarts, Esq. M. P. BANKERS. Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Martin, 68, Lombard-street. Messrs. Thomas Coutts and Co. 59, Strand. *,* Respectable persons in the country, who are desirous of becoming Agents to the Company, and willing to give se curity, are requested to apply (Post-paid) to the Directors. IHE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. LII. will be published on SATURDAY NEXT. CONTENTS. 1. DOBRIZHOFFER—Account of the ABIPONES.— 11. Bishop of St. David's Vindication i 4 I John, v. 7. — 111. KOTZEBUE, Voyage of Discovery.-IV. Memoirs of a Life passed in Pennsylvania.—V. BUCKINGHAM'S Travels in Palestine.—Vl. Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.— VII. Memoires do Duc de Lauzun.—Vlll. WESTERN CA LEDONIA.—IX. State of WEIGHTS and MEASURES.— X. Memoirs of the KIT-CAT CLUB.—XI. KER PORTER— Travels in Georgia, Persia, &c.—XII. The PIRATE, by the Author of WAVERLEY.—XIII. DUGALD STEWART'S Second Dissertation.— XIV. MALTE-BRUN'S Spurious Voyages.—XV. COLONIAL POLICY. Printed for JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle-street, London. MINORITY OF 22 ON MR. CREEVEY'S MOTION FOR APPLYING THE 4 PER CENT. BARBADOES DUTY TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE ORDNANCE IN THAT ISLAND. Bernal, Ralph James, W. Western, C. C. Blake, Sir F. Leycester, R. Williams, W. Belgrave, Visc. Martin, John Whitbread, S. C. Barrett, S. B. M. Monck, J. B. Wilson, Sir R. Butterworth, J. Newport, Sir J. Davies, Colonel Phillips, G. TELLERS. Fergussou, SirR.C. Phillips, G. R. Hume, J. Kennedy, T. F. Ricardo, David Creevey, T. Jervoise, G. P. Smith, Hon. R. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1822.' LOYDON JOURNALS. EXTRACTS FROM THE D AMY MORNING PAPERS, March 26, 1822. [MORNIWG CHRONICLE.] The observations on the conduct of Sir Tho mas Maitland, in the Chronicle of Saturday last, have drawn upon us the animadversiono of a Cor respondent. We had said, 46 we will not do Ministers the injustice to suppose that they s are actually deceived, though they are obliged to conceal their real sentiments." Our Correspon dent observes, why are Ministers " obliged to conceal their real sentinents ?" We have a short answer. They are obliged on many occasions to conceal their sentiments, and we take this to be one of them, to keep their places. " Under what constitutional necessity," adds our Corres pondent, " are they obliged to connive at the al leged misconduct of tit* servant ? If you can shew such necessity thtriiill stand acquitted, no doubt, and their servant alone will deserve to be punished ; but if you cannot shew it, I really do not see why such Ministers as the present are to be exculpated before hand, either for their ignorance in the case you do not suppose, or for their corrupt connivance in the one which you do." This would be very admirable reasoning, if such a thing asMi nisterial responsibility really existed. But we can not believe this, without believing at the same time, that all those who since Parliamentary Reform was first agitated have told us that Ministerial responsibility has no existence, and that without a Reform, no honest man can remain long Minis ter of the country, have been uttering what has no foundation in truth. We all know that there is an influence in the Governmentof this country,,i possessed by certain powerful individuals, to which, whoever is Minister, must pay deference. To this necessity, the present Ministers must either yield or turn out. We say nothing as to the morality of remaining in office on such terms. It is, however, nearly as well known as any thing can be known, that the patronage both at home and in the Colonies must be distributed in such a manner as may be most acceptable to the pos sessors of influence. Now, in supposing that Ministers were not actually deceived by Sir Thomas Maitland, we by no means wished to say, either that they were innocent, or that they were on that account the less deserving of punish ment, but merely that we gave them credit for possessing more discernment than honesty. We are as willing to punish them as our correspon dent can be ; and if he possesses the secret how it is possible to punish them, we can only say that he possesses more than we do.—Those who have paid any attention to the observations we have lately made on the subject of the Colonies, must have noticed that we have all along attempted to shew that nothing could be more arbitrary than the power with which Governors were vested.— It is we conceive an impossibility for the people of the Colonies either to make their wrongs known here, or to obtain redress for them. The hap piness of the Colonists therefore depends very much on the character of the Governor. In some of the Colonies there is a popular controul, more or less effective; but in the framing of the lonian Constitution, special care was taken that the people should have no such controul. We do no exculpate Ministerd when we say that it de pended on Sir Thomas Maitland, in a great mea sure, whether a real or fictitious Constitution should be given to them ; and, from all that we can learn, we believe the fact to be so. It is, generally understood, that no Goverdor was ever vested with more absolute powers than Sir T. Maitland has been. It was, we believe, the boast of his friends in the Islands, that he had received from Lord Bathurst a carte blanche. Our object has been, and will be, to place the real facts of the case before the people of England. With respect to responsibility or punishment, in the case or either Ministers or Sir T. Maitland, every reflecting person must understand what it means. [MORNING POST.] The little that is suffered to transpire of the proceedings of the Agricultural Committee are far from satisfactory to the public. We confess we see with feelings somewhat allied to contempt great Statesmen and Legislators debating from day to day what is to be done with 950,000 quarters of corn, with which it accidentally hap pens that one warehouses are incumbered. Upon principle we are not friendly to the interference of Government, but extraordinary occasions re quire extraordinary remedies. If 950,000 quar ters of corn stand in the way of an important Le gislative measure, why do not Government ap propriate part of the four millions with which nobody knows what to do in its purchase ? They may keep it, or sell it, as the state of the market may hereafter render expedient. It may be bought cheap enough if a maximum be fixed ; and at all events it will no longer inter rupt more important discussions. The last Agri cultural Committee recommended reductions in the expenditure of Government, as a measure of - relief. Whether this came from Mr. Huskisson or Mr. Ricardo, we will not say; but we have the authority of Lord Liverpool and Lord Hol land for a contrary doctrine. They say the war created an unnatural market for the farmer, and peace deprived him of it, and that this in a main degree discloses the cause of the distress in this country and in Europe. To assert that war created a market, and that it ceased in peace, is nothing more than to say war required soldiers and sailors, and peace dismissed them. Would not the present Agricultural Committee be do ing a vast service if they enabled the Public to judge between the former Committee and the Statesmen we have named ? Should they not call for accounts of the numbers discharged, and ascertain the effect they and their wives and fami lies have had on the existing population ? Would it not be wise to inquire what an agricultural la bourer now expends, and what he expended in 181'2 and 1813 ? If by so doing a diminished consumption be established, would it not go far towards tracing the source of the agricultural, nay, even of the West India distress ? it can not be too often impressed on the public atten tion, that to deteriorate the condition of the labourer by reducing the army, navy, &c., must injure the agriculturists and those who provided the articles consumed by them, however it might benefit other classes of society. [THE TIMES.] The case, of Captain Romeo is, we believe,' not unknown to the public. It was last night brought before the llouse of. Commons in a peti tion presented-and enforced by Lord-Johrt-it sell. Of the . services rendered to the British army, at the time when its destruction was plotted by the late Queen of Naples, ample tes timony was borne by our commanders ; and the remuneration afforded him was only an annuity of 501., though he has lost his all in consequence of his attachment to us. Of the personal cha racter of this individual, we know nothing : but if this is the general way in which the Crown is made to reward faithful services and heavy sufferings, there need not be so' much anxiety to supply it with ample funds in the shape of useless places, sinecures, and pensions at plea sure. It seems hard, blso , that the man may not have a passport to go to that country. in which his presence was once of such advantage to us. But that for which we chiefly notice the subject is, to point attention to the vindictive and tyran nical proceedings'which, under the name of law, are carried on against certain individuals in Italy, who are suspected of being friendly to the constitutional system. [NEW Tams.] By the French Papers of Friday, we find affairs proceeding with our neighbours mud' the same as they do with us; that is to say, that within the walls of the Legislature a great outcry is made against the necessary expenses of Government, whilst on the Exchange public credit presents a most favourable aspect, and Stocks continue at an unprecedented elevation. The closing price of the Rentes on Thursday last was 89, 65. ; and this leads us to make some reflections on the fluc tuating prices of this Stock, from its first institu tion till the present time. It first received its present name and constitution by the law of 1802, being founded on the Tiers Consolide' of the Di rectory. The price first quoted under the title of Ong pour cent. was on the 30th of May, 1802, when it was at 55. 60. From that time it con• tinued to rise until May 13, 1808, when it at tained the rate of 88.5. including the Dividend. It is remarkable, that this " most palmy state " of credit under Buonaparte immediately preceded his unprincipled attack on Spain, in the month of June, 1808. From that moment, notwith standing all his subsequent victories, credit had received a fatal blow.--The price of rentes in deed did not decline rapidly. It remained for several years at about 80; and at the opening of the Russian campaign in July 1812, had actually reached 82. Even the horrible retreat from Mos cow did not occasion a very marked depression; for at the beginning of the year 1813, the price was 78. 50 ; but the battle of Leipsig and the advance of the Allies to the Rhine produced a very dif ferent effect : the year 1814 opened at 51.; and the day before the Allies first entered Paris (March 30) the quoted price (though probably there was little or no real business) was 45. The abdication of Buonaparte soon raised the rentes again, and on the 2d of May 1814, the day before the King's arrival in his capital, they were at 62. 70. They continued rapidly to advance during the first Restoration, and on the 4th of March, 1815, before the news of Buonaparte's escape from Elba had reached Paris, they closed for the payment at 81. 40. including the dividend. [MORNING lIERALDI One of the nrrost serious grievances in France is the system of delivering and examining pass ports. It affects equally native subjects and fo reigners, particularly in their commercial trans actions. Active and industrious speculation is completely trammelled by it; and though the French, from long habit, bear it better than their trading visiters—like a convict habituated to dance in his chains—yet it has always been a subject of complaint. It has at length been no ticed in the Chamber of Deputies—and the exposure of it by M. Girardin, on Thursday, proves it to be still more teasing and oppressive than we had supposed. 44 This branch of the Police," he says, " has become, more than ever, an active instrument of intolerable persecu tion directed against all citizens, as well as strangers. Even the rights of the Deputies are not respected. Their letters are opened—the seals being broken ; and Paris is in a state of siege. There is no egress from it without an in quisitorial scrutiny of the morality, that is, of the political opinions, of the applicant for a pass port ; and circulars are sent into the departments, which render the obtaining of pasgports there almost impossible, not only to commercial agents, but to merchants of respectable and known character." From the statements made in the Chamber, it appears that a merchant, whether French or foreign, is liable to be arrested for the most trifling informality, at every step he makes, by a gem d'arnte ) who PRICE SEVENPENCE. has uncontrolled power over his person, and who uses that power with the utmost severity, until communication is held with the Prefect, perhaps, at several leagues distance. Such a system, par ticularly when enforced with a sombrous and jealous rigour, is fatal. to the interests of trade, which depend so much upon quick and decisive speculation and speedy execution. These tram. , mels chain down activity both of body and mind. It is true, that in the present-agitated and alarms ing state of France, great vigilance is necessary on the part of the police. " The Missionaries of revolt who traverse the provinces," are, if we are to credit the Paris Papers, " all disguised as commercial agents." But it appears that , at present, there is not only vigilance, but an almost complete arrestof the ordinary movementsof trade. [BRITISLI PRESS.] The corn merchants of the city of London— the holders and importers of foreign corn, peti tioned -the- liarree of Common* last, night that some measure may be adopted for the pro tection of their interests. In direct opposi lion to the tenor of this petition, appealed one from the owners and occupiers of laud in Monmouthshire, praying for a further re duction in taxation, and for security against foreign corn. The relief sought by the corn merchants is permission, no matter how un restricted, to import and sell foreign grain for home consumption; the protection required by the farmers and occupiers of land is the total ex clusion of all foreign corn ; and thus the question is agitated from Session to Session, each party as serting that their peculiar interests are the most intimately interwoven with those of the country irk general. There can be little doubt that the de mands of the corn merchants are in conformity with the soundest principles of mercantile policy, and with the interests of the great body of the consumers ; but in the existing state of the law we cannot understand upon what pretence they now come to Parliament for relief. They have speculated and failed. They had con templated the opening of the ports, and amassed a large quantity of grain, and to do them justice, they at one moment had by their dexi. terity almost succeeded in raising the averages above eighty shillings; but their failure in thi speculation differs from no other disappointment in mercantile affairs, and as in other circum stances they must the consequences of their error in judgment. The presumed inten tion of the Agricultural Committee to recom. mend the employment of a large sum of public money in the purchase of superfluous corn of-do mestic growth, was noticed by Mr. Birch, but it was neither avowed nor justified by any Member of the Committee. FOR THE SUN. Mn 6 EDITOR I -In the trial last week at Chelmsford Assize, a representation has been published of the evidence of Dr. JOHN BADELE,Y, which, without a due explanation, may produce among some persons an unfavourable impression with respect to his professional character. It is stated that, in his opinion, " two drachms of copperas would produce death, supposing that copper produced copperas," the substance in question. It is also said, " he was ignorant that copper did not enter into the composition of copperas." But the fact is, that the term copperas did mean, originally, a composition called, perhaps exclusively, copperas, as ap pears from the formation of the word. Sub sequently this term denoted a composition with the basis of iron and also of zinc. These three kinds of copperas were also called vitriols. The word copperas has for many years past been used only by certain tradesmen and artists who em ployed this substance in their callings. Scientific professional men and chemical philosophers would be very apt not to recollect, especially upon the spur of an occasion, and during the em barrassment often felt under an examination in a Court, the just meaning of the word copperas to denote truly the composition of the substance in question. What happened at the trial is, I ap prehend, rather a proof of scientific modes of thinking and attainment, than of deficiency of knowledge. Dr. John Bideley is a man of con. summate medical education and literary acquire ments. If the accepted term, in the new che mistry, sulphate of iron, had been employed, the imputed error could not have occurred. I am, Sir, your most faithful Servant, GEORGE PEARSON. George-street, Hanover-square, March 21, 1822. *** The foregoing proof of professional liberality might well be expected from a Gentleman who has enlarged the sphere of science, and rendered important benefit to mankind by skill, judgment, and experience, and who is obviously not to be classed with those who " Beer, like the Turk, no brother near the Throne." SUDDEN DEATH.-Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Thos. NIXON, the Deputy Warden of the Fleet Prison, suddenly, while sitting in his chair in the office of the lodge, fell, and instantly expired. Yesterday morning, an unfortunate accident happened in Leith Roads. As two fishermen, be longing to Newhaven, were dredging for oysters in Leith Roads, one of them, a young man, got entangled in the rope attached to the dredge, by which he was pulled overboard and drowned. The other man, who was sitting with his back to his companion, did not observe the accident, and it was only when he turned round to ask some question, that he missed his unfortunate com 4 rade. We understand the young man, whose name was Johnstone, has left a widow and child. (Edinburgh Courant, March 23.)