The Sun. — London, England, 1822-02-23 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. MOUSE OF COMMONS, Veneris, 22° die Februarii , 1822. • 'Roars--chippenhatn, Brecon and Brobury, Leatherhead, i'eckliarci, Leith Walk (for additional provision), Iloniton, ao.t Royston—Petitions for Bills referred to Committees. '.g/hitchurch and Ternhill, Canterbury and Ramsgate, and Oanterbury and Sandwich—Bills. ordered to be brought in. Donington, read a second time, and cooarr.itted. ti.ad Lisitx—Sciutharnpton, Warwick, and SLockton—Peti dons referred. 1 v , RovEl4l:wr . •T.twET BuiDGE Bills presented, &read Ist time. NOR FOLK GAOL • » ti 5 %. OS II RE bthorpe (Northampton), Lower M itton (Wor ,!caterthire), Ellingharn and Ibsley (Brants), and Duxford Bills ordered. 44LDON TOLLS WZST INDIA DOCKS COMPANY :-.IGITTINO—BromIey (Middlesex), and l'..unden Town ox Coa'F'ina C:IuA (St. Andrew) —Edinb argil. No. (for additional .•11 DvisiOll .;k 4 ilDP..vir t. Lanark and Glasgdw - - -•;;ZAIALL DERTS—Salford M 2 rt E 2. No..' I. read 2d time 7?.*v ING—Tiverton—Biil ordered. LIVERPOOL DOCKS—Ditto. • _AGRICLILTLTRAL DlSTRESS—Petitions from Ringwood, and 1 Petitions referred and committed. xford--to lie on the Table. Mr. Ilaldimand and Mr. Burrell to be added to the Committee: ROMUD GRAoZ—Petition of Rohert Taylor Wilde, for the repeal of Acts which prevent the manufacture thereof; to lie on the Table, and to be printed. LAND TAX—Bill for rectifying Mistakes in Commissioners' Names ; mid a second time, and committed for Friday "Eth *larch. Tom TV HOUSE—Annual Account presented, Receipts and Appropriations of Surplus Rates of Pilotage ; to lie on the ' . 4.°Kr:ow Buincr"--Petition of Inhabitants of Southwark, that the Bridge may lie taken down and rebuilt ; to. lie on the table. •ORDERS of the DAY, for MONDAY. I. Ways and Means—Report. 2. Ways and Means—Committee. 3. Navy Five per Cents. Acts—Committee thereupon. 4. Annual Malt Tax Act—Committee thereupon. -.5. Supply— Report. C. Supply —Committee. 7. Arms Seizure Indemnity (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. 13. Population (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS, for MONDAY. 1. Mr. James,—To take into consideration Petition of Persons confined in Lancaster Gaol, complaining that their Let ters are inspected. 2. Sir John Osborn,—Navy Estimates. (In Committee of Supply.) 2. Mr. wlllace,—Appointment of Select Committee on Foreign Trade. PRIVATE BlLLS—Second Readings, for MONDAY. 1. Cokavnes Inclosure. 4. Chep* tow Roads. 2. Mine - head Roads. 5. CaerlPon Roads. 3. Leith Walk Roads. PUBLIC COMMITTEE, or MONDAY MORNING. Agriculture, at one. PRICE 01 THIS DAY AT Tll F STOCKS ,VELVE O'CLOCN. Bank Stock 249 5 per Cent. Navy A.nn. 104 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 79A.4 1031•1 3 per Cent. Cons 78 India Bondc 525. 34 per Cent 903, i i i Excheq. Bills 2 pr. par I 4 per Cent taii Cons. for Account 7Biiii 'UGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 0 minutes after 6. 1 Evening, 24 minutes after 5. TM E SUN. •SOLEIII QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, SATUDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1822. According to the requisition of the Earl of Lr ♦Er?ooi. and Mr. VANSITTART, a considerable number of holders of 5 per Cent. Stock attended at the Treasury Chambers yesterday to hear the terms on which it was proposed to pay it on: The Earl and INIr.VASSITTART entered the Room about half after twelve o'clock. The Governor and Deputy Governor attended, and the Room was immediately crowded. The Earl then addressed the Meeting as follows :-- `S GENTLEMEN—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and myself have been desirous of seeing you, for the purpose of communicating to you the terms on which it is intended to - pay off the Five per Cents., and the measures to be pursued -.7ith respect to such persons as may choose to dissent from those terms. Gentlemen, we were desirous of seeing you, not for the purpose of entering into any discussion of the terms, Int merely to inform you what they are. I will now proceed to read. them—they will then be delivered to the Governor and Deputv-Governor of the Bank, who will take the necessary zu.-ps to hare them made as public in the City as possible." Having thus expressed himself, Ids Lordship then read the following statement of THE PLAN. " A new Stock to be created, bearing an interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum, the interest to be payable on the kb of January and the sth of July in each year, and not to be /Aid off" until the sth of January, 1821 " All holders c,f Five per Cents. who shall not signify their diseent, to have for every 1001. Five per Cent. Annuities, 1051. in the new Four per Cent. Stock. a The first dividend of the new Four pe Cent. Stock to be ,payable on the sth January, 1823. " Books to be opened at the Bank from Monday the . 4th of March to Saturday the 16th of March, 1822, both days inclu give, for receiving signatures of persons dissenting. " Persons not eigrafying their dissent within this period, to be deemed to have assented, unless tl.ey shall have been out of the United Kingdom for the whole of such period: in which ,ca 43 they shall Lc permitted to express such dissent at any timebefore the Ist day of June, 1822; and any persons who may be in any ether 'ran of the world except Europe, to fire permitted to express their dissent at any time before the Ist day of Marcli,•lB23. ." Persons dissenting to be paid off in the numerical order in which their names may be subscribed. Such payment to com mence on the sth July, 1822, and to be continued at such pc -nods, and in such manner, as Parliament may direct. " All holders or Five per Cent Stock will receive the divi llend.s due ca the 6th July, /822." This Paper his Lordship read a second time, .and then presented it to the Governor of the sank. His Lordship was then addressed by one of the Gentlemen in the following manner:— " My Lord, f am aFare that it is not intended to enter into tiny discussion of the terms; but mity I be permitted •to ask vrhat mode is to be adopted with respect to Trustees? The Earl of islvEßPoor.—" It is intended to adopt the principle that - was followed in the year 1749, by which Trustees rvrere indemnified." To some question from snottier GetitLeman, the Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that of course the dividends on the Five per Cents. would be paid in July, to those who dissented from the plan, as well as to those who assented. The Meeting then broke up. We yesterday gave a brief statement of this interesting and important Meeting, which the preceding documents this day confirm. 1 This Plan for red u ci ng th e Fi ve p er C en t s. ap -1 pears to have been in general favourably re ceived ; and it can scarcely fail to effect the object for which it has been framed. While we rejoice at an arrangement which is likely to prove so beneficial to the finances of the country, we are sorry that it should be accompanied by any thing which can even be construed into an appear ance of trickery, or that may by possibility pro duce injurious and unjust consequences to indi viduals. We allude to the conditions which re quire that the names of parties who dissent from the offer of 1051. in the New Stock for every 1001. in the Five per Cents. 'shall; be inscribed between the 4th and 16th of next month, and that the parties so signifying their dissent shall be paid off in the numerical order in which their names are enrolled. One effect of this will be to render Ole Stock of those persons who form the first - part of the list less valuable than that of those who form the:remainder of the list; —for, if the Five per Centsr'should be at 101 or any higher amount ; no one Will buy from : those holders whose position on the list renders them more liable than others to be speedily paid off at 100.—This, then, is an arrangement which induces the holders to refrain from recording their dissent till the very last moment ; and yet requires that they shall all, who are so disposed, express their dissent within a given time'— Besides, is not the time fixed (the 16th March), too short to allow many of the holders to deter mine on a clear understanding of the propositions, financial operations of this kind being to many persons quite unintelligible? _Some few, even, may not be apprized of a measure, in which their interest is so much concerned ; and yet they will be peremptorily debarred from a choice after the day appointed, unless they shall have been out of the kingdom. These circumstances, to be sure, are the less to be regretted ;- for, as the Four per Cents. are now within 21 of par, and will probably advance still further, it appears to us that the terms offered to the holders of Five per Cents. are advantageous. Though the addi tion to the principal of the debt, which will be made by this proceeding, if all the holders of Five per Cents. accept the offer of Government, will be 7 5 750,0001. yet the annual interest of the debt will be reduced by the sum of 1,240,0001. which is the amount proposed to be annually saved to the country. STOCK EXCHANGE, TEN O'CLOCK. The House is crowded this morning, and a great deal of business is transacting : Consols opened at 74 79 ; 5 per Cents. are 104 ;—when the result was first known yesterday of the plan of the Lords of the Treasury, the Funds fell, but after three o'clock there was a great quantity of 5 per cent. thrown on the market, and Consols rose per cent. TWELVE O'CLOCIL—The Funds are not so brisk as at the first opening of the market this morning, which was 78j to 79 ; Consols are now 78i fur the Account, and 5 per Cents. 103.—A1l Foreign securities are on the rise, owing to a number of persons investing their property in the above funds, by which they can obtain a greater interest.—Old Spanish Bonds 59i ; New Spanish 604 ; Prussian 88i 4 ; Danish 35 ; French 5 per Cents 90-5. A long discussion took place last night upon the Navy Estimates. It was rendered remark able by an attempt of Mr. Hum: to extort from his Majesty's Ministers a circumstantial disclo sure of the specific purposes to which the re quired sums were destined ; what particular payments were to be made 'under the head of Searnens' Wages,—Wear and Tear of Ships, —Victualling,—and Navy Ordnance. The proposition was successfully combatted on ge neral principles, nor can we imagine one more in consistent with a proper execution of the services in question, more calculated to obstruct and harass any government, and in many cases that may easily be supposed, more threatening to the interests, honour, and even security of the nation. Disclosures of the kind contem plated of course involve an exposition of the manner in which our naval resources are to be distributed, and, in a great measure, of the ser vices to which they are to be applied, and if the purposes of Government, in these respects, may be inquired into by Parliament, it follows that every measure may be debated, and to a cer tain degree controuled, by that body. And from the publicity of our Parliamentary pro ceedings it of course results that the com munications thus made by Government would be made not only for the instruction of our own countrymen throughout the empire, but of all foreign nations. Such a state of things would obviously, from the very nature of the naval service, be injurious and embarrassing in the highest degree during a general peace ; but on the eve of war, or during the prosecution of hos tilities, it would be little less than fatal to our Interests. These are considerations certainly not to be found in any arithmetical treatise, but which could not be altogether kept out of sight in a discussion on Navy Estimates. Mr. HUME was followed by Mr. CROKER, who not only answered him on the general principle,' but she wed that in many other respects the lion. Member for Aberdeen had made but an unlucky cruise. Mr. IIr.TME stated, that Government had expended,since the year 1817, in the building and repair of ships, no less than 17,000,0001. a sum large enough to build all the navies in the world. Mr. Caorcen. offered in reply a number of details which shewed that the money laid out on these objects in the period alluded to had not amounted to six millions, and the only mode in which Mr. Hum: could have raised the sum to seventeen, was by taking in under the head of ship-building and repairs the expence of build ing docks, dock-yards, and wharfs, of the works at Sheerness, and even of the Plymouth break water. In comparing the expellee of the Marines on shore with that 9f the seamen afloat, Mr. Hum had erroneously pointed out that 350,000/. were allowed for the first and '250,0001. for the latter ; forgetting that the estimate for the Marines included barracks, clothing and food, as well as wages, but that wages only entered into the calculation for the seamen. Such oversights as these are hardly venial in any gentleman interfering in public affairs, but they are capital faults in those whose only claim to distinction is a rigid accuracy. . Mr. BENNET, (who the other night reproved the SOLICITOR...GENERAL for introducing into Parliament the language and manners of the Courts below) declared that the Honourable Secretary to the Admiralty had found a mare's nest ; and that the system of granting Sup plies without inquiry formed one of the ar ticles of indictment against the House of Com mons. He intimated that the Hon.Ge,ntleman had, both in the House and elsewhere, directed the arrows of his wit against Mr.HumE for his finan cial exertions. This, which we suppose to he an allusion to current rumours respecting a Sunday Paper, drew from Mr. CI:OKEg . the reply, that " upon his honour as a Gentleman, he did not think he had ever, out of that House, taken the liberty of _making any sinister allusions to the public conduct of that Ron. Member." We received this morning the French Papers of Wednesday, of which the following are ex- tracts : " PARIS, FED. 19.—The King has lost one of his most faithful subjects in the person of the Marquess de Barail, Lieutenant-General of his armies. " The account of the election of the Abbe de Pradt, as Deputy for the Department of Rosanne, is incorrect ; 120 votes are required for the ma jority. M. Maudre, the Royalist Candidate, had 119 votes, M. de Pradt, 108. " The Minister of the Interior has just pub lished an order that no Foreign or French vessels coming from the North-east coasts of Spain shall be admitted into the ports of France after the 15th of next month, unless they are furnished with a Certificate from the French Consul at the port from which they sail. FRENCH FUNDS. Feb. 19, Five per Cents. Bank Stock 1567 f. 50 c. HERMANNSTALIT . (IN TRANSYLVANIA), JAN. 31.—The public are already informed, that the Hetaerists, - assembled in Bessarabia, have been sent into the interior of Russia since the. depar ture of Prince Suzzo. They are now cantoned on the left bank of the Dniester. This measure at first excited great surprise, but when the arrest of the Walachian Chiefs, Pentedeka, Basil Bar las, Georgias Manas, Soufas, and Karabies was known, all the Greeks rejoiced at it, because all these Chiefs now arrested were formerly insti gators of the troubles in Walachia, and the com panions of Savas, who, by his treachery, 'sacri - - ficed the unfortunate Prince Alexander Ypsilanti and the sacred cohort. They are the men upon whom Ypsilanti, in his well known Procla mation, invoked the vengeance of Heaven, the contempt of mankind, &c. " It might have been thought, that after so many misfortunes brought down upon the Greeks, these men would have refrained from new plots ; but it is generally affirmed that.they had secret connections with the Turks, which were disco vered by the Russian Authorities. " We have news from Jassy of the day before yesterday. The excesses of the Ottoman troops had not ceased a moment. Salih Paella, whose head-quarters are at Fockzany, did nothing to restrain them. CORFU, JAN. 2.—Letters from the Morea, of the 9th January, say that the Central Govern- Government of the Greeks has constituted itself at Argos. The• Provisional Commission of Go vernment is composed of six Ecclesiastics and six secular Members: Prince Koradha, formerly llospodar of Walachia, who has resided for some years at Pisa, in Italy, is named President, and his son-in-law, Prince Michael Suzzo, who is ex pected from Russia, Vice President. A vessel is sent to Leghorn to take them on board. Prince Cantacuzena is sent to Russia, and other persons to other Courts of Europe, to implore their aid, or at least their neutrality-. The Senate of Argos intends to publish a declaration, in which it will promise to adopt a form of Government entirely monarchical, and to accept it from the hands of the Christian Powers. The Greeks desire no other emancipation than from the insupportable yoke of the Turks. " AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, FEB. 1 5.—A ccounts from Berlin say, that news has been received from the Turkish frontiers very different from all that we had heard before respecting the pretended Treaty said to have been concluded between Persia and the Porte. It should seem, on the contrary, that the Persians continue their hostilities, and even that a smart. action lately took place near Bagdad. " Numerous couriers have lately passed through this city for Petersburg', Vienna, Berlin and Paris. " A UGSBURGH, FEB. s.—Our letters from Vi enna by to-day's post are by no means satisfactory respecting the pacific intentions which have hither to been ascribed in that city to the Russian Ca binet. It is generally believed that important events will take place next month, for many per sons consider war as inevitable. The Russians seem to be quite tranquil in Bessarabia, while the Turks make marches and counter-marches, which are of no importance, but much harass the inha bitants. " They are also putting their fortresses on the Danube in the most respectable state of defence. Many European engineers (said to be English) have lately arrived from Constantinople, and di rect all the works. There is no appearance of a speedy evacuation of the principalities. " CYPRUS, JAN. 11.—We have little reason to believe that the next campaign will be attended with decisive effects to the Greeks of the Archi pelago, and the other Mediterranean colonies. They work at Ipsara with extraordinary activity to increase their Navy,, and to fit out as armed vessels all merchant-ships large enough for that purpose ; munitions arrive from all parts, and Europe furnises us with distinguished naval of ficers, whom the peace, or more probably a love for the cause of liberty, bring iu crowds - to the Morea and the liberated islands. M. Varvachi, of Ipsara, has given orders for the building three new ships of war, which are now on the stocks, and their guns, stores, rigging, &c. quite ready." IRELAND.----The outrages continue ; but the accounts this morning are not very numerous. At Eastky, county of Sligo, a serjeant of yeo manry has been muidered, and a temporary barracks burned. On Tuesday the following , prisoners were tried before the Special Commis sion at Cork Daniel Croneen, Edward Hurley, Maurice Walsh, Denis Murphy, Patrick Sweeny, Timothy Hallahan, Jeremiah Hickey, Patrick Mahony, John Grainger, James Croneen, Michael Goghfan, .John 314°1w, Richard Drummy, John Drew, and Bartholomew GoghLan. They were charged under the Whiteboy Act, with shooting at his Majesty's liege subjects on the 25th of January last, at Lisnacoudy, in the barony of West Mus kerry, four miles west of Macroom. Edward Hurley, Patrick Sweeny, and Bartholomew Goghlan, were acquitted ; the rest were found [Extract of a Letter, from New Orleans, Dec. 10.] " The period having now arrived when we can form a tolerably accurate estimate of the quan tity-and quality - of the present crops of our staple products, I now send you some information on that head. The past season has not been fa vourable in any part of the United States for the products of agriculture, and the district imme diately connected with this market has expe perienced alternately the effects of drought and excessive rains. An estimation .of the whole present crop will be 20,000 bales less than that of the last, which, including Tennessee, amounted to one hundred and forty thousand' bales. The quantity of Cotton that has come to market is about - 14,000 bales of Cotton, of which about half are sold; the first sales were made at 16 to 17 Cents. Only three vessels have sailed as yet with cargoes for Liverpool, one for Havre, and one for Marseilles. There are now two vessels loading for the first port and two for the second. The operations of the Sugar plantations in the vicinity go on heavily ; a more stinted growth of Cane has .searcely been known. Re- specting the Tobacco crops they are very flatter- . ing, the growth has been good; it is estimated that the crop will be at least 500 hogsheads more than that of last year, and the prices are very much depressed. AGRICULTURAL RELIEF.--The County of SURREY, or rather a Meeting of certain inhabi tants of that County, calls out for relief from Agricultural Distress—a distress, the primary or immediate efficient cause of which is Lore Prices. But will these clamourers have the good ness to explain how it happens that their own returns at Guildford 'Market, on the 16th instant, quote New Wheat at 81. 10s. to 17/. ! Will they honestly tell whether the average or medium of these two extreme prices is a fair average of prices throughout the County ? Will they say that the sellers, at those prices, are in equal distress ? If not, how and o❑ what principle is Agricultural Relief to be apportioned by the Legislature ? Or can they tell us how any possible reduction of taxation, or even how any possible bonus, could meet a difference in price of precisely CENT PER CENT ? OLD BAILEY-(THIS DAY.) HORRID MURDER.—Mn. Abbot was put to the bar, on an indictment charging him with the wilful murder of Mary Lees, otherwise Duggan, on the 9th of the present month, by a system of ill-usage shewn to her at various periods within six hours of her death, in George, otherwise Dyot-street, Bloomsbury. The case, as de tailed by Mr. ANDREWS, excited the horror and indignation of a crowded court. The case was clearly made out by Anne Smith, Sa. rah Nichols, and Edward Morris, as to the prisoner expressing his wish to kill the de ceased and afterwards sell the body to Mr. Brooks, the celebrated Anatomist. Mr. Davis, a Surgeon, proved the injury sustained by the deceased to have caused fier death. The prisoner made a poor defence ; and Mr. Baron GRAHAM having summed up with great minuteness, the Jury pro nounced the prisoner Guilty.—Mr. COMMON SERJEANT then sentenced the unhappy man to be hanged on Monday, and his body to be ana tomized. MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c. THE THAMES EAST INDIAMAN. EASTBOURN, FEB. 22, 4 P. M.—The Hon. Company's ship Thames was hove off the Beach about 11 o'clock this morning, and is now on her passage for London, where it is hoped she will arrive safe in a day or two : she makes but little water ' • too much credit cannot b e g i ven to Mr. Westcombe and Capt. Hardy, whose perseverance has been very conspicuous: four days since it was considered impossible that the ship could have been got ready, :)ut the caulkers and carpenters have manfully done their duty. Mr. James, one of the owners, has been very active during the affair. It is considered that this is the first instance of a ship of this size having ever been got off on the coast of Sussex for many years. . RYE, FEB. 22, HALF-PAST FIVE P. BL—The Thames East Indiaman, with two steam boats a-head, is now passing through this Bay ; wind W.S. I .V. and moderate : suppose she will be round Dungeness by 6 o'clock. DEAL, FEB. 22.—Wind S.W.—Put back the Asia, Lind say, for Calcutta. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Spe culation, Garth, from Faro; and the Emerald, Murray, from Belfast. FALMOUTH, FEB. 21.—Wind N.—Sailed the Success tran sport, for Barbadoes. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 21.--Wind N.—Sailed the Burleigh, Stammers, for Tobago, having been repaired. All the vessels bound westward have sailed, except the Herald, Young. COWES, FEB. 22.—Put back, the General Palmer, True cott, for Madras., PoßTsmouTH, FEB. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Mary, Mainwaring ; and William and Alfred, Drysdale, from the Downs, for Antigua; and Hazard, De Gruchy, from Gibral tar. Sailed the Olive Branch, Kind, for the Cape of Good Hope. Put back the Vw. Anna, Yel. After the Surrey Meeting at Epsom, COBBETT accompanied C. J. HECTOR, Esq to Petersfield, where he dined with him. From Petersfield he proceeded to Chichester, where he attended a public dinner, at which he was the principal speaker.—(Morning Paper.) The Agricultural Committee met yesterday for the first time since its re-appointment. The only business done was the selection of a Chair man and the choice of the Committee in this respect has again fallen on Mr. GOOCH. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Duchess of lin ckinghem, from her seat, Southgate.; Ma:- quis of Chandos, from Stowe, Bucks; the Right Hon. John Trevor, Mrs. Trevor, and family, in Berkeley-square, from Brighton ; Lord an d L a d y G . H . C avendish, at -Burlington House, from Lancashire; Samuel Smith, Esq. M.P. in Berke ley-square, from his seat in Hants ; the Earl and Countess erulam, from their scat, Gorhambury, Herts ; Rob er t Van ' sittart, Es q . a t t h e C o b urg Hotel, Charles-street, Grosvenor square, from his seat in Berks ; It. H. Vatic, Esq. at ditto, from his seat, Stanmore ; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Webb, in Langham-place, from Brighten. BATH ARRIVALS.—Lady Sarah Buller, Lady Jane Buller, Lady Collier, Lady Cope, Lady Tyler, 2 Lady Tumour, Hon. Capt. Tumou r , H on . an d R ev. Mr. Windsor, Sir C. and Lady Chad, Sir J. H. and Lady Williams, Sir C. W. Burdett, Sir Wm. Call,---Gen. and Mrs. Symons, Majo r -G en . and M rs. Bridges, Col. Bromley, Col. Ward, Major and Mrs. Doke, Major and Mrs. Reed, Major Bethune, Capt. Aubrey, Capt. • King, Capt. Montague,—Dr. Barnes, Dr. Rice,—Archdeacon Sandiford, Rev. Mr. Best, Rev. Mr. Cooke, Rev.-Mr. Ewing, Rev. Mr. Morrell, Itev. Mr. Sherar, Rev. Mr. Wingfield, Rev. D. Williams. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Countess Bathurst had her first Party for the season on Thursday evening, at her house in Stanhope-street, , May-fair. The suite of drawing-rooms were most brilliantly illaiminated. There were present upwards of 200 .distinguished fashiOnables. Mrs. Greenwood entertained on Thursday evening,- the Du chess of Richmond and the La.:!ics Lennox, Marchioness of Salisbury; also, a Select Circle of other Fashionables. The Duchess of Dorset and Earl Whitworth entertained the Salisbury Family on Thursday night. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne entertained the Earl and Countess of Morley; and a distinguished Party, yes terday, at Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. The Earl of Harrington had a Select Party, yesterday, at hl4 house in the Stable-yard, St. James's-street. P 0 E T It f. - On the MINIATURE VOIITI;AITS, Painted by Miss E. E. KENDRICK. BY JOHN TAYLOR, ESQ. liteinnlcx, thy skill can BEAUTY slim With ev'ry varying trace ! Can give EXPRESSION'S vivid glow, Or PITY'S softest grace. Couldst thou, with equal skill, display The features of the mind, , And on thine own that skill, essay, More beauties we should find. For then embodied we should see GENius and Woburn appear, And view each mental charm in thee, To TASTE and VIRTUE dear. And then, thou know'st, thy sister's mind Would well demand thine art, For each with kindred pow'rs clesign'd, Have each a kindred heart. BaxawroN, FEB. 21.--The KING took a pub. lic airing yesterday, in an open carriage,letweeu one and four o'clock.—Her Royal Highness the Princess AuGus'rA, accompanied by Lady MARY TAYLOR, arrived at the Pavilion soon after four o'clock this afternoon. KING'S THEATRE.—The Great Room at this place was opened last night by Mr. WALKER, for the purpose of entering upon a series of Lec tures on Astronomy, illustrated by his Eidoura nion. 'The abilities of this Gentleman have been too long known to the public to require any eulo glum on the present occasion.—lfe had A nume rous, attentive, and applauding audience. THE ORATORIO. -- The regular season for Oratorios commenced last night at Covent , Garden Theatre, under the direction of ,Mr. BOCHSA and Sir GEORGE SMART. The chief performance is entitled The Deluge, the words of which were written by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN,. and the music was composed by Mr. BocusA.— We conceive that Music attempts too much when it endeavours to express such subjects. Mr, BOCIISA has been as successful as most of his pre decessors who have devoted their powers to the same purpose.—There was a miscellaneous act, the music of which was well selected. The chief vocal performers were Mrs. SALMON, Miss STE.. PHENS, MPS. BELLEHAMBERS, BELLAMY, PYNE, SAPID, also Madame RONZI, Signors DE BEGNIS, PLACCI, AMBROGETTI, and Madame CAMPORESE• With such a host of talents the entertainment could not fail to excite the admiration of a nu merous audience. ENGLISH OPERA HOT'SE.-The success of Mr. BARTLEY, last year, in iiis course of Astronomical Lectures, induced him to come forward again last night, and to resume those pleasing and in structive discourses. The various subjects were treated with comprehensiveness and perspicuity; and illustrated by the admirable machinery ex hibited last season. The whole was received with warm and rapeated approbation. • Mr. COUTTS, we are sorry to state, was not so well yesterday. A Bill is to brought into Parliament under Ministerial support for continuing the bounties on linens exported from Britan, as from Ireland, without limitation of i This is very im portant for Scotland, as the Bounty Act expires in July next. A. piece of beef, weig'hing about 141b5., roasted on, the 11th of October, 1814, and which had been in a case, made air-tight, and conveyed twice to the East Indies and back, was partaken of at the Library, in Nottingham, on Friday se'nnight, by several Gentlemen, and found to be perfectly -sweet.—(Derby Mer'cury.) 4 I =l- - A 0 NO f 4.1,14qtp BIRTHS. At Carlow, in Ireland, on the 22d of P:Anuary, the Lady of Col. Sir Dudley Hill of a daughtr,r. In Edgar-buildings, Bath, this Lady of Charles Hickes, Esq. of 'a son. IIIARItIE1). On the 29th of January last, at the house of the British Minister at Flofenee (by the Rev. Dr. Trevor), Charles Boul ton, Esq., youngest son of Henry Boulton, of Givons Grove, in the County of Surrey, Ilso. to the Hon. Caroline Thellusson, only surviving daughter of the late, and sister to the present Lord Rendlesharn. At Clapham, on the 21st inst. Robert .T. Hunter, Esq. of Ma dras, to Louisa, younge s t d aug ht er c f C a pt a i n Thomas, of the Hon. East India Company's service. DI ED. On the 21st inst., at his house ' Queen-street, Chelsea, Mr. Evan Lewis, Purser of the Royal N:wy, aged 48. Last Wednesday morning, aged 75, 111 r. William Chilling worth,, an opulent farmer ar d dairyrnan,'of St. Giles's, Oxford. He retired to rest the preceding evening in good health, except a slight pain in the stomach, and expired in a short time after wards. Pririted and Published, for the PROPRIETORS, at the Svir- OFFici:, 112, Strv.zid, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.