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This Scheme, like contains only Money Prizes—without Classes—and 1 4 ." less than Two Blanks to a Prize—and has the advan• t rite of possessing Double the Number of Capitals, including 6 '• .............. £20,000 j.lO. £soo ,ad - ' . • ............. NUMBER. 9182.] „, r THE COSWAY 'COLLECTION. . . HE Public is respectfully informed, that in SALEPE by RIMA IC AUCTION RY NEXT, Mr. STANLEY athis will submit to , PU, _R in LD "‘NO-Sl. lIYET the Entire COLLECTIONooms of DRAW INGS and by OLD MASTERS, the .Property of the late RICHARD COSWAY,.Esq. R.A. v•The well.krVoWn zeal of Mr. COSWAY in pursuit of every Fthat tended to elucidate the history; or assist the pro ess of the Art of • which he was so distinguished a Profes ir, and the great discernment he evinced in his Selection of f .min the Works of the must eminent Masters of g eie __ and Flemish Schools for those purposes, arc suf . lion "L assurances to Artists and Amateurs, that this Collec 'n contains objects, to them, of the most interesting kind. nroecittiens Drawinzs and Prints will be found in it of al -4.,_e3t e very School. and every Matter. • AMong those of Italy, 1 . ~l it it taierous interesting Drawings by Michelane,iolo, Julio Romano, - Lionardo die Vinci,. Coreggio. B. Ban ;411,1, the Caraeci, Titian, Cangiagi.o, and their Imitators I,4'ttlrilogists. with others which it would occupy too enrich P14 4, 1 ,`! Particularize. The works of Rubens, and his Disci • slid wv.a.adyek and 4orda'ens. are numerous be , youd exateple, T h atone occupy two whole . days of the Sale. tithrollector (.;f Engravings will !,e gratifl:4l with the lin o , t i Many curious and.' remarliabiy tare Prints: hitherto Ala r ,: n( mly in this country by repute particularly one by i; r l” , ogolino, the existence of which has been doubted l i et Y eminent writers on the subject ; others by Baldini, oeNrrLu Maitre an De,..Mare Antonio, • Francia, Julio P p •• lu Caragiio, and Masters of unusual tii orlapt l a c si - day's Sale will contain a valuable COLLECTION o, Bo OKS of PRINTS, and others relative to Art. avi i i e ° ,be Publicly viewed three days previous to the Sale, of 11 0 - " due notice will be given, and Catalogues had at the • rams. NAVY-0 1.410 E, January 28, 1842. 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Year 17 90, 1 h a d b een a ffli c t e d w i t h the Lues Venereal, Pe ' e n , from its obstinately resisting-every course of medicine Ilt h ," e t s ibed by the most eminent of the faculty here, and severalsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis % ed from the Hospital with little relief, would a pp ear t o aty - ,. ; ,tile most inveterate nature. In the spring of last year lo,itord er h a d got to such a h ea d, nearly to put a period Il tl .37e XiSterlCe—i had a large ulcer on the orown of my head, thi r ,‘' 4 each a r m, and my legs' were broke out in a frightful tki, s . n ett my right was dreadfully painful, and had been s m a of ulceration for the last seven years; my left had also ,e large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave , kt 4 - t meh excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed, ry to depriv e me of rest ; in this lam e ntabl e s t a t e , I re be at commended by Mr. J. 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May; in tie course of a `go b ;,%got I began to receive benelit—in little inure than a % %Wu the ulcers on my headand - arins were soundly healed—. ttC,, alter the sores on my legs healed also; leaving, how -441:' c onsiderable discolotfration in the skin, and pain in th e 1 ,)"e of th e l e f t , w hi c h, b y th e bl tst i ng o f God, anda little ~ Perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, subsided ; tl h " u des dispersing, the skin regaining its natural hue', and loot e ternal pains gradually going otf.—l thus be came , by /pr o ; l i et beral ad v i ce a nd me di c i ne , p er f ect ly f re e f ront a ll my 1 complaints—have recovered my former spirits an d t ~nti„gth, and ant bec o me Jolly and fat, in whi c h state ha v i ng rued many months, to the astonishment of all whit knew ,s't ura at a loss In what terms tw in express tgratitude, hut `kl' u tis for the good of other suffering mortals, to make Y case as public as possible, as I shall on- every occa -1; so doing you will greatly oblige, 41r , your grateful, obediefit , very humble servant, St°4 res Iligh-street, EdinburghALEX. 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No. 9, New Bridge-ltreet, London; where, after a tiVitt. residence of more than- 40 years, in a practparti %tip directed to the cure or Venereal Complaints and those 4 eo tal to th e P arts o f Generation, with f hat ihriolable tl e i l e vY which m en o f his Frokssion should always.observe iu tlatt,%.ace, ad be Natters ist hinisdf the advice and asAstanee he miners to persons taking this Medicine, will kkllt..(„tned, by a discern* Public, as an advantage seldom 1 , 41 30 r-)1 ", and void of all ambignity. ;11, 1 , cold, by his appoiritiment, for the convenience of those a distance, at the Toyshop, No. 103, Oxford-street ; i4thuisorough'i, No. 7, fish-street-hill; Mr; Baxter, u tid.ge, Edinburgh ; .Ca Uwe' 's, b lin ; and of r',lPctson in every considerable town in Great Britain and • tni i tt,d, lii boxes at' only A . V 3 each, stamped, and sealed up Ir k and Plain zon.. u lit lIC d . • • Yher ' eb y . persons, of either . ttteroseicti with eats, spend, it:trey, and safety. ;tr►ri' 11 ° ' ua te, 4toll, r °l. ec to ~t at: , l i n e, ine.s' ;0 4- F 01: TIPZ SUN. Mr. MALTHUS'S SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECO NOM Y. [LETTER WA " Les passions sont les vents, qui font aller notre vaissean, et la raison est le pilote qui le conduit; le vaisseau n'iroit pain sans les vents, et se petdroit sans le pilote." What ! are you shaft ? " Ask God for temperance : that's " The appliance only, " Which your disease requires." HENRY MR. EDITOR—The passages which, in my last - Essay,. I extracted 'front Mr. Maithus's work, will have accounted satisfactorily for the com placent feeling which, Utopianist as I am, I bear towards that Gentleman ; and I -think you Must, while-perusing those passages, have asked yout self, how it could have come to pass that a writer who holds opinions so accordant with common sense, and general observation, should have been branded as an enemy to philanthropic schemes for the improvement of society. Perhaps it may have struck you as somewhat curious that a writer of such undoubted ability as Mr. Mal thus should have judged it expedient to compose three volumes,. to prove a fact which all of us ' knew quite as well before the celebrated Essay made its appearance, namely, that if young people will marry and get a family before they have the means of supporting one, they must either expe rience want and wretchedness or become a bur then upon their wealthier friends. In sober seriousness, Sir, I do assure you that this is the mighty upshot of the work on population. Our great countryman, Bacon, knew this quite as well as Mr. Malthus. " Look (said he) when the world hath fewest barbarous peo ple, but such as commonly will not marry improvidently (as it is almost every where at this day, except in Tartar)/ there is no danger of inundations of people : but when there be great shoals of people which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life and sustentation, it is of necessity that once in an age or two they discharge a portion of their people upon other nations." Mr. Malthus having told us, that it is regula tion and direction which are required with regard to the principle of population, not diminution or alteration ; and that our obligation to restrain the imprudent indulgence of the sexual passion rests " exactly upon the same foundation as our obligation to practise any of the other virtues," proceeds to say— " If we might be permitted to draw a picture of society, in which each individual endeavoured to attain happiness 1w the strict fulfilment of those duties which the most enlightened of the ancient philosophers deduced from the laws of nature, and which have been directly taught, and received such powerful sanctions in the moral code of Christianity, it would present a very different scene from that which we now contemplate.— Every act which was prompted by the desire of immediate gra tification, but which threatened an ultimate overbalance of pain, would be considered as a bre a ch of d u ty."—V o l. 3 , p. 86 . Mr. Malthus calls in the authority of Dr. Currie, the biographer of Burns, to shew not only that moral restraint, as regards the inter course between the sexes, is practicable by the working classes ; but that, in one part of the United Kingdom, the practice is, or at least was, generally prevalent, and productive of much comfort and happiness : " In appreciating (says Dr. Currie) the happiness and virtue of a community, there is, perhaps, no single criterion on which so much dependence may be placed, as the state of the inter course between the sexes. 1) here this displays ardour of at tachment, accompanied by purity of conduct, the character, and the influence of wom e n rise, our imperfect natu re mounts in the scale of moral excellence; and from the source of this single affection, a stream of felicity descends, which branches into a thousand results that enrich and adorn the field of life. Where the attachment between the sexes sinks into an appetite, the heritage of our specie:, is comparatively poor, and man ap proaches the condition of the beasts that perish." In expressing some surprise that such a writer as Mr. Malthus should have judged it worth his while to bestow so much pains to prove the un disputed fact that mankind have the power of in creasing by procreation the number of the species, and that without the exercise of fore sight, this power may be productive of evil, I do not mean to question the propriety of strongly impressing upon young people, and especially upon those belonging to the working class, the importance of well weighing the probable conse quences of matrimony before they enter into the married state. This, perhaps, was a subject well worthy of the talents of Mr. Malthus. But when, after having shewn that the power alluded to is pretty nearly, if not altogether, as governable as our other passions: —or, to use his own words, that— " In the present state of things we appear to have under our guidance a great power, capable of peopling a desert region in a small number of years ' • and yet, under other ci rcums t ances , capable of being confined by human energy and virtue to any limits, however narrow, at the expence of a small comparative quantity of evil,"—Vol. 3. p. 81. I say, Sir, when, after having perused such a sentence, we follow our worthy Author in his ex travagant speculations on the consequences of an unrestrained exercise of the power of multiplying the species, one cannot help thinking that he trifles with his readers. " If any person, says he, will take the trouble to make the calculation, he will see that, if the necessaries of life could be ob tained without limit, and •thenumber of people could be doubled every 25 years, the population, which might have been pro duced from a single pair since the Christian era, would have been sufficient not only to fill the earth quite full of people, so that four should stand upon every square yard, but to fill all the planets of our solar system in the same way, and not only them, but all the planets revolving round the stars, which are visible to the naked eye, supposing each of them to he a sun, and to have as many planet:, belonging to it as our s u n h as ." —(Principles of Political Economy, p. 227.) Wonderful, ind ee d ! Methinks I see Mr. Malthus announcing this result of his arithmeti cal calculations to some unfortunate Wight who, having begotten half a dozen children, is com pelled to solicit parochial relief. How would the poor man be astounded at the possible con sequences of his incontinence ! What.an alarm would he excite in the mind of his wife ! See how the neighbouring gossips stare at the news, that this propensity to beget children is going to • fill the world so thickly with human beings, that . we shallnot liave room to sit.d own: th a t we shall . „ 4,„„ , TUESDAY, JANUARY 2 9, 1822 not. Oven be able to sneeze wihout the risk of giving oar neighbour a black eye ( - ?r a bloody nose. This, however, would have served as well as. • Dr. Price's penny placed out at compound in terest, to illustrate the power of numbers. • But What shall we say ; When Mr. Malthus goes on in various parts of his Essay seriously toreAson, as if this geometrical ratio of increase - • was neces- - sarily operative? And yet again, - what shall we say when we• find Statesman, Ministers i NOble•-• men, and Capitalists, with the Edinburgh Re viewers at their backs, gravely, and - for well nigh a qnarter of a century; with all the gravity 'whiCh the bird of night (not the amorous Philorne4 - assumes when the sun .begins to peer above thie7 . horizon, setting lOng faces, and looking soleiimly• l at each other om.theAi4st•inig7irtiace of this grand modern discovery. - You could scarcely suppose, Sir, that . the very man.who wrote those sensible passages (already quoted more than once) . which go to prove that the passiOnof the sexes is to be governed, and• that the duty of governing it rests exactly on the same ground as the duty of governing other pas ,sions, could have deliberately penned the fol lowing sentence : "Thus it appears that a SoCiety, constituted according to the most beautiful form that imagination can conceive, with benevolence for its moving , principle instead of s e lf-love, an d with every evil disposition in all its members corrected by rea son, not force, would, from the inevitable laws of nature, and not from any fault in human institutions, degenerate in a very short period into a Society cOnstiucted upon a plan not essen tially different from that which prevails in every known State at present ; a Society divided into a class of proprietors and a class of labourers, and with - self-love for the mainspring of the great machine."— , Vol. 2, p. 268. It has been. well said, that inventors should have good memories. Mr. Malthus, who is an inventor of the first water, ought not to have lost sight of this inevitable law of nature, when he favours us witlr-his own scheme for ameliorating the state of society. Among the forms of society which " imagination can conceive," (and recol lect it is to all these,without any exception, that the foregoing sentence applies) is that which Mr. Malthus himself has fancied, " in which each in dividual endeavoured to attain happiness by the strict fUlfilment of these duties, which the most enlightened of the ancient Philosophers (not your clay dreamers) deduced from the laws of nature, and which have been directly taught; and re ceived such powerful sanctions in the moral code of Christianity." Ah ! Mr. Malthus, you area Christian ; a teacher of Christianity, and, ac cording to a form prescribed by its Holy Founder, you pray daily that " Gon's will may be done on earth as it is in heaven," and you have your. self told us how we are to ascertain what is the will of GOD. " According to the genuine principles of' moral science (say you), the method of coming at the will of God from the light of nature, is to inquire into the tendency of the action to pro. mote or diminish the general happiness."—Vol. 3, p. 98. And yet you find by the light of nature, a law of nature directly opposed to the will of God. Did Jesus'Christlinow any thing of this ine vitable law of nature, which you Say would over throw .a society 4c in which every evil disposition in all its members was corrected by reason ?" I hope not. If he had, it is not to be believed that he would have taught us to pray for the establishment on earth of that very state of society' which you tell us, if it existed to-morrow, would be cast down and destroyed by an inevitable law of nature ; that is to say, by a law of nature more powerful than the will of the Creator and Go hyernor of the world, whose power no creature is able to resist. But you d'o not, perhaps, deem it allowable for an unlearned Layman to preach. You may say, with the French Sgavans before the Revolution, that what is theologically true, may be philoso phically false.; and vice versa, that you are rea soning from facts and past experience, and are not talking-of miraculous interpositions. shall have a great deal to say hereafter (always presuming that you, Mr. Editor, will continue Co grant me the same indulgence which I have hitherto experienced at your hands), concerning many distinctions which have been - made, where no difference appears to exist ; and especially as to the distinction between the laws of nature and the conduct of Divine Providence. At present I am content to forego'all advantages derivable from theological- sourdes, and to combat Mr. Malthus on the lower ground which he has taken. lie has reviewed the state o► society in former periods, and carefully compared it with its present state in various parts of the world ; and from that survey he has arrived at a know , ledge of the laws which fix the destiny of man. And an awful destiny it is, according to some parts of his work, He tells us that, by an ine vitable law of nature, the human species doubles itself in 25 years ;-- , -that no human institutions, however wise, can evade its force ;—and that even a' state of society, in which every evil disposition in all its weathers was corrected by reason, could not stand against it for the short 'space of two . generations. Do I deal, uthirly with Mr. Malthus ? Have' I. not given you, agaiti . and again, his very word.;, text an:l con text? . His obServation' is not that the law in questio❑ would be too strong. for the scheme . of More, or Condorcet, or Godwin; but for any the most beautiful that imagination can conceive, " with benevolence for its moving principle, hi, stead of self-love, and with every evil disposition in all its members corrected by reason; by rea son, not by fancy, and consequently by all those reasonings which the author has himself urged with a view to the proper guidance of that power which is capable of peopling a desart region in a small number of years;. and yet,. under other circumstances, is capable of being confined, by human energy and virtue, to any limits, however ilarrow, at• the expence of a small• comparative quantity of evil."—Oh Mr. Malthus, Mr. Mal thus, what precious lOgic is this ! and how pre cibusly have you be-deviled the wits of the good people of England with this grand discovery of your's, this geometrical ratio, this huge levia than, this enormous craken, which you have fished up from the bottom of the ocean whilre he had been slumbering from the days of good-Man Adam, to the year of grace 1800, when, to the astonishment of mankind, came forth The Essay; and the great men and the rulers, and the mighty of the earth, worshipped the Beast; saying, who' is like unto the beast, who is able to make war with him ? _• Sir, either • Mr.' Malthus believed,_ and seri 'ously intended us. to believe, that there is an inevitable law of nature which has , baffled, and _ever will baffle, the attemptS of the wisest and begi of men to construct a happy state-of society, or when he wrote that passage he knew that he was stating a false proposition. Ido not charge him with having wilfully attempted to pass a gross untruth upon his readers. 1 hold him to be wholly incapable of so base an act but his moral character is saved, " so as by fire :" he escapes without a shred or a patch upon him, from the conflagration of the woad, hay,. stub ble, which he had so ingeniously put together. As for his theory of the ratios,. it stands before us in all its native deformity and impotency, and must be pronounced to be at once the ugliest and flimsiest of bugbears that ever served to scare poor mortals. I freely confess that in contem plating the mischief which Mr: Malthus has done, is doing, and purposes to do, by means of his ratio, a feeling of indignation has arisen in my mind that nearly overpowers those kindlier sen timents which I expressed in a former Essay. To recover them I must fix my attention on those better parts of his work which, while they re deem his morality and humanity, completely stultify his philosophy, and indelibly fix upon his Essay the character of absurdity. After having told us that this inevitable law of nature, not a law affecting the tides, or the atmosphere, or minerals, or fossils, or fish, or in sects, or birds, or the beasts that perish, but this inevitable law of human nature, is, nevertheless, and although it be inevitable, entirely under the guidance of human energy and virtue ; that a power which mocks all human institutions, is to be regulated by a few simple expedients of his devising, Mr. - Malthus permits us to hope, nay he actually encourages us to expect that, in . spite of the . said inevitable law, the true knowledge of the nature of that law, that is to say, a knowledge of its inevitable, uncon , . trolable power, and of the evils it has pro duced, will enable mankind, although human institutions be as feathers and straws, which float on the surface, and are carried down the resistless current of that law to work our way, by the means of these very feathers and straws, against this impetuous stream, and at sonic time or other to reach a safe harbour in some snug cove or creek, little affected by its course.—blear him. " It would indeed be a melancholy reflection, that while the views of physical science are daily enlarging, so as scarcely to be bounded by the most distant horizon, the science of moral and political philosophy should be confined within such narrow limits, or at best be so feeble as to be unable to counteract the -obstacles to human happiness arising from a single cause." Indeed! -It would, doubtless, be a melancholy reflection ;—but, Sir, it would be quite as well founded as it was melancholy, if what Mr. Mal thus had previously told us be true, that this single cause is beyond all comparison more powerful than all other catises put together : that is, in fact, no other than the power of the Almighty himself, manifested in an -inevitable law of his own appointment ; unless it should be intended that the laws of nature have been imposed by something different and dis tinct frOm the Author of Nature, a suppo sition which is of Manicheau origin. Against such a law, then, imposed by such an authority as Nature itself, human efforts would be as vain and inefficacious as an attempt to " stay the in flubnces. of the Pleiades, or to loose the bands of Orion." Then, what becomes of,Mr. Malthus's expedients for strengthening the operation of moral restraint ? What rational hope of succ ess can be founded upon them ? Oh yes, says Mr. Malthus, it would be a melancholy reflection," that the science of moral and political philosophy should be so feeble as to be unable to counteract the obstacles to htiman happiness arising from a single cause."—But Mr. Malthus really must repeat the' question), have you not told us that this single cause is an inevitable law ?—Can you deny it—will you eat your words?--In God's name then digest them, and never cast them up from this day fOrth and for ever more, And .thus, Sir, we have got rid of this geometrical ra tio, of this inevitable law, which is avoided with about as much ease . as we keep our hands from picking and stealing, our tongues from evil speak ing, lying, and slandering: Mr. Malthus has told us, and I believe truly, that we have the power of doubling our species in a given time; in a very short time. And what then ? Power, does he say ? Why, who doubts or ever dreamed of denying that man has powers and faculties ; and who ever doubted that these powers and faculties may be exercised., or restrained, used or abused ? Enough., enough—never surely—since the in vention - of printing:, *as the press employed in giving circulation, under the designation of philo sophy, to such palpable absurdity, such arrant drivelling—such - grave nonsense, as is to he found in this same Essay, in which Mr. Malthus has staked his claim to immortality, as the discoverer ota hidden ,- frbm ages and generations, but made manifeA in the nineteenth.century for the edification of Statesmen and, Rulers'. Sir; has not, think you, Mr. Malthus been laughing in his ' ~ I ,•- • , ft 9, 4 . . - , * ,,k„:,v,,,f,4„,„,:,,,,t,i_ ~..„..._,,,_.,...,w „...,...\..„?....._• . . ~./c,r---, - , - ,rfr ....,.._, )• _ — "l'-' 7 . - - - • • he Olt e . ,, ,, ~--- ,_--.--.,.-.%...,,,,,, ~,,,)),,,r._ . ..„..„-nr, 1, 4,, - ~.4 , ,,,__ .. , 0 ,- , s , -...,/,w,x._ -v_,- , ---t-- - - -- ,, , ,„mrir4T., ---- 1 4- Pl n iii iir s ' ' c , PRICE OEVENPENc,E. sleeve at these Statesmen for. the last..twenly years ? 1 venture at events to predict, that very Soon the rest of the world till .burst into a Joliet laugh at the very sound of the word P,op.ulationi and 1 hope Mr. Malthus will have the candour and good hum Our to join in the laugh. He can afford it ; for his talents are admitted: on all hands to be of a superior rank.. Ale -- sirrahquoth —we shall . " Do nothing but eat and make good cheer, And praise heaven for the, merry year, When flesh is cheap, and 'females dear, And lusty lads roam here and there, • So merrily, And ever among so merrily." Dear Mr. Editor, I remain s your's as ever, , INDEX. Jeri. 23, 1622. MEET/NG OF PARLIAMENT. It ha's already bee; stated that the arrange meats for the opening of the approaching Parlia ment will be under the sole controul of the Lord Great Chamberlain Of England, 'Lord GWYDThL; hence much of the confusion that has heretofore arisen on like occasions, from the improperissaes of tickets by Officers connected with the houses of Lords, fs:c. will be prevented ; and yesterday .his Lordship's Secretary, Dorset Fellowes, Esq. commenced the issue of tickets from the Lord Gnat Chamberlain's Office in the House of Lords. Those for the accommodation of the se veral branches of the Royal Family, the Peers and Peeresses, the Foreign Ambassadors and other persons of distinction, were first sent off. They are for what is termed the body of the House, the grand Chamber, in which the splen did new Throne is stationed, and where the Peers of the Realm carry on their debates.— These tickets are on a pink ground, with the Lord Great Chamberlain's Seal of Office stamped at the upper and left hand corner.—The tickets for the several places are of different colours, and thus the various parties may be for Warded to their proper stations with the completeit promptitude. To admit " strangers" below the bar, the cards are of a like shape and . similarly stamped, but are on a yellow ground. —Of these cards there have been a liberal issue to individuals connected with the public Press of the country, and attention will be paid to the comfortable accommodation of these Gentlemen. It reflects great credit on the Lord Great Chamberlain and his Secretary, to find them liberally pursuing that course which was adopted. at the late Coronation—affording air possible facilities to Gentlemen connected with the Newspaper Press. They who fear it are the only persons who pretend to treat it with disre spect.—For the old House of Lords, through which (as well as the Painted Chamber) his Majesty must pass to the Royal .Robing room, and thence into the House of Peers, to deliver the Speech, the cards are Pomo na or French green.--For the Painted . Chem , her, &c. other colours are adopted, so that the greatest regularity may be preserved, as the company can be instantaneously forwarded to the allotted places. This 'being the first time , of his Majesty's meeting the P4trliament after the Coronation, on which occasion the King will ap pear wearing the Crown ; and as there will be' uncommon anxiety, owing to the state of the' country, to hear the contents of the Speech from: the Throne on the opening of Parliament : the attendance will he immense, as is known by the application, for tickets that have already been made.—(Morning Paver.) The very great satisfaction the plan -adoptea in former Lotteries gave to persons residing io. the Country, has induced T. Bisn to repeat it in the present, especially as he had been so for litnate in selecting, for advertised Numbers, SQ. many Capital Prizes. The undermentioned. Tickets are reserved for such persons as may order them; and as inany, of the numbers, for merly advertised, were approved by various in dividuals in London,•it has been thought advisa ble, for the convenience of the Public, to have part at the east and part at the west en d o f th e Town. The following ,rroy be had in WhQle Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths,. or Six teenths,. at . Brsn's Offices, 4, Cornliill, _or 9, Charing-cross :- 3 560 No. 328 3,900 No. 60s 14391 4,203 No. 699 4,045 4,354 1,415 . 3,726 1,414 1,441 4.419 1,393 4,355 • 4.448 1,444 5,287 1,443 2,660 5,423 9,681 4,441 5,571 9,682 5,616 2,666 2,683 50Troi 9,593 5,678 • 5,656 1;1.63 No. 314 3,184 3,1'27 I • No. 649 3,199 1 No. co The present Lottery commences on the 26th of. NEX' MONTH, and contans .Fr.vc Money Prizes of ,e2o o oo=—S ev en t y other Money Capita-Is— Not Two Blanks to a Prize ! —No Stock Prizes. No Classes—Every Ticket drawn singly, each. s deciding its own fate and, no other. PRESENT PRICE. Ticlift £l9 • 48 0. Half ... l'lo 17° 0 I Eighth .. £2 1g 6 Coalter 5 8 . 31 SixTretitli . - 1 s' •u In last Lottery Bpsic sold 15 Capitals—tire Wliole Lottery only. had 33! ! . 4 * Letters,.posf paid, duly answered. The Anniversary of Mr. Fox'4birth-day was relebraied on Wednesday, at- Edinburgh, with' equal zeal as at Norwich. Among. the company who met for the. purpose at the Waterloo in that city, were Sir Rox.AtUFEacussott, M. P. in tile Chair, stipported on the . right by the Ig,tri of itossr.:Y! , r, and . It. FEICGIY3SO-*, of Raith, ; and on the Feft by . Lord LOtrantittßoudn l and the Hen. Wl'LliriVtir IVEAVEF; ) M. P. ; FitiAN o.ls J EFFaty,, Ent.. crobpiet.