The Sun. — London, England, 1822-03-11 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOCnE OF COMMONS. NOTICES of MOTIONS which now stand in the Order Book of the HOUSE of COMMONS, for Tuesday, Wednesday, and ThursdaE next. _-_ _ _ Tuesday, March 12, 1822. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1 . Colonel Davies,--Collection of the Revenue. 2. Mr. Thomas Courtenay—To refer the Poor Rate Returns to a Committee, with instructions to consider the form and mode of obtaining such Returns in future. 3 . Mr. Chetwynd,—To consolidate Vagrant Laws. 4. Mr. Chetwynd,—To facilitate summary proceedings before 'Magistrates. Sir John Newport—Select Committee to examine into the best mode of carrying into effect the Resolution relating to the distribution of Record Volumes. Wednesday, March 13. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. I. Lord Normanby,—Mction relating to the office of Joint „ Postmaster-General to reduce the number. -* Mr. Frankland Lewis,—Bill to alter and amend the Turn 3. pike Laws. M. Hume,—Returns —Ordnance. Thursday, March 14. • 1. It 'NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 9 Maberly,—An Inquiry into the state of Public Accounts. "' Mr. Creevey,—Motion on t4e'subject of the Board of Con. troul. 4 . Mr. Secretary Peel,—Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis. F STOCKS ONE 0 - CLOCK. o perCent.l Navy Ann. 1021 India Bonds 495. 50s. Excheq. Bills 3 5 pr. Cons. for Account 7911 j STOCK, MARCH 8. Grand Canal Loan, 4 p.ct. Ditto 6 per cent.... 76H —Ditto Stock Royal Canal Stock — Wide-street Cert. 6 per ct. Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec — lon, March 8,81 i. BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 54 minutes after 6. I clause xist, in id, yet, )ossible ? leaning ge to give )f the isions sforee yt tem sys rrtfrat ly uter ;ills, ould ap the ttor- nent 3 re- e.--- EBT, the sent Mr. .om- S is ands omi- ra c- with races ter ; :01110 ents ate. will onE, ;up deli; ere of .ock Ole Lcti sta- im nit ; ulti s of orn- ,wer eet- Lgri- le a ider )eti is of PRICE a THIS DAY AT, ( lank Stock shut "Per C ent . :t et t shut `) per Cent. Cons. 78 79 4 Per Cent. shut __. PR ICE OF IRIS 81 H pal* Stock 24 ` j° ". Deb. 3 1 per cent. ... 89,- , , 2 ~ ,WCk; 3i percent. ° v• Deb. 5 per cent 41 ----- Stock, 5 per cent.... 41 Exchange on Londe R IGIT WATER AT LNDOI` Morning., 30 minutes after 6. 1 E SUN. SOLEM GUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEJT ? LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1822. We received this morning the French Papers of Thursday. It appears that the disturbances iu Paris still continue, and that the Stuuents of the Schools of Law and Medicine have taken Part in them; and so strong has the spirit of in subordination manifested itself among the Law Students, that the 'Royal Council of Pub lic Instruction has deemed it necessary to suspend, for the present, the lectures and exercises of that faculty. The Chamber of Peers was engaged on Wednesday in discussing th e amendment to the 17th article of the Law Project on the Press, which was proposed by the Count de BASTARD, with the view of still sub. jecting certain offences of the Press to the Trial by Jury. The amendment was supported by the Duke de BRoOLIE in an able speech, which was ordered to be printed, but was rejected by a majority of 121 to 94. The 17th article was then adopted, -and the Chamber afterwards pro , ceeded to take the 18th into consideration. The 'Chamber of Deputies has continued its discussions on the public accounts. Our intelligence respecting . Russia and Turkey is still of a warlike character. The Persian army is said to have taken up its winter-quarters in the vicinity of Bagdad and Irzerum, keeping possession of three whole pro vinces. The Paella of Bagdad, it is added, has acknowledged the supremacy of the .Schah of l'EnsiA, and is determined on uniting his forces with the Persians in the spring to act against the Turks. In our front page we have given extracts from the French Papers, and from Madrid Journals to the 23d ult. The French Five per Cents. closed on Wed nesday at glf. 35c., and Bank Stock at 1590 f. It was reported on 'Change this morning, that Private accounts had been received from Spain, bringing information that General RIEGO has be en appointed President of the Cortes, which has caused great satisfaction to the nation. Virginia Papers arrived this morning to the 10th February. Letters from Havannah of ,the 25th January, received by the Catherine, represent that the whole coast of Cuba was blockaded by paratical picca roons : the intercourse between Havannah and Matanzas is rendered precarious and dangerous by them. A Spanish 74, two gun-brigs, and a sloop of war, were off Havannah, bound to Eu rope, with a great value in specie on board, said to amount to six millions of dollars. It was thought that this would be the last money that Spain would receive from Mexico, the revolution in that country being, considered as complete, two Patriot cruizers being offs the Havannah. The United States' schooner Porpoise has taken five more Algerine cruizers on the coast of Cuba, burnt four of them, and kept one as a tender. • We hear that a meeting of the Country Gen tlemen will be held in a few days at the Thatched House, in St. James's-street, for the purppse of forming a Deputation to wait upon the Earl of LIVERPOOL, on the subject of the present de pressed state of the Agricultural Interests. It is said that the disturbances in Norfolk have sug gested the necessity of this meeting. WEST INDIA INTERCOURSE.—We refer our Readers to the able and argumentative speech of the late Master of the Rolls, Sir Wm. GRANT, on the American Intercourse Bill in 1806, which we have this day reprinted, in compliance with the wishes of numerous Correspondents ; and we do so the more readily, as it is as applicable to the present juncture as it was when delivered in the House of Commons. The same question has again arisen, the same arguments are used in support of it, and the same answers, we think, may be given to them.—The West India Planters Imagine that the depressed state of their in terests arises from the restrictive laws of the United States, which interdict the importation in to, its ports of any articles that are the growth and produce of any port or place into which their ships are precluded from entering ; and that, if this evil were removed, rum and other West India _produce would be in greater de mand, and meet a better market. The. United States restrictions are the consequence of the policy of the British Government from time immemorial. It, has ever been the, policy of Great Britain to exclude all foreign nations from trading or enjoying any intercourse with her Colonies; and the wisdom of her councils will be displayed in a steady adherence to this system, the foundation of her maritime great ness, the nursery of her seamen; and conse quently the bulwark of her national de fence. How far it may be advisable at the present moment, or indeed at any period, to break in upon a system of such importance, when the immediate consequence must be great injury to our navigation, and probable ruin to our remaining North American possessions, it will be well for his Majesty's Ministers to con sider, "more especially as the measure recom mended by the friends of the West India Pro prietors is one of speculation merely ; and it is very doubtful whether it may produce the de sired effect. It is argued, that if the parts of the British West India Islands were thrown open to the flag of the. United States of America for the admission of lumber, staves, flour, &c. the Planters would be enabled to purchase those commodities on better terias than at present, and that it would be' in their power to dispose of their rums and molasses to much greater advan, tage, and to a greaterextent. In answer it may be observed, that though the ships of the United States are restricted from any intercourse with our Islands, yet the article of rum (the great desideratum of the West India advocates) by no means bears that high price in the American market, which might be expected* from the cir cumstance of its being excluded from importa tion direct from the place of manufacture. If therefore the communication should be opened, and a free trade allowed, is it not reasonable. to expect that the price in the American market will be infinitely lower than at the present mo ment ? By the latest advices from New York, the price of Antigua rum was 75 cents per gallon, subject to a duty of 45 cents, leaving only 30 cents, or 16 pence ÷ sterling; scarcely one penny per gallon higher than the price of rum of the same quality at this time in the West India Docks. The West India Planters may argue, that it is of no consequence to them how low the price may be in the United States, pro vided they are enabled to obtain a better price in the Islands than by. transhipping to the Mother •Cotintry, or tb barter it with advantage for Ame rican productions necessary for their . estates. But let us inqiiire whether the event. will realize their hopes. The American character is truly com mercial : the merchants of the United States trade for the legitimate purposes of profit and exclusive, advantage. If they find it their interest to dispose of their cargoes for money or dollars, they will do so, and go away with the currency-of the Island ; they will at no time barter their lumber and flour, but when they , are sure of benefiting them selves. It will be urged, that the planter may in this traffic be enabled to dispose of his rum at what he may consider a fair price, but in doing so, as that price will be much too great to allow the adventurer to expect a profitable sale on his return home, he will look for 'an equi valent in a greatly enhanced price for his own commodities; thus, if he gives the Planter 2s. 6d. for his rum in payment in barter, when that rum is worth only is. 3d. in the market, paid for in dollars or bills of exchange, he will' re quire double the price, or 60 dollars' for his thousand of staves, when the same article may be purchased at 30 dollars by specie or • bills of exchange ; and then let us ask how is the Planter benefited.—Although the Americans do not at present trade to our islands direct, yet large quantities of rum are imported by theta from the Danish Islands, and which of course are conveyed there by British Ships. Great quantities of rum likewise find their way into the United States from New Brunswick and the interior of Quebec. It will be seen that last year between 30 and forty thousand puncheons of rum were imported in British vessels into British North America, and which were received in barter in our Islands for the productions of those Colonies.— Since the Ports of Halifax and of St. John have been made free, very considerable quantities of Ame rican commodities have been imported there by Americans ; and during the last year large exportations have taken place of the articles of lumber and staves _from Halifax to our Islands, on nearly the same terms as the same articles could be purOased in the United States. I f this statement is correct, as we know it to be, can any reflecting man for one moment imagine that , the measure proposed by the West India Interests will have the effect contemplated by them ? 'Why then should it be adopted) or rather is it notob-1 viously inexpedient and most dangerous ?—Open l 'the Islands to a free trade to the American Flag, and the consequence is inevitable runt" to the trade of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,. and great loss to the Canadas ; besides, at the same time, affording the opportunity of employment to an immense tonnage of. American shipping, to the ex clusion of British navigation. The trade being once opened, it will hereafter be claimed by the American Government as a matter of right, and, when it may be desirable to put a stop to it, it may be found impossible, or attended with the most serious consequences. We, therefore, con tend that, on every ground of policy, the ,trade should not be thrown open, nor the least depar ture from our Navigation Acts permitted ; for the positive injury to the Mother • Country will be great, if relaxation takes place, infinitely greater than any positive good which may be contem plated to arise to the West India Interests.—As the measure, if adopted, would be most injurious to the Navigation system of Great Britain, so would it operate to the advantage of the Navy of the United States, and conduce to the encou ragement of her nursery for seamen :—besides, it, will afford such facilities for smuggling into the West India Islands of teas and other articles; that the exports from the Mother Country will be greatly lessened and in support of the truth of 'tliis - Observatiotr, we refer. confidently to the .re ports:of the Special Commissioners of Revenue, who were sent out a few years since to the Colonies. We have still the melancholy task of reporting the continuance of atrocities In Ireland. The work, however, of judicial inquiry, and legal in fliction, is exercised with vigilance and vigour, but with temperance and humanity. We have inserted in another part of our Paper the intelli gence received this day. Yesterday a Privy Council was held at the Castle, at which the liberties of the city of Cork were placed under the provisions of the Insur rection Act.--(Dublin Correspondent, March 8.) INTENDED VISIT or HIS MAJESTY TO THE CITY.-It is now confidently expected that the KING will, within six weeks, pay his promised visit to the City of London, Ever since the in vitation was sent to Carlton-palace, the City Magistrates, and the rest of them who form the Corporation, have been in daily hope of receiving the announcement of the day on which his Ma jesty will pay to Guildhall the honour which he was most graciously pleased to extend to Ireland. A deputation has Ivaited on Mr. Peel, requesting to know' lvhether his Majesty had been pleased to mike, any further communication. This answer, we understand, stated that no day had yet been fixed by the King, but the Secre tary intimated that in all probability his Ma jesty's notification would • be' both early and fa vourable.— Pluming Paper.) . :It is believed that The Active frigate, Captain 4:4rintw KING, in this harbour, is intended to be fitted to take out to Calcutta the Right. Hon. Gconnc CANNING,. as Governor - -General to India. (tfampshire Telegraph.) It if. expected his MAJESTY will visit the two Theatres Royal and the Opera House in the course of the present week. ' On Saturday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office in DoWning-street, which had been summdned by the Marquis of. LONDONDERRY. The Council was attended by all the Cabinet - Ministers. —They continued in .deliberation till past four o'clock. Yesterday . the Duke of YORK attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal', and heard a sermon by . the Bishop of BANGOR. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY and the Earl of LIVERPOOL set out at eight o'clock yesterday morning . from the. Noble 'Marquis's house in SL'James's-square for the, Royal Pavilion at Brighton, They 'were expected to return to town late last iiight, or early; this morning. On, Sunday last :his Excellency Don PASQUA': REAL, Governor of St. Domingo, on his way to •Corunna, was driven into Holyhead by contrary winds, and, with his suite, has taken up his resi deuce at Moran's Royal Hibernian Hotel, at that place. .'The amount of dissent to the plan for the re duction of the Five per Cents. is very small in deed. Up to Saturday the number of dissentients did not exceed 70 or 80, and the stock standing in their namet is under 260,0001. CITY BUSINESS.—A Special Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall on Saturday, which was very fully at tended.: The Chamberlain reported to the Court the surplus in hand of the Orphans' Fund applicable to the discharge of the debt, which being read the Court directed the sum of 23;2001. part of the debt, to be paid off .and discharged, and instructed the Chamberlain to take . the requisite measures to inform the !parties interested therein . Commissioners of the COurt of Requests for the month of April next were appointed. The Chamberlain laid before the Court sundry Orders he had been served with from the Select Committee of the House of CoMmons 'upon the Orphans' Fund, for various accounts, which were read, anti the Chamberlain directed to make the, returns required. On Friday last the Grand Jury at our Assizes returned .a true Bill against John Ambrose Wil liams, Editor and Publisher of the Durham Chro nicle, for a libel against the late Marquess of LozinoNnEna - v - , contained in his Paper of the 20th of October last.--(Durham Advertiser, March 9.) On Wednesday last a Meeting of the Provi dent ASsociation took place at the White Swan, North Shields, when the Trustees and Directors of that Friendly Benefit Society, now in its thirty-third year, resolved to assent to the terms of Government, and invest their Five p e r C e nt. Stock in the new Four per Cents., from the 6th . July next...---(Durham Advertiser, March 9.) Eurl GROSVENOR has recently lost his valuable racer, Belvidere, by. a sudden death, at the stable at Eaton, near Chester. • A favourite horse, the property of HENRY WALuoNn, Esq. of Hadfield .llouse, Devon, died. a few days since, at the *advanced age of Afty years. AND MRS. COUTTS:---Mrss COuTTS, sub sequently to het -marriage, received in presents of money, plate, jewels, houses, lands,. &c. to the value of nearly half a million sterling. .Besides this Mr. CoUTTs 'bequeathed to her his whole property to the ainOunt of more than six hundred 'thousand pounds, together with his share of the profits of his batiking-hou . se.. It is certainly the .intention of Mrs.-CoutTs to make a settlement upon the daughters of her lamented husband to the amount of 10,000/. each, besides certain sums to their children, retaining-however the principal in her own power.—(Mornine , Post.) • EXTRAORDINARY•SUIcIDE.—Saturday, Mr. M. Ranisdale, a respectable •butcherof Kingsland, proceeded as usual, accompanied by his . man, to . Leadenhall and White chapel markets; on his way up Bishopsgate-street, he suddenly sprung out of the. cart, and instantly cut his throat with a large knife, which .he threw up a passage. He was immediately conveyed home to his disconsolate family, in a state of insensi bility, and every medical assistance was afforded, but to their great affliction, he expired about four o'clock in the afternoon. Being a man - in opulent circumstances, his most intimate friends are unable to account for the dreadful catastrophe. HONESTY OF A• 'HACKNEY COACIIMAN.—A Gentleman left a small lioX in a hackney-coach a few nights back, containing gold dust and diamonds, value together about 5501., with some bills of exchange; it was a night coach, driven by a lad, who Carried - several fares after he sat down the Gentleman to whom the property belonged. The following morning the proprietor of the coach took out the corn-bags, and found the box, which he immediately deposited at the Hackney_ coach Office. The owner of the box went to the office; and there, to, his agreeable surprise, found his property . in safety. The Conimisslod ers, pursuant - to the power invested in them by Parliament, for rewarding and encouraging coachmen to ho neity, by depositing all property found in their vehicles at the Hackney coach Office, awarded the coachman 251., which the gentleman gladly paid. Byithe same law, coachmen are liable to a penalty of 201., if they detain any property found in their coaches more than four days. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Duchess of Marlborough, in Oxford-street; the Countess of Aberdeen, at Argyll-house ; the Duke of Bedford, from Woburn Abbey ; the Marchioness of Salisbury, from her seat, Hatfield; Lord and Lady Stewart and family, in St. James's square, from their seat, Wynyarcl, near Durham ; Sir Jdcob, Lady r and Miss Ashley, in Harley-street ; Lady Bayning and Miss Townshend, in Seymour-place ; Sir Henry and Lady Frances Hothain, at the Admiralty ; Viscount and Countess Falmouth, in St. James's-square ; Lady Charlotte Spencer Churchill, in Oxford-street ; Countess of Mount Norris and Lady Juliana Annesley, in Orchard-street ; Sir Watkin and Lady Harriet 'Williams Wynn and family, from their seat, Wynnstay, Denbighshire ; General Sir Henry and Mrs. Fane, at the Royal - Hotel, St. James's-street, from their seat in Hants. DEPARTURES.—Viscount and Viscountess Granville, for the Pavilion, Brighton; the Countess Cowper and, the Hon. Frederick Lamb, for the Pavilion, Brighton; Viscount and Viscountess Cranbome, for Hatfield ; Countess :Mengden and Miss Milbanke, from Marshal Thompson's hotel ; Admiral Maitland, from ditto ; Capt. Hodgson, 10th Hussars, from ditto ; William Milligan, Esq. Life Guards, from ditto. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THIS EVENING.—The Marchioness of Lansdowne's Rout, Berkeley-square ; MrS. Gwynne's Quadrille Ball, Baker-street. WEDNESDAY.—AImack's Grand Ball; Viscount Carleton's Party, George-street, Hanover-square. .. THURSDAY.—Lady Campbell's Ball, Gloucester-place; Mrs. Mitchell's Ball, Charles -street, Berkeley-square ; Messrs. Greatorex and Wm. Knyvett's Concert, New Rooms, Royal Harmonic Institution Regent-street. FRIHAY.—Lady leavensworth's last Party till after Easter. SUNDAY.—Countess Lieven's Party ; Lady Hyde Parker's Conversazione. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. The Lady of General Champagne entertained a select circle of fashionables on Friday evening, at her house, in Harley street, with cards, &c. ; the elegant apartments were brilliantly illuminated ; refreshments were set out with much taste in the anti-room. The party broke up at one o'clock. On Tuesday the Earl of Harrowby had a dinner party at his house ; Grosvenor-square. Countess Lieven entertained a large party of fashionables yes terday evening at her house, in Harley-street. The Earl of Harrington entertained yesterday Earl Euston, Lord Foley, Lord Dillon, Lord L. Gower, General Phipps, &c. at his house in Stable-yard, Stunt James's. In the evening her Ladyship had a party of fashionables. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained a distinguished Party at dinner yesterday at Lansdowne House, Berkeley square._ ' - _ _ The Dowager Countess of Albemarle entertained a distin guished Party yesterday, at her house in Berkeley-square. The Earl and .Countess of Blesinton entertained a select Party yesterday; at their house in St. James's-square. Another Amateur Concert was given by Lady Ravensworth on Friday night, when the spacious family mansion in Port land-place was thrown open to a select circle. The Concert commenced at eleven, and the party broke up at two o'clo c k. WEYMOU Tn, MARCH B.—On Thursday evening, Captains Garth and Kington gave a most magnificent ball and supper at Thomas's rooms, to Gen. Garth, and the Officers of the First Royal Dragoons, the Members of 31r. Farquharson's himt, and to almost every person of rank and fashion in this town and neighbourhood, in thit style and elegance for which the Gentle men of the Army are so justly famed. On this festive occasion, the assembly room was decorated with laurel and evergreen, intwined with wreaths of flowers, and the floor chalked with trophies of victory, the armonial bearings of the gentlemen patrons, and other appropriate emblematic devices. The en trance and avenue were also brilliantly illuminated with variegat ed lamps, forming the cypners G. R. and a blazing star, alto gether producing a most animating effect. At half-past nine o'clock the companybegan 'to assemble. At half-past ten dancing commenced, (the excellent band of the regiment playing delight fully) which was maintained with cheerfulness and vivacity till half-past one, when the supper rooms were thrown open, and exhibited tables profusely spread with every luxurious viand and delicacy that the season affords, together with Champagne, Bur gundy, and the choicest wines of every description. After sup, per, the King" was drank with enthusiasm, and the company -soon returned to the ball-room, where dancing was resumed.— The whole entertainment afforded much pleasure, and the com pany separated at a very late hour, expressing the highest gra tification.—General Garth was dressed in the Windsor Uniform, and we are happy . to observe, appeared in excellent health.— Upwards of 200 principal personages were invited to this superb banquet. On Monday last, Lord and Lady Stewart, and their infant son, left Wynyard for London. tii hen the carriage was within a mile of Stockton, his Lordship was met by several Gentlemen on horseback, and a vast concourse of the inhabitants, who took the horses from the carriage, and ran it to the Vane Arms,whcn the populace gave them three hearty cheers ; they then drew the carriage to the south end of l the town, when the horses were pu t to it amidst the huzzas of the populace. The gentlemen rode before the carriage to Yarrn, four miles from Stockton,when they filed right and left, and made their' bow, which was graciously returned by Lord and Lady Stewart. In the evening, about 30 gentlemen met at the Vane Arms, and drank a bumper to the health and happiness of the Noble Family, wishing them a good journey, and a speedy return to their residence, where it may be truly said they have fed the hungry, and clothed the naked. On Monday last, his 'Grace the Duke of Northumberland paid a visit to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was greeted with the ringing of bells and a salute from the guns of the castle. In the evening, his Grace honoured with his presence the assize ball at the Rooms, where upwards of 200 ladies and gentlemen were assembled. On Tuesday he honoured the High Sheriff of the county, (Edthund Craster, of Preston, Esq.) with his company, to dinner, at the Queen's Head inn, where upwards of 30 gentlemen, members of the Grand Jury, and other friends of the Sheriff, sat down to a sumptuous entertainment. The High Sheriff of course did the honours of the table, and the festive hours were rendered extremely pleasant by his polite attentions to the whole party. The Noble Duke, we under stand, has again liberally returned 20 per cent. on the half year's rent now payable by his numerous tenants. The Marquis of Blandford, now on a visit at Gallo way House, has bagged, within six weeks, no less than 1171 couple of wood cocks, killed by his own hands. At the Anniversary Meeting of the Literary and Philosophi cal Society, held at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Tuesday, the sth inst. the sum of £4OOO was voted for the purpose of erecting the new building, determined upon some time'ago. In addition to five Members of the ordinary Committee, pro tem. ' who are to assist-in the arrangements, a Building Committee has been ap pointed to superintend the general work, till all is completed. The following four Gentlemen comprise the Building Com mittee :—Mr. Alderman Cookson, Mr. Counsellor Losh, Dr. Headlam, and Mr. C. W. Bigge. The Corporation of the Trinity-House at Newcastle have subscribed 25 guineas, and the Literary Club 10 guineas, in aid of the fund for the new building, which will be begun with al most immediately. On Sunday last, the Primitive Methodists, or Ranters, opened their new Chapel at Darlington. There were upwards of 1000 people assembled on the occasion. After service, a collection was made to assist in defraying the expence of the building.— (Durham Advertiser.) KING'S THEATRE.—This Theatre, as usual, had a very numerous attendance on Saturday last, and exhibited a very brilliant assemblage of the Fashionable World. Fop's Alley at times was hardly passable. The Opera was La Gaaza Ladra, and it went off with great success. The ballets were admirably supported and much ap plauded. THE THEATRE.--MISS FORDE, who appeared with success at Drury-lane Theatre, in the new Comic Opera, entitled- The Veteran, on Satur day assumed the part of Polly, in The Beggar's Opera. We were confirmed in our favourable opinion of her vocal powers, which appeared to much advantage in " Oh! ponder well," and in the duets with Macheath, but chiefly in " Cease your funning." Altogether her performance was justly applauded.—Miss COPELAND also was very successful in Lucy. Madame VESTRIS was, as usual, very lively in Macheath, but the want of a male representative pLevents the delusion which is necessary to make stage representations at all interesting. ,„) , „. 46 ,.. -NI N, , - kd (•,'. 'i • ~,,, - , ) e'ri l +'. . " . 41 . e, 2 , . t _o • __- -, 4. 7 " . i '' -t ' T - 2 111701 . g i' - - ' itl i) THE ARMY. DUBLIN, MARCH B. l :The 15th Foot will pro ceed to England, about the 21th instant, destined for India.--' ft 4th Dragoon Guards, with. the. : •7th and 77th ,hoot, are under orders for- Irg-., land.—lt has been determined, we understand,. ~that the office of Commander in Chief, in all parts of the King's dominions out of England, India excepted, shall be abolished. In their stead, Lieutenants-General will command, with the pay and allowances of that rank. On Wednesday evening a part of the regiment of Life Guards, quartered at Windsor, received immediate orders to march for London. ROYAL NAVY. The Salisbury, 58 guns, Captain Win. Maude, fittents th?, . Bag-ship of Rear-Admiral Faille, Coniniander-in-Chief on the North American station, went out of harbour to Spithead Tuesday, and Wiltsail for Bermuda, to join- the Admiral, in • the course .of -a day.. or. two. Major Blanchard; of the Royal • Engineers, with.-a .company of the Royal Sappers and has embarked in tl,e Salisbury, for a passage to Bermuda. The Ranger, 28,- Capt. P. Fisher, fitting at I'ortsinotith,-is7. ; to relieve the.Egeria, at Newfoundland. - Lieutenant the Hon. R. S. Dundas (son of Lord Melville) is appointed to the Oi, Glendower. - Ships at Spithead—Salisbury and Phaeton. In Barbour.... Queen Charlotte, Ramifies, Albion, Liffey, Andrbnrache, five, °weir, Glendower, Ranger, Iliad, Fly, Driver, tirssliop- ' • per, and Shamrock. • . On Tuesday arrivedthe DeP.-nceand Alfred transports, Lieut.. .-• George Andrews, Agent, from the Cape of Good Hope, wits : the 72? regiment, ;under the command of Major Carter. This regiment has been absent from England, at the Cape of . Good Hope- and in. the, .East Indies, nearly eighteen years... The transports left the. Cape the .25i.h of December, at which time the Hyperion frigate, Captain Lillicrap, and-the' ; - Heron and Cygnet sloops of war, were Iri Simon's Bay, touched: at St. Helena and Ascension ; left the former island the 12th;. ,, c- . .. and the latter the 20th of January. ,There was no shipping - at ., ; either of those islands. Major Campbell, :and the garrison of • Royal Marines at Ascension, were in goi.4 health. The trans. • ; • ports came into harbour on Wednesday, troops landed"; yesterday morning. —(Portsmouth Taper of Saturday.) On Saturday se'nnight three Smuggling boats, called the .; • Hope, of Seaton, Little Family, and ,BlaekLeked- 'Maid, of ••• Beer, were seized by Lieut. Weld, Commander of the Scourge cr-- Revenue cruiser, after along chase e during which thesinugglers threw their cargoes of foreign spirits and other contraband goods overboard. Five men were detained in .one of - the boats, and • some of the tubs of foreign spirits were . picked up by tue - Scourge's boats. • INI EIICANTILE SII 1 lAA NG, &c. DEAL, MARGIT 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed yesterday- the remainder of the homeward-bound for the River. Arrived and remain the Barbara and Ann, Hastwick, from Lisbon ; Alfred; Trist, from Tobago; and Albion, Colville, from Oporto.-- Came down from the River and remain the Fortitude Increaaed, Manning, for St. Kitts ; Thomas, Cunningham, for Malta ; and Emerald, Murray, for Belfast. It blew a strong gale the whole of this morning, which has since considerably increased. During the day several vessels have arrived, and brought up ; among them the following :—AVerick, Lawrence, from Virgi nia ; Salmon River, Waters, from Teneriffe ; Albion, Stephen- . son, from Honduras; Underwood, Remington, front Demerara ; Surrey, Garbutt, from Honduras • and Pacific, from Messina.' The Averick has lost•an anchor•and cable. • SEVEN O'Ctocx.—More moderate.—The outward-bound appear all well. DOVER, MARCH 10.—A boat upset this morning in at. tempting to board a ship off Dungeness, by which Nathaniel Simmons, and John Clark, jun., were unfortunately drowned. The master, Win. Davidson, was saved, after being on the bottom of the boat three quarters of en hour. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH. 10.— Wind W.N.W.—Arrived . yesterday the Magnet, Thaxter ' from Antwerp for Rochelle; Mary, 11 atts, from Zante ; and Aurora, from Messina. Sailed the Chapman transport, for Chatham. It has blown a violent gale the whole of this day. A ship brought up at St. Helens, name unknown. SHEERNESS, 111Ancii 9.—The Bee, of Lynn, laden with corn, has been ashore on the Knock, and is now aground near Shoeburyness. A light collier is ashore on Foulness Island, coast of Essex. PALMOI;fII, MARCH 9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived yester day the Camden, Morton, from London for Antigua. Arrived to-day the Venus, Selly, from Dartmouth for Bilbao; and Whim, Sowell, from London for Antigua : the latter had her rudder carried away by a heavy sea in long. 10. 30. MILFORD, MARCH 9.--Arrived the Friendship, Smit, from Bristol for Rotterdam, with loss of mainsail and leaky, and one man overboard ; and . . Aurora, Jackson, from Odessa for Bristol, with loss of bulwarks and bows injured. PLYMOUTH; MARCH 'J.—Wind W.—Arrived the Somer. setshire, Parent, from London for Jamaica. rADsTOW, MARCH 9.—Arrived the Margaret, Cochran, from St. Michaels for London, with damage, and must -dis charge. PENZANCE, MARCH 6.—Part of the wreck and the top part of the stern of a boat marked " Superb, of New York, lies been picked up by one of the pilot-boats near the Lands End. HARWICH, MARCH 9.—Arrived the Blackden, Ball, from Sunderland for London, with loss of anchor and cable. The brig Leda, Wall, from Whitby for London, has been brought in here, having lost two anchors and cables, and been on glaze on the Black Tail Beacon. • LIVERPOOL, MARcit 9.—The Fanny, White, hence ftir Belfast, was totally lost 7th inst., at Black Pool ; part of the cargo and materials with the crew saved. The Hopper, Rain stedt, hence for Helsingfors, put into Whitehaven, 7th. instant; with loss of a stay-sail, and very leaky. Eight vesselS left Whitehaven sth instant, and were driven on shore to the north ward of that port ; one of them (the Dove) went to pieces, aad three of the crew were drowned. SOUTHAMPTON, MARcei 9.—This morning our quay ivas in a bustle from the number of persons bound to Prance.— The Cobourg took 26 passengers to Havre; the Dilligertt, Hero, and Brilliant, sailed likewise for Jersey and Guernsey quite full.—Arrived the Elizabeth, from Havre ; Rose, from Jersey . ; Maria, from Bristol ' • Prosperous, from Waterford ; King George, from Bristol ; Olive, fiom Tenby ; Brilliant, Three Sisters, Liberty, Ann, Pelican, Vin •, and Brilliant, from Sunderland. CORN EXCHANGE, ;LARCH 11. Owing to the late boisterous weather, we had no arriyalq from the northern coast this morning, and but a short supply of Wheat from Essex and Kent by land carriage sampLis ; but a large quantity remained over trom,last week, which met heavy sale, and only prime _picked samples obtained last Monday's prices : all other sorts were offered full 2s. per quarter Lower, without being able to effect sales at that abatement. Fine Barley supported Friday's prices, whic:: were 3s. per quarter higher than on this day se'nnight, in. con sequence of the duty on the stocks of Malt ,on hand being allowed. The Oat trade was rather heavy at the'prices' of this day se'nnight. Beans are fail Is. per quarter cheaper: In Pease and other articles there was no alteration. . AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Wheat, 468..1 ; Barley, 19s. 2d. ; Oats, los. 61; 115 e, 235. sd. Beans, 225. Bd.; Peas, 235. 4d. • The Average Price of rown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending the tah .ay of Marck, 1822, is 335. lid. per cwt. • • . SMITHFIELD 3IARKET, llenen n. • Inthe market this morning there was an excellent . supply of all descriptions of Cattle, which obtained 'last week's pp s,; but the prime meat did not meet with ready sale, owing . to itte price asked being too high.—The price of Hay remains - the same. Beef 2s 8d to 3s 10d Veal Mutton 2s 8d to 3s 10d l Pork 2s 4d to 4s 2d COMMERCIAL REPORT, FROM THE 4TH TO THE 91H OF MARCH, 1622. The sales in Cotton have been extensive, amounting to up wards of 3000 bales, princit.ally in Bengali, at from 5i t0:64, and Surats 6fr, to 71, which are partially at an h advance. — In the Liverpool market, from 14,000 to 15,000 will no doubt have changed hands; but such is the d isposition of zhe im_ porters to realize, that no improvement in value has resulted. —Plantation Sugars have been in good request, and prices are full is. per cwt. higher.—The Coffee market has been dull, and a depreciation of 2s. to 3s. per cwt. has taken place. —Fully 2,500 puncheons of Row have been sold; Leeward Proofs, Is. sd. to Is. 6d. ; Jamaicas, 1.6 over Proofs, Is. Bd. to Is. 9d.; lase - expectation of the restrictions being withdrawn between our West India possessions and the United States, daily gain ground, and consequently will be in favour of pro duce:- Tallows have yielded to a decline of is. per cwt. upon foreign, (Yellow Candle 535.) and 4s. per cwt. upon town. melted, 48s. per cwt. being the Nett price. Much interest is excited as to the augmented import-duty; the general opin ion is, that 'it will be about 17s. per cwt. snaking the full amount eos, per cwt.; present duty is 35. 2d. per cwt.