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1 ... - . VI ;41104 i f, v.-- VW I..nea-*.1.% s r 3 a 4 ~K : 01/45.; ~~ IN UMBER 9470 GAS LIGHT SHALES, West Middlesex Water Works, East India Dock Stock, Waterloo Bridge Annuities, Southwark Bridge Shares, Warwick and Napton, Old Union, Ellesmere, Thames and Severn, Dudley, Ashby de la Zouch, London and Russell Institution Shares, — TO BE SOLD by WOLFE and EDMONDS, No. 9, CHANGE-ALLEY, CORNHILL. This Day was published, price 4s. 0. 1. of ANEW SERIES (being the Third) of THE REPOSITORY OF ARTS, LITERA TURE, FASHIONS, &c. The REPOSITORY OF ARTs has naw been before the Public fourteen years,,and during that Piriod the nature and aim of the Work have become so well known, as to' render any explanatiou on these points wholly unnecessary.. Amongst some new features which the publisher purposes to introduce into the New Series of his Miscellany, are coloured Views of the principal Country-Seat's of the Nobi. lily and Gentry in every part of the United Kingdom, begin ning with those of his Majesty and his Illustrious Family ; they will furnish the leading Article of each Number. The Nobility and Gentry are requested to give orders to their respective Booksellers.—Communications for the Editor please to address to the Publisher of the Repository of Arts, U. ACKERMANN, Strand, London. N. B. As many of the Numbers of the. Second Series of the Repotifory.are nearly out of print, proprietors of incomplete sets are recommended to make immediate application for de ficiencies, in order to prevent disappointment. MR. JOHN SCOTT, ENGRAVER, No. 13, REGENT STREET, PALL MALL. THE Case of this unfortunate Artist, a Native of Newcastle, being correctly stated in his Address to the Royal Academy in London, and his talents as an Engraver well known, and highly esteemed, it is hoped the lovers of Art, and Friends of the Distressed, will give his deplorable Situa tion their benevolent Consideration, and exert themselves to save a respectable. Man and his Family from utter Ruin. Subscriptions received by Messrs. )lorland and Co., Bankers, Pall Mall, Loudon ; Mr. Lambert, Engraver ; Messrs. Hodg son ; and Mr. Charnley, Newcastle ; and Mr. Andrews Durham. Subscriptions already received Duke of Northumber land - 'XIO 0 0 Dixon Brown, Esq. 2 2 0 S. Crasser. Esq. -2' 0 0 Miss Peareth - 3 0 0 Ali. Plummer - 1 1 0 Losh,Wilsonond Bell 2 2 0 Wm. Chapman, Esq. 1 1 0 Mr. J. Green, jun. - 0 10 6 C. B. Bewicke, Esq. 2 2 0 Mrs. Beivicke - 1 1 0- Aliss Kann - - 1 0 0 .Mr. Rewcastle 1 ,1 0 Rev. R.H. William son - - 1 1 0 Mrs. Rt. Williamson 1" 1 0 r. R. Embleton - 1 1 0 Mr. R. Burdon 0 10 6 Bishop of Durham. 10 0 0 Edw. Swinburne, Esq. jun. - - - 1 0 0 -At Morland and The Marquis of Hert ford - ".tlO 0 0 J. Pittman, Esq. Pro prietor of the Sport ing Magazine - 5 0 0 li. Alexander 5 0 0 , Subscriptions are likewise received at Messrs. Grote, Pres 'Cott, and Co.'s, No. 62, Threadneedle-street. The following letter to the Royal. Academy will explain the particulars of this melancholy case. The gentleman re duced lay a shocking calamity to this painful necessity, is Mr. John Scott, the eminent animal and .landscape engraver. To all persons who gave the slightest acquaintance with the works 'of living artists, 'the mention of the name is a sufficient intro-, 'auction. In the course of an industrious life (and what life can be snore industrious than the Engraver's ?) - Mr. Scott has finished several hundred plates, which are all in high estitna tion. The Sporting Magazine, Mr. Daniel's Rural Sports, and other works of a similar nature, owe a large portion of their reputation to the exquisite . delicacy and truth of Mr. Scott's graver. His two large plates—" Breaking Cover," and " the Death of the Fox," after Gilpin and Remagle—are possessed by ever lover of Art who prizes pictures of animals and field sports. Indeed many good judges conceive, that these plates are alone sufficient to place Mr. Scott at the top of his profes sion in that line. 'We cannot concave any thing more distress ing, than a man of high talent, who was living respectably by his labours in a profession of which he is ardently fond, sud denly cut off from his means of subsistence, and thrown into sitter despair by an affiection so dreadful as a paralytic stroke. " To the President and Members of the Royal Academy. ", Gentlemen—l am reluctantly compelled by , necessity to make the present appeal to your benevolence in behalf of my self, a wife, and a numerous family. " For many years past, by indefatigable exertions, I have been enabled by my humble abilities as anEngraiter to support. ,an increasing family, now amounting to nine children, in re spectability and comfort, and still enjoyed the cheering prospect of a continuance in such honourable endeavours as every inde. pendeut mind delights in. But by one of those awful visi tations of Providence, which it is not for us to question, I was rendered wholly incapable of further professional labours. I suffered a violent paralytic stroke in March, 1821. My medical advisers recommended a visit to my native air, as the only means likely to restore my , shattered frame. A stay at Newcastle or sonic months affording no change for the better, I returned to London. Inany absence, my' enemies injured my interests by insidiously lamenting my total loss of intellect, while they se cietly promoted their own selfish and mercenary views. 'The consequence of such conduct was, that I have been deprived of work, amounting to many hundred pounds, which was trans - (erred to the hands of the men who had thus assailed me in the hour of affliction. " In this state of sickness and distrps, I was advised by my friends to take a house in Regent-street, for the better sale of my prints, and to let a part furnished ;, and although this step has answeled my most sanguine expectations, and would enable me and my family to live rent-free, yet the previous embarrass ments arising from a total loss of income, had brought me to such a state, that nothing can save me from inevitable ruin but the interposing hand of benevolence. To aggravate the ills with which I am encompassed, my Wife has fallen sick from over exertion to avert them ; and the husband of my only mar ried child is consigned to prison for debt, leaving his win'e and • two helpless infants an additional burden on me. " I trust, Gentlemen. this recital of my misfortunes will be a sufficient apology for the boldness with which I have ventured to address you. I plead urgent distress, and feel confident I shall not plead in vain to those who know the diffieulties with which Artists are often beset, and who have on various occa p" sionl• stood tbrward to their assistance. Although I have not I the honour of being a member of the Royal Academy, I trust I shall receive the sympathy and commiseration of its members, .and influence them to rescue me from irretreivable ruin by a timely donation, which will enable me to complete the works confided to my execution, and again to support my family by my awn exertions. Trusting you will not deny me that assist -ance, for which I shall feel for ever grateful,.--I remain, Gentlemen, with sentiments of the greatest respect, your obe dient and humble servant, " JOHN SCOTT." • This appeal was not without its effect. ,Seconded by Sir Thomas Lawrence (who has _behaved with a feeling and deli • rac which double the value of his generosity), Mr. Soane the architect, and other Gentlemen, who have hearts to appreciate -sufferings lik e those above detailed, the Academy voted - to Mr. Scott a donation of thirty guineas, to head the subscription list. What adds to the hopes of Mr. Scott's friends on this occasion is, that the aid now sought from the sympathy of the Professors and Patrons of Art, and the benevolence of the Pub lic, does not extend to the support of himself and his family for an indefinite time,—which might render hopeless all exer tions in his behalf. He is so far recovered as to be able to re sume his avork partially, and is greatly assisted by his son, a youth of promising abilities. Should such a sum, therefore, t'e raised, as would relieve him from the immediate. pressures which threaten to crush him, he possesses the consoling pros ; ect of maintaining his family as formerly. The following Sub , :- , :riptions have been received :—The Royal Academy, 311. Ios. ; !Asir Thomas Lawrence, President, 51. £6B 1 6 Mr. Wm. Anderson £0 10 6 Mrs. Ingham - - 1 1 0 R. Ingham, Esq. - 1 1 0 Mr. R. Bewick - 1 0 0 Mr. J. Price - - 1 1 0 P. J. Selby, Esq. - 2 0 0 Mr. R. Johnson - 1 0 0 S. W. Parker, Esq. 2 0 0 F. Hutchinson, Esq. 1 1 0 Mrs. Bewicke, Close • House - - 2 2 0 G. W. - - • - 010 6 Mr. Ra. Robson - 010 6 Mr. R. Blackbird - 0 10 6 Mr. T. Featherston 1 1 0 Mr. W. Robson - 010 6 R. W. Brandling, Esq. 1 1 0 Newcastle Chronicle 1 1 0 Wm. Moore, Esq. - 1 1 0 Mrs. Hedley - 2 2 0 'Co.'s, Pall Mall. C. B. 0 0 Roht. Robertson, Esq. 2 2 0 J. M. - - 2 0 0 J. Medley, Esq. - 1 1 0 C. A. - - 1 1 0 , J/9/ BRAMAH'S PATENT PORTABLE PENS. AVery inferior Imitation of this Popular and Useful Invention hating 'been introduced for Puldic Salo, J. BRAMAH and SON, respectfully_ announce that every Packet of their Genuine Pens is inclosed in. a Paper stamped with a fac simile of the Siguatute of the Inventor . " JOSEPH BRAMAH." .The Patent Portable Pens continue to be Sold at the Ori ginal Warehouse, ►24, PICCADILLY; and by most respect abloStationers. N. B.—The Prices have been lately reduced. REDUCED FARES, and UNEQUALLED TRAVELLING, TO DOVER, DEAL, RAMSGATE, MARGATE, AND CANTERBURY. FOUR INSIDE COACHES, AND KEEP GOOD TIME, By A. MOUNTAIN and Co. SARACEN'S HEAD INN, SKINNERSTREET, SNOW HILL, LONDON. T HE following LIGHT POST-COACHES, &c. set out front the above Intl: — The " Telegraph," DOVER, Deal, Ramsgate Margate, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Feversham, and Situdwich. nes , ' Post-Coach—every Morning at a quarter past Seven o'Clock. In consequence of the decided preference given to the above Coach, the Proprietors arc determined no expellee shall be spared to render it the first c onveyance on the Kent road. • BROMPTON, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Stroud, Sittingbourne, Rainham, and'Ospringe, every Morning at a quarter past 7, at. Reduced Fares. • • The "Itoyal Eclipse," FALMOUTH, Plymouth, Exeter, Truro, Bodmin, Penryn, Athburton, Totness, Weymouth, 'Dorchester, Dartmouth, and Salisbury, every mutating at Seven ; through Honiton, Axminster, Bridport, Blandford, Stockbridge, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Blackwater, and Bagshot. - The only Day Coach to WEYMOUTH, (driven through with Two Coachmen only), through Bagshot, Blackwater, Basingstoke, Overton ' \V hitcharch, Andover, Woody.eats, C as h mo re, Salisbury, Blandford, and Dorchester, at Five o'clock in the,Morning, The " Union," SOUTHAMPTON, Lymington, Lyndhurst, Winchester, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Black water, arid Bagshot, New Four Inside. Coach, every Morning at half-past Seven; arrives at the Coach and Horses, Southampton, by Five. This is a most delightful Conveyance to the Isle of Wight, Jeriev; GuernSey, St. Maloes, Havre de Grace, Cher bourgh, &c.—The Proprietors of the above. Coach hope to receive a continuance of that suppert which has hitherto been experienced since the commencement of the " Union." The "-Champion," a New light Day Coach to DOR CHESTER, in 13 . hours only, through Bagshot, Blackwa ter, Basingstoke, Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, 'Salis bury, Wood eats, Cashmore, and 'Blandtord, every Tues day, Thursday, and Saturday, at Five o'clock in the morn ing. The Proprietors of the aboveCOach are determined no expence shall be spared to render it the first conveyance on . the Western Road. BATH and - BRISTOL Post-Coaches, through Chippen ham, Caine, Marlborough, Newbury, and Reading, every Afternoon at one; - arrive at Mr. May's, the Greyhound Inn, Bath, and the London'Tavern, Thomas-street, and Swan, Bristol, early the next Morning.—Coaches to Wells, Bridge. water, Taunton, and Plymouth. .The " Umpire," a New LIVERPOOL Light Coach, only one Night on the Road, carrying Four Inside, sets out Daily at One ; arrives at Liverpool next afternoon at Eve, tht ought Woburn, Lathbury, Northampton, AVelford, Lutterworth, Hinckley, Atherstone, Litchfield, Stone, Newcastle, 'Knots ford, Warrington, and Prescot. SHREWSBURY, Wellington, and Shiffnal„ Light Post- Coach, every Afternoon.—Guarded. The "Union,"WEYMOUTH ; through Dorchester, Bland ford, Salisbury, Andover, Overton, Basingstoke, Hartford Bridge, Blackwater, and Bagshot, new Post Coach, every At ternoon.—Driren through with two Coachmen only.—The Packets from Weymouth to Guernsey, Jersey, Cherbourg, - St. Maloe's, &c. every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, at Two o'Ciock. • BARNSTAPLE and Southmolton New Light Pos(Coach every Monday,'Wednesday, and Friday Mornings at 7 o'clock. The " Rockingham," LEEDS light Post Coach, sets out every Afternoon at Four; and passes through Baldock, Big gleswade, Eaton, Bucluden, Stilton, Wansford, Stamford, Greethant, Grantbani, Newark, Tuxford, Markhatii'Moor, Ret ford, Bawtry, Doncaster, and Ferrybridge, to the Golden Lion, Leeds, next Afternoon, at Reduced Fares.—Luge Luggage and Packages only 2d per lb.—Notwithstanding the uncommon Expedition of this Coach, it is allowed to be Most agiceable and complete Public Conveyance on the North Road, being unequalled by any other. HARROWGATE and Ripon new:Light Post Coach, every Afternoon at Four, and Eight in the Morning. GLASGOW, Longtown,Gretna-green, Annan, Dumfries, Brownhill, Thornhill, Sanquhar-Kiln, Gamma:lt, Kingswell, And all Parts of Scotland, alight four inside Post Coacli'dail The " Express," to YORK, Scarborough, Whitby, Shields, Sunderland, Newcastle,& Edinburgh, a Nryflyit four-inside Post Coach, with a Guard throughout ; sets out every Morn ing at Eight o'Clock, by way of Newark, Retford, Doncaster, Ferrybridge,'ladcaster, Darlington, Northallerton, Durham, Met av:th, and Berwick, and arrives at York the next Morn ing at Twelve o'Clock. Passengers finding themselves fa tigued on the journey, may rest what time they please, and then proceed without any additional Fare. MARLBOROUGH and Swindon, four-inside Day Coach, through Aldbourn,'Reading, Lambourn, Parton, Lytlinoun . Pewsey, Wootton Basset, Raiushury, H'tngerford, Newbtary and Maidenhead. BRIDGENORTH, Shrewsbury, Salop, and Holy head New Light Four Inside Coach, every Afternoon. BOSTON, Horncastle, Spalding, Pete' horough, Stilton, Huntingdon, Caxton, Buckland, and Ware Day Coach, to Spilsby, Louth, Grin:shy, and Hull, Turtling, at Six. The only Day Coach to Boston and Horncastle. 'flue ".Express," a New Light Four-inside Post Coach to CARLISLE, Penrith, and Whitehaveu, goes with Four Horses, and a Guard all the way, passes_through Appleby, Brought, Bowes, Greta-bridge, Richmond,' Catterick, • 11(f. roughbralge, Forryb ridge, Doncaster, Newark, Dawn y, Grantham, Stamford, Greet ham, Stilton, and Biggleswade. Sets out in flue Morning, and performs the journey with the greatest facility. Passengers detained on the Road by busi ness or have the peculiar advantage of their Seats being secured in the next Coach.—The only Coach to Carlisle. KENDAL, Lancaster. Preston, Kirby-Lonsdalt, Bolton, Chorley, Oimskirk, and Garstang Light Post , Coaches, every Afternoon. 'Clue " Royal Express," New Light Four Inside Post Coach, to LIVERPOOL, Warrington, Prescot, Congleton, Lawton, Newcastle; Itudgly,'Knotsford, Stone, Stafford, and Litch field, (only One Night on the Road), every Afternoon ; arrives at the Saracen's Head Inn, Dale-street, Liverpo?d, next Evening. WAKEFIELD Four inside Post-Coach, every Morning and Afternoon. CHESTER, Newport, Whitechurcb, Tarporley, Isimpt wich, Northwich, and Middlewich Light Post-Coach, every Afternoon. SUNDERLAND, Stockton, and Yarm Light Post Coach, every Morning, to the George Inn, Stinderlitud. Mountain's " Express," to MANCHESTER, Winslow, Congleton„Newcastle, Walaat,'WotverhaMpton, sod tines ford, new Four Inside Post-Coach, every Atternoon.—Only One Night on. the Road. SHEFFIELD and Rotherham New Four-inside Post-Coach every Moining, called " The Express," and also " The Rockingham," at Four in the Afternoon. The " Royal Express,‘ New BIRMINGHAM Light Post Coach, sets out every Aftdrnoott, carrying Four Inside only; passes through Warwick, Leamington:, ,Southam, Weedon, Daventry, St o ney-Stratford., and Towcester, to the Saracen's Heath, Bull-street, Birmingham, early the next Morning. The " ExpreSs," a New Light Post Coach, to HULL, Lin coln, Northcave, Bowden, and Doncaster, every Morning at Eight o'Clock, to the Cross :Keys, Market...lstate, Hull ; and also the' " Rockingham" in the Afternoon at• Four o'Clock. HERTFORD, Ware, Hoidesdon, and Cheshunt Coach, 'every Morning. TOTTENHAM and Edmonton Coaebes daily, at Eleven, - Half-past Two, Five, and Eight. f a * At ,Reduced Fares to Leeds, York, and Doncaster, Luggage and Packages at only 1d per . pound. S. A. MOUNTAIN and Co.' respectfully acquaint then Friends and the Public, that they will not he accountable for any Parcels. Passenger's Luggage, Writing*, Plate - , &c. of more than Five - Pounds Value,tf lost, stolen, or damaged, un less entered as such, and the Insurance paid accordingly, at the Sat accn's Head Inn, Skinner-street, Snow bill, London. \\, kilt, j,"/C6., ~ ,, , , ,,,.....4 ., ,,e • N,:,‘ 0% -r o. j.,,) ): --,--- -- .-.f.:,:%•)-.i.-ka ,r4A en -,--;,- 11, --- .`:„,:"..-:-v ) 7 4 •-';'!'",?,,..: - I , Nc, 44tr•, ofir ,/ 3 , - ~.''\,% ' • - ~,,,,',. *\ ,-. 4 ... 7 _14: - 1 ~ oe ,, 1. , - 144' ../11•2 FO - I A • • • " a T. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3i, 1822. ROSS-SHIRE ELECTION On Friday last, Sir JAMES WENtYs3 MAC KENZIE, of Scatwell, Bart. was unanimously elected Member of Parliament for the county of Ross. The meeting of the Freeholders was very full, considering the seasotz of the year, and that Sir James‘had dispensed with the attendanCe of such of his friends as were at a distance from the county. At the opening of the meeting, and after the usual prelimi nary forms had been gone through, Mr. Mackenzie of Kilcoy rose and addressed the meeting to thue following effect :—" As sembled as we are on the present occasion, for the purpose of electing a member to represent this county in Parliament, it is impossible for me to forget that a short, a very short period in deed, has elapsed, since, within theSe walls, I had the honour mtproposing to you, as a fit nerson to be your representative, a Gentleman who continued to fill that honourable station, with equal credit to myself as satisfaction to the county, till, it was the will of Providence to call him from us, in the flower of his `age, and height of his usefulness. In Mr. Mackenzie, of Applecross, the county of Ross, and consequently each and all of us, has sustained a very heavy loss. " Were I as capable, as I feel myself incamble, of..doing justice to his many virtues, his brAliant talgnts, , l i ad extraordi nary endowments and qualifications, I WoiddlierCdeent It un necessary and uncalled for. To you they were known, by you they were felt, and I am confident they will long be engraved on the tablets of your hearts. It is, however, some consolation' to know, that regret for him has not been confined, to his native county, but that his merits have been duly appreciatednot only by Scotland in general, but by the most enlightened assembly in the world; the House of Commons, of which he was a dis tinguished and shining ornament. But .I pass` from this pain ful and melancholy subject, to •the more pleasing and more immediate duties of the day ; and. here allow me to have the honour of proposing to you, as a fit person to represent this county in Parliament, a Gentleman no less entitled to come forward on the present occasion from personal character than from respectability of family, and the large stake he holds in the county—a Gentleman equally distinguished for the faithful discharge of all the domestic and social du ties of private life, as for • the strictest integrity, true spi rit of independence, and a manly firmness of character.— 'Known as he is to you all, by his residence among you, I shall only add, that if you do him the' honour of sending him to Parliament, as the representative of this great County, I feel confident he will discharge the duties of that honourable si tuation with zeal and assiduity. I therefore propose to you to elect, as your representative in Parliament, my muds esteemed and highly valued friend Sir James Wemyss 1 lac- kenzie, of Scatwell, Bart." Which motion was seconded by Mr. MACLEOD of Genies, the venerable Sheriff I of. the County, in a neat and concise speech, in which he entirely concurred with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Mackenzie, both - in regard to the late Mem ber of Parliament and the present candidate : and the roll being called by Sir Hector Mackenzie, of Gairloch, Bart., the Preses of the Meeting, and their' unanimous assent being given to the motion, . Sir JAMES addressed the freeholders: to this purpose : " That he was highly honoured by the vote now given, for which he begged ro return his earnest thanks, and assured them that lie would retain a deep sense of gratitude for so distinguished a mark of their confidence to the last day of his exigtence ; that he was fully sensible he could not adequately supply the great loss which the county had sustained by the death of their late representative, his own highly esteemed and amiable friend, but that he-could assure. shem, he would, to the utmost of his power, discharge the trust so reposed in him ; that he believed his politiCal sentiments were —I known ; that he approved of. the general measures of the present Administration, and felt disposed to support them, but at the same time, Would never support them, or any men, when their measures did not appear calculated for the benefit of the country ; and that; with respect to the local interests of this county, he would ever be strenuous in their support, and again thanked them for the great honour they had conferred on him." The Worthy Baronet was then chaired (an English fashion which has crept into the county), and: carried in triumph through the streets of Tain. The Worthy Baronet sat down to dinner, abont 100 in num ber, in - the Mason Hall. Sir James was assisted by Mr Wm. Mackenzie, and Mr. Mackenzie, of 'Milbank, as croupiers.— The dinner, furnished b'y Mr. Ellison, was in the best style; with 'turtle, venison, • &c., and the. wines were of the first quality. During the evening many.excellent speeches, toasts, and songs were given by 'the gentlemen present, and there pre vailed one feeling of harmony and cordiality. The band of the Inverness . ..shire regiment of militia played appropriate music to the toasts given, and added to the pleasure of the company. The company did pot break up till an early hour in the' morning.—(Edintsurgh Star.) Ma. EDITOR—It appears from the representa tions„of the Irish Constitutional and Loyal Pa pers that the time has arrived for every firm Protestant, for every man who loves his Religion and King, not to conceal facts through criminal timidity, or temporizing indifference. I find, that, during my absence front my native country for a few years, that it has sunk very much in the scale of civilization and improvement, and I am deeply concerned to find, that those whose pecu liar province it is to face the appallitig evils, dis regard the admonitions of the bt!st friends of the United Kingdom,,and appear abundantly willing that Protestants should fall bythe hand of the assassin. Is it possible, that this state of society can exist, without our Rulers paying that atten tion to the subject, which the exigency of the case requires Is not the declaration of Mr. Plunket, the great advocate for the admission of Roman Ca tholics into power, that there is a-conspiracy ex isting for the utter extermination of the Pro testants su trident to kindle the general indignation bf every true Christian, and to open the eyes of the most apathetic and callous. The Jesuits, and an ignorant and assuming priesthood, are •at work in every part of the domestic dominions of his Majesty, and in his foreign, possessions, to subvert the - Protestant reli gion. Let me ask, will the successors of a Seeker and a Porteus be indifferent at this awful crisis ? will they not exercise those abilities and mental energies for which they were 'so eminently conspicuous, to stem that rapid torrent, which is so'extensively undermining the bulwark of Pro testantism 2 Is not the conduct of Doctor Curtis, the titular Primate of all Ireland, and Friar Hayes in Dublin, a proof of the designs of the Roman Catholics, but the expose that will soon take place about Stonyhurst, and the numerous emissaries from that notorious :Popish Seminary, will soon open the eyes of the people of England. Is there no meaning in the recent attack at the Theatre in Dublin on the Marquis of WELLES.. LEY, or the pre-arranged insult by a Papist At the Roman Chapel of Ardee. The Jesuits, with the views of OLIVER, are the promoters of these at trocious insults, for the purpose of effecting what they are sworn to endeavour, the total exterpa tion of Protestantism. I fear they have hitherto totally mystified some of those who are entrusted( with Irish affairs. A CONSTITIMONAL PROTESTANT. CITY, MOND tY The arrivals of Grain last Week at Mark-lane were but moderate, and no great quantity is added tp the supply this morning. Since this day week, they amount to of Wheat, 10,904 qrs.; of Barley, 7,727 ; Oats, 15,03 qrs., with 6,313 sacks of Flour. The average prices by which importation is governed, were, in the week ending the 21st December, for Wheat, 38s. Bth ; Barley, 295." 4d. ; Oats, Ws. 9d. ; Beans, 255..10d. ; and Peas, 295. 4d. The navigation of the river is already considerably impeded by ice, and all the canals arc completely shut. Very little business was consequently done, and no variation can he quoted in the prices of any article, An express was received this morning from Paris, by which private information has come to hand to the evening of Saturday last from that capital. In .the best informed, circles nudoubt was entertained that peace with Spain would not for the present, at all events, be interrupted. It was generally understood that his Most Christian Majesty had made a private communica tion to his Mcist Catholic Majesty, in which the intentions of the French Government were fully explained, and that they were in the highest degree pacific. It was also thought that the Official Note' from M. Villele to the French Ambassador at the Court of Madrid, could not have_been more paCific., considering the pledges which have been made to i the Holy Allied Monarchs at Verona. The sult is, on the whole; a great triumph to the cause of freedom, and it has coveral the Holy would-be-Rulers a nations with ridicule, and no small portion of contempt. The Rentes closed on that evening at 87. 10:, the Neapolitarrat 77k, and Spanish bonds were in demand at 55i Consols opened this morning at 814, and varied very little. Confidence in the state of Europe is not entirely restored, al though there does not appear the smallest cause to doubt that any change will take place in the west, arising out of the am bitious views and unjust claimi of the Holy Alliance. The Consols closed at 81.,buyers. In Foreign Securities there has been a slight improvement since Saturday; and a considerable deal of business has been done in Spanish Bonds chiefly, as they afford greater scope for speculation.—( Morning Chronicle.) PROFANE SWEARING. -Among the vices which fashion has too great a share in encouraging, none is of worse example, or less excusable, than that of profane swearing, or the practice of interlarding one's conversation on all occasions, even the most trifling, with appeals to the Deity. A g eneral officer, who is a living and illustrious example to the perfect compatibility of the most gentlemanly manners, with the strictest purity of language, but who was in early life much addicted to this fashionable sin, dates his reformation from a memorable reprOof which he accidentally received when a young man, from an eccentric Scottish clergyman s.:ttled in the North of England. While stationed with his regiment at Newcastle, he had the misfortune; one evening, to get involved in a street brawl with some persons of the lower order, and the dispute, as is too ustia,l in such cases, was carried on with an abundance of audacious oaths on both sides. The clergyman alluded to, passing by at the moment, and being much shocked at the im precations which assailed his ears, stepped into the midst of the crowd, and, with his cane uplifted, thus gravely addressed one of the principal leaderprof the rabble :—" Oh, John, John, what's this now I hear ? You, only a poor collier bod y , and swearing like any lord in a' the land ! 0, John, hae ye nae fear what will come o' you? It may do very well for this braw gentleman here," pointing to Lieut. —, " to bang and swear as he pleases ; but, John, its no for you, or the like o' you, to tak in vain the name o' Him by whorn you live and have your being." Then turning to the Lieutenant, he con tinued,'" -Ye% excuse the poor man, Sir, for swearing; he's an ignorant body, and kens uae.better." laeut..----- slunk away covered with confusion, and unable to make any answer ; but the next day he made it his business to see the worthy par son,• and thanked him hi the sincerest manner for his well timed admonition which had, as he assured him, and as the re ult has shown, cured him for ever of a most hateful vice. HORSE RACING BY MICIINERY.—Mr. 50/IN ALLAN, of Pennycuick, near Edinburgh, has constructed'a curious machine, which impels two horses round a circle. The horses and riders have the exact attitude. and apparently all the animated emulation of a well-contested horse race; and have this necessary characteristic, that even the maker of the machine cannot szp which horse will gain. With a little more trouble it might occasionally be,couverted into a fox-hunt ; by affixing the necessary appendages of hunts men and hounds. NATURAL HISTORY OF CHILI. Dr MuNno ) Professor of Anatomy in our Uni versity, has had transmitted to him by one of his old students, a Chilian Government Gazette, of the 12th July last. It con tains an interesting communication addressed to the Supreme Diredor of the Chilian Government by Don J. J. Dauxion Lavayase, Director of the Museum of Natural Ilistory at Santiago, relative to the fossil bones recently found in South. America and other parts of the globe. He first alludes to the human skeletons' which were dug out, of a morass in the Province of . Conception, together with the bones of some gigantic animals , whose species are now extinct, and the bones of the Mammoth' discovered in a similar situation near Philadelphia, in North America. Many Celebrated naturalists, who have during the last 40 years, been engaged in studying the comparative anatomy of these extinct species, argue from the circumstance of no human bones hav ing been found under similar circumstances, that the Almighty had created man at a period subsequent to the creation of the brutes; and extending their theory yet farther, they assert, that quadrupeds were not in existence for a considera ble time after vegetables, fishes, and reptiles were creat ed, thus impugning the revelation contained in the book of Genesis. The most learned defenders of the Mosaic and Christian revelations, however,' among whom 21. Lavaysse places Bighop Horsley, Professor Eichhorn, of Gottingen, and Mr. Jameson; our eminent Professor of Na tural History at Edinburgh, have shown, that the discoveries in Astronomy and Natural History equally tend to - . corroborate the acknowledged authenticity of the Scriptures. The author of the communication, who appears to be a man of considerable erudition andresearch, says, that he, along with 21. Gerard, of Brussels, found, in the year 1804, by the sea shore, in the Island of Guadaloupe ' certain petrified human ske letons in a mass of the hardest calcareous carbonate, in terspersed with particles of coral. ill. Cuvier, the cele brated author of the Theory of the Eartt, ridicules the idea, and says it was impossible; that they had been deceived by Mistaking incrustations for' petrifactions ; that the best thing they could do was to say they had merely found the fossil man of Sehenzer ; and that it most have been nothing else than a large Species of salaniander. But subsequent diScoveries, and the specimens sent by 'Sir Alexander I. Cochrane to the British Museum from Guadaloupe, in 1809, prove that Cuvier was himself mistaken. Ile then mentions it as a fact sufficiently notorious at Buenos Ayres, that when' the river Idgan overflows its banks, it washes . up, near its confluence with the river' Plate, a bony shell, or crustaceous case of a 'species of armadillo (tatou arrna dilla) of more than three yards in length (nms de tres varas de largo) a species totally extinct in that country; In the pecul iar style of Spanish composition, the author of the communication concluiles that those Governments who patronise the sciences, might immortalize thethselves by encouraging the investiga tion of the natural history of that part of the globe, which oars to naturalists and philosophers a harvest equally rich and no. vel. Ile therefore prays the assistance of the Chilian Govern ment to. furnish him with the means of investigating the natural history of its provinces, not Merely beeause it would tend to throw light on, and perhaps settle one of the most important questions in geology and the theory of the earth, but because they might thereby 'soon become independent of other States, for various productions with which nature has so richly gifted that fine Country. We understand a complete translation of the whole of this curious article will appear' in the transactions of the Wernerian Natural History Society.—( Edinburgh Evening Courant.) a \ PRICE SEVENPENCE. FOR THE SON THE PETERBOROUGH CONTROVERSY. Dec. 29; 1822. I should not have troubled you on the subject of CANONICUS'S remarks on the.PETERBOROUtiII CONTROVERSY, had I not discovered, on referring o the new Publication which has called them forth, that he- has by no means conveyed to , the Public a just representation 'of the man ner in which that Publication argues on the subject, or the very respectful language in which its remonstrance is couched. The Council of Ten seem to me to have addressed the Bishop in ( all sincerity, and at the same time in all moderation. If CANONICOS, however, is angry with these Gentlemen, what in the name of justice will he say to the Edinburgh Reviewers, in whose new number, such gross expressions and similes as cc Mitred Butchers," " Pulling Mitres,"— " caring no morefor Curates than for. Horses and Pigs," and the paragraph descriptive . of a Cu irate, malie_such a disgusting figure. Certainly, it is CANOSIICUS'S duty to castigate the rude Scribes of the Boreal Metropolis, after having, found fault with the calm and argumentative epistle of the Council oL Ten. MOM. men, Sir, prefer that which is bland and gentlemanly to that which is imperious, gross, and uncivil. It is because the letter which CANONICUS blames is of the character which most men admire that I prefer it to the article in The Edin burgh Review. In this letter, too,. I find three times the quantity of argument against the Bishop's mode of examination that there•is in the rude Review. The Edinburgh men in their article, and CANONICI'S, in representing the pleading of the council, entirely overlook the vital reasoning, that the Bishop's Questions " call for a vigorous exercise of the understand ing in matters connected with Faith, and lead on into the subtleties of Metaphysical Disquisition ;" they overlook the probability of his mode of examination, " causing good men to be alarmed at him, and many men to trim and shuffle and toil to give wrong impressions of their tenets," and its utter impropriety " because, for thoSe errors of doctrine (as some call them) which it is SOLELY calculated to detect, the Bishop declares he has never rejected any one, though in the questions ,e assumes that these errors 'produce most fear- fut consequences, and are, as errors, incapable of coming from God." This last argument seems to me conclusive, why shotild the Bishop go out of the common course to make discoveries of men's minuter tenets, if he is to found no proceed ing upon the discoveries. The questions are only fratried so as to be adapted to detect Calvanisru, and yet the Bishop says he has never rejected any one for unsatisfactory answers on the sub jects of " original sin, free will," Sr.c. Ido not know, Mr Editor, what may be your opinion on the Bishop's conduct, but for my part I think he would act wisely to content himself with the course pursued by the rest of the Bench. That course cannot be £0 alarmingly exceptionable, if the thing is to be judged of by its fruits, as to warrant the deviation from it of this Learned Prelate. • From the warm tonein which CANONICUS writes, I am afraid he is not quite ready to do justice either to the comparative civility, or the superi ority of the Council of Ten's reasonings over that of the Edinburgh Review. I wish he would read attentively the Royal Declaration, and Burnet's opinion of the articles, and then I believe his views would be somewhat altered. If he make out to his own satisfaction the legality and propriety of the Bishop's conduct, I should like to know more clearly than he has yet stated them the grounds of that conviction.—l am, Sir, Your obedient servant, LAICUS. WINTER HOME CIRCUIT. KINGSTON, DEC. 30. The Commission for this county was opened this morning before the Hon. Mr. Baron Gnanam, at the Sessions' House, Horsemonger-lane, after which the Learned Judge adjourned to this town for the more convenient dispatch of business, there _ being no accommodation at Newington for the sitting of the other Judge, His Lordship was received at a short distance ' from the town by a numerous attendance of the Gentry and Magistracy, and escorted to the Judge's lodgings, whence, after partaking of refreshment, he went to Church and heard an appropriate sermon preached by the High Sheriff's Chaplain. About two o'clock tho Learned Judge went into Court, when the Grand Jury were called over and sworn. There was a nu merous attendance of Gentlemen. The Hon. H. G. Bennet was foreman ; the rest of the Grand Jury were the Gentleman who usually attend the Assizes. Mr. Baron GRAHAM delivered a very short address to the Grand Jury. He observed that many intelligent and e,xcel lent persons had suggested the expediency of a gaol defivery at this season of the year, in consequence of which hi s Majesty s Government had directed a third circuit. Those persons would now have an opportunity of forming a judgment as to the wisdom of such a measure. His Lordship, however, could not help observing, that however advisable it might be, as re. spected the interests of public justice , the season chosen for this experiment could not but be deemed inconvenient to many per sons whose attendance was requisite. This was a season of the year observed throughout all Christendom by thanksgiving and joy, and was ill suited to the duties which this proceeding int- ' posed upon the gentry and yeomanry of the country. His Lordship would say no more upon this subject • and, after shortly adverting to the principal cases in the calendar . he dis missed the Grand Jury to their room. The calendar contains ninety-one casee, nine of which are commitments for the Quarter Sessions, and consequently can not be tried at these Assizes. The following is an abstract of - the remaining eighty-three--viz. 3 Highway Robbery, 4 Stealing from the Person, 11 House breaking, 3 Rape, 4 Horse-stealing, 1 Receiver of Stolen Goods, 6 Stealing in the Dwelling-house, 1 Forgery, 3 Stealing from the Person, 1 Bigamy, 7 Burglary, 1 9 Larcenies, 2 Sheep , 'Stealing, 4Utterers of Base Money, 2 Poaching, 5 Assaults, 6 Vag - rants. ( Before Mr. Justice BAYLEY.) Robert Fryett was convicted of stealing, at St George, South wark, eight penny pieces and other monies, the Iroperty of James Ward; and sentenced to four months imprisonment. (Before Mr. Baron GRAHA*) John Fairborne was indicted for a burglary in the dwelling house of William Wedge, of 13, Waterloo-road, in the night of the 12th of December, and stealing a metal watch, his property, The property was found in the possession of the prisoner the day after the robbery. It was proved that the house was broken open ; but there , being no proof how it was broken, the Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.