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ft - • • s A , t k.:a - jf TIZt --- J. 2 ‘S' 0 .// 01' • 2 %%24 L✓ I sil i t r, " . ---- .„, • ! i'4l CTI 1 ies, ris licit l_litto4Rl SUN. /7 / ,----: ,---. . / • / 7 4 if • ~/ s , Amy thp has at !"' r '~. NUINIBER 9203.11 EAST INDIA HOUSR, Feb. 27, 181.4. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of NSF:R(:HANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, fiat the COURT will lie ready In receive PROPOSALS ru writing, on or before WEDNES6AY, the 13th March, from the Ownefs of good Copper-bottomed SHIPS, of the burthen of about 350 Toils, Registered Measurement; speci f)icg the Rate of Freight at which they may be wiiiing to LEr such SHIPS fur ONE VOYAGE to and ftann BEN COOLEN. The Tenders, with the worth " Ship Tender" on the Cover, to be severally sealed up and left with the Secretary, at this H°ose, at or before Twe:ve o'Clock at Noon, on the above nientioned day, beyond which hour no Tender will be re ceived. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. The particulars of the Terms and Conditions upon which the Ships will he employed, may be had on application at "e ()dice of the Cierk to the Committee of Shipping, ott or after Monday, the 4th Match next. CUSTONI-HOUSE, LONDON, February 13, 1822. VOR SALE, (by Order of the lion. the Corn , snissioners of his Majesty's Customs,) on TUESDAY, IVEDNESDAY, 27th, THURSDAY, 28th Instant, 4 , 0 (i 1 - I(IDAY, the Ist Match, 1822, at One o'Clock in the Xt.ettli4n ,oxecisely, at th e Commercial Sale Rooms, Minc 'l,g-lane the FoLLowiNG GOODS : FOR EXPORTATION, East India and other Prohibited Cioods, Succades, Books, I tints, Pictures, &c. FOR HOME CONSUMPTION, ;Canibric Lind other Linen Drapery, Lace, Thrown Silk, utgli Amethsts, Jewellery, ooks,Picures, rnts, Grcer)", eroigris, Ton y quil Beans:Cro ß ss Bows, t Morel P s, i Bugles, o Wax Caildjes; Whiskey and other Spirits; Wine, China, Stone; r)e liss Monotony, Fustic, and other Wood ; Boots ; a vessel e 'llied the " Parfaite Union ;" and Sundry other Goods, as tletationed in the Catalogue. CLEAR OF ALL DUTIES. Also Hops, Dried Herbs, C.slamus Aromatiac, Spars, I)l s,' Rosewood, Staves, &e. for Exportation duty nee, or tur Home Consumption on Payment of the. Duties of Cus t"rns and Excise. T. be viewed at the Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe ; and '"e King's Warehouse and Cellars, Custom-House; on Toes the 19th, W e dn e sday the 20th, Thursday the 21st, and ''riday the 22d Instant, from Ten o'Clock in the morning to Uhree o'Clock in the afternoon. „ N.B. Good s b oug ht at this Sale must he paid for at th e Iteceiver of Fines and Forfeitures Office, Custom-House, on (kr Lefote Monday, the 18th March, 1842, or the Deposits m ade thereon will absolutely become forfeited. tatalugnesqb be bad at the King's Warehouse, Custom elouie • o SI 'll'nz each. price ne SURREY DISPENSARY. ripHE ANNIVERSARY DINNER will be :a. at the LONDON TAVERN, Jlishopsgate-street, on ri -HURSDAY, the 7th March, 1822. P RESIDENT,—The Right Hon. Lord Viscount MIDLETON, Lord Lieutenant of the County. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Right Hon. Earl Spencer the Right Hon. Lord Grant ley Lord Vise. Althorp, M. P; Lord, William RusseN, M. I'. The Right Hon. G; Tierney, NI. P. Sir John Frederick, Bart. Sir Thomas Turton, Bart. Treasurer,—FLOß. - 1 Jahn ST Ell r ft- S P ice r, Esq. High She- John Blades Thop' Esq. 1 3. Burbidge, Esq. f ury Thomas Brown, Esq. v ,.nry Greenwood, Esq. ,Yll.lta in Willmott, Esq. llysici ans ,—D r . C. Forbes, D. Win. Black, Dr. J. B. Davis. „' il rgeons,—.loliti Allan Gill ham, Esq. Henry Greenwood, Esq. Apothecary,—Mr. Benjamin Haggett. I Dinner on Table at Four o'Clock precisely.—No will be tho se of the Nobility, Vice-Presidents, and Stewards, will admitted. Tickets, 12s. rash, to he had of the Stewart's, at the Dis pensary, of the Treasurer, Secretary, Collector, and at the Taver n This• Charity is supported by voluntary Contributions, and 'lie Terms are— To become a Life Director 15 Guineas. a Life Governor lO Guineas. ----- an Annual Governor.. 1 Guinea per Ann. ‘ ° Llbscriptions are received by the following Persons, viz. l'essrs. Hoare, Barnett, Hoare, and Co. Lombard-street ; tssrs.Sikes, Snaith, and Co. Mansion House-street; Messrs. ii ( lerst Towgood, and Co. Clement's-lane ; Sir Peter Pole, s- ar t, Thornton, Free, Down, and Scott, Bartholornew-lane; Joh n Pinhorn, Weston, and Son, Borough Bank ; by the W tre asurer, Flosan c e Young, Esq. High-street e Southwark ; , the C o ll ec t or , H. Ch r i c h ar d, 4 , W es t on - street , South ark; at the Dispensary, Union street, Southwark; and by Sir Robert Wi!On, M. P. Sir Nlattliew l3loxam George H. Sumner, M. P. WilliamJ. Denison, Esq. M. P, t harles Calvert, Esq. M. P. Samuel Thornton, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Charles Barclay, E sq . { James Bnlcock, Esq. ,NCE YOUNG, Esq. 'ARDS. Thomas Gates, Esq. , William Denbigh, Esq. William Buttery, Esq. Thomas Johnson, Jun. Esq. j George Baylis, Esq. William Thomas, Esq. FREDERICK WILLIAM CART'ER, Se - c. 48, Hikh•street, Southwark. • - -To T. TAY LOR, Esq., , No. 9, New Bridge-street, London. Homnualin 13EG- leave to inform you, that ever since the year 1790, I had beets afflicted with the Lues Venereal, from its obstinately resisting every course of medicine ribed by the mOst eminent of the faculty here, and un ;i',,,tg"ingseveralsevere courses of salivation, and twice dis )'''''ged from the Hospital with little relief, wmild appear to :(tf the most inveterate nature. In the spring of last year Hisorder had got to such a head, as nearly to put a period () „ n 'Y existence—l had a lar;.7e ulcer on the crown of my head, "n each arm, and my legs were broke out in a frightful m anner ; to right was dreadfully painful, and had heen in a li C ,"' of ulceration for the last seven years ; my left had also large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave le s uch excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed, at n e'arty to deprive me of rest ; in this lamentable state, I recommended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so a cure by theist here), to take Your Leake's Patent Pills, hich I began to do on the 2titb o. May ; in the course of a , °lll light began to receive benelit—in little more than a the ulcers on nw It end and arms were soundly healed : 11 1 after, the sores oti toy legs healed also; leaving, how considerable diseolouration in the skin, and pain in the :te of the l e ft, w hi c h, by th e blessing of God, and a little j i g ger pesseveranee in your invaluable Medicine, subsided ; t h " nodes dispersing, the skits regaining its natnral hue, and % , 0 9 nocturnal pains gradually going . off.—l thus became, by liberal advice and mediciue, perfectly free from all my u t r 'net complaints—have recovered my former spirits a no ~,Z4th, and am become jolly and fat, in which state having ',"lutd many months, to the astonishment of all who knew am at a loss in what terms ti express my gratitude, but You, for the good of other suffering Levermortas, snake c _`' my case as public as possible, as I shall on occa "n; its so doing you will greatly oblige, Sir, your grateful, obedient, very horable servant, - ALEX. MURKEIt ~ tt an'sClose, High-street, Edinburgh. J o h . Witnesses to the above Cure:— 4„ hompson, No. 3, New Poultry Market, Edinburgh, p r Jolla Wlntosh Old Assembly ( Mse, Edinburgh. 0 , hared and sold by i the sole Proprietor, THOMAS TAY h'°tlst2 Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his No. 9, New Bridge-street, London; whete, after a ,to_rimstyesidettee of - more than 40 years, in a practice parti ly directed to tbe.cure ot Venereal Complaints and those st 'me ec ntal to the Parts of Generation, with that inviolable s uch Y whieb men of his profession shOuld always observe in t ratu F,aset, be flatters himself the advice and as3istance he ten administers to persons taking this Medicine, will 4t,rled, by a discerning Public, as an advat tage seldom liv%Mule, and void of all ambiguity. 0 sold, by his appointment, for the convenience of those fir. n t s a distance, at the Toyshop, No. 103, Oxford-street; ,s4v,uct bekough's, No. 7, Fish-street-(till; Mr. Baxter, "bridge, Edinburgh ; Mt. Callwel 's, Dublin; and of Ire;' person in every considerable town in Groat Britain and I; a nd, hi boxes afoul) , 2s. 9d. each, ' starved, and sealed up _fUli and plain directions, whereby persons, of Other n litYctirt themselves with ease, spLtd,mertey, and safety. g THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1822 • * • MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK. ENGLAND. Monday, March 4, LONDON'. Nllll.. 5, 27, 39, 89, 218, 223, 289. Com. Boys' Sch. at 7. COUNTRY. Nos. 20, 64, 72, 97, 102, • 1 . 48, 191, '202, 219, 233, 267, 311, 369, 372, 398, 423, 425, 437, 455, 498, 502, 503, 509, 524, 541, '553, 558, 632, 638, 643, 644, 680, 710. Tuesday, -5, LONDON. Nos. 9, 240, 281, 287, 316, 381. • COUNTRY. Nos. 21, 127, 167,1 70, 180, 184, 196, 204, 285, 385, 387, 471, 476, 477, 497, -501, 507, 512, 528, 532, '644, 551, 557, 559, 579, - 4442, 63:4 649. IVeduesday, -6, LONDON'. Nos. 35, 75, 220. Quar. terly Corn. COUNTRY. Nos. 54, 84, 95, 121, 124, 126, 129, 146, 164, 207, 229, 291, 339, 400, 465, 468, 472, 487, 491, 505, 513, 526, 529, 563, 577, 561, 585, 606, 656, 690, 705, 711, 713, 725. Thursday, -7, LONDON. Nos. 25, 34, 61, 122, 239, 277, 325. COUNTRY. Nos. 51, 70, 113, 171, 132, 234, 416, 420, 451, 453, 466, 469, 506, 518, 555, 560, 561, 586, 599, 627, 670, 679. Friday, -8, LONDON. N 05.128, 161, 275. • COUNTRY. Nos. 53, 282, '233, 533. Saturday,-- 9, LONDON. * * * COUNTRY. NO. 358. IRELANEL Monday, March 5, Conic. No. 347. Tue s d a y, 6, CoRK. Z4O. 95. Wednesday, -7, CORK. Nos. 1, 41. LONDON DISTRICT. TILE GIRLS ScirooL.—The Anniversary Dinner of this most excellent Institution was held on Thursday last, the 21st inst., in Freemasons' Hall, in which many judicious alterations have recently been made, under the direction of the W. Brother Soane, the Grand Superintendant of the works. The M. W. Grand Master, 11. R. 11., we regret to say, was prevented at tending by severe indisposition, and his place was filled by the Prov. Grand Master for Dorsetshire, i% m. Williams, Esq. M.P., the Treasurer, who took the chair at six o'clock, attended in procession by the Stewards and Grand Officers. About 250 Brethren and other Gentlemen, the supporters of the Institution, were present. After the cloth was removed, and the King, the Grand Patron of the Order, the 1%1. W. Grand Master, li. It. 11. the Duke of Sussex, and sorr4other toasts had been g i ven , th e Prov. Grand Master for Dorietshire, Br. Williams, rose to propose Prosperity and Perpetuity to the Freemasons' Royal Female Charity, and in the course of a most powerful and pa thetic appeal to the feelings of the company, he stated a fact which is well authenticated, and which deserves to be recorded, both as it reflects the highest credit upon those to whom the management of the school and the instruc tion of the children has been intrusted, and as it affords a strong and interesting illustration of the force of the prin. • Ciples upon which Masonry is founded—that no instance had occurred of a child educated in the school having deviated'from the path of the strictest rectitude and virtue. The whole of the Address was received with the greatest applause; and the - 6111kit5iVeteatittiiittas introduced, and a subscription -amount ing to upwards of 5001., was collected toward s th e support o f the funds fo r maintaining this truly excellent and :Masonic Institution. THE LONDON JOURNALS. EXTRACTS FROM THE D lI,Y MORNING PAPERS, February 28, 1822. - [NEW TIMES.] The House of Commons was engaged last night in the discussion of a variety of public bu siness. A petition from Greenock, relative to the imprisonment of Henry Hunt, gave rise to some remarks upon the state of Ilchester Gaol, and it was ordered that the evidence given before the Commissioners should be printed. Mr. Creevey then moved for a return of the profits which have accrued to the public, through the abolition and regulation of offices under the Act passed in the 53d of his late Majesty. The Mar quis of Londonderry replied to the speech of Mr. Creevey, but did not oppose the motion, which was agreed to.—When the House was about to resolve itself into a Committee of Sup ply, Mr. Hume moved for further intruiry into the Navy Estimates. Unfortunately for the Hon. Member, he fell again under the lash of Mr. Croker. His motion was negatived by a majority of 129 to 78. [Tut: Times.] The long debate, or rather discussion, in the House of Lords, on Tuesday evening, will be read by those who have leisure, or can take an interest in such matters. The great majority of the nation, not perceiving that any improvement has taken place in the condition of the agricul tural interest, will hardly believe that it has been the subject of such investigation. It is most cer tain, that if the agricultural distresses could be removed by the quantity of investigation that is applied to them, the evil would not long exist.— The quality o f th a t i nvest i gat i on i s a different thing. It is almost incredible that men should gravely set themselves to prove at this time of day, that " taxation does not occasion the low prices." Who ever did or could assert such nonsense ? The truth is, that the effect of taxation upon prices would be to raise them, inasmuch as the farmer must endeavour in some degree to force up the price which he receives for his produce to an equality with the various demands upon him, of which taxes are the chief. The plain statement of the case is this—not that taxes produce or generate low prices ; but, the prices being l ow , t axa ti on t a k es away an unjust proportion of those small prices out of the far mer's pocket, leaving him but little or nothing for the support of his family. It is, therefore, the heavy taxation and the low prices existing together, that produce the distress. Take away the heavy taxation, and low prices may suffice. Raise the prices (which God-forbid should ever be done, for others are to live as well as the farmer), and heavy taxation may be borne. It would be as absurd to go about proving that rent does not produce low prices, as that taxation does not produce them. But can it be denied that while the prices are low the farmer is less able to pay his rent? We should hardly think it credible, if the fact were not staring us in the face, that men should think themselves under the necessity of fetching arguments from the north of Europe and the south, to show that taxation does not produce low prices. In Switzerland, it is said, the people are now suffering from low prices, where the tax ation is not to be complained of. Be it so, we reply; but we should like to know what would be the case in that country, if, while the prices continue thus low, a vast load of taxes, equal in proportion to those of England, were suddenly imposed—would not the miseries of the farmer be aggravated beyond all bearing—would not the insufficiency of the existing prices be felt in the exact ratio of the increased taxation ? [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Debate last night on the motion of Mr. Cmevey, respecting the Act for the remunera tion of persons who have held high official situa tions, was highly animated and instructive ; but the length to which our report extends, and to which we must refer our readers, will not allow us at present to enter into the consideration of the subject.—We expressed our confidence at the time that Mr. Croker would soon have cause to regret the attack which he thought proper to make on Mr.ll ume,on Friday, and last night proves the correctness of our anticipation. We knew that the diligence and• accuracy of Mr. Hume would never allow him to be guilty of the blun ders which the Hon. Secretary attempted to fasten on him; and that this attempt, being un supported by any fou n d a ti on i n f act , would only recoil against the author of it.—Never was triumph more complete than that of Mr. Hume last night ; and his humbled adversary must have been an object of pity to his friends. He even went so far as to assure the House, at one time, that he was not repeating a story invented for the occasion! This is a very singular sort of as severation for an Honourable Gentleman to make use of. The consideration of the whole of this conflict between Mr. Croker and Mr. Hume can hardly fail to suggest the reflection that an un known and a known assailant possess very dif ferent advantages. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL. MALL. THIS GALLERY, for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of MODERN ARTISTS, is OPEN daily front Ten in the Morning until Five in the Evening. _ . Admission 1 I.—Catakette By Order, JOHN YOUNG, Keeper. On Monday, March 4, will he published, in Bvo . , DRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on MR. RICARDO'S PRINCIPLES of POLITICAL ECO NOMY and TAXATION. By JOHN STUCKEY REYNOLDS, Esq. " In the case of Corn; the average quantity is sufficient for the supply of every individual ; all beyond that is an ab solute depression of the market for a great length of time."— Tooke's Evidence before the Agricultural Committee, 1821, p. 240. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London. SMIRKE'S SHAKESPEARE. In the Course of publication, ILLUSTRATIONS of SHAKESPEARE, from Pictures painted expressly for this Work, by ROBT. SMIRKE, Esq. R.A. and:engraved in the finest style by the most eminent - Historical Engravers. The Play illustrated is published at the same time; but the Embellishments may be had separate from, or together with, the Play. The Numiters•already published are as follow: No. I. The Tempest. • No. 111. Merry Wives of Wind 11. Taming of the Shrew. sor. No. IV. Twelfth Night (in a few days).—V. Measure for Measure (in April).—Vl. Romeo and Juliet (in June.) — VII. Henry the Fourth, Part I. (in A ugust).—Vlll. Midsum mer Night's Dream (in October).—lX. Two Gentlemen of Verona (in December). Loudon : Printed for Rodwell .and Martin, New Bond street ; and sold by the principal Booksellers of the United Kingdom. On Saturday next, March 2, will be published, In Two Volumes Royal 4to. with Portraits with Characteris tic Devices from the, curious Pen and Ink-Drawings of Bev; LEY and M tmrz, as inserted in the Original MS. AIEMOIRES •OF • HIS OWN TIMES, (The present portion comprises the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II.) By HORACE WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD. From the original MSS. found in the .Chest left by his Lord ship's Will to he opened by the first Earl of Waldegrave who should attain the age of Twenty-one after the Year 1800. "Though some, who know mankind, and the various follies, faults, and virtues that are blended in our imperfect natures, May smile with me at this free relation of what I have seen and known, yet I am aware that more will be offended at the liberty I have taken in painting men as they are : and that many, from private connections of party, and family, will dislike meeting such unflattered portraits of their heroes or their relations. Yet this, I fear, must always be the case in any history written impartially by an eye-witness ;—and eye witnesses have been generally allowed to be the properest historians."—(Extract from Loan ORFORD'S Post Script.) Printed for JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle-street. HERALDRY. We have now got round to a new point—that although colour may not be placed on colour, not metal on metal, fur may be placed on fur. By what peculiar principle this exemption—the very opposite of analogy—is afforded, let TALTHY. BUIS explain. But perhaps his (" M.S.") would clear up the difficulty. The animal sable seems to have become con founded with the pictorial, under very little re ference to the actual colour of the " animal whose skin it represented,"—the Muste/a—which is as often seen red or white, as black or even cinerous. It would sound and shew rather oddly, to describe as sable a fur which is not necessarily black, and which no ingenuity can blazon with out the admixture of some other colour. In stepping out of the shield into the mantle, TALTHYBIUS speaks of white as " the other opake colour." He allows then black to be its com panion in opacity; yet, while describing both as colours, where they are seen only as furs, he may as fairly permit sable to be a colour in the shield, as white to be a metal. Definitions, however, may sometimes 4 C be understood too li terally." It is rather too much for even the Herald of Atreides—since we must be thus helenistical— to infer that " reputation" alone has induced the College to class sable among its colours and gems and planets : or that the Scottish Novelist was obliged to blazon, by any new rule, a coat armour of the twelfth century in a contempora neous " romaunt." A most lame and impotent conclusion I —Has our argument of ancient arms, with all their chi valry from King AGAMEMNON to King Riot Ann, and all their " pursuivantry" from HOMER to WALTER SCOTT, settled down into a " scouting by modern Heralds"? TALTHYBIUS has descended too—from Cam bridge University to " Cambridge House."— Had I known this sooner, I should have left the question, as I now leave it, to the Knight-Hos pitaller and the Ostler-Baron. Y.Y. FOR. THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—Since your generosity has given insertion to my two former letters, I hope your justice will extend the same indulgence to this. If typographical errors, so material as those which hare been admitted into my last letter, have at all affected my adversary's, perhaps I shall have the plea sure of discovering thael have wronged him, and that he is better acquainted with heraldry than his i first communication showed him to be. In my last letter (besides several lighter mistakes in punctuation, which I pass over) I find " liber tius" for " libentius," the word MS. put in ( ), the word deny put for disprove (if I rightly recollect), and " soot of armour" for " coat armour." But the most ludicrous mis take is that wherein my residence (Cambridge) is turned into Cambridge House::: a place with which I never had the ho nour of being connected.—l rely on your goodness for an early insertion of this, and am, Sir, your's, Cambridge, Feb. 26. TALTHYBIUS. The Carlisle Patriot says, " that after the Earl of LONSDALE had undergone the opera tion of couching, vision was Lt once restored to the Noble Earl in both eyes ; and the most san guine expectations are entertained that on the removal of the bandages the restoration will be found both complete and permanent." LOWER CANADA. QUEBEC—A meeting of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Lower Canada was held on Thursday the 27th of December last, at the Union Hotel, Quebec, when the R. W., the C. Denechau, Prov. Grand Master, having opened the Grand Lodge in ample form, was pleased to appoint the thllowing Brethren, as the officers of the Prov. Grand Lodge of Lower Canada, for the present year:— R. W. W. A. Thompson, P. M. of Lodge No. 77—Dep. Grand Master. R. W. Vallieres de St. Real, W. M. of Lodge No. 23—Senior Grand Warden. Rt. W. R. C. D'Estimauville of Lodge No. 23—Junior Grand Warden. V. W. Rev. E. Somerville, Grand Chaplains. V v. . I N v V ,. . j it o e h v n . D D r , . E H s t a i m r kanuevs } i s n e of Lodge No. 23—Grand Trea surer. V. W. Keable Serjeant, W. M. of Lodge No. 77—Grand Se cretary. V. W. G. Feluet, of Lodge No. 77—Grand Registrar. V. W. J. Phillips, of do. 22—Grand Architect and Superin tendant. V. W. It. Coates, of do. 22—Grand Director of Ceremonies. V. W. J. G. Thompson, of do. 22—S e ni or G ran d D eacon . R. W. G. Morrison, of do. 77—Junior Grand Deacon. V. W. Thos. Burns, of do. 77—Grand Sword Bearer. Brothers P. Laforce, of do. 23- - A. Rich of do. 17— Grand Stewards J. Reeves, of do. 22- - W. H. Smith, of do. 22-- - W. Nl‘Kay, of do. 77—Inner Guard. I. Harper, Grand Tyler. We feel great pleasure in laying before our Readers the fol lowing Address, on this occasion, from the R. W: Prov. Grand Master of Lower Canada, the Honourable C. Denechau, to his Prov. Grand Officers, and to the Craft in general, as we are sure that it will be the source of the highest satisfaction to the M. W. Grand Master, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to observe the zeal and ability with which the important duties of the Grand Master of so distant a Province are fulfilled, and that it affords an example well worthy of the attention of every Brother to whom our illustrious Grand Master has intrusted the peribrmance of similar duties : BRETILTIEN,—On the annual installation of the Officers of the Gland Lodge, it is my duty to impress on them in parti cular, and upon Masons in general, their respective obligations to that most ancient and honourable Order to which we belong, anti this I think the more incumbent on me from the remiss ness which, with regret, I have recently found to prevail in many of our Lodges. To you, Brothers, who have been raised to be Officers of the Grand Lodge, belong in common with myself the vigilant su perintendanee of all the Lodges in this Province, and the gene ral welfare of the Craft. The influence of your conduct and example among Masons will therefore be considerable; and I shall expect that you will upon all occasions shew a laudable nal, and attend faithfully and punctually to your Masonic duties, whether in sustaining the dignities of the Craft at pro cessions and interments, or on other public occasions, or in the private though not less sol emn an d essent i a l duties of Grand Lodge. To the Officers and Brethren of the other Lodges throughout the Province, I must also express my earnest hopes of their re newed zeal and co-operation in maintaining the honour of the Craft, by a punctual attendance at all Masonic occasions, pub lic and private. Let it not be said that our institution, ancient beyond all others, and wnich is the most noble, rational and charitable in its principles, shall languish in a country of freedom and of toleration, and where the influence of bigotry has no hold on its Political Government. As Citizens, as Husbands, as Fathers, and as Brothers, let your conduct be straight and exemplary, each fulfilling with honesty and cheer fulness the station to which it has pleased GOD to call him, refuting by the uprightness of his life the calumnies of his ene mies, and above all things adhering with loyal steadfastness to the King and to his Government, and to the true principles of that happy constitution we enjoy under ins powerful and fatherly protection. Quebec, Dec. 27, 1821. CLAUDE DENECHAU, Prov. G. M. [MORNING POST.] In the House of Commons, last night, Mr. Hume again subjected himself to exemplary cas tigation, for his ignorance and presumption.— This " Encyclopaedia of Finance," (a name which Mr. Smith has whimsically enough forged for him, and which, it seems, is to be the future distinguishing appellation of this countless blun derer) floundered as much in error on this occa sion as ever, and was of course caught up with as PRICE SEVENPENCE. much neatness and effect as before, by his old friend, Mr. Croker; who again skewed that all the repeated statements of sums by the wily Seer were either false in their amount, or where they happened to be correct in their amount s grossly mistaken in their meaning and applica tion. We have neither room nor time to enume rate the various points of Mr. Croker's excellent Speech, and must therefore for the present con tent ourselves with referring our Readers to it. So complete an exposure of ignorant presumption and unexampled financial quackery cannot fail to produce an effect upon the minds even of the most inconsiderate, and prevent gullibility itself from being any longer imposed upon. The just ridicule by which Mr. Hume has thus become overwhelmed and beaten down, is the immediate result of his silly vanity ; but that which en graves upon the rock of time the record of his utter incapability of mind, is the ample, clear, and decisive proof, that, in the language of Mr. Croker, " he only touches upon the surface " of finance; without the power-of examining, or even of understanding its principles.—Poor, poor Mr. Hume !—So much for this boasted Encyclopedia of Finance! [BRITISH PRESS.] If the Ministers of the Crown be sincere in the declaration of the opinion that no relief could arise to the country from the reduction of any portion of the taxes, it becomes a matter of sur prise that they should at so early a period of the Session have, with an apparent readiness, volun tarily proposed to decline the renewal of the annual malt tax. This is the more remarkable too, as notwithstanding their unrelenting inroads during many years upon the sinking fund, they have at once discovered that the only means of affording permanent service to the community, is to enable the Commissioners for the liquida tion of the debt to throw large sums of money every year into the market. We have advisedly used this mode of expressing the operation of the sinking fund, for it would be a mockery to talk of reducing the national debt at the moment when the capital of the debt is about to be increased seven millions by the transfer of the five per cents., and four millions by a loan from the Bank to promote parochial extravagance. There is in the whole of the proceedings of the Ministers so much of inconsistency and of contradictions, that if their principles were to be collected from their actions, the pursuit would puzzle many a careful inquirer. We cannot doubt, however, from their own declaration, that they are the de voted advocates of taxation, and we must thence infer that the proposed remission of the annAnd Malt duty arises from a feeling upon their part more nearly allied to prudence, if not to abso lute apprehension, than to a sincere desire to re lieve the sufferings of the country. [MORNING HERALD.) We yesterday received in due course the Paris Papers. The financial accounts of the two last years have come under the discussion of the Cham ber of Deputies. The most remarkable speech was that of M. Caumartin, a manufacturer, who criti cised the expenditure in several branches, and ex cited one of the usual ferments, by some remarks on the partiality with which the sums voted for public education were distributed, and particu larly by representing the Swiss Guard as a fo reign force interposed between the nation and the throne. There are ten persons, chiefly Quarter masters in their respective regiments, under trial, on charges relating to the late conspiraciei of Belfort and Saumur. The cause between MM. Bertrand and Moutholon, on the one side, and M. 'Akre, the Banker, on the other, also proceeds, but with closed doors, .and no part of the proceedings is given. There are no accounts from the Morea. The Greek General Odysseus is described as bearing all bef9re him in Thessaly—and the Envoy of the Greeks, Prince Cantacuzena, is on his way to St. Peters burgh, accompanied by a Russian Agent.-- There are two articles from the North—the one stating, under the head of Warsaw, that a con siderable number of young Poles, chiefly men of letters or students of the Universities, have been sent into the deserts of the Russian empire, to expiate, no doubt, their impatience of the bar barous and despotic domination of Russia over Poland. The second article from St. Peters burgh, dated Jan. 31, states, that a new and in creased duty had been laid upon the importation of foreign goods, " with the view of ameliorat ing the national prosperity." MENDJCITY SOCIETY.-Yesterday the Annual Meeting of the above Society was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, which was numerously and respectably attended. The Duke of Yictut being unable to attend, the BISHOP of LONDON took the Chair. The Report, which was very voluminous, was read, stating that the number of applicants during the present year had greatly decreased, which was in a great measure attributed to an admirable system adopted by the Society's officers, who had en gaged a wharf at Paddington Canal, for the pur purpose of employing able-bodied mendicants in breaking stones for the road, at which they could. eau] from Is. 9d. to 2.5. 6d. per day. During the time they were in this employment, they were supplied with provisions at a cheap rate, and the surplus of their earnings formed a fund for their use when they thought proper to leave. The Report set forth, that during the first six weeks 257 were sent to work, out of whom 196 ab sconed and had never since been heard of. 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