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THE LONtON JOURNALS. IC.LTRA'CTS PROM TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, October 3, 1822'. [THE TIMES.] Letters. dated the 26th of July were received yesterday from Bahia. It now appears that the expedition which sailed from Lisbon , early in June, and which was reported in the advices brought by the last packet to have reached its destination safely, 'had not arrived at Bahia by the date above-mentioned. The expedition from Rio de Janeiro,. despatched to the assistance of the party contending for independence, had also not arrived. General Madeira, the Military Governor at Bahia, bad intelligence of the sailing of the expedition from Lisbon, and had in con sequence equipped six vessels of war, to cruize off the port of St. Salvador, in order to facilitate the entrance of the expedition from Portugal, in the event of its being attacked by the Rio Jane iro squadron. At Bahia no event of importance had occurred, but the situation of affairs denoted the approach of a❑ important crisis. The Gover nor was proceeding to strengthen himself in his positions, and to guard against surprise on the part of the inhabitants. The communication with the interior was wholly cut off, and all business suspended. It was greatly feared that the inha bitants of Bahia, in the difficulty of accomplishing by any other means the independence they de sired, would emancipate and put arms into the hands of the black population—a measure that might be followed by the most disasf:ous conse quences to the province. It forms a striking feature of the contest for ascendancy at Bahia between the Portuguese and the Brazilian in terests, that while two armies, the subjects of the same Power, were on the point of encounter ing on shore, there were two fleets at sea, nearly equal in point of strength, in the same predica ment. The squadron of the Prince Regent is despatched for the purpose of intercepting that fitted out by the Cortes and his father the King of Portugal ; and should the fleets come to an action, Brazil being nominally, at least, still under the dominion of Portugal, they would ac tually engage under the same flag. [NEW TIMES.] Monday's Paris Papers were received last night by express. We have given some extracts from them, though their contents have nothing of interest to recommend them. Glancing at Le Drapeau Blanc of Sunday last, which arrived yesterday in the accustomed course, we notice •the following apposite remarks on the politics of Europe :—" The Liberal Papers," says this writer, 64 still continue their discussions on the posikion of France in relation to Spain. They are agreed as to permitting the Army of Observa tion to remain on the frontier ; but then, on the other hand, they require that it should abide by its position, and 'not advance a single foot.— They even have endeavoured to prove that any sort of movement towards the South, would be impolitic, unconstitutional, and trenching on the liberties of the people. It, therefore, now only remains to ascertain if the Revolution of Spain has originated in the na tional wish, collected and sanctioned by the Prince ; or whether it is a mere cruel excitation, the work of some ambitious and fanatical agita tors. To determine this point, it is only here re quisite to decide the following question : " Drunken, or mad, servants may fire the house of my neighbour; I have a thatched house next door ; my neighbour is about to perish in the flames ; the incendiaries menace me with the same lot. It is unconstitutional to run to their aid, and snatch the torches from the hands of the incendiaries ?" [MORNING POST.] We received last night, by Express, Paris Journals to the Ist inst. They have brought intelligence from Madrid of as late a date as the 19th ult. Ali was tranquil in that capital, where the Proclamation lately issued by the King, and the exertions of the Ministers to place the army on an effective footing, and to subdue the insur rection, had created much satisfaction. Notwith standing the contradictory statements which have appeared in papers under Ultra influence, it was still confidently asserted at Madrid, not may that negociations had been opened with Portugal, but that they were nearly brought to a conclusion, and that the result would be the march of a strong Portuguese corps to the frontiers of Syain, to assist in reducing the Rebels, and if necessary, in repelling invasion. A distinguished Portu guese individual had left Madrid on the even ing of the 13th for Lisbon, bearing with him the Ultimatum of the Spanish Government, drawn up, it is said, with the frankness which ought to characterise the administration of a free State. — The interests of both countries, it is added, had been well understood and skilfully conciliated, and the decision of the Portuguese Ministry was expected to be known within ten days in the Spanish Capital. The Treaty, however, even when signed by both Courts, could not be ra tified, according to the forms of the Constitution, until a law should have been passed for that pur pose by the Portuguese and Spanish Cortes.— The King had appointed a new political Chief for Barcelona, and had selected a military man, General Don Fernando Butron, to hold that office, on account of the difficulties and dangers of the times. The cause of the arrests which took place sometime since in that city is now explained. They were occasioned by the sudden appearance within its walls, of a bundle of the Revolutionary Proclamations issued by the pretended Regency of Urgel. These Proclama tions were immediately burned in the public Square by the Hangman's hands, in presence of the civil and military authorities, and in the midst of the shouts of the people, whose indigna tion could only be appeased by the arrest of the individuals suspected to have introduced the factious appeals within' the city. The accounts from the frontiers only detail trifling actions, in Wbieh, notwithstanding the boastful assertions of the Royalists, it is evident that thelriends of the ' Constitution and of order are continually gaining ground. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The last accounts from Spain inform us, that Sir Wm. A'Court was expected at Vittoria on the 23d, on his way to Madrid, as our Minister Plenipotentiary at that Court. The mention of this circumstance affords us an opportunity of observing, that we have reason to think Sir Wil liam's mission at the present moment deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from the people of England at least. We have been desired, indeed, to view in it some indication of a sound and respectable system of foreign policy worthy of the power and former character of this country, and a preparatory step to the total separation of our Cabinet from the duplicity and treachery of the Holy Al liance. Without yielding implicit faith to these anticipations, we believe that Ministers are quite sick of the Continental Legitimates, and are besides in the daily receipt of so much odium for their domestic Administration, that they would willingly embrace a plausible pretence for shaking off all that now attaches to them from their foul connexion with a set of mean and un principled Despots abroad. To some feeling of this sort we would fain ascribe the appointment of an Ambassador from this country to the Court of Madrid, at the very time that the Holy Alli ance are entering into a Conclave avowedly to discuss the question of foreign interference with the internal affairs of Spain. We recollect, dis tinctly, that during the last Session, the Marquess of Londonderry informed the House of Commons, that the degree of relative friendship between In dependent States was always expressed by the rank of the Representatives at their respective Courts. Upon this principle we must at present be on terms of perfect amity with the Constitu tional Government of Spain, and what is more remarkable, we indicate this by sending there a Minister Plenipotentiary at the precise period that the French Cabinet have in dudgeon with drawn theirs from Madrid—that a French army menaces the invasion of Spain, and the Holy Alliance are plotting its subjugation ! We are confidently assured, indeed, that the news of this step absolutely astounded the French Ministry, and was the cause of a serious fall in the French Funds, which at the time was referred to other circumstances. It is said, however, that our Cabinet has since explained itself, by stating that Sir Wm. A'Court is sent to Madrid, in order to quiet the fears of the Spanish people respecting a foreign attack on their independence, and by that means to prevent any measure which might compromise the personal safety of Ferdi nand. The French Government have thus, in all probability, been reconciled to our conduct, and in consequence, we understand, forwarded a dispatch to this Court at the same time with the Ordinance changing the name of the Cordon de Saute into that of Army of Observation, re questing to know in what light the British Cabi net would view ,any military assistance which France might afford to the Spanish Regency [BRITISH PRESS.] The last Government contract for Irish provi. sions was taken (we understand) at the follow. ing prices on the '27th ult. by Messrs. Callaghat and Sons, of Cork : DELIVERED IN TILE WEST INDIES. Beef, at the rate of - - - 2s. sd. per 81bs, Pork, ditto - - - Is. 2d. per 41bs. DELIVERED AT DEPTFORD. Navy tierces Beef - - - - £4 11 10 Navy barrels ditto - - 32 10 Navy tierces Pork - 4 16 8 Navy barrels ditto - - 32 10 How these prices can support the present rate of rents, tithes, and taxes, we leave to Mr. Vansit tart and his financial friends to discover. It is a mystery beyond our shallow and narrow compre hension. [MORNING HERALD.] Two incidents, in the course of the late insur rectionary proceedings in France, are not un worthy of notice, though of little moment in themselves. They show to what a degree of coarseness the sentiment of honour (upon which the French so much pique themselves) has ar rived in the immediate partisans and satellites of party and power. It will be remembered that a Quarter-master, named Woelfel, in one of the regiments of the French army, was the person who, by turning what the French call mouchard —the most odious description of spy, and confined only to the lowest agents of the Police —gained from Berton the secret of his place of retreat. Now we are far from meaning to censure the Government of France for making use of this man, nor yet for promoting him to the rank of a commissioned Officer, though we are sure that, in England, there is not a' corps that would not reject with disgust the contamination of his fellowship. But what shall we say of the Attor. ney-General, who, in examining this Woelfel as a witness, in opposition to the depositions of others, apostrophizes him with such an appeal to his chivalry as this—" Now, M. de Woelfel, you have the honour to be a French Officer ; I ask . you, upon your honour," &c. This happy, but unconscious stroke of burlesque from the Attorney General—the fruit, it is said, of the bad taste and grateful servility of a man, elevated beyond his merits and beyond his expectations— has produced a power of epigrams at Paris and in the French army. Unhappily none of those that we have heard will bear publication. The second circumstance relates to the same trans actions. It has been observed from our extracts from the Paris Papers, that a retired officer, named Caron, has been capitally convicted at Strasburgh of having attempted to seduce a squadron of cavalry into open insurrection. The soldiers merely affected to enter into his views, but Fnarched under his orders a consider able distance—until they thought it right to ar rest him and throw off the mask. They were highly eulogised for their fidelity. That, however, which gained them the palm of "devoted loyalty," " heroic zeal," &c. &c. from all the Ultra Jour nals, was, their having dashed among the pea santry, with cries of Ave l'Empereur! in order to betray the unwary into a fatal expression of any lurking sentiment of Buonapurtism, and thus diminish the number of the King's enemies. We thought that those who could offer such ptaise for conduct, which has its example only in the craft and cruelty of individual tyrants ;—and those who could receive praise, so insulting to the frankness and generosity of the mi litary_ character, must be essentially debased in mind. As to the fatter, we ire glad to find, for the honour of the profession of arms, that the Officer in command of these troops openly declared, on the trial of Caron, in, the face of France and Eu rope, that the men did not descend to so barba rous a stratagem, and rejected indignantly the slanderous panegyric, But still, incidents of this kind cannot be the effect of party blindness alone ; they manifest the existence of moral de basement. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. ( From the Bury Gazette, October 2.) The approaching Congress at Verona may be considered a sort of Parliament of the civilized world. Mighty and manifold are the blessings it will be enabled to diffuse among the nations of the earth, by a just and wise exercise of its potency ; but grievous and enduring are the ills it may in flict, by a weak or wicked misapplication of its power to any purpose but the welfare of mankind. The enemies of Kings, and principalities, and powers, who yet idolize a dead tyrant, arc loud and bitter in their exclamations against the Holy Al liance, as an union of despots to destroy the common freedom of man. They see in its views, nothing but lust of dominion— in its acts, nothing but struggles for individual aggrandise ment ; yet, all the vehement ravings of faction fail to convince us, that there is cause to fear the congregating of the rulers of the earth. We rather rejoice that he "by whom Kings govern and Princes ordain wisdom," has taught them to assemble and adjust their conflicting interests in amity and accord, instead of seeking to redress their wrongs by war and desolation, and blood and homicide. We look towards the Congress of Nations with hope and expectation ; we expect from it the preservation of "peace on earth," the precursor of "good-will towards men." An alliance for such a purpose is holy ; and he should be held accursed who would slander the intents, or im pede the acts, of those who unite to benefit the human race. Of the line of policy it may be deemed wise to adopt, in regard to those unhappy states now convulsed by revolutions, all must at present necessarily be surmise ; but if we may venture to hazard a conjecture of the future from the past, there exists no inclination in the 4reat powers of Europe to interfere in any of those civil dissentrons which now occupy so large a portion of the public mind in this country. The policy which induces this forbearance is obvious to any common observer; and it must never be forgotten, that the government of a country must be matter of prudence and policy, rather than sympathy. It may'be very amiable to weep over the fate of fighting pa triots, but very foolish to fight with them ; and were this country to involve itself in warfor the degenerate descendants of Theseus, the very men who are now loudest in demanding the interfer ence of Britain in the wars of Greece, would be the first to murmur at the expence, and the last to enlist in the under taking. The neutrality rigidly observed by this country, and the other States in alliance with it, in regard to the intestinal commotions of neighbour nations, is pretty strong evidence that they , have united for nobler purposes than either to suppress freedom, or support faction : they have combined not to op pose the march of the hfiman mind in knowledge, and wisdom, and power, but to guard the human mind from the pollution of blasphemy, infidelity, and treason ; not to set nation against nation, but to protect the people from the deadly mischiefs of anarchy and atheism, which, although at present subdued, lie smouldering, but not quenched, ready to burst forth with the first encouraging breath, and again spread war, and woe, and crime, where now dwell peace, content, and virtue.—lf the fiber ties of mankind be endangered, it is not from the tyranny of those who govern, but front the vices of those' who disdain all govern ment. The despotism of our day is not in our rulers, but in those who should be ruled. The acts of Kings in our times have all a tendency to better the state of man ; and the only Sovereign in Eu rope, during the present century, whose every act was. the . act of a tyrant, whose every motive was unrestrained ambition, unmitigated by one " compunctious visiting of nature," was the man whose memory the pretended friends of freedom fall down and worship—whose name is hallowed by those who scorn to hallow the name of God. Let not men who hold Na poleon in honour, presume to charge any Monarch on the earth with a deed' of shame. All the acts of policy in apportioning and dividing Empire, which appear to common eyes unjust and cruel, may have expediency' for their extenuating plea, may possibly be intended as a means of good to all; but let them be as criminal as faction can proclaim, as base as imagi nation can conceive, still' they will find an apology, as far as precedent can be apology, in acts ten times more criminal in the life of him whom f r action has ridiculously canonized as a martyr. Much speculation has been afloat of late re specting the expedition under Captain PARRY, especially as no tidings have been brought by any of the whale-ships recently arrived. But it seems that no information could be expected, the expedition not being in the track of the whale-ships, having entered by Hudson's Bay, which is to the southward of the fishing ground. Besides, if they had made any progress to the Westward last year, and were returning next year unsuccessful, there can be no accounts of them for some time ; for the ice inland (as Capt. PARRY found on his last expedition), does not break up till August, and then there is a tedious navigation before they can reach the sea.—(Hull Packet.) LUNAR IRIS, OR RAINBOW BY MOONLIGHT. The Iris Lunaris is so seldom seen, that Dr. PLOT asserts, in his History of Oxfordshire, that he knew several learned and eminent observers who never saw one in their lives; and that ARISTOTLE noticed only one in the course of fifty years.— An exceedingly interesting Iris, of this descrip tion,which made its appearance nearly due north, was distinctly observed by several persons in the neighbourhood of Boston, about half-past eight o'clock on Saturday evening. This bow in the heavens was every way complete ; the curvature entire, though its span was extensive ; and the altitude of its apex seemed to us to be more than 20 degrees. With that blackness or darkness which the rain-fraught clouds had then assumed in the back ground, this white arch of beauty formed .a striking contrast; whilst several stars in the constellation of the Bear, which were, for a time, conspicuous above, imparted additional grandeur to the scene. CROYDON FAra.—Yesterday morning this fair commenced with great spirit., and was much crowded. The theatrical booths of RICHARD - SON, GYNGELL, COOK, and BRYDGES, and other itinerants of the sock and buskin, as usual, ex cited much attention, and met with due support. All the sleight of hand talent from London at tended numerously, and the joskins in that neigh bourhood suffered materially from this mode of performance by the light fingered gentry. Life in London was not forgotten, and it was played off in prime style. About seven o'clock yesterday morning, the inhabitants of Swan-yard, facing Somerset House, in the Strand, were dreadfully alarmed at a great part of the street falling in , and exposing to view a most fearful abyss, 'the bottom of which the eye could not reach. On examination, it appears to have been an old covered well, and upwards of 100 feet in depth ; 80 of which is now full of water. LITERA,RT NOTICE. A LETTER addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of ELDON, Lord High Chancellor, &c. &c. upon the MAR RIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. By Joux STOCICDALE HARDY, Deputy Registrar of the Commis sary Court of Leicester. We never remember an Act which has occa sioned such a general outcry against its provisions, as the recent Marriage Act. The extensiveness of the complaints may be easily traced to the al most universal operation of the Act itself ; and affecting, as it does, all classes of society, it can not be matter of surprize that its contents should be minutely scrutinized, and its ill effects severe ly reprobated. The country, in point of fact, rings with complaints, connected with the Act, and it is therefore probable that the Legisla ture will take the earliest opportunity of rectify ing the errors into which we of course are quite convinced that they have unintentionally fallen. The interim, however, will be a period of severe trial and suspense to numerous parties ; doubts as to the validity of marriage are amongst the most agonizing that can possibly afflict the human mind ; and in proportion as the late Act has in creased them, will the quantum of uneasiness and misery be extended. We cannot here avoid expressing our sincere regret, that a Bill so use ful and (generally speaking) so just as the one originally introduced by Dr. PHILLimo RE, should, in its progress through Parliament, have been so dreadfully mutilated, and, in our opinion, ren dered so universally obnoxious. The motives which dictated the alterations we certainly be lieve to have been good ; but the parties who made the alterations appear to have been utterly in the dark as to the practical part of the subject. A great' portion' of the Letter now before us appeared in this Paper, and Mr. ST 0 CKD ALE HARDY, being officially connected with the exe cution of the Act, has endeavoured to call the attention of the public to the anomalies, ab surdities, and contradictions which, according to his judgment, beset the Bill at every turn. " It is well known (says the Author) that hitherto, in cases where both parties have been' alleged to have attained twenty one years of age, it has been sufficient for the party seeking the licence to make affidavit of his own age, and his belief as to the age of his intended partner. The new act requires each party to swear as to his or her age, and as to his or her belief of the age of the other party.* In addition to these affidavits, copies of the registers of the baptisms of the parties are to be produced, and their authenticity, as well as the identity of the parties, established by the affidavit of a person who has exa mined such copies with the original registers. Now, my Lord, I cannot help thinking that the affidavit of the Lady might have been dispensed with; I may be wrong—probably am— but to me there is an appearance of absolute indelicacy in the proceeding. A young Lady on the eve of forming the most interesting and delicate connexion that can be conceived, is to be hurried into the presence of an official person, to do what ? why (inter alia ) to swear that she believes her intended hus band to be of age! The provision was probably intended to guard against fraud in cases of minority ; but in such cases, I fancy it will be found, on inquiry', that the female has generally been the party injured ; it has not very frequently happened that a man of full age has been entrapped by a minor. Of what use, I ask, is it for a female to be sworn as to her belief with respect to the age of her intended husband ? She at best can only swear as to her belief—according to what he has told her —and by being dragged into publicity in the way required by the act, she will, in the event of any deception on the part of her intended husband, or any undue ascendancy he may have gained over her mind, only render more certain that confisca tion of property which the 10th section of the bill will pro duce, and upon which I shall hereafter observe ; at all events, in cases of majority, where registers are to be consulted, this unpleasant proceeding, as far as the female is concerned, might' have been dispensed with. " With respect, my Lord, to the production of the copies of registers at the time of granting the licence, I am fully con. vinced that the absolute impracticability of doing this in,some cases, and the great trouble and inconvenience in all, have not been sufficiently considered. The act provides, that no licence shall be granted (after Ist Sept. next), where both or either of the parties is or are alleged to be of age, until there shall be produced to the person from whom the licence shall he required, an extract or extracts from the register of the baptism of such parties or party so alleged to be twenty-one (if such register be in Eng land and can be found), such extract or extracts to be proved on oath by some other person or persons, to be a true extract, &c. Now really, my Lord, allow me to direct your attention for a moment to the extreme inconvenience and (under some circumstances) absolute impracticability of all this. We will reduce the act to practice, and suppose a party applying for a licence to a clerical surrogate in a provincial town or village. The applicant has perhaps travelled one hundred or more miles to marry a person resident near the town or village. The mar riage arrangements for probably the very next day are all com. pleted, but an insurmountable barrier is at once opposed to the grant of the licence. He must obtain a copy of the register of his baptism from a distance,—the affidavit of a friend to prove it a true copy,--and that the entry relates to himself, before any further proceedings can take place: added to these inconvenient circumstances, the case will not unfre quently happen that no register can be found : then, according to the act, a more circuitous method must be pursued ; and in cases where parties of undoubted full age apply for li censes, but whose baptisms were deferred until within the last twenty-one years, (and which fact appears from the copies of registers produced) how are the provisions of the act to be satisfied ? With respect, also, my Lord, to the registers of dissenting baptisms; whatever may be the legal construction of the act in consequence of the copies of such registers not being evidence, I fancy that some persons will feel considerable difficulty in snaking oath that there are no registers, &c. when a baptismal entry is in existence, the original of which is evidence to a certain extent. My Lord, the framers of the Bill appear to have been entirely i g norant of the manner in which licences are obtained in gene riil.—They are usually procured from the Clergy (surrogates to the different ordinaries) throughout the country ; and, in numerous instances, parties have to come many miles to obtain them t. As the law stood before the pass ing of the act of the 22d ult., the parties seldom went away from the surrogate without having obtained their object —without taking home the licence in the pocket ; and it is well known, the application for the licence is an act generally deferred until almost the moment of the solemnization of the nuptials. Now, what will be the inevitable consequences under the new system ? The parties, when every preparation has been made for the nuptials, will have to retire in disappoint. ment—either the female to swear she believes her intended husband to be of age--the father's and mother's certificates of consent in cases of minority properly sworn to—or the copies of the registers properly authenticated, will some or other of them not be forthcoming ; and I hesitate not to say, that, from these causes, amongst certain classes of society, the most de , plorable and ruinous consequences will ensue." (To be continued.) • The act provides, that, " if a licence shall be required for the marriage of parties, both or either of whom shall be alleged to be of the age of twenty-one years, such parties shall re spectively make oath that the?! are respectively, and that each of thetn believes the other to be, of the full age of twenty-one years or upwards !" Supposing only one of the parties are alleged to be twenty-one, how can this provision be complied with ? t For my present purpose, I consider it sufficient to treat the above as the general practice pursued in obtaining licenses, without noticing any questions of law or expediency, which htt,ve been started with respect to it. CONVICTION under the ALIEN AO' a French; UNION-HALL.—Jean map, was brought before R. J. CuoinE 9s ist , R. HEDGE &qrs., charged with having v•G ed several of the Clauses of the Alien Act. 118 " A lien Mr. Capper, Inspector of Aliens, stated that t h e that • violated the Act of the 56th of Geo. 3, c.B6,which pOrtl every alien coming to this country shall produce a .Pass which his name shall be truly stated." In the present case,--"/ f met alien had passed by two names, having, on the 26th "' Co'' sailed from Brighton to Dieppe by the name of C harles C bonne, by which he returned to England in the followingra°6 gat the the name by which he had previously presented llia se i mi the Alien-office being Jean Trouillard. The passports by w" l " w ere defendant came into the country, by the different naill,es,V produced by Mr. Capper, who stated that it was the wis''„" tr y vernment to prevent foreigners from coming to this ell - do for • different names, which they could only be supPuse" ° ere 00 1 improper purposes. Mr. Capper also said, that thes, were p th r e od o u n c l e y d n r a e n c i e e i s pt rn s e fo d r ef m en o d n a e n y t s w ig e n n e t d b b y, ithnepdroeoffenodant wt••vinedth: name of Guilielme Charle, which a FrYench witness Pr°' of be the defendant's handwriting , „tiles The alien stated, through an . interpreter that toe 1 1 - - w ho the Continent were in the habit of using different 113111 , e5 , their they travelled out of their own country, sometimes 11.1" Ito so ngl ieS first name as their surname, and sometimes taking tn e of their mothers or wives. t Mr. Capper here observed, that all foreigners Coro de , this country were bound to conform to its laws, which.,st bis n fe am nd e an s t h e o v u i l d d en b t e ly f h u a ll d y n s o t t at d e o d n i e n , ahsistheaslsapwortr,equired oot done in this alien's case, who also violated p the A w c h t ic b h i lvi ;this re. porting himself at the Alien-office on his last arrival°. country. t! it It s. Mr. CHAMBERS said, that fact was quite sufficien'ksosiw probable the defendant was a smuggler, who went u n - a irA a i s )u t ri li l e os V o sh f and forwards from this country to France, by dilferen and without a passport. Pee l mal l e r. a C n a el p a er m p s l a e i , d for it th w e tice. t he The Magistrates, on referring to the Act, found that t mlif W ' soner, by not reporting himself at the Alien-office on he te - rt a 1 1 ,e became subject to a month's imprisonment, for ivhi c " was sent to the County gaol. • nga stop t° tile r p o u f tt. Mr. Secretary now BETHEL UNION• 0 e les A meeting of the British and Foreign - g ; a 4 b e Ci/ Friend Society and Bethel Union was held yester da Y A ' ding tan , a tten ti c, of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, and notwiths unfavourable state of the weather, was most numerotiw w ed. The Right Hon. Admiral Lord GAMBIER. Vi ag f, by 01 the chair at 6 o'clock, and after a prayer had been ma b ung Rev. Mr. Brown, of South Ockendon, and a Psa l ,,,t e - aing s , r the company assembled, the retrospect of the P. — e - t he sen e the society during the last year was read by one 01 of taries. From this document it appeared that one o f 0 6 4 grand objects had been to diffuse through all ran us sta '.. community a proper concern for the moral and reit OIL of seamen and seaboys, trusting that, when tha t ~w „ a u elf_n plished, means might be devised to improve an had ea their condition. The success of the exertions it ' 0 made exceeded the most sanguine expectadons of e li s uoili t he , friends, and was to be seen in the fact that the Beth nre ats, l _7 o now frequently . requested by moral and religiono to tn`i:A • 'to ,l ‘ - had children with an inclination for the sea to pain n der 9 _ t o " such vessels in the merchant service as had eorn, ln , h i d fr - me feared God." It likewise appeared that the soose`i lon -, e into consideration the state of the watermen who P Thames, and that the result of their inquiry had been W o op that there were 60,000 persons on the river for w h°se neet st s d instruction no specific provision was made. The reansrtigugs—; that the society had done what it could for them, by", c barb e e mons to be preached at different stairs and in va rion ra oas and added, that a new floating chapel, to be in° ° ,..kas Tower, was in contemplation for their benefit. To ek.7 00 are possible the drunkenness and impurity to which O W los .11134 i posed by lodging in public-houses, and the sha_nhe 001 . 0. sition practised upon them by unprincipled• fat°,4o took, last year, a house in Hermitage-street, Mrar .. .,Paresit . ed it plainly with beds, &c., and placed it un'T . r esterSeis tendance of a pious active man, who has spent. is,,°.. ar e of his life at sea. The most happy conseque. spent.. patal from this plan., which has met the appron'T valict - t:e port of the East India Company. The retrosPe4' t h 0 ow• - ,t tends over 20 closely printed pages, concludes diffeli. detail of the efforts which the society has made itt ° a o f the outports for the improvement of our sailors,. an ee .or - hy tempts which have been made in foreign countries t° with its exertions. After it had been read and °P I ,P r : Dee t the meeting, several Rev. Gentlemen addressed_ 'midst — OO l and inculcated the necessity of contributing to itsere tin re' appeared from the financial accounts that theY rnee? sefelnea to the expenditure which the society had W : also c "., a 'ted solutions were then put and carried ; officers were ..., o t hen ' - o ul t f o or L t o h r e d s cr oc a i m ety bi d er u ; rin a g nd t , h a e ft n e e r x a t n y o e ti ar le . r p T sa li m an i k i s aa r r eeo u tit saf e tri ti st prayer made, the Meeting broke up ; but not wi th f t he Oe a a liberal contribution for the society in the han ds ° men who stood to colic.% it at the doors. preC P Wa S -lv CoLCIIESTER, SEPT. 30.—Last late Ar 4 _, f ity ed in the Church at Witham, to the memory 0 ' --onti n e deacon JEFFERSON, a handsome, but 800 e nitobt tablet, and inscribed with a just and appro_prinL e f e if; the pen of the Rev. G. Preston, Rector of Les"`"-- n top — A snake which has for some time be e o A rsvic ll s ; a domesticated state in the museum, in • ce. t ou had been frequently fed upon live " 1 i of week a mouse was put to it, but it b ei ti ng s ash! e , large a size for the snake to gorge as t 9 '" 0 endeavoured, like the Boa Const rict r ° :o ' o, ci t ° l l ° o t velope it in its folds, when a as, r , battle ensued and after repeated atta • ble snake fell a victim to its more nun in I • sary, who gained its advantage area beac l ' . , ing severe wounds on the backer f of a s T is i t ie an m ce i : e b b u e t fo s r e e egrn iv e e d n to h 4 v b e ec n o e m v e : a ft;e6 l : 4 o The itZ fall an easy prey to their enemf• eel Da was found at sea, about six weeks sin $ ming with its head erect out of the vi was about three feet in length. . 120 et . 3.. 4. 10 ,_ • p 6.ers, 41 eh at , i n l4 °I 1 11 1. k kitt‘t Ti tl,l a t l' t ~ COAL-MARKET, OCT' . pric 4 3 3 ,1 1 Ships at Market. Ships sold . 3 i to 6 5 . 3t. 6i Newcastle . 64 395 1 , to 4 ' 10 Sunderland - -- 10 4 - 4°5 a -:, BIRTHS. /pm of '''' At Conway, North Wale , th 05th ult., th e he', David Erskine, Bart. bf adau oli hte e r: ' AOf Septel3l' ' At Alilton House, Edinburgh, on . the B‘ , . - Mrs. Lee, of a daughter. of MARRIED. Gorti ° Jo _ At Stirling, on the 17th ult., the Rev. Thoma s en d fa Falkirk, to Janet, only d aug hter of the late never , ef , Connal, of Bathgate. . A ve , ~, On Tuesday, October 1, in the parish Chur ch l i 3 tl l . ) : l'' WM. John Saint-Aubyn, third son of - Sir John 641,rett i'',, c , 7 Bart., of Clowance, Corniiall, to Anne Dorothi.,„'srcl,'- nard, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Barrett Lee'"'" of Bell-house, in the County of Essex• viife of DIED. th e Oore e .' On Tuesday morning, at Bath, Mrs. Tvil, most 00' Francis Twiss,. Esq. of that city, and other,_ Twiss, Esq. M.P. a Lady justly esteemed for t he f h er able conduct in every relation of life. firs t year o f On Sunday last, at Margate, in the ninetY- firs",,„, age, Mrs. Frances Hill, relict of the late gen4,l i is jA•V e d 179 i formerly of his Majesty's College of Arni s * iv est e nou s c resided fifty Years at Margate, and was univellsetis p ucq° ooo , the inhabitants of that place, and the n unlery • i, ifs visitants. of th e 144 c ll. On the Ist inst., Lieutenant Georo Puc e, pit- Telegraph. Wean of On Tuesday last, the Ist inst 31r. John h yesri .1 end, near Pinner, aged 66. bis g' s ! jg and On Tuesday, the Ist inst., at Pecichaul,..i.,ll-ssrs. wed au ,Mr. Edward Ellott, late in the office of N o ' f VW , ' Co., Solicitors, Ave-31aria-lane, and only O il Mary Ellott, of Crosby-row. - the S l' at Printed and Published for the PrtoritLE•rolt!",/v.., C.4%54r , Office, No. 112, Strand, by J..1 3 * . •