The Sun. — London, England, 1822-12-18 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. D uke of Montrose, in Grosvenor-square, from -Brighton ; le of Dorset, in Harley-street, from ditto; Lord Sidmouth, f j °4l Richmond-pairk the Earl of Charlemont and Son, Lord 441 field, at the Pulteney Hotel, from Ireland ; Countess of Buc kinghamshire, in Somerset-street ; Mrs. Boyd, in Seymour eet; Miss Cherry, in Montague-square ; Mrs. Murray, in t Nilstone-square ; Lady Hyde Parker and Miss Onslow, in 4 o ra berland-place ; Mr. Moreton, in Gloucester place ; Sir 4 ,ger Gresley, Baronet, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, 4L° k Crorne, Worcestershire. D EPARTURES.--Viscount and Viscountess. Granville, from Z ° erstead-lodge, Suffolk ; Lord Lilford, for Lilford - house , 1111aMptonshire ; Rev. John Gooch, from Fenton's Hotel , I f J ames's-street , for Bath ; Sir George and Lady Pocock, °t Twickenham ; Marquis of Sligo, Sir J. Neddan and Capt. 5 j," 711 , from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for Paris,; Sir Asgill, _Bart. on a tour; Sir J. Harrington, Bart. for FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Count Worcmiow 'gave a grand dinner yesterday to his Excel e4eY Baron Wm. Fagel, and a distinguished party, at his house Welbeek-street. Lord Melbourn entertained the Earl and Countess Cowper 444 a select party to dinner, at his house, Whitehall. • Viscount Marcellus, Charge d'Affaires of his Most Catholic i i tiesty, en t er t a i n ed on Sunday a select party of distinguished °4 igners, at his house in Portland-place. , . ** N ' F ~.% ' CY - N, •,... • ..... ...... . i, , nc.l \ , . 4° ~..,N 4 '. / . .. k f, 4- - , ,,, • =f-' ' , rh :.,,fi , . ER Y 0 , -. e% ~,., „.......,_ . i t MRS. ASHE'S CONCERT. • / 3 I'BEIN, DEO. 17.—This very eminent Vocalist gave the thionable public, last night, a treat of the first order. Her style 4 Abe most chaste and classical, and her powers of giving e Efect to the most complex, as well as the powerful combina tiOns of haymony, cannot, in our opinion, •be surpassed. Miss 4311 E, too, is a most charming singer, and promises to be a ; h ost distinguished ornament to the profession she has chosen. ! h is young Lady, whose personal advantages are very strik 7, as well as full of interest, was encored in a most admira "4 fantasia, in which she accompanied herself on the extra tiltnd piano forte. It was, indeed, altogether an extraordinary hr formance. We trust this accomplished family will speedily tta titY the Irish public with another exhibition of talents, * hich are scs rare, and which to every lover of music, must )11) ve so delightful. l e ;NE HOPE FAMILY.—Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Hope, who 4 town in June last, have, after performing the Grand 'lour; t t ived safely in Paris, wherein they mean to entertain, during k e e approaching Holidays, a large party. Mr. Henry Hope Lt his house in New Norfolk-street, last week, to join the Zi l eial c i rc l e . M as t ers H e n r y and John Hope, the sons of Mrs. t h ° Pe, are also gone to Paris ; the first from Eton College ; "e last from Mitcham School. The Countess D'AGLIE, the Sardinian Anibassador's Lady, b ag safely delivered of a son and heir on Thursday last, at his aeellency's house in Charles - -Street, Berkeley-square. Both :Ler Ladyship and her infant son, we are happy to state, are do well. „WELLS, DECEMBER 15.—Yesterday the day appointed for to visit of his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester to the eterable the Bishop of Bath and Wells, early in the morning e Royal Standard was hoisted on the central tower of the c athedral . and v the bells of both churches began to ring, and con - L rl ued at intervals the whole of the day. At 6 o'clock the avant "arier arrived; in ten minutes after his Royal Highness`reached til e tt Palace, and at seven o'clock a most sumptuous dinner was e tved up in a most princely style. There were to meet him I. l ° lne of the most distinguished families in the neighbour \Pll—Sir John and Lady flippisley, the Honourable Captain t aldegrave and Lady,. General Bathurst and Lady Ca the Rev. Canon Frankland and the Hon. Mrs. A t atikland, Canon Beadon, and Mr. and Mrs. R. Beadon. dial this morning his Royal Highness went -to the Cathe ial; attended by his Aid-de-Camp, Captain Forster, and .111 r. Beadon, in the Bishop's carriage. He was ink at - the front der, by the Venerable the Bishop of Rochester, one of the t7ons, all the Dignitaries of the Church,' the Mayor and e Corporation, and the Choir, who -attended him to the v tall of the Dean (the Bishop•of Gloucester). The Prayers ete read by the Reverend - Mr. James, one of. the Minor bons ; and the Communion Service by the very Reverend boron Frankland and Canon Beadon. The sermon, by Ca- Frankland, was a very fine discourse, from-- St:_ Luke, 'gal). 15. verse 17; after which the anthem was given with R i liat effect. When the Service was concluded, his Royal t I dness was attended to the church door with the same ce ,e'nony as he entered. There were' upwards 'of two thou :l'd persons iaresent. After which his Royal Highness Walked round the delightful little Orden of the Palace, and at pi k v ett dinner was served in the 'same princely style as yesterday. his morning, at 12 o'clock, his Royal Highness left for Harp ee Court, the seat of the Earl of Waldegrave: ''SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE , SHOW. On Monday, at an early hour, Mr. SADLER'S ' lll 'd began to be filled with company, which in ,lLreased to such a degree that for several hours all t he space left there unoccupied . by the pens' or tittl e was literally crammed with respectable lerqous, eagerly pressing to see and examine the 14 . animals exhibited. At three o'clock . the Members of the Club as "'bled at the Freemasons' Tavern, and held a m eeting, Sir J. SEntuolrr, Bart. in the Chair ; i M 'ben the yard of Mr. SADLER. was again agreed 4 as the place of exhibition next year, and ' e veral arrangements were made for the , new bill of Premiums. THE DINNER. 4 At five o'clock abotit seventy of the Members of the Club ol' their friends sat down to a most 'excellent dinner at the o ,ectiasons' Tavern, Sir J. Sebright in the Ch'air, supported, o ' each hand, certainly not by so many titled or public men as rl t i l some past occasions, but surrounded by a giloup of practical • n ,et in the important art of breeding, rearing, and fattening domestic animals, which could no where die, perhaps, be hiatched A-, a soon as the cloth was withdrawn Sir John gave %,„‘ The King ;" which was followed " The Duke of York ,Royal Family."—" The Duke of Bedford ;" which was - 7, 1 , 11 K with three times three, and great applause. th T he CHAIRMAN then called the attention of the meeting to e,e circumstance, that a piece of plate and a medal were award last year to l‘fr. John Ellman, jun. but the same had, in his t use nce, been left in the hands of the Club, at the particular o e r cluest of his father, until all doubts on the subject of the age be en of th e sheep shewn (as to the number of its teeth) had 4 4 , 11 cleared up - to the entire satisfaction of the Club;. that satis toZ°n, Sir - John stated, had since been fully given, and he had t r , therefore, great pleasure in delivering to Mr. 'John Ell 1, 1 4 $ jun., the plate and medal in question, and of proposing ,:lealth, which was most cordially drank by the corrgany.. ELLMAN, jun., after returning thanks, .begged permis ,ap to state, that since more particular attention had been y,„ l ed upon the subject, the premature teething of highly-kept Di`t r ig sheep had been proved to be vastly more ciimmon than e viously was supposed. - at Si r. Jour; then proceeded to read the award of the Judges, to deliv er t h e plate to the successful candidates, at the same ,P Concluding a pertinent short speech to each candidate, by 'mg the health of each of them. And r Chairman's health and other until toasts followed, the comp any remained pogether A late hour, THE THEATRE. DRURY LANE.—We ought not to withhold ~ a tribute of praise due to the Lessee of this Theatre for reviving those comedies which were popular at their origin, and which abound in characters calculated to afford scope for the exertions of a variety of, talents in the several performers.— Such is the play of The Wa,y to get Mar ried, and though a great portion of it par takes of 'the nature of farce, rather than of legitimate comedy, and other parts are perhaps of too pathetic a nature for the same province of the drama, yet as the one is calculated to entertain, and the other to exercise moral sympathy, it is very well calculated for a mixed audience, and therefore the piece last night was properly revived. The part of Tangent is well adapted to the lively qualities of ELLISTON, and he rendered it very effective. The same may be said of DOWirON, in Allspice. Caustic agrees 'admirably with the saturnine style of TERRY, and ''not a particle of his splenetic humour was' wanting. COOPER is always a respectable actor, particu larly in parts that demand the expression of feeling, and he gave due support to Captain Falkner. Mrs. I-luGucs was the. Julia Falkner, a character faintly drawn, and which she ren dered sufficiently prominent. On the whole, the Comedy was so well represented, and re ceived with so much applause, that we conceive its 'progressive success will amply justify the revival. It is always peculiarly gratifying to us to be able to•record sincere instances of respect and attachment on the part of the Laity towards the Established Clergy ; more especially in a❑ age like the present, when the Church is threa tened on all sides, and stands in need of de fenders, able and zealous, in learning and in piety, to enforce and recommend the great doc trines they preach; in the words of the moral poet, characters " whose hearts arc warm, " Whose hands are pure, whose doctrines andwhose lives " Coincident, exhibit lucid proof " That they are honest in the sacred cause." An instance of the kind' has just reached us, which occurred in the neighbouring village of Ickham. On the Rev. JOHN BORDMAN'S taking leave of his parishioners a few weeks ago, he addressed them in a farewell sermon, calculated to' make an indelible impression on his flock. But it was difficult to say, whether the preacher . or his auditors, were most affected by the dis cOurse. Anxious to offer some lasting memorial of their universal regret on his departure, the parishioners privately subscribed a considerable sum, and an elegant salver having been pur chased, the following appropriate sentence, commemorative alike of the merit and ability of the receiver, bud of the gratitude, respect, and affection of the donors, was inscribed thereon ;, and a deputation waited on the Reverend Gen tlemanwith the tributeenclosed in a box of oak : " In testimony of the most sincere regard towards their late Pastor, and of unfeigned regret on his leaving them, thi Salver is gratefully and respectfully presented to the Rev. John Bordman, A.M. by the Parishioners of 'Allan), Octo. ber, 1822." We conclude this brief notice of the circum stance, with a fervent hope, that it may here after often fall to our lot to record similar in stances of merit and of gratitude.—( Kent/0 Gazette, Dec. 17.) Sunday the Duke of York arrived in town from Sunborn Hall, the seat of the Marquis of HERT. FORD. Yesterday his Royal Highness held a Military Levee at the Commander-in-thief's Office, Whitehall, which was attended by the Adjutant-General, Sir THEOPIIILUS PRITZLE[t, Sir Tuomas Iltsr.op, and several others. Prince LEOPOLD, we believe, is living in Italy. The Journal de 'Toulouse gives the following account of the arrival of the Urge' Regency at Perpignan, in a letter from that place, dated the 4th inst.:--" Yesterday arrived the Marquis de Matallorida, and the Ministers Artaffa and Gis pert. In the same carriage were the son of the first, the physician, and the almoner of the Re gency. They are lodged at ari inn in the suburbs. Soon after their arrival the two Ministers waited on the Prefect. The Minister of War was in full costume. Among the equipage we remarked two mules, charged with four caskets, which con tained, it is said, the archives of the Government of the Regency." When ROBERT BURNS was a very young lad, he•, had happened at an ale-house to fail into a company consisting of several Sectarians and mem bers of the Episcopal and Presbyterian Church. When warm with potations, they entered upon a keen debate about their respective persuasions, and were upon the point of using arguments more forcible than wards, when BURNS said," Gentle men, it has now been twice my hap to see the doctrines of peace made a cause of conten tion : I must tell you how the matter was settled among half a dozen of honest women, over a cup l of candle, after a baptism. They were as dif ferent in opinion, .and each as tough in disputa tion, as you are, till a wife that said not a word, spoke up--aKimmers ye are a' for letting folk hae but ae road to Ileeven. Its a pair place that has -but ne gait til't. There's mair than four gaits to ilka bothy in the highlands or Lowlands, and its no canny to say there's but ae gait to the man sion of the blessed.' " The disputants of the alc house were silenced, and BURNS led the conversa tion to the merriments of carlings over their cups of caudle.—(lnverness Courier.) Another Prize of . R 20,000 Sold in Shares by CARROLL.—No. 3,425 Drawn Yesterday a Prize of £20,000 was Sold in Shares by CARROLL, at his Fortunate Offices, 19, Combat, and 26, Ox ford-street ; who also Sold in Shares No. 16,522, Drawn a Prize of £20,000 the fourth day, and Six other Capitals, ALL 14 THE PRESENT LOT TERY.—The Two Prizes of 220,000, both Sold in Shares by CARROLL, as above, are the only ones yet drawn.—Next Monday the Lottery finishes; there are 52 Capitals in the Wheel, in .cluding One of 220,000, Two of elo,ooo, be sides others of £2,000, &c. The m hole of which must be DraWn on Monday Next. PLYMOUTH DOCK SCHOOL. The Scholars of this' Establishment passed their first general Examination on the 9th and 10th instants, in a manner highly creditable to themselves. On the 11th and Mh they per formed TERENCE'S Eunuchus, before a east as semblage of the neighbouring Gentry. We have only room at present to insert the Prologue and Epilogue spoken on the occasion. The former Was delivered by BuLLocKE Secondus ; the latter by DAwxs, Primus, and l‘fAit: PROLOGUS IN EUNLTCHUM. MDCCCXXII. Jam, vi subacta fulminis Britannici, Animam Tyrannis.impiam effiavit fera : Orbem per omnem bellicus cessat furor; Laurels olivi cinximus Mavortias. Ut literato perfruamur otio, Pacemque pads excolamus artibus, Vos prmbuistis ; vo; velimus arbitros Adesse, et ante, quo modo simus datis Usi (quod mquum est) certids cognoscere. Ergo poetm fabulam Terentii Sales Latinis Atticos facetiis Mire remiscentem hoc die acturi sumus. Queis si faventes plauseritis, omine Lmti secundo, habebimus fiduciatn, Vos, scena qudm nos postul&rit amplior, Nostril futuros candidos conatibus. EPILOGUS IN EUNUCHUM. PH/EDRIA, PARMENO. .O festum saerumque diem ! quo, lmtus uterque, Conjuge frater amans, ipse sorore fruor ! Communis neque parte tuff fraudatus abibis, Callide ltetitim Parn - ieno : liber eris. Ne tamen hoc pigeat domino disisse priori : Quo tandem pacto tempora libel. ages ? •O here, Numinibus curs est urbs nostra duobus, Arridere quibus non sine jure putor : 11= ego deveneror ; nam doctor assecla Minervm Virque quidem semper Mercurialis,eram: Nunc, quoniam optata das libertate potiri, Fert meus his animus jungere me comitem ; Quoque magis meliusque colam studiosus utrumque,. Archididascalicis artibus utar ego. Pit.—Archididascalicis ! os durum ! sanus es? artes Velle docere, quibus, furcifer, ipse cares ! Quem tibi venturum tenses ? PA.—Here, longibs erras ; JEvo prognati nos meliote sumus. Non opus est studiis oleum insumsisse magistrum, Non opus archalcis inspnuisse libris. Neve reformides, mod 6 nanciscare secundum Mereurium, Pallas ne tibi lava siet. Dic to docturum PARVI ; dic CUNCTA docenda : Cunctaque continuo, non morn, doctus eris. Artibus Orbilius caruit modo : perlege chartam : Invenies arti cuilibet ease parem. [Pha'dria legit tabulam.] PANTODIDASCALICUS PUERORUi% LUDUS, ATIMNIS. DOCTRUSUE PRETIUM MERCE PRIORE Admonet Orbilius proprios reverenter amicos Et populum, ludum se statuisse domi.— Des obulum :—saltemve duos :—puer (ecce !) beatus Artibus omnigenis erudiendus Hujus erunt Hebrwa sacrorum carmina vatum Serviet ct puero Pcenus uterque meo. Pandet opes tatium Latin locupletior ipso Ipsa suas puero Graacia pandet opes. Prmtere&, linguae addent Scytha, Persa, Britannus, Tuscus, Gallus, Iber, Ser, Syru!s, Indus, Arabs. Accedent elementa Euclidis et Algebra: Newton, Usus Spbterarum; Chymia, Electricitas, Nec puer Astrologus, Medicus, Pictor, Citharcedus, Non erit : ignotis nec Palinurus aquis. Molliter ad citharam discet sun membra movere, Sive Gavotta levis, sive Quadrilla vOcet, Valsave, Fandangove citus, Miniiettave tarda, Reelve Caledonii4 dicta chorea viris." -0 fortunati pueri ! smclumque beatum, Quod venale obolo scibile quidquid habet ! Confluet hiuc nostras ad Athenas lmtakiventus : Plorabunt viduis Camus et Isis aquis. Sed mihi dic, pueris quid proderit ista doceri, Discere gum, Hullo prmcipiente, vales ? Quid pueris prosit ? satis est prodesse magistro. Grammatici pueros instruo : verba dabo. -Atqui ita credideram. Qui sesquipedalia verba Sordida turba datis, nil, nisi verba, datis. Ilinc rape te, nebula :-111ustt comitante Latin& Excolat ingenium Graia Camcena meum ; Sic, übi proluero sitientia fluorine labra Quisque recens scatebras elicit unde suas; Addita quin veterum fuerit sapientia illusis ; Additus ingenum Religionis amor— His ego prmsidiis quasvis instructus ad artes, Qucelibet ad vitae munera lsetus earn ! Et, (si temporibus iicet indulgere futuris) 0 quorum data sunt haec ope tanta mihi ! Quarn verbis refero, referetur gratia rebus: Qui puero est plausus nunc, exit ille viro. SIR THOS. LAWRENCE'S EXHIBITION OF THE PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED PERSONS. It will be remembered that during the sitting of the,Congress at Aix.la-Chapelle, in 1818, the King commanded Sir Thomas Lawrence (who was not at that time President .of the Royal Academy, Sir Benjamin West being still in life), to repair thither for the purpose of painting the portraits of the Sovereigns, , their Ministers, the Ambassadors, and the Generals most pro minent in the various battles towards the close of the conti nental war, for Majesty's private collection; and to'enable this great artist to execute this commission with more facility, a temporary and portable apartment was built in London, and shipped to Antwerp, which was afterwards conveyed to Aix hi-Chapelle. .However, after all, this tent was not brought into use, for the upper apartment of the Hotel de Ville, at Aix-la- Chapelle, being lofty and light, was assigned to the artist.— After the Congress had separated, Sir ThomaS visited Vienna and Rome, and various other parts of Germany and Italy, in order to complee this very interesting series of portraits.— When these paining; arrived in England, they were deposited at Buckingham-house, and were inspected by his Majesty, and the favoured few ho were fortunate enough to obtain the' Royal permission to see them. The Sovereign was pleased to express his pleasure that these pictures should be publicly ex ' hibited. There was however a difficulty as to a room calculated 'to spew them to advantage. Buckingham House, a Royal residence, could riot be converted into a place where money waslto be received ; and the Old Exhibition Room in Pall mall was at that time in such a ruinous condition, that a previous repair became indispensably necessary. . Thus the Exhibition was necessarily postponed. Last year the mat ter was again revived, but his Majesty's engagements were so various, that he could not be spoken to on the subject. The affair is again revived ; and as the Old Exhibition Room has been substantially repaired, there seems no further cause for delaying this splendid assemblage any longer. We have not heard that any portraits unconnected with Royalty are to be included. We particularly call upon the President not to omit entreating his Majesty to be permitted to include the Portrait of young Napoleon, which was taken by Sir Thomas at Vienna, and which is not only en exquisite picture, but a most correct and spirited likeness of an extraordinary boy, who must necessarily , engage an extraordinary share - of the attention o f Europe. LAMENTABLE SUICIDE. : An Inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at the Langbourn Coffee-house, Fenchareh-street., before TuomAs SHELTON, Esq., Cdroner, on the body of Mr. Luke Sohn Thomas, aged about 27. Samuel Plumber, waiter of • the Langbourii Coffee-house, sworn.—The deceased came into the. coifee-room about half: past eleven o'clock. on Monday morning, walked very ck up the room and asked witness for a private room. Witness showed him up stairs into the first floor room; he then asked witness for a sheet of, paper, which he - went down stairs to obtain : on coming up into the room again, he found the deceased in the •room weltering in his blood; a noise was heard previously by .the ' _persons below stairs, but it was not thought to be the report of fire-arms ; witness had not left the deceased above half a minute. On opening the door witness found his right hand clinched, and allover blood; witness thought he had cut his throat, and ran down stairs to obtain assistance: he went instantly fot Mr. Pugh, a•surgeon. Mr. Pugh came instantly, and they went together into the room, 1 when two pistols were foUnd • 4 a table ; the deceased was , lying about a yard from 4 . •here the pistols were. He was not quite dead, but f • ' ~.. Off eral sighs ; in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour life was exdnct ; there was a great deal of lalobjaliout the ioon. ; the deceased was quite insensible all the time; there were two wouladikowte on the left bieast,: and th,44thw il igfl below the rieht breast. The pistols were both disiliagßT searching dill 4sesseea, some pistol bullets were f b ti V with some cards of address. Witness never sa4l;he eased before. Mr. R:Piigh & Surgeon, Gracechurch-street, stated that he was called in to attend the deceased, and found him lying on his face ; he turned him over, thinking bis throat was cut, and in tended to loosen his neckcloth ' . but he found two wounds, one of which had penetrated the lungs, and Occasioned death.-- Hedrew about 20 inspirations very deep, but in five or six minutes he died. Witness had known the family for some years; and when he found life had fled, he examined the pockets and found some bullets. It is witness's opinion that both pistols were discharged the same moment. The room was literally in a puddle with the blood of the deceased. Witness did not notice that the deceased 'was known to him, uintil he saw his cards of address', wh'en his features struck him. One of the pistols must have been placed close to his skin to fire it, and the other was fired throughlis waistcoat and shirt. Wit ness has known the family for five or six years, but has not seen the deceased for the last six months. The deceased was at times much depressed. Mr. Edw. Dodderidge, of Fenchufch-street, surgeon, sworn. —The deceased called upon witness on Friday afternoon for advice, and complained o° a pain in his head, and a great want of sleep at night. He said lie had been in this way for nearly . six months, and had gradually got worse. He seemed to be in a state of great agitation, and he wished witness several times during the conversation to give him laudanum to make him sleep at night. Witness. dissuaded him fromit, and gave him some iiiedicine of another description. He seem ed much dejected, but appeared to go away in somewhat better spirits, and promised to call again in about a week, but wit ness had not again seen him until yesterday, when he examined him. liritness knew him personally for some time. The symptoms shown by deceased might have produced insanity ; when thadeceased left witness's house, he said he felt suds a lowness of spirits that he could cut his throat. Mr. John Miles, clerk to deceased's brother, Mr. Thomas, N0..3, Fen -court, Fenchurch-street, sworn.—The deceased was a clerk to his brother for several years. He had served his articleship with. an attorney. The deceased left his brother No vember twelve months t on Monday in last 'week he came back to. his brother, and told witness he felt himself very unwell; he attended the office regularly, but complained very much of his head, as being very painful, and as if on fire. Witness observed that the deceased was very much agitated on Thursday evening, and appeared distressed in his mind; and on Friday he was so had that he went away to go to Mr. Dodderidge's tor some medi cine; he returned again, and l said Mr. Dodderidge had refused to give him what he asked for, but he would snake up something for him. He went home with his brother. on Friday evening; on Saturday evening the agitation of his mind seemed to be much increased. Witness saw him on Monday morning, nearly eleven o'clock ; the deceased went into the office in a quick, I hurried manner ; he afterwards left the office very suddenly ; previously to which he went to his desk, and took out some thing. When he was gone, witness went to deceased's desk and found two bags for pistols, and a mould for casting bullets. Witness suspected from his manner that something was the matter with his mind. The deceased had at times expressed his sorrow at not having been much better off than a clerk. The Jury returned a verdict of " InsanitX." THE ARMY. Detachments of the 20th, 47th, and 67th Re giments of Infantry, ivhich marched from Albany Barracks and Gosport, on the 6th and 7th instant, arrived at Chatham on Saturday, preparatory to their embarkation at Gravesend, on the 28th instant for Bombay. The Success trasport, which sailed from the Downs on Satur day for Barbadoes, had on board a detachment of the Royal Artillery for that Island, under the command of Capt. DOWSE. Detachments of the 4th, 11th, .13th, and 16th Light Dragoons, will,thortly leave our Cavalry Dep6t, to join their respective Regiments in lOdia.—(Maidstone Journal. ) MERRCANtILE SIIIPPING. DEAL, DEC. 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived last night, and remain, the Brothers, —, from Newcastle for Jamaica, with loss of sails during the late gales. Also came down from the River last night, and sailed, the Earl St. Vincent, Reeves, for Cork and New South ',Vales ; Nepos, Trader, for Sierra Leone and St. Pierre ; and Charles, for Rouen. FALMOUTH, DEC. 16.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Union, Lewis, from London, with loss of main boom and gaff; Express, Barrett, from Gibraltar, in 21 days. Sailed the Stanmer packet for Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 16.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Rolla, Mursby, from Dantzig, in 26 days. Sailed the Elizabeth and Jane, and Princess Charlotte, both for London. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Pro videntia, Klea, from Rotterdam, and proceeded to Southampton. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were taken up, and thus sta tioned, viz. :—Charles Grant, Bombay; Warren . Hastings and Lowther Castle, for China direct; Dnncess Charlotte of Wales, and Marquis of Wellington, Madras and Bengal ; Minerva and Thomas Grenville, Bengal direct. Capt. Charles Otway Mayne was sworn into the command of the ship Atlas, con signed to Madras and China. • CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 18. - The fresh arrivals to this day's market are not considerable ; prime Wheat is wanted by our millers, and fully supports the prices of last week's market ; Barley is dull sale ; Beans and Peas remain unaltered ; Oats sell on much the same terms sa on Monday. Mr. James Folliott, of Pembroke' College, Oxford, ion of W. H. Folliott, Esq., of Chester, has been admitted Bachelor of Arts, in that University. _ Lord BYRON was in the neighbourhood of Genoa the middle of November. A private let ter says:—" You must have heard of the wretched end of his two friends, SHELLEY and WILLIAMS, who perished in a voyage from Leg horn to Spizia—the bodies were found, and, by request, burnt, with all the horrors attending such a scene. Mr. arranged every thing, and attended the horrid performance." The prison breach lately made by the four desperadoes still under confinement in Aylesbury Gaol has awakened the most diligent attention of the Bench of Magistrates. Some locks of a peculiar construction were exhibited at the Quarter Sessions by a Mr. LAWTON, and the visiting Justices being convinced of their security ordered them to be fixed throughout the Gaol, which has since been carried into effect.—(Bucks Chronicle.) ON THE FRIENDSHIP OF CHILDREN, BY M. L. ABBE DE BOUFFLERS. If there be a kind of friendship That owes its origin to custom and ,con - VenienCe - , - doubtless it is that which children cherish towards each other. I believe, indeed, that in -childhood sentiment has no other foundation,: and the„guestion is, whether it deserves the name of fliendship ? For myself, I most candidly i confeiethat it does not. Children are susceptible of"xlittost every passion ;_ they spring up in their • m ds sooner or later, accordingly as they aTe'fotmed, or as they announce a - decided character-':' irk observing them with care, we easily perceive they have antipathies and affections. It is - not' sufficient, then, that children living together' should of necessity love each other ; it is absolutely necessary that they should please' One another. —But .in infancy, what motive is 'there to ex cite a partiality, for one more • thhn another, among, companions, especially when the one who is rejected is equally pleasing in -- exterior, or it may be very similar ; in 'appearance ? Grati tude, merit, virtue, , knowledge of 'character, has nothing to do with the choice; therefore there must be a kind of instinct which impels the feel ings to the. one object rather than the other . —a kind of attraction, or feeling, which is perhaps more pure than any that we ad mire. 'The friendihip of children may not be durable, but most assuredly it is true.; and truth is one of the principal characteriSties of sense. —The simplicity of - infancy is at variance with falsehood, and candour reigns triumphant, because there has been no communication with the world to teach hypocrisy. Children only know pleasure, they have not even.the idea of pure happiness, because they have not reflection ; they are engaged only with the present—the future, however near it may be, is always too distant for their feeble, organs. When an object pleases them, they do , not foresee that it may be injuriousi they behold only what .it is, without ever thinking what it may become. In a word, they enjoy all the ad vantages of friendship, without ever fearing they will have an end. Happy period of life, when the delight of friendship is never mingled with bitterness—when onr sentiments and sen sations are so united, that we enjoy all the charms of which friendship is-susceptible ! If length of years render us more capable of know ing whom we love, or of more justly appreciating the value of the blessing, they deprive us of that happy simplicity. which attracts us to the object that produces Weasure ; and without this attrac tion, so rare, friendship is only a _name that our passions take, for the purpose of either deceiving others or ourselves. A Gentleman at Cranbrook, on Friday the 13th inst. had a large turnip brought to his house es a present, and which he conceived to be in tended as a mere joke, but to his great surprise, on making an opening in it, he had the pleasure of finding two brace of. partridges and a couple of very fine rabbits, curiously packed -in the iu side of it. . PROMPT PAYMENT.—A plaintiff and defend ant were seated in Court, vis a vis, pending the trial' of an action for defamation. A justifi cation had been pleaded, with which the Jury were so well satisfied that.they returned a verdict for the plaintiff—sixpence damages.— When the verdict was announced, the defendant threw a shilling to the plaintiff, saying aloud— " Take the price of your reputation out of that, and return me my change, and thank you." Informations having been lodged, on oath, at Marlborough-street Police-office, that Dr. Mo riarty and Roily White, Esq. were about to commit a' breach of the. peace, by. fighting a duel, a warrant for the arrest of the parties was issued by the sitting Magistrate, and intrusted to peace officers Kelly and Hinds, of that,divisional office.- They succeeded in taking the former gentleman into custody in Sackville-streetobout the hour of eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, and brought him to Marlborough-street ullice, where he was obliged to enter into . sureties to keep the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects, for the space of three years ; himself in the sum of 1,900/., and ,two sureties in 50012each.—(Dublin Morning Post.) The body of Mr. BURT'S son, who perished iu. the Ellesmere packet on the fatal night of the sth inst., was found near the place where the packet sunk, on Wednesday, and was interred at Stoke on Friday. This will' at least be some consolation to the disconsolate father and family. We understand 'that the body• of the blind fidler has also been discovered. On Saturday, the 23d ult., a girl of nine years 'of age, with a child in her arms, having gone into the corn-mill at Donne, in the ab sence of the •miller,. and. whilst the machinery was in -motion to . threshing mill in an adjoining apartment,. slae..-wient near an up :right shaft, which rises to drive a sack tackle in the roof, and allowed the child to play with the shaft as it revolved, :A large shawl, which the girl had wrapped round herself and child got entangled with the thaft, and began to carry them both round. The girl, with consi- derable 'presence of mind, endeavoured to extri cate herself and the child, and succeeded in get ting herself free 'from the shawl' bnt by this time peticoats had got wvapped - round the lower part of the shaft, and she was thrown down and carried in revolution with it. There being but about ten inches of free space on each side of the shaft!, and • betwixt the boxing of two pair of mill-stones, there was not room for her body to pass through in .a lying posture, two places. The miller, andtsome persons em ployed about the tereshing-mill, being alarmed. by the girl's cries, came to her aid, and the ma chinery was stopped in the quickest manner.— The infant was found hanging by the shawl to the upper part of the shaft s ..considerahly corn pressed, but in no visible way injured., It was necessary to cut away the clothes of the poor girl before she could be removed,.and she endured the removal to her home, at a little distance, and the subsequent setting of her limbs, with cons'- derable composure. She is now in a fair way of recovery.—(Stirling Journal.) -