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alone. Entirely fixed upon one &Lira - , tabjeaing the g - rerett interests of Europe to commercial avi dity, she has exhausted their substance, devoured their clpitals,• and, strictly speaking, has, conquered the indastry of the Continent.. ,• : . ~ •. • ' -. , , , _,-,, " We have several ,timeS thrown out .., som „. eoasty ideas relative to thi; -gradual usurpation. 1 1 '1 ,.., ii iVeukt form the matter rather of a volume than utitilritcle in a newspaper.. In restuning , our ideas' upon this sublet*, we may observe the advantage England has had ;over all the nations on the Continent. She has never had but one object, which was to proceed with a firm and uninterrupted - progress. Other, States have been distraEted by the anxiety she has excited. among them relative to • intrigues and foreign interests. .• France alone, being •in .4 situation to prevent the usurpation of commerce, and able to undertake the . cause.with .success,:has been t :le isarticular object of her,enmity and hatred. The French marine has only floerished at,ii,yor alp, -because at the:. moment when, it might hkve r !l di A T I Europe from tie marttinie yoke of, England,- the alt-d ter always called'forth enemies to ward off l its,blows.'. .Every maritime Power has been a special objea of attack with the English; but the hatred she bore to France has survived the ruin ©fall the rest which she has destroyed. y , Why have Austria, Russia, and Prussia, been •so often in alliance with England ? It is because Aus tria is not a maritime Power. During the short in terval when -JOSEPH 11. wished to have a marine, be excited the ill-will of the English.- - 'r" . " As to Prussia, England , saw FR E DERICK 1. and -his successors pats 11-orn the Marg - raviate of Branden burgh to a kingdom of the first order, without re gret; beaiise ii iNicitild dismember the Hanse Towns, whose concurrence and maritime confederation might have been dangefous to her-. • " Respeaing Russia, which advances with the pace of a giant, and which already weighs so heavy upon the Western and Southern States of Europe, England has not been alarmed—she shuts her eyes - upon remote dangers and successive usurpations,-7- She favours the.systeM which destroys the equili brium of Europe, in hopes of gaining a powerful Ally in the North—a kind of bug-bear to oppciSe; to her-rivals; and above all, with the•hope of haVink a :Treaty of Commerce—a hope completely realized. She is not contented with carrying Russian merchan dize-: she herself has manufaCtured articles of the first .necessity out of them—and thus, for fifty years past, received the benefits of freights, brokerage, and indultry.- - " For this shameful consideration England has consented to the redu&ion of Sweden and Denmark. Perhaps she was charrned with the idea that the two Powers who-commanded the important passage of the Sound should be weakened in such a triaistler as -never to beable to dispute it. Besides,--, she has seen with pleasure some isolated neutral cities,.under the name of free and Imperial cities,,without protec tion, and which she looked upon as her depots, and as offices for her clerks. " But the moment has arrived to stop thecourse of these maritime usurpations. The efforts made use of to destroy France have atlength tended to bring her into cdniaet - with her enemy. ascendancy she has gained on the Continent will suspend its quarrels, and bring back the question 1.4.1 a point -more -important in respect' to the prospe- Tity of nations than the acquisition of some' Pro- Vinces, and the advantage they may offer to the.pride oft heir Sovereign. ft France, compelled to contend with different arms, _ought not, however,, to abandon the field of battle ; the traveller, whom robbers may attack with pistols, may defend himself with the sword. The French Government, in banishing the Eng lish into their own Island, makes use of the right, they have given her. She will resume the ad-, tient code—the ancient privileges of the conquero;--1- till England shall adopt a maritime l eg i s l a ti on -, formable to the new code of war between civilized nations." ~~~ E..YTRAORDINJRY OCCURRENCE. —A-Meeting of the-Stt hscribers to the Philanthropic Annuity. Plan, proposed by Mr. LUDLAM, Of Welbeck-street, Mary-le-bone, took place at the London Tavern yesterday evening. Mi. LUDLAM Vrdered- a dinner for himself after it was over, in one of the parlours which looks into Bishopsgate4 . street. Mr. PEACOCK, one o f th e p ro p r i e t o r s , as is customary, took in the first dish, and remaining after the waiters bad left the room, Mr. L. in a few minutes produced two large horse-pistols, and swore he would blow Mr. Pcvocx's brains out if he attempted to leave the room. In a short time one of the waiters returned, when he found Mr. L. abusing his master, and threatening to shoot him.' Mr. L. attacked the waiter with very vio lent language, and said he would shoot him also ; and as he was leaving the room, snapped a pistol at him ; which, providentially, did not go otil The waiter informed Mr. FARLEY, another of the pro prietots, of the perilous situation of Mr. PEACOCK, and what had happened. At this moment the LORD MAYOR entered the Tavern ; Mr. FARLEY communicated the circumstance to his Lordship, who immediately sent off to Mr. NALDER, one of , the City Marshals. While the messenger was gone, Mr. PEACOCK took an opportunity to rush out of the room ; but, as he was leaving it, Mr. LUDLAM discharged a pis tol at him, and immediately jumped out of the window, and into his carriage that was waiting, and shut the door_ of his carriage with such force as to break the glass. The coachman drove off 'with great speed down liishopsgate-street, pursued by h number of people. The pistol that was discharged at Mr. PEACOCK proved to be loaded with several balls—all of which providentially missed him. They were found lodged a little above the door of the room. The pistol that was attempted to be discharged at the waiter was finand near Mr. L's. chair, and it proved to be loaded with three bullets. Recipe for the Jaundice.--At the commencement of the disorder, take an egg, beaten up with a small quantity of wine, every hour, for eighteen succe save hours, and by all means avoid milk at ;the time. The matter, though simple, has been often pro; ed, and never known to fail. TO THE miirbß bF THE SUN. SiR, I As I 'perceiv6 that you do not lase sigh t of matteit 6.r taste, amidst • all the important topics' of political discussion; I send you a trifle for a corner of your valuablel'aper, • when it may have one to spare.— The diurnal Critics have been too much in the habit of arraigning Mr. KEMBLE'S pronunciation of cer tain words, though it is very probable that if they bad applied their diligence as much as he has done to the older dramatic writers, and had bestowed as much attention upon the nature and progress of out language, they would be rather more disposed to approve than ro censure what they may too hastily consider as novelties, or as'marks of atfeCtation. But, without such elaborate inquiries, a mere attention to the metre will be often sufficient to convince them that they have judged and . decided with too much precipitation. He. was lately condemned for his manner of pronouncing Coridanus; though the text - in many places will sufficiently warrant the mode he adopted. , The last object t of their 'censure was his conversion of aches into a dissyllable, as used by Prospero, in The' Tempest, though the metre abso lutely, requires that the word should be delivered with that character. But numberless passages might be quoted in the older writers to prove that aches Must little been so pronounced. I believe •it will, hardly be disputed that BUTLER was well acquainted with our language, and likely to employ it with as mach propriety as • any of the modern race of Cri iics:—The following passages from Hudibras will. therefore fully justify - Mr. KEMBLE, independently of the text in question, and tend to prose that aches was a dissyllable, nut only in the dramatic writings, but in the popular pronunciation, Oa former period, whatever change may have been made in the word by the refinethents of modern taste. In Part the Second, ,Canto the Second,•there is the following couplet : " As no man of his oivnself catches " The itch, vr amorous French aches." In Part the Third, Canto the First, the same word is introduced in this couplet : - " The natural effect of love " As often flames and aches prove." And it occurs again, in the following lines " Can by their pangs. and ackes find . " All turns and changes of the wind." I trust, Mr. EDITOR, that ,these passages will abundantly justify Mr. KEMBLE as to this point, and I have little doubt that in most others where he may appear to be affealed or singular, a full reliance may be placed on the judgment of one who has pursued his inquiries with so much zeal, and such a de votion to the art which his talents so 'ably support. CRITO: A Bust of SHAKSPEARE, consisting of a piece of the mulberry-tree planted by the immortal t Bard himself, has, it is said, been recently presented to the Duke of CLAREN6k. If all the supposed re liques of this famous mulberry-tree were to be col leded together, they wOtild nearly form as great a mass as the Poet's " moving grove" brought from Birnham Wood. It must be acknowledged, for the credit of :public impartiality, that the reception which CATALAN' has experienced is so free from . old prejudices, that it might be conceived there never had been such Performers as BILLINGTON, BANTI, and MARA. . Mr. Num. has thought proper to publish a pri vate correspondence between him and .Col. ELLIoT, respelling. the late Westminster Elediou. .Mr. PAULL accuses the Colonel of ,haying - broken his word, but, as the matter . rests upon the assertions of the former, and the denials of the latter, the pub lic must decide according to the charader of both. ,parties, and consequently the Colonel can have no reason to fear the result. Mr. PAULL . is quite in the habit of publishing private .correspondence, and therefore such. condu6t might naturally be ex= pealed from him, if it were nut somewhat sur prising that be should be permitted to indulge in this habit so long. Indeed his charkter is so no torious in this resped, that, like Tattle, in Love for Love, it might be said of him, that he makes pro clamation of receiving private intelligence, if 'thd word intelligence could properly be applied to any of his communications. - On the evening of Ftiday the 4th inst. between the hours of 'nine and ten o'clock, John McAuley, porter in Port Glasgow, fell over one of the Quays, and -was taken out, to all appearance, perfeelly dead. He lay nearly 15 minutes in the 'water. Medical aid was diretily procured, and, by persevering exertions, succeeded in restoring animation. As the vitai prin ciple developed itself, - lm gave signs of suilering ex treme anguish. He is nearly perfeffly well, com plaining only of languor and a slight degree of breath lessness. On Saturday evening last, about seven o'clOck, as Mr. Grace, steward to C. J. Ilrandling, Esq. was re turning on horseback from Newcastle to Gosforth, he was attacked on the edge of the town-moor by two foot-pads, one of whom struck him a violent blow on the head with a bludgeon. Mr. Grace, however, retained his seat, and the horse, instantly springing forwards, , he reached the turnpike-hate without further molestation, but was obliged tllere to dismount ott account of the injury he had received. The men were dressed in the military uniform. The last Number, being the Tenth, of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE, must prove highly interesting,and valu able at the approaching season of hilarity and fes tivity, particularly amongst those societies where the song and dance will prevail. This Number contains, Amongst a variety of other embellishments, a collec tion of original Country Dances, Strathspeys, Heels, ; and Waltzes, composed and set to music for the Piano forte, with their appropriate figures, expressly and exclusively for this Work, by the followino . cele brated Composers, viz. Messrs. Gow, Saunderson, and Ware.• These Danees haVe already been adopted by the most fashionable parties, and are likely to become the rage of the season. The finely engraved Portraits, and the Prints of Ladies' Parisian and London F.:shions, -and the new Pat terns for Needle-Work, with the original Songs, by the most celebrated English Masters, which every Number contains, entitle this Work to the universal admiration with which it has been honoured by La dies p most rtienlarly distin gu ish a bl e f or their 'ex alted rank, f.iskion, and tale. bREdatUL CATASTPoPH, E. A most dreadful cfttastaiphe has lately happened to the Salisbury C64:my of Comedian's', and their Mmager, Mr. ST'a:vrvottn. A Vessel conveying the party from the Island cat Jersey (where they had been performing some time,) to Poole, in Dofsetshire, foundered at sea, and every soul on board perished, with all their scenery, dresse=, and stage properties. Among the unfortunate sufferers was Mr. JOHN PAL ' InErt, Cate of the Hay'iiiarket Theatre, son of the de ceased Mr. PALMER, Of Drury-lane Theatre; and ne ' phew .to Mr. it. P-Aimnit. ANOTI!ER ACCOUNT. COWES, DEC. 16.-1 am sorry to have to 'announce 'to you the melancholy circumstance of the loss of the Sloop Ann, of Poole, WIVL HOLLOWAY Master, on Wednesday evening last, otTChrist Chnrch-head, having foundered in consequence of. a heavy squall. 'On 'board were many passengers who had taken their passage from hence fbr Poole ; and auxin them, I am sorry to say, the whole of STE ATFORWS Company of Comedians, • with the exception Of two, Mr. PROVER and Miss STRATTON, Who fortunately pro ceeded by land. Among those lost, I fear, are STRATFORD the Manager, and his wife, Mr. HARRi x`SON`, Mr. and Mrs. QAUNTRELL, Mr. and Mrs. BRANTON, MeSSI'S. GA HONER, CURTIS, sen. andCUR TIs, jun. and several others, whose names I do not recollea. A sad fatality seems to have attended the whole Ofthi, Company from their first arrival in •.this Island—poor DENMAN, their principal Per former, and one who is well known in London, hav r ing been here only a few days before he was taken ill, and died. E. 4 Si' I.:17..01.1-HOUSE. . Yesterday a Quarterly General Court was held at the East India -House; when the dividend fur the half }far,' ending the sth of Jan. next, was declared'to, be 5:1 per cent. • The Resolution of the General Court of Proprie tors on the 24th of 'Sept. last, , expressive of their agreement to the granting of a 'salary of 30001. a-year to the Recorder of Prince of Wales's Island, was read by the Clerk. The Chairman then moved that this Court do no‘t confirm the said Resolution. Upon which Mr. LUSIII&GTON, jun. rose to oppose the Mo tion. He' maintained that there was no . necessity tbr the appointment of - such an Officer 'as was commended by the Resokition which was then' sub mitted to the Court for its confirmation. If,. how ever, such a situation was to- be-instituted, a Geli tleman of more than ordinary talent mustbe sought for to accept of the office; and, when it was ,con sidered that this person would have to abandon a respeetable line of profession-at home, 'With almost certain hope of increasing his - income tenfold, by means of-his assiduity and ability, 30001. per nanum was far short of the salary which was necessary to support the dignity. of his office, in one of 'the most expensive parts of the Company's Settlements ; strea. a - salary as that could -be no inducement to any ,Gentleman to break off from his connexions, and give up all hope of future advancement' in his profession. Mr. LOWNDES also opposed the Motion, but at the same time differed most essentially from the 116 n. Gentleman u;ho had just sat down. That Gentleman, he said, had overlooked a most. im portant consideration 'he did iaot recoiled that a respedable set of men, the Lords of Session, in Scotland, whose rank must be considered' far su perior to that of the Rec Order of Prince of Wales's Island, had not, till very lately, more than a salary of 10001. a-year. \Vas the Recorder, in such a place as Prince of Wales's Island, then to have a salary three times that amount ?—The lion. Gentleman then urged some of the fOrther arguments against the' proposition, particUlarly the state of the Com pany's Finances. Io order to retrieve these,.how ever,' he recommended that the Company should increasV their capital by an issue of bonds ; by this Means the whole debt of the Company would be liquidated in about fonr years., This hint, however, he hoped would be foll Owed up a Gentleman (Mr. Johnstone), or by some other Gentlemen who could argue the question with much more ability than he Was capabie of. The Question was then put and carried - with, cut a division; atter w►hich the Court adjourned sine On Wednesdav se'nunight, about seven o'clock; as a man, 66 years of age, who hudbeen many yearS in the service of Mr. Wilkinson, coal-merchant, of Chatham, was going to bed without a candle, hav ing to pass through the upper part of an old store room, the'greater part of which was without any flooring, he slipt down between the joists; and in his fall, is suppOsed to have struck against the iron beam of.a pair of large scales, which was suspended in the-room below. The end of the beam; oppo site to that on which be fell, flew up, and resting against one of the joists, oppposed the same resistance as if it bad been a fixed bar of iron. The upper part of the forehead of the unfortunate man, coming in contact with the edge of the beam, was cut through to the bone, and, from . the rapidity of, hiS fall, nearly the whole of the scalp was so completely scraped off and lacerated, that the skull, from the fore part of the back of the head, was laid entirely bare. . The head next struck on the ground, or against the scale, and the violence of the concussion fra6tured his skull ; the bone beimg bare, the direc tion of the fra&ure was visible. It was- half past nine before the poorfellow was discovered : imme diately surgical aid was called in, and the man was conveyed to the poor-house, when the medical Gen tlemen who were present judged it necessary' the operation of the trepan should be instantly perform ed, as - affording the only possible means of recovery ; two pieces of the skull were accordingly taken away by the trephine, and two other portions were after wards separated by the forceps. The several pieces of the skull taken away, when together, formed an Oblong triangle, containing 'about. five square in ches. The pulse of the unfortunate man rose after the operation ; he appeared better, and was sensible, but he languished through" the night in agony, and died about eight o'clock on the next morning. OXFORD, DEC. 13, e nes ay last the Rev. Stephen Preston ; Lin&Sln College ; Mr. Thomas Hawkeshead, of BrasOciseollege ; the Rev. Henry Watt \t'l!krll - -`6f v ,,Worcester College ; th e R ev . George Street, of St: ;Win's. College ; and the Re:. Wm. Bayly i of Ni.;* College, B. A. were admitied 'Masters of Arts. . Menii: Francis Birkley Astley, and - James Vo lantOrl, of Oriel College ; Enoch H. College ; Thotnas Wood Simpson, of Worcesier College; and John Cox Russell, of Hert ford Colfe(re ; were admitted Bachelors of Arts. Yesterday Mr. Keble was admitted Scholar of c'orpus Christi College. On Fri6y 'the Election for P‘rocurators took place at Herefdi - ci 'Cathedral ; the Chapter met in the Collegiarte'Library, and unanimously elefted the Rev;4.'l%leton:D. D. to represent thetn. After Divine Service, the beneficed Clergy assembled in the Consistory Court, and the Rev: H. Morgan, D. D. having opened the-MeetinT, with an elegant address, stated, that the Lord Bishop recommended as pro per persons to represent the Diocese, the Rev. G. D. Yates, L.L.D. and the Rev. G. Cope, D.D. the Electors instantly honoured with their approba tion, and they were accordingly chosen. LEJPES, Dzc. t 5. Or ONE night last week 'a brace. of horse pistols, loaded, aturtwo pair of stockings, were dug up in a plantation, behind the house of John BOys, Esq. at Ashcomb, where it is supposed, they had been btiried by some soldier, at the period of leis deser tion from our barracks._ The stock of each pistol is marked with the tigure 3. The heavy and - almost constant rains that fell during the last few days, produced, yesterday, in our Levels, higher .floods, and at the Bridge, a greater swell of water, than had been remembered for many years before. The Cliff cellars, were in undated, :and the Bear Inn,• and Sir Henry Black• man's house, adjoining the river,, on the east and west ~s 'idefi, were nearly surrounded by the water. To secure timber . and other property, ',which the rapid rise of the flood had floated from ..it became necessary,. during a part of the day, to employ a number .ot-men in'boats ; among these were four paper -makers, who, having einbark ed in a little punt from their mill, unluckily it, in Mailing-brooks, and.had. to struggle with -the difficulties - attendant on six feet water, , acon.iderahle distance trom any shore ; under which, • however; they managed to sustain themielves, some by swan- Ming, .anti others by seizing hold of their . caps;zed punt,.until,some persons, who wimes,ed the acci dent, put off in boats to their assi•tance, ?.nd by whose exertions they were all fi.rrtunAlely prestLi. , and safely.landed at the tan-yard b&otiging to ;Wire Chatfield. Neither cattle nor sheep were exp6sed to danger in. these Levels, having been ail driven from their pastures, by the timely precaution 'of their. Owners. • .• -.Last Thursday. as the young Gentlemen of Button's school Were t:tk;ittg their walk on Cliff-hill, a portion of the turf that appeared to have been newly broken up, nigh to a -small inclos.!lru of trees, called Spence's Fully, attracted their notice, and to gratify their curiosity they removed the sOd, when .they found concealed under it a sack, containiDg woman's apparel, by which their curiosity w.is much increased, that they pursued their s:-arch_t6, the Folly, and there discovered, a broken c ara van- . trunk, from which, they had no doubt, the contents of the sack had been taken. This proved to be the fatly for on inquiry being afterwards made, it ap-. peared that the articles were the property of a Mi litia Serjeau(s. wife, who had travelled in a carrier's waggon,frorn Hailsham, and on her arrival at the DOrset Arms, not choosing to encumber herself with the trunk, delivered it to the care of the land lord, telling him at the same time, that she should .get a grenadier to call for it ; which.being spoken in the hearing of a soldier that wan casually standing by, he quickly afterwards personated the grenadier whom the woman was to have commissioned, and demanded the trunk of the landlord, in his own name, and obtained it ; which he had no sooner done than he marched off to the Hill and dis posed of it as above stated.--We hear he: has since deserted, -, ' - • About twelve o'clock on Monday se'nnight, the bridge lately ereeted over the river 4.uinnev, three miles from Cardiff, which divides the counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth, fell with a most tre mendous crash ; fortunately, the men who were employed in wheeling graVel over it, had quitted their .work only a few": minutes before the accident happened. The bridge would have been coinNeted in a few weeks. The old bridge is standing, and very sectire. CORONER'S INCILTEST.—An Inquisition wa4 taken yesterday at the Triumphatit Chariot, Piccadilly, be fore A. GE .L, Esq. on the body of Thomas-Harris; who was shot at Hammersmith on M on d a y last.-- A Surgeon from 'St. George's Hospital stated, that 'the deceased was brought thither at half past five o'clock on Monday evening, wounded, as it from the discharge of fire arms, in -the arm and body.— On examining closely the wounds, it appeared that many shot had entered the body, some of which were depoSited in the substance of the heart, as ap peared on disse6tion, and which were the' cause of his death.—Bedford, a gardener in the employ of Mr. Brooks,.of Hammersmith, stated, that the de =i ceased, with whom. he had been acquainted many years, was at work with him in the nursery on Mon= day, until half past four o'clock, when they rein j ect to the 'shed situated therein, to deposit their tool. A gun was standing in the shed, and witness said, Here is Frank's gun," meaning his young Master, and on taking ho!d'of, it, he had scarcely moved it when it instantly went off, and lodged the con tents in the arm and body of the deceased, who,, sat down, and said he was a dead man. He was the only witness who had any knowledge of the transadion itself, none else being present. Several witnesses proved that ° Bedford-and the deceased had always been'tin' intimate terms, and that thp Litter, previous to his death, said he believed it to haxe been .an accident. Mr. Brooks's son cou4 not say, whe ther or not he had left the piccv cocked.—bNodiclim. Accidental. Deatk.