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;7 0 ; 0 revO, GREAT GEORGE'S STREET BOOTH. 4'o THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST.INDAR D. „ n of 31jb .0 1( gag' 7riitg THE ELECTION. A SANDONITE TO. THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAYDARD. 5 14 .00 jot pleased to favour me with a small space in your 4kluable columns, whilst 1 Make 'a few remarks upon the re ' peat Election. — And first, Sir, let me offer. my warm congratu lations to the inhabitants of this great town, upon the return of oDe of whom I feel that I cannot sayall thatl would wish, or t hat he deserves. lof course allude to our able, attentive, and Member Representative,- Lord . Sandon. Of our other . exnber, Representative I cannot. call him ; I will only say, 41flat, independently 'of numerous other objectiOns generally felt towards him, his conduct in voting with those few choice d Pirrt s who disgraced themselves by supporting Hunt's motion hr inquiring into the Manchester affair, thirteen years after it ad taken place, and with the ruins of ihistol smoking before ` L ' e tn, has earned for him the constant and cordial Opposition A l a - numerous and respectable portion of his felloW-townsinen. 4 ' me to add that he and his friends affect to sneer at the "terehants of Liverpool, and at the West India body in par eular. I would advise him to get his brother to refer to his 'edger,. and then to say whether, without their aid, Mr. EWART Would have be en even t h e briefle'ss 4arrister which he was, so , rtig as he honoured th e c i rcu it w ith hi s presence. 'th e libera-- i tY of the self-styled " Liberals,"- is so notorious, that I need li berality to allude to it. I will, however, a sk, whole was their4berality when they assailed every supporter of LORD SANDO.N 4 1. 4, 1 SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS not o nly w ith i nsu lti ng l anguage , as I can feelingly testify, with mud and stones, and blud ? Where was their liberality when they so grossly in -Belted their former Representative, whose age, if not his scr l'iees; one would have thought might have been his protection ; 44( . 1 when one of their leaders addressed GLINERAL GASCOY/iE , ill a manner which he dared not have used to any of his fellow ille rchants, and of which the p oo r es t an d mos t une i uca t e d b urgess Iv etild have been ashamed ? These gentiemen - can by no means 4(l ' t lit, that, any one one who ventures to-differ froth them can' a 0 8 0 conscientiously. I will now briefly remark upon those : 40 have recorded their votes at the Election which has just the ir votes, Alth oug h I h ave so li c it e d a grea t many people' for votes, I can solemnly assert that I have never, in any way, thatupon any person voting as I wished. Now, howev er , 'oat the Election is over, and knowing, as I well do, that none 1 1 . the Liberals will patronise any one who is not of their : 4 7 4 e, I think it my bounden duty. to give all the snpport iii 'Y power to those who have supported what I consider to be 111 Y interests, and those of this town mid of the country. Sup 1148e, for example, that I am a W es t I n di a P ro p r i e t or , an d fe el L convin ce d th a t th e r et urn o f p ersons p l e d ged t o vo t e f or t iMmediate abolition of slavery will be of serious injury to '" and my family,--that such a measure, if carried into effect, w ould destroy my property, and take from me the m e ans 44 % I now possess, of paying my different tradespeople or the articles with which they furnish me : thinking so, 11 it not natural, nay requisite, that I should give encoulage 41t ellt to those persons who hold the same opinions as I do„ . 8 1 ) ecting , the merits of particular candidates ? I feel that any an of common understanding will answer me in the affirma- I will conclude with a single observation upon promises, 41 aLly persons expressed their regret that, not b e i ng aware tha t a fourth candidate would be brought forward, they had Atomised their votes to two of the candidates who had been °4l e time in th e fi e ld,—l, th ere f ore, h ope th a t t h ey w ill b e me re t cautious for the futu re , an d t a k e care no t t o prom i se heir votes to any candidate before the immediate eve of an electio n. Yours, &c. A BURGESS.' 4 , 1) . S. Of Mr. THORNELY , the defeated candidat e , I h av e h voided s p ea ki ng , upon t h e pr i nc i p l e of " de mortuis, " &e. I h 4" never heard that his abilities are very grea t ; th a t hi s ' l 'etensi ons arc so, is beyond all question. ' Cluere.—Can he be called a fellow-townsman, who has lived and Dclit his money out of Liverpool, almost ever y a he was born tic ji :HE DOCTOR.—A wag was rallying Dr. —on his want of 4 e l ' l , which the doctor took raiser gravely. "My patients ish fs v er complain of me," he said. "l'hut is exactly what I " I lid have supposed," rep.ded his tormentor. 1:02 11 E CHURLISH MAN will necessarily think w orse o f h uman o i ,;' l lre than it deserves. As there are some flowers which never 14 1 : 1 but when the sun shines upon them, so there are many itb, l ll ki B whose good qualities must be drawn out by-sympathy ndness. * CORRESPONDENCE. 4 1 rAcK UPON SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, AT THE SIR,—In the Journal of Saturday last, in an article signed :` pick Liver," there appears a statementof au incident which Is said to have taken place at the Booth in Griat George's-street, relative to certain expressions used by Sir H. Douglas, upon The bribery loath being administered to one of the Electors. 4 s I happened at the moment to be standing next to Sir How 4rd, and beard distinctly every thing which transpired, I :think it but clue to that gentleinan to state the real facts as they occurred, and which I now do unhesitatingly. The elector appeared to be a superior and respectable ship .Wtight, and had, in my presence, tendered his vote a few mi ,zliftes previously, but,'in consequence of Mr. Thornely's repre ''entatives obliging him to take the bribery oath, he manifested th e greatest possible contempt and indignation, and said he W ouid not vote; and retired. " Some of his friends then, I pre :"le, apprised him that this_wa.s exactly the. purpose-Mr. T.'s . `rends wished, to effect, in order to gain time ;• for, very shortly afterward, he again appeared at the booth to vote, and submit led himself to the regulations insisted upon. It was when he h ad voted -that Sir H.. Douglas addiessed the elector, (and in a'l the elections I have seen I never -knew this right to be ques tioned,) thanking him for his vote,' and added; " I would not •• h ave obliged you, my man, to tale an oath. I would not have . d oubted the vote of any Englishman." To this the elector a nswered,' "They only uo it, Sb', to gain time; and-p:eveut our :getting "pp to vote. but what is that they would not do, the infidels " I will tell you, My man," answered Sir Hew ", " I will tell you what they have done. - Whist Iwas per, "everingly engaged in au active and honourable 'canvass, their tarty have thrown asione at hit Me: on . the shotiluer, and . : k4 oc.kedr me down; in my own carriage." • Upon this, the 'll, ornelv party and some of Mr. Lwart's party, rushectfotwatd, '540 of whom advanced close to bit H., 'ioadly . ana . veheineutly Protesting against . the remarks of bir. It.; . and whist one a C'eused him of havingsralled Mr. lhornely an 'infidel % another a ccused him of haying said that Mr. T. had stoned him. To both these Sir H,. _coolly but bravely (lot: the raze of the party , / ' l3 tild have intimidated most Men) ri.-plied, '"I did not say Mr. WaSan infidel: It was-the elector who said so. I did not say it was Mr. T. who threw.the stone at me : I said it was his party." Nothing, however, scented sufficient to Satisfy the l 'iOlent excitement thus created, and I was leally• apprehensive , I §ome Terminal. injury to Sir - IL With the assistance of .Mr.. ° lassey,. by degrees order . was restored, and Sir kioivard re : .4aitiued some minutes longer in the booth before he retired. • t'hes'e are the plain facts, and. I leave, yourreaders•to draw their 'own concaisions, whether an honorable 'Minded man, -even theopponents of Sir Howard admit him to be, was likely in an open court to commit himself by calling Mr. " an infidel," or to say that that gentleman himself' 4 a 4 t thrown the stone at him.—Y ours, &e. .. MR. EWART'S SPEECII ON THE LIVERPOOL HUSTINGS. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TO. THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAT,'D.IRD. Ewart, by the clear statemlanlike views which he developed, in his speech at the hustings on the day of nomina_ tion, on every branch of our foreign and domestic policy, has no doubt won golden opinions from all sorts of men, and nobly "vindicated himself from the suspicion of entertaining any bu,. "a genuine'and a pure ambition " in aspiring to represent thi' great trading community. How striking is the contrast, for in_ stance, between his eloquence, where every word is pregnant with meaning, and sense is never sacrificed to sound,- and the mere verbiage and puerile declamation of a Sir Howard Douglas! But however hazardous it may be to differ in opinion from so great constitutional an authority as Mr. Ewart, I wig venture , with all becoming humility, -to d oubt Whether it is a very wise or a very safe principle to procee I up on, that every existing In stitution must be changed. It is not very fashionable perhaps to advert to the wisdom of our ancestors; but there is an adage of one, Bacon, a man of some reputation in his day, which has been adopted as the motto of cue of your fellow-journalist:3, it runs thus-- . " It is not good to try experiments in states, except t he necessity be' urgent or the utility evident, - ; and it is well to beware that it be the reforination that draweth o n the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." 'this appears to me almost as wise as Mr. Ewart's reasoning in favour of so !great a change as the introduction of the ballot would. be, that he has never heard any sound reason against it." • - . , Others may, 'Perhaps, be found so self-willed, as not to adopt any opinion implicitly, merely upon the authority of; him. Who has - propoiniclea it. Such persons may in all probability :take up tilt cudgels in the defence of the Corporation, and the other various monopolies again - St which Mr. Lwart, with true Malay an courage is .inclined.to run a=muck; eepe,cially as they wit' • not find; in Mr. Ewart's speech at least, " any sound reason " why they should be at once overthi own. 'I here are, however, high matters e ancl I will not meddle with them. • I will, therefore, content myself with a few hints respecting the sad abuses in our Established Church; not at all doubting that pure friendship induces Mr. Ewart to take it under his protec tion,. although I have heard of the bear that. unfortunately stran gled the babe which it officiously undertook to nurse. Mr. E. mus . be a religious man, perhaps aprofessor of the unknown tongue, as he is favoured with visions assuring him, that, " by a special interposition of Providence, with the increased numbers of th e constituency thenumbei of the candidates was augmented also.', It has never before happened; that at any one time there hav e been four candidates for the representation of Liverpool. Some, however, may think that such a sentence, if it had fahen from the lips of a less-gifted individual, , had savoured of nonsense, if not of rank blasphemy. Mr. Ewart has "long considered tithes and pluralities as evils," why, he does not condescend to say. Ido nut defend the laSt, though I.may perhaps be able to advance something, sound or unsound, in favour of the former. He also wishes that " the working clergy should be better remunerated." In this wish I most cordially join; but I cannot, for the life of me, guess how they are tote better . remunerated, if their present support, the tithes, be swept away. Ido not propose to enter upon the question, whether tithes are enjoyed by diyineriglit, or no ? It is sufficient for my pur pose that such a mode of providing for persons employed in sa cred thingS prevailed, by the.appointinent of God himself, in a nation which was under his own immediate government. There can, therefore, be no "sound.." objection to tithes ou the score of principle. -And if long possession can confer a'righ; it may be a "sound' , argument, in the es of alawyer at least, that clerical persons have a title to tithes far anterior to that by which any propeity whatever in this kingdom is . held. It, therefore, appears to nie, that forcibly to deprive- the, clergy of the tithes, would Shake the foundation of every title in the country. It would also re quire ninre ingenuity than ;Hr. Ewart can boast of, to prove by " sound reasons " that he wha won t (' so rob the clergy would be any better than a pickpocket. He will, perhaps, say that , the tithes were conferred by the public, .and, for the public good they may be resumed. I defy him to prove that the tithes in England ever did belong to the public. They were, so far as any researches can discover, conferred by private individuals on clerical bodies, to pay for the religious instruction of their tenants inhabiting that distriet from whence the tithes were to be derived. • They had a right so to burden their estate with this payment, and ev,:ry subsequent possessor of the property, how- ever he may have acquired it, whether by descent or purchase , has never had a title to more than nine-tenths of that estate. The landowaee is, therefore, clearly not injured by the payment of tithes; nor lass the government of the country a right, upon . any known principle of justice, to interpose in the matter, :ex cept to see that the clergy duly perform the duty for which they ace so paid. This letter has already been extended to an unconscionable length, I will, therefore, hasten to a conclusion. I firmly be lie ve that to the wise establishment of tithes, that is a provisionjin the payment of the clergy inalienable from the soil itsey, the-pa rochial clergy at least owe their principal means of support. When Henry the Bth overthrew the spiritual dominion of the Pope in this realm, his own profuseness and the rapacity of his courtiers did not spare the temporalities of the church ; but, as the tithes could not be extinguished, and did not, generally speaking hold out any sufficient temptation to the cupidity Of the spoilers, these were left to remunerate the ministers who . succeeded to the ecclesiastiCal duties of the popish priesthood. The crisis may arrive, when another Henry, in the shape of an ungodly mob, may be permitted for. a time to sweep away every thing sacred and. •profane ; yet, by God's blessing, the means may he left whereby, 'when 'the :vessel of the state shall have righted, the 'ministers of religion may again have it in their power to preach those doctrines which Mr. Ewart professes to admire, and to impart spiritual advice and consolation to the poor and afflicted. And the labourers will be worthy of their hire.— 1 ours, &c. 15th, 1832. C. S. Will it be quite consistent with gratitude, should the first measure of the rejonned Parliament be directed against the property of the ceiebrated author of the Bill? Laymen surely will not in common justice be allowed to retain titheS, &C. &c. for which they perform no service. There is something in the name or h w,ain Abbey leads me to fancy that it once belonged to the church. Mit. THORNELY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Stu,—Unwilling as I have always been . in any way to keep up the contention of an election after it is over, I cannot, in justice to myself and many others, suffer an observation made in the Journal of this day to pass unnoticed, namely, that "every household elector, but 1800,. voted for Mr. Thornely; and as those qualified who did not vote, may be regarded as favourable but timid, we must concede to him the honoUr of being_ chosen by fully two-thirds of his fellow-townsmen, 'men of the greatest respectability and independence." Now, Sir, I for one did not vote, although I had promised Mr. Ewart, to whom I most certainly should have kept my pro mise, if he had not, on the day of nomination, falsified my pre vious opinion ofnim, that he was a considerate moderate Re former; but when, from the hustings, I heaid him - . speak in terms of_such 'complacency respecting the destruction of West India and church property, triennial Parliaments, and vote by ballot, I felt so much disgusted, that if the contest had been between him and Lord Sandon, Or even Sir Howard Douglas, althongh he goes rather beyond say mark,. I should have voted for his opponent. Indeed, if I had been.compelled to decide between the two, I should certainly ,have given my vote to Mr. Thornely, in preference to Mr. Iti,vart, as being honestly con sistent in his political career.' ' • I have stated the cause of my not voting as I 'intended, early on the first day, for Mr. Ewart; and subsequent distant engage ments prevented my voting for Lord Sandon, as I otherwise should have done on the second day, which will be sufficient to show that altlxough.l am one Of those who did not vote, I am so far from being . politically , " favourable" to Mr. Thornely that lam decidedly opposed to hiM. • • • • • The statements given in the Journal, to bolster up the alleged preference shown to Mr. Thornely, in my opinion, prove the reverse, when taken in connexion with the glaring fact of the sinister coalition with Mr. Ewart, it being evident that a very large number of" those who voted for Mr. Ewart voted also for Mr. Thornely, not because they were "favourable" to him if he stood alone, but because they were so instructed; and others were opposed to Sir Howard Douglas, as being rather too ultra, he being also supported by gentlemen, who, in the true sense of the word, are of " the greatest respectability" in Liverpool. Let us now look at the votes as given in the Journal. House- Official Hay or Freemen. liclders. Total. 21 tals. Splits. Ewart 1238 3-190 4728 4931 2166 Sandon 2091 - 2097 4191 4260 2130 Thornely 3062 4031 4096 2048 Douglas ... .1736 1548 320-1 3242 1621 6,017 10,107 16,154 16,529 8,265 Supposing the •whore 'to have given two votes, the account will stand, as plumpers or single votes, Ewart 619 1745 2361 Sandon 1047 1048 2095 Thorne.y 185 1531 20m poug,as 8.:8 • 774 1611 3')19 5098 8117 The fractions thus produced are— For M. Thoplely 485 1531 2016 3019 5098 8117 So that, instead of having the votes of " fully two-thirds of his follow-tothisinen," electors, Mr. Thornely, " with all ap plianeesand means to boot," : had only —one-sixth of the free meni three-tenths of the householders, and one-fourth of the total electors who voted ! And there is no doubt that if the contest had been •between Lord Sandon and Mr. Thornely alone, " unmixed with other matter," even that modieum would have dwindled into com parative insignificance.—YOut s,&e. Daka-street, Saturday evening. CANDIDUS. TO MR. T.(10.:1.gS 2710RXELY. Stn,—Having read your address. to the electors of Liverpool, in which you broadly assert that it was owing to the votes of the old burgesses; .und not to the general feeling of the respectab:e inliabitants'of the town; that you were rejected as the represen tative of Liverpool. I begleave to refer you to the names of the merchants in the daily Trade List of the port, and of the' master tradesmen, forinerly (I don't mean to use the, words offensively) esteemed the hack-bone'of the town, for a comparative estimate of the weight,'wealth, commercial enterprise, and respectability of your own and of I Sanclon'S a'nd Sir HoWard Douglas's supporters. But the fact is, that on this, as on all former odca-, sions, the party which have supported you have used the outcry of intimidation before an election, and, if unsuccessful; of briery afterwards; arid I alit - persuaded that the cry of bribery now raised, is for no other purpose than to bring the question once more before the House of C.oinutoits, 'with a view to get the . old burgesses disfranchised altOgether. With respect that pa tit of your address, in Clayton-square; in Whichi you allilie to the effect of administering the bribery oath, had none of your sapient counsellors the wit-to discover that this arguihent proves a little too much ? for, as the oath must be administered before the elector is asked for whom he votes, how could you tell, when several of these atrocious free men "slunk away from the booths," whether they- were your own voters or your opponents ? -particularly as it is a well-kn Own fact, (and can he proVed by flatting; the parties, if such a dis closure would afibrd you any satisfaction,) that the officious zeal of some of your own partisans led them into the commission of the dangerous indiscretion of _offering bribes, whether ac cepted or refused you may learn, Perhaps, upon inquiry. "ris an old adage, that men who live in glass houses should beware how they cast about stones ! That all the old burgesses of Li verpool do not belong to temperance societies, more the pity ; but lf men choose to get drunk at their own expense, I am not aware that, so long as they keep the peace, there is any law at present to prevent inebriety; but it is to be hoped that the re formed Parliament will pass an act to suppress all such shock ing debauchery, morning, noon, and night. That after the majority-on the-first day's poll you were not prepared for, the result of the election, is - very possible; but I must beg leave to point out to you, that "the promptitude of the battalions of your friends" packed all the polling booths early on Wednesday morning, so exclusively that at the Lime street booth more than eighty votes were polled by your party before a single individual could tender his vote for either Lord Sandon or Sir Howard Douglas. This might be all fair, as a ruse de guerre, but it is, I beg leave to submit to your cooler judgment, 'quite a sufficient explanatiOn Of the cause of your majority on the first day's poll. Recommending to your particular attention a stricter obser vance of the ninth commandment in your future addresses to the electors of Liverpool, I am, &c. E. DISSENTERS AND SOCINIANS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Stu,—lt is clearly the duty of every man who wishes well to church and state, to endeavour, by every lawful means, to break the unholy alliance between the orthodox Dissenters and the Socinians. I. conceive that the hostility of the former to our national Zion' is mainly owing to the new light that has of late, and only of late, burst in upon them, namely, that a nation, as a nation, has nothing to do with religion. They have, evidently only heard one side of the question, and consequently take for granted that there is nothing to be said in favour of an estab lished religion. I have occasionally invited. them to try their teeth upon a tract of some fifty pages, recently published by the Christian Knowledge Society, entitled, " A Church Estab- - lishment Lawful, Scriptural, and Necessary, by the Rev. S. C. Wilks ;" but I fear they generally find it too, hard for them . Hard arguments, after all, go farther than hard words. This short pamphlet is especially useful in silencing the cuckoo-cry of " My kingdom is not of this world." - Another means of breaking this unholy alliance, is to show the 'orthodox Dissenters that Socinians are really their ene mies, both in a temporal and spiritual point of view. And, as L. s. D. arguments weigh. a great deal with some " indepen dent" supporters of Socinian candidates, it may be worth while to call their attention to the last report of the distribution of Lady Dame tiewley.'s charities , .which were inte4dgd for the benefit of pious nonconformist ministers: - It appears, from the December Lumber of the Corgregatianal Magazine, which is, I suppose, unquestionable authority, that there are 72 socini4n meeting-houses which receive annually from this charity the sam of £1022. Of this number no fewer than 49 are known to have been of orthodox origin, 19 of which are situated in Lan cashire. The names of the chapels, and their ministers, are given at full length at page 722. Would it not, by the bye, perhaps have been as well if they had originally had articles of faith and a liturgy ? "In the nine northern counties it is pro bable that Anti-trinitarian ministers are, not more than as about one to six or seven, compared with those amongst Dissenters who hold the opposite system of belief; but with the exception of a few, and those, almost all of them, in the larger towns, the whole of the Anti-trinitarian ministers are pensioners on her ladyship's liberality, whilst only about one in four or five of those who; it is believed, are the only proper recipients, receive any advantage froni the charity." The writer then proceeds to remark, that the amounts that are given clearly show the par tiality of the distribution : the average given to the Socinian teachers being £l4 3s. 24d., while that given to the orthodox Dissenting ministers is only £7 7s. 94d., about one half. It appears that four Socinian students at York receive £l6O, while there is only one orthodox Dissenting student on the list, a student at Airdale College, who receives £2O. Again, no Independent .minister receives above £l9, while Mr. Wellbe loved, an Unitarian at York, pockets £BO. The' writer con cludes thus,—" And yet, after all this, in reply to the inquiries made by his Majesty's commissioners respecting Dame Lady llewley's charity, the' trustees had the hardihood to assert posi tively; that in the selection of objects, and the administration of the charity, they never make any inquiries into the particu lar creed; or doctrines, or tenets of the applicants ; and that no preference is given to any person on account of his peculiar faith or - opinion. In many cases, no doubt, inquiry would be unnecessary, and, in others, the trtisTe'es . Seem to have guessed, with admirable success. Whether they give a preference to persons on account of their peculiar faith or opinions, 'the readers of these lists will of course judge for themselves." I will only add, that some good will be done, if -we can only convince such Dissenters as prefer things spiritual to things ecclesiastical, that " a church establishment is lawful, scrip tural, and necessary." and at the same time give a gentle hint to those Dissenters who prefer things political to things reli gious, that after all they may gain nothing else by this unholy alliance but the honour of being used as a cunning ally once used A CATSPAW. THE BRITISH COLOURS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IRD. Stn,—Yesterday I beheld the most unloyal, the most unna tural, and the most disgraceful scene mice eyes ever saw, al though I have witnessed more than one revolution, with all its horrid consequences. It was, Sir, to the mortification of my feelings, my lot to see, in England, in • Liverpool, in Castle street, in Aunt of the Townhall, England's flag violated, nay, rent into fragments, by the hands and with the teeth of Britons! England's flag trampled upon, and, in a manner too shocking to describe, dishonoured by the subjects of the Monarch of these realms. I do not, Sir, presume t o sa y th a t th e outrageous blackguards so disgracing themselves were Englishmen; for what I know they might be Scyts, Irish, or Welshmen. Ido know they were not foreigners, from their yells and rokings, which I must, situated as I was, necessarily have heard. Nor do I, nor will I, say, or even guess, who the coward was that encouraged .the mob, or to what party they did belong. Var less do I trouble you or your readers„ as if ignorant that some hundreds, if not thousands, must, with me, have seen and heard what passed. But I will feel obliged to you, - Sir, for inserting these lines, in testimony that a foreigner, a son of the continent of Europe, felfasliamed, and could have wept, yea shed tears, because he sa* Englishmen 'destitute of sufficient courage to prevent their flag from beill vio - :ared iu the thidst of them ! Decene;er I.lllt. • , AN ALIEN. SIR EDWARD. G; CoLpors.---This gallant officer, *who was commander-in-chief-on the *North•Amel z ati Ai, died in his - sixty-sixth year, germada, on he As Captain *Cififfithk he commando.i the biS ..unere, Admiral Colpevi; in: the general inutiiiroi-l'i9/,.and on that occasion acted with great firmness. fie was actively en gaged during the - late war, and served as firSt captain, and cap tain of the - fleet to the late Admiral Sir William Young, Com mander-in-chief' in the South Sea; Lince the. peace he com manded in chief on the Halifax and American stations. lie was of a spare habit, t a ll, erect, an d di gn i f i e d . His manners were austere, reserved, and thoughtful, and his features were Tromiuent, and bore all th e h ardy memorials of long service. he temporary command devolves on Ccmmodore t arquhar. It is thought that Sir George Cockburn will be appainted as his .SUCCOSSUr. OPINION.—He that never changed an of his opinions, never corrected any of his mistakes; an,l be, who was never wise enough to find out any mistakes in himself, will not be•cha. ritable enough to excuse what'll,: reckons mistakes in others.— Dr. Whicheute. ASTIINIA ANi) EXTRAVAGANCE.—" Do listen;" said Mr. A. whose asthma .and.age. had. increased together, `.`- to that fellow bawling out his .mutton pies ;.why,.he wa,tes as much breath in a minute as would. last me for a month." INGENIOUS MEcitANism.—The Exeter Gazette mentions that Mr. Bradford, a country watchmaker, residing at Newton Abbott, .lias produced several pieces of very curious mechanism. First, a machine representing a lamp, suspended by a small brass rod, hung to the.ceiling,which constantly tuzns round, carrying a quantity of watches and two. lights, and is mad e t o work in different parts. Th e sec on d i s a b rass b a li , w hi c h runs , a distance of feet 64 times in an licur—LLeing upwarlis of 21,000 feet in 12 ihours—without any individual knowing ;he cause of its going, except the Mechanist and his family. The last is a timepiece, going without 'weights or springs, showing the hours, minutes, days of the week, and days of the month. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.—Sir Francis Burdett first entered Parliament about the year 1796, when, through the interest of the Duke of Newcastle,.he was returned for Boroughbridge, in. Yorkshire, the town which Sir Charles Wetherell has lately re presented in Parliament. A thort time previously to tins he had married the second daughter of the late Mr. Coutts, the wealthy banker. About the time of his commencing a senato riol life he became a member of the society for promoting a re form in Parliament, and at one of its most numerous meetings shortly after he took the chair, and in the most explicit manner pledged himself to the cause by _which his public and private conduct has ever since been controlled. Two domestic suLjects particularly engaged the early , attention of the baron e t ; one was the bill which ministers wished to introduce for regulating the publication of newspapers and.restraining their contents ; -which Sir Francis at once denounced as a part of a plan which had. been . going on for many years, and which would effectually un dermine all that was valuable in the British constitution • the other subject was the state of the pris o n i n Coldbath-fields; to inquire into the abuses which existed there a comm i ttee of? in, quiry was appointed through the perseverance of Sir Francis, and terminated in the dismissal of the governor of the prison. Among the magistrates by whom Sir Francis was violently op posed in this measure was the elder Mainwaring, then one of the members for Middlesex, and chairman of the bench of jus tices in that county. Roused by his opposition Sir Francis Le came his competitor for the representation of Middlesex in the general election of 1802. The poll closed bra nominal majo rity for Sir Fran c i s of 270, but-a subsequent petition again s t his return resulted in a new election, in which Mr. Mainwaring gave way to his son, who triumphed over Sir Francis, after a violent struggle, by 5 votes, out of more than 5,000.. At the next general election Sir Francis made a third attempt, but was opposed by Mr. Mellish, and again failed. The expense of these contests are said to have cost him almost 100,000/. In the year 1807 Sir Francis first became a candidate for the representation of Westminster, the result of whi c h was th e very opposite to that.of Middlesex; in that he was returned by a large majority, free of expense. He was at that time hailed by the appellation of the " man of the people." When the ceremony of chairing took place, he was drawn through the streets in a splendid car, attached to which were four cream -coloured horses, richly caparisoned, The scene was rendered perhaps more imposing from the, baronet being obliged to rest a w o u n ded limb upon a cushion, in consequence of sa recent a n d a l m ost fatal duel with Mr. .Paull, the unsucce s sf u l can did ate. A s Si r F ranc i s . was saved the entire expen se o f th e e l ect i on, h e presented the West minister Hospital with 1,0001.