The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-03-28 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

The Return of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster, to the order of the Honourable House
of Commons, dated 16th March, 1326, for an Account of the
Sums charged by the Dean and Chapter of AVeirtminster, for the
Admission of each Visitor to view the public Monsimeaut in
that Abbey : the total Amount received from that source, in
each year, for the-last five years, and how the same has been up.
propriattel. •
The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are unable to make the
precise return described in the tinier of your Ilonourable Hoerr.
The order requires an account of the sums charged for athrtisetm
tc view the • Public Monuments" in the Abbey. But no charge
1.:13 ever been made for viewing the Public Monuments," as dis-
tinguished from the -private ones. The whole are viewed together
for a fixed sum ; and by far the greatest part of the 31onuments
arc those of private persons ; for viewing which the greatest part
of the charge is incurred. The Dean and Chapter, however, hav-
iog not the smallest wish that any part of the subject should be pen-
cealed, will furnish such information as they possess concerning it,
though, beyond the terms of the order of your Honourabk House.
Ist. As :o the sums charged for the admission of each visitor to
view the Monuments, private as well as public, for the last live
years :
Before his Majesty's Coronation, in 1821, the whole sum pr--
mitted to be charged, was Is. I Id. But the guides had obtairrel
additional gratuities from the visitors, and complaints were made
against these enaction,. When the Church wss re-opened, after
his Majesty's Coronation, a new order was therefore made, and the
utmost sum to be received was 2a., all compensation to the geski-ts
being included in this sum.
This regulation, under which less wax paid by the public than
before, was continued till June, 1823, when the sum was lowircd
to Is. 3d.
2d. The total amount received from the above source in each rear,
for the last five years :
lilll
•
1322
1823

£6.18 11 11
2,317 9 3
1.844 13 9
1824 - . 1.:520 0 b
1823 - - 1,:t113 1 0
3d. how the same has been appropriated :
All the above sums have been received by the Minor Canons and
Gentlemen of the Choir. and divided among themselves. af/tr por.
tions allowed to the officers of the choir ,• the Dean and Chapter
neither interfering, nor knowing wben the division was made. .
This grant was made to the choir is the year 1697, on condition
that, receiving the benefits from the exhibition of the Monuments,
they should keep the Monuments always clean. This, however,
had not been done, and when the Dean and Chapter wished, after
his Majesty's Coronation, to give to the Abbey as mueh brows, as
possible, they cleaned all the Monuments at their own private ex-
pense, with the sole exception of the Royal Monuments; with
were subsequently repaired and cleaned, without any agency of the
Dean and Chapter, who only knew the amount of the charge ,e,t•
that work from the list of contingencies lately submitted to ear.
liament.
The Dean and Chapter have made the above otateurent. in order
to-meet the wishes of your Honourable Douse. They will now beg
leave to say a few words on behalf of tbemselves :
They would humbly represent, that their church is entitled to Ira
share of the general favour and protection given by law and use, a
to the Church of England at large, and that it has its com Mon
rights, which it must always be anxious to preserve.
It is their duty and their pride to represent farther to your Ho-
nourable House, tbetthey have the honour to hotel their churob
un-
der a special charter, granted by the benevolence of the Cmirn.,, la
this charter inin.•.x.r6lidialistla has, of her free bounty, conferred /4
A,*

1 which is ills. this charter, tjtteett &hashish bow of her free bounty, couicits‘t 'y
church on the Dean and Chspter for ever, and has subjectiul it is
trill the Rolls; their sole and lawful management.
directions, by And further, their founder has sot only empowered het iced
len such cause them to defend the privileges and immunities which she bulbul'
are such cause 'bestowed upos them. against all aggreakm or enervac.stont.
of the Dees and Cint'..
'order for pay. GEORGE GILES VINCENT, mow eurk.

CM Britt%it

KING'S THEATRk.
The Nobi Subwribere to the Opera, and the Public are rerpeethilly
Informed that thil Theatre will re-open on SATURDAY NEX f, with
Opera stria, In tw nets, entitled
PIE fRO wEnimITE.
To which will be added a Ballet.

DRURY-LANE TII EA'r RE.
T is slisigni. TUESDAY. March 211, will be perforated the new Operatic
Play of
BENTOWSKY.
Benyoweky, Mr. Bennett; Barest°, Mr. Horn; Stephanolt Mr. Wel-
lee; , Pristratra Mari, Mr. Harley. Atheists's, Ml. Foote; Phed,a
MI n Cubit& a tlbeldine, Mitu Pare,.
After with '2d time) a new Graisi Romantic Petry Tale, called
OBERON ; or, THE CHARMED HORN.
Farley—Ohmon. Mies Vinceet ; Titania, Mbar aeliconald. French—The
liimperor Charlemagne, Mr. 0. Smith; Noon of Guyrope, Mr. Sm-
artt ; %hero:min, Mr. Browne; Sir Aubert, Mr.T. Blanchard. AreLlene—
The Caliph of Bagdad, Mr. Pope; the Palace Itab!k,'n, Mr. Howell ; Sedate,
lir. Fittrrilllam ; Omlae, Mr. Mercer. The Prince44Amteda, Mitt Smith.
; Farina. Mrs. C. Jaime. Tunldane—The Sultan of Touts, Mr.
Vouuse ; Beluga, Mr. Bennett; FlAhernten. Mr. Gr. Smith.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
Thlr Evening, TUESDAY, March 2tl. will he perforated the Comedy of
0 JOHN BULL.
Pereirrine, Mr. Cooper; Hon. Mr. Shulleton, Mr. Jones t Sir Simon
Roehd.tic, Mr. Blanchard; Job Mambo...ll, Mr. Frweett Dent& Brut-
grad:lvry, Mr. Connor; Dan. Mr. Rayner. Lady Carona:: Brayntore,
Mr". Chutterley ; Mary Tbornberry, Itt.4 Übe-ter; Mr". llnggru idery,
Mr.. Darrni.ort.
To conclude with the Extravarants of
GIOVANNI IN LONDON.
Duo Giovanni, Madame Vestrii ; Leporello, Mr. Feeley

ADELPHI THEATRE.
On MONDAY NS:XY, April 3, Mr. YATES 'lli bare the honour of
preventing an entirely sew entertainment, in three pert.. emitted YATES'
ENCI:3 ; or, Etching. of Life and Character.
poor 4, 44. Pit. 24. Gauel v. 24.
Doors open at Seem, and begin pnnet.ali at hatflravt Seven.
Ralf-price at Nine.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
346.assiret to the qnestion A Tannins %," we have only to remark,
slot the practice be ailudes to Is wholly coatingd to the 340un1l In
gmeation, a, far Si our experieace goes. for, wail the receipt of his
linter, we had beard of It.

The Burma Passs commesced publishing yesterday enorniog
at five o'clock.

LONDON. TUESDAY, MAccu 18, DM.

At a late hour last night we received the Frencn Papers,
from which the following are extracts:—

[Fe= the Efoile,dated Sunday, 26th March.l
PARIS. MAUCH 25.

Lenten from Corfu of the 17th February say, that the Cerium
Peens is recalled at the desire of Ibrahim Pasha, who est-sibs, tc
him the had success of the attacks sport Missolonghi. It was re-
ported that Ibrahim intended to meetly; another attack cm the 20th.
The last accounts from Bucharest bring no news. General
Guilleminot pawed through that place on the 6th March. When
he left t'onstantinople, which was on the 17:h February, Mr.
Stratford Canning had not yet arrived in that city.

A telegraphic demstris from Strasburg, dated the 24th inst., an-
nounces that Count Gutlleminot arrived in that city the day before,
and would set out for Paris in the evening.

The Cowslitrtionnel gives to-day news from Rio de Janeiro of
the 12th January, received by what channel does not appear. The
fait letters received at Havre are of the lOth : the English Jour-
nals give no more recent news. It is hut too easy to see that these
ere but repetitions of all that has been said for this month peat of
the troubles at Rio de Janeiro, which had compelled the Emperor
, to quit his capital.
I,The Binik, as well its the other Journals. gives the Partial's',
of the sudden death of Duke llatthieu de 3lontmoreney, while at
dearth. His obsequies were to take place on Menden
• Fplicn Feat*, PARIS. 31ancti 25.—Five per Cents. 96f.
Ids 4 Three per Cents. 64f. 115 c. Hank Stock, 2900 f. Recta de
N 19191, 721. be. Royal Spanish Loan, 44f. liayttan Loan,
7W. Eueltange eo Londoo—One month, 25f. 7rm.; Three ditto,
1101. did—Court Aathen►lgiir, Mardi 23.

"We have every reason to believe that the Committee
appointed to inquire into the expediency of extending the
English system of currency to Scotland, will conclude their
labours by establishing completely both the public utility
and the practical justice of that measure. Mr. KIREKAN
FINLAY, formerly Provost of Glasgow, and Mr..BLAIR,
from the Bank of the British Linen Company, two of the
persons deputed to London on the pan of the banker; of
Scotland, are the only witnesses who hare as yet
been examined by the Committee; and it is not a
little extraordinary that their answers to the questions
put to them, tend in substance to prove that all apprehen-
sions of danger to the banking interests of Edinburgh is
purely visionary ; and that any pecuniary loss they may
sustain will be infinitely outweighed by the substantial and
permanent benefit that will accrue to the collective interests
of the community in Scotland. It is certain that these
witnesses had neither any wish nor any intention to con-
Erni :here facts by their testimony. Quite the reverse.
Bet an inquiry so judiciously conducted as to bring out
the truth, will always succeed, where—as in the present
ease—the interrogatories are put to upright and honest men.
It is not uncommon for persons of this class to beguile
themselves into a belief, which, when it is brought to
the test, they find themselves conscientiously obliged to
surrender. They may wish to support a certain side of the
question, but when they came to close quarters, and the
tracts are against them, they must give way. Mr. BLAIR,
for example, on being a,!;etl whether loc did not think
that the Scotch bankers would find sufficient means, after a
time, of indemnifying themselves against any eventual
less from the prohibition of one and two pound notes,
was obliged to admit, that in all likelihood they would.—
Now this single admission shows what little cause there
has been for all the clamour and complainings which have
been sounded so loudly across the kingdom. As to the
number of bankruptcies in Scotland, they will be found,
on an attentive and exact inquiry, to be comparatively more
numerous than in England ; and it will be seen that the
facility of trading on papsr credit has led to speculations
quite as excessive, and to embarrassments quite as ruinous.
'That the same proyortion of bankers have not stopped
payment in the North as in the South is true; but com-
paring the number of banks on both aides the Tweet!, with
a full and true account of the proprietors that have silently
broken up their estaldishnicuts, after bringing themselves to
the verge of ruin, -they will be. found to hear a fair pro-
portion to the number that in Roglantl have publicly an-
nounced their insolvency. The public doer, we admit, has not
been the same in both cases ; but as fares the mischievous
consequences of coining paper wealth, and creating false
capital are concerned, the Report of the Committee will
furnish no ground of appeal to the Legislature to except
Scotland from the operation of the remedy.

CITY. :11oxnav Evrams.
The Stock Exchanges were closed this morning, and the
only Stock transactions that took place were on the final
Exchange, where a few johbers anti brokers assembled,
but the cola soon drove them away. The nominal price of
Consols was 771 S.
A letter from Glasgow this morning stairs that there are
nn applications for the money granted by the Batik of Eng-
land, the Scotch hankers declaring explicitly, that it' the
sang security is offered to them, they will advance money
to tw:ce the amount if it is found necessary.
The accounts from Cadiz state that the exchange with
England fell three per cent. on account of mercantile
• faihires in London, and the convulsed state of the money
market here.

Ol TIIR WAa WITH THE BURNIF':E.—A
latter has been receiwd by a gentleman in this neighbour-
hoNl Gem an officer on hoard our of his Majesty's ships at
Ranctoon, ,Mating tbst pears NO heen actually concluded
ranh tbc 80-tnesc, and that they were only wsiiirg for tie
e.ps Otis b' be idfined.— Vort t ompfus

GERMA P4PERS.

FRANKFORT. M AnCII

We learn by letters from Berlin that the Prnafanitank, has re- I
ceived permission, in a manner analegous to the flank of En laud,
to make loans upon wool. as the most important export article, of
Prussia, to the amount of three millions of dollars. Our letters
from London say that the quantity of wool yet unsold in the ware-
houses in that city is froot 45.000 to 50.000 Miles. Among them,
however, it is added, there is a great deal of extremely inferior
quality, which Is not likely to suit the English manufacturer., and
must therefore be re-exported. It Is thought also that, in oilr fair,
more of inferior descriptions than fine will be brought to market;
and as the middling sorts arc constantly In demand for the daily
use of the manufactories, and these are mostly in the hands of
speculators who are not under a necessity of selling, some hopes are
entertained that this article, which is of so much importance to Mu
landholders, will improve in price.
Letters from Amsterdam gire a more favourable account of the
elate of the money market. According to the halancefibeet o: the
house of kleerween, at Cirlsruhe, the assets amount to 2M00,000
florins, and the debts to 2,5;41,000 florins only. But then the value
of stock in the funds of it acrent states is tatiosated at the price at
which they were purchased, aced frbm which they have considerably
declined: for instsnce—A warier' sletalliques at 91. shares in the
Vienna Bank at 1.350, art:.; so that the loss to the creditors will
probably be considerable.

LEITSIC, MARCH 14.

Henceforward we are to hawt an annual wool fair here. to com-
mence on the Int Tuesday in May, and continue eight days. The
wool brought into the city during that ❑me will o.tv only halt
the duty ; and when it is carri:d out again the duty will ix returned
on proof that it is not sold.

StriczEnt.aNts, 51*acn 11.
Baron D'Erberg, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, has mule
fresh complains to the Directors on thc enlis:ing of Austrian sub-
jects. These complaints relate chiefly to the Voralberg.

THE EMPEROR ALEXAXPER'S PMERAL

PROCESSION.

. have.fieen favoured with the following 'extract from
a private letter from Moscow, dated Feb. 28. 1826:
' The body of the late Emperor passed through this
city last week. The procession was a mile and a quarter
long, and was an hour and five minutes in passing. The
order of the procession was this. First came a body of
trumpeters, sounding sollnin blasts every minute; then a
squadron of cavalry, followed by 52 horses covered with
black cloth, each having the arms of the separate Govern-
ments displayed on their sides; after these was led a horse
richly caparisoned, called " The Horse of Joy," and then
followed a warrior in armour of gold, named " The Herald of
Joy ;" immediately after him came another Warrior in black
armour, denominated " The Herald of Mourning," fol-
lowed by a horse similarly caparisoned, anti called " The
Horse of Mourning;" the order of the two warriors in the
procession being reversed. Then followed the Priests, to
the number of about one thousand, dressed in their sacer-
dotal robes, and many of them hearing standards ; after
these ecclesiastics was carried a large golden lantern, con-
taining a number of candles (an emblem of light); then
followed the Cross, and afterwards a portrait of the Virgin
Mary; next in order came the Funeral Car, (on wltich the
Coffin, containing the hotly of the deceased Emperor was
placed,) decorated with flesh-coloured satin, ermine, and
ostrich feathers, and highly 'ornamented with silver, and
drawn by eight horses. Numbers of Generals and other
officers followed the car, and the whole procession was
closed by several regiments of soldiers. It is expected that
idle body will enter St. Petersburg on the 20th of Alarch
(instant), and then he interred in the fortress."

Accounts from Alexandria, received yesterday, state that
the English Consul has at length interfered to prevent the
ships of this country from assisting in the conveyance of
military and warlike stores from Egypt to Greece; he has
publicly announced, that, by orders received from his Go-
vernraent, all vessels are prohibited from conveying war-
like states from Egypt.
By the following extract of a letter it appears that the
improvement of the port of Rotterdam, in making it naviga-
ble to vessels of a large tonnage, is alto!' t to be commencer)
ROTTERDAM, Mastrit 24.—We have to-day received the 0S-
dal report that the dtflieulzy of digging a canal froth Helvoet to
the New Silva has been completely removed, and that it will be
carried Into effect according to the plan sent to Lloyd's in April
last. We consider this as the moat ituportant and 'maul undertak-
ing for commerce and navigation which has ever been undertaken
in this country. We all desire the speedy accomplishment of It.
PROTEPTANT PETITION.—The petition from " the
undersigned Protestants," complaining of ;the pecuniary
and personal inconveniences which the Members of the
Reformed Church sustain through the consequences of Ca-
tholic disability, wilt be presented to Parliament immNli-
ately after the recess. It has already been signed by the
Duke of Leinster, Martinis of Sligo, Louis Charlemont,
Leitrim, and several other Peers, as well as by Colo-
nels Talbot and White, Mr. Brownlow, S. Rice, &c.
&e., Members of Parliament, landholders, and persons
of mercantile and professional respectability.
Eighty of Mr. Colibett's friends dined together at Norwich
on Saturday, Sir T. Beevor, in the Chair.—Mr. Cobbett, on
his health being drank, made a speech on cash payments,
the taxes, the bank-note system, &e. anal contended that
when it notes were withdrawn, the 3f. ones must follow—
that prices must fall as paper disappears—that if Ministers
suppress the small notes, wheat ere long will be 3s. 9d. the
new scientific bushel--and that then the landholders will
be ruined, and their estates go to the fundholdere.
On Saturday morning a deputation of the Committee
for the relief of the Vaualoie, censis ing of the Earl of
St. Germain's, Sir Thomas Dyke Adam], the Rev. Doctor
Sumner, Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. Gilly, had an interview
with Lord Liverpool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
by appointment, at Fife-house. Their object was to state,
the claims of the Vaudois clergy to restitution of' the pen-
sion called the Royal Grant, which had been enjoyed by
the ministers of the Waldensian Church for upwards of
100 years, previously to its suspension in 1807. We are
happy in reporting that these gentlemen received the as-
surance both of Lord Liverpool and Mr. Robinson, that
tltey were favourably diepased towards a renewal of the
grant, anal that measures should be taken to restore the
stipend, and to secure' its future payments, according to
former arrangements.
The sailors belonging to Dundee, in the London trade,
have again struck for an advance of wages. The crews of
the Olive and Lord Kinnaird deserted them last week, and
those vessels were thereby detained from proceeding on
their voyages. The shipping companies despatched ex-
presseteto Perth, Arbroath, and other towns, where seamen
were easily procured at the wages refused by .the Dundee
seamen. We have been informed that on Saturday night
a deputation from the Association waited on the men they
got from other towns, and offered to pay them a month's
wages, with their expenses back to their own homes, if
they world break; their•engagements made with the ship-
ping companies. The offer was rejected, and on Sunday,
while the Lord Kinnaird was hauling out, the crew were
assailei with the most abusive language by a party of
Union men stationed at the dock gates, apparently for the
purpose of doing so. Does not this look like intimidation?
—Edinhargh Outran' of &tardily.
We are sorry to learn that in some of the higher districts
of this country, the trade of illicit distillation is still carried
on to an alarming extent. Within the space of a very few
miles not less than one hundred reills were recently dis-

covered at work, and a party of revenue officers, with their

assistants, who went for the purpose of putting a stop to
their operations, met with such a determined resistance
that they were for the time obliged to retreat. Met-
surea however, we uutlerstand, are about to be taken
for enforcing obedience to the distillery laws, .should the
parties perseveie in their nefarious and demoralising
practice.—Aherdeen .loxrnal.
The sum of 47,1731. is applied for by presentmert on
the county Cork, at the approaching Audaes; 24,000/. on
the county at large; and 22,71E21. on the Baronits.—Dub-
lin Evening Post.
PAROCITIAL Heti er.—By a private letter from Man-
chester, dated Saturday, it appears that seven thousand
beads of families hare applied for parochial relief.
A barbarous outrage has been committed within one mile
of Llughrea. The hour. of a farmer, of the name of
Shaughnessy, was set on fire by some malicious wretches,
and nearly thirty sheep burnt to death. In th,' same neigh-
bourhood, a party of wretches entered on the lands of
Win. Pigott, Esq. and broke a number of forest trees, his
propertv.—Thiblin Fretting Post.
The hills that surround Huddersfield were covert d with
mow on Friday morning, which had fallen during the
preceding night.
A new and commodious Court of Requests Court-house
for Southwark was opened on Tuesday, in Swan-street,
lieclngton.

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FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Marquis of Cholenondeley entertained a distinguished party at
dinner yesterday, at his house fa Piccadilly.
Lord Ellenhorough entertained the Karl of Falmouth, Wm. Rarities,
Esq. M.P., and a huge party, at dinner yesterday, ut his seat at
itoehampton.
Mrs. John Hamilton and Mr. France arrived yesterday at Jordan's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from Liverpool.
Lord Dynevor left town yesterday fur his seat, Barrington Park, Os-
fordshire.
Thomas Kenyon, Esq. and son have left Miller's Hotel, Jerrnyti-street,
fir their seat, Sew Grange, Leeds.
Sir Clunk, and hotly Cockerell and family:aft town yesterday, for their
scat, Sositicot Morton, Gloucestershire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdown left town on Saturday, far
their villa at Richmond, for the holidays.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salsbury, and the Dowager Marcia°. I
nes+ of Salisbury, arrived in town yesterday, from Hatfield.
The Hon. Agar and Lady Georgina Ellis left town yesterday, on a visit
to Prince Leopold, at Claremont.
Count Worunrow has arrived in town from the Earl of Pembroke's seat,
Wilton House. Wilts.
Count and Countess St. Antonio left town yesterday, for their villa at
WiMbledon, fur the holydays.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Camden and family have left town
for Mteir seat, the Wilderuem, Kent.
The Earl and Countess of Darnley and family have left town, for their
teat, Cobham Haft, Kent.
Lord and Lady King and family left town yesterday, for their seat,
Oekham, Surrey.
Lieutenant-Colonel Atcheson left town yederday, for Southampton.
Earl and Countess Gower left town yesterday, f m West 11111, Surrey,
on a visit to the Marquis of Stafford.
Sir W. Rae, Dart. left town yesterday, fur Scotland
Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street :—General Burke
and Mr. Creighton, from Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Osimme Yates, from their
seat In Giditeestershtre ; Cracroft, Esq. from Lincolnshire. De-
partures :—Captain Dentinek, fur Brighton; Win. Laraine, Esq. for the
North.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—The Honourable G.
Sinclair, Com a tour; J. Page, Esq. from Holly 11111, Kent; Dr. Kyle,
from a tour Major Sparrow, from a tour; Capel, Esq. from a tour.
Departures .—C. Russell, Esq. D. G. Sandeman, Esq. Thomas Kinnear,
Esq. for Scotland ; the Bev. C. Eyre, Sir H. Fane, for Beeebwooll ; J.
Stevenson, Esq. for Bath.

RASTER ENTERISOIXIVRNT AT THE MANSION-
HOUSE.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave the Easter Entertainment at
the Mansion-house. The Egyptian Hall was fitted up with great
splendour for the numerous dinner party. Amongst the dinner
guests were the following :
The Marquis of Lansdown, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Salisbury, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, the }NW Ho-
nourable Robert Peel, Lord Valletort, batty E. Edgworth, the
Lord Chief Justice of England, the Lord Bishop of London, the
Bishop of Lincoln and the Hon. 3lrs. Pelham, the Bishop of
Chester, Lord and Lady Trynham, Count and Countess Mun-
ster, Lady Iltilroyd and family, the Attorney-General sod Lady
Copley, the President of the Royal Academy, S'iittaidrew and
Lady Corbett, Bart., Sir Thomas and Lady Lennart', Bart., Ge-
neral Sir John Doyle, Sir George Naylor, the Hon. Robert Gor-
don, M.P., Sir Charles Forbes, Hart., M.P., the American Sr.
crct.try of Legation, Lieut.-Colonel Cox, Major Freshfield, Le
Comte d'Anglau, be Chevalier Beaujour,