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NAVAL lATELLIGEACE.

►ORTSMOUTH, ►IRRUART 13.
Arrived the Trafalgar, Headerwa, rause' Nava..

PLIMOLTH, IrCeRUARY 12.
Arrived the ‘Vooillark, Illiddlrion, from Smyrna; Duke
pf York, Finlay; and Vow., Williams, hoot St. blif,jwilea;
Harmony, Dudwith, float Lvglturu; sad CadoustiTil hil-
lock, front Savannah.

FALMOUTH, FFBRUART 11.
Arrivcd the Mint, Paton, from liumr, fur Portsmouth;
sad Susan and Letuis,Juues, twos Leghorn, for Loudon.

cowas, aaaa ua HY 13.
Railed the Baroness van der Capetian, Cansberesan, for
Antwerp.

GRAVFSEED, FEBRUARY 13.
Sailed the Waterloo, Alasigar, fur Indic
• HARWICH, FIBRUAILY 13.
Arrived the Beaufuy packet with. marl Crum Cuxisaven.
IDEAL, FEBRUARY 19.
Came down from the River and sailed the Atalanta, Bar-
grn ; Restdutiou, Thorp; Dorothy Foster, Suwdea ; suit
Ale)on, Chapmsii, for Jamaica; Joseph, Ckristupher, for
Demerara; Adam, Coffin, fur the South Seas ; Heury Wil-
liam,Werts. fur Malta; Washington, Mount, fir New Yurk ;
Alpha, Brooks, fur Madeira; Flora, Leighton, for Lisbon;
Sarah, Nicholson, for St. Michael's; Sslacia, Church, fur
Trieste; Express, Barrett, fur Gibraltar ; Caw, Hutton,
fur Antigua; and Hiram, Brown, fur Leghorn.
Arrived and remain the-William, Petty, frowt Alieant.

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• Coadoreet was so enthusiastic admirer of Voltaire's
grafter, and could rapist, without am error, Ilfty verses •f
his tragedies, offer heariag,lbent once recited.

t Is coaversisg with woollies, he would talk about ribbon
sad laces as readily as area atetspbysies sad history with
gnu.

• I really Musk that in this point he wee equalled.
People might soy whatever they pleased of him, he remained
perfectly indifferent ; bet he became a lion when the prin.
tittles or permits of his friends were attacked. He was
particularly muscled to Bilb more them four or five, Messrs.
Turgid and D'Alembert, the Durham d'Amvills sad us.
t This anodes to his attack on 11. Neckar, from which
sour of his friends could dissuade him, themes at all oilier
tiara be was ready to the whatever they desired. Om this
occasion M. tie Comdoreet advocated Tomtit's-cense against
NI. Neckar. and be was the mire webrimrist, because be was
more attached to the person of M. Torgist the* to his poli.
tical principles. It was after this attack that D'Alembert
gave hiss the appellatioa of le mouton enrage Woe mad
sheep). It was D'Alembert, too, who first called him, 01111
fietoll it t of the extraordinary habitual serenity of bin temper,
" a 'Maio. covered withewww."

I He bad bat few persoaal wants, sad cave away almost
all ikal lie possessed.

LONDON.

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UNDER THE ABOVE TITLE.]

'Almon ! thou comprehensive word,
What joys thy streets sad squares afford !
Think out thy warm admirer
If he shall add thy lutes mad alleys!
Advice to Julia.
' Eve►y'toan that has visited the diffeiesit capitals
of Europe, has been struck with the decisive supe-
riority of London. Other capitals indeed have
buildings more magnificent, points of view more
striking and grand : thus, nothing can be finer
than the view of the edifices on each aide of
the Seine, if you take your stand on the Punt
de Loris XVI., or the Tuileries. as jou be-
hold it f the Place Louis XV., with the
palace of the Chamber of Deputies, formes ly the
Meals Bourbon, on one side of the picture ; and,
on the other, the range of baddiags that extends
nearly from the Place Vendome to the entrance of
the Champs Elysies. Nothing can be more mag-
nificent and imposing than the entrance into Rome
by the Porta del Popolo, or the ,view of ancient and
modern Rome from the lower of the Capitol, accom-
panied, as it must he, with the recollection of the
mighty part which that city has played in the history
of the world. Turin, Vienna, Venice, Berlin, Dres-
den, Peterrhurgh, may each, perhaps, boast of a
greeter as lobes of magnificent edifices than London.
They are richer too in aqueducts and public roue.
tains, bat, it most be recellected,that our aqueducts
ore toot *evil, but extend to every part of the capital ;
and that if we have no public fountains it is because
they would, for Key useful purpose, be unnecessary,
every house having a fousituiti within itself, from
which itdrrives the convenience of an ample supply
of water at all tedious. lit Paris, the employ-
ment that occupies most hands in the streets is the
selling of water. But I yield without hesitation,
and to speak the nude without much envy, the
palm of magnificence to other cities. It was
Hot on this ground that I built my tissertiou
of the superiority of London ; and, indeed,
mere magnificence can never constitute the
charm and delight of any capital ; and, who that
has viewed in detail tl•ese splendid minnow', has
not been shocked by the little attention to couvem-
ence or even to cleatiliness; every thing sacrificed to
show, nothing to comfort. That which strikes
our bight and excites our edmiration at the first,
soon ceases to interest us; the glow of enthusiasm
warms us but for a short time, and scenes
and buildings which we beheld with astonish-
ment and aduairatitin, are suiveyed at last al.
most with indifference; the heart is no longer
enchanted by them, but turn, to other sources aid
meats. of happiness and enjoyment. Flavius alma
Hamelin sums its building a palace dot should
eclipse every other. %%Plitt] it was finished hr exhibit-
ed it with pride and triumph ; the admiration that
was expressed, the compliments that were paid to his
taste at first delighted him. NV lewe appetite tar
pieties was ever more gratified ? But praise soon
palled upon him ; he shared lest, and less in the
transports that were either felt or feigned by los
guests, till at last he begat, to wonder that they
were felt at all ; I called on him 11 it teneyears after
his palace had been finished, but how was I sur-
prised on approaching it to liud the cabeuteuts
closed, the windows closely shut, as if the master of
the mansion had just paid the debt we modal! pay.
1 knocked with hesitation and apprehension ; the door
was opened with caution, but the old servant knew
me and I was admitted ; I followed him through
a long range of magnificent apartments now de-
serted, the furniture covered up, the %modems ad-
mitting only a doubtful and uncertain light. I
found my old friend in a suite of small apart-
ments belonging to the old building ; I welt
about to express my surprise, but he cut me
short by bidding me congratulate him upon hav-
ing come to his senses. •• So long as that source
of vexation was open to all coiner. I had not
one moment's peace; I was to act the showiness
to each, and doomed to hear an endless repeti-
tion of extlaniations of delight which no longer
afforded me pleasure, and of comphineests to my
taste, the eedulgetice of which I execrated from
the -bottom of my soul. I would have sold it,
but nobody would he encumbered with it; and at
last I determined to have it shut up, as if I were
either dead or gone a long journey. I have resumed
possession of my former opaitatents, where, thank
Heaven! I enjoy some degree of quiet and repose."
What FI/IVIVI felt, every one will feel who ex-
pects that the magnificence of a capital will email-
, bute to his happiness. It is by things and objects

•
that strike us less that our real comforts are peas
tooted; and what capital is so calculated to pro.
mote -them as Loudon 1' In the heathes times We
should have placed Comfort amongst the goddemeaa
and raised a temple to her as the tutelary goddess
of the Euglish capital.

London convinces us as once that it is the capital
of a great and • free people. In other cities there is
too much contrast; the hovel and the palace are too
near; magnificence and meanness, wealth and po-
verty. reside too close to each other. There is n•
gradatioo, no sea le of a►cent and descent ; every thing
is abrupt, nothing in proper proportion and kerpnig.
In Paris, we are irresistibly temptc,l to exchin.,
that it must ha►e been built fur a court nod not for
• people. Lt London, we discover ai once that it
was built for • people bat slot for * Court. In
other nations the King is every thing; in Loudon,
an far as regards his palace, the King is nothing.
There is not a building deserving the uanie of a
royal palace, for nobody will dilci:sfy Carltott•house
with that appellation. And the Monarch of such a
people, " the lords o human-kind." sees every
day round his throne nobles and officers of his
household, who are more apleudily lodged thou
himself.

It iron the harmony, in the giadition of buildings,
if I may use the expression, adapted to all rooks and
to all wants, that the charm dud excellemv of Loudon
consist. There is nothing that utteods or moults the
various classes of its inhabitants by the Osruptsd•
or rudeness of trantition—the eye neeer passes at
unce from the palace to the hovel. IVe have first our
squares, theta the large streets brauclung Perna them
—streets of the secoud older—of the third and
fourth, lanes, alleys, residence* fur all ranks, ri►iog
in size and importance from the huanble me-
diatee to the small shopkeeper. The trade►-
man, the merchant, the Peer, and the Prince,
each enjoys his intlependeuee in his own way ;
none are so high or so low, so rich ur so pour,
as not to find heighbours 111 the mime situa-
tion as themselves. In London, less than in any
oilier capital, dare the rich presume to tie woolen'.
or the poor dread being spurned and despised. As
the lively poet from whom I
have selected the tIIOUts
for tins number says, with great truth, that to
London
liv'n the lone dwellings of the poor
And suffering are, at least, obscure;
And, in obscurity, exempt
From Poverty's wriest scouter, coutempt.
Unmarked the poor man seeks his des;
Unheeded hisses forth spin.
Wherefore appears he? none inquires,
Nur why nor uSither he retires
All that his pride would fain conceal,
All that Shame blushes to I,
The petty shifts, the grovelltug cares
To which the suns of Want are heirs;
Those ills, which grievous to be home,
Call forth—not sympathy, but scum;
Here hidd'sa, dude the matching eye
Of callous Curiosity.
But it is this scale of ascent stud docent, this
absence of strong and powerful contrast, that
snakes London an little attractive to a foreigner at
the first comp d'crii. He rosy admire the magni-
ficence of Otte of our bridges, thrown over such
• river as the Thames, compared with which
the Seine is but a ditch. He may be struck with
the mode in which every part of Loudon is lighted°.
He Mast ba-pleased will► the mariner in which our
►treets are paved—he feels comfort at terry step ;
for, its Pan., pavemeuts are almost unknown, awl
a walk slung the street", at, far. from bring an
aniusemeie, is a bossiness of difficulty Blowup,
anal tint unlitquently of danger. There is its
escape from the drivers of fiacres and cabriolet*
but in flight. The perfect security which the
paved footpaths of Loudon allied, is one of the
few objects that eh:ills-Ns% from • foreigner im.
mediate and unqualified appmlitena. But our
streets appear tun the houses too much
alike, and he Clllll/01 reconcile himself to their being
built of brick, forgetting that at Pans the houses
have been coestriictea a stone, because the mate-
rial was ►o near, and to be had at so cheap ■ rote.
He complains too that the houses are too small, and
the rooms not sufficiently lofty or capacious. He
looks iii Vlllll for enlaces ul marble and hotels of
stone. Our cheerful coal fires, which we find so con-
ducive, tint only to comfort hut to health, please
him less that the wood tires cf I.is own country;
which, I have often thought, are the chief cause
to which foreigners may aita abuts that weakness
of sight, winch is none common lo every part of
the comment than than in England. l'es !it is
in these houses, uniform and brick-built as they
are—it is in these mums, that seem to be tots
small, that we collect and concentrate every thing
that can cout►ibnle to our comfort. What care
to assemble every thing that can render the place
of one's residence a real home !

• I have read somewhere a Mussel only of an Ambas-
sador, who m,king his entrance iutu Lundou, by night, am.
struck with lice brilliancy and tiusnUer of the lamps, rind
conceived them to have been displayed in honour of his ar-
s oval. Seeimr them rept sled for three succesaive sig►ts, he
seat to lbe Sreretsey of State, expressing his deep end grate•
fu I sense of the aplenoluur of his reception : but !toping, as
the t :pease must be enormous, that it would coo huger be
tricot red on his areuntit. Tt•e Secretary, witawisk .1414_
iug Mien, replied that be had nn dealt, lois Eareflentriiwtield
see the same sight every MOO tlireighuut the year, so
churned were the peoples& the peace thus happily restored
betimes the Iwo coutiries!

DEATHS.
At Tyringhain, Burls, the itev. John Freed, youngest son
of William Pried, I:sq.
On Saturday last, is his 60th year, Mr. Wm. Kier, of
Moulton, in Suffolk. At time in the anemias he rode to
his Heath Farm, where he was seared wish ■ St, and having
reached his horse was put to bed, sad died Ware I I ulainek,
le►ving a widow and ten children to lamest the loss of us
kind • husband amid tender • parent as ever breathed.
On the 6th instant, at Imudham-ha!, in Suffolk, is t►e
72d year of his age, Jsenb Whitbread, Eaq. He *rived the
office of High Sheriff for Suffolk in the year 1796.
Ou Sunday lie'linight, aged Id, Thomas, rldnt son of
Mr. %Vain, merchant, of Cambridge. The death of this pro.
wising youth was occasioned by being throws from •
spirited hunt, which he was riding on the permitter slier-
noon, near the Senatelsouse, by which eufortunste snidest
he was su dremdfidly injured, that, alter lingering about 29
houn, be expired.

HIGII WATER 'PHIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Mersin 7 after I. I Eremiag 33 after I.

Pnated sad Nabsbed et Toe Bairns ram ad Toe
ewe* Moo, No. Stra.4, h C, CVSPWIII.I.,
Sr tbo Otrool.