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London, England, 1815-12-28 00:00:00

Corrals. heavy,
asol the supply of Cotleon. snore empecially at the
outlawry, so conousieralde, that a depress of 111
or gel. p• r has been salaamed to; the sales glom .
our 1.5.4 amount to about 9(W) Imge, vie.—lLA P 446
ism`, 0'24. 34. a 3... 4.1. ; the loololerw,.horwrerer,
atilishl or! .01001 l to ally greats r aiid Is. V.
as. rrfusse.l 611 300 hods •1* the 'seine sleacriptiosi; ,
the oother wire-haws were 300 Mansishatiss, .2s. 114.; •
ts. Isl. ; 140 (Nicoll*, laid. a
1012.1 :SO Boards, 17;51.3 00 Surinants. @;I;
a Jd.; mita Ilosurlsons. 44. tiol. a es. lOid.:
about goo Imo were fur exportr.tioso.
I.ivEttrool.4ore. 45.
The stem:mil *far cotton; this• week has been still
Iliorr bladed tient the last, and the vices of malty
elescripiiums hose exam toren wry %swirly IJ. per
lb.' yesterday several dealers amide their appear-
a..nr, bat tiwy 11%5n:haws' spanosgly. tinder the aiss
nrelwarliess of priers gassig stsll lower, in eiessmo•
gonna+ 01 the heavy supplies winch continue to
ramr forward. iVe rusk. the asuotlist sold only
1,540 bags; consignor, of 490 Bo4eds, orolimory to
good, 1:341. a 1811. wiilb a few at 10111.; 450 Ors
lean itsiohllong to good, 17d. a tOol., including a
small lance, at 4111. ; 43 Sea Islands, middling to
uhails 2% .3.1. sh. &I.; 10 dittos stained. good
Vs. 11i1.; In Ilarhadoes, hisses, 2td. ; 901'ertain,
hot to cool. 2s. 334. a go. 4.1. ;
fair to good. vs. OP. a 111.. ld. ; 430 &haw, fair t 4%
Rawl. Is. a 2... Id.; 10 Bassi:As, good fair, 16,1d.0
SO 10einentras, good fair, oa.
Corivitc.--The East India Coutpcny brought
*forward 11.000 hogs Toe sate last week ; the whole
Iseult off at very reduced proms. The Juva, of a
woad 1..0100nr, hut notlwr rank in smell, sold 10 In.
iss h7s. a 73s.—The Cbenboss was of fair qualify,
:soul the better des( riptions chiefly taken iu at 735.
a 74%. Ile: haver qualities sell.isg at 66... a 71,.-
1 hi n: *as no public sale of Weft India last week,
and Susie arltertssed.

Coax.—There was no market yesterday : the
Leafs of IVeilliesday and Friday little varied from
our last Reinert. Inferior wheats were offered on
lower terms, without facilitating siales.—Oats Wee
rot been its plentiful supply, )et the prices have
firelineil 1/. a the otlwr descriptions of
gr:tiss there wits little variation m prices, the market
remai ttttt g heavy.
SVGA R.—The first ourottnts of the hurricane at
Jamaica hail little effect on tlw market ; we, how-
ever, gave the opinion iti our licit, that from the
lowans at Po, we might expect great destruct'
ot the sugar plantations ; this 00111011 be-
came more general in the market, the business
%lime in :11uscovades was cousiderable, and on the
eindirniation of extensive damage being sustained,
the priers advanced Is. a its. per cwt.; the pur-
clonee/ were made both by the trade and by export
houses ; the reason assigned for the former pur-
chasing so largely was the holidays; the brokers
lia.ing agrees' not to open their skew-rooms till
Tousday strtt. There is, in cousequeoce, no mar-
ket this forenoon.

The retii.ed market may generally he stated at
the improvement of Is. a 2s. ; the demand chiefly
for 'era:4)rd sugars, brown and middling lumps. and
for .h•ohlr lostves ; ,ery considerable porcluares were
male either on speculation, or its anticipation ul• the
Noring trade ; the shippers still spew au inclinatioss
to contract tor goods deliverable in March at the
present current•).
In foreign suers little hu.incon has been effected ;
the holders urv, however. still smiguine of realizing
hi her price% on ncermot of the uilviiiiee or the other
thscris.itions of 3tl4nr ; but little o► no business Will
be done this week, as the principal brokers hove
agreed not to slow sit ssigar.
ilc~tr, FLAX, AND TA ow.—The limited
porch•t'es of flax continue to be at depressed prices ;
the :tie.tiitions of hemp are iu st great owasure no-
tit Or ;he !Mk inl4lneNl 110i11:: ; the
in W.'S ot• ta!l•tw have declined Ir. a 2w Yellow
it, n► C111'40116 or large !sorrels, %)s. ; the Tat-
low (;handler's Compiny's quotations, 634. The
hest letters from Prtr r.'otsrls mention the exchange
a little higher—told.

RIM, BRANDY, AND riall.l.ANDS.—The list of
delivtaies flout the Wure ..nee fiir hist week is not
received on account of the hohiluyis ; the quantity
of rum tall uu doubt be enosidetaide (rpm the hie
extrusive business; the inferior ileueriptiong of Ja-
mmed way lie Plated a simile higher since Our
Ils.liranily or geueve there is 110 variat• .
Spit pepper way lie stated at a
further decline, say !t d. ; about 160 bags black in
ivilege, at the ha-h01e... last week, sold at 8,1,01.
a hid. The Company have ilvel a sale of
rloves, mace. nistinez,s, and clown lie latter
'nay lie quoted at at ‘ititill decline. .
Tolut,co.—There is 110 ahem prices
of tobacco, and little or no bus iig; the
letters Irons Ainrtica continue to hat the
crops ure very 110h:it:lit; the report, er, dues
inn r4rilit uc 11:11."1.

Flttit.—The demand itqual at this heason con-
liuues ; several cargoes of new Turkey/ fruit arc
Inow4lor to market, and meet a ready sale; our
%potation% are the priers realised by the merchant
Inr whole earL;uea or large port Is; the trod. 'brier
of cuirrl,l%, ae believe, Ntw Turkey fruit,
7tis.
IRIAN PROV1410:111. Sce.—Prime nies• beef con-
t. •in limited demand; the ',lurid fur mere
piirk is bri•k ; there 1111%e siresconsidrialik arrivals
.t bee JJ:II'W.; title p6er* 4-10:4111et the
old nearly mastleable; there et mill inquines made
;trier line butter% but every other description 4...ss-
titsoirs vest Wavy. and a getter:li desire to male
cannot be effected unless at a main-
&rabic reduction.

It .14 now ascertained beyond a doubt. that most
or slo. owoleot to the bunion frame ma-
nifest aitil shew thenetelves in thy itniw. and ire
have daily proofs that the study and tuvrattgation
that dotal Itas been brought lu thy greatest perfee-
was by the intense application or Dr. CAMEILOV.
34, liensers-start. Oxford-street. who is thereby
enabled to perfurau the Boost tettntsiolti4g cures,
mare particularly cleo-i or gyityral ths-
vii-e4 of the liver, and hugermg ; aml
we are glad to hod lie extellils hat iss.ast.inet «ad ad-
vive to the kiwi iiratuttou-.13. -

(Ma tie Lady's )leedisine.)
Ilith potoortatek awl &ores olcoval birth,
And witm fallferr.la h. ort)er

At the east end of the efin?r, and raciing the beau-
tired pile of the mica!" Henry, *tends the chapel
of St. Edward the Confessor. By the enthusiastic
!admirers of antiquity, thin chapel will he deemed
even inure interesting than that of /Ivory hay-
tog been the ;to burying-Place of the English
3Jimurcha -previously too the .erectiets of the latter.
.Up ors 'rule ftlet, the drat objet that•tememerls re-
erretwe the venerable shrove of the devout, Mo.
natch 19 whom -it 3a drdiesittvt, whore body was rr-
!meal here from the old church of hit own
This ancient utommieut is peculiarly
!testified to utter:ems, it exhibits the joust devo-
tion of three simoareles, sand in part is more antique
than the AbbeT itself. The great reputation of the
pious Edward todocetl William the Conqueror, who
owed so much to hie rikigions predilections, to
oaken his tomb with a sumpteous shrine of pgrld and
silver. Whets afterminls taironised by Pope Alex-
ander 111. at the in statice oT Thomas-it-Becket.
!feisty the Second thought fit to erect another; and,
lastly, when the present matnificent structure was
comureuced by Henry 111. upon the ohs itdation
of Edward, a third was added tin body,
and the other two placed thereon. shrine,
whirl, was composed of earl° stones,
thougii now scarcely work
of the mitre artists who executed the admirable
pavement before the high altar its the choir. The
stone-work is hollow within, and emirates a large
chest, in which the remains of St. Edward are pre-
served. Sono alter the coronation of James 11. a
part of this coffin having been broken, a person put
his hand in, and drew front underneath the shoulder-
bones a crneifix, richly ornamented and enamelled,
appended to a gold chain 'of twenty inches long.
These indigoes of ancient grandeur anil supersti-
tion, which had thus lain interred for upwards of
600 years, were presented to King James, who, as a
Catholic, doubtless res,mrded them with infinite de-
votion. By his -milers, the fractured chest was en-
closed in another, mode very strong and himuil with
iron ; and tlistri'dw venerated dust is at present se-
cured from nishallowail intrusion.

Notwithstanding the tenonr of the Pope's hull to
the Abbot Lawrence and the Convent of West-
minster, enjoining, that " the body of the blessed
Edward he honoured here on earth, as his soul is
glorified its heaven," historians are agreed its con-
sidering him u pious simpleton, whose monkish
ideas of virtue and abstinence led to the subjuga-
tion of his country. Ilk ungallant continuous., as
a married 111311 (for, nothlesse, thy' the 'tinge had
is tryfr, he tired cermore its chasmig with his wee
the ((seen, and so did the Qmeem on her syde j, was
either Impotence or fully; and his filial affection
was admirably displayed by the ordeal to which he
subjected his mother, who, having made enemies of
the churchmen, was charged with a-breach of chastity.
'Ess 'trove her innocence, Queen Emma undertook
to walk over Mite !tented ploaglisitares, barefoot,
and with her efts cast upwarl ; which task (ac-
cording to the chronicle) she executed with safety,
in the presence of the King tier Non. Thus, a con-
quest over the natural affections, " the tender ties,
close twisted with the fibres of the heart," which,
eiereisesl its their purity. are friendly to virtue and
good conduct, was made the test of devotion to that
Goal alto lets implanted them its the bos 1111 l or snail,
to fortis the primary links of the firtitly-organised
chain which binds I to his fellow-creatures. Ilts
subjects, 'However, were indebted to Edward for
something better than his example its a losshand
and as a snit, since lie e piled a body of laws fruits
those of Ina, Ethelbert, and Alfred, to which the
station 111P1 long f Ily attached, and whirls ev,,,
now may he deemed tl.e nucleus of the common
law of England.
AVitli Edward the Confessor commenced the
ro al superstition t for the roil ; %%Inch
gift, the rea aril of his piety, was exercised with
great ,oaths by all his successors to the reign of
(411V1.31 Anne. The Jais.hites clung to this unan-
swerable poor of divine right while a Stitait
rcmain-
rd ; anol scarcely lustre than half a century 113. ex-
pired shier the Itistotion, Carte, mined thin sale of
his Ilistory of Toirlaoel by a ,;Igiciong slow hi irate
the existence of this miraculous privilege in the
Pretenther. The author of a bunk primed about
the year 1720, thus acutely argues the puitit, for
the honour of his (votary :
" As Icing Edward the Confessor was the first
that cured this distemper, 60 front him it has de-
scrolled as tits hereditary miracle twists all his
slice/rms. To dispute the matter of fact, is to
go t'o the excesses of scepticism, to deny our senses,
sod to be incredulous even to ri,hculuttsue►s.—
To this supertiaistral privilege, entailed
upon the English crown, to the strength of ima-
gination, has little better colour than the other OM.
jection, which denies the fact : for infants, alto

Jusve uo soplirelsen,ion of the ease, olso ale Wuler
no preposiessi )))) s of exportation, nor grown up
to uny force of fancy, are frripiently ewer' us
others : which piny Ile prlirell from 1)r.
N hs W 1166 MS tyY.Wlttle.,:. ' I /amp %•p. 1,1.,
'some children brought hrAre the hitig by the kin-
.r. .dreees. some haVIDIC al Ih,vr u,dhcrie loreatts,
and others ix the erms q. their owe. s, all cured
without the help of serriceahle bough:shore.' Thus
we see the Kings of Loglaiel are miraculously sin—
tingoislwil, Spilt only t Olen- subjects, but from
all the Princes of t'lirisietalom, except (huge of
Frauer, who have a share with them in this extra-
ordinary privilege; fur, as I.surentius reports, when
Vraocis I. %rata promoter pat Spain, he CUM(' Oasis-
tlailep wf people of this disease. Thtisliir Lnuren-
hal is but Niter, iu coltililsinent to Henry
Il'.
in e pilule:it. I oar, to Ilis% prince, he appr44,ri-
ides the intraele to tits' Frasier. lie eneao-a
upon mutter elfin', and fad', its the character of
itopurtiality. float vet, to he even with into, Ur.
Tucker, ii, his treatise upon this subject, makes
the kitigs of France cone tbi, disease only in virtue.
or their allianee to the English blood ! , HU',
though thew a sthur. roil Spat., ,xtrflors., and strain
too far for their 114.110'6Yr patrol's, )4.1 certain,
the Wahl toty of the inirai le lies on the English
: fur, aL•korilini., ti. !lit I•einich histuriunt, Lewis

Godly, ar, nt most, PhililT 1., were the fist
,h Princes that pretemled to cure the Klll,'d
NOW the.sinc.:e!lb st of these lived ilear two
hundred years after the death of otir Edward the
Confe,.sor •.”
If ties kind of reasoning could satisfy in the be-
ginning of the 18th century.. it iimmist be presumed
rtinomsvorrable is. the I ltlt ; soul, therefore, imo farmer
had the Pope communised the Royal I)evotee, thou
the wealth of the kingdom seemed to flow to his
shrine. Henry 11. set the first example himself,
but somewhat suspiciously, as he afterwards ina4
use of the jewels amid treasure offered here, to de-
fray the charges of aim expeditious to France. A
lamp was kept continually horning befOre this shrine,
on one side of which stood an image of the blessed
Virgin, wrought io silver, whirl', with two jewels
of immense value, nits presented 9yl Elearior, the
Queen of the aforesaid 1-!curs. On the other side
stood an image of time Virgin in ivory, prevented by
Thomas-a-Becket. here also Edward I. offered
the Scotch regalia 111111 chair; and his '6Oll. A I phosiso,
the golidets euloget awl other jewels of Llewellyn
Prince of Wales. The tomb itself was said to work
miracles; amid the three small niches, separated
by serpentine columns, which support the arches,
are reported to have hero made for the convenieliey
and repose of the sick tool infirm who cause
hither fir relief. flow nomairlifill the contempla-
tion of human credulity !—how more than mourn-
ful the sinister use that 'has been made of it ! Pos-
sibly, however, these mire not precisely the feeliogs
which should be iodulged in this awe-Or:piling
'dace. Sonde kind of complacent sympathy may
be felt for the honest, if mistaken, devotion of
the many a " contrite heart and pure" which hos
heaved before this ancient tomb ; smile kind of sinew-
once made for the half-deceivieg, half-deceived, or-
der of men who shared in, and profited by, their
simplicity. There is something peculiarly im-
pressive in the associations suggested by high naafi-
(pity in every instance, but certainly it exhibits it-
self in no form half so strikinu as in the monnmetits
of mortality and devotion. We are led, as it were
auto a more intimate understanding of that strong
aspiration after " :mother and a better world,"
which the great Author of Nature has infused into
the human soul. Seven ceimturies and a half have
now pawed sway since the entombing of this saintly
Saxon (A.1).10651, and, during that interval, what
a multiplicity of religious hopes and feats, exhibited,
alas! in all the shades of reciprocal persecution amid
enduratiice, have signalised the little spot of earth
called Englund ! How many does she still displat ;
but, thank !leaven ! without being either hoimoured
or disgraced by niartyrdoin, our, it is to be hoped,
wills any desire to inflict it.

• As, by several symptoms. both at borne and abroad, of
the temper and disposition of the iiiitetrentli mut itry, a re.
ival of this dispute seems by no means unlikely. we would
humbly sanest that the pectell%iona of the two eenwtiv be
amicably settled by Walter Scott, EN. on the behalf of his
!toys] nighties* the Prior? Recut, and by the II :trouts
de Chute:limbs Mud Oil final of Lanii, Mill. There k not a
mats tu the University of ONfin(l, the c.tlinction if She
Nlierartz, who will duubt the vueet s,iuti of the first to the
privileges of the Confoisur ; anti, at to the second. he is as
t kat ty entitled to the int pet i.luslale procee.ls of the sanctity
of St Louis.

We have already alluded to the circumstance of
the Earl of NerittsuALE's escape from the "rower
of London in woman's tap!)Lire!, uftrr the rebellion
of 171.3. There are some tither cireutustances of
irmenthlatice iu this and I,Av.t I. ETT E'll case. The
Ciill;def,t: N !Tills!) A IA: thiew het:tell' at the King's
lrct 10 lie ',assed through the aptirtittentm a the Pit-
lave, and implored his mercy, but the lung. refus-
ed. Even to a tietition front the IlooPe Of. [Milk,
prating him to grunt a reprieve to several of the
coonlessititil Lords, he replied in the itegehve—M-
legitm that on this am sell as on all other oecasitots,
he wsall Id do What lie thought most consistent for
the dignity of the Croats and the sorely of the
people. Orders were it 11111 l •thately dislottched for
the execution of Ilse Earlm of N Irwin% DPR-
wi.x.iss. AT T lt, and V1,4;11110 K Mum, Ittuneth-
;oily, but the former made his escape from the
Tower. Mr. FosTFn, another of the Itebt Is, made
,ht{ escve alto fruin Ntwipte.

11.IKERS AND MARIIEII.S CF WINES.

The following case is extracted from a recant
Paris Paper :
CORRKCTIONAL POLICE.— We have already
spoken Of several judgments of the Trihumid of
Simple Police, by which certain wine merchants,
convicted of having adulterated their wine by a
mixture more or less considerable of water, {taco
been tined, slid the wine thus deteriorated uttlertd
to he tionred upon the pasement.
in stating that these judgments had been appeal-
ed against, we promised to inform our readers of
the iesult. It has not been l'avourable to the ap-
pelliiiits, the judgments bring continued.
'Dirac:tiers ought therefore to be informed—

1. that eheinistry affords iaf.ullil le mean• of di-eiierring
the adulteration of wine, and even that simple ellauge which
is pruiliteed by the infusion of water.
2. That the laws Anil regulations on the tmhjt.ei oblige
the Cotirt to firth r the adulterated wine to he emptied in the
street, a veil Comet the substances employed in the :ohs heels-
In should hr such us would lir at truth tl w it!. MI had con-
sequences, nor even any deiaugenteut in the digestive Cutle-
tiu aut-of Nee rusts sssss ers

In vain was it pleaded, that it is unreasonable to
throw away or destroy wine, which, accordiug to 'the
report of the examiners, has preserved the water
degree of strength for rendering it an article of ran-
merce ; which contains notkiig insalubrious; which
is mixed with pure and potable water; and tiaally,
which is stated in the report of thy• chemist., to
field oil distillation H quantity of spirit of goad
quality, equal to that which might be ,)idled by un-
diluted wine.

ll'llete the law hats not made distinctions, the
Judge cannot. Penal laws to it applied .1-
terally alien the o&lice or the contravention is Judi-
cially proved.
nut as the law ought always to he ovine!' reason,
it is absurd iii a period or piddle tai>rrt to throo
away trine which contains milling.: injurious to the
health. 11'e hope that the errors ill* our
in this respect, will be speedily corrected, and that
au amendment of the existing law will, wlide main-
tai kk tlg the confiscation of adulterated witie, drela•re
that the wine so confiscated shall be applied to the
consumption of the hospitals, upon its heilig proved
by chemists that no danger would result, either
from drinking it or from its conversion into spirits
of wine, to be employed in dressing the wounded.

NAVAL IN ELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC:_26.

It has blown very hard all day front but
the ships io the Roads appear In ride sale. The
Baragez transprt has slipped her cable, and come
into harbour.

Arrived the Venerable transport, from Gibraltar;
and the Royalist, Parkin, from St. Petersburgh.

FALMOUTH. DEC. '25.

Ihqt: past Ten at night.—Just arrived t he Louisa
pcket, Capt. Tilley, with a Mail from Coriiiinu
in five deiya—litia experienced a very Lad passage..

MARGATE, DEC. •ill.

Arrived the Eleartor transport, of Colchester,
F.'l'. fr Calais, and handed a detachment of ftkith
Fool. The nundosy East :Indianian is at anchor in
our roads. The Awl Moires &kat Indiumaii has
jua conic round from the IIOWIII, with the loss of
anchor and cable ; she has been sit,aplicd with ano-_
titer from hence. Au anchor 14 cwt. with 80 fa-
thoms of 14-inch !anent cable, has been picked up
on, the Pan Saud I lute, supposed to have lama left
there lay a South Sea Whaler. Atmilser anchor,
91 cwt. marked Rombier, of Satiated:Hal, aid, 70
failiono: of 12-iiirh cable, has also been, brought
to this harbour.

RANISGATE, DEC. '26,

Arrived the brig Britointio,.%Val:ts, I :140411 ()A V11(1
to nauts!,ate ; brig twiny. ThotoNnet, floe► (Into ;
mill the rtrig SwAuel, 11'. 11 right, from Cart* to
ita.n,gate.

DEA 1., DFC. f.
Arrived nifil railed for the Ititur the %wins,
Threntkohl, front (11,otto.
Sailed the Bombay :Mil Akin/ liilliner' for the
River: the latter %%oh It-s of aocltor snnl eahirs.

Put back seve.ritl 'ottt‘‘ IMU purt ulat s
ti ilk nem Is.

Come down from the River the Cadmus, Dent,
for the Isle of Fraisee.

The fall of saiov has hero so go at io Scotland,
that the wail and stages have hero obliged to travel
with six looses.

In Ow (..a:etie of Saturday we observe two more
'iterative places have been given to Mr. DAVID
Nloittra, the Consul (;rarest at Paris. This
3 /mug gentleman married Miss SF:YMOUIt.
(hi Saturday morning last a tire was discovered
liiirstiwr front the barn of Mr. I)s,ve, of Icliiiiisg-
ham, Sistliilk, whirls sinus destroyed the same, to-
gether with a quantity of wheat um! some Clover
seed therein ; a barley stack adjoining was also de-
stro)ed. and some damage done to tidier stacks near.
The premises are intAirid its the Suffolk Inc ( Mier,
1111(1 there is greet leason tc; believe melt, 1111411-
Ciolisiy set tin tire.
Friday setiiiilglit Ilielieitelioly and fatal accident
occurred in NM wit 11, from the thligeroiss and too
prevalent praence of brenlotig horses in the steer's.
Our of these untamed :militias, which a 111;111 was
driving in a cart, took fright, and gallepping
through Per-street, unfortunately knocked down a
girl named FinuEst an iiirstit sister ill
her arms. The latter wits killed on the spot ; mill
the former haul her skull so dreadfully fractured
that part of the brain escaped through the wound.
The operation of llepauloiig was aliaiely
birmed on the poor girl, Ullll she is still alive,
though hilt slight hopes remain of her recovery.—
other children were knocked doait by the same
honw, slid much bruised.
At Norwich Cons Alarket on Satunlay, there was
an ample supply of samples, and grain 'lardy sup-
portill the price of last week : Wheat 245. to 265. ;
Harley los. aid. to 1 Is. ; and Oats 9s. to Ins. lid.
pt r Coollile,--There was more shwa thins business on
the Castle-hill—Sews cattle, and other lean stock,
einitinite too high in proportion to other artielrs of
produce. The sheep-pens welt but tided,
and this sort of stock emitimirs kits iu the
Poultry Mai ket to WI per lb. duo is.

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LONDON MARKE7S, DSc. 26. • • TI.LUSIRATIOS OF the Got
HST-4MS it ABBEY. I French
evil. •
Corvois.—TLe market lass lately horn so heavy, 'makes
anal at. 'apply of entice. MAW especially at the (Au 110 Lady's Avulse.) Conies.*