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LONDON, THURSDAY. Dacsmaza SO, 1824.

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The Paris Papers of Monday reached our Office last
night; they contain no domestic intelligence of the least
ietcrest in this country. The conduct of the Prefect of
the Seine towards M. Hammerer. appears to have excited
a strong sensation in Paris, as indeed it was well calcu-
lilted to do, under any Government not avowedly despotic.
Our readers probably remember the facts of this extraor-
di!'ary ease. M. Bo m pit:R:lr, an eminent wine-merchant
of the city of Paris, rented one of the public cellars, from
which he anal his stork were ejected, without any previous
verger, because lie roted at the last general election against
the Ministerial Candidate; M. Bowel rant brought an
a, Lion against the Prefect for this scandalous wrong, and
recovered damages to the amount of Soo francs, and the
r •ititution of his cellar. We are glad to find that indivi-
41:als have the courage in France to sue the agents of
:Jverninent, and that the tribunals have sufficient inde-
yrideece to award redress to the suffivers. Whatever
plitical errors the Boca Cu as may commit, their throne
will be safe while jnitice is in this manner fairly admi-
iiist..reil to their subjects.

M. nay. z has been again appointed President of the
Ci.amber of Deputies ; and the two other Vice-Presidents
hsre been chosen in the persons of M. MARTIGNAC and
Culllll. rl.l T. The Chambers were still occupied with
the preliminary business of the Session.
Ac:ording to the .If,miteur, the Greek corsairs are (lois-
log all over the Archipclagl, anal carrying away prisoners
awl booty from the Tnrkish coasts. Smyrna itself has been
saved only by the interference of the Foreign Consuls. The
Creeks, we are told, meditate an expedition against the
de of Candia. The success of such an enterprise would
es4ablish indisputably their maritime superiority in the
Levant over any Ottoman force that can be brought against
th4bm. It would also matetially augment their power and
ret•erue, and to that extent diminish the resources of the
enemy. We may exp •et great results the nest cam-
paign from the well-d!rectssl efforts of their now firmly
confederated tlovernment. No SUCCtTS can exceed the
11,...;crta of this heroic people.
The prepares us for the restoration of the "Holy
Tribunal" of the FERVirrasn, it is said,
has r .1 pi given Lis consetit to the measure, and it is
therefore n.t absolitrely "certain." This language, how-
ev.,r, leaves no doubt, that the horrible project is formally
under Whim that atr“ ious machine of
lyrstiny :.1.1:11 he gut &ley into operation, we shall no
Img r hear even the groans of its vieti tu!s. The King of
Meats t• e lied, in his resolution not to acknow-
!ge any virtion of the debts he contracted to defray the
exp,nst.,. of his palace miler the Com titutional system.
a. at h a,.!, lh merit—such es it is—of a per-
'et cutler-oily at till the parts of his hateful character.

I'M: 1,. Itt.E. -!1w per Cents. opened
n: If %I. I.l,tval at litY. t ; Neapolitan Five
per Cevit, ; rt" ; Itoyal Spaniiii Loan,
I trl, 1:x::!:•!!2 OD I.oneon, ono month, 2.4. three snotubs,
dat ;vie, ner.

N'e Lave ol)serveil with t egret, that the great body of
sleriers at le me by inundation have L. en passed over as if
unworthy of r Thvr.• have been, it is true, a few
v!scriptiom•t raiitol to b•e app!icil locally ; but the tiutne-
I ( .15 coxes of diet., ss spread generally over the surface of
Collffiry 113% C IbCCII wholly tierleete.l We are not
bla•ning the p•rrties by whose es;;ltioris the partial benefits
have been 40..1:1i1a-O. It reflects great credit up 'n them
that they did not ::Landow the interests of those with whom
they ar: e..unevtr•l by the claims of viciiire and other tics
sof s:rr•.ilar fens. %V e lieve, llowev:T, if at: npae•.tl hail
m:ui.• renrri!v for :1 I to ali the sirl!'erers by dation
U.:ow:boat Enhinil, that even the p'..aces for which, sub-
:iesiptions have been separately raised, would have re-
ceived, as th, it dividend of a viler:el subscription, a
rcl ;bl.• 41,:,:h!ellee. To our
s% their tinota,
mil would be instituted

sustained w rious tosser,
part of the ecustry

they tray dwell ; and to us this appears to be the only fair
principle on which the public at large can be expected to
come forward with adequate means to repair the extensive
damages caused by the inundations. If it should be said
that the time has passed by for this work of beneficence, we
beg leave to remind the objectors, that the sufferers are per-
haps at this moment feeling most bitterly the evils of their
situation. The progress of winter will aggravate their dis-
rem,: all the worst is before them. Surely then some effort
will be made in their behalf. A large SUM Wu; been sent to
Germany for a like purpose. This was honourable to the
national generosity; but we owe something also to our
unfortunate fellow-countrymen, and we trust that this
patriotic debt will not go wholly undischarged. We are
comident that if a beginning were once made, the public
would readily come forward wish seal and liberality.

It has been for some years a just matter of complaint
that Local Acts arc frequently obtained too easily on the
representation of the parties applying for them. The
general burden and inconvenience that may result are
either not clearly foreseen at the time, or disregarded from
an opinion that the trouble and expense of opposing the
Bills would overbalance the probable loss from suffering
them to pass. In no respect, perhaps, has the want of
attention to these proceedings operated more injuriously
than with regard to the heavy and constantly increasing
charges imposed upon travelling. No taxes produce greater
mischief, in proportion to the sum levied, than the duties
on the transit of goods. In Spain this system of taxation
was, under the old Government, carried to its highest
pitch. Custom duties were taken no' only between every
kingdom of which the Spanish monarchy was composed,
but between every province, and a! lost every district, into
which they were subdivided. In France, at this day, all
provisions conveyed into Paris, in like manner, are subject
to an imposition by no means inconsiderable in its amount
or pressure. Every head of cattle, and every bottle of
wine, pay a fixed sum as if imported from a foreign soil,
on passing through the barriers of the capital. But this
tax, unequal and unjust as it is, does not affect the general
prosperity of the country; more particularly as the French
metropolis is not the seat of any principal manufacture.
In England, however, the growing charges on the
turnpike roads have become a sensible burden on the
proprietors of public conveyances, and through them
on the internal trade of the whole kingdom. This is
a subject well worthy of grave consideration; and if the
evil cannot at once be remedied in every existing instance,
it may, by timely warning, be prevented from being spread
further. We have been informed, on good authority,
that the tolls flow London to Birmingham, upon a daily
coach, amount to the sum of 771. 16s. 10d. every month of
twenty-eight days. This sum has been greatly increased
within a few years, in consequence of many Local Acts
leaving been obtained for altering the vicinity of the city of
Coventry, and for improvements" in several trusts on that
important and much-frequented line of road. The charges
are in themselves so trifling and the increases° contrived, that
when the Bills are before Parliament the evil wholly
escapes the attention even of such Members u may be dis-
posed to go into the subject ; but as measures nominally
local, they are, according to custom, mostly left altogether
to the management of the Gentlemen connected with the
district. The travellers can never be sufficiently interested
in any one change to bring them forward in opposition to
the Bill, and they are thus gradually saddled with an
enormous expense, from which they ought to be quite free.
Roads and highways, as matters of public convenience,
should be maintained at the public coat. There would be
as much propriety in erecting a turnstile under Temple-
bar, and levying a contribution on every passenger for
keeping the streets in cleanliness and repair, as in choking
up the public roads with turnpikes, and burdening
travellers with charges which the county qr pariah should
defray. The expenses ou the Oxfoed road are, we under-
stand, daily increasing, and bid fair at no distant period to
rival the extortions of the way to Birmingham.

Despatches, dated the 30th of September, were received
yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Mauritius ; they
contain's' no intelligence of importance.
The Ilero, Humeri', arrived at Jersey on the 90th from
Bahia. The Captain teports that, previous to his sailing,
there had been serious disturbances, party violence running
very high. The Governor had 'wen shot at by some undis-
covered person. When the llero sailed tranquillity was
restored, but it was feared that it would not be permanent.
The Russian Finance Minister has published an official
statement, tending to tranquillise the mercantile world in
general on the results of the inundation. The injury to
goods in the private warehouses of merchants and others
has certainly be. n considerable, but yet much less than re-
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I port had stated. The brcattst loss fell on sugar, salt,
hemp, and potash.
We have accounts fruit Canton of the 7th May, at which
time cotton was in good demand, at IS to 14, to be ae-
(wiling to quality. Opium was quoted at 1,080 to 1,100
dollars per chest, for old Patna ; and 1,030 to 1,030 for
new. lkiinhav Motive was 800 to 820, and Bengal ditto
1420 toss°. Ohl Bemires sold at 960 to 980, and Turkey
was 1,000 per is col. Pepper is stated to be very dull, and
the meek undiminished. The Company's Treasury was
opened at 'lO7 on Calcutta.—Bernboye Courier.
The King of France has just bought the fine collection
of Anequities lelonging to Mr. Edward Durand, one of
the largest and best chosen in Europe. It contained
nearly 7.000 articles. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman,
and of the Middle Ages. Among these were no less than
1,230 of the Italo-Grecian vases commonly called Etrus-
can ; near 1,800 bronzes; besides many lamps, terra cottas,
ancient glass, jewels of gold, enamel, mummies, rolls of
Papyrus covered with hieroglyphic writing, he. he. tnaking
2.300 articles of this class. M. Durand is said to have
acted very liberally in the negociation for the sale of
this collection, which lie was imams to see devoted to the
public servic.:.
A iiiliculous env-dote hay been in circulation for some
days in the circles of Paris. One morning, as the King
IV:1,! going to pear mass at the Royal Chapel, an old
emigrant placed himself in his way. " Sire," said he,
" I have an important secret to communicate to you."
" Speak," replied the King. " Rut. Sire, I wish to have
a private audience of your Majesty." " No, nu; speak,
speak openly." " Site, there is a conspiracy against you
in your own Palace." " Pray who conspires?" "I am
protinmilly grieved to be obliged to say it is the Dauphin."
At these words all the attendants lost their gravity. and a
general burst of laughter, in which the King could not
help joining, was the only answer received by the unlucky
revealer of this wood, Kul secret, who retired in confusion.
The amazing success which has attended the invention
of the steam-vessel, givis an interest to any ciremustanze
connected in the most distant degree with this important
mechanical application. In searching (fur a very different
puipose) the puhhe records of Friburg, we find, that in
the beginning of the year 1;01, a mechanic of Burguinly,
of the name of I Iron it;e, precuts from the Government of
Friborg, for himself and his heirs male, an exclusive
privilege for estaMishing on the S.wine a novel species of
Twat, which was to be propelled neither by oars nor sails,
nor yet drawn by horses, with which he proposed to navi-
gate the river, for the cony:lance of passengers an I mer-
chandise. Ile unfortunately did not explain the substitute
by which he meant to effect this pnrpme ; and we are also
as completely in the dark as to the obstacles which checked
his undertaking. It may be that the inventor was fearful
of incurring the ill-will of a people, buried at that period
in the blindest cuperstitiou.—Courrire F..ascals.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

POETRY.

FIDELITY.

One eve of best;ti,;l;tr; the sun
IV:is on the streams of uadalquiver,
To g..ld converting, one by one,
Tile ripples of the mighty ricer;
Beside me on the bank was seated
A Seville girl with auburn hair,
Aud errs that might the world have cheated,
A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair !
She stooped, and wrote upon the sand,
Just as the hiving sun w:ui going,
With such a soft, small, shining hand,
I could have 81110171 'MIX silver flawing.
Her words were three. and not one more,
What could Diana's motto be ?
The Syren wrote upon the shoro—
" Death, not inconstancy !"
And 'hen her two large languid eyes,
So turned on mine, that, devil take me,
I set the air on tire with sighs,

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And was the fool she chase to make me.
Saint Francis would have been deceived

11 tth such an eye and such a hand;
But one week more, and 1 believed
As much the woman u the sand.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop of Ely and family have arrived at their house in
Dover-street, from the Palace. Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Lord Rivers arrived yesterday at his house in thomenor-place,
from his scat, Hare Park, Newmarket.
The bodies Cornwallis have left town for Brighton.
The Marquis of Lothian left town yesterday fur Richmond.
Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, bower Brook-street :—Captain M.
Grey, from Paris; Charles Tyrrell, Esq. from a tour. Mr. end
Mrs. Rowley have left ditto for their seat in Norfolk.
Departures from Rod's Hotel, bower Drosvator-street :—Bir
John Frederick, Bart. for his seat. Durwood House, Surrey; Cap-
tain Job Hamner, R.N. for 13.1ghtou ; Messrs. W. and James
Drummond, on a tour. _ _

Major Marone* lett town yesterday for Brighton.
The Dowager 3larehioness of Exeter has left town for her seat at
Roehampton.
Earl (lower has left town for his father's, the Marquis of Stitt:
ford's, at Pultney.
Lord Clermont has attired at his seat, Clermont Ledge, Nor-
folk, from a tour.

Departures from Long 's Hotel, Bond.street :_Captain Holmes.
R.N. for Chatham; William Roberts, Esq. for Paris ; Mr. and
Mrs. Maria, for Brighton ; and C. Phipps, Esq. fur ditto.

WINDSOR, Dec. 29.

The weather continuing so very damp and unfavourable,
his Majesty has not left the Royal Lodge for any out-dour
exercise since Sunday last. During the greater part of yes-
terday and this day his Majesty's time has been mostly
oe,Trn upon public business, despatching messengers to
London
from the Royal Lodge.
Last evening his Majesty again entertained his Royal
visitors, Lord St. Helens, Sir A. and Lady Stanhope, atid
others of his suite, at dinner. _ _ _

Yesterday afternoon the Marquis Convngliam, Lonl St.
Helens, Sir A. and Lady Stanhope, and fir llilgrove Tur-
ner, arrived at the Castle in two of his Majesty's travelling
carriages, with outriders, and inspected the various im-
provements; after which they returned to the Royal Lodge
in the Great Park, where they had the honour of dining
with his Majesty.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg
arrived at Paris on Sunday morning. lie waited on the
King of France the next day.
We understand that an express has arrived in town from
Italy, bringing the melancholy intelligence of the death of
Lord Mount Charles, son of the Martinis of Conyugham.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Inland enter-
tained the following persons at dinner, at the Vice-regal
Lodge, on Christmas-day:—The Bishop of Raphoe, Arch-
deacon ltishopp, Sir C. Campbell, Sir George Rich, Sir
William Bedlam. Colonel Hill, Colonel Gorr, Colonel
Shawe, Captain Malcolm, Captain Norton, Captain Mack-
lin, Captain Vignola, Mr. Johnston, Dr. Hunter, Mr.
Sterling, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Trans, Mr. Gore, Mr.
Wood, &e.
His Excellency Count Lieven entertained a distinguished
party at dinner yesterday, at Asliburnham Howe.
Lord Wm. Lennox and the late Miss Paton, with two of
the Noble Lord's friends, occupied a private box at Covent-
garden Theatre on Monday evening, to witness George
Barnwell and the new pantomime. Madame Vestris and
her friends were in an opposite private box.—Evening
Paper.
Viscountess Bulkeley, independent of her innumerable
charities throughout the year, has been distributing at her
different houses, to the neighbouring poor, r..veral hundred
yards of flannel, blankets, sheets, clothing, lice, coals, and
money, during the last few days.
Mr. Wilmot Horton left town on Tuesday night, on a
visit to Lord Bigot, at Blithfleld, near Lichfield, in Staf-
fordshire. _ _ _

A statue of the late Lord Cornwallis, says a Bombay
paper, which was subscribed fur by the Society at Bombay,
and sent out from England several years ago, is about to
be erected on the green, under an appropriate building,
the foundation of which is being laid.
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Nothing can exceed the success Sir Richard Vy'.yan has
met with in the western part of the county. Ile has per..
sonally canvassed Penzance and Newlyn, being forced to
limit his canvass to towns. Ile has been really enthusias-
tically received ; at the end of Lariggan thidge they met
him with flags and laurels, and took the horses from his
carriage, and carried him in a chair through Newlyn and
Mousebole to Paul, where he received almost unanimous

'assurances of surore—Ezeter Parer.
George Lane lox, Esq. IMP. for the Borough of Beverley,
last week, caused 400 blankets, 600 stones of flour, and
250 pairs of children's stockings to be distributed in that
town. Upwards of 600 families, and 1,500 children, have
been partakers of this bounty.
The venerable and wealthy Mr. Farquhar is arrived et
his house in Gloucester-place, from Fontltill Abbey, appa-
rently in better health than he has enjoyed for several
years. The bracing air of Wiltshire has evidently reno-
vatetLithe strength of this enterprising gentlewan.
The foundation-stone of the intended North Devon In-
firmary will be laid by the Right lion. Earl Forteseue, on
Wednesday, the 13th of January, when there will be a
public dinner at the Fortescne Arms, the Noble Earl, Pre-
sident ; and in the evening a ball at the rooms, tinder the
patronage of the Right Hon. the Counters of Fortcscue.—
Exeter Paper.
Friday the Rev. Andrew Quicke, A.M. was insti-
tuted to the Vicarage of Newton Saint Pyres, in Devon.
The Rev. Henry Parr Beloe, A.M. is presented to the
Rectory of the united parishes of the Holy Trinity and
the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Guildford. Surrey, void by
the resignation of the Rev. J. Weller, D.I). who has been
Rector upwards of 51 years.
At the sale of M. Motteley's collection of batiks, which
closed on Friday last in the Rue Des Bons Entails at
Paris, a number of valuable Elzcvira were disposed of.
Among these was a tine :,atin Psalter of 1633. There
were also various books which belonged to Henry 11.
King of France, particularly the Latin Bible of It. Etienne
13 ts' and Plutarch's Lives, N'aseesan 15. 9. 'lliere were
a beautiful Persian manuscript 13:6. with 13 miniatures
in gold and colours; • superb GutLic Mystery 1541, richly
bound by 'l'houvenin, &c. &c.

R~caetiNG IN Reuse UPON AN F.,;(I4IIELC•—The
shell must be a thick one. ll'ash it well in fresh water,
and dry it carefully with a linen chnh. Melt some tallow
or fat, and, while very hot, make any figures you please
with it upon the shell, either with a pen or pencil. Take
the shell then by the two ends, and lay it gently in a
tumbler fiikd with vimgar, or diluted aqua! fortis, the acid
of which, in *bent three hours and a half, will havo cot-
rod.:(l so much of the shell as to leave the parts drtwn upon
in relief, the vinegar having no influcuce upon the fat
which covered them.

COrIITING 11Y MOONLIGIIT.—RANSGATS, DEC. '27.
An accident that nearly proved fatal occurred brie a few
nights since; a lady and a gentleman enloying :he pure
brezzes of a cool December evening on the Cross Wall A
our Pier, by some unlucky manteuvre ventured too near
the edge, anti were precipitated into the water, and Lut fur
the timely exertions of Mr. Edward Foster, they would
hare met with a watery grave ; he was on duty mar the
spot, when throwing a rope mud the lady, she had suf-
ficient presence of mind to hold by it until safely landed ;
the gentleman, although an excellent swimmer, sunk
twice, when luckily Mr. Foster's boat, prowl-ill his

WIMPS,
onhaNaL AND SELECT.

The !Mowing lines from SUENSTONN are frequcutly
found written on the windows of inns:—

" ‘Vl:oe'er has travelkd lifes dull round,
rAriot.a stage bath her.,
1111ist vgli to tidi 1. hr oft has found
II is wamint wekinne a: an Inn."

A friend, with whum I was on a tour to the North, see-
ing this cotoptinictuary inscription on a paur of glakr at tit.
inn we (hurt! at, at I; verpoul, tool• out his diamond, which
he alwafs carries with Lau, and wrote underneath—
•• fie tau, lun e f eod, whiriAr licea,
While he had r:oh, they'd :,:kt Lwt it ;
%%Men he h:.d tame, he finned, no doubt,
flow gracefully they beard via."

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The followiug extract of a letter from Voltaire to the
King of Prussia, not only furnishes us with a record of the
age and wonderful spirit of this inexhaustible wrier, but
makes us regriLt that he bad not survived to the present
time, to witness the successes of the Gret-ks apiiiist that
race of rogues towards whom he kit 60 strong an an-
tipathy :
" Fcmcy, lot Febmary, 1773.
" Sire,—l tfutr,k you for your von-of:On. The King toy mister
Ins no liner. ltut 1 thir.k you much more for what you have taken
from tne thmt fur what you have girt a me. in your last Ismer you
have cut off nine whole Ms front my age. ever did our ton.
troller-(:mend of the Finances make a more extraoriliaury alters.
lion. Your Majesty has the yomlntss to compliment me on my at-
taining the /WC of seventy. Vim see how iiino are always tiecurctl.
I um sesentr-nine, it ,ou please, at it upon the stroke of eight).
Thus shall I tit v r see, what I have so passion.ltt.!y wished for, the
destrud;un Mote no(. yrs the 'folks, uhL .h::t I.p tie women,
land do not en!ti.-,51.. ti:e•lne• arts."

At the present moment, when the policy of subjecting,
am v class of the slate to political disabilities on the score of
a difr.Tetiec in religious opinions, is a subject of such press-
ing and important discussion, the following letter fro-.: the
Empress f'Arit.mtiNt: of Russia to 51. de VoLTAIIIE, well
deaervei to be read with attention:—
" Sir.—Thc brightness of the nortla..en star is a mere Aurora
norealis. It is nothing more than glyingst Vile,. superfluity some-
thing to one's neighbour; but to he the ndcwate of human.
kin.% the defender of oppressed ham:et:re, that is, indeed, the
way to immortalise you. The two causes of t alas and Siteen,
have giecn you the veneration dee to such miracles. You nave
combated the united enemies of mankind, superstition, fanaticism,
ignorance, chicane, brut judges, and the power reposed in theist al-
together. To surmount such °bombes required both talents and
virtue. You have shown the world thee you poestased bosh. You
have carried your point. Yon desire, r ir. some small relief for the
!Skeen family. Can 1 possibly re:use it ? Jr should yon praise
me for the action, would there be the lea. t atom for it ? 1 own
to you that 1 should be much better pleated if my hill of exchange
could pass unknown. Nevertheless. if you think that my name,
unharninnitius as it is. may he td any use to those victims of the
spirit of persecution. I leave it to your discretion, and you may an.
pounce nie, provided it be nu way prehelLial to the panes.
`• The nii.fortutie of the Bishop of Itostuff has been publicly
talked of; and you, s_ir, may communicate the memorial at your
pleasure, as a piece of intelligence you canto by honestly.
" I have read with a good deal of attention the book that ac-
companied your letter. It is ditiieult to reduce the principles it
coitains to practice. Unfortunately, the majority will long be
against it. It is possible. neverthel-ss. to shake the (inundation of
those opinions which tend to the destrnetion of mankind. What
follows is, word tor word, what I have inserted, amon;st other
matters, in tny instructions to the committee for rectifying and re.
publishing our systein of laws.
" In a gr:at empire, which extends its dominions over as many
dilTerent people as there are dilferent religions in the world, the
fault most pernicious to the moose and tranquillity of the subject
would he the intolerance of tlithrrent sects. Amusing but is seise
toleration, equally conhistent with right relicioa and sound yauliey,
can bring home the wandering sheep to the told of the faithful.
Per/era/ion irrits trs ; the spirit gilt is always bad ; the sacred
dutirl of conscience shon,',l be everywhere re:pea:J. A contrary
police is fatal to the repose of the Lim:roman, and the union of
the Ilmreos.

" he little Count ".".;houyalor, on his return to his country, told
me the interest you take in every thing that concerns mc. I con-
chide with every sentiment cf gratitude, Exc."
The rceot.Aiat is tlefinl by 1)r. Jon NSON to be a figure
of rhetoric, by which more words are used than are neces-
sary; but this definition is objectionable. inasmuch as that
a beauty and a fault ought not both to to by the same name.
A Pleonasm is that expression which amplifies a phrase to
give it strength ; and when: words are multiplied without
adding to the idea, it is, correctly speaking, a Peeisaulogy.
" {Vireo we say--I hare seen it with my eyes—t her heard
with lay ears-1 told him it himself;—there wads.—with my eyes.
with f are redundant, and might ha ...e been omit.
ted, because we t mond ace without ies, we cannot hear without
ears, and /, inter?, is already described by him ; nevertheless, in all
these instances there is a fLonuent, ar.d hot a prristology, a beauty,
and not a defect ; because the expression is thereby tigthened,
and what we advance more forcibly impressed.
AVlien l'ltcrltus, speaking of those commotion; in Athens
which gave l'isi ss rams the mews!' of usurping the government, says
it was done conspiratisjitctionunt pirtibas, he falls into a pleonasm,
11Tel:tenons anti parties are sytionithous terms ; yet this expression
is not faulty hoe, because the word foci: nee is only added to parties
in an epithetical capacity, to give the idea afflictions parties.
" is on the saute e.tcount that the noun is repeated in the I
Oriental lauguspes, as in age of ages, flame of fame, wind of
wind: the repetition supplies the place 01 the adjective, and gives
the idea of time without eud, a prodigious fire, an impetuous wind.
" This kind of p/trar.• is • remnant of the primitive language,
which, while it consisted chiefly of nouns, frequently repeated them
to give the sense of the adjective.
ill. lieuusim proves very well against Le Clere, the celebrated
Hebert-an, that the Oriental mode of expression, in repeating the
verb at the same time as a circumstance and as an action, for in.
stance, eating they did cat, steering they did sleep, has its proper
weight and peetdiar energy ; whilst lee Clem maintains the eon.
trail. This shows that taste is superior to science. be Clem de.
nied that this form of expression had any mercy, as he denied that
the fables of antiquity were allegorical. In both these instances he
showed a want of taste.

" In short, phrases of this kind, ilia flow, atst.n•E 1.1:r, des
dentaludes tespedires Ue reinT ET ovoir tnal• SA fete,
ft vale •LLER, r ALIAS Cht,014,, he. are perissologies,
faulty redundancies. because the expressions mare Lei, depart a
&mare, so, &c. add nothing either to the strength or meaning of
the words thew accompany."
To these observations of a French writer we shall add an in.
stance or tan of this made of expression in our own language :
High heaven the footstool of his pet he makes.
Pope, Ilom. IL
At ones the chaser, and at oece the prey.
lb. Win. For.
. .

When frost has whiren'tl all the NAKED groves,
Where doves in Hocks the kajless trees o'ershale.

lb. Win. Far.
II cre, of his feet, the second at owe, and leafless. are evidently
perisvolug les. W 11 ISKEII.4 N 1.105.

The Chester C%uoai.le obae•rvcs-IVe have heard, but
we by nu 'mans vouch for the fart, that Mr. Houldsworth
intends rtsiguir.7, his scat for Pontefract in favour of his
brother, for the purpose of offering himself for this city, in
opposition to what is generally called the " Egertcn In-
ter( st."

We F .ar that a few of the spirited inba° Rants of Ken-
nington and is vicinity, are about to revive the Surrey
Asse.alies, which for so many years enlivened that respect-
able neighbourhood. The first bail will be held the latter
end of January.

In the year 1:11, Mr. John Stewart' (grandfather to a
most worthy and hiAlp-respectable gentleman now living)
was chosen into the utike of parish clerk of a church in the
deanery of Readetilisll, and whielt he held till his death, in
1762, wh,:ii the present parish chrk succeeded him, who
has ever since filled the other, and that of svxton with it,
'ail is at this time 41ile to do all the duty ; he can :ead the
se Trice, ring the 1.), il, and dig the graves, and appears to be
likely so to du fur some years longer, although now at the
age of 111:.—Essex Herald.

hiatini AGE or CorsiNs.--It is a mistaken notion that
first cousins may marry, but second cousins cannot; the
civil law prohibits liNt cousins from intermarrying, but the
canon law prohibits both.
A 4 lencrid Bill of all the Christmings and Bitrials within
die city of London and Bills ut Atonality, from Dec. 17.
11;•':i, to Div. l t.

l'hriuenrd in the 97 parishes within the walls, 909—Buried,
1,1.,. . . .

.c;ristned in the 17 Parish-e without the wells. s.l76—Mteied,
3.917. _

Iniatened in the °I out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.
13.132—Ittniel,

, .
41 in the 10 parielven in the city and libertics of Vrart-
mitibler, d,:;ll—Hurled,

2-8
Christened 31" - 14
12ell} In all 25,738
Few s . . .71
Buried r 111`.'s 1"4
'45 I In all 20,237
1 Fen.3!...1 - - - 2,6;2 ./
11-hereof have died--
Under two Tears of ate:" C. 171; rtfly and misty
Itvtaeen two .o.d live 2,103 Misty and seventy
1-I‘e and ten 70H Seventy and eighty
Ten nod twenty . 764 Eighty and ninety
Twei.ty and 11,irty . 1.206 Ninety anti a hundred
Thirty and forty - 1.144 A hundred and three
l'ony tint! E!ty - 1.1N19 A hundred and seven
Decrease h the Burials this year, SSC

- 1.712
- 1.715
Lai
SO
64
- 1

L 4 ; j touch greater amount of ehirint'
k I knowledge, many ilitlivitlttati have
under an iniprission that a fun,
to give relief to all who have a
by the late fuoili, in whavver