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London, England, 1821-06-25 00:00:00

POLICE OP THE METROPOLIS.

As a renewal of the Police Act is ender the consideration
of Petition/eta we avail ourselves of this occasion to 'solace
the continuance sad prevalence of one of the must dis-
graceful nuisances in the metropolis. We allude to the
scenes of vice, and the most abandoned and revolting
licentiousness, which have long been suffered to be openly
prartioud every night in Si. James's, the Green. and Ilya.
Pinks' as well as to the ',mother of thieves sad bad charac-
ters that remota, ly resort to those spots al the clause of day.
The above parks are the only places that are left with-
out the protection of any night pastel, and is world
almost seem that they are considered as privileged
mid exempt from the superiateodence of the Police.
Depredations and outrages of the most abominable mature
are constantly being committed with impunity, aad it is not
without personal hazard that decent person can traverse
the public paths that cross the Park. If the public traffic
sad csavenience demsad that the Park gates should he kept
*pea during the night, • regard for decency, as well as the
milky and protection of the community, require that some
immediate steps should be adopted by them who have the
direction and management of the Police of the metropolis,
foe the prevention of offences of so dangerous and criminal
a tendesry. The appointment of a dozen of the patrol fur
the regular duty of the Parks, and the prompt exercise of
the powers conferred by the Police Act fur the apprehension
and detention of thieves sad suspected characters, would be
amply sufficient for the ahateaseat of as serious a Nuisance.

AMATEUR SNAMIN.

Southampton has now resumed its gaiety in the display of
Gentlemen's yacht►, and the greatest enialattun seems to
pervade the respective owners.
Two very superior cutters, lately lanncked from the build.
ing.yard of Mr. Granier, upwards of SO tons each, appear. to
he of great promise ; one, belonging to Lord Willoughby de
Broke, and the other (named the Sabtimi), to James Maxar,
Esq. It is expected the latter vessel will distance all the yacht
cutters except the Marquis of Anglesey's Pearl. There ■re
now in the River, belonging to this port, ready for sea, the
following:—Union, Sir Arthur Paget; Elisabeth, John Fle-
ming, Esq. M.P.; Sabrina, Jansen Max.., ; Fairy,
Wm. Cbaniberlayue, Esq. M.P.; Hind, N. Polhill. E•q.;
Louisa, A. Swinton, Esq.; Highlander. Gen. Mackenzie;
Wellington, General Striper, Esq.; Psyche, Charles Pratt,
Esq.; Cygnet, Lord Eilcournie; Adelaide, C. Rymer, Esq.;
and several others belonging to different ports.

The revenue. according to the latest •nd most
correct account. we have been enabled to obtain,
falls considerably short in amount of the cone-
brooding period of hug year ; and it is from this
cause that some large sales of stock were made yes-
terday, which tended, in a slight degree, to lower
the prices. We chiefly attribute the deficiency to
the non-payment, hitherto. of the tea duties by the
East India Company; but es there remains s•ffi-
cient time for including them in the current quar-
ter, the balance may still exhibit • surplus.—
(Sunday Paper.)

Duving • heavy hail storm, on Monday last, a
man !if the name of IVuoniruau, wise at work
in • stone quarry at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, went
to slirlter himself under a projecting point of it,
but had not been there more than a minute or two
before the ground above him gave way, and • large
stone falling killed him. A man who was with
him would have suffered the same fate, had he not
at 'the instant advanced to bee if the weather was
.bitted.
Jam lids, a labouring man, with a family (his
wile far advanced in pregnancy), is fully committed
to llorshoim gaol, for trial, oii a charge of having
violated the person of Lucy PARSONS, a married
woman, about 40 years of age, in a lane near
Kingston.
On Friday evening a female of loose character
was apprehended in Windsor, under the direction
of the Mayor, and was committed to the borough
gaol for further examination. This young woman
was singled out from the mass of unhappy females
with which every large town is infested, rather from
the secret infamy than the open indecency of her
conduct. It is alleged against her that she has long
been in the habit of representing herself to military
gentlemen, and casual visitors, as belonging to
some of the most respectable families cflsor
and Elan ; and it is affirmed that ladies of the mind
exemplary conduct have been injured by the vile
falsehoods of a cunning and mercenary intripante.

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Illy ancient and modern history of the C 0111" the
author is never betrayed into an Ostrottelious hi jti
play of 'learning. When she. 'butts front thes
sources it is only in • foss sl manner, Isl.l4.fig.ikr
purpose of illustrating the scene mi. which Meat-
gentian is iinniriltstrly herd. A lore of truth
recta lier rrseiwelbeg,
,aisd Inmates(' :Itself ii •
descriptions, the colon's of whir•li are clear,
and glowing, and the political uheesaritionts-strlo
which they ate enter.irermed breathe a spat nr4r-
herly and indepentlesicy that ',tweak a (+grafter
for her work of candour end joiner, ulna ttenced hi
prejudice or passion. The following eNtioeis wilt
utrord a specimen of the style end manner •of the
fair. author:
Page 462, vol. The mad from Piseeessi to Primitaiis
marked in the itioinary of oil classic internees se the ll'fo
Ffentinia. Evelyu, Adolions4 Lslande, Emptier, and ars knee-
deed others of iuferior noir., have said so ; and imitative me-
diocrity will lung cosittoise lit repeat the trained fact with
mute's of admiration and ammo -marks; for the' gehtle dui.
nets' that ' ever loves a joke,' loves classical topography
alert, and re. Kate its criticisms with at, oracular authority,
.as though all its citations were as ',skims! as they are cradle,.
" To those, however, who tremble for the springs of light
carriages, and shudder at dislocated jurists, Boman pave-
ments—read, better than they tread, aud it is much more
gracious so such Gothic'travellers to hears., as eliding, that
the rood they are 'bout to pars manmade under Critssu-
hue of N•puleou Bonaparte, than under that of Lepidie and
Flastietas. The road to Parma, however, unites the ter•-
Gild advantage, classic and gothic. It is precisely the track
opened by the Iturerau Consul., aunt is rendered ansouthiiek
brawling green by she Fre,,rh Ouveratnent. It runs toe,
through scenes of perpetual krtillity ; mid every where arm-
Pseuds views of the Apennines and their nuMermis springs,
wind., taking various names, as Mirage, Lana,' Partab,
kr. de. dc. bathe the soil with Weir fertilising moisture. •
'-The corn field,, which r 011..., each Whir inumbrolteu sue-
emption, are pleated with lofty trees, far the suppoit, of
vines that bang from branch to branch, and from tree fo
tree, in rich festoons of fruit and fuliige. rout the
melon or the pumpkin creeps, mod ocenpies whatever "pate
remains beneath. Evesy where, as we:3l4mM along, wis ft.
be seen the slender vigisajoolo moufited ladder, *o
white and slim that rt wined to kimii been Made of peeled
reeds ,• while girls, is. the picturesque divines of the connifry,
stood be-ow in receive the grapes in wither baskett Them
were images of beauty and of abundance, repeated at moll
step from Pisces'* to Florence; and the prosperity they
indicate, given no false picture of the fortunes of the pea-
*awry, who form perhaps the happiest class of Italian
population. But, even here, nature, all lovely as she is,
would smile in vain,' if placed under such circumstances as
operate in Ireland to degrade she labourer, and to rein the
soil. An Irish landlord, an Irish tithe-mm.ler, lord agent of
an Irish absentee, a rack-rent, a double lino•ichy, and an
ovei whelming taxalion, would exhaust the fertility even-of
this happy region, would convert industry into a gambling
rpeculetiun, •:change daily labour for nightly theft mid -
violence, and convert decency -and regularity into rags add
drioskensees Against such ruinous combinations of society,
amino, fu its amplest bounty, is wholly powerless ; for she
more Mannino her gifts, the more prolific -her harvests, Me
deeper is the ruin of the onfortemate cultivator. Surely it is
a dreary penalty paid fur the enjoyments of foreign serueey,
to have the heart dragged back by inevitable coinpariaon at
every step, and to see even in the opploysion slid psis-rula
of Iteliair principalities, a prosperity too forcibly contrasting
with the diet sod degradation of the land of one's
birth and affections. At every step a conviction is forced
upon the mind, either that the boasted Consiitutiou of Eng-
land is inadequate of the prosperity of society, or that tles
Irish nation is mucked with its semblance, and has lielitt
enjoyed it but tender those corrsimiorre, which are ever fatal
in proportiori to the excellence they strive to simulate,"
Page 270.—" We were about to quit the paler.. (Parma),
after a cursory inspection, when the Cicerone (who, thongs'
• be spoke Italime struck us to be a Frelichnsaii) asked tie if
we bad aisy curiosity to see the garde-lineable. Supposing it
to be that in which, we had heard, some tine fornitnie died
gobelin tapesty hod been deposited fifty yeast back, for a
palate which had been projected, but never built, we 'al-
lowed him to a sort of lumber room in the attic stay,
where, instead of the old-fashiuseed furniture of the Infamies,
stood the whole splendid paraphernalia of the Parisian dress-
ing.room of the Ex Empress of France, exquisite for Its
beauty, arid splendid fur its material.. %%hat appeared
of solid and burnished gold, was, in feet of silver gilt ;
even the ina.sive toilet tables, the beautiful Greek tripods.
surcharged with vases and basins, were of or-molt; and
the immense full-length mirror, which bad so utters reflected
its mistress in her imperial robe., wiser, about to preside
oter a Court where Kings and Queens made sip het ciide,
were all of this expensive material. It was extremely cu.
sinus to observe, that over these utijeets or fairy splendour
•n sir of domesticity was visible, belonging to a tar better
rank of life than that filled by this nice sumpiuoua Queen
and F.mpre.s. The mirror was surmoun ed with a group,
beautifully sculpterad, representing the Empress at her
toilet in conversation with Napoleon, who leaned over the
back of her chair ; the child was on her tree. The portraits
' were faithtitl, and the antique and sharply rut restores of
Bunaparte's truly Italia'. head, were strongly contrasted to
the genuine Austrian face of Maria Louisa, wills Its tong
but heavy visage, thick I:pe, and projecting eye. Close by,
• the toilet s.f the Ex.Kisegof Roar, presetred to she Eta-
press by ' her g 1 City of Pari• ;' it was of mother-of.
' pearl, inlaid with gold. The quilt was of white satin, and
the bed of eider down. Other lirrle articliv•of the splendid
layette of this infant, so rradlr d in luxury, and so sung by
the Chateentariands and other poet-Isereates of the Jay,
were scattered around the cradle ; at its' reef stood a little
• dog, apparently al ye. It was a gift of Napoleon to tit
wife ; a great favourite both of mother and child ; and
leaving died in Italy, it was thus preserved, with other re-
menthrsoces of theirformer greatness. - '
On every side of this vast apartment were piles of red
morocco
Ahura de ea Illajeste Imperial, et Royale lotteratrice:
Some were marked for cachenesies, otters for a 41. mi-toilette,
and others again fur a grand toilette; gisiiv imp, cseions of
splendour, such as might be conceived of the war &oh! oY a
Sultana in Ike Arabian Tales. Tory were now empty; and
it would lie diffiCtill to say what might he the objeet raf due
exposing these apartments for public ineyeetiu.i, niiieite it
were to put additional money into Ike putkstt of 51,e ter.
vaists, for they were uut sheen until we had paid tier tie
reel of the palace, and they were, •s our valet-de.p'sre r.•-
sorrel us, things apart, aad to he paid for separately.-
Page 4, veil. is.—" These who, in tivelyres quainipinase,
travel to count steeples,' pass without peusiirg
loges to Florence ins twenty-four boots; Lot as muck of the
Guest scenery is lost by travelling after night fa!l. mid as the
rood is Mil aboulastoly free.from danger, more sober turerists
are noluced to stop at that single, eulrtery, and wretched
inn, which lops one of the loftiest acclivities, the dreary
!Attends of Piens Illsla. Hat who that ever wrote a ro-
mance, or read one, "mold hesitate to encountrr the is.
conveniencies of this mountain hut, while its scenery
and groupings •tilie fix the eye and the imaginalitiu '
This is the plate which Mr. Fordyce, so his admirable and
mach too runeitte work on Italy, has described as the seen.
of a romantic rubber story, such as is road wlibequal plea-
sure in the oilmen said the study. This iota was the site of
many feats of arms in more romantic trines; and it is still
occasionally the haunt of handitte. When our. carriage
drove up before the rude projecting shed of the iina (where
the fowl were neatling which were to he tossed tar our
mapper), the sun was still above lire Isoris.sio, hot in.
yulved in clouds of crimson flame. The imagery of
volcanic desolation was scattered on every ride ; the
soupy reg. of Monte di Fe, with its pale blot fires
dickering over the rugged surface of its sulphureime bed,

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Virettiatia were pictures, easel miespessateeltis some
Ibir loss, stases civilited ticikessoidlisea, whkk
wdeo aikidos. • ' " • ' •
• '.°4l/Ite sere wife eh* howideseetslohelreallaw dine dark
.Iskieltiovego. se we emestledellhelithedov well* filllowisg
`0104,11ktig,01.9 Nowa. 11,146 irmillipliy. • paled their is-
elfeettem offs. A Wel or sapphire lied fell she a slawiter tea
Ibe dieseriailisties of The uloseteres, sad ushered In the
skillet me; *bleb akedesikel meet glories-In Gems awfully,
aiki.lP theme, stiehep sekwatieov, where the ,soidimese imertsstsr
of ereero.isisset seshasese.. limy a eali•mt Poises( illeiehelf
echsoarbleil Arita Terror tad rem amt heed &wee the team/
Awaits of, she wanks Mika* like beacon- lights trea the '
reseei Writ ; 11110 'Daisy a elmagefel Esteems Atiosioo
ellimerel add eiseureel the eye, went eke fell bunt of Jay 01.
.p•fied twerp atmospheric mike sod timid, mid Mk diseiseely-
seised ' bolihely site, the tem* terms,' and measedesiog
✓etched( MIA and valimselsoomery, which Miamian the
limbed lb valley of .tbs Awes' raga 4.
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: ilipleiirribiNi' RlKCilini for SOUTHWARK.

• C "IfllivirAwaleersarebf thirsoleielieg of dim lodepea-
' aid 'teethe triosispiraf the Kefewasers of this respect-
• libegoldlomis wFriday celebrated at the Horns Ta.
itpro•
velni, Regividstime;
Sir AMU, WII2OH, is ilia Chair.
.4d1)14.ir .the,toast of t• m• Kiag, mid may he sever forget
his dattarglims. that the Crows is held is tenet for the Pao- •
..lib'' mita demob anti swell siegsomfration• of taYsilf as it
;seat, ea/wally calculated to laspere, the health of " The
.hilhatat.!_asis di aok.with euthairjaatee *whom ; we were aw.
lborajpiber popular toast., arasisag rage% " The People--
tholliala Warm of legitimate paraer,'„„ •
iadit..HdAde proposal the heelabal.ala Issiseet Wilson, after
s. ijdent inslaghens "Tau his *Mama riatiples and gene-
` mil.ganduct. , r•- • •
• ;17Itis toast was drank with thmetiatia three slid great ea-
•• kettle., which was cuusiderahly isereared um.. Sir Rebores
, ofliehig. himself to address • the tweeting. The vinare 0•=
lie e, oar. relenting therein., advested to • variety of po.
ogler topics, learnt mlarly•enforciug the armada of Reform;
and opop die subject of ,his late vote • respeetime the grant
Mi .the Mike elf:Weiler, he Him expressed himself :
A:Nein° bed bora made, is h maser that cooki sot he
sastaudenitood, to a rectal vote which. be had gives as the
resat of the Meow and screen to flea Dale •of C 1..,
tryse. He kat+ 'last is bat vote ha had differed foga-
, rally of ,his own ftleads„ said he Sward front the. Ode
jilititp of ,bra etruataireeits. Rot be bedewed berme hethaell
. grin. is, that be did wee .insider the great as a sew eingsgal
. 41:400 ;if it had been, he should have objected; but he veestimait
,St ivp.eee Feebly:red on the Journals of the. Hunt+, mill which:
„badaymiteil only the pleasure of the Doke of aartucs to bet
rallied.; upon Iht preseinsptitin that certain condition'
would by falklled. Them roue:inane were in fact complied
a ith by the marriage of the Dike sod his manicure is Cog.
lat.d. It wee thou • creatioa, out whether the Duke hod
lb right, to ask, bpd whether it became the House to give
c.liect .to its Resulatiou from the uricival date? He
'teuithettcoitraldiaidelrs. "'HI eh4coriiinfgesstehad,tinvdireedw of the
,lhtat liii7bfieecltiesgh:
.„Kiebited him to give his vote always in favour of the
'Anal Family wheat doubt existed. He lad never cots.
olialeil—lie had always avowed his obligation to the Kings
...Olio bad, at the time of his eoufinenteut iii Fraser, and
..yerlibout say communication with him. generously gnawed
to the mother of his children a moat liberal granite.
weber soil ravishes fur two of them, which allowance, un
his standing for the Borough of Southwuk, lie had frit
. -ii his duty to relinquish is their games, that his iodepen-
, 'llelbC, might not be affected, or be the object of ewspiciew :
hot it would, outwithatanding, now ill become him to levy
I.Waragaiiist the domestic e•t•blishoral of gay of the Royal
Featly, when 1144 compelled by an imperative seme of deity,
oad.eopecielly wino he thought Were was a fair claim un
the liberality and hoedur of the House. His whole life had
primed that his motives were not corrupt: sod it could not
kiddie io the recollection of every oar, that only a few
temaths since be bad veered to give hp his seat is Portia.
ment,,and atm his continue/ion, to flifeet lathe service of
si.titatee which Ile thought interested Ili* glitagral liberty of
mankind. 1. 7
The liral.h of. Sir F. Burdett...4ollog been draak, the Hoa:
Reronet urged, with his minal isoprearrive force, the prisiciples
tif Parilanteatary Reform, with* which he felt that the
country bad no t hailer or fee011.1(11be Ur inaint and ug freedom.
Isiit he bad an •kr.ibt that this uleasure would yet be Minimal,
4 Tee fl eu. &trowel Will111(1111fd the character of Sir R. Wilton,
eg•iinst . the annuadversious to which the Gallart Officer
hid bent lately 'objected fur a particular vo.e in winch
ante, however, be (Sir F.) did out concur ,• although he was
gut at all disposed to grudge. the Royal Family a librial
• eilpiteai,re, provided 1110, were 1111r1111K to promote the
~..rigt:is and iiitere.is of she people, Rut as to Sir K. Wilma,
. iiiricile at his whole life, and regarding him, out as the
, emptier, of fortune, but as the soldier of liberty, he could lot
ffil:lbste any act of his to • 'inkier motive. Acquitting the
•41,iiit Officer then of carruptitia, he could aot comical,' him
, 4r a mere errorefjudgmeat.
... , Mx. 110118011,ME and Mr. C. HUTCHINSON followed
.... ,iv tge some strain, both bearing Mathias, to the parity of
cafe K, Wileon's motives; and 1110 latter in particular, is
. eanstqacnce of the signal hismaiiity.of the Gallant Officer,
at pu tarty age, iii lielaud, alien that moats, pas the scene
. -
of torture and dewilat ion. j-ii ; :
Wilco Sir R. WI I.M/N, with Lis fro• oda, was about to re-
pr.:, Abe galleut Officer said, he rose to take lease, but he
ean'ild not without care/sing his acknowledgments to hie
• ,c4l,,titneuts fun the hilt's) sud manly viaduct they had pair.
• aped,. A, most important, miefol, end rernatkabk scene
• ,44 free srituessed, namely, that of a Represetalatite
~ heitg called to acc•oeit for his conduct by his coisalistiestia, ,
. jar a..ione and temper that added dist/My to the independeuce .
. ihrigheit achieved. He- could not hot feel grateful also tie
Meads ' for the' geweeinis and bououiable sopport, '
,MiErJrad relid.red him. ,He remembered, however, that
• , thasmenteet nose of the age bail admitted lie had fallen, be-
• . !wife he hail-Mimed stalest the syitit—to whenever lie ans..
isestegairatt the spirit of his Constituents on a serious subject,
• Al bun felt. He should on say iutiusatiou, however deli.
elat'pr &eta by the body el him Constituents, re .igo hie seat,,
• e ,ppaittly„ aRh regret, taut 'sot with shame, for those only.
trimatfferl shame also were conscious of corrupt motive* I.
. their eondsiet ; but tar shuutrthave tbt cousnist ion to know,
that _when be paid this prettily, he should, by the•eitemple,,
rboLl,ll2.olC.l•lltr CllOSt of tudepeadeace, or they would-60i
itelirem the wish.

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06•Theraday' evening frinlA' six. to eight thou-
earn' Ormond, insremblett io a spice of it!00,3,1 near
tl;e (41,4Aosttree Aria, ;at the. riettle., vett Ihiglitois.
to TO)* N. the eg usal Alas 141004.4. . . Seeaders's
taattipeop. lu We midst of she iterebernenu, one of.
• , aloe erettoidings, on which were neartys hundrrd
Aborneu;'lttid rhililrin, gl.dra gaily, pad
• thi'4l,Dieteg be K tor I it bout four
tn.6vt fret. Many personal rcoeme4; win 1311444.4.!,
„pod, Ur. tits.:.;.., .if hie lal+tiy'a private band,
tvg braked ie. ease 14004. •
• • Aga: inquest viva Itef.f. tin Wednesday eieninC
•11.•ri ' Jrniann'a trvit?, SiePury.,,
upireirr, Cernrirr, eal,,tbelicier-of a man of genteel,
appetirai.cra urilemoett.), found in the Regent's
• ,43einalA. near Boa Cneeneov, and wire lied Itrrtt
torairn and wetiiided. Verdict— kitrui
1.
jar*** posies, some person 4r persons unknown.

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