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London, England, 1824-04-06 00:00:00

DRURY-LINE TIIEATRE.

ESN; Lear was performed last night. This is well
known to all the readers of Shakapeare to be one of those
mighty productions of genius which serve to teach the im-
becility of emporal mechanism in aiding the developings of
the master passions of the soul. Speech and action are ex-
cellent auxiliaries to works of mediocrity, and are far front being at
this time unduly appreciated ; but when the mind seeks to pour
forth its most secret yearnings, and, by the concatenation of almost
impossible occurrences, heaves from Its centre tones deep and un-
utterable as the beau itself; it is then that the powerless agency of
the senses is felt, the mockery of sight and sound recognised, and
the mere bodily organs proved altogether inefficient mediums to ex-
press the mental passions of 111111.11 nature, and the inwrought
workings of his spirit. No play exemplifies the tenth of this more
strongly than that of Lear. Who, antr reading this play, can
ever hope to have his ideas of it realised by scenic representation
,'Tis true .Mr. Kean has attempted to perform king 1...0r, and per-
haps he is the only one win) ever could approach to the least resent-
, blance of die original. Ills sudden transitioo from the extravagance
of iage to the deep-toned pathos of the most resigned passion, suits
the alternate impetuosity of she King, and the yielding and subdued
nature of the father, so prominent in this arduous character; and
even his voice, which at other times wants compass, possesses all
the under-toned gradations of an old and afflicted man ; the utter-
ance of whose afflictions being blended with the most intense con-
sciousness, scarcely allows of an extent of voice, nor indeed requires
it. These, however, are but poor qualifications for Lear, without
a proper conception of him as intended by Shakspeare. But Mr.
liean's conception appears to us most intellectual, chaste, and cor-
rect. His scene with his two daughter., Regan and Gonerill, was
a consuininate display of fine acting; in the very midst of the most
agonized feelings, there was so much just repose, which ever exists
in truth and nature, that DO one seemed less conscious of the actor
than the actor himself. And again, is the storm scene with Ed-
gar, as Mud Tom, the anode of it was complete. Waflack sus-
tained his part here most ably, and indeed throughout the whole
character of Edgar. The c-nicluilin,.l scone was restored from
Shakespeare, in the room of the ridiculous melange of Tate, who,
in the refinement of his taste, saved the life of (*ordain, and
darroyeti the natural course of things, to make two lovers happy,
which Dr. Johnson considcnd strictly observant of meal jastice,
and therstors very proper. In this some, as given by Shakapears,
the very extreme of pathos exists. /.car brings in the dead body
of Cosdelio, who had been hanged in prison by orders of the bass..
tarsi &lamed, and, lamenting over her, lie dies.
•• Yes not his ghost: 0, let him pass ! he hates him,
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch hint out longer."
These words, by the bye, were omitted, and the curtain fell, some-
what abruptly we think. But speaking of omissions, what have
they not omitted ? Scarcely a speech of Shakspeare, even in its
restored state, was to be heard throughout the play, whole and
entire. But we fear it is too late to complain of these things now.
Mrs. W. West's Conklia did not, upon the whole, please us.
There is a something provincial in several of the tones of this
latly, arid her general style of acting is declamatory ; a style as far
removed from Lid lei:ling, as Poor Tom's pretended from Lear 's
real madness. We are not at all disposed to pick a quarrel with
this lady ; but we cannot help thinking that a little less sobbing
and rather more repose—in short. less of acting and more of na.
tore, would by no meant detract front the reputation she has for
some time deservedly enjoyed. With the exception of Wallack,
we have nothing to say very favourable of the other characters.
Neither Mr. Powell, as Glo'rter, nor Mr. Mange, as Echrtnnd,
both of whom have some very material parts to sustain, did any
thing to deserve praise. The Ladies Goa,'ill and Regan are in
themselves too forbidding to speak of—not a Sitltlons herself would
get a favourable word from a critic in such characters. The house
was very crowded, and 31r. Kean made a powerful impression on
the audience, notwithstanding all the drawbacks he had to con.
tend with.

ABSTRACT of the NOTICE for the EXCII.I.VGE of OLD
FOUR PER CENTS.

That those who do not signify their assent to take Three anal a
Half_ per Cent. Stock, are to receive 01. fas. ltd. per cent. on th•i •
Old Foie per Cents. on the 10. h of Oct ber next, and one-third of
their capital will bet ben considered as paid off.
That all who assent I e ore the I:th of April Alan receive 10111.
capital in Three and a Half per Cent. Stock, the dividends on
which will be paid in April and October yearly, and the first pay-
ment on the bth of April, 11125.
That this new Stock will be redeemable after October. 1829.
That the assent in writing is to be signed by the Four per Cent.
holders, or by their agents.
That any transfer after assent given wiU be separately entered,
and the purchaser being entitled in like manner.
That the assents of residents abroad must be given before the Ist
of June next and elsewhere before the Ist of .March,
proving their Mock and absence within ten days after their arrival.
That all holders on the 10th of October next not havingassented
are liable to be paid two-thirds of their capital at six months no.
dee of payment m the Gazette or on the Royal Exchange; and not
less than one-tenth of the remaining Stock wiU be paid off at once.
That the dividends on the Old Stott% will be paid on the 10th of
October next.

That the Accuuatants.Gcneralir .-ery and:Exchequer may
convent.

That all Trustees and Execte iit, and will be indem-
nified ; and if absent, accord' Aura, as aboi:.
Holden and Trustees of t shot at Four per Cent. not
assenting, will, in January .ve 331. Gs. &L per Cent. and
be thenceforth paid off:
That all holders of the N cbt redeemable assenting before
the tith of this present Apr .1 receive 1001. in 3. per Cent.
stock ; the dividends on wl will be payable in January and July,
the first on 581 July, 1833
This new Stock will be redeemable in January, 11'30.
‘Ve have given this abstract for general use, as the fish of April
is near at hand, but more especially for the observation of all trus-
tees and executors, who being indemnified for their assent, will be left
without any indemnity by withhohling their assent ; their tnist
capital will not be of the same amount, hut their future dividend
will be reduced one-half per cent. ; but in case of theirasileure will
be paid in two.thirds of their capital on six months{ notice. If
Consuls should remain at 95 per cent. it would coat 6111. 13s. to
buy two guineas per annum in that stock ; and the rest of their
capital would be gone; whereas by this assent they 'Kenn 34 per
cent. and an entire capital not redeemable fur live years to come.

We understand that the atrount of assents by the holders of the
old 4 per ('ent. Stock was on Saturday evening forty-six trillions.
There was a complete mob yesterday at the Bank of England. giv-
ing in assents. In several cases, where death has taken place among
1 executors, or other impediments have occurred, a further extension
1 of time to the :Nth April was announced yesterday.

CAPTAIN ROCK IN CONK.--011 Wednesday night, a
notice of an inflammatory tendency was posted on the door of the
Rev. T. E. Saunders, in Blackpool, cautioning all persons front
taking a store which was occupied by a man named Barry, who was
ejected out of the premises only on the previous day fur non-pay-
ment of rent. The notice was signed .'llooptight, Secretary ; and
death and destruction were very liberally dealt out in it. even to
I any person who should ',ermine to take it down. This last threat,
we blush to sac, had its full effect with several respectable Noon%
who audiived the precious document to remain until removed by we
of Mr. Saunderb's Ci; rk Coustitetiott.

TAR UNIVERSAL nErrEir:
OR, CHRONICLE TIIE LITERATURE or ALL

NATIONS.—No. I.

We have here a REVIEW which bids to become a formi-
dable rival to the Quarterly Essays which greet us periodi-
cally under that title, but which it must find no small
difficulty in being able to affiliate. The Essays we advert
to are written, fur the most pan, with great talent, old
displaying very profound and various erudition ; but, we
critic++/ disrertauons on the 'rents and defects of the re-
spective works which the centributors profess to review,
they are as little " german to the matter' as any pampt let
we may chance to take down at randotn from our library
shelves. The /email; of the present jourriq.list is, more-
over, much inore true than it ought to be, " that the tone
of sneering and pert yersonality, which makes the study
and the triumph of modern criticism, goes directly to offend
correct taste, and to insult mid repel the progress of al!
honourable and sensitive • .ds ; and that, in addition, the
notorlous bondage and instrumentality of those lictiews,
as tools of Government and Opposition, totslly extinguishes
the hope of right judgment on matters of the first import-
ance to us as individuals, as subjects of a free state, and as
lovers of literature." If Usirersof iteview contributes.
as we trust it will, to erect something like a reformation of
these evils, it will tender a service incalculable both to
philosophy and to general literature.
Periodical publications, like the prevent, when their re-
putation is high, and their rale extensive, have a very consi-
derable eff.. et upon the progress of knowledge; ;hey have cots'
Lei u en el y an i nfluence--itnpemptible but extremely import-
aitt,—upon the moral and political character of the nation.
Next to newspapers,—whose operation is inceseant—they
tend to modify public opinion, and may be successfully em-
ployed to further the beat or the worst phrpose, according
as they are devoted to the cause of truth, or are hired out
to the service of party.
The conductors, as is customary in all literary embarks.*
lions, make a specific avowal of their principle:.
" In POLITICS, honouring the wisdom of their micestors,
they will be the abettors neither of change nor of corrup-
tion. Their principles are constitutional and national.
We confess that we have here no wish to pin down their
performance to the strict terms of the treaty. There is a
change from bad to good which we feel assured will have
their tripport, since to withhold it would be to cleave to
e,rruptirm, to which we are prepared to consider them as
elvidally hostile.
The testimony which this drat Islumbetbetrs to the ati.
lily of the writers is extremely favourable. 'The difernit
articles discover great variety of talent; they are drgal
up most of them with great forte—all of them with re
felicity. The style is at once faseinr.fue stet pov'erftl; the
sentiments contain nothing common-pace, and every arty
de bears the stamp of original thinking—Which, in this
age of dull declamation, is a " pearl of great price."
We present our rcedeta with the following extract, not
as being among the best, but because it relates to a sat jest
at this moment of deep political interest:—

Im'Egypt sous Mi•bc'ned Ali ; ea Aperce Replete de l'Afindni,
amnion Civile et Militaire Ide ce Paths, publie par F. J. Joy
sur le 31anuscrit de M. P. Thednat Onvent, Consul Franca*
Aiexandrie. Peri; chez Pinot aine impihneur Librium,
lko. Pp. •!.10.
This work contains a very favonrable description of the talent/
and government of 31614ined Ali, the present ice-Roi of ligypti
whose object appears to be, to restore Egypt to the splendor, mai.
niticence, and opulence which it enjoyed varier time Phanela and
the Ptolemies.

Egypt, where Moises was appointee ter become the legislate( of a.
great peoplv, was also the school of Orpheus and of Homer, et
Pythagoras and Plato, of Solon and Itycurgus. Egypt gore lOW/
to the Levi ; and rites and institutions to the Greeks, *lto distri-
-1 butte( them to the various people of the earth.
Conquered by Selim 1., who received at the same time the key
of the temple of Mecca, and the investiture of the Khalifat, tt
WAS alas:ads possessed by the Sultans of t'onsnintinopla, his SIN.
(swots. This conquest and possession united the sacerdotal with
the civil power of the Ottomans, who have retained theta ever
since.

Egypt is void by some ancient authors to hate contaltied 20,000
towns under Ammis, 30,0ett under Pteleniy, and even 33,9341
under Ptolemy Philedelpiers. Cato gives the same population.
.Egyptuni h..huisse pagos 33,100, hoininom veto 7,004464 r Vial
J minds Marshami Canon Chronicus, p. 421. But noterithstar.d.
ing these authorities, it Is not credible that Egypt, at least with isa
present limits, ever contained half so many towns, tinny both
upper and lower Egypt does not contain BM many square mites.
Rather, however, than impeach the veraeity of Herudotus, et that
of sonic writers who limit the number of towns to 111,600, we are
willing to admit that the government of Egypt was then much nem
extensive thus it is now, and might have included Nabia, part of
Abyssinia, Arabia, and the country east of Palestine.
1 he criculation of the Arabian authors tuantiens the ntirnbet of
towns and villages at VA* and the Orogralikical Index lonalea
to the life of (Salh-ed.ditie) Saledin, recorus the number to be
'2,4110, e' which P 57 are in the Slid or upper country*, an 1,55 k
the lower; and this latter, we think, the most authentic, most pew
bable, aid most cornet calculation of the population of the tern.
wry of Egypt, according to its present limits.
When Egypt,
Ali arrived in Egypt, tee viewed it with a Coma
prehenvive eye, sad after investigating its wants, and anticipating
its resources, he spoke as follows : Je veux illustree cotes Wire,
la rendre heureuse et y laisser drs brillans souvenirs."
AligLimid Ali tint began by improving the fortification* ef'Cakar
and Alexandria, giving to the latter a double enclosure or ford&
cation, enlarging and disposing the moats, oensuiretint bastions.
end elevating redoeins in every part, liable to be attacked on the
sea or the land side. The castle of Aboukir has likewise bees
better defended ; this important position has been fortified l
the European manner, and now presents an imposing sod mine
tary aspect.
The lakes Mareotis and Aboukir have been secured from inert•
da:iuns from die sea, by a dyke nine miles in length, extending
slung the shores of the Mediterranean, thus protecting the sub-
merged country, which is below the level of die sea, from intend*.
ton, and gaining it for cultivation ; the heat of the sun emverting,
by exhalation, this submerged country into one of abundant fertility
and production.
n'orks of greater importance became no* the object of Mithfinsel
Alt. The great canal which should communicate from Fous ter
Alexandria, passing by Itantanbier, was restered by him : 11.41,04141
workmen constantly employed, soon effected this !peat work, which
has for these last two years facilitated the water COIIIIMIIIiCSIIIIII
several parts of Egypt, so that every day witnesses the value and
importance of this great restoration. This canal, formerly called
the ('anal of Alexandria, is now called Mahnumelhie, so named in
honour of die present Empetor of the Ottomans, ilahmoud
a homage rendered by Mehemed Ali to his sovereign. The countr7,
through whic:i this canal passes, is now a barren desert, but the
commit,' passage of the waters, with the fructifying deposit which
they leave in their passage, will soon give it the appearance of the
old canal, as described by Abulfeda, the Arebtro geographer.
" Nothing," says he, " can be seen more agreeable, the banks of
the canal bordered with gardens, are covered wirb a perpetual
green." And the Arabian poet, Itufard el Haddad, thus described
ti " The wards which shade this canal ;,rive to the sailors who row
along its outface a spreading mantle et green. Tim cool north
wind refreshes the surface of the wane; the superb date tree, with
its high moving and majestic tufted top, crowned with its clean
of yellow red fruit, leans gently like the head of a beautiful virgin
asleep." The graces of the spring, the mildness of the summer,
and the richness of the autumn, eh united in the adjacent meadows:
watered by the moisture, presenting to the gratihed eye flowers,
fruits, grern.plots, and harvest.
The deep excavations tuade in the baron, as well as in tint canal
adjoining Alexar.dria, have furnished soil for the cultivation of ye.
getable. for the supply of Alexandria. These tarren trrcts, under
the judicious government of Slelheined All, will Bien be converted
front the desert into a fruitful garden, irrigated by a =mit:minion-
tore from the adjacent waters. Lands have bean purchased. aid
see now cultivating with every prospect of rich vegcta'iun. Plan-
tations of olive trees, and the et titian directed lathe rearingof the
silk worm, will soon spare Repented Ali the expense of sending
abroad large slams of money for the purchase of oil and silk, as
both, under his present encouragement, will become abundant and
indigenous productions. Plants from every country in the wed*
have been purchased at great expense ; and MI brans ws of ageism!.
Lure are in a flourishing Cate of improvement. Rich plantadeto
of indigo have succeeded wonderfully, which heretofore yielded no
advantage to the Egyptian cultivator.
By the introduction of new instruments of agriculture, !gibe-
med Ali has made a great progress, and has increased prodectiom,
more titan could have been reasonably expected, among a people
wedded to ancient customs, and who hold it disrespectful to their
forefathers to alter the customs and usages transmitted to them by
their ancestors.

Cotton and sugar are now wiecessfully cultivated, and the Vies.
Roy has had the address to convert many of tne Bedoweens
agneullitrisle, by encouraging them to settle in Egypt, and attend,
to the production of grain, instead or following their predatory emu
torsions, the general occupation of the inhabitants of the downs
Thus has he converted a set of vagabond robbers into a body en
useful subjects, who arc every day increasing the agricultural
riches of Egypt. In the sandy districts are Mond fields of water.
meltms and tucumhers, so grateful to the thirsty traveller from the
desert. On the other hand, where the soil is more vigorous, the
land is covered with date trees, sycamores, citron, ponmegranatee,
orange and tamarind, banana and a:acia trees, and vines.
Igllehcmed An encourages commerce, industry. and the arts; he
prawn them by his authority, and vivifies them by his specula.
non.. Improvement, however, among these Arab Foriptiana• •
people wedded to the practices of their forefathers, for which thee
superstittous veneration is notorious, does not make that rapid
progress that it does in some European countries. All places of
trust in this country are confided to Turks, who, cold, quiet, acd
untefiecting. smoke their long pipes from morning till night, with.
nut being Interrupted in their nonentity by one mental reflection-
That activity of mind which exercises the 'amts.( the Europe%
is unknown to the Multimillion. who, satisfied with what hit
sesaes, neither invents nor improves any thing. Hu life
an uninterrupted sleep, whilst ours appears to him • continual id.
taxi:Arian. He tranquilly enjoys the good which nature take re

NAVAL IXTELLIGEACE.

141111,-Alfistst anticipating the morrow, whilst we are occupied in
ota., the happiness which flies trout us, end escapes our pursuit. The Wellesley. 74 guns, is ordered to be commissioned at Ports.
What the tyranny of habit and the impulse of carcumsuinces will mouth, and to he litted as an additional gnarl-ship. Captain G. E.
ea fat mach potpie is too et idetit to need explanation. ilanotiond, I Lieutenants 11. Piermn,
Tobin+) of Syria is taken to Ihmtietta and bartered for rice and Ilentlenon, I hatne, E. Moires, and J. 31. Lass, and 111 r. F.
tof'ee. which the Syrians ngein exchange in Upper Syria for cottons Frencilion, farrier, are appointed to I.Lr.
.m 4 d ii, The tobacco intorted into Egypt slaty be ea:cid:dui at The llorh:Ort,:M gun ship, Caputio Selioniterg, C.R. sailed on
Judy cargoes of SIMI tons each. port of Paynint t.tipplies Monday Is.?, from Portsmouth fur t -Itat:tatm to Le paid off.
..arch with agriailtural produce, cotton, and silk, it. exchange fur Arrived 11:1 last, at l'orsmmith. the Starling cutter,
An and tuba( cu. deflate:rills soap to Egypt fur its own cunsump- I I.ietitcnant Turner, from Jersey. S tiled on Wednaiday, the
tins, mad receives back the rice itee•essary for the constant:Mimi of t Maidstone frigate, I oidnindore Itullen, C.IL, fcr the coast of Africa,
Jerusalem. Cotton and (tato. r • down the Nile fro;., Lower to assume the comniand of the squadnm empinyetl on that station. '
Nubia to Alexandria, where the: Ntddialb exchange them lot !At, with extended instructions for the supprossion of the slave trade,
tobaeco, and linen. foiled upon that admirdilt• measure iatrothicol by Mr. Canning.
TM Redowcen Arabs ltordering on Egypt, anti the Nublaus silo, iby which !iintaine carryicg slaves are acelareri pirates, and are
emblaze their produce and industry for that of Egypt. liable to tithe capital puns tout Sailed also the Ilasilisk cutter,
Slaves coming from Abys•inta, w elsewhere, par an importation for I !hothani.
Joey on entering Egypt ; the duty is levied at KerW, and is one We have now bixteen sail of the line in commission. six of whit*
dollar on a WWI, two On a Volltnall, at a four fora male chile!. arc employed tin active foreign sees ire. via.:.-tile Revenge, in the
The potteries of 11.Jass and of Semi., and particularly those Mediterranean Spartiate and I 'ambridges ut South America;
puma vases which clarify and cool the water. are sold all over (hinges and Superb, in the West Indies; and Windsor Cs.tle, at
Egypt, in Syria, and in the islands of the Archipelago, where they Lisbon. The tithe-re (guard-ships) are them stational
saeip Kemal use. • litawark, Wellesley, and Albion, at Portsmouth ; Britannia,
If tau uninterrupted and reciprocal exchange of the superfluous (kean, and Genoa, at Plymouth ; l'rinee Regent and (iloucester,
tor the necessary were once impeded, the existence of all these at I 'llthant ; acct Ramillies. in the Downs.
:divas would be compronii•ed. This truth, always present to the ! The Queen Charlotte, Ilift guns, 'apntin J. Nash, the present
t...rsel of lifihemed Ali, regulates his conduct. flag-ship at Portsmouth, is ordered to he paid ofl'und laid up.
The caravans from Mecca a!-tithe shores of the Red Sea bring I Arrived it Portsmouth tin 'Elnir•alay the Calliope, Lieutenant
merchatalite front India and the reductions of Arabia into Egypt. Justice, from a cruise; also, on Friday, the Arrow, Lieutenant
'Clime- Mon Silmma, `denser, l),ingala, and I)arfoor, bring titer., Downey, from a cruise; and in, turday (hr S:arling returned to
~hsadirat from A bradniti, Ethiopia, wid Sudan, cold take away ; her citation ; leaving at st• itlicad only the oo pe and Arrow.
the produce of the Epypti..-1 soil :eat European manufacture, As 'Eh! Plinn.ix convict ship, which pm tem Eort•amuili nn Friday
Il cea Is the point ot cantmt, Or link of the chain of conmainica. with foul winds, sailed on Satordat fir Von Dietran's Lard, She
tion between India and Egypt, so is Derfoor lanwien Titubuctoo has TO:: convicts on board, with Mi.. (te.oliy, I:.:e stir...net of the
..ad.ott.et Coll:.trks of SildPei• The Datfour ca:;.vati departs from', Dublin
S ...mil. mar western ',ranch of the Nile, and ft-them+ its I Tim order was given (soon after we stated that the differ.
'auctacy tlie:•ee at DOnroll,o twenty eat 7.1 ; fruit, I hibg,tll U. I).tr- encao with the I) -y of Algiers had !wen amicably arranged) thr ves-
twenty days ; from Ihtrfooe to ?imbue:co ice one hundred Is bound to the '4(lin:lra:wan not to wait for convoy, has been
-est-holed, and such are row direr, .1 to assemble at Fal numb for
'et-mavens which arrive at Kime,s:tttatill on the eastern branch fist mutt ajar,. It is oreminied, tiler...fore, that other unfavourable
of Nile, perform their join-ley to ktoa.cir, on the shores 01 the . irctuustances in the affair have situ.- arisen. The tear:sprint loyal
Kai Sea, in tiretyeone hours. '1 hroughorii th..•10,,rt0l there arc . llrottrit (1:), Lieutenant T. J. Ley, Pn,l (linen, Lieutenant
agaivs4l the desert, which relieve considerably elm fatigues et the S. Spencer, weir part a the tr.th regiment (•11N1 officers and men),
era• Isitmil to Malta, mailed from l'ortsmooth yesterday. fur Falmouth.
Bent follows an interesting description of a,procession and font remainder of th-• !Enla regiment will march in from Winches.
given by Ptolemy Philadelpt us, to demonstrate to the Egyptito r, ael enthark on the arrival oldie Surrey front hirtfortl.
the acitcatoges of the trade of Egypt with Icdiu and WWI 14 I itl T NOF 1'I:17.1; MON EV.
cintateics; tit this procession the singular sari my of 11/111W1110114 TO the onion:antlers, °trice 111, noti_eommissioncil officers, aril
the different nations, then trading with ::gyp:, is detailed, each , n. f mating the and military forces engsg,tlat the respective
part, tarrying the merchandise of his re,peet ire coati ry. This ! captlll(.3 in Aniertes, La follow :-.ltrig A raritraia and scimoner
aafsio a too long for oar limits, and too ititerrsitil to b.: rim- • ; Sr; 11611',1 ratzi nod Margaret ; 176 liht:s. of tobowco, sham
tailed; altar which our author condi:des thus :- • I I'nit7, and goods trim. his Alan sty's ship Ilchrits; property rap.
" Let us add to all th we articles of niereltato.itt7 the et St. Mary's, ship ('omd.ss of Dermot ; bark Maria TM-
prodageof various coon:rice, and we shall have a rich nomencla_ rt sot, goods from ship Carl rh.staffs acct schooner (',ruler; property
..„.",,, 'ter st. Sinten'. and the scluamer Reserve; the ships Maria
tuts of the mercluititlizo brought in those days by
Egypt. Shawls of Cashmere ; mush's of Bengal ; rlotlet ca anal tinvertior Riedel:cod ; and the brig Fortitha; all to
of Indostan ; voreelaln of China; Indian I,t,sls, toryther ;;;; pall din 3,1 May, at dr. Royal nominal, tin cow ich.
saran's other articles, the produce of Asia. te industry. T•• •• -1 - ----
courage and increase arts, sciences and rottimeree, Metti.iticd
lavmrs artists, mirchani,ts, end men 01 'Shia and industry cat
every kind, so that inenufactorii s etf temp, relinetiot 01 sugar,
tilleries of rim and all kinds ut liquors, arc now estalilislied, aru!
are nourishing in Egypt."
In ardent times Egypt carried on an extensive (-mutterer with
India; the canal dug by Sesostria to comic the Nile with the Red
Sea, the construt lion of the canals Under Ptolemy Plithultilitlins tor
the tam.: object, the military route to Ilerinice, and the foundation
M. that city, tire alone mots of it. 11nder the Roman empertea
coca erannwrce was continuos', from the great advantages which it
onbred to all who elle:teed in it. The Bishop of A eremites assure.
us. that in the days of Pliny this OPIIIII/efte yielded an annual profit
o upwards of twenty millions sterling anti that regular caravans
ware established between Er pt and India.
111141emed Ali has opened it comtouniestion with India, portico.
larly with ltombay, whence he draws all the ITUllllllAClllrell of India,
which color to him by the Red Sea to Suet, where he Not established
agentslust and deiSAS. It reported, however, that several large
hips, with rich cargoes belonging to the Vice-Noi, have been loot
eithe Red tea, and so the bfunelmen never insure, have been
total loss to the amount of one million sterling in the five years bast
pilot. Notwithstanding which, the energy and vigilance of bleheined
Ali ire not diminished but excited.
It appears that the commerce of France with Egypt has dimi-
nished "considerably.
In Iflle, of one hundred vessels which entered the port of Alex-
andria, ninety at least were French. It is very different now ; fur
mit of one hundred vein!,' tin only are French." The Austrian
Rai has supplanted that of France. and (leritittLy has raised a cont.
itkies with 'Egypt on the ruins of that of the French.
'M 'tiled Ali pays the tribute to the Sublime Pieria, which was
medal the treaty between the Sultan Seiko and the four and
festally of Egypt in 1517, via. two millions of francs, which
are seat samndly to t'onstantinople, and two millions to Mecca, to
be dimeilmted among the priests arid the poor pilgrims of that city
:tad of Medina.

" The Wice-Roi continues to explore the emerald mines, which
him been neglected during so many area Ile has lately n-
oshed the produce of those mines, amounting to tan pounds of
amp,.
It is sumeated, that a knowledge of the Coptic language, " de-
nominated by the must correct travellers ELION tarsi might
load to the Interpretation of the hieroglyphics In Egypt It au,
the Coptic would he the first smorg the Lamed languages.
"The primitive language is lost; the alphabetical characters
cannot be found ; the hi.roglyphirs are unintelligible ; all the
symbols are mute; all the allergic-I inexplicable. And although
the maim Egyptians, to transmit to future nations the events
which have rendered them twat cclehated among the nations of the
earth, have engraved their memorials on the most durable edifices,
yet have they left no trace behind them by which we can ascertain
any information respecting their origin, their institutlous, or their
inannors, because we have not been yet able to guess what lan.-
Oar they spoke, what laws they followed, or what is their
kuwl„, it ed Ali is described as throwing off the oriental mi-
re, and appearing with all the urbanity and intelligence of a
"iTherexpresaion of his physiognomy, the intelligence of his
era, the aptness of his gestures, the kindness of his anticipations,
estimate always his communications, and diminish at least, if they
(Isnot altogether annihilate, that cold intolerable monotony octets-
Smelly thrown over a negotiation by the intervention of an inter-
preter, or the service of a drogman, or forced interlocutor."
'Cadet the Illamelukes, the evils of Egypt were multiplied.
With the Itaharite Alamelukes, about the noddle of the fourteenth
anitury, commenced the strangers' reign in Egypt. These were
dethroned by the Circassian klaniclukrs. It is difficult to tell
ithieh of them were the worst. Seven and forty tyrants, (for to I
ran them kings would be profaning the majesty of the throne);
succeeded one another, during the period of two hundred and sixty-
w•ven years, carrying in their train the storms inseparable front
miarehy and revolution.. sod ritlit.g, during all this period, with
absolute power, and the nimo unqualified tyranny.
The misery necessarily attending such a domination is gradually
teabsidfrg under the sway of kletthned Ali, whittle courage and
rands will fulfil the Oc•tinies of Egypt • he will raise himself to
that pinnacle of glory and renown which Egypt would desire to
rinth. Agriculture omit co•••iitcrce made free arc alone sufficient to
tusks the country fiouri•lt and to enrich it.
" When her port• it,' open to all nations, 'her ships navir nag
in every fors--when the gorrnmiciit protect. the nets, promo(' • in-
•lttstcy, end favours disen•cri.r., Egypt cannot fait to recover Is • 0
tion of it, ancient cel,lwity, unit the prior,' who governs it will
crave tie p. roof his vari,not dram, in the gratitude of throw; 'L.
vion will raj., the glory of his &Juliet:oration above that . " h
prederemont."

o it is remarkable that the mine porno* vases arc manrf.., •:••
is Western Attica. anti if the Rime form u they are re .i.•
pi the Egyptian hierriglyphir4, and tiled for the same pus;... •
thi were an the days of ifir Pharaoh.. —Jackson.
Thit journey r performed on a heirie, or swift sand of t:•.
dram, in fifteen hours.

:An Arabic term. signifying the language of Pbarsak.—
Jarkun.

ILVIVEREITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(►xroan, Arum 3.
Tut ..I.ly, the Hot. Ames ncilicar, of Trinity ('o soil the
Rev. harks Ww. lkslJ, of Christ Church, were adm Masters
of Art..

Friday, the Rev. Chris:ooler Lipscomb, Fellow of New College,
tliford, sir admititsl Ilachekw in Divinity; and Comm Nelson
Imes, of Rallied College, was admitted blaster of Arta.

I:smnainor., Aran. 2.
His Rol Highness the I:homelier has appointed Frederick
rollork, }.sq. M.A. formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Commis-
sary of the University, in the mom of the lam Thomas Harrison.
11Se Arehhinhop of Dublin confirmed 1711 girls and att boys on
the igeholt. in M.James's Church, Dublin.

At a °mend Ordination in St. Margaret's Church, Weentrinaier,
Illy the Ili,hop of IVineheatec, on thc 23:h ult. the following Gen.
&men were ordained :-

11►. Aro 15--I :hat% (!orrice, A. fl. Pembroke College, Cattib::4lgc ;
limns% I)raage, a literate yi•raun.
Pal ESTS- •Churhil Julia Taylor. A.R. Chrlat's 'olle;re, Cam-
bridge John Hall, A.H. Si. Alban IJ 1, Oxford; IValacr St.
•J aka Al admay, A.ll. St.Jobb's College, Cambridge.

I:CCI.E.SIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.

Thursday liennight, the Rey. Thos. Bathurst, Clerk. A. 31. yr
collated to the Rectory of &laugh, with the V leatAge of SCOW'S
•we:ed. in Norfolk.
Saturday pennight, the Rev. Edward Wikon, Clerk, 8.8. was
ye/Med to the Recur, of Toperoft, in the county of Norfolk.
The Earl of St. German s has appointed the Rev. Richard
Leach Cotton, M.A. Fellow of %Force:net College, Oxford. and
Wm, of Bench worth. Becks, one of his Lordship's Domestic Chap-

/STE E.Vir, E.
CUSTOM-114 :I SE, A eurr. 5.
yarn:urn I WA a DI.
Lucinda, :cliwerourii Iknhani, brok.l), from Memel.
a;l11 in.. W. sscls (Castendieck), firm., Ih-rod.
I'. l'unocinark (Blake), trout Norway.
l.ri!annia. Brown Mirror tt). from St. 3licharl's.
M.-tra Sartey Iron: Christiana.
Hope. Knowhs (Coe), from Dunkirk.
Ann. II irfield OFT 11i.% front It irlrigen.
Tromstir. Goothor (Bentley), 6,,:iicliwrolte.
I henry, .Itkinson ( Watson), front :)lenir I.
i,m tor. Barton (Thomson), hour Jamaica.
Jane, Itrrhyn (Arnold), from I ri ono.
Ilenilerson (Motley), from Charente.
Layton, 3liller (Dawson's), from Bombay.
Arum 3.
Sutra ENTER Kri I w wsuns.--Tirc N'erwrigting, from Rotter-
dam ; 31argaret, and Ardent, from Belfast; Waterfewd, from
Waterford.
Err imEn 01' TIV Landstunn. for Pillar' ; Aline,
for Elsineur ; Caroline, Mr Ilavannah ; Busher, for Port-au-
Prince.
CLIP. Alll Otrrwanns.—The Jane, for St. Michael's; Bril-
liant, tar Corona ; Ponnma, for Lisbon; Hero, for Dantrie; Ire.
sire, for Babes ; 31arshal Blucher, for Rotten:am ; Flying Fish,
for Ostend; Ileroes, for Nile, for Cape I laytien ; Aim.
well, fur ; Alfred, for Genoa ; Endeavour, for Quebec ;
and Agnes, for Calais; 11'oodford, for Jamaica.

The Rev. Nathaniel Dodson. lII.A. has been collated to the
reeband at Canonry of South Searle. in the Cathedral of Lincoln.

lionntst.n AND 1)11401,81'1 HG Sr ECT Arl.F.—Y otter-
day morning the bodies of three children, apparently shout six
months old eseh, were discovered in the fields at the rear of Mr.
rubitt's premises, in /Ira 's Inn-lane. They were quite naked;
their herb were cut off; their bellies ripped open, and their
bowels protruding, as it is supposed from being dissected by some
•eigh!..ntring surgeon. Several hundred peeving soon collected
round the spot, and various reports were afloat, which we do not
I think worthy to mention. l'he bodies were taken to the work.
how fur further inquiry into this shucking tr.uissction.