The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-29 00:00:00

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.
At Sy'het. Calcutta, on the 17th July, Mrs. James Blerbyedot.
of a daughter.
At Patna, Calcutta, on ilia 01st July, the lion. Mrs.
stone, of Gunn.
At Sasan-lyze. Calcutta, on the 23d July,Mts. L. De Soar, cs
tkughtcr.
On the 25th July, at Calcutta, the Laely of J. IL Cock, Ere.. cf
a daughter.
On the 25th July, the lady of Captain N. Campbell, 21st r::.•
I MOH Native Infantry, of a datig,litcr.
At .11intrelabad. Ilonihuy. on the night of the 9th Aug. the Lath
of Lent. G. W. Blaehey, 14th regiment N. I. et'a sm.
Fanday„ the lath ,1 ugust, at 3latoonga. th:
of Dr. Suiyttan, cf a son.
At the Nagporo. Residency, 31adratt, on the 25th of d
Lady of Captain Sand vs, of a son.
At the Pres.leory. Madras, on the Mst Jule, the Lady 0: C. 7.-
IL IL ire cell. cm light ca,alrv, of a dangioer.
On the 3.1 August, at Madras, the Lady of ('...7tr.in :!.: •
Dept Secretary 3lilitary 11:tard, ors son.
A. an, Fresidenc• Black Town, Madras, on the th Awt-s:•
Mrs. Alexander Ilarristet, of a son.
AIARRIED.•
On the 211th July. at Calcutta, by the Rev. Th,7I2STIIP!!! ......
la:Uterlant Lthmrti 1(11•111VOTIII, 11. C. 2.1 E. It. to 31:::s . .
Charter Conym, daughter of 3lr. Coryers, same
Di
I:1).
latazerpore, Calcutta, ontie).
e 22.1 June. Mot
son of Licunram Eicuard Irving. his Maio. v's
and, on the lath July, oa the river near .Th.ry 's •
the above officer.
At Rangoon, Calcutta, on the 30th Jana. of wet- h‘ -
ae.io::, Lieutenant George Mite:nil. of M
At Fort William, Cat: lota, on the tlel Judy, I.i.etenare Itr:
ford, of Lis Majesty's foot.
On the 23-h Jedy, at Ca:cuca, Miss EincliaJoana •
12 'vats and 21 days.
On the :tath duly, at Calcutta, Mr. S. J. Nrakcland, of the E. •
Company's Marine, aged 2•2 years and six mentits.
Cu the bat August, at Calcutta, Thothlul.: Boadrct, jar. i:,
aged 25.
On board the Charlotte, of the Cape of Good Derv. on
of May, Mr. William FLrqultarson, of the counts-, Nenirr. .
midshipman 1:. N.
WAintialmielgaptumnica,
nll,l34.lizst,r7;ittul7rtn, ;;ht of the 2:st July. Et
Esq. of the Medicalßored. son of tue Lao „lehn Pura .

I I.?. T. DI T I LI. r Y.—Sattlraa V,
of the 3d Revenue l'orrs, stationed at Cele
suect.eded 'wining at I Yisansgh. 31:i"it twc”tVlT.
miles trout their (plan -;2 ers, nn eight_ e..pper :II" al"'
worm, and destroyed a large tpnintity of malt. Ca ill
return of the party they were attaeLd by a !arcs.
Wit? fired upon , the balls tearing up -the milt abctt
their feet. The party, after sonic time, returned the t..re.
when the Revenue Corps anal the mob comment:a a r,`.-"s"
lar engagement. One man bad his thigh wounded. and
horse was shot, on which rather a dceent-looking
had been mounted, who was heard giving orders to
country people to o.l..sereer.

INV:fiat:FY(7'

The Mullen of Gloocravn han kfl rrogniore fug Gor
gets on a 11.4 to End and l'oun!tna Verulatn.
1• • Ilukr 'oon Lft Velvoir
c„4.glin, on a vt.ir C.v.. 11::rtinin and Marchioness of v.• ..PT.
C. C. 10, rirg. Esq. 1.!1 town yrntrorlar, for bin *rat in i I
ti. Itakr3;l, Esq. left town 7sstsiday, for hia scat Vitra it•*.i.

tr.
R.,. AT, ltdracon Prf..ot has left i:atirl!ztort, for I htrhatp.
Lor.! ha 3 arrivcd at bit Kat, Wart!Jur it ria

• w. riiirteit haa left his s.-n!, Sonter'or. Leh-ewer-
ua a visit ID the :•Lirrvlt..
• .111 r, liolutm hare left trim fer nriL:llnn.
r 11:11r. ~...ter,Ley for 14i:eon:I.
lef. town yeiterilay fu: his rwat, Meltnn
• •, ic.,ir.
I. ihr I ..n !fwd. Itne:l-a!rert :—The Earl uf
r.!.., I m, M.:1,, Alms bine, Isire.ler.h r.
1,011. n!, rpm, their h:sat in Si,troll:.

,r.:~i~

t. t7oltl 3 /MIT.

nrti% rd in town ycs!erdir, from Thw-

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•:;,:a's %ea: it, St,6.ik. .
i.a. 3rrtv,ll at leis watt. iVoaddicP.cr :'ark, Chtu:•.s.

tar.

I: SU .-117: 1)1.

vote steam-j• I:•+nitt: from erlais to Dover, came
MI Friday evening, listing on
ia-rly ?a:At:livers. l'hey wire unable
e...t into I> r.
Sunda al!ont one o'..:ccic, the Arrow steam-
w!th 1.• ..• ene T.arenrers, auto arrived
IMr havinct. t!m day I.,:rerv, in att:loptinft• to into Ca-
stra.l. ant( not being PM(' I‘) cuter
that r• ,•: .1 t•+ make for itsin4t•nte iiarhour.
th". for Diver, but has just nturti...-.1
•t title• to tnttr the harbour, in cense-
e• the it:ir.
The I.:lsis 5:,11.
nig. as t'l.• bar
hariwur.
Corti.- I tnrr at namsgate, and, as Chairman
m tb.• Tr ipe.eri of Ole royal Harbour, 11711 given cr.ry tn.-
eissary tTiroct'en tows- .is facilitating ti,' I mit t,r of ras-
s•ogr,, carris, nod tar rage, for which purpose one of
the can,- 1, •ii n-t00v.,•,1 to a Fart of the trot-, wall,
ra the W. .at r. a t-itaat;on particularly w.. 11
t'-e parse, as it is not only most convcnint:t for
rce,t,:re a quick discharge of their
fr,i:ht, but 19 entirely out of the way of the sailing

;YU! III:

mail pact arrived here this morn-
( outintws to block up the entitmer u:

't
!ITT(' 2TC TIC2II

) sail of vessAs at pres2nt in di

harks, wind. hound.
ti!s, r. dh•r.sroh steam-packet is just corm. into
04: Ivirl•our ; v..11.!.d from r.t!nis this morning. tur.l the
r brine, rat i• too.'orak•, vilab!...l her to land
er!, it, t (hirer, hut r:•as not able to
bar,:m-. the I ar still continuing; she consc-
,u✓.:lr
ran for lluns;:ate.

fl Disk,. (If I'i•rl loft yesterday roornin, on
2;•7',.:; e7.ennioo to the ?►ike of Rutland, Lord Ei-

• ,
h. y I 1,11 r: Wentps of 7.m:ter arc entertaining
a ..• .11 party of fashionable* at their scat, Bur-
en. la!t• t art.v.lll et (lichen/lam are, the Ifon.
it. Tllthtirv. 114:r. Mll4. Noel, t4:r T. and lady
I : .r .1 Colonel Bromley, Colontl
• !. I T,•, r:

ny ' it• 'l., .nn. that the inhabitants or cornr
t 1:•• .7,tr to Nlr. Brougham, Mr.
. S'r .',! I :—.llNotl, "ass small mark of
• cir meritorious exertions in

. - cxn natllerived to state, that no elm-
• I r to 2 provition by 1'010n..1
C.•r t! ' • .Aituntvil in an anonymous let-
.. . • ' :'.• ,ierday.) has beim rect ivol by
.. The whole, Out-clove, must

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A ri 1, I
:.a✓ms, './
I 1% hf.'t

a new Theatre, Astaintly
• Soliderhla. by ivay of shares,
oEi,.td by the Marquis of Loth!uu-
-110 .7. r 771.4111,1. m.r.
ii,ath of origitally
i;allery, in which the tt rrcr of
;.1 r, stn-:.a of his Royal Ztlidr...:4 are ro
d 11. Nlr.Prio, one of the 281,2SO:111S,
inal:ctin;t- a deadly wound on the on-
.• ;• a ;.ortrait of (Peter Pin-
r he SY; at 11:4 own otprils tlesirs..
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11. t'o • .

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f.•• • • (•o; xrr I)I NI r.:—At tht• last
II I. Lof thin manly, it was unTost'el, and
' :.• !•the tr.lttlit. n and gentlenivit or the Clunty

• • 1,, ''•+r by ruhl.eription, in tile ir•wly-ereett..l
• • Friday last, the l'alt
.• • • 1.. • for the pima:a., a numerous ant inlay
--! 7 ti tttl 1::n, joined by Zl:Verial nol•legnen and
~! • :1,,m the ailkiiising countfa, about fifty partook
, • i •.• wt.! provided for the occasion.
; ,•:•t.thle the Ea:l of I ( who has
•:.-e the chair, support( by the 'tight
;:..noaral,l, I ,ad .11.eremuitiv on Lib and by 6.-11, ral
Ituff on his left. Sir James
kly P Tr!. er louts, croupier, supportial by Sir John
p . C I. of Craighall, ;.nil Major I lamilton I hant!as of
"1"n. The cloth being removed, many loyal
toasts, arrompanitil with appropriate
! ~,:ren by the Noble Chairman, the ('mupit•r,
odium, and the evening spent with the
Among timse prtaeist were—
E trl f I foroury. ber:rnr.,by. ffer.ernl she flun.
51.1..2 Pr:lira{ the Icon. Alexar tha Puff; sir

'• !) .1) • 11, NW.. John Hop; Barr., Sir NVilliani 8.11111..,
1;•..,.:71:-ir John Mr., J. llope Farr. 611...14iiiis
1:-.I i..jar 116111111 On ILl:ldaa, Alexander 3i.,rjoribanl.s.
C -•..1 31ajor Sher, U. 11. 1:111,,n. Esq.. John
17-1, Ingli;„ La+, C 010114.1 1)..1yr-11, 31.ijor

r 11 Robert
W4' 11.‘s R. 11. Perrier. J. J.
l',l•.ain Ai : ••••n, It. N.. Move's lio)J. S. Norval.
'.4.• .7.;11;, Shvriff Czty. .1. AI orjoritojniku, jun.
`; • Jo:: Alevouler %Veit, Emu. John Ilur.
• ,t. 1:.,1., Ni.now Sandijamls, Esq.,

Cu Aurrn or (',l7.:mt4tc.—On iVeilnectlay

t" thnii.hur of 11 a int ree i•rraented, hy the hands 01'
61•1-,t, Mr. I.t:411 l'mathwaitc, a ('up nail
I.yr: to itab-rt R-;, Ey:. who hag acted so lung its the
011 e n•ItI Semi:try to t1;:-.t t xeulleut
. .

.::e Cup. sthic:i is ornamented with etnble-
•,, t.) etc occasion, is of excellent
• sushi!), and c,rtainly does infinite crciiit to the time
th:i.igher mud the ingt: • y of the arti.t. The
s,ter beam following inscription :
In !,:stitacmy of rusr.33 for his distlnguislall talents,
aril
gratitud: for Iris eminent services

!I no•ttry set-rev— to their .I”oeietinti,
%%; reby
I!, w,ro leer: n%full? yromotetl,
and •rput vion tata;3l;
not aret
T. ;- r: ally pre., nteti by
r I lar '3l: rril t!!C Ch.utiber of Commerce
of the
Vay e.f 1 hablin,

r 4; N
;!!,111, =;:d I

tt•.•.r.irr
Anni.
', A I I. 11:,U.<1 draw the'.r
ili•• l', ,rev et. their impwlea. The hind
run of the I.wee, by which their wci4lit
:ma the power e7.vrted is alr:ays ro-
of the lever, tip., r:ei:7l.it remaining
draw more than small ones.
r • inin..-uhir force, and are tumble
' IT .lens The force of the muscles
• .I.r earr7 Go ward his
~•, Or. in Oilter words, the rairlit of the
l7r;cl::...iit, and the play and force of int
• • -• • . • an los. Abi..roz;
• . • rut Illeihterday cvenin7,
• •.!, .t the wind changed :o the S.W..
• : The theritictnettr, which PH
''' lit n'e!tx.k. stood at So
Y thr "''rye the lVtili:11`; risen to 10. Titer,:
”nno
rat rain li:roit,111 bnt yeat,rday
and Sinte la:t it has aglin blow"
hoot lie with ra:::.—Cefe.l,'l4.4l

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LITERATURE.

TIT" 1,0111:1:N ATIL•As ; A DlssEcTrom l":3l,,Nsi HATH,N or 31EN AND THINGS IN ND Mi..,Cl/1%;11

UT A 11:•11;:!,1 Gai:EIC.
stml

This(' with whom tl,e A:is:Mans may chance not to be
favouri!es will no doubt tat, em this history an ailinirabk
Pfor,r,pi i!F sa?...asins 170111 C bubbling up, fetich and fresh
in t seiy ; tine writer app, ars to have had gooi
orisn:enitiis of ilcs.-1.1.in;! the Inas and subjects %Melt he
node: :11:es to ; :be vivid picture he given of the
mod rj Aq.ens, is 1114 that of " atilt' lanjsyne," but is
fresh 1:3311: it is a delineation of the scenery that
Et.s e.:tracts will enable the
r-ader t^ f:!:111 a :I:Op.:m1a or the work; he will ?creels:
at th.• writ. r eau &Nadi(' forcibly, and reH,ct
: after sketch: o:•, with an pcncil, the
exisrancile: s to lin. wealthy, which arc apt to
follow in rite trait: of lival aid and pron.Aiolial connection
in 1:-.;:iiburch, he adds

.
•• 7.tet. notwitlintaneline, many examples of this kind.
there reinaiee among that part of the Athenian lawyer%
who go by the name o " nun of besineaa," no small de-
gave. leall of mph sat nisi of integrity. while, remota; the
" men of prafession,"—the advocates, Cr IntlOWN of the
Scotch bar. there are R few, for the reasons that were
formerly si anal, the vets choic.at spirits, not of the Athens
merely, hut of all Seotiainl. Though the occasions upon
which these persona d'splay their eloquence be merely of a
private nature—though a very large proportion of them
11.11 T Itt display. cr no opportunity fire dis-
playing it : 7.1 the profeasiun of advocate is the only one
o M.V11•:11,1 which makes the professor of it a gentleman ;
and am mg the people of the Athens, of all chimes, the
special pleaders before the Coons of Session anal Justiciary
—the supreme civil and criminal courts of Scotland, take
a deeper bold of the public mind in the Athens, and en-
gross a greater share of the public attention thaw the
orators of St. Stephen's elo in the British metropolis.
" One reason of this may he the way in which the di(-
' ferent utrts are blentled to.tether, and in which b ' ws
is vomit:coal. The Court of Session is a court of equity,
as well as a court of law ; and this is eatremely favourable
for the pleader, as the two characters blended together in
• the Name ceation give it a rich and popular character,
which it can never have in the still formality of the Eng-
lish room. t:reat part of the pleadines, too, are written,
and this not only keeps the inferior speakers front lowering
the general tone of the lair, but enable.; the more cele-
brat, .1 ton/Mine themselves to such general arguments as
are best caleulatell for oratorical display. Another thing:
I crimitud trials, which arc ever the rook interesting to the
public, are not managott by the fig-enni of the law, as at
the Ohl Bailey ; and the counsel fur the prisoner is net
limited to legal exceptions in the course al the trial, cross-
questionings of witnesses, and motions in arrest of judg-
moo and of punishment, after the jury hare
returned their verdict, and are iwyend the reach of his
eloquent.... however touching or powerful. In the Scotch
critnioal court, whether in the Athens or at the provincial
assizea, the law itself takes care that the pritenter, what-
ever he his crime, shall have the aid of counsel ; anti if
the crime Ire remarkable, either from i. enormity or on
account of the character or rank of the party accused,
then the very first Ci 1111 l i;el at the bar are ranged on his
side. These are allowed full scope. both to attack the
form ef tb' coo, limine, and to throw every suspicion
upon the evidence, and make every appeal to the judg-
merits and passion: of 'lnjury that ingenuity can suggest,
or ehapience apply. The official men who have the con-
ducting of the prosecution, are not only, gent rally speak-
ing, men of touch amaller abilities than those who have
the conducting of the defew, but upon political grounds,
as well as fries that general aversion which men have to
the sanguinary operations of the law, the feeling of the
public is opposed to Bon, and in favour of their anta-
gonists."
lire arc materials fur reflection in this account, front
which our Legislators. on this side the Tweed, might draw
wine useful conclusions :
" Thure WAS OOlOi!c:," b.i continuo's. "with which I ever
was better pleased, or In which I felt Chi England so much
inalior to her northern Ti, ielibonr, as in the conducting of
criminal trials. IMe oho is in the habit of looking in at
that ereat •eittlititiahousa far Ow gallows, the Ind Bailey—
who se s the 1n... ied 111:11111t r in which the life of a man is,
perhaps jostle enough, sworn away—a Ito listens to the few
aerial-ls of advice, and the haw trilling quest ions put by the
s' dense! to alioni the poor culprit has given the last shillino
that he could laia from his weeping tel marks
the anaiety or the counsel till the cave shall come to that
twilit at which he may coldly abandon his miserable
client—the very point at which an appeal to the jury might
turn the male—eannot but feel, when he witnesses the slow
and pathetic aoluninity of the Scotch courts, that he is
211101 r ii:MILTA of other powers.
" A case which brings even Theisseg, r to the bar, is one
of no common importance, and one never by any chance
finds the power, of Brougham, or the acuteness of Sear-
, hat. come in to save a poet- elan front death. But when
I was in the Athens, there was only one trial for a capital
crime, and yet the local sagacity of Monerliff, and the
burning claque:we of deliiey, were exerted for full two
hours, on behalf of the pi isomer ; and exerted, too, in such I
a manner as convinced me that the fee must have been the
very leaat part of their itolneement. I never heard oNto-
tions put with so perfect a knowitak:e both of the general I
principles of law, or the specialities of the particular CPO.,
or evidence so se;entifically dissected, as were done by the
former ; awl the app, al of Jaffrey to the feelings of the
jury, aril even to thus: of the judges, was one of the finest
things 1 ever heard. There are many men far more karmad in
the law than this celebrated Sootehtnan, and many who
can take a far more awe, ping and tonnprehensive view of a
siebject ; but all the little sallies of which his speech con-
sisted, were we sharp as needles, and as shining as ilimnonds.
Their brilliancy made you open your bosom to receive
them, and their keetur as was such that they would have
pined their way in spite of you. Their effect upon the
crowd, d encemters' and upon tile jury, was tremendous;
nor was the Lord Justice (lyric himself, who scented not I
oily a very proud and consequential person in himself, but
by no means a hearty admirer of the barrister, able to realist •
the inihnenc^. 'Alien:oar j,•they tore away a pillar of the
evidence against his client, and clenched the advantage by
an appeal to those paaa, ne which he seemed to know per
well pro iv to touch, there was a ';sacral hum of satisfaction
in the crowd.; the jurors harked up with ryes of new
hope, a:. mock as to say. we shall be able to acquit him
t ;" and the dodge relaxed a little of the lofty severity of
his countenance."

It is certain that in the English system of criminal
jurisprudence, the pre fness of link: and the advancement of
knowledge hale by no means introduces! the correspondent
improvement which they ought to have done. We do not
mean to confine this remark to taw legal system only ; it
may be illustrated by a reference to almost every modern
volume of cur Statute Iblok, as well as to our leading
principles of p
In the chapter on Literature the writer descants, with
' considerable and just severity. on the 'Ace of the A theidan
Press: the :1:.'01',:`4 AN, the Ent , cat non HETI L W.lll.At'L
WIMP'S M k:a 71 aetl the rest of its periodicals, are
brought L,parately moiler discussion:--
•• It is not, ind.rd. fifty year: since there was any thing
like a n frau booLsAler, or a printing-press employed fiir
literary i.urposeit in the Athens. Before that time there
were per:eins wliw sold bibles and catechisms, and ballads,
and penny almanicks, in divers nooks about Libberton
Wynd and the Lock,n Booths; and there were printers
who, w leo a process before the Court of Session became
too volumioetts. or when the parties could not afford to pay
fur as marry written copies as were necessary, put the elo-
quence of the advoratio. and the wisdom of the judges,
into types. occasional parson, too, would become so
far enamoured of his own powers of holding forth, as to
have a rer 111111 l , or homily, upon some question of the cate-
chism, or point ollthet limirewsion of Faith, printed and
; but previous to the year I ;SO it was very rare in-
deed to I:nd an Athenian speculating in any lite-
rary work, the pike of obit+ was to be more than six- I
pence; end as I'r paying a man for literary labour, the
Athenians would as soon have thought of paying a Lapland
witch for rriieuring fowl %leather:l
Ile sneak ; of the Newspapers in Edinburgh as havirg

TITp I!) Folic "' imr!
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been. always dull and spiritless, and considers the Seas-
-710111 as the only one worth naming ; lie might, we think,
have added the eartiman Mercury. In the provincial
pmts of Scotland, he met with several journals written with
great taste, spirit, and liberality:—
I " lint the greatest and most extraordinary step that ever
was taken in the periodical literature of the Athens, or
indeed of any country. war the appearance of the Elm:-
111,114 M Rvt w—a work, the boldness, spirit, and
Minty of which were at tae time altogether unprecedented,
and which never yet have been, anti probably never will
be, equalled. The Etlitiburgh Review was happy both in
the time and the manner of its appearance. Periodical
literature had been quite stn cant in the Athens from the
time of the Loungers and :11irmrs ; and they had become
ton trifling for the awakened anti agitated spirit of the age.
In London there were smile reviews, but the best of them
were in the hands or rrligibus sectaries, who puzzled them-
selves and Omni d their readers with questions veltioh
nobody could solve, and nobody would have taken the
trouble to solve, even if they could. The whole of them
were either tame or timid ; and folks continued to buy them
rather with a view of keeping their sets unbroken till
chance should introduce. ant, ndinent, than from any desire
to read them. The war which had just terminated bad
lien expensive, and etc:piing these for whom of bad
been obtained, there was nobody with whom it had ever
been popular ; and the war that was liegi,ining, or bomn.
had not much to recommend it. There was, indeed, much
to say against the conduct of the continental courts, and even
against that of the English administration ; people were well
prepared and anxious to it. ar it ; and there was no publica-
tion of the day of sutteient interest in any way to divide or
divert the attention. The Review canto like tI ter; and,
to give it more title. it come lA, Ithstioder when the air is
still, and when men are listening

" Great, however. as was thoialent displayed in the
Review, and wide and wondetfid as was the sensation
which it produell upon its vary first appearance, the
Athens lead little merit in it, except the mere name. The
publisher, though be substquendy rose as high in that
trade as any English publisher of the time, was then but
a young man, not stench known, and not much recognised
or esteem. 4 by the Athenians ; the editor was also a young
man, recently retunted front England ; and the most
spirited contributory to the very early numbers, lead L; no
:mans had their minds femur klllOll the Athenian model.
The effect which the Review prbduced was alio not per-
haps so great in the Athens as in London ; and it was
only when it had taken its place in the literary world, and
the acknowledgment of it was an honour, that the Athenians
began to identify it with themselves, and at no time was
the identification general,—nor could the whole talent of
the Athens, even ullen in its best days, have supported
the Review for a single year.
" Resides, though the real ability of the Edinburgh
Review was great, the vast popularity which it so speedily
ebtained, and the brilliant course which it ran, were un-
questionably in,re owing to the novelty of its plan, anal
the fact cf its advocating those political principles which
were agreeable to the mrjurity of people at the time, than
to its merits.

" One cause of the rise of the Edinburgh Review, and
perhaps also one caul:: of its comparative fall, is the uni-
formity with which it has all along followed the Whig
party. Before that party got into office, and when, in
consequence of their boldness and lofty pretensions as op-
positionists, the opinions of the Edinburgh Review,—at
least, its politicakopinions,—which were all along the ones
upon which the greater part of its celebrity rested,-were
by many ree ived as the infallible oracles of truth; and
when the trial which the country had had of that party
shook them a little in public estimation, though the
Review received a sheep: along with them, it still re-
tained a eansiderable portion of i:s But, as the
opinions of milt h. came a little more liberal, and the fre-
quency of disappointment made them more and more sus-
picious of all parties, some Jesuitical articles in the Re-
view, on the subjects of rep reaentation and reform, shook
the confidence of the people in it ; while, much about die
same dine, or, at le.ug, not long afterwards, the failure of its
prophecies with regard to the ultimate success of Bona-
parte laid it open to the attacks of the Tories. For the first
of these suspicious there appeared lobe but too much fetus-
dation ; and though the latter was more Jesuitical than
just, still it was the interest of the parties to pros it to ex.
minify. When the Edinburgh Revit w rcilicted the
ultimate triumph of Napoleon, it did not, of eourve, antici-
pate, that he noted, with the Example of Charles XII.
before him, undertake so hazardous an enterprise as a
winter campaign into the interior of Russia ; hut d.!
Review did not cuter a 'sweat against such an excursion ;
and, therefore, it was held as prophesying in the face of
this as well as of all the other chances.
" I hare naticed those circumstances with a view of
showing, not only that the absolute literary merits of the
Edinburgh Itcview were not the sole cause of its popu-
larity, but that even though they had, the merit sloes not in
the whole, or even in the greater part, belong to the Athens.
The Athens never could, of her own will, ability, end pa-
tronage, support a single literary man; and it could not
well be expected that she could, fur any length of time,
support a literary work."
This I listory of the Athena, as will be seen, embraces a
wide scope of observation ; and is not the le., acceptable fur
being condensed within the compass of a single volume.

A new Company is a!'nut to be formed in Paris, the
object of which is to ciean ttie streets of the Capilal, a
thing wanted indeed at this moment. Tic Mules:Hs arc
literally, re undo-stir-Al. at present, a canal of mad. and
do not appear to have been cleansed since the King's en-
try into the city.

The weather in P.7ris is exceedingly mild, hut mrtist and
rainy • the rose-trees are, in many places, in full hearii.g;
the thermometer in general about tl or It) 4leerees of Itt.au-
tour. There lIAJI heen only one nicht of slight frost this
winter as yet. and France appears, in general. to hare been
wholly eximpt from the numerous calamities tliUt, have
visited other parts of the world of late.

Yesterday looming, at half-pant eleven o'clock, the body
of the mother of Mrs. Fauntleroy was removed from the
residence of the latter, in Arundel-street, for interment.
The ',roe, mion consird4tl of a hearse and four, preceded by
a lid of pintoes. and followed by two mourning-coaches
and pair. 19 the coach which immediately followed the
hearse were Mrs. Fauntleroy'r ann, another youth, appa-
rently of the Rallle age, and two elderly gentlemen. Three
gm'atkmtn occupied the seemal coach. There were nut
more persons assembled than are ordinarily attracted by the
apiwaranee of a burial ceremony. Mrs. F.tantleroy conti-
nues absordetl in the deepest immtd distress.

A Morning l'aper contains die following extract of a
letter from Naples, dated Dec. fir—

" I am sorry to ccmniumeate an recount of a very unfortunate
esecurrence which took place near ihestimi three days ago. The
hoe v.en.her 1,3 d illtr,Clt4l 1C111.131 English parties t• view the
ruins, situate, as you know, in a marsh. shirts pestilential ethala.
tiona render barely habitable. The few inhabitants at: not much
removed from HIM/AM. A lady, with her two daughters, 01 le.
turning. were stopped and robbed by three !nen with their fare
masked; they were, however, suffered praersel without forther
violence. This lady's carriage was 6.114.W1R1 at • tiwr: t!iNtur;Le by
that of Mr. Hunt, hde High Sherif'. of Northamptoashire, tour
was 11CMIlirittliell by his key. They CRC stopper! t i the same
pally. the demanding hit 'holey, %Ir. flow g3V7 rheum a purse
containiwt four dollars and a few carlios, deeds:Mg that he carried
no more. money alon. iiim. To errivitice tbein of this he
even requested a few earlins to carry him to Naples. They replied,
' We know you hare more, and If you do tint atortn,ler it you
malt die.' Mr. Ihint replied, • You dare not ?hoot at thin time of
114; lie had searr:ly ti•tered this oinervatioa %rhea a shot wax
fired, and a ball entered his left breast, passing out at the right
side; although it getli:4 only one piece ws discharged., another
bull struck 3lrs. Ilunt in :it: left bra-,0, and pass-el through the
lungs. The foremost rol.ber instawaly torts l routal. crying,
• Ifilio fired that shot ?' and the three in:ntediat..ly ran ea without
seen-Nog for plunder. Some °hirers of the Itevttige w•-re within
hearing, who conveyed them to the iisiseraLle place called an inn
at Pastas's. where Mr. flont &anent intin,.l4,,,te, ex_
pretsing his regret at having n Cued 1t.,. IllOney. Ar,i,o3,..ee:Each
as could he had, was proaned. ()re of the officers even returned
to Naples. sod pros-wed an I:hglisli ourgeon, to.4ohee with send_
artery. Mrs. blunt recovered in a sli!!ht t!,gree, but orris lingered
till )astertlay, when she e•.pirell. 3lr. Hunt only Oita:
he was in possession 01 lar;•e property, ;:rd 4,1 only been married
seven mot s. s. This evrnt has ranted a grer.e sensation snot.;; the ,
English here. A number of i;entli.nnes were immediately sent'
Loan Naples to search fur the peepetrsiont of this crime, but such
a pollee t4s ousts here is not likely to discover them. It is evident
that they were 1..,r professional brigands,. or they would no, hate
teen so alarmed as !lb have nisi:levied thatjut: .. 1
etfert el their tire anus."