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CATHOLIC PETITION.

Mr. FOX said, he never rose in that House with
more diffidence and anxiety than on the present oc-
casion, when he had to present a Petition from the
great body of the Roman Catholics in Ireland,
praying to be relieved from the various disabilities
under which they at present laboured. He moved
that the said Petition be brought up; which was
ordered. The Petition was then read. It was as
follows :

To the Right lionotireble end litneeerahlt the ite;ghts, (linens,
Boa'vises, .y. the United Kingdom .j Glees Bridge/I end Ire.
lota, Ptirlieinint esotahtell.
The humble Petaion of the Roman Catholics of Ireland,

whtloc times are hereunto subsciibed, ou Behalf of
themselves and of others Ho Majesty's Subjects,
prof.,..ing the Roman Catholic Religion,

Sheweth—.:that your Petitioners are steadfastly attached
to the Person, Family, and Government, of their Most Gra-
cious Sovereign; that they are impressed with sentiments of
oer•innate gratitude for the benign laws which have been
enacted far meliorating their condition during his paternal
reign, and that they contemplat,, with rational and decided
predilection, the admirable principles of the B h Consti-
tution.

Your Petitioners most humbly state, that they have, so
lemnly and publicly, taken the oaths by law prescribed to His
Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects, as tests of political and
moral principles; and they confidently appeal to the sullerints
which they have long endured, and the sacrifices which they
still make, rather than violate their consciences (by taking
oaths of a religious or spiritual import contrary to their !belief),
as deci.ire proofs of their profound and scrupulous reverence fur
the sacred obliation of an Guth.

Your Petit ttttt er. beg leave to represent that by those awful
te,ts they bind themselves, in the presence of the all seeing
Deity, whom all classes of Christians adore, " to be faithful
" and bear true allegiance to their most gracious Sovereign
" LurJ King George the Thud, and him to defend to the ut-
1T1U44 of their power against all conspiracies and attempts
" what-rover that shall be made against his person, crown,
" or dignity , to de their utmost endeavours to di,close and
" make known to His Majesty and bis heirs a 9 treasons
" and traitorous conspiracies which may he formed against
rs how or them, and faithfully to maintain, support, and de-
" fend, to the utmost of their poster, the succession to

" the Crown in His Majesty's family apir.st any
pew
" or persons whatsoever."—" That, by thane oaths, mei
" renounce and abjure obedience and allegiance unto"
*t other person claiming or pretending a right to the Cie%
of this Realm :—that they reject and detest,..as unchristiag,
" and impious to believe, that it is lawful in any ways so
" injure any person or persons whatio:!ver under pretence If
" their being Heretics, and also that urielinstian and im-
" pious principle,—that no faith is to be kept with Heretics;
" that it is no article of their faith, and that they renounce,
" reject, and ahjore the opinion, that Princes, excommum•
rr rated by the Pope and Council, or by any antoority Mut.
" sumer, may be depescd or murder. d by their subject',
" by any person whatsoever; that they do not believe it. t
" the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign
" Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath or ought to brae
" any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, supeiioritr, ur
sr preeminence, within this realm ; that they firmly believe,
" that no act, in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, cm era
" be justified or excused b., or under pretenc • or colv.r, t
st
•' it Was done for the meet of the Church, or in o!,, ,t .• t' r t
" ally Ecclesiastical Power whatsoever ; and that it is 1-.4 ,
" Article of the Catholic Faith, neither are they they, hr
" (mired to believe or prof, s', that the Pipe is iiirallitee,
" that they are bound to any order, in its owl; 1.41. re 1611110,111,
" though the Pope or any Ecclesiastical Power should ifilllt44
" direct such order; but, that, on the contrary, they hold,
" that it would he sinful in them to pay ally respect or abode
" ence thereto; that they do not believe, that any sin ohn-
r. soever,coninsitted by them, call b.: forgiven at the 13i,ril
Vlll
" of airy Pope or of any Priest, or of aiiy person or pen,,
" whatsoever but that any person, who receives &twilit.
r• lion, without a sincere sorrow fee such iin, and a firm arid
rr sincere resolution to avoid future guilt, and to moue is
" God, so far fi.ini obtaining thereby any reinismon of home,
" incurs the additional guilt of violating a sacrament; MI,
r• by the same solemn °Algal ion, " they are bound asel firmly
" pledged to defend, to the utmost of their power, the set.
" dement and arrangement of property in their cuti-itiy,
" established by the laws now in being ; that they have its.
" claimed, disavowed, and solemnly abjured any intention to
" subvert the present Church estahlithrnent fur the purpose of
" substituting a Catholic establishment in its stead ;" and that
they have also solemnly sworn, " that they will not exercise
" any privilege, to which they are nr may become entitled, to
" disturb or weaken the Protestant Religion or Protestant Go.
" 'eminent in Ireland."

Your Petitioners most humbly beg leave to thew, that, how
ever painful it 14 to their feeling.. that it should still be thane.'
isecevary to exact such Tests from then (and from them
alone of all His Majesty's subjects), they can with perk, t
truth affirm, that the political and mural principles, which aye
thereby ass..,rted, arc not only conformable to their opinions,
brt exptes•ly inculcated by the religion which they profess,
and your Petitioners most humbly trust, that the religion;
4o:trines, which permit such Test. to he taken, will be 0-
trounced by this Honourable llowse to be entailed to A Toler,
tion, not merely pane!, but complete, under the hap?. Cu..
stitnlion and Government of this Realm ; and that Ilis M..
Hity's Roman Catholic Sienects, holding those principles, wi I
be considered as Subjects, pun %thaw, fidelity the State may
repose the firmest reliance.

Your Petitioners further most humbly thew, that twenty-
six years have now elapsed since tb,'ir most gracious Soros/Sp
and the Honourable Houses of Parliament in Ireland, by their
public and deliberate act, dcelarei, that, si from the uniform
peaceable behaviour of the Roman Catholics of Ireland fee a
long .e: es of years, it appeared reasonable and expedient to
relax the disibilittei and Meapacities under which they Is-
booted, and that it must tend not only to the cultivation end
improvement of this kingdom, but to the piosperity and
strength of all His Majesty's dominions, that His Majesty's
subjects of all denominations should enjoy the blessings of •
ties commotion, and should he bound to each other by mu-
tual interest and !maw.' aflibetion,- a declaration, founded upon
unerring principles of justice sod sound policy, wliieh still re-
mains to be c.irried into full effect, although your Petitioners
are impressed with a belief, that the appreheusions which
retarded its beneficial operation previous to the Union, cannot
exist in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
For your Prtitioners most humbly shew, that, by virtue
of divers statutes now in force, His Majesty's Roman Catholic
subjects, wito form so great a proportion of the populating
of Ireland, and contrihute so largely to the resources of the
State, do yet labour under many incapacities, restraints, and
privations, whi.:l% affect them with peculiar severity in alm-rat
every station of Ilfc ; that 1110(11 especially they are denied Cie
capacity of sitting or voting in either of the Honourable
Houses of Parliament; the manifold evils vinseqiient upon
which incapacity they trust it is unnecessary to unfold 01,4
enumerate to this Honourable House.

They are disabled from holding or exercising (unless by
a special dispensation) any corporate office whatsoever in the
reties or towns In which they reside; they are incapacitated
and disqualified from holding or exercising the offices...l'
Sheriff. and Subslwariffs, and various offices of trust, honour,
and emolument in the State, in Ha Majesty's military a d
naval service, and in the administiation of the laws, iu
their native land.

Your Petitioner., declining In Inter into the painful de-
tail of the many incapacitiaa and incoareinericise avowedly in-

flicted ►y those statutes, upon His bilaieny's Roman Cathol..,
subjects, beg leave, however, 11104 t earnatly to solicit the
ct-
tention of this/Tom House, to the humiliating and igernsiniu
system of exclusion, reproach, and suseicion, winds thos,
statutes generate and keep alive.

Fur your Petitioners mmt humbly chew, that in ronse•
quence of the hostile spirit thereby sanctioned, their hopes of
enjoying even the privileges, which, through the benignity of
their mint gracious Sovereign, they have been capacitated to en-
joy, are nearly *ltogether frustrated, insomuch that they are.
in @feet, shut out front almost 41 the honours, dignities, and
offices of trust and emoiunient in the State, from rank and
distinction in His Majesty's Army and Navy, and even (run'
the lower situations and franchises in the several cities and
corporate towns throughout His Majesty's dominions.
And your Petitioners severely feel, that this unqualified
interdiction of those of their Cornrow. ~,,, from all Municipal
station., from the franchises of all Gitt!rts and C. reoratioes,
and frewithe patronage and benefits annexed to those situa-
tions, is an evil not terminating in itself ; for they beg lone to'
state, that by giving an advantage over thioe of their Con.

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pWer‘ed, it establishes a species of qualified monopole, uni-
'emaily operating in -.heir disfavour, contrary to the spirit, and
highly detrimental to the freedom of trade.
Your Petitioners likewise severely feel, that His Majes-
ty % Roman Catholic subjects, in consequence of their exclu-
sion from the °Mem of Sheriffs and Subsheriffi, and of the
senile spirit of those Statutes, do not fully enjoy certain other
).estimable privileges of the British Constitution, which the
law has most jealously maintained and secured to their fellow
subjects.
Your Petitioners most humbly beg leave to solicit the at-
tention of this Honourable House to the distinction which hat
conced-cl the elective, and denies the representative franchise
p one and the same class of His Majesty's subjects; which
kuehes from property its proportion of political power under
sconetitution, whose vital principle is the union of the one
sith the other; which closes every avenue of legalised amhi-
gun agaiort those who must be presumed to have great credit
and influence among the mass of the population of the country ;
wh.cl. refuses to Peers of the realm all share in the legislative
representation, either actual or virtual, and renders the liberal
pvfescion of the law to Roman Catholics a mere object of pe-
cuniary traffic, despoiled of its hopes and of its honours.

Your Petitioners further most humbly thew, that the ex-
clusion of so numerous and efficient a portion of Ills Majesty's
subject, as the Roman Catholics of this realm, from civil ho-
neys and offices, and from advancement in His Majesty's
army and navy, actually impairs, In a very material degree,
the rut satiable I.llollftel of the British Empire, by imped-
ing His Majesty's general service, stifling the most honourable
asapowerful incentives to civil and military merit, and urine-
mum& Nstricting the exeicise of that bright prerog rtive of
the Crown, which encourages rind subjects to promote the
public welfsre, and excites them to meritorious actions, by a
well regulated diet ibinlion of public honours and rewards.
Your Petitioners beg leave most humbly to submit, that
these manifold its:apaches, restraints, and privations, arc oh-
auluwly repugnant to the liberal and comprehensive princi-
pks recognised by their reuse gracious St.vereign and the Par-
liament of Ireland: that the/ are impolitic restraints upon
His Majesty's prerogative ; that they are hirtful and vexatious
to the feelings of a loyal and generous people ; and 'hat the
total abolition of then, wall be found not only compatible with,
but highly eonduciv: to the perfect security of every establish-
ment, religi.in or political,now existing in this realm.
For pour Petitioners most explicitly declare, that they do
riot seek or wish, in the remotest degree, to injure or encroach
spout " the Rights, Privileges, Ilinmunitiii, Possessions, or
Revenues, appertaining to the Bishops and Clergy of the Pate-
stint Religion, u by Law established, or to the Churches com-
mitted to their charge, or to any of them " The sole o►jest
aria Petitioners being an equal participation, upon equal
terms wiih their fellow subjects, of the full benefits of the British
Laws and Constitution.

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Tour Petitioners beg leave most humbly to observe,
that, 7,.though they might well and justly in-ist upon the
Inn and unabated loyalty of Ile Majesty's Roman Catholic
sub:Teti to their most gracious Sovereign, their profound re
spiel lot the Legi4ature, and their dutiful euhinissiiin tii the
yet they most esiyecially rest their he able claims and
expectations of relief upon the clear and manifeit conducive
sew of the meteors, which they when, to the gerwral and
permanent tranquillity, Strength, and happiness, of the Bri-
nell Empire. And your Petitioners, entertaining no doubt of
its heal acrumplisianumt, from its evitlei,t justice and utility,
do moot solemnly enure this Honourable House, that their
earnest solicitude fee it this peculiar crisis, arises principally
hoe their engines ilesieto extinguish all motives to di o.lPwn,
and all means of exciting discontent.

For your Petitioners humbly state it as their derided npi
Mini, that the commies of the British Empire, who meditate
the subjugitinn of Ireland, have no hope u! success, save in
the disunion of its inhabitants ; and therefore it is, that your
Petitioners are deecly anxious, at this moment, that a mea.
sure sh mid be accomplished, which wi:l annihilate the prin-
eo:e of rergious animosity, and animate all descriptions of
Hit Majesty's subjects in an enthusiastic defence of the ►est
Constitution that has ever yet been estahlathed.
Your Petitioners, therefore, Writ humbly presume to ex-
press their earnest, but respectful hope, that this Honourable
Haile wdl, in its wisdom and liberality, deem the several
statutes, now in free ligation them, no longer needs.
.any to be retained, and that His Majesty's loyal and
dutiful subjects, professing the Roman Catholic Religion,
may be efectually relieved front the operation of those sta-
tutes, and tat to they may be restored to the full enjoyment
athe benef.ts of the British Constitution, and to every induce.
mentor attaehment tothat Constitution, equally mid in emo-
tion wuh their fellow subjects throughout the British Empire.
And your Petitioners will ever pray, Ste.

Shrewsbury, Waterford, and Wexford; Fingal!, ken.
mare, Gormanstown, Snuthwell, Trindestown, Robert Plun-
kett, Thomas B all, Thomas French, Bt. Edward Bellew,
Fraikis Goold, Rt. Thomas Ryan, James Ryan, Edward
Moore, John Purcell, M D. Thomas Egan, M. D. Ambrose
O'Farnpl, Richard Bolger, Randal Mac-Donnell, Chribto-
Pher D. Bellew, Anthony Donelan, Jahn liartney, Gerane
Wiltiam Bigot, O'Clonoghue of the Olina, Hugh O'Connor,
Pierce O'Brien Butler, John O'Reilly, Thomas O'Connor,
John Rorke, lames Nowlan, jun. Nicholas Fleming, Denis
Thomas O'Brien, James Scully, Denys Scully, Janie. Bangle,
Antony O'Otinel, M. D. Thomas Warren, John Duffy, Ri-
chard Same, Bartholomew Taylor, Joseph Tay In., Citarlm
Ryan, Francis Cruise, Nicholas Gartnnn, Valentine O'Con-
nor, Walter Damian, Francis Coleman, Lewis Ward,
James P. Ward, Valentine O'Connor, jun. Thomas Fitzge-
rald, Dandliinchy, James Hamm, Edward Ryan, John But ke,
Edward Burke, James Byrne, John Bnmnan, Jeremiah Ryan,
Bcrse Barron, Was. Buren, Charles Byrne, Dominick Rice,
Ambr. Moore, Randell P. Mac Donnell, Enea
Jahn Byrne, Robert Caddel, Daniel O'Conneli, Ihrimor Barry,
John Wm, M. F. Lynch, Thomas Chriaopher
Taylor, Philip Roche, Charles Roche. Elias Corballe, John
mile, Thomas Fitzgerald, Richard Strange, Do.n.
George Goo d, Makacny Dunel-o, WdLaiii
Robert French, Maurice O'Connell, DaGiel Cronzt,
Daniel
Mahoay, James Ryan, Gerald Ay!itirr, T;,041111 'Laura).
ohm Whyte, John Roche, Thomas Redington.
• Grainger, fl Trant, R. S. Keating.
Mr. FOX moved that the Petit:on do lift on the
•—On the quection being put,

Ti BRITISH PKESA

LONDON,
TUESDAY. MA RCM 46.

The Hamburgh Mail, due on Sunday, arrived
yesterday, with papers to the 20th, and last night
we received Paris Papers to the 18th. The latter
contain a letter from on board the Hortense, one of
the French frigates that lately engaged the Arrow
and Acheron, in the Mediterranean ; the patticulars
of which, combined with the following letter from
Malta, received yesterday, afford str.mg ground
to believe, that the Toulon fleet is gone to Egypt :

.. Malta, Feb. 9, 1805.

rt At present there is an embargo laid here on all rereads,
under English colours, till we learn where the French Hem
which slipped out of Toulon is gone. Lord Nehuris with
the British fleet, paned here fire days since, in pur,uit
of them. They are supposed to be gone to Egypt I
assure you, the fleet's being out has put every thing here
to the stand ; but the frigates and sloop* are detached in
every direction, in pursuit of them. One of the French eighty
gun ship, being disauled, waschased into Corsica, six days since,
by the Pl:mbe I ri4ate; the remainder of them, consisting of ele
veil sail of the lime, NO eight frigates, have not since been
heard uf. Lord Nelson's fleet consists of eleven sail of the line
and two frigate;, which were under weigh, and at sea. In
forty minutes afta-r, the Sea Gorse huratit (she being the look-
out frigate, and was nearly captured by them), gave the signal
for their being out."

From this letter, and several concurrent accounts,
s may assume it as a fact, that Lord Nat.so -on-
ceived that the Toulon fleet was bound for Egypt,
and that he shaped his course accordingly. But the
letter from on board the Ifirtenu affords more satis-
factory grounds for argument. The early ac-
counts induced an opinion that a ship of the
line and the two frigates that fell in with our
Mediterranean convoy, had separated from the
Toulon fleet in a storm, and it was fair to presume
that the rest of the squadron had suffered from the
same cause. Bence the report of its return to Toulon
was readily believed. We find, however, now, that
these frigates did not put to sea until after the Tou-
lon squadron had sailed ; and although they en-
countered bad weather up to the Ist of February, it
does not appear that they or our Mediterranean
fleet, which they fell in with upon that day, had
sustained any damage by storm. The frigates also
steered a southern direction, the very track which
the fleet had taken two days before, until they came
within sight of the coast of Africa ; and it is not
easy to conceive, that if the fleet had been forced
back within four days after it sailed, as stated by
the Mansteste, that they must not have met with
some part of it. These circumstances all increase the
probability that the Toulon squadron has proceeded
for its destination ; and if so, its object must be
within the Mediterranean. The letter says, that as
soon as the frigates came within sight of the Afri-
can coast, they shaped their course to the West ;
but it is clear, from the context, that they expected
to fall in with the squadron only in their southern
course. Failing in that, they were probably in-
duced by the state of the wind, or a desire of reach-
ing a Spanish port, to proceed westward.
It appears from an article in one of the Hamburgh
papers, that new and important changes are soon
likely to take place in the Spanish Government.
If the report of the removal of all the other Ser-
vants of the Crown, and the appointment of the
PRINce or Peace, as the only Minister, be true,
a complete revolution in Spain is not at a great
distance.

The Catholic Petition was presented last night in
the House of Peers by Lord GRINVIL LC, and order-
ed to be laid upon the table. Lnrd HAWK rxnuav,
at the same time, gave notice of his determination
to oppose it, when it should be brought forward for
discussion. It was also presented in the house of
Commons by Mr. Fox ; and the 9th of May was
fixed for the discussion of the merits.

Earl MOIR A, we undersund, has resigned the
Chief Command in Scotland The ill health of the
Countess of Lotmoim is supposed, by some, to be the
cause ; others say, that his Lordship has taken of.
fence, one of the regiments under his command
having been ordere,l to join the expedition, without
any previous communication with his Lordship.

ROYAL sociEtr OF MUSICIANS.

The Oratorio of Semen was rehearsed last even-
ing, at the Hanover Square Rooms, preparatory to
its performance to-morrow, under the patronage,
and by command of Their M csrits, for the be-
nefit of the above Society. The rehearsal was public,
and the middle of the room wits respeflably filled.—
The Duke of Cumseet. Arm was present. by the or-
ders of the Diredors of the Concert of Ancient
Music, the performance is supported by the artists
of that excellent Concert, with the addition
of Siguora GRAMS,. During the first Att, most
of the Chorus-Singers were mute, and Mr. G. It AT.
ott ex, the Conductor, observing their dumb condi-
tion, repeatedly desired all those who could sing,
and would not sing, to leave the Orchestra. They
did not obey—and, in the course of the second ad,
they seemed to have recovered their voices.—
At the third aft, however, almost all the sweet
warblers had taken wing, and only four returned
to the orchestra. Upon enquiry into the cause, we
have learned that the spirit of combination has
found its way into the orchestra, and diffused dis-
cord in the very regions of melody. The perform-
ers of the Concert of Antient Music have reludantly
submitted for several years past to sing without re.
muneration, for the benefit of the Royal Society of
Musicians ; and a second benefit concert for the
latter being commanded this season, they have be-
come still more discontented, and have resolved to
.bile—but not the lyre nor the lute. As a farther
reason in justification of this conduct, they say that
the Royal Society of Musicians is worth 50,0001.
and they have no conneCtion with it. The chorus
singers who have struck, have signed a round rein.
not to sing without payment.

Yesterday morning, His MAI esr v, and the Prin-
cesses SOPHIA and AMELIA, attendest by Generals
FITZROY and MA NNE'S, and the Hon. Mr. EGER-
TON, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great
Park.

Iler MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES took an air-
ing to Frogmere.
On Sunday evening, a Selection from the Sacred
Oratorio of gephihis was performed before 'Their
MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES, and a select party,
at the Music Room, in Windsor Castle, by the
Gentlemen of the Windsor Choir.

Last night Theis MAJESTIES had a Concert in the
same room ; the music was selefted from the works
Of HANDEL, CROk'r, Boyce, KENT, &c.
This day the Ito v at. FAMILY come to town, and
honour Covent-Garden Theatre with their presence.
Last night the Yang ltaseteu performed the part
of Homo with increased success.

To-morrow night there will be a grand seleAion
of SacreJ Music performed at Leeds Miss Jacoss,
the pupil of Mrs. Caoucii, is the only female vocal
performer.
The Falmouth Theatrical Company conclude
their campaign on Friday next, and proceed on to
Penzance, where they commence on the 3d of April.
The Earl of Sur rote left town yesterday for
Seven Oaks, Kent.
Sir RICKARD HA RDINGF, Bart. has taken a house
in Hertford-street, May Fair.
The Countess of Coot. stoistmaz will give a
grand rout on the 29th of Match.
Tho Maiquis of DONEGAL' In an Irish Paper,
offers a reward of fifty pounds for the destroyer of
his and the same suns for the murderer of
his Ilk intpty,
On Thursday last the Gentlemen of Southampton
and the neighbourhood save a ball and most elegant
supper, a; the Dolphins Inn, to the Officers of the
sth Light Dragoons, which was very numerously
attended.

Mr. ROBINSON had a select party to dinner yes-
terday, at his houve in Albemarle-street.

The benefits. at the Portsmouth 1 heatre have
been unusually produdive this season ; that of Mrs.
Jaavoust, to-morrow night, will be patronised by
the Lady of Admiral NIONT SOUL.
We have authority to stare, that Madame GRAM
SINI will take a pair in the Oratorio of Samisen,
which will be perfiirined to-morrow, by command
of Their MaaEiri es, tot the benefit f the Royal So-
ciety of Musicians.
The daily services at St. George's Chapel, Wind-
sor, will be discontinued, after Sunday next, on ac-
count of the preparations for the Installaticn of the
Knights of the Garter, which will take place on St.
George's Day; and, although much has been said of
the exorbitant demands made for places to see the
exhibition, several apartments are now to lett in
Windsor Castle, on moderate terms.

The late Earl of MASSAREENI has devised his
whole property to his widowed Countess; and his
successor has entered a caveat against the will,
and served notices on the tenants : and her Lady-
ship, by an advertisement in The Belfast News Letter,
declares her intention of maintaining her right.
Mrs.• kat v, of the Portsmouth Theatre, has
been presented with a new dramatic martens; for her
benefit, founded upon the anecdote of CORN [Lis
(SCI Ws daughter) chewing her children as her
gems and jewels. Mrs. K.'s six children will, on
this occasion, be produced upon the stage.
On Friday died, after a long illness. at Stoke, the
Right Hon. Lord Gaoacc Lermoz, Gniernor of
Plymouth, Colonel of the 2Sth regiment of foot, and
only brother to his Grace the Duke of Iticfmorin.
Elis Lordship was in his 68th year, and married
Lady LOUISA Kr ma, daughter of the Earl of AN.
114, by whom he has lett Gen. Lan Nox, Coun-
tess BA TIMIS and the Hun. Mrs. BIAKELLY.

In all the circles which have taken place at tae
Court, at night, tables for play are laid out in the
Hall of the Throne, and in the other apartments.—
['he Empress and the Princesses play each at differ-
ent tables. When the parties are arranged, the
Chamberlains distribute the cards, to 6x the places
at the several tables. The Emperor never allows
the play for any thing but mere amusement, or some
trifling sum. He seldom play,, but, when he does.
be rieres at an early hour. lie is fond of dancing,
bat only in a small seled circle. Sometimes he re-
quests the Princess Louis to give him a Eall, and he
gives her a list of the o,s whom he wishes to be
invited. The number seldom exceeds 90. The
Princess Louis, in conformity with this arrange-
ment, lately gave a little ball, at which the Empe-
ror danced. Among others, he danced two favourite
conire.danees, of which be was very fond, when a
boy ."—(Jorrndel de Paris.)