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London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

WALPOLFS PORTRAITURE of FREDERICK
PRINCE of WALES.

.0n the death of .this personage, WALpoLE gives
the followinz surfimary of his character and conduct.
his by no means sketched in the spirit of the Vision
of Judgment. None but Court Luureats should be
trusted with the delineation of royalty. There are
passages. here which give birth to reflections that
" maltis :,the whole heart sick." What a pity that
these' actbrs in the great political Damen should
ever draw up the curtain . . .

" Thus died FREDZINCK, Prince of Wales! having re-
scrabled his pattern, the hack Prince, in nothing but in dy-
ing before his father. Indeed it was nut his fault if he had not I
distinguished himself by_ any warlike achievements. lie had
solicited the command ofthe tem,' in Scotland daring the last
rebellion ; though that ambition was ascribed rather to his
jdalousy of his brother, than to his courage. A hard judg,
ment! for what he could ho did! When the royal anny lay
before Carlisle, the Prince, at • great supper that he
gave to his Court and his favourites, as was his custom
adieu the Princess laid in, bad ordered for the dessert
the representation of the citadel of Carlisle, in paste,
which ho in person, and the maids of honour, bombarded
with, suganplums! Ile bad disagreed with the King
and Queen early after his coming to EnglUnd ; not
entirely by his own fault. The King bad refused to pay what
dsbts be baa left in Hanover, and it ran a little in the blood
(Mho family to bite the eldesf son. The Prince himself bad
so far not degenerated, though a better natured nun and a
better father, as to be fondest of bissecendson Prince Edward.
The Queen bad exerted more authority, joined to a narrow
prying into his conduct, than be liked; and Princess Emily,
who had been admitted into his greatest confidence, had not
fhaeilea her duty to the Queen by concealing any of his secrete
that might do him prejudice. Lord Bolingbroke, who had
sowed a division i• the Pretender's Court, by the scheme for
the father's resigning his claim to the eldest boy, repeated
the $.llllO plan or dlicord here, on the first notice of the Prince's
disgust% and the whole Opposition was instructed to offer
their services to the heir apparent, against the Crown
and the Minister. The Prince was sensible to flattery,
and. bad a sort of parts that made him relish the sort of
parts of Lord Chesterfield, Doddington, and Lyttelton, the
latter of whom, being introduced by Doildington, bad
wrought the disgrace or his protector. Whoever was un-
welcome at St. James's was sure of countenance at the
Prince's apartments there. He was in vain reprimanded
for Ong want of respect. at task having hurried the Princess
frum 'hippie+) Court. vibes stie was is actual labour, to the

imminent danger of herb amil-ber child's life, without ac-

vinaiuting•eititie King or Queen, the formal breech ensued, he
Aaviag added to this insult a total silence to his mother ; but on
ber arriving immediately to visit the Princess, and w bile be led
her to ber toads, as soon as he came ire sight of the populace,
A. knifit dews in Out dirt and kisied her hand with the most
resreeklia sins cif duty. He immediately went all lengths of
Opposithist and popularity, till the fall of Sir Robert Walpole,
vibes he was reconciled to, though never afterwards spoken
to by the King. On Lord Graoville's disgrace be again
pew out of humour; but after baying been betrayed and de-
serted by all be had obliged, be did not erect a new stand-
ard of opposition till the P s had bought off every
man of genius that might have promoted his views. Indeed
bis attachment to his followers was not stronger than theirs
to him. Being angry with Lord Dunoraile fur not speaking
oftener in the House of Commons, he said, " Does he think
1 will support him unless he does es I womld hare him 1 Does
he not copsider that whoever are my Ministers I must be'
King ?" Ills chief passion was women, but, like the rest of
••• his race, beauty was not a necessary ingredient. Of his
*Courtin, Ludy Archibald Hamilton bad been neither young
megliensleopse within his memory. Lady Middleton was very
,„4/1" easy plain, and very yelllow, a vain girl, full of Greek

disid Latin, 1-had music andpUiutlog, but neither mischiuvo

ggliticed . Lady Archibald was very agreeable and artful,
Job heart by giving him William Pitt for a rival.
Jim Meth those mistresses were pretty much declared, be
Inas a good lbesband, and the quiet inoffensive Prisceu was
likely tai tom always preserved a chief uceadent over him.
'Gaining was another of hls passions, but his style of play did
Aimless honor thaw the °assessment. lie eas rigid this dexterity* into
practice is mere essential commerce, and mas vain of it! One day
at Keasingtoe,thilt he had just borrowed five thousand pounds
from Doddingtoo, seeing him OM under his window, be said
to Hedges, his secrettry, "'That man is riekOned one of the
most sensible men in Kngland, yet with all his parts, / /taut
'list nicked him out of five thousand pomade." He was really
childish ; affectedly a protector of arts and sciences ; fond of
displaying what be knew ; a mimie.—the Lord knows what a
mimic--of the celebrated Duke of Orleans, in imitation of
whom he wrote too or three silly French songs. His
best quality was generosity ; his Worst insincerity and intlif-
.jerewce to truth, which appeared so early, that Earl Stanhope
wrote to Lord Sunderland, from Hanover, what I sball con-
chntebis character with---" he hat his father's bead sad his
mother's heart."—Lord Orford's Memoirs, pp. two.
Lord Orford certainly unbosoins himself with great
frankness, and painte his characters with a broad and
determined outline. He seems to be of opinion, to
. use the words of Shatipeare, that
4, .paring would sbew a worse sin than ill doctrine."
• Lord Byron would perhaps finish the sentence
Men of this way *sold be most LIOLIAL,
They're sent het 464. example."

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• 'The folloiiing remarkable anecdote was told by !err.
Yot. who said the King himself told it him, and that the late
Lord Hervey had told him the same particular from
' the Queen :—One day, *ben the Prince was but a boy,
his Governor was complaining to him: the Queen, whose
way (as the King said) was to ex(use him, maid, "AA! je
riersiagiee glee ere taut des terra de page." Tho Governor
replied, "Plat z Dieu. Madinat*, glee re Assiut des tours de
page! rig soot des tours de LAQU•III et de Catititui.
"• Al I.
Two brothers i‘ ho reside together in penurious at
" single blessedness," at a farm-hoine in the pari
of Aylesbcare, found their bed occupied one night last
• , week by a female and her family ! Our readers may
Imagine the surprise which seized BENJAMIV, one of
the tardy bichelors, when on stepping into bed be
was bitten in the toe by a rat, which had brought
forth anumerous progeny in the chaff of which the
bed was composed.—Alfred.
A correspondent says, that " Alston is now one of
the most flourishing towns in the north of England,
owing to the richness of the lead mines. The pro-
prietor of Hudgill Burn mine will share this year
between thirty and forty thousand pounds, exclusive
of the sth lot of ore to the Governors of Greenwich
Hospital; as lords of the manor. The whole of the
land under which the above mine is situated is not
worth 41. per annum."—Tyne Mercury,
Yesterday morning a certain dame, well known in
this town, presented herself at St. Peter's church, along
with a man very elegantly attired. for the purpose or entering
into the holy state of matrimony. The regaler preliminaries
had all been gone through : the parties had sworn they were
resident in the parish, and the banns had been published in
the manner prescribed by the new Act. On their entrance
into the church, the Minister having been informed of cer-
tain particulars, very properly declared he would not marry
that woman, and said nothing about a prosecution, upon
which she answered in a very bold manner i but when he told
• bar she bad two husbands already, both of whom, for aught
she knew, was living, and that Instead of residing in the
parish which she had sworn, she was a well-known house-
keeper in Mary's parish, and kept' a lodglng-house In Red
Lion-street, the complexion of the cam, as well' at her Mina-
plosion, was mrtirely changed: • The parties imoseiliately're-
tired from the chore*. but when they got Mese declared they
were married, and last night kept up the wadding in high
style.—Nottinghnes Review, December so.

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THE WHIGS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

Stn-1 am one of those who concur with Lord
Byron in calling the present age the age of cant;
and I propose to offer, through the medium of your
valuable columns, a few cursory remarks on the me-
rits of the two great parties which at present divide
the political wurld. From the era of the glorious
Revolution down to the accession of George the
Third, the Whigs directed the affairs of Government;
and after successfully resisting the open attacks of
Louis the Fourteenth, and baffling the private in-
trigues of the Cabinet of St. Germains, they firmly
established the Hanoverian dynasty on the throes
of England, and secured to posterity the blessingllll
civil and religious freedom. The politics of Leieetteil
House, and the fatal ascendancy of Lord Bute, ba-
inished them from the Court. With the exception of
the short Administration of Lord Rockingham and the
late Mr. Fox, the Tories have been in full polsession
of royal favour; and as they have sedulously extended
and fortified their influence by a systematic plan of
corruption and patronage, they have been enabled to
consolidate a power truly formidable to the real
friends of constitutional liberty. Is there then no
hope for the suffering people of England ? Are they
for ever to groan under the merciless fangs of a tyran-
nical Administration, intent upon public plunder, and
deaf to the complaints of the nation ? Let us examine
the question with calmness and attention. The
strength of the Ministers consists in PATRONAGE : the
power of the Whigs in rwreLotozece. " Magna est
venter, et prcevalehit," is a maxim, with the truth of
which the Ministers are not unacquainted, and as
nothing is wanting to drive the boroughmoogers from
the helm but the diffusion of knowledge, they have
endeavoured by every means in their power to restrain
and fetter the liberty of the press. Packed Juries,
partial Judges, and cx-officio informations, are the indi-
rect expedients which they have employed to retard
the progress of public opinion ; but not satisfied with'
using these detestable weapons, they have endeavour-
ed to ruin the political reputation of their competitors
by the meanest calumny and the most atrocious defa-1
mation.
It has been the system of the Tories to represent the
friends of Reform as enemies to the King, the Church,
and the Constitution ; to identify the Whigs with the
Radicals; to denounce the defender of civil liberty at
a turbulent anarchist, and stigmatize the advocate of
religious toleration as the associate of atheists, and
the patron of blasphemy. These are the artifices by'
which the hirelings of the Court and the scribblers of
the Treasury have propped np the tottering authority
of their employers ; and it may afford some idea of
the frail tenure by which they hold the emoluments of
office, when we reflect that, instead of meeting their
antagonists in open and honourable combat, they are
compelled to resort to scurrility and detraction.
The Courier and the Quarterly Reviewer are eter-
nally sounding in our ears the danger to be appre-
hended from a Whig Administration ; they foretel the
destruction of episcopacy, the pollution of religion,
the rule of the fundholders, and the revival of all the
horrors which attended the explosion of the French
Revolution. Carlile would be elected Archbishop of
Canterbury, Hunt created First Lord of the Treasury,
Cobbett appointed to supersede Mr. Vansittart, and
the Black Dwarf selected as the official organ of the
I new Ministry. Such are the dreadful consequences
announced by these champions of intolerance, and
re-echoed by the mercenaries of the Crown !
I do not intend to enter into any minute comparison
of the hereditary honours of the Whigs and Tories,
but I do conceive that when I mention the illustrious
names of Bedford, Devonshire, and Grosvenor, the
Whig aristocracy have nothing to fear from a compa-
rison with respect to private respectability or exten-
sive possessions. What have such men to gain by

a revolution ? At present they enjoy all the luxuries
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which wealth can bestow, and all the distinction
which family honours can confer ; and can any sen-
sible or dispassionate politician suppose that they
would wantonly pursue a line of politics which would
deprive them of all these advantages, and level them
with the poorest of their countrymen ?
It would be well for the present Administration if
they could acquit themselves of all share in vitiating
the public morals, and outraging public decency, by
the support of inflammatory publications. By whom,
I ask, were the " regularly organized manufactories
of blackguardism" encouraged and brought into noto-
riety ?—By the Tories. Who patronised Blackwood's
Magazine? —The Tories. Who subscribed the
Benccin bond ?—The Tories. Who paid the fines of
the John Ball?—The Tories. Who contributed to
the den of infamy in Bridge-street? The Tortes.
These are the reservoirs which have poured their
black putrescent streams of calumny and falsehood
through the country, and poisoned with their enve-
nomed waters the channels of public morality ! These
are the publications which are cherished and pen-
sioned by the canting friends of order, and the
hypocritical pretenders to religions improvement!
Non tali ausilio, nun defensoribus istis
Teinpus eget.
I am persuaded that the only effectual remedy for the
numerous grievances under which the people of Eng-
land are at present suffering, is a full and equal Re-
presentation in Parliament. The Whigs are pledged to

Reform; the Ministers steadily oppose it; and the
Foreign Secretary, in particular, has repeatedly and
publioly avowed his decided opposition to even the
minutest alterations.

County meetings will shortly be convened in all
parts of the country, and it behbves the independent
country gentlemen to make a firm and vigorous stand,
and vindicide the wrongs and sufferings of the people
of England. Unanimity and moderation among the
Reformers will ensure the triumph of constitutional
liberty, avid free as fl.ovii the domination of an id-
capable, capricious, and tyrannical Administration.

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The jeerers of the a revered and ruptured Ogden"—
the applauders of the Manchester massacre--tbe
siiipfniders of t.te 'Habeas Corpus Act—i•the'fiamers
the Six Acts—'the supporters of an tmconstittitiOnat
standing army—and the employers, of '‘;;lliver. in
Cistlei, together with the whole tribe of eineeeriete'
and placemeu,f-
-wilYsinit 1116 insignifieince• and • con-
tempt before the irresistible voice of PUBLIC 0P191011.-

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WIFE mural EXTRAORDINARY.
About hair past twelve on Thuisday, the teth inst. the pub-
lic were iittracted to Plymouth cc/tiff-market, in consequence
of notice which. bad be preeipusly Oren, that a man, at
that time and place, was to dispose of his wife by, public sale!
The report which accompanied the notice, stated that•the
lady was not only yoneg and handsome, but that she had rode
to town indhe morming.on her.. owe horse, of her ow n tree
will pod accord, end with consent of her husband, who was
to act the part of in auctioneer an the occasion; end that she
would, morAiver in• the course of • few. dsys, suiseeltd
4101., which ber then (aod as, it still happens, her present)
husband could nut touch. The concourse of spectators was
inimedie, and they were net kept waiting long, the husband
and the. ife having appearod in the market- lace exactly at
the appuintt'd time, the latter scainwanied by the ostler of
the Lord Exmouth Inn, Otd Town: The husband put tie
article up at once; and asked for bidders. " Five shillings"
was the first offer—" ten" the next—" fifteen 7 the third,. and
so op, until the ostler aforesaid bade "three pounds;" When,
to the evident disappnintmelt of the auctioneer, as well 'as
of the lady,•twotionstables took possession of the go.4s, and
with (been the auctioneer, and carried them both directly to
the Ouildball, where the Chief Ma,tistrate was thetv sitting.
The parties *ere placed before the Mayor.
The husband, aimed Brooks, and wile resides at or in the
neighbourhood. of fry-bridge, on being asked why he bad
committed so illegal an act as to attempt the sale et hiswile
in the way he had been doingl very inuoceutly said—" They
were•both willing, and lie 'did not thick there was any harm
in it—they had not lived together for a considerable time—
they had been married about two years sad a hall. and she
brought him a child" three weeks aftermarriage !" which,
until alter it was burn, he never knew any thin; about • that
the child soon after died; that he got a rain for it, paid the
expenses of the funeral, and put it comfort ably out of the way,
without ever reproaching has wife with her conduct, but ad
would not do. bile soon after deserted him, notwithstanding
his kindness, and went to live with another man, by whom
she bad one child since, and he was informed she wes again
pregnant with another. On being asked who had advised
or told him that he could sell his wife; lie said many people in
the country told him he could do it ; and that in consequence.
of her coming In him and saying that a person would give him
col. and take her eltogetlier clean off his hands (al. in hand,
sod 171. more at Christmas), be had had her advertised far I
sale in Modbury, on three separate inarket•days, and had
come to Plymouth that morning by her appointment to get
the business finished.
The lady, a good-looking young woman, stated, that she'
and her husband could not agree, and that is consequence. es
she knew of a peraou who would take her, and give twenty
pounds for the bargain, she wished to get separated from him,
and she had been told by different persons that the thing could.
'be done by sale in the market-place on a market-day. Os
being asked the name of the person who was to buy her, she
said it was Kane, and that be lived ocar Plymstnek : she, fur-
Slier said be bad disappointed her in not coming forward to
bid as be promised, and that in consequence she had employ-
pd the ostler of the inn where she puts up her horse to bid for
ber, if the price did not exceed twenty pounds. She said she
bad left her own horse by the way, on account of its having •
sore back, and borrowed one its lieu of it of a person near Ivy
Bridge, with whom she stated herself to be in the babas of
intimacy.
After a good deal of consultation, it was deterosimid epee
that the parties should be bound over to manor On
at the ensuing Sessions ; but their own recogniximerrSl
'en, neither of them being able to find sureties.

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Psnerratantsw.—Mr. Benet...sir, a Pedestrian (bat no
relation to the Captain so celebrated for pedestrian exploits),
undertook yesterday to run fifteen miles in one hour and forty
minutes, over a three-miles piece of ground, in Ashfield Park,
Herb, and which he accomplished as follows :
■IR. sac. MIN. PLC.
lit three miles .. 18 90 4th three miles .. 111 95
9d
M •• 10 So

Total.. 100 40

ALDERMAN DARLIE.—We have to state to the
public, and we do so as a mere act of Justice, which in so
case, under so circumstances, nor front any considerask...'
,
should be denied—that this respectable Magistrate, the head
of the Police Establishment of Dublin, was, es he ought to
have been in such transactions as those of blaturday sight,
the veryfiraf wen 51, Oct. Alderman DAILIII it was who first
appeared is the gallery. with the view of seizing the crew
who had flung the 'similes at our venerated Viceroy. He,
and he &lose it was, who secured the villain who bad hurled
the battle. in the sou& that ensued with this wretch, the
Alderman bad his clothes tore from his beck, and he was
obliged, in consequence, to leave the theatre for a few minutes
to repair his dress. Several of the rioters now in custody
were collared by himself, end given over to the guard. Ills
exertions were early, zealous, end unabated, on this memo-
rable night. The public and private character of Alderman
Denizli' would have been, we (bought, • sufficient shield
against calumny. We find it is otherwise.—(Patriot.)
Ftex.—Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, an alarming
Ire broke out in the coach-house and stabling of Mr. flyford,
at the back of that gentleman's house, in Cheyne row, Chelsea,
which threatened great destruction. A plentiful supply of,
water being obtained, Mr. Byford's horses were taken out,
bat the carriage sustained very serious injury. About tea'
o'clock the lire was subdued, and the engines returned to town,

Deowstno.—Two brothers, of the the name of Sewaxx,
one sixteen years of age and the other thirteen, were drowned
in a pond at Bassiiton, near Summon, on Thursday. The
eldest was skaiting, when the ice broke in aloe feet of water.
The unfortunate youth was paddling with his hands on the
surface of the ice, when the younger, who was enjoying his
slide, went to his assistance, fell into the hole, and both went
down to rise no more. The bodies were taken up in an hour
after.

BUROLARY.—On Christmas night the house of
Mr. SAUNDERS, so, Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane, was felo-
niously entered and robbed of plate, wearing apparel, and
other property to a great amount. The family were from
horns, keeping up•abs Christmas at a friend's, and it is sup•
posed the servants left in care of the house availed them-
selves of the absence of the family to go out for their owu
amusement.

A few days afro an inhabitant of this city summoned
a soldier before the Sitting Magistrate, on a charge of de•
mending an exurbitant sum (eight shillings for two weeks) in
lieu ()fa bed, for which he had received a billet. After bear-
ing both parties, and examining witnesses, the Magistrate
ordered the soldier to repay apart of the sum, and desired
him at the same time to make it known among his comrades,
thyt unreasonable demands of that nature would by no means
be countenanced; but that in times of peace, when few fill.
lets are issued, two shillings for each man per week should be
the utmost cadent of their demand. And although it is im-
perative on the inhabitants to give beds, if required, and not
money. yet it is competent to the inhabitants to lodge sot.
diers in any house wiser. they can hare access to fire to dress
their victuals. There is no difficulty le this at present, for
lodging eau easily be procured for ts. ed. a week ; but as
sonic little compensation is due to a soldier who is left to pro.,
cure lodgings for himself—two shillings a week should not be
considered by the inhabitants as unreasonable. If more than
that is demanded in any ordinary circumstances during peace,
such extra demand should not be allowed to pass unnoticed.—
Glasgow Herald.

The e following are the particulars of the late fracas
between the American Consuls at Algiers and the
Government of that place,. as given in a letter from
an American Officer, dated from Gibraltar:—
.• The law disaglenible affair at Algiers has occasioned some
uneasiness to our merchants, and various stories bare been afloat
respecting it. However the real stale of the affair is as follows :
" Our Consul, Mr. Stumm, being sway, bad left his nephew,
the Vice-Consul, to act in his place, who, when out hunting, met
some Torts, who told him he was trespassieg on their fields, and
desired him to go off. lie refused, and they in consequence at-
tempted to use foree, opou which he presented his gun at them,
which ea irritated the Turks, that they immediately disarmed him,
and beat him with the buit-ead. The Vice-Consul immediately com-
plained to the Day, and demaeded satisfaction; but the Div
told him he could Bite none, adding, ' I allow you tuffieieut
protection in appending you a Dragoman.'- This officer is
a WWI loitered among the Turks, every Consul being allowed
our as a protection. If a Turk Amalie any one under their
protection he loses his head. Our. Vice-Consul had omitted
to take his Dragoman with. bisa, therefore he was refused
sesi.factioa. lie, however, Saki the Dey, if be did not punish
these sees is twenty-feur hours, be would cut down the Amerisan
flag staff, to which the De; replied be was perfectly at liberty so
to do. 'rhe nag staff was acwoodiagir eat down, and a Teasel
chartered to bong the Consul to Port Meirte, and Dr. Swift is
left in hie place. This has occasioned great alarm among our
merchants, to whooathe idea of an, ,ftigerine wars by no wane pate.
teak, as it would do so mach
Ili to oar commercial intimate,
to
whichare set is the t Yoe ' ' situation taw, although we
arc . ea. the elide. of macs. The ise-Cassurs eambiet has mat
with some animadverarimfrem onterat at' our araasawspeopie,
who consider him in a great measure as the aggressor."