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London, England, 1826-05-11 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

Mr. YATES' Entertainment hating Wer;:itt complete success, he will
repeat It THIS EVENING and SATURDAY, consisting of Sketches
from Life, Manners, and Peculiarities, entitled
YATES' REMINISCENCESI
OR, ETCHINGS OF LIFE AND CHARACTER,
In which he will introduce the following Songs •
..Masquerading"—" Vauxhall Gardent"—" Smithneld Cattle Meigemi.-
" Pawnbroker's Shop"—" Humours of on Election"—
"Theatrical Fund Dinner."
To conclude with a Monopolytonne, entitled
MR. CHAIRMAN.
In which Mr. Yates will sustain Eight different Characters.
Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is.
Doors open at Scren, and begin punctually at half-put Sayan.
Half-price at Nine.

The BRITISH Puss commenced publishing yesterday mess
ing at twenty minutes before six o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, M•Y 11, 1821.

We have received the French Papers of Monday, and
the Eloile of Tuesday.

The disputes about the property of BONAPARTE have
been amicably adjusted, in consequence of the disinte-
rested and honourable conduct of M. J. LAFITTE, who has
done every thing in his power to accomplish, in every
respect, the intentions of the testator. The reply of the
Moniker to the observations of the Oracle of Brussels,
respecting the number of commissions thrown up by French
officers since 1816, is treated by the Constiletiennel as by
no means satisfactory. The official Paper has confessed,
says the latter Journalist, that there have been more than
3,000 resignations since 1816. A Commission, under the
presidency of the Vicomte de la LAROCHEFOUCAULD, has
been sitting for some time, and came to a conclusion in its
eighteenth meeting, which took place on Saturday last. It
has come to the resolution that copyrights should be ex-
tended to fifty years after the author's death ; but if twenty
years should elapse without a new edition, they are then to
become public property, and after putting the heir en
denicure (setting aside his rights on account of his non-
performance of the conditions in due time), any one is
then to have it in his power to reprint them. The projet
de lui which has been prepared consists of eight or ten
articles.

Letters from Lyons announce that the crop of silk is in
extreme danger. All eyes are fixed on the barometer and
the mulberry leaves, a rise in the price of silk being con-
sidered as one of the greatest calamities that could happen,
in the state of suffering to which this important branch of
industry is already reduced.
A treaty of commerce, founded on principles of reciprocal
advantage, has been signed, between Sweden and Norway
on the one hand, and Great Britain on the other.
It is now said that the Kiaja,Osmear BEY, surnamed the
Penil of Me Crown of Glory, was wounded in one of the
attacks on Missolonghi. Tip abandonment of Tripolizza
by SE I.V I.:8, appears to be confirmed. Sir F. ADAM
landed on the 18th inst. at Ancona, on his way to London.
Letters from Zante, which arrived at the same time, state
that Missolonghi was only provisioned for twelve days, and
that IsaAnist had changed his siege into a blockade. Six
thousand men are said to have been sent from Napoli to
Latona, to which place IBRAHIM has detached several
regiments to observe them. A steam-boat from London,
for the use of the Greeks, had reached Napoli, where
Colonel GORDON was also expected with supplies of money.
The Arabs are supposed to have set fire to the quarters of
the wafflers, when they were attacked by the garrison of
Missolonghi, and suffered considerable loss.

Tnirsvt, Aram 25.
Letters from Corfu of the 13th inst. announce that the Egyp-
tians Gave made another unsuccessful attack on 31issolonghl on the
6th of April. The Greeks consider this attack as the last, beeause
the besbgers have since continued quiet is their tamp. Admiral
iaulis is arrived with h!s Heet, and is said to have re-victualled
Missolonghi for two months. The wound of Ibrahim (some say
Iledschitl) seems to be confirmed.—Angtsterg Gazette..
The Austrian garrison left Palermo on the 9th of April.—
Journal dcr Debuts.

The secret documents relating to Spain, which we lately
procured by a private channel, showed that the police en-
tertained apprehensions of fresh dangers from the Apostoli-
cal party. Proofs of the truth of these apprehensions have
been manifested at Zamora and several other towns, where
serious popular commotions have broken out on several
recent occasions.

RECACHO has obtained permission to raise a corps of 100

mounted gendarmes for Madrid, and the Minister of War
is to add 6,000 men to his effective force.
We learn now that C•PAPE'S acquittal has not been
confirmed, and that be has been condemned to six years
banishment to Porto Rico.

Mr. LAMB, the English Ambassador, who has been less
assiduous in his attendance at Court for some time than
the other foreign Ministers, set out lately in baste for Aran-
juez, after receiving despatches from his Government. Ile
has addressed two memorials to the Duke Del IN ea NTADO,
one upon the affairs of South America, and another about
the payment df the French debt.
%Viten the last negotiation took place relative to the pro-
longed occupation of Spain by the French troops, the
French Minister insisted on the necessity of having the ex-
penses of the war reimbursed before quitting the country;
and it is in consequence of this demand that our Minirry
has thought it necessary to recommend this course to the
Government of Spain. _

The.Dake del INFANTADO pergeveres without effect in
soliciting the King for permission to resign. He is said to
have frequent interviews with Englishmen of distinction,
but it is supposed to be on private business.
The King continues to support the police against the
Council of State.

The Infant Don FRANCIS DE PAOLO opened the sitting
of the Council of State on 25th April, by reading a decree
of the King, which contained the following expressions :

" Convinced by my own experience of the insuffidency of the
ordinary means for discovering and prosecuting crimes of conspi.
racy against the State, I have resolved that a Police should' exist
In my kingdom, and I have authorized the Minister of Graft and
Justice to draw up a plan, by means of which we may correct the
vices which may be discovered in this institution, in order to carry
it to perfection. Whenever this plan is completed I will submit it
'o the Council of State, and after having heard its advice, I will
take that resolution which I shall then think proper."

Letters from Martinico of the Ist March state that the
Colony continues in a state of agitation, and that the sen-
sation produced by the late Proclamation of Sir It. Woon-
ro RD has induced the authorities of the island, under the
pretence of supplying the deficiencies of the garrison, occa-
sioned by sickness, to arm the national guard, which is
principally composed of free men of colour, who bad been
disarmed in 1823. The Creoles of the island say that ener-
getic measures are necessary, to prevent the contagion from
reaching their own slave population. A new court, called
the Cour Preadole, has been recently instituted, without
any due authority, for punishing offences among the people
of colour. The seeds of discord seem already to have
taken pretty deep root in America, and the island of Cuba
seems likely soon to produce contention in that quarter,
if some scheme of compromise should not be adopted to
prevent internal commotion' amongst the slave population,
whose unsettled state is regarded with much alarm both
by Mexico and the United States. •
The Moniteur now admits that there is no hope of re-
covering South America for Spain by force of arms. It de-
dares that their independence must be acknowledged in the
end. This, coupled with the mission of able and respect-
able agents to these States, shows that the French Govern-
ntent is upon the point of taking a decisive step to
procure the acknowledgment of their independence by
Spain. It is insinuated, at the same time, that Spain
ought to obtain some pecuniary indemnity for such an ac-
knowledgment. This, in connection with the representa-
tions of the English Ambassador at Madrid, may serve to
show in what way the public debts of Spain are expected
to be paid ; it also shows on what circumstances the re-
moval of the French troops from Spain depends.

The following account from the Angshurgh Gazette, of
the anticipated change in the Russian Ministry, tends to
confirm the opinions which we have frequently advanced
respecting the intentions of the new CZAR with regard to
Greece. Count CAPO D'ISTRIA is known to be favourable
to the Greek cause ; and Count firnocoNOFF, by his con-
duct in his Turkish mission, displayed similar sentiments.

[From the Aug:burgh Gazette.l

ST. PETERSBUROH, Arad. 4.

Several changes are spoken of as about to take place in the
Councils and the Ministry. The Minister of Justice, Prince La.
banow.Rostowsky, is reported to have sent in his resignation. M.
de Speronsky, formerly Governor of Siberia, is mentioned as his
successor. Count Victor de Kotachubey will resume the portfolio
of the Minister of the Interior. Count Capo d'lstria and Count
Srogonoff are also expected at St. Petersburgh ; both are to be
nominated to important offices. General BenkenJorf, who has
returned from Carlsruhe, is to be Minister of War. The Director.
General of the Post-office, Prince Alexander Galimin, received a
Ukase, dated in January, appointing him pro tempore Director
of the Appanages of the Crown.

The intolerable tyranny under which the Christian po-
pulation of Egypt at present groans, seems not less deserv-
ing of attention, at the present moment, than the unhappy
situation to which Greece has been reduced by the ambi-
tious ruler of Egypt. The fact seems in general to be
overlooked, that the Copts, the original native inhabitants
of Egypt, are Christians as well as the Greeks ; and that it
is by the fruits of their industry, wrung from them by the
hand of tyranny, that the war against their brethren on
the other side of the Levant, is now carried on by MEIIE•
MET, through his army commanded by his son lona nisi.
The following is an extract of a private letter from
Alexandria, dated the 7th of March :
" Egyyt, exhausted as it is both of men and money, begins to
complain of its Puha. What adds to the public irritation is,
that his agents render the monopoly of their master still more odious
by their vexatious conduct. The produce of the country does not
now yield him so much as he had expected. Cotton, for instance,
sells at scarcely one-third of what was anticipated, and more than
90,000 bales have been sold at this reduced price. The crop of this
year, which was expected to be dot.ble that of last year, will not be
more abundant than before, half being spoiled on the stalk for the
want of hands to gather it. This is another consequence of the
war, which has carried off from the fields all the labourers, who
have been obliged to leave the country for fear of being enlisted
and compelled to serve in Greece. One more expedition like the
last would be nearly sufficient to depopulate Egypt, at least of its
useful cultivators."

CITY, u ..'E'DNESDAY EVENING.

There was considerable cheerfulness in the English Funds this
morning, and Consols, from advanced to 78i a, but left off at
; and the New Scrip rose to pm.: but the principal improve-
ment was in the Foreign Market, in which South American Stocks
were held very lightly. The fall of Callao, the rumour of the
Concress at Panama being about to discuss the propriety of all the
States affording an indemnity to Colombia, for her efforts in libe-
rating South America from the mother country, together with the
report of a Peruvian Loan being about to be negotiated for the
same purpose, caused extensive business to be done in Trans-
atlantic Securities, and had a most favourable effect on Colombian
Bonds in particular, which reached 441. Mexican 8 per Cents.
advanced to Cilla ; and Peruvian Bonds, from 30 to 32. Greek
Bonds were ; Spanish, 0 ; and Russian Stock, 76 : indeed all
the attention of jobbers was turned to the Stocks connected with the
New States.

Although Shares were nominally at higher prices, no one seemed
inclined to purchase at the advance, and the consequence was, a
complete stagnation of business in this Market, which yesterday
appeared to be reviving.

PARTIES.
•
The Archbishop of York entertained the Director,' of Ancient Musts
with a grand dinner, at his house In Grosvenor square.
The Earl of .4 itrolls had a dinner party yesterday, at his Louise in Cur.
son-street, Mayfair.
Sir Robert Farquhar, Hart. had a large party at dinner yesterday, at his
house, Richmond-terrace.
Sir Charles Hulse, Hart., C. Ellis, Esq., and John Pears', Esq. M.P. had
dinner parties yesterday.
Sir Charles Long, Hart. entertained a large party at dinner yesterday, et
his boos' in Privy-gardens.
Lady Lung gave her first rout for the season cm Tsesday evening, at
her new residence In Privy-gardens. The grand suite of chawing.rooms
were most brilliantly illiiminrocd. There were present nearly 4110 di.iin.
guithed fsahlonables including Prime and Princess Pollgnac and most of
the Foreign Ambassadors and their Ladies, the Duke and Duchess of Wei.
lington, the Duchess of Montrose and Lady Graham, the Marquis sad
Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry,
Emily Marchioness of Londonderry, Marquis Graham, the Earl of West-
morland and Lady G. Pane, Arc.
Mrs. Thomas Chaplin gave her second grand assembly on Tondo,
evening, at her house In Grafton-street. There were present nearly sok
of the baut ton among whom were—the Earl and Countess of Scarbo-
rough, the Earl and Countess Llstowell, the Countess of Athlone, tko.
Countess Murray, Lord and Lady Tullamore, Lood Exmouth, Lady sod
hilts Anstrnther, Lady Rycroft, Lady Gage, Lady Ariindell, Lady
Rodney, Lady Rydley, Sir H. and Lady Lambert, the Countess of
Galloway Lady Abdy, Lady Trigg, Lady M. Stanley, Lady A. Milbank,
Lady Middleton, Lady Selsey, the Ladies Aare, Lady Barrineton, Sir J.
Paul, Sir .1. Shaw, General Gascoyne. Mr. and Mrs. Vansittart, Mrs,
Camac, MN. Manners Sutton, Mrs. Pelham, Mrs. Cornwall, Captain sad
Mrs. Pellew, Mrs. Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. Setberhy, Miss Addington, Colo.
nel and Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Blanmont, Mrs. Dawkins, Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer Stanhope, Mrs. Gosling, Mr.. sad Miss Lambert, arc.
MOVEMENTS.
Lord Mundell has arrived In town, from his seat, Wardoar Castle,
Wilts.

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Admiral Douglas left town yesterday. for hie seat hr Bricks.
Sir Davidge and Lady Gould have left the Brunswick Hotel 'late
Blake's), Jermyn-street, fur their neat In Herts.
Departures from the British Hotel :—Captain Kinlock, for Scotland
Wm. Roe, Emu. for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Beeves, for thole seat is
Northamptonshire.

Arrivals at Fenkon'a Nev Hotel, St. James's-atreet :—Colonel Austin
the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Brooke Boothhy and family, (n• a tour; the
R.v. R. Murray, from Berks. Departure :—W. bi. Dvrooke, Esq. fm
Oxford.

Arrivals at the St. James's Hotel. Jertnyn-street .—The Earl and
Countess of }loath, from Dublin; Sir Robert Gunning. E.R. from his
seat. Horton, Northamptonshire; W. Leeson, Esq. from hls seat In
netts ; J. F. !frown. Eaq. from his seat in Dorsetshire. Departure .
The Rev. T. F. Ford Bowes, fur his seat, Cowism, Yorkshire.

THE XING'S COURT.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, his Majesty held a Court at
his palace, in Pall mall, which was attended by the Lord
Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the Master General of the Ordnance, the President of the
Board of Trade, the President of the Board of Control,
the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward of the House-
hold, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of King's Bench, the Recorder of London, who
was admitted into the presence of the King in Council, to
make his report of aeven convicts capitally convicted a;
the Old Bailey in the last April sessions.
His Majesty gave audience to the Earl of Liverpool and
Viscount Melville.
Lord Lovaine and Colonel Whatley were the Lord at.d
Groom in waiting.
The Court broke up at half-past tire.

NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETIXO.

(BY EXPRESS.)NEWMARKET, IVEDNESDAT AFTERNOON.
The Scrub Stakes of 100 each, h. ft, for colts and fillies not named

in the Derby. Oaks, or Eithtlesworth Stakes. D.M.
The Duke of Grafton's Goshawk walked over; Mr. Wortley's e.
The Dragon withdrew his stake, and received 281. 10s.; ten paid
h. ft. (the forfeits amounting to 5000

Match-100. T.Y.C.
Duke of Grafton's Pigmy. 9st.
Lord Ansoo's Noreddin, Bst. .
A dead heat.
Match 200. D.M.
Mr. Wortler's Reformer, llst. 101 b. -
Lord Exeter's Enamel, Hat. 311,. .

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When our account left the !natives Dot nut for. Rufus and
Sister to Nectar c. were drawn.

The Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and
the Princess Sophia, honoured Mr. Collins's glass show•
room, in the Strand, with their practice on Tuesday:
The Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in the
Parks, in an open carriage.
Prince Leopold honoured the Marquis and Marchioness
of Salisbury with his company at dinner on Tuesday, at
their residence in Hanover-square.
On Tuesday evening I'rince Leopold honoured the Its.
Tian Opera House with his presence.
Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of
Liverpool.
Mr. Smith, the King's Messenger, was sent on Tuesday
afternoon from the Foreign Office, with despatches for the
Duke of Devonshire. He arrived at Sheerness on Tues-
day evening, and proceeded in a boat to meet his Grace,
and came up with him just as he was going on board the
Gloucester, of 74 guns, to proceed on his embassy to the
Emperor of Russia, and immediately delivered his des-
patches to his Grace. The Gloucester, with his Excellency
and suite on board, set sail yesterday morning with a fair
Wind.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor entertained at dinner the
Wards of Vintry, Tower, and Walbreok. His Lordship
seems to be giving dinner parties without intermission.
We understand, indeed, that between two and three thou-
sand persons have already dined at the Mansicii-liouse in
the course of the present year.
AD i.r r.—Yateis lieminiAcences are nightly proving
more attractive. The taking half-price pleases and drays
the town ; they are in time to witness his changes in Mr.
Chairman, which are really almost incredible.

MASONIC INSTALLATION AT MANCHESTER.—Extract
of a letter dated Manchester, May 6th :—" On Monday
last, a highly respectable body of Freemasons, to the num-
' ber of 487, assembled at the Emporium Rooms, in Ex-
change-street, for the purpose of installing the Right
Worshipful Provincial Grand Master, John Crossley, of
Scaitcliffe and Rochdale, Esq., whose appointment to that
high office, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex,
M.W.G.M. bad a short time previously taken place. After
the ceremony of installing Brother Crosby as P.G.M. of
the Eastern Division of Lancashire, which was attehiltd
by all the principal lodges in the country, the Brethren
adjourned to the hotel in King-street, where a sumptuous
banquet was provided, of wild) upwards !of 120 of the
members of the craft partook ; the P.G.M. in the chair.
The usual toasts, as given on those occasions, were drank
-with the accustomed honours, and the evening passed away
with the greatest hilarity."
The subscribers and friends to the " Sunday School
Union" partook of a public breakfast on Tuesday morning,
at six o'clock, at the City of London Tavern. Them,'
Pellatt, Esq. (in the absence t f Joseph Butterworth, Esq.
M.P.) presided, and at the conclusion of the repast, Den'
rid clergymen addressed the meeting at considerable
length. There were upwards of 1,200 persons present.
The following is a copy of a letter, laid on the table of
the News Room, Liverpool, dated Stettin, Mh April,
1826 :
The Wool Market will be held here this year on the liith,l3dls
and 14th June; dealers in wool can, therelaire, after the expiration
of the same, visit that of Berlin, which commences on the 16111
June, travelling being, now that the turnpike road to that
capital is nearly finished, pleasant and comfortable.
The Committee of the Wool Market, instituted by me law year,
will continue their exertions to give ever) support to this branch of
trade, as well also the important institutions here.
The Royal Sea Trade Society, the Provincial Pomeranian Bank,
as also many respectable houses, will be prepared with 1101Pla
means to supply such merchants as are purchasing here.
Ships will be ready to convey by sea such wool as is destined for
foreign places.
I therefore flatter myself that our market will again be visited
by numemus dealers in wool, and that they will leave it with that
satisfaction which was generally manifested last year.
Signed SACK.
The actual Privy Council to His Majesty the King, and
Chid I'resident of Pomerania.
The town is now getting quite gay, and the presence of
his Majesty diffuses joy and happiness, like the sun.beania of
animated nature; and the enhancement of personal charms is an
object of anxious solicitude., and the greatest additions to female
loveliness is a beautiful white skin, accompanied with a blooming
juvenile complexion; also a tasteful arrangement of the }lowing
tresses. Both are elle tually attained by the irresistible and magic
pow 4.rs of Rowland.* Kalydor and Macassar Oil.

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LI TERA BY FILN'D.

The
rtb Anniversary of this Institution was commemorated
at the Freemasons' Tavern.
Int- "edgy
His (trace the Duke '.l Somtnarr in the Chair,
by lord Olenorehy. Sir Joint Malcolm, Sir John Swin-
lwrs'ted n• Eden, Mr. T. Moore, Mr. Sotheby, Mr. Croly,
burnt.
rill4'
tsisraid, and many otheedistinguished individuals. As soon
ilia *the cloth was removed, '• Non Nohis Opaline" was sung by
ai.an. Collier, Atkins, Broadhurst, Bailey. nod Nichols, in a very
tf're—ive Darer. The health, of his Majesty, the Duke of York,
asJ Hord I entity, and the Army and Navy, were drunk with the
oast testimonials of respect. Upon the toast, •• Prosperity to the
Larr MI Fund," being given, Mr. Fitzgerald rose, and having
r"-n-cnilutuaelf on a chair, recited the following lines with much
tong and effect :
When barbarous nations sack'd Imperial Rome,
And the world's mistress yielded to tier doom ;
Oblivion o'er that land her poppies flung,
Where patriot angel taught, and poets sung !
Science deplored her Tally's prostrate bust,
And ltenius dropp'd a tear on Maro's dust !
O'er Europe's face a gloomy darkness spread,
And Learning deep in cloisters weird her head.
A (Manic age no patrons could afford,
there every man was vassal, or was lord ;
Fierce was the temper, barren was the mind,
And war the only business of mankind
'Till Leo rose to fester every art
That charms the fancy, or delights the heart
On him each Muse was eager to attend,
And Learning fourul a pattern and a friend :
so 'rhea stern winter reigns, all nature sighs,
The cheerful green of vegetation dies ;
(Inc dreary waste the eyes of men behold
Deluged with rain, or blamed with the cold !
But when the glorious sun returner' the sphere,
The trees bud forth, the tender plants appear,
Nature no longer dreads the winter's storm,
Cheer'd by the rays that ripen while they warm !
Enlightened Science soon her radiance bore
Front fair Italia to our northern shore,
W here Oenius breathed his soul in Sitakapeare's page,
And Milton shone the Homer of his age !
Vet in this soil, where all the virtues grow,
And ere the poor can ask, the rich bestow,
Authors have often mourned their hapless lot,
Their works remembeed, hut themselves forgot:
On. and explore the prison's gloomy cell,
Where pale Disease anti hopeless Misery dwell,
Oft will yon hind the man of letters there,
its silent grief, or frantic from despair !
Behold his children meet his ghastly eye,
Asking that bread he has not to supply ;
While, like a lily drooping to the shower,
The cherished partner of his happier hour,
With all a wife's and mother's cares oppress'd,
Leona her pale cheek upon her husband's breast.
Can Fancy charm the poet's (meet brain,
When thought serves only to engender pain ?
Can passion animate his torpid (Mad,
Lost to himself, abandon'd by mankind ?
home have advanced opinions which would dry
The source of all your generous sympathy ;
That Learning wants no patron to succeed,
And works of nenius always find their meed—
Delualve this ;ht I—unworthy liberal men—
Did Milton reap the harvest of his pen ?
Did smiling Comfort bless poor Otway's days ?
Or Wealth reward the loyal Butler's lays
His King, who humour loved, and relished wit,
With pleasure quoted every line he writ,
And while gay courtiers filled the sparkling glass,
Still was dude mirth the wit of Hudibras !
All °vied his pen had served the Royal cause,
When the sword failed to vindicate the laws ;
Yet Butler found too oft the poet's lot,
Ilia wit rernember'll. Put his worth forgot ;
And while Fame culi'd a chaplet for his head,
His country's gratitude denied him bread.
hutch are the Stems *holm we wish to save
From Misery's lam retreat—a tlineleariAraire
In this good cause the Royal Bounty flows,
In streams perennial, to atausge their woes.
lime Truth and Justice prompt the Muse to bring
Praise to our P 414100, homage to oar King!
Whose feeling heart has ever *hilted to dry
The silent rear that dim's Misfortune's eye;
il'ho more than shares his poorest subject's grief,
And sends, wherever want prevails, re-lief
Who, whit a polished taste and fibril' hand,
Spreads wide improvement through hit native land ;
And, like Augusts., who embellisted Rome,
Makes Orecian arts his denizens at home!
Where uncouth buildings met the ptiblie eyes,
Long spacious streets and palaces arise;
And Thames will soon behold, with conscious pride,
Another Athens rising on his side !
Arts cannot droop. nor sciences despair,
When England's Monarch makes their cause loin tare;
Nor Genii's pine neglected and alone,
His all-accomplished Patron on Throne !
Whose sceptre's honour'd as his sword was felted,
In war triumphant, and in peace revered.—(Applaase.)
Sh Jong MALCOLM then rose, and said that the company as.
mudded were well acquainted with the character of the Institution,
and how peculiarly indebted it was to the Noble Individual that
filled the chair that day, and he was sure he need not say more
than to request them to join with him in drinking the health of the
Duke of nornerset with three times three. (Cheers.)
The Duke of SOMERSET returned thanks, and proposed the
health of the Viee-Preardents.
dir Wit. CLAYTON returned his acknowledgments for the ho.
SOU which had been done him, as well as the other Vice Presi-
dents, and said that no one could have taken more pains than he
had to promote the interests of the Institution; and lie could say
for those Vice Presidents whit whom he was more intimately im-
planted, that they went hand in hand with one strong arm to sup.
non the Society. Ile need not explain the great service which the
society had effected. But next to the gratitude which they owed
to his Majesty for his great munificence, he must lay a claim for
the Committee, who had so ably performed their duty. Ile would
tot take up their time further than to assure them, that it was his
num anxious wish to promote the Institution in all its bearings.
The health of Sir Benjamin Dobhouse was then drunk with
great applause, upon which
Dr. Farce rose, and grid, as Secretary to the Institution, it was
his uuty to say he had received a letter front Sir Benjamin Hob.
haute, is which he expressed his extreme regret, that from the
sate of his health he was prevented attending their annual Meet.
ing but begged at the:mame dine to enclose his annual donation
of St. Ile had also the pleasure to announce the following dons-
nano :—llis Majesty 210/. • the Duke of Somerset 101. 10a.; the
Bishop of Bath and Wells U. • Dr. Burney 21/. ; Lord Dudley
and Ward 21/., in addition to 204/. bequeathed by his fatter, and
intern' thereon amounting to 371. Sir J. S. Hippisley 101. 10s. ;
Lord Ellenbrnotigh 101. 10a. ; Dr. Richards 101. 10a. ; Sir J.
Swinburne RV. 10s.; Sir John 3lalcolm 10L; Thomas Moore
!I. 25.; and a variety of others. 1)r. Yates then read the following
raiment of the receipts and payments for the last year.
Balance in the Treasurers' hands on the 31st Decem-
ber, 1831 : £ a. d.
At Messrs. Ransom and Co.'s - 116 13 3
Coutts and Co.'s - 105 0 4
222 1
Received since, in Subscriptions, Donations, Divi-1 1830 3 0
dents on Stock, B.c.

X s. d.

2961 4 7

PO by order of the Committee, upon Applications
tor Itelid, including purchase of Stock and in- 1669 9 6
ctlental Expenses

11.!dnci. in Treasurers' band 31st December 1025 £39. 15 1

The l'ermanent Fend consisted, he said, of - 13,633 4 2
In addition to which the Newton Property available 1
to the Society amounted to - - • 1 6,367 15 10
limo, not available until the death of s person pus- i 1,84)0 0 0
'cuing a Life Interest
Received aauttally from the Newton Estate - 50 0-0

Making a total of - 21,851 0 0
as the present funds of the Institution. During the last year fifty-
level cases had been relieved. but the names of the persons re-
lieved he waa not at liberty to state, for it was not the least inte-
resting feature in die character of that Institution, that it concealed
the came of the persoo upon whom its bounty was bestowed.—
(Great applause.)
The neat toast wet, " The Pieta of Great Britain." Great
anxiety wu excited by the expectation that Mr. T. Moore would
return thanks; indeed he was repeatedly called upon, but did not
use. This was followed by the toast of " The Universities of the
United Kingdom." Upon which,
Mr. SOT tt i Br lose and expressed his regret that his celebrated
friend had not been disposed to answer the call that had been made
+loon hint. As lie had,rot done to. and after the eloquent address
ut that excellent friend to the Instita ion. Mr. Fitzgerald, he would
not detain the cosnitany then. He said he looked at that Institu-
tion as one which had placed a tomb in the hands of charity, which
had illumined the lowest recesses of despair, where misery and
genius lay mouldering in decay. Of that he conk, furnish a strik-
ing example in the person of a living author, highly and justly
crlebratel as the most diesinguished or the present day, whose works
hs'l strongly arid powerfully tended to promote the national pa-
frfotisra sad freedom of his country. Ile begged the company to
receire his warmest acknowledgments, ands to the name of the
Poets and the Universities, to return thanks.
Sir J. 31 A i.coi.at said that he rose, by leave of the Chairman,
to propose a toast. In thu first place, wi h reference to the Report,
he r'ist express his great aatistiorion at the prosperous state of
the 'society. The peculiar wsy in which the charity was given was
such as to render it far tiore valuable than money. It gave
strength to the constitution, and was not calculated more to disarm
silty passion than to temper human misery. There was some-
Long pecullsr in that Society over all others—that peculiar deli-
racy in the mode of affunling relief. which discarded all anent.-
the), and which temled more to heal the wounds of afflitilon than
any other. There were other things equally deliglittul to con-
template, and which had occurred to very few—that of relieving
those who, eta more prosnetotta days, had tunic • lihnral return.
It was a dr:ienial rdlectiou, gloat tr. th^ rge m which they lived,

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while they were prootriting chari y, there never was an age more
disposed to give rewards to genius—not of money merely, but of
admiration. Ile spoke in the hearing of those who stood pre-
eminently in that situation. He alluded particularly to one, who,
though he could not claim to be personally acquainted with him had
that day affiwded his assistance in relieving those who, though t hey
might possess his aspiration, were without his genius and without
his success. It was his peculial right to offer that tribute. It had
been his fortune to live a long time away from his native country,
but he wars not therefore unacquainted with Lolla Rookli, which
combined all the laborious research of the historian, the finest
genius of the poet. the classical taste of his own country, whit the
strong and beautiful imagery of the East. It was unnecessary for
him to say more than drink the health of Mr. T. Moore.
Mr. T. Mooste said that he felt, in the first place, the necessity
of apologizing for his delay in answering the call which had hero
made upon hint. He felt that, when the health of the British
Poets were drunk, it did not become him to oiler himself on
that occasion, when such distinguished individuals as Mr. Sotheby
and Mr. Croly were present; the former of whom, by his trans.
lation of Oberon, not having displayed less talent as a translator,
than power and originality as a poet. Ile could not but feel highly
honoured by the distinction conferred upon him ; and to be so no-
ticed wad 110 ordinary honour. The soldier. in the cor.gratulations
of his brothers in arms—the sailor, those of his companions of the
battle and the breeze—or the more humble cultivator of literature,
that of his fellow-labourer in the field—received a tribute the
noblest they could offer, and the highest reward lie could receive.
To the lion. Baronet who had proposed his health with so much
eloquence, he knew not how to return hie thanks : he was afraid a
good deal of that admiration expressed for his talents he must at-
tribute to the excitement and circulation of the glass ; but he did
not mean to say that his vision was doubled, though it was
the natural tendency of wine to give things a higher elevation
than belonged to them ; and to that he must attribute the
high ettlogium he had passed upon him. There wrist a curious
circumstance attending the history of printing, With connected
'conviviality with literature—the limit printing types were after-
wards formed into drinking cups, to celebrate the inventiin. There
was also another cup, which had been described by a wicked wight,
since deceased, ati like those used by the wartime in the Halls of
Odin. He said that booksellers drank their wine out of the sculls
of poets. But to be sure that observation did not apply at the pre- '
sent period, for the booksellers' banquet was over, and lately they
had had the worst of it. The sculls of authors were subject to
other misfortunes: age, sickness, and sorrow, came to dim the
divine particles within them, and the mind became a painful
burthen to itself; while to this calamity, to which all intellect
was subject, came poverty. To relieve that state of desolation was
the object of that Institution • and if even only one case had been
relieved by it, it would have Leen enough to shed benedictions on
all their heads. There was one particular for which he valued the
Institution—the high and noble supported it ; the easy and the
opulent he hoped would give their assistance: but there was no
tribute half so feeling as that of him, who himself without wealth,
and with no other inheritance than that feeble spark of genius
which God had given hint, felt the bitter certai ity that the fate
which he then described might one day be his own. (Great
cheering.)
The health of the Stewards was then given.
Lord Gt. e stollens. returned thanks, and proposed the health of
Sir John Malcolm, which was drank with acclamation.
The next toast was, " The Royal Society of London."
The Noble Chairman then retired, amidst the applause of the
Company.