The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-29 00:00:00

WINDSOR, MONDAY, Nov. 28.

Yesterday his Majesty and suite attended divine service
in the private chapel, in the Royal Lodge. The service
was performed by the Rev. Dr. Sumner. After the service,
his Majesty proceeded in his phaeton to Windsor Castle,
where the King inspected the wcrks, which are proceeding
with great forwardness. Ilia Majesty returned up the
Long Walk to the Royal Lodge to dinner.
ROYAL Ilt:NT.—This morning a fine deer was turned
out at Slough, for the day's diversion. The morning being
wet, it was not turned out so soon as it is in general. The
deer at first took to the left, across the enclosures, towards
Salllol, taking to the right towards Stoke Common, and
again to the right by Lord Sefton's, and was taken after
an hour's good sport. Great crowds were present at the
turning out.

Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, Prince Leopold
left his scat at Claremont, Esher, Surrey, for the King's
Palace, Kensington, where his Royal Higbness dined with
his Royal sister the Duchess of Kent, and afterwards the
Prince proceeded to his residence in _ _

Satur.day the Earl of Harrowby and Baron Fogel left
town for Droproore, on a visit to Lord Grenville. The
Earl of Harrowhy returned to town yesterday, and arrived
at his house in Grosvenor-square to dinner.
The Earl of Liverpool was expected to arrive in town
last night from Wilmer Castle. _ _

Mr. Secretary Canning is expected in town to-morrow,
from the seat of Mr. Ellis, at Seaford, Sussex.

Mrs. Peel's state of health continues—improving.
The Plymouth Chronicle of Saturday last says—" We
are much concerned to state that the banking-house of Sir
William Elford, Bart. and Co. stopped payment yesterday.
From the high respectability of the parties, it is to be
hoped that the creditors will not be eventually losers."
We have received a Bolton paper of the 2d instant. It
contains no political news. Mr. Kean had arrived at New
York.

Twenty-cue mechanics from Portsmouth and Plymouth
dock-yards are going out in the Royal Oak, to be em-
ployed in his 'Majesty's dock-yard at Bermuda.
fitliLFY.—Our agriculttiral readers will perceive with
pleasure that the opening of the ports for barley has not
been productive of the depres,sion in price which many an-
ticipated. In the Edinburgh market yesterday the price
of bar' -vas from Is. to Is. 6d. per boll higher than last
mark. y, with a steady demand : one sample, uncom-
moulreme, wishing 20 stone, brought 3k. The quantity
of bonded barley in the country has been stated at .300,000,
but we have reason to believe that it does not exceed
260,000 quarters. Of this quantity 37,000 quarters are in
Leith. and the total quantity in the different ports in the
Forth will not probably be much above 60,000 quarters.
Several sales have been effected at 21s. 6d. per boll, or 365.
per quarter.—Edinturet Irrening Courant of Thursday.
Yesterday morning. as one of the masons employed at
the British Museum was working amongst the atones, one
of them by some means slipped, and falling upon the poor
fellow, broke one of his thighs. lie was immediately taken
to one of the hospitals.

There is perhaps no species of writing more fr.
when it is really excellent, than the epistolary. lit;T:
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gular, that although COWPER way unhappily • e';
with a religious melancholy that threw a Ono
m his pursuits, and more than once disordered hie ova
his
peculiar charm of his letters is their brilliant ant!
quisite vivacity. Whenever his mind was at ease,
to have been always buoyant, and whenever he ease, it
dom to his sentiments in his familiar con'ettpmelgence,
are always expressed with liveliness, occimpanied, how.
with an energy and force of conception, to which seri
admirableoriginal nlimnOldiesl'olfuheils. perfection:h e
fellienwl
AN ELECTION VISIT.
" As when the sea is uncommonly agitated, the wan
finds its way into creeks and holes of rocks, which in
calmer state it never reaches, in like manner the efre
these turbulent times is felt even at Orchard-side, le
in general we live as undisturbed by the political else
as shrimps or cockles that have been accidentally depot,'
in some hollow beyond the water-mark, by the usual d
ing of the waves. We were sitting yesterday after (lit
the two ladies and myself, very composedly, and wit
the least apprehension of any such intrusion, in our
parlour, one lady knitting, the other netting, and the,
tleman winding worsted, when, to our unspeakable
prise, a mob appeared before the window, a smart rap
heard at the door, the boys hdloo'd, and the maid
pounced Mr. G . Puss was unfortunately lam
her box, so that the candidate, with all his good him
his heels, was refused admittance at the grand entry,
referred to the back door as the only possible Se
approach.
" Candidates are eseatures not very susceptible did
and would rather, I suppose, climb in at a window
be absolutely excluded. In a minute the yard, the kit(
end the parlour, were filled. Mr. G---, adult
toward me, shook me by the hand with a degree of
diality that was extremely seducing. As soon as he at
many as could find chairs were seated, he began to,
the intent of his visit. I told him 1 had no vote,
-which be readily gave me credit. I assured him I lir
influence, which he was not equally inclined to bed
and the less no doubt because Mr. G—, addre
himself to me at that same moment, informed me el
had a great deal. Supposing that I could not be posseeeed
of such a treasure without knowing it, I ventured to con
firm my first assertion, by saying that if I had any I we,
utterly at a loss to imagine where it could be, or wherein ie
consisted. Thus ended the conference. Mr.
squeezed me by the hand again, kissed the ladies, and
withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the kitchen,
and seemed upon the whole a most loving, kissing, kind.
hearted gentleman. He is very young, genteel, and hand.
some. He has a pair of' very good eyes in Ins head, which
not being sufficient as it should seem for the many nice and
difficult purposes of a senator, he hail a third also, which
he wore suspended by a riband from his button-hole. The
boys halloo'd, the dogs barked, puss scampered; the hero,
with his long train of obsequious followers, withdrew.
We. made ourselves very merry with the adventure, and
in a short time settled into our former tranquillity, never
probably to be thus interrupted more. I thought mysell
however happy in being able tc affirm truly, that I had se
that influence for which he sued, and for Which, had I bees
possessed of it, with my present views of the dispute be.
tween the Crown and the Commons, I must have refused
him, for he is on the side of the former. It is comfort
to be of no consequence in a world where one cannot ee
ercise any without disobliging somebody."—Hayley's Lift
of Cowper, vol. iii. p. 242.
In order to enjoy the beauties of nature, the mind man
be to a certain degree pure ; it must be free from all se-
rious subject of self-reproach in its general habits, or it
will not be susceptible of those finer devotional feelings
which Cow r en displays in the following passages:—
"01 I could spend whole days, and moon-light nights
in feeding upon a lovely prospect! My eyes drink thn
rivers as they flow. If every human being upon earth
could think for one quarter of an hour, as I bare done for
many years, there might perhaps be many miserable men
among them, but not an unawakened one could be found,
from the arctic to the antarctic circle. At present, tba
difference between them and me is greatly to their ad..
vantage. I delight in baubles, and know them to be so;
for, rested in, and viewed, without a reference to their
Author, what is the earth, what wee the planets, what is
the sun itself; but a bauble? Better fora man never to
have seen them, or to see them with the eyes of a bree,
stupid and unconscious of what he beholds, than not to be
able to say, "rhe Maker of all these wonders is my
friend !"leir eyes have never been opened, to sec that
they are trifles; mine have been, and will be, till they art
closed for ever. They think a fine estate, a large conserve.
tot y, a hot-house rich as a West India garden, things of
consequence; visit them with pleasure, and muse upon
them with ten times more. lam pleased with a frame of
four lights, doubtful whether the fete pines it contains
will ever be worth a farthing ; amuse myself with a green-
house, which Loud Bute's gardener could take upon bit
back, and walk away with ; and when I have paid it the
accustomed visit, and watered it, and given it air, I ray to
myself—' This is not wine, 'tis a plaything lent me for the
present, I must leave it coon.'
" We keep no bees; but if I lived in a hive, I should
hardly bear more of their music. All the bees in the
neighbourhood resort to a bed if mierionette, opposite to
the window, and pay me for the honey they get out of It,
by a bum, which, though rather monotonous, is as agree-
Ale to my ear, as the whistling of my linnets. All the
sounds that nature utters are delightful, at least in this
country. I should not perhaps find the roaring of lions
in Africa, or of bears in Russia, very pleasing ;but
know no beast in England whose voice I do not account
musical, save and except always the braying of an ast.
The notes of all our birds and fowls please me, without
one exception. I should not indeed think of keeping 3
goose in a cage, that I might hang him up in the pie
lour, for the sake of his melody ; but a goose upon a
common, or in a farm-yard, is no bad performer. And
as to insects, if the black beetle, and beetles indeed dill
hues, will keep out of my way, I have no objection Is
any of the rest ; on the contrary, in whatever key they
sing, from the gnat's fine treble to the bass of the humble.
bee, I admire them all. Seriously, however, it strikes
me as a very observable instance of providential kindness
to man, that such an exact accord has been contrived be'
tween his ear and the sounds with which, at least in a
rural situation, it is almost every moment visited. Ali
the world is sensible of the uncomfortable effect thee
certain sounds have upon the nerves, and
upon the spirits ; and if a sinful world had been filled
with such as would have curdled the blood, and hose
made the sense of hearing a perpetual inconvenience, 1 do
not know that we should have a right to complain.—
There is somewhere in infinite space a world that dote
not roll within the precincts of mercy; ard as it is rep
sonable, and even scriptural to suppose, that there is nee
de in heaven, in those dismal regions perhaps the reset`;
of it is found—tones so dismal as to make we Pwe
more insupportable, and to acuminate even despair.
.Bel.
time to draw the nee,
my paper admonishes me in good '
and to check the descent of coy fancy into deeps with wile
site is but too familiar." consequently

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