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London, England, 1820-04-19 00:00:00

FORGED NOTES.

William Estes, the pugilist, charged a young man, named
Thorpe, with being a common utterer of forged notes, per-
porting to be of the Bank of England.
It appeared in evidence, that the Prisoner called at Eales's
house, the Mecklenburg!), James-street, Manchester-square,
where, after drinking slime spirits, he tendered a note which
afterwardli proved to be a forged one, and the Prisoner was
apprehended, lie made a confession, saying, he was urged
to it bg another was committed for trial.

It was yesterday reported in the City, that Car-
thagena and Santa IVlarilia had declared their inde.
'modeller, and to this it was added, that Caraccas
had been taken. On inquiry, we found the report
was brought by a vessel from Jamaica, which place,
it is said, she left on the 3d March, consequently
we are unable to state what credit is due to it. The
two first circimistinces may hate happened, though
we deem them extremely improbable, from the state
of things when the accou ots previously received came
away; but as to the capture of Caraccas it could
not take place without long and herd fighting, Mo-
ettAn'S lines were so formidable. LOW* from
Barbadoes, bated time bib March, were received
yesterday, but on this subject they are perfectly
silent: We understand there are numbers of vett-
eels in the Mouth of the Channel, unable to make
a port, in consequence of the sudden prevalence of
the LE. winds ; we may, therefore, expect soon to
know with certainty what has occurred on the Spa.
nish main, either by arrivals from the West India
Islands or the Unittd States.—(iirening Paper.)
EYTON, Stock-Broker, 2, Cornhill begs leave to
remind his friends the Public, the Drawing of the.
Lottery commences the 27th instant, when Two Prises of
20,0001. Consols will be deCided io the first eve Missies;
there Breslin) 100 other Capitals, including Four of 30,0001.
Consols, which Eyton hopes be shall have the plea f
distributing among his friedds. All Business is the Mlle
Foods transacted with fidelity cud dispatch.

RICHARDSON, COODLUCR, bind CO. respectfully
acquaint the public, that on the 27th ofthis Month
the first-drawn Prize in each Class will Se entitled td
20,0001. Consols in ailditiod. The Scheme contains
FOUR Prizes of
TWO
TWO
3 per Cent. Consols.
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Tickets and Shares are on Sale in great variety of nonsberic
at their Office., Bank.bailtlinp, Corabilload Clastriag.eross.
—RICHARDION, GOODIAIck, and Co. sold, in the last Lot-
tery, No. 7,807, a Prise of 20,0001. iii Shatci.

The oldest man living in the monied msrlat
never recollects so much unemployed Capital as at
present in the City; and should the Minister adopt either
of the plans submitted to him, for ranking money withoiti
having recourse to a Loan until 1823, it is impossible to sat
how high the united operation of investment of Capital, and
the fear of being the last to !purchase, may carry the funds,
Probably the Contractors for the Lottery, HAZARD and
CO. were aware of this when they Sited 4 Prizes of p.oobt.
2 of 40,000/. Console, &c. (which must be drawn 27th title
Month) im their Scheme, as it%gives .to Adventurers ill the
rise of Stock above 6St.
It was stated yesterday that an alarming fire hail braked
out at Mansell Cottage, the residence of Captain Bigot, neat
Ragshot, on Monday arternoun,suil we have received the par.
titulars. It MAO an ancient worideu builliug, reduced to a
heap of ruins in less thin one hour. The coach_house and
stabling, and two hay-licks, were also destroyed. Two cot.
terra were partially burnt. The the was first discovered iii
a drying room over the kitchen, and the conjecture is, that
it arose from a beam in the kitchen-chimney. Ihe loss is
heavy, but providentially no lives were lost. The premises
dere

Monday morning, about one o'clock, an alarm
df fire was raised hi conseritiente of the flumes is-
suing from the second floor of the house of Mr.
Jditasos. Ogle-court, near Fitzroy-square. Short=
ly afterwards, several engines arrived on the sputi
and through the activity of the firemen the flamed
were soon extinguished, but not before the upper
part of the house, together with the furniture, were
completely destroyed. During the interval of the
fare, a report was its circulation that an elderly wo.
nuns noised MATHE*e bid perished its the namely
and on starching she was found in the second floor
apartment, dreadfully burned, but symptoms of
life bring still reinumirig, shd wet conveyed td
Middlesex Hospital, where she 'died on Monday
morning. 'flue above ulifortithatt woman was •d.
dieted to drinking, arid on Sunday evening returning
home in a state of inebriationi het Clothes cattght
while sitting at the fire., which was the rause df the
house welting Wei and of bet oltu death.

REWARK4
bN DIVERSITY by GENIUS.

[From Blackwood*? Affogoshia for March.)

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M Different whole
Intline to different objects: one parolees
The vow Wore, tint wonderful, the wild ;
Another sighs for horraoay, sod grace,
Aod grittiest beauty." Alums:oz.

Nothing is more remarkable in nature than its
variety. The flowers of the field, and the leaves of
the :''rest have, each and all, their general likeness',
snit iloir particular dissimilarity. It easy fui a
botanist to determine the the special of a pout from its
specific and invirieble outlibee, when examined by
itself ; yet no 'elves on the same stem, or indeed on
any other stein, will be inland exactly correspond-
ent. It would be endless to speed) and partied-
(arise. The Same holds true.with respect to all the
other works of the Creator; pod constitutes the
eternal distinctiou between Madre and art. The
one is bounded and irtiitative, the other infinite.
The human face,is another remarkable and raids.
ing illustration, It is scarcely tomprehensihle by
our limited faculties, how, within sbch a narrow
compass. there could possibly exist, stich a variety
of moditiations-L.sisch a diversity Of line, and holes-
tisents—such a general resemblance—and such an
individualitY. Nevertheless; Inich holds true With
respect to .it the families, sod kindredi, and cities.
and kingdoms; and regions of the earth. froth
Zembla to the Tropics. Nth the swarthy Moor to
the blue-eyed Rues. Though an inhabitant of an
ettensive metropolis is in the daily habit of string
a thousand different fates; we are bold to affirm;
that no one; even allowing high to Inure lived to the
age of Thomas Parr, ever beheld two hums,' be-
ings exactly the reflected thickly, of each other.
We may turn from the physical to the intellec-
tual world. Mankind differ not snore in external
features than in mental physiognomy. That all
men of sound minds posse's a range of faculties in
common, may be laid down as an axiom: yet in no
two individuals will be decerned those minute pe:.
culiarities, those Undefinable tendencies; which,
however trifling in thernselVes; gti for, when taken
in the aggregate, in forming the conduct, and
stamping upon the character that complexion whith
it is destined to beer in the eyes of the wotld. •
When the principles are different; to met nel
cessarily be the produces We never gather goose.
berries from an apple-tree, nor figs from a thorn-
bush. Circumstances and situations. no doubt,
have their peculiar effects, both in regard to the
direction and improvement of the intellectual fa-
culties ; but there are inherent varieties of disposi-
tion, and inherent tendencies of mind; which nei-
ther time nor art are soffit-lent to toiniterbelsnce or
eradicate. Children, at the must tender age, fre-
quently exhibit the dawning. of that disposition
which is to characterise them through life ; while,
iu other cases, the utmost excellencies of Mind
have fain dormant and unmarked for a very long
period, even the greater portion of life, and have,
perhaps, been only at length called into exhi-
bition by a fortuitous circumstance. It has been
a matter of dispute for half a century among
critics, to whom the palm of superiority should be
allotted, Dryden or Pope. The powerful minds of
these two men modelled the literature of the age
iss which they flourished ; and when we speak of a
certain cost of thought, and a certain manner of
expressing that thought, we designate it as an imi-
tation of the school of Pope or Dryden. Yet such
*as the diversity In the detelopeinent df the facul.
ties of these two men. that the one literally "lisped
in numbers." while the other exhibited few tokens
of excellente till an advanced period of life. When
we are told that, in the falling of apples froth a
tree, the theory of gravitation, firm which such
stupendous discoveries arose; suggested itself to the
comprehensive tool of Newton ; or dud; to the tonsil
of a Welsh hiirp, posterity are indebted for the
hard of Gray, we are not fot a moment to 'oppose;
that the like results would have followed from
the same ciscumstances, iii any other conceivable
situations. They are not links in the chain of in-
variable sequences; they du not virtud in the rela-
lation of cause and effect ; for every one does not
look on nature with the eyes of a philosopher, or
draw from the melody of sweet sounds the inspire=
Lion of poetry.
Allowing even the groundwork to be the same;
the objects of thought, whether relating to the
Ohylical or intellectual world, are tinctured by the
very mood of mind in which they are dwelt upon ;
the scene is colottied by the eye that views it. A
foreigner does not look on the landscape around
with that keen relish and partiality displayed by
the native. The Islisoctiy vales of Languedoc do
not appear, in the eyes mild estimation of the Swiss
emigrant, equal to his own Alpine scenery ; not
because bare rocks. and cold lakes: and mud
Cabins. are preferable to rich pasture', and gardens,
and palaces, but because with the former are asso-
ciated a thodsand endearing recollections.
" first,- best country, ever id at home."

A European luuks with pity on the helplessness,
and with contempt tai the acquirements, of an Afri-
can negro. The negro, on the other hand. looki
upon us as the serpents of mankind, as the very
embodied retraces of cunning and cruelty. They
paint their devils white.
Some Ramscatdalerfwere brought td thk capitil
of Russia, that they might be educated, and carry
back to their tribes some notion of the accomplish::
menu of civilised life. But the purpose was de:
feasted, for they pined in spirit, and died or ennui:
The American-Scotsrdati kindlts to risme at the

recital of the martial ;achievements of his ancestors;
and while his hand is guiding the plough on the
hanks of the Mississippi! his heart is far away.
*gong the hills of Admit or Argyle—=while he sets,
in thought.
The lone sepulchral cairn sliei the moor.'
And diltaat !sirs that hear the load Corbrecbtan roar."
Even the smallest thing In a foreign land that
beers tergrence to the laud of nativity is
treasured up; the filtrate of g feee-=of a tree."
of a Stream—of a mountain: In the journal of
Park's second Travels M the Patriot of Africa.
we are told that the heart of that illuilttiose matt
was, in the extreme. affected by the loss of a sol-
dier, who was wont to *twin their evening loneli-
ness by singing the ballads and soils of his nutitE

land. fhe inniiierserYot burns; birth is fondly
commemorated by his countrymen is India. Lord
Byron, in his Travels through the illorateinoot
,Tracer of Albania, peveri °vet many a awe
im-
portant topic, to remark. that the deers of these
Greeks resembled that or the Secutills Highlanders.
Nothing is more delightrul than to hes. the decent.'
of our uative clitbe beneath far torrign aim This
has always hero; and well it may, i favourite tlire
for poetb. Scott compares the tone Or a mournful
stelody to
a die lamest of men,
Wbu languish fur their native ere."
The author of Chi/de Harold; in his splendid et.;
scriptiOn of the Dying Gladiator, transports lino.
self heck to the barbarous 04. Rome, and
pourtrays the slave. as he rinks into the embrace
of death, in the Midst or the circus. forgetful of
the gaging throngs around, beholding, in thought,
his young barbarians at play, their Daciln mother,
and the batiks of the Danube. Campbell has given
scope to the same train of seeititnew, in the breuti-
Gil
lyries of 710 Harper, and Th Exile of Erin.
its his Bird! of &Wand, her. in I.:1
own person, given veto, in the shim raistursisso said
pasoicinate !novae; to the Same pritriotic frit-
lugs ; and Wilson, in his fine sketch of The French
Erik, has represented the blind noon liking Ilia
his hoary head in ecstasy; at hearing the 'mends of
his native tongue i—
" He seemed es if restored to si'dtsi
Visuddenly his eyes mei, iwight,
that stalk touched his ear;
The lilted Gelds of France' I west',
Before hi. swan in softened light,
And the ,rest *stem of the Seine
They all were woursouriog near;"
Let us turn from limey to feet-Art Us traverse
the regions of history and science, end we shall be
convinced that ft is the same aft all. Scotia:A
claims Onion ; end Ird/rid elitism him. England
has no shadow of eland to hill; and therefore does
not hesitate to declare, that he 'lever ekisted. Let
Us take, for ample, the annuls or our native.
Country. l!o* felonious in their continent-mem !
how coutradictoty in their progress ! And to what
is this owing, but to the sympathies or antipathies
the narrators P Look to the legend. a Blind Harry
and Barbout, to the histbries of Botthius end Bu:.
Chemin; how seemingly plausible they ere, and yet
how deplorably chimerical and groundless. Lord
Hailer puts the whole unconencted mast into hii
crucible, and, behold, there are nine parts of barer
metal, fur our of gold. Like the enchanted 'castled
of romance, the whole pageant vanisher, and d
desert wilderness remains. Rinaldo blows the
horn of Truth, Mid the manic itructisrei ul Fancy
disappear:
it was oiving to this circumstance ilia Voltaire
remarked, that a historian ought to have no coon;
try. That is to say, lie most divest himself or
every prejudice, consider himself as a citileu of the
world, and look on the laud that gMoe him birth;
not with the fondness and feelings of a patriot, but
as a branch of the general family of insiikind. But
where shall such a character be found a We may
as well set to the task, Windt it is said the enemy
of man prescribed to Michael Scott, mid Coininetice
our operations in twining Cables from the tea sands`.
There seem to be two great Moieties of Mind, lit
which eteellency is equally inherent, but in which!
the detelopemeut of genius is extremely differei.t,
The former is remarkable for strength, and energy;
mid precision ; the latter for softness, harmony, and
grace. The one delights in the tempriti and torus-
does of passion ; in the roaring Or theocrat.; and the
bursting of the volcano : the other,in the gentler eonw
tions of the soul y in tenderness, iu pity, and in tears ;
in the smiling of the pastoral land.cape, and the
smoothness of the Mit:Mier sea. Nor is this variety
in the temperament of genius discernible only toI
the authors who appeal chiefly to imagination ; it
pervades the whole commonwealth of intellect,.
Demoithesies, for example; takes the heart by
storm ; he overrules our tonsictiohs, and t~l
retinues over the judgment tvith a despotic sway ;
he oterpoweri tit by the strength of his appeals„
and, after haviiig sifeliced the toiee bf reason
self; rouses us from a trance, and incites our pee,
shoos to take a share in the Contest. Cicero, on the
other hand, endeavours to gain the feelings to het
side; he appeals to our bosoms by every effort of
persuasive elotiumice. He convinces the miller-
standing; he elevates as into the regions Of fancy.
He enlists reason in his cause, and shews us. that
the arguments he adduces are accordant with its
dictates. In the seine oppositiOn of extellei:cr;
stand Horner and Virgil ; Dante and Spencer ;
Johnson and Addison; Chalmere and Alison. Not;
perhaps, opposed id the exact attribute, which we
have pointed out in the Grecian end Roman O•a-
-tors, but, iu the general tone sod contexture o(
theit Compolitiono. Its painting, likewise, as an it.
!nitration of our position; we may adduce the ex=
ample. of Salvator Ruda, and tlimile Lorraine,
the drama, of Kean and Kimble.

*b.

There seem to he an order of Minds, indeed, ik
which the whole • faculties have exhibited extraor4
dinaty developement, mid which are not more
tinguished fur infentifettesi of irnsemation, than
far strength of judgment. Proudly pre•eminent
stands Silakeperire, the prince of poets, and su-
preme sovereign of the bunions heart, in him, it is
utterly impossible to say, where ley him strength;
or where lay his weakliest. We hear of the manner
of Chatictr, of the Manlier of Spencer, of the
manner of Pope, of the easoner of Cowper, but
we never hear of the manner of Shsksperroa Hid
excellencies are of every conceivable kind f he
is * giant in all his faculties. Lay hi. forte to
strbngth, he was more delicate than Fletcher;
lay it in tenderuess. he was more masculine
than Bed Joiner): He draws bd to him "with
the cords of a min ;" he routes us low hor-
ror, Or melts us into tears ; he confined the ender.'
standing. or, if it suits hii Purpose, ovetthrows
reason, and seizes upon the pfissiourn His Setae is
on earth or in air. His perionages embrace the
sum of human society; and ire of off dget Snit
nations: es He exhausts werldsi and ianegind new:
After having explored defy creek in the spaciesk
oeeau of the human sold, 44 the hese ind the Wain
region of his song," he ttirus to the iptritstal sod
superhuman world. intontrarsrbie. Slialdpeare
"Take bum for all Will," the 'World hos aferer mew
„ like;: and; most ptobably# theft *reef tee hie
like nolo. Them We others of the same thum?baf
Clot in the MIN Ma of endeneatie, WOW *et*