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his narrative ; under the ides that it waa then impru.
dent and unjustifiable provocation of the Japanese
nation which led to the subsequent capture and impri-
velment of him and his crew. The anecdotes here
given, however, not only Ptiffi nen tly exone-ate theta
&au the eh arge of having acted without authority from
their superior officer ; but likewise places their aurae-
tent aod actions in so engaging a point of view, that the
arciunt which they tlso contain of the early fate of two
such young' men, who met with death, as they
had often dared at, tocether and at the same moment,
will nat be read without mingled feelings of admiration
and rewet.

Tle zgize England ; or, Trimniphs of the late War.

This is a book which we presume every lover of his
country must desire some pleasure from looking into;
and even should the reader get no further than the table
contents. he will, if he have a grain of ad•tliration in
his nature bite patriotism and courage, dwell upon it
with feelings of no cornm:m sort—a series of victories
beginning with that of Lord Howe, off Brest, and
with the reduction of Algiers by Lord Exmouth, and
the rmtoring of tranquillity in India by the Marquis
of Hastings, includes such a number of pliant actions,
performed in so many anti such distant parts of the
habitable globe, that the imagination fires at the thought
of the wide Sea in which British valour has displayed'.
itself: and inspires in every o::e who has the happy 1,
power of saying so, the exultant exclamation, •• and I
also am a Briton?' The purport of this work is to col-1
lest into one focus the tributes of eloquence and grati-
tuae which have been excited from the country in the
thanks of nuliument, by the bravery and skill of our
army and navy, which has been deemed deserving this
public ackuowlegment of national feeling ; and at the!
end of the account of each action biographical and mili-
tary notices are given, respecting the individuals who I
were concerned in it. We have thus the force and
seletnni y of the ancient honorary orations, combined
white familiarity of anecdote : and whether as a grati-
fiestion of taste, of feeling. or of curiosity, the /Egis
of England will be found to possess sufficient claims on
the attention of the English reader.

The French Papers of the Sth inst have arrived ;
and these do not confirm, n'sr in any manner counte-
nance, the rumours which had been circulated ca the
abject of his Majesty's health. It is trite that the
kiug has been intisposed, but was on Wednesday so
much recovered, as to transact public business with
his Ministers, to receive a deputation from tke Chamber
of lkplities, and to give audience to several of the
dignitaries and great oilieers of the kingdom. The de-
bates on the new arrangement of the financial year
were concluded in Wednesday's sitting; when the
Ministerial pviect passed into a law by a majority of
only St : the ayes were in, the noes 100. The taxes
are tints granted to the executive Government down
to the lit of July, 1820, a period of nearly IS months :
so that one great cause of anxiety to Ministers, and a
powerful engine of control over their measures, is irn.
paired, or suspended in its operation.
A letter of a recent date, tram Madrid, repeats that
the Government of Spain, has begun to talk ugin about
the expedition to South America, and has decreed that
there shall at: a luau of 60 millions of reels, about
600,0001. ; but a Royal Ordinance, though it may an.'
thorise the State to borrow, cannot oblige any man to
end: accordingly, there is not a dollar forthcoming on
the occasion, and in. the mean time the ships- rot, the
sailors starve, and the soldiers desert their colours. It is
alleged that the Ambassadors of Crest Britain, France,
Austria, and the United States, have expressed strong
displeasure ut the decree fur putting to death such fo-
reigners.as shall aaaisr the American Insurgents.
A Protestant Bible Society has just been formed at
Paris, under the sanction of the I•'rench Gavernineut.
The Marquis de Jauerairt, Minister of State and Peer
of France, is at the head of it.
An Invest was hell. last week, at the Volunteer, in Illsker.oczt.,
rtatinsu.simsre,ll/11 the way Of Ann Coleneek, woo 1101..0.1,.11 here
by swailow:ng two oune,soi latuloautri. The dee. Ihtli was IWathabt
the beau: Um' AO infatitansl and kopeks.; attachment. Sur hod writ-
ten ..tverol Idters, to oar of wlitch she received an answer by post.
wii:c4sltz tote, LILCO/ is tae tire, and franticly exci.ountii,
60.1, 1 auto toes het mitul ;my mammal is tns,le up—l Imow what to
do. 'fit,: dccc ucd was Latly'..nat,il.l in a resin:cub/4 is ally. Verdict—
itnanity.

CAVTIIN a44INAT TAKTXO, NDCDIC.INES lIC Tit/ DARK.
7he Liver pool Coa I irr eitt)s—A few nights since a yoang lat.ty of
11,1, t•rwo, being ticuel with a sudden inutsposition mole night, arose
tnin tier tyal to rcaen a medicine %glitch had been wen:tribal fivr her,
trotn an adjoining drawer ; whin she unfortonarely got :add of a phial
3i
et. laudanum sitdelt was in t!..i .sun_: place. and draak oft. Vie "ic
t to snattenta. Site imrmeliatety tett Into a sail,' th'ins_isibility, front
wlZ:i 111 all prottsuility s.te never motiltt have ree.k.,—id. had not her
fintatio . nein dtsiovit.i by atteate,tt Medical ntristadee wart imme•
distly silt tor, sad by active ettertioas tile yll6Oll was prov.stntially
expt.lim frum Mc a'.o,llaC4, sad aill; 6 111.14 in a rail Way of recovery.

(hi 'Cuestl:ty last, abont two o'clu,:k in the morning, a Are-Wl4 (ha
L:llCri4 at the 3C43/ of P. T. Wykhum, Esfp at A.,utn Ito Oxtirl-
snare. it ur is_ u a in tile servants' apurtm..iits, anti burnt eitti
great filry ; tf.c witi,i Wing in me upposit4 Uirectinn to the liouNc, fo:
tunutely pi.,:vel.ted Cuts q.lenthil mammon becoming it prey to the dc-
itiringeus,:kint. Two ur three risks were at one time on tire, anti the
tunnel in ttic ril4t3. wen in the infttiuunincat thibet•

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