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calamity he would wander on, seeing in the future
nothing for hope, and iu the past nothing but Ms-
appointment—You could not recognise in him the
same creature, who but an hour preceding had
• set the table in a roar'—his gibes, his meriment,
his flashes of wit were all extinguished. He had a
favourite little slaughter, who was a sort of musical
Prodigy. She had died it the age of twelve. and he
had her buried in the mirth of a smell grovejust
adjoining this garden. A little rustic memorial was
raised over her, and often sod often have 1 seen
him, the tears • chasing each other' down his
cheeks, -point to his daughter's monument, and
• wish to be With her and at rest.' Such at thoes
was the mini before whtwe very look not merely gni.
env but sadness has oftewvanished—who has given
birth to more etijoyMent, and uttered more wit,
than, perhaps, any of his cotemporisries in any cnim-
try—.who had in him materiels for social happiliess,
such as we cannot hojw phi to see combined in
any one; and whose death has cast, I fear, a per-
manent eclipse upon the "'festivities of his circle.
Yet even these thelattcholfhours were not without
their moral. They proved the nothingness of this
world's gifts—the worse than inutility of this world's
attainments—they forced the mind into involun-
tary reflection—they ',hewed a feHow-creartue en-
riches/ with the finest natural endowments, having
acqiiited the most extensive reputation, without a
pecuniaryirant or a professional rival; yet Weighed
down with a constitutional depression that 14ft the
itoorest wealthy, and the humblest happy in the
compnriiion. Nor were they without a krod of
mournful interest—be spoke as under such csocum-
stances no human being but himself 'could hare
Ipoken—his mind was so very strangely coats-
toted—such an odd medley of the and
the humorous—now soaring into regions df light
`and sublimity for illustrations, and now burrowing
under ground for such ihdacrous and el t i ttt steal
examples—drawing the most Strange inferences
'from cause* so remote, and accompanied at tunes
wills gestures so comic, that the smile and the star
iiften irresistibly suet during the recital. Perhaps,
after one of thole scenes of misery, when he had
walked himself tired, and 'wept himself tearless, ire
Would again return into the house, where the pk.
lure of some friend, or the contingency of some ac-
cident, recalling an 'early or festive association,
would hurry him into the very extreme of cheerful-
IleA% ! His spirits rose—his wit retu lie jest,
and the tale, und the aottedore pushed each other
aside in au almost endless variety, and day dawned
upon bins, the happiest,the pleasantest, and the most
tisscimiting of companions. The Mesta* whom he
admitted to an intimacy may perhaps recognise
him, even in this hurried sketch, as be has often
appeared I‘ them in the hospitalities of the Priory:
—bur, alas !—the look all-eloquent—the eye of
tire—the tongue of harmony—the exquisite address
that gave a charm to every thing, and spell-bouod
those who heard him, are gone for ever !"

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

PAM'S, SEPTIMBER 19.
The King transacted lousiness with the Duke of
Richehell from one till half-past one &clink. Ills
.Excellency has taken leave of his Majesty ; he sets
.ff this night for
The Allied Sovereigns will hold their ronferences
it the hall of the Town-house, where the famous
Treaty of Peace, known under the name of Treaty
df Aix-la-Chapelle, was concluded and Biped.
The Kiug of Prussia has lately confirmed the
rot corttlemuatio►r to de►th in the Provinces of the
Rhine, and etecution by the hatchet, pronounced
against a subaltern officer who had assassinated his
comrade at Luxembourg.
The Emperor of Komi' wishes to observe the
strictest incognito in his journey through Germany,
for the purpose of escaping the ceremonies and fetes
which would be caused by his presence.
A carriage, of which the box, the body, the
harness, and the horses, are white, has excited, for
some days, the curiosity of the Parisians. The
coachman and footmen wear white bat•, and are
dressed in white liveries. Inside is a child, aged
about 10 years, dressed in white, as is also a retinae
servant who .oecompsnies him. A Journal has an-
nounced this fact, simple in itself, and infinitely
respectable in its motive; but has exploineditin a
very obscure manner, saying, that according to all
the child was devoted to white. On
this explanation, two Journals, affecting ignorance,
although well knowing the meauit►g of the phrase,
decutelo ridicule the first Journal that announced the
fact, and exciaim at the revival of the wicient super-
stitions. Fur ourselves, we are very happy to explai or.
at the riik of intoning the ana►hema of the scoffers,
that a child devoted to white, means a child placed
by its parents wader the protection of the Virgin.
'f he clothes andetber white al opessilages,w Inds evince
this 'peewit of consecration, have nothing in them
snore surprising than the black garb and mournful
draperies, wireteby 'we resider homage to the me-
mory of souse chen►hed friend. %Ye shaft also tell
ilea►, that thisionlolic act of religion and parental
love, honours no less the courage than the semi.
totems of the parents, who do sot fear to nosaie •
solemn profession of their devotion to her to whims
inn kings have cosifileel the guardianship of their
realm, and to *I every year they renew the
..age of their Crown.--floorifol des Debuts.)
'ELEVENTH HULLETIN OF THE HEALTH OF HER

ROYAL HIGHNEIIa THF. DUCHES6 UP SLIMY.

Her Royal Ilighneas went to sleep at half-put eleven
The night has been gaud.
" DEN LUX and HOCHNON.
" Srittenther iB, eight o'clock lit the taturwiag."

The Court of Artoze of the Rhone has, by a
tesiteoce of the 1211, of thi. th,cooth.ow,,,i to
tor v•rotroce of drath Jea* lkv.rnx, aged 22 yea's,
I..bouov, native of Chati d'Azergue, Cutout' of
tilt Mewl d'Oingt, Departtoeut of the Ithoote% and

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY. SEmbinga 23. 181$.

THE QUEEN.

The Bulletin exhibited at the 'Queen's Palace,
yesterday, MOS all follows:

" Yew Palace, September 22, ISIS.
" The Queen has had sleep in the sight, but the symptoms
of ber Illidjeatea eumplaist are Dot improved.

(Signed) " FR. MILMAN,
" HENRY HALFORD."
,
Last evening the Pitmen REnsnt left Carlton
House for Kew.
[KW, CEPTIMBIR 2t.

On Monday the Duke of You arrived from
Oatlanda, in Lis way to Loudon, ■ud paid a visit to
her MAi ISTV.

This day Sir FRANCIS MILNAN left Kew for
London, and returned in the afternoon.
The Duke of Sussex visited tter MLIESTY.
Thd PRINCE REGENT arrived from Loudon to-
day. _ _

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday
last. The Duke of RICHELIEU, having held a
colifertuce on Friday with the KING, left Paris on
the evening of the same day for Aix-la-Chapelle.
The Emperor of Russt♦ will. in his journey through
Germany, observe a strict ineognito.--The Duchess
of BERRY is recovering rapidly from the effects of
her confinement.
The Five per Cents. are 75 f.

We endeavoured to shew in our last publication,
that the Ministerial Papers merely soeght to de.
crive the public, or were themselves deceived, in
awertiwg that the CHANCELLOR of the EXURB-.
QUER would not require during the ensuing year
to raise money by loan, or by any financial scheme
embracing the operation of funding. We shewed
by arithmetical statements that the probable ex-
penditure of the year would amount to upwards of
sixty-three millions, a sum exceeding the probable

revenue by something about nine millions—titat of 11
these nine millions, from four to five might possi-
bly revisit] in the Treasury, from the Ways and j
Means of the present year, to be rendered available
towards meeting the Supply of the next—and that
in the most flattering and favourable view of the
'case, the CuaNcEtt.oa or the EXCHEQUER should
of necessity have recourse to some expedient for
raising a sun► nearly equal. flow this sum of
money can be raised. without borrowing in some
shape, we are at a loss to discover ; we are there-
fore tempted to believe, that should the revenue fall
short of the wanguine hopes entertained by Minis-
ters and their party, it is intended to attack the
Sinking Fund, and appropriate the last hope of
the nation to support the present extravagance of
an inconsiderate Ministry. By this means the
promise of the CilancES.Loß of the Excise-
•Qusit would be realised, and the boast of the
Treasury saved by the suliterftage. Should Par-
liament, however, prove itself so regardless of
thetdisties•es or the people as to sanction a conti-
pumice, for another year, of the present military
and civil establishments. and thereby cause an
excess in the expenditure over the income, we shall
slot say that a recourse to the Siiikitig Fund would
I not be far preferable, as a means of meeting the
Sapplp, than ally expedient, however feasible, of
burrowing money at intere►t.
Some doubts, we understand, are entertained in
the 'military circles, respecting the immediate die-
handing of 25.000 men immediately on their return
from the frontiers of France. it is argued, that
uhtho►rbh the Allied 'Sovereigns. iii deference to the
wishes of the Cabinet of the 'clioilleries, may con-
sent to withdrew their respective contingents form-
tog the Army of Occupation. it would be impolitic
to (haploid them immediately, and trust to .chance
for the security of the Buorliou throne and the

tranquillity orEurope. Such, we are privately as-
sured, are the sentiments entertained by the
Ultra-Royalist party, sanctioned by the apprelia-
lion of cirlais members of the Royal Family ; and
experieeett ilias taught us how very consonant they
must be pre the prevailing opinions of the British
Government. The Ministers sill also work nut an
*eircuse'ror supporting the present home establish-
-raent, from the late discontents that unfortu-
nately appeared among a large body of the working
manufacturers of the kingdom ; and although
in their rise, progress, and termination (for not-
withstanding a few late disturbances, we consider
"them as virtually terminated), no feeling was mini-
fisted by the people other than a determination to
exact higher wages from their emplciyers, we
have no doubt they will be attributed by Lord
SIOHOUTH and Mr. Cl/MHO solely to a seditious
and jacobinical purpose. An excuse equally weak,
and assertions equally devoid of fottidation.deprived
us last year of our Constitution; and although in
the next year Ministers might not deem it prudent
to repeat the experiment, Ave can safely venture to
predict that they will obstinately resist every at-
tempt to reduce the numbers of the standing army,
and appeal to the late proceedings at Manchester.
Stockport, ■nd other places, for the justification of
their conduct. Should such an appeal unfortu-
nately prove successful, what will then become of
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCUEQUER'S promise,
and the premature boast of the Treasury Journals?

Among the Perliententary Papers printed since
the close of last Session, is the Report of the
Lords' Committees on the Poor Laos in the Session
of 1817, with► the Minutes of Evidence annexed.
The hitter present a deplorable picture of the in-
crease of pauperism of late years, ■nd advance in
the poor rates throughout the manufacturing dis-
tricts generally, and the agricultural in numerous
instances. In the 'pariah of St. Mary Magdalen,
Bermondsey, the number of poor in their house in
1814, was 407; in 1817, it was 600, besides 100
children, maintained out at nurse. In the year
1790, their poor rate was 3s. 6d. in the pound on the
nominal rack-rent; iu 1817, 7s. on the full
rack-rent. In Manchester, the average number of
poor in the house throughout the years 1796.7, was
320; throughout 1816.7, 526. In the formei yeat
the rates amounted to 16,9411. Iss. Op.; in that
ending Easter 1816, to 47,8901.; and in that end-
ing Easter 1817, 65,9121. In many places the
rates have been doubled within a few years. It
was stated before the Committee, that, in parts of
Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, the assessment was
20$. in the pound; that in the parish of Sutton-
' Ashfield, about ten miles from Nottingham, they
in many instances very far exceeded the rents; and
that in Midhurst, in 1816, the rates collected were
at 255. in the pound, and amounted to 2,006/. 185.3 d.
while in 1803 they amounted to but 7761. 10s. 3d.
Theft are but a few out of a multitude of similar
cases—great part of so alarming a change is unques-
tionably to be traced to the operation of tempo-
rary causes ; but we apprehend a deeper oue
lurks beneath, and it is a conviction forced
upon the mind by almost every page of the
evidence before us, that much of the pressure on
the 'industrious part of the community was pro-
duced by a spirit of indolence, and the want of
proper exertion on the part of those applying for
and receiving charitable relief—that • life of idle-
ness in a poor-house possessed too many attractions
for the majority of its inmates—and that among
the labouring classes a rapid decline was taking
place in that feeling of laudable pride and honest
independence which in times past led Englishmen
of every denomination to submit to any personal
privation rather than become a burden to their
neighbours, and which made it their bout that
they had kept out of • work-house all their life.
This decay of a principle so essential to any well-
constituted society, is attributable to various causes :
to the example and countenance afforded by
numbers really distressed, whom the sudden revul-
sion in the circumstances of the country, and the
want of employment arising from the suspension or
destruction of different branches of manufacture
rendered inevitably dependent on the benevolent—
to the relaxation in morals generally, occasioned by
theiocre•se of public-houses, and the impossibility
of the labourer and mechanic being supplied with
beer or porter, so generally considered indispen-
sable to them, without recourse to such houses,
the excessive war duties on malt putting it out
of the power of verses in low circumstances to
brew for their own uses. formerly—but, above all,
as we Conceive, to a 'too easy and negligent
system of management by those to whom the
administration of the poor laws was intrust.
ed, relief was sometimes granted to the unde-
serving without due investigation, or from
mistaken notions of humanity, and sometimes
awarded by a rale much too 'general and perma-
nent, and en a scale too liberal. Thus in many
perishes u regulation has been laid down that every
working man. with a certain Tamily, should have
either from his own earnings, or the parish rates,
half-a-crown a head weekly for each member, sod
that whatever deficiency there was in the fanner
should be supplied from the latter.
This was obviausly taking away all motive fur
exertion or industry. another parish it was the
custom i►► a similar case to calculate tl►e mat. s
earnings always at ills. a week, and to contribute

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