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London, England, 1806-08-06 00:00:00

CO. 111110 N HALL.

YPsri,finkt, pursuant to public notice; a. Corn.;
mon Hall was ronirened at Guildhall, for .the pur-
pose of electing a Sheriff for London, in the room
of P. MESTAEKS, Esq. who 'oeing.eleaed at the last
Common Hall, had refused to give bond to serve
the office..
The business being opened with the usual form,
by the Public Crier, the Recorder, and Common
Serjeant, the names of the following Gentle Men
were announced by the Public Crier, as those of
the Gentlemen put in nomination, and from whom
the Gentlemen of the Livery were now requested to
seleat one :

THOM AS -ROWCROFT! Esq. Alderman.
i• 1. SMITH; Esq. Alderman.
STRE.HEEI HUNTER. Esq. Alderman.
Toils, PR I NSEP, Esq._Aldernmt.
P. NKEY, Esq Alderman.
OSI AH BOYDELL, Esq. Alderman.
SIMrMoNs. Esq.' Stationer.
Rk£ V ES, Esq. Embroiderer.
PEARSON, Esq. Glover.
W. BAR LOWE, Esq. Bricklayer..
WILSON, Esq. Glover.
••••—• CLARKE, Esq. •
RICHARD PHILLIPS, Esq. Stationer.'
IMAMS BRANSCOMB, Esq. ~yer„
Mr. WAITHMAN came forward td express an
earnest hope • that the Livery -Were now called to-
gether for the purpose of eleCting, in good earnest,
some Gentleman, willing • and competent in all
eligible views, to assume and dischSrge the im-
portant office of a Sheriff of the City, of. London ;
for after so many meetings for the like purpose, the
choice of so many persons in succession, incompe-
tent or.' unwilling to serve' the office, and sdnimch
money (Hisses in the Assembly) extorted from the
pockets of the persons So chosen, without. having
yet effsaed any thing towards the real choice of a
Magistrate to fill the important office, it was now
high time to proceed seriously, to the ele4ion of
some Gentleman really willing to fill the arduous
station. Before the Livery should proceed to make
their.eleaion, he felt it necessary to give them an
additional precaution in reveal .to a- Gentleman
in favour of whom, it was generally, understood,
their attachment preponderated, and who stood at
the head of those the most likely to becbme theob-
jeas of their preference this day. He alluded to
Mr. SIMMONS. But he could, from the best author
rity, namely, from the letter of Mr. Simmons's Phy-
sician in the country, now in his possession, as-
sure the ASsembly, that the health of that Gentle-
man was in, a state so precarious as to render his
!Acceptance of the office utterly impossible, however
grateful he might be for the honour intended him by
his Fellow-citizens. The Gentlemen of the Livery
would therefore be aware how futile must be the
choice of Mr. &mum's on the present occasion, and'
that it could only create the necessity of proceeding
to another ele&ion, and protract still longer the di-
lemma under which the City of London laboured,
of finding a person willing to fill an office heretofore
sought with rival avidity as -a post of honour; but
the singular and unprecedented backwardness to ac-
cept which of late seemed to evince a very equi-
vocal estimation of its honour and dignity. Hoping,
however, that it was really the objea and the
sincere wish of the Livery of London to find a Ci-
tizen, whose character, whose respeaability, 'and
whose understanding recommended him as a fit ob.-
jea, for their choice, he wai now prepared to offer 1
to their approbation, a man Who must be well known
to many of them, and whose activity, intellea, and
charaaer would be found to jestify, • their selection.
He concluded by proposing for their choice Mr.
RICHARD PHILA.:I'S, Statiouer.

Mr. J. Dtxox-.—Notwithstanding the high pane-
gyric in which the Gentleman who last spoke had
'introduced the name, of Mr. PHILLIPS (of whom he
really knew nothing), and the very zealous man-
ner in which he had pressed upon the Livery:the
imMediateeledion of the obje& of his own recom-'
mendation, yet he, Mr. D: hoped the Livery would
do him the favour of attending to his recommenda-
tion, and to the di&ates of their own good sense, in
adapting a .quite different condua. 14-e did not
mean to insinuate that Mr. PHILLIPS might not be
a man who merited all the commendations his
friend had just laVished upon his charader. He
could not say that he was not a person every way
fit to fill the important office to" which it was now
proposed to elect a fit candidate; for of Mr. PHlL-
mrs he knew scarcely any thing., He could not
however admit t•he propriety of choosing .a per-
son now, for the first time put in nomina-
tion, without allowing the assembly any preVi.:!
ous opportunity of considering the prOPriety of
the sele&ien
,they were thus suddenly called on.
tti make, in preference to many respeaable names
already before; them; and of the nomination of
which they were already apprised. The Honourable
Gentleman had beetr pleased to support. his argu-
ment in favour of a choice so sudden and incon-
siderate, however peeper it might intrinsically be,
by charging on; the Livery the elealon of men to
the office of Sheriff who were ineligible, incompe.=
tent, orunWilling to serve, merely for the purpose.
of extorting money from them. But he could not
tacitly listen to 'such an unfounded charge against
that respe&able Assembly, and must therefore con-
tradiet the Imputation. He would -now earnestly re-
•cominend'to the Assembly to exercise its privileges,
by going through the whole list ofnames proposed to
them, and to decide distinaly in their order, so that
every man might have the opportunity of exercising
Ns free vote for the man he best approved ; and
should the choice ultithately fall upon,the Gentleman
Iwho was this day alledged to be incompetent, unable,
and unwilling, from ill health, to assume the situa-
tion, he would Venture to pledge himself that the
same alledgMents, properly made in the proper
.place,, namely, by a representation to the Common
Council, would immediately exempt him from all
tlaims of service, free of any expellee.
Mr. WAITHMAN explained, and repeated his
former, assertion with regard to the. extortion of
fines. He could not, he said; imagine for' what
'giber purposes than thoe of extortion men were
eleaed against their will to fill an office for which
their avocations, their health, their age, or infirmi-
ties, rendered them unfit, or how it could be just
• to muld them in large sums for not serving. It
might be a very desirable thing to increase the
finances of the :City,- biit it should be done by very
different means from these, which were, in his opi-
nion, too severe and, unjustifiable. He hoped the
Livery would now conic to a decided ehvic6. ; of an

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aetito at; Ciiiibki iierscm, if3Aead of Proccoding ici
elect. perstiiis incompetent to sere, and thereby
creaiiio; a ilew .successicin of deli s, 1,-;(l3ich w!)old-
probdiy le;:ive the City Of Londoh withnnt tintklier
Sheriff od the commencement Of the new o':1:cial
year.

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Mr.,TATLocx was at some tyss to acco-iiiitfor the
condua of his friend, Mr. WAiTTIMAN,. in pl'o-
posing this day, as a new Candidate,.the name of Mr.
PnILE.ITS ; a Gentleman certainly against w!i0,,,„
eligibility, in all respeets, he had nothing to oi,j,:e't,
but that his friend had, .on a former day, seemed
to give his warm approbation to the name of. Mr.
BR.NscoMn, of WhO3C character and "eligibility to
the office no man had ventured to urge a doubt,
who was re:ie{y and willing to assume the duties of
it, and to discharge them with honour to liituelf,
advantage to the Public, and credit to the choice of
hts fellow-citizens. It it w::S.on political grounds
•that his. friend had proposed a preferenceto Mr.
Pitit.ups, he saw no good reason for the change,
as both were tue,n of the satne principles : but, on
the ground of seniority, Mr. BRANSCOMB certainly.
had a decided claim to the choke, to which he beg-
ged leave most earnestly to recommend him.

Mr. GRIFFITH very warmly seconded the recom-
mendation of .Mr. TATLocx ; and the question was
then put successively on the several names. The
slim of hands was not at all numerous until the
name of Mr. Pnrwrs was proposed, but the Majo-
rity beino• evidently in favour of Mr. BItANsCoMB,
he was declared to be duly elected.
The Assembly was thvn adjourned sine die.

Thus has the City of London at last obtained a
second neritf.for the ensuing year, after So many.
successive Ele&ious. The fines in consequence,
since Midsummer, day alone, amounted to no less a
sum than 91501.

On Friday last the foundation Stone of. the Mo-
nument to be ere6ted in the Greeni,Glasgow, to the
memory of Lord NELSON, was laid by the Worship-
ful Sir JOHN STUART, of Allan Bank, Bart. Provin-
cial Grand Master Mason of the Under Ward of
Lanarkshire. The Members of the PthcessiOn, to-
gether with a numerous .assemblage of Ladies and
Gentlemen, met in the High Church, at twelve
o'clock, where a very
.excellent and appropriate Ser.•
mon was preached by,the Rev.. Dr. Wm. Ilvrentu,
of, St. AndreAv's Church,

The procession was closed by the Glasgow .Hkh-
land Regiment of Volunteers, and the streets w:•re
lined by the Trades' Corps, the sth Lanarkshire Vo-
lunteers, and the Anderton and, Canal Volunteers.
The length of the procession was considerably
more than. a mile. It took about half an hour
in passing the Cross,' and was nearly two hours
in reaching the Green. Its route was High-street,
George-street, Queen-street, Trongate, Saltmarket.
During the procession the Vessels in the river, at
'the Broomielaws displayed their flags; and the Har-
mony, of Liverpool, Capt. WILKIE, fired 4.7 guns,
being one for every year of Lord NE.LS 0 N'S' age at the
time-of his death. When the fimn.:Jtiun stone was
laid, Capt. Wit.KtE also fired a Royal Salute of 21
guns.

Notwithstanding the immense concourse of spec-
tator,q, supposed attog-ether at upwards of 80,000,
the greatest good order was 'preserved, and nu acct-
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dent happened.

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In the afternoon the Lord Provost and Magi-
'strates, and the Committee of Management, gave an
elegant entertainment to Sir. Jen N STuART and suite,
in the Tontine.

At a meeting of the Officers of the First liegi
meat of Glasgow Volunteers, held there on Thurs-
day, they unanimously resolved 'to tender their re-
• signation, conceiving it impossible to continue tlicir•
services on, the new allowanceS, without subjeEting
them Selves to great individual expellee:
It has been recently reported that Miss. AiLft.toN,
the Aaress, had a prize of ten thousand pounds in
the last Lottery. We should be glad to hear that
this-.news is true, as she possesses a respeelable and
amiable charader in private life, but it.is somewhat
inwrobablethat if such an event had athially taken
place it should not have transpired before.
The Birmingham Theatre on 'Friday was opened
for the benefit of the General Hospital at.that place.
The house was so mnch crowded as to produce some
disturbance ; but the Manager, Mr. M'CRPAnT,
adroitly as I.ve)l as liberally, signified that they who
could not be comfortably accommodated should" be
adMitted the following night. Many persons in con-
sequence of this hanclsbme proposal quitted the
Theatre ; all discontent Was suppressed, and up-
wards of two hundred pounds was' secured to the
Charity:

Miss DUNCAN IS engaged foi• sim nights at the Mr-
minbltatn Theatre upgli very liberal tertils.

The Farce of Animal IVagnetism was revired last
night at the Haymarket Theatre, and soledierously
supported by. FAWCETT and MATnEws, that the
Audience wc: kept in a continual laugh, though
their risible -muscles had previously been very freely
exercised by the new Comedy of Fire Miles 011:
Of six hundred Podts who nave died within the
last century, only twelve are known to have-nlade a
will, according to the estimate of a German Writer.
We know not whether the -Writer limited his ac-
count to Poets of Germany; but it. may be easily con-
ceived that the Poets of any other Country have as
little occasion to make a bequest qf property.
King Louis may have pledsed the people of Am,
sterdam by removing, the naval trophies of V,
TROMP and DE RUYTFR from that place to the
Hague; but what will the people of the Hague say
on. being thus deprived of the relics' of heroism
which they have so long.beheld with laudable pride
and exultation ? .The next proof of royal reforma-
Om in Holland ,will, perhaps, be the removal of the
Statue of ERASMUS froni Rotterdam, but-tke.cere-
=my attending it will probably require more guards
than he can conveniently spare to escort the venera-
ble effigies of learning and genius.
It has been said, that As the new King of liolland.
has thought proper to. include in the lloya.l Arms
the Lion, which is the ancient emblem of that
Country, it. should be exhibited without teeth and
claws. There is some humour in this. suggestion,'
and too much reason for the remark ; but it should
be observed, that these_ deprivations are, indicative of
the Lion in love,. which cannot be-supposed spep.o.
lice] of the present national feelings in 1-f(liancL

rr fiRLYCE OF 111:•:.SSI; kir!.

The followimr account of the biave deferidtir of
.i'Gaeri is giYer'.-. ,itt a Gerioan Rq er. •" He i the son.
Ot the Tresent Lim(igraye of ~.. zss.*:. Pat LLIp&THAL.T.:;
IR! e‘vns brirn'on the :3!1).6f Oa. 1766.. Ire began t is
ezireer Dutch se rviOe as a Captain in
is latfier's' Regiroent of Dragoons. In the com-
e me.nec..ment of the. year 1791 he was Married to the
13:tronesS'VoN ri:s, a Baroness' in hek owti
This connenion Was Thrmed without the knowledge
Of the parents of either party, the marriage cere-•
moO having been privately performed by a Dutch
- Soon after, however,. he went to re-
side' witn' a-rehti-;;e: of his wife, who lived near
Coln. t!iere he .spent the Autumn of the year
1791, and afterward, pa,sed into the Neapolitan ser—
vice. Coh1;;e1 ACTON, the brother of the well-
known Minister Of that irme, and who was him-
self afterwards Minister of War, had about the same
time married a Lady of the family of TRIPS. This
family conneakin, added to the great merit of the
Prince, proctired him a speedy promotion. He was.
soon ,appointed Governor of the fortress. of Caseria,
and the PrinCess, his wife, was about the same time
plaCed in a distinpished situation in the service of
the Queen of Naples. At the time of the former
conquest of Naples by the French, this Lady re=
tired to Munich, where she died about a year
ago. In the year 1799 the Prince of HEssE. PHIL-
LIPSTIIALL was raked to the rank of Fiel4l Mar-
shal at . the same time he was appointed-Governor
of • Gaeta, and Inspcaor of all the Frontier Ford.
tresses of the Neapolitan Dominion's. In the year
.1803 his Neapolitan Majesty conferred on him. the
Order of St..Januarius:' •

The following are the particulars. which attended
the restoration of HENRY CRANMER, Esq. an unfor-
tunate vidim of insanity, whose cases we have re-
ported, to his friends, RIVETT and PARKES, two
of the.Bow-”itreet Officers, were entrusted with the
LORD CHANCELLOR'S Order to.secure Mrs.WrNsToN,
who had brought the unhappy Gentleman to London.
They went iti pursuit of her during Thursday, Fri-
day, and Saturday, and at length traced her and the
old,Gentleman to a house in Camden Town. Ater
_endeavouring in vain to get admittance by fair
means, they broke open the. door, and served
Mrs. W. with a copy of the Lord Chancellor's
Order. She persisted in asserting that Mr. CitA N-
NKR was gone front her, and that she did not know
• where he was. The Officers, hOwever, insisted up-
. onsearching the premises, which she refused, and
-a very novel scene ensued---it being• completely
dark, anti- the Officers not knowing the premises,
they frequently fell over the furniture, while Mrs.
W. was scratching their faces, biting them, and
-tearing their clothes. The Officers not being able
• to search the premises in the dark,.one of them en •
.countered Mrs. WiNsToN's scratehes and bites,,
while the other went to a public-house and pro-
cured a light; they then managed to search, and
found the old •-Gehrlernan hiding himself behiad a
door on the first:floor.. He appeared much fright-
ened,' and discovered several symptoms of insanity,
as threatening to knock the Officers down
and fight them, although he is near go years of age,
at;d so infirm that he could hardly stand.. The Offi-
cers succeeded in convincing him they were not go-
ing to, do. him any injury,. and he went qUietly with
them to the house of Mr. MouNcmr, his Attorney,
Charlotte-street, Bedford-svare. On Sunday the
.Officers conveyed the old Gentleman in a •post-
ehaise.to Quendon Hall, Essex, his residence, where
Captain GOIWON, his relation, was ready to receive
him.

Two young heifers, about a year and a half old,
.in the possession of a person at Denby, have been
brought up together, and have been in the habit of
sucking one another. The consequence is, that one
of them now gives a considerable quantity of milk,
though she has hitherto produced no calf, nor is
even at this time pregnant.
The east window in Guildhall is undergoing an
entire repair: The iron work will be all new, and
the glass and, gothic archite&ural -ornaments-placed
in a handsome situation. The fine colledion of our
Islitig;., and their Consorts have been removed until the
work is finished.

CORN-EXCI.TANGtj AUG, 6.—To-day at the new
Market, the fresh arrivals of Wheat are few, the' sup-
plies chiefly rat Monday, and sales nearly at that day's
currency ; Barley and Malt,. likewise White Pease,
from the thinness of the crop, continue rising articles
and Rape Seed this Week fetches a better price ; Oats
of second and inferior qualities are in plenty ; Flour
and other articles have no particular variation.
wheat szs a 7os a.Sos oft !leans •- 42s a 47S od
Fine ditto -82 S a 853 of; Tick Bean: 33s a 39s od
kye. - -38 s a 2.s cd ()3ts
22 4 s a 26s a ;os od
matey - -34 s 3 39S o‘l Ppl:Illd ditti) 32S a 323 od
Malt - - ”S a 74s 6(1 .}gape Seed -. 281 - 321
White l'e3se 68s a 735 od f/ine Hour 68s 4 725 od
Gtey ditto 435 a 435 od Seconds - 6os la 68s od

RELIC OF' A NTIQULTIT..-,..111 digging a foundation
at the lxtck of thc. ,London cotfe,c- House, Ludgate-
hill, where London Won fortnce.y stood, a stone of
a sextagon terra was lately found, with the following
inscription :'

D. 0. M.
C. L. MA RTI
.114 A-P. ANX I
A:N 0(: L I
T t/ S
PftOVINC
CONGRESS!
PIETISSINIgc,
H. S. E. . •
btn OPTI MO MAXI =lO.
CLAunr.t MANTik.e,
A nno undecinio

ANONdr.ir us Provineiaiis Congress?,
Pictissrme Hoc Sepulchrum Erexit.

" l'O THE ALL GLORIOUS DEITY.
ANONCLITITA,
In the Eleventh Year of his Provincial Government,
. , Has moit piously erected this Monument
To the Memory of his ‘Vik,
CLAUDIA MARI INA."
This Stone is to be seen at this time at the back
of the 'London c:offee-house.
Mr. &outs has had the honour to present, at
Windsor,
.to Her Majesty. the Queen -and the Prin-
cesses, the First VOlurne (just pkublished) of his Se-
leEtion. of a Hundred favourite Scottish Airsi har-
monized by him for the Harp or Piano Forte during
his residence in Scotland, and dedicated to the Right
lion. Lady MorrroomEittE. This Work, which is
printed and engraved on fine wove paper, and is
spoken of in terms of the highest approbation by the
first pane,3sional judges, is•svlrl 'at H. BIR CHAU:Sp
Musid-seder, No. 123, New "end-street, London,

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'Me conquests of the. French arellot ti, ore td te
A•
regretted in a political view tha refnenee to the
prOgress extensioii of Liteature and the-Ylne
Arts. In the course of the \vtir thejr raniacked
the galleries and libraries both 4fitaly and Ggrifiany;‘
robbed them of the mast antient manuscripts, of the
happiest efforts of the peheil, and the finest Monti-
nientS of sculpture, and carried them to I'ariS, where
they now lie Crowded and negleEted, inaccessible to
the Antiquarian, and 'shut up alike from the Artist
and the Amateur. More rapacious than the Goths;
the Vandals, or the Huns, in' their incursions, they
were not contented, like their predecessOrS, With the
plunder of the precious metals : they attempted to
efface all the traces of genius, and by obliterating hi-
the minds of the 'people the reballedion of what
their ancestors had been, remove the only existing-
stimulus to efforts at future eminence. What is
worse, they impoverished Italy without enriching .
France. Paris never can be a school of arts. The
spoils of the capital and the Vatican cense to -inspire
enthusiasm, heaped up in the I,outra. It was the
air, the sky, the calm of the antient Metropolis of
the World, the recollection of past times, the assn.;
ciations suggested by the surrounding scenery, which
lent to the inomutnents of art halt their charms. It
was this
,circumstance of favourable locality which
put the mind of the spectator in unison with the
kids of his contemplatien, and which tired tile stu-
dent' with the sacred zeal of emulation. There is no
sympathy, no alliance hetwein the classical and
chaste elegance whiCh graced thc produations of
golden ages of Greece and Rome, and the tawdry
gaudy :sinsel.of Parisian speaacle. •
- These considerations.„ however, are little calculated
for impression upon a mind likle that of BoN.Ar.a RTC,
who suppose.; that the amount of his gains are
ways in proportion to the extent of his pillage, and
that his sword confers .new qualities oh all it con-
quers. We have little doubt theretOre, that he will
prosecute the same system at Vienna on which he'
aded when in Italy, and t:':at his contributions there
will not be confined to money and articles of mili7
tary use. . We have indeed been infiamed that DE-
NON, the traveller, has been sent for from Paris, to
make a.sele6tion from among the objets of taste
with which the Austrian capital is so amply provid-
ed. •

The Imperial Library at Vienna is one of the first
in Europe, • It contains, besides some fine statues in
marble, and a.very large colleelion of prints, above
300,000-volumes, and from 1.2 t014,00u of the rirest
manuscripts. In the Cabinet of Manuscripts there
'is an Itinerary chart of the antient World, by PEI./..
TINGER ; a Mexican Manuscript, in coloured charac-
ters, quite unique in its kind, written upon human
skin ; a Manuscript of Livy, of the 'tit century ; a
number of Chinese Manuscripts a small Koran,
upon vellum, taken from a Turkby Prince EUGENE;
a Se.natus Consultran respeaing the Dacchanals, is-
sued in the year 186, btqore elitist, in the original
upon bronze. This piece is retered to by LIVY in th‘e
9th l..)1: of the 4th Decade, and was found in Ca-
labria, at the house of Prince CIGALA rr. s To 'these
`shay be added a fragment of 'the Gospel of St. Mark
and St. Luke, written in characters of gold and sil-
er.

„ Seven thousand volumes, printed before the year
1500, form one of the most striking -curiosities of this
"magnificent coil-Mien. Among these is- the fust
Psalter ever printed ..in moveable charaelers, it. is
upon vellum, by FAUST, at Mayence, 457.—.-Specu-
lum Humans Salvationisr bought at the sale of the
Duke .De La Valai3e, without date, and printed up in
wood. No other copy
.ex.ists.—A Gothic Virgil, by
AIENTELIN, at Strasburgh7—.A.Juliuseresar, printed
on velluM, at Rome, 1469, in perfect-preservation.
—Caii Valerii Flacci-Argonanticom Liber, Boulogna,
1474.—Marci Mantii Poeta Opera, Boulogna; 1474.
A Bible printed' at Mayence, by FAUST, 1462.—A
German Bible printed at Strasburgh, b MENTELIN,
1466. A Mzizarine Bible, in beautiful preservation,
upon paper, 1455.

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The Imperial Library is open to the public every
fore-noon, except Sundays, and any person may go
thereeither to read ...or to make extraias, in a room
adjoining, which is fitted up for the purpose.
The Cabinet of Medals; Coins, and Intaglios; is'
one of_ the most complete existing. It contains no less
than 24,000 antique medals, among which are per-
10'61 sets of the Consuls and Einperors. And-the ca-
binet of Natural History, besides an admirable
col-
kft of Stones, shells, petrifliaions and mineral's,
is enriched by 69 pictures of antique mosaic, or of
mosaic composed of precious stones. In the Itnpe-
rial Palace called the Belvidere, which was built by
Prince EUGENE, is deposited an immense colleaion
of piEtures, by the first masters of the Italian, Dutch,
Flemish, French, and German schools. There are in
this palace near 1100 pieces, a great proportion of
Which may be considered as chef-d'uawres of art.--
The Palace of Prince LicurrENsi‘FlN aloneis enrich-
eel with 660 pictures, among which are many 'of
great valUe .; 'and Duke Antuti', of Saxe TeSchen,
has perhaps the largest and most precious seleEtion
.
-of prints m Europe.
In these vast depots • of the finest predus..tions of,
art and taste, and of what is most curious in History
and Literature, M. DENot-will no doubt find some-
thing worthy of being possessed by the Great Nation.
And. should they, on being brought to Paris, be
heaped up like corn in a granary, or be thrown aside
to rot; like rubbish in a lumber-room, still the objeft
-Of the illUstrious patron and friend. of every ?tale and
generous sentiment u ill be attained. His admirers say
that ALEXANDER was a driveller to him in the field :
surely M/EcEbtAs never cut such a figure in the Aca-
demy.

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At a meeting of the Commissioners of the-Pro-
perty Tax, heki at Leeds Rotation Otlice, on Satur-
day last, a pertou in the neighbourhood wasiined•
in treble the amObt of the duty on the. interest; ,of
7001. in consequehe of his having refused to make
the mortgager any allowance, agreeable to the 441.
On Monday -last John Clarkson, horse breaker •
lbetter kndwn by the name of Jumper), undertook,
for a trifling wager, to draw a cart, without leaving
the shafts, or the assistance of harness, containing
cwt.-from Sow-bridge, to Mr. Shaw's, theWttite
Bear Inn, Barnsley; being a distance of 200'yards, -
and up a very steep ascent, which he performed in
ore hour and 57 minutes.—The cart weighed 5 cwt.
and - behind it was a fixed•pie'ce of wood, fir the
purpose of acting as, a burr, I.khich weighed Y cwt.
making altogether a, weight of ;91 cwt.