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llown peculiar, unrivalled style of genius, neither
the ancient nor the modern world can surpass.
Spain has furnished a Cervantes, and France a
Le Sage ; but it is the exclusive boast
of England that she can produce three
rivals to these illustrious names. We re-
gret that in his present selection, Mr.
Roscoe has thought fit to omit Fielding's
matchless piece of irony, " Jonathan Wilde."
As a work of art this satire is unique, and
should have been incorporated among Fielding's
works as a splendid sample of his talent, exer-
cised, con more, on one of its most favourite
points of display. We have heard this omis-
sion more than once alluded to, and trust Mr.
Roscoe will have the good sense to remedy it.
Of the present volume of " Amelia," as it is
one well known to the admirers of our sterling
novelists we shall merely say that the character
of its heroine affords one of the most graceful
and touching specimens of conjugal affection
possible. The scene, in particular, where Ame-
lia prepares the social supper for her husband,
after her little children have gone to bed, and
where she sits by the window on a cold
night, watching hour after hour for Mr.
Booth's approach, and listening to the well-
known footsteps on the stair-case, is in the
truest spirit of pathos and simplicity. The
prison scenes and the bailiffs throughout
the work are equally excellent. Fielding was at
home on all these points, and did justice to his
wit and practical knowledge. Of the embellish-
ments, it may be sufficient to say that they are
by Cruickshank, and in his best manner.
" Booth discovered in the hamper" is the very
Phcenix of humourous illustrations. The pub-
lication, we are glad to learn, is as successful as
it deserves to be.

NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE
COURTS OF RUSSIA AND SWEDEN.
TWO VOLS. LONDON, 1832.

There is an immense deal of assumption in
these volumes, and almost as much ignorance.
Captain Frankland is a traveller, for he tells us
so, but he is one who has brought back to his
own country about as much wisdom as he set
out with. He has wandered through Sweden
and Russia with his eyes shut, and his ears
closed, though he would fain make us believe
that he has seen and heard every thing. We
subjoin one rich specimen of either his self-
conceit or his bad taste ; he may select which
term he pleases, either will suit :—" Apropos
de Bolles ! (the Captain is wonderfully anxious
to impress on his readers the fact that he can read
and write French) the Chamberlain told me that
the body of Charles the Twelfth (of Sweden)
was still in perfect preservation, and that it was
occasionally exposed to public view. He wished
me to see it ; but I have no desire to view des
cadavres." And yet this gentleman, who, like
the fop in Shakspeare, refuses to let " a slovenly
unhandsome corpse come between the wind and
his nobility,"—even though that corpse be Charles
the Twelfth, the hero of a hundred battles, the
object of admiration with Voltaire and Napo-
leon, and the subject of one of Johnson's finest
paragraphs,--fancies himself an inquisitive
traveller Really there is no accounting for
the delusions of vanity. Captain Frankland is
a finished specimen of the dandy tourist, who
waltzes over Europe, as though he were at
Almack's, and thinks himself wiser in conse-
quence. His volumes are sad trash, unre-
deemed, so far as we can detect, by a single ex-
cellence.

BRIGHTON, TUESDAY.—His MAJESTY re-
turned from London at ten minutes before two in the
morning. Their MAJESTIES took an airing together to
Shoreham and back before dinner. The Princess AUGUSTA,
Princess LOUISE, and the whole microcosm of fashion, were
in public. The weather was mild and charmingly serene
and bright. Lord and Lady ERROL returned to town.
Lady and Miss GORE bad the honour of dining with their
MAJ ESTIES. —Brighton Guardian.

It is said upon good authority that Govern-
ment are about to issue ten millions of small notes : the
effect of this will undoubtedly be most beneficial to com-
merce, and the drooping energies of trade will be revived.
—Boston Gazette.

It is said Mr. GURNEY succeeds Mr. Baron
Ganstow, who retires from the Exchequer on account of
ill health.

We can state, on unquestionable authority,
that Earl GREY was engaged on Friday in making out his
list of new Peers. The number is to be thirty—for
which, it is said, there have been no fewer than three hun-
dred applications.—Dublin Morning Register.
The further hearing of the appeal of the Hon.
JEFFERY HART BENT, the Judge of Grenada, before the
Lords of the Privy Council, noticed in our Paper yester-
day, was adjourned till Tuesday next.
We are glad to hear that the contemplated
establishment of the Commercial Rooms in this city (Exe-
ter) is proceeding with every prospect of success, as
upwards of one hundred subscribers have already entered
their names.—Western Luminary.
BECKWITH, the comedian, died yesterday at
East Dereham, Norfolk, of a decline.

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scended to a law-stationer's shop, and became what is
termed a "hackney-writer," to one of which fraternity in
Chancery-lane he was ultimately apprenticed. He was at
this time a great admirer of GARRICK, whose powers he
well remembered and used to dilate upon. This gave him
the first inkling to be a performer. He was for some time
a clerk in the office of the Town-clerk at Liverpool ; but
his first regular engagement on the stage was in the repre-
sentation of old men, at Leatherhead. He led the actors'
customary provincial round at the theatres, and soon be-
came a partner in the Sheffield theatre. On the 2d of
December, 1790, a few nights after INcLanoN's first ap-
pearance MUNDEN made his bow to the Covent-Girden
audience as Sir F. Gripe, in The Bury Body, and Jemmy
Jumps, in The Farmer. He was the original representa-
tive of Old Rapid, Caustic, Lazarilla (in Two Strings
to your Bow), Islipperkin, Sir Abel Handy, and Old
Dornton, besides a host not now remembered. In 1813, in
consequence of a quarrel respecting the amount of his
salary, he joined the Drury-Lane company, making his
first appearance there in Sir Able Handy, here he re-
mained until the 31st of May, 1824, when he took his
farewell of the public in the character of Sir Robert
Bramble, in the Poor Gentleman. He was an exeellent
comic actor, and in some of his parts nnrivalled—indeed,
that of Old Dornton may be said to have died with him.
In private life he Was generally esteemed by a numerous
circle of acquaintance, not snore on account of his con-
vivial qualities than for others more substantial. A ten-
dency to parsimony has, it is true, been objected to him
as a failing ; and several ludicrous anecdotes are in circula-
tion of the skill and tact with which he net csly contrived to
evade a demand upon Lis Docket, but even to become a gainer
by the atteroFt. The well-known story of the exchange of
Lis old cotton umbrella for the new silk one of a friend, who
requested a keepsake from him, is a case in point. In the
sterling qualities which constitute the character of an honest
and upright man, he was, however, by no meats deficient.

WESTMINSTERELECTION-(THIS DAY.)

Sir John Cam Hobhou,e, Bart., having vacated his
seat by accepting the situation of Secretary at War, and a
new writ having issued to supply the vacancy, the High
Bailiff axed the election for this day.

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Very capacious hustings were erected in Covent-gar-
den, and a strong body of special constables, under the
orders of Mr. Lee, the High Constable, were stationed to
preserve order.

A few minutes after twelve, the High Bailiff, Arthur
Morris, E.q., attended by the Committee, left Joy's hotel,
and proceeded to the hustings, which were soon crowded
with gentlemen, among whom we noticed Lord Ebrington,
Sir F. Burdett, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Mr. Hume, Colonel
Jone, &c. They were received with loud cheers.

The writ, and the Act against bribery, having been
read, and the usual oath administered by Mr. Halls to the
High Bailiff, that officer briefly addressed the meeting, and
stated the object for which he had in obedience to the writ
culled them together.
Mr. De Vear came forward to propose their late repre-
sentative the Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart.
The conduct of that Right Hon. Gentleman since he had
been their representative had been such as fully justified
him (Mr. De Vear) in coming forward for the sixth time
to propose him.—(Cheers.) Sir J. C. Hobhouse for
twelve years had been their faithful representative, and had
now only joined the Administration because they were
pledged to a measure for which the people of England,
and particularly those of Westminster, had long and often
petitioned.—(Cheers.)
Mr. POUNSEY, in seconding the nomination, would
not do so did he not firmly believe, and feel tho-
roughly convinced, that they could not better promote
the success of that measure which had so. long excited the
hopes, and which so much tended to the happiness of the
people, than by the re-election of the Hon. Baronet.—
(Cheers.) If he were to dwell on the constant attendance
of the Hon. Baronet in the House of Commons, and the
very earnest support which he had given to the great cause
of Reform, he, Mr. Pounsey, would be only wasting the
time of the meeting. His past conduct was known
to them all, and that was of itself a pledge for the future.
With respect to the circumstance which bad occasioned
the present re-election, he would ask if they did not wish
that every assistance should be given to that Adminis-
tration which stood pledged to a measure for which the
people had so long yearned, and which had received the
support of a King who lived only to promote the
happiness of his people ? The electors of Westminster had
been designated as a faction whom no Administration would
satisfy ; but it was well known that they bad been long
distinguished by their earnest opposition to all those mea-
sures which had pressed so hard upon the industry of the
country, and he was confident that they would give their
warmest support to those Ministers who promoted mea-
sures which would greatly benefit the people at large.
The HIGH BAILIFF having enquired whether any elector
wished to propose any other candidate, and no one answer-
ing, he declared Sir John Cam Hobhouse to be duly
elected.—(Loud cheers.)
Sir J. C. Moat-louse then addressed the meeting. It
was often a mere formal and unfelt phrase, when ad-
dressing popular assemblies, to say that on no previous
occasion did the speaker feel so truly gratified as on
the present one ; but now it was from the bottom
of his heart that he gave them the assurance, that although
that noble and disinterested support which, on so Rlany
previous occasions he had received, had bound him to
them with ties of gratitude which death alone could sever,
yet on no former occasion did he feel himself so
truly indebted as now, when, for the sixth time, he
was able to call them his constituents.—(Loud cheers.)
The numerous and respectable assembly he now saw
around him confirmed Min in the opinion, and they knew
as well as himself, that there was nothing incompatible in
being a servant of the Crown, and at the same time a true
representative of the people.—(Cheers.) It was for the
sake of giving an additional pledge in favour of the great
cause of Reform—it was for the sake of giving whatever
sanction he could add to that cause, he had accepted office
under the present Administration.—(Applause.) For,
proud as he was in being honoured with the King's com-
mands, and in holding a high and important office in the
State, yet let it not be thought he could ever forget that
it was to Westminster—it was to his constituents, he owed
this chance of future utility.—(Cheers.) It was not so
much for himself that this selection had been made;
a gracious Sovereign, and a Ministry attached to the
people's cause, had determined to go to the constituency of
Westminster, knowing they had so long returned repre-
sentatives who had been always consistent, and the appeal
had not been made in vain. It was but a short time
since, in compliance with the request of his constituents, he
placed in the hands of the King, and Earl Grey, their
votes of confidence and support ; and after being so
honoured with their commands it was impossible for him
to suppose they would think that in accepting office he
had any other object than a desire of promoting the great
cause of Reform.—(Cheers.) He would now state what
line of conduct he intended to adopt in future. After
having with a due deliberation accepted the proposal
of his gracious Sovereign and joined himself to
the Administration, he resolved to act towards
that Administration as he had acted towards his consti-
tuents, namely, to do nothing by halves.—(Hear, hear.)
He was not going to quirk or cavil at any measure of the
Government, which he believed in his conscience to be
for the benefit of the people ; and unless he saw the
Ministers hesitating about Reform, he should think
it his duty to give them his most constant sup-
port.—(Cheers.) A Government could not be properly
conducted by any other means, and he trusted the people
of England would do as those of Westminster had done
to-day—not to find fault with any trifling matter, but to
support the Ministry in the cause of Reform ; for it was
well known they accepted office under immense diffi-
culties.—(Hear, hear.) He would say to the people,
"Be kind to their virtues, and be a little blind
to some little difficulties," because it was not to the pre-
sent Ministers, but to their predecessors, that any fault
was owing; and the people must take care and not play
into the hands of their enemies, but give the Ministers
their constant support, for it was to the people they
looked. The present Ministers had no factions in
their favour—they looked only to the people ; and if
the people refused that support which they had hi-
therto so magnanimously and wisely afforded them, then
that great cause, even now nearly within their grasp,
would be lost for ever.—(Loud cheers.) God forbid !
That great cause, with the help of the Sovereign and
the people of England, would be brought to a con-
summation, which nothing but the mistakes occa-
sioned by blindness and timidity could frustrate. He
would not further trespass on their time, but express his
grateful thanks for enabling him in his own person to
refute one of the great objections which had been
made to the Reform Bill, v.z. that a Member returned
by a popular constituency could never hold office under
the Crown. He now, in his own person, was able to re-
fute that assertion.—(The Hon. Baronet concluded amidst
loud cheers.)
Mr. POUNSEY then moved a vote of thanks to the High
Bailiff for his impartial conduct in the chair; which was
unseinsously agreed to. _ _

The I7rcir BAILIFF returned thanks, congratulating the
meeting on the choice they had made. After which he
declared the business of the day concluded.
Calls here resounded from all parts of the assembled
multitude for Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, who, on coming for-
ward, was received with three rounds of applause. He
said he was very reluctant to trespass on the attention of
the meeting, as he had little or nothing to say after the ad-
mirable speech which they had beard from the Right Hon.
Baronet who had just addressed them. They certainly
lived in extraordinary times, and it was, perhaps, not the
least extraordinary symptoms of those times, that r. gentle.
man holding a situation in the Government of the
country should meet with the universal approbation of
the electors of Westminster, It was certainly extraordi-
nary, too, and what he (Sir F. Burdett) never expected,
to find himself upon the hustings in Covent-garden, before
the independent electors of Westminster, supporting the
interests of a placeman.—(Loud cheers.) The time,
however, bad now arrived when the peoples bitter ene-
mies, the atrocious and now subked boroughmongers—
(Loud cheers)—who be.d for thirty years opposed
every thing he had edvocated, would, under the exertion of
a patriotic Ming, assisted by able and upright Ministers,
and supported by a determined public, be placed
where they ought to be—under the feet of the King and
his people.—(Cheers,) He felt proud of the honour of
being the Arst person who had introduced the Right Hon.
Baronet (Sir J. C. llohhouse) to the notice of the electors
of Westminster, and whose promotion he felt confident WWI
an additional stab to the boroughmongering faOien.—s.
(Cheers.) It was also a pledge of thu firmness and de-
termination of the King, tm,d, sibs: sincerity of Mi-
nisters, who could riot f4il in carrying the measure if
they had the determined support of the people. He
felt Fond of the moment when his first intimacy
commenced with the electors of Westminster, and in
taking his leave he could not but congratulate them on re-
electing one who had always supported thegreat measure of
Reform, and who had joined himself with the Ministry, in
order that hie means of advocating that great work
which the country bad so much at heart might be ex-
tended. The Hon. Baronet retired amidst loud cheers,
and calla for Mr. Hume, but the lion. Member for Mid-