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ADDRESS TO LORD BERESEORD.-The AG;
dress to Lord BERESPORD, inserted in this Jay's
Publication, was moved at the Board of Alder-
men by the Loan Miyon, and seconded by
Alderman NUGENT—and in the Commons by
Captain FrrzstmoNs., and seconded by Mr:
SuTTER:

DIST LI iIANC ES lif IR E LAN D .--We regret to
perceive by. a Proclamation issued this day by the
Lords. Justices of Ireland, in the absence of his
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, that the Barony
of Calmoy in the county of Kilkenny, and the Ba-
rony of Upper Ossory, in the Queen's County;
are nearly in a state approaching to rebellion 4
so much so that the Peace Preservation Act
has been put in force in those districts. It
is no less a subject of regret than surprise that
these districts have been hitherto amongst the
most. ,peaceable of the entire country, and
leads us to apprehend that some secret en.,
ginehas been but too successfully introduced
to entrap the unwary inhabitants into acts
destructive of fhe public tranquillity—and we
call upon the loyal Protestants and Roman
Catholics to use every -constitutional means in-
stemming the torrent of dissaffection ere it be too
late, and crush the incipient treason lent it should
arrive at an extremity that every well-disposed
man must deplore

ExeLANATIoN.----In consequence of An expla-
nation on the part of the Messrs. FiTzstmcN,,
conveyed to us by a Gentleman of distinction, and.
in whose character and honourwe have the most
perfect confidence; and it appearing from his
Statementr.that the publication in The Hibernian
Journal of the 16th ult., which was supposed to
reflect so .unjustly on the character of Mr. CON-
WAY, was not intended, in the most distant de=
gree, to have such a reference, or to bear such au
allusion, as conceived by Mr. C. but that it en-
tirely related to a work written, and not publish
ed, under the title that gave offence to the au,
thor. In consequen.Ce of such explanation, we
can have no hesitation to say, that we feel ex.,
tremely concerned at having, under the influence
of what we then conceived a justly excited in-
dignation, published remarks. in The Stage; so
offensive to the personal feelings of the gentlemen
against whom they were directed.

F. W. CONWAY, J. T. HAYDN.
Hibernian Journal, May la.)

The Earl of CHICHESTER has now in his pos-
session a thumb-ring of pure gold, but of very
rude manufacture, which was ploughed up a few
days ago, on his Lordship's estate in Sussex.
Mr. ELLISTON is getting up a masked .festia a/
for June 18, in commemoration of the Battle of
Waterloo; the KING sanctions the idea.
TEnny is 'about to conclude his engagement
at the Edinburgh Theatre ; after- which he re-
turns to take the Stage Management of the new
Summer Theatre in the Haymarket.

The Theatre has been a scene of great attrac-
tion this week. On Tuesday the performances
were patronised by the Earl and Countess of
DArtTmouTH, and on Thursday by the officers of
the King's Own Stafford Militia. On both occa-
sions the Earl and Countess of DARTMOUTH at--
tended ; and on Thursday the Theatre was ho-
noured by the presence of His Excellency Earl
TALBOT ; several families of distinction also
visited the Theatre on that evening. The per-
formances -were received with great applause.--
(Stqprdshire Advertiser, May 19.)
FRAUD IN SOVERElGNS.—Government has late-
ly detected a most extraordinary fraud, which
threatens great loss to the currency. Sovereigns
to a great extent have been counterfeited, by
casing platina with gold, the specific gravity of
the two metals being nearly equal. In melting
down some Sovereigns, the platina was detected
at the bottom of the crucible.

DUEL PREVENTED.—A duel was to have taken
place early yesterday morning in Copenhagen-
fields, between Mr. F—N and Mr.
half-pay officers, but in consequence of infor-
mation received, they were surprised to find au
enemy at the place of meeting; they, however,
escaped.

MOST DISTRESSING EVENT—A Venetian having
obtained the affection of the daughter of a British
Officer, both of whom were travelling for plea-
sure through Italy, and learning from the young
Lady that her property could not devolve upon
herself until the death of her father, contrived,
after a solemn promise of her hand, to become
acquainted with one of the domestics, an Italian,
and to persuade him to the horrible act of poisoning
the revered father, which he did by slow but
ceatain means. The plot was discovered, but
alas ! too late. The unsuspecting Officer died)
and' the young Lady remains in a state of distrac-
tion. The infamous Venetian and the servant
are both in custody.

• TIIIEF TRAP.—On Monday evening test, as the
constable of the night was walking his round near Lancaster..
street, Birmingham, he saw the wooden shutter of a cellar
window lifted up; a voice from under it at the same time calling
out, " All's well !" " Yes," said the constable, jumping upon
the shutter, " All is right and safe ;" and immediately sprtng-
ing his rattle, brought several watchmen to his aid. On knock-
ing up the inmates, who were fast asleep, they examined the
cellar ; when in a corner they found the rogue, who had been
employed in conveying to his confederates on the outside, to-
baeco, cheese, &c. which he had found in the cellar. lie was
conveyed to prison.

ExEcuTioN.—On Wednesday last, pursuant to
his sentence, passed at the Glasgow Assizes, William Leonard
Swan suffered the last punishment of the law in front of Glas.
gow Jail, for passing two forged five pound Dotes. During the
time he was under sentence of death, he bore his melancholy
condition with decent fortitude, and prepared for his end
with becoming resignation. On Tuesday forenoon he had
a last interview with his disconsolate wife and two of his
children, his mother, two sisters, and a brothel.. Several,
pious people who had been occasional visitors spent the
night with him in religious exercises. He was assisted
in his last devotion by the Reverend Principal TAYLOR,
and Mr. Ewing. He- ascended the scaffold with a quick and
steady step, and after praying a few moments gave the signal
and was launched into eternity.,-.A guard of eavalry and in-
fantry kept off the crowd, which was not so great as on sinular,
occasions.

ROTATION.—In the diary of John Evelyn, Esq. for the
year 1703 is the following entry : " Corn and provisions so
eheape, that the farmers arc unable to pay their rents."

Last week, at a gardener's in the vicinity of
London, cherries were sold at the rate of 425.
per pound ; strawberries and raspberries at 'ls. 6d.
per ounce; grapes at 18s. per pound; and pine
apples at from 20s. to 50s. each.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

May 22.

[THE TIMES.]

The news from-Spain, we regret to say, ac-
quires an alarming interest‘ Those who are of
an age to recollect the commencement of the
French Revolution will think that they are car-
ried back and reading some of the occurrences of
that lamentable period. We believe the Spa-
niards to be too moral and religious a people to
rush into all the excesses of which the French
were guilty, and under which they suffered ; but
we confess we anticipate no early settlement of
the affairs of the Peninsula ; and we fear that the
intervening period between the present moment
and their final arrangement, of whatever nature
that may be, will he stained by many crimes, and
inflict much suffering. In one respect the Spaniards
are inferior to the French. The former have
Ferdinand VII. for their King. It is not neces-
sary to say much more in the way of comparison
between that Sovereign and Louis XVI. ; nei-
ther should we have said so much, if what we
write were likely to act as a stimulant to a peo-
ple now too much intent upon their own actions
to listen to foreign opinions respecting them.—
Yet do we believe that the present King of Spain
returned from his imprisonment with the love of
his subjects—that is, his subjects entertained a
love for some theoretic and imaginary personage,
which they were u illing to suprose might be their
-King. How far he has given a body to the
creations of popular fancy, or realized the fic-
tions of loyal feeling, it is unnecessary to say.
Oh that Kings should not know how to judge
rightly between the love of their subjects and the
s.ycophaney of their courtiers ! that they should not
see that they can buy the homage of slaves at any
time for-mouey ; but that they can only pur-
chase public esteem by gentleness, goodness,
humanity, virtue ; that the servile -wretches by
whom they are too generally surrounded, who
flatter all their foibles, eulogize their very vices,
and tell them that they are adored by those
whose love they have done nothing to gain, can-
not, no nor will not, stand for one moment be-
tween them and the general indignation, when
this is once fully roused. A King is not loved
because he is King. Let him not flatter himself
with that foolery : but let- him consider, being
-Kieg-, what he has done in that eminent station
to merit the affection of his subjects ;—what sa-
crifice of himself, oe his own personal feelings or
advantages he has made to their wishes or dis-
tresses ;—what remission of taxes, what conces-
sion of liberty, (the common right of all) have
taken, place under his reign ; and the answers
which his own heart will render to inquiries such
as these, will inform him much better than the
assurances of the creatures who usually haunt his
palace, in what degree of estimation he stands
with the people whom he governs.

[NEW TIMES.]
There was a sudden and extraordinary rise of
the Funds yesterday. Consols at one time of
the day were done for the account as high as 76,
and they left off at 754, which is 11 higher than
the closing price of Saturday. No political news
transpired, of sufficient consequence to produce
so marked an impression on the Money market ;
but it is probable that the speculators operated
o i a well-founded persuasion of the favourable
state of the Finances. A rumour (we are in-
clined to believe, an exaggerated one) prevailed,
Of Buonaparte's health. Letters were said to
have been received from the Naval Commander
at Deal, notifying the arrival of some ships of
war which had touched at St. Helena, and
slating, that according to the account of the
Officers, the Corsican was reduced to nearly
the last stage of disease. It is possible, that
some persons, regarding 'Buonaparte's life, as
a, continued support to the hopes of the re-
volutionary faction, may have -looked on the
above news as favourable to Public Credit,
hich rests so mainly on public tranquillity, and
hence the rumour in question may have had some
influence in raising the Stocks. For our own part,
however, we are inclined
.to think that foreign
news of any sort has, for some time past, ceased
to excite any great interest in this country ; and
we are therefore inclined to attribute the rise of
yesterday almost exclusively to the cause above
mentioned.

[MORNING POST.]
The Coronation (which is now intended to take
place about the middle of July) became a sub-
ject of conversation last night in the House of
COTIIMOTIS ; in the course of Which the Marquis
of Londonderry intimated that Ministers were
not prepared .to advise his Majesty to. exercise
his clear, undoubted, undisputed right, of with-
holding or bestowing the honours of a Coronation
On the Queen, in the Way that her supporters
could desire. His Lordship added, that if there
Were any who would wish on this occasion to re-
Vive_ the dying, or rather the dead embers of those
fires which had so fatally prevailed, on their heads
the consequences must rest.Mr.Brougham declined
immediately entering into the question ; and we
should expect that duty to his Royal Mistress
will make him careful not to agitate so very un-
pleasant a subject. The honours of a Corona-
tion have hitherto been viewed as a mark of
Grace to. the Queen Consort: Her Majesty (God
bless her) may be all virtue, purity, and deli-
cacy ; but even the most enthusiastic admirers of
her pure and spotless character can hardly main-
tain that the King is bound to confer on her any
special mark of his Royal grace and favour, after
the course which she has thought it became her
as a modest and dutiful wife to pursue.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It may be now considered certain that the King
will visit Ireland in the course of the summer.
The time will be shortly after the Coronation,
which is fixed for the 12th July. His Majesty
will proceed to Dublin, and his excursions will
be confined to the vicinity of that city, as his
Majesty will not sleep out of the Castle during
his stay. His daily rides will, therefore, pro-
bably not exceed twenty or thirty miles from

Dublin. lie will be accompanied by seveial 1
Of his Ministers. ' After this visit, which may
occupy about a fortnight, his Majesty is ex-
pected to confer a like honour upon Hanover.
llis Majesty, we are concerned to say, is now
confined by an attack of the gout. It is, how-
ever, very slight, as his Majesty has signified
his intention of honouring the Duke of Devon-
shire with his company at dinner on Friday next,
at Devonshire House. Their Royal Highnesses
the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, and the
Duchess of Gloucester, visited his Majesty yes-
terday at twelve o'clock.

[:MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The rumour which is afloat respecting the in-
tention to exclude the Queen from the approach-
ing Coronation, was last night made the founda-
tion of a question in the House of Commons by
Mr. Monck. That Gentleman, after alluding to
the vote of 100,0001. last year towards the ex-
pence of the Coronation, asked whether any pro--
vision was made by Ministers for the appearance
of her Majesty at that ceremony, and if so, whe-
ther any additional expence would be necessary
for the arrangements to be made on that ac-
count ? He said he could not believe in the
rumour, that whilst seats were provided for
,Peeresses at the Coronation, there was no place'l
appointed for the Queen—a rumour which he
considered scandalous towards the Government.l
The Chancellor of the Exchequer endeavoured
to evade a direct answer to this question, but
when he began to be rather hard , pushed,
Lord Londonderry came forward with a pointed
declaration, that he and the other advisers of the
Queen were not prepared to advise the King to
take the steps which were necessary before her
Majesty eould take part in the ceremonial; and
he concluded with a threat, that if any Members
were prepared to revive the painful controversy
in which the country was lately involved, they
must take on themselves the responsibility of their
discretion, or he should rather say, indiscretion.
What ! his Lordship, we suppose, now thinks the
conjuncture more favourable than ever for attack
on the Queen, and almost sighs for some pretext to
renew the warfare under better auspices ! The
most admirable part of all this is the cool assump-
tion ; Ist, That one attempt to injure the Queen
entitles Ministers, as a matter of course, to make
another attempt ;-2dly, That the authors of the
fresh attack are not the revivers of the contro-
versy, but those who endeavour to ward it off;
without saying any thing of the admirable equity
of making the Queen responsible for whatever any
Member of Parliament, in the exercise of what
he conceives his duty, may say or do with respect
to the conduct adopted towards her. On all
this we have no comments to offer. It is impos-
sible, however, to avoid remarking the tone of
elation now assumed on this subject by the Mar-
quess of Londonderry.

Friday and Saturday about twenty sail of out-
ward bound merchantmen, which put into Ports-
mouth with contrary winds, proceeded on their
respective voyages. The ship Tuscan, bound to
the South Seas, was among them, having on board
the Rev. DANIEL TYERMAN (late of Newport,
Isle of Wight), GEORGE BENNET, Esq. of Shef-
field, and missionaries, who are about to visit
Otaheite, &c. as a Deputation from the London
Missionary Society.
Extract of a letter receivel from Santiago de
Chili, dated the 10th January last :—" We have
just received despatches from Lima, announcing
the pleasant advice, that since the defection of
the regiment of Numantia, 800 strong, with all
the officers, 27 officers belonging to different
other regiments have also gone over to San Mar-
tin. He was within a few leagues of the city,
and hourly expecting its surrender. Armales is
also said to have arrived at Cruzes. Lord Coch-
rane has (since the frigate) taken six of ves-
sels, four of which are from Spain. One is prin-
cipally laden with quicksilver, and very valu-
able ; another is the Indian, from Rio Janeiro,
with an assorted cargo. Captain Basil Hall, of
the Conway, is sending an express to Buenos
Ayres, with the above intelligence."
A letter, dated Gibraltar, the 26th ult., says—
" Several arrests have taken place this day at
Algesiras : among them is the Vicar of the town,
Town Major, and Brigade Major, suspected of
counter revolutionary principles, which they are
endeavouring to disseminate."
We learn from Dinant, that a wall, 80 feet
high, being part of the new citadel, for the de-
fence of that town, has fallen down, with four
casemates. Two workmen were killed by this
accident.—(Dutch Paper.) _

A botanical curiosity has been exhibited at I.:lves—it is a
polyanthus, with more than sixty flowers on the same stem,
but perfectly separate from each other, which had been gather-
ed at Asharn.

A most singular circumstance has occurred at Ilailsham,
whiCh offers a problem worthy the investigation of the curious.
A ball of hair, of a hard subst,,,ce, and of a glossy black co-
lour, has been taken from the stomach of a bullock belonging
to Mr. Kennett, of that place.
A basking shark, which measured nine feet in length, was
taken, a few days ago, in Bracklesham Bay, south of Chiches-
ter, by some fishermen, who with difficulty brought it on shore,
entangled in their nets. On opening it four young ones were
taken from it, which weighed about seven pounds each.
SINGULAR CONSANGUINITY.— Two Gentle-
men of the County of Bucks, lately deceased, each married the
other's daughter, and left issue on both sides.
ROBIIERY.-Yesterday morning, between three
and four o'clock, the dwelling-house of ColoneLEglinton, in
the City-road, was entered by means of false keys, and plun-
dered of plate, linen, &c. to the amount of £5O, with which the
thieves got clear off.

DROWNING.—A boat, in which were six per-
sons, four of whom were females, was sunk, on Sunday even-
ing, below by the unskilful act of the two youths,
who run her against some piles. One of the females, of the
.name of Spenser, was unfortunately drowned, but the others
were saved by a Westminster party in a six-oared boat. The
deceased was a servant, who had liberty for the day, and resided
,at Brentford.

A SWINDLER.—On Saturday last, a person
genteely dressed in black, went into the shop of, Mr. JaAson,
in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, Glass-manufacturer, and
ordered a pair of glass decanters which stood in the window to
be sent to a lady whom he named, residing at the Stamp-office,
• Somerset-house. A person in the employ of Mr. Jackson was
sent with the articles, and was met by the same person who
had ordered them, at the entrance of Somerset-house; he re-
quested the man to accompany him, and he would chew him
to the lady whom the decanters were for, and when they came
to the door of the Stamp-office, he took the decanters from the
man, saying, he would, take them into the Lady, and return
with the money in a few minutes. The man waited at the door
a considerable time, and then began to suspect all was not right.
On inquiring in the office, no such person was to be found
there; the man with the decanters had gone up the first flight
of stairs, and made his escape at the door on.the ground floor.