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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1828.

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HEALTH.
Females need not appear ; and in slight eases of disea,r
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Grand, Cabinet, and Cottage Piano Fortes, in Rose Wood
and Mahogany Cases ; Double Action Harp, Damask
Table and Bed Linen, and Effects.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. WILLIAMS,
At the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lane, on Mommy
next, March 31, at Twelve o'Clock,
TWO Fine Toned Six Octave Cabinet
PIANO FORTES, in elegant rose wood cases ;
a ditto Cottage ditto, in a rose wood case; a ditto Hori-
zontal Grand ditto, in a handsome mahogany case;
capital Double Action Patent Harp ; Large Glasses ;
Foreign Damask Table and Bed Linen ; Turkey and Brus-
sels Carpets; a quantity of Oil Cloths, &c. &c.
To be viewed the Morning of Sale, and Catalogues had
at the Mart ; and of Mr. Williams, Throgmorton. street.

ESTATE FOR SALE.
TO BE SOLD,

Within the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, on

a day to be afterwards fixed, if not disposed of by Private

Contract,
THE ESTATE of GLENSHIEL, in the
County of Ross, North Britain, containing hy
admeasurement about 21,000 Imperial Acres, with the
superiority, and the Cheviot Stock of Sheep thereon, about
7,000. There is a comfortable Mansion-house, an Inn,
Blacksmith's Shop, large Storehouse, excellent Orchard
and Gardens, Salmon-fishing and Sea-fish Yare, with Kelp
Shores, and every convenience and advantage that a High-
land property can possess. It is bounded by the Estates
of the Right Honourable Charles Grant-11r. M'Donell,
Glengarry—Mr. Grant, Invermoriston—Mr. Stewart
Mackenzie—and Mr. Mackinnon, Corry. The Stock is
of the first description, and bring the highest prices.
Printed particulars may be had, and plan seen, by ap-
plication to George Gordon, 35, Northumberland-street,
Edinburgh, who has power to conclude a bargain.

This day was published, Bvo. price 2s. 6d.
THE RELIGION of ENGLAND consi-
dered Politically with refereoace to the Question of
Roman Catholic Emancipation.
Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street.

Just published, price is.
LETTER to the Earl of ELDON, on the
Report of the Finance Committee.

By GEORGE FARREN, Esq.
Resident Director of the Asylum Life Office.
Printed for J. M. Richardson, 23, Cornhill.

Nearly Ready, Part 111. of
THOMAS LAND SEER'S MON
KEYANA.

Contents—The Fortune Teller—Beadle of the Parish—
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prints, 12s. ; proofs, or before the letters, 21s. each.

Just published, 3 Vols. Post Octavo,
r TALES and LEGENDS. By the Authors
of " The Odd Volume," &c.

CONTENTS. —The Three Kings.—Tho Rescue.—New
Travels Round tuy Chamber.—Aloyse.—A Legend of
Number Nip.—The Leper of Aoate.—Count Borwor-
jarginski.—Dorothea.—The Two Students of Saint An-
drews.

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LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, MARCH 27.
We have had a very animated demand for Cotton to-day,
and 3,500 bags have been sold, 1,200 of which have been
taken by speculators.
In pulling
down an old house a few days
since, in Angel-street, Devizes, nearly 100 silver coins, of
the reigns Of MARY, ELIZAIIZTH, JAMES, and CHARLES
were discovered in a pot, about a foot under the hearth-
sone.

LITERATURE.

QUARTERLY REVIEW—No. LXXIV.

One qualification we may generally contrive to
predict and discover in the pages of this periodical,
namely, an abundance of pleasant, varied, and avail-
able information on all subjects of which it conde-
scends to take cognizance. New, too, that party
spirit has in some degree lost its asperity ; now that
men of genius are no longer to be appreciated accordf,
ing to their caste in politics, but with reference to the
precise quantum ofability they-bring to their respective
publications, Ise may reasonably begin to anticipate
a due share of liberality on the part of these once
bigotted Reviewers. Their present number will not
disappoint such anticipation ; it has a tinge, certainly
of partizanship, but not amounting to absolute dis-
coloration ; it is, in fact, temperate but firm in
politics, liberal in ethics, and mild (except in one
instance, where mildness would have been misplaced)
in the general tone of its criticism. The first article
on " Landscape Gardening," is—we say it unre-
servedly, though without knowledge of the author—
the production of a man of imagination, of refined
taste, and exquisite relish for the picturesque. He
enters elaborately into the mode of planting and or-
namenting gardens ; throws down the gauntlet in
a chivalrous spirit of defiance to Uvedale Price, the
champion of the picturesque ; and puts forth dogmas
of his own with all the zeal of a horticultural re-
former. The following observations on park estab-
lishments, arc lit up with gleams of truth and poetic
beauty that rnust recommend them to every reader :
" The space of ground set apart for a park ci deer must,
to answer its purpose, possess the picturesque qualities
which afford the greatest scope for the artist : there ought
to be a variety of broken ground, of copse-wood and of
growing timber—of lantl and of water. The soil anti
herbage must be left in its natural state : the long fern,
amongst which the fawns delight to repose, must not be
destroyed. In short, the stag, by nature one of the freest
denizens of the forest, can only be kept under even com-
parative restraint, by taking care that all around him in-
timates a complete state of forest and wilderness. But the
character of abode which is required by these noble ani-
mals of the chase is precisely the same which, front it,
beautiful effects of light anti shadow, from its lonely and
sequestered character, from the variety and intricacy of its
glades, from the numerous and delightful details which it
affords on every point, makes the strongest and most pleas-
ing impression on all who are alive to natural beauty. The
ancient English poets, Chaucer and Spenser in particular,
never luxuriate more than when they get into a forest ; by
the accuracy with which they describe particular trees,
and from their noticing the different characters of the dif-
ferent soecies, and the various effects of light and darkness
upon the walks and glades of the forest, it is evident that
they regarded woodland scenery not merely as associated
with their favourite sports, but as having in itself beau-
ties which they could appreciate, though their age was not
possessed of that fascinating art of committing them to
canvass. Even the common people, as we noticed in n
former article, seldom mention ' the good forest,' a' 1 ' the
merry green-wood,' without some expression of fondness,
arising, doubtless, from the pleasure they took in the scenes
themselves, as well as in the pastimes which they afforded."
The " Memoirs of Lord Collingwood,'" though
the subject be somewhat trite, are ably and spiritedly
canvassed. The Reviewer eulogises his Lordship as
one of the first of public and private characters, and
recommends the frequent perusal of his domestic
epistles to every midshipman in the navy. " Lord
Byron and some of his Cotemporaries," is a caustic ,
and persevering attack on the most shameless spe-
cimen of effrontery, baseness, ingratitude, and cold-
blooded malignity that ever yet disgraced our English
literature. The Reviewer brings home certain facts
to the recollection of Mr. Leigh Hunt, that if he
have a heart within him, must be almost enough, we
should conceive, to chill its beatings for ever. We
strongly recommend this article as an alkali to these
who may have imbibed the venom of Mr. Hunt's
biography. " The Corn Laws" takes up (as amatter of
course) the high Tory view of the question. It scouts
the cry of" cheap bread ;" it sneers at the idea of" an
extensive importation of Foreign Corn :" and
speaks the language of a Lethbridge, though di-
vested of his peculiar and elocatory graces of
intellect. We cannot say much .for it, whether in
point of principle or argument. " Beltrami's Pil-
grimage," which has already been the subject of a
notice in this Paper—is justly but somewhat se-
verely analysed. The Reviewer blames Mr. Bel-
trami's prolixity (this we well remember was dismally
prominent throughout his Travels) and hints
a gentle scepticism with regard to the nature
and value of his discoveries. The article entitled
" Police," puts forth some enlarged and masterly
hints on this useful but under-rated topic. We have
no space for en analysis, but may venture to recom-
mend it for the practical nature of its information,
and the logical consecutiveness of its arguments.—
The remaining articles we must also dispatch in a
word :—namely, that they will amply repay peru-
sal : with this specific praise attached to " The
Campaigns of the British Army at Washing-
ton," that it is the production of a man who has
seen service in that quarter; who writes from the full-
ness of his own personal experience on the subject;
and who, above all, is not so ridiculously prejudiced
in favour of England, as altogether to hold the Ame-
ricans in pedantic and unqualified contempt.

At a party at the west end of the town, the
conversation turning on Sir FREDMILC LAMB'S having re-
turned the money that had been sent nut from England, a
Lady, celebrated for her wits observed, " that the Portu-
guese had got their Lamb without their Mint."

Two brothers, farm servants in Lanhydrock,
having a cutaneous disorder, were advised by some ignorant
person, to anoint themselves with corrosive sublimate !
which b:iving done, they were soon after so strongly affect-
ed, that one died on Tuesday last, and the other is not ex-
ratted to recover.—Cornwall Gazette.

In Herefordshire, the country is looking re-
markably well. The spring is very forward, and the ex-
treme mildness of the season has been very favourable to
the lambs. With respect to the apple-trees, it is too early
to form any opinion, as the blossom has not yet begun to
show itself.

It is said that the developements exhibited on
the skull of MosEs SIIETPARD, the murderer, are amongst
the most satisfactory illustrations of the new science of
Phrenology that have been yet discovered. He once out
of revenge cut out a donkey's tongue, cut off both its ears,
and slit both nostrils into one, and then drove the poor beast
into a ditch !—Dorset Chronicle.

THE LATE SIR ROBERT GORDON.—WheII
this eccentric gentleman, so celebrated in the traditionary,
annals of the north of Scotland, was in company in Eng-
land, with a few noblemen and others, the conversation
accidentally turned on large faun-steadings. Sir ROBERT
remarked, quite in a serious tone, that his faun-steadings
at Gordonstown, in Scotland, were so very large, that he
was certain 'none of the gentlemen present NI ()old go from
013 C end of them to the other, in the course of a day. It
is scarcely necessary to add, that the whole of the company
felt somewhat sceptical regarding the truth of the Baronet's
statement; but one gentleman, more open in his manner
than any of the rest, unceremoniously pronounced it of a
piece with the relations of the venerable and veritable
Baron MuNcitansEN. Sir ROBERT, however, with the
, repeated his former affirmation; and the
ns lne"
ewa.s, that the two disputants agreed to settle
tenhoteni:seg'attiiejar°c by ocular demonstration, after having respec-
tively staked a large amount on the truth of the assertion
of the Baronet. Sir Roam and his sceptical, or rather
infidel opponent, accordingly visited the steadings of Gor-
donstown, where the latter was compelled to acknowledge
that be had lost the wager ; for the steadings were built
in a round or circular form, and consequently no indivi-
dual could go from one end to the other of that which had
no end. The same steadings are still to be seen at Gor-
donstown,,-.London Weekly Review.

FROM LAST NIGIIrS GAZETTE.

St. Jonicss Palace,.March 27,
`Phis day his Highness the Prince Lieven, Ainhassador
Extraordinary • and Plenipotentiai y front the Etnpeior of
All the Russian, had a private audience of 114... Majesty to
deliver letters front his Sovereign

The Count de la Alcudia, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Spain, had also
a private audience of his Majesty to deliver a letter from
his Sovereign, and to present his credentials as :Minister
Plenipotentiary front his Royal Highness the Duke t.f
Lucca:

And Senor Madrid, Envoy Extraordinary and Mini,tel-
Plenipotent;-ry from the Repnblie of Colombia, had like-
wise a private audience of hi Majesty to deliver his ere-
dattials in that character.

To which audiences they were respectively introduced
by the Earl of Dudley, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robot
Chester, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies.

Whitehall, March 25.

The King has been pleased to present the They. thari,.
Wadsworth, A.M. to tlse place and dignity of a Canon or
Prebendary in the Cathedral Church of St. Pant, Len-
(lon, void by the translation of the Right Reverend Father
in God Charles Richard late Bishop of Landatf to the
of Winchester.

Whitehall, March 25.

The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Janes
Drummond to die church and parish of Forgandenny, in
the presbytery and county of Perth, vacant by the death rf
the hey. John Willison.

War-Office, March 21'.

79th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant-General it Ronald
Craufn rd Ferguson, K.C.13. to be Colonel, vice Lieu tenant-
General Sir Alan Cameron, deceased. March 21.

Conunissions in the Forfar and Kincardineshire
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Forfarshire.
The Honourable Donald Ogilvy to he Colonel, vice five
Hight Honourable Lord Douglas, resigned. Feb. 27.
Alexander Cruickshank, Esq. to be Captain. Feb.
Ensign George Hull to be Lieutenant, rice Bertram,
deceased. Feb. 6.
Adam Burness, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Thom, r, „-
meted. Jan. 4.

Whitehall, Feb. 26.

The Lord Chancellor ha 3 appointed Edmund Lovell, of
Wells, iu the county of Somerset, Gent., to be a ,taste;
Extraordinary in the iiigh Court of Chancery.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

George Cram, Wapping, victualler.
William Mangnall, Prestwick, Lancashire, bleacher.
William Dormer Gilbert and Thomas Gilbert, Leadrn
halloarcet, mathematical-instrument-makera.