The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-06 00:00:00

NATIONAL SOCI ETY.

Last Wednesday the General Committee of tire
National Society for the Education of the Poor in
the Principles of the. Established Church held their
Meeting at St. Martin's Vestry Room. 'Present--,
Archbi.,hops—Canterbury arid York.
Bishops—London; Salisbury, Norwich, St. clsaph, Ches-
ter, Gloucester, Landaff.

Lords—Kenyon, Racisiock, Redesdale.
Right lion. Sir John Nkholl,-Frimeis Benton, Esq Arch-
deacons Pott, Cambridge, and Watson ; :Joshua Watson, Esq.
Treasurer, and others ut•the Committee,
In the course of the last week fourteen fresh
Schools have been united to the Society, .and the
following grants of money have heel). made towards
the building, enlarging, and fitting up of School
Rooms, namely— -

One 0f... :..L.200 Two of. ...L.50
0,,0 of l5O Three of 2b
Three of lOO One of 2O
One of 6O One of l5

THE EVELyN MANuscatt.T.s.--The Literary
World trill be highly gratified in hearing that the
MEMOIRS of the celebrated JoHN EVELYN, Esq.
Author of "• The Sylua," and Various other
Works; hare been for a long time preparing' for
publication by WILLIAM BRAY, Esq. Fellow and
Treasurer of the Society-of Antiquaries, &c.
This most curious and interesting Work is printed from
the original MSS. of John Evelyn, in the Library at Wotton.
ft comprisCs his diary, with observations on Men and man.'
tiers; the politics, literature, and leicrice of his age, durit*
his travels in Prance and Italy ; his.residence in England tu-
\wards the latter part of the protectorate, and his connexion
with the Courts of Charles It. and the two, subsequent reigns,
interspersed with a vast number Of original anecdotes of the
most celebrated persons of that period. To the Memoirs wilt
be Subjoined originat letters from Sir Edward Nicholas, Se-
cretary of State to King Charles I. during some important pe-
Hods of that reign, with the King's answers : also selections
from the correspondence of -John. Evelyn and numerous let-
ters from Sir Edward Hydc (Lord Claret:don) to Sir Edward
Nicholas, and to Sir Kichard Brown, Ambassador to Prance,
during the exile of the British Court.

A new French Work of peculiar interest has just
appeared at Co.LBU RN'S, Conduit-street. We allude

to the Memoirs et Correspondence de ;MADAME
D'EPINAY ; in which she gives the details of hie
connection with Ducks, .1. J. Rousseau, Grimm,
Baron, Pliolbach, Saint Lambert, Madame
D'Houdetot, and other -celebrated persr)rts of the
18th century. This work will no doubt he read
with as much avidity as the Correspondence of
Baron Grimm; to which it may be considered as
an excellent Supplement. It contains a great
number of original Letters of the Baron, of. Di-
derot, Rousseau, &c. and eltiCidates some curious
points in the '" Confessions" of the latter. A
translation, we understand, is in great forward.
ness.

The Ticket, No. 14,531, draVvn on. Wedpes.,
day a Prize of One Thousand POnnds, was shared
by Weiss, in One Quarter, One Eighth, and Tea
Sixteenths, and sold at his fortunate Oakes, 9,
Cornhill, and 17, Ludgate-street. The Tur.E6
Thirty Thousands are yet in the Wheel, although
nearly 5000. Tickets 'were. drawn on Wednesday--
The Wheel is therefore_inunentely rich.
• No. 21104 drawn the First .Day of .Drawing,
,Prize of One Thousand Pounds, was Sold in
Shares by HOAN‘RY and Co.--..nitnely, One Half,
One Quarter, One Eighth, and Two Sixteenths
the Holders of the said Shares are most respect-
, fully intorrned they way receive their Prize
Money immediately, at the Old-established (Mira
Of HORNSBY and. Co. No. 26, • Cornhill, where
Tickets and Shares are Selling, warranted Un-
drawn, for the Second Day's Drawing, the 17th,
MARCH.

Yesterday, among other ingenious inventions
,subinitted to the board of Longitude, one, coun-
tenanced by the Briard, and,recommended to the
Lords of the Admiralty for immediate trial, is
likely to facilitate the object intended in explor-
ing the Polar regions. The merit of this• inven-
tion that it works horizontally and vertically,
assuming the magnetic meridian by its own ac-
tion.
.The inventor is Mr. LocKwoop, of the
navy.
_ .

The young Nobleman, whose disappearance"
from his home and family we mentioned yester-
day, has been restored to his friends. Informa-
tion haying been received that he was at a public-
house et Rotherhithe, proper perions went thither
by desire of the family, and recognized- him. He
had called there in the afternoon, and taken Foffee,
when he walked out and got wet through. In
drying his coat, a letter was found, which di!-
closed his noble birth. The landlord and two
other persons have received• the promised reward,'

PAitLIAMENT.

iIOUSE OF LORDS, THIIRSDAY, MARCH

A Message from the House of COmmoris,
'brought tip by Mr. Sturges Bourne and other
Members, desired a. Copy of (he Report of the
ords‘' 04flimittee on the P6iir Laws, with the
Evidence. . . .

. . ,
Oo the motion of the Barl of SHAFTESBURY,
'the lle-p4reaudii.iidence itils•:orde'red to be eimn.;
tuunicated. Tbe - ,leintrers• beinir the
Lord ChaticeltorAtated, that th Report had been
brderedTh be conbUnnicated, and it was delivered
to them by Mr. Cowper.
Another Me'ssage from the flotte of Common,
brought' up by Mr. Douglas and. other Members;
desired the communication of the Report.of the
Lords' Secret Committee of this Session.

The Memberi being subserfuently called, in,
were illtortned by the Lora! Chancellor, that the
lionSe would seed au answer by )lesseitgers of

its nyvt).

Three Road Bills were brow ht up front the
Vlottse of Commons by Mr. Blackburn, Mr. Bus-
Well, and roller Members, and read a first time.
the Loan'CuAscam.,oa read a Letter fro'ni the
t'larquis. Of Hastings, 'dated at Cawnpore, iu
SePtember'las't. riekirowledging the receipt of the
Lord Chancellor's -Letter, communicating the
ThAittci 'Ol the House, and expressing his high
sense of the honour thins conferred town
Ord red Co be entered tir) the Journals.

PRICE OF GOLD AND SILVER, IiANK RESTRICT

TION,

The Earl of rAuDsrcDnt a Moved for an Account
Oldie Minket Pt-ices of Gold 'and Silver _of differ-
ent-denominations, and of the Rates of Exchange
nt lianthurgh, Lisbon, and Paris, from the Ist
January, 1818, as late Ns the same con's► be made
tip, Which was ordered. 116 Lordship stated, 'that
the objeci of this motion was to complete the
Account upon the same subject akeady before the
House.

The Noble Earl then observed, that it appeared
by the recent Re' nrns,,that the dollar silver bore
s higher price than the standard silver in bats.
Their Lordships .knew that the ounce of silver
consisted of 480. grains, in the dollar silver there
x'rere.about 20 grains tit alloy, whilst the standard
silver was [mil!. I t was so impossible to conceive! hat
an ounce of silver, with 20 grains of alloy,should be
deemed more valuable t ban an ounce of silver with-
out alloy, that. it was difficult to account for such
a statemen't. It appeared, however, that the ac-
connt recently presented bad left out the word
standard., "arid merely stated silver in liars. With
the view of obtaining
,more correct information,
his Lordship read a motiiin for- an Account of
the prices of dollar silver, and standard silver
in bars, but on a suggestion of the Earl of Li-
verpool, across the table, the motion was with-
rawu.

The Earl cif LAUDEtDALE, with a view to the
tpreetion of the Bank Restriction, which, he ob-
served; must in some shape or other come before
the !louse, Anil in order‘to ,have accurate infer-
Illation respecting the effects of the Restriction,
from the time of its commencement, then moved
for an account of the average. amount of Bank
.Notes and Bank Post Bills in circulation, in each
LW year, from the Ist January, 1797, to the Ist
Jan. 1814.—Ordered.
CLERGYMEN OFFICIATING IN GAOLS.

The Marquis of LANSDOWN-Statea, with respect
to the Clergy!'lien 6fficiming in Gaols Bill, which
stood for a second reacting this clay, that some
doubt had arisen respecting one of the claoses
'giving a power to the Magistrates to distniSs the
Chaplain of a Gaol, and as .it was probable an-
other Bill with an amended clause in ',this respect.
might come up from the Commons, he theveiore
moved that this BM be read a second time this
day three inonths.—:-Orderfd.