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TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1827.

GENERAL MOURNING.

NORFOLK Houct, 160, STRAND.
JANDREWS, TAILOR and DRAPER,
• bego leave to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Public,
that he has commenced businese at the above house, and solicits
the favour of their kind patronage and support, respectfully as-
suring thre who may honour him with their commands, that his
best exertions shall be used to merit future orders. The follow-
ing list of prices for cash

HEAVER HATS of Superior Qualities, at 11.
—A good wearing o4.iizto, for 17s. Waterproof.
GOOD SILK HATS from 10s,- to 1.55. Patent Double-edged
ditto 17s.

GENTLEMEN'S TRAVELLING AND FORAGE CAPS,
all sorts, from ss. to 10s. 6d.

The whole of the above on Trial will speak. for thentselvei.—
Ladies', Girls', and Boys' HATS and CAPS in great variety at
PERRING'S. Observe ! 413, Strand, Two doors west of the
Adolph Theatre.

BRITISH ROCK AND PATENT SALT COMPANY.
THE HALF YEARLY- MEETING will be
holden at the CITY of LONDON TAVERN, on Tit unsnav the
18th of January instant, when it will be proposed to the SHARE-
HOLDERS to CONFIRM a RESOLUTION of the BOARD
of DIRECTORS, altering and amending the NINTH CLAUSE
of the DEED of SETTLEMENT of the COMPANY, which
appoints the FIRST THURSDAY in JANUARY and JULY, for the
Half Yearly General Meetings, and to sanction the fixing such
Meetings to be holden in future on the THIRD THURSDAY of the
same months.

The Chair will be taken at One o'Clock, precisely.
JAMES B. LOBB, Secretary.
3, Great Winchester-street, London, Jan. 3, 1927.

MR. WILLIAMS respectfully informs the No-
bility, Gentry, and the Public, the superb chased Plate,
magnificent Clocks, Grand Cabinet Pianofortes, in elegant rose and
zebra wood cases ; India and Chinese Curigsities, Pictures, Books,
large Glasses, Bronzes, Fire-arms, a Landau, and numerous costly
Effects, will be_submitted for SALE, at the AUCTION MART,
'TO-MORROW, the 10th Instant, and two following days, at
Twelve; and on TUESDAY, the 16th Instant, and three follow-
ing days; and is arranged in the following order, viz. :
To-mon/tow, JAN. 10.—The wardrobe of foreign damask
table and bed linen, a remarkably fine-toned six-octave upright
grand pianoforte, in a beautiful rosewood case, by Kirkman ; a
ditto, in a mahogany case, by Broadwood; Grecian lustres, plate,
plated articles, &c.

TII URSDAY, the l Ith Inst.—A fine-toned six-octave horizontal
grand pianoforte, in a handsome zebra wood case, by Kirkman ;
a ditto, in a rosewood case; violins, flutes, printed music, large'
glasses, plate, capital gold watches, jewels, service of rich cut
glass, &c.

FRIDAY, the 12th, and TUESDAY, the: 16th Inst.—The valu-
able Library, including many superb and costly Works.

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, the 17th and 18th Inst.—The
magnificent or-mole clock, with full-length figures of Napoleon
and Diogenes ; pedestal dock, and regulator, by Tompion ; a gold
musical box, with singing bird, richly set with turquoises ; dia-
monds, antique Roman gold and silver coins, rare old Indian japan
china jars and keakers, a rich Indian eight-leaved folding-screen,
Indian and Chinese curiosities, bronzes, antiques, capital fowling-
pieces, by Joseph Manton, &c. choice old wines, a handsome town-
built landau, &c., &c.

FRIDAY, the 19th inst.—The valuable collection of paintings,
of the Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English Schools.
To he viewed till the Sale, and Catalogues had, price Is. at
the Auction Mart ; and of Mr. Williams, Throgmorton-street.

GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY.--
FIRE LIVES, and ANNUITIES.
PALL-MALL and CORNHILL.
DIRECTORS.
Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, Bart., Chairman.
Joseph Dorin, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
William Abbott, Esq. Isaac L. Goldsmid, Esq.
Chas. Raymond Barker, Esq. Matthew Isacke, Esq.
Thomas Barrow, Esq. John Latham, M. D.
Jonathan Birch, Esq. John Neave, Esq.
Thomas Blair, Esq. Wm. Phillimore, Esq.
Sir Chas Cockerel!, Bart. M.P. Frederick John Pigou, Esq.
Thomas Coles, Esq. John Poynder, Esq.
Boyce Combe, Esq. Philip Ripley, Esq.
John Fairlie, Esq. Sir Walter Stirling, Bart.
George Fraser, Esq. James Taddy, Esq.
George Carr Glynn, Esq. Edward Yana, Esq.
Edward Goldsmid, Esq.
Capital—ONE MILLION STERLING,
The whole paid up and invested, thereby affording to the Proprie-
tors seeurity against further calls, and to the Assured an imme-
diate available Fund for the payment of the most extensive losses.
Fire Insurances due at Christmas must be paid on or before the
9th day of January, when the fifteen days allowed for the re.
newal thereof will expire.
This Company nave reduced the Premiums on the three ordi-
nary classes of Fire Insurance, so that all Policies of those Classes
hitherto charged at
• 2s. are reduced to Is. 6d. per Cent. per Annum.
3sr _ - 2s. 6d.
ss, - - 4s. 6d.

actunaoltse charged
with ay
nor do the Company
Life Insurances may be effected at either of the Company's
Offices on any day between the hours of One and Three. oth..
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Pcerr se
rem
inu
mthe
nAI
er :ins y
calledor Nianvtoy arc
require entrance money or admission fees from persons effecting
Life Insuranceo. The usual Licence for passing and
repassing to
and from the Continent in King's ships, steam, or other decked
vessels, being packets appropriated to the conveyance of pasen-
gers, is allowed without charge or notice.
JOHN CHARLES DENHAM, Secretary.
Dec. 20, 1826.

The brig Liverpool Packet, of Richmond, Virginia,
with a cargo of flour, and lying in the harbour, waiting orders,
took fire on Monday, in the cabin, at 9 P.M. ; on a signal of dis-
tress being given, Assistance was dispatched from his Majesty's
ships Seaziramis and Victor, from the transport and merchant-
men lying in port, from the Revenue Department, the boats of the
Water Guard, and several from the shore. By the greatest exer-
tion and the most imminent personal risk, the vessel being in a
blaze of fire, they succeeded in saving a part of the cargo and ma-
terials, which
.are deposited in a house near Agliada; the vessel
continued burning all night, and this morning several boats and
Morn big Chronicle.
lighters-have gone to her assicitance.--; cork

PRICE ID.

LITERATURE.

ROBINS' LONDON AND DUBLIN MAGAZINE, HIV.

pp. 112
This is
,a lively, spirited, and varied Miscellany, full of
Irish whim (that best of all whim), with no slight. admix-
tura of ingenious extravagance. The first article, entitled
" Sketches of the Pulpit, the Rev. M. B. Keogh," is elo-
quent and impressive, and though we never had the good
fortune to hear the sermons of the subject of its discussion,
:is, we doubt not, faithful. The poem on visiting a field of
battle, is original, but not poetic, being stuck all over with
the gaudy flowers of metaphor, like a twelfth cake with
images. What does its writer mean by such an -expres-
sion as "gory grandeur," or "a cannon's crash, that peals
the knell of death," does he not know that a crash can no
more peal a knell, than a •HOttentot can dance a quadrille;
But we happen to be good-humoured just now, so, as the
author of this curiosity is manifestly young (and if not
young, incorrigible), we will pass him without further
comment... " The Soldier in spite of Himself," is a weit-
told racy anecdote, and as welcome after its pbetiC4i&lie.*:
cessor, asa short grace before a hot dinner; we shall hope
to see many more such tales in the succeeding numbers.
The article beaded "Ascendancy by Captain Rock," is
just what might be expected from its title; the Protestant
party are unmercifully, scalped in every paragraph, and the
Catholics as unmercifully eulogized. We are glad, how-
ever, to, find-that the writer, in the goodness of his heart,
does justice to " the Ascendancy Consolation Dinners.".
These last are, we are told, the very ,perfection of culinary
genius—the beau ideal of gastronomy, and justify our
favourite apothegm, that parties, like individuals, who
know how to give a good dinner are entitled to very consi-
derable respect. " Stephen Sinnott's Plough" is an amus-
ing piece of diablerie, evidently, but not slavishly, imitated
from Crofton's Croker's Fairy Legends. To this we do
not object; ,the resemblances of talent are at all times ac-
ceptable; it is the servility of dulness only that is de-
testable. " The Lullaby," a poem, will, we should con-
ceive, be very popular in the nursery; `its intellect is hap-
pily adapted to its subject; with the exception of these
two lines,

".oh, who can tell how bright they be

The heavenly dreams of infancy ;".
which are taken, without acknowledgment, from the fol-
lowing expreisive couplet, by Profespr Wilson, en a child
sleeping :

"Oh, who can tell what visions high,

May bless an infant's sleeping eye."-
We have just dipped into the "Life and. Times of Jeremy
Dip," and have no hesitation in pronouning. it good. In-
deed, we may conclude as we commenced, with bestowing
very high praise on this gossipping _little periodical; its
Editor has launched it boldly out on the waters of public
opinion; and from its specific _lightness, aided by good
steerage, we have no doubt that it will safely reach port.
If we can give it a friendly-puff, and so enable it to raise
the wind for its voyage, we shall le happy to do so; but
none seems at present wanting.

ANNIHILATION of a FREE PRESS in FRANCE.

s Nothing has been thought of or talked of here, for the
last two or three days, but the new year and the new law
on the press. The Marquis de Chaves and the Portu-
guese rebels, the King of Spain and the Apostolic Junta,
the proceedings of the congregation, the plate of Lira
Jesuits, the speech of Mr. Canning, and the debates in the
Secret Committee, have all been forgotten in the conside-
ration of the important new year's gift which the Keeper
of the Seals presents to the mind of France. There is not
a writer, a journalist, a bookseller, or a printer, in Paris,
(with the exception of the few who derive their means of
existence from the Ministry) who does not exclaim against
the ministerial project. Of some it will destroy the sup-
port,—of others it will diminish the income,—and to the
public at large it must be offensive and injurious. Nobody
unacquainted with the press of Paris, and the class of per-
sons who set it in motion, could be made sensible of the
extent of the multitude whom it will affect, or the degree
in which it must be hurtful to their interests. The class
of hommes des lettres in Paris, or, in other words, of
those who, without private fortune, public employ-
ment, or recognized profession, reside in this capital
and depend upon the use of their pen for the means
of their svpport, is very numerous and powerful.—
It consists of those who write for the theatres, who write
for the journals, who conduct the whole periodical litera-
ture of the country, and who, with few exceptions, are the
authors of all its popular works. In England you have,
besides London, " Modern Athens," and Dublin, where
books are made, reviews and newspapers • published, and
literary men supported; but in France there are scarcely
any considerable literary enterprises conducted out of
Paris. When it is considered that in thii capital there are
12 or 13 theatres open every night in the year, and filled
with spectators who make incessant demands for new
pieces—that there are, besides the 10 or 12 political jour-
nals whose names are known to Europe, no less than nine
daily journals devoted to the stage - and to the arts, whose
names are never heard of • beyond the suburbs of- Paris—.
that the booksellers, who supply with reading, not only
France, but Belgium, and parts of Germany and Italy, are
enabled to afford daily novelties, in the shape of histories,
novels, abridgments of larger works, biographies, school
books, political discussion, and other popular works, some
idea may beformed of the vast number of persons who de-
pend for their subsistence on the press of Paris. In the.
course of the year that has just expired, I have counted no
less than 155 new theatrical pieces enumerated in the
hills, and -represented on the differenr.stages. To each
of the 20 or 30 journals there are attached a considerable
number of writers, either as occasional contributors or
constant redacteurs. Add to these the unattached body
of authors who compose longer works, together with the
[ extensive clasS of printers, publishers, and booksellers,
who serve up the literary entertainment to nearly forty
millions of people, and you have a very numerous host
who declare that their interests are seriously endangered
by the new project. .
The manner in which those interests will be affected, it
will be very easy to perceive, upon looking at some of the
articles of the project, and comparing the changes which
they render necessary with the existing state of things.
In the first place, with respect to journals, the new tax
which the proposed law imposes must materially diminish
their circulation. At present, a journal only pays about
centimes, or about three farthings of duty, and is sold
for twopence. By the new law, the duty will be nearly
doubled, and, consequently, the journal cannot be sold for
less than - threepence. By the present law, a half-sheet
pays only a half of the duty; and consequently the small
Journals were only charged the half of the duty paid by the
Moniteur. By the proposed law, the increased duty is
the same over all, within certain limits; and, if what are
called the small journals are to exist, they must find their
interest in enlarging the sire, and consequently increasing
the price of their paper and printing. Now, people gene-
rally allow as much at present as they can well afford for
the amusement of a journal ; this increased price must di-
minish the readers, and consequently the sale of the smaller
journals. Again—the smaller journals at present require
no deposit of security. The proposed law extends to
them the provisions of a law for regulating political
journals,. by which each of them Will be bound to
give seeuiity to the enormous amount of 200,000 f.,

or about 8,0001. sterling. As the eight or nine literary!
journals of which I have spoken are established principallyy!
by literary men without any capital, and of course with,
very little pecuniary credit, they will be altogether unable
to afford the required amount of security, and consequently
must be immediately suppressed on the enactment of the
new law. Then, with respect to some of the existing
political journals which possess extensive circulation, and
enjoy property and credit, the new project must lead to
plunder and confiscation. It enacts that no paper shall
have more than five proprietors; and that these proprietors
must unite the qualities mentioned in article 980 of thel
Civil Code, or, in other words, must be males arrived at
the age of majority.• By this article' in case a widow or
an infant•possesses a share in a journal, they must part with
it at whatever risk or loss.. They may be partners in
canals,—they may be partners in manufacturing establish-
ments of every kind,—they may be partners in all commer-
cial enterprises,—bat they must not pretend to preserve_
their share in a journal; and though their very existence
may depend upon the profits of one established by a hus-
band or a father, they roust be cut off by an er post facto
law from the enjoyment of so well-merited and so just an
income. The necessity of putting the names of all the ad-
mitted proprietors at the head of every number, roust corn
pel those who wished to be sleeping partners to withdraw
their capital entirely from newspaper enterprises; but the
limitation of five proprietors is !still a greater evil. There
are some papers, such as the Cwistitutiannel, which has
more than double that number at present. The half of
them, therefore, must transfer their shares, or the whole
must sell out and dispose of their journal to a ne;v set of
proprietors. By the new law, it will be observed, the
scale of penalties is increased; but the enormity of penal-
ties, which may be avoided by Caution, is of little conse-
quence in the, face of the above Oactments of manifest in-
justice, agaiiisi" Which tui.fraenre can bua`r3.
In looking at the article 'of the which relates to
works with or beloW five sheets, mid which consequently
applies to pamplets under eighty pages, you will see that
from the extent of the duty to be imposed, scarcely any
publication of this kind can henceforth make its appearance
with any chance of a sale. The least price at a
pamphlet could be sold wouldhe three franes, which would
be equal to the phchase-money of a considerable Voluine.
But the part of the' new pi•Ojece againSt Which th'e loadeit
complaints are made, are those which relate to the regula-
tion of the printing bnsiness, and the depesit of cOpies be-
fore publication. The other enactments of the proposed
measure may he.severe or oppressive, but this is at once
pronoUnced to be absurd ; the other articles may be exe-
cuted, whatever evil they may produce, but this cannot be
executed
.to whatever benefit it might lead. No printer now
keeps, or can keep, all the sheets of a work in his printing-
office till the day of publication ; and if he attempts to
carry one copy to the person who dries the sheet or stitches
them, he is liable to be prosecuted, as if he had published
the work before making the deposit.. This • part of the
project, which must have been concocted without con-
sulting a printer, will no doubt be altered during the dis-
cussion in the Chambers. It is extremely likely that the
five and ten days for the reading of the copies by the au-
thorities will be retained in the new measure. During
this time, as the liberals say, a copy will be sent to Mont-
Rouge, for the perusal of the Jesuits ; another to the
Chief of the Congregation; and the other three to officers
as likely to detect libels 'against power where none exist.
The first copy, then, issued for sale will be seized at the door
of the printing-office, and the world will hear nothing of it,
except by the trial of the author, publisher, and printer, be-
fore the Court of Correctional Police. At present, when
the deposit and the publication take place simultaneously,
the public can become judges of the work as well as the
authorities, and the public prosectitoe may be deterred from
his prey by the loud or general approbation which may
precede his seizure.

The justification pleaded by the Keeper of the Seals for
the severe enactments of his project of law as against the
journals, is the necessity of repressing their abuses of per-
sonal character,; and checking their calumnious inroads on
private life. Now, you must have observed, that the
Frenelj. Political journals_ which go to. England are as free
from personal slander as those of London, if not even more
praiseworthy in that respect. The journals of the theatres,
as they are called, sometimes make personal allusions, but
even they seldom go beyond the limits of propriety in their
attacks.- The only instance, for example, in which an allu-
sion has ever been made to the domestic situation of his Ex-
cellency himself, whose sister-in-law has managed his house-
hold since he discarded his wife, was in the Courtier of
Sunday, and that in consequence of his charges against the
press. -In England, a scandal of this kind against a 'Mi-
nister of the Crown would have been exposed with less
reserve.

It is not supposed that the law-can pass in its present
shape. N. de Villele is said from the beginning to have
been against it-. Count Darn, who so well knows the
business of publishers and booksellers, has prepared a com-
plete exposure of that part of it which relates to the de-
posit of copies, and the prohibition of carrying sheets from
the printing-officc till the authorities have perused the
work.

The booksellers and all the trades connected with print-
ing and bookselling are to petition the Chambers. Six.'
teen of those trades meet by deputation at the house of
Treuttel and Wurtz to-morrow, to concert measures to
avert a common calamity. The highest judicial characters
here are against the proposed law, and call it " a law of
hatred and vengeance against human thought and public
opinion."

Tiu WEATHER.-The weather, which was pecu-
liarly mild last week, has undergone a sudden change, and winter
has appeared with its usual severity. Snow commenced falling
in town on Tuesday evening, and continued to descend, with but
little intermission, until this morning..—Dublin Patriot. •
EARTHQUAKE.—About three o'clock p.m. on the
25th ult: a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Crawford,
Leadhills, and Cravvfordjohn. The atmosphere at the same tituti
was hazy. The shock lasted- only a few seconds, and resembled
the firing of Artillery, or the dragging of heavy waggons along a
street.-._Scotsman.

::::::' himself, threatened
mistress,
On Friday last, Lieutenant Francis Beggs, was in-
dicted foi the wilful murder of Nicholas Byrne, by discharging a
gun at him, on the 24th of December, '1825, at Phipaborough, in
the county of Dublin. After a patient investigation of the facts,
vtlelerdiJeturoyf
,(,tolitahteislasautgishftaecrt.io,n of aA crowded Court) returned a
LOVE IN GERAIANY.--it widower at Manbeirn
had been appointed guardian to the daughter of a deceased friend,
whose amiable manners induced him to offer himself as her hus-
band, and to place his whole fortune at her disposal. The day for
theiredding was fixed ! but as the parties were proceeding to
church, the aged bridegroom 'vas struck with apoplexy, and expired.
As the whole of his property, except s. small stern to his son, Charles
Verbenne, was left at the bride's disposal, she took possession
of his estate. The son remained in the house, but at first evinced
feelings of ill-n-111 towards her. The young lady sought every op-
portunity to please him ; offered to divide the estate, or even to
flame
became
icsleneur'i;:ptifuno,s)areltd.bweitlo:lhea: vsrree
ae.aesttano
rinteelirsaeie.nionieittldpn
young
let him enjoy tire. whole, asking only a small stipend for herself.—
h
he
drtetdhe tsoafesetypaorfatheertl:ner.
should The chheiebf
emi.aogimsi -d
This disinterested behaviours° affected Charles, that he became pas-
so»ately in love with his intended mother, and in, due time the
herselfwaso :np
hopes
a ssno oodnfectmoekrnan:
ye known, and
, atnhtle
t'l:ia• es a tree: eo
every means
otilranr,;:amilityyie,ociiii
oeiv ,pii-cslrl
innoat
but to carry her off and marry her. To
_effect this purpose, he concealed himself near the house; and after
the servants had retired to bed, he set fire to a stable communi-
cating with the house, and in a few minutes a part of the dwell-
ing was in flames. He knocked violently—the lady appeared at
the door—Charles Verbenne seized her, and, placing her in a car-
riage ready to receive them, drove off. But the magistrate, fear-
ing some attempt of this kind, had caused the young man to be
continually watched ; and they had not proceeded far, before they
were overtaken by six men, headed by the magistrate. Charles
fired a pistol at his adversary, but shot one of the attendants
through the head, and magistrate, by turning aside the second
waspistol,
n ow prevented
seised,
bound
ufnrodmhtaank,iingtmedffect.
foot, Theand
conveyed wretched
to prison,
where he still remains ; but the dreadful events have had such
an effect on his health, that it is not expected he will live to take
his trial.

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