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London, England, 1813-10-05 00:00:00

hentlan pastes. This is probably what
fining the• Allies to the Plains 01
From Dresden, therefore, be
move until some tremendous ?rash

rear, viz. oo the side of Leipsiz,
noticed, a large Austrian army is
d'aptivi to the CaowN PRINCE, is his passage v.
Elbe,

When in expectation of great military events such
as-those to which we have now alluded, we ought not.
to calculate much upon the efforts -of the nernerous
corps of Cossack* or 4f traitors and deseiters" who
hover throughout the theatre of war. They cannot
do much, it is true, towards.interrupting the march
of regular armies. But, like the Cossacks its the Rus.
sian canspaign,• they can 4* make a noise, and fir
about to annoy ;" and happily they may have the
honour to contribute to the deliverance of Europa by
more substantial services.
In the mean time the alarm they excite, creates
one great diversion in favour of their more regular
brethren in arms g it requires immense bodies of
cavalry to disperse them, and the movements of a
retreating or advancing army are thus greatly im-
peded. The Duke of VALIWY's arrival at Frankfort
from Mentz is announced in the French Journals..►
If he is bringing up with him the army of reserver we
should ask no stronger symptom of a falling cause,
The audacious Specasacala still hovers among
the mountains of the Tyrol; and until he is taken, the
Bavarian army cannot trust itself out of /3rannau and
Inspruck. Here we have a formidable diversion in
favour of the All:es, created by a humble individual !
Success to all his enter-prizes, and foul shame on die
villain, who would sell him to his butchers for all the
Revenues of Europe I

The debate in the Common Council yesterday, on
the present high price of bread, notwithstanding the
abundant harvest with which HEAVEN has blest us,
will be read with considerable interest. The subject
is one of great importance and delicacy, as it stands
connected with the regular supply of an article of the
first necessity; any irregularity in the supply of which
has always been followed by the most alarming con
sequences.

We rejoice that so much temper was manifested by
every Member of the Court, and no small share of
caution and judgment. The fact may be admitted,
without prejudice to the characters of individuals or
bodies, that the price of bread is higher than it ought
to lye, compared with the price of wheat. We say
the fact is 'undeniable—and as it would be unfair to
consider the dealers in corn and flour as greater rogues
than other men, the evil must he in the system by
which the prices are regulated.

It is in the very nature of things that:dealers, in
any commodity whatever, will avail themselves of
every circumstance that can enhance the price. To
heap opprobrious epithets upon them, never makes
the article either cheaper or better.—So much in jus-
tice to the dealers; but let us also do justice to our
Chief Magistrate, • .
• The Loan Mayon, by the present system of laws,
bas a most responsible trust to execute. It is unde-
niable, that ingenuity is employed to get the assiae
set high, otherwise human nature has ceased to be
human nature ; and therefore it is the bounden duty
of his j.ordship to counteract the efforts of this inge-
nuity to the utmost of hiv power. Let him exert
himself ever so strenuously, the balance will always
be against him and the public ; for it is in the very
nature of commerce to produce what we would call an
inconscious combination among the men whose profits
are avowedly regulated by legislative interference.
It is the operation of this law that unites them. They
naturally conceive the law as levelled against their
exertions and ingenuity ; and they as naturally con-
ceive themselves called upon, in justice to their own
families, to counterac the unfair restraint laid upon
their industry,

Let any person versant in the motives of human
action trace the operation of such a system, and he
will be convinced that of necessity its frpit must be
to enhance the price of bread, The LORD MAYOR
has endeavoured to lower the price of bread. His
aim and motives are praise worthy; but every effort
to counteract an established system, while that system
is allowed a legal existence, will be unavailing.--
Attack the evil ir. its root—take away the sense of
injury which operates in the minds ef the individuals
concerned in the supply of the metropolis and you
destroy the cement that unites them.
.'

At present they conceive themselves an aggrieved
party—aggrleved by the puhlic, and therefore they
naturally coinsider themselves as one party and the
Public as another Marty-and hence their unity of
operation. Annihilate the cause of their union
end you will destroy It entirely; the fair rivalry of
commerce will then place them in the situation of
`other traders, and the aim of each will be to increase
his own gains by an extension of his business—an
effort always beae§cial to the comemer when, not dit
vetted and distracted by the operation of other causes
tike the law fol. Oxing ttly ickize of bread.
The Loan MnyoTt deserves great praise for bring-
ing thi; question into discussion, Let us Pope that
it will receive due investigation, and all the benefits
which can be derived from the improved knowledge
to political economy which the pnblic may nnW boast.
Let there be no qUackery—ler the Price of Bread
find its oven level. This, we are confident, would 001

In any new law that may belniitited, let it be
left Pe the option of the Loan Kum, as in other
Corporations throughout the Kingdom, to fix or not
fix an assiae, as he may deem most advantageous to
the publio, Thus uPould an opportunity be afforded
to try the effects of free. competition, with a ready
remedy for its evils? should it be found to produce
any ; but confident we are, that if ppce the experi-
ment of fair rivalship were fully tried, regulated
price would never again<be resorted to. In such a law
there should be a clause enjoining the LORD MAYOR
to publish the actual average price at which bread has
been sold for the preceding week, and also what the
prices would have been, bad they been fixed by the
regulations now followed in settling the price. .

TN, Master and the Wardens of the Bakers'
,Company, with their Solicitor, and a Committee of
the Bakers, waited again this morning upon the
Loan MAYOR, when his Lordship persisting on fixing
the Assize of Bread from the, average price of Wheat,
and their not consenting to it, the Court adjourned,
giving them until four o'clock to come to a deter.
mination.

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, her MAJESTY and the
Princesses AUGUSTA And MARY left the Queen's Pa.
lace for the beat of MY JORRPIi BANKS, at Smallberry.
green. They, were, however, prevented by the-rain
from viewing the choice plants in Sir Joscrif's gar-
den and pleasure-grounds as intended. The Royal
Party partook of au early dinner there, after which
they proceeded on their way to Windsor,
Lord ELLEsittonouqu came to Town yesterday,
and had an audience of the Pampa litsgEbrt at Carl,
ton House.

Yesterday the ram' REGENT had a select party
at dinner.

Tuesday his Excellency the LORD 'LIEUTENANT of
IRELAND and her Grace the Duchess of Doasst, had
a select dinner party at the Vice Regal Lodge in the
Phoenix Park, Dublin ; amongst the company were
the Dukes of LEINaTER and Doassr, the Earl and
Countess of MEATH, the Earl and Countess of DARN-
LEY, Sir EDWARD and Lady ELIZABETH
HALES, Lords WILLIAM F/TROERALD and SYDNEY Os-
BORNE, the Bishop Of. KILDARE, and Lord DE CLIF-
FORD, &C,

An order was yesterday issued from the Lord
Chamberlain's Office for the Court to go into mourn-
ing for the late Queen of SwEnzu.
Pauttv-LaNii.—.We were delighted to witness the
return of Mr. Mortrieu last night to the London au-
dience. We cannot well spare so true a comedian ;
and he makes a valuable addition to the Drury-lane
Company, The play of Speed lA. Plonk was per-
formed in a way to command the applause of the
house. The voice of Mr. Pore, which with power
to reach the highest note of declamation, has musical
sweetness tb touch the tenderest key of pity, gave a
heart-rending portrait of a wounded conscience, and
was justly and universally applauded in Sir Philip
Blaaford. Mr, Dowroe, in Parmer Asleld, was so
perfectly-natural that it had not the appearance of
acting ; and Mrs. Spastics was equally unaffected in
the Farmer': Wife. Mr. MQKDEN returns to town
with all his peculiarity of humour. Every lineament
of his face is in harmony with what he has to utter,'
and provokes the spectator to laughter before he opens
his mouth. We never saw him more effective.
COVeY.T•GAIIDEN.Mr. CONWAY, frpm the Doblin
Theatre, made his first appearance before a London'
audience last night, in the character of Alexander the
Great. .He possesses an uncommonly fine pgnre, tall
and well made. He treads the stage gracefully, and
his declamatory powers are good; but he is deficient
in modulation, and his voice is devoid ot that sweet-
.ness which is essential to emotion. The defect of
voice indeed was felt in-every speech where he had
to express tenderness, or to breathe the accents of
Lave. In the lofty and vehement torrents of
Alex-
ander': passion his tones were appropriate, and he
produced a fine effect, from-the commanding influence
of -hit attitudes and "action ; but the power was want-
ing, without which declamation is mere rant, of dlrsc
playing the workings of the' soul, and of moving the
sympathy of his hearers, The Patine of Mrs. JOHNeI
, srome was extremely well sustained, and she was
most superbly dressed, The procession acid ban.
Tot were also very magnificent.
INctenotz is declared convalescent, and is expected
to ratify a Mird matrimonial alliance, which has been
on the hymme4l talus for some time.
Madame MOREAU was able to leave her bed-room
for the fiKst time on Saturday, She has, since the exile
of her husband, lost her molter, Mrs. Howl., and
her two brothers. She is a native of the isle of Fiance,
and a lady of the greatest 4ccompliglinents. On the
death of her mother, she proceeded from America to
Bourdeaux, with the intention of ring to Paris, to
settle with her brothers about thv inheritance; but
she could not obtain permission to that effect; and
it was only after repeated applications that she was
permitted to land, and to remain on shore till her
health, which was greatly impaired, should be suffi-
ciently re-established to enable ber to prosecute her jour-
ney to England, She has, of copse, received nothing
from her mother's property, a; no settlement could
take place ; and no doubt it hail;leto since confiscated.
...-41egides this, general blogzAtes fortune, which
never was considerable, for he always disdained the
revolutionary idea of increasing it, had been greatly
lessened by the expence of thtirial in which be V* as
involved. Xis the revolutionary law of Francessehicti
passes under the name of the Cod; Napoleon,. the es-
pence of the trial fall, on the persons acetteed, and
thy Government have the. fhoice amongst t3l the in-
dividuals implicated in dlipit#49llsatioc: • It tch.
of course pa general Mpatie,ti t and Madame
taw, his iftother4n.lavit !ho hail ridertaltsia to send
the produce of his peoperty 'to: Anserfa4 w.s
oilliged to pill out of it klie Whols Ornce Of the
Of rARIAG.AiIs Giovnei ;tad lbcif *olds.

what be ealle,eti* F.k imp trued! for the rya cotsliiined oti but ore
ropliti« eye perythout our feats that die Rothe (we mega
probabliVlrisal prd:en) are not yet ripe to seize at once all the
takes plot in his 'ad es of a clear ragh, and therefore we would
whither, as ahead leaggist fpr consideration a 'piddle come, if the full
moving, as a peke remedy is rejected.
his passage of the In any new law that may be proposed, let it be