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Lwd King
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J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. Sir John F. Harington, Beet '
Geo. B. Beaumont, Esq. Hon. Thomas Parker
1111liam Bell, Esq. William Praed, Esq.
&John Doyle Dart. James Sedgwick, Esq.
& George Dairen, Bart. Hon. W. Shirley
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igen Fleetwood§ Esq. Thomas Wyatt, Esq.
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SKETCHES of the HISTORY, MANNERS, and
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ELEGANT GLASSES, RICH UPHOLSTERY, SILKS, Ike.
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articles now so much in use. Families who prefer the rich and
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and as C. :A Lica are the real Manufacturers of the articles
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they are enabled, for Fashion, Splendour, and Solidity, to compete
with any Establirhenent in the Metropolis, and, they with .ini.
dem affirm, at P:ires decidedly advantageous. The Papeolni_end
Decorative. Szyls. of Work, also the Carving and Gilding littlat
brsnclies, continue as usual. Appralsements made. and
Furnished, wish the greatest attention to Economy.
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of avoiding the bustle of the City, will find an easy and pleasaat
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and City-road, through Finsbury-square.
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N. B. A very brilliant toned Rosewood Cabinet, handsomely
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FASCINATION ;
OR, ESCAPE AND RECOVERY.
TWO Panthers together from Afric were sent,
Each bound to the other by friendly cement ;
Bet one on the passage unluckily dying,
'Twas long ere the Keeper, each art though applying,
With uniform consummate skill and address,
Could *oath the survivor's most poignant distress.
When landed, and plied in a strong caravan,
Its journey to London had scarcely began,
When duress disdaining, in cage so confin'd,
Escape it effected, and left far behind
The panic-struck Keeper, while, dreading mach harm,
The country *coned was absorb'd in alarm.
Two days now in vain had been spent in pursuit,
When eouabant they found him in front of a Boot
By %mum's Jae &AMMO transcendently graed,
That chance by the door of its owner had plied;
Aloft from the attic, in fearful expansion,
Who eyed the gaunt form thus besetting his mansion !
The Jet, like a mirror that justly redacted,
The Panther with fond recognition inspected,
For there in bls shade his companion he saw,
Renew'd by the Blacking of matchless eclat.
The Keeper approach'd—by the Jet while beguird,
The Panther lay passively se and mild,
And thence, with the Boot retrograding his way,
The fugitive, awned by the brilliant display,
Was led by he magnet that success ensued,
Unhanning, ashamed, 'till in safety seeued.
And thus by MADaltlf tit a hazardous strife
Was staid, that the sacrifice threaten'd of life •
Both pudes preserved, the attack'd and attacking,
By tinnily asaistance of Wausau's eln BLACLIMO .1!
This Easy Shining aud-Briniant BLACKING Prepared by

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AM sold in every Town in the Kingdom.
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Wes PASTE BLACKING, in Poch M. ltd. and lad. each.
d,01.1114 Pat et Puts is equal to Four la, *tiles of Liquid.
Mr. Aslifor WAURILIC• 111116665.
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A project has been adopted by the Dutch Govern-
ment for the reduction of the interest on their debt,
which forms a curious and ingenious operation in fi-
nance. A new stock is to be created by a loan, amount-
ing to 100,000,000 of florins (about 8,000,009 sterling),
bearing interest at 2} per cent, and issued by the Go-
vernment at the price of 92. To every 1,000 ' florins
stock is appended a bonus, intrinsically worth eighty
florins. The Dutch Government, for their part of
the operation, stand in a very secure position. They
impose no obligation on themselves for redeeming the
whole or any part of the 01d.44 per cents. they will only
apply to that purpose the amount of the subscriptions
to the new loan, and no more. The operation may stop
at any point, or go on to its completion, without creating
embarrassment, or compelling them to retrace their
steps, as the French Goverstirnt have recently done.

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THE MARQUIS OF iIAsTINGS.
° &TRACT 01 A LITTea, DATED MALTA, JONI 15:—
"Our Governor the Marquis of Hastings, with his fa-
mily, arrived here on the 70 inst. since when business
has been almost at a stand, in consequence of the rejoic-
ings for his arrivals The people seem to eevectrgore
isenefit under his government than it is possible can re-
sult. But that some improvement will follow, we have
an doubt; as there appears an inclination to do as much
for the island as circumstances will permit. The only
changes hitherto made affecting commerce, are fixing
the current value of the Spanish dollars at Slf tarts,
and reducing the duties on foreign sugars and coffee
from about 5 per cent. to 2 per cent. ad valorem. The
Governor had, at Naples, an interview with the Minister
Medici, concerning the diminution of the quarantine, in
Sicily and Naples, on ships from Malta, and with some
prospect of success. On the day of his arrival, the Haw
sloop of war arrived with a convoy from Alexandria ;
and instead of the usual quarantine of 18 days, he or-
dered SO days to be pet formed. It really is a surprising
thing that the British Government permits the direct in-
troduction of cotton wool front Egypt. It is not at all
improbable that the plague may be introduced there ;
for the cotton, of itself a most susceptible article, comes
from -a country where the plague rages with violence.
,At Cairo the deaths are SOO per diem.
THE GRAND DIME OF TUSCANY.

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Extract of a letter from Florence, dated June 19:—
The Grand Duke, Ferdinand the Third, died here
yesterday, in the 56th year of his age. The exact cause
of his decease is not yet known ; but he is said to have
had a complication of sudden disorders, a cold; a bilious
attack, a complaint in the stomach, inflammation of the
chest, ice. Perhaps a physician could resolve all these
into one. The spring, as well as the winter season in
Italy, has been exuemcly unhealthy, and of unusual
severity. lam afraid to state the number who are'said
to have died in the course of a week in January. The
Tuscans, with the exception of those who earn their
right to a good dinner by labour, live, in fact, after gs
mortal a fashion as most other nations, and invite death
by all the temptations in their power, of oil and
_pastry.
Apoplexy carries off multitudes. The Grand Duke, I
believe, was esteemed a temperate .liver; but therrobst
temperate livers here are, somehow or other, at stilt-
ject to bilious attacks, as a citizen or a sedentary stu-
dent with us ; and a disturbance, of the bile, in an
unhealthy season, carries a man off at a momeei
notice. The old Romans, perhaps, had to thank PRO..
vinzsca that there were no olive trees in the coun-
try, till two hundred years after they became a nation.
—At the news of their Prince's danger, the Florentines
with unaffected grief crowded the gates of the Palace.
the

Ferdinand was just the Prince for . Tuscans—he was
good-natured and affable, and is. said to have divided
almost all his time between music and books. If he
thought himself obliged to subserve to the views of his
brother the Emperor Francis and of the Holy Alliinte,
he did it in as gentle and unscanda!ous a manner as
possible, and showed a desire to be peaceful and liberal
with all parties. On his return, after the downfal
the French power, they say that he let a list of Jaco-
bins, which had been given him, fall into the fire. Fer-
dinand is succeeded by his son, Leopold the Second,' a
young man, about one or two and twenty. He and his
father married two sisters, Princesses of Saxony. Little
is known of the new Sovereign ; but he is said to be
fond of the fine arts. lie has confirmed all his father's
Ministers in their offices, and speaks with more truth
than such announcements are apt to ezhlle, arthe pub-
lic tears in the middle of which his falhise•diee
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SOUTH AMERICA.

LOUISVILLE (ICIDTTUCKY), MAY se.

The Mexican trading party was to have left Fort
Osage on the 24th instant. It consisted of about 1001
=en, who took with them a number of waggonsloaded
with merchandise, to the value of about 30,000 dollars,
and a piece of ordnitnce, transported on wheels ; and it
was believed, with strict discipline, the party would be'
able to repel any attack that might be made on them by
the Indians.
Pam Maxtco.---The schooner Eagle arrived at Bal.
timore on Monday, in 18 days from Alvarado. Left
the schooner Makdonougb, Ryan, of New York, cap-
tured by the Mexican schooner Iguala, and sent in for
adjudication. She was bound from Havanna)). for
New Orleans, and had touched on the coast for. water
and provisions. The brig Liberty, Myrick, of New
York, from Pensacola, bound to Alvarado, with a valu-
able cargo of dry goods, was captured off the bar by
the Iguala, and sent in. Captain Myrick reiorts that
he had been extremely ill treated by the Commander and
Officers of the Iguala.
The United States brig Spark, Lieutenant _Cots.
Newton, was at Sacrificios, and expected daily at Al-
varado, to convoy the vessels with money as far as Key
West. The Weasel was daily expected from Tampico.
Mexico remains in a perfectly tranquil state, under the
direction of the Sovereign Congress, who had come to
the resolution of naming a Dictator, for the purpose of
preventing further internal commotion in the country.
The eyes of the nation are directed to General Bravo,
as being a proper person to fill this important station.
General Filisola has been appointed Captain-General
of the province of Mexico, and General St. Anna has
been intrusted with a high command on the coast—a
measure tending highly to the safety of the nation.
General Victoria remains Commander-in-Chief of the
province of Vera Cruz, with a large body of troops
at his command.
News was received at Alvarado on the 14th of May,
that Merida (the capital of Yucatan) had joined the
Mexican confederacy and made peace with Cam peachy.
The coast of Yucatan, as well as the Captain-General-
ship of that province, was embraced in the command
of General St. Anna.
The Loans which have been negotiated by the British
agents are now considered as confirmed and established ;
and their 'bills are commanding in Mexico 3s. 3d. to
3s. 9J. sterling per dollar. Senor Megone, the Mexican
agent in London, has presented his nation with his com-
mission on the contracts, amounting to 400,000 dollars.
Passengers in the Eagle—Mesas. Charles Burke, Geo. Lyman,
Mid Midshipman A. K. Long, of the United States Navy.—Balti.
mere American.

MARACAIBO.

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" MAILACAIIO MAY 22, 1824.
" I quitted St. Thomas's on the 30thi of April. On
the 4th day we passed the bar of Maracaibo, and an-
chored opposite the fort of San Carlos, a fine picturesque
castle planted on the borders of the lake, and surrounded
with dat k groves of cork trees. The next morning a
pilot and an Officer from the castle came cn board to
conduct us to the town, about twenty miles distant. In
our way, we passed the Punta de Palmas and Altagra-
cis, the scenes of the late desperate actions on the lake,
of v hich there remains no other memento but the soli-
tary' wreck of a Spanish brig. After having received a
visit from the constituted authorities, and after having'
been annoyed by their questions, we were permitted to
land. We proceeded to pay our respects to the Gover-
nor, a short fat man, with monstrous mustachios, which
he was continually twirling. There issa general order
that all militaites shall wear mustachios, which has the
effect of metamorphosing by far the greater part into
the strangest figures imaginable. From the Governor's,
we went to the Juez Politico. Conceive my astonish-
ment then at seeing this grave personage exercising the
functions of a Judge at his dinner table, with no other
garment but a shirt and trowsers, holding in his hand a
monstrous plantain, which he, and a naked boy on his
knee, alternately bit. Opposite was his wife likewise,
with only two garments, a chemise, just above her waist,
and the skirt of a gown considerably below it. They
did not seem much disconcerted, though you may be
sure 1 made my visit as short as possible.
" The town of Maracaibo has very much the appear-
ance of an old English country town ; the houses are
mostly built in the shape of an oblong square, with a
courtyard in the middle, and a gallery running round.
With very few exceptions, the floors are of brick, and
the walls of plaster there are four very fine Churches,
richly decorated. They afford a strong evidence of the
power formerly exercised by the Priesthood, their mag-
nificence and grandeur far surpassing what the size and
Appearance of the town would give you reason to ex-
pect. Under the resent Government no one seems to
care for the Priests : it is no wonder, therefore, that they
have been generally staunch Royalists. 1 have never
seen a dozen men at any of the Churches ; they are filled
indeed—but by women. The universal dress for Church,
among all classes, is a black gown and white shawl,
which is thrown over the bead, partly covering it,
and falling not ungracefully on their shoulders. I
cannot say that I am captivated with the Ladies of
Maracaibo; they, have fine expressive eyes, but that is
generally their oily beauty. Their figures are bad, nor
do they attempt to improve them by the use of stays.
" They love music and dancing almost to madness ; a
fine military band plays here every evening ; crowds of
women surround it; the lower classes openly dancing,
while the rolling eye, the quivering limbs of the Lk-
dies, chew what they suffer from the restraint which
decorum imposes. The Spanish country dances are
very pretty, though the difficulty of the figures deter
many from attempting them. Notwithstanding that
the men here in general dance very badly, four out of
five are militaires, and as the Government does not pay
them, they wear what uniforms they please, without
the least regard to consistency or propriety ; thus, when
assembled together, they present a most grotesque ap-
pearance—some with jackets, some with coats, some
with gold, ot'bers with silver epaulets, bides an endless
diversity of embroideries, feathers, ste. The soldiers
cut a much more respectable figure; they have lately
received from England a neat and becoming uniform,
but the greatest part go without shoes, considering them
a useless incumbrance. The Colombian army is mostly
composed of the native Indians. They are generally
of a tawney complexion, but some are completely black.
They undergo hardships and fatigues almost incredible.
" An Englishman, Colonel Farrier, assured me that
during the last campaign, the regiment which he com-
mands marched 80 miles in two days, through places
where they had literally to cut their own road,- without
anything whatever to eat for the two days. A few days
ago, General Urdaneta (late President of the Senate),

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arrived here to'tate the contlapd of the departmt.
The Municipality determined to give him a dinner, and
the merchants a ball: The dinner took place last Thurs•
day, and, in compliment to Madame Urdaneta, Ladies
were invited. All the viands were put on table at once.
The waiters were females, whom I found to be neither
expeditious nor civil. Before the mutton, turkiji, &c.
were removed, the toasts commenced. The first was
Bolivar,' the second Y Urdaneta; and the thirds to my
very great surprise, Urdaneta' again. After this, every
body rose from the table, and lounged about for half
an hour, during which the servants arranged the dessert,
ender the direction of the Ladies.
" After we had sat down General Urdaneta was toasted
six times more, evidently to his own great annoyance ;
but the fact was, that a general rabies loquendi seemed
to visit all the Government Officers in praise of their
new Chief. On the King of England's health being
drank, an Englishman got up and made a most lengthy
and somniferous oration in English. The poor people
who were compelled to hear him, without understand-
ing a word, yawned most terribly ; and they did not
'seem a bit better pleased, when, after he had finished,
he very coolly handed a Spanish translation to a friend
of his, who then spouted it for the benefit of the
country members.
" This country, notwithstanding the inconvenience
attendant on travelling in it, presents so much amuse-
ment and gratification for curiosity, that I shall probably
extend my travels beycind what I originally intended,
and visit the other principal places on the coast."

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