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London, England, 1826-09-22 00:00:00

SELECT AND VALUABLE LIBRARY.
Including Two beautifully ILLUMINATED MISSALS,
KENSINGTON. •

TO BE *WILD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. HOG G A RT,
On the Premises, Church-street, Kensington,
On Tummy October 17, at Eleven for Twelve o'Cleck pro.
Tummy,
on account of the Number of Lots,
By Direction of the Executors of the late Mrs. Whitaker, deceased.
AWELL - SELECTED LIBRARY, Irriucipady
bound in MOROCCO and RUSSIA, and in a very high
state of preservation • comprising, among other scarce and valuable
Works in Folio, Dowell's Views in Greece, Boydeli's Thames,
and his Prints to Shakspeare; Repton's Designs for the Pavilion,
Nash's Views in Paris (large paper), Original Hindoo Drawings,
Les Pigeons, par Mad. Knip; Swiss Scenery, Lord Nelson's Life,
Kinnaird's Picture Gallery, Clarke's Churches, quarto; Osterly
Menagerie, Fyne's Royal Residences, Westall's and litter's Bi-
bles, Denovan's Insects of India and China, Holbein's Dance of
Death, octavo ; Gilpin's Tours, Smirke's Designs, Baskerville's
Shaftesbury, History of Essex, Wood's Zoography, IJibdin's Tour,
Heptinstairs Bunyan Hogarth Moralised, and a Variety of the
best Works upon 'fis;olory, Ste. Ste.
To be viewed on Saturday and Morning of Sale, and Catalogue
baa on the Premises; sad of Mr. Hoggrrt, Sr, OW Broad.rtreet,
Royal Erelong.

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New dond-street, and 220, Regent-street; and by the ptindpal
Medidne Venders throughout the United, Kingdom.
03,0 Noesca—E. Marshall respectfully informs the Public, that
from and after the Ist of March, 1826, Mr. Cuestas BUMS will
be her sole Agent for the sale of the above Cerate, which will bear
her Name en the label of each Box, as executrix of the late John
'dubbin, and a Government Stamp, with the words " Charles
Ruder, 4, Cheapside." engraved thereon.

MALTA, AUGUST 20.
PRIVATE LETTER.
This once happy little island is now likely to be in-
volved in the same disturbances as the other Colonies,
by the eternal meddling of the Methodists. We have
no lest than four Clergymen of that sect, who are con-
tinually harping at the Milteseto change their religion,
which frequently leads to serious conflicts between them.
I need not tell you that the Maltese are zealous bigots
in their religion, therefore any attempt on the part of
the Saints to corrupt them, if I may so express it, will
be attended with inconvenience to the Government, and
danger to the reverend persons themselves.
An affray of this kind took place here on the 6th in•
stant, which (if it had not been that the Maltese are na-
turally a quiet and peaceable people) might have ter-
minated seriously.
An old Maltese, who had been banished the island
in the time of the Order of Knights, afterwards went to
France, and was employed as one of Robespierre's spies
during that tyrant's reign, for which services he was
promoted to a place in the rallies for fifteen years; af-
ter which period he found his way to Rome, and was
employed by the Chief of Police in the same capacity,
and was subsequently banished that city also. On the
peace of 1815, he returned to Malta, supposing his for-
mer crimes had been forgotten, and that change of po-
litical circumstances would, at least, secure him from
punishment. However, this worthy personage was re-
cognised, abandoned by all his relations, and detested
by all who knew him; and finding himself in this situaa
tion he became a convert to the doctrine of the Saints.
As time puts an end to all things, this culprit termi-
nated a long life, devoted to crime and infamy, in the
Public Hospital, on Saturday, the sth inst. Now came
on the struggle between the Saints and the Maltese
Priests; Some said that the wretch, previous to his
death, wished to have a Confessor, and the Methodists
having heard it, kept his bedside barricadoed, so that
the Priests were not admitted, and by manceuvres of this
kind succeeded in their object.
Oa Monday, as the funeral passed up from the Civil
Hospital, a crowd of boys and idle persons collected,
and as the character of the deceased was well known to
all, the boys began to hiss and shout. When the pro.
cession came opposite to the main guard, and in front
of the Palace, still surrounded by the mob, one of the
Clergymen, without the least necessity, leaped out of
the carriage in his robes, and went to the Officer of the
Guard, and insisted upon having an escort to the plate
of interment. The Officer in the meantime, sent a few,
soldiers to take chow of the hearse, and to disperse
the crowd of boys and ,jdle persons who were col.
lected (for there was not one respectable individual
among them), until the arrival of the police, who bad
been sent for.
When the police arrived, the mob was dispersed, and
the Saint resentered his carriage ,ender the escort of an
officer's guard, and a body of polite, and thus the fune-
ral proceeded to the place of 'lnterment. When it
reached the first gate, the moh was stopped by the
guard, so that, on the outside of the first gate, there was
no crowd at all. However, the mob waited the return of
the Methodists; and when they again re entered the
town, they began hissing and shouting, and some say
stones were even thrown ; but I saw the whole, and did
not see a single act of violence offered to any one. The
two Parsons went to their respective houses; and it is
said that one of them took fire arms into his balcony,
and threatened to fire on the mob in front of the house.
I believe it was not the case, however, as no mob was
permitted to collect at all before his house, owing to the
vigilance of the Maltese Fencible Guards stationed there
for that purpose.
But the Saints did what was very indecorous, and, at
the moment, might have been attended with great dart.
ger to themselves—they illuminated their chapel in the
evening, as a signal of victory ; this irritated the Mal-
tese very much.
I should not omit to tell you that the Private Secret.
tary of Lord Cochrane, Mr. Hesketls, came over here
some time since from Sicily. It appears from what he
mentioned, that his Lordship was then in the Unicorn
yacht, at Messina, and waiting, most anxiously, for the
squadron of steam vessels from England. ,His Lordship
was also surprised that the,Committee had been so su-
pine in the matter, as he conceived they had time
enough, from his engagement with them to have had
everything in perfect pre(aration. His object here
was, to try the spirit of the Government with respect to
Greece, to know what forces we had in the Levant,and
whether the steam vessels bad touched at Malta or not.
Lord Cochrane went under the name of Mr. Blair, at
Messina, and consequently passed unknown. Mr. Hes-
kech statedohat in the event of Lord Cochrane opt.
rating against the Turks, it is his intention to establish
a small cutter between Malta and his cruising points,
for the purposes of carrying on a more perfect and sure
correspondence, independently of the Continent.
Commercial letters trout llanizic speak of an alarm.
ing advance in the price of potatoes. In last October,
18 florins was the currency of what now brings 701
Accounts lions Bucharest mention that symptoms of
the plague had made t leis appearance in the town, and
several persons had been conveyed to the lazaretto.
Advices from Vera Crua to the 2d July, mention that
a convoy of mules, bearing one million two hundred
thousand dollars, arrived on the 24th June. The Spa-
nish 74, which was delivered over by her crew to the
Mexicans last year, at Acapulco, having been refined,
and a crew of 600 men placed on board, sailed from
that port on the 12th June, intending to touch at Val-
paraiso, on her way round Cape Horn for Vera Cruz.
A report had reached Mexico that the expedition from
Carthagena was nearly ready for sea ; its force wasstated
to be at twenty-nine sail of vessels of war, &c.
The Greeks and Romans ate oysters at the beginning
of the repast. They opened them at table, and preferred
the largest. Fulvins Urpinus invented a method of
fatting them, and Apicius of keeping them a long time
fresh. Stews for preserving and fattening them are as.
cribed by Macrobius to Sergius Orate, in order to
make money by the sale of them. Our oysters, much
valued by the Romans, are supposed to be those of
Folkestone. Our ancestors barreled and pickled them,
and judged of their goodness by the greenness of the
fin (query, beard?)