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TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1821.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 230--Irish 5 per Cents. nothing done.
3 per Cent. Reduced 747 s 751/4 75
3 per Cent. Cons. 741/s 74 745/s 3/s
3% per Cent. 851 Yl-4 per Cent. 93% n
s per Cent. Navy, 107% 108 107
Long Anus. 191/4 5-16.
India Stock 230—India Bonds 5Ss. 565. pr.
South Sea Stock, 82—Exchequer Bills ss. 3s. 4s. pr.
Consols for Acct. 74% % % 1/, % 34 1/2.

Two Mails arrived in the course of this forenoon
from Holland, with Papers to the 23d and 28th in=
stant.—An article from Petersburgh, of the 3d July,
states that the new Spanish Ambassador, the Cheva-
lier de SALMON, had not yet been honoured with an
audience of his Majesty the EMPEROR, in the same
manner as the other Foreign Ministers have who-
bad arrived during his Mansry's absence. His
MAJESTY, it seems, wishes to wait till the political
relations between Spain and Russia are more deci-
dedly established. We must confess ourselves at a
loss to understand what is meant by this reserve.
Can there still be a party, either out of Spain or in
it, which entertains criminal hopes?
The King of SWEDEN set out from Stockholm on
the 17th, on his journey to Norway, accompanied by
Admiral CEDERSTROM, General Tawasr, and many
other persons. It is thought his MAJESTY will not
be at Christiana before the Session of the Diet is
closed. His MAJESTY has appointed a Regency,
consisting of two Ministers and two Counsellors of
State, for the time of his absence.
A Swedish Journal has lately published a very
long article, tending to allay the apprehensions of
those who are afraid that differences may arise be-
tween the people of Norway and Sweden. The corps
which is to be encamped near Christiana, and which
are to be reviewed by the KING,M ill consist partly of
Swedish and partly of Norwegian troops.
Four Swedish brigs passed the Sound on the 16th,
steering towards Norway. Some frigates and fifteen
gun-boats were expected to follow.
The King of PRUSSIA arrived, on the 17th ofJuly,
at Potsdam, in good health, from his visit to the pro-
vinces on the Rhine.

The late attempt to raise the Constitutional stand-
'ma in the Prussian dominions, is thus noticed in the
Berlin Gazette. It is amusing to observe the finesse
with which it is attempted to be shewn that the pro-
jector of the scheme must have been out of his senses :

41The news of the unhappy infatuation of young
Von H-, who has made public a truly insane
invitation to rebellion and disorder, has everywhere
excited indignation, mingled with pity. His father
served with distinction in the Prussian army, but
died early, and the education of four children re-
mained to be directed by the :nether. A sense of
the father's services induced the King to shew parti-
cular favour to the widow. The eldest son followed
his father's footsteps : the confidence of the Monarch
placed him in an enviable situation near the throne,
and he maintained himself in it with honour. The
youngest son (who is the one here in question) also
served in the war against the French with dis-
tinction and courage. But the violence of his
passions hurried him into an attachment contrary
to the approbation of his relations, at a time
when he had not obtained any employment. He
lost all command of himself and bccame raving
mad. Remote hopes, and employment of his disor-
dered understanding, restored his reason in the sequel.
Ile obtained an office in the Administration of the
Forests, in which he had shewn himself skilled._
Having been from his youth of an eccentric disposi-
tion, it is most probable that he has relapsed into the
mental alienation with which he was formerly of
flicted."

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this fore-
noon.— The Journal de Paris makes the follow•ing
quotation from the Journal de Lyon of the 24th inst.

o' Persons who are said to be well informed, speak of a Con-
vention already concluded, in vittue of which a great Sovereign
of the North will be recognized as Protector of the Greek Con-
federation.—The report of a Secret Treaty relative to the parti-
tion of Turkey, assumes every moment more consistency."

A letter from Nuremberg of the 21st July, states,
that " All hopes of seeing the differences existing be-
tween Russia and the Porte arranged have vanished.
The Divan has not even shewn any desire of ac-
cepting the proposition of mediation made by the
Austrian Internuncio. In this state of things a Ma-
sifesto from the two Imperial Courts on the affairs of
Greece is expected to make its appearance imme-
diately."
It is stated in the same letter, that a courier from
Vienna had brought intelligence to Nuremberg, that
the corps of Prince CANTACUZENE, stationed in Up-
per Moldavia, had beaten several Turkish detach-
ments, and that Jassy had of new been occupied by
the Greeks.

A German Journal has published a very long Sup-
plication from the Protestants of Hungary, addressed
to the Emperor of AUSTRIA, in which they complain
of a great number of grievances relative to. the non-
execution of Treaties and Conventions, by which their
civil and religious rights were stipulated.
Some very alarming accounts have been received

SIR WALTER SCOTTS- ACCOUNT OF THE;

CORONATION.

The following interesting letter has appeared in
the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, from which it is
quoted in other Scotch Pape►s as being " no doubt
the production of Sir WALTER SCOTT." We also
give it a place in the same belief. It bears, we, think,
strong internal evidence of proceeding from his pen:

M• LONDON, JULY 20.
" SIR—I refer you to the daily papers for the de-
tails of the great National Solemnity which we wit-
nessed yesterday, and will hold my promise absolved
by sending a few general remarks upon what I saw,
with surprise, amounting to astonishment, and which
I shall never forget. It is, indeed, impossible to con-
ceive a ceremony more august and imposing in all
its parts, and more calculated to make the deepest
impression both on the eye and on the feelings. The
most minute attention must have been bestowed to
arrange all the subordinate parts in harmony with
the rest ; so that, amongst so much antiquated cere-
monial, imposing singular dresses, duties, and cha-
racters upon persons accustomed to move in the or-
dinary routine of society nothing occurred either
awkward or ludicrous, which could mar the general
effect of the solemnity. Considering that it is but
one step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous, I own
I consider it as surprising that the whole ceremonial
of the day should have passed away without the
slightest circumstance which could derange the ge-
neral tone of solemn feeling which was suited to the
occasion.—You must have heard a full account of
the only disagreeable event of the day. I mean the
attempt of the misguided Lady who has lately fur-
nished so many topics of discussion, to intrude her-
self upon a ceremonial, where, not being in her pro-
per place, to be present in any other must have been
voluntary degradation. That matter is a fire of straw,
which has now burned to the very embers; and those
who try to blow it into life again, will only blacken
their hands and noses, like mischievous children dab-
bling among the ashes of a bonfire. It seems sin-
gular, that being determined to be present at all
hazards, this unfortunate Personage should not have
procured a Peer's ticket, which, I presume, would
have insured her admittance. I willingly pass to
pleasanter matters.
The effect of the scene in the Abbey was beyond
measure magnificent. Imagine long galleries stretch-
ed among the aisles of that venerable and august
pile—those which rise above the altai: pealing back
their echoes to a full and ma,gnificent choir of music
—those which occupied the sides filled even to crowd-
ing with all that Britain has of beautiful and distin-
guished, and the cross galleries most appropriately
occupied by the Westminster School boys, in their
white surplices, many of whom might on that day
receive impressions never to be lost during the re-t
of their lives. Imagine this, I say, and then add the
spectacle upon the floor—the altar surrounded by
the Fathers of the Churchthe king encircled by
the Nobility of the land- and the Counsellors of his
Throne, and by warriors, wearing the honoured marks
of distinction bought by many a glorious danger ;
add to this the rich spectacle of the aisles crowded
with waving plumage, and coronets, and caps of
honour ; and the sun, which brightened and sad-
dened as if on purpose, now beaming in full lustre
on the rich and varied assemblage, and now darting
solitary ray, which catched, as it passed, the glit-
tering folds of a banner, or the edge of a groupe of
battle-axes or partizans, and then rested full on some
fair form, the Cynosure of neighbouring eyes,'
whose circlet of diamonds glistened under its in-
fluence :—lmagine all this, and then tell me if I have
made my journey of four hundred miles to little pur-
pose. Ido not love your cui bond men, and there-
fore I will not be pleased if you ask me, in the damp-
ing tone of sullen philosophy, what good all this has
done the spectators? If we restrict life to its real
animal wants and necessities, we shall, indeed, be
satisfied with food, clothes, and fire; but DIVINE
PROVIDENCE, who widened our sources of enjoyment
beyond those of the animal creation, never meant
that we should bound our wishes within such narrow
limits ; and I shrewdly suspect that those non est
tanti gentlefolks only depreciate the natural and un-
affected pleasure which men like me receive from
sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either
because they would seem wiser than their simple
neighbours, at the expense of being less happy, or
because the mere pleasure of the sight and sound is
connected with associations of a deeper kind, to which
they are unwilling to yield themselves.
Leaving these Gentlemen to enjoy their own
wisdom, I still more pity those, if there be any, who
(being unable to detect a peg on which to hang a
laugh) sneer coldly at this solemn festival, and are
rather disposed to dwell on the expense which at-
tends it, than on the generous feelings which it ought
to awaken. The expense, so far as it is national, has
gone directly and instantly to the encouragement of
the British manufacturer and mechanic; and so far
as it is personal, to the persons of rank attendant
upon the Coronation, it operates as a tax upon wealth
and consideration, for the benefit of poverty and in-
dustry; a tax willingly paid by the one class, and
not the less acceptable to the other, because it adds a
happy holiday to the monotony of a life of labour.
" But there were better things to reward my pil-
grimage than the mere pleasures of the eye and ear;
tor it was impossible, without the deepest veneration,
to behold the voluntary and solemn interchange of
vows between the king and his assembled People,
whilst he on the one hand called GOD AL/41011TE to
witness his resolution to maintain their laws and pri-
vileges, while they called, at the same moment, on
the DIVINE BEING, to bear witness that they accepted
him for their liege Sovereign, and pledged to him
their love and their duty. I cannot descnbe to you
the effect produced by the solemn) yet strange Mix-
ture of the words of Scripture, with the shouts and
acclamations of the assembled multitude, as they an-
swered to the voice of the Prelate, who demanded of
them whether they acknowledged as their Monarch
the Prince who claimed the sovereignty in their pre-
sence? It was peculiarly delightful to see the King
receive from the Royal brethren, but in particular
from the Duke of York, the fraternal kiss, in which
they acknowledged their Sovereign. There was an
honest tenderness, an affectionate and sincere reve-
rence, in the embrace interchanged between the Dul;e
of York and his Majesty, that approached almost to
a caress, and impressed all present with the electrical