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feels himself compelled by circumstinces to lissome
thii guise of liberality. The Sovereign who enjoy, the
power of atoning to Poland for the injuries done to
'hat country, yet has made no attempt to soften her
wrongs, and obliterate the " bloodiest picture in the
hook of time;" who wrested Finland from Swerlts
•—tarho pledged his faith and friendship to NA.
-rottgon, "fit made war against him and the
liberties -ft France—who devised the Holy Al.
theme for ase support of Legitimate tmnny,
set. supports B£RMAIPOTTE on the Milne of
Sweden for the .moqt -Gelfigto political views, potion(
1)0 entitled to much confidence for sincerity in favour
of popular right and notional freedom. So much for
this pleucihle end fortunate AUGLNTUS of the N 'rth.
If, like DiocLestAts, he does nor divid• his La?irss
and occe;erate the necessarr changes, time, the elf)►
of improvement, will do it for him.

The Congress as Ais•la•Chepelie is assembling.-..
The Date of RICIIELTEU Pod the Duke of Wxuatio.
'rob, according to the Brussels Papers, are expected
to be at Aix to.morro►s, and the conferences sill
commence in the beginning of October. The arrivals
of the Allied Sovereigns are positively fixed as fol.
low:—The King of PUUSSIA on thectith, the FAllperOf
FRANCIS on the 25th, and the Emperor ALEXANDER
on the 27th inst. The equipage, plate, and crockery.
warp, mentioned in the minor Paris Papers 114 having
been presented to the Duke of RICHILISU,
Louis XVIII. are stated in the official Journals lc
haste been only lent to his G►ace, to enable hits to repre.
sent his Monarch' with dye dignity at the approaching
Congress. Lord 6811.m:sou, we %orison. thinks
more correctly on this point. lie doubtless conceive'
the dignity of the reprepretentation is best supported
by the Minister being enabled to call tech things MI
own.

The French Papers, which we have received to Ai
?Id, state, that the right wing of the Army of Oe.
copation is to be reviewed a second time about tin
middle of nest month, soon after which, it is sup.
posed the final ',gestation will take place. Arrange.
menta are already in train for delivering the fron
tier fortresses to French garrisons.—The 5 per Cents
were at 741. 75 c.

PORTUGUESE. YPQSEIS CAPTURED BY INSUR

, GI4T PRIVATEERS

Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloyd's al
St. Uhes, dated 10th Sopt.:-•••••'‘ Yo..terday arri►ed
here the Portuguese schooner N. S. do Canto, from
Pays!, in 26 days, with pert of the crews of the Par.
types, ship Joao l3apti•ta, f►om Rio JAneir..; ant
the brigs Rogan& ■rid Duero J,.au' VI. from Perimbac° to,Liabon, which vessels had been cap•ured 111
Insurgent privateers off the Western Islands."

The Isabelle, CAMERON. arrived io the Clyde frog
Jamaica, was brought to on the 12th ult. io lat. 3(
14. N. long. 78. 3. W. by the General Sill Marti
Independent privateer, who asked a few condom
and requested to be reported at Lloyd's.

Yesterday Mr. ALEXANDER HUMBOLDT was intro
duced-to the PRINCE REGENT, at Carltonn-house) b,
the Baron 11usreourr. the Prussian Minister.
Yesterday Baron NICHOLAI, of the suite of th
Grand Duke MICHAEL, bad an audience of th
Paine REGENT at Carlton-house, to announce th
return of his Imperial Ilighness to London.
Letters were received in town yesterday from Pori
an• Prince, St. Domingo, dated 26th July. The
state, that every thing was tranquil on the Island, ea
that the fears of hostility between CHBISTOrIiEIIt
Boxes had completely subsided.
Demerara Papers to the 14'h lest, stole, that ti
slaves from that settlement, Trinidad, sad the adj
cent islands, have been for some time in the praeti
of seizing schooners end boats during the tvigl
proceeding to join the freebooters in the Cargoes.
A large vessel, the Matilda, lately arrived
Matta from the East Indies. She is the first ship th
has come direct from our Eastern possessions to th
Wend, since the passing of the Act of Parking
which permits such intercourse.
A Privy Council ws held et Diblin Castle on S
turday lust, when Mr. CHARLBS GRANT Mai IWO
into office es Chief Secretary for Ireland. Th• Lei
LIEUTENANT presided, and after the cerrnony
performed, Mr. Glt ANT took his seat at 1111 Coco
Board.

A rumour has been for some time in circulatio
that material changes are about to take,place in t
Law Courts of Scotland. It is said, that the Lo
Chief Baron will recite, and be succeeded by the Lo
President ; Lord Justice Clerk BoTLE to be Pre
dent; Lord PITMILLY to be Lord Justice Clerk ; ti
Lord Advocate to succeed Lord Purans.sor ; Sir W
RAE to he Lard Advocate; and Mr. Dun to be Sh
riff of Edinburgh.
We uoderstand that the appointment of a Piece's
to Sir .I::vsw NreE.tx in the Government of Bombs
is new in agitation at the India-house. Sir Joi
NI A LcoLM is one 4.f the candidates.
Yesterday morning six field artillery waggot
from the grand depot at NVonlwich, conveyed I
Duke of Cumnext.Asn's furniture and baggage
Deptford, under the escort of the Royal ArtilierYs
be put on Intard a ship for ihnover.
Jonta KINGSTON' Esq. Comptroller of Stamps,
appointed a Commisoicner of the 13oard, r'►cant
the death of Mr. BINDIAY.
The new street from the Strand, leading to the rn
place to be erected adjoining to IVeterloo-bridge,
to be called Lsncaster•streets cud the latter bac
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DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Arrieed and sailed for the i Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held
River, the Colonel Allen, M'Lennan, from !Lisbon; et Guildhall, for the purpose of electing a Common
from Demerara ; and Men.
Tobago, Wegimodsild,
Pleader (Counsel) for the City, vacant by the deith
tor, Bullock, from Oporto.—Came down from the of the late William Watson, Esq.; and for the dis-
Rises, the Jane, Grseger, for Jamaica, and remains cession of other miacellanenua business.
in the Downs with the outward-bound as before. The Louts M Axon declared a vacancy in the
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Stranger, Office of Sword-bearer, by the decease of the late
ford, from Jamaica, and sailed again for Loudon ; William Cotterell, Esq.; and after some discussion,
and Resignation, Brown, from Gilboa, and sailed for an especial Committee was appointed to enquire into
London —Sailed the Russell, Thomas, to the East. the nature and duties of that Office, and to report the
bard ; Sprightly, --, for Stangate Creek ; and same to the Court.
Sincerity, liadcock, for London. LORD MAYOR'S DAY.
POOLE, SEPT. 23•—Arrived the Nemesis,
Smith, M. J. DAVI Es moved the discussion on a Report of
from Newfoundland. Captain Smith brings an ac. a Committee, recommending that when the day for
count of another fire having happened at St. John's. swearing in the Sheriffs or Lord Mayor should hap.
It broke out in a part of the town called Maggoty pen to be Sunday, it should be altered to the day be-
Cove, where the principal part of the sheds for dry. fore or the day after.
log fish are erected ; the dwelling-houses are all of Mr. Dizorr said he might he deemed irreligious,
wood, 12 or 14 of which are destroyed. but there was more danger, perhaps, in those who
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 22.•-•Affited the Doke of Kent were righteous overmuch ; zeal blinded the under-
packet (2d), with a Mail from Lisbon, in seven days; standing. For his own part, he saw nothing impro.
Swiftsure packet, with ditto from the Islands, in 30 per in administering the solemn and religious oblige-
days; Marchioness of Salisbury packet, with ditto, tiou of an oath to a Magistrate on a Sunday. No-
from the Brazils. The Martha, Hoare, arrived at thing could he a more impressive lesson to the young
Rio Janeiro on the 25th July, 70 days from Lon. and rising generation than to behold such a solemnity,
don, for Calcutta (leaky). His Majesty's ship Eden . and at the same time it would stimuiste them to col.-
arrived on the 26th. fellness of conduct and attention to their moral and
MILFORD, SEPT. 22.—The brig Hope, Rees, from religious duties, through which alone they could,)
the Bristol Channel to Waterford, put back, having hope to attain similar honours at the hands of their
split her sails, Bcc. fellow-citizens.
Lisaturooe, Sere. 23.—The Orion, Thompson, Mr. DAMES thought it had been well known that
sailed from hence the 18th instant, for New York, be was not to be ridiculed out of his opinions, or out
bat arrived off this port with lose of sails. of any thing which he had to propose to that Court.
Haewicir, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Prince of Gentlemen, he hoped, had lived long enough to
Orange packet, with a Mail and passengers, from know that much good had been done by persons of
Rolland. religious sentiments. He maintained that the Sab-
PeNzANCe, SEPT. 22--The wind shifted last even. bath-day ought to be kept holy, and he would ask if a
log to the-Westward, and became moderate, in con• religious observance of it was consistent with the great
sequence of which the Staverton was warped off the and tumultuous procession usual on the swearing in
rocks, and brought into this port to repair. of every Lord Mayor. The appointment of the Sab-
BMW'S, Sere. 43.—Arrived the ship George, bath-day for that purpose would have been purely
Moore, of and for London, from Tobago, in 54 accidental, and not at all in the contemplation of
days; she experienced very severe weather. those who framed the Act, that it should be so em.
played. To the simply swearing in of the Lord
Mayor he would not object ; but who recollected its
ever taking place without the procession being at-
tended by disorderly persons ? He hoped that tfie
Court would take care that the Lord Mayor should
be sworn in on some other day than Sunday, and
that they would not suffer religion to be scoffed at.
Mr. Dixon said, the Judges thought no harm in
dining together en the first Sunday of Trinity Term.
For his part, he would rather have the dining por.
(ion of the civic ceremonies put off from Sunday,
and he hoped that future Lord Mayors and Sheriffs
would take care to postpone their entertainments
from Sunday till some other day in the week.
Mr. Alderman GOODREHERE said, that the Magis•
(rates alluded to were obliged to serve one year ac-
cording to law ; and if they were sworn in on a
Saturday or Monday, they would serve either s day
more or a day less than the complete year. Besides,
before they could make any alteration in'these matters,
they must have an Act of the Legislature. lie had
attended both the ceremony and the entertainment
given afterwards on many occasions, and never wit-•
nessed any disorder, but much of good fellowship,
peace, and harmony.
Aldermen WAITHMAY said, that in delivering an
opinion, respecting a question on eating end drinking
no man could be more at a loss than he was,itiasmuch
as he had been but a short time in a situation from
which he could derive mach information on those
topics which furnished standing jests upon the Cor-
poration. He cared as little about those meetings as
any man, but he could not agree with the recom-
mendation of the Committee which assumed that the
Lord Mayor, Judges, and other grave personage',
could not meet to swear in Sheriffs without com-
mitting some ezcess. This practice was instituted in
times quite as religious as the present, and had never
been complained of till now. The Court ought not
to pass a vote of censure on itself, by showing to the
Corporation that it could not meet without launching
into @scenes.
Mr. Duos then said, that, in order that this clues•
tion might die a natural death, he should move that
the Report should lie on the table, which was carried
in the affirmative.

DRURY•LANE THEATRE.—The Tragedy of Venice
Preserved was performed last night. A new Jollier,
a new Pierre,and a new lielvidera, afforded so many
additional proofs of the determination to supply the
Public with novelties, which has been manifested at
this Theari e from the commencement of the season.
The Judder was Mr. DATIL) FISHER, who afforded a
vary attimated performance. His action was appro•
prism, but rather too rapid, and he sometimes over-
acted the part. The peculiarity of his voice is not
in his favour, and he has a habit of speaking et the
top of it, which does not set it off to the best ulna-
loge. But these blemishes were obliterated by the
energy which he displayed, and which carried him
triumehantly to the end of the play.—Mr. CLEARY,
who a few evenings ago came out in Othello, took
the character of Pierre, and performed it its a very
respectable manner. His last interview with Jaffler,
whets he was about to ascend the scaffold, was Ca-
irn:m.ly interesting. When not overstrained, his
voice is fine, and here he was most impressive. We
may add, his death was well managed, and his
Pierre, though not perfect, had much to recommend
it to public approbation.—Mrs. WEsT, who made her
debut in Desdemona, was the representative of Bel•
videra, ard proved herself the possessor of talents 'I
which • e had no idea belonged to her when we saw
her its Desdemona. She presented us with a pic-
ture of the sorrows of Belvidern, in which vigour and
delitary were most felicitously blended. The cur-
tain descended amidst shouts of applause, and the
Traged), in obedience to the call of the house, was
asuleursced for repetition on Saturday.
NIAV ENTERTAINMENT AT THE CROWN AND
ANCHOR Ab AC AULEY, who, at the conclusion
of the la4t season at Drut y-lane Theatre, appeared in
searrat tragic characters • ith universal approbation,
last night shave an entertainment, on her own account,
at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand,
called "The Regalia." It is a varied species of
amusement, c. umsting of recitations and singing, in
hiCh %if 45 M ACAULET displayed powers of the most
superior order, arid met with well deserved applause,
from an elegant and numerous audience. This body;'
though young, appears to have studied deeply, and
profiled much from labotious reading and research,
and we conceive ourselves warranted in recommend-
ing her entertainment, as possessing at the same time
great powers of instruction and amusement. An
neat
was spoken by Miss MACAULey at the close
of her performance, which afforded a pleasing apeci-
-pen of that body's poetical capability.
Report states that there is a large batch of Baronets
in the Ministerial oven. There were some curious
articles in the last great hatch.
Mr. Kama meatis shortly to add to the number of
Iris admirable personations, those arduous ones of
Orestes, in the Distressed Mother, and kilter in
Venice Preserved.
MUNDEN is re-engaged at Drury-lane Theatre,
t pon his own ferny, to perform whenever his old
enemy, the gout, will permit him to appear on the

COMMON PLEADER.
Mr. Dixow said, that before they proceeded to the
election of a Common Pleader, be wished to point
out to the Court a difficulty into which they might
get if a sufficient number of candidates were not found
qualified, so as to give the Court an opportunity of
selection in its choice of a person to fill this important

stage.
Report gives os to understand, that a favourite
Pupil of the celebrated CRESSENTI7IO is Soott to make
lher appearance at Drury.lane Theatre, and in a chi.
Sayler of Music, which has long been the boast of our
Euglish School—The Beggar's Opera.
A new Piece, we understand, hes been lately pre.
minted, through the medium of Lord YARIMOUTII4 to
the Drury.latie Board of Management, from the pen
of M. PLANCIII4 the Author of Amoroso.
Mr. IA mnim, the Author of the interesting tad
soccessful piece of Bertram, has produced a new
Tragical Drama, of which private report speaks most
favourably, sod which is said to be shortly forth.
=mita; at Covent•garden Theatre.
CORN EZCHAPIGE, SEPT. arrivalt of E.:glish
Wheat time !dyads'', but there has been a tolerable large
quantity uf. Wheat, Oats. and Barks from abratal s sales
diaglv dull and without variatino &not Mnoday's tutees.—
it. Beaus, Pear, and cr!ner articles on alteration.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, sem 25.
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• the King, and the immediate dependents of the ter:
vents of the King. If indeed the minaret-titter like
a toslly and espeitsiSit Goseintneot, he is sitting;
dreadfully in the wrong, to indulge this feeling at
the eipence of the pour wretches Who laboUr tot
him; but It is plain that he cannot afford tit pay
good wages to both. lie Ought to confider and re.
solve to pity roost to the most deserving ; and it is
.probable that there it net a manbfacturer in the
kingdom bat will lean to do so in time. Unforto:.
nately, Many things oppose his learning this salutary
teuturi quietly, and many other things may for some
months to come impede his...quietly pulling this
,wholesome lesson into practice; but if he were so
Nsolute against 'those who take the•high wages for
' deinvnisehief nr nothing at all, through the medium
if thel titles, as fie 'godly...is against those who lake
only the humbfe wages of hard and woeful labour; ire
should. soon cease to hear of any of thnAP comma.
tions which now so miserably disturb the tranquillity
of the neighbouring town of Manchester. We have
said little upritn this subject. Lt is a subject of re-
gret, not of argument or of expostulation. If both
the spinners and their masters like a dear Govern-
ment better than a cheap Ole ; if they like lases and
paper money better than solid cash and unescised
beer ; if they like the mock Representation of the
Buroughmongers better than choosing their own
House of Commons ; if they like Right UT•tnoerablell
better than honourable men, and prefer Indemnity
Bills to respotlsit►fe Ministers, we can only look Upois
+heir contentions with that sorrow which we shall
always feel for suffering and misguided humeri tut.
sure : we have not a word to ssy to either-•their
cause is entirely their own—while the Ministers in.:
silt upon such exorbitant taxes, the end of these dlr.&
sensions is plain enough, the menufecturers moat b 6
ruined, and those they employ must be starved.
Whitt a picture have we here of Europe! Kings
confederating together through fear, while among the
People, that great social confederation between the
employer and the employed, which ought to hold the
classes of mankind together by the natural and be•
neficial bond of labour, is either entirely broken, or
rendered dreadfully oppressive by the extraneous
„weight of taxation, which hangs like the grating
Unto, that connect gongs of Rally-slaves, most griev-
ously upon both. From nations curet with dear
Governments, and all the concomitants evils of dear
Governments, let. us torn oar attention to the other
side of the Atlantic. The Federal Constitution of
the Uoi•ed States, is not a federation of Sovereigns,
but of sovereign People. They have nought to fear,
sod their hope of future greatness, as well as of con•
tinged freedom and prosperity, amounts almost to
certaiuty. They therefore act with firmness and yet
with candour. The article extracted from the Ame-
rican Papers is said to be the composition of Mr.
Jefferson. It is worthy the man who has been at
the head of a great Republic, and who has again be-
come • citizen among his fellow-citizens. Ile writes
with moderation and yet with dignity ; he speaks of
the authority of the President with respect, and of
his duties with holdnoss. lie reverences the station,
hut points out distinctly the responsibility of the in-
dividual. The restoration of Pensacola and the
other posts lately occupied by the American troops
in the Floridas, appears to be shout to follow this
representation of the patriotic Jefferson, and an offi-
cis' document has been published, showing that
while a Meat State insists upon its own security, it
I regards its stational bonnet more than the ambition
of swandisement. A Republic may have recourse
ito military movements to preserve itself from
insult and aggressive, but it nothing to do with
conquest. It may extend to other. People, willing
to receive them, the' mutual obligations of its federal
union, but it cannot upon any principle of freedoms
compel others even to tie fiee.
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The following anecdote, connected with the prat.
lice of tb ciiting upon Bank-notes, and the conduct
of Bank Clerks, is communicated to the Editor of a
London publication :
" Sta,—lt is the general custom of men in busi-
ness on taking of Batik rags, to lii their good or ill
opinion on the watermark, which has been said
cannot be forged. lie that as it may. I beg leave to
state to you a simple fact within my own knowledge.
Some few months since, a nei,thbour of mine had art
occasion to take a floc-pound Note. He offered the
same in payment, but the receiver refused this five.
pound rag. 01 course the tenderer grew less sods..
fied with his bargain, and knowing he had received
the same from a man of much respectability, with-
without delay returned this suspicious jewel. The
Gentlemen being satisfied it was the one he had
paid, marched off to the Hank from where he WI
it. When, lo 1. Mr. Bunk Clerk pronounced it t
Forged one. Then,' said the Gentleman, • give
me a good one its lieu of it, its one of your own ten.
dering.'—' Oh, no!' replied this discriminating
judge, it most be forfeited.'—' Indeed,' said the
Gentleman, ' after you have tendered it as a good
one, nod received value its amount ; this answer will
not satisfy MP, Sir. Gire me in return that which r
cannot object to, or l will immediately bring an sc•
tion in such a way as shall compel your masters to
pay me amply ; and have such servants as know how
to discriminate more correctly the validity or inva-
lidity of their own paper.' From this prompt alt.
ewer the Gentleman was immediately paid without
farther trespass on his time. This, Sir, is a fact, so
that had the life of en Individual been at stake, it
is probableit might have been forfeited, because a
,Bault Clerk was to be the only witness.
o " Your's, &CI
Gtrat Ealing, Middlesex. " J. WICK."

Theilti leading characters in Lawts's Adelgithal
ail{ shortly be personated by Miss SoattaviLut aod
tbp American Koscius, Mr. HOWARD PAINS.
BILLVIGTOM died et Pisa shout three week,
ter owner-owls friends implored her not foliage
t ip.country rith a busbsnd who, lifter having lived
separate from haretbroad for 16 years, came to Eng.
laud, and derlatyi he could no longer lice sitl.out
her 1 but her ant or was, that tier husband demanded
hei', and she thiught it her duty to comply. It la
she left this country she had made

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