The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-11 00:00:00

znte *tatiminan.

SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER Ito

FTOCK ExeIIANGR, 12 o'CLoca.—Consols opened this mern-
ing at 63113, at which price they remain, with little tioing. The
lowering of the French Rentes at Paris, and •the rise of the
Spanish Bonds in the above capital, have had no effect on our
market; nor do we hear any further information of the state of
affairs at Cadiz by the Expresses arrived this morning.
FOREIGN FONOS.—The most business doing this morning is
in sPoyais Bonds, which opened at If% a. d got up to 14.-
Spanilh and Colonii.ian Bonds remain steady.

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New Spanish !Wilds. 271-0111 Spanish. 3411 -.('olotnbitio,
31—Russian, till—Poyais, 17/ --French Scrip, VI.

The Express which arrived front Paris at an early hour
this meriting, brought intelligence from that capital only
up to Thursday night; for though the Pitote hear the date
of Friday, it is actually printed before 7 o'clock the pee-
ruling evening, after the other journals have been pub-
livited. In another column we have inserted all the news
which the two morning papers that had received the Paris
Journals, had had time to select from them ; and in.addi-
tion we subjoin the following further extracts from the
Mode of Thoriday

PORT f§T.' M ARV'S; Sept: 30i 3 o'clock.—The Guard leas,
set off again for Cleiclana, and are going to take up the
position which they ocrupied three dayestn. One soldiers
iiiirelri; (heir Chiefs show the greateitlihriation at the
pertly of the Cortes. Hialituyal Higline4 was on the eve:
of his departure. but he was-prevented hy, the arriv.d of
thtve !lags of trnce,.whicis announce agaip .the libetty of
the Xing, tad that he would. active to mortottlat'euerto
Settle Maria. The people 1.14 soL eri ti not ail 'Mach
'confidence to this new prune' ae ;.butLibeg positively warted
that di/Team to prepare ludgintsibethe King-and Ms
august family. •
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MA Dai D, OCT. 4 --Monmasta. le o'cLoctr.--41adrid was
yesterday in the greatest consternation. The news which
was spread for the preceding two days was contradicted.—
After six o'clock in the evening the whole population of

Madtid assernhled in the Prado, At a quaker before nine
o'clock a courier was perceived cooling.
.He wasinitnedi-
ateiy surrounded, and instantly cried oat" the King uteri
and all the Royal Family accompany hint." This agreeable
information spread like lightniug,.from one part of the
Town to the other. Mere than two ?intuited thousand
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voices exclaimed " Long live the Boaelson.s."
PA ItlS, Oct. 9.—Great rejoicings trill talceplame on the
return to France of the Duke d'Argonlente. All the
Theatres of Paris are preparing for tbalctecartion.
The Secretary of State writes under date-of the let Oet.
three quarters past II o'clock ..: rr
Thia instant we havetlaa great emissiatiog to an the
King and Lb... Royal family lead In thistrort, amidst the
great aceltiMations of the people."
CoiarrikrmisoeLs, Aug. 9.--The conferences commenced
on the 30th• August, between Lord Strangford and the
Reis Flffentkbate had the most happy result. The Porte.
bas declared !that. the par/age of the Black Sea, shall be
fresutooll Christian nationiVivith out distinCtion.

BP.' ll'skittish; corning from Lisbon -we have reCeivA
the JotutiaktUf that Capital Hs ;else 28th ult. They contain
no notice of any farther arrivals from Bahia, irtd are
chiefly occupied with an account of the investiture of the
King of Portugal with the i nsignis of the Order of the Garter.
The time miected for conferring this honor, and the
eircurnstancin'erlth which it einrot fail to be aniciateil ii
the mind, muiteccaslon the detail of the ceremonial to' be .
noticed with more than ordinary interest.
The Gazette, commencing the account by extolling the
' antiquity and nobility of the Order, and adverting to the
illustrious Kings of Portugal on whom it had in distant ll
1 ages been conferred, proceeds to state' that from the time
of the unconquered monarch, Don Manuel, the. happy
Founder of the greatness of Portugal, it has been reserved
for the present age, fruit/id in so many prodigies, to lee an
illustrious British Monarch, the Most August, ■nd Most
Puissant George IV. renew the example of some' of
his Ancestors, ,by conferring , this most Noble
Order on our August Sovereign the Model of Monarchs, in
love of his people, and of justice, and superior by MO great-
ness of Soul, in all the vicissitudes which have marked the
epoch of his Keign—a Monirth who' giintthe veneration
of al the Sovereigns of Europe; by his virtues, and who,

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in the late events of this Monarchy, showed tiith what
prudence he knew how to wait for the fiivorable opportunity
to restore to the Throne its splendor, to Religion Its dig-
ally, and to his people true liberty.

' His Majesty having been informed of Ida nomination by
the King of Great liritain,the state of restraint in which he
was placed. did sot permit of his being invested in the pro-
per manner ; but being at length free, His Britannic Ma•
jesiy immediately hastened to send him the proper Insignia
—a sufficient proof of the disapprobation of the Factious
Government by the British Cabinet.
' The 23d of this month being chosen by the King our
Sovereign for this august solemnity, the plenipotentiaries
appointed for the ceremony by his Majesty, were conduct-
ed, at two o'clock, to the Royal Pelee' of Mullis; they
were his Excellency the With)) Ambassador Sir Edward
Thornton, Knight, Grand Cross of the most illustrious
order of the Bath, Privy Councellor of his Britannic
Majesty; and Sir George Naylor, Garter King at Arms,
and Knight of the Royal Order of the Guelphs of Kano•
ver ; who, nith the Heralds and other persons of the
legation, were in coaches belonging to the Royal House-
hold; after which followed the splendid equipages of the
British' Ambassador, and other foreign Ministers and per,
sons of distinction, forming a magnificent suite.
After stating the preparations made by the King and
Royal Family fur the reception of the embassy, and the
splendid mariner in which it was introduced, the ac-
count details the particulars of the procession and cere
manial in the Palace, and gives the following as the
speech in which the British Ambassador addressed his
Majesty :

" Sine !—Our august Monarch has confided to as the ho-
namable mission to invest your Majesty with the insignia
and decorations of the most Noble Order of the-Garter; thus
offering to your Majesty the greatest proof which his Majesty
can give of his esteem and affection for your Majesty's person
and the most splendid testimony of the value which his Majesty
attaches to the • intimate alliance and friendship which have
united the two nations for many ages.
" Founded by one of the greatest Monarchs that have',
reigned in England,and done honor to Christendoro,the annals
of this celebrated Order include all that Is most illustrious by
merit or birth, most elevated by heroic virtues snd most as-
tonishing by the great events which characterise the present
age, or which impress their immortal stamp on all ages.
" What shall I say of that magnanimous Prince, the Son of
the founder surnamed the Bluth, renowned for so many heroic
deeds, and his truly chivalrous generosity; of that Duke of
Lancaster, connected by so many recollections with the history
of Portugal, and with its Royal House, by the ties of blood;
of the Kings, your Majesty's predecessors, who received the
Insignia of the Order, and principally of the Great King,
D. Meouel, whose golden age was immortalized by that
vast discovery, which opened the way to the conquest of the
Nast, and which in the sequel caused to rise from obscurity,
end if I may say so, from the bosom of the ocean, that New
World, whose riches and productions gave to Christian Europe
the form and character which it now wears.

" Sire !—This Noble Order does not less boast of having
reckoned in its list several Kings, the models of all pacific
virtues, the benefactors of their age and models for posterity.
The having been the father of your people. having borne every
sacrifice for their good, having preserved, during a long ab-
settee, and in the midst of political storms, an unchanged
erection. these ere the titles which the Order of the Garter de-
sires to possess as its own—these are the !titles which, giving
a new compenion to the list of so essay soyerrigas sad illus-
trious men gives additional lustre to the .ancient splendor of
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tbe drtiar. "

Sire I—l venture to express at your Silkijelleriffeet the sa-,
tlsfactlon and pride which I feel at the choice'fikteli his Majesty
the; Xing has deigned to make of me, to be the orgsn of .141
sentiments, and the performer of his commands."
Ills Majesty replied in the following terms r--•
tiir,--,Tbeirmignia which you are commissioned to present
to me fruip his kiritaunlc Majesty must be valuable to me, for.
' more titan Olie'ivesoe. 1 eonsker them above all as a public
testimony of the inalterable friendship which has 'existed for;
ages between our two kingdoms, and which has been lately
co•flrmed by the memorable events which are indelibly en-
graven iu tlie annals of both nations. . '
pisiituted by one of the King.' who hay* done most honor
to the throne of England, the Order of the Garter was, from its
oriain, received by some of my illustrious ancestors as a pledge
of fraternity iu arms, and my be considered as • presage of

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that union which has acquired so mach strength.
"The whole world will perceive in the solemn mission
which your august sovereign semis me, an evident proof of the
esteem he feels for me, and of the knowledge which he has of
the sentiments 1 hear him.
" Re you. therefore. Sir, the organ of these sentiments be-
fore his Britannic Majesty. and thank him in my Same fpr the
choice Ito has made of Plenipotentiaries for this honourable
mission."
His Majesty declaring that he accepted the Order with
the usual restrictions, the plenipotentiaries proceeded to
invest him with the various insignia according to the
customary forms. When the ceremony w i,onclufled,
they retired with the same ceremonies as they eame.
• ' The Castle of St. Heorge, the ships of war in the
harbour, fired Royal salutes, at the termination of the cere-
mony. His Majesty bad ordered is apleodid repast
to be prepared in honor of the Ambassador, and other
persons, charged by the British Monarch with the' solema
investiture, in the Palace des Necessidades which his Ma'
jesty's Minister's, the diplomatic body, and other persons of
distinction were invited—ln the evening the English Ship
Revenge, which was haaidsomety illuminated, fired salutes;
1 which were answered bj!►' the Don Johh VI. The Resi-
dence of the British Ambassador and the quarter of the
City adjacent were fihely illunsinatcd.

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A Mail from Holland this morning has bre,* Dutch
papers of the tia inst. It appears from an artltili dated
Wishaden, that a brisk correspondence is kept op between
the Cabinets of Berlin and Vicuna, which. occasions much
speculation. Some persons, it is said, think that the &abject
is the opening of the diet at Frankfort; others that it re-
lates to the inter►iew of the two Emperors at which the
presence of the King of Prussia has nut been judged ne-
cessary ; others again think that the Prussian Cabinet has
ben actually pined by England, and being thus in the
interests debit Goverment, the King of Prussia, could

ant be admitted to the discussion of projects, the cc
seqoence of which might be injurious to the interests
Grrat Britain.

By a recent arrival from Bemis we learn that the Gs
vernor was going to appoint canvoys for vessels on tit
coast of Java, in eonaervience of a Dutch ship having beta
atta' ked and damaged by the Pirates. The Volcano g
Mer Apia has began again to send forth lava

The state of Cadiz is still enveloped in much mystery.-.-
Whether the Cortes mein to retain it for their own security
until they can embark fur some other country ; or wheat:
they will put themselves under the protection of Me
French army, is left to conjecture. Their conduct, at the
crisis of their fate, has not been such as we expected it
would be ; and we are therefore less solicitous about them,
than we are respecting the fate of the gallant Riego,
and the unconquerable Mina. Such men command
esteem under all circumstances ; and it is much to be re-
gretted that any should embark M a cause, to which thew

do not devote themselves entirely. Those who have not
resolution to proceed, ought to have more prudence than to
commence such operations. There are untoward cireus,.
stances that attend every cause; but these should be cako•
lated upon ; and when the sword is drawn against any
existing institottons, the scabbard ought to be thrown away
Such submissions make revolutions mere playthings; the
momentary reroltsof children at school, which only wait the
appeasance of the master to subside in silence. There hat
been great want of that commanding energy among tht
eortek which could alone :lave enlisted a nation in the com•
moncause. The affectation of leaving the sceptre in the hands
of Ferdinand, was a mischievous moderation. The reply is
the threat of invasion on the part of the French should
have been, the declaration that the King's life should hart
been the forfeit of any foreign imerference to restore his des
potic power. Such -measures would have put to the test
the fidelity of the existing authorities ; and all the toms.
spent treasons and desertious would hare been avoided,

Considerable exultation is manifested in the Ministerial
papers, at the inceease of the Revenue, during the laic
quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of tt
last year. It is all of course, attributed to the " Collective
Wisdom" of ti e nation, and the astonishing financial abi-
lities of Mr. Robinson, Mr. Husk isson, and their doer
assistants. It does not appear, however, that they hare
any great merit in the matter, on the !then ing even of their
friends. The great increase is said to be in the Custonu ;
which are expected to exhibit an excess of four hundred
thousand pounds and upwards. In the same breath, ere
are informed the surplus of the quarter will exceed
three hundred thousand pounds. There has then been a
decrease in some other items ; and we find it in the
assessed takes; a tolerably good proof that the internal
prosperity of the country has not been mending. The
encrease in the Customs may be easily accounted for by the
encrease of our commerce with the South Americas
States; and a wise policy on the part of the Ministry might
have doubled the encrease on this head. A new cued.
neat was opened as a market to our adventurers ; and had
the Government interfered properly, and given the neces.
sary guarantees to the security of the intercourse, an sate.
Dishing @acreage of our export trade would have been the
result. Much has been done already by • the enter-
pries of individoals; but nothing to what would base
been effected, unties the auspices of a Ministry Which
.had not suffered its prejudices against principles is
interfere with its official. duties. For this encrease
,the Ministers can take no credit whatever. It stands es-
tirely indepeqdrat of their policy ; .and is, indeed, opposed
to it. The reduction in the prices of provisions, and of
almost every thing either directly or indirectly affected by
taxation, will account fur a considerable advance is the
Revenue, by enabling numbers to become consumers to a
greater extent :—and when all the circumstances are takes
into the account, it will neither be surprising that the
Revenue should nominally encrease'; nor will the rocrease
be any proof of an amendment in the condition of theme-
try. The ministerial scribes betray the falsehood of their
views of the 'abject by laying all' their brilliant prospects
to the determination of the Ministry to remain neutral
and one of them exclaims, " how different the prospect
would have been, had the country embarked in any war."—
Our financial system is therefore only a peace system. It
will not bear extending to any other state than one of sowed
repose; and whenever we shall be called upon for exertion,
we shall he utterly unable to make it. There is some truth
in this; but they keep the cause out of view. If the country
had beets really 'relieved from the burthen of taxation—if
in actual reduction bad taken place to a considerable
amount, the country would have been gradually
recovering itself, and would grow into a ea.
pacity of supporting fresh sacrifices when it should
be necestary to make them. lint upon this point
we are at issue with the ministerial writers. We ael•
suit that taxation has been shifted, in pert?, from the
shoulders of one portion of society ; bat it has been put
it heavily on those of another portion. (We admit also.
that taxation has been reduced in its nominal rate :—,that
figures nitrite value are requisite to express the Am upon
paper ; but the :cal pressure of taxation is to be looked
•for, in the amount of the produce of Coe soil, and the sun
of manual labour, which a Goverment requires ; and in
this sense, we arebold to say that the taxation has not bees
reduced to any sensible 'amount. The revenue now
collected by the system will purchase as much produce
of all descriptions, as the highest taxation of
the war. The Government, and the caterpillars of
State, contutne,at mach produce as ever they did, and
while they Wiliam: to do this, the country tan :meet
recover itself, so faros to bear new impositions. Had the
war taxatioti of setenty paihicins been continued now, the
.11iniaters would have told us that seventy millions at one
period, were no more than seventy millions at another;
but the seventy millions now would have been more than
equal to a hundred ailliews at the lime when the seventy
were raised ; and though see have reduced the seventy is

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fifty; the latter suns I. eqsivelent to the former in the
market, and therefore we repeat that taxation is not
rechnid, as it affects the resources of the coon.
try; tl•magyh some classes are relieved at present
front the war pressure. The salaries paid to all the agents
of Government, remain nearly the same as they were during
she period v. Len provisions were at the bighost price.
They are therefore considerably increased in value, and
enable them to demand much more of the labour of the
people to furnish out their state. Governing is found to be
p more profitable trade in peace than in war, for a certain
glass of politicians; and hence the p teilit• dispositiom which
proclaims neutrality the grand principle of all true policy.
We really believe that if a French Fleet were to sail
;top the Thames, and burn London as far as Black-
friars' Bridge, that the Ministry, safely entrenched in
fcaning Street, would declare that the true policy of
fat Britsin was neutrality, and leave the new Lord
a yor, and the
scitizens to defend themselves as well as
the 7 Ce"l.l.
Ireland. yhey have long been neutral in the contest
betWerit
ipN;essimi and starvation which is desolating
iletey. are Avowedly neutral in the struggle
between 'eci•Dio Ally and. the Landed Interest. They
bave even deciat"ed e wish to he Neutral in the question
of Parliamentary lictOirS:, and dffet a general amnesty
to all who will be quiet ;ft fiiiorf.

By our post letters to day we learit that LorJ Nugent
Las isrived Irons Cadiz ; but no mention is Made of Sir
Robert Wilson. ..
Toe Quanrea's REFFNUIC.—The Quarter's Be'illolte
will be made rep to-day ; but the exact amount will not he
ascertained till the evening; of course all the official tle=
tails cannot be published before to morrow.—glut we tire,
abk to skew, at present, that the statement will be moat
satisfactory.
In the first place. we believe that there will he a surplu% ,
on the Consolidated Fund of rearly three millions, though
it must lm: borne its mind, that the charge on the Consoli-
dated Pend this quarter does not exceed 7,800,0001.; whereas
1 hest year it ansoutited to 10,820,000 t. This eituta ni don of
the charge upon the. Consolidated Fund is produced by
the removal of the Pension List from it. The surplus of
the Consolidated Fund, in the October quarter last year,
was rather more than 925.0001.
In the Customs thi re is understood to he an increase of
above 400,0001.—an increase on the Stamp Duties—and a
: Selling deerea-e in the Assessed Taxes. I o the Excise
Attie* there is an increase on the article of Salt, upon
erisich there had been a decrease for aeveral quarters. In
such ether articles of Excise as exhibit a decrease, it will
be recollected that the decrease does stet arise from dins/.
" visited consunpion. hat from reduced taxation. The
'whole Income of the present quarter will, it is said, ex-
wed -thei neotne of the comparative quarter between two
. 'and ibree hundred thousand pounds. —.(Ceurie e.)
Two companies belonging to thec3th tor Sri York North
,Riding) Its intent of Foot, one of which is quartered at
Carlisle, and the other at Tinmoutis, havetreceived*orders to
Alexia from their respective stations to Hull, where they
ore to art ice on the 24th inst.
• Cues FOR DSAFNESS.—The lain Rev. Mr. A--
' 'took an opportunity of consulting the late Dr. Cuttam for
an occasional deafness. The Doctor wrote a prescription ;
•Mr. A-- —in return, tendened a fee- " I thank you,
Sir," b 4id Dr. C., " but I have keg made it a rule never to
, Accept a fee for advice to a country Ciergynnan—he cannot
afford it, Sir." " Perhaps there are many who cannot,"
said Mr. A—, but I can ; far my Stine is good, and I
base no family." " What ! are you a bachelor i" cried Dr.
C. " I am," replied Mr. A " Now, why did you
not tell me so at first ? Desteoy tire prescription I have
Riven you. Go house and get married as fast as possible ;
and l hazard my reputation that,inteennth after, you shall
tear ear the deafest silk of yont beat."
Fribit THRBAD.—ht a communication to the Society of
'Arts mid Manufactures, by Miss threats VITA' itIIODES, it is
elated, that one line of the silk worn, when unwound,
measured 404 yards, and whets dui. weighed 3 grains.—
'ence it follows, that one pound avoixdopois of t'se thread.
us span by the worm, may be extended into a 1ine.535 miles
long; and that a thread which won% encompass the earth,
would weigh no more than 47 ponada.
We noticed in oar pater of hot week, that Mi. Thema,
Whital. Waterwortit, of Donewster., Attorney st Hew, bad
been committed to the Moose of tkerrectioe, at Wakefield,;
for not satisfactorily anawering questions pat, to hies by'
the major part of the cottintiseionees under a commission
of bents rapt, issued ag sit rat John Smith, of I)oncester. On
Wednesday last, Mr. lira tetworth, accompanied by Francis
Maude, Esq. his Counsel. was, at his own request, bmaght
by Mr. Sbepheard, VI e 'keeper of the House of Correction,
in a chaise, frosts Wakefield to Sheffield, to be farther
examined by the Comsoissioners. leeching the bankrupt's,
estate and effects. wieen be waanecommitteil to the same,
Bernard
by Hugh Parker, anti James Eitnington, Esqrs.'
Bernard John Wee, Joseph enayward, jun. and Joha
Collingeon, gentler see, therheing all the Commissioners,
fat new then satisf warily answering the same question,,
MI were put to bin, (lb'. WaSerwortli) on his former ext
Oloioelion- We e' ao Onderetand that John Allen, late 01.
Paatley, near D. *wasters but now of Sheffield. butcher,
1
litho was ohe o f the assignees under the former commis-I
sues against Sin' ail) Immh.os Monday week, emanated to I
Weliteaeld HOSA *of Corteetiaa, by the major part of the
fellotiesionets, toeing satisfactorily &esteeming questions,
Pi* bin) by' imetne--(Afessoiseater Mercury)
• Ilw gale of ...rind this morning has,' **fear. occasioned
malty disastr to at le& la town it wads. violent OW, in
are plate, w a year it droee in' a window saib„ and is lino-
titer, it Mr a eat a street lamp from Its keit shame, The
walks In ! St. aftrutes's 'Park are steeled with .Ih* "waken
iikswastrus 1 i trees; and oototite St. James's Pettch . ottoble,
Mir a 1 Aare down% war the canal.
v„_„'lll6'4° reorojog Ist the ebbing of the tide, at ItelFpaet
llowL, -4
1130 both; of Wicks, one -of the watchmen at diet'
V I ;taro-bor.:sr. was found near the plying place, the ant:
send of Itir terrace. He was._ missed at half-past two by fili,_
breltat watchman, anti is supposed to hare been blows
off the Terrace during the hies wind, this morning. Ha
had been upwards of fourteen years in the employ, and way,
a sober regular man. - • . ~
• AsTILONOMICAIL Noma. —There is at present on .0111,v
.evenings a most favourable opportunity of observing *boss ,
two interesting Planets of our Solar System, JUPITER and
SATURN. The latter rises at seven in the afternoon ; tsis
place is a little to the south of the small clutter of stars in,
the neck of the Bull, called the PLEIADES. Jurirea rise*,
at ten; his place is in the Twins, at some distance to lb*
south of the stars, Cearoa and PoaauX. He it easily die-,
tiognished by his superior brightness. A good 12 lash
reflecting telescope will sltow very distinctly that Wondegel
ful phenomenon, the KING of Saturn, and the four moons,
and belts of Jupiter.
The following is a letter from the very Rev. Dr. Blake,
to the Editor of the Dublin Herald :•••••
DEAR Sit—The dialogue between the Sexton and
myself, which is given in the Courier of the 2d inst. has
surprised, I dare ay, all those who were standing round
the grave where the occurrence to which it refers, took
place. The eonversation which has been thus magnified
Was only for a minute, and delivered io a very low tone of
woke. The Sexton told me that "1 mast mot offer easy
prayers there;" I asked him " by whose authority did Ise
toll NW so; be replied, "by order of the Bishop;" and
thus ended the dialogue.—The other eircumetances 1
. have already described in my letter of the.lnth ultimo.
I em, dear Sir, your obliged bun.ble hervaat,
Chapel Howe, Exchange Street,
October 6, 1823, MOUES. BLASS.

THEATRICALS.
Mr. RATNCR played Tyke last night for the wend
time, and With encreased effect. His welcome was cordial
and cheering; and his rank among the nuhlic fevaritea. is
alreaay of the first impqrtance. The Miller's Maid is ip
rehearsal, and will shortly be produced with great atfiliiion
to effel t.

A dispute has arisen between Mr. Et.t.trrotr, and Mr.
NATHAN, relative to the engagement o. a singer of great
promi*e, Mr. BECKWITH. Mr. NATHAN demands the
cancelmentef the present agreement, before the negotiation
proceeds, because Mr. Fa.urrou. after a rehearsal, thought
•Mr. BECKWITH not of so lunch value, and said he had
been " tricked" into an engagement. He, however,
refuses to give rip the articles which are signed ; which
seems to shew that be did not mean what he said ; or, at
least, that he has altered his opinion. The best method
will be to shake hands all round, and let the contract
remain in force. Mr. Ewstors may he wrong sometimes
as well as other people.