At a late hour on Saturda...
The Times, 1824-05-18T00:00:00

At a late hour on Satulrlay night, iMr. Elliott, a gentle- man attachie(d to thie Embassy in Spain, arrived at the Foreign Office wvith despatches from Sir Wmt. A'Court, our Ambassador at iMIadrid. Yesterdlay, at twvo o'clock. the Duchess of Clarence, the Duchess of Glocester, the Princess Augusta, the Duclhess of Kent, Priince Leopold, and Prince Leiningen, attended by the Baroness de Spacdith and Captain Conroy, honoured the British Gallery, in Pall-mall, with their presence, to view the exhibition of ancient masters, together with some paintings of deceased British artists, for which one roem was sct apart. The roval party continued their inspection for about an hour. They were attended by some of the Directors of the Institution, the Secretary, and the keepers. The shares in the WVest Intlia Company now formi-Ag ere to have been brought outt yesterday,but the letters were with- held by the dlirectors, as announced by an advertisement for that puipose, until the point can beaseertained what extent of privilege Miinistcrs may he disposed to sanction with regard to the pTivilegeS of joint stocl companies in general. From what infisrmation we have been enabled to obtain, we are led to conc lude that this delay has arisea from an excess of caution on the part of the directors, who are desironis that not a shiilling of the property of their subscriber shal be advanced until all the forms for securing them against ad- ditional responsibility shall be completed. The multipli- city of business at present pressing on the attention of Mi- nisters, is, we iin(lerstand, the sole cause of the delay. ALGrERs.-Tlie fbllowing paragraph is from the TWest Briton :_" From the following extract of a letter received bv a commercial house of the hizlhest rer.pectability here, it appears that the Dey of Algiers las m.ade his subsmiission to this country:- M" LTA April 7.-We heard yesterday bv the Pandora, which spoke the Active off Algiers, that the war is over; the Dey having assented to all our demands, on condition of not receiving the same Consul again. Sir 11. Neale had gone to Marseilles, on his way to this place.'" The following is an extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Constant.nople, dated the 10th nlt :-" Very fresh ac- counts have been received fron all parts of the Mediterranean, and ncthirg whatever is said of the meeting between our ships and the Algerines, as alluded to inr my last. The Turkish squadron, with the Capitan Pacha on board, is only waiting a wind to sail for the Dardanelles. It will be accompanied by a good many transports, which are ready for embarkation. Its object is of course kept a se- cret, and diffcrently conjectured." WtiNDsoa, MIay 15.--51x new banners have been re- ceived at St. George's Chapel from the l{eralds' Office, to be placed over the staIls ofthe followving Knights of the Most Honourable and Noble Order ofthe 6arter :-his Alost Gracious lMajesty, as Sove- reign of the Order; King of Portugal, King of Denmark, the Mar- quis ofChohnonideley, the Mlarquis of Hertford, and the AMarquis of Bath. The King's banner is most splendidly embroidered on velvet; the quarterings of England on a crimson ground; Scotland on yellow and gol(d; Ireland on purple; the Hanovesiait horse in the centre is ofsilver. The lelnet is surmounted by the Imperial Crown, with the British Lion as the crest, richly gilt. His Majesty's banner is so richly embroidered, that it was requisite to be supported with a cast iron rod; the King of Portugal's orn the right of his *la. jesty's; the King of Denmark's on the left; and those of the Mar- quises of Cbolmondeley, Hertford, and Bath, at th,e bottom of the Chapel, each with their armorial and heraldic beanngs. Ki NG's TH4EATRF.-Yesterdlay eveningwas appropriated for the benefit of Mr. Kelly, on which occasion t'he public were ad- mitted at playhouse prices. The house was excessively crowded in -Very part. In the pit particularly, it was apparent that too many persons had been admitted, which gave rise to some dissatisfaction on the part of those who were incommoded by the crowd. The performances commenced with It Terro in Italia the characters in which were sustained by the performers who ordinarily represent them ; and we may venture to say, that their exertions never elicited more boisterous applause than that which was bestowed upon them last night. At the end of' the opera Madame Catalani sang " Non piu auldrai," " God save thc King," and " Rulle Britannia," in all ot' whicli she was eiwored, though she repeated them witlh evident reluctance. In the course of the evening a kind of fight took place between tivo parties in one of the boxes in the fourth tier, one of whom bucceeded in ejecting the other. In the scuffle the drapery in front of the box waS torn down. " most absurd story has crept abroad that Lord Byron ntendedc to depict his mother in the character of Donna lnez, in his Don Jutan: we can state from the best authority that he never spoke of iis mother without love and veneration ; and that he was not re- served in declaring for whom he meant the picture of Donna Inez, though we do not choose to name the person. An evening paper, which has means ot knowledge on the subject, has given thle foi ow- ing character of Lord Byron's mother:-"It is not our purpose to say any thing of the conduct of the Hon. Captain J. Byron, the father of the deceased poet and philanthropist, but that, soon after his marriage, and the birth of his only son, he died, leaving his widow in no very flourishing circumstances as regardis pecuniary matters. Hrconduct, however, was most exemplary; and if his Lordship intended to depict his mother as Donna Inez, in his Don Jaan, as has been said by one of our cotemporaries, and, indeed, generally un- derstood, to us it appears that he has dealt with undue severity with his parent. His Lordship was born on his mother's estate, about 30 miles ron Aberdeen, to which city both of them removed, on the death of his father, wvhen he was but two years old. In Aberdeen his mother lived in almost perfect seclusion, on account of the great (leterioration of her property by the extravagance of her deceased husband, for her Ii'gh spirit would not suffer her to apply to his fa- mily for the slightest allowance, although her own was scanty in- deed. She kept no company, but was regarded and esteemed by all who knew her, and her amiable disposition and manners were parti- cularly shown towards all those whom slie thought fit to associate in reading or in sports with her darling son. Ile was her darling son; for we have seen her, when he has only been going out for an ordi. nary walk, entreat him. with the tear glistening in her eve, to take care of himself, as ' she had nothing on earth but himr to Ave for,'- a circumstance not at all pleasing to his adventurous spirit, the more especially as some oflhis companions, who witnessed the affectionate scene, would, at school, or at their s rts, make light of it. and ridi- cule him about it. The lion. .irs. Byron had a beautitul counte- nance, but was rather a petite figure, and had somewhat too nmuch of the embonpoint. She was naturaUy a woman of spirit and ofgaiety, but we never understood that her genius lav chiefly in the ' mathe- matical,' or th..t ' her wit was Attic all,' which his Lordship at- tributes to that of Donna Inez."-British Traveller. The Rev. MIr. Vansittart, nephew of Lord Bexley, late Chancellor of the Exchequer, is appointed to the Prebend's Stall in our Cathedtral, vacant by the translation of Dr. Leew to the Bishop- ric of Bath and Wells. This appointment is worth about 800L per annum.-Carlisl Journal. From 'he abstract just publisliemi of the Treasurer's ac- counts of the county of Middlesex, it appears that during the last- year the sum of 4,0001. was received frOm the sureties of the late itreasurer Miainwariog. On the other hand, it sternathat the ceunty had to pay no le.w a sum titan 1,2361. lls. t-d. for obtaining an act of Parliament to prevent similar defalcations to thern in future;* and also another sum of 6201. Ils, lld, for another act for altering tlte time of licensing public houses....-C'oumty Chronicle. Another of Carhile's shopmen was yesterday held to bail: at the instance of the Solicitor to the Treasury, for selling bla- phemous publications.