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MARGATE, Dec. 26.-An acci...
The Times, 1824-01-02T00:00:00

MAROATE, Dee. 6An accidentofan appailingnature was nearly occurring at the bouse of Mr. Watson, pastry-cook aud confectioner, in lridgeutreet. The family retired to 'ret on (hrist- mas eve, leaving every thing in safety;'but on the sevant girl coming down in the morning, she was surprised that the dresser and shelves of the kiteben were burnt. to cinders; the heat was so intense, that the lassof the widuows wasall cracked, and the earthenware inn similar state. It is conjectred that the girl roing to the dresser drawers, aapark dropped frm the candle, wbhch, smothering for a time, ultimately brokie out in a flame. Owing to the absence of a current of air, the fire;s4bsided without doing further mnischief. But for this miraculous.accidental interpositionthe wholepremiscs %ould, inm :likelh ood, havvebcen c6nsuThed.immetliately. Adjoiningthis kitchen is.thewarehous;eof Ar. Paine, ironmonzer, where several barrels of gunpowider arc deposited, which must 'have exploded and indicted a most severe chckTson the town.-Erena47W par. Su Is-vbol Tteven o'clock onWednesdgyAtiiat the report of a,istol w2s heard at the en,&of Albany-place, St.Ftrc'' mEarket. he watchman on thbe a bt end severa- othe;s repaifed to the Slotk and found zyoung man ly.ng on the gound in a gore or bloo ;'his,esad was blown to atoms, and his 'bratns were scattered upon thewall. A report soon spread that a_gentleman had been murdered, a croiwd collected, the, inhabitants were thrownD into the greptelsarm, and search was instantly made for tbe marderers, but m v4in. A light hAving been proeaired, a pistol recentlv discharged was foand lying in]the-bloodnuon the pavement; and,rom-the ap, Fpeasa;ce of the.uniforitnatemnig's diers, he was recognized 'to ba:- -pemauuSawift, Whobad lodgedatNo.4,in thesame str6eet durin2g tlast three neonths; the body was ca.ried there. Mr. A i eock3 E4tgeon;.7 iccadfly, wa5s fent for, buthis=sistance w'.'6f coerise Issa.. An iucat will beeld on the bbdy thi1 day.' -'- LAdvirtiseznentI - ua Nsw MONfTrHx L 1 ' xsonumbe,.of a newvwouame 6f thIs `6oDuW= Miseli .an _p,jIbl llshedzo the 1st of Januaxy; atd tihose who deaiNe-to aveii_:tbcr._ -4eta& of this favourable opnortunity -for commenc'ig it aree 'ted se ir ordeis fortlsbwith to' anv bookseller or newgven_ der 'in tIstir neiglbourh0d.' Amnong vaious other intere;eing c -!lmP olu l W L sra bil from the pen of Mlr. (3imp. ;or~ PrthanGlance at I823 by one of tbe.7esxlosof the Rejected:Addreases...ThA Spirits of. e?ie Age:. or Portrwts of distinguished 'Living ?harecters...Seudies in Span''h hlistory a7d M}anners, by the autlfor. of-Dobiado's Letters..N'ew Letters .of Cowper. the poet-Table Ta1k, No. 1l._Tbe'3liontls, XNo. :.L, Janpary....Paeenes anti Projects ExtaoCiar;stle buidea.-.y ncle, $ parn7ait, &c. &o Printed for Scnry Col. 1 bum and Co., Cduit-street.ad
We published in yesterday...
The Times, 1824-01-09T00:00:00

We published in yesterday's Times the Speech of the- King-of SWEDENon closing the Diet, the 22d ult.. The general character of this discourse is pleasing, from the kini1ness arld good sense which distinguish it. A lesson of prudehe'e is dt'awn from the unfortunate conditiou of other countries at, this moinent, and gradual ameliorations of laws, however imperfect, are reeommended 'as thle only me- thods ofhinprovemnnt compatible with the tranquilltv and security of states. " Nitions," sayi CHARLES JOHaN; "have their peculiar attributes.; and to precipitate the "natural course of their genius, is to expose them to miEo "h biefs of which the present crisis affords us unanswerable "proof." This is a warning to poliical theorists, that they may not run their- countrymen out. of breath in a headlong race of reform; and we do not deny the justice of such an admonition, but we should also like to have detected, in this essay.'of a Constitutional Sove. reign, sonme glances at the opposite and more fashien- able doctrine, of subjecting at all times a people, how- ever intelligenit, to the sordid interests, nay, to the blitd caprices, of one individual; nor matter how ignorant or rude, an4 declaring that no 'free institution shall be endured-on earth, but as the gift of some despot. in.love with human liberty. Justand beconiing, howveer, asmiglbt have been the reproof of -this principle, by a Xing ,ho reigns in spite of it, CHARLES JoHNs-was loth to qu=r74 with'ita Iimperial and Royal patrons, vwell- conisidering that it is tlhe people only wo n, now- ads, be lectured with impuniity. * . The speechdoes not give mur h accurate insight into 66c affaitgpf 'the united kibgdom, except that the agriculturist is di$Oessed; nd hat' the ."-b asrce.iiof trade has been, "during the .las ainj$ t6e precdiP g-.yaa iiu favouile' of Sweden." ThiVis now a ab^arlbus alition. P, .ve wonder that iny Minister:should-.t thit time of dayl 6- mulgate s uiey;dot;ri o - -
The space occupied in our...
The Times, 1824-02-05T00:00:00

T he ;p.ice occupiv-l in our journal by the debate onI The motion tor the A !dress: left us but little ronin for com- menit. IThe subjoct of chief importanc at present is that twhith Wates t., our fcrei-.n p licy, becauise few other topics have been treated at present. Thec Right Ho-, nourable S.c;etarv for Foreign A4i'rs dehprecates the interference of a thirdi Power in the disputes between the cjloniuh of South America anl the parent State of Spain; an.l in such deprecadin we feel disposed to uiiite. But that law which wve prescribe tj ouir- selves, we Fh?uld exact from others. An attempt made directl- by Fr-ance to conquer andl appropriate the States of South A;ncrica, would be the act of bucaniers and pirates. It would be an act rmuch more atro- cious than lIe enteiprise of Sir WAL.TER RALEIGt againt tlhe inhahitants of the sanme regions ; because the present race are know-n to, andl in relation with, all the civilized states of Eui ore, to none of whom have they given any just cauce o' offenc-. Bat we maintain that the ini- quitsv would not be diminishel, but would even be doubled, if the French should lethin possession of Oid Spain, and froin thence? transoort the native troops, in order to subjugate their brethren in the other hem.sphere to the Bot'RaoN or Gallic yoke. WFe trust, therefore, that Go- vetnmennt wvill adhlhere to the declarations and professedl sen- t.iments of one of iTs members-that no third Power shall interferf, in the way of arms between Spain and the states of South Amrrica. The quarrel between the mother coun- try and its !ate p.ssessions must be suspended till the French leave the former. The lg-al and other atrocities committed by Austria and the rest of the -Holy Allies upon the subjects of dependent and contiguous States, are, it is said, no reason for quar- relling with the oppressors: but the acknowledged exist- ence of thc,e atrocities is at least a reason for throwing Eng- land open to the persecuted of all oiler States. Wle hope we shall hear no more of the Btitish Alien Act. Iideed, .here have been many times,when the vtoTation of the neu- tamiitv of Swvitze:lanu by her tyrannical neighbours wouil h.ave rousedt thi country to aTrmn
The news which we communi...
The Times, 1824-02-17T00:00:00

The news which we cormnunicated about a fortnig'i ago, viz. that it was the'intention of FzxuimN&D to grS.' a free and open trade to his provinces, forsooth, of Sout America, his acquired a degree of confirma;tion by the arrf vals of yesterday. Arong o;*hese is said to be a letter froZ Paris, stating, upon -the mathority of a ielegraphic despatCg from rnXadrid, that Fpruai'At had; mted, orprete3 to grant, the privilege of which wF spoke, atid that there- fare the mraritimrle liations of. tbei w*Jd might, with liis permission, freight vessels di-cct for al the ports of Prni, Chili, Buenos Ayres, and- .Mexico. The maritime nations may smile alike at sucli a permnisiOn, either granted or pretended to be withheld; by FzERDINANQ of Spain. -An edict of his Majesty to allow of the trade, would be as valuable as a proclamatioui by the LOanD NMAYOR of London, professing to pertnit the borse and foot passecl- gers along the Strand to enter the city by Temple-bar; and any attempt made by the I(w-j to stop the SoltthAmeric.tl trade, would be as effectual as a similar attenipl on the part of the Lo n MJAYot, to intercept the traffic vith the city to and fT;, by means of the crazy old gates still hang- ing to Temple-bar.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-02-03T00:00:00

On Sunday evening last, in his 84t;i year, John Hicks, Esq., at his bouse in tpper Charlotte-street, Fjtzrov-square. On Saturdav, the 31st ult., Mr. George 1Ior yce 4lavor, of Fins- btury square aged ecmbr OUgn Santrda g, the Ath of December, at Siotn College, aged 38, the Rev. John Roberson, B.D. fello of St. Johtn's College, Oxford, and one of the masters of iierchant Tailors' school. On Sunday morning, the 1st inalt, pt Dalston, im the parish ot Hackner, John Bailey, jun., aged 31, late in the Hon. East Indis Company's naval servca. On Saturday lb8t, at Chlfont St. GilesDBucks, from inflamma- tion of the bowels, Lieut. James Arnott ioward, half-pay of the 33d Regiment, in the hlstvear of his age. On Saturday, the 31st u'., fEfdward Jouhn,the only ciild of Ed- ~' ~~,'~" hu'- n' (..~eni.soure.Westmiinster.
Carmarthen Theatricals.
The Times, 1824-01-02T00:00:00

"2 following extraTctsfrm taCairthert paTper holds out a promise of more than common merit in tie frst line of tragedy; -ie khiow nothing of the real state of the, case, 'but it may be useful to those who manage,tbeatrcs, no less than to the public, to be apptised where theatric;l merit is aid to exist:- EXTnACT YFOM TflE CARXART1EN ZOURMAL, DEC. 26. " On Mldnday The Castle S*ctrc, and on Tuesday RThg Ri'7uwrd I1I. were rvesented. These pieces introduced to obur notice a gen- tlman of ihe name of Kent, a -per .r-dfgreat meitnd~po- mise. In The Caste Spectre he per2onated the cr2 of Os$Mogd,and imparted to the charactcr aU the interes of which it it sisceptible. Bidcard ?Epenei a more extensive fieldfor the full devtlopment of *h5V1e(L PDOWers. In this arduous -huracter he was eninent_ ly successlu- to many passages- he inidpaztev afreshness and oeinflty, wik stmuck us as -deeded i rovements upon the reading. In his scene withi: Lmiyrne he was particu- larlv efective. WYhen ivesay that his acdng reminded us strong lyeof Mr. Kean, we wvould not wLsh it td be construed into an inm- tiuatlon of tnannerism_..far from iu' lXiny passa,es, as before stated, he gave with much forceand'originality;. and it is only by assocations ofthis nature that vfdaresometimes enabled to.discover the existence of kindred excellence.. To an accurate conception of his author-to a physiognomy speakingly expressive, and a voice of great flesiblity and sweetness, he unites.distinctness of enunciation, anl an action easy, natutal, and iunrestrained. So many ofthie le. ments of good acting combined, awid propedy directd, cannot fii of professional succe-a. There wre- many passage we'veould wish to outice, but which-our limits kredude Usrofm noti n. Suffice it to say,, that his acting upon te whble was distintshed by feeling enerFg,and discrimination, ant ve wre persnaded that its excellen6a nesd only be more extensively knovm to be mjore'jstly-a ppreciated. Th2 cnpsa ramati2ac are altogetherlie bst we have witnessed her for some muons.' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . i,ARIMARTHEN grTATRICALS.
The Times
The Times, 1824-01-29T00:00:00

-~ NVIJ TFETATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANW. THIS EVFNING will be performed, (for the 5th time), a now comic Opera, caUed PHILANDER1iG;. or. The-Rose Qaeen. To conclude wvith HARLEQUIN AND THE FLYING CHEST. THEATRB ROYAL, COVYET.GARDEX. THIS EVENING, THE CABINET. Prince Orlando. Ilr. Sinolair: Peter, Mr. Rayner; TVhlmslculo, Mr. Faweett; Flgretta, Miss Paton. To conclude wvith' 1ARLEQUiN AND POOR RODIN. ADRLPHI TH7EATRE, STRAND. * THIS EVENING~ *iillie,presented (lOth time), anewv serlous melo- dramie, entitled and founded on the lanlguage, incidents, &c. of the popular ewev Scotch novel, ST. RONAN'S WF.LL. .ifter wshich, the pantomime of DOCTORt FAUSTUS AND TliE BLACKC DEMION; or, Halql and the Seven Fairies of the Grotto. The b ox-oalce is open froms 10 till 4, wrhere places may be taken of MIr. Callan. NEW SURREY T hATE. TH{IS EVENING wlll be presented, the peculiar and Interesting piece of THE GAUBLERS. After whleh, the comic pantomine, called FOX AND Gk:r.SE i or, Harleq3uin the WVhite Ring of- Chess. in which will be substituted for the Brightonl Chain Pier, a newv scene of Jackcson'a Room.s, for the purpose of Introducing-the cclehratea Irish Champion, Langan, who wlll, WitlI the sicentilic Reynolds, geve agrand and ntercstingdisplayof theArtof Self.defence. The wholc to conclude -wth anevr comic operetta, called FOUR INSIDE. ROYAL, COB URO FTFJATRN. Fourth Night ofa new Grand Naval andMlllltarySpectaclC.-Tl4epopu- pcar and Interesting Piece of the IiertfordsliIre 'rlagedy at balf- priee. THI,S EIVENING wiltbepresented, an entLrelynow grand historical melodrama antd naval aud military spestalle, caUed the SIEGE. OF ACRE; or, Brltons In the East. To colnclude with the popular and intensely 3nteresting melodrama, called THE HERTFORDSIIIRE TRAGEDY. 01k The publication or The Times commenced at 6 o'clock yester- day norning. and finished at 8
To the GOVERNORS of St. G...
The Times, 1824-01-10T00:00:00

To the GOVER14ORS 0o St. GEORGE's lOSPITAL. 3Ty Lords and Gcitlemejj. X Beg leave to express rry grate.ful ackowledgements for by uanlous elctig m on ortheSureon tothe Hospital. I miIii endearour to returngthe obligation by performitg the duties zeaousy, nd hoe bneicillyto he bjets ndinterests of Your have the honour to be, mY Lords and Gentlmen, Your moost obedient very humble servant, G. E. EWBANK. 21, Brook--street, Grosvenor-squiare, Ja.9, 1824.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-01-29T00:00:00

LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1824. It may not be considered an iliauspicious circumstance, that the Etoie, whTich used to teem wvith abuse and threats against the friends of the Spanish Constitutional System, has actually begun- to disclaim for YERDINAND somc of the vindictivc projects ascribed to him. Have they at, Ichgth found that it will not do? Long decrees have been framcd for organizing the Spanish Army ; but there would be tnore aiscipline in a handful of dollars, than in an of- flce cramnied with parchment regulations.
Deaths
The Times, 1824-02-04T00:00:00

At 1Bdinburgh, on the 20th ult., James Bissett Esq., Rear- Admiral of thec Red. At his houce on Lambeth-terrace, on the 31st ult., Thomas WVoodhouse, Esq., Deputy Auditor of India Accounts, in the 53d year of'h his age. On Afond6v, the 2d inst., azed 71, MIr. James Brown, sen., many years Accountant of By-letters in the General Post-office~ On the 3d inst., aged 57, Mllr. Henry Broomne, of Queenbithe, after a shorn illness, caused by an inflammation on the brain: a man uni- vershllv respected and regretted by all that knew him. On the 30h ult., Anna w,ife of Mr. Joseph Burditt, of Para2on- p7lace, New Kvent-road, aged f, most deservedlv esteemed and verv deeply lamented by her bereaved family and an extensive circle oif cndearct friends. On the 1st inst., at the house ef Robert Clark, Esq., Trinity- square, Captain Stephel Rains, R. N., in the Sth rear of his age.
We insert a letter signed...
The Times, 1824-02-13T00:00:00

'We insert a Ictter signed 'S TuaBoi," on some recent appointments, chiefly from an cxpetation held out to us by the writer, in a suppressed note, tha>,he will in a future communication favour us with some facts iD cOrroboratiOn of his charges. In the mean time we cannothei2tecutg to the tnjustifiable nomination of Mr. VINC EST to -I and perpet,uate a place of which the suppression has beerd commended by two Parliamentaty Committees in their most grave reports. What will 3t last become of the House of Commons, if its dignity be thus assailed, as the prodigal is said to burn his candle, at both ends? The people re- proach it as not being their represen tatiyrp, or spealig their sentiments; and Ministers, from wlrose attentior, it might derive some consequence, treat its solemn and re peated injunctions with the most insulting disregard. It vould have been much better to have appointed no comn- mittees for the purpose of economiving the resources of the nation, than, after appointing them, and suffering them to tiil through nights and days of un- grateful work, to show them at last that they have been labouraing for no purpose; that their recommendations are all folly; and that Ministers themselves know intui- tively, or by instinct, what is. fit for the public service much better than the wisest Committees of the House of Commons can ascertain by the most painful investigation. So much for the House of Comrnons in the eyes of the KzNYG's servants, which we, humbler men, their constitu- ents, are, it is argnued, still bound to venerate. And let any one consider what Committees of the House of Commons generally are, in order that he may be able more justly to estimate this treatment of two of them. They are not usually bodies appointed by the House in de- fiance of the Crown, in order to scrutinize the conduct of Ministers, and to control their disposition to expense: on the contrary, they are but too often bodics, the majorities of which are culled expressly from the dependents of Mi- nisters, for the purpose that regulations disagreeable to the tastq of their patrons may not,be introduced. lhey are bodies, in the formation and deliberations of which Ministers exercise a decided influence; and yet the well-aweiphed, the gentle, the timid resolutions of men even thus constituted, are not sufeed ultimately to pre- vail over the sudden whim, the secret but illegitimate pledge, or the reviving prodigality of their poltical direc- tors. It vill be seen what those Membeis of the House who were in the last, or indeed in either of these Commit- tees, will say, when they shall have occasion to speak of the contempt vith which their proceedings have been treated.
Prerogative Court, Saturd...
The Times, 1824-02-16T00:00:00

Some common form business. having been transacted in the Arches' Court, the Prerogative Court sat, and the argument iu the case of " Robson, formerly Pattle, and another v. Rocke and ano- ther" was concluded. The Judgc assigned.it for sentence on the next Court day. PREROGIATIVR COIURT. RAMnlrnvA vva.14
The French papers of Mond...
The Times, 1824-02-26T00:00:00

The Frcnc,7 papers of Alonday have arrived. There is anothea . . nncr mnaE name is acclareO fly the Jou;naL dWe to bc a forgery. The Emperor of Russia is ill; but is still emPloyed in the organization of his military colonies. General Foy, 'fmssrs. Lafitte, Casimir Perrier, B. Constant, Delessert, A. De La Borde. Sallereu. and Ternaux, are declared the liberal candidates for the Arrondis,emnent. of the Seine. Fnrsctci FirNis closed ia Paris on illonday at 100. 80.; Scrip, 12 prem.; Spanish, 25. i Neapolitan, 86.; Bank Stcck, 1735. Ex- change, one nionti, 25. 40.; three months, 25. 30.
News in Brief
The Times, 1824-01-26T00:00:00

'ihe Old Bz ilcy S cssivta Concludit lon Saturday, wh, n sentence of dleath was passed on W, H. Re.~nI~,frsotn d General Birton ,lLda Wiiiarn. ortrng for %;Ooting at on eleven other prisoners. Five to be transportel forlise, and 57 tor Seve'n vears. Fv Q~ rnPrffrlf,ad5 o lA4Certisement-l.psDnnNQA-nD Co. havepublisbed theclearest cxplanation of the present ingenious scheme,wjlich may be had gra- tis at their office, No. 1, Cornhill: it contains rb less than seven prizes of 20,001., in moSley or 3 per cents., besides various oethe capitals, and more than thtree-fourtlss of all who purcha,e nrw hare the privilegeot'receiviug back at the rate of 101. per ticket, afterhavs ing ad their numbers drawnv this reduces the expene ogf an advrn. ture for the capitals to a mere trifle. Pidding ans: Co. have been in- variably successful in distributing capitals at the q9mmencement of every sew vrear, as xvill be recollected bv niutexous persons wha have had prizes of 21,0001., 20.0001., 5,006sl, 1,060L, &c., in the IPaS and previous years; in fact, no office can compete wish the buckg corsser, No. 1, Cornhill.
A report was current yest...
The Times, 1824-01-16T00:00:00

A report was currenit yesterday afternoon in the city, said to be foutided on information whvich had reached thie Government offices, that the exertions of the French party in Madrid had been successful in retaining the existing Spanish Ministry in power,whose original appointment had been owing to the same influence. The object of the op- posing partv, the ecclesiastical interest, had been to effect the restoration to office of SAEZ, the King's Confessor, without whose support the church property could not be considered wholly safe from responsibility in behalf of public credit. That of the Frenchl party is obviously that of securing a adlministration of such a cast as may give them a chance at least of being reimbuised the expenses of FERDINAMn's emancipation. This rumour, which is too vague to be entitled to much confidence, had the effect of. improiing the Spanish Bonds about one-half per cent. near the close of the market.
Letters were received yes...
The Times, 1824-01-27T00:00:00

Letters were received vesterday from Pernatnbuco, dated the 6th of Decemuber, at wlich timne, owing to the enmbargo laid on at Rio, inteliigence had not been received of the important events occurring in the capital of Brazil. 'i'he Balkia, a Brazilian ship of war, cruising off Pernambuco, had capturel aDd sent in the Carvahlo, a Portuguese yes- sel with a very valuable cargo. The commanider of the Bahia had announced his intention of conitinuing iiis cruise for the purpose of intcrcepting other Portuguese slhips on the voyage to Lisbon. It was understood at Pernarabuco, that a visit would shortly be paid to that port by Lord COCHRANE, he having senit instructions, as Brazilian Ad- miral, for the detention of all neutral vessels having Por- tuguese produce on board, until the parties should clcarly prove that it was net on Portuguese aceounlt.