Great anxiety exists, we ...
The Times, 1824-02-21T00:00:00

Great anxiety exists, we understand, among the friends and relatives of the emiarants to Algoa Bay, rLspecting what may be the future fate of those unfortunate persons. Surely the hand of Government, which encotiraved and promoted this fatal experiment, should be immediately ex- tended to save those few whom sickness and famine have spared Mr. Ackerinann has published a second(1 number of the Spi;aush 1leaguaine, the first number of wvhich was spoken of with deserved approbation in The Times. As far as we have inspecte(d this secondi part,it is as well got up as the first, and will, we think, be equally successfal. OC the success of the first wve had no doubt at the tiine and ve are glad to learn that the accounts received from South America, for which the wvork wvas principally destined are so encouraa- ...F, -v iixiuce tue rutkwrto eonttliue tie punbicau-on re- gularly. The description of English pugilism.. written, vwe suspect,by theclever and observing author of DobWado's Let- rers, must amuse and aitonish the South Americans ; nor will the details of the WVestminster electioni be less curious and surprising in that distant quarter. In his account of the theatres, there is an ingenious and novel idea in expla- nation, if not in palliation, of the shocking nuisance which d isgraces the English places of dramatic amusePment, antl them aimost exclusively. He supposes that the disgusting presence of the nuinerous wvomen of the towvn is a7lowed, (on the sanme principle that the Spartans exposed their dIrunken slave. to their children), in order to deter young la(lies from imnmorality andindecorurm. Ve confess it never atruck us before that managers ha(d so moral a reason for this terrible annloyance. 'l'he woist thing in the book is the en,,ravinlg ot' Mr. Canning: it is it wretched imita- tion of the well-known print. Yesterday the despatclhes for B3engal andl China, by the ship Sir &.ajid SYcott, were closed dt the East India Mlouse, and delivered to the purser of that ship. AtLloydl's, on Wednesday, Joseph Alarryatt, Esq., eldest son of the late Vlr. 1Marryatt, .M. P., was unanimously chosen one of the committee, in rhe room of his father. Mr. Sergeant Bosanquet wvill, we believz, preside as .Judge on the Wtestern Circuit, in the room of IMr. Justice Richard. son, vho is in Italy, for the benefit of his health. Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in Lisbon- i 'e cannot understand the policy of our Ministers, and I appre- hend that it is because it is both bad and contradictory, that it is tnintelligible. They profess an anxiety to conciliate Brazil, at the same time that they are preparing an expedition of 10,000 men to act azainst its northern provinces. Besides this, thev have already despatched to Rio Grande do Sul, in an American schooner. taken up by Governnietit, two secret emissaries, with instructions from Gencral Saldanha, late Gove-nor of that province, to stir up the seeds of discord in that extremity of Brazil, whilst lhev attempt by force of arms the conquest of the northern provinces. One of their expedients is to endeavour to nrevent the usual supply of jerk beef t from being sent to Bahia and Pertnambuco, a supply which is indis- pensable fior the lower orders ant the negroes. Our merchiawr,s are already sufficiently distressed, and it would seem that it only re- quires some such measures as tect eto nieyreltl nd that is left to us." these to destroy entirely the little traae PAN tS CONSTTTUTIONATSTs- TIe Xetv Yot-k -eN- tione! Advorate of the 24th tilt. says-.." W1e learn t'hat some Spa- nish Consritutionali,L, of'distinguisihed merit have arrived at Balti- more from 'reneriffe, whither they had fled fron Spain, b".t whence they were also obliged to fly on the restoration of the absolute Go- yernment. One of them is, Mlr. illexia, formerly a lawyer, and well known as the able and intirepid editor of the Madrid paper called the Zuirriago, which inculcated even republican nrTinciples. An- other is the late editor of the Catiz gazette tile CoStibstionUtl, in which the Cortes were perseveringly and zealously supported : and a tliirtd, of another liberal journal, the Perrito. Orders had been transmittedl to Teneriffe that they should be immediately seized and sent back to Spain to be tried ant punished-that is, shot or huiig. They escaped with difficultv on board ship from a troop of horse commissioned to pursur anm detain them." A subscription ihas been set on fitot by some respectable erson-s (aMPon0 others Mir. T. Cadell, the bookseller) for Mlr. I. lurdoch, the early preceptor anti friend of Burns. The admirers of Burns' genius ani abilities, and all friends of humanity and un- pretending menrit, will be pleased to assist in rescuing tile remnant of life o0' a most worthy old mai from the det,ressing and ap- pValing prospect of w ant and penury, with which 'e is menaced. Mr. I. 1 Iurdch is now in his 77th year, fromi recent and se- vere illness reduced to a state of great destitution, and incapacitated froiii any longer pursuin his accustomed vocation of teacher of lan~ guages, &c., wvhich had ithero affoed hn and Iis aged wife a scanity subsistence. LFrTTVRs OF CoWPtgn, AND LiFE Or SAtLVATOn ROSA.- , r. Colbuirn hbajust pablishedl two works,_one " Some additional Letters of the poet Cowper ;" the other," The Life c,f Salvator Rosa by Lady Mlorgan." Tne irst is a delighitful work: the letters now for the nrst time publshed, are even better than those which have so long secured the public favour. Their una1Fectec pleasantry, ahun. dant variety, and unstudied eloquence, remind us of the beit efforts of Addison and Steele, over shich authors, notwithstanding his un- happy fanaticism, or rather malady of mind on one subject, Cevwper had te advantage in a more gererally informed understanding. Of L ad organ's book we cannot speak with praise: it is ill- written, inaccurate in language, incorrect infacts,; and, for ityle, is really below the ordinary gabble of a blue-stockin;z in her noviciate. Lady Mlorgan, in her romnances, showed some po-wer of description, and was even eloquent in the common-places of psassion and senti- ment. Let her, if slie wliD write, again try the' fieldl of romance. She has neither correctnes. of knoavleulge, norj ustness of thinking, to qualify her for biographical,or political,-or philosophical research, for whlich, untortunately, she seemsto haye imbibed a taste. This lady may, perhaps, fancy our motives for saying this are no better t ian those of the Grantd Inquisitor in his abuse of her favouirite S.alvator Rssa. We assure her we have no such motives : wse ad- mire mcre titan she does the character of Salvator, butt we feel that it requires much hig1her talents and mich n;ore sagacity of observa. tion than Lady Mlforggn posselses, to do justice to that extraord nary man. JoHN THtURTELL.-Tie surgical- knife has at length concluded its operation on the body af thia atrociouts mirderer. -The busmness of dissection was condducted principally. by Xr. Aeernethy and ?Mlr. Stanley, in presence of only ae select ruilaber Ufstudents The flesh has been long since removed, the detached limbs antI1 sinews hativing been prepared in the customary manner, and been re-united by 'means of wvire hingeav Tbe affidxing of the head will render the skelctcn complete, when, we understand, it will be trans. mitted back to llertford; and being pIeted hecustodyof the high 5hetiff, hemay usehis own discretion astoits future disposal.