The Earl of Liverpool's h...
The Times, 1824-04-17T00:00:00

The Earl of Liverpool's health is' better since the noble Earl's:arrival at Bath : a letter to-that effect was receivedi yesterday. Then melancholy tidings of the decease of the Duchess ofJtJvonshire, who wvas sister-in-law to the Earl 6f Liverp6ol by hi8 late Countess, hns caused tile noble Earl to- issue cards, putting off.his party invitedfor the 29th instant, to eelebrate His Majesty's birt i-day. CE1ELTENilAM, April i5.-The D)uke. of VelliDgton arrived here last night at half-past nine o'clock from Lon- don. His Grace's visit is not for pleasure, but from iidis- position. T1heDuke was, at the early hotir of eight o'clock this morning, at the Royal or Old Well, to drink the water. flis Grace has caken the house called Sufilk- lodge, where Dr. Cowley attended the Duke this morning. The mania for new projects prevails in Holland toan extent nearly equal to that which exists in this country. On Mlonday last the books were opened at Amsterdam for subscriptionis to the company for increasing the commerce and for improving the agriculture of the Netlherlands; and on the same day there were entered in that city alone, names to the amount of 30,000,000 of gtiilters (above 2,500,0001. sterling). The sum required to be subscribed in order to commence the undertaking, and for which pro- posals were circulated in all the principal towns of Holland, was only 12,000,000 of guiilders. So little was the eager- ness to obtain shares in the new trading company antici- pated, that of this sum the King himself had engaged to subscribe for 4,000,000 of guilders, an(d if necessary, a sum equil to all beyond that amount not subscribed for by his subjects. At An twerp the subscriptions were 10,000,000, and at Rotterdam 9,000,000 of guilders. His Majesty guarantees to the subscribers a yearly dividend of 4S per cent. WVe understand that an association, founided on similar principles, and professing similar objects with those of the new Equitable Loan Cominpany, has long existed in London, though, from causes -which it would be too tedious hsere to detail, its functions have long lain dormant. It has still, however, a legal existence, a numerous body of share- holdlers, a proper assortment of directors, and a committee of management. It even clains privileges inconsistent with the existences of the younger institution, and re- solved, at a meeting on 'Tuesday, to petition Parliamenit against the establishmenit of the new society. A mail arrivecl yesterday from Lisbon, bringing Gazettes to the 3d instant inclusive. 'Tlhey contain no intelligence of anly importance to an English reader. The Gazette writer, by way of showing to his countrymeni the instruments used by the Brazilian Revolutionists to promnote what he calls their " iniquitous objects," quotes from a Brazilian journal a hio-hily flattering and complimentary speech adilressed to Lora Coehraiie on the 8th of October, 1823, at Rio de Ja- neiro, in the name of the inhabitants; and subjoins an ac- count from a London paper of 1814, ot' the proceedinigs against his Lordship by the Stock-Exchange. lYe have receive(I some nimbers of a new journal, pub- lislhed at the Catme of Good Hope, under the title of the Sounth Africaml (omniterciai Adertiaee. Though it would justly acquire here the character of too great subserviency to the 'powers that be," that is stated to eb a deference in this colony necessary to *ie existence of an infant journal: its tone, however, is in the main independent; and t'rom the breaking up a monopoly of 20 years' standing, since the first publication of the Cape Town Gazette, some benefit to the colony may at least be anticipated. The new paper is said to meet with every fair support in pri- vate subscriptions ; but we perceive by a notification in one of the numbers, that the Govertior, Lord Charles So- merset, has manif'ested some hostility to the undertaking, by the imposition of a hoeavy postage to be paid previous to transmission into the interior, and a tax of' one rix-dollar on each advertisement inserted. The paper is printed in the Englislh language only, but the leading articles are to appear iY Dutch also, as soon as 250 subscribers of that nation can be obtained. We find in these journals no local news worth extracting. The latest date of those in our possession is the 4th of February. fAAdVertisement.j]-AUSTItiA-t; LoAN NEGOTIATED BY Mit. N. M. ROruisCriii.D I- LONDON.-The half-yearly dividenid on the said Loan, falling due on Saturday, the 1st of May, tvill be paid on that and every succeeding day (Surdays excepted) between the hours of 10 and *2. It is requested that the dividend warrants, wvith a list thereof in numaerical or(ler, nmay be left, if possible, on the 24th in- stant, for the purpose of being examined.-New-court, ADril 1, 1824. It is said that Lord Norbury, after a long and severe fit of illness, has sent in his resignation. The Solicitor-General is spoken of as his successor in the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and Mr. Sersteant Lefroy,as the new Solicitor-General. It is expected that illr. Blackburne will have the vacant Sergeantcy.- Lublin Frreem,a 's Jou,rnal. Accounts from Paris state, that passports have been granted by the French authorities in Spain to more tlan 200 of the first families, for France, in consequence of the persecutions of the Royalists. In the course of the isst month several vessels, chiefly Ft ench, and one of the latter a frigate, quitted Cadiz with Spanish iamilies, and specie to the amount of nearly three millions of piasters. SrAsx.-The following is an extract of a letter from Miadrid, dated tie Ist inst.:-" The strictness with which the order relative to the passports is observed may be inferred from the fol- lowing fac's. Ul5 Mlajesty having conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Ferdinand upon the Mlinister of War, the latter set out the day befote vesterday for Aranjuez, to receive it from the hands of his Alajesty. At Valdemoro, wlhere there is a military post to prevent all persons from passing to Aranjuez without pass- ports from .he Captain-(reneral containing the King's permission, the ahinister, who was in plain clothes, was stopped, and asked fbr his passport- Ile replied that he had not one, but on explaining to the officer of the guard whio he was, lie was allowed to pass on. On the circumstance beingi made known, the officer was censured, and put out of employment for the montent. The other instance is that of the Chief Architect of the Palace, who, having been sent tor by the King, was stopped at the same place, and not having the re. quired permit, was forced to return to iMladrid. The evening before his 1laiesty's departure, the Mtilitarv Executive Commission con- demned to death Diego Ortez for having stolen some clothes, a watch; and other articles, from some French officers. The unfortu. nate wretch would have inevitably beeni hung, had not General Bourmont interceded with his MIajesty for a commutation of the punislhment. It is eaid titat the Archbishop of Mtexico, Don N. Toute, has been nominated to the see of Toledo. Last night all the issues of the street Del Principe were occupied by the Royalist Volunteers, who allowed no one to pass from nine to eleven o'clock. It is supposed they were hunting out some unfortunate Liberals." LADY ESTHEIt bTANuIt4ors.-Persorns who rea(d the public papers with attention will rememaber that Lady Esther Stanhope, an English woman, made herself, either by her beauty or her skill, Chief of a tribe of Arabs in the Deserts of Syris, over whom site reigned with absolute power. Accounts hare ltely been recsived of this extraordinary woman, whose family, icn and powerful, have vainly erideavoured to entice her back to Europe. Caotains Irby and llangles were charged to carry her some books and letters, and with this intention repaired from Jaffa, whichi is in the interior, to the place of her residence, the old monastery Mfar Bliss Alzs, situate a league and a half from Saide. There they heard that this Sovereign was gone to Jeba, in the middle of tite mountainis. The two Englishmen sent her the letters and the books, with which they were charged, and, at the same time, re- quested permsission to pay their respects to her personallv; but she replied, that she had laid it down as a law, never to suff'ti an Eng- lishman near her. 'The two Captains were informed that she was generally dressed like a T'urk; that the people adored her, and were never satiated with talking of her beauty and maguanjinity.- Jourtal des Debats. A melancelholy instance of sudden death took place on Thursday. Mitr. Mfiackiitosh, a member of the Stock-Bxclhange, and in the full vigour of manhood, suddenly icll down and expired in an apoplectic fit,while adjusting an accor.nt in his counting-lhouse. At Bradford1 on Friday last, a ineeting vas held at the Sun inn, of the regulat qualific(l medical gentlemen, when an asso- ciation was formed, the object of which was to oppose all ignorant and unqualified persons practising within its district, and to secure to the public competent and respectable medical practitioners. Were similar associations established in othler towns, they would most es- sentially contribute to the benefit of the public, sand to the snppres- sior of imposition and quackery.-Leeds paper. Lately waS married at Oldavington, near Bridgewater, after a courtship of sixty years, William Bagg, aged 86, to Sarah Hillier, aged 8f.-Dorset C/ironicle. CAsRACCIOLI, the Neapolitan Ambassador in the reign of George II., used to say that the only ripe fruit he had seen in England waL roasted apples, A military Mandarin observed to a gentleman connected with Lord Amherst's embassy to China, that " in times of peace the food becamne scanty, and that wars were absolutely necessary to maintain tie proportion bctween supply and demana.--It is some- thing sipgular to meet a disciple of Malthus oh the Imperial Canal! EXTRAOAtTANARY PROCEEDING !--COaz, April 9.- Daring the proceedings in Court, this day, Ar. O'Connell caine in, apparently much astonished and irritated, and madc his waythrough the genitiemnen of the bar, up to ahe Judge, and in a hurried manner addressed his Lordship thus-" My Lord, I have to request your Lordship's attention-the unfortunate man who is to be executed to-morrowv is a Cathotic, and-" His Lordship said," If your application, Mr. O'Connell, relates tothat subject, I would suggest the propriety of having it private." Mr O'Connoll and his Lord5ship the core oh n he learned gentleman soon left the coert. We heard something reative to this matter whispered abroad, but we could not bring ourseves to believe what we heard: we doubted that any one could seek to embitter the last moments of life. On inqnirv, we have been assured that an order, issuetl by the High Sheriff, had been directed to the g.vernor of the gaol, directing him not to admit any clergyman to the criminal but the chaplain of the gaol. It is unnecessary for us to enter into a detail of the causes-we will merely say that the county chaplain appointed to that -station is not approved of by him in whom thxc xusve right of appointment ought to be vested-the Catholic Bishop of this dio- cess. MWe understand that the Judge, with a humanity becoming him, immediately rescinded the order. 'e merely mention this matter, to allay the very great excitement raised in this city by this seportecl occurrence * and if we have been in any way rnisinfoimed, itwrould give us infinite pleasure to be enabled to conect our stste- pment.-Cor1 Mercantilc Advert;iser.