Letters were received on ...
The Times, 1824-01-12T00:00:00

* Letters were received on Saturday from ladrid, dated the 29th ult., Rtating that-a partial change had taken place in the Spanish lMinistry by the resignation of the. Marquis of Cosa Irujo, ana. the appointment of Senor Erro, -one of the members of the late liiegeney, to theiMinistry of Finance. Rossiini, the composer, is at present thegreat object of cu- riosity and attraction in the fash,ionable circles. - Nothing, however, bas been thought mnere striking in him by those distinguished person, t6 whom he has been introduced than the manly frankness and ease of his deportment, wlhen in the presence of supenor rank, contraste,dwiti that servilitv which is characteristic with the sul;jecti5 of a' de;potc go'- vernmient, and vhich has been.sotrequently remarked In the demeanour of eminent f6ieigurrlwhen on a 'visit to this Countna. Havdn. the mntte .;.:._. * age, was a striking instance of this. It was during hie late visit to the Pavilion at Brighton) that Rossini maintained perhaps inore peculiarly thit tone which is inseparable froin goocd society, and which denotes ~rfect equalitv wvith the circle in whicb we aremnov- ing. Fo,e officious frieids (of the composer we mnean were so struck with his manner, as to advse him, at least in the presence of Royalty, to descend from an elevation which in that instance appeared to theat to border on indecorum. Rossini is said to have answered this sapient counsel by re- marking} that whatever his real pretensions, he had been invitetl to England in the character of a man of genius, as he had been to half the Courts in Eurone, and that he held that character to be nn a par with Kings and Emperors. His intercourse, too, with Royalty had beenso'frequent, that it was in such societty he felt, and could not lielp thowing, that hr was perfectly at his ease. The King, greatly to his credit, appears to have entertainednone of these-notiosis,: but to base treated the composer with the freetom zof an equlal. Rnssini, at the Kinig'schallenge, sang a duet withI him, andl thes whole of the inteircourse was on the sat.e fa. miliar footing. Rossini speaks highly of His Alajesty's judgment in ufus'c, and is, we telieve, ey6n on this pounb, no courtier. On Tues(ldy afternnoon, the Caml.rid-e, 80, Captain T. .J. Alainir. 6inally cleared St. Helen's, with a fair wind; for Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, and Callao, with the Conelsi and Vice-CDoinsuls bound to the Independent States of South America, and their fami. lies. on board, comprising 60 persons. PORTSaMOUTH, Jan. 10.-WVe leani by a letter fronm Bahia, dated the I Ith of November last, that the Emperor of the Brazils had incontemplation te despatch. a flying souadron of his navy, immediately, under the orders of Captain John Taylor, of the Netherhoy, to capture the Pottugsese East Indian settleiments. The Emperor was Po highly nleased with Captain Taylor's exertions in capturing and destroyink 17 sail of the Portuguese fleet, though under the protection of a line of battle ship, two frigates, and a cor. vette, that he had conferred unon him the rank of a captain of a liDe of battle ship, and the dignity of a K. C. B. of the Emperor's new erderof the " Cruziero," or Cross. The order is a star upon the breast, with a roedal affixed to a button.bole of t.he coat. Lord Coehrane (now vMarquis of Maranhain), it was understood at Bahia, had returned to Rio Janeiro. The crew of the Netherihoy gave Captain Tavlor (who is a native of Portsmouth) three cheers on his receiving these distinctions. The Aeatherhoy did not return to part until she was without nrovisions, and had only one cask of wvater on board.-Ftampshirc Irkegraph. Charles Wetherell, Esq., AI.P. for this city, is appoitetd Solicitor-General. His acceptance of thie office lias been formally announced in a letter fronm him to the Alayor. This promotion, at the next meeting of Parliament, will cause a vacancy in the repre- sent%tion of this city.--Oxf,rd paper. On Saturday the ilespiatches were clotsed1 at the East In- dia-House. and delivered to the pursers of the fo;llowing ships, viz tcrwickkvhire, Captain Shepherd, for BcngAl and China and Ge- nerral Ifarris. Capt. (O.Welstead, St. Belena, Bencoolen,and China In the extracts from the Lisbon Gazettes which als peared in The rinoes of the 2d inst., reference w-as made to No. 36 of the Padre Azmaro, a Pertuguese journal priuted in London, in a mainer which inmplied that thatjournal had ascribed the cstablish- nent of tbe empire of Brazil to he FreemLasons. To show that this imputation is unfounded, the editor of the Padre Amaro has trans- mitted to us a number nf hlis publication, which contains, as he states, thearticlereferred to, and which is continued from a preceding number. He further states, that he has " never written on Free- masonry but with the viev of distinguishing it from the secret so- cieties known by the name of Carbonari, &c.' QuIca PASS.AGE AC?ISSS Tv1t ATLANTIc.-Duringthe last seek the following remarkably short passages have been made across the Atlantic to this port. The packet4hlip New York ar. tived here on1 Thurmtlay last, after one of the shortest passages, we believe, yet made between New York and this port. She sailed on the afternoon of the l6th ult., and arrived here on the morring of the 1st inst.. being little more than 15 days. The Mlary Catherine, which left Charleston on the 16th ult., made her voyage from port to port in 13 davs The Afarrnion arrived yesterday evening (Wed. ncsday. 7th inst ln Il8 days fromn Charleston Blar, and two inore from the town.-Liverpool .ZAdverfiser. TsPi' AD1 HsOB OP WtAVERLEY.-WVe have been in- formed, (and we think, from the names given us as authority, our readers may consider the information true), that the author of Wa. verleg has contracted with his bookseller to f'urnish him with three novesB a.yearfor three .rears, and that ibe is to have ten thousand pounds a-year for the supply, and tbat foulr novels have actually bcen delivered as per contract.-.Globe and Traveller. AN~CIENT GAMES.-Psllmall was a pastime not unlike golf: but if the definition of the former, given by Cotgrave,be correct it will be found to differ materially from the latter, at least as played in modern times. "Paile-maile," sayshe, "is a game wherein a round box-ball is struck by a mallt, through a high arch of iron whkih he that can io it at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wine." It is to be observed, that there were tao of these archcs one at either end of the alley. Thegame of Mall was a fashionable aunusement in thereign ofCharles i.; and the walkin StJamnca's. Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been an- proprated to the purpose of playinig at AlaB, where Chaes iiuselI and his courtiers frequently exercised themsveles in the praetjcc of this pastime. E;XORBITANT DIGNIlTA\RES.-About the year 1200, the canons of Bridlington complained to Pope Innocent that the Arch. deacon of Richmond, going to one of their churches, had ttavelled with 97 horses, 21 dogs, and 3 hawks, whereby he consumed. more of their provisions in one hour than would have maintained.the house for a long time. In consequence of this, thc Pope forbade, for the time to coine, thatLheshould travel with anym more attendants than were allowed by the Council of Lateran viz. 50 horses for the retinue of an archbishop; 30 for a bishop; a legate 25; and an. arch. deacon only 7. According to the ancient usage of the church, the inicumbents of benefecs were nbliced to maintain archdeaconis on their visitations. These vencrable functionaries were tlerefore some. times tempted to travel with enormous retinues, which ate up, or as sporting men would say, clearede out the possessors of the smaller liv- ings. To meet this abusc,fixed money paymenti were given tbearch. deacons in lieu of hospitality,and tlie value oftnese money payments haying diminished in process of time, is the cause of the emola. ments of these dignitaries being so much smaller than they were-in ancient times. Tliurtell's body arrived.at St.Bartholimew's Hospital on Fri lav night from lertford, havinz first undergone what is techni- cally called the Crusian incision. There have been many aptlica. tions to saeitghich have hitherto met withs a dec.ded refusal It will be open to the inspection of the pupils of the hospital to-day and will. be dissected by Mr. Abernethy and assistants to-morrow (Muesdav.) The 2Vbroick Mercurye, of Saturdy, in reference to the, trial of Thui-eleR says-" Would tO Qod werould find any words of consolation to offer to bis nearest contexions-so worthy, so respect. nble, so deeply the objects of the public sympathy. But their sor. roas must be committed to the Great Disposer of'events, and to. the lenient handl of time. If. however, to regard them iwith the kind. liest tbought .can be any alleviation to afflictions,as grievously severe as they are unexpected and unrnerited, tthose excellent and respeocd persons may be sure *bat such are the sentirnents of nverz h;IT4 tbsa-rds theni,-andfti silentspontaneous praycrs of thousi.ds wh6 icnow tlem not, nilu rLse to Heaven tbr pity on their suffcrings." HsiTFOR SsHIF MT-URDEB.-1 he following fact mnay be relied upon :-On the Friday evening upon which the murder of Air. Weare took place, the card of the murdeetda man was left at Lord Egremont's, at Petworth. This card was, we have no doubt, left there by one of the parties, whose name has been much connected witb the laie ptoceedings, and who was -nisset from London on that day. The intention dearly was, that if the niuidercra could llave concealed the body, and avoided suspicion of the murder, it should beasu pposed that as the last place at which ilr. Weare was ieard of, would, from the circumstance of the card, be said io have been Pet- worth, it might have been conjectured he had gone on to Brighton. and from thence to the continent. If the whole truth and the whole intentionsofthe murderersshould he avowed byeither of them, we think that it will be found that the sack and cord taken down to Gill'shill were not for the purpose for which they were eventually used, and for whiclttbe abort sack was clearly inapplicable, but for the purpose of destroying their vctim by strangulation_the sack to bethrorwn ovter MWeare's hesa, to prevent mutch resistance and noise, and the cord to destroy life.-Gloie a;nd Travezlr. 1FAN;TASTIC POL"fGASeE.-Mr. Bow litch informs uis, that the King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3,333 wives, tlis beirng the predse mvstical nuinbet on which the prosperity of the nation depends. The following mnedley of a sale by auction in ft hepilic streets of Vorcester, is extraeted from tihe IVorcester Jaurnal:" To be sold by auction, by W. Hobbs, in, the Corn-markt', Satiir. day, Jan. 10, a handsome hackner filly, four cart-horses, a hand-. LoinSfolio Bible, lilt leaves, with P&ae.e and ahaU laritern. TFE GLOW-AroRtm.-AMr. John Murray, in. a communii cation recently mnade to the Royal Society, on the luminous matter of the glow-wornn, states some curious facts as the result of his own obeervations and e,qperiments. He shows that this light'is not con.' nected with the respiration, nor derivedfrom the solaright; th:t it isnot affected by cold, nor by magnetism, nor by s0bmterslon i was. ter. Trialsofsubmersion In water, in -varioustemperature -and in oxygen, are detaied. -Vhen a glow-worn wasimtersediaC, bonio&8cidmas, it died, shining brilliantly; in hydr gtit centi. nued to shinfe, and did not seem to suffie. Mr-jurfay if ers,4bat- the luminousness is independent, not onlyof'he;cpiradn but of the volition and vital pfinciple. 'Some of the luminous mittq obtained in a detachedstate, was also subjcedtaious exei - ments, from which it appears to-be a gumn.odlbiunimjss jubitance, mixed with munriate-of soda, and' si}phate of i alu itinc nud potphl and to becomposed of'sphenAles. Thie-light istions6idred to be per. manent, iu- telipats beingi causd by the-inter'04liOxO4 9f- art :opaqu- 'mediume.-Zfechnac Mab Vlfy,tnc- - E- Eratum.-In ousTri Uvest IQdge?-fiE s 8tr ] -io. U w rea v&trit