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For the MORNING HERALD.

Mr. EDITOR,

If you are not perverently wedded to your prefent
fayllor of narrating political events with fidelity as they
occur, and of relieving thefe by a lively but juft review,
of the folies and caprices of the gay and fashionable
world, I fliall communicate to you the important fe-
cret how to delight the town without either wit or un-
derflanding,—and how you may keep your readers in an
hebdomadal flate of perturbation and amazement.

You will fay, perhaps, "Methinks this fellow pro-
mifes too much." But, Sir, "I fliall keep my word."
Take the following as a specimen of my talents, which,
I muſt obſerve, are ſuited to all times and feaſons.

MONDAY.—"There is ſomething on the tapis
between this country and Spain; what it is we flail
not pretend to ſay. Our exclusive ſources will, how-
ever, ſoon enable us to give it to our readers. We
flail only add, that things have long borne a lowr-
ing aſſeem in that quarter."

TUESDAY.—"The Spaniſh Amb—r has cer-
tainly left town, but we cannot juſt yet ſpeak as to
the place of his deſtitution. His butler was laſt night
at the Orange Coffee-houſe: he looked exceedingly
graye."

WEDNESDAY.—"There is ſill ſome hope that
matters may be accommodated between this country
and SPAIN.—Lord G— was yelſerday ſeen
booted in the Park; and we have also to announce,
with our uſual priority, that the Sp—fl Ambaſſador
has not yet ſold off his eoch-horſes."

THURSDAY.—"A Melleffanger arrived yelſerday
from Madrid. His diſplices are of the firſt importance;
but their purport has not yet ſtranspined. He ſaw in
the Bay of Bicjay a ſleet of twenty ſail of the line.
His opinion is, that they were Spaniſh.—If to, we
ſhall certainly "touch the Spaniſh" very ſhortly."

FRIDAY.—"The Melleffanger from Madrid has
brought from that Court a FORMAL DECLARATION
of WAR. The Spaniſts infin on the reſorulation of
Gibraltar, Jamaica, our conquels in St. Domingo,
the Regiller Ship, the French ſhips taken at Toulon,
and on an apology for Lord GRENVILLE'S boots.
"N. B. The Stocks are expected to fall at leaſt ſive
per cent!"

SATURDAY.—"The various rumours of a rupture
with SPAIN, which have been ſpread for the unin-
formed Prints through the week, are wholly unfounded.
No advariances of an intereſling nature have been received
from Madrid within the laſt fortnight. The Spaniſh
Amb—r is merely retired, for a few days, to the
country, for the benefit of his health. This we can
announce to the public with our uſual priority, and
this Paper will always defer the ſureſt reliance!"

There, Sir, is not that "finely ſonſed, and very
alarming?" Is not this a brilliant ſcheme to dazzle
and milleſſed?

Yours, &c.

FLORENCE FINE-EYE.

Extraordinary Anecdore of two Mifers.—Two
men of extreme parliamont having liv'd together
in the fame Houſe, and accumulated greatwealth,
one of them thinking the other rather richer than
he was, alſked him, when writing a note, how it
was that he contrived it,—"Pray, (faid the other
very earnſy-flly) do you put a dot over your I's?
"Always," anſwered he. "Ay (replied his
friend) now I never do that, I never waſe my
ink in (uch a manner, and I don't wonder at your
not being worth ſo much money as you would
with to have."

At an extraordinary Meeting of the WHIG CLUB,
held on Monday, the ſum of 800. from the funds
of the Club, was voted to FILMER HONYWOOD,
Eſt, in confidence of his expenſive efforts in the
two laſt Eleſions for Kent. At the fame time the
ſum of 800. voted to Mr. Fox, to ſupport his Elec-
tion for Welfinmier, was ſenſured, as not having
been called for by the occafion. 1796

at night.

1796 Aug. 2

Yelſerday ſe'nnight died, at the great age of 93,
the well-known Mr. CHRIST. PIVETT, Carver and
Gildner, in York. He was formerly in the reſidence
of his Royal Highneſts William Duke of Cumber-
land: he ſought under the Earl of Stair at the battle
of Dettingen, and under the Duke of Cumberland
at the latter end of the year 1745: his habitation
having been burnt down, he took the ſingular reſo-
lution of not lying in a bed, which he had not done
for the laſt 38 years of his life: he uſed to ſleep
upon the floor, or on a chair or chairs with his
cloaths on. During the whole of this period he
lived alone, cooked his vicaſtals, and ſeldom ad-
mitted any perſon into his habitation, carefully
conceited the place of his birth, or to whom he
was related. It is ſuppoſed that he was born in or
near London, and that his relations reſide there:
he appeared to have had a liberal education; was
ſond of having receipts for money in the name of
Sir Chriftother Pivett, and was remarkable for many
fingularities: amongst other uncommon articles
which compoſed the ſuriture of his apartment were
a human ſkull, ſome old sſwords, and armour, on
which he ſet great value. He retained his ſacuities
to the laſt, declined to be indulged with a bed or
even a matraſſs, and ſenſed all medical aſſiſance.
He was an ingenious arriſt, and an honest man.

Captain BAGGOTT, of the Royal Irish Regiment
of Artillery, who is the only ſurvivor of the deac-
ment with which he failed to the Welt Indies, has
made rather a fortunate trip in the train of Hymen,
having married a wife at Demary with the com-
fortable dower of 18,000l. a year.

## RAMSGATE.

(EXTRACT OF A LETTER.)

"Our early ſeafon is already begun, and theſe
who are ſond of cheap lodgings, have made their ap-
pearance hirandine prima. I aſſure you, we have City
Miffes here at this moment, each of whom, in the
vain idea of riling

ſowces into ſalt water every morning. Our com-
pany is of the graeter ſort. We have Mrs. de-
puty Plumb, with her naked daughters, who have
fearne cloathing more than a ſq-leaf on them, and
imitate their great grand-dame Eve in much more
even than that. Then we have Mrs. Pop from
Whitechapel. She came down in ſtare in her own
job-coach, which was loaded ſo full with unredeemed
Articles for family wear, that her dear Pledges of
domestic Love, her daughters, who are the very du-
plicate of herſelf, in delicacy and beauty, were ſenſed
to come in the Hoy. But ſhe vows it is ſo ſhocking
to her feelings, ' that they never ſhall ride down no
more in that naſty ſort of water conveyance, though
she ſhould ſpend upon their luxury and elegance
ten out of that thirty per cent, which the grinds from
the neceſſitious miferies of hard-earned induſtry.'
Then, we have three learned Ladies, who, after the
great fatigues of novel-writing in the winter, have
retired hither to display not naval, but navel diſo-
veries, to the vaſt pleasure and edification of ſome
ancient enamoratas, who would not yield to Old Q,
himself in pretenſions to gallantry.

"In truth, we begin to look gaily, early as it is,
and I would that the ſalt-water, for the benefit of
the Pops and the Plumbſs, who frequent our watering-
places, could as eafly waſh away the mud of vulga-
rity and aſſaſtation from their hearts, as it does the
rouge from their faces."

The French may now be fairly considered as a
Nation of Robbers. Part of the Gang remain at
home to devise Plans, and part are sent abroad
to levy Contributions, wherever they are likely
to get any spoil. It is really impossible to dis-
tinguish these from the ruffians who outrage Law
in all Countries, except that the French are too
strong for the arm of Justice

## NOTHING TO LOSE.

What's this Politic Fuſs—or Reformers to us;
Whence flow all this party abufe?

To impoſe on mankind—who're the leaders we find?
Why thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

To infult our good George, and their venom diſorge,
From the woſt of all poffible views,

Who is it ſo busy?—I'll tell you and pleafe you,
Why thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

Who for Liberty bawl, or in ale-houſe or hall,
And Republican arguments uſe?

Not the wealthy and wife—they ſuch doſtrines deſpife—
But thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

To prove black is white—to diſpute in meer ſpite,
To catch eager at Jacobin news

Who rejoice if we fail? who are ripe to turn tail?
Why thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

When Howe brav'd the waves, taught Conventional flaves
To look chap-fallen, like Buffs and the Blues;

Who in ſecret were fad? tho' ſuch vieſry we had,
Why thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

Why should Dukes, Lords, or Peers, ſet good folks by the ears?
What can conduct like theirs e'er produce?

When once tumult begins, they'll be ſtripp'd to the kkins
By thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

Alas, Charley F—, thou art in the wrong box
Howe'er thy thyaranges may amufe,

If a riot take place it might better thy caſe,
But at preſent thou'rt nothing to loſe

While you, Maſter ſherry, might ſing and be merry,
Could you but French modes introduce?

You might both ceaſe to gamble, and live by a ſcramble
On thoſe who had ſomethiſg to loſe.

The induſtrious and juſt in our Government truſ,
And fee thro' your ſhallow abufe,

Merchants, men of fair fame—they preſerve a good name,
Which is more than ſome parties can loſe.

Hide Republican heads, then in brothels or ſheds
In the night your curſt tenets inſume,

Sow the ſeeds of contention—alone worth th' attention
Of thoſe who have nothing to loſe.

But true Britons will ſing, Health and Years to their King,
May his foes end their days in a noofe;

May Jacobin finners fit down to ſhort dinners
And ne'er have a ſhilling to loſe.

A, Grandson of the late King,

Cook and Houſe-Maid are wanted in a very re-
gular Gentlemen's Family that is ſmall, and all the waſhing
perions that perfectly underſand their butinets. The cook will
be required to clean a ſinall part of the houſe, and the houſe-
maid must work extremely neat at her needle. No one need take
the trouble to apply but, ſuch as their diſpurs and next, and an-
 willing to render themselves beautiful ſervants. The ſituation will
 be found easily and comfortable; but no ſollowers are allowed.
 The ſpectacle tradesman's family would have the pereſence of
 a quair for the adireis at No. 27, Rood-lane, Tower-Street, any
day before 2 o'clock.

To the Author of the UNIVERSAL REMEDY.

YOUR Grandmother, 'tis thought by ſome,
With greater truth had prais'd fine Rum;
Her Brandy cures are all a hum,
Foruche are only made with Rum;
Should Tooth-Ach rage, with ſwelled gum,
Hold in your mouth a Glafs of Rum.—
A ſecret this, to pray to your mum,
He ne'er has Gout, whoſe drink is Rum,
I've known a Swelling, big as plumb,
Reduc'd with ſpeed, when rubb'd with Rum,
If riding hard, you've ſlea'd your mum,
Let Dian, waſh it well with Rum.
Your ſone, fine child, has cut his thumb,
Bind up the wound, with fuaſd Rum.
But worth of all—your Wite it diuſes!
She ſoon will talk if ply'd with Rum.
She talks too much? She'll ſient come,
If dos't again, with genuine Rum.
For all complaints, how ſerious the fun,
The true panacea's MAN's FINE RUM.

## PERSIAN LETTER.

The following letter, containing some points not inapplicable to the present times, is extracted from the first volume of *Lord Orford's Works* :—

A LETTER FROM XO HO, A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, AT LONDON, TO HIS FRIEND, LIEN CHI, AT PEKING.

I have told thee, these people are incomprehensible; not only they differ from us, they are unlike the rest of the Western world; a Frenchman has

prejudices, has capriccious dices of his nation—age. A Frenchman built on false foundations fixed ideas; his prejudice but against some parte country. His caprices essential proofs of his have a high notion of him, but they will not loves or hates his King and that for no reason but that of his own. A Frenchman hates the Ministry in their King from a dish avail themselves of him till they can mount up earnest about liberty. body means it. To they desire it not. While all are free to or craftiest may purchase

I have said, that they have not, but the Formerly they had two factions, and each of them of the name, or some of those parties. In a second faction in magnanimous fashion, and that a diotately be appointed, received. I did not believe here one is told some demand to be told some a politician, a ministerly, was mysterious, thing to an inquirer, he tells a lie, it is no of that is sufficient to a news; a falsehood is as believed a Ministry would think, that, in a case business of their gene ministers, they could receive. I thought, a one minister, he would ed. I thought when a war, with a superior counsel; I was deceiving reason in England. And be di-placed, and a Ja

Their High Priest from what profession, religion, his successor.

When a day or two new Ministry would I ask the same question inquiries were over. body but me.

I asked what the in knowledge I have of the signified an inquiry such thing; they Sometimes, as in the whether a former Mi

Know, that last year Island; the people were enraged; they blamed the Admiral who command ed, Admiral Byng, the Admiral who directed their fleet, Lord Anson, his Chief Judge, Lord Hardwick, their Chief Treasurer, the Duke of Newcastle, their Chief Secretary, Mr. Fox. The first Admiral was imprisoned, the rest quarrelled and gave up their employment. The chief man of the little faction, Mr. Pitt, was made Minister, and his friends were the

seruple not to send them all over Europe, where the French language is understood.

Now, thou wilt say, my friend, Xo Ho, leave those things which thou dost not understand, or cannot not explain, and pass on to facts; tell me, thou wilt say, now the trials are finished, who are the new Ministers? from which faction are they chosen? By Cong-fou-tsee*, thou wilt believe as little what I shall tell thee, as what I have already delivered. Their King, who dismissed a whole Ministry because one of them did not humble himself enough before the tyrant, is gone into the

sown than to relish such food and playthings.

* "Don Giovanni," "Cosi Fantutti," "La Clemenza di Lito," "Le Nozze di Figaro," &c.

## THE BALLET.

The ballet seems to have degenerated, if possible, more than the Opera. In the place of a story erived from the fountain-head of taste, the classical mythological subjects, well-told in action, and exhibiting groupes and attitudes, from the painter and statuary, of the first class, ancient and modern, and where the composer, the machinist, the painter, and the actors (for such are to be found among the French dancers), unite their efforts for one general effect: instead of such a representation, we re nauseated with a number of nameless absurd hantasiae, in the shape of emperors, guards,queens, and attendants, running after each other in succession, without meaning, form, interest, or musement: except during a *pas seul*, or *pas de deux*, of some favourite or favourites; and which *pas seul*, or *pas de deux*, is introduced by an Emperor walking down the steps of his throne, to ance for the entertainment of his attendants; a ero, on the point of an important battle, treading the mazes of the *pas de deux*, with his mistress, rought, no doubt, by magic through the air for sat purpose, and disappearing after she has filled the purpose of her errand. Not that the Ballet is to be tried and condemned by Aristotle's rules. Much may be allowed in it to exhibit the rats of the dancer; as in the Opera, to shew forth the powers of the singer; still there is a line, after we have passed the barrier of the regular drama. The Harlequinade itself is more effective, and increases its circle of admirers, when connected with plot and interest; but even this species of pantomime, on the English stage, has degenerated with the Opera Ballet. The Clown now forsakes the original intention of his character, to rival the activity of the Harlequin, combined with the tumbling and grimace of the Scaramouch; the motley hero, of course, pushed from his character, affects to lance, and becomes a jumping idiot. To return to the Ballet: Every sense is now disappointed and insulted. Story we have none, action we have none, even the figure keeps pace with the general leclension, and offers a wretched groupe, without grace or interest, and merely filling up the interi eties of the principals, to allow them time for breathing.

spot. A part of the walls, that enclose the kitchen garden, forms the only remains of the ancient monastery. The interior part of this notable edifice is said to have received considerable alterations from the skill of IXIGO JONES, in the early part of last century; but it was the sumptuous taste of the late Duke of NORTH-UMBERLAND which completed and furnished it, in its present state of unrivalled splendour. A-

## SION HOUSE.

SION HOUSE was originally a Convent, founded by HENRY the FIFTH, in the year 1414, for sixty nuns, of the order of Saint Bridget of Zion, thirteen priests, four deacons, and eight lay brethren. It was endowed, on its foundation, with a revenue of one thousand marks, which was afterwards increased to one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one pounds per annum. An abbess and nuns were resident there in the time of PHILIP and Mary, who were sent away in the first year of

JANUS.

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PERSIAN LETTER.

The following letter, containing some points not
impossible to the present times, is extracted from
the first volume of *Lord Orford's Works* :—

A LETTER FROM XO HO, A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER,
AT LONDON, TO HIS FRIEND, LIEN CRI, AT
PEKING.

I have told thee, these people are incomprehen-
sible; not only they differ from us, they are unlike
the rest of the Western world; a Frenchman has

prejudices, has captives
of his nation.—I
age. A Frenchman
built on false foundation
d fixed ideas; his preju-
but against some parte
country. His caprices
essential proofs of his
have a high notion of
him, but they will not
loves or hates his Kun
and that for no reason
hates the Ministry in b
their King from a dish
avail themselves of his
till they can mount up
earnest about liberty.
body means it. To
they desire it not. Wa
be the vassals of the
c while all are free to
or craftiest may purchase.

I have said, that t
they have not, but t
Formerly they had tw
factions, and each of t
of the name, or some
of those parties. In u
t second faction in mag
faction, and that a
diately be appointed.
ceived. I did not heli
here one is told som
demand to be told som
a politician, a muni-
bly, was mysterious,
thing to an inquirer, h
he tells a lie, it is no o
that is sufficient to a
news; a falsehood is as
believed a Ministry w
thought, that, in a ce
business of their gene
ministers, they could
ceived. I thought, t
one minister, he won
ed. I thought when a
war, with a superior
counsel; I was deciv
reason in England. An
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Their † High Priest
from what profession,
religion, his successor

I asked what the in
knowledge I have of
signified an inquiry s
such thing; they a
Sometimes, as in t
whether a former Mi
Know, that last year

Island; the people were enraged; they blamed
the Admiral who commanded, *Admiral Byng*, the
Admiral who directed their fleet, *Lord Anson*, their
Chief Judge, *Lord Hardwicke*, their Chief Treasurer,
the Duke of Newcastle, their Chief Secretary,
Mr. Fox. The first Admiral was imprisoned, the
rest quarrelled and gave up their employments.
The chief man of the little faction, Mr. Pitt, was
made Minister, and his friends

scruple not to send them all over Europe, where
the French language is understood.

Now, thou wilt say, my friend, Xo Ho, leave
those things which thou dost not understand, or
east not explain, and pass on to facts; tell me,
thou wilt say, now the trials are finished, who are
the new Ministers? from which faction are they
chosen? B. Cong-fon-fsee*, thou wilt believe as
little what I shall tell thee, as what I have already
covered. Their King, who dismissed a whole
Ministry because one of them did not humble him-
self enough before the throne, is gone into the

An inquiry, or trial, of the late Ministers was de-
termined; the imprisoned Admiral was tried, ac-
quitted, condemned, and put to death. The
trials of the others were delayed. At last they
were tried—not as I expected, whether they
were guilty, but whether they should be minis-
ers again or not. If the executed Admiral had lived,
he, too, might be a Minister. Just as this trial be-
gan, the new head of the Admiralty, Lord Temple,
forgot to make a bow to the King; upon which he
and his friends were displaced. I understood this,
as the English are more free than we are. I con-
ceived that this was a punishment proportioned to
their ideas of offended Majesty; and reflected how
severely one of our countrymen would be dealt
with, who should affront the dignity of our august
Emperor. I was again deceived; this Mandarin is
again likely to be a Minister. As his friends have
great weight in the General Assembly, where the
trials are heard, I concluded they would persevere
their antagonists; and I deplored the fate of those
unhappy men who would be at the mercy of their
bitterest enemies. There is no rule for judging of
this people. The third faction, who were in the-
nature of Judges, would only try facts, not persons;
and, even if they could have punished facts, they
hewed they were not unmerciful. I do not under-
stand this nation.

What will surprise thee more, the chief men
of the capital have bestowed 8 high honors on
the third faction, for being dismissed from the Go-
vernment; and the honours they have bestowed are
a permission to exercise a trade, which the persons
so distinguished would think it exceedingly beneath
them to follow. Dust thou comprehend this? But
the inquiries are finished. Thou wilt ask me how
I know not—O Y I have been told that the general
assembly affirmed that certain things, which all the
land knew before, did or did not happen. Thou
wilt attribute this ridiculous account to my igno-
rance of the language or manners of the country;
in truth, I am not master of either, but I know the
language of the French—these very relations that
I send are translated into French, and the English

* On the removal of Mr. Legge, the Chief Justice was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, as the business of that Court requires it to be constantly filled.

↑ Archbishop Herring.

↑ Into the causes of the loss of Minorca.

§ The freedom of the city, presented to Mr. Pitt and Mr. Legge.

SION HOUSE.

SION HOUSE was originally a Convent, founded
by HENRY the FIFTH, in the year 1414, for sixty
nuns, of the order of Saint Bridget of Zion, thir-
teen priests, four deacons, and eight lay brethren.
It was endowed, on its foundation, with a reve-
nue of one thousand marks, which, was afterwards
increased to one thousand seven hundred and thir-
ty-one pounds per annum. An abbess and nuns
were resident there in the time of PHILIP and
MARY, but were sent away in the first year of

SABETH. At the dissolution, the
his religious house amounted to one
e hundred and forty-four pounds,
gs and eight pence per annum; after
the abbots, nuns, lay sisters, &c.
of seventy-three, received pensions
lives. The last abbess was interred
church, near Uxbridge; and a great
scription on the grave-stone is still
the monastery was granted by Ed-
SETH, in the first year of his reign,
HOR, EDWARD, Duke of Somerset,
IMPERPORBALACE out of its ruins, the
it still remains in its primitive state.
of that potent Nobleman, it revert-
own. In the seventh year of Ed-
SETH, it was granted to John, Duke
ERLAND; and, on his attainder, JAMES
IVE IT TO HENRY PERCY, ninth Earl
BERLAND. In 1646, the Dukes of
OUCHESTER, and the Princess ELIZA-
sent hither by order of Parliament,
ted with such kind attention by the
intest of NORTHBERLAND, that
nate father, when he visited them in
year, received no small consolation,
s children under such friendly care
as. From this period it continued to
ace of the Earls of NORTHNUMBER-
the year 1682, CHARLES, Duke of
TRIED the Lady ELIZABETH PERCY,
HOTHER and heiress of JOSCELINE, Earl
ERLAND, by which alliance Sion be-
erty of that Nobleman, who let it
SS OF DENMARK, during the time
s subsisted between her Royal High-
sister, QUEEN MARY. On the
PLES, Duke of Somerset, in 1748,
EARL of Hertford, his only surviving
s to the title and immense property
; and soon after gave Sion to his
SON-IN-LAW, the late Duke and
NORTHBERLAND, to whose mag-
it owes its present grandeur and
house occupies the site of the mo-
and is a large and majestic struc-
square edifice of stone, built round
: every front is embattled and ornate
angles with embattled turrets: the
tion, which faces the Thames, is
arches, that form a grand piazza.
gardens were made by the Protector,
a style of great magnificence; and,
the fashion of the age, enclosed
walls, and elevated by terraces; but
destroyed and levelled by the late
or; and the lower apartments of the
ok upon the beautiful scene, which
by the fastidious pride of former
western lawn, enriched with stately
erected by a serpentine water, and
urishing plantations from the eastern
rounds, which slopes towards the
lower garden contains a large collec-
tus trees and exotic plants; and
a column rises in it, and dignifies the

SISTERS, On the
PLES, Duke of Somerset, in 1748,
EARL of Hertford, his only surviving
s to the title and immense property
; and soon after gave Sion to his
SON-IN-LAW, the late Duke and
NORTHBERLAND, to whose mag-
it owes its present grandeur and
house occupies the site of the mo-
and is a large and majestic struc-
square edifice of stone, built round
: every front is embattled and ornate
angles with embattled turrets: the
tion, which faces the Thames, is
arches, that form a grand piazza.
gardens were made by the Protector,
a style of great magnificence; and,
the fashion of the age, enclosed
walls, and elevated by terraces; but
destroyed and levelled by the late
or; and the lower apartments of the
ok upon the beautiful scene, which
by the fastidious pride of former
western lawn, enriched with stately
erected by a serpentine water, and
urishing plantations from the eastern
rounds, which slopes towards the
lower garden contains a large collec-
tus trees and exotic plants; and
a column rises in it, and dignifies the

spot. A part of the walls, that enclose the kit-
chen garden, forms the only remains of the an-
cient monastery. The interior part of this no-
ble edifice is said to have received considerable
alterations from the skill of INTOO JONES, in
the early part of last century: but it was
the suspicious taste of the late Duke of NORTH-
BERLAND which completed and furnished it,
in its present state of unrivalled splendour. A

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["DEATH OF THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.", "1796", "PETERSBURGH, NOV. 23.", "THE EMPRESS of RUSSIA had been somewhat\nindisposed several days previous to the 16th ult.\nbut, on the morning of that day, she was very\nchearful, and took her coffee, as usual, to break-\nfast. She afterwards went to the water-closet,\nwhere she had already been twice in the course\nof the morning, and as she stood an unusual\ntime, her Attendants became extremely alarmed ;\nat length one of her Pages went to the door to\nlisten, and, not hearing the least motion, called\none of her principal female Attendants, who opened\nthe door, and found the EMPRESS extended on her\nback, with her feet towards the door, in an apo-\nplectic fit. Medical assistance was instantly\nsent for, but three quarters of an hour elapsed\nbefore her Chief Physician, Dr. ROGERSON (a\nScotch Gentleman) arrived. She was then bled\ntwice, and appeared to be much relieved, but ne-\nver spoke afterwards. She remained in this\nstate till the following evening (Thursday the\n17th.) The pulsation of the heart was percep-\ntible till nine o'clock; but a quarter before ten\nthe Physicians pronounced her dead.", "When the EMPRESS was taken ill, the present\nEMPEROR was at Gatchinow, a Country Palace,\nabout 28 English miles from Petersburg. He\nreached the Capital about eight in the evening.", "When the EMPRESS was opened, two stones\nwere found in the gall-bladder, one of which\nweighed an ounce, and the other half an ounce,\nRussian weight, which is one-third less than the\nEnglish weight.", "The deceased EMPRESS was born in 1729,\nascended the throne in 1762, and was then in\nthe 34th year of her age; of course, at the time\nof her death, she was in her 68th year.", "LINES,", "BY MR. BICKERSTAFF'S FRIEND.", "I sit with a *Trademen* ! oh, no—\nSuch Rascals I hate,\nFor, alas ! 'twas my fate,\nTo be *cop'd* by the Rogues long ago.", "QUIZZES.", "* BICKY's friend, a few years since, was a Prisoner in the Fleet.", "On Monday half the STADTHOLDER and his\nLady arrived at Nuneham, near Oxford, the feat of\nthe Earl of HARCOURT; and on the following day,\ntheir Serene Highneffes, accompanied by his Lord-\nship's family, vifited the City and University of Ox-\nford. They were received at the Gate of Magdalen\nCollege, by the President of Trinity College, the\nafling Vice Chancellor, who first conducted them\ninto the Chapel, where an appropriate Anthem was\nperformed by the Professor, Dr. HAYES. After\nwhich, the illuftrious Vifitants were thrown every\nthing worthy of attention in the University and Town\nand Country. They then partook of an elegant collation\nat the President's apartments, and returned to\nNuneham. On Wednesday they vifited Blenheim.", "THE FINE ARTS.—On Saturday some very valuable\npictures were fold at Mr. Chritie's rooms, in Pali Mall,\nbut that by which the collection was eminently distinguished\nwas the Woman taken in Adultery, the celebrated chief\ndu'ouree of Rembra-dut, the history of this picture which defer'd to be flated. It\nwas painted by Rembrandt for his patron the Burgomaster\nwas painted by Rembrandt

Barracks are sitting up at Southampton for 10,000 French emigrants, &c. from the continent.

The late Bishop of EXETER has left behind him many Bishops who were his seniors, the oldest of whom is Sir WILLIAM ASHBURNHAM, Bart. who has been Bishop of Chichester upwards of forty years.—This venerable Preface is the only one in England that His present Majesty has not created; he is now between eighty and ninety years of age, and, we believe, in the elder branch of that family. He resides a part of the year at his seat at Broomham, near Winchelsea, in Sussex, which was in the possession of his Ancestors long before the Conquest. When the Duke of NORMANDY landed near Hastings, the ASHBURNHAMS were a great and powerful Family in Sussex and Kent, descended from Saxon Princes of high rank. One of the Family, who was Governor of Dover Castle at that time, having refused to surrender the Fortress to WILLIAM, had his head struck off for his conduct on that occasion.

The present Earl of ASHBURNHAM usually resides at his beautiful Seat, Ashburnham-Place, Sussex. Amongst the variety of curiosities at this place, is the watch of the unfortunate CHARLES I, which he presented as a token of regard to a Mr. ASHBURNHAM (then a Gentleman of his Bedchamber) on the Scaffold, to which he attended him, a few minutes before his execution. The shirt which the KING had on when he was beheaded, and the sheet which Mr. ASHBURNHAM threw over his lifeless body, are also to be found here. These articles are deposited in a strong chest in the Chancel of the Church at Ashburnham Place; where are also some highly finished Monuments of that Noble Family.

## ANECDOTE,

### Of the BISHOP of ST. ASAPH.

A VIOLENT Welch Squire having taken offence at a poor Curate who employed his leisure hours in mending clocks and watches, applied to the Bishop of St. Afaph with a formal complaint against him, for impiously carrying on a trade contrary to the flatute.—His Lordship having heard the complaint, told the Squire he might depend upon it that the strictest justice should be done in the cafe; accordingly the mechanic divine was fent for a few days after, when the Biocfep afked him “How he dared to difgrace his diocieſe, by becoming a mender of clocks and watches?” The other, with all humility anſwered, “to ſatisfy the wants of a wife and ten children!”—“That won’t do with me,” rejoined the prelate; “I’ll inſtill ſuch a puniſhment upon you, as ſhall make you leave off your pitiful trade, I promife you;” and immediately calling in his secretary, ordered him to make out a preſentation for the aftonified curate, to a living of at leaſt £150 per annum.

The king of France some time ago published a decree, by which all clergymen are incapacitated from holding two or more benefices—a circumstance that muſt revive in the mind of every Englishman, that flameful impropriety of pluralities in this kingdom, the ſufferance of which is abſolutely a libel on the understanding of our legitiſate. Pluralities are incompatibl with every idea of Primitive Chriſtianity; and this injuſtice will clearly appear, if we reflect, that they monopolize church property, and pampering a few, they flare a great number of the clergie, each of which is totally repugnant to religion.

A TALE of DISTRESS wants no ornament to meet with pity from Englishmen. It will be sufficient to state to those whom God has given the means of being most like himself, by enabling them to be bountiful, that there is at this moment an industrious young Tradesman, who, with eight children and a dying wife, hardly knows where to turn himself for his immediate bread. With the spirit of his countrymen, when his heart was light, and his hopes were sangutine, but not till long habits of industry had rendered him skillful in his trade, he attempted to rise into business for himself, with the same spirit he trusted so like a rply to his customers, that they took advantage of his generosity and ruined him; and now, with the same muly spirit, he avoids a public display of his miseries, and performs the most miserable jobs and offices to afford his wife and his little ones their share of a morsel of bread. The wife, emaciated and heart-broken, after fainting in the drudgery of washing, is lying with famished twins at her side, for nature has conspired with the world, and left her unable to give them nourishment. The approach of death is welcome to her, when she considers her burthensome usleſsiness, and knows that her life is nothing but protracted death; but she slanders at leaving her family wretched and destitute. A Gentleman, who has many years known this industrious family, pledges himself to the truth of this detail. To English women— to that sex which has ever been the consolator of mankind, he says nothing, for he can offer them no petition so eloquent as their own feelings. But if this paper meet the eye of any virtuous man, who in his younger days has been too thoughtless to attend to the inconveniences and wants of his humbler tradesmen, it is hoped that he will be eager to discharge an obligation which he owes to himself and to Heaven. The Printer of The News, No. 28, Brydges-street, Strand, will give references.

A few days ago some villains broke into the Lea Church, Gloucestershire, and stole a quantity of money, the property of a company of singers belonging to the said Church. A reward of 20l. was immediately offered for discovering the offenders, accompanied with a threat that application would be immediately made to a conjuror, who lived not far off, to tell who the robbers were. The sacrilegious rascals, being convinced that the Devil would betray them, by informing the cunning man who they were, went in the right to the church, and pushed all the money they had taken through a slit in the door, where it was found the next morning.

### NAVAL.

#### Mr. EDITOR,

There are, as your Corresponding NAVALIS has fated, various opinions: amongst the moſt experienced even in our own ſervice, upon the gallant Vice-Admiral’s account reſpecting the Circumſtance of the TEMERAIRE’s conflict with the creys of a French, and a Spanish ſlip, that boarded her at the fame time: but many professional men, with whom I have converſed upon it, concur in my own opinion, viz. That the TEMERAIRE’s people were at first overpowered on their own deck by the combined numbers from the two ships of the enemy, but afterwards heroically rallied, and driving the enemy back to their ships, tore down the French, and Spanish Enſigns, which had been hoisted on board the TEMERAIRE, and reſolved their own colours on their own poop!

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—A ſhort sketch from the pen of Mr. CUMBERLAND was laſt night prefented at this Theatre, to commemorate the victory and death of—Hewſlebile women—Lord NELSON. It opens with a ſea view. Fame defends with his laſt order, “Eugland expects that every man will do his duty.” After a pathetic and well written ſong by BRAHAM; then follows what we should call a *Monody*, if it were not divided between ſeveral Performers, and broken by ſolenn music in the intervals. We felt strongly the illection “that he had ſent his mande and his ſpirt to Lord COLLINGWOOD.” The audience, which was very numerous, ſeemed to feel and approve the whole. It concluded with “Rale Britannia,” ſupported by all the vocal ſtrength of the Theatre.

General MACK is univerſitely diſowned by all the Macs, both Scots and leith.

Citizen WADDINGTON, the Itinerant Candidate, in his farewell lamentation addressed to the Freeholders of Herts, where he enumerates the wonderful obligations which every friend to the Constitution is under to him, has, unfortunately, forgotten to mention the famous Meeting of *disdisants* Merchants and Bankers, presided by himself, at which neither Merchant nor Banker was to be found. A *Patricio's* memory is astonishingly treacherous, upon certain points!

A very valuable discovery of a grand tesselated pavement has recently been made at Lincoln, which exceeds any other yet known in the Kingdom.

### For the BRISTOL MERCURY.

#### THE BOUQUET.

“I have here only made a nosey of culled flowers and have brought nothing of my own, but the thread that ties them.”—MONTAIGNE.

ANECDOTE OF COUNSELLOR E.—(late Lord High Chancellor).—The author of a late satiric poem, in a note upon the following lines,

“Ah! little thought I on that day,
When stockingless I took my way
From Edinburgh to town,
That I should ever rise so high—
And therefore could not think that I
Should come so rudely down.”—

The Ditchess of GORDON and her two Sisters, Lady WALLACE and Mrs. FORDYCE, have got about 13,000 each, by the death of their Erother Colonel MAXWELL.

LONDON GAZETTE.

ADmiral.

The Letter (and its copies, were received at (now) Rear-Admiral) S. Commander of his Ma.

Sir.—The accompanying Honourable Admiral (planned to lay before the with my apology for the failure the honour to be,

SIR.—Being off Fe with the wind wettest made all fail to join the ships named in the order at eleven at night, we saw fix large informed me he had: Squadron, then cloſed delighted. I defreſed ships of the line alio engage them directly the CÆSAR, for the could, to indicate our Moon enabled us to line abreast, cloſely when it ſet, and I the HERO, COURAGE, and the SAILOR SHIPS we could fee E.N.E. all night, SANTA MARGARITA, the enemy of four der all fail. We ha up with them ſaſt, ſail after; and the found that active C livered my orders, SANTA MARGARITA. At day-light we we GARTA had begun upon their rear, and A little before noon volable, began to in a line, bearing of fame, and I com to the Captains, “rear,” and at noon the van ſhip of the made the action clo ſoon after we tac could get the ſhips nal, to engage the can, the enemy not ſurfering. I have returned th the line and the fri of approbation of companies. If an ion I had already the CÆSAR, it is battle. The enem not more than is You may judge of

Servant,

S.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, NOV. 11.

The Letter (and its enclosures), of which the following are
(Signatures, were received at this Office last night, from Captain
Sir Richard-John STRACHAN, Bart.,
Commander of his Majesty's ship the Cَََ_ASR, addressed to
WILLIAM MARSDEN, Esq.)

Cَ_SAR, Nov. 7, 1805.

Sir—The accompanying Copy of a Letter, addressed to the
Unanimous Admiral CORNWALLIS, I request you will be
pleased to forward before the Lords Commissioners of the 'Admiralty,
with my apology for the hasty manner in which it is written. —
Have the honour to be, &c.
R. J. STRACHAN.

Cَ_SAR, Well of Rochfort 254 rules,
Nov. 4, 1805, Wind S. E.

Sir—Being off Ferrol, working to the Westward,
with the wind westerly, on the evening of the 2d,
we observed a frigate in the N. W. making signals;
made all fail to join her before night, and followed by
the ships named in the margin*, we came up with
hurrah eleven at night; and at the moment the joined
us, we saw fix large ships near us. Captain BAKER
informed me he had been chased by the Rochefort
squadron, then close to leeward of us. We were
delighted. I defied him to tell the Captains of the
flips of the line aften to follow me, as I meant to
engage them directly; and immediately bore away in
the Cَ_SAR, for the purpose, making all the signals I
could, to indicate our movements to our flips: the
Moon enabled us to see the enemy bear away in a
line abreast, closely formed; but we loft fight of them
when it fet, and I was obliged to reduce our falls,
the HÉRO, COURAGEUX, and ÆLUSO being the only
flips we could fee. We continued flooring to the
E.N.E. all night, and in the morning observed the
SANTA MARGARITA near us; at nine we discovered
the enemy of. four fail of the line in the N.E. un-
der all fail. We had also every thing fet, and came
up with them fast; in the evening, we observed three
fail aften; and the PHOENIX spoke me at night. I
found that active Officer, Captain BAKER, had de-
libered my orders, and I lent him on to affront the
SANTA MARGARITA in leading us up to the enemy.
At day-light, we were near them, and the SANTA MAR-
GARITA had begun in a very gallant manner to fire
upon their rear, and was soon joined by the PHOENIX.
A little before noon the French, finding an action una-
voldable, began to take in their small fails, and form
in a line, bearing on the starboard tack; we did the
same, and I communicated my intentions by hailing
to the Captains, " that I should attack the centre and
rear," and at noon began the battle; in a short time
the van flip of the enemy tacked, which almost directly
made the action clove and general; the NAMUS joined
foon after we tacked, which we did as soon as we
could get the flips round, and I directed her, by fig-
nal, to engage the van; at half past three the action
concluded, the enemy having fought to admiration, and
not surrendering till their ships were unmanageable.
I have returned thanks to the Captains of the flips of
the line and the frigates, and they speak in high terms
of approbation of their respective Officers and ships'
companies. If any thing could add to the good opinion
I had already formed of the Officers and crew of
the Cَ_SAR, it is their gallant conduct in this day's
battle. The enemy have suffered much, but our flips
not more than is to be expected on these occasions.
You may judge of my surprize, Sir, when I found the

LONDON.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12.

The intelligence of a great NAVAL VICTORY, which
we yefterday morning announced, was confirmed in
a few hours after by an EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE,
Sir R. STRACHAN, with four ships of the line, has
captured, to our inexpresfible satisfaction, an equal
number of French ships, one of 84, and three of
74 guns. Thefe, as we yefterday flated, were
a part of the Cadiz fleet, and not, as Admiral
STRACHAN expected, the Rochefort squadron, which
has fo long been flrounded in darknesf impen-
etrable. For the particulars we must refer to the letter
of Sir R. STRACHAN in the Gazette. We admire
greatly the fyle of this gallant Admiral's letter. He
never flops to tell us that he had captured four
fall of the enemy's line, but, by a bold and truly
BRITISH inducfion, leaves it to be fuppofed that
when the flying had caeafed the enemy had of course
confuended! This victory is indeed of high ap-
preciation. Of the thirty-three ships which the
French Ufurper ſent out in the ſanglinary ſpirit of
defuſion, to annihilate our Commerce and Colonies,
fearcely ten crippled veffels remain to remind him of
thefe ſignal defeats. Our lofs on this occasion was
comparatively ſmall, the killed and wounded being
not more than 70. The French ſuffered severely.
On board the Mont Blanc alone there were 63 killed,
and 96 wounded. Amongſt the latter were the Admi-
ral and feveral of the ſuperior Officers. The prizes
were on Friday laft off the Lizard. In our next pub-
lication we ſhall have probably to announce their ar-
rival, with that of thole captured in the glorious and
memorable Vifcovery obtained off Cape Trefalgar. The
poſſcript to a Plymouth letter ſays, that the former were
been coming into port.—A remark occurs here, of too
much importance to be paffed over. All the præſed
feamen of France and Spain were collected on board
this not " Invincible Armada," of theie nearly two-
thirds are destroyed or made prifoners. He may find
flips by imprelling the artizans of Antwerp and Hol-
land, but ſeamen are no longer within his reach. He
may clamour for "flips, colonies, and commerce,"
but he is now reduced to the hopeleſs expeſtation of
the child, who cries for the Moon as a plaything. We
feel for our allies—we honeſtly ſympathize in their
misfortunes—and ſhall as truly rejoice in their ſuc-
ceſſes; but after ſuch vifories, exclusively the work
of Britifh arms, we may be allowed to expeſs our
gladneſs, that henceforward the enemy

" May plough the waves, and reap defpair."

The Park and Tower guns were fired yefterday
morning on the official publication of this intelligence.
Some diſcharges of artillery on the River, at a later
hour, led to the hope of a third victory. Conjecture,
ever on the alert, flated that Admiral STIRLING had
taken the Rochefort Squadron, confuting of five fail
of the line, and ſome of the Evening Papers actually
publifhed the names of the captured veſſels. We find
no fault with this miftaken ardour. We regret that no
fuch news was received laſt night at the Admiralty,
and therefore have only to hope, that it is an anticipa-
tion which will ſhortly be realized.

The Euryalus palled by Plymouth on Friday
evening, and at the moment when we are writing has
probably arrived at Portsmouth. She has on board the
body of our dear and venerated Hèro, with thole of
the gallant Captaſus DUFF and COOKE, and the cap-
tured Admirals with their flags. Our wishes here
would speak, but fate and reafon command our fileace.

Sunday night Sir R. STRACHAN's victory arrived to
his MAJESTY. The Band of the KING's own Militia
played Rule Britannia through Windfor, and then
went to the Caffle-yard. The ROYAL FAMILY came to
the windows to view them, and were huzzared by the
populace.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, JULY 4.
[FROM THE MONITORE.]

SOME of the Princes of Germany are about to take
measures to prevent the manœuvres of certain Emis-
saries who debauch the inhabitants of that Country,
under pretext of sending them to the United States,
where they are promised all imaginary happiness;
but, in fact, to sell them to the English Government.

The following Paper proves the conditions and the
tariff of this infamous traffic, by means of which
honest and simple countrymen, believing they are
going to America, are thrown upon the shores of
England, and sold at so much a head, to be trans-
ported to the English Colonies.

The course proposed by ROB. SMITH to Sir GEO.
RUMBOLD, one of the late Ministers from England,
at Hamburgh, has been adopted. SMITH is still
at Hamburgh, where he continues to direct these
cargoes of men. With respect to this subject, the
authenticity of the following Letter may be relied
upon :

TO SIR GEORGE RUMBOLD.

"Hamburgh, April 17, 1824.

"SIR,

" I command a large Merchant Vessel, at pre-
sent at Frederickstadt, on the River Eyder, and des-
tined for America, with passengers on board. If
the Service of His Majesty requires it, it would be
perhaps in my power to furnish 1000 or 1500 men,
proper for the Service, deliverable at Tonningen, by
parties of 300 every ten days, until the above num-
ber shall be completed.

" I shall have permission from the Danish Go-
vernment for any number of men to pass through
the Danish Territories for the above destination. I
ask seven guineas for each man delivered from the
vessel, where he at present is, on condition that the
Government guarantee the payment. It will then
be necessary to appoint a proper person to chuse the
men from on board the vessel when the delivery is
to be made.

" If it is necessary, I will undertake, for a rea-
sonable sum, to carry the men to England, if cir-
cumstances are favourable. The Vessel may have
orders to touch at the Isle of Wight in its passage to
America, where other men may be engaged disposed
to enter into the service.

" You will be pleased to communicate for the in-
formation of His Royal Highness, your opinion on
the possibility of the execution of my plan, and send
me an answer,

(Signed) " ROBERT SMITH."

Yesterday's City report of the defeat of the Roche-
fort Squadron alfo, by Admiral STIRLING, was for
some time confirmed in the public opinion at the welf
end of the town, by the firing of the field pieces of
the Light Horfe, which was taken for that of the
Park guns.

["Captain VANCOUVER and Lord CAMELFORD.", "Mr. Editor,", "Having been in your Paper of Thursday last a paragraph, letting forth, that \"a young naval officer, of \"the first expectations in England, having met some \"ungentleman-like treatment from a Captain with \" whom he failed (in consequence of which he was \"obliged to leave his flip abroad) being lately arrived \"in England, called upon the Captain (both being \"at this time unemployed) to meet him as a Gentleman, who, which he refused to do; yefferday morning \"they accidentally met in Conduit-fleet, when the \"Lieutenant caned the Captain, in the prefence of \"a number of pefcators,\"—I feel it incumbent upon me, left the matter, as thus flated, should operate to the difadvantage of my brother, Captain VANCOUVER, to declare, and folemally to avow, that he was not caned, nor did he refuse to accept Lord CAMELFORD's challenge, as fet forth in the above recited paragraph. Yet, as the circumstances attending the exifting difference, produced on service, between Lord CAMELFORD and Captain VANCOUVER, may, for the fake of Captain VANCOUVER's character as an Officer and a Gentleman, require fome explanation, in consequence of their having become, contrary to his will, objects of public notoriety, I beg leave to flate, that a few days previously to Lord CAMELFORD's arrival in England, a letter was received by Captain VANCOUVER from Lord CAMELFORD, then on the Continent, containing an invitation to meet Lord CAMELFORD at Hamburg, and to give him fatisfacon for injuries his Lordship conceived himself to have received whilst under Captain VANCOUVER's command in the Pacific Ocean. This letter was replied to by Captain VANCOUVER, who, in explanation, offered to Lord CAMELFORD, that in whatever reſped his Lordship might confide himſelf as an injured man, it was ſolely and alone to be aſſerbed to his own midconduſt, and that the perſonal inconveniences he had incurred were (though with the greatest reluctance impofed by his Commanding Officer) indiſpenſablyefery to the maintenance of discipline and good order on board the DISCOVCRY: but that if, on reference of all the circumstances which formed the ground of his Lordship's complaint to any one Flag Officer in the ſervice, it ſhould be confidered that Captain VANCOUVER ought to be accountable, as a private Gentleman, to Lord CAMELFORD, for ſuch official conduct towards him, he, Captain VANCOUVER, would not heſitate a ſingle moment to afford his Lordship the fatisfaſtion he had demanded. This appeal Lord CAMELFORD thought proper totally to decline, prototyping, at the fame time, that he would urge Captain VANCOUVER to give him ſatuation, by perſonally infuſing him when and wherever he might chance to meet him. Under theſe circumstances, Captain VANCOUVER, with the advice of his friends, (one of whom is a very high and diſtinguifhied noble character) was compelled to refort to the laws of his country for that protection, under which alone he hinf himself had adſted; and on his way to the Lord Chancellor's Office, for this eſpecial purpose, he was met by Lord CAMELFORD, who, in a menacing attitude, croſſed Conduit-fleet to meet Captain VANCOUVER, and, after being oppoſed by me, and making ſeveral vain attempts to ſtike my brother, his Lordship found it convenient to retire, and to deſtify from his intended purpofe.", "CHARLES VANCOUVER.", "New Bond-street, No. 142,\nSept. 23, 1796.", "The whole of the affair between Lord CAMELFORD and Captain VANCOUVER is simply this:—the latter dealt his blows by deputy, and the former t took the trouble on himself.", "There is an annual Wake at a village in Cheshire, near the Duke of BRIDGEWATER's Canal, and nine-tcen out of twenty females who joined in the reſerve last year have added to the number of inhaſbitants since that period. This is a certain proof that the place is in a thriving state.", "THE GREENWICH TURTLES, AND THE ADDRESS.", "Mr. Editor,", "Some Paragraphs have appeared in the Publick Papers, stating, that *Three Turtles* had been sent to Greenwich, by order of the LORD MAYOR, on Friday, to entertain the CORPORATION of LONDON the next day, after presenting the ADDRESS to the DUCHESS OF BRUSWICK.", "These Paragraghs, Mr. Editor, were foolish fagriuities; no entertainment was even thought of or expected; by the members of the Corporation; many of them were, however, most unhandomely treated on their arrival at Blackheath; for the Address had been read, and the Answer received, before numbers had alighted from their carriages. The Address should not have been read until the body of the Proceſsion had assembled.", "Another impropriety, as inconsistent with good manners as the above, took place, Sir. The LORD MAYOR's notices to the Coachmen ordered, \"not to break the line of Carriages, on tiny account whatever.\" Yet several of these Men, who, upon most occaſions, fancy \"their Geeze all Swans,\" caused their Coachmen to break the line of Carriages on the Road, and by these means threw those who were early in the Proceſsion from Guildhall into the rear.", "It is gratifying to reſfect, that the Cardinal of YORK's due sense of His Majesty's well-timed liberality was not merely confined to the impressions of the moment, but, in fact, accompanied his dying injunjions. The venerable Divine has bequeathed to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales two objects most esteemed by him, and which he had preserved from the wreck of his fortune, viz. the Order constantly worn by King Charles I. and a valuable Ring, which was also worn by the ancient Kings of Scotland on the day of their coronation. The report of the Cardinal's having left behind him large sums of money, and other circumstances told at the same time, in some of the Public Prints, are wholly without foundation. The Cardinal's circumstances were such, that he paid with great difficulty the annuity of 2000, to his sister-in-law, the Countess of Albany; which sum has recently been doubled by the King's usual liberality.", "The Cardinal YORK has departed this life, at the age of 82 years.—He was a quiet, inoffensive man—our good KING allowed him out of his privy importance, a handsome pension.—His death is of some importance; for, we believe, the Act with respect to Art and R of Blood was to expire at the death of this last of the Stuart Family.", "Louis, the celebrated Architeſt, has in one of our Journals joined his voice to that of *Quatreimes de Quincy*, to deplore the ſpitaliſm of Italy. The reſoval of those precious monuments will, in his opinion, prove fatal to the Arts. \"It is not by proper ſpence, (fays he), that Genius is called forth; ſtrive to have protectors of talents, ſuch as the Mechanics, Leo X. and *Louis XIV*; and you are ſure to have painters, sculptors, and great men of fine description.\"", "The Harcours of England and of France have maintained, ever ſince the Norman conqueſt, which firſt separated them, a correfpondence and a mutual acknowledgment of affinity. The Duc D'Harcourt, who has loft eſtates in France of the value of 40,000, a year, now finds the benefit of this communication; the English Earl and General of that name having fettled upon him 2000, a year.", "The *Havre* ſchermen who inſormed *La Flèche* slopt that an armistice was lately concluded between the French and Russians, probably thought that they were speaking to *gudgeons*.", "ARMISTICE CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE POPE.", "1. His Holines ſhall pay a contribution of 21 millions—15; in money or plate, and 6 in articles neceſsary for the army.", "2. He ſhall deliver 100 pictures, vafes, or flatles, and 200 manufrieſts, to be chosen by the French Commifioners.", "3. The troops of the Republic shall remain in poſſection during the war, of Bologna, Bera, the fort Ancona, and Fort Urbo. They ſhall have the power of levying contributions, the civil government remaining with the Roman government.", "4. French chips, and ſhoe of the Allies of France, ſhall be admitted into the ports of the Pope. The chips and veſſels belonging to the English and their allies, ſhall not be admitted into them.", "A SHOT.—Though some of our Wits may term it \"a long shot,\" the fact, nevertheless can be subſtantiated.—A Gentleman on a shooting party, last September, being out of wadding, used one of Bish's Lottery bills instead—and spoodity afterwards brought down a partridge at a most amazing distance: a lucky thought, in consequence, *shot* across his brain; on returning to town, he instantly purchased a Lottery Chance, which absolutely turned up an Eighth of one of the two 20,000, prizes, sold by Bish, in the September Lottery.", "A LADY, born to associate with the alliage and great, is from a recent family misfortune, compelled to adopt the present method of soliciting the friendship of an elderly Gentleman of character and fortune; she is well aware of the impropriety of this address, but she has no alternative to obtain the friend she desires; and keeping her wishes a secret from her family. She hopes the reader who has the power and inclination to befriending her, will not be determined to obtain the application by her own hand; but will find in her a female prejudice, for she assures them they will find in her a female prejudice, and enlightened by education, and whose manners and person are pleasing. Those who know how to appreciate the society of an accomplished female, and who are serious in their intentions, may address their letters, describing particulars of their situation, &c. to A. B. No. 5, William-street, Pimlico, which will be answered in a few days.", "MATRIMONY.—A Gentleman of reſpectability and connection, wishes to be INTRODUCED to a YOUNG LADY, who possesses an amiable disposition, accomplishments, and a fortune of not less than 10,000. Any Gentleman or Lady who have it in their power to introduce the Advertiser to a Lady who answers the above description, and to the means of a happy union, a very honours recompence will be made them. The Advertiser is twenty-three years of age, a good disposition, an agreeable person, in command of a mercantile business, at least 20 years' experience, and a good memory. He will have the attention within a week after their date, by an address to R. the Bar of the City Collcſe house, Cheapside. —N. B. The most inviolable secrecy will be observed and expected.", "A Gentlemen who we well know, has favoured us with the following copy of a curious ſeventy bill, actually delivered in toan IRISH MEMBER of PARLIAMENT, by a publican, after the late general election:—", "To EATING 16 Freeholders, above stairs, for Sir John, at 3s. 3d, a head", "To EATING 11 more, below stairs, and two Clergymen after supper", "To six beds, in one room, and four in another, an hundred and twenty beds every day, three or four in a bed every night", "To 23 horses in the yard, all night, at 12, every one of them, and for a man watching them all night", "To breakfast and ten, next day for every one of them, and as many as they brought with them, as near as I can guess", "To two porters and punch, for the first day and night, and one for the second, and for the three first days and a half of the election, as little as I can guess, and be very exact, in all, or thereabout", "To shaving, dressings, and cropping the heads of 42 Freeholders for Sir John, at 12d, for every one of them, and cheap enough, too", "In place of Jimmy Carr,\nBRYAN GERAGHTY.", "PROTEST OF\nAGAINST THE A\nLORDS TO THE\nJESU'S SPECI\nING OF A NEC\nTHE FRENCH RE\nDISENTER,\nIT, Because, by\nthe function of the\nill-judged with regard\ngoverne in the dignity\nof the honour of this ki\nthat of peace, to a ſpecies\nall fair and equall in\nhave no other effect\nout of the ſolitutions have\nthe arange and fer\nnations; they muſt be\nthey ought not to be\nthe magnanimit, conti\nſals; and it is nach\ntend to break the for\nſpirit which has char\nnated nation, and\nwars, have even rive\nin which our country\nis involved.", "2d, Because, after the ſeemings of the time, occaſion\nof the fit, and the ſeemings of the\nrefluences, and provid\nthe inſeparable com\nwith the uſurped pow\nceremonious ſtyle of\nof no other ſpeci\nwhich they have o\nthey hold it, and the\npofſiful and uniform\nof all the ſpeci\nwhich they have char\nnited nation, and\nwars, have even rive\nin which our country\nis involved.", "3d, Because, after the ſeemings of the time, occaſion\nof the fit, and the ſeemings of the\nrefluences, and provid\nthe inſeparable com\nwith the uſurped pow\nceremonious ſtyle of\nof no other ſpeci\nwhich they have o\nthey hold it, and the\npofſiful and uniform\nof all the ſpeci\nwhich they have char\nnited nation, and\nwars, have even rive\nin which our country\nis involved.", "4th, Because, after the ſeemings of the time, occaſion\nof the fit, and the ſeemings of the\nrefluences, and provid\nthe inſeparable com\nwith the uſurped pow\nceremonious ſtyle of\nof no other ſpeci\nwhich they have o\nthey hold it, and the\npofſiful and uniform\nof all the ſpeci\nwhich they have char\nnited nation, and\nwars, have even rive\nin which our country\nis involved.", "5th, Because, after the ſeemings of the time, occaſion\nof the fit, and the ſeemings of the\nrefluences, and provid\nthe inſeparable com\nwith the uſurped pow\nceremonious ſtyle of\nof no other ſpeci\nwhich they have o\nthey hold it, and the\npofſiful and uniform\nof all the ſpeci\nwhich they have char\nnited nation, and\nwars, have even rive\nin which our country\nis involved.", "6th, Because, whi\nthus conſtituted and\ncan be hoped for in\nvaluable ſources of\npower, this war\nFrance, by in\nſtitution, ſt\nthe ſpeci\ntherein eſtablished,\ngoverned by the\nconſtitution of\nfrom Europe, to\nnail armaments ever\nin ſenates and\nat an expe\nforce of ex\nfunds, and ex\nconſtituted, at\nlittle ſup\nor trea\nuniver\ndeſtigation of every\ntion, throughout ſe\nand ſup\nwhat they ſe\nlonies equally end\nſene, but a ram\nſeetly at\nare effectually at\nthe ſeeing of\nin effect, the\nprincip\nthere was no way li\nne ſup\nthe ſpeci\nveranment long eſ\nits ſuſſu\nalliance and\npro\nFrenchmen who\nthe political\nmale is very far\nnew-invented Go\nve\nſa\nplagued on ſu\nin ſup\nfound in\nbe ſo, until ſin\nthis great ſand\ned\nin effect, it\nthere was no way li\nne ſup\nthe ſpeci\nveranment long eſ\nits ſuſu\nalliance and\npro\nFrenchmen who\nthe political\nmale is very far\nnew-invented Go\nve\nſa\nplagued on ſu\nin ſup\nfound in\nbe ſo, until ſin\nthis great ſand\ned\nin effect, it\nthere was no way li\nne ſup\nthe ſpeci\nveranment long eſ\nits ſuſu\nalliance and\npro\nFrenchmen who\nthe political\nmale is very far\nnew-invented Go\nve\nſa\nplagued on ſu\nin ſup\nfound in\nbe ſo, until ſin\nthis great ſand\ned\nin effect, it\nthere was no way li\nne ſup\n

["TRIAL OF LOUIS XVI.", "NATIONAL CONVENTION.", "SITTING of TUESDAY, December 11, 1792", "(Continued from our Paper of yesterday.)", "VALAZE—\" Here is a day-book written by him, containing the pensions out of his coffer from 1776 till 1792, in which some Decucares granted to ACOLOQUE for his nations which I have made.\"", "LOUIS—\" This I own, but it consists of two things which I have made.\"", "VALAZE—\" Different lists of sums paid Companies of Noailles, Gramont, Montmorency, Burgb, on the 9th of July, 1791.\"", "LOUIS—\" This is prior to the epoch to be paid.\"", "PRESIDENT—\" Louis, where had you pieces, which you own?\"", "LOUIS—\" With my Treasurer.\"", "VALAZE—\" Do you know these Pens Life Guards, the 100 Swiss, and the King's 1793?\"", "LOUIS—\" I do not.\"", "VALAZE—\" Several pieces relative to the Camp of Jale, the originals of which among the Records of the Department of the", "LOUIS—\" I have not the smallest knowledge of these pieces.\"", "VALAZE—\" Letter of BOUILLE, dated an account of 993,000 Livres received of Louis.\"", "LOUIS—\" I disown it.\"", "VALAZE—\" An order for payment of 1,000,000 Livres, signed Louis, endorsed Le Bonniers, with the let of the same?\"", "LOUIS—\" I disown it.\"", "VALAZE—\" Two pieces relative to the wife of POLIGNAC, and to one Louis, CHOISETUL?\"", "LOUIS—\" I disown them as much as the other two.\"", "VALAZE—\" Here is a Note signed by the sj-devant KING, mentioned in the Louis—\" I know nothing about it.\"", "VALAZE—\" Here are pieces relating to CHOISETUL GOUFFIER, at Constantinople, and to the Bishop of CLEMMONT, with the ans of the 16th April, 1791.\"", "LOUIS—\" I have no knowledge of these pieces.\"", "VALAZE—\" Here is a Letter of the Bishop of CLEMMONT, with the ans of the 16th April, 1791.\"", "LOUIS—\" I disown it.\"", "PRESIDENT—\" Do you not acknowledge the King?\"", "LOUIS—\" Yes, sir. I acknowledge this. This is the King's letter, and this is the King's signature.\"", "LOUIS—\" The King's letter, and this is the King's signature.\"", "LOUIS—\" The King's letter, and this is the King's signature. The King's letter, and this

["TRIAL OF LOUIS XVI.", "NATIONAL CONVENTION.", "SITTING of TUESDAY, December 11, 1792", "(Continued from our Paper of yesterday.)", "VALAZE.—\"Here is a day-book written by CAPET himself, containing the pensions out of his coffer from 1776 till 1792, in which some Decourts granted to ACOLOQUE for his", "LOUIS.—\"This I own, but it consists of nations which I have made.\"", "VALAZE.—\"Different lists of sums paid by the Companies of Neuhiller, Gramont, Montmorin, Burgoyne on the 9th of July, 1791.\"", "LOUIS.—\"This is prior to the epoch when they to be paid.\"", "PRESIDENT.—\"Louis, where had you pieces, which you own?\"", "LOUIS.—\"With my French Treasurer.\"", "VALAZE.—\"Do you know these Pens Life Guards; the 100 Swiss, and the King's 1792.\"", "LOUIS.—\"I do not.\"", "VALAZE.—\"Several pieces relative to the Camp of Jala, the originals of which among the Records of the Department of Jala are the", "LOUIS.—\"I have not the smallest known pieces.\"", "VALAZE.—\"Letter of BOUVILLE, dated an account of 993,000 Livres received of Louis", "LOUIS.—\"I disown it.\"", "VALAZE.—\"An order for payment of signed Louis, endorsed Le Bonnier, with let of the same 2.\"", "LOUIS.—\"I disown it.\"", "VALAZE.—\"Two pieces relative to the wife of POLIGNAC, and to one LA CHOIROLLE.\"", "LOUIS.—\"I disown them as much as the", "VALAZE.—\"Here is a Note signed by of the ci-devant KING, mentioned in the Louis.\"", "LOUIS.—\"I know nothing about it.\"", "VALAZE.—\"Here are pieces relating to CHOIROLLE GOUFFIER, at Constantinople.\"", "LOUIS.—\"I have no knowledge of their", "VALAZE.—\"Here is a Letter of the Bishop of CLERMONT, with the ans of the 16th April, 1791.\"", "LOUIS.—\"I disown it.\"", "PRESIDENT.—\"Do you not acknowledge the", "LOUIS.—\"I disown them and distributed by the King's�. That the thinking of this Most Illustrious, that the King's will, and that the King's will be obeyed, and that

Jr't REPORTS OF THE DAY. 1791

THE Flight of the Royal Family of France bring
the most interesting circumstance that has for a
long time been presented to the Public, did not
fail to engross almost every conversation for these
few days past. When the World talks, the in-
vention is seldom inactive, and the various Coffee-
house rumours have been, and will continue to
be, whimsical and extravagant in the extreme.

One account sent his MAJESTY to fight in
Flanders, while the QUEEN was to be a boarder
at Beaconsfield.

Others lodged them for the present at Wind-
ter, and were fitting up York-House, Cumberland-
House, and Mr. CALONNE's House upon the
Hill, with the utmost expedition.

One man asserted, that they had commanded
a Play at Richmona; while another, with equal
confidence declared, that they were to have a
Benefit at Ranelagh.

The Monarque was seen slipping into a white
house in Sobe-Square; and Her MAJESTY was
at Mass in the Spanish Ambassador's Chapel.

Nothing has been too absurd for circulation
on this subject; and it might be thought some
instance of moderation, that the Royal Refugees
were not sent to be exhibited at Sadier's Wells or
at Atley's.

LOUIS JOSEPH de BOURBON, PRINCE de
CONDE, is by no means so advanced in years as
he has been inadvertently slaved. He is in his 55th
year, being born the 9th day of August 1736.

Count DILLON, upon the communication no
doubt of the meditated design of the FRENCH
MONARCH, marched a body of fifteen hundred
Troops from Lisle to the Frontiers of Austrian
Flanders,

Sunday Mr. DUFF arrived at the Secretary of State's Office, with dispatches from Lord ELGIN at Milau. Mr. DUFF came through Austria, Flanders, and arrived at Calais on the night between Thursday and Friday, when the first alarm had been given of the flight of their Majesties.

Mr. DUFF is not a regular Messenger, and
he was stopped by the Municipal power at Ca-
lais. He was kept in the guard-house for three
hours, and then underwent an examination at
the Town Hall. His dispatches however were
not opened, and he was permitted to send them
across the Channel on Friday afternoon. He
followed them himself on Saturday morning.

A MORNING PRINT of yesterday stated,
that TURSEN was the name of the person who
planned, under M. de CALONNE, the escape
of the KING. That is not the name, nor is
there any resemblance to the real name in what
they gave.

The KING of the FRENCH, strange infatua-
tion! stopped in his flight above an hour each
time at two different places—to EAT! But for
this extraordinary indulgence he had escaped.

MONSIEUR, the Brother of LOUIS XVI. by
his flight, loses 2,000,000 of livres, which were
paid him annually from FRANCE.

The Coolnefs with which the Citizens of Parisheard
of the flight of their King, is, to a contemplative
mind, amongst the moſt triking features of that
Transſaction.—Affixed to the Copy of the King's
Manifeito, the only comment was—"Citoyens,
tizez & jugez. Au refle, buvez & mangez comme a
l'ordinaire!—" Citizens, read and judge, and as
'to what remains, you ſhould eat and drink as
ual!

VIENNA, APRIL 19.

Madame MURAT has purchased for 400,000 florins, an estate of Count Hogos, ten leagues from Vienna.

On the very night preceding the King's de-
parture, notice was given to the Municipality, of
the intentions of the Royal Family to leave
France, in consequence of which double guards
were posted around the Tuilleries, all the post-
wares in Paris were stopped, and orders given
at all the barriers, not to permit any one to leave
the Capital, without a pass-port from the Mayor.
Yet, notwithstanding these precautions, the
KING, the QUEEN, the DAUPHIN, and MA-
DAME ROYALE, all effected their escape.

The Duke d'AUMONT was stopped by the
mob, soon after the escape was known, and the
cloaths torn off his back. The People were con-
ducting him to the Place de Grève, with an in-
tention of hanging him a la lanterne, but he was
fortunately rescued by the National Guard, and
conducted to the Guard-house, though not with-
out some resistance, for the people refused to give
him up. He had been on duty the preceding
evening, and it was suspected he favoured the
Royal escape. He has demanded to be tried by a
Court Martial.

The Marquis de NESLE, one of the Officers
of the King's Body Guard, has been likewise ar-
rested, as was also M. de MONTMORIN, one of
the King's Ministers.

The escape was certainly made through one of
the private doors of the palace; it is believed
through a passage leading from the pavilion in
which the QUEEN slept, and from which there
is a private communication to the garden. This
avenue had no sentry placed over it. It is said
that the Royal Family got into their carriages at
the Pont Royal, a short distance from the palace.
It is further believed that several officers of the
King's former body guard attended at the escape,
and that some of them followed the Royal Car-
riages at a little distance, dressed in liveries; for
about fifty persons immediately in the confidence
of their Majesties are missing, and several have
left the capital within the last fortnight.

It evidently appears, that the KING intended
to escape to Metz, the capital of the Eleſtor
of that name, where the Chiefs of the Counter-
Revolution now are. The KING was to have
met the Prince de CONDE, the Count d'ARTOIS,
and M. de CALONNE, at Metz, where the two
former arrived the 13th instant, accompanied by
the Dukes of BOURBON and ENGHIEN, and were
received under the discharge of a salute of artil-
ery, and on the parade by a company of gre-
nadiers.

The Eleſtor, accompanied by all the French
General Officers at that place, received their High-
nesses with great pomp; the Palace was very very
superbly illuminated, and there was a grand supper
in the evening. The Count d'ARTOIS resides at
the Eleſtoral Palace. The Prince de CONDE and
his sons at an Hotel, where he is attended by a
royal guard.

In the Northern parts of the Kingdom, snow
has within these ten days made its appearance on
the Hills, and the weather has been uncommonly
severe.

The following whimsical letter appears in the Journal
des Debats of Tuesday last :

"TO THE EDITOR.—Sir,—Ill, in pain, and feeling my end approach, I have thought it right to make my Epitaph, in order to spare my friends the labour, and, above all, the embarrassment of making it for me. Have the goodness, I bes, to give it a place in your Paper. It is not very poetical; but if my extreme age has not destroyed my judgment, I think it has at least: common sense. Here it is:—

> "Ne volez-t-il faire des Vers, les fit mal et ne put
> Quo qu'il fut sans esprit, etre de l'Institut."

"Ci-quit lui fit des Vers, les fit mal et ne put

IMITATION.

Here lies a poor Poet; his verses were flat;
And yet he the Institute miss'd, for all that.

The copyhold estates of the late Lord Strafford were
publicly sold last week, at Wakefield, and though not
amounting to 550 acres, produced 74,770l. or nearly
130l. per acre.

The following is a list of the Commissioners
sent to conduct the King to the Capital: M. M.
La TOUR, MABOURG, BARNAVE, and PE-
TION.

—They were furnished with authority to issue
orders to command the assistance of the Troops
of the Line, the National Guards, &c. &c. in re-
gard to every thing that concerned their mission.

There is no instance perhaps in History, of such
a long Session as that at which the NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY assisted, on the departure of the
King, having sat, with the interruption only of
about five hours, from Tuesday morning at nine
o'clock, till Thursday at one o'clock in the morn-
ing.

Perhaps the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of
FRANCE, if their wishes could be expressed,
had much rather that the MONARCH had escaped
entirely—for, stripped of Sovereignty virtually
by his attempt, and yet no doubt cherishing the
idea of positive RIGHT—even in captivity he
would be full of danger; and when the danger
is at a distance, it is duly considered, and op-
posed with firmness and decision. A Monarch,
captivated and insulted, never fails to excite com-
miseration, and continued insurrections may be
springing up even in the Capital, on his be-
half.

Now, Gentlemen of the PARTY, we presume
GREAT BRITAIN will be acknowledged the
Arbitress among the Nations—What part the
British Cabinet may incline to take in the present
perilous position of affairs in the neighbour King-
dom, remains to be determined :—Certain it is,
however, that her decision will be looked up to
with eager respectfulness, and no doubt be con-
ceived by our glorious MINISTER in the spirit
of wisdom and humanity.

It is to be feared that the high Soul of the
GALlick QUEEN will not let her survive the pre-
sent ignominious capture. One quiet Opposition
Print talks with exquisite composure of their Ma-
jesties sleeping on Friday at Paris—Alas! as
things now stand,

"The King can sleep no more!"

Those who are best acquainted with the pre-
sent state of Morality and Religion in France,
make no scruple to declare, that the expected
Crusade of the EMPEROR and KING of SPAIN
is to be against the Infidels.

AVENUE.

1739.

Paris, O.S. This day their Most Christian
Majesties received the foreign Miniflants at
the Tuilleries, as did Monfieur and Madame at the
Palace of Luxembourg.

The Nation I affembly Bill fits at Verfailles,
till room is prepared for their reception at the
Louvre. On the 5th instant the King gave his
fancion to the theſs Articles of the Conſtitution,
and Droits de l'Homme, which had been prefented
to his Majesty by the Aſſembly.

During the flight of the Royal Family of
France, the KING frequently expressed a wish
for the wing of a roasted chicken. This demand
the QUEEN very pleasantly parried, by observing
that—" in her mind, they were ſufficiently upon
the wing already." But whatever relish his MA-
JESTY may have for a joke, he could not feed
upon it, and delaying to regale on something
more substantial, their escape was intercepted.

The French King now offers his perfon, offers
his Influence, offers his all, to the defence of the
New Conſtitution!—Theſe offers, he unfortunately
happens, would be more readily accepted, if he had
not before offered—to go away! 1792

The French King's Proclamation could not be
written or published by himself, because it ſays, "I
fly my Country to be free from the tyranny of the
National Assembly;"—whereas he himself ſays,
"I had no intention to go away."

["“ In conformity to your orders, we took the road which leads to the place where the KING had been stopped. Upon the road we collected every possible information. At the same time we took every necessary precaution to preserve order and tranquillity, and to secure the return of the KING. We were informed that he was at Chalons, where already was assembled a great number of National Guards, collected from the neighbouring departments. Being desirous, according to the instructions of the National Assembly, that the attention and respect due to the Royal Dignity should be uniformly maintained, we gave orders that the National Guards and the regular troops should exert themselves wherever it appeared necessary. We stopped at Dormans, where we were informed the KING had quitted Chalons, on his road to Eperney. We likewise heard the alarming news that he was pursued. Other reports mentioned, that without being pursued, attempts were made to intercept his journey, and to seize his person. In consequence, M. DUMAS, who accompanied us, and who had been directed by the Assembly to carry our orders into execution, took, with a zeal worthy the highest praise of the Assembly, every necessary precaution to prevent the pursuits, and other hostile attempts which might be made. At every post he placed considerable forces; and we used the greatest dispatch to escape the pursuits, not indeed very probable, but of which it was prudent to foresee the possibility. We met the KING between Dormans and Eperney.", "“ We found in the carriage with the KING, the DAUPHIN, the QUEEN, Madame ROYALE, daughter of the KING, Madame ELIZABETH, and Madame TOURSEL, Governess to the DAUPHIN. On the box, we found three persons, who told us that their names were VALORI, DUMONTIER, and MALSAN; and that they were all three of the ancient body guards. They were dressed like couriers. Behind this carriage was another, in which were two women, who said that their names were Mesdames BRIGNY and FOURVILLE; the former waiting woman to Madame ROYALE, and the latter to the DAUPHIN.", "“ One of us read to the KING one of the decrees, which authorised our mission. The KING answered in few words, and discovered his sensibility of the precautions taken by the National Assembly, for the security and pre-", "“ The National Assembly owes its praises to the indefatigable zeal of the National Guards, and to the disposition of all the Citizens, who were every where assembled in great numbers. Our journey was as rapid as possible. We met with no inconvenience, except from the heat of the season, and the common embarrassments of travellers. We left Mieux at half after six this morning. The number of National Guards augmented gradually, so that at first having only chosen to be attended by Cavalry, we now were followed by an immense body of Infantry. This retarded our progress, and it was still more incommoded by an immense number of Citizens who met us on the road. This was the reason, that although we had given out that we should arrive here at three o'clock, we have only been able to reach this place at seven.", "“ We were every moment stopped by a course of Citizens. Notwithstanding the slowness of this march, we were not molested by any accident, nor even by any attempt.", "“ Upon our arrival at Paris, we placed the KING and the QUEEN, MADAME ROYALE, the DAUPHIN, and MADAME ELIZABETH, and the three body Guards, who were dressed as Couriers—we placed, I say, these different persons in the Castle of the Thuilleries, under the Guard of the Commandant General of the National Guard of Paris, and we informed them that we were going to make our report to the National Assembly, and to await its orders.", "“ This has been the result of our mission. We ought, moreover, to assure you, that public tranquillity has been maintained, and that we have every where collected testimonies of confidence in the National Assembly.”", "M. PETHION, one of the Commissioners, begg'd leave to state a fact, which may have been otherwise misrepresented. The people and the National Guard, apprehensive that the three persons upon the box of the carriage might escape, or might not even have been arrested, endeavoured to seize them. But as soon as the Commissioners announced the law by which the Assembly had ordered their arrest, they were conducted to the Castle without opposition.", "To prevent disorder, M. PETHION had placed himself at one of the doors, and one of the National Guards, who did not know him, seized him by the collar, but as soon as his office of", "COMMISSARY—“ I, Sir! I want nothing; I only thought you was indisposed, and came to see if you stood in need of any thing?”", "KING—“ No, Sir, I don't !”", "The KING sat down again, and the Mayer came and spoke to him with animation and dignity. The decree that LOUIS CAPET be conducted to the bar of the Convention, was read to him.", "KING—(bearing the words of LOUIS CAPET)—“ My name is not CAPET, though my ancestors long bore it.— You have deprived me of my son an hour too soon.”", "The KING went down stairs by request of the Mayor, and at the bottom of the Anti-Chamber his uneasiness seemed to increase at the sight of the horses and armed men. Having arrived in the Court-Yard, he cast his eyes on the Tower which he had left, and I perceived his eyes wet with tears.", "We afterwards went to the Ladies, who seemed to be in the most shocking state of terror and alarm; I told MARIA ANTOINETTE that the Mayor had been with her husband. Young LOUIS had told her it before.", "QUEEN—“ We know it, but where is he now?”", "COMMISSARY—“ At the Bar of the Convention. Be not uneasy, a competent armed force have him under their protection.”", "Madame ELIZABETH—“ We are not uneasy, but affected; and had you told us so sooner, you would have afforded us great consolation.”", "When LOUIS had returned, and I was left alone with him, he said to me—", "KING—“ Do you think, Sir, they can refuse me Counsel?”", "COMMISSARY—“ If the Convention grant you one, you will have one; but I cannot pre-judge things.”", "LOUIS—“ I am going to consult the Constitution (LOUIS went and searched the Bosk.) Yes, The Law grants me Counsel. But do you think, Sir, I may have intercourse with my family?”", "COMMISSARY—“ Sir, this I cannot tell neither, but I will consult the Council.”", "LOUIS—“ Pray order me my dinner, for I am hungry, I have been fasting almost ever since morning.”", "COMMISSARY—“ I will first go to gratify the wish of your heart, by consulting the Council; then I will order dinner.”", "I returned a moment after.—“ Sir, I have to inform you, that you are to have no intercourse with your family.”", "LOUIS—“ But is not that very hard ?—What ! not with my Son ! a boy, only seven years old ?”", "COMMISSARY—“ Such are the Orders of the Council.”", "Supper was then served up, LOUIS eat six chops, some eggs, a large piece of fowl, drank one glass of Alicante Wine, and went to bed immediately after.", "We then went to the Ladies.", "QUEEN—“ Cannot my husband see his family?”", "COMMISSARY—“ No, Madam.”", "QUEEN—“ Leave him his Son at least ?”", "COMMISSARY—“ Madam, in the situation you are in, it is he that is supposed to have the greatest courage, that ought to bear this privation; he besides the child at his age, wants more his Mother to take care of him than his Father.”", "The Ladies seemed very eager to know the name of the President of the Assembly, but the Commissaries gave evasive answers.", "The Council of the Commons have decreed, that the Council of the KING shall be searched from head to foot, in the most secret parts, and to have their cloaths changed after they have been admitted.", "It is a maxim in all Monarchical Governments, that “ the King can do no wrong;” of course, the many contradictions in the separate examinations of their French Majefies, must fall on the head of the unfortunate Queen !", "FROM\nCLOSE IMPRISONMENT", "On Monday his Eulalia received an order to quit the Castle, and the King had been killed, while the Queen was making mention of the King's will, tolerably quiet all the day. The King had given the people leave to make their own precautions against an infarction, by all over the city.", "The Magistrates under the directions of the Grand Council, left their caution in the hands of the King, and the King's prisoners were allowed to be put in the Tower, where they were put to death by the King. The King's juries will not be permitted to sit in the Tower, and the King's own judges will be appointed. The King's own judges will be appointed. The

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Tomorrow
MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1867

At 12 o'Clock,
£40,000
FOR THE
FIRST-DRAWN TICKET.

IT MAY BE
£60,000.

If the First-drawn is
A SUPPLEMENTARY TICKET
THE HOLDER
Has a Chance
FOR THE
£20,000 Prize,
IN THE LITTLE
SUPPLEMENTARY LOTTERY
Of only 6,000 Tickets.

April 24, 1807.

## CAT LOST,

LOST, on Sunday Morning last, a large very dark tabby Cat, with a black Stripe down the back, and two black Rings round the Neck.

Whoever will bring him to Perrott's Hotel, Lower Brook Street, shall have FIVE SHILLINGS, for their trouble.

E

OD

By ISAACSON

Barber, Periwigged Black

SHAVES for a peep and powdird in Educated; Lamps lighted alfo taut the manner, and great Alfo, farme fingeringLikewise makes an ches the Ho! boy a bliffers on the low a peace. Cow-tilling abrode. Alfo dealeth its branchis. Sells with blacking balls Scrubbin brufhes, metes, Likewise, Saffages, and other things.—A Bawl o' the ed (God willin) B to be heard of farved with the bea fleet.

N. B. Alfo, L

I is the one Licker for much in heafe.—If you will give you a glass money for it firft

*Education* of Ten Thousand Poor Children, under Royal
Patronage.

JOSEPH LANCASTER,
OF LONDON,

Superintendant of the above Plan, intends to deliver

A LECTURE,
ON HIS NEW

SYSTEM OF EDUCATION,
*At the York Hotel, Clifton,*

On the Day called TUESDAY, next at two o'Clock,

The striking feature of his Plan is, to have One Thousand Children taught under one Master, and by
one Book, with a peculiar Economy.

It is hoped the Inhabitants and Gentry of Clifton will encourage the Benevolent design of establishing
a School on the above Plan in the City of Bristol.

BRISTOL, Dec. 21 1807,

(Bonner & Polglase, Printsys).

THE ODDEST
OF ALL
ODDITIES

Beards takin of, and Regifturd!

By ISAAC FAC-TOTUM,

Barber, Peri-wig Maker, Sergeant, Parish Clark, School Master,
Blacksmith and Man Midwife.

SHAVES for a penne, cuts hare for two-penfe, and oyl and powdird into the bargain. Young ladies gently Educated; Lamps lit by the hear or quarter; young gen- tlemen alco taut there grammer langwage in the neatfeff manner, and great kear takin of their morels and fpelin.—Alfo, farme finging and horce fliewin by the real maker! Likewise makes and mends all forts of Butes and fhoes, te- ches the Ho! boy and Jews harp. Cuts corns; bledes end blifters on the loweft terms; glifters and purgis at a penne a peace. Cow-tillions and other dances tant at hoam and abrode. Alfo deals holefale and retale—Pirfumery in all its branchis. Sells all forts of stationary wair, together with blacking balls, Red herrins, Gingerbread and Coles; Scrubbin brufhes, Treycle, Mouce traps and other Sweet- meters. Likewise, Godfathers Cordal, Red rutes, Tatoes, Saffages, and other gardin Stuff.

P. S. A teaches Joggrefy, and them out landifh kind of things.—A Bawl on Wefdays and Frydays. All perform- ed (God willin) By Me ISAAC FAC-TOTUM.

To be heard of at my Wharehoufe, where you may be
farved with the beft Tobacco by the ream, quire, or fingle
fleet.

N. B. Alfo, Likewise, bewary of counterfeats? for
fuch is a brode.

I is the only origanel enventir of that famoueft Licker for much in woge, call'd cuckholds comfert or arts heafe.—If you want to believe me—ax the landlord and he will give you a glafs to tafe— but you muft give him the money for it firft O!

For a WIFE of any Age,
With from 200, to 500 Pounds Fortune.
Beauty and Cleanliness.

THE Providential Assistance lately given to Qualified LADIES, for
to remove every Obstacle that envious Falsehood can produce against
the Princely Marriage Offer of 500,000 Pounds, made them by Sir
JOHN DINELY, BART. invites him to lay before them two printed
Judgments, (inserted in my Book of Remarks,) lately obtained by our
Courts of Law, on a similar Case, that will undeniably Justify his
Printed Six Articles to their Satisfaction. Does not Humanity and
Gratitude command you to give a proper Hearing or Addrefs without
further Delay, on this Sacred and Important Busineſs ? as it is not rea-
sonable that I should part with my Book out of my Company.—
Should you hesitate to Direct instantly to me at my House in WINDSOR
CASTLE, when your Interest is so much at Stake ?

WITH
BON TON.

CHINA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN LATELY
RESIDENT IN CHINA, DATED CANTON, APRIL 18.

“The affair between the English Company and the Chinese Government is at length adjusted.—After many meetings, chin-chinnings, &c. &c. the Chinese Government ordered up for trial the fifty-two sailors, belonging to the *Neptune*, that were on liberty when the affair happened. This order was complied with on the part of the Company, and about the 25th of March the sailors arrived in Canton, under the protection of a company of marines, from the *Lion* Ship of War. After they had reached Canton, the Mandarins intimated that they must be taken inside the city for examination. This was resolutely opposed, and it was finally agreed that the trial should be held in the Company's old factory; the lower part of which was accordingly fitted up in great style, with yellow and crimson silk carpets, cushions, chairs, tables, &c. &c. the whole intended to represent the Emperor's Court. The business now appeared favourable, but was soon shaded by another serious occurrence: The Mandarin who was to sit in awful judgment required, that the Chief of the Company, the Captain of the *Lion*, and the Commodore of the Company's Ships, should not be permitted to sit in his presence during the trial. This was not acceded to, and threats were uttered on the part of the British. The Mandarin was equally obstinate, and the business assumed a very serious aspect. As the Mandarin could not come himself, or send one of high order, he sent one who was willing that the British should sit at their ease in good elbow chairs. Thus arranged, about the 6th instant, the trial commenced, and of 52 sailors, 11 were selected as the most guilty, and laid over for further proof. On the 9th the eleven were again brought up for trial, and two were selected as the guilty persons, who were again laid over for further investigation. On the eleventh the two were again brought forward, one of them adjudged guilty, and ordered to be kept in possession of the Company until the pleasure of the Emperor shall be known. The British Ships are now loading, and will sail in about a fortnight. What fate awaits the sailor retained is uncertain; but it is probable that the Mandarins would rather touch a few of the Security Merchants' dollars, and keep the affair from the Emperor, than retaliate the outrage against their countrymen. In this case, not less than one hundred thousand dollars will be necessary to patch up the affair.”

A Gentleman who was lately at Paris, mentions, that some experiments had been tried at Marseilles, to ascertain the practicability of applying the Sun's rays for culinary purposes. A number of mirrors were so placed in a frame, shaped like the section of a concave sphere, as to fling intense reflected light on the bottom and side of a black kettle. The water within was raised to the boiling point, and, with a little attention, to shift the situation of the circle of mirrors, was kept hot for a long time. Coffee and soup were thus boiled sufficiently. This appears to be the machine, on a reduced scale, with which ARCHIMEDES burned the Fleet of MARCELUS.

HIS MAJESTY'S SPEECH.

1796

THIS day, soon after two o'clock, His MAJESTY went in the usual state to the House of Peers, where being seated on the throne with the accustomed solemnities, and the Commons being sunmoned, and having appeared, His MAJESTY delivered the following most Gracious Speech:

“My Lords and Gentlemen,

“It is a peculiar satisfaction to Me, in the present conjunction of affairs, to recur to your Advice, after the recent opportunity which has been given for collecting the sense of My People, engaged in a difficult and arduous Contest for the preservation of all that is most dear to Us.

“I have omitted no Endeavours for setting on foot Negotiations to restore Peace to Europe, and to secure for the future the General Tranquillity.

“The steps which I have taken for this purpose, have at length opened the way to an immediate and direct Negotiation, the issue of which must either produce the desirable end of a just, honourable, and solid Peace for Us and for Our Allies, or must prove beyond dispute, to what cause alone the prolongation of the calami ties of War must be ascribed.

“I shall immediately send a Person to Paris, with full Powers to treat for this object, and it is My anxious wish that this measure may lead to the restoration of General Peace. But you must be sensible that nothing can so much contribute to give effect to this desire, as your manifesting that We possess both the Determination and the Resources, to oppose with increased activity and energy, the farther Efforts with which We may have to contend.

“You will feel this peculiarly necessary at a moment when the Enemy has openly manifested the intention of attempting a Descent on these Kingdoms. It cannot be doubted what would be the issue of such an enterprize, but it befits your wisdom to neglect no precautions that may either preclude the attempt, or secure the speediest means of turning it to the confusion and ruin of the Enemy.

“In reviewing the Events of the Year, you will have observed, that by the skill and exertions of My Navy, Our extensive and increasing Commerce has been protected to a degree almost beyond example; and the Fleets of the Enemy have for the greatest part of the year been blocked up in their own Ports.

“The Operations in the East and West Indies have been highly honourable to the British Arms, and productive of great National Advantage; and the Valour and good Conduct of My Forces, both by Sea and Land, have been eminently conspicuous.

“The Fortune of War on the Continent has been more various, and the progress of the French Armies threatened at one period the utmost danger to all Europe.

“But from the honourable and dignified perseverance of My Ally the EMPEROR, and from the intrepidity, discipline, and invincible spirit of the Austrian Forces under the auspicious Conduct of the ARCHDUKE CHARLES, such a turn has lately been given to the course of the War, as may inspire a well-grounded confidence that the final result of the Campaign will prove more disastrous to the Enemy, than its commencement and progress for a time were favourable to their hopes.

“The apparently Hostile Dispositions and Conduct of the Court of Madrid, have led to Discussions of which I am not yet enabled to acquaint you with the final result; but I am confident that whatever may be their issue, I shall have given to Europe a farther proof of My Moderation and Forbearance. And I can have no doubt of your determination to defend against every Aggression, the Dignity, Rights and Interests of the British Empire.

“Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

“I rely on your zeal and public spirit for such Supplies as you may think necessary for the Service of the Year.

“It is a great satisfaction to Me to observe, that notwithstanding the temporary embarrassments which have been experienced, the state of the Commerce, Manufactures and Revenue of the Country, proves the real extent and solidity of our Resources, and furnishes you such means as must be equal to any exertions which the present crisis may require.

“My Lords and Gentlemen,

“The distresses which were in the last year experienced from the scarcity of Corn, are now, by the blessing of God, happily removed, and by an abundant Harvest affords the pleasing prospect of relief in that important Article to the Labouring Classes of the Community.—Our internal Tranquillity has also continued undisturbed.

“The general Attachment of My People to the British Constitution, has appeared on every occasion; and the endeavours of those who wished to introduce Anarchy and Confusion into this Country, have been expressed by the energy and wisdom of the Laws.

“To defeat all the designs of Our Enemies, to restore to My People the blessings of a secure and honourable Peace, to maintain inviolate their Religion, Laws and Liberty, and to deliver down unimpaired to the latest Posterity the glory and happiness of these Kingdoms, is the constant wish of My Heart, and the uniform end of all My Actions. In every measure that can conduce to those objects, I am confident of receiving the firm, zealous, and affectionate support of my Parliament.”

THOMAS ADAMS, of Newhaven, in the 13 county of Suffolk, Blacksmith, do hereby acknowledge, that I have several times abuiled Melfir, VINE Boakers, of Newhaven, atofaid, Carpenters, by calling them rogues, for which I now ad: their pardon, in this public manner; and promise never to abuse them again, on condition of their not proceeding at law against me.

THOMAS ADAMS.

Newhaven, December 17, 1796.

BRISTOL, Oct. 25.

Wednesday morning heaven seemed to smile on the auspicious dawn; for it was one of the sweetest mornings that rose upon the eye of man, was ushered in by the ringing of bells, by display of flags and standards streaming from the steeples of our churches, the tops of the public buildings, and the masts of the ships of all nations in the harbour. In the course of the morning service was performed by the Clergy and dissenting Ministers of different denominations, in their several churches and meeting-houses, where appropriate sermons were delivered by their respective ministers to numerous and crowded congregations. The Mayor and Corporation attended divine service at the Mayor's Chapel, where an impressive discourse was delivered on the occasion by the Rev. T. T. Biddulph.

About nine o'clock the Volunteer Corps, in this city and neighbourhood, assembled in Queen-square, from whence they proceeded to St. Paul's church, where an excellent and appropriate sermon was delivered by Dr. Small. After service the Doctor, attended by the Churchwardens, and the principal inhabitants of his parish, proceeded to lay the foundation stone of an obelisk, to be erected in the centre of Portland-square, as a memorial of his Majesty's happy reign. After the ceremony, the Volunteers fired three rounds over the foundation stone, amidst a vast number of spectators. The spectacle was solemn and impressive.

The Volunteers afterwards returned to Queen-square, where, about two o'clock, they were joined by the garrison of this city; when the whole, being drawn up in order, fired a feu de joie in honour of the day. A royal salute of cannon was returned from Brandon-hill, and the joy was "echoed from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven." The work of charity and temperate festivity began, and though the English may be very doting men, they also praised that they are a moral and devout people—they fear God and honour the King. To notice all the acts of charity and beneficence manifested by the corporate and parochial bodies, as well as by individuals on this happy occasion, would exceed our limits. A grand triumphal arch was constructed in Corn-street, between St. Werburgh's Church and Mr. Norton's house, festooned with laurel, and ornamented with suitable devices. In the evening a bonfire was lighted on Brandon-hill. The effect was grand and substantive.

Among the festivities in commemoration of our beloved sovereign entering the fifthieth year of his Reign, we notice one at the village of Aston-upon-Trent, in Derbyshire, set on foot we understand, by the Rector, and supported by all the most respectable inhabitants. The morning was ushered in by ringing of bells, and other demonstrations of joy.—The Benefit Clubs, Sunday Schools, &c. walked in procession to Church, with a band of music, and flags flying. The Church was crowded in a manner never before witnessed in that village, and a most appropriate and impressive Sermon was preached by the Rector, who appeared to feel with enthusiasm the loyalty he so loyally recommended. An excellent band was placed in the organ gallery, and when the service was over, God save the King was sung by a considerable part of the congregation.—Tables were spread in the open place where the ancient cross stands, a sheep roasted whole, sirloins, rounds of beef, meat-pies, plumb-puddings, home made bread, and excellent ale, made up the plentiful repast. The ladies (adorned with "Long live the King," inscribed upon their blue ribbons), assisted in carving for their poor neighbours. "The King, God bless him," was the first toast given by the Rector, with three cheers; in the evening fire-works were thrown off at the Hall, and a rustic dance concluded this festive day, the expences of which proved so much less than was expected, that the surplus money, (several pounds) was on the ensuing Sunday, to be generously distributed to those poor families who are most in need of assistance.

We should have observed that the Rector gave a separate dinner to all the aged poor of his parish, upwards of forty of them were regaled at the Registry.

The auspicious morning of the Jubilee was ushered in by every possible mark of respect and joy by the inhabitants of Deal, the men of war and merchant vessels in the Downs, and the troops in barracks and quarters. The Mayor and Corporation breakfasted together, and afterwards proceeded to Church. At the close of Divine Service, the loyal Anthem of "God save the King" was sung by the whole congregation, which had a very grand effect.

At nine o'clock in the morning the Deal and Sandown Castle corps of Volunteer Artillery assembled on their respective parades, and proceeded to attend Divine Service; after which they fired a Royal Salute each; and in the evening a very handsome entertainment was given by the Officers to the two corps united (amounting to upwards of 200 in number), in the public market-place, which had been very tastefully fitted up in alcoves and compartments, with flags and colours of various sorts, and which, with the transparencies, &c. when fully illuminated, produced an amazingly pretty effect.—The utmost order, regularity and harmony, prevailed during the whole evening, and the company broke up about twelve at night, highly satisfied with the liberality of their Officers, in providing the entertainment, and breathing out strains of pure loyalty towards his Majesty. The Band of the Deal Castle Corps attended in full uniform, and performed several appropriate national tunes and airs. The first toast of "The King, God bless him," was most rapturously received, and drank with six times three—the Band playing "God save the King," in which the company joined in full chorus.

Mr. EDWARD IGGULDEN also gave a very worthy dinner to his Cierks, and the numerous workmen employed in his breweries and mercantile concerns, which was made additionally gratifying to them by his presence, presiding at table until the principal toasts had been drunk, when he retired, for the purpose of enjoying the remainder of the day in a higher sphere.

At one o'clock the whole of the ships in the Downs (they being previously decorated most profusely with colours of all descriptions, amongst which we observed the union of the Spanish and English flags) fired a Royal Salute of 50 guns each, in honour of the happy event; and in the evening great quantities of rockets were let off on board the ships, and the inhabitants of the town, and at the Naval Hospital, &c.

In the evening there was a grand Ball at the Assembly Rooms, which was attended by all the principal inhabitants of the town and vicinity, by the Admirals and General, and a great number of Naval and Military Officers; and we feel much pleasure in adding, that in the conduct of all their extensive measures, not a single accident happened, nor an occurrence that would in the least tend to disturb the general harmony of the day.

The Jubilee was celebrated at Yarmouth with every demonstration of joy: the ships of war in the roads, and the ships in the harbour, were decorated with flags, as were the public-offices. The poor were plentifully supplied with roast beef, plumb-pudding and strong beer, and a collection was made at the church door to a considerable amount, and which was equally distributed. The ships, at one o'clock, fired a royal salute, and in the evening were dressed with lanthorns; and a transparency on board the Indignant exhibited the words "George the Third and Unanimity." The Berkshire Militia fired a feu de joie. Select parties dined at the various taveras, and the evening concluded with a ball, which was kept up until a late hour.

On Wednesday last Divine Service was performed at the German Jews' great Synagogue, Duke's-place, and an appropriate and most impressive sermon was there delivered by the Rev. Dr. SOLOMON HIRSHELL; after which Masters PIKE and Moss, with a band of choristers, chaunted with much ter-

God Bless the King,
Preserve him long to know,
And grant him after de th
A Crown of Glory!

OCTOBER 26, 1809

JUBILEE.

We continue to receive from all parts of the United Kingdom the most gratifying accounts of the celebration of this memorable day. Sincere a feeling of gratitude, and esteem for his MAJESTY has been manifested in different parts of the country, in various modes, but in uniform degree.

The KING had no reason to doubt the loyalty of his people, but the additional and spontaneous testimonies which he has now received, have been accepted, and returned by his MAJESTY with sentiments of paternal affection.

In contemplating the brilliant celebrations of the Jubilee, on the part of the people, we ought not to forget the acts of grace which have proceeded from the Royal breast.

It has already been announced, that all deserters from his Majesty's fleets and armies have received his MAJESTY's free pardon, without the distressing condition usually annexed, of serving upon the most odious stations: and all persons confined for military offences have been released.

His MAJESTY has taken the same opportunity of gratifying the Officers of both Services, by a general Brevet Promotion.

All persons confined for debts due to the Crown have been released by the KING's command; the only exceptions being those which were distinguished by peculiar circumstances of fraud and violence, and in all instances of official delinquency; the latter exception being dictated by his MAJESTY's determination never to screen those from punishment, who have abused the powers derived from him, to the injury of his people.

In order that this auspicious period may be remembered with gratitude in foreign countries, his MAJESTY has permitted all prisoners of war, heretofore on parole, to return to their own Countries.—The prisoners of the French nation have been rendered a necessary exception to this gracious indulgence, by the unparalleled severity of their Ruler, in retaining all British subjects in France.

To these instances of his MAJESTY's favour, we have to add, that the sum of two thousand pounds has been appropriated by the KING, out of his own privy purse, for the release of poor debtors in England and Wales; the distribution of this bounty has been graciously entrusted by his MAJESTY to the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts, as being qualified to judge most correctly of the cases worthy of the Royal favour.

One thousand pounds have also been appropriate to the like purpose in Ireland, and one thousand pounds in Scotland, out of funds remaining at his Majesty's disposal.

The prayer offered by a venerable Prelate, upon His Majesty's Accession to the throne, has, in this manner, been gratified. The struggle between the King and the People has been long and doubtful; the King striving to deserve his People's love, and the People emulous in shewing it.

Upwards of one hundred unfortunate debtors in the prisons of the metropolis, were yesterday restored to liberty by means of the liberal donations made to the Society for the Relief of Persons imprisoned for small debts.

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["BONAPARTE appears to have a formidable Rival in ambition and hostility to the Peace of the World, in the DEY of TRIPOLI. His Most Barbarous Highness has been pleased to declare War against the EMPEROR of GERMANY, as well as against the KING of SWEDEN. The Fortresses in Germany are, however, tolerably safe from his swarthy legions.", "A Physician, who has been with the Army of Egypt, has returned to Paris, and proposes to make Mummies of his Countrymen in the greatest style of elegance. The Wags of that Capital observe, that he must be a man of uncommon genius who can preserve the dead, when so few of his Profession can preserve the living.", "The wild beasts in Paris live much more agreeably than we should suppose many of the Inhabitants of that Metropolis. All the meat condemned as unwholesome in the markets, falls to their share, and in the last year the quantity amounted to 15,366 pounds.", "Count ZEPPLIN having settled all the preliminaries to the Matrimonial Negotiation between the Duke of WURTEMBERG and the PRINCESS ROYAL of England, orders have been issued to send a frigate immediately to the Elbe, for the purpose of bringing over His Serene Highness to this Country, it being settled that the Neptuals shall be celebrated at St. James's.", "The following extraordinary incident occurred at Aylesford a few days ago.—As Mrs. Taylor, of that place, was sitting in the street near her house, she was suddenly surrounded by a swarm of bees, that had escaped from a neighbouring hive, and the little busy assemblage settled upon her. Mrs. Taylor, no doubt, embarrassed at such an unexpected host of visitors, had the precaution not to resist their familiarity, but to wait with patience their being hived, which was performed without any injury happening to her, other than a sting upon the wrist.", "At a village in the vicinity of the Metropolis, on Sunday last, the banns of marriage were published as usual, after the reading of the prayers; but no sooner was this done, than the couple, who were in church, suddenly marched up to the Altar, and desired to be married.—The Clergyman perceiving the situation of the Lady, assembled. She was thus made an honest woman, just in time for the little infant to be born in wedlock.", "WOODEN WIT.—A young man boasting of his health and constitutional stamina, very recently, in the hearing of WEITZER, the Player, was asked to what he attributed so great a happiness? “To what, what he attributed so great a happiness? I am sorry to say, but I am not laying in a good foundation, to be sure. I Sir?—no, I am sorry to say, but I am not laying in a good foundation, to be sure. I make it a point, Sir, to eat a great deal every morning. “Then, I presume Sir,” remarked WEITZER, “you usually breakfast in a timber-yard.”", "WANTED. In a Gentleman's fly, who resides a good deal in the country, fifteen miles from London, a toper, flay, Woman-cook, between thirty and forty, the must have learned her buinefs under a French cook, and have lived at least a year in her last place. Wages are Guineas a year, and board-wages 7s. per week. She will not be required to do anything out of the week. She will not be required to do

["SAD TO HAVE BEEN SUNK BY\nLORD CASTLERAGH TO MR. PITT,\nCONTAINING\nA TRUE ACCOUNT OF HIS LATE CONTEST IN IRELAND.", "SAD news from the kingdom of Ireland I bring,\nI believe I must get to my Bow a new String,\nI thought, my dear friend, that the Doctor and You\nWere \"Two Strings to my Bow\" I should always find do.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "As Travellers'd the sea to my own native land\nFor the county of Downshire determined to stand,\ni am sure on the prospect that gilded the way\nTo the certain success of your friend CASTLERAGH.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "There were things to be sure, that were not quite so well,\nThere were folks there I knew would be ready to tell\nHow in life I set out a Reformer, like you,\nAnd, like you, by a Place, how I soon was brought to.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "By others I knew, too, the mob would be told\nHow not only Myself but my Country I'd sold,\nYet still these reflections awaken'd no fears\nSo stout are my nerves for a youth of my years.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "The subject I own that tormented me most\nWas the fear I might meet my Lord Downshire's poor\nGhost,", "That his Spirit the People of Ireland might tell\nHow in vain I implor'd him his Country to sell.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "How in vain with my Dukedom, and Ribbon, and Fees\nThis high-minded Marquis I studied to please,\nHow, because his Country prefer'd to all Place,\nI proclaim'd him a Rebel, and doom'd to disagree.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "Yet I knew my pretensions too well to despair,\nNever gaping Electors saw such bill-of-fare\nAs the one that you know I took out of this town,\nI'd a sop for all ranks from the Peer to the Clown.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "At home they might stay, or abroad they might go,\nI could furnish them all with \"Two Strings to my Bow,\"\nIn my Office of State and my Board of Control\nThere was picking and chusing enough for the whole.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "Then I fondly imagined, my friend, that your name\nAs united with mine would still add to my fame;\nAnd I could not but think, as the Doctor's friend, too,\nThat by his means I likewise should pick up a few.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "But, alas! my dear friend, then, the truth it must out,\nWith all my pretensions, I'm fairly turn'd out,\nAnd, if Englishmen think like the People of Down,\nWhat is more—We shall soon be turn'd out of this town.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "To my utter surprise, every rark and degree\nJohn'd in current of you, and in hiss at me;\nYet I thought, and horang'd, and kept open the Fall,\nTill I could not cajole a vote more for my soul.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "So now it was time, when I found my defeat,\nTo fall upon an excuse for my sudden retreat;\nSo, forthwith, I alleged that my friend, Colonel MEADE,\nBy the Art of Corruption, I would succeed.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "Then notice I检测ly would should be had\nThat I knew all the votes of the Colonel were bad;\nBut, at present, I knew that you wanted me here,\nFor the nations had paid for my absence too dear.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "But the loud-laughing, boobies began to smoke thiss,\nThat you know I can play such a part not aniss,\nAnd a damnable fellow, one TROTTER by name,\nBew the County of Downshire at once in a flame.", "Down, down, down, we are down.", "OPPOSITION ACCOUNTED FOR.\n(FROM THE SEVENTH OF THE PRESENT MONTH.)", "A fleet secured, an order timely made,\nA prohibition wisely not delay'd,\nHave baffled France; and whatsoever tends\nTo baffle her must irritate her friends.", "A letter from Lord Nelfon's fleet, dated off Algiers,\nJanuary 18, 1804, says, \"On the night of the 15th\nthe Superb, commanded by Captain Keats, anchored\nat Algiers, having Mr. Falcon, the Confus General on\nboard, and a letter from Lord Nelfon to the Dey, de-\nmanding that Mr. Falcon should again be received as\nConfulthere, and that all the Maltefe who have been late\ncaptured by the Dey's cruizers, should have been liberated\nand given up as Britifh subjects. On the following morning,\nat day break, a falamet was fired from the fort, which,\nhowever, Captain Keats did not return, but lent a\nLieutenant on shore, with a letter, to requite an au-\ndience of the Dey, which was accordingly granted.—\nCaptain Keats, accompanied by Mr. Scott, Chaplain\nto Lord Nelfon, who speaks the Arabic fluently, and\nwho acted as interpreter, waited upon the Dey, and\nprefented Lord Nelfon's letter, with a fuitable and fpi-\nrited remonfrance on the occasion. Throughout the\ninterview, which lafted nearly an hour, the Dey's con-\nduct was extremely violent and outrageous, and it con-\ncluded with his positively refusing to receive either Mr.\nFalcon back again, or to give up any of the Maltefe in\nhis poffeffion.", "\"On the 17th, in the morning, our fleet ten fail\nof the line came in fight of Algiers, when Captain\nKeats again went on shore to wait upon the Dey,\nwho, however, refuted to fee him, he being then bu-\nfly employed on the batteries, and after waiting for\nnearly two hours, Captain Keats returned on board,\nand on our fleet entering the Bay, Captain Keats went\non board the Victory, and communicated to Lord Nel-\nfon all that had paffed with the Dey.", "\"Under these circumstances his Lordship did not\nthink it adVAtable to attempt further intercourse with\nthe Dey, or to make ufe of any threat he was not pre-\npared to realife, as, though we could eafly in a few\nhours have defroyed his whole fleet, which was then\nlying in the Mole, and have knocked down the town\nabout their ears, we might have crippled fome of our\nflips in fuch a manner, as to render them unable to re-\nfume the blockade of Toulon at this fcaon of the\nyear, which was deemed a much more important object\nat the prefent moment. We therefore to-day left Al-\ngiers on our way to Toulon again.", "From the Gibraltar Chronicle, of Feb. 4.", "\"In confequence of the refalv experienced by Mr.\nFalcon, on his return to Algiers, the following Notice\nis here publifhed by authority :—", "Victory, at Sea, 19th Jan. 1804.", "\"The Dey of Algiers having refuted to receive the Britifh\nConful, all flaps are cautioned to beware how they approach the\nCoast of Algiers, or, permit themselves to be boarded by the\nAlgernon cruizers.", "\" NELSON AND BRONZE. \"", "ANECDOTES OF THE COURT OF PORTUGAL.", "The Queen of Portugal has in her poffeffion the largest\ndiamond in the known world, which was feut in the\nyear 1746, from the Brazils to the Court of Portu-\ngali; it weighs 1680 carats, and is valued by the\nPortugueſe lapidaries at the moſt wonderful ſum of\n200,000,000fl. ſterling. The French lapidaries, who\nhave very great ſkill in diamonds, as well as great\npractice in cutting them out of their rough ſlate, value\nit at 300,000,000 of French livres. The\nEngliſh and Dutch lapidaries value it at 56,787,500fl.\nſterling.—The following ſtatement of their reſpective\nweights, will ſhew clearly that all other diamonds at\nprefent known are very ſmall, when compared to this:", "Carats in weight. In whole poffeffion.", "106. A diamond in the poffeffion of the Emperor of Ruffia.", "There is a very flagular character about town,\nknown by the appellation of Count D—, whole\ndebts it is ſaid, amount to near 2000l. and he\ndoes not owe his principal creditor more than\nhalf-a-quinze. The father of this young man\nwas a trademan of very good credit, who left his\nfon a handſome fortune, which he ſoon diſpoffed\nin fahionable amufements. Being naturally of a\ndocile, good diſpoſition, his former friends make\na convenience of him, and by lending the poor\nCount ha-f-a-crown, or giving him a good dinner\nand a laid by drefs, he will walk to Windfor or\nany of the environs of the town, and undertake all\nthe menial offices of an humble dependant.", "BURNING OF MOSCOW.", "We have given, in another part of our Paper, a curious\nand authentic statement, from private authority, of the\npresent condition of Moscow, and what it was when\nBuenaparte invaded Russia. The following account of\nthe cause of that memorable conflagration is from a Ger-\nman Journal: whether accurate or not, we have no account\nof determining :—", "\"ALTONA, Dec. 19.—It must be desirable to every\nfriend of historical truth, that one of the most extraordinary\ncases of our times—an event which has excited the\ngreatest interest in the present age, and must figure\nequally in the page of history—namely, the de구ruc-\ntion of the eastern capital of Russia in 1812, should\nbe described with as much accuracy as possible to our\ncotemporaries, and transmitted to posterity with as\nmany details as can be collected, and as much pre-\ncision as can be obtained. This is the motive which\nI have in view in making known the following\nfacts :—A person, who, at the period alluded to, resided\nat Moscow, who was an eye-witness of many of the\nevents that happened, and who had all means of infor-\nmation in his power, asserts, that it is a gross mistake\nto suppose that the destruction of Moscow was a heroic sa-\ncrifice on the part of the Russians. It is true that Count\nRétostaphin burnt down his own country-seat situate on\nthe great road from Moïlist to Moscow, and left behind\na notice on a pillar that he had so acted from, harred\nand contempt for Napoleon: but this was an act of indivi-\ndual patriotism, and had no relation to connexion with the\nevents in the capital, although this brave man was the\nGovernor of it. Had it been the original intention of the\nRussians to set fire to their city, they would have done it\nthe moment the army abandoned the defence of it;\nbut accidental circumstances were the first and\nreal causes of that event. As soon as Napoleon had\narrived at the Kremlin, his guards began to pillage the\nshops, and continued so to do till night, when they fastened\ntheir bayonets, and rambled thus through the magazines\nof goods, and the markets of spices; and when they had\nsatisfied their cupidity, left their lighted flambeaux be-\nhind. What wonder, then, that a conflagration broke\nout in every quarter of the city, especially as most of the\nhouses are of wood.\"", "The following account of the new Church build-\ning at Moscow, is extracted from a Hamburgh\nPaper :—", "“ MOSCOW, DEC. 18.", "\"The plan of the Church of Christ the Redeemer,\" which is building on the eminence called the Sperlingsberg, is by M. Wilberg, an academician, and formerly pupil of the Russian Academy. This temple will be one of the largest and finest works of modern architecture. The whole height of the building, from the bottom of the eminence to the cross, is about 110 fathoms. A flight of steps, 50 fathoms broad, beginning at the distance of 70 fathoms from the river Moscow, and forming five divisions which serve for the foundation of this great building, leads to the middle of the eminence, where the foundation is laid for the lowest temple, that of 'the Birth of Christ,' which rises 15 fathoms towards the summit of the eminence, to which the flight of steps, divided into two branches, takes another turn. Then begins the temple, called 'The Appearance of Christ,' with a fine entrance, five fathoms broad, and on each end 89 fathoms long. Upon this temple round a dome 25 fathoms in diameter, the third and highest temple will be erected, called 'The Resurrection of Christ.' The lowest temple has the form of a parallelogram, the second that of a square, and equal arm ed cross, and the highest that of a circle. In this temple there will be 48 bells, which form the four harmonic accords of music, and the solemn peal of which will particularly announce the festival of the Resurrection. The upper part of this temple, from the summit of the eminence to the cross, is 80 fathoms; on both sides of the lowest temple will be a colonnade of 300 fathoms, at the two ends of which there will be two monuments 60 fathoms in height, one of them to be made out of the canon taken from the enemy in the year 1812, between Moscow and the Russian frontiers, and the other canon taken between the Russian frontiers and Paris.\"", "MAN.", "—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—\n—

["TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS", "Of Royal lineage, and of spotless fame,\nIt'll bate us humbly thus to sue;", "An injured Princess, Justice is my claim,\nA helpless Woman, pity is my due.", "Ah good my Lord, what is the dire presence?", "That draws your high displeasure on my head?\nWitness this heart unconscious of offence,", "Witness the blandest life I still have led!", "A Mother's love, a Father's sheltering dome,", "My friends, my country, I for you resign'd;", "In Albin hop'd to find another home,", "Nor miss those social joys I left behind.", "My fond heart whisper'd as I cross'd the main", "\"Go happy Princess, whom the Fates approve,\nGo in thy Royal Consort's bosom reign;", "And taste the raptures of a Nation's love.\"", "Or if what much I fear'd, I failed to please,", "I was the Daughter of a Royal Line,", "Respected, attention, still I hop'd for these,", "These from a generous Prince would still be mine.", "Since first we met, I watch'd your every look;", "My dearest hope your Heart's fond love to share,", "Each wish, each motion from your eye I took,", "Liv'd on your smiles, and grieved in all your care.", "I challenge all the site of artful tongues,", "Why cast me off, what is the cruel plea?", "Ah! God forgive the cause of all my wrong!", "The Artful Fair deals with your heart from me!", "If aught you heed the voice of future time,", "Say will it shew the brave, the manly part,", "To wound that breast whose weakness is its crime!", "To urge your triumph over a broken heart!", "I to a generous Public leave my cause,", "Be mine the task to suffer and to die;", "Be yours the worthless Minion's vain applause", "Too deadly purchased by Reflection's sight!", "As if you heed me not! you sham my sight!", "Vain are my complaints, no more this face can charm!", "Yet once my soft endearments could delight,", "Yet on my lips your vows of faith are warm.", "By that true faith you breast at the altar swore", "By all the memory of endearments past;", "Yet one appeal remains, one trial more,", "And trust me that appeal shall be my last!", "Look on that smiling baby, FIRST PLEASURE OF LOVE,", "Her bosom has not learn'd to die; mine to bleed,", "Yet more her helpless innocence may move,", "Her speechless eloquence may better plead.", "1796", "C****", "For the Public Advertiser.", "DILLY AND DODSLEY.", "DILLY.", "TELL me no more, Pall-mall old boy,\nOf BURKE, your florid writer —", "Then this diagnaming Frithy fly,\nBOSWELL, my Sen, moves lighter.", "DODSLEY.", "You pality waz—who minds a work,", "Fill'd with JOHNSONIAN jargon?", "Keep you your BOSWELL—I'll have BURKE;\nWhich has the better bargain?", "When the late Lord BACON had once part\nfenceance of death upon an offender, the culprit\nentreated that he might be allowed one word with\nhis Lordship. Having obtained a moment's leave\n—\"My Lord,\" said the fellow, \"let me be re-\nprieved; I am a near relation of your Lord-\nship.\"—\"Of mine!\" said Lord BACON, affo-\nnified, \"explain yourself, man.\"—\"My Lord,\"\nreplied the criminal with a ferious and befeehing\nasheff, \"my name is Hogg.\"", "ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.", "To be fold, none the worse for wear—a large\nimportation of Confederation Galkades, which\nthe Proprietors have found to be contraband\ngoods, neither agreeable to the laws, nor fit of\nthe country:—they are convertible to va-\nrious ules, viz. leadingstrings for filling pa-\ntrients; plant bandages for broken-down\nDuchesses—or may with greater ease be wove\ninto the more useful ignea for the Knights\nof any Republican order, whenever their me-\nrited exclamation may require a public Cellar-\nday.", "Inventories may be had of Mellors' FIRE,\nBRAND, and Cr. Sworn Confederation Brokers,\nRatcliffe Highway.", "To the LADIES.—MAIDS OR WIDOWS.", "A GENTLEMAN, aged 40, whose situation\nand connections in life are certainly respectable, and\nwhose knowledge of the world has been acquired by hav-\ning seen the greatest part thereof, most respectfully solicits\nthe attention of a Lady, whose figure is gently and\nher manner engaging, with a pleasing countenance and good\ntemper; moreover she must be possessed of the polite ac-\ncomplishments, music in particular, with a fortune of\nat least five thousand pounds without incumbrance, and at\nher own disposal. The Advertiser is free from bad habits\nand deformity; and as he possesses but about ten thousand\npounds, though he has considerable expectations, it is ne-\ncessary that the Lady should be an economist, (whatever\nh r circumstances may be) capable and willing to manage\nher own province, for he is sensible, that without economy\nthe greatest fortune would be found too little.", "Should any Lady be touched with the reality of this serious address, and has fortitude to repose the necessary confidence in the integrity of the Advertiser, she may rest assured that the utmost delicacy shall be observed, and that at least one thousand pounds without incumbrance, and at her own disposal, will be free from bad habits and deformity; and as he possesses but about ten thousand pounds, though he has considerable expectations, it is necessary that the Lady should be an economist, (whatever h r circumstances may be) capable and willing to manage her own province, for he is sensible, that without economy the greatest fortune would be found too little.", "The outlines of person, circumstances, qualities, and ac-\ncomplishments, will be acceptable, previous to any inter-\nview which may be proposed, and he hopes neither of the\nintimations will be esteemed in any degree indicate or\nimproper.", "A preference will be given to a daughter of a Divine, or\na Gentleman of the medical profession.", "Incontestable vouchers of circumstances, and rank in\nsociety to be produced at the first meeting, if personal ap-\npearances are approved of, when such letters as have passed\nare to be returned if desired.", "All letters written with candour and confidence addressed\nto G. M. to be left at Mr. Dickie's, Stationer, opposite\nExeter 'Change, Strand, shall be punctually and faithfully\nattended to.", "As the Gentleman does not reside constantly in London,\nit is hoped that he will be indulged with four or five days\nnotice previous to any appointed engagement.", "N. B. No time is to be lost, for such a chance does not\noffer every day.", "M. O. R.'s favour very unfortunately did not come to\nhand until the day after the time appointed; but candour\nwithout confidence will not avail—the latter only perhaps\nis wanting to ensure success, if happiness be the object in\nview.—Other favours are nearly in the same predicament.", "No anonymous letters, nor any thing less than a generous reliance on the honour and honesty of the Advertiser, stating ingenuously the outlines as specified above, can be noticed: therefore it is earnestly requested, that such writers will forbear troubling themselves in future.", "The tonish Ladies of Vienna have lately adopted\na new mode. When they find their pecuniary de-\nmands too preffing for them to proceed, they de-\nclare themselves Bankrupts. Five of these fashion-\nable females have lately publifhed their failures,\nand called a meeting of their creditors. And one\nof them, to prove herfelf a confummate woman of\nbufinefs, has written a formal adieu to her Cara\nSpofo, with a declaration that he had entered into\ntreaty with a young Englishman, who, according\nto the terms of the Convention, is to pay her ten\nthoufand pounds, whenever he declares himfelf\ntired of the agreement.", "A WIFE.—Does any Gentleman want the fol-\nlowing recommendations?—A LADY—who can\nlife at two o'clock—breakfaff in bed—and having\npainted—fet out in her carriage a fopping.\nHurry-home at fix, dine at eight—visit ten dif-\nfacent Affemblies, and put at a Faro table till\nfive the next morning?", "It is generally allowed that the Birth-day was one of\nthe leafy brilliant and worth attended for a long time\npaft. The badneſs of the times and the Income Tax\nare faid to be the caufes. Now that Mr. PITT's finan-\ncial and political ſyftem has spread gloom, poverty, and\ndefolat ion even through the region of the Court, it will\nbe eafier for fome people to conceive the mifer it has\nspread among the lower ranks.", "Some of the Papers ſay that many of the Ladies\nwho appeared at Court on the Birth-day difplayed\ndrefſes not a little tarnified by their frequent ſaſſ.\nWe do not obſerve, however, that anything was ſaid in dif-\nparagement of the Gentiemen's drefſes, though, from\nthe badneſs of the times, no doubt there were not a\nfew Turn-cants!", "LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.", "How to put an End to it.", "Publifh a catch penny attack against a Lady, and\nher daughter, and forbid any one to offer any\nobservations on it, under pain of your dilepce\nfure.", "In cafe any remarks should be made in any one\nof the Public Papers, go to the Editor of it, and\ndemand the author, or faſtishance of him as a\nGentleman, that is, provided you ſhould be of\nopinion that he has not courage to accept of\nyour challenge.", "Bluſher and bounce about as much as you\ncan, in hopes to frighten the Editor, and if you\nshould be disappointed of your expectations, and\nreceive a challenge, inſit upon that he is bound\nto give up the author of the paragraphs that have\ngiven you offence, though they were neither li-\nbellous nor malicious.", "If the Editor, acting as he ought to do, refufes\nto do this, fuddlen g give him a violent blow with\na large flick with a leaden head to it, which\ntake care to be provided with, and try to knock\nhim on the head.", "If this ſhould have the effect wifhed for, and\nintimidate the Editor of newspapers from doing\ntheir duty to the Public, the Liberty of the Preis\nmay be expected to be of very ſhort duration in-\ndeed.", "LINES.", "COMPOSED DURING A WALK IN THAT CELEBRATED\n'FERME ORNEE.'", "THE LENSOWS.", "Ye lovely scenes, bewitching groves,", "By many a breezy zephyr laund,", {"bbox": [794, 961, 1012, 983], "category":

["EAST-INDIES. 1799", "DETAILS of the Battle between the British Forces and\nthose of TIPPoo SULTAUN.", "“ Camp, Seringapatam, May 7.", "“ The rains, which began after the latter end of April, and the exhausted and weak flate of the cattle, prevented the army reaching Arakeny till the 28th of that month, where they encamped, fronting, and in fight of Seringapatam; on their right, a range of high hills, and on their left the Cavery river, which in this part is rocky and uneven. TIPPoo had drawn out his army on very fling ground, at the foot of the hills between the fort, and had raifed many baueries to command the paffage of wamipy ground, which extended along his front between the armies. After endeavouring all day on the 29th to make a very difficult ford paffable, without fuccefs, in the evening private orders were illued to the brigadiers to have their bratures in readinlets under arms; at eleven at night, leaving the camp, baggage, and heavy train flanding, with the infantry of the reserve; and three battalions of fepays, befides the picques and ordinary guards for its defence. The intention of this movement, which was kept perfectly secret, was to march out by our right round the hills, and fall upon the enemy's camp at day-break on the 1st of May. It rained violently all night, and the cattle were exhausted in dragging the guns along the front of our lines; in flort, day broke in upon us. The Commander in Chief, however, perfevered in his intention of attack, though the night no longer concealed his motions; and about half pail fix o'clock we saw from an height the enemy's line, polled as before, a hill appearing to command their left flank. The firft brigade which headed our column puffed to gain it; a large body of troops, with two puffs, marched at the fame time from the enemy's left, and their whole line appeared in motion, as we thought, and their whole line appeared in motion

Lord MORNINGTON has been created a Marquis of the kingdom of Ireland, by the title of Marquis WELLESLEY, of Norragh.

By the late letters from Madras, the Earl of MORNINGTON had not left that Preldency, having deferred his journey, as was thought, on account of the intense heat of the weather. In the mean time his Lordship had effabbled a regular Dawk between that place and Seringapatam, which travelled the distance in two days and a half.

The bar and jewel, with the ornaments from the prize taken from TIPPOO SULTAUN, have been preferrèd to the Earl of MORNINGTON by their reffèp, through the Command

The war turban of TIPPOO forward worn by him, and the forward are to be preferrèd to the Marquis the army, through the Command of their reffèp.

The library of the late TIPPOO SULTAN, the Commander in Chief, for the Literature founded by them in Lo-

A sword of TIPPOO SULTAN, chamber, has been preferrèd by the general BAIRD, as a token of the courage and conduct in the assault.

The Prize Funds at Seringapatam of May to Star Pagodas 25 lacs been daily increasring. A dividend Star Pagodas a fhere, and the divil lowing fale, which will likewise be of Seringapatam prize property :

Naiges, Sepoys, Gun Lancers, Pехtorized Puckalls, Trumpeters, Drives Corps, each two-thirds or a third, Havaldars and 21 Tindals of 1 ton Lancers, and Standard Bears, and Lancers, two citoit Commandant Subadars, and Serangas, six fhares each

Corporals, Drummers, Trumpeters, vates of European Corps, one citoit Serjeants, two citoit each, Sejeant-Major, Sub-Conductors, Su- and Park Serjeants, three fhares, Quarter-Matter of Dragons, Convo- Provost Marshal, fifteen citoit Subaltern and Ailitant surgeon, Captains and Surgeons,

Majors, —
Lieutenant-Colonels, —
Colonels, —
General Officers on the Staff, 13 General-Commander Floyd, second one-third more, 200

The Commander in Chie, One fide. One lack of Pagodas out of the 20 to be let aside for the cavaly part Highfees the Nizam, to be approprizé be moft agreeable to Meer Allam Ba Officers who may have ferved on Seringapatam, with inferior rank to wards to what they actually held them, are to flare according to appointed to the Stalf securèd, be Generals on the Stalf is limited, of fuch officers are heard before money.

A Gentleman of 5,000l. per of Norfolk, lately sold the re- estate to another Gentleman expiration of 360 years for fit whimsical this purchase may will find that the compound rest of five guineas for 360 y 1,310,720.

Last week, by license, Mr. Mar- colnshire, to Miss Heringshaw, it was to have been married to a far been asked' by banus twice; and with a horse, properly equipped his arrival, to his great grief al- ange had departed, and joined in

The Treaty by which the dominions of the late TIPPOO are to be portioned has been ratified by the NIZAM. By this Treaty our newly-acquired territory in the Eaft is rendered fecurè. The happy event has been announced at Madras by a general discharge of cannon.

We underland, by a private letter from Bengal, that the young Princes, fons of the late SULTAUN, have been feit to Vulture, under a military efeor. Vulture is feated in the Carnatic, and is a poft of great importance, command- ing the great road leading from Myfore into the Carnatic. It confilis of three ftrong forts on as many hi 1s, and is fitly deuoted imparable to an Indian army. The

ten thousands of whom are virtuous as fair, this Arbitrator of Mortals and of States mises to his abandoned legions, to satiate their lust after the toils of victory ! after they have stained themselves with the blood of the husbands, the brothers, the fathers, and sons of those females. Horrible consideration ! What son, or what father, what brother, or what husband, can ponder it only in mind, and not feel all the man, all the hero rise within him.

It is to avert such mighty mischiefs, my Coun- trymen, that you are about to buckle on the sword. It is to drive these plunderers of the world, these polluters of female chastity to the waves they shall have the hardibood to cross, should they escape the vigilance (for I cannot for a moment suppose they will prove victorious over the valour) of our Naval Defenders.

That the call is loud and impressive I need not tell you: that it should arouse every one who has strength in his arm to exert that strength in the momentous common cause, is equally manifest. Let there be few exemptions; and I wish not to be among that few; but will gladly front danger, with my friends and fellow Britons, in defence of my Country, and will cheerfully hail death if I witness its fall.

EASTERN FETE.

We some weeks ago stated, that the Most Noble the Governor General gave a most splendid Entertainment in honour of the Peace. Nothing could exceed the magnificence of the ball, the fire- works, &c. &c. We copy the account of the de- coration of the supper table, which the genius of the Governor General, it appears, did not disdain to embellish with Latin inscriptions.

The most remarkable objects were a Galley bring- ing the intelligence of the Peace; a Frigate deco- rame curious Egyptian Ob- troglyphics; and a Temple, peace, and of the gallant ex- Military Commanders dur- ing the Temple consisted of eight porting four Pediments, the right Dome. The Pediments Paintings—ipe St. Vincents, on the 14th

ile, 1st August, 1798.
Seringapatam, 4th May, 1799.
the British Army under Sir
r, in Egypt, on the 8th of

Temple were also decorated
appropriate Mottes :

I.
Nutritor Olivam.

ON, Aug. 1, 1798.
ello, magnumque fluentem,
gentes are columnas.

SORE, 4th May,
HARRIS,
FLOYD,
STUART,
HARTLEY,
BRYDGES,
POPHAM,
BAIRD,
dimitas, pulsumq. Nephaten,
diverse en hoste trophæa,
útroq. ab littore Gentes.

EGYPT.
BERCROMBY,
CHUTCHINSON,
COIT,
RADDOCK,
IOORE,
AVAN,
UDLOW,
BAIRD,
ulis, et littore rubro,
entis, et ultima secum

PITT.
Consilium, et Two
os.

ORNWALLS.
S., Mediusq. Belli.

VII.
June 1, 1794.
October 11, 1797.
February 14, 1798.
August 1, 1798.
fulgent rostrata Coronæ.
MINATIONS.

From Front of the Government
ited Facade forty feet high,
ed and fifty feet on each side
to Peace : in the lower part
rent Painting 15 feet square,
g the Implements of War, and
ranch from Peace." On one
anus, and on the other, the
&c. The Royal Arms were
ent.

ilastres, of the Doric Order,
of Fame and Valour; in the
irtraits of the following emi-
nighly distinguished Officers

on. WILLIAM PITT,
Right Hon. H. ADDINGTON,
Lords CORNWALLIS,
SPENCER,
HOWE,
St. VINCENT,
DUNCAN,
BRIDPORT,
HOOD,
NELSON,
Sir R. ABERCROMBY,
Sir S. SMITH.

From the Temples of Valour and Fame, a chair

By the late letters from Madras, the Earl of MORNINGTON had not left that Prefidency, having deferred his journey, as was thought, on account of the intense heat of the weather. In the mean time his Lordship had effabulated a regular Dawk between that place and Seringapatam, which travelled the distance in two days and a half.

The flor and jewel, with the ornaments from the prize taken from TIPPOO SULTAUN, have been preferted to the Earl of MORNINGTON by their refpeft, through the Commandery.

The war turban of TIPPOO SULTAN, who had been preferted to the Marquis of Seringapatam, was to be preferted to the Marquis of their refpeft.

The library of the late TIPPOO SULTAN, which had been preferted by the army to the Commander in Chief, for the literature founded by them in Lo-

A sword of TIPPOO SULTAN, chamber, has been preferted by the general BAIRD, as a token of the courage and conduct in the affront of their refpeft.

The Prize Funds at Seringapatam of May to Star Pagodas 25 lacs been daily increasing. A dividend Star Pagodas a flare, and the divil lowing fale, which will likewife a of Seringapatam prize property.

Naiques, Sepoy's, Gun Lai-cars, Piquized Puckallus, Trumpeters, Drives Corps, each two-thirds or a tharee Haidavars and zil Tindals of 300 Jemelars, and Standard Beare's, and Lai-cars, two gittos

Commandant Subadars, and Serangal six thares each
Coronals, Drummers, Trumpeters, Vets of European Corps, one unit
Serjeants, two ditto each
Serjeant-Major, Sub-Conductors, Sur and Park Serjeants, three thares,
Quarter-Matter of Dragons, Confe- Prowalt Marshall, Ettice ditto
Subaltern and Aftaitant surgeon,
Captains and Surgeons,

Majors, —
Lieutenant-Colonels, —
Colonels, —
General Officers on the Staff, 15
Major-General Floyd, Second in Com- one-third more, 200

The Commander in Chieft. One E
One lack of Pagodas out of the ad
be let aside for the cavaly par
Highels the Nizam, to be appropri-
bet be moft agreeable to Meer Allum Ba-
Officers who may have ferved or
Seringapatam, with interior rank to
wards to what they actually held
them, are to flare according to
appointed to the Staff eace ted, be-
gends on the Staff is limited, pl-
of fuch officers are heard before the
money.

A Gentleman of 5,000, per
of Norfolk, lately sold the re-
estate to another Gentleman
expiration of 360 years for five
whimsical this purchase may
will find that the compound,
rest of five guineas for 360 y
1,310,720,

Last week, by license, Mr. Mars colosbire, to Miss Heringshaw. It was to have been married to a farm been asked by banus twice; and with a horse, properly equipped his arrival, to his great grief and angel had departed, and joined in

The Treaty by which the dominions of the late TIPPOO are to be portioned has been ratified by the NIZAM. By this Treaty our newly-acquired territory in the Eaft is rendered ſcure. The happy event has been announced at Madras by a general diſcharge of cannon.

We underſand, by a private letter from Bengal, that the young Princes, sons of the late SULTAUN, have been feft to Velore, under a military ſcort. Velore is feated in the Carnatic, and is a poff of great importance, command-ing the great road leading from Myfore into the Carnatic. It confits of three ſtrong forts on as many hills, and is adiut deſt unimable to an Indian army. The

Calipations, rising in pyramidal forms thirty-six feet in height, was continued to the Durrum-tollah on the left, and to Champoul Ghaut on the right, crossing the road to the Fort, from the corners of which it extended to the crest of the Glacis, and apparently connected with the Illumination on the Ramparts and the Calcutta Gate.

Opposite to each Wing of the Government House were three lofty and illuminated Arches, (the Arch in the centre rising sixty feet) crowned with appropriate Ornaments.

Two Transparencies were erefted opposite to the East and West fronts of the Government House. The Transparency on the East side represented a Battle; "LAKE," in a wreath of Laurel on the top; on one side, the Arms of General LAKE; on the other, his crest; and under the whole, the word "Lincelles," and trophies in honour of the memorable success of the British Troops at Lincelles, under the command of General LAKE.

The other transparency represented "a View of Seringapatam," Portraits of "Generals Harris and Baird," on each side, and on the top appropriate emblems.

Opposite the Northern Front of the Government House was a Transparency 40 feet high, "Britania Supporting the World, to which she has restored Peace."

Abarquesque scrolls of Light connected the whole,

EASTERN FETE.

WE some weeks ago stated, that the Most Noble the Governor General gave a most splendid Entertainment in honour of the Peace. Nothing could exceed the magnificence of the ball, the fire-works, &c. &c. We copy the account of the de-corations of the supper table, which the genius of the Governor General, it appears, did not disdain to embellish with Latin inscriptions.

The most remarkable objects were a Galley bringing the intelligence of the Peace; a Frigate deco-dome curious Egyptian Ob-glyphics; and a Temple, peace, and of the gallant ex-Military Commanders dur-ing the Temple consisted of eight porting four Pediments, the right Dome. The Pediments Paintings—pipe St. Vincents, on the 14th

ile, 1st August, 1798.
ingapatam, 4th May, 1799.

the British Army under Sir
, in Egypt, on the 8th of

1. Nutritor Olivam.
ON, Aug. 1, 1798.
ello, magnumque fluentem,
entes are columnas.

SORE, 4th May,
HARRIS,
FLOYD,
STUART,
HARTLEY,
BRYDGE,
POPHAM,
BAIRD,
NITARS, pulsum, Nephaten,
diverse en hoste tropica,
subroq, ab littore Centes.

EGYPT.
BERCYMOUR,
UTCHINSON,
DOT,
RADDOCK,
DORE,
AVAN,
UDLOW,
AIRD.
alis, et littore rubro,
ntis, et ultima secum

PITT.
Constitution, et Tres
os.

ORNWALLS.

Mediusq. Belli.

VII.
June 1, 1794.
October 11, 1797.
February 14, 1798.
August 1, 1798.
fulgent Jostrata Coronæ.
MINATIONS.

From Front of the Government
ated Facade forty feet high,
ed and fifty feet on each side
to Peace: in the lower part
ent Painting 15 feet square,
the Implements of War, and
anch from Peace." On one
anus, and on the other, the
&c. The Royal Arms were
tent.

nilastres, of the Doric Order,
of Fame and Valour; in the
irtraits of the following emi-
nighly distinguished Officers

m. WILLIAM PITT,
Right Hon. H. ADDINGTON,
Lordes CORNWALLIS,
SPENCER,
HOWE,
St. VINCENT,
DUNCAN,
BRIDGEPORT,
Hood,
NELSON,
Sir R. ABERCROMBY,
Sir S. SMITH.

["ON THE ALIENATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY.", "1794", "Chill howl'd the blast along the lonely plain,", "Where, fam'd ST. MAUR, thy Abbey's walls are found;", "Well pleased', I hail'd RELIGION's holy fane,", "And rod, with awe, the consecrated ground.", "And here, I cry'd, within these quiet cells", "From vice remote, from noise and folly free,", "Bright FAITH retires, meek RESIGNATION dwells,", "And love divine, and heav'n-born Charity.", "And here, amid the long resounding Choir,", "To prayer, to praise, to penitence that's given,", "Swells the loud Requiem, which warm hopes inspire,", "Which lifts the clay-born soul from Earth to Heaven.", "Even while I spoke, a secret horror thrill'd", "Thro' my fond breast, and check'd my fancy's flight—", "Unusual silence my enthusiasm chill'd—", "Unusual solitude dismay'd my sight.", "Thro' the long aisles we loit'ring MONK was found;", "In the lone cells were heard no pious mien;", "No more the lofty ORGAN's thrilling sound", "Swell'd solemn notes, or breath'd celestial airs.", "Oneفتie INATEM of the touching scene,", "Remain'd, the lonely tenant of the place;", "Mild MEANLECKY mark'd his rev'rend mien,", "And silent tears bedew'd his wrinkled face.", "Ah! say, I cried, why thro' these long drawn aisles,", "No more my brethren, and I too must flée,", "Does Piety remit her former toils?", "Finds she no more her lov'd seclusion sweet?", "Hast thou not heard, he said, the dire decree", "That gives to toil the mansions built for God?", "Fled are my brethren, and I too must flée,", "And weep the mandate, while I kiss the rod.", "Oh, TRAVELLER ! pause along these ivy'd walls;", "These vacant cells demand the pitiless tear!", "For here no more, to mild Religion's calls,", "The warm Enthusiast lends a heart sincere!", "Here in these Courts, shall every eye behold", "(How great the change !) the busy sons of men", "Siree ply their trades, and seek for sordid gold,", "Making the House of Prayer—the ROBBER'S Den !", "Forgive me Heaven ! not all men seek for gains,", "Despise thy mandates, or thy laws forget !", "Nor will I longer idly breathe in pain", "The plaintive murders of my deep regret :", "He said, and rais'd to Heaven his tearful eye,", "Then slowly stealing from his sight, withdrew;", "I paid the mournful tribute of a sigh,", "And bade the sacred scene—a sad ADIZU !", "ELLEN.", "DOCTOR BROOKS' ELBOW GREASE.", "As a Medicine, it is, perhaps, one of the\nstrongest specifics to be met with, and when fuc-\ncesfully applied, operates with great efficacy in-\ndeed. The effect, however, is by no means\ncertain, or to be depended on. Taken mode-\nnately, it acts as an alterative, and has a ten\ndency that is by no means alarming. But when\nused on deperate occasions, as is too frequently\nthe cafe, kill or cure is at once the word !", "The degree of exercise is not what is to be\nconfidered; since this elbow grease has often\ntimes been used for twelve and four and twenty\nhours together, without producing any material\nchange; while at other times, a few hours ap-\npreciation only has fly strongly affected the per-\nfon that has used it, occasioning such a fit of\nweakness, as to prevent his ever holding up his\nhead again, in which way however we trust, it\nwill never be found to act, even in the smallest\ndegree, upon any one of our readers.", "POETRY.", "For the following animated specimen of descrip-\ntive Poetry are indebted to an unpublished Work\non RICHMOND HILL and its beautiful Vicinity, writ-\nten by the Author of Indian Antiquities, and many\nother works distinguished by learning and genius.", "SHEEN.", "In times when barbarous Supersition reign'd,\nAnd Rome's resplendent rites the soul enchain'd,", "At SHEEN, in all its bright insignia drest,", "Where prostrate kings the hallow'd pavement prest,", "And mitred priests, while rapt Devotion gaz'd,", "On high the consecrated chalice rais'd :", "How radiant blaz'd the altar's cherish'd fire !", "How grand the music of the swelling quire !", "Now o'er some valiant chief, in battle slain,", "Symphonious flow'd the solemn dirge-like strain,", "While o'er his dust, with funeral pomp inurn'd,", "The glimmering lamp of midnight vigil burn'd ;", "Now, in resounding chorus, roll'd along", "The full o'erflowing tide of sacred song—", "A hundred burning censers breathe perfume,", "A hundred tapers light the blazing dome,", "On wings of fire the fervid soul ascends,", "And tow'rds its parent source enfrapt'd bends !", "The beaten cymbals, and deep-chord'd shell", "Sound to the sacred trumpet's solemn swell ;", "Their powerful aid unnumber'd voices join,", "And loud Hosannas rend the vaulted shrine !", "Refulgent blaz'd the pictured roofs, array'd\nIn all the dazzling pomp of light and shade,\nWhile gold and azure charm'd th' admiring eyes,\nAnd cherubs floated in cerulean skies !", "A master's hand had sketched the bold design,", "The fire of genius mark'd each glowing line,", "Devotion's radiant symbols flam'd above,", "The dazzling wonders of redeeming love—", "The star that sparkling with unrivall'd rays,", "O'er humble BETHLEHEM * shed its hallow'd blaze,", "The dove, refulgent with the silver wings,", "That hovering paus'd o'r Jordan's sacred springs,", "And, settling on the Saviour's lowly head,", "Bright as ten thousand suns, its glories shed,", "All that in faith transports, in virtue charms,", "All that in guilt the shuddering soul alarms,", "Heaven's awful visions, bursting on the sight,", "In rays that glow'd insufferably bright,", "From the red roofs and picur'd windows stream'd,", "And thro' the dome in rainbow glory beam'd.", "* The Monastery of Sheen was denominated by the founder (Henry V.) : \" The House of Jesus of Bethlehem, at Sheen;\" (see Bugdale); these emblematic devices, therefore, (as the invention of the Poet, may well be presumed to have formed a part of its decorations.)", "CHARITY.", "Charity, however noble and prae-yworthy in\nthe source from whence it proceeds; however\namiable and lovely in the human breast, is, in its\nnature, a political evil, although a moral good.\nThe policy of society requires, that, in the dif-\npenation of charities, fome means should be\nadopted of counteracting their evil tendency, and\nprocuring the good as pure and unmixed as\npofible. It is owing to the want of fuch means,\nthat a vaft fund of charity is fuppreffed, which\nmen's feelings would prompt them to beftow; but\nthe conviction of its evil and dangerous tendency\nrequires them to with-hold it. Owing to this, the\ncharities actually given, to a vaft amount, are in-\nadequate to their defign; and were the whole fom\nof beneficence, private and public, increafed ten-\nfold, and beftowed merely in fupplying the wants\nand cravings of the poor, whether as a permanent\nfund, like the poor's rates, or, in caufal donations\nto beggars, or in foundations of any kind, in\nwhich induftry was not the channel and the price\nof the bounty, it would have a proportionably\ngreater furplus of neceffitous claimants unprowide", "PRINCE OF HESSE.", "The following Anecdotes of that gallant Officer, the Prince of HESSE PHILLIPFESTHAR, are extracted from a Letter from an Officer of Rank in his Majesty's Service, now in the Mediterranean. Our Readers will perceive that they were written before the Surrender of Gaeta.", "ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCE OF HESSE.", "In the late War he commanded a large body of\nCavalry in the Austrian service, in Italy, with great\ncredit. On his return to Naples he was appointed\nto command Gaeta, with a Garrison of less than\n5000 men, and one Regiment of pardoned Assassins;\nthe rest, a few Artillery excepted, a most motley\ncrew. On the evacuation of Naples, he was ordered\nto give up the place; but he wrote to the King to\nsay, that whoever had told his Majesty that it was\nnot tenable, so long as the communication by sea\nwas open, was a villain and a traitor; he should\ntherefore hold his position, which he still does, in\nspite of all the impediments the weak pusilaninous\nSicilian Government

["SURRENDER OF THE FRENCH\nIN IRELAND.", "EARLY this morning a Messenger arrived at\nHis Grace the Duke of PORTLAND's Office from\nDublin-Castle, with an Account of the SURREN-\NDER OF THE FRENCH TROOPS landed in\nIreland, at discretion. This pleasing Intelligence\nwas this morning announced by the following", "LONDON GAZETTE\nEXTRAORDINARY,", "WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12.", "Whitehall, Sept. 12, 1798.", "A Dispatch, of which the following\nis a Copy, has been received this\nMorning from His Excellency the\nLORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND by\nHis Grace the Duke of PORTLAND,\none of His Majesty's Principal Secreta-\nries of State.", "St. John's Town, County of Longford,\nSept. 8, 1798.", "MY LORD,", "I have the satisfaction to inform your\nGrace, that the French Troops which\nlanded in this Country have surrendered\nat discretion, after sustaining for some\ntime an attack from the Column under\nGeneral LAKE. The Rebels who had\njoined them were dispersed, and a great\nproportion of them killed or taken. I\ncannot at present ascertain the numbers\neither of the French or Rebels, but I\nbelieve that both were inconsiderable.", "I have not had an opportunity of\nseeing General LAKE since the Action,\nand can therefore at present give your\nGrace no further particulars, than that\nno Officer was killed or -materially\nwounded.", "I have the Honour to be, &c.", "CORNWALLIS.", "His Grace the Duke of Portland,\n&c. &c. &c.", "The Marquis DE ROMANA arrived in town yes-\nterday, he is attended by his Aid-de-Camp, Colonel\nO'DONNEL. The Marquis is very short in stature,\nbut is an enlightened clever Officer. O'DONNEL is\nvery tall, and of a commanding figure. They\nstate, that not more than 4,500 of the Spaniards are\nleft behind, who are for the most part in Zealand.\nMost of those who had escaped were put on board\ntransports at Gottenburgh, and were to proceed north\nabout to Spain. The remainder were waiting for\ntransports, which were daily expected, and there is\nlittle doubt that the whole are by this time on their\nway to Spain. The Marquis had not heard from\nSpain for three months previous to his escape with\nhis army from Fuhnen, nor was he aware of the\nsituation of his country, until he was made ac-\nquainted with it from England.", "TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.\nSIR,\n1798", "HAVING lately been an excursion towards the\nneighbourhood of Liverpool, I was at Wigan\non the 10th inst, and not having heard that any\nmention has been made in your excellent Paper of\nwhat passed there on that day, I take the liberty\nof desiring you to lay before the Public what very\nmuch interested me. After consecrating the Co-\nlours, and a most excellent Sermon preached by\nMr. BRIDGEMAN, loyal, patriotic, and exceedingly\nwell adapted to the occasion and audience, which\ndrew tears from the greatest assemblage of People,\nthe inhabitants inform me, they ever saw in the\nChurch, I was charmed in beholding a most ele-\ngant and beautiful pair of Colours given by and\npresented by Lady LUCY BRIDGEMAN to the\nWigan Armed Association. The fineness of the\nday heightened the brilliancy of the Colours, and\nthe timid diffidence with which she (supported by\nher husband, and his father, Lord BRADFORD, on\neach side), delivered a most excellent Speech, full\nof loyalty to the best of Kings and reverence of\nour happy Constitution, consoling and encourag-\ning to the Patriotic Band, and placing a firm con-\nfidence in the protection of the Almighty, height-\nened the charms of the scene, and drew the plan-\ndits of the Corps and surrounding multitude.—\nThe Speech was answered by Capt. LEION, the\nCommandant, in a very excellent and appropriate\nmanner; and after the Corps had gone through\ntheir evolutions, which would have done honour\nto veteran Troops, they marched with Colours\nflying to the Rector's house, where a most excel-\nent cold collation was provided for them, and\ncovers laid for upwards of two hundred.", "The greatest harmony and good humour sub-\nsisted through the whole, and every thing went\noff in the most pleasing manner. After drinking\nas much ale as they chose, and punch in the most\nprofuse libations, poured out to loyal and consti-\ntutional Toasts, and the health and happiness of\nthe fair Patroness, the Corps marched off in the\nmost perfect felicity and glee.", "I am, Sir,\nYour most obedient humble Servant,", "A CONSTANT READER.", "Last week the Corps of St. Alban's Volunteers\nreceived a most elegant pair of Colours from the\nMiss GAIMSTONS, Daughters of Lord Viscount\nGAIMSTON, who presented them with an Address\nsuitable to the occasion, and delivered in a man-\nner which did credit to their own feelings, and\nwarmed the hearts of an immense concourse of\npeople, assembled to participate in the loyal zeal\nand patriotism exhibited by the above Corps;\nwho, after the ceremony of the field, were hos-\npitally entertained with a dinner given by Lord\nGAIMSTON, at Gorhambury.", "The Colours were previously consecrated in the\nvenerable Abbey of St. Alban, by the Rev. Mr.\nNICHOLSON, with a degree of solemnity and pro-\npriety which was to be expected from a person of\nhis eminent abilities, and distinguished love for\nhis Country.\n1798", "ANTIQUITIES.—Last week, in removing a tumula-\nlus, in the parish of Avening, in Gloucestershire,\nthree remarkable excavations presented themselves.\nThe first was a vault about six feet square, and\nfive feet and a half in height, containing eight\nskeletons, in the most perfect and beautiful state.\nThe second is about five feet square, containing\nthree skeletons, but by no means in such high pre-\nservation as the first. The third is considerably\nsmaller, having only one skeleton, together with\nthe bones of some animals, which, no doubt,\nwere part of the sacrifice at the interment.—\nThis barrow is in the neighbourhood of several\nothers, and about one mile and a quarter from a\nvalley called Woeful Danes' Bottom, where there\nwas an encampment, and perhaps an engagement be-\ntween the Danes and the Saxons, about the time of\nAlfred the Great. These rema jas have attracted ge-\nneral notice in the neighbourhood, and are still left\nopen for the farther investigation of the curious.", "PROCLAMATION of the NEW EMPEROR of RUSSIA,\nON HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE.", "\" We, by the Grace of God, Alexander the First, Em-\nperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, &c. &c. declare\nto all our faithful subjects,", "\" It has pleased the decrees of the Almighty to shorten\nthe life of our beloved Parent, Sovereign Emperor, Paul\nPetrovitz, who died suddenly, by an opjeuotic stroke, at\nnight between the 11th and 12th days of this month.—\nWe, on receiving the Hereditary Imperial Throre of all\nthe Russias, do receive, also, at the same time, the obli-\ngation to govern the people committed unto us by the Al-\nmighty, according to the laws and heart of her who rests\nin God, our most august Grand-Mother, Sovereign Empress,\nCatherine the Great, whose memory will be dear for ever to\nus, and the whole Country. Following the steps of her\nwise intentions, we hope to arrive at the object of carrying\nRussia to the summit of glory, and to procure an uninter-\nrupted happiness to all our faithful subjects, whom we do\nhereby invite to seal their fidelity to us by the oath, before\nthe face of all-seeing God, whose assistance we imploie,\nto grant us power to support the weight now resting upon\nus. Given at St. Petersburg, the 12th March, O.S. 1801,", "\" ALEXANDER.\"", "FRIENDSHIP,", "WARM as the radiant beams of noon,\nThe feasts of Friendship flow;", "Kind as the rays of silver moon\nThat light the earth below.", "Soft as the linnet tunes his lay,\nShe soothes each tender woe;", "Sweet as the genial breath of May,\nHer unafflicted glow.", "Thou lovely parent of my joy!\nDiffuse thy wonted care;", "In aught of blifs or worldy noife,\nLet me thy goodnefs share.", "When Death shall throw his fatal dart,\nAnd bid me hence to fly;", "As token facred from my heart,\nAccept the parting figh !", "Kineton, Sept. 13, 1795.", "J.", "EPILOGUE,", "Spoken by Miss FITZGERALD, at Lord ALDBROUGHE\nAfter the TRAGEDY of DOUGLAS.", "Written by MILES PETER ANDREWS, Eq.", "Behold, once more restor'd to chearful life,\nThe love-lorn Widow, and the wretched Wife;\nHer woes, her walliings, and her tears forgot,\nLet smiles enliven now this favour'd spot;\nMirth must be had for modern Belles and Beaux—\nSighs, sobs, and sorrows, threaten empty rows.", "In this delightful age, when all is gay,\nAnd pleasures, heap'd on pleasures, croud the day;\nWhen sixteen Concerts, twenty Balls, bespeak\nMiss and her Party each successive week;\nWhen Lady MARY, high in Route renown,\nDrives in one ev'ning over half the town;\nAnd gouty Dowagers, to crawl scarce able,\nTotter, in raptures, to the Pharo Table;\nWhen such refin'd sensations charm the breast,\nAnd every joy is found, but peace and rest;\nWhat heart, subservient thus to fashion's sway,\nCan bear discarded Nature to obey?\nYes, some there are, whose tender bosoms glow\nAt others bliss, and feel for others woe;\nWho with the Tragic Muse delight to stray,\nAnd mark the windings of her mournful way;\nShare in each pang, take part in every moan,\nAnd with fictitious sorrows soothe their own.", "Such here I see, who, partial where they love,\nOur errors pardon, and our toils approve.", "Some Irish labourers trudging up to town, described\nhemselves as being engaged for the Hay market."]

MARTILMASSE DATE;

Said to be taken from a MS. found in repairing the Old Prince's Head in Norwich.

IT is the day of Martilmaffe,
Cuppes of ale should freelie paſſe;
What though Wynter has begunne
To pufh downe the Summer funne,
To our fire we can betake,
And enjoie the craeklinge brake,
Never heeding Winter's face
On the day of Martilmaffe.

We can tell what we have feene
While the hedge sweete-breere was greene;
Who did hide it?"th'barley-mow,
Waitinge for her love I trowe;
Whofe apron longer itringes did lacke;
As the envious girles do clacke;
Such like things do come to paffa
E'er the day of Martilmaffe.

Some do the title now frequent,
Where coffire flews and meriment
Do weare the vaporith ev'ninge out,
With interlade and revellinge rout;
Such as did pleasure Englandes Queene,
When hefe her royal grace was feene;
Yet will they not this day let paffe;
The merrie day of Martilmaffe.

Nel hath left her wool at home,
The Flanderkin hath flayed his loom;
No beame doth fwinge nor wheel go round,
Upon Gurguntum's walled ground;
Where now no anchorite doth dwell,
To rife and pray at Lenars bell;
Martyn hath kicked at Balamas aft;
So merrie be old Martilmaffe.

When the dailie fportes be done,
Round the market crofle they runne;
Prentis laddes, and gallant blades,
Dancinge with their gameforme maids;
Till the beadel, floute and fowre,
Shakes his bell and calls the house;
Then farewell laddie and farewell laffe,
To th' merry night of Martilmaffe.

Martilmaffe shall come againe,
Spite of windes, and fnowe, and raine;
But many a strange thing muft be done;
Many a caufe be loft and won;
Many a fool muft leave his pelfe,
Many a woddlings cheat himfelfe,
And many a marvel come to paffe
Before return of Martilmaffe.

SONNET.

BY SIR BROOKE BOOTHE, BART.

WHAT art thou, Life! the shadow of a dream:
The past and future dwell in thought alone;
The prefent, ere we note its flight, is gone;
And all ideal, vain, fantastic, teem.
Whence is thy force? and wherewith doft thou tend?
So short thy period, and thy form fo frail;
Poor prifoner! I'pent in Death's fourrunding vale,
Born but to breathe, to suffer, and to end.
Why, Shadow, bring't thou on thy raven wing,
Dark trains of grief, and vioins of the night,
Rather than graces, robed in purple light,
Elytian flowers, and love's uncloude'd spring;
Since fau, or gay, whatever be thy theme,
Death furely ends at once the dreamer and the dream!

A WINTER SONNET.

WHEN whirry winds begin to blow,
And Nature quits the joyous fene,
Streames then no longer learn to flow,
And plants no longer flie in green,
What dreary views the eyes affront,
What cheerlees profpects round us rife;
What hoary carpets (pread the dale;
What chilting blatts, what frowning skies.
"Round the gay fire the circling band,
Chear as the moon's fullen gloom,
And playfull will, with freedom fann'd,
Deils laughter round the echoing room.

Yet paſſe awhile! ye alluient few,
Chink on the poor man's faunty lot;
Thin'st where keen want is all we view,
A pining meal, a cheerlees cot!

From howling blatts, and chilly wind,
Saucer his but protects its guie;
Scarce one fed comforters can he find.

To ftock and to warm his breake;
O Charity! thou heavy'n-born good,
Hither tred thy faired care.

Warm the chil current of his blood,
Relieve his wants, and ſt em defpair.

So when the fpring of life ſtall falde,
And nature own the dread decree,
Thou may't from hea'v'n obtain that aid
Befu'ld on Poverty BY THEE.

New Year's Lottery,

Begins JAN. 13, 1807.

WHAT A
TICKET
MAY DO!!—

THREE Votes at the India House! with Qualification for Bank Director!

—Sun Fire,—New River,—Globe,—and what not!

Shares in the Shipping Interest, enough to make a Couple of Captains,
and get a Couple of Contracts.

Superb Provision for Three or Four Sons,—as, a Company in the Guards!—
a Troop of Dragoons!—a Prothonotary! or one of the Six Clerks!—a
Grand Advowson!

A Quarter of Drury Lane or Covent Garden!

A Half of Midhurst, Old Sarum, Castle Rising, &c. &c.

Pictures, like Mr. Agar's!—Statues, like Mr. Townley's!—Books, like
the Library at Althorpe!

A Service of Plate!—Diamonds for your Wife and Daughters!—Both
your Houses New Furnished!—Turning the Road from your House!—
Enclosing the Common and Planting it! — a Wall round your Park,
&c. &c.

Ten Thousand Pounds a-piece additional to each of your younger Chil-
dren!—or, if haply, you have none, “Deus adfuit auspex;”

“Thro' EDEN take your solitary Way,”

And buy a Palace like Lord Camden's in the Green Park!—and a Villa,
like Pope's at Twi't'um!—for such was the spelling of it by Mr. Pope.

WRITTEN AT AN INN.

WHEN early the fun finks in winter to bed
And the western horizon gleams faintly with red,
When the miſts of the Ev'ning rife thick from the
vales,
As darkneſs creeps on, and bu'h'd ſilence prevails,

At th' approach of night's gloom o'er the reſt of his
courte,

The Traveller mourns for himſelf, and his horſe;
And bewails his hard fate, preſ'd alone thus, and
weary,

His way to purſue through roads dirty and dreary.

But when fate in his Inn, and his horſe at the manger,
How ſing he reflects on paff darkneſs and danger!

His fire now to warm is, his ſteak to well dres'd!

His wine (gin and floe-juice) to truly the beſt;

The arm-chair to eatly, the bed-rom fo neat,

The warming-pan ready, and Molly to fweet!

So gratefully flumber incirels his brow!

No heroe more bleſt than our Traveller now!
Can an Inn, then, fuch comfort impart, mid the
vacall

Of Waiters! Boots! Chambermaid! Oſter! and all?
Far from home, far from fpoite, far from children,
and friend,

Can the Traveller fancy all care at an end?

The reason my muſe in few words ſhall explain—

To Contraſt we owe all our pleasure and pain:

For caufe and effect are confounded in this,

That blif's leads to woe, and then—woe leads to blif's.

LINES,

From CHARLOTTE SMITH'S RURAL WALKS;
On contemplating her two SONS, eagerly engaged in
their infantine Sports.

SWEET age of bleſt defuſion! blooming Boys
Ah! revel long in childhood's thoughtleſſe joys

With light and pliant ſpirits, that can loop

To follow, (fortively, the rolling hoſp;

To watch the fleeping tip with gay delight,

Or mark, with raptured gaze, the failing kite;

Of, eagerly parfying pleasure's caſ,

Can find it center'd in the bounding ball!

Alas! the day will come, when sports like theſe

Mauſe loſe their magie, and their power to plearſe;

Too (wifely fled, the roſy hours of yo-th

Shall yield their fairy-charms to mournful truth;

Even now, a mother's fond prophetick ſear

Sees the dark train of human ills appear;

Views various fortune for each lovely child,

Storms for the hold, and anguith for the mild;

Beholds already, theſe expreſſive eyes

Ream a ſad certainty of future ſights;

And dreads each suffering thate dear breaths may know,

In their long pafſage through a world of woe;

Perchance preſedin' every pang to prove;

That treacherous friends inſid, or faithleſs love;

For ah! how few have found exſtence free,

Where Grief is ſure, and Happineſs deſcit!

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NINE DAYS' WONDER.

Lif of things that have got through their NINE
DAYS WONDERS, and are now buried in ob-
lation.

Mr. Pitt's promise of paying off a million a year of the National Debt.

George Barrington's light fingered experiments on the Public.

The promise of our having the expences of the late naval armament paid by the Court of Spain.

The Minifter's design of a Parliamentary Reform.

The Conftitutional Principles of Edmund Burke.

The crim. con. aftion of the Poſtillion in Ireland.

The unnatural attacks of the Monſler.

The promise of Lord Grenville to prove a ſuper for three years of 900,000, in favour of the Public.

The horrors created by the Slave Trade.

Mrs. Johnſtone's late failure in her buſineſs.

Mrs. Welden's attack on a Noble Lord.

The report of an Aſt of Inſolvency.

The rumour of the Chancellorſhip, and a Peerage, to Lord Chafef Baron Eyre.

The wit on Lord Ducie's marriage with Mrs. Child.

The Viſit of the Cherokee Chieſs.

The idea of extirpating Tipoo Sultan.

The intention of making an entire conqueſt of Mexico and Peru.

The hope of Mr. Pitt's ever being a great Stateman.

The outrage on all decency by Sunday Conſerts.

Mrs. Parſloe's elopement with Mr. Sykes.

The hue and cry after Mr. Perry and Mifs Clerke.

The humbug of a War with Ruffia.

The attempt of Mr. Alderman Pickett to remove Temple-Bar.

The infolence of the Bank Guard.

The doubt entertained of the Minifter's being able to deprive the Poor of a little small beer.

Mr. Deputy Birch's design of removing London Bridge.

Mr. Pitt's breakfasting every other morning with Mr. Dundas at Wimbledon.

Lord Salisbury's concern for the loſs of the Blue Ribband.

The eccentric publication of Edmund Burke.

THE THEATRICAL DISPUTE,
In a proper LIGHE.

---

"WHAT a shame," cry'd old TALLOW, and shook his shrewd pate,

"Call a few grumbling Aſtors 'The GLORIOUS EIGHT'!"

"I have heard of the Glorious ſoldier and Tar,

"Who think nothing of danger when BRITAIN's at War;

"These Aſt a good Part, and true Glory they find ;

"Their Stage the whole World, and their Audience mankind;

"Compaſd with such Herocles, these Aſtors, d'ye see,

"Will not be Long-Eigbts, but mere Ruſblights with me."

The Editor of a Periodical Publication in Essex,
has adopted for his Frontispiece a Calf's Head,
with the following Inscription :

" *Editor's Apology for being a CALF.*

" In every quarter of the World so wide,

" John Bull means Englishman—this same World's

"pide;"

" Proud may an Essex Calf then surely be ;

"A true descendant of John Bull is he."

Since the last General Meeting of the Church,
384 years have elapsed, during which time the
Popes have always been chosen at Rome.

DUTIES OF A HOUSE MAID.—The following instructions were lately given by a notable Lady in the City, respecting the Duties of a House-Maid:—"The house maid is to clean the drawing-room, her mistress's bed-room, two garrets, the little room fronting the stair-case, the stairs from the first floor, the garrets to the street-door passage: she is to wash all her mistress's clothes, her master's handkerchiefs, and the child's frocks; she is to light the fire in the drawing-room, in the child's play-room, and when her mistress has a fire in her bed-room, she must light that; the house maid must always be down stairs by a quarter before seven o'clock; she must work plain work well, make her master's shirts, keep her mistress's clothes in repair, must help to wait at table if the foot boy is out of the way, or if there is company; she must wait upon her mistress when she dresses, take care of her clothes, and get them ready when she wants to go out; she must go to the street door when the boy is out of the way; she must make toast for breakfast. The house maid must look at the table cloths before they are washed; if they are stained with fruit, or coffee, or gravy, soap them, and wash them out with cold water; but by no means put them into warm water till the stain is out; if they are stained with red wine, they must be got out with rum. The maid must trim the two glass lamps, the lamp-lighter trims the other, and carry them up in the tin dish every evening to the drawing-room: she must make the two silver mugs every night of toast and water, and put them by her mistress's bed side. The maid must take care to make no noise either at night or in the morning, before the child is up; she must light a fire in the little garret every morning; she must take care not to destroy any paper with writing on it, without first letting her mistress see it; the maid must keep the water closet clean on the stair case."

Singular instance of Humanity in a Beggar Woman.—A few days ago, one of this class of people, soliciting alms at a house in the Gorbals of Glasgow, foundino person within but a woman with her child upon her knee, who, upon being soli-cited for charity, replied, that she had more need to receive than give; that that was the second day she had passed without nourishment, and was en-deavouring to give suck to her child, but could not. The beggar immediately exclaimed, "Poor creature; you are a greater object than I am. There is two-pence, it is all I have collected to day. I have also a little meal in my bag, you shall have it; and I will go and beg more for you."—She accordingly went out; and in the course of half an hour returned with eight-pence, which she also gave, and told the poor woman at the same time, that surely the Almighty had interposed in her behalf, for she had never before been so successful in so short a time.

Of the Squadron under the command of the
Captain Pacha, stationed near the Dardanelles,
single ships arrive here almost every day, but the
Captain Pacha himself is not yet arrived. Lord
ELGIN, on passing the Dardanelles, was enter-
tained by him on board his ship, on which occa-
sion he presented Lady ELGIN with an aiguette
of diamonds, in the form of the Admiral's ship.
That Lady has also received a valuable pelice from
the Grand Seignior.

The presents which Lord ELGIN presented to
the Grand Seignior, on his first audience, in the
name of the KING of GREAT BRITAIN, consisted
of a crystal chandelier, of an uncommon size;
of an hour-glass in the form of a pyramid, and of
several rich stuffs. 1799

According to the Opposition Papers, BUONAPARTE has been accused of want of politeness, in not returning the Epistolary Compliments of Sir SIDNEY SMITH. He may, however, be fairly justified on this head; for the Christian Knight found so much employment for the French René-gado, that the latter had no time for Compliments—Poor Fellow, he had only time to take French Leave!

ECONOMY.

[FROM THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY.]

TO THE PRINTER,

THE times at present seem to cry impiously for Economy, and some, I am sorry to say it, who are foremost in the cry, are least conversant with the distress; but let that pass. Undoubtedly, all persons in affluent or easy circumstances are bound to avoid unnecessary waste. Allow me to communicate my experience on this occasion.

Drinking tea, a few nights ago, with a small party where economy came on the topis, a lively Lady observed that hard times were not always the worst times, and she wondered to hear so much complaining when every one might have or really had a remedy at hand. Being asked for an explanation of sentiments, either very ambigous or very unpopular, she replied, nearly in the following words:

"You all know how I live—my income is not great—it is partly limited and partly not, but the latter I have not been able greatly to vary, as I feel embarrassments in busines in common with my neighbours. I love my King and my Country—I am no Politician—but I love Mr. PITT, though to be sure, as to Taxes, he is a Minister incaruate. Well, I pay every Tax with the greatest clearfulness, and I am no loser by it:—now, that's a secret I know, and Mr. PITT does not know. As soon as he lays on a Tax that affects my family, I consider how to repay myself by doing without something, and in this way I have matched him finely. Many's the time I have walked, when I would before have had a coach—I gave up public amusements pretty early in the beginning of the War—the door-money paid my additional window lights, and the etceteras of dress, being then unnecessary, were so much clear gain. When his Assessed Taxes came, I made such re-forms in my table as left me in pocket at the end of the year, and yet had the satisfaction to hear it said, that if I had less frippery on the table, I had more of the substantials. To be sure, I was tagged at the Income Tax, but after a little collection, I put a woman's wit against that of a Premier, and, with a single dash of my pen, scored off all the Watering Places in the Kingdom."

Here I cannot help mentioning, that my lively
friend was interrupted by a kind of groan, or half
scream from the younger part of the company,
most emphatically expressive of horror!—She pro-
ceeded:

"This expedient of mine has enabled me to meet the beef, mutton, veal, the quartern loaf, and the butter of the present season, with Christian resignation. The extravagant price of sundry articles has indeed been a great saving to me, and I find, that 'belf the quantity, with a little management, is quite sufficient for my family. I have made some other little reforms, which, as Mr. PITT says in the Papers, "I will average at five per cent." and such is my plan, and such my contrivance, to make the best of, what some people call bad times. I don't say every body can, I don't say the Poor, properly so called, can do as I do; but there are thousands who can practise my scheme, and benefit themselves and the Poor too, without losing any respect in Society, as, I trust, I have not done in this good company.—The fact is, in cheap times, all is waste; in dear times only, we learn what any thing is worth, and if that knowledge was to stick by us a little longer, we should have no dear times at all."

Leaving this Lady's System of Economy to the
consideration of your Readers, without any ob-
servations of mine,

I remain, Sir, &c.

A FRIEND TO ECONOMY.

MAMIN, who took out the bowels of the Prin-
cess LAMBALLE, was arrested on the 17th. He
resisted the Officers of the Police with the most
desperate courage, and it was not until after a
long and bloody contest, in which several of the
Officers were wounded, that they were able to
seize the monster.

["A most extraordinary curiosity was excited among the *Israclites* on Saturday evening, to witness the performance of their brother SHEREMBACK, in *Sheva*, the benevolent Jew. The *Rabbi*, we understand, secured the whole of the side boxes, as they did on the first appearance of their brother LEON, who celebrated Jew singer.", "The tedious affair of M. MAUBREUIL, who is accused of robbing the Ex-Queen of WESTHALIA of her jewels, is not yet settled. The Paris Tribunals having declared their own incompetence to try the prisoner, he has been sent before the Courts at Rouen, in whose district the alleged crime was committed.", "A cot or cradle, formed of most expensive and magnificent materials, has been bespoke by a lady of fortune for the *Virgin JOHANNA SOUTHCOTE's* accouchement, which is now exhibited at a cabinet-maker's in Aldersgate-street, and visited by great multitudes.", "A seizure of French silks, lace, and other prohibited articles, to the value of 3000l., was made a few days since in a country waggon, drawn by five horses, in Bishopsgate-street. The account which the waggoner gave, was, that he was directed to drive to the upper end of Oxford-road, where the person who employed him, was to meet him.", "The LORD MAYOR and Board of Aldermen of Dublin, on Saturday sevensnight, resolved to present an address to the Emperor of Russia, and also to the King of PRUSSIA, and that the Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR should immediately embark for London to deliver the same.", "The Dutchess of OLDENEURGH was present at the debate on the SPEAKER's Speech last night in the House of Commons. Her Imperial Highness sat in the side gallery on the SPEAKER's right hand, attended by a lady, and a foreign and English military officer.", "Yesterday the Archdukes JOHN and LEWIS, accompanied by two of their suite, paid their respects to the PRINCE RECENT at Carlton House, previous to their leaving London, on their tour through England and Scotland. Their Imperial Highnesses are making large purchases of wool, &c.", "The Austrian Archduchess, MARIA LEOPOLDINE, betrothed to the Prince Royal of PORTUGAL, left to Vienna on the morning of the 3d of June, after taking an effectionate farewell of her august relatives, and departed for Leghorn, where her Royal Highness will embark for the Brazils.", "The ball which is to be given at WILLIS's Rooms on the 23d inst. is for the benefit of a Charity, and is under the joint patronage of Lady C. T. LONG, Mrs. H. CAVENDISH, and Mrs. BOEHM.", "The sepret of peace made in the reign of King CHARLES II. which has been lately found by a gentleman who has been appointed to the care of the jewels in the Tower, is to be cleaned and repaired.", "MUNGO PARK.—We have the unpleasant task of repeating this enterprising traveller's death. He was killed at Segis's residence of the King of BAMBARA, (in Africa) by the natives.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE has kindly complied with the request of *Watieter's* club, to allow them the use of Burleigh Gardens for their intended Masquerade.", "A new musical composition by WINTER, called *The Liberation of Germany*, composed by him after that country had been freed from the French, is about to be produced at the Drury-lane Oratorios.", "Dr. JENNER has been introduced to his Imperial Highness the Duchess of OLDENBURGH, at the Palateney Hotel, and had the honour of a long audience.", "A sheep was lately stolen from the grounds of the Royal Society in Dublin. The thieves were found in the act of carrying it away in a *sedan chair*.", "BONAPARTE does wisely to take his baker with him into exile—since he has lately got into very bad bread!", "The Royal Court of Paris is occupied with an important and interesting case. It is that of Madame VICTOIRE DE LEVIs DE MIREPOIX URFULINE, religie-use, who in the course of the Revolution retired to England, with her whole establishment, and founded a very flourishing convent there. She claims her lawful share of the inheritance of her father, the late Marquis MIREPOIX, who died at Venice in 1793.", "Mr. TALMA visited the Green Rooms of Drury-lane and the Lyceum Theatres on Wednesday night, at both of which he was received with the most marked attention. He witnessed a part of the performance at the Lyceum, and loudly applauded Miss KELLY.", "The Countess of BESBOROUGH gave a grand public breakfast on Friday, at her villa at Roehampton, which was attended by upwards of 200 persons; of distinction; amongst them were the Duke of WELINGTON, the Matquis and Marchioness of ANGLESB, Prince and Princess ESTERHARY, Sir R. WILSON,", "MINERALOGY.—A few days since, a fine specimen of calcareous spar, or chryslized chalk, was dug up in a large muss, near Alciston, in Sussex.—Spars of that size, and description are seldom found in situations so nearly maritime.", "Yesterday at four o'clock in the afternoon the Lady CHARLOTTE HOWARD, the Lady of Mr. H. C. HOWARD, son of Mr. HOWARD, presumptive heir to the Duke of NORFOLK, was safely delivered of a son and heir, to the great joy of that Family. The mother and infant were as well as could be expected.", "A Berlin Journal announces, that in future the titles of Mr. and Mrs. are to be suppressed in the play-bills. The actresses are to be designated by the title of *fiancée* (women). For instance, in the bill announcing the play of *Othello*, which was performed on the 2d inst. *Desdemona* is personated by woman *Schrolz*.", "NAPOLEON has, it is said, given leave to Spain to enlist 25,000 Prussian prisoners of war. He has, besides, promised him a reinforcement of 25,000 French soldiers.", "Mr. SHERIDAN was taken into custody last night in the House of Commons, for non-attendance. He was heard to exclaim, as he was taken up stairs, to *BELLAY*; \"How hard, my good fellow, is it to be no sooner out of office, than into custody.\"", "Her Highness the Duchess of BRUNSWICK, sister to his MAJESTY, and mother of the Princess of WALES, is shortly expected in this country. She is now on her passage.", "TALMA, the celebrated French tragediau, is expected to visit Drury-lane this evening, to see Mr. DOWTON in *Doctor Cantzett*. The Hypocrite is a translation from the *Tartuffe* of MOLLIERE.", "* The Emperor of RUSSIA and the King of PRUSSIA have presented the crew of the IMPRABNABLE with 800l. to be equally distributed among them.", "The Ex Emperor BONAPARTE gave Capt. USHER, on his landing at Eba a most splendid sauf hox, the lid of which is covered with diamonds, valued at 2500l.", "An order has been sent from the Secretary of State to the Sheriffs of London, to inflict the sentence of the pillory on Lord COCHRANE, &c. &c. on Wednesday the 10th of August; and on Mr. and Mrs. ASKEW on the 17th of August.", "Berlin has been in a state of great gaiety with balls, fetes and entertainments of various kinds, in honour of the marriage between the Princess CHARLOTTE of PRUSSIA and the Grand Duke NICHOLAS of RUSSIA.", "We learn that the Duke of DEVONSHIRE was to leave Christiana on the 28th May last, from whence his Grace proceeded to Carlsburg and Stockholm.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE arrived on the 2d of this month at St. Petersburg, where he intends to reside three months. *Sine 1817*", "A soldier went into a shop at Brighton to purchase some trifling article, and observing what they red herrings lying on the counters, asked what they were? To which the shopkeeper replied, \"soldiers, my friend.\" \"Are they so?\" rejoined the son of Mars, \"then I'll take them as deserters,\" and walked off with his prisonees, to the great amusement of the witty dealer.", "MRS. S. ABRAHAMS, a Jewess (now resident in St. Peter's-street, Ipswich), on the 24th of February last completed her 104th year. She is in a good state of health, and appears likely to survive some years.", "Soon after the arrival of the Duke and Dutchess of GLOUCESTER in London, on Wednesday, they went to visit the Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince LEOPOLD, at Camelford House. Their Royal Highnesses went there in a carriage, but walked back through Grosvenor-square, Bond-street, &c. Walking is a favourite exercise of the Duchess; she was in the constant practice of walking a great deal when residing at", "Wednesday, as a man was opening the ground for the purpose of laying the foundation of a house at Stoke St. Mary, near Taunton, his spade struck against a pot, which, on being examined, contained one hundred silver coins, in good preservation, principally of Elizabeth and James I.", "The magnificent stone portico at Fisherwick House, near Lichfield, for which 1000l. was bid some time ago, for the new church at Birmingham, was sold at the late sale of the materials, to the architect of Lord Viscount Anson, for 32l.!!! This was one of the noblest and largest mansions in the British empire, having been built little more than a quarter of a century back, without reference to expence.", "The death of the Rajah of NEPAUL took place in January last. One of his Queens, one of his Conchubines, and five Female Attendants, were burnt on his funeral pile, on which they precipitated themselves; one of them was only 16 years of age.", "The last month proved the drabst April in the remembrance of the oldest person living; at the close of it scarcely one hundredth part of an inch of rain could be measured.", "A WAGER.—A young man of the name of JENN VALENTINE, 25 years of age, residing at No. 2, Great Saftron Hill, for a writing wager, laid five hundred pounds weight from the ground, with his teeth, without the assistance of his hands.", "Madame DE STAEEL, it is well known, received 1500 guineas for her work on Germany; but it is reported that Lady MORGAN has driven a better bargain with her Bookseller by 500l.!", "Mr. Sheridan's first wife was Miss Linley, so celebrated for her beauty and vocal powers—his second wife who survives him, by whom he has a son, was Miss Ogles, daughter to the dean of Winchester. His eldest son (Thomas) is with his family at the Cape of G. Hope.", "The Princess of WALES attended the procession of the Holy Sacrament at Rome, in company with King CHARLES IV. the QUEEN, his consort, the Queen of ETRURIA, &c. &c. &c. Her Royal Highness on the 5th instant paid a visit to the POPE.", "A letter from Vienna of the 2d inst. states, that the Mountain of Haustruck, in Upper Austria, has suddenly disappeared, and been replaced by a Lake.—Some houses were destroyed in consequence, and several persons are stated to have perished.", "The celebrated mineralogist, WERNER, is dead. The day of his death is not stated, but the Paris Papers quote a letter from Dresden, as to the fact. \"His name,\" says the letter, \"was known from the iron mines of Siberia to those of gold in Peru.\"", "One of the most learned Geographers of Germany, who continued the geographical works of BUSCHING—Professor EBELING—died lately at Hamburg, at a very advanced age.", "Yesterday the Duke of DEVONSHIRE entertained a large party of distinction with a grand dinner at Devonshire House.", "The preparations in the vicinity of St. James's Palace for the reception of the King of PRUSSIA continue with unabated activity.", "A Learned Gentleman, who has recently obtained a seat in Parliament, previously to his being a friend to the same time affecting the politics for speaking in the House of Commons, said, \"I doubt if I have said it.\" \"Poch, pooh!\" said the other. \"I will find that you are a great", "The expense of the fees of the different Courts, the Portugal, on occasion of the late million of florins ($3,000), served upon gold plate; the Buildings were erected and maintained, and another fee in the benefit of the poor.", "### THE DUKE OF", "STOCKHOLM, JUNE 10.—who has given a most distinct account of the Grand Duke of Holstein, the Grand Duke NICHOLAS, to that city. The State Affairs yesterday morning indicated Russia.—Hamburgh (Co.)", "AROLITE!—An instance of the kind which has recently occurred in one of the burly; it was preceded by baying thunder, towards the size of a large egg, fell into the centre, making a very severe floor—on being taken up, a strong sulphurous smoke.", "Mrs. MARDYN and M. FORMAN at Windsor House, instead of taking the pourrité of the powder, by accident, cut off the top of the knife in his belt. The man from finishing the search, who was the stage manager, did bleed to death,\" a man was called to, and the handkerchief, and I", "The PRINCESS CHARLOTTE to Lady SUSAN RYDER, Earl of HARROWBY, of the house of value of 30,000l. ships' wedding dress on the 1st of May, at the back of it, (d. D. G. MA. Br. FR. LT. RENOY), and the rest of the guests received in Cambridge, that the cotton Harris short one; they also mentioned NEPAUL, and that one of the bines, and five female attendants, funeral pile, on which of them was only 16 years", "A silver coin of the reformation found at the depth of 100ft. at the bottom of a well, in moving on the one side the VI. at the back of it, (d. D. G. MA. Br. FR. LT. RENOY), and the rest of the guests received in Cambridge, that the cotton Harris short one; they also mentioned NEPAUL, and that one of the bines, and five female attendants, funeral pile, on which of them was only 16 years", "A person in Alston, who the trade of a barber, when, to the no small advantage, he hoisted appropriate lines!", "Rove not from pole to pole, Where ought he excel", "Chanting hymns is an instrument of the Church, and one that will bring to mind the memory of the late year.", {"bbox": [1134, 1255, 1296, 1315], "category":

A Learned Gentleman who has just failed in an attempt to obtain a seat in Parliament for a Borough in Wilshire, previously to his leaving London, mentioned, at the same time affecting to feel a doubt as to his abilities for speaking in the House of Commons, he said, "I doubt much if I have Calibre enough for Parliament." "Pooh, pooh!" replied the other, "they will find that you are a great Bore."

The expense of the fête given by the Marquis de MARIALVA, the Portuguese Ambassador at Vienna, on occasion of the late marriage, is estimated there at a million of florins ($3,000). The Royal Family were served upon gold plate; the other guests upon silver. Buildings were erected expressly for it, which are to remain, and another fête is to be given in them for the benefit of the poor.

### THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.

STOCKHOLM, JUNE 10.—The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, who has given a most distinguished reception to the young Grand Duke of Russia in England, and has been invited to St. Petersburg, to the wedding of the Grand Duke NICHOLAS, has left Sweden to proceed to that city. The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs gave him a grand entertainment on the 7th; and yesterday morning (the 9th) he set out for Russia.—Hamburgh Correspondent, June 18.

AROLITE!—An instance of this rare phenomenon has recently occurred in the neighbourhood of Glastonbury; it was preceded by an uncommon noise, resembling thunder, towards the south, when a stone of the size of a large egg fell, striking a window, which it entered (making a very small aperture) and fell on the floor—on being taken up, it burnt the fingers, and had a strong sulphurous smell.

Mrs. MARDYN and Mr. OXBERRY have been performing at Windsor Theatre. OXBERRY, as the Jew, instead of taking the pound of flesh from the Merchant, by accident, cut off the top of his own finger, in placing the knife in his belt. This, however, did not prevent him from finishing the scene, although his blood dyed that part of the stage he occupied. When Portia requests Shylock "To have some surgeon lest Antonio do bleed to death," a man in the pit, thinking he aluded to the accident, exclaimed, "Here, mate, take my handkerchief, and I will go for the Doctor."

The Princess CHARLOTTE has lately made a present to Lady SUSAN RYDER, the youngest daughter of the Earl of HARROWBY, of a most elegant Brussels lace dress of the value of 300£, which is to be her Ladyship's wedding dress on Friday, when she is to be married to Viscount EBRINGTON, at St. George's Church Hanover-square, by the Archbishop of York.

A silver coin of the reign of CHARLES I. was lately found at the depth of eight feet, in a peat moss at Glenmoriston. It is in a good state of preservation, having on the one side the King's head, crowned, and VI. at the back of it, (denoting the value, CAROLUS, D. G. M. Br. FR. ET H. Rex, round the rim, and on the reverse, the arms, and CHRISTO AUSPICE REGNO.

Letters received from Calcutta, dated 20th of January, state, that the cotton harvest was likely to be a very short one; they also mention the death of the Rajah of NEPAUL, and that one of his Queens, one of his concubines, and five female attendants, were consumed on his funeral pile, on which they precipitated themselves; one of them was only 16 years of age.

A person in Alston, who has for some years followed the trade of a barber, recently opened a spirit-shop, when, to the no small admiration and amusement of his acquaintance, he hoisted over his door the following appropriate linest—

Rove not from pole to pole, but here turn in,
Where nought excels the shaving, but the gin.

Chanting hymns is an innocent practice, but chanting horses is one that will bring its professors into a scrape.
A young man obtained a rich wife last week, at a celebrated watering place, where he represented himself as holding a place in the Victualling Office. He proves to be a water a Chop-house.

The POPE has returned to Casel Gandolfo; and on the 6th inst. his Holiness received a visit from the Princess of WALES.

In order to afford the admirers of the Animal Creation a more convenient opportunity of viewing those Grand Specimens now exhibiting at the Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, to greater advantage, it is intended (we understand) to alter their time of dining from the fashionable hour of nine o'clock in the evening, to two in the afternoon. Since the accoutrement of the Lioness the attraction continues unproceeded, and the Menagerie is thronged daily with Ladies, Noblemen, and persons of distinction, anxious to behold a beautiful Spaniel sucking the Whelp of a Lioness! a novelty which may never again occur, and which cannot fail to excite the astonishment of every spectator.

SINGULAR MANORIAL TENURE.—In the time of WILLIAM the Conqueror, Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, was a royal manor; several parts of which William gave to his favouritee, to hold of him by the following odd tenure, viz. "That they should find litter or straw for the King's bed-chamber, and provide three eels in winter, and three green geese in summer, for the King's table, besides herbs for his chamber; and this they were to do thrice a year if the King came there so often, or forfeit the manors."

The Earl of CLANCARTY's appointment to the Post-Master Generalship, vacant by the death of the Earl of SANDWICH, is in all respects a very appropriate one. His Lordship filled the same situation in the General Post Office of Ireland a few years back, and, being a man of business, introduced several regulations at that Board, from which the publie accommodations were much extended, while the revenue was considerably improved.

The QUEEN's Fete at Frogmore, is likely to be one of the most splendid Fetes Chambretre ever given in this kingdom. The company will consist of about twelve hundred of the Nobility and Gentry. They are to dine in the tens of TIPPOO SAID. The young Gentlemen of Eton College are all invited to the dinner, who are, amongst the amusements of the day, to play a match at cricket. In the afternoon the yeomanry and trades-people of the district are to be admitted to the grounds, and refreshments of all sorts provided for them.

The King of FRANCE signed, on the 10th, the contract of marriage between Lieutenant-General Count REILLE and Mademoiselle VICTORINA MASSENA, daughter of Marshal MASSENA, Prince of Essling.

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On Monday last, TALMA, before leaving England, visited HAYDON, to see his Picture of "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem." He shewed the deepest interest in the variety of expression, and comprehended the character and intention of each figure with acuteucity and rapidity.

The new Sovereigns are considered downright counterfeits, among professional Gentlemen. It would shock all delicacy to add a shilling to a Sovereign, to make him passable to a physician.

When M. TALMA and Mademoiselle GEORGES landed at Calais, all their purchases in England of flannels, cottons, shawls, &c. were seized by the Custom-house Officers as contraband. 1617

A Lady of Clifton, lately travelling from Paris to Geneva, with pain belewed multitudes of the French carrying a pitcher of water, and eating grass from the meadows. Let the poor of this happy land bless the Father of Mercies that they are not driven to the like extremity.

A journeyman carpenter of Bodmin has lately discovered a concealed treasure amounting (report states) to 1500 guineas, some of which bear date 143 years back. The man asserts that the place where the treasure was, was revealed to him in a dream! but refuses to give any further particulars.

The Austrian Observer mentions the death of M. De SEETZEN, the celebrated traveller, in Arabia; his collections and manuscripts are all lost. It is believed he was poisoned, in consequence of boasting of the value of his botanic and literary acquisitions, and which were sufficient to load 17 camels.

Among the valuable articles in the Cabinet of Natural History of the Prince of Orange at the Hague, there was a piece of cannon of silver, which was made prize of by the Dutch from the King of the Island of Java. On the invasion of Holland by the French, it was carried off, and it has not since been discovered.

St. Lopez, where BONAPARTE is to embark, is in Provence, and not far from the spot where he landed upon his return from Egypt, to destroy the government of the Directory, and erect that vast fabric of power which has just been destroyed by the very hands that raised it.

The gallant veterans BLUCHER and BULOW have signified their intention to visit this country in the course of the ensuing month. The people will of course be happy in testifying their admiration and respect for heroes who have so eminently contributed to the restoration of Europe, and, we trust, to a long enjoyment of peace throughout the world.

A more worthy successor to Colonel M-MARON could not have been selected by the PRINCE REGENT than Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD. He has been many years in the service of his Royal Highness, and has on all occasions conducted himself in a manner that persuades us the same gentle and dignified courtesy, and the same laudable zeal, will be found in him as uniformly marked the conduct of his meritorious predecessor. 1617

There is exhibited in the Castle of Rezenburg, in Copenhagen, a most valuable piece of art, viz. an artificial vine, the grapes of which are cut out of a single emerald, and which is said to have been a present from the Emperor of Morocco to his Danish Majesty.

ALTONA, SEPT. 11.—From Thursday to Saturday was here a continued scene of joy for our citizens, who had the pleasure of seeing their beloved Sovereign, and a King for the first time, after an interval of 18 years.

VIENNA, SEPT. 4.—The Pope's Nuncio has officially communicated to the Foreign Ambassadors here the re-establishment of the Jesuits, and recommended a favourable reception of the Order in all the states of Europe.

The four Venetian horses, which were placed on the triumphal arch, were met on the 24th instant on the road to Fontainbleau, which is the great route to Italy; they were escorted by a detachment of about 3000 Austrians.

Lord HENRY PETTY receives a visit of condolence on his quitting the Treasury. He purposes giving a dinner on the occasion. The company, however, will appear as blue as before they came into office.

Nine thousand of the National Guards of Paris were ordered to assemble on the day of the opening of the Chambers, in order to add to the dignity of the ceremony, by lining the streets through which the King passes.

The funeral commemoration of the Martyr King was yesterday celebrated in the temples of the reformed religion, by prayers and hymns of expiation, by the reading of the pious Monarch's will, and by analogous lessons in the Holy Scriptures.

An Irishman being asked in what manner he would best like to die, replied, "I'd run a mile in five minutes, and be out of breath presently."

MADAME has permitted the poor of St. Cloud to collect wood for fifteen days in the estates, which are her appanage.

It Marshal Ney had escaped from prison, as was reported, it might have been said, that even before he was tried, he was found wanting.

Last week a butcher contracted with a public Institution in Exeter, to supply it with meat at 5d per pound, to deliver only prime pieces.

One picture only has been taken from the gallery of the Luxembourg, the Holy Family of Raphael,

THE EMPEROR OF ALL THE CONJURORS!—This celebrated sleight-of-hand personage had his pocket picked of three pounds, the week before last, on York Race Course.

The curse of the Jews seems transferred to our English emigrants. They are scattered over the face of the earth.

["DEATH SONG.—FROM THE ARABIC.", "[FROM THE MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A LATE TRAVELLER IN EGYPT.]", "The current was against us, and as we came near the city (Cairo) the wind lulled almost into a calm. While we were busy at the oar, we heard some unusual sounds on the river's side, and our watermen suddenly threw themselves on their faces, and began a prayer. A pro- cession was seen in a few moments after, advancing from a grove of date trees at a short distance from the bank. It was a band of *Bedouins*, who, in one of their few ventures into the half civilised world of Lower Egypt for trade, had lost their Chief by sickness. The train were mounted, and the body was borne in the middle of the foremost troop in a kind of pelanquin, rude, but ornamented with the strange mixture of sa- vageness and magnificence, that we find not unfre- quently among the nobler barbarians of the East and South. The body was covered with a lion's skin; a green, gold embroidered flag waved over it; and some remarkably rich ostrich feathers on lances made the pil- lars and capitals of this Arab hearse. The tribe seemed not to observe our boat, though they moved close to the shore: their faces were turned to the setting sun, which was then touching the horizon in full grandeur, with an immense canopy of gorgeous cloud closing round him in shade on shade of deepening purple. The round air was remarkably still, and their song, in which the whole train joined at intervals, sounded almost sweet. Their voices were deep and regular, and as the long procession moved slowly into the desert, with their diminishing forms, and fading chorus, they gave us the idea of a train passing into eternity. I send you a translation of their song or hymn, such as I could collect it from the unclassical lips of a *Cairan* boat- man:—", "Our Father's brow was cold; his eye\nGazed on his warriors heavily;\nFangs thick and deep his jaw wrung,\nSilence was on the noble tongue;\nThen writhed the lip, the final three\nThat freed the struggling soul below.\nHe died!—Upon the desert gale\nShoot up his eagle shafts to sail.\nHe died!—Upon the desert plain\nFling loose his camel's golden rein.\nHe died!—No other voice shall guide\nO'er stream or sand its step of pride.\nWhose is the hand that now shall rear,\nTerror of man, the Sheik's red spear?\nLives there the warrior on whose brow\nHis turban's vulture plume shall glow?\nHe's gone, and with our Father fell\nThy sun of glory, Ishaem!", "The Emperor ALEXANDER is giving every encoun-\ngagement to the restoration of Moscow, the ancient\ncapital of the Empire. An English Gentleman lately\narrived from thence, mentions that the city has been\nmuch improved in consequence of the conflagration,\nwhich destroyed chiefly the old houses and wooden\nbuildings, were very numerous. Palaces are\nnow rising from the ashes of those buildings, and\nthe old nobility, who have always resided at Moscow,\nmany of whom are immensely rich, vie with each other\nin adding splendour to the Court. The foundation\nstone of a magnificent church was lately laid by the\nEMPEROR in person, attended by the Archbishop, and\na numerous suite of ecclesiastics.", "The University Heads of Oxford, now stick to\nprecedent, as if they were a Corporation of Lawyers.\nIt seems they have abundance of precedents for ad-\ndresses of congratulation and of adulation, but none\nfor consolation. They worship the rising sun, and\nadore him in the meridian of his splendour, but they\nare silent when he is set.", "When the Emperor of RUSSIA and the King of\nPRUSSIA announced their intention of visiting the\nUniversity of Oxford, that learned body did not then\nthink of examining precedents. The Royal Person-\nages were received with all due *homage* and *veneration*,\nas the *Pope* himself would have been, if he had made\none of the party.", "The chef-d'œuvre of RUBENS, known under the\nname of *The Straw-hat*, has been purchased by the\ninhabitants of Antwerp for the sum of 50,000 fr.", "A poor but sturdy author once presented a book to JAMES the Second, in the great Chamber at Whitehall, as he passed from the Chapel, but omitted the usual ceremony of kneeling to the KING. The Duke of RICHMOND, who was in attendance, said, \"Sir, where did you learn the manners not to kneel?\"—The author replied, \"If it please your Grace, I do give now; but when I come to beg any thing, then will I kneel.\"", "We have the afflicting task to announce the death of an eminent Scholar and Divine, DR. CHARLES BURNEY, Rector of St. Paul, Deptford, and of Cliff Hoo, near Rochester, Prebendary of Lincoln, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to the King. He was seized on Christmas-Day with an apoplectic fit, just as he was preparing for the Service of the day in his Parish Church, and on Sunday last died, to the inex- pressible grief of his relatives and friends. He had just completed his sixtieth year, being born on the 23d December, 1757. The high attainments and critical talents of the late Dr. BURNEY were well known, and duly estimated by the learned of every country. He was one of the best Greek Scholars of the age, and his classical school was for many years, as it still continues to be, under the superintendence of his Son and Suc- cessor, one of the most distinguished in the Kingdom. Dr. BURNEY with indefatigable pains, and accurate judgment, collected a library of immense extent, and which is particularly rich in rare MSS. They are so truly valuable, that it would be a precious acquisition for the Bodleian Library, or the Museum. The loss of Dr. BURNEY will be long and sincerely deplored by all who knew him.", "JAMES I.—When it was discovered that the Earl of\nSOMERSET and his Lady were concerned in the murder\nof Sir THOMAS OVERBURY, Lord Chief Justice COKE\ngranted his warrant for apprehending them, which was\nserved upon the Earl when he was at supper with the\nKING. SOMERSET claimed his Majesty's protection,\nbut the KING answered, \"Gude faith man I cannot help\nit; if COKE send to me, I must gang to him as well as\nyou.\"", "PIETY OF SIR MATTHEW HALE, LORD CHIEF\nJUSTICE OF ENGLAND.—This truly learned and excel-\nlent person had such a respect for Christmas Day, that,\nfor several years before his death, he wrote a poem on\nthat solemn occasion, as regularly as the day came. On\nhis death bed, he told his children, that the more intense\nhe was in his devotions, on a Sunday, the happier he was\nin the ensuing week.", "DIED.", "Mr. Wm. Higginbottom, well known as a musical professor in\nYorkshire, a few days ago, at Oxbury in that county, in the\n91st year of his age. He was father to 10, father-in-law to 10,\ngrandfather to 151, great grandfather to 153, and great great\ngrandfather to 151, all 305, the last of whom he walked thirty-\ntwo miles to see in his 90th year. He was followed to the tomb\nby nine of his own children, whose united ages amount to 533\nyears, and 59 grand children, and numerous other relatives. His\nremains were interred in St. Thomas's Chapel, Friar Mear, by\ntorch light, after a solemn funeral dirge had been sung, by a chair\nof his sorrowing vocal friends.", "DIED.", "On Monday, the 5th instant, at the advanced age of 73, L. Wyatt, Esquire, of Lime-grove, near this city (Bangor), who was the last surviving brother of the late James Wyatt, Esquire, Surveyor-General of his Majesty's Works. In announcing the demise of this most worthy Gentleman, we feel ourselves totally inadequate to the task of duly appreciating his many private virtues, and his numerous public services, to this part of the Principality.—North Wales Gazette.", "A SPENDTHRIFT.—An American Paper contains\nthe following advertisement:—\"Notice is hereby given,\nthat the subscribers have been duly appointed guardians\nof Hezekiah Allen, yeoman and a spendthrift; and\nall persons are hereby forbidden from trusting or deal-\ning with the said Hezekiah.—Josiah Sandford, Ro-\nbert Wilson, guardians.\"", "SIMPLICITY.—A countryman giving evidence in a\nCourt, was asked by the Counsel if he was born in\nwedlock? \"No, Sir,\" answered the man, \"I was\nborn in Devonshire.\"", "Gazettes from Rio de Janeiro to the 13th of\nNovember, have been received. They describe in\nglowing terms the arrival of the Austrian Arch-\nduchess LEOPOLDINE, now Princess Royal of\nPortugal and Brăil, in her adopted country.—\nThe debarkation took place in the forenoon of\nthe 6th, when the KING and QUEEN, with the PRINCE\nROYAL, went in grand procession to the shore,\nwhere having received the PRINCESS ROYAL on her\nlanding with every mark of splendid ceremony,\nproceeded in the same state through the principal\nstreets, crowded with applauding spectators, to the\nRoyal Chapel, where the nuptial bediction was\npronounced. The Royal Personages then petted\nto the Palace, while the people were amused with\nmilitary spectacles, theatrical exhibitions, and bril-\njant illuminations.", "JEWISH NUPTIALS.—The marriage of Mr. JACOB VALENTINE, jun. son of the famous Hebrew Bard, with Miss LEVY, of Rathbone-place, was celebrated in Meek's Great Rooms, in Brewer-street, Golden-square, on Tuesday last. Amongst the company were—Sir GEORGE COCKBURNE, and his nephew; Lady G. GORDON; and Lady FRANKLIN. When the bridegroom had signed an obligation, which compels him to protect the bride during his life, and his father and brother had bound themselves to protect her after his death, the happy couple next repaired to the middle of the room, under a rich canopy, borne by four near relations, where, amidst the chaunting of the prayers, the bride and bridegroom were each presented with a glass of wine. After this, however, the former broke her glass under her feet, in remembrance of the destruction of Jerusalem. An excellent dinner was then served up, and dancing continued till one o'clock.", "CHINESE JOBS.—By an ingenious pamphlet just\npublished, \"A delicate Inquiry into the Embassies\nto China,\" it appears that Mr. HENRY ELLIS, one high\nin the last Embassy, declares that he went into these\ndistant seas \"more for profit than reputation.\" This\nis candid, and doubtless very true. Then the Embassy\nhad an object. Will Lord AMHERST imitate his as-\nsociate, and confess as much? That done, we need\nno EDIZUS, for the silly riddle of these two Embassies\nis solved. Lord MACARTNEY's failure, followed by\na second expedition, which was sure to share the same\nfate, puzzled the judgment of mankind. Something\nwas proposed—but what?—profit to individuals, re-\nputation to nobody. As the matter is likely, as it\nought, to be brought before Parliament, this paragraph\nfrom the pamphlet deserves attention:—", "\"The expense of the first Embassy is believed not to have fallen short of 100,000; that of the second, including the loss of his Majesty's ship the Aleoste, with all the property em- barked in it, may fairly be estimated at near double the amount of the first. The India Company, with all their immense territorial revenues, cannot pay their own establishments there. Of course they will bring another annual bill of two or three millions, as usual, and it will, as usual, be paid by Parliament; that is, by the British community, who are excluded from the China trade.\"—P. 11.", "SOMETHING REMARKABLE.—At the dinner of the Agricultural Society at Brighton, in the United State of America, were produced some. black Morocco leather and a pair of lady's shoes, which were manufactured from the skin of a goat, which was *dive* in the morning of the same day in Charles- town. The animal was killed, stripped of his skin, which was tanned and curried, and a pair of shoes made from it in less than twelve hours.", "A letter from Munich states, that among the 19\nold men who appeared on Holy Thursday at the\nceremony of washing the feet, performed by the\nKing of Bavaria, there was one man of 113 years,\nfive of 90, and six of 80.", "ROME, MARCH 7.", "Mr. A'COURT, the British Minister to the Court of Naples,\nhas, on his way through Rome, presented to his Holiness the\nPope a Letter from the PATRONE RECENT. Although the contents\nare of little importance the letter will become remarkable\nin history, from its being the first which for some centuries has\nbeen addressed by the Sovereign of England direct to the Pope.", "tte of Satur-\nces of Royal\ns seen in the\nin old times,\nall pamphlets,\none of these\n\npient of Tears\nof the incum-\npon, printed by\n\nrince HENRY,\nElegies and\nthe Clergy from\none in the pre-\nration of Pro-\n\nIn this curious", "In this curious\n\n:—\n\np\n\n!e\n\n!e\n\n!e\n\n!e\n\n!e\n\n!e\n\n!e

P L A N
O F T H E

BRILLIANT ACTION OFF TREFALGAR.
REVISED BY AN OFFICER WHO CAME HOME WITH THE
VICTORIOUS DISPATCHES.

Lord NELSON had just been prating the conduct of the whole fleet, and particularly Admiral COLLINGWOOD and his division, when he was struck by the fatal ball which terminated the existence of the most gallant officer this country ever produced. The killed on board the VICTORY are paid to have amounted to 136. In this number is Capt. ADAIR, of the Royal Marines.

The fword which the gallant NELSON used when he loit his right arm, was the fame which Admiral WALPOLE bequeathed to him on his death-bed, flatting, as a reafon for the bequeft, that it was the fword he carried when he loit his arm in vanquifhing the enemies of his country.

The man who killed Lord NELSON was obferved in the act of firing by a Midshipman on the poop of the VICTORY, who fired at, and killed or wounded him, as he immediately fell down on the quarter-deck of the TRINIDAD. He had previously thot Capt. ADAIR, and wounded the Signal-Lieutenant, Pasco.

<table><tr><td>Swiftsure</td><td>74</td><td>W. G. RUTHERFORD.</td></tr><tr><td>Defence</td><td>74</td><td>G. HOPE.</td></tr><tr><td>Thunderer</td><td>74</td><td>J. STOCKHAM.</td></tr><tr><td>Refuge</td><td>74</td><td>P. C. DURHAM.</td></tr><tr><td>since</td><td>98</td><td>R. GRINDALL.</td></tr><tr><td>leadnought</td><td>98</td><td>J. CONN.</td></tr></table>

* Senior Lieutenants commanding in the place of Captains BOWNS, and LEHMSERE, called home, to give evidence on the inquiry into the conduct of Sir R. CALDER.

N. B. It will be remembered by our Readers, that Lord NELSON and Admiral COLLINGWOOD broke through and paffed the enemy's ship, the former at the 10th ship, the latter at the 12th.

<table><tr><td>Le Neptunie</td><td>74</td><td>L'Achille</td><td>74</td></tr><tr><td>Le Pluton</td><td>74</td><td>L'Hermoine</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Le Mont Blane</td><td>74</td><td>L'Hortumne</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Le Swiftsure</td><td>74</td><td>La Cornalie</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Le Scipion</td><td>74</td><td>La Themes</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Le Berwick</td><td>74</td><td>Le Rhin</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Le Intrepide</td><td>74</td><td>L'Aigle</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>L'Heroz</td><td>74</td><td>Le Ferrete</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>Le Fougeaux</td><td>74</td><td>L'Observateur</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Le Du Guay Trouin</td><td>74</td><td></td><td></td></tr></table>

* Ships since captured by Sir RICHARD STRACHAN.

<table><tr><td>Minotaur</td><td>74</td><td>C. J. M. MANSFIELD.</td></tr><tr><td>Spartiate</td><td>74</td><td>Sir F. LAPORRY.</td></tr><tr><td>Britannia</td><td>100</td><td>Rear-Admiral Earl of NORTHESSE, Capt. C. BULLEN.</td></tr><tr><td>Africains</td><td>38</td><td>H. DIGBY.</td></tr><tr><td>Euryalus</td><td>35</td><td>Hon. H. BLACKWOOD.</td></tr><tr><td>Sirius</td><td>36</td><td>W. PROWSE.</td></tr><tr><td>Phoebe</td><td>36</td><td>Hon. T. B. CAPELL.</td></tr><tr><td>Naiad</td><td>38</td><td>T. DUNNAS.</td></tr><tr><td>Pickle Schooner</td><td>19</td><td>Lieut. J. R. LAPEDOTILLER.</td></tr><tr><td>Entreprenante Cutter</td><td>10</td><td>J. POYER.</td></tr><tr><td>REAR.</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Guns.</td><td></td><td>Commanders.</td></tr><tr><td>Royal Sovereign</td><td>100</td><td>Admiral C. COLLINGWOOD, Capt. E. ROTHERAN.</td></tr><tr><td>Mars</td><td>74</td><td>G. DUFF.</td></tr><tr><td>Bellefie</td><td>74</td><td>W. HARGOOD.</td></tr><tr><td>Jonnant</td><td>80</td><td>C. TYLER.</td></tr><tr><td>Bellerophon</td><td>74</td><td>J. COOKE.</td></tr><tr><td>Collofus</td><td>74</td><td>J. N. MORRIS.</td></tr><tr><td>Achille</td><td>74</td><td>R. KING.</td></tr><tr><td>Pyphemus</td><td>64</td><td>R. REDMILL.</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Neptune</td><td>80</td><td>Commodore Don HALTASER, Captain Don CAZELMA VILLAGE.</td></tr><tr><td>Santa Anna</td><td>120</td><td>San 7uf2.</td><td>74</td></tr><tr><td>Roya</td><td>100</td><td>San Leandro</td><td>74</td></tr><tr><td>Terrible</td><td>74</td><td>San Augustino</td><td>74</td></tr><tr><td>Montes</td><td>74</td><td>San Iddonfo</td><td>74</td></tr><tr><td>Monarca</td><td>74</td><td>Flora</td><td>44</td></tr><tr><td>St. Juan Nepompenos</td><td>74</td><td>Mercurio</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Bahama</td><td>74</td><td></td><td></td></tr></table>

FRENCH SHIPS.

<table><tr><td>Guns.</td><td>Commanders.</td></tr><tr><td>Le Bucenaur</td><td>Admiral VILLENEUVE, M. PARZARY, Lt. Captain, M. MAJESTIE, 2d ditto.</td></tr><tr><td>Le Formidable</td><td>Rear-Admiral DUMANOYES, Captain M. LATELLIER.</td></tr><tr><td>L'Algeziras</td><td>Rear-Admiral P. A. MAQUIN, Captain DE BROUARD.</td></tr><tr><td>J'Indomitable</td><td>L'Argonaute</td><td>74</td></tr></table>

DRED GUINEAS annexed thereto.

Every thing that any wife approximates Lord NELSON to our knowledge must be interesting; we therefore subjoin, for the gratification of our Readers, a facsimile of his Lordship's hand writing, from his original letters in our poffession.

The whole of the late Lord Nelson's clothes, sea stores, Sicilian wines, baggage, &c. amounting to 120 different packages, which have been on board the Victory, were landed on Wednesday morning at the Custom-house.

P L A N
O F T H E
B R I L L I A N T A C T I O N O F F T R E F A L G A R.
REVISED BY AN OFFICER WHO CAME HOME WITH THE
VICTORIOUS DISPATCHES.

Capt. COOKE, of the *Bellerophon*, who was killed in the glorious battle, off Cape Trefalgar, is the fourth Naval Captain of the name, who lost his life in the service of his country. October 1705

On Sunday night, the 17th inst. of a typhus fever, Lord Trefalgar, about 20 years of age, he was a youth or much promise, and the only son of Earl Nelson.—By his death, it is probable that the title, so gloriously acquired by the immortal Nelson, will go into the female line. The two sisters, Mrs. Bolton and Mrs. Matcham, have each a numerous family; and failing issue male of the present lord, the next in remainder is Thomas Bolton, a minor.

BRITISH FLEET,
VAN,

<table><thead><tr><th>ADMIRAL</th><th>COMMANDER.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>100</td><td>Admiral Lord Nelson,<br/>Capt. T. M. HARDY.</td></tr><tr><td>98</td><td>E. HARVEY.</td></tr><tr><td>98</td><td>T. F. FREEMANTLE.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>I. PELLEW.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>H. W. BAYNTUN.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>J. PILFOLD.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>E. CODRINGTON.</td></tr><tr><td>64</td><td>Sir E. BERRY.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>C. J. M. MANAFIELD.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>Sir F. LAFOREY.</td></tr><tr><td>100</td><td>Ret. Admiral Earl of NORTHERN,<br/>Capt. C. BULLEN.</td></tr><tr><td>38</td><td>H. DICEY.</td></tr><tr><td>35</td><td>Hon. H. BLACKWOOD.</td></tr><tr><td>36</td><td>W. PROWSE.</td></tr><tr><td>36</td><td>Hon. T. B. CAPEL.</td></tr><tr><td>38</td><td>T. DUNIAS.</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Lieut. J. R. LAPDOTIERE.</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>J. PUVER.</td></tr></tbody></table>

REAR.

<table><thead><tr><th>ADMIRAL</th><th>COMMANDER.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>100</td><td>Admiral C. COLLINGWOOD,<br/>Capt. E. ROTHERAN.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>G. DEFF.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>W. HARGOOD.</td></tr><tr><td>80</td><td>C. TYLER.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>J. COOKE.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>J. N. MORRIS.</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>R. KING.</td></tr><tr><td>64</td><td>R. REDMILL.</td></tr></tbody></table>

THE COMBINED FLEET,
SPANISH SKIPS.

<table><thead><tr><th>ADMIRAL</th><th>COMMANDER.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Santiffima Trinadada</td><td>Admiral Don IONACIS M. MORRA<br/>D'ALVA; Capt. Don FRANCIS<br/>DE WALAVE.</td></tr><tr><td>Prince of Auris</td><td>Admiral GRAVINA; Commander<br/>in Chief; Captain Don RA-<br/>PAEL D'HORE.</td></tr><tr><td>Argonauta</td><td>Adm. Sir. D. DOMINGO GAB-<br/>DAMARAS; Capt. Count D.S.<br/>ANTONIO PAREGAS.</td></tr><tr><td>Neptune</td><td>Commodore Don BALTASER;<br/>Captain Don CAZKLAAN VA-<br/>DEZ.</td></tr><tr><td>Sant. Anna</td><td>San Juan</td></tr><tr><td>Roya</td><td>San Leandro</td></tr><tr><td>Terrible</td><td>San Augustine</td></tr><tr><td>Montaes</td><td>San Idefonso</td></tr><tr><td>Monarca</td><td>Flora</td></tr><tr><td>St. Juan Nepomenceno</td><td>Mercurio</td></tr><tr><td>Bghama</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

FRENCH SHIPS.

<table><thead><tr><th>ADMIRAL</th><th>COMMANDER.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Le Bucetaur</td><td>Admiral VILLENEUVE,<br/>M. PREPAY, 1st Captain,<br/>M. MAJESTIE, 2<sup>nd</sup> Captain.</td></tr><tr><td>Le Formidable</td><td>Rear-Admiral DUMANOYES,<br/>Captain M. LATELLIER.</td></tr><tr><td>L'Algeziras</td><td>Rear-Admiral P. A. MASQUIN,<br/>Captain DE BROUARD.</td></tr><tr><td>L'Indomptable</td><td>L'Argonaute</td></tr></tbody></table>

Lord NELSON had just been prating the conduct of the whole fleet, and particularly Admiral COLLINGWOOD and his divifion, when he was trucked by the fatal ball which terminated the existence of the most gallant officer this country ever produced. The killed on board the VICTORY are paid to have amounted to 136. In this number is Capt. ADAIR, of the Royal Marines.

The fword which the gallant NELSON ufed when he loft his right arm, was the fame which Admiral WALPOLE bequeathed to him on his death-bed, flating, as a reafon for the bequeft, that it was the fword he carried when he loft his arm in vanquifhing the enemies of his country.

The man who killed Lord NELSON was obferved in the act of firing by a Midshipman on the poop of the VICTORY, who fired at, and killed or wounded him, as he immediately fell down on the quarter-deck of the TRINIDAD. He had previously that Capt. ADAIR, and wounded the Signal-Lieutenant, PASCO.

VICTORY AND NELSON.

As in the battle's heat brave NELSON food,
Glowing with ardour for his country's good,
Vict'ry, exulting, cried, "Thy taſk is o'cr!
" Mortality, my ſon, can do no more;
" Such honours grace thy patriotic name,
" So high it flands upon the feroſ of fame,
" Thou can't obtain no more beneath the sky;
" Come theſe, my ſon, I wait for thee on high;
" I guide the ball, I catch thy flying breath;
" Now glorious as thy life I make thy death,
" That grateful Britons, to the fataſt time,
" May own thy valour and thy fate ſubſilient."

M. J. YOUNG.

All ranks and deſcriptions of British ſubjects will be gratified to learn, that a VICTORIOUS COLUMN, or ſome other Monumental Structure, is likely to be ſoon erected to the memory of their beloved NAVAL CHIEFTAIN, the heroic Lord NELSON.

The PRINCE of WALES, after the firſt emotions of his forſow, for the loſs of that excellent and gallant Officer, whom he had long diſtinguifhed by his confidence and eſteem, directed a letter to be written to Mr. ANGERSTEIN, in which his Royal Highneſs expeſred a confident hope, that from the ardent zeal which Mr. A. and his patriotic coadjutors had manifeſted on all great national occasions, ſome public MEMORIAL would arife, under their auſpices, on which the high atchievements of Lord NELSON might be durably recorded to after ages.—His Royal Highneſs concluded by requeiting, that to any plan, which ſhould be thus propoted, and adopted, his name might be added, with the ſum of FIVE HUNDRED GUINEAS annexed thereto.

Every thing that any wife approximates Lord NELSON to our knowledge muſt be interesting; we therefore ſubjoin, for the gratification of our Readers, a ſaſe ſimile of his Lordip's hand writing, from his original letters in our poffession.

ELIJAH'S MANTLE.

WHEN, by th' ALMIGHTY'S dread command,
ELIJAH, call'd from ISRAEL's land,
Rose in the sacred flame,
His Mantle good Elisha caught,
And, with the Prophet's spirit fraught,
Her second hope became.

In PITT our ISRAEL saw combin'd
The Patriot's heart—the Prophet's mind,
ELIJAH's spirit here;
Now—sad reverse! the spirit 'reft,
No confidence—no hope is left,
For no Elisha's near.

Is there, among the greedy band,
Who've seized on pow'r with harpy hand,
And patriot worth assume,
One—on whom public faith can rest,
One—fit to wear ELIJAH's Vest,
And cheer a Nation's gloom?

GRENVILLE!—to aid thy Treas'ry fame,
A portion of PITT's Mantle claim,
His gen'rous ardour feel;
'Bove sordid self resolve to soar,
Amidst Exchequer gold be poor,
Thy wealth—the public weal.

Fox!—if on some remnant fall,
The shred may to thy mind recall
Those hours of loud debate,
When thy unhallow'd lips oft prais'd
"The glorious Fabrick" Traitors rais'd
On BOURBON's fallen state.

Thy soul let PITT's example fire,
With patriot zeal thy tongue inspire,
'Spite of thy Gallic leav'n;
And teach thee, in thy latest day,
His FORM of PRAYER,—(if thou canst pray)
"O save my Country, Heav'n!"

WINDHAM!—if e'er thy sorrows flow
For private loss or public woe,
Thy rigid brow unbend;
Tears over CESAR BRUTUS shed,
His hatred warr'd not with the dead,—
And PITT was once thy friend.

Does Envy bid thee not to mourn?
Hold then his Mantle up to scorn,
His well-earn'd fame assail;
Of FUN'RAL HONOURS STRIP HIS CORSE,
And at his virtues—till thou'rt hoarse—
Like the Greek Cynic, rail.

20th Feb. 1806.

Prize-money in the Navy.—The old method of div-
ding the net produce of a capture into eight parts is to be
discontinued, and in future it will be divided into a hun-
dred, to be disposed of in certain proportions.

Illustrious ROSCIUS of the State!
New breech'd and harness'd for debate,
Thou wonder of thy age!!!
PETTY, or BETTY, art thou hight?
By GRANTA sent to strut thy night
On STEPHEN's bustling stage.

PITT's 'Chequer robe, 'tis thine to wear,
Take of his Mantle too a share,
'Twill aid thy ways and means:
And should "FAT JACK" and his cabal
Cry, "Rob us the Exchequer, HAL!"
'Twill charm away the fiends.

Sage PALINURUS of the realm!
By VINCENT call'd to take the helm,
And play a Proxy's * part ;
Dost thou a star or compass know—
To reef aloft, or hand below—
Hast conn'd the Seaman's chart?

No—from PITT's Mantle tear a rag,
Enough to serve thee for a flag,
And hoist it on thy mast;
Beneath that sign—(our prosp'rous star)
Shall future NELSONS rush to war,
And rival vict'ries past.

SIDMOUTH!—though low his head is laid,
Who call'd thee from thy native shade,
And gave thee second birth;
Gave thee the sweets of pow'r and place—
The tufted robe—the gilded mace,
And rear'd thy puny worth?

Think how his Mantle wrappt'd thee round!—
Is one of equal value found,
Among thy new Compeers?
Or can thy cloak of AMIENS stuff,
Once laugh'd to scorn by Blue and Buff,
Screen thee from WINDHAM's jeers?

When Faction threaten'd BRITAIN's land,
Thy new-made friends—(a desp'rate band)
Like AHAB stood reprov'd;
PITT's pow'rful tongue their rage could check,
His counsel sav'd, 'midst gen'ral wreck,
The ISRAEL he lov'd.

Yes, honor'd shade! whilst near thy grave
The letter'd Sage and Chieftain brave
The votive marble claim,
O'er thy cold corse, the public tear,
Congeal'd, a crystal shrine shall rear,
Unsull'y'd as thy fame!

• Howick.

There was no alteration yefterday made in the
price of bread, the Quartern leaf therefore remains
at 7id. June 1797

THE REVOLUTION.
Dr. KIPPIS'S COMMEMORATION SERMOX.

"One point provided fin, at the period I am speaking of, was the more certain security of our properties and persons. An appeal to our own feelings will in flantly convince us, that it is a matter of high importance to the felicity of life. Wreached would be our condition, if our fubistance were precisions, and our bodies liable to be fized at the command of an arbitrary monarch. This was, however, too much the cafe under the Smurts. During the Reign of Charles the Fift, taxes were impo'd upon the fubject without authority of Parliament; the high commission of Court, and the Star Chamber exacted illegal and e- normous fines; and innocent men were condemned to cruel panifnahtes.—Charles the Second flut up the the Exchequer, encouraged infamous and unflt ac- cufations, and brought to execution by the moft de- teftable meafures, fome of the worthieft patriots, which this or any other country has produced. As to James the Second, the fhort period of his government was little eife than a violation of law, justice, reafon, and humanity. But the diffuflible fettlement which began in 1688, gave finnefls and vigour to the unalienable claims we poffeffed of enjoring our properties in fate- ty, of having our rights determined by the trial of fair-and impartial jides; and of not being dragged to dangers, to tortures, or to death, at the juncture of a tyrann.

"Another thing established at the fame time, was the freedom of our political constitution. To be faw- red with a ſtorm of government, of which liberty is the basi, is the greatest of all temporal bleſſings; and the nations on which ſo noble a gift has been belft, appear with peculiar glory in the history of the world. It has been the haffiness of Britain to poffels this be- neft in a high degree of perfedion. The ſyft of our government is not firſtly a democracy, an antif- cracy, or a monarchy, but an excellent composition of the three. It adopts the advantages of the ſeveral ſchemes, and reſels their inconveniencies. It affirms the equality of a democracy without its coruſion; the wifdom and moderation of an anſtocracy in ſime re- ſt ſeles, without its ſer vity in others; and the vigour of a monarchy without its tyranny: And it admirably provides for the diſtinent exerſe of the judicial au- thority. Hence it prefents a plan of power which pro- pofes more freeedom than, perhaps, has yet been enjoyed by any communities, in any period; and this beautiful Constitution the Revol tion preferr ed, and ſeemed to us, when it ſeemed on the verge of deſtina-
tion.

"The fame ſad event was highly favourable to our religions as well as to our civil government. As we are moral and amoral beings, it is of the utmost importance to be allowed the free exerſe of their ad- vantages that are calculated to promote our eternal welfare. The title we have to think for our ſelfs, and to follow the dictates of our own underſtandings, is the unalienable prerogative of our nature. Our right to ſearch the fcripti, and thence to deduce our ſentiments, practices, and wortli, we have an indi- pendent claim to as Chriſtians; and were we to be de- prived of theſe benefits, we would be deprived of be- nefi, which are, of all others, the moſt valuable. Such was the bigotry of James the Second, that, not- wifhstanding his temporary indulgence, he would en- doubtedly, if he had obtained the ſummit of his wifhes, have robbed us of our reaſon, our Bible, and the power of adi g a c r d to our conſences. But by the inter- pretation of William and Mary, we ſtill continue to be ſavoured with the light that leads to heaven, and to enjoy the Pretentious religion in faſer-

"Thus was the Revol tion one of the moſt illuſtria- and happy events recorded in history, if we con- fider it only a having preſerted the privileges which the nation had heretofore preſerted. But, beside this, it is of new once, of the unneffu value. It conf ered additional rights on the ſuſeſ; ſixed additional lin- itions on the Crown; and provided additional ſen- tence for the continuation of our felicity. The prerogative of the Sovereign, which in former reigas, had been made the infu ment of much oppreſſion and tyrannv, was reduced to juſt limits, and ſtied in a manne- honourable to the King, and beneficial to the peeple. It was manifiſed that not what is called an indeſeab- le ſerfendent right was to give title to one imperial Thron- of Great Britain, but the appointment of the leſiature, affixed in Parliament; and a decisive blow was drunk at the doctrine of non-refuſance and palſive obe- dience."

REFLECTIONS ON WAR.

(FROM THE REPUBLICAN FRANÇAIS.)

That men, at an early period of their social
existence, should have made war upon each other,
which no animals of the same species do; that,
for the purpose of accomplishing more rapid de-
struction, they should have recourse to fire and
to iron, as if natural death was too tardy in
sweeping them from the
astonishing. Experience
the instinct of the bru-
mere instinct of man; an
dowment of which we are
in the conflict of the pas-
titious Leaders—how man
with power, have, at pe-
lightened civilization, dr-
just conquests? How man
almost by nature, have
men who have been the
rest of mankind?—Such
were always cruel—wit-
Helots; and the Roman
got rid of their original
Gloriadors.

In all periods, and in all
fulfilled states have taken
nation of victories, and
the title of conquests!

How these actions, though
of fortune, have been cele-
pous terms of heroism,
names of SERTORIUS, ALEX-
AR, MAHOMET the SECON-
LOUIS the FOURTEENTH-
TWELFTH, though all of t
stroyers in a greater or le-
scend to posterity without
with ex execution, appears to
We know mankind are wea-
mass of Society are, proper-
gar ; that is to say, an un-
titude; created to admire
and to defray the Colossus t

Wisdom alone is able to
prejudices, and to overturn
it is this which ought to as
humble us !

The Age of Reason is at
eighteenth Century, favour-
proud of its Reason, and just
of Philosophy, Philanthrop-
this very Century has alrea-
seen Europe, the centre of
politeness, a prey to the
general War. Already d
taken place, according to
e and fortunate ambition. I
mies, and to make them res-
innumerable legions are ar-
vasions and to levy Contri
can, always under the mise
sons of State. There canno
of Morality for the Govern-
War that is not undertaker
Frontiers, or to defend Ali
is a crime against Society a
God! what an institution V
of disorder, destruction, and
subversive of Society! For
flourishing youths, the hope
ration of Arts, of Industry,
theatrical displays amaz-
des the audience.

When we reflect, that if the French Ministry
had furnished Dreyfus with the necessary con-
cours, to enable him to accomplish the said pro-
ject, which he had formed, would have
an indefeasible
in India ; the War carried on from 758 to 769,
and the conquest of Bengal by Lord Clive.

HAWKSTONE OBELISK.

A few days ago the last Stone of the Obelisk,
or Observatory, lately erected on the Torace in
Hawkstone Park, Salop, was laid; on which oc-
casion Sir RICHARD HILL regaled all the masons
with a plentiful dinner at Hawkstone Inn; after
which, when the KING, QUEEN and ROYAL FA-
MILY had been drank, the following Toast was

be mentioned respecting those on the
left. Farther on this side, is an extensive space,
formed by the lofty trees surrounding it into an am-
phitheatre. Here was erected a platform for dancing,
sheltered by a canvass awning, round the edges of
which hung blue and yellow tapestry, interwoven
in such a manner as to produce a very agreeable con-
trast. Flags of the same colours were suspended
above the building, and a suitable band of musi-
cians attended the commands of the dancers.—
About half-past four, the visitors entered the house,
where five rooms were laid out in the most sumptu-
ous manner with a cold collation, and a variety of
wines. Between the house and the tents on the left,
sat the Pandean Minstrels, in a green and silver uni-
form, who played alternately with the Coldstream
Band: Joly 4. Anant alfera Cammeu.

At six the dancing commenced, and was kept up
with great spirit till past eight, when the company
retired highly gratified with the entertainment, and
the allability of his Lordship and his noble Consort.
Among the spectators we observed, the Dukes of
CAMBRIDGE and GLOUCESTER, Count DE WORONZOW,
the Portuguese AMBASSADOR; Lords Essex, JERSEY,
LAUDERDALE, CAMDEN, ABOYNE, HARWOOD, ARDEN,
and WINCHELSEA; Ladies ANN BINGHAM, JERSEY,
CUNNINGHAM, &c. &c.; the Duke and Duchess of
BEDFORD, Duchess of MARLBOROUGH, the Sardinian
AMBASSADOR, Countess DE FRONT, &c.; Messrs.
TIERNEY, WINDHAM, and a numerous list of et exectus.

THE COUNTESS SPENCER'S FETE CHAMPETRE,

Given on Saturday last, at Wimbledon, for magni-
ficence, liberality, and taste, has never been excelled.
The preparations were on the grandest possible scale.
Thirteen state marques were erected on the lawn and
pleasure-grounds; three of them were set apart for
the usual refreshments, three others were appropri-
ated for the rarest sorts of wines and fruits. There
were a vast number of tables set out in the house, the
principal of which were placed in the long galler,

lining-room, and the billiard
these, the number was almost
second, were four long tables,
were arranged in each of the
most profusion of delicate
and ices, appeared in super-
e, marking the plenteous hos-
lished hostess; of fowls alone
couple. A very elegant and
was set apart for the Prince
are placed covers for the select
was expected to bring with
erected a temporary room for
as an elegant structure, it was
its in wreaths and festoons
composed of blue and buff silk.

There were three bands of
lanese Minstrels, and another
and, belonging to Mr. Gow.
state lveries, and the same
ned the court yard at entrance
began to appear. The appear-
ed a camp in a wood. Every
er, about two o'clock the com-
The Countess of SPENCER re-
visors herself, in propria per-
 expectancy for the Prince of
SPENCER did not quit her post,
light of steps, until after four,
however, did not appear.
and GLOUCESTER were
to the ROYAL FAMILY present.
half past four o'clock, with-
ed until seven in the evenin-
g the roads was prodigious; 400
ited. The Marchioness of
ost brilliant. The equipage
new barouche landau, painted
garter on the panels simply
ments were all richly gilt.
horses—namely, six in the
outriders, in rich liveries.
y splendid, being many of
al gold. The value of the
00 guineas. Every carriage
or six horses, none with less.
vidates appeared in a supe-
The Earl FITZWILLIAM rode
ge, which was drawn by six
three or four out-riders.
the chariot-wheels of the lat-
elles in the same style; and
it up the rear, likewise in a

T ACCOUNT.

I along a hall, tastefully de-
weet shrubs, and alabaster
the drawing room, from
nal ceremonies of intro-
valked into the grounds,
se, stood four marques,
those who were fatigued,
with the luxuries of the sea-
opriated to the Coldstream,

On Tuesday, the 26th inst. the following un-
fortunate accident happened near Kiliethy.
As
Captain Douglas, of the 6th Regiment of Scotch
Renforges, quivered at Kiliethy, was marching
with his company towards Clonmel, one of the
men, in writing back to his mother,

number of did's, &c. He was pursued by a
party of the Dublin Military, who overtook and
slotted him about a mile from the Town.

The Duke of CAMBRIDGE's Band, which played the
whole evening. In the centre, due space was re-
served to admit a charming prospect of the sur-
rounding country. A moderate rain, in the middle
of the day, had cooled the air; and the sun, as
he retired to the lap of THEIS, shone forth with
resplendent majesty, and gilded the happy scene
with his evening rays. On the right were also va-
rious tents for the accommodation of the nu-
merous spectators, and provided with good cheer.

THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER for 1783

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SATISFACTORY PROOFS.

Prandulum gfr.—by Lord LAUDERDALE, that the Earl of Errol is not the Earl of Errol.

—by Mr. COURTENAY, that BUONAPARTE has converted the Pope, and that his Hohns now wears the bonnet youge for a night-cap.

—by Mr. SHERIDAN, that no man shall marry till fix and forty.

—by General MACLEOD, that Botany Bay is the only land of freedom.

—by TOM PAINE, that man with a wooden leg does not run as fast as a hare; and, erge, that the finances of this country are absolutely ruined.

—by Mr. IRELAND, that Shakefpeare has been shamefully convicted of forging his own name.

—by Mr. Fox, that justice for the paft, and security for the future, spoulft in turning out the prefont Administration, and putting Opposition in their room.

That Lady Percy, daughter of the Earl of Bute, filter-in-law to Lord Lonsdale, and once wife to the prefent Duke of Northumberland, should be at this hour a captive in the King's Bench.—is a leffon that ought to warn the heart from fully and indifcretion!—The union between Earl Percy and this Lady, was a match of ambition formed by the aspiring Scott,—who did not cosfult his daughtier's affections in the match; and therefore she was always pried;—her perfon was a few years ſince highly beautiful; and her accomplishments very, numerous:—her manner was alio elegant, and her temper extremely affable.

Major Scott was certainly very right, or rather correct, when he declared in the House of Commons, that Mr. Haffings's whole fortune did not amount to more than 60,000, for it appears that he had previously made a gift of no lefs than two millions sterling to his friend, Mr. Middleton.—When one ſplendid offender can place ſuch extraordinary confidence in another, there muſt be the quinteflence of regency at the bottom.

A very curicus affair happened a few days ago in Westminfter:—A Butcher was ſummoned before a Magifrate, (who is a tradelman in that neighbourhood) for ufing ſales in his ſhop that were two ounces lighter in one ſale than the other. On the ſaſt being proved, the Magifrate ordered the penalty to be paid, which the Butcher was oblig'd to comply with: but at the fame time infilled on the ſale the ſeale examined which the Magifrate uſed in his own ſhop.—This was done—and they were found to be exactly in the ſame fituatio with thofe of the poor Butcher whom he had juſt conviſed in the penalty—So much for magiſterial confidence and juſtice!

The following trick we are informed was lately prafited with ſucces upon a churchwarden in the city.—A woman put her own infant child in a basket, and tied it to the door of an opulent merchant in the city. It was prettely discovered and taken into the houſe. Not approving of their new inmate, they ſent for the parih officers: the overſeers were not to be found, and the churchwarden came. A crowd was ſoon collected round, the door, and amongst the reſt the mother of the child was vehement in condemning the cruelty and barbarity of the wretches who could forſake che pretty baby. The churchwarden took notice of her, and as che was decently drefſed, affected her if she would have any objection to take the child? After ſome heſitation the ſenſor. The parih officer defined her to come to his houſe, where a bargain was made, and for a ten pound note the parih was to be released from the burden which threatened it, and the woman, exuluing in the ſucces of her well-executed ſcheme, very quietly took her own child home again.

YARMOUTH, APRIL 13.

THE HEREDITARY PRINCESS of ORANGE and her Son, this day, at two o'clock, embarked at the Jetty, for the Continent, after a fortnight's detention here by contrary winds.

She was accompanied to the shore by a vast concourse of people, who vied with each other in paying her the most marked attention and respect, of which she seemed highly sensible.

Our worthy Mayer, Sir EDMUND LACON, attended her to the Prince of Orange Packet, which was lying ready for her reception in the Roads. During her stay here, she was entertained at the house of this Gentleman in so hospitable and elegant a manner, as must reflect the highest honour upon the Town, and will be long remembered by the PRINCESS, who expressed herself highly satisfied with the reception.

THE Royal Chapel at St. James's is undergoing a thorough change, for the purpose of celebrating the Nuptials of his Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES, and her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of BRUNSWICK, for which purpose the workmen employed, are occupied night and day.

1796

The whole of the pews, pulpit, &c. are removed from the body of the Chapel; the flooring is raised and boarded, to render it warm and commodious, which is to be covered with carpeting; the walls are decorated with crimson and gold; and the sides, which are wainscot, will be hung with crimson damask.

Two addiſional Galleries are erected for a band of vocal and instrumental performers, one of which is over the Altar, and carried back through the great window into the street; the other opposite the organ loft to correspond with that gallery.

Under the organ gallery will be a superb canopy of crimson, velvet, and gold, for the reception of their MAJESTIES; and another of a smaller nature, under the opposite gallery, for the royal bride and bridegroom.

In his MAJESTY's closet will be the Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers. Below, in the body of the chapel will be all the Royal Family, with their reſpective attendants.

The marriage ceremony will be performed by his Grace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY; and the Anthen, for the occasion, will be the same as was performed on the marriage of FRANCKEDELL Prince of Wales, father to his present MAJESTY, composed for that purpose by HANDEL.

It has been an obſervation of ancient date, that in forming a new ſettlement, the firſt building erected by the Spaniards was a church,—by the French a fort,—by the Dutch an eating house,—by the Engliſh an ale-house. Thus we bore the praiſe of conviviality, which that of military arrangement was given to our Gallic neighbours. It is to this ſource perhaps, that we are to trace the prevailing pation of his Grade of Richmond; he has owned himſelf a tripartite character; and it is therefore probable that to his impulſes as a Frenchman, we owe the ſyllom of ſortification, to his title to the interſeis of England.

A few days ſince Lieutenant Pye, ie Company with two other officers, arrived from India, after a very tedious and hazardous paſſage by fea and land, of full 15 months. They were ſhot up a month in Aleppo, where more than 1500 died every day of the plague; and eſcaping from thence to Cyprus, got a paſſage to Zante and Matala, and paſſed through Spain and France to their native country.

A superb Diamond Sword, the splendid ac knowledgment of the NABOB of ARCOT to His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES for the honour of the PRINCESS of WALES's Picture, sent out by Colonel MURRAY, was presented to His Royal Highness at Carlton House on Saturday, on the part of the NABOB, by JOSIAS DUPRE PORCHER, Esq. lately arrived from India.—Mr. PORCHER was introduced on the occasion by Sir JOHN MACPHERSON, and most graciously receiv ed. His Royal Highness was anxiously inquisi tive respecting the welfare of the NABOB, who, as was his venerable Father, has been, through life, the tried and unshaken Friend and Ally of the British Company and Nation.

BEECHEY has finished a very fine full-length Likeness of the QUEEN. There is a view of Frogmore House in the back-ground. This Picture vies with the happiest efforts of the late Sir JOSHUA's pencil, both in fidelity and execution.

This Artist has likewise done haſſelſt Likenesses of the PRINCESSES ELIZABETH and MARY. These are equal in excellence to that of the QUEEN.

BEECHEY, whose merit in his profession is second to none, is painting the whole of the ROYAL FAMILY, and the Pictures, no doubt, charmingly executed, are to decorate the Palace at Stัทgard, which is soon to be the residence of our PRINCESS ROYAL.

The Picture worn by the PRINCESS ROYAL on Thursday evening last, was that of the PRINCE of WIRTEMBERG, set with diamonds, which cost 4000, a present from his Royal Highness.

Yesterday the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, attended by her Wet Nurse and another female Attendant, took an airing from Carlton House, over Westminister Bridge, to Blackheath.

1796

Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES, on her arrival, will take up her residence in Prince EDWARD's apartments, in St. James's Palace.

The PRINCESS of WALES, and her Infant Daughter, were both out airing yesterday.

Congratulations on the Birth of the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA, were presented yesterday to the PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES at Carlton House, from the City of Coventry, and Magistrates of Middlesex.

Miss GOLDSWORTHY was on Tuesday appointed Nurse and Governess to the young PRINCESS of WALES.

1796

The PRINCE has changed his beverage from Champagne to thermes; a wine which for century's paſt, has been peculiarly grateful to the tale of the Home of BRUNSWICK.

Her Majefly had it in contemplation to forbid all notorious female gamblers from Court. But on enquiry it was found that very thin Drawing-rooms would be the reſult of ſuch a regulation !

It is a certain ſaſt, and does honour to their Preceptors, that taere is not in Europe, of their age, two better clauſe cholaſs than the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York.

The BISHOP of LONDON yesterday commenced his Discourses during the Lent season, at St. James's Church.

ANCIENT COIN.—Last week a Jew found a coin, near South Shields, a rubbish of some houses which are pulling down near the Market Place. It proves to be a Noble of Henry IV. date 1399. It is of very pure gold, the impression perfect, and weighs 93 grains.

["THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.", "March 20, 1706", "Yesterday morning at half past three o'clock, died the Most Noble Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. The malady under which this incomparable lady suffered the most affecting pain, baffled all the skill of the Faculty, and her chamber had been attended by the anxious solicitude of her friends for several days, without a hope of her recovery. The mild and gentle equanimity with which she supported the agonies of death, alone wanting to complete the dignity of her character, and to make her, in the last moments of her life, as interesting as in the meridian of her youth and lustre. A woman more exalted in every accomplishment of rapturous beauty, of elevated genius, and of angelic temper, has not adored the present age. For no less than thirty-three years have we seen her regarded as the glass and model of fashion; and amidst the homage which was paid her, she moved with a simplicity that proved her to be unconscious of the charm which bound the world to her attraction. She was married to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire in the year 1774, and she would have completed her 49th year in May next.", "We shall leave to an abler hand the painful task of her biography. The memoir of her life will be an illustration of all that is transcendant in the female character; and her relatives owe to society this testament of her worth. She has only suffered for twelve or fourteen days under the malady, which, at so early an age, has brought her to the grave; to the moment of her death the Physicians were not agreed as to the nature of her case; whether it was a liver complaint, or gall-rites. It will, no doubt, be now ascertained. His Grace, and all the members of her affectionate and idolizing family, scarcely ever left her chamber since the access of her fever; and, never, we will venture to say, was the death of any human being more universally lamented than hers will be. The inconsiderable family have now retired to Chiswick.", "The SPEAKER may, in this night's Gazette, give notice, that in consequence of the certification made to him of the death of the Right Hon. CHARLES JAMES Fox, he will, in fourteen days from this date, direct a warrant to be issued for the election of a Citizen to serve in Parliament for the City of Westminster. By this the writ may be issued this day fortnight; and if published by the High Bailiff the next day, the election may come on in Covent Garden, on Monday, the 6th of October. 1806", "It must be highly gratifying to the inhabitants of Westminster, and indeed to the people in general, to see the Noble Heir of the venerable House of Northumberland, a name conspicuous among the Nobility or Great Britain, come forward as a Candidate to represent one of the most important cities of the Empire. The rank and property of this young Nobleman place him above those tempations which have too often seduced men from the line of public duty, but from all the reports of his character, he is, in point of talents and virtue, also eminently qualified to do honour to the choice of the Electors of that large and opulent city.", "Sir STEPHEN Fox, Grandfather of the late Right Hon. CHARLES JAMES Fox, was the son of a private family in Wilshire, and raised himself by the most laudable means—that of merit. He enjoyed many lucrative situations during the reign of CHARLES II. JAMES II. and WILLIAM and MARY. Sir STEPHEN made a noble use of his native place: he built the Church of Early, his nation and six men, endowed it with 1881. a year; he founded a Charity School; he also built the Church of Culford, in Suffolk; and pewed the founding of Chelsea Hospital, which he first projected, and contributed 18,000. towards the carrying on; adjudging, that he could not bear to see the common soldiers, who had spent their strength in our service, beg at our doors. Sir STEPHEN married his second wife in 1703, when he was seventy-six years of age, and had by her two sons: STE-", "MR. FOX'S FUNERAL. 1506", "LORD THURLOW's FUNERAL. 173", "THE following is the Order of the Procession, as agreed upon by the Directors of the Funeral Obediences of Mr. Fox:—", " preceding the Procession, on foot.", " Volunteer Cavalry, in half squadrons.", " Marshmen, in pairs.", " High Constable, on horseback.", " Conductors on foot, eight.", " Sixty Poor Men, in mourning cloaks.", " High Bailiff of Westminster.", " Electors of Westminster, and Whig Club, four and four, not including any Members of Parliament.", " Nottingham Deputies, Mayor and Corporation.", " Individuals of the Whig Club, three and three.", " Gentlemen, unable to attend on foot, in carriages.", " Sheriffs of London in their State Carriages.", " Lord Mayor in his State Carriage.", " Attendants on Junior Branches of the Royal Family.", " Junior Branches of the Royal Family.", " Attendants on His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.", " His Royal Highness.", " Mutes, Horsemen, &c.", " Great Banner, carried by a Gentleman on horseback.", " Two Bannerolls, carried by Horsemen.", " Horsemen, two and two.", " Chaplain in Mourning Coach.", " A Gentleman on horseback, carrying the Cushion and the Crest of the Deceased.", "Hearse, open,", "Drawn by six Horses, led by Grocers' six Grenadiers in Mourning on each side.", "THE COFFIN, EXPOSED TO VIEW.", "The Pall-Bearers—Earls Carlisle and Derby, Duke of Northumberland, and the Lord Chancellor.", " Chief Mournier.", " Train-Bearer, in a Mourning Coach.", " Two Mourning Coaches with the Directors.", " Peers, eldest Sons of Peers, Counsellors, and Members of Parliament, on foot, to walk in pairs.", "Banners of Emblems.", "The company to be marshalled by Mr. Downs, and other Undertakers, in the Park.", "The grave of Mr. Fox, in Westminster Abbey, is of considerable depth, and is immediately adjoining the monument of the late Lord CHATHAM, and within 18 inches of the grave of the late illustrious WILLIAM PITT.", "Mr. SHERIDAN, who accepted on Friday the Colonycy of the Somerset-House Association, will appear to-morrow, to attend Mr. Fox's Funeral, for the first time, in full uniform, at the head of that Corps.", "Yesterday twenty-four carts, laden with gravel, arrived in town from Kensington, which were pitched in Pall-Mall, and the streets leading to Westminster Abbey, in order to be strewed to-morrow morning for the convenience of the Funeral Procession of Mr. Fox.", "We understand the Remains of Mr. Fox will lie in state three days, at his house in St. James's. If the PRINCE of WALES does not follow as Chief Mournier, Lord HOLLAND will. His Lordship issued cards of invitation to a number of distinguished characters, to follow his illustrious uncle as Mourners. They include the whole of his Colleagues in office; the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, the Marquis of TAVISTOCK (for his father, the Duke of BEDFORD), the Marquis of HARTINGTON, Earl PERCY, Lord W. Russell, Mr. BYNG, Mr. WHITBREAD, &c. The whole number invited amounts to about 40. Mr. TROTTER, Mr. Fox's Private Secretary, attended at Mr. Fox's house, and yesterday he sent two of the livery servants with the cards of invitation.", "The Duke of Beaufort has at this time no less than twenty-four farms unoccupied in Somersetshire, and the Earl of Coventry a still greater number unfettered in Westchestershire. Why does not the noble Duke let his lands at low rents?", "THE remains of Lord THURLOW were removed at twelve o'clock yesterday morning, from his Lordship's late house, in Great George-street, Westminster, to the Temple Church, for interment.—The procession moved down Parliament-street and up the Strand in the following order:", "The Plume of Feathers, decorated with Bandalors.", " Six Mutes on horseback.", "His Lordship's saddle-horse, led by two Servants, with the Family Arms on the Black Velvet Trappings, and mounted by a Gentleman of the Heralds' Office, bearing his Lordship's Coronet.", "THE HEARSE,", "Drawn by Six Horses, and adorned with Escutcheons.", "His Lordship's Supporters were placed on the Horses' Black Velvet Trappings.", "Then followed—", "Six Mourning Coaches, drawn by Six Horses.", "In the First Coach were", "The Duke of Newcastle, the Lord Chancellor, the Dean of Windsor, and Lord Ellenborough.", "In the Second—", "Lord Eldon, Mr. Justice Le Blanc, Mr. Baron Thompson, and Sir William Scott.", "In the third,", "The Rev. T. S. Thurlow (his Lordship's Nephew), Colonsels M'Mahon, Cunningham, and Terry.", "In the other three coaches were some of his Lordship's principal domestics.", "The Procession was closed by ten private carriages.", "At a quarter to two the body entered the church.", "The Pall-bearers were,", "The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Eldon, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Sir Wm. Scott.", "The Funeral Service was read by the Dean of WINDSOR; after which was performed an Anthem, composed for the occasion.", "At half past two the Body was lowered into the Vault, which is at the top of the south aisle, and deposited next to the remains of his Lordship's Brother, the late Bishop of DURHAM. The LORD CHANCELLOR, and the Rev. T. S. THURLOW, rose from their seat, walked to the edge of the Vault, and took their last farewell.", "The concourse of people was so great, and the pressure into the Church so violent, that it was found necessary to close the doors.", "The funeral was conducted with the greatest solemnity.", "THURLOW PEERAGE.—This title and dignity is entailed in the first instance on the sons of the late Bishop of DURHAM, whose eldest son (in the 20th year of his age), EDWARD, is now Lord THURLOW. It is secondly entailed on the Rev. SOUTH THURLOW, Prebendary of Norwich, the son of another brother of the late venerable Peer, who has several children.", "ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES JAMES FOX.", "How shall the daring Muse adorn the Verse", "That decks the Patrio's cold sepulchral Virg!", "Or bid this Marble his great Name revere,", "While sorrowing Britons o'er his Ashes mourn", "Immortal Statesman! to lament thy doom!", "Lo! Party Spirit now contends no more;", "And Rival FaCTIONS, weeping round thy Tomb,\nUnited here, their Country's Agg deplor.", "Assembled Senates shall no longer hear—", "Applauding Orators no longer tell—", "How deep, how nervous, rapid, strong, and clear,\nLike great DEMOSTHENES, his thunders fell.", "No trophies, pomp, or 'scutcheons of renown,", "Shall grace his Obsequies in banner'd Hall;", "But on his Grave fresh Laurees shall be thrown,", {"bbox": [793,

On Thursday, the 20th instant, at his house in Cavendish-square, near the year's end, of his age, George Simon, Earl Harcourt, Viscount of Northam, of Netherland, and Baron Harcourt, of Stan- ton Harcourt, in the county of Oxford. His Lordship, was Mas- ter of the Horse to his Majesty, to which situation he succeeded on the death of Earl Waldergrave, in March 1750. He has bequeathed the whole of his property to his brother the Hon. General William Harcourt, with reversion to his widow. Elizabeth, the present Countess of Harcourt, and after her death to Edward Lord Arch- ship of York, and to the heir male of his body. 1809

—Some day, at his sister's, Lady Dowager Spencer's house, in Jermyn-street, the Rev. Charles Poyntz, D.D. Rector of North Creek, near Busham, Norfolk, and a Prebendary of Durham. May 10, 1809.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.

—1809

The Duke of Portland died yesterday afternoon, about five o'clock, at Burlington-house. His suffer- ings, from the disorder with which he has so long been afflicted, induced him to submit to the opera- tion of lithotomy, and a large stone was extracted. The operation was skillfully performed, and every thing seemed to promise a successful issue, but un- fortunately his Grace was soon after seized with an epileptic fit, and after a short struggle he expired.

The Duke of Portland was in his 73d year, hav- ing been born in April 1738. The principal events of his long political life are well known to the coun- try, and need not be detailed here. He was Knight of the Garter, Chancellor of the University of Ox- ford, High Sieward of Bristol, and Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nottingham.

He is succeeded in his titles and honours by his eldest son, William Henry Cavendish, Marquis of Tuchfield, who, on marrying the daughter of the late Gen. Scott, obtained his Majesty's permission to add the name of Scott to that of Benthief.

The Duke of Portland, from his abilities, as well as his high rank, was calculated to take a leading part in the Government of the country. He did not possess the talents of an orator, but his judgment was sound, and his knowledge extensive. He was firmly attached to the British Constitution, and this attachment he demonstrated when the French Re- volution broke out, and found advocates among his political friends in this country. Sensible of the dangerous tendency of the doctrines upon which that Revolution was founded, he manifested at once his abhorrence of those doctrines, and relinquished all connection with the men who espoused them in this country.

The Duke was affable in private life, but always supported his rank with becoming dignity, yet with- out the slightest arrogance or pride. He was dis- tinguished for the delicacy of his manners and the ingenuity of his principles. Though his Grace was for a long period allied to the Office, yet he was always considered as a staunch friend to the Monarch, and always possessed a high share in his Majesty's esteem. Though no literary production of his Grace has ever been submitted to the world, it is well known that he particularly excelled in epi- sodic compositions, and his slightest notes, it is said, were characterized by peculiar delicacy of sentiment and elegance of diction. He had long been a martyr to one of the dreadful disorders that can agitate the human frame, and he bore all his sufferings, and all the painful operations necessary to relieve them, with the utmost fortitude and patience. He was liberal to the full extent of his means, but it is understood that his circumstances had been for some years impaired by the great pecu- nary favours which he had conferred on the party whose political aims he patronized, and by the style in which he lived, which was such as became his high rank in society.

It may be truly said of his Grace, and the most violent of his political adversaries will no doubt join in the description, that he was one of the race of British Noblemen who blend liberality with dignity, who, while they are firmly attached to the in- sult of the Crown, are decided friends to the in- gults of the people.

DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

Early on Sunday morning died, after a long and painful illness, at the Episcopal House, at Fulham, in the 79th year of his age, the Right Rev. Beilby Porteus, Lord Bishop of London, Dean of the Chapel Royal, a Governor of the Charter-House, and an Official Trustee of the British Museum. At noon the great bell of St. Paul's was tolled an hour, according to ancient usage on the death of the So- vereign or the Metropolitan Bishop. "The Public expressed considerable anxiety to learn the cause of this solemn ceremony. His Lordship was first con- secrated Bishop of Chester in 1776; and in 1796 he was translated to the See of London, on the death of the celebrated Dr. Lowith. May 15, 1809.

On Tuesday evening died, at Lansdowne House, in Berkeley-square, the Most Noble the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. His Lordship was for many months in a declining state of health. In the autumn of the present year, by the advice of his medical attendants, he was preparing to embark for Lisbon, to try the effect of the temperature of the atmosphere of that country. Previously to his intended departure, he visited his favourite Castle at Southampton, and finding himself daily getting better, he abandoned his intention of going to Portugal. His disorder was a liver complaint, to which he had for many years been subject. His Lordship was married a few years since to Lady GIFFORD, but he left no issue. His title and estates devolve in consequence to his only brother, Lord HENRY PETTY, now Marquis of LANSDOWNE. May 14, 1809.

THE DUKE OF GRAFTON.—This venerable and much-respected Nobleman departed this life on Thursday night, at Euston-hall, Suffolk, where his Grace had been long in a declining state. He was in the 75th year of his age. By his death there become vacant the Chancellorsship of the University of Cambridge, and a Ribbon of the Order of the Garter. His Grace is succeeded by his eldest son, the Earl of EUSTON (now Duke of GRAFTON), in consequence of which a vacancy takes place in the Parliamentary Representation of the University of Cambridge, for which his Lordship was one of the Members.

—1811.

On Monday, the 9th instant, at his seat at Nan-Appleton, in Yorkshire, Sir William M. Edmond Milner, Bart. He was in the 57th year of his age. He was chosen Representative for the city of York in four successive Parliaments during which he maintained what he believed to be the public interest, with exemplary consistency; he was a true friend to old E. English liberty, and neither place nor pension were ever objects of his pursuit; his political life, like his domestic, was unsullied with a blot; he had nothing to complain of, except the loss of his friends, and all the best affections seem to have made his heart their favourite abode. His loss will be long felt, and deeply lamented by his relatives and friends, and by none more than by him who has written these few lines to tell his worth, which he had an opportunity of observing during an anniversary of twenty years.

DIED—Sep. 24, 1811.

The following beautiful and affecting lines to the memory of Isabella, the amiable and accomplished daughter of Lord John Townshend, lately deceased, were written by her afflicted father :—

Oh! gone for ever I lov'd, lamented child,
So young, so good, so innocent, and null;
With winning manners, beauty, genius, sense,
Fond filial love, and sweet benevolence;
The softest, kindest, yet firmest mind,
In sickness parkant, and in death reposed;
Never—oh! never a fairer blast!
Of opening virtues found an early tomb!
How hard thy trials, how severe thy woes,
She, she alone, thy sorrowing mother, know:
Who, three long years with sad foreboding heart,
Enkrypt of every home from human aid,
Still wept, and watch'd—and still to Heaven for aid,
His fruitless vows with meek devotion paid,
But thou! pure spirit! fled to endless night;
Dear child! my heart—dear Bella! then art blest,
And oh! the thorns that we again may meet!
For not another gleam of hope can give
Dawns on thy father's breast, with welcome ray,
To soothe his grief, and cheer his closing day.

DIED—On Thursday, the 3d instant, the other house in Queens-Ann-street, Cavendish-square, in the 16th year of his age, the Right Hon. Sir Francis Viesdampfes Montague, a relative of Anthony Joseph, 8th Viscount Montague, and sister of the late Sir Her- bert Macworth, Bars. May 12, 1814.

The Exiled QUEEN of the Two Sicilies died suddenly at Vienna, on the 8th just. 1800. 1811.

On Tuesday morning died, at his seat at Cole Green, in Hertfordshire, in consequence of the bursting of a blood vessel on his lungs on the 27th ult. the Right Hon. GEORGE NASSAU CLA- VERING COWPER, Earl COWPER, in the 23d year of his age. His Lordship is succeeded in his title and estates by his brother PETER LEWIS FRANCIS COWPER, now Earl COWPER.

The late Earl had the misfortune in the Spring of last year to fall from his horse, and to his refu- sing to be bled at the time, the Physicians who attended him attribute his premature death. His Lordship was never perfectly well after this ac- cident, though it was only lately he was obliged to confine himself to his house. May 19th.

His Lordship's disposition, manners, and in- tellec'tual endowments, promised that he would ive an ornament to his rank and station. In hort, his character cannot have a better praise bestowed on it than in reporting the opinion re- cently given of it by the worthy CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of King's Bench, who said of his Lordship, that he did not know a more promis- ing young man among the Peerage. 1799

9. At his house in Bolton-row, Piccadilly, the Right Rev. Jonathan Shipley, D.D. lord biflop and archdeacon of St. Afaph, to which fee he was promoted in 1769, on the death of Ep. Newcome. He was educated at Chrift Church, Oxford, proceeded M.A. 1738; E. and D.D. 1743; dean of Winchelher, rector of Chilbollton, Hants; Bedwey, co. Monmouth, the chapelry of Rudery, co. Glamorgan, and rector of Sherborne St. John, Hants, by com- mendam. His fon William was rector of Skir- wing with Wrexham, co. Flint, 1771. His fe- cond daughter was married to Wm. Charles Sloper, eq. 1774; his eldest to Sir William Jones, one of the Eait India judges, 1783; and, if we mistake not, a third to—Thor- thorpe, eq. 1786. He was buried at Twyford, near Winchester. His half-brothers were, the Dean of Winchelher, Dean of Exeter, Dr. Sturges, Sir P. Rivers Gay, Rev. Mr. Lowth, and Rev. Mr. Nott.

At her house in Upper Grosvenor-street, Emma, Countess Dowager of Mount Edge- cumbe, relict of the third Lord and first Earl, and mother to the present Earl. Her Lordship was Miss Gilbert, only daughter and heir of Dr. John Gilbert, who was Archbishop of York. May 18, 1808.

On Wednesday last, the remains of the Mar- chioness of BUCKINGHAM, were deposited in the fa- mily burying-place of the GRENVILLES, attached to the Parish Church of Wotton Underwood, in the County of Bucks. By her Ladyship's desire, the Funeral was strictly private. The body was re- moved from London on Tuesday, and remained that night at Aylesbury, from whence, on the following morning, it proceeded to Wotton, where it was met by the tenants upon the Marquis of BUCKINGHAM's Estates in that neighbourhood, who, together with the poor of Wotton and the adjacent parishes, attended as real mortals, their beloved Lady to the grave. Earl TEMPLE, Lord GEORGE GRENVILLE, and the Hon. EVERARD ARUNDELL, formed a part of the mournful process- sion. The Funeral Service was impressively read by the Rev. Mr. A' BECKETT TURNER. Curate of the Parish of Wotton, and Domestic Chaplain to her Ladyship.

On Sunday, the 11th July, died, at her apartment, St. James's Palace, in the 89th year of her age, the Right Hon. Lady CHARLOTTE FINCH, the last sur- viving daughter of THOMAS, second Earl of POMFREY, by HENRIETTA LOUISA, sole daughter and heireirs of John Lord JEFFREYS. Her Ladyship was married in 1746, to the Right Hon. WILLIAM FINCH, Vice Chamberlain to his late Majesty GEORGE II. and brother of DANIEL, late Earl of WINGELSEA and NOTTINGHAM, whose honours and estates devolved upon her son, the present Earl. In 1762 Lady CHAR- LOTTE FINCH was nominated to the important and distinguished station of Governess to the Royal Nursery. 1813.

nately or never, but the West-ostrich fea-tedral cell, upon their HANET, and at both side of the CHONSHIRE and after wore a cession. Lord unperturbed as supported by his own, as well as the late Lord. On FIELDS, GORE, lemen of the Or- vice—"I am Lord." The Dr. IRELAND, the Gentle- rial Service— a short time was extremely evan- gilical. The opposite the can of West- est having the ganist played was deposited

erly a Candii- with Mr. Fox, early life, and union of the Fox's parti- and brother presentation of his no- has, it is said, as well as the late PERCY, and the goring virtues and

ON OF MR. FOX'S

SENT MONTHLY.

HOLLY HOLLAND lies.

JOHN FREDERICK Brandenburg, Count of Rوس, on Sunday mon- ror Neubuy, was family—his High- de, being a Pim- was Queen Ca-

His Highness of Prussia, his design. His High- of the House of BETH, daughter and widow of Lord St. any. and the num- erally revered, or

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["Naples, Sept. 25, 1793.", "His Majesty's Ships the Culloden, Capt. Trowbridge, the Alexander, Capt. Ball, and the Frigate Bonne Citoyenne, came into this Port on the gate Bonne Citoyenne. His Sicilian Majesty went out in his Boat into the Bay to meet them, as did numerous English and Neapolitan Boats. The Ships gave the Royal Salute to His Majesty. Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, in the Vanguard, accompanied by the Thalia Frigate, did not make his appearance in this Bay until Saturday last the 22d inst. having been becalmed off Sicily.", "The King of Naples not only went off to meet the Admiral, but instantly went on board the Vanguard, and stood on board until that Vessel was at anchor in the Port. The Royal Salute was given by all the King's Ships, both on His Sicilian Majesty's arrival on board the Vanguard, and on his leaving the Ship. The day being remarkably fine, numerous Boats, with Colours and Music, attended the Vanguard, and all the Shores and Wharfs of Naples were crowded with a multitude of rejoicing people; and when the Admiral came on shore, the reception the Neapolitans gave him was expressive of the utmost kindness and gratitude.", "Naples, Sept. 23, 1798.", "Every assistance has been given to the Vanguard, the Culloden, and Alexander, so that these Ships will be fit to go to Sea again in a few days. Yesterday His Majesty's Ship Colossus, Captain Murray, with four Vitualliers from Gibraltar, came to an anchor in this Port.", "This morning Sir Horatio Nelson has received a Letter from Sir James Saumarez, dated from the Port of Augusta, in Sicily, the 17th inst. reporting all well in the Squadron under his command, and that he hoped, having got water and fresh provisions, to sail from thence for Gibraltar the Wednesday following.", "Whiteball, November 20, 1798.", "The King has been graciously pleased to give and grant unto the Right Honourable Horatio Baron Nelson the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe, in the County of Norfolk, Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet, and Knight of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, in consideration of the great Zeal, Courage, and Perseverance manifested by him upon divers occasions, and particularly of his able and gallant Conduct in the glorious and decisive Victory obtained over the French Fleet near the Mouth of the Nile, on the first day of August last, His Royal Licence and Authority, that he and his Issue may hear the following honourable Augmentation to his Armorial Ensigns, viz. A Chief undulated Argent, therein waves of the Sea, from which a Palm Tree is tantus, between a disabled Ship, on the Dexter, and a minous Battery, on the Sinister, all Proper; and for his Crest, on a Naval Crown Or, The Chelengue, or Plume of Trump, presented to him by the Grand Signior, as a mark of his high esteem, and of his sense of the gallant Conduct of the said Horatio Baron Nelson, in the said glorious and decisive Victory; with the Motto, \"PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT;\" and to his Supporters, being a Sailor, on the Dexter, and a Lion, on the Sinister, the honourable Augmentation following, viz. In the hand of the Sailor, a Palm Branchy, and another in the paw of the Lion, both Proper, with the addition of a tri-coloured Flag and Staff in the mouth of the latter; which Augmentation to the Supporters to be borne by the said Horatio Baron Nelson and by those to whom the said Dignity shall descend, in virtue of His Majesty's Letters Patent of Creation; and that the same may be first duly exemplified according to the Laws of Arms, and recorded in the Heralds' Office.", "And also to order, that His Majesty's said Concession, and especial mark of His Royal favour, be registered in His College of Arms.", "According to accounts from Naples, Admiral NELSON, after having given the KING and QUEEN of NAPLES a sumptuous entertainment on board the Tancred, sailed on the 6th of October with a fair wind. The KING accompanied him to the distance of three leagues from Naples. The Division of the Fleet which he has with him, consists only of Three Ships of the Line and a Frigate, but he will be joined by Three other Ships of the line off Sicily. Before he sailed, he said, as we have been assured, \"I flatter myself that there is no longer any French Convoy at Alexandria; but if it is not burnt, I will use my utmost endeavours that it shall soon be.\" This proves, either that the Ottoman Porte, which first published the account of the burning of the French Transports, was led into an error, or at least that Admiral NELSON at Naples, had not received on the 6th instant any certain advices of that event.", "LONDON, FEBRUARY 4, 1799.", "On Tuesday last a Sloop of War arrived at Falmouth with Dispatches from Earl St. VINCENT and Lord NELSON in the Mediterranean, which, from the bad state of the Roads, did not reach Town till yesterday.", "In addition to the accounts which we have given of the escape of the KING and QUEEN of NAPLES, we have been favoured with the substance of the account which Lord NELSON has transmitted of that most interesting event, in a Dispatch from Palermo of the 28th December, where the Royal Family had arrived, after having experienced in their passage the severest weather ever known in those Seas, and during which they were in considerable danger of being shipwrecked. Lord NELSON, we understand, in some of his private Letters, describes it as the most terrible storm he ever witnessed, and mentions that which he met with off Sardinia, previous to the Battle of the Nile, and in which the Vanguard was dismasted, as trifling in comparison with the hurricane off the Neapolitan Coast.", "In the course of the voyage PRINCE ALBERT, the youngest son of THEIR SICILIAN MAJESTIES, died through excessive sickness and fatigue; and to all the miseries which such a scene must have occasioned in the minds of the Royal Fugitives, they had to add their affliction for the loss of their child.", "Lord NELSON speaks, we understand, in the highest terms of the kindness and attention shewn to THEIR MAJESTIES upon this occasion by Lady HAMILTON, who, with Sir WILLIAM, retired with the Royal Family from Naples.", "Every Englishman, and all who were willing to embark, were safely conveyed to Sicily by some of Admiral Lord NELSON's Squadron; and we hear from other quarters, that the skill and management displayed by Lord NELSON upon this unfortunate occasion, exceed all praise. When the Royal Family arrived at Palermo, they were received with the greatest demonstrations of joy.", "We are extremely sorry to learn, that accounts have this day been received at the Admiralty, with Intelligence of the French having taken possession of Naples; and that the KING and ROYAL FAMILY, accompanied by 400 Nobles, had taken their departure for Sicily.", "Such is the rancour of the Jacobin mind towards Crowned Heads, that even the misfortunes into which a Prince may fall cannot soften the malignity of its hatred. In a Paper of yesterday there is a pretended Letter from Sicily, published for no other purpose than to degrade the KING of NAPLES, and to lessen that sympathy which his fate must excite in every heart not hardened by Republican malevolence. But the excess of this Jacobin malice counteracts itself, and only brings disgrace upon those who are so callous to every humane and liberal feeling.", "NAPLES, OCT. 18.—General MACK has arrived here. On the 12th of this month he was present at a Council of War at Caserta, in company with the English Ambassador HAMILTON, and Admiral NELSON. HAMILTON, has, it is said, notified that if War was not declared against France, he should leave Naples in some of the English Ships. The English Squadron yesterday quitted our Road. We do not know whether it be gone for Malta or Corfu. The Court appears more than ever bent upon War.", "Accounts were received at the Admiralty. Office on Saturday, from Admiral Lord NELSON, at Naples. These accounts stated, that His SICILIAN MAJESTY, accompanied by his QUEEN, was, when he wrote, on board the Vanguard, which was about to set sail for Palermo. Many valuable articles had been put on board Lord NELSON's Fleet, under the apprehension that the French would soon be in possession of Naples.", "The title of Baronet, bestowed on Capt. TROUVBRIDGE, of His Majesty's Ship Culden, has been truly earned by a series of most active and zealous service. This Officer, for the last twelve months, has undergone a constant succession of severe fatigue, and has proved himself an able General and Engineer, as well as Sea Officer.", "The following whimsical method of convicting a farmer of extortion, in difpusing of his grain, was adopted a few weeks ago by Mr. MINDLETON, a land-owner, near Wrexham. Hearing that his human tenant refused to fell his wheat in smell quantities, even at a geinea per bufhel, Mr. M. difguised himself in the attire of an old woman, and, in that trim walked to the farm-house; the oratory of the pretended female was, however, thrown away upon Hobnall, whofwore, \"If the Devil proof at his threshold, the should na have a mouthful on it cheaper;\" and of course the good old lady could make no better bargain than for 21s. the bufhel, and at that price could have no lefs than a load, which he herfelf was to provide a team to fetch away. Next day Mr. M.—'s team came for the coin; the farmer infilled that there was fome mifake, the carter declared that his mafler fent him thither for a load of wheat, and would not return without it; rather than diffoblie the 'Square the corn was fent, and next day the farmer received notice to attend at the Manor House to be paid for it; there he was introduced to the individual old woman, who had been his cuſtomer two days before, and the money was paid. The difgude was then to poor Hub's utter confusion, thrown off, and he was diuſuiled from the houſe, with notice to quit the farm in fix months time from the next quarter.", "⁴⁴ At the time and the good dì of your GRACE, and the rest, I received your GRACE, and

NAPLES.

1799

It is well known that the repeated defeats of
the Neapolitan Army are to be ascribed in a
much greater degree to the treachery of several
of the principal Officers, than to the boasted
bravery of the French troops. The corruption
with which the army was infected, found its
way to the capital, where a Cabal was actu-
ally formed for the purpose of securing the King's
Person, and of forcing him to subscribe such
Articles as the French should think proper to
dictate. Under these circumstances, His SIC-
LIAN MAJESTY took the resolution of leaving
Naples, and of going to Sicily, from two mo-
tives; first to avoid the danger of being obliged
to do any thing derogatory to his dignity, con-
trary to his rights, and to those of his subjects,
or incompatible with his engagements towards
his Allies; the other motive was, that he
might be able to collect as large a force as pos-
sible in Sicily, and return at the head of them
by way of Calabria. In consequence of this
plan, he gave orders to General PIGNATELLI,
Governor General, during his absence, to col-
lect the scattered remains of the Army, to rouse
the people who still remained well affected, to
oppose the progress of the French, by disputing
the ground step by step with them; and in case
of necessity, to retreat towards Calabria, where
he would meet with reinforcements from Sicily.
But General PIGNATELLI, in direct disobedience
to his instructions, a few days after His SICILI-
AN MAJESTY's departure, misled by the trea-
cherous Councils of the Cabal, concluded by
Plenipotentiaries of his own naming, an Armi-
stice with the French General CHAMPIONET,
and sent it to Palermo for the KING's sanction.
The Public are already acquainted with the
Articles of the Armistice; we trust it will be a
gratification to them to read the subjoined dig-
nified Answer of His SICILIAN MAJESTY to
General PIGNATELLI on the occasion, and the
Proclamation published subsequently in His MA-
JESTY'S name, and circulated throughout the
Neapolitan Provinces:

LETTER FROM THE KING OF NAPLES TO GENERAL PIGNATELLI, COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT NAPLES DURING THE ABSENCE OF HIS MAJESTY, DATED PALEMO, JAN. 15, 1799.

"At the time when, from the urgency of circumstances, and the good dispositions manifested by my People, to which in your former Letters, you have done justice, I expected a general Rising in defence of the Capital of my Kingdom, I receive yours of the 12th inst. which informs me of the dis-GRATEFUL TREATY which has been concluded in consequence of the most absurd instructions given by you to persons directed to negotiate with the Enemy, and by which I see the greatest part of my realm, though unconquered, given up with a view of sparing the Capital, when it is obvious that these Conces-SIONS MUST LEAD TO THE IRRETRIABLE LOSS OF my whole Kingdom.—I have been more surprised than you have acted in this unwarrantable manner, as you had no powers from me for such Negotiations. The Instructions I left with you were of a tEN dency very different. In concluding such a Treaty, you may either have forgotten you have a Master, or to remember it only for the purpose of imposing the most scandalous and disgraceful terms on him.

"You may suppose how much I am incensed at finding the trust I had reposed in you, betrayed in such a manner, and how indignant I feel against your unworthy Advisers."

"F. R."

THE FINE ARTS,

The eventful history of the two celebrated CLAURES,
in their escape from Rome, has excited fome curiosit,
while the extraordinary merit of the Mafter, concentered
in, and exemplified by those beautiful productions of his
pencil, have raifed that just admiration which ever attends
on original, expansive abilities. The pictures were fold
at a moment of anxiety and diffater, by the Prince AL-
TIERI, to an English Artif, who, on the French troops
occupying Rome, was imprisoned, by the capacity of their
Comillionners, for having concealed his purchase; after
fome time, liberated by the intervention of the King of
the Two Sicilies, he fled to Naples, where the revolution in-
the Government involved him in new difficulties: here
Admiral NEISON became his friend, conveyed him to
Palermo, and forwarded the pictures to England, on
board the Tyger, under the care of the First Lieutenant
of the Leander. The pictures were to have been pub-
licly exhibited in London; but their being purchased at a
liberal price for Mr. BECKFORD, cauied the Proprietor's
Agent to relinquish that source of emolument. The
CLAURES are now removed to Fonthill, where talle, in
arrangement and magnificence of decoration, will increase
their attraction. Nothing tends more to the culture and
dignified exertion of art, than the liberality of opulence
guied by judgment; and here it must be observed, that
Mr. BECKFORD's munificence is exerted, not only in-
enabling the Public to apply to immediate use the excel-
lence of works produced in former times, but also to reap
the harvest of contemporary abilities; and this not as a
defultory object, but a ready principle of attachment to
the prosperity of his country.

A Sacred Song,

FOR THE 25TH OF OCTOBER, 1809;

BEING

The Commemoration of His Majesty's Entrance upon
the Jubilee, or 50th Year of his Reign.

TUNE—God Save the King.

I.

O Briton's happy land,
Own'd by Almighty hand,
As none beside; *

We bless our SAVIOUR's name,

Exalt his growing fame,
His goodness loud proclaim,
The Christian's pride.

II.

The Gospel, rich and free,
With smiling Liberty,
Among us dwell :

O Lord, our Shield and Tow'r,

Still aid us by thy pow'r,

And save from evil bour,

Gainst raging hell.

III.

Our tribute too we bring,

For GEORGE our lawful King,
And own thy hand :

To thee we raise our Song,

With grateful heart and tongue,

For giving him so long,

To bless our land.

IV.

Then let us cheerful sing,

God save great GEORGE our King,
To us long giv'n;

Direct him in his ways,

Support him through his days,

And oh! at last him raise

Into thy heav'n!

* The British Isles, the most favored spot in Christendom.

MY DEAR FRIEND: 145

I Present you a Nest of Boxes for your Toilet;
full of valuable Ornaments; which I beg you will
use constantly, as they are exceedingly useful and
t becoming, and will I am sure wear very well.

A MIRROR:
HUMILITY.

Best white Paint:

INNOCENCE.

A Fine Eye Water:
BEINEVOLENCE.

A LIP SALVE:
CHEERFULNESS.

A wish to smooth wrinkles:
CONTENTMENT.

Best ROUGE:
MODESTY.

A Pair of Ear-rings:
ATTENTION.

A Universal Benefactor:
GOOD HUMOR.

A MIXTURE:
giving sweetness to the Voice:
Mildness and Truth.

In the year 1564, BUCHANAN made some elegant
verves upon the marriage of MARY Queen of Scots
with Lord DARNLEY, and also on a diamond ring
in the form of a heart, which MARY feat in the fame
year to ELIZABETH, Queen of England. They
are published in an account of the life and writings
of GEORGE BUCHANAN by M. LE CLERC, and may
be thus translated :

> This Gem behold, the emblem of my heart,
> From which my Cousin's image ne'er shall part !
> Clear in its lute, spotlets does it shine,
> As clear, as spotlets, is this heart of mine !
> What tho' the flame a greater hardnefs wears,
> Superior firmnefs fill the figure bears.

King JAMES the First gave this ring to Sir
THOMAS WARNER. It is now in the possession
of his great grandson.

FOREIGN.—A first volume of fat similes, from the MSS. found in Herculaneum, and unrolled with such careful ingenuity, under the direction of the Neapolitan Academy, has arrived in this country,—for the Library of Chrift Church, Oxford. It confi cts of a work on music, by PHILODEMUS of Gadara, a celebrated Epicurean and Poet, contemporary with CICERO and HORACE. The ex-travagant prales beftowed on music by DIOGENES BABYLIUS and his feet are confured in this tract; and the wonderful effects imputed to it by more anuieot writes are treated with suficion in a leries of fatryical queffions.

The following whimsical state of Europe was written
about the middle of the last century :—

LES COURS DE L'EUROPE.

Germany fears all

Austria risks all

Bavaria hopes all

Prussia undertakes all

Mayence surrenders all

Portugal observes all

England wishes to do all

Spain embroils all

Russia meddles with all

Holland obtains all

France blows up all

The Jesuits are found o'er all

Rome blesses all

If God does not guard all

The Devil will take all.

The value of the cargoes on board the India
Fleet, just arrived, is estimated at fix millions
sterling.

FASHIONS
Bonaparte's Hat.

The great hat usually worn by this extraordinary man, though it may be said to caricature one of his diminutive stature, has nevertheless excited the gaze of miriads: yet, after all, it is but a mere hat, costing but a *Louis d'or*. But what is Bonaparte's hat, in point of value, compared with the HAT that is now worn by the present LOTTERY SCHEME! The very crown of the latter is worth £120,000 irradiated round in the SIX GEMS of the full value of £20,000 each, and on all sides brimfull of British Guineas. There is not a votary of Fortune's Wheel but must feel a laudable ambition to wear a hat of this immense worth. Happy, superlatively happy, will those be whose heads it will so speedily fit!

HER MAJESTY'S STAY MAKER.

Mrs. HARMAN, No. 18, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, has the honour most respectfully to announce, that on Thursday next, she will have her New Stay, (which she denominates Un Grand Jupe a la Praxitiles) ready for the Inspection of those Ladies who attend to the elegance of the Female Figure.

The great number of Ladies of High Rank and Fashion, who honour Mrs. Harman with wearing her Stays, is the most convincing proof of their pleasantness and utility, and the great number of Medical Gentlemen who recommend their adoption in their own Families, is a pleasing testimony of their combining Health with Beauty.

Mrs. Harman's Stays are finished with that Novelty and Taste, which has cured for her the Countenance of Royalty and the Patronage of the first Nobility.

That falls out often, Madam, that he that thinks himself
" a mafter wit, is *a mafter fool »"

BEN JOHNSON'S SILENT WOMAN.

The will of Baron DE QUINTELLA (of the city of Lisbon) has lately been proved in Doctors' Commons: his property in this country amounted nearly to 400,000l. independent of his wealth in Spain; the duty which was paid to Government on his effects here amounted to 5,250l. We understand this is the rich merchant to whom the Fortunate Youth asserted himself to be heir,

PETER LORD CWYDIR,
BY GREAT CHAMBERLAIN.
THIRD DAY.

1805

HORSE-GUARDS, Thursday, April 3, 1760,

At a COURT-MARTIAL there held by
Adjournment.

PRESENT,

Sir Charles Howard, President, and the rest of the Members, as yeferday.

Twentieth Day's Sitting on Lord Geo. Sackville's Trial.

Lord George Sackville ordered into Court.

Evidence for the Crown in Reply continued.

Col. Johnston called in again.

JUDGE Adv. Did you fee Capt. Ligonier when he brought his orders to Lord George Sackville on the rest of August laft?

A. Capt. Ligonier paffed by me when I was at the head of the Blues, I called to him when he paffed by me, defired him to stop, being inquifitive to know what his errand was; he did not stop, but paffed on, he went on at a gallop.

Q. How far did you fee him go on?

A. I faw him go to Bland's dragoons.

Witness discharged from any further attendance.

President. Lord George Sackville, have you any thing to offer before the Judge Advocate makes his reply?

["A certain *loquacious orator* boasting that he could speak for two hours without getting *thirsty*, a wag present enquired, whether he was sure he never *got dry*?", "A punster at a watering place being at the representation of *Pizarro*, where the name of the poor King *Ataliba* was most cruelly bellowed forth, observed to a country person who sat near him, and who enquired the name of the character, that the sheepish actor made it At-all-I-all but", "A shoe-maker being enamoured of a young girl, while urging his suit assured her, he loved her as he did his own sole, and that she would find him true to the last.", "A person who was present at the late boxing match between a *hatter* and a *hosier*, in which the latter was most dreadfully beaten, remarks, that however firm the latter might have deemed his *footing*, it was clear the blows of the former had been greatly felt.", "The sharp-set thieves whose late attempt to break into a *dentist's* pantry was frustrated by the wariness of the latter, proved how much they erred in supposing that they could succeed in their project, \" in spite of his teeth.\"", "The Royal Crown of England has lately undergone considerable repairs, and was deposited in the Tower on Tuesday, by Mr. GILBERT, the Goldsmith. It is valued at 1,000,000.", "An Irish Gentleman, who laboured under a very severe illness, being advised by his physician to go to Bristol for the recovery of his health, exclaimed, \"No, Doctor, that won't do—I lost it in London.\"", "A learned amateur says, that MICHAEL ANGELO'S Last Judgment, now at the European Museum, exhibits every attitude that varies the human body, and every passion that sways the human mind.", "A punster observes, that we must cease to wonder at the selection of Priests to head the Spanish armies, when we recollect that they have been bred to the cannon law.", "The French are making the most severe exactions in Holstein. The soldiery carry off the live stock of the farmers without reserve or ceremony. No payment is offered or even promised.", "A person being asked, Why is a *chandler* the worst and the most unfortunate of men?—\" Because (replied another), all his ways are *wicked*, and all his *wicked* works are brought to light.\"", "The Duke of QUEENSBURY having decorated his balquies in Piccadilly with a profusion of flowers, that part of the noble mansion is now known by the name of Q. *Gordens*.", "An Advertiser for a wife announces, that if some young lady, under twenty-six years of age, of fascinating manners and appearance, pays immediate attention to his advertisement, \" it may lead to an alliance with a country gentleman.\"", "In a recent list of marriages, we read of that of Mr. Savage, of Eat-on, to Mrs. Wild, of Hunger-ford.", "Over a door in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's Inn-fields, is written J. Death, dealer in spirit-ouz liquors.", "A Yorkshire Gentleman, who is by no means at fault in the pronunciation of the names of the contending French and Spanish Chiefs, lately gave as a toast—\" Here's success to Polly Fox over little Bo-Napperty.\"", "MARRIAGE.", "At Ormskirk (after a double disappointment at the Catholic chapels of Ormskirk and Ince). Mr. Harkness, pedlar, to Miss Mary Buller, both of Ormskirk, after a tedious courtship of one month. This happy couple, after being united in the siren bands of Hymen, spent the day with all the conviviality which so joyful an occasion could inspire.", "A few days since a Gentleman passing over Langley Broom, seeing a man in the stocks, observed to him he had got an airy situation: the man sukily replied, if you was in it, you would call it a confined one.", "Among the captures of the Quebec Convoy by the French is the *Silver Eel*: it might have been expected that this ship at least would have slipped through their fingers!", "ADISON was particularly reserved in company when strangers were present. Dr. MINDEVILL, after passing an evening in his company, was asked his opinion of ADISON, \" I think,\" answered the Doctor, \" he is a person in a tye-wig.\"", "A consequential *Personage*, felt his dignity not a little hurt, a few days since, in passing a *Cane-Shop*, the master of which, in the true spirit of trade, civilly inquired—\"Pray, Sir, do you want a Stick?\"", "A lady, who observed the little ship on the Serpentine River last Sunday, with variegated colours, and finially painted, declared, that it reminded her of a *Shiff-in-town* !", "The late marriage of Mr. LYON with Miss LAM is a violation of HORACE's rule in his Art of Poetry. \" Ne'er let discordant tempers he enwink'd, \" or \" Nor in Love a clemper lamb with lions' kind.\"", "ANOTHER.—Mr. WHITBREAD'S Porter Store (observes the same punster,) is like Dukes' *Dinn',* be cause it is where *Heirewres* (he drinks) brews in", "A Barrister, it is said, has been sent to Coventry, for taking *silver fees*—numbers of them have, it is feared, been sent to a more awkward place because they could take no fees.", "An Advertisement has appeared in the *Dianne* Prints for a *Sexton*. Among other qualifications, it is particularly remarked, that a preference will be given to a *Grace Man*.", "A hair-dresser who has lately opened an *eating house*, professes himself to be peculiarly qualified from the experience he has had in *dressing CALVES heads*.", "It is a melancholy fact, that since *sprigged muslims* became so fashionable, our Ladies are not so spotless as they were in former times.", "A certain Member of Parliament, whose chief business is to free the letters of the House to which he belongs, has of late been remarked upon by a punster, as having almost daily to Frank-for-tot.", "A tavern wag complaining to the landlord of the shortness of his pipes, the latter said they were of the last make, as they had just *come in*. \" Yes,\" said the punster, \" I see you have not bought them long.\"", "A Gentleman being lately asked why his wife was so very loquacious, answered, that her mouth was too small to hold her tongue.", "The *glazier* who last week met with an accident, in a state of inebriety, excuses himself by saying, that he was brought up to the *glass*.", "The declaration of the *Glazier*, in our Paper of Saturday, will be found upon inquiry to be untrue, as he now lies insensible to every thing but his *pains*.", "Modern matrimony, observes a Correspondent, seems perfectly to answer LUCERNTIUS's idea of the *Concordia Discors*, \" a jarring harmony.\"", "An Irishman writing to his friend in London, added the following, by way of postscript to his letter: \" I am prevented answering the questions mentioned in your last, (and which I have just received) owing to this letter being sealed up a few minutes before your's came to hand.\"", "At a late festive meeting of Volunteers, the following toast was given, \" A Plum Pudding, in the heart of France,\" which was thus explained—\" The flour of England, and the fruit of Spain.\"", "A Hampshire Farmer boasting rather rudely the fertility of that country, was asked, \" and what? Sir, is it not also remarkable for its breed of hogs to which the borish Farmer promptly grunted assent ?\"", "A person having lately experienced a difficulty finding at an optician's shop a pair of spectacles with which he could read, the wearied shopman observed that probably he could not read at all. \" Why truly,\" replied the Gentleman with the utmost malice, \" if I could read, I should have no occasion for your spectacles.\"", "The nude fashion, which is at present so prevalent among the females in the higher circles, seems to have been imported from Otaheite, and it must be acknowledged, from some late trials, that many of those females may reasonably be thought to have derived from the same place all their notions of *chastity*.", "A famous *Lazey* hearing it remarked, the BACON's Statue of KINZ WILLIAM, in St. James's square, was too short, observed, that it was, doubtless intended for BACON's *abridgement*.", "The Earl of —— observing that he should go to the masquerade, asked Colonel —— what new character he should go in? \" Go sober,\" replied the gallant officer.", "A suitor having applied at Serjeant COCKLE's Chamber, was told Mr. Cockle was going out of town— \" I thought so,\" said the inquirer (a Feverish draerer), \" for oysters are coming in.\"", "SOLOMON'S idea of commerce and the *Amazons* embargo—\" There is that scattereth, and yet creaseth; and there is that with-holdet more is meet, and it tendeth to poverty.\"", "The late *cropping* of the army may prove settleable to the stage, many of the actors being frequent in want of a *cane*.", "The insolvency of a late Attorney was accessory for by one of his friends very logically. \" He is without causes, and died without effects.\"", "\" It was lately determined in a case at York, the Methodist Chapel, the seats of which are little hire, is liable to assessment to the poor rates of a parish in which it is situated.", "Notwithstanding our *Sprigs* of Fashion as fond of driving *Mails*, it is feared but very in them can be deemed *Men of Letters*.", "CROOKED PUN.—A person lately compared ap blind-man, who was conducted by a little dog, 't old fashioned *voig*, because he was *curled*.", "A person of the name of *Foot*, having been prechended for stealing a pair of *shoes*, pleaded he had at least a *nominal* right to their possession.", "The present warm weather is not destitute of peculiar advantages—no suarling *cynic* can with tice complain that his friends *fook cool upon him*.", "\" When now the turnpike men their gates,", "\" Throw open in short space;", "\" The tollmen thinking as before;", "\" That Gilpin rode a race.", "\" For though he felt the loss of time To trouble him full sore; Full well he knew the loss of pence Would trouble him much more.\"", "Notwithstanding the cold weather appears to set in, the Election contests will not fail to be warm as ever.", "A deserter was brought last week, *hundredfist* the Savoy. He was notwithstanding in good health and assured the guard that he came by force to London.", "A Youth on the *STENEY* cried—\" Pray, tell me, I beg—\"", "\" How long do you think I can stand on one leg?\"", "\" A *Cynic* replied—\" The employment you choose", "\" Is most glorious, and great, for you rival a *goose*.", "STEPHEN DUCK", "BR—AMUSEMENT.", "A Lady who, in CINNAMON, in CHATHAM, in CHATHAM, in CHATHAM, said, \" The cause is to the gra—\"", "The Marquess, y, by his uncer tety, at the Races. He is by his uncer tety, at the Races. He is by his uncer tety, at the Races. He is by his uncer tety, at the Races.", "Mrs. CROOKS, her husband, per annum, ture for all lowance he fe—", "A Regulation Church:—in the Church:—in the Church:—in the Church:—

Lady who has preferred some claim to the Com-
moner in CHIER, resting perhaps not on the firmest
relation, on being informed not the order for
spiring was extended to the ROYAL DUKES, ex-
and, "Then am I undone;—for as I have been
my cause hangs by a hair, it of course now
to the ground.

The Marquis of HARTINGTON arrived last Mon-
y, after visiting the Earl and Countess of CAR-
SLE, at Castle Howard, Chesterfield, to witness
Races. He is expected to be joined on Satur-
y by his uncle Lord G. H. CAVENDISH.

Mrs. CEIL, the celebrated Divorcée, brought her husband an unincumbered estate of 5,000,000 per annum, and 70,000 in specie!—her jointure for all this was only 15,000, a year, an allowance it seems which is not likely to be increas'd by the decision of a certain affemblcy.

A Regulation is going to take place among the
Lergy, which does honour to the Heads of the
church:—in future, whenever the Incumbent of
He living is not Resident, the Curate is to live
tent-free in the Parfonage-houfe.

Mr. PITT fays, sen fibly enough, any man may
make a mistake in politics, but while I prefery my
place, have an income of ten thoufand a year, and
an lead the Houfe, it is only the trouble of adding
in per cent. to the old taxes, and the People will
continue to be charmed with my Administration.

The people of Scotland do not pay more than
5,000 per ann. to all their Clergy. In England
his fum is deemed fearcely fufficient for the
maintenance of Three Bifhops; fuch is the monftrous
ences of carrying on the buſines in this Country!

The late JOSHUA DORNFORD, one of the Lon-
na Corporation, and a man of real Morality,
and odness of heart, on hiring a coachman, told him
would be expected he should attend the detentions
the family at morning and evening prayers, when
a whip observed, "He had no objection, pro-
bed it was considered in his wages."

A curious circumstance happened last week in a
blic library, where a book binder was employed
bind and letter about 50 vols. of Political Tracts,
a man brought them back in a few days, very
early lettered, by mistake, Political Tricks.

All the Crown Heads in Europe are defirious
of having, (as Hamlet fays) Mr. PITT's head in
 title, as emblematical of the littleneſs of his politics
—the littleneſs of his foul.

A very ignorant Colonel of a Regiment had a
turn written, and addressed by his clock to the
cretary at War. "What a stupid blockhead
in are," said he angrily, "to direct it so in a
ne of profound tranquillity. Write it over
ain, and address 'To the Right Hon. Secretary
Peace';" which was accordingly done.

Miss FENTON, the first and the celebrated Polly,
*The Beggars' Opera*, had for some time a salary
of fifteen billings a week, but was bribed to
event-garden. Theatre by RICH at double that
morsure sum. This Actress was afterwards Dutchess
of BOLTON.

On Thursday the whole of the wearing apparel
and musical instruments of a Professor were sold
by public auction. The catalogue contained nine
volues and one shirt.

A wild goose was last week shot near Horn-
ing Ferry, Norfolk, which weighed twenty-
three pounds.

Part of the old buildings in Palace-yard are now
removed, and Westminster-bridge is seen from the
Hall. This alteration will greatly improve the pro-
spect from the Abbey, &c.

A schoolmaster at Sheerness has a notification at
his window—"That he larns groan Gemmen to
reed, rite, and sifer, and the use of the gloabs
alsoe."

A joyous political writer informs us, that the
French troops were dissipated by the valor of our
army—the Portuguese say, they were dissipated
enough before the British arrived to sober them.

A van lady of the name of BANNISTER having
fraughtly boasted of a near relationship to the Earl of
SPARR, a wag present observed, that the Lady was
perſectely correct, for the Bannisters were saus doubt,
very closely allied to the Staics.

A puny Gentleman complaining the other day of
the count of appetite, was recommended by his Phy-
sicians to the copious use of Hungry water.

A soldier under dock humourously observed, that
now His Majesty would leave his enemies nothing to
lay hold on.

The Herefordshire Lady who lately married a
chimney sweeper, a cockney punster observes, must
be allowed to have sooted her taste.

Our soldiers have not the strength of SAMSON en
tailed upon them, otherwise it would be imprudent to
touch a hair of their head.

The true reason for cropping the troops, (says a
punter), is, that they may not turn tail on the ene-
my, after being covid (i. e. vaccinated.)

People are plundered now-a-days even with all
their eyes about them; for an elderly Gentleman was
robbed the other day of his spectacles from off his nose.

At the present season, the most aspiring Politicians
would not conceive it disagreeable to be thrown into
the shade.

In the last returns from the Durham Militia, they
are reported to be as strong as mustard !

COACHES.—A Bill was brought into Parliament in
the 43d of ELIZABETH, 1601, to prevent the effemi-
nancy of men's riding in them.

The Chairman who travelled to America for a
toast, was, of course, more than half seas over.

An epitaph in a country church-yard describes the
deceased as an up-right, down-right man.

The largell bell in the known world is in the cathedral
at-Moſcoz, prefented by the Empreſs ANNE, and weighs
the moſt extraordinary weight of 432,000 pounds, or 193
tons.

From the mail coaches and others, laden with provision,
which have arrived in town during the holidays, it is evident
that the Turkey trade is not on the decline !

A curious calculator computes, that 100,000 turkeys,
and ten tons of plum-pudding, were devoured in London
on Christmas-day.

A forward, value two hundred guineas, has been voted to
General BAIRD, by the Officers who ferved under him
in the florming party at Seringapatam.

General SUWARROW, in his victorious career, was
compared to moſt of the Heroes of Rome and Greece.
At prefent, we fear, he is only to be compared to the
modern hero, Genl MACK, ſcampering back.

The FIRST CONSUL threatens to treat JOHN BULL
as he did the Messenger whom he made prisoner near
Mantua, in Italy—rip open his belly, to see wher-
ther he had swallowed any thing of consequence.

An Irish gentleman at the Opera of Kais re-
marked the other night, that the clouds made
very good back ground.

PACCHIEROTTI has anſwered the interrogatories
of Alderman Wilkes, refpecting Lady Mary
D.—'s wig. He deſcribes it as reſembling a
withered Artichoke!

A Correspondent observes, that our people of
fashion cannot, with any degree of propriety, ſcom-
plain of the Income or Property taxes, when many
of them voluntarily impose upon themselves a sub-
sidy to the Italian States, of from two to five hun-
dred pounds, for a box at the Opera !

An incorrigible punster observed, that the order
for cropping the soldiers tails would not fail to prove
pleasing to all lovers of the *chase*, as an innumerable
quantity of hares would be let loose in consequence of
it.—" Pooh," said another, "I see you wish to
make game of us."

The uniforms seat from England for the use of
the Spanish Patriots, is, we trust, the only way in
which these gallant fellows can be said to get a good
dressing.

A drunken fellow, on Sunday last, disturbed a
congregation in Essex; the Clergyman threat-
ened to send him to prison, which had such an
effect on him, that he solemnly protested, if his
Reverence would forgive him, he would never set
a foot in any church again.

A man in the country, a few days ago, led a
blooming widow to the altar. The Clergyman looked
at the bridegroom, and said—"I think you have a
wife living?" "Have I, do you think?" "I am
sure you have," replied the parson. "I really have
a very bad memory, Sir, and I thank you for jogging
it; I now recollect something of it;" on which the
fellow withdrew.

A Clergyman lately in Ireland being sent for in a
great hurry to perform the funeral service over a dead
person, accordingly attended, without enquiring the
sex of the deceased, when coming to that part of the
service "we therefore commit our clearly beloved,"
he asked a brother Pat next to him, whether it was
brother or sister, when Pat replied: oh, neither, my
dear honey, but a common acquaintance.

At the entertainment lately given in the City to
the Spanish Deputies, one of the company expatiat-
ing on the blessings of Providence, was interrupted
by a Gentleman who sat next him, with "Aye, Sir,
It is a blessed place, sure enough; we get all our
turtle from it."

Arundel Caſſle, the feat of the Duke of NORFOLK,
is now reſtoring to its antient ſplendour, under the tafleſt
direction of his Grace.—The Caſſle was battered (and
at length taken, plundered, and tripped of much of its
antient finery) by CROMWELL'S army, from Burooth
Paſſa, a houſe belonging to the DUKE, well ſuited at
the edge of a hill directly facing the Town and Caſſle of
Arundel.

The principal precedent for the late revolution in France
will be found in the record of Cornet JOYCE, who, when
afked by the unfortunate CHARLES by what authority he
arreſted him, calmly replied, "By this,"—pointing a
bollot at the fame time to his break.

A Gentleman was asking if a certain Noble Lord
belonged to the Opposition or Ministerial side?—
"To the Ministerial, to be sure," said another;
"he is a man of consistent principles, and has
been on the same side since before the American
War."

A wag, addressing a young Clergyman, congratu-
lated him on the taste for music he had acquired—
"I hate music," said the other—"then why the
— did you procure a band?"

Mr. PITT's last meſſage to Peterborough amounts
to this—Will you move Madam?—Not a peg Sir,
—Not an Inch—No! then I will.

A gentleman passing the shop of Mr. TASWELL,
Tea-dealer, observed, his name would be as well
without a T!

Miss FISHER, the Adreſs, better known as the
Young Roscia, was laucely married at Guernsey,
to the Hon. Lieut. BERTIE, son of Lord LAYINGTON

MARRIED, 1809

Last week, Mr. Joseph Shuff, a gentleman of great property,
aged 85, of Hoe Benham, in Berkshire, to Sarah Marshall,
aged 25, his servant maid.

The Gazette of Saturday contains the following
curious articles under the head Army Promotions :—
" Ensign A. Ross to be Lieutenant, vice HANDY,
who is ſuperſed, being a child."

["PLAY UPON NAMES.", "Lord MOUNTJOY was once a Gardener, and, I have\nheard, lived in or near Dublin; and the Earl of PORT-\nMORE was a Coller. Some years ago the prefont Bishop\nof CLOCHER was a Porter at a College, and the Bishop\nof HEREFORD was a Butler at another; the prefont\nCountefs of SHAFTESBURY married a Cooper, and the\nCountefs of TYRCONNEL a Carpenter. We have also\nthe following remarkable circumstances among our Nob-\nlity.—The Duke of BEAUMARTE's sons make better so-\nmerfets than the belt tunblers at Sadler's Wells; and Lord\nHARROWBY is a better Ryder than a Newmarket jockey.\n—The Earl of STAMFORD's eldief fan was Grey before\nhe was ten years of age; and, on the contrary, the Bishop\nof CLONFERT, it is laid, by all who know him, will be\nYoung as long as he lives.", "The following orders are exactly copied from\nthe originals, which were lately sent to the Parish\nClerk in a village in Hertfordshire. His name is\nJEREMY :—", "\"Mist. Gemery, mi weif is dede an wantes to\nbee burid. Digg a graif for hir an shee shal com\nto bee burid terrorm after winner cloke.—You.\nknow ware to dige itt bi mi uthre wief le et\nbee dipp.\"", "\"I pulsh the barns of marriage betwome James\nSoul & Sarah Simmons bouth in this prefont; if\nany one just cause impementen his tow por-\nsens should not be joined to geather are now to\ndeclarit.\"", "HISTORICAL FACT.—In the reign of George I.\nthe town of Totness, in Devonshire, addressed the\nKing on the prospect of a war with Spain and\nGermany, in which they offered his Majesty four\nshillings in the pound land-tax, and if his service\nrequired it, to give him the other six shillings but it ap-\npeared, this over and above loyal borough had not\nthen a foot of land belonging to their corpora-\ntion.", "In Hadleigh church-yard, Suffolk, is the fol\nlowing laconic Epitaph :—", "\"To disengage me from domestic strife,", "\" Death call'd at my house—but he spoke to my wife,", "\"Susan, wife of David Pation, lies here—\"", "\"Stop, reader, if not in a hurry, and shed a tear.", "\"October 19, 1706.\"", "There is now living, on St. James's Back, in Bristol, a woman named Mary George, who was born at Ledbury, January 6, 1694—baptized the 26th of June, 1697—her youngest child was born when she was 56 years of age! and she has walked from Gloucester to Bristol in one day, within the last 7 years. She was nine years old when King WILLIAM died, and says she recollects meat at 1d. per pound, cheese at 8s. per cwt.; and that Queen ANNE was poisoned by a pair of stays.", "WRITTEN WHEN TIPSY.", "\"SAY, what are the pleasures which Wine can impart?", "Can it pluck out the arrows of Scorpio from the heart,\nErase from the bosom the image of Care,\nOr furnish a balm for the soul of Despair?", "Ah no! 'tis a foul, 'tis a dangerous cheat,\nWhich offers to view in the glass of deceit\nOblivion of sorrow—but cruelly concenates\nThose ages of misery the future reveals.", "\"Tis a Creditor, who for a moment's delay\nScores double the dreadful reckoning to pay;\nTill the Debtors, poor fool! build'd to fatal repose,\nIs awak'd to a dungeon and life-lasting woes,", "Curson-street.", "TEUTHA.", "The principal precedent for the late revolution in France\nwill be found in the record of Cornet JOYCE, who, when\nafked by the unfortunate CHARLES by what authority he\narreled him, calmly replied, \"By this,\"—pointing a\npitol at the fame time to his breakfast.", "From the prefent fearcity of Linen Rags, and the con-\nsequent advance in the price of Paper, it is particularly\nrecommended to Ladies, and every person employed in\nneedle-work, not to burn even the tiniest pieces which\nthey may cut from either linen, cotton, or other dra very,\nwhether coloured or not.—The Rags annually collected in\nthis kingom amount in weight to several thousand oys,\ndubielles a much greater quantity might be preferr'd by\nthe care of individuals; the Paper-manufacturers would\nnot then depend on the uncertain importation from rei g\ncountries for an article which might so easily be pro ued\nin our own, thereby not only preventing a further advance,\nbut also eventually causing a reduction in the price of paper.", "SIR SIDNEY SMITH TO BUONAPARTE.", "When Sir Sidney Smith was in the Temple, he wrote\nwith a pencil upon the walls of his prifon, the following ad-\ndreſs. Four prifaners, who were, after Sir Sidney's de-\nparture, confined in the very room he occupied, defied\nthe gaoler, the moment they entered it, to remark that the\nwriting on the wall was anterior to their arrival,", "\"The Temple, Oct. 26. 1798.\"", "\"The wheel of fortune makes strange revolutions—but\nto deferve the name of revolution it is neceffary that the\nturn of the wheel ſhould be complete. You are now as\nhigh as you can be—Well! I do not envy your happi-\nnes; or I have a greater happeſi ſkill, that of being as\nlow in the career of ambition as one can defend; to let\nthe capricious dame turn her wheel over ſo little, I muſt\naſſend; by the fame role you muſt defend.", "\"I do not make this remark to diſtify you; but to con-\nvey to you the fame confolation I feel when you ſhall have\narrived at the fame point I have—Yes, where I now am,\nyou will be; you will inhabit this very prifon! why not as\nwell as myself? I did not think that I ſhouſt more than\nyou do now. In a war of party, it is a crime in the eyes\nof one's oppofers to discharge one's duy well; you do\nnow, and of courfe you are ſhaping the daggers of\nyour enemies again! you.—You will ſay—", "\"Je ne crains point leur haine conjurée,", "\"La voix du peuple eit pour moi déclaré.\"", "True:", "\"C'eſt parler comme il faut ;", "\"Dormez tranquille et vous faurez blinſt", "\"Ce que l'on gagne à servir un tel maître;", "\"Cet incontinant vous punira, peut-être", "\"Avant fix mois, il ce n'eft aujourd'hui,", "\"De tout le bien que vous faites pour lui,", "\"Quiconque à mis (dit un auteur antique)", "\"Son feul efpour dans l'amitié publique,", "\"Vit rarement fans trouble ſans fagrin", "\"Et n'a jamais fait une heureufc fin.\"", "\"It is true, that this is neceffary to prove to you that\nyou will come here, because you muſt be here to read these\nlines: you will, without doubt, have this apartment, be-\ncauſe the keeper is an honest man, and will certainly give\nyou the bell, as he has given me.\"", "The threatening letter to a Noble Duke is founded on\nthe circuillance of two respective young Ladies having\nattended one of his Concerts, with leave of their mothers,\nand eorfeited by a Clergyman. The letter, which is ligned\n\"Revenge,\" is ſuppoſed to have been written by a perſon\nwho is van enough to perſuade himself, that in his grand\ncluſaderie he has been to ſingularly fortunate as to impuſe\none of those young Ladies with the tender poffition I—\nThey are the daughers of a very reſpectable Gentlemen\nwho belonged to the Brith Factory at Lelbon, and a e\nvery accomplished. The letter is written in a very\nviolent ſtyle. The threat which it holds out is of a\nviature rather curious: it is defollows:—\"The\nDuke of Queenſberry is defiled, as he values his\nperſonal fatuity, to defilſ from all further intercourſe, even\nof civility, with a family from Lelbon, at preſent of George-\nſtreet, Richmond.—Let him not imagine that rank, richeſ,\nor attendants, that ſhall ſhelter him from the ſignall enlailhment\nthat awaits him, if neglectful of this aduſtment; a chafitement\nthat will make him a burden to himself during his reſ-\nmaining days, and effectually incapacitate him from any fau-\nture attempts on youth and inexperience.\"", "ON THE\nFALLING OF ASKRON STAND,\nNEAR DONCASTER.", "\"THY lengthend tower, the wintry blaſt\nSuffiand has many a form ;", "Time, with deftning hand at laſt,\nHas overwhelm'd his form.", "That form which oft the traveller's eye\n'Has caught with curious gzez ;", "And oft the trifling, paffing by,\nHas view'd with wild amaze.", "E'en memory points my early day,\nWhen oft at distance found,", "I've wandered with perſpective ray\nTo mark thy riling Ground.", "To trace the hill, on which thou flood,\nNear Akron's healing wells,\nWhofe waters fam'd for virtuoses good\nEach invalid now tells.", "Who, as he wandered o'r thy hill,\nSurvey'd the country round ;", "And from the health infirring ill\nFresh animation found.", "No more he fees his fabric plain,\nWith due proportion rife ;", "But mingled with deflution's train\nA heap of ruin lies.", "So man, with all his boafed pow'r,\nShall find refiſtain vain ;", "But at death's dread efflouring day\nReturn to duſt again.", "His pirit shall immortal ſeife\nTo realms of endleſt day ;", "Shall pierce the胡ion of the ſkiles\nFar from the depot's ſway.", "C. Nov. 1807.", "D.", "POETRY.", "WRITTEN IN WINCHESTER CHURCH-YARD, AT THE\nCLOSE OF THE HAMPSHIRE ELECTION, NOV. 1800.", "The Curfew tolls the knell of parting votes,\nThe dismal herd return in silence home;", "E'en the poor weights who lately turn'd their coats,\nAnd leave the Chairmso and G*** R*** alone.", "Now fades the glimmering prospect on the sight;\nThe White-Hart-Yard a solemn silence keeps;", "Save where old P—n soothes his brother Knight,\nAnd their lost Cause in broken accents weep.", "Say where on fast-gate's melancholy Tow'r,\nThe drooping Club does to the Moon complain.", "Of such who, Whisps in heart, have crush'd its power,\nAnd put the final stroke to R***'s reign.", "For him no more the Forest's health shall burn,\nOr busy Agents, with adjuſtices care.", "Wait with impatience for his bleſs return,\nWith open mouths, the Treasury gilts to share.", "Oft did his pockets to their wishes yield,\nTheir firm decisions his assurance broke ;", "How often o'er their heads the sword did wield;\nHow how'd the Country under G***'s yoke?", "But now with dirges dire, in sad array,\nThrough Cuffell's Church-yard lately was he borne;", "Approach and see the Rose that liv'd to-day", "Plac'd where it should be—next its kindred Thorn.", "EPITAPH.", "Here rests his head upon a lap of earth,", "A Rose to fortune and to fame well known;", "

CELEBRATION OF the KING'S ACCESSION
AT ALNWICK.

The Anniversary of the King's Accession to the
Throne was celebrated at Alnwick, on Thursday
last, with even greater spirit than it was in 1809,
when the Jubilee was more generally kept, at the
commencement of the regal year, which being now
closed, completes the half century of our beloved
Sovereign's reign; a period for which very few
Monarchs have sat upon their thrones.

The day was ushered in by the reveille and a
morning gun, when the colours were hoisted on the
castle, and before noon Lord Percy's artillery,
wall-piece men, cavalry, and nine companies of
the rifle corps, upwards of 750 men, had marched into
the castle, and taken post upon the saluting battery,
the towers and battlements of the castle (the other
half of his Lordship's corps having assembled upon
Tyne-side).

At one, the fous-de-joie were fired as last year,
by each branch of the corps respectively, mingled
with the loudest cheers and music. The effect of
which, and the view from the park on the opposite
side of the river, were most gratifying.

The Local Militia being in Alnwick, quarters
could not be procured for Earl Percy's volunteers,
who, after being refreshed with cold meat and ale
at the Castle, returned to their own quarters, where
good hot dinners were prepared for them at the
Duke of Northumberland's expence.

The patriotism of this Nobleman is an example to
the other Peers of this kingdom ; for, after having
served himself upwards of 51 years in his Majesty's
army, and having only two sons, he has placed one
of them at the head of 1500 of his own tenants,
wholly paid and clothed at his Grace's expence ;
and his other son is now serving on board one of
his Majesty's ships of war, and devoting himself most
closely to the study of naval tactics, desiring the
effeminate pursuits of the day.

The populace were not forgotten upon this festi-
val; his Grace having ordered an ox to be roasted
in the market-place, and three carts attended with
ale and bread to be distributed to the people.

But the better to commemorate this day by some
more lasting tribute of respect and gratitude to his
Sovereign, in the way most acceptable to his Ma-
jesty, by being most useful to his people, the Duke
of Northumberland caused the first stone of a school
to be laid, capable of containing 200 boys, to be
educated under Mr. Lancaster's plan, which is to
be built and supported at his Grace's sole expence.
And the Duchess's charity girls had a dinner given
to them by her Grace on this occasion.[From
The Newcastle Courant, Oct. 27.] 1490

COMETS AND WOMEN.

Comets, doubtless, answer some wise and good
purpose in the creation; so do Wise.—Comets
are incomprehensible, beautiful, and eccentric;
so are Women.—Comets shine with peculiar splen-
dour, but at night appear most brilliant; so do
Women.—Comets are enveloped with a lucid ne-
bula, through which their forms are visible; so
are those of Women, through their light and ele-
gant attire.—Comets confound the most learned
when they attempt to ascertain their nature, so
do Women.—Comets equally excite the admir-
ation of the Philosopher and of “the clod of the
valley,” so do Women.—Comets and Women,
therefore, are closely analogous; but the nature
of each being inscrutable, all that remains for us
to do is, to view with admiration the one, and to
adoration love the other.

A traveller from Gottenburgh arrived at an inn in a
provincial town, where the loquacious innkeeper inquired,
among other things, how the people of Gottenburgh did?
' Oh!' answered the traveller, 'many of them have got
upon their legs again.'—How so? 'has trade become
more brisk?'—'Ah, no! I mean that many who for
some years kept their carriages are now obliged to learn
to walk again.'

The licentiousness and thoughtlessness of our second
Charles has become proverbial, and his good nature
which qualifies these, but ill atones for his ingratitude
to those who suffered forfeiture and persecution in his
cause. When he remained in Scotland, suffering the
rebuke and censure of austere Presbyterianism, before
the battle of Worcester, his chief confidant and asso-
ciate was the Laird of Cockpen, called by the nick-
naming manners of those times, "Blythe Cockpen."
He followed Charles to the Hague, and by his skill in
playing Scottish tunes, and his sagacity and wit, much
delighted his merry Monarch. Charles's favourite
tune was "Brose and Butter." It was played to him
when he went to bed, and he was awakened in the
morning by it. At the Restoration, however, Blythe
Cockpen was forgotten, and he wandered among the
lanes, which he once owned in Scotland, poor and un-
befriended. He wrote to Court, but his letters were
never presented, or were not regarded. Wearied and
incensed he travelled to London, and placed himself
in all public places, thinking that the eye of Majesty
might reach him. But he was never noticed, and his
mean garb did not suit the rich laced and embroidered
doubles of Court, so he was insulted and pushed from
approaching the King's presence. At length he at-
tempted by cunning what he could not accomplish by
plain dealing; he ingratiated himself with the King's
organist, who was so enraptured with Cockpen's wit
and powers of music, that he consented to his request
of playing on the organ before the King at Divine
Service. He accordingly played with exquisite skill,
yet never attracted his Majesty's eye. But at the close
of the service, instead of playing the common tune
used, he played up "Erose and Butter," with all its
energy, and characteristic merriment! In a moment
the astounded organist was ordered into the King's
presence—"My Liege, it was not me, it was not
me!" he cried, and dropped upon his knees. "You!
cried his Majesty," in a delirium of rapture, "you
could never play it in your life—Where's the man? let
me gee him." Cockpen presented himself on his knee.
"Ah, Cockpen, is that you—Lord, man, I was like to
dance coming out of the church!" "I once danced
too," said Cockpen, "but that was when I had land
of my own to dance on." "Come with me," said
Charles, taking him by the hand, you shall dance to
"Brose and Butter" on your own lands again to the
19th generation!" And he was as good as his promise

Copy of a letter, extracted from a Provincial Paper;

"Benham, 27th November, 1811.

"Yesterday I was apprised by an anonymous
letter, signed X and Z, that the inhabitants of
Newbury meant to take my horses from the coach,
and draw it to the Mansion House, where I was to
have passed part of the evening to see young la-
dies dance; and that the people in consideration of
many years of charitable and kind acts of mine to-
wards the inhabitants of Newbury, meant to huzza
and cheer me, thinking it the last time they would
have an opportunity of testifying their gratitude,
I take this method of assuring the people of New-
bury, and all the worthy yeomenry of the county of
Berks, that I only wish I had ten times as much
landed property in that county as I have, to have
ten times the means and opportunities of proving
my attachment to it, and my unshaken resolve ne-
ver to forsake that line of conduct my duty pres-
scribes, which is to preserve my property at Ben-
ham, and near it, and continue to do all in my
power to prove I deserve the gifts bestowed upon
me, by a Prince, whose memory and whose virtues
shall never die while I live. It is gratifying to me
to think that as I cannot live in Berks as much as
I should wish, I have let my house to a gentle-
man, whose character of benevolence and charity
will more than make up for my absence.

"ELIZABETH,
"Margravine of Anspach and Bareith,
"Princess Berkeley."

It is said, that the late Mr. WILLIAMS HOPE,
whose death has been recently announced, was the
richest subject in Europe, having died worth three
millions sterling, nearly the whole amount in funded
property.

A TURKISH ANECDOTE.

IT is the custom for the bafhaws,
just before their faft, to give a fealt
to all comers, yet, generally, none
but relations, friends, and fervants,
do come. A leather napkin is spread
on the ground, full of dithes. As it
will not hold all at once, fome fand
by till others have dined, with great
dee包含和flence; then, drinking
a draught of honey and water, fute
the landlord, and go away. 'A cer-
tain bafhaw made a fealt, and invited
a Hogi, i. e. a learned man, who,
feeling foch plenty of vicualts, refolv-
ed to carry fome home to his wife;
but looking for his handkerchief,
found he had left it at home. He then
re olved to fill his fleave, which hung
behind him, but mifkaking that of a
Sanziach, who fat next him, for his
own, he filled it with dainties, and
fopped it with a fice of bread. He
made his obeftance to his entertainers,
and, as he went away, felt for his
fleave, which he found empty. A
while after, the Sanziach also rofe
from the table, and, faluting the
bafhaw at every fep, his f leve caft
out the dainties, with which it was
replenified unknown to him; and
feeling a train of junkers behind him,
he blufed for fume. The compa-
ny fell a laughing; but the bafhaw's
guifing who it was, defined him to
lit down again, and fent for the Ho-
gi. "I woufcr," faid he, " that
you, an old friend, and having a
wife and children at home, did carry
nothing to them, feeing my table
fo well furnished." "Truly, Sir,"
replied he, " it was no fault of mine,
but of my evil genijs; for I fluffed
my fleave with viands, and yet, when
I came out, I found it empty."

1792.

Pucr

Among other preparations for the Embaſſa
from this country to China the provision of in-
terpreters should be noticed. Sir George Staun-
ton had heard, that fome Chineſe, brought over by
the French Miffionaries, were, laſt fummer, in an
Italian convent, to which they had gone from
France. He went over to Italy himſelf; diffe-
ered their refidence; and obtained leave of the Pope
to bring them to England. Two of them are now
in his houſe in Harley-freet, and two more are
daily expected. They are engaged, at prefent, in
learning English, and qualifying themselves other-
wife for the office of Interpreters to the Embaſſa.
Some little Chineſe is alio learned from them.
Theſe men are deeply initiated and intered in the
myſteries of the church of Rome, and were,
therefore, the more readily parted with the Pope,
that they might ferve his cauſe in China.—The
number of perſons accompanying this embaſſa will
be much greater than was expedted. The troops
and feamen alone will be 700; fo that the purpoſes
of protection, as well as of dignity, will be effu-
ciently provided for. Among the gentlemen en-
gaged for the occafion, are artiſals of every claf,
with fuch affiaſance as they require.—Their voyage
from Portmouth, will not commence before Aug.

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### AUGUSTINE PENTHENY, ESQ.
—This singular character died on the 23d November last, in the 83d year of his age, in an obscure lodging in Leeson-street. The last year of which he was an early member, has not produced a character of a more eccentric manner of thinking, of one regulated by greater parsimony. He was a miser of the most perfect drawing that nature has given to him. From the low and laborious condition of a journeyman cooper, he accumulated the enormous sum of 300,000, in the Islands of Antigon and Santa Cruz. He was born in the village of Longwood, county of Meath, and was very early in life encouraged to make a voyage to the West Indies, to follow his trade, under the name of Peter Big Bragues, from the enormous shoes he was mounted on in the day he set out on his travels. Peter acquired an immense fortune, and lived to see his only child married to Sir George Colebrooke, chairman to the East India Company, and a banker in Dublin, to whom Peter gave with his daughter two hundred thousand pounds.—Mr. A. Pentheny saw mankind only through one medium; his vital powers were so diverted from generous or social objects, by the prevailing passion of gold; that he could discover no trait in any character, however venerable or respectable, that was not seconded by riches; in fact, in any one that was not rich he considered as an inferior animal, neither notice of duty, nor safe to be admitted into society. This extraordinary feeling he extended to female society, and if possible with a greater degree of disgust.—A woman he considered only as an incumbrance on a man of property, and therefore he never could be prevailed upon to admit one into his confidence. As to wedlock, he utterly and uniformly rejected any idea of it. His wife was the public funds, and his children guineas, and no prentice or husband paid more deference or care to the comforts of his family. He was never known to separate his immense houed, by rewarding a generous action, or alleviating a premature or accidental misfortune, by the application of one shilling to such purposes. It could scarcely be expected that he should have a gift or extend a gratitude to others, he was as often a comfort to himself. The evening before he died, some busy friend sent a respectiable physician to him, at which the old miser did not show any parent dislike, until he recollected the Doctor might expect a fee; this alarmed him, and immediately raising himself in the bed, addressed the Irish Escolapius in the following words:—
> "Doctor, I am a strong man, and know my disorder, and could cure myself, but as Mr. Nangle has sent you to my assistance, I shall not exchange you for any other person, if you can come to an understanding; in fact, I wish to know what you will charge for your attendance until I am recovered!"
> The Doctor answered, eight guineas.—"Ah! Sir," said the old man, "if you knew my disorder you would not be exorbitant; but to put an end to this discussion I will give you six guineas and a half." The Doctor assented, and the patient laid on his arm with the fee and to have his pulse considered, and laid himself down again.—His relations were numerous, but not being in his opinion qualified, for want of experience in the management of money, to nurse his wealth, he bequeathed the entire of it to a rich family in the West Indies, with the generous exception of four pounds annually to a faithful servant, who lived with him 24 years. In the will he expresses great kindness for poor John, and says he bequeathed the four pounds for his kind services, that his latter days may be spent in comfortable independence! Like Thellusson, he may not allow his fortune to pass to his heirs immediately, as then, in its improved state, to be at the disposal of the heirs he has chosen. For the regulation of his last will and testament, he appointed Walter Nangle, Esq. and Major O'Farrel, into the Austrian army, his Executors, and the Right Honourable David La Touche, and Lord Fingal, trustees.—Dublin Evening Post.

### MARGUIS TOWNSHEND'S WILL.
—The following will be found to be the principal bequests and legacies made in the Last Testament of this Nobleman, viz.—
The family estate of Rainham, (the entail was cut off about four years ago) with all the furniture, plate, pictures (including the Belisarius, by Salvator Rosa, valued at 10,000 guineas) to his second son, Lord Charles Townshend. To his Lordship's two daughters, 15,000 each; and to Miss Walcup 40,000, and his house, library, and furniture at Richmond. The family estates in Warwickshire, and other counties, to the amount of nearly 18,000, per annum, remaining entailed, go hereditarily to the present Marquis.

Sacred as the law holds testamentary property, the items of a late Nobleman's will would almost induce us to wish, that in such flagrant instances, it might not be in the power of any man to rob his children by enriching his prostitutes.

### SINGULAR CHARACTER.
—The late James Digby, Esq. of Bourn (whose death took place at a fortnight ago), though a very penurious character, and distinguished by some of the traits of an Elues and a Dancer, was, notwithstanding, an excellent land-lord, never advancing his rents. He was exceedingly mean in his apparel; at¹⁵, although he has died worth more than 200,000, his whole expenditure is said not to have exceeded 200, per annum. The Writer of this article has frequently seen him dressing seabed sheep, picking up sticks, locks of wool, cabbag-leaves, &c.; and there is a heap of stones (or cobbles), upon his premises, which are said to have been brought there by a few at a time in his own pockets.—Some years since a very considerable estate was to be sold in the southern parts of the kingdom: Mr. Digby attended the sale, in a dress not worth 40s. great-ceat included. The auction-room was crowded with persons of the first distinction; of course there were many side-looks and secret whispers about the curious looking stranger; and some, supposing the old Hanks could have but little business there, asked him if he knew the conditions of sale? He said he should be glad to hear them read—they were read, and business proceeded with. Mr. Digby was silent till the estate got up to 40,000, he then bid!—and the whole assembly stared with amazement. The biddings went on, briskly for a time; but his competitors, imagining, perhaps, he could not make good the engagement, and that there would be a resale, dropt the contest, and the estate was knocked down to Mr. Digby at about 45,000.—Being directly called upon for the deposit, he said, "you shall have it, Gentlemen, immediately, and the money for the whole estate to-morrow, if you can make it safely over to me by that time." He then took out a pocket-book, and gave a draft at sight on his banker for the sum required. No sooner was the signature seen than the name was known, though the person was not; and many congress, compliments and congratulations followed.—Mr. Digby has many times told this tale himself, and seemed to well upon it with a peculiar kind of pride and satisfaction.

Two extraordinary characters have died within these few days, at Spilshay, and in the neighbourhood. One was Mrs. Ann Downes, of that place, who lived to the age of 71 in her cottage, on a system of the most miserable abstinence, depriving herself of even the common necessaries of life; yet when she died she was found to have hoarded property to the amount of more than 600.—The other person was Mr. Matthew Jennings, of Ingoldmells, who has left a considerable estate to his heirs, although, for the sake of fragility, whilst living, he kept no service whatever, but used to perform all his household offices himself.

There is, at present, living at Lochlyac, in the parish of Carmichael, near Tinto, a young man, who has now reached his 18th year, in full health and complete organization; but whose height is only two feet five inches. There is nothing singular in his appearance except his head, which is much larger, in proportion, than the rest of his body.

The Cornish Farmer, who warranted his horse to be very quiet in the stable, is almost as cunning as a brother sharp, who, after selling a horse, was requested by the buyer to inform him of any fault he had—"What do you mean to do with him?"—"I intend to send him over to Jamaica."—"Oh, then, he may go well by sea, but if he had gone well by land, I would never have parted with him!"

An Eborain was apprehended at York a few days since, charged with having seven wives living! On being called on for a defence, under some extraordinary charge, he said he thought it was a sin and a shame to see so many young women without husbands as he had witnessed in the North, and from motives of charity he had been induced to act in the way he did.

A tolerable estimate may be formed of the immense improvement in the Grosvenor estate, when his Lordship requires 300, per acre for 80 acres of land, between Grosvenor-place and Sloane-street, on a lease of 99 years; so that this tract, which, in the memory of man, was let at the annual rent of 250, will, by the present valuation, produce 24,000, per annum.

It is stated, that Mr. Kemble has withdrawn himself from Covent-garden Theatre, both as Actor and Manager; and that Mr. Fawcett is to succeed him next season in the latter capacity.

### RETIREMENT OF MRS. SIDDONS.
—On Monday night, Covent Garden Theatre was crowded to excess to see the last performance of Mrs. Siddons in the tragedy of Macbeth, and also to witness her final departure from the stage. The Public have so long been acquainted with the excellence of Mrs. Siddons in the character of Lady Macbeth, that it would be wholly superfluous to enter into any critique on the merits of her performance. It may be sufficient to say, that making allowance for the agitation likely to be produced by a last appearance, Mrs. S. berayed no deflection of powers, but pourtrayed the tremendous heroine with all the force of discrimination that distinguished her best days. In the sleeping scene she was peculiarly great, and must have left an impression on the audience scarcely ever to be obliterated. The close of this scene called forth reiterated platituds, so that the business of the Play was completely interrupted. The general wish of the audience seemed to be that the scene should be repeated, and the green curtain dropped amidst loud cries of *encore, encore*. After some minutes of suspension, and an apology which was inadmissible, the curtain drew up again, and Mrs. Siddons came forward and delivered a farewell Address, written by Horace Twiss, Esq. with great feeling and effect. The following are the concluding lines:—

> Judges and Friends! to whom the tragic strain
> Of nature's feeling never spoke in vain,
> Perhaps your hearts, when years have glided by,
> And past emotions wake a fleeting sigh.
> May think on her, whose lips have pout'd so long
> The charmed sorrows of your Shakespeare's song:
> 'On her, who, parting to return no more,
> Is now the mourners she but seem'd before;
> Herself subdued, resigns the melting heart,
> And breathes with swelling heart, her long, her last farewell!'

At the conclusion of the Address, during the recital of which she appeared deeply affected, Mr. Kemble advanced to lead her from the stage, and she retired, amidst the universal platituds of the Theatre. Mr. Kemble then returned, and signified that if it was the pleasure of the audience that the last scene of the play should be performed, they were ready to go on, but cries of *No! No!* proceeded from all parts of the Theatre, and the curtain dropped.

Mrs. Siddons first appeared in the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, in 1775, under an engagement made with Mr. Siddons, at Cheltenham, that summer, for Mr. Garrick. Her salary was 6l. per week, and that of Mr. Siddons 40s. Her first appearance was in *Portia*, in the *Merchant of Venice*, a character not best suited to her powers; and afterwards she made a more unfortunate attempt in comedy, in Mrs. Cowley's *Runaway*; soon after which her admirers had the mortification to see her descend at the close of the season, to personate the walking Venus in the revived Pageant of the *Juliette*. She returned to the Bath Theatre in 1776, and as is well known, returned a few years afterwards to reform the London Theatre, with a splendour of talents which continued with undiminished lustre to the present hour.

### THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL'S BIRTH-DAY.

Yesterday being the anniversary of her Majesty the Queen of PORTUGAL's birth day, it was observed with great respect in various parts of the Metropolis. Solemn Mass was celebrated in the presence of the AMBASSADOR, and of many persons of distinction, at the Portuguese Chapel, South Audley-street.—Amongst the many fine pieces of Sacred Music, a beautiful Latin *Hymn*, appropriate to the times, and written for the occasion, by Signor CARAVITA, Poet Laureate to the Court of Portugal, attached now, we understand, to the English Embassy, was particularly distinguished. It displayed fine classic taste, with great paths and sublimity; and was set to music by the celebrated Composer, Puzzi, recently arrived from Portugal, and sung by him in the choir, with a power and compass of voice seldom equalled, and, perhaps, never excelled. The whole was highly impressive, and worthy of the August Personage, our ancient and faithful Aliy, whose natal day was thus commemorated.

The following striking paragraph is copied from the *Barbados Mercury* of the 19th April.— The description of the perons would suit any part of the world; the advocates for flattery will say how far they would with a similar practice to previlize in that quarter of the world which themselves inhabit: —

“TO BE—A young woman with two children, of two and one years old, a complete washer, and ironer, very serviceable also. Finally in the kitchen, an excellent house-fervant, and very capable and experienced in waiting on a lady, and taking the utmost care of children; another young woman, who is a complete lady’s maid and house-fervant; and a third, who has been accustomed to house-bufinefs, and polfliees, with the other two, the beft of dispoſitions and good health, an excellent butter, conſant, ſleady, and ſober, who is alſo a good hair dretler, taylor, groom, and poſtilion; two young men, who have been employed in the field at the line-kilns, and occasionally as horfe-cart drivers!!!

IRISH WIT.—One of the Chief Justices in the last century, more remarkable for his boisterous loquacity than his professional skill, was one day addressing a Jury at a Country Assizes, and being several times interrupted by the braying of an ass, who stood at the Court door, repeatedly desired the Crier to call silence! An Irish Barrister, whose celebrity in law was only equalled by his rivacy in conversation, observed to a brother lawyer who was sitting near him, in a low tone of voice, “There’s a great echo in this Court!”

Last Friday night a dashing shop-keeper, between the third and fourth aft of the play at Covent-Garden Theatre, had a serious accident, in consequence of one of his artificial whiskers having dropped from one of the boxes into the pit. It was elevated on the end of an umbrella, and excited much laughter. The owner, however, made a precipitate retreat into the lobby, and put his other tremendous whisker in his pocket, and then returned to his seat without being known, from the great alteration in his visage.

MODERN TIMES.—A female servant, in offering herself for hire to a lady in Canterbury, after the usual inquiries, said there was one thing she had forgotten to mention, which was, that she might be permitted to go out two evenings in the week to practice dancing!!!

In consequence of the above paragraph appearing in a print of Tuesday last, the following has been sent to us, in answer:—

“A Correspondent wishes to inform the servant of 'MODERN TIMES,' that if she will apply to a certain gentleman in Canterbury, she will hear of a situation that will be extremely convenient to her; for instead of going out to practice dancing, she will find that the gentleman always has boiled mutten twice a week, consequently she can cut capers at home.”

The following advertisement is copied from the Plymouth Paper:—“Wanted a steady man in the seafaring line, not belonging to a man of war, for a husband for a widow woman. She hath a little property, and one child. The man will be sure to meet with an agreeable partner, and good employment in the merchant service. None but a decent, middle-aged man need apply.”

Their Serene Highnesses the Princes PAUL FREDERICK and PETER FREDERICK GEORGE, of Holstein Oldenburg, Count HOLMER, and Baron MALTZAHN, on their tour through England and Scotland, have spent several days in Sheffield and Leeds, in visiting the manufactories, &c. They were accompanied by Admiral BENTINCK and his Lady.

A country fellow was lately examined before the Dover Magistrates, on a charge of having married three wives. His excuse was, being on the recruiting service.

A letter written from Brighton, in July 1736, describes a lodging of two parlours, two bed-chambers, pantry, &c. at five shillings per week. The same accommodation would now cost three guineas!

The 4th of James I. ch. 5, recites, that the loathsome sin of drunkenness was grown into common use in the realm, and that it was the foundation of many other enormous sins, as bloodshed, stabbing, murder, swearing, adultery, fornication, &c. and after enacting a punishment for those guilty of the offence, it shews due respect to the Universities, by declaring that nothing contained in it shall extend to those seminaries of learning, but, that they may use their rights and privileges, as heretofore!

A Lady of Edinburgh, 55 years old, and one month a widow, weeping, a few days since, over the tomb of her late husband, whilst a friend endeavoured to console her, was interrupted by the clerk of the church, who, in a half whisper, said, “the parties are now waiting.” “What parties, Mrs. Mills?” said her friend. “Don’t ask me,” cried the afflicted matron, (grief almost choking herutterance) “I’m going to be—be—be married this morning to Mr. Carter.”

There is a very whimsical account of the circumstance that occasioned the cities of Bath and Wells being united under one Bishop. It is said that Charles II. wishing to raise Dean Crichton, a native of Scotland, to the episcopal dignity, gave him the choice of either Bath or Wells, and that the honest Scotchman having informed his Majesty that he would have Bawth, which was mistaken for his desiring both, the two Bishopricks were forthwith granted him. It is suspected that none of Dr. Crichton’s successors have been able to speak English enough to rectify this little mistake.

The law requires that the House of the surgeon should, like that of the barber, be distinguished by a pole, with the addition of a red rag and gallyypot. The surgeon’s pole would, however, be more complete if decorated with a head, and there can be little doubt that a death’s head would be most appropriate.

Modern marriages are so frequently and justly compared to Smithfield bargains, that a man who wishes to sell what he has bought, surely has a right to go back to the old market.

In the year 1793 the circulating specie of the Bank of England amounted to 13 millions; which, at the time of its recent stoppages, was reduced to eight millions.

The Majors and Captains, who returned to school this week, are thriving apace. Several of them have been breeched during the holidays.

Documents are said to have been found amongst the papers of the late Mr. Macklin, by which it appears he was born in the year 1600.

The Turkish Ambassador is young and handsome; he has not brought his seraglio with him, as he was told that was quite unnecessary here.

The death of Mr. Burke presents a fine opening to the manufacturers of posthumous works. O! for another Shakespearean trunk.

The Stadtholder murmurs at the diplomatic arrangement at Lesle: every thing considered, he thinks they might have admitted him as a sleeping partner.

The Dowager Marchioness de Magsagna is confined to a Convent for having dared to marry a dancer, and the husband has been banished, by the King of Naples.

The election for Old Sairum, in the room of Lord Mornington, commences immediately. The whole body of Electors were carried down last Saturday in a—one horse chaise.

Family reasons, it is asserted, will not stand in the way of Mr. Rose’s Peerage. That worthy man says, with Don Jerome, that “in England they mind pedigree in nothing but a horse.”

Among the other valuable articles destroyed by the fire at Lord St. Helen’s, was a copy of Livy, estimated at one hundred guineas.

Some monopolists having combined to raise the price of hay at Petersburg, the Emperor has caused their heads to be shaved, and the hay sold at a reasonable price.

At a late sale of a library, the auctioneer had a commission to bid one hundred guineas for a volume containing only scraps cut out of old newspapers!

Lady Manners has written a Monody on the death of Mr. Burke.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
SIR.

I read this morning your pertinent remarks, on a proposal offered to Tax-gatherers, to be agents in their various districts for to vend commodities for sale; your remonstrance against such a nefarious piece of business does honour to your head and heart.

But Sir, for your satisfaction, I inclose you my receipt of taxes, to which you will find printed on the same discharge, an announcement, that our impost gatherer attends at home on Thursdays, from nine to one, to receive and execute orders as an auctioneer, an upholder, and appraiser, lets out goods on hire, and performs the last office we want, that is to convey us to the earth. Not contented with these branches, he states himself “coal merchant.” We have another in our district, who annexes to his receipt that he is a “dealer in china,” and the last, that he is “extractor of teeth and dexterous at bleeding.” These notices must be attended with serious consequences. I shall leave you or your readers to make their comment.

Oct. 12th, 1818.

JERRY.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

“MY DAUGHTER.”

My lovely Girl, a Mother’s care
Prefers for thee this fervent pray’r,
Oh, may’st thou prove as good as fair,

My Daughter.

In Infancy thine ertless smile,
Emblem of breast devoid of guile,
Sweeter’d tke anxious Mother’s toil,

My Daughter.

In early youth, thy ripening years
Awaken’d all a Parent’s fears—
How oft I’ve shed foreboding tears,

My Daughter.

And should thy tender bosom move,
With purest sentiments of love,
A virtuous Wife, oh may’st thou prove,

My Daughter.

The Mother then may be thy lot,
This sacred character don’t blot,
Nor let thy Mother be forgot,

My Daughter.

Then hear what will my sorrows drown,
Will smooth Fute’s blackest lowring brown,
I brought thee up, now lead me down,

My Daughter.

This will all my woes assuage,
Will blunt Misfortune’s keenest rage;
Iurs’d thy Youth, now nurse my Age,

My Daughter.

T.R.

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["Mr. Borke is stated to have sold his \"Reflections on the French Revolution\" to Dodsley for 1,000.", "### SKETCH OF AN EPITAPH ON THE MARQUIS OF ROMANA.", "BY EYLES IRWIN, ESQ.", "When private merits to the grave consign'd,\nThe Muse laments the lot of human kind;\nBut when the hero meets the mortal blow,\nSurrounding nation's own a people's woe!", "Firm Warrior! loyal, circumspect, and brave,\nPure Statesman! form'd a sinking land to save;\nDeparted Spirit! still the guardian pro\nOf Freedom's flame—bright pledge of Britain's love!", "If may my great example, not in vain,\nAwake the latent energies of SPAIN;\nMay too the ally'd arms no change fortun,\nInertia perish'd, when ROMA fell!", "And can she perish? see! the Patriot's bier,\nEnrich'd with WELLESLEY's eulogy sincere;\nO'er his lov'd form her sons for vengeance cry,\nAnd swear, to free their country, or to die!", "Speculator gives\nen a bookkeeper\nrs, relative to a\nons: to which\nnote, to inform\nand in Vaillant's\nit was, it is faid,\nSermons;—as\nf the flory was\nling whofe Ser-\nthe dispute.", "an adverite-\npaper, a Mr.\nach either ex,\nthe Latin tongue,\nan hour a day,\nek, in three\ncommencing\nreckon he of-\nge in thirty-like\nec, exceeds any", "The Editor fup-\nits papers of a\nten long before\nhe Speculator,”\nenter into holy\nnd it is much\nthe reault\nmind like his,\nmorality and\nyears, could\nimpreffed with\nconcerns †.\nator obferves,\na n author wifhes\na nking, he had\nhis poffeffion;\ncontribute more\nanners than all\ndewelings in Eu-\nr. Urban, fhall", "imprisonment,\noable remedy in\nand reform the\nB. S.\n—Iaft, p. 493, is\nof Mifs Hame,\nhdale. I ſhall\nof your heraldic\nme, what is\nand if the fame\nHamer's?—and\nto the name of\nd in Edmond-\nE. S.", "juſt printed as it\nin ſeſu, as a cu-\nLaim this ſuppo-\nlit. E.", "Mr. URBAN,", "Leith, May 9.", "SOME weeks ago, a parcel of old\nwritings happened to fall into my\nhands: a few of them appearing to\nbe curious, I inclose copies of two, to\nbe inferted in my Mifcellary.", "The firſt is the moſt ancient Burial-\nletter (as they are called here) that\nI have met with. It is taken from the\noriginal faithfully, and affertains the\ntime of the death of Sir Richard Mait-\nland, a perfon not altogether unknown\nto the literary world.", "At this time, when there feems to\nexiſt in the kingdom a ſpirit for the im-\nprovement of its ſiheries, the ſecond\nmay not be unacceptable. It proves,\nthat, above three centuries ago, the\nwhite and herring ſihery was a valuable\nobjeſt (for the charter cannot apply to\nthe falmon ſihery); and that the vei-\nfels employed in it were generally man-\ned by ſix ſalaries. And the ſubſquent\ncharter, in 1547, proves, that at that\ntime a ſihing veſiel was held ſo valua-\nble as to be clafſed with heritage or\nland; and that the widow of the pro-\nprieta of the bark, in place of having\nright to a third of it, as a moveable,\nwas entitled only to a tierce (or life-\nrent of a third) of it, as an heritable\nſubjeſt.", "If ſuch communications are agreeable\nto you, I may have it in my power to\nfurniſh you, from time to time,\nwith others, tending to illustrate the\nlaws and cuſtomings of our ancescors.", "Yours, &c., SUTOR.", "I.", "To my affured gud freind the Laird of\nSaltcoſt*.", "Eſter my hairtliſe commendations. Seing it\nhas pleafed Goſe after he ang and honourable\nlyd to gſi my father † ane blifit and happi-\nend and to call him to his mercry. To chome\nbeing myndit to diſcharge my deuie in ex-\nciting the left office. I have thoucht it com-\nvenient to deſyre you as ane of the number\nof the ſpecial freinds he eſtemt in his lyfe\nto hony his buriall with his prefence and\nto tak the panes to be at Letthington be neve\nhours on Sunday next to cum the xxviſt of\nthis instant to acconpiſe him with the reſt\nthereto. If I fal he always reuith to ac-\nquy yeow, I wſis not the lyk, in any where", "* An ancient family in Eart Lothian,\nof the name of Livington [not Livingstone],\nnow extint.", "† Sir Richard Mailland, of Letthington,\nwho died at the age of 90. See an account\nof him in \"Lait of Scotish Poets,\" p. cxi,\nprefixed to \"Ancient Scotish Poems,\" lately\npublished by Mr. Pinkerton.", "Ching", "### Original Letter of Dr. Johnson.", "Mr. URBAN,", "June 20.", "ACCORDING to the beſt accounts we have received of Dr. Johnſon's life, it appears, that pecuniary diſcrepencies were none of the leaſt of thofe calamities which diſburſed his mind, and deſiroyed the equability of his temper. A detail of ſuch inſtances would, indeed, be interefing only to our humanity; but the following letter, written by the Dr. when under arreſt for a very trifling ſum, appears to me worthy of being reſoَrَed in your Mifcellany. *Had the Dr. been alive, he would not have been afhamed to own it, or oſted at its being made public.", "AMERUS.", "To Mr. S. RICHARDSON *.", "SIR, Gouſh-guare, March 16, 1756.", "I AM obliged to intreat your aſſiſt-\nance; I am now under an arreſt for ſive\npounds eighteen ſinues. Mr. Strahan,\nfrom whom I ſhouſd have received the\nnecesſary help in this caſe, is not at\nhome, and I am afraid not finding\nMr. Millar. If you will be ſo good as\nto ſend me this ſum, I will very grate-\nfully repay you, and add it to all for-\nmer obligations. I am, Sir, your moſt\nobedient and ſtandards humble ſervant,", "SAM. JOHNSON.", "Sent fix guineas. Witneſſs William\nRichardfon.", "Note. I have ſhewn the original of the above letter to your printer, that there may be no doubt of its authentie. The witneſſ was Mr. Richardfon's neſeph, and ſucceſſor in his buſeines.", "There is now residing at Priestgill, near\nStrathaven, William Ruthven a native of that\nparish, in the 11th year of his age. He ſerv-\ned many years in the 41st regiment, and after-\nwards in the Scotish Grays; wrought at the\ncooper business many years in Dumfries; and\nfor the last 15 years, since the death of his\nwife, and the loss of his eye-sight, he has tra-\nversed Lanarkshire, Galloway, &c. with his\ndaughter, and her husband, who are tinkers.\nHis mental faculties are not imſt aired.", "A Gentleman of grenadier growth, having\ntravelled in the mail all night, obſerved to his\nfellow paffengers in the morning, ' that he\nwould juſt get out ond ſtretch his legs; when\nhis oppoſite friend, an Inriath, who had been\ngreatly anjoyed by them during the night, ob-\nferved, ' that there was no occafion for the Gen-\ntleman to trouble himſelf, as by Jafus, they\nwere quite long enough already.'", "A silk waver, named JOHN URRSSULAR, died\nlately at Lemburg, in Prussia, at the age of 116\nyears. He had had six wives. The last, who sur-\nvives him, brought him a son twelve months ago.—\nHe was extremely healthy and active, and walked\nsix miles the day before his death,", "CURIOUS WILL.—Thursday week, the remains of Mr. Tuke were interred at Wath, near Rotherham, Yorkshire. The deceased had bequeathed in his will—", "To every child that attended his ſ funeral one penny each. (From five to seven hundred attended.)—To every poor man in Wath is each.—To the ringers 10s. 1d. to take one peal of grand hobs, to strike off while putting him in his grave.—(which was done.)—To the seven of the oldest navigators, one guinea, for putting him up in the grave.—To his natural daughter, 4l. 4s. per annum.—To his old and faithful servant, Joseph Pitt, 4l. per annum.—To an old woman, who has for eleven years tucked him up in bed, only 1l. 4s.—Forty dozen of peny leaves to be thrown from the church leade at twelve o'clock on Christmas-day, for ever.—Two elegant brass chandellers for the church. And twenty pounds towards a set of new claims.", "It is reported he was possessed of property to the amount of ſixty thousand pounds, which he has left to Mr. W. Carr and Mr. Smelter.—Notwithstanding his eccentricities, he bore the character of an excellent landlord.", "The following is a literal copy of a hand-bill cir-\nculated in Philadelphia by a French Emigrant:", "\"I, Jean le Merion, be in trou necessite oblige to teach la\nlangue Francais to de people. I be glad you send your\nchilda a moi. Je demeure toder in Second-street. All my\nleisure hour I make sausage a vende. O! I forget to tell\nhow much I have for teach de school—4 dollars a quarter\nand 4d. entrance, for teach de plus polite langue de l'Eu-", "According to report, a child born in the Man-\nsion-house during the Mayordomity of its father is\nentitled to a pension for life, a silver cradle, and\na variety of articles of similar description, at the\nexpense of the City, and that Their Majesties\nare, by charter, to be its sponsors. Sir MAT-\nTHEW BLACKESTON is the only instance that oc-\ncurs to our remembrance of a person so born, till\nthe accoutchement of the present Lady Mayordomes;\nand if we do not greatly err, he was furnished\nby the Corporation with a silver cradle, and\nevery article of what is denominated baby-linen.", "### LINES ON A CRUMB OF BREAD.", "THOU little ſong of man's daily food,", "Tho' mainly get their food, tho' deſpited get good;", "Poor, lonely reft on a fever'd land,", "I feom thee not, nor join in others toſt!", "What! tho' more detinty man's luxurious pride,\nDidanfilnd, twerp thee front the table's tide,", "Still, when ejected from the window's height,", "Thou drawt it the hungry red breath's wilful fight;", "Elate with joy, he leaves the bending spray,", "Hops to the spot, and pecks thee from the way;", "Then teeks the cullow broad on neighbouring tree,", "And strives to both their crying wags with thee;", "This done, he flies where just before he flood,", "And carols the teewong of gratitude.", "Or if, perchance, thou feſpe the red breath's eye,", "A little care fraught ant may wander nigh,", "At light of the what rapture thills her heart;", "She views the round and round, to find a part", "Where firmly the, by force, may happy trail", "Then, maffy bleſſing to her dilutious cell.", "To win the trives to drag the pond's weight or weight;", "Then halts homeward to procure his mate,", "Now both with puny powers, flowely drill", "The joyſul burthen to the twarming hill;", "Affembling crowds the prize with rapture fee,", "And help to place it in their grazen care,", {"bbox": [789, 690, 1000, 705

["THE DANDIES OF SEPTEMBER.", "The Parisian *demi-sautre*, with a waist of two inches long, is still the favourite morning dress of the Dandies; but they have added, (as nearly as our *Guys* can imitate the venerable deformity of the French *Schneiders*) a collar à la *Guillotine*, which must never extend less than half", "Mayor on Tuesday last.", "The following anecdotes of Mr. Abernethy are from the National Portrait Gallery, an able work edited by Mr. Jordan. \"Mr. T.\"—a young gentleman with a broken limb, which refused to heal long after the fracture, went to consult Mr. Abernethy; and, as usual, was entering into all the details of his sir, do you come here to talk, or to hear me?—'Pray, it is so and so—I wish you a good morning.' A scene of greater length, and still greater interest, entertainment, took place be-", "SUBSCRIPTION", "The policeman stated, that the defendant Harvey was engaged in the riot that took place on Sunday morning in Kent-street, but that he then escaped. In the afternoon of the same day, however, he was again observed in the same street by the policeman, who went up to him for the purpose of taking him into custody, but he had no sooner laid hands upon him for this purpose, than he was collared and struck by that man. A scuffle then ensued between them in custody.", "The following are the names of the parties concerned in the case.", "A truly novel circumstance, and which has excited considerable interest, occurred on Sunday, near the parish church of March, in the Isle of Ely. Immediately after the service was ended, and before the congregation began to separate, the poor Rev. Mr. Pearson, son of Simon Goodman, of St. Ing's, Holt, who, on morning the day, began to denounce the astonished parishioner, and telling him that, \"he did not know, and therefore did not know, and therefore did not know.\"", "\"In thy man could mortals guess", "\"Ambition's less than nothingness.\"", "THE NETHERLANDS.—There are four idioms prevalent in this kingdom: of these the Dutch is spoken by four tenths of the population, the Walloon by three tenths, French by two tenths, and Flemish by one tenth. In considering its intellectual condition, we shall find that the 1,073 communes or districts of the northern (principally Protestant) provinces, have 1,835 district schools, whilst the 2,645 communes of the southern (principally Catholic) provinces, the population of which considerably exceeds one half of the whole amount of the entire kingdom, do not possess more than 2,034 district schools; the proportion of the former to the latter being, consequently, as 171 to 77. The num-", "20. 1915\nFOOD.", "in tea and coffee\nhaving a quantity\nbeing in the pri-", "the Excise, strait\n29th of Februa-\nnds of burnt pe-\nearance of coffee\nshe said that st\nth three pounds\nShe did it in co-\ntheir sugars, and\nes, she was cor-\n him that it was th\nghbourhood to\nd.", "ere viewed by the\nto the Board, the\nbeans, and gran-", "of 50l.", "e, &c., in Bridge\ncharged as fol-", "the Excise, said\nthat he had ground\nthat he had sol.\nthe defendant, where-\ning as vegetables\nat a drawer, con-\nand. He then in-\nand that he must\nthat he had not\nUpon searching\nnt beans in bag-\nmix the powder\nwith the grocer", "is produced, and\nat it consisted of\nearance.", "at Rotherhithe,\npersons.\nthat he went to\nounce of coffee,\nused the stuff he\npart coffee and\nany vegetable\nd about sixteen\nd that he mixed", "the burnt beans,\nrely as vegetable\nhe did not mix", "the one ounce of\nulterated with", "ing the vegetable\nthem both to-\ngether.", "ry of 50l.", "Power of his challenge to the rich, Gaul, and COR, and Gauls created six times as many changes as Family.", "Corbet", "and en-\nOrderi-\nequity,\nthe sa-\nall, by", "29\nCrown\nwhich\nand dis-\nand is\nWyver", "W\nbeen c-", "arran-\nsisted\nity of\nlast,\nby, he\nAber-\npaid\nto\nleave\ninner,\nung the\none of\n) hear\nand\nwhich,\nname\nbelieve\nI was\na year\nloyed\nin, a\nPro-\nof my\nubio,\ned for\nresis-\ntation,\ndetail\nary to\nit was,\nitting,\nthe ner-\nsteal,\nhold-\nilling\no his\ng and\nethy's\nief of\nand disor-\nof his\ntients\nscrip-\ntion.\nafter\nfor a\nctor? at\nany\nard of\nfashion\natic.—\ns, he\nghter,\nthe\naking\nport:\nnext,\nin the\nconsider-\ncere-\ntime,\nupli-\nson and\nsettle\npublic,\na your\nareful\nsuch a\nlar my\nI call,\nme for\nwooded\nbeen", "tions\n—notes", "on Spa\nented\ning his\nap-\nped for\nto the\n, and\nowing", "C\na\np\no\nl\no\ny\no\nu\nn\ni\ng\nu\nn\no\nn\no\nn\no\nn\no\nn

THE DANDIES OF SEPTEMBER.

The Parisian demi-surteut, with a waist of two inches long, is still the favourite morning dress of the Dandies; but they have added, (as nearly as our *Guys* can imitate the venerable deformity of the French *Schneiders*) a collar à la Guilloline, which must never extend less than half

Mayor on Tuesday last."

The following anecdotes of Mr. Abernethy are from the National Portrait Gallery, an able work edited by Mr. Jordan.—"Mr. I.—a young gentleman with a broken limb, which refused to heal long after the fracture, went to consult Mr. Abernethy; and, as usual, was entering into all the details of his complaint, when he was thus stopped almost in time.—Pray, sir, do you come here to talk, or to hear me? If you want my advice it is so and so—I wish you a good morning." A scene of greater length, and still greater interest and entertainment, took place be-

SUBSCRIPTION

OF THE

**NOBILITY AND GENTRY,**

*For the Family of an Ancient Baronet,*

WHOSE SINGULARLY UNFORTUNATE SITUATION,

IS SUBMITTED TO THEIR BENEVOLENT AND GENEROUS ATTENTION.

*Some account of the Origin of this Family.*

Anno Romœ 402 and 404.—The Gauls again oppose Rome: Camillus led a Powerful Army against them, when a Gaul, remarkable for his size and the richness of his arms, challenged any of the Romans to fight. Marcus Valerius accepted the challenge, and as they were advancing to engage, a Raven came and perched upon the right arm of Valerius; and whilst they were in close combat, the bird struck the Gaul in such a manner with his beak, wings, and talons, that he could not see his enemy, by which means Valerius gained the victory, and from thence he was called CORVUS, and his posterity CORVINI. The two armies coming to a battle, the Gauls were entirely routed; after which, Valerius CORVUS, for high deserts, was created Consul at 23 years of age, Anno Romœ 405. He lived 105 years, and was six times a Consul. Some years afterwards, the family name of CORVINI was changed to Corbeau, and the Raven in the centre of a Golden Field given for that Family's Coat Armour.

Such is the account given by a celebrated Antiquarian and Herald, of the Origin of the name of Corbett. As to the antiquity of the family in England, it is well known that

Corbett, a noble Norman, came over with William the Conqueror, and was one of the persons entrusted and employed by Roger Earl of Shrewsbury, together with Roger and Robert, two of his Sons, of whom Ordericus Vitalis gives this character:—That the said Earl was a prudent and moderate man, a great lover of equity, and of discreet and modest persons; and says, he being assisted freely, by the wisdom and courage of the said Corbett, and his Sons Roger and Robert, was as glorious among the greatest nobles, as any of them all, by keeping the Welch in awe, and that whole province in peace.

29 Edward 1. Peter Corbett, the Baron of Caus Castle, was one of those Lords, who for their Country's Crown and Dignity, withstood Pope Boniface, in the Parliament held at Lincoln, 1301, and joined in a Letter, which he and other Nobles subscribed to the Pope, denying Scotland to be feudatory to the Church of Rome; and disowned any jurisdiction of the Pope in Temporalities. This letter bears date Feb. 12, in the same year, and is preserved in the Exchequer, with his Seal affixed to his name, viz. Two Ravens, the coat having two Wyvernes supporters.

William Corbett was Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 1122, and when the Cathedral Church had been consumed by fire, this Archbishop found means to repair it, and in Rogation week, the year following,

CARDINAL YORK.—A *traveller*, with great solemnity, informs the public, that the late Cardinal YORK has already a *tomb under the pavement of St. Peter's*, from which he seems to infer that the account of the intended monument is a fabrication. Another traveller who is just returned from Rome assures us, however, that he actually saw the Cardinal's monument in December last. It was then in considerable progress, from the design, and under the direction of CANOVA; and from its being erected in one of the most conspicuous situations in the Church, it will, no doubt, be worthy of the high character of the first sculptor of the age, and of the magnificent Temple in which it is placed. If any farther proof is wanting to establish the fact of the PRINCE REGENT'S donation in aid of the monument, the following is a short extract of a letter from the Cardinal GONSALVO to Lord CASTLEREAGH, dated at Rome, March 9th, 1816, and printed by order of the House of Commons:—

> "I request that your Excellence will have the goodness to lay at the feet of his Royal Highness the PARISH BISHOP, the tribute of gratitude felt by the heirs of the late Cardinal de YORK, at well as my own, for the sum of money which his Royal Highness has been pleased to send by the Marquis CA. SAYA, towards defraying the expences of the monument to be erected to that personage in the Church of St. Peter."

The King of SWEDEN has given notice to the Norwegian Diet, that he will purchase, at his own expence, the regalia necessary for his approaching coronation, and that they are thenceforth to remain the property of the kingdom itself.

1818

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A most singular circumstance has occurred at Scarborough, in the family of Thomas Simpson, a porter, who resides in Tanner街. In the former part of July last, a person came representing himself as the son, who had been thirteen years on board a man of war; and was acknowledged as such by the family, who supplied him with clothes and every thing he was in want of. In the course of a few weeks he set off for Hull to seek employment, when he was provided with money and more apparel, but ere many days had passed he returned to Scarborough nearly naked, having spent all his money. They again received him into their house, and clothed him. In a short time he set off a second time for Hull, having, as he stated, heard of a birth, but to their sorrow, soon returned as destitute as before. The old people were quite distressed at the conduct of their son, and as it was not in their power to do more for him, a brother was applied to, a poor lad just out of his apprenticeship, who gave him all the little he possessed. He remained at home until Thursday sevensnight. When the family were at breakfast that morning, a person knocked at the door, who, on entering, immediately embraced the old man and woman, as father and mother. Their surprise was of course great, and it was not without difficulty that he at length convinced them of the fact.—The pretender, when he found how matters stood, took up his hat and made off, but a constable being as hand, he was apprehended and put in prison, and is to take his trial at the Quarter Sessions. He now states, that he is an American; but what is more surprising, the real son has no knowledge of him whatever. Thus have the poor distressed family been supporting an impostor for upwards of fifteen weeks.—(Hull Packet, Nov. 14.)

ANTIQUITIES NEAR BATH.

The subterranean of our city and vicinity daily teem with more or less interesting remains of ancient times. Exclusively of those spirited enterprises which have been so successfully pursued by the Rev. Mr. Skinner, at Roundhill Tining, and at Camden, and the accessions still continuing to be made by individuals in and near Bath; the following articles have been developed within the last fortnight:—

A sepulchral urn, with human bones and ashes; a small brass coin of the usurper Carausius, and a fine medal of Faustina Augusta, reverse Lucina, in large brass; at Walcot.—A tesselated mosaic pavement, in Kingsmeads behind Norfolk Crescent.—A stone sarcophagus, containing a human skeleton, dug near Mr. Harris's statuary, above Bathwick New Church. A celt, or more probably, an axe for hewing timber, found at Bathwick. This instrument is formed of a hard grey stone, of that species called the Hanham pennant. It is near 13 inches in length, of massive dimension, well contrived for effect, and evidently designed to be fastened to its handle by thongs, in the manner found to be usual in all barbarous nations, where the use of the metals has been unknown. It is probably the largest instrument of its kind at present extant; and, presuming it to be ancient to the introduction of the arts into Britain by the Romans, must be, at least, 1800 years old. It is in the possession of Mr. O'Neill.—Bath Herald

(27,114) TOLL.—It was present at the opening of the Waterloo-bridgework, on the public on the 5th of November, 1878, and at the first cab (a four-moon was No. 1000.—North).

WATERLOO BRIDGE.

The foundation stone of the WATERLOO BRIDGE, was laid on Friday, Oct. 11, 1811, by the Directors for executing the same, Henry Swann, Esq., Chairman, in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of KING GEORGE the III; and during the Regency of HRH. GEORGE, PRINCE of WALES.—It is a well-proportioned & handsome structure, composed of nine arches of equal span & elevation, supported by stone Piers, each ornamented by two Columns, & the whole crowned by an elegant Balustrade. This undertaking was carried on by a joint Stock Company, under the auspices of Parliament, & is one of the most beautiful ornaments of the Metropolis.

Opened by the PRINCE REGENT, the DUKE of YORK, and the

DUKE of WELLINGTON June 18, 1817. JOHN RENNIE, Engineer.
The length of the Bridge with 1240 Feet
the Abutments
Length of the Road supported on 1250
Brick Arches on the Surrey side.
1080
D' on the London side.
Total length from the Strand
where the building begins to the 2690
to the spot in Lambeth where
it falls to the level of the Road.
Width within the Balustrades.
Carriage Road under the Arch 26 F. Span on the Surrey Side, leading to Westminster Bridge.

London; Published by J. Wright, Engraver & Printer, 23, Blue Anchor Passage, Bank Hill Row.

CLASSICAL BULLS.

The following samples, selected from the works of some of the most popular British writers, will shew that *bulls* are not so peculiar to the Irish as men are apt to think:—

Mr. HOME, a Caledonian, in his most celebrated drama, has the following goodly yoke—

> Beneath a mountain's brow, the most remote
> And inaccessible, by shepherds trod.

> The river, rushing over its pebbled bed;
> Imposes silence with a stillness sound.

Mr. POPE says, and gravely too,
When first young Maro, in his noble mind,
A work ' outlast IMMORTAL Rome design'd.

And again, on an eagle and her young,
Eight callow infants fill'd the mossy nest,
Herself the ninth.

The great historian of *The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire* says,

The apology of Tertulian contains two very singular, but, at the same time, very suspicious circumstances.

MILTON, himself, is not without the same property. He says,

> The deeds, themselves, though mute,
> Spoke loud the door.

> But now lead on,
> In me is no delay—with thee to go,
> Is to stop here.

In this good company the author of *The Rambler* may also be frequently found. For example—

> Nor yet perceived the vital spirit fled,
> But still fought on, nor knew that he was dead.

Speaking of SHAKSPEARE, he says,

Shakespeare has not only shewn human nature as it is, but as it would be found in situations to which it cannot be exposed.

In his Tour to the Hebrides, the Doctor gravely says,

These observations were made by favour of a contrary wind.

SPENCER is not behind any of the company in bull-making. He tells us,

> The woods were heard to wait full many a sigh,
> And all the birds with silence to complain.

["### A N E C D O T E.", "A Copy of the new Ruffian Code of Laws having been lately sent to France, to be submitted to the Inspection and Amendment of the Chancellor: About the fame Time a Copy was forwarded to England by the Ambassador, directed to the L. C. J. of the K. B. for his Comment and Endemations. It is said, that they have been lately returned from the different Kingdoms with many material Alterations. The Empres, after the most attentive and unprerogued Perusal of them both, declared in Council, that the could not wholly approve of either; as this Chancelor's Bigotry and Superficial proved him no Friend to, or proper Judge of provincial Religion nor Legislation; to the Sentiments and Opinions of the C. J. confirmed a partial Adherence, and plain Attachment, to Delfotifim, and arbitrary Maefures. She said as her Aim was only the Good and Happineſs of her Subjects, they should not influence her Refolutions. She farther obſerved that there feemed ſuch an Agreement in their leading Opinions, in Relation to rational Liberty, and the inherent Freedom of Mankind; that if their Influence was ſufficiently powerful, the Governments of their respective Countries moſt terminate in the moſt confirmed and abſolute Slavery. Some of the Council mentioned an Application to Voltaire and Rouffieu; her Majety condemned the Hypocrysis of the one, and the Ferocity of the other, and Dr. B—n's Cataſtrophe had rather leſoned her Opinion of the English Philofophers.", "### FOR THE ST. JAMES' CHRONICLE.", "O Wolfe I think we've had enough, Suppose I change the Theme;\nBut firſt I'll take a Pinch of Snuff,\nAnd then behold my Scheme:", "Full three and twenty Years I've been,\nWith Sighs I tell my Tale,\nMy Birth not low, nor Perfon mean,\nYet these cannot prevail.", "What tho' I can no Fortune boast,\nEconomy I will;", "No Beauty to be called a Toast,\nNo powerful Charms to kill;", "Not brown, nor yet divinely fair,\nNo Lily, nor the Rule,", "Sets off my flowing Nut brown Hair,\nMy Charms are none of thole.", "I am a lively Country Maid,\nExempt from every Art,\nAnd tho' not Beauty—fee display'd,\nAn Honesty of Heart.", "With these Poffions, could I find\nA Youth not void of Fame;\nA tender Heart; a noble Mind;", "I'd gladly bear his Name.", "LUCINDA", "### A N E C D O T E.", "A GREAT Perſonage playing with his cleft Son one Day, the latter grew angry and hit his Father a Blow. To punſh him for this, the Father tied the Hand with a Handkerchief to the Officer's Side, while the Brothers were left to divert themſelves with his Situation, who tantingly called out every now and then, \"G—ge why won't you play with us?\"", "At another Time, the P— playing with Maſter ——, a young Gentleman who was kept for that Purpofe, his H— truckled the latter two or three Times, and frowning alſed if he knew who he was. The Great Perſonage being inſformed of this, ordered Maſter —— to ſtrip, and give him a hearty Drubbing; which being done, the P— cald a moſt ſeemſtful Look at him, as much as to ſay, I ſhall remember you. The Father feeing this, ordered the young Gentleman to beat him again, till he alſked his Papa's Pardon, and prorided never to lift his Hand againſt a Subject. This being complied with, the Great Perſonage then told his H—, he muſt remember the English Spirit was ſuch, it would not put up with a Blow or an Inſult even from the K—.", "### The FANATIC.", "WHEN firſt to ſpeak uprises Simon Pure,\nSilent the flands, with Countenance demure;\nHe coughs, he ſpits, with many a Hawk and Hem,\nTo clear a Way for Words, and utter them:", "His Gloves beſide him on the Pulpit lie,\nHis two broad Hands to Heav'n are lifted high;\nWith Eye-Lids flut he groans, for cloſely pent,\nThe murmuring Spirit druggles for a Vent;", "At length a Voice breaks out beſide his Hat,\nAnother, and another after that:", "But fair and ſoft, with frequent paſſes mixt,\nAnd many a Sigh, and many a Groan betwixt;\nTill by Degree he ſans, with Bealot ire,\nThe dormant Coals of Puritanic Fire;", "Anon, he ſtarts, he bounds, on Tip-toe flands,\nRoars with his Voice, and hammers with his Hands;\nThe Strength of Lungs he tries, he pangs, he blows,\nAnd down his Cheeks the Sweat profuſely flows:\nTo every Soul he threatens inflant Doom,\nAnd a ſanatic Tempeſt flakes the Room.", "So rifing Boreas firſt, with lenient Breeze,\nFans the light Leaves, and murmursthro' the Trees;\nHis Cheeks inflated ſoon a Tempeſt blow,\nShake their full Tops above, their Trunks below:", "His gathering Strength a dreary Ruin spreads,\nAnd ſubborn Oaks bend low their hoary Heads:\nHis boif'trous Blaſs the beauteous Grove deform,\nAnd dire Diftraſsion waits upon the Storm.", "NOKO.", "### The ENGLISH JUSTICE.", "The Thought taken from Monſter de la Fontaine.\nPot-belly'd Juitice, who thought a good Feaſt\nThe bell Thing this World could afford,\nCommanded his Cook, for that Day's Repaſt,\nA Sturgeon to tend to his Board.", "Three Parts of the Pith he diſpatch'd with ſuch Speed\nThat one ſcercely can credit the Tale;", "And had not a Sickness prevented the Deed,\nThis Jonas had eat up the Whale.", "The Doctor arrives—and with Countenance ſad,\nAſſures him Aſſiſtance is vain; [bad,\nAnd to tell him the Truth, \"his Complaint was ſo\nHe would ne'er eat a Sturgeon again.\"", "\"If'is ſo, quoth the Juitice, what ſignifices Care?\n\"And now I have only one Wِn:", "\"That as you're conſin'd I have no Time to ſpare,\n\"You will ſend me the Reſt of my Pith!\"", "GRACCHUS.", "### A N E C D O T E.", "WHEN that great and wry wife Minifter, Sir\nRobert Walpole, planned any confitutu-\ntional or publick Act of Parliament, he always\nconfuted two or three of his Friends, Men of\nConſequence, Underſtanding, Penetration,\nand unconfined Geniuffus, to perſume the plan,\ndefining them to raſe all the Objections they could poffi-\nably form, in the moſt adverse Way. By this very\ncircumſpect and prudent Step he made himſelf\npereſſant Maſter of any confenſional Debate arſuring\nfrom any Point he wanted to carry; by theſe\nmeans he became remarkable for quick and judi-\ncious Replications in the Houſe; and, by a few\nAlterations, if thought neceſſary, well adapted to\nthe Plan, he obviated moſt Difficulties that might\nattend it, as well in paffing the Houſe of Parlia-\nment as in the Executive Part, when he became a\nLaw.", "This was told me by the late Mr. Wyndham,\nof Clear-well in Monmouthſhire, a very able Ma-\ngiſtrale, who was, for a conſiderable Time, Sir\nRobert's intimate Acquaintance, and his main\nobjeſtive Counſellor. Was this Method now made\nuſe of, there could not poffiblely be ſo many De-\nfects in ſome of our modern Statutes, that there\nis hardly one which does not want Amendment, or\nExplanation; it puzzles the Judges to interpret\nthem, and it is dangerous for aſting Magistrates\nto enforce the publick Utility they were intended\nfor.", "Sion-Lane, Iſloworth, April 19, 1771.", "St. George's Hospital, by the death of the last of\nfive brothers, at the age of 86, all dying without\nissue, has become possessed of a property of 80,000£.", "The following is a Lift of the Chancellors\nof the University of Cambridge from the Year\n1547 to the Death of the late Chancellor, his\nGrace the Duke of Newcaſſe:", "1547. Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset,\nUncle to King Edward IV.", "1549. John Dudley, Duke of Northumber-\nland.", "1553. Stephen Gardiner, Bifhop of Winchef-\nter, and Lord Chancellor.", "1556. Reginald Poie, Archbifhop of Canter-\nbury.", "1558. Sir William Cecil, Knt. afterwards\nLord Burleigh.", "1598. Robert Devereux, Earl of Eſſet.", "1600. Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of\nSalisbury.", "1611. Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton.", "1614. Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk.", "1521. Thomas Bancroft, Archbifhop of Can-\nterbury.", "1626. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.", "1628. Henry Rich, Earl of Holland.", "1648. Edward Montague, Earl of Manchester.", "1651. Oliver St. John, Eſſi; Chief Juitice of\nthe Common-Pleas.", "1660. Edward Montague, Earl of Manchester,\nreſored.", "1670. George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.", "1674. James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, in-\ntalled Sept. 3, at Worcester-Houſe, Lon-\ndon.", "1682. Chriſtopher Monſke, Duke of Albermarle.", "1688. Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset,\ninſtalled at London. He died Dec. 2, 1748,\naged 87, having held this Office 60 Years.", "1748. Thomas Holles Pelham, Duke of New-\ncaffre, and High Steward of the University,\nelected Chancellor Dec. 14, 1748, and in-\nſtalled at Cambridge July 2, the year fol-\nlowing. His Grace died Nov. 17, 1768,\nafter having held this Office almost twenty\nYears.", "### A LIVING CHARACTER.", "JACK Stamford has exacſely Two Hundred\nPounds a Year in the Funds. He dreffes as\nwell as any Man in Town, and keeps as good\nCompany. His Taylor and his Hoffer's Bills\ngenerally amount to One Hundred and Twenty; ſo\nthat he has a neat Eighty remaining to pay his\nHair-Dreſſer, eat, and make a Figure.", "Jack's Lodging is not very expeſive: He re-\nfides in a blind Aley homewome by Fetter-Lane,\nand pays the yearly Rent of Fourty Shillings for an\nAttic Apartment, which he himself furniſhes with a\nFlock Bed and two broken Chairs. Jack's\ngreatest diurnal Expenſe is his Breakſat; this\nconſinually flands him in Eight-pence at the Coſ-\nfee-Houſe, where the Frifeur attends to drefſ\nhim. Hence he fallies forth a Fop; and if no\none invites him to Dinner, he generally takes a\nlight Repaſt with Duke Humphry. He has a regular\nSet of Tea Acquaintance among the La-\ndies; and never fails to pay a due Reſpect to the\nBread and Butter and Toaſt. He retires about\nNine to the New Exchange, or the Cecil, and\neats a ſexpenny cold Supper, with an Appetite\nthat does Credit to his Conſtitution. He is a con-\nflant Attendant at the Bedford, after a Dinner,\nin order to gain Admittance into the Boxes as a\ngenteſt Figure, at a poor Houſe. By this Means", "### A N E C D O T E.", "IN the Reign of Henry the Third, Simon De\nMontford, Earl of Leicetſer, ſuppreſſed a Re-\nbellion in Guillaume; but the Gafcoyns acſed him\nof several Mildemorrhans, and the Earl came over\nto England to be tried by his Peers. Upon his Trial\nthe King called him a Traitor; but the Earl told him\n\" he lied, and were he not a King he would\nmake him eat his Words.\"—Perhaps this is the\nonly Inſtance of a Subject giving his Sovereign the\nLye to his Face; yet the King became recon-\nciled to the Earl, and ſent him Governor again to\nGuillaume.", "The following which happened\nafter a few Week, near\nternoon Vifto, to\npente the Evening\nVoice, and happened\nto be defined to ſhe\nſung ſeveral drawing\nnear the Wall.\nIn a Parlour adjac\nthe Coache in\nvery attentive, al\nvery kind with one\nSor. Her Leave, as\ntho found he went for\nſtopped ſhort in\nopening the Co-\nHand, ſaid, \"I am\naffured I will not\nany one elfe, wh\nYou have been\none in particular\nobliged, if you w\nLady, if as may we\nbeing, ened, being\nalong with him to\npeated Aſſurance\nherself, and beg\nupon the Coache\nwhen ſ fin

IRISH BISHOPRICS.

The value of the Irish sees is but little known in this country. It will be seen by the following statement, that they are richer than the English bishoprics, and the list of persons holding them will show, that like them they have been made the means of rewarding parliamentary services, and have been bestow'd either upon the younger branches of the nobility, or upon the takers of the lords lieutenants and peers in the interest of government. There are but three or four on the English bench of professional reputation, and still fewer on the Irish. Mr. Wakefield, in his excellent Account of Trend, just published, speaking of the sort of persons thus highly preferred, by way of sample states, " that one archbishop was a lieutenant in the navy—the dean of Clogher, a member of the Imperial Parliament—and a rector of a valuable crown living, an aid-de-camp at the castle!" 2 vol. p. 476. He adds, " that there are absentees even among the bishops, some of whom think it sufficient to visit Ireland, and reside there for a month or six weeks in the summer, while others, preferring the enjoyment of society to a dull residence at the diocesan palace, fly from the uncultivated wilds and cheerless bogs by which they are surrounded, to mix in fashionable life, and partici- pate for years in the pleasures of Bath or London, without even visiting Ireland. p. 473, v. ii.

<table><thead><tr><th>Sees</th><th>Possessors</th><th>Ann. value.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Armagh—Marquis of Bute's Brother</td><td>£14,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cashell—Viscount Middleton's Brother</td><td>8,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Tuam—Marquis of Waterford's Uncle, a Beresford</td><td>9,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Dublin—Bishop of St. Asaph's</td><td>12,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kilcarrá—Earl of Balcarra's Brother</td><td>1,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Menth—Dake of Portland's Private Secretary</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Limerick—Viscount Northland's Brother</td><td>13,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kilmore—Marquis of Waterford's Cousin, another</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Beresford</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Elphin—Earl of Clancarty's Brother</td><td>10,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Killaloe—Marquis of Ely's Brother</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Raphane—Marquis of Waterford's Brother, a third</td><td>9,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Cork—Earl of Howth's Brother</td><td>9,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Fernes—Earl of Reden's Brother</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Down—Earl of Caledon's Cousin</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Killala—Dr. Verschogleie</td><td>3,500</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Clovne—Dr. Bennett</td><td>5,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Clogher—Dr. Porter</td><td>7,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Waterford</td><td>7,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ossory—Dr. Kearney</td><td>3,500</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Dromore—Dr. Leslie</td><td>5,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Limerick—Dr. Warburton</td><td>6,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Clonfert—Dr. Butson</td><td>3,500</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

This valuation is upon an average estimate of annual receipts, and is, it is believed, as nearly accurate as such an account can be. They all frequently greatly exceed the above sums, excepting Clonfert, Killala, and Ossory, which are termed the rearing bishoprics, as persons of much parliamentary interest rarely re- main long upon them. Nearly all the others have enor- mous estates, which are let on leases with heavy fines; of course the renewals, as the terms are in general three and seven years, produce, by their frequency, very large profits. It is computed, that if the lands of fire of them were now out of lease, their annual value would exceed half a million.—(See Wakefield's 'Account of Ireland,' p. 470.)—viz.

<table><tbody><tr><td>Armagh</td><td>£10,000</td><td>per ann.</td></tr><tr><td>Derry</td><td>120,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Kilmore</td><td>100,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Waterford</td><td>70,000</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Clogher</td><td>100,000</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

To the greater part of the Sees there is attached an immense patronage. More than half of the parishes are in the gifts of the bishops, and many have of their disposal several benefits, from £1200. to £4000. per annum.

It appears from the latest and most approved publica- tions in Ireland, that the Roman Catholic population is between 4 and 5 millions, and the Protestant between 1 and 2 millions. It is slated, that adding the Dis- senters and Separatists of every kind to the Catholics, the members of this most opulent establishment do not exceed one twentieth part of the nation!

The following singular notice appeared lately on the door of a Roman Catholic Chapel in the West of Ire- land.

Rus away from Patrick McDallagh.—Whereas my wife, Mrs. Bridget McDallagh, is again walked away with herself, and left me with her four small children and her poor old blind mother, and nobody else to look after house and home, and I hear, has taken up with Tim Guigan, the lame fiddler, the same that was put in the stocks last Easter, for stealing Barney Dole—game or sup on her or his account to man or metal, and that she had better never shew the marks of her fell toes near my house again.

—PATRICK McDALLAGH.

—S. N. Tim had better keep out of my sight.”

This Gazette also contains his MAJESTY's permission to Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ to wear the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun, conferred on him by the KING of SWEDEN. Also permission to wear the insignia of the Order of the Tower and Sword, conferred on him by the REGENT of Portugal.

His Royal Highness the Prince REGENT has been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his MAJESTY, to give and grant unto Sir JAMES CRAUFURD, of Kertes, in the county of Ayr, Baroet, and also to his only surviving uncle QUINN CRAUFURD, Etq. and to CHARLES CRAUFURD, a Litt- tennant-General in the army, only surviving brother of the said Sir JAMES CRAUFURD, and to CHARLES CRAUFURD, Ronner, ROBERT CRAUFURD, and ALEXANDER CRAUFURD, minors, sons of Ma- jor-General ROBERT CRAUFURD, late brother of the said Sir JAMES CRAUFURD, who fell gloriously as he was leading his di- sision to the assault of Cindad Rodrigo on the 19th January, 1818, his MAJESTY's Royal Licence and Authority, that they and their issue may respectively assume and use the surname of GREGAN, in addition to and before that of CRAUFURD; in memory of their descent from GREGAN CRAUFURD (which Sir JAMES CRAUFURD was descended from the ancient Lords of CRAUFURD, in the county of Lanark), the celebrated Scottish Chieftain of the twelfth-century, the friend and companion in arms of DA- VID the First, King of Scotland, whose life he saved on Holy- roodday, A. D. eleven hundred and twenty eight in commen- cation of which action King DAVID founded Holywood Abbey, now Holywood House, as appears by a certificate under the Official Seal of the Lord Lyon of Scotland, bearing date April 22, 1779, and recorded in his MAJESTY's College of Arms, London.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S HOUSE, WHITEHALL.

There is scarcely a neighbourhood in town but is said to have had a house which was occupied by this celebrated usurper: Islington, Clenkenwell, and Westminster, were full of those said to have been his residences: but the one most entitled to credit, is that lately the property of — WILSON, Esq. (Sir tante near Dradick's row, 'Whitehall'), whose family has occupied it in succession from the decay of OLIVER. This singular place by its outward appearance, was truly so within; long dark passages, double doors, grated wickets, subterraneous labyrinths, intricate closets, detached rooms, and gloomy windows, form its model; and the furniture, every way corresponding to such a dwelling, has been carefully preserved; and on the division of the premises, conveyed by Mr. WILSON to his- seat in Westfriarsshire, and among other articles of a various description, were some of the Protector's clothes, watch, and some antique brozes.

One room was particularly curious, as being the place selected by CROMWELL for consultation with his confidants: —the floor was composed of small pieces of wood to resemble a truss-laced pavement, and a retreat furnished against intrusion or sur- prise, by a sliding panel in the wainscot, that led to a dark stair-case, rendered only safe in descent by a rope similar to those formerly at the galleries of the theatres.
That Cromwell was in continual fear of assas- sination is well authenticated, and it is known that no person during his usurpation knew where he slept, which in some measure accounts for the variety of houses he is said to have inhabited. Many attempts were made on his life, and some persons were appreklended, found guilty, and executed for spolts against him.

THE NORTH GATE OF PAULS.—Before the reign of Queen Elizabeth, no Newspapers were published in England; the great resort of the collectors of oral intelligence, therefore, was the Church-yard and North Gate of Pauls, in the public market, or Cheap, where proclamations were displayed, and, on its ad- jacent stalls, numberless tracts sold. This aversion for news caused it in the reign of Queen Mary, to be conveyed in the forms of satirical pamphlets, ballads, songs, and poems, which from this centre, Pauls, were conveyed to many dealers in these articles, be- gan to fly about the city through a medium more per- manent than tradition, and, unquestionably, by these means, they soon reached the Court, and ultimately the country.

Meeting a Treasury Friend, I said I understood his party still nightly haunted the Treasury Scences, though formerly when a party was outvoted, the doctrine was

—No longer, dance.

—No longer, pipe.

Aye, aye, (said he) it was so formerly, but “no longer” was purposely omitted in the last act.

Z. X. Y.

ANECDOTE.—An eminent Barrister who died a few years ago, and who was distinguished for that licence in pleading which outrages every li- beral feeling, and sports unmercifully with cha- racter, offended a Gentleman whom he examined in Court, by some reflections that could not have been uttered in another place without exposing the author to chastisement. The Gentleman called next day upon the Barrister, not intending to pay him the compliment of an honourable appeal to arms, but furnished with a horse-whip for manual discipline, as the only remedy suited to the oc- casion. The Barrister was in bed, and the Gentle- man insisting upon seeing him, was introduced into the bedchamber. The Gentleman imme- diately signified the occasion of his visit; upon which the Barrister, said, “I suppose you will not take advantage of me while I am in bed,” No,” said the Gentleman, “I shall stay till you are up.” “If that’s the case,” re- joined the Barrister, by G—, I will not get up these six months.” The Gentleman’s anger was mollified by this whimsical reply, and after a reasonable apology, they parted upon friendly terms.

ENGLISH BISHOPRICS.

The following is an accurate statement of the value of the different Sees, according to present rentals:—

<table><thead><tr><th>POSSESSORS.</th><th>Per Ann. Ann. Ann.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Canterbury—The Duke of Rutland's Cousin</td><td>£20,000</td></tr><tr><td>Yark—Lord Vernas and Lord Harcourt's Brother</td><td>14,000</td></tr><tr><td>Durham—Lord Barrington's Uncle</td><td>24,000</td></tr><tr><td>Worcester—The late Lord North's Brother</td><td>18,000</td></tr><tr><td>Ely—The Duke of Rutland's Tutor</td><td>12,000</td></tr><tr><td>London—Dr. Randolph of Gloucester's Tutor</td><td>9,000</td></tr><tr><td>Bath and Wells—Duke of Gloucester's Tutor</td><td>5,000</td></tr><tr><td>Chichester—Duke of Richmond's Tutor</td><td>4,000</td></tr><tr><td>Litchfield and Coventry—Lord Harcourt's Uncle</td><td>6,000</td></tr><tr><td>Worcester—Dr. Cornwall</td><td>6,000</td></tr><tr><td>Hereford—Duke of Beaumont's Tutor</td><td>1,000</td></tr><tr><td>Bangor—The Son of the Queen's English Master</td><td>4,000</td></tr><tr><td>St. Asaph—Lord Buckingham's Tutor</td><td>6,000</td></tr><tr><td>Oxford—Brother of the Prince Regent's Tutor</td><td>1,000</td></tr><tr><td>Lincoln—Mr. Pitt's Secretary</td><td>4,000</td></tr><tr><td>Salisbury—Princess Charlotte's Tutor</td><td>6,000</td></tr><tr><td>Norwich—Dr. Bathurst</td><td>6,000</td></tr><tr><td>Carlisle—Duke of Portland's Tutor</td><td>4,000</td></tr><tr><td>St. David's—Dr. Burgess</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Rochester—Duke of Porland's Secretary</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Exeter—Lord Chichester's Brother</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>Peterborough—Dr. Madan</td><td>1,600</td></tr><tr><td>Bristol—Mr. Perceval's Tutor</td><td>1,600</td></tr><tr><td>Llandaff—Dr. Watson</td><td>90</td></tr><tr><td>Gloucester—Dr. Huntingford</td><td>1,296</td></tr><tr><td>Chester—Lord Lloydon's Brother</td><td>1,100</td></tr></tbody></table>

LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.—On Tuesday the LORD MAYOR entertained the LORD MAYOR of DUBLIN in a stile of grandeur and dignity every way suited to the high and important situations they respectively fill in the Sister Capital of the United Kingdom. The Court of Aldermen was summoned in full dress in their scarlet robes to receive their Right Honourable Visitor in the Guildhall of their ancient city, and after the ce- monies of reception were past, on the motion of Sir WM. CURTS, his Lordship's was by an unanimous vote of the Court presented with the Freedom of the City, which he acknowledged his sense of in a neat and ap- propriate speech. He was then-attended to the hus- ings, whence he had a view of Mr. Pitt's Monuments, and after visiting the several Courts and Offices, was seated by the Lord Mayor on his right hand in the state coach, and was followed by the whole Court of Aldermen and City Officers in their respective carriages. The procession arrived at the Mansion House about six o'clock, where they were met by the Princes, Ministers of State, &c. Foreign Ambassadors, and other persons of high quality, and sat down to a truly sumptuous en- tertainment. This was magnificent in the extreme, and such as we have not witnessed for some years past, uniting all the taste, elegance, and splendour of our times, with the solid and liberal spirit of ancient hos- pitality. This was as it should be on an occasion of such singular distinction, and cannot fail to gratify in the fullest manner the liberal feelings of the Citizens of Dublin, as well as the Citizens of London, by so marked an attention having been paid by the LORD MAYOR of LONDON to the Municipal Chief of Dublin.

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A Gentleman from the Sister Kingdom called in yesterday at a Lottery Office in Cornwall, and directed the Clerk to shew him some Twins. " Sir," he said, " my Master has three children, but none of them are Twins." " I want none of your Master's children," rejoins the Hibernian, " but it is the children of Dame Fortune I am looking after; therefore hand me over two Tickets of one Number, that I may gain 40,000 on Tuesday the 20th."

A Gentleman canvassing for Mr. WAITHMAN, called upon his neighbour, and requested him to vote for his friend; who answered, he should not decide hastily, but consider of it. A by-standing, overhearing the conversation, told the canvasser, that he was fearful his trouble would be useless, as most Liverymen would make the same reply: No—Wait-man.

The genius who addressed the *unclaimed* letter to the late Lieut. Otway, reminds us of the Irish Student, who left a note in the key-hole of his chamber for an expected visitor, who he was rather apprehensive could not read, couched in the following terms:—" I am gone to the Elephant and Castle; if you cannot read this yourself, take it to the bookseller over the way, and he will read it for you !"

Some of the 'weakest of the TALENTS, who are likely to lose their Parliamentary footing, complain bitterly of the obligation on Members to stand so long before they can sit.

At a dinner of the Freemen of Liverpool on Tuesday last, the following was the bill of fare:—Two whole sheep, 50 rounds of beef, 1 baron of beef, two legs of mutton, 1500 loaves of bread, 2 cart loads of potatoes, 23 barrels of ale and porter.

As Colonel RAM opposes Sir B. FLOOD for Wexford County, his supporters express a strong desire to shew their opponents the appearance of a Ram before the Flood.

A Gentleman noticing a pen, as a weathercock upon the spire of Camberwell Church, observed, " that he had seen the in-spir'd pen. "

Roehampton Mansion, the residence of the late BENJAMIN GOLDSMID, Esq., has been crowded (notwithstanding the wet weather) with a most fashionable company to view the superb service of plate, linen, china, and costly library of books; the beautiful Italian alabaster vase, which is so much admired, cost the late proprietor the sum of one thousand pounds.

ELECTION ANECDOTE.—A blunt John Bull, on being canvassed last Thursday for his vote, addressed the Candidate in the following curious manner:—" I'll tell you what, 'Squire Thingumumee, I've had plenty of promises, but never got any thing by 'em; chalk for chalk you know is all fair; now my wife has had a lucky death, and if you give her a chance for a 20,000l. Prize, on the 20th of October, Why I'm your man."

An Irish estate has been recently advertised in a Cork Newspaper, with temptations to a purchaser of no ordinary kind; it consists of two villages, the future prospects of which are set forth by stating, that one of them is left for nine hundred years, and the other on a lease for ever! on the expiration of which terms, both the said villages will be capable of great improvement.

His IMPERIAL MAJESTY of all the RUSSIAS has lent to her Royal Highness the Duchefs of ANGoulEME, daughter of LOUIS XVI. a leuer in his own hand-writing, and a valuable necklace, together with the insignia of the grand order of St. Anne.

The LADY MAYORESS has now perfectly recovered, and the whole Court of Aldermen have had a peep at the infant, who has been born with a silver cradle to his back !

Kick-down, it has been remarked, is a very proper place for our Troops to find in Holland.—When they have got to Kick down, we have no doubt of their soon making a kick-up amongst the Dutch.

Some years ago a Reverend Divine (Dr. Beadon), who then lived in habits of social intercourse with Garrick, Foot, &c. was Rector of Eltham, and in the text he took one Sunday, at that place, to enlarge on, was, " Who art thou ?" During the delivery of which, an officer walking up the middle aisle of the church, supposing it a question addressed to him suddenly and unexpectedly replied, " I am, Sir, an Officer of the 16th regiment of foot, on a recruiting party here, having brought my wife and family with me, and wish to be acquainted with the neighbouring clergy and gentry." This answer so deranged the congregation, and so astonished the Divine, that it was with the greatest difficulty he could proceed, and his congregation listen with a share of decorum.

A curious circumstance tools place whilst the Duke of York last week stopped to change horses at the Chequers Inn, Brandon. The new landlady of that inn, (a Mrs. Clark), being very anxious for a sight of his Royal Highness, had instructed her servants to inform her when the carriage drove up, and in consequence they innocently vociferated the name of " Mrs. Clark" so loud and frequent, as could not fail to strike the Duke's auricular nerves. The same unintentional exclamation was not the case on his changing horses at Bury, where a number of persons assembled, and three snouts were given for Colonel Wardle, nor was Mrs. Clark forgotten.

### ADDRESS OF A CITY CANDIDATE.

To be an M. P. what a glorious sound !

I'm a man of great talents and wisdom profound ;

Then if not return'd, it will surely be hard ;

If they give me an inch, I can then take a yard ;

And for canvas, my friends, 'twill be needless to roam,

As I deal in that article largely at home,

Ribbons I sell—if my favours you seek,

Pray call at my shop for them early next week.

The Gentlemen who have so wisely resolved to prevent the destruction of game upon their estates, will, we hope, excite others to come to a resolution to prevent the destruction of their estates by gaming.

WARM COMPORTE.—A Gentleman observing to his friend, he wondered how he kept himself warm during this cold winter: was answered, " that he contrived to do it very well—that he had a small house and a good fire—that he had a son who kept him in a perpetual fever, and a very fat wife."

The following is recorded as one of the extraordinary occurrences of the year, and which is announced in large printed letters on a door in Palaceyard, Westminster, viz.— " The Stationary Office removed to Scotland-yard."

The following is an extract from an Irish Will in the poftering of a Gentleman near Newry:— " And if the fald H— G—, my late wife, shall marry, die, or any other way miffundat herself, the fiall forfeit the faid legacy."

A box, made of Irish gold, highly decorated, has been presented to Alderman SCHOLEY (late Lord Mayor) by the late Lord Mayor of DUBLIN, as an acknowledgment of the hospitality and kindness received by him when he came to this country, to press at the Petition of the Corporation of Dublin against the Roman Catholic Claims.

A striking instance of the great benefit mankind has derived from the discovery of the Art of Printing. In the year 1274, the price of a Bible neatly written was 30l. an enormous sum in those days. In the same year, the erection of two arches of London Bridge cost but 25l. of course 5l. less than was paid at that time, for a single copy of the Scriptures.

Two Gentlemen passing along Oxford-street, saw in the window of a lamp and oil shop, the following advertisement—" A weakly Porter wanted, enquiry within." One of them observed such an advertisement was very strange, as strength was generally supposed to be an indispensable requisite for those Knights of the Knol, but his friend replied, it was not to be wondered at, since he would only have to carry out light articles.

The last month proved the dryest April in the remembrance of the oldest person living ; at the close of it scarcely one hundredth part of an inch of rain could be measured,

Viscount CASTLEREAGH gave a grand dinner on Sunday, at his house; in St. James's-square, to several of the Cabinet Ministers and all the Foreign Ministers. The latter, we understand, went all together in a coach. His Lordship will give another grand dinner next Sunday.—A poor barrowwoman dare not sell a pennyworth of potatoes on the Lord's Day.

A pressing request having been lately made, in a certain quarter, for a card to the Civic Dinner on Monday, the suppliant received for answer, that the tables were halrealy quite full; and that the Lord Mayor Unter could not hinwyte so many of isould friends, has he perhapted Lord Horden, and the Marquis and Marchenees of Arford, and a mortal lot of other fashionable folks from the vest hend of the town.

The Lady MAYORES expressed great regret, at seeing only Lady Maiden-ray (we suppose she meant Lady CASTLEREAGH) of all the fashionable of the vest hend of the town, at the civic dinner on Monday.

FAR-TRACED ANCESTRY.—The Irish septs are fond of boasting of their remote ancestry. In this view the O'CALLAGHANS totally eclipse the rest, as deriving from the Prince who built the Uculegon Palace, which was burned at the destruction of Troy !

"Madam, I do not know,

But, as near as I can guess, I cannot tell !"

Or perhaps the learned Secretary had been taking a trip, in his official capacity, down theThames, and heard Lord BURLEIGH say at Tilbury Fort, (Vide SHERIDAN's Critic)—

" The fleet I cannot see, because it is not in sight."

A young Lady of seventeen, a ward in Chancery eloped a few days since with an amorous old Gentleman of seventy. They repaired to Grema Green, where they were rivetied on the anvil of the Matrimonial Blacksmith.

Mr. BURKE being once affected his opinion of a late eminent Law Lord, anfswered, " He's an oaf at Newton, and a willow at St. James's."

A person who travelled much observed, that he never carried pislals, for fear the thieve should take them when they took his cash.

Honey Moon.—It was the custom of the higher order of Tenones, an ancient people who inhabited the northern parts of Germany, to drink Mead or Meðleðin, a beverage made with honey, for thirty days after every wedding. From this custom comes the expression " to spend the Honey Moon."—Attila, King of Hungary, drank so freely of this liquor on his wedding day, that he was found suffocated at night, and with him expired the Empire of the Huns.

FORTUNE DISCOVERY.—On Monday, as Mr. DIAS, of the Rent Recovery Office, London-yard, near Coleman-street, was removing the goods of Mrs. BUTLER (a widow), under distrain for rent, from Queen-street, Southwark, he discovered in an old bureau a secret drawer, containing 4454 Bank-notes, some memorandums, and a will of her late husband, who died in June, 1795.

RETIREMENT.—A Gentleman from London, on a visit to a friend in the country, was complimenting him on the pleasures of a quiet and retired life—" Perhaps," said the country gentleman, " you would not think so, if you knew all. My wife, you must have heard, is not dumb; many of my chimneys smoke, and I live in the neighborhood of a rabbit warren."

MEDICAL ERUDITION.—The following is a letter copy of a certificate given to exempt a person from service in the militia:—" This is to satisfy that Thomas Davey is Not Capebeal of his magisty Sarres being trobled of the scrofulous Disorders Witness my land. A. Cartor Surgond Stanton."

The two Postmasters-General remind us of the two equivalents in the play, one of whom was doing nothing, and the other helping him.

ANECDOTE father one day was regretting O'SHERIDAN father," replying, " we have boy, " we have for we owe

LONGE now living health and years, have January 1 of five su King Will &c. under

["\"The mausoleums of the three last branches of the illustrious and unfortunate House of STUART, that is, of James III., Prince CHARLES EDWARD, and Cardinal YORK, his sons, have been opened at Rome to the view of the public. All the curious admire these masterpieces of the celebrated sculptor CANOVA, which contain an expression, and evince a taste, that are worthy of the age of PERICLES. They are in the Vatican.—", "THE SCOTTISH CAPITAL.—A Gentleman, who has recently made a tour through the most interesting parts of North Britain, was asked by a Lady of great beauty and fashion in that country to favour her with his real opinion of Edinburgh. \" I think, Madam,\" said he, \" speaking of the ancient and new town, it is like an old Gentleman married to a blooming young bride; he fondly loves and protects her, whilst she graces his side by her beauty and elegant attractions.\"", "Amongst the rarities purchased by his Grace the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, at Rome, is a group, consisting of Mars and Cupid, by GIBSON, a young Englishman, and pupil of CANOVA, which is considered a chef-d'œuvre in modern art, and in the estimation of CANOVA, worthy to be placed by the side of the most renowned models of antiquity.", "An Irishman complained at Bow-street, that his new coat had been taken off his back, in the pit of Covent-Garden, before he had it on.", "A bragging fellow having boasted that he came from noble blood—a wag dryly replied, \"So does a fae that bites a Nobleman.\"", "MARLBOROUGH GEMS.—By the will of the late Duke of MARLBOROUGH, this splendid and inestimable collection is directed to be securely deposited in the Bank of England, or in the hands of a respectable Banker, there to be kept during the lifetime of the present Duke.", "Our venerable and afflicted Sovereign on Monday entered the sixtieth year of his reign—a reign now longer in its duration, by nearly four years, than that of any former Sovereign on the English throne, that of Henry III. being barely 56 years.", "A country gentleman walking in his garden, saw his gardener asleep in the air-bower—\"What, (s vs he) asleep, instead of at work! you idle d, g—u—no—no, the sun should shine on you.\"—\"I am truly sensible of my unworthiness,\" answered the man, \"and therefore I laid myself down in the shade.\"", "After the abridication of BONAPARTE, in 1814, it was observed, at a fashionable party in Paris, that things were to be restored to the state in which they were in 1788. \"Oh! I am delighted to hear that,\" exclaimed a Lady, who was no longer in the bloom of youth, \"for then I shall be only eighteen years of age.\"", "The two young Madagascar Princes were recently present at the Opera at Paris. On seeing the Ballet they broke out in the wildest transports, and began dancing in their box, in imitation of the dancers on", "A Scotch gentleman, who is remarkably adored to his pipe and his \"sneezing mull,\" is now trying the experiment, whether he cannot contrive to take snuff by steam, and thus consume his own smoke.", "Friday se'night, in a town not far from Leeds, a man and his wife were quarrelling violently in the street, as the church-warden was going his round. He quaintly observed—\"Whom God has joined, let no man put saunder,\" and placed the wrangling pail—in the stocke.", "A letter from Warsaw speaks of a Madame BOULGARI, a native of Poland, who is so accomplished a singer as to excel CATALANE: her high notes are in particular the object of the utmost admiration. This lady is only 24 years of age.", "The French Marquis DE SAINT — having received several blows of a stick which he never thought of resenting, a friend asked him, \"How he could reconcile it with his honour to suffer them to pass without notice?\" To this the Marquis replied, \"Poh! I never trouble my head with any thing that passes behind my back.\"", "On Tuesday, the 28th ult. as some jobholders were digging a hole for the reception of a post near the new Bath turnpike, in the vicinity of Cheltenham, they found an antique jar, containing many hundreds of Roman coins, 'mostly copper, bearing impressions of different Emperors, and other devices.' The jar is capable of holding near half a gallon, and the whole of its curious contents are in the possession of a lady in that neighbourhood.", "A Paris paper says \"The Marquis de Sainte-Croix Molay, the last descendant of the ancient Grand Master of the Templars—Jacques Molay, a Member of several learned Societies at Paris, and at present residing at Rome, is arranging a curious dissertation on the Vases which have been recently discovered between Albano and Marino, under the lava of a volcano, which has been extinguished for three thousand five hundred years.\"", "The tower of the Royal Exchange will be rebuilt in the grandest style of architecture. The spacious vaults lately occupied by the East India Company, as pepper warehouses, are now letting to several brokers, &c. for repositories of safety. They will, upon a moderate computation, hold 4,000 pipes of wine, and were originally designed as a repository for coals, to supply the inhabitants of London and its vicinity.", "\"The Countess JULES DE POLIGNAC died within these few days at St. Matur, near Paris, at the age of 20. This young lady belonged to one of the most ancient and illustrious families of Scotland; she had been united to her noble husband only two years. She has left an infant boy, the only hope of her distinguished survivors.\"", "Lord SOMERVILLE has instituted an annual Fair on Blackdown Hill, in Somersetshire, which is to be held near the Wellington Pillar, and to be called Waterloo Fair, on the 18th of June, in commemoration of the splendid victory gained on that day.", "During the time of Divine Service, at Appleby on Wednesday se'night, previous to the commencement of the Assize, a lien entered the Church, deposited an egg in one of the seats, and then announced the circumstance to the audience by loud and continued cackling.", "CURIOUS FACT.—A goose, belonging to the landlord of the Sacren's Head Inn, Paisley, walks regularly, from morning to night, with the entry stationed in the inn-yard, for the protection of the jail. When the sentry stops the goose stops, when the sentry turns the goose turns; in short, it as faithfully follows the jail as if he was his shadow. It would continue to do so during the day, were it not forced off and locked up.—Glasgow Courier.", "The following is stated as a fact, which occurred a few days ago in the garden of a Gentleman in the vicinity of Bristol.—Upon going to inspect his cucumber frames at an unusual early hour in the morning, he observed a stranger in conversation with his gardener, and several others in the following dialogue:—\n\nGardener—Seven shillings! I'll see you—d—d first; I would conner my master should have it than sell it for four shillings.", "Stranger—I can give you but four for it.", "Gardeners—Four shillings! I'll see you—d—d first; I would conner my master should have it than sell it for four shillings.", "On Thursday evening a General Assembly of the Royal Academicians was held at their apartments in Somerset-house, when Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, Knight, was duly elected President of the Royal Academy, in the room of the late B. WEST, Esq.", "DEATHS.", "Tuesday, at Bristol, Mr. James Norton, Bookseller.", "The 8th instant, at Grange, in Borrowdale, Cumberland, Mary, the wife of Mr. T. Wilson, aged 48. It is remarkable that on the 8th of July, 1819, her mother died, on the 8th of March, 1820, her father died; and on the 8th of June, the daughter.", "MARRIAGE.", "1820", "On the 13th inst. at Clyro, in Radnorshire, by the Rev. Joseph Romilly, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Thomas Francis Kennedy, of Danbury, Ayrshire, Esq. M.P. to Sophia, only daughter of the late Sir Samuel Romilly.", "A labouring man lately cutting down a tree in the village of St. Ciara, about a league and a half from Meaux, found with-handles, as naturally formed as though they had been produced by the hand of the manufacturer. They have been sent to the Professors of Natural History at the Jardin du Roi.", "Lately, in the coin year of his age, Mr. Hurrell, farmer's malster, residing at Upper Yeldham Hall, in Essex. Here dered in his will that his body should be buried in one of the woods, be covered with one of the hair-cloths he used to let his malt on, and that six hedgers and ditches should carry him to the grave, and that six others be pall-bearers, and six more to follow, ordered a hogshead of beer to be drank, and bread and distributed, and each of the bearers, mourners, and those who carried the corpse to receive a pound note, which begger us literally complied with.", "A Singular Occurrence, proving how easily a Highwayman may be frightened.—Lady STARLIT, traveling from York on Monday se'night, accompanied by her maid servant, was stopped by a highwayman, when the man in her arm took a bottle of ginger beer, and the cork flying out made such a report, it so alarmed the highwayman that he instantly gallied off.—(Leeds Paper.)", "SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—Thursday morning a considerable crowd of persons assembled on Westminster-bridge; the object of attraction was an unfortunate pig that had strayed from the shore at Millbank, and having got on a piece of ice, where it sat with great composure, was carried down the river by the current. Several watermen put off, and rescued the swishish navigator from his perilous situation.", "Extract of a letter from Rome, dated 14th April, 1661, \"The city was in a state of the greatest consternation, on hearing that Signor Pacca (nephew of the Cardinal of the name) Governor of Rome and Treasurer of his Holiness, immediately returned to Rome the same evening. Every body is a loss to know the cause of M. Pacca's flight. He certainly has taken a great deal of money with him. It is supposed that he is gone to Tuscany.\"", "FRANKFORT, Nov. 21.—His Excellence Box d'Austell, Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia, was this morning, to Homburg, to present, in the name of the Emperor, compliments of concidence to his Lord Highness the Princess of Hesse Homburg, on death of her late Majesty the Queen of England, his mother.", "About ten minutes before the final close of the performance, on the night of Miss S. Booth's bereavement, at Chester, the gas-lights suddenly disappeared, and the whole theatre in complete darkness, to the astonishment of a crowded audience. Candles were, however, procured with all possible speed, and the company left the house in the highest good humor.", "The Morning Chronicle says, \" there is no doubt, in event of the House of Lords proceeding with the dissipation of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, that her Majesty, by the case with Queen Catherine, will attend in person to the whole investigation!!!\" If this be true, we are suaded her Majesty will be the only female who could hear such evidence as we are taught to expect must lie", "One of our old writers on Queen ELIZABETH, and Sir FRANCIS DRAKE, has the following quaint epit.:—", "O Nature! to old England still", "Continue these mistakes;", "Still give us for our KINGS such QUEENS,", "And for our Dux such Drakes.", "Friday the Baring transport arrived at Sheerness for the purpose of receiving 300 convicts on board, for Pat Jackson. On the same day twenty-five convicts reached the hulks at that place, from Newgate, among whom was Dr. HALLORAN, for forging the name of St. W. GARBOR to a frank by the general post. 1819", "A far but dignified clergyman, in expiring, being too late, said, \"but you know the disease of my pony.\"—\"Aye,\" replied his friend. \"He race knew it a long time ago, when he observed, 'pom e piggis.'\"", "Two small bags of silver coins, principally of the reigus of EDWARD VI., ELIZABETH, and JAMES I., many of them in a very good state of preservation, were discovered by workmen in taking down a partition in an old timber-house, being long to the Earl of DARLINGTON, at Charlton, near Wellington. They were sent to the Noble owner.", "The Viceroyalty several of the Nobles ed to that honour, Duke of RUTLAND in that country, Countess of WESTMORELAND, 1793, during the present Earl of WINDSOR was killed in Dublin, in 1815, father-in-law, the now we have to TALBOT, during the present Earl T.", "On Wednesday morning, Sunday, eldest son of the Elizabeth Hay, daughter of Tweedle-bue, was sold established church, at The whole of West Grit dressed in his own clothes, the police was station maintained order. The persons desirous to be arranged the very best of the church, were allowed to enter the church. This marriage, the higher circles that some years past, beth Hay, accompanied by his ladyship, was attended with much ceremony. The Dowager, the Queen of W. West, was the first to mention the Marchioness of Tweedle-downbake, Lord and Lady of the House of Welleley, Lord and Lady of the House of Welleley, Mrs. West, Mrs. M. M. Mersert, &c. At the time Wellington retired with the noble duke was again repudiated, to be replaced in the chair, in Belgrave-square, in 1796, and the Dowager, the Queen of West, awaited her arrival. I began to arrive; there began both families, including the Marchioness of Marchioness of Marchioness of Marchioness

["A Pawnbroker in Fleet-fleet, who lately took\nunto himself a wife, was very angry to fee his mar-\nriage and bufinces announced in the newspapers, he\nhas now had it re-inferred, calling himself a Deater\nin Money and Goods !!—We may say to him with\nSir John Bull, in Fontainblau,", "“ What! you Dog, are you affamed of your bufinces ?”", "Whilft a trolling company were performing in\na country barn laft funner, a Lady affected a Gen-\ntleman if he had seen King Richard the Third\nlaft night? “ Yes, he faid, and he had seen him\nthat morning too, with a bufiſel of coals on his\nthouſeld!”", "John Bull ſwallowed the ideal Maſquerale at\nBrighton with his ufual avidity; poor fellow!\nthe doſe has almost chokéd him, but its effects,\nno doubt, will produce a complete ſcouring of the\nplace.", "Lord MOUNTMORRES is arrived in town from\nIreland, and has renewed his addreſſes to the widow\nof the cheefemonger in the Borough. The ſond\npair ſipped their tea yefterday evening at the Temple\nof Flora !", "## CURIOUS NOTICE.", "A DUBLIN PAPER contains—“ This is to\nacquaint the Public, that ANN MOLLOY, with\nthe assistance of her journeyman, continues to\nmake—feet for children’s Stockings.”", "A Cockney ran foul of a wheelbaroſ in Gray’s\nInn-lane on Monday, and was overturned with his\ngig. He diſlocated his left arm, and loſt three of\nhis front teeth. His ſiends ſay, it was rather an\nunlucky accident, as it was his firſt appearance in\nthe charaſter of a Gentleman!", "The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM is ſurprifed that\nthe French should have brought their King back\nagain.—When he roſe away from the Vice-Royal\nThrone of IRELAND, he declares there was not a\nfingle perſon who was in the leaſt ſollicitous for his\nreturn!", "Old MACKLIN was abufing an acquaintance of\nhis a few days ago, to a friend, and pronounced\nhim a great rogue. His friend ſaid, You have played\ncribbage with him, have you not ?—Yes, and what\nof that?—Did he ever cheat you ?—No, replied\nthe Veteran, we never played, Sir, for money !", "A gentleman talking of the grand naval review,\nwhich is expected to take place at Portmfoath, ſaid,\n“ Why ſhould we grudge the expences of an ar-\nmament, ſince the Minifter is to give us a ſhow for\nnothing ?", "Progræus of a Speculator in the Funds.—Monday\nbought in—Tuesday was poffeſed of thouſands—\nWedneſday made a new arrangement in my houſe-\nhold—Thursday ſet up my equipage—Friday went\nto the ball—and on Saturday to the Marthalſea !", "Several young men of fashion have amufed them-\nfelves by fending their vallets to the Hon. Mr. H—\nto know who is his taylor, as they admire the\nfashion of his clothes.—Like old Elwes, he has worn\nhis preſent coat theſe two years, without a change.", "Mrs. MONTAGUE has been collecting her feathers\nfor her celebrated room for theſe twenty years p[ar]-\nIt is the moſt fanciful and taſteful apartment, per-\nhaps, ever seen in Europe.", "It is thought by the friends of Mr. DUNDAS, that\nhe would ſland a better chance to be returned for,\nBirmingham than Edinburgh. There broſs or any\nhate metal will pafs current !", "A man in Cornwall lateſtly threw his wife out\nof a window. On being reproached for ſo\nbarbarous an act, he replied, very coolly, “ I\nwanted to part with my dear rib, but I didn’t\nwith to have it faid that I turned her out of doors.", "A certain and infallible cure for the ague.—A poor\nman, of Leeds, in Yorkshire, on Friday laſt, applied\nto a ſeff-dubb’d Deſlor, who calls himſelf Johnſon, for\na celebrated noſtrums for the above complaint—when\nthe doſter gave him a decoction of tellebore root in ſoſt\nton and black beer, the virtués of which completely\ncarried off the fits, by carrying off the patient, in half\nan hour after.—A potent proof of the bleſſed effects of\nmodern quackery.", "The ſellow near Cheapſide ſill continues to ad-\nvertife for Servants, without a ſingle place to refer\nthem to, merely for the purpofe of depredating on\nthe moſt diſſreſſed part of the Community. It is\nmuch to be regretted that Mr. Fox’s Bill does not\nrequire ſome neceſſary qualifications for perſons who\nkeep Regiller Officers for Servants,", "The Shrewsbury Chronicle of Friday last, has an\nAdvertisement, in which one George Robinson\nhumbly begs pardon, for having charged the wife\nof a Publican, of Wellingborough, with waking\nin the midst of divine service at church, and sing-\ning the song of “ Tally Heigh O the Grinder!”", "Mrs. HANBURY, the celebrated divoreſt from\nthe Heir Apparition of the House of Exeter, be-\nqueathed her frail hand on Thursday laſt, at St.\nMary-le-bone Church, to the Rev. Mr. SNEYD,\nher favourite Divine. 1791", "Some of our Nobility have ſo much regard for\ntheir fine collections of paintings, that they gen-\nrally employ a vulgar female ſervant to exhibit\nand explain them to viſi ors, who mofft of courſ: profit\nmuch by viewing the works of Raffle, Hannibal,\nScratch, Pufhin, and Paul Varniſh!", "A Vertuſo has lately adverſited, as ſtoſen—one\nof the Briſks MADE in Egypt by the Children of\nIfraſc.—He ſhould have added, that the Pinion\nof Noah’s Dove, and the Anvil of Tubal-Cain, are ſill\nin high Prefervation!", "We are pleased to hear, that the GHOSTS with\nwhich the ſiſtimonger was to ſe ſtrified laſt night in\nSt. James’s Park, were nothing more than\nthe daughters of a Baker in Piccadilly, who had juſt\nemerged from a Flour Sack !", "A Snuff-man in the city, having accumulated\nmuch wealth, has recently launched a splendid\nchariot, on which is inscribed the following\nmotto :", "“ Who would have thought it,\n“ That the Nose would have bought it ?”", "A boy being ſurſuited with a good horſe, and\nfent with all poffible expedition very lately, on a\nmatter of very great conſeqüence, the perſon\nhe was diſpatched to, perſecuting that he had loſt\ntered on the road, ſeverely reſprimanded him—\n“ Laud, Sir, (cried the Mefiſenger) I ben’t the\npoſt, I’s only an expreſs!”", "Poor BURKE calling the Marquis de la FAY-\nETTE “ the State Goaler of PARIS,” may be\nreckoned amongst the most glaring indecencies\nof the present day. But there are friends of\nhis, who seem to think, that the very idea of\nconfinement occasions alarms in the ORATOR’s\nmind, which are the reason of his breaking out\nin this way.", "The number of young men of fashion, who en-\ntreat Mrs. HOBART to fee her feathered neſt, is in-\ncredible. Wilkes was gratified with a ſquint at it\nprevious to his retiring to the Iſle of Wight.", "The cuſtof of wearing long-toed ſhoes, as diſ-\nplayed in the Kentiſh Barons, arrived to ſuch a\nheight in the reign of Queen ELIZABETH, that an\nact of Parliament was paffed to prevent them being\nmore than a certain length.", "Watering-places afford equally a refuge to the\nindolence of those who have nothing to do, and\na reſource to the ingenuity of those who have no-\nthing to loſe.", "Enormous damages for Crim. Con. given against\nmen in trade, have been repeatedly evaded by a\ncommitment of bankruptcy. This requires ſome\nParliamentary regulation, for infidelity now only\ncarries this inconvenience with it—the woman is\ngazed at, and the man is Gazetted.", "Fashion.—That fashions in drefs are generally\nof short duration, is well known, but we find\nthem becoming more fleeting every day. A\nTaylor in a paper of yefterday adverſites that\nmakes gentlemen’s clothes “ in the fash ion of\nthe moment!”", "Some Courtiers have been reproached with\nwearing old cloaths on the Birth-day; but con-\nfidering that the old faces were not the order of\nthe day, the old cloaths were confidered as ſym-\nbolical, and ſome Gentlemen put on them ex-ſoſi-\ncoats on purpose. 1802", "Rivington, in Lancashire.—The 2d instant,\nMr. Rogers, an eminent grazier, in Effex, at\nthe age of 74, by ſpecial licence, took home to\ngraft, a widow lady, from Southampton Build-\nings, named Polard, of the age of ſixty-five,\nfor the purpofe of ſiveſt-conversacion on a winter’s\nevening.—The 1st inſit at St. Julien’s church,\nMary-le-bone Church, to the Rev. Mr. Sneyd,\nher favourite Divine. 1791", "Admiral de WINTER, that brave Officer, is included\nin the eight-thousand p[ro]ſoners to be ſurrendered to France\nand Holland, as part of the price we are to pay the enemy\nfor permitting our army to return home unmoſſeled. “ We\ncould without regret have reſigned Admiral Story, but\nnobody ſeems to want him.”", "There are now living in the small village of Wil-\nington, near Shrewsbury, nine old ladies, who\nunited ages make seven hundred and twenty-on-\nyears, and are all in perfect health.", "If letters from the Continent are to be credited,\nthere are more jefuits in England at this time than\nhave vifited us ſince the reign of James the Second;\nperhaps they conceive Mr. Pitt to be ſecreſt a\nſtaunſh friend to their Order.", "A lady lately atked her husband what the\ndifference was between exportation and tranſ-\nportation. “ My dear, replied the good-natu-\ntured husband, there is a difference; and I\nwill endeavour to bring the matter as near\nto your underſtanding as poffible; ſupſpice now\nthat you were exported, in that cafe I certainly\nshould be tranſporsed!”", "RELIGIOUS INCREASE.—The wife of one John\nWrigl’t, a Miller, of Mansfield Woodhouse, was\nlately delivered of three sons at a birth.—So the\nparents have very p[er]viously had them named Abra-\nbam, Isaac, and Jacob. 1791", "We are inſured that a new mark of distinction\nis to be adopted for the Baronett. This, it is said,\nis to consist of a red ribbon worn round the hat, and\ninscribed “ Beware of Counterfeits.”", "An amateur of ducks, at Covent-garden\nTheatre, ſent ſome of them out to nurie,\nwhere they were killed by over-feeding.—\nWhen lamenting his loſs, the junior Colman\nwho was preſent, faid that the truſſe was\nwrong in not having called in a quack.", "Longeity.—In a village, two miles from Hon-\nton, the united ages of the parſon, clerks, and ſex-\nton, make 270 years.—The duties of theſe three\nperſons are performed by their reſpective ſons, whoſ\nages united amount to upwards of 280 years.", "N. B. There is not a physician near the place!", "Among the odd coincidences, may be placed\na houſe in the city, one-half of which is a Tomi-\nouſe—And the other half a gin-flaſh.—The benefit\nof ſurvivorſhip may be very ſon ſon aſſerted in\nfuch circumstances. 1791", "Three Waiting-maids and one Valer have been\ndifſmiffed from ſervice this week for their remiſſens,\nin neglecting to call certain new dignified Damés\nby their title !", "In Two\nA HISTO-\nAccounts\nGreat Britain in\nBy the\nReactor of Kille", "The Visit\nTO THE\nHERBARY\nwith\nmuch E\nof Dr. BERK\noccasion, was\nby\nHebrews, XII,\nrule over you", "Tall week hi\nfummoned to\ndefence fet up\nthe tax; whic\ndifſmiffed.", "A gentleman\nday, doubt\nfent with a\nliffe if\nNo, replied\nfles, Maſſer,\nbut\nis as good as", "Lord BELGRA\nThe Houſe of\nCo\nquotation, but\nſhip’s matter mak\ngle patches on\n“ like lumps of\ning what they", "The RUFFIAN\nfemblage of brut\ncompanion to the\nnew character.", "The Empres of\na new character,\nthe Silent Woman.", "The gentlemen of\nbad hand of the preſ-\nwho are always in fe-\nhonet Farmer, on M\npieces of care;—and\ntolerably long purſes;\ntolerably long faces.", "The late goof-pi-\nfed to arreſt the\nvery particular\nmaner,\na man w\nthree days!", "A Gentleman who\ntemporary loans from\naccommodate the pu-\ncumstance being mas-\nman, he observed,\n“ borrowing, and has no", "The Worthy Corp\nters better than they\nduly informed, that\nproaching Royality,\nto the Duke of York,\nintended to be encloſe", "The friends of th\ning an attempt to\ncalling on them to\nto the senior SHERIFF\nEaster Tuesday; an\nTuesday. The Citizen\nreproſection for the in", "Bon Mot.—Lord\ndeal of

FREEHOLDERS' SONG.

I.

ROUND ALTHORP's fair Banners, ye Freeholders,
range!

Those Banners to Liberty dear—

A Standard, round which, I shall think it is strange,
If thousands don't shortly appear.

Join, join, my brave Fellows, in Chorus, and say,
Lord ALTHORP for ever! for ever, Huzza!

II.

His red and white Colours while streaming in Air,
(The Colours that Ladies all prize),

The Conjunction of Order and Freedom declare—
Those Blessings most dear to the Wise.

The Ladies will join in the Chorus and say,
Lord ALTHORP for ever! for ever, Huzza!

III.

Tho' York and tho' Lancaster deeply might dye
Their Roses in Blood ere they'd cease,

The White and Red blended, shall only supply
The heav'nly Blossoms of Peace.

Join loudly, brave Fellows, in Chorus, and say,
Lord ALTHORP for ever! for ever, Huzza!

IV.

Let Langham still squander his Money away,
His Case indeed renders it fit;

But say who can wonder? we see ev'ry Day
That Folks have more Money than Wit,

Raise, raise the full Chorus, in concert, and say,
Lord ALTHORP for ever! for ever, Huzza!

V.

For a Moment suppose, (tho' it never can be)
Sir William to speak in the House;

While some one exclaims as he rises to see,
"Pray is it a Man or a Mouse?"

The Country, the Kingdom united, shall say,
Lord ALTHORP for ever! for ever. Huzza!

On the KING

Declaring that he would have no Money spent on
Elections, but that he would be tried by his Country.

Tried by your Country! To your People's love,
Amiable Prince, fo foon appeal!

Stay, till the tender sentiments improve,
Kippen to Gratitude from Zeal.

Years hence (yet ah! too foon!) shall Britain fee
The trial of thy virtues paft:

Who could forget that your first with would be,
A King, who would be your first with be.

The FIGHT off CAMPERDOWN

OR,

The Glorious Eleventh of October,
1797:

A NEW SONG.

I.

ENROLLED in our bright annals lives full many a gallant name,
But never British heart conceived a prouder deed of fame

To shield our Liberties and Laws, to guard our Sovereign's Crown
Than noble DUNCAN's mighty Arm atchieved off Camperdown.

CHORUS.

To shield our Liberties and Laws, to guard our Sovereign's Crown
Immortal be the glorious deed atchieved off Camperdown.

II.

October the eleventh it was, he spied the Dutch at nine,
The British signal flew to break their clofe embattled Line;

Their Line was broke,—for all our Tars on that auspicious day
All bitter memory of the paft had vowed to wipe away;

CHORUS.

Their Line was broke, &c. &c.

III.

At three o'Clock nine mighty Ships had ftruck their colours proud,
And two brave Adm'rals at his feet their vanquifh'd Flags had bowed

Our DUNCAN's towering Colours ftreamed all glorious to the laft,

For in the Battle's fiercest rage he nailed them to the mait;

CHORUS.

Our DUNCAN's, &c., &c.

IV.

The victory was now complete; the Cannon ceafed to roar:

The scattered remnants of the Foe flunk to their native Shore;

No power the pride of Conqueft had his heart to lead aftray,

He fummoned his triumphant Crew, and thus was heard to say,

CHORUS.

"Let every man now bend the knee, and here in solemn prayer

"Give thanks to God, who in this Fight has made our caufe his care

V.

Then on the Deck, the noble Field of that proud day's renown,

Brave DUNCAN with his Crew devout before their God knelt down,

And humbly bleffed His providence, and hailed His guardian power

Who valour, ſtrength, and ſkill infpired in that dread Battle's hour;

CHORUS.

And humbly bleffed, &c. &c.

VI.

The captive Dutch this solemn feene surveyed with silent awe,

And rued the day, when Holland crouched to France's impious Law,

And marked, how virtue, courage, faith unite to form This Land

For victory, for fame, and power, juſt rule, and high command.

CHORUS.

And marked, &c. &c.

VII.

The VENERABLE was the Ship that bore his Flag to fame,

Our vet'ran Hero well becomes his gallant Veſſel's name;

Behold his Locks! they ſpeak the toil of many a ſtormy day;

For fifty Years and more, my Boys, has fighting been his way.

GRAND CHORUS.

Behold his Locks! They ſpeak the toil of many a ſtormy day,

For fifty years and more, my Boys, has fighting been his way;

And VENERABLE ever be our vet'ran DUNCAN's name!

["The following letter is from our Correspondent at Windsor:—", "WINDSOR, NOVEMBER 19.", "Wednesday Morning.", "This morning, a little before one o'clock, the funeral procession, with the remains of the late universally regretted Princess CHARLOTTE, arrived here from Claremont, which were received at the Lower Lodge, where they are to remain this day, previous to the interment at night.", "The mourning coach in which were the Infant and Urn containing the internal parts, were conveyed to the Chapel, where they were received by eight geomen of the guard, who carried and deposited them in the vault. The Dean of WINDSOR, Mr. MARSH, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, &c., were present to witness the transaction.", "The procession of the hearse and five mourning coaches, preceded by a number of men on horseback, were escorted into the place from Egham by a party of the Royal Horse Guards. Although the hour at which it arrived was so very late, the road and streets through which it passed were lined with spectacles.", "The following are extracts from the Provincial Papers:—", "At a meeting of the Mayor and Members of the Corporation of this City, holden on Friday evening, it was resolved that the Corporation should attend Divine Service at the Cathedral on the day of the interment of the Princess Charlotte, and at a subsequent meeting it was determined that the members composing the procession on that occasion should wear black scarfs over their official gowns, and that the sword and mace should be decorated with black and white crape. The Officers of the Corporation and the Boys of the Blue-coat School who precede the procession, are to wear rosettes composed of the same materials.", "We regret that we should, have misled our readers by stating in our last Paper, that divine service would be performed in all the parish churches in this city, on the day of the funeral of the Princess CHARLOTTE; we learn that this will not be, and that none of the parish churches will be opened to-morrow upon that occasion—as it appears there is no record of divine service having been performed in the parish churches on any similar occasion.—(Canterbury Paper, Nov. 18.)", "Never was national grief more deep and sincere than that which hovers over the bier of our deceased Princess. All are anxious to testify in the most respective and decorous forms of outward solemnity the grief within “that passeth shew.” All are desirous to collect some further particulars of the lamentable event which has at once bereft a husband, a father, a family, of their ornament and delight, and a nation of its hopes and its pride.", "THE PRINCE REGENT's attendance at the Funeral being incompatible with his exercise of the functions of the Sovereign, the feelings of his Royal Highness will not have to undergo this painful trial. The health of his Royal Highness is not in that alarming state in which it was at first; but he refuses all comfort, except such as arises from some association with the memory of his beloved daughter. A portrait of the Princess, which was under the hands of Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, has been ordered home in its unfinished state: it is", "Wednesday Morning, Nine o'Clock.", "General WETHERALL, the Equisition and Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of KENT, was to leave Keensington Palace last night, or early this morning, in the Duke of KENT's carriage, to wait the arrival of his Royal Highness in England, and bring him to London, in consequence of the much-lamented death of his beloved Niece.", "Mr. BALL, the Principal Page to the Duke of CUMBERLAND, was the bearer of the dispatch from London to the Duke, at Worthing, where Mr. BALL arrived at six o'clock on Thursday evening, communicating the awful and mournful intelligence of the death of his beloved Niece, which overwhelmed the Royal Duke with grief for some time, and so marked was his conduct of respect to her memory, that he very promptly left the place an hour after his receiving the distressing intelligence, for London.", "Several artists have applied for permission to take a cast of the lovely features of the Princess, but none of them have been attended to.", "Wednesday, Four o'Clock, p. m.", "The body of the lovely and ever-to-be-regretted PRINCESS, after it was embalmed, was enclosed in a number of wrappers, after the manner of the Egyptians, which will keep it in preservation for a great number of years, and the whole enclosed in rich blue velvet tied with white satin ribbon.", "The following Bulletin respecting the state of the afflicted Prince LEOPOLD has this day been issued:—", "“Claremont, Nov. 12.”", "“The Prince LEOPOLD has had a very restless night, and remains in the same state as yesterday.”", "“C. STOCKMAN”", "The Duke of YORK has paid a second visit of condolence to-day to Prince LEOPOLD. Lord and Lady KING were among the inquirers to-day.", "The funeral of our much-lamented PRINCESS, we believe, will not take place on Tuesday, as was reported a few days since.", "WINDSOR, NOV. 12.", "This town continues to bear the mournful aspect of grief and melancholy depression. The shops of the tradesmen are half closed, and business is almost out of consideration with the inhabitants. If we look to the stately Castle, there is nothing in its appearance that indicates the residence of the Royal Family. All is silence in the movements of the Royal Personages, and even among their House-holds—save the hand of preparation for receiving the mortal remains of departed and illustrious worth in all the solemnity of State, previous to its sad consignment in the Royal Vault.", "The body of the Princess CHARLOTTE will be removed from Claremont on Monday; and the funeral will take place on Wednesday, at night, and not on Tuesday, as has been stated.", "The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER arrived at the Castle on Monday, and last night his Royal Highness departed, leaving his almost broken-hearted Royal Consort in the society of her equally afflicted Illustrious Family.", "General TAYLOR went to Claremont yesterday, and returned early in the evening to her MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES.", "Colonel STEPHENSON departed for London last night.", "Mr. MARSH, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, and Mr. BANTING, the Queen's upholsterer, have left the Castle to arrange measures previous to the funeral procession.", "CLAREMONT, NOV. 12.", "Paris Papers of Sunday last have arrived at our Office. On the preceding day Sir CHARLES STUART, the British Ambassador, in private audience, officially communicated to the King of FRANCE the mournful intelligence of the Princess CHARLOTTE's death; and as every mark of respect to her memory affords us some consolation under the weight of our sorrow, we derive a melancholy pleasure from the orders issued by his MAJESTY for a Court Mourning of eleven days. This, however is the more grateful to our feelings, from its being, as we believe, altogether unusual for one Court to assume public mourning, on the occasion of a death occurring in another, between whom there is no union of consanguinity. The BOURBONS have been ever remarked for the elegance and feherty of their compliments; but in the present instance, LOUIS XVIII. has been more than ever fortunate; for he has paid one the most delicate and flattering, not to a Court merely, but to an entire sorrowing nation, no less susceptible of gratitude than able to express it. Indeed the feelings expressed on this distressing event by the French in general, have been deeply appreciated by the British people. In grief, perhaps, the heart is more sensible than usual of tender impressions, or in the humility of our sufferings we are more alive to the luxury of sympathy, and prize it at its highest value; but it is certain, that the feelings excited at this side of the Channel, on the present occasion, by the sentiments expressed on the other, are such as, if carefully fostered by each nation, would ensure the closest harmony between them, and the highest mutual advantages. It is almost impossible to conceive any circumstance within the operation of human means that would more effectually promote the general happiness of mankind, than the cultivation of such sentiments of peace and amity between Great Britain and France. The amazing power and geographical position of the two empires could at all times ensure the tranquillity of Europe, and partially adopting the idea entertained by the French politicians, that the union of the two Powers, could rule the world, we should only desire that they might be administered on such wise and pacific principles as not to carpe at each other for trifles, nor permit the ambition or the restlessness of other States to disturb or retard the progress of human happiness.", "On Monday morning the Prince LEOPOLD left Claremont, and proceeded to Windsor on a visit to the Princess Augusta and the Princess Sophia. His Serene Highness being expected, fires were lighted, and apartments were prepared for his reception at the Upper Lodge. The Prince proceeded to the Royal Vault, where he vented his grief over the remains of his beloved Princess for near an hour. In his visit to the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, he gazed on the admired oval portraits of the Princess Charlotte, in colours, lately finished by Mr. Dawe, which the Princesses have put up in their private apartments. His Serene Highness returned to Claremont to dinner, and arrived there a little before five o'clock, and found Mr. Dykes, the King's Messenger, waiting his return, at the desire of Sir Robert Gardiner, to take the Prince's commands, the Messenger having brought a letter to his Serene Highness from the Princess of Wales, in answer to the communications containing the distressing and mournful intelligence of the death of the Princess Charlotte.", "His Serene Highness has presented to his friend, the Earl of Letherdale, a most curious and magnificent snuff-box. It consists of a complete collection of all the stones of Saxony, arranged in the Mosaic style. The colours are beautiful and well combined; the other ornamental decorations are quite unique.", "The roads to Windsor, and the roads to Windsor, by Pimlico, were, and the roads to Windsor, by Pimlico, were Pimlico,

["A Morning Paper of yesterday, after properly flat-\ning, that should the BREST fleet get out, in \"confe-\nquence of Admiral CORNWALLIS being driven from\nhis blockade, there is little doubt but that it would\nbe encountered, and defeated, by fome of our fua-\ndrons,\"— concludes with this erroneous remark: —\n\" It was after having blockaded the harbour of Breft\n\" many months, and being blown off, that Admiral\nBOSCAWEN fell in with, and defeated the Admiral Breft\n\" under CONFLANS, in the year 1758, or 59, and\n\" gained a victory ſo important to the ſucceds of the\n\" war.\"—It was Sir EDWARD HAWKE, and not Ad-\nmiral BOSCAWEN, who had the command of the Chan-\nnel fleet on this memorable occasion; and who, by a\nheavy gale of win, was certainly driven from before\nBirt on the 9th of November, 1759, when he bore\nup for Tarbay, which gave M. BOMPART an opportu-\nnity of getting into that port with his French fua-\ndron from the West Indies: this, together with a ſup-\npolition that the coalt was now clear, induced M.\nCONFLANS to put to ſea with his whole force on\nthe 14th;—on which day alio the British fleet failed\nagain from The bay. — Sir EDWARD HAWKE was\njoined the next day by the Gibraltar, Captain\nM. MAIDSTONE, and COVENTRY Irigates,\nof feeling the enemy; and on that evening the engage-\nment enfused, the event of which added to much luffre\nto the British flag.—After the defeat of M. CONFLANS,\nthe weather became ſo extremely tempeutious, that\nthe uſual ſupplies of fresh provifions, &c. could not\nbe ſent out, and, in conſequence, the ſeamen were obliged\nto be put upon ſhort allowance; on which, the toil-\nloving pleasant Imprisompt was written by ſome wag-\ngifh Wit of the Fleet:—", "When HAWKE did bang\nMouneur CONFLANS,\nYou ſent us beef, and beer;\nNow Mouneuer's beat,\nWe've nought to eat,\nSince you have nought to fear!", "NAUTICAL ANECDOTE.—When LOUIS XVIII.\nwas landed at Yarmouth from the Freya Swedish\nfrigate, he was rowed on shore by British sailors;\nand his MAJESTY, grateful for the particular at-\ntention shewn him, left behind a purse of fifteen\nguineas for the tars to drink his health. On the\nmatter being explained to them, not one of them\nwould touch a farthing, but immediately transmit-\nted a letter to Admiral RUSSELL, expressive of\ntheir sentiments on the occasion, which is truly\ncharacteristic of British seamen. The following is\na literal copy, and has been read by his MAJESTY\nwith peculiar delight.", "“ MAJESTY, 6 Day Nov. 1807.", "\"PLEASE YOUR HONOUR,", "\" We hold a talk about that there 15! that was sent us and hope to offence your honour. We don't like to take it, because as how we know fast enfl that it was the true King of France that went with your honour in the boat, and that he and our own noble King, God bless em both, and give every one his right, is good friends now and besides that your honour gave a order long ago, and that you should not take any money from himody, and we never did take none, and Mr. Leneve, that steard your honour and that there King, says he won't have no hand in it, and so does Andrew Young, the proper Coxen, and we hopes on odence, so we all one and all, begins not to take it at all. So no more at present from your honours dutiful servants,", "AND. YOUNG, Coxen, THOS. SIMMERS,\nJAMES MAUN, THOS. THRESANE,\nLEWIS BRYAN, SIMON DUFF,\nJAMES LORD, W. FAIRLOUGH,\nJAMES HOOV, JOHN CHURCHILL,\nW. EDWARDS, THO. LAWRENCE,\nJAS. HOLSHAN, JACOB GABRIEL,\nTHO. LAURENCE, W. MIZZAY.\"", "The magnificent stone porticæ at Fisherwick House,\nnear Lichfield, for which 1000. was bid some time ago;\nfor the new church at Birmingham, was sold at the late\nsale of the materials, to the architect of Lord Viscount\nAnson, for 32l.!!! This was one of the noblest and\nlargest mansions in the British empire, having been built\nlittle more than a quarter of a century back, without re-\nference to expence.", "To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE,\nSIR.", "In reporting that the Allied troops were formed into\nsquares, to hear mass after the late review, you ask wher-\nely the British troops were included? But if they\nwere, why should you be more surprized by the\nfollowing extra taken from your own paper; it is part\nof the Pope's Allocation, given in a Secret Consistency,\nheld the 4th of September.", "\"How could we restrain the sentiments of joy and\ngratitude with which we were penetrated, on learning\nthe manner in which our Envoy was received in the\ncapital (London) of so great a kingdom! He then\nrenewed what had not been seen for two centuries,\nthe example of a Cardinal Legate appearing publicly in\nLondon with the permission of the Government, deco-\nrated with the distinctive marks of his dignity, in\nthe same manner as he would have appeared in the capital\nof the Christian World.\"", "That our ancestors would have been surprized, you\nwill readily allow, on reading the extraſs following:—", "\"At last the King shewed so open a contempt of\nthe law that no person could mistake him. The (Dud-\nda) Domestic Chaplain to his Holiness had been re-\nceived as Nuntio, but privately, and without the people's\nknowledge. But now the King having entirely pulled\noff the mask, was for honouring him with a public re-\nception, though to assume the character of the Pope's\nNuntio, was high treason. It was a surprising specia-\ncle to Protestants to see a Nuntio from the Pope in his\nPontificalis, preceded by a cross bearer and a train of\nPriests and Monks in the habits of their respective or-\nders.\"—Rapin, 1687.", "\"The Duke of Somerset being Lord of the Bed-\nchamber then in Waiting, had advised with his lawyers;\nand they told him, he could not safely do the part that\nwas expected of him in the audience, so he told the\nKing he could not serve him upon that occasion, for he\nwas assured it was against the law. The King asked\nhim, if he did not know that he was above the law ?—\nThe other answered, that however the King might be,\nhe himself was not above the law. The King turned\nhim out of all his employments.\"—Burnet's History\nof his own time.", "\"If any person shall obtain from the Bishop of Rome\nany manner of bull writing, or instrument written or print-\ned, containing any thing, matter or cause whatsoever, or\nshall publish, or by any means put in use, any such bull,\nwriting, or instrument, he, his procurors, abettors and\nconsellers to the fact, and committing the said offence\nbeing attainted, according to the course of the laws of\nthis realm, shall be adjudged guilty of high treason.\"—\n13th Elizabeth, cap. 2.", "Such were the views of our ancestors on their sub-\njects, whether right or otherwise, it is not now necessa-\nry to inquire. The writer will be much obliged, if any\nof your readers can inform him who performed the part,\nwhich on legal grounds was refused by the Duke of So-\nmerset.", "I am, Sir, your's,", "Oct 23, 1815.", "P. D.", "On Monday, and not before, the remains of John\nHorne Tooke were deposited in the family vault\nat Ealing Churchyard, Middlesex. The hearse,\nwhich contained the corpse, was drawn by six\nhorses, and was followed by three mourning coaches\nand eight Gentlemen's carriages. It was a private\nfuneral, and the friends select; yet there were\nmany mourners among the poor inhabitants of\nWimbledown, who were sorrowful witnesses of his\nremoval from among them for ever. Many of his\nfriends met the funeral at Ealing, to pay their last\nrespects to his remains—and there were besides a\ngreat concourse of people to witness the interment.\nAmong those who went from Wimbledon were, Sir\nFrancis Burdett, Wm. Boswell, Esq. Sir Wm.\nRush, Major James, Robt. Knight, Esq. Timothy\nBrown, Esq. Wm. Morgan, Esq. Mr. Adams, Mr.\nJ. Pearson, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr.\nStephens, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Wildman, nephew\nto Mr. Tooke. They left Wimbledon at twelve\no'clock, and reached Ealing at two.", "No name could be less British than that of Sovereign\nfor the new twenty-shilling piece. The half Sovereign\nhas already got the nick-name of the *Regent*.", "SINGULAR STORY.—By a letter we have received from France,\nwe learn the following singular fact. — A strange circum-\nstance occurred lately, in the last stage of a dangerous\ndisorder, sent for a priest to give him extreme unction;\nthe priest, after some conversation with the man, told him,\nthat he could not give him extreme unction, without surrendered\nup the lands that he held, and which belonged to the church\nprevious to the revolution. In vain did the poor man point out\nthat he had purchased them at a fair valuation, and had a large\nfamily to leave them to; the priest told him, if he did not,\nhe would be d—d and go to hell; the poor man replied,\nhe would not give up the land, but take his chance. In a few\ndays he died, and was refused the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut off his arm;\nthe other he wounded on the shoulder; a scuffie ensued, and in\na short time the devils disappeared, leaving a large quantity of\nblood behind them, which shewed them being human. The next\nday the family waited on the Prefect, and related him his\nstrange circumstances. The priest for the priest who had re-\nfused to give extreme unction. The priest returned for answer,\nthat he was unwel, and could not attend him; and after several\nmessengers had been dispatched, without success, to inform him\nhe must come, a guard of soldiers was sent, and brought him\nup, and he proved the rites of the church, or chris-\ntian burial, in consequence of his having died without receiving\nextreme unction; and the priest told his family that he was cer-\ntain of going to hell, and that the devil would come that night\nand take away his body. The wretched family were dreadfully\nalarmed, and they employed an old soldier to sit up all night and\nwatch the corpse, furnishing him with a bottle of wine, bread\nand cheese, and a sword to protect himself. At midnight\nthe door flew open, and in stalked three figures dressed so as to ap-\npear devils; they walked round the room to try to intimidate\nthe soldier, but the other was not so; the soldier was already made\na chop at the hand of the first, and the other cut

C. W. B. Carloway, M. Graham.

BONAPARTE amidst the slaughter of his troops in Spain, the disgraceful flight of his Brother from Madrid, the loss of a squadron at Cadiz, and the defeat of his army in Portugal, is amusing himself at Paris with bals and fetics; as if everything were in a state of profound peace!—NERO idled whilst Rome was burning, and BONAPARTE dances whilst his soldiers are writhing by thousands in the agonies of death!—There were assembled in the Hotel de Ville at Paris, the Empress of FRANCE, and the King and Queen of NAPLES, and the Queen of HOLLAND, and the Duchess of ABRANTES (JUNOT'S wife)—all figuring away in quadrilles and country dances, on the very day JU-NOT was receiving a severe chastisement from Sir A. WELLESLEY.

BONAPARTE, in one of his boasting proclamations, or bulletions, said, "Our legions will perhaps some time reach the English Militia."—Now, it seems, that the English Militia are desirious of reaching his legions, without giving him the trouble of bringing them here. This gallant spirit is restrained for the present, by our laws.—In the mean time, we must beg him to be contented with the troops of the line, who will do their best for giving him satisfaction.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE, in his Address to his Countrymen to animate their vengeance against Great Britain, says, that "Spaniards may boast of the blood of those who lashed over the Carthage- nians, the Romans, the Vaudals, and the Moors;" but he forgot to add, of those also who meanly re- sign their wealth and their honour at the will of a vile Corican Upstart.

### FROM THE FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS:

PARIS, July 28.—The preprations for the cele- bration of his MAJESTY the EMPEROR's birth-day are finished at the Maison de Velle—^and different places. Her Imperial Highness the mother of the EMPEROR, and the Princess BONAPARTE, are already arrived here.—Gazette de Fécace, July 29.

BONAPARTE, it appears, continued at Bayonne, and on the 18th ult. having dismissed the Royal Fa- nily of Spain to their respective destinations, was amusing himself with military spectacles and evolu- tions. Intelligence, to the 13th ult. had been re- ceived at Paris from Madrid, at which time, MURAT was exercising the functions of Government without opposition.

It is no wonder that JEROME BONAPARTE should be anxious to return to France, now that his brother has so completely brought that Country under his thumb, that he may lend the self-elected Emperor some assistance in the management and the plunder- ing of "my People."

The French Senate assembled on the 21st. to sanc- tion a proposal for incorporating Parma, Piacenza, and Tuscany, with France. We had reason at one time to suppose that these, together with the States of the Church, would have been erected into a Sove- reignty for LUCIEN BONAPARTE; but it would seem that he has forfeited or reissued all claim to such honours.

A Madame Furioso was to exhibit on the tight- rope in honour of BONAPARTE's birth-day, at Paris. Such a name would properly belong to a wife of BONAPARTE; but the Parisians, doubtless, as well as all the rest of mankind, would be much better pleased to see him exhibit on the tight-rope.

King JOACHIM MURAT has left Paris to take pos- session of his Kingdom, and though we do not think he will be compelled to quit it so soon as poor JOSÉN was obliged to run away from Madrid, yet we are strongly inclined to think that he will not sojourn for any great length of time in his new duchies.

If we were before surprised at the inaction of Bo- NPARTE when the fortune of his house is so much at stake, we are certainly much more astonished at this ill-timed merriment. The object was, we suppose, to conceal, by assumed gaiety, the conscious- ness of the sad reverses that had been suffered in Spain.

VUN ACCIDENTAL.—A Gentleman who stutters a little, reading an account of BONAPARTE's intended visit to Toulouse, exclaimed, "So BONAPARTE is going to *ta to Toulouse*?" I believe you are right, replied a Gentleman gravely, I think he is going to lose!

The POPE continued at Rome early in the last month, when he was occupied in the beatification of three female Saints of the 16th century. BONAPARTE it is said, is, in compliment to the intercession of Russia and Austria, consented that his Holiness shall remain in the Vatican as Bishop of Rome, with a revenue of 3,000,000 of florins.

FRANKFORT, DEC. 20.

In the afternoon of the 18th the Empress of FRANCE, accompanied by her Majesty the Queen of HOLLAND, and the Grand Duchess of BADEN, entered this city. The Archduke of HESSE DARM- STADT and his spouse are also here.

The Elector of Saxony is said to have consented to place the strong fortress of Konigstein in the hands of BONAPARTE; and it is believed that the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte with a Princess of Wirttemburg will be broken off, and that he will now be married to the only daughter of the Elector of Saxony.

It was said, observes a correspondent, of Pope BONIFACE the VIIIth, that he ascended to the Poun- cificate like a fox, reigned like a lion, and died like a dog. There needs no comment, how applicable this appears to a modern Tyrant and Usurper.

"Read his History in a Nation's Eye."

A Quidnunc, exulting over the news of Madrid being taken from the French, a by-stander observed, "It is a mistake, Sir, it is not taken, but only, like BONAPARTE, abandoned."

It is no wonder that BONAPARTE should abuse himself with planning direct roads from Paris to various parts of Spain, as the conduct of his brother JOSÉN, and the military gang who attended him, strongly indicate the character of high-way-men.

In consequence of the glorious news from Portu- gal, the Portrait of the infamous BONAPARTE will remain suspended, with his head downward, till Wednesday evening, at the European Museum, St. James's-square.

JUNOR was a Serjeant when BONAPARTE first went to Toulouse, and was appointed to go round the ram- parts with him. Upon which occasion he shewed so much skill and spirit, that BONAPARTE solicited and procured for him an epaulette, and has never de- serted him since.

The kingdom of Naples is destined for MURAT. Tuscany is to be united to France, and a Procla- mation has been published, congratulating the people upon the honour of being adopted into the Great Family.

From the precipitate flight of BONAPARTE from the Spanish frontiers at the *dead of night*, it was clear that he was *alive* to the impending danger, and was therefore determined not to be caught Nap-ing.

King LOUIS, of Holland, was formerly an Attor- ney's Clerk at Bourdeaux; he is therefore expected to find little difficulty in *filing* a declaration against the King of PRUSSIA.

Under the sign of the " Ring's Head," at a hedge ale-house, in a small village near Leicester, is the following loyal and truly poetic distich:

"I'm to my King and Country hearted.

"And the devil fly away with BONAPARTE."

A correspondent recommends, that small balloons, such as BONAPARTE has adopted, he used to convey intelligence to the people of France, of the real state of affairs in Spain.

The Duke of BEDFORD and family are at Leming- ton Spa, near Warwick; and if we are to believe a published Analysis of these waters, they can convert Dissenters into Protestants, Whigs into Tories, and BONAPARTE into the D.—I.

Notwithstanding all the attempts of BONAPARTE, trade still finds its way; and orders for cloth for the French army have been executed in the West Riding of Yorkshire to the amount of forty thousand pounds, and the money paid for it immediately.

It is recommended to look very narrowly into any letters from JUNOT, or his followers, to their wires, as in their present situation, they will be apt to make use of sympathetic ink.

JUNOT very properly compares the *Portugese* to the *sand of the desert*; for the sand of the desert, when once roused, is of all others the most dreadful storm.

The *Portraits* at the Lyceum have acquired PALMER the cognomen of BONAPARTE; for this fa- cetious Comedian, literally, takes off heads!

Spain has always been famous for pointers, gun barrels, and good marksmen. The universal wish is that they may find, amongst the French, *plenty of sport*.

The Spaniards are a people of a most serious cast, and have proved themselves well qualified to provide graves for the invaders of their country.

A pusterlun observes, that the present King of NAPLES ought to take care that his son *Achilles* Nupoleon avoids Paris.

Though BONAPARTE may have planted some fields of laurels, the *Palm of honour* is known to die under his hands.

It would appear, that the French are not very well pleased with the sample they have had of the *Cordon* Leather.

The rapacious BONAPARTEs are now maddened at the prospect of their not being able any more to touch the Spanish.

If the French are superstitious with respect to Names, they will hardly think General DURONT to be. "The Bridge" likely to carry them over."

BONAPARTE's birth was very appropriately celebrated at St. Cloud, for the infernal fiend ally now will be considered as completely eclipsed.

BONAPARTE in ordering a new road to Madrid evidently got out of his way, and is now, we hope in the Road to Spain.

JULY 33.—They are making vast preparations for the 14th of August, the Birth-day of the EMPEROR and KING.

A new Comet has lately been discovered in France but it is so small as to be visible only with a telescope

BONAPARTS has ascertained the exact number of Jezes on the Continent. Having got the numbers his next step will doubtless be to find out the weigh.

When ALEXANDER ascended the throne, he promised to tread the steps of his grand-mother; but BONAPARTE has sent his dancing-master to him, and teach him some new steps.

A Frenchman among other enclaves, told one of our brave and vifitious soldiers at Acre, that BONAPARTE was a Rava Avis. "Yes," said the soldier, "I once saw him fly."

BONAPARTE has declared most rigid hostility to our revolutionists; but in this contest he will continue to find himself worsted.

BONAPARTE now begins to talk of repatriating roads; but it is now too late for him to mend *way*.

BONAPARTE was at Bayonne a week after he launched his brother into Spain. But he was expected to leave it soon; and it was reported at Strasbourg, that he would shortly visit that city.

MURAT is gone to take the waters in French Niv- varre. His brother-in-law is said to be dissatisfied with his conduct at Madrid.—He did not "she blood enough."

JEROME Bo- naparte, his Westpac- tian letter, sealed w- hich he marr- it was addressed and was accom- plished, was considerable, va- rious. Imperial brothers to the Kingly having compelled P- rincess, of the longer consider a Sovereign, un-

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By JU-

The Learned Juge- rory of Breeon his his- H. MAJESTY on his Spain, thus truly sp- Tyrant of the Con-

"A tyrant, whom not violates every engagement— every thing he has touch- ed not only of the leg- world. He has been com- plants, to Alexander and false; those criminal heres- ies interlays of clemency, of— nothing the kind he en- blance to our usurper, Cro- an observer of treaties, and not by the terror of his fi- emities."—Amongst his, a your notice (in a bird's-eye-

"I show his pic-

"That when I lo-

I may avoid him. He was the ally of Spain— partant services—he obtained King from the Heir-App- h. his hero— he fomented this then took upon himself at his heels—erected an inti- mation's hand, and put the empire. He took the d- King and his successful war— free as the felin Ob, infamy of horror! !— male son, and brand her-Mel- quoted these very infamities in his daworthie to return, in these dethrable per- mards in cold blood, in- him and his infidel lord!— It is this man we of Europe are combined—

LUCIEN BONAPAR- ART's climbing fortunes of his solicited Mr. HILL, of the Sardinia, to procure them passports for them to proceed unm- variety of conjecture at such a moment indulge in. We have the triumph of Sp- fall of BONAPARTE's triumph, and that eclipse of NAPOLEON, ditionall proof in the ther, which seems a storm that is soon a-

Some days after the ber, LUCIEN BUONA- COUNT, is a fad blundering of pleasure in the country for him.— "Be so good n- not go out of Paris for him."

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The following is an extract of a letter from Paris,
dated June 6.—" The appointment of Savary to the
Ministry of Police has excited some uneasiness here
Fouche has not the milk of human kindness, but Sa-
vary is worse. It has been rumoured these two years
already that he was to be appointed to that office.—
Savary has been many years the chief of Bonaparte's
secret Police ; he succeeded Bourienne in that situa-
tion. If there is a man in the world who can be com-
pared to Bonaparte in cruelty, it is Savary. Fouche
has prevented the execution of many insidious intentions
of his Master ; it was that Minister who prevented
the Tyrant putting Sir G. Rambold to death, and a
variety of other things. His Majesty, it is supposed,
has involved Fouche in the disgrace of her late Im-
perial Majesty, as he always opposed the divorce,
which was at first projected by Talleyrand, after
Bonaparte's arrival from Egypt. The Emperor, it is
rumoured, intends to create 500 new Chambellains;
and the repudiated Empress is to be created Duchess
of Navarre, and is ordure to reside in Italy.

The dismissal of Fouche (now called Duke of
Otranto), the French Minister of Police, has excited
considerable surprise. That he is in disgrace is ren-
dered evident by the Paris papers, Napoleon hav-
ing sent him very cavalioly to Rome with the title of
Governor and having appointed the Duke of Rovigo
(Savory), is successor, as Minister of Police but
the cause of the quarrel does not appear. Fouche, in his
answer to Napoleon's letter, accepts his new ap-
pointment, but seems to be very little pleased with it.

By accounts received from France, we learn that
Bonaparte returned to Paris on the 21st instant, and
was expected shortly to set out for Spain. Massena
who was to have an important command there, had
passed through Bayonne, where great reinforcements
were expected.

Latey, when Louis Bonaparte and his wife were
at Paris, on the occasion of Bonaparte's marriage,
Louis lived at his mothers hotel, and his wife at another.
Her children have always been considered as the
children of Bonaparte, and not of Louis. Hence
Louis, in resigning the crown, says, "I give it up
to you, Napoleon Bonaparte, and your lordship, that is,
to your son, who passes for mine, and, and to my wife,
by whom you had this son."—A most curious family!

Bonaparte, who loves no one, is himself not the
object of affection even in his own family— we see the
differences between him and Louis—Lucien has not
been upon terms with him for years, and has constant-
ly refused every dignity offered him—Joseph fears
him—Jerome is the only one who lives in any ini-
macy with him—but he is often the object of the
coarsest and most violent treatment.

No doubt is entertained by the best-informed per-
sons of the two sons of Queen Louis being the sons of
Napoleon. It is well known that from physical
causes King Louis could not get children; Queen Louis
is a fine woman, of warm passions, of great ambi-
tion, and of much intrigue. The favour and manner
in which she has lived with Napoleon leave no doubt
of her children being his. She is the daughter of
his former wife. Hence the favour shewn to her
and her children, in appointing her Regent, and they
successors to a throne. She lates Holland and her
husband. At Bonaparte's late marriage she fainted
away, conscious of the blow it gave her and her fa-
mily. She lately, while in Holland, imagined she
had been poisoned by some of Napoleon's agents,
and set off to Plombiers, for the benefit of her
health, where she now is. The whole government
of Holland is managed by a council in Paris, in her
name.

Additional letters and papers received from Holland
to the date of Sunday last bring us the unexpected
information, that King Louis had withdrawn from
the country without leaving any notice of the place
of his retreat. Fifteen thousand French troops had
entered the city of Amsterdam on the 4th instant
which were neither accommodated in the barracks, or
in the neighbouring villages, but were quartered on
the inhabitants, with a total disregard to all the feel-
ings of the Burguers. In consequence of the severities
of military law, it was not considered discrete to hold
any correspondence whatever with this country. A
letter from Hanover of the 26th ult. mentions, that a
considerable number of French troops were to pass
through that city from Magdeburg, to augment the
garrisons in Holland.

The plate-glasses, and Brussels carpets, the property
of LUCIEN BONAPARTE, were sold by public vende
at Plymouth, on Friday, at a high rate. Jus. 151

Bonaparte, who loves no one, is himself not
the object of affection even in his own family.
We see the differences between him and Louis;
Lucien has not been upon terms with him for
years, and has constantly refused every dignity
offered him—Joseph fears him—Jerome is the
only one who lives in any intimacy with him,
but he is often the object of the coarsest and
most violent treatment.

CLERICAL HOAX.

Some of those mischievous wags who are constantly on
the alert to derive amusement from the mortification of their
fellow creaturess, indulged themselves a few days back with a
hoax on several respectable clergyman, which produced in
the neighbourhood where it occurred no inconsiderable
mirth. It appears that an elderly spinster named Hill, who
resides in Fore-street, Cripplegate, a lady of considerable
fortune, was generally known to be a person of great pietty—
a constant attendant at divine worship, and a great admirer,
of all the celebrated ministers of the Gospel in and near Lon-
don, with most of whom she was personally acquainted.
The wags to whom we allude, having been apprised of these
circumstances, determined to have a little fun, as they no
term'd it, at the expense of the cloth. With this view,
polite invitatiors were dispatched to about 25 clergymen
within a circuit of nine miles, as coming from, Miss Hill,
entertaining the honour of their company to dine on a given day,
and to meet a few religious friends, some of whose names
were mentioned. Amongst others who shared in these hoppi-
able attentions were the Rev. Mr. Fletcher, the Rev. Mr.
Jones, the Rev. Dr. Collyer, the Rev. Mr. Brooksbank,
the Rev. Mr. Winter, and a variety of others equally renowned as
distinguished ornaments to the pulpit. Two sets of invita-
tions were issued, the first appointing five o'clock as the
dinner hour, and the second six o'clock. A great part of
the guests were punctual to the hour appointed, and anti-
cipated no small pleasure at the prospect of meeting so
many valuable friends. Upon the arrival of the first two
gentlemen Miss Hill was engaged at the toilet; but on
the names of her visitors being announced, she felt highly
flattered, and very soon joined them in the drawing-room.
As may be supposed, the usual civilities among well-bred
people were interchanged, till at length an allusion was
made to the lady's friendly note. This of course produced an
acquaintance with the name of Miss Hill, and had scarcely
carefully expressed her concern at so unworthy a de-
ception, when another double-knock at the door gave notice
of the arrival of others of the party, who came pouring in
till six o'clock. At first Miss Hill was anxious to have pre-
pared a dinner in the best way she could, but so short a
notice, for the entertainment of gentlemen for whom she
felt the highest veneration: finding, however, that every
minute produced new guests, and being ignorant of the
number that were yet to come, and indeed apprehending
that the whole of the Clergy of the metropolis and its vi-
cinity might open overflow her house, she was compelled
to abandon this intention. Among her visitors a momentary
disappointment gave way to mirth, and to all appearance
they heartily enjoyed the joke, each new arrival exciting
new merriment. They at length retired, having at least en-
joyed the happiness of seeing some of their most esteemed friends;
with regard to the more solid enjoyments of the table, they were to
be procured without much difficulty, and no doubt the day
concluded as happily, and at all events, more humorously
than might be expected.

Last week a dark brown bird, of the eagle species
(snow by Mr. Evans, gamekeeper to the Duke of
BEAUFORT, at Clyne, near Swanse). It measures
by the bill to the tail upwards of a yard and
the wings, when spread, cover about a yard and
half. Such was the strength and activity of
this bird, that, for some minutes, six dogs dared not
approach it, after receiving the mortal wound!

SINGULAR MODE OF CATCHING FISH.—The
following ingenious mode of taking fish is said to be
practised by the Chinese. To one side of a boat a
flat board, painted white, is fixed at an angle of
about forty-five degrees, the edge inclining towards
the water. On moonlight nights the boat is so
placed that the painted board is turned to the moon,
from whence the rays of light striking on the
whitened surface, give to it the appearance of mov-
ing water, on which the fish being tempted to leap
as on their own element, the boatman raising with a
string the board, turns the fish into the boat—
(Petersburgh Intell.)

Died, at the advanced age of 99, John Smith, who
has been Porter at the King's Printing-house for more
than sixty years. He was well known at all the
Public Offices. He wore a cocked hat, according to
the ancient costume, and enjoyed uninterrupted health
almost to the time of his decease.

STRATHFIELD-SAY,
THE ESTATE OF LORD RIVERS.

The following are some particulars which are published respecting this property, the purchase of which for the Duke of Wellington is understood to have been negotiated as to price, and, to wait only for the Duke's approbation of the house and land:—

" The park contains about nine hundred acres,
a large proportion of the whole estate. The land,
let out in farms, consists of something more than
four thousand acres. The house is far from magni-
ficient. According to the scale of present residences,
it would rather be called gentlemanly than noble;
but in the former class it must stand high—and it is
entirely fulfilled to the epithet of handsome. It has a
menage, or riding-house, of proportions suitable to a
larger mansion. In the event of its being purchased
for the Duke of Wellington, this house will be
pulled down, and a mansion erected more worthy of
the deliverer of Europe.

" The grounds are highly beautiful and pic-
turesque, and the value of the timber upon it is
said to be not less than 150,000.

" The estate is about seven miles from Reading,
and ten from Basingstoke. Its name, Strathfield-
Sag, is supposed to have been partly derived from
a family of the name of Say; but it does not appear
from Dugdale, that the noble family so called had
any connexions here. About the year 1366, an
heir of the Says carried this estate in marriage to
Sir Nicholas Dabridgecourt, Knight, who became
Sheriff of Hampshire in 1390. The Dabridgecourts
were afterwards related by marriages to the Dela-
mares of Allemaston, and the Astles of Dorset-
shire. They held it till the early part of the 17th
century, when they either became extinct or had
fallen into obscurity. Before 1636 it had become
the property of Sir William Pitt, Comptroller of
the Household, and a principal Officer of the
Exchequer, who died at Strathfield-Say in that year.
He was the ancestor of the three noble families of
Chatham, Rivers, and Camelford, and was the first of
the name who rose to eminence. George Pitt,
his grandson, having served in the army of Charles I.
compounded for this estate with the Parliament,
paying a fine of 244l. 6s. By his marriage with
Jane, daughter of John Savage, Earl Rivers, and
widow of George Bridges, Lord Chandos, he ob-
tained the castle and large estate of Sudley, in
Gloucestershire, which she devised to this her
second husband, though she had children living by
the first husband, who had left this property in her
power. The present Lord Rivers, whose father was
embodied in 1776, receiving the title, which had
been enjoyed by the family of his female ancestor,
Jane, is the fourth in descent from this George
Pitt."

MR. WATSON TAYLOR'S MANSION.—Upwards of
a hundred carpenters, bricklayers, and painters, are em-
ployed on this splendid mansion in Cavendish-square.
It was formerly the residence of the Princess AMELIA,
the sister of our venerable KING; and lately the abode
of the head of the House of HOPE, of Amsterdam.
It has always ranked as a princely residence, from its
situation and other advantages; and it will shortly,
from its various additions, excel in capaciousness almost
every other town residence. Judging from all the other
arrangements, this establishment will doubtless hold a
distinguished rank in the Fashionable World.

Seventy-two fine pictures, the property of Prince
BENEVENTO, were cleared at the Custom-house, in
Dover, last week, for Mr. BUCHANAN.

The number of commissions executed, and pre-
sents sent from this Land of Turkeys, greatly
exceeded any former year. It is calculated that
upwards of 4,000 have been dispatched by the dif-
ferent conveyances from this city during the past
week; which, averaged at gibs. each (skewers in-
cluded), at 10d. per ib, amount to 1,500l.—(Nor-
wich Gazette.)

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ABELARD AND HELOISE.

1817

In the month of June last, in the cemetery of
Pere Lachaise, at Paris, near the cemetery of
Israélites, the foundation of the sepulchral Chapel
of Héloïse and Abélard was laid on pites. This
monument is now completely rebuilt. Abélard
died at the Priory of St. Marcel of Chalons-sur-
Marne, April 21, 1143, and was buried there.—
Peter of Cluny sent his body privately to the Par-
clete to Héloïse: she placed the coffin of her lover
in a Chapel called le Petit Monstier, which Abel-
ard had built. Héloïse died May 17, 1163; she
was 63 years old. Her body was joined to that of her
husband. In 1497, the common coffin was transfor-
med to the Great Church of the Monastery, but the
bones of each body were separated, and a tomb was
erected on each side of the choir. In 1630, Mary
of La Rochefoucault placed the two tombs in the
Chapel of the Trinity.

In 1766, Madame de Ronarre de la Rochefoucault conceived the plan of erecting a new monument to the lovers: it was not executed till after her death. This monument was formed of a group of the Trinity, which Abélard had caused to be sculptured, and of a pedestal which contained the inscription—"Hic sub eodem marmore jacent hujus monasterii conditor, Petrus Abelardus, et Abbatiassa Héloïsa, olim studiis, ingenio, amore, infusis nuptiis, et penitentiá, nunc eterna quod speramus felicitate conjuncti."—Here under the same stone lie Peter Abélard, the founder of this Monastery, and the Abbess Héloïse, once united in studies, in disposition, in love, in their ill-fated nuptials, and their repentance, now, let us hope, in eternal happiness."

In 1792, before the sale of the Paraclete, the remains of Héloïse and Abélard were brought to the Church Nogent-sur-Seine, where they were placed in a private vault. They were in one coffin, with a plate of lead between them.

In 1800 (year 8) they were brought to Paris—then M. Alexandre Lenoir, Director of the Museum of French Monuments, raised a Chapel of the 12th century in the garden of the Museum. In 1814 this Monument was displaced, and in 1815 placed the third course of the Museum.

In June 1817 they were temporarily placed in
the Church of St. Germain-des-Prés, and after-
wards in a room in the House in the cemetery of
Mont Louis, till they were at last deposited in the
stone sarcophagus in the centre of the sepulchral
Chapel of which we have spoken. On the 7th
November this last solemnity took place.—(Paris
Paper.)

The following observations are gravely made in the
Journal du Commerce of the 17th instant :

" There are still some women who regret the period when Colonels made tapestry, and where in certain circles the reading of the novels of the younger CREBIL-LOING, or the madrigals of DORAT, threw people into extacy; but these women are few in number, and what is singular, it seems that nature herself has taken care to deprive them of all means of influence; in fact, all he pretty women are reasonable and constitutional.—With such a reinforcement, it is impossible that the good cause should not triumph.

" ADDISON made the same remark in his time. The English women who ardently desired the return of despotism, were in general very ugly and very great vixens. The Whig women, on the contrary, that is to say those who loved their country, and who piqued themselves on liberal ideas, were amiable and beautiful.—This conformity at two periods so distant from each other, is a phenomenon which merits the attention of physiologists, and which might lead to the discovery whether the beauty of the soul does not really influence the beauty of the body."

The MASTER of the ROLLS, for the time being,
among his other comforts, receives, according to ancient
custom, every Easter, two pipes of the best Gascony
wine that can be procured by the KING's Chief Butler,

THE following observations are gravely made in the
Journal du Commerce of the 17th instant :

(From the Literary Gazette),

Professor Pictet, of Geneva, editor of the Bibliothèque Universelle, paid a visit, in the month of July, 1817, on board an American corvette, lying in the harbour of Genoa, the owner of which, Mr. Crowninshield, is on a voyage of pleasure, and had already visited several ports of the Mediterranean. His vessel appeared on the outside to be a master-piece of naval architecture, and the interior arrangement and furniture were so convenient and elegant, that during its stay in the harbour it was constantly full of curious and admiring visitors.

A sensible negro acts on board the vessel, in the
double capacity of cook and of calculator of all the nautical observations, necessary for determining the latitudes and longitudes. This negro has lived two years in one of the Sandwich Islands, where Captain Cook was killed. The tradition of that event is preserved in the island (Owhyhee); and according to him the following is the account given :—

Captain Cook, who was in want of wood, as well as water, had perceived near the shore an old hut, which appeared to him to be neglected and gone to decay; and the wood of which he thought to be drier than that of newly felled trees; he therefore gave orders to pull down the hut, without having first consulted the natives. Neither he nor his people, doubtless, knew (and after the turn the affair took none of them could learn) that the place was abooved.—The islanders did not hesitate a moment to prevent, by a desperate attack, an act which they considered as an impropriety; they killed some of the workmen, and put the others to flight. Probably those who escaped did not know the real cause of the attack which was so fatal to a part of the crew.

The negro cook appeared much affected by the re-
collection of his abode in Owhyhee, and ardently desires
to return therewith. He described this island as the hap-
piest country in the world; and his account of the moral,
mild, and hospitable character of the inhabitants, forms
a striking contrast to the opinion that has been formed of
them, on account of that unexpected, and as supposed, unprovoked attack. He had learned to speak the lan-
guage of the country with tolerable fluency, and some
words which he pronounced appeared to be at least as
soft in their tone, as those of most of the European lan-
guages.

He was questioned respecting the cooking of the
islanders, and particularly their manner of roasting hog
upon hot stones. His answers were very intelligent and
clear; and he often enhanced by various gestures the
clearness of his descriptions. He bestowed great praise
on the talents and the character of the King of the island.
He is already possessed of a navy, and has sent ships to
Cairo. He has also a body guard, armed with muskets
and lances, which they manage with dexterity. He
employs himself with great ardor in the civilization of his
people. The succession to the throne is hereditary, and
the King has three wives.

DISCOVERY OF ROMAN MEASURES.—A model
has been discovered at Pompeii which served to fix
the measures both for solids and fluids. It consists of
larger and smaller cylinders with inscriptions. On the
outside of the stone is an inscription signifying that it
was made by order of the Decemvirs. M. Romanelli
has recognised in this instrument the measures which
are mentioned by Roman authors under the names of
Modius, Semimodius, Trimodius, Amphora, Congins,
Hemina, Libra, and Quartares. This valuable relic
is deposited in the Museum at Fortici.

QUEENSBERRY LEGACIES.—The important cause
between the Duke of BUCCLUGH and the Trustees
of the late Duke of QUEENBERRY, respecting the
leases granted by the latter, which was remitted by the
House of Lords to the Court of Session for re-
vision, has been decided against the Duke of BUC-
CLUGH. By this judgment, a very large sum of
money now standing in the name of the Accountant-
General of the Court of Chancery, will become the
property of the Legates under the will of the Duke of
QUEENBERRY, should it be affirmed by the House
of Lords. The whole of the funds left by his Grace,
with the accumulated interest since his death, now
amount to upwards of a million sterling!

ENGLISH TRAVELLERS.—The last mail from Malta
brought accounts from several travellers, persons of
the first distinction, through Syria, Egypt, and the Grecian
islands. Lady HESTER STANHOPRE has taken up her
residence at the convent of Mar Elias, near Bayreuth,
on the coast of Syria. Her Ladyship's influence is con-
siderable throughout the country, and her patronage a
certain security. She does honour to English hospi-
lity by her manner of living, and many of our scavans
have, within the last year, left her abode with sentiments
of gratitude and admiration. The Earl and Countess of
BELMORE, and the whole of their party, were at Cyprus,
during the latter end of the summer. They then pro-
ceeded in his Lordship's yacht, to Salde, the ancient
Sidon, on the coast of Syria. There, on their arrival,
they found the Dragoman of Lady HESTER STAN-
HOPRE, waiting to conduct them to her Ladyship's place
of residence, whither Lord and Lady BELMORE, and the
youths, their sons, (who accompanied them throughout
their extensive and varied journey), the private tutor,
physician, and others of their party proceeded. To visit
Jerusalem was the great object with which our travellers
reached the port of Sidon; but it was discovered that
there was no harbouring the entire coast of Syria, sufficiently
secure to protect a vessel from casualties which might occur
during the time necessarily spent in a journey from the coast
to the Holy City, and the design was given up in conse-
quence. During their stay in Syria, the noble travellers
employed themselves in geographical inquiries; and, we
understand, they satisfied themselves that the land con-
veyance a better history of the country, with more geogra-
phical distinctness and precision, than is to be found in any
other book, descriptive of the Pagan countries of anti-
quity. From Sidon, Lord BELMORE and his suite pro-
ceeded to Acr., not renowned for any thing so much
as for the noble defence of it by Mr. SIDNEY SMITH.
From the Syriac coast his Lordship set sail for Alexan-
dria, where the travellers remained for a fortnight; and
from thence they all proceeded to Grand Cairo, in Egypt,
where they were on the 8th of October last. In this
place they were waited for by a few persons well known
for scientific researches, who were ready to proceed on a
mission set on foot by his Royal Highness the PRINCE
REGENT, to compare the accounts given by the French
scavans of the course of the Nile, with the real state of
things. Here the two parties had united, prepara-
tions were made to ascend the Nile for the purpose of
scientific exploration, which was expected to be greatly
facilitated by the mathematical apparatus which Lord
BELMORE had with him, more particularly for ascertain-
ing the exact latitude of places. This expedition, it
was calculated, would conclude about March; after
which Lord BELMORE and his party were understood
by our literary correspondents, who had met his Lord-
ship in Egypt, to intend travelling by land across the
Isthmus of Suez to Gaza; from thence to go to Je-
rusalæmi, and passing by the lake of Genneserath to Na-
zareth, to proceed to Sidon, to rejoin Lady H. STAN-
HOPE.

DOMESTICATED SEAL.—A Gentleman in the
neighbourhood of Burntland has completely suc-
ceeded in taming one of these animals. Its sig-
na-lities daily continue to attract the curiosity of
strangers. It appears to possess all the sagacity of
the dog, lives in its master's house, and cats from
his hand. He usually takes it away with him in
his fishing excursions, upon which occasion it af-
forded no small entertainment. When thrown into
the water, it will follow for miles the track of the
boat, and although thrust back by the oars, it ne-
ver relinquishes its purpose; indeed, it struggles
hard to regain its seat.—(Glasgow Chronicle.)

At a Court of Mayoralty, at Norwich, on the
24th ult. Alderman RIGBY was presented with the
piece of plate which was lately voted to him, in com-
memoration of the birth of his four children at the
same accouchement. In the discussion which arose
relative to the donation, there was scarcely a mem-
ber of the two bodies who did not either fully ac-
quiesce in, or take occasion to express a very high
and flattering sense of Dr. RIGBY's very important
services to the city, both in his medical capa-
city, and by his publications. The plate was a
silver bread basket, with the names of the children,
and the arms of the family richly emblazoned on
the bottom.

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JOSEPH BONAPARTE'S JOURNEY.

The Foreign Papers, under the influence of the French, are now very uninteresting. The contents of those lately received, relate chiefly to the progress of JOSEPH BONAPARTE in Spain, preserving a studied silence upon the internal state of that country. Pursuing their usual system of deception, the enemy would make us believe, that never King was received on his accession with more joy and welcome.—JOSEPH has a large retinue of Frenchmen, and of those traitors who betrayed their country at Bayonne. These make a display of loyalty in the different towns—they huzza themselves—they make speeches to the new King full of affection to his person, and of praises of the mildness of his Government—and then they tell us of the general enthusiasm with which the people received him. The trick is rather stale; it has been practised by all tyrants and their agents—

Some followers of mine own,
At lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,
And some ten voices cry'd, God save King Richard,
And thus I took the vantage of these few—
Thanks gentle Citizens and Friends, quoth I!—
This general applause and cheerful shout
Argues your wisdom and your love to Richard.

JOSEPH BONAPARTE, like one his third RICHARD, has some Duke of BUCKINGHAM in his train, who practices the same artifices in the different towns through which he is dragged to the capital, which, ere long, will probably become his tomb. He reached Burgos on the 14th ult. On his arrival at Vittoria on the 12th, he issued a Proclamation full of proceedings of what he will do for his people. This is the common cant of the BONAPARTES;—mercy in their mouths, and cruelty in their hearts—the utmost moderation in their words, the most perfect tyranny in their deeds.—But these Proclamations impose no longer upon any body.

JOSEPH BONAPARTE is stated to have arrived at Madrid so early as the 20th of July, seven days before he was expected. He was received withulleness; no guns were fired by the Spaniards, nor did any species of rejoicing take place on the occasion. The bell-ringers refused their usual office, which being considered an unpardonable offence, three of them were taken into custody, and on the following day, after a summary trial, put to death. It is said, that a few hired tinkers (menders of saucepans and kettles) appeared before the Palace, and saluted the new Sovereign by the noise produced by beating their pots and kettles with sticks; and those men cried "Long live King JOSEPH." The people positively refused to assemble on the occasion, and every appearance indicated a speedy renewal of the occurrence of the 2d of May.

The name of Joseph Surface has been applied to DON JOSEPH, because he only took a superficial glance at the kingdom which his brother had designed for him. But DON JOSEPH, in stealing away all the property of the Spanish Crown, has shewn himself such a despicable robber, that no opprobrious reflection that can be thrown upon him, can be thought to come from *The School for Scandal*.

There is this natural difference between the flight of the two JOSEPHS. When JOSEPH of old fled from POTIHER's wife, he left his garment behind; but when the modern JOSEPH fled from Madrid, he took care to leave nothing behind him that was worth carrying off.

When JOSEPH BONAPARTE (auding that he could not maintain himself upon the Throne of Spain, he determined to secure the Crown, and therefore carried off with him all the regalia and other valuables of the Spanish Court.

A punster observes, that should JOSEPH BONAPARTE be so desperate in the present circumstances of Spain, to think of returning to the capital, he must be Mad-rid-en.

## SERENADE.

"Move off! move off! my JOSEPH dear,
" While you may yet remove;
" Last CASTANOS should catch you here,
" O leave Madrid, my love! P

King JOEY heard the warning strain,
Half terrified with fear;
Resign'd his throne, and fled from Spain,
As counsell'd by his dear.

It may be said that the flight of JOSEPH from Madrid was very different from the flight of JOSEPH from POTIHER's wife, because in the latter case, a piece of a garment was left behind, but, in the former case, the fugitive plunderer took away with his booty all his bad habits.

BONAPARTE has ordered his slavish prints to report that his Brother JOSEPH retired from Madrid to Burgos to avoid a contagious fever. It is very probable that the Continent will in a short time induce him to feel strong symptoms of an ague, and that his whole family too will experience a shaking fit.

INTERVIEW BETWEEN BONAPARTE AND HIS BROTHER AFTER HIS FLIGHT FROM MADRID.

SAYS NAP TO JOE,
"I told you, you know,
"I'd make you King of Spain."

The Spaniards have always been reputed a grave and serious people, and may now lay a fairer claim than ever to that character, since they are determined, one and all in Spain, to have no Joe-King.

A Deputation has set out from Naples to congratulate King Joe on his accession to the Spanish Thron. Their journey will not be so long as they expected, as little Joeey will not fail to meet them at least half way.

AS JOSEPH BONAPARTE calls himself the Catholic King, it is to be hoped he will lose no time in the confession of his errors.

King JOSEPH going into Spain, may be said to have ran for the plate; he has however shewn himself to be a man of some mettle, for having won it he ran away with it.

Although we have frequently heard of King-Joe, most of our readers will be glad to learn, that in the late retreat from Madrid there was no Joe-King!

King JOSEPH may be fairly called Joseph Surface, for he has had only a very superficial glance at his new kingdom of Spain.

## KING JOE AND JO-KING.

QUOTH NAP to his brother—"What makes you so sad?"

"If this wildly you look, folks will think you're turn'd
Poor JOSEPH deep sighed, and
A dotelessly cried,
His visage most cruelly stroking—
"It is all over, you know,
"With wretched King Joe,
"And sure it is no time for Jo-king.

ANECDOTE OF THE PRETENDED KING JOSEPH.—In sacking the Palace and Churches of Madrid, JOSEPH had heard so much of a particular figure of our Saviour, of exquisite workmanship, wrought in the purest gold, and enriched with the choicest gems; that he accompanied the party to the Church which contained it. On approaching the altar where it was placed, they met the Vicar, whose name was JUAN BLAS, "Fray," said JOSEPH, "are you Blas of Santillane?" "No," said the Vicar, "I'm not Blas of Santillane, but I dare say you are a descendant of Don Rolando, the Chief of the Banditti."

A private letter from Holland states, that Joseph Bonaparte is to be King of Prussia, in case of his failure in Spain.

## LONDON—AUGUST 10.

Private letters from Corunna, received by the Black Joke, state, that the Spanish Patients are confident of capturing their new King JOSEPH, at Madrid, and that in the event of their hopes being realised, they are determined to send him an hostage to England, as a first proof of their gratitude for the assistance which they have received from this country.

Joseph Bonaparte is, as appears by accounts from Palermo, more likely at present to lose a kingdom than to gain one: nearly the whole of the population of Calabria have risen in insurrection against him, and have driven his forces before them to Veneto, only about 40 miles from Naples.

When JOSEPH BONAPARTE entered Madrid, a general illumination was ordered for the purge doubtless, of keeping the people in the dark.

JOSEPH BONAPARTE has presented his picture the City of Naples. We hope shortly to hear of hanging Committee to pronounce upon the merits its execution.

NAP. AND JOE.

One day in disI^on Napouli with Joeey,
Said the former—To Spain I insist you shall go,
For though you've one crown, yet if I reckon true,
It were better like me that you also had two.
I confess, reply'd Joe, this is all very fine,
Yet between us, that honour I beg to decline,
For instead of becoming El Senor Joseph,
I prefer to continue H Signor Joseph-sic! P

Though Nap and Joe have never had a soul for music, they are considered perfectly qualified to fill the Duet of "We fly by night!"

King-Joe BONAPARTE, if we may judge from late conduct, considers his present services as Jo-king matter.

An Hibernian Politician lately observed, "To sure the English are a strange set—they make not enough if a good-looking Irishman happens to run away with a sung fortune, and a pretty girl to bo and now they make a terrible uproar, because Joly BonAPARTE has run away with— himself!"

The deposed King of SPAIN was expected at Fotaubleau by the latter end of May. 1806

Among the marvellous anecdotes of the present day, it may be worthy of note, that the Impera Monarch of France and King of Italy is the Patron of a Humane Society at Paris 1!

BUONAPARTE is said to have thus addreffed an Italian his elevation to the Confular Power :—"Aflure yo Fellow-Citizens that they shall return free to their country."

The passage which the Grand Duke has given up to the French, has been hitherto named *The Fall of the Biche*. The proper name for it hereafter will probably be *The Fall of Tuscany*.

LUCIEN BONAPARTE, we are informed, is but a cousin of the Chief Consul, but his disposition is so congenial with that of the Wretched Marquer, that he might well be thought to be nearer a-kiss.

BUONAPARTE, riding, a very refliche horde on the soft Bromaire, a citizen offered to lead it, when the General observed—that he ought to ride eafy, being not very heavy. "Pardon me, General, (replied the citizen) you are the counterpoise to all the Sovereigns in Europe."

The Statue of Liberty, we find, is to be placed in the National Palace of France. This is the leaft the Confidaufurs can do for the people. Having robbed them of the subflance, it would be impolitic not to leave them the fsemblance.

The flandards which BUONAPARTE boafes that he has taken from the Turks, are not the only trophies which he has brought from Egypt. When he deferred his army, it is obvious that he muft have left the East under faſ colours 1

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ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!

WANTS EMPLOYMENT,

A YOUNG MAN, out of place; understands taking care of Plate, can look after Horses, write Proclamations, and will be happy to put his hand to any thing: has been accustomed to travelling in Spain and Italy, but would prefer the latter, whilst the former country is in such confusion; is acquainted with the cheapest mode of travelling, will go any where for a Crown, will set off in the night if necessary, and can run fast. He can give himself an excellent character; is fond to go to Church, especially where there are silver candeliecks, chalices, &c. and, if not engaged before the Christmas holidays, would be found very useful on Twelfth night, as he has been accustomed to play the King.

Direct to Joseph Fichplate, at the sign of King Would be, on the North Side of the Pyrenees, where the Advertiser now resides for the benefit of his health, the claim of Spain having proved too hot for his constitution.

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.

WANTED an adlike, bustling man, used to CLUBS, who can make a noise, roar out for the People, and do any thing that is called—**popular**. It will not be required that he should bring a character, or have any money, as he will not stay long in his place. The place is being MINISTER OF FRANCE.

Any one whom such a situation may suit for a—FORTNIGHT, and is not afraid of being hanged, may be treated with immediate.

The last Paris Papers informed us, that Madam JOSEPH BONAPARTE (we beg the Lady's pardon, we mean the Queen of Spain and the Indies), was going to Fontainbleau. King Joseph will probably follow her thither.—It will be a curious spectacle, a species which is not to be met with, in the history of any nation, of a deposed King, and the person for whose sake he was deposed, both exhibiting the same palace; that palace not in their own territories, and the exiles from the throne; the one driven from it the arms and arts of an invader; the other committed to abandon it by the people.

As the pun Joe King upon King Joe is nearly worn out, let us hope, we shall soon have materials for another, for as Joachim has set off for Naples, he may hy-and-bye be able to joke him upon the occasion more seriously than he expects.

THE FLIGHT OF KING JOE.

The new King of Spain

Perceiving his reign

At Madrid would be dangerous and brief,

Revol'd, ere by night,

He thence took his flight,

To perform some exploits as a—Thief.

House; temple, and palace,

Of cash, cup, and chalice,

He strike, like a rabber on duty—

Then ran off, quite happy,

To soothe Brother NAPPY.

For the loss of his Throne, will the Lady

"Dear Brother, don't fret,

Nor yet take a pet

At unfortunate JOEY, I pray—

Tho' the Dons won't knock under,

Here's plenty of plunder,

Our trouble and cost to repay.

NAP, gruud like the Devil,
Detected in evil,

At hearing this tale of mischances—

Cund Joe and DUPONT,

Then off from Bayonne,

Scamper'd back, in a fury, to France.

HAFIZ

CARNOT fays, contrary to the common opinion, that it was he, and not BARRAS, who gave BONAPARTE the command of the army of Italy; and he adds, that BARRAS was the enemy of the Corfian General. This anecdote does not accord with the confirmation which the New Confut has paid to the Ex Director in the Revolution of the 19th Brumaire; and that the Confut has declared that he never will forget the services which BARRAS formerly rendered him, the moll figure of whom was his having procured his nomination to the command of the army of Italy, which was the ground-work of his fame. Upon BARRAS being made Director, he was solicited by BONAPARTE to give him a military employment, and he then obtained the command of the army of Italy. He fet off with five louis-dors in his pocket, which he had borrowed, to go to command as army in want of magazines, ammunition, and provisions, and the foldiers of which were unprovided with clothes and fives.

BONAPARTE might with as much truth say that he was called by the Egyptians to ravage their country, as that he was "called by the wishes of the French Nation to occupy the First Magistracy of the Republic." He was in both cases a ruffian and a robber. He never stayed to enquire what were the wishes of the French Nation; but finding his military hordes were ready to support him, in hopes to partake in the spoils of the country, he jumped at once into the seat of an uncontrolled dominion, and began "to put his Constitution into activity" before it had obtained the sanction of that People to whom, in absolute mockery, it was submitted for decision.

The following is said to be an exact account of what passed between BONAPARTE and BARRAS at the first interview between those enlightened and moral Characters:

Bonaparte.—"I am wholly out of employment, and shall be glad of any military station."

Barras.—"It is a bad thing to be unemployed, but if any thing is done for you, will you shew your gratitude?"

Bonaparte.—"Whatever may be in my power you may command.

Barras.—"Are you married or single?

Bonaparte.—"Single."

Barras.—"I have a wife ready for you. Will you marry?

Bonaparte.—"Immediately, if you please."

Barras.—"But the Lady is with child."

Bonaparte.—"I care not. Who is the father?

Barras.—"I am."

Bonaparte.—"I have no foolish scruples, and will oblige you at once." (Exert emancing.)

BUONAPARTE was born in Corfica the fame year that that Island was subjected to France. His father, originally from Italy, poor, but of a noble family, was a Major in the service of that Power. General PAOLI was his god-father.—When ten years of age, he was placed at the Military School of Brienne, under the protection of the Count DE MARBEUP, the friend, or rather the lover of his mother.

According to the *Ain des Loix*, BUONAPARTE is to be the Supreme Amintor. There are to be two other Count-fuls, with an inferior rank, TALLEYRAND and BEUTLER. SIEVES is to be Perpetual President of the Jury of Conferation, CHAZAL, CABANIS, REONIER, LUCIEN BONAPARTE, and all the Members of the Legislative Committee, are to be Members of this Jury.

BUONAPARTE has, it appears from the French Papers, been setting a task to the Institute, which very much resembles the requisitions of the Egyptian Task-masters, in the days of Pharoah. Instead of requiring them to make bricks without straw, he asks them to make beer without hops. In this Country, indeed, our brewers could give him a great deal of information on the subject.

The tranquillity that BUONAPARTE has spread over a great part of Egypt is such as murders generally afford, and for that species of tranquillity Europe has been, in a very great degree, indebted to the French Revolution.

We received at a late hour last night Dutch Pavers to the 24th instant, containing news from Paris to the 19th, from Bayonne to the 13th, and from Cadiz to the 6th. Their principal contents are given in a subsequent part of our Paper. The Proclamation of the Superior Junta of the Frenchified Government at Madrid, on the occasion of the choice of JOSEPH BONAPARTE to fill the Thron of Spain, is a most miserable production, and forms a striking contrast, in the base spirit in which it is written, to the noble and magnanimous sentiments by which the Proclamations of the Patriotic Chiefs are distinguished. The wretched Junta were but ill informed of the state of the brave insurgents, when they described them as a tumultuous body, without Chiefs, without money, without magazines, and without provisions. Their own high spirited Nobles have supplied them with Chiefs, and England, ever generous to the oppressed, has supplied the arms, which we trust will enable them successfully to cope, and ultimately to subdue, the disciplined blood-hounds of BONAPARTE.—JOSEPH BONAPARTE was proclaimed King of Spain and the Indies on the 6th instant. NAPOLeon continued at Bayonne, with the few unworthy Spanish Nobles whom he had dragged thither, so late as the 13th. From Cadiz there is no particular news, and we have nothing to add to the very important accounts we were yesterday enabled to publish. Another version of the answer of the Marquis SCOROCON to the British Administrative is given in the *Monitcur*, in an article from Madrid.

BUONAPARTE amidst the slaughter of his troops in Spain, the disgraceful flight of his brother from Madrid, the loss of a Squadron at Cadiz, and the defeat of his army in Portugal, is amusing himself at Paris with balis and fetes, as if every thing were in a state of profound peace!—NERO fiddled whilst Rome was burning, and BUONAPARTE dances whilst his soldiers are writhing by thousands in the agonies of death!—There were assembled in the Hotel de Ville at Paris, the Empress of France, and the King and Queen of NAPLES, and the Queen of HOLLAND, and the Duchess of ABBANTES (JUNOT'S wife)—all figuring away in quadrilles and country dances, on the very day JUNOT was receiving a severe chastisement from Sir A. WELLESLEY.

If we were before surprised at the inaction of BUONAPARTE when the fortune of the house is so much at stake, we are certainly much more astonished at this ill-timed merriment. The object was, we suppose, to conceal, by assumed gaiety, the consciousness of the sad reverses that had been suffered in Spain.

LETTER FROM THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN FRANCE TO LORD GRENVILLE.
MY LORD,

I dispatch by order of General BONAPARTE, First Consul of the French Republic, a Messenger to London. He is the bearer of a Letter from the First Consul of the Republic to His Majesty the KING of ENGLAND. I request you to give the necessary orders that he may be enabled to deliver it directly into your own hands. This step in itself announces the importance of its object.

Accept, my Lord, the assurance of my highest consideration.

(Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.

Paris, the 5th Niouze, Subyear of
the French Republic (Dec. 25, 1799).

BUONAPARTE is said to live with the utmost gaiety in Egypt, and to have opened the Harams to his Troops. If so, it may be said, that he will "people the place with Calibans."

GENERAL BUONAPARTE'S Sister has married General LE CLERC. Her dower is 500,000 franks. This is the Lady whose hand FREKON sought to obtain.

The spot where it is erected the tower, to commemorate the birth of the King of ROME, is the very spot from whence JULIUS CAESAR departed against England—about three miles from Boulogne.

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["While other Countries are convulsed with Com-\n motion, if there were not for the middling difftusion\n of our Minifter, England would appear another\n Arcadia—where the KING is literally a Shepherd,\n who minds nothing eſle but his flock !", "A French Nobleman, who formerly enjoyed a\nlanded Eſtate of 30,000, flerling per annum; now\nkeeps a Turner's shop in the vicinity of Golden-\n square; where his prefent conduct proves him to\nhave been truly worthy of his paſt influence.", "Another batch of Baronets is ſpeedily to be\ndrawn from the political oven. Theſe are great\ncompliments at a time when ſuch honours are\nlooked up to with ſuch veneration by mankind.", "The late Rev. Mr. Wood, who held the Rec-\ntory of Juſper, in Sufſex, upwards of 50 years,\nwas never ablen during the whole time, nor ever\nemployed any perſon to perform any of the func-\ntions till within three weeks of his death !", "Such is the poverty of this Country, that “ the\nVelfris,” father and ſon, take away only four thou-\nſand pounds for playing a few Weeks at an un-\nlicensed Theatre !—How are we ruined ?", "A man has adverſted for a wife, who modelly\naſſures us that he has “ no incontinence.” The\nſyle of his addrefs certainly evinces, that he is\nencumbered with a head !", "The New Baronets' Ladies form a little ſelect fo-\nciety among themſelves. The Old Baronets' Ladies\nare too proud to affiliate with them, and the new\nones have too much dignity, to have any but a ti-\ntled acquaintance.", "For an high-minded PRELATE, the See of\nDURHAM is exactly the thing! For after his\nLordship has once made his bow at St. James's,\nhe has no occasion ever to bend his body again.", "The late Bishop of SALISBURY in his sparring-\nbout with the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, certainly\ngot the worst of it; but even the Physical Tribe\nwould allow—He has got the better of it since. 1791", "From an Irish Paper.—“ Married, Saturday,\nEDWARD HUDSON to the agreeable width HALEY,\nwith a fortune of six children, which renders the\nmarried state truly happy !”", "A butcher in the neighbourhood of Windfor has\nexcited much difpleasure for intimating on his ſhow-\nboard, “ Royal aged mutton, of prime quality,\nfold here at wholeſale price.”", "The almanac-makers muſt be greatly puzzled by\nthe ſingular anomaly of the prefent year: they\nought heneafter to be cautious how they pre-\ndict warm weather in June, or froſt in December.", "The Almanack-makers, like the Finance Com-\nmittee of 1786, have loft all credit with the Public.\n—Laſt Tuesday and Wednesday are deſcribed as\nfollows.—“ Wind Welterly, generous foaking\nrains, and a heavy Atmosphore.”", "ANOTHER.—An Affurance adverſitement in the\nBath papers, begins by informing its readers thus,\n“ Property ſecured though deſtroyed !”", "Lord VALLETOPT appears a very Goliah at the\nhead of his troops. His Lordship is appointed\nCaptain of Grenadiers to the Children of the Mili-\ntary Academy. —The being a very strong Tho.", "Curious Advertisements, from a Boston Paper :\n“ MUCH WANTED—A neat well-behaved Female,” to\ndo kitchen work in a small family, in Charlestown. She may\npray, and sing hymns, but not over the dish-kettle; may go to\nmeeting, but must not believe in the divinity of Elias Smith,\nnor belong to the whining congregation of midnight, worship-\ners—Inquire at the Repository Office.”", "CURIOUS EPITAPH in a Church Yard at GUILDFORD\n—Reader, pafs on—ne’er idly waſte your time\nOn bad biography—and much worse rhyme;\nFor what I am—this cumbersome clay inſures\nAnd what I wot—is no affair of yours !", "Our modern beaux, who paint brown and red,\ndefend the custom on the score of manliness,\nas, they ſay, the Indians in America and the South\nSeas, are remarkable for a ſimilar practice.", "The Prince of Conde muſt be very ſincere in\nhis Inventions to invade France, who has at\nflake two trifles,—a prudent. man would\nnot wifh to hazard—his head and his eſtate !", "Since Mr. BURKE heard that the King of France\nwas ſtopped by a Poſt-maſler, he strongly ſupſeets\nthe Letter Carrier of his neighbourhood to be a\ntraitor.", "The neceflity of the times will not admit of\nany taxes being taken off this year; but not ſup-\nnew ones be impoſed; the ſyſlem of finance for\n1783 will be the fame as laſt year.", "The Enpreſs of Ruffia is ſaid to have ſent\nover preſents of ſuff-boxes to her numerous\nfriends here, and they in return here always\nthink of her—when at a pineh !", "A BULL.—A Cockney remarked on Monday\nevening in the little Theatre, that the Kentiſh Ba-\nfons were very proſperous gentlemen, that would\nbring plenty of Hops to the Hay-market.", "It is ſaid, that Mrs. HOBAKT has got a feathered\napartment infinitely ſuperior to that of Mrs. MON-\nTAGUE !", "Within theſe twenty years, at leaſt twelve per-\nfons have died in the lower parts of Galloway,\nfrom 100 to 115 years old.", "A Benedictional Monk is soon to sing at one of\nthe French Theatres. How are times changed !", "The paſſage in the Sailors' petition, which ſpeaks\nof their not having turned their coasts, is ſaid to be a fly\nbroadsſide directed at the First Lord of the Admiralty.", "A Cockney being asked what the Belles Lettres\nwere, answered, those that the postman comes for\nof an evening.", "BULL.—Lord Belgrave told Lady Archer yeſter-\nday, that he had prayed moſt fervently for thunder\nand lightning, to cool the air!", "DIED.", "Lately, at Clayhills, Stiſſinghire, John Wright, a common\nbeegar theſe 30 years; he has left the following ſam—-a gol-\nbill, 2d. in half-crowns. 3d. in half-pence, one guinea note,\nand one half-guinea; in all, 83d. 11s. 6d.", "The Duchess of ROXBURGH, who is soon expected\nto give her hand to Mr. MANNERS, is said to possess\n100,000l. in hard cash, and 12,000l. per annum.—\nIf felicity depends upon riches, there is some reason\nto hope that this will be a happy pair.", "ON MR. MANNERS'S MARRIAGE WITH THE DUCHESS OF\nROXBURGH.", "WHEN ROXBURGH with Cupid resolv'd to enlist,\nAnd serve under Hymen's gay banners,\nThe little God gave her wit, beauty, and wealth,\nAnd to perfect the present, good Manners.", "MORAUT, in his History of Essex, says, “ that\nGentlemen should never go to law about oyster beds,\nas the Lawyers would only leave them the shells.”", "Earl SPENCER, a few days ago, gave one hun-\ndred and twenty guineas for an original copy of\nDANTE !", "Since the new Opera Hats were introduced, the\nnumber of pafs has juſt been doubled.", "Whatever may be thought of the morality of the\nprefent age, it muſt be aduſted that few of our young\nmen have much freedom in their conversation, or can be\naccused of ſeducing manners.", "They date, in an article from Liege, that\nan apothecary was fined there lately for ad-\nminſtirering wrong medicines to his patients.\nWhat a fund might be raised in this country,\nif the fame practice of fining were adopted !", "Mr. HORNE TOOKE is at prefent at work on a\nbook of a political nature, that is likely to give as\nmuch rife to public conversation, as either the lu-\ncubrations of Mefſirs. Burke or Payne.", "The celebrated Mrs. Rüdd, who has lived for\nfome time paff at Hampstead, under the deno-\nmination of a Mrs. Palmer, died there on Wed-\nneſday laſt of a cancer.", "MARRIED.", "On Friday laſt, at Oxford, Mr. Wigginton, Fishmonger\nof Drayton, aged 45-and-four, to Miss Mary Smith, of the\nsame place, aged twenty-two.", "It is thought to be a caprice in our fashionable\nfair ones to make ſuch a broad diſplay of their\ncheſt, and to make ſo great a ſecret of their\ndrawers.", "Madame St. Alban has preſented a new-year's\ngift to her friend Lord Cu—LY of a ſweet\nlittle baby; but it is not likely that it will ſucceed\nto its father's titles.", "Mrs. MONTAGUE has reverſed the uſual reſult of\ndilution, for, at the time ſhe is the moſt ex-\nguant, ſhe is actually “ feathering her neſt !”", "The universal toſt through the Country will\nnow be, Mr. PITT's maideu BUDGET that has\nno TAX to it.", "Okey, Eqi. of Kenſington Gore.—Wed-\nneſday, at York, Mr. John Busfield, aged 84,\nto Miſ Ann Pybus, his fourth bride, both of\nthat city.—Thee.", "A peafant of Iceland, named Gudmund Johna,\nwho, at the hazard of his life, ſaved ſeveral per-\nſhipwreſed upon that coal, in a violent tempe-\nring on the 4th of May, has lately received from\nDan- Majeity a gold medal, with permiſion\nwear it as a badge of honour.", "The brass field-piece which was taken' from\nSpaniards at Buenos Ayres, is now in the To-\nIt is to be newly polished, and a fresh carriage\nthe most beautiful workmanship added to it. W\nfinished, it is to be placed in the centre of the\nat St. James's Palace, where the Guards parade.", "A WOMAN once, as it is sung,\nCould speak so loud without a tongue,\nThat you could hear her full a mille hence—\nA greater wonder I can tell,\nI knew a woman very well,\nThat had a tongue, and yet kept silence!", "IMPROMPTU.—On a late PAMPHLET.", "THIS Brewer's better fed than taught,\nHis Sixpenny Stuſt aint worth a groat;\n\"Twere better for his name and head—\nT have more of Wit, and less of bread.", "A Lawyer walking through Lincoln's In-\nfew his professional bag under his arm, being ac-\nadmired, “No, d—n you, Sir—No! they\nnew SUITS.”", "A TAYLOR having entered into a matri-\nmonial engagement with the daughter of\npublican, was congratulated by a theatrica-\nfriend upon the happy mode in which he illus-\ntrated “ Measure for Measure.”", "Mr. Dudley\nMr. Mafon, the\nelabourithment—\nthe money is in\nthere to accumu-\nto be called “ L", "The Lavonian Hat,\nthe higher circles o-\nling novelties of the\n, of 12, Duke-str-\ntensive and uncom-\ndress proves so attri-\nbute.", "\" There is no\nMialhada, a won-\nconſitution, and\ncall to mind, an\nmany events whi\nAlphonſus the S-", "A celebrated Phys-\nn the inefiency of\nefied all of his pati-\nent. \" That,\" re-\nack Ketch says.”", "The Newspapers\nthe breaking down\never may betal his\nduſor of the State-\nbe apprehended, if\nness, can give secu-", "A journeyman cut-\nat six pounds of be-\nporter, for a wager\nwith ease, having\nsharp set.", "An Irishman bei-\nhe Gentleman's pock-\nmitred, as the theft\nto him.—“ Och! th\n“ and if it was bro-\ncould I steal it.”", "Two persons late-\nPeace, one of them\nsaid to have been at\n“ True (replied he\nbe called a PEACE, fo", "An old man, who\ngallantry, enquiring\nwas thickest, receiv-\ning in the forehead; for\nhave horns.", "SPORTING EXTRA-\nbetted, that the high-b\nthe French Oppres-\nknowing ones begin to\nif hard pushed, very\n\nA negro at St. I.", "A negro at St. I.\nwho soon died, and,\nime after his death,\naid, “ Well, how\nyou? I supposc he\nNo, Sir, said the n", "A man meeting a\nhim, joyfully and\ncon- \"Between you\"\nArrah, what do you\nJasus, I have not se-", {"bbox": [1129,

Mr. Dudley Rockett has given 400l. and Mr. Mafon, the Poer, 100l. to that excellent eftablilhment—the Lunatic Asylum at York. The money is invetled in the 4 per Cents.—there to accumulate on Comp. Interest—and to be called “Lupton’s Fund.”

The Lawonian Hat, Cap, and Dress, appears now the higher circles of fashion among the most likable novelties of the day; made only by JONES and of 12, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, whose tensive and uncommon great variety of every article dress proves so attractive to Ladies of distinguished state.

“There is now living at Maxapaon, near Mialhada, a woman aged 119 years, of a robust constitution, and fuch a memory, that she can call to mind, and relates with great exactneſs, many events which happened in the time of Alphonſus the Sixth.”

A celebrated Physician being rallied by a friend in the inefficacy of his prescriptions, the Doctor eſtified any of his patients to find fault with his treatent. “ That,” replied the other, “ is exactly what ack Ketch says.”

The Newspapers have attempted to be witty on the breaking down of Mr. PITT’s carriage. What- ever may betal his own carriage, while he is Con- ductor of the State-machine there is little danger to be apprehended, if wisdom, vigilance, and firm- ness, can give security.

A journeyman cutler yesterday, in Oxford-street, at six pounds of beef steaks, and drank a gallon of porter, for a wager of a crown, which he performed with ease, having, as he remarked, been very sharp set.

An Irishman being detected in the act of picking a Gentleman’s pocket, the Magistrate before whom he was examined, inſormed him, that he stood com- mitted, as the theft of the watch was brought home to him.—“Oh! then,” observed the Hibernian, “ and if it was brought home to me, how the devil could I steal it.”

Two persons lately conversing on the subject of a Peace, one of them observed, that we could not be said to have been at peace by the Treaty of Amiens. “ True (replied the other); that certainly could not be called a PEACE, for it was only a piece of a peace.

An old man, who had a young wife, of reported gallantry, enquiring in what part of the body the skin was thickest, received for answer—“ undoubtedly in the forehead; for, otherwise, you would already have horns.”

SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—Very great odds are betted, that the high-bred Spanish horse Patriot beats the French Oppression, rode by Corſican; as the knowing ones begin to think the latter unawound, and, if hard pushed, very likely to break dixon !

A negro at St. Kitt’s had a very cruel master, who soon died, and left his estate to his son. Some time after his death, a gentleman meeting the negro, aid, “ Well, how does your young master treat ton; I suppose he is a chip of the old block.”—“ No, Sir, said the negro, Massa be all block.”

A man meeting a long absent Irish friend, told him, joyfully and confidentially, after the first salutation, “ Between you and I, my wife is pregnant.” “ Arrah, what do ye mane, (replied the other), by Jasus, I have not seen your wife this twelvemonth.”

The Young Rostics received 1000l. being the share of his profits for playing twelve nights at the Liverpool Theatre. He has been re-engaged for ten nights, for which he is to receive 100l. per night.

“ The late Dr. WHITFIELD being accused of rambling in his discourse by one of his auditors, replied “ if you will ramble to the Devil, I must ramble after you.”

MANSION HOUSE.—W. Freeland, a journeyman boot-maker, was yesterday examined before the Lord Mayor, charged by Mr. GANN, with having imperfectly sewed a boot heel with one stich instead of four. He acknowledged the offence, promised reparation, and agreed to acknowledge his fault in a public ad-vertiſement.

PHILIP, King of Macedon, when wrestling in the Olympic Games, fell down in the sand; and when he rose again, seeing the print of his body in the sand, ery’d out, “ Oh, what a small spot of earth will hold us when we are dead, and yet we are now strik- ing and contending for the whole earth.

EPIGRAV.
ON A SAILOR WHO WAS THROWN ON THE NECK OF HIS HORSE—
Spectator, cease your cruel glee;
From taunting jesis refrain;
Sure, it’s no wondrous thing to see
A Sailor on the man!”

It is reported that the PRINCE of ORANGE is to receive 200,000 from this country, in lieu of the ships taken in his name in the Vليater. The lofts of the PRINCE of ORANGE has ſuſtained, in conſequence of his connection with this country, entitle him to every affil- ance and protection.

A fop the other day, accosting a female strange in Bond-street, complained greatly of the heat, and affirmed that he was almost melted—“ I wish,” said the young lady, turning round sharply, “ that you would melt away.”

A person observed, that the fair Ladies of the present-Graces; if not in all respects, at least in their trans- parent clothing,

A few days ſince an antient maiden, named Mary Baker, a domestic in the family of the Duke of Dorſet, at Seven Oaks, cauſed a tombſone to be erected in Tichurſt Church-yard, bearing this curious inſcription. “ Mary Baker intends to lie here.”

A person-from Portugal giving an account of the late victory to an Irishman, said that the British ca- valry made a most dreadful execution among the French infantry;—Arrah! by my soul! says Pat, I don’t know how to believe that, for I did not hear of their hanging a single man.

Among the eccentric remarks of the ſacraftive CHARLES BANNISTER, may be commemorated his having been driven by a sudden shower of rain into the comb shop in St. Martin’s Court; where, ob- serving an old man at work, CHARLES jocularly re-marked—“ My Friend, it is rather extraordinary to see a man of your age cutting his Teeth!”

A cidevant retailer of ſish, who has long been a successful ſpeculatist in gudgsons, is at last himself caught. He was minus last week at a respectable Club House, in St. James’s-street, to the amount of twenty thousand pounds.

An eminent Tailor recently sent home a suit of clothes which did not exactly fit, to a Gentleman of the Law residing in the Temple, who accordingly reſumed them with the technical observation, that “ it was a Non-suit!”

A rain Writer, more remarkable for ſcruellness than wit, once applied to Mr. POPE for his opinion of a Poem, which reflected on a very worthy man. POPE, after some importunity had been used, answered—“ Why really, Sir, I am doubtful which stands most in need of correction. The Poem or the Author!”

A Gentleman at Vauxhall on Friday evening, ob- serving a party of Ladies supping at what he thought a very early hour, observed to his friend, he thought it very vulgar to sup so early; his friend replied, he was of opinion the Ladies, by so doing, displayed their taste.

A country gentleman, upon his first visit to the metropolis, being in want of a footman, was advised by a wag to make application to the Libery of London!

A dragon in Dublin was shot for description, and taking away his horse and accoutrements at the same time. When on his trial; an officer asked him, “ What could induce him to take away his horse?” To which he re-plied, “ He ran away with him.” “ What,” said the officer, “ did you do with the money you sold him for?” “ That,” said the fellow, “ place your honour, ran away too.”

A few days ago, a litter of five young foxes was found amongst the ivy upon the wall, just over the gates that lead from the inner-court into the gardens, at Warwick-Castle.

By Saturday’s Gazette, Sir Henry Harpur, of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, Bart. takes the name and arms of Crewe, he being the representative and coheir of the second Lord Crewe, of Steine.

Near two millions of oranges were imported into London during the last week—400,000 from Lisbon, 120,000 from Spain, and the rest from the Azores and Malta.

The first ſerious man, and the first ſerious woman engaged this year for the Opera-House, are both arrived, and Pacchierotti gone to war- ble on his native shore.

The admirers of KOTZEBUE will hear with plea- sure, that a second edition of his Anecdotes and Missellanies, and also of his exquisite Tale, The Pastor’s Daughter, is announced for publication.

His Excellence the Portuguese Ambassador’s house, in South Audley-street, was splendidly ilu- minated last night, in honour of the safe arrival of the Royal Family of Portugal at the Brazils.

A Countryman having asked a Cockney why the defunct Talent Administration were called the ex Ministers, was answered, “ Vy, I believe as how it is because they are so very (X) cross.”

On Tuesday last, at St. Hilary, Cornwall, Mark Smith, a soldier, to Elizabeth Harris, of that Parish: having saved the sum of one guinea, and obtained a furlough; he, in eleven days, marched nearly 400 miles, and had the pleasure of pre- senting between two and three shillings, remaining of the above sum, to the object of his affection.

A Miss CZESZE, who made her first appearance at the Manchester Concert this week, promises to have mitey success.

BANNISTER is performing at the Potteries in Staſ- fordshire, but by his extensive theatrical route dur- ing the summer, he had previously filled his own vessel to the brim.

From the circumstance of a late iron-founder hav- ing ordered his body to be inclosed in an iron coffin, it should seem as if he was so attached to the shop, that he would carry as much as possible of it to his grave.

Mrs. MAILWAIN, whose crim. con. lately obtained her husband a vice of five shillings damages, was represented on the trial as a faithful wife. Fidelity is one of the greatest virtues; and, in this case, the “ virtuous wife was a crown to her husband.”

AN IMPROMPTU.

A gallant Soldier, under dock,

“ Off with my Queue,” was heard to say;

For let me but retain my block,

And France shall share—a cropping-day.

It has been said by many, that COOKE’s spirits run away with him in risking an action of the Irish Manager. On this side of the water his spirits too often prevent him even from standing.

The life of Lord CORKWALLIS presents a scene of public activity scarcely equalled, in its combi- nation of utility, both at home and in distant re- gions—as a Soldier, an Ambassador, and a Gover- nor, in America, the East Indies, Ireland, Amiens, and now, at an advanced age, the East Indies again.

The Expedition under General SPENCER has pro- ceeded to join Sir ARTHUR WELLE-SLEY, the Andalu- sians having found the Spanish Loak ſufficient to give their invaders a dressing, without the aid of a Spencer.

O. Freeland.

["Vaccination.—The following is an Address to Dr. Jenner, from the five Nations in North America:—", "“ Brother,—Our Father has delivered to us the book you sent, to instruct us how to use the discovery which the Great Spirit made to you; whereby the Small-Pox, that fatal enemy of our Tribes may be driven from the earth. We have deposited your book in the hands of the man of skill, whom our Great Father employs to attend us when sick or wounded. We shall not fail to teach our children to speak the name of Jenner, and to thank the Great Spirit for bestowing upon him so much wisdom, and so much benevolence. We send with this a Belt and String of Wampum, in token of our acceptance of your precious gift; and we beseech the Great Spirit to take care of you in this world, and in the land of spirits.”", "## COUNTY OF WICKLOW.", "TO BE LET FOR EVER.", "OR for such Term as may be agreed on, with a fine, from 2th March next, the Hon. and Desmee of Roundwood, situated within 17 miles of Dublin, and it a very desirable residence for a Gentleman's family.—The Desmee contained 134 Acres, highly improved, and well one closed and sheltered with extensive and valuable plantations.—The House is at present cuped, and in very good repair—there is a complete square of Offices, stated and enclosed, and in the most perfect order.—The Garden contains near an acre, ready stocked, and enclosed by a 10 feet wall.", "The Tenant may be accommodated with a considerable part of the present crops, with a convenient time for payment.—Applications for proposals to be made to Mr. Mackenzie at the place; Post-Town, Newport Mr. Kennedy, All Letters to be Post-paid.—Several SMALL FARMS to be Let adjoining the above Desmee. (23)", "A few days since as some men were digging a vault in a small court at the back of Mr. Lawrence's house, No. 329, High-street, Cheltenham, they found within 16 inches of the surface, a fresh-looking brown earthen pot, containing between 14 and 15 hundred shillings of the reigns of Edward VI. Phillip and Mary, Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. The whole were in tolerable good condition, and the pot, except from its shape, (which somewhat resembled a raisin jar) appeared as if-but lately buried. From there being no coin, however, amongst them since those of Charles I. it is probable that the owner concealed this little treasure during the dissensions that followed that reign, and falling himself a victim, never returned to reclaim it.", "GOOD EATING, &c.—The following sumptuous Bill of Fare composed the Feast—given a few weeks ago by the Earl of EGLINGTON, on laying the Foundation-stone of the harbour of Androssan:—", "Eight rounds of beef boiled, 12 briskets ditto ditto, 12 pieces of审计 beef roasted, 12 tongues, 6 hams, 2 joints roasted mutton, 30 ditto roasted lamb, 24 dishes collared veal, 12 joints mutton for broth, 24 tureens soup, 24 tureens Scotch broth, 12 tumbots, 24 roasted chickens, 6 large roasted fowls, 6 Guinea fowls roasted, 2 peacocks roasted, 2 fillets veal roasted, 2 lains ditto, 2 pecks ditto, 12 fowl pies, 6 pigeon ditto, 18 jellies, 40 dishes tart and pastry, 24 salads, 100 plates choicest fruit, A profusion of wines, liquors, porter, and ale.", "## THE SPENDTHRIFT'S WISH.", "A Spendthrift Husband wish'd and pray'd\nHis wife might bless him with a Boy :", "Heav'n heard his pray'r, nor long delay'd,\nThe gift—which he receiv'd with joy.", "The Grandise dies—bequeaths the child\nHis wealth— with disappointment wild,\nThe Spendthrift cries—Zounds! I'm undone,\nIn wishing for the Brad—my Son.", "II.", "A man was taken up and examined by one of the Magistrates last week, charged with some petty crime, who being proved guilty, was told, that if he chose to serve the King, his punishment should be dispensed with; he asked Mr. Justice in what way? “ In what way,” replied his Worship, “ what countryman are you, fellow?” “ Irish, an please your Honour.” “ Have you ever been at sea?” “ Have I ever been at sea? Why does your Worship think that I was trundled over here in a wheelbarrow from my own country?”", "NORSEOL ELECTION.—At nine o'clock on Wednesday morning the High Sheriff (Henry Lee Warner, Esq.) opened the County Court at Norwich, and, after the usual, the Right Hon. William Windham, the Hon. Colo- nel Wodehouse, and Thomas William Coke, Esq., were severalty put in nomination. The show of hands appear- ing to be considerably in favour of Mr. Windham and Mr. Coke, a Poll was demanded for Colonel Wodehouse.—Mr. Windham, seconded by Col. Wodehouse, moved the thanks of the Meeting to the High Sheriff. As all parties thanks of the Meeting to the High Sheriff. As all parties were angions to proceed on the business of the Election, the Candidates and their friends declined addressing the Court, and the Poll immediately commenced.", "The contest is maintained with great spirit: the num- bers, by the last accounts, were,", "For Mr. Coke . . . . . 1098\nMr. Windham . . . . . 940\nCol. Wodehouse . . . . 794", "There are thirty-five houses opened in Norwich for Mr. Windham and Mr. Coke's friends; and sixty-five for the friends of Colonel Wodehouse, which embrace from the Loose Dog to the Bear and ragged Staff; and his oppo- nents from Adam and Lee to the Hog in Armour.", "## POETRY.", "### FINGAL'S THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER.", "We have only room to give the 1st and last Stanza's of this legal Ode,", "Hosanna to our God on high!\nThe pealing shout is victory!\nA people stems the tyrant's course,\nResistless is a people's force,\nThe trembles now—the day's their own,\nAnd saved is fair Europa's throne!", "Father of light! and life! and all!\nO listen to all Nature's call!", "Whilst Europe bends the knee:\nO aid her in her righteous cause!\nPreserve, and recentue her laze!", "O aid her to take free!!!", "Whatever improvements may be deemed necessary for the better recruiting of our regular army, the gentlemen employed in the old way of recruiting do not seem to have fallen off in the least, in the customary allurements. Among other captivating descriptions of the advantages and glories of a military life recently advertised, we read of “ Young Gentlemen wanted for beautiful and elegant regiments of cavalry, with horses and dresses finer than any Eastern EMPEROR!” and “ to complete noble regiments of infantry about to sail to the Golden World!” “ None but Gentlemen of high character, and truly noble spirit, need apply !”", "A duel almost took place a few days ago from the following circumstance: Two gentlemen were travelling to Bath together. One of them affecting that he had put the fifty-four-mile-fone; the other replied with the affectation of furlinees, “ that's L.” mentioning only the name of the letters on the stone. It was with the greatest difficulty that the former could be prevaricated upon to believe that the Lie had not been given.", "The Matrimonial Blacksmith of Gretna Green has lost his business, and Vulcan's “ occupation being gone,” a Tobaccoist at a neighbouring village, called Springfield, now spins all the hymeneal bands, and gives the following certificate of the due performance of his office:", "“ This to sarvey all persons that may be concerned, that on from the parish of, and from the parish of, in England, and both comes before me declared themselves to be single persons, and hereby now married by the forme of the Kirk of Scotland, and agreeable to the Church of England; and there- fore giveuen under my hand this 28th day of June 1708.", "“ JOS. PAISLEY.”", "Yesterday a laughable scene was displayed in a coffee-house, in the city, between two jovial sons of Neptune. Meeting accidentally in the same box, and being both deaf, but not dumb, in consequence of the drums of their ears being broke, in fighting the battles of their country, each accosted the other, in reconnoicing his own exploits in a strain of vociferation; during the relation of the different adventures, the one protested to the other, that he was so deaf, that although he roared as loud as a cannon, it was to no purpose, for he could not hear.", "DREADFUL EARTHQUAKE.—The Henrietta arrived yesterday from St. Michael's, which she left about a fortnight ago, and brings the unpleasant intelligence that several shocks of an earthquake had been experienced at the above island, and which had produced some volcanoes. The Island of St. George had been nearly destroyed by its ravages, and its trembling inhabitants had fled to Fayal, Pico, and Terceira; repeated shocks were felt, and the volcanoes were left burning at the very moment the last letters were closing for England with the melancholy tidings. The buildings had all tumbled into ruins, but the number of lives lost on the occasion was not ascertained.", "There was an earthquake in St. Michael's in the month of June, 1628, which continued for eight days without intermission, and so terribly shook the island, that the people abandoned their houses in the utmost terror and perturbation, and took up their abode in the open fields. At this time a new island was formed.", "A STALE TRICK DISCOVERED.—Monday a man who had landed from a ship near the Custom-house quays, with a loaf of bread under his arm, which he appeared to carry very carelessly, was observed by an officer, who suspected some contrivance; the guardian of public revenue therefore demanded of the man what he embraced so closely? “ Only a stale loaf,” was the answer. The officer then took hold of the loaf, which immediately came asunder, and discovered a quantity of prohibited foreign lace. After seizing the lace, the officer returned the loaf to the unfortunate smuggler, and coolly observed, “ this is indeed a very stale loaf, and you may keep it for your breakfast.”", "THE Earl of Ormond (whose family names are Butler) and the Honourable Mr. Cooke, encountered a chimney-sweeper one morning in the streets of Dublin. His Lordship in a vein of humour, said, “ Well, Sooterkins, what news from Hell?” “ Nothing, (replied the gentleman in black) but that the Devil stands in need of a Cook and a Butter,", "WHEN the late Robert Lord Clive was a boy, and once walking with a school-fellow through Drayton market, the two lads stopped to look at a butcher killing a calf. “ Dear me, Bobby, (says the lad) I would not be a butcher for all the world,” “ Why, I should ont much like it, (said Clive) ” it is a dirty business; but I'd a plaguy deal rather be a butcher than a calf.”", "It is well known that there are two Members in the House of Commons, named Montagu Mathew, and Mathew Montagu; the former a tall handsome man, the other a little man. The Speaker, a few days ago, having addressed the latter as the former, Montagu Mathew observed, it was strange he should make such a mistake, as there was as great difference between them as between a Horse and a Chestnut Horse.", "## LINES", "### ON THE DEBUT OF MISS BARCLAY.", "No pleasure now from tuneful Kelly's tongue,\nIn vain he strives to move us with his fong—\nOn a fair Syren we have fixed our choice,\nAnd wait with longing ears for BARCLAY's voice.\nWhen lo!—the Nymph by bathful awie betrayed,\nHer fault ring tongue denies her looks its aid,\nBut so much innocence adorns her fears,\nAnd with such GRACE her modelly she wears,\nBy her disforder, all her charms encreacy", "And had he better fong, th'id PLEAS'D US LIES!", "ABDALLAH", "O", "ing late", "there, ch", "some tri", "stolen, w", "that “", "And to", "Black R", "gro, w", "catch hi", "the an", "hold", "by mo", "feel", "the", "the", "bou-", "and a", "of", "ourn", "es, in", "for it", "a", "pro-", "the", "A", "3000", "shap-", "exac-", "most", "a piec", "the o", "vered w", {"bbox": [1222, 499, 126

CURIOUS ANTIQUITIES. 1605

July

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, July 11th, 12th, and 13th, Mr. Cunningham opened various barrows in the neighbourhood of Stonehenge, under the direction of Sir Richard Hoare, bart. and with the aid and assistance of Aylmer B. Lambert, esq. and found a number of curious remains of Celtic ornaments, such as beads, buckles, and brooches, in amber, wood, and gold, one of which, for its elegance and appropriate form, is at once a proof of the nobility of the person for whom the barrow was raised, and the elegance of the Arts at the period of the interment, about 3000 years from the present period. The shape of this curious article is conical, and the exact form of the barrow itself, which it was most probably intended to figure. Conceive a piece of wood, imbricated in layers, one over the other, to the summit of the cone, and covered with thin plates of pure gold, and adorned with circles round the middle, and near the bottom with a triangular testoon about the lower edge, in which are two holes for a thrust or wire to suspend it.

Mr. Cunnington, whose consummate skill as an Antiquary, and great success as an investigator of subterraneous treasures, entitle him to the greatest prize, has already read to the Society of Antiquarians, papers on the barrows in Wiltshire. See pl. 7. vol. xv. p. 128.

INFIDELITY REWARDED.—Sunday seignight a welding was to have taken place between a young couple belonging to the neighbourhood of Merthyr-Tydvil, and considerable preparations were made to regale the company assembled on the occasion. At the appointed hour the intended bride made her appearance, arrayed in her best apparel, and her friends were waiting to acc company her to the altar; but, alas! the bridegroom was not to be found! After a considerable time had been spent in search, the happy man was discovered hid in a thicket, and, on being roused from the cover, he slunk home and retired to bed, complaining of indisposition, and that his sister had taken away his clothes. On the following morning, however, the timid youth was sufficiently recovered to resume his daily labour, on his appearance at which he was cheered by the loud huzzas of a numerous concourse of young women, who had assembled to chastise the culprit for his faithless conduct. After dragging him from the work-shop, and giving him a complete coat of tar, he thickly studded him with feathers, mounted him on a plank, and carried him in triumph to the church door. Vain were the poor delinquent's supplications for mercy, his female terrors would bear nothing, and, after he had been exposed sufficiently, the men who had assisted in the ceremony were about to withdraw, but the flashed deceiver fearing to be left alone amidst such a troop of furious amazons, bribed his male prosecutors with half-guinea's worth of ale to escort him in safety out of the reach of further vengeance. This is said to be the third woman he has thus grossly deceived, and we may very reasonably hope it will be the last, as the dread of punishment may act more powerfully on his mind than any innate feelings of honour.

## AFRICAN ANECDOTE.

A Negro in one of the West India Islands, being lately brought before a Court of Justice there, charged among other crimes, with buying some trifles of another Negro, that he knew to be stolen, was told on the authority of his Judge, that " the Receiver is worse than the Thief ";—And to this was added, " Take and flog the Black Rascal." And, pray Sir, replied the Negro, won't you flog de Wite Rascal too, when I catch him at de same ting ? Yes, certainly, was the answer.—" Why den," rejoined the Negro, " hold my Massa dare, he buy stolen tings—he buy me ! He know me be stolen."

The Old Tabby Cat, which made its appearance on Saturday night at the Haymarket Theatre, had not strayed from Vauxhall, as was reported—from the numberless reliques of youth and virginity with which that hamlet and its neighbourhood abound, the rumour most probably had its origin.

TYTHES IN KIND.

Sic vor non vobis mellificatis, pes.

THE TRUTH OF THIS ADAGE was never more pleasantly exemplified than in a Parish in Somersetshire, the Spiritual Pastor of which, with that landable attention to his temporal interests, from which no class of men are exempted, claimed the tenth of several flocks of bees. The owner was rather startled at the demand, but at last appeared to acquiesce in the justice of it. He however adopted a method of proceeding which fully convinced the Parson that the sweetest honey has its bitters. One evening, when there was a great deal of company at the parsonage, a fellow arrived from the bee-owner, with a hive curiously concealed under a napkin, and insisted on delivering his charge in person to the master—" I be come with the bees," said Hodge. " The bees!" claimed the Parson; " The bees!" echoed the company. " Good God," added his Reverence, " could not you have left them without?" " Noa," answered the other; " Measter says, if a's to vind the bees, and be rot to thee, a cant too vind the bees!" and immediately giving a smart stroke to the top of the wicker receptacle, its numerous inhabitants instantly dislodged themselves, and filled the room with confusion that can better be imagined than described. The poor Parson was STUNG TO THE QUICK.

THE FOLLOWING ANECDOTE of the hardhood of the Soldiers of modern Rome is given by a recent Traveler in Italy. During the Races at Rome a number of Soldiers were stationed on each side the course, from one end to the other. " The morning after the first race, the wind blew from the North, and was rather cold; I was sitting with his Excellency the Governor, Sig. Vidoni, when a messenger arrived from the General, with his compliments, requesting that the race might be deferred till another day, as he thought the weather too cold to put his troops under arms; the Governor replied to him, " that as the weather was not too cold for the ladies, he thought it was not too much so for Roman soldiers." I have seen on a day which only threatened rain, a guard of Romans turn out, every one of which had an umbrella under his arm, the drummer and fior alone excepted."

THE PANIC-STRUCK PEASANT.—Last Wednesday as a countryman was nutting in Catsfield Great Wood, he found the nuts so plentiful that he soon half filled a sack, by the weight of which his progress of gathering was so much impeded that he found it necessary to get rid of his incumbrance, by leaving it, as he thought, in a place of security, until he should have increased his stock, by means of a satchel, from distant hazels, and proceeded accordingly: but unluckily in the interim a Black, from a neighbouring barrack, engaged in a similar pursuit, discovered the repository, and after examining its contents, resolved on possessing it; but in order to give a colourable pretence to the possession, he had recourse to the following whimsical stratagem. He stripped off his clothes, and after concealing them, seated himself naked on the sack, where he remained, clutched up, till the return of the countryman, and by his grimaces and the yells which he set up, to give effect to the part he was acting, on the poor fellow's approach, so terrified him, that he bounded from the wood like a deer, and, happy in his escape, left his nuts, without regret, to be cracked by the Devil, on whose territories, at the moment of his panic, he believed he had been trespassing. Mungo, well pleased with the success of his trick, bore away the prize, and the circumstance has caused no considerable share of mirth in the neighbourhood.

A late Nobleman, who was very avaricious, was upon the same good terms with his Lady, as the elements of water and lightning, when they encounter in the atmosphere. " I am of opinion, my Lord," said her Ladyship, " that you would marry the devil's daughter, after my decease, if her dowry were equal to your expectations."—" That is impossible, Ma'am," replied the Earl, " for it is contrary to the law of England to marry two sisters."

To the EDITOR of the TIMES.

SIR,

It has long been considered an established rule, " That any person wearing a folk handkerchief round his neck, shall be prohibited from walking in Kenfington Gardens;" notwithstanding which, on Sunday there were offered a great number of our modern beaux, with a voluminous fik plaided handkerchief tied round their necks.—And why were they admitted sooner than any lamp-lighter or failor who should prefent himself at the gate? who could plead that it was the go! the foot! the kick! the fashion! to wear a folk handkerchief instead of an under waifcoat? What reply could the porter make ? None.

I am not certain whether many of our modern beaux may not wear a handkerchief round their necks which would (through want of another) grace their pockets much better.

I am your's, &c.

JOHN BULL.

INTENSE HEAT.—Accounts from different parts of the country, give numerous distressing consequences of the late extraordinary heat of the weather. A man at Corby, in Lincolnshire, on Wednesday, while hoeing thistles, was so overcome by the heat that he died in the field.—A woman employed in making hay in a field adjoining the town of Huntington, complained of being ill from the heat, and died before she could get home.—A woman at Bellesdon, in Leicestershire, on Wednesday, died of the excessive heat.—Two haymakers, who had been working in a field near Haunstead, were found dead; and three persons, belonging to the same place, are suffering so severely from the same cause as to render their recovery doubtful. The horses in Mr. Patterson's carriage, going to Cromer, stopped on the road, unable to proceed, and on unharassing them, one fell lifeless. Two horses in the mail coach, between Grantham and Newtak, died while in harness.—One of the horses in the Yarmouth coach, died on stopping at Norwich.—Two horses belonging to Mr.

O pious Sirs,

["DUKE OF YORK'S LETTERS.", "The first, dated Aug. 4, 1805, was addressed to Mrs. CLARKE, at Worthing:", "How can I sufficiently express my delight, in hearing from you. O my Angel! never was woman adored as you are. How long and tedious is the time since we partied, and how long for the day after to-morrow, when I shall again clasp my darling in my arms. Clavering is the mistake in his idea that second battalions are to be raised; you may tell him so, and that it is impossible to comply with his request. I thank you for the handkerchiefs, they are very pretty, and you may conceive the pleasure I have in wearing them, and thinking of the dear hands that made them. The day before yesterday I had a survey of Dover and the Coast, from whence I had a pretty view of the French camp. Yesterday I reviewed the camp, and the 14th Dragoons, and afterwards four regiments of Militia, which took me 12 hours. I shall have nearly as much to-morrow. Adieu! my dearest, sweetest love!", "Your's, and your's alone.", "The 24th of August was the date of the second letter, to the following effect:—", "How can I sufficiently express my delight in hearing from you. O my Angel! never was woman adored as you are. How long and tedious is the time since we partied, and how long for the day after to-morrow, when I shall again clasp my darling in my arms. Clavering is the mistake in his idea that second battalions are to be raised; you may tell him so, and that it is impossible to comply with his request. I thank you for the handkerchiefs, they are very pretty, and you may conceive the pleasure I have in wearing them, and thinking of the dear hands that made them. The day before yesterday I had a survey of Dover and the Coast, from whence I had a pretty view of the French camp. Yesterday I reviewed the camp, and the 14th Dragoons, and afterwards four regiments of Militia, which took me 12 hours. I shall have nearly as much to-morrow. Adieu! my dearest, sweetest love!", "Your's, and your's alone.", "The device on Mrs. CLARKE's wall was truly appropriate. The words were—“for further particulars apply without.”", "COLONEL M'MAHON'S NOTES.", "The first contained an apology, for not waiting upon Mrs. Clarke in consequence of having been from town, and not receiving her card till Thursday. The notice to call the first company together to visit her.", "The second was marked, private, and began by assuring Mrs. Clarke that the writer would be happy to bring about the audience she washed of the Prince of Wales on Friday. He returned a thousand thanks for the loan of her seal, of which he had had much experience, and expressed much adoration of the sprightly device. Nothing but disindposition could have prevented his calling, and he condemned some persons severely, who had been indignant or laughing at Mrs. Clarke; observing, at the same time, that in the first interviews he had had with her, her contact was such as to entitle her to his warmest esteem and respect.", "When it is recollected, that the prefent ENQUIRY has occupied all the Talents, on both sides of the question, for fourteen nights, and, has, of course, rendered them little better than sleep, for as many days, there can be no doubt, that the *diversion*, produced by Mrs. CLARK, is in favour of the enemy.", "In addition to the lives of Mrs. BELLAMY, Mrs. BADDELY, and Mrs. ROBINSON, we are to have, it seems, the pious life of Mrs. CLARK, also, for which, hot-pressed on *fooftap*, the niks only the tuffing fum of ten thousand guineas.", "Whatever may be the variance of opinion about the hand-writing of the *note*, and whatever negligence in the formation of Mrs. CLARK's Y's, it is pretty clear that the minds her P's and Q's at leaf as well as any Lady in the land!", "On Saturday night, exactly at twelve o'clock, after a gradual decline of six months, that worthy and venerable Monarch, known by the appellation of *Eighteen Hundred and Eight*; the commencement of whose reign was hailed with the blessings and hopes of an afflicted world. Unfortunately, however, his laudable endeavours to apply the healing balsam of Peace, to the bleeding wounds of long oppressed Europe, were frustrated by the pestilential and destructive influence of a Southern Comet, aided by the extreme friidity of a baleful planetary satellite, yeleped the *Bear-star* of the North. During the turbulent though transient administration of the defunct, many important occurrences took place, but none of sufficient influence to stay the ravages of the war-plague, and renovate the political health of the European Continent. He is succeeded by his infant son, upon whose title of *Eighteen Hundred and Nine*, upon whose reign may the Almighty Disposer of all sublunary events, vouchsafe to bestow a greater portion of prosperity and happiness, than his predecessor was deemed to experience.", "RURAL FETE AT FROGMORE.", "On the King's return from the camp on Monday, their Majesties, the Princesses Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia; the Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of York, Dukes of Clarence and Cumberland, and the Prince and Princess of Orange, went to Frogmore, where a grand rural entertainment was provided.", "The Royal family dined in the house; the nobility were accommodated in three tents, which were pitched in a direct line, so that their Majesties had a complete view of the whole company. During the dinner the band of the Staffordshire Militia performed a number of martial airs.", "As soon as dinner was over, the Princess Elizabeth, under whose direction the whole of the entertainment was planned, conducted their Majesties and their visitors to the trottoe, where Mr. Fawcett, and Messrs. King, Glover, Short, and Brassington, of the Staffordshire militia, sang several excellent glee's.", "The Royal family then proceeded across the lawn to another part of the garden, where they were met by a group of gipsies. They approached their hut, Mrs. Mills (of Covent Garden Theatre), who acted as their Queen, led from behind a thicket two children seated on an ass. She sang a gipsy song with great vivacity and sprightlyness, the rest of the groupie joining in chorus; after which she delivered her poetical destinies of good Fortune to the Royal family. When it came to the Stadtholder's turn, not seeing him, she exclaimed—I want an Orange—I mean a Prince, which repartee occasioned the company, as well as his Highness, to laugh.", "Mr. Brassington sang “Soldier Dick,” and young Shenton, drummer of the Stafford militia, the favourite air of the “Cottage on the Moor.” Mr. Fawcett concluded this part of the entertainment with the History of his Naval Victories from the Spanish Armada to the present time.", "In another part of the gardens near the Hermit's Cell, a stage was erected, where Mr. Ducrow, the Flemish Hercules, exhibited on the slack wire, and afterwards performed on the stage feats of strength. His Majesty asked him several questions, of what weight he could carry, and whether the surgeons had not examined his muscles?", "The company then walked to the canal, where a large boat, having the Royal standard flying, was placed on the stocks, to represent a ship ready to launch. Mr. Fawcett, in the uniform of his association, delivered an address, the latter part concluding with an elogium on the happiness Hibernia would experience in being united to Great Britain.", "On returning to the lawn, six of the York hussars, of the regiment of Swartz, in Hungary, were drawn up. Two of them played on the violin, while the other four daned, agreeable to the custom of their country, turning themselves about in various attitudes and postures.", "Mr. Fawcett then sung the hounourous song of “Polly Oliver.”", "The day drawing to a close, the Royal family went to the Princess Elizabeth's tattered barn, constructed with great taste for the ball room.—Country dances were kept up till twelve o'clock, when the Royal family returned to Windsor lodge, and the company, after paraking of a cold collation, took their departure, highly gratified with their entertainment.", "The following is one of the songs sung by Mrs. Mills and the groupie of gipsies:—", "Come, Royal George, and althy Court,\nCome see our pastime, see our sport;\nMerry souls, and merry faces;\nNot the Musers or the Graces,\nCan with all their pow'r to charm,\nBoat feelings truer, hearts more warm\nThan our's, great George! for thee.", "Let them sublimer honours claim;\nUnpolish'd mirth our only aim;\nContented, if our Sov'reign smile,\nWe care not, then, if they revile;\nTruth needs no ornament or show!", "Come, Royal George, and althy Court,\nCome see our pastime, see our sport;\nMerry souls, and merry faces;\nNot the Musers or the Graces,\nCan with all their pow'r to charm,\nBoat feelings truer, hearts more warm\nThan our's, great George! for thee.\nCome, Royal George, and althy Court,\nCome see our pastime, see our sport;\nMerry souls, and merry faces;\nNot the Musers or the Graces,\nCan with all their pow'r to charm,\nBoat feelings truer, hearts more warm\nthan our's, great George! for thee.", "The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA made a public entry into Olmütz on the 24th ult.; on the 27th they proceeded on their journey to Gallicia, and were to make their entry into Lemberg on the 8th instant. The Princess Royal of PORTUGAL was expected to embark at Leghorn for the Brazils on the 10th.", "The Diet of Frankfort have sent letters of notification to all the powers of Europe, including the GRAND SEGNIOR, and to the United States of America, by which the Germanic Confederation enters as a power of Europe into relations with them.", "The Pope, whose state of health is variously described in different Journals, returned to Rome from Castel-Gandolfo, on the 1st instant. His carriage was accompanied by the carriages of the Queen of ETRURIA, the Princess of WALES, the Prince of SAXE GOTHA, &c. &c. The Princess of WALES and King CHARLES IV. and his QUEEN were present at the feast of the Apostles on the 29th ult.", "THE ELWES' PROPERTY.", "The duty paid to Government on this immense property which has lately descended from Mr. John Elwes, son of the celebrated Mr. Elwes, is said to amount to nearly 40,000. So sensible was the late possessor, Mr. John Elwes, of what he owed to the interference of Mr. Totham, in inducing his father to make a will, by which the property has descended in its present line, that, we understand, a few years before his death he wrote to Mr. Totham, to beg he would transmit to him the names of his three daughters, which he might the least beg them legacies. By some neglect or oversight, it is said, this bequest has not been made; but it may be fair to suppose that the present possessor would not allow what must have been an act of inadvertency to carry an appearance of ingrafture, on a property thus acquired for him of nearly five hundred thousand pounds.", "FEMALE DEPREDATOR.—A few days since, a young woman of interesting appearance, who stated her name to be Maria Scott, went to the residence of Mrs. Elwes, in Watlington-street, who in want of a servant, and by means of a recommendation, pretended to be written to a lady at Camberwell, known to Mrs. B. obtained the situation. Monday in the forenoon she went to undertake the duties of her new place, and throughout the day conducted herself much to the satisfaction of the family. Previous however to her mistress having retired to bed, she requested permission to sit up a short time between her last and present situation prevented her from doing. This was ascerted to without the slightest suspicion being excited, but on the following morning, to the utter astonishment of the family, their new servant was no where to be found. The act door was merely upon the spring, and upon further examination, it was discovered that a quantity of plate, a valuable time-piece, some linen, several articles of wearing apparel, and various other things, were stolen from the place. An accomplice, doubt was in waiting to assist in removing the property.", "BON-MOT.", "A Gentleman, who refides in St. James's street, happening to lend the evening in the city among fome friends, was requiffed, in his turn, to favour the company with a fong. He politely declined finging, alleging that he was so indifferent a performer in that way, that any attempt of his would rather difficult than entertain. One of the company, however, obferved that he had a very good voice, and that he had frequently had the pleasure of hearing him fing. “ That may be,” refumed the other, (withing to get excused) “ but as I am not a Freeman, I have no voice in the city.”", "“ We have the title of August 13,” said the Prince, “ but the name of the 6th July, to his majesty’s pleasure, to the Metropole.”\n\n“ Most Grand and Most Excellent, &c.”\n\n“ The chief Majesties of the earth are the children of the King, and the children of the King are the children of the Prince.”\n\n“ The children of the King are the children of the Prince, and the children of the Prince are the children of the King.”\n\n“ The children of the

ANTIQUITY.

A curious piece of antiquity has lately been discovered in the church-yard of Henel Hempstead, in Hartfordshire. In digging a vault for a young lady of the name of Warren, the sexton, when he had excavated the earth about four feet below the surface of the ground, found his spade to strike against something solid, which, upon inspection, he found to be a large wrought stone, which proved to be the lid of a coffin, and under it the coffin entame, which was afterwards taken up in perfect condition; but the bones contained therein, on being exposed to the air, crumbled to dust. On the lid of the coffin is an inscription, partly effaced by time, but still sufficiently legible, decidedly to prove it contained the ashes of the celebrated OFFA, King of the Mercans, who rebuilt the Abbey of St. Alban's, and died in the eighth century.—The coffin is about 6½ feet long, and contains a niche or resting-place for the head, and also a groove on each side for the arms, likewise for the legs; it is curiously carved, and altogether unique of the kind.—The Curate of the parish, the Rev. Mr. BINGHAM, has deposited it in a house adjacent to the church-yard, where the curious are flocking daily and hourly to see it, on whom he levies a contribution of one shilling each, for such indulgence. The church was built in the seventh century. The Watling-street road runs within a mile of this place, and many Roman coins have lately been found in the vicinity, particularly while digging the Grand Junction Canal.

Mr. TONKIN, the Gentleman who broke up the Abergavenny East Indiaman, and weighed her cargo, has been several times down to the Royal George, at Spithead, in a diving machine, to survey her. He staid down about an hour and a half each time. He found that she lies on a bed of shingle; her guns are all dismounted, the carriages being rotted away; her timbers are much shrunk, but not rotted. Her guns are principally brass. It is said, there is a prospect of his plan being attended with success.

The following new, and truly ingenious plan, has been lately adopted at a village about twenty-five miles to the westward of this city, for the purpose of procuring signatures against the Union. At the door of a public-house near the Chapel, a large beer barrel was placed, on the head of which, paper, pen and ink were laid. The Agent of the Great Man, at whose instance this meeting was convened, sat on a joint stool at the bottom of the cask, which, to speak nothing but justice of all parties, was filled with most excellent beer.—As the pedantry issued from their devotion, they were kindly invited to make their mark, which they readily did, not only on the head of the barrel, but on its more substantial contents. Those who refused to sign or mark the paper (and with such a bribe, our readers will suppose the number to be few), were “sent empty away,” while more complying were presented by the Tapster with a mug, in which, though they would willingly have supported the Measure, they drank confusion to the Union!

A short time since, several Gentlemen being on a visit to a friend in Essex, one of them wishing to take a little diversion in fly-fishing, procured a guide to point out a part of the river where he might expect to find some sport. The man conducted the Gentleman to a spot where there were good fish. The rod and line of course were prepared; but when about to cast the fly, the Gentleman found the hook (as he thought), had caught the bushes, and was giving the second cond to extricate it, when the man who stood behind bawled aloud, “the hook has caught my nose!” The Gentleman perceiving this, endeavoured all in his power to relieve him, but without effect; and the poor fellow was under the necessity of walking five miles with the hook in his nose to a Surgeon, where the hook and his nose were separated, to the great joy of the much-alarmed sufferer!

A WHISTLING LOVER.—A curious kind of a discovery was made at the house of a Mr. S. a short distance from the end of Bond-street, on Saturday night. A very reputable young man, who had carried on a secret amour with a handsome young lass, an inmate belonging to the house of Mr. S. who is her uncle, got into an unlucky scrape, which has passed the Lady to the anger of her relatives. It happened that on a certain night, about a fortnight ago, a burglary had been committed in the street; and the watchman belonging to the beat had perceived the young man spoken of, whistling, near to the house where the young Lady resided, previous to the depredation having been committed. On Saturday night, whilst the honest guardian of the night was taking a secret turn, without his lanthorn, he found Mr. W. whistling harmonious tunes again under a window; and although neither his garb nor appearance much resembled those of a robber, the watchman took him into custody. Appearances were considered to be against him: and consequently, to do away the stigma of a suspected robber, the young Lady was under the necessity of appearing before a Magistrate yesterday, to verify the defence of her paramour, that it was by whistling his approach was announced, and that it had been for some time a signal for him to be admitted privately to the house. The good man of the mansion, it appeared, had forbidden Mr. W.'s presence to his niece, some time since, on account of her youth. Mr. W. was of course honourably liberated.

TURKISH EQUALITY.—SCHAHROCH, the son of TAMERLANE, was a very avaricious Prince. One of his subjects was a potter, presented himself before him, and asked him whether he held the doCTRINE of the Mahometan Religion which teaches that all Messulmen are brethren to be true. “Most assuredly,” said SCHAHROCH. —“Well,” said the dealer in earthenware, “is it not then highly unjust that you should have so large a treasure, while I who am your brother—am in such want. Give me at least the portion which belongs to me.” SCHAHROCH ordered him a piece of coin of the value of about three halfpence, with which, however, he was not contented. “Of so much treasure,” said he, “am I to have so small a portion?” “My friend,” said the son of TAMERLANE, “get hence, and tell no one how much I have given you, for if all our brethren were to come for their shares, yours would not be nearly so large.”

DESCRIPTION OF AN ICE-PALACE IN RUSSIA.

What may be executed in Ice, was shewn by the celebrated Ice Palace which the Empress ANNA caused to be built on the bank of the Neva, in the year 1740.—It was constructed of large quadrats of ice, hewn in the manner of free-stone. This curious edifice was fifty-two feet in length, sixteen in breadth, and twenty in height. The walls were three feet thick. In the several apartments were tables, chairs, bedsteads, and all other kinds of household furniture of ice. In front of this palace, besides pyramids and statues, all carved in ice, were placed six cannons, carrying six pound balls, and also two mortars of ice: also from one of the former, as a trial, an iron shot with only a quarter of a pound of powder, was fired off: the ball passed through a two-inch board at sixty paces from the mouth of the gun, while the piece of ice ordnance, with its tavette, remained uninjured by the explosion. In the evening, the Ice Palace was illuminated, and had a most brilliant and astonishing effect.

A few days ago, an Eel, of the astonishing weight of 35lb. was caught by Mr. Graham, in a stone yard made in the sea, for the purpose of catching salmon, in the Moss Bay, near Workington; in the belly of which were found a haddock, of 4lb. weight, and a cod fish, 2lb. both perfect. There being, at the time, about 2½ feet water in the yard, must have rendered it impossible for Mr. Graham to take it, had it not been for a large water-dog, which engaged the eel for about an hour (in, and out of the water), before it was conquered.

TALL HIGHLANDER.—This gigantic Caledonian died lately in Duke-street. He was 7 feet 4 inches high. He fought at Crown Point in America, in the year 1759, and when, by a wound he received from a siant hanger, part of the guts ofilia was laid open, he, in this dreadful condition, killed two French soldiers, and took an officer prisoner. This galling action was rewarded by his present Majesty with a pension of 2s. a day for life.

Among the striking instances of great increase in rents, is that of the Salmon Fishery of that part of the River Aunan falling into the Frith of Solway, which lett on a lease that expired a few weeks since for 1501, per annum, and has been re-let by its proprietor, Mr. NELSON, of Liverpool, for 1,500, per annum.

The opposers of the Union in Ireland have completely shifted their ground—They now think it so good a thing that they are afraid the English are not sincere, and therefore continue their opposition, because they are unwilling to have too much of a good thing!

A GENTLEMAN requests us to inform the Public, that he is anxious to provide a Situation for an useful and most honest Servant, who has lived with him for fourteen years. The Gentleman will give full particulars, to any Person applying to him at No. 160, Drury-lane, London, where the Servant is at present.

A Paper, Irish one would naturally suppose it (did we not know it to be French), under the head of the Fashionable World!!

PUN.—A Dentist in Dublin who had raised a considerable fortune, built a house, upon his own plan, of a very whimsical appearance. An English Gentleman, who was passing this singular edifice, expressed his surprize at so extraordinary a mission, observing to CURRAN, the Irish Counsel, that it conformed to no Order of Architecture.—“Yes it does,” said the latter—“it is truly Task-an.”

A story circulated in one of our Papers some time ago, of the Duke of YORK having given a Soldier, who was carrying a roasted Goose, a guinea for himself, and five for his comrades, and having cined upon it himself, is told, with much ingenuity, by the French Journalists, who represent the common price of a Goose in Holland, to have been six guineas, and that His Royal Highness narrowly escaped being starved to death.

The Snuff-box which the PRINCE of WALES lately presented to KEMBLE, was not, as stated, a testimony of his Royal Highness's approbation of KEMBLE'S excellence in Roll, but as a tribute to his general merit as an Aetor. The box is ele- gant enough, but was rendered chiefly acceptable by the very elegant manner in which it was presented.

The Palace of the KING of RECCAR, on the Coast of Ava, is said to be magnificent beyond the power of description. It captains seven idols, in cast gold, of two inches thick, each of a man's height, and covered with diamonds, rubies, and other precious stones. Even the walls reflect a reflexion from the brilliancy of the jewels with which they are decorated, that the eye is inca- pable of beholding their lustre even for a few mo- ments.

We have already mentioned the fire that took place lately in Mr. ERKINE of Mar's house at Altoa: we are happy to understand that all the books and papers, and a considerable part of the furniture, were saved, and most of the pictures. The Antiquary, however, must regret the loss of a picture of MARY QUEEN of SCOTS, painted on copper, and a bason and ewer, the Ambassador's present from QUEEN ELIZABETH to the Earl of MAR, the Treasurer of Scotland, which unfortunately fell a prey to the flames.

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["STERS.", "nges have already\non, in the Adm-\ne of the Late, as\nour Readers will be\nof their respective", "Present.", "D. of PORTLAND.\nBOARD.—Right\nHon. H. S. Percival,\nHon. Marq. of Teich,\nHon. W. Elliott,\nH. S. Bourne, Esq.,\nEarl Carden,\nE. of Westminstord.\nLord Hawkesbury,\nLord Castlereagh,\nHon. H. G. Cunningham,\nLord Mulgrew,\nBOARD.—J. Gau-\nbier, Esq. Sir R. Bich-\nerton, Knight, W. J.\nHope, R. Ward, Ld.,\nPalmerston, J. Bul-\ner, Esq.\nRt. Hon. S. Rose,\nEarl of Chatham.", "Rt. Hon. H. G. Rose.\nSir J. M. Putteney, Bt.\nRt. H. R. S. Dundas,\nRt. Hon. T. Wal-\nace.\nG. Johnstone, Esq.\nRt. Hon. S. Percival.", "Not yet declared.", "Earl Bathurst.\nRt. Hon. G. Rose.\nEarl Bathurst.\nLord C. Somerset.\nRt. Hon. C. Lang,\nHon. R. M. Macartney.\nNot yet declared.\nViscount Sydney.", "W. Huskisson, Esq.\nNot yet declared.", "Hunt, Esq.\nHon. W. W. Pole,\nMr. V. Gibbs, Kn.\nNot yet declared.", "Duke of Richmond.\nNot yet declared.\nMr. A. Wallesley, K.B.\not yet declared.\nNot yet declared.", "Not yet declared.\nHon. R. M. Macartney,\nCampbell, Esq.", "RUSWICK, sister\nthe Princess of\nabout the mid-\nyear on her pas-\nPersonage, it is\nSt. James's.", "to know what be\nmen. A Narem-\ndian respecting the\nelf, though he mar-\nout posterity. His\nMoera, in Saxony,\nof one of whom\nthe wife of the first\npilgrim. She and\nss.\nThe other is\nher hamlet. While\nnities in honour of\negg with poverty", "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PRINCES.", "Amongst other acts which are now pending in the\nHouse, there is one which we cannot but con-\nsider as entitled to peculiar praise; and we will ven-\nture to express our hope, that, whatever may be\nthe result of the present unfortunate dissensions, the\nfate of this Bill will not be affected by it. We here\nallude to the Bill proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the\nEXCHEQUER, on Thursday night—the title of which is,\n“A Bill for altering and amending a Bill passed in\nthe reign of His present Majesty, with respect to the in-\ncreased Allowances to the several Branches of the\nRoyal Family.” The latter Bill, alluded to in the\nabove Title, gives the Allowances to the PRINCES\nonly during the pleasure of His MAJESTY: the Bill,\nproposed by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, ex-\ntends it to the period of their lives. It is doubtless\na political, as it is a natural consideration, that\nthe Sons should be dependent upon the Father; but\na time may most assuredly come, when the KING\nand PRINCES, at that period existing, may not stand\nto each other in this near relation; when, on the\ncontrary, they may be removed from each other by\nthe longest possible interval of collateral consangui-\nnity. The PRINCES, then, will only be the first No-\nbles of the Country. What then would be the effect of\nthe Act proposed by Lord HENRY PETTY, or rather\nof the principle and precedent which it goes to estab-\nlish? Why—in one word—that of rendering the\n establish? Why—in one word—that of rendering the\nHON. HENRY PETTY as another sacrifice, on the part of\nthe present Administration, of Ministerial Power,\nand means of influence and control, to popular\nrights. The present reign will long be distinguished\nin history for having given that noble boon to the\nConstitution—the perfection of the Independence of\nthe Judges. The present Administration will\nlikewise come in for its share of the gratitude of pos-\nterity, for having given independence to the PRINCES;\nfor having established a principle, which, in the pos-\nsible circumstances of future ages, may do more for\npublic liberty than any of the reputed best gifts of\nthe reputed best Administrations.", "The festival of Easter, which sometimes falls so\nlate as the 95th of April, will, in the ensuing year,\n1818, fall on the earliest possible day, 12th, 22d\nMarch; this circumstance will not occur again, till\nthe year 2285, a period of 407 years. The diffe-\nrent moveable feasts and terms, and the summer\ncircuits of the Judges, all which depend on the\nfalling of Easter, will be early in proportion.", "Handbills were issued on Saturday announcing\nan intended pugilistic exhibition in this town, by\nCarter, Gregson, and others; but the Mayor, much\nto the satisfaction of the town, prevented it.—\n(Shrewsbury Paper.)", "ITALY.—In the ruins of Herculeanum there have late-\nby been found loaves which were baked under the reign\nof TITUS, and which still bear the baker's mark, indicat-\ning the quality of the flour, which was probably prescrib-\ned by regulation of the police. There have also been found\nutensils of bronze, which, instead of being tinned like\nouts, are well silvered. The ancients doubtless preferred\nthis method as more wholesome and more durable.", "NEW ADMINISTRATION !", "With that precision and certainty which has ever\nmarked our Communications on the Great Leading\nPolitical Events of Our Day, we have now to state, for\nthe Information of our Readers, and from the most\nundoubted authority, that, yesterday morning, at\nSeven o'Clock,", "Lord ELDON and Lord HAWKESBURY pro-\nceeded to Windsor, in obedience to His MAJESTY's\nCommands, signified to them through the medium\nof His Royal Highness the DUKE of CUMBERLAND.", "At three in the Afternoon, their Lordships re-\nturned to town, and carried to the Duke of PORT-\nLAND—who was prevented by Age and Infirmity\nfrom undergoing the fatigue of the Journey from\nLondon to Windsor—His MAJESTY's directions to\nform a NEW ADMINISTRATION, directing his\nGrace, at the same time, to take for his guidance\nthe Advice and Opinion of Lord LOWTHER and\nLord MELVILLE!!!", "“ MARY'S DREAM.”", "This Scottish Ballad is familiar to most of our\nreaders. The following anecdote is extracted from\nthe *Dumfries and Galloway Courier* :—", "“ On the 8th of May (1817) the writer of this called on Mrs. McLellan, and spent an hour or two with her. The f.l. lowing is the substance of the conversation, which turned chiefly on her early days. Being from the same neighbourhood, and well acquainted with the circumstances of each other's families, I asked her if she recollected the song when she was the celebrated Mary in the song of 'Mary's Dream?' She said that she did perfectly, and repeated, in substance, the much-famed ballad, but observed, that it was somewhat altered from the first composition and recital. I asked her if she did not understand that the Rev. Mr. N. M'Kie, of Crossmichael, had been considered the author of it? She instantly replied, 'Never,'—that Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Lowe alone, composed it; and that he produced it a day or two after the accounts arrived of ' Sandy' or Dr. Miller's' death, who had gone abroad to pursue his profession. The circumstances, she continued, were as follow:—She had mentioned to her sisters, some time previous, that she had seen Sandy Miller, a vision during a fever, when they railed her very harshly about it. One morning, when they were at breakfast, the account of his death was announced; she was much affected, and rose up to go into the garden. She met Mr. Lowe on the stairs, but she did not speak; and when she got into the room he asked what was amiss with Miss Mary? They said she had received bad news, and told him the circumstances; and, in a short time, he produced the ballad. Soon afterwards, he went to the late Mr. Gillespie's, at Kells Manse, and to Mr. Grierson's, at Carroch, and repainted and sung it at both places. Mr. Lowe was, at that time, tutor in the family of Mary, &c. I further asked her, if Mr. N. M'Kie was a poet? She said, certainly he was; and, as a proof of it, she repeated the following stanzas, which she had heard him recite. They were intended as a hit at a Minister of the name of Martin, who also was a rhymer:—", "* Your last performance, my dear youth,\nIndeed it was the best;", "* And yet, some of your bobbing lines\nWill never stand the test.", "* To reuse the lion from his den,\nIt is a dangerous thing;", "* But where's the fear my learned man,\nTo make a Martin sing?", "“The old lady is now living in Mauchester, where she has resided upwards of 20 years. She has the remains of a fine woman's dress, and, although upwards of seventy years of age, she is in full possession of her intellects, and very entertaining to those acquainted with her native district, and the families of that day.", "* To whom Miss Mary McGie was, engaged.", "THE FINE ARTS.", "We have been favoured with the following extract\nof a letter from the celebrated CANOVA to a friend in\nLondon:", "“ PARIS, SEPT. 31.", "“ The cause of the Fine Arts is at length safe into\nport; and it is to the generous and unremitted exer-\ntions of the British Minister, Lord Castlereagh, and\nMr. Secretary Hamilton, that Rome will be indebted\nfor thus triumphing in the demands I came hither to\nmake in her name. What gratitude ought we not to feel\ntowards the magnanimous British nation! Fully does she\ndesire that the arts, in return for this generous act,\nshould join hand in hand to raise a perpetual monument\nto her name; but the best and the more lasting monu-\nment will be engraved in the heart of every Italian,\nwho on beholding the sacred objects torn from their\ncountry, again restored to her, will recollect the nation\nthat stood forth as their advocate for this restitution,\nand will call down upon her the blessings of Providence.", "“ Our work is about to begin. Tuscany, Milan,\nand Venice have retaken all that belongs to them. I\nshall be the last, and will require more time; for the\nobjects claimed by Rome, as you well know, are much\nmore numerous. I am burning with impatience to see\nevery thing packed up and gone; then will I fly across\nthe sea, to satiate in your magnificent metropolis, with\nmy heart at ease, and to embrace you.”", "To this we subjoin extracts from other letters to the\nsame person :", "“ PARIS, OCT. 5.", "“ We are at last beginning to drag forth from this\ngreat cavern of stolen goods the precious objects of art\ntaken from Rome. On the 2d instant, amongst the\nmany fine paintings that were removed, we noticed that\nstupendous production, the Transfiguration, the Com-\nmonion of St. Jerome, the Virgin of Fuligno; the\nnext day several other exquisite pictures came away,\ntogether with the group of Cupid and Psyche, the\nTwo Gluttons', the very ancient bust of Ajaz, and others\nno less precious objects of sculpture. Yesterday the\nDying Gladiator left his French abode, and the Torsa.\nWe remove this day the two first statues in the world,\nthe Apollo and the Laccoon. To-morrow Mercury\nwill quit the Louvre between Flora of the capitol and\nthe Venus. The Muses will follow next, and so on\nto the close of this portentous procession.”", "“ OCT. 9.", "“ In my letter of the 5th instant I informed you of\nwhat we were doing here in regard to the objects of\nart which we are removing from the Museum. The\nmost valuable of them are to go by land, and will set\noff next week, accompanied by the celebrated Venetian\nHorses, and all the other precious articles belonging to\nLombardy, Piedmont, and Tuscany. The convoy will\nbe escorted by strong detachments of Austrian troops.\nThe remainder, which may belong to Rome, will be\nembarked and sent by sea to Italy. Amongst these, I\nam happy to inform you, for I know how much you\nwill rejoice at it, that even all our ancient manuscripts,\nmedals, and other equally valuable objects of antiquity\nwill be included, to the great satisfaction, no doubt,\nof the loyal Denon, and of that eminent Italian\nPatriot, E. A. Visconti, members of the Institute.", "“ P. S. I nearly forgot to tell you, that even the\npaintings and statues lately belonging to the Albani fa-\nmily are to be restored; but I am sorry to say not those\nof the Borghesi. Do not believe all the lies which the\nFrench papers are authorised to pour forth about the\nVenus de Medici. She is still, as she was before, sauc-\net in columnis.", "HAMPDEN'S SWORD.—The most interesting object\nof curiosity in Carlton House is the Armoury, which\ncontains a magnificent collection of ancient arms, dis-\nposed with much taste. Amongst other valuable weapons\nis the identical sword of the celebrated patriot, JOHN\nHAMPDEN, in the highest preservation; the hilt and\nscabbard are ornamented with small bronze figures in\nrelief, representing the history of DAVID and GOLIATH,\nand from the admirable spirit and skill displayed in\ntheir execution, they are supposed by the most intel-\nligent connoisseurs to be the work of the celebrated\nItalian artist, CELLINI, who flourished in the time of\nHAMPDEN.", "The King's House, 1575, 1576, 1577, 1578, 1579, 1580, 1581, 1582, 1583, 1584, 1585, 1586, 1587, 1588, 1589, 1590, 1591, 1592, 1593, 1594, 1595, 1596, 1597, 1598, 1599, 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 1604, 1605, 1606, 1607, 1608, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1612, 1613, 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617, 1618, 1619, 1620, 1621, 1622, 1623, 1624, 1625, 1626, 1627, 1628, 1629, 1630, 1631, 1632, 1633, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1637, 1638, 1639, 1640, 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665, 1666, 1667, 1668, 1669, 1670, 1671, 1

["A FIRST TENOR HUMBLED.—At the time the then celebrated Italian singer FARINELL was at the King's Theatre, after much entreaty, and an extravagant pecuniary reward, he was prevailed upon to sing at a great entertainment given by the grandfather of the present Duke of NORTHLUMBERLAND, who assembled, on this occasion, a large company of the nobility, and other persons of distinction. The musical amateurs were waiting on the tipute of expectation to applaud his warbling, when he rudely sent a verbal message that he was otherwise engaged, and could not possibly come to Northumberland House. His Grace was much mortified, and apologized to his friends for their disappointment. The Duke of MODENA, to whom FARINELL was a subject, being at that time on his tour through England, and one of his Grace's company, dispatched one of his own servants to the singer, with orders for his immediate attendance. FARINELL came—a chair was placed for him in the room, and every person there except the Prince, stood up. \"Does your Grace permit a public singer to sit in your presence?\" exalted his Highness, \"we manage these things better in Italy.\"—\"FARINELL, stand in yonder corner of the room, and sing three of your best songs, in your best manner, to the company, who obeyed you with their notice.\" FARINELL trembled and obeyed, and after his songs, retired with a humble bow, receiving from the Duke of MODENA at the same time a slight nod of approbation.", "The Kaleidoscope has been received by the public with so much pleasure, and so great is the eagerness of families to procure them, that it is thought the ingenuous Dr. BREWSTER would have made an immense sum by the toy, if he had used more precaution in bringing it forward. We doubt, however, whether he could have maintained his claim to the originality of the invention. Indeed, we are persuaded he could not, though from our knowledge of his integrity of character, we believe he thought the invention original. We happen, however, to have now before us a volume printed in 1710, which describes the invention literally, and gives a plate, by which any person might make the instrument. The book is entitled, \"New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, by RICHARD BRADLEY, R.S.\" The instrument is described to be \"a new invention for the more speedy design of garden-plants, whereby we may produce more variety of figures in an hour's time than are to be found in all the modes of gardening now extant.\"", "A Hamburgh Mail arrived yesterday with Papers to the 18th ult. They confirm the death of the King of SWEDEN. THE CROWN PRINCE succeeded by the title of CHARLES JOHN, and issued the following Proclamation:\n\n1818", "We, CHARLES JOHNS, by the Grace of God King of SWEDEN and NORWAY, &c., to all our faithful subjects living and dwelling in Sweden, greeting—", "\"As we, in consequence of the proposal of our late beloved Father, our August King and Sovereign Charles XIII., to the states of the Kingdom of Sweden were unanimously chosen on the 21st August 1810, his successor on the Swedish throne, and at the same time invited by the unanimous voice of the King and the people, accepted this honourable call, though attended with great responsibility. We felt a particular impulse thereto in the events wholly foreign to us, which decided your choice, and which, without our having had any share in them, solely directed your free and independent resolutions. We were there-by taken from that repose which had been our sole aim, and immediately on our arrival here your deceased King received us with the dearest proofs of confidence and friendship, and adopting us as his son, and impressing on your work a more holy seal, which could but increase our obligations and our devotedness to our new country.", "\"During the years that have elapsed since that event, so in-teresting to our heart, we have exerted ourselves to fulfil towards that never-to-be-forgetten and ever beloved Prince, all the duties of a faithful subject and an affectionate son, and have daily received in his paternal never-changing tenderness, the noblest recompence of our endeavours.", "\"This happiness we are no longer to enjoy. Death has deprived us of him, who, in this world, was attached to us with the most meaningful love. From our filial bosom, from the arms of an inconsiderable consort, from the circle of sorrowing relations, from a people of whom he has been twice the deliverer, he departed with the calmness of a sage, with the peace of a good conscience, attended by the consolations of religion, and the tears of gratitude, to receive his eternal reward in a better world.", "The death of the King of SWEDEN is an event of more interest to party feeling than to political power. BERNADOTTE will succeed to the throne, and Sweden will remain precisely as she was. He indeed may fear to meet an ungracious countenance on all sides. He may apprehend that the enemies of Law, now nicknamed Legitimacy, may scowl upon his greatness, as a Child of the Revolution; but if he has been a Child, at least he has not been a Champion of Jacobinism. A soldier of fortune, the French Revolution threw him upon his present eminence, which his superior mind and gracious services to both Danes and Swedes secured to him. He dethroned no Prince by fraud, he trampled down no dynasty by revolutionary ruffian hoofs, he pillaged no country, he insulted no people. The reigning King of SWEDEN, conscious of unmerited unpopularity, in disgust, abdicated the throne, and was legitimately succeeded by his Uncle, a favourite of the people. To prop this change against the power of BUONAPARTE, under which almost all the thrones of Europe were then tottering, BERNADOTTE was called in by the popular party, and appointed next in succession as Crown Prince. He was not indebted to BUONAPARTE or to France for this promotion, but to the humanity and wisdom with which he exercised in the north his authority as a French Viceroy. Revolutionary principles were as well satisfied by this proceeding as the more strict principles of legitimacy. He was a child of the French Revolution, and he was the choice of the People of Sweden, not suddenly elevated to the throne, but to ascend it in due succession, after future services should have confirmed the gratitude which the past had created. Thus his accession must be as popular as it is just and irreproachable.", "But the warm partisans on either side will view it with feelings of more or less dissatisfaction. The Ultra Royalists will frown at the thought of one of BUONAPARTE's Generals becoming an acknowledged Sovereign, established as one of the society of European Kings. But he served the cause essentially in the hour of need. He contributed largely to the re-establishment of the independence of nations. He assisted zealously, ably, and successfully at Leipzig in the overthrow of that gigantic tyranny, to which some thoughtless politicians cannot forget that he had been an adherent. What was MOREAU? What were the present ruling men in France, what most of the Sovereigns and Generals on the Continent?—But, in reality it is the disappointed Jacobins, the Buonaparists, who keep alive calumny against BERNADOTTE, and make dupes of the thoughtless Ultras, by sneeringly reminding them he was a revolutionary General. They burn with resentment against him for having so effectually assisted in the destruction of their idol, and would give justice in his punishment by the friends of regular Government, as that would at once a warning to others against forsaking their infamous cause, and would hold out such an example of the blackest ingrafture on the part of legitimate Princes, as would deter others from serving them, however prompted by conscience, by honour, or humanity. No power in Europe ever insisted on the preservation of Hereditary Sovereigns, in defiance of the express desire of nations. The BOURBONS are less indebted to England than the Jacobins give out. England assisted to overthrow BUONAPARTE.", "A Gentleman, last night, in one of the stage boxes of Drury-lane Theatre, asked another, if he was not enragued with the splendour and mechanism of the new Melo-Drama, as nothing was wanting to make the whole perfect; to which the other replied, there certainly was one serious omission, 'as the Manager ought to have inscribed over the stage, \"licensed to die in spirits.\"", "A Hamburgh Mail arrived last night with Papers to the 1st instant. The following are extracts:\n\n1818", "FUNERAL OF KING CHARLES XIII.", "Yesterday the Herald of the Kingdom proclaimed, with great ceremony, the funeral of the late King, which has taken place to-day. The KING sent invitations to the ceremony of proper Officers, to the CROWN PRINCE, the Princesses ALBANNEA, the Estates of the Kingdom, the Public Bodies and the Constituted Authorities. The Foreign Ambassadors were also informed by letters from the Vice-Master of the Courts that places were reserved for them in the Ritterhold Church.", "To-day the whole way by which the procession passed through the city was laid with black cloth. The guards and armed citizens formed a double line, and the Regiments that have come here on the occasion were drawn up in the squares through which the procession passed on its way to the Church. Every thing being ready, the Marshal of the Kingdom informed the King who, accompanied by the Royal Family, the Commandant of the several Orders, &c. &c. went to the Hall where the body lay, and here the Marshal of the Kingdom, and the threeisters of State, delivered to the King and the CROWN PRINCE the lid of the coffin, which with the latter then closed, themselves; the body was then carried into the Hall, where it was met by all the Generals and Admirals on duty, and carried in the procession.", "The procession was very long and splendid, and the cremation in the Church extremely solemn and striking. The funeral sion was preached by Dr. ROSENSTIESS, Bishop of Linköping.", "All the Foreign ambassadors at Stockholm have been gratulated the New King of SWEDEN, on his accession to the throne, either personally, or in writing.", "SWEDISH OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS", "ADDRESS OF THE STATES GENERAL TO THE INhabitants of SWEDEN, FEB. 19, 1818.", "SIR,—The States General unite to the grief they feel for the loss of a good and dear King, the most lively attachment toward his Majesty. Notwithstanding the ties which bind them to his Majesty, as well of free and unanimous choice, as the dearest est gratitude for your numerous beneficent actions, they can conceal their very humble wishes, that in compliance with custom from time immemorial, the Coronation of your Majesty should take place during the period that the States-General as assembled.", "In submitting this wish, the States-General hope that put your faithful subjects, considering it as a fresh proof of the respect and love you have for them, your concurrence and that your Majesty will not dismiss the States-General, previously to their presenting their homage to your Majesty, as the sovereign Monarch of the Swedish nation.", "REPLY OF THE KING OF SWEDEN TO THE ADDRESS OF THE STATES-GENERAL, FEB. 20, 1818.", "GENTLEMEN,—If any thing could alleviate the profound grief into which I am plunged, by the death of a Memoria, who so much claim to our reverence, it would be the regret felt by the nation for this sad and deplorable event; a respect which the States-General have been foremost in expressing.", "In calling to itself the defender of the State, and the father of his people, Providence decures you from your conscience and obligation should he put to a trial. That Providence which reads in their hearts of men, knows that our grief is sincere. Ahtighty Power will dignify to watch over the two ancient Kingdoms of the North and the South, and to preserve the忠心 of the忠心国家.", "Inheriting his love towards you, I pray Heaven to grant in power to execute all that the tender and generous mind of the Monarch had intended for your welfare.", "In the solicitation you have made, I acknowledge the fidelity of your sentiments towards me; and you may announce to the States-General, that I acquiesce in their entreaties. The ceremony of the Coronation adds to the splendour of their institution. But in consecrating the ties which unite him to the people, it affords to a free Nation, the occasion of paying a solemn respect to him, whom it has invested with legal power, to preserve the rights of every Citizen. At the same time this ceremony recalls to the Prince the general thanks due to a Nation, that finds the accomplishment of its design in the splendour and respect which it bespeaks upon him.", "I feel the most consoling satisfaction in renewing my known sense of the kindness towards the States-General, tively, and to each of its Members in particular.", "This day the\nMAYOR, Mr.\nand Mr. Justi-", "Lawrence, Holland, and Holland, Holland, Holland, Holland, Holland,

OLD BAILEY.—SEPT. 9.

This day the Sessions commenced before the Lord
MAYOR, Mr. Baron GRAHAM, Mr. Justice BAYLEY,
and Mr. Justice FORGING A FRANK.

Lawrence Hynes Halloran, alias W. C. Gregory,
lias Holland, was placed at the bar, charged with
writing and sending a letter by post, the super-
scription of which was forged, in the name of Sir
William Garrow, Knight, Member of Parliament,
for the purpose and with the intent of avoiding pay-
ment of the duty of postage, knowing the same to
be forged.

The prisoner is a man of most respectable appear-
ance and demeanour, and a clergyman; he was
guilty of the charge, and more powder, and is between
50 and 60 years of age; on entering the Court he
bowed first to the Bench, and then to all around. On
the question of guilty or not guilty being put by the
Clerk, he addressed the Court as follows—

> "My Lord, owing to the long period of my con-
> finement on this charge, upwards of 20 months, the
> death, during that period of the only witness who could
> have substantiated my innocence, the exhaustion of
> my pecuniary resources, and my consequent inability
> to employ counsel, or have the advantage of pro-
> fessional advice. I have no alternative left me but to
> plead guilty to the offence with which I am charged."

Mr. Baron GRAHAM advised the prisoner to con-
sider well the effects of this plea before he persisted
in it.

Prisoner—"My Lord, I have no alternative: I
stand here unarmed and defenceless, against a phalanx
of powerful opponents arrayed against me, and de-
termined to persecute. It would be a waste of your
Lordship's time to plead not guilty. I must persist
in my plea."

Mr. Baron GRAHAM observed, if the prisoner per-
sisted in his plea of guilty, it must be taken that he
was satisfied with the justice of the charge. The only
object which the Court could have was to bring truth
to light. He might plead not guilty if he chose, and
thus promote inquiry; but he ought not to plead
guilty, and whilst doing so, so impute vindictive mo-
tions to those who proceeded. His plea of guilty
must be taken as an acknowledgment of the truth of
the charge.

A Solicitor who was in Court said he had some
knowledge of the prisoner, and would, with his Lord-
ship's permission, advise him. The Court desired
he would do so, and he went to the prisoner for that
purpose.

The prisoner, however, refused his proffered ser-
vices, and observed, "I have decided to plead guilty."
His plea was then taken, and he bowed to the Court,
and retired.

On Friday morning, at the sitting of the Court,
the bar and dock were filled with prisoners to be ar-
rgained for passing forged Bank-notes, in the whole
88. The first, who was a youth, pleaded guilty to
the capital charge, and not guilty to the indictment,
which only subjected him to transportation, and ap-
peared to be in evident confusion. Mr. Harmer, the
solicitor, seemed to lack anent his defence. The Court
that the prisoner had acted under mistake,
and wished to retract and reverse his pleas, if the
Court would allow him the indulgence; his applica-
tion was immediately granted, and different pleas re-
corded.

While this was proceeding, Mr. Brown, the keeper,
went on the Bench, and informed the Common Ser-
jeant and the Aldermen, that he received a note from
the Bank-solicitor at nine o'clock the preceding
dnight, to bring the prisoners into Court that morning
to plead; and that the greater part of them had not
been acquainted with the fact of the indictments
being found against them till that morning; they
were consequently in great agitation and indecision,
as to the course they ought to adopt, and probably
wished to consult with their solicitors or friends, be-
fore they risked their lives, or subjected themselves
to certain transportation for 14 years. Whereupon
the Common-Serjeant, with great humanity, desir-
the arraignment of those prisoners might not
ceed, but stand adjourned.

THE ARCHDUKE MAXIMILIAN.

The Archduke Maximilian, immediately on his ar-
rival in this city, was waited on by the Lord Provost,
Lord Advocate, General Hope, Rear Admiral Ot-
way, &c., and offered a guard of honour, which, how-
ever, his Imperial Highness declined, as he travels
incog. under the title of Count Roverella. On Sun-
day, the Archduke attended mass in the Catholic
chapel; and at the conclusion of the service, Mr.
Corri, in complement to the royal visitor, ordered the
band to sing Hadyn's celebrated hymn, "God save
the Emperor Francis." On Monday and Tuesday,
his Imperial Highness visited all the public buildings
and institutions worthy the notice of the stranger.
On Tuesday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, accompanied
by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Lord Advo-
cate, &c. &c. and his Imperial Highness's suite, he vi-
sited the Castle of Edinburgh, at the gate of which they
were received by Major-General Hope, commanding
his Majesty's forces in North Britain; Lord Robert
Kerr, Sir Gregory Way, the Deputy Adjutant-Gen-
to the forces; Lieut.-Col. McGregor, commanding
the garrison Brigade; Major Lindsay, and Fort-
Major Alves, who accompanied his Imperial High-
ness through the Castle, the armoury, &c., with the
whole of which the royal visitor was much struck,
and he also expressed his admiration of the view from
the castle, of the magnificent scenery which surrounds
the city of Edinburgh. His Imperial Highness, ac-
companied as above, afterwards attended at the half-
yearly inspection of his Majesty's 88th regiment,
upon Burntfares Links, and was pleased to express
his marked approbation and satisfaction of the ge-
neral appearance, manœuvres, and excellent fiding
performed by that distinguished corps. Wednesday
morning, at half-past ten, his Imperial Highness,
tended by the Lord Advocate, Major-General Hope,
the Deputy Adjutant-General, Sir G. Way, Lord
Robert Kerr, and the North British Staff, proceeded
to the sands at Portobello, where they reviewed the
6th, or Enniskillen Dragoons, commanded by Colonel
Stratton; and the Lord Duke was much gratified with
the high perfection of discipline and manoeuvring of
that distinguished regiment, and paid several very
flattering compliments to its commanding officer.
The party afterwards returned to Piershill barracks,
where his Imperial Highness inspected the regional
school of the 6th dragoons, and heard the children
read, and examine; their progress in writing, &c.,
which institution afforded him the greatest satisfac-
tion; and after going through some of the barracks
rooms, which were in the highest possible order, the
party partook of an elegant cold collation, provided
by Colonel Stratton and the officers of t' e 6th dra-
goons. His Imperial Highness, attended by the
Lord Advocate, afterwards went to Leith, where he
was met by the Lord Provost, and proceeded to view
the docks and other public places there. Yesterday,
the Lord Provost entertained the Archduke and suite,
at dinner, at which many of the Nobility and prin-
cipal inhabitants were present, and on which occa-
sion his Lordship presented his Imperial Highness
with the freedom of the city, which had been voted to
him by the Town Council in the forenoon.—Caledo-
nian Mercury.

Who is M. MARON? He is President of the Pro-
testant Consistory at Paris. Is it possible that so re-
spectable a character would write in strains so opposite ?
We can only say, that either he is a changed man, or he
is not of the number who would lay down his life rather
than forfeit his consistency. In The Moniteur of Jan.
24, 1809, we find the following address from M. MA-
RON TO BONAPARTE.
"Spre—The Consistory of the Reformed Consistorial Church
of the Department of Seine is eager to felicitate your Ma-
jesty on the new dangers which you have surmounted, on the
new lauris which you have gathered, on the new strides which
you have taken towards the honourable ouagest of peace —
Sire, the Consistory blesses Dnyne, Pasinques, the constant
Guide and Preserver of your Majesty, and implores his uniera-
ted benedictions."

On the return of the BOURBONS, M. MARON thus
eulogized them in similar address :—

> "Our hearts, too long compressed in common with those of
> all Frenchmen, now overflow with joy and hope—we dare now
> unburthen them candidly at the foot of the THRONE. Inwar't lie
> in the principles of our constitution, and in the principles of
> obedience and fidelity. Our efforts for the public welfare ac-
> cording to our means, shall be so zealous as our homage is pure
> and sur vows sincere. Under what auspices can our interests
> be better guaranteed, or our rights more secure, than under
> these of the worthiest of the world?

MARON is also distinguished as one of the best Latin
Poets of modern times. His hero, however, was uni-
formly NAPOLEON, a circumstance which produced a
severe epigram from the Parisian wits, and which we
have thus Englished on the spur of the moment :—

Where's Great Napoleon ranges,
On dactyl and on spousede of the bet,
The flatt'ring MARON rings the changes;

But, by the ghost of CALVIN, I protest,
That MARON is NO VIRGIL and no Hero,
And his AUGUSTUS is a very NERO!

On Sunday, two very able and impressive discourses
were delivered in the outer High Church of Glasgow,
in consequence of the lamented death of the Rev. Dr.
Balfour. In the forenoon, the Rev. John Campbell,
D.D. the moderator of the General Assembly, preached,
and in the afternoon the Rev. Dr. Ranken, one of the
Ministers of Glasgow, delivered a most admirable and
affecting Sermon. The Church, by order of the Ma-
gistracy, was hung very deeply in black, and the tears
of an affectionate flock, to whom he had been con-
nect ed above forty years, shewed the deep regard they
had uniformly felt for Dr. Balfour. The Church,
though large, could not contain one-sixth of the
persons who came to it, and many of those who had
been attached to the venerable deceased were prevented
by the immense crowd from even obtaining access to the
door of the church. Not a single eye in church was
dry during the service, especially among those who
knew the deceased, and to whom his labours had for
forty years been particularly endearing.

Died, on Friday, the 20th October, in the Upper Lodge,
Windsor Castle, at the advanced age of 52, General Budé, after
an illness of a few weeks. He was a native of the Pays de Vaud,
in Switzerland, and very early in life entered the service of
the Prince of Orange, uncle to his present Majesty, our Sovereign,
as a page and with a military commission. He subsequently ob-
tained a higher rank in a Swiss regiment raised for the Sardinian
service. About the year 1775, he was introduced to his Ma-
jesty's notice by the late Lord Holdenese, then governor to
the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, and was appointed
sub-governor to Prince William and Prince Edward, the former
of whom he accompanied to Hanover. Upon the formation of
the Duke of York's Establishment, his Royal Highness appointed
him his secretary; and General Budé continued to enjoy his
Royal Highness's warm friendship and confidence to the close
of his days.—The King, in reward of his faithful services, and
to mark his sense of his excellent character, and of his zealous
attachment, conferred upon him the rank of General in the Ha-
noverian service, with many other instances of Royal favour,
and General Budé, having fixed his residence in England, at
all times admitted to his Majesty's private circle, and honour-
ed with marks of regard and affection, which were equally shown
to him by the Queen and all other branches of the Royal Family,
under whose friendly roof he closed his long and meritorious
career, sincerely lamented by them, and by all who knew him
as a worthy man, a sincere and valuable friend, and an amiable
and cheerful member of society; indeed, few individuals have
endeared themselves in a greater degree than he did, to a nume-
rous and respectable circle of friends and acquaintance. He died
unmarried, but has left near relations in Switzerland.

ight with Papers to
extracts :—

CHRON.
MARCH 22,
1736.

Correlated, with great care, which has taken place
between the ceremony to the
the Princess of the
the Public Bodies and
the Ambassadors were
faster of the Ceremo-
nies in the Ritterhoim
Church. Everything
informed the King,
the Commander of
the Hall where the
belfry was to be
and the three Ill-
led the Crowns Pater
noster, and the Mass
in the Hall, when
on duty, and came
out of the Church.

Session passed, through
wards and armed citu-
lents which have come
into the squares through
the Church. Everything
informed the King,
the Commander of
the Hall where the
belfry was to be
and the three Ill-
led the Crowns Pater
noster, and the Mass
in the Hall, when
on duty, and came
out of the Church.

and did, the ceremony
of which was to be
held in the Church.
The funeral of
Bishop of Linköping.

Stockholm have co
on his accession
 sitting.

CUMENTS.

AL TO THE KIN
1818.

grief they feel for the
attachment towards
which bind them to
the King, as the de-
partments of his Roy-
gency-General are
in compliance with
the order of your Ma-
jesty.

In general hope that
the respect and love
in your Concentrate
States-General, for
your Royalty, as to
the address of the
King.

TO THE ADDRESS
FEB. 20, 1818.

The profoundest
Monarch, who, in
the regret felt by
the loss which he
sustained, and the
agitation of his
heart, and the father
of the late King, and
the father of his
successor, informed the
Court that the prisoner had acted under mistake,
and wished to retract and reverse his pleas, if the
Court would allow him the indulgence; his applica-
tion was immediately granted, and different pleas re-
corded.

knowledge the fidelit
may announce to the
city. The ceremony
of the obligations or
taking the ties white
the hands of the late
King, has invested him
with the title of the
Prince. The grattin
g of the keys in his
hand.
rewing his
no
reserves General
far.

C B.

["MR. KEMBLE'S FAREWELL.", "Yesterday a large concourse of the friends of his great actor assembled at Freemans' Tavern, to mark their respect for him as a man, as well as their admiration of his professional excellence, by a farewell dinner on his retirement from the stage. Lord HOLLAND took the Chair. Lords HARRINGTONS, ABERDEEN, MULGRAVE, MOUNTJOY, and several other persons of rank were present, as well as ANACREON MOORE, Mr. CAMPBELL, author of *The Pleasures of Hope*, Mr. Rogers, and many other literary characters, and the chief Performers of both Theatres. Lord HOLLAND, after the cloth was removed, pronounced a high and just panegyric on Mr. KEMBLE, as an actor and a man. Mr. KEMBLE, called upon by the vehement applause of the company, addressed them with great feeling and effect. An excellent Ode for the occasion, written by Mr. CAMPBELL, was admirably recited by Mr. YOUNG, the actor. We have only room to add, that the day passed off with great conviviality, and in a manner in the highest degree honourable to the Actor who was the subject of the celebration, and of the profession of which he was so great an ornament.", "The Performers of Drury-lane Theatre, anxious to record their testimony of respect for the advantages derived from Mr. KEMBLE's professional exertions, appointed a deputation, consisting of Messrs. DOWTON, JOHNSTONE, and HOLLAND, to wait on him, and to express their regret at his retirement from the stage. These Gentlemen were introduced to Mr. KEMBLE yesterday, when Mr. RAE addressed him in the following words: Jane 1917", "“Mr. KEMBLE.—SIR—Mr. DOWTON, Mr. HOLLAND, Mr. JOHNSTONE, and myself, as a deputation from all the Performers of Drury-lane Theatre, have the honour to wait on you to offer our sincere thanks for your continued support, and to express our sincere regret that we must, through the loss of your presence in our:—in the expression of our feelings, they will not be the less acceptable. As the representatives of Drury-lane Theatre, we proudly feel that there you attained and perfected the high professional character, which is now deservingly drawing forth every mark of public estimation; and we beg to assure you that we fully participate in those general feelings of admiration and respect. We truly feel that you have added a dignity to the Profession—both for your genius in the art itself, and by the force of your example in private life. We take our leave of you, wishing you the enjoyment of your health, and with our earnest hope that the remainder of your life may, in every respect, be as happy as it has hitherto been serviceable and instrumental to learning and the stage.”—We need not add that Mr. KEMBLE was much affected.", "A whimsical circumstance occurred in connection with the thunderstorm in Taunton on Monday last, upon the persons who was struck down by the lightning, upon his head, and much commiseration was bestowed on the accident. The electric fluid was immediately charged with having performed a feat, it not having occurred to the asBESTON crowd, that the object of their attention was a wily, which had treacherably deserted him at the moment of his fall.—(Taunton Courier.)", "A Jewish Rabbi, his wife, and two sons, were\nbaptized at Rome, in the Church of the Twelve Apostles, on\nthe 21st day. After the ceremony of Baptism was concluded,\nthe Rabbi and his wife received the haptual benefit ion, from\nhis Excellence Cardinal Morozzo. This man is JACOB ROBACOS,\nof Leghorn, 33 years old, and son of ZACHARIAN and RACHEL\nLEVT. The Seigneur JOSEPH CELANT was his godfather, and his\nwife had the Countess LUCRICE ROSPILIOSE RIPPENTI for her\ngodmother.", "The Emperor of AUSTRIA is said to have purchased\nboth the *Venus de Medicis* and the *Apollos Belvidere*.\nWhen the former was removed from the Louvre, Sir\nT. LAWRENCE, Mr. CHANTY, and CANOVA, were\npresent; and it is said that the two latter shed tears.\nBut why a British and an Italian sculptor should la-\nment the removal of any statue from a French gallery\nmay not conceive, and therefore doubt the anecdote.\nA German Officer, it is added, kissed her and laughed\nat them. Surely he was the wisest of the party.", "All the female part of the establishment at Brighton\nPavilion are changed without any exception, and a\nnew housekeeper is appointed in the room of Mrs.\nSMITH, who has resigned in consequence of indisposition.\nShe is succeeded by a Miss WHITE, from\nBerkshire.", "THE LATE EARL OF WILTON.—The late Earl of\nWilton, who died a few weeks since, was descended\npaternally from the ancient family of Egerton, of Eger-\nton, in the county of Chester. In the female line, he\nwas derived from Bridget, daughter of Arthur, and el-\ndest sister and co-heir to Thomas, the last Lord Grey\nde Wilton, who died in 1614. By the marriage of\nthis Lady with Sir Rowland Egerton, who was created\na Baronet by King James the First, in 1617, his Lord-\nship had a claim to the old Baron of Grey de Wilton,\nand by reason thereof was advanced (under a new title)\nadvanced by letters patent, in 1784, to the ad-\nward of Baron Grey de Wilton, to hold to him, and\nto his issue-male. In 1801, he was farther advanced\nto the dignity of Viscount Grey de Wilton, and\nEarl of Wilton, with limitation over, to the se-\ncond and other younger sons of his daughter, the pre-\nsent Countess Grosvenor. His Lordship having died\nwithout issue male, the Peerage honours pass according\nto their limitation; but the old Baronetcy devolves up-\non John Egerton, of Egerton and of Oulton, Esq.\nM. P. for the City of Chester, who is the 7th Baronet\nin succession, and is also the principal male representa-\ntive of the Egerton name and family, and the only heir\nmale of the body of Sir Rowland Egerton, the first\nBaronet, by his Lady the Hon. Bridget Grey de\nWilton.", "WILL OF THE LATE SIR W. WYNNE.", "The personal effects of Sir Wm. Wynne, late Judge of the Pariogestive Court, Doctors Commons, were sworn under 180,000l. upon which the Probate duty was 2400l. He bequeaths by his will a legacy of 40,000l. to his niece, Lady Stapleton; and to her three younger children 8000l. each. To the four younger children his nephew, Henry Bankes, Esq. of Old Palace-yard, Westminster, and of Kingston Hall, in the county of Dorset (his sole Executor) also 8000l. each. To the College of Advocates, Doctors Commons, 500 guineas; and to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, all his Furniture, Linen, &c. in the Master's Lodge at Trinity Hall.—The other legacies are very trifling, and the residue of his personal property is left to the said Henry Bankes, Esq. and Lady Stapleton. All his real estates in the counties of Flint, Merioneth, and Caernarvon, are devised to John William Bankes, son of his Executor. The Will is dated 25th April, 1815. Sir William died in December last. The Prostate is dated on the 23d inst.", "THE MARCHIONESS OF SLIGO'S PROPERTY.", "Letters of administration, with the will annexed, of the most Honourable Louisa Catherine Marchioness of Sligo were granted by the Prerogative Court, in Doctors' Commons, on the 20th ult. (Sir William Scott, the husband of the testatrix, consenting, to the most Honourable Howe Peter, Marquis of Sligo, the son and sole Executor.)", "The personal property within the province of Canterbury, is stated to be under 25,000l.", "The most considerable legacy is 20,000l. to Count Joseph Constantine William Ludlow.", "There is also an annuity of 300l. to George Caldwell, Esq. of Jesus College, Cambridge, and to the Marchioness's sister, Charlotte Baronee Howe.", "To the Hon. Marianne Curzon and to Richard Penn Curzon, niece and nephew of the Marchioness, the sum of 100l. each.", "To Thomas Metcalfe, Esq. of New-square, Lintolin's Inn, 300l.", "To the Hon. Sophia Walpole, widow of the late Robert Walpole, a Clerk of the Privy Council, and afterwards Envoy in Portugal, 500l. These are the principal bequests. The residue is left to the Marquis. 20,000l. legacy is directed to be raised by the sale of such part of the real or personal estate as may be necessary. The will, which is dated on the 3d of February, 1816, is stated to be made in pursuance of settlements executed previous to her marriage, and the devise of the real estates is made with an exception of certain parts thereof, in which Sir William Scott is stated to have a life interest.", "IT IS A CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE, NOT GENERALLY KNOWN,\nTHAT OUR VENERABLE AND BELOVED MONARCH SHOULD\nhave been the builder of the Royal Cemetery, at Windsor,\nand that he should have lived to see three generations (his\ndescendants) buried before himself.", "On Tuesday last died, at his house in Serjeant THOS. BRUCE BRUDEDEL, Earl of Aylesbury, Baron Bruce and Knight of the Thistle. His Lordship was born in 1730; married February 17, 1761, SUSANNAH daughter of HENRY HOARE, Esq. and widow of Charles BOYLE, Viscount Dungarvon, by whom (who died Feb. 4, 1783) he had issue CHARLES Lord Prace, born Feb. 14, 1778, who married April 10, 1793, HENRIetta MARIA daughter of NOEL, first Lord Betwick. Let BRUCE succeed his father in his titles and estates.", "Died at his seat, Slindon House, Sussex, on May 11, 1814, the Right Hon. JAMES ANTHONY RADCLIFFE, Earl of Newburgh. His Lordship was grandson of Lady MARY TUDOR, natural daughter of CHAUCER, the 11d.; dying without issue, the titles devolve on his first cousin, FRANCIS EYRE, Esq. of Hasset, Deeshire, whose mother, Lady MARY RADCLIFFE, was sister to the deceased Earl's father. The whole of his Lordship's estates, on the Countess of NEWBURGH's death, descend to the present Earl's family.", "LONDON:", "THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1817.", "WE RECEIVED YESTERDAY the Paris Papers of Salis\nlast.", "SIR CHARLES STUART, the British Ambassador at Paris, officially communicated to the KING on Sunday the afflicting intelligence of the death of the process Charlotte, and the same day orders issued for the Court going into mourning for those days, to commence on Tuesday last.", "A series of Jamaica Gazettes, to the 17th century, had been received, but they do not contain any news of importance. The melancholy tidings of the process Charlotte's death were received there with the same consternation and sorrow which they produced in England. The House of Assembly was prorogued on the 20th Dec. till the 27th of last month, and in the speech with his Grace the Duke of MANCHESTER delivered the occasion, he adverted to the cordiality which proved between himself and the legislature.", "STOCKHOLM, MARCH 11, 1814.", "On the Sunday after the death of King CHARLES XII., will be opened in the presence of the King, of the Speaker of the Four Estates, the Chief Marshal of the Kingdom, the three Ministers of State, and the Chancellor. By this will, which was dated the 10th July, and which was signed by the Chief Marshal, Count Essex, and by the Minister of State and Justice, Count TYLVINSBOURG, as witnesses, the King departs to her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER all the money in his private coffers, and the chateau of Rosenberg, with its dependencies, for her life; the diamonds and other personal property of the late KING was left to his present Majesty. The King has, however, offered the whole, together with the diamonds, to the Queen for her life, after which he gives it to the Crown. The Queen DOWAGER has asked the King's permission, that the diamonds and his late MAJESTY may be already considered as the property of the Crown from this moment. It is believed that the late King will be shortly printed and published.", "A Treaty between Russia and Sweden has been published which is a Supplement to the Treaty of Fredericksburg, and was concluded on the 10th Sept. 1817; it is in 16 Articles, and its object is to afford facilities to the trade between Sweden and Spain, and between Norway and the White Sea. Its duration fixed for eight years, commencing Jan. 1, 1818.", "THE WILL", "His Grace did not stoke, his ancient considerably au- very large mortars borrows come of this debt, interests in his own, and of his own, and of his own

["THE WILL OF THE LATE DUKE OF NORFOLK.", "His Grace died possessed of the Barony of Grey-\nstoke, his ancient patrimonial inheritance, which he\nconsiderably augmented, but which he leaves subject to\nvery large mortgages and annuities, arising chiefly from\nmonies borrowed to make that augmentation. The in-\ncome of this estate is appropriated to the payment of\ndebts, interests and certain annuities, until the son of\nMr. Howard Molyneux (brother of the present Duke\nof Norfolk, and for many years Representative of the\nCity of Gloucester) comes of age in 1823. The\nBarony is then to be entailed on him, on the two sons\nof Mr. Howard, of Corby, on a son of Mr. Edward\nHoward, and on the younger sons of Lord Andover,\nin succession. His Grace has inherited and acquired\nconsiderable estates in the counties of Sussex and Sur-\nvey, the greater part of which he has, since his\n1802, by exchanges and sales, passed to his family set-\ntlement. He has directed his personal property, and\nthe remainder of his estates in those counties and else-\nwhere, to be sold (subject to a right of pre-emption to\nhis successor at ten per cent. under value) for the pay-\nment of all his debts and mortgages, and to create there-\nby a fund to pay the before-mentioned annuities, and\nother special annuities given in his life time, to a large\namount, which it is presumed that the income from his\nvarious properties cannot without such sales provide for.\nHis Grace divides the reversionary interest in the fund\nthus created, and the overplus of the income, when any\nshould arise, into five parts. Of these he bequeaths two-\nfifths to purchase an estate to be occupied on General Sir\nKenneth Howard and his sons; one other fifth he gives\nto Mr. Howard, of Corby, who has for many years\nhis Grace's auditor, and whom he has appointed\nexecutor; he charges the remaining two-fifths, with a\nfew legacies, and with three years wages to all his me-\nmentaries; bequeathing the residue of the same to\nMr. Howard Molyneux. His Grace's personal estate\nconsists chiefly of articles of rents, a collection of books,\n&c. &c. He was in the enjoyment, without purchase,\nof the household furniture, plate, linen, libraries, &c.\nat Norfolk House, Worksop Manor, and Arundel Castle,\nwhich were entailed as heir looms by Edward\nDuke of Norfolk.", "FUNERAL OF THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.", "The procession left Norfolk House, St. James's-\nsquare, about nine o'clock on Saturday morning, com-\nposed of the coach and six horses of his Royal High-\nness the Duke of Sussex, and nearly twenty other No-\nblemen's and Gentlemen's carriages, and arrived at\nBurford Bridge at four, from which place, a mile and\na half from Dorking, the body was conveyed in state\nto the town. The cavalcade con-isted of the Duke's\nGentleman on horseback, fully caparisoned, bearing the\ncushion of crimson velvet before the hearse. The\nchief mourners were, the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl\nof Surrey, Lord Viscount Andover, Henry Howard, jun.\nHis servants and Henry Howard of Corby Castle in Cumber-\nland. The Gentlemen of the Duke's Household with\nhis servants followed in six crimson coaches, and the\nDeputy Garter King of Arms, Norroy King of Arms,\nand the Three Puisants, attended in the ta-\nbards of State to perform the ceremonies usual at the\nfuneral of the Earl Marshal of England.", "When arrived at the Church-yard-gate, the proce-\nsion was met by the Vicar of Dorking, assisted by the\nRev. James Dallaway, Earl Marshal's Secretary, and\nMr. Symonds, the Duke's domestic Chaplain, and the\nfoot procession was marshalled by the Heralds, Norroy\nKing of Arms bearing the Coronet.", "After the funeral service Deputy Garter proclaimed\nthe style and titles, and breaking the staves threw them\ninto the grave.", "The coffin was covered with crimson velvet with\nsilver ornaments, and the arms were engraven upon a\nplate of silver gilt with the subjoined inscription :", "Deposition", "MURILLOIIM PRINCIPIUM", "1816", "Caillot Howard, Duc de Norfolk.", "gareuq jquid quod alijque alijque patiisqurisquris ab\nnox alijque alijque alijque patiisqurisquris ab", "LATE DUKE OF NORFOLK'S PLATE.", "Yesterday, about 7000 quinces of the late Duke of\nNorfolk's massive sideboard plate came under the\nhammer of Mr. Christie. On this occasion, a number\nof persons of rank and fashion were present, and the\nwhole of the lots sold extremely well. The following\nwere the most prominent articles.", "A pair of noble and richly chased Ice Pails, with dolphin\nhands, and has-reliefs in compartments; the whole de-\nsigned in massive and bold taste.", "Knocked down to the Earl of Surrey at 15s. 7d. per cent.", "A magnificent Turon of foreign silver, of scolloped oval share, supported by two lilies resting on a plateau, with a border of bold design, the cover surmounted by various fruits beau-\ntifully lined.", "Purchased by Mr. Garrard for 250 quinces.", "A noble Flaggon of carved Ivory, with various mythological figures in alto relief, of fine execution, the chased ornaments of the handle, cover, and plinth, executed in rich taste, centrale, sculture, and cyry; underneath is the artist's name: \"Juno 1651, Bernardus Goldschamnigel von Marck- dorf am Bodensee fest.\" A \"Fantea\" case and case to ditto.", "Bought by Mr. Garrard for 173. 5s.", "A pair of silver-gilt Snifters, with the royal arms and initials of King Edward VI. with insertion, engraved \"God save the Kynges Edwarde, we gethe all his noble Council.\"", "Purchased by Mr. Garrard for 23d.", "A noble Tankard, silver gilt, with large compartment on the one comprising a plate of the Gods, in exquisi-\ntions relief, the other, Apollo and Diana slaying the children of Nave, on the lid is represented, Alexander\nvisiting the Tent of Darius: the handle fashioned as a syreny.", "Knocked down at 571. 10s.", "magnificent Candelabrum, of silver, richly gilt, and chased, supporting a group of two beautiful female figures, sup-\nporting a basket, &c., from which spring one central and six other branches, of elegant form, for lights; a pedestal sup-\nports the grange; also, a detached circular plinth, silver\ngilt, to receive the same.", "Bought by Mr. Fisher for 771. 3s.", "silver-gilt Præferrum, with a figure of a satyr embracing\nornamented with testones suspended from a goat's mask in\nfront.", "THE EARL OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.", "Died, at Sunday night, between ten and eleven\no'clock; at Robert Hobart, in Hamilton-place, the Right\nHon. Robert Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire, in\nthe 56th year of his age. His Lordship's previous\nillness, which was of the duration of between two and\nthree months, arose from being thrown from his horse\nin St. James's Park. After this accident, he was\nadvised to go to Bath, where his medical attendants\ncandidly told him there was no hopes of his recovery.\nHe was afterwards at his own desire, removed by\nslow and easy stages to London, and arrived at his\nhouse, in Hamilton-place, a few days since, after\nbeing near four days on the road. His Lordship was\nPresident of the Board of Control for the Affairs of\nIndia, Clerk of the Pleas in the Exchequer in Ireland,\nA Member of the Cabinet, &c. &c.", "His Lordship's public services in various most im-\nportant diplomatic situations, and as a faithful and up-\nright Minister of the Crown, will occupy a conspicu-\nous place in the history of his country, which has\nseldom had to lament the loss of a man more confided\nin by his Sovereign, more honoured by his colleagues,\nmore respected by all political parties, or more estima-\ntible in the discharge of all his duties.", "His Lordship married, first, in January, 1792,\nMargaretta, relict of Thomas Adderley, of Innishan-\nnon, in the county of Cork, Esq. who died in 1796,\nby whom he had issue one daughter; and, secondly,\nEleanor Agnes Eden, daughter of the late Lord\nAuckland.", "THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S WILL.—The follow-\ning are the leading particulars of his Grace's will :", "To Miss LE CLERK, his Grace has bequeathed 2000. a. each.", "To his three daughters by Mrs. BENNETT, 10,000. each.", "To Mrs. BENNETT, the estate of Earl Court, at present let to LORD ALBEMARLE, at 200. a.", "To the second son of the present Duke, the estate of Utenhor.", "His Grace directed that his body should be open-\ned, which was accordingly done, and filled with\nslack line. He had been long of opinion, that he\nhad a particular complaint in his bowels, which\nbaffled all medical art either to discover or remove.", "The remains of Lord ARUNDEL are to be removed\nthis day from Bath, for interment in the family vault at\nWardour Castle.", "DEATH OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.", "217", "1617", "On Thursday, 20th January, died, at Blenheim, aged 78 years, his Grace. George, the third Duke of Marlborough. No death has occurred for many years past, can have been more severely felt than that of his Grace's will; he was the last indigent husband, the best of parents; kind and generous in the extreme to all his relatives, and will be bitterly lamented by all the poor within the wide circuit of his princely domains. The first Duke still deservedly called a retirement. The Great Duke of Marlborough,\" the late Duke will, for many years, be remembered as \"The Good Duke of Marlborough.\" The day before his death, the Duke took his usual exercise in his carriage, and did not show any symptoms of an approaching dissolution. The last part of his Grace's life was spent in retirement at Blenheim, Brighton, Slon-house, and Marlborough-house; for his town residence may be called a retirement, as he very nearly ended the life of his son, and mixed in the fashionable circles of the great. He was four years past, can have been at least ten years before the retirement of his father. But the Great Duke of Marlborough, at whose coronation he carried the冠, on the cross, on the 23d of August, 1762, his Grace married : Lady Caroline Rus-\nsell, daughter of John Duke of Bedford, who died November\n26th, 1781. On November 24th, 1762, being then Lord Cham-\ncorn, of the House of Hanover, his Grace was sworn of the Privy\nCouncil; and upon his resigning the Chamberlain's key, was on\nApril 22d, 1763, appointed Lord Privy Seal; but his son, 1767,\nquitted that place. In 1768, he was chosen one of the\nelder brethren of the Trinity House. At a chapter of the most\nNoble Order of the Word, held at St. James's, Dec. 17th, 1768,\nHis Grace was elected one of the Knights Companions of that\nOrder, and was installed at Windsor, July 24th, 1771. He was\nalso one of the Governors of the Charter-house; High Steward of\nthe Corporation of Oxford; President of the Radcliffe In-\nfirmary; High Steward of the Corporation of Woolstow; and\nRanger of Highwood Forest.", "LADY PENRYN'S WILL.", "1816", "The following are the numerous wills of that be-\nnevolent character, viz.:", "To Mrs. Fury, with other valuable\nBenjamin Wyatt, Esq.\nJames Greenfield, Esq.\nTo every Servant one year's pay, 10l. each for second\nmourning, exclusive of the following Legacies:—", "To John Mann, Butler\n400", "Mrs. Lough, Housekeeper\n500", "Ann Lough, Lady's own Servant, her wardrobe, with an\nasylum of rool, per annum for life, and an annuity to\nher for each of her Ladyship's three pug dogs, during\ntheir lives, 40l. each", "Elizabeth Kent\n900", "Mary Harris\n900", "Margaret Golding\n300", "Charles James, Footman\n300", "George Moore, ditto\n300", "James Leastet. Under Butler\n300", "William Gatfioth, Coachman\n300", "John Capper, Groom, and with the care of seven horses\nand seven dogs, for each horse 45l. and each dog 2l.\nper annum during their lives", "James Wilkman, Groom\n300", "William Nicholls, Gardener, 30l. and for his eldest\ndaughter 30l.", "Ann Howen, a girl her Ladyship brought up, 20l. per\nannum for life.", "George Goody, her former Coachman\n200", "Should any one be induced to smile at the legacies\nfor dogs, their attention should be recalled to the fol-\nlowing list of years of service of some of her Lady

Embarze.—Notwithstanding all the attempts of Bonaparte, trade still finds its way, and orders for cloth for the French *arm* have been executed in the West-riding of Yorkshire to the amount of *forty thousand pounds*, and the money paid for it immediately.

Bonaparte has long considered his *Engles* as in-
vincible. His irritation and anger will have no bounds when he finds that so many of them have taken flight from Portugal to England.

A poor fiddler was examined lately in the Bo-
rough for having a dance in his apartments, and
having taken money from the company. On being asked by the Magistrate what he had to offer in his defence, he said, " that he came out of Kent, where it was neither considered illegal nor mbecoming in any man to obtain a livelihood by *hops*."

One of the old Bath tabbies being very anxious
to know the name of the Apothecary's wife who
became a *dreg* upon her husband's hands, had her
curiosity satisfied at the instant by an elderly Lady
present, who assured her it was " Sal Volatile "

An Irishman being detected in the act of picking a gentleman's pocket of his watch, was taken be-
fore the庭 for examination for the offence, who, after hearing the case, told him he must stand e* mitted, as the theft was brought home to him.—" Ah!" cried Pat, " then how could I *stall* the watch?"

When the late Lord O. was angry at being con-
traded by a certain *crooked* wit, a by-standin
g friend exclaimed, " Why waste your breath, my
Lord—don't you see he's bent on?"

A lawyer walking through Lincoln's Inn, with
his professional bag under his arm, being accosted
by a Jew with " Clowers to shell, Sir, old clowers,"
exclaimed, " No, d—n you, Sir—No! they are all
new suits."

STAYS A LA DIANE.

Under the immediate Patronage of the Nobility and
Gentry.

Mrs. and Miss LAURA PEARSE, offers an improvement on all inventions in the art of making and improving the Figure, truly scientific, contracting and extending, combining beauty, health, and firm support, highly recommended by the most eminent of the faculty.—No Lady ought to be without them.

Mrs. and Miss L. PEARSE, has the honour of
making for the juvenile branches of the first Families
and Seminaries in the United Kingdom.—Their Stays
consist of 15 Patterns, adapted to every age and size.

ON A GENTLEMAN'S POCKET—BEING PICK'D OF HIS WATCH

He that wou'd wear a watch, even this must do—
*Pocket his watch and watch his pocket too.*

It seems wonderful that the booksellers should go on publishing so many *pocket* volumes for *ladies*, when it is well known the dear *creatures* have no *pockets* to hold them.

On Friday last an *enormous* par came to the
Rev. H. N. of Barnstaple, for a license; whose
advanced ages amounted to 157.—Better late than
never!

Mr. WALTER SCOTT, it is reported, is to receive
2000l. for the copyright of his Poem of *The Lady
of the Lake*.

LISBON, AUG. 27.—Among the other spoils taken from the enemy in Madrid, may be stated 4000 pairs of shoes, a great quantity of wine and brandy, which JOSEPH had reserved as rations for 3000 men for three months.

A Wit, meeting his friend, who was greatly af-
flicted with the *gout*, heartily shook hands with him,
and said, he was happy to see he was so rich: "Rich!" said his friend, (much surprised) "why, I
have just failed in business." "No matter for that,"
said the Wit, "you have a very large *Lcg-i.-see*,"

It is no uncommon thing for a person to have a
principal out at interest; but, strange as it may ap-
pear, there are many who have considerable interest
without possessing any principle.

A Gentleman, remarking upon the effeminacy of a
certain Officer wearing *stays*, was overheard by a sailor,
who swore it was perfectly natural, as *men of war*
were obliged to be in *stays* before they could *tack* about.

A person being informed that a certain Fishmonger
was extremely avaricious, answered, it was perfectly
consistent with his trade, which was *too* *sal-fish*.

The WINDHAMITES prophesy that the Parisian
*Eweis* will come over and tempt us with the *apple*.
If, indeed, they should bring *roast beef and plumb
pudding*, JOHN BULL might be in some danger of
tempest.

The new Opposition may be right in thinking we
cannot have a real peace with France. If, as they
state, the most beautiful French women are our
greatest enemies, we can never expect to see our
enemies *unarmed*!

The first dinner on the new fervice of plate is
to be eaten at Lord GRENVILLE's, by his friends,
next Sunday.

The favourite Conundrum at present in the
higher Circles is, " Why is the Hon. Mr. Ers-
KINE like Tobias's Dog?"—Answer, " Because
he will go any where with his Friend."

It would be proper to extend the benefit of
*cheap soup* to the desperate followers of the *Blue
and Buff Squad*, but unluckily no respectable person
can be found to give them *tickets* importing that
they are *deserving objects*.

The dowry of the PRINCESS OF RUSSIA, bride to
the ARCHDUKE JOSEPH, Palatinate of Hungary,
required sixty-eight waggons to transport it. It
arrived at Lemberg on the *dz ul*.
The whole is valued at ten million rubels, and the freight to Pest only cost twelve thousand rubels.

The Chantilly Venus, originally intended for
the Ducal Gallery at Stuttgart, will accompany
the Orleans' Bathesheba to Russia; they are pur-
chased for PAUL, the FIRST, and must be removed
from the European Museum on Saturday, when
that National Gallery closes for the holidays.

Upwards of one hundred of the principal Inha-
bitants of Leeds have agreed not to suffer lamb
to be used in their families for three months, with
a view to increase the stock of mutton, and con-
sequently to lower its price.

The QUEEN has directed that in future her
Maidens of Honour and Bedchamber Women shall
be allowed 50l. a year for their travelling ex-
pences, instead of using the Royal Carriages, ex-
cent on State occasions.

Some days ago a Turnip of an extraordinary
size, that grew on the Barton of Eggsford, in
Devonshire, had the inside scooped out, and
the rhind sent as a present to a neighbouring Gentle-
man, containing a hare, a rabbit, six woodcocks,
two partridges, and one duck.

The Ladies who have adopted the fashion of
painting their ears, and who still continue to defy
the winter's blast, and who probably descended from
the naked *Pitcairs*, subdued by the Grandsire of
Prince VOLTIGER.

If KNIGHT's abilities as an Author are equal to
his talents as a Performer, there can be no doubt
but the Public will chearfully pay Toll at his
*Turnpike-Gate*.

A particular friend of the LORD MAYOR 25
sured us yesterday, that all the Company at
Gildhall on Saturday could not be *tag-tag* and
*bob tail*, as the Lord Mayor himself only gave
away *Sixty Tickets*.

In the LORD MAYOR's Bill of Fare on Saturday
there is but *one* *Gose* put down.—We should sup-
pose this must be a *mistake*—there were several
*Gose* at table.

The celebrated musical Tiger, a most curious
piece of mechanism, late the property of *TIPPOO
SAID*, and taken among his treasures at *Seringa-
patam*, is on board the *Earl Howe*, and is in-
tended as a present to *THEIR MAJESTIES*.

Mr. COOPER, the Brewer at Leatherhead,
who died a few days since, was formerly Conch-
man to the late Sir CHARLES TALBOT, and in
the end he died possessed of no less a fortune than
80,000l.

In an Advertisement for a Cook in yesterday's
Papers, we find that copulence is an insuperable
objection. We are now indeed fallen on days in
which "Pharoah's lean kine are of the blessed,"

A cane, said to have belonged to VOLTAIRE, was
knocked down at Paris, at 1650 francs.

As a labourer was digging in the Longmynd, near
Pulverhatch, in Shropshire, a few days ago, his spade
struck an earthen vessel, in which were deposited
upwards of 80 silver coins, chiefly of the mixture of
Edward I. and most of them in excellent preservation.

There is at this time a vine belonging to the
King, at Hampton Court, which entirely fills a
viney 24 yards long, and six yards wide. The
tree is thirty years old, and has now upon it
1800 bunches of grapes, supposed to weigh one
pound each upon an average, and to be worth al-
together at least 400l.

At Ross, in the 8th year of his age, W. Dobbs, many years
Sexton of that Parish. He retained his faculties to the last
moment of his existence. He was the only inhabitant of the
place who had any recollection of the person and manners of
John Kylle, Esq., celebrated by Pope, in his Epistle to Lord
Bathurst, under the character of "The Man of Ross." The
ceremonies of his interment, of singing, ringing, and drink-
ing, commenced at twelve o'clock on moon, and the clock had
told three in the morning before "the tears of the tankard"
were dried up.

A person at Paris has invented a travelling
kitchen for the Army. It is mounted on a single
car, and not only carries provisions for 1200, but
cooks them on the road, and keeps them in pro-
*per condition till the day's march is ended*.

The Attorney who was accused in the Court
of Common Pleas, on Saturday last, of having
written a Libel on himself, must have been sadly
distressed for *Clients* before he could have been re-
duced to want somebody to speak ill of him.

The Cat Concert is now discovered not to be
original, and that *tigs* may be made to sing in
concert. BAILLY, in his *Dictionnaire*, gives an
account of such a Concert having been performed
before LOUIS XI. which was conducted by the
Abbé de BAIGNY.

The Countess of ELGIN, last week presented
to HER MAJESTY two beautiful Fans, and several
Oriental Curiosities, brought over from India by
the Hon. Mr. BRUCE; the Fans are made of the
leaf of a tree, and are so large that the concus-
sion of air they occasion when used, shakes the
pictures hung in a room.

The dowry of the PRINCESS of RUSSIA, bride to
the ARCHDUKE JOSEPH, Palatinate of Hungary,
required sixty eight waggons to transport it. It
arrived at Lemberg on the dz ul. The whole is
valued at ten million rubels, and the freight to
Pest only cost twelve thousand rubels.

It is a curious circumstance that Herrings,
which have for many ages disappeared from the
Coasts of Pomerania, have again returned thither.
In the 13th and 14th centuries they were to be
met with there exclusively; in the 15th, they
steered to the Coasts of Denmark and Sweden,
and afterwards came to England and Scotland.

Sir JOHN DOUGLAS lost, (amongst numerous
other things), by the ever to be lamented explo-
sion of the *Queen Charlotte*, two *Belles*, whose
intrinsic value exceeded 1000 guineas, and se-
veral Shawls, &c. presented to him by the
GRAND VIZIER, besides an uncommonly rich
Sabre, the gift of RAJAH PACHA, of the Turkish
Royalty.

Friday night a blind beggar, upwards of 70
years of age, died at his apartment in Taber-
nacle-row. On searching the wretched place up-
wards of 350l. were discovered in bank notes,
guineas, half-guineas, crown, and half-crown
pieces, besides a large quantity of halfpence con-
cealed in various places in his room, and a bond
for the sum of 100l. more.

The following circumstance is as true as it is remarkable:—A poor woman at Invergowrie, in Angus-shire, Scotland, sold a pair of ducks to Mr. Gordon, vintner, Dundee, which he sent over the Tuesday to his inn at Woodhaven. On the Tuesday after, the woman found them both in their old nest! Invergowrie is three miles west from Dundee, and the river there is fully three miles broad, which they must have swam.

The Englishman's Whistman, Mr. Carverby, Mr. Graham.

An unusual number of SeaGuils came up the
River on Sunday; and what is rather singular,
several Swans have been forced down the River
from their repeats above Bridge by the severity
of the weather.

A Bos Mot.—A Father, who had himself per-
formed the ceremony of giving away his Natural
Daughter in marriage contract, at St. George’s,
Hanover-square, said, “she was now his Child by
Marriage as well as by Nature.”

GEORGE the FIRST could speak no English, and

a ROBERT WALPOLE could speak no French; and therefore the latter used to say, that he conducted the National Affairs during the Reign of that Monarch by means of bad Latin.

One of the keepers in the county of York must
be a bold man; in a paper a short time hence he ad-
verifies:

“Robert — having taken and entered upon
thofe spacious and well-acquainted premises, The En-
preſs of Ruffia, hopes for the affiance and encou-
ragement of all gentlemen, travellers, &c.

Laft Week a curious Monument was erected in Grayford
Church in Kent, to the Memory of the Lady Shovell,
who died about two Years ago, Relict of Sir Cloudelyffe
Shovell, who was cast away on the Rocks of Stilly, in his
Voyage from Toulous the 22d of October, 1707.

An innkeeper has lately erected a sign at Stratford
on Avon, the execution of which is prafed—
Honest Jack Faufluff lighting his pipe at Bardley’s
nose. Boniface fays, he took the hint, from having
fat one night with a couple of London Aldermen.

In Faulkner’s Dublin Journal, an apartment is
advertized to be let in Cut Purſe Row, to which is
added by way of Notaene, very convenient for an
attorney.

What the Prince of Wales acquires in Grandeur
by his being appointed Regent, he will lobe in
Happineſs. His Feelings as a Son and his Cares
as Regent will superinduce Thoughtfulneſs and
Gravity.

Mr. Fox weighs, fays a Morning Print, 18
Stone.—Mr. Fox hopes his Weight before the
Confluction of the next Seffion of Parliament may
be increased.

A man was taken upon a few days ago at Dongle, 11
the Isle of Man, charged with offering to sell guineas
for ten and eleven shillings each. When put upon his
defence, he acknowledged the fact; observing, that
ten and eleven made twenty-one shillings.

The analogy in the fate of the Kings of Naples
and Sardinia is extremely remarkable. They
were born in the same year (1751), married in
the same year, and by the same foot driven in the
same year from their dominions on the Con-
quer.

The dancing elephant at Mentz, ought to come
over to this country. The encouragement given to
foreign performers, in that branch, is very much in
his favour, and he might be a great acquisition at the
Pantheon!

The report of the French Dauphin’s being in ex-
istence, is probably the prelude to some imposture,
like our Perkin Warbeck, the mock Duke of York,
who, after imposing on the Public for some time,
was hanged.

Miss ELIZABETH HUCKBODY, of Holbeach
Drove, Lincolnshire, came of age on Tuesday
last, on which occasion twenty-one plumb pud-
dings, with every delicacy of the season, were par-
taken of by her friends and acquaintance.

In sawing a fir tree lately at Paxton House, in
the parish of Hutton, the saw was suddenly obstructed by-
a hard substance, and on splitting the timber, a horse-shoe
was found completely embedded in it, the wood quite
sound all round it. The tree was about 33 feet 6 inches
in circumference.

We understand that Count Beaujolais, who
lately left this country, accompanied by his
brother, the Duke of Orleans, for the recovery
of his health, died foon after his arrival at Malta.

year. May 1798.
J. Jackson, gunner of Burrow Castle, who had
been in nineteen general actions, principally under
the Duke of Marlborough, died a few days since,
at the age of 117 years, having retained his me-
mory, and a tolerable state of health to the last.

The account of the escape of O’HANLON, given
in the Irish Papers, is curious. Under pretence
of brushing the Dragoon’s coat who had him in
custody, he knocked the man down, and himself
brushed off.

The right and left Boot-makers are not such
useless beings as one may imagine—The fashion-
able lounge so distorts the whole body, that the
right leg is very often nothing like the left.

The STADTHOLDER has been ridiculed for the
cool manner in which he lately danced at Brighton;
but it is well remembered that he displayed the
greatest activity when he danced off with his ducats
from Holland.

A sack of guineas has been seized in the river,
in consequence of information having been given
to the Treasury. The gold-finders will share a
handsome profit on the occasion.

The Duke of Orleans, who recently married a
daughter of the King of Naples, at Palermo, is
about to take the command of the Spanish army
in Catalonia, to which he was invited by the Re-
gency at Cadiz.

An oay on the firft printing in Spain has been
published at Rome. It appears that Valencia has
prefes in 1474, and Saragoſſa, Seville, Barcelona,
Tolofa, and Salamanca in 1485; by all which 310
books were printed.

There is only one attorney at present in Salem,
New England, and the inhabitants have petitioned
the Governor of the province, that they may be
permitted either to hang or transfoom him.

There is a magiftrate in Glouceſſerihire, who has
a groſſe now in the 25th year of his age, of which
his wifhip is very fond, as he ſays they uſed to go
to School together.

A Noble Lord, in aillet douse which he lately
fent to his mitreſs, affured her, that if the whole
globe was hit, he would lay it at her feet.

A German Commentary on HOGARTH has ap-
peared, with plates well copied, and inscriptions
given in English.

The Hon. Robert Spencer, son of Earl Spencer,
having served his time as midshipman in the Tigre,
is now made lieutenant. ANNUIT 1751.

A seizure of gold was made on Sunday at Har-
wich, to the amount of 20,000l. illegally shipped
for exportation, on board a vessel in that port.

The Earl of CARLISLE has recently presented to York
Cathedral a beautiful window of stained-glass, in real
vitrified colours. The style of it is pure Gothic. 1611

A MRS. FANNY NICHOLLS lately died at Ful-
month, of whom we are told, her maiden name was
MONDAY—that she was born on a Monday, chris-
tened on a Monday, married on a Monday, and had
nine children at single births, all born and christen-
ed on Mondays.

Curious advertisement, extracted from a periodical
work published in the reign of Queen ANN:—“A
gentlewoman, who has a great aversion to talking
wants a maid who can be shant, and help her in the go-
vernment of her family. If the said servant can clear-
starch, whisper, and tread softly, she shall have suitab-
le encouragement in her wages.”

A letter from Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, says
“Beef and Pork sell here at 1½d. to 2d. the lb.
Oatmeal rs. 6d. the stone, Potatoes 5d. the set-
ting, a Hen 6d. to 7d. a Cock 4d. a live Veal,
Skin and all, 1s. 2d. to 1s. 6d. Every thing
else is dear. No Eggs, Fish, nor Cheese to be
got.”

The Duchess of BRUNSWICK gave an entertainment
to her servants and friends to rejoice at the late news,

We are confidently assured that the Lady
Mayress did not get the fashion of her famous
Petiteoat from the Milliner who has just arrived
from Paris with the last fashion of nakedness.

There is now residing in Stafford a man of the
name of Nolan, who is at present married to his
twenty-sixth wife, and has, by the whole, 73 chil-
dren, and is 105 years of age, and his present wife
is now pregnant.

The dress worn by Mrs. SIDDONS on Monday night,
in the character of Lady Macbeth, was a correct copy
of that worn by MARY, Queen of Scots, at her marriage
with Lord DARNLEY.

The Mitre again totters upon the Diiphon of
DURHAM’s head; there are, however, a num
ber of religious men ready to put a kind hand to
it to keep it from falling.

There was a marriage solemnised on the 27th
November, in the parish church of Crosthwaite,
near Keswick, at which were present—2 brothers,
2 sisters, and 2 cousins; 3 husbands and 3 wives;
4 fathers and 4 mothers; 4 sons and 4 daughters;
2 uncles and 2 aunts; 2 nephews and 2 nieces; and
yet the party consisted of no more than six persons!

A theatrical war passing through Piccadilly,
and hearing the continual expression “keep mov-
ing,” concluded that the play was The Road to
Ruin.

The MACKREL FISHERY on the coast of
Sussex, has this season been uncommonly fa-
vourable. The fishermen of Brighton have al-
ready cleared six thousand pounds by it.

GEORGE SELWYN thinking of the second
sons of Lord CARLISLE, and NOT thinking of
his own poor relations, proves he truly died—a
WIT: and that he considered all the tis of blood as
—a joke!

The REVOLUTIONISTS who laugh at the re-
coveries of BURKE, say, “his Pamphlet has done
good, for it has produced—PAYNE.”

Lady BOYNE had her gold watch stolen from
her side, in Kensington Gardens, on Sunday.

The BISHOPRIC of Durham is estimated at
18,000l. per annum.

The Court of Peterborough, in its laft ordonnance reſpe-
ſing fashion, orders that no Gentleman ſhall for the future
wear whifkers, or appear in any other than cocked has.

Mr. KEMBLE dined with the Prince of WALES the
day he was prefented with the gold ſauss-box by his Royal
Highneſs, for his performance of Rolla.

A perfon in a ſcarlet Corporation Gown is a frequent
admirer of the fkieters in Hyde Park, but it puzzles the
fekiters exceedingly to difcover whether it is a Lady or
on ALDERMAN!

The Earl of ——, observing that he should go
the masquerade, asked Colonel —— what at
character he should go in? “Go sober,” replied
the gallant officer.

A small batch of PEERS is now in the patent oven
it is to confit of twelve of our firft-rate Commoners.—
According to the ſyftem of the State Baker, it is ſuppoſed
that there will be thirteen to the dozzen 1

Old Q. from his prying gallantry, has, with
relation to the present fashion of Ladies’ Head-
dress, been called the Whig Examiner.

The constitutional sobriety of the Spaniards will, it
is hoped, operate in their favour during the present glo-
rious struggle, as they have to contend with an enemy
intoxicated with his former successes.

The answer of the POPE to the late demands of
BONAPARTE will be read with interest, not only on
account of the mild and dignified stile in which it is
written; but, because his conduct to the supreme Head
of the Church, may eventually contribute to the over-
throw of that power, which is now exercised without
either judgment or mercy.

O pious men!

VISCOUNT CREMORNE.

ON Tuesday, the 2nd of March, 1813, Died, at his House in Stanhope Street, May Fair, in the 88th Year of his age, THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS DAWSON, VISCOUNT CREMORNE, Baron DARTREY, of Dawson-Grove, in the County of Monaghan, Ireland; and for many years one of the Representatives for that County in the Irish House of Commons. His Lordship married, in 1754, the Lady Anne Fermor, youngest daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Pomfret. By her, who died in 1769, he had a son and a daughter; the former of whom died in 1778, the latter in 1767. He married, secondly, Miss Freame, only daughter of Thomas Freame, Esq. by his wife Margaretta, the daughter of the Honourable William Penn, Founder and Lord Proprietary of the Province of Pennsylvania; by whom he had a son and a daughter, both of whom died in 1787.

This most excellent man, during a life much extended beyond the common privilege of years, fulfilled all the great duties which honours and an ample fortune impose, in a manner to command, not only the highest esteem, but the most tender love, of all who had the happiness to be connected with him, either by the ties of kindred, of friendship, or of service. His generosity was unbounded, and his heart in the most comprehensive sense charitable; which the order and regularity of his affairs enabled him always to indulge. His manners were engaging to all; his disposition courteous and hospitable: He was a most tender husband; an affectionate father, so long as it pleased God to permit him that relation; a warm and faithful friend; a kind and fostering master; a just and protecting landlord; and a liberal encourager of arts and industry. In his public duties, he was loyally affected towards his Sovereign, an exemplary citizen, and zealously attached to his own native country, Ireland.

But his most exalted character is, that he was a true Christian in mind and practice; resigned to the Divine Will, under the severe and peculiar domestic losses by which it pleased God to make trial of his virtues; and that he died in humble, yet strong, reliance on the mercies of God, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

["The following is part of a letter from a Gentleman, who is Attorney on a property in the Island of Nevis.", "“DEAR SIR, Nevis, Feb. 27, 1809.", "“I beg leave to mention the following circumstances, and leave to your better judgment the propriety of making the same public:—", "“About a fortnight since, the Overseer on the Camp Estate discovered a chest, floating in the wash of the sea, and with the assistance of several negroes he had it brought on shore.—On opening it, it was found to contain a female corpse wrapped in several folds of seer cloth, and a quantity of tea was spread between each fold. The box or coffin was also filled up with tea, to the quantity, it was supposed, of two hundred weight. The body was in a tolerable state of preservation, and had the appearance of having been that of a person about 30 years of age, rather corpulent, with a remarkable handsome hand, a good set of teeth, and long dark hair—the mouth had been filled with tea, and some moisture having occasioned the tea to swell, left the teeth exposed; on touching them one fell in. The box was better than 12 feet long, and made remarkably strong, having 16 iron cramps, the whole of it covered with cloth, which had Burgundy pitch rubbed over it, and was perfectly water tight. It must have been in the sea a very long time, as it had a number of barnacles upon it. The wood was supposed to be what is called in the East-Indies, Teak wood.—Around the middle of the box was a tarred rope, which had the appearance of having suspended it, or been a lashing to it.", "“Should the publishing this account be the cause of making it known to the relatives of the deceased, it may prove grateful to their feelings, to know that the body was decently interred in this island, and every attention paid it.", "“I remain, dear Sir, yours, very truly,", "“JN. COLHOUN MILLS,", "“To the very Rev. the Dean of St. Asaph.”", "A recent fashionable transaction having become an subject of general conversation, it may not be unnecessary to state, that the present Marchioness of ABERCORN is cousin to the Noble Marquis. She was Miss CECILIA HAMILTON, daughter to the Canon of Windsor of that name. His MARY, on the 27th of October, 1789, granted her, at the instance of the Marquis, the honour and precedence of an Earl's daughter. The latter, who was married in 1770, was Miss CATHERINE, daughter of Sir JOHN COPLEY, Bart. died on the 13th of September, 1791, leaving five children, two sons and three daughters.—The marriage of his Lordship with his present Lady took place on the 4th of March, 1792.", "The Marquis of ABERCORN was, previous to his becoming a Peer, JOHN JAMES HAMILTON, Esq. He succeeded his late uncle, JAMES, Earl of ABERCORN, on the 9th of October, 1789, and has since been created a Marquis. He is a British Marquis, a Scotch Earl and Baron, an English Viscount, and an Irish Viscount, Baron, and Baronet. His estates, particularly those in Ireland and Scotland, are immensely productive.", "Captain COPLEY, of the Guards, is nearly related to the Marchioness of ABERCORN.", "The Palace of the KING of RECCAN, on the Coast of Aya, is said to be magnificent beyond the power of description. It contains seven idiols, in cast gold, of two inches thick, each of a man's height, and covered with diamonds, rubies, and other precious stones. Even the walls reflect a refulgence from the brilliancy of the jewels with which they are decorated, that the eye is incapable of beholding their lustre even for a few moments.", "The liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius on the entry of the French into Naples, is a phenomenon for which our Apothecaries can perhaps account. KEYSLER in his Travel says, that the composition of this article is Balsam of Feta, which may easily be liquefied.", "Mr. WILSON, Surveyor and Engineer of the Iron Bridge at Sunderland, has had the honour of laying before His Majesty at the Queen's Lodge, Windsor, a design and model of a Bridge of one arch, all of cast iron, to be thrown over the River Thames near that place.—His MARY was pleased with the design, and made many pertinent remarks on the principles and practice of Bridge Architecture.—The QUEEN, PRINCESSES, and DUKE of CUMBERLAND were present.", "Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES has just received from India, a sample of Eighteen Pieces of the richest and most beautiful Muslims which that Country can furnish. They are the tribute of gratitude of a Mr. BURROWES, who went out to India a very few years ago, with the recommendation of His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES to Marquis CORNWALLIS, while that Nobleman was Chief Governor of India. The Muslims were brought home in the Britannia East Indiaman.", "Mr. HORNEMAN, who is a young Hanoverian, full of health and enterprize, has written a letter to Sir JOSEPH BANKS, from Tripoli. He had travelled from Cairo, in Egypt, through the Lybian Desert, to Fezzan, the largest Oasis in the Great Sparta, a route hitherto unexplored by any European, whole travels have been communicated to the public. In the journey from Cairo to Fezzan he halted at Sewah. He was followed from thence by a large party bent to feize him, on fupcion of his being a French fpy. But his manners and behaviour were to completely Molem, and he proved himself so thoroughly manner of the Koran, that he was released with biefling and alms as a good Mutlulman, and feat forward on his journey.", "Letters from Leghorn of January 11th, states, that by advices from Palermo, received there in four days from the latter place, the KING and QUEEN of NAPLES and all their Suite had reached Palermo on the 25th December, after a very dark stormy night. The Vanguard had only her lower masts standing upon reaching the harbour. One of the King's children, of six or seven years of age, is said to have died on the passage. Prince PIGNATELLI remained at Naples, to hold the reins abandoned by the Government.", "The Lazzaroni in the first instance flew to arms, but when they found that their King had forsaken his Country, they abandoned their plan of defence.", "A Commissioner from the King of NAPLES is arrived at Rome, to collect all the productions of the arts which the French had either fold there, or could not carry off.", "An Aid-de-Camp from General MACK had arrived at Vienna, disguised as a Courier. He was the bearer of Dispatches which he delivered to the EMPEROR in person.", "The KING of SARDINIA was, according to Letters from Nice, at Colore, in the territory of the Grand Duke of PARMA, and it was affirmed that he would not go to Sardinia, but that his Subjects would allow him a pension.", "The KING of SARDINIA is still at Parma. He has taken up his abode in the Ducal Palace, and receives every day from the Duke 1000 sequins for the maintenance of his suite, which is not, however, very numerous.", "An invalid died laively at Berlin, at a very advanced age, who had ferved in the firft Silelian war, in the year 1740. The King's brothers, and all the officers of the Guards, followed the corpe, and the King himself was prefent at the grave.", "THIS morning advices were received at the Admiralty from the Earl of ST. VINCENT, of the Capture of a Spanish Ship, valued at 300,000, by some of the Vessels of his Fleet.", "From a Waterford Paper.", "MAJOR PONSONBY,", "AND", "THE TWENTY-THIRD DRAGOONS.", "Major Ponsonby is the second son of the Earl of Beshborough, and one of the Representatives in Parliament for the County of Kilkenny—he is Major of the 23d Dragoons. He has acquired the highest praises for his gallantry in the late bloody victory at Talavera. We have seen letters written the next day after the action, bearing testimony to the bravery of the regiment, and to his distinguished conduct in that dreadful battle. It may be natural for a descendant of the great Duke of Maribor to display military talents and spirit; and his friends and family may look forward with a confident hope to a future day, when they shall see this estimable young man in possession of a character in the army, equal, at least, to that which was so honorably enjoyed by his eminent relative, General Ponsonby, who so gloriously fell at Fontenoy.", "One letter has the following passage:", "“On the 28th July, at 12, General Anson's Brigade were ordered to attack three solid squares—we charged to the point of the bayonet, under a tremendous fire. The French stood firm. We (the 23d Dragoons) were chiefly engaged—we lost in the attack, reckoning the killed, wounded, and missing—in officers, privates, and horses, nearly half the regiment. We, however, prevented their deploying, which, I understand, was their intention. The whole army was a witness to the charge. The small remnant of our regiment, with the Germans, who had not suffered so much, were moved over the hill to support General Sherbrooke's Division, which was advancing. We had to stand half an hour under a very hot fire of shells—we had scarcely been off our horses for 36 hours.”", "Another letter says—“Though the charge proved so fatal to the 231 Dragons, yet its effect was such, as entirely to stop the advance of the intended attack, and to relieve us in a short time from the fear of any advance upon our left.", "An officer of high military rank, who was importantly engaged in that Battle, has thus written concerning the conduct of Major Ponsonby on that day.", "“Ponsonby is my greatest comfort. He has behaved most gallantly, and is indeed a most excellent officer. He deserves particular praise for having, with two squadrons, kept in check nine French squadrons supported by artillery and riflemen, during six hours.”", "In the bloody conflict Major Ponsonby saw a Lieutenant of his own troop killed when they charged the French infantry. Actuated by the ardent feelings of a friendship which outlived the mortal existence of its object, and by a humanity which extended itself even to the unconscious remains of a brother officer, he repaired the next day to the field of carnage, attended by almost the only serjeant of his regiment who had not been killed or wounded, and voluntarily encountered the horrible spectacle which the dead-strewed plain presented, to search among the slain for the lifeless corpse of his Lieutenant—and with his own hands—(assisted only by his serjeant), performed the decent, but painful office of committing the body of his young military friend, in the field of battle, to an honourable grave. And sacred were the tears he shed over it—tears which heroism itself might applaud. The promising officer who was thus interred was Lient Power,* a nephew of the highly-respectable Gentleman of that name who represents the County of Waterford in Parliament. Richard Power, Esq. of Clashmore. He was much beloved in the Regiment, and by Major Ponsonby.", "*He gained from Heaven—what most he wish'd—a friend.", "ce\nin\nla\nsu\nch\net\nhe\nen\nce\nb\ni\nl\nk\nK\nS\nT\nu\nl\nle\nof\nR\na\nh\na\ns\nw\nk\n\nthe\nf\na\nl\nc\no\nng", "THE duce of Anjou, the son of his second son, the King, immediatelie in council, and in the皇\nof the one of the North\ndoing his best to prevent\nno,;\nthe time when he is to be\nin apprised of the order\nof the M\nnear the coast.\n\nA\nthat he has not yet met\nstand, and one of the officers\nthe front, left attack\ntaun stood, and\nserved, as of the N\nafter an\nofficers, and the inner\nof our true\nwould have\nnot the L\nCompany\ninner dite\nenemy from\nwho, with\nverses of t\n\n\"While the Sultans\napproach to the gate\nand we\nreceiving\ndering\nseeing\nramp\npale\nand\nserv\n\neith\n\ndepartment\n\ndepartment\n\nd

["THE QUIZZERS,", "A DIALOGUE.", "HARRY and SAM, the other day,", "Two knowing fellows in their way,", "Were strolling round to make remarks", "On what they saw in certain Parks,", "Cries SAM to HARRY, \" Prythee, Hal,\"", "\"What mean these strings across the Moll?\"", "Said HAL, \" Way, curse your silly knob !", "\"They're meant for playing cherry-bob !\"—", "Thus passing on, they quickly found.", "A temple form'd for turning and —", "\"Well! what's the use of thing, I pray?\"", "\"The use,\" quoth HAL, \"I cannot say; —", "\"Unless this dome, some lath or plaster,", "\"Is meant as emblem of its Master.—", "\"Who, fearful, still, in some one inflection—", "\"Neler stays, since in one direction.\"", "Quoth Sam, \"Why, now you talk of rumpus,", "\"What means this monstrous Scammon's Compass,", "\"Whose wide circumference, round and plumb,", "\"Looks like a fair and forty rump?\"", "\"That!\" says friend HAL, \"Why, mun, forsooth,", "\"That's what they call the Royal Booth !\"", "And now they see the huge Ballon,", "That's making, to eclipse the Man,", "In case she shew'd her vulgar pate", "At such a glorious Royal Fete,", "And then, fast traversing the Mall,", "They view the words on the Canal:", "The teats, like mushrooms, called marquees,", "And ale-house benches under trees.", "Quoth HAL—\" That thing upon a ridge,", "\"Is what is term'd a Chinese Bridge.\"", "\"Thank ye!\" said Sam, \"I'm much the faster,", "\"I see the Bridge; but where's the Water?\"", "Says HAL, \"That need not cause your wonder ;", "\"Our modern Bridges folks walk under ;", "\"Nor need you fear the being deown'd,", "\"I warrant ye it's all dry ground!", "\"And regiments of foot may march", "\"Dry-gaiter'd through the centre arch,", "\"Like those of yore, who made a ford on,", "\"And walked across the river Jordon !", "\"Come! dure you go?—\" \"Aye, that I will!\"—", "They went—up Constitution-hill!", "And as they walk'd, said HAL, \"I trow,", "\"What beast outlandish have we now?\"", "\"Outlandish beast! ——Why that's a Cow!\"", "\"A Cow!\" cries HAL, \"it's but a lean one;", "\"It's now some months since we have seen one :", "\"But look ye there, SAM! Who'd believe it!", "\"Why, there's the Fleet!\"—\"I can't perceive it—", "\"Ead! Yes, wú, I see the group,", "\"Lake lamps of crust in thin soupie soup,", "\"I see them now—so that clumsy fellow", "\"Had hid them with his silk umbrella !", "\"But see that man on yonder horse,", "\"With coat so richly laced across,", "\"And cuffs and collars faced with fur ;—", "\"Is not that man a trumperet ?\"", "\"A trumperet! —Your most obedient !", "\"Why, no, you blockheas!—that's the —", "W. H. M.", "PUNCTUALITY.—The late Mr. Scott, of Exeter, who died a few days ago, travelled on business till about 80 years of age. He was one of the most celebrated characters in the kingdom for punctuality, and by his methodical conduct, joined to uniform diligence, he gradually amassed a large fortune. For a long series of years the proprietor of every inn he frequented in Devon and Cornwall knew the day and the very hour he would arrive. Some time since, a Gentleman on a journey in Cornwall stopped at a small inn at Port Isaac to dine. The waiter presented him with a bill of fare, which he did not approve of, but observing a fine duck roasting, \"I'll have that,\" said the traveller. \"You cannot, Sir,\" replied the landlord; \"it is for Mr. Scott, of Exeter.\" \"I know Mr. Scott very well,\" rejoined the Gentleman, \"he is not in your house.\"—\"True Sir,\" said the landlord, \"but six months ago, when he was here last, he ordered a duck to be ready for him this day, precisely at two o'clock,\" and, to the astonishment of the traveller, he saw the old Gentleman, on his Rosinante, jogging into the inn-yard about five minutes before the appointed time.\n\nPINK 1817", "ROYAL VISIT TO DRURY-LANE.", "OCT 9 1812", "Her Majesty, and the Princesses Augusta and Mary, with the Princess Charlotte of Wales, the Prince Regent, and the Duke of Clarence, yesterday inspected Drury-lane Theatre. A detachment of the Foot Guards arrived a little before ten o'clock, and were stationed on the outside of the grand entrance in Brydges-street. A party of the Police Officers, conducted by Messrs. Townsend and Sluyers, also attended to preserve order, and keep off the populace. Soon after ten o'clock her Majesty arrived, and was conducted from her carriage to the box-lobby by the Prince Regent, assisted by Mr. Vincent. The Princesses Mary and Augusta were conducted by General Hammond and Major Price. The Princess Charlotte of Wales was ushered into the Theatre by the Duke of Clarence. Ladies Ilchester, Cardigan, and J. Thynne, were in attendance on the Queen and Princesses.", "The Royal Party were received in the box-lobby by the Right Hon. Colonel M'Mahon, Mr. B Wyatt, the Architect of the Theatre; Mr. Ward, Secretary to the Committee; Mr. Arnold, the Manager of the Theatre; and conducted to the grand saloon, whence they proceeded by the superb staircase to the boxes, and viewed the rooms appropriated to the Royal Family; they next examined the Prince Regent's private box, and then proceeded by the avenues leading to the Pit; across the Orchestra a platform was made expressly for the occasion, by which the Royal Family went on the stage. The box-lobby, and all the avenues leading to the stage, were covered with beautiful crimson Turkey carpeting, which extended from the street to the interior of the Theatre.", "The moment the Royal Family made their appearance on the stage, the workmen, who were stationed in the galleries (the avenues having been entirely cleared, and no person permitted to enter the Theatre during the Royal visit,) greeted the Royal Family with three cheers. The Royal Party appeared much gratified at this manifestation of respect; they all bowed—and her Majesty said, \"I thank you.\"", "Mr. Greenwood, the scene-painter, was introduced to the Queen and Royal Party. The whole of the scenery painted by him was exhibited, and much praise was bestowed on the works of this excellent artist. The entire stage, including all the intricate machinery attached to it, was shewn to the Royal Party by Mr. Leonard Drory, the master carpenter, who explained the uses of the various apparatus. The Royal Family expressed their admiration of every part of the Theatre. The Queen, particularly, observed to Mr. Wyatt, that she was never more highly gratified by the inspection of any theatrical edifice, and, in common with the other branches of the Royal Family, paid the architect many handsome compliments.", "The windows of the Theatre were closed on this occasion, and the interior being brilliantly lighted up, a perfect idea was given of the appearance which the House will present on the first night of performances. The new contrivance, invented by Colonel Congreve, for supplying the Theatre with water, as well for general purposes as to afford effectual security aginst the calamity of fire, was particularly admired. Having examined minutely every thing worthy of observation, the Queen and Princesses were reconducted to their carriages a little before twelve o'clock.", "While the Royal Family were viewing the interior of the Theatre, the whole of their domestics, the Police Officers, and the soldiery, were entertained at Mr. Billings's, in Woburn-street, by order of Mr. Ward, Secretary to the Committee. Mr. Spring, the box-book keeper, and Mr. Fairbrother, the housekeeper, attended the Royal Party with lights. The whole business was conducted in a manner which reflects great credit on those to whom its management was intrusted.", "Her Majesty sat in one of the stage-chairs, placed on the stage, and the Prince appeared to receive great satisfaction on viewing the box made for his reception.", "Her Majesty and the Royal Party having left the Theatre, arrived at Carlton House at half past eleven o'clock, and were joined at breakfast by his Royal Highness the Duke of York at one. At half past two the Queen and Princesses set off from Carlton House for Windsor, escorted by a party of Light Horse.", "ORIGINAL POETRY.", "1812", "LINES,", "OCCASIONED BY READING THE WORKS OF\nWALTER SCOTT, ESQ.", "Small southern maidens artless lay", "Attempt of Scotia's bard the praise,", "May maid unblest by Phæbus' ray,", "To Scott her heartfelt tribute raise ?", "Oh! how, as thro' the varied song,", "My eager eyes pursue the throng", "Of courtly Dames and valiant Knights,", "(While in the soene my mind delights)", "I hail the days of chivalry,", "And spell-bound then appear to see", "The feast and antique revelry", "So well, Oh! Scott, renew'd by thee.", "Oh! say what heart can cold remain,", "When thy grey minstrel wakes the strain ;", "What heart but feels as thou hast told,", "When tending on its native mould,", "From foreign land returning ?", "And when, inspir'd with warlike fire,", "Thou sing'st of loud alarms,", "What soul but glows with martial ire,", "And feels arous'd to deeds of arms,", "With valorous ardor burning?", {"bbox": [8

THEATRICAL PRICES.

O. P. DINNER, 1869

The Managers of Covent-garden Theatre say, that for the last ten years the profits have not exceeded six per cent. on the capital employed. But the question is, what do they call the capital?

If 30,000. should be raised one year upon tontine annuities, and 20,000. another—if transferable tickets should be sold for a term of years, and free admissions granted as a bonus in addition to the interest paid for loans? and all these incumbrances should be deducted from the receipts, no wonder that the surplus profits should be small. But is that the fair way of accounting the receipts and expences, Drury-lane was burnt, the exceeded half a million. The tax the public 25,000. extant those burthens?

When the King's Theatre by the bye rests only a number of boxes were alien assist in defraying the expences not perhaps receive in money the leases granted, and yet the owners 16,000. a year. The receipts, that Theatre may fit; but in estimating the rest of 2,500. (the interest of lowed for capital employed.)

This is the fair mode of hold it to be impertinent to private concern; but a public size monopoly, is fairly open every play-going man, who is

Now with respect to the desire only that the calculation some years ago by eight of the Covent-garden Theatre, in that pal to the public for prot brought forward and examin whether the pretext will be We shall thank any of our Comit to us the account. We was printed; and it will be set of puppet-shows of this House led, the situation of actors has

But Mr. Kemble says, "once raised in the period of six the reign of Queen Anne the ble, however, forgot to say, holds ten times the number Queen Anne's time. That his recollection !

THE HOUSE THAT
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This is the CAT engaged to squ
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This is the thief-taker sha
That took up JOHN BULL w
who hissed the CAT engaged to sq
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Who RAISED THE PRICK
And directed the thief-taker
To take up John Bull with
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pigons-holes over the boxes, let to
that Jack built.

There is in the possession of one person in Norfolk, a blackbird, a cat, and a dog, whose united ages amount to 42 years; and, what is singular, they all received life in the same spring, and have ever since had the same master. The bird is even now greatly to be admired for its me-lodious notes.

The O.P.'s dined yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to a previous advertisement. The dinner was served up at five o'clock, sumptuous both in quantity and quality, with as much variety as any temperate epicure would wish. On the doors being opened, the company crowded in, the most respectable we have seen at any public dinner for some time, and mostly consisting of young men. Above three hundred and fifty covers

A Gentleman, whose name we did not learn, then rose, and insisted that the price of admission to the Pit should be three shillings and sixpence, as formerly: that the row of Private Boxes should be open as formerly in the old Theatre; and, on account of his misconduct to the Public, that Mr. Brandon should be dismissed. They would agree that the admission to the Boxes should be seven shillings; but for this liberality on the part of the Public, they would expect an apology to be made by the Managers for insulting and offending the Public at large.

The Chairman then gave as a toast, "The liberty which was drank standing, with re- followed by three times three.

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then rose and stated, that he was de- part of Mr. Kemble, that the Ma- tions to meet the wishes of the pub- horized to accede to everything that, except one thing, which was the Brandon, for which he had no au- loes he agree to? was called out ts of the room.) I understand been just stated by the Gentie- last is acceded to, that the price

the Pit shall be as formerly, boxes shall be done away.—

the Private Boxes should be as Kemble came to the Theatre.) nowledge, he said, he did not was any difference, but as he were some difference, and that es had been added on Mr. Kem-

The Theatre, he trusted there would giving the Managers a few days when they might state to the pub- der do. (No! No! Now or ever! Old Prices or no Play!) I men, I am misunderstood; Mr. conciliate, and only asks a day or Mr. Clifford then observed that he position that appeared to him ex- pected. There was a Committee ap- pearing subscriptions to aid the less not be prosecuted on account of the Managers. If you submit to tion, they will be able to draw oppositions in the course of a few days afterwards submit for your many as accede to this proposition ands. (All! All! All!)

After the said Committee had re- following toast, "The ancient and the Pit," which was drank with

en called on for a song, who, we O. P. song for the occasion, but instances of the Meeting, sung receptionable nature, and taught ar, and so well executed, that it did every part of the room.

Then proposed as a toast, "The rank with enthusiastic applause, coar here took place in the lower which was occasioned by a great in the orchestra, among whom the obnoxious persons were ob- a long and loud cry of no Pri- or orchestra was emptied, and the

was restored, Mr. Clifford ob- some time before he knew the core, and that had they address- ion, he should have taken care ice should have been sooner re- mittee, he said, had gone out to that were to be proposed to the their return, he should do him-

self the honour to read to the Meeting for their ap- probation and sanction.

When the Committee returned to the room, the Chairman stated that he should, with their permission, read the propositions returned by the Committee. He had been requested by some individuals to mention their names, but some of them he really did not know (mention them, mention them; at the same time, and cry No! No! unceasingly, observed the Chairman, that he should be

["THEATRICAL PRICES.", "The Managers of Covent-garden Theatre say, that for the last ten years the profits have not exceeded six per cent. on the capital employed. But the question is, what do they call the capital?", "If 30,000. should be raised one year upon tontine annuities, and 20,000. another—if transferable tickets should be sold for a term of years, and free admissions granted as a bonus in addition to the interest paid for loans? and all these incumbrances should be deducted from the receipts, no wonder that the surplus profits should be small. But is that the fair way of estimating the receipts and expending the Drury-lane was burnt, the exceeded half a million. What tax the public 25,000. extra those burthens?", "When the King's Theatre by the bye rests only a number of boxes were alien assist in defraying the expenses not perhaps receive in money, the leases granted, and yet the owners 16,000. a year. the receipts, that Theatre makes; but in estimating the reach of 2,500. (the interest of the loan for capital employed).", "This is the fair mode of holding it to be impertinent to private concern; but a public sive monopoly. is fairly open every play-going man, who has", "Now with respect to the desire only that the calculated some years ago by eight of the Covent-garden Theatre, in the play to the public for prot brought forward and examined whether the pretext will be We shall thank any of our Cor mit to us the account. We p was printed; and it will be see of puppet-shows of this House led, the situation of actors ha", "But Mr. Kemble says, \"that once raised in the period of six the reign of Queen Anne the ble, however, forgot to say, holds ten times the number Queen Anne's time. That his collection !", "THE HOUSE THAT", "This is the House that JACK built. These are the boxes let to the g", "These are the piggen holes over the visit the House that JACK built.", "This is the CAT engaged to squel over the boxes let to the great, that built.", "This is JOHN BULL with a bangle gaged to squall to the poor in the to the great that visit the House that", "This is the thief-taker shaving.", "That took up JOHN BULL who HISSED the CAT engaged to sqel holes over the boxes, let to the great JACK built.", "This is the Manager, full of who RAISED THE PRICK And directed the thief-taker. To take up JOHN Bull with Who HISSED the CAT engaged to sqel piggen-holes over the boxes, let to the great JACK built.", "There is in the possession of one person in Norfolk, a blackbird, a cat, and a dog, whose united ages amount to 42 years; and, what is singular, they all received life in the same spring, and have ever since had the same master. The bird is even now greatly to be admired for its melodious notes.", "dec 14 O. P. DINNER. 1869", "The O. P.'s dined yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to a previous advertisement. The dinner was served up at five o'clock, sumptuous both in quantity and quality, with as much variety as any temperate epicerie would wish. On the doors being opened, the company crowded in, the most respectable we have seen at any public dinner for some time, and mostly consisting of young men. Above three hundred and fifty covers were provided, but above four hundred din'd in all.", "A Gentleman, whose name we did not learn, then rose, and insisted that the price of admission to the Pit should be three shillings and sixpence, as formerly: that the row of Private Boxes should be open as formerly in the old Theatre; and, on account of his misconduct to the Publie, that Mr. Brandon should be dismissed. They would agree that the admission to the Boxes should be seven shillings; but for this liberality on the part of the Public, they would expect an apology to be made by the Managers for insulting and offending the Public at large.", "The Chairman then gave as a toast, \"The liberty of the O. P. was a free man, which was drank standing, with refollowed by three times three.", "certainly be proper to the Proprietors, but they wised to know what would satisfy the Public? To which he had answered, that it was not so much the raising of the prices that had given offence, as the reading of the Riot Act, and sending in the con stables to insult the audience. Mr. Kemble said, that the Mistrates had come in of themselves, and gone on the stage, unknown to the Managers, and that he, for his own part, did not know of the proceeding all the next morning when he read it in the newspapers. When a person of respectability stated any fact, he was always disposed to believe it, unless there was some strong evidence to the contrary; he had therefore no doubt that what Mr. Kemble had stated was true. Mr. Kemble asked him what would be sa istactory, as the Managers had no wish to prolong the unfortunate dispute any further? To this he replied, that the Private Boxes were particularly obnoxious, and that the removing of them would go a great way, he believed, to satisfy the Public. Mr. Kemble asked if the same number a formerly would do? To this question he was not bold enough to take upon himself to give an explicit answer. It would be for the company now present to declare their opinion, and he promised to state to them the circumstance, adding, that such a proposition would meet with his recommendation. Mr. Kemble assured him, that it was the first desire of the Managers to satisfy the Public, and, if possible, they would come into any terms they should propose. He had thus faithfully, he said, detailed the conversation, and he had only one thing to add, that it was the character of Englishmen, when they obtained a victory, to use it moderately. He recollected an expression of Mr. Sheridan, on a late election, that was not unsuitable to the present occasion, \"that John Bull, although sometimes wrong-headed, was never wrong-hearted.\" If you have your usual amusements, I am sure you will not wish them to be to the prejudice of the Proprietors. (Great applause, with some cries of O. P. and Old Prices.)", "After some pause, Mr. CLIFFORD again rose and stated, that Mr. Kemble desired him to say, that if what he had stated met the approbation of the Meeting, he would pledge himself it should be performed. One thing, however, continued the Chairman, I have omitted to mention, that Mr. Kemble agreed that all prosecutions now pending should be done away, and I am sure, if you wish for a perfect reconciliation, you will have no objection, that this be the case on both sides.", "then rose and stated, that he was apart of Mr. Kemble, that the Ma jors to meet the wishes of the pub- orized to accede to everything that except one thing, which was the random, for which he had no au- oes he agree to? was called out s of the room.) I understand been just stated by the Gentieist is acceded to, that the price the Pit shall be as formerly, boxes shall be done away.—the Private Boxes should be as Kemble came to the Theatre.) knowledge, he said, he did not have any difference, but as he were there some difference, and that s had been added on Mr. Kem- Theatre, he trusted there would giving the Managers a few days then they might state to the pub- should do. (No! No! Now or ever! Old Prices or no Play!) I hen, I am misunderstood; Mr. conciliate, and only asks a day or Mr. Clifford then observed that he position that appeared to him ex- There was a Committee ap- pearing subscriptions to aid the less it be prosecuted on account of the Managers. If you submit to question, they will be able to draw propositions in the course of a few shall afterwards submit for your many as accede to this proposition ands. (All! All! All!) after the said Committee had re- lowing toast, \"The ancient and the Pit,\" which was drank with", "then called on for a song, who, we O. P. song for the occasion, but instances of the Meeting, sung incopeanible nature, and taught ur, and so well executed, that it d in every part of the room. then proposed as a toast, \"The rank with enthusiastic applause, roar here took place in the lower which was occasioned by a great in the orchestra, among whom he obnoxious persons were ob a long and loud cry of no Pri- or orchestra was emptied, and the", "was restored, Mr. Clifford ob- some time before he knew the care, and that had they addressed him, he should have taken care ance should have been sooner re- mittee, he said, had gone out to that were to be proposed to their return, he should do him-", "prohibition and sanction.", "When the Committee returned to the room, the Chairman stated that he should, with their permission, read the propositions returned by the Committee. He had been requested by some individuals to mention their names, but some of them he really did not know (Mention them, mention them; at the same time said, \"No! No! unnecessary, unnecessary, unnecessary, unnecessary

THEATRICAL PRICES.

O. P. DINNER. 1869

The Managers of Covent-garden Theatre say, that for the last ten years the profits have not exceeded six per cent. on the capital employed. But the question is, what do they call the capital ?

If 30,000. should be raised one year upon tontine annuities, and 20,000. another—if transferable tickets should be sold for a term of years, and free admissions granted as a bonus in addition to the interest paid for loans? and all these incumbrances should be deducted from the receipts, no wonder that the surplus profits should be small. But is that the fair way of estimating the receipts and expending the funds?

Drury-lane was burnt, the exceeded half a million. What tax the public 25,000. exceeded those burthens?

This is the fair mode of hold it to be impertinent to s private concern; but a public sive monopoly, is fairly open every play-going man, who has

Now with respect to the desire only that the calculat some years ago by eight of the Covent-garden Theatre, in the pal to the public for prot brought forward and exami whether the pretext will be We shall thank any of our Com mit to us the account. We p was printed; and it will be see of puppet-shows of this House led, the situation of advisors ha

But Mr. Kemble says, "t once raised in the period of so the reign of Queen Anne the ble, however, forgot to say, holds ten times the number Queen Anne's time. That his recollection !

THE HOUSE THAT

This is the CAT engaged to squall over the boxes let to the great, that built.

This is the thief-taker shaven.

That took up JOHN BULL who missed the CAT engaged to sq holes over the boxes, let to the gr JACK built.

This is the Manager, full of Who RAISED THE PRICK And directed the thief-taker To take up JOHN BULL with Who HISSED the CAT engaged to piggen-holes over the boxes, let to the

There is in the possession of one person in Norfolk, a blackbird, a cat, and a dog, whose united ages amount to 42 years; and, what is singular, they all received life in the same spring, and have ever since had the same master. The bird is even now greatly to be admired for its me lous notes.

The O. P.'s dined yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to a previous advertisement. The dinner was served up at five o'clock, sumptuous both in quantity and quality, with as much variety as any temperate epicure would wish. On the doors being opened, the company crowded in, the most respectable we have seen at any public dinner for some time, and mostly consisting of young men. Above three hundred and fifty covers were provided, but above four hundred dined in all

all these names, but they were respec tfully to manage the Westminister Elections. As they were Arrangers, we had not read, and that Mr. Kemble had never seen them. They were the Committee had unbiassedly and spon saneously thought equitable to propose to Mr. Kem ble, and it would be for them to give them their sanction or not.

The Chairman then read as follows :—

"We presume the Public will be satisfied if the Private Boxes are placed on the same footing as in the year 1802."

I understand by this, said the Chairman, that the Private Boxes shall be exactly in the same situation as they were when Mr. Kemble came to the Theatre.

"The second Article is, that the price of admission to the Pit shall be 3s. od. as formerly (Applause), and the price of admission to the Boxes 7s. (Some copies of No! No! but generally clapping and applauds.)"

"The third Article was, that an apology should be made to the Public on the part of the Proprietors, and Mr. Brandon dismissed." (Laud and repeated bursts of applause.)

"The next and last Article was, that the prosecutions pending on both sides should be quashed."

One of these Articles, the Chairman then stated, had met with partial disapprobation. In order, therefore, fairly to collect the sense of the company, he should put each separately, and they would have the goodness to declare their opinion by a show of hands. The whole of the articles being so put, passed unanimously, except the second, relative to the price of admission to the boxes, but by far the majority appeared in favour of allowing seven shift lings to the Managers, as the only concession made on the part of the meeting. Some noisy spirits, however, though in the minority, struck up the O. P. dance, and it was some time before tranquility was restored.

The Chairman, as soon as he could be heard, gave the following toast:—" May the reconciliation of this day prove equally advantageous to the Managers and the Public." This was drank amidst the lowest cheers.

The Chairman then stated, that it was the wish of Mr. Kemble to address the Meeting in a few words, as knowing the sentiments of the Meeting he now wished to retire, that he might prepare for the pub lic papers to-morrow, what it was the intention of the proprietors to do. He had no doubt that the company would fulfil their pledge, and receive him with all possible civil y.

Mr. KEMBLE then rose, and addressed the com

Mangerst do every thing to satisfy the public, without injuring the property of the Proprietors, and re quested him to arrange some plan that might prove stable to all parties. Though he conceived, however, the language and manner of Mr. Kemble in the highest degree conciliatory, he had told him, that though called by some the leader of a mob, he would not pretend to dictate to the Meeting. Mr. Kemble observed that low prices

A Gentleman, whose name we did not learn, then rose, and insisted that the price of admission to the Pit should be three shillings and sixpence, as for merly: that the row of Private Boxes should be open as formerly in the old Theatre; and, on account of his misconduct to the Public, that Mr. Brandon should be dismissed. They would agree that the ad mission to the Boxes should be seven shillings; but for this liberality on the part of the Public, they would expect an apology to be made by the Ma nagers for insulting and offending the Public at large.

The Chairman then gave as a toast, "The liberty of the press." which was drank standing, with re followed by three times thre

ten rose and stated, that he was de part of Mr. Kemble, that the Ma lious to meet the wishes of the pub- orized to accede to everything that except one thing, which was the random, for which he had no au toes he agree to? was called out s of the room.) I understand een just stated by the Gentile ist as acceded to, that the price the Pit shall be as formerly, boxes shall be done away.— the Private Boxes should be as Kemble came to the Theatre.) knowlege, he said, he did not was any difference, but as he ere was some difference, and that es had been added on Mr. Kem Theatre, he trusted there would giving the Managers a few days hen they might state to the pub- nild do. (No! No! Now or ever! Old Prices or no Play!) I hen, I am misunderstood; Mr conciliate, and only asks a day or Mr. Clifford then observed that he position that appeared to him ex- it was prosecuted on account of the Managers. If you submit to sition, they will be able to draw positions in the course of a few shall afterwards submit for your any as accede to this proposition ands. (All! All! All!)

After the said Committee had re owing toast, "The ancient and the Pit," which was drank with

ten called on for a song, who, we O. P. song for the occasion, but instances of the Meeting, sung receptionable nature, and taught ar, and so well executed, that it in every part of the room.

Then proposed as a toast, "The rank with enthusiastic applause, roar here took place in the lower which was occasioned by a great in the orchestra, among whom he obnoxious persons were ob a long and loud cry of no Pri orchestra was emptied, and the

was restored, Mr. Clifford ob some time before he knew the care, and that had they address ed, he should have taken care ance should have been sooner re mittee, he said, had gone out to that were to be proposed to the their return, he should do him-

probation and sanction.

When the Committee returned to the room, the Chairman stated that he should, with their permis sion, read the propositions returned by the Com mittee. He had been requested by some indivi duals to mention their names, but some of them he really did not know (Mention them, mention them; at the same time and crisis as No! No! unneces-

["THEATRICAL PRICES.", "The Managers of Covent-garden Theatre say, that for the last ten years the profits have not exceeded six per cent. on the capital employed. But the question is, what do they call the capital ?", "If 30,000. should be raised one year upon tontine annuities, and 20,000. another—if transferable tickets should be sold for a term of years, and free admissions granted as a bonus in addition to the interest paid for loans? and all these incumbrances should be deducted from the receipts, no wonder that the surplus profits should be small. But is that the fair way of estimating the receipts and expences", "Drury-lane was burnt, the exceeded half a million. What the public 25,000. extirpates, and an early notice will be given of the those burthens ?", "When the King's Theatre Theatre by the bye rests only a number of boxes, were alien assist in defraying the expences not perhaps receive in money the leases granted, and yet the owners 16,000. a year, the receipts, that Theatre maffits; but in estimating the rea of 2,500. (the interest of lowed for capital employed.", "This is the fair mode of hold it to be impertinent to private concern; but a public every play-going man, who", "Now with respect to the desire only that the calcula some years ago by eight of the Covent-garden Theatre, in the pal to the public for prot brought forward and exami whether the pretext will be We shall thank any of our Cor mit to us the account. We was printed; and it will be se of puppet-shouts of this House led, the situation of actors ha", "But Mr. Kemble says, \" once raised in the period of s the reign of Queen Anne the ble, however, forgot to say, holds ten times the number Queen Anne's time. That his recollection !", "THE HOUSE THAT", "This is the House that JACK built. These are the boxes let to the g", "These are the boxes let to the great JACK built.", "This is the CAT engaged to squ over the boxes let to the great, that built.", "This is JOHN BULL with a bangle gaged to squall to the poor in the to the great that visit the House th", "This is the thief-taker sha", "That took up JOHN BULL who kissed the CAT engaged to sq holes over the boxes, let to the great JACK built.", "This is the Manager, full of who RATED THE PARRS And directed the thief-taker To take up JOHN BULL with Who MISSED the CAT engaged to the boxes over the boxes, let to that JACK built.", "There is in the possession of one person in Norfolk, a blackbird, a cat, and a dog, whose united ages amount to 42 years; and, what issu-gulat, they all received life in the same spring, and have ever since had the same master. The bird is even now greatly to be admired for its me-lodious notes.", "dec 14 O. P. DINNER. 1869", "The O. P.'s dined yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to a previous advertisement. The dinner was served up at five o'clock, sumptuous both in quantity and quality, with as much variety as any temperate epicure would wish. On the doors being opened, the company crowded in, the most respectable we have seen at any public dinner for some time, and mostly consisting of young men. Above three hundred and fifty covers were provided, but above four hundred dined in all", "A Gentleman, whose name we did not learn, then rose, and insisted that the price of admission to the Pit should be three shillings and sixpence, as formerly : that the row of Private Boxes should be open as formerly in the old Theatre; and, on account of his misconduct to the Public, that Mr. Brandon should be dismissed. They would agree that the admission to the Boxes should be seven shillings; but for this liberality on the part of the Public, they would expect an apology to be made by the Managers for insulting and offending the Public at large.", "The Chairman then gave as a toast, \"The liberty of the public.\" which was drank standing, with re- followed by three times three.", "The O. P.'s dined yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to a previous advertisement. The dinner was served up at five o'clock, sumptuous both in quantity and quality, with as much variety as any temperate epicure would wish. On the doors being opened, the company crowded in, the most respectable we have seen at any public dinner for some time, and mostly consisting of young men. Above three hundred and fifty covers were provided, but above four hundred dined in all", "IMPERIAL CALENDAR FOR 1810.\nTHE PROPIETORS OF THE NEW WORK", "being extremely solicitous to publish the new edition from original Documents, embracing much additional and useful information, and which have with considerable labour, been obtained from the respective Office and other Establishments; they are under the necessity of requesting the indulgence of the Public for a few Days. It is now in the Press, and an early notice will be given of the Day on which it will be ready for Delivery.", "MINERVA OFFICE, Leadenhall-street.", "This Day was published, In Two Volumes, tamo. price 10s. sewn,", "THE GREY FRIAR, and BLACK SPIRIT of the WYEs a Romance. By JOHN ENGLISH, Esq.", "Of Blackwood Hall.", "Printed for A. K. Newman and Co. and sold by all Bookellers.", "Where may be had, just published, Irish Chieltain and his Family, 4 vols. 20s. sewn. Hours of Affluence, and Days of Indigence, 4 vols. 20s. sewn.", "and drank the health of all present. He then read, and the company soon after broke up. Mr. CLIFFORD then made a compulsory speech to the company, in which, after advertising to the observations made upon his conduct by Mr. Servant Sabahand in the Court of Common Pleas, and Mr. Jacks in the Common Council, he returned his thanks for the honour which had been done to him, and drank the health of all present.", "Mr. CLIFFORD then made a compulsory speech to the company, in which, after advertising to the observations made upon his conduct by Mr. Servant Sabahand in the Court of Common Pleas, and Mr. Jacks in the Common Council, he returned his thanks for the honour which had been done to him, and drank the health of all present. He then read, and the company soon after broke up. The conduct of their worthy Chairman was too well known to require any epithalamum from him; therefore he should content himself with the honour of proposing the health of Henry Clifford, Esq. Mr. Clifford's health was accordingly drunk, with three, in the most cordial and enthusiastic style.", "Mr. Kemble then withdrew.", "The Chairman then proposed Mr. Kemble's health, which was drunk with much enthusiasm.", "The Chairman then proposed Mr. Kemble's health, which was drunk with much enthusiasm. \"The Chairman then proposed Mr. Kemble's health, which was experienced since I entered this room.\" The Chairman then proposed Mr. Kemble's health

THEATRICAL PRICES.

O. P. DINNER.

If 30,000. should be raised one year upon tontine annuities, and 20,000. another—if transferable tickets should be sold for a term of years, and free admissions granted as a bonus in addition to the interest paid for loans? and all these incumbrances should be defrayed from the receipts, no wonder that the surplus profits should be small. But is that the fair way of estimating the receipts and expences of a Theatre? When Drury-lane was burnt, the incumbrances of all kinds exceeded half a million. Would it have been fair to tax the public 25,000. extra to defray the interest of those burthens ?

When the King's Theatre was re built, (which Theatre by the bye rests only upon an annual licence), a number of boxes were alienated for a term of years, to assist in defraying the expence. The Proprietor did not perhaps receive in money, or in value, 50,000. for the leases granted, and yet these boxes now produce for the owners 16,000. a year. Deducting this sum from the receipts, that Theatre may not produce great profits; but in estimating the real annual expence, the sum of 2,500. (the interest of 50,000.) is alone to be allowed for capital employed.

This is the fair mode of calculation. We should hold it to be impertinent to scrutinize the gains of any private concern; but a public Theatre, with an exclusive monopoly, is fairly open to the investigation of every play-going man, who has no choice left him.

Now with respect to the increase of expences, we desire only that the calculation which was published some years ago by eight of the principal performers of Covent-garden Theatre, in their just and moderate appeal to the public for protection, should be again brought forward and examined. We shall then see whether the pretext will be borne out by the reality. We shall thank any of our Correspondents who can transmit to us the account. We perfectly remember that it was printed; and it will be seen that though the expence of puppet-shews of this House has been more than doubled, the situation of adsors has not been improved.

But Mr. Kemb le says, "the prices have only been once raised in the period of seventy years; and that in the reign of Queen Anne the pit was 35." Mr. Kemb le, however, forgot to say, that the present Theatre holds ten times the number that the Theatre did in Queen Anne's time. That trifle did not occur to his recollection !

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.

This is the House that Jack built.

These are the boxes let to the great, that visit the House that
JACK built.

These are the pigeon holes over the boxes, let to the great that visit the House that JACK built.

This is the CAT engaged to squall, to the poor in the pigeon holes over the boxes let to the great, that visit the House that JACK built.

This is JOHN BULL with a bugle horn, that hissed the CAT engaged to squall to the poor in the pigeon holes over the boxes, let to the great that visit the House that JACK built.

This is the thief-taker shaven and shorn,

That took up JOHN BULL with his bugle horn,
who hissed the CAT engaged to squall to the poor in the
pigeon-holes over the boxes, let to the great that visit the House that
JACK built.

This is the Manager, full of scorn,

Who RAISED THE PAEK to the people forlorn,

And directed the thief-taker, shaven and shorn,

To take up John Bull with his bugle-borne.

Who hissed the CAT engaged to squall to the Poor in the
pigeon-holes over the boxes, let to the great that visit the House
that JACK built.
BOW-WOW.

There is in the possession of one person in
Norfolk, a blackbird, a cat, and a dog, whose
united ages amount to 42 years; and, what is sin-
gular, they all received life in the same spring,
and have ever since had the same master. The
bird is even now greatly to be admired for its me-
todous notes.

The O. P.'s dined yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to a previous advertisement. The dinner was served up at five o'clock, sumptuous both in quantity and quality, with as much variety as any temperate epicure would wish. On the doors being opened, the company crowded in, the most respectable we have seen at any public dinner for some time, and mostly consisting of young men. Above three hundred and fifty covers were provided, but above four hundred dined in, exclusively of a considerable number who came in after dinner. The company being seated, Mr. Clifford, with a few friends, entered the room, amidst loud cheers, and took the chair. The cloth having been removed, the Chairman proposed, as the first toast, "The King," which was drank with three times three.

Mr. CLIFFORD then stated to the company, that, in consequence of having been appointed Chairman on this occasion, he had received a message from Mr. Kemb le in the morning, which message had afterwards produced an interview, in which Mr. Kemb le had communicated his desire to conciliate the Public, and that he would be glad to appear in the company, and state to them the wishes of the Managers, and their dispositions to conciliate, were he sure that he would not be treated invicibly. (He the Chairman) had stated to Mr. Kemb le, that he had no authority, on the part of the Meeting, to enter into any engagements, but this much he could say, that he would communicate to the Meeting the wishes of Mr. Kemb le, and if he found the Meeting of a temper not likely to receive him in a gently manner, he would most certainly not allow him to come into the room. He had therefore pledged his word, that Mr. Kemb le should not be admitted into the room unless he was to meet with respect. In consequence of this communication, Mr. Kemb le was now in the house, and if it was their pleasure to hear him, and to receive him amicably, he was ready to come in immediately.—(Loud cheers.)—I have no doubt then that these plaats are an assurance from you that you will treat him in a becoming manner, and that I shall do my duty, as Chairman, if I assure him that he shall meet with all incivility.

The last word being evidently an unintentional mistake, the whole room corrected the error, and cried out, "the utmost civility."

Messrs. POWELL and HARRIS, and some others, then went out, and on their return ushered in Mr. Kemb le. The room received him standing, and with the loudest cheers of approbation. He took his seat on the right of the chair.

Mr. CLIFFORD then stated, that before Mr. Kemb le made his appearance in the room, he had the honour or stating that an interview had taken place be tween Mr. Kemb le and him in the morning. He had not wished, however, to state the patien ts of that conversation till Mr. Kemb le was present. Mr. Kemb le being now present, he would take the liber- aty of stating the conversation. Mr. Kemb le express- ed to him, that he sincerely lamented the misunder- standing that had taken place between the Managers and the Public, and the reason that the Proprietors had not sooner attempted to have this difference adjusted was, that they did not know the proper per- sonsto whom they were to address themselves. Now, however, that the Opp osition were to dine publicly, the Proprietors and Managers had thought it expe- dient to have some communication on the subject, and to restore, if possible, that good understanding that had always prevailed between the Public and Covent-Garden Theatre. Mr. Kemb le had told him, at the same time, that it was the wish of the M anagers to do everything to satisfy the public, w in- out injuring the property of the Proprietors, and re- questing him to arrange some plan that might prove set factory to all parties. Though he conceived, however, the language and manner of Mr. Kemb le in the highest degree conciliatory, he had told him, that though called by some the leader of a mob, he would not pretend to dictate to the Meeting. Mr. Kemb le observed, that low

The Chairman then gave as a toast, "The liberty of the subject," which was drank standing, with repeated cheers, and followed by three times three.

Mr. CLIFFORD then rose and stated, that he was desired to say, on the part of Mr. Kemb le, that the Managers were so anxious to meet the wishes of the public, that he was authorized to accede to everything that had been proposed, except one thing, which was the dismissal of Mr. Brandon, for which he had no authority. (What does he agree to? was called out from several parts of the room.) I understand that what has been just stated by the Gentleman who spoke last is acceded to, that the price of admission to the Pit shall be as formerly, that the private boxes shall be done away.—(Loud cries that the Private Boxes should be as they were before Kemb le came to the Theatre.) From his own knowledge, he said, he did not know that there was any difference, but as he now understood there was some difference, and that several Private Boxes had been added on Mr. Kemb le's coming to the Theatre, he trusted there would be no objection to giving the Managers a few days to consider of it, when they might state to the public what they would do. (No! No! Now or never! Now or never! Old Prices or no Play!) I am afraid, Gentlemen, I am misunderstood; Mr. Kemb le wishes to conciliate, and only asks a day or two to deliberate. Mr. Clifford then observed that he would make a proposition that appeared to him extremely reasonable. There was a Committee appointed for receiving subscriptions to aid the less wealthy that might be prosecuted on account of their opposition to the Managers. If you submit to them the whole question, they will be able to draw up the necessary propositions in the course of a few minutes, which I shall afterwards submit for your approbation. As many as accede to this proposition will hold up their hands. (All! All! All!)

The Chairman, after the said Committee had re-
tired, gave the following toast, "The Ancient and
indispensible right of the Pit," which was drank with
rapturous applause.

Mr. Jones was then called on for a song, who, we understand, had an O. P. song for the occasion, but owing to the circumstances of the Meeting, sung another of an unexceptionable nature, and taught with so much humour, and so well executed, that it was loudly applauded in every part of the room.

The CHAIRMAN then proposed as a toast, "The Stage," which was drank with enthusiastic applause.

A considerable uproar here took place in the lower end of the room, which was occasioned by a great assemblage of people in the orchestra, among whom it was supposed some obnoxious persons were ob- served. There was a long and loud cry of no Pri- vate Boxes till the orchestra was emptied, and the doors shut.

When tranquility was restored, Mr. Clifford observed, that it was some time before he knew the cause of their displeasure, and that had they addressed themselves to him, he should have taken care that the cause of offence should have been sooner removed. The Committee, he said, had gone out to draw up the articles that were to be proposed to the Managers, which, on their return, he should do him- self the honour to read to the Meeting for their ap- probation and sanction.

When the Committee returned to the room, the Chairman stated that he should, with their permission, read the propositions returned by the Committee. He had been requested by some individuals to mention their names, but some of them he really did not know (mention them, mention them; at the same time, and cry No! No! unnece-

Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland. King, Prince, and Elector of the Rhine. And to all who have done this presentable obeisance,恭禮恭候恭賀。Whereas we are given to understand, that certain persons in and about our City of London, or the suburbs thereof, do frequently assemble for the performing and acting of Plays and Entertainments for rewards, to which divers of our subjects do for their entertainment resort, which divers of them are known to contain much matter of prohpnation and scurrility, so that such kind of entertainments, which, if well managed, might serve as moral instructions in humane life, as the same are now used for the most part tend to the debauchery of the manners of such as are present at them, and are very scandalous and offensive to all pious and well-disposed persons. We, taking the premises into our Princely consideration, yet not holding it necessary to suppress the use of Theaters, because we are assured, that if the evil and scandal in the Play that are not but have been acted were taken away, the same might serve as innocent and harmless disinformation for many of our subjects; and having experience of the art and skill of our trusty jacks, and well believed Thomas Kiltigrew, Esq. one of the Groome of our Bedchamber, and of Sir William Dauenant, Knight, for the purposes hereafter mentioned, do hereby give and grant unto the said Thomas Kiltigrew and Sir William Dauenant, full power and authority to act two companies of Players, consisting respectively of such persons as they shall choose and appoint; and to purchase, build, and erect, or have at their charge, as they shall think fit, two Houses or Theaters, with all convenient rooms and other necessary things, and all necessary furniture and equipment for the stage, and all other entertainments of that nature, in convenient places; and likewise to settle and establish such payments to be paid by those that shall resort to see the said representation performed, as either have bin accustomed to, or have been used to be reasonable in regard of the great expences of SCENES, Musick, and such new decoration as have not bin formerly used, with further power to make such allowances out of that which they shall so see, to the Actors and other persons employed in the said representation in both Houses respectively as they shall think fit, and to provide for any other bin for customarily written, and to expand all prophanesse and scurrility from the same, before they be represented or acted. And this our franchise and authority made to the said Thomas Kiltigrew and Sir William Dauenant, shall be effectual and remaine in full force and vertue, notwithstanding any former order or direction by us given for the suppressing of Playhouses and Plays, or any other Entertainments of the stage. Given &c. August 21, 1660.

CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 10.—SPENCER SMITH, Ambassador from His Britannic Majesty, had his public audience of the Grand Visir December 1st. On the 5th he was admitted to an audience of the Grand Seignior, which took place with all the accustomed ceremony of the Porte. In his discourse the Ambassador touched upon the former Treaties between England and the Porte, and rejoiced in the prospect that these sacred engagements were about to be drawn still closer. His Highness replied in the most affectionate terms, and assured Mr. SPENCER SMITH that he would cooperate with all his ability to the success of the enterprises which form the principal ground of the new conference between the two Powers.

After the repast which was given in the Divan, before the audience of the Sultan, and at which the Minister sat at table with the Grand Visir, contrary to the general usage, coffee was served up. The Grand Seignior also gave him a proof of more intimate friendship, by taking with his own hand, from the Grand Visir, the Letter of the King of England, though the usual practice is simply to lay such communication on the left side of his Highness's THRONE.

The arrival of an English Squadron, under the command of Sir SYDNEY SMITH is daily expected.

OWEN, the Latin Epigrammatist, who lived in the time of JAMES the FIRST, congratulating Great Britain on the Union of the two Crowns, which had then taken place, observes, that as JAMES was the Sixtib of Scotland and the First of England, it must be fortunate to the two Countries, since they had thrown the best throw on the dice, six-ace.

His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES having been elected President of the Foundling Hospital since the demise of the Duke of PORTLAND, attended Divine Service in the Chapel of that Hospital yesterday morning.

The chapel was early filled. The PRINCE came in from the private entrance, preceded by the Officers of the Charity, and some of the Governors, and took his seat in the Governors' pew, to the right of the altar, accompanied by Lord ERSKINE, Lord DUNDAS, and another Peer. The Coronation Anthem was played during the service and before sermon. The Hallelujah chorus from *The Messiah* was performed. The sermon was prescited by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of CHESTER from the following text, Proverbs, chap. XXVII. 11, 12:—

"1. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;"

"2. If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it?" And shall not he render to every man according to his works?"

The Right Rev. Prelate dwelt with much force and eloquence on the duties of charity, and the nature, objects, and usefulness of the institution of the Foundling Hospital; and concluded by expiring the just expectation and gratification entertained of its increasing prosperity, from the benevolent and noble way in which the PRINCE had accepted the office of President, and granted his illustrations protection and favour to a foundation which was so worthy of his regards, so interesting to every feeling heart, and so universally conducive the best interests of society.

His Royal Highness looked extremely well, and was dressed in Court mourning, wearing the Order of the Garter. After service, he viewed a part of the hospital, and said some time in the Treasurer's apartments, and returned at about a quarter past two. In coming out, he kindly ordered the carriages to be driven slowly, which gave an opportunity to a very numerous and elegant assemblage of persons to greet him with every mark of personal respect.

Last night Mr. DIAMOND'S Play of *The Doubtful Son* or, *Secrets of the Palace*, was performed a third time at the Haymarket Theatre, with increased effect. The performers were more correct in their parts, and did more justice to the author.—Mr. SOWERY particularly appeared to great advantage. He received the most unbound-ed applause. The House was crowded with the most fashionable company.

The People of Bala, Delgelbi, and other places with Italicised names in North Wales, are frightened at Mr. JONES's position, that BONAPARTE will conquer all those who have the same name, wherever he finds them. If they should unluckily have any kindred in that part of the South of Europe, where the Chief Consul has travelled, woe betide them, says the Member for Den-bigh.

WORTH,BAFt of a son.

A JEW'S WEDDING.—Wednesday se might be married at Gornsmochers, at two o'clock, P. M. by the Rev. Simon Lep Eker, Mr. Jones Lazarus, silverman and jeweller, of Lincoln, to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Roscella Nathan, daughter of Mr. M. I. Nathan, silverman and jeweller, of the former place. The marriage ceremony was performed in Mr. Nathan's garden, in the presence of a numerous company of Jews and Christians (at least 200 persons) under an elevated canopy supported by our young Ladies. A band of music playing a grand martial air, preceded the bridegroom, who was attended by the bride's father and grandfather; some minutes after he was followed by the bride (veiled) attended by her mother and grandmother. Four green wigs were tapers being burned during the ceremony. The bride was led several times round the bridegroom, and the ring was put on the five fingers of her left hand, where it remained till the next day, and was then placed on the usual finger appropriate for that purpose, where we significantly hope it may long continue. At the conclusion a glass was handed round to the happy couple and their relations, out of which they all drank. It was then laid under the bridegroom's foot, and by him stamped to pieces. After the ceremony a large party of their friends sat down to a handsome dinner provided for the occasion. It is almost unnecessary to add that the whole was particularly interesting, and he company departed much gratified.

COVENT GARDEN. 239

July 6. 1510.

The Season at this Theatre closed last night.

In the early part of the closed, the audience was rather thin; but towards the end, the House became rapidly crowded, chiefly with men, brought evidently with the expectation of hearing the Proprietors' intentions with respect to the private boxes.

The play was Hamlet; and Mr. KEMBLE exhibited more than his usual excellence in a character which requires more vigour and variety of talent, than any other on the stage.

Miss BOLTON was the *Ophelia*; and the tears and silence of the whole House, were, perhaps, the best tribute that could be paid to this captivating actress. The other performers sustained their parts respectively, and the curtain fell amid peals of applause.

In a few minutes after, Mr. KEMBLE came forward, and when the applause with which he was received had subsided, he addressed the audience in nearly the following words:—

"*Ladies and Gentlemen:*—Before the final dropping of the curtain, the Proprietors and Performers of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, are anxious to express the high sense they entertain of the distinguished patronage with which you have honoured their exertions in your service. The favour which you have thus conferred upon them, renders it impossible for them not to make every effort in their power to merit your future approbation. Ladies and Gentlemen, some circumstances relating to the present situation of the Theatre, renders it necessary for me to solicit your attention for a few moments longer, and I humbly hope, that what I am going to say will meet with a candid hearing, and a liberal interpretation. In consequence, Ladies and Gentlemen, some circumstances relating to the present situation of the season, a negotiation was entered into with a Committee of Gentlemen who act upon that occasion, and a Treaty was agreed upon, under the stipulations of which the number of Annual Boxes was to be increased from each side of the Theatre, and at the same time, with the wish, Ladies and Gentlemen, to be distinctly understood upon this point:—That Treaty was agreed to by the Proprietors of the Theatre—and by the Proprietors who, in their name and my own, agreed to it. If it is your pleasure that that Treaty should be strictly executed, the Proprietors will, however, take the trouble of carrying the Treaty into effect to the letter of it.—[Great Applause.]—I have, however, Ladies and Gentlemen, to submit a few words upon this subject to your consideration, which I hope will meet with your favourable attention. In the Act of Parliament which has been recently passed for rebuilding the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane (a saloon, God knows, b) the same calamity which has preseed so heavily upon us, a clause has been inserted, empowering the Proprietors to set apart as many Private Boxes as they shall deem conducive to their interests. They therefore the Gallery will also be rendered less able to use our endeavours to contribute to your management and gratification—for I am convinced, from long experience, that it is necessary (with the view that justice should be done to the amusements of the public) there should be two Theatres upon nearly equal terms. All the other Theatres, Ladies and Gentlemen, that you will be pleased to allow us to retain the same number of Annual Boxes which existed in the old Theatre before it was burnt down. I wish, Ladies and Gentlemen, to speak with every possible humanity, but allow me to say, that I confidently hope, that you will not object, under the circumstances I have stated, to what is now humbly requested.—[Considerable Applause.]

"*Ladies and Gentlemen:* I have now to state to you, that the whole of the front of the present circle of annual Boxes, together with the spacious Corridor and Saloon attached to that circle, will, at the commencement of the next season, be thrown open to the public; and that a spacious stone staircase, and a new Saloon of stone, not of plank, will be in the menu time erected. The roof of the building, which is distinguished patronage will also be revised, and, in every particular, our most efforts will be directed to add to the gongenience and accommodation of the public."

Mr. KEMBLE bowed and withdrew. Very general applause followed the delivery of this address, nor did we hear any disapprobation expressed. It had been for some days previous understood, that the proposition, which was the main object of the greater part of Mr. KEMBLE's address, was to be made last night, and a great crowd went in at half-price. There was not, however, any indication given, when the proposition was made, that it was disapproved of, and certainly the applause was very general in all parts of the Theatre.

The Musical Fare of *The Waterman* closed the performances for the season, and the utmost tranquillity prevailed.

A poney cake.

["LE BEAU MONDE; OR,", "LITERARY AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE,", "supported both Stafford and Land; adhered to the King till the Royal cause was ruined; retired afterwards to the sea; and was at last induced to compound with Parliament by the entreaties of his wife. He took an early opportunity of declaring in favour of Charles the Second; and, like other forward royalists, experienced the usual coldness and neglect, with which that profligate Monarch was accustomed to reward the most faithful services. His Lordship retired to his country residence in Derbyshire, where he passed his time in splendid hospitality, and in the company of Mr. Hobbs, whose talents both in writing and conversation, were only surpassed by his total want of every virtuous principle. The Earl continued to countenance this philosopher while he lived; and erected a monument over his ashes, but without inscribing it with the epitaph which Hobbs himself had dictated—\"This \"is the true philosopher's stone.\"", "The family of Cavendish had hitherto distinguished themselves as zealous loyalists, both in the direct and collateral branches; but a time had at length arrived in which it was scarcely possible for an honest man to be a friend to the Monarch; and Lord William Cavendish, the son and heir of the third Earl of Devonshire, appeared among the patriotic assertors of our national liberties. He early saw the pernicious designs in which the Court had embarked; and the religious dogogy of the Duke of York, joined to his arbitrary principles of government, gave Lord Cavendish a just alarm for the safety of the Protestant religion, if such a Prince should ever ascend the British throne. He was, therefore, a strenuous promoter of the *Test Act*, and of other similar provisions, which were, at that time, accounted necessary, for preventing the ascendancy of the Popish religion. As his father was still alive, he sat in the House of Commons during all the parliaments assembled in the reign of Charles the Second; and along with his illustrious friend, Lord Russell, stood resolutely forward to oppose all the strifes which the unprincipled Court was making towards despotism. He believed that the Popish plot, though disgraced by fabrication, was fundamentally true; and along with the other patriots, zealously prosecuted those who were supposed to be concerned in it. To the bill for the exclusion of the Duke of York, a measure which, he thought, indispensably necessary for the preservation of both our religions and civil liberties, he lent all the aid of his eloquence and influence; and disappointed of", "that object, by the influence of the Court in the House of Peers, he heartily concurred in all the measures which the ingenuity of Shaflesbury devised to keep the eyes of the people open to the dangers of a Popish succession. He was concerned with Lord Russell in the private consultations for preserving the liberties of our country; consultations which gave a handle to the perjured tools of Court, for bringing forward those charges of treason which are usually known by name of the Rye-house plot. The noble behaviour of Lord Cavendish, who offered to favour the escape of his friend, Lord Russell, by exchanging clothes with him in prison, has been transmitted to posterity by admiring historians, as an act of true heroism, only equalled by the magnanimity of Lord Russell, in refusing to save his life at the risk of his friend's.", "Soon after this transaction, Lord Cavendish succeeded to the Earldom of Devonshire; and the death of King Charles, which happened about the same time, opened the way for the commencement of that reign which he had endeavoured to avert, and which soon justified all the melancholy presages which he had formed. When James, contrary to the advice of even the wiser Catholics, both at home and abroad, began to discover his bigoted and arbitrary schemes, the Earl of Devonshire appeared in Parliament with a tone of resolve opposition, which marked him out to the particular suspicion and hatred of the Court. On one occasion, when the King ventured to insult the Parliament, by openly telling them that he meant to keep on foot a standing army, and to employ Popish officers in it, contrary to express laws; and when this body was so overawed as even to debate whether an address of thanks should be presented to the King for this intimation; the Earl of Devonshire said, \"that, for his part, he was for returning \"thanks,\" because the King had spoken out \"plainly, by warning them of what they were to look for.\"", "His Lordship now kept himself retired at his seat of Chatsworth, employed, with every other honest subject, in devising means for wresting the sceptrum from the cruel tyrant who held it, and for transferring it to a worthier possessor. His conferences with some other Noblemen, for inviting over the Prince of Orange, awakened the suspicions of James, who endeavoured to allure him to Court; but he cautiously avoided the dangerous invitation till the landing of the Prince of Orange in the West, when he immediately collected his", "friends and retainers, and marched to the support of this public delivery. In all the subsequent steps which were taken, to exclude from the throne its unworthy possessor, and to substitute in his room the most excellent Prince by whom it was ever honoured, Devonshire bore a conspicuous part; and he was in consequence of his patriotic services, rewarded with the appointment of Lord Steward of the Household, and afterwards with the Garter and the title of Duke of Devonshire.", "Throughout the reign of King William, he uniformly exerted himself in promoting every measure which tended to secure or improve the liberties of the people, an acceptable the liberties of our freedom; as well as an act for allowing counsel to those accused of high treason; and, in concert with King William, exerted himself to fix the succession to the throne in the House of Hanover. Observing the numerous corruptions which arose from a lengthened duration of the same Parliament, he procured a law to be passed for triennial Parliaments; a salutary regulation, which the interested motives of individuals caused afterwards to be abandoned. When Queen Anne ascended the throne, he was continued in all his offices, and formed one of that famous Whig Ministry, under whose guidance Britain achieved greater military triumphs than in any other period of her history. His Grace died in 1707.", "We have dwelt the longer on the transactions of this illustrious Noblemen, as he was one of the most upright patriots who honour the names of our country. Were but a few such men, born to rank and affluence, to make their appearance once in a century, levellers would in vain contend against the beneficial effects of hereditary privileges.", "The second Duke trod in the steps of his father. He joined the Whigs at his outset in life, and continued throughout firm to their measures. Along with his father, he was one of the Commissioners appointed to manage the conferences relative to the union with Scotland, and was instrumental in bringing to a prosperous conclusion that truly fortunate event. When he came to his title, he was appointed Lord Steward of the Household, and succeeded both to the offices and the favour at Court which his father had enjoyed. He had his share in all the memorable and glorious measures of the Marlborough administration; and when his friends were superseded by men of", "very different principles, he hastened to resign his offices into the hands of his sovereign. During the last four inglorious years of Queen Anne's reign, he exerted himself, in conjunction with other patriots, to prevent those violent encroachments on the rights of the subjects which were attempted by the Tories, in conjunction with the High-Churchmen;—those laws which were directly calculated to render the large body of Dissenters, enemies to the Government, by depriving them of equal rights, and widening the breach between them and the Established Church. On the accession of George the First, the Duke of Devonshire, who had always been a strenuous supporter of the Hanoverian succession, found himself in great favour at Court. He successively held the offices of Lord Steward of the Household, and President of the Council; and was repeatedly nominated one of the Lords of Revenue, during his Majesty's absence in Hanover. He died in 1729. Almost the only circumstance which we find to blame and regret in the life of his Grace, is, that he undid the public good which his father had procured, by introducing a bill to convert triennial into septennial Parliaments: an unwise and unjustifiable sacrifice of the constitution to the stability of a party.", "The third Duke of Devonshire continued as firm an adherent to the Whig party as either his father or his grandfather. He enjoyed the same offices and honours, and the same favour at Court. He was for several years Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and gave great satisfaction in that department. He was a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Walpole throughout his whole career, and did not quit administration on the fall of that great statesman.", "The fourth Duke of Devonshire, who succeeded his father in 1755, pursued the same line of politics. He early began to share in his monarch's favours; and was called to the House of Peers, by the title of Baron Cavendish of Hardwick, in the life-time of his father. In 1756, he held the place of First Lord of the Treasury for a short time, till the differences of the contending parties could be brought to some termination. He was afterwards Lord Chamberlain of the Household; and, on the commencement of the new reign, he attached himself to that great branch of the Whig interest of which the Marquis of Rockingham took the lead.", "The present Duke, the fifth of the Cavendish family who has borne that title, has shewn himself as consistent in his politics as any of", "beauties call forth the ravish'd view—\n't all silent as the tomb,\n'mumurings of DERWENT'S wave,\n'lingings the rapt soul subdue,\n'farms seem gliding through the gloom,\n'gird their love the side the grave.", "IMPROMPTU.\nOnce more should submit to THE POE,\nbe exhausted in fagot and rope;\nat once, will enlighten our days,\nConstitution he quite in a blaze.", "HOME.", "ing to thy home! If there the meanest shed\nYield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head,\nAnd some poor plot, with vegetables stord,\nBe all that Heaven allots thee for thy board,\nUnsavoury bread; and herbs that scattered grow\nWild on the river-brink or mountain-brow,\nYet e'en this cheerless ransum shall provide\nMore heart's repose than all the world beside.", "The Marquis of HARTINGTON, Lady HARRIET CAVENDISH, and Lord and Lady MORPETH, have left town, to pass the holidays with the Dowager Countess SPENCER, at her seat at St. Alban's.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, when in Russia, paid great attention to the mineral productions of that empire, and became the purchaser of select specimens which the oldest collector might covet; amongst which are groups of topazes, and one detached, near four inches diameter; aqua marinas of great rarity, &c. On the road his Grace frequently got out of his carriage to pick up curious rock specimens, and to observe the geology of the country. This is a good and meritorious trait in the character of a young Nobleman, who possesses such immense mineral treasures in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Ireland, &c.", "E EXPLOSION OF GAS AT SPITALFIELDS CHURCH.—On Sunday evening, after the departure of the congregation from Spitalfields Church, Mr. Welley, the churchwarden, and Almond, the door-keeper, entered the place with a light, in order to examine the fire of the baptismal Pew, whence a very offensive smell of gas had proceeded. The approach of the candle was followed by a loud explosion caused by a quantity of gas, which had escaped from a flaw in the pipes coming in contact with the light. Mr. Welley and Almond were both knocked down and stunned, but face, and having his hair, eye-lashes, and eye-brows nearly singed off. The thick boards which compose the flooring of the pew were torn into fragments; the substantial oak frame-work of that and the adjoining pews thrown down, and the doors of the pews raised from their hinges, and thrown into the body of the church.", "THE LATE DUE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.", "The following, we understand, is the substance of the Will of the late Duke of DEVONSHIRE:", "All the estates in Great Britain acquired by purchase (except estates in Cumberland), and paternal estates, to go according to settlement made thereof, dated in 1773.", "All furniture, plate, pictures, &c., to the Duke's son, the Marquis of Hartington, or to such other person, in case of his death during testator's life, as should succeed to said estates by virtue of said settlement.", "Confirms settlement already made to the Duessh of D. of 4000l. per annum; bequeaths her 2000l. and all her paraphernalia.", "Estates of the Duke's maternal grandfather, the Earl of Hartington, devised by his will in 1759, after the Duke's death, to his sons in trust, with general remanders; remainder to daughters, with cross remainders in tail.", "Bequeaths the interest of 20,000l. to his daughter, Lady Georgione Morpeth, for life; after her death, the principal, as she shall by will appoint, or to her executors or administrators; but in case of the said Earl of Burlington's estates devolving upon her by virtue of his said devise, the same is to cease, and said 20,000l. devolve to the said Marquis of Hartington, by virtue of said settlement of 1773.\nA similar bequest of 20,000l. upon similar trusts, to his daughter, Lady Henrietta Elizabeth Cavendish.", "10,000l. also to the said Henrietta, in addition to 10,000l. already settled on her as a marriage-partition, one year after the Duke's death, with interest.", "Estates at Penrith, and elsewhere, in the county of Cumberland, to be sold, according to deed of sale, enrolled in the court of Chantry, in the name of the said Marquis of Hartington, by virtue of said settlement.", "To Mr. William Bate, of All Hallows, in the City of London, and to Mr. John Bate, of St. Michael, in the

["LE BEAU MONDE; OR,", "LITERARY AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE,", "66", "his progenitors. From his entrance into public life he has invariably continued to co-operate with the party of the great aristocracy; and his unremitting support of Mr. Fox, only terminated with the death of that celebrated statesman.", "His Grace was born on the 24th of December 1748. From his mother, Lady Charlotte Boyle, sole heires to the Earl of Burlington, he inherited an illustrious descent, and a great fortune, only surpassed by those of his father. He had every advantage of education which the age could afford; and every incentive to patriotism which the example of ancestors can supply.", "The Duke of Devonshire was singularly fortunate in the choice of a lady, possessed of every charm to captivate his affections, and of talents to attract the admiration of all around her. She was daughter to the late Earl Spencer, and included among her ancestors both the Duke of Marlborough and the First Duke of Devonshire. Her education was carefully conducted; and when at length she appeared at Court, her beauty and accomplishments became the universal theme of admiration, and his Grace of Devonshire was esteemed the most fortunate of men in carrying off the loveliest prize.", "The happiness of this desirable union seemed for some years to receive an alloy from the want of offspring; but after the lapse of ten years, her Grace was at length delivered of a daughter, the present Viscountess Morpeth. On this occasion she had an opportunity of showing the superiority of her sensibility and taste to her rivals in the world of fashion. Abhorring the unfeeling and barbarous practice of committing infants to the care of mercenary nurses, she boldly broke through the inhuman dictates of fashionable custom, and suckled her own child. This example of so distinguished a lady, although unfortunately not universally followed, has had a very great effect in re-calling women of rank to those duties of domestic life, which they cannot violate without wounding the best feelings of human nature, and the best interests of morality. Her family was afterwards increased, first by a daughter, and afterwards by a son and heir, the present Marquis of Hartington.", "It must have been exceedingly gratifying to the Duke to observe the unrivalled sway which his beautiful partner bore in the circles of fashion. On the first day that she attended the Drawing-room at St. James's, the splendour of all preceding occasions was eclipsed.", "The bride, attended by all the distinguished females of the Houses of Cavendish and Spencer, was not more superior to her companions in the charms of her person than in the profession of her costly ornaments. It has been said that she was literally loaded with jewels; and that a pair of very large diamond buckles, either from their weight or tightness, actually produced lameness to such a degree as obliged her Grace to keep at home for several days. From her first appearance in fashionable life, the Duchess of Devonshire was the undisputed leader of the modes. At that time the tight stays were carried to an excess almost incredible; and even the bones of a lady laced for Court could scarcely resist the violent efforts made for compression. But in this piece of elegance the whole fair train of the Court was surpassed by her Grace, for we are assured that her circumference was reduced to exactly that of an orange and a half. The taste and genius of this lady, however, speedily burst through these Gothic absurdities; and the rapid reception which the present natural and elegant modes have acquired, was in no small degree owing to her patronage.", "The poetical genius of her Grace has been celebrated both at home and abroad; and her longest piece, The Passage of the Mountain of St. Gothard, has been eulogised and translated by the Abbé de Lille, the most distinguished modern poet of France.", "Her Grace did not suffer her superior talents and attractions to remain unemployed. She was engaged, on every occasion, in maintaining the splendour and influence of her family, both at Court and among the people. She entered zealously into those political interests to which the Devonshire family had been so uniformly attached; and in those scenes where custom allowed her to appear, she was scarcely a less distinguished leader of the Whigs than Mr. Fox himself.", "While some Peers of high rank have been brought over to the opposite party, either by political alarms or by selfish views of interest, the Duke of Devonshire has continued invariably united to the party of Rockingham and Fox, with whom he commenced his career. This is the more laudable in the present age, as his political friends neither gave nor were able to give him any recompence worth his acceptance. Instead of receiving, he was often called upon to give; and often spent large sums of money in support of the cause which he had exposed.", "During those violent contests for the repre-", "sentation of Westminster, which Mr. Fox maintained against the Court, no persons distinguished themselves more singularly in his support than the family of Devonshire. The celebrated orator himself was not possessed of funds to carry on so expensive a contest: but the burden was cheerfully sustained by the great and wealthy adherents of his party; and by him more liberally than by the Duke of Devonshire. In this, and in all the subsequent election struggles of Mr. Fox, the Duchess signally distinguished herself by her activity, and carried away the palm from all other canyasers.", "When the embarrassed circumstances of Mr. Fox induced his friends to promote a sub-", "scription in his behalf, the Duke of Devonshire was among the first and most liberal of the contributors. During his last illness, this admired statesman received from the Devonshire family all those attentions which marked their undeviating attachment and strong anxiety for his fate. It was at their noble seat at Chiwick that he breathed his last.", "The Duke has sustained an irretrievable loss in the death of his Duchess, who has created the greatest blank in the fashionable world that has taken place for many years. Since that period his Grace lives in retirement. In the enjoyment of his honours and of his ample fortune,", "March 30 1806", "and fifty-three acres of enclosed arable, pastures and land, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas West, a yearly gringeror. One hundred acres of which are Freehold, and the rest Leasehold, under the Provest and Eton College, but wholly Tythe-free. The Estate is near Kinghill Green, in the Parish of Hugenden, about two miles from High Wycombe. The tenant will show you the lines of the freehold, and the rest Leasehold, under the Provest and Eton College, but wholly Tythe-free. The Estate is near Kinghill Green, in the Parish of Hugenden, about two miles from High Wycombe. The tenant will show you the lines of the freehold, and the rest Leasehold, under the Provest and Eton College, but wholly Tythe-free. The Estate is", "vick-square—Second Part of the very extensive and various Household Furniture and Stock in Trade, costly grand stables and other sideboards, elegant Trafalgar and other complete drawing-room suits, secretaries and bookcases, Brussels and other Carpets of various dimensions, bed-Chimney and Pier Glasses and Mirrors, &c.—By Mr. TER, on the premises, No. 7, Exeter-street, High Street, and two following DAYS, at 12, precisely, L. the remaining STOCK in TRADE and effects of an eminent Cabinet-maker and Upholsterer, by the Trustee, for the benefit of those fittees; comprising four-post and seat, bedsteads with chintz drapery, hamplet, goose and down feather beds, large fine blankets, Turkey, Brussels, and Kildermینster carpets, two comrawing-room suits, mohang inlaid diaphag, card, sofas, furs, drawing tables, fine", "Chair in the Revolution Parlour at Whittington's, and believed to be the very individual seat, in which of Devonshire sat when measures were concerted for the Revolution in 1688.", "This drawing was taken Oct.5.1790.", "beauties catch the ravist'd view—\nall silent as the tomb,\nmurmurings of DERWENT's wave,\nlings the rapt soul subdue,\nfarms seem gliding through the gloom,\ngair they lov'd this side the grave.", "IMPROMPTU.\nbe more should submit to THE POET,\nbe exhausted in faggot and rope;\nto once, will enlighten our days,\nConstitution be quite in a blaze.", "HOME.", "ing to his home! If there the meanest shed\nYield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head,\nAnd some poor plot, with vegetables stord',\nBe all that Heaven allots thee for thy board,\nUnsavour bread; and herbs that scatter'd grow\nWild on the river-brink or mountain-brow,\nYet e'en this чeersome mansion shall provide\nMore heart's repose than all the world besides.", "The Marquis of HARTINGTON, Lady HARRIET CAVENDISH, and Lord and Lady MORPETH, have left town, to pass the holidays with the Dowager Countess SPENCER, at her seat at St. Alban's.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, when in Russia, paid great attention to the mineral productions of that empire, and became the purchaser of select specimens that the oldest collector might covet; amongst which are groups of topazes, and one detached, near four inches diameter; aqua marinas of great rarity, &c. On the road his Grace frequently got out of his carriage to pick up curious rock specimens, and to observe the geology of the country. This is a good and meritorious trait in the character of a young Nobleman, who possesses such immense mineral treasures in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Ireland, &c.", "EXPOSION OF GAS AT SPITALFIELDS CHURCH.—On Sunday evening, after the departure of the congregation from Spitalfields Church, Mr. Welley, the churchwarden, and Almond, the beadle, entered the place with a light, in order to examine the door of the baptistery, whence a very offensive smell of gas had proceeded. The approach of the candle was followed by a loud explosion caused by a quantity of gas, which had escaped from a flaw in the pipes coming in contact with the light. Mr. Welley and Almond were both knock'd down and stunned, but the latter sustained other injuries, being much scorched about his face, and having his hair, eye-lashes, and eye-brows nearly singed off. The thick boards which compose the flooring of the pew were torn into fragments; the substantial oak frame-work of that and the adjoining pews thrown down, and the doors of the pews raised from their hinges, and thrown into the body of the church.", "THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.", "The following, we understand, is the substance of the Will of the late Duke of DEVONSHIRE:", "All the estates in Great Britain acquired by purchase (except estates in Cumberland), and paternal estates, to go according to settlement made therefor, dated in 1778.", "All furniture, plate, pictures, curiosities, &c. to the Duke's son, the Marquis of Hartington, or to such other person, in case of his death during testator's life, as should succeed to said estates by virtue of said settlement.", "Confins settlement already made to the Duchess of D. of 4000l. per annum; bequeaths her 2000l. and all her paraphernalia.", "Estates of the Duke's material grandfather, the Earl of Burlington, devised by his will in 1750, after the Duke's death to his sons in trust, with general reminders; remainder to daughters, with cross remainings in tail.", "Bequeaths the interest of 20000l. to his daughter, Lady Georgina Morpeth, for life; after her death, the principal, as she shall by will appoint, or to her executors or admin-tretors; but in case of the said Earl of Burlington's estates devolving upon her by virtue of his said devise, the same is to cease, and said 20000l. to devolve to the said Marquis of Hartington, by virtue of said settlement of 1773.", "A similar bequest of 20000l. upon similar trusts, to his daughter, Lady Henrietta Elizabeth Cavendish.", "10000l. also to the said Henrietta, in addition to 10000l. already paid, on her marriage, one year after the Duke's death, with interest.", "Estates at Penrith, and elsewhere, in the county of Cumberland, to be sold, according to deed of sale, enrolled in the county of Cheshire, and to be sold, according to deed of sale, enrolled in the county of Ch

["Monday July 29 1811 233\nTHE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.", "THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.", "The indisposition of that much-lamented Noble,\nman we announced about a fortnight ago. Since that\nperiod his Grace has been confined to his town resi-\ndence in Piccadilly, in a fluctuating state of health.\nThe first attacks were spasms in the chest, which\nwere succeeded by a difficulty of respiration. They\ncontinued, more or less violent, until his death. Dur-\ning the last week he could not rest in a bed; for five\nnights he sat up in a chair, which becoming irksome,\na chair-bed was provided. During the Sunday pre-\nceding his demise, his Grace was considerably better;\nhe was enabled to walk upon the terrace in front of\nDevonshire-house, for at least an hour, and after-\nwards to eat a hearty dinner.", "The first indications of extreme danger, were re-\npeated vomitings, about three o'clock on Monday\nafternoon. The whole of the medical attendants\nwere then called in, namely, Sir WALTER FARQUHAR,\nDr. SANDERS, and Mr. WALKER, the PRINCE RE-\nGENT's Apothecary. About five o'clock, his Grace\nbeing relieved in some degree, but much exhausted\nby the convulsed state of his frame, he laid himself\ndown on the chair-bed; but after remaining twen-\nty minutes, he exclaimed to Mr. WALKER, who was\nin attendance, \"I cannot stay in bed.\" His extremi-\nties were then getting cold, and it was thought advise-\nable to call in the assistance of Dr. PEMBERTON,\nwho was then at Harrow on the Hill; an express was\nsent off for the Doctor, who arrived in less than an\nhour and a half. The difficulty of breathing increas-\ned about nine o'clock. A few minutes before ten\nMr. WALKER bound up the arm, for the purpose of\nopening a vein. Just as the surgeon was preparing\nthe lancet, the head of the patient fell back, and he\nexpired without a groan in the arms of the Duchess. As\nsoon as it was discovered that the vital spark was extin-\nguished, the Duchess uttered a piercing shrill, and\nfell helpless on the floor. Hysteric fits followed each\nother in rapid succession. After the lapse of half an\nhour (the present Duke of DEVONSHIRE), the Marquis\nof HARTINGTON took her up in his arms and carried\nher into the drawing-room. The calmest of the de-\nceased's latter moments, were passed with the Duchess;\nthey had a slight conversation together. A consulta-\ntion, among the Members of the Faculty present, af-\nterwards was held, on the subject of the disease which\ncaused his Grace's death; when they appeared to be\nunanimously of opinion, that it was water on the\nchest which had communicated to the heart. The\nbody was then laid on a table, and the heart was\nexamined in the affairs of Ireland.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE. Seconded the motion,\nIt felt great difficulty in doing justice to his own set-\nters, in rising to address their Lordships for the first\ntime. Leaving it to others of more experience and\ntalents to enter more particularly into the subject he\nshould content himself with expressing his hearty ap-\nrobation of the motion, and professing his resolution to\noppose every thing that appeared to him contrary to\nthe safety and happiness of the community.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, in his letter to the Mar-\nquis of HARTINGTON, in which he says, \"I am so much\nimpressed with the importance of your being a person\nof the first quality, that I cannot but wish you would\nbe present at the trial of the Marquis.\"", "Colonel CAVENDISH, the eldest son of Lord GEORGE\nHENRY CAVENDISH, and cousin to the present Duke\nof DEVONSHIRE, was thrown out of his open carriage,\non Wednesday last, in Holker-park, Lancashire, and\nkilled on the spot. He married the eldest daughter of\nLord LISMORE, a few years ago; and has left 3 or 4\nchildren.", "He was about 28 years of age. 1812\n\nThe Marquis of Harlingten, in his letter to his\nbrother, Sir John Harlingten, dated 17th May,\n1773, says, \"I have been\nsupposed to have been\nsup

["[ 2 ]", "68", "Heav'n too its choicest, noblest gift bestow'd,\nIn thee the hallow'd flame of GENIUS glow'd;\nWhile, form'd by *beauty*, as by *birth* to shine,\nPure, classic taste, and sterling sense were thine,\nEach grace, by science heighten'd, brighter shone,\nDelighted polish'd courts, and charm'd a throne,\nStruck Envy dumb, disarm'd Detraction's rage,\nAnd bound in fetters an admiring age.\nBrilliant *EXEMPLAR*, on this bounded sphere,\nWhere darkling mortals run their blind career,\nOf all that dignifies, endears thy kind,\nIn form an angel, with an angel's mind!\nWith every high and generous feeling fraught,\nWhose eye beam'd *goodness*, and whose look was *thought*,\nWhat equal pencil shall thy worth display,\nWhat breast not kindle at the bright survey?\nWithin thy faithful bosom's chaste retreat,\nHigh-thron'd, Benevolence had fix'd her seat;\nThere—warm, energic, springing from the soul,\nThe social passions shed their soft control,\nWhile liberal, as the gale that flows around,\nTo suffering worth thy bounty knew no bound;\nAs *WIFE*, as *PARENT*, *FRIEND*, thro' life, approved,\nBy all applauded, and by all beloved!\nSuch DEVON was—what Muse but must deplore,\nThe sun of beauty set to rise no more!\nThe heart that oft with tender anguish bled,\nThe liberal hand that famish'd thousands fed,", "[ 3 ]", "Cold as the silent marble that contains,\nWith solemn pomp inurn'd, her loved remains !\nBut while the soul remember'd virtue charms,\nOr gratitude the glowing bosom warms,\nThe hapless victims, rescued from despair,\nThy praises on their grateful tongues shall bear ;\nThe widow's ardent vows to heav'n ascend,\nAnd at thy shrine the cherish'd orphan bend ;\nTo latest ages shall thy fair renown,\nFor worth, for beauty, glide, unsullied, down;\nAnd mid the *CYPRESS*, waving o'er thy tomb,\nFor ever bright, the deathless *LAUREL* bloom.", "British Museum,\n1st August, 1806.", "N. B. The above lines are partly extracted from a Poem, entitled\nRICHMOND HILL, now printing by subscription.", "THOMAS MAURICE.", "Printed by W. Bulmer and Co.\nCleveland Row, St. James's.", "beauties catch the ravish'd view—\nall silent as the tomb,\nmumurings of DERWENT'S wave,\nlings the rapt soul subdue,\nforms seem gliding through the gloom,\ngair they lov'd this side the grave.", "IMPROMPTU.\nTo more should submit to THE POET,\nbe exhausted in fagot and rope;\nonce, will enlighten our day,\nConstitution he quite in a blaze.", "HOME.\nTo thy home! If there the meanest shed\nYield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head,\nAnd some poor plot, with vegetables stord,\nBe all that Heaven allots thee for thy board,\nUnsavoury bread; and herbs that scatter'd grow\nWild on the river-brink or mountain-brow,\nYet e'en this cheerless mansion shall provide\nMore heart's repose than all the world beside.", "The Marquis of HARTINGTON, Lady HARRIET\nCAVENDISH, and Lord and Lady MORPETH, have\nleft town, to pass the holidays with the Dowager\nCountess SPENCER, at her seat at St. Alban's.", "The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, when in Russia, paid great attention to the mineral productions of that empire, and became the purchaser of select specimens that the oldest collector might covet; amongst which are groups of topazes, and one detached, near four inches diameter; aqua marinas of great rarity, &c. On the road his Grace frequently got out of his carriage to pick up curious rock specimens, and to observe the geology of the country. This is a good and meritorious trait in the character of a young Nobleman, who possesses such immense mineral treasures in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Ireland, &c.", "C EXPLOSION OF GAS AT SPITALFIELDS CHURCH.—On Sunday evening, after the departure of the congregation from Spitalfields Church, Mr. Welley, the churchwarden, and Almond, the seadle, entered the place with a light, in order to examine the floor of the baptistery, whence a very offensive smell of gas had proceeded. The approach of the candle was followed by a loud explosion caused by a quantity of gas, which had escaped from a flaw in the pipes coming in contact with the light. Mr. Welley and Almond were both knocked down and stunned, but face, and having his hair, eye-lashes, and eye-brows nearly singed off. The thick boards which compose the flooring of the pews and the adjoining news thrown down, and the doors of the pews raised from their hinges, and thrown into the body of the church.", "THE LATE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.", "The following, we understand, is the substance of\nthe Will of the late Duke of DEVONSHIRE.", "All the estates in Great Britain acquired by purchase (except\nestates in Cumberland), and paternal estates, to go according to\nsettlement made thereon, dated in 1773.", "All furniture, plate, pictures, curiosities, &c. to the Duke's\nson, the Marquis of Hartington, or to such other person, in case of\nhis death during testator's life, as should succeed to said estates by\nvirtue of said settlement.", "Confirms settlement already made to the Dauchess of D. of 4000l.\nper annum; bequeaths her 2,000l. and all her paraphernalia.", "Estates of the Duke's material grandfather, the Earl of Burlington,\nsettled by his will in 1759, after the Duke's death, to his sons in\nline, with general reminders; remainder to daughters, with cross\nremainders in tail.", "Bequeaths the interest of 20,000l. to his daughter, Lady Georgiana\nMorpeth, for life; after her death, the principal, as she shall by\nwill appoint, or to her executors or administrators; but in case of\nthe said Earl of Burlington's estates devolving upon her by virtue of\nhis said devise, the same is to cease, and said 20,000l. devolve to the\nsaid Marquis of Hartington, by virtue of said settlement of 1773.", "A similar bequest of 20,000l. upon similar trusts, to his daughter,\nLady Henrietta Elizabeth Cavendish,\n10,000l. also to the said Henrietta, in addition to 10,000l. already\nsettled u on her as a marriage-portion, one year after the Duke's\ndeath, with interest.", "Estates at Penrith, and elsewhere, in the county of Cumberland,\nto be sold, according to deed of sale, enrolled in the court of Chan-\ncery.", "As A.S., at 10, 25, 50, by cession to the Dauchess,\nChiswick, Sent. by Mr. BURTON, in Grangan's, of\nChiswick, in Wiltshire.", "Coleridge, in his Vind of Poets, on Mr. Robert Herrick's, on the\nsame page, but in a different column, says, 'in his own time he was\nalso an endent.'", "HAVING received intelligence from Latin-\nAmerican authors, that the late Duke of\nDevonshire had received a present from the\ncity of Bristol, and that the late Duke of\nDevonshire had received a present from the\

MANSION HOUSE.

The Lord Mayor & Lady of the House of Spencers
request the honor of the Countess of
Company to Dinner on Tuesday the 15th of
July at half past Nine o'clock
*to meet Mrs. Howe.*

*An early Answer is desired.*

*July 15th, 1814.*

COUNTESS DOWAGER SPENCER.

March 16, 1814

Georgiana, Countess Dowager Spencer, who died suddenly, on the morning of Friday, the 18th inst. was the daughter of the Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, of Midgham, in Berkshire, and Anna Maria Mordaunt, grand-daughter of the Earl of Peterborough. She was born on the 8th of May, 1736; and on the 22d of December, 1755, was married to John Spencer, Esq. afterwards created Earl Spencer.

No one was ever better formed, by nature, not only to become, but to shed a grace and ornament upon the high station in which she was placed by this alliance, and to exert the noblest prerogative which rank and wealth confer, by giving a high example of virtue and piety, united with a proper display of the splendour, and a due enjoyment of the pleasures, which naturally be- longed to her situation. With great personal beauty, she united a manner at once the most gracious and the most dignified. Her mind, naturally powerful, had been cultivated by much reading and much conversation with the most distinguished persons, not only of this country, but of the continent; and these endowments, which were entirely free both from presumption and ostentation, made her at once loved and revered throughout the wide and lofty sphere in which she moved.

On the 31st of October, in the year 1783, Lord Spencer died. Upon this event she retired into the country, and there devoted her years to the task of doing good to others, a task the most congenial to her own nature, and in which she found the most effectual consolidation of her sorrow. For this purpose her pecuniary sacrifices were large, and her personal exertions unceasing and indefatigable. But neither the seriousness of her pursuits, nor the course of time, in any degree diminished the original grace and sweetness of her demeanour, nor cast a gloom upon the natural clearness, and even hilarity of her disposition, nor weakened the interest which she always continued to take in the events of life, and the welfare of her country. Her friendship was warm and certain, her generosity steady and enlightened, her attention to the feelings and her lenity to the errors of others, kind and uniform. Her words and her actions bore, in their general and unfailing benevolence, the stamp of the characteristic virtue of her religion, and shewed how intimately Christian charity was blended with her manners, her feelings, and her opinions. It may be said of her with sober truth, that during the prosperity and splendour of her early life, and the retirement and regret of her widowhood, she fulfilled exemplarily and exactly the duties of each situation. Amidst the pleasures and occupations of the world she never had forgotten the offices of benevolence and piety, nor did her thoughts or her deportment with the slightest degree of harshness or austerity.

DOWAGER COUNTESS OF SPENCER'S FUNERAL.

March 28, 1814

Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the remains of the Dowager Countess of Spencer were removed from her house in Jermyn-street for interment in the family vault, near Althorp, in Northamptonshire.

The coffin was covered with rich crimson velvet, and elegantly ornamented, with gilt plates, nails, &c. On the plates were engraved the armorial bearings of the family. On a large gilt plate on the lid of the coffin, was engraved in large characters, "Dowager Countess Spencer, departed this life on the 18th of March, 1814, in the 77th year of her age." At a quarter after ten the procession commenced, and moved in the following order:—

Two mutes;

The feathers;

Six men on horseback;

The coronet and cushion, borne by a man on horseback, uncovered;

The hearse, drawn by six horses, with plumes of feathers, escutcheons, and the armorial bearings of the family; Three mourning coaches, six horses each;

The deceased's carriage, with six horses;

The Earl Spencer's carriage with six horses, the Earl of Besborough's carriage with six horses, the Duke of Devonshire's carriage with six horses, Lord Morpeth's, Lord Leveson Gower's, the Hon. Mr. William Lamb's, Lord Melbourne's, Lord Duncannon's, Marchioness of Stige's, the Earl of Essex, Mrs. How's, the Dutchess of Devonshire's, and Earl Cowper's.

The procession proceeded up Duke-street, Piccadilly, Bond-street, Vere-street, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, Mortimer-street, Charles-street, Goodge-street, Totenham Court-road, and so on to Camden-town, where it halted.

June 29, DIED, 1814

At her house in Grafton-street, in the 29th year of her age, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Howe, widow of J. Howe, Esq. of Henslow, Bucks, and sister of the late Earl and present Viscount Howe.—Tuesday last, at Waybridge,

FLAXMAN's beautiful monument to the memory of the late Countess SPENCER has just been erected in Brington Church, Northamptonshire. It contains a tablet with an appropriate inscription; on one side of which is a group representing Religion, personified by a female whose eyes are fixed on high, holding in her right hand the New Testament, and in the left a Cross; Charity is represented on the other side of the tablet, by a mother fondly cherishing a sleeping infant to her bosom, while she is contemplating with maternal delight the cares of its brother and sister.

year it was only 12,000.

BROTHER JONATHAN OUTDOOR.—"The English Government," says the Press, "a few years ago, left to three originals condemned to death the choice of dying on the gallows or adopting the following conditions:—The first was to take tea, the second coffee, and the third chocolate, and to live as long as they could, but were to eat nothing without either; these conditions were eagerly accepted. The last, who took chocolate, died in eight months; he who took coffee lived two years, and the tea-drinker survived three years. The man who took chocolate died in a state of complete decomposition, and so much eaten by worms that, during his life, his limbs separated one by one from his body. The man who drank coffee was so disfigured after his death, that one would have said that the fire of heaven had burnt his entrails and calmed him from head to foot. The tea-drinker became so thin and almost diaphanous, that it was perfectly easy, with a candle in one's hand, to read a newspaper through his body by the intervals which separated the ribs!"—Galligan's Messenger.

FUNERAL OF THE COUNTESS OF BESBOROUGH.

On Saturday morning last about 10 o'clock the remains of the Right Hon. the Countess of Besborough, and those of her infant Grandson, the child of the Hon. William F. S. Ponsonby, whose death (as we lately announced) took place in Italy in November last, arrived here for interment in the family vault of the Cavendishes in All Saints Church. The funeral procession was arranged in the following order:—

Mutes on horseback.

An attendant on horseback, bearing the Coronet of the Countess upon a crimson velvet cushion, the horse led by two pages

A superb bond of black plumes, intermixed with richly

The Hearse, splendidly decorated with plumes and pennons, the Arms of the deceased richly emblazon'd on the sides, and decorated with smaller escutcheons and cyphers, drawn by six horses fully caparisoned with plumes and pennons on their heads, and bearing escutcheons on the velvet cloths.

Mourning Coach, drawn by six horses caparisoned & decorated in the same manner, containing the Body of the Child, covered with a velvet pall.

Two Morning Coaches, each drawn by six horses decorated as above, containing the superior Servants & Attendants of the deceased.

The procession advanced slowly through the streets, and presented a very grand and imposing spectacle to great numbers of spectators.

On arriving at the church, the coffins were taken out of the hearse and coach; that of the Countess was covered with crimson velvet, superbly decorated with gold ornaments, and bore the following inscription:—

"The Right Hon. Harriet Frances Countess of Besborough, died at Florence, Nov. 11, 1821, aged 60 years."

The Child's was covered and decorated in the same manner, with silver ornaments, and was inscribed

"Henry William George, second son of the Hon. William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, died at Parne, Nov. 4, 1821, aged 20 years."

On entering the church the procession was joined by the following relatives of the deceased, who with Lady Caroline Lambe had previously assembled at Derby on this melancholy occasion—The Duke of Devonshire, Lord Duncannon, the Hon. William F. S. Ponsonby, the Hon. William Lambe, and the Hon. — Spencer. These distinguished individuals fell into the procession immediately after the bodies as Chief Mourners, and were followed by the Domestics, &c.—As the procession entered the church, the performance of a solemn Dirge was commenced on the Organ, and continued till the Bodies were placed in the principal aisle. The first part of the funeral service was then read by the Rev. C. S. Hope in his accustomed dignified and impressive manner; after which the Bodies were conveyed along the south aisle to the Vault, followed by the Mourners, the Organ resuming its solemn strains.

The remaining part of the solemn and affecting office for the dead was then read, during which the bodies were lowered into the vault, and deposited in their respective recesses.—After the service was over, and the assistants had retired from the vault, the distinguished mourners severally descended into it to pay their last tribute of affection to the dead; first the two Sons of the deceased, Lord Duncannon and Mr. Ponsonby, next, Mr. Lambe and Mr. Spencer; and, afterwards the Duke of Devonshire alone. The Domestics next paid the same mark of respect to their lamented Lady, when the mournful ceremony closed; during the whole of which the greatest order and the most affecting solemnity prevailed.

ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 12.—The ice in our River is in a very precarious state, and we daily expect it to break up.—April 13. The ice is in motion this morning, and the bridges are taken away.

["THE PERSIAN EMBASSAY.", "October 19, 1809", "His Excellence the Persian Ambassador received a complimentary visit from his Majesty's Ministers on Wednesday.", "According to the etiquette of the Persian Court, his Excellence cannot go out, or shew himself in public, till he has been introduced to the King, which ceremony will take place on Wednesday next, when his Excellence will make his formal entry at the Queen's Palace with Eastern splendour. His Excellence's mission, at such a time as the present, must be considered of infinite importance. It is the fullest proof of the triumph of British and British interests over the machinations of Buonaparte, in the very place where he took particular pains, and at first, with some appearance of success, to form a nursery of political intrigue and military power for the destruction of the British empire in India.", "There are few things the intelligence of which would give more pain to Buonaparte, than that such an Embassy should be sent to our gracious Sovereigns, in preterence to him. In aping his \" great predecessors,\" as he calls them, upon the Thron of France, he no doubt flattered himself that he, like Louis XIVth, in the plenitude of his power, and before the brilliant and overbearing conquest with which his reign commenced was checked by a Wilhampton Marlborough, would have seen an Ambassador come spontaneously from this same Court of Persia, to prostrate himself before his greatness, and to compliment him upon his victories. How great must be the mortification of the \" Conqueror,\" to find that such an Ambassador as he is, not to do homage to his dazzling crimes, but to pay respect to the unimposing virtues of George III.", "But the mortification of Buonaparte must be still greater, as this Embassy must prove to him how vain and impracticable his schemes for the destruction of our ships, colonies, and commerce, are considered by those whose simplicity he wished to deduce into a co-operation and instrumentality in the execution of his designs. The most simple of men can derive from a plain fact, most deductions which are sufficient to overturn the most artful and imposing representations of diplomatic cunning. We believe it was the very same King of Persia that had been seduced by a French Ambassador to send the complementary mission to Louis XIV, who said to the Frenchman, \" You tell me your Master has conquered all Holland, and destroyed its wealth and power; but how does it happen, notwithstanding, that not one ship arrives every year at Ormuz, from the single port of Amsterdam, than have arrived from the whole Empire of the great Monarch, your Master, since the discovery of the passage to the Eastern seas?\" This observation was unanswerable; and by a similar comparison between the trade of Britain and of France (in any French trade there is) to the Persian Gulph, at the present moment, the present Sovereign of Persia could at once see the laserwood and the mischievous design of the artful representations which the Senator Dauleet Ponte抱ant, and General Gardanne, certainly did not fail to make of the triumphs of Buonaparte over Britain, and the advantages the Persian Empire must derive from caltivating the friendship of the Great, Napoleon.", "The office of Mehmaunder to his Excellence the Persian Ambassador, which has been given to Sir G. OUSELEY, means, we believe, a kind of state companion, in which capacity Sir GORE will probably be the medium of communication with Ministers.—RICHARDSON's Persian Dictionary gives the following explanation of the term :—\n\n> \" MANSADAR.—A hospitable or courteous man; one who has the care, in ins and caravansers, of receiving and entertaining guests.\"", "The Persian Ambassador is a person of a most noble and dignified deportment. He is handsome and elegant. He has a family, which is not considered large, of only sixty-three children; but it is considered as a mark of peculiar good fortune, even in Persia, that he had six children born to him on one and the same day. A house is taken for his Excellence in Mansufet, at present.", "JIM THE PERSIAN AMBASSADOR. 171819", "The ceremony of introducing his Excellence to the QUEEN took place yesterday. Soon after two o'clock her MAJESTY's carriage, and six beautiful bay horses, with three footmen, who, together with the coachman and postilion, were dressed in State liveries, in every respect as if to attend her MAJESTY, except wearing hats, instead of velvet caps, arrived at his. Excellence's house in Mansfield-street. Soon after his MAJESTY'S MASTER of the MULE and PAGE set off in his Excellence's carriage to the QUEEN'S Palace, with the presents brought by his Excellence from his Court to her MAJESTY. In a short time after his Excellence followed in her MAJESTY's carriage : a number of persons were attracted round his Excellence's house, in consequence, who behaved in a very respective manner. His Excellence arrived a few minutes before three o'clock at the Queen's Palace, preceded by the carriage of Sir S. COTTERELL, the Master of the Ceremonies, and accompanied in her MAJESTY's carriage by Mr. CHESTER, the Assistant Master of the Ceremonies, Sir S. COTTERELL being indisposed, and Sir G. OUSELEY, his Excellence's Interprester. His Excellence was conducted by Mr. CHESTER to her MAJESTY's Drawing-room, and introduced to her MAJESTY by Earl MORTON, her MAJESTY's Chamberlain, with the same pomp and form as if her MAJESTY was holding a grand public drawing-room, all her MAJESTY's State attendants being present, consisting of Col. DESMOW, her MAJESTY's Vice Chamberlain; Earl HARCOULT, the Master of the Horse; Col. UPTON, the Equity; Master ANSON, her MAJESTY's Page of Honour, and the other Pages; Ladies J. THYNNE and ELY; Misses COURTNEY, BRUDENESS, S. COLEMAN, and WROTESLEY. Her MAJESTY was accompanied by the Princesses, and the Dukes of KENT, CAMBRIDGE, and BRUNSWICK. His Excellence, after the customary formabilities, delivered the presents from his Court, consisting of three boxes of jewels, several choice shawls, and a curious carpet, which were also most graciously received,", "His Excellence was in the Palace about half an hour, and then returned in her MAJESTY's carriage through the Park, and then got into his own carriage. His Excellence is expected to attend the Drawing-room, this day, at St. James's Palace, in celebration of her MAJESTY's birth-day.", "THE PERSIAN AMBASSADOR.—Of all the splendid and magnificent exhibitions of art which this distinguished person has been in the habit of witnessing since his arrival in the rich metropolis of England, we understand that none have arrested his attention or excited his admiration so powerfully, as Vauxhall Gardens, which he honoured with his presence on Monday evening. His Excellence was attended by Sir GORE OUSELEY, and followed by a suite of about a dozen persons. He seemed to view all the wonderful beauties of the place with marked attention. He promulgated along the grand colonnade for a considerable time. He afterwards, with his assistants, supplied in lieu of the magnificent boxes newly fitted up in front of the orchestra; and, with the most unaffected condescension, placed himself in a situation so conspicuous, that all the visitors were enabled to gratify their curiosity by seeing him. The Gardens were crowded with elegant company.", "His Majesty has written private letters to the Persian Monarch on vellum, which are to be conveyed over by his Ambassador. They are to be deposited in two embossed silver tubes, each two feet long, resembling a large telescope, with three silver padlocks, and secured from outward injury by seal-skin cases.", "Letters had been received at Bombay from Sir GORE OUSELEY, of the 28th June, which notify the arrival of the English Mission in the Persian capital, where it had been splendidly and hospitably received. Sir GORE was afterwards invited to attend the Court to the summer residence.", "VIENNA, MAY 1.—All the Court has assisted at the funeral ceremony of the Empress, with the exception of the spouse of the Archduke Charles, who is a Protestant.", "EMBASSY to the King-candy.", "PRIVATE LETTER from Bombay to May 19.", "> \" Some pieces of the modish muflin of beautiful fabric, with some elegant shawls, and other articles of vellue, were prefated to the King of Candy, by a Depôt of Gentlemen, for the purpose, it is laid, of arranging an interose of a commercial kind. The Chief of the Deputation, a Civilian on the Bombay Establishment, relates the following particulars of the Embassy : \" According to instructions, I got ready the prefets, which were put up in Bafta covers, flained with rurmeric, yellow being the Royal colour, as in China and Mindanao. Having been told it was expected I should pull off my shoes, I waved this ceremony, by wrapping round each a piece of red bunting, and tying it with a kind of garter of the fame just before I entered the audience hall, which was about sixty feet long, and twenty broad, built of stone, with a flone floor. At the farther end, which was covered with the floor. There were about twenty well-dressed perfets in the room, every one bare-footed, having left their slipper without. As I entered I faltered the company. Four lepops were also in the hall upon guard, dressed and armed as ours generally are. In about two minutes the golden cloth was drawn up, like a curtain, and we all made a pro found obedience to his MAJESTY, who jujl glanced his eye at me. My two tervains were then ordered by the Shabander to advance with the prefets, which after having prefented, by holding them up, and bending their bodies, they gave to an attendant, and were then directed to withdraw. The cloth of gold covered a large niche in the wall, or kind of alcove, in the middle of which the King was seated in an arm chair made of ivory, inlaid with gold, with his legs acrofs, bare footed, his flippers on the floor of the alcove. The King was gaitly dresſed in a rich fuit of filver brocade over an inner garment of white muflin. His turban was very small, being a single piece of gold flowered muflin, gathered together at the end, tied round the head with a half knot, and was ornamented with a few jewels. He feebly was to about forty years of age, with a complate countenance, rather fairer than mol of his subjects. Two elderly women fat on the floor, cleof to each side of his chair, their eyes fixed on the ground, which was about five feet higher than the hall in which the Court was afflecked. The alcove was lighted with a great number of large wax tapers, coloured red, and the hall was brilliantly illuminated throughout with pendant lamps, in which they burn oil of a tawer perfume. Having caught the King's eye immediately after the difſolution of the prefets, I made his MAJESTY a few profound bow. Preferly he poken to the Shabander, and I had then the honour of convering with his MAJESTY for about a quarter of an hour, who alſed ſeveral perſonel quellions about Madras, Bengal, and Bombay. I then, by intimation from the Shabander, who had his ſignall, retired, after having completely fulfilled the object of the Embassy in all its points. Nobody in the hall was feated, neither did I fee in it bench, chair, or foot. I left mol of the company in it flanding, who policy may way for me as I reused; and at the door which I entered I made again a profound bow, being in full view of the King in the alcove, at the further end of the hall.\"", "NOV 14 1819", "The King of Sweden landed on Sunday at Yarmouth, from the Tartarus frigate, under a salute of 21 guns.—On his reaching the beach, he was received with three such hearty cheers, as perhaps he never before heard of, and such an impression had they on his Majesty, that tears of gratitude were observed to trickle down his cheek. He was received by Lord Gardner, the Port Admiral, whose carriage was in waiting, and into which his Swedish Majesty got, and preceded by the West York Militia, with their colours flying and band playing, he repaired to the Angel Inn to take refreshment, previous to his getting off for London. He was dressed in scarlet, with a star on his left breast, and looked remarkably well.", "The King of Sweden landed on Sunday at Yarmouth, from the Tartarus frigate, under a salute of 21 guns.—On his reaching the beach, he was received with three such hearty cheers, as perhaps he never before heard of, and such an impression had they on his Majesty, that tears of gratitude were observed to trickle down his cheek. He was received by Lord Gardner, the Port Admiral, whose carriage was in waiting, and into which his Swedish Majesty got, and preceded by the West York Militia, with their colours flying and band playing, he repaired to the Angel Inn to take refreshment, previous to his getting off for London. He was dressed in scarlet, with a star on his left breast, and looked remarkably well.", "The reception which, with, on the day of the present capital of Persia, all through the country, was more flatter than any other place. The King to meet Sir W. Entry into the City; son of the Royal Blood, a General in the Persians, their numerous after palace which was allilling to the second Military of all descriptions, and the day after his ceremony by his host being over.", "The Mission reached, during the morning, which the Persians home, and permitting their religious ceremonies that much time we would be permitted to King; but so anxious he showed every mark of a land's Mission, that his blushed customs of his dience, and, to which he publicly knew the Envoy before the day.", "On the third day Jones was admitted to eleven o'clock in the morning, being his MAJESTY's ed case, followed by a gold dish, and attended by his suite, issued from procession to where he was in waiting. When to public view, the guard of cavalry soon of the King, then, and Mr. Morier then, (or letter) covered with the Crown and with gold lace, which superbly caparisoned.", "Preparations are making for the Persian Ambassadorence will return to the Court, and will be attended by the King, and the King's suite, and the Court,

["The 1st ACCOUNT OF THE\nRECEPTION OF HIS MAJESTY'S MISSION\nAT THE COURT OF PERSIA.", "The reception which his Majesty's Mission met with, on the day of its entry into Tâbran (the present capital of Persia), although it had been marked all through the country by acts of unparalleled courtesy, was more flattering than it had been at any other place. Two Noblemen were deputed by the King to meet Sir Harford Jones, previous to his entry into the City; the one, Nourouz Khan, a person of the Royal Blood, and the other, Hassan Khan, a General in the Persian army. These persons, and their numerous attendants, escorted the Envoy to a palace which was allotted for his habitation, belonging to the second Minister of State, where refreshing to the second Minister of State, where refreshings of all descriptions were in waiting for him,", "cavalry with drawn swords. When the tachteraran proceeded, the trumpet again sounded \"God save the King.\"", "The order of march from Sir Harford Jones's house to the King's Palace was as follows:—", "Persian Guards.\nAn Indian Officer, and Four Troopers\nLitter, with the King's Letter, &c.", "Six Indian Troopers.", "The Envoy's Mehmunder and his Persian Servants.\nThe Envoy's led Horses.", "Persian Scowldars.", "The Mirâhor, Fersash Bashâ, &c.", "Pipe Bearers.", "Six Running Footmen in Scarlet and Gold.", "The ENVOY.", "The Envoy's Secretary and Suite.", "The Body Guard, Forty in Number, with Trumpeter and Colours.", "Persian Guards.", "The procession going through the principal streets of the City, the troops with swords drawn and co-lours flying, at length passed into the Ark for King's", "LETTER,", "FROM THE PERSIAN ENVOY, MIRZA AEUL HASSAN,\nTo the LORD, or GENTLEMAN, without name, who lately write\nLetter to him, and ask very much to give Answer.", "SIR, MY LORD,", "When you write to me, some time ago, to give my thought of what I see good and bad this country, that time I not speak English very well—now I read, I write much little better—now I give to you my think. In this country bad not too much, every thing very good— but suppose I not tell something little bad, then you say I tell all flattery—therefore I tell most bad thing. I not like such crowd in evening party every night—In cold weather not very good—now, hot weather, much too bad. I very much astonish, every day now much hot than before, evening parties much crowd than before.—Pretty beautiful Ladies come sweat that not very good—I always afraid some", "fight much better because see their good King, take care of old wounded fathers and little children.— Then I go to Greenwich—that too good place— such a fine sight make me a little sick for joy— all old men so happy, eat dinner so well—fine house—fine beds—all very good.— This very good country— English ladies very handsome, very beautiful.— I travel great deal; I go to Arabia, I go to Calcutta, Hyderabad, Poonah, Bombay, Georgia, Armenia, Constantinople, Malta, Gibraltar. I see best Georgian, Circassian, Turkish, Greek ladies, but nothing not so beautiful as English ladies—all very clever— speak French, speak English, speak Italian, play music very well, sing very good—very glad for me if Persian Ladies like them; but En-", "sults, and so forth, and so forth, and so

["A baron of beef from a famous ox, packed in such a way as to be good two months hence, has been sent as a present to the Marques of WELINGTON, by Mr. EDWARD SHIRLEY, a patriotic butcher, of Slough.", "Mrs. PETTWARD, of Putney, distributed on Christmas-day, 350 pounds of roast beef and plum-pudding to the labouring poor of that village; to each poor man she gave a quart, and to every woman a pie of strong ale.", "Last Tuesday Mr. GORRINGE, butcher, of Westham, distributed one hundred and ten stones, of fine fat beef, to the poor of that parish, in proportions that afforded each family a very comfortable Christmas dinner, at the expense of their b-nevalpnt neighbours.", "At Lincoln Assizes an action was tried, brought by the Master of the Bull Inn, at Market Deeping, against the Cornet of the Ness Volunteers, for the expenses of a dinner and liquors for fifty-four of the corps. The party sat down to dinner about half past four o'clock, and mostly retired before ten. The quantity of liquors charged was as follows:—\n*One hundred and twenty-six bottles of port, forty-eight of sherry, sixty-four half-crown bowls of punch, and twenty of negus, besides ale and port.*—The Jury gave a verdict in favour of the innkeeper, with only taking off sixpence per bottle on the port wine.", "In pulling down some old houses in St. Thomas's-street, the corner of Golden-lion-lane, Portsmouth, two letters were found in a hole in one of the chimneys, and a copper coin. One of the letters was dated \"Clement's Inn, 25th April, 1659,\" directed to \"Mr. Edward Archer, an Attorney at Law, in St. Thomas's-street, Portsmouth.\" The postage is marked paid 2d. from London. The other is from a woman to her husband. They are both in most excellent preservation, and were sealed. The coin is a small one, apparently provincial, having on one side \"Christopher Brone, Porchlington.\" The date is not legible.", "The original of the following curious Letter from CHARLES the SECOND to Mrs. LANE, is in the possession of JOHN LEIGH PHILIPS, Eq. of Manchester:", "\" MRS. LANE,", "I HAVE hitherto deferred writing to you in hope to be able to lend you some what mele besides a letter, and I believe it troubles me more, that I cannot yet get it, than it does you, though I do not take you to be in a good condition long to expect it, the truth is my necebitdes are greater than can be imagined, but I am promised they shall be shortly fumplied, if they are you shall be fure to receve a share, for it is impoffible I can ever gett the great debt I owe you, wen I hope I shall live to pay, in a degree that is worthy of me, in the meane time I am fure all who love me will be very kind to you, elfe I shall never think them fo, to, Your moſt affectional", "frind", "CHARLES R.\"", "Paris Nov. 23 1652.", "## GENERAL HUDDLESTON.", "On Sunday the 13th inst. died at Woolwich, aged 77, Lieut.-General HUDDLESTONE, Colonel Commandant of the 5th battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. He had been 57 years an officer of artillery, during which time he had been employed on many active and arduous services; in America, the West Indies, Holland, France, &c. Among other honourable duties on which he had been engaged, was that of supporting the brave General WOLFE at Louisburgh. He was an upright, a virtuous, and a religious man; a most zealous and an excellent officer. His death will be long and deeply lamented by his family, and an extensive circle of friends. The General was descended from the ancient family of HUDDLESTON, of Salstonhall, in Cambridgeshire, but his greatest pride was in having faithfully discharged his duty as a soldier and a Christian.", "## ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT CLEVE.", "A few days since a labourer, employed in agricultural, at a place called Cleve, near Worcester, accidentally discovered a hidden treasure. The man was digging, and struck the pickaxe he was working with into an earthen pot (which afterwards proved to be a Roman ura), and out tumbled a vast quantity of pieces of silver coin, about the size of a silvithreepence. The finder immediately threw himself on his knees, and returned God thanks for his good fortune. Searching farther he discovered another pot filled with gold. The man, overjoyed, ran with all possible speed to the town, to acquaint his friends with his good luck. After mature reflection, he made up his mind to assign to the owner of the estate the whole of his acquisitions. The estate belonged to one of the Canons belonging to Worcester Cathedral. On making the tender to that Gentleman, he, with a noble disinterestedness, refused to accept of the money, taking only a few pieces to be kept as memorials. The coins were all Roman ones, and the whole of great antiquity, the greater proportion being coined in the third century, that is, 1500 years ago. The man has realized 900d. by the sale.", "The following extract from an Address presented by the Honourable Society of Ancient Britons to GEORGE I. about 100 years ago, is not unsuitable to the present times:—", "\"Most GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN.—When the kind hand of Heaven gives a blessing to your Majesty's uninterrupted labour for the good of mankind, when tyranny and oppression seem ready to expire, and the most pleasing hopes spread themselves throughout the Protestant world, your faithful subjects would appear unmindeful of their duty should they neglect to congratulate with your Majesty on the glorious scene which begins to open, and to lengthen itself to Europe.\"", "\"At length Providence has favoured your Majesty's Country, and by one great incident (viz. the King of Frances's death), given a turn to all the affairs of Europe. We have the prospect of our assisting to ourselves a lasting tranquillity, by recovering one, more the balance of power, and fixing bounds to ambition.\"", "## CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS.", "SIN—At this season of the year there has been from time immemorial, a custom with Farmers in the Western countries, but more particularly in Devonshire, where Cyder is plenty, of burning a hog fat made of green Ash on Christmas Eve; the ceremony is this—A Bagot of Ash (for 'its invariably confined to that kind of wood,') is cut from any one's hedge, and bound together with at least 10 or 12 bands of thorn, or some other tough material; it is then laid on the hearth, the family and other friends sit round with merry faces to watch the signal for the first pitcher of (generally) cyder, which is always ready when a bau is burnt, and then a fresh jug for every succeeding one until the whole is consumed. This custom seems to be a prelude to the conventionalities of Christmas. If any of your numerous readers can give an explanation of its origin, it will much oblige your humble, &c.", "London, Dec. 25, 1813.", "A WEST COUNTRYMAN.", "ANECDOTE.—Mr. Quick, at a period when he was highly noticed by his present Majesty, and deservedly held in estimation by the public, found it necessary, in consequence of the advice of his medical attendant, to seek relaxation from the duties of his profession, and relinquish a beneficial salary. Upon taking possession of his house at Pentonville, he was surprised to find the garden, which had been well stocked, stripped of all its produce, with the exception of two or three handsome *laurels*, and a few heads of *celery*. Turning to his family, who were expressing their regret and disappointment, in his usual peculiar manner he exclaimed—\"Gads, the rogues have committed sad havoje sure enough! But why should this thing grieve you, seeing that it is done? For my part, I mark it as a favourable omen; for though I have reason to regret the loss of my *celery*, (salary), my *laurels*, are still preserved to me.\"", "During the extreme heat on Thursday se'night, the thermometer in the garden of THOMAS SHARP, Esq. of Romsey, rose to 120 degrees, and being unable to contain more heat, it burst.", "PARIS, APRIL 15.—To day, at eight in the ing, the national guard was under arms, and pro to the different posts which had been pointed to the General Commander in Chief.", "At ten o'clock his Majesty the Emperor of the entered Paris, by the barrier du Trône. Sain artillery announced his arrival in the capital. The Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia had ceded his Majesty. His Royal Highness Mousac eserted by the national guard on horseback, received the three Sovereigns on the boulARDS of the Temple. They were accompanied by the Prince Royal of Sweden, and Prince Schwartz and surrounded and followed by numerous and liant staffs, and strong detachments of infantry cavalry. The National Guards formed the line.", "The allied troops were assembled in the Plan Louis XV. Their Majesties passed them in re and saw them file off.", "After the parade his Majesty, the Emperor Austria, repaired to the Palace Borgheese, which will occupy. He was reconnu by his Highness Monsieur, who afterwards returned to Palace of the Tuilleries, continually accompanying", "## ANTIQUITIES IN LOWER EGYPT.", "Those who feel an interest whatever relates to the qualities of Egypt, will be glad to hear that the researches of travellers, now in that country, have been rewarded with considerable success. It is stated that \"Captain C. and M. have made excavations of importance near the Sphinx, and explored some new passages under the principal Pyramide; that Captain C. has discovered an apartment immersing in the soft mud, and that the King's chamber, and exacly of the same size, above the King's workmanship.\" We hope that these Gentiles will hereafter lay the result of their inquiries and researches before the public; but, in the meantime, on the principle of *enquêtes*, and without any intention of detracting from their research, we think it right to state, and we have already discovered, that the King's chamber should have been opened, to claim to be considered as a private room, and that we, yet feel with your Royalty, and at length arrived, when forborne to be a man.", "\"We cannot therefore sufficient *enquêtes* displayed by your Royal House, to show the more public veneration of your Royal House, to secure the safety of your Monarchy, and to the safety of your Monarch, and to the safety of your Monarchy, and

["at eight in the morning, and had been pointed to the north, and had been put to the south. The Emperor of the Duce, the Duke of Tuscany, in the capital, had issued an order for the Prussians to march on Holland, and the boulardiers of the country, and the兵 had been ordered to march on the Prin-", "jesty, the Empress Elizabeth, by his II. and III. brothers, returned to Holland to tinctually accompa-", "POWER EGYPT.", "The first relates to the researches of the late Professor of Chemistry, Dr. C. M. and Dr. C. M. and Dr. C. M. and Dr

NOVEMBER 10.

Although it is not yet confirmed, that any of
his Prussian Majety's immediate adviters have been
appraised upon any fidei plicatio of treachery, we
know, however, for certain, that some officers of
no mean rank (among others a Swift, a Colonel
we believe in the Prussia service), have been con-
victed of a traitorous correspondence with the
enemy, and that upon conviction they were imme-
diately hung. We also know that a whole regi-
ment, forming a party of the corps under the
Duke of Bruswick, absolutely refused to advance
against the enemy, though called upon to do
their duty by the orders and example of that
veteran Chief.—Indeed, he himself narrowly escaped
being made prisoner, by the shaping his flight
through hedges. The men have in many instances
wholly deferred their officers, who seem to look
in vain for their return to their standards. In the
mean time, the French are prelling forward in all
directions, seemingly fearless, or certain of no refil-
ance.

BONAPARTE'S REVENGE.—In his Manifesto,
the King of Prussia reproached the Corfian Ufer-
per with the murder of the Duke of Enghien; in re-
venge, General Hulin, the President of the Mar-
 Military Commission of Affairs, who condemned this
brave and amiable Prince, is appointed Bonaparte's
Governor at Berlin. This, Napoleon's *swoartly
General* was, before the Revolution, an apprentice to
a watch-maker, whom he robbed, and for this
robbed he was condemned to the gillies; but the
beauty of a filler, kept by a banker, not o-
ly preferred him from punishment, but effaçad-
ed him as a watch-maker: as he, however,
was unable to retell him a character his crimes
had left, he joined the Revolution from its com-
 mencement, and figured, with other bitcords, on
the 14th of July, 1789, at the taking of the
Bataille. He has since formed the fanginary dema-
gogous and oppreſsrs of France; been a flave of
their tyranny and an accomplice or their guilt.
—He has sworn hatred to Monarchy; oroprefled
in the name of the Republic; plundered in the
name of Equality; and butchered in hailing Fra-
 density.

NOVEMBER 12.

The history of the world furnishes us with
abundant instances of nations and sovereigns having
retrieved their affairs when all hope seemed to
have vanished. The King of Prussia is not with-
out a signal influence in the history of his own
House, and he seems defunct of emulating the
corruption and fortitude of his great Predecessor.
It is said that he will endeavour to write his
army behind the Order; and, falling back from
there on the Villeru, try the chance of a pro-
tracted warfare. He has this to induce him to
try that chance—that he cannot be more ruined
by the war than will he by a peace, made under
such circumstances as the prefont.

The march of the French Troops against Leg-
born, to take possession of the English Property
deposited there, was fixed for the 14th of May.
The body of men destined for that service amount-
ded to five or six thousand, under the command of
General MASSENA. This Officer has the strictest
orders to conduct himself with the greatest mo-
deration in the Tuscan Territory, to respect Pro-
perty, to pay in ready money for all that his Sol-
diers may use, and to spare every thing but the
English wealth deposited at Legborn. The
French justify this apparent violation of a Neutral
Territory, as a just reprisal for the seizure of a
French vessel by the English in the Harbour of
Legborn, without any resistance on the part of the
Tuscan Government, and for the partiality with
which the GRAND DUKE has permitted the Eng-
lish Merchants to make Legborn the great depot
for their Mediterranean trade.

GENOA, JUNE 26.

The French have demanded at Modena the whole
artillery of the place, 10,000 muſkets, 1300 horſes,
and 6 pictures. General Buonaparte had given or-
ders to burn down the town of Nizza della Paglia
to the ground, on account of an infurrection which
had broken off in that place. But the King of
Sardinia having offered to puniſh the guilty,
the execution of Buonaparte's orders has been ſuſpended.
This morning arrived from Lombarde, fix wag-
gons, laden with a million and a half in ſpecie,
eſcoited by a detachment of French horſe.

We learn by a Letter from Stockholm, of the
1st inst. that on that day His SWEDISH MAJES-
TY, in the presence of the DUKE REGENT, the
Duke of EAST-GOTHLAND, the Foreign Ambas-
sadors, the Great Officers of State, and the first
Corporations of the Kingdom, in a solemn Speech
from the Thron, declared himself of age, and
took into his own hands the Administration
of the Kingdom, hitherto conducted by the Duke
Regent, in his quality of Guardian of His Ma-
liesty.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20.

LE ROI follows not the chafe, nor rides out:—
There is good reason for this; his merciful ſub-
jeſs deem it right he ſhould remain at home!
SANCHO, in his government, had an appetite
for wines and rich diſhes; but his physicians
forbid those gratifications—of which he ſtill with the
KING of FRANCE, and his amendments!

FEBRUARY 6.

The Emperor and Khg. has raised to the rank of a
Princess, Mademiselle Tascher, a relative of the Em-
press. This Princess has married the reigning Prince
of Ahrenberg. The marriage was celebrated last Mon-
day at the apartments of the Queen of Holland, by the
Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, in presence of their Ma-
jesties the Empress and Empress.

FEBRUARY 7.

Last Thursday her Highness Antoinette Murat, niece
of the Grand Duke of Berg, and declared a Princess,
in the evening married the Prince of Hohenzollem. A
magnificent ball was given upon the occasion, which was
honoured with the presence of their Majesties the Em-
peror and Empress. This fide, one of the most splendid
that has been given, presented an enchanting coup d'ail.

The following is stated to be a correct account of
BONAPARTE's manufacüures in the great line: one Em-
porier, eight Kings, five Grand Dukes, and twelve
Dukes; besides Princesses and Duchesses. What a
glorious prospect for the amateurs of Courts and Red-
books.

CASSEL, JAN. 30.

His Excellency Baron Munchausen, Lord of the Bed-
Chamber, has taken leave of their Majesties, to proceed
to Utrecht, in the quality of Minister Plenipotentiary
and Envoy Extraordinary at the Dutch Court.

FRANKFORT, FEB. 2.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of Bavaria ar-
rived the 24st of January, in Nienburg, with the Prim-
cess Charlotte, their daughter. The Prince Royal of
Württemberg arrived there the same day. The marriage
of that Prince with the Princess of Bavaria is considered
as being very near.

FRANKFORT, FEB. 2.

The hereditary Prince of Württemberg is to be shortly
married to the Princess Charlotte, daughter of the King
of Bavaria. The French and Spanish officers at Han-
burgh buy up all the maps of Sweden. All communica-
tions between that country and France is entirely inter-
ruited.

BONAPARTE, in detaining the son of the Eleſor of
Bavaria, seems to be copying the policy of Richard III.
to Lord Stanley :—

— " And look your heart be firm,"
— " Or your son's head's assurance be butfrail. "

Some wretch, destitute of every feeling in
the human race from the creation, is earnestly endeavouring to excite
hatred and rage of the people against those ma-
terate victims of Republican Tyranny, who, aim-
ing to be robbed of their property, have, to avoid
being murdered, been obliged to take refuge in
a foreign land. This miscreant, for whom our
language can afford no epithet of adequate strength
to designate his infamy, employs his pen in
Jacobin Print, which is the receptacle of all
that is vile, base, and detestable. But we are
amidst the partial revolution of Opinions, which
has been produced by the hell-born Principles
the French Republic, the English Mind will be
so far contaminate as to lose its noblest de-
racteristics—Charity, which succours the Ne-
cess and Humanity, which relieves the Oppressed.

We cannot forget that the Italians are the
false and perfidious of all people. They will
smile upon our Troops, and cut their throats
when they find an opportunity. We have no
forgotten the Sicilian vespers. The Governess
should always keep in mind the old axiom of
politics which our own experience has already en-
firmed : it is more easy to make conquests than
to preserve them.

Bonaparte reproams and vociferates with great
lence about the hatred, and the gold of England: he
the first eternally pursue him, and may he never
the latter!

The French, since Bonaparte tasted the soldier's
hope soon to see great changes in his temper, which
is said at present abominably crusty.

Bonaparte informs the Bavarians, that he will al-
protect to their independence. There is no doubt
will secure their independence by taking it under his
care.

MUNICH, DEC. 28.—Yesterday the mar-
of our illustrious Princess Augusta with the
roy of Italy was announced. Couriers were
patched to several Courts with intelligence of
joyful event; and we expect to see the bride
groom here in a short time.

A canicature, privately handed about in Par-
prends an olive-coloured man finatching at 2 a.
and falling, with this motto—" Sic me cama fata
which may be thus Engliſhed—" I am appeal
my fortune 19.

The reason which BONAPARTE gives in his
for depositing the *Dope*, and annexing the whole
Ecclésiastical States to the Kingdom of Italy,
his Holiness " has constantly refused to de-
cline against the English." And " the gift of the
which compose the Ecclesiastical States was of
our illustrious predecessor CHARLEMAGNE
benefit of Christendom, but not for the sake of
the enemies of his holy religion."

Though BONAPARTE, by sending for
Joseph, seems inclined to slave the Span-
new invented. *Naples* soap, it is to be hopd that
not suffer it to be done without a brush.

The answer given by BUONAPARTE to the Pr-
of PONTES CORVO, as he is called, improving the
expected to receive no more Dispatches until
were dated from Stockholm, is exactly in the
gant style of the French Ruler, who does not
what destruction may await his soldiers when
has a favourite point in view. This dispo-
sion has been manifested in all his military operations,
which he indeed openly avowed when he told the
WHITWORTH that he would hazard a hundred
thousand lives in the attempt to invade this Count-
ry. As this declaration was promulgated all over Europe
and must, of course, with all his caution, have
spread through France, what must be thought of
people who quietly submit to the yoke of a Fore-
Userper, whose ambition has extinguished e-
sence of humanity ?

The following short a-
be a French statement :—

"The battle of Eylau was
from morning until night. a
o'clock in the morning, who
all of which would have been
had not come to their assistance
in a grey Riding-coat, and P.
the head of his Guards, led
whistled around him, and a
LANNES was wounded, but not
his Division had no share in the
immoveable. A French Officer
the loss of the French at 10,
12th, the Day on which Capt.
scene of action, there had been

It is a curious circumstance
this moment a Branch of
the French, which
to conceive how it came
to be at this moment
there by the Embargo at
Ship had been driven in
It is not known what
induced this Princess to
Sea. The Emperor of
for his Daughter, who,
the permission of the Di-
Voyage.

JOSEPHINE DESSALINES
has not only been permitted
to be her husband, to reside
mingo, but has received from
demain for some property
Being as prudent and wis-
become modest and humane in
gotten her temporary eleva-
tive obscurity. She has e-
archy into commercial tran-
to have, within 18 months
capital by the success atten
to have transformed all her
clothes; all her gentle-
housemen; all her pages
equerues and grooms into
Every day upwards of fifty
roof; and every foreign in-
spedibility is invited to
regularity, industry, and
supplication, and credit in-
connection in England, as
both numerous and weak,
that she is more happy in
was in her Palace, and the
experiences a tranquillity
seated on a throne.

ANARCHOTE.—BERNADOT
PONTES CORVO, has recent-
bare of BUONAPARTE, by the
tions against Sweden, and
ment, he can contribute to su-
mark, he will probably be
grace to France. But th
it is said, that BERNA-
Imperial Corsican, for at
when the French were dril-
sians, BUONAPARTE flew for-
sing BERNADOTTE, forori-
gue tu est tu ne fais
quand je n'y suis pas.”
only commit blunders wh
Such indeed is the man-
Ruler conducts himself to
Thrones and Principality-
s, pend upon his nod, and
or caprice be reduced to the

Although the Swift Deput
BONAPARTE for their Chief
no means despair of having hi-

The following short and general Bulletin, received by the last Mail from Hamburg, is said to be a French statement :-

"The battle of Eylau was a scene of carnage which lasted from morning until night. It was the Russians, at seven o'clock in the morning, who attacked three French Divisions, all of which would have been destroyed, if SOULT and NEY had not come to their assistance after mid-day. NAPOLEON, in a grey Riding-coat, and Polish bonnet, placing himself at the head of his Guards, led on the attack. The bullets whistled around him, and a shell burst a few paces from him. AUGEREU's ann was broken, and he has set out for Paris. LANNES is wounded, but not severely, and is gone to Warsaw, his Division had no share in the battle. The Russians were immovable. A French Officer who was present, estimates the loss of the French at 10,000 men; from the 8th to the 12th, the Day on which Capt. Dovilliers set off from the scene of action, there had been no fighting."

It is a curious circumstance that there is at this moment a Branch of Royalty in the possession of the French, which it is not easy at first

The French, since BONAPARTE kindly tasted the soldier's bread, hope soon to see great changes in his temper, which they say is at present abominably crusty.

BONAPARTE informs the Bavarians, that he will afford protection to their independence. There is no doubt he will secure their independence by taking it under his own care.

The Tableau de Paris, of the 22d inst., mentions an unfortunate accident during the ceremony of fewaring hatred to Royalty: A vellef was emptied from an upper window on the Direttoral Robes. The Minifter of the Police has been orrelated to discover the confpirators in this plot againft the stability of the directors.

The POPE, afraid of an attack from BUONAPARTE, has testified to the EMPEROR his desire of visiting Vienna. The EMPEROR has declined the proffered honour under the existing circumstances.

LUCIEN BONAPARTE.

Amidst the many astonishing events by which our attention has lately been occupied, it is impossible to overlook the conduct of one branch of the family of that man who has been the atrocious instrument by which these wonderful revolutions and total and instantaneous overthrow of whole Empires have been effected. It is well known that NAPOLEON is chiefly indebted for his present " bad eminence" to his brother LUCIEN, and it would be calling up matter of antiquated history to refer our readers to those transactions which happened at St. Cloud, when LUCIEN'S presence of mind not only saved his brother's life, but perhaps paved the way to NAPOLEON's actual aggrandizement. Rapid events of the utmost magnitude have succeeded, and kingdoms have been at the disposition of young soldier. These he has bestowed upon others.

Here it is 96 pieces in these two Louis.

tions against Sweden, and unless, by way of atonement, he can contrive to subvert the throne of Denmark, he will probably be ordered to return in disgrace to France. But this is not the first time, it is said, that BERNADOTTE has offended the Imperial Corsican, for at the battle of Eylau, when the French were driven back by the Russians, BUONAPARTE flew to the spot and addressing BERNADOTTE, furiously exclaimed, "Bête qu'an tu ne fais que des cochonneries quand je n'y suis pas." "Fool that you are, you only commit blunders when I am not present." Such indeed is the manner in which the French Ruler conducts himself to those whom he exalts to the rank of Kings, and who know they depend upon his nod, and may in a moment of anger or caprice be reduced to their original insignificance.

Although the Swifts Deputies are forbid to choose BONAPARTE for their Chief Magistrate, they need by no means depair of having him for their Governor.

at Paris, or when a general Peace is proclaimed, BONAPARTE intends to announce his nomination of several hundreds of his subjects to Dukes, Marquisses, Counts, and Barons. Among these new Nobles are some of the ancient French Nobility. All persons of the former French Nobility, who are not mentioned in this promotion, are to be prohibited from using their former titles, and are excluded from sharing the privileges and distinctions allotted by BONAPARTE to his newly enabled subjects. Among the members of his family, he has also resolved to revive the titles of Duke of ORLEANS, Princes of CONDE and CONTI, &c.

"MERRILLIO's Tobil," just arrived at the European Museum, was ordered out of Spain, by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; the Corsican owes his elevation to the blindness of those he has had to contend with, and trembles at the idea of their ever recovering their sight.

EMPEROR ALEXANDER.—We were positively assured, during the residence of the Emperor ALEXANDER and BUONAPARTE at Tilsit, previous to the signature of the Treaty, the former was for three days actually in the state of a prisoner to BUONAPARTE, and that during that alarming interval he was actually induced to sign a paper, binding himself to agree to any secret articles which the former might think proper to send from Paris, in addition to the terms of the Treaty of Tilsit, which have been promulgated, so much to the disgrace of Russia and the surprise of all Europe. We had cogent reasons for concealing this melancholy fact at the time we heard of it; and indeed, if we had not, we were inclined to hope that the Emperor of Russia would reflect on the danger of his situation, if he suffered himself to be drawn too closely into alliance with France, and that he would have roused to a sense of his own dignity, which he had so fatally committed when he entered into the degrading Treaty alluded to.

very feeling that
from the true
ring to excite the
against those ill-
unranny, who, alio
' have, to avoid
o take refuge in a
for whom our
adequate strength
loys his pen in a
reception of all
le. But we trust,
of Opinions, which
born Principles of
ish Mind will for
the its noblest de-
ecours the Nee
the Oppressed.

alians are the men
people. They will
cut their throats
We have no
The Governorer
old axion of po-
we have already
conques this

erates with great
old of England: Mo
may he never
ed the soldier's for
his temper, which is
not, that he will ap-
pear, that he will
s, that he will be
aking it under his

terday the mar-
august with the
Couriers we
intelligence d
to see the illus-
me. 1567

ed about in Par-
chatching at a
ci " Sie mea fata se-
" I am appeal-
ing to the Spanish

sending for the
ave the Spaniard
to be hoped for
a brush.

APARTE to the Pe-
ed, importing that
Dispatches until
is exactly in the am-
ner, who does not or
his soldiers when a
This disposition
is military opera-
d when he told a
hazard that I am not
invade this Count-
gated all over Europe
its caution, have be-
must be thought of
the yoke of a Foreign
is extinguished ever

The following short and general Bulletin, re-
ceived by the last Mail from Hamburg, is said to
be a French statement :-

"The battle of Eylau was a scene of carnage which lasted from morning until night. It was the Russians, at seven o'clock in the morning, who attacked three French Divisions, all of which would have been destroyed, if Soult and Ney had not come to their assistance after mid-day. NAPOLEON, had come to their guards, led on the attack. The bullets in a grey Riding-coat, and Polish bonnet, placing himself at the head of his Guards, led on the attack. The bullets whistled around him, and a shell burst a few paces from him, Augereau's arm was broken, and he has set out for Paris. LANNES is wounded, but not severely, and is gone to Warsaw. The Russians were his Division had no share in the battle. The Russians were his Division had no share in the battle. The Russians were the loss of the French at 10,000 men ; from the 8th to the 12th, the Day on which Capt. Dovilliers set off from the scene of action, there had been no fighting."

It is a curious circumstance that there is at
this moment a Branch of Royalty in the posses-
sion of the French, which it is not easy at first
to conceive how it came there. A Princess of
Morocco is at this moment at Malta, confined
there by the Embargo at that Port, whither her
Ship has been driven in by stress of weather.
It is not known what were the motives which
induced this Princess to undertake a Voyage by
Sea. The Emperor of Morocco has interceded
for his Daughter, who, it is said, has received
the permission of the Directory to proceed on her
Voyage.

JOSEPHINE DESSALINES.—This Dowager Empress has not only been permitted by the popular successor of her husband, to reside in the capital of St. Domingo, but has received from him 30,000 dollars indemnity for some property destroyed by POTION.—Being as prudent and wise in adversity, as she had been modest and humane in prosperity, she has forgotten her temporary elevation to remember her native obscurity. She has entered with spirit and honesty into commercial transactions, and is supposed to have, within 18 months, more than doubled her capital by the success attending her speculation. She has transformed all her co-devant maids of honour into clerks; all her gentlemen in waiting into warehousemen; all her pages into porters, and all her equerjes and grooms into waggoners and carten. Every day upwards of fifty persons dine under her roof; and every foreign merchant or traveller of respectability is invited to her sumptuous table. As regularity, industry, and liberality, have hitherto distinguished this trading upstart Sovereign, her reputation and credit increase, and her commercial connection in England, as well as in America, are both numerous and wealthy. She often declares, that she is more happy in her magazine, than she was in her Palace, and that behind her counter she experiences a tranquillity unknown to her when seated on a throne.

ANECDOTE.—BERNADOTTE, a alias the Prince of
PONT CORVO, has recently incurred the displas-
tions against Sweden, and unless, by way of atone-
ment, he can contrive to subvert the throne of Den-
mark, he will probably be ordered to return in dis-
grace to France. But this is, not the first time,
it is said, that BERNADOTTE has offended the
Imperial Corsican, for at the battle of Eylau,
when the Bench were driven back by the Rus-
sing BERNADOTTE, furiously exclaimed, "Bête
que tu est tu ne fais que des coquenneries
quand je n'y suis pas." "Fool that you are, you
only commit blunders when I am not present."
Such indeed is the manner in which the French
Ruler conducts himself to those whom he exalts to
Thrones and Principalties, and who know they de-
pend upon his nod, and may in a moment of anger
or caprice be reduced to their original insignificance.

Although the Swis Deputies are forbid to choose
BONAPARTE for their Chief Magiftrate, they need by
no means depair of having him for their Governor.

The Tableau de Paris, of the 22d inf., mentions an unfortunate accident during the ceremony of wearing hatred to Royalty. A vellf was emptied from an upper window on the Direcloral Robes. The Minifter of the Police has been ordered to discover the confirators in this plot against the authority of the directors.

The POPE, afraid of a visit from BUONAPARTE,
has testified to the EMPEROR his desire of visiting
Vienna. The EMPEROR has declined the proffered
honour under the existing circumstances.

BONAPARTE'S new Decree that makes the Youth of France of age at Twenty, will no doubt be approved by those who are so fond of early maturity as to consider the government of the Consul established by four months duration.

BONAPARTE seems disposed to convince man-
kind, that when he found a *Tron Crown*, it was ac-
companied with a *Sceptre* of the same substance ;
and that while he wears the one, he is resolved to
rule the other.

Madame RECAMIER, the wife of the rich Banár at Paris, whose house is the head quarters of the *beau monde*, and one of the most beautiful of women, has promised some of her friends in London to be in Kensington Gardens next Sunday, dressed in the highest Parisian style.

It is said that the French, since they have been pre-
vented from importing colonial produce, have discovered
a substitute for coffee in the roots of the wild *endive*, or
what is more generally called *dandelion*.

With what detestation and horror will the humane
and loyal people of this Country read an article in a
Foreign Journal, which states, that several hundred
Neapolitan Prisoners of War are expected at Antwerp
to work, with a log at one foot, in the harbour. Yet
the only fault of these men is an attachment to their
lawful Sovereign, and a dutiful resistance of an odious
Usurper. Among these men are some perhaps of edu-
cation, and who, before their legitimate Government
was overturned, were possessed of considerable pro-
perty. Such are the fruits of Frenchfraternity, and
such may every people expect who are so weak
and so base as to give encouragement to French
principles. The degrading slavery of the French
themselves affords indeed a dreadful warning to the
people of all other States.

It is reported, that at the grand fete now preparing
at Paris, or when a general Peace is proclaimed, BO-
NAPARTE intends to announce his nomination of se-
veral hundreds of his subjects to Dukes, Marquesses,
Counts, and Barons. Among these new Nobles are
some of the ancient French Nobility. All persons
of the former French Nobility, who are not men-
tioned in this promotion, are to be prohibited from
using their former titles, and are excluded from shar-
ing the privileges and distinctions allotted by BON-
APARTE to his newly enabled subjects. Among
the members of his family, he has also resolved to revive
the titles of Duke of ORLEANS, Princes of CONDE
and CONTI, &c.

"MERRILLIO'S Tobi." just arrived at the Euro-
pean Museum, was ordered out of Spain, by NAPO-
LEON BONAPARTE; the Corsican owes his elevation
to the blindness of those he has had to contend with,
and trembles at the idea of their ever recovering their
sight.

LUCIEN BONAPARTE.

Amidst the many astonishing events by which our attention has lately been occupied, it is impossible to overlook the conduct of one branch of the family of that man who has been the atrocious instrument by which these wonderful revolutions and total and instantaneous overthrow of whole Empires have been effected. It is well known that NAPOLEON is chiefly indebted for his present " bad eminence" to his brother LUCIEN, and it would be calling up matter of antiquated history to refer our readers to those transactions which happened at St. Cloud, when LUCIEN's presence of mind not only saved his brother's life, but perhaps paved the way to NAPOLEON's actual aggrandizement. Rapid events of the utmost magnitude have succeeded, and kingdoms have been at the disposition of young soldier. These he has bestowed upon brothers and favourites; but why has LUCIEN, to whom he owes every thing, been neglected? This is no longer a mystery. He has been offered Empires; but upon what conditions? That he should repudiate a chaste and excellent wife, and basely and unnaturally abandon his innocent offspring!!! A mind possessed of one spark of domestic feeling must revolt at such a proposal, and LUCIEN has not only constantly and nobly refused to purchase empires at such a price, but has endeavoured to re-press the mad ambition of his brother, which at one reverse might plunge the whole family into ruin. He has even reminded him of his early principles, which were purely republican, so that LUCIEN's political honesty and domestic virtue are offensive to NAPOLEON. LUCIEN has for a long time lived a quiet inoffensive life in the Papal Territory; a patron of the arts, an excellent husband and father, and the unostentations and charitable protector of the unfortunate. Let us hope that he will be suffered to remain unmoisted, in a country, of which he might be the Sovereign, if his principles permitted him, and forgiving his early extravagancies, from the illustrious atouement he has made, let us charitably wish him security from the rage of his despotic brother, in the bosom of that family for which he has made such sacrifices.

The determination of BONAPARTE to send the
Austrian prisoners to be employed in agricultural
labour, is an act that prepares the way for a com-
plete fall of civilization into a state of barbarism
more deplorable than savage life. This act is ex-
actly consistent with his treatment of the Austrian
prisoners some years ago, when he sold them to the
Spanish Government, to wear out a miserable life
in working in the mines.

EMPEROR ALEXANDER.—We were positively as-
sured, during the residence of the Emperor ALEX-
ANDER and BONAPARTE at Tilsit, previous to the
signature of the Treaty, the former was for three
days actually in the state of a prisoner to BONAP-
ARTE, and that during that alarming interval he was
actually induced to sign a paper, binding himself
to agree to any secret articles which the former might
think proper to send from Paris, in addition to the
terms of the Treaty of Tilsit, which have been pro-
mulgated, so much to the disgrace of Russia and the
surprise of all Europe. We had cogent reasons for
concealing this melancholy fact at the time we heard
of it; and indeed, if we had not, we were inclined
to hope that the Emperor of Russia would reflect
on the danger of his situation, if he suffered himself
to be drawn too closely into alliance with France,
and that he would have roused to a sense of his own
dignity, which he had so fatally committed when
he entered into the degrading Treaty alluded to.

Every feeling but the one from the breast to excite the most ardent and passionate of them all, who, after having, to avoid to take refuge in a camp, for whom an adequate strength loys his pen in a receptacle of all the rest. But we trust, if Opinions, which born Principles of his Mind will not let us noblest claims crouscs the Needy Oppressed,

allians are the most people. They will cut their throats. We have the Government old axion of power has already crouncs that

erates with green moss. Gold of England: May and may he never

terday the magaustia with the Couriers weh intelligence to see the illus me. 1567

led about in Paris, finatching at a crier. "Sic mea fata se. "—"I am appeal

sending for the ear, to be hoped at a brush.

APARTE to the Pape, imporing that the Dispatches until he is exactly in the ear, who does not get his soldiers when he is. This disposition military operated, when he told the hazard a hundred to invade this Country, all over Europe, is caution, have beed must be thought of the yoke of a Foreign extinguished ear

The following short and general Bulletin, received by the Mail from Edinburgh, is said to be a French statement:—

“The battle of Eylau was a scene of carnage which lasted from morning until night. It was the Russians, at seven o'clock in the morning, who attacked three French Divisions, all of which would have been destroyed, if Soult and Ney had not come to their assistance after mid-day. NAPOLEON, in a grey Riding-coat, and Polish bonnet, placing himself at the head of his Guards, led on the attack. The bullets whistled around him, and a shell burst a few paces from him. AUGEREAU's arm was broken, and he has set out for Paris. LANNES was wounded, but not severely, and is gone to Warsaw. His Division had no share in the battle. The Russians were his immovable. A French Officer who was present, estimates the loss of the French at 10,000 men; from the 8th to the 12th, the Day on which Capt. DOVILLIERS set off from the scene of action, there had been no fighting.”

It is a curious circumstance that there is at this moment a Branch of Royalty in the possession of the French, which it is not easy at first to conceive how it came there. A Princess of Morocco is at this moment at Malta, confined there by the Embargo at that Port, whither her Ship had been driven in by stress of weather. It is not known what were the motives which induced this Princess to undertake a Voyage by Sea. The Emperor of Morocco has interceded for his Daughter, who, it is said, has received the permission of the Directory to proceed on her Voyage.

JOSEPHINE DESALINES.—This Dowager Empress has not only been permitted by the popular successor of her husband, to reside in the capital of St. Domingo, but has received from him 30,000 dollars indemnity for some property destroyed by PÉTON.—Being as prudent and wise in adversity, as she had been modest and humane in prosperity, she has forgotten her temporary elevation to remember her native obesity. She has entered with spirit and honesty into commercial transactions, and is supposed to have, within 18 months, more than doubled her capital by the success attending her speculation. She has transformed all her ci-devant maids of honour into clerks; all her gentlemen into waiting into warehousemen; all her pages into porters, and all her equerries and grooms into wagons and caienets. Every day upwards of fifty persons dine under her roof; and every foreign merchant or traveller of respectability is invited to her sumptuous table. As regularity, industry, and liberality, have hitherto distinguished this trading upstart Sovereign, her reputation and credit increase, and her commercial connection in England, as well as in America, are both numerous and wealthy. She often declares, that she is more happy in her magazine, than she was in her Palace, and that behind her counter she experiences a tranquility unknown to her when seated on a throne.

ARECDETORE, BERNADOTTE, alias the Prince of PONTÉ CORVO, has recently incurred the displeasure of BONAPARTE, by the tardiness of his operation against Sweden, and unless, by way of atone-ment, he can contrive to subvert the throne of Denmark, he will probably be ordered to return in disgrace to France. But this is not the first time, it is said, that BERNADOTTE has offended the Imperial Corsican, for at the battle of Eylau, when the French were driven back by the Russians, BONAPARTE flew to the spot and addressing que est tu ne fais que des cochonneries quand je n'y suis pas." "Fool that you are, you only commit blunders when I am not present." Such indeed is the manner in which the French conducted himself to those whom he exalts to Thrones and Principality, and who know they demand upon his nod, and may in a moment of anger or caprice be reduced to their original insignificance.

Although the Swis Deputies are forbid to choose BONAPARTE for their Chief Magif concentrate, they need by no means defair of having him for their Governor.

The French, since BONAPARTE kindly tasted the soldier's bread, hope soon to see great changes in his temper, which they say is at present abominably corrupt.

The Tableau de Paris, of the 22d Infl, mentions an unfortunate accident during the ceremony of wearing hatred to Royalty: A velleff was emptied from an upper window on the Direttoral Robes. The Minifter of the Police has been ordered to discover the confirpators in this plot against the authority of the directors.

The Pope, afraid of a visit from BONAPARTE, has testified to the EMPEROR his desire of visiting Vienna. The EMPEROR has declined the proffered honour under the existing circumstances.

BONAPARTE seems disposed to convince himself, that when he found an Iron Crown, it was accompanied with a Sceptre of the same substance; and that while he wears the one, he is resolved to rule by the other.

Madame RECAMIER, his wife of the rich Pan-ter at Paris, whose house is the head quarters of the beaumonde, and one of the most beautiful of women, has promised some of her friends in London to be in Kensington Gardens next Sunday, dressed in the highest Parisian stile.

It is said that the French, since they have been prevented from importing colonial produce, have discovered a substitute for coffee in the roots of the wild indicée, or what is more generally called dandelion.

With what detestation and horror will the humane and loyal people of this Country read an article in a Foreign Journal, which states, that several hundred Neapolitan Prisoners of War are expected at Antwerp to work, with a log at one foot, in the harbour. Yet the only fault of these men is an attachment to their lawful Sovereign, and a dutiful resistance of an odious Usurper. Among these men are some perhaps of education, and who, before their legitimate Government was overturned, were possessed of considerable property. Such are the fruits of French fraternity, and such may every people expect who are so weak and so base as to give encouragement to French principles. The degrading slavery of the French themselves affords indeed a dreadful warning to the people of all other States.

It is reported, that at the grand fête now preparing at Paris, or, when a general Peace is proclaimed, BONAPARTE intends to announce his nomination of several hundreds of his subjects to Dukes, Marquisses, Counts, and Barons. Among these new Nobles are some of the ancient French Nobility. All persons of the former French Nobility, who are not mentioned in this promotion, are to be prohibited from using their former titles, and are excluded from sharing the privileges and distinctions allotted by BONAPARTE to his newly enabled subjects. Among the members of his family, he has also resolved to revive the titles of Duke of ORLEANS, Princes of CONDE and CONTI, &c.

“MERRILLIUS's Tobit,” just arrived at the European Museum, was ordered out of Spain, by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE; the Corsican owes his elevation to the blindness of those he has had to contend with, and trembles at the idea of their ever recovering their sight.

EMPEROR ALEXANDER.—We were positively assured, during the residence of the Emperor ALEXANDER and BUONAPARTE at Tilsit, previous to the signature of the Treaty, the former was for three days actually in the state of a prisoner to BONAPARTE, and that during that alarming interval he was actually induced to sign a paper, binding himself to agree to any secret articles which the former might think proper to send from Paris, in addition to the terms of the Treaty of Tilsit, which have been promulgated, so much to the disgrace of Russia and the surprise of all Europe. We had cogent reasons for concealing this melancholy fact at the time we heard of it; and indeed, if we had not, we were inclined to hope that the Emperor of Russia would reflect on the danger of his situation, if he suffered himself to be drawn too closely into alliance with France, and that he would have roused to a sense of his own dignity, which he had so fatally committed when he entered into the degrading Treaty alluded to.

The Paris Papers contain a silly story of the Polish Legion, which having shewed a disposition to Mutiny on account of the want of Shoes and Stockings, an Officer, to whom they made their complaint, pulled off his boots, and gave them to the messenger of their grievances. This had such an effect on the bare-footed Regiment, that they voted their ten toes prisoners at large, and determined never to wear any more covering on their feet.

An unfortunate Stockholder lately died at Paris, whose Will has afforded much amusement to the lively people of Paris. It consists but of one line—“Je n'ai rien, je dois partout, et je donne le veste aux pauvres.”—I have nothing, I am in debt every where, and the rest I give to the poor.

## PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE from PARIS.

Among the correct statements which have appeared of late in several the Morning Papers under this head, we have noticed in the Morning Herald a pompous and detailed account of the arrangement of the celebrated productions of ancient sculpture which have been brought from Italy. The Correspondent of that Paper places the Apollo of Betovیدa and the Groupe places the Laoocon on the terrace of the Tuileries, which very clearly evinces his familiar acquaintance with Paris, and the very high elevation in which he fuppures the Fine Arts are held by the French Government. The fact is that these States are of infinitely too much value to be expensed in public money. They are to be found in le falle d'Apollon and le falle de Laoocon, apartments splendidly fitted up for their reception in the national Palace of the Louvre, which are only open for public infepfection three days in each decade. Thefe States which are alluded to in the Herald are neither the productions of ancient or modern sculpture, but of the French founderies; and this Correspondent exhibits his knowledge of the Fine Arts, by miftaking States in bronze for their original in marble.

The determination of BONAPARTE to send the Austrian prisoners to be employed in agricultural labour, is an act that prepares the way for a complete fall of civilization into a state of barbarism more deplorable than savage life. This act is exactly consistent with his treatment of the Austrian prisoners some years ago, when he sold them to the Spanish Government, to wear out a miserable life in working in the mines.