Suatiter in rnodo, fortiter in re. In manner courteous, and in action firm. VOL. I.- No. 10.] SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1825. [ PRICE 7d. EAST- INDIA HOUSE, Jan. as. 1825. THF, Court of Directors of the United Company of Mer- chants of England, trading to the East- Indies do hereby give notice. That the Transfer Books of the said Company's Stock will be shut on THCRSDAY, Ihe 3d March next, at Three o'Clock, and opened ' again on Thursday, the 14th April following. That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COM- PANY will be held at their House in Leadenhall- street, on WED- NESDAY, the 23d March next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon. That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will be held at their House in Leadenhall- street, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th April next, from Nine o'Clock in the Morning until Six in thc Evening, for the Election of Six Directors of the said Company for Four Years. And that the List of the Members of the said Company will be ready to be delivered at this House on Tuesday, the 29th March next. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 15, 1825. THE Court of Directors of the United, Company of. Mer- chants of England trading to the East Indies do hereby give Notice, That in connection with the Hyderabad Papers now before the Proprietors, the undermentioned Documents are open for their peru- sal at this House :— Opinion of the Company's Standing Counsel, dated the 27th No- vember, 1823. Opinion of the Company's Standing Counsel, ' dated the 21st Ja- nuary, 1824. Lettcrfrom the Company's Standing Counsel to their Solicitor, dated the 27th February, 1824. Opinion of the Attorney- General, dated the 28th Sept. 1824. Opinion of the Company's Standing Counsel, dated the 18th No- vember, 1824. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Sept. 29, 1824 THE Court of Directors of the United Company of Mer- chants of England Trading lo the East Indies, do hereby givd Notice, That Ihe present INTEREST of (,£ 310s.) Three Pounds, Ton Shillings porCVnt. per. Ancum on the Company's Bonds shall CEASE and DETERMINE on i\ w 5t!. day of- April, 1 Hio. That From and after the said 5th day of April they shall carry only ah Interest of (£ 3) Three Pounds per Cent, per Annum. That the Holders of Bonds will be allowed to bring them in to be marked for continuation at the said Interest of (£ 3) Three Pounds per Cent, per Annum until the 29th day of March, 1825; and that « uch Bonds as shall not be marked for continuation, as aforesaid, on or before the 29th day of March, 1825, shall be liable to be paid off on the said 5th day of April, 1825, with the Interest due thereon: from which date unmarked bonds shall not carry any Interest. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST- INDIA HOUSE, 18th Feb. 1825. THE Court of Directors of the United Company of Mer- chants of England, trading to the East Indies, do hereby give notice, that a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held by adjournment at their house, in Leadenhall street, on Friday next, the 25th instant, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of continuing the CONSIDERATION " of the HY- DERABAD PAPERS, now before the proprietors, as far as they respect the conduct of the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, late Governor- General of India." JOSEPH DART, Sec. FoR BOMBAY Direct, for Passengers, a chartered ship, to sail in all February, and will be punctually despatched either with cargo, or in ballast, the fine fast sailing teak built SHIP, RECOVERY, HENRY C. CHAPMAN, Commander: burden 500 tons; lying in the City canal. This ship has elegant accommoda- tions for passengers, and will carry a regular surgeon. For freight or passage apply to the Commmaudcr, at the Jerusalem coffee- house; Messrs. Fraser, Living, and Co. 12, St. Helen's- place \ John Chap- man and Co. 2, Leadenhall- street; or to John S. Brinley, 14, Birch- in- lane. FoR INDIA, the Steam Vessel ENTERPRISE, 500 Tons, Lieut. I. H. JOHNSTON, R. N. Commander. The above superior Vessel is fitted for Passengers only, and will carry a Sur- f; eon. Her Machinery is of tho best description; she will be calcu- ated for either sailing or steaming, aud will start for Calcutta posi- tively in all March, to touch at the Cape and Madras. The calcula- tions hold out every prospect of her arrival in Calcutta within Two Months.— Applications for Passage to be made to Mr. R. J. Saunders, Agent, Old South Sea House, Broad- street; to the under- mentioned Houses of East India Agency— Messrs. Bazett, Farquahar, Crawford, and Co; Cockerell, Trall, and Co.: Fletcher, Alexander, and Co.; Palmers, Mackillop and Co ; and also to the Commander at the Je- rusalem Coffee- house. ACHARTERED SHIP, to sail in all FEBRUARY, and will be punctually dispatched, cither with Cargo, or in Ballast, direct for BOMBAY, the fine fast- sailing Teak built ship, RECOVERY, burthen 500 tons, HENRY C. CHAPMAN, Com- mander, lying in the City Canal. This ship has elegant ( Accom- modations for Passengers, and will carry a regular surgeon. For Freight or Passage apply . to Messrs. Frascr, Living anil Co. 12, St. Helen's Place; John Chapman & Co. 2, Lcadennall- street; or to John S. Brinley, 14, Birchiu- lane, Cornhill. . TO SAIL ON THE TENTH MARCH.— For BEN- GAL, ( with leave to land Passengers at MADRAS) the fast- sailing Teak Ship LADY FLORA, THOMAS M'DONNELL, Commander. Burthen 700 tonf. This ship carries a surgeon, and i* elegantly fitted up4for passengers. For Freight or Passage apply to the Commander, at the Jerusalem Coffee House; to Messrs. CoCK ERELL, TRAIL & CO. No. 8, Austin Friars; or to JOHN S BRINLEY, No. 14, Birfcbirflane, ^ robill. THS APPOLONICON' a rand Musical Instrument, [ ( under the immediate patronage of Mr Majesty)— Intented aud constructed by FLIGHT and ROBSON, Organ Builders, is nOW open to exhibition. This magnificent Instrument has been honoured with the sanction of the most eminent mechanical and rausical men of the acc ; and in the performance of some of the celebrated works of Haydn, Beeth- oven, Mozart, Cherubim, & c. & c. is . allowed to possess a grandeur and variety of effect, with a precision and delicacy of expression su- perior to any other instrument in Europe. The Rooms are open daily, from one to four o'clock. No. 101, St. Martin's- lane. Admittance. OneShilling. TO SAIL FOR FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS, to SAIL THIS MONTH, for MADRAS and CAL- CUTTA, with leave to call at PLYMOUTH, the fine teak built Ship LADY NUGENT, burthen 520 tons, CHARI. ES Cor- PKN. Commander, ( late of the Ship City of Rochester,) lying in the City Canal. Has very superior accommodations for Passengers, and carries an exporieiced Surgeon.— For freight or passage apply to John Campbell, E « q. White- lion Court, Cornhill, or to Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan, 33, Mark- lane. TO SAIL immediately, direct for CEYLON, the remark- | ably fast- sailing ship TIGER, burthen 330 tons, HENRY KENT, commander, lying in the City Canal, has superior accommodations for passengers.— For freight or passage apply to Buckles, Bagster, and Buchanan, 33, Mark- lane. ACHARTERED VESSEL— To sail this Month, for BATAVIA and SINGAPORE, thn fast- sailing river- built Brig. NOORMUHUL, burthen 200 tons, ROGER KING, Com- mander, lying in the City Canal; has fine accommodation for Pas- sengers.— For Freight or Passage apply to Buckles, Bagster, and Buchanan, 33, Mark- lane. AREGULAR TRADER.— To Sail about the 28th inst. for VAN DIEMAN'S LAND, and NEW SOUTH WALES, the fine coppered first- class Ship WILLIAM SHAND, ALEXANDER KeNN, Commander, burthen 300 tons. lying in the London Dock, has very superior accommodations for cabin and steerage passengers. For freight or passage apply to Buckles, Bagster and Buchanan, 53, Mark- lane. FoR NEW SOUTH WALES ( and with liberty to land passengers at Port Dalrymple, in Van Dieman's Land,) the fine and remarkably fast- sailing Ship TOWARD CASTLE, RO- BERT JEFFERY, Commander, burden 500 tons, coppcr- fastened, coppered, and armed, and will carry an experienced surgeon. This ship was built in his Majesty's dock- yard, at Dcptford. and has hitherto been accounted one of the fastest sailing ships in the British Navy; she is exceedingly well calculated for passengers, having a commodious poop, great length of deck, and lofty accommodations between decks. 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Printed for Lupton Relfe, 13, Cornhill; Hatchard and Son. Piccadilly ; L. B. Seely, 160, Fleet- street; where may be had, by the same Author, SHADES OF CHARACTER; or, the INFANT PILGRIM, Vols. 1 and 2, price 16s. boards. MICHAEL KEMP, 12mo. fourth edition, price U. boards. COTTAGE DIALOGUES, J2mo. price5s. boards. BIBLE ITS OWN WITNESS, 18mo. price 3s. boards. FIRST PRAYER, 8vo. price2s. sewed. 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to unlawful Associations in Ireland.—( For debate see Supplement.) TUESDAY. Petitions were presented from Bristol, praying that no further concessions might be made to the Catholics.— From various sea- ports in favour oPSt. Catherine's Dock.— In favour of the County Courts Bill. FromDevonport, praying for the repeal of the Duty on Coals. RETURNS ORDERED.— Of the quantity of bullion imported and exported into and out of England, " from the year 1810 to 1825 ; und likewise for Scotland for the same period, and Ire- land, during the years 1S22, 1823,' and 1824-; also for a Return of the quantity of gold and silver coined in his Majesty's Mint from January 1810 to 1825, and the quantity of bullion bought up by the Bank of England.— Mr. HUME likewise moved for the Return of the Expenditure of the Board of Ordnance. NEW BILLS.— The Bill to incorporate the Alliance Assurance Company was read for the first time.— Mr. K. DOUGLAS pre- sented a petition, praying for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the city of Edinburgh.— Mr. S. RICE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to supply the city of Limerick with water.— Notice was given, that leave would be asked, on the 22d of next month, to to bring in a Bill to amend the laws respecting Sewers.— Lord ALTHORP moved that the County Courts Bill should be referred to a Select Committee, to consider the subject of the remunera- tions.— Mr. LEYCESTER, on the part of an Hon. Member ( Mr. Kennedy) who was absent, gave notice of the postponeroeut of his motion relative to Scotch Juries, until after Easter. [ There was a cessation of business here for several minutes the House was extremely thin, scarcely forty Members being present.] ASSOCIATIONS IN IRELAND. Mr. GOULBURN moved the order of the day for resuming the adjourned Debate on the Bill relative to Illegal Associations in Ireland. ( For debate see Supplement.) WEDNESDAY. There not being a sufficient number of Members present when the Speaker took the chair, the House was adjourned. TIIURSDAV. Sir R. Farquhar took the oaths and his seat. Petitions were presented— from New Ross, against the Town Dues of the Port of Bristol; from Southward, against the Lon- don Tithe System; for a Ship Canal communicating with the Bristol Channel; from St. Olive's and Cripplegate, praying for an Equalisation of Tithes in the City of London ; for the Peru- vian Mining Company ; from the Wine and Spirit Traders, in favour of the St. Catherine Docks ; from the Presbyterians of the parish of Ardclough, in the county of Tyrone, complaining of the misrepresentations contained in some newspapers, in stating that they, in common with their Presbyterian brethren, were favourable to the Catholic Claims; from Chester, in fa- vour of the County Courts' Bill; also a similar petition from Gloucester, and another from Tiverton ; from the Minister, Churchwardens, and other Inhabitants, of St. Stephen, Bristol, against the Catholic Claims ; from Canterbury, for a Repeal of the Duty on Coals ; from Watchet, in Somersetshire, against the Duty on Coals carried Coastwise ; from Gloucester, praying for a Repeal of the Window Tax ; from Abingdon, praying for a Repeal of the Assessed Taxes ; from East Harling, in Nor- folk, against the Duties on Coals carried Coastwise; from the the Inhabitants of Newcastle, praying for a Repeal of the Du- ties on Stamp Receipts. Mr. C. CALVERT moved that the order made on the 20th of the month, with respect to the Number of Ships entering the Port of London, be discharged.— Ordered. Mr. HOLMES brought up Accounts of the Expenses of the IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS— MONDAY. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat ontheWoolsack at four o'clock, and heard Counsel in the Appeal case of Maule r. Maule. ( A statement of the case will be found in another part of our journal.) The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from the Churchwardens and Inhabitants of a parish in Hampshire, against making further concessions to the Catholics.— Laid on the table. The Scotch Judicature Bill was read a first time on the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR. His Lordship stated that it was exactly the same measure which had passed through the House last year, therefore if any alterations or amendments were thought necessary, they might be made in the Committee, oi < luring any other part of the progress of the Bill. TUESDAY. A parson from the Post- office presented to the House the Ba- lance of Accounts in the hands of the Deputy Postmasters, anc a List of Debts due to them up to the 5th January, 1825, Adjourned till Thursday. THURSDAY. Mr ADRIAN from the Treasury, presented an account of the Russian Dutch Loan ; also copies of warrants authorising compensation to be granted to the Officers of the Court of Ses- sion, for loss of fees. Lord SUFFIELD presented a Petition from the magistrates of the county of Norfolk, against the existing Game Laws, and praying for an alteration. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY it was order- ed that a Message be sent to the House of Commons, request- ing the attendance of several members on their Lordships' com- mittee for inquiring into the state of Ireland. FRIDAY. Earl Harrowbv moved that the committee on the state ol Ireland, do report from time to time, and also that the evidence be printed.— Ordered. Lord SUFFIELD gave notice that on Thursday he shouli! submit a motion, respecting the use of Spring Guns in the pre- servation of game.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS— MONDAY. The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock. Petitions were presented from the Dean and Chapter of West- minster, for leave to improve Tothill- fields.— From some of th< inhabitants of the City of London, against the increase o: tythes.— From Rye, in favour of St. Catherine's Docks; simi- lar petitions were also presented from Bristol and Plymouth: from Dover ; from Leith ; from Dartmouth ; from the inhabi- tants of St. Catherine's ; from New haven. ( All of which were ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed.)— From the town of Southampton against the Catholic Association.— From the town of Bishop- Stortford, in favour of the Small Debts Bills.— From the householders of Winchester against the House and Window Tax.— From the Notaries Public of Dundee, against the Attorney's Tax.— From the inhabitants of Tottenham, praying a reduction of the Duty on Coals.— From Cork,, pray- ing for the repeal of the duty on Coals, sea- borne.— From the practitioners of Law in Brechin, in Scotlund, against the Attor- ney's Tax.— From Waterford against the duty on Sea- borne coals.— From St. Martin's parish, in Oxford, against the House and Window Tax. The Sheriffs presented another petition from the City of London, respecting the tythes collected under the 32d of Henry " VIII., und tUo House to take it into consideration i mid the Sheriffs of the City of London afterwards appeared at the bar of the House with a petition from the City of London, relating to Southwark Gaol. NEW BILLS.— Mr. BROGDEN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Equitable Loan Bank Company to suej and be sued, and to enable their Secretary to take out license. Mr. F. BUXTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Alliance Marine Insurance Company to sue an4. be sued in the name of the Chairman, or any of the Members. Also a Bill to incorporate the Mexican Mining Association ; and a Bill to incorporate the London Water Works Company. RETURNS were ordered of the Assessment of the Land Tax unredeemed, for the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and the Cities of London and Westminster, with sundry details con- nected therewith. ( Mr. HUME said, as soon as the re- turns he had moved for should be granted, he intended to submit a motion on the subject.) Of the British iron ex- ported in the years 1821, 1S23, and 1S24, distinguishing the quantity in each year, and the countries to which it was ex- ported. Also a return of the quantity of foreign iron imported into Great Britain for the same years, and the amount of duty- paid. Also a return of the quantity of foreign iron exported from England during the . same years. Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion for Wednesday next to permit the exportation of machinery. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the " Report from the Committee • of Supply, containing Resolutions for enabling Government to pav off 30,000,000/. of Exchequer Bills, which were agreed to. "" The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for the Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates. Mr. HUME said that before the House went into a Committee on the Navy Estimates, he wished to know what amount of men " was to he added to the Army. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he had no objection to state what he understood was to be the amount, but he objected to the unreasonableness of the demand. He believed that an addition of 8,000 men, rank and file, would be moved for, exclusive of that force, the expense of which was to be defrayed by the East India Company. Tho House then resolved itself into—" A Committee of Sup- ply." Sir GEORGE CLERK observed, that as the number of men to be voted this year in the Navy Estimates was the same as for the last year, it would not be necessary for him to detain the House long. The Hon. Bart, then went into an enumera- tion of a part of the services in which the Navy were to be em- ( iloyed during the ensuing year, and stated several very exccl- ent improvements that had taken place in the Navy as regarded the comfort of the seamen, the abolition of lianyun- days, and the authorising an advance of payment to seamen when on a foreign station, thesewereamong the mostprominent, but thellon. " Baronet observed that the latter could not be done without tin sanction of the House; the following Resolutions were then put, and ( after the accustomed bickering of the Hon. Member for Aberdeen) were unanimously carried:— 1. That 29,000 men ( including 9,000 men for the marines) be Toted for the thirteen lunar months after the 1st January, 1825. 2. That 923,6501. be granted for paying the wages ( at the rate of 21. 2s. per month each), of the before- voted 29,000 men. 3. A grant of ( 303,2001. for victualling the same number of men. 4>. A grant of 320, 450/. for the wear and tear of the fleet. 5. A grant of 94,2501. for the Ordnance of the same service. ASSOCIATIONS IN IRELAND.— Mr. GOULBURN moved the Order of the Day for resuming the debate upon the motion for Oranmioo Department for the Land service. Mr. MABERLY gave noticuiaf n motion for the Repeal of the Beer and Assessed Taxes for the 8th of March. CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.— Mr. BROUGHAM presented a pe- tition from a number of Members of the Catholic Association ; which, he observed, wax signed by seven Peers, three Arch- bishops, and three Bishops, besides several persons of distinction, praying that the petitioners should be heard at the bar, as well by Counsel as by witnesses, against the Bill now before the House.— Ordered to be printed. GAME LAWS.— Mr. S. WORTLEY moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Laws relating to Game. The Hon. Mem- ber stated that the Bill resembled in every respect that which he had brought forward last year, and the principal alterations proposed to be made in the existing law were, that of giving a property in the game to the owners of the land, and of legalising the sale of game.— Leave given. TURNPIKE TRUSTS.— Lord LOWTHER, in pursuance of his notice, moved for the Appointment of a Select Committee, to in- quire into several Turnpike Trusts in the County of Middlesex. Mr. HUME moved, as an amendment, that, instead of the word Middlesex, " within ten miles of London" be inserted ; which amendment, ufter a slight discussion, was carried. On the motion of Mr. GOULBURN, the Select Committee to Inquire into the State of Ireland, and the Cause of the Disturb- ances in that part of the United Kingdom, was re- appointed USURY LAWS REPEAL BILL.— Mr. Sergt. ONSLOW moved the second reading of this Bill ; which was opposed by the Solicitor General, who moved as an amendment, " That his un- propitious Bill in point of time, and ruinous and mischievous in principle, be read this day six months." After considerable discussion— the amendment was carried ; the division being For the Amendment - -- -- -- 45 For the Bill - - - - 40 Majority againgst the Bill 5. Adjourned. FRIDAY. This being the last day for receiving petitions on private bills a large number were presented, among which were— for re- building Hungerford Market — for the establishment of pro- vincial banks in Ireland-^- for the erection of a New Quay on the Thames— for the Repeal of the Assessed Taxes — for the duty on Tobacco — and several for and against the Catholic Association, Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition from the City of Wells, against the extension of political power to the Catholics — on the lion. Burt, moving " that the petition be brought up," Mr. BROUGHAM called the a^ ention of the House to the manner in which the petition had been got up; information of which, ho observed, he had received in a letter from a highly respectable individual. The letter stated, " the agent rode some miles past my house canvassing for names for this petition. He stopped at ( i school near my gate, in order to get all the names of the scholars to the petition, but without producing a copy of it." — ( Laughing.) Perhaps he was afraid the schoolmaster could not read. " The schoolmaster to oblige him, wrote down forthwith, the names of those of his scholars who could not write themselves, and obliged those who were initiated into the manual mystery to subscribe their names, so that the boys, upon leaving school, bragged that they had been singing for brick and mortar." — ( Continued laughter. ) It was necessary to explain that this expression of " brick and mortar" was an election phrase— a cant term at Wells, well known and understood there as applying to the electioneering candidates. The friends of Taylor and Tudway ( he could not easily pronounce the names) were not, as might be imagined, the most powerful, and their opponents wore the " brick and mortar" people ; so that, from the boys bragging that they had served the popular party, the House might infer the pains which had been taken to impose upon the public with respect to the real object of this petition. The next step, after obtaining the sanction of those of a tender age to the petition, was to apply to persons at a more advanced period of life, and accordingly a knot of old women were solicited to add their mite of entreaty to this House to preserve the Constitution.—( Laughing.) But the Hon. Gent, observed, though the same names might be found signed more than once, none of the Canons had signed it; not one respectable gentleman of Wells, nor one respectable inhabit- ant of Bath ; he therefore called on the House to say if this pe- tition was entitled to its respectful consideration. The Hon. Gent, in answer to Sir T. Lethbridge, absolved him from any knowledge of the manner in which the petition had obtained its signatures, and eventually the petition was ordered to be printed. EXCHEQUER BILLS.— The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEi QUER, in a Committee of Ways and Means, proposed a vote for applying 5,000,000/. remaining in the Exchequer since last year to the service of the present.— Another for raising 20,000,000/. by Exchequer Bills— and another for applying 60,000/. paid by the East India Company, on account ef Pensions and Half- pay to the same service.— Agreed to. Mr. BROUGHAM now rose to submit his promised motion, that the petitioners against the Catholic Association Bill be permitted to be heard by Counsel and witnesses at the bar of the House ; when, after a lengthened discussion, in which Sir F. Burdett, Mr. C. Wynn, Sir Joseph Yorke, Mr. Hobhouse, the Solicitor- General, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Peel, the Attorney General, Mr. Scarlett, and other Hon. Members had delivered their opinions, the House came to a division. For the motion ----- S9 Against it - 222— 133 A BILL TO AMEND CERTAIN ACTS RELATING TO UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES IN IRELAND. ( EXTRACTS FROM) Every society, Committee, or other body of persons now esta- blished, or to be hereafter established in Ireland, assuming or in any manner or by any means or contrivance exercising the power of acting for the purpose of procuring the redress of grievances in church or state, or the alteration of any matters by law established in church or state, the members or any num- ber of the members whereof shall continue or renew the meetings or proceedings of such society, committee, or other body of per- sons, whether under the same, or any different name or names, by adjournment or otherwise, for a longer time than days from its first meeting, or which shall appoint, authorize, or employ any committee or other select body, or any president, secretary, delegate, or other officer, to act for them or under their authority, unless such appointment, authority, or employ- ment be limited to a period not exceeding days from the first meeting of such society, committee, or other body of per- sons, or to report to them after the expiration of such period as aforesaid, or which shall appoint, authorize, or employ any se- lect body or bodies, or any treasurer, collector, or any person or persons to levy or receive, or which shall receive when levied, any money or contributions from his Majesty's subjects, or from any number or description of them, shall be deemed an Un- lawful Combination and Confederacy, and the Meetings thereof Unlawful Assemblies. Be it therefore enacted, that from and after every society, committee, or other body of persons which shall be composed of different divisions or branches, or of different parts acting in any manner separate or distinct from each other, or of which any part shall have any separate or distinct president, secretary, treasurer, delegate, or other officer elected or ap- pointed by or for such part, or to act as an officer for such part ; and every society, committee, or other body of persons which shall communicate or correspond, or whose constitution shall contain any provisions for correspondence or communication with any other society, committee, or other body of persons, and every society, committee, or other body of persons, from which persons of any form of religious faith allowed or tole- rated by law shall be excluded, and every society, committee or other body of persons, the members whereof are required to take any oath, or to make any declaration authorized or directed by an Act of Parliament, at any other place, or on any other occasion, or under any other circumstances than as specified ia such Act or Acts, and as required by law, shall be deemed an Unlawful Combination and Confederacy, and the Meetings there- of Unlawful Assemblies. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any Mayor, Sheriff, or Justice of the Peace, and they are hereby respectively authorized, empowered and required, within his and their respective jurisdictions, to command all meetings hereinbefore declared to be Unlawful Assemblies, immediately to disperse; and if any such meeting shall not thereupon immediately disperse, to apprehend all persons offend- ing in that behalf, and to demand admission into any house outhouse or office, where they shall respectively have good reason to believe that such Unlawful Assembly shall be, aud if refused, to enter by force. And be it further enacted, that every person who after shall become a member of any society, com- mittee or other body of persons, hereby declared to be an Un- lawful Combination and Confederacy, or shall act as a member thereof, and every person who after shall directly maintain correspondence or intercourse therewith, or with any committee or other select body, president, trea- surer, secretary, delegate, or other officer or member thereof, as such ; or who shall, by contribution collection or receipt of money or otherwise, aid, abet or support any such society, or or any committee or other select body, or any officer or mem- ber thereof as such, shall be deemed guilty of and every person convictcd of any such offence by due course of law, shall and may be punished by as the Court before whom such offender shall be tried shall think fit. Provided always, and be it enacted, that where any society, committee or other body of persons, not originally unlawful, shall afterwards become an Unlawful Combination and Confede- racy within the meaning of this Act, by reason of any matter or thing done contrary to the provisions of this Act, no member thereof shall be deemed guilty of such offence as aforesaid, or be subject to the penalties herein contained, unless he shall continue a member of such society, committee or other body of persons, after his knowledge of such matter or thing done, whereby such society, committee or other body of persons shall have so become an Unlawful Combination and Confederacy as aforesaid. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall knowingly permit any meeting of any society, committee or other body of pi rsons, hereby declared to be an Unlawful Combination and Confederacy to be held in his or her house or apartment, suoh person shall for the first offence forfeit the sum of and shall for any such offence committed after the date of his or her conviction, for such first offence, he deemed guilty of an Unlawful Combination and Confederacy, in breach of this Act. 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." fiovioeu always, aim oe n enacted, tnat nothing Herein con- tained shall extend to, or be construed to affect any society formed and aoting merely for the purpose of religious worship or for the due ordering thereof, according to any form allowed or tolerated by law : or to any society formed and acting merely for purposes of public or private charity, science, agriculture, manufactures or commerce. Provided also, and be it enacted, that nothing herein contain- ed shall be deemed or construed in any manner to prevent or impede the undoubted right of his Majesty's subjects to peti- tion his Majesty, or both Houses, or either House of Parlia- ment, for the redress of any public or private grievance, or to prevent the appointment of any committee far tha sole purpose of preparing or forwarding any such petition ; provided that such committee shall not exceed the number of per- sons, and shall not have power to appoint any other committee, and shall not have continuance by adjournment or otherwise, for any period exceeding days from the time of such appointment; and shall not collect or receive any money or contribution from any of his Majesty's subjects, other than such as may be necessary for the specific purposes of preparing and transmitting to the King, or either House of Parliament, such petition as aforesaid. LAw INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. REYNOLDS V. WELSH.— This was an action for a breach of contract. Mr. Tindall opened the pleadings, and Mr. Brougham stated the case.— Mr. Welsh, who had already published the portraits of several distinguished individuals very profitably, was desirous of publishing that of Mr. Kean, the actor. But he was not personally known to Mr. Kean, and Mr. Kean was also known to have very great reluctance to sitting for his por- trait ; to remove this difficulty he applied to Mr. Reynolds, the particular friend of Mr. Kean, offering him the engraving of the picture, for which he was to have 300 guineas, on condition of his procuring Mr. Kean to sit. By dint of sundry strata- gems, such as good dinners, good wines, & c. Mr. Kean's reluc- i tance was surmounted. When Mr. Welsh had obtained the picture, he turned round to Mr. Reynolds and said, " I have got the picture, and I will keep it; but will not have it engraved, nor allow you any thing for your trouble." Mr. Kean examined by Mr. BROUGHAM.— Was applied to in the year 1819 to sit for his portrait; had great objections to sitting; was induced, on this occasion, out of great regard to Mr. Reynolds, who had been an intimate friend for thirty years. Sat under the impression that this was to be advantageous to Mr. Reynolds. Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, argued, that the whole agreement between Mr. Welsh and Mr. Reynolds was entirely conditional— that it was merely this, that if Mr. Welsh should have the picture engraved at all, Mr. Reynolds should be the engraver. Mr. BROUGHAM replied at considerable length. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE here summed up, leaving it with the Jury that, if they thought the promise had been absolute and unconditional, then they would give the plaintiff such rea- sonable damages as he was entitled to— say 80 or 100 guineas. Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 150 gunieas. PREROGATIVE COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, WEDNESDAY. BROGDEN v. BROWN.— This was a suit to try the validity of the will of Mrs. Mary Jones, late of Clark's- place, Islington, deceased. The deceased was a widow with an only daughter, about 12 years of age. She and her daughter were taken ill to- gether, and the daughter died two days before her. The will was made on the day before the deceased died, and gave the in- terest of her property ( which amounted to about 1,000/. in the whole) to her father, Mr. John Brown, for life ; and at his death, bequeathed the principal equally between her surviving brother und sister, Mr. Edward Brown and Mrs. M'Gregor. The will was made by Mr. Brogden, the executor, but he took no benefi- cial interest under it. It appeared in evidence that Mr. John Brown, the father, had been for many years in a state of mental imbecility, and had been mainly supported by Mr. Brogden, who had also been a very great benefactor to the whole family. After the deceased's death, Mr. Edward Brown removed his father from the residence where he had been placed by Mr. Brogden to his own, and in- stigated him to institute the present suit, opposing the will on the alleged ground of the deceased's mental incapacity to make it, Mr. Edward Brown making himself responsible for the costs • of the proceeding. After heating the evidence and arguments of counsel at great length. Sir JOHN NICHOLL pronounced for the validity of the will, at the same time highly eulogizing the generous conduct of Mr. Brogden. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. STAGE COACH ACCIDENT. HARRIS v. EAMES AND OTHERS.— The declaration stated that this was an action to recover compensation for injuries sus tained by the plaintiff, who was an outside passenger on the Gloucester mail, on the 1st of October, 1824. The defendants caused the coach to be overloaded, by which it upset; that the plaintiff's leg was broken thereby. The defendants pleaded that they were not liable. Mr. Sergeant TADDy stated the case to the Jury. This was a case demanding their most serious attention. The plaintiff had sustained an injury from which he could never recover. He had been originally a woollen- cloth factor, but having heard of a situation in the country with 500/. a year, he prepared to take possession of it, and took his passage in the Gloucester mail for greater security and expedition. They started from the Angel- fnn, St. Clement's, and proceeded to Piccadilly, where a very considerable load was put on the top of the coach, in two largo deal boxes. The plaintiff was the only outside passenger. At Knightsbridge they took up a lady and her luggage, and pro- ceeded on their journey. At Slough they changed horses, and there the coachman asked the ostler for a leather blind, for the near leader, that horse being very shy and restive ; but the leather not being ready, the coachman said that he would get it next night. The coach proceeded on to Maidenhead, and over- took a waggon on the road. The near leader took fright at the waggon, and darted across the road up a bank: inconsequence of which the coach upset, the plaintiff was thrown on the road, and his leg was fractured. He was carried to Maidenhead, where he was confined eight weeks. He lost his employment in consequence of the injuries received ; and he now sought com- pensation as some alleviation for a calamity which could never be removed frem his person. The defendants had engaged to convey him safely and securely, and were bound to fulfil that contract. The horse which occasioned the injury was at one time a " wheeler," and had but lately been put as a " leader." Next night he was put as a wheeleragain, and was shortly after- wards sold, which was a decisive proof of his unfitness to be in a mail- coach. He felt himself under the disadvantage of be- ing compelled to take his principal witness from the enemy's quarters, but trusted that the coachman was honest enough to state the'truth. The defendants were clearly liable for the act oftlieir servant: they had agreed to convey the plaintiff safely and securely, and in failing to do so were liable for their negli- gence. James Silleter was coachman on the Gloucester mail on 1st October. Mr. Harris was an outside passenger; they look- up Miss Steele at Knightsbridge ; they changed horses at Slough ; did not recollect saying any thing to the ostler about leather for one of the leaders, nor heard the ostler say any thing. The near leader never had a shade on his eye. He drove him four or five times as a leader before ; he had been a wheeler before he was a leader, and was put back to be a wheeler after the accident. A week afterwards the horse fell lame, and was sent to London, but he did nitknow what became of him. The coach was eight or nine feet from the bank when the horse started. He ran across the foot- path, and the coach fell. Mr. Harris fell on the road and was injured. Cross- examined.— There was a waggon on the road, about thirty yards before them. It was tilted over. There was a cloth or flag before the waggon, which flapped and frightened the near leader. The coach had lamps. The horse was always quiet before. Witness drove the mail for four years, and no accident happened. The coach was not loaded at all. There were only two band- boxes belonging to the lady passenger. John Holdaway, ostler at Slough, put the horses to the Glou- cester mail. Did not recollect any conversation about a leather blind for the near leader. Mr. Bishop, surgeon, at Maidenhead, attended Mr. Harris in consequence of the accident. The plaintiff had a fracture on his leg, the litia was fractured half way, and considerable injury was done to the ankle. It was a simple fracture, as bad as could be of the kind. The plaintiff was confined eight weeks. He saw him this morning on crutches. His bill was ten guineas. Cross- examined.— The fracture was not as bad as if both bones had been brrken. The plaintiff might possibly never recover from its effects. Mr. Joseph Curtis, a surgeon, ' now attended the plaintiff. There was a longitudinal fissure extending to the ankle joint. He corroborated the evidence of Mr. Bishop as to the injury. Mr. Peace said that the plaintiff was capable of earning 5001. a- year, and was not able to fulfil his situation in consequence of the accident. The landlord at the Saracen's Head, at Maidenhead, said that the plaintiffs bill, while in his house amounted to 481. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN could not subscribe to the position of his Learned Friend that the plaintifl was to be carried safely- like a bale of goods : he took an objection to the counts in the declaration, contending that the plaintiff had not made out his statements. The defendants were not bound to convey the plaintiff " safely and securely." The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.— Not at all. But there is evidence to go to the J ury. Mr. Sergeant WILDE submitted that the plaintiff must be called, as there was no evidence of contract to be " safely and securely conveyed." The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that it must be understood to bear that construction, but the defendants were not bound, at all . events. They had not insured to do it. Carriers and innkeep- ers were, in a certain degree, insurers of goods, else they might otherwise collude with thieves. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN said, that much imagination had been pressed into the case, one tittle of which was unsupported by evidence. His learned friend had dwelt much on the horse hav- ing been a wheeler before he was a leader. Why, his learned friend had himself been a wheeler tiefore he was a leader. ( Loud laughter.) The defendant had been accused of negligence in not providing proper horses, but this he denied. The coach was on the right side of the road till he overtook the waggon, with a flapping cloth over it, and it was no wonder that the horses shied and took fright. There was no imputation of drunken- ness against the coachman ; lamps were provided, and every thing which the defendants were bound to do was done. It was therefore too much that they should be liable for an accident. As to the damages, he did not really know what to say- There was no proof of the situation of500Z., and, under all the circum- stances, though he regretted the plaintiff's misfortune, he trusted that the Jury would find a verdict for the defendants. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up. Causes of this kind were very difficult to try, because it was impossible to divest the mind of a feelingte relieve the plaintiff. The jury must for a moment forget the plaintiff's injuries. He considered that coach- proprietors were not insurers for the safety of persons go- ing by their coaches. A man insuring a house from fire was li- able for the insurance, no matter how the accident of fire hap- pened ; but not so with coach proprietors for the safety of their passengers. They undertake that the coach shall not be over- loaded, or have dangerous horses. They were not warranted in putting horses not previously tried into the coach, nor allowed to try experiments. The plaintiff had failed in his undertaking to prove that the coach was overloaded ; and in his assertion that the horse was shy, and had not been before used as a leader. I f the defendants were guilty of negligence, the plaintiff was enti- tled to a verdict; but if not guilty of negligence, and that the plaintiff received the iujuries from mere accident, the verdict must be for the defendants. The Jury consulted for about five minutes, and found a ver- dict FOR TNE DEFENDANTS. LONDONS SESSIONS— WED> NESDAY. The Grand and Petit Juries having been sworn. The RECORDER addressed the former at considerable length.' He was happy to congratulate the gentlemen of the Grand Jury- that the calendar of prisoners was much lighter than it had been at co. .- espondingsessions in preceding years, nor were any of the offences marked with any extraordinary degree of moral tur- pitude. There was, however, a case of manslaughter, which would claim their particular attention, and it was probable, that in the case to which he alluded, a bill for murder would also be preferred against the accused. It would therefore be their pro- vince to find either one or the other of the bills, or both, should • hey think proper, on the evidence which would be laid before them. The Recorder was extremely sorry to observe, that that part of the calendar which related to the county contained no less a number than five cases of manslaughter, which were al- leged to have been committed during the short interval since the Inst session. It appeared to him, as it had tofothers, that much of this evil was to be attributed to the encouragement held to those notorious violators of the law denominated pugilists,, whose profession it was to fight for money ; hence it was that the lower classes of the people were frequently led into disputes,, and frequently terminated them in the disgraceful manner to which he alluded. It was lamentable that men of rank were to be found who debased themselves so low as to sanction and promote such proceedings, which were shameful and flagrant misdemeanors against the public at large. He ( the Recorder) could not help regretting that persons of distinction should by their patronage sanction such violations of public peace and public decency, and thereby contribute to the deterioration of public morals. In. order, if possible, to stem this tide of ini- quity. fraught as it was with destruction to human life, the Court was determined, as far as its power and influence went, to yield its assistance ; and should any case of this descripti come before it, the parties convicted should be punished with the utmost rigour of the law. The learned Recorder also inti mated, that not only the principal in such contests, but those who had provoked, excited, or abetted them, should also be prosecuted, and that neither rank nor station should prove a shield against the powerful sword of the law. The Recorder attributed the diminution of offence in the city to the prompt- ness with which the daily prowler had been prosecuted and con- dignly punished ( alluding to the crime of stealing handker- chiefs, & c.); it was therefore by such a procedure that crimes of other descriptions might, if not abolished, at least be ren- dered much less frequent. Several cases of assault were disposed of, but all totally void of interest. OLD BAILEY, FRIDAY, FEB. 19. William Bennett, a bricklayer, was put to the bar, upon the coroner's inquisition, charged with feloniously killing John Humphreys Parry, Esq. It appeared by the evidence, that on the evening of the 5th of Feb. the deceased went into the Prince of Wales public- house, in North- street, Pentonville, and inquired of the land- lord, who was at the bar, after the health of his wife. He was much intoxicated. Having received an answer, and made an indifferent remark or two, he left the house, and was followed by the prisoner, who had been sitting in the tap- room, and who was seen by the witnesses to go up to Mr. Parry, and call out, " If you are a man, stand up and fight." He at the same time placed himself in a fighting attitude, and caught hold of Mr, Parry by the^ collar with one hand, and shook him. Mr. Parry said, " Don't strike me ; I cannot ( or will not) fight." The prisoner, however, struck him a severe blow on the face, and then, in the words of two of the witnesses,- " a tremendous blow" on the side, which brought him to the ground, his head striking against the edge of the foot- pavement. He lay quite motionless, and was taken up by some by- standers, and taken into the Prince of Wales, where it was discovered that he was dead.— Verdict, Manslaughter. JOSIAH TAYLOR.— We noticed the conviction of the above person for a series of gambling, in our last paper, and subjoiu the remarks which accompanied. the sentence :— Mr. Justice BAYLEY proceeded to pass sentence. His Lord- ship entered into a view of the defendant's conduct, as disclosed by the affidavits. He adverted to the two acquittals which had been obtained at the Middlesex Sessions, pending the indict- ments in this Court, and which acquittals had been pleaded here. The defendant had had the off^ r, on these occasions, of taking his trial before a Jury of the country, on condition of his paying the costs to which the prosecutor had been subjected, and mak- ing an affidavit that the acquittals had not been obtained by fraud and collusion. These terms he had thought proper to decline, and preferred submitting to the final judgment on demurrer. It was his own fault, therefore, that his case had not been sub- mitted to a Jury, and he had now no right to complain. He had altogether declined making any affidavit, and the Court, under such circumstances, was bound to conclude that the charge contained in the indictment could not be negatived or disproved. The offence for which the defendant was to receive sentence was one of great enormity, and the Court was bound to visit it with the utmost severity. Had not this offence been committed be- fore the passing of a late Act of Parliament, which empowered the Judges to impose the punishment of hard labour upon such offenders, the Court would n ave felt it to be its bounden duty to inflict that punishment on this defendant. Taking all the cir- cumstances of the case into consideration, the sentence of the Court was, that the defendant do pay a fine to the King of FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS, be imprisoned in Clerkenwell Gaol for one year, and at the end of that time, that he do give security for his good behaviour for fire years, himself in Ten Thousand Pounds, and four sureties in Two Thousand Pounds each. POLICE. BOW- STREET.— CURIOUS CASE OF SWINDLING. — Eliza Eady, alias Webster, was brought before Mr. Halls, on a charge of obtaining goods on false pretences, to the amount of 251. from Messrs. Mann and Co., linen- drapers, Parliament- street. A two- penny post letter was received, purporting to come from a Mrs. Johnson, a customer of theirs, who lives a few miles out of town, requiring them to send a large quantity of materials for mourning. These were sent to the place appointed in town, and as Mann and Co. thought, were duly forwarded. Some days after, another letter was sent, containing another order, and acknowledging the receipt of the former goods. It also directed the goods to be sent to the house of Mr. Pedley, in High Hol- born, a few doors from the George and Blue Boar Inn, where a person, named Johnson, would take them. Messrs. Mann and Co, now began to suspect that the orders thus sent, were not by the authority of their customer, and therefore one of the part- ners went to the house of Mr. Pedley to meet the person, who was to call for the goods. He had waited there some minutes, when the prisoner entered. She inquired for the goods, but was told that thfy would be sent to their destination at a proper time. She then went out of the shop. In consequence of in formation received, an officer, named Jones, went to her lodging, and inquired if she was within? A person named Withnell, with whom she is living, said, she was not at home. Jones told him he was an officer, and must search the house ; and behind the door in one of the attics, he discovered the prisoner. In different parts of the room he found clothes, and pieces of stuff, which the prosecutors recognized as their property, and on the floor were a number of duplicates of articles pawned, none of which had been sent in the first parcel. The prisoner was re- manded till Tuesday next, in order to obtain the attendance of Mrs. Johnson. SATURDAY— WILLIAM PROBERT— the man who was so deeply implicated withThurtell in the horrible affair nt Gill's- hill cottage, was brought to this office last night charged with horse- stealing. It appears that he has been down at Reardon, in Gloucestershire, lately. It is his native place, and his mother resides there; but ho was universally shunned by every body in the neighbourhood; and after remaining there some days, he took a horse out of a field, and rode away with it towards London. The horse belonged toj a milter1, of that nlace, named Andrew Meredith, whose wife is a distant refq. tion of Probert. A miller's horse i9 generally well known in its' neighbourhood, and it is said that Probert was seen ridiDg it away by several persons. It is also said, that after riding it about a mile, he dismounted and cropped its tail, leaving the hair he cut off on the road side; and he was afterwards seen with the same horse at Marl- borough, where he slept one night. Information of these circuit— stances having been forwarded to this office, Probert was appre- hended by Ellis, one of the principal officers, an he was walking along Windmill- street, yesterday afternoon, and in the evening he was broughtbefore Mr. MINSHULL.— He was well dressed in a light drah top coat and jockey boots. When the information had been read over to him, the Magistrate asked him if he wished to say any thing - to which he replied by the simple monosyllable No;" and he was then committed for examination on Wednesday next. 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." KInG'S THEATRE. Mr. EBERS respectfully acqriaints the Nobility and Gentry, subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, that owing to circum- stances which could not be foreseen and admitted of no imme- diate remedy, the OPENING of this THEATRE is unavoid- ably postponed/ till next week. Applications for Boxes to be made to Mr. Ebers, 27, Old Bosd- street, at whose Ofljce Mr. • Seguin will attend as usual. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE. TO- MORROW Evening His Majesty's Servants will perform the Tragedy of KING RICHARD III. Duke of Gloucester Mr. Kean.— On Tuesday, The Fall of Algiers.— On Wednesday, there will be no Porformance.— On Thursday, Freischutz.— And the New Pantonine. THEATRE RoYAL, COVENT- GARDEN. TO- MORROW Evening will be performed the Opera of DER FREISCHUTZ. ^ Tuesday, The Belle's Stratagem.— Wednesday, A Grand Se- aection of Antient and Modern Music.— Thursday, A Roland for n Oliver, with Charles the Second. NOTICES. Last week we gained half an hour in our arrangements.— The English Gentleman was dispatched to Ireland and Scotland at six o'clock, carrying with him the regular London Gazette— and not " a hap- hazard statement." Any contributions to The Ladies Corner, from Female's pen, n'ill be duly honoured by The English Gentleman. John Fleece came too late— he shall find himself comfortably warm in our next. The " Memoirs of Harriette Wilson," are owned fas to the irritingjby a man, who thinks no body can thunder bHt himself — The puppy may give his head and cars to be able to put to- gether two lines in similar style. He was always themost bare- faced plagiarist and literary impostor on the town. tVc have been inexpressibly scolded for the " Melody," ( iSO. 3j, at the head of " The Ladies' Corner" of last week— and have promised to dance a hornpipe in petticoats, by way of penance. Sir William Rumbold's Letter to the Court qf Directors of the Honourable East India Company has attracted our serious notice ; and we shall analyze it. Thcstory about Elizabeth Taylor, which is recommended for its singularity, to the attention of us Gentlemen of the Press. is. in our opinion, a very doubtful case. 11d* This Paper, and the Supplement which contains the whole of the Four Days' Debate on the Catholic Association, is charged, to our readers. Eight- pence. ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. LONDON, FEBRUARY 20, 1825. THE KING.— His Majesty held a Court on Wednesday, at his palace in Pall Mall, which was diplomatically attended. His Majesty gave audiences to his Excellency the Prince de POLIGNAC, Ambassador from his Most Christian Majesty, when M. DES CHESNES was introduced for the purpose of deliver- ing to his Majesty the Insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, whicli had been conferred upon his late Majesty LOUIS XVIII. His Majesty also gave audience to the Count de LUDOLF, the Sicilian Minister, and to the Cheva- lier de Los Rios, the Spanish Minister, to receive their cre- dential*; and likewise to the Count de MOLTKE, the Danish Minister. The Hon. FREDERICK CATHCART was presented to the KING, upon his being appointed his Majesty's Minister Plenipoten- tiary to the Germanic Confederation. His Majesty also held a Privy Council, when some altera- tions were made in the pricked list of Sheriffs for the present year. Mr. BULLER attended as Clerk of the Council. The Recorder of London was admitted into the presence of the King in Council, when he made his Report of the con- victs capitally convicted at the last January Sessions at the Old Bailey. " These courtly proceedings lasted from two o'clock until nearly seven; so that we need not vouch for His Majesty's recovery from his late slight indisposition. In fact, the straw is now completely mac- adamized. FOREIGN AFFAIRS.— Paris.— The French Chamber of Deputies is still occupied with the detail of the act of indem- nity to the emigrants. The selfishness of the French charac- ter is very evident in the discussion of this important mea- sure. " Gagne qui peut," is the order of the day. The law lor the increased punishment of sacrilege still lingers on, and the French wits have given the crime the name of " Deicide.''' In commenting on the late vigorous measures of our Cabi net, there appears a restlessness of feeling in most of the French Journals. Monsieur OUVRARD, the contractor for the French Army in its invasion of Spain, has been submitted to interrogatories, and many officers on the French Staff are implicated with him in the charge of peculation. Marshal BELLUNO, who was dismissed by the present Dauphin, as in- capable, appears now to be wholly exculpated. HOLLAND.— The King of the Netherlands has contributed out of his privy purse, ( by no means an unfathomable one,) 100, U00 florins, equal to ,£ 8,0U0 : his Ministers have pro- posed to the States- General a vpte of Credit of eight millions of florins; both grants are to repair the losses occasioned by the late inundations. MADRID.— The King of Spain is confined by an attack of the gout in his stomach. At a late Council his Majesty com- plained bitterly ( as it is said) of the want of cordial and ho- nest co- operation on the part of his Ministers, and even went so far as to express fears for his own safety and that of his family. The Court of Spain, appears still credulous respect- ing the affairs of the South American Colonies, and clings to the hope of their recovery. Certainly, the contest- in Peru is as yet far from being at an end. A letter, dated Barcelona, Feb. 3, states—" That General MINA, Don A. ROTEN, Ex- Governor of that city; Don JOA- CHIM BUSQUET, Auditor of War; Don FERNANDO BUTRON, Political Chief; Don PEDRO SANZ CASTELLANOS, Auditor; Don FRANCISCO MILANS, General of Division ; and Don AN- TONIO GILL, Lieutenant- Colonel of the regiment of Saragossa, are formally ordered to surrender themselves as prisoners, to be tried FOR THE HORRIBLE ASSASSINATION of the Bishop of Vich, Don FRANCISCO RAYMONDO, STRANCHY VIDAL, and of the Lay Brother MICHAEL QUELAS, who accompanied him. SWEEDEN.— By a letter, dated the 5th of February, it ap- pears that Sweden has determined to follow the policy of England towards . South America, and has entrusted M. de HANSWOLF with a negotiation of the treaties. GERMANY.— Frankfort Papers to the 8th inst. bring an ac- count of Lord ERSKINE" presenting his credentials to the Court of Stutgard, A Supplement to the Allgemeine Zeitung, of the 7th, has an article, which gives a very desponding pic- ture of the decline of German trade. TURKEY IN EUROPE.— Letters have been received from Con- stantinople, dated Jan. 10. They state that very active pre- parations arc going on for the ensuing campaign ; but, at the same, time, admit the Turkish trade is considerably annoyed by Greek , cruizers in the Dardanelles. Several vessels of war were putting oiit'for the purpose of attacking the intruders^ GREECE.—' The Austrian Observer of the 6th inst. contains the following singular account of ODYSSEUS, the Greek Chief, or rather, a Captain of banditti,:— " Numberless arc the conjectures respecting the enigmatical conduct, and the real intentions qf this Commander. He now re- sides, again forsaken by all his companions in arms, in a carern in the eastern declinty of Parnassus. Thq place is absolutely inaccessible to an enemy ; it can only be approached by six ^> ng mountain ridges, rising almost perpendicularly one ^ bove the other. The cavern is of very great extent, so that it could con- tain some thousand men. It has excellent water, which is pre- served in cisterns, which the new Hermit had made in 1823. He has also built a house detatched from the walls of the cavern, se- veral magazines, containing provisions, ammunition, and even a Kiosk, and he possesses two field pieces. Since the summer of 1824-, he has had with him his wife, his mother, arid the children of the latter by a second marriage. One of these children had the misfortune, while play ing on a terrace, to fall down the pre- cipice, where it was dashed to pieces. He has besides these, no companion except the well- known Englishman ( Irishman), TRELAWXT, one of the most intimate friends of the late Lord BY « ON, who was very active in Greece for some months, after- wards quarrelled with MAVROCORDATO, and is now an idle and discontented spectator." AMERICAN STATES.— New York papers of the 25th ult. state, that the impression appears to gain ground, that Ge- neral SHACKSON ( as Mathews calls him), will be elected The New Jonathan." SOUTH AMERICA.— IF CANTERAC has been defeated once, he has been / tors de combat at least a dozen times ; and BO- LIVAR the Liberator has been at Lima, or within half a mile or so of the city as often. Of the uncertainty which attaches to this popular contest we subjoin a specimen. FROM THE PHILADELPHIA AURORA AND FRANKLIN GA- ZETTE, JAN. 22.— We are inclined to believe that the semi- offi- cial intelligence furnished by General Cortes, of the continued victory of Bolivar in Peru, up to the latest dates from that coun- try, is more to be relied on than the adverse speculations of the Editor of the XewYork Commercial Advertiser on thejsubject. Anxious as we are for the success of the South American pa- triots, for political and commercial reasons we should be qn- willing to publish fallacious news, even in their favour. But accounts, support* d " by the authority of official names andletters. are surely more autheHtic than anonymous or fabricated com- unications from no one knows whom. Now it may happen, that parties in official situations might have a great interest in concealing the truth— and whilst on this subject, we protest against such paltry petty language the following passage from The Courier of Friday. Such language is childish— it is not British. And it is fortunate, that Diplbmatists are fully aware of the foibles of the Press ; elsje, if war depended on the abuse or insult of Editors, we should be at loggerheads by the return of The Post from Paris. " We have received New York Papers to the 26th ult. They contain some intelligence from South America, of a favqurable character. The war in Peru may certainly be considered as at an end ; and thus has been wrested from the Mother Country her last feeble hold upon her Trans- Atlantic possessions. But Heaven only knows how soon FERDINAND may get them all back again, when he raises a few millions of money, equips a few thousands of soldiers, and buys or builds a few ships to send them out in. H'hen these thing? come to pass, the free States of Colombia, Mexico, Buenos Ayres Chili, and Peru, may fall to pieces, and again take their rank as Spanish Colonies. We are content to wait patiently for the performance of this miracle." We ardently however hope, that the South American States may effect their liberation by a compromise or concession on both sides! CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.— Whether Mr. PLUNKETT and Mr. O'CONNELL are playing into each others hands, and the one be the spy of the other, we cannot precisely ascertain ; but we have a right to suppose such a case ; although at the meeting of " the Catholic Association" in Dublin, on Wed- nesday the 9th inst, Mr. O. declared, that it wa* his duty as an honest man, to state, that the Marquis of wellesley and Mr. Plunkett were the greatest enemies the Catholics ever had. On the following day, an address to " The people of Eng- land" was proposed and referred to a Committee, but on referring it to a Committee, the subjoined statement is re- ported in The Freeman's Journal of Friday, Feb. 11. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. Mr. O'CONNELL read the draft of the Address to the people of England. Mr. o'GORMAN said, that there was one expression in the address of Mr. O'Connell to the people of England to which he • would object. It was that part where mention was made of " FOREIGN FLEETS." Mr. HUGH O'CONNOR said that there were- many passages in the address, which he deemed objectionable, but he reserved them for the Committee." AGGREGATE MEETING. Lord KILLEEN said, that he objected to the word " FOREIGN AID; but he would not remark further on this passage, as the document was to be referred to a Committee. Before he sat down, however, he must express a hope, that the Aggregate Meeting, as advertised, would be held on Tuesday next. Many persons who were not Members of the Association would then have an opportunity of expressing their opinions, and it would' be an injustice to the people of Ireland not to afford them an opportunity of expressing their opinions — ( eheers). It was understood that the Meeting was to be held as adver- tised. On another occasion the following [ was th a finale of the ; y's sport:— Mr. O^ CONNELL suggested that a deputation should go to tndon, consisting of the Peers, Baronets, Merchants, & c. i to advise upon the best course of proceeding under existing circumstances. The hour being half- past seven, and a great deal of business still remaining to be done, an adjournment was put from the chair for the following day) at three o'clock, and passed. TheRent for this week amounts to 9461. 6s. THE SPEAKER HAVING LEFT THE CHAIR, THE HOUSE DIS- SOLVED. We have a right to assume, that the above extracts made from papers in the interest of the Roman Catholic Associa- tion, are correct statements of its proceedings, inasmuch as they have NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED. NOW, what have we, contained in them ?— First, in an address to the people of England, we find ah allusion to POREICH FLBRTS. We ask " to whatpurpose?" We have again another aH, uskm to POREJCN AID; " For what purpose?'' It may be said, that objections w^ re startpd'to such expressions, and that they may not be ultimately adopted. , BUT, they ( the Catholics of Ireland) HAVE DARED TO DISCUSS THE POLICY OF INTRODUCING " FOREIGN FLEETS," and " FOREIGN AID," INTO A PART or THE BRITISH EMPIRE. On the same occasion Mr. O'REILLY, on his motion re- specting written communications made to the Association, was opposed by Mr. O'CONNELL. To this opposition Mr. O'REILLY replied, " that no Member of the'Association de- precated more sincerely than he did, the entertaining any secret correspondence ; and Mr. O'CONNELL might recollect that he ( Mr. O'REILLY) objected most strenuously to receiv- ing tKe communications WHICH WERE PROPOSED BY THE FRENCH CORRESPONDENT." To whatfthen, can the Catholic Association be likened but to a band of conspirators, and of traitors? They discuss the question of foreign aid, of foreign navies; they imppse taxes to aid their introduction ; they not only meet as a House ; but they have their secret Committee; they invite petitions, and present petitions; they fund their surplus balance ; and on the conclusion of the debate, the SPEAKER leaves the Chair, and they adjourn. Which is then the Parliament of Catholic Ireland ? The one meeting in the chapel of St. Stephens, or this self- elected— Je/^ constituted — self- taxing— and self- foreign- aid- negotiat- ing Catholic Association ? If we have not advanced false passages from the Catholic papers, can there be a doubt of the treasonable character of the Catholic Association ? Can we hesitate for one moment as to the lengths the Catholic Association would go ? Its members rate themselves as influencing ftye million? of men, and yet debate seriously as to the calling in foreign aid, and foreign navies ? There is gross inconsistency in all this. There is an opening for hope. Such language" as we have reported, coming from any Association, stamps that Association with the character of treason ; but we trust that the people are innocent of the offence. Can there, for one moment, be a doubt whether this Association should or should not exist ? Should or should not draw the uncon- scious and credulous multitude into the fangs of a foreign power— into treason— into rebellion ? For, in what else can it end ? The whole course of four days debate, does not afford one advocate for the Catholic Association, Mr. BROUGHAM excepted, and he is forced to confess, that to press Emancipation, is to strive against the popular current; but with a dexterity for which this Ex- Attorney- General i? famous ; he tui^ ns round, and implies—" Though the current is against us, it is the duty of Ministers to stem its course, and bring it into the same happy puddle, as attended the Queen of unsunned snow." ^ THE POPE in this year of his jubilee, had made up fifteen hundred beds, whereon to rest the bones of as many pilgrims to his toe. But they came not. His Bulls could not assemble so many as one- fifth. The Catholics, therefore, are either be- come too pure to require absolution, or are beginning to look irreverently on his Holiness. Yet notwithstanding this apparant apathy in one country, a meeting took place at Newcastle- on- Tyne, on Thursday, the 13th day of January last. At that Meeting, certain resolutions passed, and they pleased themselves with the idea of a cordial union subsisting among their body, which promised to lead to UNQUALIFIED EMANCIPATION. At the same meeting they pro. claimed themselves as attached to the cause of RELIGIOUS FREE- DOM. Now, let us mark ! As to this " religious freedom," what says DR. TROY, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, ( and the doctrine of his Church being universal, is as applicable to British as Irish Catholics). DR. TROY, in his annotations on the New Testament, says— " The Church Service of England being in heresy and schism is, therefore, not only unprofitable, but \ damnable.— Annotation on Acts, x. 0. " The Prayer of the Protestant cannot be heard in Heaven." • Annotation on John, xv. 7. " Their Prayers and Services are no better than the howling of wolves."— Annotation on Mark, iii. 12 " The Translation of the English Bible ought to be abhorred to the depths of Hell."— Annotation on Heb. v. 7. " A Christian ( that is a Catholic) is bound to burn and dc- fuce all heretical books ; for example the English Bible .'" Here then, in these facts drawn from the papers of the day, from occurrences passing daily under our eyes; we have a Catho- lic Association debating as to the propriety of introducing a Fo- reign Power into the United Empire ; and if that is not enon^ h, we have the same Religionists professing their attachment'to " religious freedom;" yet, when we turn to the language of their High Priest, we find that the prayer of the Protestants cannot be heard in Heaven ; that it is comparable only to the howling of the wolf; and that the English Bible ought to be burnt and destroyed. Still, in the midst of all, there is hope. The beds prepared by the POPE for the bones of the tired and worne- out Saints, are deserted ; there are lots of room— lots of beds unoccupied ; and, jn our opinion ( an opinion which reflection convinces us more and more to be correct.) The Catholic Religion is ON THE DECLINE.— Let Ireland be but industrious— Let the Protestant be conciliating— let the Bible be circulated, in spite of Popes and Cardinals and Bulls— and the worship of idols will be suc- ceeded by a religions emancipation— a political one will then be rendered unnecessary. THE CAThoLIC ASSOCIATION. A NEW SONG. Tune—" BOW wow.' wow!" Oh ! what a fuss and hubbub now electrifies the nation, ' Tis all about the Irish Cath'lic Ass- ociation. It puzzles all grave looking Wigs, who shako their heads and frown, sir, That meetings which illegal prov'd should be so soon put down, sir. Bow ! wow! wow MFal! lal! di iddi oddy,| Bow ! wow! wow !| < 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." " ' Tis freedom of discussion,"( which Fox, that cunning Char- ley, meant,) ( O'Connell cries), for all our ills " we exercise in Parliament; And since our claims ye will not grant, and our petitions flout yo. A Houte of Commons of our own we'll have, and do without ye." Bow ! wow! wow ! & c. We'll spout about the Church and State, and all our numerous grievances. And use the same formalities they practice at St, Stephen*'* ; And better still, to aid our plans, and give our feelings vent, Sir, A tax we'll levy on the poor, and christen it a rent. Sir. Bow ! wow ! wow ! & c. The great arch- agitator O !— so full of froth and flummery Who, while he lauds his monarch, rails, with mountebankish mummery. Is followed by the fiery Shiel— of orators most glowing. Who writes bad tragedies, and speaks, with passion over flowing. Bt^ w ! wow ! wow ! & c. Now all went on quite to the wish, of agitating elres, sir, Whose only aim at last it is, to aggrandize themselves, sir. To tranquilize their country— every week they made a rout, sir, Till every thinking quiet man, saw what they were about, sir. B ow ! wow ! wow ! 4c. John Bull ( who takes things easy) says, I plainly now can read ' em, Although they bawl for liberty, they take a deal of freedom, If we allow them to go on, to bully and brow beat, sir, I think we very soon may whistle for the Church and Stale, sir. Bow ! wow ! wow ! & c. Then Goulburn soon brought in his Bill, to stop their wild proceeding, Which after four nights' long debate, was past thro' its first reading. In ain the Wios all wriggled, denying there was fear nigh. But all the House ( as usual) did, was still to laugh at Ticrncy! Bow! wow! wow! & c. Sir Jemmy Mackintosh ( once judge) of meanings new, inventor, Cried, " hate in bosoms Catholic, for love, ( jpor bull), is meant, sir;— Then a- propos is Mal- a- prop, ( quoth Canning,) for her daughter Was told to hate her sweetheart till— torch'd Hymen love had taught her. Bow ! wow ! wow ! & c. And next, the car- bound Lushington, of Horns and Commons Doctor, Brought Harrielte Wilson to the scratch, and that without her proctor; And vow'd the Parson's London Club had patroniz'd her story, And voted in its ninutes, that— Plain Bible! it will bore ye. Bow ! wow ! wow I & c. Westminster's Pride, and sweeping Broom, tried all they could in vain, sir, By long- winded harangues, the wholesome measure to restrain, sir. Canning prov'd to every mind, with clearest definition, There was no other way to cool, this hot- bed of sedition. Bow ! wow ! wow ! drc. AUGMENTATION OF THE ARMY.— It is now generally un- derstood, that THE ARMY is about to be augmented. The troops lately embarked to India leave a chasm in the Home servicc, which must necessarily be filled up ; and it is also expectcd, that the Militias both of England and Ireland will be called out for training this year. It by no means follows, that because existing jealousies of our greatnesg require vigi- lance, that the country is about to engage in any actual hosti- lity. The appearance of preparation is, under existing rela- tion^, possibly thp very test means of averting the evil; and though the Morning Chronicle's French correspondent has played a hoax upon it, and made it believe from the highest and most respectable source, that Russia and France are pre- paring spits and carving knives, and cooks and sauces, to makefricandises of the Portuguese and Spaniards, leaving us to clean the dishes and scald out the pots ; the interests of the European world point to the prolongation of peace. However great our preponderating commercial influence appears, still its snccess is not exclusively shared by us. The gradually increasing intercourse which the late commercial regulations have created, let foreigners, to a very consitjer- ble degree, into the profits of our enterprize. The excess of the foreign imports into this country, of 1824, beyond the preceding year, was upwards of two millions, and throughout all " our intercourse with every portion of the worhl, an increase took place with every nation, Spain alone excepted ; and in that solitary instance, the deficiency did not amount to nineteen thopsand pounds : " a pin to a mil- lion-" And as a proof that England is the consumer, and that foreigners deposit their property with us, and of course have an interest in our prosperity ; greatly as the imports increased, the exports considerably decreased, except to South America and tne French West Indies. If, therefore, the advantages of commercial pursuits are becoming more mutual ( and na- tions do not go to war to destroy commerce'), then what other causes can give rise to war ? Our politicians have written the Russian Autocrat into a Bulliboh! and a certain class of writers, possessing the highest and most respectable sourccs o/ information, fancy, that England is to be scared by a pair of mustacheos. At this time, when every nation knows how to value its own rights, and estimate its own weight in the goneral scale of civili- zation : when the weaker States are attached by habit and allian- ces to the interests of the larger, from whom they receive pro- tection ; and the larger cannot increase themselves without disturbing the proportions of a general policy; and awakening the jealousy ami suspicion of their rivals :— under such re- straints, it is not probable that any war for the mere purpose of conquest can take place in Europe. The events of late years have proved that European conquests cannot be permanent; and the havoc which the attempt caused, will operate for years, per- haps for ages to come, to prevent and check any similar designs. — Russia, which has. within a century, been created from a dukedom to the rank of an empire, is the enly power of whom any suspicions are entertained of attempts at aggrandizement.— Russia has certainly of late made great strides : but Russia has still greater to make ere she can have obtained even n- ithin her own limits, a regularity of civilization — Russia is yet but a despotic government; her law flows from the lip of the Emperor: and upon the character of the reigning Prince, the direction of the power, the amelioration ofthe people, and the objects of her policy entirely depend:— a change of character in the Sovereign diverts or changes the whole existing system. Russia, great as she ia, can only come in contact with Eng- land through intermediate States : and then would only operate upon her very distant settlements. The influence of Russia can create no detriment to England; because the former has a very different scene of action to the latter. The one may regulate the policy of the Continent; mark and preserve, or re- model the boundary of States; aid in, or prevent its future wars: this she may do by the physical effect of her population: but the pro- per influence of England does not arise from brute strength ; but in superior acquirements, superior activity, and the previous possession of certain stations, which by their comAand of points of navigation, may be termed the Keys of Commerce. Russia and England may both remain great States, move in different orbit*, and yet not become to one another objects of mu- tual jealousy or suspicion. If it be said that England has lost her political influence upon the Continent, and that France has thrown hers into the scale of Russia; the first mis- direction of that influence would be a signal to draw closer the ties between France and England, and leadto asoutherncounteractionagainst the Russian boundary. The influence of Russia is to be appre- ciated by the purpose to which It is directed: if found to be sel- fish and dictatorial, it would be opposed by a combination equal to its restraint ; for, lengthened and extensive as is the vast bonndry of Russia, y » t her position is not more one of an- noyance, than of facility of attack. But if Russia aims to pre- serve the balance of the Continent, then will her power be appli- ed to a beneficial purpose. No entirely political influence can affectEngland if not directed against her commerce, because the whole Continent in arms against Tier could find no point of at- tack, unless possessed of a naval superiority ( which is the creature not of a day but of an age:) whilst there is no port on the shores of the Continent on which England could not make an impression or blockade. Of what use. then, is mere political influence, when by its exercise no object is to be gained, or by Its absence, no loss to be sustained ? England, by her situation, is naturally much more independent ofthe Continent of Europe, than such Continentcan afford to de- tach itself from an alliance with England ; upon which hangs much of the financial prosperity ofthe various European powers. The extent of debt into which most governments are plunged, requires an active interchange of mutual productions for the purposes of revenue ; and commercial tariffs, on grounds of re- ciprocity, are becoming more and more requisite, and are good substitutes for merely political alliances. For whilst the one creates vested interests, the other perpetuates jealousies. It is possible, that the weight of mutual debt, and the necessity of maintaining mutual credit, will tend more to the duration of peace than any real absence ofthe provocatives to war. When, therefore, the influence of Russia, which is in the na- ture of physical strength, and which ! has suddenly increased in importance, by a futile attempt to ( conquer her ; is opposed to that of England, which is of a more moral character, and is con- solidated with the conflicting interests of all ; it is as the opposi- tion of a sun beam to the sun itself. Could England have been laid waste, and for a time have been subjugated ( as was the Con- tinent) it would have been effected long ere this, if envy could have directed the blow :— when, therefore, the power of Russia is talked of and spoken of, as capable of conquest, and is direct- ed in such a sense towards this country ; the answer is ready— England can sail to, and demolish St. Petersburgh, but can Russia pay such a visit to London?— If not, how is the brute power of Russia to harm us ? and if it cannot harm us ; then as applicable to England, it is MERE VERBIAGE. We believe that the augmentation of the army is to this ef- fect— To assist our Indian Empire— To protect Ireland from disturbances arising from foreign intrigues during the pro- gress of the present policy— and also to prove, that if any attempt is made against us on the South American ques- tion, we could instantly despatch a force to the West Indies in support of our policy. These objects tend to preserve peace, and do not occasion alarm or distrust. TURNPIKE TRUSTS.— Lord LONVTHER has moyed for and obtained, a Select Committee, to inquire into the management of the Turnpike Trusts round the metropolis. It is to ex- tend to a distance^ f ten miles. If it be intended to place Mr- M'ADAM into the office of Surveyor General of these roads, the Committee should examine the Trustees of the Bristol district, from whom much ^ nforpnation may possibly be qlicited. There is, however, no doubt, but that his JUora- ship contemplates a highly - beneficial result from the nature of the inquiries. It cannot fail to produce public and impor- tant advantages. USURY LAWS.— Serjeant ONSLOW'S annual move for the re- peal of the Usury Laws, gets on sloto indeed. For this Ses- sion it is distanced, although it is a measure which the Ho- nourable, the Chairman of the Board of Controul, asserted to be in unison with the views of the Ministers, who howpver, shyed the thing most completely. The learned and indefa- tigable Serjeant appears to nave adopted one broad principle, namely, " That a man has a right to do as he pleases with his own." Now, self- interest is so powerful a principle, that this rule will always lead a man, wholly unrestrained, to do the best he possibly can with his own ; to get as much as he can for his own; and in fact, it will enable the capitalist to live inactively upon the industry of the country. It has, upon former occasions, been our argument,, ( as it was on Thursday night that of the SOLICITOR GENERAL), that the repeal of the Usury Laws will destroy partnerships and create annuities. The very act of borrowing implies a want of money. The law, to a certain extent, ranges itself on the side of the needy, or industrious, or ingenious man, who requires capital to produce the efforts of his talent. The law may certainly be evaded, and no doubt is daily and hourly on the Exchange of London : but the evasion is an act attended with risk— and in most cases of this kind, the transaction is of an immediate character— the profit is to be made, or the advantage to be secured at the moment— there is no time to beat^ about tne bush, and therefore the illegal premium is offered at oncc o ^ ave time, and to gain ( what appears to be) a certain and imme- diate benefit. In transactions of this momentary nature, the principle of the Sergeant's bill may be applicable. But when extended in its operation to that employment of capital which cannot be hastily withdrawn from the pursuits of agriculture, com- merce, or manufactures, then the case bears a great analogy, to that of the existing duties on port wine— these cannot he taken off unguardedly— and for why ? Because tlie Oporto Company would rise the price equal to the amount of the re- duced duty ; and thus paralyze the benefits to the consumer. And thus would the lenders oblige the operative classes to raise the price of their commodities, in order to meet the charge of capital borrowed at a high interest; and then, as to cases of retarded success, in the interval between preparation and acquirement, would not a heavy interest eat into the capi- tal advanced ? Interest on money lent by inactive capitalists cannot be too low. On the" other" hand, it may be said, that if people are willing to give, others have a right to demand. But the commercial world know well in practice, that when people are xciUing to give it is a sign ef a certain positive advantage to be calculated upon, or of a ccrtain embarrassment from which the last desperate effort i « « — the offer of an exorbitant bonus. That the rate of interest is variable, aud must fall and rise, is evident. The question is, whether the maximum is placed at too \ o\ y a scale; and allows a sufficiency of comm< Tcial vibration— perhaps it may not— five pex cent, can hardly note be obtained, and in war time it was evidently too little. That some freer scope for the loan of money may be poli- tic, we should be disposed to admit— but not an unlimited swing. The protection ought to be in favour of the employer, and not of the mere possessor of money. Now we beg leave to submit, that a barometer of interest might be constructed from the operation of the fumta. Sup- pose, for instance, that an annual rate of interest, calculated on the Three per Cents., or possibly on the ( lata of all public securities averaged, was proclaimed ip the Gazette on a per- tain day— that a difference Of rate should be added, say one- tenth, to be receivable on private loans— that the rate of the funds, with one- tenth thus added, should fye the public rate of interest for the current year, as between individuals. By this means, possibly, a scale of interest corresponding with the value of the circulating medium, might be obtained— the bor- rower would pay interest, more or less, as the scale varied ; and the lender would have the marketable annual value for his money, plus one- tenth beyond that of the funds— and this tenth, <? r perhaps a. different propqrtion, would be fair, be- cause we all know the superior facility and punctuality with which the Government dividends are paid. And as we merely throw out this hint, not meaning to rest upon its complete accuracy, wc should submit— that the differ- ence between public and private interest should be precisely that, which would balance the advantages of receipt which one possesses beyond the other. We presume one example, sup- posed to be contained in the Gazette:— " Notice is hereby given, that the average annual rate of interest on £ 100, calculated for the last year, was £ 3 10s.; the general rate therefore for the currentyear will be £ 3 17s. — and all lender* of money will be entitled to receive and demand such rate of interest, notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary." MAIL AND STAGE COACHES.— In this great commercial coun- try, where an incessant intercourse is taking place, nothing can be of more importance than the careful delivery of goods, and the safe conveyance of oUr persons. We had occasion some little time since, to notice a trial in which a verdict, for the. loss of a parcel, was given in favour of the defendants, EAMES arid others, upon the principle, that " due notice of non- liability above five pounds, unless the carriage of, the parcel was paid for and its value stated, had beengiven to the plaintiffs," In pur law reportstands a verdict again in favour of the defendants, EAMES and others, in - an action of da- mages for injury occasioned by the overturn of the Glou- cester mail. A comparison of the evidence given, with the opening speech, fully justifies this verdict, and therefore we need not direct the attention of our readers to that precise point; for nothing can be more evident, than that those who under- take to convey the public are answerable for negligence, for the sobriety and skill of, their drivers, the fitness of their horses, and the safe construction of their carriages ; beyond these points, no human care can go. In the present case, the proof was wholly in favour of the mail- contractors. But, there is another point to be attended to^ namely,— that ac- tions of a frivolous- nature, in cases Of this kind, whilst they defe^ tthemselves, inflict an injury upon travellers, by making tlierii more timid in their journies to and fro, than there is occasion for. We are not prepared to say, how many hundreds of thou- sands transport themselves in coaches, through the year ; yet in . these hundreds of thousands, how seldom there arises* an accident of any material consequence! Suppose, as a prac- tical result, " an insurance office established against risk of life or limb by coaches," we should imagine, t\ iat one penny per head to and from London, would be an enormous pre- mium. It is a right and proper feeling, that persons tra- velling should know that they were so travelling in as much security as the nature of the fiorse and carriage can admit of. What would not be the danger and mischief, if an erroneous opinion prevailed of tlie general care and attention of the coach proprietors ? Trade would be neutralized. In truth, IT is WELL KNOWN, that travelling in this country is arrived at its neplus ultra. In this case it is sworn, that the plaintiff was not disabled from following his business. HARRIETTE WILSON is a puzzler. Her memoirs are in every body's hands, and the fame, or rather the infamy of the book, has found its way into Parliament, having been in- troduced ( in the very worst possible taste) by Dr. LUSHING- TON, Counsel to " unsunned snow." The concealment of HARRIETTE WILSON'S Memoirs is therefore impracticable. The doubt in our minds was, whe- ther we. should alloVv it to pass unnoticed, or whether the public did not expect something to be said by us as a matter of record or opinion ? Wc decide to notice the brochure under a protest—" The publication of such a work is a disgrace to the vilest book- seller of Grub- street notoriety. We regret that any one could be found to give jt air— not that the thin^ contains any- very disgusting narratives; on the contrary, its gout sur- rounds " the Cyprian" with a brilliant allurement; but the publication of names in full length, and of some, long since mouldering in the dust, tends to inflict irremediable wounds, not on the parties themselves, but on their friends and fami- lies. If the system could be confined to the select' and vi- cious circle of the loungers, then it would pass as an en ba- dinage, and as nothing unknown ; but when it may reach the eye or the ear of the affectionate wife and rising. family, of the brother, of the sons and daughters ; we pronounce the prin- ciple of the publication to be THE VERY ACME OF MORAL PROSTITUTION, we denounce the publisher, J. J. STOCKDALE, as ITS PANDER; and wc trust that he will not be allowed to 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." commit this serious offence against public morals, without a legal and a severe chastisement. Where is such a disorga- nizing principle to stop ? The Cyprian quotes as her motto, " ' Tis from high life high characters are drawn;" and therefore, if to blunt the edge of more ardent curiosity, we make an extract, it is in the hope that this expose of high life will serve as a cor- rection and warning to some of its black diamonds. We hear that poverty and neglect, and a spirit of revenge, have prompted the publication. A good moral may then be drawn from this fact. Vice is not a flourishing trade among us ; and vet ( with shame be it spoken), such is the ardent thirst of the age after singularities, that the memoirs are ex- pected to produce to Harriette JVilson and her pander many thousands. If we say TEN, we are within the sum named. We presume that ice must quote, and having therefore pre- viously thundered; we introduce parties, who, already become public, cannot be exposed; and the thing is altogether in excellent keeping. " I have called upon you, Miss Harriette, said Sir William, almost in tears, in the first place, because you are considered exactly like my wife,— my likeness to Lady Abdy, had often been thought very striking,— and, in the second, because I know you are a woman of feeling ! ! I opened my eyas in astonishment. Women, he continued, have feeling, and that's more than men have. I could not conceiTe what he would be at. You know, Miss Harriette, all about what has happened, and my crim. con. business, don't you, miss ? Yes. Could you have thought it ? Oh yes ! And yet, I am sure, Charles Bentick is worse than lam. In what way, pray ? Why, a worse head, said Sir William, touching his forehead, and I don't pretend to be clever myself. Is that all ? But I would not be so very demonstrative as to touch my forehead, if I were you. That Charles Bentick, said he, half angry, is the greatest fool in the world ; and in Paris we always used to laugh at him. But, said I, why did you suffer his lordship, to be eternally at your house? Why, dear me! answered Abdy, peevishly, I told him in a let- ter, I did not like it, and I thought it wrong, and he told me it was no such thing. And therefore, I remarked, you suffered him to continue his visits, as usual ? Why, good gracious, what could I do ? as Charles Bentickjtold me, upon his honour, he- meant nothing wrong. This man is really too good ! thought I, and then I affected the deepest commiseration of his mishap. Why did she run away from you ? said I. Why not, at least, have carried on the thing quietly ? / That's what I say, said Abdy. Because, I continued, had she remained with you, Sir, you, • would have always looked forward with hope, to that period • when age and ugliness, should destroy all her power of making conquests. Oh, said Abdy, clasping his hands, if any real friend, like you had heartened me up in this way, at thetime, I could have induced her to have returned to me! But then. Miss Wilson, they all said I should be laughed at, and frightened me to death. It was very silly to be sure of me, to mind them ; for it is much better to be laughed at, than to be so dull and miserable, as I am now. Shall 1 make you a cup of tea, Sir William ? Oh ! miss, you are so good ! tea is very refreshing, when one is in trouble. I hastened to my bell, to conceal the strong inclination I felt, to laugh in his face, and ordered tea. Green tea is best, is it not, Miss? said Sir William. Oh, yes, answered 1, as green as a willow leaf; and, in ex- treme cases, like your's, I am apt to recommend a little gunpow- der. Just as you please. Miss. I asked him, after he had swallowed three cups of tea, whether he did not feel himself a little revived ? Yes, Miss, I should soon get better here ; but you know my house is such a very dull house, and in such a very dull street too ! Hill- street is, I think, the dullest street in all London, do you know. Miss Wilson. True, Sir William ! would not you like to go to Margate. Why I was thinking of travelling, for you know, in Hill- street, there is her sofa, just as she left. Very nervous indeed, said I, interrupting him. I would burn the sofa, at all events. And then there is her piano- forte. Lady Abdy was musical then ? Oh, very. She was always at it! I used to be tired to death of her music, and often wished she would leave off: but now she excursion. Be assured that you will find fifty pretty girls, who will be so delighted with you, as soon to make you fcrget Lady Abdy. But then, said Sir William, I cannot think how she came to be iH the family- way : for I am sure. Miss Wilson, that, during all the years we have lived together,— Never mind, interrupted I, go home now, and prepare for your journey, and be sure to write to me, and tell me if your mind is easier. Thank you, Miss Wilson ! you are all goodness. I'll be sure to write, and I mean to set off to- morrow morning, and I'll never come back to that nasty, dull, large house of mine again. Get the sofa removed, said I, at all events. Yes, Miss, I will, thank you : and the piano- forte. So good bye. Miss ; and then returning, quite in a whisper, perhaps Miss Wilson, when you and I become better acquainted, you 11 give me a kiss! I only laughed, and bade him take care of himself, ( and so wo parted. All this nonsense was, however, very poor amusement to me now that I had lost Lord P y. I considered that, although I was, by my hard fate, denied the pleasure of consoling his af- fliction- I might yet go into the country, and lead the same re- tired sort of life which he did ; and there endeavour, by study, to make myself rather more worthy of him. Iam a very igno- rant little fool, thought I, but it does not, therefore follow, that I should remain a fool all my life, like Sir William Abdy. My plan was settled and arranged in less than an hour, and my small trunk packed, my carriage filled with books, and I, and my femmede chambre, on our road to Salt Hill. [ The studying scene in our next, and toe have done with Harriette:.] dRURY- LanE. s gone, Miss Wilson, 1 would give the world, to hear her play Foote's minuet! Or, off she goes, added I. What is that, pray, Miss? A very lively dance, I answered. True, Miss, I recollect my wife used to play it. , Dear me, Sir William, how could she be so foolish, as to run away ? I dare say you never interfered with her, or entered her room without knocking. Never, upon ray honour. Well, I always heard you were a very kind, obliging, good- natured husband, Yes, and sometimes, when I used to knock latterly, Lady Abdy would not open the door ! That was wrong, said I, shaking my head, very wrong. And how could that nasty, stupid fellow seduce " her, I cannot think! There was good blood in her veins, you know, by the mother's side. Besides, to tell you tlio truth, I dont think Charles Bentick did seduce Lady Abdy from you. Oh ! dear, Miss Wilson, what do you mean ? Shall I speak frankly ? Oh, Lord a mercy ! pray do ! I am quite in a fright! I think Fred. L— b was one of her seducers; but how many more may have had a finger in the pye, I really cannot take upon myself to say. Oh, Lord! oh, Lord ! Miss Wilson! said Sir William, grasp- ing my arm, with both his hands, you do not say so? What makes you think so? I have seen Fred. L— b daily, and constantly riding past her door. I know him to be a, young man of strong passions, much fonder of enjoyment than pursuit ; and further, my sister Fanny, one of the most charitable of all human beings, told me she had seen Fred. L— b, in a private box at^ Drury Lane, with your wife, and her hand was clasped in his, which he held on his knee 1 Oh, la, Miss !! Come, do not take on so, said I, in imitation ofBrummell's nonsense, and striving to conceal a laugh, leave your dull house in Hill- street, and set off to- morrow morning, on some pleasant A new after- piece, or as it is called, in the bills, " a legendary tale," under the title of The Shepherd of Derwent Vale ; or, the Innocent Culprit, was produced at this theatre, on Saturday, the 12th inst. to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the diminish- ing attractions of the pantomime. We presume that the anxiety of the directors of this establishment to forestall the rival thea- tre in the production of a new after- piece, must account for the evidently hurried manner in which the story has been put toge- ther. The outline of the plot has nothing novel in it, being merely the old story of a man endeavouring to procure the assassination of his brother, who was destined to be his father's heir, and in the belief of his plans having succeeded, taking Sossession of the property, on his father's death, the rightful eir being, of course, brought up in ignorance of his birth, but ultimately succeeding to his inheritance. The manner, how- ever, in which this outline is filled| up, has enough of the marvel- ously improbable to gratify the most inveterate lover of novelty. The piece opens on the day previous to the intended marriage of Sir Wilfred Wayward ( Archer), the usurping fraticide, with the Lady Matilda ( Miss Isabella Paton), daughter to Sir Wil- fred's feudal Lord, Earl Derwent ( Powell). Shoch, the right- ful heir, ( Sherwin), who is supposed to be a destitute orphan, and had been employed as a shepherd on Sir Wilfred's estate, has, on the same day, been dismissed his service, and is disco- vered in the first scene of ihe piece, in a state of the most pitiable distress, in which situation he is found by an old sol- dier ( Younge), who it appears has just witnessed the dying moments of baldwin, the emissary employed by Sir Wilfred to murder his brother, from whom he has ascertained that Shoch is the rightful heir. The soldier wishing to see how Sir Wil- fred would receive the intelligencejof his brother being alive, merely gives Shoch some remote hints of a probable change of fortune, and after appointing a meeting with him for the same night, in a neighbouring forest, quits him to seek an interview with Sir Wilfred, in which the Knight, after vainly endeavour- ing to wrest from him, by menaces and persuasion, the proofs of his guilt, resolves to murder him as the only living evidence of his crime, which he accordingly does, assisted by Walter, his confidant, ( Browne) near the very spot, and at the time which the soldier had appointed for his meeting with Shoch. Sir Wilfred's family and domestics, alarmed by his protracted absence in the storm, come in search of him, and at the same moment that he is found, Shoch is seen playing his pipe on an eminence, near the spot. The next morning the body of the soldier is found, and Sir Wilfred finding that suspicion pointed at him as the murderer, projects the very probable scheme of getting Shoch ( of whose relationship to him, he is still ignorant) to allow himself to be taken and convicted as the murderer, to which proposal Shoch very kindly consents, only stipulatingthat he shall not be called upon to confess the crime; but merely to remain silent when charged, and that Sir Wilfred shall secure his escape, and provide for himself and family. Accordingly the bloody knapsack of the soldier is deposited, by Sir Wilfred, in Shoch's cottage, and by the direction of Lord Derwent, a trial takes place on the spot at which the body was found ; and Shoch is on the point of being condemned to death, when by the intervention of an Irish jailor ( Fitzwilliam), a kind of confidant of the old soldier ; the docu- ments proving Shoch to be Sir Wilfred's brother, are disco- vered in a hollow tree near the spot. Upon which Sir Wilfred, struck with remorse, jumps off a rock into the river. Lady Matilda faints, and the orphan shepherd, we presume, succeeds to the title and estates. It will easily be seen that a much more interesting piece might have been constructed from these materials; the great fault is the . want of individuality in the characters ; Lady Matilda, the Baron, Walter, the Soldier, and Sir Wilfred himself, are only shadows, and faint shadows too, of the same line of characters in every melo- drama for the last fifty years. Shock has rather more originality, but even his character is a mere sketch. The scene in which Si Wilfred prevails on him to consent to be supposed theslayer of the Old Soldier, and the subsequent scene in which he is lost in jovous contemplation of his approaching reward, while his wife is in an agony of despair at hearing her husband accused of murder, furnished opportunities for effective acting, of which Sherwin fully availed himself. Throughout the part, indeed, this actor exerted himself to the utmost, and gave strong indi- cations that he is capable of something better. Mr. Archer did all that could be done for Sir Wilfred, and Miss Isabella Paton, in a part wholly unworthy of her powers, delivered the few sentences allotted to her with a propriety which secured her a full meed of applause; indeed we are sorry to see this young lady, whose powers as a comic actress were so highly appreciated by the public lust season, kept by the managers entirely in the back ground, or confined to characters which, however well she may play thera, are not of n nature to place her in that rank in the profession she ought to occupy. Of Messrs. Browne and Gattie and Mrs. II. Hughes, we will in charity be silent. The raelo- dramatic music by Mr. Horn, affords a striking proof of how much real talent may be displayed in compositions of this nature. It is very provoking, after all this trouble, and paying seven shillings for our admission ( the great lessee being so poor that he cannot afford to admit us new scribblers), that we have now to state, in theatrical language, that the Shepherd and his Flock are drowned in the flood of Derwent, and the public has an nounced them defunct. MASSANIELLO ( written expressly FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEROES), is also, as Matthews would say, pretty considerably damned. We shall keep our money in our pockets, till something comes out worth seven shillings for a peep. COVENT- GARDEN.— The Oratorios commenced at this The- ate « n Friday night with Maccabaeus, in two long acts ; and, as usual, a miscellaneous one in conclusion. The music of this Oratorio ( with some beautiful exceptions) is of too heavy and ' sombre a cast, and not so well calculated to please, as some of the compositions we have been in the habit of hearing on simi- lar occasions. Braham was in fine voice, and gave '.' he recit. " My Arms!" & c., and air " Sound an Alarm," in a style of magnificence only his own. His " Luther's Hymn" was a performance no description can do justice to ; the effect was sublime. Great praise is also due to the chorus iu that air, though they rendered some pieces sadly ineffective in the course of the evening, by being so imperfect. Sapio gave Orinthia in his best style, and a duet with Braham, which was repeated; but not till after they had entered and retired a second time. What Pearman had to do he did well. Bedford's powers are not equal to the music he undertook, and Bellamy, like the owl in Der Freizchutz would, we could say, his singing was more harmonious. Miss Paton's voice and execution are well calcu- lated for sacred singing ; and we never heard her to greater ad- vantage. Her song of" From mighty King," was an exquisite performance, as were " Come ever smiling Liberty," and " So shall the Lute and Harp." " Lo here the gentle Lark," which she gave in the third act, has been too often heard to need com- ment ; suffice it to say, compassion alone prevented the audience from having it repeated. Miss Graddon has yet much to learn ; we thought she did not appear quite at home. She has a sweet voice, and when matured in science, will be a delicious singer. Miss Love's deep tones were occasionally heard to advantage, but her style is not appropriate to sacred music, The perfor- mance was too long, not terminating till half- past twelve. The house was not full, even after half price, but these was observ- able some fashionable company. THE ARMY. Tuesday at half- past four o'clock the Duke of York, as Com- mander- in- Chief, held a Levee at his Office in the Horse Guards which occupied the attention of his Royal Highness till about six o'clock, there being between forty and fifty present. . Among those present were— Generals Sir B. Tarleton, Cockell, and Gascoigne; Lieutenant- Generals Cockell, Goldie, Sir J. Hamil- ton, Hodgson, and the Knight of Kerry. One of the few immediate descendants of the house of Stuart is shortly to enter the Army ; and, it is stated, that the Duke of York has promised to presentthe Commission without purchase. FORT ST. GEORGE, AUG. 26, 1824.— The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to direct that the establishment of the Na- tive Infantry Regiments at this Presidency, employed on foreign ^ service, shall be increased to 900 privates, with an additional havildar and naigue per company : and that any corps hereafter warned for foreign service, shall, from that date, be upon the increased establishment. . The Commander- in- Chief will be pleased to issue the necessary subsidiary orders for carrying this increase into effect, either by drafting volunteers from the Regiments of the line, or by re- cruiting. The manner in which the Army is to be increased has before been noticed ; 8,000 men to be raised by adding two companies to each Regiment. This is, exclusive of officers, and of men to be raised for the East Indies, namely, 5,000— which will be an increase of upwards of 13,000 men. The subject will be brought forward on Monday by Lord Palraerston. The reduction of the three Veteran Battalions and the two Ve- teran Companies are confidently spokea of, on account of their expense, & c. The 1st and 2d Veteran Battalion are in Irelaud, and the 3d is in Jersey: the 1st Veteran Company is at Chat- ham, and the 2d Company is in the Isle of Man. The Commissions in the New Regiments will be partly raised - from the Half Pay List, and by Promotions from the existing Companies. The Hon. the Governor in Council is further pleased to direce that the establishments of the remaining Regiments of Nativ Infantry be for the present fixed at S00 privates. NAVY ESTIMATES.— NAVY OFFICE, DEC. 31, 1824.— The fol- lowing is an estimate of the charge of wages, victuals, wear and tear, and ordnance, for twenty- nine thousand men, including nine thousand Royal Marines, to serve in his Majesty's Fleet, for thirteen lunar months, commencing the First day of January, 1825:— For the wages of twenty- nine thousand men, at two pounds nine shillings a man, a monthd£ 923,650 0 0 For the victuals of the said men, at one pound twelve shillings a man, a month 603,200 For the wear and tear, being the charge for the stores and materials for the use of the ships in sea service, at seventeen shillings a man, a month 320,450 For the ordnance for the sea service, at five shillings a man, a month 04-, 250 0 0 0 0 0 0 .£ 1,941,550 0 0 EAST inDiA HOUSE. THE HYDRABAD PAPERS. A General Court of East India Proprietors was on Friday held at the Company's house in Leadenhall- st., for the purpose of resuming the debate on the llydrabad papers, which had been adjourned on the preceding Friday. Mr. PATTISON proposed that the letter of the Court of Directors written on the 15th July, 1821, and directed to the Marquis of Hast- ings, should be read, as it was a document calculated to throw light upon the subject under consideration. After some desultory discussion as to the regularity of the Hon. Director's proposal, it was yielded to, and the letter read. It was in'reply to one from Lord Hastings, dated Naples, and in substance stated that the Court had abstained from contradicting the rumours affecting his lordship's charatcer, mentioned in the newspapers, be- cause they could not reply to anonymous statements without com- promising their own respect; and it denied that the Court were bound to prefer a criminal charge in every instance in which thejr were led to express partial dissatisfaction at the conduct of any of the Company's functionaries. The requisition, the original motion, and the amendment having been read, Mr. CARRUTHERS said, he had hoped that the last discussion upon this subject would have led to a compromise between both parties. He was sorry that hope had not been realized, for the result must be attended with painful feelings to them all. The Hon. Proprietor went briefly through the case, and concluded by asking, Were the Court justified in supporting those dispatches of the Board of Direct- ors which had been sanctioned by that eminent statesman, Mr 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." ._„ je listens caijaly tout story of your ailments : U vowr eve aad skin be yellow, he shrewdly remarks that yoa have the jaaadire; he feels yonr palse— writes two or three unintel- ligible lines of Latia. for which yoa psy him agaiaea ; be keeps s chariot, sad one msn- servant; the « tandiag- board behind, ia- tendrd for a footman, is fearfully beset with spike*, to prevent little boys from riding at the doctor's expense ; be ingenioasly lets himself in and out of his vehicle, by means of a strap at- tached to the steps, so contrived, that when in, he can dexter onsly caose the steps to follow : his servant is a coachman abroad, and a footman, valet, sad bstler at home. What is an author? He is a man who weaves words into sentences! he disseetsthe works of his predecessors asd contemporaries, and ingeniously dove- tail* the pieces together again, so that their 1 real owner's can scarcely recognize them ; he is furnished with a pair of scissors, and a pot of paste; he frequents the Chapter Coffee- house by day. aod the cider- cellar by night ; he ruralizes at Hampstead ' or Ilolloway. and perhaps once a year steams it to Margate ; he talks largely, and forms the nucleus of a knot of acquaintances, who look up to him as an oracle : he is alwajs going to set about some work of great importance ; he writes a page, becomes out of humour with the subject, aod be- gins another, which shares the same fate ; hit coat is something the worse for wear; his wife is the only person in the world who is blind to his traoscendent abilities ; and he has too much to do in cultivating hit own genius, to descend to the minutiar of his children's education. What is an editor ? An editor is — I but no one is bound to answer a question to the prejudice of himself - q PIC NIC; <> H, PRINTERS PIE. The King of Naples has removed all the restrictions imposed bj the late King upon the importation of English merchandize. ——- Madame de Genlis is to receive 40.000 francs for the copy- right of her Memoirs— the largest sum she ever received for any of her works. He that builds castles in the air. will soon have no land. The proprietor of the Western Billingsgate, has undertaken to edit a new edition of " Grose's Vulgar Tongue," for the use of the polite frequenters of that double re- fined establishment. It is much better never to catch a rogue than to let him goagain. The gigantic project of a ship canal from Arundel to London, capable of floating a man of war, is said to be seriously entertained. - Two persons were last week fined Is. each, at Worcester, for not attending Church the pre- vioas Sunday. There are IITC requisites for a professed drunkard :— A facc of brass— nerves of steel— lungs of leather — heart of stone— and an incombustible liver. Storey, the person convicted of forgery at Dcmerara, has received his sen- tence, which was 500 lashes under the gallows, with the rope round his neck, and seven years'imprisonmcnt with hard labour. Those who'are affected with pulmonary complaints should never sit opposite the fire.- It is in contemplation to apply to Parliament for powers to dispose of Waterloo Bridge by lot- tery. 112,840 persons were admitted last year into the British Museum. A mail coach in Scotland, was lately overturned by an amateur driver, whom tho Post Office has called upon to make good the damage. The Subscriptions for the relief of the Widows and relatives of the unfortunate individuals who fell a sacrifice to the explosion at Middleton Colliery, amounts to 1,031/. 1.5s. Hd. The number of pipes of wine exported from Oporto Inst year was 80,748, of which 10,968 were sent to Eng- land. The charge of collecting the House and Window Duties, is said to amount to one- eighth of the produce. It is calculated that upon Railways enjoying the advantageof consid- erable traffic, merchandize will be conveyed at the rate of aboot two- pence per ton per mile, and cach passttiger at a cost oflittle more than a halfpenny per mile. In ancient Greece, every metropolis possessed Its citadel and its plain ; the former as a place of refuge during war, the latter ns a source of agriculture in peace. Died, on the 6th inst. Ann, the wife of Samuel Andrews, of Langport, aged 84; and on the following day, suddenly, the husband, aged 84. They bail lived happily toge- ther for 63 years. A person of tho name of Trash offers mu- sic at half- price. Trash is rather an ominous name to be coupled with half- price music. - The bow of a violin draw n gently over tne edge of a large drinking glass, produces a delightf il liquid note; but drawn, rapidly, it creates a vibra- tion which usually breaks the glnss. The rail- roads now projected, if carried into effect, would consnme iron to the value of 28 millions sterling I The 111 miles of road planned be- tween Birmingham and Liverpool, will require 60,000 tons of iron for the rails alone, at the cost of 840,000 pounds. It is proposed to open a street from the Mansion- House to South- wark Bridge, and let the houses in chambers. During the re- cent strong wind, a bullfinch's nest, with eggs, was blown out of an apple- tree in Mr. Mason's orchard, at Farnham, near Knaresborough. At Commertrees, near Annan, Eliza Shear- er died at the age of 102 years. She was a servant, and had lived in the same family three generations. There are now living atNursted, near Petersfleld. a mother and three daughters, whoso united ages amount to 330 years, the mother 105, eldest daughter 85, second daughter 78, and the youngest, a frisky girl of only 62 years of age. The venerable matron is in the full possession of all her faculties. The advanced price of iron is said to be very severely felt at Birmingham, where several fo- reign orders have been contracted for at a rate which the aboTe circumstance will make it ruinous, if not impossible to execute. The great match between Captain ManSell's Diamond and Sherwood Merlin's Clinker, was won by the former, on Satur- day. over Plumstcad Course of two miles. Clinker fell when win- ning at two hundred yards from home. Rainham the jockey had his leg broken. The horse got up unhurt. Among the places J likely to be benefitted by the flourishing state of the silk trade is Salisbury, where an establishment is likely to be formed calcu- lated to give employment to many indigent persons. ARCTIC LAnD EXPEDITION.— Captain Franklin, accompa- nied by Lieutenant Back and Mr. Kendall, ' iave left town for Liverpool, where they will embark, with Dr. Richardson and the other individuals composing the expedition, in the Colom- bia packet for New York, from whence they proceed to Upper Canada, and then to Port Chepewyan, on their way to the Polar Sea, by the Mackenzie Ri\ cr. On reaching its northern extre- mity. Captain Franklin and Lieutenant Back, with part of the expedition, procecd to the westward, in the hope of reaching Bebring's Straits ; while Dr. Richardson and Mr. Kendall, with the other party, proceed to the eastward, tracing the coast of America, if possible, to the Copper Mine River. Not long before the departure of Captain Franklin from town, he received a message from Akaitcho, the Indian Chief who accom- panied him on his former journey, that he and his tribe were perfectly satisfied with the stores and additional presents which had been sent to them, and that they would be willing to accom- pany him on another expedition. On Tuesday a fine child, four years of age, on a visit at the hoase of a relation at Tonbridge, w as put to bed and a lighted candle left in tbe room. By some means the curtains caught fire, and the poor little innocent lost Its life. The bed was de- stroyed, but the accident was discovered in time to prevent the dames from extending beyond the room. COL.\ T « > PkKST. BERKS.— ReaDIn.— As James Kinner. age*'. 16. brother of Messrs. Kinner. waggon- masters, was driving a doable shafted brr « d wheel waggon into the Island, the newr- side horse slipped op in turning the corner of the Reading Sauce warehouse and the point of the shaft caaght the unfortunate youth, and jammed him between it and the wall; on being released, he staggered a few pace*, and fell lifeless. ESSEX.— Early on Thursday morning, abav mare was stolen from the farm- yard at Vange. belonging to Mr. Reeve. The mare was forced over the fence into the road. She was traced as far as Dunton. and Mr. R. is in full pursuit. It is singular, that the first morning Mr. Reeve commenced business, he was informed a valuable horse was stolen out of his field. He left h.> me in parsuit, and returned with his horse at the end of six days, having also apprehended the thief, who was taken with several connected with him, before the late Sir 11. B. Dndley. having travelled a distance of sixty miles. The man was con- victed, before Baron Hotham, who not only allowed Mr. Reeve his expeaces. bit also gave him a certificate, by which he is exempted from serving ail parochial offices. SALOP.— Shrewsbury monthly fair was wsB supplied with every commodity, and there was no lack of buyers. The de- clension observed at our late fair wes not visible there. Fat sheep obtained 6Jd. to 7d. per lb. Fat beasts averaged 6d. per lb. and stores sold well. Fat pigs 6d. per lb. and there were abundant purchasers for stores. Of salt butter there was a good market: lumps lOd. to lO^ d. ditto in tubs, lojd. to I Of d. per lb. : a few lots are said to have reached lid. The quantity of cheese was not great: prime dairies 60s. to 66s. per cwt. ; middling qualities 52s. to 58s. ; skim 42s. to 46s. Bacon 7d. to 8d. per lb. STAFFORDSHIRE.— Atthe old fair of Lichfield. which com- menced on Tuesday, there were but few horses ; good ones sold at an advanced price.— Yesterday the beast fair was but thinly attended: fat, barren, and milch cows went off readily, at bet- ter prices than of late. Sheep were fewer in number, and much in demand, at advanced prices. Best cheese fetched 01s.; mid- dling 5Ss.; inferior 55s.; Bacon 8d. to 9d. per lb. SUSSEX.— BRIGHTON.— Earl Abergavenny his given 500/. and Lord Gage 200/. to a new County Hospital, to be erected at Kemp Town. When Mr. Hayne was staying at this place a few weeks since, he purchased of a man named Haines, who keeps a. shop on the Chain Pier, a small boat called " The Lovely Nan." After tho purchase Mr. hayne requested that the name of the boat might e erased, and that " Maria Darlington" might be painted " on the stern, assigning as a reason that it was the character in which he first saw Miss Foote, This occurred subsequently to the trial. PIgEON SHOOTING.— A match of pigeon shooting took place on the Race Hill, at this place, 011 Monday last, when the dou- ble barrelled gun of Mr Plumpton, of North- street, burst, and hi. s hand and arm were dreadfUlly shattered by the explosion. No less than throe of the Brighton Shooting Club have, within these last few weeks been injured by the bursting of their guns. SCOTLAD.— On Saturday much alarm was occasioned by an extraordinary rise of the tide in the Frith of Forth ; but no se- rious drmage was sustained. At Newhaven, Fisherrow, and other parts'of the coast, were inundated; boats were floated on the beach, and barrels, & c., washed away. The Edinburgh Oil Gas Light Company have begun to sup- ply the public with their gas. Three illicit distilleries, in lull operation, have been disco- vered in Eaglesham and London Muirs. Tbo loss to the reve- nue, while they remained undiscovered, is calculated at 30/. per day. The ship carpenters at Dundee have struck work for an ad- vance of wages. The New Pier at Banff is considerably injured; and a great part of the Pier at Macduff thrown down in consequence of the late heavy gales. The harbours of Portsoy and Gardenstown are also much damaged. The Pier at Cullen, lately rebuilt at a very great expence, is. we are sorry to add, a heap of ruins. HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PORTUGAL'S STATE COACH AND HARNESS. This superb equipage, which has been on shew for the last six weeks, has been inspected by Royalty and most of the no- bility and gentry at present in town, and has been pronounced to be the most splendid piece of coachmaking over sent from this country. The following is a brief description. The body in shape, but much larger, resembles our present fashion ; it is painted rich crimson, with the Royal arms, crown, Ac. superbly em- blasoned on a mantle, on the front, back, and door pannels ; the four corner pannels represent the anns, Ac. surmounted by a Royal crown, supported by Military and Naval trophies ; under the whole is a garland of flowers finely executed round the plate glasses ; on a ground of ivory is a rich painted bordering of flowers and figures. The doors are supported by gilt can - ing of the palm tree, surmounted by the dove with the olive branch ; on the roof we observed the Royal crown, richly chased and gilded on the cushion, both which rest on carved brackets from each extremity. The lining is composed of cost- ly crimson silk and figured gold lace. The Order of CHRIST, being the principal Portuguese Order, is richly embroidered in gold and silver, in the centre of the roof. The hammercloth is beautiful beyond description, being of the most costly ma- terials, consisting of crimson silk velvet, gold lace and em- broidery. At each corner of the body is a handsome lamp highly gilt. The carriage and wheel part appeared to us to be almost one solid mass of carving and gilding. The coach- box is supported by four dragons, and the footman's board appears to be guarded by the like fierce animals. The harness, which is for eight horses, is very grand— it is literally covered with the anns. crown, 4c. of Portugal, in king's metal. The whole is a credit to this country, particularly to the builders, Bush- nell. Honeywill and Wool, of Berners- street ; and those who have missed seeing it, have lost a sight of English manufacture not often witnessed. We understand it was embarked for Portugal on Tuesday. THE NeWS or LITerATUre AND fASHIOn.— No. 37 of this Weekly Journal ( which is ju « t published by E. D. PouChee, No 7, BryDGeS STreeT, COVenT GarDen, and sold by all Book* ell- ers and Newsmen) contains, among many other interesting articles : — I. Public Character of Sir James Mackintosh ; 2. Joint Stock Companies; 3. Philosophy of Crim Con.: 4. Tbe Reading Room at the British Museum; 5. Professed People, No. I, Authors ; 6. Conversations of Joseph Brasbridge ( continued); 7. New Theory of . the Fine Arts ; H. The Elgin Marbles. No. 5; Tbe Tor » o, with a Sketch; 9. Paintings in hand; 10. Metropolitan University, a Letter to T, Campbell, Eaq.: 11. The Life of a Tar, No. 4 ; 12. Periodical*. Tbe London Magazine, No. 2 ; 13. A Promenade; II. An " At Home, The Conversazione ;" 15. Agronomical Phe- nomena for the ensuing Week; 16. Poetry; 17. Review* of New Book*: Ar. Ac.— U** rtvrsn EdITIOn. of " The News of Literature and Fashion," for town circulation and transmiaaion to the country in parcels, price bd. STAmpED EdITIOn, for transmission by port, price Is. 78 ENGLISH GENTLEMAN." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The money markets yesterday were steady. Consols for money, and the account were done at the same Prices ; which indicates that there was no opinion as to a rise or fall. The foreign market which appears now to occupy the principal at- tention of Speculators, had a good deal of business done in it. The new Greek Scrip dropped on Friday ; but towards the close of the market yesterday it recovered in a degree, got up to J 1. Old Greek was 57^, Brazilian Scrip of 1825, was at 4- f, Mexican Scrip 3£, and Spanish Bonds 24- J, & a good deal sought after. Indeed, there has been a report very prevalent on the Stock Exchange for these several days past, that a Loan for Spain is now in negociation in London. There are a contrariety of opinions as to, the truth of this report; but still we believe, from the information we have gained on the subject, some treaty is in agitation. The serious illness of the King of Spain has strengthens the expecta- tion of such a firrumstan. ee; and should his Majesty's attack prove fatal, the probability of a new Loan would then be materially aug- mented, as, in all probability, his successor, not quite so blinded by prejudice as the unfortunate Ferdinand, would seek menns of rais- ing money on the M y terms he can do it, viz.— by recognising the Loan of the Cortes— to relieve, in some measure the pecuniary em- barrassments of his country. The Mines were all improving. PARIS, FEB. 17.—" Some of the Papers dwell much on the notion that Portngal is about to recognize the emancipation of Brazil. But how can this meafiure, approved of by the legitimate authority, tend to the injury of France ? How will our interests be compromised by this determination of King JOHN VI. 7 The advantages which would result from it for one country camnot operate injuriously to another. What is the interest ofan in- fant State ? To obtain admission into the great family of States. The interest of Brazil, therefore, ifrecognized by Por- tugal, would be to conciliate France as much as any other power. We have received a file of the Madras Government Gazette to the 1st of October. The following are extracts CALCUTTA, SEPT. 11.—" We have heard that an action has taken place, in which the opposition on the part of the enemy had been of a more decided character than heretofore, and that in consequence we had experienced a proportionate increase of loss in wounded. " The Prince of Sarrawaddy had not arrived, but was daily expected. His force had, by report, dwindled down to 8,000 men. SEPT. 1- 1.—" We stated yesterday that the foroe with the Prince of Sarrawaddy had, by report, dwindled down to 8,000 men. This latter, however, we imagine to be a mistake, occa- sioned by the simple omission of 0, and that it ought to be 80,000— a surmise in which we are confirmed by a sight of let- ters since the above remark was made, which letters state the force expected to amount to 70,000, of which as good an account is hoped to be given as of the 7,000. With respect to the'report, to which we lately alladed, of the projected attack having actual ly been made and having failed, the arrival of the Ernaad does not at all invalidate it; sincethe report might easily have come ria Arracan, since the sailing of the Ernaad-\ i- A private letter from Lisbon, alluding to the recent Ministeria changes in that country, observes, " although the new Ministers arc not exactly those desired by the nation in general, yet, a pretty general joy may be observed, as any change roust be for the better. A. worse Administration than the old one could not have been form- ed, and the injur* they have done the country, will ever be a stain on their character. The following are the Commons' Committee, appointed on Thurs- day night, to enquire into the state of Ireland, more particularly with reference to the circumstances which have led to disturbances in that part of the United Kingdom; and to report their observa- tions ( nothing said abont reporting the evidence) to the house;" Mr. Goulburn Mr. H. Maxwell Mr. Bankes Lord Althorp Mr. L. Maberly Mr. Lamb Mr. V. Fitzgerald Mr. Brownlow Lord Palmerston " " r Mr. Forde King Bishop of Bath and Wells Lord Viscouut Garlies Lord Viscount Clive Lord Viscount Stopford The Very Rev. the Dean of Can- terbury Lieut.- General Sir T. Hislop, Bart., G. C. B. Sir H. Holford, Bart., F. R. S. E. B. Wilbraham, Esq. M. P. Thomas Wilson, Esq. M. P. Honorary Director or Visitor— The Venerable tho Archdeacon of London. DIReCTOri. Henry Earle, Esq. F. R. S. Mr. W. Wynn Lord Ennismore Mr. S. Rice Mr. PIunkett Sir H. Parnell Mr. L. Foster Mr. W. Becher Mr. Doherty Sir E. Knatchbull Mr. Peel Mr. C. Grant Sir J. Newport Mr. S. Bourne Mr. Abercromby Sir T. Acland Lord Binning Mr. J. Browne Lord Milton Mr. Bagwell Mr. North Mr. Dawson Mr. S. White Sir M. W. Ridley EDICAL, CLERICAL, and GENERAL LIFE AS- SURANCE SOCIERY. TRESipBNT. The Most Noble the MARQUIS of HUNTLY, G. C. B. VICE PRESIDENTS. George Birkbeck, M. D. J Walter Boyd, Esq. M. P. Robert Bree, M. D. F. R. S. A. H. Chambers, Esq. Arthur Chichester, Esq. Henry J. Cholmeley, M. D. Sir A. Cooper, Bart. F. R. S. Sir Chas. Des Voeux, Bart. Joseph H. Green, Esq. Sir William Kay, Bart. James Kibblewhite, Esq. A. A. Mieville, Esq. George Pinckard, M. D. Sir George Pocook Ashby Smith, M. D. TRUSTEES. J. Marryat, Esq. A. A. Mieville, Esq. James Kibblewhite, Esq. Sir E. Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. John Gladstone, Esq. M. P. Rev. Dr. Shepherd Rev. Dr. Yates | AUDITORS— C. B. Baldwin, Esn.; Rev. John Thomas Hussey; Joseph Sealey,' Esq., anu John Stevenson, Esq. BANKERS— Sir W. Kay, Bart. Price, Marryat, and Coleman, Man- sion House- street. SOLICITORS— John Burder and W. Gilmore Bolton, Esqrs. The following arc among the distinguishing features of this In- stitution :— 1. A diminished rate of assurance, especially on the younger lives, calculated upon the improved state of public health, and the increas- ed duration of human life. 2. Granting the privilege of assuring a fixed sum to become due at the time of decease, by making a single present payment, or by annual payments for three, five, seven, or any given number of years, instead of continuing the payments of premium through the whole term of life. 3. Giving to the assured the option of leaving the profits to which they may bccome entitled to accumulate for the benefit of their suc- cessors ; or to be calculated in diminution of the anuual payments of premium. 4. Extending the advantages of Life Assurance to persons subject to such deviation from the common standard of health as do not es- sentially tend to shorten life, instead of excluding those afflicted with Gout, Asthma, and the other diseases usually specified. The Society will grant Annuities, Endowments for Children. & c. and will purchase Annuities, Reversions, and other contingent In teres ts. J. PINCKARD, Resident Sec. Office, 32, Great Russell- street, Bloomsbury, London. PRICES OF STOCKS, The Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records LAST NIGHT S GAZETTE. [ There is no Military Gazette.] BANKRUPTS. J. Fletcher, Pilkington, near Manchester, grocer. Atts. Hurd and Co. Temple. T. Harding, jun. and J. R. Harding, Bristol, brush- makers. Atts. Williams and White, Lincoln's Inn. T. W. Wingate, Bath, dealer. Atts, Burfoot and Co., Temple. J. Newbank, Earl- street, Lisson- grove, stage- master. Att- Mr. Hallett, Northumberland- place, New- road, Mary- la- bone. N. P. Singer, Liverpool, haberdasher. Atts. Gates and Co., Cateaton- street. T. Glover, Wardour- street, Soho, bricklayer. Att. Mr. Hodson John- street, Bedford- row. J. Reeves, Eaton, Buckingham, tailor. Att. Mr. Jackson, New- inn. .' • From The LOndOn GAZETTE of Tuesday. BANKRUPTS. John Crooke, Burnley, Lancashire, iron- founder. Atts. Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford- row, Lon- don ; and Mr. Lacon, Liverpool. William Woodford Smith, Holborn- hill, silk- mercer. Atts. Messrs. Hodgson and Ogden, St. Mildred's- court, Poultry. Stephen Butt. Motcombe, Dorsetshire, cheese- dealer. Atts. Mr. Lindsell, Ilolborn- court, Gray's- inn ; aud Messrs. Bowles. Chitty, and Cliitty, Shaftsbury. Thomas Osborne, Stroud, Gloucestershire, linen- draper. Atts. Mr. Parker, Worcester; and Messrs. Swain and Co., Freder'ick's- place, Old Jewry, London. John Cooper, Ashtoh- under- Lyoe; Lancashire, shopkeeper. Atts. Mr. Walmsley, Marple ; and Messrs. Milne and Parry, London. . George Forsyth, Carlisle, draper. Atts. Mr. Addison, V eru- lain- buildings, Gray ' s Inn, London ; and Mr. Wannop, Carlisle. Robert Turner, Manchester, joiner. Atts. Mr. Booth, Man- chester ; and Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Temple, London. Francis Beesley, Bedwardine, Worcestershire, glove- manu- facturer. Atts. Messrs. Cardale, Buxton, and. Parlby, Holborn- court. Gray's Inn, London ; and Messrs. Parker and Smith, Worcester. . James Lock, Baker- street North, St. Mary- la- bonne, chemist, Att. Mr. Watson, Gerrard- street, Soho. John Peter Knight, Fulham, hop- merchant. Att. Mr. Lind- say, St. Thomas's- street, Southwark. ^ Henry Smyth, Piccadilly, hosier. Atts. Messrs. Osbaldes- ton and Murray, London- street, Fenchurch- street. J. Dean, Brompton, Middlesex, timber- merchant. Att. Mr. Hird, Berwick- strect. The following Works will be published in the course of March and April, By G. B. WhITAKeR, Ave- Maria- lane, London. 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INQUEST ON CHEVALIER DORFIEULLE.— On Monday last, an inquest was held at the Black- horse, in Queen- street, Sevu> Dials, on the body of the above- named gentleman. Mr. Bur- gess, the apothecary at the parish Infirmary, examined the body, and found no mark of violence ; it bore the appearance of previous health, and was rather fat than otherwise The bo- dy presented itself in a most miserable situation as described in the evidence. It appeared that the deceased had not lain in his bed probably for many months ; the sheets were clean excepting that part folded over the bed- clothes, which, with every other exposed article in the apartment, was covered with dust and dirt. In the room was found the greater part of a quartern loaf, some butter, bacon, and eggs, a phial containing vinegar, and some ar- row- root in a paper. It was therefore evident he did not die from want of food ; but he was found almost in a state of nudity; ho had no shirt or any other lower garments on, which it ap- peared he had not been in the habit of wearing. One of the jurors stated that he had lately been called on by the deceased, and ha asked deceased to partake of a leg of mutton, which he did standing up; and it was noticed that deceased then had no breeches on. Deceased was also very recently seen in the street by his landlord, at night, going from shop to shop, in the same state, and apparently cautiously avoiding observation. On the return of the jury to the inquest- room, the Coroner suggested the propriety of having deceased's apartment searched, as there was reason to believe there might be found property of some description or other. The parish- officers were consequently de- spatched for that purpose ; and after a careful examination, re- turned with the following articles, viz.:— seven pawnbrokers' duplicates for trifling things, pledged during the last year, two . French books on cookery, some manuscript recipes, several numbers of " the Mirror," and a few copper coins ; and on turn- ing over the body of deceased, which had been hitherto untouch- ed, they discovered underneath it a Bank of England note for 10/. with its edges much mutilated by burning, all of which are now in the custody of Mr. Bigg, at the workhouse. The case having undergone a full investigation, the Jury returned their verdict —" Died by the visitation of God." The body of deceased has since been removed to the poor- house, preparatory to interment. BURGESS' NEW SAUCE for general purposes hav- ing given such great aprobation, a ml J the demand for it con- tinuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most re- spectfully to offer this their best acknowledgments to the Public for their liberal patronage of the same: its utility and great conve- nience in all climates has recommended it to the most distinguished foreign connexions, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda- tion. It is prepared by them ONLY ; and for preventing itfsap- Eointment to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each ottle being sealed upon the cork with their firm and address, as well as each label having their signature, without which it cannot be genuine. ' ...... t JOHN BURGESS and SON'S long- established and much- esteeuied ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many years. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy- steps, London—( THE ORIGINAL FISH- SAUCE WAREHOUSE.) HENRY COVENEY, of the wheatsheaf Tavern, 433, Strand, eight doors West of Bedford- street, impressed with the livclist gratitude, returns hissincere thanks to his friends and the public, for the unprecedented support they have afforded him during the time he has occupied the above premises. His ORDINARY, at Five, having been highly approved, will continue to be conducted as at present. H. C. also begs to announce that his selection of Wines, Spirits, Ales, Porter, & c. is of the choicest quality ; and although he has been at very considerable expense in rendering his house in every respect highly desirable as an occasional abode for Gentlemen, there will be no increase in his present moderate charges. Fine haunch of Mutton every Wednesday at 5. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst. in Brook- street, the Hon. Mrs. Grant, of a son. At the Manor House, Marlow, Lady Selina Bridgeman, of a daughter. 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