LORD FITZWILLIAM.-This venerab'e nobleman carries, with a grey LORD KING. Between twenty and thirty years back, Lord King, being head, a young and fresh heart. It is impossible to look upon this amia- then very young, took his seat in the House of Peers; and ever since ble and dignified patrician of the olden stamp, without a feeling of affec- he has uniformly advocated the cause of patriotism, in the pure and tionate admiration for his pure and distinguished patriotism, and the genuine sense of the word; and what deserves to be noticed, as redoundwarm love of his country, which lives (if I may so say) under the ashesing highly to his praise, his patriotism has never been marked by the of age, and requires but to be stirred to emit the flashes of its former fire. slightest tinge of party feeling. The natural apathy incidental to his time of life appears habitually to prevail over him; but speak to him of the great interests of the empire speak to him of that measure which at an earlier period he was delegated by his sovereign to complete-speak to him of Ireland, andthrough the dimness that loads his eye a sudden illumination will break forth.-New Monthly Magazine.

LORD LAUDERDALE-We know his Lordship well (says the Herefordshire Independent.) But long and attentively as we have watched his public career, and studied the character of his mind, he always contrives to baille our conjectures, and confound our metaphysics. There is a mixture of acquirement and misapplication about him, which renders him peculiarly dangerous as a theorist. He resembles a Gourmand, who, with a prodigious swallow, has a bad digestion.

Sense. passed thro' him, no longer is the same, For food, digested-takes another name." Matthew Broemark, a learned Danish mathematician, has invented a new steam-carriage, which can be easily guided, and travel, it is said, 14 leagues in an hour. The first experiment was made 60 leagues from the capital. The carriage, loaded with passengers, set out at half an hour past 11 from the place where it was built, and arrived at the gates of Copenhagen at a quarter before five. Mr. Broemark intends to make a journey to Paris.—Foreign Journal.

INTOLERANCE. Another Clerical Gentleman has been exercising his holy zeal in denouncing from the pulpit a concert which one of the humble sons of song had proposed to give, merely because one or two pieces absurdly called "sacred" were announced for performance. lle appears to have succeeded but too well in destroying the poor man's prospects, though, to placate his wrath, the obnoxious pieces had been withdrawn. The Guild Hall exhibited on the evening of the performance a beggarly

account of empty seats.-Dundee Advertiser.

ROYAL TEARS! A countryman, on hearing of the gallant Commander in Chief being overcome by his filial feelings, in the course of his pious professions of attachment to the doctrine and discipline of the Church," the other day, in the House of Lords, ingenuously observed, “ In troth, I dinna wunder though the Duke be yet grit-hearted about his father, since he lost by his death ten thousand pounds i' the year, which he was sic near-be-gaun as to tak' for just gain, now-an-then to speir for him."

-Dundee Advertiser.

FEMALE PREACHER AT Edinburgh. It having been publicly announced, that a young lady from Guernsey would preach in the Caledonian Theatre on Sunday evening, at half-past six o'clock, as might be expected, the novel and ridiculous exhibition drew together an immense concourse of people. So early as five o'clock, crowds began to besiege the doors; and before they were opened, there were as many collected as would have filled the house ten times. When the doors opened, the rush was tremendous; and in a few minutes the house was completely filed. Just as public worship was about to commence, some of the seats in the gallery gave way from the pressure, the crash of which making the people apprehensive that the gallery would fall' down, the whole multitude were immediately seized with a panic, and pressed towards the doors, when a scene of the greatest confusion and danger ensued that can be conceived. Some were so impressed with fears for their safety, that, forgetting the danger they ran of broken limbs, two men and a woman actually leapt to the street, from the window on the first story. Many had their clothes torn, and several lost shoes and shawls; but we have not heard of any person being hurt. After the fear of danger had subsided, the Theatre was again filled; but as it was then too late for public worship, a strong party of police, under the orders of Captain Robison, cleared the house, and the people soon after dispersed. The lady herself took her departure, amid the cheers of the mob, in a hackney-coach. Edinburgh Times,

FOR THE DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER.
So help me God! exclaims the D,
True to his tythes and prayer book,
I'll never change my modes of thinking,
No more than women, cards, or drinking:
Not light from Heaven its way shall find
Within the vacuum of my mind;
Eldon may doubt-a sore indiction-
But I'm obtuse to all conviction,

SO HELP ME, God!

But, FRED., you chang'd from front to rear
At Dunkirk's walls (tho' not through fear)
You've often changed your soldier's coat,
And oft, too oft, your last pound note:
By force compell'd, my lusty spark,
You cut your office and your Clerk;
And though you carry this State farce on,
By force you still may cut your Parson;
For, if you give way to your choler,
Your Crown will not be worth a dollar,
So HELP ME, GOD

LAW.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
Wednesday, May 11.

libel, the Court took time to consider whether they would make the rule In the case of Sir G. Chatwynd against the British Press, for an alleged absolute or not.

THE KING v. "THE SUNDAY HERALD" AND THE JOHN BULL.". Mr. BROUGHAM moved for a rule calling on George Guthrie, publisher of the Sunday Herald, to show cause why a criminal information should not be exhibited against him, for a gross libel on a clergyman named Cooper, and his wife. Mr. Cooper had gone out with his wife to Jamaica, with the purpose of affording religious instruction to the slaves on the estate of Mr. Robert Hibbert. The article complained of was headed "More Artistal. This affidavit charged Mr and Mrs. Cooper with gross and Sanctified Saints Unmasked," and contained an affidavit of a person named habitual drunkenness, with cruelty to the slaves, and especially to a boy named John,-with acting dishonestly in reference to a hogshead of sugar, and with couducting themselves so offensively to the slaves, that they refused to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them of attending and Mrs. Cooper. There was rarely (said Mr. B) a mass of scandalous Mr. Cooper's ministry. All this was expressly denied on affidavit by Mr. comments, both in prose and verse-The COURT granted a rule to matter so entirely without foundation; and it was accompanied by offensive show cause. Mr. BROUGHAM then said, he was make a similar application against a person named Shackel, the printer also instructed to of The John Bull, for a libel, containing the same charges, but not ne companied by any comments in prose or verse.-Mr. Justice BAYLEY: BROUGHAM: Yes, my Lord; for Mr. Cooper has been systematically Is it worth your while to have more than one information 2-Mr. attacked in this newspaper; and besides, as both parties pretend to have their own peculiar sources of information, he wishes to call on both to justify their attacks, and thus to render his own vindication more com plete. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE: You may take your rule.-Mr. instead of bringing an action. An action for a libel was brought by another BROUGHAM: I wish to explain why Mr. Cooper has applied to the Court Chancery, which has hung up the matter for ever! gentleman against the same paper, and a proceeding was instituted in

POLICE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STRANGE CHARGE OF VIOLATION -On Wednesday, the daughter of a professional man, residing in Paddington, charged Mr. George Richard Barrow with the violation of her person. Miss S. is a young lady about 20 years of age, her features very regular, her eyes dark and expressive, and her countenance pale. Mr. G. R. Barrow is a man of colour; he was dressed in the first style of fashion. His features were good: he is about 20 years of age, and says that he lately held a judicial situation in Demerara It seems, that having met the young lady by accident, he prevailed upon her to drink tea with him. He took her to a brothel, where she remained with him all night. In the morning, be left her in bed, and she wrote to her father, telling him that her ruin had been caused by violence. Her father had Mr. Barrow arrested in consequence. Mr. Barrow, in his defence, said that Miss S. had given her consent to his wishes.-This the young lady denied Mr. Barrow: Did you not take my arm and walk into the bed-chamber?-Miss S: Yes; but you put your arm round my waist and urged me on-Mr. Barrow: Were you not undressed is the bed?—Yes; but you untied my clothes and took them off. Mr. Barrow: Did you not promise to remain in bed till I returned to you?-Miss S.: No, I did not.-Mr. Barrow': The officer who took me into custody can prove this fact, for you admitted it in his presence. Mr. DYER said, it did not appear that force had been used, and there was not evidence to sustain a common assault. He told Mr. Barrow that he would discharge him, upon his entering into his own recognizance to answer any charge at the Sessions. He did so, and was set at liberty. The young lady went home with her father, who appeared greatly distressed.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. Captain Bill, of the India service, shot himself on Friday. He had agreed to submit to the amputation of his leg on the following morning, symptoms of mortification having appeared, arising from the kick of a horse at the last Ascot races; the idea of losing a limb, and being thereby incapacitated from service, seriously affected his mind, and he committed the act in a paroxysm of insanity.

On Monday afternoon, as Mrs. Brodie, the wife of P. Brodie, Esq, of Lincoln's-int fields, was, accompanied by her father, taking an airing in a gig in the Regent's-park, the horse took fright, and started off at full gallop: Mrs. Brodie became alarmed, and leaped out of the gig, when falling on her head, she was killed on the spot. The horse was stopped, and the lady's father escaped unhürt. ·

Monday mor

A sawyer, of the name of Willoughby, was killed on Monday morning in a pugilistic combat with a man of the name of Irving, on Stokecommon, near Bushy, They had quarrelled at a neighbouring publichouse, and the deceased was taken off the ground lifeless, after a fight of more than one hour. On Friday night, a' young man named George Basham, residing with Mr. Harvey, clothes salesman, in High-street, St. Giles's, came by his death under the following singular circumstances:-A hair-dresser, to whom the deceased was indebted 31. went, accompanied by a person of the name of Craigs, on the above evening, to the shop of Mr. Harvey, and demanded the money. Words ensued, when Mr. Craigs said that he would get it if it cost him 204, which occasioned the deceased to go into a very violent passion. They then left him, when an acquaintance observed bim to bite his lips; when shortly after he said he would go and settle his books, but he fell down on the pavement. He was immediately taken up and surgical aid procured, but without effect, as he died the same night. On Monday evening a Coroner's inquest was taken at the White Lion, St. Giles's, when the Jury returned a verdict-“ Died by apoplexy, ocasionde by extreme irritation."

AFFECTING CASE of Self-destrUCTION.-An Inquest was on Tuesday held on the body of Rebecca Furler, aged 20, at the Vestry-room in Mount-street, who had destroyed herself by poison. It appeared from the evidence, that the unhappy creature had been kept by Mr. Green, a wax-chandler, by whom she had a child; but he of late had broken off the connexion, allowing her however 51. a month. This treatment, according to his own evidence, had greatly distressed her mind. Her father, too, a carpenter in Newnham-street, Maryboue, had turned her out of his house when he discovered that she was pregnant by Mr. Green, on the ground that she had brought disgrace on his family. The deserted and unhappy creature, only on Monday last, walked up and down ber father's garden for a long time, hoping to speak with him, but could not, and on passing away, she exclaimed, in a disconsolate tone," Good night!"-On Monday evening, after walking a few minutes opposite Mr. Green's house, she drank off a quantity of oxalic acid, and then entered his shop, where she would have fallen, had she not been caught by Mr. Green. Mr. Parrott, the surgeon, was sent for: he administered aid without effect; the injury, he said, done to the intestines, was as speedy as if she had swallowed a red hot ball! She lingered till eight in the morning, when death released her from all her sufferings. The persons with whom the deceased had lodged spoke of her great attention to her infant, and bore testimony to the decorum of her behaviour: they thought she was a married woman.

On Monday morning a shocking instance of self-destruction took place in Charlotte-street, Blackfriars road. About six o'clock in the morning Mr. Sibree, a respectable surgeon, was discovered in his bedroom, with his throat cut in a frightful manner. The deceased had been for some Jength of time labouring under considerable mental irritability, which was occasioned principally by the death of his wife, two years ago. On Sunday night he complained of being excessively ill, and exhibited symptoms of high fever, accompanied by evident derangement, which induced a gentleman, his assistant, to remain sitting up with him nearly the whole of the night. On the assistant's leaving the room for the purpose of attending to a patient, the unfortunate deceased committed suicide; for the sister of the deceased, on going into her brother's room, was shocked ou beholding him lying on the bed with his head nearly severed from his body, and the razor with which he had destroyed himself lying by his side. The deceased has left three young children.

verdict to that effect.-Bartlett, the beadle, here said that the parents of -
the girl reside at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, and that her father was a
respectable master shoemaker. She informed him, that while she was
performing at Newport she received a letter, offering her an engagement,
on which she came to London and met the individual who wrote to her,
who conducted her to a house in Soho-square, where they passed these
night, and the result was, the above child. Since that period she had
been abandoned by her friends, and driven to the most abject distress,
and could never gain an interview with the individual alluded to, although
she had made several applications for that purpose. She was at length
obliged to take lodgings at a public-house in Wild-street, Drury-lane,
where she had been living in the greatest want, sometimes without food
to eat, and unable to pay her rent; and as the period of her delivery was
fast approaching, the landlord made application to bim (Bartlett) to do
something for the girl. On visiting her place, be found her as described,
in a deplorable state, not having had food for two days. He applied to
the parish overseers, who granted an order for her removal to the works i
house, where she received every assistance.

Tuesday night, the family of Mr. Jameson, George-street, Bloomsbury, were thrown into a state of the greatest grief, by discovering Miss Jane Jameson, a young lady of 17 years of age, in the agonies of death. The discovery was made by the young lady's cousin, who entered the chamber to retire to rest, and found her cousin lying insensible on the bed. Medical gentlemen were called in, who used every means to produce re-animation, but without effect; the young lady died shortly after their arrival; she had swallowed a large phial of laudanum. She had placed her affections "on the Mate of one of the India Company's ships, but her family did not prove of the union; and fancying himself not well treated, he sailed on his voyage last week. Since then she had been very dejected.'"

On the 24 inst. at Southampton, Arthur Moore, Esq. youngest son of the Hon,
Judge Moore, of Ireland, to Anna Maria, third daughter of Sir John Peniston
Milbanke, Bart. of Halnaby-hall, Yorkshire.
On the 5th inst. Thomas Hood, Esq. of Islington, to Jane, eldest daughter, of
Mr. Reynolds, Christ's Hospital.

On the 9th inst. at ladley, Wm. George Watson, of Woodford-bridge, Esq. to
Harriet, fourth daughter of the late Hugh Atkins, Esq.

At Edinburgh, on the 30th ult. Thomas Knatchbull, Esq. of the Royal Artillery, John Connell, Jndge of the High Court of Admiralty. son of the late Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. to Jane, secoud daughter of Sir

On the 26th ult. at Weston, Northamptonshire, Lieut-Colonel › Henry Hely-
Hutchinson, second son of the Hon. Francis Hely Hutchinson, and
the Earl of Donoughmore, to the Hon. Mrs. Frederic North Douglas
At Barton-upon-Humber, on the 26th ult. Mr. Thomas Frost, aged 72, to Mare: I
garet Strafford, aged 65. The happy pair drove to church amid the acclamations
of a numerous crowd, which assailed them with a shower of old shoes, to esta
blish their good fortune.

Charlotte Thorpe, aged 18.
At Coleby, on the 25th ult. William Jordan, widower, aged 74, to Rosetta'

On the 19th inst. Captain Bowen, of the Royal Navy, eldest son of Commis-
sioner Bowen, to Elizabeth Lindley, only daughter of Jeremiah Cloves, Esq. and
niece to the Countess of Newburgh.
On the 12th inst. Charles John Sidebottom, Esq. Barrister at Law, orcester,
to Mary Abigail, eldest daughter of John Freeman, of Gainos, Herefordshire, Esq.
On the 11th inst. John Garford, jun. Esq. of Poplar, to Fanny, second daughter
of George Pringle, Esq. of Stoke Newington.

kering, eldest daughter of the late John Pickering, Esq. of Mile end.
On the 10th inst. H. Godwin, Esq. of Cobourn Terrace, Bow-road, to Miss Pics
At Dabliu, the Rev. Ralph Coote, (brother to Sir Charles Coote, Bart.) to
Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Close, of Elm Park.
On Thursday, at Mary-la-bonne New Church, Thomas T. Grant, Esq. to Emma,
fifth daughter of the late Richard Grant, Esq. of Russel-place, Fitzroy-square.
On the 4th inst. in Great Cumberland-street, William Gambier, Esq. son of
Sir James Gambier, his Majesty's Consul General in the United Netherlands, to
Henrietta, Countess of Athlone, relict of the late Earl of Athlone, daughter of 2!
the late Wm. Hope, Esq.

DJED.

Hogg, in the 19th year of his age.
On the 7th inst. near Enfield, Adam George Hogg, eldest son of Lieut. Colone!

At her house, at Camberwell, Mrs. Beavor, widow of the late Wm. Beavor,
Esq. one of the Elder Brothers of the Trinity House.

On the 5th inst. in Russell-square, Thomas Roberts, Esq. in his 77th year. On the 6th inst. suddenly, in Berkeley-square, Lady Ann, Barnard, relict of the late Andrew Barnard, Esq. She was sister to the late Earl of Balcarres and to the presont Countess of Hardwicke.

SEDUCTION AND DEATH-On Tuesday an inquest was held at the Guy Earl of Warwick public-house, Belton-street, Long-acre, on the body of a male infant, who was supposed to have been intentionally suffocated by its mother, in St. Giles's work house. The case excited considerable interest.-Mrs. Allen said, that she resided at No. 32, Great St. Andrew. street. She was employed as midwife to the parish of St. Giles'. On Tuesday she was called on to attend the mother of the deceased, who was near her accouchement, and delivered her of the deceased, which was a tine On the 24 inst. at Denton, Clinton Fynes Clinton, Esq. barrister, to Penelope, and healthy child. The mother of the child was a pauper in the work-second daughter of Sir William Earle Welby, Bart. of Denton Hall, Lincolnshire, house. She saw the deceased on Sunday night, when it was lying in bed behind its mother. The mother and child only slept together. At that time the child was in good health. In the course of the night intelligence was sent to her of the child's death. On her arrival at the workhouse she found the child dead; and the mother confessed that it died through her own neglect, as she did not turn to it for several hours during the night. The mother of the deceased (Caroline Fry) is an actress, 18 years of age, and had been performing some years in Hampshire. She came to London to enter into an engagement at one of the theatres, is the first line of business. Witness believed that the child died of suffocation.-Mary Leader, an assistant nurse, attended the mother of the deceased. During Sunday night she fed the child, and it went to sleep, and she delivered it to the mother, saying, " Caroline, I have delivered it safe into your hands," and advised her to turn her face towards it, but she said she could not that her side was weary. In the course of the night, she was alarmed by the screams of the mother, and she heard that the child was dead. The mother said she had overlaid it, and appeared very sorry. Mary Butler, a se, corroborated the last witness. Juryman:-Did she name the father of the child? Witness:-Yes; he is the head manager of Drury--Edinb. Times. lane. Juryman-What is his name-did she mention? Witness::Yes; could not exactly recollect it. Juryman:-Is it Mr. Elliston? Witness:-I think that is the name; she said, he took her to a large white house in Soho-square-Mr. Starkey, surgeon, was of opinion that the child was accidentally overlaid by the mother. The Jury returned a bou eas

On the 6th inst. at South Lambeth, Mary, the wife of John Hodgson, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, aged 33.

On Sunday, Frederick, the only son of Mr. Smith, of New Basinghali street, and of Newington-place, Kennington.

On Wednesday se'nnight, in the 43d year of his age, Mr. Thomas Braidwood, Instructor of the Deaf and Dumb at Edgbaston, near Birmingham.

At Wiston, Lanarkshire, on the 10th inst. James Ritchie, preacher of the Gospel. Owing to disappointment in regard to promotion in the church, he became, at times, sullen, morose, sour, and despondent; and was scarcely com panionable till cheered by an enlivening glass. For the last twenty years he was a wanderer on the face of the earth. His habiliments were furnished by the contributions of the benevolent, but he was hardly ever entrusted with money, as he was suspected of a predilection for the society of boon companions. This morning, April 22, about five o'clock, as James Watherstane, grain-dealer, of Dalkeith, was waking the corpse of his deceased wife, he suddenly fell from his chair and expired. Dr. Graham was called, and on his arrival declared that he had died of a broken heart. His wife had lingered above six months, from hav ing given birth to a child at an advanced age.

On the 5th inst. in Somerset-street, Portman-square, Frances, widow of he late T. H. Barrow, Esq. of Barbadoes, aged 81 years.

THE EXAMINER.

of knowledge. Nothing, we believe, is wanted to set the system fairly in motion, but a few clever fellows to devote themselves entirely to the office of lecturers. A hundred active men furnished with all the science which our universitie could supply, and in daily contact and communication with the industrious classes, would produce the most beneficial revolution in the state, both of science and art, and in the general condition of society, which has been witnessed in the course of many centuries. We take for granted, that, except in large towns like Edinburgh and Glasgow, one person might lecture both on Chemistry and Mechanics. We know that the thing is practicable; and we are satisfied that it would be better to have one professional lecturer who could make a reasonable living by his exertions in both these branches of physical science, than to have two amateur lecturers whose attention was distracted by other occupations.

We have spoken of the probable interference of Parliament; and we certainly think that these institutions merit public patronage. But we know how apt the touch of a minister is to defile, and we are not anxious to see this patronage extended to them till they have acquired shape and consistency under the spontaneous care of enlightened philanthropy.-Scotsman. POOR LAWS.-Mr. Monck has obtained leave to bring in a bill to prevent the payment of any part of the wages of labourers out of the poor's rates.

on the parishes. As regards children, this clearly is not true; for the children of those who are not able to maintain them are specially taken under the protection of the poor laws, and are to be apprenticed by the overseers.

But even as regards the work-people themselves, it is evident that a strict application of this rule would entirely defeat the intention of the poor laws, and release both the parishes and the poor from the obligations to which those laws subject them. In no state of things that we have any conception of in England, would a labourer have any difficulty in finding occupation at some rate of wages, and if no regard were had to the question whether those wages would support life, the employed would perish sooner than the unemployed poor. There is an obligation on the poor to take work from private masters, when it is offered; but it would be impossible to enforce this obligation unless the wages were sufficient for, their support. A minimum of wages, therefore, necessarily grows out of the obligation to which the poor and the parishes are subjected. The quantum of wages is thus forced upon the consideration of the managers of the poor.—Globe and Traveller.

POSTSCRIPT.

MONDAY, MAY 16.

THE French papers of Thursday and Friday, which arrived last night, contain no news of the slightest political importance. The Duke of Northumberland, our Ambassador Extraordinary, was introduced at the Tuileries with great state on Thursday. Three of the Royal carriages, drawn by eight horses, and filled with officers of the Court, proceeded to his Grace's hotel, and returned, followed by three other carriages, drawn by six horses, in which were the Duke and his suite. The Parisians admired the richness and elegance of his Grace's equipage. The King received his Grace on the throne, surrounded with his officers of state. The following is the account of this presentation, given in the Moniteur:

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Paris, May 12,

"To-day after mass his Excellency the Duke of Northumberland, Ambassador Extraordinary from his Britannic Majesty to be present at the King's Coronation, was presented to his Majesty and the Royal Family in a public audience.

Sir G. Chetwynd denied that the practice which Mr. Monck attempts to prevent is authorized by any part of the Acts for the relief and maintenance of the poor. As far as any direct enactment goes, this is true; but it is not the less evident that it is a necessary consequence of the poor laws. The principles of these laws are, to provide support for every person unable to work, and to provide work for those who are unable to procure it, and especially to set to work and consequently to maintain "the children of those poor who are not able to keep them." While these duties are enforced by law, it cannot but happen,-at those times when profitable employment cannot be found for the whole of the population of a parish within its limits, or in the neighbouring districts, and when the assurance of a legal provision or bad education has taken from the poor the provident habits, which would enable them to meet a casual necessity, and the spirit which would prompt them to find employment elsewherethat the managers of the poor must have to choose, 1. the total idleness of a part of the poor; 2. the setting them to work on parish stocks; and 3. the practice of ekeing out, by a supplementary allowance from the parish, the wages which it may be worth a master's while to give. Of these three courses each is not without its evils. The support in total The Marquis Dieux Breze, Grand Master of the Cere-, idleness of those who are unable to obtain work at wages monies of France, Marquis de Rochemore, Master of the Cewhich will support life, is perhaps illegal, and certainly mis-remonies and Baron Saint Felix and Viscount de Geslin, chievous. The employment on parish stocks of the otherwise received the Ambassador at the foot of the grand staircase, unemployed poor, is the course most accordant to the letter of and accompanied him to the audience. the law; but if on no other account inexpedient, it is ill adapted to the fluctuations of the demand for labour, and it is found in practice to corrupt and debase the individuals employed more than any other plan. The third course, the ekeing out of wages, is that which Mr. Monck's measure is intended to prevent; and it is not to be wondered at that it is selected for reprehension, because it has been resorted to most in those places where the poor laws have had their fullest effect, and where most misery and degradation have existed.

. But, if what we have said be correct, it may be doubted whether this practice has been so much an active cause of evil as the least of the evil consequences of the law among which the managers of the poor have had to choose, and whether it is not that very superiority over the others which is the cause of its prevalence in the most thoroughly be-poorlawed and be-devilled parishes.

Sir G. Chetwynd, indeed, may say, that so long as the poor can find employment at any wages, they have no claim

"The Duke of Ragusa, Major-General of the Royal Guard, whom his Majesty had appointed to accompany the Ambassador, Baron Lalive and M. de Viviens, having repaired to his Excellency's hotel, conducted him to the Tuileries in the Royal carriages.

"The Marquis de Riviere, Captain of the Gardes du Corps, received his Excellency at the door of the apartment of the Gardes, who were under arms.

"The King was on his throne, and the Dauphin on his right hand, and on his left the Duke of Orleans, and the Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Conde, and surrounded by the great officers of the Crown.

"At the entrance of the Ambassador, the King rose, and his Excellency having been presented to the King by Baron Lalive, complimented his Majesty in these terms:

"Sir, I have the honour to appear before your Majesty, charged with felicitations from the King my master, on the approach of your Majesty's coronation,

"In expressing the most ardent wishes for the prosperity of your Majesty, the King my master is equally induced by his generous principles, and by the cherished remembrance of a private friendship.

"I have slso the orders of my King to express to your Majesty the wish which he constantly feels for the mainten

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ance of the good understanding which exists between the two nations, and which is as essential to their mutual interests as to the general happiness of mankind.'

"After his compliment, the Ambassador presented his credentials to the King, who gave them to Baron de Damas, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The King replied

- M. l'Ambassadeur, I receive with the more pleasure the expression of the sentiments which you address to me in the name of His Britanic Majesty, as they are perfectly in unison with my own. I shall always remember with gratitude the proofs of friendship which he gave me in times of misfortune. I hope that no circumstance, no event, will ever trouble the union which ought to prevail between two nations made to esteem and to love each other.'

"The audiences of the King and the Royal Family being finished, His Excellency was conducted back to the saloon of the Ambassadors, and thence to his hotel, with the same ceremonies as were observed in conducting him to the audience." FRENCH FUNDS.--PARIS, May 13.-Five per Cents. opened at 101. 65.; closed at 101. 75.; Three per Cents., 75. 10.; Bank Stock, 2,185; Neapolitan 5 per Cents., 91 15. Spanish ditto, 18.; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 57% Exchange on London, one month, 25.; three months, 24. 85. -Cours Authentique.

HARRIETTE WILSON'S MEMOIRS.-No book, within my recollection, has made such a noise as the life of Harriette Wilson. And what is it which has produced this mighty stir? Any literary merit in the work? Assuredly not a duller, a more contemptible publication, so far as talent is concerned, never issued from the press. But la belle Harriette-who was for inany years a dashing courtezan, and who has lately married a certain Colonel Rochefort (a gentleman who cannot be sufficiently congratu herself in this book)-has taken it into her head to publish memoirs of lated upon the many amiable qualities of his spouse, as delineated by herself; in which memoirs she gives, not a faithful narrative of a courtezan's life-than which nothing, of course, could be more dull and melancholy-but a set of caricatures (with names at full length) of most of those unfortunate persons, whether patricians or plebeians, whom either ill luck or their own folly has ever thrown into her company. In this publication of names consists the whole charm of the work; for, as a writer in the London Magazine has observed, strike out from these pages the names of Wellington, Argyle, Leinster, Deerhurst, &c. insert in their stead, John, William, Thomas, and Richard, and the book becomes wholly unreadable. Even if one should believe in the truth of the descriptions, this lady's own account of herself would prove her to be an ungrateful, rancorous, and most unprincipled demirep. The practice of demanding money, and threatening to quiz them in print, in case of rethe lady has been to write letters to different Noblemen and Gentlemen, fusal. Mr. Edward Ellice, Member for Coventry, lately received such a letter from her, dated Paris, and very properly sent it to the newspapers. But all men are not so spirited as Mr. Ellice, and a great deal of hush money has undoubtedly been paid. So that Miss Harriette has contrived to get money three several ways: money for suppressing names; money for publishing them; and (unless report is as false as her Memoirs) money for publishing, after taking bribes to suppress. Upon the whole, this book has the merit of being at once the most despicable and most impudent work that ever insulted the public eye; and you may perhaps enquire, to what disreputable publisher the world is indebted for usherTories among your readers, Benbow, no doubt, or Carlile, or Dugdale, or some other radical.' Gently, good Tories; it is no radical who hath done this. The original publisher is one John Joseph Stockdale, who is, or was, a member of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, a backbone Loyalist, a most vehement stickler for the Church Establishment, and a most zealous bawler of No Popery!-Letter in the Leeds Mercury.

LONDON MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 16, 1825. Barley rather lower. Oats in demand. Other Grain without variation. Supplies large from last Monday. Wheat, unless superfine, 1s. cheaper.

To-morrow it will be moved in the House of Lords, by the Earl of Donoughmore, that the Roman Catholic Relief billing this bantling of rapacity and indecency into light? Oh! exclaim the be read a second time. Their Lordships are specially summoned for the purpose. The bill, as altered and amended, and as presented to the Lords by Sir J. Newport (with Mr. Brougham at his left hand), has been reprinted; and in such form it was delivered to all the Peers on Saturday. It being expected that there will be a great crowd below the bar to hear the debate (which it is said will not be finished in one night), special instructions have been given by Sir T. Tyrwhitt, the Usher of the Black Rod, to keep the several passages clear, and to admit no strangers whatever except they have Peers' orders. The strictest injunctions have also been given regarding the accommodation at the upper end of the House by the Throne, that portion of the House being privileged for Commoners, Peers' sons, and leading Officers of the House; other persons are not to be admitted on any pretext whatever. The Usher of the Black Rod's box, as it is called, at the lower end of the House, and which can be enclosed by scarlet curtains, is, it is mentioned, bespoken by ladies, who have heretofore incog. thus enjoyed the debate; Lady Holland, &c.--With respect to the result of the division on the bill, it is confidently rumoured that there will be a majority of forty against its second reading. There are about 278 Peers; many of them however will vote by proxy.

The mortality among the horses still continues at Paris, and in several of the departments great ravages have been committed, and the disease seems to be rather on the increase for the last three months. Several horses of great value have perished.

THE PRIZE CHRONOMETER.-The Prize of 3001. assigned by the Admiralty for the best Chronometer, after one year's trial at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, has been awarded to Mr. R. Widenham, of Eaststreet, Red Lion-square, a very young and ingenious artist. His chronometer, which was an elegant piece of mechanism, only suffered an extreme variation of one second and eighty-four hundreds within the year, according to the table of mean rates, computed by the Astronomer Royal from daily observation. When we consider the state of mechanics in the time of Dr. Hook, early in the last century, when the attention of the Royal Society was first drawn to the theory of springs, and even the state of arts at the much later period, when Mr. Harrison was awarded by Government 10,000l. for his chronometer, we cannot help being struck with the very great improvement which has since been made in the construction of an instrument of such commercial and maritime importance, and gratified to know how much of it is due to the skill and perseverance of unpretending names among our own mechanics. There are in general thirty chronometers sent to the Royal Observatory for competition: Mr. Widenham's having varied the least, has been purchased at the prize value by the Lords of the Admiralty.-Mechanics' Magazine.

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