Saturday, January 22. Dollars, and an entire township of land, in recompense of his signal services to the Republic in the revolutionary war. This donation reflects the highest honour on the national feeling of the United J. Harmar, Great Surrey-street, Southwark, stove-manufacturer. Solicitors, Messrs. Bartlet and Beddome, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street. J. Kingham, Croydon, linen-draper. Solicitor, Mr. Fisher, Walbrook-States; and even the length of time that has elapsed since the buildings, Walbrook. W. Rowe, Plymouth, jeweller. Solicitor, Mr. Sole, Gray's Inn-square. Roberts, Macclesfield-street, Soho. R. Howe, Haymarket, job master. Solicitors, Messrs. Timbrell and G. Golding, Swan-yard, Knightsbridge, postmaster. A. A. Paris, Long-acre, printer. Solicitor, Mr. Curtis, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. THE FUNDS.-The English market remains very steady, Consols experiencing very little fluctuation. There was a considerable operation on Columbian Bonds, in consequence of the factitious arrival from New York, but people recovered their recollection, and the Bonds their original price, in nearly the same rapid manner, although, as might be expected, the market in these securities remains heavy. The Greek securities keep up, notwithstanding the reports of internal dissensions, and the French Rentes bave experienced a slight depression. The various Mining Shares continue to look downward.. Consols 94 Reduced 94 34 per cents. reduced 101 Austrian Bonds, 967 7 Greek Bonds for Acc. 57 New 4 per cents. 106) FOREIGN SECURITIES. Mexican Bonds, 811 Ditto for Acc. 811 The very useful letter respecting the formation of JURIES, from an OLD SEESCRIEER, has been received, and will be used for the purpose desired by the patriotic writer. G. G.'s kind and interesting LETTER has been received. THE EXAMINER. LONDON, JAN. 23, 1825. period of the General's services to America, carries with it a reflection peculiarly gratifying to him; namely, that he has maintained, during a long life, so high a character for consistency and public virtue, that the gratitude and affection of a great nation of freemen are as warm towards him as ever. The Courier affects to sneer at the lateness of the reward, and asks, what would have been done for the General, had he remained quietly in Europe. This is pitiful work. The hireling is not ignorant, that the United States are but just emerging from the financial embarrassments occasioned by two struggles against the injustice of the British Government; that the Republic would neither have been warranted in offering, nor could LA FAYETTE have honourably accepted, a grant of money which would have pressed upon the shattered finances of the givers. The pretence, that the people of the United States would have forgotten their obligations to the illustrious Frenchman, is triumphantly disproved by the enthusiastic reception he has met with among them; yet it is quite natural, that his presence has called forth their affectionof their esteem more promptly, than would have been the case, had ate feelings in a greater degree, and produced this last practical proof the continued to reside in another hemisphere. The Moniteur of the 10th contains an order for a levy of 60,000 men of the class of 1824. Bonaparte's annual levies, we think, were about 80,000, when he was master of Europe; and one of the boons which Louis promised France, as the consequence of his restoration, was relief from the scourge of the conscription! BOURBON BIGOTRY-Bigotry and intolerance are rapidly raising their life of Louis, we believe, that the Minister of Interior, Corbiere, sup heads under the halcyon reign of Charles the 10th. It was during the pressed the Lancasterian schools, founded by private benevolence, because it was part of his plan to give the Jesuits a monopoly of the business of education. This concession has whetted the appetite of the elergy; and as the present King is still more priest-ridden than his predecessor, they present in France what it ought to be-a civil contract-is, it seems, to are of course planning new encroachments. Marriage, which is at be made a religious ordinance, Such a regulation, though not necessary, might be considered harmless-if all men were Christians, and Christians of one profession. But this never will be the case, and, therefore, whatever shape the projet may assume, it is quite certain, that, like all laws made under similar circumstances, it will become an engine in the hands of the dominant sect for oppressing its rivals. This, however, is not the only offering which the bigotry of the monarch is about to make to the ambition of the Church. On the 4th of January, the Minister of Justice introduced the projet of a law for punishing sacrilege. Nothing sounds more plausibly. What pious man would say a word in defence of so great a crime? True, but who are to define what constitutes sacrilege? Crafty Jesuits and intolerant priests--who give this odious name to acts levelled, not against Christianity, but against the mummeries and deceptions which they practise in its name-This infamous law breathes the bloody and intolerant, spirit of the 14th century in all its rankness. There are shameful statutes in our own code, we believe, on the subject of blasphemy and sacrilege, but the influence of opinion has made them a dead letter; and no British Statesman would dare, at the present day, to propose such enactments as the following. The projet declares, 1. That the pyx, the ostensoir, the paten, and the chalice, used in the cereTHE only feature in foreign intelligence this week, is a contrariety of monies of religion, are sacred utensils.-2. Every overt act committed rumour and fabrication in reference to the pending contest in Peru. voluntarily and through hatred or contempt of religion, on the sacred In the first instance, a statement is furnished of a victory on the part utensils or consecrated wafers, is declared a profanation.-3. The profaof BOLIVAR, with immense loss on both sides. The vagueness of this nation of the sacred utensils is punished with death.4. The profanation much explanation, but is favoured in lieu thereof with an express such monstrous and revolting propositions are gravely submitted to a body account producing little confidence, the public mind was prepared for of the consecrated wafers is punished in the same manner as parricide. How idle is it to boast of the light and liberality of modern times, when contradiction, via New York, in which the scite of action is altogether of men sitting in one of the most improved countries in Europe, and varied, and the victory claimed for CANTERAC and the Royalists. styling themselves legislators! What an admirable engine does such a Finally, the swelling reports on both sides seem reduced to the fol-law furnish for vexing and harassing Protestants, who lowing minimum of intelligence. It appears in the Gazeta de Colombia, able to pay those outward marks of respect to mummeries they despise, of the 7th Nov. received on Friday:which would secure them against the charge of sacrilege. But so it "The Intendant-General at Guayaquil, under date of the 29th of was in the time of Leo the 10th, and so it is in regenerated Europe at September, communicates, that on the preceding day a vessel arrived at this day. Weak or crafty men surround religion with frauds and fooleGuauchacu, after a voyage of six days, with news that at the period of ries, and then arm themselves with bloody and barbarous laws to protect her sailing an extrordinary courier had arrived there from the Liberating themselves from the ridicule or contempt their conduct has provoked. Army, with intelligence of the victory gained by the President (Bolivar)-Scotsman. on the Apurimac, the result of which has been a loss to Cantarac of IRISH POLITICS" PASTORINI'S PROPHECIES."-As we repeated the 1600 men," : It is useless to dwell upon vague and cont radictory statements of this nature. The general opinion is, that a ba ttle has been fought, in which the Royalists have been vorsted; and that the account from New York, which is utterly set aside by known facts, has been a clumsy manufacture of some Agents of our Stockjobbers on the American side of the water. may not be always substance of Mr. Eneas M'Donnell's charge against the Irish School, Society and the Protestant clergy (viz. of distributing Pastorini's Prophecies themselves, in order to throw the odium of their circulation on the Catholic clergy), we think it right to notice, a letter addressed to the Morning Chronicle, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, who directly contradicts Mr. M'Donnell's account of his speech at the aforesaid Society, and his subsequent conversation with Mr. MD. The Rev. gentleman denies that he attributed the distribution of the Prophecies to the, Catholic clergy, or that he admitted having received copies from the Archbishop lie whose some indeed he says, iwas not even mentioned by him LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN INDIA.-The Letters to the Marquis of Hastings on this important subject, which Mr. Hume alluded to with ach praise in a late debate at the India-house, are written, we find, by Captain ROMEO, a Neapolitan officer, who has suffered much for the cause of liberty in his own country. The soundness of the principles unfolded in these letters, and the foree of reasoning by which they are maintained, prove that the writer has deeply considered the question; and it gives us great pleasure to see, that an Italian as justly appreciates the benefits of a free press, as the staunchest advocate for its liberty in England. We have to announce another deportation of a journalist from India, in the person of Mr. Fair, the editor of the The Bombay Gazette. This gentleman was shipped on board the London, Captain Sotherby, via Calcutta for England, by order of Government, at the instance of the Supreme Court, for having, as is alleged, given an innacurate report of its proceedings!—Morning Chronicle. It is again confidently asserted, that Lord Amherst is to be recalled, and to be succeeded by Lord William Bentinck. TAX ON COALS.-A Correspondent wishes that the writer of the Letters to the Finance Minister (in late numbers of the Examiner) had included among the imposts recommended for repeal, the tax on coals. This tax, he observes, presses very heavily on the laborious classes of society; and independently of the wretchedness arising from insufficient fuel, it is highly impolitic, as being a tax on production, and enhancing the price of almost every species of manufacture. Moreover, it is partial-one portion of the country being subject to it, the other exempt. If the coal tax were repealed, most manufactured articles would be cheaper; washing (of linen) would cost less; even bread and beer could be sold at a lower rate; and one part of the kingdom would not be unjustly burdened with a grievous impost from which the rest is free. SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE.-In an article on this subject, the Edinburgh Review just published alludes to the encouragement of cheap publications as a very important means of instructing the labouring classes, and notices with approbation the undertakings already begun in this way. Hume's History has been commenced; and one volume, containing about two and a half of the former editions, has been published. It is sold for six shillings and sixpence; but it contains a great number of cuts neatly executed: the paper is much better than is necessary, and the printing perfectly well done." The volume alluded to, as our readers are aware, is a collection of sheets originally issued separately, one or two a week, for two-pence each. Of this plan the Review also speaks with deserved praise. "The method of publishing in num. bers is admirably suited to the circumstances of the poor. Twopence is is easily saved in a week by almost every labourer; and by a mechanic sixpence in a week may without difficulty be laid by. Those who have not attended to these matters would be astonished to find how substantial a meal of information may be had by twopennyworths."-See Edinb. Ree, No. 81. CHELSEA.-The election for an Organist for the new church terminated on Friday evening, after a severe contest; when the choice of the parish fell upon Mr. Goss, by a considerable majority. It is rumoured that Dr. STODDART is on the eve of obtaining that which, judging from his apostacy and his writings, he has been long seeking; namely, a place; and that the proprietors of the Courier have purchased the New Times! The Rev. C. Colton is now in Paris. When he left England he went to Hamburgh, and from thence to the United States. He has only lately returned to Paris.-Morning Herald. It is reported that one of our beautiful countrywomen, who is nearly related to a noble house, has, from pecuniary embarrassments, engaged herself to sing at the Italian Opera, at Paris.-Morning Paper. Lord Deerhurst was shooting with a party at Lord Foley's, on Saturday; a shot accidentally entered the eye-lid, and occasioned a considerable effusion of blood, but the sight of the eye has escaped altogether from injury, and his Lordship's speedy recovery is anticipated.-Worcester Journal. SUPERSTITION-It is difficult to mark the limits of superstition. A Frenchman travelling in Italy thinks almost every thing superstitious; par is he much mistaken. The Archbishop of Canterbury asserts that the Archbishop of Paris is superstitious; the Presbyterians cast the same reproach on his Grace of Cauterbury, and are in their turn called superstitions by the Quakers, who in the eyes of the rest of Christians, are the most superstitious of all!-Voltaire-Philosophical Dictionary. THEATRICAL EXAMINER. DRURY-LANE. A new Opera was produced at this theatre on Wednesday evening, intitled The Fall of Algiers. Its merits, as a drama, may be discussed in a few words; it is a wretched copy from a bad original-the Siege of Belgrade. A corsair of a Dey of Algiers-or must we not rather ay of the Dey of Algiers-having captured a young officer and his lady, the Mussulman chief falls in love with the latter to desperation, and employs one of his slaves, whom he knows not to be her husband, to assure her of his own death. The English expedition against Algiers defeats the consequence of the discovery of the truth; the captive pair are released by the victory of Admiral Rockwardine, the father of the husband, whose anger at his marriage had led to the fatal voyage in which they were captured, and of course the piece concludes happily. It will be seen, that as a vehicle for music, the feelings and situations are precisely those of the Siege of Belgrade; the Dey (SAPIO) Cohenburg; Amanda, the wife (Miss GRADDON) with Catherine; and pairing off with the Seraskier; Algernon, the husband, (HORN) with Lauretta (Miss STEPHENS) with Lilla,-a joint parity which includes nearly the whole of the musical character. Now this might be regretted, were even the copy, as to story, an improvement of the original; but such is not the case. As a composer, Mr. BISHOP, merits an open field; and nothing can serve more to prove it, than his labours in this instance. Passion, sentiment, and humour, in their primary modifications, exhibit no great variety; but situation and the The Fall of Algiers certainly merits an original story. We apprehend, associations produced by it are infinite, and the author of the music of by the wretchedness of the vehicles so often selected, composers are too careless in this respect, by which opera loses great additional attraction, and genius itself an adequate scope. Of this, however, enough; such being the work submitted to Mr. BISHOP, it remains for us to state the result of his exertions; and it is pleasant to be able to speak of it as a very decided success. The forte of Mr. BISHOP is grace, deep but gentle feeling, and fine expression, and these he has rendered extremely conspicuous; his defects are a careless repetition of previous passages and combinations of his own, and sometimes of other people; and if, in the present instance, not entirely avoided, they are much less obvious than usual. Of his own, we recognised a slight flavour of " Bid me discourse," în a beautiful air given to Miss STEPHENS, and from other sources, a few passages from the Siege of Belgrade, excusable if not unavoidable, from the exact similarity of situation. We also, with a contemporary, recognise a tinge of the impression produced by the music of Der Freischutz; but so far from wondering at this, or imputing it as a fault, we should rather think lowly of a composer, who having recently quaffed deeply of that racy stream, did not exhibit some of the consequences of had been as fortunate in the selection of powerful and original the draught. We only wish, that however concocted, Mr. BISHOP impressions to convey. Taken as a whole, the music of the Fall of Algiers is possibly of too sombre a caste, but regarding it as the conveyance of nothing particularly new in the complexion of the melancholy, it is very attractive. The opening chorus→→ the lamentation of a band of captive christians, afforded a fine proof of this fact. There are, however, some very beautiful instances of exquisitely sung by Miss STEPHENS; in a duet between that lady the contrary; particularly in a couple of light yet feeling airs, most and SAPIO, very admirably executed by both; and in the finales of the first and last acts. Mr. SAPIO appears to considerable advantage in the Opera, and is gradually bearing down some very invidious, and we fear interested opposition. His execution of one of the airs, "Yes, 'tis decreed, thou lovely fair," was exceedingly beautiful in his first delivery of it, and only inferior in the unanimous encore by a mistaken endeavour to vary the primitive simplicity. In a duet with HORN, whose powers the composer has evidently studied, he is also very commanding; indeed, the execution of each of these singers in this spirited composition, was exceedingly finished. A fine bravura, in words a sort of parody of "The Austrian Trumpet," in the Siege of Belgrade, sung by Mr. SAPIO, in a precisely similar situation to that of the Seraskier, betrayed some languor in the performance from previous exertion, and as also from its own duration, which at that stage of the opera was somewhat disproportionate. Of Miss STEPHENS, we have already spoken; she was in fine voice and sang accordingly. Some beautiful melancholy airs were very tastefully and chastely executed by Miss GRADDON, who was also encored. On the whole, looking to the music alone, this Opera has to boast considerable attraction; and with the exception of the overture, being the entire composition of Mr. BISHOP, will in no inconsiderable degree advance his well merited reputation. Upon the acting, we may be brief: HARLEY was most diverting as Tourist, the captive servant of Algernon, who determines to publish his travels; an altogether stale conception, but rendered very whimsical by the lively powers of the actor. TERRY as Admiral Rockwardine, a sea Sir Anthony Absolute, did all that could be done for a sketchy nonentity. BROWN, as an overseer of slaves, the fac-simile of a similar humane personage in Paul and Virginia, was tolerably at home; while GATTIE made a sort of Useph ben Mustapha create a laugh or two: which was very obliging in the audience, as they have laughed at the same thing so often before. The music can, however, support this piece, and it will do so. The songs are written with the usual power bestowed on this species of composition, generally mediocre or passable, with now and then a dash of nonsense. Opera was given out for repetition on Friday, with great applause, The Q. THE EXAMINER. NEWSPAPER CHAT. IMPERTINENCE OF SMALL CRITICS.-A man of genius and great sensibility to beautiful scenery, used to tell of his having visited, at day-break, a mountain in Wales, that commanded peculiarly charming prospects, in order to view the effects of a sunrise. It was unfortunately necessary, however, to have a Welsh guide, and the Welchman thought himself in duty bound to explain all the beauties that lay around him. He concluded his long jargon by saying, whilst he pointed to the orb of day, "and there you see the sun rising as naturally as possible." Was not this man a near resemblance to many critics on Shakspeare ?-CAMPBELL. Lectures on Poetry. MADAME PASTA.-When Madame Pasta smiles, a beam of joy seems to have struck upon her heart, and to irradiate her countenance. whole face is bathed and melted in expression, instead of its glancing from particular points. When she speaks, it is music. When she moves, Her it is without thinking whether she is graceful or not. it is a fountain of tears, not a few trickling drops, that glitter and vanish When she weeps, the instant after. Madame Pasta thinks no more of the audience than the fawn that wounded comes to drink, or the flower that droops in the sun, or wags its sweet head in the gale. She gives herself entirely up to the impression of the part, loses her power over herself, is led away by her feelings, either to an expression of stupor or of artless joy-borrows beauty from deformity, charms unconsciously, and is transformed into very being she represents. She does not act-she is it, looks it, breathes it. She does not study for an effect, but strives to possess herself of the feeling which should dictate what she is to do, and give birth to the proper degree of grace, dignity, ease, or force. This alone is true Nature and true Art.-New Monthly Magazine. the The equalisation of the wine and beer measures, which takes place on the 1st of May next, is important. The old wine gallon contained 231 solid inches, and that of beer 282; the new equalised gallon is to contain 277 solid inches, which will be an increase of one-fifth in the size as compared with the old gallon. OTHELLO NOT A BLACK.-The News of Literature proposes to get rid of the difficulty arising from the supposed necessity of blackening Othello's face, by which much of the play of the countenance on the stage is lost. It considers it a gross error to make him a negro. "was a Moor, but not a blackamoor ; and though in the tragedy he is "Othello," it observes, called an old black ram,' there is no reason to suppose that he was much darker than the generality of Spaniards, who indeed are half-moors, and compared with the fair Venetians, he would even then be black. There is great variety in the colour of the Moors, and there is no reason why Othello should be of the deepest hue; swarthy, or tawny, he might be, but not black, nor even so dark as to conceal all change of colour." When men pretend to work miracles, and talk of immediate revelations, of knowing the truth by inspiration, and of more than ordinary illumination, we ought not to be frightened with those big words, from looking what is under them; nor to be afraid of calling those things into question, which are set off with high-flown pretences. From hence it tures, have so much prevailed in the world. It is somewhat strange, has come to pass, that superstition and idolatry, enthusiasms and imposthat we should believe men the more, for that very reason upon which we should believe them the less!-Claget's Persuasive to an ingenuous Trial of Opinions. David Hume, to induce a young lady, who was very fond of reading novels, to read history, told her that there was no great difference between them, in point of falsehood, one being in general almost as true as the other. EDMUND KEAN.-We shall now proceed to consider the man', not the actor. Mr. Kean is, in person, five feet four inches, thick set, and inclined to corpulency; his hair is dark; his eye not very large, but remarkably expressive; his complexion sallow, and his countenance strongly betraying his Mosaic parentage, but capable of almost every variety of expression. His general character is generosity, amounting to profuseness; an instance of which occurred in his stripping off his great coat on a snowy night, and wrapping it round a miserable mendicant. Of his courage he has evinced many instances, but he is notoriously tyrannical, and easily accessible to flattery; his faults are mostly of the head, his virtues of the heart. It has been Mr. K.'s ruin to prefer low society to intercourse with rank and genius; and the Coal Hole, the where he disgraced himself and his profession, however largely he may O. P. and P. S. and the Antelope, White Hart-yard, were the places have contributed to the duty upon brandy. It is but justice for us to state, that Kean's urbanity and generosity to the poorer members of the profession, is peculiar and magnanimous.-Mr. Kean is an entertaining companion, and sings with taste and expression; his voice is a tenor, neither very extensive nor powerful; his falsetto is particularly pleasing; he accompanies himself on the piano-forte with more taste than skill; he is a tolerable mimic, and embodies Incledon and Braham with effect. His taste in gastronomy is not epicurean, a rump-steak being his favourite repast. His memory is particularly retentive; his fencing is universally admired, and he dances with ease and elegance. His first salary at Drury-lane theatre was 81. per week, which was, after his performance of Richard, doubled; since that period it has been gradually raised to 30%. on terms to play thrice a week, and if required to do more, 101. extra for every additional night. His benefits (save one, which he gave to the starving Irish) have all been exceedingly productive.-[From Oxberry's Dramatic Biography," an extremely neat, cheap, pithy, and amusing, little weekly n 66 On Wednesday, Mr. Kean visited Drury-lane theatre, and, with his which placed him in full view of the audience during the whole evenfriends, remained during the Opera. Mr. Kean took that side of the box ing. He appeared to be full of spirits, joining in the merriment of the Opera, and then taking a full view of the company in the house.—Morning Papers. LAW AND MUSIC!-The French boast of having turned their Code wonderful. He has not only versified, but set to music the whole Justi Napoleon into verse; but a German has achieved something much more view. The title of this nonsensical production is, Römisch-Juristisches nian Code of law; and, what is more absurd, it is written with a serious Gesangbuch. Leipzig, 1824. Every particular chapter in the code is Nine Guineas a week, has been engaged at Covent Garden Theatre at set to a popular melody; for instance, the rights of persons, to "Life let Twenty Guineas a week! This large augmentation of salary was opposed, us cherish," &c.-Harmonicon for January. MISS FOOTE.-Report states, that this actress, whose former salary was it is said, by one of the Committee of Management; but his opinion was over-ruled, on the same grounds on which the demand was made, namely-the great attraction which her name would possess in consequence of her late trial!-New Times. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION-NOBLE DONATION.-On Wednesday night, Dr. Birkbeck, the worthy President of the Institution, delivered to a crowded audience a lecture on the Theory of the Winds. The Learned Gentleman then read a letter from Sir Francis Burdett, stating in high terms his approbation of the Institution, and declaring, that nothing bas as yet appeared so well calculated to promote the welfare of the working classes; and be therefore desired Mr. Place (the gentleman to whom the One Thousand Pounds!-Thunders of applause followed the announceletter was directed) to put his name down for a further subscription of ment of this noble act of generosity. ST. LUKE'S, CHELSEA.-There is at present a strong controversy in this parish, arising from a vacancy in the office of organist. The chief canmusical professors-viz. Horsley, Attwood, Jacob, and Cannon, were didates are Mr. Goss, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Forbes. appointed to decide upon the merits of the candidates. These professors Four eminent were to hear the performance, but not to see the performers, who were the best; No. 5, Mr. Russell, next in merit; and No. 6, Mr. Forbes, severally marked by figures. They decided that No. 4, Mr. Goss, was inferior to the former two. Mr. Forbes, however, does not submit to this decision. Mr. Goss was a pupil of Mr. Attwood; yet the latter, while he joined with the others in deciding in favour of No. 4, actually conceived that Mr. Goss was No. 5, among the competitors. bombs horizontally, exactly in the same manner that cannon discharge Mr. Paixham (a Frenchman) has invented a mortar which throws balls. This bomb-cannon, executed under the orders of the Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, was lately proved at Brest. It answered every expectation, and carried as far as the largest ship-guns. The bomb went derable changes are immediately to be made in the naval materiel. In true to the direction, and the effect produced was so powerful, that consiwell-directed discharge of one of these bombs may blow up or sink the consequence of this new invention, large ships will no longer have the largest ship. advantage of crushing smaller vessels without running any risk. A idea of indisposition, how he thought she looked. The latter replied, A lady who rouged very highly, inquired of a gentleman, under the "I really cannot tell, Madam, except you uncover your face." LAW. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. CRIM. CON.-COX v. KEAN. brought by Mr. Alderman Cox, late banker and gold-refiner, against Mr. person who had long occupied the very first place in the first rank of a prevent any suspicion on his part. The appalling discovery was made in March last, when Mr. Cox immediately quitted his house, which he did not return to until Mrs. Cox had retired from it. On his return, he discovered a mass of letters in his wife's cabinet, which disclosed the full extent of her guilt. They were directed in various names, but it was abundantly clear that they were all addressed to the lady in whose possession they were found. The earliest was dated from Lyun, April, 1820, sad it clearly showed that the writer had triumphed over the virtue of the lady addressed. In this he called her "dearest of women," and anticipated the moment when he should "hold his dear little Charlotte in his arms." In the following year, Mr. Kean went to America, and from thence he wrote again, calling her his " dear little love," and concluding in the words of Hamlet "Doubt that the stars are fire, "Doubt that the sun can move, "Doubt truth to be a liar, "But never doubt, I love." (A laugh.) Witnesses were then examined for the plaintiff.-Mr. Hemming, Mr. Fellowes, and Mr. Wheeler, all testified that Mr. and Mrs. Cox had lived together in a very affectionate manner.-Mr. Blenkinsop,, in the house of Coutts, proved that the love-letters were in Mr. Kean's hand-writing. They were then read-and we select from them the following as speciMrs. Allen, to the care of Mrs. Price, Martlett-court, Bow-street, London. mens: Crown Inn. Mrs. Charlotte Allen, care of Mrs. Price, No. 1, Craven-buildings, near Wych-street, Drury-lane, London. April 5, (America). Lynn, 4th (post-mark, Lynn, 5th April, 1820.) DEAREST OF WOMEN,-It is the trick of letter-writing to panegyrise In other letters, he suggested great caution, and pointed out ways of fine countries, to comment on antiquities, to relate anecdotes, and in toto avoiding detection; which proved, Mr. Denman said, that the Plaintiff to tell your correspondent that you are a person of great observation. was kept in complete ignorance of the intercourse. On the 22d of Now, as I do not aspire to that character, and my pen is guided only by January, 1823, when matters were drawing to a crisis, he addressed her my heart, I shall tell my dearest Charlotte that I have been so lost in the as "his darling little love," and expressed his readiness to receive her thoughts of her, since I left London, that I have paid no other circumstance for ever." All I ask," said he, " is, that when you leave your husband's the least attention. My dear, dear girl, every mile that bore me from you house, you will hide yourself for a few months, till the hue and cry is convinced me how dear you was to my heart, every day I have passed over, that I may not be suspected; you know if the stolen goods are not without you, how essential you are to my happiness.-I am satisfied we found on the thief, there can be no conviction." (Great laughter, in were formed for each other, the assimilation of disposition in all its chawhich the Lord Chief Justice and the Bar heartily joined.) But the stolen racters proclaim it, and I could, if I was not a philosopher, revile most goods were found on him! (Renewed laughter.) The defendant pro- impiously the fate that has given you to another; but to answer some of ceeded to appoint a meeting near the Diorama-and assured her she should your darling questions-the theatre was last night crowded to excess, and have whatever money she wanted; aud concluded "you will find in me a the applause as enthusiastic as it could be for the country; but Charlotte lover, father, husband, friend :" to which was added the old quotation from did not hear it-the neighbourhood of Lynn is beautiful-the walks enHamlet. At last the anticipated " hue and cry" was raised, and the thief chanting-Charlotte does not partake of them; thus every thing that I was detected with the stolen goods on him. This took place in March, might enjoy bears with it a counterpoise of mortification. Our separation 1823; and, up to this period, Mr. Cox, living in affectionate harmony is, however, but transient. I have not yet made any arrangement for the with his wife, was utterly blinded to her frailty. The servants had a next week, and consequently expect to return on Sunday, and hold my suspicion that all was not right; but they dreaded to tell the fatal secret. dear little girl in my arins-" Fly swift, ye hours." But should any cirAt last, after many manoeuvres, in the absence of her husband, Mrs. Cox cumstance interfere with this, I shall let you know. And now, my dear, consented to receive Mr. Kean at Wellington-street, where she resided. dear girl, banish from your mind every supposition of a change in my Arrangements were made to prevent discovery, and to give time for Mr. affections; they are unalterable; from the first moment I saw you I loved Kean's escape. He came he slept there-circumstances occurred which every hour that passion has increased, and in the possession of your heart left no doubt of the criminality of the intercourse; but Mr. Cox returned I acknowledge with gratitude that I have obtained the very summit of my before the arrangements for concealment were in full activity, and a dis-wishes-do not doubt me, Charlotte, I write you from my heart, a heart closure was the consequence.-In Jan. 1823, Mr. Kean had an engage-overflowing with love, for a heart that while it beats shall own no other ment in the West of England, and the Plaintiff, bis wife, and others, went mistress. Dear, dear, dear Girl, more than fame, more than wealth, with him into the country. While there, Mr. Cox saw something which more than life, more than Heaven, I love you.-I have received your excited unpleasant feelings respecting his wife and Mr. Kean, and took charming letter, do come if you can!!! occasion to speak to him on the subject. What then passed he had no means of proving, as no witness was present; but his conduct could not be mistaken. Mr. and Mrs. Cox had left the party and returned to London, whither Mr. Kean sent the following letter addressed to the lady, under the name of Mrs. Simpson. It bore the post-mark, "Exeter, Jan. 6, 1823:"-" My dear little imprudent Girl,-Your incaution has been very near bringing our acquaintance to the most lamentable crisis. Of course, be (meaning Mr. Cor) will show you the letter I have written him: appear to countenance it, and let him think we are never to meet again, and in so doing he has lost a friend: leave all further arrangements to me. My aunt desires her best wishes to you, notwithstanding her anger, she says, of your conduct before him. Love shields the object of its wishes, not exposes it. All shall be shortly as you wish."-Here, then, was a suspicion excited, a plan laid to remove it, and a manifest proof that the husband bad been, till then, completely deceived, and that the parties dreaded detection. But what would the Jury think of the letter written about the same time to the plaintiff-the letter which his wife was " to countenance," and which was to render the delusion faster than ever? It bare the same post-mark with the last:-"My dear Cox,-1 have been senously considering the mass of nonsense uttered by us the two last nights at Salisbury. I must own likewise they have given me great uneasiBess. if I have paid more attention to your family than any other acquaintances, the simple motive was to show the world that I valued my friends as much in adversity, as when I shared their hospitality in their prosperity. I am sorry my conduct has been misconstrued, as the inference saworthy of yourself-me-and a being whose conduct I am sure is impeachable. To remove all doubts on the subject, and to counteract the effects of insidious men, I shall beg leave to withdraw a friendship rendered unworthy by suspicion."-Had he paused here, was it possible for any thing to be better calculated to remove suspicion, than this air of injured honour-this protest of angry and insulted friendship-this indig. mat withdrawal of an intimacy the motives of which were too pure to bear spicion? But this was not all. Mr. Kean proceeded-and let the Jury late from his own pen his own character as written against himself But be the worst of villains, if I could take that man by the hand while editating towards him an act of injustice. You do not know me, Cox" there he spoke truly, indeed!) "mine are follies, not vices; it has been ay text to do all the good I could in the world; and when I am called to perior bourue, my memory may be blamed, but not despised. Wishyou every blessing the world can give you, believe me nothing less an yours, most sincerely, Edmund Kean." Was it possible after this for the plaintiff to suspect that a human being to whom he had been a How shall I thank my darling little girl, for all her solicitude and affection, and how shall I tell her how much I love her, and how great my desire to have her once more in my arms? in my heart she reigns triumphant, and ever will reign there, while one pulsation throbs to recollection. Indeed, love, I sincerely repent of my folly in restraining you from your wishes; there is not a night or day passes but some pleasing remembrance makes me say, if she was but here! Indeed, Charlotte, I love you dearly love you, and though I always thought I did, the mortification of absence most powerfully convinces me; your charming letters are a great source of delight and instruction to me, as of course my feelings are deeply interested in the success of Drury-lane, and I receive all the events with double satisfaction when they come from you, as I am well assured you inquire into them only for my gratification; it will be some time before I shall thank my little darling in person. I stay another year in America, and the only way we have to reconcile it is, that it is to my interest. I shall sail from New York to Liverpool on the 16th of next April, anno 1822. Oh, what joy I shall then feel in clasping my dear, dear Charlotte to my heart! You ask me what money I am making? My love, it is almost incredible. I am living in the best style, travelling magnificently, and transmitting to England one thousand pounds each month.-It gives me great pleasure to find Elliston is doing so well; from his great kindness and indulgence to me, he is entitled to my best wishes; it is likewise doubly fortunate for me, as he cannot have any scruples in granting me an extension of my leave of absense. It is pleasing to find London does not forget me, though the musical phenomenon may have cast a temporary cloud over the tragic meteor of the dramatic bemisphere. Well, but how do you do? Are you in health? Are you in spirits? What are your occupations? No flatterers about you, I hope. Do not let any one rival or, at all events, supersede me in your affections. I have now, Charlotte, dispassionately and reflectively placed my whole heart and soul upon you!!! It may perhaps be burdensome to you, for 1 am jealous-very jealous. I know, as yet, I have no cause; but absence is sometimes dangerous. I have given up all the frivolities of my nature, rejected all correspondences that could interfere with your feelings. I have thought of you with the affection of a lover, and with the admiration of a friend, I have weighed the incontestible proofs of your love; have dwelt with rapture on the retrospection of the most happy moments of my life spent in your society; and, on summing up, have come to this conclusion that Mrs. Allen, care of Mrs. Price, No. 1, Craven-buildings, Drury-lane. August 18, (Post-mark, Hastings-August 21, 1821.) MY DARLING LOVE,-You must be aware how very difficult it is to get one moment to myself: the eyes of Argus may be eluded, but those of a jealous wife impossible: even now I am on tenter-hooks. I expect the door forced open, "and what are you writing," the exclamation-or Susan to see if every thing is comfortable, or Charles with a handful of endearments for his dear papa, all tending precisely to the same thing-what is he about? I shall therefore only say, here, there, or any where, I love you, dearly love you, and so, for ever, ever, ever. The same Direction. (Post-mark, Dec. 31, 1821.) MY DARLING LITTLE LOVE,-I am acting every night, and rehearsing every morning. The weather is bad. The houses not great. I am not well, but as much in love with Little Breeches as ever, and so shall continue in secula in seculorum. * London. * through life when imperious duty does not interfere,-I am, my dear Mrs. Simpson, care of Miss Tidswell, 12, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, Charlotte, unalterably, determinately, and affectionately your's, Edmund. (Post-mark, 27th August, 1822.) MY DEAR, DEAR, dear little B***,-I do declare, when I next see you, I will whip What do you cry for? And, what! do you fear me?-Impossible! A being with much less penetration than yourself can too plainly perceive my soul is centered in you. Every hour of my life but teaches me that all the world without you, my dear, my darling Charlotte, is valueless. You know this too, and yet you love to tease me. Do not give way to these follies: the world indulges me with quite my share of vexations, and it will be too hard to find thorns in the bosom that I fly to for shelter. I love you, my dear, so much, that Fame, my former mistress, has turned jealous of you, and blows her trumpet so discordantly, it rather appals than pleases; nay, she has more than once threatened to throw it from ber altogether, or fly to some one whose heart was undivided. We must not drive the capricious dame to extremities.I hope you got your plaid safe, and like it. I am a bad judge of these things; but it appeared to me very handsome. I asked for the dearest, and so it must be the best-they have not yet arrived, but I suppose they are on the way. I shall not see you, darling, till late in the November: before I come to town, I wish you to take, in your name of Simpson, some small house either at Camden Town, Kentish, or on the Surrey side of London (furnished) where we may meet unnoticed and unknown; this to be a secret from every one but Tidswell and yourself. I shall write at full upon this subject before I come to London-the fewer we trust the better. I told you I was ill, but I am getting better, shall be quite well by November, and then, my darling little dear, hey for kisses and blisses.-Be a good girl, and do not fret, or remember the whipping. I am playing to overflows every night. Mrs. Alleyn, care of Miss Tidswell, 12, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden. Tuesday, Birmingham (Post-mark, Birmingham, 25th Dec 1822.) MY DARLING LITTLE LOVE,-Make haste, you b***, and come to me; the clouds have dispelled, and the sun shines again upon my endeavours→→→ I want you now to cuddle and laugh, as much as before I needed your condolence-Saturday is a long day; but, however, I must be patient, everything is prepared for you-I am at the Swan; tell Jack, if he brings you by the coach, to take your places only to the stage, before you come to Birmingham, and enter the town in a chaise; it is less liable to obser vation, and increases respect. God bless my love, my darling, my life itself! September 21, Newry. Mrs. Alleyn, care of Miss Tidswell, 12, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, June 19, damned town, Mrs. Simpson, care of Miss Tidswell, 12, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, have MY DEAR LOVE, It is a true saying, that much may hap between the cup and the lip. When I had promised myself the rapture of your embraces, in come two damnable quarrelling, managers and set it all on one side. The fact is, two managers hold the Belfast theatre; one has the keys of the building, the other has me in written possession; neither will resign their pretensions, and so "between two stools down falleth the Friday, Aug, 5, (post-mark, Aug. 8, 1822.) dish." The termination of my Irish career will therefore be in LondonMY HEART STRINGS-That you are mistress of my heart and fate every derry, the 4th of October, and most likely shall be in London by the 9th. moment of my life confirms-the world, without you, appears one vast and So these 5001. and the gloomy dungeon, and your letters are as sun beams through the grating delight of having you two or three days sooner; but as it will be but two of my prison-house. I dwell on them with admiration; I fancy I am or three days-have patience-perhaps I may get some engagements near free, and for a moment I am basking in the full meridian of my wishes-London; and then, my little love, bey for kisses and blisses. Chip the delirium subsides-I see the barriers that encompass me-my sun with desires his best regards. This is a black Sunday; all are damned misedrawn (yourself)—and all is left to shade and desolation. Oh, God! rable: it is an infernal life. Direct Londonderry; Charlotte, how I love you. If such a feeling is a crime, why are we given LITTLE BREECHES. I open there the 29th. it? I did not seek it: the Power that will condemn has placed you in Dec 9, 1823. my way—the same inspiring hand that framed my better qualities, pointed to you as the object of my love-my everlasting love! I must not doubt the justice of the Great Being, and have little or no faith in the general tempter; whatever it be― "You are Fate, my Heaven, or my Hell!" Hughes left Dublin yesterday, he told me, for Richmond; but from a secret correspondence he has been carrying on, and an increasing mystery in his manner, I suspect there is a something in the wind, that his friends must not know; and I am sorry to own, that my disposition is so froward, that with me want of confidence is loss of friendship. One point you, my dear love, must look to; I shall send 1807., directed to him at D. L. T, on Tuesday, the 13th, which he will receive in due course; and though have no suspicion but what he will be there to receive it, I should like you to see he does; that is, call at the theatre yourself, and see when the letter arrives. By the time you will receive this, you will have seen him. Ask, in your own frank and casual manner, if he is going to France, and write to me instantly. I shall leave Dublin for Edinburgh the same day I direct the money to him; I play there on the 19th. Thus you see, my little darling, I make you my woman of business, as well as companion of my heart. Your offer to assist poor Emery is like yourself-noble and unaffected; but, my love, keep your little purse for contingencies. I will send to Emery. You charm me by your charity, for I know it is not from ostentation. Every day shoots up some unexpected tendril round the root of my affections, and you, little b***, have so entangled it, that nothing but an earthquake can disperse them. Tell Tidswell, that had she no further claims on my affection but behaviour to you, I should hold her in my heart for ever: 1 shall never forget it. Now, little b***, obey the following injunctions about Hughes-silence. Direct me, Simpson. Watch the receipt; make your plaid (alluding to a present he has sent Mrs. Cox from Scotland) as you please. Love me dearly, dearly, and get rid of obstacles as soon as you can. Caution be our password. What can I say? I love you better than all this world-all beyond. I see no remedy for our disease, but patience, and that must be exerted to the utmost. On my return from America all shall be as you wish, till then, it it impossible. You must think for a man struggling to obtain competence for his family, which the circumstances of our connection must totally destroy. I feel for you most sincerely-on my soul-my heart is breaking-but any rash step would destroy our hopes for ever. long to see you, but will not come to your house. If you enter the front door T. R. D.L, I will meet you through the other. Our meeting last night was cold and distant, not as formerly. L. B. Mrs. Elbe, care of Miss Tidswell, 12, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, (Post mark) Southampton, Jan 21, 1824. was the only subject of your epistles, every page assurances of you love; and your terminations, the hope of passing your life with me; seems now, as if you had become weary of the subject, but think necessary to fill the paper, that I may not too suddenly perceive a chang of feeling. You now tell me of concerts, going to plays, and give m long critiques of singers and actors, to whose merits or defects I am totall indifferent, and seem very clearly to have made up your mind to a ci cumstance, which once, I was vain enough to think, would have broke your heart-that of parting to meet no more. If such is your feeling depend upon it, I shall release you from your bonds before my departu for America. That simple style of writing that you had, and which used to clasp to my heart, kiss with my lips, and sleep with on my pilto is changed to the slang of fashionable coquetry. I did not give ti Colonel one smile to-night." Why any night, if those smili |