Q. sions. Convinced that candid, or even rigid criticism, is more service- the greatest, and we humbly hope, the most beneficent power that ever able to the stage than inattention, free admission to established papers regulated the concerns of man upon earth. In that lapse of forty years, may certainly be given to the advantage of both parties, without imthe generation of men with whom you co-operated in the conflict of arms proper expectation on the one side, or undue partiality on the other. has nearly passed away. Of the general officers of the American army If however withheld, no matter for what reason, we hold that a in that war, you alone survive. Of the sages who guided our councils, of the warriors who met the foe in the field or upon the wave, with the visible and self-evident recourse to critical malignity, in return, is un-exception of a few, to whom unusual length of days has been allotted fair to the public and base and disgusting in itself. The castigation by Heaven, all now sleep with their fathers. A succeeding and even a in this instance is so mild, as to amount to little beyond a hint; our third generation have arisen to take their places; and their children's "withers being unwrung," we would have had the deer more deeply children, while rising up to call them blessed, have been taught by them, stricken. In fact, no persons ought to resent these editorial meannesses, as well as admonished by their own constant enjoyment of freedom, to more than they who may be ranked with the very pitiable persons include in every benison upon their fathers the name of him who came who practise them.-But to return to the prelude: its chief aukward- from afar, with them and in the cause to conquer or to fall. The uniness consists in the necessity of the managers and actors, like the two versal prevalence of these sentiments was signally manifested by a resoDromios, complimenting each other. However, as each gires each this Union, requesting the President of the United States to communicate lution of Congress, representing the whole people and all the States of what is generally allowed to be due to him, the blushes are got tole- to you the assurances of grateful and affectionate attachment of this rably well over. We must not forget to observe, that Mrs FITZWIL- Government and people, and desiring that a national ship might be emLIAM, as a candidate actress, sang a mock bravura with a very happy ployed, at your convenience, for your passage to the borders of our mixture of power and humour. The three-act piece by MONCRIEFF is country. The invitation was transmitted to you by my venerable prefounded on a supposed love adventure of Charles II at Tunbridge decessor; himself bound to you by the strongest ties of personal friendWells. The merry monarch" aims at the seduction of a maid of ship; himself one of those whom the highest honours of his country had honour, Miss Stewart, (see PEPYS Memoirs) but is baffled by the rewarded for blood early shed in her cause, and for a long life of devoschemery of his famous jester, Killigrew, and the honourable love for tion to her welfare. By him the service of a national ship was placed at the same object of the Duke of Richmond. As a piece it wants your disposal. Your delicacy preferred a more private conveyance, and proper connexion and development; but there were several points scarcely an exaggeration to say, that it has been, to the people of the a full year has elapsed since you landed upon our shores. It were of real comedy in a saturnine merry fellow by TERRY, in the sim- Union, a year of uninterrupted festivity and enjoyment inspired by your pleton heroine of Mrs FITZWILLIAM, and in MIS TAYLEURE'S Gallic presence. You have traversed the 24 states of this great confederacy"mother of the maids." The rest of the attraction consisted in some you have been received with rapture by the survivors of your earliest very broad farce, chiefly produced by REEVE, in the character of an companions in arms-you have been hailed as a long absent parent by old silly Knight, to whom Charles in a frolic gives the control of his their children, the men and women of the present age; and a rising Court. The audience laughed heartily, and that is all we shall say of generation, the hope of future time, in numbers surpassing the whole this matter. With the present company, including Messrs TERRY, Population of that day when you fought at the head and by the side of YATES, WRENCH, T. P. COOKE, SALTER, Mrs FITZWILLIAM, Mrs in acclamations of joy at beholding the face of him whom they feel to their forefathers, have vied with the scanty remnants of that hour of trial TAYLEURE, Miss F. BRUNTON, &c. much that is entertaining between be the common benefactor of all. You have heard the mingled voices comedy and farce might be produced at this theatre, leaving the very of the past, the present, and the future age, joining in one universal broadest exhibition for second pieces. We should exceedingly like a chorus of delight at your approach: and the shouts of unbidden small house which could manage this well, and have often thought thousands, which greeted your landing on the soil of freedom, have folno matter what-we are becoming lengthy. lowed every step of your way, and still resound, like the rushing of many waters, from every corner of our land. You are now about to return to the country of your birth, of your ancestors, of your posterity. The Executive Government of the Union, stimulated by the same feeling which had prompted the Congress to the designation of a national ship for your accommodation in coming hither, has destined the first service of a frigate recently launched at this metropolis, to the less welcome but equally distinguished trust, of conveying you home. The future ages, of a stream already memorable at once in the story of name of the ship has added one more memorial to distant regions and to your sufferings and of our independence. The ship is now prepared for your reception and equipped for sea. From the moment of her departure, the prayers of millions will ascend to Heaven that her passage may be prosperous, and your return to the bosom of your family as propitious to your happiness as your visit to this scene of your youthful glory has been to that of the American people. Go, then, our beloved friend-return to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valour-ta "GENERAL LA FAYETTE, It has been the good fortune of many of that beautiful France, the nursing mother of the twelfth Louis and the my distinguished fellow-citizens, during the course of the year now fourth Henry, to the native soil of Bayard and Coligui, of Tureune and elapsed, upon your arrival at their respective places of abode, to greet Catinat, of Fenelon and D'Aguesseau. In that illustrious catalogue of you with the welcome of the nation. The less pleasing task now de-names which she claims as her children, and with honest pride holds up volves upon me, of bidding you, in the name of the nation, adieu. It to the admiration of other nations, the name of La Fayette has already And it shall henceforth burnish into were no longer seasonable, and would be superfluous, to recapitulate the for centuries been enrolled. remarkable incidents of your early life-incidents which associated brighter fame; for if, in after days, a Frenchman shall be called to your name, fortunes, and reputation, in imperishable connexion with the vindicate the character of his nation by that of one individual during independence and history of the North American Union. The part his cheek, the fire of conscious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he the age in which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism shall mantle in which you performed at that important juncture was marked with characters so peculiar, that, realizing the fairest fable of antiquity, its shall pronounce the name of La Fayette. Yet we, too, and our children, parallel could scarcely be found in the authentic records of human in life, and after death, shall claim you for our own. You are ours by history. You deliberately and perseveringly preferred toil, danger, the that more than patriotic self-devotion with which you flew to the aid of endurance of every hardship, and the privation of every comfort, in our fathers at the crisis of their fate. Ours, by that long series of years defence of a holy cause, to inglorious ease, and the allurements of rank, in which you have cherished us in your regard. Ours, by that unshaken affluence, and unrestrained youth, at the most splendid and fascinating sentiment of gratitude for your services which is a precious portion of court of Europe. That this choice was not less wise than magnanimous, has linked your name, for the endless ages of time, with the name of our inheritance. Ours, by that tie of love, stronger than death, which the sanction of half a century, and the gratulations of unnumbered voices, all unable to express the gratitude of the heart with which your Washington. visit to this hemisphere has been welcomed, afford ample demonstration. "At the painful moment of parting from you, we take comfort in the When the contest of freedom, to which you had repaired as a voluntary thought, that wherever you may be, to the last pulsation of your heart, champion, had closed, by the complete triumph of her cause in this our country will be ever present to your affections; and a cheering concountry of your adoption, you returned to fulfil the duties of the philan-solation assures us that we are not called to sorrow most of all, that we thropist and patriot in the land of your nativity. There, in a consistent shall see your face no more. We shall indulge the pleasing anticipation and undeviating career of 40 years, you have maintained through every of beholding our friend again. In the mean time, speaking in the name vicissitude of alternate success and disappointment, the same glorious cause, to which the first years of your active life had been devoted-the improvement of the moral and political condition of man. Throughout that long succession of time, the people of the United States, for whom and by whom you had fought the battles of liberty, have been living in the full ossession of its fruits; one of the happiest among the family of nations; reading in population; enlarging in territory; acting and suffering >ccording to the condition of their nature; and laying the foundations of DEPARTURE OF LA FAYETTE FROM AMERICA. WASHINGTON, SEPT. 9.-On Wednesday, long before noon, the bustle of military preparations was heard in our streets, in which all the usual business was suspended, to enable our citizens to join in the farewell ceremonies to General La Fayette. About eleven, the corporations of the district repaired to the President's house; and soon afterwards, the President, attended by the Secretaries of State, the Treasury, and Navy, and principal officers of the Government, accompanied General La Fayette into the large entrance-hall, where a number of citizens were in waiting to take leave of the venerable guest of the nation. In the midst of the circle the General took his stand, when the President addressed him in the following terms : LA ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO GENERAL FAYETTE, ON TAKING LEAVE OF HIM AT HIS DEPARTURE ON THE 7TH OF SEPTEMBER. of the whole people of the United States, and at a loss only for language to give utterance to that feeling of attachment with which the heart of the nation beats, as the heart of one man,—I bid you a reluctant and affectionate farewell." To which General LA FAYETTE made the following Answer:" Amidst all my obligations to the general government, and particularly to you, Sir, its respectable chief magistrate, I have most thankfully to acknowledge the opportunity given me at this solemn and painful produced emotions not easily described, but which every American will readily conceive. On reaching the bank of the Potomac, near where the Mount Vernon steam-vessel was in waiting, all the carriages, except the General's, wheeled off, and the citizens assembled around that of the General. The whole military body then passed him in review, as he stood in the barouche of the President, attended by the Secretaries of State. After the review, the General proceeded to the steam-vessel, under a salute of artillery, surrounded by as many citizens, all eager to catch the last look; and at four o'clock, this great, and good, and extraordinary man trod, for the last time, the soil of America, followed by the blessings of every patriotic heart that lives on it.-As the vessel moved off, and for a short time after, the deepest silence was observed by the whole of the vast multitude that lined the shore. The feeling that pervaded them was that of children bidding a final farewell to a yenerated parent. The whole remained gazing after the retiring vessel until she had passed Greenleaf's Point, where another salute repeated the valedictory sounds of respect, and these again were not long after echoed by the heavy guns of Fort Washington.-The General was accompanied to the Brandywine by the Secretary of the Navy, the Mayors of the three cities of the district, the Commander-in-Chief of the army, the Generals of the militia of the district, Commodore Bainbridge, and several other gentlemen.Thus terminated a scene deeply interesting to all who witnessed it; and in which feelings honourable alike to the American nation and its late guest were exhibited. THE GENERAL'S ARRIVAL IN FRANCE. moment, to present the people of the United States with a parting tribute of profound, inexpressible gratitude. To have been, in the infant and critical days of these States, adopted by them as a favourite Son, to have participated in the toils and perils of our unspotted struggle for independence, freedom, and equal rights, and in the foundation of the American era of a new social order, which has already pervaded this, and must, for the dignity and happiness of mankind, successively pervade every part of the other hemisphere; to have received at every stage of the revolution, and during forty years after that period, from the people of the United States, and their representatives at home and abroad, continual marks of their confidence and kindness, has been the pride, the encouragement, the support of a long and eventful life. But how could I find words to acknowledge that series of welcomes, those unbounded and universal displays of public affection, which have marked each step, each hour, of a twelvemonth's progress through the twenty-four States, and which, while they overwhelm my heart with grateful delight, have most satisfactorily evinced the concurrence of the people in the kind testimonies, in the immense favours bestowed on ine by the several branches of their representatives in every part, and at the central seat of the confederacy? Yet, gratifications still higher awaited me; in the wonders of creation and improvement that have met my enchanted eye, in the unparalleled and self-felt happiness of the people, in their rapid prosperity and insured security, public and private, in a practice of good order, the appendage of true freedom, and a national good sense, the final arbiter of all difficulties, I have had proudly to recognize a result of the republican principles for which we have fought, and a glorious demonstration to the most timid and prejudiced minds, of the superiority over degrading aristocracy or despotism, of popular institutions founded on the plain rights of man, and where the local rights of every section are preserved under a constitutional bond of union. The cherishing of that union between the States, as it has been the farewell entreaty of our great paternal Washington, and will ever have the dying prayer of every American patriot, so it has become the sacred pledge of the emancipation of the world, an object in which I am happy to observe that the American people, while they give the animating example of successful free institutions, in return for an evil entailed upon them by Europe, and of which a liberal and enlightened sense is every where more and more generally felt, show themselves every day more anxiously interested, And now, Sir, how can I do justice to my deep and lively feelings, for the assurances most peculiarly valued of your esteem and friendship, for your so very kind references to old times, to my beloved associates, to PARIS, OCT. 10.-The following is a more detailed account of what the vicissitudes of my life, for your affecting picture of the blessings passed at Rouen during the short stay of General La Fayette in that city, poured by the several generations of the American people on the reon his way to his seat of Lagrange, where he is at present.-It was on maining days of a delighted veteran, for your affectionate remarks on Friday evening that General La Fayette arrived in the ancient capital of this sad hour of separation, on the country of my birth, full, I can say, of Normandy. It was soon known that the guest of the American nation American sympathies, on the hope so necessary to me of my seeing again was to dine with M. Cabanon. At five they sat down to dinner; one the country that has deigned near half a century ago to call me hers? health only was drank, that of the defender, the veteran of liberty in the shall content myself, refraining from superfluous repetitions, at once two worlds. Towards eight a great number of citizens repaired to the before you, Sir, and this respected circle, to proclaim my cordial confirrue de Crosne, and when they perceived M. La Fayette at the balcony, the mation of every one of the sentiments which I have had daily opportu- greatest tranquillity reigned, and a serenade was heard with perfect sinities publicly to utter, from the time when your venerable predecessor, lence. Between the symphonies acclamations were raised in honour of my old brother in arms and friend, transmitted to me the honourable Gen. La Fayette; it was then, that unperceived by the crowd, there arrivinvitation of Congress, to this day when you, my dear Sir, whose friendly ed detachments of the Garde Royale and Gendarmerie. The Garde connexion with me dates from your earliest youth, are going to consign Royale conducted itself with a moderation which, unfortunately, was not me to the protection, across the Atlantic, of th eheroic national flag, on imitated by the Gendarmerie. The latter, in order to disperse peaceable board the splendid ship, the name of which has been not the least flat-citizens, treated them as rioters, and charged. Suddenly the women and tering and kind among the numberless favours conferred upon me. bless you, Sir, and you all who surround us! God bless the American people, each of their States, and the Federal Government! Accept this patriotic farewell of an overflowing heart: such will be its last throb when it ceases to beat." I God As the last sentence was pronounced, the General advanced, and, while the tears poured over his venerable cheek, again took the President in his arms-he retired a few paces, but, overcome by his feelings, again returned, and uttering in broken accents," God bless you!" fell once more on the neck of Mr Adams. It was a scene at once solemn and moving, as the sighs and stealing tears of many who witnessed it bore testimony. Having recovered his self-possession, the General stretched out his hands, and was in a moment surrounded by the greetings of the whole assembly, who pressed upon him, each eager to seize, perhaps for the last time, that beloved hand which was opened so freely for our aid when aid was so precious, and which grasped, with firm and undeviating hold, the steel which so bravely helped to achieve our deliverance. The expression which now beamed from the face of this exalted man was of the finest and most touching kind. The hero was lost in the father and the friend: dignity melted into subdued affection, and the friend of Washington seemed to linger with a mournful delight among the sons of his adopted country. A considerable period was then occupied in conversing with various individuals, while refreshments were presented to the company. The moment of departure at length arrived, and having once more pressed the hand of Mr Adams, he entered the barouche, accompanied by the Secretaries of State.-The carriage of the General, preceded by the cavalry, the marine corps, and Captain Edward's riflecorps, and followed by the carriages containing the corporate authorities, and numerous military and high civil officers, moved forward, followed by the remaining military companies. In taking up the escort, the whole column moved through the court in front of the President's mansion, and paid him the passing salute. The whole scene-the peals of artillery, the animating sounds of numerous military bands, the presence of the vast concourse of people, and the occasion that assembled them, altogether HAVRE, OCT. 6.—The Brandywine American frigate, with the General, his son, and suite on board, arrived here yesterday, after a passage of 25 days from Hampton-roads. He was received with every demonstration of attachment and respect, but without confusion or riot of any kind. The veteran appeared in the highest health and spirits. This morning a most sumptuous breakfast was given by Mr Beasley, the American Consul, at which the General, his family and suite, Commodore Morris, commander of the Brandywine, and about fifty other persons, were present. The banquet was most splendid, and the animated and graceful cheerfulness of the amiable veteran communicated an air of gaiety and enjoyment to the whole party. As soon as the entertainment concluded, the General and his party set off for Paris. A guard of honour, consisting of many gentlemen of the town, mounted on horseback, attended them to Harfleur. the children uttered cries of terror-every one was seized with a panic, but the gendarmerie nevertheless continued their march. Many females were thrown down and murdered; a manufacturer, 70 years of age, and many other persons, received wounds more or less severe, and the whole assembly was put to flight by the sabres and bayonets of the gendarmes, who arrested many individuals. Before their arrival, all had passed at Rouen as at Havre: but it was thought expedient at Rouen to interpose the police and an armed force; from this all the mischief has arisen.Notwithstanding the order which had been given to the innkeepers to let out horses to no one, M. La Fayette left Rouen escorted, three leagues from the city, by a numerous and brilliant cavalcade, proud of having received his congratulations and farewell. THE KING'S BENCH PRISON. Non ut placidis coeant immitia, non ut Serpentes avibus geminentur, tigribus agni.-HOR. Ars. Or make a snake engender with a dove, And hungry tigers court the tender lambs.-ROSCOMMON. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ABBOT, &c. MY LORD-The best possible answer that can be given to those who come forward to advocate the cause of the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison, and prevent inquiry, will be found in an extract from the Report of a Committee of the House of Commons, dated 5th May 1815, concluding in these words:" There is enough in the evidence to justify the opinion that the management of the prison should not continue ANY LONGER in the present state, and that it appears therefore on the whole to your Committee most advisable, that in case the Judges of the King's Bench should not have time to enter into a minute investigation upon the subject, that a Commission should issue from the Crown to form Rules and Regulations for the BETTER Government of the prison of the King's Bench, and that the plan should be submitted to Parliament, and that some legislative enactment should take place upon the subject." As J. Dobson, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, Lancaster, grocer. Solicitors, E. Jacobs, Thames street, Windsor, jeweller. Solicitor, MrIsaacs, Bury square. J. Dickinson, Church passage, Guildhall, warehouseman. Solicitors, might naturally be expected, the multiplicity of business prevented the Judges from entering into a minute investigation on the subject, and the consequence is, that the state of Denmark has become so rotten that you may nose it in the lobby," where one of the Marshal's minions (to the detriment of the poor prisoners, who certainly ought to enjoy this privilege), expects you to pay him for taking you to any friend inside. But to continue the exposition of the more flagrant and generally felt abuses, the rooms were the last upon which I touched, and the management of the Tap, as being equally odious, shall now follow:-The Marshal of the King's Bench receives 30s. from the keeper of the Tap for every butt of beer he draws; and when the number of prisoners is considered (there being on an average from 500 to 700), it must appear evident, that this is to Mr Jones a source of great emolument, who, being a faithful worshipper of the Golden Calf, tries every means in his power to increase the sale of it; and it was but a few months since that he locked out a person who was in the habit of supplying the prisoners with a much better beer for 4d. per pot, than Mr Jones retails at 5d. because Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters it diminished his profits. But you will naturally ask, my Lord, why the poor prisoner should give 5d. to Mr Jones for what he can purchase elsewhere for 4d.? That is a question somewhat difficult to solve; " but arm man with a little brief authority," and unless some mightier power interpose in the time of need, the Lord help his fellow man!-T. B. D. REVEREND MR AND MRS HORNE. A letter, dated Guernsey, Oct. 4, says, " You can easily conceive what a sensation, in a small place like this, the arrest and committal to prison of an English lady must create. The lady is the wife of the Rev. Mr Horne, of Chiswick (brother, I understand, to the Chancery barrister of the same name) and daughter to the celebrated Zoffani the painter. It appears that she and her husband, after living together for years, separated in 1822, in consequence of some misunderstanding. The lady was allowed to take her daughters, and a maintenance of 3001. assigned her. Mrs Horne lived since that time in France, and latterly in the island of Jersey, with her children, one of whom is a very fine young lady of 18, and the other a girl of 10 years of age. The Rev. Mr Horne having heard that his wife was guilty of some irregularity (the truth or falsehood of which I have no means of ascertaining) determined to take his children from her, and applied to her to give them up; but Mrs Horne refused, and removed to this island about three months since. Mr Horne lately appeared here, accompanied by Mr Brand, professor of chemistry, and having again failed in persuading her to give up even the second girl, he applied to the Court Royale. The Court ordered-"That as the father had an incontestible right to the possession of his children, being minors, they should be given up to him." An interval of a month was allowed to prepare her mind for the final parting. That time Mrs Horne employed so effectually, that it was agreed to let the elder girl remain with her for some time longer, upon the promise that she would go to her father when required; and further, Mr Horne agreed to pay 300l. to his wife on the day appointed for the surrender of the younger child. Mr Horne returned to Chiswick, and at the appointed time sent a friend to receive his child. The 3001, were paid to the lady, but when her part of the agreement came to be performed, she declared she could not live without her child, and that nothing on earth should induce her to part with it. The Court Royale directed that Mrs Horne should be committed to prison, under a charge of having surreptitiously removed a child that was under the surveillance of the police, to await the event of a prosecution ordered to be commenced against her. Mrs Horne is now in custody in the jail, and seems determined to brave the Authorities, She is silent on everything concerning the child, and will not give the slightest hint in what way she has disposed of it. All search has proved fruitless. Mrs Horne has been one of the most beautiful women in England, and though at the matronly side of 40, she still possesses strong marks of her former loveliHer eldest daughter never leaves her mother in the prison." ~ ness. J. Follett, Bath, innkeeper. Solicitor, Mr Makinson, Middle Temple. Saturday, October 9. INSOLVENT. J. S. Brinley, Birchin lane, ship broker. Solicitors, Messrs Freeman and Customs THE REVENUE. ended on the 10th of October, 1824 and 1825. 24,319,852 21,620,714 YEARS ENDED october 10. .... 1824. 1825. Decrease. £ .... 2,699,138 QUARTERS ENDED OCTOBER 10.. Increase on the Quarter WE call the attention of our readers to an account in another column, of the departure of General LA FAYETTE from the United States, and of the speeches and ceremonies which took place on that impressive occasion. It must be admitted, that America has very spiritedly exercised the rites of hospitality, and very honourably exhibited her grateful recollection of the services of an early and efficient friend. The Brandywine frigate has brought the General back to France, and we perceive the brutal Manchester manner in which the gens d'armerie altogether out of the way to observe here, that a General Election is have been allowed to conduct themselves at Rouen. It may not be at hand in France, as well as in England; and if we are to believe the Quotidienne, this "vast electoral movement" every seven years was little less than a revolution, In respect to many things, we sincerely written from Egypt by Mr THOMAS GALLOWAY, the intelligent son of the EGYPT.-The Times of yesterday contained extracts from various letters eminent engineer, and an able engineer himself, who is employed by the enterprising Pacha of that country in the erection of various machines connected with the useful arts. The Pacha is described as being surrounded with European adventurers, and using the most dexterous policy to obtain the most profitable information from them. He has his choice, and apparently he is quite equal to the task of selecting, from all the superb inventions of modern engineers, French or English. hope, what however we do not believe, that in the present instance, the Quotidienne may be right. Intelligence has been received from Calcutta this week, through the medium of a Swedish merchantman, arrived at Cowes from Bengal, after an exceeding quick passage, stating that the Burmese chieftain BUNDOOLAH had been defeated before Donabu, which place was in consequence captured. The Captain of this vessel further observes, that at his departure from Calcutta, it was widely reported that the King of Ava had made pacific overtures. Letters LORD ELDON'S CRAVING AFTER APPLAUSE. Had he but served society from Calcutta at the same time assert, that it is the intention of Go- with half the zeal, resolution, and intelligence which he has shewn in vernment to add the province of Arracan to British India, as a security serving himself, he would not in his old age have been so extravagantly for the future good conduct of the Burmese Monarch. In this way are thankful for the cheers of a few noisy schoolboys. This excessive gratiwe almost necessarily proceeding: gaining territory without strength, tude on a slight occasion towards the close of so long public a life, is a sad and extending the boundaries of a species of sway of the most artifi- symptom-it speaks too plainly the grievous exigence of the party, and cial and anomalous description, the ultimate fate of which forms one smallest donations are most thankfully received;"" for the love of place says as unequivocally as the abject language of the mendicant, that "the of the most difficult conundrums for the anticipative politician. It is and power give a cheer, young gentlemen, to a poor old Chancellor! It reported that his Grace of BUCKINGHAM is about to succeed Lord is good principle and interest to do so, my tender hearted scholars." AMHERST as Governor of India, and to extend the proverbially dis- Pah! We understand that the Lord Chancellor's professional friends interested services of the house of GRENVILLE to our eastern empire. have taken his letter to the school boys very much to heart; it both grieves We have no particular objection; esteeming the political theory of and angers them, as they regard it as an unnecessary betrayal of littleness. his Grace to be much more congenial with Asiatic than with British-By the bye, it would appear from a letter in a Morning Paper, that his notions of government; not to mention, that as the gagging system is Lordship is fonder of committing himself to paper than would scem conthe present order of the day at Bengal, the bulky Duke will sport like sistent with prudence. It is stated, that in the public room of an inn at a playful leviathan in a sea of practice, issuing quietly from his family Ringwood, there is a letter of Lord Eldon's, framed and glazed, in which principles. One question may however be pertinent-If Lord AM- he thanks the landlord, not for good cheer or good cheers, but for having HERST be withdrawn for deficiency of talent, what is known of the advised him of a road to Encombe only ten miles round, by taking which he was enabled to avoid the execrations of the good people of Ringwood, superiority of the Duke of BUCKINGHAM ¿ Queen's business. This epistle would form a good companion to that to who were prepared to do him anything but honour, for his part in the late the schoolboys.-Chronicle. Our readers will regret to learn, that, in conformity with the recent Proclamation, two vessels have been seized in the river, laden with arms and ammunition for the Greeks. It is at the same time asserted, that the Grecian Deputation has arrived in London, to make the offer of placing Greece under British protection-an unavailing proposal.wark, for the purpose of receiving presentments, and swearing in fresh By the way, it seems that the insurrections against Turkish sway have taken place in Jerusalem and Bethlehem; and further, that Turkey has some reason to apprehend the destination of a Russian army now assembling in Bessarabia. The Ministers are placed in a very aukward situation, by the officious interference, it is said, of the Board of Customs. It will be remembered that two merchant vessels loaded with stores, supposed to be for the Creeks, cleared at the Custom-house several days previously to the late Proclamation, forbidding these supplies being imported. A cruizer belonging to the Custom-house proceeded to the Downs, seized and brought back the ships then going on a legal voyage. Since the capture, the owners of the property have sent a memorial to Government, praying for he restitution of the ships and cargoes, on the strongest grounds, simply that they have offended against no law. We understand no reply is yet given. The situation of the Ministers is peculiar. If they order restitution, which is anticipated, by their act (after the date of the Proclamation) stores proceed to the aid of the Greeks; if they do not interfere promptly, British property, seized without cause, is left in the merciless gripe of the Honourable the Board of Customs. In the mean time the merchants suffer severely, and the object of the voyage may be entirely defeated.-Globe and Traveller-Saturday. The Glasgow Free Press says, in a letter from a private correspondent, that notwithstanding the late orders in council, three steam boats are building for Greece, one of which is "to have several long carronades and small guns, and two of Perkin's steam guns, so that she will in fact be a complete floating battery of immense power. Lord Cochrane himself is said to be in direct and close communication with the deputies, but go. vernment having made several inquiries about him, it has become essential that his place of residence should be as little known as possible" It is said that the Brazilian frigate Peranga, now lying at Portsmouth, is the private property of Lord COCHRANE, by whom it was originally purchased, for 15,000 dollars, and fitted out by him at Rio to go to Chili, to claim some pay due from the Republic; but receiving an offer from Greece, he proceeded at once to England, levying on his way contributions at Maranham and Babia in cotton, and giving bills upon the Brazilian Government, having been unable in any other way to obtain what was due to him.-Morning Paper. IMPUDENCE, INSULT, AND STUPIDITY.-In the New York Commercial Advertizer of the 12th September, is a long account of a speech made by the President of the United States to General La Fayette on his departure, and the reply of the latter; both are stupid, uninteresting, and lengthy, not worth any one's reading. In fact, these speeches are as dull as the wrdy stuff put forth by Sir William Curtis and others at Pitt Clubs; and by Sir Francis Burdett, Mr Hobhouse, and other patriots, at Fox Clubs. However, we give the conclusion of the La Fayette farce; for after all, if we may believe our correspondent in Philadelphia, La Fayette merely went to the United States to get hold of a sum of money and a large slice of land."-Morning Herald.-If the Editor of the Herald were doing his best to furnish Mr Cobbett with an excuse for the abuse and ridicule lately poured out upon him in the Political Register, he could not take more effectual means than by writing paragraphs so full of meanness, insult, and blundering, as the above. LEET JURIES-False Weights, &c. On Wednesday the Recorder of London, together with the High Bailiff, held three Courts Leet in SouthJuries. In the course of his charge to the Jury, the Recorder remarked, that a very important part of their duty was to inquire as to the offence of using false weights and measures. He had observed, with great pain, that in the three manors contained within the borough of Southwark, there were no less than one hundred and twenty persons presented as having been guilty of that most serious offence. He perceived that in many cases the amercements were but small; but he hoped in future, if the offence was persisted in, that the jury would regard it with a severe eye, and inflict such penalties as would prevent its being worth the party's while to continue the commission of it. The offence was not only presentable at the leet, but was also indictable, and punishable by fine and imprisonment; and be considered it his duty to declare, that in the event of any case being brought before the Borough Session, and found well proved, he was determined to inflict a sentence of both fine and imprisonment to a very considerable extent; for he felt, that although to the rich and opulent it might not be a matter of considerable importance, yet to the poor man, the extent of whose income did not amount to more than 10s. 15s. or 20s. per week, and who had a large family to support, it was a very serious evil. It was subjecting him to a tax by a party who had no right to levy it—a tax against all law and humanity, and founded upon that worst of passions which a human being can cherish an avaricious desire of gain, unmindful of the interests or comforts of their neighbours. LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.-Mr Editor, I have just met with a gentleman who has presented a number of sovereigns at the Bank, for the purpose of obtaining notes in exchange. The sovereigns were weighed at that huge paper establishment, and one, which was said to be light, was almost cut into two parts by the agents or clerks who were in attendance. Have they a right, Mr Editor, thus to deface the coin of the realm, and to destroy the property of individuals? If they have, is not every tradesman in possession of the same right; and what is the deficiency of weight that warrants the destruction? If, however, as I suspect, this destruction of real money is only to put people out of conceit with gold and silver, and to give them a predilection for a paper currency, I hope some spirited individual will resist the infamous attempt. The annals of England have already been sufficiently stained by the merciless executions which have been exhibited for the support of the paper system, to make every feeling heart rejoice at the introduction of a more wholesome currency; and yet, if the Bank possesses the right of destroying the legal coin of the realm, so as to render it worthless but as metal, the public distaste to gold and silver may fairly be anticipated.-DELTA. GYMNASTIC EXERCISES. A medical gentleman at the West End of the town informs us, that one of two boys, whom he sends to Mr Voëlker's Gymnasium, was very weak in his limbs from infancy, but that these exercises have strengthened the lad in a degree which has quite surprised his friends. The same gentleman, much to his credit, strongly recommends to his patients the adoption of this delightful and invigorating practice; although unquestionably, if they all took his advice, his practice would fall off desperately! We are gratified to hear of two ladies who are taking private lessons, one of Captain Clias, the other of Professor Voëlker, with the intention of offering to their own sex those blessings consequent upon bodily vigour, which the tyranny of custom in civilized countries has hitherto denied to them even more than to men. We are told that the conductors of various female schools have signified a desire to obtain a person competent to teach Gymnastics to their pupils. NEWGATE.-Jorgen Jorgenson, noticed in our last paper, has sent us a letter, dated October 13, in which he denies the truth of Mr Clarke's statement concerning him. He concludes his letter thus:- Meanwhile, I remain here very quietly, exercising the same duty which I have performed for several years past; neither do I suppose that Mr Secretary Peel will come to any final decision on any case till an enquiry shall be made whether I have ever been called upon for my defence, and what the nature of my defence may be." Mr MULOCK. The preaching of this fanatic has given occasion for a riot at Oxford, where a High Church rabble are easily set to work by the well paid and orthodox. His doctrines are sufficiently revolting, no doubt; but had he not bitterly assaulted the churchmen, we suspect that personal violence would not have been resorted to. Absurd as this man's opinions are about election, grace, &c. they are nevertheless all to be found in the Thirty-nine Artich of the Church of England. He might have raved away, however, about God's Elect (some dozen or two) and the Synagogue of Satan (the rest of mankind) had he not poured out his wrath Another Mr VINING, of whom report speaks highly, is to appear at the upon "learned and distinguished Divines," and averred that, "so far as Haymarket theatre on Saturday next, in the character of Octavian. their spiritual state is indicated by their writings, Paley and Watson were THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS.-A curious calculator sends us the as thorough unbelievers as Thomas Paine. Both appear to have been following statement:-When the earth is compared to an ant-hill, the void of even the faintest knowledge of the elementary truths of the Gospel, comparison, he observes, is very inexact, so far as respects the propor viz. man's entire and unqualified apostacy from his Creator, and the clear tional bulk of the animals and their habitation. If we suppose that there consequent necessity of regeneration, in order to capacitate the creature are at present 600 millions of human beings on the globe, and that ten for spiritual life."-And again: "Amidst all the gorgeousness of our persons, men, women, and children, on an average, are equal in bulk to Church Establishment, and the less ostentatious but not less sordid zeal of a cubic yard; then the whole existing race of mankind, if closely packed variously denominated Dissenters, the population of Great Britain is sunk together, would form a mass equal to a pyramidical mountain 1,000 yards into Heathenism, as absolute as that of China or Hindostan."-This was each way at the base, and 60 yards high-that is, a mountain rather less not to be endured in the very head quarters of Episcopacy, so the enemy than Arthur's Seat. Farther, if we suppose 150 generations from the was to be subdued, not by humility, long suffering, turning the left cheek, Flood to the present time, and estimate each generation at 300 millions, &c. but by the more active virtues of mud and other convincing missiles, the whole, if brought into a mass, would not equal in bulk Benlawers alded by the sedative qualities of Thames water.-In Mr Mulock's esti in Perthshire, assuming that mountain to be a cone of 15,000 feet mation, the Methodists are quite as corrupt as the Orthodox. He says, diameter at the base, and 3,700 feet in height. Yet Mount Etna is thirty "the religion of the Methodists and that of self-styled evangelical times the size of Benlawers-Chimborazo is ten times the size of Etos— professors seems to be a religion of tracts and magazines, to the virtual and it would requre ten thousand millions of mountains like Chimborazo exclusion of the Bible. But the Methodists have wholly succeeded in to make a mass equal to the globe.-Scotsman. placing sensation in the room of spirituality. They have contrived what Lord Peterborough, when a widower, became deeply enamoured of the may be termed convulsive Christianity-a system of sighs, groans, and accomplished Anastasia Robinson, daughter of a painter; who, though sa seusual impulses, to supersede the glorious Gospel faith. Looking through opera singer, a teacher of music, and the Italian language, to support sa the annals of Methodisin, the Christian cannot fail to notice the subtlety of aged parent, rejected all his advances tending to an illicit connexion. The Satan in thus seasonably providing a substitute for Popery in the hour of Earl, dreading a total loss of the fair Anastasia, married her privately, and its decline. Methodism retains every thing of Popery but its gorgeousness concealed the circumstance, till, in 1735, he publicly owned what most and ritual observances. The same depraved deference to human authority, people knew before. He proclaimed his marriage in the following singsin things spiritual, stamps it the religion of a corrupt nature. Then, lar manner. He went one evening to the rooms at Bath, where a servant Wesley, Whitfield, Coke, Fletcher, &c. &c. each and all of them unac was ordered distinctly and audibly to proclaim, "Lady Peterborough's quainted with the rudiments of divine truth, serve them instead of Popes carriage waits." and Councils. Evangelical Religion is Church Methodism, and must EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY.-A Surgeon named Pulo Timan, who resi therefore be deprecated by every faithful follower of Jesus.-It is Methoded in the little village of Vendemont, in Lorraine, died lately at the age dism insinuated into Vicarages and Curacies, taking the oversight thereof for filthy lucre."-This is not ill said; and if this new teacher possesses talent and courage, and it seems that he is not deficient in either, he will soon, aided as he is by persecution, become a leader of no small note. The followers of the God Moloch used to pass through fire in this world, to obtain everlasting bliss in the next; the hearers of the Preacher Mulock are assured, that never-ending tortures await all but a few select vessals of grace! Barbarous as were the institutions of the "horrid God," as Milton calls him, the doctrines of the Oxford Teacher appear to us to be still more revolting to reason and humanity. What with the Ranters, the Shakers, the Dunkers, the Bryanites, the Southcotians, the Methodists, the Mulockites, the Antinomians, and the Athanasians-the people of PHILOSOPHY.-It is said that, as Sheridan sat at the Piazza Coffee England may well talk of themselves as "most enlightened and think-house, during the fire, [D. L. Theatre,] taking some refreshment, a ing!"-It is not a little singular, too, that all these religionists profess to friend of his having remarked on the philosophic calmness with which be your only true disciples of Jesus, whose chief precepts were, "to do as he bore his misfortune. Sheridan answered, A man may surely be alyou would be done by," and, above all things, "to love one another.”— lowed to take a glass of wine by his own fire-side.' Verily, it is a pleasant mode of calling forth the benevolent feelings, to assure men that God will everlastingly burn all those who cannot believe in the efficacy of ranting and shaking-in the incarnation of the modern Shiloh-the saving grace of beard-wearing and mutilation-the consoling doctrine of election-or the rational creed of the Trinitarian Saint!-The Taunton Courier says, "Mr Mulock, who has so unhappily been dis-night we were all delivering our respective and various opinions on him tinguished at Oxford, is a gentleman of very considerable attainments, and has been, through life, patronised by Mr Canning, purely from the respect and admiration due to his abilities. Mr Mulock's father lately resided in this town, and we know that it was a source of much inquietude to him, that his son's fine talents and well founded expectations of success in life should befannulled by the fanatical perversities of understanding to which he had resigned himself. Mr Mulock was a member of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He has published several religious works." The celebrated Cleopatra's Needle is really coming to England: Sir E. Banks is building a vessel for the purpose of transporting it. The Renfrew great timber ship will unload her cargo at Northfleet, after which she will come up the river. THE KING AND MR SHERIDAN.-The Morning Herald complains that Mr Moore has taken every opportunity, in his Life of Sheridan, to level his lightnings at the Royal head, although, it says, his Majesty was willing, to the last, to bring Mr S. into Parliament; and that even his friend Mr Fox saw reason to behave with marked coldness to him. The Herald forgets to observe, that the coldness shown to Sheridan by Fox occurred when the former was in office and in health, while the alleged neglect of the King took place when he was in great poverty, lying on a death bed, with hungry creditors assaulting him, and sheriff's officers actually seizing upon his furniture. It is indeed intimated, that while in this forlorn condition, his Majesty desired that 50l. should be transmitted to the dying man; which sum was declined by Mrs Sheridan.-Many of Mr Sheridau's infirmities were doubtless of a very offensive description; but he had been to the last a faithful servant of the PRINCE; and his neglect of him, we suppose, could not have originated in any Royal notions respesting the morals of his old friend. of 140 This man never left his native place. The day before his death he performed on a female, with a steady band and with professional dexterity, the operation of cutting for the cancer. He never married, was never bled, never underwent any course of medicine, having had as occasion for it, as he was never ill, though he passed no day without get ting tipsy at supper, a meal which he indulged in to the very last.—Pari Paper. NEWSPAPER CHAT. LORD BYRON'S OPINION OF SHERIDAN.-The following extract from a Diary in my possession, kept by Lord Byron during six months of his residence in London, 1812-13, will show the admiration which this great and generous spirit felt for Sheridan:-" Saturday, Dec. 18, 1813.-Lord Holland told me a curious piece of sentimentality in Sheridan. The other and other hommes marquans, and mine was this:- Whatever Sheridan has done or chosen to do has been, par excellence, always the best of its kind. He has written the best comedy (School for Scandal), the best opera (The Duenna), the best farce (The Critic-it is only too good for an afterpiece), and the best address (Monologue on Garrick,—and, to crown all, delivered the very best oration (the famous Begum Speech) ever conceived or heard in this country.' Somebody told Sheridan this the next day, and, on hearing it, he burst into tears! Poor Brinsley! If they were tears of pleasure, I would rather have said those few but sincere words, than have written the Iliad, or made his own celebrated philippic. Nay, his own comedy never gratified me more, than to hear that he had derived a moment's gratification from any praise of mine, humble as it must appear to my elders and my betters.'"-Moore's Life of Sheridan. HARRIETTE WILSON.-The Bath Herald says-"We have this week received a letter from the well-known Harriette Wilson, in which we are requested to obtain for her "some funny anecdotes" relating to a most respectable gentleman of this neighbourhood, with whom she acknow ledges herself to be unacquainted, for the purpose (to use her own words) of obliging him "to buy out of the book!" Feeling such an application as an insult to ourselves, we have thought it right thus publiely to notice it; and to add, that the letter to which we allude, if necessary, be tiways at the service of the friends of that gentleman." ELOPEMENT.-A short time ago, a Rev. Gentleman who resides within 20 miles of Pontefract, made a clandestine journey with the fair daughter of a clerical brother, of a well-known noble family. The fugitives were successful in eluding pursuit.-Leeds Intelligencer. |