Whether thou soar'st beyond the pole,
Or darkling grub'st this earthly hole,
In low pursuit,

Know, prudent, cautious, Self-control
Is wisdom's root.

THEATRICAL EXAMINER.

Q.

COVENT GARDEN.

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HAYMARKET.

blame to Mr FARREN-into sheer absurdity. We mention this, that as much of it may be got rid of as may be, or at least modified. Thes excrescence is not in Moliere, and if it had been nowhere else, the play would have been the better for its non-existence. Upon the whole, however, the concocter of this hors d'œuvre has very fairly succeeded, the author of which, Mr HYDE, is already favourably known to the world by a published tragedy, entitled Alphonsus. We now and then detected a little colloquial undress in the female dialogue, but the lovers preserved all the necessary dignity, and sometimes to On Wednesday evening, a new comedy, in four acts, was produced the utterance of lines beautiful at once in sentiment and in expresat this house, under the title of Love's Victory, or a School for Pride.sion. The play met with decided approbation, and relieved in the It is said to be taken from a Spanish play, and so it may originally, character of Pedro and his servant, and of a small portion of surplus but we suspect that the author has gone no further than the Prin-small-talk, will, we doubt not, be popular through the season. Not of cesse d'Elide of Moliere, as the main plot of his comedy, with the the stronger order of production in any sense, it is yet fair in its way, and will prosper accordingly. exception of the very absurd scene of action chosen by the celebrated French dramatist, is almost precisely similar in conduct and manageThis theatre was crammed to the roof on Tuesday night, to witness ment. Our English playwright lays the scene in the Court of a Duke of Barcelona, and happily chuses his dramatis persona from the last performance of Quite Correct and Paul Pry this season. At Spanish, French, and Italian cavaliers. The story is quickly told: the close of the latter, Mr LISTON came forward as Paul Pry, and the Princess Diana of Barcelona has taken it into her head that it is addressed the audience in a speech of which the following is a brief dignified and philosophical to resist the blandishments of love; but summary :-" Ladies and Gentlemen-The managers have appointed at the same time she has no sort of indisposition to accumulate vicme their spokesman on this occasion, and really between you and I, tims to her charms. The good prince, her father, is mightily afflicted for it shall go no further, they have acted very wrong, because I am at this high-flown resolution, and has assembled three princely suitors not in the habit of speaking in public.-(Laughter and Applause) at his Court, Gaston, Count of Foix, Louis, Prince of Bearn, and Now, seven months is a long season, summer season I mean, unless Don Casar, Prince of Naples, the latter of whom is despairingly and we mean the winter to last till July.—During this period they have devotedly attached to his proud mistress. Now the Princess is brought out several new pieces which have had a very great run-no, served by an arch Neapolitan Secretary, who advises the Prince to I mean a tolerable great run; and I think, between you and I (for I affect the same indifference as the lady, and to baffle and pique her make it a point never to pry into anybody's affairs but my own) that with a return of her own scorn. He takes the advice, and with well they will be able to make both ends meet. The performers also constructed inconsistency perseveres until the haughty Diana is abso-return you their most sincere thanks (and between you and I, I think lutely stung into love, and on the Prince carrying his deception so they ought to do so) for your patronage. I, myself, as one of them, far as to appear to propose for the Princess her relation, she exhibits thank you with all my heart, and take my leave of you pro trumpery all the paroxysms of despair and jealousy, until her pride at length only, and as you have been liberal in your patronage this season, gives way, and the devoted lover not only gains his mistress, but the which was (speaking freely between ourselves) very kind of you, so pleasant addition of an ardent attachment. We honestly confess, that may we hope for a continuance of it next season.-(Great applause we have no small predilection for these plots of silken and gauzy and laughter, in the midst of which Mr L. after bowing repeatedly, texture, which deal a little romantically with the primary affections, retired, but soon returned.) I beg your pardon, but I hope I don't and seduce us into a world of fiction indeed, but with sufficiency of intrude; I just dropped in to get my umbrella, which I left in the verisimilitude to sanction a due share of sympathy and attention. corner, and which if I do not get now, I shall be obliged to go Moreover, in the present instance, a very happy portion of skill is without till next April, which is a long time you'll allow."-This exhibited in the development, and in the conveyance of nearly the strange speech closed the evening's and the season's entertainment. single interest in the piece. Neither, in point of fact, is the mainspring of the incident so wild in point of sentiment as it may appear; for we suspect that the stilted gallantry of the days of Anne of Austria, and, the conversation at least, of the Hotel de Rambouillet, some years afterwards, might easily engender an heroine like our princess, in a certain order of female mind. Be this as it may, take the possibility for granted, and everything necessarily follows-at all events, it did so with ourselves. The Princess was performed by Miss LACEY, who, in the transitions of her feelings from scorn to resentment, from resentment to love, and in due succession to jealousy and despair, displayed talents and energies of a very high order. Having seduced the Prince into an ardent expression of passion in forgetfulness of his assumed coldness, her change from anxiety to exultation was expressed with surprising fervour; and the final confict of love, pride, and jealousy, when he apparently seeks the hand of Donna Laura, supplied a similar instance of fine conception and skilful ex-pleasant. ecution. In short, we think that this piece will satisfy the public of capabilities in this lady of which they have not been sufficiently aware. The lover of KEMBLE has long been approved, and although at present more "fat than swain beseems," we know of no one that can compete with him in that character, especially in the amoroso of chivalry or romance. The struggle of his real with his assumed feelings, was finely displayed; and as it was a necessary part of the plot that he should retain the prince and gentleman, while he gave up the attached cavalier, he hit the happy medium with great skill and tact. His recovering from his dangerous lapse into tenderness, was eminently happy, as well as the entire of the equivoque produced by the love plot. JONES performed Perrin, the arch and mischievous Secretary of the Princess, and delivered the part of his excusable roguery with extreme vivacity, to the insurance of no small portion of applause. The rest of the characters had but little to do that required anything beyond pleasantry of manner and appearance, except Miss Love, who almost makes love to the audience as ably as Madame VESTRIS, and at all events seldom fails to divert them. In the present instance, she is an attendant on the Princess, and the chere amie and confidant of the Secretary. We had like to have forgotten a silly old courtier yeleped Don Pedro, performed by W. FARREN-a sort of Spanish Lord Ogleby of the olden time. It promised in the first scene more than it realised, and finally degenerated-no

FINE ARTS.

PRINT FROM THE ERRAND BOY.-Mr RAIMBACH's engravings from this eminence antecedently to his print of The Errand Boy, just now pubWILKIE are among the master-pieces of his art, and he always sustained lished, from the picture in the collection of that tasteful patron of art, Sir J. SWINBURNE, Bart. This performance however does not exactly reach that previous excellence. It however possesses the attractive composition, as well as the personal character, that must necessarily enrich, more or less, every engraving from such a pencil as WILKIE'S, that is not positively poor. It has enough of the distinctive power of the former Mr RAIMBACH to render it a desirable addition to the possession of that is from a capital vintage, but not of its very best sort, it has a good his preceding works, and indeed of all collections of prints. Like wine smack of the character of the soil, and sufficient to render it highly

READING OF THE WILL.-Amidst a scarcity in the publication of large line engravings, that is discreditable to the virtuosi of the day, it will be an acceptable communication to state, that Mr RAIMBACH has made much progress on a plate from WILKIE'S picture, Distraining for Rent. We wish that we could feel a fraction of the satisfaction which another engraving from such masters will produce, while we express our opinion of the new print by Mr JOHN BURNET from Mr WILKIE's painting, The tural or any other translation. Sternhold and Hopkins did not worse Reading of a Will. We scarcely ever saw such havoc made in a scutpmisconstrue or tame down the energies of their Eastern original. All the beauties of the engraver's art may be deduced from what is not in this hard, sooty, blotchy, and blurred production. It is pre-eminent in a rigidity of outline, and a dismal blackness, which banish all that playful movement and neatness of pencil so copious in WILKIE, and that tender middle shade which moderates and connects, in grateful union, the highest lights and strongest shadows in all good engravings and paintings. The discriminative features and feeling of the painter's mind are so obscured, that those who had not seen the original picture, but from WILKIE. Mr BURNET will, it is said, upon the publication of a print are acquainted with the painter's style, would scarcely suppose it was he has nearly finished from a painting of Mr ALLEN, more than retrieve the professional credit be may lose in this work.

RANGOON VIEWS.-Whatever may be the opinion respecting British policy in India, there must always be a degree of attention excited to any region where the power of our country is established, or where our

POOR-LAWS AND PARISH OFFICERS. countrymen are engaged in active hostility. It is especially so at present DISTRESSING CASE.-It is time that some important alteration was in India, and particularly in the Birman Empire, the scene of active conflict between its forces and the British East India Government. It is made in that part of the Poor Laws which regards the Settlement of Pauwith this feeling that we have inspected the first part of Views in the Bir-pers, and that the feelings of the public should not be shocked by scenes A poor wretched woman named man Empire, aquatinted by Mr G. HUNT, &c. from able drawings by like those we are about to detail. Lieutenant MOORE, made in the places they represent, and of which two Harlow, and aged about 54, arrived in Canterbury a few days since, more are soon forthcoming. It contains a large and finely-conceived from Birmingham, on her way to Margate, to which place she belonged, Vignette by Mr STOTHARD, and six Views at and near Rangoon, includ- and whither she was anxious to go. On her arrival she applied to be ing some of the chief operations of the East India Army, carefully and admitted as a casual pauper into the workhouse, and on the 5th of beautifully coloured. With this feeling is connected the gratification November was escorted out of the city, at her own request, by the that arises from the novel and picturesque localities of the Birman coun- Beadle, who having seen her as far as the barracks in Northgate, left When she arrived at the Cottages next Vauxall try, its Stockades, its graceful trees, splendid pagodas, &c. and though her to pursue her rout. we do not intimate that that pleasure partakes of the high quality Gate, she was so ill that the people took her in, gave her refreshment, which such exquisite engravings in line as Mr LANDSEER's Views in Dacca (the poor are generally kind to each other) and after resting a consideinspire, still there is enough in the composition and general management rable time, went towards Sturrey. When she arrived there, she of these Views to justify our opinion, and ensure their success.-The requested a glass of water at the house of Mr Hodgson, who, seeing the subjects of the plates are,-1. The position of part of the Army previous poor creature was very ill, gave her some warm milk, and sent for the to attacking the Stockades.-2. Storming of one of the principal Stock- parish officers, who very properly admitted her into the workhouse. ades.-3. Gold Temple of the principal Idol Guadma.-4. Terrace of While there, however, she continued getting worse, when upon the the Great Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon.-5. Landing at Rangoon of the Wednesday following they determined to remove her to Margate, and Forces.-6. Harbour of Port Cornwallis, with the Fleet getting under she was lifted into a cart by several people, and Crouch the constable R. H. drove her down. The Margate parish officers at first agreed to take her weigh for Rangoon. in, but afterwards, finding the poor woman had neither pass nor order, they peremptorily refused, although it was explained to them she was in a dying state, and notwithstanding Mr Philpot, of Sturrey, who hap pened to be at Margate, and saw the constable with his wretched charge, offered to indemnify the parish for any expence they might be put to, if they would only take her in and give her shelter. But Messieurs the Parish Officers of Margate were not to be moved; they continued inexoorable. Mr Philpot then, as a dernier resort, went to the Rev. Mr Baylay, a Magistrate, stated the case, and requested an order for her admission, but the Rev. Gentleman refused to interfere, or to take any cognizance of the affair! The constable then drove the wreched woman back from Margate to Sturrey, and the poor sufferer was again lifted from the cart, where (in this inclement season) she had remained all day, and put to bed. However, her trials were nearly over-she languished till Saturday morning, when she expired, and was buried next day, Sunday! Here is an instance of the evil of the Laws of Settlement, as they exist at present-and a specimen of the heartless means which Parish Officers do not scruple to have recourse to, in order to shift a pitiful burthen from their own immediate parish. It is a shameful affair. The only redeeming features in the case are the sympathy of private individuals, and the spirited efforts of Mr Philpot at Margate. We leave the rest of those concerned to their reflections, and do not envy them.-Kent Herald.

KING'S BENCH PRISON.
Twould be a pity, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby, thou shouldst ever feel sorrow
of thy own; thou feelest it so tenderly for others.-STERNE.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. PEEL, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
THE HOME DEPARTMENT, &c. &c. &c.

SIR, The knowledge that you possess, more than a common share of
that natural instinct which prompts men to desire the welfare of others,
and that the pursuit of general happiness is the mode adopted for pro-
curing and establishing your own, has induced me to take the liberty of
addressing you on this subject, and is the only excuse I have to offer,
in extenuation of such proceeding. On a motion being brought forward
last session by Mr J. Smith, for an enquiry into the state and manage-
ment of county gaols, you expressed your readiness and determination to
do everything that lay in your power to relieve those who were labouring
under the greatest of all earthly privations, the loss of liberty. Here
then, Sir, is a fine opportunity for the display of your characteristic, hu-
mane and philanthropic feelings; and after retiring from the arduous du-
ties of your office to the bosom of domestic peace, will not the consciousness
of having, by your own exertions, ameliorated the condition of a large
portion of the less fortunate of your fellow creatures, tend considerably to
increase that delight, which immediately follows giving joy to another,
or relieving his sorrow, and to which sensation you are no stranger? But
to the point: the Marshal of the King's Bench, in his report of fees and
statement of disbursements, complained bitterly of the sums expended in
medical attendance upon prisoners; but nevertheless, to prevent the ap-
pointment of a regular medical officer, (which, I am convinced, had an
inquiry been gone into, the Honourable Committee would at once have
recommended) says, that in consequence of a judicious regulation, and
diminution of expence, he is willing to take the burthen upon himself, and
thus 'tis managed. By subscribing a small sum per annum to a dispensary;
he becomes a governor, and is entitled to have a certain number of
patients upon the books-ten, I believe-who, as may readily be ima-
gined, experience no very great degree of attention, it being out of the
power of their institutions (from a multiplicity of business) to bestow it.
Now this may give the Marshal a sort of patronage out of the prison, but
in nowise facilitates the access to their professional man of the unhappy
prisoners within the walls; for I know from ample experience, that it is
not the custom to give any attendance but at stated hours. What then is
to become of the unfortunate prisoner attacked with disease during the
night; a time, too, when it generally assumes a more aggravated form.
True it is that, amongst such a number of persons, a medical man may
almost be invariably procured; but, it cannot be expected, that one
placed in an equally unfortunate situation, can afford to devote his time
and attention to the condition of such an establishment, without fee or
reward; and, on the other hand, before the officers at the gate could be
roused, and a surgeon found, death might have taken place. This, then,
with the selection of two cases, will, I trust, prove the absolute necessity
of a legislative interference. A medical man, a prisoner, was summoned to
attend a person at midnight: he went, furnished him with the necessary
medicines, and the patient recovered from a most violent attack of cholera
morbus. The second case relates to a prisoner, ill with typhus fever,
who was visited by some person from the dispensary for a few days, but
he neglecting the patients, the same gentleman was called in, and in the
course of a fortnight, restored him to health, during the whole of which
time he never received a single visit from any other medical man.
then applied to Mr Jones (the present Marshal) for some small remunera-
tion for his trouble, but was refused any; and yet Mr Jones talks of his
humanity, and declares, that since he has been in office (thirty-four
years), he has given hundreds to the poor. Let him bring forth an ac-
count of the thousands and tens of thousands received at the hands of the
poor, and let some small share be set aside for their use,-

Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in horsum.
I have the honour to remain,

A fervent admirer of your practices and principles,

T. B. D.

He

For these two cases, and the reduction of the dislocation of a finger, 15s. 6d, was the charge; but not one sixpence would Mr Jones give.

NERVOUS DISORDERS.

6

Mr Abernethy, in a lecture delivered in Bartholomew's Hospital, on Monday evening, on the subject of nervous irritability, insisted that this malady entirely arose from a disordered state of the digestive organs. To exemplify the truth of this proposition, he instanced the following cases: could produce lots of instances to show that it is the digestive organs which act upon the nervous system," said he," and I will give you the case of a medical man, who had received an appointment to a situation in India, and who was going out, when he was suddenly seized with a kind of lumbago, an affection of his loins, which gave him and had opium adininistered in immoderate quantities. I was called in, excessive pain. He had about eighty ounces of blood taken from him, but I am sure I knew nothing of what was the matter with him-for I did not perceive any local malady, although he complained so much of pain in his loins. I therefore said, were I in the same condition, I would go to bed, and would be as quiet as possible, and not put the body into action, and I would observe the strictest regimen with regard to diet, With such a pain, and being anxious to get rid of it, that I may go on taking nothing but light things which the stomach would easily digest. board the vessel, good God,' said he, what am I to do-must I not take opium ? If you take opium, added I, then good-bye to you. You must have some pills composed of two grains of extractum conii, and a like quantity of the extract of hyosciamus, of which take three or four go on well. At the end of a week I called on him again, and he had no pills a day, but no opium. Do this and keep quiet in bed, and you will pain at all. He said that he felt very languid, as well he might, from having lost so much blood; besides, he had been living rather too low. I told him to take more nourishing food. He went on well and got bet ter. I have seen people, attended by medical men, who had no apparent as the medical gentleman took, whom I have just mentioned, and by disease at the bottom, and who have got quite well upon such simple diet remaining in a tranquil state. By these means the fidgetty state of the digestive organs has been restored to a healthy condition. I have seen many instances of this description to warrant me in keeping this prejuproceed from a bad state of the digestive organs. I now come to speak dice of mine-for prejudice people will call it-that nervous diseases of that most terrible nervous affection, tic doloureux, the pain of which is absolute torture-so much so, that people suffering it would often willingly dash their brains out against the wall. I once saw a young girl, who had three stout young men for brothers, and so furious was she, that it was as much as their united strength could accomplish to prevent her doing herself some bodily mischief. She tore the hair off her head by handfuls, and yet there was nothing to be seen wrong. I firmly believe that this dreadful disease is as constitutional as the gout or rheumatism. There is an opinion prevails among medical men, that by dividing the

nerve about the part affected, the disease will be cured. It might just as
well be attempted to cure the gout by cutting the nerves of the toe.
This local affection depends upon the constitution, and the general state
of the body. You have all heard of Dr Pemberton; he was a martyr to
this dreadful disease, the tic doloureux, and had had almost all the nerves
of his face cut with a view of relieving him. The surface of his face
had become perfectly numb, and I have seen him when writing a pre-
scription make wry faces, and heard him say, 'Oh! I feel now as though
a holly-bush was drawn across the surface of my face, although when I
shave I cannot feel the motion of the razor.' With respect to myself, I
am persuaded that nervous disorders spring from the bad state of the
digestive organs, and it is manifest to me that if the latter be repaired,
the nervous disease will soon vanish. If people will have the resolution
to adopt a strict regimen, they may soon recover. I have related one case
of a peculiar nature, and I will relate another which happened many
years ago. I went into the country for some purpose-I believe because
my house was undergoing some alterations or repairs in town-and often
when I was sitting at the window of my apartment, I observed a man
going by grinning and making wry faces. The phenomenon-as well it
might-attracted my attention-and the cause was presently revealed to
me. The man was in the possession of a large fortune, and farmed his
own estate. His language, dress, and address, were those of a farmer;
he was a hard-looking man, but perhaps from being better able than
farmers usually are to enjoy the luxuries of the world, he indulged in
them to excess. Finding that I was a London Doctor, he came to me,
and having related his complaints, I told him to stint himself in his diet,
and he would soon get well. I believe he followed my advice, and
recovered."

EXPLANATION OF THE PRINCE REGENT'S CONDUCT
TO MR SHERIDAN.

Yes; I welcome the dawning, whose far-flashing light
O'er the waves of Biscaya comes,-bright as their gold,-
And which beams from the steel that is drawn for the Right,
Where a NEW WORLD beats back the worn sons of an OLD;
And I deem that young FREEDOM withholds but her smile,
Till we dare ask a ray for her evergreen ilse!

In that morning, the tiller of earth shall raise up

His brow without clouds, and his arm without chains;
Yet no despot shall wear them, or drain the deep cup,
Of the grief, and the wrath, and the shame that remains,
When the toil-drop on his shall be rather adored
Than the coronet-gem on the brows of " a lord."
In that morning a purer beam brightly shall rise
Than the false ones the nations have knelt to so long
And earth shall reflect its sweet light to the skies,

And the lips of her myriads pour forth one glad song,
AS RELIGION Soars free from the chains she had known,
Ere the temples of GoD were no longer man's throne.
And that morning is coming,-too bright for the gloom
That rolls back from TRUTH's eye, as the clouds from the sun,
And FREEDOM Springs light from her couch, not her tomb,
To marshal the millions whose hearts are as one,
And onward that gathering torrent shall pour,

Till heaven and this world are held fettered no more!

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PUNISHMENT FOR ADULTERY.

"When Mr Sheridan was on his death-bed, he was visited by Mr Taylor Vaughan, who found him in a situation, arising from disease and poverty, that we cannot venture to describe. With feelings strongly excited, Mr Vaughan hastened to Carlton House, and represented to Col. COURT OF CORRECTIONAL POLICE, PARIS, Nov. 12:-Some time ago M'Mahon the scene which he had just witnessed. The Colonel instantly M. de Cairon published a memoir, accusing his wife of adultery, and went in to the Prince Regent's apartment, and made his Royal Highness this case was tried yesterday. M. Soubiranne, the co-accused, and M. acquainted with what had been related. The Prince, who had not been de Cairon, alone appeared. M. de Cairon, it appeared, was 49 years of previously informed of Mr Sheridan's illness, desired that immediate pecuniary assistance should be conveyed to him, and named the sum of age; M. Soubiranne 27. The latter is a student of medicine. The inquiries shewed that Madame de Cairon had formed connections with 5001. as a present relief. Col. M Mahon communicated to Mr Vaughan several young men, and particularly with Soubiranne. Since she had the Prince's commands: but Mr V. said that so large a sum was altoge-lived seperate from her husband, she had been twice a mother. After ther unnecessary in the first instance, and could only be prevailed upon the witnesses were examined, the adultery was declared fully proved, to take 2004. promising to ask for the remainder when it was wanted. and the Court sentenced both parties to two years' imprisonment, the Part of ths sum he directly applied, and furnished his sick friend with all that could contribute to his comfort. Shortly afterwards, however, severest punishment allowed by the law, and Soubiranne was also senMr. V. repaired again to Carlton House, and, to the amazement of Colonel tenced to pay a fine of one huudred francs. M. and Mad. de Cairon are of good families, and opulent. McMahon, returned to him the whole of the money which had been paid out of the Prince's privy-purse; stating, that Mr Sheridan's friends had insisted on restoring it to the donor, as they were not willing that, under existing circumstances, Mr Sheridan should lay himself under any obligations to the Prince Regent.-We believe this statement to be authentic, and it will certainly not only place the affair in a light totally different from that in which it has been made to appear; but show in strong colours the fine feelings of the Illustrious Personage whose goodness of heart, as evinced in this case, has been so wantonly called in question." [This new version of the affair is given in the New Times of yesterday; but we dare say that we shall hear more of a transaction that has been so much canvassed.]

LIBERATION OF MR CARLILE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXAMINER.

SIR, I have the pleasure to inform you, that that bold and persevering advocate of mental liberty from the thraldom of superstition, Richard Carlile, was liberated from Dorchester gaol (yesterday morning, I believe) after an unjust and unparalleled imprisonment of SIX YEARS. I shall feel obliged by your giving insertion to this in your Paper of tomorrow. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, JAMES WATSON. Saturday-at Mr Carlile's, 135 Fleet street.

IRELAND-A FRAGMENT.

*

CAN it be-shall it be-that the loveliest isle

Of the thousand the wings of this ocean breeze fan,
Must lose the best blessings God gives to her soil,

In the curses and tears that are shed there by man,
Who starves midst the plenty he rears for the beast
Of his vagabond lord or his merciless priest?
No; rather the pest or the famine should creep
Her fields and her desolate villages o'er,
Or the war or the whirlwind relentlessly sweep
From her emerald bosom her sons and their store,
Than man, as the slave or the tyrant be seen,
In the beautiful vallies his blood hath made green!
But the morning may come, and the gloom fleet away,
Ere the peasant shall raise his freed arm on the peer;
And I sing of despair, yet I look for the day

That hath broken afar, and shall kindle up here,
When earth's despots must shrink from the gathering waves,
Or the rod in their hands meet a sword in their slaves'!

PARIS, Nov. 13.-Yesterday an attempt was made to assassinate Emanuel Des Las Cases, son of Count Las Cases, as he was returning from his father's plantation to Paris about eight o'clock in the evening. When about twenty paces from the houses, he was attacked by an individual who stabbed him with a dagger in the left side. His card-case, filled flicted a slight wound that bled profusely. He seized the assassin by the with visiting tickets. fortunately averted the blow, which, however, incollar, and knocked him down, when another villian struck him a deeper wound on the left thigh, and then escaped, while M. Las Cases cried in vain for assistance. The latter then proceeded towards his father's residence, but fell on the way from loss of blood. The servants found him a few paces from the door, and carried him in. Neither of the wounds, however, is dangerous. Before he had left the house he saw the two men walking up and down near it. The motive for such an atrocious act is unknown. M. Las Cases says that one of the men spoke French imperfectly.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.
Tuesday, Nov. 15.

INSOLVENTS.

P. Wilson and R. Ankers, of Liverpool, curriers.

J. Ansell, of Clare street, Clare market, linen-draper.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

S. Aydon and W. Elwell, of Shelf, Yorkshire, iron-masters.

BANKRUPTS.

W. Lintott, Leadenhall market and Islington, butcher. Solicitor, Mr
Piatt, Church passage, Clement's lane.

T. Smyrk and J. Hope, Manchester, calenderers. Solicitor, Mr Willett,
Essex street.

S. Dufton, Oat lane, Cheapside, warehouseman. Solicitors, Messrs
Watson and Broughton, Falcon square.

R. Perkins, Egham, carpenter. Solicitor, Mr Sleap, Temple lane.

L. B. Sapio, Alpha cottages, Regent's park, music-seller. Solicitor, Mr
Thwaites, Londou road.

P. Masey, Bristol, hooper. Solicitors, Messrs Clarke and Co. Chancery

Jane.

R. J. Harpham, Nottingham, hosier. Solicitors, Messrs Bicknell and Co.
Lincoln's inn.

R. S. Collicott, Weston, Somersetshire, clothier. Solicitor, Mr Makin-
son, Middle Temple.

J. Pitter, Cheltenham, grocer. Solicitors, Messrs Pope and Brewer,
Bloomfield street, London wall.

T. Perkins, Manchester, cotton-spinner. Solicitors, Messrs Ellis and Co.
Chancery lane.

T. Pollard, Brighthelmston, brewer.
lane, Cornhill.

Solicitor, Mr Faithfull, Birchin S. Thompson, Carlisle, milliner. Solicitor, Mr Young, Charlotte row, Mansion house.

Saturday, November 119.

INSOLVENTS.

H. and R. Davies, Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire, corn-dealers.

J. Tordoff, York, plumber.

W. Smith and T. Richards, Manchester, drapers.

G. Richards, St Martin's lane, dealer.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

ANSWER TO W.-A Constant Reader, in reply to W.'s inquiry respecting the publication entitled "The Philosophy of Masons," says he possesses and much esteems the work; and adds, “should any communication be wished, direct to O. P., Post Office, Bath, which shall be attended to with pleasure.” S. D. in our next.

THE EXAMINER.

LONDON, NOVEMBER 20, 1825.

T. Glover, J. Oakden, R. Lomas, J. Dethick, and J. Green, Derby, flax- unremitting in his exertions to systematise and settle the relations

manufacturers. ·

BANKRUPTS.

J. Roebuck, Huddersfield, grocer. Solicitors, Messrs Clarke and Co. The Pope, it seems, has issued a mandate to the Catholic Bishops in Chancery lane.

J. Peacock, Watford, Hertfordshire, stationer. Solicitor, Mr Bean,
Took's court, Cursitor street.
J. Mash, Birminghom, victualler.
Temple.

Solicitors, Messrs Burfoot, Inner J. Brown, Upper Thornhaugh street, builder, Solicitors, Messrs Stevens and Wood, Little St Thomas Apostle.

E. S. Stewart, Preston-upon-Wye, Herefordshire, miller. Solicitor, Mr
Parken, New Boswell court, Lincoln's Inn fields.

J. Bland, Tysoe-street, Spafields, baker. Solicitor, Mr Baddeley, Leman
street, Goodman's fields.

W. Asprey, Bruton street, Hanover square, silversmith. Solicitors,
Messrs Dawson and Co. Saville place, New Burlington street.
B. Young, John's place, Lambeth, carpenter Solicitor, Mr Hadwen,
Pancras lane, Queen street.

E. and W. T. Morris, Tower street, wine-merchants. Solicitor, Mr Ogle,
Clement's lane, Lombard street.

T. Dolby, Catherine street, Strand, bookseller. Solicitor, Mr Richard-
son, Cheapside.

and Co. Old Broad street.

J. Cowper, Copthall court, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs Paterson and
W. Weston, Clarendon street, Somer's Town, builder. Solicitors,

Messrs Watson and Son, Bouverie street.

T. Flint, Burlington Arcade, bookseller. Solicitors, Messrs Tottie and
Co. Poultry.

C. Dibdin, Zion place, Waterloo road, music-seller. Solicitor, Mr E.
Hailstone, Southampton buildings.

THERE has been no foreign intelligence received during the week of primary, or indeed even of secondary importance, at least in the way of novelty. We learn from Peru and Colombia, that BOLIVAR is between the new South American governments, both as regards debateable boundaries, and the final choice of government on the part of provinces and districts which have not yet formally assumed any. the former territories of Spain, directing them to cultivate allegiance to the Mother Country. BOLIVAR calmly affects to regard this document as addressed to those places only, in which independence has not yet been declared, and has forbade the Bishops to act upon it in Colombia on pain of prosecution. Imaginary ties are often stronger than real ones; and this cobweb link between the Old and the New World, will possibly prove more lastingly perplexing than apparently stronger ligatures.

From Greece we have nothing decisive, but we learn that the American squadron in the Levant is proceeding to seek redress from Tunis, for predatory captures of American traders, and that a bombardment is to ensue in the event of refusal. It is said that the Greeks have yielded to the United States a small island for a naval station; and some politicians imply that views of direct assistance from that quarter are in consequence entertained. We much doubt the inference.

blies (to read the Bible and reciprocate evangelically) has been most In the French provinces, the law against private religious assemlitigiously interpreted against a few humble Protestants. The law says that not more than fifteen are to thus entertain themselves; and although there were not so many, the French lawyers have found out, that as the society had some connexion with a similar one in another town, the statute was infringed! Such is the inclination of BOURBON tolertion; but we must not forget, that the law is precisely the same with ourselves, and that any indignant Parson of a parish can carry it into practice, as was sometime ago the case in Lincolnshire. A Solicitor, license here is necessary; and in France, Protestants cannot have a congregation until they amount to a certain number,-a practical exSolicitor, Mr Cottle, Alder-pedient against the progress of Protestantism, in the usual style of interested ascendancies.

J. Wells and W. Onyon, Bishopsgate street Without, woollen-drapers.
Solicitor, Mr A. Clarke, Bishopsgate church yard.

J. Brown and J. Thompson, Fenchurch street, merchants.
Mr Ogle, Clement's lane, Lombard street.
G. Ashby, Lombard street, engraver.
manbury.

1. Conway, Upper Stamford street, Lambeth, builder. Solicitor, Mr
Colclough, Clifford's Inn.

3. Eatley, Manor street, Chelsea, bricklayer. Solicitors, Messrs Wrent-
more and Gee, Charles street, St James's square.

I. Wright, Eccleston street, Pimlico, merchant. Solicitor, Mr Farris,
Surry street, Strand.

. Winter, Bucklersbury, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs Monins and
Bockett, Essex court, Temple.

V. Moberly, Old Broad street, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs Gregson
and Fonnereau, Angel court, Throgmorton street.

I. P. Newnham, Tower hill, flour dealer. Solicitors, Messrs Smith and
Weir, Cooper's hall, Basinghall street.

THE FUNDS.-The whole week has been distinguished by that sort of paic, in regard to depression, which always does so much to propagate itself, nd to aid the gamblers in this field of action in their special contrivances. The general cause of the decline in Consols is doubtless attributable to he trading re-action, and the finding of the level by means of the proected Joint Stock schemes; but, as usual, it is much aided by sinister anouvres. Owing to the appearance of something like a cessation of a milar operation in the French funds, a cessation of decline took place n Friday, and some appearance of revival began to manifest itself, Ithough immense sales by an individual were effected in order to check All is speculation and gamble in consequence of this state of things, bile both the Share and Foreign markets seem nearly stagnant. Latest uotations:

The Buenos Ayres mail of yesterday morning brought bills from Chile to the amount required to pay the next dividend on the Loan negociated in London. This punctuality will not much invalidate the arguments of those who contend against all South American loans, since it appears to be owing to a peculiar arrangement. A private letter from Santiago de Chile, dated August 19, says "The Company formed here who have undertaken to pay the interest on the English Loan, for ten years, out of the produce of the monopoly of certain duties granted them by the Congress, have been buying up bills here lately, to remit to England for the dividends-so that John Bull will begin now to see the colour of our money."

SLAVERY IN THE United States.—Miss Wright, who has displayəd the merits of the American government so eloquently, in her "Letters of an Englishwoman," went to the United States with General La Fayette, accompanied by her sister. She remains there, and has exerted herself most laudably in promoting plans for extirpating slavery, the one grand blot in a system otherwise of matchless purity and excellence. She has got a Joint Stock Company established for buying up the liberty of black children, which is already supported by a numerous list of subscribers. The children are to be reared and educated at the expense of the society, and instructed in some species of industry by which they may afterwards be able to maintain themselves. The plan merits the highest praise. To fit the blacks for the enjoyment of freedom, we must prevent the vices of servitude from being sown in their minds. We must take the child and train him to orderly and virtuous habits, before oppression has lacerated his feelings, and destroyed his sense of right and wrong. The expense of rearing and instructing a child will indeed be something; but if the people take a large view of their own interest, they will find this method the cheapest in the end. Society may lose as much by the depredations of one idle and depraved individual as would train up half a dozen of children to habits of order and industry. Miss Wright and her sister, we understand, besides contributing money, take an active part in superintending the management of the emancipated children.- Scotsman.

PUUBLICITY OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.-A few days ago a petition was presented to the Lord Chancellor, praying that the legal father of two children might be restrained from taking them from the custody of their

BRITISH OPPRESSION.-There are precedents to be found, through the annals of our Indian Empire, for the formation of the most perfect code of tyranny, in every department,-legislative, judicial, and executive,-that ever entered into the dreams of intoxicated power.-Moore's Life of