The Spectator 1831-11-05: Vol 4 Iss 175

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N° 175.) Spectator. FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1831. Prics One SHILLING se News or tue Wera— betical List of the English Peers Foreign mye = Acar aueltial dag OOe —Spiritual Peers—Representa- tive Peers of Scotland and Ire- land—Reform Test of the Peer- Austria—Greece . The King and his Court 1058 Riots at Bristol . ‘ 1059 age—Notes on the Peerage— Miscellaneous News 1062—1065 Analysis of the Creations by Money Market . e . 1065 George the Third and George the East India Shipping ° 1065 Fourth—Reform Peers whose Universities—Church—Army 1065 - Eldest Sons have attained the Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1065 age of twenty-one 1067—1075 Gazettes—Prices Current 5 Govent Garden Theatre 1076 ANATOMY OF THE PeERAGE—The Fine Arts 1076 English Peerage, by Reigns, and Music , ° ° os 1076 in the Order of Creation—Alpha- Advertisements . 1077—1080 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Tur great city of Bristol, since our last publication, has been the scene of a series of disturbances unparalleled in the modern his- tory of England. Several hundred individuals have been killed or wounded in the riot and its suppression. The Customhouse, the Excise Office, the Bishop's palace, the public gaols, and more than forty private houses, have been burned down; property to the amount of half a million has been plundered and destroyed. We give the melancholy and disgraceful details of these outrages else- where ; we notice them here only for the purpose of pointing the moral that belongs to them. Last week, we mentioned the intended entrance of Sir CHARLES WErTHERELL into Bristol, of which city he is Recorder; and we noticed it for the purpose of deprecating so unnecessary, and, under the cireumstances, so insulting a parade. It was persisted in, notwithstanding the earnest entreaty and representations of many influential persons in Bristol,—with the terrible result which we have just stated. There is in every large town, and Bristol has long held a sorry eminence that way, a mass of population that requires but a slight excitement to rouse it to acts of violence. In all societies, it is indeed lamentable to consider how much of the morality depends upon the positive constraints of law, and how little on those of rinciple. That part of the people which asks whips and bonds tor its regulation, is no nice discriminator in respect of the game which it hunts down. It will pelt a Popish priest or a Protestant bishop, or clamour at power or persecute its victims, with pretty nearly the same zeal and activity. But, however various at dif- ferent periods may be the passions of the mob, it is not unmoved by the influences that affect the reflective part of society. It never floats against the stream. To whatever point the current sets, round that point the weeds and scum naturally accumulate. The universal feeling of thinking Englishmen is at present one of in- dignation against the enemies of Reform. The mob _ is little skilled in the mysteries of Schedule A and Schedule B, -but it sympathizes with those that are. Reform is the power that now bears forward the nation; the sphere rolls on, and the dust rolls with it. The opposition to Reform, which Sir CoHartes WETHERELL manifested in the last two sessions, was of a kind to rouse indigna- tion in the mind of every reasonable man. It was the first time that a great and grave question was treated in Parliament with the coarse buffoonery of a professional jester and the quibbling and sophistry of an ‘Old Bailey pleader. Yet in no other manner would Sir Cuares condescend to argue the Reform Bill; and such was the effect of his perseverance in this course, that long before the late session ended, the admiration which his ingenuity at first excited had grown into weariness and disgust even among his own party. In the very last stage of the Bill, he endeavoured to stop its progress until a question of constitutional law, acciden- tally started, was settled to his satisfaction; and only at the en- treaty of his leader, Sir Ropert Pest, desisted from repeating, at the end, the same indecent scene of successive divisions which had signalized the beginning of the discussion. His constant aim at delay and vexation did not finish with the measure against which it had been chiefly directed. Has any one forgotten how the closing of the Parliamentary session was postponed in order to gre him one opportunity more of repeating his stale jokes and re- uted arguments against the Ministry and the People ; and of vio- lating, for the hundredth time, every rule of logic and evidence on the adjudicated question of the Bill, under pretence of moving for @ special commission to try the Nottingham rioters ? ir CHARLES WETHERELL passes with his aequaintance as an honourable and amiable, though eccentric person—of some coarse humour, of excessive confidence in his own powers, and endued with a most restless spirit of display. He had said smart things against Reform, in private, and they were commended; he was anxious to obtain the same applause from the public. He forgot that the People, who expected solid advantage from the passing of the Bill; could derive but little consolation for its delay from the consideration of the jests which he might contrive to torture out of it. While Sir Cuartes considered Reform in no other light than as a means of raising a Jaugh in the House of Commons, the People of England were anxiously looking forward to the chances of its passing, and deeply indignant that these should he dimi- nished, not in subservience to the fears or reason of its honest opponents, but to gratify the vanity of a ribald jester, to whom increasing years might have taught silence if not wisdom. The unqualified disgust, however, with which Sir CHARLEs’s speeches were regarded, was cold compared with the irritation produced out of doors by his nightly misstatements of the feelings of the people—by his constantly repeated assertions, in the face of every possible demonstration to the contrary, of their indifference to that cause which formed the theme of their morning aspiration and their evening prayer, and was the sole topic of conversation, almost the sole object of desire, from the one extremity of the empire to another. The reaction of which he babbled from hour to hour—let him now behold it in the characters of blood and of fire so terribly legible in the wasted city of Bristol! There is not one of the frightful disasters which have happened there that does not in some measure lie at his door. His is the blood—his the conflagration—his the robbery. Without his opposition, and that which his example encouraged, the Bill would have travelled to its settlement with such a celerity as would have insured its passing, or, at the worst, its rejection by such a majority of Lords as must render its future passing secure beyond doubt or question. Had his opposition been confined to rational bounds, and carried on with even ashow of sympathy towards the People, their disappomtment would have been unmingled with anger; but he was not content with outrage—he must needs add insult to injury. Forewarned of the feelings entertained towards him, he must yet openly brave them. The peace of a large city must be set at nought, the lives and fortunes of its inhabitants must be put in jeopardy; because one obstinate old man remained uncon- vinced by evidenee which had convinced every person of common sense in the kingdom! We are not so uncharitable as to suppose that Sir CHarLEes WerTHERELL foresaw the sanguinary consequences of his ill- omened entrance into Bristol; but he knew that it possessed a po- pe who’: ignorance and riotous disposition his own party had ong and carefully cherished ; he knew that if any disturbance, even the slightest, took place in consequence of the dislike to which his Anti-Reform politics rendered him obnoxious, it would be extended and aggravated by the condition of that populace; and he ought to have acted in accordance with his knowledge. We hope he is now at length humbled and convinced. That. he will ever again appear or be tolerated in public life we do not believe. The utmost period to which his advanced years can be extended is all too little for repentance and meditation on the grievous ills which his wilfulness and folly have occasioned. The riots of Bristol have been ‘attributed to the Reformers of Bristol, with the same attention to fact and evidence that the peo- ple of Bristol were described to be indifferent to Reform. In the same spirit, the Political Union of that city has been blamed for not interposing, where it had neither right nor power, to put down disturbances which the Magistrates were incapable of sup- pressing or of authorizing others to suppress. The plain fact can- not be too often repeated—Sir CuarLes WETHERELL's entry into the town caused the first disturbance; the array and violence of the constables appointed to guard Sir CHarLEs WETHERELL aggravated the disturbance to riot; the seizure of the first rioters by the guards of Sir CHARLES WETHERELL caused the outrage at the Bridewell and at the inn; the plunder of the inn inflamed the passions of the mob to madness; and the mob once at work, the thieves and plunderers of the city rushed forth from their dens to swell its numbers and share in its booty. Hence the burnings —hence the robberies—hence the bloodshed. Reform had neither art nor part in the riot: the materials of it had been prepared by Anti-Reformers—it was stimulated by Anti-Reformers ; kept up by Anti-Reformers; and unless all past experience deceives us, it will, as such ministers ever do, prove the bane of Anti-Re- formers. They sought for support among the dregs of the peapte —the Hunts of society—and it has been given to them. The Reformers—the middle classes—are true to the cause which they consider to be peculiarly their own: the Anti-Reformers may now ponder on that description of assistance which their efforts to put down the middle classes is likely to receive. Out of this terrible evil, good, we doubt not, will apse writers of the Opposition press talk of constrainipg§ by an Anti-Reform Ministry. Constrain the whi lair fan! , e turn with pleasure from the sad picture of them to the other great feature of the week—the triumplrof the county of Cambridge. On Monday, Captain fairly beaten from the field; which he resigned with;

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* 1058 THE SPECTATOR. of profound regret, not so much at his own defeat, as “for the defeat of the cause of which he was the representative.” The men of Cambridge have done all things well. The contest was a fearful one. The Oligarchy were driven to their last stake. They were strong in themselves ; the Yorxes, the Manners, the liberal Dniversity—the supporters of the gentility of Yares Pern and the learning of Goutsurn—the clergymen of the Isle,—all were most deeply pledged against the Reform candidate. The Tories had Lord Lowruer for huntsman and Brrty Houmes for whipper- in. But boroughs and bribes and browbeating would not do. The freemen of Cambridge rose and the enemies of the Bill were scattered! The riots of Bristol show the feelings of the Populace towards the Tories, and inculcate the pressing and absolute necessity of conciliating the People, if such scenes of horror are sought to be avoided in future: the election of Cambridge shows the feelings of the People towards the Tories ; and while it proves the falsehood of their declaration respecting reaction, it also proves that any further opposition to the Bill must be as un- availing as it would be hateful. Both events, taken together, preach a lesson to the Ministers as well as to the Opposition: they speak trumpet-tongued of the danger and mischief that can- not fail to accrue to the nation from any prolonged delay in the settlement of a question in which ali ranks and denominations are equally interested, The Cholera has reached England! A private letter, in last night's Courier, states that at Sunderland, on Monday and Tues- day, six cases of true Asiatic Cholera had occurred, five of which were fatal. The fact does not rest on private authority; a repre- sentation has been made to Government on the subject, signed by all the medical gentlemen in Sunderland, touching the nature of the disease and its effects, and touching its identity with Spas- modic Cholera, by the surgeon of the 82d Regiment, who has had opportunities of examining the disease inthe Isle of France. The Sunderland cases, whatever be the opinion respecting Spasmodic Cholera, or the distinction between it and English Cholera, which the Newcastle case, noticed in another column, proves to be a distinction without a difference—clearly belong to a very deadly disorder. They have been traced to three Hamburg vessels, that were permitted, it appears, to passabove bridge some days ago, and the crews of which, it is said, have been in the habit of land- ing at night and roaming about the town. It is added that the crews were all healthy. We have often had to regret that the rules of common sense, which are allowed a little weight in most cases, are in respect to this celebrated disease so commonly dis- pensed with. The doctrine of contagion assumes the emanation of a certain subtle matter from the bodies of the sick; but these eases of Sunderland would prove that the subtle matter may equally emanate from the bodies of those that are well. We are thus®placed in a sore strait ; for how can the healthy, according to the injunc- tions of the Privy Council, at one and the same time watch the diseased and one another also? The Newcastle letter, indeed, states, that a nurse ofthe Infirmary, who merely carried the body of one of the patients to the dead-room, was almost immediately afterwards seized with the disease; but it also states, that four people got the disease from the sailors, not one of whom, it ap- pears, ever was affected with it. The fact of the Cholera having broken out at Sunderland, will enable us to prove the value of the Gazette regulations, by the process which the mathematicians call reductio ad absurdum. if there be danger of a disease being carried over from Hamburg in the sleeves or side-pockets of persons in perfect health, there must be a much greater danger of its being car- vied up from Newcastle and Sunderland. If reason called for a quarantine-law for Hamburg steam-boats, a fortiori a@ quarantine is required for the Tyne colliers, Are we then pre- pared to sit with out fires for the next three weeks? Or, as the Cholerais said to require above all things heat for its cure, shall we admit the antidote even at the hazard of the bane’s accompany- ing it? If we dispense with our rules with respect to one town, with what consistency can we speak of maintaining them in respect to any town? And if towns go free, why should houses be guarded ? We are strongly persuaded, from all that has appeared, that English Cholera and Indian Cholera differ from each other in degree only; and, therefore, while we would strongly recommend our readers to use every rational means of escaping an attack, by avoid- ing cold, exposure, dissipation, excess of any kind, depression of mind, if they can,—we most earnestly deprecate all attempts to insure public or individual safety, which are not based on these plain rules. A Radical meeting, as it is called, is to be held on Monday, at White Conduit Fields, The persons by whom it is summoned have advised those that attend to bring clubs with them, in order to keep the Police civil. Persons that contemplate the interposition of the Police, in these times, must be conscious of designs that eal] for Police interposition. Government has sent circulars to the different parishes, inviting the respectable part of the commu- nity to come forward as special constables, to prevent any attempt at violating the peace. That thereis no real Reformer, and no re- spectable person, connected with the meeting of Monday, we feel well assured; and we have no doubt that the event will show that they are as insignificant in number as they are worthless. .The pickpockets will hardly muster with them, for there is nothing for them to work upon. But it is not to be borne, that Mr. Hunt's ragamuffins should disturb the quiet of this great metropolis, even In imagination. We will allow the Tories all the advantage of their sweet voices; but if they take to clubs for their enforcement, we must give them club law. There was a conference last night of the deputies by which the meeting has been called. Mr. Wax- LEY, who is to take the chair, was present, and on his suggestion one of the resolutions meant to be moved was struck out, and a de- putation of five was appointed to wait on Lord MeLsournz on the subject of the meeting. The whole of the deputies deprecated violence, but the sentiments delivered do not materially alter our opinion of the gang. They have evidently been rendered cautious by the preparations made for their repression; but we like their fears as little as we do their insolence. The meeting contemplated, describe it asthey may, is meant as a display of force ; the bludgeons can have no other object. The Brussels Chamber of Representatives have agreed to the projet of law approving of the terms of settlement laid down by the Five Powers. The vote was taken on the Ist instant. The number of members present was 99 ; of whom two declined voting, 58 voted for the projet, and 39 against it,—giving a majority in its favour of 19, As far as Belgium is concerned, the peace is formally ratified. The people are said to have received the an- nouncement with resignation. The answer of the Dutch Monarch has not been yet given, but there can be little doubt that the same law which constrained the one party will equally constrain the other. The English fleet has sailed towards the Scheldt, in con- formity with the request of the Allies, expressed at the Confe- rence, which we noticed in our last Number; but it is very im- probable that it will be called on to do more than show its power. The only event of interest that has occurred in Paris within the week, has been an attempt of the Tribune and Revolution journals to prove the truth of a libel against Casimir Perrier and Marshal Sout, which charged them with having accepted a bribe from the Birmingham manufacturers to induce them to prefer English muskets to French in the late contract. No attempt ever so com- pletely broke down. There was nothing but the most empty rumour and surmise adduced to support it by any one of the witnesses. The original propagator was accordingly found guilty, and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 frances, It seems now admitted that the Peerage question cannot be carried without a new creation of fifty Peers. The law of the Peerage is not, however, like our Reform Bill—the former concerns the Lords only, and a new creation to compel them to submit to the Commons seems harsh. But the people of France have a foolish notion, that even the Peers may be justly coerced, if the public good require it. The report that the Austrian troops in Lombardy had_ been disbanded by order of the Government is confirmed by the French journals of Tuesday. This is looked on as the first step toa general disarming throughout Europe, which the unsettled state of France and Belgium and the war in Poland had before pre- vented, The accounts received since our last Number, confirm the news of Capo p'Isrria’s fall, and that it had its origin in causes con- nected with his political conduct. A letter from Napoli mentions the assassination in the following terms: ** Count Capo @Istrias was assassinated here on the 9th instant, while attending divine service, by two members of the family of Mavromi-~ chaelis, the chief of which family (Pietro Bey) had been imprisoned since last January. One of the assassins was killed on the spot, the other escaped through the connivance of two of the President’s Body Guard.” The letter adds, that a commission had been formed immediately consequent on the melancholy event, to carry on the government until the National Assembly met. The Provisional Government consists of Cotocotroni, Augustin D'IstRiAs, and CoLLert! ; CoxLocorront is President. Tur Kina anv nis Courr.—Their Majesties left Windsor on Satur« day, for Brighton, where they arrived in safety about six o’clock. On Wednesday, the King came to town, with a view to hold a Privy Coun- ciland Court. At the former, a proclamation respecting the riots at Nottingham, Derby, and Bristol, was agreed to; we have given it in another column. His Majesty left town at five o'clock, and arrived in Brighton at ten, without being in the slightest degree fatigued with his long journey. : PrayEr.—A form of prayer in respect of the Cholera was agreed to at the Privy Council of Wednesday. ‘The Gaseéte of last night calls on all clergymen to observe it. : Cuapiain To u1s Masesty—Lord Walsingham has resigned this dignity; Lord Auckland's brother is appointed to the vacant office. Tur Lorp Mavor—We are happy to find that a majority of the Aldermen have at length consented to act like men of common sense. The third return of Sir John Key has been viewed as the first ought to have been, inits proper light. Yesterday he was, to the universal satis- faction of the Livery, returned for the second time as Lord Mayor, There is nothing like perseverance and a good cause.

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vectorn Ore THE SPECTATOR. 1059 Riots at Bristow. The Bristol Mercury has given an account o these terrible riots, so full and apparently accurate, as to leave us only the task of abridging it. At about half-past ten, on Saturday, Sir Charles Wetherell was perceived approaching the town at a rapid rate, in achariot drawn by four greys. At Totterdown, on being handed into the Sheriff's carriage, he was assailed by yells, groans, and hisses. The constables immediately closed round the carriage, a gentleman on horseback riding close by the side of each door, and three or four hun- dred preceding and following. In this manner, the cavaleade proceeded towards the city. Just as Sir Charles was passing over Hill’s Bridge, his carriage was assailed with four or five stones. ‘he crowd increased as the procession moved on, and the expressions of disapprobation be- came more deafening; in Temple Street, the windows of the houses were crowded with spectators, and the lower orders of females were par- ticularly vociferous. In passing from the Bridge to High Street, one of the constables received a dangerous blow from a stone; and in High Street also some stones were thrown. On arrival at Guildhall, in Broad Street, it was with difficulty that Sir Charles could a from the pressure of the multitude; he was, however, handed out in safety, and proceeded to take his station on the bench. The doors of the hall were then thrown open; and in a few mi- nutes the area was completely choked up. On the Recorder alighting, he seemed somewhat agitated; but he appeared to be in the en- joyment of excellent health. On taking his seat, he resumed his com- posure, and smiled and nodded to several individuals whom he recog- nized in Court. There was great uproar and confusion during the reading of the Com- mission; and at length Sir Charles directed the officers, if they saw any person in Court making a disturbance, to bring him forward, and he would immediately commit him. The only effect of this notice was der clamour than that which it was intended to suppress. At length, the usual preliminaries were gone throughs and an adjournment of the Court took place till eight o’clock on Monday morn- ing. The Recorder then withdrew from the bench ; and the populace, after some further marks of their displeasure towards the Learned Judge himself, gave three cheers for the King, and retired into the street. On Sir Charles’s reappearance on his way to the Mansionhouse, where he and the Corporation were to dine, he was greeted with a repetition of the same favours that had before been so liberally bestowed upon him ; but there was no violence, until his arrival at the Mansionhouse, in Queen Square; where a few stones were thrown, anda lamp or a window of the carriage was broken. A few minutes after Sir Charles and the Mayor alighted at the Man- sionhouse, a rush was made on the populace, by a posse of special con- stables, for the purpose of securing the persons by whom the missiles had just been thrown; and an individual was dragged into the Man- sionhouse. The immediate cause of this capture, which was executed with great violence, is said to have been a stone thrown by an idle boy at a fire which stood smoking in the area! Again, another rush took place, and another capture was made; and this was repeated several times. The least show of opposition on the part of the populace, during these proceedings, subjected them to the most brutal attacks of the spe- cial constables. One man was knocked down by a blow on his head, and afterwards unmercifully beaten; indeed his skull was fractured. No Magistrate made his appearance to direct the operations of the consta- bles, or to remonstrate with the populace. At this moment the number of persons collected in the square could not have been less than ten thousand; and a cry having been raised * To the Back,” where piles and faggots and firewood are usually kept, a large body of the mob proceeded thither, and having armed themselves with sticks, returned in a few minutes to the scene of action; but the constables, rushing out in a body, the sticks were soon strewed in every direction upon the ground. This was about half-past twelve o’clock. From that period till about four o'clock, there were occasional skir- mishes between the constables and the populace, which generally ended in some one being taken into custody; but nothing more serious was threatened or took place. About four o'clock, a considerable portion of the constabulary force retired to their homes, for the purpose of refreshing themselves, with an understanding that they should return to relieve the remainder at six o'clock. From that moment the mob became more daring, until at length they called forth the Mayor, who cautioned them of the conse- quences of continuing their refractory proceedings ; he alluded to the military in the immediate neighbourhood, and said he should be sorry that, during his mayoralty, such scenes should take place as most pro- bably would ensue, if he should be compelled to read the Riot Act, and they should be called in to quell the disturbance. The Mayor, who is wed/ known as a Reformer, was, during his address, assaulted with stones, and a very large one narrowly missed striking him on the head. The Riot Act was then read, but without producing the least good effect upon the mob, who rushed upon the constables, disarmed them, and beat them severely. In this affray, it is said, some lost their lives, others had their limbs broken; one constable, as a condition of release from their ven- geance, was compelled to throw his own staff at the Mayor’s windows 3; others were obliged to seek refuge in flight; and one was chased into the float, whence he was taken up by a boat-hook. Nothing now remaining to curb the mob, the work of violence imme- diately commenced, by a general and simultaneous attack on every part of the Mansionhouse. The windows and sashes and shutters were beaten to pieces ; the doors forced, and every article of furniture on the ground-floor broken up. The iron palisades, together with the curb- stones in which they were set, were wrenched down, and furnished many a desperate villain with a formidable crow-bar ; young trees were torn up and converted into weapons; walls were thrown down to provide bricks with which to assail the upper windows; and straw and combus- tibles were procured with which to fire the whole premises. At this critical moment, Sir Charles is said to have effected his retreat (in dis- guise) through the adjoining premises: it was not made known until twelve o’clock on Sunday that he had left the city. The Mansionhouse was only saved from conflagration by the arrival of the troops. Under the protection of the military, the constables again collected in & ‘considerable numbers, and several more of the most daring of the mob were made prisoners. Still it was found impossible to clear the square or streets adjacent. The soldiers trotted their horses backward and for- ward amidst the cheers of the mob, but not the slightest disposition was shown to disperse. The Colonel of the district, Colonel Brereton, harangued the multitude ; entreated them to repair to their homes, and cautioned them of the dreadful consequences which their conduct other- wise would infallibly draw upon them. He was everywhere received with loud cheers ; but though the crowd cheered, they would not obey. About midnight, a party of the rioters, disappointed by the restrain€ which the troops imposed upon them, proceeded to the Council-house, where they commenced operations by smasl were then given to the cavalry to ch: ; anda scene of the greatest confusion began. The people were pursued through the streets for a considerable distance by the soldiers, and several of them received severe cuts from the sabres. Many of the people took refuge in the passages in Wine Street, from whence they assailed the troops with stones. Aé this conjuncture, one of the soldiers having been severely struck, turned round, and shot a man dead upon the spot. [t has been reported that he dismounted and followed him ; but this was not the case. This was the first person who fell an immediate victim to the riot. The soldiers continued to gallop about the streets, and to prev of the mob during the night. On Sunday morning, every withdrawn for refreshme four hours. They had sc: menced their outrages, by finishing t Ascending to the upper rooms, they ble furniture into the sq The ransacked ; and the whole of the wearing apparel, bed and table-linen, china, &c. were plundered, or want destroyed. During the sacking of the Mansionhouse, the wine-cellars were forced, and at least one-third of a stock of about th was carried off and wasted and drunk by the The mob became in consequence madly infuriate, and regardless e of what mischief they committed, or what risk they incurred. The scene at this moment was shocking $ all ages, of both sexes, were to be seen greedily swallowing the intoxicating liquors, while upon the ground the bodies of scores were to be found dead with drunkenness. The troops were speedily replaced ; but the mob now began to act on the offensive, and sought to wreak their vengeance on the soldiers for the ing the windows. Orders ‘ 1 ets) mbly ent the reassemuing hing remaining quiet, the troops were x been on duty for more then twenty- disappeared, when the mob again c ‘tion of the Mansionhouse. to throw out the valua- and other depositories were 3] I ad dozen of wine ounds inflicted on the preceding even ing, and particularly for the shooting of the man above noticed. They attacked them with a shower of stones and brick-bats, which the men were unable to oppose, as ‘no magistrate was in attendance to take the responsibility of orders to that effect. In this state of things, the com- manding officer judged it prudent to withdraw his men (the 14th Light Dragoons), and replace them with a body of the 3d Dragoon Guards. On the retreat of the 14th, they were followed by a large portion of the mob, On arriving at St. Augustine’s back, the soldiers turned round and fired on their assailants, and several of the people fell. The mob, however, nothing daunted, still continued to follow them, and in College Green some further firing occurred. - The mob continued hanging upon the soldiers’ heels until they arrived at their quarters in the Buar’s Head Yard, where they again fired on their assa as nts. In these. several skirmishes, there was one man killed and seven or eight were wounded. Immediately after, Colonel Brereton rode down to the square, followed by a considerable number of men and boys, who cheered him on his way thither. He assured them that there should be no more firing, and that the l4th should be immediately sent out of the city. This was abont eleven o’clock, when divine service was commencing in the churches in the neighbourhood. The withdrawal of the troops, next to the with. drawal of the constables the previous evening, was singularly injudicious, for there seems no doubt that the mob considered the military as beaten ; it had the effect also of keeping the forces that remained from acting when they ought to have acted, and made them act at least with more severity than they would otherwise have been called on to do. The Mansionhouse remaining guarded by the 3d Dragoons, the mob next proceeded to the Bridewell for the purpose of rescuing the prisoners. On their arrival, they lost no time in procuring sledge-hammers from the nearest smith’s shop, and immediately proceeded to beat in the doors. The keeper (Mr. Evans) had just sat down to dinner when he received the visit of the unwelcome intruders. Having succeeded in opening the doors, they proceeded to liberate the prisoners, and, having accomplished that end, set the building on fire. During this operation not the slightest molestation was offered them by civil force or military ! The Bridewell was fired about two o’clock. At the same houra more formidable party proceeded to the New Gaol,a strong-built modern building, erected about ten years since at a cost of nearly 100,000/. The mob speedily succeeded in forcing an entrance into the yard and the Governor’s house; they then proceeded to throw every moveable article into the new river, and as the tide was fast ebbing, all was carried off by the stream. The caravan used for conveying the prisoners to the Guildhall was launched into the water entire. The rioters procured hammers from the adjoining ship yard, and with them the massive locks on the iron doors of the diiférent wings were smashed to atoms. The prisoners were soon released ; and many of them, both male and female, stripped of their prison-clothes, and proceeded on their way almost in a state of nudity. It is said that there must have been some concerted plan in the attack on the prison, as the prisoners were soon clothed in smock-frocks given them by the mob. It does uot appear very wonder- ful that when an attack was made on the gaol, some friends of the inmates should be found among the assailants. After the prisoners had been liberated, amounting altogether to more than one hundred, the next step was that of setting the prison on fire. A black handkerchief tied to the weathercock on the top of the porter's lodge, over the gateway, seemed to be the signal for commencing opera- tions. The flames were seen first to break out froin the tread-mill, which burnt with fury until it was quite consumed. In about an hour the Governor’s house, over which was the chapel, was completely enve- loped in flames. The wings, however, being built almost exclusively of stone and iron, with iron roofs, were but little injured. While the pri- soners were in course of liberation, a party of the 3d Guards, about twenty in number, arrived ; but the mob appeared nothing intimidated ; on the contrary, they cheered the troops ; who acknowledged the compli-

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1060 THE SPECTATOR. ment by taking off their caps, and almost immediately after turned round and departed. As soon as the work of destruction at the gaol was completed, the rioters divided into parties; one of which destroyed the toll-houses at Prince’s Street Bridge, at the Wells, and at St. Philip’s. Another party set off, about seven o'clock, to the Gloucester county prison, Lawford’s-gate, which in a short time was broken into, the prisoners al released, and the building also fired. At the same time a third party proceeded to Bridewell, which had only partially been destroyed, and kindled up the wing occupied by the keeper; so that the three prisons were in flames at the same instant. After this, a mere handful of the miscreants proceeded to the Bishop’s Palace, Canon’s Marsh; and having effected an entrance, immediately commenced the work of de- struction, Orders were sent for the military, who had been guarding the Mansionhonse, and they immediately came to protect the Palace ; but hardly were their backs turned, when the Mansionhouse was seen burn- ing ; and no sooner had they ridden back with a view to save it, than the Palace, now left to its fate, was fired also. The most valuable effects, it was understood, had been removed early in the day. After the destruction of the Mansionhouse, it was hoped that the fury of the mob would have been appeased; but it was otherwise. The rioters conceived the plan of firing the adjoining houses ; and, by twelve at night, the whole mass, from the Mansionhouse to the middle avenue, including the Customhouse, and all the back building, in Little King Street, were one immense mass of fire. The Customhouse, as may readily be supposed, was a large building ; and the expertness of the wretches in lighting it up, it is certain, proved the destruction of many who were ranging the upper apartments. Many of them were seen as they ap- proached the windows to drop into the flames ; and others, among whom was a female, threw themselves in desperation from the windows. Still the conflagration went on. A small band, chiefly boys, who seemed to go about their work as if they had been regularly trained to the employ- ment, proceeded to extend the devouring element, preceding their opera- tion by giving half an hour’s notice to the inmates to retire. The win- dows were afterwards smashed in, the furniture thrown out and carried off, and the premises ignited with a rapidity truly astonishing. In this manner they swept away one whole side, and then proceeded to another ; commencing with the Ixcise-office at the corner. Altogether, there have been completely destroyed forty-two dwelling- houses and warehouses, exclusive of the Mansionhouse, Excise-office, Custom-house, the four Toll-houses, the three Prisons, and the Bishop’s Palace. Strange and incredible as it may appear to those who have not at- tended the paralyzing influence of panicon ordinary minds, by much the greater part of this mischief was perpetrated by a mere handful of half- grown boys. Similar scenes took place in various parts of London during Lord George Gordon’s riots, from similar hesitation and imbecility in the civil rulers. Some of our readers may recollect the remarkable tes- timony of a witness at the trial of the rioters, charged, among other acts, with burning Lord Mansfield’s house. *‘ Had [,’’ said he, ‘‘ dropped from the clouds at that instant without any previous knowledge of the people and the laws, I should have thought that the burning of the house was the consequence of a judicial sentence, and that the civil au- thorities were assembled at the spot to see it carried into regular and uninterrupted execution.’? Such, in fact, would have been the conclu- sion which any foreigner must have drawn from the acts of the Bristol mob during the greater part of Sunday and Sunday night. We may add, that the mob which perpetrated the mischief in the one case, had as much in common with the Reformers as that which perpetrated it in the other had with the Protestants. On Monday morning, the mischief being now nearly over, the rioters wearied with rioting, and the thieves satiated with plunder, the Magis- trates roused themselves to exertion, and orders were given to clear the streets; which the military are, in some accounts, accused of having obeyed with a severity, if not wantonness, which proved fatal to num- bers who had taken no part in the disturbances, nor wished to do. The Political Union was also applied to, and its members instantly came forward to act as constables ; and by their exertions, backed by a general enrolment of the inhabitants, the peace of the city was maintained. During the whole of Monday, the civil authorities, who were now supported by various detachments of troops which arrived in the course of the day, were employed in searching out the plunderers and the plunder; and their efforts were so successful, that by Monday night nearly all that had not been destroyed was recovered. The quantity of goods carried off from the houses previous to setting fire to them was immense. They were carried away by waggon-loads. One woman was taken into custody, who had contrived to pick up thirteen feather-beds for her own share from the spoils of the Bishop’s Palace. The mob, by which all the mischief was done, seems to have been composed, in addition to the mere scum and refuse of the town, of the men employed on the quays, and colliers from the mines in the neigh- bourhood. It was said that the sailors had joined in the riot ; and there is a story of their taking up a position and daring the military with a piece of ordnance. The whole of this is false. The sailors had nothing to do with the riots.) The only ground on which they were charged, seems to have been their refusal, some days before the entrance of Sir Charles Wetherell, to be sworn in as special constables, from an idea that to appear as the supporters of the Magistrates would be tantamount to confessing themselves Anti-Reformers. The town continued tranquil throughout Monday night, and during the whole of Tuesday and Tuesday night ; but even on Wednesday morning, the shops were but partially opened, and every thing wore an appearance of gloom which it will require many days to clear away. The damage can at present be but roughly estimated. It is reckoned by some at a quarter of a million—by others as high as a couple of millions. Y Such is the narrative of these terrible doings, from their commence- ment to their termination. As might be expected, the journals and private letters teem with anecdotes, more or less authentic, respecting the rioters, and that psychological curiosity, the Bristol Magistracy, which, in its way,. mts as curious a picture of human nature as ruffians who fired Queen Square. k Of the magnitude of that force which has occasioned so astounding mischief, a correspondent of the Times offers the following critexion, ‘One house escaped the flames through the courage of its owner's wife. She told me the story. Her husband is lame, and she was left to pro. tect her dwelling against the rioters. They shattered the windows, buy she kept the doors closed against them. At last some drunken boys and prostitutes gained admission by a window, and flung her into the street. A few determined men in each house, she declared, would have pre- vented the accomplishment of this devastation.” Other instances are given by the correspondent of to-day's Chronicle— ‘* We give two instances of what was effected by a few persons, by a de- termined resistance of the rioters, and these facts are indisputable. At the corner house in Queen Square, three men armed themselves and resisted the entrance of the rioters at the door, and actually beat them off. When the mob broke open the door of the Cathedral, five respect- able inhabitants—and it is a singular fact that they were all Dissenters— rushed into the door-way and seized the foremost of the ringleaders, and partly by using force, and partly by appeal and remonstrance, saved that fine old building from destruction.” One of the Bristol journals says— We are prepared to show that those who were the practical rioters and incendiaries, were not what are generally called the ‘town’s people,’ but thirty ot forty Irishmen, with about fifty boys,—a class of miscreants who neither knew nor cared any thing about Reform.” The civil force opposed to the mob seems to have been equally respect- able. “One thing I have been struck with,” says‘a letter, ‘‘ and that is, the juvenile appearance of many of the special constables ; they seemed to be quite boys, and evidently quite unfit for performing such an im- portant office at such a period. If the constables who were sent among the mob in the first instance were of the same description, it is easy to account for the unfortunate collision that took place. The wealthy inhabitants seem to have taken matters very coolly. “* The Magistrates,” says the Bristol Gazette of Thursday, ** when they found that the armed force of the city was too weak to quell the disturb- ance, called upon their fellow-citizens to meet them at the Guildhall, and consult the best means of restoring the peace of the city; but their fel- low-citizens kept aloof. It is true that some came, and about thirty or forty remained ; and it is true that several of the Magistrates placed themselves at the head of. these thirty or forty, and went into the Com- mercial Rooms and on the Exchange, and requested the gentlemen they met in the streets to join them ;—and it is true, that before they reached Prince’s Street Bridge, more than half of those who had joined deserted the body ; some, because their dinners were ready, and some because they had no wish to encounter a desperate mob wnarmed.’ The same journal states, that ‘‘soldiers were coolly walking backwards and for- wards while the incendiaries were proceeding with the work of destruc- tion, and that the firemen of the different Companies alone, armed with their fire hatchets, would have been more than sufficient to have routed the mob at any time during the Sunday evening.” Although there was nothing like a Reformer mixed up with the riot, the Anti-Reformers, in the thickest of it even, seem to have been willing to add what stimulus they could. ‘‘ After Sir Charles had ad- journed the court at the Guildhall, he proceeded to the Mansionhouse, amidst continued groans. In passing the Commercial Rooms, he was cheered by the persons who were assembled in the rooms. This quite infu- riated the mob.” And having infuriated the mob, some at least of the Tories, it would appear, were not unwilling that the Reformers should have a little experience of their fury. ‘A gentleman, Mr. W..,”’ says a letter dated Wednesday, ‘* who is popular in the city generally as a sup- porter of the rights of the people, had saved his property in King Street, and removed it to an avenue opposite, close to the large doors of the capacious yard of what is called King’s Street Hall. As no fire could reach here, this gentleman requested the owner to allow him to place the said property inside the gates. This he refused, saying, ‘Let Mr. W. use his own counting-house!’ Some hours after, this same Mr. W., together with a friend of his, succeeded in saving 200 or 300 pieces of brandy and puncheons of rum, 50 of which had already taken fire. These spirits happened to belong to Mr. F.’s brother-in-law. Mr. W. and his friend again begged permission to roll the whole into the yard : the reply, ‘ There is too much liberality in the world already: I will not allow it.’ They then told him the doors should be forced, as the safety of the city depended on the brandy being put out of the reach of the fire. He then opened the gates.” Of the conduct and appearance of the mob there are numerous de- scriptions, all equally revolting. ‘‘ It is believed,’’ says one of the jour- nals, “ that many of the wretches who were engaged in sacking and lighting the Custom House fell victims to their thirst for plunder and liquor. Many of them were seen as they approached the windows to drop into the flames; and others, among whom was a female, threw themselves in desperation from the windows. The latter was carried to the Infirmary, where she has since died.’ Another journal observes, ‘¢ When the building was in flames, six of the rioters were observed at the upper story, and they fell into the flames. In the cellars of the Customhouse, many were destroyed, and in the cellars of the Bishop’s Palace four of the rioters were yesterday found dead. One man was on Tuesday taken out of the ruins of the Customhouse alive, but in a hor- rid condition. He had got drunk in the cellar, and the ruins fell in upon him. One of his arms was literally burnt off. Six other bodies, or rather the remains, which were merely cinders, were also found in the ruins. Three other bodies, burnt very much, of which none of the fea- tures of the face were discernible, were exposed on the green in the middle of Queen Square. Great numbers of persons were on the spot to view them; and the stench of the corpses was most intolerably offen- sive. The savages who committed these horrid deeds not only destroyed the furniture at the Bishop’s Palace, but also a library, containing works that were exceedingly scarce and valuable. It is also a lament: able fact, that for hours hundreds of the rioters were rolling about the streets in a drunken state, and no magistrate attempted to interfere ; those who were applied to displayed the utmost alarm for their own per- sonal safety, and others of the aldermen could not be found.” The skill of the incendiaries is not to be measured by their numbers ; it ap to have been great. ‘In several houses the villains, with axes, cut holes through the various floorings to give free vent to the air, and in the lower rooms they set fire to the chairs, tables, sofas, &c. In some houses the shrieks of the inmates, particularly females, were truly terrific; and, as several of the inhabitants are missing, there is no

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THE: SPECTATOR. 1061 doubt they have been victims to the flames. When the wretches set fire to the house of Mrs. Jones, in Prince’s Street, that lady was confined to her bed, having given birth to an infant only three hours before. The villains obtained 50/. at one house to go away without firing it, and the only house now standing on one side of Queen Square, belonging to a Mrs. Rossiter, was prevented from being destroyed by Mrs. R. telling the mob she was a poor widow, and giving the leaders 10s.’” The quantity of the plunder caried off was immense, and the robbery was managed with singular audacity. ‘* During the whole of Monday night, for eight hours at least, the plunder from different houses was car- ried off by the rioters openly in carts ; several casks of wine were found four miles from Bristol, and not less than forty waggon loads of furni- ture have been recovered. An Irishman was brought up on Wednesday, wearing three shirts, three jackets, three pair of trousers, and two pair of stockings, which he had stolen at one of the fires. He was remanded. Soon afterwards an Irishwoman was charged with being one of the rioters, and under her gown were found two silk waistcoats and two blankets which were wrapped round her waist—she pretended to be ‘as ladies wish to be.’ ‘* Much stolen property,” says aletter dated Wednes- day, “Shas been found in the direction of Bedminster—plate-chests buried, &c. On Sunday night, indeed, cart-load after cart-load of stolen goods were most daringly conveyed over this bridge. One noted fellow taken to-day, at a house in Marsh Street (which street is celebrated for being occupied by the lowest Irish), had on him a bundle of bank-notes, which proved to have been taken trom Miles’s countinghouse in Queen Square. About fifty known ruffians and rioters were taken in the course of the day, and lodged in the remaining wings of the New Gaol. Seven men were taken at one place; one of them was a tall, furious, and well-known Irishman. He was a most determined-looking character. It is stated that he was the first who attacked the Mansionhouse. The recoveries of property have led to many curious exposures. Several houses in Marsh Street were found, though without exciting any very considerable surprise, to be literally crammed with stolen property. Three waggon-loads were taken from only two houses; from which it may be inferred how much is there and elsewhere deposited.’ ‘‘ One of the sabred men," says another letter, ‘had under his coat a hussar’s jacket, and his pockets were filled with broken china, &c.; he has been removed by the constables. A lad, whois severely wounded in the head, had in his bosem a lady’s glove, some children’s books, some keys be- longing to the Customhouse, and a book with the owner’s name upon it. Around another man was wrapped a blue silk shawl, and his pockets were filled with plunder. This man was maimed by leaping from a burning house. There was only one woman brought in; she had been cut by her husband, after he returned home. No female was hurt by the soldiery.”’ It is very justly observed, by one of the correspondents of the Times, that it was fortunate for the city that the desire of plunder was the ruling passion of the mob, or the effects might have been still more dreadful. *¢ Had they thought of any thing but gorging and thieving, they would have fired the city in twenty places, as they might have done on Sun- day night, and reduced it to ashes, instead of confining their ravages almost entirely to Queen Square.’ The same correspondent describes the horrible appearance of Queen Square—* That unfortunate locality presented sights most exasperating to the citizens, and most revolting to human nature. Men stretched in drunken stupor beside puncheons of rum: women in loathsome shapes, bearing the outward marks of the sex, in the same state of beastly degradation ; wine held up for sale by sated robbers, at 2d. a bottle: and while the flames burst from the burning building, so as to be visible at a distance of seventeen miles, a crew of miscreants, so intent upon rapine, that not a few of them were buried beneath the tumbling roofs, which their own hands had fired. At the Customhouse, while one frantic gang applied the torch to the upper part of the pile, another, unwittingly, cut off the retreat of some of the more tardy of these desperadoes, by setting tire to the lower divi- sion. In this manner three men were entombed in the glowing mass. Two leaped from the roof, and were dashed to pieces; and two boys, who attempted a similar mode of escape, were, [ was assured, actually seen frying in the molten lead that streamed upon the pavement.” The Bristol people speak very freely of their Magistrates. ‘* Those who speak very favourably of the Mayor's personal worth,” says a letter, concur in censuring his public conduct. They pronounce him deficient in the nerve necessary to provide for perilous emergencies. I have heard various instances of remissness cited against the city Magistrates. At half-past ten o’clock on Sunday morning, they issued handbills, request- ing the attendance of the citizens at the Guildhall to cooperate with them for the restoration of order. My respectable informant attended accordingly at twelve o’clock, but no magistrate made his appearance ; and, on inquiry, he was told that the Mayor and Council were engaged in deliberation. He and others consequently withdrew. A troop of Yeomanry Cavalry had been summoned from Sodbury—a place about eleven miles distant. They entered the city, but finding no magistrate to direct them, they took some refreshment and rode back. A detach- ment of the 3rd Dragoons, under similar circumstances, retired during the assault on the New Prison. Unable to act for want of legal autho- rity, the soldiers returned the cheers of the rabble, in order to escape a shower of missiles. The 14th Dragoons were withdrawn on Sunday, to be succeeded by this party of twenty men, who were less offensive to the mob.” Nor are the correspondents of the London journals more complimen- tary to the people of Bristol than to its rulers. ‘* ‘The lower classes of Bristol and its neighbourhood,’ says one, “ have always been a turbu- lent race. So far back as the reign of Stephen the place was charac- terized as ‘a volcano whence the kingdom was deluged with fire and sword.” The colliers, who are said to have taken an active part in the late riots, occupy a district of country a few miles out of the city, called Kingswood; and until they were in some degree civilized by the Wesleyan Methodists, a few years since, tuese people were in a state of moral degradation scarcely above that of barbarians. In times of public commotion, they have always been the most powerful auxiliaries of the town mob, whenever the latter have, from any canse, been excited to rise in opposition to the laws; and in 1793, they assisted the city malcontents in their opposition to a bridge toll, when the rioters were fired upon by a regiment of militia, and forty persons killed or wounded. In old times, the city was often besieged by the colliers. During the last thirty years, it has frequently been found neeessary te call in the military to repress the violence of the mo! at elections ; and on this subject the member for Preston ‘couid a tale unfold.’ ” The 14th have been blamed very much for their conduct. The correspondent of the Sur says—‘t Some of the London papers affect to doubt the misconduct of the 14th Hussars. I again state that they have been guilty of excesses, and I will detail one case in support of my assertion. I mention only one, because I will nog risk one that is not authenticated ; and as I have been on duty since Monday, I have had little time for inquiry. A Mr. Nash, a very re- spectable broker, who had been on business on Monday last to Unity Street, was returning by Mr. Protheroe’s sugar-house, when he met twa ofthe 14th. ‘ Well, soldiers,’ said he, ‘ Tam glad you are come to town. Oh, you ——,’ replied one of the fellows, ‘ you are as bad as the rest. With that he struck at Mr. Nash with his sword, and cut off part of one of his fingers. ‘ You are not going to cut me down, to be sure!’ cried the terrified Mr. Nash. The soldier again raised his sword, and, making use of a similar expression, he cut at him a second time, and severed his hat in two, barely escaping his head. ‘This, I assure you, is not the only case detailed, in which all the laws of human nature and human right were outraged by the ‘man-butchers,’ as they are now very generally termed. A man was shot by one of them; and an intelli- gent lad who was standing close by declares, that the man had committed no offence, and that he was deliberately killed by a pistol bullet.’ If these accusations prove to be well founded, the troop employed at Bris- tol ought to be instantaneously discharged. The number of casualties cannot be stated; they have been very nu- merous. Several inquests have been held, but the only one which ex- cites interest is that on a young boy, shot, or supposed to have been shot, by a Captain Lewis. The boy was innocent of offence. The gentle- man, it is said, had been knocked down and abused, and fired a pistol in his own defence; the boy was then about twenty yards distance. At the Infirmary, on Saturday evening, four persons were received with sword wounds, and one shot through the lungs. In anticipation of the probable consequences, every possible preparation was made during the night for attention to casualties. On Sunday in the forenoon, eight persons were brought in with gun-shot wounds. With the exception of one man, who was struck with a ball which had passed over the river, all were under twenty years of age, and one only twelve years old, chiefly from St. Philip’s. On Monday, the wounded began to pour in, nearly all cut by the sword severely, either in the face, neck, or head. In a great many of the latter cases, the sabre had slashed entirely through the hat into the skull, so that some will probably terminate fatally. That these were actual rioters there can be no doubt, as many were athletic, stout fellows, with plundered articles in their possession, and in the highest state of excitement from liquor. One lad was shot through the body, and is since dead. None of the military were hurt, except one man, slightly wounded. Queen Sqoare, which_has suffered so severely, is said to be the largest square in Europe. It has in the centre a fine equestrian statue of Wil- liam the Third by Rysbrach. Of the houses in this square, totally de- stroyed, the following list has been published : Besides the Customhouse, the houses occupied by C. Anderson, Esq.; Mrs. Phil- lips ; Thomas Webb and Co., merchants ; Thomas Sheppard, merchant (and No. 5, Little King Street, at the back thereof); Misses Vigars; Reverend J. Eaden; Cun- ningham and Robley, merchants; J. Leman and Sons, solicitors; Mansionhouse, Banqueting-room, stables, &c.; Miss Giroux, Monsieur Challon, Mrs. Davey, Mrs. E. Roberts, Mrs. White, Mr. J. Richards, bookseller; Mr. H. Humbey, architect; Mrs. Boussiquet, Miss Jones, Mr. 'T. Croker, coach builder; Mr. C. W. Stephens, Mr. B. Bickley, Messrs. Miles and Kingston, J. P. Miles, Esq., M.P., Mr. H. Bur- gess Smith, Mr. J. S. Broad, commercial agent; Mr. T. Bowden, Mr. Harford, Messrs. Warner, the Maginnis Brewery (and 25, Key Street), Mr. C. Ball, Mr. Jesse Barrett, Mr. Cross, Mr. Strong, bookseller; Mrs. Jones, Princes Street, &c. The impudent and most unfounded charge that the Refurmers—mean- ing by that term the friends of the Bill and of the Ministry—have been im. plicated in the riots, is best met by a fact stated by the Bristol Gazette. ** Though nearly two hundred persons,” says that journal, ‘‘ are in custody for rioting, and though against a considerable number there is positive evidence of being concerned in various acts of incendiarism, yet not one is proved to be a Bristolian connected in any way witb the poli- tical party which has been so strongly opposed to Sir Charles Wetherell.”” This charge, which has been pressed by the Standard with singular con- tempt of evidence, seems to have excited in Bristol very strong feelings of indignation. A correspondent of the G/obe, who dates November 2nd, says ** the Séundard not only publishes correspondence giving a most false and exaggerated statement of the facts, but, by its ignorant and scurrilous abuse of the Reformers of this city, goes far to merit the title which it has gained of a ‘ vagabond journal.’ If we did not know that there are no men in the world so credulous and so blind as the ill-starred Tories, we could not imagine that a paper styling itself (I fear with too much truth) the Leading Journal of its party, could risk such state- ments as that paper of Tuesday has dared to print. Never was a lie more daring and absurd than the assertion that the Reformers of this city have, directly or indirectly, been the cause of the late dismal exer cise of mob power. Could the editor of that paper be ignorant that hun: dreds of men as respectable as himself, and each, probably, with tenfold more property staked in the maintenance of the public peace than he, rank themselves among the Reformers of Bristol? And are these men, one and all, ‘ wretches,’ as he has scandalously said ‘ the Reformers of Bristol,’ without qualification, are? Such vile aspersions are, perhaps, best left alone; but is it not melancholy that the Tory readers of that journal should be thus humbugged and deluded? One fact may be worth a thousand arguments, Not a Reformer in this city has hesitated to enrol himself a special constable as soon as our panic-struck Magi- strates would authorize the necessary arrangements; and if these wor. thies had accepted the offer of the Political Union here to form an escort for Sir Charles Wetherell in the first instance, not a head would have been broken or house fired; but they courted the aggression of the mob by their ostentatious display of force; and when their weakness had been proved, and the mob had gained courage to plan further violence, personal safety seemed the first consideration of our magnates; aud when at last they were found at their post, it was nothing but considera- tion! consideration ! while the rioters were acting and taking means to swell their numbers by liberating the felons from the gaols.” ‘The friends of Sir Charles Wetherell,”’ says the Hera/d of yester- day, “ are very actively disseminating a report that he did not proceed

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1C62 THE SPECTATOR: to Bristol without first consulting the Home Secretary upon the subject, and whose sanction he obtained. Whether such was or was not the case, we have, of course, no means of ascertaining.’? That he applied to the Secretary, is. very likely; such an application would be but another spe- cimen of the superlative impudence of his party. Of course, if the Secre- tary said “Go,” he was liable for all that took place ; if he said ‘* Don't go,” the Minister was the mere tool of the rabble, whose orders he was ready at all times to obey. Without pretending to know any thing of the application, we trust Lord Melbourne had commonsense enough to bid Sir Charles do as he pleased, and take the consequences of his doing. The inquests have elicited very little that was not previously known. That on the body of the boy shot by Captain Lewis is not yet finished. There seems to have been more haste than discretion in the firing by which the boy fell; it is admitted that he was not aimed at. In the other inquests on the bodies of those that have died in the hospitals, or been found dead in the burnt houses, nothing has been inquired into but the mere fact of the cause of death; and the return has been in each case “* Died of burning (or wounds, as the case might be) ; but how er by whom caused, not known.” There was anumerous meeting at the Commercial Rooms on Thurs- day ; when two resolutions, in the form of memorials, were offered,—one to Lord Melbourne, calling for an inquiry into the conduct of the Ma- gistracy; another to Lord Hill, calling for a similar inquiry into the conduct of Colonel Brereton. An amendment on these memorials was moved, which called also for inquiry, but named no party, lest it might appear tocondemn before trial. The amendment was to the following effect :— ** We, the undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and other Inhabitants of the City of Bristol, deeply lamenting the riotous and disgraceful proceedings that have recently occurred in this City, and the sad destruction of property resulting therefrom; that the lives and fortunes of the citizens were for a considerable period entirely at the mercy of a desperate mob ; and firmly convinced that all this might have been prevented if proper precautions had been adopted—do earnestly request your Lordship will be pleased to cause an investigation to be instituted, as the only course that will pacify the minds of the public, and restore confidence in the future.” It was carried by a majority. On Wednesday, his Majesty having come to town for the purpose, a Privy Council was held, at which the following proclamation was agreed to, respecting the riots at Bristol. “BY THE KING—A PROCLAMATION. WILLIAM, R.—Whereas in divers parts of Great Britain, and more particularly in the towns of Derby and Nottingham, and inthe City of Bristol, tumultuous as- semblages of people have taken place, and outrages of the most violent description have been committed both upon the persons and property of divers of our subjects; end whereas all the restraints of law and order have been overborne and trodden wnder foot by such lawless multitudes, the mansions of individuals violently entered, pillaged, and set on fire, the ordinary course of justice forcibly inter- yupted, the gaols for the confinement of criminals broken into and destroyed, and matlefactors and persons charged with offences let loose upon the public, to the great disturbance and danger of the common weal, and the subversion of established Government: And whereas the welfare and happiness of all nations do, under Divine Providence, chiefly depend upon the observance and enforcement of the law: And whereas it is our firm determination faithfuliy to discharge the duty imposed on us, to preserve the public peace, and vigorously to exert the powers which we possess for the protection of all our subjects, in the entire enjoyment of their rights and liberties ; We, therefore, being resolved to suppress the wicked and flagitious practices aforesaid, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our royal proclamation, solemnly warning all our liege subjects to guard against every attempt to violate the law, and to abstain from every act inconsistent with the peace and good order of society ; and We do hereby charge and command all Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, Chief Magistrates of cities, boroughs, and cor- porations, and all the Magistrates throughout Great Britain, that they do effectually repress all tumults, riots, outrages, and breaches of the peace within their respec- tive jurisdictions ; and that they do make diligent inquiry in order to discover and bring to justice the movers and rators of all such seditious and wicked acts ly and solemnly exhort, enjoin, call upon, and command all our liege subjects, of all ranks and conditions, that they do come forward upon the first appearance or apprehension of any such disturbances as aforesaid, as they are bound by their duty to us, by their regard for the general in- terest, and by the obligation of the law, and that they be actively aiding and as- sisting to all Sheriffs, Justiecs of the Peace, and other Magistrates, in enforcing the law against evil doers, and in protecting their feliow-subjects in the enjoyment of their property and the exercise of their rigl against all forcible, illegal, and unconstitutional interference, control, or aggre n. ** Given at our Court at St. James’s, this 2nd day of November, 1831, and in the second year of our reign. God save the King.” The Court Circular adds, that a reward of 1,000/. has been offered for the apprehension of any of the rioters mentioned in the proclamation. The Bristol riots have displayed, in a striking point of view, the ad- vantages which accumulated capital bestows on a nation like England. A telegraphic communication was made to the commander at Plymouth, and in three hours a number of troops were put on board a steam-boat and despatched to Southampton, where horses for their conveyance were, by telegraph, directed to be in readiness the moment they landed. While the insurrection was in progress, considerable disturbance took Place in Bath, on the Yeomanry troop belonging to that town being called out to assist tle civil power at Bristol. The mob did not, how- ever, go further than breaking the windows of the inn, where the cap- tain of the Yeomanry sought shelter. A mecting took place in the even- ing,and a number of special constables were sworn in, who patrolled the city during the night ; happily the precaution was unnecessary. n hearing of the riots at Bristol, a mob, consisting principally of boys, assembled at Trowbridge on Monday evening, and showed a dis- position for mischief: they broke the public lamps, and an immense number of windows; but they were prevented by the respectable inha- hitants from proceeding to other outrages.— Devizes Gazette. We are sorry to learn that placards were exposed at Tewkesbury yesterday, containing the words “ Down with Pull Court.” This house 3s near Tewkesbury, and is the seat of Mr. Dowdeswell, M.P. for the borough. We understand that some members of the Upton troop of Yeomanry Cavalry were stationed at Pull Court last night in case of attack, but no attempt was made. Few circumstances prove more clearly the alarm which exists in the country at this moment, than the fact that at the houses of the nobility and opulent gentry, preparations have been made for defence in case of an attack.--Worcesier Journal. Camsriwce Exection.—This important struggle terminated on Mon- @ay, by the resignation of Captain Yorke. The majority of Mr. Townley, which on Saturday was 428, was increased on Monday to 556; and at the close of the poll there remained above 100 freemen unpolled in the town, and 150 were ready to come up next day. The numbers on Mon- day were—Townley, 2,001; Yorke, 1,445; making a total of 3,446, out of about 4,000 freeholders, who constitute the entire number of the county. On Monday, Mr. Townley in his address noticed the declaration of Captain Yorke that Mr. Townley was pledged to the whole Bill: he said he was pledged to a full and efficient measure of Reform, and to nothing else: for all the particulars of the Bill, he neither was nor could be supposed responsible. Captain Yorke justified his asserting that Mr. Townley was pledged to the whole Bill, from his having signed a petition to the Lords in fas vour of it. The Captain went on—It was now only left for him to con« gatulate his honourable opponent upon the victory which he had on that occasion achieved. He, though he had been defeated, was proud to say that he had not been beaten. He had fought the fight fairly and openly ; and though he regretted greatly that the result was not in his favour, he could assure them in perfect sincerity and truth, that he entertained no feeling of animosity or envy towards his honourable and more fortu- nate rival on that occasion, and that the only feeliny that filled his breast at that moment was, a feeling of regret at beholding the loss of their good opinion towards that cause of which he had come forward as the advocate and the supporter. It was more on account of that cause, than on his own private or personal account, that he regretted the result of this contest. He was not, certainly, indifferent to the honour of representing the county of Cambridge in Parliament ; and if the choice of his brother freeholders had fallen upon him, he should have felt, as he ought to feel, proud of such a distinguished mark of their favour, It was but natural that he should be ambitious of representing a county in which were to be found his dearest friends and relations, and to which he was attached by the strongest ties of family and fortune. He regretted, therefore, that the feeling of the county had been expressed against him on this occasion. He had only to declare distinctly that he had been de- feated. He trusted that in this, their moment of victory and of triumph, the party that had achieved that triumph would use it with the same good feeling, the same moderation, and the same courtesy, that had been manifested by them throughout this contest, and especially towards him. For that courtesy he had now to return them his warmest thanks. The contest, he was proud to say, had been carried on on both sides with the best possible feeling ; and he would venture to assert, that no contest in any county in England had ever been carried on in so creditable a man- ner as this contest had been conducted. Again, he regretted that he was the defeated man on this occasion ; but he trusted that they would use him tenderly, and that he would receive from all of them the best possible good wishes for any undertaking that he might venture upon in this life. The frank and honest speech of Captain Yorke was received with loud cheers from all sides. The High Sheriff then declared that Captain Yorke having resigned the contest, Mr. Townley was duly elected in room of Lord Francis Osborne. he successful candidate was chaired on Tuesday ; on which day there was agrand dinner at the Red Lion, in honour of the final triumph of Reform principles in Cambridgeshire. Lord Francis Osborne was in the chair,—supported by Mr. Townley, Mr. Adeane, Mr. Paton, the Chair- man of Mr. Townley’s Committee; the Earl of Kerry (Lord Lans- downe’s eldest son), Mr. Osborne, the Honourable Mr. Ponsonby, Lord Camperdown, the Honourable John Grey, Reverend G. A. Brown, Reverend W. G. Townley, Reverend C. Townley, Mr. Bunbury, Mr. Bowers, Mr. Astley, Mr. Hibbert, Mr. Hemmington, Mr. Wing, Mr. Gun- ning, Mr. Professor Prime, and a great many other gentlemen connected with the county. Wecan spareroom for but one extract from the speeches. Lord F. Csborne said, in proposing theindependence of the county of Cam- bridge—* They had had more thancommon foes to contend with ; they had had tocontend with persons who, from habit, and almost from nature, were opposed to liberty. They lived in a see, the Bishop of which had perhaps, more patronage than any other in the country ; there was the University, which had great power, great influence, and great patronage ; there was a large and powerful aristocracy; there was a numerous gentry, the majority of which, he was sorry tosay, had always been against the freedom of the county ; there was the Corporation of the town of Cambridge : but, not- withstanding all these, they had beaten them one after another, they had beaten them when they were united—they had beaten them when they were single—they had beaten them family by family—and there they stood at length, after a struggle of twenty-one years, their own masters.” In asubsequent speech, Lord Francis observed, that he had never, during his twenty years’ service, been asked by a Cambridge freeholder for a single favour! C:ry Precautions acainst Cno.era.—The City of London Board of Health, appointed by the Court of Common Council, have chosen Mr. Charles Pearson to be their Chairman, and Mr. De Grave their Medical Secretary. A resolution has been adopted, requesting the Com- mon Councilmen and parochial officers in the different wards to take ac- tive measures, in co-operation with the Commissioners of Sewers, to cleanse the streets and alleys in their different districts. Arrangements will be made for an increased supply of water in the public streets, by which an under-current of air will be constantly kept up, and every pre- cautionary measure will be adopted which prudence can suggest. Of the value of any other regulations than cleanliness and temperance, the following extract from a letter just received from Prague affords to- lerable evidence. ‘* The terrors of the pestilential touch of this demon of the East has vanished from amongst us. Notwithstanding our fre- quent intercourse with countries suffering under its visitation, Bohemia remains entirely free from infection. Numberless travellers and goods of all descriptions continually arrive in our city from Vienna and other places where the cholera prevails, and yet no instance of the disease has occurred amongst us, although no letters are fumigated, no cordons sani-~ taires are maintained, and business proceeds throughout the country as if no such malady existed. What stronger proof against the opinions of the contagionists can be adduced ?” At Alexandria the disease is raging. It broke out at Cairo on the 16th August, andat Alexandria on the 22d, and is causing great mortality at both places, most of the victims dying of it in the short space of three hours. The malady is now subsiding, and in a few days more it is expected to entirely cease. We need hardly remark, that the Egyp- tians are the filthiest and most wretched population in the world.

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Merropouitan Ponrricat Unton.—The meeting to which we alluded last week was to have taken place in the great room at the Crown and Anchor, but it was found to be inadequate for the purpose, and an ad- journment took place to Lincoln's Inn Fields. After considerable delay, the landlord of Green’s Hotel having refused to the Committee the ac- commodation of his balcony, the speakers were accommodated on the roof of an office belonging to the adjoining house. Sir Francis Burdett, as was intended, took the chair. Mr. Hume, Colonel Jones, Colonel Evans, old Mr. Thelwall, Mr. Wakley, and a number of other public persons, were present. The meeting was very respectable, and numerous. The number might be about 6,000. The first two resolutions—namely, “*That the interests of the People are most effectually promoted by well-organized and comprehensive Associations; That it is highly desirable, at the present moment, that a union should be formed of all real Reformers who wish to see the middle and working classes fairly represented ;” were carried by acclamation. On the third being put, “That the present meeting hereby forms itself into a National Political Union, on the plan and with the objects set forth in the printed Rules, &c.” A Mr. Lovett,—the same, we believe, who has rendered himself con- spicuous by a very foolish opposition to the Militia Laws,—stood forward to move an amendment, to the effect that the Union “ should never relax in their efforts until they obtained for every man of twenty-one years of age, or capable of bearing arms for the defence of his country, full en- franchisement ;’’ a proposal which went, of course, to exclude from the Union every person who happened to look on universal suffrage as chi- merical, inconvenient, or dangerous. This amendment was seconded by a Mr. Cleave, and was received with great disapprobation. In order to ter- minate the schism which these two persons seem to have been anxious to introduce, Mr. Wakley proposed a second amendment, ‘‘ That the meeting should form itself into a National Political Union, and meet to consider the rules agreed to by the Council, and that half the Council shall be chosen from the working classes.” The third resolution, and Mr. Lo- vett’s amendment being withdrawn, the second amendment was ulti- mately carried, after a short discussion on a point of order; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. Vauxua.t Briwoce.—The Company held their half-yearly meeting on Thursday. The tolls have increased 1567. compared with the cor- responding period last year; the total receipts have been 4,260/. <A di- vidend of 10s. a share was declared.

Mr. Hunt.—This mischievous person was at Manchester on Tuesday morning, on his way to Preston. Several thousand people assembled to meet him at Peterloo, whom he harangued in his usual style. The facts elicited in the course of his address are—that the Whigs set fire to Bristol (we suspect the honourable member is a contributor to the Post and the Standard) ; that blacking does not sell nearly so well as formerly, all owing to the Grey Ministry; that the press is managed by liars and vagabonds; that Mr. Heywood is no better than Mr. Patten; that the Bill is worse than nothing, but willlead to something better than no- thing; that the Queen is a“ young German female’’—such are the elegant terms in which the Man of the People, the pet of the ‘ Peel and Dawson Crew,” the chum of Sir Charles Wetherell, describes her Majesty—who will marry after the “ old man”—the King—is gone, and that therefore nothing could be so atrocious as to vote hera dowry. A dowry, according to Mr. Hunt’s opinion, ought never to be granted to ladies that survive their husbands. He attacked O’Connell for accept- ing an office—the patent of precedency—from the Ministers; but the tirade against O’Connell was not relished, and he speedily changed it for a fresh attack on the Whigs. He concluded his speech with pro- posing three cheers to the lads of Preston; which were given. Lereps Rerresenration.—Mr. John Marshall jun, and Mr. T. B. Macauley, have acceded to the requisitions presented to them to come forward for the representation of Leeds on the liberal interest, in the event of the Reform Bill passing. That to Mr. Marshall was signed by 1,434 persons, and that to Mr. Macauley by 1,304. Po.iricat Untons.—One of these useful and influential societies is forming in Liverpool. Hull also intends to follow the example of Bir- mingham and Edinburgh; and a Union is forming at Leicester and another at Hinckley. In the metropolis, pursuant to the recommenda- = of the General Committee, Unions are forming in most of the pa- rishes, Lorp Brovenam’s Purm..— Lord Sandon’s admirers in Liverpool en- tertained him with a banquet on Friday evening. There were 650 guests at the table, and the boxes of the Amphitheatre where the ban- ‘quet took place were occupied by their ladies. Mr. Denison, Mr. Wil- son Patten, the ex-Tory member of Lancashire, and Admiral Murray, were among the company. The Committee met on Thursday to arrange the toasts. Several members were for omitting ‘“* His Majesty’s Minis- ters” and “ Reform.” A vote was taken, and it was against their admission ; but dreading a schism, they were inserted thus ;—‘* Minis- ters’? to be hissed, and ‘* Constitutional Reform ’”’ cheered. Payina vor tHe Wuistte.—The damages at Nottingham Castle, Colwick Hall, and Beeston silk mill, it is supposed, amount to more than 50,000/. Part of this must be paid by the enemies of the Bill ; they will not gain on every hand by stopping it. Enrorcement oF Decorum.—At Newcastle, on Friday, a young man was seized by the Police, and dragged to the office, charged with hissing the Duke of Northumberland. So much for aping one’s betters. Had this young man been a lord, he might have played the goose as often as he pleased, and no one would have harmed him.

Sir Watter Scorr.—Sir Walter and his daughter embarked at Ports- mouth, on Saturday, on board the Barham, of 52 guns, and sailed im- mediately for the Mediterranean. Lirzrary Honours.—The students of the Glasgow University pur- pose electing Mr. Hume as their Lord Rector. Tue Memser ror Lanarksutre.—The Hon. Charles Douglas, bro- ther and presumptive heir of Lord Douglas, is at present in a dangerous State, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. Mr. Douglas is at his resi- dence in Berkely Square. Scorcn Mererines.—In consequence of a requisition addressed to Mr. A. Speirs and Mr. H. F. Campbell, by the inhabitants of the parishes of Balfron, Fintry, Kilcairn, Drymen, and Kippen, and of the chapelry of |

Gartmore, a meeting of the inhabitants of the western district of Stir lingshire took place on Saturday, at Blackhill, near Balfron. This meet ing was most numerously attended ; upwards of three thousand persons were present, and all manifested the utmost zeal in the great cause of Reform. The Duke of Hamilton, it is said, will preside at a meeting of the county of Lanark, which isto take place in a few days. CuarceE or Burxinc.—We mentioned last week, the disappearance of an old woman named Walsh, and the suspicion of foul play in the disposal of her body, which attached to a man named Cooke, and his wife, in whose house she had taken up her residence previous to her disappearance. The parties, who had been locked up with their son, @ boy of twelve years of age, were examined on Wednesday. The boy, who had previously made some disclosures, stated, from the witness-box, that on the evening of the day (19th August) on which the old woman came to his father’s, in Goodman's Yard, Minories, ** they had coffee for supper; he took part of it, and it made him sleepy, but not sick; the old woman also took some of it, and it seemed to make her drowsy, as she shortly afterwards stretched herself on his father and mother’s bed, and placed her hand under her head, Some time after, he saw his mo- ther go towards the bed, and place her right hand over the mouth of the old woman, and her left over her body. When his mother placed her hand on the old woman’s mouth, her arm fell down, and she lay flat of her back on the bed; his mother continued to keep one hand on her mouth and the other on her person for at least half an hour; the old woman did not struggle much, but her eyes stared and rolled very much. Witness stood by the fire this time, and his father, who was in the room at the time, stood looking out at the window ; his father never once turned round to see what was going forward. In about an hour after, his mother raised the body of the old woman from the bed, and carried it down stairs.”” Next morning, the boy, as he said, ‘* before going to school, went into the cellar to the water-closet, and while searching through the cellar for some ducks which he was told were there, he saw the body of the old woman ina sack, which was placed underneath the stairs ; a portion of the head was out of the mouth of the sack, and the body appeared to be partly bent, and reclining against the stairs. There was enough of light in the cellar for him to discern the colour of the hair on the head; it was partly grey and black, but he could not say whether or not the body was dressed. The sack in which it was, was one belonging to a person named Jones, with whom his father worked ; he had frequently seen it in their room.’ Such is the tale of the boy. A granddaughter of the old woman, who was examined om Thursday, seems to have had a supernatural communication on the subject ; for she declared, that after her grandmother's disappearance, while she was in Cook’s house, she heard the old woman’s voice dis- tinctly say—‘* Nancy, where is the use of your looking for me, when E have been suffocated in that bed of Cook’s, by him and his wife.” The young woman was so alarmed at this announcement, that she could scarcely go down stairs—and no wonder. The body was said to have been sold to the London Hospital : this statement, however," provés to be false. Theman Cooke and his wife have been fully committed for trial.

Manstavenrer.—On Saturday, in consequence of a dispute between Thomas Fordham, ostler of Bigg’s livery-stables, Moortields, and @ groom, the latter knocked Fordham down. The poor man died almost immediately, from the effects of the blow. Tue Founpiinc.—The rigmarole story told last week by a girk named Sale to the Magistrates of Bow Street, about her having been stolen from St. Helena, has turned out, as we suspected, to be wholly false. It appears that she is daughter to the woman Goodison, but not by her husband. The husband and wife have been discharged. There is a foolish bias in the public towards the evidence of children. We have seldom known a child to speak the truth when it had the smallest possible interest in speaking falsehood. The moral sense is much more intimately connected with the growth of reason than is generally sup- posed. Marcu or Roaurry.—A fellow, suspected to be a thief, was stopped on Monday morning at Barnet, by the officers there. When ques- tioned, he declared, with great appearance of earnestness, that he was bearer of an express from Tamworth to London, to announce that Sir Robert Peel had committed suicide. Of course, he was immediately permitted to go on. The story was just as true as that the Reformers sacked Bristol. Hieguway Rossery.—On Friday evening last, Mr. William Bryant of Bishop’s Hull, returning home in his gig from Wimple, was attacked at the six-mile stone between Honiton and Taunton by two footpads. One of them seized the horse’s head, whilst the other put his foot on the step of the gig, and demanded money. Mr. Bryant immediately knocked him down with his fist; but he again came to the attack, when a scuffle ensued, and Mr. B. was dragged out of his gig. ‘The other ruffian then struck Mr. B. on the head with a bludgeon, and both began beating and kicking him in a most inhuman manner. They rifled his pockets of notes, gold, and silver, to the value of 130d., and decamped, leaving hint on theroad. His groans at length brought a poor gipsy woman and boy, who, with three of their people, took him up and carried him to the Holmen Clavel inn, in an almost lifeless state — Taunton Courier.;

Svuicies AND Frres.—The number of casualties in both these depart- ments announced during the past week is unusually great. On Thurs- day afternoon, a footman of Sir J. Cockburn shot himself, in the par- lour of the Nightingale publichouse, Lisson Grove, because his sweet~ heart had slighted him. On Saturday night, aman named Maynard, shopkeeper to a pawnbroker in the Old Kent Road, drowned himself in the Surry Canal. On Tuesday morning, a young woman, daughter of s Mr. Dutton of Charles Street, New Road, swallowed poison. Happily, in this case, the pump was at hand, and the girl was saved. On tig Bom a young man named Neale drowned himself in the Newton, near ath, an account of his mistress jilting him. The last case is that of a poor man suffering under erysipelas of the scalp, who cut himself so severely on the back of the neck as to sever the vertebre. America also fur- nishes its contribution of suicides, or rather attempted suicides, this week :— At Catskill, N. Y. says a New York paper, ‘“ a man hve f attempted to cut his own throat; then jumped from the top of a pre,

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1064 ‘THE SPECTATOR. pice of twenty feet 3 next attempted to drown himself in the river; and was at last secured while beating his head against the rocks,”’ The-fires reported are more numerous than the suicides. .A wheat-r_ k’ at Maddington, near Salisbury, was burnt by incendiaries on Mond. On Friday, last week, eight stacks on a farm near Boston, were destroy d by similar means and agents. In Cheam Lane, Surry, on the same night, a hay-stack was burnt; it belonged to Counsellor Thornton. On Sunday evening, a large barley-stack was consumed at Lodge Farm, Hillborough ; this fire was accidental. On Wednesday last week, a barn and a quantity of barley, at North Barsham, and on Saturday, two barley-stacks near Great Milton, Norfolk, were consumed. On Sunday, all the great tithe corn of Alfriston parish was burnt by incendiaries ; and on Monday a couple of stacks and two lodges were burnt, at Town Place, Throwly, near Feversham, There have been three fires in Lon- don since our last ;—one on Monday night, in Academy Court, Chancery Lane, where two houses were burnt to the ground ; one on Wednesday night, at Messrs. Westrupp’s, bakers,! High Holborn, whose premises were ‘wholly destroyed ; and one on Thursday night, at the corner of Bishop’s Head Court, in Gray’s Inn Lane, which destroyed two houses. lt is feared that in this last fire, three if not more lives were lost. In.the country, on Monday, a destructive fire happened at Chorley, where the print-works of Messrs. Haigh and Co. were nearly consumed ; the estimated damage is not less than 5,000/. And on Saturday another print establishment, at Aberdeen, was burnt down, and goods prepared and unprepared to a very large amount lost. Sie J. Carmicuar, Anstrurnuer.—This young gentleman was acci- dentally shot, by one of his companions, on Monday last, at Goswell’s, near Eton, where Sir John was a student. It appears that he and a Master Smyth had borrowed a gun from a Mrs, Powell, who lends guns to the young gentlemen of Eton; and while they were walking toge- ther, the gun resting on Smyth’s arm, it went off, and lodged the whole charge in the eye of the unfortunate boy: he immediately died. AccwwEntraL Porsoninc.—T wo children, sons of Mr. Barker, chemist, at Norwood, died the other day, after violent retching ; and three more were dangerously ill. The opinion that first obtained was that these were cases of cholera,—which, now-a-days, gets credit for all that falls out; but examination seems to have proved that the children had un- fortunately swallowed some of the drugs of the shop. Suppen Dearn.—A female, named Stannard, dropped down dead, the other day, on being informed that her husband, who is a policeman, was ordered to attend the meeting of the National Union. The poor woman had, we suppose, been reading the Herald, in whose columns Unions figure almost as alarmingly as cholera does in the Gazette. Farat Acciwent.—On Tuesday morning, on the arrival of Goddard’s Portsmouth and Peterstield heavy waggon at Ditton, Sunson the driver was missing. He was found lying in the road some distance at the other side of Ditton, dreadfully mangled and quite dead. It appeared the poor man had fallen asleep on the shaft, and had tumbled underneath the wheel, which had passed over his body. Farau Acciperr.— Yesterday a dreadful accident happened to one of the workmen employed in forming the great sewer in Old Change. The unfortunate man was engaged in fixing a large beam across the street, to prevent any injury to the houses on either side by the withdrawal of the sand, &c. beneath the foundations, in order that the sewer might be tunnelled, when the ladder on which he was standing slipped, and he fell from the height of the second story on the curb, and was killed on the spot. Sir Epowarv Coprincron.—Sir Edward Codrington, whom the John Buil has sent to “ the coast of Holland,” has arrived here for the winter — Brighton Gazette. Trave.—A large mercantile failure of a house, chiefly engaged in the West: India trade, was announced on ’Change on Monday. New Ponce Barracxs.—The triumphal arch at Hyde Park has been given up, by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to the Commis- sioners of the Metropolitan Police, for the purpose of being. converted into a police-barracks or station-house. A sergeant’s party, consisting of twenty men, has already taken possession of the left wing. Tue Cuanner Squapron.—aA letter from Broadstairs, dated Sunday, says—*‘ At a quarter before two o'clock, the squadron lately collected in the Downs, got under weigh ; at three they passed this town, in their way up Channel; and now (four o'clock), the leading ships, having cleared the Goodwin, are dropping away to the eastward, from the North Sandhead Light. There can, therefore, be little doubt that the squa- dron is destined for the Scheldt. The wind is fair, W.S.W., but light. The squadron would therefore without difficulty, if there is no change, reach Flushing with the morning’s tide.’ ‘The vessels are the Talavera, Revenge, and Wellesley, line-of-battle ships; Curagoa, Galatea, Tri- bune, and Stag, frigates; Imogene, Brisk, Recruit, and Falcon, gun- brigs ; and Tweed sloop of war. Franor anv Be.atum.—A highly-finished medal has been struck off in Paris, to commemorate the intervention of France in the defence of Belgium. The medal presents on one side the King’s head bound with a crown of oak, and surrounded by the following words :—“ Louis Philippe I., King of the French ;’’ on the other, ‘* The French army, under the command of Marshal Gerard, rushed to the assistance of the Belgians.’ Wnuavr's 1x A Name ?—Mr. D. Ronayne, while addressing the assem- blage at the Waterford Reform meeting, said, ‘* If we but once get Re- form, we shall soon see an end to the Vestry and the Subletting Acts.” At that moment a man called out ‘the pikes, the pikes, Mr. Ronayne, don't forget the pikes,” so long and loudly as altogether to put a stop to Mr. Ronayne's speech. Mr. R. at last asked him what he meant, when the man answered, ‘the turnpikes, the turnpikes, won’t you put an end to the turnpikes ?”—Dublia Morning Register. Proresranr Cuarrry.—The rector of Rathdrum has addressed to the parish-priest, on the occasion of the funeral of a female named Phillips, the following notice :—‘t My churchyard is very small, and my Pro- testant, flock numerous. I do not, therefore, usually allow Roman Ca- holics or strangers to be interred therein ; however, I shall not object to Esther Phillips, as her husband is a Protestant parishioner ; but I shall not permit any Roman Catholic ceremonies to be performed on the oc- casion.” [The churchyard’s being small, is a curious reason for for- bidding Roman Catholic ceremonies.] -Chaneellor,-who is out of town. Term Time.—Wednesday being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Judges breakfasted with Lord Tenterden, instead of the Lord Mr. Williams and Mr. Holt having been appointed King’s Counsel, took their seats within the bar of the Court-of: King’s Bench on Wednesday. PaLMUM QUI MERUIT FERAT!—It is said that the Lisbon mail, the letters by which were delivered on Tuesday, brought the insignia of a Portuguese Order, and an autograph letter from Don Miguel, as a mark of respect to the Marquis of Londonderry. ApVANTAGE OF A PartaiamentT.—A French writer remarks, that “ such is the respect of the English for their Parliament, that, when it is sitting, crimes are extremely rare; but as soon as it rises, the papers are filled with accounts of the most horrible atrocities.” Simple as this observa- tion appears, there is some truth at the bottom of it. Many crimes in society are the result of that craving for mental stimulus which is so marked a feature in human nature. If every man had an interest in the representation, there seems no doubt that Parliament would furnish that stimulus, and thus prevent it from being sought in criminal courses. Enauiisn Cuorera.—On the 26th of October, a case occurred at New- castle, of which the symptoms were precisely those described by Sir Henry Halford,—great prostration of strength, lips and face livid, dis- charge of matter like thin gruel, spasms of the lower extremities, skin deadly cold, weak intermitting pulse, death. Three doctors certify the case and the symptoms, but declare it to have been one of English cho- lera. Query—as it is evidently impossible to distinguish, in’ such in- stances, the English from the foreign, by what tests are we to distin- guish the foreign from the English ? Ture New Game Acr.—A butcher at Saffron Walden has fixed the following prices for his game:—pheasants, 6s., partridges, 3s. per brace; a hare, 2s. 6d. A noble lord in the neighbourhood has promised him a good supply. Laxsours or Love.—According to the year’s return, there are 60 tra- velling preachers, nearly 200 local preachers, and 12,355 members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Canada. Each travelling preacher preaches on an average 25 sermons a month; thus the travelling preachers preach 1,500 sermons in a month. The local preachers, per- haps, preach 900 sermons a month; so that if this estimate be correct, 2,400 sermons are delivered to the people of Upper Canada every month, besides the other public and private duties of the ministry, the labours of exhorters and class leaders, Sunday school teachers, &c.—Canada Paper. Ossrrication.—A native of the Isle of Man has lately, by a rare but most rapid process, become one continuous bone throughout his entire frame. This unfortunate and truly pitiable creature, who drags outa miserable existence in Dublin, is, probably, the only specimen of general ossification of the joints living. John Hunter gave 100 guineas for a skeleton, in which a similar process had taken place. Tue Bisuors sti.u.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has for some time past been expected to consecrate the new Northgate Church in this city, but the ceremony has hitherto been deferred, it is said, from prudential considerations. ‘The Archbishop’s opposition to the Reform Bill has greatly disgusted the inhabitants of Canterbury and its vici- nity.— Kent Herald. Boarp or HeattuH—The Lords of the Privy Council have ap- pointed Drs. Babington and Roupel to be the medical officers of the ‘Board of Health, established by the Court of Common Council, to watch over the health of the Metropolis—Times. [Without questioning the skill of Drs. Babington and Roupel, we think the Lords of the Privy Council would have done well to associate two such gentlemen as Dr. Johnson and Mr. Kennedy with them. Both have shown that they are intimately conversant with the disorder; nor is it any discommendation of either that their theories of its contagiousness are different. The Lords of the Privy Council, however, we suppose, like the worthy Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, do not read—they have no time. Certain it is, when we ask for the reason of their resolves, we have most commonly to ask again.] Ancient Drums.—Among the most curious effects of Sir Charles Wetherell’s visit to Bristol, is his intended expulsion from this society. A motion has been formally made to that purpose. Enercetic Measures.—On Saturday last, a couple of workhouse boys were sent, by order of one of the dignitaries of the Church, round the town of Dereham with a mop and pail, to wash from the walls the ominous words *“* Reform,” “ Pay no tithes,” ‘‘ Down with the Bishops.’’—Zas¢ Anglian. {We do not know what farther steps are meditated, but one mop, one pail, and two whole boys, against the people of England, indi- cate something very serious. ] Tosacco.—The actual value of all the tobacco, exclusive of any pro- portion smuggled, annually consumed in the United Kingdom, does not exceed 350,000/.; while the revenue derived from foreign tobacco amounts to 2,800,000/. a year—eight times the sum. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. Monday, October 31. The Rural Sweepstakes of 100 Sovereigns each, for colts, 8st. 7lb. and fillies, Sst. 3lb. then 3 yrs. old. E Duke of Richmond’s ec. Elvas, by Whalebone (Boyce)......... 1 Lord Lowther’s c, by Smolensko ..+. ++ «+++ toes : Lord Exeter’s c. by Tramp «.....e-eeeeeee tpdee seen sc esas save O Mr. Lumley’s b. c. AUGICOr cece eee eeee cece teeseresees ereee A The Criterion Stakes of 30 Sovereigns each, 20 ft. for 2 yr. olds, colts, Sst. 3b. fillies, Sst. Ib. from the turn of the Landsin. 35 Subseribers. Mr. Dilily’s ch. c. Margrave (G. Edwards)....s.seeeeseeeeseeee 1 Colonel Peel’s b. c. Archibald... '...cccseceseeecreetcececeees 2 Handicap Plate of 1002. for 4, 5, 6, and aged horses. D. I. Lord Lowther’s Bustle, 4 yrs. 7st. 6lb. (Chapple)...-.-e--e.+06 1 Mr. Rush’s ch. g. Guildford, 5 yrs. 7st. 121d. wens. cece eecee eee Match, 200 Sovereigns, h. ft. T.¥,C. Sir M. Wood's ch.-c. by Phantom, out of Louisa, 7st. 8lb. (Chapple), beat Mr. Thornhill’s ch. c. Cavenham, est. by a head. Match, 300 Sovereigns, h. ft. A.F. Lord Chesterfield’s Titania (Conelly), beat Mr. Wagstaff’s Streamlet, Sst. 71b. each, by a length. ‘ One.third of a Subscription of 25 Sovereigns each, B.C. 7 Subscribers. Sir M. Wood’s Lucetta, 5 yrs. 8st. 81b. (Robinson).....-.s00++ Lord Exeter’s Varna, 5 yrs. 8st. SID. ...ceeceecceceeeccreesens The Pocket Stakes of 150 Sovereignseach, h. ft. for fillies, 8st. 7ib. Subscribers. Lord Exeter’s Marmora walked over. Match, 100 Sovereigns, h. ft. Captain Byng’s Dryad, 7st. 71b. received from Lord Lichfield’s Egbert, 8st. 7ib. T. ¥. C. D. M. 5

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Tuesduy, November \. Fifty Pounds; for 2-yr. olds carrying a feather ; 3 yrs., 7st. 5ib.; 4 yrs. Sst. Qb.; 5 yrs. 9st. 3lb.; 6 yrs. Ost. 7lb:; and aged, 9st. 10lb, Last three miles of B.C. ‘The winter to be sold for 300 guineas, &c. Mr. Henry’s Scipio, 3 yrs. (Chapple)..+.+ssssereevessecsesees | Hon. Mr. Ongley’s Pandora, 4 yrs....... OO Cepee cecvcccece Match, 300 sovs. each, h. ft. T. Y.C. Mr. Henry’s Agreeable, 4 yrs. 8st. 7ib. (G. Edwards), beat Mr. W. Chifney’s c., by Emilius, out of Pigmy, 3 yrs. 8st. 7lb. by a length. 2 to 1 on Agreeable. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs.each. T. ¥.C. 9 Subscribers. Mr. Chifney’s Landrail, 4 yrs. 8st. Ilb. (Robinson)... ...6...006 Mr. S, Day’s Barabbas, 3 yrs. 7st. LOD... cee eee ccc cece ees 2 Match 50p. p. 8st. 5lb. each. T. YY. C, Lord Lichfield’s Terry-Alt, by Sligo, out of Miniature, 2 yrs, (APHUD) voce cceecevenvcvecvevcceweccereeereroeeensosceccee Lord Exeter’s f. Trick, by Mountebank, out of Augusta ........ 2 Handicap Sweepstakes, of 25 sovereigns each, 10 ft. R.M. For 3 yr. olds. Mr. Forth’s ch. c. by Muley, out of Lacerta, 7st. 10lb. (Buckle,

"7st. 7 Peccttb iad vigesocean Handicap Sweepstakes, of 30 sovereigns each, 20 ft. for 3 yr. olds. Last mile anda distance of R. C. 6 subscribers,

Mr, Payne’s Paddy (Lisette colt), 7st. (Nat)..ceseceeseersereee | Duke Of Graow's ALneas, 766. SID. ccc ccccccccsccccvcscvedcess 2 Earl Grosvenor’s Sarpedon, Sst. LID. ..ceeseeresceecesees veeees 3 Mr. Vansittart’s Rubini, 8st. 3lb....... ocete eeengs covcoee 4 Mr. Hunter’s Brother to Christina, 7st. .....sseeceesecsevessee O Wednesday, Nov. 2d. Handicap Sweepstakes of 30 Sovereigns each, 20 ft., for 3yr. olds. T. Y. C. Mr. Cooke’s Incubus, 8st. 12]b. (Wright) ........ceeessecsees 1 Mr. Mills’s Whiteboy, 7st. 101b..... ‘ 56 66Vere oboe oacees eve sed « 2 Mr. Chifney’s Pigmy colt, 8st. 2lb........ wees eee cecccecer cece 3 Mr. Petre’s Rattler, 8st. 2ib........ Cor cvee coceseccoes covescee 4 Mr. Batson’s Muff, 7st. 6lb...... CbHE ECE, 6 0 FER 0.0206.00 0dE ° igs Subscription Plate of 50/.; for 2 yr. olds, 6st. 7lb.;-3 yrs. Sst. 10lb. T. ¥.C. The winner to be sold for 350 guineas, &c. General Grosvenor’s Kitty Fisher, 2 yrs. (a lad).....+e.eeeee06 1 Captain Bulkeley’s sister to Pinwire, 2 yrs...........+.. cesses Sweepstakes of 10 sovereigns each, for 2 yr. olds, 7st. and 3 yrs. 8st. 7lb. T.Y.C. 8 Subscribers. Mr, Stonehewer’s Lioness, 3 yrs. (Robinson) ... Mr. Mills’s Whiteboy, 3 yrs 06.06. 0: be aes O66 bey ee eese 45.0 y06 2 Match, 100 h. ft. R. M. Sir M. Wood’s Galantine, 8st. 2lb. beat Lord Orford’s <Grand Duke, 8st. 10Ib. by a length—7 to 4 on the loser.

Handicap Plate of 50/. for 3-yr. olds and upwards. A. F. Mr. Ramsbottom’s Zucharelli, 4 yrs. 7st. 1b. (Pavis)......-.006 1 Lord Jersey’s Glenartney, aged, 8st. 1UJb.......56+ oo 32 Mr, Theakston’s Christina, 4 yrs. Gst. 121D. 6. ccc cececceeeeseee BD Thursday, November 3. Matches, 25 Sovereigns. T.Y¥.C.—Lord Mountcharles’s Carwell agst Mr. S. Day’s Barabbas ; dead beat ; 50 Sovereigns. ‘T.¥.C.—Captain Byng's Dryad beat Lord Mountcharles’s Bassetlaw; 100 Sovereigns.- T.Y.C.—Mr. Greyille’s Agincourt beat General Grosvenor’s Bartolozzi; 100 Sovereigus. T.Y.C.—Lord Worcester’s Coulon beat Sir M. Wood’s Landrail; 50 Sovereigns. Criterion Conrse—Lord Worcester’s “‘Haymaker beat Mr. Greville’s Agincourt; 25 Sovereigns. ‘T.Y.C.—Lord Mount- charles’s Clio beat Lord Jersey’s Alea; 100 Sovereigns. T.Y.C—Sir 8S: Graham’s Little Fanny beat the Duke of Rutland’s Clansman; 50Sovereigns. Last half of Ab. .M.—Capt. Rous’s Crutch beat Lord Mountcharles’s Minster ;.200 Sovereigns. A.F. —Mr. S. Stonehewer’s Variation beat Lord Wilton’s Rongh Robin; 50 Sove- reigns. Last balf of Ab. M.—Capt. Rous’s Crutch beat Lord Mountcharles’ Minster; | te Sovereigns. h. ft.. A. F.—Mr. Stonehewer’s Variation beat Lord Wilton’s Rough obin, . Subscription Handicap Plate of 50/. D.I. Duke of Richmoud’s Conciliation beat Lord Jersey’s Glenartney. Duke of Richmond’s Conciliation, 3 yrs.7st. 4lb. (Pavis) :..... 1 Hon. M. Ongley’s b. m. Pandora, 4 yrs. 8st. 41D. .....ceeeseeees 2 Lord Jersey’s Glenartney, aged, Ost. 21D. ..scecsscecsseveeeees Friday November 4. Matches, 25 Sovereigns. T.¥.C.—Mr. Pettit’s Ipsala beat Mr. Wagstaff's Stream™ et; 30 Sovereigns. T.Y.C.—Lord Mountcharles’s Minster beat Mr. Henry’s Muff; 30 Sovereigns. First half of Ab. M.—Lord Mountcharles’s Bassetlaw beat Mr. Cosby’s Adam Brock; 100 Sovereigns h.ft, T.Y.C.—Mr. Day’s Caledonian (late Barabbas). beat Mr. Forth’s c. by Emilius. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 Sovereignseach. D.M. 10 Subscribers. Lord Warwick’s Water Witch, 3 yrs. 6st. 12lb. (Chapple). .r. Lord Barlington’s Mouse colt, 4 yrs. 7st. 4Ibi.. . .... The Nursery Stakes of 25 Sovereigns each, for 2 year Mr. Day's Gratis; GS CCODBMG) 66 oo enki nscscccccoescceeseenes 1 Sir R. Dick’s Miss Mary Anne, 8st. 31b..........0cceeeceeeeee 2 Lord Jersey’s c-, by Middleton, 6st. I3ib...........seeseseeeeee 3 The Cavendish Stakes of 100 Sovereigns each, h. ft., for 2 yrs.fold colts, 8st. 7lb., and fillies 8st. 4ib. T.Y.C. 6 Subscribers. Sir M. Wood’s f. by Truffle, dam by Blackbird (Robinson)..... 1 Mr. Cooke’s Bedouin, by Tramp. .......... Sea Koks + 6eadegOne Pee The Audley End Stakes, of 80 Sovereigns each. A. E.C. Sir M. Wood’s Lucetta, 5 yrs. Sst. GID. .... cece cee cece eeeeeee Mr. Chapman’s The Cardiual, 4 yrs. 8st. 7ib......00 ese. 1 u . eeneeee

THE MONEY MARKET. Stock ExcHANGE, Fripay. The anticipation of a satisfactory settlement of the Belgian question had its in- finenee on Saturday’s market. Stocks were firm, and speculators for a rise conti- Ment, Consois closed at 83 to 83$; Exchequer bills left off at 7s. to 8s. premium ; and foreign Stock generally was higher than on Friday. There was ,a slight depression on Monday and ‘Tuesday, chiefly caused by the intelligence of the Bristol riots, or rather by the apprehension of the spirit displayed there extending to other piaces. ‘To-day. after an opening which gave hopes of a firm market, there was a second reaction, produced by the report of cholera having broke out at Sun- derland. The reason why disease should affect the funds is not very obvious ; but it is evident, that any regulations forits suppression, which will hamper commercial intercourse, must affect transactions in consols as well as all others where credit is an element. Consols close at 824 §; in Exchequer bills there is no difference. CLosiNne Prices OF STOCKS ON FRIDAY. Bank Stock .... 192 3 Brazilian....... 44 4 Spanish.. eos. 12% 3 3 perCent. Red. 814 § Chilian .. . .-. 1618 Ditto, New ..... ll $ 8 per Cent. Consols 823 § | Colombian... li 12 SnAwws Consols for Acct. 824 § Danish...... .. 65} $ . 3% per Cent. New 904 § Greek......6 ©. 204 6F Bolanos.. ..... 110 120 Long Annuities 16} 9-16 ¥x. Bills, 1000/. 7s. 5s.pm. India Bonds 2s, 1s, dis. India Stock ..... 196 7 Mexican ....-.. 32 Peruvian... .+» Portuguese..... 50 1 Russians. oeeeee Brazilian . .... 44 45 Columbian... . 5 7 Anglo Mexican.. 14 16 United Mexican.3 4

: EAST INDIA SHIPFING, Arrived. At Gravesend, Nov. Ist, Hector, Richardson, from Ceylon. 4th, Resource, Shuttleworth, from Madras. At Liverpoo), Oct. 29th, Gleniffer, Baxter, from Bengal. At the Cape, Ang.7th, Eliza Jane, Finlay, from. London; 17th, City of Edinburgh, M‘Kinnon, from Bengal; 19th, Claremont, Kincaird, from Bombay. At Bengal, May 14th, Capricorn, Smith, from Mauritius; 22d, Memnon, Patterson, from Liverpool. Sailed. From Gravesend, Oct. 30th, Arethusa, Bolton, for Van Diemen’s Land ; Nov. 2d, Orontes, Baker, for Madras, and Belina, Murdoch, for New South Wales From the Clyde, Oct. 22d, Janet, Rogers, for Bombay. Off Dover,

seein A THE CHURCH. OrpINATIONS.—At an ordination held at Salisbury, by the Lord Bishop of thag diocese, on Sunday the 16th ult. the following Gentlemen were ordained.—Deac —T. A. Houblon, B.A. Oriel College, W. Dyer, B.A. Jesns College, and W. Maske lyne, B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford; H. P. Shewell, B.A. St. Peter’s College, Cambridge ; T. V. Fosbery, B.A. Trinity College, Dublin. Priests—Rev. J. Birchall, M.A. Rey. J. F. West, M.A. and Rey. O. Ormerod, B.A. Brasennose College, Rev. J. Vaughan, B.A. Balliol College, Rey. G. Richards, B.A. All Souls’ College, Rev. C. Mackenzie, B.A. Pembroke College, Rey. H. N. Goldney, B.A. St. John’s College, Rey. R. Dyer, B.A. and Rev. G. Kennard, B.A. St. Alban Hall, Oxford; Rey. R. Cosens, B A. and Rev. J. Lawes, B.A. St. John’s College, Cambridge. The following Gentlemen of Cambridge University were ordained by the Bishop of Exeter, on the 23d ult. Deacons—R. Bass, B.A. and J. Smith, Tri- nity College; W. Hocken, B.A. and J. W. Johns, B.A. St. John’s College; W. Barker, M.A. Corpus Christi College ; F. W. Pye, B.A. Queen’s College ; J.Cottle, B.A. Catharine Hall; C. B. Gould, B.A. Magdalene College ; and E. A. Rouse, B.A. Sidney Sussex College. Priests—H. Corlase, B.A., W. M. 'T. Paige, B.A., G. Pigott, B.A., and F, Parker, Trinity College; R. Tyaycke, B.A. St. John's College; P. Gil- pin, B.A. and H. A. Greaves, M.A. Corpus Christi College ; and F. B. Briggs, B.A, Queens Coliege. PREFER MENTS.—The Rev. R. Vernon, Rector of Heythorpe, Oxfordshire, to the Rectory of Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev, R. Darke. Patron, the Earl of Coventry. The Rey. Archdeacon Hamilton to the first Residentiaryship in Lichfield Cathe- dral, vacated by the Rev. J. Lonsdale. The Rey. R. Whitehead to the Chapelry of Hensingham, Cumberland. Patron, Earl of Lonsdale. The Rey. 'T. Scard, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Master of the Grammar School at Bishop’s Waltham, succeeds to the curacy of that place, void by the pro- motion of the Rey. C. Walters to the Rectory of Bramdean. The Rev. J. Williams, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, has been appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Dinorben. The Rey. J. A. Colpoys, M.A. Rector of North Waltham, Hants, to the Rectory of Droxford, in that county, void by the resignation of the Rev. W. Garnier, M.A. The Rey. ‘I, Lowe to the Ministry of the New Church of St. Paul, Warrington, Lancashire. The Rev. W. G. Bricknell, to the Vicarage of Hartley Wintney, Hants. Lady St. John Mildmay. The Rey. C. S. Stewart, Session Clerk, Perth, to the Church and Parish of Aber- dolgie. Patron, the Earl of Kinnoul. The Rey. H. P. Jones, Rector of Edgeworth, Gloucestershire, to be Domestic C. aplain to Lord Seagrave. ‘The Rev. G, Smithwick, of the Cathedral of Killaloe, is’appointed to the Living o. Birr, in the room of the Rev. R. yume, who succeeds to the Vicurage of Aughaday Diocese of Derry, void by the death of the Rey. Mr. Paul. Patron,

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS. BIRTHS. On the 18th ult. at Elgin, Mrs. Lerru Hay, ofa son. On the 29th ult. at Milford House, Hants. the lady of Lieut.-Col. D’Arcy, late Royal Artillery, of a daughter. On the 30th ult. in Bfyonstone Square, at the house of the Bishop of Norwich the lady of Major MAnon, of ason and heir. On the Ist inst. in Connaught Square, the Hon. Mrs. Srorrorp, of a son. On the 2nd inst. the lady of SAmuEL GrripLeEsTONE, jun, Esq. of a daughter. On the Ist inst. in Baker Street, Lady J. W. Martin, of a son. On the 30th ult. the lady of Captain ButKeLny, 2nd Life Guards, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. .On the 29th-ult. at Kensington, SipNey RAINFOoRD ENSoR, Esq. of Dorset Street, Portman Square, to Miss Farperica JOHANNA SEDLEY, of Notting Hill. On the 3lst ult. at Christ Church, Marylebone, Wittiam CuMmMMING, Esq. Deputy Commissary General, to CARoLINE, widow of Arthur Burrow, Esq. of Hanley, Staffordshire, and St. John’s Wood. On the 3lst ult. at Marylebone Church, ANDREW RoBERTSON, Esq. Berners Street, to ANN Pui.urps, daughter of the late Samuel Boxill, Esq. of Barbadoes. On the 29th ult. at Moulton, Pembroke, Cuartes Porcner LANG, of Sand Rock, in the county of Surry, Esq., to Eniza, the youngest daughter of Sir John Owen, Bart., M.P. of Orielton, Pembrokeshire. Onthe 29th ult. Henry Roscor, Esy., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, youngest son of the late William Roscoe, Esq., to MAria, second daughter of Thomas Fletcher, Esq., of Liverpool. On the 29th ult. CoaARLES EpwaArp HitrcuMan, Esq., of Clare House, Hamp- stead, to ANNE, only daughter of Alexander Lee, Esq., of the Elms Lodge, in the county of Hants. At St. Andrew’s, MunGo Murray, Esq., of Lintrose, to ANNE, second daughter of the late Thomas Mayne Willing, Esq., of Philadelphia, DEATHS. On the 28th ult. at Brighton, Mary, widow of the late Major-General Bourchier, of Ardcilony, in the county of Clare, Ireland. On the 30th ult. at Brighton, CuarLes Mirrorp, Esq. of Pit’s Hill, in the county of Sussex. On the 10th ult. W. SipNey Tyre, Esq. of Lincoln College, Oxford. On the 15th ult. at Pisa, Miss MAnie Francoise AMETHISS# HENRy, daughter of their Majesties the late Henry, first King of Hayti, and of Marie Louise, now commonly called Madanie Christophe. On the 3}st ult. ELEANOR, widow of Henry Dealtry, Esq. On the Ist inst. Mary, the wife of Captain John Fordyce Maples, R.N., C.B., of Kilburn Priory, Edgeware Road. On the lst inst. WitL1AM WILLIs, Esgq., late of Lombard Street. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES, Tuesday, Nov. 1. INSOLVENTS. Barston, Jonn, and BARsTON, TuomAs, Grantham, ironmongers, Oct.31. Bryant, WiL.1AM, Bishopshull, Somersetshire, baker, Nov. 1. Guiver, Jesper, Entield Highway, Middlesex, stage-master, Nov. l. OweEN, Ropert, Upper Stamford Street, reel-cotton and wadding-manufacturer, Nov. |. TuornxeEty, Tuomas, Hadfield, Derbyshire, cotton-spinner, Oct. 81. Wisk, JAmzs, King’s Road, Chelsea, cowkeeper, Noy. | BANKRUPTCIES KNLARGED. Crorts, GeorGe, Wells near the Sea, Norfolk, merchant, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 8. PLowricut, EpMUND Gisss, and PLlowriGcut, WILLIAM, Weils next the Sea, Norfolk, wine and spirit-merchants, from Novy. 1 to Nov. 8. Warp, James, Upper Ground Street, Surry, ironfounder, from Oct. 13 to Dec. 6. BANERUPTCY SUPERSEDED, Symons, ALEXANDER, Falmouth, Cornwall, wine-merchant. BANKRUPTS. BreTrecy, JEREMIAH, Bristol, cheesefactor, to surrender Nov. 12, 14, Dec. 13: solicitors, Mr. Blower, Lincoln’s Inn ; and Messrs. Gregory and Smith, Bristol, Capper, THOMAS and BENJAMIN, Beaufort Buildings, Strand, coal-merchants, Nov. 4, 8, Dee. 13: solicitor, Mr. Jordeson, Fenchurch Street. Foarb, Epwarp, Brighton, wine-merchant, Noy. Ll, 25, Dec, 13: solicitor, Mr. Dods, Northumberland Street, Strand. Garp, Jonn, Seymour Mews and Hinde Mews, Marylebone, job-master, Nov. 4, 11, Dee. 13: solicitor, Mr. Friswell, Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square. HopkKINSON, Jounx, and Dyson, Ricuarp, George Street, Hanover Square, tailors, Nov. 4, 11, Dec, 13: solicitor, Mr. Taylor, Great James Street, Bedford Row. Kempster, WittiAmM Henry, Kingston-on-Thames, rectifier, Nov. 8,15, Dec. 13: solicitors, Messrs, Baxendale and Co. King’s Arms Yard, Coleman Street. Lazarus, SAmMugeL Mark, Bath, soap-maker, Nov. 14, 15, Dec. 13: solicitors, Mr. Nicholls, Lincoln’s Inn; and Mr. Hellings, Bath. Lers, Evmunp, Manchester, bread-baker, Nov, 17, 19, Dee. 13: solicitors, Messrs. Adlington and Co. Bedford Row ; aud Mr. Hampson, Manchester. Morssg, Witvtam, Farringdon Street, and Swan Yard, Holborn Bridge, dealer in glass, Nov.4, 11, Dec.13: solicitor, Mr. Taylor, Great James Street, Bedford Row.

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1066 THE SPECTATOR. OLDLAND, JoserH, Wootton-under-edge, Gloucestershire, clothier, Nov. 15, 16, Dec. 13: solicitors, Messrs. Beetham, Chatham Place, Blackfriars ; and Mr. Hulls, P R I CE Ss CU R Rr E N x A King Street, Gloucester. Prart, Tuomas, Exeter, druggist, Noy. me Pa + solicitors, Messrs. PUBLIC FUNDS. Brutton and Clipperton, New Broad Street; an r. Ford, Exeter. 7 : QUINTON, Wressase Walsall, Staffordshire, victualler, Nov. 15, 22, Dec. 13: BRITISH. — | ae — Wednes.| Thurs. | Friday. solicitor, Mr. Trehern, Cornhill. 3 per Cent. Redu ce ece 2 Scorr, Wit.tam, Newbottle, Durham, miller, Nov. 10, 11, Dec. 13: solicitors 8 per con, eno gf . oa 4 z Bat ; 23 mt H HH sass 3 Messrs. Swain and Co. Frederick’s Place, Old Jewry ; and Mr, Redhead, Sandhill, | Ditto for Account . 82 4 3h 183143973/Q031 BE fest iccetntshiges ap 1 ] seeveee (82 3 35 [834435253/ 82359483 /82% §$42|82532973/825 3238 Wewcastle-upon-Tyne, 34 per Cent. Old ......ceee —— —_—- 893 + 894 & Smit, JAMES, George Place, Camden Town, Bazaar, Baker Street, Portman | 34 per Cent.New.. ... « |998Z 9144 903 30% 4 & 19098 ZB Square, and Margate, silversmith, Noy. 4,11, Dec, 13: solicitor, Mr, Cooke, Gray’s | 4 per Cent... ..cccseeee es 9944 suka ts got t 994 t "et ue Inn Square. . x Bank Stock .. ... . sees {192 1924 © }i92 192 2 TurNeR, ABRAHAM, Halifax, Yorkshire, carpet-manufacturer, Nov. 7, 8, Dec. Ditto Li. Asse cvecececececee [168 9-16/16§ 9-16 > 164 9-16}16 9-164 > 4 oie Messrs. Wiglesworth and Co. Gray’s Inn Square; and Mr. Stanfield, | India Bonds. ..... ...... |1 2 dis |2 3 dis 3 12 dis |l 2 dis” 5 alifax. Exchequer Bills, 10002.....} —— —_ - t DIVIDENDS, Ditto, 5000, 01.5 eseveceee (768 178 * We 78 : Nov. 29, Anderson and Wilson, Philpot Lane, merchants—Nov. 29, Vallotton, Old | Ditto, Small... ........... /9 10 8 10 8 10 9 10 Cavendish Street, Oxford Street, French-warehouseman—Noy. 29, Bassett, Dean Street, Soho, builder—Nov. 29, Burton, High Holborn, glass-cutter—Nov. 23, Wood, BULLION. TOBACCO Kennington Lane, victualler—Nov, 22, Homden, Five Fields, Chelsea, bookseller— | Gold—Portugal, in Coin ........per oz. 01. 08. 0d. | Segars, in bond ~ per Ib. 5s, Od. to 138. 0 Nov. 22, Moore, Church Street, Westminster, stone-mason—Noy. 25, Bedford, — Foreign, in Bars . cotcce SIP IOR | Gevannah heat ie Ts =258 8 Goswell Street, carpenter—Nov. 25, Beach, Hounslow, market-gardener—Nov. 25, Silv Bat dag ee ay serene O i o St. Domingo .... 5 OxE ee OO Collins, Islington, licensed-victualler—Nov. 15, Sherley, Stanwell, Middlesex, inne | Qo oiler crsersssseses 92} Maryland, Light I . 05-07 keeper—Nov. 22, Dodgson and Hartley, Cheapside, warehousemen—Noy, 29, Atkins, eae Kentucky’ rane sea gS Gloucester, merchant—Novy. 24, Wells and Hamilton, Liverpool, merchants—Noy. GRAIN. ae aot 26,J.,H., and G. Bugg, Spalding, Lincolnshire, bankers—Noy. 25, Fisher, Liver- Marx Lang, Friday, November 4. P 1 WINES. | " pool, merchant—Nov. 23, Hartnell, Bristol, slate-merchant—Noy. 25, Browning, We are moderately supplied with Wheat this ee ae soneespee Pipe aoe -_ Cambridge, innkeeper. week, and Monday’s prices are very readily sup- Lisbon «..., i a on 2 CERTIFICATES, Bose tans adh Gain rc tthes bases sk cutee | Geoeetie Sea wo = To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before Nov. 25. £6 the-alouness of the arrival, 1h other aaticles pba hel a 4 Walmslay, Parliament Street, Westminster, lodging and boarding-house-keeper | no variation, Calavella. ccs 30 — 35 —Hull, Regent Street, picture-dealer—M. and J. Bristow, Ratcliffe-highway, (Per Quarter.) Teneriffe, Good. C=, 0 fire-engine-makers—Williams, Bath, tea-dealer—Joyce, Cambridge, boot and . ™ eo Se s. - Jargo . ll — 12 shoe-maker—Wayte, Newcastle-under-Lyme, brazier—Hayllar, Brighton, horse- Witaa meaaren £5 fo Reece. sineeh ae oan er wgeceseessere -— 2 dealer. White, Olds. 50— 05] | Boi ; a ee ae = SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. ine — .. 68—70 East India . éceute ‘1 = 90 ApAmM, Rosert, Edinburgh, ironmonger, Nov. 9, 25. P ye — + 76—78 Spanish Red ..... -pertun 14 — 16 Raz, Joun jun, Uddingstone, farmer, Nov. 3, 17. Mi sestaees eer pinata 2s arnt Stained aes a Claret, Good | ete hhd. 26 — 50 e Malting ..... _- . — Cc . _ Friday, November 4. ie Ordinary. enn J Fine . French White, Good... nae 30 _~ ee PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. FINGs. 6540 —72| Potato ...... — GUIBO's ccsn cee Wacs & = & TomEINs and Gostin, Thames Street, malt-factors—MiLis and Kircnener, | Pers, Hog .--. 88—42| Fine ...... 30 ~81 | Duties on French Wines 7s. 3d. Finsbury Place, tea-dealers—Hamiiron and Davirs, Hayes, surgeons—Wricar AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, _ Detaeee yA boertm, Gallon. and WoopHEApD, Woodroyd, Yorkshire, dyers—W. H. and J, W. Hucnes, Glou- . : cester, linen-drapers—HAwkswortu and Co. Liverpool. passenger-brokers— Per berger GA Pac SEE CCC: Wales, SPIRITS, Situ and Lewis, Tipton, Staffordshire, pork-butchers—Norra and Co. Hunslet, | Wheat ........60s. 10d. | Rve » vee ceeees 398, 2d. | Geneva, Hollands ..per gallon 2s.6d.to 0s. Ode Yorkshire, earthenware-mannfacturers ; as far as regards J. HEpworTH—TILSTON | Barley ........ 38 2 | Reais. ee ae Brandy, Cogniac, Ist quality.. 4 4 — 4 6 and Co. Ellesmere, Shropshire, maltsters—Bricur and Co, Buxton, Derbyshire, | Oats +++++e.+++ 22 11 (Peas .-+.se00-. 43 7 coals eaatas. Gent gS jewellers; as far as regards I, Bright—Haut and Srretca, Liverpool, wine-mer- | A8sregate Average of th: last Six Weeks, which Duty Penh pro Gonaelin, Mie chants—WAsTFIELD and Grist, Bradford, Wiltshire, millwrights—WesToN and | wheat ren nee —~ a7s.1od, | Kum, Leewards, U.P.per gallon 1 4 — 1 5 Smita, Southwark, blue-manufacturers—O. and R. Witt1aMs, College Wharf, | Barley......... 87 11 “| ms .40 8 | —— Demerarastrong........ 1 6 — 1 7 Lambeth, engineers—P1kE and UNDERWOOD, Angel Court, Strand, brass-founders } Oats .......6.. 2211 | Per@eoeeege..+ 44 0 cae Resta Se fy Be PL sis ee : Wepp and WittrAms, Oxford Street, ironmongers—CLARKSON and WATSON, | Duty on FOREIGN CORN for the oresent Week. Duty 8s. 6d.—increave as per strength. Od. Worksop, Nottinghamshire, maltsters—SuGpEN and Lockwoop, Springsfield, | Wheat.-++..++..26s.8d. | Rye eseeee . Barley... -6 4 | Rean- 6 PROVISIONS, Yorkshire, fancy-goods manufacturer. ORS os sccceeess1B OD” | Pemrescssesseese 3 6 TAG Alb TORE van. concours one cansscdlees INSOLVENTS, Butter, Cork... +spercwt. 983,to (108. BeAvucHAMP, RoBERT, Holborn Bars, silversmith, Nov. 3. - FLOUR. — Carlow, 100 i Lez, ALEXANDER, Regent’s Quadrant, printseller, Nov. 4, etre rps seeeeecereceese Per sack 58s. to 63s. | Cheese, Cheshire PATERSON, Joun, Tonbridge, coal-merchant, Nov. 4. Bases ahd Suiblk. on DORA cr Gloucester, Sin ex and Suffolk, on board ship ... 50 53 — Double. . Watson, Henry, Regeut Street, printseller, Nov. 3. Norfolk and Stockton .....sssseee00 49 — 50 Bacon, Middles H BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. HAY anp STRAW — Singed. 5 2 y, ° Beef, India, New. ALL, WILLIAM, HALL, THomAs SPENCER, and HALL, WILLIAM JOHN, Crosby (Per load of 86 Trusses.) peseclaggg e Seog yo Square, packers, from Nov. 11 to Nov. 22. J *RLAND, ie k, India ....... BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Hay, Coarse Seeden Wate te 00. ge Prime Mess ........per bar 3 , 4 Suaw, Witiram, Aston, Staffordshire, chiua-manufacturer, Useful Ditto ....... 60 —75 .... 50 — 60 —— Second Quality .....s..+00. 3 0 0 BANKRUPTS. Upland Ditto . - O— O ...- 65 — 80 — BUTTER Herrracr, James, Uxbridge, draper, Nov. 8, 15, Dec. 16: solicitor, Mr. Ashurst, | c(loYGrrsrscsrseees 80 110 4. 100 120 Best Fresh, 14s. 0d. to —s. per doz. Newgate Street. Wheat secccuccses 80'—= 86 5... 30 — 86 aka CANNINGs, W1L1L1AM, Bath, upholsterer, to surrender, Nov. 18, 19, Dec. 16: so- Ponca MAdnier, ~ Warenctabets POTATOES. licitors, Messrs. Williams and Bethell, Lincoln’s Inn Fields; and Mr, Mackey, 50 —70 .... 60 — 80 New Potatoes (Ware) 81._5s. to 8. 10s. per ton. Bath. 84 —100 84 —120 HOPS. CLARESON, BARNARD, Selby, Yorkshire, banker, Nov. 15, 16, Dec. 16: solici- tors, Messrs. Wiglesworth and Ridsdale, Gray’s Inn; and Mr. Parker, Selby. Kent Pockets.......percwt. 41, 0s, to 71, 158 see 80 — 36 4... 24 — 30 Sussex Pockets .. ne sii 4— 5 6 > p Evans, MorGAn, Penmaen Colliery, Monmouthshire, coal-merchants, Nov. 10, COALS. ey Set ea ae ae - 11, Dec. 16: solicitors, Messrs. Hornby and Towgood, St. Swithin’s Lane, Lom- | Wall's End, best........065. 298.0d.to 838.0d. | Sussex Bags .. 2h ae 4°19 _ Street ; and Mr. Towgood, Cardiff: ‘ ; Inferior scccsosccsescccescecs 20 3 == 98 0 Essex Bags ssesesseseceeese & 2 — 5 15 I1ELD, DANIEL, Garford, Berkshire, mealman, Nov. 15,16, Dec. 16: solicitors, TITTY Mr. Graham, Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet Street, London; and Mr. Graham, Abingdon, BUTCHER MEAT. ‘ pe _—— Ak GR Berkshire. To-day’s market is largely supplied ine = Leonesa .. 2 0to3 0 SaxonElec.4 6 to7 0 GaTEs, THoMAs, White Hart Court, Lombard Street, money-scrivener, Noy. 11, pee sie fae an inferior kind, and therefore sales | Sesovia |) 2 O—2 4] Dittol. 3 3—4 10 : + b 2) avy, though what is good st Il fetches 4s. Soria i 9486 Ditto2: 2 3 — 9 18, Dec. 16: solicitor, Mr. Browne, Mitre Chambers, Fenchurch Street. Other sorts are lower. Muiton is also plentiful, | 7 ahs. HeLekes S=8 8 MANSFIELD, THOMAS, and HACKNEY, JAMES, Cobridge, Staffordshire, earthen- | and the demand being flat, it has gone down full | Portugal. PO ~ 1 4) Horoeksl &— e & wware-manufacturers, Nov. ll, 14, Dec. 16: solicitors, Mr. Barbor, Fetter Lane: | 44. per stone from last Monday’s pet spe French... 1 6—3 0} D.Lambs1 6—4 6 and Mr, Dutton, Hanley, Staffordshire. fers then th, Theve continues to be weveilaiion Duty 1d. perlb, above 1s.—4. below. MELDRUM, Davin, Bath, haberdasher, Nov. 14, 17, Dec. 16: solicitors, Mr. | in Pork. ; LEATHER, Harvey, Barnard’s Inn, London ; and Mr. Hellings, Old Bond Street, Bath. NewoAts & LEADENHALL.* SMrTHFIRL.} Butts, English Crop per lb, 1s.4d,to Is. 9d. PaiLiirs, Jesse, jun. Great Newport Street, china and glass-dealer, Nov. 15, | Beef.,.. 98. 8d. to 88. 4d..... 88. 0d.to 4s. Od. Foreign ...+sseees 13— 7 a Pa 16: solicitor, Mr. Lewis, Bernard Street, Russell Square. i 18 Mutton .. 36— ‘ © cose : - by berg be ag P : ; asd A SCHOLFIELD, JOHN, and CLoucn, Joun, Selby, Yorkshire, bankers, Nov. 15, 16, eal ..es, 3 4 Om O we 8 ee Log molest ah feat aa Dec. 16: solicitors, Messrs. Wiglesworth and Ridsdale, Gray’s Inn, London; and Ll Oa ‘ : x ‘ ; ty ‘ 3 be 3 ° ee Bee SEA ncouree ; im aah ; He Mr. Parker, Selby. * By the Carcass, per stone of 8lbs, English Horse Hides, 1o—-15 SuHirLey, Taoomas, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, wine and spirit-merchant, + Sinking the offal, per stone of 8lbs, Spanish Ditto.......+++e0++ we 12 — 110 Wov. 8, 15, Dec. 16: solicitors, Messrs. Wadoson and Co. Austin Friars. a SHEEP SKINS. §. STEPHEN, JOHN, Great St. Helens, wine-merchant, Noy. 15, 25, Dec. 16: solici- Bat TEAS, sii st Weer Sutin ne senr Tee TE GH Od OR Oe tor, Mr. Rowles, King’s Arms Yard, Coleman Street. Tenino, thtseanih, orccnare@ Seow ele ad. | polled. ae 3 2.6 — 8 TAYLER, WILLIAM WALE, Marylebone Lane, wine-merchant, Nov. 11, 25, Dec. ’ Middling 2-2 43 nsecceserecsecvons SB 0 —= 26 16: solicitor, Mr. Smith, Basinghall Street. Best Sb seer Bae RAW HIDES. ® Vickery, Wi1viAm, Brereton, Cheshire, innkeeper, Nov. 5, 7, Dec. 16: solici- HS bere, enh ; ; a is : Best Heifers and Steers, per stone 2s. 6d. to gs. 10d. be ys oo Dean’s Court, Doctor’s Commons, London; and Mr, Van- Tanke pera at ea ee PRIOR Res so cemnsyens «oasis 2 2-3 $ ‘ rey, Congleton. — Fine. 28—3 1 poner RNS ees towel WhrayMaNn, Ricnarp, West Smithfield, victualler, Nov. 8,18, Dec. 16: solici- | Hyson, Skin..... ‘3 SE =e 14 Market Calf... sseshesesencs BA =SOEO for, Mr. Young, Warwick Square. = aes Sa ear " TALLOW, SOAP, &c. a Wartwortna, Witrram, and NicHoLAs, Manchester, corn-factors, Nov. 18, 24, at Duties on Teas below 2s, 96 per Cent. c sd. ‘ ee 5: icitor . wr q 7 andles.,..perdoz, 8 0 |Soap Tallow.,.... 42 0 Dec. 16: solicitors, Messrs. Makinson and Sanders, Temple, London; and Messrs. ——_————- above 2s. 100 —-—— Inferior .secceses. 7 0|Melting Stuff,..., 35 0 eRe and Birch, Manchester. COFFEE Moulds........006 9 6 Ditto Honan sees = r ILLS, EDWARD Pops, Chichester, Sussex, tailor, Nov. 8, 18, Dec. 16: solici- F rae owt. 63 : , | Town Tallow p.cwt.48 0] Yellow Soap ..+. 6 tors, Messcs. Haslam and Bischoff, Copthall Court, London. ‘ fore ane va i ie “ge 5" ° wun aN vi 0 aks oeeaease 72 ° Woop, Henry, Jermyn Street, upholsterer, Noy. 11, 25, Dec. 16: solicitor, Mr. — Good... 76 0 — 77 0 BYE steytrteny Penge Daa Dalston, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane. — Middling a OILS. DIVIDENDS, Mocha sepals se oo Ms ae je rs Rape Oil, Brown .. Nov. 18, Moody, Long Lane, Bermondsey, tanner—Noy. 29, Henry, Haydon *eeeee"" Duty not included. are egueete Square, Minories, merchant—Nov. 25, Lankshear. jun. Little Chelsea, surgeon— ——— pees PORE Wov. 29, Chabert, Newton Place, Pentonville, merchant—Dec. 13, Scholey, Pater- SUGARS. Linseed Oil Cake at the moster Row, bookseller—Novy. 25, J. J.and A. Clark, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire— ; Duty included. a 1 . Nov. 15, Twort, Horsmonden, Kent, miller—Dec. 16, Neil, Maiden Lane, Battle | Muscovades, wading ie ee Sold O bach ay + ga Truro Bridge, varnish-manufacturer—Nov. 29, Morgan, Rope Makers’ Fields, plumber— — Good ......¢..6. 50 0 — 54 0 Copper Ore a aie Aguas 2028 tons. Dec. 6, Clarkson, Windmill Street, Finsbury Square, merchant—Nov. 25, Barrett, —_ Fine.. + 55 0 — 57 0 Amount of Money ...sse.sesees 18,9801. 168. 6d. Essex Street, Strand, navy-agent—Nov. 25, Clothier, Wilmot Street, Brunswick Hr pple A PE . oy es bes ; Average Price’... preen im) 40 Square, timber-merchant—Feb. 10, Morris, Lawrence Lane, wholesale linen-draper | M0583 ++++++srraser-sess 0 ie Average Standard. ak 2 li ete 4 raps - : Duty not included, Average Produce.... seeee percent 8§ ov. 29, Bushell, Bread Street, merchant—Nov. 25, Harlesben and Anthony, Long’s | East India, Brown.....s0005. 0 0 — 0 0 Quant of Fine Copper ...++. 266 tons 13 ewt. Yard, Lamb’s Conduit Street, wholesale confectioners—Nov. 29, Bardsley, Notting- = White.....+0+++++ 20 0 — %6 0 3 — = ham, lace-manufacturer—Nov. 29, Gee, Nottingham, pawnbroker—Nov. 29, Wright FRUIT. METALS. ata and Davies, Liverpool, wholesale-grocers. op. NEW. co 8 6} CERTIFICATES Raisins, Sultanas, per ct. 0s. to 708,.. 703, to 03, —0o000 To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before Nov. 25. —— Smyrna, Black. 0 —84 .. 40 — 0 pact? 8 C. and E. Potter, Manchester calico-printers—E. and A. Rule, Leadenhall Street, pane hi apo Rae ER de eer we ; : ; ship-owners—Harris, Leicester, hosier—Harrison, Southwark Bridge Stone Wharf, | Currants .....s.c..2002 —000 -Stone-mason— Hawker, Cheltenham, tailor—Beville, Clapham Common, upholsterer s Quicksilver.... = Pied Kay, Cowmires, Yorkshire, saddler—Thomson, Liverpool, merchant—Lerew, Copper, in Shee’ =m @ 0,0 “Great Portland Street, surgeon—Neighbour, jun. King Street, Snow Hill, wine-mer- sad. 1] Cal ae ° 0 ° chant—Strutton, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, tavern-keeper—Green, Little Chester Lead, Pig ‘or Bhest .2 aie 000 Sweet, Grosvenor Place, cow-keeper- wo Barseoeaseseeeee Mh - 006

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THE SPECTATOR. 1067 ANATOMY OF THE PEERAGE. A cLoss& examination of the history of the House of Peers, has greatly enlightened us as to the composition of that body since it was regularly constituted. We are driven to the conclusion that the House not only is, but always has been, a very bad house in- deed, viewing it as a part of the machine of government. In the earlier times, it may be considered as composed of petty sovereigns, who were combined into one assembly rather with a view to their being managed by the principal Sovereign, than with any regard to the interests of the Nation. The King always had enough to give away to create such a division among them as secured his general authority, and made him lord both of the life and property of every individual peer of the House. It+was a doctrine maintained by the members of the Parliaments of Ex1zasertu, that the Queen had as much right to their lives and all that belonged to them, as she had to her throne, or they themselves to their estates, in rela- tion to their fellow-subjects. It was openly said, she had given, and she might take away. Practically, however, this was not true. The House of Lords was dangerous, if by any chance it could be found united: pains were therefore necessary to keep it at least ready for division. The Peers were always ready to give upa scapegoat. In the earlier reigns, a peerage meant sovereignty of a greater or less extent. The nobles when they were aggrieved or chagrinéd, struck up a party and fought—were successful and made terms, or failed and were beheaded. A barony of the early times scarcely ever advanced three steps without a forfeiture: a summons to Parliament seems to have been like enticing the rat into the trap. After the union of the Roses, some years of peace produced its invariable effeect—a strengthening of the middle ranks, and an in- crease ofintelligence and reflection. The baronial influence declined ; and, as public affairs became more complicated, men of abilities, with an European standard of acquirement, became necessary. Such men, serving long and obtaining great wealth, were mixed up with the old Barons, and produced an amalgamation which has been going on ever since. The lawyers and the statesmen got a footing which they have maintained; and as the feudal authority rapidly declined before the rise of the middle ranks—or, in other words, of a Public—it became absolutely necessary to manage the existing bodies of legislation by other means than a talk of knights’ fees or an enumeration of retainers. Another species of wealth besides land was introducec—the wealth of commerce: great fortunes were acquired by wool, by shipping, by the purchase and cultivation of old baronial posses- sions. In the time of James the First, mere monied fortune be- came a consideration ; and as the exchequer was low, and JAmMEs a scholastic and a peaceable monarch, and took a civilian’s view of such things, baronetcies, peerages, and other honours, were sold. Some of those now existing were dough in that reign. Henceforward, the House of Lords becomes a strange admixture of many sorts of men, and began to approximate to its present parti-coloured texture. A collision gradually approached between the prerogative of the King and the growing power of the People: with an eye to this, Cuartes the First packed the House of Lords as best suited the views he intended. On the whole, the Peers answered his expec- tation, but the necessities of the treasury had introduced too many modern capitalists, to make it the easy-working chamber that might have been desired. Nevertheless, the number of promotions to the Peerage were immense in the reign of the First CHARLEs. After the Restoration, CHARLzEs the Second had all his ancient adherents to reward, and, what was more imperative, his new friends. The Peerage was therefore to him a treasury, which he squandered as he did all his other possessions. Had James the Second had time, he would have made every man of property he could convert, a peer. At the Revolution, the new Monarch had the-most difficult game to play that was ever put into the hands of power. He had his foreign wars to carry on, and a divided nation to rule. There were two courts, one at London and the other at St. Germain’s ; and the nobles and the people, with whom loyalty was a species of religion, and whose notions of the ends of government. were of the most confused kind, cast a repentant look back upon the vio- lent measures they had been driven into. The Peerage was a resource: Lords were made, that, in their own elevation, they might forget the depression of their ancient Monarch. It was a means of calming faction, and of rewarding service, of which no one would stand more in need than the Prince of ORANGE. When Anne ascended the throne, the parties became more evenly balanced, and all persons began to look for a second Restoration of the old line. Hence different principles of government, and continual changes of administration, and fresh batches of peers. There were now three courts: the Queen, the Pretender, and the Successor—each had their adherents, and as each prevailed, the reward of a peerage was granted, either in gratitude or in expec- tation of service. The First George had a similar game to play : during the earlier part of his reign, he was bound to keep his friends and gain his enemies ; and he often preferred the cowardly policy of trying to win over the latter, while he neglected to secure the former. With Sir Robert Watrote came the reign of finance: each party had been bribed to such an extent, that it became impera- tive on a Minister to find new resources. Grorae the First said of Wa.rote, that he could make gold of stones. The country was now to bleed through the purse: that could only be done through the two Houses of Parliament, and they were paid for standing by and lending a hand. And if payment of one kind were not ac« ceptable, the coin was changed. Sometimes it was money, sometimes place and power, sometimes honour. The House of Peers was the hospital of the patriots: when they had fought a decent time in the arena of the Commons, like Putrenry and Pitt, they retired into the House of Lords as a soldier or sailor retreats upon Chelsea and Greenwich. The people, however, still advanced in wealth and consequence, just as money increases at compound interest. The efforts to keep the public in a due state of subjection became more and more vigorous: the great engine of Boroughmongering was brought te a most effectual bearing. _ Boroughs were in fact the Country; he who had them, had it. The slenderest portion of this property became precious, in proportion as place, pension, power, and ho- nour were valuable. What, then, became the natural reward of the possessor of this property—the pay of a Boroughmonger ? Of course, the highest honour the state could bestow—a peerage. There are, however, other influences besides boroughs: it will not do to have a silent House of Commons—votes alone will not sa- tisfy the public: there must be semblance of deliberation and per- suasion. Oratory, after boroughs, bore the highest price. Next came Law: it was a point, in the management of the nation, to have the lawyers in leash. A peerage has been the sop of that Cerberus the Law, and has sufficed to keep the triple hydra of Chancery, King's Bench, and Common Pleas, in smooth-tongued and gentle-voiced unison with the Administration. When ‘a Ministry has got the House of Commons in its grasp, by means of borough influence, places, and pensions,—and when the law is subservient, and orators are properly stimulated to throw over all the dazzling charms of eloquence, and to entertain the world with mock combats and gladiatorial exhibitions of party violence,—it might seem that the imposition of government was complete. It is not so: there is not only a limit to pecuniary re- sources, but also to titularhonours. If honours become common, they cease to be honourable. The Army and the Navyhave been made tools of for this object. If any thing is intrinsically honourable, it is the sacrifice to his country which a man makes of his life in battle, and the courage and invention by which he meets and circumvents her enemies. Every country has its reward for such achievements ; our highest reward is the peerage, and it has been deservedly conferred—but, on the part of the donors, with a view of their own. The soldier or the sailor has been gratified with the distinction that placed him, to all appearance, on a level with the most ancient and dis- tinguished authorities of his native country: it is but a slight mark—a cross, a patent, a title—any mark, in short, that the nation will fix upon which satisfies the enthusiastic defenders of their country whether by land or sea. They are assuredly not conscious that it is their own solid glory which is one of the most essential bulwarks of the Peerage. It is so, however; the People seeing that such men as Nextson and CoLLinewoop, Howe, Jervis, Duncan, and latterly WELLESLEY, were placed among the Lords, drew the natural conclusion that the House te which they were added was the real temple of Fame. In the late reigns, it will be observed, that the acquisitions ob- tained by the House of Lords in the shape of military and naval distinctions is unusually great: the reason is plain—military and naval ability were wanted. The Administration had first of all ignorantly involved itself in a war with its Colonies in Ameriea, and then again in a most impolitie war (the interest of the whole country being considered) with France. The reign of Gzores the Third was a reign of war—hence the acquisitions the House of Lords made in the shape of glory: it was also 4 reign of libels and prosecutions—lawyers are necessary to keep the people in order—hence the vast acquisitions it made in law. To support a warrior in his old age, and not only him but his family, is con- genial with our best sentiments and our best interests; but to be greatly taxed in order to support in extravagance the progeny of men who have already made large fortunes by JUDGERY (as one of our correspondents terms it), and that to the third and fourth generation, is hard. We va'ue law—we value just judg- ment; but it is not either law or judgment that has been bought by successive Administrations—it is servility : by servility we mean, that Chancellors and Judges have for ages joined, for a due cone sideration, in the task of making the people believe that they are the best constitutioned, best administered, and, though most highly taxed, still the happiest and most enviable nation in the world. The Church has been managed as well as the Law and the Army and the Navy, and with a similar view to government ; but we must say, the Church has yielded itself up even a more pliant and willing victim than the Law itself. It has even been more magnificently paid—and in the lucre it professes to despise. The Army and the Navy have alone been remunerated except in one or two marked instances, in empty honour. The way of a Bishop to his See is a most curious path. An examination of the claims of the existing Lords Spiritual will show the working of this part of the machinery. The end to be answered by the Bench of Bishops, is to insure a certain number of servile votes where service is of use, and to have a class of men on the bench who, by preserving a solemn aspect, and migesene an obscure learning, be it Greek or Hebrew, shall give the people to understand they are a peculiar order, devoted to something mystical, and beyond their apprehension, while at the same time

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loss i Se oTHE SPECTATOR. it is eultivated for their especial” yodd—a godd, it is true, which arrives.-to them by remote channels, known only to the initiated. The qualities of a Bishop‘are, according to the long-established Tory ereed, servility, decorum, and recondite learning—ceteris paribus, the relative of a Boroughmonger is to be preferred ; and since it does so happen that almost any Boroughmonger’s cousin or brother may be both servile and decorous, and as the learning 1s readily procured or pretended, he is generally preferred. The Lords Spiritual may be divided into very few classes. First come the men of aristocratical connexion; for to be brother to a Tord, is next to being chosen of God. Among the present Peers of this order, the names of Rypgr, JENKINSON, Bagor, Percy, VERNON, speak for themselves. The literature which has taken the place of the occult science already mentioned, is the Greek language—any other would have done, provided it were sufficiently distinct from the science of go- vernment, This is the acquirement which of late years has been all-sufficient. manded, pastoral anxiety, doctrinal serupulousness—all these were troublesome. Buta man might go to the profoundest depths of an a gia chorus, or probe the corruptest passages of a tra- gedy of Evriripgs, without troubling the Government about his vote, and at the same time by means of the said Greek, which it must be said is sacred in prejudice, and with the aid of certain impression on the people. Bxiomriz.p, Bishop of London, is a plays of Aiscuy.us, while it would be ruin to him to witness one of our own at Covent Garden. PipEs. Kaye, of Lincoln, has a reputation solely founded on his books of Latin Prosody ; the Latin would not, however, have been sufficient, had he not also been Master of Westminster School, and thereby connected with a rising aristocracy. Hunrinerorp, of Hereford, has the same claim; he was Master of Winchester School, and has published a book of Greck exercises. The pre- sent Administration, as yet scarcely understanding the ground they are upon, have proceeded on similar principles: the only Bishop they have had to appoint has no merit but that of being of their side, as the others were of the other side, and being, like them, a Greek scholar, who published a Greek Prosody. Some others, to be sure, have direct politicalclaims. Marsu, of Peter- borough, wrote a defence of Pirr politics while residing in Germany, when Europe was divided between France and England; and Puitports first wrote violent pamphlets against the Catholic Emancipation and next equally violent ones in favour of it. The Sumvers come under the head of Courtier Bishops. The only really excellent point about the Lords Spiritual is, that their seats are but for life; by some fortunate accident they do not perpetuate their race m the Legislature. The Law, unhappily skilled in the doctrine of entail, has secured a remainder for its progeny. A Chancellor takes care that his name shall not go down to posterity without something to be ashamed of. If the soldiers and sailors, who are after all the most illustrious branch of the Peerage, were of our mind, they would require that their patent should be terminable with the qualities which won it. The reason is plain—look at the Pension List —honour is expen- sive. Though there are many arguments fora life Peerage in lieu of hereditary honours, none comes more home to the feelings of a generous breast than the sight of the progeny of heroes and orators becoming the helpless creatures of a corrupt or ambitious Minister. The most deserving men are rarely those who accumulate the greatest fortunes : their own independence saves themselves from being tampered with, but will it save their successors from j rostitution ?. They leave name and fame and rank, but do they leave bread? A poor lord is a very poor thing ; there are great demands made upon him and very little to meet them. Here is a prey for an unscrupulous Administration, What will not a titled pauper, with a fashionable wife and a crowd of infant nobility about him—very hungry, and what is worse, very capri- cious and luxurious—do for QUARTER-DAY? He is a God to the Mob, in his coronet and robe; to the Minister, who knows him under his trappings, he is an instrument—an honourable tool for a dirty job. ; ; . An old tree has deep roots. It would be inconsistent with the vast influence and intimate connexion subsisting between the Peer- age and the State, that it should be readily exposed in detail. We have given some general view of the operation of the House of Lords ; and in the various Lists and Tables which follow, more es- pecial consideraticns are entered into,—chiefly, however, ofan his- torical or general nature. When we came to the specific instances of the interest of individual Peers in preserving things as they are, and set ourselves to the task of ascertaining to what extent they were personally committed to support the system by which they had flourished, we were overwhelmed by the extent of the inquiry and the vastness of the materials which pressed upon us. We have been obliged even to curtail the quantity of our historical notes ; and if/our readers observe many names on which but slight remarks ‘are made, it is not because there is nothing to be said of them, but..om the contrary, too much. This is, however, now a national subject ; it will be long and constantly before the public, and we shall irequently have oceasion to return to it; and in the mean time, we. shall continue our historical annotations, as a branch of the subject which suits ali times and seasons, Eminence in Christian knowledge was not de- | | that a stained > All that Monx, Bishop of | ed one 5 Le ‘ | of DespeNceER was extinguished by attainder in the year 1400, foucester has done, is an edition of certain plays of Evrr- | 8 y y The views which wé ‘have taken are important, because they are fundamental, and necessarily preliminary to the great practical subject of Personal and Family Influence, as derived from place, power, and connexion, and as swayed by pensions and sinecures, or the hope of retaining such as are in possession or that of ac- quiring others, which in the present order of things may still be ex- pected. The Tables of Creation will show the ages of the families which particular Peers represent, and the designation of the Reigns indicates the object of their elevation to that rank. In looking at this Table, the reader will be struck at the extreme newness of our nobility, when compared with those notions of antiquity cherished in the imaginations of the people. ‘‘Are these your gods, O Israel!" It may be said, if you will worship mere ancient- ness, pray let your idol be old, t is necessary to caution the reader that he is not to suppose that that which looks the most ancient really is so. To this effect, some observations will be found in the Notes, under the name of Dx Roos. It may be further illustrated by the next title of Dr- | SPENCER, borne by a person called StapLeToNn, and who is de- scended from certain baronets of that name. The title and name of Le Despencer—which means “ the butler’—belongs to anold barony by writ of summons, and which being heritable through the female as well as male line, passes at different periods into dif- : ed | ferent families. By thi ans, as 7 an ¢ > conventional solemnities, be fully equal to the making of a due | h “- iieat te te ad tee Le this barony has survived to the present time. Again, if it be the 4 p , descent of honour which i: rstitiously respected, w P Prosody Bishop; his fame rests on the arrangement of certain | hoger ele Di ge tn klipe we say to an indiscriminate prostration before a mere name, and For example, this very honour of the barony and only restored in 1604. It may be said, indeed, that crime in | those days differed from our notion of it, and is not to | ded knowledge of Greek. Carry, of St. Asaph, has written several | : Peggy ap Py Rnb, sat with the abhorrence due to modern crime. To which we answer, , that it was the same sanction that awarded both honour and dis- , grace; and that if the honour is honourable, then the disgrace: is | disgraceful. The fact is, that the same motives led to both: when a man was useful in furthering the purposes of power, he was loaded with honour—when he stood in its way, he was covered with obloquy. “His head was as hastily hurried to the block as it had been rashly decked with a coronet. The Notes on the Peerage enable us to take a more personal view of the House. When we see a man of ancient family, the mind naturally runs back on the names of such ancestors as have made themselves conspicuous. If the Peer has no ancestors—if he is himself the founder of his family, we are drawn to the con- sideration of his personal claims. The difference in the Notes upon the ancient and the modern families will be evident. The heralds will supply a pedigree as well as arms on payment of the fees, but they cannot find us in history. The other Lists speak for themselves: the Peerage is in each instance put in some posture which renders the study of its dis- proportions easy to the most casual inquirer, THE ENGLISH PEERAGE, BY REIGNS, AND IN THE ORDER OF CREATION. ‘* THERE MUST BE A PERIOD AND AN END OF NAMES AND DIGNITIES, AND WHATSOBVER IS TERRENE ; AND WHY NOT OF DE VERE? FOR WHERE IS BOHUN? WHERE’s MOWBRAY? WuHERe’s MORTIMER? NAY, WHICH IS MORE AND MOST OF ALL, WHERE IS PLANTAGENET?’ Speech of Lord Chief Justice Crewe, 1625. (Throughout the following Tables, those who voted in favour of the Reform : Pill, on the motion for the second reading, are printed in Caritas ; those who voted against it, in Italics ; those who gave no vote are printed in the ordinary Roman character. The letter a denotes absent from the division ; f. female ; m. minor; p. voting by proxy.] Wenry the Chird. Original Creation. Present Title. Family Name. 1. 1264 B.De Roos........R. De Roos..... Covcee eseee eee De Roos 2. 1264 B. Le Despencer,...U. Le Despencer, @.......000 Stapleton Cyward the gs irst. 8. 1294 B. Saye and Sele....2. SAYE AND SELE .....+....Fiennes 4. 1295 B. Berkeley ........E. Berkeley, a.... . Berkeley 5. 1295 B. Grey de Ruthyn..B. Grey de Ruthyn,f. ... Yelverton 6. 1295 B. Bergavenny......E. Abergavenny,d..... et6uceee Neville 7. 1296 B. Audley... .0....+B. AUDLEY... cc eeeeeeeeeeene es Touchet 8. 1298 B. Clinton........+.B. CLINTON coe. ceeeeeesevenee Trefusis 9. 1298 B. De Clifford .,,....B. De CLirrorD.............Clifford Cdward the Second. 10. 1307 B. Dacre ..eseeeeee+Bs DACRE. ereeees cence veeeee Brand 1l. 1307 B. Delawarr..... eee E. Delawarr....sesesceevees ° .W est 12. 1308 B.Delazouche .....B. Delazouche,f...... seeccece Curzon 13. 1309 B. Strange ......+..E. SHREWSBURY ..-.seeeeeees Talbot 14. 1313 B. Willoughbyde B.Wit.touensy ds Enespy. Burrell Eresby ‘ 15. 1313 E. Lindsey ......+eE. Lindsey, m....... er a Bertie Coward the Third. 16. 1335 B. Courtenay .......E. Devon, @. ...4.++.+e0+-++-- Courtenay DHenry the Sixth. 17. 1448 B. Stourton .....+6.B. STOURTON...es.e+-000-4+-Stourton 18. 1456 B. Stanley .. +E. DERBY, DP. «. ++. eeeeeeeeee Stanley 19. 146] B. Hastings E. HUNTINGDON, P.... .+-+++- Hastings 20. 1461- B. Ferrers... V. Hereford... coe eeveseee eee Devereux 21. 1470 B. Howard.....+0eeD. NORFOLK. ...+++-.000-0+++Howaird Wenry the Seventh. 22, 1492 B. Willoughbyde B. Willoughby de Broke.......Verney Broke Henry the Cighth. 23. 1514 B. Herbert .......6.D. Beaufort. .oo.. soe eseseeee. Somerset 24. 1525 E, Rutland.........D. Reebland....0..0.00+.+00+0+Manners 25. 1529 B. Windsor.........E Plymouth .. 0.0.00 000+e00+ Windsor 26. 1636 V, Beauchamp.,....D, SOMERSET ......¢+++eee0+S€ymour 27. i529 HE. Russell..........D. BEDFORD, p....- slstawtaeee Russell 23. 1539 B. St.John of BasingM, WINCHESTER «.e.s+ eeesssPaulett

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Strange ........+D. Atholl, @.....ccccceeecesees Murray B. Bruce ... cece. oo Me Atleshury..cccoscsceeeesees Bruce B. Capel ...00.. 00+ eB. ESSEX, scccccscccesceestee Coningsby B. Byron... 000000eBe BYRON 0.0.00 eccccscovece BYFON B. Ward .cccccccceeE, Dudley:.c cecvccccccecvcsess Ward Charles the Second. E. Sandwich .......E. Sandwich, m........... ..Montague B. Townshend......M. Townshend, Grsissvcbececs Townshend KE. Carlisle .....0e+E. CARLISLE seesesees Coeeces Howard B. Ashley .....- +++ E. Shaftesbury ... 20.0000 e002. Cooper B. Cornwallis....... E.CorNWALLIS ... ..» Mann E. Doncaster... --D. Buccleugh....... + - Douglas C. De Grey... 65 Cs DOSE a us 50. 00s.0:06s.000008 Campbell B. Clifford ....... .. B. CLiFFoRD OF CHuUDLEIGH,p.Clifford V. Latimer ......... D. Leeds .....+ oo ceccccceess Osborne D. Richmond.......D. RICHMOND. ....cceseee es Lennox D. Grafton ...... coe D. GRAFTON 2... 8660 deh cck er eee D. St. Alban’s......D. ST. ALBAN’S ...ceeeeeeee.- BEaUClerk B. Lumley .......+.E. Scarborough, p. -...es+e¢...Saunderson B. Thynne 2. 066.006. Bath... ... 05500 eoeeeThynne B. Dartmouth.......E. Dartmouth ...... oo. Legge B. Ossulston .......E. Tankerville.. ...ccccceseees bennet Sawes the Second. B. Waldegrave .....E. Waldegrave .....seee.eee8+ Waldegrave Gilliam the Third. EF. Portland.... ....D. PorTLAND, p........+.-++-Bentinck B. Ashburnham..... E, Ashburnham, a............ .Ashburnham M. Cholmondeley oo M. Cholmondeley seeesee eeeeeesCholmondeley Bz Villiers... o+6.05:000Ws JOPBCHecccsdecevcvcceesecee Villiers E. Albemarle....... E, ALBEMARLE, -Keppeil B. Lempister.......E. POMFRET.. .Fermor B. Barnard .........M. CLEVELAND. oo... e000 Anne. wee KE. Aylesford.... 606 B, Gower....++....5M. STAFFORD, Dp... B. Guernsey....- Gower B. Conway .....+. -M. Hertford .... sees ee Conway B. Hervey....... vooM. Bristol...... eoeee. Hervey B. Pelham...... .-E. CHICHESTER .., B. Cowper .... eee -».Pelham E. 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Northumberland .D. Northumberland, p... -. Percy B. Cockermouth.....E. Egremont, a..... » Wyndham . B. Harwich..,......M.DOWNSHIRE,.se5e0000008,Hill B. Monson... i *e eee erees Cee ereeeeee * Family Name, Original Creation. 1756 1756 1760 1760 1761 1761 1761 Present Title. Family Name. B, Hydé....seeeseeeE. CLARENDON, ..esesceseees. Villiers B. Mansfield........E. Mansfield... 06. .cccccee ce - Murray B. Wycombe.,....++.M. LANSDOWNE.......000+00+Petty B, Sondes.o.00+.0+++B. SONDES, Pees eeeeeeer eee + «Watson ‘George the Third. B. Spencer o,+++++ +E. SPENCER, Pu. ccessecscees - Spencer B. Mt. Stuart .o,.00+M. Bute... .ccoccreevevecss. os Stuart B. Grantham ..,...-B. Grantham, ...cececeessess «Weddell B. Grosvenor -»+ »+«+M. WESTMINSTBR ..s+++.+.. Grosvenor B. Scarsdale,. «+... +B. Scarsdale, p.. cece cceeeceess Curzon B. Boston... ».9++.++B. Boston ...... B. Chatham,....+..E. Chatham, a.. B. Holland . -B, HOLLAND. seeeeeFox B. Lovel and ‘HollandE. EGMONT, P.+eseceees eee Perceval B. 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Grantley ..... »+ +B. Grantley, p. ..e.0eeeeee oes sNorton B. Howe ..ceeesee ool, Howe ..ccccccercssee cooes Howe B. Rodney’ 6.000000 Be ROGNEY.ccccccccrccvecseres Rodney B. Rawdon .........M. HASTINGS......... soeee o» Hastings B. Sydney .........- V. Sydney...ccccccccceeces ee eTownshend D. Nosthambesiand . = Beverley... +. Percy B. Carteret.. .....- E. St. Germains ... B. Lowther ...... B. Grey de Wilton « B. Carteret...... ‘KE. St. Germains ... .E. Lonsdale.... .E. Wilton. --Thyone seeceee seee Eliot eee coeseeeees Lowther -e++sEgerton ete eee eee B. Evesham.... KE. Somers, a. sieseneeessenees Cocks B. Borringdon . soe +e -E. MORLEY. sovcesee ooeee Parker B. Berwick........- B. Berwick, SNe oocccee ooo Hl B. Sherborne.......B. SHERBORNE.......4. eee oe E. Norwich .. “= Gordon ..... -Gordon B. Montague ....- B. Montague .... ++ Scott V. Hamilton ....... E, Abercorn, m..... «+ee+-Abercorn B. Tyrone.......+..M. Waterford, m .. ..++++e+0+.Beresford B. Carleton .....++-E. SHANNON ......000000.0+. Boyle B. Hawkesbury .....E. Liverpoul....... o0eee ......Jenkinzon B. Suffield........ oo. SUPPIBLD o. ccccee eeeeeee. Harbord B. Dorchester ......B. Dorchester, m..... eeeeeee «Carleton B. Kenyon ...+++0.- B. Kenyon ....4.. ---Kenyon B. Malmesbury .....E. B. i re Coors B. Fisherwick . Malmesbury .. ++. Harris . BRAYBROOKE, ++. Griffin - DONEGAL weccccccee +++. «eChichester B. Douglas .... ee Douglas 06. ceeeeeeseesees. Douglas V, Gagb'c..:+0:. coves Ve GAgE .osccccccccees seeceee. Gage B. Grenville... .....B. Grenville, a.. seeceeeesee Grenville B. Verulam ......-.. E. Verulam ......0.6 veveceee++Grimston B. Auckland........ B. ee © ocecee eeeeee. Eden B. Clive .......+..-E. - Clive B. Mulgrave -Phipps B. Lyttelton eocce -..-Lyttelton B. Bradford ..... +. +E. Bradford ....e.eeee+0.0+0+e Bridgman B. Selsey ..sccceees B. SELSBY, Poceeccsess eeee ee. Peachey B. Dundas..... evee+B. DUNDAS 0... .00e0eeeee00e-Dundas B. Yarborough......B. YARBOROUGH .......++.0+.+Pelham B. BGA De. oo) soo Ve CLIREDIN con ccs cco sceccachtlie B. Hood ....+004+ B. Stuart .. B. Stewart .. B. Saltersford ... B. Dawnay....... B. Brodrick ....... ooV. Hoop... v0. oo.eeK. Moray, a... .-E. Galloway, a..... -E. Courtown, p........ - DownNeE.... V. Middleton, a. +eeeeee. Hood - Stuart . Stewart + eeeeees Stopford eee pases sheen anne +eeeeee Brodrick B. Bridport ..... ‘EB. Stradbrooke, eae soeeee. Rous B. Calthorpe ....... Bh. CQHAGIRE: 06 6 viicss st50500% Calthorpe B. Dunstanville andB. Dunstanville and Bassett.... Bassett Bassett R. oom as seeseesees Lascelles B. Rolle.. seeeeeeees Rolle E. Caw dor . te eeeeeseeevee/Campbell B. Pierrepoint .+-. .-E. MANVERS. seaseccececocee oDerrepoing B. Jervis . ...cceeee Ve ST. VINCENT ceccccsecccce JOrvis B. Wellesley ...... M. WELLESLEY ..... eeeces -+. Wellesley RB. Carrington ......B. Carrington ..... Vea s¥emieeee Smith B. Bayning.........B. Bayning Perr +eeee..Poulett B. Bolton .......-..B. Bolton ..... occccccccs .-Powlett B. Minto...... ‘ LE. MINTS 5 oc +» Kynynmound B. Wodehouse B. wean a. eeceseceeees Wodehouse B. Northwick....... eS AUPE Ses oka o'5.080 ++ ++. Rushout B. Lilford ...ccccses B. LILFORD eeosecees soos cee se POWYS B. Ribblesdale...... B. Ribblesdule .....ce.ceree ... Lister B. Duncan .......-E. CAMPERDOWN ...e.000% -.»Haldane B. Eldon ...ccccee. 2 eae ovccee severe Scott BR. Fitzgibbon ......E. Clare, a...... Cord ecccecens - Fitzgibbon 1 i ery M. Drogheda, a .. Moore B. LOM... caccosecs Ms Bly Dp .. 000 -... Loftus B, Carysfort .......H. Carysfort, G@. cccesccccseces + Proby RB, Alvanley ........B. ALVANLEY . occccecc cee Arden B. Abercromby..... B. ABERCROMBY .. seeeeeeeeeAbercromby B. Grey .....e- ode 6s Ble GREY 0s 65y 0 00,0080% nrachsc eae B. St. Helen’s.....: B. St. Helens, Pp. eee cece -Fitzherbert B. Nelson..... ibe RUE oe co ccssn tease aeesée Nelson RK. Keith 66iec.asiee pA 5 ae Elphinstone V. Hutchinson......E. Donoughmore, a.... .. Hutchinson V. Melville... ca SOM. F sine Gor siee'es & +. .+.Dundas B. Redesdale....... B. Redesdale. ..sccccceesseesee Mitford B. Ellenborough ...B. Ellenborough ........00-000% Law B, Sandys.......... B. Sandys, f'. ...6..0.-- cocces Hill B. Arden...........B. Arden..... eer ececces -. Perceval B. Sheffield ........E. Sheffield.....ccoccseseces “+++ Holroyd B. Lake....eeeeeeee V. LAKE o cccccceseccece eeeeeLake V.Sidmouth..... 2V. Sidmouth ......0+0000 esece .. Addington B. Barham. ° TB. BARHAM, -- Noel 3 Erskine... eB ERSKINE,p. ° «Erskine B. Monteagle .. een eee’ M. SLIGO....6..- . Browne BR. Ardrossan ...... .E. Eglintoun, m....... Gadahocs . : Montgomerie B. Lauderdale cooes +E. Lauderdale, p..ceseeeeeee+sMaitland R. Granard.........E. GRANARD, Doeeseeeseeseees Forbes B. Crewe.......+++: B, Crewe, @ ..cccececccecesces Crewe B. abet E. Beauchamp ...++++ee00.000-Pinder B. Ponsonby .......B. SOUSANET -92° B: Ailsa...... ..M. Atusa,p.. seeeesB. GARDNER. R. Breadalbane..,..M. BREADALBAN Poovivvcces ; ‘Campbell KR. Manners ....,,..B. Manners ......000+..0.05..,Satton B. Gambier......... B. Gambier ..... ..0.000+.0002-Gambier E, Cathcart ........E. Cathcart, d.,...00.0e0e000.eCuathcart 5 3 & S ® _" tik

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1070 THE SPECTATOR. Original Creation, Present Title, Family Namo, 564. 1809 V. Wellington......D. Wellington ...sese.eesseeees Wellesley 265. 1809 B. Niddrys..sceeeesE. Hopetoun soos essesceseeesssHope 266. 1814 V.Gordon ...666...E. Aberdeen .ececeseeecseseessGordon 967. 1814 B. Beresford........V. Beresford .ose.ceceesseesee. Beresford 268. 1814 B.Exmouth........V. Exmouth, poe ses .cose veces sPellew 269. 1814 B. Combermere,....V. Combermere os seseessees.ssCotton 270, 1814 B. Lynedoch ..,....B. LYNEDOCH..e.eeseee.ee0e+Graham 971. 1614 Bo Bill cccoveveecocs EB. Hill, @. 6.6. 0ct0 coccvccccccektilh 272. 1814 B. Stewart ..... 273. 1815 V. Granville.. 975. 1815 B.Foxford..... 276. 1815 V.Melbourne.... » M. Londonderry... V. GRANVILLE, E. Dalhousie, a. «E. Limerick .....+ +eoeV. MELBOURNE... seve cesses ce dtewart oveeses Gower +. Ramsay .Pery oeeeee. Melbourne 277. 1815 B. Churchill .,......B. Churchill, p. s.seseeceeees Spencer 278. 1815 B. Harris...........B. Harris ..occessescoeeses eee Harrig 279. 1815 B. Meldrum o...006+E. Aboyne.. eee sereveeeeseees Gordon 280. 1815 B. Ross cevesere oe. +E. Glasgow, Proseevs eevee. oes Boyle 281. 1815 B. Grinstead........E. Enniskillen .sccoreseeeessesCole 982. 1815 B. Prudhoe .eeeee.es Bs Prudhoe. ...sc veces seccecee Percy 283. 1817 B. Colchester.......B. Colchester, p. sssseseeeeres Abbott George the sFourth. 284, 1891 B. Ker..ccscccescoeeM. LOthian wccrcscccocesoceess Ker 285. 1821 B. Minster..........M. Conyngham, @........+++..Conyngham 286. 1821 B. Ormonde......+.+M. ORMONDE .oossceseeess -» Butler 287. 1821 B. Wemyss..,......&. Wemyss and March, a......Douglas 288. 1821 B. Clanbrassill......E. Roden. secccccccsoceces esse d0celyn 289. 1821 B, Kingston.........E. Kingston, @. sesccerecess sss King 290. 1821 B. Silchester.. 291. 1821 B. Glenlyon.... cocseeE. Longford +. ess eeeeeeee os Pakenham voee Be vo whe ill eee gia 292. 1821 B. Maryborough.....B. Maryborough ....eseee.0+- «Pole 293. 1821 B. Oriel....... 294. 1821 B. Stowell.. 295. 1821 B. Ravensworth .... 1B. Ravensworth : 296. 1821 B.Delamere........B. Delamere .,..00.+. 297. 1821 - B. Forester ..seceee+B. Forester ...esessee oe V. Ferrard, @ socceees . Stowell, p. .. oS: : ee & a 2 = Fe ..Cholmondeley . Forester 298. 1821 B. Rayleigh.........B. Rayleigh, eyahreyieh tate ‘Strutt 299. 1821 V. Clancarty........E. Clancarty, pire .seeseecee eee Trench 300. 1823 B. Bexley..ccceceee +B. Berley...cccscccecee sovcees Vansittart 301, 1824 B. Stafford..... «+.B. STAFFORD o.esesoeeseeees derningham 802. 1824 B. Gifford.....ccccesd. Gifford, M...c0c0.ceccscces + Giftor 803. 1825 B. Penshurst., .....V. Strangford....eeceosseese.esomythe 304, 1826 B. Tadcaster... ......M. Thomond .see.esee oeseeeee-O’ Brien 305. 1826 B. Somerhill . ' ¥ -.B. Farnborough ... M. oe ata tala coweee DO Burgh EB. RANFURLY, p +. Knox 2 + g 309. 1826 B. De Tabley........B. De Tabley, m ...+..++0..+-- Leicester 810. 1826 B. Gower. ...00ccceeB. GOWER. o.0cce cccccccccceceGOWer 81l. 1826 B. Wharncliffe......B. Wharncliffe ose ceceeeesees. «Mackenzie 312. 1826 B. Feversham.......B. Feversham oo.es eee veeeeee ee Duncombe 313. 1826 B. Seaford. ..+.00.0+B. SEAFORD. see « ccccceccces Lillis 314, 1827 V. Goderich......0++.V. GODERICH o.sesess oeeeees. RODINSON 315. 1827 B. Lyndhurst.......B. Lyndhurst oosecoee oeveeeessCopley SIG. 1887 Bi Fife 6 osiciccecs se FIRB. cecces cccevccccccs DUM 317. 1827 B. FS a ge Tenterden oeoeese eves cree eeAbbott 321. 1828 B, Seelebeec, eee +++» Plunkett . Hamilton Canning . Wellesley i . Cowley . ° ee 322. 1828 B. Stuartde RothesayB. Stuart de Rothesay . eovecess stuart 323. 1828 B. Heytesbury......B. Heytesbury, @.. se+se.ee+e.-A’Court 324. 1828 B. Rosebery......0..E. ROSEBERY seseseee.eeeeees Primrose 325. 1828 B. Clanwilliam......E. Clanwilliam. ...+e+s+s via eseMeade 326. 1828 > Durham.......+e.B. DURHAM, Disooeeseeess oes Lambton 327. 1828 B.Skelmersdale.....B. Skelmersdale.....s+.+e++. «+ Wilbraham 328. 1828 B. Wallace......+.6+ By Wallace .eecers secceeeeese» Wallace 829. 1829 B. Wynford.........B. Wynford.seccereveveerecs o-BESt William the sFourth. $30. 1830 B. Brougham.......B. BROUGHAM esos eeseese ees Brougham 331. 1830 B: Kilmarnock 332. 1830 B. Fingall...... 333. . 1831 E.Munster.....0..+E. MUNSTER..cesseees .-E. ERROLL. . Hay »-E. FINGALL... .-- Plunkett vove . Fitzelarence 334. 1831 B. Sefton... .....0.eE. SEFTON. soese seecceecees e+ Molyneux 335. 1831 B. Rossie...........B. KINNAIRD cose oeeeseeeee «+ Kinnaird 336. 1831 B. Dover...o...002. Bs DOVER esccecevceees veces stllis 337. 1831 B. Clements........E. LEITRIM. .sccesevecesees os Clements 338. 1831 E. Burlington.......E. BURLINGTON, P...+ee+e+e+Cavendish 339. 1831 B. Kenlis...........M. HEADFORT ...eeeeeeeeeees Laylour 340. 1831 B. Chaworth .......E. MEATH ..es.eeeseeeseeeeeebrabazon 341. 1831 B. Dunmore. ..«.s+.E« DUNMORE scsceeseeces sees Murray 345. 1831 B. Panmure... 346 “B. PANMURE:..- ceces . 1831 B. Oakley ........+.B. OAKLEY os... s..sceees.+-Cadogan 347. 1831 B. Poltimore........B. POLTIMORE.....+.+..+.+.+Baltimore 348. 1831 B. Wenlock oecccec cds WENLOCK ocecccccce scee. e UGwiey 349. 1831 B. Mostyn......+6++B. MOSTYN cescsosee ereveeee Lloyd 350. 1831 B. Segrave ....0+0++B. SEGRAVE .ceseccecveesess Berkeley B51. 1831 B.'Templemore.... .B. TEMPLEMORE «.. oe. e++++++Chichester 352. 1831 B. Dinorben,.......B. DINORBEN o.eee.s cosece ove Hughes 353. 1831 B. Cloncurry .......B. CLONCURRY oe eseessese. Lawless 354. 1831 B. De Saumarez....B. DE SAUMAREZ es.eoesee oe SaumMarez ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE ENGLISH PEERS. e figures refer to corresponding numbers in the List of the Peerage aecording to the & F ag Abercorn, m...6... 182 ABERCROMBY .... 235 Aberdeen. ..see.ese. 266 Abergavenny, d@..... 6 Abingdon. ...eseees 36 Aboyne ....- Ailesbury « AILSA woes ALBEMARLE... ALVANLEY 20.0.0. 234 AMHERST .seeeseee 154 ANGLESEA..coes-0- 29 Arden. .cccccesseree 249 ARGYLE .eeeee eee ee 152 Arundel .eccscccese. 46 Ashburnham, .a.... 84 Athol, d....- ..2-0- 61 AUCKLAND .ee.eeee 1 AUDLEY ... Aylesford... Bagot ...+.. ‘ CATTAS .seseseres BARHAM o.eeoessee 249 Bath... cecccrscceees 79 Bathurst ...60 0000+ 101 Bayning...... 60002 QL Beauchamp ...++..+. 256 Beaufort ...s0.++0.. 28 BEDFORD... .....06 BELHAVEN........ 342 Beresford oo. 0.++0 00 267 Berkeley, a....0000- 4 * Boston ... order of Creation.] Berwick, @......006 a” CAWDOR ..seeseeee 216 BESBOROUGH.:- +s 131 Chatham, @..¢+.ee08 145 Beverley .eec.cecess 171 Chesterfield. coeveee 49 Bexley ...0. eeevee 800 CHICHESTER...+.00 94 BOLINGBROKE..... 103 Cholmondeley.....+. 85 Bolton .. wsescscoese aaa Churchill ...00..000 277 coos 144 Clancarty. os. ee.+00 299 Bradford.... -» 200 CLANRICARDE....« 305 BRAYBROOKE..... 190 Clanwilliam .. 325 BREADALBANE.... 260 Clare, @.... 230 BRIO ove: ces.ccsere OS CLARENDON. 135 BrooRe sescovercece 52 CLEVELAND weooseee 89 Brownlow .wseoerees 155 CLIFDEN o.ccessess 204 BROUGHAM. os eevee 330 CLIFFORD. eeossees 73 Buckingham ........ 110 CLINTON .esessesee 8 BucKINGHAMSHIRE 119 CLONCURRYs sere. 302 Buccleugh ..ee.ese.s 71 Colchester .+eessses 283 BuRLINGTON ..... 337 Combermere .vevsee 269 Bute ccccscccceccee 140 Conyngham, @.....+ 285 BYRON ..cccccoesss 64 CORNWALLIS .s..6 70 Cadogan, a... Calthorpe ..+. . CAMPERDOWN .... 228 Camden . .seereree 149 Canning, f.....e.+05 320 COWPER ceseseosve Cardigan ..se.ee02+ 59 CRAVEN secccocees OF ~ c—] o CARLISLE ...eee00. 69 Crewe, G.ssecssoees 200 Carnarvon ..42...++ 165 DAGRB:. cs.seewoee (10 Carrington.....+.+- 220 Dalhousie, @....+.++ 274 Carteret... ..cecevees 172 DARNLEY esveseees Cathenrt” Bevereees 200 Dartmouth. ..-es+.. 80 Cathcart, .4,..e060 263 DE CLIFFORD seose = 9 De Dunstanville ... 213 HOLLAND woseseee. 146 RADNOR.... 2 De Grey, f. .cccsce 72 | HOOd cece ccccsees 205 RANFURLY........ 307 Delamere .s0,00.6 » 296 | Hopetoun..e..ccove 265 Ravensworth... ....0. 295 Delawarr weosecesss 11 | Howarp pE Rayleigh, Prvaee 298 DENBIGH .ecossese Sl WALDEN .ecccsse 39 Redesdale . 242 BBESE cvccecevecse 16 Howarp oF ErF- Ribblesdale . 227 MO TOUR eveustecees of FINGHAM .weee.ee Sl RIicHMON ° 7 De SAUMAREZ .... 353 HowpveN. cooee O48 Rivers... ee ae cee: 157 De Tabley, m....... + 809 | Howe ssesssserseee 167 Roden..e.cevsccceees 283 Delazouche, f... 12 | HunTInepon ..... 19 Rodney... veccses 168 Dey ONSHIRE .. . ‘ oe 45 | ILCHESTER o..000. 195 Rollé.cee seccccesse 25 Devon, G. .eoresecee 16 | Jersey cecececcesses 86 ROMNEY...ceceesse 107 Digby ccvcvereccecs 160 Keith, fi scccccseces 209 OSEBE 2 DINORBEN ... 060.5 SOL yond ghee eee 188 aaa. 160 DONEGAL...cccscee 191 | KING soccccccccces 119 | Rutland.........00, 94 Donoughmore, a ... 240 Kingston, @.....+.. 289 St. ALBANS... .. ; 7 Dorchester, .m....++ 187 KINNAIRD o.0.2 006 334 St. Germains w DORMER eccesscree 48 | Kinnoull wesseseeeee 99 St. Helens.... DMM eicteeeax's OS) URED clic civrieces Se St. John, m, Dougla 8...0.ec0008 192 LANSDOWNE ....+6 137 St. VINCEN DOVER ctccece Lauderdale ... e 253 Salisbury .ss.sss.., 4. | \ DOwNE..... 209 | LeDespencer, a... 1 Sandys 2 DOWNSHIRE... 134 | Leeds eWNeces ieee 7: roe od Se arta "66 Drogheda, a. ... 231 | LEINSTER ........ 128 | SAvyEandSELE..., 3 UCIE coccceceseese 114 | LEITRIM eseeeseees 336 |’ Scarborough .. evcees 7 Dudley .sccrcccceces . 65 | LILFORD seoseeseee 226 Scarsdale...++..0.. 6 143 DUNDAS .esee esses s 202 Limerick ..evevssees 279 SEAGRAVE..e.+000. 349 DUNMORE eeseseee 340 | Lindsey, m. ...00.40 15 SEAFORD. .csoesses 31S DURBAN os vevesess O00 LITCHFIELD ..4.05+ 130 SEFTON... ccccseese S54 DYNO s ceuveceese- 1OL- -| Liverpool ..eseeseee 185 BRLERTs. 2 ccsccvee 202 Eglinton,m .....0. 252 Londonderry .eee.ee 272 Shaftesbury. cocccese 69 Egmont eoececceee 147 | Longford cevsesecee. 290 SHANNON.... oe 184 Egremont, .d....s08 | yo ea oe 174 Sheffield ....0+ . 246 Eldon ........ | Lothian.. ee 284 SHERBORNE.....«.. 179 Ellenborough. | LupLow . ecccccces O41 SHREWSBURY ..... 12 LEY. ceseveoces « 232 | Lyndhurst ..00..0.- 315 Sidmouth .. cecesesss 248 Enniskillen....s.e00 281 | LYNEDOCH ..6ee+44 270 Shelmersdale........ 327 ERROL ..ecscccees SOL | LYTTELTON oeese0e 199 MOIOO Sie ciesaese 251 ERSKINE ee.secseee 250 | Macclesfield......+.+ 108 BOMeCl,; Gs. vevesves 176 ESSEX..e.escere00. 63 | Malmesbury..... 00+ 189 SOMERSET..... coee 96 Exeter .ccvcoesesee 35 | Manchester oeveoc.. 53 SONDES: .., 60000000 139 Exmouth ooocssocee 268 | Manners .ccsosesess 261 Southampton. ...++. 164 Falmouth ....se000 112 | Mansfield..cccsecose 136 SPENCER .eesseeoes 139 Farnborough eooese BOS | MANVBRS..0..0.0. 217 STAFFORD.. - OF Ferrard, @....00c0.+ 293 | Marlborough ..e0... 42 STAFFORD 30h FERRERS ..-. cress 102 Maryborough... +... 292 Stamford... ‘ 44 Feversham... «- - 312. | Maynard... we ABI Stanhope, a......+. 109 ‘ 316 | MEATH..... oe 309 STOURTONese.c00. 17 ececceee GO2 | BMELBOURNE..ce00. 276 Stowell.....e.cc0e+8 294 Fitawilliam, a.,...., 126 | Melville. cece cceceee 241 Stradbroke,a....... 212 FOLEY. seese.eseee 159 | Middleton,a....... 210 Strangford ..+.... . 303 BOGE sevccesvese S07 Middleton, a....... 100 Stuart de Rothesay. . 322 FORTESCUE o.c.ce. 115 | MINTOcccecccesscee 228 SUFFIELD... 0000.0. 186 GONE. bcis: ctcousaas tee | Monson. ....+.eee0+ 120 SUNVOLE ccscsicese 40 Galloway, d....00.. 207 | Montagu....eseeeee 181 Sydney...eccceveses 170 Gambier 2. cccsecere 202 MONTFORD,....004 124 TGIO0E 0660 eveiacsse 199 GARDNER oo. 000 000 259 Montrose..cerseese. 116 Tankerville. oes 8h Gifford, m. .ccccecsee 302 MOray, G.ccceccesee TEMPLEMORE, 350 Glasgow.» ersrsenes 280 Tenterden.... 817 GLENLYON, 291 . TEYNHAM wesceeees 50 GovpERIcH., 314 Mount Edgecombe. . 127 THAKBT..cxescccce 56 Gordon ..... eee 180 MULGRAVE eeseeee. 198 Thomond ...000e.0008 304 GOWER .. cccccccce O10 MUNSTER..e..0+00. 333 Thurlow, m...e... 2+ 159 GRAFTON eeeessese 76 NELSON ee.eseeeeee 238 Torrington, m...... 113 GRANARD .eese sees 204 Neweastle.ssccssess 38 Townshend, d...... 67 Grantham ..eceeee8 141 NORFOLE..e.ps000. 21 VERNON....cceees. 148 Grantley .....s0eeree 166 NorTHAMPTON..,. 37 Verulam ..seseesene 195 GRANVILLE ...06 « 273 Northumberland,... 132 Waldegrave ...e..5. 82 Grenville, a........ 194 Northwick ........+ 225 Wallace..ccrescesese 828 Greyde Ruthyn,f.. 5 OAKLEY eceeseeeses 345 Walsingham.....++0. 162 GRBY ...0.cesccsee 200 ONSLOW. c.ceeesere 105 Waterford, m....++. 183 Guildford ..eccovee 82 Orford. .s.ceceesseee 17 WELLESLEY., . 219 Haddington ... 319 ORMONDE,..+e0e-+ 286 Wellington.. «0. 264 HAMILTON .esosese 97 OXFORD..ee0. 96 Wennyss, @.....+6... 287 Harborough, a. ..., 104 PANMURE....0+. WENLOCK.......+. 347 Hardwicke ..40+0+.+ 122 Pembroke, @.....++. 30 WESTMINSTER..., 142 Harewo00d....0.000. 214 PETRE.cosesessveee 43 Westmoreland...... 55 Harrington, d.eo.e.0 121 PLUNKET...e+++0-4 318 Wharneliffe ........ 3il Harris .o0e.0rse.ee 278 Plymouth .veveseses 25 Wit.oucuBy DE Harrowby weeseseee 156 POMFRET..cecessees 88 ERESBY......... 14 HASTINGS ve.se.se 169 POLTIMORE ..¢.,00+ 346 Willoughby de Broke 22 HAWEB .ccccccccee 158 PONSONBY..e. 0000. 257 Wilton. .ceseccccces 175 Headfort .....0.0+6 339 PORTLAND...c00008 83 WINCHESTER....,. 28 Hereford. ceecesecee 20 Portsmouth, a...... 111 Winchilsea .......+. 54 Herbford secccseces 92 PGulths .cesnecs ovis. . OS Wodehouse, a....... 224 Heytesbury, ee 323 Powis. .cevees 197 Wynford...... Hill, @. .cccvcccvees 2/k Prudhoe... .ccccceser 282 YARBOROUGH,.... PEERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. Duke of Cumberland = Duke of Cambridge, @ DuKE oF SussEXxX Duke of Gloucester SPIRITUAL PEERS, ENGLISH, Litchfield & Coventry.Henry Ryder Peterborough....+.+.«Herbert Marsh Canterbury ..s..eee+++. William Howley Lincoln............+.John Kaye York, @.c+.ee00+ee0++Gward Harcourt St. Asaph....++++++..William Carey wOen Bangor...soeeeeeeeeeChrist. Bethell BISHOPS. CHICHESTER .......Maltby London, @..ee.0+ «+0+eC. J. Blomfield St. David's, a.. ..J. B. Jenkinson ARCHBISHOPS. Durham. ...+.e00+08+Van Mildert Bristol .......00+.0+. Robert Gray Winchester ...+.e+0+.C. R. Sumner Carlisle. .....+e+.+.+-Hon. Huzh Percy Worcester, a....+..+-Robert J. Carr Rochester....2++. ++.-George Murray Hereford, @,...«.++-.G. 1, Huntingford Llanduff.............E. Coplestone Salisbury seeeesseeess Thomas Burgess Chester, a... ...+...J.B. Sumner Se tagge eeers ooee+e Henry Bathurst Oxford ...s+.e0e+0+ «Richard Bagot seece se eeeeB, Edw. Sparke Gloucester ...+++++.++Henry J. Monk Bath pee Wells. seoeeeGeo. Henry Law Exeter ....+.++++++++Henry Phillpots IRIsH. Archbishop Tuam, o.ssecsceeese cecececeseresesees Power Le Poer Trench Bishop Leighlin and Ferns ..eeeeseeesesecesseeee Thomas Elrington —— Cloyne ..0..00 woe otuaborseedeereccs COMM DMORIEY — Cork and Ross .... cceccceecccesecess REPRESENTATIVE PEERS OF SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. Those marked } are Peors of Great Britain also, and included as such in the Alphabetical List: Selkirk, Earl of BELHAVEN AND STEN- FOR SCOTLAND, FALKLAND, Viscount Ton, Lord Arbuthnot, Viscount QUEENSBERRY, Mar. of } Strathallan, Viscount FOR IRELAND, Tweeddale, Marquis of Forbes, Lord Morton, Earl of, 6 — pera Thomond, boas Home, Earl of Gray, L Conyn ham, Mar. d. Elgin and Kincardine, E. of | Colviile of “Culvost, Lord Carrick, Earl of Leven and Melville, Earl of | Narrer, Lord CHARLEMON?T

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THE SPECTATOR. 1071 ingston, 0.4 O'Neill, a Doneraile, Viscount Momntonell Caledon Lorton Longford, b Limerick, b Gort Mayo Clancarty, 6 Carberry, Lord Enniskillen, b Gos¥rorD Farnham Wicklow Rosse, a Dufferin and Claneboye Lucan Charleville DUNALLY Belmore, @ Glengalt REFORM TEST OF THE PEERAGE, ANALYSIS OF THE VOTES OF THE BRITISH PEERS ON THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL. Divided into Four Classes—1. Peers created previous to the Reign of George the Third ; 2. Peers created by George the Third; 3. Peers created by George the Fourth ; 4, Peers created by his present Majesty. Previous to Geo. III. Geo. Ill, Geo. IV. Will. TV. Total. For Reform sesses 63 seesee 4B ceveee 12 ceceee 25 cevees 148 Against Reform ., 52 cscose 72 seseee 20 eeeven —= seveve 149 Absent.ccoccccccee 17 cecsee 18 covcee F secvee == coovce 40 Females ..ccccccce 2 covcce 2 eessee 2 cesses “= esvves 6 Minors secceceses 4 sccvee 5 ccccce Zz ccesee = coccce 1L 138 145 46 25 354 VOTES OF THE PEERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY, SCOTCH AND IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS, AND THE BISHOPS. Reformers. Anti. Absent. British Peers.* Bishops.t Total. Royal Family. 1 sscee 2 seeee L seoeee ——= eeeee —= ceeve 4 Bishops... ++ © 2 sevee Zh cece 7 sevee —= eveee == coeee BO Trish Peers cece 3 cscce 1h soos BS wscee TF covee 4 ovvee 31 Scotch Peers .. 3 seere 12 seers —— oveve 1 eeeee “= cover 16 9 49 ll 8 4 8l * This column includes those Irish and Scotch Peers who are British Peers also, and en umerated in the foregoing Table. q . +The Trish Representative Bishops, who are accounted for in the line of Bishops, TOTALS OF THE DIVISION. Reformers, Anti-Reformers. British Peers ssececsccevee 148 seveeeeece 149 Scotch, Irish, &C.essereee FD sevceevees 49 157 198 In the last table there is an apparent disagreement with the numbers commonly supposed to have made up the Division on the Reform Bill. We have been favoured with a List by one who has had the best opportunities, and used every exertion to make it correct; and we have followed our document, believing it to be more free from error than any List of the Division which has hitherto appeared. NOTES ON THE PEERAGE. «‘ The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough, but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen as the most precious jewel in their coronet.” aa wo00oNs Duke of Norro.x. Bernard Edward Howard; born in 1765. The Duke of Norfolk of James the Second’s time was a staunch Pro- testant. ‘‘One day,” says Burnet, ‘‘the King gave the Duke of Norfolk the Sword of State to carry before him to the Popish Chapel : and he stood at the door. Upon which the King said to him, ‘My Lord, your father would have gone further :’ to which the Duke answered, ‘ Your Majesty’s father was the better man, and he would not have gone so far.’” It was owing to his nephew succeeding him that the title came again into the Roman Catholic line. Ancestry is but a relative affair. In 1621, when Lord Spencer was talking about what their ancestors did in the House of Lords, Lord Arundel cut him short, saying, ‘‘ My Lord, when these things you speak of were doing, your ancestors were keeping sheep.” Spencer instantly replied, ‘When my ancestors, as you say, were keeping sheep, your an- cestors were plotting treason !” Lord Howard, first Duke of Norfolk, commonly called Jocky of Norfolk, ‘was a pensioner of France, and received, in addition to his pension from Louis the Eleventh, in less than two years, in money and plate, 24,000 crowns by way of direct bribe. —(Philip de Commines.) He got all the honours of Earl Marshal from the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk, just then extinct, in return for his favouring the usurpation of Richard Crookback. He was killed, with his master, in Bosworth Field, August 22d 1485. The first of this line was killed in battle, and the three next were all executed on Tower Hill; the fourth died in the Tower. Thomas, Earl of Arundel, seventh in descent from Jocky of Norfolk, a _— vet proud and peculiar habits, introduced the Arundel Marbles into ngland. Duke of Somerset. Edward Adolphus Seymour; born in 1775. The ancient line of Seymour is not only direct from the great Protector Somerset, uncle to Edward the Sixth,—who, if he hada fault in the esti- mation of his time, it was a sympathy with the people, and to which he fella sacrifice,—but boasts, as its second founder, one of the brightest patriots our country numbers among her children. Sir Edward Seymour, seventh Duke, was an able member of Parliament in the reign of Charles the Second, to whom we are above all things indebted for his strenuous exertions which procured the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act. Duke of RicumMonp. Charles Lennox; born in 1791. Duke of Grarron. George Henry Fitzroy; born in 1760. Duke of Beaufort. Henry Charles Somerset ; born in 1766. Duke of St. Atsans. William Aubrey De Vere Beauclerk ; It is remarkable, that so many of the highest rank of nobility, in so moral a country as England, should be the produce of concubinage, Lennox, first Duke of Richmond, Was the son of Charles the Second, by a French woman, who was made Duchess of Portsmouth, in England; and Louis the Fourteenth, who was always glad to ennoble a bastard or his mother, made her Duchess D’Aubigné in France, with a large domain; and this was retained by the Dukes of Richmond till the French Revolution. Fitzroy, first Duke of Grafton, Son of Charles the Second, by Barbara Villiers, afterwards Lady Castlemaine, created Duchess of Cleveland. Beauclerk, first Duke of St. Albans, Son of Charles the Second, by Eleanor Gwin, the actress. The descent in the Beaufort line is doubly bastard. The first Beaufort was a natural son of John of Gaunt: his descendant became Duke of So- merset, who, being beheaded after the battle of Hexham, left only a natural s0n, Charles, who took the name of Somerset—he probably did not know that of his mother, and dared not take that of Beaufort. He married the heiress of the Earl of Huntingdon, and was created Lord Herbert, and afterwards (1514) Earl of Worcester. The Marquis of Worcester was of great service to Charles the First and his son, during and after the civil wars: after the Restoration, he was made Duke of Beaufort. It was to this Marquis of Worcester that Charles the Second granted that extraordinary patent by which he was - empowered to create peerages himself, without reference to the King, and which he was obliged to surrender at the demand of the House of Lords. Duke of Leeds. Geo. William Frederick Osborne; born in 1775. The first person of any note amongst his ancestors was Edward Osborne, apprentice to Sir Thomas Hewett, cloth-worker. ‘When his master’s only child, Anne, was accidentally dropped out of the nurse’s arms into the Thames, the apprentice, Edward, leaped into the water and saved her life, He afterwards married this Anne Hewett ; and with her got several valu- able estates. Osborne was Sheriff of London in 1575, and Lord Mayor in 1582. His great grandson, Thomas, was the first Duke of Leeds: he had previously been made Earl of Danby and Marquis of Carmarthen, and in 1694 was created Duke of Leeds; ‘‘to colour the dismissing him from business,” says Burnett, ‘‘ with the increase of title.” Duke and Earl of Beprorp. John Russell; born in 1766. The rise of the Bedford family is curious, though undeserving the attack of Burke. Philip, Archduke of Austria, bound for Spain, was obliged to put in, from stress of weather, at Weymouth. He was here attended by Mr, John Russell, a gentleman who had travelled, and could converse with him. When the Archduke went to court at Windsor (in 21 Henry VIII.), Mr. Russell accompanied him ; was recommended to Henry by the Prince, for his attention and intelligence ; and became a court favourite, He had part of the spoils of Stafford, Duke of Buckingham; and at the dissolution of the religious houses, a very considerable share of valuable property, more especially the Abbey lands of Tavistock. Duke of Devonsuire. Wm. Spencer Cavendish; born in 1790, The glory of this family is the having produced the Honourable Henry Cavendish (son of Lord Charles Cavendish, brother to the third Duke), ** Since the death of Newton, ‘‘ said Sir Humphry Davy, ‘‘ England has sustained no scientific loss so great as that of Cavendish. His name will be an immortal honour to his house, his age, and his country.” His dis~ coveries respecting the nature of air and water laid the foundation of modern chemistry. He died worth one million two hundred thousand pounds—accumulation, Duke of Atholl. John Murray ; born in 1755. ** All antiquarians are agreed that the common ancestor of the Murrays is one FriskiNus, a gentleman of note and figure in the reign of King David.” Such is the information we derive from heralds and antiquaries. Duke of Portnanp. W.H. C. Scott Bentinck; born in 1768. The first Bentinck came over with William—not the Conqueror, but the Revolutionizer. He was page to the Prince of Orange. His services are thus spoken of by Sir William Temple: ‘‘I cannot forbear to give M. Bentinck the character due to him, of the best servant I have known in prince’s or private families. Hetended his master during the whole course of his disease, both night andday: andthePrince told me, that whether he slept or no, he could not tell; but in sixteen days and nights, he never called once that he was not answered by Bentinck as if he had been awake. The first time the Prince was well enough to have his head opened and combed, M. Bentinck, as soon as it was done, begged of his master to give him leave to go home, for he was ableto hold up no longer: he did so, and fell immediately sick of the same disease, and in great ex- tremity: but recovered just soon enough to attend the Prince into the field, where he was ever next his person.”—Memoirs, I., 97-8. Duke of Manchester. William Montague; born in 1771. This family claims a descent from Drogo de Monte-acuto, who came over with the Conqueror: there is, however, not a word of truth in the pedigree. The real ancestor was Mr. Thomas Montagu, who died in 1517 : his son was a student in the Middle Temple, and came to be Speaker of the House of Commons. When the House of Commons refused to pass a subsidy bill of Henry the Eighth, that Monarch sent for Montagu the Speaker, and said to him, “ Ho! will they not pass my bill?” And lay- ing his hand on the head of Montagu, who was kneeling before him, he said, ‘‘ Get my bill to pass by sucha time to-morrow, or else by sucha time this head of yours shall be off!” The bill was passed within the time. He became Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, and afterwards of the Common Pleas—‘‘a descent in honour, but an ascent in profit.” From this man’s son came the families of the Dukes of Montague (extinct), Dukes of Manchester, and Lord Sandwich. Marquis of WincuestEeR. C. Ingoldsby Paulett; born in 1774. The man who founded this family enjoyed the place of Treasurer during Mary and Elizabeth, for thirty years. Being asked how he preserved him- self in the place through so many changes of government, he answered, By being a willow, and not an oak. The third Marquis of Winchester published a collection of essays, entitled Lord Marquis Idleness. (London, 1586, 4to.) ‘*‘ He had four na- tural sons by one Mrs. Lambert, a concubine, all knights; viz. Sir Wil- liam, Sir Hercules, Sir John, and Sir Hector, to whom, as I have heard, he granted leases of lands for the term of one hundred years, of little less than 1,000/. per annum value; which lands unto this day are called the Bastard Lands.”—Dugdale. This man’s grandson was the first Duke of Bolton. He used to hunt by torch-light, and only spoke at a particular hour of the day. A most ex- tragavant and avaricious person : ‘‘ he was,” says Burnet, ‘‘ a most know- ing and crafty man, an artful flatterer, always carried his point, and in short the great riddle of his age.” The third Duke of Bolton married Lavinia Berwick, the famous Polly Peacham of the Beggar’s Opera, She had been his mistress. Marquis of Lanspowne. Henry F. Petty; born in 1780. The founder of this family was a physician and a man of science, Sir William Petty. He made a large fortune in Ireland, by purchasing land at a time when it was greatly depreciated. He was engaged in the survey of Ireland, and was secretary to Oliver Cromwell. Though the Lans- downes have assumed the name of Petty, Petty is only the maternal name; the male branch is that of Fitzmaurice, Earls of Kerry. Marquis of Starrorp. George G. L. Gower; born in 1758. The family of Gower has some pretension to be considered of Anglo- Saxon origin. The object of the creation is thus stated by Burnet: «Finch, Gower, Granville, and Young Seymour, were made Peers in

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1072 THE SPECTATOR. 1702, to create a majority in the Upper House ; while Hervey was ad- vanced at the same time, through private favour.” Marquis and Earl of Salisbury. J. B. W. G. Cecil; born in 1791. First Earl of Salisbury: ‘ No.act of power was ever proposed which he did not advance and execute with the utmost rigour. No man so greata tyrant in his country, or less swayed by any motives of justice or honour,” —Lord Clarendon, Marquis of Bath. Thomas Thynne; born in 1765. The family name is Boteville: one John Boteville, however, got the name of John of th’ Inne—from residing in one of the Inns of Court; ~whence the aristocratic name of Thynne! Marquis of Londonderry, C, W. Vane Stewart; bornin 1778. A cavalry officer, who became an ambassador because his brother was ‘a minister. His motto ought to be the sentence pencilled by Lord Liver- ‘pool on the back of his application for a pension,—‘‘ TuIs 1s Too BAD.” He is a great proprietor of coal-mines, through his wife, the heiress of Sir Harry Vane Tempest; a ward in Chancery, whom he carried by a coup de main in opposition to all her connexions. Marquis of Hzaprort. Thomas Taylour; born in 1787. Was an Irish Representative Peer previous to this creation; so that Reform gained nothing by it. He is originally of an English family. Marquis of Waterford. Henry de la Poer Beresford ; born in 1811. This powerful family is originally from the county of Stafford. Tris- tram Beresford, the founder of the Jrish branch, was agent of the London Company for Planting Ulster. The son of Tristram represented London- derry in 1661, andin 1666 was made a Baronet of Ireland. The fourth Baronet married the heiress of the Earl of Tyrone, and was raised to the Irish Peerage in 1720, as Baron Beresford and Viscount Tyrone, and after- wards, in 1746, as Earl of Tyrone. The father of the late Marquis was raised to the Barony of Tyrone in England in 1786, and to the Marquisate of Waterford in Ireland in 1789. The family of the Beresfords monopo- lized until Jately a very large proportion of the representation of Ireland ; ‘and the Church equally with the State has been for the greater part at their disposal. Earl of Huntinepon. Francis Hastings ; born in 1808. This is the son of Captain Hastings, R.N., who laid claim to the earl- dom of Huntingdon, and was successful. He also tried for the estates : the cause was never brought to an end, for want of funds. The conse- quence is, that the son of a poor Captain in the Navy becomes a pauper- peer, and his sisters pensioners on the people. Had his claims been dis- ‘allowed, or were similar ones parried by an act of the Legislature, there would be no instances of elevating a quiet and respectable family of the middle ranks into the miserable splendour of titled poverty. Earl of Pembroke. Robert Henry Herbert; born in 1791. The present representative of this family is an absentee. One of his ancestors was the favourite of James the First; Philip Earl of Montgo- mery, of whom Clarendon says ‘‘ he pretended to no other qualification than to. understand herses and dogs.” Earl of Densicu. Bassel Percy Fielding; born in 1796. Descended from a Count Geffrey of Hapsburg, who, under the name of Fielding, served Henry the Third. Consequently this family is a branch of the reigning house of Austria—the descendants of Rodolph. Of this family is Henry Fielding, the author of Jom Jones—which is the greater distinction ? Earl of Westmoreland. John Fane; born in 1759. The second Earl of Westmoreland wrote a poem against pride of ances- try, in which he says— ** Now cast how much thy merit’s score Falls short of those that went thee before ; By so much art thou in arrear, And stain’st gentility I fear.”—Ep. 1648. Earl of Stamford. George Harry Grey; born in 1765. Lady Jane Grey was of this family. The founder of its great wealth was the regicide Lord Grey, who obtained immense sums from the estates of the Royalists, while one of the principal leaders of the Parliament forces and in their councils. He died in prison. It was Lord Grey who is said by the Royalist historians to have ‘‘ garbled the House of Com- mons, by means of Colonel Pride’s Purge; and that though Pride was the agent, Lord Grey stood behind with a paper in his hand of the names of such members as were too honest.” Earl of Winchilsea. George Finch Hatton; born in 1791. The Earl of Nottingham, ancestor of Lord JVinchilsea, deserted his party in the reign of Queen Anne. He was thus advertised for by Swift : ** WHEREAS, a very tall, thin, swarthy-complexioned man, between sixty and seventy years of age, wearing a brown coat, with little sleeves and long pockets, has lately withdrawn himself from his friends, being seduced by wicked persons to follow ill courses,—these are to give notice, that who- ever shall discover him shall have ten shillings reward; orif he will vo- luntarily return,” &c. The head of this family was the Viscountess Maidstone: she bought her peerage from James the First, at the price of her beautiful seat of Copt Hall, Essex, which she presented to the Lord Treasurer Craufield. The yeign of the women in this family is not, therefore, illegitimate. Earl of Chesterfield. George Augustus Stanhope; born in 1805. The celebrated Lord Chesterfield died without issue, and the title went to a distant branch. , Earl of Cardigan. Robert Brudenell; born in 1769, The ancestor of this Earl, when imprisoned in the Tower during the Commonwealth, spent his time in making abstracts and other collections from the records there preserved. This was arespectable mode of em- ploying the leisure of confinement. The old Earl of Northumberland, when imprisoned there for fifteen years, engaged three doctors of great scientific acquirements, at a high salary, to keep him company ; they used to be called the Three Magi. Sir Walter Raleigh was in the Tower at the same time writing his History of the World, and the party used to spend their evenings together; so that the Tower at that tained the best society of the day. Much poetry has been composed within be gore ile walls, by the British nobility, more especially that of the Earl of Surry. Earl of Plymouth. Other Archer Windsor; born in 1789. The name Other isan affectation of a Norwegian or Saxon name: a powerful lord so called lived in this country before the Conquest, from eriod probably con-. whom this family has some pretensions to descend. The male line, how- ever, became extinct ; and did names descend in the Peerage as in other families, they would now be called Hickman. The present Earl of Ply- mouth derives his origin from a gentleman of the name of Dixie Hick of Kew. The-heralds, however, will trace through the female a pedigree to Otho or Other, in the time of Edward the Confessor, who is saidto have come from Tuscany or from Norway—either will do. Earl of Coventry. George William Coventry; born in 1758. Descended from William Coventry, a ribbon-manufacturer of Co- ventry. His son was Sheriff of London in 1416, anda mercer. He was one of the executors of Whittington, the thrice Lord Mayor ;-and_ pro- bably took care of his cat, if the said cat survived the said Lord Mayor. The first Lord Coventry was keeper of the Great Seal in James the First’s reign, and an eminent lawyer. He is said to have greatly contributed to making the Court of Chancery what it is. There is a fine character of him in Clarendon ; where he is praised for qualities which are not always hereditary. ; ‘ One of the ladies of this family is said to be the author of the Whole Duty of Man.* : * See Ballard’s Learned Ladies. ' Earl of Jersey. George Child Villiers ; born in 1773. A former Whig: he took the place of Lord Chamberlain under the Duke of Wellington, and was turned out by the present Ministry. His lady has always been a leader either of fashion or politics ; by her mother, she is a granddaughter of Child the banker. Earl of Dartmouth. - William Legge; born in 1784, Of the honourable conduct which advances to placeand peerage, Doding- ton gives an example in the conduct which led to Legge’s elevation in $758. ““Atlast, Legge found out, that in return for his thinking of leaving his friends for the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke had betrayed him to them. He would have expostulated with his friends, but they would not suffer it ; and the negotiation taking place in their favour, they bade him take tlre Exchequer Seals under the Duke of Newcastle, and enter into further eclaircissement. He has done so, detested by Mr. Pitt and Leicester House; acting under one whom he hates; who hates him, and has be- trayed him; breaking faith-with Lord Halifax, without whom he had en- gaged not to act; and with Oswald, to whom he had pledged his honour, he would never come into the Treasury without him;—and ALL For QUARTER-DAY.” Earl Cowrgr. Peter Francis Cowper; bornin 1778. This family was founded by Cowper, twice Lord Chancellor, in the reigns of Queen Anne and George. Of this family was Cowper the poet. Earl of Macclesfield. George Parker; born in 1755. This family was founded by a Lord Chancellor; Parker, the son of an at- torney at Leake in Staffordshire. The lying heralds have had the impudence to take the attorney’s pedigree up to Richard the Second. The attorney’s clerk becoming a lord, he must necessarily be of Norman descent; so his ancestor is found to:be William le Parker, lord of a great many lands in 1271. It is very possible that the attorney of Leake was of Norman de- scent: what of that? it was hot his pedigree that made him Lord Chan- cellor. The idea of the Lords being proud of their Norman blood after this, is certainly a joke. The same Lord Macclesfield was arraigned and convicted. of malprac- tices in his Court of Chancery, and sentenced to pay a fine of 30,000/. as a punishment for his offence. He had sold the places under him. Was this his Norman blood? His descendant votes against Reform. Earl of Harrington. Charles Stanhope; born in 1780. The Earl of Harrington is marked as absent from the division. ‘‘ He was married, and could not come.” Earl of Portsmouth. John Charles Wallop; born in 1767. _ The Wallops go a long way back into history. The patent of nobility granted in 6 George I. (1720), says, ‘‘ We have determined to place among the Peers our trusty and well-beloved John Wallop, Esq. one of the Lords of our Treasury: of a very ancient, and during the reign of our Royal ancestors, the Saxons, in this island, of an illustrious family.” No- thing need be said of the Wallop of the present day. Earl of BucKINGHAMSHIRE. G. R. H. Hampden; born in 1816. The Hobarts all spring from Sir James Hobart, an Attorney-General in the time of Henry the Seventh. The first Lord Buckinghamshire got his title by his sister, Mrs. Howard, afterwards Lady Suffolk, being mistress to the King, George the Second. This is the lady so praised by Pope and Swift. Earl of Fitzwilliam. William Wentworth; born in 1748. The history of this family is very curious, and the documents of a na- ture scarcely to be doubted. It is descended from Sir William Fitz-Go- dric, cousin to Edward the Confessor ; whose son and heir, Sir William Fitzwilliam, was ambassador at the court of William Duke of Normandy, A.D. 1066, and came over with him as Marshal of his army, and fought at the battle of Hastings; at which battle William gave him a scarf from his arm in honour of his bravery. From this man, in lineal descent of heirs male, comes the present venerable Earl. Earl of Cornwauuis. James Mann; born in 1778, Descended from a Sheriff of London, in 1378; Thomas Cornwallis, merchant. Earl of Hardwicke. Philip Yorke; born in 1757. This family was founded by the Lord Chancellor of that name (1736). He was the son of an attorney at Dover. ; Earl of Rapnor. William Pleydell Bouverie; born in Sir Jacob Bouverie, the first Lord Longford, was a merchant in Lon- don ; and his peerage is said, by Horace Walpole, to have cost him 10,0004, Earl of Spencer. George John Spencer; born in 1758. The founder of the Spencer family, a rich knight of Henry the Eighth’s time, was of so conscientious a character, that, in his will, ‘‘ he requires his executors to recompense every one that can lawfully prove that he has hurt him in any wise, so that they may make their.claim within two years ;” and requires his executors to make proclamation thereof, once a month during the first year after his decease, at Warwick, Soutbampton, Coventry, Banbury, Daventry, and Northampton. His will is dated 1522. Sir Robert Spencer, first Lord Spencer, was created by James the First. He was reported to have by him the most money of any person in the kingdom: ‘this was the motive of his creation ” in 1603,

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THE SPECTATOR. 1073 Earl of Buthurst, Henry Bathurst; born in 1762. The Bathursts were originally clothiers of Canterbury. The.clothiers were a powerful body in Kent; and, under the name of Grey Coats of Kent, formed. a_kipd of Political Union, and had great influence at elec- tions. The first Lord Bathurst was a political adventurer, a nephew of Dr. Bathurst of Oxford; and a useful tool of Harley and St. John: He was one of the Twelve Peers they made to procure a majority in L712. When his friends went out of office, Bathurst was famous for being a great protester. This family have always been fond of public money. In 1760, this first Lord Bathurst, ‘‘on account of his great age, refused to accept any officé ; but on account of his great merit, took a pension on the Irish establishment of 2,000/, a year.” Earl of Fortescue. Hugh Fortescue; born in 1753. An ancestor of this family was the famous Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chancellor to Henry the Sixth, and the author of the book De Laudibus Laezum Anglia. Earl of Digby. Edward Digby ; born in 1773. This Lord’s ancestor, Sir Everard Digby, was executed for his concern in the Gunpowder Plot. Also the célebrated Sir Kenelm Digby; who, in order to improve his wife’s beauty—the famous Venetia—fed her with capons fattened on sermons, and, as it is supposed, killed her with one of his newly-invented cosmetics. Earl of Beverly. . George Percy ; born in 1778. The Earl of Beverley, who succeeded to the title last year, is grandson of Sir Hugh Smithson, first Duke of Northumberland, grandfather of the present Duke, by Algernon, his second son, to whom the remainder of the Barony of Lovaine was specially limited. The late Lord Lovaine was created Earl of Beverley in 1790. The first Duke of Northumberland, Sir Hugh Smithson, was also Earl +9 oy ae gal by a different patent, with remainder to his second son, the ate Earl. Earl of Carnarvon. Henry George Herbert; born in 1772. .A branch of the great family of Pembroke and Montgomery. Lord Carnarvon was a Whig and Reformer; his present opposition arises, ac- cording to his own account, from not being able to get into the same quart bottle with Earl Grey. Earl of Malmesbury. John Edward Harris; born in 1778. ’ Mr. James Harris was secretary and comptrollerto the late Queen Char- lotte, from 1774 to 1780: he had previously acted as Ambassador Extra- ordinary at the Court of France, in the interval between the departure of Lord Rivers and the arrival of Lord Grantham. His son, Sir James Harris, Knight, was Ambassador at St. Petersburg from 1776 to 1783, and afterwards at Paris from 1783 to 1788: the same person, created Baron Malmesbury in 1788, and Earl Malmesbury in 1800, was Plenipotentiary in 1796-7 in the first attempt to conclude a peace with the French Repub- lic. The present Earl is his son: he was a Lord of the Treasury in 1804, He is a great advocate for the agricultural interest, and has obtained seve- ral committees for the purpose of inquiring into those parts of the trade and law of the empire which are more immediately connected with it. Earl of Rosslyn. James St. Clair Erskine ; The present Lord Rosslyn is the great nephew of the Chancellor Lord Loughborough. He was a Whig, and an able defender of Queen Caroline. He accepted office under the administration of the Duke of Wellington, and deserted his party. Earl of Wilton. Thomas Egerton ; born in 1799. ‘ Sir Thomas Grey Egerton, the seventh baronet of this house, was created Baron Grey de Wilton in 1784; and in 1801 Viscount and Earl of Wilton, with remainder to Thomas Grosvenor Egerton, the second son of his daughter, who was married in 1794 to the present Marquis of Westminster. Earl of Powis. Edward Clive; born in 1754. Ear] Powis is one of those who, according to the wise plan suggested by Sir John Malcolm, would have a tolerably large share in the nomination of the members of Parliament for Bengal, for he holds no less than 32,000/. of East India stock. The founder and maker of the family of Powis was the notorious General Clive, who having extorted from the unhappy natives of India half a million and upwards, found himself, in 1762, powerful enough to purchase indemnity for the acts by which his wealth had been accumulated, and an Irish coronet to consecrate its future application, Earl of Manvers. Charles Herbert Pierrepoint ; born in 1778. The family of Manvers goes no further back in the male line than the commencement of the last century, when Sir Philip Medows was Mar- shal of the Palace.: The son of Sir Philip married the heiress of the last Duke of Kingston, and the family assumed the name of Pierrepoint in consequence. Earl of Lonsdale. William Lowther; born in 1757. The most noticeable man among the ancestry of the Lowthers, was Sir Richard Lowther, who succeeded Lord Scrope as Warden of the West Marches under Elizabeth, and was afterwards several times employed as a Commissioner in the disputes with Scotland. The great grandson of Sir Richard was representative of Westmorland, and in 1640 was created a Nova Scotia baronet; he also represented the county until 1696, when he was created Viscount Lonsdale. The title lapsed in 1750. The grand nephew of the third Viscount was in 1784 raised to the Peerage as Baron and Viscount Lowther and Earl of Lonsdale. The pre- sent Earl is second cousin of the first Ear]. He has been one of the most extensive manufacturers of Representatives of the People in the House of Commons. Previous to the Delegation Parliament, he nomi- nated the two members for Westmorland, one for Cumberland, one for Carlisle, one for Appleby, two for Haslemere, and two for Cocker- mouth. He is now driven from Carlisle, Cumberland, and the half of Westmorland, from which Lord Brougham on three occasions sought, but in vain, to dislodge him. The eldest son of the Earl was at the head of the Woods and Forests, during the Duke of Wellington’s Administra~- tion; he had been previously a Commissioner of the Board of Control and of the Treasury. The Lonsdale motto is ‘‘ Magistratus indicat virum ;” which, by the practice of the family, may be interpreted, ‘* No person unless in authority has a right to be called a man.” Earl of Harrowby.’ Dudley Ryder; born in 1762. ’ This family, like so many others, was made by the law. Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench (1754), was the son of a mercer in Smithfield* Earl of Munerave. Henry Constantine Phipps; born in 1797. The most noted member of this family was Commodore Phipps, after- wards Lord Mulgrave, who made an extremely interesting voyage with a view to discover the North-west Passage, The present Lord is a man of literary talent and elegant pursuits ; he is the author of more than one popular novel, Earl of St. Germains. William Elliot; born in 1767. The patriotic Sir John Eliot, who was one of the Commissioners of Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham in Charles the First’s time, and who, because he would not submit to the insolent demands of the Court, closed his life in the Tower, was the first great man of the house of Eliot. The grandnephew of Sir John Eliot married a daughter of Mr. Secretary Craggs, by whom he had a son, Edward, who was raised to the Peerage in 1784, as Baron Eliot; the earldom dates from 1815 only. Earl Howe. Richard Curzon Howe ; born in 1796. The Irish title of Viscount Howe was first conferred on Sir Scrope Howe, member for Nottinghamshire in the Convention Parliament. The third Viscount was the well-known General, who fell at Ticonderago in 1758. The fourth Viscount, created Earl Howe in 1788, is famous for the relief of Gibraltar in 1782, and still more for the victory over Villaret on the Ist of June 1794. The Barony of Howe descended to his Lordship’s daughter, who married Mr. Curzon, son of the late Viscount Curzon ; and by him hada son, who in 1821 was created Earl Howe. This is he who was, until a few weeks past, Chamberlain to the Queen. He nominates one of the members for Clitheroe (Schdule B), for which his half-brother, Mr. R. Curzon, now sits. Earl Somers. John Somers Cocks; bornin 1760. The family of Somers owes its nobility to its borough influence. The honours of the celebrated Chancellor,.of whose family the present isa collateral branch, expired with him. ‘The present barony of Somers was created in 1784; the viscounty of Eastnor and the earldom of Somersin 1821, Earl of AMuerst. William Pitt Amherst; born in 1773. Earl Amherst is nephew of General Amherst, whose military exploits in the Canadian war from 1758 to 1764 are well known. The barony of Amherst was conferred on General Amherst in 1776; a second title, with remainder to his nephew, was conferred in 1788; the Earldom is dated 1800. Lord Amherst was formerly one of the Lords of the Bedchamber ; and is well known as the successor of Lord Hastings, Governor of India. Earl of Dudley. John William Ward; born in 1781. This family is descended from William Ward, goldsmith and jeweller to the Queen of Charles the First. Humble Ward, this jeweller’s son, was made Lord Ward of Birmingham, in consequence of his having mar- ried the heiress of the family of Dudley, who was Baroness in her own right. Earl of Devon. William Courtenay; born in 1768, f The representative of this most ancient and noble family (Lord Courte- nay) has long resided abroad—under peculiar circumstances. The motto of this house is, *“ Ubi lapsus? quid feci?”” E. Mount Edgecumbe. Richard Edgecumbe ; born in 1764. Thé present Lord Mount Edgecumbe a few years ago wrote a book of his recollections of allthe prima donnas that had appeared at the Opera in histime. His Lordship needs not fear that the Reform Bill will de- prive lovers of Italian music of their boxes at the King’s Theatre. Earl of BeLHaven. R. Montgomery Hamilton; born in 1793. A descendant of the Lord Belhaven celebrated for the stand he made against the Union: he succeeded to the Scotch barony of Belhaven in 1814, Earl of Luptow. George James Ludlow; born in 1758. Baron Ludlow, in Ireland, in 1755, and Earlin 1760. A General, Colo- nel of the 38th Foot, and Lieutenant-Governor of Berwick. Earl of Dunmore. George Murray ; born in 1762. A branch of the Atholl family : the present Earl is the fifth in succes- sion in Scotland. His sister was married to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex: the children take the name of D’Este. Earl of Burztineton. Cavendish. Lord Burlington is the uncle of the Duke of Devonshire; and the fa- ther of William Cavendish, the late member for Cambridge, now mem- ber for Derbyshire, and a young man of promise. Earl of Meats. John Brabazon; born in 1772. Jacques de Brabazon figures in the Battle Abbey roll. The first Irish creation goes as far back as 1616. Earl of SHannon. Henry Boyle; born in 1771. The author of the family of the Earls of Shannon was second son of the famous Lord Broghill, afterwards Earl of Orrery. The present Earl was born in 1771, and succeeded to the honours of his house in 1807. Earl of Galloway. George Stewart. The Earl of Galloway traces his family to Alexander the Steward, great grandfather of Robert the Second, King of Scotland, and first of the miserable race to whom he bequeathed his name. The Scotch honours go back, the barony to 1607, the earldom to 1623. The English barony was conferred on the late Earl in 1796. By his high Tory principles and over- bearing conduct, he incurred the resentment of Burns, who has gibbeted him in several epigrams. One of them runs— ' ** Bright ran thy line, O Galloway ! Through many a far-famed sire ; So brightly ran the Roman way, So ended in a —— mire !” ; The present Earl is a Tory like his father, but no poet has written of him. Earl of Moray. Francis Stuart ; born in 1771. The Earl of Moray (Lord Stuart of Castle Stuart, in 1796) is lineally descended from the famous Prior of St. Andrews, natural brother of Mary Queen of Scots, and after her deposition, Regent of the kingdom until his assassination by a ruffian named Hamilton, whom Sir Walter Scott has praised for the deed. The present Earl Moray was married first to Miss Scott of Balcomie, sister to the Duchess of Portland and Baroness Canning, by whom he has two sons—the eldest a lunatic,

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1074 THE SPECTATOR. Earl of Delawarr. George John West; born in 1791. An ancestor of Lord Delawarr was the founder and colonizer of Virgi- nia; which may be set against the blot in the escutcheon which fol- lows. The ninth Baron obtained an act of Parliament to disqualify his nephew and heir, William, who had attempted his life by poison, from succeeding to the heritable estates and dignity; but this William having subsequently served in the English army, was knighted, and obtained at the same time a new creation of the dignity of Lord Delawarr. Viscount Sydney. John Robert Townshend; born in 1805, Lord Sydney is grandson of that Tommy Townshend of whom Gold- smith speaks in his Retaliation. Viscount Hood. Henry Hood; born in 1753. Grandson of the Reverend Samuel Hood, vicar of Thorncombe in Devon- shire, and son of Admiral Hood, who was made a Baronet, and subse- quently a Baron of Ireland, for his victory over De Grasse in 1782, and afterwards Viscount of England in 1796. Baron De Ros. Henry William Fitzgerald de Ros; born in 1793. That a person in whose favour this title arose from the dead in 1806, should be placed at the head of the Peerage arrayed in the order of anti- quity, is one of the absurdities brought about by what is called ABEYANCE, In the case of baronies by writ of summons, the barony is inheritable by a female, in case of no male heir; but if there are more than one female, it lies in abeyance until one of them, or her representative, become extinct: As soon as there is only one claimant, the barony is revived. If the coun- try really depended for its legislature upon the Peers, we wonder what ‘would become of it in case of abeyance, in which the Peerage may lie dor- mant hundreds of years. The present Lord De Roos, in right of whose mother this barony hap- pened to turn up, is nephew of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and a cousin of the present liberal Duke of Leinster. His father was Lord Henry, whose grief and indignation at the treatment his brother received from the Irish Go- vernment forms so affecting a part of the Life lately written by Moore. Lord De Roos voted against the Reform his uncle died for. He ought to know that people sometimes quote the trite saying of ‘‘ evil communica- tions,” &c. Baron Dr Cuiirrorp. Edward Southwell; born in 1767. The family of De Clifford is as ancient as the Conquest. Its honours ‘were for nearly a hundred years in abeyance. It is related of one of the ancestors, that being on bad terms with his father, in consequence of his dissipation, he turned outlaw, to replenish his resources, assembled a band of dissolute followers, harassed the religious houses, beat their tenants, and forced inhabitants of whole villages to take sanctuary in their churches. He is said, however, to have been reclaimed in good time, and became Earl of Cumberland. This barony will again be in abeyance should the present Baron die without male issue. Baron Auptrey. George Tuchet 3 born in 1783. This family was for afew years deprived of its honours by attainder : they were subsequently restored by act of Parliament. Baron WiLtovucusy DE Erzssy, Pet. Willoughby ; bornin 1728. The barony of Willoughby de Eresby was originally a barony of writ; and, in consequence, at the death of the last Lord Willoughby, remained in abeyance between his two sisters until it was granted by patent in 1780 to the elder sister. The present Lord Willoughby is a son of Sir Peter Burrell, first Lord Gwydyr; he married, in 1807, Miss Drummond of Perth, the wealthiest heiress that ever Scotland boasted of. He was deputy Grand Chamberlain, by appointment of his mother, who held that office conjointly with her sister, until her death, in 1828, gave the nomination to the mother of Lord Cholmondeley. Baron Calthorpe. George Gough Calthorpe; born in 1787. The original name of the Calthorpes was Gough; Richard Gough, the laborious and learned antiquary, was a member of the family. They took the name of Calthorpe in 1783, with the estates of Sir Henry Calthorpe of Elvetham. Sir Henry Gough Calthorpe was afterwards raised to the Peerage in 1796. Baron Zouche. (Baroness); born in The remarks we have made on the barony of De Roos are also appli- cable to this; which, accounted one of the most ancient, was in abey- ance from 1625 to 1815, when it was called out by the Crown in favour of Sir Cecil Bishop. Sir Cecil dying without any male issue surviving, it again fell into abeyance; which was terminated in 1828 in favour of the present Baroness, the eldest daughter of the late Lord de la Zouche. Baron Stourton. William Stourton; born in 1776. This is one of the most ancient ennobled families in the kingdom : they have always been Catholics, they preserve the same name from a time beyond William the Conqueror, and there has been no abeyance or alien- ation. Charles, the seventh Lord Stourton, had the misfortune to be hanged for murder at Salisbury, in 1557; but then, in respect of his no- bility, he was accommodated with a halter of silk, and is buried in the Cathedral, Baron Monson. John George Monson; born in 1809. Lord Monson is the owner of Gatton. His Lordship’s representatives inthe Lower House also voted against Reform. This Peer having but lately attained his majority, it is difficult to assert that he has changed his principles ; but as his family have been always Whigs, and as it was ostentatiously declared that in those principles he had been educated, it seems fair to suppose that the Wellington web of affected liberality en- tangled him sufficiently to second the address on the night of the Duke’s notorious declaration against Reform, and that this, coupled with the unlucky purchase of Gatton, has placed him in a falsefposition. Baron Sonpes. Louis Richard Watson; born in 1792. The first Lord Sondes was a member of the Monson family; he took the name of Watson on account of the estates derived from his mother, Lady Margaret Watson, daughter of the first Earl of Rockingham; Lady Margaret married the first Lord Monson. Baron Grantham, Thomas Philip W. Robinson; born in 1781. The first of the Robinsons was a Lord Mayor of York. The founder of their nobility was Sir Thomas Robinson, long time an ambassador at Vienna, while the King of Prussia was carrying on his cruel war against the Empress Maria Theresa: he was afterwards Secretary of State, and Lord Grantham. Baron Scarsdale. Nathaniel Curzon; born in 1752. One of the Coronation batch of 1761. (1 Geo. III.) Baron Hawke. Edward William Harvey Hawke; born in 1799, The Hawkes are a very modern family ; the first of the race was a cer- tain Edward Hawke, a barrister, whose son was indebted to his naval vic« tories in 1747 and 1759, for 2,000. a year and a barony. Baron Fotey. Thomas Foley; born in 1780. The ancestor of the Foleys was an extensive iron master in Worcester. His great grandson was raised to the Peerage in 1711, Baron Bagot. William Bagot; born in 1773. The first Lord Bagot represented the county of Stafford for no less than twenty-six years: in 1780 he wasennobled. The present Baron is married to a sister of the Earl of Dartmouth. His brother Sir Charles is Ambassador in Holiand, and his brother Richard is Bishop of Oxford. Baron Southampton. Charles Fitzroy ; born in 1804, The Southamptons area branch of the Fitzroys, of the house of Graf- ton. The first creation dates from 1780. Baron Grantley. penny Norton ; born in 1795. The head of this ho was the celebrated Sir Fletcher Norton, who was Speaker of the Commons from 1770 to 1774, sitting at the time for Guild ford. Sir Fletcher was created Baron Grantley in 1782. The father of the present Peer was one of the Barons of the Scotch Exchequer. Baron Rodney. George Rodney ; born in 1782. The present Lord Rodney is grandson, by the father’s side, of the famous Sir George Rodney, commander of the English fleet in the action with Count de Grasse; and by the mother’s, of Thomas Harley, an Alderman of London. Baron Carteret. George Thynne; born in 1770. The present Baron inherits his titles and estates from his uncle, who took the name of Carteret from his maternal grandfather, second Lord Grenville. Baron Berwick. Thomas Noel Hill; born in 1770. The father of the first Baron Berwick took the surname of Hill from his mother’s brother, Sir Richard Hill; his father’s was Harewood, a tobac- conist of London. The first Baron was one of the batch of 1784. Baron Surriztp. Edward Harbord; born in 1781. Second son to the first Baron, Sir Harbord Harbord, who was member for Norwich previous to his elevation to the Peerage in 1786. Baron Dorchester. Guy Carleton; born in 1811. General Sir Guy Carleton, who, in 1786, receiveda Peerage and 1,0002. a year for his military services in America, was the founder of the family of Dorchester. The present Baron is grand nephew of Sir Guy. Baron Kenyon. George Kenyon; born in 1776. The late Lord Kenyon was first brought into notice in 1780, by his des fence, along with the late Lord Erskine, of Lord George Gordon. In 1782 he was made Attorney-General; in 1784 he received the Mastership of the Rolls, and in 1788 he succeeded the celebrated Earl of Mansfield as Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. There are some fine rich sinecures in the family ; of which more hereafter. Baron Douglas. Archibald Douglas; born in 1773. The present Lord Douglas is son to the Archibald Douglas whose claim to the estates of the Duke of Douglas was so warmly contested about sixty years ago, and which is still spoken of in Scotland as the “‘ Great Douglas plea!” He is doubly connected by marriage with the Duke of Buccleugh. Baron Lyrretton. William Henry Lyttelton; born in 1782. Lord Lyttelton is a descendant of the famous author of the “ Treatise on Tenures,” the commentary on which has bestowed immortality on Lord Coke. The first Lord Lyttelton was the well-known Chancellor of the Exchequer in George the Second’s time, created Baron Lyttelton of Frankley in 1757. The barony expired with the son of the first Lord, but was revived in the person of his uncle in 1794. Baron Dunpas. Laurence Dundas; born in 1766. The first of the Dundas family was a Lawrence Dundas, of Kerse, Commissary-General and army contractor from 1748 to 1759. “The son of Lawrence, and father of the present Lord, was created Baron Dundas in 1794, Baron Yarborough. Charles Anderson Pelham ; bornin 1781. Lord Yarborough is a descendant, by the female side, of Sir William Pelham, famous for his military exploits in Queen Elizabeth’stime. His son, Charles Anderson Pelham, is member for Lincoln. Baron De Dunstanville. Francis Basset ; born in 1757. A gentleman of ancient family in Cornwall; he was an extensive dealer in boroughs. By acquiring two seats, he became a baronet; two addi- tional nominations made him a Peer; one or two more procured him a new Barony, with a limitation to his daughter and her issue male. His ambition being gratified, he gradually disposed of all his boroughs, and has at this moment very little, if any, Parliamentary influence ; so that the commodity which raised him to the Peerage is now in the market for other speculators. Baron Carrington. Robert Smith; born in 1752. A man of very low, if not Jewish origin ; and created first an Irish, then an English Peer, by Mr. Pitt, in consequence of his wealth. He assumed, most impertinently, the title of ‘‘ Carrington,” to create the impression that he was connected with the ancient family of Smith, which formerly bore it, but with which he had no other affinity than a common descent from Adam. Baron Brodrick. George Brodrick; born in 1754. The present Viscount is fourth in descent from Middleton, Lord Chan- cellor of Ireland, in the beginning of the reign of George the First. The family is one of the hundreds on hundreds which have been successively enriched, and ultimately ennobled, by grants arising from the forfeiture of the ancient nobility and gentry of Ireland. Baron Ducie. Thomas Reynolds Moreton; born in 1776. The noble blood of Ducie is drawn from a Lord Mayor of London, who accumulated a large fortune in Charles the First’s time, by the then not very honourable profession of banker, or rather money-lender. Sir William, son of the Lord Mayor, was created Viscount Downe in Ireland at the coronation of Charles the Second,

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THE SPECTATOR. 1075: Baron Montague. Henry James Montagu Scott; born in 1776. Lord Montague is uncle to the present Duke of Buccleuch. He suc- ceeded to the Barony as heir of his grandfather, John, last Duke of Mon. tague, who in 1786 procured its revival with a special remainder for that purpose, Baron Arundel. Everard Arundel. Lord Arundel has the melancholy distinction of being the only Catho- lic Peer who voted against Reform. Perhaps the motive may arise from the peculiarity of his affairs. His relation the Duke of Buckingham may have some influence with him, and he is said to entertain affectionate sympathies with Charles the Tenth. Baron Walsingham. Thomas Grey; born in 1778. Is a Peer by the melancholy death of his brother by fire, lately. He is aclergyman, and did hope to be a Bishop, it is said; and revenges his disappointment on the People by an Anti-Reform vote, Baron Arden, Charles George Perceval; born in 1756. Is a brother of the late Spencer Perceval the Minister, and has availed himself of that advantage. . Baron Wharncliffe. Stuart Wortley; born in 1776. _ Lord Wharncliffe owes a place in the Peerage partly to his personal importance, and partly to electioneering considerations: he is said to have found it more convenient to step quietly into the House of Lords than to retain his seat in the Commons at the expense of a contest for Yorkshire. He isa younger branch of the Bute family, and is descended from the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague. He has always pro- fessed to be independent in politics, and has sometimes acted as if he were. He moved the declaration of incompetence against the remnant of the Perceval Administration, and has been for ten years the unsuc- cessful advocate of the repeal of the Game Laws. Baron Wynford. William Draper Best. Sir William Best was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; the Ministers finding Sir Nicholas Tindal inefficient as Attorney-General, were com- pelled to remove him, which could only be done by finding him a better post: Best was infirm, and the necessity of his retirement evident: offers of various kinds were made to tempt him to vacate, but he manfully re- sisted all minor inducements. A peerage was the sine qua non of his moving: the Judge was firm, and even the conqueror of Bonaparte was compelled to give way. This at least is the common rumour; but we have heard that the Peer himself gives a different view of the transaction. Baron Tempiemore. Arthur Chichester. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Chichester, grandson of the late and nephew of the present Marquis of Donegal. He was member for the county of Wexford. He married a daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea. Baron DinorBen. Hughes. Colonel William Lewis Hughes, a great proprietor of coal-mines, and other property in Wales, Baron Cioncurry. _ Lord Cloncurry in Ireland: he has been distinguished during his whole life by his steady attachment to liberal measures. Baron Wentocx. Lawley. The Barony of Wenlock became extinctin 1471. The estates passed to Thomas Lawley of Spoonhill, Shropshire, cousin of the last Baron. The grandson of this Thomas was created a baronet in 1641. Lord Wenlock is the sixth baronet, Baron Mostyn. Lloyd. A Welsh baronet, and late M.P. for Flint. Baron Szecrave. William Fitzhardinge Berkeley. Colonel Berkeley, during the lifetime of his father, was known as Vis- count Dursley. He did not succeed to the Earldom, as it appeared that he was born before marriage. A younger brother then became the heir to the title: he hasnot claimed. The estates descended by will to Colonel Berkeley. Segrave is an ancient barony in the family. Baron Panmure. William Maule. Brother of the Earl of Dalhousie: he inherited the estates of Earl Pan- mure of Forth, Wexford. He has been for many years in the House of Commons, as member for Forfarshire, and never omitted a single occa- sion of voting for Reform. Baron Oaktey. George Cadogan. Brother and presumptive heir to Earl Cadogan. Baron Pottimore. Poltimore. The Bamfyldes were Lords of Poltimore, in Devonshire, in the reign of Edward the First. The baronetcy dates from 1641, Baron de Saumarez. James Saumarez; born in 1757. Lord de Saumarez was knightedin 1793, for the gallant capture of the ** Réunion ;’ he commanded the Orion in the action off Orient in 1795; he participated in the victory of 1797, near Cape St. Vincent, and inthat of Aboukir in 1798. His great achievement, however, was the battle of Algeziras, on the 12th of June 1801, in which he defeated a very supe- rior force—French and Spanish. Sir James is of a very old family, set- tled time out of mind in the Island of Guernsey, of which he and his Countess are both natives. Baron Howpen. John Francis Cradock. Only son of the late John Cradock, Archbishop of Dublin. guished General in the Peninsular war. He was raised to the Irish Peerage in 1819. The Cradocks are Welsh, and Welsh antiquaries identify Cradock and Caractacus. A distin- ANALYSIS OF THE CREATIONS BY GEORGE THE THIRD AND GEORGE THE FOURTH. MILITARY PEERS, E. Dalhousie B. Harris E. Donoughmore iB. _ Hill B. Dorchester E. Hopetoun B, Abercromby E. Amherst V. Beresford E, Powis B, Rayleigh B. Southampton E, Cathcart E. Gray V. Lake D. Wellington V. Combermere E. Granard E. Mulgrave NAVAL PEERS, B. Barham B, Gambier V. Hood E. Nelson E. Camperdown B. Gardner B, Howe BK, Rodney Y. Exmouth B. Hawke B. Keith V. St, Vincent LEGAL PEERS. B. Alvanley B. Erskine B. Manners B. Tharlow M. Camden B, Gifford B. Plunkett B. Walsingham E. Clare E. Harrowby B. Redesdale B. Wynford E. Eldon B. Kenyon B. Tenterden B.lElenborough 3. Lyndhurst B. Stowell OFFICIAL PEERS. B. Bexley E, Chatham B, Grantham V. Sydney B. Bolton V. Cliffden M. Hastings B. Wallace B. Boston E. Egmont E. Liverpool} M. Wellesley M. Bute B. Farnborough V. Melville V. Canning V. Goderich V. Sidmouth ao E. Cawdor B, Grenville E. Spencer DIPLOMATISTS,. B. Auckland B. Cowley E. Malmesbury B. Stuart de Rothsay E. Clancarty B. Heytesbury E. Minto V. St. Helens E. Clanwilliam B. Lyttleton BR. Rivers V. Strangford BOROUGH PROPRIETORS OR THEIR RELATIVES. E. Beverley B. De Dunstanville B. Maryborough M. Westminster B, Calthorpe B. Foley B. Prudhoe B. Wharncliffe B. Carteret B. Forester B. Scarsdale E. Yarborough B. Carrington B. Gower B. Seaford B. Churchill E, Harewood E. Somers od B. Dundas E. Lonsdale E. Verulam SPEAKERS, E. Brownlow B. Colchester B. Grantley MISCELLANEOUS LIST. B. Arden B. De Tabley V. Maynard B. Selsey B. Bagot B. Douglas E. Morley B. Sherborne B. Bayning B. Durham B. Northwick B. Skelmersdale E. Beauchamp B. Dynevor B. Ponsonby B. Stafford B. Berwick B. Feversham B. Ravensworth E. Stradbroke E. Bradford B. Glenlyon B. Ribblesdale B. Suffield B. Braybrooke E. Haddington B. Rolle B. Vernon E, Carnarvon B. Lilford B. Rosebery E. Wilton B. Delamere E. Manvers B. Sandys M. Westminster SCOTCH PEERS RAISED TO THE ENGLISH PEERAGE, D. Atholl E. Eglinton E. Lauderdale E. Balcarras E. Galloway E. Moray M. Abercorn E. Aberdeen E. Aboyne M. Breadalbane E. Glasgow M. Ailsa B. Courtown D. Gordon —_ D. Argyle E. Dalhousie E. Hopetoun IRISH PEERS RAISED TO THE ENGLISH PEERAGE. E. Clare M. Drogheda E. Limerick E. Shannon V. Cliffden E. Egmont M. Londonderry E. Sheffield M. Clanricarde M. Ely E. Longford M. Sligo ‘ M. Conyngham E. Enniskillen M. Lothian M. Thomond M. Donegal V. Ferrard V. Melbourne M. Waterford E. Donoughmore V. Gage V. Middleton M. Wellesley B. Downes E. Granard M. Ormonde E, Wemyss M. Downshire E, Kingston E. Roden REFORM PEERS WHOSE ELDEST SONS HAVE ATTAINED THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE. Titles of Peers. B. Abercromby. ..se+e+++e.+G. R. Abercromby..... Names of Eldest Sons. When Bora. caiswevees IBD Bi Ailsa..c.. coves 2 cose 6 oc carl Of Cassilis ...0..ceccesenes 1794 E, Albemarle. ....ccccescese Viscount Bury ...ssccccsesceves 1794 E. Amherst....++++eee.00.+-Viscount Holmesdale........ .. 1805 M. Anglesea......+eseeee-- Earl of Uxbridge........... ree ol D. Bedford. .....seeeeeeeee Marquis of Tavistock ........+ 1788 E. Besborough. ....+.ee+e0+. Viscount Duncannon.......++65 1781 M. Breadalbane..........-+.Earl of Breadalbane..........0+ 1796 Fey Caslisle . o0ce ccccce cc06s oLs0PO MOFPPEth.. oo. ccscccccccses 1802 M. Cleveland ..... .«+++++--harlof Darlington ........+06+ . 1788 V. Cliffden....ecscceseeees-e George James Wellbore Ellis ...1797 E. Cork.. ° .. Viscount Dungarvan ........04. 1800 E. Cowper... - Viscount Fordwich...........++ 1806 E. Darnley... . Lord Clifton ...... . 1795 E. Derby ....seeeseeeseeeee-Lord Stanley o* - 1775 M. Donegal... ..s0. se0eeeHarl Of Belfast........sseeveeee 1797 B. Ducle «. «200-00 seeeeee.-Henry George Francis Moreton. 1802 B. Dundas...... ocecccoccece LNOMAS DUNAS.....ccccccceses 1795 E. Dunmore ....ce.csecesers Viscount Fincastle ........006+. 1804 E. Egmont .....eceseeseeses Viscount Percival B. Erskine... ..... wees e+e. Thomas Erskine Bh, BOUPETS 5566s scmccscesss Viscount Tamworth............1783 Ws BINGEN. oo cece esocvcs ssc Lord Killeen........... a cteecekfan E, Fitzwilliam ..........+60. Viscount Milton........ odetites seen B. Foley.....++.+. ..Thomas Henry Foley..........++ 1808 E. Fortescue..... .. Lord Ebrington.........eseeee 01783 D. Gratton... 00.000 ..Earl of Euston.......... cose eee E. Granard....... Vesacveans Viscount Forbes .. 1785 WG rey since sincccecessecice Lord Howick......... +1802 B. Holland..... a er Henry Edward Fox......... oo 1802 B. Howden......ssccceseses John Robert Cradock ........ . 1799 B. King ....ccccccccccvceves We. King. 2. ccc ccccssevccess oe 1805 M. Lansdowne...........+5+ Earl of Wycombe......... see el8lO E. Leitrim....cccccccccccees Viscount Clements E. Manvers...o..ccesceeeess Viscount Newark .......005 eee 1805 FE. Meath .cccccccccce cesses LOFrd Brabazon oeeccececesereee 1803 V. Melbourne ....+..e+++++,G. Augustus Frederick Lamb... 1807 E. Morley ....... eoeeseee.e Viscount Boringdon....... coves 810 E. Nelson... . 1788 D. Norfolk .....+. M. Ormond ....... nee E. Oxford .ccccccccccccccce clsOFd Marley .cccsscccccccveces . B. Panmure ...... «+..++++.Fox Maule B. Plunkett .......+++e-+0e.. Thomas Plunkett D. Portland .....+seseseee-+Marquis of Titchfield......0.+.-1800 ..Earl of Ossory . E. Ranfurley .........+++... Viscount Northland.........+++ 1786 E. Romney ......+eeee+e+.+ Viscount Marsham....... os eee 1908 E* Roseberry ....ee0.e+ee0e-Lord Dalmeney ....eeceeeeeeees 1809 V. St. Vincent ....0..0.e00.- William Jervis.......++seees +1794 B. Saye and Sele........+e+.Hn. W. T. Tisleton Fiennes ... 1798 B, Seaford. ....+.2.+.e+0+++-Augustus Frederick Ellis ....... 1800 vreeee 1796 +++ 1809 E. Sefton... E, Shannon. . Viscount Molyneux. .... .- Viscount Boyle ....- B. Sherborne...... +ee.James Henry Legge Dutton D. Somerset ......0+++++-.. Lord Edward Seymour ... «+ 1804 E. Spencer .....-.eee.ese0+- Viscount Althorp......ssseerees 1782 M. Statford .......cceeeeeeee H.Valentine Stafford Jerningham 1802 B. Stafford ......0.ecssees+.Charles Stourton. .se.0.00++ +00 1802 B. Stourton .......sccceeeee Viscount Andover o....+++++004 1804 B. Templemore .........++«. Henry Roper Curzon B. Vernon ..........00.+++-- George Venables Vernon M: Westminster ........+..-Earl of Grosvenor «...+.+++0+++1795 M. Winchester......00++-0++Earl of Wiltshire ...++++e000+++1801 @t It having been-found impossible to embrace the whole of this vast topic in one Number, the Second Part of the Anatomy

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1076 THE SPECTATOR. of the Peerage will be given in the Spectator the week after next— November.19. It will gointothe pounDs, sHILLINGS, and PENCE branch of the subject, together with the influences and workings of boroughs, places, party and family connexions. In the next week's Number, we shall continue the Notes, and also bring up our arrear in Literary and other varieties. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. “Tir Fra Diavolo of AuBEer has been tried at three theatres, and failed at every one,” said a contemporary journal in announcing its intended performance at Covent Garden. It is true that an opera, so called, has been so produced, in each version of which some little of AuBER’s music has been retained ; but it is not true that THE I’ra Diavo/o of that com- poser, or any thing like it, has ever been heard in this country before Tuesday night. We described the Drury Lane version last year, as what it really was, the composition chiefly of Mr. Auexanper Lee, though announced as that of Auser: the imposture being detected, the result was failure. We anticipate a successful run for the real opera. The music itself is so light and sparkling throughout, that general auditors are sure to be delighted, while the more fastidious find occasional displays of real talent and skill, sufficient to stamp upon it a sort of classical character. It is truly and completely French—a piquant and pleasant dish made out of slender materials. The Overture is composed of several of the motivos which occur in the piece, and introduced by a solo on the side-drum (a la Gazza Ladra) of about twenty bars. Every species of noisy instrument is unsparingly employed. It was admirably played, and there was a pretty general call for its repetition. We may be spared the trouble of describing the story of an opera, which frequent repetitions of one kind or other must have rendered fa- miliar to our play-frequenting readers. The cast of the principal cha- racters was as follows. Fra Diavolo.....+.. Mr. Brana. Lord Allcash.....++. Mr. Penson. Lorenz0.+eeeeeee00+ Mr. WiLson. Beppo .s.eeeveeseee Mr, STanspury. Giacomo.....++e+0++e Mr. ReyNoipson. Lady Allcash.....+.+ Miss Cawse. Zerlina ..++.0++++++ Miss Romer. Such a combination of vocal strength was necessary to the performance of an opera of which the chief excellence lies in the concerted pieces. These are frequent, long, and difficult; but they are constructed with great knowledge of dramatic effect, and occasionally develop considerable beauty. The first movement of the Quintet, ‘* O rapture abounding,” contains some very elegant phrases ; and the Finales, that to the first act espescially, are admirable of their kind. In his songs, M.Auser has not been so successful ; they are merely pretty at best, and sometimes dull. The most effective are those of Zerlina in the first act, ** On yonder rock reclining,” and of Fra Diavo/o in the third, ‘¢ Proudly and wide.’ The Italian Robber found a fitting vocal representative in Bra- Ham. (Wat.ack’s performance of this character-at Drury Lane oeeasioned the omission of three songs and six concerted pieces.) We were delighted to see him again on the scene of his former triumphs, entering on his new engagement with so much ardour and success, and sharing the laurels of the evening with a girl who was not born till half his profes- sional career had been run. He was welcomed with the enthusiasm due to his unrivalled talents. Miss Romer has realized the expectations which her first and only appearance in London, about a year since, led us to anticipate. Her voice is rich and. powerful, especially the higher part of it; and her style and: finish are such as we should expect from the good taste of her master, Mr. Exuror.: In the conclusion of the-first concerted piece, her voice towered above the band and chorus, and procured the merited ap- plause of the audience. The chamber scene, which is dependent for its effect whollyon her singing and acting, was managed with great cleverness and point : and in all those concerted pieces wherein she was engaged, she proved herself a well-educated singer. Wuson had only a second part, but what he had to do was done exceedingly well. PEnson gave an amusing caricature of a dandy English nobleman ; and Miss Cawse was as insipid as a really fashionable lady. The success of the piece was complete; and it deserved to be so—it had evidently been well prepared, and efficiently rehearsed. . For a first performance, we do not recollect ‘a more perfect one. We had anticipated the neces- sity of some curtailments, but none are required: the attention is pre- served unflagging to the end; and if people will go, we promise them they will be amused. FINE ARTS. EMBELLISHED PERIODICALS. THE Second Part of Brocxenvon’s Italian Road Book, comprising the route from Paris to Turin, is embellished with several views by the author,—faithful, no doubt, and wildly picturesque, as most chosen views of that country would be, but wanting that charm of effect which Turner and Stranrretp have taught us to expect in landscape. They are nevertheless pleasing, particularly that of Chamberry. The distance in SranFie.p's View of Lyons, with its tasteful foreground, is not ren- dered with due fidelity in the engraving,—otherwise the plates are well and clearly executed, in Messrs. Finpen’s best style. A Map of the route illustrates the text. Part XIX. of the Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels brings this beautiful set of plates nearly to a close. ‘The Twentieth will be the concluding number. Its place will be supplied by a successor and com- panion; a*series of Landscape Illustrations of Lord Byron’s works, to correspond with the present work. The views in this number are—Liver- 1 in 1664, by Avsrin ; a masterly drawing of a scene picturesque in itself, and rendered more interesting by the contrast it affords with the resent aspect of Liverpool. Woodstock from Blenheim Park, by W. ESTALU; a garden-like scene, the town embedded in trees, the poplars rising like natural minarets with their verdant spires. Dumfries Church aud Town, by Cmsnorme, with Burns’s monument. | St. Cuthbert’s, its rock and ‘castle; a striking scene, portrayed with fine effect by Part XXXI. of the National Portrait Gallery contains the portraits of Lord Eldon, after Lawrence,—an excellent.and faithful engraving of. the original picture of the great legal sage; Sir Alexander Johnston, after Puuups, a finished engraving, in the chalk style, by Cocnran ; and Thomas Moore, a physical resemblance, but the expression is not characteristic either of the poet or the man, The commencement of a new volume of ‘*The English School of Painting and Sculpture” proves the success of this cheap and interest- ing little work. Number XXIV. completes the second, and XXV. com- mences the third volume ; and they contain outline sketches of the fol- lowing popular works of art, amongst others :—one of Fusrs1’s morbid exaggerations, —a-Ugolino, with a visage like that of a lion on a knocker ; Barry’s cluster of portraits of eminent men “ each in his habit as he lived,’’? with angelic accompaniments, which he calls Ely- sium; a Siren, by Huron, entitled the Mermaid of Galloway ; Norrucors’s Entry of Richard the Second and Bolingbroke, the best of his historical designs ; Wirnertneron’s Dancing Bear, a very real- looking picture ; Wi.x1e’s Village Festival, very imperfectly rendered 3 and, amongst the Sculpture, one of Prr’s clever bas-reliefs, a classical composition a-la-Flaxman. ; : The Ilustrations of Volume XXX. of the Waverley Novels, containing the Second of Peveril, are among the best of these embellishments, and are every way worthy of the author and the artists, The one by Leste represents Fenella and Peveril; the other, by Winkie, Peveril in the Prison, with Sir Geoffrey Hudson, the King’sdwarf. The engraving of this plate by Avausrus fox is especially admirable. Messrs. Co.uurn and Brenriey are, we think, acting unwisely in committing the task of embellishing their series of Standard Novels to artists of inferior talent. To illustrate Frankenstein, for instance, requires a painter of first-rate and peculiar powers. Fuser alone could have done justice to the horrors of the Monster of Mrs. Sueniey’s fan- tasy: it'is beyond the power of Mr.Hotsr though he has not however failed so greatly as might be supposed : the design is well-conceived, but imper- fectly developed. A ludicrous contrast to the terror of Frankenstein is furnished in the embellishments to Volume V. of the Novelist’s Library, by Crurxsuanx’s representation of the terrified Sentinel in Tom Jones, who, shivering and grinning in an agony of fear, discharges his piece at the unconscious object of his alarm. The visage and expression of the soldier are a little too like Punchinello. The scene where Square is dis- covered in Moll Seagrim’s garret is as good as though it had never been delineated before. The battle-royal in the church-yard, with the Ama- zonian Fury wielding a thigh-bone, and Squire Weston in a rage endea- vouring to get at Tom Jones, are both conceived in the spirit of FIELDING. Of the Magazines, the New Monthly gives us a good portrait of the Poet Rogers in his prime, after Horppner ; Fraser, a sketch in crayon of Geoffrey Crayon ; clever, and like, but rough: the expression of Wash- ington Irving’s physiognomy is not easily hit off. The Diamond, besides an engraving as usual, gives a wood-cut of a hatchment of ‘* The Bill” at the head of some ingenious epitaphs on the deceased. The motto is * Resurgam.” ARTISTS’ AND AMATEURS’ CONVERSAZIONE. THE first meeting of this agreeable society was held at Freemason’s Tavern on Wednesday, and was well attended, though the display of works of art was not so numerous as on some occasions. Among the most striking novelties was a very beautiful picture by MuLREapDy, an engraving of which will illustrate St. Ronan’s Well in the new edition of the Waverley Novels. It represents the studious curate of St. Ronan’s disturbed in his study by the busy-body Touchwood, whom he had invited to dinner. The vulgar look, person, and manner of the in- truder, and the abstraction of the scholar, are admirably expressed ; the colouring is rich; the design and drawing are masterly; and the painting is finely finished, and in perfect keeping. There were also an elaborate and brilliant copy, by DerBy, of VanDYKE’s picture of the Earl and Countess of Derby ; some beautiful miniature copies of portraits by Warp: a great number of original drawings and sketches by Mr. Nasu, and various eminent artists ; some very pretty sketches of landscape and trees in oil by A. Ciint, full of truth and teeling; and some clever academical studies in oil of the figure, by J. Woon, the flesh tones of which had a glowing freshness of colour. We wish he painted heads as naturally as he paints bodies. MUSIC. Written by T. H. Bayty. Songs of the Hamlet. by C. E. Horn. It would be difficult for so good a musician and melodist as Mr. Horn to produce any composition decidedly bad ; but we have often wished, as in the present instance, that he had been employed upon words more capable of giving birth to musical expression. The melodies of this volume are pretty enough, but they have all the same character, and are, in truth, not inventions, but reminiscences—passages with which we are perfectly familiar, and which cost the author (or rather compiler) as much time in creating as the copyist in transcribing. We presume his intention was to produce half a dozen songs which any young lady could sing and play: if so, he has succeeded. Roselle. Spanish Boat Song, arranged from a Spanish air, by F. W. Horncast.e. Mr. Horncastix has presented this graceful and elegant Spanish melody in a very acceptable form. It deserves to win its way into general notice. “My Native Home ;” a Ballad. Composed by Tuomas Atte WOOD. Every composition of Mr. Arrwoop’s bears, more or less, the evidence of his musical feeling and musical skill. This is one of the lighter pro- ductions of his muse, but it has nevertheless his mark upon it. “* He was sad ;” a Ballad. By Grorce LINLEy. Unlike the song just noticed, this is a mere commonplace effusion, : leaving no trace on the memory. If Mr. Grorce Linvey write for pros” fit, and can find purchasers for this sort of composition, he will do well to produce one such (and he is quite equal to the effort) every day in the year; but if for fame, he will more surely attain it by restricting him-. Composed Roserts. All the plates are well engraved. self to one a month.

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THE SPECTATOR. 1077

CLASSES. Theatres . . « « « 1 TheToilet. . . « « 8 Public Meeting . .. Household Matters. . 3 Charitable Institutio 1 Miscellaneous ... 4 Insurance Offices. « « 1 Medicines . .... 5 Steam Vessels . . + 1 PeriodicalLiterature . 5 Ships about to Sail. . 1 General Literature . 6 Arts and Manufactures 1 Music .... + . 12 Dress. « . © © © « 2

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PUBLIC MEETING. ATIONAL POLITICAL NION.— SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, Bt., M.P., Chairman. As the advantages of Union can only be obtained by a complete system of local or ization, the establishment of Branch-Unions in the various Wards and Parishes of the Metropolis is earnestly invited. The Committee have been much occupied in considering this subject, and are now prepared to communicate with any dis- trict that has formed, or is about to form, a Union on popular prin- ciples ; and for this purpose the Committee will either send a de- putation, or will cooperate in any other manner in which their assistance may be required. R. HEWARD, Prov. Sec., Crown and Anchor Tavern, Nov. 5, 1831. The Secretary sits daily from ten till nine,{to enrol members, names. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. rT GED PENSIONERS. — The COM- MITTEE of the ROYAL UNION PENSION FUND, anxious to extend the operations of the Society as widely as pos- sible, intend that a farther Election of Pensioners shall take place i ary, and earnestly solicits the co-operation of the wealthy Subscriptions thankfully received at Messrs. Twining, Strand; Messrs. Ransom, Pall Mall East, and at the Office, foot of Waterloo Bridge. All Petitions from aged Candidates to be in by the 21st November. INSURANCE OFFICES. pat LADIUM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Right Hon. Sir EDWARD HYDE EAST, Bart. F.R.S. Chairman, Colonel JOE AILLIE, F.R.S. Deputy Chairman. George Arbuthnot, Esq. Sir T. F. Fremantle, Bart. M.P. Samuel Bosanquet, Esq. F.R.S. | James Halford, Esq. John Barrow, Esq. F.R.S Captain Henry Kater, F.R.S. Col. William Bodycott Davis. Peter Reierson, Esq. W. R. Keith Douglas, Esq. M.P. | Samuel Skiuner, Esq. Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Esq. | P. Maxwell Stewart, Esq. M.P. Joseph Esdaile, Esq. Sir William Young, Bart. AUDITORS. —S. ANDERSON, Esq.—S. GREGSON, Esq. ysician—JAMES BARTLET, M.D. Resident Secretary—WALTER COSSER, Esq. In this Office the Assured participate in four-fifths, or Eighty per Cent. of the estimated Profits, which will be added every Seventh year, by way of Bonus, to Policies effected for the whole term of life, on lives under the age of Fifty.

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STEAM VESSELS. ARGATE ORIGINAL STEAM PACKETS.—The Proprietors return their best thanks tothe Public for the patronage bestowed on this establishment, and re- spectfully announce that the Season will close on Monday next, 7th of November ; but that a Steam Packet will continue running TWICE a Week, each way, on the RAMSGATE Station, until farther notice, Weather permitting, viz. from ST. KATHERINE’S on WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS at 8 o’clock, and from RAMS- GATE on TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS at 8 o’clock, to insure her arrival before dark, at the present very low fares : Saloon, 4s. ; Fore Cabin, 3s,; Children, 2s, THANEYF—Personal Tickets for 132, 3l. each. - 55, Fenchurch Street. J. MILLER, Secretary. Gravesend and Northfleet Steam Packets daily, at 9 from St <atherine’s, and at8 from Gravesend, (2) Arts and Manufactures—Coatinued. MOKY HOUSES.—As the season is fast kJ approaching when the comforts of a Fire Side are often diminished by the arrogance of SMOKY CHIMNIES, the pro- prietors of the Improved PATENT BRICK FLUE, beg to call the attention of the Public, not only to the advantages of this invention, but also to the permanent mode they adopt in remedying the most defective Flues, when all other temporary methods generally resorted to have failed. The only Warehouse is No.38, King Street, Holborn, and all Letters must be Post Paid. IS MAJESTY’S PATENT SMOKE JACKS and KITCHEN RANGES have been proved by up- wards of 3000 Families and Surveyors to be superior to all others for convenience, durability, and workmanship, and will be found cent. per cent. better than any others. The Patent Jack cannot be put out of order, can be fixed in any Chimney, will go several years with one supply of oil, and two Quarts of Oii will go as far as six Gallons in any other Smoke Jack. The Ranges are made of supe- rior wrought Iron, with or without wrought Iron Oven, Boiler, or Portable Steamers heated by the same Fire. Stewing Stove and Hot Plate warranted to answer. The Boilers are not liable to burst. sR, the Patentee, at his Manufactory, Back Hill, yarden, and nowhere else in London. Cradle Spits on New Principles : common Smoke Jacks at I. th; all kinds of Jacks repaired ; Old Jacks, Stoves, or Ranges taken in Exchange. QARKER’S FOUNTAIN LAMPS, FOR DIN R TABLES, DRAWING ROOMS, &

Giving the Light of 3, 6, or 9 Candles each. Extract from the Report of the Royal Institute of France on the Fountain Lamp. *«This Lamp is remarkable for its simplicity of construction—for its cleanliness—for its being easily trimmed, requiring no precau- tion but what every servant take; and the which it dis- tributes unites all the que which can be desired, and equals the results of the best mechanical Lamps.’

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IMPERIAL ROYAL PLAYING CARDS. and J. FULLER most respectfully beg to recommend to the Nobility, Gentry, andthe Public, their Cag Imperial Royal Playing Cards, which they have just in- vented. To replace the unmeaning Portraitures which have hitherto con- stituted the Courts of our Piaying Cards, and to lay before the Public their old and favourite Amusement in a. form instructive, elegant, and suited to the agé, fre the motives by which the In- ventors of the Imperial-Royal Cards have been prompted to intro- duce them. Made, Sold, and Published by S. and J. Fuller, Makers of Supe- rier Mogul and Harry Playing Cards, at the Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone Place. N.B. Orders for the East and West Indies executed on the short- est notice. Playing Cards with variegated Coloured Backs. GREAT SAVING IN CHEMICAL APPARATUS and TESTS may be effected by Students at the HOSPITALS and PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and places of scien- tific instruction, by making their purchases of W. H, POTTER,

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DAVY’s DIAMOND CEMENT. N INVALUABLE DISCOVERY for joining broken China, Glass, Earthenware, Wood, Cabinet Work, and Fancy Articles of eve iption, Price 1s. each bottle. This cement is remarkable for its extreme strength, and the great facility of using it; no mixing or preparation ery; re- Gules It resists wet and will stand any ordinary degree of heat. i joints are particularly neat, and show very little. is Cement is beyond comparison, superior to anything of the kind ever dis- ‘covered, and as an article of economy and convenience may be ap- ~plied to such a variety of purposes, that it will be found of almost aily use in every family. Sold by the Proprietor, E. DAVY, 399, ‘Strand; by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon Street, Wholesale Agents; and by almost every respectable Chemist, Medicine ‘Vender, and Stationer, throughout the United Kingdom and the lolonies. N.B. Several disgraceful imitations have recently appeared, and &resold by the stolen name of DIAMOND CEM - These, the Venders may sometimes be tempted dish ly to

y as they can be allowed a larger Toft upon the sale of hog is of ferior composition,—ar vhost pu use Ask for *4 DAVY’S,” and observe his signature on the wrapper of the bottle,

in Price, viz. Three Suits a year, complete, for Twelve Guineas, of the best Superfine Saxony Cloth, (old ones returned,) or a Suit for Four Guineas and a Half, not to be returned; Great Coats, 31. 3s. to 31. 108,; Youths’ Clothes, per Suit, of the very best Quality, with a round Jacket, from Two to Three Guineas, Gentlemen and Families will be punctually waited on by addressing a line (per Post) to 33, Bury Street, St. James’s. .B.—Please to observe, no Business done but for Cash, as the extraordinary low Charge will not admit of Credit. RENCH MERINOS, CHANTILLY VEILS, and BLONDES.—DISON and CO. have just im- rted an extensive assortment of MERINOS FRANCAIS (of the Justly celebrated manufactureof Paturie, Lupin, fand Co.) in every fashionable shade of colour; also Chantilly Veils and Blondes, which, owing to the unsettled state of commerce in France, they can sell at prices that will realize a saving of one pound in every

three to purchasers. DISON and CoO., conforming to the state of | the times, offer a further i to by allowing. discount of five per cent, on purehases above Sl. and nA rcent on sums above 20/. N.B, No. 237.—DISONS, British and 1 Foreign Lacemen, French Merino and Blonde Importers, &c., 287, Regent Street, near Oxford Street.

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TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN, S MITH, CORSS, AND WEBER, i= TAILORS, &c. 15, New Bond Street, submit their Cash Prices for the best goods that can be produced. A Superior Stout Petersham Great Coat, Velvet Collar, Silk Binding, 4l. 16s. A Saxony Black Dress Coat, 3l. 13s, Olive or Mixed ditto, 3. 5s Black or Blue Frock, 41. 4s.- Olive or Mixed ditto, 31. 18s. Extra Fine Kersey Trowsers for winter wear, 1. 14s. Waistcoats, 15s. A suit of Livery, 4/. 4s. Comparison the only Test. SMITH, a yi and WEBER, 15, New Bond Street, next Door to Long's otel,

HAWLS.—Messrs. WOOLLATT and nw SON particularly claim the attention of purchasers to their Superior Stock of British and French Shawls,which is now complete, with every novelty for the present season. They also beg to add, their attention is particularly directed to this fashionable article of dress, and the liberal encouragement they have received, has induced them to make arrangements with the most celebrated manufacturers for a regular supply of New Shawls, at such mo- derate Prices as cannot fail to give thom a decided preference to any other house. N.B. variety of Shawl Borders and Shawls made to order. Shawl and Silk Warehouse, 52, Holborn Hill, op- posite Hatton Garden.

HE ABSOLUTE FACT why the Nobi lity and Gentry have submitted to pay the very high charges of afew Eminent Tailors, who have monopolized their patronage for so long a period, is, that until now no one had succeeded in producing clothes which a gentleman coulf wear. But this mo- nopoly can be now but of short duration, as FLETCHER, of 33, NEW BOND STE T, has produced Coats, &c. &c. which cannot possibly be disting ned by the critical eye, even of a Brummel, either in make or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the Neighbourhood of Clifford Street or St. James’s, and at very little more than half their charges, yet obtaining a fair Tradesman’s Profit. H. FLETCHER begs leave, in returning his grateful thanks to the many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have -ho- noured him with their support since hiscommencement in business, to assure them that the same assiduity and exertion which has gained him so many patrons (whilst under an engagement to a very eminent West-end House) will be persevered in, thereby main- taining his established reputation as the only first-rate Tailor who has boldly stepped forward to destroy the Monopoly by which Gen- tlemen who do pay have for so long a period been taxed for those who do not. The following Scale of Prices is respectfully submitted for prompt payment :—

Very best Liveries. A Footman’s Suit complete. s. d, with sleeves to Waistcoat, and Velveteen Breeches 4 50 A Suit, with Kerseymere BEROCHER 65. 665006000005 4100 | A Do. with Hair Plush do. 4 15 6 | A Stable or Working dressl 4 6 A Footman’s extra double ~ ~ econo Aa: acoace oa Dress Coats, Blue or Black 3 Ditto, any other Colour., 3 Frock Do, Blue or Black, skirts lined with Silk... 4 ‘Trousers, Blue or Black .. 1 Ditto, any other Colour... 1 Ditto, White Drill .......0 Waistcoats ..+.cccescccee 015 Regimentals, &c. upon equally; milled Drab Great Coat, reasonable terms. | with large Cape ........3 136 Gold or Silver Lace, and Crested Buttons, charged the Wholesale Price. Deputy Lord Lieutenant’s Uniform, complete, 30 Guineas. Officers’ Coatees, &c. lower than at any other House in London. te et pes

THE TOILET. BREWSTER’S SELECT PERFUMERY. LMOND and HONEY SOAP, combining the Emollient and Balsamic Properties of the Celebrated Pate d’Amand au Miel, with the finest Almond Oil Soap, in a perfection hitherto unattainable. SAVON SANS PA- REILLE, an Emollient and Fragrant Soap, a Compound of Vege- table Oils and Balsamic Herbs. EMOLLIENT BROWN WIND- SOR.SOAP. Eau Botanique, a*New and Fragrant Perfume for the Handkerchief. Royal perfumed Lavender, an Elegant and Durable Perfume. Asiatic Vegetable or Extract of Cocoa Nut Oil, for Dressing and promoting the Growth of Hair. Improved Vege- table Wash for Cleansing and Beautifying the Hair. Cold Cream of Almonds. Betel Nut Charcoal Tooth Powder, &c. 48, New Bond Street. OWLAND’S ODONTO, or PEARL DENTIKFICE, recommended by the most eminent of the Faculty as the mildest, yet the most salutary and efficacious Den- tirfice, that was ever discovered, forming an efficient vegetable White Powder, composed of ingredients the most pure and rare, selected from Eastern soil, and a never-failing remedy for every disease to which the Teeth and Gums are liable, eradicating all de- leterious matter, at the same time healin °, stlengthening, and firmly fixing the Teeth in their sockets, realizing a beautiful set of Pearly Teeth, and on the Gums operates as an antiscorbutic, restoring and sustaining their healthy appearance, and gives fragrance to the breath. Price 2s. 9d. per Box, duty included. Each Genuine Box has the Name and Address on the Government Stamp, **A, ROWLAND AND SON, No. 20, HATTON GARDEN.” Sold by them and most Perfumers and Medicine Venders,

EARS’S TRANSPARENT SOAP.— Personal beauty’depends so much on the appearance and texture of the skin, that whatever contributes to protect it from injury, or to improve it, must be considered an object of importance to all who are solicitous to possess the advantage which Lord Ches« terfield denominates “ a letter of recommendation on all occa- sions ;’’ and certainly the present and future ages must feel them- selves indebted to the inventor of the curious chemical process by which soap is separated from all the impure and noxious substances with which, in its crude state, it is invariably united; this refine- ment is manifested by its Pp y and frag . Prepared and sold by A. PEARS, at his Manufactory, No. 55, Wells Street, Oxford Street, London ; Price 1s. and 1s. 6d, per square ; and in large squares, which are rfumed with Otto of Boses, for 2s. Also, Gentlemen’s Shaving Cakes, at 2s. 6d. ut observe, that wheresoever, or by whomsoever sold, it never can be genuine withont the jinventor’s signature, ** A. Pears,’”’ in his own hand- writing. — PEARS’S BOTANIC CREAM, particularly recom- mended to Parents and Guardians, who wish to give their offspring, and those under their care, those delightful tints which are the true concomitants of beauty and health. MALABAR DENTIFRICE, for beautifying the teeth, and rendering thema ersonal ornament to the decline of life. PERSIAN ‘ON, or ‘ortable Rouge, for giving a delicate rose-tint to the cheek. It is simple in its application, and so portable that it may be placed between the leaves of a small pocket-book ; Price 2s. ears’ Liquid Bloom of Roses and White Imperial Powder, which, by beautifully tinging the ‘cheeks and lips, bestows a delicacy on the female countenance, CHAPPED HANDS—PEARS’S BAL- SAMIC CREAM for Rough or Chapped Hands. Price 1s. per pot, with directions for use. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. ARPETS.—CARTER and Co. MANUFACTURERS, Per Yard. Brussels, good quality, useful naee patterns. a *83 Ss. 4d, & Bs. 6d. i i ity, t atterns novel an at rapa cape lige winssacessnscns Bt:l0d, & 48, 0 Th best quality, upwards of 150 patterns. sultabl le tater aty eo furnishing. s....essse+ 4% 2d. & 4s. 4d. Exce}lent yard-wide Venetian, for bed-rooms, &c., 21. 7d. & 2s, 9d. . Co.’s Royal Velvet Pile Carpets, of the much-improved ‘aneer with their superh New Designs in, Brussels, for the ele- gantly furnished Drawing-room, &c, are unjrorseliy admired. The magnitude of their Stock enables them to execute the largest orders without delay. The Patent Damask, Kidderminster, and Stair Carpeting, with the greatest variety of Hearth Rugs, Druggeta, and Floorcloths, in the Metropolis. This extensive stock will found to deserve the particular notice of dealers and large p' rally. oN B. ‘one of the inferior goods vended by the Linendrapers frequently for the best quality) are ever admitted into the stock. rome forwarded to an Leet of the United Kingdom. Letters cod ctuall tt to. 2 by Pow PNDON WAREHOUSE, % Top of CHEAPSIDE.

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(4°) mousehold Matters—Continued LD SHERRY.—GEORGE PHIBBS, late Sanford and Phibbs, formerly of New Bond Street, joes leave to call the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Public eneral, to his extraordinary Stock of OLD W INES, particu- Sa Y his Old Brown Sherry, which has never been surpassed in rie ity by any house in the trade. No, 11, Blenheim Street, Bond reet, :

URKEY CARPETS—LUCK, and CUMMIN CARPEN’ gS’ HALL, London Wall, and 210, Regent Street, have just Imported a Prime Assortment of Turkey Carpets, and which they are selling on very moderate terms. A large Assortment of Brussels, Velvet, Cat Pile, Venetian, Kidderminster, and other Carpeting of the best quality and patterns at very low prices. O FAMILIES FURNISHING.—JEre- MIAH Evans, Stove Grate Bazaar, 44 and 45, Fish Street Hill (removed from the late corner of Eastcheap, in conseque nee of the New London Bridge approache 8), respe ctfully solic cits the Nobi- lity’and Gentry to an inspection of his new « Stove Grates, Kitchen Ranges, Fenders and Fir¢ Chandeliers, Tea and Coffee Urns, Papier Machée Tea y 1 Waiters, Knives and Forks, suj erior plated Wares, Patent Dish Covers, and every article of Culinary Utensils, on the most reason- able terms, Also at 5, Finsbury Place South.—N.B. A variety of Marble, Stone, and Metal Chimney P: e KENT,

BEAL BARGAINS, , BARSAG, and ST. JULIEN 3. tee Dozen, the property of a Gentleman re- Parcel of the above for Sale, well worthy notice. i sls. per dozen,—not charged if returned.— May be tasted, samp es had, or one dozen, upwards, sent free five miles, or to carriers, on a letter, with amon nt, being addressed to JOSEPH SPARROW, Sworn Wine and Spirit Broker, Of 20 years’ standing), No. 14, Angel Court, Throgmorton Street, near the Bank, N.B. T he Broker has ¢ «pital Dinner Port and Sherry, 30s. ; Crusted Port and fine Sherry, 86s.; superior Cape, 2is. per dozen. CAN \DLES 634. per lb.—Palace Wax Lights 2s.3d.—M. P. Dz “AV IFS, 63, St. Martin’s Lane, opposite New Slaughter’s Coffee Louse, will meet the prices of any House in London w ith the same quality of articles.—For Cash on delivery as io 8 Jandles, 6s. 6d. per doz. Ib.—Fine Wax Wick Moulds, 83,—-Spermaceti, or Composition Candles, 1s. 10d. per lb.—Or, the Patent Platted W icks, ls. Lid. by the Paper.—Fine Wax Candles, 2s. 6d.—Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lbh.—Mottled Soap, 66s. and 74s. per ewt.—Yellow 5 60s. and 63s.—Fine Curd, 82s.—Windsor and ».—Brown Windsor, 1s. 9d.—Fine Sperm Oil, 7s. pe’ l.—Very Superior, 7s. 6d.—Lamp Oil, 3s, and 3s. 6d.— Delivered in Town, and packed with care for the Country. ‘MISCELLANEOUS. O DENTISTS, SURGEONS and OTITERS.—A Gentleman in most respectable Practice, occupying but a limited period of the Day, and returning above One Shousanc {Guineas per Annum, under circu mstances uncon- Ne with the Profession, is desirous of relinquishing it in favour

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a Successor, on liberal terms. It would afford an excellent opportunity to one averse to more laborious Practice, and speedily Tealize a handsome independence. Particul Xc. on application to Mr. LANE, Medical Agent, 22, George Street, to be post tree. EDICAL AGENCY OFFICE, No, 22, GEORGE STREET, ADELPHI, LONDON, A respect ible Professional Medium for transacting MEDICAL BUSINESS, requiring a Confidential , and for negotinting the Transfer of P ‘ractices, &c. had long a desideratum when Mr, LANE established the above, trusting that his general know- ledge of Medical Concerns (having been Twenty ¥ sin Practice), and his determination to neg e only on candid statements and honourable prine iples, would re the approbation and future support of those who might employ him as their Agent; since which theextensive patronage he has obtained has exceeded his ex- pectations and will act as an additional stimulus to future exertion, Physicians, Surgeons, or Practitioners in department of Medical or Surgical Science, desirous of purchasing or disposing of Practices, heats ng Partnersor Pupils, w A h ave their interests and views sedulously aad honourably a’ to, by Fi the above Office, between the hours of dressing Letters, Post Paid, with full Partic who has upwards of Forty Practices doing business, & from 100/. to 3,0001. PARENTS and GUARDI- oar) n obtain gratuitous informat f grade of the Profession their Terms, &c. From his own Professional Expe advantageous, XTRACT of a LETTER from a Gentle- man in H ambur gh, to his Friend in L ond ym, Aug. 6th, 1830 *¢ T have another vl leas, ing remark to make : I had no Hair on the top of my he fc and more than fifty pe erst ns declaring to me they recov ered their H ing ROWLAND’S MACAS- SAR OIL, induced me to ma of that article. I used three Bottles, and regained all my tain” * To Messrs, Rowland and Son. “* Gentlemen—In consequence of the good e Oil, Lhave it in command fro PEROR of all the RUSSIAS, th I Adelphi. Letters

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sum of ten guineas’ of Russia burgh, and receive the from his t Prince de Lie an, his » rat the € peeteins I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your ob edient servan JAMES WYLIE: Bact ‘Genuine Bottle has the name and address, in Red, on Lace « , ALEX. ROWLAND, s are 3s. 6¢.—7s.—10s. 6d, and fpr y without the Book and Label, The Genuine is sold as above, and by most

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IN SHAVING, Effectually carried by means of “ME SCHI’S Celebrated RAZOR TROPS, and STROP PASTE (inve ented 1827 Leadenha Street, the fourth house fi Printed in- structions for easy Shaving, wi »rices, ““gratis.”?” Some extrac edinar rgai Jressing Cases, WwW ork Boxes, Te i B: agate lle Tables, Back- gunmen, Draft, 2 ss ge oa Boards, v riting Desks, Travelling Cases, and Small Cut! HE MARCH OF INVENTION. Invention we truly may deem will march on With Intellect, till Art and Nature are gone; But while the , the invention that st Each wish shall of Taste, Rank, and Fashion fulfil, And patronage freely of Monarch’s command, Is WARREN’S Jet Blacking, of 30, the Strand, Thia Easy-shining and Brilliant Blacking, Prepared by ROBERT WARREN, 30, Strand, London; and Sold in every Town in the Kingdom. Liquid, in B yttles, and Paste Blacking, im Pots, at 6d, 42d, and 184. each.

ERNIJA.—Persons afflicted will find much valuahle information in the GAZETTE of HEALTH, on the modern treatment of Ruptures, Published by William Coles, ‘Truss-maker to his N ujesty’s Forces, 3, Charing Cross, and Sold by Sherwood and Co. and all Booksellers. Price 2d, The Gazette is a single letter, which will he forwarded, gratis, from Charing Cross toany part of the world. Letters must be Post Paid,

C5) MEDICINES. CHOLERA MORBUS. OWERS’S STOMACHIC ESSENCE.— As the Essential Oil of Peppermint and Sal Volatile are re- commended, by Official Authority, as remedies which should be immediately resorted to in the first stages of attack of CHOLERA MORBUS ;—this preparation is earnestly recommended as one of vital importance to families. It contains the essential ingredients alluded to, and in a form so comprehensive and efficient as‘ to enable any one to take or administer a dose of any required strength, without loss of time, which may at once arrest the pro- gress ‘of the malady. The Essence does not contain any opiate, but it will readily combine with Laudanum, and when that is deemed needful, can be taken in conjunction with par advantage. Pre- pared by John Towers, Chemist. Sold in Bottles at Ys. 9d., 4s. 6d. and lls. by Messrs. BUTL E R, Chemists, Cheapside, corner ¢ St. Paul’s; Sackville Street, Du oe n, and Princes Street, Edinburgh; S: wory, Moore, and Co. 136, New Bond Street, and 220, Regent Street; and most Druggists in che Country; of whom may be had TOWERS’S SOLUTION OF CAMP HOR, an elegant preparation of one of the best Medicines of the whole Materia Medica, by which pure Cam- phor may be givenin the fluid form of a Draught or Julep, In Bottles at 2s, 9d., 4s. 6d. and 11s,

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it mar, therefore, be neces3iry to observe that it is < ost useful and powerful tonic and de sobstruent. It isa grateful bitter, and is not only an excellent stomachic, but it also deterges the abdomi- nal viscera, promotes a healthy secretion of bile, and prevents an accumulation of fe in the colon. The new Tonic Tincture thus compounded is, in addijion to the purposes enumerated, strongly recommended for Weakness of the Stomach petite, In- digestion, itulency, general ‘i ervous IT ty, and for fortifying

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