4 DECEMBER 1830, Page 20

[A very long, and, we have no doubt, an able

and interesting commu- nication, from " An Old Dilettante," which was received last Saturday, has been unluckily mislaid. If we cannot recover it-next week, we shall beg our orrespondent to favour us with,a new version of his letter ; and `la commiseration of the crowded condition of our columns, in these times of stirring political interest, he will probably reduce the scale of his remarks.]