17 JANUARY 1829

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It is agreeable to announce the entire disappearance of fever

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from Gibraltar. This malady has swept away no fewer than two thousand persons, including five hundred soldiers. The physicians almost unanimously agree that it was epidemic. The...

It appears that the Greeks and Turks are still skirmishing

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in the Morea. In one of the skirmishes, the Greeks made some prisoners, whom they took to Egina, and "branded them in the forehead with a red-hot iron." Mr. Stratford Canning...

Meetings to petition against the Catholics continue to be held

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in different quarters of England. The "whole of Cornwall," says the Standard, " has come forward, one and all, in support of the • on&tefilin;" and the county of Devon was to...

With the exception of a report that the Russians •

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have been driven out of Bazardjik, we are for one Week without any detail of diasters by flood or field to the opposing belligerents. The snow in Bulgaria and the Balkan had...

All opinion prevails that the King of Spain is about

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to grant an amnesty for political offences, of a less delusive character than those that he formerly issued. Great Britain and her allies get the credit of this.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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'hie commission appointing Lords Justices to carry on the Go- vernment of Ireland has been despatched, and Lord Anglesey returns immediately. - The recall of this nobleman has...

The French Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Count de Fern-

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nays, was lately seized with illness in the King's Cabinet ; and he is said to have resolved on retiring from public life. Who is to be his successor? This interesting question...

The removal of Mr. Manners Sutton from the Chair of

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the House of Commons to the Peerage—and some changes in the higher departments of the law, including the removal of Sir An- thony Hart from the Chancellorship of Ireland—have...

The French Government, if we may believe the newspapers o

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Paris, is beginning to exert a decided influence on the affairs of Portugal. The Constitutional party is openly countenanced ; and those whom Miguel obliges to flee from Lisbon...

SATURDAY, Two O'CLOCK.

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Letters from Vienna state that the Russians are closely invested at Varna; but the Frankfort Papers of the 10th instant, which arrived this morning, make no mention of this...

THE MONEY MARKET.

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&rocs. EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. —Another week has passed since our, last report, without affording any safe criteria of the pro- bable prospects of our Money Market for the...

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THE K no's COURT.—Ilts Majesty held a court on Thursday,

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at Windsor Castle ; which was attended by most of the Ministers. The Duke of Wel- lington had an audience of the Kin., and kissed hands on being appointed Lord \Arden of the...

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WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.—Lambert and Prince, Frenchmen, were on Saturday tried for

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an assault, committed by them in Hyde Park ; the parti- culars of which, as given in evidence, were alluded to last week. The prose- cutor, who isabout eighteen years cf age,...

Otto BAILEY SESSIONS. — Thesa sessions were opened on Thursday, by the

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Lord Mayor, Recorder, Continua Sergeant, and other official gentlemen. The Judges in attendance were Sir J. A. Park, and Sir J. Parke. Mary Rice, a widow, was indicted for...

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POLICE OF LONDON. FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT:TSB-RC Lee, was on Tues- day

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brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having, after his bank- ruptcy, concealed nearly 800/. from his creditors. When asked how he had disposed of this money, he produced...

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RATIONALE OF THE GAME-LAWS.

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MORNING CIIRONICLE—It has never been denied as far as we are aware, that the land and all that is fed on it belong to the nation inhabiting it, and that time right of property...

PHASES OF THE WELLINGTON MINISTRY—A PARABLE.

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THE PRESS. TIMES—If, as we cordially wish, the Duke of Wellington's political cha- racter is to pass with posterity for direct and undesigning, the evidence for ceding to him...

RETRENCHMENT—DIPLOMACY.

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GLOBE—The economical measures which are to be announced on the opening of Parliament are still the subject of conversation. The proverb of " much cry and little wool" is...

LORD ANGLESEY'S IRISH GOVERNMENT—A SIMILE.

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TIMES—Ireland is on all sides petitioning and complaining. The presence of Lord Anglesey, as Lord Lieutenant, was, after the full disclosure of his feelings towards the Catholic...

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THE UNITED STATES—THE TARIFF.

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GLOBE—There is an excellent article (from the pen, we believe, of Mr. 11‘Culloch) in No. 96 of the Edinburgh Review, on the American Tariff. It is calculated, we hope, to do...

CONNEXION BETWEEN RELIGION AND MORALS,

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MORNING CiinoNiciv.--We have more than once alluded to the gross ig- norance of the people of this country of morals. They are left to find out what is right and what is wrong...

PANIC OF THE DAY.

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WE foresaw that the public mind, stimulated to the utmost by the press, would run to excess on the subject of murder for dissection ; and now, when a servant tarries five...

PROTECTION OF DRAMATIC TALENT.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE Republic of Letters is as little disposed to recognize the laws of Political Economy as the Republic of North America. The jealousy of importation is, we...

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MORBID FANCIES.

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WHEN we observed that the Scotch prints omitted to dwell on the cut of BURKE'S coat, the quality of his smallfilothes, and colour of his cravat, or peculiarity of its tie, we...

THE NEW TRAGEDY.

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Caswallon, the Celtic hero of Mr. WALKER, (whose right in him, under that name, is disputed by Mr. GANDY, the author of an elder Caswallon” stands in the same relation to the...

INFALLIBLE CORDIALS.

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THE twin stars in the curative world of our Transantlantic bre- thren, at the present moment, are Dr. SWAIM and Dr. POTTER. SWAIM is inventor of the Panacea, POTTER of the...

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CAPTAIN FRANKLIN'S JOURNIES TO THE POLAR SEAS*.

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LITERARY SPECTATOR. FRom a quarter where it could least have been expected, an example has been set of preferring to accommodate the wants of the intelligent . many, rather...

SCIPIO DE RICCI.* •

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MR. DE POTTER'S Life of Scipio de Ricci has been published sonic time: it had considerable success in France, owing to the rage which a year or two ago existed against the...

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MALCOLM'S SCENES OF WAR*.

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THERE is much true poetical feeling in Mr. Aar-corm—it is a pity that it is all in one strain: he is perpetually plaintive; and the images he seeks to illustrate his sorrows are...

NEW ZOOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS.*

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WE need not draw the attention of professed naturalists to this new publication, by Mr. SIVAINSON : for to them the former series is well-known, and in the first number of its...

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AMOUNT OF PAYMENTS FOR FOREIGN GRAIN.

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[The following statement, which we publish on most respectable authority, shows that the late apprehensions for the state of the exchanges and the export of specie, through the...

ECONOMICS OF THE ITALIAN OPERA.

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Mr. SPECTATOR—I had just read, with cordial approval, your strictures last week on "the coxcombry of the newspapers that undertake the guidance of people in the conduct of their...

GLEANINGS.

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Barrisu CAVALRY.—It is strange, that eager as we are to avail ourselves of foreign fashious in our uniforms and equipments, we so often miss the point of utility. The hussar...

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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

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The prevalence of easterly winds keeps out the homeward bound, and we have no arrivals to report this week. Sailed.—From Gravesend, Jan. 13th, Kerswell, Armstrong, and 14th,...

THE UNIVERSITIES.

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OxpoltD, JANUARY 14. — This day, being the first of Hillary Tettn, env lellbwing degrees were conferred.—Muster of .arts.—The Rev. John Antes La Trobe, St. Ed- mund Hall....

LITERARY AN NOUNCEM E NTS.

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BOOKS IN THE PRESS, OR PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION, A Third Edition of the Romance of History. By Henry Neele. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, with explanations in Latin and Engrish...

BRITISH NAVY.

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SHIPS IN COMMISSION ON THE 1ST JANUARY 1829. 2 of 120 guns I — 104 — 2 — 84 — 1— — 1 — 76 — And 82 smaller vesse s, bombs, steamers, 8:c. 170 in all ; exclusive of hulks,...

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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Birsvns.—At No.1, Moray-place, Edinburgh, on the 6th inst. the Lady of James , Anstruther, Esq. W.S. of a daughter—On the 30th ult, at the Government-house,. Guernsey, the Lady...

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■ • --•---- FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES.

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Tuesday, Jan. 13. rARTNints toes n rss obv J. L. and I. Millet, J., J., and L. Stride, Audinfriars-W. Lock and T. Bruce, Union- row, New Kent-road, bookbinciers--.1. Nichols...

LONDON MARKETS.

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CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16. We continue abundantly supplied with Foreign Wheat, though the arrival from our own coast is very limited; the trade, however, is on the...