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The Royal child of Portugal was prevented (by a cold,
The Spectatorwe be- lieve) from attending the ceremonies of her religion on Sunday, the anniversary of her father's birth ;—which had been fixed upon, too, by the Marquis of Palmella, as a...
SATURDAY NrOliT.
The SpectatorInformation has been received from Dublin, announcing the arrest of Mr. Lawless on Thursday last, upon a charge of riot and sedition at Ballybay, on the 23d of September. Mr....
The Government has assumed a more commanding attitude and a
The Spectatorbolder tone in Ireland. The military force is augmented, accord- ing to some exaggerated estimates, to forty thousand men ; and the reputed strongholds of Orangeism in the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorACCORDING to an article from Bucharest, the anticipated re- treat of the Russian army from before Shumla has been sadly realized. The bodies of their sick and wounded cover the...
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Letters from Algiers represent the French blockade as very in-
The Spectatorefficient. The French commerce is suffering from the facility with which the cruisers of the Dey sail and return. Colonel Fabvier, the Philhellene, landed al Toulon from Greece,...
The King, on Monday, was so completely recovered from his
The Spectatorlate attack of gout, as to be enabled to take an airing in Windsor Park. His 1114jesty also took an airing on Tuesday ; but caught cold, and has since been confined, It has...
THE MONEY MARKET.
The SpectatorSTOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING.—There have been considerable fluctuations in the value of Stock since our last report ; Consols, which on Saturday last were worth 861, having...
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POLICE OF LONDON.
The SpectatorMargaret Stark was on Saturday held to bail, on the charge of having exposed her infant child in the street. The child was about four months old. Its exposure to the cold...
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BRUNSWICK AGITATION IN THE COUNTY OF KENT.
The SpectatorTOPICS OF THE DAY. "Why do the heathen rage so furiously, and the people imagine a vain thin?. ?"—Is a state of quietude so irksome, that, like per- sons troubled with the...
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••• NEW ELEMENT IN POLITICS.
The SpectatorWE believe that the habits of waste and idle extravagance, so ad- mirably described by Miss EDGWORTH in her Castle Rackrent, have of late years been generally reformed ; but...
MUSICAL BOXES.
The SpectatorOF all the machines that the ingenuity of man hath devised for the delectation of ladies in summer bowers, to sweeten the labour of their embroidery, or to soothe them into soft...
NEW SINGERS OF THE SEASON.
The SpectatorIT has never been more entirely the critic's ungracious task to "damn with faint praise," than in writing about the present race of singers. Girls are now as much alike in their...
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A SECOND INSPECTION OF THE NEW TRAGEDY.
The SpectatorTHEY who have not yet seen YOUNG in Rienzi will do well to repair that piece of neglect. It is not his most admirable per- formance ; but yet it :is one which a lover of the...
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COUNT TILLY.
The SpectatorTHE name of Count ALEXANDER de TILLY is little known in England, unless indeed a discreditable anecdote told of him by COBBETT in one of his Registers, as having occurred at New...
THE ANNUALS.
The SpectatorLITERARY SPECTATOR. THE publication of Forget me Note is becoming as regular as that of almanacks ; and it will soon be as unnecessary to announce or criticise. them as the...
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THE COURT OF NAPOLEON.
The SpectatorSOME pleasant Memoirs have been published of the Empress JOSEPHINE* after her divorce, by alady who appears to have been attached to her service. This lady was brought up "in...
DR. GRANVILLE AND THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. IN' our notice of
The SpectatorSt. Petersburgh, a few weeks ago, we alluded to the charge brought against the Council of the London University respecting their conduct to Professor MECKEL. It was our im-...
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CONSUMPTION—MR. ST. JOHN LONG'S CURES.
The Spectatorwhich the literary and pictorial doctors would set up. I have not been de: ceived. I knew I had only to give them rope enough, and they would hang: themselves ; I had only to...
SPECTABILIA.
The SpectatorIf a man be over distinguished, it will he owing more to his enemies than to his friends. His enemies keep him on the alert; his enemies will not suffer him to sleep ; and it is...
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TIIE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
The Spectatorn,—As you have in the exercise of your public functions, thought your- self justified in expressing opinions to my disadvantage, I take the liberty of enclosing for your...
Sr a,—It is not my wish to occupy either your
The Spectatorvaluable columns or public atten- tion more than is necessary ; but I am sure you are too liberal not to allow defence where you have admitted attack, and the public too just...
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
The SpectatorDi EtTrTs.—At West Drayton,. Middlesex the Lady of Hubert de Burgh, Esq. of a son and heir—At Tunbridge Welle, the Lady Jane Laurence Peel, of a son, win) survived only a few...
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LONDON MARKETS.
The SpectatorCORN EXCHANGE, Fa rakv, OCTOBER 17. There has been a considerable arrival of Wheat and Flour coastways since Mon- day, and the mealing trade is in consequence exceedingly dull,...
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
The SpectatorJ. and G. Morse, Norwich, eommon-brewers—W. and W. Creed, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street, tailors—C. Summers and G. Harcourt, Chertsey, Surrey, surgeons —R. Small and J....
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EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The SpectatorFRIDAY EVENING. The Mary'Ann and Norfolk still keep out, and our in- telligence through other channels is this week very scanty. Arrived. Off Scilly, George and William,...
LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The SpectatorBOORS ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED. An English Translation of the Memoirs of the Empress Josephine. (Understood to be written by Madame Ducrest, the niece of Madame de Gen1M.) The...