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Chronicle and Gazette, edited BY JOSEPH VALLENGE BEVAN. published Evmr Monday £5 Ihursday. it nvi DtiiLAns rr.n askim ( paiahie in advance.-cocNTnr dapepi, once a week, thuee dollars per annum, eatable ALSO IN ADVANCE. Dramatic Tnetry, From writers 'who lived about the time of SHAKESPEARE. TRAGEDY AMD COMEDY. —fellows both, both twins, but so unlike As birth to death, wedcing to funeral; Tor this that reals himself in buskins quaint, Is pleasant at the first, proud in the midst, Stately in all, and bitter death at end. That in the Pumps doth frown at first ac quaintance, Trouble the nndsl, but in the end con eludes Closing up all with a sweet catastrophe . This grave and sad, detain'd with brinish tears; That light and quick, with wrinkled laugh ter painted: This deals with nobles, kings, and empe rors, Full of great fears, great hopes, great en tcrpiizes; This other trades with men of mean con dition, His projects small, small hopes, and dan gers little: This gorgeous, broider’d with rich sen tences; That fur, and purfled round with merri ments. Both vice detect, and virtue beautify, By being death’s mirror, and life’s look ing-glass. B reiver. Scholar and his Dog, I was a scholar; seven useful springs Hid! deflower in quotations Os cross'd opinions ’bout the soul of man; The more I learnt, the more 1 learnt to doubt. Delight my spaniel slept, whilst 1 baus’d leaves, Toss’d o’er the dunces, pored on the old print Os titled words: and still my spaniel slept. Whilst I wasted lamp oil, bait, d my flesh, Shrunk up my veins; and still my spaniel slept* And still 1 held converse with Zibarell, Aquinas, Scotus, and the musty saw ■Of antick Donate: still my spaniel slept. S H «n went I; first, an sit anima; Then, an it were mortal. O hold, hold; at that They’re at brain buffets, fell by the ears amain Pell-mell together: still my spaniel slept. Then, whether ’twere corporeal, local, fixi. Ex traduce, hot wbether’l had free will Or no, hot Philosophers Stood banding factions, all so strongly propl, 1 stagger’d, knew not which was firmer part, But thought, quoted, read, observ’d, and prytd, Stufft noting-books: and still my spaniel tlepf. At length he wak’d, and yawn’d; and by yon sky, For ought 1 know he knew as much »s I. Mars ton False Greatness. As cedars beaten with continual storms, So great men flourish; ai d do Imitate Unskillful statuaries, who suppose, In forming a Colossus, if they n uke him Stradd' enough, strut; and look b'g, and gape. Their \u. k n goodly; so men merely great, In their aflected gravity of voice, Sowerness of countenance, manners’ cru elty. Authority, wealth, and all the spawn of fortune, , Think they bear all the kingdom’s worth before them; Yet differ not from those Colossick sta tues, Which, with heroic forms without o’er spread, Within are nought but morter, flint, and lead. Chatman. The Master Spirit, Give me t spirit that on life’s rough sea Loves ro have his sails fi ;’d with a lus‘y wind, Even tid his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low, That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air There is no danger to a man, that knows What Life and Death is: there’s not any law Exceeds his knowledge; neither is it law ful That he should stoop to any other law; He goes before them, and commands them all. That to himself is a law rational. Chapman. Shipwreck by Drink. This Gentleman and I Past but just now by your next neigh bour’s house, Where, as they say, dwells one young Lionel, An unthrift youth: his father now at sea. ———There this night Was a groat feast. In the height ot their carousing, all their brains Warm’d with the heat of wine, discourse was offer’d Os ships and storms at sea: when sudden. ly* Out of his giddy wildness, one conceives The room wherein they quaff’d to be a Pinnace, Moving and floating, and the confus’d noise To be the murmering winds, casts, muri neri; That their mislead fast footing did proceed From rocking of the vessel; This con ceiv’d. *V; . v • Each one begins to apprehend the diUP get, And to 1< ok out for safety Fly, sailh one, Up to the main lop, and discover. He (-•limbs by the bed-post to the tester there, Reports a turbulent sea and tempest to wards; And wills them, if they’ll save their ship and lives, To cast their lading over-board At this All fall to work, and hoist into the street, As to the sea, what next came to then hand. Stools, tables, tressels, trenchers, bed steads, cups, Po's, plate, and glasses. Here a fellow whistles; They fake him for the boatswain: one lies struggling Upon the floor, as if be swum for life; A third takes the base-viol for the cock boat. Sits in the belly on’t, labours, and rows; His oar, the stick with which the fiddle plaid: A fourth bestrides his fellow, thinking to scape (As did Arion) on the dolphin’s back, Slid fumbling on a gitlern. The rude multitude. Watching without, and gaping for the spoil Cast from the windows, went by th’cars about it; The Constable is call’d to atone the broil; Which done, and hearing such a noise within Os eminent ship-wreck, enters tli’ house, and finds them In this confusion; they adore his S.afl, And think it Neptune’s Trident; and that lie Comes with his Tritons (so they call’d bis watch) To calm the tempest and appease the waves. And at thi» point we left them.” Haywood. Man's Heart I would fain know what kind of thing a man’s heart is. were you never At Barber Surgeon’s Hall to see a dissec tion? I will report it to you: ’tis a thing framrd With divers corners, and into every cor ner A man may entertain a friend: ( here came The proverb, A man may love one well, and yet Retain a friend in a corner.)—— lush, ’tis not The real heart; but the unseen facul ties. — Those I’ll decipher unto you: (for surely The most part are but ciphers.) The Heart indeed For the most part doth keep a better guest Than himself in him; that is, the soul.— Now the soul Being a tree, there are divers branches spreading out of it. As loving-affection, suffering-sorrows, and the like. Then, Sir, these affections or sorrows be ing but branches, Are sometimes lupt off, or of themselves wither; And new shoot in their rooms: us forex ample; Your friend dies, there appears sorrow, but it quickly Withers; then is ( hat branch gone. Again, you love a friend; There affection springs forth: at least you distas.e; Then that branch withers again, and ano ther buds In his room. Rowley. Fable. A Salmon, as she swam unto the sea, Met with a Dog fish; who encounters her With his rough language: why art thou so bold To mix thyself with our high state of 'floods? Being no eminent courtier, but one That for the calmest and fresh time of the year Dost live in shallow rivers, rank’st thy self With silly Smelts and Shrimps:—and dar est thou Pass by otf Dog ship without reverence? O (quoth the Salmon) sister, be at peace, Thank Jupiter we both have past the net. Our value never can be truly Known, Till in the fisher’s basket we be shewn: In the market then my price may be the higher; Even when 1 am nearest to the conk and fire. So to great men the moral may be stretch ed: Men oft are valued high when they are most wretched. Webster. Love. There is no life on earth, but being In love! There are no studies, no delights, no bu siness, No intercourse, or trade of sense, or soul, But what is love! 1 was the laziest crea ture, Tlie most unprofitable sign of nothing, The veriest drone, and slept away my lift Beyond the dormouse, till I was in love! Anil now I can out-wake the nightingale, Out-watch an usurer, and out-walk him too, Stalk like a ghost that haunted ’bout a treasure. And all that fancied treasure, it is love! Ben Jonson. Men’s Matures more hard and subti l than Women’s, How stubbornly this fellow' answer’d me 1 There is a vile dishonest trick in man, More than in women; all the men 1 mee Appear thus to me, are harsh and rude, Ana have a subtilty in every thing, Which love could never know; but we fond women, Harbour the easiest and smoothest tho’ts, And think all shall go so ; it U unjust That men and women should be match’ together. Beaumont & Fletcher. Limb’s Specimens. EXTRACTS From an actount of “ China, hy John Bar row, Esq. F. It. S. one of the Secreta. vies of the Admiralty ” If the embassy of the Earl Macartney lo the Court of Pekin fallen in its imme diate object, which was just about as rea son able as if the Emperor of China had sent to demand from ns the cession of the Isle of Whight, it succeeded at least in 'blowing a more clear and distinct light on the nature of the government, the laws, language, and literature, of one of the most ancient, and most extensive, and, beyond comparison, the most popu lous nation of the world. It was the, means of obtaining a nearer insight into 1 " the manners of the people, and of form ing a more coirect estimate of their mo ral character, than had hitherto been giv en in the prejudiced accounts of the Ko mish Missionaries. But the. most import ant acquisition which resulted from this embassy, in a literary point of view, was, the complete developement of the extra ordinary language of the Chinese, which th. Jesuits had invariably represented as of so obscure and mysterious a nature, tha' the whole period of human existence was too short to acquire even a competent know .edge of it; whereas we now know that a moderate degree of application for two or three years, with the assistance of . Chinese, will enable the smdeiu to write it wi'h ease, to read and translate ‘heir most obscure books, and to transa-t every kind of business, commercial or political; and that this knowledge has opened tip a vast fund of literature 1 which, in Europe, was hardly suspected to ex ist. To Sir ft eorge St.<unton, in th. fi st place, to Dr. Mavshman and his son it Sera upore, to Mr. Morrison, a Mission ary at Canton, and to Mr Davis, a pro nosing youth in the Ea»i India Company’s Fa tory at that port, we are more in debted for a true and distinct state of the laws, the language, the institutions, ami litei attire of China, than to all thevolnmi nous writings of the Jesuits, which, owever curious and valuable in mam, details, are crowded with errors ami ri aggerations. The conterminous empires of Russia & China occupy between them about one fifth part of the habitable globe, in pretty nearly equal portions; but the population of the latter is about 4 imes greater thru that of the fotmer, ev u after h elming.U recent addition of ten millions of Poa-s We can easily trace the boundavi sand mark the extreme limits of these two great empires, by parallels of latitude ami meridional lines of longitude; but when we come to reduce them to square m it s. or speak of their contents in acres, tin mind is bewildered in the magnitude of the numbers required to express them, ami forms but an indistinct idea of their super ficial extent. Yet in all this extent of frontier, which cannot than 10,000 geographical miles, the Chinese territory has hiihert preserved itself so invulnerable, and even inaccessible to foreigners, that riot a Rus sian, a Turcoman, an Afghaun, a Hindoo, Barman, or Tunquinese, by land, m r an European nor an Americi.n, among the numbers that annually procee d to Can on for the purposes of trade, have at any time been able to transgress any part of tins most extensive boundary, without th' knowledge and permission of its vigilant an ' jealous government; aided, however, by a mora barrier, of its-df perhaps inm p 'able, —(he impossibility of connurni cation, from the toial ignorance which prevails, from the highest to the lowest -if the people, of every language but their own, and the unaccountable ignorance of other nations of their language. This interdiction of intercourse with a people who have nothing in common with the rest of the world, will account for the to'al ignorance which so long prevailed, tin Tulle knowledge we yet possess, re specting this s ngolar id original people; for that they are an original and unmixed race we conceive no reasoiiahh .doubt can j be entertained, though a different hypo thesis has been held by learned a d inge nious men. By De Guignes and Freret, arguing (rom the communicaiona of the Jesuits, they were supposed to be deriv ed from a colony of Egyptians; by the earliei Jesuits, they were set do* n as a tribe of lews; and hy sir Wil.iam Jones as desendants of the Csiiaojrya or Milita ry Caste of Hindoos, called. Chinas, “who,” sav the pundits, “abandoned the ordinances of the Veda, and lived in a state of degradation ” With sub mission to such high authoriti- s, we should as soon think of deriving air nk of atree from its blanches, as of the ■ eopK of Chi na from any of these. That they are not Egyptians, the-ingenious I’auw has most clearly and satisfactorily demonstrated, by proving that, in no one iota, does there or ever did there, existent single re semblance. As little similarity is there between them and the Hindoos; no two people, indeed, could possibly differ more than they do in their physical and moral character, in tin ir language, and in theirpolilical and religious institutions. The colour of the Hindoo is ebon black or a deep bronze; that of a Chinese a sickly white, or pale yellow, like that of a faded leaf, or the root of rhubarb; —the features of a Hindoo are regular and placid; those of a Chinese wild, irregu lar, constant only in the oblique and < iongated eye, and the broad root of the nose; the Hindoos are slaves and martyrs to religious ordinances; the Chinese have superstitions enough, but, stricily speak ing, no religious prejudices;—the Hin does are divided into castes; th* Chinese know of no such division; —the historical records of China go far beyond (he time that these supposed Chinas, of Sir Wil liam Jones, peopled the country; the iliiidoos have not apageof history;—the language of Hindustan is alphabet ic;that of China a transition from the heiroglyphic lo the symbolic; and there is not the sligh test analogy in the colloquial languages ol the two countries. Pauw, and some other writers, are of "pinion, they proceeded originally from the heights of Tartary. It is, in fact,‘ob vious enough, that the Tar'ars & Chinese are one ami the same rade; and the only question seems to be, whether the latter, guided by the mountain-streams, descend 'd from the bleak and barren elevations ,f Tartary, which, bulging out of the ge eral surface of the earth, have bein impared with the boss of a shield, to the crtile plains and temperate climate of :iiina ? or, whether the former are swarms sent off by an over-abundant po pulation, and driven into the mountains;. The former supposition will be perhaps, as. the more probable of the tV A Chinese city is nothing more than a i Tartar camp, surrounded by mounds of I, to preserve themselves and cattle from the depredations of "eighbourmg , tribes, and nocturnal attacks ol wolvei and other wild beasts; and a Chinese . bitalion, the Tartar tent, with its swe p i„g roof supported poles, excepting the Chinese have cased their walls With brick, and tiled the roofs of their houses. When the famous baibanan Gengis-Kuati made an irruption into the fertile plains of China, and Hook possession o a om nese city, bis soldiers immediately set a bmit pulling down the four walls of the ifttiuses, leaving the overhanging roots supported on the wooden columns, by which they were converted into excel lent tents for themselves and horses. Yet such is the facility with which Chinese and Tartars amalgamate, that although this celebrated barbarian could neither read nor write any language, he listened lo the advice of the conquered,—became sensible of the change of situation in which he found himself,—did every thing he could to repair the errors he had com mitted,—and both he and his successors left good names behind them in the an nalsof the country. In like manner the present Mantclioo Tartars, who lived in tents, and subsited on their cattle aad by hunli' g, immediately accommodated themselves to the manners, the customs, and the institutions of China, preserving nothing of their own, not even their re ligion, and scarcely a vestige of ancient superstitions ilia' do not coincide with ■ hose of the Chinese,—one of the most singular of which is, their agreement in the birth of man ard of the serpent-wo man, and the universal use and estimation of the ancient Scythian emblem of the dragon. Next to tiie Chinese, the Turks seem to have preserved most of the cha racter and customs of the ancient Scythi ans from whence they sprang, and :he Turks are Tarters. Some or has pointed out a similarity between the Turks and Chinese in seventeen differ ent customs; lie might have extended the parallel to more than that number. Ancient usage, universally app- aledto, is almost the only rule of conduct, and the only limitation or control prescribed totxecutive authority vested in the mo arch. The public voice is nev t heard, bid the public opinion is sednivasly courted hy thy sovereign, and conveyed to every pait of he empire through the medium of the Pekin Gazette. Pl.is ve hicle of imperial panegyric is published daily; it sent forth into ail rhe provinces, and read in all the public tuv. rns and tea houses. It s one of the most powerful engines of slate; and a series of this p.i per would explain the nature of govern • lent, better than all the moral maxims of antiquity on which it is supposed to be founded. Through it are all the mea sures of the government, or rather of the sovereign, communicated to the pubhc If he fasts or feasts, promotes or de grades, levies or remits taxes, feeds the hungry,•-clothes 'he naked, rewards vir tue, or punishes vice, or in short, whate ver laudable action lie may perform, it is announced in this state paper, with the motives and the reasons that may have gi v n rise to it. .Every sentence of dealii, with an abstract of the charges and the trial, every mitigation of punishment, are also published in this Gazette I’he grand leading principle of this pa triarchal Government is to place the So vereign at as great a distance from the people, and as far removed from mortali ty. as human invention could suggest. — They not only stile him, the “Son of Heaven;” but believe him to hr of hea venly descent; and this superstitious no tion, appeared in a manner sufficiently remarkable, by the obstacles thrown iti the way of the present Manchoo dynasty, on account of their family not being able to trace their descent farther back than eight generations; a deduct of ancient ori j gin, »’hich was considered hy the Chi nese as a great reproach. Kiung-hee, aware of their prejudices, caused the genealogy of the Tartar family to be published in the Gazette. It stated that “the daughter of heaven, descend ing on the borders of the lake Ponlkoti ri, at the font of the VVlrite M( untaiii. and eating s me red fruit that grows there, conceived, and bore a son, partaking of her nature, and endowed with wisdom, strength, ai d beauty; that the people those him for their Sovereign, and that from him were descenced t e pr »ent • Son of Heaven,’ who filled the throne of China.” Ami this explanation wiped away the reproach, and fu ly satisfied the subjects of the “celestial Empire.” When Pauw observed that China was governed by the whip &. the bamboo, he was. ot aware of the theoretical application of these intruments, especially the latter, to the whole code of civil and criminal lawn the remark was not meant to ex tend beyond the practical application of these machines to the human body, which, it must be owned, are effectual aids to wards the establishment of a s riot police and that they are freely enough adminis tered in keeping the peace among the lower orders; but their use in this way is by no means so extensive as is generally supposed, and as the letter of »lie law would seem to imply. This great em pire may, notwithstanding, be aptly enough compared to a great school, of which the magistrates are the masters, and the p. opie the scholars. The bam boo is the ferula, and care is taken that the child is not to be spoiled by sparing the rod Tiie bamboo, however, is not used merely for flogging the people. In the the fundamental laws of the empire, it forms the scale by which all punishments are supposed to be proportioned lo the crimes committed, k which are carefully dealt out by weight & measure; and here also we recognise the work of an ancient people in a rude state of society. In a small family', or a community consisting of a certain number of families, it may just be possible to “adapt the penalties of the laws in a just proportion to the crimes s gainst which they are denounc ed ;” but the continuance of such a sys tern in an overgrowr commonwealth af fords no proof of refined or extensive no tions of jurisprudence. Punishment, as an example, to deter others from the commission of crimes, would seem indeed to be less the object of Chinese legisla ion, than that of satisfying the claims of rigid justice; to wipe off’ a certain degree of crime by the infliction of a propor tionate degree of suffering. -I This bamboo, that makes so con . - c.miw in the Chinese code, is i'S s indies in hi* .h 2}« and 2 inches thick, weighing 2 2-o pound , the smaller the same length, - inche broad, 11 and 115 thick, weight about I 5 1lSS. as a system of divine worship. . ! pt.yW»r,UGod..n.l».lioUingfo.h future rewards and punishments, can hardly be said to exist among the people It is here at h ast, neither a bond of union, nor a source of dissentum. I hey hate no sabbatical institution, no congregation al voi ship ; no external farms of devo tion, of petition, or thanksgiving, to the Supreme Being ; the Emperor_and he alone, being high priest, and the only in dividual who stands between Heaven and the people, having the t ime relation to the former that the latter are supposed to bear to him; performs the sacred duties, accord inu-to the ancient ritual, and at certain fixed periods ; but the people have no concern with them The Emperor alone officiate sat all the solemn Arc-monies, for propitia ting Heaven, or expressing a grateful sense of its benefits; and as “Sacrifice* and oblations can only be acceptable to heaven, when offered .ip with humble reverence, and a pure and upright heart, he prepares himself so- such occasions bv fasting and abstinence, and acts of be nevolence and mercy to his subjects. The equinoxes are the periods when the grand sacrifices in the temple dedi cated to Heaven, within the' precincts of the palace, are offered up; when everv kind of business in the capita), all feasts, amusements, marriages, fu nerals, must be suspended during the ceremony, the moment of which is an nonneed to the people by the tolling of the great bell in Pekin. All ra ks, however, from the Emperor, downwards, are full of absurd supersti tions. The imagination of untutored man, not easily comprehending a power so al mighty and u live sal, created a num her of inferior spiritual beings as the harbinges and agents of his will; anti these spiritual agents, which the Chi nese call Quel-skin, are invisible attenu ated beings, some white and good, the advocates of mesa, others black and wick ed, the punishers of sin; and these “ il lustrious subjects of the Great Ruler,” are suposed io preside over the five sea sons of he year, —over mountains and ri ve(.B) —over the hearth and the door ot (lie house, —and influence all the con cerns of men. o these spirts certain duties are prescribed, and certain obla tions offered; the men usually bring wine, the w omen tea; but these are private ce remonies and heartless duties; the devo tion of religion was totally wanting; and in such a state it was not surprising that the doctrines and the practice of the sects of Tao-tse and of F > should captivate the vulgar, and seduce them to a religion .that spoke more strongly to the senses. It would seem, indeed, that the establish ment of some popular religion is una voidable, and tha' of Fo may, on this ground, be encouraged by the govern ment, though it derives little or no snp port from it. The ancient religion of Chi na entertained the idea ot spiritual be ings, but they never clothed them in a corporal .form. In the time of Con • fucius their temples were without images; their guardian gods ana their evil genii were imaginary beings, to which the. neither gave form or substance; but when the priests of Fo found sheir entrance in to China, they b roughl with them all the follies and absurdities of the doctrine o’ Boudh, and grafted them on the supersti tions of the Chinese. They filled their temples with all manner ofimages, each having its peculiar virtues and pe . culiar influences, and h-vviny for each a tax on the credulity of the people.— lu some of these temples are not fewer than 300 sainted personages—monstrous figures as large, and frequently many times larger, than human beings. Theii bolls and their beads, and burning of in cense and tapers —their images and then altars—their singing and processions, were well calculated to seduce the populace, who had no outward forms of any religion. So strong was the res- mblauce of the in terior of a temple of Fo—the dress of the. priests—and the ceremonies of devotion, to those of the church of Rome, that one of the Catholic missionaries says, it seem ed as if the devil had run a race with the Jesuits to China, and, having got the start of them, its t contrived these things for their mortification. The origin of Chinese poetry is indi cated by the component parts of the character employed to express it —words of the temple —short measured sentences, dehve'ed as instructions to the people— soch are those in the ancient writings, and such chiefly are the moral maxims of Confucius- I is so far from bring true, as Gr- zier flippantly asserts, “that a learn ed man writing good verses, would he considered in the same light ai a dragoon officer p aymg well on the fiddle,” that there are few men having any pretensions to learning, who do not write verses.— The several odes and didactic poems of Kien-hmg. were quite sufficient to make poetry fashionable, if there were no taste for it among the people ; but all are fond of poetry. We have before us the ransla tion of a part of an Ode on England & Lon don, written bv a common Chinese servant bro’t over by a gentleman from Canton, in which are many just observations, with ac curate 8c concise descriptions; the climat--, he says, is cold, and people live close, to fires; that the houses aie so lofty that you may pluck the stars. Kang-he made the same observation to the Jesuits, and supposed that Europeans lived like birds in the air, f* ■ want of space to build upon. Our Chinese proceeds to say, that the virtuous read their sacred book, and (~ pc. lee to GotJ pray to God; that they hate the French, and are always fighting them; that the little girls have red cheeks; and tne ladies are fair as the white gem, that husbands and wives love each other; that the playhouses are shut in the day and open at night; that players are hand some, and their perfcimance delightful, &c. Among the specimens of ancient po etry from the Shoo-king, the following is an address of the Emperor Chun to his ■ ministers : i Koo, koong khee tsai Yuen shyen khee tsai Pith koong hee tsai. When the chief ministers delight in r their duty, The sovereign rises to successful ex • ertion, A multitude of inferior officers ar ■ dently co-operating. To v\ Inch the itiinlsUf. ... the same strain; 3 t3s Joi Yuev shyen ming tsai Koo koong lyang tsai Shyu tse khang tsai When the sovereign is , v ; se ihe ministers are faithf.ir trust, ' ' And all things hnppi] v s „ We give the following f' zier’s collection, ss no unfavorab'. men of modern poetry, n m ‘ f the Contented Philosopher “ My palace is a litile cl.unh*, my own length; finery ncv.-,- J 8t neatness never left it. i\y and the coverlid a piece of d-u, 1 I sit by day, by night, ° is on one side, ami on the ot!, Pp , perfume. 'I he singing of rustling of the breeze, the B[l of a brook, j a>e the only son,,, hear. My window will .'mt, an j open.—hut to wisfemc-n only; ,|, e slum it. ! shave not like spriest I fast not like the Tao-tse. Ttm in my heart, innocence guides tions. Without a master, and ® scholar, I waste not my life in j of nothings, and .in writing ch still less in whetting (he edges or in trimming words of praise, no views; no projects, more c 1 • ’ins for me than wealth the pleasures of the, world cost j, single wish. The enj lyrrr-nt of, solitude is my chief concirii, surrounds me, and hustle shiuy contemplate the heavens and am| 1 look on the earth and amcomli remain in the world without bei One clay leads on another, am!o«, followed by another, the las'will me safe to port, and I shall have | mvse f.” Dramatic entertainments are] as in Europe closely connected etry. The songs and recilati* lighter pieces, abound with char double meaning and equivocal sion ; Im are generally so contrii while the written characters s 1 one sense, the sound shall r.>nvi ear another; and these sub'erf.ig sorted to in order to avoid that pm which the magistrates would li ed to inflict for a breach of the peering public decorum, in the tion 05 exhibition of any thing" and unequivocally obscene; ami life is represented on the stage any of Us polish or cmhellslm acts, however infamous or honj exhibited on the stage; annul execution. Wether the culprit demnecl to die by the cord, by tion, by being cut into ten tlwiu ces, or by being Head alive,the tors must be indulged with aslgi operation. Nor do they stop Those functions of animal life, 01 decency requires a veil to be ibr exhibited in full display ; many si 1 gross and indelicate, so coir dialogue, and so indecent in lb representation, that foreigners* witnessed them have retired from ire in disgust. ( 'To be continued in our na — 1 FORIKVN Satanfah, Octob . By the arrival of the Ship Ogl captain Rawson, we have receivt pool papers to the 251 h August, 1 Tin to the 19th of Ihe same Will A letter from Liverpool, tec - the Oglethorpe, states, that ani quantity of hardware, of the® inon description, and suitable lion sales, has been ordered fall ern stales. Much excitement existed at Li - at the conduct of the gomntne arrangement of the Queen’s b The preparations for celebrating rent having been frustrated by l posed to it, by means of a sum ; placard. , The jury of inquest upon!* . of tlie men killed at the funs® - Queen, had not come to adt Much complaint is made of diet , to screen the offenders by undit ■ to conceal them, and by pI JC " cles in the way of witnesses 1 identify them. t \ Pans paper says, that the whose arrival is spoken ot byfa is no other than Joseph Bonapal - had left Am rica for the put] ll ■ fording assistance to the Gm»» j Nothing but rumours are Jp™ subject of Russia and Austria • portaut despatches arc said » , received from the Austrian.® r at Petersburg!! Reports ot m , having obtained the medial'** land, and a declaration of die v * - Emperor Alexander, continue 1 tion. The Courier is not ofop l * views of Kusshi tend to war which would excite the J al ! j • allies—unless it is to be I the same views upon which : Piedmont were occupied j) ; At St. Petetsburgh, o ■ fa",* 1 . [ I expectations were entertain* - with Turkey. a Ypsilanti is placed unde* t lance of an Austrian officer 1 The commerce of Cadiz oas ry severely from the patriotl - The yellow fever is said . , introduced into the departing Pvrenees, by a vi-ssel from ■ ; By a letter from Leghorni . 1 inst. it appears that the slue 1 belonging to the capt. of tlie andria, on her return from s ' been taken off'Cape Passarn. ’ at Idra, and converted i n |° i ; The Turks were thrown ‘ r the Greeks alleging tha ; try men met the same fat* * J , pie. It is stated that fouro% ; longing to the Pacha of IjKK / captured and carried into Lj The village of Stron, in ( , lately nearly destroyed sion. It was situated on » .a - water of several springs ' y and undermined the towis^jj s which is in ruins Whci* been before seen, roofs an seen rising from the prouD'J jit has entirely disappeared* thrown out of its channel r formed a bay, is now earth. „ t fi* The following article »PPj j,< stituiional paper :- 7‘‘ - been ordered out otß*- 3 . -f# as well as from the *