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C\ironic\« and Gaidte, • • A? XDITCD DY JOSEPH VALLENCE BfiVAN$ , PUBLISHED EVXBT , Monday $ Thursday- Motions of our Ancestors about Matters and Things. Jj\iracts from Jhtrirm’sjnntomy of Melan * t'lthi: 7th foiioedition,primed at London, in 1660 : pCge 240-59. ‘ MigTcasipu P? t\\e Air. As a.longiwinged Hawk when he is first whistled off the fist. imfim's a,, d pleasure fdteMpth marty » circuit in the air, still soaring higher and higher, till he become to his fall pilch, and in the • end when the game is sprung, comes down amain, and stoops upon a sudden : so will 1, having now come at Ust into these am ide fields of air, wherein I may freely ex patiate and exercise myself for my recre ation, a while rove, wander round about the world, mount aloft to those alherial orlis and celestial spheres, and so descend to my former elements again. In which: progress, 1 will fust see whether that fe tation of the Iricr of Oxford be true, con cerning those Northern parts under the Pole} whether there be such a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the nee dle in the compass still to bend that way, and what should be the true cause of the variation of the compass, is it a mugneli culrotk, or the pole-star, or some other star in the bear; or amagnetical meridian; of the nearness of the next Continent; or sjome .other cause ; why at the Azoresit lodfes directly north, otherwise not? ’Tis lit to be enquired whether certain rules may be made of it, and till we have better intelligence, let our 1) Gilbert, and Ni cholas Cabens the Jesuite, that have both written great volumes on this subject, sa tisfy these inquisitors. Whet lie r the .sea be open and navigable b' * u “ ROI J ! Kl ' l,c » M .ni- is me TiKcnest way, under the Pole itself, which for some'reasons 1 hold best; or by fretum Davis, or Nova >Zem hla. Whether Hudson’s discovery be true of a new-found ocean ; or that there be any probability to pass by the straights of Anlan to China, by the Promontory of Ta hlS.‘ If there be, 1 shall soon perceive whether ns hfattli. Kiccius the Jesuite hath Witten, China and Cntaia he all one, the great Cham of Tarlafy and the King of China be the same . Xuntain and Quinsay, and the c\ty of Cembalo be that new Pa quin, or such a wall 41)0 leagues long to part China from Tartary. Whether Gui nea be an island or part of the Continent, or that hungry Spaniard's discovery of Terra Australis'lncognita, or Magellanica, be as true as that of MercuriuS Uritannius, or hi* of Ytopio, or his of Lucina.— Ah 1 go by Madagascar, I would see that great bird Jtuvkc, that can carry a man and horse, or an elephant, with that Arabian Phoenix described by Adricomius; seethe I’cllicanes ot Egypt,’thoSe Scylhi an Cry plies in Asia; and afterwards in the, fountains of Nilus, whether Herodotus, Seneca, Pliny and Strabo give a true cause of his natural flowing, or of Niger and Senega. I would observe all those motions of the sea. and from what causa thoy proceed, (Vein the Moon (us the vulgar holdj or earth mo tion, whiqfi Gjdiji ua in the lohrth dialogue of his system of the world, so eagerly proves, and firmly demonstrates; or w inds, as sonyj.wiV*w Why-in that quiet ocean of Zur, it is scarce perceived, in our llritish seas most violent, in the Mediterranean and Ked Sea so vehement, irregular, and diverse ? Why the current in that Allan tic ocean should still be in some places Horn, in,some again towards the north, and why they come sooner than go ? And .so fronf Moahar to Madagascar in that In Ulan ocean, the mcrclmnU come in three weeks, they return scarce in three months with the same or like winds: The conti nual current is from east fa west 1 would examine the Caspian sea, and see where and hoW it exonerates itself, After it hath taken in Volga, Jaxarc*. Uxns, and great rivers ; at the mouth of Ohy, or where ? What vent the Mexican lake hath, the TitiCacan in Peru, or that circular pool in the vale of Terspeia, hot in a cold country, the spring of which boils up in the middle twenty .foot square, and hath' no vent hut exhalation: and that of Mure .Wortuum in Palestine, of Tlnasttniene, at Pcruzui'u in Italy : How is this water con sumed, f>y the sun, or otherwise? And, if 1 could observe what becomes of swal lows, storki s, cranes, cuckuwcs, nightin gales, redstarts, and many other kind of singing birds, water-fowls, hawks, etc. some of them are only seen in summer, pome in winter; some are observed in the .■mow, and at no other times, each have their seasons, in winter not a bird is in Mnscovie to be found, hut at the spring, in un insla .t the w oods and hedges are full of them ■ How comes it to pass ? Du they sleep in winter, UkeGesuers* Alpine mice; or do they lie Ida iuthe bottom of lakes and rivers, tpiritum contiuentei ? of ten so found by fishermen in Poland and ticandavia, two together, mouth tc mouth, wing to wmg; and when the spring comes they revive again, or if they be brought into a stove, or to the fire-side. Or do they follow tne sun; whence they come whi ther they go, as yet we know not. We aec them here, some in summer, some in Winter. Many strange places, in creeks, havens, promontories, straiglits,iake.sbathes, rocks, been ruined or swallowed, battles fought, creatures, sia-nionsters, minerals, vegculs. Zoophiles were fit to be considered in such an expedition, and amongst the rest. Vert mumms wohderful palm, (that bear* etli fruit* to eat. Wood to burn, bark to make ropes, wine and water to drink, oil and sugar, and leaves as tiles to Oliver houses, flowers for clothes, £jfu. ]; that that fly in Hispaniola, tnat shines like a torca in the night, that one may w ell'sec to write; those spherical stones in Cuba which nature hath so made, and thosi like birds, beauts, fishes, crowns, swotxls. ssws, pots, etc. usually found in the metal mines in Saxony. Many rare creatures an i novelties each part ot the world as fimls ; amongst the rest, I would know' lor a certain whether there he any such men os Leo Suavius in 'us comment on araceUns and Uagumut records in his s escrqniQi, of Mutcuvte, that, in Lucomu jl*'province u» ttussia, he last, asleep as <*ead*fl wmter, the 27th of No vein- ber, like frogs and swallows, benumbed with cold, but about the 24th of April, in the Spring, they revive again, ..and go about their buiinesk. I would have a convenient to des cend and see What is in the bowels of the earth ; do stones and metals grow there still ? How come firre trees to be digged out from tops of hills, as in our mosses and marishes all over Europe ? How come they to dig up fish bones, shells beams, iron-works, many fathoms under ground, ’ and-anchors in mountains far -remote from all seas Anno 1460, at Berna in Switzer, land 50 fathoms deep a ship was digged out-of a mountain, wltere they got metal ore. in which were 48 carcasses of men, ' with oilier merchandise. 'I hat such things are'ordinarily found in tops of hills, Aris totle insinuates in his meteors, and famili arly in the Alpes, «uth Blancauns the Je suite, the like is to be seen Came this from earthquakes, or from Noah’s floml, as Christians suppose, or is there tt vicissi tude of sea and land, as Anaximenes held of old, the mountains of 1 liessa.y would become seas, and seas again mountains ; The whole world belike should he new moulded, when it seemed good to (hose all-commanding Powers, and turned inside out, as we do hay-cocks in harvest, top to ’ bottom, or bottom to top: or as we turn apples to the lire, move lie world upon his centre; that which is under the Poles now, should be translated to the Equinoc ’ rial, and that which is under the torrid zone to the circle Artiquc and Antartique . another while, and so be reciprocally war med by (lie sun . or if the worlds be infi nite, and every fixed star a sun, with his ! compassing planets, cast three or four . worlds into one ; or else of one old world . make three or four new, as it shall seem to . them best What is the centre of the ! earth ? 1* it pure element only, as Aristo . tie decrees, inhabited with creatures, , whose Chaos is the earth; or with Fairies, , as the woods and waters arc with Nymphs, r or as the air with spirits ? Dionisiodorus, a mathematician in Pliny, that sent a letter , ud tnperot after he was dead, from the . centre of the earth, to signify what dis - tance the same centre w-m fr..n. the wiper t ncits ot the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums . might have done well to have satisfied all i these doubts. Or is it the place of hell, . as Virgil in his xCneides, Plato, Lucian, . Dante, and others poetically describe it, . and as many of our Divines think ? What- C soever philosophers write (saith Surius) . there be certain mouths of hell, and places . appointed for the punishment of mens i souls, ns at llccla in Island, where the . ghosts of dead men are familiarly seen, f and sometimes talk with the living : God ( would have such visible places, that mor tal men might be certainly informed that i there be such punishments after death, and learn hence to fear God ! Kranzius r subscribes to this opinion of Surius, (out f of the authority belike of St Gregory, Du , rand, and the rest of the schoolmen, who derive as much from Etna in Sicily, Lypa ra, llycra, and those sulphureous Vales nian islands) making Terra del Fuego, and those frequent volcanoes in America, that fearful mount Hecklebirg in Norway, an especial argument to prove it, where lamentable screeches and bowlings arc continually heard, which strike a terror to the auditors; fiery chariots arc com monly seen to bring in the souls of men in the likeness of crows, and devils ordinari ly go in and out. Such another proof is ’that place near the Pyramids in Egypt, whereoncp ayeurdead" bodies arise about March, and walk, and after a while hide themselves again; thousands of people come yearly to see them. Hut these and such like testimonies others reject,as fa bles, illusions of spirits, ana they will have no such local known place, more than Styx or Phlcgeton, Pluto’s court, o that poetical Infermts, wltere Homer’s soul was seen hanging on a tree, to which they ferried over in Charon’s boat, or went down at llertnione in Greece, which is the shortest cut, (saith Gerbnlius) and be sides there were no fees to be paid. Well then, is it Hell, or Purgatory, as Bellar . mine, orasltusca will (for they have made maps of it) or Ignatius purler ? Fraciscus Hibera will havi hell a material and local fire in the centre of the earth 200 Italian miles in diameter, as he defines it out of those words. But Lcssitts will have this local hell far less, one Dutch mile in diam eter, all filled with lire and brimstone : because, as he there demonstrates, that space cubica-ly multiplied, will mske a sphere able to hold eight hundred thou sand millions of damned bodies (allowing each body six foot square) which will a bitndanlly suffice. But if it be no material tire, as others argue) it may be thereo'r elsewhere, fur sure somewhere ilis. 1 will end the controvcrsic in Austin’s words.— Better doubt of things -concealed, than <o contend about uncertainties, scarce the meek, the contentions shall never find.— Whence proceed that variety of man ners, and a distinct character (as it were) to several nations ? Some are wise, sub tie, witty.; others dull, sad anil heavy ; some nig, some little, some soft, ami some hardy, barbarous, civil, black, dun, white, is it from the air, from the soil, inlluenct of stars, or some other secret cause ? Why doth Africa breed so many venomous beasts, Ireland none ? Athens owls, Crete none ? Why' hath Daubs and Thebes n.i swallows, as well us the rest of Greece, Ithaca no hart s, Pontes, asses, Scythia, swine ? Whence come (his variety of com plexions, colours, plants, birds, heas's, me tals, .peculiar to almost every place ? Why so many thousand strange birds and beasts proper to America alone; were they cre ated in the six days, or ever in Noah’s ark ? if there, why are they not dispersed and found iu other countries? ft i> a thing hath long held me in saspence ; no Greek, Latin, Hebrew ever heard of them before, and yet as differing from our European animals, as an egg and a ches nut; and which is more, kinc, howes, sheep, S-c, till the Spaniards brought them were never heard df iivthose parts? How comes it-to pass, that in the same site, in one Latitude, to such ne arc the I‘eriaci, ttobre should be such difference of soil, complexion, color, nipt aI, air, £'c. The Spaniards are whue, and so are Italians, where as the inhabitants about Caput bomr spei are blackmores, and yet botli alike distant from the .'Equator : nay, they that dwell in the same parallel bite with there negroes, as about the straights of Magel .an, are white colored, and yet some in Presbyter Johns country in -.Ethiopia are dtm { they in Zuilan and Malabar parallel wth them again black. Our climes breed i lice, cuiue to the Azores, by a secret vir- I Uie ot lieu air they at e instantly consum- • ed, and all our European vermfne almost i saith °o6lius. Egypt is watered with j Nilus not far from the aea, »w\ yet there i it seldom or never rains: Klrodes, an Isl- i and of the game-nature, yields not a cloud, i and yet our inlands ever dropping and in- i dining to rain The Atlantic ocean is i still subjec' to storms, but in Del Zur, or | Marie pacifico, seldom or never any.— | Bohemia is cold, for that it lies all along to,the north. Hut why should it be so !ipt in Egypt, or there never rain ? Why should those E esian and North-eastern winds blow continually and constantly so long together, in some places, at set times, one way still, in the dog-days only ; here perpetual drought, there dropping show ess, here foggy mists, there a pleasant air; here terrible thunder and lightning, at such set seasons, here frozen seas all the year, there open in the same latitude, tp the rest no such thing, nay (poke oppo site is to be found ? Sometimes, (as in Peru) on the one aide of the mountains it is hot, on the other cold, here snow, there wind, with infinite such. Fromundus in his meteors will excise or solve all this by the sun’s motion, but when there is such diversity to such is Perioeci, or arc of very near site, how caul hat position hold ? Who can give a reann of this diversity of Meteors; that it inould rain stones, frogs, mice, etc. rats which they call Lem merin Norway and art manifestly observ cd by the inhabitants o descend and fall W'ith some Incident f.hiwers, and like so many locusts, consume ill that is green. — Leo Afer speaks as ninth of locusts, about Fez in Harbary there beinfinite swarms in iheir fields upon a suddn; so at Arles in France 1553, the like rappenod by the same mischief, all theirgrass and fruits were devoured. If the Heavens be peretrable, and no lets, it were not amiss ii) this xrial •fro gress, to make wings, and fly up, which that Turk in Bosbequins, nade his fellow citizens in Constantinope believe he would perform : and soroi new-fangled wits, me thinks, should sometime or Other find out: or if that may not le, yet with a Galilies glass, or Icaromenippus’wing in Lucian, command the Spheres ami Hea ven, and see what is done among-lhcm.— Whether the stars be of that b.gaess, dis tance, as astronomers relate, so many in number; or as Gulilie discover! by his glasses, infinite, and that viulactea, a confused lig'ht of small stars, likeso many nails in a door : or all in a row Ike those 12000 isles of the Maldives, in the Indian ocean ? Whetherthey he thicker parts of the orbs, as Aristotle delivers; op so -ma ny habitable worlds, as Democritus ? whether they have light of their own, or from the sun, or give light round ? Whe ther light be of their essence ; and that light be a substance or an accident ? whe ther they be hot by themselves, or by ac cident cause heat; whether there he such a precession of the .Equinoxes, as Coper nicus holds, or that the eighth sphere move ? Besides, an terra sit antmitn ? which some so confidently believe; from which all other souls of men, beasts, de vils, plants, fishes, &?c. are derived, and into which again, after some revolutions, they return, as all philosophical matter in matenan pritnum. And that every star in heaven hath a soul, angel, or intelligence, to animate or move it- Or to omit all smaller controversies, as matters of less moment, and examine that main paradox of the earth’s motion, so ninch in question. If the earth move, it is a planet, and shines to item in the moon, and to the other planetary inhabitants, as the moon & they lo ns upon the earth ; but shine she doth, as Galilie, Kepler, and others prove, and then per consequence, the rest of the planets are inhabited, as 'Well as the moon. For if the firmament be oP such an incomparable bigness, as these Coper rical giants will have it, so vast and full of innumerable stars, as being in finite in extent, one above another, some higher, some lower, some nearer, some farther ofi’, and so far asunder, and those so huge and great. Why may we not suppose a plurality of worlds, those infi nite stars visible in the firmament to be so many suns, with particular fixt centres; to have likewise their subordinate planets, as the sun hath his dancing still round him ? But to avoid these Paradoxes of the earth’s motion (which the Church of Borne hath lately condemned as heretical, our latter mathematician's have rolled all tlic stenes that may be stirred : and to solve all appearances and objections, have invented new hypotheses, and fabricated new systems of the world, out ol their Dcdalwan heads. Rceslin censures all, and Ptolomens himself as insufficient: — one olfcnds against natural philosophy, another against optic principles, a third against mathematical, as not answering to astronomical observations: one puts a great space betwixt Satnrmis’ orbe and the eighth sphere, another too narrow.— In his own hypothesis he makes the earth as before, the universal centre, the sun to the five upper planets, to the eighth sphere lie ascribes diurnal motion, eccen trics, epicycles lo the seven planets, which had formerly been exploded; ami so. Dim vifanl vtnili villa in contraria cun-nut, as a tinker stops one hole and makes two, he corrects them, and doth worse himself; reforms Hume, and marrs all. la the mean time, the world is tossed in a blanket a mongst them, they hoise the earth up and dJHvu fixe a hall, make it stand and go at their pleasures; One saith the sun stands, another he moves; a third comes in, tak ing them all at rebound. And so whilst these men contend about the sun tunl moon, like the philosophers in Lucian, it is to he feared, the sun and moon will hide themselves, and be as much offended as site was with those, and send another message to Jupiter,by some newfangled Icaromenippus. to make an end of all those curious controversies, ami scatter them abroad. But why should the sun and moon be angry, or ta!;e exceptions at mathemati cians and philosophers? when as the like measure is offered unto God himself, by a company of Theologasters; they we not contented to see tire sun and moon, fnta-’ sure their site and distance in a glass, calculate their motions, or visit the moon in a poetical fiction, or a dream; not m jest, but in good earnest these gygautical Cyclops will transcend spheres, heaven, stars, into that Empyrean heaven; soai higher yet, and see what God himself doth. The Jewish Thahnudists tike upon them to determine how God spends ins whole time, sometimes playing with'Levi- ' athan, sometime overseeing the world, ' etc. like Lucien’s Jupiter,that spent much' - of the year in painting butter-flies’ wings,' and seeing who offered sacrifice ; taling the hours when it should rain, how much snow should fall in such a place, which ’ way the wind should stand in Greece, e which way in Africk. In the Turk’s Atco- « ran, Mahomet is taken up to heaven, upon s a I’egassus sent a purpose from him ; amd 1 after some conference with God is set on t ground again. The Pagans paint him&man- a gle him after a thousand fashions; our here- t tics, schismatics, and some schoolmen, t come not far behind ; some paint him in c the habit of an old man, and make maps of heaven, number the angels, tell their 1 several names, offices ; some deny God < and his providence, some take his office out of his hand, will bind and loose in I heaven, release, pardon, forgive, and be I quarter-master with him ; some call his I G idhead in question, his povycr, and altri- 1 bales, his mercy, justice, providence;— they will with Cecilius, why good and bad are punished together, war, fires, 1 plagues infest all alike, why wicked men flourish, good are poor, in prison, sick, and ill at case. Why doth he suffer so much mischief and evil to be done, it he be able to help ? why, doth he not assist the good, or resist bad, reform our wibs, it he be not the author of sin, and let such enormities he committed, unworthy of his knowledge, wisdom, government, mercy, and pr-oviclcnce ; why lets he all tilings be done by fortune and chanrt Some, by visions and revelations, take up on them to be familiar with God, and lo be of privy council wi'h him; they will tell how many, and who shall be sav ed, when file world shall come to an end, what year, wliat month, ami whatsoever, else God hath reserved unto himself, and to hisangels Some again curious plum tactics, will know more than this, and en 'quire with Epicurus, what God did before the world was made ? was he idle?| Where did he bide ? What did he make the world of? why did he then make it, &. not before? If he made it new, or to hiive an end, how is he unchangable, infinite, which as our Saviour told his inquisitive disciples, are not fit’fbr them to know. Butlioo! lam now quite out of sight, I am almost gid dy with roving about; 1 coaid-have rang ed farther yet; but lam an infant, and not able to dive-into these profundities, or sound these depths ; not able to un derstand, n«:cn less to discuss. 1 leave the contemplation of these things lo stronger wits,that have belter ability, and happier leisure to wade into such philoso phical mysteries -. for put case 1 were as able as willing, yet what can one man do ? I will conclude with Scaliger—when God sees his time, he will reveal lln-se myste ries to mortal man, and shewthal to some few at last,which he hath For 1 am of his mind, that Columbtts-did not find out America by chance, but God directed him at the time lo discover it: it as contiagent to him, hut necessary lo God; he reveals and conceals to whom, and wnen'iie will. And which onerud of histories and records of former times, God in Itis providence'to check curpre sumptuous inquisition, wraps up all things in uncertainty, bars us from long antiquity, and bounds our search with in the compass of some few ages— Many good things are lost, which our predecessors made use of; many new things are daily invented, to the public good ; so kingdoms, men, and knowledge ebb and flow, are hid and revealed, and when you have all done; as the preacher concluded, jVihil eat sub sole novum. But my melancholy Spaniels quest, my game is sprang, and t must suddenly come down and folio w. From the Liverpool Mercury, Aug. 31. THE KING. Extracted from private Correspondence DUBLIN, August 20 The levee was unequalled, both in point of numbers and of rank, by any levee lha. has been held within the memory of man, in this country Carriages from an early hour up to three o’clock, thronged the great avenues leading to the -Castle.— About one o’clock his Majesty’s carriages, preceded by a squadron-ol dragoons, drove up. It was not without difficulty that he was able to pass. The spectators, who," crowded the windows and the streets, re peated those animated cheers which have followed the chariot whec's of the King wherever he appeared in this country. At this levee were seen crowding round the throne, persons who, not many weeks ago, we'e the most active and violent lea ders of a complaining people—persons who for many yeais stood opposed to the will of tiie Castle, and who, in return, were frowned down by the face of power—al most always in this country', dark, gloomy. ■ t aml unpopular. The grave and unobtrusive Quakers al so appeared on this occasion in the Royal presence. They seemed anxious to sail down the tide of fashion ; they suffered their hats to be taken oil’ before they went into the presence of the King ; they will perhaps the next time lake ofi’ their fiats tlicmselves. The greatest novelty of the day was the approach of the Homan Catholic Bishops. 1 here can, 1 think, be no doubt ofhis majesty'spartiality towards tiie Catholics—how -else can we account for the gracious reception which tiieir -clergy received? This is the first time -since the reformation that the Catholic Church in Ireland may be said to have reared its head; and on this day', unwreck ed, almost unaffected by the stormy pro secution of three hundred years, it has raised-its mitred head in all the pomp and splendor of its ancient power. It is cer tainly a fact worthy ofabservalion, that the Catholic hierarchy, unpatronised and un salaried. known to the law for centuries past only as objects of punishment and degradation, should at length appear in the presence o< royalty—unbroken in spi rits —undiininishcd in numbers and in splendor—and in point of moral influence standing infinitely higher than they did before the r. formation—than they did b t . fort die enactments of those persecuting laws which have so long disgraced the English Code.—A vast number ofaddriss es have been presented at the Levee—the King received them ail in the most graci ous manner. 1 stu l ed in ray last letter tha . the Earl of Fingul was to be made one of the knights of St. Patrick; I was correc. in the His Lordship, previ ous to the Levee, was introduced to his ■Majesty amongst other noblemen ; he re ceived lire honor of Knighthood, and was', invested with the Insignia of the order The Catholics, I think with justice, stiz< »pon this circumstance, as affording ano dier proof of the Itoyal regard for their body. Before the Levee, his Majesty sent fur tke Earl of FingaJ, and or as pleased to express towards that nobleman the high- U est esteem; his Majesty assured his Lord- h ship that he always felt the utmost regard L for the Irish Catholics ■, he ahvaya enter- b tained a high opinion of their steady loy- c ally, and the opportunities afforded him 1 of looking with his own eyes on their con- t duct, fully justified bis most ardent anti- t cipalions < Knights of St. Adr/cfc.-r Previous to the 1 Levee this day, his Majesty held an inves- 1 titure of the most illustrious order of St, ] Patrick, which was attended by his grace < the Lord Primate, and several officers be- 1 longing to the order. The following‘no- \ bleinen were introduced, when eacli re- < ceived the honor ofKniglithooi, and were 1 invested with the insignia of the order i Lord Craves,-as proxy fir bis Royal High- ; ness the Duke of Cumberland, who was i introduced between the two senior knights the Marquess Cony ogham, and the Karl i O’Neill. .The Marquess of Donegal, his Excellency the Earl Talbot, the Karls of Ormonde, Meath, Roden, Court own,- ami Finga), were subsequently introduced be tween the two junior knights. Sir Willum Itctham, Ulster King of Arms, bearing the ribbon and badge on a blue velvet cush- ! ion. Ills majesty afterwards held an inves lure of the most honorable order of die Rath, when Admiral tbc honorable Thus. Pakenham, K. It. C. and Sir .lohn Elley, K O. R. received the honor of knight hood. Several Irish Noblemen were nlso se lected as pages on tile occasion, and ma «y noblemen and gentlemen were appoin ted Esquires, The King held a drawing room on Tues day evening week. The presentations were numerous. At a lute hour his ma jesty retired, being much (aligned, and supposing that he had seen the whole of the company; but when it was intimated that more had arrived, he immediately re turned, solicitous to prevent any disap pointment. After twelve o’clock a cold collation was served up, and the tnagnifi ounce of his majesty’s plate excited uni versal admiration. flis Majesty visited the Theatre on Wednesday The number of tickets was limited ; yet so great, war the anxiety ex cited, that crowds assembled at the house at three in the afternoon. At one period it was announced that the King' was com ing ; the curtain rose, and the hand be gan “ God save the King.” It was a false alarm, and the performance was disconti nued amidst much laughter at the mistake A little before eight his Majesty enteicd the Royal Bov, attended by Mr Harris and Mr. Farren, who each held a branch with candles. The box was fitted up elegantly with crimson cloth Earl Talbot and «- ther noblemen were with his Majesty The audience rose and hailed him jvith acclamations : his Majessy bowed repeat edly, and hats and handkerchiefs prolong ed the testimony of respect His Majes ty was dressed in the Windsor unifom, Sc appeared in excellent spirits. The per formances w ere the Duenna and St Pa trick’s JJay. Previous to the farce, an Irish piper was led on the stage, and, a chair being placed for him, he sat and played some national airs, including. “God save the King,” “Saint Patrick’s Day,” and' “The Sprig ol Shillela,” at which his Majesty appeared much pleas ed. When his Majesty rose ; n retired, the applause was loud and incessant. On Thursday his Majesty visited the Li nen Hall, accompanied by a Noble retinue. Lord Oriel conducted the King along the galleries, which were lined with ladies and - gentlemen, to the ware-room of Messrs. Ooulson, who have been for many years manufacturers to his May’- sty. The room was hung with paintings, descriptive of the various process used from the sowing of the flax, to the completion of the manufacture. In the centre of the room, a cloth of the most exquisite workman ship Was spicad, with which the King ap peared highly pleased. At the ton and bottom are interwoven the Royal Arms, in a temple of honor, and in the centre, and along the side, are representations of the several foreign orders with which his Majesty bus been piesented, as well as ■ those of Great Britain. His Majesly re mained a quarter of an hour viewing the various fabrics prepared lor his inspec tion. lie expressed the pleasure the ex hibition afforded him, and took leave of the proprietors la the most gracious man ner. ■His Majesty nest visited the Bank of Ireland, where splendid preparations had been made by the Directors. His Majes ty was conducted, in the first instance, to the great Cash-office. On this occasion a gallery was erected, which went round the whole, covered with red cloth, and completely filled with elegantly djvssod females. He next inspected the Tians fer-office, and the Armory, and rooms where the machinery casts off the notes. With the latter he was particularly pleas ed, and by bis questions and remarks, evinced a thorough knowledge of the arts. His Majesty was next conducted to the proprietor’s room, where tables were splendidly laidfor 180 persons, and filled with every delicacy and the choicest wines. Immediately under the statue of the late Monarch, a chair of state was placed for his Majesty. Every tiling which luxury could demand; or genius invent, was profusely supplied. Mis M.je.siy ex pressed to the Governor his great appro bation of the beauty and system of the establishment. In the evening, his Maj’esty honoured the Lord Mayor and Corporation with his presence .at dinner, in the magnifi cent apartment lately constructed in the rear of the Mansion-house, for the pur pose. The room is circular; 100 feet in diameter, without any support but the externa] walls A splendid throne was prepared for his Maj’esty. The numerous guests arrived generally by seven- The gallery was completely filled by the fe male rank and beauty of the metropolis, whose brilliant fancy dresses and tower ing plumes formed a splendid and facinat 1 iog coup d’ail. HU Majesty was received at the Mansion-house by the Lord Mayor it, aldermen, & the internal guard was com posed of gentlemen, in elegant uniform, Si ‘ with battle axes The Baltle-ase Guard was also in attendance. In the great drawing room? bis Majesty conferred the honor of knighthood upon the Recorder and two Sheriffs: whereupon the former < delivered, in the name of the Cor jiflration, a suitable and affectionate ad dress. As his Majesty entered the dining oom, the whole assembly rose, and the < band played “ God save the Kiag.” “His Majesty walked up the middle of the loom with towering dignity, supported by be Lord Mayor, who conducted ns throne.” Grace being Sa ;,i ■ Lord Primate, the Lord \l avor X Ins Majesty to soup, but his‘ vi'fl observing some of the guests uJJX he in the most corniest ndinj II took the ladle and helped .the Urd « tenant and others- The Kintr, drank tire health of his l-ord Mayor and Lieutenant. i being; removed,, the Lord Mayor rosX proposed the health of ( »(Jur mo-t fl ons Sovereign, who had honot.rcd'tl.M iiis Corporation of the city with his presence.” The mast W B ceived With the roust enthusiastic an tB Ilis Majesty here rose, and having bX m a gracious manner to those arou,rX and also to the ladies hv the galluX down amidst thunders of applause ’■ band struck up the national anthem I the whole vocal slrengtli of the Ci ifl eluding Miss Stephens, joined dX whicit appeared to give great salislaX to his Majesty, as lie kept lime hand upon the table. Ili a Majesty ■ having taken wine with all those iii-.S ately about him, imimaitt’d his wish X tiie, an.l the t cccssary a. ran tog made, at a few minutes o clock his Majesty stood up, and, edhy the Lord Mayor and all IheGieX fiueis (f Stale, proceeded dawn trees the room, all the company stl mg. 7 lie Lord Mayor returned to I company. Many appropriate toasts X drank, and concluded with (hutg.u-iH the Lord Mayor, “Our most verign, George the Four'll, The KinX liifciAMi.” 7'he hand again plajeu -H save the King” and the company senX ed. I WI On Friday hi.s Maj< sty visited the lin Society, alter wlik'h he left my, X Slant 1 , the scat of the Marquis ufUnX ham. jPI A numeiotis m .-eting was held on day week, of the Nobility , Clrrgy.X others,the Lord Mayor inthe CfaiiH the purpose of raising a subscription h] testimonial, to commemorate his ty’s visit, when it was re.-olved thi.tX National Tes.iinonial he erected Wki lie subscription, and that a subsci ;B| for this purpose be forthwith opeuciHk In the course ot a f yy niiiin.'res, the Bk. sciiption l.sts were filled to the amKt of several thousand pounds. W [The following is an extrret London Clone; and as a envio., i paniment, we hav? put aft; it, dia iH| on ’he death of Sheridan by Moor, l & eaders will perceive many personal s ions to his Majesty, which do i,m ct port with the compliment that lie cnBH vored to pay,.] W “ Dublin , Avgust 21—The King to the 7 hcatre to-morrow tverm play and farce selected by his M. bath from the pen ol the late Drinstey Sheridan ” S Prlncijiibm fitucuhse v'ris Uo:u^B Vks, grief will have way—b it the falling tear K Shall be mintrl.il with deep on those, By Who could bask in that Spirit’s u.er'Bt career, » And yet leave it thus lonely an,| y Kb: its close:— H Whose vanity flew round him K 1 By the odour his fame in iu »- time gave;— ■e Whore vanity now with quick mt tire dead, pi Like the Ghole of the Last, conic feed at iiis grave! fl 1 ' Oh! it sickens the heart to see hollow, S| And spirits so mean in the great aH high ■ born; K To think what a long line of titles follow B The relics <;f him who died—fricniUß. and lorn! B, How proud they can press to the array . B Os one, wliom they slut lin’d in his ness and sorrow:— B How bailiff’s may seize his last blanket, tH. Whose pall shall be held up by to-morrow! B. And Thou, too, whose life, a sick r’H cure’s dream, B Incoherent and gross, even grosser Were it not for that cordial and mg beam, , ( H Wliich his friendship and wit o cr nothingness cast; — K c No, not for the wealth of the land supplies tliee B, With millions to heap upon fopper shriiu; — No, not for the riches of all who thee, X Tho’ this would make Europe s '' |r ' opulence thine; K. Would I suffer what —tv’n in the iicsß that thou hast— B All mean as it is—must have consctw ly huniM, When 'the pittance, which shame b&B wrong from tliee at last, B And which found all his wants at end, was return’d!* B “ Was this (lien the fate!”—future will say, . ~ When some names shall live but m lory’s curse; When truth will be heard, and these of a day ~ Be forgotten as fools, or remember u •' worse: — jB « Was this then the fate of that edman, X “The wide of the palace, the and the hall, . , ■ “ The orator—diamatisl —ministrei B “ Through each mode of the Iy re > H was master of all! ■ “ Whose mind was an essence, coift-H pounded with art „ ■ m From the finest and best of all o " H men’s powers:— “Who ruled, like a wizard,the * Bl H the heart, vr'r-.f B **And could call up its sunshine. cr "■* ■ down its showers! B