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LONDON, March 26. Avery interesting conversation tool-, place last nig.it in the house of commons, upon the motion of .Mr. Martin, for an address to his majesty, praying that lie would not grant any office lor life which lud usually been granted dm i.ig pleasure. I his motion t'j:> directed against Mr. Perceval, to v. litun it was in con templation to grant the Chancellorship of the Duchy ot Lancaster for lite as a compensation to-hini for giving up his profession on accept ing the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Perceval took his scat on the treasury’ bench, and after having expressed hia senti ments upon the motion lie withdiew. (in a division, the memhers weie— l or the address, 208 Against it, 115 Majority against the new administration 9 5 i lie house of commons was uncommonly crowded with nunihers, about 50 of whorii were obliged to take their scat:, in the side gai lciics, for want of room in the house. March 28. Yesterday morning his majesty’s late minis ters intended at Buckingham house, and in con formity to the royal command resigned their se Is ol ofiice. I.ord Chancellor Erskinc is not \u surrender the great seal till Wednesday next, ns it is his majesty’s pleasure that he should ret.itii hi . high oiiu e till that peiiod, in order to enable him to pronounce his judgment upon several causes in the court of chancery, ig.on which he was about to decide. The “duke of J’or !..nd kissed hands on being appointed first lord oft he treasury. Mr.Canning went through til - same ceremony, as seceretary of state for the foreign department, and not as first lord of the admiralty, as reported. The Ltt. r situati on is, we find, to be allotted to lord Mu'grave ; lord Hawkcsbury also kissed his majesty’s li.uk! on being appointed to the home <fopnil - carl of W estmoreland, pi ivy seal; carl Camden is to lie president of the council. Pii< e of stocks this day at one o’clock—con sois62—omnium l-3a 3-4. COMMERCIAL INTEL I.I6 F.KC T . Tt is proposed, as a.i object highly important in a coinmeici.il view, to make a small establish ment on the now almost depopulated island of Otahcitc; and to render it useful In the naviga tion to and ft oin Botany Bay, as a place where stiips may procure abundant supplies cf pork ind vegetables. The king of Owhylic, is making htuiseff master of the other Sandwich i-sl. nils ; i> improving them to the greatest pros pi iily of agriculture and population ; is ambi tious ot making them scats ol manuafctiires and commerce—anti even proposes to open a trade to Xoutku Sound and to Bengal. Flic colony of Botany Bay is advancing gra dually imo a great mart for the Biitisfi and East-India protjuce li is expected that the colonists of that settlement may he shortly able to furnish bom lii.lcs and wood hemp and 11 ix, tlu-ir share in the southern whale fishery, and from the part they take in the fur trade be tween India and the. north west coast ol Ame rica, export sufficient to repav for ail die im .ts which the progress of the colony de mands. There were imported into the port of London last week, hunt Canada, the following skins, viz. 10.5.000 heavers, 123,000 racoons, 54,000 marten, 12 000 otter, 15.000 wolf, 5,200 cat, 1000 hear. 15 000 minx, 10,000 f0x.2.300 wolve rine, 15.500 mus.pish. 216,000 deer, too elk, and 600 pounds weight of castor. The trade for furs to the north west coast of America iscntii cly in the hands of the citizens oi the United State!'.. India and China arc the places of sale for the furs, and it proves a lu crative branch of commerce. It is thought this trade might be shared by the Biiri.h sub ject. Our Canada furt-rude is profitable, as also that <>f the Hudson’s bay com; any*. In the Island of Cuba there is nciiher grown wheat, olives, or vines. Every article ofcioth i ig i brought from Europe, there not being a single manufactory of any kind in it. In 1 r.)2 there were exported to Spain 30000 cwl. of to iacco. besides that consumed in the country and in America. The export of wax tout year utnountc Ito 50.000 cwt. Bees have on lv been introduced into Cuba since the \ ear 1764. Alter the pence ol Versailles, when 1 U'rida was ceded tollie English, some families ( ..me o\cr from St. Augustine, and brought : :,i:e hives with them, and in a short time they “mercased so ranch that the sugar plantations Ik came endangered. i'iicre are 600 sugar-mills in the island of C i( ; f mi these, including what is cmisuni e 1 in ’he country, more th ,n 500.000 cwt. of •".gar was exported to Europe. In this i-land t .ic* v iv not one. navigable river, only small ri vult .and streams ; there are 1 18 lakes, which ( uuuin fish ; there is abundance of turtle on 1 .0 There were 4"> sail of American ships in China last \ ear, who took from thence to Ame rica from eight to ten thousand tons of tea, a great part of which found its way to Europe. (’ inton is full of American adventurers, many of whom re’ii c with large fortunes in a few rears ; there are at least a dozen who h ive It *en residents for a year or two and have al ready realized a considerable sum. Men of the most extr.xirdinarv talents, and who have rendered themselves the must con spicuous, have liecn often men of a small size of hodv, and sometimes deforroo'd. Witness Alexander, Horace, Eugene, Pope. Dumon rier, Hamilton. B n*te. ,xc. Washington was an exception, who was as majestic i;i his p>on, as lus fame is eternal, Tk GM THE- RICHMOND ENQUIRER. The writings of Godwin are well known in this country. His novels of Caleb Williams and St. Leon are distinguished by a spi.it ol eloquence, invention am pathos, which must ever entitle them to an elevated rank amidst the woi ks of imagination. Jf is essays of the Lnquiicr arc uncommonly useful, as disquisi tions on the topics of common life ; andhis political justice, in spite of its visionary theo ries, and dangerous doctrines, is perhaps the boldest, and the most original work, on political subjects which ever appeared from the press. It contains valuable truths ; and perhaps there is no work extant, which exhibits a rnoic glow ing defiance of liberty, or a more nervous attack upon ah privileged system. It is much desi red, that these* parts ol his work could be sepa rated from lfis political and moral theories, ui and published by themselves. Such is tlre man who has composed the fol lowing noble and sublime Eulogy on Charles I ox ; the most eloquent and correct w hich we have yet seen issued from the press. ritOM THE DUBLIN- EVENING POST. TO THE EDITOR. Sir—You will, if you think proper, insert the enclosed in your paper, and subscribe it tvillimy name. Itisan unexaggerated state ment <4 what I think of the character of our late .deceased minister, taken in a single point o! view, tn writing it I have dismissed from my mind aIV temporary feelings of regret, and expressed myself with the severity and pluin ne;,•> of a distant posterity. 1 have nothing to do with adniiiustratioi, and have scarcely a slight acquaintance with a few of its members. My character, such as it u, anti my disposition, arc subjects of notoriety; and every one, capable of judging righteous judgment, has a tolerable sound idea re* p cling them. Perhaps, then, even my testimony, individual and uninfluen ced as it necessarily is, may not be an unaccep table tribute to the memory of the great man we deplore. I am, sir, your obedient servant, W Godwin. London, October 21, ISC6. CHARACTER OF MR. VOX. Charles James Fox was for 52 yeats a prin cipal leader in the debates and tibcussious oi the English house cf commons. The eminent transactions of hts life lay within those wells; and so many of his countrymen as were accus tomed to hear his speeches there, or have ha bitually read the abstracts which have been published ot them, are in possession cf the principal materials by which this extraordinary man is to be judged. Fox is the most illustrious model of a parlia mentary leader on the side of liberty that this country has produced. This cln.racier is the appropriate glory of England, and Eox is the proper example of this character. England has been called, will: great felicity ,<f conception. “ The land of liberty and good sense.” We have preserved many of the ad vantages of a free people, which the nations of the continent have long * nice lost. Nome of them have made wild and into operate sallies forthe recovery of foi those things which are most valuable to maintain scricfv, but their ef forts have not been attended with the happiest success—'l here is a sobriety in the English people, particularly in accord with the posses sion ol freedom. W c arc somewhat slow, and somewhat silent; but Jreneath this outside we have much reflection, much firmness, a con sciousness of power and worth, a spirit of frank dealing, and plain speaking, and a moderate and decent sturdiness of temper not easily to he deluded or subdued. For 32 years Eox hardly ever opened lvis mouth in parliament, but to assert in some form or other the cause of liberty and man kind, and to repel tyranny m its various shapes, and to protest against the encroachments of power. In the American war, in the ques tion of reform at home, which grew out of the American war, and in the successive scenes which were produced by the French ievolu tion, Fox was still found the perpetual advocate of freedom He endeavoured to secure the privileges and the happiness of the people of Asia, and the people of Africa. In chinch and state his principles were equally favourable to the cause ol liberty. Englishmen can nowhere find tile sentiment of freedom unfolded and amplified in more animated language, or in a more cons-s-mt tenor, than in the recorded parliamentary debates of Fox. Mam* have call ed in some of their branches—none have suc ceeded in fixing a strain upon the truly English temper of his heart. The reason why Eox so much excelled, in this reign, Vv m. Pultcney, and other eminent leaders of opposition, in the re'gn of George 11. was, that his heartbeat in accord to the sen timents of liberty. The character of the Eng lish nation has improved since the vear 1760. The two first kings of the house of Hanover, did not aspire to the praise of cncouragers of British literature, and had no passion for the fine arts; and their minister, >ir Robert W.c polc, loved nothing, nor pretended to under stand any thing lint finance, commerce and peace. His opponents caught their tone from his. and their deba’es rather resembled those of the directors of a great trading company, than of men who were concerned with the pas sions, the morals, the ardent sentiments, and the religion of a generous and enlightened na tion. The English seemed last generating in to such a people as the Dutch ; but Burke and Fox, and other eminent characters not ne cessary to he mentioned here, redeemed us from the eminent depravity, and lent their es forts to make us the worthy inhabitants of a soil, winch had pioduccd a bhakspeai e, a Ba con, at id a Miiton. Fox, in addition to the generous feelings of his heart, pos.cssed in a supreme degiee the power of an acute logician. lie seized, wi ll astonishing rapidity, the defects of his antago nist’s arguments, and held them up m the most si. iking point of ridicule, lie ncvei had misrepresented what his opponent had said, or attacked his accidental overnights, but faiily met and routed him where lie though, himselt strongest. Though he had at no time studied law as a profession, he never entered the iists in reasoning with a lawyer, that he did nut shew himself superior to the gowned pleader at lfis own weapons. It was this singular junc tion of the best feelings of the human utidei standing, that, made Mr. i ox the wonderful creature he was. Let us compare William Pitt in office, and Charles J. Fox out of it, and endeavor to decide upon their respective claims to the gratitude cf posterity. Pitt was surrounded with all that can dazzle the eye of a vulgar spectatior ; lie possessed the plenitude of power; during a part of his reign, he was nearly as despotic as the minister of a mixed government can be: lie dispensed the gifts cf the crown ; he commanded the purse of the nation—lie wield ed the political strength of England. I ox, dur ing almost all his life, had no part of these ad vantages. It has been said, that Pitt preserved his country from the anarchy and confm ion, which, from a neighboring nation, threatened to infect us. ‘Phis is a very doubtful position. It is by no means clear, that the English people could ever have engaged in so wild, indiscriminate, ferocious, and sanguinary a train of conduct, as was exhibited by the people of France. It is l>v no means clear, that the end which Pitt is said to have gained, could not have been ac complished without such bloody wars, such for-* midable innovation on the liberty of English men—such duplictity, unhallowed dexterity and treachery, and so audacious a desertion oi all the principles with which the minister com menced his political life, us Put employed Meanwhile, it was the simple, ingenuous and manly office of Fox, to protest against tire madness and the despotical proceedings of his rival in administration ; and if he couicl not successfully counteract the measures ol Pitt, the honor at least is due to him, to have brought out the English character, not fun damentally impaired, in the issue of the most arduous trial it was ever called to sustain. The eloquence ot these two renowned states men well correspond with the different parts they assumed in public life. The eloquence of i itt was bold and artificial. The complicat ed, yet harmonious structure of his periods, be spoke the man of connivance and study. No man knew so weii as Put, how to answer the questions of his adversary without communi cating the smallest information. He v,\.s nev cr taken off his guard. If Pitt ever appeared in some eyes to grove warm as he proceeded, it was with a measured warmth—there were no starts and sallies, and sudden emanations of the soul; he seemed to be as much under Ihe minutest regulation in the most \ ehement swell ings and apostrophes ol his speech, as in the coldest calculations. Mr. Fox. as an orator, appeared to conic im mediately from the forming band of nature. He spoke well, because lie felt strongly and earnestly. His oratory was clear and impetu ous as the current of the river Rhone ; nothing could arrest its course. Kis voice would insen sibly use to 100 high a key: he would run him self out of breath. Every thing shewed how little artifice there was in his eloquence. Though, on all great occasions he was throughout energetic, yet it was by sudden flashes and emanations, that he electrified the heat t, and shot through the blood of his hearer. I have seen ls countenance lighted up with more than mortal ardor and goodness—l have been present when his voice has become suffocated vvith the sudden bursting forth of a torrent of teat s. The love of freedom which marks the public proceedings of Fox, is exactly analogous to the natural temper of his mind; lie seemed born for the cause which his talents were cm ployed to support. He was the most unassum ing of mankind. He was so far from dictating to others, that it was otten imputed to him, though, perhaps erroneously, that lie suffered others to dictate to him. No man ever exist ed more simple in his manners, more single hearted, or less artificial in his carriage. Ihe set phrases of v, hat is called polished life, made no part of Ills ordinary speech ; he courted no mar. ; he practised adulation to none. Noth ing was in more diametrical opposition to the affected, than the whole of his behaviour. His feelings in themselves, and in the expressions of them, were in the most honorable sense of the words, childlike. Various anecdotes might lie related of his innocent and defenceless man ners in private and familiar life, which would form the most striking contrast with the vul gar notion of the studied and designing de meanor of a statesman. This was the man that was formed to defend the liberties of English men : hts public and private life are beautiful parts of a consistent whole, and reflect mutual lusturc on each other. lo conclude, Mr. Fox was the great orna ment of the kingdom of England during the latter part of the eighteenth century. What he did is the due result of the illumination of the present age, and of the character of our ancestors for ages past. Pitt (if I may be excu sed for mentioning him once again) was mere ly a statesman, he was formed to seize occa sions to possess himself of power, and to act with consummate craft upon every occurrence unit arose. He belonged to ancient Carthage; lie helnUTTd to rrtrdcm Italy; bnt there it nothing in him that exptessly i.eicr.gs to Lng land. 1 ox, on the central s—mark5 —mark how i.e ouishir.es his rival; hew little acquisition of power a dels to the intrimic character of the man—is all over English. He is the mirier of the national character of the age in which he lived; its best, its purest, its n.ost honorable repiesentative. No cieatuie that lias the gen uine leelings of an Englishman, can recollect without emotions of exultation, the temper, the endowments, and the public conduct oi Fox. THE WOE-IMP OE TAT 1C W LAW. Men of sound minds and good hearts have differed in opinion as to the policy cf our noi .- importation act; it was, however, reserved for men of very different principles and rLaracters to doubt our right to pass such a law, and to threaten us with the vengeance of Gieat-liiitaiii if w e presumed to persist 111 a just course of re taliation. In the “ True American” (never was paper mor ejaleefy named) of Tuesday, was published “ an extract of a letter fiom a gemlen an in L dinburg, to his fiiend in New-Voik,” relath© to the non-importatidir law. it is lull of lotdiy opinions as to the supremacy of Great-Brituin, and tiro humble deper.deuce of ti e U. Mates. It is really subject of 1 egret that editors can be found base enough to giv e currency ano sanc tion to such atrocious ‘iLels on the independence of America. The letter begins thus—“ Our manufactur ers arc in high spirits on the prospectot peace with your country. ‘1 he passage of the non importation act was really a wick and measure, on your side, against orr laboring poor. Short as the time was, it had lower ed the price of wages in Gloucestershire, Lancashire, GEsgow, Sec. arid sunk the prices of sheep’s wool. lam happy that affairs ate now settled.” This ex ract, in the most conclusive manner evinces the efficacy of the law in question. A complaint of the wickedness of this country tomes vri.hbut a sorry grace from G. Britain, l rom her, who in peace plunders our ships, impresses our seamen, and murders our citi zens, even within our own jurisdiction. ’1 heso wrongs are not enough, we must bear them with patience and meekness, Vve must not date to stir one step, lest we injure “the laboiing poor” of the aggressor. Never, surely never, was there a more appropriate r.atr e for the mass of the people ol Ireland and G. Britain, ‘f hey are indeed and in truth ihe laboring poor. Labor and poverty are their inheritance. The rising sun finds them at labor, and when it goes down, their task is yet undone ; but whether it rise's or sets, the beams of hope illu mines not their dwelling, nor is it ever glided by tire rays of .prosperity. After being charted with wickedness for not attendind to the miseries oft hat [,oor where cries are unheeded by those whose duty it is to regard them, it would be but fir to expect some acknowledgement when the cause of offence was removed. Very different, how ever, is the Let, it is boldly asserted, and the as-, ertion is countenanced by federal editors, that the non-impoatutioii law was suspended through fear. Heir, are the words of the letter-writer—. “ Had you not been obliged to repeal the prohi bitory act m time , I firmly It liras he r.a ion would have gone to war wi h you to pro ect them. The manufactures must be protected. I hey arc the glory and strength of our nation. V> itlsout them, our commerce would languish, and our agriculture be destroyed.” 1 he letter concludes with informing os that if vve again dare to rebel against our task mas ters we shall not be permitted 10 escape so well as vve have at present. \Vc quote the words of this insolent letter— “ The prohibitory measure was a rash and dangerous one lor America. &hould she try it at any future day , eke will probablv not escape so well as she has a’ present. We manufac ture for all the world, and why not for An-e.i ca ! you can have manufactures from no other country.” ART CF MEMOR7. Much has been lately said and written in Germany, says a London journalist, concern ing the Art of Memory ; a study which also begins to be cultivated in France. On this subject, the celebrated astronomer, La Lar.de, bears testimony to the following fact : “ “ I have w itnessed (says he) the extraordi nary effects pr oduced on the memor y by the method of M. De Fenaigle ; and, as lie took the pains to explain it to me, I was convinced that it could not fail to produce such effects. It Js a fact, equally important and extraordina ry, that one of his pupils is able to repeat-in any order you please, and without the least mistake, a table of fifty cities in all parts of the world, with the degrees of longitude and lati tude ia which they are situated ; whereas I, who have for sixty years devoted my attention to geography, cannot repeat four of them. The same is the case with Chronology ; in the Annutire , I have inserted 240 dates from an cient and modern history, and M. De Fenai gle’s scholars repeat them all. Ido not think that the ablest historiographer could tell ten of them What an astonishing aid in the study of geography and history.” Tic same power of artificial recollection, hat lveen practised for many years, before miscel laneous companies in London, by a gentleman who has never made any secret of his discove ry, and who has lately promised to make an early communication of its principle.