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A curious review of the list of the majority, states the following results in answer to the charge of pensioned voting.

On Lord Tavistock's motion there voted 131 county members.

For ministers 83-against them 48— majority 35.

Of members for cities, towns, and boroughs, where the number of voters is great, and the elections are free-voted 149.

For ministers 92—against them 57— majority 35.

nuity in vain, the Man of Mobs is understood to have stood up triumphantly against the host of those more suspicious friends, who advised her to take the money and thank her fortune. The hope of a subscription to ten times the amount was played before the royal eye. There were strong examples in point, and many a desperado was in the revolutionary books, thriving on the subscription which peers and baronets had flown to heap upon him, at the moment of his conviction for crimes against religion and the state. The Man of Mobs prevailed, the pension was in an evil hour refused, her Majesty is now thrown upon the bounty of the whigsthe empty purses at Brookes's are, at this hour, undergoing a thorough search for the remnant left in them by luckless litics and inveterate gambling, and the hired advocates must go without their fees. This is the measure of true misfortune-the L.50,000 was to have healed all the wounds of hurt pride and beggared avarice. But the day of this consummation is now thrown to a hopeless distance the fate of the subscription for the pension will be like that for the plate, of which Alderman Wood was the treasurer, and of which no account has yet reached the public eye.

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The defeat of Opposition, fighting under pretext of the Queen's calamities, was too complete for a second experiment under that shelter. A motion was brought forward in the subsequent week, which endeavoured to succeed by a bold and open declaration of hostility to ministers. The Queen's name was still used, for the whigs, the aristocrats of the House, willingly stoop to the mob -but the course of the debate set full upon the expulsion of ministers from their places. Here again the attack was weak, wavering, and repelled with total discomfiture. After a debate, continued till seven in the morning of the second day, the motion was rejected by 334,

to 178.

Thus, of the members who are allowed on all hands to represent the people, 175 out of 280 vote an approval of the conduct of Ministers in the whole course of the late measures. The true and rational feeling from all this is, that the national mind has been disabused,—that the gross and virulent falsehoods which had inflamed the multitude, and filled our streets with mountebank exhibitions of sympathy for the associate of her own menials, had either never reached the higher orders of the English mind, or had altogether perished from it-that revolution is postponed sine die, and that the men of England may return to their homes and occupations, without fear of finding the guillotine at the entrance of their villages.

The close of this debate was characterized by a striking circumstance. The attack on ministers had been repelled, and it was suddenly changed into a charge upon their accusers. Mr Brougham was openly summoned by Lord Castlereagh to answer to a series of imputations, the most direct and most painful that could be pointed to the feelings of a man of honour. It had been remarked, that this advocate, in contradiction to his usual fondness for the foreground, had suffered the debate to proceed till an extraordinary late hour without making his speech.

"Mr Brougham has not denied, and therefore may fairly be said to have admitted, at least three damning circumstances. 1. That he, without the knowledge, to say nothing of the authority of the Queen, carried on, for eighteen months, a secret negociation with his Majesty's Ministers, the projected close of which was, all along, the Queen's assumption of the title of Duchess of Cornwall-a step which Mr Brougham has always talked of in Parliament as utterly unworthy of the said Queen.

"2. That Mr Brougham put an end to this negociation merely because Ministers insisted upon seeing his commission or authority from the Queen-in other words, that he begun it entirely on his own bottom, and ended it merely because he was compelled to do so.

"3. That Mr Brougham had, for months, in his pocket, a private, express, distinct, and authoritative offer from his Majesty's Ministers to the Queen, which he never took

And it is notorious, that a speech delivered at four in the morning has no chance of being published at any length in the newspapers, which are all then on the point of being put to press. In consequence, the report of his answer to those most obnoxious charges defies all intelligibility. It is obscure, narrow, and feeble, for which, in all politeness, we must throw the blame on the newspapers, or rather on the ill luck which postponed his defence till it was beyond their power to detail it. Among the minor convictions of opposition it is to be observed, that all their doubts of the truth of the witnesses against the Queen have been suffered to glide out of view. While the trial lasted, Majocchi, and the rest, were indiscriminately treated as prevaricators and perjurers of the blackest description, and Ministers were commanded, on the severest responsibility, not to suffer one of the culprits to escape. Those menaces have turned to air, the witnesses have been in the hands of their slanderers, and no process has been ventured on, to atone to the indignant majesty of opposition justice. This is decisive of two things, -it shews the veracity of the witnesses, and it shews to what base and fraudu lent practices the public mind has been exposed, for the mere purpose of prejudging the question by clamour. Actions would have been brought, if the party dared to try the evidence; for, with all their boasted aversion to calling in the arm of the law, actions have been brought against individuals and public journals, and that too, by the most suspicious mode of indictment, where the accused is not permitted to rest his defence on the guilt of the ac

cuser.

It is painful to be forced still to advert to the conduct of a wretched woman, whom it is hopeless to redeem from the situation which has brought her so unfortunately before the people. But she is the point of union to a party combined of all the elements of disorder. Rebellion looks upon her, unauthorized or not, as its most important ally; every hater of King and law, from the pilferer in the streets up to the more culpable ruffian who uses his influence for popular inflammation, looks upon the Queen's name as the outwork from which the constitution .is to be battered. Whether this is vo

luntary on the part of her Majesty or not, the evil is the same; and until she openly disclaims all connexion with these profligate disturbers, she must hope for no share of the confidence of the nation.

The King's visit to the theatres was like an unintentional and final appeal to public opinion. The finding of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, in the Lords, was not more decisive than the rejection of the Queen's name from the Liturgy, in the Commons. The theatres added to those the testimony of the people. Nothing can express the affectionate eagerness of the King's reception at both Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. It has been attempted to say, that the audiences were packed. But how can an audience be packed in London, when every one may force his way? The audiences were of the most general description. At Drury-Lane, there were but few persons of rank, from the shortness of the notice, which precluded the taking of places; and the boxes, like every other part of the house, were filled by the multitude. At Covent-Garden, the interval of a day gave time for an easier arrangement, and a great number of persons of distinction were present: Still the multitude, who were not to be restrained, formed the immense majority, and by those, who could have no motive but their feelings, the King was received with the most unwearied and enthusiastic applause. The Queen's name was occasionally called out, and instantly suppressed by shouts of indignation. His Majesty's appearance was stately and noble in the highest degree. If there was no more in his thus coming bcfore his people, than this living answer to the degrading and infamous caricatures which had insulted his person, a desirable object would have been effected-but the manifestation of opinion is of infinitely higher importance. The lies of Radicalism have been refuted in a night-the revolutionary instigators feel that their corruption of the popular mind has been but narrow and superficial—and the friends of law, freedom, and good order, have received an additional and resistless proof, that, in the hours of emergency, as the people may trust to the King, the King may trust to the people.

any measure whatever to place in her hands, and which, in point of fact, he did not place in her hands till he himself had left St Omer's, and she had re-entered London. How, all the world asks,-how can this be explained?"-BEACON, No. VII.

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LONDON.

Metrical Legends of exalted characters; by Joanna Baillie; also a new edition of the Plays on the Passions.

The Vision of Judgment, a Poem; by Robert Southey.

A History of the Quakers, by the same author.

In the press, in two volumes quarto, Memoirs of the last nine years of George II.; by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford.

Lady Morgan's work on Italy is at length sent to the press.

Will be published in the ensuing spring, an Index to the first fifty volumes of the Monthly Magazine. Selections of the curi ous, valuable, and original papers, will also appear within the year, in five volumes. It is also proposed to publish a volume of selections on the completion of every ten

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The first Report of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

A new edition of Lord Byron's Works, in five volumes, small 8vo. Also Graphic Illustrations of the same.

Miss Benger's Memoirs of Anne Boleyn will appear in a few days.

The Life of the honourable William Pitt; by Dr Prettyman Tomline, Bishop of Winchester, in several 4to volumes.

A new edition of Mr Brande's Manual of Chemistry, in three 8vo. volumes.

A Biographical Work of 3000 living public men of all countries; to be embellished with nearly 300 engraved portraits, and to correspond in size with Debrett's Peerage.

An Account of the British campaign at Washington and New Orleans, in 1814, 1815; by an Officer, 8vo.

An Abridgement of Matthiæ's Greek Grammar, for the use of schools; by the Rev. Dr Blomfield.

A new edition of Blackstone's Commentaries; by Mr J. Williams.

The History and Antiquities of several Parishes in the Hundreds of Bullington Ploughley, &c. Oxfordshire, with engravings of churches, crosses, &c.; by John Dunkin, author of the History of Bicester. Only fifty copies printed.

Mr T. Heaphy is preparing a Series of Studies from Nature of the British character; consisting of soldiers who have fought under the Duke of Wellington, sailors, and rustics. Each number will contain six heads in black and white chalk.

Mr Heaphy will also shortly publish No. I. of Studies of Character and Expression from the Old Masters.

Shortly will appear, in a duodecimo vo

lume, Histoire de la Secte des Amis, suivề d'une Notice sur Madame Fry, et la prison de Newgate; par Madame Adele du Thou.

Notes on the Cape of Good Hope, made during an excursion through the principal parts of that colony, in the year 1820; in which are briefly considered the advantages and disadvantages it offers to the English emigrant, with some remarks upon the new settlement at Algoa Bay.

De Renzey, a Novel, in three volumes. Travels in Northern Africa, from Tripoli to Meurzouk, the capital of Fezzan; and from thence to the southern extremity of that kingdom, in 1818–1820; by Lieut. G. F. Lyon, R. N.

The Union of the Roses, a Poem, in six cantos, with Notes; a tale of the fifteenth century.

Mr D'Israeli is printing a new series of the Curiosities of Literature, in three vols. 8vo.

A new Choral Book, for the use of the established church; by Mr Cooper.

The Personal History of King George III.; by E. H. Locker, Esq.; in 4to, with portraits, fac-similes, and other engravings.

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A Dissertation, shewing the identity of the rivers Niger and Nile; chiefly from the authority of the ancients; by John Dudley, M. A.

The last number of Mr Pugin's Specimens of Gothic Architecture, selected from various ancient edifices in England, with sixty engravings.

A new work on the Study of Medicine, comprising its Physiology, Pathology, and Practice, is in course of preparation; by Dr John Mason Good.

Memoirs of James Earl Waldegrave, K. G. one of his Majesty's privy council, in the reign of George II., and governor of George III., when Prince of Wales; being a short Account of Political Contentions, Party Quarrels, and Events of consequence, from 1754 to 1757, in small 4to.

Elementary Illustrations of the Celestial Mechanics of La Place, in 8vo.

The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester, from the original M. S., with Historical and Explanatory Notes, a Biographical Memoir, and an original Por

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The fifth and concluding volume of Mr

Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain will be completed by midsummer next. It will contain 80 engravings.

Preparing for the press, by the same author, Illustrations and History of Oxford Cathedral; to be followed by those of Canterbury Cathedral.

The first number of a Magazine of the Fine Arts will appear in April.

In the press, a Literal Translation of the Medea of Euripides into English prose, with the scanning and order; by T. W. C. Edward, M. A.

Preparing for publication, Intimations and Evidences of a Future State; by Rev. T. Watson.

The Topography of Athens, with some remarks on its Antiquities; by Lieut. Col. Leake; 8vo., with plates from the drawings of C. Cockerell, Esq.

Burchard's Travels in Syria and Mount Sinai may shortly be expected.

Metacom; or Philip of Pokanaket, an Heroic Poem, in 16 books; by the author of Night, Peter Faultless, &c.

In the press, the Letters of Mary Lefel, Lady Hervey, with Illustrative Notes. Shortly will be published, Dr D'Oyley's Life of Archbishop Sancroft.

The Poems of Catullus, translated by the honourable Geo. Lamb, with a Preface and Notes.

The Last Days of Herculaneum, and Abradates, and Panthea; by Edwin Athastone, Esq.

A Poem, in sixteen books, called Coeur de Lion, or the Third Crusade; by Miss Porden.

Memoirs on the Present State of Science and Scientific Institutions in France; by Dr Granville.

A Novel, entitled, The Sisters, in four 8vo. volumes.

The third and fourth volumes of Mr Butler's History of the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics.

Mitchell's Translation of Aristophanes, vol. ii.

The Rev. T. Smith of St John's College, Cambridge, is publishing a new edition of the Eton Latin Grammar, with copious Notes, and having the quantities of all syllables marked. This edition will appear in February.

In the press, and will be published early in February, the third part of the New Translation of the Bible, translated from the Sacred Original Hebrew only, completing the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses; by J. Bellamy.

Shortly will be published, an Itinerary of the Rhone, including part of the southern coast of France; by John Hughes, Esq. A. M. of Oriel College, Oxford.

Shortly will be published, an Attempt to analyze the Automaton Chess Player of M. de Kempelen, with an easy method of imitating the movements of that celebrated figure, illustrated by plates, and accompanied by a copious collection of the knight's moves on the chess-board.

Captain Batty's Narrative of the Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army under the Duke of Wellington, from the passage of the Bedasso, in 1813, to the end of the war, 1814; illustrated by a Plan of the theatre of war, and twenty Views of the Scenery in the Pyrenees and south of France.

The first number of Mr Haden's Monthly Journal of Popular Medicine, 'will be published in March. It is addressed to the public in general, as well as to the profession. It treats of the various modes of preserving health, as well as of the nature and courses of common diseases, and of the treatment of accidents, &c. It also gives a digest of such parts of the medical and philosophical literature of the day, as may be interesting to the public, or lead to useful remarks.

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The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review. Part IX. 5s.

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The Retrospective Review. No. V.

The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Register, for 1820. 4to. £1, 7s. 6d. An English and Hindoostanes Naval Dictionary of Technical Terms and Sea Phrases; with a short Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language. By Capt. Tho mas Roebuck. 12mo. 7s.

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