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the seeds of revolution in Spanish South America, and caused the most deplorable efforts to be exerted to separate our subjects from their legitimate sovereign, his Catholic Majesty made the following principles the invariable rule of his conduct:-First, to employ all the means which human wisdom could suggest, to recal the misled to the path of order and obedience; and secondly, to have recourse to diplomatic negociation for political means of accomplishing this desire. The revolutionary enfranchisement of South America, or its return to legitimate authority, presents, indeed, considerations of so much importance, in a political point of view, as to render it necessary that the eyes of Europe should be turned to events which may introduce a new order of things into the scale of its political and commercial relations.

"The united efforts of the principal European powers have already defeated this disastrous system which nurtured the American revolution; but it still remains for them to annihilate this system in America itself, where its effects are of the most alarming nature.

"His Catholic Majesty having never lost sight of the two principles just stated, and being always animated with a desire of putting a period to the effusion of blood and devastations, which are the deplorable consequences of a war of this nature, only waited an occasion to call the attention of the High Allied Powers to an object which has already been at different times the subject of different notes addressed to them, and recently of the negociations opened in so amicable a manner with his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Great Britain.

The insurrection of Pernambuco made a sensible impression upon the mind of his Catholic Majesty, and at the moment when he wished to recommend this event to the attention of the Sovereigns, his allies, it was necessary to demonstrate his connexion with the general interests.

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"His Majesty received the answers of his High Allies with the greatest satisfaction. They cleared the way to very important negociations, and led the powers to interpose in the unfortunate circumstances in which America was placed, in order that measures of prudence and vigour might be adopted to reduce the revolted provinces, and to put a period to the political contagion arising from such an order of things.

"To support the continuance of proceedings so happily commenced, his Majesty considers, that the moment is arrived when he ought solemnly and catagorically to represent to his High Allies, the principles which he has prescribed to himself to produce the good he had in view, and such as from his sentiments of humanity, they ought to expect.

In consequence, and in reference to the propositions he has already made, his Majesty now declares, that the following are the points to which he has invariably adhered:

"1. General amnesty to the insurgents on their submission.

"2. Admission of native Americans, endowed with the requisite qualifications, to all offices in common with European Spaniards.

"3. Regulation of the commerce of the Provinces with foreign states, according to free principles, and conformably to the present political situation of those countries and Europe.

"A sincere disposition on the part of his Catholic Majesty to accede to all measures which, in the course of the negociations, may be proposed to him by his High Allies, and which shall be consistent with the support of his rights and dignity.

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His Majesty is therefore persuaded, that there is no longer any opposition to the opening of negociations upon the above basis, the principles of which he knows are conformable to the views already manifested by his august Allies."

Bulletin of the King's Health.

"Windsor Castle, Aug. 1. "His Majesty has continued to enjoy good bodily health throughout the month, and has been in a tranquil and cheerful state of

spirits; but his Majesty's disorder is unabated."

Her Majesty, we are happy to say, has been in an improving state throughout the month. She is now able to take daily exer

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ture.

The personal estate of the late Alderman Coombe has been sworn in Doctors' Commons to be under 140,0001. His son, H. Coombe, esq. is the sole executor and residuary legatee. The property is left to the wife and children.

The present summer has been the warmest since that of 1799: the previous winter and spring were then so mild, that green peas were sold in May at one shilling the peck measure; the thermometer was at 78 on the 15th of April, and the hawthorns were in blossom three or four days after that period.

In the Rolls Court, the 24th July, a complaint was preferred by the Rev. Dr. Hemming, master of the free school at Hampton, and others, against the trustees of that school, for leasing to one of their own body (Mr. Sanderson), the Bell Inn, at Hampton, at 351. per annum, for 61 years. His honour, in giving judgment, confirmed the report of the Master, and ordered Mr. S to pay 1001. per annum, instead of 351. from the expiration of his last lease in 1816.

Since 1814 down to the present time, there have been committed to Newgate 497 juvenile culprits, of whom only 14 ever belonged to the National Schools; and of these six were taken out, after having been in the school only a week, in order to give evidence against a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who has been since transported.

The Lord Chancellor having dissolved the injunction restraining the sub-committee of Drury-Lane Theatre from engaging performers, arrangements are making for opening the theatre on the 8th September, under the management of Mr. Stephen Kemble.

Covent-garden Theatre is also in an active state of preparation for the commencement of the season, which takes place this year in the first week of September.

Up to the 31st July the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt had received, on account of the Banks for Sayings, no less than 1,254,0211. 2s. 2d. with which had been purchased 1,569,4241. 3 per

cents.

The meeting of Parliament has been prorogued by an order in council, till the 2d of October.

By a fire which broke out through carelessness, at the Duke of York, public-house, in Ratcliffe-Highway, not only the whole of the premises and stock were consumed, but

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eighteen other tenements, chiefly filled with poor lodgers, who lost their little all, having only time to escape with their lives. The landlord and his wife had left their house in charge of a servant, while enjoying the fashionable amusements of Margate!

Broad-street, St. Giles's, is now handsomely illuminated with gas, and perhaps in no part of this vast metropolis, will the improvement be of more essential benefit.

Lord Strangford, the British Envoy in Sweden, has succeeded in obtaining from that court a decree, authorising the exportation of deals and timber in British ships, on payment of the same export duties as in Swedish vessels. Several thousand tons of shipping will, consequently, be sent from British ports during the present season, to receive cargoes in those of Sweden. This permission is to last until the end of this year.

The ports will continue open for the importation of wheat, rye, barley, oats, beans, and peas, till the 15th November.

Prince Leopold has given permission for Claremont park and gardens to be shewn during his absence from England, five days a week, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, by tickets only, signed by Sir R. Gardiner, Col. Addenbroke, Mr. Ammerchuber, and Mr. Phillips, on written application made to them. His Serene Highness has left England, but is expected back in November.

The Lord Mayor (C. Smith) is unanimously elected president of St. Thomas's Hospital, vice Sir C. Price, deceased.

The brig Robert, arrived at Portsmouth from St. Thomas's, brings news that the sword and climate have swept off many of the British adventurers who joined the Independent standard. Another piece of news from that quarter is, the captains of vessels who carried out arms and ammunition to the Patriots, can get neither cash for them nor security for future payment.

Persons interested in the London fishmarket are about to engage in an undertaking which promises to produce as much benefit to the public as to themselves. It is to erect two additional market-houses for the use of the west-end of the town, and to employ steam-boats as an almost certain medium of a regular supply.

The Duke of Wellington has become a distinguished collector of pictures. He has lately made many valuable acquisitions on the Continent, particularly in the Flemish School. His Grace has desired that a gallery for the reception of pictures may form a principal feature in the mansion to be erected on his Parliamentary estate.

By the accounts laid on the table of the House of Commons, it appears that the following is the amount of corn and grain, meal and flour, imported into Great Britain in the years ended the 5th of January, 1817 and 1818-1817, corn and grain, 1,141,897 qrs.

ther of the late James G. of Northwood, Isle of Wight.

Aged 69, Thomas Pattle, esq. of Bryan

stone-street.

Aged 74, Quintin Dick, esq. of Montague

street.

At Greenwich, J. F. Bonnett, esq. late secretary to the Duke of Manchester, Governor of Jamaica.

At Hampstead, aged 79, Lady Colebrooke, relict of Sir G. C. bart.

At Lambeth, Mrs. Smith, relictof W. S. esq. formerly of Great Woodford House, Devon.

In the Edgeware-road, in her 83d year, Elizabeth, relict of Wm. Kenrick, L.L.D. In the Strand, Mr. H. Essex.

At Streatham, the youngest daughter of Sir G. Barlow, bart.

At Hampstead, the youngest daughter of Admiral Sir G. Beresford.

At Kensington, T. Thompson, esq. late M. P. for Evesham.

Mr. W. Moore, late of Ludgate-street, 74. In Howland-street, J. Meller, esq. 82, late of the Custom-house.

In New Bond-street, Mr. L. Lavenu. At Brompton, July 30, Miss Pope, aged 74, formerly an actress of great celebrity at Drury-lane Theatre.

G. C. ASHLEY, ESQ.

On Friday morning August 22d, at his residence, King's-row, Pimlico, G.C. Ashley, esq. the celebrated violin performer. He was the eldest son of the late manager of the oratorios at the Theatre Royal Coventgarden, which performances, he led with the greatest ability for many years, and after the death of his father, succeeded with his brother Charles as joint manager. -He was educated under those eminent masters, Giardini and Bartheleman, and was esteemed an excellent musician. In 1804, he married Miss Chandler, but having no family, and being possessed of an independent fortune, he retired from the profession some years since, and has bequeathed his property to his widow and his surviving brothers, Charles and Richard.

SIR JOHN HADLEY D'OYLY. Died at Calcutta, on the 6th of January, 1818, Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, of Shottisham, in the County of Norfolk, bart. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Sir Hadley D. bart. rector of Wotton and Felixstow, in Suffolk, and of Henrietta Maynard Osborne, daughter of the Rev. William Osborne, vicar of Thaxted, in Essex, related to the ancient Scotch family of the Earls of Dalhousie. He was born in the year 1754, at Ipswich, and received his education under Dr. Crawford, of Chiswick. At the early age of ten he lost his father, and a promising opening occurring through the medium of one of the Directors of the East India Company, he was, by his means, appointed to a writership on the Bengal establishment, and

in 1770, at the age of 16, embarked for India.

Mr. Hastings was at this period GovernorGeneral, and at a time of peculiar difficulty and embarrassment, but he possessed a mind equal to the important trust committed to his charge. An early friendship was contracted between that great man and Sir John D'Oyly, which never sustained the slightest diminution, but proved a mutual source of satisfaction and delight for many years. Sir John's first entrance into public life was a very arduous one. Not long after his arrival in India, and at a period distinguished by the dissentions of the Bengal Council, he found himself, by the sudden removal of the Persian translator to government, under whom he was an assistant, placed at the head of one of the most responsible situations then in the service. His exertions to acquire a requisite knowledge of the language of official correspondence and intercourse between the British government and all the native powers of India, were unremitting, and soon enabled him to conduct the delicate and highly important office to the entire satisfaction and approbation of the Governor-General.

In 1780, Sir John D'Oyly was appointed by W. Hastings to the office of resident at the court of Moorshidabad, and political agent to the Governor-General, a situation which called forth all his talents, as well as the united qualities of mildness and firmness against the deep laid machinations of a corrupt and intriguing native court. Harassed by the despotic controul of his ministers, and amidst riches of which he was constantly plundered by his servants, almost destitute of the common comforts of life, the Nawaub greeted with pleasure the arrival of the new resident, and willingly confided in him the reorganization of his household affairs. Possessing the entire friendship and confidence of the Nawaub, and upheld by the Governordious and dangerous task, and by perseGeneral, he assiduously undertook this invivering energy and decided conduct soon restored the prince to respectability and com

fort.

During Sir John's residence at Moorshidabad, he continued on the most intimate and confidential footing with the Nawaub, and was beloved and respected by all the inhabitants of the metropolis. But having acquired a handsome fortune, and finding his patron and friend recalled from India on the most serious charges, his warm attachment to Mr. Hastings superseded all other considerations, and induced him to return to Europe a few months after him, and on his arrival to accept a very flattering and spontaneous invitation from the inhabitants of his native place to stand for Ipswich at the ensuing general election of Parliament. His acceptance of it was followed by success, for notwithstanding a warm contest against very strong local interest and power, he was

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returned as one of the members of that ancient borough.

As a member of the House of Commons, and forming one of that body which impeached Mr. Hastings, Sir John D'Oyly had an opportunity afforded him, in common with many other of his friends, of supporting his interests, but he purposely estranged himself from Wesstminster Hall, and by daily accompanying Mr. Hastings there, and seating himself in the prisoner's seat, he openly avowed his own conviction of the innocence of the accused. The result of a trial, which from its ruinous effects on the fortune of Mr. Hastings, became a national disgrace, fully proved the purity of that great character, who for near ten years had suffered the pain of unmerited suspicion, without allowing his mind to sink under it. The occurrence of very severe pecuniary losses, obliged Sir John D'Oyly, in 1800, to retire to Ireland, where he resided till 1803, and returned only to accompany to the grave the mortal remains of his amiable Lady, who, after a long illness, died at Cheltenham in that year. Anxious to rejoin his family after this misfortune, as well as to retrieve his circumstances, he obtained the unanimous consent of the Court of Directors and Proprietors to return to India with his rank in the service. Accompanied by his two daughters, he arrived in Calcutta in Oct. 1803, and held successively the situations of Collector of the 24 Pergunnahs, Post-master General, and Salt Agent for the 24 Pergunnahs. In the arduous discharge of the duties imposed by the latter office, and exposure to the insalubrious climate of the Sunderbunds, he first imbibed the seeds of a dangerous disease; and from that period, with little intermission of health, although he twice tried change of climate, he never recovered.

In his public career as a member of Parliament, Sir John D'Oyly was distinguished for his independance and the attention he paid to the welfare and interests of his constituents. Devoted to his duty, he never shrunk from it, and although not a public speaker, was a zealous and able supporter of injured innocence. On the interesting and long agitated question of the slave trade, he actively assisted the humane exertions of Mr. Wilberforce for the radical abolition of that disgraceful traffic. On general points, as conscience actuated his vote, it was as often against as for the ministry of his country.

The same disinterestedness and integrity of conduct marked his public life in the service of the East India Company, in which he zealously performed his public duties for nearly thirty years, and for which he received repeated testimonies of approbation

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from Mr. Hastings, Lord Wellesley, Sir George Barlow, and Lord Minto, the Governors-General of India, during his residence in the country.

In private life, the character of Sir John D'Oyly was equally distinguished. As a son, husband, father, and friend, his warmth of heart and gentleness of disposition endeared him to his family, and to all who came within the range of his acquaintance. Feelingly alive to the distresses of the poor, his charities were freely, but secretly and unostentatiously distributed; and from the unhappy, the soothing alleviations of sympathy and compassion were never withheld.

But as a pious Christian, a title in which he gloried far above all worldly rank or riches, he was eminent and exemplary. For the last few years, his life was peculiarly and strikingly marked by a steady and undeviating attention to his religious duties, and the peaceful termination of it, almost in the house of God and in the act of devout thankfulness for all his mercies, gave an assurance to his surrounding family and friends that he had happily resigned his spirit into the hands of his Creator, to receive the everlasting crown of glory promised to the virtuous and the good. "Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching.”

Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, the sixth baronet, married in 1780, Mrs. Cotes, the relict of Humphry Cotes, of Calcutta, esq. She was daughter to the Hon. George Rochfort, brother to the Earl of Belvidere, by whom he had issue, 1, Charles, now Sir Charles, the seventh baronet, senior merchant on the Bengal Establishment, born 18th Sept. 1781, married, first, his cousin, Miss Marian Greer, youngest daughter of Capt. William Greer, who dying without issue, in 1814, he married, 2dly, Miss Elizabeth Jane Ross, eldest daughter of Major Thomas Ross, of the Royal Artillery, and first cousin to the most noble the Marchioness of Hastings and Countess of Loudoun, in her own right-2, Henrietta, born in 1782, died young-3, Maynard Eliza, born 12th October, 1783, married, 1st, to Walter Farqhuar, esq. youngest son of Sir Walter Farquhar, bart. M.D. a senior merchant on the Bengal Establishment, who, dying without issue at St. Helena, in Feb. 1813, she married, 2dly, the Rev. Thos. Snow-4, Harriet Rochfort, born 21st Oct. 1785, married to the Rev. George Baring, youngest on of the late Sir Francis, and brother of the present Sir Thomas Baring, bart. by whom he has issue six daughters, 1, Diana, 2 Harriet, 3, Maynard, 4, Marian, 5, Mary, and 6, 5, John Hadley, born 29th Sept. 1794, a writer on the Bengal Establishment, unmarried.