Hope, have mounted regularly a picquet guard in the castle. This corps some weeks ago made an offer of their services to government, which was accepted; and their numbers were completed with a highly praiseworthy alacrity. The second Edinburgh Volunteer Regiment have also offered their services; and that corps, commanded by

Colonel Crichton, besides an armed association, to be headed by Sir James Ferguson of Kilkerran, Bart., an Edinburgh troop of volunteer cavalry under Lord Elcho, and a rifle corps, in Leith, to be commanded by James Pillans, Esq. are at present raising, and have every appearance of being speedily completed.

CAP. LXVII. To continue, until the 30th Day of July 1820, an Act of the 54th Year of his present Majesty, for the Effectual Examination of Accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Colonial Revenues in the Islands of Ceylon, Mauritius, Malta, Trinidad, and in the Settlements of the Cape of Good Hope.-July 2. Cap. LXVIII. An Act for exonerating the Manor of Dawlish in the County of Devon, from the Claims of the Crown a-" gainst the Estate of John Inglett Fortescue, Esq.-July 2.

Cap. LXIX. To prevent the Enlisting or Engagement of his Majesty's Subjects to serve in Foreign Service, and the fittingout or equipping, in his Majesty's Dominions, Vessels for Warlike Purposes, without his Majesty's Licence.-July 3.

Cap. LXX. To repeal certain Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, regarding Duelling.-July 3. Cap. LXXI. Twelve Millions from the Commissioners

For raising a Loan of

Cap. LXXVI. To establish further Regulations respecting Advances by the Bank of England for the Public Service, and the Purchase of Government Securities by the said Bank.-July 6.

Cap. LXXVII. To continue, until the 24th Day of June 1826, an Act for amending the Laws relating to the Allowance of the Bounties on Pilchards exported.-July 6.

Cap. LXXVIII. For transferring the Duty of the Supervisor of the ReceiverGeneral's Receipts and Payments to the Comptroller-General of the Customs in England.—July 6.

Cap. LXXIX. To continue, until the 1st Day of August 1820, two Acts of the Forty-fifth and Fiftieth Years of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of Coals, Culm, and Cinders, to London and Westminster by inland Navigation.-July 6.

Cap. LXXII. To grant to his Majesty an additional Duty of Excise on Tobacco in Ireland.-July 6.

Cap. LXXIII. To repeal several Acts, requiring the Masters of Vessels carrying Certificate Goods to Ireland to take Duplicates of the Contents; prohibiting the Importation of certain wrought Goods, and the Exportation of Gunpowder when the Price shall exceed a certain Sum.-July 6.

Cap. LXXIV. To allow the Importation of Tobacco from the East Indies and other Places; and for confining the Exportation of Tobacco from Great Britain, and the Importation thereof into Ireland, to Vessels of Seventy Tons Burthen and upwards.-July 6.

Cap. LXXV. To continue, until the 5th Day of July 1820, two Acts, made in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth Years of his present Majesty, for regulating the Trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally.-July 6.

explain an Act of his present Majesty, relative to the Sale or Mortgaging of Estates of Lunatics.-July 6.

Cap. LXXXI. To amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for appointing Commissioners to inquire concerning Charities in England for the Education of the Poor; and to extend the Powers thereof to other Charities in England and Wales; to continue in force until the 1st Day of August 1823, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament. July 6.

Cap. LXXXII. To amend an Act made in the Fifty-fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for enabling the Commissioners of Customs and Port Duties in Ireland to purchase Premises for erecting Docks, Warehouses, and Offices, in Dublin.-July 6.

Cap. LXXXIII. To grant Duties of Customs and to allow Drawbacks on certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, imported into and exported from Ireland, in

lieu of former Duties and Drawbacks on the like Articles; and to make further Re

gulations for securing the Duties of Customs in Ireland.—July 7.

LONDON.

Drury Lane.-Brutus.-On Friday, the 19th November, Brutus was revived from his natural slumber, and with so much violence as to be kept awake for two nights in

succession.

On Saurday the 20th, Miss Byrne, who has been engaged for a few nights at this theatre, made her debut as Adela, in the Haunted Tower. She was received with the applause due to the celebrity acquired during her first engagement; and, in the course of the evening, confirmed her title to it.

The Siege of Belgrade was performed at this theatre on Saturday 4th December. The right to criticise even new operas seems almost to have passed by; and there cannot therefore exist much necessity to descant upon the merits of old ones. So long as we are charmed by songs and delightful sounds, we submit, as it were by a tacit compromise, to listen to the trash that fills up the intervals of music in these productions. Lit. Gaz.

Covent Garden.-On Friday the 19th November, a clever little piece was produced at this theatre, entitled, A Short Reign, and a Merry One. It is, we believe, by Mr Poole, and one of the numerous importations and adaptations from Paris. The only fault we found in it was its length, belying its half French half English name in the bills, petite-comedy;' which, by the by, is a very silly bit of affectation.

Coriolanus. On Monday 21st and Wednesday 22d November, Mr Macready sustained the important part of Coriolanus. And it is but doing a common justice to Mr Macready to say, that his Coriolanus has much increased the difficulty of playing the part to any future aspirant. In the more energetic scenes he was all fire; the whole of the third act, the end of the fifth, and lesser portions, which we cannot enumerate, were in the purest style; and when we have a young actor who can do such things, we trust there is a public which feels how he ought to be encouraged.-Lit. Gaz.

EDINBURGH.

Theatre-Royal.The Theatre was opened for the winter season on Saturday, November 27th. The entertainments were of the old school, Mrs Cowley's Play of the "Belle's Stratagem," and Murphy's

Mrs

Farce of "Three Weeks after Marriage." Both pieces were performed with great respectability. The performers were greeted as they entered with that variety of warmth which indicated the respective rank held by each individual in popular esteem; but it was pleasing to see the merits of almost all of them acknowledged kindly. Siddons and Mr Murray, having double claims on public favour, deservedly received the highest marks of it; and Mrs W. Murray's first appearance, since her marriage, and after a long indisposition, was sanctioned by the warmest tokens of regard. Without making any farther distinctions, which would be hardly fair, we may say that enough of applause was given to shew the performers, that they have entered upon their duties on the best terms with their patrons; and it rests with themselves to secure or to extend the favour they have acquired.-Mrs Siddons's Letitia Hardy was played throughout with exceeding gracefulness and beauty, and, excepting in the scene where she assumes the rustic, with great truth. There, it appeared to us, that the veil she wore was too thin, and that the contrast with her actual self was too faint to warrant the alternate enthusiasm and disgust of her lover; but, on the other hand, her deportment in the masquerade scene was dazzling. Her looks and words were the very essence of fascination, and she danced like a Grace. Mr Murray's Flutter was full of his own peculiar and unborrowed humour, which is yearly ripening into superior flavour and warmth. Why did he wear a yellow coat? Mr Jones performed Doricourt in his usual free and gentlemanlike manner. The masquerade was ill got up. The characters were sufficiently various, and grotesque to the eye; but the varlets stood so stock-still, that one wished for a whip to put them in motion. All the scenery was new, and, with two exceptions, was excellent. The exceptions were, a scene which we take to represent an apotheosis of Shakespeare, but which was in considerably worse taste than the great majority of sign-posts in this improved age. It was about as bad as the drop-scene of the Pantheon. The other was a library, of which the volumes looked like specimens of all the tartans of all the clans in the Highlands.

On Monday, November 29th, Mr Cooper appeared for the first time here in the

arduous character of Hamlet. This gentleman was preceded by high provincial fame, and he deserves it. His figure is noway distinguished; but his deportment, though not dignified or graceful, is easy and genteel, his voice is clear, his elocution good, and his face sufficiently marked with intelligence and expression. Mr Cooper exhibits excellent sense in his performance, and considerable energy, but less genius. Had his style been original, we should have said this with some hesitation, for he is very clever; but he who imitates others never can achieve greatness himself, and Mr Cooper, though a pleasing and modest imitator, is yet a very decided one. Indeed, he can scarcely be said to have a manner of his own. The most pleasing part of his performance is that which he has borrowed from Mr Kemble; the most forcible, but to us the least attractive, is that for which he is indebted to his study of Mr Kean. Such is our candid opinion of the merits of Mr Cooper; yet so extremely rare is tragic talent, that our readers must not wonder when we say we have scarcely seen a better Hamlet since the setting of Kemble's sun, and very rarely so good a one. Mr Cooper is so young, not above three or four and twenty, that there are very strong hopes of his being cured of this canker of imitation. Against another vice we most particularly warn him that of dropping at once from the loudest tone of passion to perfect quiet and repose. This is Kean's mode, and is just as bad in Kean as in other people. Nature scouts and rejects such absurd fol. ly. We observe that Mr Cooper's performance has been so well received by the public, that the play is to be repeated tomorrow. A Mr Loveday played Polonius, and promises well, we think. The same gentleman afterwards performed the part of Michael in the "Adopted Child." We could not stop to see it; but the bills assure us it was received with great applause, and we see it is to be repeated.

Miss Rock, the daughter of the veteran whom all our readers will remember, played Albina in "The Will," on Tues. day the 30th of November. Our limits only permit us to say that she delighted and amazed us. We expected a clever girl, and we found a charming and accomplished actress, having no superior, in her line, but Miss Kelly, and very likely in a short time to have no superior at all. She is only eighteen.

Between the play and farce Miss Rock recited the following address:

While reason lends her intellectual ray, And memory holds her fascinating sway; To paint the scenes by infant joys endeared,

And prize the friends my early prospects cheered;

To you, my grateful heart, impulsive turns, That thankful heart with love for Scotland burns,

This genial soil, where first my hopes took

root,

When adverse gales had torn the tender shoot

(Which scarce had budded) from its parent stock,

No claim to favour-but the name of Rock!

Of him who taught my lisping words to flow,

And made my infant heart with ardour glow;

While Arthur's pleading struck the mur derer dumb,

And Valour swelled the soul of mighty Thumb;

He who had basked beneath your smiles for years,

Best formed to raise my hopes, and quell iny fears;

My mimic bark he launched-nor angry clouds descried,

Your plaudits swelled the sails, and bore it o'er the tide.

Though fate had torn me from this earliest home,

And taught my steps in other lands to

roam,

Yet Memory held these happy scenes to view,

And grateful feeling turn'd my thoughts to you.

For nothing can such soul-felt joy impart,
As first impressions on a Woman's heart.—
Smile, Caledonia, banish ever fear,
Thy nursling seeks a fostering shelter here;
While valour guides and conquest crowns
thy arms,

While virtue dignifies thy daughters' charms;

While learning here has fixed her proudest throne,

And poetry has marked thee for her own; The truant who from such enchantment strayed,

Must feel regret—but shall she feel

AFRAID!

No-Critics frowns I'll meet with woman's smiles;

And valour's sons are won by female wiles;
On your decision all my hope depends,
My early patrons-more than Parents-
Friends!

Let mercy's gentle voice then temper your decree,

And as you reared the shrub-still kindly guard the tree.

Miss Rock is perhaps the most attractive novelty of the season; and that is saying a great deal. We have not had the good fortune to see her since she made her first powerful impression upon us, although she has played several times; and we assure our readers it is not often that we have

felt self-denial so irksome. This lively young lady resembles Miss Kelly in her style of acting very much; but, though not regularly handsome, her countenance is extremely pleasing, which, unless when beaming with some such delightful expression as makes us forget beauty, Miss Kelly's is not. Their figures are very similar, both petite, and both finely formed, Miss Rock's being the more slender and sylph-like. Ease, spirit, and variety of attitude, are equally conspicuous in both. In other more important particulars the resemblance continues to hold. They have the same genuine feeling of mirth and sorrow in their hearts, and transmit both to the spectator with great, though not with equal, power; Miss Kelly's pathos having much of the grace, and all the force, of tragedy of more lofty pretension; Miss Rock's being weaker and less natural. And there is now and then something a very little like affec tation, mingling with Miss Rock's joyousness, (although we have not the least be

lief it is the thing,) from which that of Miss Kelly is quite purified. Their voices are round, sweet, and touching in their quality, and refined in their modulation; and both are mistresses of a clear and polished elocution. Both are lovely singers, though we almost think Miss Rock the more seductive of the two. Her voice is of a

rich and fine tone, and of very considerable powers though not of great extent; and if her execution is limited, yet, being without any pretension, it does not halt and stumble, and her taste and feeling are delightful. There is something in her look and manner when she is seated at the harp which has more of the bewitching impressment and brilliant naiveté of the foreign school, than of the coldness and graceless graces of almost all but our very first rate English practitioners. We are told she also dances very beautifully.

Mrs Garrick and Mr Huckle are charming singers, and merit much more than this passing notice.-Weekly Journal.

Captain MacGregor, 58 F. to be Major 12th Aug. 3 Dr. G. E. Burnaby to be Cornet by purch. vice Willes, ret. 4th Nov. Cornet Williamson, from 22 Dr. to be Cornet, vice Griffith, h. p. 22 Dr. 21st Oct.

6 Dr.

2 F. G. Ensign and Lieut. Gooch to be Lieut. and Capt. vice Clifton ret. 28th do. Ensign and Lieut. Jenkinson, from ha p. to be Ensign and Lieut. by purch. do. Serj. Maj. W. Only, from Rifle Brig. to be Quar. Mast. vice Kiernan 21st do.

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Lieut. W. Leslie, from h. p. 1 Bahama

Gar Comp. to be Paym. vice Jones, ret. h. p.

4th Nov.

Ensign Watkins, from h. p. 100 F. to be Ensign, vice M'Mahon, dead 11th do. Bt. Maj. Wilkie to be Maj. vice Blainey, dead 4th do. Lieut. Mackintosh to be Captain do. Ensign Hewitt to be Lieut. vice Macdonnell, dead 3d do. Ensign Macdonald to be Lieut. 4th do Ensign M Nabb, from late Meuron's Regt. to be Ensign 3d do. Gent. Cadet J. Buckley, from Mil. Col. to be Ensign 4th do. Serj. Major W. Grant to be Adjutant ang Ensign, vice Mackie, dead

8 F.

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G. Rothe to be Ensign by purch. vice Stewart, 28 F. 23d Sept. Ensign Stewart, from 13 F. to be Ensign, vice Dalgleish do.

5th do. 2 W. I. R. M. G. Sparks to be Ensign, vice Lowe, dead

4th do.

Bt. Maj. Gibbons, fm. 60 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Pearce, h. p.

Colberg, fm. 58 F. with Capt. Phelan, h.

p. 60 F. Capt. Maitland, fm. 14 F. with Capt. Rainsford,

18 F.

Westropp, fm. 58 F. with Bt. Maj. Macgregor, h. p. 95 F.

Shirley. fin. Coldst, Gds. with Capt.Powys, h. p.

Templeton, fm. 47 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Forbes, h. p.

Verity, fm. 58 F. with Capt. Montgomery, h. p. York Chass.

Locker, fm. 8 Dr. rec. diff. with Capt. Fraser, h. p.

- Day, fm. 49 F. with Capt. Campbell, h. p. 96 F.

Lieut. Austin, fm. 70 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Mercer, h. p. 10 F.

Qua. Mast. Gaze, No. Glocester Mil. Stoddart, 34 F.

Medical Department.

Dr Ryan, Staff Surg. at Bermuda

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Aufrere, fm. 9 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut.

do.

Mallory, h. p. 20 Dr.

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Manders, fm. 3 F. rec. diff. with Lieut.

Croasdaile, h. p. 45 F.

40

Lambert, fm. 11 F. rec. diff. with Lieut.

Chambre, h. p. York Lt. Inf. Vol.

46

Fowle, fm. 58 F. rec. diff. with Lieut.

Firebrace, h. p. R. York Rang.

51

Jack, from 58 F. rec. diff. with Lieut.

Capt. Thos. Cox, fm. h. p. Port. Serv. do. to be Capt. vice Watling, exch. Lt. Hen. Helmsley, fm. h. p. to be Lt. do. vice Anthony, exch. rec. diff. Capt. W. Mallett, fm. h. p. 56 F. to be Capt. vice Protheroe, exch. do. Lieut. W. H. Hare, to be Capt. by p vice Smellie, ret. do.

O'Hehir, h. p.

Smith, from 60 F. with Lieut. Eason, h.

Gds, to be Capt. vice Campbell, exch. rec. diff.

do.

Assist. Surg. Woodroffe, h. p.

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H. Leckey to be Ensign, vice Maugher,

dead Paym. J. Bews, fm. h. p. 1 Greek Lt. Inf. to be Paym. vice Birch, exch. do. Lt. C. Barry, fm. h. p. 60 F. to be Lt. vice Graham, exch. rec. diff. do. Capt. J. Maclean to be Maj. by purch. vice Kingdon, ret. Lieut. N. Baker to be Capt. by purch.

do.

do.

do. Ensign A. J. Caldwell to be Lieut. by

purch. Cha. Crickitt to be Ensign, by purch. do.

do.