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siness to be competent to his duties in that House. He, for his part, would be inclined to take a middle course between the extremes of annual and septennial Parliaments, and to recommend triennial Parliaments; which, without the evils of either, would possess all the advantages of both. On the subject of voting, he thought that the Sheriffs ought to collect the votes throughout the different districts, without subjecting the candidate to the expence of bringing up the freeholders from the extremities of the county to the place of the election. There was another point to which he wished to call the attention of the House; and that was, to the number of persons holding places and seats in that House. His remedy would be, that persons holding places without responsibility should not be suffered to have seats in that House. After expressing his conviction, that the country must have either Reform or a Military Government, the Hon. Gentleman concluded, "That a Committee be appointed, to inquire into the state of the Representation of the People in that House, to consider of the most effectual means of reforming it, and to report the same, with their opinions thereon to the House."

Messrs. Giddy, S. Bourne, and Canning, Lord Milton, and Sir J. Pulteney, spoke against the motion; and Messrs. Whitbread, Ponsonby, Tierney, W Smith, C. Wynne, and Noel, and Sir J. Newport, in its favour.

Mr. Wardle quoted the plan of Reform suggested by Sir F. Burdett last Session as preferable.

On a division, there appeared, for the motion 115, against it 234-Majority 119.

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ment, were opened at nine o'clock. In a few minutes, the Theatre was completely filled; the number of ladies who wished to obtain admission was so very great, that nearly half of them were disappointed. Many went into the neighbouring houses, and others remained in the street to see the procession Noblemen, Heads of Houses, Doctors, and Proctors, dressed in their robes, assembled at Balliol college about ten o'clock, where they were introduced to the Chancellor; and at eleven they accompanied his Lordship and the Vicechancellor, in procession, preceded by the bedels, to the Theatre. As soon as those who formed the procession had taken their seats, his Lordship opened the Convocation, by briefly stating the

there was a population of above 400,000 inhabitants, who were at present not represented at all. In the West of England, on the contrary, many places returned Members to Parliament without having any population deserving of notice. What claim, he would ask, could Gatton, Old Sarum, or the sub-marine inhabitants of St. Mawes, have to the right of sending Representatives to Parfiament? The right of election, in his opinion, should be transferred from these and such places to Manchester, Birmingham, and other populous towns, and the most populous counties. With respect to Scotland, he could not feel it so easy to point out a remedy, as he did with respect to his own country. He was not sufficiently informed upon the state of Scotland; but he should suppose, that there could be no objection to assimilate the election laws of that country to the laws of England. He was not aware that there was any thing in the contract for the Union of the two countries that would preclude such an arrangement. As to the state of the Representation in Ireland, he was not disposed to propose any change. He should, however, bring that subject under the consideration of the Committee, if his motion should be agreed to. There were, he had no doubt, boroughs in that country, as well as in this, which were entirely in the nomination of some Members of the Aristocracy. He had thus given a general outline of his plan, which would go to obviate the two principal objections to the present state of the representation. There was, how ever, another objection of importance, respecting the duration of Parliament: Annual Parliaments would leave the Representative too little accustomed to bu

ACCOUNT OF THE ENCENIA AT OXFORD, Monday, July 2. The University was never known to be so full of company as it has been on this occasion. Great difficulty was experienced in procuring horses on the road. This evening the High-street was much crowded with people waiting for the arrival of Lord Grenville, the Chancellor. His Lordship did not enter Oxford till between nine and ten. He alighted at Balliol, the college of the Vice-chancellor, where, according to custom, the Chancellor resides during this celebrity.

Tuesday, July 3. Early this morning a great number of carriages, with ladies full dressed, and a large concourse of ladies and gentlemen on foot, began to assemble at the doors of the Theatre, which, according to a previous arrange

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purpose for which it was assembled; after which he proposed that the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law be conferred on the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, who were afterwards severally presented by Dr. Phillimore, the Regius Professor of Civil Law, and were admitted to their degrees by the Chancellor :- Duke of Somerset, Marquisses of Buckingham, Downshire, and Ely Earls of Essex, Abingdon, Jersey, Carysfort, Fortescue, and Temple; Viscounts Bulkeley and Carleton; Lords Braybrook, Cawdor, and Carrington; Right. Hon. William Wickham, Řight Hon. G. Tierney, Right Hon. W. Elliot, Right Hon. Sir Wm. Drummond, K. C. Right Hon. Sir J. Newport, bart. Right Hon. Sir J. Anstruther, bart. and Mr. Fagel, late Greffier of the United Provinces.

After this ceremony was concluded, the Creweian Oration was delivered by the Rev. William Crowe, LL.B. of New College, the Public Orator. The animated manner in which this very elegant Latin composition was delivered, as well as the topics it contained, called forth great and deserved applause. The following analysis, we fear, will give but a faint idea of the original. The public benefactors to the University being too numerous to be comprised in a single oration, it has been usual for the Orator to divide them into classes, and to take for his subject some one most suitable to the occasion. He therefore, for the day, chose to celebrate those Chancellors of the University who had been its benefactors; but first he said something of the antiquity and dignity of the office. The Chancellorship of Oxford was always highly honourable, because it was conferred by the free suffrages of the members, Antiently, the person elected was some eminent man resident within the University, who executed the office himself. An office so laborious was not held for life. During this period, the Orator noticed two Chancellors; Bishop Smyth, the founder of Brasenose college; and Archbishop Warham, whom he desired leave particularly to-naine (being himself a Wykelamist), as the glory of the Wykehamists in his age, the great benefactor of learned men, and particularly of Erasmus. The Chancellors whom the speech celebrated were Laud, the founder of the Arabic Lecture, and a great benefactor to the Bodleian Library, by the gift of Oriental MSS. &c.; Clarendon, to whose immortal History, the University owes her Printing-house; Sheldon, the munificent founder of the Aheatre, and Lord Lichfield, who in

stituted the Clinical Lecture, and first gave the Annual Prizes for Latin Verse and English Prose compositions. This last benefaction, he said, was greater than it appeared to be; since it encouraged a laudable emulation among the young students, and gave rise to many yearly productions, which shewed much ingenuity and diligence. This he af firmed from a personal knowledge of the fact for many years. (The Orator is one of the judges to determine the Prizes.) Having gone through the list of benefactors, he exhorted the students to reflect that their acts of munificence were all calculated to extend the fame and glory of the University, much more than to adorn or enrich it; and therefore he trusted that they would cooperate towards such a noble end. The conclusion of the speech was addressed to the Chancellor, to this effect :· -"I have not hesitated to celebrate the munificence of these Chancellors in your presence; for I am not apprehensive that my speech can be misinterpreted so far as that any should think I have a design to stimulate you to acts of bounty, by this recital of the bounty of others. Your good-will to the University is already well known; and she has proofs of your liberality, for instance, in the new annual Prize. Other acts I could willingly mention, but this is not the sea-. son. Envy is too often the attendant upon Virtue, and Death alone can extinguish it. It is not till then that Virtue has her due reward. The age to come will not fail to give you a more ample praise. But may you long live to preside over us; and may that day be far distant, when your praises will be heard without envy! This is the wish of all who wish well to our University."

Some little indications of discontent at the opening of the Convocation contributed to make the conclusion the more appropriate.

The Prize Compositions were then recited in the following order:

THE CHANCELLOR'S PRIZES,

The Latin Verses, "Fyramides Ægyptiacæ," by Mr. John Taylor Coleridge, Scholar of Corpus Christi College.

The English Essay, "What are the Arts in the cultivation of which the Moderns have been less successful than the Antients?" by Mr. Richard Whateley, B.A. of Oriel college. This Essay showed a considerable degree of research, and good habits of analyzation and comparison.

The Latin Essay," In Philosophiâ, quæ de Vitâ et Moribus est, illustrandâ, quænam præcipuè Sermonum Socraticorum fuit excellentia ?" by Mr. John Miller,

Miller, B.A. Fellow of Worcester college. This was highly and deservedly applauded.

SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE'S PRIZE. English Verse, "The Statue of the dying Gladiator," by Mr. George Robert Chinnery, Student of Christ Church. As we have enriched our poetical department with this production (see p. 61.) we shall only observe, that it exhibits much youthful poetical genius and fire, and was also most deservedly com mended.

The Installation Ode, written by the Prosessor of Poetry (see p. 61.), and set to music by the Professor of that science, was then performed, amidst frequent, bursts of applause; and at about two o'clock, the Chancellor dissolved the Convocation; after which, the Noblemen, Heads of Houses, Doctors, and Proctors, net the Chancellor at a sumptuous dinner in the Hall of Balliol College. The first Concert commenced at the usual hour of five in the afternoon, and was over before nine. The persons present amounted to two thousand and sixty-four. This, however, was but the prelude to the amusements of the evening, for there was a grand ball and supper at the Town-ball. The company was very brilliant, but so very numerous that the dancing was much interrupted. The stewards were the Marquis of Worcester and the Earl De la Warre.

Wednesday, July 4. At eleven, full choir service, with an anthem, accompanied by the band of music, was performed at St. Mary's Church, for the benefit of the Radcliffe Infirmary, where an excellent sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Howley, the Regius Professor of Divinity. The subscription amounted to 2497. After service, the Chancellor held a Levee at Balliol college, which was fully attended by those who had not had an opportunity of being previously presented to his Lordship. He this day dined with the Stewards of the Radcliffe Charity at the Town-hall. The company at the Concert in the afternoon amounted to rather more than 1800. In the evening, there were several private balis.

Thursday, July 5. This morning the doors of the Theatre were opened before nine, and that part appropriated for ladies was soon filled. Some benches in the semicircular part of the Theatre were on each morning reserved for Lady Grenville, her friends, and other ladies of distinction. The Convocation commenced at ten, when the following were admitted to the honorary degree of

Doctor in Civil Law: Viscount Hawars den, Hon. Richard Neville, M. P. Hon. W. H. Lyttelton, M. P. Hon. James Abercromby, M. P. Sir Cecil Bisshopp, bart. Sir W. Pole, bart. Sir G. Clerke, bart. Sir Stephen Glynn, bart. Sir Richard Brooke, bart. Sir Oswald Mosley, bart. Sir James Matthew Strong, bart. Rear-adm. Sir W. Sidney Smith, Sir Codrington Edmund Carrington, Rearadm. Isaac George Manley, W. Cavendish, Esq. M. P. C. Watkin Williams Wynn, Esq. M. P. Wm. Lowndes, Esq. M. P. John Leach, Esq. M.P. Daniel Giles, Esq. M. P. Wm. Henry Fremantle, Esq. M. P. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. M.P. Richard William Henry Vyse, Esq. M. P. William Holmes, Esq. M. P. Joseph Halsey, Esq. M. P. The name of Sir Sidney was received with loud shouts of applause, which were repeated when he was admitted to his degree, and on his taking his place among the Doctors. After all the degrees were conferred, congratulatory verses were delivered by the following Noblemen and Gentlemen, and in the following order from each rostrum alternately:1. Mr. Chinnery, Christ Church, English Verse in Rhyme; 2. Earl De la Warre, Brasenose college; 3. Mr Rogers, Oriel college, English Blank Verse; 4. Mr, Rawnsley, Exeter college, - Englisk Rhyme; 5. Mr. Gregson, Brasenose college, Latin Alcaic Ode; 6. Mr. Mills, Magdalen college, English Rhyme; T Hon. Mr. Campbell, Christ Church, English Khyme; 8. Mr. Keble, Corpus Christi college, English Blank Verse: 9. Mr. Poulter, New college, English Blank Ferse; 10. Mr. Randal, Trinity college, English Blank Verse; 11. Mr. C. Bathurst, Christ Church, English Rhyme; 12. Mr. Bill, Oriel college, English Rhyme; 13. Mr. Richards, Jesus college, English Blank Verse: 14. Lord Apsley, Christ Church, Lutin Alcaic Ode.

The Chancellor dined this day in Christ Church Hall. The party was very large, and his health was given with acclamations of applause.-The Concert this afternoon was as fully attended as on the preceding. The remainder of the evening was passed in private par ties and balls.

Friday, July 6. The Convocation met at ten, when the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law was conferred on Lord Viscount Duncannon, M. P. Right Hon. Lord G. Grenville, M. P. Sir Edw. Knatchbull, bart. M. P. Sir James Craufurd, bart. Sir Montague Cholmeley, bart. William Robert Spencer, Esq. Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq. M. P. Charles

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William Taylor, Esq. M. P. Albany Saville, Esq. M. P. Henry Calveley Cotton, Esq. Henry Watkin Williams Wynn, Esq. George Hammond, Esq. Benjamin Garlike, Esq. William Henry Ashhurst, Esq. High Sheriff of the county of Oxford; Frederick Thomas Hervey Foster, Esq. Thomas Francis Fremantle, Esq. Captain R. N. George John Legh, Esq. William Hanbury, Esq. Patrick Craufurd Bruce, Esq. Samuel Kekewich, Esq. Thomas Schutz, Esq. John Engelbert Liebenrood, Esq. Thomas Strangways Horner, Esq. High Sheriff of the County of Somerset; Edward Grove, Esq. -Rev. Dr. Haggitt, of Cambridge, was admitted Doctor in Divinity, ad eundem. The following gentlemen of Cambridge University were admitted Masters of Arts ad eundem: Charles Peers, Esq. Ralph Lockie, Esq. the Rev. William Robinson. The Honorary Degree of Master of Arts was also conferred on Charles Cumming, Esq. Gentleman commoner of Corpus Christi college; Addison John Easterby Cresswell, Esq. Gentleman commoner of Corpus Christi college; William Whittred, Esq. Gentleman commoner of Exeter college; Henry Ralph Willett, Esq. Gentleman commoner of Christ Church; Edmund Lechmere Charlton, Esq. Gentleman commoner of Christ Church. They were presented by the Public Orator. Congratulatory Verses were then delivered, in the same manner as on the preceding day, by 1. Mr. Smith, Magdalen college, English Rhyme; 2. Mr. Cleaver, Christ Church, English Blank Verse; 3. Mr. Fowle, Merton college, English Rhyme; 4. Hon. Mr. Eden, Christ Church, English Rhyme; 5. Mr, Crowe, Wadham college, English Rhyme (see p. 62.); 6. Mr. Hornby, Brasenose college, a Latin Alcaic Ode; 7. Mr. Oakley, Christ Church, English Rhyme; 8. Mr. Short, Trimty college, English Rhyme; 9. Mr. Starkie, Brascnose college, English Blank Verse; 10. Hon. W. Bathurst, Christ Church, EngLish Blank Verses 11. Mr. Bartholomew, Corpus Christi college, an English Ode; 12. Hon. Mr. Vane, Brasenose college, English Rhyme; 13. Mr, Swete, Oriel college, English Rhyme; 14. Earl of Clare, Christ Church, English Rhyme. On this, as well as on the former days, some beautiful short pieces of music were performed by the band between Each recitation; and they concluded with "God save the King," in which the wonderful sweetness and compass of Madame Catalani's voice were particularly admired. The Chancellor, and a numerous party of Noblemen and Gentlemen, with the Vice chancellor and

Proctors, afterwards dined with the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose college, in their hall. The fourth and last Concert in the Theatre, as well as the Ball at the Town-hall, were much crowded, and went off extremely well. This morning the Chancellor paid his respects to the Heads of Houses and Members of Convocation at their respective Colleges and Halls, and in the evening quitted Oxford on his return to Dropmore. The Concerts were miscellaneous; and when we have said that the selections were made by Dr. Crotch, the Professor of Music, and that they were performed by the first vocal and instrumental performers in the kingdom, at the head of whom were Catalani and Cramer, it is impossible to say, more in their praise.

Saturday, July 7. At half past two this afternoon, Mr. Sadler ascended in his balloon from Merton-meadows, amidst the acclamations of an immense concourse of spectators, assembled from all parts of the surrounding country. It was visible for a considerable time, and, after a voyage of about one hour and a half, descented in safety within a mile and a half of Stowe, the seat of the Marquis of Buckingham, a distance of 24 miles from Oxford.-Messrs. Sadler arrived safely at Oxford in a post-chaise a little after two o'clock on Sunday, with the balloon in another post-chaise following them. It appears that the course taken by the balloon was almost due North East to the left of Aylesbury, between that town and Bicester. It floated directly over Winslow, in Bucks, having before swept off Moor Brill, &c. &c. The aeronauts, above Wooton, met with a contrary current of air, which detained them for a length of time, and compelled them to make a complete circle in the air. They then resumed their original course, and after a transit of two hours and 29 minutes, alighted in a field belonging to Mr. Marshall (a Quaker), in the parish of North Crawley, Bucks; by the assistance of whose people it was packed, without having received the slightest injury. The hurry and confusion occasioned by the people in the vicinity of the balloon on its ascension, caused Messrs. Sadler to forget the barometer, so that the true elevation could not be ascertained; the thermometer in the sun rose considerably, being once as high as 85. Their descent was beautiful and gradual for about three quarters of an hour. At first they approached the earth where a number of hay-makers were at work, but who, though repeatedly hailed to take hold of the ropes thrown out, were

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too much terrified by the new phenomenon to lend the adventurous travellers any assistance. From this they skimmed a wheat field, in which the car took the ground, and they rebounded about forty feet, and cleared the adjoining hedge. The voyagers then threw out the grapling-iron with which they were provided, and after dragging along the field (which was of barley) for some seconds, it brought them to anchor in a

high quick-set fence, on this side of which the car rested in Buckinghamshire, while the balloon itself swung the other side of the hedge into Bedfordshire. In this situation, assistance was gradually procured, the most adventurous and bold of the parishioners advancing first; and the balloon, car, &c. were properly secured. The travellers only felt cold once, and their motion was extremely easy

INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. Admiralty-office, June 26. Admiral Sir R. Curtis has reported, in his letter to Mr. Croker, of the 23d instant, that his Majesty's sloop the Bonne Citoyenne captured in the Channel, on the 21st, a French privateer, called Le Maitre de Danse, pierced for 14 guns, only four mounted, and a complement of 30 men.

Admiralty-office, July 10. Rear-adm. Drury, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's ships in the East Indies, has transmitted to this Office a letter he had received from Capt. Hart, commanding his Majesty's ship the Fox, giving an account of the boats of that ship having, on the 23d of March 1809, captured and brought out from under the batteries at Sapara, La Caravanne, mounting eight four pounders, belonging to the Isle of France, and bound from Batavia to Sourabaya.

Admiralty-office, July 14. Rear-adm. Druty to Hon. W. Wellesley Pole, late Secretary to the Admiralty.

Russel, in Colombo Roads, Jan. 7. Sir, You will be pleased to lay before the Right Honourable the Lords Commissiouers of the Admiralty the enclosed copy of a letter, which I have received from that most able and judicious officer Capt. Wainwright, of his Majesty's ship Chiffonne, who has for some time past had the direction of the frigates employed in the Persian Gulf, and appears to have effectually destroyed the nest of pirates which has so long harassed the trade with impunity.

W. Q. B. Drury. La Chiffonne, off Ras al Khyma, Nov. 14. Sir, I have the honour to acquaint -your Excellency, that, by the exertion of the troops and the squadron under the respective command of Lieut.-col. Smith and myself, Ras al Khyma, the principal town of the pirates who have so long infested the Persian Gulph, has been completely destroyed, together with all the vessels in the port, amounting to upwards of 50 (about 30 of them very GENT. MAG. July, 1810.

large dows), and of every species of na-
val stores, The ships arrived off the
place in the afternoon of the 11th inst.
but in consequence of the shallowness
of the water were not able to approach
the town within four miles, except the
small cruizers and two of the trans-
ports;
these anchored from it as near as
two miles. On the same evening the
Minerva, an English ship, prize to the
pirates, was burnt within twice her
length of the shore. On the following
day the town was cannonaded for three
hours by the small cruisers and gun-
boats, with considerable effect; and a
little before day-break on the 13th inst.
a feint was made on the Northern end
of the place, with two gun boats, under
the command of Lieut. Leslie, of the
Chiffonne, and a detachment of native
troops; and the main attack commenced
on the Southern, about half an hour af-
terwards, consistently with an arrange
ment made by the Lieutenant-colonel.
The troops were soon landed, and gal-
lantly executing the plan of their com.
mander, had possession of Ras al Khyma
by 10 o'clock, driving the enemy to the
opposite shore; the gun-boats kept up
a fire of grape shot on the sea side as
the soldiers advanced. Before 4 o'clock
all the enemy's vessels were in flames,
together with the naval storehouses in
the town. I received the most effectual
assistance from Capt. Gordon of the Ca-
roline, who was with me at the landing,
and from the officers and men of his
Majesty's ships: also from the respective
commanders of the Honourable Com-
pany's cruisers * attached to the arma-
ment, and their officers and men. The
marines of the Chiffonne and Caroline
were disembarked with the army. By
the accompanying return your Excellency
will have pleasure in observing that the

* Mornington, Capt. Jeakes; Aurora, Lieut. Conyers; Nautilus, Lieut. Walkin; Prince of Wales, Lieut. Allen; Fury, Lieut. Davidson; Ariel, Lieut. Salter. The Vestal joined on the 12th,

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