Friday a meeting was convened at the Freemasons' Tavern, attended by many of the Nobility and Clergy, for the purpose of raising a fund for the support of this Insti , tution. The Duke o York took the chair at about half past 1 o'clock, anti was supported on his right ,by the Ar

Friday morning, ahnut 11 o'clock, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester ' the Princess Augusta, the Prince and Princess of Hesse llonihourg, the Nincess Sophia of Gloucester, went to Soinerset- house to view the exhibition, previously to its opening to the public at large.— They re

Thursday last a ncw dramatic romance, called the Mountain Chief, was here. It the attempts of an outlaw, Rhys ti e Red, (Wallack), to carry Off the daughter of a miller,hetrothed to, and .on the point of marriage ‘rith a mote legitimate pretender. The piece contains a great dcal

PUBLICATION, - Dedicated, by Special Permission, to his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, A New and Superior Edition of the HOLY SCRIPTURES, with Numerous Enpavings, and now including a Preface and Histolical Account of the several Books writtten for the purpose. By the Rev. EDW

The Earl of LAUDERDALE had heard that a large gold cronage was intended for the year 1818, the expense of which would he 70,00o1.—four millions had been coined last year, at the expense t t if .10,0001. of which 2.,500,0001. had disappeared, so that '15,0001. had been thrown awa

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Rev. R. Sandilands, Lower Grosvenor-place, Pimlicoi momv B. B. Cowell, High-street, Shoreditch, oilman. BANKRUPTS. J. Young, Gosport, sadler. J. Holden, Westbromwich, Stafford, black buckle maker. Stee Man, Calcutta, dealer and chapman. W. Halsted, Chich

On Friday at St. Pancras, Joseph Walters, Esq. of Bow , lane, Cheapside, and Edmonton, Middlesex, to Mry Ann, widow of the late James Foot, jun. Esq. of Princes-street, Spitalfields. On the 30th ult. at the New Church, Mary-le-bone, by the Rev. Bryn Burgess, James Cowan, Esq. to

'I I O counteract the many attempts that are daily made to I_ impose on the unwary a spurious composition instead of the Genuine Blacking prepared by Day and Martin, they have adopted a new Label, in which their address, 97, HIGH HOLBORN, is so conspicuously placed, that they tr

-;HOI3SE OF LORDS.. MONDAY. The Waterloo Bridge Act Amendment Bill was brought up from the Commons, and read, with several Private Bills., she fti,t TUFSnAY The Orders of the Day were pissed Ah-reugh without discussion. WE DN The 'Marquis of LANSDOWN, in rising to move that the