rt% FEB. 19. CONVERSAZIONE. (COMMUNICATED EXCLUSI V ELY I. OR THE NATIONAL REGISTE a.) Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed. — SAMSON AGONISTES. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MISTRESS CLARKE. IT is not very many years since every body talked of Mistress Rudd. Within these few years every body was talking of Mis tress Phippoe. Every body is now talking of Mistress Clarke. 'Tis the nine-days' wonder ! Every body is therefore wondering what will be the end of the wonder. " Has she been promised a pension from Bonaparte ?" whispered one of your significant politicians, shrugging his shoulders; and lamenting how much her protracted examination must interfere with the interests of the country, at this mo mentous crisis. The thought had never struck me till no w. — 'T was full of cogitation. " Why, let me see," said I, " there may be something in that idea." Aye, they begin again to talk of Jacobin Conspiracies ; and, who knows—who knows—who knows (thought 1) what that child and Champion of Jacobin ism, as the late William Pitt called the present Emperor Na poleon, who knows (thought 1) what pranks this universal ili triguant may now be playing with us ?—lie knows the political, as well as the physical, utility of the sex. Yes ; and he knows that " Since Adam, by his facil consort Eve, " Lost Paradise"— Bonaparte knows, I say, that woman is still the instrument of wo—to—man! Think of Mrs Eve and Mrs. Potipher, and Mrs. Jezebel, and Mrs. Dalila, " of old"; and, sequently, of Mrs. Helen, and Mrs. Cleopatra, and Mrs. Herod, and ! I say nothing of later times. Is not mischief the natural element of woman?—Like her first seducer, she may indeed assume the appearance of an angel of light, but 'tis to beguile more surely ! Men, however, still call her an " adored angel," without remembering, as Mr. Gar row wisely observed, that she is also a `• fallen angel." When Mr. Secretary Canning is ridiculing opinions because, as the newspapers state him to have said, they were " nursed in solitude," does he not recollect that the effusions of solitude have produced the most astonishing revolutions in society ? Has he forgotten the Prop;:ets of the Jewish Church and the Monks of the Romisl; Church? Knows he nothing of an Alex ander, a Caesar, a Cato, a Brutus, a Demosthenes, a Cicero ? Has he ohliteratedfrom his mind the History of Mahomet, the Reformation of the Christian Religion, the Lncyclopedists of . 111odern s France, the writings of Burke, or Thomas Paine's Rights of Alan? Lastly, indeed, is Secretary Canning still un acquainted w ith the formation of the character of that Napoleon Bonaparte against whose progress the utmost efforts of his own enius, and that of his country, are at this moment exerted?— '" C'est orditiairement dans k calme de robscurile," says the au thor of Memorial de la Vie de Bonaparte,' commenting od the temper of his hero, " guc se foment • les grandes oozes." Laugh as we may at such solitary characters, we shall find, perhaps too seriously, that, as Waller said of Oliver Cromwell, The world from India to the frozen North, is deeply . Cotwern'd in what their solitude brings forth ! Himself poetically gifted, it cannot have escaped Mr. Can that Miltom,, delineating one of the *noblest beings with which his muse was conversant, describes even the SON OF • GOD As saying • When I was yet a child, no childish plhy To me Waii ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might he public good : myself I thought Born to that end 127 Our Dashing Cyprians express the greatest astonishment, at finding " extravagance" one of the charges preferred against lifts. Clarke. It is perfectly understood, they say, that with them " protection has its price ;" and that Cupid, in the mo dern sense, is synonymous with Gold! If, however, it should be decided on the contrary, " relative situations," they declare, would be no longer objects of their ambition. If you design to regains a friend and conciliate an enemy, you have only to reproach the first and insult the last ! Such at least, appears, to be one of the discoveries in Modern Diplomacy. — Neither Alexander or Napoleon, it should be remarked, can be brought to comprehend this mystery.—" All's Well that Ends Well." ► If the House of Commons should determine to go to school again, Mr. Fuller, it is said, is to be appointed the Doctor Busby of our Senatorial Seminary ! Ile wishes to have all the poor creatures" well " whipped ." Although Sir Arthur Paget married Lady Borringdon al most the instant Lord Borringdon's Divorce Bill obtained the Royal Assent, still, it is understood, he had looked before he leaped ! Since the investigation of the state of the nation does not pre clude every possible attention to tl.e state (f the stomach, our Political Parties have already commenced their " carnivorous" operations ! Nothing can be settled without speeches, and eat ing is found to be highly conducive to speaking. Wonderful is the connection between gluttony and oratory. Mrs. Clarke has shewn the value she feels for royalty in hav ing sold, at the sale of her effects in Gloucester-Place, " a Mi niature of the Queen, set round with diamonds !! " So much for that " relative situation," in which, as Pope bitterly describes it, one has no alternative but to he either : Po—'d by her love or libell'd by hei hate! 1809. Mum. Feb. 16 LENT ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Mr. Justice Lawrence and Mr. Justice Le Blanc. City of York—Saturday, March 11, at the Guildhall of the said City. Yorkshire—The same day, at the Castle of York. Lancashire —Thursday, March 23, at the Castle of Lancaster. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. The Right lion. Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, and the lion. Mr. Justice Bayley. Northamptonshire- 1 M ocday, March 6, at Northampton. Rutlandshire--Friday, March 10, at Oakham. Lincolnshire and City of Lincoln—Saturday, March 11, at Lin coln. Nottinghamshire and Town of Nottingham—Thursday, March 16, at Nottingham. DerhNshire—tonday, March 20, at Derby. Leicestershire and Lorough of Leicester—Thursday, March 23, at Leicester. City of Coventry—Monday, March 27, at Coventry. Warwickshire—Same day, at Warwick. HOME CIRCUIT. The Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron Macdonald and the Hon. Mr. Justice Heath. Hertfordshire —Thursday, March 9, at Hertford. Essex—Monday, March 13, at Chelmsford. Sussex—Monday, March 20, at Horsham. Surrey—Wednesday, March 22, at Kingston. Kent —Monday, March VI, at Maidblone. NORFOLK CIRCUIT. The Right Hon. Edward Lord Ellenhorough and the Ifon. Mr. Justice Gripe. Buckinghamshire—Saturday, March 4, at Aylesbury. Bedfordshire--Thursday, March co, at Bedford. LJ_ U I= , ~ .•.. J 4 c;; „ • k~ V •