The following are the terms agreed upon between the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Committee appointed for settling the terms of funding 8,500,000l. Exchequer Bills:-" For each 100l. of principal the holders are to receive the undermentioned sums of stock, estimated at the following prices: 251. of Consols, a 683, 177. Is. 1cd.—257. Reduced, a 17, 16/ 16s 10d.-25 New Fives, a 99, 24!. 155.-50 Fo ur per Cents. a 812, 421. 7s. 6d.—1s. 9d. L. Ann. a 19%, 1l. 14s. 4d. am ounting, in the whole, to 102/. 15s. 7d. The proprietors to have the opportunity of subscribing 50l. additional for every col. Bill, to be applied for redeeming the sum of about 2,400,00cl, bills held by the Bank of England. The bills to be carried to the Exchequer on or before the 24th of November. The interest to be calculated to that day, and paid in money. The deposit of 251. per cent. on the additional 50%. for each Jool. Exchequer bill, to be paid at the time of leaving the bills for payment; 251. per cent. to be paid on the 18th of December, and the remaining 50l. per cent. on the 15th of January." The calculation of interest on these different sums is as follows:-Interest on 25/ Consols, 15s.-25. Reduced, 155.-50l. Fours, 21.-251. New Fives, il. 55. -15. 9d. L. Ann. Is. 2d.-Total interest on 102/. 155. 7d. 41. 16s. 9d. A discount of five per cent. is to be allowed for prompt payment; and if the instalments are paid on or before the 2nd of January, the subscribers are to be entitled to the dividend on Consols. BIRTHS. Of SONS:-At Rathmines, near Dublin, Lady Dunboyne; the Lady of Lord G. Cavendish. Of DAUGHTERS:-At Edinburgh, the Lady of Sir H. D. Hamilton; the Lady of Vice-Admiral Sir C. M. Pole; the child was ftill-born; the Lady of E. Sanley, Esq. His Majesty's Prime Serjeant in Ireland; the Lady of Andrew Franklin, Esq. and the Lady of Benja min Thompson, Esq. of Nottingham. MARRIED. The Right Hon. M. Fitzgerald, commonly called Knight of Kerry, to Miss Latouche, daughter to the Right Hon. D. L. At St. Mary-le-bone, W. G. Johnston, Esq. to Miss H. M. H. Richardson, sister of Sir G. Richardson, Bart. of the 64th Regiment. G. Ellis, Esq. M. P. to Miss Parker, daughter of Sir Peter. The Rev. J. Myers, of Walton on the Hill, to Miss Woodman, niece to Warren Hastings, Esq. The Rev. J. Kennedy, curate of Kimcotte, to the widow of the late eminent musician, S. Storace. Dashwood, Esq. of Beccles, to Miss Mary Ann Carthew, daughter of the Rev. T. Carthew, late of Woodbridge, Suffolk. At the new Episcopal Chapel, Edinbutgh, the Hon. Montgomery Stewart, son of the Earl of Galloway, to Miss Katherine Honeyman, sister to Lord Armadale. DIED. On the 21st inst. at his house in Harley-street, two months after the death of his wife and infant son, the Hon. John Cochrane. In the 77th year of his age, the Right Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, titular bishop of Clogher.At Dunottar, A. Allardyce, Esq. of Dumottar, M. P. for the Aberdeen district of Burghs. CORRESPONDENCE. Our Readers will observe that an extra half-sheet is gratuitously added to this Number, for the purpose of making room for various poetical contributions. A Portrait of Mr. QUICK, the eminent Comedian, in the Character of Spado, in the Castle of Andalusia, from a fine Painting by Gainsborough Dupont, will be given in our Number for Janua ry, 1802. Original Anecdotes by Tate Wilkinson, Esq. shall be continued next month, when the account of the riot occasioned by the Chinese Festival will be given entire. The MS. Account mentioned by VERITAS will be very acceptable. We are much obliged to EPHEBUS (Liverpool) for the ingenious Enigmatic History inserted in this number. The author of the Simple Swain, a ballad, need not be at the trouble of sending a sig nature. We shall seize the earliest opportunity of inserting Elinor, the Convia, a very pathetic and interesting monologue by Mr. DIMOND, junr. We lament, with BANNISTERIENSII, the mortification to which an eminent comic actor is subjected by the miserable jokes that are fathered upon him in the public prints; but it is an inconvenience which all public characters suffer, who have obtained a reputation for saying good things; and they who know Mr. B. will easily distinguish the genuine from the spurious repartees which bear the sanction of his name. The favours of NOTEA G. and of JULIUS, from Newcastle, skall obtain situations in our next. PETER POINT has assumed a very inappropriate signature; for, unfortunately, his Epigram has no point. We thank AMICUS for his friendly hint, but we must be the best judges of the propriety of our own arrangements. A RESIDENT of Halifax shall be attended to. THE MONTHLY MIRROR, FOR DECEMBER, 1801. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MR. HENRY SIDDONS, [With a Portrait.] THE subject of these memoirs exempts his biographers from a difficulty common to many others. In writing the life of any man, it is often the most laborious part of the task to give a history of his relations and ancestors; the public are so well acquainted with every circumstance relating to Mrs. Siddons, that any account of the origin of her son would be superfluous. HENRY SIDDONS, the eldest son of our English MELPOMENA, was born at Wolverhampton, in Staffordshire, October the 22d. 1774. His mother brought him up, then an infant, to London, with her, when she was first engaged by the late David Garrick, Esq.-the issue of that engagement is well known to the public. When she went to Bath, in consequence of an application from Mr. Palmer, then manager of the theatre, she took her son Henry with her. Her abilities were shortly discovered by the judicious audience of that town. During her stay there, her son performed the child in Isabella, and several other infantine characters. He was also one of the three reasons she produced for quitting a place where she had received such splendid tokens of approbation and encouragment. Every one must remember the brilliant success which attended her first appearance in London in the character of Isabella; her little child was personated by the subject of these memoirs, who appeared with her on her first night. He was shortly after sent to a school at Croydon, in Surrey; from thence to Doctor Barrow's academy in Soho-Square, and, shortly after, by the favour of the QUEEN, was placed upon the foundation of the Charter-house. He was about eleven years of age when he went to that seminary, and remained there till he was near seventeen. The passion he had cherished for the profession of his relatives was obvious at the earliest period of his life. His leisure time was always employed in the perusal of the dramatic poets. At the age of fifteen he wrote an interlude, called Modern Breakfast, which was acted for his aunt, Mrs. S. Kemble's, benefit: it was preceded by an elegant prologue, written by Mr. John Taylor, and was so well received by the audience as to induce the manager to repeat it. He also, at this period, published three little novels, viz. William Wallace; Leon, or a Spartan Story; and Somerset. Considered as the productions of a school-boy, they were allowed to be highly creditable to the invention and literary powers of their author. His father, immediately after he quitted school, to prepare him for the profession of an actor, took him to France, to learn the language, fencing, and other requisites. He was placed with a gentleman at Amiens, in Picardy. The unlucky troubles which were then commencing in France robbed him of the advantages he might have received there, and he was compelled to return to England. A few months afterwards he joined Mr. Stephen Kemble's company, and made his first appearance, November 1792, in the character of Zanga, in the Revenge. The part was arduous for a young man; he, however, acquitted himself with some credit. He went from thence to Newcastle and Edinburgh, where he performed a few seasons without notice, and without censure. His first gleam of success was at Lancaster, where he played Hamlet for his own benefit; he was hailed in this character with very loud applause, and ever after was a great favourite in that town, where he has continued to act almost every summer, with Mr. Stanton, the manager of that place. Mr. Aicken engaged him for Liverpool, about six summers since, and gave him many opportunities of improvement and applause. From thence he returned again to Newcastle, where every one allowed the progress he had made during his absence, and, excepting Mr. Cooke, he was thought the most favourite of their performers. The winter following, he came to London to visit his friends; and going with his father to Bath and Bristol, he acted Othello, at both these places, with very considerable success. It was some time, however, before he insinuated himself into the good graces of the admirers of the drama in Edinburgh. That discriminating audience wait a long time before they give their judgment, or surmount a first unfavourable impression. The celebrated play of the Stranger, very luckily for him, came out at this crisis. To be the original representative of a capital character in ♣ successful play is the first step to fame. In the Stranger he exceeded his own expectations; and the part of Rolla, in Pizarro, the following winter, was attended with equal, if |