WtiA THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE, And General Advertiser for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Herts. No. 127. Printed and Published ( for the Proprietors) by E. LANCASTER, No. 30, Head- Street, Colchester. Price 7d. Price 7d. or in Quarterly Payments, at 8s. per Quarter. SATURDAY, Jane 1, 1816. 5 This Paper is filed at Garraway's, Peele's, and John's Coffee-, i Warwick- Square; Mr. White's, 83, Fleet- Street', am houses ; at Newton and Co.' and at the Auction Mart. ALL Persons having any Claim or Demand upon the Estate or Effects of WILLIAM SPAR- LING, late of Colchester, Esq. deceased, are requested to send their respective Accounts to Sirs. Sparling, of East Stockwell- street, Colchester aforesaid, the Executrix of the deceased, in order that the same may be discharged. And all Persons indebted to the late Mr. Sparling, are requested to pay their respective debts to the said Mrs. Sparling within one month from the date hereof. Colchester, May 17, 1816. THE Creditors of BENJAMIN SEBBORN, of of East Donyland, in the County of Essex, Farmer, are requested to meet the Assignees of his Estate and Effects, on Wednesday, the Sth day of June next, at Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, at the Blue Posts Inn, Botolph- strect, Colchester, upon Special Business: and those Cre- ditors who have not delivered in their Accounts are re- quested to attend with them DANIELL AND SEWELL, Colchester, 29th May, 1816. Solicitors. THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bank- J. rupt awarded and issued forth against JAMES WALLIS ASHWELL, of Colchester, in the County of Essex, Grocer, Dealer and Chapman, intend to meet on the 25th of June next, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the Red Lion Inn, in Colchester aforesaid, to make a further Dividend of the Estate and Effects of the said Bankrupt; when and where the Creditors who have not already proved their Debts are to come prepared tn prove the same, or thev will be excluded the Benefit of the said Dividend; and all Claims not then substantiated will be disallowed. DANIELL AND SEWELL, Solicitors to the Assignees. Colchester, 29th of May, 1816. TO BE LET, At Midsummer, or between now rmd Michaelmas next, ADesirable and genteel RESIDENCE, plea- santly situated in ' he Parish of Marks Tey, in the Countv of Essex. The House consists of an entrance hall and staircase, two good parlours, six chambers, kitchen, pantry, and cellar; a Pump of good Spring Water, with a detached Coal and Wood- house, and neat Garden; adjoin- ing the London lload, ( where at least twenty coaches pass and repass in the course of twenty- four hours,) and is distant fortv- six miles, and four from Colchester. The Premises built new about sixteen years ago. The fixtures, & c. belong to the owner of the Estate. To he viewed, and for further particulars, enquire of Messrs. Ambrose, Coptford, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ADESIRABLE Brick- fronted DWELLING- HOUSE, situate ill George lane, Colchester, con- sisting of two parlours, kitchen, large store- room, pantry, and convenient closets; four comfortable and airy bed- chambers, three attics, two cellars; Woodhouse, and Tenement adjoining: a largo Grass Yard, wherein is a • good lead Pump, well supplied with excellent W ater. The above Premises are Freehold, in good repair, and moderately assessed to the Rates and Taxes. For further particulars enquire of Mr. Airy, the Pro- prietor and Occupier. WIVENHOE, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HAWES AND FENTON, At the Rose and Crown, Wivenhoe, on Thursday, the 6th Day of June, 1816, at Five o'clock in the Afternoon, ALL that good PACKET or SMACK, tailed THE HOPE, of Wivenhoe, of 48 tons burthen, well found in all her stores, an Inventory of which will be produced at the time of Sale. For further particulars apply to Mr. Stacey, at the Place of Sale; or to the Auctioneers, at Colchester and Mersea COLLEN'S BANKRUPTCY. Valuable Freehold and Copyhold Estates, in Harwich and Dovercourt, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ( With Possession at Michaelmas next,) AN ESTATE, consisting of a FARM- HOUSE, a MESSUAGE, divided into Three Dwellings, with Barns, Stables, and other suitable Out- buildings, and 725 Acres of Arable, Meadow, and Pasture Land, situate Newton and Bacton, distant about four miles from the Market Town of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk, from whence there is a navigable River to Ipswich. The whole of the above Estate is Freehold, except about eight Acres, the Laud- Tax of part is redeemed, and the Poor Rates arc verv moderate For further particulars apply to Messrs. Brame and Notcutt, Solicitors, Ipswich TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HAWES AND FEN TON, On Tuesday, the 11th Day of June, 1816, at the Three Cups Inn, Harwich, at Four o'clock in the Afternoon, by Order of the Assignees of William Collen, a Bank- rupt, in the following Lots : LOT 1. THREE PIECES of truly valuable and rich FREEHOLD MARSH LAND, in Dovercourt, containing 15A. OR. IIP. or thereabouts. Immediate possession may be had of this Lot, on com- pletion of the purchase. Lot 2. ONE INCLOSURE of very productive FREE- HOLD ARABLE LAND, called Hobber's, in Dover- court, containing 13A. OR. 28P. Lot 3. ONE INCLOSURE of very fertile FREE- HOLD ARABLE LAND, called the Old Yard, contain- ing 2A. 2R. 5P. together with a capital Barn, Cart- lodge, with Granary over all, in excellent repair. Lot 4. TWO PIECES of very rich ARABLE LAND, held of the Manor of Dovercourt, called Lower Twelve Acres, and Seven Acres, containing 19A 2R IP. Lot 5. FOUR PIECES of rich ARABLE LAND, ad joining Hall Fields, held of the Manor of Dovercourt, containing 4A. 1R. 21P. Lots 2,3,4, and 5, are situate in the most productive part of the Parish of Dovercourt, now in the occupation of Mr. S. Powling, under a Lease, which expires at Mi- chaelmas Day, 1816, at which time possession will be given, on completing the purchase. Lot 6. A substantial and newly- erected COPYHOLD sash- fronted DWELLING- HOUSE, situate by the side of the ^ reat Road leadiugto the Town of Harwich, from which it is situated about half a mile, commanding a beau- tiful view of the Orwell aud Stour Rivers, and pleasing cmiuence of the surrounding country This Lot may, at an easy expeuce, be made a delightful permanent or summer residence for a genteel family, and now comprises a kitchen, dry cellars, three parlours, drawing- room, two chambers; Pump with excellent Water, good Stable, and large Garden ; now in the occu- pation of Mr. Cramner, tenant at will, who has given notice to quit at Michaelmas Day next. N. B The Purchaser of this Lot may be accommodated with Rods of Garden Ground, if required Lot 7. A FREEHOLD DWELLING- HOUSE, situate in West- street, Harwich, with a Bake- Office and Store- Chamber over; kitchen, pantry, two sleeping- rooms; paved Yard, and Pump with soft Water; now in the occu- pation of Mr. Arthy, Baker, at the weekly rent of . Thi- Lot particularly claims the attention of any per- son wanting a situation in the baking business, as a lucra- tive business is now currying on upou the Premises. Particulars of the Estates may be had, prior to the Sale, at the Three Cups, Harwich ; Plough, Bradfield ; Thorn, Mistley; the principal Inns, in Manningtree, and the surrounding neighbourhood; and of the Auctioneers, Colchester. DESIRABLE COPYHOLD ESTATE. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ASubstantial Brick- built MANSION- HOUSE, with convenient Offices, and Garden- Grounds, planted with choice Fruit- trees; comprising an entrance passage, drawing, dining- room, and library, of good di- mensions; servants' hall, large kitchen, larder, butler's pantry, exceeding good wine and beer cellars, with de- tached brewhouse, & c. This valuable Estate, situate in Dedham- strect, Essex, has been occupied as a Ladies Boarding- school, for more than half a century. for further particulars, letters ( post- paid) addressed to Mr. Smith, No. 17, Cateaton- street, London, or to Mr. G. Thompson, Dedham, will be immediately attended to. Possession mav be had at Michaelmas next. TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD BY AUCTION, BY WILLIAM LINTON, On Monday, June 3, 1816, at Three o'clock in the After- noon, at the Lion Inn, Great Bentley, Essex, A Capital MESSUAGE and SHOP, Copyhold of j\. the Manor of Great Bentley; with a large Ware- house, divers Out- Houses, and a large and excellent Garden thereto belonging- pleasantly and very advan tageously situate on Great Bentley Green, in the County of Essex, now in the tenure of Mr. Robert Heckford, General Shopkeeper, of which early Possession may be For further particulars inquire of Mr. Neville, Solicitor or of the Auctioneer, Colchester. Valuable Freehold and Copyhold Estates, Great Wig- borough and Peldon, near Colchester, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY MESSRS. G. AND W. ROLPH, At the Blue Posts Inn, Colchester, THIS DAY, the 1st of June, 1810, at Five o'Clock, by Order of the Proprietor, in Two Lots: LOT 1. 4 Valuable COPYHOLD ESTATE, eligibly V situate at Great Wigborough, seven miles from Colchester, called SOWTER's and HANKIN KING's in the tenure of Stammers and Smith; comprising: Eighty nine Acres, more or less, of rich Arable and Pasture Land lying very compact, unci in a high state of cultivation ; together with a Timber- built DWELLING- HOUSE, Two llunis, Stable, and other Out- buildings. Also a Brick and Timber- built MESSUAGE, divided into Two Tenements producing a yearly rental of £ . This Estate recommends itself to the attention of Agri culturists, by the superior quality of the Land, the facility far shipping and manure, aud its proximity to the excel- lent Market Town ot Colchester; is Copyhold of the Manor of ( ireat Wigborough, subject to a small quit- rent and customary line. Part of the Land will be iu possession at Michaelmas next, and the remainder at Michaelmas 1819 l/) t2. A capital FREEHOLD FARM, desirably si. tuate at Peldon, within six miles of Colchester, in the occupation of Mr. Stammers, comprising Twenty- two Acres, more or less, of superior Arable Land, lying very compact, and iu an excellent state of cultivation, with a comfortable DWELLING- HOUSE, Barn, Stable, newly erected Cart- lodge, Orchard, aud good Garden, the whole of which are in good repair Also a Timber- built MES- SUAGE, comprising Two Tenements, now in the tenure of Messrs. Bibby and Cooke, at the yearly rent of £ 7. This Estate possesses all the advantages of the former, is surrounded by [ tn excellent hard road, and situate within one tui'e and a half of the Stroud at Mersea, where corn may be shipped for the. London Markets. The Estates may be viuwed by leave of the tenants, and printed Particulars had at the Inn* in the neighbourhood; Mr Neville, Solicitor, Colchester; and of the Auc- tioneers, Billericay, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN BRIDGE, THIS DAY, Saturday, June 1st, 1816, THE remaining Part of the MATERIALS lately firming two DWELLING- HOUSES situ- ated opposite the Red Lion, in the High- street, Colchester; consisting of a large quantity of Bricks and Plain Tiles, Oak and Deal Floor Boards, Joists, Rafters, and Studs, Ledged and Pannelled Doors, Sash aud other framed Win- dows, & c. & c. Sale to begin at Two o'Clock in the Afternoon. TO BUILDERS, & c — NEW PRICES OF LABOUR AND MATERIALS. This Day is published. Price 4s sewed, The Twenty- third Edition, corrected to March 1. CROSBY's BUILDERS' NEW PRICE BOOK, J for ISib cj. iT* atJ, ii.. g a correct Account of all the present Prices allowed by the most eminent Surveyors, to Bricklayers, Carpenter.,, Joiners, Slaters, Plumbers, Ma- sons, Plast" iers, Pai. iters, Glaziers, Smiths, Carvers, Pafiors. Thaicbe. s, a^ iri Paper ha » gers; with a variety of other inform,• i.>.. By fie late JOHN PHILLIPS, cor- rectgJ b, C. SURMAN. Surveyor, assisted by several eminent Surveyors a, id Builders. London. pruned ( by Assignment of B. and R. Crosby a.. d Co j fur Bal ' wi. i, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster- row; • Old sold by Swinborne and Walter, Keymer, aud Rose, Colchester; Meggy aud Chalk, Guy, and" Kelham, Chelms- ford ; Youngman, Witham and Maldon; Smith, Braintree; Seager, Harwich ; Hardacre, Hadleigh ; Hill, Ballingdon; aud all other Booksellers. by whom also are published, 1. TABLES of CUBE MEASURE; shewing at sight the content oi'a. iy Scantling from one and a quarter iuch square to tw.- lve inches square; and from one foot to twenty feet iu length ; with the content of timber of every length or scautling. These Tables comprise near twenty thousand Dimensions. By T. D. W. DEARN, Architect. Price, bound, 3s. 6d. 2 THE BUILDERS' ASSISTANT, and Complete Ready Reckoner; comprising a new System of Duode. ciinal Arithmetic or Cross Multiplication; with a variety of newly- constructed Tables, shewing the Amount of any Number of Feet and Inches, Yards aud Feet, and Rods and Feet, at any Price By THOMAS LOVELL, Price 6s. boar- Is. VOTE FOR THE COUNTY. Extensive Freehold Premises, valuable Sitk and Worsted Engines, Household Furniture, SfC. Church- street, Coggeshall, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HAWES AND FENTON, On the Premises, on Thursday, the 13th Day of June, 1816, by Order of the Assignees of Messrs. Johnson and Rudkin, ( Bankrupts,) ALL those extensive FREEHOLD PREMISES, situate in Church- street, Coggeshall, late in the occupation of the said Messrs. Johnson aud Rudkin; comprising kitchen, pantry, buttery, keeping- room, and three sleeping- rooms, with convenient closets; warehouse, six workshops and chambers, and brick detached Build- ing ; Back Yard, small Garden, and a Welt of good ater; together with all the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, STOCK IN TRADE, aud IMPLEMENTS in the Silk and Worsted Manufactury; consisting of capital swivel and other engines, nearly new; looms, throwing mills, winding wheels, and roving aud spinning frames; dying drugs; about 4 cwt. of Soap, and beams and scales ; large quantity of bed- lace, tassels, bindings, cotton and other lines, tapes, worsteds, rowel and other yarn ; capital iron chest, and shop counters, with drawers; fixtures in the warehouse,& c. & c. Catalogues of the whole maybe had three days prior to the Sale, at the White Hart Inns, Coggeshall, William, and Booking; at the Place of Sale; and of the Auctioneers, Colchester. Sale to begin at Ten o'Clock. N. B. The Premises will be offered precisely at Three o'Clock in the Afternoon. EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR, BY THE USE Or DR. BOERHAAVE'S RED PILLS; a Medi- cine famous throughout Europe for the Cure of every Stag' and Symptom of a certain Complaint. It is a uielunc'oly fact, that thousands fall victims to this horrid Diseas", owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by an improper treatment of this direful cala- mity, not nnfrequently cause those foul Ulcerations and Blotches which so often appear on the head, face, and body, vith dimness in the sight, noise in the ears, deaf- ness, Strictures, obstinate Gleets, nodes on the shin- bones, ulcerated sore- throat, diseased nose, nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, ( frequently mistaken for other dis- crd > rs; till at length a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a melancholy death puts a period to buttering mortality. With each box is given a copious bill of directions, by which all persons are enabled speedily to cure them- selves wi > i safety aud secrecy, without the least confine ment or hindrance of business. Its amazing sale, within the last fifty years, though seldom advertised, is a certain criterion of its immense utility. Price only 4s. fid. per box. Another Supply is just received from London, and for sale by Swinborne and Walter, Colchester; Harris and Firmin, ditto; Keymer, ditto; Rose, ditto; Meggy aud Chalk, Chelmsford ; Guy, ditto ; Kelham, ditto Young- man, Witham aud Maldon; Holroyd, Maldon; Smith, Braintree- Seager, Harwich , Hardacre, Hadleigh; Hill, Ballingdon; aud maybe had of most respectable Medi- cine Venders. This Medicine is a sovereign remedy in Chronic Rheu matism, Glandular Obstructions, and Poverty of Blood ; it also removes all Scorbutic Eruptions ; in short, it has ex- celled - when salivation and other means have failed. Desirable and well- accustomed Freehold Public- House St. Peter's, Colchester. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOHN TAYLOR, At the Waggon and Horses lnn, Colchester, on Monday, the 3d of June, 18' 6, a; Four o'Clock in the Afternoon, ALL that desirable FREEHOLD PUBLIC- HOUSE, called THE KING'S HEAD, pleasantly situate on the top of Balkerne Hill, now in the occupation of Mr. Dring, the Proprietor; comprising, in front, two parlours and Keeping- room, with three good airy and ex tremely pleasant slecpingTrooms over the same ; kitchen., cellar, soldier's room; a Three- stall Stable, Coal aud Wood House, large Yard, and Garden well planted with choice aud young fruit- trees; the whole containing about Half an Acre of Ground, with a Right of Passage leading to North- hill.— The above Premises are in excellent repair, having been built within the last fifteen years, and the Land- Tax is redeemed- For further particulars inquire of F. Smythies, Esq Solicitor; of the Auctioneer, 41, High- street, Colchester aud of Mr. Dring, who will show the Premises. N. B. Some time in June will be SOLD by AUCTION Part of the HOUSEHOLD FURNlTURE of Mr. Dring, who is leaving Colchester. HILL- HOUSE, DEDHAM, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JAMES THORN, Without Reserve, on Wednesday, June 5,1816. ALL the new, elegant, and modern HOUSE- HOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects, of Mr. James Lugar, Hill- House, Dedham, changing Ills resi deuce; consisting of excellent mahogany dining, Pem broke, aud work tables; beautiful cabinet fine- toned piana forte, by Broadwood; mahogany sideboard; valuable prints; mahogany and fancy chairs ; crimson, morine, and other window curtains; capital mahogany four- post aud other bedsteads, bordered goose feather- beds, mat- tresses, blankets, bolsters and pillows; mahogany chests of drawers; Kidderminster and other carpels; dressing tables aud glasses; painted wardrobe, very complete: plated candlesticks, glass, china, a complete blue and white table service; dial, hv Hedge and Banister: ? variety of kitchen requisites; brewing aud dairy utensils, two excellent cows, a very clever four- year- old bay riding liorsc, and a convenient family chaise. Catalogues to be had, three days prior to the Sale, at the Marlborough, Dedham; Lion, Ardleigh; Thorn, Mistley; Swan, Stratford, Suffolk; and of the Auctioneer, 31, Head- street, Colchester. Sale to begin at Ten o'clock precisely; and the Furni- ture may be viewed two Days prior to the Sale, FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1816. FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 22. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint the Earl of Clancarty, G. C. B. to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo- tentiary to the King of the United Netherlands. WAR OFFICE, MAY 24. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint General his Highness William Frederic Duke of Gloucester, K. G. and G. C. B. to be a Field- Marshal iu the Army, the commission dated May 24, 1816. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also been pleased, iu the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint General his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick Prince of Saxe- Cobourg of Saalfeld, K. G. and G. C. B. to be a Field- Marshal iu the Army, the commission dated May 24, 1816. [ This Gazette also contains the offer of a reward of one hundred pounds from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, for the apprehending and conviction of each of the offenders concerned in the late riots iu Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, aud Cambridge. BANKRUPTS. Alexander Stansbie, Birmingham, merchant, June 7, 8, July 6, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Attornies, Messrs. Clarke aud Richards, Chancery- lane, London; and Messrs. Stubbs, Medes, aud Wills, Birmingham. Abraham Levi, Westgate, Kent, broker, June 10, 11, July 6, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Attornies, Mr. Pierce, Canterbury; aud Messrs. Collett, Wimburn, and Collelt, Chancery- lane, London. John Foster and Joseph Foster, Selby, York, merchants, june 21,22, July 6, at the Angel Inn, Ferrybridge, York. Attornies, Mr. Parker, Selby; aud Mr. Wiglesworth, Gray's- Inn- square, London. John Hirst, Wapping Wall, cloth- factor, May28, June It, July 6, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Blandford and Murray, Temple. Anthony Flicker, Erith, Kent, shopkeer, May 28, June 11, July 6, at Guildhall, London. Altornies, Mr. Santer, Chancery- lane, London ; and Mr. Fooks, Dartford, Kent. Joseph Edward Shore, ' Change- alley, Cornhill, London, dealer, May 28, June II, July 6, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Sherwood, Canterbury- square, Southwark. Joseph Barker, Broad- street, London, merchant, May 28, June 4, July 6, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Holt aud Farren, Threadneedle- strect. John Heys, . Manchester, cotton- spinner, June 14, 15, July 9, at the Bridgewater Arms, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Barret aud Wilson, Mane- Hester; and Messrs. Willis, Fairthorne, and Clarke, Warnford- court, London. Henry Giller Smith, Norwich, victualler, June 8, 15, July 9, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Whitton, Great James- street, Bedford- row, London. Daniel Sutton, jun. Brightlingsea, Essex, ship- owner, June 1, 11, July 9, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Welch, Nicholas- lane, Lombard- street. John Smith, Saint Swithin's- lane, London, merchant, June I, 8, July 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Burfoot, King's Bench Walk, Temple. Thomas Nias and Joseph White, Old Broad- street, Lon- don, insurance- brokers, June 4, 11, July 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Nind, Throgmorton- street. James Dunn, White Lion Court, Birchin- lane, London, merchant, June 8, 18, July 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Nind, Throgmorton- street. Peter Emanuel Duvelus, of Size- lane; London, merchant, June 1, 8, July 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Cranch, Union- court, Broad street.. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, May 22.— The English journals state that Lavalette is still at Munich ; but this state- ment does not appear to be well founded. The Duke of Wellington is still at Cambray There is no indication of his speedy return to Paris nor ol his departure from Cambray for London. According to advices from Vienna, all the Ger- man States seem to have concurred in the necessity of creatine: a new head of the Empire, and in the propriety of offering that dignity to the Emperor ol Austria. T he tribunal of the Holy Office, at Rome, after invoking the illumination of llie Holy Ghost, has annulled the proceedings commenced by the In quisitor of Ravenna against Solomon Moses Viviani who, after embracing the Roman Communion, had relapsed to Judaism. His Holiness, in the decree issued upon this occasion, thus expresses himself:— " The divine law is not like the law of man ; it carries with it mildness and persuasion. Persecu tion, exile, prisons, are the means employed by false prophets and false teachers. Let us pity the man who is deprived of the light, and who even wishes to be deprived of it; for the cause of his blindness may serve to promote the grand designs of Providence," & c. His Holiness has ordered that no future proceeding of the kind shall be at- tended with loss of life or limb to the culprit. King Charles IV. has been indisposed at Rome since the 20th of April. The Piedmontese police has apprehended the noted Monte- Leone, aud four of his associates, in the gang of Gypsies called Basanachi, who have for a lenglh of lime been levying contributions on the credulous, for the ostensible purpose of pur- chasing the sovereignty of Jerusalem from the Turks, who were, as they stated, disposed to part with it for a yearly tribute of 70,000,000 f. ' I he palace and a number of the houses at Vasto, in the Abruzzos, were destroyed on the 1st ult. in consequence of the eminence on which the town is built having sunk at different points. According to letters of the 9th May from I run, Richard, an ex- commissary in the army, and an advocate, had been capitally convicted at Madrid, of being implicated in a conspiracy to assassinate his Catholic Majesty. Several of their accomplices, including some Guerilla Officers, are in custody. FLORENCE, May 12.— The last news from the Isle of Elba announces that they have found there a silver mine which they believed to be very rich: in lhat case it is very fortunate that the discovery had not been made last year. They say that an English chemist of skill is engaged to visit the mountain and to analyse the mineral, which gives a good deal of copper mixed with the silver. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, MAY 24. The Soap Bill, the Local Militia Pay and Clothing Bill, some local and private Bills, were brought up from the House of Commons, and read a 6rst time. Lord Stanhope moved an Address to the Prince Re- gent, requesting his Royal Highness would be pleased to appoint a Commission to consider the subject of Weights and Measures, and endeavour to ascertain a proper standard.— The motion was agreed to. MONDAY, MAY 27. The Soap Duties Regulation was read a second time. SINECURE PLACES, & c. Earl Grosvenor rose to make a motion, of which he had given previous notice, relative to sinecure places and offices iu reversion. Iu reviewing this question, he would earnestly implore their Lordships to take into consideration the unexampled distresses of the country, manifested as they were in every quarter by the murmurs and complaints of landholders, agri- culturists, merchants, manufacturers, and all descrip tions of people. Economy was loudly called for, and had indeed been urged at the opening of the Session in the Royal Speech. The promise, however, held out in that Speech had by no means been fulfilled, and the public were naturally disappointed and dis- pleased. Wherever their Lordships cast their view lliey must perceive the absolute necessity of briuging into active aud effective operation a system of economy. But, instead of retrenchment and economy, the ter- mination of the war had been attended with an aug- mentation of expence in almost every department, civil aud military. His Lordship concluded by moving, That a Committee be formed to inquire into the pre- sent state of the Sinecure Offices and Places held iu reversion, and to devise means for the abolition or correction of the same. The Earl of Liverpool wished to remind the House, that a Committee had already been formed for the purpose to which the Noble Earl had alluded, and an inquiry to that end was in progress in another House, On the subject of the abolition of sinecure places, he would maintain the opinion which he had often ex pressed and always entertained, that such a measure was not only unnecessary, unwise, and inefficient, but must necessarily, in the event, defeat the very object for which it was suggested, and produce, instead of economy, additional expence to the country. There was no country in Europe, or perhaps in the world, where the public establishments were more economi cally arranged than they were in Great Britain. The Noble Earl concluded by moving the previous question. The Marquis of Lansdowne was by no means satis- fied with the arguments of the Noble Earl opposite; and in a speech of great ability! eloquence, and in- genuity, supported the motion of his Noble Friend near him. Earl Harrowby supported the motion of his Noble Friend for the previous question, and thought that as his Majesty's Ministers had already taken measures to inquire into the general state and management of the finances, they ought to be allowed to proceed before any further steps should be taken by Parliament. Earl Grosvenor replied at considerable length, when a division took place on the previous question, which was carried by a majority of 38; the numbers being— For the previous question, 62— Against it, 24.— The original motion, of course, was lost. TUESDAY, MAY 28. The Earl of Liverpool presented a Message from the Prince Regent relative to a New Silver Coinage— ( For which see the Commons.)— The Noble Earl then moved, that the Message of his Royal Highness be taken into consideration on Thursday.— Ordered.— Adjourned to Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MAY 24. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having moved the third reading of the Soap Duty Bill, Mr. Brougham wished to be informed whether the Bill was intended merely as a regulation Bfn, . or to raise money. He had been informed that it was cal- culated to raise two or three hundred thousand pounds. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied, that the Bill was intended first to protect the whale fisheries, - but afterwards it was found that it would produce an addition to the revenue, which was not calculated to exceed 150,0001. Some regulations had been intro- duced into it, which had been afterwards altered on the representation of the manufacturers of hard soap, who had pointed out the inequality of the operation of the Bill on them and the manufacturers of soft soap. The whole of the increased duty would fall very lightly on the public, it not being, on an average, more than three- pence per head on each person iu the kingdom. The additional duty would not amount to more than eight or nine shillings in the hundred weight, and the w hole duty would not be more than 80s. per hundred. Sir M. W. Ridley, Mr. Brougham, aud Mr. Lyttel- ton, opposed the Bill, as tending to injure the manu- facturing interests.— It was then read a third time, and passed. The House being in a Committee on the State of Agriculture, Mr. F. Lewis, after a variety of observations tending to explain and promote his object, moved a Resolu- tion, that the exportation of wool be permitted under such regulations as would afford protection to the manufacturer at home. Lord Lascelles opposed the motion. If assented to, he maintained, the effect would be to produce a means of competition on the Continent with our own manu- factures. Mr. Brooke considered the motion altogether un- reasonable, and founded upon no justifiable grounds. Lord Castlereagh felt convinced of the inexpediency of altering the present laws. The wool trade, com- paratively speaking, was never iu a better state than at present. Mr. Baring and Mr. Curwen objected to the motion. By the proposed innovation on laws long established, the interests of the manufacturers, they w ere persuaded, would be seriously hazarded, merely for the probable and undefined benefit of the agriculturist. After some further conversation ou the subject, the motion was negatived. CIVIL LIST. Mr. Brogden brought up the Report of the Civil List Bill. Mr. Tierney observed, that this was a Bill which professed to remedy all the inconveniences tvhich had heretofore appertained to the Civil List, by regulat- ing the future expenditure, aud guarding against the recurrence of any of the excesses or debts of which the House had heard so much for many years back. The mode by which it was proposed to attain this object, was by dividing the usual expenditure into separate charges. The ordinary charge of ( he Civil List, it was proposed to fix at 1,088,0001. and thus it was expected to make llie revenue equal to the ex- penditure, while all the other charges heretofore de- frayed out of the Civil List, were to be provided for out of the Consolidated Fund, or by the annual vote of Parliament. These charges then, w hich amounted to 275,0001. were, with any exceeding upon them, to be entirely transferred from the Civil List.— The Hon. Gentleman made several observations ou the Droits of Admiralty being applied to enlarging and furnishing the Pavilion at Brighton, to the amount of 70,0001. which sum, in strictness of propriety, as w ell as others deducible from the Droits, ought, lie urged, to have been rendered available in reducing the arrears of the Civil List; and moved an amendment, for preventing a recurrence to Parliament, for making good deficiencies on that establishment, until it could be clearly shown that all the available resources of the Crown were inadequate to that purpose. Lord Castlereagh repeated his former observation that the increased expenditure in the Civil List de- partment had arisen from the situation of Continental affairs. By the provisions of the Bill a greater con- troul would be exercised over the Droits of the Crown than heretofore; and for this reason he considered the clause proposed to be introduced of no utility. Mr. Ponsonby said, the object of his Right Hon. Friend was to place the balance of the Droits ( after all the suitors should be satisfied) at the disposal of Parliament, for the public service. The people re- quired to be relieved as much from the pressure of taxation as possible, and surely it would not be con- tended this was a time to enable the Crown aud its Ministers to saddle the public with a further expcuce of 275,0001. a year. If ( lie House agreed to this, in his opinion, they would do more to injure their cha- racter with the country than by any other means whatever.—( Hear.) Mr. Huskisson defended Ministers from the charge of improperly lavishing the public money. He there- fore thought the amendment uncalled for. Sir F. Burdett observed, that though economy was the professed object, the result was that fresh demands were made on the public. It would require even the long habit of official assertion of the Right lion. Gen- tleman opposite ( Mr. Huskisson) to tell them that there had been no abuse iu the Civil List expendi- ture; and if he were to say so in any other place, people would be apt to laugh in his face. It was too much to say that the Civil List expenditure could not be brought below a million a year, when every man iu the country was obliged to reduce his expeuces. Mr. Long opposed the motion. Mr. Tierney shortly replied; and the House di- vided— For his motion, 116— Against it, 280— Ma- jority, 114. MONDAY, MAY 27. BUDGET. On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the House went into a Committee of Ways and Means; when he proceeded to' a general statement of the supplies for tW present year. But, first, tie thought it necessary to call the attention of the lluuse more particularly to the various Resolutions before them ; one of which arose out of a proposition for the Bank to advance 3,000,0001, at rtiree per cent, in con- sideration of a permission for the extension of their capital, and ou the stipulation lhat during the con- tract Government should accept their notes, aud all payments made in them should be cousldered as good. This was no more than a permission to the Bank to divide 3,000,0001. Of their own money, and it was In his opinion, beyond all question, the best and least exceptionable' way of employing the sum. The only question on this was, whether there was any thing which made this advance in the least degree improper. The augmentation of the Bank's capital might be objected to, and this, as he thought, was, he must say, a most Unexceptionable measure. Since the charter had been given, by which the capital was increased to .11,500* 0001. the paper circulation had very mate- rially increased; and it might be thought proper that such an augmentation should be made in their capital as would become a security for the payment of their circulation. The* Right Hon. Gentleman then de- tailed the supply as follows:— For the Military Services...;..;..- £ 9, lfi5,(> 00 From which wis to be deducted 734,000 Which would leave...... 8,431,000 For Ireland, included in the above 1,600,00" For the Storekeeper General ' 50,000 Which latter sum with other items, which were enumerated, amounted In the whole, to 2,113,000 Making in total • « .... ln, SM* j, 00n for the Nary ..... J 10,114,000 From which deduct the sum received for the sale of old Naval Stores.. ••• » •• 680,000 Which Would leave 9,434,000 For Orduance , u;;. ™ .;.. i » , i....... 1,883,000 From which subtracting what would be paid by France there would be left ..... J. 1,696,000 From want of time and pressure of business a detailed account of the miscellaneous estimates had Hot been made out ; but he should reckon them altogether at 2,500,000!. The debt due to the East India. Com pany, for expirees Which they had incurred for Government; was 945,0001. The total amount of the sums he had specified would therefore be 2.5,140,0001, To these; were to be added what were called the sepa- rate charges. First, the repayment of what were called the Loyalty Five per Cent. Loans, to the amount o;' 070,0001. There was then to be provided 807,0001. for debentures in France. The next sum required referred to the rccoinage of the silver of the country. For this purpose he should propose 500,0001. as it was not intended to recoin any part of the current money, except such as appeared to have originally proceeded — from the Royal Mint, and the House would be well aware that that part of the coinage which bore any stamp was, comparatively, very small. The next of the separate charges was 1,500,0001. for Exchequer Bills to the Bank, voted by Parliament in February last. There was then a sum of 2,260,0001. for Ex- chequer Bills ontstanding and unprovided for, and for the interest of Exchequer Bills. There was also part of a sunt due to the Bank in 1800, the half of which had been'repard, and the other half since renewed. The total of these charges amounted to 5,284,0001. which, when added to the other sums enumerated, would make 30,42.5, OOoV and taking off the Civil List, and the SUM which Ireland provided, there would he left 27,^ 9,0001. the amount of that provided by Ireland being S, 141,0001. To meet these supplies he should- propose the following Ways and Means. From the Consolidated Fund he had about 4,000,0001 to receive, and another sum, which, however, he should reserve for future consideration. The Customs up to this day, had been nearly 5,000,0001. To these were to be added the War Taxes, which were to be- come permanent, about 3,008,0001. There were, then, The Stamps £ 6,329,000 The Post- Office ,-. - 1,600,000 Small Beanches 122,000 Pensions, Miscellaneous, & c 46,000 Ton line Money 23,000 The Excise had been considered as war duties, but had lately been continued for five years. Last year they produced 3,688,0001. He therefore assumed that they would produce this year, 3,500,0001. He should next reckon the Bank advance of ( 5,000,0001. and then the . Lottery, which he believed would raise about 200,0001/ The . surplus of grants unapplied ' in 1815, was 5,663,0001.— The next subject with which he would shortly trouble the House, was, the Un- claimed Dividends. The House- might remember some conversation that had taken place on this sub ject some time before Easter, when he stated, that he would make some new arrangement. In consequence of his having well considered the subject, he had . _ come to the determination of submitting a Resolution for 301,000!. from that fund. But this was not all he .' should draw from that source. The Bank were in' a double capaciy and performed a doubleduty. with re speet to these dividends.. They might be considered as agents, who had in their hands money for which they were answerable, but they did not seem to have any right to keep in their possession money never likely to be claimed, which was in a manner lapsed. It ap- peared to him perfectly consistent, that whatever money remained in the hands of the Bank under the head of Unclaimed Dividends, should be, after a cer- tain period, put into the hands of the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt. Pursuing this plan, he intended to make such regulations, that all stock on which no claim should be made for ten years, should be placed in the hands of these Com- missioners. There were other balances, however, unclaimed, of which he might, for a short time, avail himself. There were some grants uncalled for in the Exchequer. Of these he should only take at present about 140,000'. The only remaining item to be con- sidered was that of 2,500,0001. for that sum he should issue Exchequer Bills. The total amount of these waysand means, iucludingthe Loan of6,000,0001. the Bank advance of 4,000,0001. and 1,000,0001. to make good debentures, would be 13,000,0001 It might be expected that he should give some explana- tion ofhis method of making up for the chasm which the decision of the House left in his calculations with respect to the Property Tax. The 2,500,0001. Ex- chequer Rills would not have been proposed if that measure had been carried. The unapplied grants, it might be recollected, had only been stated at 3,000,0001.; but he had since found, that there were remaining upwards of five millions and a half. This made eight millions; and it would he seen that he had made wn li arrangements as to have every thing regulated as well as if the tax had never been overthrown, though his plans might not be so finally beneficial or so little injurious as the Property Tax. The whole of the debt, I hen, for the present year waseleven millions and a half. The Sinking Fund, up to February last, was 11,130,0001. and at the present time it might . be estimated at eleven millions and a half. The amount of the debt to be paid by Great Britain'this year, inchrding'Exehei| tter Bills, was three millions. Ire- land was this year to raise 1,760,0001. by Exchequer Bills, and 1,-> 00,0001. more out of her Sinking Fund. There was, upon the whole, a reduction of the' debt of the United Kingdom this year to the amount of near three millions.— He should now point out the means by which the charges- upon the Loans were to be provided for. Our the first advance made by the Bank, there would be a. charge of 300,0001. On the second advance OO. OCHtl. To cover these, the now tax an snap would produce 200,<) 00l. the duties on the importation of butter and cheese would amount to about 50,0001.; and, in Order to make up the re- mainder, he should propose to lower the drawback allowed 011 the exportation of sugar. The Right Hun. Gentleman then concluded with moving his first Resolution, which was, that the proposition lately made from the Bank of England to the Government be approved of.—- This being agreed to, the Right Hon. Gentleman moved his other Resolutions in sue cessied, which were also- agreed to. Leave was thru given to bring a Bili for transfer ring the Unclaimed Dividends* in the Bank, after tea T. mr* to the Commissioners fur redeeming the Na tional Debt. . The Civil List Bill was read a third time, and passed. TUESDAY, MAY 28. Mr. Wrottesley brought tup a Bill for regulating Charitable Donations, which was read a first time. I NEW SILVER COINAGE Mr. W. Pole bronght down the following Message from his Royal Highness the Prince Regent—" His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty; thinks proper to acquaint the House of Commons, that he has taken into consideration the defective state of the silver currency of the realm; his Royal Highness has given directions for the re- coinage of the same, and he hopes for the cordial co- operation and concurrence of this House in any measure that may tend to the completion of so beneficial a purpose." Mr. W. Pole moved, that the Message should be taken into consideration 011 Thursday.—^ Agreed to. V AUSTRIAN LOAN. Mr. Hammersley, according to notice, called the attention of the House to the large debt which Aus- tria owed to this country. The origin of the debt was a loan in 1795, on the security of the Bank of Vienna. The terms were 4001. for every 3001. advanced.— There were other loans in 1796 and 1797, and an- nuities were granted of 250,000l.' for the former and of 110,0001. for the latter. The different advances, with the interest unpaid, altogether amounted to 14,030,0001. Now, ill the distressed state of this country, he did not think that such a large debt should be entirely made no accouut of. But in an account of the funded and unfunded debt of England within these few days, he did not find any notice taken of this debt. The Noble Lord might be able to inform the House, that by some treaty or conven- tion it. had been agreed to remit this debt on some sufficient grounds. If so, no person would be more ready than he to consent to its abandonment; but if there were " not any such treaty or convention, he trusted the Noble Lord would give the House some information 011 the subject. It was the duty of the House not to let such a large sum of money be lost to the country, especially in a time of such general dis- tress and heavy taxation as the present. Austria, had thirty millions of people, and was no longer in a dis- tressed situation. It was impossible, therefore, that she could not enter into some arrangement, though she may not be able to commence payment immedi- ately. He therefore would move — That there be presented an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying his Royal Highness to take into con- sideration the loans borrowed from this country by Austria, from 1795 to 1797, and give directions to his Majesty's Ministers to enter into such negoeiations 011 the subject as might produce arrangements satisfactory to both parties. Lord Castlereagh did not think the present an op- portune moment for entering into such negotiations. Austria wasin a very embarrassed situation at present, though she had come so successfully out of the war. She was labouring under a paper system, which re- duced her finances to a state of the greatest distress. He was convinced she was not able to pay this debt, or any part of it at present, and therefore it would be only exciting her ill- will to press her 011 the sub- ject. He did not mean that he considered the Austrian debt as altogether obliterated, and not to be claimed under any eircumstences; but, at present, it would be highly unwise and impolitic to enter into any nego- ciations on the subject. Mr. J. Smith supported the motion, and argued that the distresses of this country were greater than those of Austria. The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke in support of the arguments ofhis Noble Friend ( LordCastlereagh) Mr. W. Smith and Mr. Brougham spoke in favour of the motion, and Mr. Hammersley replied; when, on a division, the motion Was negatived STATE OF THE POOR. Mr. Curmen said, the motion he was about to make was one of the greatest importance to the agriculture and prosperity of the country. The grievances now arising from the burdens occasioned by the poor were so severe that they could no longer be borne; while the Poor . Laws of the country,' so far from doing any good, produced the greatest unhappiness among the very- persons whom they were intended tobenefit. One of the greatest mischiefs arising from them was, the dependence and degradation into which it threw three millions of the English people; so contrary to the nature and spirit of our Constitution, whose freedom had grown out of the independence of the inhabitants. A most happy revolution had been already introduced inthe habits of the people by the excellent systems of education introduced by Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster. A Right Hon. Gentleman not then present ( Mr. Rose) had done a good deal for- the relief of the poor by bringing forward regulations for Friendly Societies; but these were very defective; they caused a consi- derable consumption of time, and sometimes their funds were inadequate to relieve those that might be in want. Thirty years ago he had put a plan of his own in practice, which he now found by experience had produced the happiest effect, and which should form the ground- work of the plan he now should suggest to the House. During the whole of that time he had caused all his labourers to subscribe 6d. a week each out of their wages, to form a fund for their relief in time of distress, and from these small contributions no less a sum than 20,0001. had been accumulated. His proposition now should be, to call on all classes of people in the kingdom to subscribe weekly sums to- wards raising a large fund which should form a Na- tional Bank in each parish. He would not require any man to give more than a thirtieth part of his weekly earnings; if a labourer received 10s. a week, he should be required to subscribe 4d. From such subscriptions as these made by the lower, middle, and higher classes, he calculated that no less a sum than 8,800,0001. would be raised in one year, that being the whole amountofthesum now raised in Poor- rates, This fund would produce incalculable advantages; it would give encouragement to labour, it would give facilities for educating the children of the poor, it would extend relief as well as comfort to the habita- tion of every poor man, and would prevent people from ending their lives in those shocking receptacles called parish workhouses. It was a plan which not only would obviate the mass of misery and degradation that had already arisen out of the Poor Laws, but it would elevate and give consequence and importance to the lower ranks of people, which they never had before. From the latter he would allow delegates to be chosen, and those, together with persons selected from the middle and higher classes of society, should have the power of making regulations for the manage- ment of their funds. He should propose that the money raised should be paid into the hands of the Receivers General of Counties, on the security of Go- vernment. This plan should apply to the army and navy ; there should be a stoppage in the pay of every soldier and sailor for the fund, and they should after- wards be entitled to relief. He should also propose, that education and maintenance should be provided for helpless bastard children ; and that persons able to work might be sent to other parishes, where they could get employment, if they could find none in their own He concluded with moving, that a Select Committee be appointed to take into consideration the state of the Poor Laws in England, and report their opinion thereon to the House. Mr. Uockhart supported the motion, but hoped the object of his Honourable Friend would not be mis understood. He did not wish to throw the burthen from the shoulders of the rich; but to provide that the charity of the country should not be a bused. The system of mixing Poor- rates with wages had risen up, on account of the temptation which the Poor- rates held out to improvidence. Thus giving a preference to provide for families out of the Poor- rates, rathe than to raise the rates of wages generally, without a prospect of advantage to the parties paying them If the matter were fairly represented• to the Tower classes, they would see that they had greater interest in each other's industry than in their idleness. The motion was agreed to, and a Committee ap- pointed accordingly,— Adjourned to Thursday, LONDON. Our venerable Monarch, who, in all business', The trial of General Bonnaire, the Commandant of Conde, for the murder of Colonel Gordon, is shortly to take place, and a number of the inhabi- tants have been summoned as witnesses to Paris.— This measure is expected to be immediately fol- lowed by the opening of the criminal proceedings against the persons implicated in the late conspi- racy detected in that capital. Upon the latter sub- ject, a private communication of Wednesday the 22d ult. contains some important statements; if they be well founded, the seasonable discovery and prompt suppression of the conspiracy averted a storm which would have probably swept away the dynasty'of the Bourbon's. It is now maintained, that the plot had been laid in different and remote parts of France, and that the idea entertained and officially avowed by the Government, of its being contrived and carried on by a few discontented in- dividuals and jaeobin machanics, was altogether unfounded and delusive.— The communication adds —" The public opinion points to three distin- guished personages, and if, as it is said, positive proof is wanting, surely the public saiety of the State requires at least their exile. Caulaincourt was apprehended yesterday at the country- house of his sister- in- law, and is now in the Abbaye. The immediate cause is unknown. A Captain of En- gineers was concerned in a plan for taking Vin- cennes by a coup de main. He was arrested last night, a\ id his papers are said to be of the utmost importance.**' Didier, the Chief of the Grenoble insurgents, is said to have obtained considerable supplies of . money from the partizans of Bonaparte resident at Brussels, for the purpose of corrupting and arming the peasantry in the department of the Isere. The letter that mentions these particulars is, however, guilty of a gross mistake in doubting the apprehension of Didier, as his arrest is posi- tively stated in the Paris Papers of Friday. The Paris Papers of Saturday mention that the French are expediting squadrons for their different colonial establishments. One for Pondicherry has sailed from Brest, and two more for Guadaloupe and Senegal were on the point of departure. The appre- hension of Didier is officially confirmed. the Duchess of Berry arrived from Naples at Marseilles the 21st, but, compelled to conform to the laws of quarantine, she is not to set out for Paris until the 3d of June. It would seem from an article dated Rome, the 12th inst. that the Pope is about to preach up a new- crusade. His Holiness is said to have suggested to the great Powers of Europe the extinction of the Barbary piratical States along the coast, and the establishment of a Christian kingdom to prevent their revival, and to protect the shores of Africa. Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, at Marseilles, dated May 18.—" There was a violent insurrection at Timis the beginning of this month. The insurgents killed the Bey and offered the crown to his brother, who refused it, fearing they were be- trayed. They got possession of the Galeta and forls by strafagein. and spiked the guns ; they then took possession of five corsairs, armed with 10 and 20 guns each, viz. one brig of 20 guns and 170 men; one brig, of 18 guns; two schooners, of 16 guns ; With which they sailed, taking with them a very rich booty, and several of the principal inhabitants. It is not certain where they are gone, but it is sup- posed to* Constantinople." It appears by a paragraph from Venire, that great discontent prevails amongst the people there, who are extremely dissatisfied with the Austrian Government. The last advices from St. Petersburgh state, that the Government is making large purchases of silver bullion to coin into rubles, with the commendable view, of reducing the paper currency ; but this measure has not been adopted until the paper ruble is at so great a discount, that the Government proposes to receive ill payment for duties, & c, no less than four paper rubles for one of silver. Joseph Bonaparte ( Ex- King of Spain) has re- moved his establishment from the neighbourhood of New York to Lansdown, on the banks of the Schuylkil, and about four miles from Philadelphia. On the 6th of May, there arrived at Perpignan, under the guard of gendarmerie, a Spanish General who was at first supposed to be the famous Mina, but who turns out to be Vasco. He was shut up in the military prison of Castillet, from which he was sent into Spain, under a good escort, on the 8th inst. At the late installation of the French Academy, M. Cuvier, perpetual Secretary, read some obser- vations on the progress of the sciences, and the relations with society. The following remarks of his on the application of the steam- engine may give rise to some reflections in the mind of the English reader:—" A vessel has crossed the sea without sails, without oars, without seamen. One man to keep up the fire, another to guide the helm, are all its crew: it is propelled by an internal force, like an animated being, like a bird of the sea floating on the waves— to use the Captain's expression. Every one perceives to what an extent this invention will simplify the navigation of our rivers, and the saving that it may create in men and horses; but we may be also permitted to look forward to consequences more remote, and perhaps of still higher import- ance— namely, the change which may result from it in maritime war, and the power of nations. It is extremely probable that it will be placed, at some future time, in the list of those experiments which have changed the face of the globe." THE PRINCESS OF WALES.— It was lately stated in one of the Paris papers, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales had been at Tunis, from whence she was preparing to sail forConstantinople. This accouut is perfectly correct. When the Sparrowhawk, recently from the Mediterranean, sailed from Tunis, her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was living there in the Bey's Palace, who had given it up to her, whilst, for her accommoda- tion, he had gone to reside in the country. Her Royal Highness arrived there in a felucca, which she hired in Sicily, for six months, it being her intention to proceed from Tunis to Constantinople and the Morea. It was much remarked, that her Royal Highness was accompanied by only one female attendant, a? native of Germany. Our readers may reeollect-, that prior to her Royal Highness's departure, her English female establish- ment, consisting of lady Charlotte Campbell, Lady C. Lindsay, and Lady Elizabeth Forbes, & c. had been sent home, on leave of absence. LORD HILL'S COLUMN.— The upper, or last scaffold is now erected— the plinth of the pedestal, upon which will stand the figure of his Lordship, is also set; and it is expected that the whole will be completed in July, and its opening commemo- rated in a manner suitable to the event. and in every arrangement of the punctual as time, always deemed it ' essentially necessary to observe the same punctuality with the audience at the Theatres when he commanded an entertainment there; and in this he followed the example of his illustrious grandfather, George tl who once, when business had detained him a single quarter of an hour, which deferred the beginning of the play, as he approached the front of his box, took out his watch, and, as it were, presenting its dial to the house, made a condescending bow,!— We recollect one instance of the present King being detained by a Special Council, when a message came to the Managers, in less than half an hour alter the usual time of beginning the play, that his Majesty was prevented from coming. By an account presented to Parliament, it ap- pears, that the . rental of the estates belonging to Greenwich Hospital, in the counties of Northum- berland, Cumberland," and Durham, 2 in the year 1805, was 23,0181. Is. and that at the present time it is 43,4071. 9s. l| d.' being an increase of nearly 20,0001. per annum, in the period of ten years. ' •' The first battalion of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, of which his . Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. is Colonel, have received orders to hold- themselves in readiness for foreign service, We presume they will proceed to head- quarters at Cambray, for the purpose of relieving other British troops, or else to augment the Army of Occupation in France. ' ". ' " '' Friday the disbanding of the Veteran Battalions, commenced at Plymouth, Portsmouth, Deptford, Chatham, Harwich, and Cork. A ship Iying in Portsmouth harbour"" 1' ( lately'dis- charged from the transport service) has been> char* tiered to proceed to the North of Ireland, to convey from thence 500 persons, who Were- emigrating to' New York. •- Miss O'Neill lias refused two thousand guineas, offered by Mr. Elliston, for an engagement for three weeks at the Birmingham Theatre ! The Friends and Admirers of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet, in the Metropolis, assembled On Saturday Last, to the number of about 200, at " the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of aiding a Subscription for completing the Monument over his grave, now erecting at Duinfries.' The Chair was filled' by the Earl of Aberdeen; and many distinguished persons Were present. Mr. Jordan, the Secretary, whose efforts in the cause have been unceasing, stated that the " subscriptions amounted to 3501. A seditious paper has been posted at Ryde, Isle of Wight, exciting the lower orders of society to acts of violence against millers, farmers, and land- holders, on account of the rise in the price of corn. Accounts received on Saturday from Manchester state, that some thousands of the lower orders of the people were assembling about twenty miles distant from Manchester. The intelligence was received in that town by express from a Magistrate residingin the vicinity ofthetumultuous assemblage. Advices of these new movements were immediately forwarded to Government; and on Saturday a con- siderable body of cavalry, with several pieces of artillery, passed through'Tottenham, on their way to assist in quelling the disturbances. The 4th of June, his Majesty's birth- day, is a day of great note in Manchester and its vicinity, in consequence of some horse- racing in that quarter about this period, which collects immense numbers from the neighbouring country, and in the'most peaceable times great disorders are " committed by the lower _ classes, of the Lancastrians. As a great proportion of the workmen are at present out of employ, and those who have employment are indifferently paid, considerable alarm is excited at Manchester, not- withstanding the preparations that are making , to check : the turbulent. 1 The paper- mills of Messrs. Oxenham and Pim, at Wear, about midway from Exeter and Topsham, were completely- destroyed by fire on Sunday after- noon, in little more than'. an hour. The adjoining dwelling- house and most. of Mr.-, Pim's furniture were also consumed; The . quantity of paper de- stroyed is very considerable. The flaming sheets flew loan incredible distance; some of their frag- ments and tinder were picked up even at Broadelist five or six miles distant. .."-•. On - Tuesday evening aminquest was held at the Prince Regent public- house, near Islington Church on the body of Sarah Restall, of St. John- street, Clerkenwell, whose body was found drowned on Sunday morning in the New River. It appeared that the deceased had been for sometime past in a state of mental derangement, and had on Saturday night escaped from her home: Verdict— Insanity. Wednesday morning the body of a genteel dressed middle- aged man was found drowned in the Canal in the Regent's Park. inefficiency. Every honest man must admit that the rights of all should be equally respected : by that principle, and the only possible one which can actuate a British House of Parliament, those of the Clergy cannot be endangered by the inquiry pro- posed. The Church has the tythe of the produce of land: this certainly in many instances checks improvement, in many is contrary to justice, and in some renders the land unworthy of the labourer's care. " Where corn can only be produced by great toil and expence, a tenth is equal in consequence to the cultivator to a double or a treble ratio.— That the establishment oftheChurch should be held sacred, every liberal Englishman admits; but there needs some scale, some modification, which, while it, gives to the Clergyman a fair and adequate revenue, secures to the farmer that which his additional capital and labour exclusively produce ; and thus tends to unite in bonds of amity and re- spect, where now is too often discord and dislike.— We revere too, much the noble pile of our Consti- tution, in which so much real beauty and harmony exist, to risk . by violent innovation its decay ; but the pruner's knife invigorates the vine, and adds to its fruitfulness ; and we think, that if the day of rational revision can ever arrive, it is under the pressure of our present difficulties. We would with the delicate hand of art, not violence, make the attempt; and we are satisfied the result would be alike beneficial to both parties. Another object of great weight has been noticed, viz. the Poor Laws. The plan suggested by Mr. Curwen- appears to us too hypothetical for success- ful practice ; it is, besides, too distant in its operation to avail any thing in the present age ; and however desirable habits of providence among the poor are, we fear they could not generally be forced'into their adoption without a list of punish- ments and penalties, which would in themselves destroy the wished for effects. The rapid exten- tion of pauperism in agricultural districts arises from want of employ, not idleness ; and that want of employ would not be removed by the mere appointment of a national bank, more particularly when none of those who are in charge on the parish rates could contribute to its support. THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE It is some consolation to the obstinate, that, not- withstanding all their errors, there is still safety for them, although the golden ro'ad which their guides wished them to pursue is for ever closed, Could any one, amidst all the friendly warnings of Minsisters, while the fate of the poor Property Tax was in suspense, conceive it possible that the de- ficiency occasioned by the; demise of that warlike gentleman, would he made up by odds ' and ends, • without even a pretence at'further encroachment on the public purse ? Yet such is the happy fact which the Chancellor of the. Exchequer's Budget exhibits. It is true it is hinted that the Continuation ' of that gentle measure would have been very pa latable; that is, that it would have Spared the purse of the Bank, saved a portion Of the surplus ofthe last year for any deficiency in Uii^; and what is, perhaps, more important thanany bther of its . operations, that if would have reconciled the people to a species of taxation a foreigner to our good old- fashioned laws, and established a precedent which We might find it difficult hereafter, to get rid of.— The Ministers must be now pleased fit their own defeat,; for they have had a rare opportunity of proving to the people, that they are, not without that useful knack of cutting the garment according to the cloth. • ' While in Parliament many of the leading causes of the distresses of the country are brought under discussion, there appears but little advance towards their relief. On the tythes a Committee has been appointed ; but the motion is so frittered away by amendment, as to be in itself declaratory of its Warm discussions have for some time existed between our Government and the Ottoman Porte, respecting the Ionian Islands; the Turks refusing to acknowledge the independence of - these islands, though solemnly guaranteed to them since 1802. The fact'is, the famous Ali Pacha wishes to obtain possession of them in the same manner as he has of the Venetian towns of the neighbouring conti- nent, and his gold is lavishly distributed at Con- stantinople, in order to obtain aid to dislodge the British. It is stated that the Turks, have offered to place the Septinsulars on the same footing 0: 1 which the Republic of Ragusa formerly stood ; that is, that they shall not have a Turkish garrison- among them, but merely pay an annual tribute, and'their Charge d'Affaires, near the Divan, wear mustacheos, in sign of dependence, as that^ of Ragusa formerly did. Both the affair of Grenoble and that of Nismes are now represented by the partizans of the French Government as not being the result of a Conspiracy, but as having originated in accident. The first of these is attributed to the arrest of n highly re- spected individual in the neighbourhood of Gre- noble, whom the Prefect had ordered to be secretly arrested by the Mayor. The latter having refused, the- Prefect desired him to invite the individual in question . to the Prefecture, for the purpose of mere explanation, promising he should not be arrested. This promise was, however, broken, and the peasants of the. neighbourhood, informed of the . cicumstauce, presented themselves variously armed to the number of 12 or 1500, before Grenoble, for the purpose of demanding his release. They were fired upon, and hence arose the recent disturbance in that quarter. The massacre at Nismes began at the celebration of a Protestant wedding. The parties were grossly insulted by some Catholics— blows ensued. The bridegroom fell in the affray, and in the result up- wards of 160 persons, men,, women, and children, were massacred. They also set fire to the house of the. Protestant in question, by means of which several adjoining houses were destroyed. A' singular report is circulated at Paris relative to the Duchess de St. Leu. It is . said, that the authors of the late conspiracy being in want of • money, to carry it into effect, applied to that lady for assistance, confiding to her their plans, which, of course, held out to her and her family the most brilliant prospects; that- the Duchess, after appa- rently entering into their - views, to become more thoroughly . acquainted with them, wrote to M. de Cazes, who was formerly attached to her person, when Queen of- Holland, and over whom she is known to have preserved much influence, to inform him, that. she had communications to make to him of the highest moment to the State, and that the . kind treatment she. had experienced from the King prescribed jit as a duty to her, to give notice of de- signs- in agitation against his life and his throne; that M. de Cazes, in consequenee, immediately sent her passports, ' with which she secretly came, up to Parts, and disclosed to the Minister all the particu- lars of the conspiracy. The Governor of South Holland informs the the public that accounts have been received, ac- cording to which it appears that a contagious dis- temper has shewn itself at Syndford, 36 leagues north of Bergen, which carries oft' in twelve hours, the persons who are seized with it. In conse- quence, he earnestly recommends the merchants and mariners not to frequent the infected coasts of Norway, and to avoid all communications with vessels coming from the ports of that country, which they may meet at sea. The Granicus has arrived at Plymouth, with" Mr. Canning" on board. She sailed from Bourdeaux on the 21st ult, ' : The Pilgrim, merchant ship, which is now in the river, bound for Sierra Leone, carries out two serjeants of the Guards, six corporals, three ser- jeants, and a corporal of the- corps of Artificers, who are going'to join Major Peddie, in his expe- dition for exploring the interior of Africa. These men, who have been selected for their courage and good conduct in the campaigns of the Peninsula, are to have— the serjeants 1000, the corporals 500 dollars each, which, in case of the death of any of them upon service, will be received by his family. Letters from Madrid of the 12th ult. mention, that the intended marriages are tor the present suspended, and the ostensible reason given is, that the illness of the Princess Carlotta has prevented the sailing of her daughters from the Brazils. A great number, of the French Regicides now reside in Switzerland, and many of them are ac- cused of having secretly abetted the late insurrec- tion at Grenoble. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, as will be seen from, our Parliamentary Report, brought forward in the House of Commons, on Monday, not what has been termed the supplementary, but what are, iii fact, the regular financial statements of the ' annual Budget; The total amount of the sums to be provided for by Great Britain he stated at - 27,297,0001. This total includes repayments of unfunded debt to the amount of 3,500,0001. with 500,0001. for the charge to be incurred by the expence of a recoinage of a silver currency, and an excess of several millions in the Army, Navy, and Ordnance branches, beyond the probable peace esta- blishment. The total of the sums borrowed is 11,500,0001. consisting of the first loan from the Bank of 0,000,0001. at four per cent, the second loan of a, 000,0001. at three per cent, and 2,500,0001. in Exchequer Bills. Tile interest for this total amount is proposed to be provided for by additional duties— < > n Soap, estimated at £ 200,000 By foreign Butter and Cheese 50,000 By the diminution of drawback on the ex- portation of Sugars 140,000 Producing together the annual sum of ...£ 390,000 In the House of Lords, on Thursday, the Soap Duty Amendment, and the Militia Pay and Cloath- ing Bills, were read a third time, and passed.—' The proposition for a new Silver Coinage became the, subject of consideration in both Houses. The amount of the coinage is to be two millions and a half; consisting, in the first instance, of shillings and sixpences only; and ultimately, within the period of six or seven months, of crowns and hall- crowns. The Bank tokens are to remain in cir- culution; and, as they are estimated at three mil- lions and a half, there will be a circulating medium, in silver, of six millions, when the new coinage is completed. The grand criterion of value, or rather of genuine claim, by which the holders of shillings and sixpences at present in circulation are to be entitled to an equivalent, will depend upon the dis- tinctive remaining marks or appearances of their having been coined at the Mint; and where doubt- ful cases shall occur, the decision is to take place in favour of the public. The vast quantity of base and spurious silver coin which has so long served as the medium of retail traffic, must consequently he thrown out of circulation; and although this is in every sense of the proceeding a measure of just dealing with what is counterfeit and false, it will, we fear, notwithstanding, be attended with consi- derable inconvenience and loss in a great variety of instances.— At the same time it will afford gratification to learn, that the projected new coin- age is adopted by Government as a primary means of giving facility to the Bank in the resumption of cash payments. To prevent inconvenience to the public in the interim, more particularly to the poorer classes, the Master of the Mint intimated a, i intention of proposing to make the present shillings and sixpences in circulation a legal tender ( if not base metal) the former up to three shillings, and the latter as far as one shilling aud sixpence, Therefore, till the coinage of two millions and a half was issued, there would he no alteration in the circulating medium; aud when that issue tuok place, there would be persons appointed by pro- clamation, in every town in the kingdom, to re- ceive the old coin, aud to deliver new in return.— The Three Million Bank Advance Bill was read a first time. The accounts from the disturbed districts mani- fest the excellent effects of the prompt and vigorous interposition of the civil and military power. Every disposition to riot is at an eud, and tranquillity completely re- established. At the end of last week, however, alarming indications of violent proceedings and intended outrage were observed among the pitmen on the Wear. Instant measures were adopted for the preservation of the peace, and order was almost immediately restored. Several hundreds of the workmen connected with the col- lieiies ori that river had left oft'work, on the alleged ground that their wages were inadequate to their support; but by the seasonable exertions of the Magistrates, assisted by a strong detachment of cavalry ffom Newcastle, they were induced to return to their employment. Eight of the ring- leaders were taken into custody on Saturday, and committed to Durham gaol. No disposition of joining them was at any time evinced by the pitmen upon the Tyne. On Wednesday a dreadful fire broke out at the Plough Inn, Clapham, by which the whole of the premises were speedily destroyed. Several adjoin- ing buildings would probably have shared the same fate, had it not been for a prompt and ample supply of water afforded from the South London Water- works. COLCHESTER, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1816. In consequence of the late outrages and dis- turbances committed within the county of Suffolk, the Lord Lieutenant arrived at Bury oil Sunday, for the purpose of communicating ' with tile Magis- trates upon the mode to be adopted for the preven- tion of a repetition of those disgraceful outrages by which that town and several parts of the county had been thrown into consternation aud alarm; and a meeting was, in consequence, held on Monday at the Shire- Hall, at which the Lord Lieutenant, and as many of the Magistrates as could ill so short a time assemble, were present ; when Resolutions were entered into for relieving the distresses of the la- bouring poor, as far as circumstances would permit; Mid for causing the utmost exertions to be used in allaying tumults, aud bringing to punishment per- sons concerned therein. On the evening of Wednesday, the 22d ult. a most alarming disturbance broke out at Littleport, ill the Isle of Ely. A very great concourse of persons asst tubled, who it seems had made some previous arrangements for the purpose of destruc tion. ' 1 he most general and furious attack was made on the premises of the Rev. Mr. Vachel, ( a Magistrate for the Isle) which began by breaking windows. They soon entered the premises, which they completely gutted, breaking every artieje pf .. furniture, except one table, and then assailed - the green- house, scarcely leaving a whole square uf glass, carried oil' all the family plate and trinkets » ;!' Mis. Vachel, ripped up the feather- bed*, scattering fhi feathers in the street* . Tft? damage is estimated^ 20001.— Mrs. Waddelow, a general shopkeeper, experienced treatment neafly similar, and lost a great part of her stoc. kiii'trade.— Front the premises of Mr. Stephen Wiles, shop- keeper, after extorting from him 101. they took all his gunpowder and shot, to the Value of about 111. aud totally destroyed his shop- windows ; they also broke open the'bureau of Mr. Dewie, farmer, from whence they took 100 guineas.— The publicans' cellars were their next object; and, after having drank what they chose, they seized a waggon and team of horses, and proceeded for Ely, taking with them every gun and other deadly weapon they could procure. On their arrival at that city they were joined by some of its refractory inhabitants, when they demanded contributions from the houses aud shops of the brewers, bakers, butchers, grocers, and millers, which were unavoidably assented to, aud a dreadful scene of drunkenness aud riotous conduct ensued.— They then proceeded lothe house of Mr. Rickwood, a miller, where they began to break his windows, See. but on his wife consenting to go with a party of them to the Bank, for the purpose of giving them 501. on obtaining that sum they left his house without committing any further depredations ; but on their return broke the win- dows aud doors of the house of a person who sold flour, together with great part of the furniture.— Tile mischief was chiefly committed by the Little- port rioters, who, after separating themselves from those of Ely, extorted money from several persons of that city, which they spent ill drink, and then departed homewards, having first obtained the re- lease of two of their confederates, who had been imprisoned by the Ely Magistrates.— These out- rages were repeated on Thursday night, in the parish of Littleport; when the principal inhabitants were compelled to abandon their homes tor the preservation of their lives, leaving their property at the mercy of an abandoned aud desperate baud of ruffian maurauders. It is however, with great pleasure we can now an- . nouQce, that the riots at Littleport and Ely, which wert; likely to be creative of. much more serious consequences than any we have had the task of describing, are at leugth terminated, by the very spirited aud active exertions of Sir Henry Bate 1 Dudley, Bart, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace lor the Isle of Ely, aided by a very respect- able number of the gentlemen and inhabitants ot Ely, and; the Royston Troop of Volunteer Cavalry, together with a small detachment of the 1st Royal Dragoons, consisting of eighteen, who had, in the first instance been sent for Irom Bury. ' 1 liese pro- ceeded in a body on Friday after1190.11 to Littleport, aud a severe contest ensued between them and llie rioters, who had secreted themselves indifferent houses, and were armed wi. h guns, with which they • repeatedly fired at the military aud civil power, and st verely wounded one ol the soldiers, but not dangerously.— The military then received orders to fire, and the man who had wounded the soldier was instantly shot dead, and another tell, who having lost the lower part of his face, aud part of his tongue, is since dead. When this took place, the rioters were completely disconcerted, and fled in every direction, but no less than seventh- three of them were taken, and lodged in Ely gaol. Many others were also apprehended, but who, upon investigation, appearing to have been ( breed to join the tnob, have been liberated.— Among those now in confinement in Ely gaol, for being con- cerned in the tumultuous proceedings above de- scribed, ate, we are itilormed, several persons possessing property, and of apparent respectability. No other motive can therefore be ascribed to their conduct, than a malevolent desire of promoting bnvoe aud destruction, or a wish tW participating in the system of plunder that ensued. Upon intelligence being received here of the commotions which had broken out at Ely, de tachments of the 60th regiment and 1st Royal Dragoons were immediately ordered to proceed from this garrison, iu aid of the civil power in re- ducing the inalcoutents to subjection. Though they could not arrive iu time lo prevent the mis- chief that has occurred, the presence of the former, who are now stationed at Ely, has produced the beneficial effect of restoring order and regularity. A riotous mob, of about 200 persons, armed with axes, saws, spades, pitchforks, & c. assembled in the village of Finchingfield, in this county, in the evening of Thursday se'nnight, and destroyed a thrashing- machine belonging to Mr. J. Smith, 01 Coleman's Farm. On the following morning they broke the mole- ploughs of Mr. R. Smith, of Boyton- Hall, and Mr. Burder, of the Park. With aug- mented numbers they then proceeded to Great Bardfield, avowing their intention of destroying a thrashing- machine on the premises of Mr. William Spicer; but, partly by the determined resistance they here found they were likely to experience, ( many of Mr. Spicer's neighbours having assem- bled lo protect his property) aud the effect of timely remonstrance, they adopted the prudent resolution of dispersing, without making any attempt to effect their preconceived purpose. Five persons have been committed to Bury gaol, by J. T. H. Elwes, Esq. for having, on the 19th ult. riotously assembled at Hundon, and destroyed two thrashing machines, the property of Mr. Kemp. A man named Thomas Baker has also been com- mitted to the same gaol, by Sir R. Pocklington and the Rev. Charles Cooke, charged with mali- ciously setting fire to a barn at Kettlebaston. Serious disturbances arose, among the labouring class of the community, in the early part of last week, at Downham, and other places in Norfolk ' Hit* number . collected amounted to about 1500, who commenced their operations by entering the shops of the millers and bakers, and taking away the flour, bread, & c. They also dispersed the Magistrates assembled at the Crown Inn, at Downham, whom they assailed with brick- bats, stones, tic. which flew in every direction. The Upwell troop of Cavalry were called out, and ten men and four women being taken aud put into confinement, the rest gradually dispersed. The next day ( Tuesday) the rioters again assembled, but were met without the town by a formidable body of the inhabitants, determined to resist them ; when au agreement was made to allow them an advance of wages, and to release those already taken, which induced them to return peaceably to their homes. On Friday morning last, how- ever, further symptoms of insurrection became apparent, in consequence of the demands, which had been verbally assented to in the former in- stance, remaining unobserved; but the Upwell troop of Yeomanry again arriving, several of the most active of the rioters were taken into custody. On Saturday, seven were committed for trial, and 011 the two following days others were apprehended. — The peace and tranquillity of the city of Nor- wich, we are happy to say, have not recently been disturbed by any act of violence, qr appearance of commotion. The dwelling- house of Mr. William Dowzing, of Fryerning, was entered by sonie. depredators, in the night of Thursday se'nnight, who stole there- from five silver table spoons, five silver salt spoons, thirteen tea spoons, a silver cream jug, a ham, a pair of boots, several table cloths, a quantity of currant wine, and five pounds in silver, Mr. Wright's School- room was also entered the same night, supposed by the same party, who broke open most of the children's boxes, and took therefrom what little money they could find. A pike of extraordinary size was lately discovered dead and floating in the great pond at the front of Kelvedon Hall, 111 this county, the residence of Henry Bonham, Esq. It measured 44 inches, and weighed 29 lbs.; the jaws, wlieu opened, expanded seven inches, and the teeth were three- quarters of an inch long. It appeared to be a female fish, was very full of spawn, and there was no apparent cause for its death. Wilson, the Blackheath pedestrian, who started 011 Thursday se'nuight, near Cambridge, to go 100 miles iu 24 hours, tailed by. a quarter of a mile only, having performed 9i) j mites, when the time expired. • MARRIED. On Thursday se'nnigut, at Newington, Surrey, Mr. William Jenkins, of . hat place, to Miss F. Hunt, of Great Coggeshall, in this couniy. A lew days since, at Birdbrook, Mr. George Ralling. to Miss Hannah, daughter ot' Mr. Euen, of Old Park Farm, Steeple Bumpsted, in this county. Thursday s?\ u.: g', it, Mr. Grant, of Nicholas- lane, Lon- don, 10 Harriet, the eldest daughter of Joseph Humphrys, Esq. of Sudbury. Same day, it Layton, in this county. Mr. Robert John Brereton, o. ly son of Robert Brereton, Esq. of Blakeney, Norfolk, Sarah Pearson, youngest daughter of Pearson Walton, Esq. ol Natt's Green. DIED. On Saturday last, aged 3K, after a long and painful affiicion, wh « eli tie bor- i with Christian patience, univer sally re& peuieii uud regretted, Mr William Hooper, eldest Sou 01 Mrs. Hooper, baker, 01 Kelvedon. 0: t Thursday se'auight, of a decline, ' Miss Merchant, of Lexden Lodge. Lately, Ih • Rev. Thomas Cecil Grave, natural sou of the late Marquis ol' Salisbury, Rector of Clothall, Herts, iu the 60th year of his a^-* iie ha i beeu in a state i f insanity for soiee years : tut u is itwt illness, which was a bilious fever, his reaso.. i' continued till his death. During the laM twelve months, - ie never look his breakfast ui. til he had r c one or more chapter* in the New Testament, though often iu a ve ry insane state. On the I81I1 lust, at ftu:; ii. i> tci!. iu her 52d Vi- ar, Mrs. Catharine Bloomfield, Mil rn. ; l. e rural poet ot that name. On Thursday se'ualght, Mr Joseph Cawston, of Sud- bury, in the 79i" h year ei us age. He was a man of exem- , lary charity aud benevol eee, aud his memory will be lung iear to a numerous circle of relations aud friends, by whom he was deservedly held in the highest esteem, tud by the surrounding poor, who, iu him, have lost a siucerc friend Ship News. HARWICH, MAY 31. ARRIVED— Parke'*.— Prince 01 Orange, Capt. Bridge, Helvoetsluys.— Lark, Captain Sherlock, Cuxhaven.— Bea fay, Captain Norris, Helvoetsluys. SAILED.— Pacttl*.— Auckland, Captain Lyne; Castle- reagh. Captain M'Douough; Prince of Orange, Captain Bridg ', Helvoetsluys.— Lord Nelson, Captain Deane; Henry Freeling, Captain Mason ; Earl of Leicester, Cap- tain. Haramond, Cuxhaven — Thetis, Captain Stokes, Got- tenburg. ON TURNER'S BLACKING. Did evr you hear such a pother, Among the Makers of Blacking! 1 ha: eae'i may ouulo the other, Their brains to the utmost are racking'. Some recommend " Martin aud Day," As though all others were lacking; But whatever acme Wistacres say, There's none line Turner's good Blacking. Some boast ot' a Liquid Japan, And others pronounce themselves clever; But this is the real Japan, And Turner's preserver of leather. If this Blacking you lay ou your shoes, And strictly atleu « t to the label; A brilliancy its sure to produce, As bec's- wax applied to your table. Your boots, tuo, will equally shine, By using this excellent Blacking; It will save both your labour and lime, Aad keep the leather from cracking. If this Blocking the ladies but use, It is suie lo soffen the leather; Adds a lustre to boots and to shoes, Resisting the wind aud the weather. He has agents iu every place, Who sell his superior Blacking; All others are reckoned as base, And set the leather a cracking. . If you're wanting of that which is good, ( Of its praise t - till will be talking) Call at 114, London Road, Aud you'll meet with Turner's Jet Blacking. Take Notice— This real Japan Blacking may be had of till the Grocers, Perfumers. Brush- makers, Boot- makers, Stationers, Iroiinii ngers, Saddlers, Druggists, & c. in this aud every principal Town in England. () b* crre— Shopkeepers may be supplied through the medium of th" V\ holesale Houses, or by applying to the Manufactory, lit, London Road. RICHARD TURNER. *** Ask for Turner's Blacking. CAUTION. AS BOUGH- STEALING has been heretofore practised, particularly iu Greenstead, to a great extent, 011 the 29lh of May, the 4th ot June, & c.; THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, whoever is taken, cutting in the Woods, or Fences of the Farms, the Property of Lady Lucas, will be prosecuted according to Law— A strict watch will be observed for the detection of Depredators. Mayl'i, 1Mb W. REED, Law Bookseller, 17, Fleet- street, London, opposite Chancery- lane, BEGS leave respectfully to acquaint his Friends and the Profession, that the late PARTNERSHIP of REED and HUNTER has ben DISSOLVED by mutual Consent, aud that he shall, iu future, carry on Business at No. 17, Fleet street; where he hopes for a continuance of those favours which, for many years, as Successor to Brooke aud Co. he has so liberally expe- rienced. J N B. Law Libraries, 6r Parcels of Law Books, & c/ i' purchased. FASHION BLENDED WITH ECONOMY. BUTLER, at No. 10, High- street, Colchester, next door to Mr. Carr's, informs his numerous Customers, that lie isjust returned from London with the' most elegant Assortment of Ladies and GentlemenU' SHOES ever offered for sale in Colchester.— Butler's system of doing busiuess is that which must prove as be- neficial to his Customers as himself, viz. selling entirely for Ready Money, as it enables him to ( and he does) ma- nufacture a better Article at au interior price. The in- creasing demand for his Shoes fully justifies this assertiou. He has now for sale Women's Jean Slippers at 3s. per Pair; Velvet and Spanish, 3s. 6d.; Black or Coloured Jean and Nankeen Boots, 0s ; London- made Men's and Boys'Shoes, in great. variety, from 4s. upwards; Long Kerseymere and . Cloth Gaiters at 5s. Cd.; short Black at 2s. 6d. Variety of Children's Shoes.— All Orders must be paid for on delivery. ! BISHOP'S HALL, NEAR CHELMSFORD. MR. CHARLES MASON, firother of Mr. George Mason, Dancing Master, Col- chester, recently deceased, MOST respectfully informs his Friends and Connections, that he pledges himself to introduce ( as soon as possible) a GENTLEMAN, in every respec fully competent to the Profession, in which " his lamented Brother gave such general satisfaction; and he flatters himself, that as the future Support of his Brother's afflicted Widow and Infant Children must rest upon the continu- ance of that Encouragement, gratefully experienced during the period of his residence in Colchester, that thit Appeal to the humane and liberal feelings of his Frieudt and lha Public at targe, will not be made iu vain. ALL, Persons indebted to the Estate of the late Mr. W. 13. JARROLD, of Manningtree, will please lo pay their respective Debts immtdtufely to Mr Ray of Ipswich, one ot the Executors, or to Mr. R. Bishop, at Manningtree; and those Persons who stand indebted at the Shop at Weeley, will please to pay tlliir Accounts to Mr. T. D. Brooks. N. B. Unless tliis Notice is attended to, the Executors will, without delay, place the Accounts iu their Solicitor's hands, May 30,1810. TO BE SOLO BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ASubstantial' aud convenient DWELLING- HOUSE, with Chaise- house and Stable, aud a large uuil excellent productive Garden, well stocked with the choicest Fruit- trees, situated in the pleasant and respect- able Village of Thorp- le- Soken, distant from Colchester aud Harwich twelve miles, and Manningtree ten. These Premises are Copyhold of the- Soken Manor, which repderp thejn . more desirable than Freehold; are all iu excellent repair, aud fit for the reeeptiou of a small genteel family. ,•' 1 For further particulars apply to Mr William Blyth, el Thorp, or Mr. William Jackson, Auctioneer, Colchester. ." if by letter, post- paid. BREWERY, CULVER- STREET, COLCHESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, Some Time in the Month ' of June iust. by Direction of the Assignees of William Grubb, a Bankrupt, ( unless sooner disposed of by Private Contract,) ALL the PLANT, STOCK IN TRADE, . UTENSILS aud IMPLEMENTS of aud belong- ing to the BREWING CONCERN, iately carried, on liy the said William Grubb, iii Culver- street, Colchester, together with the GOODWILL of the said TRADE, aud the Remaiuder of the Terni of Years uow unexpired iu the Br ' wery, and Two Dwelling- Houses attached thereto. " Further particulars may be had fy applying to Messrs. Sparling aud Wittey, Colchester, Solicitors to the As- signees. 4 • — : i ; . One Hundred, and Seventy- Six Aerts of cxcclloM Corn . V Land. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY THOMAS NICE, On Saturday, the 8tli Day of June, lslli, a'fthe Blue Posts Inn, Colchester, at Three o'clock iu the Afternoon, 4 Most desirable ESTATE, situated in West ; V Mersea, called WALLGRAVE's FARM, now iu the occupation of the Proprietor; Mrs. A. Cooke, contain- ing 87A, 2R. 30P. of rich Arable Land, iu. a high state of cultivation; divided into Ten Iticlosurcs, with a good DWELLING- HOUSE, containing two good parlours, keeping- room; kitchen, brewhouse, dairy, pautry, buttery, store- room, reading- room, seven ,.< MJ< J bed- rooms, and-' cellar; with a Garden, planted with the choicest Fruit- trees, and comniaudiug extensive marine views, with a most delightful perspective of the adjacent country; a double Barn, extensive Cartlodge, aud Granary over the same-; good Stable, Chaise- house, and other Out- build- ings. Also. a DOUBLE COTTAGE, with large Garden, containing 1R. 32P. And a SINGLE COTTAGE, with Garden, containing 32 Poles. Also, a desirable small FARM, called WARD'S FARM, situated in East Mersea, containing A. 2R OP. of rich Arable a, id Pasture Land, with a good Barn; a newly re. paired COTTAGE, and Garden, con I aiuiug Two Roods, more or less, also in the occupation of Mrs. Cooke. Likewise a FARM, called PELDON FARM, in the Parish of Peltlon, containing 67A. OR. 331'. of rich Arable Land, divided into Ten tnclosure*, with FARM- HOUSE, aad convenient Premises 011 the same, uow ill ihe occu- pation of Mrs. Cooke. These valuable Estates arc well worth the attention of any Agriculturist, being situated within one mile from a convenient Quay for shipping Corn for the- London Mar- kets, within eight miles from tiie Port and. Market Town of- Colchester: For a Plaii of, or to view the Estates, apply to Mr. Thomas Cooper, Langenhoe Hall; Mr. Thomas May, West Mersea; or the Auctioneer, 37, High- street, Col- chester, or 43, Bishopsgate- street Without, London. The above Property will, be offered in such Lots as shall be agreed upon at the, time of Sale, aud Possession may be had at Michaelmas u « xt. COLCHESTER. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY THOMAS NICE, . On the 21st Day of June. 1816, and following Day, on the Premises, No. 65, High- street, A IX the valuable HOUSEHOLD FURNI- TURE, Feather and Flock Beds and, Bedding, Linen, China, Glass, & c. & c. the Property of Miss Kiddell, who has for many years kept a Seiiwiiary for youog Ladies, and is uow about to change her Residence. This Sale ftft'ords ah excellent opportunity tathe Public, as the Property consists of sixty linen sheets, forty blankets, twenty coverlets and counterpanes, twelve bedsteads and hangings, twenty, flock and feather- beds; table linen, lari* e Kidderminster carpets, nearly new; set of mahogany dining, Pembroke, and other tables; chairs, chesis of drawers", sofa", pier and swing glasses; excellent eight- flay clock; in mahogany case, by Hedge, & c. & c. Catalogues may had, three days prior to the Sale, of the Auctioneer, 37, High- street, Colchester, and 43, Bishopsgate- street, London; aud at the principal Inns in the vicinity Sale to begin at Ten o'clock precisely. LONDON MARKETS. MARK- LANE, MONDAY, MAY 27,1810. The prices of Wheat to- day weit nearly stationary, ex- cept for supcriiue samples, ou which au advance was ob- tained of from Is. to 2s. per quarter ; iu other respects the currency may be stated to be nearly the same as ou Mon- day last — Barley in demand at Is. to is. higher.— Oats, Beans, Hog aud Boiling Pease, brisk iu sale, at au increase iu priccs also of from Is. to 2s. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. Wheat was dull iu sule to- duy, and rather OD a decline 111 price. There being but a scanty supply of Barley, it advanced iu value Is. per qaarter. In other articles iliere was uo variation from Monday's currency. FRIDAY, MAY 31. There was very little doiug here to- day, aud every thing 2s. to 3s. lower from Monday's priccs. ' t he supply for the scusoti ofthe year rather large than otherwise. PRICE OF GRAIN, PER QUARTER. Monday.' s. - a. Wheat, mealing Red; 5ti a 70 F. ne... — a 85 White 02 a so Fine — a 94 Foreign Red 50 a In Dautzic ..... 7......... — a — Black (>> a 70 Rivets m a 76 R/ e ,...,.. 3d a W nite Pen, ; 14 a 40 Boilers....;, 33 a - 11 Grey Pease 34 u 40 IJ.. rs'e Beans, new, M u tl oWtie Old — a 11 Tick Beans, new ... 31) a > i? Fiue Olu — a 39 Broad Beiuis — a — Superfine...... ..:. — a — Long Pods — a — Barley .,.' 22 a 31 Sup— iiue — a — Outs, long feed Is a 22 Short — a 27 Polaud& Brew 28 a 33 Malt..' ...'. 50 a 114 Tares,' 4Ss. a 00s. per qr.- — Wednesday. s. Wheat, inealii. gRed, 55a SO Fiue — a 84 White 62 a 84 l-' ine — a 94 f oreign Red 50 a liaulzK — a — Black 52 a 74 Rivcis — a — ifyc 42 a 46 IV bita Pease 30 a 40 Boilers 42 a 44 Grey Pease 32 u ticjsc Beans, new, 30 a 38 l ine Old — a 40 Tick JJeans, new .. 30 a 3ti Fine Oid — a .. 8 Broad Beaus — a — Superfine — a — Long Pods — a — Barley 26 a 32 Supcrtiue — a — Ojis, long feed 19 « 22 Short 23 u 28 Poland St Brew. 30 a 32 Malt 60 a 15 Tine*, 5s. Od. a 6s. ttd. p. bush PRICE OF SEEDS, tic. s. s. » . » . Turnip, White, p. bl. 20 a „ 0 Clover, red, p. cwt. 42 » 63 Red & Green ditto ltl a 24 while 75 a 9i> Mustard, hiowu ... 12 a l! i Foreign, red — a 54 white 8 a 111 Trefoil 14 a 22 Canary, per quarter 56 a bO Carraway 70 a 7& Rape Seed, per last 25i a3l.' Coriander 9 a 12 Linseed, — a — Rye Grass, perqr... GO a 56 PRICE OF FLOCK. Fine English. Flour 70s. a 75s.— Second ditto 60s. a 65s- AVERAGE PRICE OF CORA PER QUARTER, For the Week ending- May 18. England aud Waics. , England and Wales. s. d. s. d. Wheat 7f » II Beans 32 2 Rye 37 9 Pease 3.( 1 barley 27 f Oatmeal 24 11 Oats 20 6 Big 0 0 PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH. New Bags. £. s — s New Pockets £. s. — £. s. Kent 4 lOto 7 10 Kent 6 R to 111 10 Sussex 3 18 lo ( i (> Sussex 5 18 to 8 8 Faruham 10 0 to 16 0 7 0 to 9 9 PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW. Smithfield. £. s —£. s. £. s.— £. R. Hay . 4 0 to 5 8. Straw 2 2 to 2 14 Cloven..,'..,...... 5 0 to <> u Whitechapcl. Straw 1 14 to 2 5 Hay 4 0 to 5 5 St. James. CliAer f> 0 to ti 6 Hay 3 10 to 5 5 Straw 1 10 to 2 4 W. BAYNES'S CATALOGUE, • PART I. FOR 1816. This Day is published, Price 2J. PART I. of W. BAYNES'S SELECT CATA- LOGUE of ' OLD BOOKS ; including many rare, curious, and valuable- Articles, in History, Antiquities, Voyages; Travels, Biography, Poetry, Arts,- Sciences, Miscellanies, & c. & c. mostly in good condition, and at reduced prices. , . .<, Catalogues may ' be had at the Plaee of Sale, 54, Pater- noster Row ; ana of the following Booksellers, vitf. Mr. Parker, Oxford; Messrs. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge; Messrs Hopps aud Nuttall, Manchester : Messrs. Norton and Sons, Bristol; Messrs. Beilby aud Knott. Birming- ham; Messrs Reston and Taylor, Liverpool; Mr Kitton, Norwich; and of U. W. Mattacks, No. 20, Wyre- street, Colchester. Just published, by W. BAYNES, a. New- Edition of HOUBRAKEN and VERTUE'S HEADS of ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONS, with their. LIVES, by Birch, 108 fine Por- traits, ill one handsome Volume, royal folio,, price. 81, 8s. boards , %*''' A' few Copies of the first Impressions", imperial folio, 12I.-. 12E ; .. ...; \ « '•" '•: v- AlfH, RICHARDSON'S Copies of, 310 rave and'curious • PORTRAITS, illustrative of " Granger's; Biographical. History of England, pri<? e$ l. 8s.— A few copies, ) 4rge paper,' royal 4to'.' fjl. . NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Per Stone ot 81b. by me Carcase. s. d.— s. d. 1 • s. d. — s. d. Beef 3 < i to 4 - II Veal 4 4 to 5 4 Mutton 4 4 to a 0 | Porn 4 0 to 5 0 AVERAGE PRICE OF BROWN SUGAR .£ 2.9s. 9Jd. per cwt. Exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon 011 Importation thereul into Oreal Britain. 1' RACE OF MEAT AT SMITHFIELD, ExclusiveoftlicOfial, which consists of Head, Entrails, & Hide, aud isworlhabout Id. per lb— Per Stone ol Sib. Monday, May 27. | Friday, May 31. s. d. — s. d h. < 1. — s. d. Beef..., 3 8 to 5 0 Beef. 4 0 to 5 2 Muttpn 4 0 to 5 4 Million 4 0 to 5 ti Veal. 4 4 toti 11 Pork 4 0 lo 5 6 Pork... 4 0 lo& 0 Veal :.... 5 0 to 6 0 Head of Cattle at Sn. ithtield. MONDAY Beasts 1,890 Sheep... 13 401 Pigs 34ii Calves... 190 FRIDAY Beasts 57<> Sheep... .0,140 Pigs .. 420 Calves .. 200 N. GOOSE, :. ''"' Z\: t' Chemist and Druggist, 24; High- street, Colchester, RESPECTFULLY informs the Public;, that he is appointed Special" Ageut for vending the follyw iiiy Articles: ...,'. The SERPENTINE, CURVED, ELASTIC TRUSSES, madS* T John Wright,- of Liverpool. ' < •''•• ••"<••• CHAMBERLAIN's MEDICINES, fo^ Serophula or King's Evil. • ' GODBOLD's VEGETABLE BALSAM, for Consump- tions, & c'. ' — . WHITMARSH's HORSE MEDICINE. EVERY LADY HER OWN DYER, .':•••.-. Economy and Klvyance combined, . , FOSTER'S ( late STORY" and FOSTER'S) ' eclehrated FRENCH DYING BALLS, of all COLOURS .. These Balls dye, so is to look tike tlew, Gowns, Pelisses, Shawls, Furniture, & c. & c. without taking any part lb pVies'. The process is so simple that it is impossible to eVr.- x^ Price Is: and 2s. per Ball — One Ball will dye a Dross, or seveu yards of Muslin, Silk, &, c. 1 Superior BLUE, for whitening Linen, La. cj,_&< y s( t Is. a Ball " , Sold Wholesale and Retail by N. Goose, at his Chemical, Drue, and Patent Medicine Warehouse. N. B.— J. FOSTER begs leave to acquaint the public tUst he has appointed Mr, GOOSE his Wholesale Agent fpr the Counties of Essex and Suffolk; to wham . those persons who Wish to become Venders are requested to apply. A liberal allowance will be made. ^ N. GOOSE has received a large supply of SCHWEPPE's SODA WATER, for whi « h~ art) cle heisthc sole accredited - Agent, aud of whom the P? l) lic t( iuy relyr| ijan having it ; v, enuine,. at0s. per Dozen Bottles. - ' _ Also. CARBONATED GINGER POWDERS, for making Ginger Beer. ~ ' • : SODAIC POWDERS, for makiug, Soda' Water extem- poraneously. - '•-/- - •• • ^ SAVORY and MOORE's PATENT SEIDLITZ POW- DERS. . " Dr. WILSON's' SPECIFICTINCTURE, tor Gont, & c Real FRENCH EAU DE COLOGNE, price 2a. 9d per Bottle." PRICE OF TALLOW IN LONDON, MAY 24 S. d. i s. d. Whitechapel Market... 3 S | Town Tallow p. cwt. 55 6 St. James's Market...... 3 2 Russia ditto Candle... 55 O Clare Market 0 0 White ditto — 0 , Soap ditto., 51 0 6 5 Melted stun 44 0 Rough dino 2b o Average 3 2 Greaves 12 0 Good Dregs 8 o Curd Soap 98 0 . Mottled 94 0 Yellow dilto 8ij 0 PRICE OF LEATHER AT LEADEN HALL. Butts, to 5dlbs: each 18 to 23 Crop Hides to 50lus. 18 to 19J- Ditto, to tililbs. each — to 27 Call Skius to 40lbs. 21 to23 Merchants' Racks — to— Ditto to 701 b » 22 to 27 Dressing Hides... 14 to 15* Ditto to80lbs. 22 lo 24 Fine Coach Hides 10 Jo 17i Small Seals( Greeud.) 27 to- 29 Crop Hides, 35to40lbs. Large do. p. doz. 100s lo 140* for cutting 15' to IKJ' Tanned H . Hides — to — PRICES OF SUGAR,' COFFEE, COCOA, & GINGER SUGAR, s. s. s a Raw ( BarbadJ..:.. 7S a 95 Triage 50 a 55 Do. yery fine- sis a 104 Mocha. 102 a 105 Powder Loaves... 118 a 130 Bourbon... 70 a 82 Single do.' Br.'.:.... 114 a 115 St. Domingo 68 a 7i » Molasses.. 20s.( » d. a.—:,. Od. Java...);... 60 a 78 COFFEE. COCOA. Dominica aud Surinam. Trinidad 130 a 140 Fine 4 ... 94 i> 102 Carraccas 150 a 160 G « 0. d 84 a 94 Muianliuiu — a — . Ordinary '.. 65' a 74 ' GINGER. Jamaica, fine 95 a 100 Jamaica white — a — Good 82 a 92 —— biack 147 a 16a Ordinary 00 a 72 Barbadoes — a — CURRENT PRICES OF SPIRITS AND WINES SPIRITS, per Gallon. WINE, Dealers' Price. Excl. of Duty'. s. d. s. d.' £. £. Brandy Cogl. ac 5 0 a ' 5 3 Claret, per II 63 a — Bordeaux' 3 9a4 < 1 Lisbon,- per P 48 a — Spanish 0 OaO 0, Port 52a — Geneva Holland i 8 a 2 10. Mink- h a, 60 a — Rum, Jamaica 3 2 a 4 t) Sherry, per Bt 60 a — — r— L. Islands 2 4 a 2 8 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam; 39 6 B. aijs. Bilboa 34— Barcelona 33 Ditto,- at- Sigbt — St. Sebastian's 33A Amsterdam 12 1 C. F. . Seville 33£ Ditto, at Sight. 11 IN Gibraltar 31 Rotterdam?!.... 12 2 2 Us. Leghorn. 47* Hamburgh. ... 35 To ^ Us. Genoa 44^— Venice 2i> 50 Altona:..?.., 35- 11— lis. Malta. 47— Naples 39. J Paris, 1 day's date.'£> $$ U*-. Palermo 113 per Oz. Ditto, 25 05 Us Lisbon 57r}— Oporto 57$ Bourdeaux ditto 25 55 Rio Janeiro 60 Madrid;........ 34 Fflettive Dublin 154 Cork 154 per ct. Cadiz ............ 34 Effective Agio of the Bank on Loll 2 PRICE OF STOCKS, MAY 31. Bank Stock 224 | 4 per Ceut 78^ 3 per Cent. Red. 62| 5 per Cent. Navy 95| 3 perCent C. ( 54J l. otg Aim. 16 Omnium 3* Cons, tor Acc. 65i Ditto for Payt. ! South Sea 6sJ Exchequer Bills 2 5 p. 1 Old Annuities mmmmt i ORIGINAL POETRY. LINES, Written for tile Tomb of Lieutenant Pulham, R. A. who quitted this for " a better world," at the early ape of eighteen, shortly after he had obtained his Commission. Oh! thou who lonely wand'rest hefe, To muse on life's uncertain doom, Let reverence mingle with thy tear, For, know!— thdu view'st a Soldier's Tomb! To breathe his last in Glory's arms, With Valour's sons, his fate denied ; Far from the shock of war's alarms, In peace the youthful soldier died! Bright honour reign'd within his breast, And all that sacred Truth holds dear; His worth admiring friends confest ; And Virtue's self bedew'd his bier. The pride of parents, hopes of youth, Are buried with his lifeless clay: Then, Reader, learn this awful truth- Like his, thy form must soon decay! And think that if thy sorrows flow For manly Virtue's timeless sleep, How keen must be his kindreds' woe-" How bitter are the tears they weep! Mourners! who watch'd the hero's bed When death the fatal summons gave, Hide not your grief— the tears ye shed Will grace, not stain, the Soldier's Grave! London, May 1816. THE POOR LAWS. the fact is, that the growing distress of the people, as growing pauperism undeniably proves, has led to a gradual diminution of the allowance of pau- pers. The consequence; therefore, must be, that n proportion to the rate, the paupers are more nu- merous at this time than at any other period. PRINCE LEOPOLD. Attempts have been made during the last twenty years to obtain a revision and more suitable regu- lation of these Laws, not only without success, but even without the slightest encouragement in the outset to proceed with any chance of attaining the end proposed. Mr. Whitbread and Mr. Pitt failed in this most important object. The former had bestowed on it all the assiduity and energy of which his strong and persevering mind was capable ; but his plan was not relished by the Government, and it was laid aside. The latter was at once the pane- gyrist and adversary of Mr. Whitbread's system and promised to substitute something which he could not indeed define, but which was to be belter adapted to the relief of the poor, and the economical, disbursement of the vast sums raised for their support, The promise outran the means. Mr. Pitt had not time to enter into all the items and minutiae of so laborious and complicated an investigation, and when his plan was brought forward, it derived no aid, and received no support either from Par- liament or from himself. It became the subject of a single discussion, and was no more heard of. Among the causes of national distress, the im- mense amount of the Poor- rates is evidently a principal. It is felt and presses severely in every quarter and every direction. In a moral point of view there are many solid objections to the opera- tion and effects of these laws ; but, in a financial consideration, they could not fail, if carefully examined, altered, and revised, to produce a ma- terial alleviation of the public burdens and pri- vations, enforced by necessary taxation, and ori- ginating in the peculiar difficulties which perplex and embarrass trade, manufactures, and agriculture, in the present conjuncture of affairs. The magni- tude of the expenditure for the subsistence of our poor does not appear to have been sufficiently con- sidered, and is, we fear, not so generally known as it ought to be, to call for immediate reform in all its branches of application. Let us view the question as it actually presents itself. According to Sir Frederick Morton Eden, on the State of the Poor, the Poor- rate of England and Wales, in 1087, amounted to 665,3621. From the abstract of the statement made by the several parishes of England and Wales, drawn up by order of the House of Commons, and printed in 1803, and 1810, it appears, that the expenditure on account of the poor amounted in 1776 to 1,523,1031. in 1785 to 1,943, 6491. in 1803 to 4,113,1641. and in 1816 to 7,454,2131. The statement itself says only 7,023,3861. but as it gives 854 parishes or places which have made no return, and 12, lhat made a return, the proportion of those who made no return amounts to 430,8271. which gives the sum total at 7,454,2431. nearly double its amount in 1802, and near twelve times its amount at the Revolution. This is the present state of the country as it appears from the Poor- rate; but when the millions expended on other charities are taken into the account, when it is recollected, that of the 23,000 inhabitants which the town of Leicester contains, 10,000 applied for the donation given by their more fortunate neighbours on the return of peace in 1814; and when it is borne in mind that such is the present distress, that it is only by ballot that the poor can gain admission into the workhouse in many places, it must be confessed that the Poor- rate gives but a faint idea of what the public are suffering. No return of paupers was ever made except in 1803, and then their number amounted to 1,839,716. By a reference to the Report of the Mendicity Committee it will be found, that the expenditure on account of the poor is invariably regulated by the price of the quartern loaf, and, as on the authority of the return made to Parliament in 1815 of the price of that loaf from 1758 to 1814, its price was 10d. in 1803, and 1815, it follows, as a matter of course, that the increase of paupers between 1803 and 1815 must be in proportion to the increased rate which took place between the two periods, which increase is from 4,113,1641. to 7,454,2131. sud which proportion, therefore, must be 1,884,2571. to 1,039,7161. exclusively, it ought to be recol- lected, of the great number of those who subsist upon other than parochial charity. Can it, then, be going beyond the bounds of probability to take it for granted, ( hat the number of our mendicants may exceed, but cannot fall short of 2,000,000, exclusive of the great number, perhaps, who are suffering every degree of hardship because they are ashamed to beg? At the commencement of the late war, in 1793, our paupers amounted only to 727,801, and our Poor- rate to 2,015,4561.; and, as the rate of 1687 amounted only to 665,0621. the number of paupers at that period could not exceed 311,914, the price of bread being about 3d. the quartern loaf, unless they were kept upon a shorter allowance than is at present given them. The con- trary, however, is the fair presumption ; because The gallant young Prince, in whose merits England has now so great an interest, is not the son, but the grandson of Duke Ernest Frederick, who commanded the Austrian army at the commence- ment of the French Revolution. His father, Duke Francis, died of a broken heart, in the latter end of the year 1806, when his castle had been stormed by the French, after the battle of Jena. Prince Leopold, then fifteen years of age, was the com- panion and first support of his infirm father, and afterwards of his afflicted mother. It was not till after the peace of Tilsit, that his brother, the reign- ing Duke, was able to return to his capital, where he found his country to the last degree impoverished by the exactions of the French Authorities.— Though then under French supremacy, the Princes of the House of Cobourg retained their principles. In 1808, the present Duke went to Russia, leav- ing his dominions under the care of his brother, Leopold, to whom he has frequently since en- trusted various branches of his administration. The latter was then enrolled in the military service of Russia, but was compelled to leave it, on the demand of Bonaparte, to save his whole family from ruin. For a year or two he employed himself solely upon the affairs of his house, and during that time conducted a difficult but successful nego- ciation with the Court of Bavaria, by which a frontier arrangement of importance was finally set- tled. In 1811, Prince Leopold wished to re- enter the service of Russia, but ( he Emperor, thinking the time not yet come in which he might provoke Bonaparte, without involving his family, persuaded him to defer his intention; and, in 1812, the Prince travelled to Vienna, Switzerland, and Italy. In the commencement of 1813, the three brothers of the House of Cobourg exerted themselves as far as they were able, for the emancipation of Ger- many. The Duke repaired to Berlin ; Ferdinand, the second brother, to Vienna; and Leopold, first to Munich, but subsequently to the Emperor of Russia, in Poland, who received him with the most cordial friendship. He was the first Prince of the then existing Confederation of the Rhine, who openly declared against the French. On the 2d of May, in that year, he was in the battle of Lutzen. In the battle of Bautzen, on the 20th and 21st, he was employed in supporting the line on various points, and in the evening of the 21st, covered the retreat iu the midst of the hottest fire, with the cavalry, to which he was attached. During the armistice and the negociations at Prague, he went there with the consent of the Emperor of Russia, and was the only stranger admitted to an interview with the Emperor Francis. On the re- commencement of hostilities, being de- tached with a corps to the support of Prince Eugene of Wirtemberg, he maintained a position, for five hours; against a foe three or four times as nume- rous, and after the two wings of the main force were nearly surrounded, relinquishing it only at night, when it was of little use to the enemy. Prince Eugene fully acknowledged this effectual support, which had the effect of preventing Van- damme from attacking the Allies in flank or rear, during the battle of Dresden. In an affair near Peterswalde, Prince Leopold was nearly taken prisoner, and Bonaparte said in his Bulletin that he had been so; but he cut his way bark to the corps from which he had been separated. Soon afterwards, all the allied Sovereigns joined the Emperor Alexander iu acknowledging the merit of his services; and six or eight Orders were con- ferred upon him. On the three days of the battle of Leipsic he was constantly engaged, and on the last pushed on with his cavalry in the centre to the environs of Leipsic. In February, 1814, he was in the battle of Brienne. In the advance upon Paris, he attacked the right flank of the enemy at Connentrai, drove him from his position, and took five pieces of cannon. The last battle in which he served was that of Paris, on the 31st of March, 1814, from which he accompanied the Allied Sove- reigns in their visit to England. At the Congress of Vienna, Prince Leopold attended, as the Re- presentative of his House, and his services were acknowledged by an increase of his brother's do- minions. An interesting work, written by Mr. Schoberl, and embellished with portraits, thus speaks of the moral and intellectual character of the Prince:—" In his early youth he manifested an excellent understanding, and a tender and be- nevolent heart. As he advanced in years, he dis- played a strong attachment to literary and scientific pursuits, and even at that time all his actions were marked with dignified gravity and unusual mode- ration. His propensity to study was seconded by the efforts of an excellent instructor, and as he remained a stranger to all those dissipations with which persons of his age and rank are commonly indulged, his attainments, so early as his fifteenth year, were very extensive. His extraordinary ca- pacity particularly unfolded itself in the study of the languages, history, mathematics, botany, music, and drawing, in which last he has made a pro- ficiency that would be creditable to a professor." NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN FRANCE. A plan has just been published in Paris for the establishment of What the projectors call—" An Academic Institution of the Allied Nations," which is said to be under the immediate protection of the Duke of Richelieu, the Minister for Foreign Affairs; and some of the most eminent literary and scientific men in the kingdom are named as the persons intended to be the principal instructors. It is proposed that one hundred young men, se- lected from the most distinguished families be- longing to the Allied Nations, shall assemble at one house in Paris, where they shall be instructed in morality, philosophy, in civil, political, and commercial history, in all its stages, from the earliest times to the present; in all its higher de- partments of literature ; in every branch of science and the arts; in the laws of nations ; in the codes of different countries, and their diplomatic, agri- cultural, and commercial relations in general; grammar, physiology, and anatomy; painting, music, dancing, & c. The following are mentioned as masters :— The Abbe Sicard, for grammar; M. Lemercier, for French literature ; M. Vigee, for reading and dic- tion ; M. Malte- Brun, for geography ; M. Tremery, for physics ; M. Orfila, for chemistry ; M. Salgues, for philosophy ; and the elder Kreutzer, for music. Every branch is to have its particular instructor ; and there will be servants of all languages. One of the principal objects of the Institution will be to promulgate the knowledge of public laws among the leading people of the different nations of Europe — a thing considered essentially necessary towards maintaining peace and social order throughout the European family. those in the passage, ran down the street, with six of his associates, crying, " Stop thief!" till the darkness of the night rendered pursuit unavailing. On the first alarm in the prison, a man, confined for debt, and who was taking tea with the gaoler, ran into the passage, and with great presence of I mind shut the iron gate, by which means the flight of sixteen of the felons was fortunately prevented, and they were remanded to their former quarters. The escape of Grant was almost immediately pro- claimed through the country by his depredations. The night after, he carried oft' Mr. White's coach horses from Scotswrath, between Montrath and Abelaix ; he committed a robbery near Waterford, sixty English miles distant; and returning with nearly equal rapidity, plundered the house of Mr. Horan, close to Maryborough, of every article of value, as is his general practice. SHERIFF'S COURT, SATURDAY, MAY 25. THEATRICALS. The National Intelligencer ( American paper) contains the following paragraph, announcing an improvement of the steam- engine: — " Mr. William Willis. of New Bedford, Massachusetts, we are informed, lias discovered a new mode of con- structing steam*, . igines, by having the steam cylinders and steam pipe- inclosed in the boiler, and the steam Cocks worked by wires, which lead out of the boiler through small basins of oil. He lias also discovered a mode of placing the steam cylinders horizontally, and working racks and rack- wheels either with steam altogether, or by making use of the pressure of the atmosphere in the common mode. He has also dis- covered a new mode of communicating the rotatory motion direct, by racks fitted with spring teeth, which act in the teeth of the rack oil one side, and trail easy on the other." At a town between Bourn and Deeping, a few days ago, a person was arrested by a Sheriff's of- ficer, and held three days in custody at a public- house. At the expiration of that time the ale score for the debtor and the bailiff's follower, was one hundred and ninety- six quarts ! A Tragedy, entitled Adelaide; or, The Emi- grants; avowedly the production of an Irish Barris- ter, named Shiel, has been brought forward at Covent- Garden Theatre. Though new to this country, it is stated to be a translation from the French, and has been repeatedly performed on the Dublin Stage. The author has displayed the power of genius, in an eminent degree, by energy of diction, and a display of poetical beauties, but has evinced a disregard to two essential requisites— unity of action, and an inculcation of the genuine principles of morality. Towards the conclusion of the fourth act some dissatisfaction was apparent, but, with this exception, the piece received consi- derable applause.— The fable is as follows :— Count St. Evermont, with his wife, his daughter, the fair Adelaide, and Julia, a young female relative, fly- ing from the carnage of the early part of the French Revolution, bent, their steps towards Germany, ai. d after wandering some time, found an asylum iu the domains of Count Lunenberg. This Nobleman hail frequent opportunities of seeing Adelaide. He con- ceived a violent affection for her, which gratitude and an unsuspecting heart soon induced her to return. But Lunenberg had been solemnly bound by compact, as well as by the command of his Sovereign, to marry to one of the Princesses of the Court. He could not dissolve that tie, and he feared the displeasure of the Emperor; and Adelaide was so firm in her virtue, that it was vain to attempt its open destruction— But the fever of his passion raged irresistibly, and having no other hope of gratifying it than by using deception, he at length seduced her under the disguise of a false marriage, entreating her at the same time to preserve the circumstance of their union in her own bosom an eternal and inviolable secret. One little month of most romantic happiness shone on the gentle and innocent Adelaide. But some sus- picions arising in her parents' minds on her refusing the proferred hand of a neighbouring Count, she begged of Lunenberg to reveal their marriage, at least to the beloved authors of her being. He avoided her entreaty, and it was not until his heart was torn by the pangs of remorse, that he started at midnight from his bed and disclosed the fatal deception. Count St. Evermont's first Suspicions were confirmed by degrees; he at least hears from Adelaide herself the tale of horror; he burns to be revenged on Lunenberg-, he rushes out madly, determined to die himself, or bring death to the destroyer of his daughter's honour. Adelaide seeing such evils thickening around her, fearing that her father will be killed, deems herself a hated parricide, and in the desperate condition of her mind she takes poison. Her brother Albert, in the mean time, escapes from Paris and joins his family. Immediately on his arrival, Adelaide and his mother send him in pursuit of his father; he overtakes him, gets the sword into his own hand, and inflamed with still higher indignation, goes to seek Lunenberg, Lunenberg, with a repentant and broken heart, comes to solicit the forgiveness of Adelaide; he meets Albert, throws away his own sword, rushes on that of Albert, and dies. The potion operates on the hapless Ade laide, and she falls on the body of Lunenberg, whom she still loves, even in dishonour and death. The performance of Miss O'Neill, in the charac- ter of Adelaide, is inimitable throughout. The part of Count St. Evermont was sustained with admirable energy by Mr. Young ; and Lunenberg was represented by Mr. C. Kemble with great fide- lity and discrimination. GRANT, THE IRISH ROBBER. DUBLIN, May 23.— A person, generally known by the name of Captain Grant, whose extraor- dinary endowments rendered him competent to achieve much good or evil, after having escaped, by means which appear miraculous, from various gaols, was some time since lodged in that of Mary- borough, the capital of the Queen's county. Here, being abundantly supplied with money, he treated the prisoners with such things as the place afforded ; and repeatedly told the Sheriff, as well as the nu- merous persons whose curiosity induced them to visit him, that he would elude their vigilance, in defiance of every exertion they could make. The discovery that he had cut his irons nearly through, leaving only sufficient remaining to keep them to- gether, and the substitution of others of most sin- gular weight and thickness, did not appear to dis- concert him ; he laughed at the zeal of the Officers of the detachment, which had induced them to take lodgings opposite the gaol, as a measure of increased security. The night after the immense irons were put on him, he cut through them, and through those of twenty- two other men, charged with capital offences ; and rushing forward at their head, knocked down two soldiers stationed in the passage, then the turnkey and his assistants; and, opening the door, the key of which he had seized, knocked down two soldiers who were at the outside of it, and taking their arms as he had done DUNN V. CLAY.— CRIM. CON.— This was an in- quiry to estimate the damages against the defendant for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Mr. Scarlett, for the prosecution, stated the case. The plaintiff and defendant, he observed, were both officers in the army, and had been intimate friends. In 1813 the plaintiff married an amiable and accom- plished young lady, a Miss Williams, with whom, for some time after their union, he lived in a state of the greatest happiness, a mutual affection of no common sort binding them to each other. On their marriage they resided for some time at Lewes, where the plaintiff's regiment was stationed, and where the de- fendant frequently visited. Afterwards they went to Brighton, and from thence, they, in 1814, went to the Continent, where they continued till the return of Bonaparte from Elba obliged them to revisit their native country; they came to London, and had lodgings in Dover- street, afterwards iu Stanhope- street, and, finally, in 1815, they went to reside at Ham, near Richmond. The defendant having, on their return from the Continent, renewed his intimacy with the plaintiff, visited him at all these places; and it appeared, that even up to the time of Mrs. Dunn's quitting the protection of her husband, not the least suspicion of any improper attachment between her ami the defendant ever arose in the mind of any per- son. In December, 1815, however, it appeared Mrs. Dunn quitted her husband's house, and was absent three weeks. During this time he should prove she was in France, and seen iu company with the defen- dant; he should not be able, to prove the defendant had absolutely been a party iu this elopement, but their having been seen together in a foreign country was strong presumptive proof against him. At the end of three weeks Mr. Dunn's affection prevailed over all other feelings; persuading himself, perhaps, that no criminal act had taken place on the part of his wife, he was induced to take her back. He should prove him waiting on the beach, anxiously watching the approach of the packet which was to bring her from the opposite shore, and receiving her on her landing with the warmest affection. They again went to Ham, where they resided till the 4th of December following, on which day Mrs. Dunn again quitted her husband's house, and, as he should prove, proceeded in company with the defendant to Lincoln, where they took lodgings, and lived under the as- sumed name of M'Carthey, as man and wife. He- should afterwards prove their removal to London, nd residence there in the same character, though under a change of name, that of Best being substi- tuted for M'Carthey. Having proved these facts, nothing w ould remain for the Jury but to assess the damages. The plaintiff had no vindictive feelings about him; that fact would be proved by the mode- rate sum at which he had laid his damages, 1000).— It was not damages he sought; it was not money which could cure the wound his domestic peace had received, or make him compensation for the loss of the society of an amiable ami accomplished woman, or supply to two infant children the loss of a mother's fostering care, of which they had been deprived by the defendant's misconduct. Witnesses were then called, who proved the pre- ceding facts. Mr. Gurney then addressed the Jury in mitigation, and observed that his client's means were indeed very circumscribed, and heavy damages would inevitably consign liini to a prison. He submitted to the Jury that the present was by no means an aggravated case ; the parties were fully sensible of I heir own misconduct, and felt keenly the misery they had inflicted on others. They were not living together, glorying as it were iu their guilt, as was the casein some instances; on the contrary, the lady was, and had for some time past been living with her mother. Her second elopement, he observed, could not. have inflicted so deep a wound on the domestic comfort and happiness of her husband, as it would have done had no such circumstance as her first elopement taken place. Under all the cir- cumstances, he would leave his client in the hands of the Jury, who, he was convinced, would, as far as possible, do justice to both parties. The Jury retired for a few minutes, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 4001. An article from Konigsberg, dated April 30, says,— Ou the 20th of March last, the tract of coun- try situate between the two branches of the Vistula, iu the vicinity of Dantzic and Marienberg, was subjected to a sudden and dreadful calamity; the dam on the left side of the eastern branch was burst in two places by the impetuosity of the current and force of the ice. An unprecedented inundation was the consequence ; the more dreadful, as it sur- prized the wretched inhabitants at night. A fer- tile, populous, and opulent region, not less than seventeen square miles in extent, was transformed to a barren waste; and 2,400 inhabitants, in a greater or less degree, lost their winter grain, their cattle, houses, stables, and barns. In many places the soil was covered with sand, and irrecoverably ruined. This calamity has produced a misery more aggravated than even the ravages of war. The situation of our captive fellow- countrymen in Carthagena is truly distressing and alarming, and. must excite feelings of deep interest in every mem- ber of the British community. From December last, up to the present time, they have been linger- ing in common dungeons or in the prisons of the Inquisition, because they carried on a trade pre- viously sanctioned by Government, and conveyed with British men of war. When these persons were first claimed, Morillo's answer was, that he. had only two or three in his power ; but the mer- chants of Jamaica proved by their memorial that he had at least two hundred and four, and named the vessels in which they had been captured. It now appears that the Madrid Government also answers, that it is unaware of British subjects being con- fined at Carthagena, though the naval commander ( Enrile) of the latter place, writes home, that from the 5th of December, when Carthagena surrendered, up to the 29th, he had taken twelve vessels, most of whose names are found in the Jamaica memorial. His dispatch is dated 31st December, and inserted in the Madrid Gazette. This is then sporting with the lives of our countrymen. Besides their having been stripped of their shirts, ihey are con- fined in a most unhealthy climate, where the air is tainted by the numbers who died during the late siege, and in a town now threatened with famine. In the official dispatches sent home to Spain, these British subjects are styled banditti, and, as such, in fact, are they now treated. In the urgent moments of the most dreadful civil war ever known, daily j beholding persons taken from the prison they I inhabit shot, and massacre surrounding them on all sides, what will be their situation if not imme- diately relieved, when hourly they are exposed to the most agonizing tortures? St. Domingo is now divided among three masters. Petion, who was educated in France, has an army of 11,000 men; his revenues proceed from properties confiscated, and exorbitant imposts on the sailing and entrance of ships. Christophe has a fleet as numerous as that of Petion, and an army of' 15,000 men ; he is fond of luxury, and has procured from Loudon many superb carriages, and much beautiful furniture. The third leader is called Dos— he lives in peace with the other two, but seems to wait for an occasion of seeing his neighbours at variance, in order to break out. The Schedule attached to the amended Bill for the Regulation of the Civil List exhibits the fol- towiug estimate of the future annual charge, viz:— 1st Class, Pensions and Allowances to the Royal Family, 298,0001.— 2d Class, Allowances to the Chancellor, Judges, & c. 32,9551.— 3d Class, Al- lowances to Foreign Ministers, Salaries to Consuls, & c. 226,9501.— 4th Class, Bills of the King's Tradesmen, 200,0001.— 5th Class, Salaries to De- partment of Lord Chamberlain, Lord Steward, Master of Horse, Master of Robes, Surveyor- General of Works, & c. 152,7001.— 6th Class, Pen- sions limited by 22d Geo. HI. cap. 82. 95,0001.— 7th Class, Salaries and Allowances to certain Officers and Persons, 41,3001.— 8th Class, Salaries to Commissioners of Treasury, and Chancellor of Exchequer, 13,8221.— Occasional Payments, not comprised in any of the foregoing Classes, 20,0001. — Total, 1,087,7- 271. The following concise account of a German en- tertainment is taken from the travels of the late well- known Mr. Dutens.—" The most superb fes- tival I ever saw was given by the Empress at Vienna, on the occasion of the general meeting of her family. The. Grand Duke came to see her. Prince Charles received the Archduke Maximilian as his coadjutor of the Teutonic Order. The Em- press gave a public masked ball at Belvedere, the house of Prince Eugene, to which a gallery of 400 feet in length was added, lighted up with 7200 wax- lights. The front of the gallery without was illu- minated with 2300 lamps. There were 18,000 wax- lights within the palace walls. The company that assembled was to the number of 7000 persons. The whole was conducted without the least disorder or confusion. A supper was ordered for 10,000 people. Physicians, surgeons, midwives, and beds were prepared, in case of accidents." MR. SAMUEL WEBB.— This excellent composer and truly worthy man, died on Saturday fast, at his chambers, in Gray's Inn. He had reached the 76th year of his age, and no man within his sphere- of action has been more admired for talents, or esteemed for private virtues. His songs, glees, & c. are almost innumerable, and are all characterized by taste, simplicity, and feeling, as well as by a pro- found knowledge of his art. Many of his glees, for precision of harmony, beauty, and expression, ob- tained prizes from Institutions founded for the encouragement of musical genius.- A fine pebble, or agate, was lately dug out of a rock, near the signal- tower, Montrose, by Mr. M'Intosh, architect, of the extraordinary weight of 311/ 2 pounds. This singular stone being perfectly sound, of a fine transparent quality, and exhibiting an interesting figure, would have formed a valuable acquisition to the mineralogist; but its owner, yielding to an invincible curiosity, hammered it to pieces! Last week was killed a remarkably fat ox, fatted by Mr. Edwards, of Thickwood, iu the parish of Colerne, Wilts, entirely with pease straw. it is believed that few graziers are aware of this excel- lent substitute for I he usual methods of fatting. Paymaster G. Slade, of the 6th battalion of the 60th regiment, has been tried by a General Court- Martial at Kingston, Jamaica, on a charge of em- bezzlement. Being found guilty, the Court ad- judged him to be dismissed from his Majesty's service, fined 2001. and imprisoned until the tine be paid; which sentence the Prince Regent has approved and confirmed. A pauper of a parish near Arundel lately applied for relief, and stated he was 96 years of age, and said his father was living ! On a recent motion, to compel the Sheriff of West- meath to amend his return of nulla bona, on the alledged ground of his having seized some horses, the property of a defendant, but which the latter had removed before they could he seized ; Lord Norbury remarked, that, as the defendant had re- moved the horses, the plaintiff, he supposed, had nothing to saddle but the Sheriff. Mary Ann King, of whose swindling transactions much has of late been said in various newspapers, underwent a final examination before the Magis- trates at Queen- square Police Office, on Monday last, and was fully committed to take her trial for the various offences with which she stands charged. It appeared, in the course of a long investigation, that she is by no means a novice, as was at first supposed, in the practice of nefarious artifices. Five years ago, she cohabited with a man who called himself Mr. Riggins, whose name she assumed, and in conjunction with her associate, was engaged in plans for deceiving those upon whose credulity or humanity of disposition she could gain an as- cendancy by her plausible tales. PRETERNATURAL CALF.— On the 3d ultimo was calved on Mount Pleasant, in the township of Newland, and parish of Drax, in Yorkshire, a snow- white calf of uncommon shape, having two heads, two distinct shoulders, upon which are two appro- priate necks, the same number of spinal bones, and two tails ; with these it has six legs, four of which are placed in an uniform manner, with the crural or leg joints the same as if there had been the natural number only. Two are upon each fore quarter, the others are joined to the hind one. BR BA BR BU BU BE Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, and Orders for this Paper, are received by the following Agents.— LONDON, MESSRS. 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