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27/07/1816

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The Colchester Gazette, And General Advertiser for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Herts

Date of Article: 27/07/1816
Printer / Publisher: E. Lancaster 
Address: No.30, Head-Street, Colchester
Volume Number:     Issue Number: 135
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THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE, ;.. vr A VV - v 3 j Jlnd General Advertiser for Essex^ Suffolk, Norfolk> Cambridgeshire, and Herts. No. 135. Printed and Published ( for the Proprietors) by E. LANCASTER, No. 30, Head- Street, Colchester. Price Id. • • . > « —• I . I . T Price 7d. or in Quarterly ) Payments, at 8s. per Quarter. ) SATURDAY, July 27, 1816. S This Paper isfiM at Garrawa, fs, Peeles, and Jo/ ins Coffee- houses; at Newtm and Co.' s t \ Varivick- Si/ uare ; Mr. Whites, S3, Fleet- Streetand at the Auction Mart. RANSOME AND SON RESPECTFULLY beg leave to inform their Friends and the Public, they have just received the KING'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT For certain Improvements on the PLOUGH, by means of which, ( in addition to; other advantages) they will he enabled to Supply them with SHARES on an entire new Form and Principle; fully capable of doing all the work of Shares which have been hitherto used, and removing that defect of WEAR ON THE LA NO SIDE which has been so much complained of. R and S. will not only be enabled to sell their NEW PATENT SHARES on terms not exceeding Two- THIRDS of the Price of any they have ever yet been able to offer. hut, from the arrangements they are making, they will deliver them on the same terms at every principal Starke* Town within seventy miles of their Manufactory.' To AGENTS, & C.— The very low price at which these Articles will be offered obliges Ransome and Son to in- form their Agents, and those selling for them, that they cannot give a longer credit than THREE, MONTHS ; and, as it maybe necessary to appoint some new Agents, they beg to have it fully understood, that none can be treated with who do not engage to settle their Accompts at the above time. Iron Foundry, Ipswich, 26th - June, 1810. . " TO BE LET, Possession at Michaelmas next, ,., AFARM, consisting of a substantial arid com- modious DWELLING- HOUSE, with Two Barns, Stable, Cow. house, and other necessary Out- buildings, aud about Two Hundred Acres of Arable and Pasture Land, within four miles of a Sea- port and Market Town, in the County of" Essex— A Terra of Years will be granted, as may be agreed upon. For particulars ( if by letter, post- paid) apply to Messrs. Ireland and Sawyer, Solicitors, Staple Inn, London. CAPITAL FAMILY RESIDENCE, Pleasure Grounds, and Land, tor/ ether with an excellent Manor, in the County of Cambridge, Forty- eight Miles from London. TO BE LET, On Lease for Fourteen Years, with immediate Possession*. ASpacious, substantial, and elegant FAMILY RESIDENCE, situate at Little Shelford, in the said County, delightfully watered by a Front Stream, in a most pleasant and retired situation ; with a quantity of excellent Meadow Land. skirted by Plantations " and Pleasure Grounds, containing about Twenty- six Acres; the House is suitable for the accommodation of a large Family, and contains numerous bed- rooms, with dressing- room- lofty elegant dining - parlour, breakfast- room, drawing- room, study, and billiard- room, with attached and detached offices of every description ; capital kitchen Gardens, abundantly croppcd and planted with choice Fruit- trees; Green- house, and Bath: the whole in ex- cellent order, and well supplied with tine Water. The above is particularly worthy the attention of any family gentleman, as it is within the distance of five miles » jf the University of Cambridge; it is equally so of the sporting gentleman, as it is within the distance of four- teen miles of Newmarket, and in the vicinity of two packs < if fox- hounds. For further particulars apply ( if by letter, post- paid) to Francis Smythies, Esq. Colchester, Essex. Small compact Farm, at Little Holland, Essex, eligibly situate for Sea Bathing. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, ALL that desirable and convenient ESTATE, comprising a good and roomy FARM- HOUSE, excellent Barn, Stabling for ten horses, and other suitable and convenient Out buildings, in an excellent state of Repair; neat Garden, and about Sixty- six Acres of ex- ceedingly rich Arable and Pasture Land, in the highest state of Cultivation, now in the Occupation of Mr. James Pollard. The above Estate is situate about a Quarter of a Mile from the Sea Shore, is moderately rated and taxed — A small Part of the Estate is Copyhold of the Manor of Little Holland — Possession may be had at Michaelmas next. Particulars maybe hud of Mr. Pollard, on the Premises; or of Messrs. Sparling and Wittey, Solicitors, Colchester. GREAT COGGESHALL, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JAMES THORN, Upon the Premises, on Wednesday the 31st July, 181t5, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, FOUR capital MILCH COWS, a Calf, two use- ful Cart Geldings, a black Pony, Sheep Rack, and a Stack of excellent Grass Hay ; under a Distress for Rent, upon the Glebe Lands in Great Coggcshall. For further particulars enquire of the Auctioneer, 31, Head- stree:, Colchcster. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JAMES THORN, On Thursday, the 1st of August, 1816, at the Red Lion, Colchester, ( removed for Conveniency of Sale,) at Eleven o'clock in tile Forenoon, \ Small Collection of very valuable PRINTS and PAINTINGS, with some HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,& e Catalogues to be had of the Auctioneer, 31, Head- street, Colchester. Household Furniture, Stock, and Lease of a valuable Public- House, now infill Trade, and clear of Brewer, with every Convenience fur brewing. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY ROBERT GOODWIN, Ou Tuesday, the 30th of July inst. and Two following Days, ALL the neat HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, STOCK, and Effects, of Mr. John Tillman, Rose and Crown Inn, Manningtree, Essex, who is retiring from Business; comprising twelve four- post, tent, and other bedsteads, with cotton and other furnitures; twelve ex- cellent feather- beds and bedding; mahogany, dining, Pembroke, dressing, and pillar tables; hollow- bottom chairs, pier and dressiug- glasses, single and double chests with drawers; bureaus, eight- day clock, kitchen and chamber chairs; plate, linen, china, glass, ami earthen- ware ; good kitchen and scullery requisites ; sound and sweet beer- casks; five coomb brewing copper, and coolers, with complete brewing utensils. The STOCK consists of spirituous liquors, home- brewed beer, neat London porter, and about sixty dozen of fine old Port wine, six years in bottles. Catalogues, duly distributed, may be had at the Inns ill the neighbourhood; Rose, Ipswich ; Angel, Colchester; Place of Sale; and of the Auctioneer, Manningtree, Essex. .' Arrangement of Sale as under: The First Day. at Twelve o'clock precisely, WILL BP. SO LI) BY AUCTION, the unexpired TERM, granted to the said John Tillman, of and in all the aforesaid old- established and good- accustomed INN, called the ROSE aud CROWN ; containing two good parlours, tap- room, bar, kitchen, suitable bed- rooms; brewhouse, Stabling for twenty- four horses, Chaise- house, and every conve- nience for the business; held under a I. ease, which will expire at Michaelmas, 181!*, subject to the annual rent of 161. and very favourable covenants on the part of the tenant. And immediately after will be Sold, all the Brew- ing Utensils, Beer Casks', Wine, Spirits, Ale, and Porter; and Hay. And on the Two following Days, all the House- hold Furniture, and other Effects. Possession may be had immediately, and any further particulars known on application to Mr, Ambrose, at bis Office, Manningtree. FREE OF DUTY. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY GEORGE BIDDELL, At the Vine Inn, at Nayland, near Colchester, on Monday, the 29th instant, and following Day, upon the Premises, ( under an Execution,) ,4 LL the genuine, modern, and excellent l\. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and Effects of the above Inn; comprising lofty post, bureau, and other bed- steads, with various furnitures; capital bordered goose feather- beds, bolsters and pillows, wool and hair mat- tresses, fine large blankets, quilts and counterpanes, bed and table linen; staircase, floor, and bedside carpets; modern window- curtains, mahogany bureaus, chests with drawers, buffet; wash- hand stands, basons and ewers, neat chamber chairs, capital pier and dressing- glasses, set of mahogany dining tables, pair of beautiful satin- wood card tables, other mahogany dining and pillar tables, neat Windsor and good wood- seal chairs, a large quantity of china, glass, and earthenware, including several hand- some diner services ; capital eight- day clock; excellent kitchen furniture and culinary articles, in coppers, boilers, sauce and stew pans, tea kitchen, kettles, fire- irons, & c. a pocket of prime hops, quantity of glass bottles, wheel- barrow, pails, forks, halters, and stable requisites; parcel of dung, fire- wood, and many other valuable articles, set forth in Catalogues, duly distributed, and may be had at the Place of Sale, and of the Auctioneer, West Farm, Bradfield, near Bury.— Each Day's Sale to begin at Eleven o'clock. ' ® £ 40,000 For the First Drawn Prize on the First Day of the State Lottery, WHICH BEGINS DRAWING SEPTEMBER 17. T. B1SH BEGS leave to recommend to his best Friends, the Public, the Scheme of the State Lottery, which contains, in Stock and Money, the Sum of £ 205,780. The Drawings each day are to he equal, by which improved method, the Capitals are not likely to remain so long in the Wheel as they generally have done; and, in fact, to prevent the possibility of such an occurrence, the Con- tractors have fixed, that the very first Prize drawn out of the Wheel shall have £ 40,00n in addition; therefore, it might be a Prize of £ 80,000. Tickets and Shares are selling by T. BISH, 4, Cornhill, and9, Charing- Cross, London, and by his Agents, as under: SWINBORNE and WALTER, Phoenix Fire- office, Col- Chester. G. YOUNGMAN, Bookseller, Saffron Walden. J. DINGLE, Bookseller, Bury. R. ROGERS, Bookseller, Newmarket. DUNHAM and YALLOP, Goldsmiths, Norwich. T. PATERNOSTER, Bookseller, Hitchin. S. PIPER, Bookseller, Ipswich. J. POLLEY, Bootmaker, Maldon. J. WADE, Bookseller, Lynn. E. and J. GOODE, Printers, Cambridge. J. WHITE, Bookseller, Wisbeach. W. H. KEMBLE, Printer, Swaffham. * « * In the late Lottery, BISH sold One Prize of £ 30,00°, and Twenty- six other Capitals, parts of which were sold by several of the above Agents. VALUABLE WORKS IN RURAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster- row, London: sold by Swinborne and Walter, Col- Chester; and by all Booksellers throughout the Country. DISEASES OF HORSES. l. EVERY MAN HIS OWN FARRIER; or, the whole Art laid Open; the Twenty- second Edition, entirely re- composed, and incorporating the valuable Improvements of many years' extensive Practice, with upwards of One Hundred New Recipes, never before published, and a much enlarged Appendix on the Quality, Composition, and Preparation of the various Medicines. By FRANCIS CLATER, Farrier, Cattle Doctor, and Drug- gist, at Retford. In Xvo. 9s. extra boards. The extraordinary demand for this Publication is the surest criterion of its real utility. The true de- scription of every Disorder, and the invaluable Recipes for their Cure; the Method of preparing and compounding the various Medicines, and the useful Remarks on apply- ing them, have been tried, approved, and met with unex- ampled success throughout the United Kingdom. DISEASES OF CATTLE. 2. EVERY MAN HIS OWN CATTLE DOCTOR; or, a Practical Treatise 011 the Diseases and Cure of Oxen, Cows, and Sheep. Observations on the Parturition of the Cow and Ewe, and that destructive Malady the Rot in | Sheep; a timely attention to which has, in many Districts, been the means of saving many Thousands from that hitherto considered fatal Disease. By FRANCISCLATER. The Fourth Edition. In 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. boards. THE HORSE. 3 AN INQUIRY INTO THE. STRUCTURE AND ANIMAL ECONOMY OK THE HOUSE; comprehending the Diseases to which his Limbs and Feet are subject, with proper Directions for Shoeing; and pointing out a Method for ascertaining his Age, until his Twelfth Year. To which is added, an Attempt to explain the Laws of his Progres- sive Motion, on Mechanical and Anatomical Principles. By RICHARD LAWRENCE, Veterinary Surgeon, Birming- ham. A New Edition, in royal 8vo. with numerous Plates, Price II. Is. DRAINING. 4. ELKINGTON'S SYSTEM OF DRAINING LANDS, ( for the Discovery of which 10001. was bestowed by Parlia- ment) with many Plates Second Edition, 8vo. boards, 12s. LIVE STOCK. 5. A TREATISE ON THE CHOICE, BUYING, AND GE- NERAL MANAGEMENT or LIVE STOCK ; comprising De- lineations and Descriptions of Black Cattle, Sheep, Swine, Horses, Shepherds' Dogs, Asses, Mules, Poultry, Rabbits, and Bees, & c with Engravings on Wood of the various Breeds of Horses, Oxen, Sheep, Hogs, Dogs, & e. A New and enlarged Edition, by the Author of the Complete Grazier, 8vo. 6s. boards. . COMPLETE GRAZIER. 6. THE COMPLETE GRAZIER; or, Farmer and Cattle Dealer's Assistant; comprising Treatises in every De- part incut of Knowledge useful to the Agriculturist. With an Introductory View of the different Breeds of Neat Cattle, Horses, and Swine, & c. & c. The Fourth Edition, much improved. With numerous Plates, 14s. The Additions and Improvements to the present Edition arc so great as almost to constitute it a new Book; and the Publishers flatter themselves that it will be found | the most useful Work extant, on the subjects which it comprises; and to be in itself almost a complete " Far- mer's Library." ANGLING. 7 A CONCISE TREATISE ON THE ART or ANGLING, confirmed by Experience, and including many recent Discoveries; also Rules to judge of the Weather, either from, or without a Barometer. To which is now first added, Nobb's Complete Art of Trolling. The Tenth Edition, considerably enlarged. By THOMAS BEST — With a Frontispiece, representing the Baits used, 3s. ( id. sewed, 4s. bound. BEES. 8. A TREATISE ON THE NATURE, ECONOMY, AND PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT or BEES. IN which the various Systems of the British and Foreign Apiarians are examined, with the most approved Methods laid down for effectually preserving the Lives of the Bees. Contain- ing also an accurate Description, illustrated by Plates, of various Hives, including one newly invented, for the purpose of depriving the Bees of their Honey with safety and expedition. Forming a complete Guide to the Study and Management of those valuable Insects. By ROBERT HUISH, Member of the Imperial Apiarian Society, at Vienna, & c. & c. In One Volume, 8vo. Price I2s. bound. GARDENING. 9. ABERCROMBIE'S GARDENER'S POCKET JOURNAL; or, Daily Assistant in the Modern Practice of English Gardening, in a concise Monthly Display of all the Ge- neral Works throughout the Year, with a Description of the various Implements. The Thirteenth Edition, Ste- reotyped and improved by a General List of Plants; Shrubs, Fruit and Forest Trees, Flowers, & c. Price is. FRUITS. 10. IMPROVED METHOD OF CULTIVATING THE STRAW- BERRY, RASPBERRY, AND GOOSEBERRY, designed to prove the present mode erroneous, and to introduce a cheap and rational Method, by which superior Fruit may uniformly be obtained in all Seasons, and preserved be- yond the usual time of Maturity. Second Edition. By T. HAYNES, of Oundle. 8vo. 7s. boards, or on royal paper, 10s. 6d. COOKERY. 11. DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT; or, The Healthful Cookery Book, on economical Principle*, ami adapted for universal Use : comprising culinary , and other very useful miscellaneous Recipes, and Instructions for making Wines. An Essay on Diet, the most natural Means of preserving' Health ; General Observations on the Management of a Family; Remarks on the Dieting of Children; Method of treating such trifling Medical Cases, as come within the sphere of Domestic Management By a Lady. The Second Edition, in a neatly printed Volume, 12mp. Price " is. boards. FAMILY HERBAL. 12. A FAMILY HERBAL; or, Familiar Account of the Medical Properties of British and Foreign Plants; also their several Uses in Dyeing, and the various Arts. A New Edition, including the new Names in Medicine, and other Improvements. By ROBERT JOHN THORNTON, D. D. Member of the University of Cambridge, and Col- lege of Physicians, and Lecturer on Botany. With a fine engraved Portrait, and near Three Hundred Plants, drawn from Nature, by Mr. Henderson, and engraved by Mr. Thomas Bewick, of Newcastle. In 8vo, boards, demy, plain, II. 10s.; coloured, 21. 5s.; royal, plain, 21.; co- loured, 31. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN. 13. CULPEPER'S ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED ; containing Three Hundred and Sixty- nine Medicines, made of English Herbs, not in any former Edition of Culpeper's British Herbal. Also a Complete Method of Physic, whereby Health may be preserved and Cures effected by Medicines of English Growth, the best adapted to English Constitutions. By Dr. PARKINS, of Gran- tham. With plain PLates, 4.- 6.1 boards; 5s. bound; or with the Plates coloured to Nature, 83. boards. The Third Edition, corrected and improved. BUILDER'S PRICE- BOOK. 14. THE BUILDER'S PRICE- BOOK, carefully corrected throughout to the present time; containing the present Value of all Kinds of Materials and Workmanship, with the Price of Labour separate. Also the various Acts and Duties; Directions for making Cements and Limes; Tables for measuring Timber and all kinds of Work; Method of constructing Ovens, and several useful Calcu lations relating to Building. By J. PHILLIPS; corrected by C. SURMAN, Surveyor: 4s. sewed. BUILDER'S CALCULATOR. 15. THE BUILDER'S ASSISTANT, and Complete Ready Reckoner; comprising a New System of Duodecimal Arithmetic, or Cross Multiplication; explained in so familiar a manner, that any person acquainted with the common Rules of Arithmetic may teach himself without assistance; every Example being worked at length. Also a variety of newly constructed Tables, shewing the Amount of any Number of Feet and Inches, Yards and Feet, and Rods and Feet, at any given Price. By THOMAS LOVELL, Building Surveyor, & c Huntingdon. Price 6s. *** This Work is intended not only for the easy calcu- lation of Artificers ; but for the Use of the Employer in checking their Accounts. LAW OF TITHES. 16. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF TITHING, in- tended not only for Professors of the Law, but for all Persons interested in Tithes; and illustrated by Re- ferences to the most leading and recent Tithe Cases. By F. PLOWDEN, Esq. Barrister. In a large Volume, royal 8vo. Price 18s. LAND STEWARD'S COMPANION. 17. THE LAND VALUER'S ASSISTANT; being Tables on an improved Plan for calculating the Value of Estates. By R. HUDSON A New Edition. To which are ad led, Tables for reducing Scotch, Irish, and Provincial Cus- tomary Acres to Statute Measure. Neat pocket size, Price 4s. half- bound. RURAL SPORTS. 18 A SUPPLEMENT TO THE RURAL SPORTS; by the REV. W. B. DANIEL; being the Third Volume of that Work. Comprising, among other Matter. Remarks upon, and Anecdotes of, the Fish, Beasts, and Birds, that at all interest or are searched after by the Sportsman. Printed uniform with the former Volumes, and embellished with a fine Portrait, and other Plates, by- Tomkins, Landseer, I & c. Imperial quarto, 41. Ms ( Id. extra boards; medium I drawing ditto, 31. 6s. ditto; demy quarto, 21.12s. 6d. ditto; I royal octavo, 21 2s. ditto. NERVOUS AFFECTIONS OR a disposition to be too easily susceptible of irregular and painful emotions, may be considered I as one of the greatest scourges to people of rank. The all- wise Creator of the Universe hath allotted to the nerves an office in the animal machine, which requires the greatest perfection in all their operations. They are, therefore, the most liable to be disordered, the most susceptible of alteration, and the most difficult to be rectified No wonder, then, that disorders in this delicate system should be so common and permanent, and that the variations of well and ill should so frequently happen. For Nervous Consumptions, lowness of spirits, inward decays, debility, or relaxation in either sex, whether here- ditary. or owing to youthful imprudencies, that renovating medicine the CORDIAL BALM OF G1LEAD stands unrivalled; as it not only invigorates the decayed juices, hut throws a genial warmth upon the debilitated and relaxed parts that stand in need of assistance. Sold by Swinborne and Walter, Colchester; Harris and Firmin, ditto; Keymer, ditto: Rose, ditto; Meggy and Chalk, Chelmsford; Guy, ditto; Kelham, ditto; Young- man, Witham and Maldon — Holroyd, Maldon: Smith, Braintree ; Seager, Harwich; Hardacre, Hadleigh; Hill, Ballingdon; and all the respectable Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom; in Bottes, price 11s. each, or four in one Family Bottle for 33s. by which one lis. bottle is saved, with the words " Saml. Solomon, Liverpool," engraven on the Stamp. Dr. Solomon expects, when consulted by letter, the usual compliment of a one pound note to be inclosed, ad- dressed, " Money Letter Dr. Solomon, Gilead- House, near Liverpool. Paid double postage." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ' FROM THE GERMAN AND FRENCH PAPERS. AUGSBURG, July 6 — By accounts from Rome, the English ship Abundance has happily arrived at Civita Vecchia with the second part of the works of art recovered from Paris, and embarked at Ant- werp. The Diario Romano embraces this oppor- tunity to extol the generosity of the English, which will be ever gratefully remembered by the Papal Government and by every Roman, in conveying back to their country the works of art by land and by water, free of all expence. BRUSSELS, July 16.— M. Fr. Jos. Hensch, of Aix- la- Chapelle, has just invented an extraordinary machine, unique in its kind, by means of which a single man is able to set at work, more or less actively, according to his pleasure, without water, fire, or wind, all kind of mills for grinding corn, fulling cloths, and washing them ; for polishing needles and sharpening them ; for spinning wool, cotton, 8tr. of six different sorts. This machine is very durable, requires but little repairing, and may be easily applied every where. FRANKFORT, June 27.— The incessant rains begin at last to injure the corn so, that it is in some places beginning to rot; the early fruit is watery, insipid, and Unwholesome. We must console ourselves for the bad weather in company with the finest country in Europe, Italy. We have letters from Bologna of a very late date; it is so cold there, that people wear double shirts, cloaks, and warm gloves. In the German General Advertiser is a proposal to prohibit the distillation of brandy from corn, till there shall be no reason to fear any want of bread and seed corn for the next year. The author af- firms, that in the greater part of Upper and Lower Saxony, the March, and Silesia, thai is, from the Baltic to Breslau, the greater pan Of the land sown with winter Corn has been obliged to be ploughed up, and that of the corn that remains standing scarcely the third part of a crop is to be expected, a truly unpleasant prospect, the superficial extent of those provinces being near 000 German ( or 12,000 English) square miles. STRALSUND, June 18.— To- day is the epoch of a great victory over the hydra of feudal aristocracy in our new Pomerania. It is well known that the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus IV. had abo- lished the vassalage of the peasants, and effaced every trace of it. After the dissolution of the German Empire, and the creation and extension of the Rhenish Confederation, the King of Sweden introduced the Swedish constitution into Pome- rania and Rugen. Thus the peasant, released from an unjust slavery, became a free Swede and a component part of the States of the kingdom. This Constitution soon had a beneficial influence. The hateful patrimonial jurisdictions vanished, and no vassal languished in the dungeon. The country became prosperous, and remained so even amidst the distresses of war, in spile of the quartering of troops, requisitions, occupations, and contributions. In the Treaty of Kiel, between Denmark and Sweden, the Constitution of Pomerania, similar to that of Sweden, was confirmed and solemnly guaranteed by England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia. A year afterwards'; when Prussia and Denmark ne- gociated the exchange of Swedish Pomerania, the maintenance of the Constitution was an essential condition. At the performance of the act of ho- mage, Frederick William the Just caused this to be solemnly announced to us by the Minister of State, V. Ingersleben. Yet an aristocratic union has arisen, which makes the most extravagant pre- tensions, and thinks to obtain by its insolence un- constitutional privileges. This union of the Nobles has presumed, among other things, to require the reintroduction of the vassalage of the peasants and of the patrimonial jurisdictions. They have, how- ever, been dismissed, once for all, with such pro- posals by a Royal Cabinet Order, which the Chancellor Prince Hardenburg has accompanied by a severe reprimand. We are happy in belong- ing to a State where such principles are sanctioned from the Throne.—( AlgemeineZeitung, July 10.) VIENNA, July 5. - On the 7th, her Royal High- ness the Princess of Wales arrived at Constantinople from Athens, on board an English merchantman, and landed at the Hotel of the British Ambassador. The object of her visit and the time of her stay are not known. CARLSRUHE, July 9.— A letter from Philips- burg of the 7th contains the. following passage :— " Last night our rest, which we so much needed, after many days incessant labour to keep the Rhine within its hounds, was disturbed in a distressing manner. The ringing of bells and the sound of cannon, as signals of distress, announced the dreaded breach of the dyke where the Saalbach falls into the Rhine. The dawn of day shewed a lake of many hundred acres, where the finest corn fields and meadows are destroyed by the flood. The distress of the inhabitants, who suffered so much last year by the quartering of troops and supplying the magazines, is very great. All the neighbouring districts suffer more or less from similar causes.—( Frankfort Gazette, July 12.) PARIS, July 16.— Private letters announce, that Savary and Lallemand have set out from Smyrna, on their way to Persia. The three prisoners condemned to death, con- fined in the Bicetre, are in three separate cells. They have each a turnkey, who remains within view of them. Every day they take the air for an hour in the large Court- yard of the prison. At these times for walking Tolleron shews much ease of mind, and even gaiety. He often says, " In losing life I lose nothing ; I leave nothing, not even a regret behind me." Pleignier takes very little food, and never speaks. He does not even answer when a question is put to him. Carbonneau has obtained permission to write, and is continually occupied. He seems resigned to his fate. All the advices from Germany, the Low Coun- tries, and Switzerland, agree in stating, that within the memory of man no season has been seen more deplorable than the present; while the letters from Petersburg, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, announce, that the weather has been very hot and dry, with- out interruption, in the North. CADIZ, June 29.— On the 25th instant, at a small distance front our port, four vessels, Coining from Vera Cruz and the Havannah to our mer- chants, were captured by two armed gallies bearing the flag of the independent provinces of Monte- Video, and which have- infested our seas for nearly two months. All that has been published by the English and French journals, as to the measures said to have been taken by our Government M destroy these pirates, is false : hitherto not a single armed vessel has been sent' against them. The four captured vessels had on board 400,000 dollars and colonial produce. This event has thrown con- sternation into all the commercial establishments of Andalusia. Those unfortunate colonists,; who were escaping from a country devoted to the horrors of anarchy, are thus stripped of the little Which they could carry with them at the moment' of setting foot on their native shore. The crews have been landed. NAPLES, July 1.— Some slight shocks of an earthquake have been felt in this neighbourhood, and new volcanoes seem to threaten us. That which has opened in the island of Tremiti occasions great fear. During the night of the 24th to the 25th ultimo the country was covered with a . sub- stance similar to flour of sulphur, and which smelt like it. This substance formed small brilliant flakes upon those bodies to which it attached itself. PARIS, July 18.— The embarking of the Russian troops for France gives considerable uneasiness to the French Government, though they endeavour to disguise that feeling, by stating that the number of those troops is small, and only intended to re- place a part of the army of occupation. The fart is, that the Russians have lately landed in France a considerable quantity of artillery and military stores, and have sent hither a great deal of cavalry by land. Their army, when last reviewed, con- sisted of 62,000 men. It is situated between the Belgian and Prussian armies, both of which have received reinforcements. The Duke of Wellington has ceased to have the supreme command ever since the 22d of May. The Russian troops, ge- nerally speaking, conduct themselves peaceably; their officers have special instructions on that head. In the mean time the French Government are making every exertion to strengthen their army, and to conciliate the military. Some of the hall- pay Officers have lately been paid up a part of their arrears. Lists have been made, out of such as may be deemed fit for employment on the first emergency. No means are neglected, as far as smiles, courtly words, and decorations will go, of securing the National Guard, on whom Government place their chief reliance for tranquillity in the interior. The state of the finances, however, obstructs every plan for the consolidation of Royal power. A fund' of three million had been formed for the liquidation of some old claims upon the Royal Family; but the Prussian Government having made a very urgent demand for payments in arrears, this fund was diverted from its intended purpose to appease that Power. The revenues come in slowly; 111 addition to other causes', the collectors being all newly appointed men, and unacquainted with the peculiar circumstances of their districts, exercise their functions oppressively to the people and un- profitably to Government. Many changes ate spoken of as in contemplation, but the Court will probably Venture on none until the return of the Duke of Wellington, on whose journey the atten- tion of Government, as well as that of the people, is anxiously fixed. PARIS, July 20.— We continue to receive the most melancholy news from Germany 011 the extra- ordinary weather, which afflicts nearly the whole of Europe. The excessive abundance of rain has caused disasters almost every where. In Saxony, the Grand Duchy of Wurtzburg, and in the fertile vallies of the Rhoengeber, there is no longer any hope for agriculture. The shows of winter still cover the mountains. In Switzerland the Birs and Birsig have broken their dykes, carried away their bridges, and inundated the country. The Canton of Basle has sustained dreadful injury. In the plains the corn and the potatoes are under water. The elevated grounds only afford some hope. This calamity appears almost general; all travellers as- sert that it is experienced in Turkey, Hungary' Italy, Germany, and throughout ail the East of' Europe. Afflicting accounts have reached us from Bur- gundy ; all the fine plain of the Saone is covered with water. Letters from Chancey state, that such a quantity of rain had fallen in the environs of that town, that the rivers on which timber is floated have risen so high that twenty- two rafts passed over a bridge on one of these rivers. The greater part of these rafts sustained more or less damage. NAPLES, July 6.— News from the Calabrias announce that order and tranquillity are re- esta- blishing there every day. The civil guards are every where on foot, and shew an indefatigable zeal in the pursuit of the robbers. The most terrible of these monsters is surnamed Becamorte; his strength is prodigious, and the people regard hint as our anthropophagus. It is said that he drinks the blood of the animals he kills. This robber began by making war in Sicilly : he was taken by the Barbarians, and engaged to serve them in their expeditions. He has been returned eight months from the Isle of Liparos, where he put the whole country under contribution, without being- arrested; his name alone inspired dread. Five of h: s accom- plices were taken with him, and the tribunals will soon deliver society from such monsters. SAXONY, July 11.— For these live weeks past the Elster and the Pleisse have overflowed their banks near Leipsic, and have done immense da- mage to the fields arid meadows. In many places, the extent of the land inundated is three- quarters of a league broad. A large number of sea- mews, and other water fowl, have made their appearance: hares and deer were Seen swimming on the flood. The Elbe, the Mulda, and the Saale, have also done much damage in Saxony. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES OF SATURDAY AND TUESDAY. BANKRUPTS. John Thompson, Broad- street- buildings, London, mer chant, July ' 23, August 3, 31, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Noy and Hardstone, Mincing- Jane. George Taylor and George Jarman, Fenchurch- street, London, sail cloth merchants, July 30, August 6, 31, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Swaine, Stevens, Maples, and Pearce, Frederick's Place, Old Jewry. John Shutt, Paternoster- row, London, tea- dealer, July ' 33,36, August 31, at Guildhall Attornies, Messrs. Pow- nall and Fairthorne, Copthall- court, Throgmorton- street. George Dawson, Red- Cross- square, Cripplegate, Lon- don, merchant, July 23, August 3, 31, at Guildhall. At- torney, Mr Allingham, St. John's- square. John Armstrong, Addle- street, Alderman bury. dealer, July 23, August 3, 31, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs.. Chapman, Stevens, and Wood, Little St. Thomas Apostle, Queen- street. James Cradocke, Downing- street, Westminster, picture dealer, July 30, August 6,31, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Rig by, Golden square. LONDON. The French Government continues to give fresh indications of its design, which now - appears a fixed and regular system, to revive its military establishment. The additions making to the troops of the line are constant and considerable, and the last accounts from the northern frontiers notice the augmentations that are to take place in the Cavalry department, particularly the cuirassiers and lancers. A private letter from Munich, dated July 12, says: —" Prince Eugene Beauharnois scarcely ever quits his country- house, near this town. He has • lately had the pleasure of receiving his sister, the Queen Hortensia. The rumour of a re- union at Carlsbad of the Sovereign Princes, subscribers to the Treaty of the Holy Alliance, is renewed, and it is assured, that our Sovereign, the King of Bavaria, has received an invitation to meet them there. The Emperors of Russia and Austria are expected at Carlsbad before the end of the month." Letters of the 17th ult. from Gibraltar, inform us that the Dutch Admiral, Baron Capellen, had just returned thither from Algiers with his squa- dron. He was in the Bay of Algiers several days, reconnoitering the fortress, and endeavouring to induce some Algerine ships to come out from their batteries to fight him. A tremendous fire was opened upon him, and kept up for almost two days, without doing the least, injury, although a vast number of shells went over his ships. Some of his boats were manned to cut out, during the night, an Algerine brig; when about forty or fifty gun- boats, armed with long thirty- six and twenty- tour- pounders, filed out of the harbour, came to her protection, and exhausted all their ammunition in the wildest manner, without occasioning to the Dutch any loss whatsoever. The Admiral, we learn, has since been reinforced at Gibraltar by the Amstel, a fine frigate, and is waiting for the arrival of two line- of- battle ships and a frigate from Hol- land. He is, however, most likely soon to sail again, to compel the Algerines to remain at home or to fight him at sea. One of his frigates sprung a leak, but he has now again four fine frigates and a sloop fit for service. American Papers, received on Monday to the 25th ult. mention that the United States squadron in the Mediterranean has terminated a second suc- cessful expedition against the Dey of Algiers.— This event appears to have taken place about the middle of April, and was rendered necessary by an open threat of the pirates to recommence hostili- ties, unless a brig, stipulated in the late treaty to be returned, and which it appears had been seized by the Spaniards, was given up. Commodore Shaw immediately sailed to Algiers with the whole of his squadron, and a number of fire- ships, with a determination to bombard the town and destroy the fleet. The Dey, however, sued for peace which was granted on the required conditions Consular notices were stuck up at Gibraltar before Captain Summers, who brought the intelligence to New York, sailed, stating that it was again safe for the American trade to proceed up the Mediter- ranean. If the Dey was really alarmed at the threatened attack of a few American frigates, his terror at the approach of a British armament, expressly equipped for the destruction of his for tresses and naval power, may be easily anticipated The feast of the Prince of the Apostles was re- cently celebrated at Rome, in the Vatican, with the greatest pomp. A papal chapel was held, and among those who officiated were all the Members of the Sacred College, the most distinguished Pre- lates, and the Chiefs of the different Orders. The Kings and Foreign Princes who are at Rome were present on this occasion, together with the Mem- bers of the Diplomatic Body, and an immense con- course of English and Germans. The people are highly delighted in the revival of their religious solemnities and public amusements. The Holy Father recently presented the young Prince of Etruria with a precious relic of St. James. Masonic lodges are still rigorously prohibited at Rome, and notice has been given to foreigners, that the Go- vernment will, upon no pretence, tolerate clubs celebrating festivals or rites forbidden by papal edicts and the canons of the church. The foreign missions have sent several young clergymen into Africa. The negociations respecting the Duchy of Lauen- burg are terminated, and that territory is defini- tively annexed to the Crown of Denmark. It is said that the reigning Prince of Cobourg is about to visit this country. The King of the Two Sicilies has forbidden the introduction of Sicilian newspapers into Naples; from which we may infer that the occupation of Sicily by the British, and the endeavours of Lord William Bentinck to give that island the benefit of a free constitution, have really produced good effects respecting the liberty of the press. We learn by letters from Jamaica, of the 19th of May, that a great sensation had been excited by the news received from the contiguous Main, of the defeat of the Spanish army under Generals Morillo and Moraks, the rapid progress of the Indepen- dents, and the consequent prospect held out of an important branch of commerce being restored, of which the island has been deprived. It appears tint General Morillo, soon after the fall of Cartha- g na, detached General Morales with 4,000 men to make head against the Venezuela patriots, col- lecting under Urdaneter,' and he himself marched on towards Santa Fe. Being however, informed that the progress of the revolution in Venezuela was so great, that his late labours were likely to be lost; and, on the other hand, seeing the difficulty of carrying his troops into the interior of New Gra- nada without provisions and any point d'appui, whilst an active enemy was in his rear, Morillo thought it most advisable to attend to the pressure of the moment, and joined Morales from Mompoz. They met the Independents near Ocana, iy the pro- vince of Santa Martha, situated on the Rio Oro, flowing into the Madalena, which the Spaniards had ascended, where they were completely routed by Generals Urdaneter and Torrices. A large por- tion of Morillo's troops deserted, being Creoles forced into the Royalist service and dragged from their homes. Morillo retreated to his boats to re- turn to Mompoz, and it is supposed the Inde pendents inarched direct on Santa Martha. It is stated, that in the beginning of last month, several row- boats, manned by Royalists, landed on the little Island of pato, near the northern Bocas, in the entrance into the Gulph of Paria, and which belongs to England, and robbed, plundered, and murdered a great part of the inhabitants, on the charge of being Patriots. Among other refine- ments of the high- minded, dignified, and generous Spaniards, in their treatment of these unfortunate people, they are represented as having put seven of them to death by crucifixion, and by other means destroyed all that fell into their hands ! By the Araxes, which left Jamaica on the 15th 1 of June, we learn, that the United States frigate Macedonian had arrived off Santa Martha with a Commissioner on board, who had demanded the American citizens in confinement to be delivered up. The Governor answered, that it would be ne- cessary for the Commissioner to go to Carthagena, to make known his demand to the Chief Authority there ; but he and the American Captain reiterated their demand, adding, that if not instantly com- plied with, they would cruize off the coast and make reprisals. According to the last accounts received at Jamaica, the Macedonian was still cruizing off Santa Martha. Accounts from Madrid indicate much alarm on the part, of the Spanish Government for their settle- ments in South America. The late events in France have thrown several military refugess of considerable experience and talents into South America. The Patriots will therefore now have leaders in abundance, and there is for them every chance of ultimate success.—' The Paris Papers state, under the head of Cadiz, that the Monte- Vi- deans have sent out cruizers to capture the homeward bound Spanish merchant vessels from the Havan- nah and Vera Cruz. These cruizers have boldly approached the shores of Old Spain, and have made some rich captures. Letters from Barbadoes of the 18th ult. contain some interesting details respecting the war in South America. On both sides the war has as- sumed the most horrid character.— Extermination seems to be the ruling aim of both Royalists and Independents; and if the struggle be long continued, not a white man will be left in the Southern Con- tinent to contend for dominion. The following account of a commercial fraud is given in the American papers, dated Savannah, June 8:—" Again we have to blush for the cha- racter of Georgia. A respectable mercantile house in this place has shown us an account of sales of sixty- six bales of Upland Cotton, sold in Liverpool, by which it appears that- 3108 pounds of stones, dirty and damaged Cotton, and other rubbish, were found in the sixty- six bales, packed in their centre. What a shameful imposition! The wretch who could be guilty of it deserves the gibbet or the gallows. We are assured that proper steps will be taken to bring to punishment the swindlers. Let an example be made, and we shall hear no more of such base transactions." On the 11th of May, a youth of eighteen years of age, of the Greek nation, died an heroic death at Constantinople. This youth, who lived at Cu- rutschesme, on the channel of Constantinople, had at an unfortunate moment gone over. to the Maho- metan religion, but soon repented of his step, and returned into the pale of the old Greek Church. He was summoned before the Grand Vizier, who upbraided him with religious perjury. On his re- plying that he was born a Christian and resolved so to die, he was conducted to the Istambol Effendi ( Judge of Constantinople), to be again instructed by him in the Mahometan religion, but he declined being instructed, and even went so far as to advise the Judge to turn Christian himself; he was upon this beheaded. Letters of the 11th of June from Constantinople state, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales arrived in that city on the 6th of that month. She took up her abode at the British Palace till a house at Buyukdere was fitted up for her reception. On the 9th were presented to the Princess all the foreign Ministers, and the same evening the British factory. About eight o'clock on Saturday morning, Capt. J. K. Whyte, of the Peruvian sloop of war, arrived in town with dispatches from St. Helena. The Captain brought dispatches to the Secretary of State's Office for the Colonial Department, and the Admiralty. Earl Bathurst not being in London, the Captain proceeded to the Noble Earl, at his country house at Putney. The contents of the dispatches were considered of so much importance, that circulars were sent round to all the Cabinet Ministers with the contents. The Peruvian sailed from St. Helena on the 6th of last month. Bona- parte was in good health; but, as a party of dra- goons had been brought from the Cape for guard duty, and they attended him in his exercises abroad, his sulkiness and discontent had greatly increased. Almost every set of papers which arrives" contain statements of new outrages oil the part of the Bar- bary pirates. The spirit of hostility against the Christian residents on the African shores of the Mediterranean spreads most alarmingly. There has been a barbarous display of this spirit at Cairo, where the daughter of the Swedish Resident has been assassinated by a party of Turkish soldiers in open day. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.— Monday was the day appointed for the marriage of the Princess Mary with the of Gloucester. The marriage had been delayed chiefly on account of the absence of the Duke of Cambridge. The day was not finally fixed till the preceding Wednesday, and on Friday the cards of invitation were issued from the Office of the Lord Chamberlain. The persons invited were the same as were present at the marriage of the Princess Charlotte, with a very few exceptions, They consisted, in addition to the Royal Family, of the Duke and Duchess d'Orleans, the Duchess's sister, the Duke de Bourbon, with other foreigners of distinction, the Foreign Ambassadors and Mi- nisters with their Ladies, the Lord Chancellor, with the Cabinet Ministers and their Ladies, the Deputy Earl Marshal of England, the Great Officers of State and of the Household, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the Master of the Rolls, and other Law Officers; the Duke of York's Staff; the King's, Queen's, and Windsor Establishments, together with the different suites of the different branches of the Royal Family. These were in- vited to the solemnization of the marriage.— The grand saloon of the Queen's Palace was the place fitted up for the performance of the nuptial cere- mony, where a temporary altar was erected. At twelve o'clock on Monday the Duke of Gloucester paid a morning visit to his intended bride, who was at the Queen's Palace with her Royal Mother and her sisters the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth. The Duke returned to Gloucester- House, where he dined privately at five o'clock. At seven in the evening a guard of ho- nour marched into the court- yard of the Queen's Palace, and a party of Life and Foot Guards were stationed in the Park, under the proper authority of a numerous Police. The company began to ar- rive soon afterwards. The Palace was brilliantly illuminated, and the grand staircase had all the State arrangements usual on drawing- room days The Grand Hall was lined with a party of the Yeomen of the Guards. The Royal Family, on their entrance, were received with the usual mili- tary honours, the band playing " God save the King." The Princess Sophia of Gloucester went in State, with her servants in new liveries. At twenty minutes past eight the Duke of Gloucester arrived in State with his suite in two carriages. He was dressed in the uniform of a Field Marshal, and wore the Order of the Garter. At the entrance of the Palace, the Officers of the Regent's House- hold waited to receive him. The Duke and Duchess of York followed immediately. At half past eight the Prince Regent, arrived, accompanied by the Duke of Clarence. At a quarter before nine Prince Leopold arrived with his suite ; and soon after- wards the marriage ceremony began. The Foreign Ambassadors with their Ladies en- tered the saloon first, then followed the Cabinet Ministers and their Ladies, and proceeded to the right. The Great Officers of State, and those of the Royal Households, went to the left. The Queen took her station to the left of the altar, where was a State chair placed for her; the Prin- cesses Augusta and Elizabeth, the Duchess of York, Princess Sophia of Gloucester, were on her left, and their female attendants after them ; while the Prince Regent was on the right side of the altar, and his Royal Brothers near him. Every thing being arranged, the Lord Chamberlain in- troduced the Duke of Gloucester, and presented him at the altar. He then, with the Duke of Cambridge, introduced the Princess Mary; and the Royal Duke presented her to the Prince Regent, who gave her away in marriage to the Duke of Gloucester. Her Royal Highness wore no feathers, but a bandeau of white roses fastened together by light sprigs of pearls. Her neck was ornamented with a brilliant fringe necklace; her arms with bracelets of brilliants formed into flowers, and her waist with a girdle to correspond with her bandeau. The ladies present were most splendidly dressed. The formal document of the Royal Assent, signed with the Great Seal, being shewn to the Archbishop of Canterbury, that Prelate, assisted by the Bishop of London, proceeded to perforin the solemn ce- remony. At about a quarter past nine the guns fired a signal that the marriage was concluded ; and the Princess Mary '' retired with her husband and the rest of the Royal Family to the private apartments of the Queen. In the mean time a profusion of choice refreshments was served to the company among whom the Queen soon re- appeared, with most of her family, to receive their congratulations At a quarter before ten, the bride having changed her dress, the new- married pair drove off to Bagshot, amidst the huzzas of an immense multitude; the baud meanwhile playing " God save the King." It is stated that the Royal Couple have declined countenancing any application to Parliament for a marriage- dower to the Princess, the Duke of Gloucester declaring that he thought his own in- come, with that of the Princess his spouse, was sufficient for their joint support with a degree of splendour appropriate to their rank. It was hoped, that the indisposition of the Prin- cess Charlotte of Wales would not have been sufficient to prevent the attendance of her Royal Highness at the marriage ceremony on Monday evening ; but it is observed, that her Royal High- ness avoids company, for the present, so carefully that, when the Princess Mary went necessarily to pay a visit of taking leave, the Queen and the other Princesses did not accompany her Royal Highnes: to Camelford House; nor has the Prince Regent been there lately. On Tuesday morning, the foundation of a pe- destal for a grand statue of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, was laid in the Parade in St. James Park. It is to stand about ten feet distant from the iron railing in front of the Canal, facing the Horse Guards. A number of French persons of distinction have arrived in the course of last week in London, viz. Madame la Comtesse de Vaudreuil, Counts de la Ferronaye, and Coigny ( brother- in- law and Aide- de- Camp of General Sebastiani), the Due de Fitz- james, and Count d'Osmond ( son of the French Ambassador here), Aide- de- Camp to the Duke d'Angouleme. All these personages are of the Ultra- Royalists' party. The Araxes, of 36 guns, Captain G. M. Bligh arrived on Saturday afternoon at Portsmouth, from the Jamaica station. She brings an account of the following melancholy catastrophe: — It appears that about eight o'clock on Thursday night, the 11th ult. some young gentlemen and seamen be- longing to the men of war, and some black and coloured people of the town of Port Royal, had misunderstanding which came to blows, and throw- ing of bricks, kc.; when the Hon. John Calthorpe second Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Junon passing that way, while endeavouring to persuade the men of war's people to go on board their vessels received a dreadful blow on the back part of the head from a brick, thrown by one of the opposite party, which felled him senseless to the ground he was raised up by some seamen, and taken on board his ship, but the wound was found to be mortal; and he was afterwards conveyed to the Hospital, at Port Royal, where he languished until about eight o'clock the next morning.— The de- ceased was brother of the Right Hon. Lord Cal- thorpe, and first cousin to Mr. Wilberforce. At Bow- street Office, on Friday, Mr. Nares and Mr. Birnie were occupied the whole of the day in investigating the nefarious conspiracy to encourage men to commit offences. The persons under exa- mination were W. Drake and G. Browne. Drake confessed that he had seen Mackay, Benjamin Johnson, the prisoner G. Browne, and G. Hubbard, in company with several of the patrole. They were all in possession of a great many counterfeit Bank of England tokens, which he understood they had pur- chased of some irishmen of the names of Ryan, Shea, and others. They paid for the purchase of 3s. counterfeit tokens at the rate of Is. 3d. each ; those of a better sort they paid far at the rate of Is. 6d. Hubbard's practice was to pick up persons whom he met in the streets, engage them to carry small parcels, which were made up for the particu- lar purpose, and whose contents were scarcely of any value. When the persons had carried the parcel the distance so as to answer his purpose, he would give them a counterfeit 3s. token, desiring them to get themselves something to eat and drink with it, at the same time contriving to drop some counter- feit tokens into their pockets. This circumstance of having other counterfeit tokens found upon them makes the offence doubly heinous to that of utter- ing. While Hubbard was pursuing these wicked practices, by seducing innocent persons who were willing to earn a shilling by carrying the parcels, Johnson, Mackay, and Browne were following them, in league with Hubbard; and when the poor fellows tendered the counterfeit tokens, they then appeared, and pretended to discover that the tokens so paid were counterfeits, and that they uttered them know- ing them to be such. They then searched them, and finding ethers upon them of a similar manufac- ture, secured them, and made a communication to the Bank of the discoveries, and the conclusion was, that they were connected with coiners. They had sometimes putas many as six counterfeit tokens into the innocent people's pockets. Drake stated, that he frequently heard them relate their diaboli- cal adventures. Their general place of rendezvous was at a public- house, kept by Mr. Callows, called the White Hart,. the corner of Old- street and Bun- hill- row. Hubbard used to be extremely merry in relating his atrocious pursuits. Although they pursued the infamous practices of prosecuting inno- cent persons for uttering counterfeit bank- tokens, they also pursued, detected, and prosecuted guilty utterers. Some of Hubbard's companions in these transactions, when they could not meet with any persons of this description to accomplish their pur- pose, used to go out thieving with liubb^ rd. After they had convicted people, and had received their reward from the agents of the Bank, they used to meet at a public- house, in Coleman- street, to divide the produce between Johnson, Mackay, Browne, and Hubbard, these men being generally engaged together. Drake stated himself to have been pre- sent when these transactions were going on in the public- houses. Hubbard, in general, had a larger proportion for his share, for his ingenuity in pro- curing the people to commit the offence of uttering. The Irishmen, of whom they bought the counterfeit Bank- tokens, were admitted to share with them what they got from the Bank. The crimination and recrimination of these infa- mous characters is such, that they cannot be be- lieved, except corroborated by circumstances and witnesses. The Magistrates, therefore, have pro- cured respectable witnesses in confirmation of their narratives.— They were re- committed. The greatest activity is employed by ' he Magis- trates of Bow- street to effect the most ample disco- veries on the subject of the late horrible conspiracies, Drake and Mackay are in the House of Correction; and Browne in Tothill- fields Prison. — Vaughan, who has absconded, is said to have drawn 5001 from the Bank, which he had deposited there, the savings of this infamous traffic. Some of the party mentioned above, had no other means of living, for years, but what they received for blood- mouey.— Read and Limerick, the two officers who were the means of unravelling this plot, have been actively employed, day and night, ever since, in following every clue that might lead to its full development. They have received the thanks of all the Magistrates, and are entitled to the thanks of the public at large. The case, when properly investigated, will be laid before the Secretary of State for the Home Depart- ment. MANSIOX- HOUSE.— On Monday Daniel Barry, sen. Daniel Barry, jun. John Pelham, and Thomas Brock, were put to the bar for the first time, and publicly examined, charged as participes criminis, in high treason, by coining base money to resemble the coin of the realm, and with conspiring to pro- cure the conviction of innocent men for a like offence. At the former examinations of these per- sons, which were of a private nature, they entered into full voluntary confessions of their guilt, with- out, however, receiving any promise of escape from the law, or any compromise whatever. The only evidence produced on the present occasion, was that of a man named Langan, an Irishman, from, whom the prisoners Pelham and the younger Barry- had taken an empty room; and a publican of the name of Collins, who deposed to the parties occa- sionally meeting at his house.— The Lord Mayor observed to the prisoners, that although he was fur nished with sufficient evidence of their guilty prac- tices to remand them, there was still a necessary link wanted, of which he would take time to consi- der, before he would finally commit them for trial. His Lordship took this occasion also to remark, that certain insinuations had gone abroad, and had been widely disseminated in the public papers, that some or all of the prisoners were police officers of the City. This idea was the more generally credited, in consequence of a statement being made that the regular police officers received a salary of but three shillings per day. Both of these circumstances, however, were equally unfounded, not one of the prisoners being connected with the police esta- blishment, of the City as sworn officers. The salary of the regular officers, also, was such as to afford them sufficient means to keep them from resorting to such infamous practices as those to which the pri- soners had recourse.— The prisoners were then re- manded for a week. About fifty years ago something on the plan of the present diabolical system of conspiracy was practised in London, on which occasion two of the wretches were hanged for it. One of the artifices which they employed on that occasion, was to pre- vail upon some innocent man to hold a bundle or a horse, or some other property, recently stolen, and to have him immediately apprehended as the real offender. Another practice, about the same time was, for two or three of the villains to go a mile or two from the metropolis, and charge any poor man they happened to meet, with a robbery, and, by a concerted plan, there appeared on the trial no doubt of the unfortunate man's guilt; for as the wretches were conveying the victim to prison, they always put into his pocket such articles as their accom- plices swore to have been robbed of. of the property tax. Hence the. reported dissolution appears at variance with the usual objects which such a measure embraces, Viz. to strengthen the power of the Executive. In the history of our own times we can remember some striking instances of this kind, When by a change of men it was essential to remove from the Govern- ment boroughs the partizans of the Ex- Minister ;. and when to this could be added some popular cry, as " No Popery," the new Government, however ridi- culous the clamour, did not fail to reap considerable accession from the expedient. But in the case before us, the Government boroughs are all held as the present Ministers disposed of them. Those who would not support a property tax accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, to make way for less squeamish Representatives; and the Treasury list remains as perfect and formidable as at the first day of the first sessions of the Parliament. No possible hopes of in- crease of strength can therefore be derived but from the open boroughs, and there, if our observations are correct, but little can be gained; while distress pre- vails, the pressure of which must keep alive the re- membrance of the still greater pressure which was intended for them. Still we are told the Parliament is to be dissolved; and we are to search for some probable cause, in opposition to ministerial policy and ministerial practice. No others present them- selves than a determination to attempt some revival of the vanquished enemy— some extension of esta- blishment— some extension of exper. ee ; Which as they know the present Parliament would not sanction, they have no other hopes of accomplishing than by a change of men, and the possible, although we hope obscure, chance of change of sentiments. The distressed situation of the French finances gives rise to the belief that that Government has de- clared its inability to continue its stipulated payments; to which is annexed a report, that the Emperor of Russia has replied, the troops must be withdrawn, or England must pay them. It is very evident that the men who determined certain parts of the original military estimates extra- vagant and unnecessary, would not, in the following sessions, and during peace, be so ridiculous and un- steady as to vote for larger military supplies than were at the former time demanded ; and thus Minis- ters, should they resolve on the Emperor's second expedient, would have no prospect of success, utiles* from a new Parliament. Whatever is the reason, should" such an event take place, it behoves us to be both mindful of the past, and careful of the future. We shall have the power, and if we hereafter complain, we shall deserve the contempt of having wantonly thrown away the mo- ment for relieving ourselves, and trusting to chance that which, by a circumspect use of our own au- thority, we could have commanded. We mean by these sentiments no adherence to the indefatigable industry of what we have deemed faction. We can admit, without the blush of sycophancy, great merit in the conductors of the late war. But while we applaud their heroic perseverance in a contest unexampled in magnitude and danger, and gratefully thank them for the preservation of our liberties, we regard the public as the physical power which has. triumphed; and that it is entitled to every considera- tion and relief, under the exhaustion which its un- precedented devotion has occasioned. It is no longer possible to disguise the distresses of the country; and every demand made is another step towards the ruin of numbers of the community.— With such lamentable facts speaking every where, is it not a paramount duty of not only Ministers, but Prince, to lessen as far as possible every expenditure ? Mas that been done? we ask the most IN atuated of the universal panegyrists. Do we not see a list of extravagant items— charges on the public purse, which are neither necessary nor useful ? and although the particular expenditure is not under the controul of Parliament, they are the only guardians to whom we can appeal to prevent the repetition of such ill- judged waste, such unreasonable burthens on our finances. We as for repose— we ask for a' frugal use of our means, that the sources whence they flow may have time to regain their accustomed level, and that we may hereafter be in a situation - to defend ourselves should we be menaced by either foreign or internal danger. THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE. The reports of a dissolution of Parliament have derived some probability from the active canvass of some of the Members of Administration. As it ap- pears an extraordinary event, under the existing cir- cumstances of the country, at the end of a fourth sessions only, we naturally look further than external appearances for the object which it has in view, and for the motives which occasion it. The records of the last sessions afford a powerful proof of the beauty strength, and purity of our Constitution. We saw- number of patriots, many of whom were, by the side of the Executive Government, aiding every measure while the country was in danger, faithfully attach themselves, when that danger was past, to the wishes and the interest of the people. A measure, hateful not only from its pressure, but from the disgusting power which it established, was abandoned ; and the voice of independence often prevailed against the authority and influence, and in opposition to the arrangement of Ministers. But although in some points foiled, the general business of the sessions was carried by large majorities, and the Parliament se- parated without the appearance of any permanent deficiency of number on the ministerial benches. When any particular measure has been tenaciously adhered to by the Government, in hostility to the petitions of the people, and which the Voice of Par- liament has ultimately condemned, there naturally arises among the public, together with their admira- tion of the independence which made them successful, some displeasure at their opponents; and perhaps that feeling was never more felt than at the downfall Lord Exmouth, taking advantage of the favour- able shifting of the wind, sailed with his squadron on Wednesday afternoon. It is, however, appre- hended that his Lordship has been since forced to return, in consequence of the wind having after- wards got round to its old quarter. An immediate reduction of the army, to the amount of ten thousand men, is said to be deter- mined on by Ministers. Private communications give a melancholy ac- count of the state of trade in France. The stag- nation continues to pervade every quarter, every province, every town. Colonial produce is in little demand ; cottons have fallen in puce, and coffees are in no request. It is very generally understood, that, a consider- able difficulty has arisen among the Allies, in con- sequence of the exhausted slate of the trench treasury. It is said, that the French Government has given in a formal declaration, stating the im- possibility of France to continue in future to sup- port the Allied Armies, owing to the immense failure in the direct contributions, and the impo- verished state of the countries. It is confidently, supposed that the Duke of Wellington's visit is partly connected with this point, which has pro- duced no little dismay at the Treasury. The Sovereign of Nepaul, with whom Lord Moira entered into a treaty, died before it hud been rati- fied, and was succeeded by his brother.— The bro- ther is described to be strongly attached to the Mahrattas. As soon as he ascended the Musnud, he refused to ratify the treaty, and entered into a correspondence with Scindia and the Berar Rajah,- both of whom, it is, said, have manifested hostile dispositions towards us. The following is from a French paper:—" A new Commercial Nation has arisen in the Sand-, wich Islands, the whole of which have become subject to one Chief, possessed of great talents, speaking the English language, and conforming to English manners. He has taken into his service a great number of English and American sailors, and has procured from the latter some vessels, on the model of which he is constructing others, and form- ing a marine. This Prince carries on a lucrative commerce with China, which, together with his commercial relations with the English and Ame- ricans, have produced to his country great wealth and abundance." Every arrival from the Continent furnishes us with the most afflicting accounts of the effects of the same unseasonable weather which we have for some time experienced;- Throughout the Nether- lands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and most parts of France, the season has been the most unfavour- able ever known. In almost every part of Europe, except England, the horrors of extensive inunda- tion have been experienced, while malignant epi- demics are apprehended as their natural conse- quence; and the dread of famine, from the devas- tations already committed on the growing crops, f prevails in a very - great degree. UtlCU vhich io\ v'tr nibcr lange vcru- (. and ry, as • ridi- irabie Sefore 3 the sho 1 the imish • IS as s first Dt' in- front is are i pre- le i t- was incut some > olicy hcin- vival csta- ! i, as ition, py a hope inces s de- en t Sj or of ii, or Incd 11 ra- ving Ull- tliaii jnis- : ond ilesi take last, wir, the 1110 ItlCC au- the ion. reat inle test uily wu has. rra- un- s of ite[> ?, is but re ? 1 of of rsc, Igh oui we fed > u r rve we « •, lal ir- ou e- to ir-' ie r- c- g- < J le IS r- i- : h It 1- I- ie (- y The French papers to the 19th instant contain many distressing accounts of the unpropitious state of the season, and of the bad prospects of the harvest and vintage, insomuch that the Clergy of Paris had directed public prayers to be put up for more favourable weather. There appears to have been a much greater sensation caused in that capital by the silly report of the end of the world, than here. The incessant rains have caused inundations in various parts of Switzerland. Last week the Rhine at Basle was covered with the rafters and other " timbers of the houses carried away. By the rise of the Aar various destructive inundations have been caused. A part of the Frickthal has suffered remarkable devastations. In the canton of Scaf- hausen the water destroyed the vineyards. The fine valley of the Emne has suffered much ; an astonishing stream of water, extending to the gates of Landeron, seems as if it would unite the lakes of Morat and Neufchatel. In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, it was held, that a promise to accept a bill, in writing, is equivalent to an actual acceptance. In the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, an action of C'rim. Con. was tried, Wright v. Braham. The plaintiff is Purser of an East Indiaman ; the defendant well known from the reputation he lias gained in his public profession.— The fact of the defendant having cohabited with the wife of the plaintiff, during the absence of the latter on a voyage, being proved by several witnesses, the Jury delivered a verdict in his favour — Damages one thousand pounds. A Jew of the name of Bredermann died lately at Pest, who left property of eight millions of florins, which he acquired chiefly by contracts twenty years ago ; he went from house to house with a bun- dle at his back. He offered a physician at Vienna, Dr. Frank, half a million to prolong his life, but the inflammation in his bowels could not be stopped. A melancholy instance of suicide occurred last week at Llandebie. A young man, a weaver, had paid his addresses to a farmer's daughter, but, conceiving that she preferred another, an alter- nation ensued between them; he pressed her to accept a silk handkerchief as a parting remem- - brance, which she steadily refused ; and, on going' to milk the cows on Tuesday morning, she dis- covered him hanging on a willow tree, suspended by the handkerchief he had before wished her to receive from him. In Glasgow, one day last week; says a Scotch paper, a boy was observed to steal a loaf of bread, and followed home. On entering the house, he and several other children, his brothers and sisters, were seen eagerly devouring it, while the mother was lying dead in the bed. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.— By sonic unfortunate circumstance, the powder- mills on Hounslow Heath blew up with a most dreadful explosion, on Tuesday evening. One man, of the name of Nicholas Co- ninghamwell, was killed, and several others most desperately wounded. EATON THE PEDESTRIAN.— Saturday afternoon, about twenty minutes past three o'clock, this ex- traordinary man, after braving every difficulty, overcoming all fatigue, and escaping even some plans lately laid to produce accident and prevent the accomplishment of his undertaking, completed his unequalled task of walking eleven hundred miles in eleven hundred hours, upon Black heath. The crowd that had assembled to witness his last day's performance was great beyond precedent, and the pedestrian himself never appeared in better spirits or more vigour. At the conclusion of his per- formance the air rung with acclamations, and after partaking of some refreshment, Eaton, to please the multitudinous assembly of all classes, and to convince them of his undiminished powers, again walked over his mile course; and at length, after expressing his obligations to the public, retired to the Hare and Billet public- house, where he betook himself to that rest of which he had been so long deprived. COLCHESTER, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1816. The rumour of a general election having been in creased by the canvass which has taken place for the University of Cambridge, we insert a copy of Lord Palmerston's second letter to the Electors of that University ; from which it will be seen that his Lordship has no idea of the dissolution of Parlia- ment, except as an event comparatively distant :- Stanhope- street, July 13, 1810. SIR— Having learnt that an extensive canvass lias for some rime past been carried on among the Members of the University of Cambridge with a view 10 the next Gene- rat Election, I am apprehensive that my intentions might be liable to misinterpretation, or that I might be deemed wanting in proper respect towards the University, if I were any longer to delay expressing my anxious hope that the confidence with which they have been pleased to ho- nour me. may not he withdrawn, and that I may continue to enjoy the high distinction of being one of their Repre- sentatives in Parliament. However premature, therefore, it might, under other cir- cumstances, appear, thus to anticipate an event compara- tively distant, I trust you will allow me most earnestly to solicit the honour of your vote and interest at the next General Election.— I have the honour to be, Sir, your moat obedient and very humble servant, PALMERSTON Chelmsford Races, this week, by no means af- forded so much sport as there was reason to expect. The Queen's Guineas, on Tuesday, were obtained by the. Duke of Grafton's filly, Minuet, without competition; and the same day, ahorse belong- ving to his Grace carried off the Sweepstakes in one heat. A second Sweepstakes was intended to be run for, hut the subscription was not filled.— On Wednesday, the Gold Cup, valued at one hundred guineas, was won by Mr. Farrall's Blackamoor; and the Town Plate, value seventy pounds, by Mr. Rash's Scrapeall; each in two well- contested heats. ' I he Sweepstakes were the prize of Mr. Blake's filly.— On Thursday the customary time of the horses' starting was protracted by a very heavy shower of rain, which continued for an hour. When it . had subsided, four horses started for a Sweep- stakes of fifty guineas, in one heat, Mr. Farrall's Noix being the winner. The contest for the Stew- ard's Plate, value seventy pounds, soon after com- menced, by three horses ; one of which bolted and threw his rider, who, however, received no injury he was withdrawn, and the first heat was won by Mr. Turner's Rivulet, the next by Lord Jersey's Slender, when Rivulet also was withdrawn. Mr. Wellesley Long Pole lias reduced the rents of his tenants at Draycot, Kingston St. Michael Wilts, and their neighbonrhood, full 20 per cent, and their tithes in proportion. Sir Henry Peyton has made an abatement of rent to all his tenants in the Isle of Ely and in Hunting- donshire, of twelve and a half per cent. — This is the more liberal, as Sir Henry reduced several of bis rents about two years ago, and the- whole of his farms are let on lease. The Rev. Frederick Pawsey, A. B. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Curate of Witham, in this county, has been presented, by the Right Hon. Lord Carteret, to the Vicarage of Willhamsted, void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Bedford, M. A. The Rev. Thomas Thurlow has been presented, by the Lord Chancellor, to the Rectory of Boxford. Mr. Thurlow is brother of the present, and nephew to the late Lord Thurlow. At the Wool Fair of this town, held yesterday se'nnight, at the Three Cups Inn, a similar dullness in transacting business prevailed to that which was experienced the pre- ceding week at Thetford. Notwithstanding the unfavour- able weather, the meeting was well attended.— Mr. Wes- tern being unavoidably absent, from a return of indispo- sition, Mr Tower was called to the chair. Hcobserved, that having no other guide to the probable prices of the year thai: the proceedings at Thetford, to reconcile the price of Oils, per tod, reported to have been asked by Mr. Coke, to the prices from 40s. to 50s at which he understood sales had since been effected, he was not so sanguine as to expect that any business could be done for money at 60s but though he recommended those farmers to whom a quick return was an immediate object, to be content to sell on a scale va- rying from 40s. to Os according to the quality; still he ad- vanced reasons for the expectation that those who may continue to hold their wool, may not be disappointed of sales at either prices during the ensuing year. He next proceeded to show that although the foreign trade in woollens had been considerably reduced within the last half year, so had been the importation of wool; 2,227,0401b having been imported in the quarter ending the 5th of April last, being 1,347,3551b. less than in the corresponding quarter of the preceding year; and though the accounts were not yet made up for the quarter to the 5th of July, the comparative difference was supposed to be equally great. Opinions were very various as to the probable amount of the ensuing importation ; but under the material reduction which had lately taken place in the Spanish market, and on other grounds, he thought it reasonable to conjecture they would not be very considerable— Lastly, be congratulated the country on the fact, that the declared value of wool lei goods exported from Great Britain in the year 1815 ap peared, by the Custom- house Returns, to have been 10,200,9361. being an increase over that of the preceding year of 2,631,4101.— On the part of the buyers, it was con- tended by Mr. Miliar and Mr. Catling, of Ipswich, that the unprecedented importation of the last two y Mrs, the want of capital, and the considerable decrease in the demand tor woollen articles, had so depressed the market, that they could not venture to buy at the prices asked; and no pur- chases whatever were effected, though Mr. Honywood and several other growers offered their wool at loss prices than it obtained last year.— In the course of the discussion, Mr. HonyWood stated, with great precision, several facts to prove " the great inequality that existed at present in the comparative prices between the raw material and the ma- nufacture. He expressed himself totally at a loss to ac- count for the circumstance, that at a time when Spanish wool was nearly double its present price, when provisions were much dearer, and labour more expensive, the manu- factured articles were furnished to the consumer at very little above their present prices This was attempted to be answered by a reference to the prices of Saxon wool. It will, however, be recollected, how extremely small a pro- portion this bears to the quantity of wool imported from other parts of the Continent. ELY, July 22.— An occurrence which has re. cently taken place here has occasioned very con- siderable ferment in the public mind. It will be in the recollection of onr readers that nine of the rioters who were condemned were considered de- serving of the lenity of the- Crown ; they were con- sequently reprieved, and an official notification was made to them that their sentences would be com muted to twelve months' imprisonment. They continued in Ely gaol until Thursday last, when a dispatch arrived from the Secretary of State's Of- fice, announcing their pardon, upon condition of being transported for seven years. In the course of the day they were sent off for the Hulks at the Nore, and in order to prevent any unpleasant conse- quences, the circumstances attending their re- moval were with great propriety concealed from the public until the following day.— At a meeting of the inhabitants, at the Club Inn, convened for the purpose of taking their case into consideration, it was resolved that a letter be addressed to the Secre- tary of State for the Home Department, imploring his interference with the Prince Regent in behalf of these unfortunate men; and that a similar applica- tion be made to the Judges by whom they were tried, We are well assured that the severe examples recently made have produced the happiest effects, The lower classes seemed to have fell the necessity of them, and to be duly sensible of the lenity shewn to those men whose lives have been spared.— In the town of Littleport, we are told, that a reformation of manners is plainly discernable amongst those who were engaged in the late riots. A few days since a troop of the 1st Royal Dra goons arrived here, to replace the 13th Light Dra- goons. The Quarter Sessions for this county, held at Chelmsford, last week, were very numerously at- tended by the Magistracy of the county. Thomas Gardiner Bramston, Esq. presided as Chairman, and the business before the Court was so great as to pro- tract the sittings until near six o'clock on Saturday evening. Thirty- two appealsstood for hearing. The Hornchurch, Woodham Walter, Thundersley; Vange, Great flenny, Broomfield, Ilettendou, St. Mary at the Walls, Colchester, Burnham, Little Waltham, Chelms- ford, Heybridge, Birchanger, and Ballingdon orders, and the Haydon poors rale, were severally quashed ; and the Hawkwell, Steeple Bumpsted, and Sible Hedingham orders confirmed. The Great Tey and Burnham appeals were withdrawn, five were struck out of the paper, and the remainder respited until the next Session. The traverses that were tried were, the King against the inhabitants of the parish of Rainham, for a highway out of repair, called War- wick- lane-- verdict for the King, which makes that parish liable to the perpetual maintenance of the said lane, as a public highway ; and the King against Sir Wm. Wake, for not repairing the cage at Waltham Holy Cross— verdict for the defendant, which entirely exonerates the Baronet from the charge. John Ran- dall, for a fraud, in passing a fictitious bill, knowing it to be so— verdict guilty, fined 201. and twelve months imprisonment in the Gaol; James Went, Ed- ward Turtle, Anthony Frost, Philip Fearis,. jun. and Thomas Francis, for a riot, and destroying a thrashing machine at Lawford— verdict guilty, each fined 6d. and to be severally imprisoned for six calendar months in Halsted House of Correction ; Thomas Curtis, Joseph Finch, and John Wiseman, for a riot, and de- stroying a thrashing machine at Sible Hedingham— guilty by confession, fined 6d. each, and to be seve- rally imprisoned, Curtis one calendar month in Halsted House of Correction, and Finch and Wiseman six calendar months in that of Chelmsford ; John Gough, otherwise Goff, found guilty on two bills of indict- ment, for assaulting constables in the execution of their office, at Great Holland, was fined 6d. on each, and sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment in the House of Correction at Chelmsford; William Til- brook, for disturbing the congregation during divine service, in the church at Stebbing— guilty by con- fession, fined 6d, and to be imprisoned one calendar mouth at Halsted. Golding Ladbrook, George Heard, and Benjamin Leggett, for stealing a quantity of wood, at West Bergholt, the property of George Caswall, Esq. and Thomas Frankham, for stealing three geese, at Takely, the property of Jonas Hampton, were ordered to be severally imprisoned and kept at hard labour for three calendar months, the former three in Colchester, and the latter in Newport House of Correction; William Allen, for stealing a quantity of oak and elm boards, at Danbury, the property of James Trussell, was sentenced to hard labour for one calendar month, in Chelmsford House of Correction ; and James Wood and Simon Hill, for stealing a quantity of horse- flesh, from the dog- kennel of J. R; Abdy, Esq. at Stapleford Abbott, each to fourteen days hard labour in the same; John Beavis, for steal- ing a quantity of barely, at Stisted, the property of Richard Bridge, twelve calendar months imprison- ment and hard labour in Halsted House of Correction; Samuel Johnson, for stealing two shirts and two pair of stockings, at High Easter, the property of Daniel Luck, also twelve mouths; Robert Rayner, for steal- ing two spades, a mattock, and other articles, at Butts bury, the properly of Thomas Wright, six months, in Chelmsford House of Correction ; Edward Perry and Samuel Wilkes, for stealing forty- one tame pi- geons, the property of John Francis, of Lindsell Hall, to be severally imprisoned and kept at hard labour, in the House of Correction at Halsted, for the space of two years; and Samuel Jennings, for stealing one great coat and a pair of linen bags, the property of John Ottley, of Cressing ; and a greatcoat and divers other articles, the property of John Sutton, of the same place, to be transported for seven years.— The additional rates of carriage, under the Mutiny Act, are continued as usual. U. W. MATTACKS, Agent to RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK and Co. Contractors for the New Grand State Lottery, feels himself bound to return his acknowledgments to the inhabitants of this town, for the liberal preference and patronage always bestowed on his office; which he has no doubt will be amply continued to him in the pre- sent Lottery, as the Scheme promises to become universally popular, from its containing several new features equally simple and advantageous. The Capital Prizes amount in Stock to £ 160,000, the largest sum ever known for the number of Tickets, which is 1.- 1,000; and there is no possibility of their remaining in the Wheel till the last day of drawing, as the first- drawn Prize, the first day, must be more than £ 40,000, and may be £ 80,000. As many persons have been disappointed for want of an early application, U. W. Mattacks begs those of his friends who wish to procure any fa- vourite Number, to make their communications as soon as possible at his Office, where Tickets and Shares, in a variety of Numbers, are now on Sale. COURT OF CHANCERY, MONDAY, JULY 22. LOWTEN AND OTHERS V. THE MAYOR AND COM- MONALTY OF COLCHESTER. Mr. Spence, Counsel for the plaintiff, hoped his Lordship would allow him to mention this case— Mr. Smythies, one of the sequestrators was in attend- ance, for the purpose of answering any questions, and giving any explanation his Lordship might desire; and exculpating himself, and Mr. Francis, the other sequestrator, most satisfactorily, from the least impu- tation of blame. LORD CHANCELLOR.— It is by no means necessary to detain Mr. Smythies— I do not find it necessary to put any questions to Mr. Smythies in this case. [ In our report of the above case last week, we sub- mitted a statement to the public, which we have since been informed was not warranted by facts. We were led into this error by copying from a London paper ] MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at Wicks, in this county, Mr. John Deane to Miss Constable, only daughter of J. M. Consta- ble, Esq. of the same place. Same day, at Holbrook, Suffolk, Mr. William Tills, jun. of Stutton, to Miss Giles, eldest daughter of Mr. Giles, of the former place. On the 17th inst. at West- Ham, in this county, Mr. I.. W. Williams, of Stratford- Green, to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Buck, of Arundel- street, Strand. On Tuesday se'nnight, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Mr. John Foster Reeve, of Booking, in this county, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. John Cribb, surgeon, High Hol- born, London. On Saturday, at St. George's, Hanover- square, London, Alfred Thorp, Esq. of Walthamstow. to Louisa Susanna, eldest daughter of the late Sir William Plomer, Snares- brook, in this county. DIED. On Tuesday last, at Hadleigh, Mr. John Rand, a re- spectable farmer and Maltster. Same day, very suddenly, at his Chambers, in the Tem- ple, London, universally respected, Robert Pooley, Esq. Barrister at Law, and late Recorder of this borough.— He had attended the Essex Sessions between twenty and thirty years, and was at Chelmsford last week, when he complained of indisposition, but did not absent himself on that account from bis professional duties — On the morn- ing before- mentioned his servant found him dead in his bed, as supposed, from the effect of an apoplectic attack. Yesterday se'nnight, in this town, Mrs. Jones, relict of the late Mr. Jones, of Land guard Fort. On Sunday, Mrs. Hutchinson, of Lexden. Same clay, Mr Bartholomew, of the Dog and Pheasant, Myland, near this town. On Wednesday, Mr. John Fuller, who for many years had the charge of the Lock at the Hythe. On Monday se'nnight, aged 16 years, Miss Dayrel, daughter of-—- Dayrol, Esq. of Shudy Camps, near Lin- coln, Cambridgeshire. This unfortunate Young lady was amusing herself by the side of a fish- pond, when she fell in, and was drowned, TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY R. GOODWIN, At the Marlborough's Head Inn; Dedham, on Tuesday, August 27, 1818, unless sooner disposed of by Private Contract, DEDHAM VALEY FARM, comprising about Seventy- five Acres, Fifty of which are rich Pas- ture, with good FARM- HOUSE, and Out- buildings ; in the occupation of Mr. Cooper. It is situated within seven miles of Colchester, seven of Hadleigh, eleven of Ipswich, three of Manningtree, and one of Dedham, all good mar- ket towns with a navigable river adjoining, by which chalk and manure may be conveyed at little expence. May be viewed by applying to Mr. Cooper, on the Pre- mises; and immediate Possession may be had. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY STATON AND CO. On Saturday, the 10th day of August, lSIfi. at the Saracen's Head Inn, Ipswich, Suffolk, between the Hours of Four and Five o'clock in the Afternoon, AComfortable MESSUAGE, with a Yard, Gar- den. Stable, and other Appurtenances thereto be- longing; also a POST WINDMILL, with a roomy Round House, erected and standing upon nearly an Acre of ex- ceeding good Land, with two pair of French stones, one pair 4 feet 8 inches, and another pair 3 feet 8 inches, and other going gears complete ; situate in Tuddenham, in the County of Suffolk, three miles from Ipswich, and five from Woodlbridge, now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas South, the Proprietor. The Land upon which the Messuage and Mill are erected, is held under a Lease, Seventeen Years of which are unexpired, at alow rent, and free of parochial charges; and a further Term will be granted by the Lessor— Pos- session may be had on completing the Purchase. For leave to view the Premises, and for further parti- culars, enquire of Mr South; Mr. Hitchcock, Solicitor, Mannigtree, Essex ; Mr. H. Collins, Melton; or the Auc- tioneers, Ipswich. Very excellent Household Furniture, Colchester, Essex. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY WILLIAM JACKSON, On Friday, August 2, 1816, at the Assedbly- Room, Three Cups Inn, Colchester, THE entire and genuine HOUSEHOLD FUR- NITURE of a Family changing their Residence, and to be sold without the least Reserve; comprising three elegant four post bedsteads, with rich chintz and other furniture; a very elegant French bed, white dimity furniture; two half- tester bedsteads; five prime goose feather- beds, bolsters, and pillows ; hair and Hock mat- tresses, and paillasses; superfine blankets, Marseilles quilts, and counterpanes; ten very capital mahogany chairs, and two elbows; set of drawing- room ditto; ex- cellent set of portable mahogany dining tables; card, sofa, loo, and Pembroke tables; handsome chimney and dressing glasses; Wilton and Scotch carpets; and hearth rugs; three mahogany chests of drawers; a few choice paintings and prints; a complete blue and white dinner service; an elegant dessert service; set of tea china; neat decanters, wine and finger glasses ; copper boilers, saucepans, and stewpans; meat reflector, fenders and fire- irons, seven sweet seasoned beer- casks, and a variety of other articles, as will be expressed in Catalogues, to be had at the Place of Sale, and of the Auctioneer, Col Chester.— Sale to begin at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon. Monday. s. s. Wheat, mealing Red, - 00 a 64 Fine 74 a 80 White . .. 59 a 72 Fine... ;.... 82 a 88 Foreign Red 48 a 76 Dantzic — a — Black GO a 68 Rivets 58 a 70 Rye 3u a 40 White Pease U0 a 40 Boilers., — a — Grey Pease: 34 a 40 Horse Beans, new, 28 a -. 5 Fine Old — u — Tick Beans, new .. 32 a 34 Fine Old — a B5 Broad Beans — a — Superfine — a — Long Pods — a — Barley 26 a 3< i Superfine... — a Oats, long feed 10 a 22 Short 24 a 26 Poland & Brew 25 a 29 Malt 46 a 54 Tares — a — PRICE OF FLOUR. Fine English Flour 70s. a75s.— Second ditto fills. a » l" js AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN PER QUARTER, For the Week ending July 13). England and Wales. s. d. Wheat 74 1 Rye 40 4 Barley 29 0 Oats 22 3 PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW . Smith field. s. —£. s. Hay 5 0 t6 li 6 Clover 6 0 to ( i 18 Straw 1 18 to 2 15 St. James. Hay... 3 10 to 5 ll> NEWGATE AND LKAui. ixtlALL. Per Stoue of 81b. by the Carcase. s, d. •— s. d. s. d. — s. d. Beef 3 0 to 4 4 ) Veal 3 0 to 4 8 Mutton 3 4 to 4 4 Fori 3 4 n 4 0 TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HAWES AND FENTON, By Order of the Devisees, in trust, of the late James Blatch, Esq. at the Rose Inn, in Peldon, ou Wednesday, the 7th of August, 1816, at Twelve o'clock, VALUABLE FREEHOLD and COPYHOLD ESTATES, situate in East Mersea, West Mersea, and Peldon ; in the following Lots :— Lot 1. Consists of a substantial Brick- fronted MES- SUAGE, lately erected, with Garden, Barns, Stables, and all convenient Out- houses, called Martell's and North House, with the Lauds thereto belonging. And also divers other Parcels of Land, called Blythe's, Nash's, Grey Goose, Crabb's, and Pudney's, containing, in the whole, by ad- measurement, 138 Acres, little more or less, all situate in East Mersea, and now in the occupation of Charles Tiffin, who is under Notice to quit at Michaelmas, 1818. And also an exclusive Right of Common for Twenty Sheep, on the Lord's Marsh, called Middle Marsh, and which Marsh is held by the Proprietors, under Lease, for an unexpired Term of Ten Years. Ninety- three Acres, or thereabouts, of this Lot are Copyhold of the Manor of East Hall, in East Mersea, subject to a Fine at the will of the Lord. Nine Acres, or thereabouts, are Copyhold of the Manor of Reeves Hall, subject to a like Fine; and the remaining Thirty- five Acres are Freehold. These Copyhold Lauds in East Mersea are heriotable, and the Quit- Rents for the whole amount to 21.17s. 4d. per annum. Lot 2. Consists of a good FARM- HOUSE, with a Barn, Stables, and other suitable and convenient Out- houses, with the Lands thereto belonging; containing, by ad- measurement, Eighty Acres, little more or less, of excel- lent quality, situate in Peldon and West Mersea; and also in the occupation of the said Charles Tiffin, under the like Notice. Eighteen Acres of this Lot are Copyhold of the Manor of Peet Hall, subject to a Fine certain, and a Quit- Rent of 11. 5s. 6d. per annum. Seven Acres are Copyhold of the Manor of Peldon Rectory, subject to a Fine at the will of the Lord, One Heriot, and a Quit- Rent of 2s. per annum; and the remaining Fifty- five Acres are Freehold. Lot 3. Consists of TWENTY- SEVEN ACRES of very superior LAND, with a Barn, Stable, and other conve- nient Out- houses, situate in Peldon, and in the occupation of the said Charles Tiffin, under Notice to quit at Mi- chaelmas next, and called the Rose Farm. This Lot is all Copyhold of the Manor of Peet Hall, subject to a Fine certain, and a Quit- Rent of per annum. N. B. The Land- Tax is redeemed on all the Estates, AVERAGE Hi ICE OF BllOWi\ SUGAR. £ 2.4s. 3Ju. per cwt Exclusive of the Luties ol Cut- toins paid or payable thereon oil Importation thereol luto In eat Britain. PRICE OF MEA'l A1 SMITH FIELD, Exclusive of the Onal, which consists of Heau; Entrai! s,& Hide, and is worth about Id. per lb.— Per Stone ot 81b. Monday, July 22. Friday, July 26. s. d. — s. d '' s " o. — s. d. Beef. 4 0 to 5 0 Beef. 4 4 to, 5 4 Multoa i BloS O Mutton 4 2 t « 6 4 Veal 4 4 to 5 8 Pork 4 6 to 5 t> Pork 3 8 to 4 8 Veal 4 8 to 5 ti PRICES OF SUGAR, COFFEE, COCOA, H GINGER SUGAR, s. s. s. s Raw ( Barbad.) 70 a 86 Triage 49 a 56 Do. very fine 90 a 93 Mocha Ill0ai « 5 Powder Loaves... 106 a 122 Bourbon 70 a 80 Single do. Br 105 a 107 St. Domingo 68 a 70 Molasses... 24s. l> d. a— s. Od. Java Iidii 76 COFFEE. COCOA. Dominica and Surinam. Trinidad ..... 115 a 125 Fine 95 a 103 Carraccas 134 a 145 Good 84 a 93 Maranham. — a — Ordinary 66 a 75 GINGER. Jamaica, fine 96 a 105 Jamaica white — a — Good 83 a 92 — black 110 a — Ordinary 56 a 74 Barbadoes ... — a 170 CURRENT PRICES OF SF1R11S AND WINES SPIRITS, per Gallon. Excl of Duty. s. d. s. d. Brandy Cognac 4 0 a 4 3 Bordeaux 3 0 a 3 3 Spanish 0 0 a 0 0 Geneva Holland 2 4 a 2 8 Rum, Jamaica 2 In a 4 0 L. Islands 2 4 a 2 8 WINE, Dealers' Price. Claret, per H 60 a — Lisbon, per P 4a a — Port 52 a — Madeira 60 a — Sherry, per Bt 60 a — PRICE OF STOCKS, JULY 26. Bank Stock 219£ 3 percent. Red. 64j 3 per Cent C. 63f Omnium — Ditto for Payt. Exchequer bills 0 0 p. A boy, nearly five years of age, the son of Ser- jeant William Peck, of the 47th regiment, having been troubled with the stone for more than four years, during which time he has suffered most excruciating pain, insomuch that his life was de- spaired of, was rut for the same on the 18th inst. by Mr. Partridge, surgeon, of this town, and a stone taken from him nearly two inches in circum- ference, and encircled round with long sharp points. The child is now doing well, and in a lair way of recovery. On Thursday se'nnight, about noon, there was a most tremendous thunder storm at Ipswich, ac- companied by a heavy fall of rain and hail. The electric fluid first struck a tree in Mr. William Smart's rope- walk ; it next shattered a flag- staff on the top of the warehouse, and then entered the roof of Miss Dalton's house, of which it carried away part of the roof, and damaged one of the chimneys; it broke a looking- glass in the attic, passed through the landing- place, and destroyed the bell- wires ; several of which were melted, and one of them burnt the floor on which it fell. In one of the chambers, beneath the attic, the fluid passed through a couch, or bed, the centre of which was burnt to tinder, whilst its ends remained un- touched. In its descent it entered the parlour, where it burnt the paper, tore down the mortar from the side of the wall, and scattered it over the room. Miss Dalton was in the house at the time, but happily she sustained not the least personal injury— Mr. Strahan, who was in Mr. Smart's counting- house at the rope- ground, was struck on the side of the head and rendered insensible for a few seconds; but though he felt the shock for some time afterwards, he was not seriously hurt. A boy, in the yard, was at the same time slightly struck on the forehead. An inquest was held yesterday se'nnight, on view of the body of Mr. Jacob Stowe, fanner, of Nayland, who, on the preceding day was discovered in an out- house on the premises he occupied, to- tally bereft of life, having shot himself through the head. He had been for some time before in a desponding state of mind ; the Jury, therefore, delivered a verdict of— Insanity. At the Norfolk Sessions, four prisoners, named John Abery, James Bailey, the elder, Peter Pal- mer the elder, and Peter Rainier the younger, were indicted for having, together with other persons, to the number of 100, riotously assembled in the parish of Holkham, on the 19th of May last, and destroyed a thrashing- machine, the property of William Burlingham. They were found guilty, and sentenced, Abery and Bailey to one year, and the two Palmers to three mouths' imprisonment. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. TUESDY, JULY 23. ARRIVEO.— At Gravesend, Rachel, Freeman, Peters- burgh; Fergus, Izatt, Dantzic — At Dublin, Garland, Bell, Memel.— At Sligo, Magdalena Margaretta, , Christian- sand.— At Carlingford, Hannah Christina, —, Drontheim, — At Peterhead, Experiment, Leash, Riga— At Hull, Friendship, Pearson, Memel; Kingston, Hardy, Peters- burgh; Cottingham, Haslewood, Riga- SAILED.— From Gravesend, Isabella, Parkinson ; Den- nison, Read, Petersburg!!. HARWICH, JULY 26. ARRIVED.— Packets. — Saturday, Prince of Orange, Captain Bridge, Helvoetsluys; Auckland, Captain Lyne, Cuxhaven— Sunday, Thetis, Captain Stokes, Gottenburgh; Castlereagh, Captain Macdonough, Cuxhaven— Monday, Lord Nelson, Captain Deane, Cuxhaven. SAILED.— Packets.— Saturday, Lady Nepean Captain Liveing, Cuxhaven ; Beaufoy, Captain Norris, Helvoet- sluys— Tuesday, Thetis, Captain Stokes, " Gottenburgh— Wednesday, Prince of Orange, Captain Bridge; Helvoet- sluys; Auckland, Captain Lyne, Cuxhaven. COLCHESTER, JULY 20. ARRIVED.— Endeavour, Glendining; Mayflower, Jen- kins; Hope, Chitham; Little Hermitage, Beaumont, Lou- don— Dove, Lambeth ; Good Intent, Ward, Newcastle— Mary, Snood; Good Intent, Kent; Oath waite, Cook, Sun- derland— Ringdove, Langster, Portugal. SAILED. — Polly, Brazier; Farmers' Delight, Finch; Dove, Gull; Blessing, Woods; Two Brothers, Shead; Jane and Elizabeth, Thornton; Two Brothers, Mason; Hopewell, Martin, London — Betsey, Easter, Maldon— Romney, Brann, Rochester. TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, AFREEHOLD brick MESSUAGE, in excellent repair, comprising a keeping room, kitchen, two bed- rooms, convenient closets, with a Pump of excellent Water, and a small Piece of Garden- Ground, situate on the Hill, at the entrance into Manningtree, in the County of Essex, now in the occupation of Branham Squires, tenant at will. For price, and furfher particulars, enquire of Mr. Hitchcock, Solicitor, Manningtree, Essex, or Mr. Good- win, Auctioneer. HARWICH. Ship Timber, Planks, Slabs, and Listing. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY PHILIP HAST; In Mr. Graham's Ship- Yard, Harwich, on Thursday, the 1st of August, 1816, SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET of exceeding good Oak Ship Timbers, Scantlings, Planks, and Tim ber Ends, very suitable for gate- posts, rails, pales, and repairs of premises. The whole to be divided into conve- nient Lots, and the Sale to commence at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon. MR. and Mrs. THURGAR'S ACADEMY for YOUNG LADIES, Surrey- street, Norwich. TERMS, Including Writing, Arithmetic, English, French, Italian, and other departments of Instruction, ( Latin excepted) mentioned in the Prospectus of the School, Thirty- six Guineas per Annum ; under Ten Years of age, Thirty- two Guineas pet Annum Wanted, at Michaelmas next, a YOUNG LADY, as HALF- BOARDER. MESSRS. SILVESTER, COACHMAKERS, COLCHESTER. EZEKIEL SILVESTER TV/ TOST gratefully returns Thanks to his Friends, * TX and the. Public generally, for the very liberal Patronage with which the above Concern has so long and so eminently been distinguished, and informs them he has declined Business in favour of F. FRENCH, who has married the Widow of his late Brother, whom he begs to recommend to their Notice ; feeling assured every atten- tion will be paid to their future Commands. Colchester, July 26,1816. F. FRENCH, HAVING taken the above CONCERN of EZEKIEL SILVESTER, begs most earnestly to solicit a continuance of that Support with which it has hitherto been honoured, and informs them the most able and competent Workmen will be employed in the Business, and that no exertion will be wanting on his part to entitle him to their Favours. Colchester, July 26, 1816. THE Creditors of CHARLES BACON, for- merly of Manningtree, and late of Dedham, in the County of Essex, farmer, deceased, are hereby informed, that unless they forthwith deliver in their several Accounts to Mr. Hitchcock, Solicitor, Manningtree, Essex, they will be excluded all Benefit arising from the Sale of. the Effects— Dated the 26th day of July, 1816,. i DISSOLUTION of CO- PARTNERSHIP hav- [_ ing taken place on the 21th day of June last, between Air. JOHN AMBROSE and Mr. THOMAS HITCH- COCK, it is hereby requested that ail Persons having any Demands upon the said Co- partnership will apply at Mr. Ambrose's Office, or at Mr. Hitchcock's Office, for the same ; and all Persons who stand indebted to the said! Co- partnership, are hereby requested to pay the same to Mr. Ambrose, or to Mr. Hitchcock. Manningtree, 11th July, 1816. LONDON MARKETS. MARK- LANE, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1816. The supply of Wheat since this day se'nnight has been abundant, and a large quantity remained unsold from Fri- day's market; but there being few buyers, sales were ex- tremely dull, though prices continued stationary.— barley reached 2s. to 3s. per quarter advance.— Malt very brisk,, and Is. per quarter dearer.— Hog Pease and new Tick Beans being in demand, obtained 1s. per quarter advance. — White Pease were scarce, and but little wanted.— Oats brisk and Is. per quarter dearer. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24. The market was somewhat, brisker for Wheat to- day than on Monday, but the advance in price obtained was merely nominal. The same may be said of nearly all other articles. FRIDAY, JULY 86. Since Monday there has been but very little business doing upon our Corn Market. The fresh arrivals of Grain are very limited, yet in prices no variation from that day, except for Barley, which is Is. per quarter dearer. PRICE OF GRAIN, PER QUARTER. Wednesday. s. s. Wheat, mealing Red, oOa 65 Fine "< 2 a 79 White 00 a 72 Fine 82 a M> foreign Red 46 a 76 Dantzic — a — Black 00 a < i£ i Rivets 08 a 70 Rye M a 40 White Pease 30 a 3<> Boilers. —- wa otS Grey Pease 3d a 4* 1 Horse Beans, new, 28' a 3ft Fine Old — a — Tick Beans, new .. 21 a 30 Fine Old — a broad beans — a — Superfine — a —* Long Pods.... — a — Barley 25 a 34 Superfine.. — a 37 Oats, long feed 1(> a 21 — Short 24 a 26 Poland& Brew. 25 a 30 Malt 4o a fjtf Tares — a — England and Wales. s. d. Beans ... 34 4 Pease 33 4 Oatmeal 25 3 Big 0 0 s.— £. s. Straw 2 8 t> » .3 0 White chapel. Hay 4 14 to & It Clover ft 12 to 6 12 • Straw 2 8 lo 2 14 Head of Cattle at Smith field. MONDAY Beasts 1,810. Sheep... 15,400 Pigs 360i Calves... 230 FRIDAY Beasts 580 Sheep... .7,460 Pigs 300 Calves . . SO 4 per Cent 7! § 5 per Cent. Navy 94J Long Ann. lb 5- 16 Cons. for Acc. 64j South Sea — Old Annuities ORIGINAL POETRY. A TRIP TO PARIS. Fix'd to no spot, mankind delight to roam, No matter where— if any where from home : The prize is Happiness, for which we strive, Frail as the winter- gleam—- as fugitive; The shadow, ever fickle and untrue, Fleeting eludes us, yet we still pursue. No more imbrued with crimson gore, the slain Moisten the widely desolated plain! Sheath'd is the sword, while grateful Peace resumes Her milder sway, and varied Nature blooms: Hills, vales, sea, air, breathe love, inspir'd by thee; And echo, with responsive voice," fee free!" Be free!— The soul with generons ardour burns, And native Liberty once more returns; Warm'd by thy genial ray, each British breast Spurns the stern rod, and scorns to be represt; Ranges creation's ample circuit round, And courts thy blessings, wheresoever found. Yet as nought else but French will please the " Town," John Bull unfrenchi6ed's a downright clown: French " toques" the nonpareil of taste bespread, With half a garden nodding on the head! French snuff- boxes, French coxcombs, French perukes, French beds, French bug's, soupe- maigre, and French cooks. Paris, of course, becomes the public rage ; Parisian thoughts each chandler's wife engage; Who cries, In French politeness much delighting, " Que roulez- rous?— a farden's vorth of viting ?" In Peace, by all ador'd, save hapless duns, Britain pets lid of all her spendthrift sons; And British fox- hunters, their sports pursuing, Ride ueck or nothing on the road to Rouen. ' Tin thus, some modern Quixote of renown, Hastens with speed to reach the " Bell and Crown;" There books his name for Calais— in the mail To Dover hies, thence takes a morning sail; Implores a prosperous breeze, yet not too brisk, Unwilling to incur the dreadful risk— Not quite so much of found'riug, or of harms, As direful retchings, and heart- storching qualms! Safe Oil the beach, how great his pleasure there, Each Frenchman calls him—" Milord d'Angleterre;" Which signifies, howe'er he can afford, They'll make him pay for all things as a Lord. Resolv'd French posts and post- boys to endure, Calais he quits awhile, aud takes a tour; Till tir'd of Partcy- vous and long delay, To Paris, Queen of Arts, he wings his way. Paris! thy splendour and eclat each knows— The toyshop of the world!— the box of shows! From earliest thorn, ilnbtisied e'en till night, One constant round of pleasure and delight! Boarded and lodj'd, I need not mention how, Doubtless some folks from sad experience know; With note- book, pens, el cetera, to insert Whate'er occurs MEM.— Ruffles, with no shirt!"— How cully'd hrrc— what wond'rous sights lie saw! And how his frogs were there scrv'd up half raw. With many other items to receive, Which tour fools out of five would scarce believe! After one night, well bitten see him sally To stare and gape in every nook and alley; Whilst by some French frisevr, poudre aud curl'd, He struts " The Monkey w ho has seen the world!" With stupid gaze lie views each tree and stone, Or sign- post, and exclaims—" How like our own !'* In short, scarce any difference can he find ' Twixt many modes of French and English kind: The men palavering— women painted, prond, And wilh their clappers, like all women, loud ; Blest with like arts to act, ' mid noise and strife, " The very woman and the very wife." Laden with wise remarks on high and low, At leugtli our Quixote ventures back, to show " How much a fool, who's been to France or Rome, " Excels a fool who always staid at home." DECIVS. 1695 and lt02, they were seen in the same place. Cassini speaks of One seen in 1703, and designates it as the largest and blackest he had ever seen. It was three times as large as the whole earth. From 1744 to 1774, he says, he dotes not recollect to have Seen the sun without spots, and in great num- bers. In 1718 and 1719 thesun was covered with spots, and yet the heat was extraordinary. It would be useless to accumulate more facts to shew that the spots on the sun ought not to create any uneasiness. In our latitudes, and in our geographical posi- tion, some polar masses of ice, detached in a greater quantity than usual, and accumulated near the Banks of Newfoundland— or a wind loaded with sea vapours, are sutfitient to make the season, of which we complain so bitterly, more iuconstant than ri- gorous, and the temperature more wet than cold.— Human levity is apt to remark in nature nothing but its irregularities. We should scartely have spoken of the sun if it had not had spots oil itt THE SPOTS ON THE SUN. The large spots which may now be seen upon the sun's disk have given rise to ridiculous appre- hensions and absurd predictions. These spots are said to be the cuuse of the remarkable and wet wea- ther we have had this summer; and the increase of these spots is represented to announce a general removal of heat from the globe, the extinction of nature, and the end of the world. These fears are not new. In the seventeenth century the astro- nomers considered the spots on the sun as the com- mencement of the extinction of that great confla- gration which they supposed to be the cause of the luminous state of the sun. In the eighteenth cen- tury an opinion was maintained by La Hire that those spots were large lakes which would drown the sun. But the supposition that the sun is an ig- neous body is now generally abandoned. And an hypothesis more conformable to the majesty of na- ture, as well as all modern observations, considers the sun only as the centre towards which gravitates from all parts the luminous fluid, and perhaps the coloric spread throughout space. Like the plate of glass in the electrical apparatus, the sun, by its rapid movement round its axis, puts in vibration the two flu ds we have just named. Accumulated on the surface of the sun these form a splendid at mosphere which deprives us of the sight of his dense and opaque nucleus. The movements of these luminous bodies, however, suffer us some- times to have an imperfect view of some parts of the sun, and these pails form what are called spots, Surli is the opinion of Hersohel and others. These spits, therefore, do not prove an exhaustion either of light or heat. Besides, history shews that they have no constant influence upon the temperature of our planet. We have seen cold and wet years in which the sun had few spots— we have seen also hot years when the sun has been covered with them. These phenomena have never been fol- lowed by any sensible and durable revolution in our atmosphere. It is only since the invention of tele- scopi s that the spots have been carefully observed. An Englishman, and Scheeuer and Fabricius, the Germans, where the first who made observations in KilO and 1611. Galileo studied them in 1012, and there were then more than 50 spots, and from their apparent movement the rotatory motion of the sun was concluded. In 1064, a small spot was seen, which in a few days became twice as large aud dark as it was at first. A great number were seen in 1081. Few have been seen for a longer time than in 1670— they were seen for 70 days. In THE WEATHER. The adage of forty days rain, if it rain on St. Swithin's- day ( July 15), arises from the fact, that the moon of that month generally begins in the day- tithe; and whenever that happens, thfe whole of that moon is accompanied by rain and moist weather. The new moon began on 26th June, at two in the afternoon • its first quarter was on 3d July, at nine ill the morning; its full on the 9th, at noon ; and its last quarter on 17th, at one in the afternoon.. Thus the whole of its progress was between the rising and setting of thesun. The lie*' moon begin on the 24th, at eleven at night; and though < hat may be favourable, yet the first quarter on flie 31st, will be at two in the afternoon; but then the full will be on the 8th of August, stone in tlis morning; and the last quarter on the 16th, at five in the morning; so that if there be any correctness in this application oT i' 3ch week's change, the next month will be pretty equal as to rainy and dry weather. The Sep- tember and October moons are also both day moons. The weather, it would seem, has not beeti Unsea- sonable in this country only ; for we find that in Sweden and many other parts it has been equally unfavourable. In different parts of Sweden prayers were offered up in the churches daily for a favour- able change. We may add, that the weather con- tinues bad all over the Continent. The situatiou of America is also extraordinary in this respect, as appears from the following account:— QUEBEC, June 13.— On the 6th instant, the extraordinary circumstance occurred of a fall of snow, of upwards of an hour's duration. In the afternoon, when the clouds cleared away, the tops of the mountaius to the north of this city, were perceived to be covered with snow, the most dis- tant apparently to the depth of a foot. On the 7th there was a slight fall of snow during the whole day, the thermometer constantly standing at the freezing point. At half past ten o'clock at night the roofs of the houses, the streets and squares of the town, were completely covered with snow; and the next morning, the 8th, it was observed that the whole surrounding country was in the same state, having within twelve days of the summer solstice the appearance of the middle of December. A gentleman who was on Friday on the south shore, about fifteen miles back from the St. Lawrence, found banks of snow up to the axle- trees of his carriage, and a drift as in the midst of winter. On the 8th, snow continued to fall at intervals in different parts of the country. It again snowed on the Oth. From the Oth to the lOtii it froze every night. On the 7th the ground in ex- posed situations became hard with the frost in the day- time. The wind was constantly strong from the north- west, driving before it an immense mass of lowering clouds, which continually coucealed the sun : it was not till Sunday afternoon that they finally began to clear away. It was then disco- vered, that though the snow which fell on the night of the 7th had disappeared in the vicinity of this city early on the following day, the tops of the mountains to the north and the south still remained covered with snotv. On the west side of the Chaudiere, large tracts of cleared land were still covered, and continued so on Monday. We are informed that in that quarter the snow lay for some time a foot in depth. Among the many unusual circumstances which accompanied a state of weather so entirely unex- ampled in the memory of the inhabitants or in the annals of the country, we have to notice, that on Thursday, great numbers of birds, which are never found but in the distant forests, resorted to the city, and were to be met with in every street, and even among the shipping. Many of them dropped down dead in the streets, and many were destroyed by thoughtless or cruel persons. The swallows entirely disappeared for several days. Some de- scriptions of trees began to shed their leaves, withered before they were half expanded. In the country, numbers of sheep newly shorn were killed by the cold. The prudent farmer housed his cattle for several days. In almost every house the stoves were regularly heated the same as in winter. The mischiefs done to the crops in this neigh- bourhood, we flatter ourselves, is not so great as might have been apprehended. The snow of Friday night protected them against one of the severest frosts. If vegetation had been further advanced, it probably would have suffered moie. The buds of the orchard trees were hardly opened. In ex- posed situations the forest trees have suffered con- siderably, though the leaves were not half opened. The gardens, and such wild fruit trees as were in blossom, have suffered severely. Last year was one of the most backward ever before known in the country : on the 4th of June the trees were not in full leaf. At present, the 12th, they are not so forward as they were last year on the 4th. We have had only five or six days in which the thermometer had risen above 60 deg. of Fahrenheit. In respect to the backwardness of the season, we find the same complaints extend through- out all the northern sections of the United States. On the 15th of May it froze in Virginia and Penn- sylvania. About the same time they complain of the cold on the Mississippi and Missouri, and along the Ohio( Lake Erie was not cleared of ice till about the 10th of May. Along the whole course of the St. Lawrence, and even to Halifax, the com- plaints are the same. PREDICTED END OF THE WORLD. In Flanders, Germany, and France, and generally throughout Europe, the prediction of the mad Italian prophet, relative to the end of Ihe world, , appears to have produced great dread in the minds of some, so that they neglected all business, and gave themselves up entirely to despondency. At Ghent the apprehension was increased ty the sound of trumpets at nine at night on the 11th inst. The following account is given in One of the French papers:— " COURTRAY, July 12. — An inhabitant of this town, who arrived this morning from Ghent, witnessed a scene there Which deserves to be known. Yesterday, abotit nine in the evening, the trumpets of a regiment of cavalry, which had arrived during the day, sounded the retreat; as is usual, nt the different quarters. The weather Was gloomy, the thunder roared, and flashes of light- ning furrowed the dark clo'ids accumulated over the town. Suddenly cries, groans, tears, lamenta- tions, were heard on every side. Three- fourths of the inhabitants rushed forth from their houses and threw themselves on their knees in the streets and public places. It was not without infinite trouble that the cause of this extraordinary terror was dis- covered. The good folks of Ghent, persuaded that the end of the world was at hand, believed they had heard the Seventh Trumpet, which, according to Revelations, chap. x. ver. 7. is to announce the last judgment. " Our townsman somewhat quieted them by re- marking, tliat as tfie reremntiy they had antici-- pated was to be accoUlpknied by great splendour, there was every reason to suppose that it would take place in the day- time, and in very fine wea- ther; and the rain, which fell in torrents this morn- ing, has completely tranquillized them."— Journal of the Nbrth. Thus in ail age which boasts of bein* an age of philosophy, the multitude are more igflorant and credulous than in the most barbarous tiiues. The bitterest lessons of experience scarcely leave the slightest trace on the mind, whilst the deepest impression is made liy the paleness of the moon and the s^ Ots on the sun. If a continued rain clouds the clays of summer, the people are full of dread and apprehension; but they have seen, with a calm and quick eye, the moral and political world, and all society, convulsed for a quarter of a century ; yet, surely the triumph of crinie, the long suffering of virtue, the aberrations of the mul- titude, were scourges much more formidable than those whose efforts * e now deplore. A letter from Liege, dated July 5, says—" A large cloud, which hovered yesterday overthis town, and presented the view of an enormous mass in the form of a mountatti, did not fail to excite the cu- riosity of many persons, and to ahrm all our old wonn. ii, who still expect a Shower of fire, and the end of the world, on the 18ih instant;" " i he Bath paper says, that " a maiden ladjr, who resides in a village in Somersetshire, was deeply affected at the expected approach of a second chaos, and had taken much pains to impress the younger branches nt the family with similar ap- prehensions. The latter, however, laughed at her folly, and were severely rebuked for their unbelief. On Thursday morning, between six and seveu o'clock, a girl, eight years of age, got out of bed, and rau tn the lady's chamber, crying out, ' Aunt, Aunt, the world's at an end.'' These words struck so much terror into the mind of the lady, that she has not spoken since; and at nine o'clock on Friday morning she reinainod in a state of insensi- bility !" of February, about ten In the morning, llehad since seen the gentleman; it was M. De B" renger. He camr. by the heavy Dover roach from Loudon. Wit- ness opened tile dtioT to let him out. Henry Meorow keeps tfi" Royal Oak, at Dover. He remembered De Bereuger alighting from the London coach about tVn iu the morning, and putting up at his bouse. The next morning Witness heard of a gentleman announcing the death of Bonaparte. Witness since saw M. De Bereuger, and was confi- dent as to his person. Sarah Rider was chambermaid at the Royal Oak, at Dover, ill February 1814; remembered a gentle- man coining to the house on Sunday, the 20th $ she had since seen that gentleman; it wasM. De Bereuger. He went away after eleven in the evening. Mr. Gurney addressed the Jury on the part of the defendaut. He observed, that. so far was it from being material to prov'c that M. De Berenger was in town on the evening of the 20th of February, that the very contrary was that which, for the purposes of the pro- secution, it was desirable to make appear; conse- quently, if Mr. Davison had a motive for upholding the indictment, he would have sworn the very con- trary of that which was imputed to him.— The Learned Cotiiisel then proceeded to deny, that even if Mr. Davison bad been perjured, his evidence could have at all affected Lord Cochrane, or the other parties to the conspiracy; or have shaken the verdict that w as given against them. Mr. Justice Abbott, in slimming up the evidence, commenced by stating to the Jury the description of the crime of perjury, given by a person of high rank and talents in the law. This individual, lie said, had slated that perjury at common law seemed to be a wilful false oath, deliberately given upon matters of some consequence to the poiiit in qui . Cm— and that no person ought to be found guijty of peijnry, who had not sworn falsely with some degree of delibera- tion ; for if it appeared probable that the oath was sworn inore from weakness than from perverseness, or, as it had occurred sometimes, from inadvertence or mistake, the party ought not to lie deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. There must be evidence of a wilful and corrupt mind, and a desire to pervert the course of justice. With this explanation of the crime, the Learned Judge proceeded to call upon the Jury to sav whether, from the evidence they had heard, they believed that Mr. Davison had wilfully and corruptly misstated M. De Berenger to be in Lon- don at the time he was at Dover. He adverted to the circumstance of his having given evidence to two oilier facts which were true, namely, that M. De Berenger had neither dined or slept at home on the night of the 20th of February, and to the utter unim- portance of the circumstance, whether he was in to'Xn at eleven on that day or not; and having then reca- pitulated the evidence, the Jury, without hesitation, found the defendant— Not guilty of wilful or cor- rupt Perjury. LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE KIMG V. LAUNCEI. OT DAVISON.— Mr. Spankie opened the case, and stated it to be an indictment against the defendant for wilful and corrupt perjury, in an issue which came on to be tried in this Court in June, 1H14, against Charles Random de Berenger, Lord Cochrane, and others; and the material count imputed that the defendant falsely and corruptly swore that he saw the said Charles Random de Berenger pass his house, iu which he was a lodger, on the moruing of the 20th of February, 1814, whereas, iu truth, and in fact, the said Charles Random de Berenger was not in London at the time. Mr. Marryat then addressed the Jury, and stated that the indictment was preferred against Mr. Launce- lot Davison, who at the time of the transaction al- luded to was clerk to a broker, but had since be- came a broker himself. This case he said, was of considerable importance on its own merits alone, and it was his wish to disconnect it from ail extrinsic cir- cumstances. He had no wish to bring into question the conduct of other persons, nor did he wish to cast any reflections on those who had produced Mr. Davison as a witness. In order that he might render the present proceeding intelligible, however, he thought it necessary to explain the lialure of the in- dictment, in support of which, the defendant had given the evidence which formed the subject of an indictment against himself. The indictment to which he alluded was preferred against Charles Random de Berenger, who was at that time a prisoner in the rules of the King's Bench, Lord Cochrane, Sir Alex- ander Cochrane, his uncle, and several other persons, for conspiring together to send the said De Berenger to Dover for the purpose of propagating false intelli- gence respecting the defeat and death of Bonaparte, aud of assuming the appearance of a King's messenger, with a view of giving credit to this intelligence, and enabling the conspirators thereby to defraud certain of his Majesty's subjects, by the sale of a quantity of omnium and stock, of which they were the possessors, at a higher rate than . under other circumstances it would have fetched. To support this charge it be- came extremely material to prove that De Berenger had left his lodgings at such a time on the Sunday previous to the execution of this scheme as would enable him to reach Dover at the time when the sup- posed messenger arrived. For this purpose the pre- sent defendant, in whose house De Berenger was a lodger, was called, and he swore that he had seen De Berenger quit his house in a particular dress at eleven o'clock on the Sunday in questiou ; a fact to which he said he could the more certainly swear as he was waiting for the Asylum clock to strike eleven in order that he might attend divine worship. Such was the amount of Mr. Davison's testimony; whereas, in truth and in fact, M. De Bereuger left London on Satur day evening, the 19th of February, Ift the heavy coach, for Dover, aud arrived there the next morning at ten o'clock; so that it was utterly impossible Mr. Davison could have sworn the truth, and must be held to have committed wilful perjury After some further observations, he proceeded to call witnesses. David Baugham, in the - spring of 1814, lived waiter at the Royal Oak, at Dover. Remembered a gentle- man coming to his master's house on Sunday the 20tl COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CURIOUS ACTION FOR DAMAGES. KIMRT. F T: WOOD.— Mr. Serjeant Best stated the case for the plaintiff, who had been a working sugar- baker, in the employment of a sugar- manufacturer at the east end of the town, and he brought this action against Alderffian Wood, the present respectable Lord Mayor of London, for illegal imprisonment.— The circfrtfiStances of the case Were as follow:— The plaintiff aiin others had differed with the manufac- turer, their employer, relative to their allowance for board wages; they insisted on getting 12s. per week, and their employer Would onlygive 10s. the conse- quence was that they quitted his employment. For this offence the manufacturer had the plaintiff and three others brought before the Lord Mayor, who, exercising his judgment Oil the Act of the 25th Geo. 11. c. 19, thought proper to commit them to the House of Correction for this combination, for the space of one month. Here the Learned Serjeant cited the form of committal required by the Act, which was, that the party should be so committed—" to be col lected, to be kept at hard labour, and imprisoned in the House of Correction for a time not exceeding one month." The Learned Serjeant stated, it was not his business to consider the motive w hieh induced the Lord Mayorto depart from the form prescribed by the statute, it was enough for him to establish the fact that he bad so departed; for in the warrant of committal he had omitted the words " to be corrected:"— it of course fol- lowed from this omission, that the committal was ille- gal, inasmuch as it purported to te done according to a particular statute, the form of which was impera- tive on this point, aud the terms of which were not complied with— The construction of the Court of King's Bench, in a case decided as to the meaning of the words" to be corrected" was, that they meant the infliction of corporeal punishment. Now the party had not been so punished, aud the Lord Mayor had no dispensing power in such case. The Solicitor- General, for the defendant, contended that the words of the statute could not possibly mean in all cases that the party should be whipped. They might as well mean the moral correction by imprison- ment, as the corporeal correction by puuishuieut. The Legislature never could have meant, as a general and statutable regulation, that in cases which, from their nature, were of various characters, and mightadmteof great mitigation, the extreme'punishment should be reserved for all. It would then be most singular, if a Magistrate, exercising that humane discretion in the infliction of punishment with which he is invested, should be rendered answerable for his humanity, and to the very person who had the benefit of his cle- mency— The Lord Mayor had committed the plain- tiff to the House of Correction for one month, for hav- ing quitted an employment to which lie was bound to attend for a twelvemonth, and left his w ork unfinished. The plaintiff's case is, that he should have been whip- ped as well as imprisoned, and it was for the Jury to say, to what damages he was entitled for not having been whipped. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, One Farthing damages, subject to the opinion of the Court as to the words in the statute. Two Priests of Macerata have been arrested and carried to Rome, charged with publishing a fabri- cated letter from St. Paul to the Romans, with dangerous comments. Our Gothic ancestors, whenever there was an eclipse, thought that the sun and moon were going to be devoured by a great dragon. Comets used regularly to be supposed ominous, if not fatal; and nothing is older than prophecies of the end of the world. There was one, for instance, in the time of the commonwealth, made by an enthusiast of the name of Sedgwick, who is ridiculed in Hudibras; where Sidrophel also, the conjuror, in gazing through his telescope, mistakes a paper kite for a comct, and immediately concludes, that it is " a fatal omen,"— And can no less than the world's end, Or Nature's funeral portend. About a hundred years back there was the same talk as at present about the sun. Prior alludes to it in his ballad of Do ten Hull, aud we may see what he thought of it:— But what did they talk of from morning to noon? Why of spots in the sun, aud the man in the moon. A magnificent stone portico at Fisherwick House, near Lichfield, for which 1,0001. was bid some time ago, for the new Church at Birmingham, was sold at the late sale of the materials, to the architect of Lord Viscount Anson, for 321.! This was one of the noblest and largest, mansions in the. British em- pire, having been built little more than , a quarter of a century back, without reference to expence. Alexander Nicoll, Esq. of Baliol College, who had lately married a most amiable young lady, hav- ing taken lodgings in Oxford, the happy pair re- tired, as usual, on Tuesday evening, and on Wed- nesday morning, about two o'clock, Mr. N. awoke, jumped out of bed, and, in the most districted state, alarmed the people of the house, who having entered the room, found the lady quite dead! CURIOUS BEQUEST.— The will of a gentleman which some time since became the subject of le- gation, contained the bequest following:—" I give to my son , who is at Eaton, and intended for holy orders, my five years old Belzebub mare" IRISH MANORS— In an advertisement lately in a Dublin Paper, there appeared an offer of a house and land, tog- ether with some sporting accommoda- tions, in which it was stated, whoever might take the premises, should have permission, without fur- ther leave— to shoot himself. A shocking accident happened on Monday morn- ing, opposite the New Church, in the Strand. As a coach and horses were moving on with another couch behind fastened to it, a fine boy, about ten years old, of the name of Mash, got upon the pole of the latter, from which he fell, and the wheels went over his body. He was taken to Bartholo- mew Hospital, but no hopes were entertained of his recovery. William Drake, the soldier of the African corps who has been nearly five months in a state of appa- rent insensibility, has been removed from Hilsea to York Hospital, Chelsea. There has been no mater- nal alteration discovered in his state for some time. His friends requested that he might be delivered up to them, but this was refused. About twelve o'clock on Sunday night. a fire, broke out in the lower part of a small coffee- house, kept by H. Humes, 11, Burleigh- street, Strand, which caused much alarm in the neighbourhood, the persons who occupied the lower part being . from home, and the street- door double locked, of which they had the key, the persons who occupied the upper part could not get_ out, and those on the outside could not gain admittance. The first floor windows were crowded with' men, women, and children, enveloped in smoke and crying out for help, among whom was one poor woman who had been brought to bed the preceding day; others were busy in throwing out beds and other articles* of furniture into the street. At length two ladders were procured, and they were all safely resetted from their perilous situation; several engines ar- rived, and two firemen with pick- axes, with much difficulty, broke the door to pieces and gained ad- mittance. Fortunately the fire was got under without doing further damage than what the lower part of the house sustained. It is supposed it originated from a spark flying from some wood that was in the grate. Friday an inquisition was held in St. Giles's Workhouse by Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex, on view of the body of Edward Sweeney,' a discharged sailor, who put an end to his existence the preceding morning. — Mr. Andrew Whalt; grocer, 209, Holborn, deposed, that on Wednesday afternoon, hearing a pane of glass broken in his shop- window, he went, out and seized the deceased, who had been pointed out to him to be the person who had done it, and insisted on his paying for it. The deceased made several blows at him with a large stick, which witness succeeded in wresting from him at last. A large mob collected, who, on pretence that he was not justified in detaining a man for breaking his windows, rescued him. But he procured some constables, and pursued the deceased into Bloomsbury- square, where they took him into custody and lodged him in the watch- house. He was very drunk and abusive to every person.— Catherine Fuzman, wife of the watch- house- keeper, stated, that the deceased made several attempts on his own life with a pair of scissars, which he carried about him. After being in the watch- house for some time, he requested to be accommodated with a bed, and he was imme- diately shewn one, and went to bed. About seven o'clock next morning, witness went up to let out two other persons who were also there. The de- ceased asked her for some water, which she- brought up to him. Afterwards in a few minutes his wife came, and brought him some breakfast. She in- stantly went up stairs, and on the door being opened, he was discovered suspended by a cord from the ' bed - post, his feet touching the ground, but he was quite dead. Verdict— Insanity. DEATH OF A MISER.— At Norfolk, in America, on Thursday, 16th of May last, died Peter Forde, a native of France, and well known for his penurious habits, and strong attachment to the precious me- tals.— During a residence in that plate of probably twenty years, he continued in the occupation of a retail grocer, upon the most limited scale, hisstock in trade seldom exceeding 200 dollars; yet in this inconsiderable way, it is asserted that he accumu- lated upwards of 50,000 dollars! The manner in which he lived may in some degree account for an accumulation so disproportionate to the mean's he employed. He denied himself all the comforts of life, kept no company, and employed no servants, except occasionally a negro boy to slay in the shop when he went out. One room served him for his store, parlour, bed- chamber, and kitchen ; and the whole expence of his household would be over- rated at 100 dollars a year. The acquisition of money constituted his only source of enjoyment; for this he gave himself up to a life of wretchedness in other respects, that might have challenged the compas- sion of mendicity itself; and beyond this his ideas of happiness never wandered. About 20,000 dol- lars were deposited in the banks, 15,000 dollars he had some time ago remitted to France, and in- vested in real estates, and about 10,000 dollars in gold, were accidentally found after his death, depo- sited in the false bottom of a wooden chest, under a quantity of old clothes and rubbish ! The extra*, ordinary weight of the chest, after its visible con- tents were taken out, excited curiosity, and led to the discovery of the treasure! He has left a bro- ther who is living in France, and has a large family ; to this brother, it was the last request of the de- ceased, that all bis effects in this country might be remitted.—( Norfolk Paper.) - » — . 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