And General Advertiser for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Herts, No. 204. Printed and Published ( for the Proprietors) by E. LANCASTER, No. 151, High- Street, Colchester. Price 7d. Price 7d. or in Quarterly } Paymentt, at 8s. per Quarter. 5 SATURDAY, November 22,1817. $ This Paper is filed at Garraway's, Peeles, and John's Coffee- houses; at Newton and Co.' s < Warwick- Square ; Mr. White's, 33, Fleet- Street; and at the Auction Mart. MONEY. WANTED, FOR A TERM OF SEVEN YEARS, rTHE several SUMS of £ 2,000, £ 1,000, £ 1,000, JL and £ 500, upon good REAL SECURITY— For further particulars apply, if by letter, post- paid, to Messrs. Sarjeant and Perry, Solicitors, Colchester. DEDHAM ASSEMBLY. THE FIRST SUBSCRIPTION ASSEMBLY will be on Friday, the 28th of November, 1817. T. L'ESTRANGE EWEN, Esq. > s. ,„,„,. W. B. GOODRICH, Esq. \ Stewards. The Subscribers arc particularly requested by the Stewards to write the Names of those Persons whom they admit on the Tickets •, and Gentlemen, Non- Subscribers, are also requested to leave their Names at the Door. The Tickets will b'c delivered, and Subscriptions re- ceived, at the Sun Ion; Dedharo,' during the Week.) or at the Rooms on the Morning of the Assembly. ' COLCHESTER. TEA, GROCERY, AND CHEESE WAREHOUSE, Plough Corner, St. Botolph- Street. T. WILMSHURST RESPECTFULLY acquaints the It- habitants of Colchester and its Vicinity, he has purchased the PREMISES, ( late Mr. ASHWELL's,) which will be OP EN ED on Friday, November the- 21st. with a SELEC- TION of GOODS of the very best Quality, to which he solicits their Attention. *>* FINE TEAS direct from the East India Com- HARWICH AND COLCHESTER COACHES. W. COLLEN BEGS to express grateful Acknowledgments to ' lis Friends and the Public in general, for the liberal Encouragement he has received since the re- esta- blishment of the above COACHES; aud respectfully in- forms them, that they will in future proceed from Har- wich every Morning at Five o'clock, and every Evening at Seven; and from the Three Cups Inn, Colchester, every Morning at Nine o'clock, aim every Evening at Eleven ; returning from the Spread Eagle, Gracechurch- street, London, every Morning at Nine, aud every Even- ing at Seven o'Clock. ,,„„•.„„ ( WILLIAM COLLEN, Proprietors,^ THOMAS BOYCE and Co. TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. ALL Persons to whom JAMES GUNN the younger, of Weeley, in the County of Essex, Farmer, stands indebted, are requested immediately to transmit the particulars of their respective Demands to Mr Ambrose, Solicitor, Manningtree, Essex; and all Persons indebted to the said James Gunu, are required forthwith to pay their respective Debts to . Mr. Ambrose, who is duly authorised to receive and give Discharges for the same, and on Non- payment of such Debts to proceed for the Recovery thereof, without further Notice. Manningtree. 12th November, 1817. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY R. GOODWIN, On Tuesday, the 25th of November, 1817, ALL the entiie FARMING LIVE and DEAD STOCK, BARN IMPLEMENTS, BREWING | jtnd DAIRY UTENSILS, HOUSEHOLD FURNI- TURE, & c. upon the Warren Farm, Earls Colne, Essex, late in the occupation of Mr. John Totman; consisting of eleven young and useful cart horses, mares, and colts, a grey chob, quiet in harness, five years old ; five handsome young cows; s. iws and pigs, aud twenty shoat*; two road waggons, one harvest ditto, four three- quarter load carts, one tumbrel; ploughs, harrows and rollers, cart and plough harness, and thillers' gears, stack- cloth, quantity of sawn and rift hurdles, various implements in husbandry, & c. The DAIRY and BREWING UTENSILS comprise churn and milk stands, hogshead brewing copper, mash and other tubs, iron- bound beer- casks, & c. The HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE consists of maho- gany and other tables, clock, kitchen ranges, corner cup- board, servant's bed and blankets, bedstead, and various other articles. The Sale will commence precisely at Ten o Clock, on account of the Number of Lots ana the shortness of the days. Further particulars will appear in Catalogues, to be had at the Angel Inn, and Red Lion, Colchester, and of the Auctioneer, Manningtree. ^^^^ Desirable Freehold Estates, Colchester, Essex. 1 TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY WILLIAM JACKSON, On Saturday, November 2D, 1817, at the Fleece Inn, Col- chester, precisely at Twelve o'clock at Noon, in Four Lots: LOT 1. ALL that extensive FREEHOLD MANSION- HOUSE, pleasantly and conveniently situated in the Parish of All Saints, aud late in the occupation of the Rev. John Smythies, comprising suitable and commodious Rooms of every description for a large family, with Do- mestic Out- otlices, large Yard, and two excellent Gardens, walled in. Lot 2. A commodious DWELLING- HOUSE, Brick Front, in good repair, comprising two good parlours, kitchen, four bed- Jliambe^ s, and garrets, with a Yard, Garden, and convenient Out- houses, pleasantly situated in Queen- street, and now in the occupation of Mrs. Adye, tenant at will. Lot 3. TWO TENEMEN'TS, a large WAREHOUSE, 3 and TWO COACH- HOUSES, with good Lofts over, | being 58 feet in front, and 12 feet from back to front, with Gardens behind, now under a Lease to Mr. Staines, which expires at Midsummer next. Lot 4. A PIECE of GROUND, situate in More- Lane, opposite St. Botolph's Priory, containing about 17 feel in I front, and extending backwards to the town wall, about 70 feet in length, and would be a most desirable Piece of Ground to erect a Collage upon. This is now in the occu- pation of Mr. Joseph Turner, tenant at will. Lot 1 and 1 may be viewed any day between the Hours of Two and Three o'C'ock ; the others at any time. N. B The Laud- tax is redeemed on all these Lots, which are well supplied with Water ; and Lots 2 and 3 are in a very excellent state of repair. Further particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had | of Mr. Maberly, Solicitor, aud of the Auctioneer, Col- chester. In One Volume, Foolscap 8vo. Price 5s. Od. Boards, SELF- CULTIVATION recommended; or, Hints to a Youth leaving School. BY ISAAC TAYLOR, Minister of the Gospel, at Ongar. Printed for Rest Fenner, Paternoster- Row; and sold by Swinborne and Walter, Keymer, and Chaplin, Col- chester; and all other Booksellers in the United Kingdom. Oil Monday next, November 21,1817, will be published, ASERMON, occasioned by the lamented DEATH of her late Royal Highness the PRIN- CESS CHARLOTTE of SAXE- COBOURG, delivered on Sunday, the 10th of November, 1817, by WILLIAM GORDON PLEES, Vicar of Creasing, aud Curate of Rivenhall, Essex Price Is. 6d. - Published by Ogles, Duncan and Co. London; and to be had of Swinborne and Walter, Colchester; Meggy and Chalk, Chelmsford; Youngman, Witham; and Smith, Braintree. This Day is published, embellished with a View of Faulk- bouru Hall, the Seat of J. J. C. Bullock, Esq. and an elegant Vignette, illustrative of the Fashions for the Year, THE ESSEX LADIES' POCKET- BOOK; or, ENTERTAINING MISCELLANY, for the Year 1818; containing a Description of Faulkbourn Hall; the Lives of three eminent Females; Enigmas, Charades, Anagrams,& c.; Original aud Select Modern Poetry, aud a Variety of other useful Matter. Witnam and Maldon: Printed and sold by P. Young- mam ; and may be had of Keymer, Swinborne and Walter, and Chaplin, Colchester; aud all other Booksellers. NEXT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, STATE LOTTERY WILL COMMENCE DRAWING. THE LORDS of the TREASURY, in conse- quence of the recent afflicting Calamity, having by their Warrant commanded the Postponement of the Draw- ing of the STATE LOTTERY, * hich was to have com- menced on the 7th instant, have now directed it to take placc on the above day. G. CARROLL, Contractor. The Particulars of the present Lottery are well known. Its Merits have secured the Approbation of the Public, which will always attend a Lottery that possesses MORE PRIZES THAN BLANKS, and contains besides SIX PRIZES OF £ 20,000. Tickets and Shares arc now again on Sale at the Offices of G. CARROLL, the Contractor, 7, Cornhill, and 26, Oxford. street, London, who sold No. 7,735, the Last Prize of £ 30.000 ever drawn, in Shares; Tickets and Shares are also selling in great Variety by his Agents, R. PETTIT, Perfumer, Maldon. J. HATT, Bookseller, Peas- hill, Cambridge. W. HARPER, Printer, Halesworth. W. MARSH, Bookseller, Diss. T. CRASKE, Bookseller, London- lane, Norwich. S. SUDBURY, Bookseller, Swaffham. W. KIRK, Watchmaker and Silversmith, Butter- market, Stowmarkct. ^ On the 1st of January, 1818, will be published No. I. of a | new Work, to be comprised iu Thirty- six Numbers, - price 2s. od each, entitled, EXCURSIONS THROUGH THE COUNTIES JjJ or ESSEX, SUFFOLK, AND NORFOLK ; com- prising brief Historical and Topographical Delineations of the City of Norwich, and each Town aud Village, to- gether with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobilily and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and every other most- interesting object nf curiosity ; forming a complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist through the three Counties : illustrated with THREE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. London : Printed for and published by Messrs. Long- man. Hurst, Rees, Orme, aud Brown, Paterhoster Row ; J. Greig, Upper Street, Islington; and P. Youngman. Witham and Maldon, Essex ; and sold by all the principal Booksellers in the three Counties. CONDITIONS— This Work will be published regularly ill Monthly Numbers, or nfteuer, if possible, and the De- scription of each County, accompanied with One Hundred Copper- Plate Engravings, will be comprised in Twelve I Numbers; each Number to contain, at least, Eight En- | grarings, and Thirty- six Pages of Letter- Press elegantly I printed in Royal Eighteen*, price 2s. fid.; or in Demy I Octavo, with Proof [ repressions of the Plates, price 4s. I! per Number. Each County will be published separately, I and kept distinct iVom the others, and accompanied with appropriate Titles, Indexes, & c. NEXT TUESDAY, NOVEMBER - 25, Is apivinled by the Lords of the Treasury for the Com- mencement ofth- c Drawing of ike Stale Lottery. J. AND J. S1VEWR1GHT TAKE the earliest opportunity of informing the Public, that the Drawing of the STATE LOT- TERY ( which was postponed by Order of Government, in consequence of the lamented decease of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte) will commence on Tues- day next, November 23. The Scheme contains SIX PRIZES OF £ 20,000; Besides other Capitals, and there are MORE PRIZES THAN BLANKS. Tickets aud Shares are selling, in great Variety, by J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT, at their Lon- don Offices, 37, Cornhill, 11, Holborn, 3S, Hay market, and 141, Oxford- street; where, in the last Lottery, No. 2,377, a Prize of £ 20,000, was sold iu Shares; and by their Agents, W. BETTS, Colchester. W. Y. RUDD, Davy- place, Norwich. EAGLE WILLETT, Thetford. W. WH1TTINGHAM, Lynn. JOHN WHITE, Wisbeach. IEXTRACTS from LETTERS addressed to Dr. J SOLOMON, Gilead- House, near Liverpool, illus- trating the Efficacy of the CORDIAL BALM of GI- LEAD in those difficult and complicated Disorders ior which it is pecularly adapted, being administered to the tender infant, the pregnant female, and to palsied age, with safety and efficacy, hitherto unparalleled in the annals of medical discovery. North Wales— R. M Willis, Penlin- Castle, near Cow bridge, writes thus:— I feel it a duty incumbent upon me to return you my heartfelt thanks for the great blessing I now enjoy; and for the good of the alHicted, request you will make my case public I have been seven years afflicted ( ever since I had a dangerous fever iu Jamaica) w ith a violent pain in the back part aud crown of my head, spasms in my stomach, nausea, aud frequent vomiting-; pains in my thighs, legs, and arms; a dry cough, dis- turbed sleep, and little appetite; for which 1 have con- sulted the most eminent physicians without obtaining relief. Through the use of your Cordial Balm of Gilead, and God's assistance, 1 feel myself better than I have been for the last twenty years, and have recovered my long lost health solely through the great efficacy of your truly valuable restorative. Liverpool.— Edward Jones, of this town, says— My mind is impressed with a lively sense of gratitude for the vefy great benefit I have received from your Cordial Balm of Gilead, in a nervous fever, which reduced me to such a state of weakness, that I could not hold up my head, 1 was in this situation ( the most deplorable ima- ginable) fourteen months, when a friend advised me to try your Cordial Balm of Gilead, one bottle of which, to my great comfort, enabled me to follow my usual avocations aud by the use of two more bottles completely recovered my health. *„* It is impossible to insert all the cases and cures which Dr. Solomon is in possession of, as it would require some volumes; he contents himself with what has been inserted, great experience having convinced him, that in all morbid affections of the blood and lymph ( the cause of almost every malady^ so noble, safe, aud efficacious a remedy, was" never offered to mankind. As Dr. Solomon's practice has now become so great and extensive, that his constant engagements require a consi- derable portion of his time and attendance, he expects, when consulted, the usual compliment of one pound. But all written cases, or letters of advice, and unaccom- panied with au order for medicine and remittance, to be answered at his leisure, are lequired to enclose only hall' a guinea.— Drafts may be obtained at any Post- Office, payable at Liverpool, for spiall sums of money, which is a sure mode of conveyance. Such letters should, for safety, be thus directed :—" Money Letter. Or. Solomon, Gilead- House, near Liverpool. Paid double postage." Sold by Swinborne and Walter, Keymer, and Chaplin, Booksellers ; also Harris and Firmin, and Goose, Druggists, Colchestcr ; Meggy and Chalk, Guy, aud kelham, Chelms- ford; Youngman, William and Maldon ; Smith, Braintree ; Seager, Harwich; Holroyd, Maldon; Hardacre, Had- leigh; Hill, Ballingdon; and by all Venders of Patent Medicines in Europe and America. Price lis. and 33s. a bottle, duty included. Of whom maybe had, the ANTI- IMPETIGINES, or SOLOMONS DROPS; au absolute cure for the Scurvy, Scrofula, Leprosy, & c. Price 11s. aud 33s. a bottle. SOLOMON'S ABSTERGENT LOTION, au effectual Cure for Scorbutic Eruptions, Coarseness, Redness, Pim- ples, & c. on the face, hands, and neck. Price 4s. lid. a bottle. Also, SOLOMON'S GUIDE to HEALTH, which ex- plains, iu a concise and easy manner, the most simple methods of treatment, and efficacious remedies, for Ner- vous, Hypochondriac, and Consumptive Complaints.— Price 3 » . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BRUSSELS, NOV. 12.— Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange are profoundly afflicted at the death of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales. Letters from Lon- don inform us, that on the ? th a courier was dis- patched to Italy, to carry to the mother of Princess Charlotte the details of her death. Mr. Hanlon, an English courier, passed through this city to- day, on his way to Cambray and Ger- many. The High Chamberlain, M. Van Boetzelaer, announced yesterday, at the Hague, that to- rnor- row, the 13th, the Court will go into mourning for the death of her Royal Highness Princess Char- lotte Augusta, daughter of i « e Prince Regent of England, and Consort of his Serene Highness the Prince Leopold, of Saxe- Cobourg, The mourning will last four weeks. Letters from the grand head- quartets at Cam- bray, say, that the news of the unexpected death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales has spread uni- versal grief and dismay iu the English army. The Generals, the officers of all ranks, the private sol- diers, were seen to shed tears of affliction when they were informed of it. What funeral oration would be so affecting ? We have before- mentioned, that M. Maubrieul, accused of stealing the diamonds of the Queen of Westphalia, is in confinement at Douay, and that his cause is to be tried again by the Court of Appeal of that city. We are now informed, that this affair is. to come on the ISth of December next. PARIS, Nov. 11.— The details which we have given in our article from London, on the sudden and unexpected death of the Princess Charlotte, will be read with the most touching interest. There is in the calamities of the powerful of the earth something which speaks at once to the imagination and the heart, and which does not allow us to re- main insensible to the spectacle of these great and august misfortunes. The regrets which they in- spire are doubled, when to the image of power swallowed up in the grave, is joined the idea of youth, grace, and beauty, cut down in their flower, brilliant hopes vanished, and a royal posterity buried at once in a single tomb, in this uuion of melancholy circumstances, pity, that common tie of humanity, annihilates distance, effaces limits, ex- tinguishes recollections, and unites all sentiments. The mourning of one nation becomes that of all, and then more than ever they remember that they are brethren. The hopes excited by the English papers of the 5th, with respect to the safe accouchement of the Princess Charlotte, huve been cruelly deceived. We have received the following intelligence, which it is our melancholy duty to communicate.— Jour- nal des Debats.—[ Here follows the London Ga- zette.]— The Moniteur likewise contains the Ga- zette Extraordinary, announcing the death of her Royal Highness. Letters from Calais, arrived this day, announce the dreadful news of the death of her Royal High- ness the Princess Charlotte, and of the Prince to whom she had given birth. This melancholy event has plunged the whole empire of Great Bri- tain into grief."— Gazette de France. The legitimate succession to the throne is a fun- damental principal of social order: every citizen feels that the repose, the liberty, the laws of the State, are dependent upon it. All that concerns it has therefore the strongest interest in exciting either our joy or our grief. The births or marriages of Princes are occasions of national rejoicing— their death of national mourning. A reigning family is the family of the State ; it is more— it is that of every citizen of the State, and in which the first wishes of every citizen are centered. In France this truth is always expressed with that grace aud feeling which form the leading and most amiable traits of our national character. The Royal House is called the House of France, the progeny of our Kings, the Children of France— appellations not more full of tenderness, than expressive of one of the most sacred of political principles. England offers us at this moment the spectacle of a people deeply penetrated with those salutary sen- timents; the universal grief which the death of the Princess Charlotte has excited among them is a striking example to present to those unquiet, tur- bulent, phlegmatic spirits, who would maintain that persons are nothing, and things alone worthy of regard. The friends of humanity and patriotism reason otherwise, and independently of the sacred character which Princes have in their eyes, they behold in them the safeguards of the people, and the surest guarantees of their institutions. The English Journals are filled with touching laments inspired by their feeling of the loss which the country has suffered. Gone, they say, is the rock aud the hope of our Empire— thus happily uniting in one phrase those affections which spring from a patriotic source, and those which are in- spired by the spectacle ofyouth and beauty, blighted in a manner most cruel and unexpected. Other motives of regret they find in the religious senti- ments of the Princess, in the details of her private life, in the love and respect which she bore for her husband. Happy the people who appreciate such virtues in their Princes 1—( La Quotidienne. J PARIS, Nov. 14.— It was remarked that there was not a single Englishman at the last performance of the Opera. Those whom we meet in the streets are either in mourinng, or wear crape on the arm. PARIS, Nov. 16.— The vintage has ended in the whole ol the department of the Lower Pyrenees. There is a general complaint of the small quantity of the wines, but they are of excellent quality. The vines appear very strong, and if no accident happens, promise an abundant vintage in the en- suing year. The Prince de Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Am- bassador, has obtained from the King an audience of leave. His Excellency sets out for London, where he goes to offer, in the name of his Court, compliments of condolence to the Prince Regent, on the occasion of the death of his daughter, the Princess Charlotte. The marriage of the Princess Maria Anna Caro- lina of Saxony with the Hereditary Prince of Tuscany was celebrated on the 28th of October, at Dresden, in the Chapel of the Palace, by the Bishop of Argos, in presence of their Majesties the King and Queen of Saxony, the Royal Family, the Infant of Spain Don Francisco de Paulo, and all the Court. The young Princess is eighteen years of age. She set out on the 30th for Florence. On the 1st of November she was at Bayreuth, and thence proceeds by Munich to Trent. It is in this latter town that the Princess will be given up to theCoinmissioner of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. GHENT, Nov. 8.— The town of Courtray has acceded to the principles of the Patriotic Society of Ghent for the exclusion of foreign manufac- tures. BERLIN, NOV. 1.— The Council of State has been adjourned. Prince Hardenberg sets out on the 11th inst. for the Prussian provinces of the Rhine. We are assured that they are to be go- verned by forms of administration different from those in practice in the old provinces of the Mo- narchy. All sensible people desire this arrange- ment, which will satisfy the inhabitants of the banks of the Rhine, without obliging the other Prussians to bend under new forms. Frederick II. observed the same policy when he acquired Silesia ill 1742. He intrusted the government to a di- recting Minister, independent of the Authorities of Berlin. In the Bremen Gazette is a long extract from the deposition of the Russian Captain Schumann, of the Industry, which was taken by the Algerines, and afterwards recovered by the Captain and the five men who were left on board. In this state- ment, made to the Russian Consul in Portugal, the Captain describes the manner of his being taken, and of his recovering his ship by killing and throwing into the sea the eleven Turks put on board. He says he kept none of their'effects ex- cept their arms, for fear of being obliged to perform strict quarantine. He therefore threw the bodies into the sea with their clothes on, but first took from the pocket of the chief, four printed certificates of the Consuls of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands, residing at Algiers, who request the Commanders of the ships of war of their nations, to let all prizes made by the said brig on a cruize pass freely. The certificate of the French Consul serves as a passport for the prizes themselves— those of the other Consuls only for the Corsair, named Rays Ahmet. The deposition was made on the 17th July, and confirmed on oath by the five sailors, of whom four are from Lubeck. The Industry was bound to Carril, iu Gallicia. THE LATE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.— Extract from a German paper:—" We insert the very interest- ing letter. written by the late Queen of Prussia, with her own hand, to Colonel Massenbach, and we are assured that the receiver preserves it as a sacred relic. Could that man calumniate a Prin- cess whose letter he regards as a relic ?" " Potsdam, Dec. 21,1801. " While I return you the History of the present state of Europe, I request you to accept, my dear Colonel, my sincerest thanks for the interest which you take in my progress and improvement. Your interest is to me a proof of esteem which I know how to value. By my exertions to improve and to advance in useful accomplishments, without neglecting1 my most sacred duties, I shall endeavour to deserve the honourable and flattering opinion which the public entertains of me. It is with regret that I leave a citY where so many noble individuals love me. Greet from me your wife and children. May they be al- ways prosperous and happy. With a little modera- tion they will be so, for tliey are good and virtuous. Inquire through Kleist of the progress of my improve- ment. Once more accept of my thanks, and the as- surance that I am your friend. LOUISA." ITALY.— In the ruins of Herculaneum there have lately been found loaves which were baked under the reign ofTitus, and which still bear the baker's mark, indicating the quality of the flour, which was probably prescribed by regulation of the police.— There have also been found utensils of bronze, which, instead of being tinned like ours, are well silvered. The ancients doubtless preferred this me- thod as more wholesome and more durable. APPEAL OF MURDER. " An appeal," says Mr. Justice Blackstone, ( Vol- IV. p. 312.) " in the sense wherein it is here used does not signify any complaint to a superior Court of an injustice done by au inferior one, which is the general use of the word ; but it here means an ori- ginal suit at the time of its first commencement.— It is derived from the French 1 appeller,' the verb active, which signifies to call upon, summon, or challenge one ; and not the verb neuter, which sig- nifies the same as the ordinary sense of ' appeal' in English. An appeal, therefore, when spoken of as a criminal prosecution, denotes an accusation by a private subject against another for some heinous crime, demanding punishment on account of the particular injury suffered, rather than for the of- fence against the public." An appeal by an innocent person is the party's private action, prosecuting only for the Crown in respect of the offence against the public, which he may do two ways ; first, by Writ, and second, by Bill. A writ of appeal is an original issuing out of Chancery, and returnable in the King's Bench only; and a bill of appeal must contain greater certainty than a writ of appeal, and is in lieu both of the writ and declaration. It is a trial upon issue joined, and may be determined by a Jury of the body of the county where the offence was committed, as in case of indictment, when there is a general plea of not guilty; but the trial by battel, duel, or single com- bat, may be demanded at the election of the appellee; and this sort of trial is carried on with equal so lemniy, ami was anciently the case on a writ of right, but with this difference, that in the latter case, each party might hire a champion, but here they must fight in their proper persons ; and therefore it the appellant or approver be a woman, a priest, an infant, or of the age of sixty, or lame, or blind, he or she may counter- plead,' aud refuse the wager of battel, and compel the appellee to put himself upon the country. There are other exemptions from this mode of trial. For instance, Peers of the realm bringing an appeal, shall not be challenged to wage battel, on account of the dignity of their persons ; nor the citizens of London, by special charter, be- cause fighting seems foreign to their education and employment. So likewise if the crime be notorious, as if the thief be taken with the mainour, or the murderer in the room with a bloody knife, the ap- pellant may refuse the tender of battel from the ap- pellee ; for it is unreasonable than an innocent man should stake his life against one who is already half convicted. The form and manner of - waging bat- tel upon appeals of murder are much the same as the ancient mode upon a writ of right,-- only the oaths of the two combatants are vastly morestrikingartdso- lemn. The appellee, when appealed of felony, pleads not guilty, andihrows down his glove and declares he will defeud the same by his body ; the appellant takes up theglove, and replies that he is ready to make gooii the appeal, body for body, and thereupon llie appel- lee, taking the book in his right hand, and in his left the right hand of his antagonist, swears to this effect: " Hoc audi, homo quem, per manum teneo," < 5rc.— " Hear this, O man, whom I hold by the hand, who callest thyself John by the name of baptism, I that I, who call myself Thomas by the name oi baptism, did not. feloniously murder thy father, William by name, tior am any way guilty of the said felony ; so help me God and the saints ! And this I will defend against thee by my body, as this Court shall award !'•' To which the appellant re- plies, holding the Bible and his antagonist's light I hand in the same manner as the other, " Hear this, | O man, whom I hold by the hand, who callest self Thomas by the name of baptism, ihat thou :. rt perjured ; and therefore perjured, because that thon feloniously didst murder my father, William by name, so help me God and the saints ! And this 1 will prove against thee by my body, as this Court shall award !"— The battel is then to be fought with the same weapons, viz. batons; the same so- lemnity, and the same oath against amulets and sorcery, Ihat are used in the civil combat; and if the appellee be so far vanquished that he cannot or will not fight any longer, he shall be adjudged to be hanged immediately : and then, as weil as if he be killed in battel, Providence is deemed to have determined in favour of the truth, aud his blood shall be attainted. But if lie kills the appellant, or can maintain the fight from sun- rising till the stars appear in the evening, he shall be acquitted. So also, if the appellant becomes recreant, and pronounces the horrible word of craven, he shall lose his liberam legem, and become infamous ; and the appellee shall recover his damages, andshallbt- forever quit, not only of the appeal, but of all indictments likewise for the same offence. The last time that the trial by battel was awarded in this country, was in the case of Lord Rea and Mr. Ramsey, in the 7th Charles I. The King, by his commission, appointed a constable of England to preside at the trial, who proclaimed a day for the duel, on which the combatants were to appear with a spear, a long sword, a short sword, and a dagger ; but the combat was prorogued to a further day, before which the King revoked the commis- sion. The last case of appeal in this country was the case of Smith, widow, v. Taylor, reported in 5th Burrow, 2719, in the year 1771. The defendant had been indicted of the wilful murder ol the ap- pellant's husband, it appearing that the deceased was stabbed by the prisoner ( a soldier in the King'< Guards) in a public- house squabble, and the Jury returned a special verdict, leaving it to the Court of King's Bench to determine whether the offence proved against the defendant was murder or man- slaughter. The Court, upon mature deliberation, held it to be only manslaughter, and the defendant underwent the punishment of burning in the left hand, which was forthwith executed in open Court. Elizabeth Smith afterwards appealed the defendant of the death of her husband, when the defendant pleaded in bar of the appeal, his conviction ami* punishment for the offence of manslaughter, which the Court holding to be a good plea, the appellant was nonsuited, and the defendant discharged. BANKRUPTS. James Oliphant, Cockspur- strect, Middlesex, hat- manu- facturer — Jesse Mitchell, Titchfield, Southampton, linen- draper.— Richard Oxman, Penzance, Cornwall, merchant. — James Marsh, Pilkington, Lancaster, farmer. — James Dyson, Meltham Mill, York, clothier.— George dates and George Oates, jun. Sheffield, merchants — Mark Wardle, Manchester, paper- dealer— John Vickry Bridgman, Ta- vistock, Devon, money- scrivener— Jacob Israel Brandon, Great Alie- street, Goodman's- fields. Middlesex, merchant. — John Smith, Holmfirth, York, clothier.— Jeremiah Flack, Old- street, St. Luke, Middlesex, victualler.— Henry Hew- itt, Sheffield, merchant.— Thomas Patterson, Stockport, Chester, draper.— John Parry, Denbigh, draper — Lewis Pitts, Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, merchant; Attornies, Messrs. Taylor and Roscoe, King's Bench- walk, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Taylor and Browne, Diss, Norfolk. — George Moses Thurkle, New- street- square, Fetter- lane, London, wine- merchant — William Hawke, Lamerton, De- vonshire, merchant.— William Peter Beckett, Wakefield, York, linen- draper — George Wainwright, New Com). Ion- street, St. Giles, Middlesex, bottle- merchant. — William Smith, Long- acre, Middlesex, spring blind- maker.— Wil- liam Kendrick, Davenlry, Northampton, grocer — Johu Cooke, Fareham, Southampton, tanner. — Thomas Smith, Chepstow, Monmouth, cabinet- maker.— John Powell, Tops- ham, Devon, rope- maker. — William Davies. Bedwelty, Monmouth, innholder— James Green, Saltford, Somerset, victualler.— Thomas Holbrook, Bath, coach- master.— John Smith, Shrewsbury, linen- draper. — John Quint, Tooley- street, Southwark, cider merchant. — Charles Pallett aud John Power Massey, Love- lane, Aldermanbury, London, factors.— William Hutchinson, St. John- street, Middlesex, cheesemonger— William Kilsby, Old Brentford, broker — William Mathieson and George Rankin I. apraik, Bi- shopsgate- street Without, London, tailors.— Rivers Dick- inson and John Dickinson, St. John- street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, brewers.— John Collinson, HuddersfieldvYork, boat- builder. THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE, THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. CLAREMONT, Nov. 16.— Yesterday evening was the time appointed for the final enclosure of the body of the Princess Charlotte in the state coffin. Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, ar- rived early, to superintend the proceedings, which were managed so that the feelings of Prince Leo- pold might not be harassed by the sight or know- ledge of any thing that was going on. At seven o'clock, when his Serene Highness retired to his private- room, the Rev. Dr. Short, and Dr. Stock- man, his resident physician, accompanied him, and it was arranged that they were to remain constantly with him to engage his attention. Soon after the retirement of the Prince, the plumbers attending for that purpose, proceeded to solder the lead coffin. The removal of the state coffin from London to this place had been very judiciously arranged : it left the honse of Messrs. France and Banting, in Pall- mall, between live and six o'clock, in a hearse drawn by four horses, followed by a mourning- coach, in which was the outside urn and the out- side coffin for the infant. Another mourning- coach followed, in which was Mr. Banting, one of the Royal Undertakers, and his assistants. They proceeded on the road in a private manner, and only halted for a short time at Kingston Bottom to rest and feed the horses. They arrived here a little before ten, and entered the park and the house by the back entrance with the utmost silence. The state coffin was conveyed to the bed- room, where the remains of the Princess were deposited in the inner mahogany coffin enclosed in a lead coffin, which have already been described; they were lifted into the state coffin, which is of ma- hogany, covered with the richest crimson velvet, ornamented in the most splendid and elegant style possible. The handles have been executed in a manner to have the effect of very handsome orna- ments, highly finished and embossed, with very superior workmanship. The urn is ornamented in a similar manner to the coffin. The coffin of the infant, like that of the parent, is of mahogany, covered with crimson velvet, and formed into pannels, with white plated nails. The handles are also of plated metal. On the lid is a plated sheet of metal, on which is engraved the following in- scription : — The still- born Male Infant of their Royal and Serene Highnesses The Princess Charlotte Augusta, and of Prince Leopold Saxe- Cobourg. November 6, 1817. The lining is of white satin. The spectators of the last melancholy ceremony of shutting up for ever the mortal remains of the mother and the child were, the Baron Hardenbrooke, Sir R. Gardener, Colonel Addenbroke, Lady John Thynne, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Cohen- bonrg, & c. The great object in facilitating this arrangement was, to have the whole completed, and every thing in a composed state, as usual in the house, before eleven o'clock, being the hour at which the Prince has nighly visited the remains of his beloved Princess since her decease, to weep over them previous to his retiring to his bed : hap- pily the whole was completed before the clock struck eleven, and the persons employed in the operations retired from view, so that when the Prince entered the room he only beheld one coffin substituted for another. Tuesday night was the time appointed for the removal of the bodies of the Princess and her infant from Claremont to Windsor. The hearse which was to convey the deceased Princess for ever from the place of which so lately she was the grace, the delight, and pride, arrived at Esher about ten o'clock in the morning of that day. It was drawn by eight black horses, attended by five mourning carriages; two with six, the rest with four black horses. Care was taken that these sombre ac companiments of death should not be obtruded on the sight of Prince Leopold till the last minute, when he was to be summoned to share in the me- lancholy procession, which would attend his be- loved consort to the dreary solitude which separates her for ever from the living. At five o'clock, the hearse drew up to Claremont ; and shortly after, the coffins were enclosed in it. The Prince, with feelings not to be described, and with a counte- nance and manner too distressing to look upon, stepped into the coach to follow that lifeless corpse, which was lately all animated with generous affec- tion, with ever- springing kindness, and frank con- fiding liveliness of soul. The remains of the Royal Infant, and the Urn, were in the first coach; the hearse with the body of the Princess Charlotte next, drawn by eight horses ; Prince Leopold was in a mourning coach, drawn by six horses, and the attendants followed in the other mourning coaches. The procession passed through Laleham, Staines, and Runnymede, to Windsor, without halting. It reached Windsor at midnight, and immediately advanced to the Lower Lodge, where every preparation was made for its reception. The bodies were then conveyed into a room prepared for that purpose, covered in every part, walls, ceiling, and floor, with black cloth ; and escutcheons, bearing the arms of her Royal Highness, were suspended in various direc- tions. The coffin of the Princess was placed on a bier, under a rich canopy of black velvet, orna- mented with a profusion of plumes, there to re- main till removed to its last sad depository in St. George's Chapel.— The coach containing the body of the infant and urn drove to the Chapel, where it was received by the Dean, and deposited in the vault without any church service. FUNERAL OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. At an early hour on Wednesday morning the roads leading from London and other places to Windsor, were thronged with carriages of all de- scriptions, by persons all respectably dressed in deep mourning. Great numbers experienced a disappointment, it having been generally under- stood that the Princess was to lie in state, whereas, on account of the smallness of the place, and there being no passage to enter and return, those only were admitted who had tickets. The room into which the corpse was first carried was hung with Mark cloth, and the adjoining room where it was placed, was certainly fitted up in a style for lying in state— a large black velvet pall on the coffin, with a large white border lying on the ground, which, as well as the whole room, was covered with black cloth. On the coffin was the Princess's Coronet, and at the head thereof, against the wall, was a large escutcheon of silk, similar to those placed on the fronts of houses when death has taken place in a family. Three large wax candles were on each side of the coffin, and numerous other wax candles were burning on all sides of the room. The preparations in the Chapel were not com- pleted till a late hour in the day ; the stalls, and that part of the Chapel in which the coffin was to be placed, were hung with black cloth. The town of Windsor was crowded to excess ; some hundreds could not obtain admission to the respective inns. About six o'clock the crowd began to collect in that part of the town through which the procession from the Lower Lodge to the Chapel was to pass. The Castle gates were shut at five o'clock, after which time- no one was admitted without a pass- ticket. The applications for admission to the Chapel were beyond every thing that can be conceived, and could money have procured that object, consider- able sums would have been given. By the plan adopted, the procession, once formed, was not disturbed till every thing was concluded. The entrance to the Chapel on the present occasion was by the south door, in the front of which was a temporary covered way", lined with black cloth and festooned in front; those who formed the proces- sion were ranged in the lower Chapel, and then entered the upper Chapel by the principal door. ' The extreme fineness of the day was a striking contrast to the melancholy and heart- rending oc- casion, which attracted such numbers. The streets and different avenues to the Castle wore filled with persons in deep mourning; regret was depicted on every face, and the sombre appearance of the whole scene was calculated to create a general depression. ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. Servants and Grooms of her late Royal Highness, and of his Serene Highness, on foot, in deep Mourning. Servants and Grooms of the Royal Family, the Prince Regent, and their Majesties, on foot, in fall State Liveries, with crape hat bands and black gloves, tour and four, bearing flambeaux. The full Band of the Royal Horse Guards Blue. | THE HEARSE, 3. Drawn by eight of his Royal Highness the 2. Prince Regent's black Horses, ~ each Horse attended by a Groom in full State Livery ' S His Majesty's Body Carriage, ~ ( Drawn by a full Set of his Majesty's Horses, each •< Horse attended by a Groom in full State Livery) — I conveying his Serene Highness X/ the Prince Leopold, Chief Mourner; • and their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and! ® Clarence, Supporters to the Chief Mourner -, o The Carriages of the Prince Regent, the Royal: O Family, and the Prince Leopold, each drawn by six Horses, closed the Procession, The whole Procession, from the Lower Lodge to St. George's Chapel, was flanked by the Military, — every fourth man bearing a flambeaux. Upon arrival at St. George's Chapel, the Servants, Grooms, and Band, filed off without the South Door. At the entrance the Dean and Prebendaries, attended by the Choir, received the Body; and the Procession, ( having previously been formed, and being flanked by the Military, every fourth man bearing a flambeaux), moved down the South Aisle, and up the Nave, into the Choir, in the following order:— Poor Knights of Windsor. Pages of the Prince Leopold. Pages of the Royal Family. Pages of the Prince Regent. Pages of their Majesties. Solicitor to her late Royal Highness. Comptroller of the Household of her late Royal Highness. Apothecaries Surgeons of her late of her late Royal Highness. Royal Highness. The and Rectors Curates of the Parishes of Esher and Windsor. Physicians who attended her late Royal Highness. Chaplains to his Serene Highness. Equerry to her late Royal Highness. Equerries of the Royal Family. Equerries of the Prince Regent. Quarter- Master- General Adjutant- General. Officers of the Duchy of Cornwall. Chamberlain to the Great Steward of Scotland. Grooms of the Bed- chamber to the Prince Regent. Pursuivants of Arms. Comptroller Treasurer of the Prince Regent's of the Prince Regent's Household. Household. Master of the Prince Regent's Household. Heralds of Arms. Privy Purse and Private Secretary to the Prince Regent. Lords of the Prince Regent's Bedchamber. Norroy King of Arms. The Bishop of Exeter. The Bishop of Salisbury. The Bishop of London. The Ministers of Hanover and Saxony, Count Munster and Baron de Just. The Deputy Earl Marshal. His Majesty's Ministers. The Archbishop of Canterbury. Choir of Windsor. Prebendaries of Windsor. Dean of Windsor. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. The Groom of the Stole. The Lord Steward of his Majesty's Household. The King's Master of the Horse. Clarenceux King of Arms. - The Coronet of her late - » } ST"' aHi& Vbe, rvneet [ Us" cr- J Cushion, byColonel Ad- \ Usller- * denbrooke. J Gentleman ( Garter Principal King of> Gentleman Usher. \ Arms, bearing his Sceptre, j Usher. Sffidt0? The Lord Chamberlain of$ The Vice Chamberlain $ his Majesty's Household. J Chamberlain THE BODY, - ( Covered with a black Vel- J V vet Pall, adorned with M Supporters eight Escocheons of her W Supporters of the Pall, late Royal Highness1* I of the Pall, Two \ Arms, the Coffin carried / Two Baronesses. 1 by eight Yeomen of the I Baronesses. M Guard, under a Canopy V of black Velvet, borne by A \ eight Gentlemen Ushers. J His Royal . His Royal Highness the \ The f Highness the of clarence, / CHIEF MOURNER, V in a long black f his serene Highness 1 in a long black Cloak, his V PRINCE LEOPOLD, J cloak, his Train borne / in a long black Cloak, \ Train ,' J0nle by two Gen- 1 _ hl* 1 , r " b?, r," i y , J ' » y two Gen- tlemen of his\ Baron, lc Hardenbrock, Mt| gmea ot- hig S'EJ Sir Robert Gardener. ( hold. hold. PRINCES OF THE BLOOD ROYAL, In long black Cloaks, the Train of each borne by two Gentlemen of the respective Households of their Royal Highnesses. Ladies of the Bed- chamber to her late Royal Highness. Women of the Bed- chamber to her late Royal Highness His Majesty's Establishment at Windsor, viz. Groom of the Stole. Master of the Robes. Vice- Chamberlain. Lords of the Bed- chamber. Grooms of the Bed- chamber. Clerk Marshal. Equerries. Master of the Household. Her Majesty's Establishment at Windsor, viz. Master of the Horse. Vice- Chamberlain. Secretary and Comptroller Treasurer of the Household. of the Household. Equerries and Gentlemen Ushers. Ladies of her Majesty's Bed- chamber. Women of her Majesty's Bed- chamber. Ladies Attendants on their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Attendants on her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. Attendants on her Majesty and the Princesses. Upon entering the Choir, the Body was placed on Platform, and the Coronet and Cushion laid upon the Coffin. The Chief Mourner sat in a Chair placed for his Serene Highnes at the head of the Corpse, and their Royal Highnesses, his Supporters, on Chairs on either side; the Supporters of the Pall sat in their places near . the Body. The Princes, and the Nobility, Knights of the Garter, retired to their respective Stalls. The Ministers of State, Officers of the Household, and others of the Pro cession, were conducted to their respective places. The Anthem being performed, and the part of the Service before the interment read, the Body was depo- sited in the Royal Vault. The office of Burial being con- cluded, Garter Principal King of Arms, after a short pause, proclaimed the Style of her late Royal Highness After which, his Serene Highness, the Royal Dukes, the Nobility, and others who composed the Procession, retired. The Knights of the several Orders appeared in their Ribbands and Stars respectively, but without Collars. The Duke of York arrived in the early part of the day. When he came to the Lower Lodge, the soldiers on guard received the signal for forming themselves for the purpose of saluting him ; but with a melancholy wave of the hand he desired that such a ceremony might be dispensed with. The Duke of Clarence drove up to the door of the Castle Inn about three o'clock. The Duke of Gloucester drove direct to the Castle. At half past six o'clock, six companies of the Guards, under the command of Colonel Guise, en- tered the Castle- yard. At that moment the pressure of persons for admission was intolerable. The constables were unable to keep the avenues free, and a detachment of the Blues was consequently called upon to open the approach. The conduct of these soldiers was truly exemplary. It seemed almost as if the scene for which they were all pre- paring, had blended its sympathies with the sterner duties of military discipline. Expostulation, ex- planation, a desire to general accommodation, was the language of the soldiers; and by their efforts the admission of persons to the Chapel and Castle- yard was considerably accelerated. The quickened tolling of the bells, at half past eight, announced the removal of the Royal Remains from the Lower Lodge to St. George's Chapel. At a quarter before nine, the hearse, drawn by eight black horses, preceded by two troops of the Blues, entered the Castle Gate. Ninety- nine of the Royal Servants, in state liveries, with torches, and twenty- four mutes, accompanied the body. Eleven coaches belonging to the Royal Family, with six horses each, followed in funeral procession. They had all their blinds drawn up, save the first, in which Prince Leopold moved to discharge the last heart- rending duty to the once dear source of all his hopes, but now of all his sorrows. The serenity of the night, the moon shining in un- clouded majesty, blending its tranquil rays with the artificial glare of the funereal flambeaux, threw an awful, a religious, and an interesting effect on the whole of this sepulchral pageant. The procession was conducted with the utmost solemnity, and when it arrived in the choir, there was the deepest interest, which was signified by a solemn and mournful silence. The choristers, as soon as they made their appearance in the chapel, began to chaunt the solemn service of " I know that my Redeemer liveth ;" the canopy followed the choristers, and moved at a very slow pace; it appeared to be of immense length, and being born high in the air, had a most imposing effect. Under this was the coffin, carried by eight of the Yeomen of the Guard, and the magnificent pall was sup- ported by four Baronnesses, Ladies Grenville, Ellen- borough, Boston, and Arden. The countenance of Prince Leopold during the whole of the melancholy ceremony, was marked with the strongest characteristics of the most heart- felt grief; at the same time it was evident to the spectators, that his Serene Highness's fortitude had not forsaken him. There was an air of pious and chastened determination in his manner which showed, that while he most poignantly felt his irreparable loss, he was capable of paying the last and dearest tribute to his beloved partner in hap- piness, which was only felt to be the more deeply regretted.— During the whole time of the funeral service he preserved one fixed but downcast look towards the coffin, which contained the mortal remains of all he most valued. He never once raised his eyes to the congregation: he was totally absorbed in his grief. The Royal Dukes who sat or stood beside him, watched him with much soli- citude, as if. they were afraid he would sink under his affliction. His distress, however, was tolerably subdued till the moment when the coffin was gra- dually lowered into the grave; at this awful crisis, when his deeply regretted consort was to be sepa- rated from him for ever, he was alarmingly moved, but by a strong effort he seemed also to conquer his emotion; and the rest of the service passed on without requiring any particular notice. The solemn ceremonial was over before eleven o'clock, but the chapel and the avenues were not completely cleared till twelve o'clock. At that hour the whole town of Windsor was full of bustle and confusion. The carriage- ways were all blocked up with vehicles of every description, and the foot- paths were impassable for the multitude of spec- tators. In a minor but at the same time in a very great degree, this confusion prevailed all the way to London ; the road was covered with post- chaises, and a change of horses was nowhere to be obtained. Prince Leopold returned to Claremont almost immediately after the mournful ceremonial. He had made in the morning a short call at the Queen's Lodge, and walked for a short space in the Little Park, with the Duke of Clarence. The Queen and Princesses kept themselves closely confined to their chambers. A scene unparalleled in universal sympathy and genuine sorrow, presented itself on Wednesday, in every part of London and its vicinity. At eight o'clock in the morning the bells of the metropolitan churches began the minute toll. Every shop was closed; all ranks and classes voluntarily suspended their affairs, and with humble, awful earnestness, filled the sacred temples to supplicate the throne of mercy. ALL the upper and middling classes were in full suits of black, and persons even in humblest life were not without some mark or emblem of sorrow. Divine service was performed in all the churches and chapels of every religious sect and persuasion. The bells of all the churches tolled at intervals during the day, and the deep and heart- chilling tone of St. Paul's struck upon the ear with a force and effect greatly exceeding all its melancholy associates. In several parishes the parochial children were partly dressed in mourning — black collars and cuffs, instead of red, or blue, or green, and black bindings round their caps and badges. The females with black ribands on their gowns and caps. SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN.— There are four- teen English Princes and Princesses in succession to the British Throne. According to a table formed on a medium between the Northampton Table of Observations, and the probability of life in London, supposing neither of the illustrious in- dividuals to have issue, there will be in the next twenty- one years nine reigns, two of them female ones; and after the first there will be no reign longer than twenty- one months, and two as short as five months. Our history furnishes no event similar to this calamitous occurrence. Henry VII. lost his eldest son, Arthur, at the age of nineteen, a few month after his marriage with the Infanta Catherine, who was afterwards married to Henry his brother ( Henry VIII.) and subsequently divorced. Jane Seymour, the wife of Henry VIII. died two days after the birth of a son, but the son survived and succeeded his father, James the First lost his eldest son, but he had another, the ill- fated Charles. The instance that bears most analogy to the one we now deplore, is the death of the Duke of Gloucester, the only survivor of seventeen children whom Queen Anne, before her accession to the Throne, bore to George Prince of Denmark, and which occasioned universal consternation and alarm throughout the kingdom. He was a promising youth of ten years of age, carefully educated in the Protestant faith, and in sound constitutional principles, by Bishop Burnet. His reign, as that of the undoubted legitimate lineal descendant of James II. would have united Whigs and Jacobites, in obedience to what the one would have considered his constitutional, and the latter his divine right to rule. The Duke of Gloucester died in 1700, and occasioned a partial change in the dynasty ; a de- scendant of James the First, the common ancestor, was found in the person of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, his grand- daughter; and her son, under the name of George I. immediately succeeded Anne, in 1714. The subsequent succession is well known, and its further lineal descent inter- rupted, if not broken, by the calamitous blight of its fairest promise. LONDON. The feeling excited on the Continent by the afflict- ing intelligence of our beloved Princess's death, is marked with every characteristic of genuine sorrow. In the Netherlands, in Holland, in the North of Germany, the best sensibilities of the people have been called forth by the melancholy event. The effect at the grand head- quarters at Cambray, and among the whole line of British troops engaged in preserving the tranquillity of France and of Europe, is stated to have been indescribable. The shock was equally rapid and overwhelming. Grief and dismay spread themselves through the ranks, and they felt with their countrymen at home all the value and extent of their common loss. The news of the death of the Princess Charlotte was received in Hamburgh on the 10th inst. and excited in the numerous English residents there the same heart- struck grief with which it has over- whelmed their countrymen at home. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Orange are stated to have been most profoundly affected by the intelligence. An order was immediately issued for the Court of the Netherlands to go into mourning, to commence on the 13th, and last . four weeks. The young Queen of Spain not only suckles her infant, but performs all the most, painful duties of a mother, with the most interesting care and tender- ness. These she makes her happiness in private, her glory in public. On the 14th of October, the King's birth- day, she appeared at the Court gala, holding her infant daughter in her arms. The child having demanded by cries that . nourishment which is supplied by nature, was instantly satisfied by the Royal mother with a degree of native simplicity which formed a touching contrast to the pomp and splendour with which she was surrounded, Advices from Russia state, that M. de Yermaloff had dispatched some intelligent Russian Officers, who accompanied him, to the independent Princes of the countries situated between the kingdom of Persia and the English possessions in India, for the purpose of making commercial arrangements with them; and that the countries in question are dis- posed to enter into relations with Russia. It is added, that Russia is treating with the Court of Persia for a convenient port wherein her squadrons and those of the European Powers, which happen to visit the Persian Gulf, may find anchorage from storms. Measures will, in that event, be taken to subdue the pirates who infest those seas with impu- nity. On learning that the Russian fleet was about to pass the Sound, the King of Sweden sent orders to all Officers in Swedish ports to afford every aid in their power in case the Russian ships should find it necessary to put into any harbours within his dominions. LEIPSIC FAIR.— An article from Leipsic, dated Nov. 2, says— The fair, which has just concluded, was a much better one than that in the spring. Its result was as follows :— Cloths of middling quality sold rapidly, and at advanced prices; common cloths, as well as those of the finest quality, were but little in demand, and the prices of them fell Leather of every quality sold well. English goods had a great circulation, yet, as they were not sold, this time, at debased prices, the manufacturers of Saxony, Germany, and Switzerland maintained some rivalship with them. It may be said, in general, that the manufacturers of Saxony have no reason to complain of this fair. Silks were in such demand that they became scarce at the end of the fair, the Poles having taken off great quantities as well as the Russians. Foreigners from the Eastern countries of Europe have seldom been so numerous at any fair as at this. The prices of co- lonial produce did not rise so much as had been ex- pected. We have the satisfaction to add that no important failures occurred ; a few small merchants only were compelled to suspend their payments. An article from Portsmouth, dated November 15, says, " This day arrived the Two Sisters trans- port, with detachments from the Cape of Good Hope, last from St. Helena, which she left on the 23d of October. On the 21st of October, about half past ten at night, several severe shocks of an earthquake were felt at St. Helena, which lasted nearly two minutes. The agitation caused by the tremulous motion of the earth was so great, that ar- ticles which were placed upon the shelves in the houses were thrown down. The beasts and birds were also sensibly - affected by the phenomenon, and showed evident symptoms of terror at the event. A large dinner party, who were at the Governor's, were so much alarmed, that they left the house with the utmost precipitation. The shock was also seri- ously felt at Longwood, the residence of Bonaparte, who, in consequence, attempted to leave his house, but was prevented by the sentinels on duty. The agitation was sensibly experienced on board the Conqueror, the flag ship of Admiral Plampin, then lying in the bay. The bells of the church on the island were so much disturbed as to occasion their sound to be distinctly heard at a considerable dis- tance. It has been determined that the Law Officers of the Crown shall in future peruse all the publications that issue from the seditious presses of this country, not for the purpose of restraining that free dis- cussion which our Constitution admits, and de- mands, but to guard that Constitution from the open and insidious attacks of its enemies.— Morning Post. It is stated that the health of Sir Vicary Gibbs, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, is considered so precarious, it is not supposed that he will again resume his seat on the Bench. The following appointments and preferments were ex- pected to take place:— The Right Hon. W. Adam, one of the Barons of Scotland, to be Lord Chi of Justice of the Court of Commo. Pleas, vice Sir Vicary Gibbs ; the Lord Chief Baron Richards, to be Master of the Rolls, vice Sir William Grant, who resigns; Mr. Justice Dallas, to be Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, vice Sir R. Richards ; Mr. Sergeant Vaughan to be Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, vice Mr. Justice Dallas. Countess Dillon, cousin- german to Josephine, the first wife of Bonaparte, and mother to the Lady of General Bertrand, now in the island of St. Helena, died lately at Paris. Countess Dillon was the relict of the late Hon. Arthur Dillon, Lieut,- General and Colonel Proprietor of the Irish Brigade Regiment bearing his name in the service of France, and brother to the late Charles Viscount Dillon, and the Hon. Dowager Lady Jerning ham.— Few persons had suffered greater domestic afflic- tions than this lady: her husband, General Dillon, to whom she was tenderly attached, perished in 1793 upon the scaffold, among the crowd of victi ms immolated to the demon of revolutionary France: her favourite daughter, the late Duchess of Fitz- james, fell an early victim to consumption; and she lived to witness the exile of her sole remaining', daughter, under circumstances which precluded even the Consolation of complaint. A reprieve, during pleasure, has been received at Derby for George Weightman, one of the pri- soners convicted of High Treason. At the adjournment of the Quarter Sessions for Bristol, Thomas Doggett, otherwise Powell, was convicted of receiving money of the Corporation of the Poor of. that City, under the false pretence of being a distressed parishioner, out of employ, with a wife and three children wholly dependent on him for support, when he was in the employ of Messrs. P. George and Co. and receiving wages averaging from 11. to 11. 4s.. weekly ; for which offence he was sentenced to transportation for seven years; and the Court, in passing sentence on the prisoner, expressed their determination of punishing every person guilty of a similar offence in like manner. On Friday morning John Wisdom, gamekeeper to Lord Hampden, shot, when on the wing, sixty, one starlings at one shot. More fell, but the place: being reedy and. watery, he could not find them all; but he bagged sixty- one. REMARKABLE TROUT.— A fish of this species, measuring two feet two inches in length, and weigh- ing move- than six pounds, was caught above Plym Bridge, by the fishermen of that river, on Saturday last. The fish has been often seen by anglers who tried to take it, but without success.. The village of Hampstead and its neighbourhood have been thrown into a Bristol confusion, by the appearance of a mysterious female. A gentleman,- crossingthe Heath, discovered an interesting look-; ing female about, resting for the night, with apparent unconcern. When questioned of name, residence, & c. she made no return hut in an obscure language, and appeared as ignorant of the English as the former Miss Carraboo. She has been conveyed to the Poor- house, where the sages of Hampstead have; since had frequent opportunities of putting nume- rous questions in several languages, but without effect. Two of " the medical attendants on the POOR house interrogated her in four or five of the Conti, nental languages, but she still replied in the same- mysterious tongue. Dr. , upon examination,- could not discover any organic misconstruction of the tongue. She is about the. ago of nineteen, has a lively countenance, and is a pretty girl. A Paris Paper informs us " the Methodists have become so powerful England, that, under the pretext of public decency, they expect shortly, to obtain the shutting of Drury- lane Theatre." We have no doubt this will surprize most of our readers. We say nothing of the alarm it must ex ite among the Committee and Performers of that Theatre. - It is always an object of curiosity to know why becomes of the descendants of remarkable men. A Nuremberg paper, gives the following informa- tion respecting the family of Luther:— Luther him- self, though he married, as is known, a nun, died without posterity. . His brother, who remained the village of Moera, in Saxony, where he was born left several sons, of one of whom there still exist two descendants. The wife of the first lives in a hamlet with her son, who is epileptic. She and her husband are in the greatest distress, The other is engaged in arustic occupation, in another hamlel. —-. While the Germans, therefore, celebrate solem- nities in honour of Luther, they suffer his family to struggle with poverty in obscurity. REMARK ABLE INSTANCE OF THE SAGACITY of A NEW FOUNDLAND DOG.— A gentleman returning from Hackney to London on Monday last with his dog, on their arriving near Hare- street Fields, Bethnal Green, the dog left him to go to a pond in the fields, whilst his master proceeded on his journey. A very short time afterwards the dog ran with' the utmost speed after him, and was la- bouring under an anxiety that his master could not account' for. On his paying little attention to him, the dog laid hold of his coat, and ran as it he bid ' him follow him ; he followed the poor animal to the pond in the field, when the dog instantly plunged in, swam to the opposite side, and after staying under water some time, he rose with something apparently very heavy, but which proved to be a. bonnet. The master of the animal supposing there was somebody ill the water, encouraged him to in a second time; he did, but his efforts proved fruitless. The next attempt the poor dog was quite exhausted, he. was under water for some minutes, : but at length rose kith the body of a young woman, having a firm hold of her by the hair of the back of her head. The dog arrived Safe with the object of his pursuit, which was taken from him, and he- laid himself down on the bank almost dead ; but by his master's and other, assistance he was soon restored, and appeared highly delighted. The body was taken to the parish workhouse, where it lies for the Coroner's inquest. It is supposed that in the first instance the bonnet string broke by the weight of the body. FATAL DUEL IN PARIS.— One evening last week, an officer, crossing the Palais Royal, was accidentally hit by the cane of an individual, who was passing along.- He complained of it; but the. offender instead of apologizing, struck him with the cane over the face.— They immediately agreed to meet in a retired place, and settle the quarrel They proceeded to the Champs Ely sees, and set to with swords. The combat was not long; and the aggressor fell dead at the feet of his antagonists He was conveyed to a neighbouring guard- house. His name is not known. He appears to have been about twenty- five years of age. THE COLCHESTER GAZETTE. The awful knell has tolled, and our late illustrious . and lamented Princess sleeps in the silent grave. | There never can have been, in the whole history of calamity, an event of such aggravated grief as that which it is our unhappy fortune to deplore. The heart is universally depressed; the tear of sorrow saddens every eye ; and the sympathetic sigh of unfeigned affection convulses every breast; The awful day, which consigned to the tomb of her ancestors the fondest hopes of an affectionate and loyal people, was marked in every town and hamlet as a day of humiliation and mournful respect. Not by the mandates of power was this sacred duty enforced, it sprang spontaneously from the heart; and high and low, the rich and the poor, humbled themselves before the altars of their God, to pay their last duty to the memory of her they so truly lament, and to resign themselves to those all- wise dispensations of Providence which have so griev- ously afflicted them. The sad records of our sorrow, and the warm affection which excites it, are not Jess honourable to the people than strictly due to the many virtues which have been by the irresistible hand of fate torn from them. Ours is not a fawning to power, nor worship to the rising sun; it is a tribute to departed worth, at a time when the tongue of the flatterer cannot avail. We have given the ceremonial of the interment, and every particular of the different branches of the disconsolate Royal Family. In their grief the nation participates; and, amid their affliction, it most be a consolation, which no other human effort could afford, that the illustrious daughter, wife, and relative they mourn, has the tears and prayers of a faithful and loyal people. On Thursday the Duke of York visited the Prince Regent, at Carlton- House ; and Earl Bathurst and Viscount Castlereagh had audiences of his Royal Highness. Early on Wednesday morning, the Queen sent one of her Pages to the Lower Lodge, Windsor, to inquire after the state of Prince Leopold.— General Taylor afterwards waited upon his Serene Highness, from the Queen and Princesses. — The Dukes of York,' Cumberland, Sussex, and Gloucester, visited their afflicted relative in the course of the morning. CLAREMONT. Nov. 20. — Prince Leopold, ac- companied by the Rev. Dr. Short, arrived here at two o'clock this morning from Windsor, having left the Lower Lodge at a quarter past twelve. The answer to the inquiries this day is—" His Se-. rene Highness is as well as can be expected."— The weather proving remarkably fine to- day, his Serene Highness walked out for a short time this mottling, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. Short.— Yesterday, the sum of 501. was distributed among the poor of the parish of Esher, according to the extent and cicuinstances of their families, by the command of Prince Leopold. The last 501. that was distributed among them was on the Princess Charlotte's birth- day, the only birth- day of her Royal Highness which had occurred since her residence here. We are informed by the Paris Journals, that on the 15th inst. Sir Charles Stuart repaired in deep mourning to the Palace of the Tuileries, and no- tified to his Majesty the King of France the death of the Princess Charlotte. A Court mourning was consequently ordered for the space of eleven days. The English who reside at Paris partake the grief, and wear the sad habiliments of their country. They have withdrawn themselves from public ex- hibitions and amusements, as becomes the children of an afflicted house. American Journals from New York, Boston, and and Philadelphia, to the 29th ult. mention, but not in positive terms, the death of General Jackson, who is said to have fallen in a. duel with General Adair. It will be recollected that General Jackson commanded the. American army when it was at- tacked in its lines at New Orleans by the British forces. The troops from Kentucky, under the command of Adair, fled in consternation, and Jack- son having censured their conduct in his official dispatch, on the occasion, a newspaper quarrel took place, which led to the unfortunate duel. General Jackson was considered the most accomplished officer in the service of the United States. A report of some importance is mentioned as prevailing among the political circles of Paris:— A great Northern Court is said to be occupied with a very profound project, which, if it can be executed, will be productive of the happiest consequences. It is endeavouring the establishment of a Supreme Tribunal of Confederation for all the Powers of Europe!— Times. By the Queen Charlotte packet, which arrived at Falmouth on Friday, with mails from the Brazils, we learn that, a few days previous to her sailing, a reinforcement of Portuguese troops left Rio Janeiro, in order to regain possession of Monte Video. Orders have been sent to the several gaols which contain the remainder of the seditious prisoners, for the release of ten of the number whose cases would admit of such lenity. Two of them were released from Horsemonger- lane gaol on Thursday se'nnight. inCLEDON is AMERICA.— The following ac- count of this eminent and national singer is from The Columbian of the 24th ult.:—" Mr. Incledon made his third appearance last friday evening, as Farmer Giles in the opera of The Maid of the Mill. . In this character he very appropriately introduced the song " Ere around the huge oak," which he sung in so pleasing a manner, that it was warmly encored. He also sung a new patriotic song, en- titled " Hail Columbia! or the Birth- place of Liberty," with beautiful accompaniments, which was received with rapturous applause, and encored. But by far his happiest effort was in the favourite old ballad of " Black- ey'd Susan," in which the beautiful simplicity of the verse, the richness and clearness of tone of the singer, and the pathos of his manner, quite enraptured the audience. An awful stillness was imposed until the conclusion of each verse, when universal admiration broke forth . in the most enthusiastic acclamations. Indeed, after it had been twice sung, they fain would have heard it again. Sir. Incledon, when unfettered by the arbitrary rules of music, in a song of sentiment, surpasses all expectation." ELEGY ON THE LAMENTED DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. BY WILLIAM THOMAS FiTZGERALD, ESQ. " Nimivm vobis Romano propago Visa potens; Superi, propria htvc si dona fuissent VIRG. If perfect bliss, without alloy, To wedded Love be given, Th' Illustrious CHARLOTTE felt that joy, Her home a little heaven ! There Fashion's idle slaves might blush to see Exalted Rank from vice and folly free! In spring of youth, with hope elate, Exempt from pride, as good as great, Domestic joys her own ; Bless'd with the Husband of her choice, Her father's love ! a Nation's voice! The Rosebud of the Throne! A second Eden made of Claremont's bowers, Where Love and Virtue pass'd the happy hours. From such propitious union springs The hope to have her Line of Kings To Time's remotest date! But Heaven that cherish'd hope deities— Her Child breathes not— the Mother dies- Mysterious, awful fate! Aghast th' attendants stand'.— the tidings known Electric strike the Cottage and the Throne'. For she was lov'd by all— the high, the low, Feel the same shock, and shudder at the blow I While the deep gloom and general tear. Proclaim the loss of her so dear To every British heart, Poetic strains in vain may try • To raise the head, or check the sigh, Of those who lov'd her best! Condoling forms are trite and vain, To soothe the soul's keen sense of pain. When Hope itself departs! The Husband's pangs! the Father's grief, From One alone can find relief, " The Searcher of all Hearts'." When mortals blind presume to scan, The laws by which God governs man, Their impious folly glares! From us conceal'd that awful doom That sends the Mother to the tomb, Nor yet her Infant spares! Let not the sons of Error say, That He who gives, and takes away, In judgment smites the land— Those ills which, to our eyes, appear As dispensations too severe, His Mercy may command! For oft the evils mortals dread, He turns to blessings on their head. The Royal grief's beyond compare, Lost is his Child!— his only Heir! That hope to live again! May Heaven, in pity to his woe, The comfort, in his need, bestow, . He cannot have from men! If care to Sovereign rule's decreed, ' Tis tenfold when the heartstrings bleed. Accept, young PRInCE, this plaintive lay From him who mourns thy widowed state; He haifd, with joy, thy Nuptial Day, And now, in tears, deplores thy fate! - Oil pure Religion let thy hope repose ; And shield thy bosom. from that fiend— Despair; Then call to memory that, in human woes, " The stricken. deer" is still th' Almighty's care! And that from lips Divine these words were given, " God's will be done ! on Earth, as ' tis in Heaven !" COLCHESTER, j SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1817. , %* The order to discontinue Mr. Wilmshurst's Adver- tisement in its present form was received too late — We are 1 requested to add, that the Grocery,& c. Warehouse, in Bo- i tolph- street, is this day opened. t4- t LaiCUS and MERCATOR, in reply to PASTOR, will appear in our next.— We would then recommend, in con- formity to the wishes of many of our Readers, which arc in consonance with our own sentiments, that the controversy, already pursued at great length, may terminate. The following Gentlemen have been nominated for the Office of Sheriff for the ensuing year:— Cambridge and Huntingdonshire — Samuel Pepys Cock erell, of Woolley, Esq. Vere Warner Hussey, of Wood Walton, Ei> q. aiid Thomas George Apreece, of Washingley, Esq. Essex.— John Theophilus Daubez, of Layton, Esq Sir Thomas Neave, of Dagnams, Bart, and John Wilks, of Wendon Lofts, Esq. Hertfordshire.— George Palmer, of Much Hadham, Esq. Samuel Unwin Heathcote, of Shephall, Bury, Esq. and Samuel Robert Gaussen, of Brookmans, Esq. Kent.— The Hon. John Wingfield Stratford, of Adding- ton place; William Henry Baldock, of Petham, Esq. and Thomas Papillon, of Acrise, Esq Norfolk.— Nicholas Ridley Colborne, of West Harling, Esq. Edward Lombe, of Great Melton, Esq. and Sir Tho- mas Preston, of Beeston, Bart. Suffolk.— Charles Berners, of Woolverstone, Esq. Wil- liam Crawfurd, of Haughley- Park, Esq. and Richard Newton, of Elden, Esq. In consequence of the funeral obsequies of the Princess Charlotte being solemnized on the even- ing of Wednesday last, the shops were universally shut throughout this town, during the whole of the day, and one general feeling of melancholy regret seemed to prevail in consequence of a calamity so momentous in its importance to the empire at large. The churches were not opened so generally as appeared to have been expected. Divine service was performed at St. Peter's in the morning, the afternoon, and evening, which, on each occasion, was attended by an exceedingly numerous congre- gation, who were summoned to their devotions by the chiming of the peal of bells, muffled. In the morning, the Mayor and Corporate Body proceeded to and from church in the regalia of office. Pathetic and eloquent discourses, appropriate to the solemn event, were delivered by the Rev. Mr. Marsh. In the morning divine service was celebrated at St. Runwald's, and in the afternoon, at St. Nicholas.' The Rev. Mr. Dakin preached with much anima- tion and effect at St. James's Church in the even- ing; where, and at St. Peter's, a liberal collection was made in aid of the Ladies' Society for the relief of indigent lying- in women— an institution which cannot be sufficiently commended— arising purely from benevolent motives— from an anxiety to alleviate distress in " the hour of nature's sorrow," which sheds the brightest lustre on the female mind. The preachers and congregations of the respective meeting- houses regarded the eventful day with pious observance: a luminous and im- pressive admonition was delivered by Mr. Saville, and the other ministers exerted themselves to im- press upon their hearers the excellency of religious truths, and the vanity of all sublunary attainments. The bells of all the churches reverberated the knell of death, in awful sound, from nine till ten o'clock in the evening. At a very numerous and respectable Meeting of the Parishioners of St, Peter's, held in the Vestry, on. Thursday, John Mills, jun. Esq. in the Chair, on the motion of Captain Brown, seconded by Mr. I Boutflower, it was unanimously resolved, that the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Rev. William Marsh, for opening his church on the solemn and melancholy day which consigned to the tomb the I remains of the ever to be lamented her Royal High- ness the Princess Charlotte of Wales; and more particularly for the three most eloquent and feeling sermons which he delivered on the occasion, serving in an eminent degr. ee to instil into the hearts and minds of his very numerous and respectable con- gregations every feeling of proper sorrow for our irreparable loss, loyalty to our revered Royal Family, love to our country, and a Christian- like submission to the Divine Will; and also for the benevolent manner in which he so aptly applied his evening sermon to the aid of the lying- in charity of this town, whereby he obtained for that humane insti- tution a very timely relief.— On the motion of Mr. Allen, seconded by Mr. Carr, it was unani- mously resolved, that Mr. Marsh be requested to print the sermon preached by him on Wednesday morning; and thai the Chairman, accompanied by the mover and seconder of the vote of thanks to the Rev. William Marsh, do form a deputation to convey the same to that gentleman.— On the motion of Mr. Mills^ seconded by V. Torriano, it was unanimously resolved, that the thanks of the Meeting be given to Captain Brown for his exer- tions in promotiug the object of the Meeting; and on the motion of Capt. Brown, seconded by the Rev. V. Torriano, that the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman for his very at> le and impar- tial conduct in the chair. The funeral day of the Princess Charlotte was ob- served at Maldon with the greatest solemnity; the 1 shops were shut the whole day ; the Mayor and Cor- porate Body went in procession from the Town Hall I to All Saints Church, where an affecting sermon was I preached by the Rev. Charles Matthew, from the 2d I chapter of Revelations, the latter part ofthe 10th verse. I An anthem ( by Holroyd) taken from the burial User- j vice, " I am the resurrection and the life," & c. was performed by the singers belonging to that church: I they also sung a suitable hymn, composed by the same I clergyman. The bells ofthe church were muffled, and I rung a dumb peal, which had not been heard there for I many years. The day appointed for the funeral of the late much- 1 lamented and beloved Princess Charlotte of Wales, I was observed with the greatest solemnity by the inha- bitants of Manningtree and Mistley; the shops being I all shut, and business suspended. The parochial cha- I pel of Manningtree, and church of Mistley, were in I mourning, by the pulpits and communion tables being I hung with black cloth and crape. The service at I Mistley was performed, in the afternoon, by the Rev. Dr. Pryce, *> and a most appropriate discourse delivered by him; the text from the 64th chapter of Isaiah, verse 6—" And we do all fade as the leaf;" and in the even- ing, at Manningtree, by the Rev. Charles Norman, ( to a crowded congregation) a very impressive sermon, from the 1 lt) th Psalm, verse 75.—" 1 know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou, in faith- fulness, hast afflicted nte".— The same ceremony was observe", at the Wesley an Methodist chapel. HARWICH, NOV. 19.— Before the cold bosom of our kindred earth closes from mortal sight the remains of those whom nature and affection love to cherish, it is a soothing though a painful pleasure, to call to re- membrance departed virtues; to cast one last, one lingering look upon the shrouded dead; to heave the struggling sigh of unaffected grief, and drop a tear— the last sad tribute of the feeling mind This mourn- ful pleasure we have this day made our own, am) participated with our countrymen in that unfeigned and spontaneous sorrow which has shewn itself throughout this realm, en an event loaded with the heaviest regrets that ever yet befel us as a nation. The inhumation of the Royal" Body of our deeply lamented Princess being fixed to take place this day, at an early hour in the morning the solemn tolling of the muffled bell at the church announced it to the inhabitants of this ancient and loyal town, all of whom, by one common anil secret impulse of religious veneration, closed their houses, and passed the day in solemn silence, and in the discharge of those duties which public calamities call forth. The flags of the various vessels within the harbour, at the naval of- ficer's, agents of the Post- office, on the Church and Town- Hall, were hoisted half their usual height. The Corporation, in its official character, went in pro- cession from the house of the Mayor, to attend divine service, which was performed by the Rev. W. Whin- field, who, before the largest congregation we ever remember to have seen within the walls of Saint Nicholas, delivered a most appropriate and affecting discourse, drawn from a part of the 18th verse of the Sd chapter of the first book of Samuel,—" It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good."— The children of the National School, under the direction of their able preceptors, sang two admirable anthems, selected for the occasion. The pulpit and desk, the organ, the seats of the Mayor and of the Tutors of the national children, were hung with black cloth, orna- mented with crape and velvet.— The sight of these harbingers of woe, the congregation of numbers, the impressiveness of the discourse, and the afflicting ca- lamity that gave rise to it, have left impressions upon the heart never to be effaced. It is there that re- collection will embalm the best of Princesses; there the entombing of her virtues will yet preserve them in undiminished splendour; there, though fled from the fond view of an affectionate people, she will still live and reign until time with them shall cease and be no more.— The Independent and Methodist Chapels were hung with blacky at which places appropriate, impressive, and pathetic discourses, were delivered in the evening, to crowded audiences, who,, by their ex- pression of feeling, showed how deeply they partici- pated in the general sorrow. To- morrow the Corporation and Inhabitants will be convened, to consider of an Address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent on the late sad event. The Theatre of this town opened on Thursday evening. As will be seen by an advertisement in a subsequent column, the Managers, ( Messrs. Bel- lamy and Smith) from a laudable desire of contri- buting, to th eutmostin their power, every attraction that may be gratifying to the admirers of the drama, have selected two new and popttl. tr pieces lor repre- sentation this evening; and also engaged Mr. and Mrs. bARTLEY, from the Theatre Royal, Drury- lane, for five nights; whose talents in the histrionic art are too well known and appreciated to require eulogium. On Thursday the Eagle cutter, Captain Pogson. took a smuggling vessel, laden with 113 tubs of gin, and brought her into the port of Harwich. A Miss Worrill, of Hertford, a young lady as ac- complished as slit* is handsome, and as good AS she isboth, sometime. fiuce, on her parents experiencing a change from the pressure ofthe times, gave up the whole of her little fortune left by a near relative, for the payment of their debts. MARRIED On Tuesday last, Thomas Eagle, Esq. of Kedington, to Miss Todd, only daughter of the late Mr. R P. Todd, of Sturmer Hall, ; in his countv. On the l l; h 11st. Mr. Joseph Myall, of Castle Heding- ham, to miss Gregory, eldest daughter of the late Rev. R. Gregory, ot the same place. Lately, Mr Charles Harvey, of Dickly Hall, Mistley, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Mr. E. Clay, of the Cage Farm, Southminster. DIED. On the evening of yesterday se'nnight, Elizabeth, Coun- tess of Albemarle, after an illness ofseventeen hours only, proceeding from a premature labour, whilst on a visit to T. W. Coke, Esq. at Holkham Hall; to the grief of her disconsolate husband, and of a house full of company, among whom were some of Lord Albemarle's dearest friends. Her Ladyship was in the. 42d year of her age, and has left eleven children to lament her untimely loss. On Wednesday se'nnight, at Arran l. od^ e, Bognor, Eli- zabeth, daughter and co- heiress ofthe late Sir John Tyrrell, Bart, of Heron, in this county, and only sister of the Coun- tess of Arran. Monday, the 3d inst. at Norwich, . John, the infant son of Dr. Rigby, aged 11 weeks and 3 days; . being the first in the series of the late quadruple birth.— And on Wednesday, theJ5th. ins, t. Caroline Susan, aged 11 weeks and 5 days; being the fourth in the series of the same extraordinary birth, ail of whom are now dead Thursday se'nnight, at Prittlewell, after a long affliction, borne with the most exemplary fortitude, patience, and re- signation. Mr. William Francis,^ un. aged 30 years, eldest son of Mr. Francis, ofthe Blue Boar lun, in that town. Lately, Mr. Chopping, butcher, of Hatfield Broad- Oak, in this county; and a few weeks previous, his wife, leaving a family of eight small children to deplore their loss. Last week, at an advanced age, Mr. Benjamin Salmon, a respectable farmer at Ramsey. On Wednesday, most sincerely respected and regretted, in- the' 74th year of her age, Mrs. Jane Crush, of Princes- street, Spitalfields, London.— By her loss the poor have I been deprived of a liberal benefactress. THEATRE, COLCHESTER. THIS present SATURDAY, November 22, will be per- formed, a COMEDY, in Four Acts, never acted here, called THE TOUCHSTONE; OR, THE WORLD AS IT GOES. After which, a Grand Melo- Drame, ( first time) called THE INN- KEEPER'S DAUGHTER. With New Scenery, painted by Mr. Thorne. The Public are most respectfully Informed, that MR. AND MRS. BARTLEY Are ENGAGEDfor FIVE NIGHTS, and will make their First Appearance on MONDAY EVENING, the 24th of November, in the TRAGEDY of THE GAMESTER. MRS. BEVERLY MRS BARTLEY. And the FARCE of CATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. PETRUCHIO MR. BARTLEY. CATHERINE ,... MRS. BARTLEY. I Nights of Performance next Week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On WEDNESDAY, Dec 3, BY DESIRE OF THE STEWARDS OF THE PUBLIC BREAKFAST, GUY MANNER1NG; AND ANIMAL MAGNETISM. COLCHESTER. PUBLIC DAYS. THE ANNUAL PUBLIC BREAKFAST will be at the Three Cups Inn, on WEDNESDAY, the 3d of December, 1817. On the same Day, the PUBLIC DINNER will be at the above Inn, at Four o'clock. On THURSDAY EVENING, the 4th of December, there will be a BALL and SUPPER at the Three Oups Inn. C. T. TOWER, Esq. i • •• ; JOHN ROUND, Esq. M. P ^ Stewards. CGLCHESTER TRUE BLUE Or PITT CLUB. THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY of the COLCHESTER TRUE BLUE OR PITT CLUB, will be held at the Three Cups Inn, in Colchester, on Monday, the 1st of December next. Dinner at Four o'Clock.. HART DAVIS, Esq. M. P. in the Chair. STEWARDS. ROBERT ALEXANDER CRICKETT, Esq. M P. RICHARD HART DAVIS, Esq. M P. Major GRETTON. JOHN KING, Esq. Mr. Alderman ARGENT. Mr. Alderman SMITH. Tickets to be had at the Bare of the" Three Cups Inn, Colchester, and Saracen's Head Inn, Aldgate. DANIEL SUTTON, Jun. Secretary. WANTED, AS CLERK to a PROFESSIONAL GENTLE- MAN in the Country, a Person who has been ac- customed to attend a Bench of Magistrates, and Commis- sioners of Taxes, & c. Application to be made to Mr. Keymer, Printer, Col- chester. THE several SUMS off 10,000, £ 5,000,£ 4,000, A £ 2,000, and £ 1,000, are ready to be ADVANCED 011 approved LAND SECURITY, 011 application to Mr. Hitchcock, Solicitor, Manningtree, Essex, if by Letter, post- paid. ~ TO BE LET, AVery convenient Brick COTTAGE, with Stores, Oven, and Copper, already fixed, situate upon Dedham Heath, a short distance from the Ardleigh Road. For particulars enquire of Mr. George Witheat, Wine Merchant, Dedham aforesaid. - LIBRARY BOOK- CASE. TO BE SOLD, AN elegant BOOK- CASE, well calculated for a: Gentleman's- Library, or the Office of ah eminent Solicitor, 20 feet long, and 10 high.— Lowest Price Forty Guineas. To be seen upon application to Mr. Youngman, Witham, Essex, on Wednesday n'r Thursday next. BRIGHTLlNGSEA, ESSEX. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JAMES THORN, On Friday, the 28th of November, 1817, at the Water Side, Brightliugsea, for tie Benefit of the Owners and Salvors, SEVERAL ANCHORS of different Sizes, a small Quantity of SHIP'S MATERIALS, DEALS, & c.& c. Sale td begin- at Eleven o'Clock. For further particulars apply to Mr. D. O. BIyth, Essex Vice Admiralty Office, or to the Auctioneer, 62, Crouch- street, Colchester. PINEAPPLED BOTTLED RUM, at .....' 23s, per Gallon. . Ditto Ditto Rum Shrub 26s. ditto. . Ditto Ditto...:.. Brandy Shrub 38s. ditto. The smallest quantity sold is Ten Bottles, containing Two Gallons. ' ALSO IN CASKS. Treble Distilled English Gin, the strongest and softest that is made .., 12s, 6d. per Gal. Jamaica Rum, not Pine Apple ..: « .... 18s. 6d. ditto. Ditto Ditto very old ... 20s. ditto. Old Rotterdam Hollands 26s. ditto. Cogniae Brandy, Twelve Years old. 35s, ditto.. Noyeau, Pink and White, a delicious, flavoured Liqueur 66s. per Dozen, The above Artidles are of the first Quality, to be had of the COMMERCIAL HALL WINE AND SPIRIT COMPANY, SKINNER- STREET, LONDON, and of the fol- lowing Gentlemen, the Company's AGENTS; of whom also may be had Lists of the Company's Wines, Liqueurs, Spirits, and Compounds COLCHESTER ..... Mr. F. Lewis. RRAINTREE Mr. J. Wing. COGgESHALL ....... Mr W. Buck. DUNmOW ,...,.<, Mr. B. Smith. IPSWICH Mr. W. Catchpole. MALDON ,!'..,... Mr. John Polley: PRITTLEWeLL ,......,...: Mr. T. Harridge. SAFFRON WALDEN Mr. W. S. Barnes. LONDON MARKETS. MARK- LANE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1817 The supply of Wheat this morning being rather mode- rate, and the demand for prime samples brisk, an advance took place from 3s. to 4s. per quarter on this year's growth and on fine old 5s.— Beaus have advanced 4s. per quarter since Monday last; Grey Pease about 3 » . but in Boiling Pease there was no alteration.— Oats were brisk in sale at an advance of Is. per quarter. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19. In consequence of the funeral of the Princess Charlotte of Wales being solemnized on this day, no Market was held. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. There; were some fresh arrivals of Grain at this day's Market. Sales were not so brisk as on Monday last, but in prices no very material variation. PRICE OF GRAIN, PER QUARTER. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17. Wheat, mcalingRed, IS a 78 , Grey Pease 47 » 50 Superfine 84 a 92 ! Horse Beans 30 a 52 Wnite 5 i a 88 | Tick Beans 32 a 54 Superfine 04 a 98 i Broad Beans 72 Black :.... 50 a 62 | Long Pods — a - Rivets 40 a 68 | Barley... 3( i a 58 Rye 35 a 40 Oats Is a •>. White Pease 44 a 4s Poland& Brew 24 u 40 Boilers 52 a E4 | Malt 70 a S: . PRICE OF SEEDS, & c. ' r s. s. i s. s. Turnip, White, p! bl. 10 a 10 Clover, red, p. cwt. 60 alOO Red & Greeu ditto 10 a It) white 00 alt 5 Mustard, brown .... 10 a 22 foreign, red 0j> alii;, ;—-—— white 8 a 13 Trefoil 15 a 4- i Canary, per quarter 72 a 9i C'arraway 4i) a Rape Seed, per last ' 50/ a6,./ Coriander 15 a I. Tares 5s. 6d. a 8s. 6d Rye Grass, per qr... 35 a 4' • PRICE OF FLOUR. Fine English Flour 75s. a 80s.— Second ditto70 » . a 75s. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN PER QUARTER, : "" For the Week ending Nov. 8. England and- Wales. England and Wales. s. d. s. d Wheat 77 10 Beans ... 47 < 1 Rye ! 45 0 Pease - 17 t Barley 42 . Oatmeal 33 2- Oats i. 27 Big 0 ' t IMPORTS AND " EXPORTS OF CORN, & c. The Week ending the 15th November, inclusive, IMPORTS. English. qrs. Irish. qrs. Foreign, qrs Wheat 5596 9! f Barley 5330 < Malt 2423 : •— Oats 7953 1>. Rye 100 — Beans j........ 1854 —- Pease 1413 — FLOUR.— English... 7716 sacks.— American... — barrel) EXPORTS. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Rye. Beans. Peas, flour. 2595 40 — 34' J 000 t) T 83 27 > PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW Smithfield. £. s. — '£. s. Clover 4 0 to 0 t. Hay 3 15 to5 0 Straw 1 19 o2 5 Clover 4 0 to 6 ( i Whitechapel. Straw I 14 to % 2 Hay.-. 4 to to 51 St. James. Clover ti 0 to 7 Hay..:.... 3 0 to 5 to Straw 1 18 to 2 PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH. • Bags. £. s — £. X. Pockets .€. s. - is Kent •••'•• 25 0 to 28 0 . Kent 20 O to 31 I Sussex ......... 24 j0io27 0 Sussex 25 0 to 28 . FarnhamPockSO .0 to40, 0| Essex 20 O to 30 i NEWGATE AND LEADEN HALL. Per Stone of 8b. by the Carcase. ! s. d. — 8. d. * s d. — s. . Beef 2 0 to 3 4 1 Veal 34 to 5 t- Mutton i 0 to 3 ') I Pork 4 0 to 5 4 Lamb, 0s. 0< i. to l> » . ( to PRICE OF MEAT AT SMITHFIELD, Exclusive- ofthe Offal.— Per Stone ot » Monday, November 17. Friday, November 2 1. s. it. — s. d tj. o. — s i Beef.... 3 0 to J 0 Beef. 3 0 to 4- Mutton 3 0 to 4 10 Mutton 3 4 to 4 Veal... 4 0 to 5 0 Pork 4 0 to o Pork 3 8 to 5 8 Veal 4 0 i.. 5 Head of Cattle at Smithfield. MONDAY Beasts 2,970 Sheep... 16W Pigs 3iH> Calve*... - 21. FRIDAY Beasts l> 3> .. . Sheep .. 3,0- t Pigs 28 i Calves . lot) PRICE OF TALLOW IN LONDON, NOVEMBER S. d. t> Whitechapel Market... 4 0 Town Tallow p. ewt 70 o St. James's Market 4 0 Russia ditto Candle... 6s) Clare Market 0 0 White ditto — o Soap ditto 68 0 8 0 . Melted stunt 59 Rough ditto 42 0 Average 4 0 Greaves Is 0 -—: Good Dregs 10..,, 0 Curd Soap 108' 0 Mottlea ioi t, Yellow Ditto t 8 PRICE OF LEATHER AT LEADEN HALL. Butts, teSStbs. each 21 to 23 Crop Hides to 50lbs. 19 u. 21 Ditto, to 601bs. each — to — Cult Skins to - lOlbs. 17 to it) Merchants'Backs — to— Ditto to 701ba 23 t- i ' i. Dressing Hides... lti^ to I7£ Ditto tobOlbs. 24 to Fine Coach Hides 17^ to 19 Small SeaU( Greentl.; 23 ta^ t Crop Hides, 36to40lbs. Large do. p. doz. VOsto yu forcutting 174 to.- If fanned. Hides I5d to 18d AVERAGE PRICE OF BROWN SUGAR. ±' 2.13s. Id. per cwt. Exclusive of the Dunes of Customs paid or payable thereon on Importation thereof into Great Britain. CURRENT PRICES OF SPIRITS AND WINES. SPIRITS, per Gallon. WINE, Dealers Price. Excl. of Duly. s. d. e>. d. JC. x. Brandy Cognac 12 4 a 12 9 Claret, per H 35 a til! Bordeaux 8 9 a 9 0 Lisbon, per P 38 a 4.> Spanish 0 llali ti Port 42 a 5 . Geneva Holland 4 2a4 3 Madeira 00 a b Rum, Jamaica 3 10 a 5 0 Snerry, per Bt 25 a L. Islands 2 10 a 3 - Mountain 28 a PRICES OF SUGAR, COFFEE, COCOA, & G1NGE SUGAR, s. s. | s. t Raw ( Barbad.; 7li a 82 Triage 76 a 91 Do. very fine 81a 8s Mocha. 120a 13r Powder Loaves... 110 a 121 Bourbon...., :..-.. 100a iui> Single do. Br..!.... 110 a 110 St. Domingo 92 a in Molasses... 3fcs. net. a— s. Od. Java 105a 115 - COFFEE. COCOA. Dominica and Surinam. Trinidad ( 00 a 112 Fine 102 a lOti Carraccas H0a| S5 Good .....'....... 95 a 100 Surinam — , i — Ordinary :... 88 a 94 GINGER. Jamaica, fine 108 alio Jamaica white 2n;) a& H) Good 94 a CS . black 75, a — Ordinary 88 a 92 Barbadoes 110 a 115 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam... 37 6 2 B. Us. - Rilboa38— Barcelona — Ditto, at Sight. 37 0 St'. Sebastian's — Amsterdam 11 10 C. F Seville 37} Ditto, at Sight. 117 Gibraltar 32 Rotterdam 11 11.12 Us. Leghorn 49} Hamburgh 34 8 24 Us. Genoa40j— Venice 26 — Altona..... 34 9 2} Us. Malta 48— Naples 4- 4 Paris, 3 day's sight 24 4>> Us. Palermo 124 per Oz. Ditto 24 60 2 Us Lisbon 59— Oportu. 59 Bourdeaux ditto 24 00 Rio Janeiro 62 Madrid £ 8} Effective Dublin Cork per cl. Cadiz 38 Effective Agio of the Bank on Holj. 2 PRICE OF STOCKS, NOVEMBER 21. Bank Stock 2K0J 4 per Cent. 99} 3 per Cent. Red. 82J 5 per Cent. Navy f89J ' 3 per Cent. C. 83} Long Ann. 21 1- lti Exchequer Bills 2d. 20s. p Cons, for Act. 83} Ditto 2id. 22s. 2tis. South Sea Ditto 3d.— s. — s. Old Annuities POETRY. DIES IRE. Though the light bark that gaily sails, Impelled by summer's balmy gales, By sudden tempests wreck'd and tost, May, ere the fall of night, be lost; Yet fitful blasts, and billows rude, Awhile the rising storm prelude, Time, to the death- doom'd sailor, five To breathe a prayer for those that live ! Sudden, with no forebodings dread, Th' avenging bolt from Heav'n lias sped! Swifter than thought, the heavy blow That laid a nation's prospects low; That crush'd each heart, and dimmed each eye, And changed the rising revelry To silent tears, and smother'd sighs, And funeral solemnities! On springing hopes the morning rose, Those hopes were nipped ere evening's close; And ere the shades of night retir'd, Grief reign'd in tears, and Hope expir'd ! From side to side, from sea to sea, As spread the dread calamity; In every eye was read the doom ;— But uttered not.— The silent gloom That marks the inward soul's despair, And only breathes to God in prayer, Lock'd up each heart, and froze each tongue; As loud and high the death- note rung. But not for THEE, departed worth, Let sorrowing England mourn to Earth; To THEE, a blessed change was giv'n, An Angel here, a Saint in Heav'n! Atonement for each mortal stain— Justice decreed a death of pain; And thy tried spirit, pure and free, Sprung to a blest eternity. * For our own sins, the evil leaven, Inflicted is this doom from Heaven ; For private crime,— and public guilt,— For treasons foul,— and life- blood spilt,— For a lewd age that spurns all ties,— Religion scorns, and Law defies,— For these should burst repentant sighs, To stem the vengeance of the skies. THE KING. The following judicious and affecting observations from an Evening Paper, relative to our beloved Monarch, cannot fail to prove deeply interesting to our Readers :— " And HOW, may we be permitted to turn our attention to another illustrious and venerable Personage of the Royal Family, the glory of that Family, the pride of his subjects, who is not dead, and yet who partakes not of the joys or the afflictions of his kindred or his people. Withdrawn from all eyes but those that watch to supply his necessities; in silence and in darkness; to him there is neither sun nor moon, nor kingdom, nor wile, nor children, nor subjects. He is alone in the midst of the living, and almost as far removed from them as the dead. The little world in which he dwells is a solitude, peopled only by imagination; but the inhabitants of it are not those who haunt the guilty mind, even when reason is not overthrown. It is said— but who can tell whether truly or not, for nothing concerning his mysterious insulation can be affirmed, except the meagre fact of his per- petuated existence in a general state of forlorn tran- quillity, and occasional perturbation, attested in the monthly Bulletins— it is, however, said, that minis- tering angels are ( he companions of his thoughts in the loneliness of that circle, by which he is cut off from rational intercourse either with this world or the next. Yet he is not forsaken in his hoary hairs, nor in his deep humiliation, by Him, whose loving kindness is better than life, and all its pleasures, if all its pleasures could be enjoyed for ever. A crea- ture, an intellectual creature, may be debarred from communion with every thing and every being in the universe, except the Creator. The venerable father of the British people, we have reason to be- lieve, whatever else may have failed him, is happily conscious of that presence, which is the hope of earth and the joy of heaven. The hand of mercy may have shut him up from the sight of evils that would have grieved his eyes and wrung his heart, had reason been preserved to him to the end of hit lengthened days. " The Lord is his keeper." ROYAL SEPULCHRE. This extensive and admirably constructed recep- tacle for our illustrious dead, was chiefly from the design, and in no small degree under the personal superintendence of our beloved, venerable, and af- flicted Sovereign himself. It is constructed in the souterrain of a freestone building, attached to the east end of St. George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle, ( somewhat in a similar way with the annexation of Henry VIIth's Chapel to the east end of West- minster Abbey) long known by the familiar appel- lation of " Wolsey's Tomb- house." In point of fact, the building was originally commenced by the Prince above- mentioned, who intended it as a bury- ing- place for himself and his sucessors ; but after- wards altering his purposes, he built the more noble structure at Westminster; and this remained neg- lected until Cardinal Wolsey obtained a grant of it from Henry VIIIth, and with a profusion of ex- pence ( for the vanity and ambition of this arch fa- vourite were unbounded) he began therein a sump- tuous monument for himself, whence the building obtained the name of " Wolsey's Tomb- house."— This monument was so magnificently constructed, that it far exceeded that of Henry VIIth, in his Chapel at Westminster Abbey ; and at the time of the Cardinal's disgrace, the tomb was so far exe- cuted, that Benedetto, a celebrated statuary of Flo- rence, received 4,250 ducats for what he had al- ready done, and 3801. 18s. was paid for gilding only half of this monument. The Cardinal dying shortly after his disgrace, was buried in the Cathedral at York, and the monument remained unfinished. In 1040, the statues and figures, of gilt copper, of exquisite workmanship, were sold. James II. con- verted this building into a Popish chapel, and mass was publicly performed here. The ceiling was painted by Verrio, and the walls were finely orna- mented and painted. The whole, however, was much neglected since the reign of James II. and being no appendage to the Collegiate Church, long waited the Royal favour to rescue it from a state of decay. This, however, has been amply extended, by the munificence and solid taste of our present gracious Sovereign. St. George's Chapel made a most ruinous appear- ance until the year 1800, when his Majesty ordered the windows and other external parts to be repaired. In the year 1810, his Majesty was determined to construct within its walls a Royal Dormitory. An excavation was formed of the whole length and width of the building, to the depth of 15 feet from the surface. In this the sepulchre is con- structed. The dimensions of the tomb are 70 feet in length, 28 in width, and 14 in depth. The re- ceptacles for bodies on the sides of the tomb are formed by massive Gothic columns, of an octagon shape, supporting a range of four shelves, each of which, in the space between She columns, will con- tain two bodies, the whole range of each side admit- ting 32 bodies. At the east end are five niches for the reception of as many coffins. In the middle, 12 low tombs are erected for the Sovereigns. The se- pulchre will thus contain 81 bodies. The columns are of fine Bath stone, and the shelves of tine York- shire stone. A subterraneous passage is formed from the vault under the choir of St. George's Cha- pel, in which an aperture is made, near the ascent to the altar, for the bodies to descend. From the columns springs a vaulted roof over the tomb. In this mausoleum are deposited the bodies of the Princess Amelia, who was interred Nov. 13, 1810; and the Duchess of Brunswick, interred March 31, 1813. ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCESS CHAR- LOTTE. Her Royal Highness, about six weeks since, di- rected instructions to be sent to a German artist, of great celebrity, residing in this country, to execute a snuff- box, composed of papier- machée, in which her Highness's portrait, a bust, should be introduced in the lid. The likeness, a copy of the famous one by Hayter, now so general in the print- shops, was selected by the much- lamented Prin- cess herself. The box is gone to Vienna to be finished, and when it returns, in the interior the following lines will appear written on white satin. They are the spontaneous effusion from the pen of the deceased. The box was intended as a pre- sent to Prince Leopold! To Claremont's terrac'd heights and Esher's groves, Where, in the sweetest solitude embrac'd, By the soft windings of the silent . Mole, From Courts and Cities Charlotte finds repose. Enchanting vale! beyond whate'er the muse Has of Achaia or Hesperia sung ! O vale of bliss! O softly swelling hills! On which the power of cultivation lies, And joys to see the wonders of his toil. Our late beloved Princess's acquirements were certainly of an order much superior to those of females in general society. She was solidly in- formed in the history and policy of the European Governments, and peculiarly in the history and constitution of her native country. She spoke French, German, Italian, and Spanish, with consi- derable fluency. The lighter accomplishments were not forgotten, and she sang and performed on the piano, the harp, and the guitar, with more than usual skill. Nature had been kind in indulging her with tastes which are seldom united ; in addi- tion to her talent for music, she had a fine percep- tion of the picturesque in nature; and a portion of her earliest hours, and subsequently of those of happier ones, which she spent in the society of her husband, were given up to drawing. She wrote gracefully, and had a passionate fondness for the nobler ranks of English poetry. The following is extracted from the journal of the pious Bishop of London ( Dr. Porteus), who visited the late Princess Charlotte in her earlier years :— " Yesterday, the 6tli of August, 1801, I passed a very pleasant day at Shrewsbury House, near Shooter's- Hill, the residence of the Princess Charlotte of Wales. The day was fine, the prospect extensive and beautiful, taking in a large reach of the Thames, which was covered with vessels of various sixes and descriptions. We saw a good deal of the young Princess. She is a most captivating and engaging child; and considering the high station she may hereafter fill, a most interesting and important one. She repeated to me several of her hymns with great correctness and propriety; and on being told, that when she went to South- End, in Essex, ( us she afterwards did, for the benefit of sea- bathing,) she would then be in my diocese, she fell down on her knees, and begged my bless- ing. I gave it to her with all my heart, and with my earnest secret prayers to God that she might adorn her illustrious station with every Christian grace ; and that if ever she became the Queen of this truly great and glorious country, she might be the means of diffusing virtue, piety, and happiness, through every part of her dominions." A young woman who was sentenced to death in 1812 petitioned the Regent, through the medium of the Princess Charlotte; her prayer was success- ful, and she has now turned out to be a worthy member of society. She had been seduced, and committed theft in consequence of the desertion of her betrayer. CARRABOO. [ FROM A BRISTOL PAPER.] This gay deceiver, before she left Bristol, evinced much apparent contrition for the numerous pranks she bad played in that neighbourhood; and her crocodile tears induced some kind- hearted persons to supply her with the pecuniary means of proceeding to America, where, in the obscurity of some honest and creditable employment, it was hoped she might escape from the odium she had so justly incurred by her impositions:. These hopes have been woe- fully disappointed. She reached Philadelphia on the 11th of September, and on the 15th, only four days after her arrival, we find her announcing a concert—" a Carraboo concert," as it is called in the American papers. Of this exhibition, a Phi- ladelphia paper gives the following account:—" The ball- room was splendidly illuminated, the music good, and the vocal performers exerted themselves in a manner which gave general satisfaction. In part first, the celebrated Miss Carraboo made her appearance, dressed in the costume of Javasn, and supported by two gentlemen ushers! She was received with a general burst of applause, and her appearance and manners silenced those insinuations which have been so industriously circulated to injure an innocent and unoffending female. A paper was handed to her, on which she wrote a letter in the language which puzzled the Universi- ties of Oxford and Cambridge, and the most learned professors of the Oriental languages in Great Britain. Her taking leave of the audience, in the language of the moon, was highly ap- plauded." But this part of the story was all moonshine, for the concert was badly attended, and the receipts did not pay the expences. Mary, at the date of the last American papers, was on her way to Baltimore and Norfolk, in the hope of being able to levy con- tributions ; but, if we may be permitted to judge from the following paragraph, her reception there would not be more favourable than at Philadelphia: " Norfolk, Sept. 28. " To THE EDITORS.— Gentlemen— Having seen it mentioned in a New York paper, that the famous Miss Carraboo, whose arrival at Philadelphia you noticed in your paper some time past, was about to pay a visit to New York, I beg leave, through your paper, to undeceive the public upon that highly important subject. Miss Carraboo, allow me to say', has lately arrived in this borough, and rented the brick house, No. 1, Talbot- street, where she has established herself with a numerous retinue, and may be seen at all hours of the day. It is a subject of much regret with the respectable inhabitants of that neighbourhood, that, for decency sake, the police of the borough have not, ere this, waited on her ladyship, and conducted her and her maids of honour to more suitable lodgings. Thus much for the present, Messrs. Editors; perhaps you may hear more of it by and by." On the above paragraph, the Editor of a New York paper makes the following remarks:—" If it should be the intention of this impostor to visit New York, she is informed, that we have a statute called the Vagrant Act, which is provided for all such persons, and a place called Bridewell, ready to receive them; of which, it is hoped, she will take due notice." It may be noticed, as an additional trait in the character of this Princess of Hoaxers, that on the very day of her first exhibition at Philadelphia, she wrote a letter to a friend in Bristol, stating, that she was about to engage herself as cook in the house of a respectable merchant. LAW REPORT. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 17. APPEAL OF MURDER. WILLIAM ASHFORD versus ABRAHAM THORNTON The interest excited by this unusual case is almost unparalleled. Early this morning a great number of persons assembled round the entrance to the King's Bench, anxious, on anv terms, to be present at a pro- ceeding of so extraordinary a nature. Long before the arrival of the Judges, the Court was crowded in every part, and their Lordships' approach was rcn dered extremely difficult by the concourse of people, who nearly filled Westminster Hall, and whose cu riOsity was strongly excited to see the appellant and the appellee. A little before eleven o'clock, the Judges took their places. Abraham Thornton was shortly afterwards brought into Court, in the custody of Mr. Gibbons, the Tipstaff, and placed at the Bar. Mr. Reader ( Counsel for the appellee) then said— " My Lords, Abraham Thornton is in Court, in con formity with your Lordships' directions, and I beg to move that be may be put to the Bar, to plead to the count exhibited against him." Mr. Le Blanc ( one of the officers) directed the appellee to hearken to the record. He then read tile whole of the count exhibited by the appellant, in which he charged Abraham Thornton, in the words of the indictment on which he had been acquitted, with the wilful murder of Mary Ashford, by throwing her into a certain pit. Having read the count, Mr. Le Blanc called on the appellee to plead, in the following terms:—" How say you, Abraham Thornton, are you guilty of the felony and murder whereof you are appealed, or not guilty?" The appellee—" Not guilty ; and I am ready to de- fend the same by my body." At the same time fling- ing a glove upon the floor of the Court. Mr. Clarke, the Counsel for the Appellant, then rose, and he desired young Ashford, the brother of Mary, who was sitting before him, and at whose suit the appeal was carried on, to stand up. He imme- diately stood up. Mr. Clarke then addressed the Court—" My Lords, I did not expect, at this time of day, to have this sort of demand made in answer to the charge against the prisoner— namely, to have this cause put on trial by wager of battle. It is an obsolete practice, and it would be most curious indeed, if the person accused of murdering the sister, should be allowed to exculpate himself by murdering the brother. But, my Lords, the appellant is here in Court, and you can judge whether he is fit to meet this challenge." [ It may be proper to observe, that the appellant is a weak- looking youth— the appellee, on the contrary, though short in stature, is a powerfully- built man.] The Court here interposed, and said, that the term murder was improper. The defendant's plea was a legal plea, which he had a right to tender. Mr. Clarke—" My Lords, undoubtedly killing would be the correct term. But I submit that the Court have a right to restrain the defendant from this plea, if certain circumstances shall appear, in their discretion, to warrant it. For example, if the apellant be of a weak and tender body, he will not then be compelled to reserve this plea." Mr. Justice Bayley—" Have you any authority for that, Mr. Clarke ?" Mr. Clarke—" Not precisely, my Lord; but there arc exceptions in favour of the appellant, entitling him to refuse the offered wager of battle." Mr. Reader—" My Lord, I object to the course my Learned Friend is pursuing. If lie disputes the plea, it is his duty to put in a counter- plea, stating the cir cumstances which may justify him in law in refusing the issue of the defendant— wager of battle." Lord Ellen borough—" Undoubtedly that is the course. Mr. Clarke may have time to counter- plead. What time do you require?" After some conference with the Court, Saturday was the day appointed for receiving the appellant's plea. The prisoner was then taken from the bar, and the glove was handed up to the Master of the Crown Office. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. A question of some importance to debtors and cre- ditors arose ill this Court, on Saturday last, on the con- struction of the Act of the 82d of Geo. the Second, and the Act of the present King, passed to amend and alter that Act. A debtor in custody on an attachment for non- payment of costs, was brought up at the instance of his creditor, but refused to make any return of his property, rather preferring to remain in prison than to do so. The Act of the S2d of George the Second provides, that any person in custody under a judgment and execution, who shall be brought up under this Act, and who shall refuse to make a return of his ef- fects, shall be liable to the punishment of transporta- tion. The Act of the present King extended the bene- ficial provisions of the S2d of George the Second to persons in custody under attachments as well as exe- cutions. Mr. Serjeant Blossett now contended, that with the beneficial parts of the Statute the penal parts were also extended, and that persons committed under at- tachments were, as well as persons committed under execution, liable to the penal provisions of the Statute. Mr. Serjeant Copley, on the contrary, contended, that only persons committed under execution were bound to make a return of property when called on by their creditors ; but that no compulsory obligations were laid on debtors detained as the present defendant was, and that all the power which the Court had was to remand the prisoner. The Court observed, the question was now, as far as they Were aware, started for the first time; they would, therefore, take time to ascertain what was the practice of the other Court on this subject. The defendant was remanded. REMARKABLE AnAGRAM.— Of anagrams it cannot be necessary to speak seriously ; but it may be as well to observe, by the way, that the learned Camden, who has left us a treatise oh the subject, defines an anagram to be the " dissolution of a name," by a transposition of the letters com- posing it, so as to form " some perfect sense applyable to the person named." And he gives several examples, some of which are certainly very extraordinary. That, too, which has been formed of the words " Horatio Nelson"— Honor est a Nilo — is familiar to every one. It may, therefore, be considered by some as a singular coincidence, that the words " Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales" may be transposed as follows, omitting only the letters P. C. which, as they stand for " Princess Charlotte," may with propriety be placed at the head, thus :— P. C. HER AUGUST RACE IS LOST ; O, FATAL NEWS! LITERARY REWARD.— The laborious antiquary, John Stowe, after dedicating the greatest part of a life, extended far beyond the usual period of existence, to researches in which the public were essentially interested, when suffering under the tortures of an excruciating disease, and upon the very verge of the grave, was obliged to ask alms of his fellow- citizens and countrymen. However strange this may seem, it is nevertheless true, that in the year 1004, this worthy citizen obtained from that learned Monarch, and great encourager of learning, James the First, a licence to collect " the charitable benevolence of well- disposed people" for his subsistence. In this Brief his various labours for forty- five years, spent in composing his Annals, and also eight years dedicated to his Survey of London, his merit and his age are men- tioned, and power was given to him, or his deputies, to ask charity at the different churches through considerable number of counties and cities in England, with an exhortation and persuasion to persons to contribute their mites. This was in the second year of the King. A letter from the King on the same subject is also extant, on the back of which seven shillings and sixpence are set down as the subscription of the parish of St. Mary Woolnoth, with the churchwarden's name in- dorsed. A French paper stales, that a young licentiate in medicine, son of an able mathematician, after a long reflection on sounds, has constructed a violin, which, perhaps, will occasion a revolution in music. Many amateurs have already heard' it, and some have tried it themselves: it is of a triangular shape, and the different experiments seem to promise that the advantages held out by its fabricator are likely to be realized. He asserts, that, by proportion! mathematically established, he gives to violins a perfect equality of sound ; and that he rigorously proportions all the parts of treble, counter- treble, tenor, and bass. SAW- DUST CONVERTED INTO WOOD. — The possibility of converting saw- dust into wood must now no longer be spoken of as a jest. M. Menke, of Berlin, has discovered a process by which maho- gany saw- dust may be formed into a paste, which by exposure to air, becomes as hard as stone. The statues and other monuments made of this paste are said to vie in elegance with the finest works bronze, and come to but one- eighth of the expence, As some workmen were forming a small quay few days ago, at Carnarvon, they discovered the remains of an immense wooden bridge, formed of oak, buried several feet in the sand, and extended over the river Seient. One beam, which was got up, measured upwards of fifty feet in length. Th bridge appears to have originally formed acommu nication between Segontium and Coed- Helen Sum mer- house, in all probability a Roman watch- tower, one end of the bridge being contiguous to the old walls of Hengaer Cysteint. The entire of this bridge is supposed to have extended upwards of four hundred yards. MR. THOMAS SHERIDAN.— We are sorry to state the death of this gentleman, of whose reco- very from a long course of decline, there had been some hope, when he was appointed to an office at the Cape of Good Hope. He died there, on the 12th of September last.— Mr. Sheridan has left a widow and several children, two of whom are now at the Cape. He was one of the pupils of the vene- rable Dr. Parr, from whose tuition he proceeded to Cambridge. For a short time he served in the army, and was with the Earl of Moira, as his Aide- de- Camp in Scotland, when he formed an attach- ment to the lady he has now left, the daughter of a Scotch gentleman of the name of Calender. Either immediately before, or soon after his death, Mrs. Sheridan broke a blood- vessel, but was recovering. The situation held by Mr. Sheridan was that of Colonial Paymaster, the duties of which are very slight, and the emoluments 10001. a year. He was the son of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by his first wife, the daughter of Mr. Linley, and was the only child of that marriage. APPEAL OF MURDER. — There is now an ap- peal of murder under the consideration of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland ; but the defendant having, by the advice of his counsel, claimed his wager of battel, the Court seem to have been under some difficulty how to act, and have from time to time postponed their judgment, and the case is now gone off till next term. In the case of the Appeal of Murder, Ashford v. Thornton, it is understood that the only plea which can be put in on the part of the appellant is, that he is incompetent, from his youth and want of bodily strength, fairly to meet the appellee in battle. Upon this plea an argument will be founded as to the power of the Court to wave the light of battle, and direct a new trial by Jury. HORRID BARBARITY.— On Saturday night, or Sunday morning last, some miscreant broke into the stable belonging to Mrs. Travell, at Creamer's Hut, in the parish of Brampton, Hunts, and actually cut off one of the fore legs of a small pony. We are sorry to say the wretch has not yet been discovered. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.— Extract of a letter from Donaghadee, dated Nov. 9.—" 0' n Thursday se'nnight, a brig stood in close to the Ballywalter shore, and hoisted a signal for a boat, when the following men went off, as is usual on such occa- sions, viz.— Hugh M'Donnell, W. M'Chain, John Orr, John Aiken, and W. Hanvey. They were asked to go upon deck, when, to their utter sur- prise, orders were given on board the brig fo hoist the boat upon deck, which was immediately done, and the brig stood down the North Channel, with the five men above- named, and the boat in which they went off. The feelings of their friends are more easily conceived than can be described.— There has not been any account of them whatever since they were carried off. Many conjectures and reports are in circulation respecting this unpre- cedented occurrence : some say that it was a smuggler, others that it is some of Lord Exmouth's acquaintance of Algiers." An inquisition was taken on Tuesday morning before Thomas Stirling, Esq. at the Green Man, Muswell Hill, in the parish of Hornsey, on the body of Mr. Joseph Laurence, lately residing at Fortis Green, Hornsey. Verdict— Hanged himself in a state of insanity. An inquisition was taken on Tuesday night before H. Lewis, Esq. at the Triumphant Chariot, Pem- broke Mews, Grosvenor Place, Pimlico, on the body of Mr. Collins, shopkeeper, in Portman- street, Port- man- square. Verdict— The deceased came to his death by cutting his throat in a state of insanity. B. Woods, Esq. formerly a most eminent soli- citor in Marlo- lane, who had for some time been under the care of his brother residing at Wintfield, owing to mental derangement, brought on by in- tense application to his profession, has also put an end to his existence. Between two and three o'clock on Saturday, a Lieutenant on half- pay, residing with his mother in Seymour- place, Mary- le- Bonne, attempted to put a period to his existence by hanging himself to his bed- post with a silk handkerchief. Very fortu- nately he was discovered by a boy in the house before he had been long suspended, who gave the alarm, and cut him down. Medical assistance was instantly procured, and after the proper remedies had been applied, animation returned, and he was considered in a fair way of recover, ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND MURDER.— On Thursday, the 13th inst. between ten and eleven o clock at night, as Mr. Cuthbert, the turnpike- gate keeper at Wheatley, in Oxfordshire, was returning home from Oxford, he was stopped near the two- mile stone by two footpads, one of whom seized the reins of his bridle, while the other laid hold of him by the left arm and demanded his money or his life. Mr. Cuthbert making some resistance, the villain who had hold of him gave hint a desperate stab iu the left side with a dirk, and a second in the thigh. Mr. C. knocked him down with the but- end of his whip, and spurring his horse, rode over the other fellow who held his bridle, and tlius effected his escape. He now lies dangerously ill at Wheatley. He had that day been receiving a large sum of mo- ney at Oxford, which he had about him at the time, and it is suspected that the villains were not unac- quainted with the circumstance. Accounts from Brighton of the 15th inst. state, that after nine days busily occupied in the examina- tion of witnesses in the melancholy case of the Headborough Rowles, who lost his life in the riotous proceedings there on the 5th inst. by a bayonet thrust through his body, the inquest closed this day. The Coroner, G. Gwynne, Esq. summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned the following ver- dict :—" That Thomas Rowles came to his death by the wilful murder of James Day, a private sol- dier in the 21st Regiment of Foot ; and that John Williams, of Brighthelmstone, in the county of Sus- sex, coal- merchant, constable of the Hundred of Walesbone ; and James White, of Brighthelmstone aforesaid, stationer, are accessaries before the fact of the said murder."— An extraordinary sensation has been excited by the verdict. The depositions fill 127 sides of folio. MURDERS AT GODALMING.— The bodies of Mr. Chennel and his housekeeper were interred in Go- dalming church- yard on Friday. The coffins were made alike, covered with black cloth, and carried each by six men in black cloaks. The body of Mr. Chennel was followed by his friends, and two ser- vants who had long been in his employ; and imme- diately after them followed the body of Elizabeth Wilson, mourned also by her friends : the Coroner's Jury closed the procession. The funeral was at- tended by a great number of persons, and the greatest order was observed during the performance of the burial service.— The two prisoners, Chennel, jun. and Chalcroft, were re- examined on Saturday' in the prison, at Guildford, and remanded for a further hearing. A WIFE WITH TWO HUSBANDS.— At the Man- sion- House, on Saturday, Jeremiah Andrews and Richard Baker appeared before the Lord Mayor, with a lady between them, to whom they both laid claim. Mr. Andrews said he had been abroad about five years, and on his return, found Mrs. Andrews had, during his absence, become the wife of Mr. Baker. For the lady he had no particular regret, but he hoped his Lordship would order im- mediate restitution of his goods and chattels. Mr. Baker declined saying any thing, except that the lady made " a pretty good wife." He would, however, abide by his Lordship's decision in all things. Mrs. Andrews, otherwise Baker, entered upon her defence with infinite self- complacency. She recalled to his Lordship some peculiar circum- stances relative to the travels of Mr. Andrews, by which it appeared they had extended as far as Port Jackson. The Lord. Mayor said he recollected the circumstance. He was Sheriff at the time, and he well remembered furnishing her with the goods and chattels which Mr. Andrews now claimed, be- cause he pitied her forlorn condition. Mrs. An- drews here put in an epistle which she had re- ceived from her transported first lover, when at Woolwich, which she looked upon as a formal dis- charge from her conjugal functions. She had accordingly married Mr. Baker at Shoreditch church, nearly two years ago. His Lordship re- commended Mr. Andrews to forego all claim upon the lady or the goods, but he persisted most stre- nuously, and said, if his Lordship did not order them to give up the goods he should charge her with bigamy. The whole party becoming rather clamorous, the Lord Mayor dismissed the com- plaint, and desired the marshalmen to see them out of the office. Advertisements, Articles of Intelligence, and Orders for this Paper, are received by the following Agents.— LONDON, MESSRS. NEWTON AND CO. 5, WarWick- SQUare, Newgate- Street, and MR. WHITE, 33, Fleet- Street. BRAINTREE, Mr JOSCELYNE BALLINGDON Mr. HILL BRENTWOOD Mr. E. FINCH BURES Mr. DUPONT BURY Mr. BACKHAM BERGHOLT Mr. BARNARD BECCLES ; Mr. S. CATTERMOLE BOTESDALE Mr. H. EDWARDS BRANDON Mr. CLARKE BILLERICAY THE POSTMASTER C. HEDINGHAM... THE POsTMASTER CHELMSFORD Mr. KELHAM COGGESHALL Mr. S. FROST COLNE, EARLS Mr. J. CATCHPOOl CAMBRIDGE. Mr. THORPE DEDHAM Mr. GRICE DUNMOW Mr. DODD EYE Mr. BARBER HARWICH Mr. SEAGER HAVERHILL Mr. T. FLACK HADLEIGH Mr. HARDAGRE HALSTED Mr. LAKE INGATESTONE Mr. DAWSON IPSWICH Mr. DECK KELVEDON Mr. IMPEY MALDON and DENGIE ) Mr. POLLEY HUNDRED 5 1 MANNINGTREE Mr. SIZER MILDENHALL Mr. WiLLET NEWMARKET Mr. ROGERS NAYLAND MR. PARSONS ROMFORD Mr. BARLOW ROCHFORD Mr. WHITE STRATFORD Mr. HUTTON STOKE Mr. BARE STOWMARKET Mr. WOOLBY TERLING Mr. H. BAKER THORPE Mr. UPCHER WIX Mr. SOUTHGATE WITHAM Mr. COTTIS WOODBRIDGE Mr. SIMPSON YARMOUTH Mr. BEART