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sang had expected, ''!en from her handsome person and captivating voice. GINS *was the Woe; BEGRI restars. The Opera was admirably equipped and sustained, and was received with great applause. The close - of the first Act is a cliff del:more. Fogare followed with its usual success. The House was Crowded. Among the list of fashionables wets-- lie Archdukes of Alma', Duke of Monuose Marquis of • Sligo, Lords Camden, Lauderdale, Wincitehea, SomerrUls,l Jersey, Lowther, icinnaird. Blessingtou, Pahnerston Maul ran, and Castlereagh, Russian and Spud* Amblitnaikorar Sin Lumley Skeitington. Charles siontieta, lobo Leicester, , Carnaby Angentein, ard Thomas Wale, Mr. John Gls, and, Mr. °limner. Marchionesses Downehlte sad Lansdowne, Coyotes! Liens. Ladles Salisbury, Caedereagh, Cooper, Jersey, Warrender, Zilch, Cecil, Drell, Wilsoilb sad Beauchamp, Mrs. Suer sad a:Homer. Miss Barraud. DRURY-LANE THEATRE; ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MISS KELLY. . - 7.- • . .`.. s ~ '. ; ' , .... '— _ Ne. Ail Jrll4OllL • NifiAlithAirnik appeared on Saturday night in the - leiditig'iharaoter of Zaire, in the Opera of that name. She looked better and sang better than we Saturday night, while Miss KELLY was . perform. jog the part of Nast . in Modern Aligarh at Drury lane Theatre, a Mimi sitting in 'the centre of the Pit, (oak a pistol from his pente* and discherged it at this amiable and interesting young . lady. This happened between ten 'and eleven o'clock. The greatest alarm and ennfusion was .excited. in every part of the house, at the report of the pistol. The people called out—" Seize the villain—take him . out."—The police officers attending the house came, secured, and after a violent resistance dragged him oat of the house. Mt. RAE, the Manager, then came forward on the stage, and informed the audi • ente, that the man who had fired' the` iisttil was in cuttOsly, and be wonld inform them the result of the investigation at the close of the performance, which gave general satisfaction. The prisoner was conveyed to Bow-street Office, and underwent a long 'examination berme Mr. BIR MED at which Mr. Rea and Mro Maui, the Mana gers, attended. The prisoner appeared to be about twenty-one years of age. He was decently and plainly dressed, like a tradesman, but by no means genteel. He gave . the name of GEORGE BARNETT ; said he *al a law-stationer by busineas, and lived at 29, Princes street. Nathan Harris, a jeweller; qf 103, Drury-lane, said be was in the Pitt of Drury-lane Theatre; the priso ner was also there, and he sat near him; and during the time Miss Kelly and Ms. Knight were on the stage together, at the commencement of the Enter tainment, he observed the prisoner in the act of pre senting a pistol towards the stage, and it appeared to be aimed at the performers, and, immediately after, the prisoner fired.off the pistol ; he, in consequence, lost no time in collaring him, and assisted in securing him. The prisoner denied being the man. He was conveyed iu:o the avenue of the Pit, and a case of gunpowder found upon hin , . Oue Gentleman was pnsi.tve sl.ot bad passed his head, and which was very str , agt.; corroborated by Mr. Rorauer, a Gentleman bri:eging to the Box Of fice of the Theatre, producing i number of dints, a penca.se titled with gunpowder, and a second pistol, which were found upon the prisoner. 'The prisoner was then called upon to give an ac crunt of Limself. He said his mother and father-in lcw live in Brown's-buildings, Staahope•street, Clare M..rket. He was asked if he had any personal knowledge of Miss Kelly ? He at first denied that he had any knowledge of her, but afterwards said that she could explain. _ _ On be;rg questioned as to his motive for his d3r jog •u•r .4 , he declined answering it, but said he would say more at a future time. He hesitated in answering all tht questions put to him, and gave very ccntr tdictory accounts. He was then conveyed to Bridewell by the constables whaappre hended him. it was with some difficulty that, Miss KELLY finished:cling her character in the farce. On her 'being informed of the young man's name, she recol lected that it_was the same !lame is she had received sever-al letters signed by, in the form of love letters; some of them anv.unted to threatening letters, if she did not accept of his offers, &c. She not knowing . the person, treated the whole as a matter of indiffe rence. She had mentioned the circumstance to the Honourable Mr. LAMB; on:. of the Gentlemen of the Committee for Managing the •Affairs of the 'Theatre ; also to her dresfer. and several other per. sons about the Theatre. 'llse fright had such an effect upon her, that she has been much indisposed ever since. At the conclusion of the FaCt, several voices stalled for Mr. RA; when that Gentleman appeared, and said— . . vi LAMS AND i3eirrteatatt—The young man who heaths pistol has been taken to the Public Office, Bew-strett, and in terrogated by Mr. Dimle, the Magistrate, and from the wild and incoherent manner in which he coadecte d himself, these is very little doubt of hit being Insane The scenes that were on at the time the pistol was shot were then put I, again and examined, when it was ascertained, that several shots had perforated through the left back scene, /cc. and also had struck the back of Ole orchestra. MISJ BURRELL is about to appear in the character of Captain hfacheetth, at Covent. Garden Theatre. It is twenty years• since that character was performed • by a female. A new Opera, by Mr. Taxa', entitled Gry Maw wring, was read at Covent-garden Theatre on Friday'. Green-room report speaks highly of its merits. The Tragedy of Ivor, forthcoming at Drury lane, is from the pen of Mr. SOTHEBY. A manager, some years 'ago., reproaching an actor that be did not draw as be used is do, was told. 48 that he could not expect he should draw like a drayhorse, while he sat in the cart doing nothing 1" A few evenings gate, is fine boy, abOnt twelve months old, was found open a frozen pond, near Bonham, with life nearly extinct. from the severity of the weather. It was traced to be the child of a soldier who had the same day arrived with a puny tee Hsjabam, and who had purposely abandoned it to perish. lie was of course committed for. trial. ~ oLp Latirs Saturday Corte Herroemr was in f lietect for Wei.- I marrying with flusatmati Anne Giblett, his former wile. Mary Usher, being at that time alive. The Rev. Arnold Barroirs, Chaplit , ri to the Presi dency of Bombay, prayed a copy of. the parish re gister, dated February 6, 1794, and which certified the marriage - of George Harrower to Mary Usher.— Witness did not starry them, but he had visited and dined with thefts, when Mrs. Harrower presided at the head of titer:able, and acted in all respects as his wife. He belistied Mr. Owen r Chaplain at Calcutta. performtd the marriage ceremony between Captain Harrower and Mary Usher. Me arrived in England in 1814, and soon after gave information to Mr. lett, the . father of Captain .H.'s present wife, of the previous marritige to Miss Usher.—On his aqsa-vx!, mutation this witness said, Mrs. Harrower, in jndis,,, was a lunatic, at' some times wild. When Be left Bombay, however, she was perfectly quiet, and had no doubt she was the person who was - once called Miss Mary Usher. The Re*. John Owen did not recollect that he had ever performed any marriage ceremony at Bombay. He had no recollection of the prisoner or of Miss Usher. Lionel Thompson knew Captain Harrower tonally, who called on him, and told him, that was a conspiracy against him, to charge him with having another wife alive, which he denied, as be hoped ever to enter the kingdom of Heaven. Hg also asked witness to assist him in getting out of the kingdom, Which he did. •On the pier of Calais, he asked Captain Harrower to say whether his wife at k .Buntbay was alive or not ? and he then confessed that 'she was alive. Witness then advised him never to think of coming . to England again but lie came back twice, and a/darn saw hint at an inn in the 80. tough.. Witness proved chive letters to be in Captain Harrower's hand.writing, and relating to the disposal of Mrs. Harrower. _ Cross-exatisined.—He admitted that Captain Har rower had withdrawn himself from the acquaintance of witness. He did not mention the conversation he had bad on the pier of Calais, because on his exami nation at Bow -street, he was not asked about it. He had dined with Giblett long before Captain Har rower married his daughter ; but he was not a credi tor under Giblett's commission. Captain Harrower paid witness's expenses in the journey to Calais. • D. Wallis, clerk to the prosecutor's attorney, proved the cop} of the register of the prisoner's mar riageto Mjss Giblett, on the 12th of October, 1812; At St. George's, Hanover-squire. The prosecution closed, when Mr. Serjeant Bast rose, and submitted no objection, founded oa the sta tute of James 11. by which parties intermarrying be. yond the seas, and afterwards separating for seven years, were freed from the ties unposed by the Mar riage Act. This objection was ihstadtly oter-ruled. Captain Harrower, being then called upon for his defence, entered into a statement of his condition in We fruit his youth to the present time. He adverted to the p4eiod when he had had the misfortune to be come known to the prosecutor Giblett, who, in drain. ing him of his purse, and instituting proceedings against his liberty and character, had left him but one consolation, an amiable and beloved wife, unfortu nately the daughter of the worst of men. The pro secution. he said, was the result of a foul and infa mous conspiracy, and not that of a desire to support the laws of the country, or to punish those who trang gresited them. He had been introduced to Giblett in an unguarded way, and, feeling a consciousness of his own integrity, did not suspect a contrary principle to prevail in him. After the acquaintance between them was matured, he married his daughter, upon whom he settled a jointure of £lO,OOO. He atter- wards lent Giblett sums of money amounting to £17,000, and further sums, which raised the whole of what Giblett had succeeded in drawing from him, to more than £30,000. In fact, he had not only de prived him (Captain Harrower) of all the money he could by possibility extract, but he had robbed his own daughter of the £lO,OOO which had been settled upon her. Every means was used by Giblett to cause his wife to leave him, and to live at home with himself, when he offered to give up certain apart ments in his house for her accommodation ;—adding, that they would be able to get the whole of the money to themselves, and he, (Captain Harrower) might go and starve. These proposals, however, were always uniformly and indignantly refused by his wife. He alluded to the commission of bank ruptcy which had been issued against Giblett, by which he had contrived to defraud him of his money, and mentioned a circumstance which that person had been heard to declare, namely—" that he would try and get the money into Chancery, if other designs failed of depriving him of the property." He went ' into a variety of other statements, the object of l which was to represent Giblett to be a character of l the worst description ; a character such as he never thought existed in England, and such as he trusted Lever would be found in it again. He also made some strong allusions to the ungrateful put which the witness Thompson had taken against him in this conspiracy. Finaliy, he protested his innocence of the crime of which he now stood charged, and trusted that the sentence of the Court would at once rescue him from the infamous plot which had been laid" against dim, and restore him to the arms of a be.' loved and only partner. Mr. Baron RICHARDS summed up the evidence at considerable length. He observed, that it was of little consequence by whom or by what means the prosecution was instituted. The Jury, as well as himself, were assembled there upOn their oaths, and however painful the duty would be, should they de. 'terrnine upon the guilt of the prisoner, still that ver dict must be pronounced. The simple question, therefore, for them to try was, first, Had the priso ner been proved, to their satisfaction, according to . the evidence of Mr. Burrows, and the confirmatory confession cif that fact to the Witness Thompson, to have been married to Mary Usher of Bombay ? And, in• considering the latter, part of this question, was the witness Thtunpson to be believed ? Next, was the tnarriage of the prisoner to Miss Giblett, during the lifetime of the before-mentioned Maty Usher, also satisfactorily proved ? Upon these points he had no doubt they would come to a safe and conscientious conclusion. The Jay s having retired for half an hour, returned: with it iereict or—Onaty g ,tit 'tieonitnenClea the prisoner, in the strongest manner, to mercy. , Mr. Baron R ICU ARIA assnred them, in want% terms,, thatlhe recommendation should not fail to be at- tended to. The Court throughout.the whole day was troisided to excess. Mrf. Harrower, who remained in Court during the trial, iracconveyed out, in an almost helpless state, after the Jury had retie... 4 to consider the verdict. Messrs. Giblets and Thompson were followed, on their departure from the Court, by the Iripulace, who hooted and hissed them for a considerable time. 'Thompson was, however, still more roughly dealt with, being pelted with mud and every species of dirt which cottl4 be procured. He was at length obliged to take refuge in the Saracen's Head, Soow.hill. Ma Cyder was indicted for feloniously stealing a letter, containing a certain promissory note for £lO, the property of Elisabeth Garnett Gale, of Rich mond, Surrey, on the 22d August last. The priso ner had beeo ot d a t t vi tzon_lrail.since the last Sessions, and now surren himself to abide his trial. He had been a stamper at the General Post-office, and it was proved that the letter in question had not been delivered over by him, although regularly received, and that-the notes paid for the promissory note in. closed in the letter, had been traced to him. The Jury found him Guilty—Death ; but recommended to mercy, on acccount of his former good character. In the Court of Exchequer on Saturday, a verdict was given for the Crown, against the Chief Mate of the Thames East Indiaman, for smuggled silks, landed from that vessel in the month of August last. MARLIIIROUGII ariterr.—Saturday two Officers of rank in the Army appeared before G. Hicks, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, to answer the complaint of Owen Durkin, Thomas Savage, Wm. Flaterly, and Walter Pendergass, four watchmen of the parish of St. James, Westminster, under the following circumstances : it appeared that the gentlemen were returning home from St. James's Palace, about one in the morning of Thursday last, and having been accosted by two unfortunate women in Pall Mall, they requested the assistance of one of the watchmen to get rid of them, when some little altercation arose, and the trusty guardian of the night perceiving the Gentlemen somewhat inebriated, immediately sprung his rattle. He was quickly joined by three more of hi; brethren, who commenced a violent and unwarrantable attack upon the gentlemen, by beating them over their arms and shoulders with their cudgels, and tore' their clothes off their backs in dragging them to the watch bouse, under a pretence of being disorderly.— One of the Gentlemen. to convince the Magistrate of the violenee which the watchmen had used towards him, sheered his arms, which were covered with bruises, besides having lost two pocket handkerchiefs; and a purse, with nine shillings in silver, in the affray, and added, that although be had fought in the ever,me morable battle of Waterloo, and on which occasion be had two horses shot under him, he did not con ceive his life to have been in such imminent danger as it was by the violent treatment of the watchmen, having been nearly strangled. The tables were then turned by the Magistrate upon the watchmen ; he animadverted in the strongest terms on their out rageous conduct, and lamented the very general prat. lice of watchmen in taking the advantage of persons appearing respectahle, when they find them returning home at a late ht-tir a little elevated, by corritying them to the watch-house, for the espress purpose of making a booty of them, and likewise on the conduct of constables of the night, in receiting such charges. He then ordered each of the watchmen to find bail to ansfra the complaint at the Sessions, and for want of which they were immediately locked up. Gentlemen and others who have lived rather gay, and are about entering into conjugal felicity, are in formed that Dr. Cobrza, and three Surgeons, of great and long experience in Strictures, Fistulas, De bilities arising from warm Climates, Juvenile indis cretions, &c. kc. have established a Medical Board at Charlotte-house, Great Charlotte -street, opposite the Rev. ROWLAND HILL'% Chapel, Blackfriar's road, by whom the public are cured without sali vation or confinement. The Medical Board claims the attention of those who have attempted the cure, or who have consulted men ignorant of so important a branch of the profession, whose improper treat ment have ruined thousands. Blotches on the head, face , and body, sore eyes, throat, mouth, and nose, vertigo, noise in the ears, deafness, dimness of sight,. pains in the bead and 41mbs, frequently mistaken for rheumatism • weakness is the knees, nodes on th e shin bones, swell ed ankles, &c. are symptoms which ap pear years after, and too often embitter the matrimo nial state. Messrs. Comma and Co. are consulted daily by all ranks of people, from twelve till eight ; or by letter, inclosing a fee (for no others are an swered), stating their case, when medicine and the best advice is sent to all parts of the kingdom. They cure the piles and fistula, without burning or cutting; and give advice gratis, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings, till 12 o'clock A side door and private rooms for females.--Medical Gentlemen who at tend with their Patient:, are present daring Conssoltation. BIRTHS. Saturday morolag, la Handballbee, the Duchess of Bedford, of a von. Feb. IS, at Canterbury, the Lady of the Rev. W. H. Champ- nays, of a son. MARRIED Rev. John Addison, Rector of Ickantbans, Middlesex, to Maria, eldest daughter of Dr. Adam. Feb. IS, at 'fostock, the I ion. and Rev. H. Leslie, to Elizabeth Jane, youngest daughter of the Rev. James Oakes of Tostock Rectory, Suffolk. DIEU. s r Tuesday, at Ipswich, aged 88, Mary, widow of the late Hon. and Rev. Edward Townshetid, Dean of Norwich. Monday, at Ballot College, °afoul, in the gist year o his age, William Boyer, Esq. eldest son of W. H. C. Floyer, Esq. of Hints, in the county of Stafford. Sunday se'nnigbt, on board the Argonaut, the youngest daugh ter of Lieut. lames, Commander of that ship. Lately, in St. Stephen's, Norwich, aged 69, Sir John Odin sells Lecke. Tuesday, the Rev. Joshua Winter, Rector of Codfard, St. Mary, Wilts, in the 724 year of his age. In the palish of St. Rotel* Suffolk, Susannah Kent, who, be log very infirm aid helpless, by some accident Ler apparel caught lire, and An Ras burst in so dreadful a manner that she died the next morning. Mrs. Athol% a pont unfortunate woman, who some weeks ago had been dreadtulty burned by her cloth es catching fire, died on 'humidly, in Maidstone workhouse, whither she had been j removed some days reclaim: • ifArirmistrr lATELticzj .....—,....,;, •• admitted OXFORD, FEBRUARY it ~ We , the Rev. R. Gordon Andrew s n a low a Corpcs Christi College. 'lliairsday the Rev. Thomas Trevor Trtvor, I jam', Ccißege, Cambridge, was itteorporaod of Yesterday the Rho. Stuart Corlie , t, of W inn & m k t ,' in Oivinity, and Rector of Kirl6i-dulls:I Of York, was sainted Bachelor and home is I A. were admitted Master The Rov. Thomas Trevor Trevor, of Cll. c h M.A. fellow, of Cctpu, of La t w he g P ra r n eb i e c ti on da i r po ies u :f der Chester, wag Rev. Samuel Slack, of Christ Church, and M, eence Pousteney, in kliddle-et. of Xt. Mirr libelist tlll t w h r e yin rectory racClM A aktnYgedba d lial i Wie Tr : sat :tElow i l on has passed the Great Sealy ~, John Aaliburithant, B. D. and Chancellor of Chichester, to hold the valuable Ytearag:, of P e with the Rectory of Guestlme, both i n s ussex instituted by the bishop of riat dioc ese . ' Rev. John Thompson, clerk, torte vita:3lmi, Rev. John Davies, MA. to the rectory in st ell • Rev. 'Fhomai Price, M.A. to the vicarage of S chapelry of IA hittongton atinesef. Rev.ltihn Royle tci the rectory of Cur.:pion chapelry of Nempnet, Somerset. Tite Hun. and Rev. R. S. Leslie Me!elle, Great Tey, Esser. We understand there is not an old Curate St. Asaph unprovided with a Rectory; clergyman, of only three pars standing, ha s pointed to the Vicarage of Bala. NERVOUS AFFECTIONS. or to be too easily susceptible of Irregular I vow-, may he considered a. one of the greatest of rank. The all•wise est EA root nt the ticket the nerves an office in the aMmai machine, lel greatest perfection in all their (operations • I the mo►t liable to be disordered, tke mu.t•suso t and the mast difficuk to be rectified. Nu orders ito this delicate sys:ent should he co tro;: :lent, and that the variations of well ..ttol happen.—For Nervous Coonsumpio: , s, luecoo..; decays, &Inlay or relazat'on iu eitht r sea, w of owing to youthful improdecc'e4, that renvy: CORDIAL BALM of GILEAU stint!. Lir only invigorates the decayed j•;;ees, hart throw upon the debihta•.ed and relased parts that .tau anat. Sold by Samuel Leigh, IR, Strand; Bacon ford -street, Loudon; Brodie and Dowdo.e, Medicine Venders; price I is. each, or Four in for 335. by which one t la. bottle it saved , with Solomon, Liverpool," engraved on ibe stamp. rr 1)r. Solomon expects, when consulted b compliment of aXi note t.l be imclosid, aid Letter. 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IMPORTANT ADVICE No. 13, Bouverie-street, Fleet.stret WHEN Men of Educatio n an d P use persevering endeavours to discove certain method of treatmg a few prevailing Di ful result of their experience it the best proof Fifteen years have we devoted eur praise treatment of Three Di.ordets, and the compl, ing our plan, gives us additional ardour to °ppm ble the ravages of those eomp:aints which are of all the infirmities to which the human mate After an authorised introduction into every Science, we determined on commencing pn dhridnals from the ignorance of uneducated n: dangerous precipitancy of a general practitiont l'he three disorders, to the cure of which w attention, comprise every species of Vent real isf recent or long duration ; 2dly, all kind, of Oelcy, whether arising lota the secret Whitt the Indulgencies of mature age, terminating son times in consumption ; andlast/y, that d irs em in women, which is called liarrennt sera ty cases originating in a similar error. Numerous diseases are the result of ignore tie lament of a simple Gonorrhoea, ani it not pe is that the seeds of file are poisoned, from 'ef an unguarded moment. By a superior rt plaints are easily cured ; and even where other trust that we may offer an effectual restorauon The Diseases of the Urethra, as frequent or arising front the above complaints, hay, attention; by an infallible and improved bled to remove übstinate Gleets and Stric cent or of long duration, without resorting dangerous use of the caustic bougie. Mall adduced of very inveterate cases, of several Laving yielded to our method in a few days, been attempted by other practitioners withal To be consulted daily by Patients or whet delicacy, and attentluo.—Letters frees the the particulars of GU case, age, sad manner a remittance, duly attended to, and advice a warded to arty part of the kingdom. GOSS and Co. Members of the Royal Coll A CHALLENGE. MESSRS. CUR RIE and Co. St his Majesty's Service, challenge the prove a single looauce where their medicine a have failed of the desired effect. The puede this particular branch of their profession, h.(' 'one unsuccessful case. They continue to direct their studies to 1 cure of Venereal Complaints, anti that deranl tern which is the consequence of the perni effects of a habit long and must unhappily Ira of both sexes. hi the one it will be lou l td source of barrenness; the other have its rang' to them by a distressing state of debility, whir medted, terminates in impotence. These al ultimate effects, while consumptims, Ins. of m various nervous complaints, usually characterii of this solitary vice. Of persons languishing incident to such a habit, their treatment is sin proved unsuccessful in the course of • long, la! extended practice. In the most obstinate and complicated CAM tion, such ao obstructions in the urethra, sp hard tumours, callous ulcers eruptions, gelatin: •ai also Suictitres, whether ttcent or of It which have bailed the skill of other Pra their present improved plan of treatment effn neatly cured, without the p.tient stillering tb and alarming Hemorrhage which frequently I Lion of the lunar caustic. la the esurse of then in this metropolis, numerous cases of S and are daily under t heir care, the total cradles levied by a sale, excreta and expeclitmus ttta to any other yet adop: ed. "Che weakness, rel Hey, proceeding from this complaint arc rpm the Patient restored to sound and vigorous It the debility has for years existed, a proper pe restorative remedies is indispensably requisite, berg sparks of hie, and to reanimate the can Patients in the Country are requested to at atiltir case, age, and general habit of living, anktance for advice and Mel:Mies, when the or sent to any part of the Kingdom. 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