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1 I WOMAN. Sweet is the sight of coming sell, BOrne on by Fancy's quick'ning gait, To him who sighs through years of toil On some lone unfrequented isle ; Oh! still more sweet is woman's smile, 'When first the thrill of rapture fires her breast, And gives some kindred bosom to be blest. Soft is the last expiring breath That notes the gentle Zephyr's death ; Oh! softer still is Woman's sigh, When words their poWerless aid deny To tell the bosom's trembling joy— That throbbing pulse, so warm, so fluttering, When Love and Hope together touch the string. Bright is the dew drop in the rose Embosom'd, when its leaves unclose To catch the sun-beam wand'ring nigh ; Ott ! brighter far is Woman's eye, When kindling 'neath some inerest high Her soul-fraught glance reflects her mind sincere ; Or lovelier melts in Pity's crystal tear. Sweet is the Syren's silver strain, Melodious floating o'er the main, From rocks And quicksands nightly flung To lure the mariner along; Oh ! sweeter far is Woman's tongue To some fond heart, that droops 'neath beauty's (chain, Imparting sounds that wake to life again. Fair was Aurora, boon and mild, When first on Paradise she smird— All hush'd the late chaotic storm; Oh ! fairer still is Woman's form, With eye-beam bright and bosom warm; With lips of lyre that ne'er belied her heart, And cheek that never ask'd the aid of art! Lovely LI light to darkness given, Or what the fancy paints of Heaven; Oh! lovelier still is Woman's soul, Where feeling knows the mind's contronl, And virtue consecrates the whole ; For then she gives a second Eden birth, And blesses man with real Main on earth ! On, Woman ! vain were Poet's power To paint creation's brig'itest flower, Where Nature all her skill combin'd To mould her last great work, design'd The highest blessing of mankind; And gave whate'er is loveliest, fairest, bast, To grace thy form, or glow within thy breast ! March, 1814. xma ASSIZEI MAIDSTONE, MARCH 27• Ilium or THE MIDSHIPMEN FOR SHOOTING AT WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. 4mong the persons put to the bar on Saturday as reputed thieves, was the celebrated Bill Soames.— He had been apprehended by Oddy, a police officer, who had a warrant against him, in the gallery of the Surrey Theatre. Humphreys, a Bow-stseet officer stated, that he had known Soames as a reputed thief, organizing gangs of pickpockets for the last tan years with unceasing activ!ty. Soarnes—Don't believe a word of it, Mr. Chairman; I have sot been four years in the country. ilumplareys.—lle's right enough, Sir, for he returned from transportation within the last four yes ; ar but I knew him before lSis tr.tvels, and I have constantly seen him since picking pockeu about the Strand, with others of the gang. Soames put in a written paper, containing a de fense not dissimilar to that of Barrington at the Old Bailey. He complained that his character was blas tNi from past indiscretions, and that he could find no. one to give him what he sought, an honest livelihood. He candidly confessed that the Police were his most uncompromising enemies, for he could not appear in the streets to look after an honest situation without being immediately recognised and attacked by them. He declared himself innocent of the charges made against him, and said, that he had obtained the Prince Regent's pardon for his last conviction, which was obtained at the instigation of Vaughan, and others of the same description. . . . lie rustansx.:—Sosaies, it Is a shocking tßieg to see you continuing this career, after rep.itc.l cunvictions, punishments, escapes.... . . . Soaan;s.—Slr, I am most ar.xions to get an honest NvelUtood, but the Police (Hikers stop me the mament I go out to look for it. When I was taken I was in the act of seeking a stewardship in an East Indianian—a situation I once held, and could hare got it is 't were not for this arrest. The CUM/AUL—You have abilities, and it is a pity they are wit honestly employed; it would La very desirable if you could find some situation out of the country, whzre you might retrieve your character. Can you get the situation you allude to now? I kr iw you have friends.---Suarnes—l think I can, Sir. The CHAIRMAI4.—Then let the sentence stand over until the d A f of adjournment. A man, named Joseph Garrot Carr, was indicted by the parish of St. Martin In the Fields, under the lowing circumstances :—He had surrepticiou sl y obtained a permissive travelling pass, originally gran ted to a man of the name of Smith, upon which the prisoner had collected money from the Overseers of several parishes, and amongst others he presented himself, with a woman and three children, to an over 'ter of the above-named parish, from whom he re e tived one shilling and sixpence ; he then applied to bt. Uiless, shewing the pass, with the figute " one" a'tered to a " two, making tile relief appear to be two shillings.and sixpence. The pass-master of St. Giles's, to Wnom he applicator relief, suspecting the' application to be fraudulent, detained the man, and sent him to Marlborough-street Office, where his sus picions were found to be correct, as it was proved that the prisoner was not the person named in the pass, nor was the woman his wife, nor the children his ; but in order to impose upon parish officers, the words his wife and three children," had been inserted.-- The Magistrate, of course, committed him for the fraud, and he was this day brought up for trtaL--Mr. ALLEY, Counsel for the parish of St. Martin, opened the case, and proved the facts ; upon which the Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner Guilt?.—The CHAIRMAN stated that cases of this species of fraud were now so common that it was necessary to-make public examples of such impostors, and sentenced the prisoner to twelve months imprisonment in tie 'false of Correction. At the Old Bailey Sessions, which commence on Wednesday, two hundred and sixteen prisoners were committed for trial up to Saturday night ;—among exem are twelve for forgery. A melancholy circumstance occurred at Lincoln, on Thursday morning last, during the execution of four culprits on die New Drop there. The number Of people assembled to witness their awful exit was so immense, that befote the unfortunate wretches were launched into eternity, a sudden pressure of the ctowd took place, and forced an aged female and her daughter, a young woman about 16 years of age, into an adjoining well nearly 20 feet deep, and before the necessary apparatus to render assistance could be pro cured, the 7 both become the victimsof their curiosity. PERSOPIS AT DEAL. Nicholas Robillard and J. Arquinbau, two young midshipmen, were charged on two indictments, for shooting at two of the inhabitants of Deal, with in tent to murder, &c. As the transaction was detailed in the last case most fully, we shall state that first, the case having been much misrepresented by the County Papers : That indictment charged Robillard and Arquinbau, the first with shooting at, and the other with aiding him in shooting at J. Williams, at eight o'clock in the evening of the 27th day of December, in King street, near the Fish-market, Deal. The Prosecutor described himself as a mariner, and stated that he was returning home on the evening of the 27th De cember, having been for a walk : when he got into the Fish-market he heard the noise of quarrelling, and saw Mr. Arquinbau disputing with a man of the name of Robinson ; he cried out " Hallo ! what's the matter r when Rohillard stepped up to him, and said, you are the fellow that just now insulted me.—' He replied, that he was not, and was ready to go before the Mayor. Robillard had a pistol in his hand, and after a few words fired it at him, and then drew his cutlass. The Prosecutor closed with him, and in doing so received a wound across his, face, but he succeeded in throwing Robi!lard down, and escaped. In cross-examination he denied that he had ever seen Robillard to his knowledge before that night, or that he had been smuggling that evening. J. Barnes, a grocer, at Deaf, near whose house the affray happened, said, he heard the noise of the dis pute between Arquinbau and Robinson, and he went to his door. He interposed, and thought he had succeeded in restoring peace, and had returned to his shop, when he heard the report of a pistol. The ball struck his window-shutter. He came out and found the Prosecutor and the Primer Robillard struggling on the ground. Barnes, jun. the son of the list witness, said, he saw the scuffle ; and he said the Prisoner fired the pistol when he was standing about five feet xi om the Prosecutor. The Prisoners being called upon their defence, Rohillard read a long paper, which was well corn posed as to style and matter. He lamented his hard ship in standing as a culprit at the bar, for doing no more than was necessary fer his self-defence in the performance of a duty which had been imnesed upon him by his superiors, and not of his own choice, that of watching the contraband traders—a duty he de clared much more unpleasant than facing the enemy in open battle. He lamented also the manner in which they had been treated by the Mayor of Deal. who committed them to close custody, and when their Captain, under whose orders they had acted, and whose advice they immediately sought, was re fused admission to them, he was told by the Mayor that they were both drunk. Thus not only denying them the consolation and advice of their Command ing Officer, but at the same time calumniating their character. The County Journals had no less vilified them, by stating their conduct as little short of that of assassins or madmen, representing them as wan tonly parading the streets, and firing at the passen gers at random. He then alluded to the state of the town of Deal, in which he said that the habit of illi cit trading was so inveterate, that no reward would induce any inhabitant to . give information; and he held in his hand advertisements to the amount of many thousand pounds reward, all of which had been unavailing. This was the place where his duty and ill-fortune compelled him to serve. His vessel was specially appointed to watch the smugglers, so that every person on board was obnoxious to the whole town. He then detailed a variety of instances in which their officers and parts of their crew had been beaten, gagged, thrown overboard, and every insult used against them, and in the case of two seizures which he had made, he noticed the present Prosecutors active amongst those who rescued the goods. On the night in question, they had sentries along the shore on the watch, and it was his duty to fro trom post to post. It happened that as lie and his brother officer were passing the High -street, be saw three or four men loaded with baskets, such as they carry tubs in. He pursued, but they escaped, except one, whom he overtook. The Prosecutor then came, and by a blow on the breast knocked him down, which enabled the smugslers to escape. As soon as lie got up and recovered himself he made his way through the Fish-market, and then the Pro secutor again came up. He immediately said-- " You are the fellow who insulted me ; I will now take you prisoner." The Prosecutor said, " I will give it you again," and immediately prepared a box ing attitude. The Jury would see that there was no, equality of personal strength between them, and therefore he drew his sword, but the Prosecutor rushed in and bore him down; when they were down he told the Prosecutor to desist or he would shoot him ; to which his answer was, " Fire away and be d—d," and kept kneeling on his breast. lie then drew his pistol and fired, not intending to kill him, but to alarm him, for he could easily have shot him ' through the head or body, but he fired close to his I head, so as to pass him, The Prosecutor then got up, and ran away. Now, although there were many witnesses to this transaction, and could, of course, I speak to the truth of his statement, yet there was no one who dared give evidence against a smuggles at I Deal, and it was with the greatest difficulty he could procure one to come forward, and he must no more I dare return to that place. He delivered this address in a very inirressive i manner, and it evidently had great effect with the Court and Jury. Mr. Arquinbau merely said, that what his brother officer said was strictly true. Some witnesses were then called who had examined the fiat k of the ball in the window-shutter, and they said from its direction it must ha - re been fired by a person lying on the ground. This was confirmed by one witness, who saw the transaction.---The Jury found them Not Guilty. The first indictment was against Mr. Arquinbau alone. It appeared, that after Robinson ran away lie pursued, and, intending to fire at Robinson, his 4 ball unfortunately hit another person, and he was in dicted for firing at the person whom he hit. The Learned Judge immediately held, tLat this would not do, as the crime consisted in the intent, and that he must actually be charged for firing at the person he intended to fire at. On this ground he directed the Jury to find them Not Guilty. The prisoners were both very gentlemanly young men, and selected by their Captain for this disagree able service, in consequence of their prudence and discretion, as was stated by Captain *Culloch, their Commander. Robillard is a native of Guenise.,, and Arquinbau a native of Minorca. THE KING V. PF.NNALI.. This was an indictment against the defendant for a misdemeanour, and a contempt of an order of the Magistrates, by not serving the office of Overseer in the parish of Queenborough. Mr. Pennall had refused to fill the office, without assigning any other reason than that he as exempted by an office he already held under the Board of Ord nance ; but this gentleman had produced no instru ment to shew that he did fill this office. The defen dant had been a resident in the parish of Qaccnbo rough for several years, and was perfectly competent to fill the office. He was a householder, and had had due notice of the appointment. Mr. MARRYATT confessed that this case was one more fit for the consideration of his Lot - thin') than of the Jury. The defendant was seventy-two years old, and he could prove that many persons, fifteen and twenty years younger than the defendant, had never been called upon to serve the office. But the princi pal ground upon which the order of the Magistrates was resisted was, that the defendant was actually ex empted. He took it to be a strict rule Of law, that all officers under his Majesty were exempted from parish duties. In this case he held in his hand a writ of privilege, dated the 14th of March, 1818, reciting the order of 1664, and totally exempting the defen dant from filling the parish office. Mr. ANDREWS, on the other hand, argued that the writ of privilege was not sufficient to exempt the de fendant : that writ had only recited the order of the Privy Council of 1664, which of itself had as little power in granting the exemption as the present writ issued front the Court of Exchequer. Mr. Baron GRAHAM confesses, that it did appear to him, that some respect was due to this instrument produced, not because it was issued from the Court of Exchequer, but because that Court could have no contro , :l when an Act of Parliament was in e...istence, giving power to Magistrates to appoint three or four overs,:ers. But the ground upon which he thought' it was a good writ WAS this, that time out of mind, it was a part of the Royal prerogative to claim the, whole exercise of the duties of those who were em ployed under Government. A verdict was accordingly taken for the defen dant, subject to an application for a new tri.d, or for a special verdict. THE. KING V. PENNALL. The indictment in this case was for an assault upon three gentlemen of the names of Marshall, Findlay, And Batchelor, in his own house, in the parish of Queenborougli. Mr. ANDREWS stated the case to the Jury, and ob served upon the coarse and irl,vinan manner in which the dAendant had treated the tl.ree . ;i•ntlenien men tioned in the indictment. John Liptrop Findlay was a churchwarden of the parish of Queeaborough, and accompanied Mr. Bat chelor to the defendant's house to tender the parish books, on the '24th April, about nine o'clock in the evening. Mr. Batchelor went in first. Without hav ing an opportunity of saying a word, the defendant ran upon him and forced him against the door, say ing, " Get out of my house!" He attempted to an swer, that he had come there as instructed by his duty, and net to insult him, nor did he expose such treatment from him. While in the act of speaking, the defendant went to the fire-place, and returned with the poker grasped in his hand. The defendant seized him by the collar with one hand, and at tempted to strike him with the poker with the other. Ile avoided the blow with his left arm, and endea voured to remonstrate with him, saying there was no reason for such violence. The defendant made a se cond attempt to strike him, still holdir.g bim with his hand. He attempted it a third time, but witness seized the poker and took it from him, saying at the same time, " I shall certainly bring this in evidence against you." Upon which he said, " Will you? by bon, but you shan't." Th e defendant endeavoured to make a snatch at the poker, and so violent was he that he fell into the street, but did not lose his feet. Witness then went away, leaving Mr. Batchelor and Mr. Marshall to settle as they could. During this struggle witness used no aggravating language, and did no more than act in his own defence. Ills busi ness at the defendant's was to tender the parish books. Cross-exansined.--Mr. Pcnnall had desired the wit ness not to enter his house again. This was on the 12th April, and witness west in with his hat on. The defendant remarked it, and witness immediately pulled it off, saying, " I always pull my hat off in gentle men's company." Ile did not say " I never pull my hat off but in a gentleman's company." The Jury, at the direction of the Learned Judge, found a verdict—Guilty. A GHOST AT Nawaroxow.--Friday night, a nrin was extremely terrified near Walworth Turnpike, by the appearance of a figure which he imagined rose out of the earth in the s h ape of a woman, with large horns on her head ; his fright was so great that his terrific shouts drew the watchman to the spot, who found the poor man in the utmost perturbation, and nothing could make him believe but that he had seen a spectre. The same night, another person gave in formation to the watchman that he had seen an ap parition a short distance from the turnpike, and that it vanished into air as he approached it. The watch men were not free from fear, and began to think that there was more in what the first person said he saw, than they before gave him credit for. They saw nothing more that night, but on the next (Saturday) about eleven o'clock, soft music was heard by the , watchmen, and a man came running into Newington watch-house, and informed the keeper (Mr. Snow), that the ghost had made its appearance. He ran to wards the spot, and to his surprise saw a watchman, named Mathews, much alarmed, retreating along the turnpike-road from a figure which appeared quite naked, and of a gigantic stature. The watchman called for assistance, and in flying from the suppo sed phantom, he called o u t—" If you f o ll ow me will shoot you !" Snow, aho was determined to disco ver Wititt it was, aisFoacllod the figure, which re- treated, he pursued and found & real flash in fact, a woman I He took hold of th e the burst into an immoderate fit of laughter put a coat round her, and conveyed her to r house. From her incoherent conversatir extraordinary behaviour, Mr. Snow sus, was a lunatic, and had b ro k e out of a rn the neighbourhood. A surgeon was sett pronounced her to be insane. Her apparel by a Gentleman about half a mile up th e and Newington-road. The unfort.r....e ded at Deptford, and has been oat of I.c some tune. She left her home on 'Yet'. She was taken to Newington uorkltny could be placed in a proper place of cur CLERICAL INTELL.I.?I:3" CAMBRIDCIE, MAFCII r The thirty-nine following Gentle:nen wet , Lord Bishop of Chester, on Stindl, !aft, in Piccadilly: J. Thompson Killbar.k, B.A. Stow's r Henry Duladerdale, ILA. Tri- John Corr 7, Abral.rm Cu -:page, &elite, Win. Leaning, and Robert Lr..,: Henry Marcy, Is. A. Christ Church, Henry Fardell, ILA. Charles C. F.:: Sedgwick, RA. St. John's College, George Tattersall, of Trinity Ce:'.e. Edward Banks, LLB. Wm. Thompson, B.A. Queen's CGis, Thomas Johnson, B.A. Merton Ca It. , George Fenton, A.B. E x eter Coiltge. Thomas E lib'', Student of Queen's C•d:ege, David Llewellyn, Tilts. Mortimer,and“...l:- Arthur Atherley, M.A. and Anthony Gori!.. , . College, Caubridge. Henry I Lire, B. A. Exeter College, Oa'', • '. Len.pri.ae, B.A. Ti'ality .1: ; MISTS. Robert Mosey Master, B.A. LLlliol Ccllege.P bichard Graves, B.A. Wadham Gel rg, , h - Edward Wyvill, B.A. Brasennote John Master Whalley, S.C.I— Bailie! Couqc, Isaac Newton France and D. Hick, arr. t William James Farrington, Care 11.11, William Jeff and James Ha 7, I ittr-strs. Thomas Mallard, A.M. Jesus College, Richard Brhset Lawrence, Student slice . ,, John A shbridge, M.A. Fellow of Trie.l.7 C Win. Chas. Kendall, A.B. St. Mary M..gd.iler. Wm. Henry Downes, of St. John's Col.e2c, OXFORD, MARCH :A. Yesterday, Mr. Henry Jenkins, rf C was elected Fellow of Oriel College. The Rev. W. Doncaster, Felkw of Mssei.:en been presented to the Living of Winterbwarie k: by the President and Fellows of that Society. _ ECCLESIASTICAL PS 0 MOT TOY -hall. i Rev. P. C. Guise, Chaplain to his Rcyalligiricel Regent, is presented to the vicarage of Locgne7, Rev. Townsend Forester, D.D. to the ':icarage in Bedwardine. Rev. John Leete, to the Recery of Bletsoe, Bo Rev. Philip Scott Fisher, to the vicarage of litlrr. Monday oennight, the Associate CorgregzuJa loch brought out an unanimous call to 31r..P...hu R. of the GospeL Same day, the Associate Congregation cf (H; in Paisley, gave an unanimous call to lir. John use of the tiospeL MA RR lED. Monday, Daniel aliecife, Esq. Captain of the Rangen, to Miss Stevens, of the Cre!ctot, Conte Monday, at Eau Bourne, John Trotter, Regiusent of Muller", to Agnes, daughter of J. It. of the same place. Re►. J. BuA, to nsi Lean, both of Wiveif-oral Be►. G. Butler, D.D. head rna,ter of liarr•w of Gayton, Northamptonshire, and C..lvertt,r, Maria, eldest daughter of J. Gray, kaq. a a. Middlesex. DIED. The statement of the death of Ifrs. thi. late Princess Charbtte, which Lrilesrel otter Papers of Saturday, from which we copied i! The 18th instant, in the 78th year of his ye, T. Esq. formerly Major in the 7th, or Q..etz Draloons. R — ev. W. Fancourt, Rector cf Thettoe, Redford:l At Monmouth, the Rev. T. Hutchts. Wednesday, of apoplexy, the Rey. ,r•An Kennel Buking, Emu. EAST-INDIA BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, Av 3 (mom Txi GORIXIIE:a GAZITIT, 511?. LS, 161 BIRTHS. Yesterday, Mrs. P. Parsick, of a son and heir. Tuesday, the ad instant, the Lady of W. B. Oakes, the Civil Service, of a daughter. On the lid instant Mrs. D. Templeton, of a son. At Patna, on th e 16th instant, th e Lady of Wm. Lm.le; Req. of the Civil Service, of a daughter. At Bareilly, on the 10th instant, the Lady of Wm. Lemur, Seeend Judge of the Provincial Court, of a dat.ght,: At Madras, the 23d ult. the Lady of met R. li. t. 04 of the 6th Light Cavalry, of a daughter. At Vepery (Madras), the 15th ult. Mrs. Sherman, ofim. At Aurungabad, the 6th July, Mrs. Goldsmith, of :.6.1 At Wilma, the 115th of July, the Lady of Vcieir.4sfalli Esq. of a .on. At Bombay, the 19th ult. the Lady of Lieutecrn-Ci Aitchison, Adjutant-Genet:A, of a daughter. At Surat, the 17th ult. the Lady of John Norte.; Sic a sbo. MARRIED. The 19th Instant, at the Cathedral, 31r. R. W. Amu:, t e leas Mary Smith. Same day, at St. Thomas's Church, (Bombay \, the vrtr-!le George Barnes, B.D. Archdeacon of Borr.tay, ar.d Fa" , Exeter College, Oxford, to Harriet Penelope, fectii of the late James Rivett Carne , En. formedy Conned at Bombay. At Penang, the 2d alt. Thomas Larkins , Eq. Cer.macclet si the lion. Company's ship Marquis Camder., to Nis ::rak Sparker Caunter, daughter of the late G. Caacter, c..c.y years resident at ;hat island. DIED. The 24th instant, at the house of Captain Hall, latish '4C.ost Esq. Lieutenant in the lion. Company ' s Bombay Ma. The 23d instant, Airs. Anna Daraoy, aged 26 years. Same day, Mr. John Mackin. a Mate in the Pilot Ser:i:e. At Coolbarnseals, near Berharnpore, the 15th instant, Jord Robertson, En. Superintending Surgeon of the Dar apoft At Berhamporo, on the 17th instant, Mn. Marianne T.r.e. wife of Barrack-Serjeant Turner. The 13th ult. at the Garden House of Captain Rand 4 drat, Lieutenant James E. Brunton, of his Majesty's si h La. giment of Light Dragoons. Near Punderpoor, on the 31st of July, by falling r ri% :a horse in a l e ap whi le hunting, the shock of which taus,.; •••• • cussion of the brain, which carried him of in about 4' - Lieut. Canopy Dl‘Cau,land, of the Madras florae .{-i..:;• At Madras, the 15th ult. the infant son of Mr. J. `t 611211. At Denary, the Bth ult. Mr. Conductor Abraham Lass , 1 Invalids. 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