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READING SCHOOL T.HEA7IIIC4LS. PROLOGUE TO THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, ACTED AT READING FCIOOL. irictrrim BY R. 7. 1.214 lig: ON TIE OCCASION OF A PLAY BRING PERFORMED AT IRA. DINO, IT TIE GENTLEMEN OF READING SCNOOL, FOR TIE BENEFIT OF TIE LITERARY MIL_ SPORRII BY MR. RYR/. While SOARZSPILARet plank pencil to your eyes Bids the majeftle twin of Vanes rife. Scenes to the Britins Mak appropriate - keg, The fav'rite *eft of dissuade foog : (F o r here, in dreadful pathos, wildly great, H e ;wird the foul with Dasnxmoses fate; Here gentler °TWAT taught the tear to now At the fad tale of BaLvsnaaA's woe.) . Surdy a Britith Audience midi deplore The wreck of ancient glories, now do more ! Where now the daring prows, that ploagled the deep From Acaa's trophled wall to CAMPO% keep, To the light breeze the fail of Camineree gave, Or !wept the faded crefcent from the wave ? Sank, funk, alas! in dire Oppreflion's boar, The a►jea veal, of a foreign power ! Omens of better hope and happier fate, • Assn's, on thy codimeicial empire wait : Thy royal merchants, not intent alone • Treafures to bring from earth's remoter acne Bright (deuce waft with ev'ry !Wring wind, Spread virtue's love, and meliorate mankind. Their barks, in peace, the hardy icemen form • A living bblwark 'plan the battle's norm. lodged by them, limn Apiculture's arm tioaths all oar fields in verdure's !teener charm ; Our foreits wave with more luxuriant pride, Our fertile uplands richer barrens bide : Stoat Labour digs the metal from the mine, While Skill and Indufry the matt reline; Ddence and platy to oar fields afford, And forge alike the conker and the fwor4 The real arts of Alchymy unfold, And ev'ry befer fabaanee torn to gold. In the jun chedee by wife Bassawns madly This foie= truth the Poee's pen convey'd-- Saver and gold, of !ditty elhne the birth, By gen'nl ale llansp'd with ideal worth, • Are bat the lips of wealth-4am* pines In poverty amid Poroses mines; While the Meares oar northern mounnins yldt Open to moldy toil an ample field, Gin us the means our plenteous marts io fore, With ev'ry produce, drawn from ev'ry San ; Bid bold exertion annum the fool, And prudence poidt, sad vigour rasa the goal, The glorious prise, *here faidrand honour pard, And wealth is Aria integrity's reviard. Heave learns eismsnertial credit to command, With on. flight impels of her etberisa wand, More endures than in Ocean's minus hie, • Or Earth's alesidtad data& eau fupply ! • - avipiricAL mrsiwastitz. Powrsmoirtx obrovim 22. ?hi DONRIOAL, of $o guns, 11111LiC dist; of 110 pas, and illcereasis; of l 4 gas% irs *Oared to be fitted with Four moms' (loves and provifions: they are fuppested to be t tietbined for the Mediterra nean. The lit.swess'et .)iiseatlf ready, and the others are preparing great& eapktStion. Bilk have been polled in this place ical . dorio#, for =icing &mentor the, PIIIIIILOPh lad Atoi,i o fligate A confiderable *umber of the 3111 regiment, lying in barracks bere t hair Wilted into the Royal The Cam fioop As. wed to be manned, and is to tail immed*ely Wee Indies,—‘ The Sr. Flosses° is I. calmed to be fitted for foreign ferrite. The UstsBss i with the ma and Emus tenders, -hate lopillrA the Ggnal for failing for Trinidad, to which Place they are to Wry out the Commiffroners. - The Narrons,.of 98. guns; CaplOivai, is to receive the *poi Admiral liss.naniss :file will go out of harboiii-in a few days. - ' • HAitiVICH, OCT: M. Teiterdaf 04ft :Frivol bus golvomill*Art Pocock tbne, John Home matter, in Ulla& ► By her, we barn the Paw el Orange_ packet. Capt. Bridge, Leaded Mr. Uwe, M. &bar, the Macaw. and Mr. Hope and fa• say, mentho g : r it liararday night. The pad tet ma d e the Brae on W morning, but the wind off and' from verY te: j a teut abe tie EeffwAtd, ,e bi t ds ' were bl ei c : r Elterrl y did p. away, and the veffd othcnrife received WY anfidesibie dum The Diana teak; pay. litMnrt, which filßed on Sunday inked Hitiodins on the Mowing morning at ten eniod.--Wind IL W._ . - PROM LLOYD% LIST. Dam, Ocr..asm-Arrived sod failed for the River, Toro' Cable, fries Ufbos.—Wiod S. & W. Oue nssint, OCT. ss...Polfed by, the Dolphin, Sayer, frovidolop; Hendrick, layer, from Hem; Lord DosePl, Moo, from &Vet ; Limenhfll, Leoriogtoa; rod Miter, E errl , fro; Deddhaa•-dmiloil the Saito, Len, for Oibrattar ; Mary and Sitsabetk , for os Murk, tiambursh ; . Gibfait, for Peteriburgh ; Trioaqdt, ---, far eent's. Rotterdam. VistallfJollaion ;ad Ides' Rowe, for It, Ylb ARRIVED. ' •' ' • hi the Dovnto--Leviethoo, ODA, hos se CA& if 4 611 .; En deavour, Reid, hos Adalap; sod .11opolvino . ifoco from he the ereeb.lie. Balky, from Palermo; Matt, Pie; , T wo Efo cd t ac ers,= . mod hie, Davie, fres htsl6ll - s, Stone, hum At Liverlool-4411bok,Tuandshma,frot immit s ; Urania, t riEoll, eat Noy %whims Ass, Friadasoi, Item Doan- Stiltbitooth fk. Thou* Meg. lierf ; mod Lady Mhos% tgoot vase sir. At =otsth.Two Comer*, Whidield, from Virginia. kuso, from St. Kite.. • . - At Lavroo—froz, Deshor, from Nto . At Ihddhl..-Ass,..Coole„ frau At t2= e r pt latt. 4 bra •At 1 1010.0116-Pero Owarawa, &gm Mate 'emote% Hamillbs, fro. Lash& 7 ; At Olhodeor.Polly. At It. AaSeuu.ldudeu, a . " 4 : At Dinueora.Chislotro, :mo t Rsa. ;Ai • • At rommudo.,4Aol 4 04°1 " I f I •' • J . • ZML4ND. --,-r4 • irATICRPOkp, OCtO) • • Aftft „Yeas:relay, at a meeting-between the piincipal cont merchants, and Mr. Secretary WU:IIMM, it was refolved, that an ahcation thonld be made to Parliament, to take off au the bounties' on grain exported, and to allow aii_eval export and im port between England and Wand. KULKENNT. ocrotEL 13. This city never witncirod thch. an aremblage of the fathionable and the elegant at at this moment. The lod *tig houfes are 'all nearly full, and our Coraionl, which for the lee two months, has ex citedfo ranch expedatioi l is begun with greutfpirit. The Theatre opened:on l'londay night with Risk a liVe and have a IT O, and the rage Lawyer, for the benefit of the charitable inftitutions. Her Excellency Ladi a l c i l akl It rWICs one of the ftage boxes, an d y 0111011 D graced one Lady-ELIZAStriI KAVANAGH, Lidy ELEA.. - 1101t,BUTLIIt t , Lady Alexi MAX ELL, and a lon itastera of Ladies of the firftlithion,filledthe boxes. • the 'ROMANTIC Mate:amt.—The following are particulars of a novel of real life, the fcene of which has unfortunately been laid at Kefwick. Auim poitor, who pretended himfelf to be the Honour. able Alexander Auguftus Hope, not only paid' his addrefes to a young lady, and :ideally fixed 1 the wedding day, but likewife mule two others of Kefwick (one the daughter of the Merman who ufedto be his companion in his filhing expeditions)" believe him under an engagement o f marriag e to them. Including his Unf or tun ate w if e , t h e cele brated beauty of I Buttermere, he had paid ferions addreres to four women at the fame time, one of rank and fortune, and three of humble life. On the morning of his firft departure from : Ka - wick for Scotland, and of his marriage at Lorton Chinch, he tranfmitted to the Gentleman, under' whole protection the young lady at prefent i s , a ' drill for 301. on Mr. Crump, of Liverpool, re quelling him to pay fome fmall debts in Kefwick, and return him the Wince. This the Gentleman immediately did, and fent him betides ten gui neas, %left the pretended hosourailelhould find him felf (port of call. When the news came to Kef wick, (on the Saturday noon, Oaober a), of his marriage, and fiifpicions were of .tonne in: Randy awakened, the draft was fent to Liverpool for.acceptance: and it war accepted. In a few days the Gentleman received a letter (from Dum fries, we believe, ancrfiwaial, of courfe) informing him of the marriage. In this letter, the pretended HONOURAILS Rated his pirpofe of returning within the time, which he had promifed on his d e - , par tare. An d accordingl y , he did retort' to But termere, in a coach and lour, at the beginning of this week. ,At this time, Mr. Judge *Ming, who happened to b e h ere , hearing - that Colonel Hope was at Buttermere, old fo romantically mar; ried (an old acquaintance ofthe Judges, asitfeeins ), fent over his fervent, with a letter, requefting to fee the Colonel. The ferviutt was introduced, and on Peeing the man, in & antly (aid, 64 Here is fome miftake-A-this is not Colonel Hope.".-o.The ins poftor took the letter, and replied, di .Irie notliii me ;it is for my bro ther Charles;" but fent word, that he (hould come to Kefwick. And on Wed nefday morning he came in his coach, but without .his wife.: He was, of °ogee, interrogated by the Judge, who told him that he was not the perfon whole name he had awned. He certainldenied that he had afunied it I - fie bed Paid that . his name wits Hope, but not that he *its the Hon. Member for Linlithgow, or Duntfries. He was contradiaed by the aforementioned Gentleman, whti. not only gave evidence that he had always (Aim of him• Pelf as Lord Hopetown's brother, but that be had Inlaid his letters as fuch. The refpeaable and intelligent Poftmafter of Kefwjck gave evidence to the fame Point. He was comnulted-to our coeliac while. the culmination was going 'for ward. He made light of the bufinefs--drew for another iol. on Liverpool, which was canted for him by the landlord of the Queen's Head, and fent to the Gentleman the ten guineas which he 'had borrowed. •To mute hilf, he chofe to make a little failing expedition on the Lake, which the conftable did not think bine& authorifed to-pre vent. Accordingly, he went with his old friend dig alberMen, and all remained waiting for his re turn. Evening and the darknefs came on ; he did oot return : but was uided by the fiber man through the Gorge of e, and proba bly efcapet over the &ale, a fistful Alpine pail, over Glaramara, into No intelligence ,haOfince been received of ' The landlord re `taint' the coach in pledge 'for his aol. and has dif covered the very - alarming circumftance, that all hii plate and linen. were in the coach. From which it is concluded, that he meant to defert his poor wife, and that he has deferred her'. Thifincereil concern is felt by every inhabitant of the country in the misfortune of poor Mary of Buttermere. On Tuefday fe'nnight JOSSPN SAROINT, Efq. Mayor of Limerick, committed to the city gaol of that place John Jones, furgeon, and Samuel %Val lis,.fecond mate of the tehooner Goodrjch, which put into that river, bound from Demerara to Li verpool: They are charged. on oath with having, on the sth inft. while the Lid vefel lay at anchor at the pooh- of that city, beat and abufed John Redmond, carpenter, in fo cruel a manner, that he died on the mornin of the 7th inft. The' un fortunate man's cor e was conveyed to the Ex change, where the Coroner ' s Inque*, after ex., amining witneffes, brought in a verdia of 44 Wsrul Murder again) *fail Toast aid liras." FIFTY Taousseu POUNDS are allotted.for the Firft-drawn Ticketi on the Firft and Fourth Days of Drawing of the prefent Englith Lottery, which ' begins on Monday, the 29th November. The Scheme alto con fi fts of Three Prize,- of to,osiol. hree °flood. and Other Capitals of todol.sool. tool. &c. amounting in the whole to 11111,0001. The Tickets, Halves, (fatters, Elsie* sad Six ' teenth &mot Shares, are felling, on dal loweft ' terms, .at Nicuossom's Fortunate Oise, No- 16. Cornhill, where, in theirs:dent nor, Pon Prizes of 20,0001. and sOOOL cab, arab 0A iiMd4 ► - wasrlia4rassitiews: . Yellarday Mary Perrj; an handfiame woman about the age of thirty, was tried far fleeting a (bawl tin the yard of a perfon who lists in the Broadway, Weaminfter, about nine at night. The torifoner was clearly proved to be guilty, and pronounced fo by the Jury. • The Cu AIRMAN eared her, "How many times the had beeri2tried before 1" add the anfwered, " I was never here before." " Aye, but how_ often at the Old Bailey r' Paid the Chairman ; to which the made na anfwer, but held down her head with much apparent humility. The CHAIRMAN Paid, it was a Chocking thing to' fee fuch a prong and healthy young woman put. fning this way of life, after fo many repeated trials at the Old Batley; and after having been fo often treated with lenity, (for the was well known to be an old offender) ; the had proved herfelf to be ab folutely incorrigible, and unfit for the fociety in which we have the happinefs to liv!. She then, with teeming contrition, confeffed the had often been guilty of crimes ; but Paid, that if the Court would have the kindnefi to look over her fault but this once, (he would never offend again, and that if the was now difcharged, the would re turn to Scotlind, her 'native land, and never be teen- again in this Metropolis.—The Court ordered her to be tranfported for (even years. Juft as the officer was condutiitig her from the bar, the burft out• into a fit of fury exclaiming, " Oh t that I had never left Glafgow !—Burdett for ever ' • d—n old Mainwaring"—which the re peated feveral times. Two Mermen were I tried for . Dealing coals out of a barge which lay under water' oppofite to Millbank. After the greater part of the evidence was gone through, it appeared that the property was impro perly defcribed in the indiament, and therefore, the Chairman 'laid, that the Court could not pro ceed any further in it; but he took occafion alfo to obferve, that from the turn which the crofs ex. amination of the witneffes took; it appeared as if it was thought that the prifoners were guilty of no crime, provided they dredged, is they affeaed to fay they did, for there Coalsi)y the fide ofthe barge; but he faid the law was otherwife and that if there was no objeetion to this indiament, in- point of form, moft unqueftionably thefe men would have been as guilty of stealing thefe coals, although they took them only from the fide of • the bafge, as they would have been if they took them out of the barge itfelf. He knew there wits a barbarous calm among tome of the barbarous inhabitants of our coatis,. to run away with every thing they could find that came on to from the wreck of a veal, but they would do well to remember, that in that conduit they committed felony : fo again, the inhabitants of fome villages thought that when a. Lige coach, or waggon, was overturned, they might take away; and, appropriate to themfelves, Whatever they found On the road, that had fallen from fuch coach or waggon: but, if they knew it to have fo fallen, and they kept it, it would be a felony. In one word, no accident could diveft a man of his property in this way, nor could any other perfon be entitled to hold ;tomtit the perfon to whom it belonged abandoned it. licarAvaq be Paid, he was not toffy that thefe prisoners were acquitted, becaufe they might have thought they were right in what they did, from the prevalence of the praitice. It was wrong; and it was fit they Sould know it. He hoped they would un detftand this matter in its true slight, and, infead ' of triumphing in their acquittal in this cafe, 'they would tell their comrades, that by the praftice of taking coals which fell b accident from lighters, in the manner the coals fell in this cafe, by the fide of them, they were guilty of felony ; for nothing , 1 could dive& aman of his property but his abandon ing it himfelf ; and ha added, that lithe prifonerb were conviaed, the Court would find it a duty they owed the public, to pronounce on them as fevere a fentence as they had power to pronounce, not , by way of puniihment on them, but of terror to others. They then were acquittcd and difcharged. OISCENI PUNTS. yoßth Harris flood this day indiaed for publifh big and felling certain Obfcene Prints on the 28th of btit. To this indiament the Pri foner pleaded Guilty. He then was further charged with vending cer tain other Obfcene Prints on the 4th of Oftober. —This charge he was confidered as having tra verfed, by his alledging that on that day he did not fell the prints, kir they were taken away from him. Mr. !Exert.; on behalf of the profecution, then addrefied the Jury, to the following effea : 14 Gentlemen, come here inftrufted by a refpec table fet of Gentlemen, who have aifociated them (elves for the laudable purpofe of the prefervation of the morals of focjety, and particularly for pro teeing thole ofwomen andchildren from thebane- , ful died: of that variety of indecent and fcanda- ' lous prints which have been fo induftrioufly virtu- Gated through the metropolis.and its environsiind • wherevei they could find a fale. To give effe&to their intentiorts, they found it necelfary to employ. certain perfons to - deteet offenders, and among( others a perfon of the name of Gray, whom you. will find called before you to detea the infamous proceedings of the culprit at the,. bar. The pri foner was in the habit of 'keeping a Rand, and confiantly felling ballads, in front of Privy Gar dens, and while only engaged in that occupation would certainly not have been an objeft of atten• tion us the fociety. But, betides there ballads, he had alto always a ntunbe; of thefe obfcene printi about him, and it Was his praaice to take women and children behind the wxll,whum he fir ft entertained with licentious florin, , and 1 / 4 afterwards exhibited thee iltaineful reprelbntatjons for fale. Gray, in poignance Of the information* obtained, repaired , to the Prifoner's nation ; ittid after force little dif ficulty facceeded in buying - 4e fix. prints, to the 'jelling of which he has now leaded' guilty. . He returned again oh 'a future 'Jay with ap 06mett and on fearching the prifoner, forty more *IMO, if the Come mdency were found L._ • • f. your time, but to proceed. with trvevidence 'of the fa4s, to prbduee the p • petuuttquen,44{. nee . for the general infpeeion ivho'ruay tho Oft to look at them, -but in Order 'to eitreince Cow t and the Jury of the undOtibted guilt of the" Prifoner." Robert Grey depofed, that on the 28th of,Sep. tentiber laft, he went to Privy Gardens, and pur. chafed of the prifoner fix Ohicene Prints for r 6 ,. ( rhefe Prints were then handed up for the infpec- Lion of the Bench.) He alfo Rated that on the 4.th of the Oetober following, lie made a further purchafe for 7s. and the prifoner being fearched at the time, there were found• upon him 40 other i large prints of the fame defcription. Mr. Kmare here put in the record of two for mer convictions of this fellow, the one for an un natural crime, the other for an offence of a nature fimilar to the prefent, for which he flood twice is the pillory.. - After the Magiftrates had viewed the wares of this wretch with difguft and horror,the Chairman afked him what he had to fay for himfelf ? • Prifoner—" There is no ufe in my faying any thing here—where is the ufe in a Prifoner laying any thing ? I know that I am now at your mercy. " Chairman r -" Mercy ! I only wonder how a 1 man.can work up his mind, how he can find cou rage for the commiflion of Inch :tits of bafenefs." Prifoner—" Diftrefs will often make a man do things he might not otherwife think of. But lam at your mercy; there is no ufe infaying any thing." The Jury immediately pronounced the P r if oner —Guilty. The IVragifirates theg deliberated for a confider able time, after which, the Chairman delivered himfelf to the following purport : " There are cafes in which a Court finds itfeif at a lofs how to apportion punifhments to the enor mity of fome offences. That crime, of which the prifoner has been conviEted on his own confeftion, and for which he has pleaded poverty as an excufe, is mie, than which I know of none more odious or more mifchievous. The human mind can fcareely frame to itfelf any thing of a worfe, or more per nicious tendency. This is the third time that he has been conviaed of moft abominable crimes, and his perfeverance in. them thews he is incorrigible. The extent of the milchief he has done it mould be impoffible to calculate. The cafe is quite dif. ferent with offences of another kind; When a robiler commits his depredations on the property of people on the highway, there is an end to it : and the Law being enabled to fee the extent to which they can reach, has fometimes appliel pofi. Live punifhments to them, and in other cafes, left them to the difcretion of Courts of Juftice. Here, however, is a conftant courfe of life, a regular profeffion of debauching the minds and morals of youth of every defcription. Goo only knows, how many may grow up to be men and women, having their principles and habits corrupted and 'tainted by there feeds of vice, fo early implanted iii them ! Women who have nothing but their virtue to recommend and adorn them, and who • would otherwife retain it unfullied, being- thus early debauched, are liable'to be led into every fpecies of iniquity. It is, therefore, neceffary, Ilhat a rigorous punilliment fhould be inflifted, not with a view to correaing the prifoner himfelf;wha is,incorrigible, and never can be expe&ed to amend, but u an example to others who may have Smilar occupations, in order that they may be induced to tarn away from cot:des fo vicious and deteftablee The fentence that I am directed by the Court to pronounce upon you, .7ofo Harris, is, that you be imprifoned in the Houfe of Correction for two years, and in that time, Rand for one hour in the Pillory at Charing Crofs." The Prifoner is an elderly man, and exceeding ly well known to the frequenters of Weltminiter- Hall, and all that neighbourhood. His apparel was always very ihabby ; he has but one hand, and kept his (land at the dead wall of Privy• Gar. dens, very clofe to the Duke of Richmond's bode. CHIPANSY SWEEPS. irsliarn PNmey, alias William William, foreman to Mrs. Bridges, chimney-fweep in Swatlow-ftreet, was tried for affaulting and cruelly mal-treating Wm. Cavanagh, &n infant between fevcn and eight years of age. There were four Counts in the indiament. The &It count charged the prifoner with laying hold of the child by the ears, pulling them, and beating him, in order to make him go up a•chim ney on the r7th of September laft. The fecond count was for a common affault. The third count was for detaining the boy without authority.— The fourth count was for pricking him with nee dles (luck in a cane, for the purpofe of making him climb up a chimney. Mr. SiLv ESTER opened. the cafe. He obferved, that the indifttnent was divided into different counts, becaufe different affaults had been com mitted on different days by the prifoner, who, though young in years, was the foreman of Mrs. Bridges, who had fhart:d with him in his cruelty. The circumffances of the cafe were thefe :—Peter ,Cavanagh, a child, now in Court, came to town in Auguff laft from Exeter, to fee His parents. — The bcy, it appeared, had been ill-ufed by his fa ther, and he (frayed away. He was picked up by Mrs. Bridges, who ufed him very well for fome time, employing him In going meffages - hut at the end of three weeks began, with the alliftance of the prifoner, to initiate the child in the bulinefs . of a chimney-fweep, The defendant took him up to a room on the fecond floor of Mrs. Bridges's houfe, and ordered him to go up the chimney.— 'The child tried to afcend ; but, being unable, fell down and was much hurt. One would have thought, that deflitute as this poor infant was, without a human being to whom be could apply for flicker, .the defendant would have had Lime feeling for his fituation. On the contrary, he beat him cruelly. He then took him down to a cellar, and fent a boy,named Yates, for rods to beat him again. When he got him in the cellar, he orderedArates to Ono down the flap, in order that the neighbours might not hear the, infant's crier.. There he beat him moll feverely r At fix o'clock in the evening he put him down into the fella! nail; to refunie the fainenpleky s.and • v ' c a .41