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A SUMMER EVENING. The sky was serene, and the landscape inviting, As musing I wander'd the meadows among ; Each [flagrant vrild-flow'ret the senses delighting, And charm'd was my ear with the various song. The Blackbird, the Linnet, the Robin, and Thrush. In concert melodious warbled around; Sweet music resounded from every bush, And the Skylark harmonious sprang from the ground! Delighted, I sought the cool shade of a willow, Whose thick drooping branches had form'd an alcove ; Its fanciful roots for my arm form'd a pillow, And mournful &Turtle was wailing above ! Whilst thus I indulg'd a fond train of reflection. A venomous adder crept close to my foot ; But what were my thoughts when the source of detection Was Tuanaa's Jar Bcacents, that polish'd my boot? Alarm'd, in an instant, I rose from my seat, And flew from the dangerous spot in a trice ; And thought, on reflection would man thus retreat, Dow feeble would prove the allurements of Vice! RICHARD TURNER, 114, London-Road. NEW STREET ACT. Yesterday the Juries which had been impanelled on Tuesday under this Act, continued their Sittings at the Guildhall, Westminster, in order to assess and award fit compensation to such claimants as had sus tained any loss or damage by the running of the New Street from Pall-Mall to the Regent's Park. CAMPBELL V. TICE COMMISSIONERS. This case was stated to the Jury by Mr. Serjeant COPLEY. The claimant is a man rather advanced in years, who some time since was desirous of investing some money in such property as would secure him an annuity during the remainder of his life, and there fore purchased the interest of a Crown lease in two houses, No. 154 and No. 155, Swallow-street, for which he paid a considerable sum of money. The former house was let to a respectable tenant, Mr. Meld, for an annual rent of l. 70; the other was let in different tenements, and the annual average of in come received from both was about £lO2. The de mand of Mr. Campbell was 21051. which sum, if at present vested in the funds, would procure him an annuity for 11 years, the' duration of the lease of these houses. Mr. S. T. Bull, a sur►eyor, was acquainted with the premises, and had calculated their value at 5 per cent. which for 41 years amounted to 16841. and at 4 per cent. to 17841. Five per cent. he considered as a fair equivalent for compulsatory bargains, such as .the present.—Cross-examined. He admitted that 4 per cent. was equal to 24 years purchase, and 5 per cont. to 20 years. The house No. 155 was not in a state of ruin ; he would undertake for 4001. to put it into rood habitable repair, and was certain that a respon sible tenant would give for it an annual rent equal to that given for the other. M►. William Creswell, a surveyor, valued the house Na. 154, at 80/. per annum, and No. 155, at 401. on a repairing lease. The loss sustained by Mr. Camp bell, in consequence of the destruction of these houses, would, in his opinion, amount to £1636, which he considered a fair equivalent. The ATToitsi,v-(imNim Ai. replied and said that the claimant had purchased these premises for a much smaller sum than what lie now estimated them at, though at the time he had made the purchase he was fully aware of the speedy prospect of being compelled to dispose of them to the Commissioners. Ile would shew by witnesses of the first respectability, that the l valuation made on behalf ol the claimant was one of the most exorbitant that had ever been submitted to the consideration of a Jury. _ _ Mr. Montagu, the Sur'veyor ' had examined Mr. Campbell's premises, and valued his interest at £llB7. C )ss-examined.—ln moit of the disputed cases he was concerned as a witness for the Commissioners. Mr. James Burton had surveyed the houses in ques timi, and valued the interest of both at about £1162. Mr. Wilcox valued these premises at £1,020 The DEPUTY HIGH BAILIFF summed up the evi dence to the Jury, who retired at half-past five o'clock, ar.d returned in ten minutes with a verdict of 1.3,400 and costs for the plaintiff. The Commissioners.had, it was said, in this case offered from £lOOO to 4:1200.—A verdict exceeding their offer carries the claimant's costs. TYLER V. THE coMsuSsiotans. The above claimant sought compensation fur 28 h )u.es, running in a line with Swallow-street, and st (riding on part of the site of the intended Nc w Street. Mr. Serjeant BAST was about to state the claimant's ease to the Jury, when an agreement was entered into with the agents of the Commissioners ; and the Jury, by consent, returned a verdict for £20,000. JAMES BARRER V. TUE COMMISSIONERS. In this case the Jury went and viewed the premises, in Jermyn-street. On their return, Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW stated the case. He said that the inquiry to which he was about to call their attention, was as to the amount of compensation to be given to Mr. Barber, who hel.". a house in Hammond -court, Jer myn-strect, not for his possible reduction of.profit by removal, but for his utter and irretrievable ruin, • un less their verdict interposed and shielded him from wanton oppression. The claimant carried on two branches of business in his house in Jermyn-street, one an extensive retail oyster trade, the other a va luable trade in ginger beer, the profit of which was very considerable. His oyster trade consisted of a sale of nut less than from six to twelve bushels per week, and the ginger beer sale yielded at least a pro fit of £6OO a-year. The Learned Counsel particu larly complained of the conduct of the persons em ployed by the Commissioners, who had purchased the landlord's interest in this house without making any communication to the tenant, who had suffered every injury by a progressive demolition of all the premises in his vicinity, while his sufferings were dis regarded, and no attempt made to give him that re dress, by a purchase of his interest, to which he was most cerainly entitled under the Act. All he asked was £3OO for his oyster trade, £3OO for his ginger and spruce beer trade, and £6OO for good-will and removal, making a total of £1,200. The leases were put in and proved in the usual manner. John Fyfield examined.—He stated that he knew the claimant, Mr. Barber, for a great number of years, and had often brought up from Billingsgate, for him, quantities of oysters—he usually brought up for him from eight to twelve bushels a week. The oyster season was about forty Weeks in the year. Cross-examined by the ATTO Rig ILVG ZW ERA L.—Wit ness brought these oysters for Mr. Barber for about six•years; but it was seven years ago since he had been so employed. Thomas Higgins carried oysters for the claimant from the time the last witness quitted that occupation; he averaged seven or eight bushels a week early in the season, and about fout at the end, down to the time when the pulling down the houses destroyed his business. He described that the reduction of the business kept pace with the progressive Mork of the buildings in the neighbourhood. John Ross, a fishmonger, knew Barber's oyster business, and estimated the profit of it at 000 a-year. The general profit was about £3O per cent. George Evans, tobacconist, and Thomas Lewis, knew Mr. Barber's premises well, and from their own knowledge believed that a considerable trade was carried on therein. J. Guy, a butcher, knew Mr. Barber's shop well, and always observed that it had got an excellent run of business. Samuel Barber, the claimant's broth-:, knew the nature of his trade. The spruce and ginger beer sale was very great ; the spruce was manufactured at something about 9d. a dozen, and sold for 2s.—tl4 ginger beer at about Is. 6d. and sold at 4s. a dozen. He had never made an average of the amount of the trade, but it certainly must have been worth what it was estimated at, £3OO a-year. The grocer from whom 'Mr. Barber bought the sugar used in the manufacture of the beer, and the person who used to sell him the essence of spruce, proved that he was a considerable dealer with them. Ile used. generally to buy £3 worth of sugar at a time, and he paid more thari ACIO a-year for his es• sence of spruce. Mr. Harper, a carpenter, and another person, ac quainted with the value of houses, were of opinion that Mr. Barber's house was worth £6O a year.--This was the claimant's case. ' The ATTORNEY-GENERAL commented upon the evidence, and declared that he never before heard of so exorbitant a claim as Mr. Barber had attempted to set up. It was in the highest degree absurd, that such a trade as this, in oysters and ginger beer, could have be.'n worth £6OO a-year. The DEPUTY-BAILIFF summed up the evidence - to the Jury, who retired for about ten minutes, and re turned with a verdict of £7OO for the claimant. The case of Mr. SLADE, for his interest in the Ar .gyll Rooms, is the only remaining case at present at issue with the Commissioners, and it stands over until Tuesday next. A curious charge was brought to St. Ann's watch house, on Sunday evening :—A fine young fellow, with nothing on but hi 7. small-clothes, was charged by a tradesman, in Mearct's-court, with being found under his bed. It turned out, upon inquiry, that the accused was not there with intent to commit felony, but to pay his respects to the tradesman's wife.' The tradesman left home on Sunday, with an intention not to return until Monday morning, but, unluckily for his frail rib, he returned the same night. He ob. served a light in her bed-chamber, and the door wits locked, which was very unusual. After some time he was admitted, but the wife haring put the candlt, out his suspicions were awakened, and on making a smelt he found a rival under the bed. The wile confessed on her knees that she hid him under the bed to avoid detection. The colutabl.: could not take cognizance of the affair, and the accused e.s..aped with a severe ',eating. The ci devoid Bishop of AVTUN (Prince T.) speak ing with an affected interest of a widower who had just re-married, said, " He is a very worthy man ; he has only the fault of marrying too often. Tins observation being repeated to the person whom it concerned, he replied, " It is true I have married twice, and that is a good deal ; but Monseigneur has nrariied once, and that is too much !" Siturday se'nnight, William Ramsden, a publican, was fined in the mitigated penalty of 301. by the IV, gistrates of Leeds, for mixing a deleterious drug, com monly called " Grains of Paradise", in his ale. Sunday se'nnight, after Divine service, a fire was discovered in the parish church of Prescott, owing, it it is supposed, to a child having put a candle under the scat in a pew in the gallery. Fortunately it was extinguished without material injury. A few evenings ago, in the neighbourhood of Auclinaclay, Tyrone, four fine children, who had been left behind whilst their parents were on a visit, were burned to death by some sparks seizing held of a lai ge quantity of flax and turf that was in the house. Yesterday a little girl, named BtAterfield, in Sal mon's-place, Limehonse, was burnt so dreadfully, in consequence of playing with the fire, that she died in great agony on the way to the Hospital. Yesterday morning while a fine little boy, son of , Mr. STAMM!, of Clare Ilall-row, Limehouse, was playing in the back-yard, his hat fell through the seat of the water-closet. He undressed himself, and went in after it ; when, unfortunately, he sunk, and was suffocated in the soil. Tuesday night, at a late hour, an Excise Officer, named Foster, was alarmed by the cry of" help," on that part of ie Thames, near the West India Docks : on proceeding to the spot, he found it preceedet from two men who were drowning. He instantly went fOr assistance, which, with much difficulty, was procured. Several boats put off, and one of the men, named Grossley, was taken out of the water ; he proved to be one of the sentries who were on guard that night at the Docks ; he was in a serieless con dition, but the means- recommended by the Royal Humane Society being immediately resorted to, he was soon recovered. It appeared they were assisting each other in putting a puncheon in a barge, and they both fell in the water. Soon after the body of John Davis was taken out, but all efforts to save Lim proved useless, he being quite dead. The body was taken to a public house in Poplar. Thursday an Inquest was held on the body of a servant lad, belonging to D. AGACE, Esq. of Wink field, Berks.—lt appeared that the lad rose early on Wednesday morning to proceed on his business • but being told by the watchman on the premises that it was very early, he went into a room where a turf 6re was burning, and sitting himself down, as is sup posed, fell asleep and fell into the fire. He was found in the morning quite dead, and burnt in a most shock ing manner. Verdict—Accidental Death. POLICE. Bow-at tem.—Fanwsrva Roinim—Yesterday a final examination of !Jewry Fisher took place, being ' , charged with robbing Mr. Mills, a staymaker, in Holywell-street, of a great number of stays, sup posed to be upwards of 500, at different times, while he was in the employ of Mr. Mills, as a porter ; a number of them have been found at different pawn brokers, and his wife was detected in pledging them. The compassion of the prosecutor was considerably excited towards her, owing to her having an infant at her breast, and she having worked for him pre vious to her marriage The husband was committed on the strong suspicion of stealing, and his wife was admitted to bail, to take her trial fir receiving them, knowing them to have been stolen. Uwrox HALL—In consequence of information given at this office on Tuesday, a search-warrant was issued . under the statute 55 Geo. HI. c. 99. for searching the premises of William Goodhuigh, baker, Kennington row. The information set forth, that from the ge neral appearances of the bread of Mr. Goodhuigh, the informer suspected and believed that such bread was adulterated with alum, or other unwholesome ingredients, and that there was then in possession of the defendant a quantity of alum, or other unwholi - some ingredients, for the purpose of adulterating the purity of meal flour.—About five o'clock in the af ternoon, Lockie the officer, accompanied by a baker named Harris, went to the premises of the defendant to put the warrant in execution; strict search was made throughout the bakehouse, but no unwhole some or improper ingredients were found. The par lour also underwent a severe scrutiny, but nothing was discovhed to support the allegations in the in formation. Harris then made an attempt to ascend to the upper part of the house, but in this he was violently opposed by Mrs. Goodhuigh, who declared that he had no business to go up stairs, and she was determined to prevent him. Two women came to her assistance and forcibly held Harris while Mrs. Goodhuigh ran np stairs in great haste ; he, however disengaged himself at last, and arrived in the garret time enough to observe Mrs. Goodhuigh throw some thing out of the window, which lodged on the tiles of an adjoining house ; he recovered it, and disco vered that the articles consisted of about 121b.weight of sal-ammoniac, and ;lb. weight of alum ; he took possession of them, and produced them before the Magistrates. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, and was fined EG and costs. The ingredients were condemned. Similar proceedings were adopted against Mr. John Astlett, of Newington Causeway, baker. One pound weight of sal-ammoniac was found itt his bakehouse, and upon the entrance of the officer and his assistant into the house, Mrs. Astlett was observed to throw something out of the parlour window into the public road, which, upon being picked up, proved to be, about 31b. of alum.—Mr. Astlett _put in a plea of guilty, and was adjudged to pay EG and costs. The ingredients were condemned. Ma ntnoßouim-STREET.—Yesterday a young man named Shadwell, was brought before J. IltiettowFs, F.sq. charged by Miss Drouet, a Dutch lady, with threatening her life.—The defendant entered into a long explanation of his conduct. lie said that during the time Monsieur Drouet was at one of the Patent Theatres in London, he became acquainted with him, and they agreed to establish a concern for the sale of Drouet's patent flutes, which at that time was all the rage. He (defendant) embarked in this speculation a capital of 5001. and was to have a tenth part of the profit ; but not having for a length of time received any thing from Mr. Drouet, and that Gentleman having left the country, he concluded that he had absconded for the purpose of defrauding his credi tors, in consequence of which he followed him to Rotterdam. On his arrival in that city he addressed a note to Mr. Drouet, requesting to see him next morning, to settle their affairs. He came at the ap pointed time, but refused to come to any settlement. Finding it impossible to get Mr. Drouet to any terms he returned to England, but was astonished to find that during his short absence all the instruments had been made away with, and the workmen discharged. He applied upon the subject to Mr. Drouet, sen. who gave no explanation whatever, and forcibly withheld the books. On Monday last Mr. Shadwell called at the house where the business had been carried on. A servant answered the door, but had orders not to admit him. He, however went in, and saw com plainant in the drawing-room, and accosted her very civilly, on the subject of the account books.—The Magistrate, Mr. BURROWES, said, Ido not consider that the charge is proved. Let the warrant be dis charged." Discharged accordingly. QUEEN-SQL/ A RE.—.Mr. Wilmot:, of Hammersmith, appeared to an information under the Game Laws, for sporting upon his own ground. It appeared from the evidence of T. Daley, that himself and the in ' former had been in company with the defendant; that a hare started, and the party being all provided with guns, defendant fired at it first, but Daley fired also, as quick as he could. The hare was killed and picked up by a third person. The penalty is not less than 5/. or more than 101. There was some doubt as to who had fired first ; Daley admitted. that if lie had killed the hare, he would have taken it home.— The Magistrate properly considering that as the in former and his witness were themselves of the party, and one of them having actually fired at the hare, they were equally guilty of offending against the Sta tute; consequently, the information was quashed. Yesterday the Grand Jury for Middlesex was sworn at Guildhall, Westminster. Their attendance was not required till Monday, when the Sessions commence. Some days ago we stated that a daring and exten sive robbery had been committed on the premises of Mr. Lefty:lox, at Rotherhithe. Yesterday Mr. L. received an anonymous letter, informing him that se veral of the larger notes which had been stolen from him having become useless to the thieves, in conse quence cf being stopped at the Bank, he would find them either in the pound or under the bridge at China-hall-fields, Rotherhithe. Mr. L. accompanied by some friends, went to the spot described, and, in the midst of some stinging nettles, he found a small parcel, covered with canvas and tied with rope-yarn, which contained £lOO in bank notes, and a watch, of which he was also robbed the same night. The letter further informed him, that the gang consisted of six men, and it was their intention to have murdered I every person from whom they experienced resistance. MURDER. A circumstance of a. myste r ious score covered on Saturday last, at the bal e lic-house, in Westcourt-street, Bromton,k„,l,4 body of a poor woman, wife of a Corpor, the 98th regiment, was found in a shocking putrefaction, at the bottom of a well, 120 r et ' where it was supposed to have laid for up s month, that period having elapsed since s i i , first missed. The Corporal had been qu te , l the above house, an d h a d w i t h him his isn ne t : children ; and when his wife was first missed,4,' the neighbours she had left him and robbed hi every thing she could carry off; but it is sir that when taken out of the well, her body tirely naked : and the discovery was only the bad taste of the water, which occasioned; to be searched. An Inquest, summoned b; ho HINDE, Esq. one of the Coroners of the Ccr.ley: sembled the same day, but fr om the moo.; nature of the evidence, the Jury could come to derision, and therefore adjourned their fade r quiries till one o'cloc k on .londay, w! deuce having been obtained, they c investigation till five o'clock in the eyes returned a verdict of—Wilful Murdei ham Donelly.—The particulars which s. that about the middle of September, ment having arrived from Halifax, 11 quartered at the Duke of York; he t companied by his wife and two chit lodged in a room at the back of the is dow of which .is at the distance of from the well. His unfortunate rift years older than himself, was very mt him, hut was jealous of him, and t quarrelled. On the night of the 17th they had a violent quarrel, when he wards the well, and threatened to thr her screams brought some persons to the whole of that night. however, the with her head resting on the stout into the house, where she was found i with her clothes quite wet with the In the course of the day, however, reconciled, and on the Saturday night Club-room of the house in good htalth On Sunday morning, the 20th of Septem. came and sat down in the tap-room children, but without his wife; when s he said that she had gone to see her fit taken three pounds with her; to other said that his wife had gone off with sot A female who went into his apartment day his wife disappeared, found every order, the clothes of the deceased about the room, and there w ere markt the sheets, the blankets, and the bed these strong circumstances, coupled wi. of his conduct on the preceding Thurs.!. cion appears to have been en t ertained till the finding the body on Saturday had been concealed in the well for Donelly remained at the Duke of Yoi fortnight after his wife was missing, ssith another woman, to whim he gay of the deceased. LORONER'S Ixttuurrs.—An yesterday morning, in the Governa. gate, on the body of a convict named mtr, a character of extraordinary note. 40 and .50 years•of age,—The decciced at the east end of the town during the of her life, except during the period finentent, which is calculated at tit, time. She had been a prisoner in the metropolis, and been committed times to Newgate. At an early age s iespectable woman in regard to her o moral conduct ; when she was forty ... good looking woman, and since that pen, lowed an unlicensed course of vice, di • crime, by which she became diseased g A short time prior to her last commis gate she received an injury in one of her in prison her leg got worse, and Mr. geon, ordered her to be removed to . a mortification took place, the progress stopped by the surgeons applications hcwever, being reduced to the utmost dropsy ensued, and caused her death. by the visitation of Goo. Yesterday an Inquest was held on shipwright, who fractured his skull the hold of a ship where he was at wo Accidental Death. An Inquest was held at Poplar on Raine, who was drowned, by falling fr the River. Verdict—Accidental Deaf Another Inquest was taken on J. stone-mason, in the Iloiseferry-roai consequence of a huge stone falling on ing his leg and thigh. Verdict—Accii An Inquest was also held on the! van, a labourer in the West India Dot his death by a cask of sugar falling crushed him fiat. Verdict—Accideni MIMI& Monday se'nnight, at Davrlish. the lloa. son. _ _ _ ••••••• Tuesday mennight, at Sc. Breocke Rectory, Rev. William 3foleswortb, of a son. MARRIED. Saturday, at St. Pancras church, Lieut. Digby of the 53d regiment, to Miss Dyball, of TaviAciel Saturday, at Aston, Derbyshire, William 1 late Lieutenant-Colonel of the Z.'d, or King's Antonia Henrietta, second daughter of the tleworih Holden. of Aston Hall. DIEM Monday, at her house in Poland-direst, aged widow of the late Mr. Smart, who died at tentber last. The 1.7. th July lag, at Frankfort on the year, Sir John Indllow °Warren, Bart. 1, Colonel of the Yorkshire :Militia. PRICE OF STICKS Bk. Stock TISI Long An! Reduced 76fli India Boi C0n5.771 77;i; Omn. 3 1 : per (t. tki 83i SG- Exch. IN 4 per Ct. 9.sl: i if Cous. for . Navy Matti Lottery T; HIGH WATER at LONDON BRIDGE Morning - 38 minutes site 6 A iceman .10 ---- 9 • LUNDIIN: niuttd at d publialaad by Latta Kul .."..4- 1 1 nut, Tt.upk.lia. • *- natio , tke of yorT 1". !Ptnn, Ke tt P i' :orp ora l Doterat • • shockinv 1, r eet T . aid fo r , 44, " d since s h e VI cen gunted his e OdA tt sti cas tared b; i h m tre r e lnasim r obb ed missed, Coca ar the d. m r 4 es i . '444 : th hei w ri rnl c uv o c : b l u ti aul iu t i :4 , g is body 11.: 1 7, vi An I mass com e to 4 h. 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