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BRIN/ TON, APRIL , 8: te•? ;, :t.%3 . Torn o f the REGENT t o the Pavilion on fist had a pleasant effect u p on thii i s . ,o, as ;Is o f the place has been 'p ucc c ediat and the Libraries, the'rides ind.unilkt; Yrfrc ethibiied b•trt little company, have been 7,1, - e d w ith elegant visitants , aad the shopkeepgr; 7 00 ,, t ir employ behind their counters. It is i r e bo th ied, by those at a distance, the :lege at appertaining to pleasure and trade,' t•i s Royal Dighness's presence produces here. Ana l Highness came in at about ten minutes r,i4Lt o'clock at night, accompanied in his tta iiirgctrFiasc by th. Right Hon. Sir BENJAMIN 00E0, Bart. and was received by a guard o f or , consisting of 126 rank and file of the 90th, the w ow i n g officeis :—Major Wrt.nv, Lieu ogs li t cnot.s and FLEartsra. and Ensign NEW -311 the co.:ours, drums, bugles, and band of griment. The colours were lowered as his pl Highness ap i tr,:ached, the band, drums, and A rs , vibrated the inspiriting anthem of God save ro i g. iltcrmingled with the acclamations of se ri h ea t ed persons assembled about„the lower end tioah-street, the upper part of Great East-street, ra d os e)y wedged throng filling. the whole space ,de.square. merry peal from the church followed. THE - ARMY. ; • .1 - • • • liotensitttolOrtel BOSANQUCT succeeds to the * w and &the Light Horse Volunteeri of London iissi tit alinster, and Major MABERLEY to the Lieu- Fig t:colonacy of that Corps. Th ur sday, General Lord HOWARD inspected. he od Regiment, .at Hilsea.-The inspection orNie ; Daps A Portsmouth took place yesterday. flay Mbht, us a party of the 79th lteginient were ing their rounas in the Dock-yard, ,near the King's i7Ars, Portsmouth, one of them fell into the water, 6 1 vas drowned. TIIE.4TRICAL FRACAS. • ruilisiz, who has been for some time perform , k ia t Crow-street Theatre, Dublin, having been in iced to assist at a Concert of Mr. Pat NORMA'S, on a • when , her services were not required at the , the Patentee, Mr. JONES, took offence at the : . stance, and caused an intimation to be made torus BYRNE that he considered her no longer a • , of his company. The dismissal of so gre. , t soul favourite naturally caused a good deal of sea :ion in the public mind, and at the conclusion of Oe first piece., on the 14th instant, there was a loud oyfrom all parts for the Manager. Mr. Morroo nu, the Stage 7 manager, then presented himself, &ikons to know the pleasure of the house. A Gen tkein from the stage-box—•• We wish for an ex- Oudot' respecting the dismissal of Miss BYRNe —g Miss Byrne! Miss Byrne!" rung from all parts' house.—Mr. MONTGOAIERY " ladies and Gentlemen... The differences between the Pm. Mesas and 51111 Beam are in a way de:tune:it, and have sto hope that they will be amicably ac This was followed by a burst of apFlause, and Mr. llosoominy retired. Agaiu dancing commenced, lapin were the performers ordered off, and Mt." Ilissooutny a second time came forward.—A Gen bean (from the Middle Gallery).— • Re. Bluarromisse. 7 -The question as to Miss Bra= h, I noettled ; and I now address you on another subject. With pr Management, so far as you are yourself concerned, we are, litriew, all satished—(4llplaus4—but I appeal to a Gentleman -ad you are, Sir, a ri cognised Gentleman —(kplaisse)-1 ask Su, is It righ t, or is it with your appobation, that Consta *lad Policemen throng this Gallery, to the disturbance and pcnnoyance of the respectable portion of the Audience as- NU in this part of the House'.'" This short Address was followed by general plats.- its.—Mr. Mosrcomt- R V It is not the wish or the intention of the Proprietors, and it vainly is not mine, that Policemen should appear within the tart the Theatre, unless in cases of actual riot ; and I am while is no disposition on the part of the Audience to riot, Meow or at assy 4,ther time. If there are Policemen now in de lia!kry they h IL bt withdrawn. ' This was received wide a thunder of applause, and Mr. MONTGOMERY withdrew. , ILL DAVLDaoN, whom the Papers have sent across e't Atlantic to New York, is now performing at Aberdeen. She opens the Glasgow Theatre in June, lad in September makes her appearance at Covent psien, where she is engaged for three years. asuev.t.tse THEATER.--The new Comely of 44lar was performed for the second time last night, but ire cannot say with increased success ; as at the ctie, when Mr. Joussrons came forward to an ii);lsce its third representation, the opposition wee, so along that be could hardly obtain a hearing.—The epaiment of lowering the prices of admission to this Iseate not having succeeded, the former prices were razed yesterday. Com - c.c.s enes.—The Heart ?Mid Lothian was Treated last night with great success. It has under rte many judicious alterations and improvements, alt has been so much curtailed as to shorten the time ' 31 4 performance full three-quarters of an hour. SAINT PATRICK'S CHARITY SCHOOLS.,—Yeiterday e'enitg, the Anniverta r y of this Institution was held It tie Freemasons Tavern Great Queen-street, Lin- Va's Inn-field s , his Royal Highness the Duke of ,"%it in the Chair, supported on the right by the 4 '"ke DE SAN CA nos, and on the left bv TaEMLES -7.;.'4% the Archbi s h o p o f JERUSALEM 'General Sir 011 5 Done, Reverend Dr. COLLINS, Lin% Rua- L, and several other persons of high respectability. Chairman proposed the healths of the Duke Df ''`'atuLK and the Earl of SiiiieWsliene ; the former V. 3 .3 &rained from illness; and the latter from being I ° the country, but he was sure their hearts weze with After slimier, the children of the selool, 400 It n i ...linter, walked roun d t h e r o om i n p r ocession, thh4 auerai the Duke of York's b an d playing `• Pity, i;i .retre‘efolk4 and afterwards " Saint Patrick's Z rt . I : 1 the Morning." Two 'of the children, Anne 'a and William Buckley, were placed on the, e before the Duke of Sussex, who suspended a 2144alround necks, and addressed a short speech t° them on tl• • •eir r ...aviuur. The •gallery was thz ele3a nt d resse d females. At o'clock u4 lce of b/ssET. left the Chair, previous to which 'arced that th e sebscriptions of the evening a lcAt tee to - z ior ) • 2 ore 7 bryee, slater, fell from the roof of ri ot c Anita* street , Greenock, and was killed SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TArrEits4p,:s YXSTERDAY. to i %Ist Pledge io to 1 art Domini° to 1 apt Sultan • 10 to 1 agst Euptitates -11,to 1 apt I 1 13 to 1 apt Louisa. spAics. • 'ilia 2 :pi 'Barroom 11, 1-aiet Dodos' I 5• to I agit'llise Stockings . 2000 GUINEAS STAKEI. sto 4 agst Cressida I s`t.s I agseMorel i apt Euphrates HAMPSHIRE HUNT SPRING MEETING. Wednesday the* Races took ping o% Worthy Down, and were more numerously and respectably attended than on any former occasion. The Down was ~crowded with most of the Nobility and Gentry of the neighbourhood, in splendid equipages. The Cup was won easy by Mr. Heysham's Priestess, by Wary, 6-yrs-old - Mr. Fleming 's bay gelding, by Headley, S yrs-old Mr. Vallebois's Chesnut gelding Cobler, 5-yn-old - Mr. Norris's brown gelding Trump, aged - A Sweepstakes of sgs. each. One two-mile heat. Hon. W. Gag e's , Alien, Sirs-old . . • - - Lord Rodney 's bay mare Emma, 5-yrs-old - - - Mt. Norris's brown mare, by Grahams, aged - - Lord Newark's brown gelding, by Belzebub, 5-yrs.old dis. A Sweepstakes of Sgs. each, for all ages, carrying lOst. each. One two-mile heat. Hon. W. Gage's Alien, 5-yrs-old Villebois s Harlequin - - - 2 - 1 2 3 4 Mr. Smythie's Clara, 4-yrs-old After the Races, upwards of 50 Gentlemen sat down to an elegant dinner. In the evening there was a Ball at St. John's House, which was attended by upwards of SOO persons, among whom were—The Earl of Northesk and family, Lord and Lady Rodney, Lord (deadly and family, Lady Tichborne and family, Lady Gage, Lord Oxford, Lord Newark, Hon. Mr. St. John, Hon. Mr. Sir Robert Williams, Sir Simeon Stewart, Sir Charles Cope, &c. &c. After supper dancing was continued. and It.pt up without intermission, and It was five o'clock on I rams:lly morning before all the company departed. • EASTER PLATE ON BARHAM DOWNS. Ta::sclay the Annual Easter Plate was run for on Barham D0w.13, aad won by a horse belonging to Captain Wallis. The horses which started for the Plate were five, and they produced more sport than has been known fur several years, the heat being extremely well contested. We regret to state,that a seri ous accident happened to Mr. Thomas Filcher, of Littlebourne, who on crossing the Downs on horseback, was rode ag.:lnst by another horseman, dismounted, and his horse falling on him, he was seriously injured 6 and taken up apparently lifeless ; but city medical assistance being obtained, he was so far recovered as to be a ble be removed from the gowns, and although now in consid erable pain, is much better. DANDY CHARGER MATCH. Wednesday, a youth named Wan ' undertook, for a conside rable wager, to ride a deal, charger from Upstreet to Canter bury, a distance of six miles, within an hour, which he accom plished with apparent ease in nine minutes an d; a half within the ,given time. He was accompanied by some persons in gigs and on horseback. • PEDESTRIANISM. A few days since G. Rumen, of Havant, attempted to go on the Emsworth road 60 miles within 12 successive hours; but, flan commencing bis task too eagerly, and drinking too freely, be gave in at the end of the 10th hour, having gone within that period somewhat more than 50 miles. He performed the first nine miles in a jumping kind of run, and while the rain fell heavily, within an hour and a quarter; and accomplished half his task in good style, beating time half an hour. It is gene rally believed that he would have accomplished the undertaking but for the above circumstances. He has been backed for £5O to do the task within a month. Saturday se'nnight an attempt was made by five men to go on foot from Waterford to Tramore, six Irish miles of a road net better than tolerable, in 40 minutes. The result was vari aUs; the best of the pedestrians took 50/ minutes. Large bets depended upon the issue; the original wager, was 100 guineas to ten, that no person could accomplish the task. Monday se'nnight, a Gentleman undertook, for a wager, to walk from the three to the four mile wone, on the Dromore mad, and back, twice in 62 minutes. He performed the task with tolerable ease in 341 minutes. The road is good, although temewhat billy. Four Irish miles in 541 minutes must be con sidered great walking. GREAT PUGILISTIC CONTEST, NEAR BARNSLEY, _ _ IN YORKSHIRE. This battle was for sixty guineas a side, between John Wike, the champion of the latter place, and an amateur of the name of Green, a pupil of the scientific George Head, on Wednesday last. This contest excited considerable interest for miles round Barnsley, and in consequence of the numerous victories obtained by Wine, he was almost thought invulnerable, and backed ac cordingly by the Johnny Rays. The battle took place at the Full Dews, about four miles from Barnsley, in the presence of thou sands of spectators. George Head left the metropolis to second • his pupil. For one hour and 52 minutes the heat of battle raged, and d•arirg which period 94 rounds were severely contested. The superior science of Green (added to the advantage of his, master being at his elbow), enabled him not only to give in first rate style, but it also taught him how to avoi&receiving. Great (Jets were &pending upon the first knock-down blow, and also upon the first appearance of the claret. Both these points were won by Green. Wihe proved himself a glutton ; and he took 111(11i enough fur any two good takers. He was a complete !P.:riser-General, and the Chaw-Bacons were electrified to see the nub of their champion so much in Chancery. Wike's head was materially changed, one of his .glee was closed, and the other fcst vtrging to darkness; while, on the contrary, Green had scarcely a mark on his body or a scratch upon his face. In the 95th aad last round, Wike was floored from a tremendous hit Lpon his threat, wilich his partisans viewed as a finisher, and immediately broke in the ring. Some confusion took place, but a new ring was accomplished, when Green solicited Wike to rrniew the combat, but he replied " he would fight no more !" Green was then declared the victor amidst the loud shouting of his friends, and several Gentlemen amateurs were present be , lueging to the London ring. The long faces of the countrymen were above description. Three post-chaises driving furiously through Had ley, on Monday se'nnight, one of them ran over and killed W. Mathews, a child, three years and a half old. The Coroner's Jury found a verdict of Man slaughter against the three drivers. Saturday se'nnight a fine boy, of about six years of age, was rode over by 'a loaded flour cart at the Cow caddens, Glasgow, and killed on the spot. A horse belonging to Mr. M. MOYLE, of Chace water, Cornwall, was taken ill and died a few days since. As TiO cause could be assigned for its illness, the carcass was opened, when an adder nearly 2i feet long was found in the stomach. There is now in the possession of Mr. Hayes, a but cher of Southampton, a pig with a wooden leg, on the off-side before, and it appears to walk with very little lameness or inconvenience. This pig belonged to a disbanded soldier, who, having seen many operations performed on his heroic comrades in the field of Via tesloo, remembered enough of surgery to enable him to practise amputation with success on the poor ani mal, when an accident left no alternative between the loss of the limb or a premature death. During the time of Divine Service at Appleby, on IVednesdiy se'nnight, previous to the COTE mencernent of the Assize, a hen entered the Church, deposited an egg in one of the seats, and then announced the circumstance to the audience by loud and continued cackling. During a severe thunder storm on Saturday, there were /1 sheep and lambs killed by the 4htniag, in the parish of B u theaston, the property of MTS. DAY• MAN ; and near the same place a horse was etruck d ow n, aprarently dead, but it has since rocovered. ,_ ~:; _:,_ _:. - r T..... . SEDUCTION. • TOWN-HALL, PLYMOUTIT, APRIL 15- • eltoist. A Jury was assembled this day at our Town-ball, before G. EASTLAKE, Esq. Deputy Sheriff , under a writ of inquiry of damages. This cause was an action brought by Mr. Peter Cross, of Torpoint, against the defendant, John Budge, formerly a rope maker there, but now living at Callihgton, to re cover compensation in damages for the seduction of his daughter, Tabitha Cross. The case on the part of the plaintiff-was stated by Mr. BozoN, who developed the whole.system of base duplicity practised by the defendant, and from which it appeared, that in the early part of the year 1813, the defendant, then twenty-five yens of age, came to lodge at the house of the plaintiff, with whose family he was before that time in the habits of inti macy ; he had previously shewn attention to Miss Cross, at that time only 15 years of age, and, avail ing himself of the facilities which the situation of a lodger afforded him, effected her seduction ; the re sult of which was the birth of a child in the early part of 1814. Ia July, 1813, he was detected in an extensive traffic in King's stores, for which he was tried at the Lent Assizes, in 1814, and received sen tence of transportation, in execution of which he was sent to the hulks at Portsmouth. In the summer of 1817, he was relieved from the sentence of transpor tation by the effect of a pardon which had been pro cured for him; and during the whole tine of his imprisonment he kept up a correspondence with the unhappy victim of his base passion, promising every reparation in his power if he should succeed in °b eaming a mitigation of his punishment ; but though his business of a ropemaker was still carried on for him at Torpoint, he had not contributed any thing to• the support of Miss Cross, or the child, which died at the age of five months. The letters by which this correspondence had been maintained were produced and read, and contained the strongest expressions of affection, interlarded with religion, and were pointedly animadverted upon by Mr. Bozon. No sooner, however, did the defen dant obtain a pardon, than, instead of' fulfilling his promise to this still confiding and affectionate girl, he basely attempted, by every possible means, to repeat an intercourse which had already proved so destructive to her peace and happiness, impressing upon hel• the belief that he intended to marry her, up to the very time in October last ; at which, to her unutterable surprise, she found he had become the husband of another woman. _ _ This statement was fully confirmed by the evi dence of Miss Cross, and several' respectable inhabi tants of Torpoint; from whose testimony it appear ed, that up to the time of her unhappy connexion with the defendant, and since that period to the pre sent moment, her conduct had been wholly irre proachable; and such was the sympathy excited by her unhappy situation, and the inability of her father, the plaintiff, to support her and her offspring, that a subscription had been raised in the neighbourhood for her relief. The DEPUTY SHERIFF having summed up the evidence in a most perspicuous and able charge, in the course of which he more than once remarked, that, except in her unfortunate intercourse with the defendant, the slightest breath of tuspicion did not rest upon the character of Miss Cross, the Jury re tired, and, having remained upwards of an hour in deliberation, returned with a verdict for the plain tiff—Damages 1:200. Friday night, jnei after dark, the Maidstone Coach was robbed of a large parcel, containing property of c msHerable value, belonging to a house in the City. The coachman had placed the parcel on the top of the coach, and all the outside passengers sat at the front. A thief spying an opportunity, mounted be hind, removed the parcel unperceived, and escaped.' Last week, on the arrival of the Guildford coach, at Tooting, the passengers observed a man apparently hanging from a tree. They hastened to the spot, and found that his feet touched the ground. He was soon able to state that distress had driven him to the rash act, and was relieved by them and the Parish officers. The next day he was taken before a Magis trate at Wandsworth, where he was recognised as an impostor, who had obtained money by a similar trick, about N months since, at Fulham ; he was, there fore, committed as a rogue and vagabond. Thursday night, a daring robbery was committed on the premises of Mr. Nichols, cormmerchant, Bank side, near Blackfriars-road. The thieves, who were at least four in number, entered the wharf from the 'river, having landed from a boat, and with the assis tance of an iron-crow they broke open the counting house door, which adjoins the dwelling, and rifled several desks, drawers, and boxes ; from the desk they carried off silver and copper amounting to £3O. Ftae.—Sunday night, between seven and eight o'clock, a tire burst forth with great fury in the lower part of the premises of Mr. Nuaoaove, a butcher, in Crown-street, Walworth, which originated in a quan tity of shavings taking fire in the kitchen. Before the engines arrived, the flames had got to such a height, as to render all efforts to save the premises useless. The houses on each side, a baker's and a florist's, es caped with trifling damage. Sunday se'nnight, in the evening, one of the wings of Alderbrook Hall, Cardiganshire, the seat of J. LLOYD WILL lAMs, Esq. was totally consumed by fire. The conflagration is supposed to have been mali ciously effected by a servant in the family, who ab sconded after completing his diabolical purpose, tak ing with him an excellent horse of his master s. LaTendcr, who was left for execution at the Sw'. rey Assizes, for a highway robbery, is respited, some circumstances having transpired which render his guilt doubtful. FLORENCE, MACARTIIIrk Fifth Edition of this. new Work of LADY MORGAN'S scull appear in the , course of the present week. It has been j•isdy ob served, that of all the. Novels of this spirited writer,. Florence Macarthy is the one which has met with the most brilliant success. It is a picture no less true, than energetic of the political and moral situation of Ireland, to which a simple and interesting fable has been adapted. The picturesque descriptionq of the i Country, the account of the manners, and above a 11,,, of the sufferings Qf this worthy people, as well as the, Portraits of a multitude of persons, ere certaiuly., traced in this charming Work with a rare talent of obsertation, afi'd a vigoisr of style still still nitric un-, daimon titiangfail* writers. ADMIRALTY ADJOURNED SESSIONS. • Yesterday these Sessions commenced at nine o'clock at the Old Bailey, before Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, Mr. Justice RICHARDSON, and Mr. Justice BtsT, the Jury, after being sworn in, retired for some rl. - -4, and again came into Court, and brought in a True Bill against Henry Wells, who was indicted for the wilful murder of Joseph Martin, on the Bth of A's gust, 1815, between Deal and the French coast, in company with John Whim and William Brock, _ _ both . of whom were executed for the said offence in December, 1815. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner was in company with Gillam and Brock, on board the Fox revenue cutter, at the time the mur.. der was committed. The case stated by Sir CHRISTOPHER Rolm:spit; the King's Advocate, to the Jury, and which w afterwards clearly proved, was, that the prisoner in company with others whilst the crew of the Fos Revenue cutter was employed in a boat belonging tp the said cutter, in the month of August, to look out for smugglers; that, on the Bth of that month, they observed a boat of considerable length, with masts, and several persons on board of her, steering North- . west, when the deceased observed a number of ma in the smuggling boat, and did not think proper then to attack them, and therefore endeavoured to sheer off, when they instantly received a volley from the smugglers, which wounded the deceased and others, and the firing was so dreadful, that the Fox boat tell on one side, and was necessitated to make signals to the crew of the cutter to come to their assistance, The crew of the smuggling boat called out-- ,, We shall sink every 'soul of you." The deceased was most dreadfully bcat on tho head wit the end of el, fireloik, and at last fell into the sea. It appeared that the prisoner, by the testimony of an accomplice of his, named Atkins, of the smuggling boat, after this circumstance, went to Boulogne for brandy, when they left it on the Bth of August; that on their returning to the English coast, they passed several beds of oysters, between Calais and Dover, and ob served a boat employei, the crew of which were oyster-dredging, and one of whom he knew to be John George, and from whom they got a basket of oysters, for which they gave three bottles of brandy,l that about two hours after this they fell in with the boat of the Fox Revenue cutter, the crew of which tired only one shot, as if for the smuggling boat to come to, but this was not complied with, and they then returned the fire and wounded many of the Re venue cutter ; after this they steered off towards Gra velines, and for some time lodged there; that he and his brother, with some others, left Gravelines, leav ing part of the crew ; that the prisoner, Henry Wells, was one of the crew on board the smuggling boat at the time the murder was committed ; that when they left off firing at the boat of the Revenue cutter, they in proceeding towards the French coast threw over board muskets and other deadly weapons, which were afterwards found on the tide leaving the shore of the French coast. The testimony of Atkins was completely confirmed by the evidence of other witnesses, who positively proved that the prisoner, at the time the murder•was done, was in the boat. The prisoner, it a pßeareri, was apprehended at Dover on the 3d of November last, and was brought to Town; that on his• Way hither. he said to the Officer—"" Oh! if I had that 'b —y fellow Atkins here, I should die happy;" say ing at the same time—" I blame nobody but mysel4 for coming back, after having escaped entirely from the business." The case being now closed, the prisoner said in his defence—" My Lord, I am Lot guilty; let them, say as they like." Mr. Justice BEST, in a very eloquent address, re capitulated the evidence to the Jury, who retired out of Court for about half an hour. When they again came into Court and returned a verdict of Not Guilty. There were other indictments against the prisoner, but the ATTORNEY-GENERAL declined offering any evidence upon them; he was consequently declared Not Guilty, and ordered by the Court to be discharged. Immediately upon his liberation, the prisoner was again taken into custody. upon a warrant obtained by the Board of Excise, for another offence, and con veyed away in a coach. • James Robinson, Allan Richardson, Michael Rich ardson, John Johnson, and John Capper, were indicted for assaulting a Dover pilot. The defendants admitted the fact, and in conse quence of some favourable circumstances, they were at once declared to be Guilty, but discharged upon their own recognizances. The Sessions then adjourned. Monday sennight a murder was committed about two miles from Moffat. Three men passed through Elvanfoot, towards Moffat, between eight and nine o'clock, and next morning one of them was found murdered, lying in a water cut a few yards distant from the road. The supposed murderers speak the Irish dialect. An infavit was destroyed a few days since at South wick, by its inhuman and unnatural mos:hem s Elizabeth Gibbous, almost immediately after delivery. This cruel wretch is nearly 40 years of age. She con fessed the horrid deed, describing the place where the child was secreted: search was accordingly made, and the infant found strangled. A Coroners inquest has declared a verdit of murder against the 'said Elizabeth Gibbons, who will take her trial at the next Hampshire Assizes for the offence. BANK-NOTE FoncEntes.--Yesterday one Henry Dart, a ineparer and utterer of forged Bank of Eng land notes, and Mary Ann Griffith, who cohabited with him, were committed for teal from l-lattor.-gar den Office, charged with having in their possession no less than '22 one pound notes, purporting to be those of the Bank of England, and also three unfinished, or , c skeleton notes" of the same amount, all which were proved to be forged. MasstoN-arouse.—Yesterday, W. Crowther was re. examined, charged with stealing a basket front the tap of the Bull and Mouth, Bull and Month-street, containing £ll,OOO. Since Ins first examination; a man named Brown, supposed to be the companion of Crowther, in the robbery, has been apprehended s and he also was examined, when both were remanded. WORSIIIP-STREET.--J. 1010, the driver of one of Moi:ris's Paddington stage; was fined LIP and costs, for racing against another stage, avid insolence to ne 0 1.1 pas.eir a. • - 6 . . • . .•~" r .4: ;.; • i -- , 'I t I ,a T