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THE LOVES OF THE NIGGERS. BREACH OF PRObIISk OF MARRIAGE. trEW PALTZ I ULSTIIR COUNTY, UNITID STATIS. PHILLIS SCHOONHAZiIIt V. CUPP HoGINOOM. This was an action for a breach of the marriage pro mise, tried before Squire De Witt, Justice of the Peace, and quorum. The parties, as their names indicate, are: black, or, as philanthropists would say, coloured folks, Counsellor Van Schaick appeared on beha of the Lady. He recipitulased the many verdicts w 1 bad been given of late in favour of injured innocence, much to the honour and gallantry of an American Jury. It was time to put an end to faithless professions, to these cold hearted delusions: it was time to put a curb upon the false tongues and false hearts of pretended lovers,) v. !so, with honeyed accents, only wooed to ruin, and o:Ily professed to dvceive. The *orthy Counsellor trusted that no injurious impressions Would be made on the minds of the Jdry by the colour of his client. . " 'Thug a set of features, The Nugent edge skin, that we a4mire." She was black, it was true t. so was the honoured wife. of Moses, the most illustrious and inspired of prophets. Othello, the celebrated Moor of Venice. and the victo rious General of her armies, was black, yet the lovely Desdemona saw 44 Othello's visage in his mind." In modern times we may quota his sable Majesty of Hayti, or, since that country has bi come a republic, the gallant Boyer. He could also refer to Rhio Rhio, King of the Sandwich islands, his copper-coloured Queen, and Madame Poki, so hospitably received and red to death by their colleague the King of England—nay. theConn sellor was well advised that the .brave General Sucre the hero of Ayacucho,was a dark mulatt o . What, then, is colour, in estimating the griefs of a forsaken and ill treated female? She was poor, it was true, and in an bumble sphere of life ; but love levels all distinctions; the blind god was no judge, and no respecter of colours ; his darts penetrated deep, not skin deep ; his client, though black, was flesh and blood, and possessel affec tions, passions, resentments, and sensibilities; and in ibis case, she confidently threw herself upon the generosity of a Jury of freemen—of men of the north, as the friends of the northern President would say, of men who did not live in Missouri, and cn sugar plantations, and from such his client expected just and liberal damages. Phillis then advanced to the bar to give her testimony. She was, as her Counsel represented, truly made up of fink and blond, being what is called a strapping wench, as black as the ace of spades. She was dressed in the Low Dutch fashion, which has not varied for a century—linsey-woolsey petticoats. very shat—blue worsted stockings—leather shoes, with a thumping pair of silver buckles—bead ear-rings, her wool nicely combed, and face sleek and greasy. There was no " dejected 'haviour of visage—no broken heart visible in her fact—she looked fat and comfortable, a.. if she had sustained no damage by the perfidy of her swain.— Before she was sworn, the Court called the defendant, who came from among the crowd, and stood respectfully before the bench. — Cuff was a good-looking young fellow, with a tolerably smartish dress, and appeared as if he had b een in the metropolis taking lessons of perfidious lovers—he cast one or two cutting looks at Phfilis, accompanied by a significant turn up of the nose, and now and than a contemptuous ejaculation of eh ! umph! otn;h ! which did not disconcert the fair one in the least, she returning the corn. plinust, by placing bee arms a-bimbo, and surveying her lover from bead to foot. The Court inquired of Cuff, whether he bad Conned? "No Massa, be reed, 41 1 ten my own 'wry—you see Massa 'Squire, I kn ow ph de Gentlemen of de Jury berry vell— dere h Kassa Toerponning, of Little'Sopus--knove him berry vea— -1 plough far him—den deft is Massa Traphagan, of our town—bow de do Massa—el, dere Massa Topper, 'vat prints de paper at Big 'Sophus—know him too—dare is blasts Peet Steenberg—know bins too—he owe me little money—l know 'ens all Muss 'Squire —I did go to get Massa Lucas to plead for me, but he gone to de Court of Error, at Albany—Massa Sans Freer, and Massa Coekbutn, said they come to gib me good character, but I no see 'ens here." Cuff was ordered to stand aside, and Millis was sworn. Plaintiff said she did not know how 01,1 :,he was—believed she was 16—she loi,k.d nearer 26—she lived with lions Schootimaker —was brought up in the family—she told her case as pathetically as possible. " Massa 'Squire," said she, " I was gone up to Massa Schools maker's lot, on Shaungum mountain, to pile brash; den Cuff, he vat stands dare, cum by rid de teem, he top his horses and say, bow de do, l'billis ? or as she gave it probably in Dutch, " kow gaud it mit you ?" " gout," said I ; den Massa, he look at me berry bard, and say Phillis, vizir you meet me in the nice, yen de moon is up, near de barn, I got sumting to say—den I say, berry bell Cuff, I vill—he vent up de mountain, and I vent house: nn I eat my supper and milk de cows, I say to myself, Phillis, pose you go down to de barn, and bear vat Cuff has t o sa y . Well, Massa 'Squire, I go. dare was Cuff sure enough, he told heap of tinp an bout love ; calrd me wenus and jevepeter, and other things vat be got oat of de play house yen he vent down in de dupe to New York, sad be ax'd me if I'd marry him before de Dominic, Osterhant, be vat pieaches in Milton, down pots 'Malbro'. I say, Cuff, u make full on me ;he ay no, by nine seat' I viii marry you, Phillis, den he gib me dis here as 'truest." Phillis here drew from her huge Packets an immense pair of scissors, a jack knife, and a wood pipe curiously carved, which she offered as testimony of the promise, and which was sworn to as the property of Cuff, who subsequently bad refused to fulfil the contract. Cuff admitted that he had made her a kind of pro mise, but it was conditional. " I told her, Massa , Squire, that she was a slave and a Rigger, and she' must wait till the year 27, ben all woulo b- flee, cord ing to the new constiartion, den she said, berry well I will wait." Millis utterly denied the petiuti r f proba tion—it was, she said, to take place ben lie got he new corduroy breeches from Crippiely Coon, de taylor, he owe three and sixpence, and inassa Cuoa won't let him hab em vidout de money, den Cuff he ran away to Varsing, I ser:d Coon Crook, de constable, and lie find am at Shandakin, and he bring him before yro, Massa." The testimony here closed. The Court charged the Jury, that although the te,t:mony was not conclusive, nor the iajury very apparent, )et the Court was not warranted in taking the case out of the hands of the Jury. A promise had evidently been made, and had been broken; some difference existed as to the period when the asauintonial contract was to have been fulfilled; and it is equally true and honourable, as the Court ob served, that in 1827, slavery as to cease in our Sta . e, and that fact may have warranted tl e defendant in the postponement • but of this the: e v as no positive proof s and as the pa s ties could neither read nor wi ite,the presents may be construed into a mar;iage promise. The Court could see net risosea r wiry these humble Africans should not, in imitation of their betters, appeal to a Jury for damages, in such cases, but it was advisable not to make those damages more enormous than circum stances warranted, but sufficient to act as a lesson to those coloured gentry. in their attempts to imitate fashionable infidelity. • The Jury brought in a verdict of Ten Dollars and costs for the plaintiff. The defendant not being able to pay, was committed to Kingston jai!, where he now lies, a mavyr to his own folly, and an example to all • others in like cases offending. . Twelve bt autiful horses belonging to the Prince of Oa‘uice, arrived at Sunderland last week, for embarkation. it is currently reported that Mr. Watt has sold Memnon to Lord Darlington fur 9000 guineas. But this report is not cre dited, as it is stated that Mr. Watt declared at York, that he con sidered the horse the property of the public, and uu consideration should induce him to part with him until after the St e Leger Races at Doncaster. EAST INDIA HOUSE. irestetdaY , a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of East India Stock was held at the Company's House, On the motion of the Chairman (C. MARTORIBANKS, Esq.) a dividend of five And a quarter per cent. for the, halt year commencing the sth January last, and ending on the sth of July next, was declared on the Company% Capital Stock. The CHAIRMAN then acquainted the Court that it was made special for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors certain amendments which had been made on the recommitment, lathe House of Commons, of the Bill for regulating the S ilaries of the Judges of India, and of the Bishop of Calcutta. The correspondence which bad atm place, relative to those asassdasehtx, between the President of the Board of Quintal and the Cblikenais and Deputy Chairman, was then read. GAILMIAM condemned the title of the liill, which classed together a provision for the Bishop of Calcutta along with a regula tion for the tamsportaticht of offenders. Mr. Lowness expressed it as his opinion, that the Judges, and dl those who were in the Company's emp loy, ought to provide a retiring allowance for themselves out of their salaries. Mr. Hems argued on the propriety of extending the freedom of the Press to India, and also of allowing natives and half castes to sit upon Juries. A desultory conversation then ensued, In which Mr. TIAN; Sir C. Voseati, Mr. Dixon, and the Quitman participated, when the subject was dropped. RESIDENTS IN INDIA. General Tooastrom then made his promised motion, relative to the propriety of making a regulator!, by which Re-idents at the Native Courts should be com pelled to transmit in Government all complaints and representations made to them by the Native Princes, for the purpose of being enquired into, as soon as pos sible, for the purpose of redressing such complaints, if well founded ; or of exposing their fallacy, if otherwise. The gallant General prefaced his, m otion by a short speech, in which be pointed out tl'e mischief that must inevitably result to our Indian Empire, it the com plaints made by the Native Princes were withheld from the Supreme Government. Mr. Lowonss thought the gallant General ought not to make a motion of so sweeping a nature. Ile ought to specify his charge. Sir J. DoYLE entered at some length into the trans actions which gave rise to this motion, and isolated out the impropriety of any Resident withholding informa tion from the Government, as had been done by Sir C. Metcalfe, the Resident, and Mr. Barnet;., the Deputy Resident at Hydrabai, when applied to by Ch +lido° Loll, the Minister of the Rajah, to t-ansortit certain representations to the Supreme Government. Mr. WSEDING defended the conduct of Sir C. Met-' calfe. He argued that it was unnecessary to send out any regulations, because it was quite evident that, at the present moment, the system of transmitting imme diately to the Indian Government any representation or memorial placed by a Native Prince, or his Minister, in the hands of the proper official authority, Was in full' force. Mr. Hum* strongly enforced the necessity of a free communica• tion between the native Princes and the Supreme Government. The CHAIRMAN stated, that the Court of /rectors sent out positive orders that all information from the Native Princes should be regularly forwarded to the Supreme Government, and those orders were strictly en forced. He therefore put it to the gallant Craueral whether it would ntt be proper that he should withdraw his motion ?—(Hear). General Ta•ativosr acceded to this suggestion, sad the motion was accordingly withdrawn. BURMESE WAR. Mr. HOME inquired whether any fresh information had been received relative to the Burmese War ? and also whether the report of the Commissioner appointed to inquire into the massacre of Barrackpore had yet be. n received ? The CHAIRMAN answered that the dispatches relative to the Burmese War had been laid before Parliament. As to the Report to which the Honourable Proprietor had alluded, it had not"yet arrived in this country. Mr. Hums then proceeded to animadvert on the mis- chief which had befallen the Company under the government of Lord Amherst, and concluded by stating that he would move a vote of censure on that Nobleman. While he was preparing the Resolution, The CHAIRMAN suggested, whether the Honourable Proprietor was not taking a very precipitate count ? In the course of the last war, a most deserving Officer, Lord W. Bentinck, had bt en assaile I in the same man ner, but it u'timately appeared that no blame could be attached to him. With such an example before them, would it not be unwise to prcceed in the present in stance until they bad proper information? He hoped the Hon. Proprietor would therefore consent to with= draw his motion. Mr. Hem, after a few words, adopted the suggestion of the Chairman. S:r C. Foams, in a speech of considerable length, reprobated the system pursued by Lord Amherst, whom he declared to be totally unfit to govern India. He ought to be recalled, and the Marquis f f Hastings so licited to resume the Governor-Generalship. The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN . censured the series of in vectives which the Honourable Baronet had levelled at Lord Ao heist. How was it. possible that any Noble man could govern India effectively if accusations were thus brought against him, and afterwards, through the medium of the public Prev, dii.senrinated through India, where they created diarust and suseicion in the minds of those who were to be governed? The Court their adjourned. MR—Husicvs .x.—The Liverpool Subscription for the Service of Plate to be presented to Mr. Husetsson, amounts to £Z, 93 its. The following are amongst the late subscriptions : American Cbansber of Commerce . . . . £lO5 0 Portugal, Brazil, South American,and Mexican Associadon. 103 0 Ship Owners' Association . . . . . . 10.3 0 West Indian Association . . . . .• 195 Q Salt Shippers' Association . . . . . . 105 0 JBolton • • • • . . • • HO 0 C. W. Williams . . . . . . . 100 0 W. and J. Brown and Co. . . . . . 100 0 Cropper, Benson, and Co. . . . . . 100 0 Ship Builders Association . . . • . 30 0 Sunday morning, about three o'clock, a fire was dis covered in the workshop of Mr. John Allan, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, in Cowan's Close, Edinburgh, which bad attained such strength before it was observed, that, although the firemen with the engines were brought with all possible dispatch, they could do nothing farther than prevent the flames front spreading to the ad joining premises. . The shop, which was In a house of two stories and garrets, was burnt to the ground with all its contents. One of the firemen, named Hutton, fell from a height of twenty feet, and was very much bruised about the body, but had no bones broken. WRINGING WET. It rained a deluge :—Jossrn reached home lat., The bell long tugged; at lasi out popped a pate— ', Who's that there ringing now.?" squalls sleepy Bay, " 'Tis I, you fool!" says Jos,•" I'm wringing wet !" The following charade is said to be from the pen of a worthy Alderman of the City of London:— My first's a little thing what hops,• My second kivbs us good hay crops, My whole, I eats with mutton chops ! • , Solution—qpnrrosegretss. FIRE Mit OXFORD-STRERD. IPURTIIIR PARTICULAR*. The conflagration continued its ravages until slx o'clock yesterday morning, when the entire angle of buildings through which it had spread was reduced to a pile of ruins. The fire-engines were still continued in full play, and by nine o'clock the firemen 'were enabled to advance and make the necessary observations, from which it appeared that in one direction an entire square of buildings and houses enclosed by Mortimer, Mar garet, Wells, and Ticl , field-streets, were bast to the ground ; and, in another direction, the devastation spread in a triangular form over several houses which occupied an extensive space ; and the dreadful elem?nt having obtained an ascendancy over them, destroyed the backs of between twenty and thirty houses in the abovenamed streets, in addition to completely gutting five or six. During the night, the greatest apprehen sions were entertained for Mortimer-street, and the left side of Lichfield-street, as the flames passed di rectly over them in such a manner that the de struction of that part of the neighbourhood was considered inevitable ; however, the wind, which was slightly veering from the North-west, changed, and the current of flames was thrown back upon the immense burning body, and ascended upwards, and was observed upwards of 100 feet (it was calculated) above the houses. From the incessant falling of heavy showers of burning fragments, it appeared more like the awful eruption of a volcano, extending dismay and horror on every side, than the result of a common casualty. The yards o Mr. Stout and Mr. Stodart, from the continual burning of the immense pieces of mahogany and timer, looked like a huge furnace. The fire, it is said, was caused 1 , by a compound which was heating in one of the work shops of Mr. Cronzett, carver and gilder, boiling over, and catching some shavings, instantly spread through the shops,and quickly to the ether parts of the building. Through the very active exertions of Captain Powys, and the military under his command, a great quantity of property *as saved : it should be also observed, that the Captain received the almost universal thanks of the inhabitants for his energetic and gentlemanly conduct. The Magistrates and Police remained in the neighbour hood for several hours, and rendered very important sr:twee:. The calamity has produced cower:pence, tl•c most lamentable, several hundred workmen, in addition io the loss of their tools, being thrown out of work. In the High Court of Admiralty yesterday, an appli , cation for the condemnatigm of certain stores talon at __APPER, the Isle of Sr. Ge.oby Captain Hrge, in 1814, C and the crew of his MajvAy's s.:ip SARACEN, was granted. Two ca r es of s.lvage afterwards occupi ed the 'Court. In that of the Ha..% ke, a timber brig taken off the Goodwin Sands in Novemb last, 6001. was ad judged to 26 salvors ; and 4001. to the salvors of the Mal a, who rescued her from great peril at Southend. SHORT ALLOWANCE TO SOLDIRRS.—Tuesday, Mr. Howse, one of the Inspectors of Weights and Measurer appointed for the northern district of St. Pancras, came before the Magistrates at Marlborough-strtet, upon a questbn of se me importance. He stated that it was the duty of himself and colleagues to visit the barracks in the Regent's Park, to examine the weights and /ima m:es in the Canteen, Suttling-house, &c. In the dis chitr_ge of their duty, a few days ago, they paid a visit l'irefietarracks, at a period when the baker brought the bread, which was supplied by contract to the soldiers. Two of the sold ers requested him and his colleague, to weigh some of the loaves, as they were of opinion that they were not suppli d with their legal weight. He asked the baker for two of the loaves, and on %eighing them, instead of being of the weight of tour pounds, tiler were each five and a half ounces deficieat. He', afterwards weighed four other loaves, and they wer e' only fourteen pounds thirteen ounces ia weight, instead of being sixteen pounds. Ile (Mr. Howse) thought it a' duty be owed to the Public to come before the Magis trate, and make the above statement.—Mr. DYER said, he regrew.d that he had not power to punish the Con tractor, as the Act of Parliament, which had been drawn up by the Bakers themselves, did not give him power to convict for selling bread short of weight. Mr. DYER lamented that he did net possess the power to punish the party, and put an end to the practice; but the circumstance being made public might be of some service ; and if it was taken up in a proper gear ter, the evil would be remedied. PRODERT'S Ptitssnar..—The corp - e of this wretched man was on Monday night conveyed in a shell to an undertaker's in Long-acre, from whence it was yester day taken for burial to St. Martin's church-yard, about three o'clock : by mistake some ground had been opened which belonged to another family, wheel) being discovered, the grave was filled up, and another dug. Dating the delay occasioned by this operation, it be came known that Piobeit was to be buried, and an im mense crowd was collected; and so great was the wise, that the yoke of the Clergyman was scarcely audible, and the Reverend Gentleman appeared considerably agit stet' by the painful sea vice which he had to petform. 'Vise corpse was followed by some persons belonging to the undertaker, and the turnkey of Newgate who has the'care of the prisoners under sentesce of death. None of the relations attended as mourners ; but the aged and afflicted mother of the deceased was observed in the churcl:-yard, witness ng the mournful spectacle. PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—A-Last night, between eight and nine o'clock, a serious accident was likely to have occurred to a number of workmen, who were employed by a Mr. M.Natr. in building some safety fire-proof rooms for Messrs. MASTER/41ANS and Co.'s bat,king. house, in Three Fox -court, Clement's-lane, Lombard- Istreet. It appears the shoring of an adjoining house was observed to shake, when a man was sent up to as certain the equilibrium of a large stack of chimneys which they supported. After applying his plum-rull, he had barely time to give notice to his fellow-workmen below and wenn his own retreat, when the whole fell with a tremendois crash. Had it not been' fqr this providential discovery, twenty men must have met an untimely death. The readers and admirers of the novels by the Author of Waverley, bad nearly met with a grievous disap pointment, in the threatened loss of the Taies of the Crusaders on the voyage from Leith to the Metropolis. The steam-packet which conveyed the last Novel struck on a sand-bank, and it became a question what should be thrown overboard in order to lighten the vessel? Of course the luggage of the passengers could not be a willing sacrifice, and the most bulky commodity being the l'ales, they were domed to destruction, when hap pily the rise of the tide again floated tht vessel. Had the whole edition been thrown into the sea, several weeks must have elapsed ere the printing of another copy could have been completed. • POLICE DiTELLIOENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. lasses &elk, charged with bigamy, as mentioned in oer last, ws4 brought up in attendance, and the second marriage n o t being a legal one, the f o r reuelamination. His first wife, howeVer, not w a prisoner (a Protestant) was married by a Catholic Priest, According to the forms of the Rotnish Church, be was diecharged , kith suitable admonition. Tim prisoner then requestekthe Loan Marisa would liberate the three sailors who were committe.l the day he fore for an assault upon him, stating, that they had written a letter to him, apololising for their conduct , and that be did not wish to procee:l further against them.—They were accordingly ordered to be liberated. BOWESTRRET. Samuel Levy, a Jew salesman, residing in Hemming's-row, wag brought before Mr. Minium'. on the following charge et fraud Mr. William Boswell Barrington, a surgeon in the Rat India Com pany's service, stated, that about a fortnight ago he went into the prisoner's shop to examine a double barrelled gun, which the prise : net warrante d as a good one; on the barrel was written " °Ili: mer, Gun Maker to his Majesty," and on the hack was writietf " Mortimer, London." RAieving that the gun was ole of Marti; mer's, he gave the prisoner nine guineas far it ; he should not have purchased the gun unless he believed it to have been one of Moe:. timer's. After he had ascertained that the gun was not one of Mortituer's he went to the prisoner and told him so; the prisoner replied that he was no Gentleman if he had expected tts get a Mut.; tinier fur nine guineas.—Mr. Mortimer said the gun purchased by the complainant was not his manuf,cture, but was of a very inferior make.—The prisoner, in his defence, said he believed the gun to have been worth the sum the complainant paid for it—lle was or dered to find bail. Love AND JEALnusy.-241rs. Pmell, a woman of very portly per sonage, and fashionably attired, was brought up under a warrant, by Thompson, of the tow-stret t patrol, charged with assaulting Mrs: Henderson, a decent looking woman, residing in her own neigg bourbood, Clare Market. A feeble old man, her husband, was brought in, in a tottering and agitated state. Mr. Aintsnot.t. called upon Mr. Powell to endeavour to give some explanation of this strange proceeding. Mr. Powell—" Please your Worship, as re spects that ere woman, (pointing to the complainant) I'm as inno-0 cent of her as your Worship. As to my wife, when she's sober; I have no complaint against her; but she is always in a state of ine briation, and when she is sts; I know she is affected with hydropho bia, for she is always for throwing herself over Waterloo-bridge." During Mr. Powell's statement, 11Its. P. stood by his side in a genuite Mrs. Offkly style, stampi"4 her foot, now and ttrzn ex " Hem! dear me! how badly Mr you are; thank your --- for it ;" and then tun ing round to the spectators—" Gen tlemen, did you ever witness such a caniNtteiNt of a husnand a;,airst a wife ?" Mr. Missitut.t.—" You must find bail." The Magistrate ' then Asked the husband, " will yoia go hail for her?" The very , question threw Mr. Powell into fits. Mr. MINsUULL—" Then she , must be lucked up." MARLBOROUGH STREET. Yesterday Enderby, the chief witness against Turpin, appeared before the Magistrate, to answer the charge which had been pre ferred against him, for attaining £35 front Mrs. Turpin, under the pretence that he would not find a true hill against her husband. Mr. Butler, Mr. ilarrn!r's Clerk, attended for the defendant, and Mr. Isaacs fot the prosecution. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Chief eke', produced the evidence which was taken on the former examination. Mr. Butler said that he wished to ash same questions of Miss Duf fen, the sister of Turpin, who had sworn that she had sold out Stock, for the purpose of supplying Mrs. Turpin with money to give Enderhv. Miss Duillen wa. introduced, and she was examined by Mr. Butler. She said that she sold out the Stook on the 15th of May ;it was in the New Four per Cents. She received one £2O and one £lO Bark of England note, and ten sovereigns. After some delay, she gave the names of the Brokers; and the reason site gave for withholding their names was, that she did not wish re spectable persons to be brought before the public, connected with such a transaction as the present. She said the Brokers gave her a cheque on Ladhrooke and Co. and then she received the money abovementioned. She put a private mark on the notes, and she knew " Drummond," was written on the £lO note paid to Ender-- by. After some conversation, in which Enderby complained of the publication in the Newspapers of the evidence brought against him; the Magistrate ordered him to enter into recognizances in the sum. of ,CBO, to answer the charge at the Sessions. HATTON-G ARDEN. Ann Balls, who keeps a school in Payne-street, White Conduit, and Elizabeth Clapperton, two very elegantly attired Ladies, were charged with purloining a pair of shoes from a shop at Islington, where they had purchased one pair. The property was missed soon after they left the shop, and found on Balls, who was fully com mitted. Her companion was discharged. Charles Hewett, a gentleman of the sooty tribe, was brought up yesterday morning, under a warrant, by Lee, the Officer, charged with assaulting Mrs. Matilda Virginia Freelove, a lady residing in his neighbourhood. Magistrate—" Are you married r " Oh, yes, Sir, and have six beautiful children." " Pray, Madam, what is your husband ?" " A sweep, Sir, and a more genteeler man there's not in the profesdon." Here Hewett was called on for' his defence ' • he protested he never attempted to strike until the Lady called him a teV't at all events he only threatened to strike, while she not only threatened, but executed. As a witness, he called Mrs. Flaherty, an apple-woman, who protested she never saw any poor man in her life get such a polltope. This pulkogue pleaded powerfully for the sweep, and accordingly the Magistrate discharged him on his paying the expenses of the warrant. Mrs. Matilda Virginia Freelove then withdrew, evidently indignant, and expressed her conviction that, had the case been heard at Bow. street, Sir it. thong would have shewn more respect to " female' imen." NIAR.Y LA-BONNE. Margaret Sullivan was committed for stealing at the ire in Wells street. She had stolen a shawl and pledged it at a pawnbroker's close to the burning houses, and had returned to kelp herself to more property, when she was seized. BIRTH& Friday, in Charles-street, Berkeley-squate, the Lady Isabella Cust, of a son. June 15, at Astley Castle, Lady Sahara Newdigate, of &son. June 15, in Baker-street, Lady Susan Roam, of a son. June 14, at Idenie. the Lady of Pdajor Turner, Royal Horse Artillery, of a daughter. MARRIED. Thursday, at Mary-la-bonne Church, Lieutenant-C*lone! George Higgimon, of the Grenadier Guards, to Lady Fran:es Elizabeth Needham, third daughter of the Earl of Kilmorry. DIED. June 14, at Twyfozd Lodge, Sir Thomas Berrie, Admiral of the Blue, aged 66. Tuesday sennight, Ms. William Ure, farmer, Foregathering Mill; in the pariah of Houston, 'after a few days' illness, in the 95th year of his age. He was born and spent his whole life, and was the oldest wan in the parish. His journeys were always bounded fay Greenesk on the one side, and Glasgow on the other. He never slept above a 'right at a time out of hie OWII house, ex cept on one occasion, when he was persuaded to go as far as Edin burgh to-see a daughter, who was housekeeper to a Gentleman in that city. His reading was confined exclusively to the Scriptures and religious works; and having an excellent memory, he could repeat considerable portions of sermons he had heard in his youth. lie had a fund of amusing anecdotes which he was find of re lating with all the complacent garrulity of age, and his • style of conversation was the more attractive from a happy use of peculiar Scotch phrases, now very little used except by the old. He was very industrious, temperate, and regular in his habits, an entire su auger to disease of every sort ; he never complained of even a hand-ache in his life. He enjoyed an unusual buoyancy of spirits. and two years ago he walked with the speed and gait of a man of forty. He continued to work about the farm till be became bed rid; and he enjoyed his recollection, hearinz, and sight unimpaired. He was a pious, sober, industrious, mid respectable man--a ge nuine old Scottish farmer. COAL MARKET, JUNE 22. Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Prlte. 291 New utle 141 291 93 to no 1141 10 Sonderbpd 9 • Us ed to Vs 94 at All-S.—THU DA T. alil6lloB. 1 0 I Virazte• 1 0 Hanthurgh II Oublltt Waterford au: Dow - 1 0 0 1 Guerwey andiersey 0 O Flanders Ulnae 0 1 I Buenos Aves I 0 Jamaica O 0 Amerka O 0 Brazil • o o o o o 0 O o O 0 Goetenburgh Malts Holland HIGH WATER st LONDON-BRIDGR TO. ‘llOl2ltUVe • Aliening . • 51 minutes alter 7 Afternoon • 23 minutes alter -8 Loewe : Prettied and Published by J. F. Knar.v, at the Sus thrret , No. 1, INCActi-Place s nark-liar I