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Wfi .i eti. • Voluptuous transports in the bosom : then The place around appears a Paradise, Where Angels visit, and abide with Alen! Sech is the pow'r of Nature: yet there are-- As every heart can testify, I ween— Objects more sweet and beautiful by far Than all that gladdens in the fairest scene ! The hue of youth, the gracefulness of form, Th, melody of voice, the heaven of eye, The balmy breath, the every nanseleu charm That gives to Woman het supremacy ! Oh! these are they that over every soul Come with enduring influence; that bind In silken slavery, in soft controul, The hopes and destiny of every mind! STANZAS. There is a sweetneuin the breath of Meru, There is a beauty in the fall of Even, There is a rapture in the music bum Dy Lark rejoicing up the mit et Hems ! • In summer days to see the imenibilmns And catch the fragrance which the wild Sevelredigilei: Tote y along the turf, and bear the hum Of insects sporting in the sunbeams' glow ! Or on the shady side of same green hill To look upon ensue valley, stretched away, Through whose rich bosom winds a wanton rill, Aod o'er whose pastures docks innumerous stray ! All this is beautiful.; and if the while Upoti the ear the notes of music die, [daunted by distant shepherds, who beguile The livelong hours with rural minstrelsy ! Then does the soul feel ravishment : arise BOULOGNE SUR MER, FEB. 15. lAGO. ■ TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SlR—There being some inaccuracies in the paragraph appearing in your Paper of the 27th ult. relative to a recent trial before the tribunal of this place, wherein Mr. Hamilton, his Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul here, was plaintiff, and Mr. Dunand, a French resident physician, was defendant, instituted for an aisault, with irritating and defamatory language, I take the liberty of cot meting the same, and sending you a brief statement of the case. The Nobleman who was examined on the behalf of Mr. Hamilton, was Lord Semple, and not Lord Temple. The damages laid by plaintiff were 500 francs, instead of several thous Ands, and no compromise, or any apology was ever proposed by or for defendant. The origin of this affair was in consequence of a professional demand of one thousand and twenty-six francs, made by the defendant, on the estate of the late Sir Brooke Boothby, who rented apartments in defendant's house, and where he died. This demand, however, was resisted by Mr. Hamilton, as acting executor for Sir William Boothby, conceiving himself unwarranted in paying it, from his having ample tes timony that defendant was not professionally employed by Sir Brooke, who was constantly attended by an English Medical Gentleman, als' resident here ; and pat titularly as Sir Brooke Boothby had informed him to that effect a short time before his death; hut that, as he bad shewn him some attentions, he should wish a small pecuniary present to be made him, and in con sequence thereof, Mr. Hamilton offered the defendant five hundred francs, which he accepted,* and for which he gave a receipt. Notwithstanding this, defendant, two days after, wrote a very abusive letter to the plaintiff, stating that the sum he had received was only in part payment of his demand, and observing, that he should always consider deceased's family as indebted to him for the remainder. The next proceeding of defendant was repeated personal insult and abuse to wards Mr. Hamilton, whose pre.ence of mind properly suggested to him that it wopld be disgracing the ho nourab:e situation he holds to resent this uniustifiAlble conduct in any other way than by appealing to the laws of this country. Many very respectable English Gentlemen attended the trial, and the warmth with which Mr. Hamilton's cause was espoused, must ever remain a most gratify ing testimony of the high esteem which he has ob tained by his gentlemanly, impartial, and benevolent conduct on all occasions. A verdict was awarded against the defendant, with 300 francs damages, which has been appropriated by Mr. Hamilton to the use of the ponr, and a further sum of fifty francs by way of fine, besides the whole costs. Iris reported, that since the blab Dr. Dunand has imprudently committed himself by a libellous publica tion on the result, which is now under the consideration of the Procuseur du Roi. _ By inserting the above in your Paper, you will be doing justice to Mr. Hamilton, and oblige, Sir, your very obedient, A CONSTANT READER. We have been much gratified in viewing the Model of Paris, now exhibiting at the Westeui Exchange, in Old Bond-street. The whole is very ingenious as well as accurate, and is the labour of nearly 15 years, being cut out in wood, interspersed with trees and foliage, beating proportion of about a thousandth part of the teal size. The Alliance Insurance Company was the first to set the example of incorporating, as it were, the interests of Nations, by extending to foreigners the benefit of an Insurance Establishment, of which they might avail themselves with the fullest confidence, and with perfect safety; an advantage of which the subjects of foreign States canwell estimate the value. It is to the desire every where felt abroad to benefit by this security, that the Alliance Company owes its success and its prosperity. Whatever tends to .encourage the mutual confidence between nations, and to multiply their common interests, ought on all occasions to be cultivated. There is no mode so effectual for preserving throughout Europe l• the relations of peace and amity." Every day is bringing the great Commonwealth of Christendom into a state of mote intimate communication, and we rejoice in every new communion of object and pursuit which tends to make it lasting. On the morning of Sunday se'nnight, John Seaton, joiner, New Abbey, near Dumfries, was found stretched upon the snow, a corpse, about a mile west of that vii. lage, having perished by the inclemency of the weather, before he could reach a house. - - A HottaTaose.—The late Dr. BUSBY, when Chap. lain to the forces quartered at Dover, was one after noon delivering a discourse from the eighth Command. merit, in which he animadverted on the sad conse- Ruences of stealing.--" It is," said he," such an ungen lleinenly, beggarly thing for a soldier to steal. Not, my beloved ftrethrers, that I would tax any of you with the cOmmission of so' foul a sin. No, GOD forbid I though I have lost a pair of boots, and several other things,since.this regiment was stationed on the Heights r. News of Litsfatarre and Fashion. • Two persons were last week fined It. each, at Wm inner dip %et atlemilise Chun* the preview %May. - ^ . ,R: .:r• 4 -7)* • MIDDLESEX sgsszaws, FEB. David Pugh was indicted fort fraud, in-falsely ine-I tending to Benjamin Early that he was a sheriff's officer, and had authority to arrest •hint, and obtaining Rom him 21. - 10 s. The Prosecutor stated that he is a builder, and resides at Chehea I at ten o'clock at night, on Saturday, the 22d of January, the prisoner came to his house and produced a writ against him, at the snit of a - person netted Bryant, for SOS. on which he , arrested him, saying he was a she, iff's officer. Witness's wife was so frightened, that she fainted. The prisoner pre :posed to witness to give him a fee of 51. and he would allow shim to remain at home, and on Monday he might Live bail. Witness consented to give him 21. 10s. which he took, and went away. Witness gave bail to the-writ on Monday, and the- prisoner came to bi house again the next Saturday night, with another per son, and made a disturbance at the door, which witness refused to open. Witness did not owe any money to Bryant, who was then a prisoner in the King's Bench, and considet ably in debt to witness. Alr. Henchman, the Under Sheriff, proved that the prisoner was not a sheriff's officer. King proved, that he was an acquaintance of the prisoner, who, on the Saturday after the arrest, asked him to walk with him to Chelsea, where he said he bad a flat, from whom he had got one fee, and expected to get another. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had sent in the names of his securities as a sheriff's officer, and thought he might call himself one; and he took the fee to settle the business for prosecutor, and save expense. The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner awiliy, and he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. The King of the NETHERLANDS has contributed, out of his privy purse, 100,000 fl , )tins (or about 80001.) for the relief of the sufferers by the late inundations. As his MAJESTY'S income is not very extravagant, this must be considered a most princely donation. His Ministers have proposed to the States General a vote of credit of eight millions of floc ins, to repair those disasters. In the New York Evening Post of the 24:h ult. there is an extract of a letter from Washington, dated Ja nuary 21, in which the writer, speaking of the contest for the Presidency. says," The success of General Jackson is morally certain. I will not pronounce what will be the result of the first ballot, but I have not a doubt that he will get eight Western States, three Mid die, and two Southern." _ _ _ A few weeks ago, an alarming robbery was com mitted on the premises of Mr. Matthews, a wholesale boot and shoe-maker in Blackfriarr-road. Several per sons were apprehended, and after severah examina tions,committed for trial as persons concerned in tie burglary. A crowd of persons have been collected around Mr. Matthews's door and shop all day, at tracted by broken windows; placarded with large bills, offering handsome rewards for the discovery of the de predators; who, it appears, have been hourly in the practice of annoying Mr. Matthews, and taking every opportunity to destroy his property, by throwing stones and other missiles into every window of his house, so that it now presents the appearance of having stood a regular siege; he has also received many anonymous letters of a threatening nature, declaring iihe persists in prosecuting the parties committed, he shall have greater cause to lament than the loss of his three thousand pair of boots and shoes. Friday evening, 23 two of the Bow-street patrol were passing through Lamb's Conduit -street, their attention was attracted by a sudden burst of flame in the interior of the shop of Mr. Henry Evans, silk-mercer. The officers crossed over, and found, to their amazement, a young woman totally enveloped in liquid fire, and a young boy looking at her. Thompson, assisted by his companion, lifted the young woman between them, and having hid her on the ground, rolled her over and over. until the flames were entitely extinguished; but when, taken up, a horrible spectacle presented itsel, the clothes round the body being burned to tinder. The stomach and bosom were terribly scorched. Surgical aid was called in by the family with whom she lived as' servant, but her dissolution is hourly expected. She had been ordered to bring up the tea-kettle from the kitchen, and it is presumed some part of her garments caught fire when in the act of taking it off, for she ran up stairs to the shop screaming for assistance, and had burst in the side•door when the officers were attracted by the sudden glare of light. MIDDLETON COLLIERY.—The melancholy sequel to the tragedy at Gosforth Pit has now been performed. &am at ter midnight Sunday week, Mr. BLENKINEOP and Mr. BEDFORD repaired to the pit, attended by a number of the woi k-people, and prepared to open it. The shaft had been fastened up with boards, covered with earth, in which a tube six inches diameter, with a cover, was at the same time fixed. On removing the cover of the tube, the carburetted hydrogen gas rushed out with so much force, that the persons in the tunnel were obliged to retreat for nearly a hundred and fifty yards towards the mouth to find a breathable atmosphere. They then quitted the pit, leaving the process of ventilation to go on till Tuesday evening, when they still further pro moted it by such means as they judged necessary. On Wednesday morning, the air was sufficiently sure to enable them to remove the covering, and to commence the search for the two bodies that were missing. The body' of Joseph Haigh was found almost immediately, with his hands over his face, as if attempting to prevent suffocation; but that of Jo hn Ramstien was sought for a long time in vain; at length it was discovered by the accidental removal of a piece of timber; his death had no doubt been instantaneous, an 3 his body could scarcely have been more dislocated if he had been shot out of a mortar. The first care of those engaged in the search was to take the remains out of the pit, but so rapid had been the process of putrefaction, that it was only by their clothes that they could be recognised by their friends. The same day the Coroner held his Inquest upon them, and after the examination. of Moses no. bens, the only witness examined on the occasion, the Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict- 0 Died in consequence of an explosion of car buretted hydrogen gas in Gosforth coal-pit, on Wednesday, the 12th of [January, 1825." By ROLA ay.—Wednesday evening last, between seven and nine o'clock, a burglary was committed in the house of Messrs. Drury and Son, the silversmiths, corner of Villiers.street; in the Strand. The thieves obtained an entrance to the adjoining house in Villiers -street, which is at present unoccapied;by picking the lock of the front door, from whence they went up stairs, and along the parapet wall, and forced open the attic window -of Messrs..Drurys' house, and succeeded in canyina off, unobserved, from one of the bed-rooms, a quantity of Gentlemen's wearing apparel, linen, itc. of the value of about £3O. They effected their escape. ~. -~_. L! - =*" ~. - . sPolfiltialiNVALlWNecz , - tt. :1 XIFRO Nll WG . • Th. Esilex trutoit r ildtinds meet tO-trtOrttiik llt Giford Hall; anti on FrMay;ai erkY Hall. ' PEDESTRI ANISTIL 7.• • • The Foot Race 'betimes Captain Allen and H. Won the latter . jiving one mile #pitipen, was run in Ashted Peak, Malt the two-miles circle, on Thursday. The Captain performed his Mani miles of ground. in one sour and forty minutes, and Wending did his sixteen miles in off hour and thistroine minutes. Townsend, the pedestrian; was at Exmouth on Ft iaq last, where he performed the task of walking four miles backwards in an .htstir; picking up one hundred stones with his mouth in an siinutes and a second, and svalkingeixsuiles in an hoar, all which he accomplished. Saturday, a bunt took ' place, to decide a wager of a rum!) and dozen, heti/Celt two Gentlemen (Mr. T. Bert and Mr. CA Wigney); It Was which of the two; eaeh.taking half the Brighten harriers, drawn by themselves, the fernier having the Fridayl country, and the latter the Monday's and Wednesday's, could catch the greatest number of hares. Mr. Best threw, off at l'ortslade, found near Southwick, and after a chase of about an hour, killed his hare near Portslade. The field afterwirds fbund a second hare oa Fonda& Tenantry Hill, and, after a chase of three hours, ran into her at Cock-on-Roost, close to a gorse cover,. but a pyrsort on foot who was near the spot, took her front the hoimds, and by some means let her get out of his bands. Is was supposed by' the sportsmen present, that she had hid herself near the spot where caught, most likely dead from the injury she received front the dogs • they afterwards tried a considerable time but could not reco ter h cr.—Mr.: G. Wigney threw off in some plantations near the 'dog-kennel, found within a mile, and, after half an hour's ten, lost the hire near. the Brighton Race-course. A second hare was found near the same place as the first; she took across the hills towardd Mr. Smith's farm, at Bevendean, where they had a check ; she proved to be in the garden, and being turned out led them towards Stuner, where the hounds ran into and killed her. Mr. Wigney had the huntsman with him, and Mr. Best the whipper in. The wager, under these circumstandes, is considered a drawn one. .y 7 ... . of CAMBRIDI3E, FEBRUARY 18. Mammas' Pants—The subjects for the present year are— .. For the Senior Bachelors—Dc statu futuro quanam fuere Vete rum inter armor et Romano. Philosophorum dogmata? Middle Bachelors—Quantopere sibi invicem prosint populi rnutandis inter se mercibur. OXFORD, FEBRUARY 19. Wednesday, Mr. Anthony Grant was admitted Scholar of New College. Saturday, the following Gentlemen were admitted to Degrees; Docros IN Minscitic—Francis Bissett Hawkins, Exeter College: Baciimon IN DIVINITT-1 lerbers Oakeley, Oriel College, grand compounder. Masrmis or A Itll-11obert Perfect, Queen's College; Rev. Thomas Ilattam Wilkinson, Exeter College ; James Ilardwicke Dyer, Trinity College ; Rev. William Hest Everard, Balliol College. BACHELORS or ARMS—Robert Sherson, St. Mary Hall; Thomas Archer Rewes, Exeter College; William Polwhele, Exeter Col lege s Egerton Venable' Vernon, Student of Christ Church ; Francis Bassett, Trinity College; Brook George Badges, Oriel College; Edward Harbin, Wadham College. ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. The Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M.A. Woodwardian Professor, and Fellow. of Trinity College, Cambridge, is presented by the Master and Fellows of that Society, to the Vicarage of Shudy Camps, in Cambridgeshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George Milcfarlaue. Rev. George Pearson, B.D. Fellow of St. John's College, Cam bridge, is presented, by the Governors of the Charter House, to the Rectory of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death tel the Rev. Wiltred Clarke. _ A Dispensation has passes! the Great Seal, enabling the Rev. Thomas Cox, 1). D. Rector of Dahill, to bold the Rectory of Atherston-upon-Stour, both in the County of Warwick, and Dio. cese of Worcester. .................... MEETINGS of CREDITORS at BASI NG lIALL-STREET, TO-MORROW. FIRST T. Bowden, Museum-street, stationer, at 10, J. P. Knight, Fulham, hop-mercbant, at 1. J. Lock, Baker-street, St. Mary-la-bonne, chemist, at 10. W. W. Smith, Holborn-hill, silk-mercer, at 10. G. Smyth, Camberwell, grocer, at 11, J. Storer, Mount-street, Hanover-square, undertaker, at 12. SECOND PIECTINCS. S. Groeork, Gray's Inn-lane. road, oilman, at 11. T. Ilughes, Burton -crescent, draper , Spelahurst-street, _ M. Nathan, George-street, Adelphi, bill-broker, at 12. J. Wuod, Great 111'55A-street, Bloomsbury, silversmith, at 10: at 10. THIRD RI risme. J. Humphreys, Vaughan Bridge-road, carpenter, at 10. _ DIVIDENDS J. Bond, Cawston, Norfolk, farmer, at 2. Dann and Co. Chatham and Sheerness, bankers, at 12. W. Fry, Type street and Peckham, let►er-founder. at 10. Hayes and Minden, Oaford.street, linen-drapers, at 12. J. Newell, Beaconsfield, draper, at 10. R. Sharpus, Davies-street, Berkeley square, glass-dealer,at 12. T. Welles, Croydon, watch-maker, at 2. PETITIONS of INSOLVENT DEBTORS, to be beard in PORTUGAL-STREET, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, on WEDNES DAY, February 23, at Nine in the Forenoon. Jane Badcock, China-row, Lambeth, laundress. James Burford, Swallow-street, St. James's, carpenter. James Tebbutt, North-place Ball's-pond, shoemaker. Benjamin Hill, New-street:Battersea-fields, bricklayer. Griffin Hugh, Kent.street, Southwark, rope-maker, &c. Henry Lewer Sanders, Beaumont-street, St. Alary-la-bonne, sur geon and accoucheur. John M' William, York -street, Commercial-road, traveller. Charles Frederick Downer, West-place, City-road, ostrich-feather manufacturer. Thomas Driftkid, Essex-street, Strand, journeyman painter. Thomas Ambrose, St. John's, Hackney, baker. Henry Staples, Marine Crescent, Bermondsey, town traveller. James Boustead, Tash-street, journeyman coachmaker. John Burlington, Peckham ' victualler. William Wright, Deptford, stable.keeper. George Phficox, Canterbury, watchmaker. BIRTHS. February 1, at Chatitaan, the Lady of Lieutenant P. L Dora, 24th Regiment, of. son. Friday, the . Lady of T. It. Kemp, Fa+ If. P. of a daughter. MARRIED. At Stoneham Chapel, Wiz& Lucinda Harden, daughter of Capt. Baden, deceased, to Lieut. Archdale Sharp's), late stth Light Dragoons, of Bade., Suffolk. Thursday, at Brighton, William Rams ' Esq. of Allerton, Lan cashire, to Charlotte Mary, daughter of the late William Ewart, Esq. of Liverpool. At Torquay, Devon, the Rev. W. Gretton, Vicar of Withingtou and Preston Wynne, to Lucy, second daughter of' the late Rev. Wm. Ireland, Vicar of Frame, Somerset. DIED. Thursday, at his house at Islington, the Rev. Wm. Dram la his 00th year, universally respected. At Vicarage, East Farldgh, en the 9th February, Louisa Harriet, eldest daughter of the Rev. Allen Cooper, aged three year' and nine months. A few days sin m, at Imam, Staffordshire, the Hon. and Rev. John Chetwynd Talbot, Rector of Ingestre, M.A. of All Souls' College, Oxford, and formerly Fellow of that Society. Wednesday,; a few days' illness, of an inSammatien on the lunge, the Rev. Herbert John Beaver, B.D. Rector Bareomb, near Lewes, Sussex, and formerly ellow of Corps. Christi Colo. lege, Oxford. NI A IL/1....THU DAT. •sa. es& I O F ass. sum France 1 0 Hambursk 0 I Flanders 1 1 IMAM 1 0 Leeward Islutels 0 0 0 1 America Waterford 3 6 Guernsey aft 4 Jeremy 1 0 Usboo 0 0 Gactenburgb Jamaica o 5 O 0 HIGH-WATER at LONDON-lIIRIDGX TO-1101tROW. Morning • • 16 minutes after 4 Afternoon • 32 minutes after Lotmon : l'rtnied mut Published by J. F. KRAL!, at At Btu OFTICITs No. 1, Ptc.ixtt- Place, Temple- Dar lay evening last, between seven some sum for this picture, and likewise for an original •s owa. s ass. sum try was committed in the house painting of the great Sir Francis Drake. Dubai 1 Trance 1 0 n, the silversmiths, corner of A young pork butcher, returning from town on Waterford 3 • Haasburgb 0 1 1 3 and. The thieves obtained an horseback on Wednesday night, after disposing of his Guam" , "a ism ? 3 0 Maisain 0 0 Holland 1 0 house in Villiers -street, which meat, wrapped himself in the sheets which had con- o 5 Leeward Islands 0 0 Gcatenburgb y picking the lock of the front tamed it, and appeared like the ghost of Don Gus - Jamaica o 0 America ' 0 1 . went up stairs, and along the man, slain by Don Giovanni—a spectre on horseback. td open the attic window -of 'As the good people of Hammersmith have long been 1 mows , ATEIt at LONDOICIIRIDGX TO-M aft 0 0. 1330 4 W. and succeeded in carrying off, ghost hunting, they seized the poor butcher, who was ilirel:,/.:g • 1 . 1 :2 tates tes after 4 1 _ . _—__.— _ f the bed-rooms, a quantity of taken before a Magistrate, and held to bail to answer ----- - parel, linen, .tc. of the value of such complaint as may be brought against him. He LONDON : ranted and Pub/is/fed byJ. F. KzaLe,atikt Sun Ornas tied their escape. ' . - -gave his name John Benjamin. No. 1, Ptchtt- Place, l'eseplaPar ... ~ . . POLICE IM7'ELLIGENCE. •0111111 11 p b .. I '7 Bowdrragsto • pigped was on Saturday again brtlught beta' Untsnuta., on eharge•Orhorse-stealing.' The prosecutor, a 'miller, named Mere dith, Featnden, n Olouceitetildre l stated, that on Thursday, the 10th of the present month, be had placed the mare which formed "theltubject of the present charge, in an•orchard adjoining his mill. He had seen it safe about ten o'clock in the evening, and at seven on the following morning be migsed it. .When he informed his wife of the eiraimstance, she told Lim that Probert, who has resided in the neighbourhood some week, past, called on the preceding Toes:. day, and made some inquiries respecting the place in which the mare was kept. Mr. Meredith then commenced a search through out the neighbourhood, and by the assistance of the smith, who hail shortly before shod the mare, he traced her tcethe house of Pro bert's mother. She was at home, and on being told that very strong, suspicions existed of her son's guilt, with reii act to the disappear ance of themare, she said, that if Probert bad taken the mare, but had not paned with it, it should be returned. And even if he had, the value should be paid him. For this purpose she would write to him by the next post. The poor than complained, that even if the value were restored to him immediately, the loss of his beast had almost ruined him, since, having no other, he had been forced to disappoint his customers. He was also informed by a neighbour that he had met a tall man, similar to Probert, with the mare, at some distance from Fearnden, on the night she was lost. The night being quite dark, he held up his lantern. to the face of that person, and thus bad a full opportunity of observing his features. The person, whoever he was, made no answer to his inquiries. In a field it the side of the road, near which the stranger had been seen, a quantity of horse hair of the same colour and description as that of the mare lost, was discovered. A statement of these facts was made at dow-street, and from the description given, one of the principal offizers, named Ellis, took Probert into custody on Friday. At the time be met him, he was . in Windmill-street, Haymarket. The following is the evidence, fixing not only this offence, but a charge of a much heavier nature against him. The mare, in a vet* jaded state, was brought to Dixon's Repository for sale on Thurs day, with a note to the knowing effect " Ma. Dixon—l have sent my man with a mare, she isperfectly sound and free from vice, and is worth 30 guineas; you will sell bet fir the best priCe she will fetch. " Yours, &c. (Signed) " Mr. COUZ ENS." Mr. Dixon, knowing a dealer named ("mums, sold the mare to a Gentleman named James Eames, for 20 guineas, which it seems was to be paid on Monday ; the horse was then taken to Mr. Eames brother's, the Angel Inn, St. Clements, where it was found by the officer, and on bring examined by Mr. Meredith, he declared it was his property, and had been docked and cropped in such a manner as to spoil its beauty, and, from the rapidity with which it was rode to town, it was much injured. Mr. Dixon, on. hearing of the mare being stolen, gave up the note authorising him to sell it, and Mr. Conzens came express from his residence at Kensing ton, and declared, on being sworn, that the note produced was not his hand-writing; he had known Probert 14 years, and the note was his band-writing, although much disguised; he had frequently seen him write, and on Friday met him in Regent-street, and conversed with him, but Probers never mentioned a syllable about the sale of a mare. Another witness, named William ',trip, also proved the hand-writing to be the prisoner's. Mr. hlinsnuu. asked him If lie chose to say anything in his de hisce ?—Probert, who appeared rather abstracted, said hesitatingly, Why, Sir, I have a great deal to say, hut not at present, as I shall be able to prove a clear alibi." Mr. Mixsum.r--You will he remanded to the house of Correc tlon.—Probert : How long am I to be detained there? the bed I slept In last night was thoroughly damp. Mr. MINSHULL —I have written to Mt. Vickery, on the subject of your care, and you will be comfortably accommodated. Probert was well dressed in a drab top coat, and top boots, and, if we may use the phrase " Looked well." lie has beets living a e time at iearmlen, which is his native place, and the residence et his mother. llowever, the infamy with which his more is surrounded, from his connexion with Gill Hil's Cottage, caused him to be shun ned by every person. Throughout the examination, he manifested great coolness, and took his snuff in a most degosi style. :•. • ?3 •"! AI A RLBOROUGH-STREET. Miss Oakes, a young Lady residing at Pelgrave Terrace, Pim lico, came to communicate an atrocious attack that had been made upon her life by one of those persons denominated " monsters."— Miss Oakes said she was approaching Hyde Park-corner about seven o'clock in the evening, accompanied by her servant, when a re spectably dressed man came Innis Pat k-lane, and crossing very ra pidly, struck a back-hand blow at her side. She was greatly alarmed, and on arriving home, she examined her dress, and on the same side where she had received the bl ow, she found an Instrument had penetrated, and fortunately struck against one of the bones of" her stays.—The servant confirmed her mistress's statement, and the in cision made in the gown was also 'hewn to the Magistrate. Mr. Conan/ said, no eff, ctive step could be taken unless the person who made the attack was known. Ile regretted that such wretches were in existence, and congratulated Miss Oakes upon her escape. A man named Richard Hawes was charged with having caused the death of Elizabeth Giddes, with whom he had cohabited, at a wretched lodging in Charles-street, Drury lane.—Elizabeth Cole man deposed that when she sesta into their rut.m, she found the woman on the floor, in a senseless state, and soon after she died. The prisoner, on being called upon, said the deceased came home drunk, and abused him so much that he left her and went to bed, and a few minutes after she fell down.—The surgeon who was called in, was of opinion deceased died of apoplexy.—Prisoner was remanded until the verdict of the Coroner's Jury is returned. UNION-HALL. Mary Harreir, a girl about Meer years of age, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, M. SWABEY, Esq. charged with threatening the lives of her parents. 11cr father, a decent mecha nic, stated, that after having tried every means in his p ower to Icortect the vicious courses of his daughter without effect, he was Pat length obliged to have her taken into custody, as both himself and wife were in danger of their lives.—At the age of thirteen she commenced a life of infamy, and neither the authority of father nor mother could prevent her from frequenting houses of the most infamous character in St. George's-fields, and Duck-lane, West minster. She had been absent from home three or four d ays, and the father having been. informed that she was at a house of the above description in Duck-lane, proceeded there, and after considerable resistance on her pan, succeeded in dragging her away from her profligate companions. When at home, on being mildly reproved by her mother, she caught up a knife, and swore she would run her through the body, unless permitted to go on as sbe pleased. Her father, on hearing of her conduct, intimated to her that he would certainly take her before a Magistrate ( Thg moment he had utterLd his intentions, she procured a razor, with which, with dreadful imprecations, she swore she would either finish her own business, by cutting her throat, or destroy her father.—The poor man declared, unless she was Visited with heavy punishment she would commit some desperate act. The incorrigible girl, during her father's statement, seemed quite callous to all feeling, and she was held to bail—in default of which she was committed. The POPE has abolished, for this year, on account ofi the jubilee, all duties on provisions brought into the city. A bounty of one scudi is also allowed on the exportation of every rubbio of corn, till the price rises again to seven scudi. Mr. Bradfield, painter and glazier, in Broad -street, Oxford, some time ago purchased, at a• sale in that county, a number of old portraits, in frames, for a mere trifle. Considering them of no value, they were placed in an outhouse, which a short time back was taken down, and the pictures left -exposed to the air in the yard, where they were accidentafly seen by a Gentleman, who discovered many of them to be paintings by eminent artists. Among others, in good preservation, is a fine half-length pot trait of the celebrated Bishop Burnet; and what greatly enhances its value is, its being painted by - the Lady of Bishop Hoadly, his friend and contem porary. The drawing and colouring are excellent ; part of the drapery is as fine as can be imagined—the tassels for instance. Mr. Bradfield has been offered a hand some sum for this picture, and likewise for an original painting of the great Sir Francis Drake. A young pork butcher, returning from town on horseback on Wednesday night, after disposing of his meat, wrapped himself in the sheets which had con tained it, and appeared like the ghost of Don Guz man. slain by Don Giovanni—a spectre on horseback. As the good people of Hammersmith have long been ghost hunting, they seized the poor butcher, who was' taken before a Magistrate, and held to bail to answer such complaint as may be brcrught against him. He apve his name John Benjamin.