Star. — London, England, 1824-04-26 00:00:00

• • _ Txtrads from a Journal written on thel'lnasts of Chitt,. Pon, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 21, and 22. Py Capt. BASIL HALL, It.N. 12mo. 2 'vels. Capt. hall is already known to the Public as aft au thor by his Voyage to Loo Choc), which was well re ceived when it trade its appearance: nor is the pre sent work entitled to a less hearty welcome, whether as it respects the views ant opinions he advances re specting the political changes which that portion of the Western hemisphere is now experiencing, or as it re• pirds the manners and customs of the natives. To the salter subjects we shall confine the few extracts for *filch we can make room in our columns: " As soon as the dispatches were seat off ; I paid a visit to a Chilian family of my acqoaintance, and im mediately on my entering the dray. ing-Toom, the lady of the house, and one of her di u each presented me with a rose, apologizing, at the s roe time, fen having omitted to do so before. This custom of pre settling strangers with a flower prevails in all Span i sh cot tries, and is one of an extensive class of minute at tentions, which the Spaniards and their descendants understand better than any other nation. Tire favour itself is nothing; indeed, it seems essential to the civility that it should be a mere trifle; the merit lies in the un affected and simple expression of good will and kind ness which, while it really obliges, is of a nature to im pose no obligation " The Chilian; are fond of making plc-nic parties, to dine in the country, at any spot which may suit them during an excursion, and to-day I happened to fall in with some friends bent on such an expedition, all crowded into a cateta or covered waggon, on its way to the hills : as they wanted one more cavallero, I was well pleased to be permitted to join them. We reached the destined spot in safety, though sufficiently jolted, and well nigh deafened by the creaking sound of the wheels, which, like those in Spain, are kept purposely without grease, in order, it is said, by this clumsy de vice, to prevent smuggling—since no cart or waggon can pass within half a league of a custom-house officer without calling his attention to the spot " I went in the evening to visit a family in the Al rnendral, or great suburb of Valparaiso. The ladies were ranged, as usual, along the wall, in a compact line, with their shawls drawn over the head and across the chin, so as nearly to conceal the face. One young lady played the harp, another the guitar, while some occasionally joined with their shrill voices, in singing the patriotic songs of the day. Others were chatting, or wot king, and the evening was passing away pleasantly enough, when, without any apparent cause, the whole party jumped up, cast away their music and work, and flaw ire the most frantic style out of the house, scream ing aloud, Miaoicordia! misericordia! beating their breasts at the -ante time, and looking terrified beyond description. I was astonished at all this, but followed the company into the street, calling out Misericmdia as loud as any of them. It was a bright moonlight even ing, and the street, from end to end, was filled with people ; some, only half stressed, having just leaped from their beds—children, snatched front their sleep, were crying in all direetisats—many carried lights in their hands—in short, such a scene of will confusion and alarm was neset seen, and all apparently occasioned by a spontaneous movement, without any visible motive. After standing in the street for abort a Minute, the whole crowd turned round again and ran into their houses, so that, in the course of a few seconds, the hub bub was stilled, and not a mortal was to be seen. I now begged to know the cause of this amazing commotion, having a vague idea of its forming some part of a reli gious ceremony, when, to my surprise, I learned that it had been produced by an earthquake, so severe, that the people had been afraid of the houses tumbling about their ears, and had ran into the open street to avoid the danger ; for my part, I was totally unconscious of any motion, nor did I hear the sound, which they de scribed as unusually loud. On mentioning this fact afterwards in company, I was assured, that for a con• sidet able period after the arrival of foreigners, they are in like manner insensible to shocks, which a waive can at once distinguish. It may be mentioned also, as an . unusual effect of experience, that the sensation of alarm, caused by feeling an earthquake, goes on augmenting instead of diminishing, and that one who at first ridicules the terrors of the inhabitants, comes eventually to be even more frightened than they are " The theatre (at Lima), which was opened during the festivities upon the accession of the new Viceroy, was of rather a singular form, being a long oval, the stage occupying the greater pat t of one side, by which means the front. boxes were brought close to tt.e. actors. The audience in the pit was composed exclusively of men, and that in the galleries of women, a fashion borrowed, I believe, from Madrid, the intermediate space being divided into several rows of private boxes. Between , Ore acts, the Viceroy retires to the back seat of his box, which being taken as a signal that he may be considered as absent, every man in the pit draws forth his steel and flint, lights his segar, and puffs away furiously, in order to make the most of his time, for when the curtain rises, and the Viceroy again comes forward. there can no longer be any smoking, consistently with Spanish eti quette. The sparkling of so many flints at once, which makes the pit look as if a thousand fire-flies had been let loose, and the cloud of smoke rung immediately afterwards and filling the house, are little circumstances which strike the eye of a stranger as being more de cidedly characteristic than incidents really important. I may add, that the gentlemen in the boxes also anroke on these occasions ; and I once fairly detected a lady taking a sly whiff behind her fan. The Viceroy's pre sence or absence, however, produces no change in the gallery aloft, where the goddesses keep up au uaceasino tire during the whole evening." (TO be continued.) EXHIBITION OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. The Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours commences to-day. On S.• turday last we were favoured with a private view :4 t::e (jailer y, previous to its being thrown open to the Public, and we were happy to observe that the Exhibition of the present year exceeded rather than fell short n f the expectations which had been raised by a recollection of the preceding ones. As a whole it bears ample tusti loony to the zeal and industry of the Artists whose works ate exhibited, and gives the fairest promise of the supe *levity which will be atodued by native talent in.this delishtful branch of Art. I • ~4 - 0 . % -get 11 0 1 ' . • Ci 'lt 4 v -1 4 _ . _ MOZART'S DEATH. This Composer died before he had attained his 36th year; hut indefatigable to the doge of his existence, he created in the last month of his life his three chefs d'oeuvre: the Magic Flute, the Clemency of Titus, and a Re quiem—the last he just lived to finish./ He had under taken the composition of his Requiem at the request of an unknown person. One day, conversing on the sub ject with his wife, he said, he was persuaded that the Requiem would be for his own funeral i adding, that he believed they had poisoned him. His wife, unhappy , when she found herself unable' to remove that impres sion, took away the manuscript. The concealment of ,the work appeared to increase his illness. It was then restored, and soon after he became melancholy. Oa the day of his death he requested the Requiem might be brought to his bed ; Was I not right," said he, when I told you it was for myself that I composed this Requiem ?" and tears dropped froth his eyes. This was the last adieu to las art./ After his death the un known person appeared% and received the Requiem. They never heard more of the mysterious employer, but the widow preserved the original manuscript. It does not appear that the cause of his death was clearly ascertained, but according to all who have written the Biography of Mozart, the general opinion was, that he died poisoned by some one who was jealous of his won derful musical talents. The strange declaration made by Sahel i, the Composer, accusing himself of the mur der, and which, according to the Journal des Debats, is the effect of insanity, may have been occasioned by the impression made by the above account of Mozart's death. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • BOW-STRRET. Saturday Ezekiel Ryan, a decent-looking young man, was brought before G. It. MINSHULL, Li:sq. charged with obtaining money from several persons under false pretences. The principal coirpleieent was a young journeyman mechanic, of the name of George Pearce ; and it appeared from his statement, and that of other veitne‘ses, that the prisoner is a bricklayer, and that he some time since took lodgings in the house of a widow, where several other young men of the same rank in life also resided. Ile had been but a very short time in the house before he began to boast of having several very rich relations, and one in particular, an old aunt, from whom he had large expectations. In a shott time a letter arrived from the country, addressed to him, with a black sell, announcing the death of his aunt, and stating that she bad bequeathed 10,00u1. to him. and 4.0001. each to his brothers. This letter he took especial care should be seen by every one in the house ; and while reciting the congratulations of his fellow-lodgers, he observed that the next thing would he to consider what use he had better make of the money. He was not, he said, the sort of fellow who would let the cash be idle : he would do some good with it. Ile proposed among other things to build a house rack for Pearce and the other young men, and to set them up in business, they engaging to pay a low rate of interest for the money advanced, anti to repay the principal debt by instalments as their success enabled them. Some delay, however, must unavoidably take place before he could touch the cash, and meanwhile he was without supplies of that necessary article. lle wanted clothes; he mast employ a lawyer; and there would he va rious other demands upon hint which he knew not how to meet unless sonic one would assist him. Hints of this kind were suffi cient with these who had expectations from him, end he obtained six pounds from Pearce, and similar sums from others. He paid I great attention at first to the widow, but she had lived long in the world, and did not give implicit credit to 4:: his fine tales; and ton sequently he ceased his flattery, and watilai Pearce and the others to be cautious of her, for she was cunning and designing. Several other letters, purporting ;o ceme from his relations, in all of which the great legacy wait the prevailing theme, were delivered at the house, and the prisoner went so far as to speak to his master to re commend him a hAnker, and aettially gave orders for building ma terials. At length, however, he thought the farce could not he kept up much longer, and, as a I ist hit, lie borrowed a suit of clothes from Pearce, and absconded. Pearce !tamed where he was, and had him apprehended; and it was then found that he had pledged the clothes he had borrowed from Pearce. After he absconded, it was discovered that the stories about his wealth were entirely fa brications, and there was every reason to believe that the letters mentioned were written by himself. While the witnesses were telling their several tales, the prisoner stood laughieg at the bar, and appeared to exult in his roguery. He was remanded for further examination, on the charge of un lawfully pawning the clothes belonging to Pearce. George Drew, the driver of a Greenwich stage-coach, appeared in custody, to answer the complaint of Mr. John Cherie:: Peters. Mr. Peters was disputing at, Charing-cross, with a coachman, who had brought him from Blackheath, and was_ endeavouring to extort front hint more than the ordinary fare; when, suddenly, George Drew came up and struck Mr. Peters on the mouth. Mr. Peters said, he had already proposed that George Drew should make a public apology in the Newspapers ; but he was too proud to submit to it ; and, therefore, he should certainly indict him. So George Drew was held to bail for his appearance et the Quarter Sessions. DONEILYISNI...—triViont Brodie, an old man, and Gem -7 Dean, a lad, were charged wi'h having stolen one brown donkey, the pro perty of Thomas Wadham, of the liorseferry-road, Westminster. Messrs. Brodie and Dean were observed by some of the day pa trol driving the donkey up St. Martin's-lane, and as Mr. Brodie was known to them as a general appropriator of other men's pro perty to himself, they suspected the donkey was not exactly his own. They therefore looked after him suspiciously ; and their sus picious look was not thrown away upon Mr. Brodie, for he directly clapped Master Dean on the donkeys back, and gave the poor de vil such a thwack over the crupper, that away he went with a speed which would have done credit to a better bred brute. This proceeding confirmed the suspicions of the patrol; and, going in pursuit, they took them all three into custody, Mr. Brodie, Master Dean, and the donkey ; am: they afterwards ascertained that the donkey had been stolen f-oin .dr. Thomas Wadhant, of the Horse terry-road, as aforesaid. Mr. Thomas Wadham deposed that the donkey was indubitably bis property, having been brought up in his own family. The Magistrate asked hint how he knew it to be his? and Mr. Wadnian replied—" First and foremost, I know I tin by the loss of his latter end, your Worship ; but, most of all, I know him by his rum tricks, and I'd tell him amongst a thousand donkeys, if I could only once catch hold of the stump of his tail! Resides," he added, " Bill Brodie has been tried for stealing him once before, and he knows it !" Mr. Brodie admitted that this was not the first time the same donkey had brought him into trouble. " But, please your Vor ship," said he, " vee'd no notion of stealing it this time. Vee lives in Vestminster, your Vorship, and vice were . ..king a bit of a vaik up the Hoss-ferry-road, and wee sees a past ; chaps a ill using of the donkey, and vee druv e'm avay—for I've a nattrul liking to donkeys, see 'em were I vill; and so vets vee'd druv them ere chaps avay, wee borrowed the donkey to take us up to St. Pancras for a narrand, and should have brought'n him back agen in a k'vaurtur of an hour if the padroll had lett'n us alone." Master Dean said nothing in his defence—he seemed to think his patron, Mr. Brodie, had said quite enough for both of them ; and they were both fully committed for trial. WORKS OF ANCIENT ART. Subjoined is a list of the works of art belonging to the Papal Government, which were taken from Rome by the French in 1797, and carried to Paris. Besides these, five hundred manuscripts were taken from the Vatican Library. The Vatican Museum was also de spoiled of medal., prints, cameos, and Christian anti quities, indei , endently of the valuable articles surren dered under the armistice previous to the Treaty of To lentino. In the year 1815 these works of art were re stored to Rome; and by the Treaty of Paris, 251,4.98 francs were placed at the disposal of Canova, for the defraying the costs of such removal. STATIJLS. The Torso Belvedere. Antinous ditto. Hercules, with a child in his arms, supptssed to be Ajax. Apollo Belvedere. Lancoon, ditto. Meleager. A Colossal Nile, in a recumbent posture. A Colossal Tiber. - - - A crouching Venus. Paris. Apollo, with his Lyre. The Nine Muses. Ditto. Ditto. Diito. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. A Colossal Melpomene. A Semi-Colossal Ceres. Sphinx of Oriental Granite. Another, ditto. Sardanapalus. A Priest. Tiberius. Augustus. Taunus; by Praxiteles. Zeno. Flora. Venus. Antinous, represented as an Egyptian Idol. Torso of Cupid. A Statue of Hygeia of " Nero Antico." A Youth, extracting a thorn from his foot, in bronze. Cleopatra, or rather Ariadne. Demosthenes, in a sitting pos ture. Trajan, ditto. Posidippus, ditto. Menander. Hysei.t. I'hocion, the Athenian General An Amazon. Adonis. A Discobolus. Ditto: L nuaa, in a sitting posture, five palms high. Ceres, five palms high. Aiitinous Capitolinus. Apollo, with the Hippngryph. Group of Cupid and Psyche. A dying Gladiator. Juno. Pandora. • Menelaus. Minerva. Caro and Portia. Tragedy. Comedy. .Jupiter. Jupiter Serapis'. Antinous. Ha drianus. Oceanus. Homer. Ariadne. Alexander. Marcus Brutus. Junius Brutus, in bronze. A Sarcophagus, with figures of the Nine Muses, in bas relief. Another, ditto, representing the Triumph of the Nereids. A Candelabra, with intaglios. Another ditto. Another ditto. _ _ A circular Altar, with Baccha nalians. A Tripod, in marble, with in. taglios. A cippus, with embellishments Another ditto. A eurule Chair. Another ditto. _ ._ A capacious N ase, or Bell of Basalt. Another Tripod, in marble. An ancient Seat of Rosso An. tico. Another ditto. PAINTINGS. The Transfiguration, by Raphael. A Madonna of Foligno, by Raphael. St. Petronilla, by Guercino. St. Jerome, by Domenichino. A dead Christ carrying to the Sepulchre, by Caravaggio. A dead Christ, from the Church of St. Francesco Aripa, by Caracci. St. Erasmus, by Poussin. The Martyrs, by Valentino. The Ladder of St. Benedict, by Andrea Sacchi. The Miracle of the Corporal, by Andrea Sacchi. Fortuna, by Guido. Gregory, by Caracci. Tile Descent from the Cross, by Borrocio. 'f he Virgin in Heaven, by Perugino. Ti. • Virgin crowned, by Raphael. A Chiaroscuro, representing the Three Virtues, by Raphael. St. Cecilia, by Raphael . The Martyrdom of St. Agnes, by Domenichino. The Rosary, by Domenichino. St. Petronius, by Cavedone. The Massacre of the Innocents, by Guido. The Purification of the Virgin, by Guido. The Annunciation, by Guido. The Circumcision, by Guercino. St. Joseph asking pardon of the Virgin, by Tiarini. The Assumption, by Hannibal Caracci. The Apparition of the Virgin, by Hannibal Caracci. Christ calling St. Matthew, by Ludovico Caracci. The Virgin appearing to St. Dominick, by L. Caracci—&c. Lord GRENVILLE'S Library, which in History, Philo sophy, Political Economy, Mathematics, Diplomatic State Papers, both painted and manuscript, is the most perfect collection in this country, will, on the death of that Noble Lord, descend to his ne phew, the Duke of SucaciNonAss. The splendid and tasteful classi cal library of Mr. TIIO7dAS Ganiviu.s, of St. James's-place, is likewise destined for the noble library of Stowe. By a decree of his Royal Highness the Elector of Hesse, of the 10th of this month, the Neckar Gazette prohibited in his dominions.—Frankfort Paper. Wednesday a boatman of the name of Brown, of Southampton, sailed his boat against a boat belonging to llit)le, of lichen, for a bet, which excited some little ilit,:cet among the watermen. They started horn the buoy off the quay to the buoy off Ilamble Point, and back again, but ere Brown's boat had reached opposite Sir Arthur Paget's house, Dible was going round the buoy off Ramble, when the former immediately tacked alitl came up the water in front of his opponent. At starting, it was a 74 gun ship to a punt in favour of llible's boat, which proved a very excellent sailer.—, ii: Or. n's boat is a g o o d sa iler, and would have contested every inch of ground—tuates we should say---had she been properly rigged for a match, but this her owner Lad unaccountably neglected. DIARY-LA-BONNE. A watchmaker, named Standeven, who, a short time ago, opened a shop in Seymour-place, Bryanstone-square, was finally examined. The prisoner obtained from different persons about fifty or sixty watches, for the purpose of repairing, and ?peaking them go; and he made them go with a vengeance, for he pawned them, and then absconded. An officer of this establishment succeeded in taking him, some distance from London, and brought him to town. Forty duplicates were found. In one case, the Magistrate expressed great doubt, whether the charge did not amount to a felony, and finally convicted him upon three distinct charges under the l'awn brokers' Act, in penalties, which he not paying, was committed for three months on each charge, and he will now be compelled to make the Tread Mill go, though a different way front the watches, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SHOP•LIFTINo.—Saturday, a well-dressed woman, who gave her name Elizabeh Bray, was charged by Mr. Redman, haberdasher, of New Bond-street, with committing a felony in his shop.—Com• mitted to Newgate. TOWN HALL Waits or TIM Jews.—Saturday a posse of the peoples entered the Office, interested in the decision of an affair between Mrs. Sarah Solomons and Mrs. Charlotte Lazarus, the former of whom sum moned the latter for an assault. After a little squabbling as to who was plaintiff and who defendant, Mrs. Solomons carried it, having by a ruse de guerre prevented a counter-summons, by getting her name first on the office books, and stood forward to state her mis haps (sonic two stone lighter than her adversary), and thus it was: The parties litigant were both married ladies, and both blessed with hopeful progeny, and the little dears having squabbled over a dis puted pail of water, were engaged tooth and nail, when Mrs. Solo mons, very naturally bearing in mind the excellent apophthegm— " Train up a child," &c. backed her little innocent with such suc cess that it pummelled its adversary into crying peccavi, which bringing to its aid its own mother, the battle was transferred, and a regular set-to commenced between the complainant and defend ant, in the Flanders of the Borough, Fishiuongers'-alley, in the course of which Mrs. Solomons received a coup-de-'race in the pantry, and came down, with Mrs. Lazarus upon her, whose ele phantine bulk so nearly knocked the jnyfout of her that the aid of a surgeon became necessary ; and to crown the whole, if more were wanting, on her recovery her griefs reached their climax, by the discovery of the loss of her wedding-ring. A tribe of witnesses, eluding Miss Bella Levi, Miss Anna Nathan, Miss Phoebe Mt. Solomons, Mr. Lazarus, &c. were brought up on either stt!e, whose evidence, fairly silted, left it clear it was a fair stand-up fight, and both parties were bound over to preserve his Majesty's peace. THAMES POLICE. INIAraLArGHTER.—Robert Milne, boatswain of the Katharine Maria Forbes, was on Saturday last placed at the bar of this Office, before NV. J. BRODERI?, charged with the murder of John Skinner, the butcher of the same vessel to which the prisoner be longed.—lt appeared that on the 10th day of February Inst, she left St. Helena for this country, and about twelve o'clock of the same night, tke prisoner at the bar and Skinner had a dispute which of them had done his dut , bent on the voyage to St. Helena. Skinner asked the prLoner, in an a,..;gravating tone, " if he was his man ?" and the prisoner, without making any reply, struck Skinner a vio lent blow upon his cheeh kith a tin pot he held in his hand, and knocked hint down the tore-hatchway. Ile was picked up between decks, quite senseless, bleeding profusely, and expired upon the day followiug.—The prisoner was bully committed fur trial. A Gentleman passing Milford Church-yard a few days since, observing the sexton digging a grave, ad dressed him with—" Well, how goes trade in your line, friend?" " Very dcad, Sir r was the reply. COrt ONLVA WE hart already noticed the fatal occurrence which' took place on Wednesday lasi, upon a person named Perno, residing at Egham Hill, proceeding from Lon don in his one-horse chaise, accompanied by a female named Ruth Mat koul. Attempting to pass on the near side or Ilrown and Co.'s Wincanton aggon, he met with a reptthe from the driver, who drawing his fore•horse across the road, obliged Mr. P. to back his horse and pass on the other side. What the driver's object was does not appear, for no sooner had Mr. Perno reached the fore-horse on the other side, than the animal turned aside, in consequence of what is alleged to have been done by the driver, and became entangled in the har , he's of Mr. Perno's horse. The driver aware, it is said,: of the entanglement, still proceeded, and, in a short time the gig was upset. Mr. Perno and Mrs. Mackon were thrown out with, great violence, and the off wheel,' of the waggon passed over Mrs. Mackoul's head, and she died immediately. After the examination of Mr. Perno l the driver, Liam Perrin, was called in. lie said, Mr. Perno a :. tempted to pass the waggon, when he brought his horses no the near side: Mr. P. then we:a on tlie other side ; and came up to the heads of his horses, intending to drive him on the stones ; he apprehended danger, and gave them a cut with his whip ; they then went en a not, and he was unable to stop them. When he had got a short distance, he looked behind, and saw Mackoul lying in the road ; but did not return, appre hending there was no danger.—The Jury censured in the extreme, for his improper conduct, and proceeded to take a view of the body ; the spectacle it presented was distressing, it being impossible to distinguish a sin gle feature. The CORONER, after observing upon the regulation cf the left the case for the Jury's consideration, to Ear whether it was intentional or accidental. After a shot t consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of Plansleste ter against William Perritt, the driver grf the waggon. ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. Wednesday, the Rev. Charles Carr, Fellow of University Col lege, Oxford, was instituted to the Rectory of Fleadhourn Worthy, vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Allen. The Living is in the gift of that Society. The Rev. Charles Henry Lutwidge, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been collated to the Vicarage of Othery, Somer setshire, on the presentation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Duke of Portland has presented the Rev. George Smytl'e to the second charge of the Laigh Church of Kilmarnock, which had become vacant by the translation of Mr. Stirling to the Church of (...:alsten. His Majesty has appointed Mr. John Thomson, Preacher of the Gospel, assistant and successor to his father, the Rev. Anirew Thomson, Minister of Balmerino. 'lll,- Rev. William Simson, assistant to Dr. 11PCialloch, of Dair sie, has been elected Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Leith. Wynd, in the parish of Canongate. The Presbytery of Linlithgow have ordained the Rev. Graham Mitchell, A. M. Minister of that Church and Parish. The Rev. the Presbytery of Kincardine O'Neil nitt at Coul, on Wednesday the 31st ult. when the Rev. William Campbell was or. dained and admitted Minister of thxt I'arish, vacant by the death of the Rev. A. Brown. Rev. Edward Brown, M.A. and Student of Christ Church, has been presented to the Rectory of Sheering, in the county of Essex. Rev. Charles Wheeler, M. A. of Clitist Church, is appointed Chaplain of Merton College, in the room of the Rev. William Shatter, resigned. Tuesday, at a very full meeting of the 'Town Council, the Rev. Patrick M 4 Farlane, Minister of Polmont, was unanimously elected Minister of St. John's Church and Parish in Glasgow, vacant. by the translation of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers. DESTRUCTIVE AND ALARMING Fr RE.—About four o'clock yesterday morning, an alarming clic broke out in the premises of Mr. Smith, a bookbinder, in Albion buildings, Bartho:omew-close, and which, but ter the promptitude of the fire•engines, must have been most destructive to the whole neighbourhood. Mr. Smith carried on a large business as a bookbinder, and conse qnently his workshop and other premises were very ex tensive. The fire broke out in the shop, and from the combustible nature of the property and buildings, coin municated in a few minutes to thy back part of the va luable premises of Messrs. Merle and Co. (late Cox and Merle), gold and silver refiners, in Cox-court, Little Britain, as well as to the property of Mr. Pezoe, tl:e ar chitect, immediately a.fjoining, both of which have been severely damaged. Mr. Smith's own house .ind 14e mises are reduced to a heap of ruins, and the pro : .eity, to a large amount . , in books, completely demolished.— The fire then communicated to the houses of Mr. Ship ton (an industrious ticket•norter), and Mr. Ward, in Albion-buildingF, and in a short time they were wholly destroyed, without the inmates being enabled to save anything beyond their night-clothes. The wife of Mr. Shipton was only put to bed of her eighth child en Good Friday, and it was with difficulty that she and her young family escaped n ith their lives ; and so pe rilous was the situation of Shipton himself, in rescuing his family, that many drops of lead melted and fell on his head while engaged in this parental duty. BIRTHS. _ Thursday, at tipper Hardres, the Lady of the Rev. Edwin Sandy% of a daughter. In Cork, on the 12th instant, the Lady of Captain Ilyde, of the 96th Regiment, of a son. M A RRIF.D. Tuesday, at Lower Norton, Oxfordshire, the Rev. Thomas Rod dington, of Thorp Arch, Yorkshire, to Frances, youngest daughter of Mr. Boddington, of the former place. Wednesday, at Thornhant, Suffolk, John Ileaton, Esq. of PillE heaton, Denbighshire, to the Hon. Anne Fdiza Henniker, eluest daughter of Lord Henniker. After the ceremony, the bride and bridegroom left Major House, the seat of his Lordship, for Pia, heaton, North Wales. DIED. At Twickenham, on the 4.1 d instant, Richard Twining, Esq. aged 74. At Ll an and anorth, the Rev. John Evans, Vicar of Cardig Elan silio, Pembrokeshire, in his liXoth year. Rev. Isaac Johnson, Curate of Oldswinford, Worcestershire. In his s7:l year, the Rev. Thos. Jennings, Vicar of St. Peter's and St. Owen s, Hereford, and of Dormingtou, in that county. At 'l'rusthorpc, near Alford, Lincolnshire, the Rev. Jonathan Keightley, many years Rector of that place. Suddenly, after coining out of Church, on Sunday, the 11th inst. the Rev. John Griffith, aged 57, twesty•eight years Curate to the palish of Ilunderrow. Nov. 7, 1323, at Camp, near Deesa; Ensign Philip Parkhow, 2d Regiment Rombay Artny,Rsird son of the Late John Parkhouss, Esq. formerly of Wtsuninster. Last week, at the age of 104 years, George Williams, a lab: w ing man, of Weston-on-the-Green, Osford•::.re. He had formerly' lived in the service of Captain liertie, and *lace with Arthur An nesley, Esq. of Bletchington. 21.1 A I LS.-' A MIL DUI. 2 0 2 0 0 0 O 0 O 1 O 0 'HIS DAY. Dublin Waterrord Guernsey and Jersey Lisbon /I)Pa:hi Leeward Island France Hamburg Flanders Brazils Genera:Kash America Jibe pew. 1 0 1. O 1 O 0 o 0 1 0 1116 ti:W ATER at LON DOH-11a1D62 TO-.408.1WW. M.,114111( • 31 Ininutes atter 12 Attentoon • 5G rteriutes after 10 LONDON; rented and yublkhed by f.rest lirrT, licksw Temple-liar ~: .......• ...." 1 4- lui ,IMENNINI 1 M - tors. 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