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- wao. CoMposed in honour of the Most Illustrious Prineesse the lAdie Kreausant (Daly daugbter of JAMS! the Fran), afterwards Queen of Boarneta, who, from her amiable and engaging man ners, was called the' Queen of Mores.'" MARGATE, OCTuBEIt 22. No one can form an idea of the rude blasts which sweep the Northern Sea, and are felt here in their ut most severity : at this moment the sea is running moun tains high, and presents one of the most sublime objects imaginable ! The billows are dashing over the Upper and Lower Pier, and running in sheets to the bay below. At the opposite side of the harbour (the Canterbury road) the sprays ascend to the high houses, over the new stone quay, now forming from Buenas Ayres, to the Highostreet. At sea the sight is awful—the white foam, formed by numerous eddies, rises in many places a hundred feet in height. The hurricane from the N. W. is so great that, on the Eastern Cliff, it has torn off the parapet stones from many of the new houses. The men at tached to the signal stations have all quitted their posts on the Cliffs and gone b2low, the tide permitting. Two vessels are on the sands in the Queen's Channel but no boats can venture out. In a storm, this coast, all the 01 i seamen say, is worse than_ the Bay of Bi3cay, from its numerous sands and shoals. Previous to this change in the elements, the clouds }coked sulkily: it was in the evening of Tuesday that the thunder opened the storm, the lightning flashed, and the rain poured down in terrible and resistless tor rents. The cold increased to a degree equallei only by a Siberian climate. The trees have lost their verdure in a moment ; and winter seems completely set in. Two Whig Noblemen, connected with this county, have clubbed their purses, we hear. to assist in carrying Lord JOHN Ruissix, through the expected contest with Lord bLatanavitus, at the:text General Election.—Huntingdon Weekly Journal. The stages between Boston and New York, which took thirteen days on the first starting in 1772, now run it in ,hit ty-sis hours. 1 1 1:e extensive premises below Battersea Bridge,which a few years since when in the soap trade, occasioned so , much litigation, and were declared a nuisance to the in habitants of Chelsea, have remained in a neglected state till latterly, when they have been taken as a manufac-1 tory, where on Saturday, while a boiler for a steam engine was hoisted on a crane, it gave way, brought down part of the building, killed one man on the spot, and so injured another that his life is despaired of. Wednesday, the 12th inst. an Inquest was held at Holb-ach Move, on view of the body of Mr. H. Coul son, farmer. A singular coincidence attended his death. He was returning (tom DeepingFair, riding on a waggon laden with wood, and fell into a slumber, out of which he awoke with a shriek, greatly "terrified, saying he would not ride any further, for he had been dreaming that Mr. W. Blades, the driver, had overthrown the waggon, and killed him; and he remarked, it was for tunate it was not tie case; but after walking a short distance, he became weary, and got upon the waggon shalt to ride, when his dream was awfully verified ; he fell, and the wheels passing over his bAy, he was so seriously injured, that he survived the accident only a few hours. Ve; dict—Accidental Death. An unfortunate maniac of the name of Walker, be longing to Ayr, bas been wandering about Glasgow and vicinity fur some days. Ile was formerly in the Royal Artificers, and had fought in the battles of the Pyren. nean mountains; and it is recorded of him, that on one occasion he left his corps, and entered a French gir.rd room, with his pick and shovel on his back, to get his pipe lighted. The French expect:ng that the whole of the British army was coming upon them, immediately fled, and when our troops came up, instead of finding him killed as they expected, he was coolly smoking his pipe at - the fire-side, and had the whole pl ice to him self. After he came home, his mind became Xected ; and he escaped about three years ago. Ile has been wandering about the country ever since; and whenever he can find a fegiraetit he follows it—like the war horse, the sound of the trumpet re-animates him. DUBLIN, OCT. 'M.—Tuesday morning a murder was committed on the road from New-Inn to Caher, quite near to the gate leading to Oatragh, and close to the unhappy man's house.—The name of the unfortunate person is William O'Donnel, or Daniel, who was pro. scented for, and acqUitted of the murder of the Kin. nealys. Oa Monday he attended a Vestry under the Tithe Composition Bill, at New-Inn, where Dr. Bell attended on the occasion. After the business of the Vestry was terminated, it is, said that Dr. Bell gave the parishioners 30s. to drink, at th.t the decease) con tinued drinking till two o'clock on Tuesday mo ning ; when he and his servant lad, of the name of Carey, were returning home, they were met, at the place we have already stited, by six men, two of whom imme diately attacked the deceased N ith stones, and literally fumed one of them (which was a lime-stone with' a sharp edge) into his skull. As sow as the attack was made, the boy ran, and was pursued by some of the party, who repeatedly calied out to him to stcp, as it was impossible for him to escape from them, but he persevered, and happily gained his master's house. Having communicated the horrid business, t' e fiends of the deceased proceeded to the spot, and found the body in the gripe of the ditch, with the head forced into the ground and the stone sticking in the skull. Eat lyin the morning, John Wilcocks, k.sq. and a party of his mounted police, proceeded to the place, but no particulars as to the cause have transpired. WRITTEN lIT SIR Il CERT WETTING You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes, More by your numbers than your light— You common people of she What are yot when the Moon shall rise ? You violets which first appear, By these your purple mantles known, Much like proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own, What are you when the Rose is blown? You wandering chavnters of the wood, Who fill the cares with nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By weaker accents—what's your praise, When Pbllomel her voice dotk raise? So when my Princesse shall be seen, In sweetnesse of her lookes and minde, By virtue brat, then choice, a Queen, Tell me if she were not design' Th' eclipse and glory of her kind? poomponnue THE ORPHAN FAMILY OF THE LATE CAPTAIN JAMES meow. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sta—l am induced, from in the cause of humanity, to send you a most truly distressing case. The father of these children was an old Officer on the half-pay of the Royal i Marines, who had once a good estate in Kent, but which. from his tempest liberality, be mortgaged for 'hove f 20,000. The mon- I gagees sold the property for less than the mortgage. this hastened his end,and be died in March, 1823, leaving a widow with seven children totally destitute. The late Captain James Mackay, of the 70th Regiment, a brother to the father of these children, im mediately took the whole family under his protection, and with the assistance of a small subscription supported them. The widow soon after died of a broken heart, leaving these orphans to the care of their uncle (since which one child has also died). This truly good mati(who had nothing but his pay to live on) was a father to them ; but. alas! worn out with disappointment, analety, and grief, about the future provision of these orphans. he died at Winchester on the 6th of July last. By his death these six. children (four girls and two buys) are left without any means of support. With a view to save these poor orphans from a worse fate. Sir J.Cockburn, Bart. the Rev. Archdeacon' Cambridge, and myself, have undertaken to do the best we can for them, and our names have also appeared as trustees, &c. for any money which may be collected for them. The father of these children went to balf.pay at his own request, by which act, be deprived his family of any benefit from the pen sion lime The grandfather was a very old OBicer, and served in the battles in the first American war, and died Fort Major of Til. bury, and also the father, with his five brothers, all died holding commissions in his late and present Majesty's service, two of whom were kill -.d in action, and a third died of fatigue. These roar orphans are left to the charity of the humane and affluent. Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Hammenley. of Crails-court,Charing.croas, have most kindly cooseuted to receive subscriptions, as have also Messrs. Hatchard and Son, 167, Piceadilly,and Messrs. Rivingtons, Waterloo-place. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, THOMAS VALIANT, Lieutenant-Colonel. Bath, October 20, 1825. Some French, Italian, and Flemish Artists visited Greenwich Hospital last week, and were very much struck with the paintings lately put up in the hall of that building, Some of them are well worthy of at tention. It is not one of the least curious circumstances of our times that this country possesses not only the greatest collection of fine pictures, bat the only school' of painting, worth mentioning, in the present age. Things have much changed since Winckelman declared that the arts could not thrive in so northern a regions GAME CZETIFICATES.—An article has appeared in most of the Irish rewspapets, copied, we apprehend, from some English paper, stating, that by the Act of the 54th Gen. 111. cap 141, any person may aid or assist in killing game, provided it be done in the presence or company of a person who shall duly have obtained a certificate in his own right. This article has caused a great deal of misunderstanding amongst the sporting classes in Ireland. 'We are therefore authorized officially to set the public right upon this subject. The Act al luded to is one made - to alter the English Excise Act, of the 52d Geo. 111. cap. 93, which had subjected every person aiding and assisting in killing same to the ne cessity of obtaining a game certificate. The 54th Geo. l 111. cap. 141, merely repeals the duty upon persons aiding and assisting, provided it be done in the company and for the use of a person who has obtained a certifi cate, and uses his own dog and gun. But neither of the Acts mentioned relate to Ireland. 1 hey are exclu sively British Excise Acts. In Ireland, under the 56th l, Geo. 111. cap. 100, every person using a dog or gun for killing game—no matter whether in the company of a licensed person or not, or for his use or not—is subject to a penalty of £2O, if he has not obtained a game certificate.—Dublin Evening Mail. Inquests were held in this county on the bodies of no less than seven persons who terished in one day from' excessive heat, on Tuesday, the 22d of last July. This, circumstance became known at passing the Coroner's ac- counts at the Sessions on Tuesday.—Shrewsbury Chron. At a dinner given by the MaTon of Lynn, on the 29th ult. Mr. COKE said, that advanced as he was in years, and being decidedly a domestic man, he should b : happy to retire from the turmoil of public life; and if any Gentleman of staunch Whig principles would offer, himself as a candidate to the elect-rs of the county of Nor folk, he should h 'ye his decided support; but ra ther than a Tory should be brought in, he wculd remain till death At his post. Tuesday, Mr. C. GREEN made his promised ascent from Richmond Castle, in YoiksLire, about half-past one o'clock in the afternoon ; a vast concourse of spec tators was collected. A brisk gale from the westward drove the balloon with great rapidity in the direction of Cleveland. He effected his descent the same day, about two, P.m near Trafford Hill, four miles west of Yarrn, and 16 from Richmond; but owing to the vio lence of the wind, the balloon escaped from him. A little beyond the turnpike-gate between Yarm and Stockton, it came nearly to the earth, but afterwards rose again, and entered a dark cloud, where it was lost ,sight of: it was again seen for a short time, at a great elevation, and going rapidly towards the German Ocean. AMERICA N OFFICIAL COSTUME.—Governor DESNA ; of Kentucky, does not walk out unarmed, and has re. cently given much offence, by appearing at Church with a huge pair of horse pistols stuck in his belt, after the manner rf Paul Jones in battle.— American Paper. A CA ullost —Wee men have lately been travelling in different parts of the country, offering for sale shawls and handkerchiefs, Eating them to be manufactured from camel's hair. They re:l them from 15s. to 20s. each, though not worth more than three shillings. A PLUKA usr.—A Limerick Paper records the death of a Rev. Gentleman who was Rector of Kilcely, Kilu rane, Kilcoury, Kilnec, Kiifenaghty, Tomfealogh, Clonloghar, Bunratty, Fenogli, and Kilmurynegaul ! No wonder that among so many kils he should come by his death; but it is rather extraordinary that each of them should have afforded hint a living I immure sy Ma. CAINIS, OF LANGFORT....Satur• day sennight, on the body of James Gibbs, of Bishop's Lydeard, aged 56, who was found drowned in a pool opposite the Garden of the King's dribs Inn, at North -town, Taunton. Deceased kft a party, with which he had been spending a social evening in this town, at a little after twelve, and the bone, in his impatience to drink , it is supposed, rushed into the water, and, unseating his rider, occasioned him to fall into the water, where he was suffocated. Verdict, " Accidentally Drowned."—on Thursday, at Bdington Heath, en a child, named Jane Trott, aged two years, who, having strayed from her parents was found d i rt/wind in a ditch. Verdict, " Accidental Death."—(hi Friday, at Ham, on Thomas Farrow, aged 42, who, while in a cider-house (being subject to fits) fell into a vat of apple-juice and was found drowned. Verdict," Acciden tal Death."—On the , same slay, on the body of Susan Pavey, a child about three years of age, the daughter of a widow merlon*, St. Nicholas, near Chard, who, on the preceding Monday, having been left alone by her mother for a short time, it is supposed, while in the act of roasting apples, approat.herl so near the tire as to ignite her apparel. The little creature was so much burnt. that she ex pired in the course of the evening. Verdict," Accidental Death." —[lt is a singular coincidence, that, on the same day, and about the same hour, the :Above accident took place, a child, also the daughter of a widow, should have been burnt to death, almost under similar circumstances, at Stockland, a village not more than six miles from Uoome St. Nicholas.] J. Singleton, who rode Lerd Rockingham's filly by Sampson, when she won the first Doncaster St. Leger, in 1771. is still alive —a resident in Chester workhouse, and still adverts with great glee to his feats ofjockeyship. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. On crossing Bailin's flay, the passage of the Hecla and Fury was so much interrupted by ice, that they were fifty-eight daye in get ting through Bee hundred smiles of clo.e packed ice.—On the iltb of September, last year, they reached Lancaster &unit, and in pass ing up Barrow's Straits, a continuance of calm frosty weather al lowed the young ice to form, so that at first the progress of the ships was greatly impeded, and at last stopped. • l'hey kept struggling until the 21st of September, endeavouring to get on, when all further progress appeared spas, d for that season, the a, s pearance of the land and severity of the weather indicating the near approach of winter,• when Captain Furry deemed it advisable to look out for some secure spot for the ships th winter in. A small hay on the South aide of Barrow's Strait promised shelter ; but soon as the people had commenced cutting a c.trial, the current set into the Bay and drifted the ships and ice nut again. A succession of strong easterly gales, with damp weather, cleared the Strait of ice, and enabled the ships to proceed without interruption to Regent's Inlet, and on the 27th September they arrived at Port Bowen, where they passed the winter of 1324. This dreary srason was passed on smoothly and quietly, the ships' companies h r iog amused by reading., scenic representations, and now and then hunting a bear. On the return of the son they employed themselves seeking for minerals, &c. The spring brought birds and plants, which afforded constant em ployment en the Officers in preparing such specimens as had been collected, for conveyance to Etigland ; and although the place was barren and dreary in the extreme, still considerable amusement was afforded thereby, until the ships were enabled to move again. In the early part of July last the ice cleared away fr.:in the mouth of the Inlet, and on the 20th the ships got out, all the crew in good health, except one case of scrofula, which ultimately proved fatal, and one man (seaman) fell into a hole in the ice and was drowned. The earliness of the season, the rapid breaking up of the ice, and the continued good health of the crews of the ships, promised a favourable summer for their operations, and so raised were the hopes of all that success would be cemplete, when, unfortunately within ten days after their departure from the ice, whilst working down the west shore of Itegent'slnlet, the ice drove the Fury against the shore and injured her bottom so much that after great exertions to release her, Captain Parry gave directions that the crew should move into the Hecla with so much stores, Sec. as could be stowed away, and finally determined to return to England. The passage homeward was tedious and rather stormy, and the Hecla met no thing but three Greenland ships among the ice. None of the letters yet received from the ships say that any human beings were seen, or that much additional information had been gained. POLICE IN! ELLIGEA CB. MANSION-HOUSE- Yesterday, a Gentleman applied at the Mansion-house for infor mation in what manner to proceed against-one of the Companies which have had their short career in the Stock Market? He had - purchased a great number of shares in the Company, the prospectus of which promised wonderful things; and believing it to be a really good concern, in consequence not only of the written assurances of its high respectability, but of verbal recommendations given by the Directors, he intended to make an investment. A considerable period elapsed, during which he had employed himself in enter taining the mast lively hopes of success. Finding, however that the very name of the Company was matter of doubt end curiosity, soon after the " rig" in the market bad terminated, and that the shares were not saleable except at a heavy discount. he thought proper to make some inquiry at the banking-house where the depo sits bad been paid. Ile there received information which induced him to sand the following ease to an eminent Counsel for his opinion. " A. B. purchased 100 sl!ares in a Company, established under the accompanying prospectus. [The prospectus enumerates the most splendid advantages, and mentions the names of several Di rectors]. The Directors state their capital to be 200,0001. in 4,000 shares of 501. each. Only one•half of so many shares have been taken up. The Company are prosecuting their objects upon such small deposits as have already been paid (21. per share), their deed of settlement is preparing, and when approved by the Directors, will be required to be executed by the shareholders; and a further call of 21. per share will he immediately made; and if the deed is not executed and the call paid, the deposit of 21. will be forfeited. Your opinion is requested, whether, under the above circum stances, the Directors are justified by law in prosecuting the ob jects of the Company upon SO 'Mail a capital, without the con sent of the shareholders ? If not, what course the shareholders should adopt to obtain a return of the deposits already paid? Opinion—" I think that the Directors will not be justified in pro ceeding to effect the objects of the Company until all the shares have been purchased ; and though a bill in equity may in stri.:tness ' be necessary, yet I am inclined to recommend an action of assump sit for money had and r, ceived, to recover the money from the persons who now hold the same." The following case was then submitted : _ _ '• Whether, if should be proved that the Company have not commenced business, the shareholders have not a right to claim a return of the deposits, by an attachment in the Lord Mayot's Court?" Opinion—" I think the shareholders may, if a reasonable time for disposing of all the shares has elapsed, claim a return of their deposits ; and supposing the same are in the bands of persons in the City, they may proceed by attachment." The Gentleman who submitted those questions for the considera• tion of Counsel, asked whether there was not a more summary mode of proceeding by which a man might regain his property than that recommended by Counsel? and whether the Lord Mayor would have any objection to summon the bknkers to account for detaining money to which they bad no claim, and which bad been obtained under 110 other titan false pretences by the Directors of the Company? Alderman Taoist, who sat for the Lord Mayor, said he be lieved the Directors might be proceeded against for the amount of the deposits, if it appeared to be improbable that the Company could proceed in the speculation upon ts hid) such praises had been bestowed; but he did not think the case was one in which the Chief Magistrate could interfere. Ile thought, in fact, that the case would be likely to meet with a satisfactory arrangement, if left to the opinion and care of Counsel. The applicant said he had three prospectuses, each of which con. tained a efistige of names in the direction, or, that he did not know upon which to fix as responsible persons. He I.ressed very hard for a summons to the bankers, but the application was refused, the Alderman, however, leaving it to the Gentleman's choice to appeal to the Lord Mayor. GUILDHALL J. Engin, a journeyman carpenter, was charged with stealing fourteen sovereigns. About five months ago he was called in to repair a cowshed belonging to Mrs. Wallis ' a widow, with four children, in Hill-street, Walworth. From the conversation that , passed, he was thereafter received by the widow as an ardent admirer. Monday se'nnight he fell on his knees before her, and called Goo to witness the warmth of his passion. He said he wanted her to go with him to the country to keep a little ale-house, with a few acres attached;, that be had.,C395 in the Bank, which he would sell on the following day; that be wanted to borrow ten pounds to get some papers out of a lawyer's bands in the Temple, and, taking the ring off her finger, said he would get a better for her by Wednesday, when they would be merited by license. She consented to marry him, and to lend hint the ICIO, and they set off at nine o'clock next morning for the Temple. At the Prince of Wales. Prospect-place, he called for a box, which, he said, contained seen worth of clothes • and at the Feathers, in Temple-lane, he took the money front her pocket, against her will, saying, that it would look so odd to see a woman pay, but that he would bring the writings and the Lawyer's Clerk to her. He went out, and returned not; and, after waiting several hours, she re turned home and examined the box, which contained merely an old frying-pan, the cheek of a grate, old shoes, he. By the aid of a friend, she discovered that he had a wife and seven children, but was cohabiting with another woman at Eynsford, where be was apprehended. The prisoner declared the widow bad given him the moncy ; but the Alderman committed him for trial. BOW-STREET. Gams Laws.—A person named Pierce, the • bailiff of a man named Demie, appeared before Sir R. Bums, to an information filed by Boyce Combe, Esq. for keeping a setting dog, for the pur pose of destroying game, not being authorised so to do. The ca.e I proved by the informant and a man named Nichle, the owner of the ground on which the dog was seen, was this ;—On the 11th day of October, these two persons, Combe and Nickle, were in the field of the latter, when they heard a shot fired. They proceeded towards the spot, where they perceived the defendant and a young Gentleman, named Deleroix, with guns in their hands, and two pointers beating up the field ; this was the offence imputed. The defendant said, he had the gun in his hand, for destroying crows and other birds of that description ; but the dogs were not his property. Sat lt. litmus said, the dogs were then used by him, and there fcire he must be accountable for that conduct.—He was accordingly fined live pounds, and 7s. costs. Mr. Detest* then appeared to the information of the same mane `for being conottned skrith the last detenciant dogs sir w ß i w th m ou An t D atu ßtna h m ority. This ease was pro then looking at the Att ander waiii 4 ' it formation had taken place, said, be aloft be th e son oi lt Esl a u C ir a e Ptai ll n, i r s n le t ad he s tKoinag's strangei anomal y not m anomaly inth l eia e w nt l itl 6lr etl l to lit tl The 1: cue o: so h ceseuciiedrbg:twaho appearedodyet h with w. issonmay m . Dekroo:ls.irtildi;ictiwki amount of fortune would constitute an Esquire, then eert a i n i 7 l tt : father of the young gentleman, now before to ought to be one, (or, to. my certain knowledge, he is is there ci • ottrerge:A 3.0001. and 4,0001. a year. Condit., the informer, with a jeering grin: Haht-3, 0004 4,0001. a yeat; that it a very good income f or a perfumer. - Sir R. litaim—Why, Sir, a respectable tradesman, in the N., turnery bpsinels,.may easily be in the receipt of between 444 ne an s d se aC: w ,T i t c ) i a l .y i e c a o r u . ld i m h e e n re tioi, a r e i bouthtelr will so nen ns , in who other aktmherlargebz per annum (the Worthy Magistrate might mean the Reese„ business). Mr. Delcroie—l think, Mr. Nickle, this is a very unkind Fee seeding of your's. My father has long intended to become Tw i n e , and I thought he had.—But iu the life=time of ylit:t oo r t e ß n. had leave to shoot on those gr:ntalds when you had not. [ h ue seen you hunting over them when I might have warned you thiolt it was very unkind and very ungentlemanly of you. Comb:—That is very improper language. No Graham ca l stand by and hear such language used to MS friend without re, et . ing it ; for my own part I have no he•itation in v.ying, that if were alongside of you, and you used such language, I would koca t i you down ; it is calculated to proLluce a breach of the pure. Sir 11. Boung—lt is, indeed, Str. I must tel you, %tr,c .crnb . , this is not a Court of Honour. If we were to pi e v e:l u , should have enough to do. Mr. Delcroix--011, Sir Richard, make yourself perferly cuy ni that point, he has already &hewn the white feather. There b fear of duelling from him. The defendant was then fined Al aid the costs, and the partici left the office. )1 A RLBO ROI/ G H-STREET. A fashionably-dressed person, named jerentiah charged with grossly assaulting a female named Taylor. Th e cm . plainant and her husband were returning home along King.tuot, Mrs. Taylor was a short distance before her husband, when tle defendant accosted her, and notwithstanding she was far atlnatti in pregnancy, he assaulted her in a very indelicate manner. li t then refused to leave her, on which she slapped his face, and h e struck her. Mr. Taylor consented to receive the defendant's:Ts. logy; but Mr. Roe, the Magistrate, told him, that he ought not be satisfied with an apology, and that it was very disgraceful any man to insult a female who was left alone a few minutes in tie streets. Mr. Taylor immediately expressed his intention tops coed, and the dcfendantewas lucked up till he could procure bail QUEEN-SQUARE. John Ryan was charged with threatening to shoot two of tk Bovr.str eet Patrol, named Warren and Evans. The patrol lan the prisoner on the road near Waiham-green, at twelve o'clock it night; he was lying on the foot-path, huddled up in a great colt; he had a large stick, which contained a dirk about a foot longonl under his great coat was concealed a pistol. The officers min. vonred to secure him, when the prisoner cocked his pistol and LB preparing to are, but the (Akers rushed on him, and took bim imo custody. In his defence, he said he was a watchman to a market. gardener, but that being found to ►e incorrect, he was remanded. UNION-1-1 A LI. Among the disorderlies brought before the Magistrates, yaw* Mr. Jones, a respectable tailor, who, for being drunk and nokiiv a disturbance, was placed in the watch-house. Mr. Jon;, had dined on boa rd a vessel lately arrived from the West Indies, and he became intoxicated with new rum. He contrived to walk from the Docks into Tooley.street, and there be fell down at a public.house door. It appears that Mr. Jones was well dressed, bad plenty of money in his pocket. and a watch and seals. Th thieves taking advantage of his intoxication, took him up an o scure turning, where they entirely stripped him, and dressed bin in some of their old rags. On awaking he was surprised to Pad that his clothes were very tight, but on examining his person by the light of the gas lamp, he found that his superfine black coat was exchanged for a common frieze jacket, buttoned up to the neck, that squeezed him almost to death, with the cuffs half way up the arms, and both his elbows out. His black clods trowseri were exchanged for a pair of tight snuff-coloured wonted mats loons; and instead of his Wellington boots, be had ou a paird high lace shoes, studded with nails. Mr. Jones made so mat noise when he discovered his metamorphosis, that the comile was obliged to lock him up in the watch-house. His appemen at the office excited great laughter. For the offence of best drank he was fined Ave shillings. AdIV/Lli DISCOVERED ISLANDS.—OUT Corresporalert at Port Praya has communicated to us the followug extract of a letter from Captain JOHN MITCHELL, dated on board the Bahia Packet, of Liverpool, of Port Praya, on the llth of June-14 I tailed from Nev California on the 28 h September, 1323, destined for Rio de Janeiro and Liverpool ; on the 28th Novembr, in lat. 31. 25. S. long. 103. 15. W. per chronometer, per sun and moon 129.27. W. fell in with a group of Islands apparently large, bearing by compass ESA: which are not laid down on any chart yet publi:hed. On the 15th November, 1 sent my boat on shore to the Island of Gambia; on the 16th, saw the Island of Cie. dent, and on the 20th, 'passed I'itcairn's Island to the Westward, and on the 24th fell in with the group of Islands mentioned, but being on monthly charter, could not delay to explore them."—Boston (New Est land) Patriot. NRIVOATR LRADRNIPALL MARKETS, Om 24. Beef... ls 64 to 41 Od Veal Ss 84 to Ss 41 Mutton ........ Ss 44 to 4s I Poik 4s Od to Ss 4d PRICES or HAY * ST. JAMSS'S. Hay 3114 s Od to St Ss O Clover 4117. 6d to 61 6s Od Straw 11 12s Od to 21 6s 6cl ITR A W YESTERDAY. wurrecuaret. Hay 31 101 to 51 Ot ti Clover 41 Os to 61 601 &raw 11 16s to 21 oci OF HOPS PRICE NEW POCKETS. Kent Sussex Essex 380 s to 440 s 540 s to 390 s 380 s to 430 s PRICE or TALLOW, Town Tallow 479 Od Yellow Russia ... White ditto maw Mos. Kent Sties to 40 Sussex Essex Soap ditto Melting Stuff ... ...... ' SOAP, Ste. per 112.10 Yellow Soap Mottled .. .... ....... Curd Graves SU el Good Dregs LEATHER. - Pit OF Best Dressing Hides l9d to 2114 Common Ditto l5O to Ind Crop Hides, 35 to 381bs for cutting Ditto 40 to 451bs l7d to 19d Calf Skins, 35 to 401bs l6d to 274 Ditto 45 to 551bs Ditto 55 to 7Slbs ..... ..... . Small Seals, Greenland)......... Tanned Horse Hides l2d to 15d Spanish Horse Hides l3d to 18d RAW HIDES Best Heifers and Steers (per Ordinary .. es 44 to 1$ li stone) addlimp— 2s ad to Sts 10d _...... BElt 24. Price. 35s 0:1 to 4310 i 35s Od to 40 6d IS DA I. ♦{M DI Francs 1 ° Hamhurgb 0 I Flanders 0 ° Buenos Ayres 0 0 America 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 0 COAL MARKKT, OCTOI Ships at Market. Ships Sold. 71 & Newcastle 521 361 Sunderland 361 SAILS-' Aim .1311. 2 0 I 4 0 Dublin Waterford atomise,' sad Jersey II 0 Lisboa 0 0 Gottenburgh 0 1 Malts 0 0 Holland 1 0 HIGH-WATER it LONDON-BRIDGE TO.MORBOW . Morning • 59 minutes after 1 Afternoon • • 2 minutes after 2 Lotupos Awed and Publitheel by J. F. Faux, at the &fit One s - _ No. I , Ptekett-Plare, Teinfle.liar ~.~. ~e.:~sc ~~ evi adi alr ligi the ■ PW JP mi of cei me gr: bo Ca So he Ite lt.