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AN OCCASIONAL ADDRESS. WRITTEN BY MU. TRELWALL, SL) SPOKEN BY SIR. ABBOTT, AT 'COTINT-GAILDEN THEATRE, 011 TUESDAY EVENING, PREVIOUS 7'o THE PERFORMANCES IN AU) OF Sili " SUBSCRIPTION ros THE DESTITETZ AND HOUSZLESS." Ask you where most Barramna's glory shines? 'Tis not in treasures of her Indian mines; ICJ[ that her flag, by Narruus's self unfurl'd, Wafts her proud Commerce o'er the admiring World; "Ds not that, thund'ring o'er the fields of war, BRLLONA like, she drives her conquering car ; 'Tis not that Arts and Science o'er her Isle Diffuse the lustre of their radiant smile ; Nor that the Muse, upon the rolls of fame Inscribes a MILTos and a Spassresac's name! No, all that valour, wealth, and genius boast, In one bright glory of her reign is lost; For what are valour, genius, wealth, and fame, The Vittor's laurel, or the Poet's name, Or all on Glory's record e'er imprest, 'fa the bright sunahine of the feeling breast! 0! blest Benevolence, when urg'd by thee, To healing acts of heav'n-born CHARITY? BRITANNIA ! yes—tho' tis thy splendid boast, 'I" have seen thy banner wave on ev'ry coast— Thro' the four quarters of the world to have heard Thy accents echo'd and thy power rever'd:- -- On Glory's plain tho' high thy trophies rise In pyramidal triumph to the skies, Yet HEAv's's own trumpet shall titre Time proclaim Thy social virtues brighter than thy fame; This the fair field in which, almost divine, Thy honour, name, and praise, unrivall'd shine ! Is there a suff'rance in this world of woe Disease inflicts, or helple s man can know, For whi,:h thy healing hand and fost'ring care Has not been prompt the baßain to prepare? Turn were we wit!, the rising domes we see, And open doors of sacred CHARITY ! The ag'd, the lame, the speechless, and the blind, Youth, atrength, sight, voice, in thy protection find! • Disease and Want the pallid look forego, And, ft mu thy healmg bounty, learn to glow! When, clad in storms, the Giants of the Frost Condense the waves, gild stride from coast to coast, O'er realms aghast the dark'ning tempest roll, Aid brliig the Nations nearer to the Pole, — While 611'e/ring Want and houseless Nakedness Shrink from tha bias, in agonized distress, Direct to HEAV'N the half congealing eye, And wily ask the direful boon—to die ; to mitig..te tit' inclenient rage, And dark Dasisair's excruciate pang assuage, The b1e1t . :111,3 dome, tile cheering hearth provide, And bid the agonies of wart subside? Ole! still the glories of this race pursue, And keep the brightest goal of IIF.AV'N in view ! Let Ocean's Queen the Ocean's wealth dispense In CII A RITY's divine munificence: To hottseless Want her shelt'ring care impart And clasp the social virtues to the heart ! And tho' those social virtues must claim 19 , w l'utron lees, among the first in name, Let mourning myriads mingle with the tear Which strong emotion shed; upon his bier ; Whose gen'rous aim to emulate his worth, The ample soul gave lustre to his hitch, And made hint first—divine Philanthropy! In ev'ry patriot till devis'd by thee ! POLICE. THE PATENT TUE 1T11!.:,3 .142A1NAT THE ROYAL COBOt; ItO 'I! I EATR E. all V. GLOSSOP. Yesterday, being the day apprinted, by' a.ljourn trent, to hear the lnformation, at the instance of the secretary of the Dan y-Lane Theatre Committee, for penalties against Mr. Glossop, the Proprietor of the Royal Cohourg Theatre, for infringing his License, by enacting at that Theatre a modified performance of the Tragedy of B;eiiard 111. the defendant, at tended by his Counrel, Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. Dowe LINO, appeared before. the Sitting Magistrates, at, Union-liall, for the purpose of meeting the charge,' when it was discovered that the Information bad been withdi awn, without any reason assigned. The Informer's Counsel, Messrs. F. PoLLocfc and Mr. TurtroN, were not in attendance, but his Solici tor, Mr. BURGESS, appeared, and stated Lis regret that the Learned Counsel on the other side should have had the trouble of attending, as notice had been sent to Messrs. Roomts and Sot:, the Solicitors for Mr. Glossop, that the information had been with drawn, and that it would he unnecessary for them to appear pursuant to the adjournment. Mr. Ariouotes and Mr. DowuNo urged, that the circumstance of such notice having been sent, was no reason why they should not appear, pursuant to' the adjournment, the object of which appearance was to meet the Information, if it mild be sustained, and if not, to have a verdict of acquittal recorded. They complained in strong terms of the uncandid manner in which the Information had been with drawn during the interval of an adjournment—the necessary inference from which was, that the parties at whose instance the Information was lodged, were conscious of the injustice and unpopularity of the step they had-taken, so prejudicial to the interests of Mr. Glossop. The defendant having appealed to the Information, he was entitled to have an acquittal en tered upon the record, and they now prayed that the Information might be dismissed, as the prosecutor did not think proper to come forward. The Sitting Magistrates said, they could have no thing to say to the business, inasmuch as the Infor mation had been wholly withdrawn on Tuesday, and as there was nothing upon which they could pro ceed, the presence of the Learned Counsel was quite unnecessary. It was the ordinary and every day practice to lodge Informatiims under penal Statutes, and withdraw them at the will of the parties ,preise. eating. Such was the present instance, and there! was no precedent which justified the defendant in baring an acquittal recorded. In fact, there was no information now before the Court. Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. DOWLING reprobated the practice alluded to, as higly injurious to the charac ter of persons who might be subject to malicious and unfounded accusations. In the present instance, Mr. Glossop had been subjected to a charge highly inju rious to kis property—he bad appeared to the charge `with a:manful determiaatiaa.ot muting it, and after ' the expense, inconvenience; and trouble to which he - had been put, he had much season to complain . of • the uncandid course which the business had taken. The Magistrates repeated what the practice of the Office was, and that. they had now.no Information before them on • which they could act, one way or the other. Mr. BURGESS - the Solicitor, then lodged another Information,. of the like nature, but containing other allegations, and it is understood that the case will come on for argument on Wednesday, 9th February. The Counsel and the parties then retired. The Office was crowded to excess by persons anxious to -hear the decision of a case. in which the Public feel . ing is so much interested. Robberies at the Fire in Blarkfriars-Road.—George Jennings and John Henry, coal. heavers, were charged by Cooper, a Parish Constable with committing a robbery at the house. of Mr. John Cleves, Pawn broker, corner of Edward-street, Blackfriar's•road, during the time the premises were on fire, on Tues day night last. Cooper stated, that on the above night, about half-past nine o'clock, he was at his hotise in Cross-street, Blackfriar's-road, and heard an alarm of " Fire !" He hastened to the spot, and raw the attic story of Mr. Cleves' house on fire. Mr. Cleves and some of his neighbours were rendering assistance to save the property ; he (witness) assisted in removing a ,great deal of property to a neighbour's house. Seeing such a number of gangs of notorious thieves before the house, some of which rushed in up to the first floor, in spite of every exertion of himself and his brother Constables, he was compelled to leave the property, to assist the Constables and Watchmen (about 40 of whom were present) to form a ring round the premises. The line was frequently broken by the thieves, who knocked the watchmen and con stables down. Two or 3(X) pickpockets were aloongst . the crowd, and .every weld' essed person was hustled and robbed in the most open manner. He saw the prisoners pushing about at the time Mr. Cleves and his friends were throwing property through the se- cond.floor front window, to save it from conflagra tion ; the prisoners picked up each several bundles, and put them under their coats and ran off through the crowd, towards Blackfriars Bridge; he pursued them with several -watchmen, and secured them.— Upon searching them, he found two bundles of pro perty on each of them (witness produced the bundles, to which duplicates were affixed), aad conveyed-then' • to the watch-house. Ames Adrims, a coal-heaver, was also brought be ' fore the Magistrate, by Mr. Trough ton, the Beadle of Christ Church, charged with committing a robbery in Mr. Cleves house, during the fire. Mr. Trough ton said, he believed more property was stoles than destroyed lay the File. He caught the prisoner un ning off with a bundle, to vhich a duplicate was pinned, which had the name Cloves, Mad:friars road," printed thereon:—Theprisonel s were remanded for re-examination on Wednesday next, when the - Magistrate told them they might expect to be fully committed to take their trial. The Constable sated, that S'r Thomas Wilson and his Lady were raising while the lire:men W'i.e nlat iiig their engines on the flames, when they .were stir ounded by a gang of thieves, men and womeii, who hustled them. Sir Thomas was robbed of his pocket honk, contaiming Bank notes, memorandums, &c. and a valuable watch, chain,'seals, &c. Mr. .)loore, auctioneer, of Illackfriarsroad, while aisistiag to remove sortie of Air. - Cleves's pr. pert , was hastit:d, and the side pocket of his coat was cur across the bottom, and a pocket-book, containing Bank Of England notes to the amount of 00, and valnahle memorandums, was 'stolen. MaNsios HousE.--Captain Cuthberson, of a merchantman in race Thames, sunumnied a lighter man, named llouroe, before the LORD MAYOR. yes terda.y, under the following peculiar circumstances: —The Captain said, that during the late very incle ment weather, he vas lying blocked up by the ice in the Thames. When the frost began to break up, and the ice and sr,ow drifted with irresistible f:-,rce, he was compelled to cut away his anchor, slip his cable, and rua down the River. In the .interim, be fore he brought-to again, his anchor,' &c. had been hauled np by the defendant, and for which he claimed a compensation of 1:23, and refused to deliver up the property until that sum was paid. He (the cm plaimmt) leskted this, upon the grounds, first, that he had not employed the de!endant to do the labours and next, that. if he had even done so, the charge was enormous.—The defendant, in reply, said, that the charge was not 'only not enormous, but most reasonable. The anchor of the complainant, toge ther *ith many others, had got'bedded in the River, and the labour to raise them was indescribable: the anchor also, and the apparatus attached to it, were greaser in magnitude than the others, and the task ‘N as of course the more formidable. The weight of the anchor was 1,00-t pciunds, the cable was from 60 to 70 fathoms in length, and the chain GO fathoms. The allowance for labour of this description also was in general estimated by the value, and one-third was uniformly paid. Here the anchor and apparatus were at least worth 4.320, and his legal demand, therefore, might have been for -.CIO. Mr. Nelson, the Deputy Water Bail:ff, being in the Justice Room, the LORD Mayon consulted with him, and be confirmed the account given by the dein-, dant, of an allowance of one-third being paid for' Arch labour as had been done . by him. The LORD MAYOR, under these circumstances, thought the demand of £25 just and reasonable, and dismissed the complaint of the Captain. Bourne' then declared, that he would keep the an chor until paid; or, if the Captain chose, he was ready to meet him in a Court of Law. Gultbnam..—John Canning, an Irish labourer, was yesterday brought to the Office, upon a charge exhibited against him by Duncan Campbell, Esq. of the following nature:—Mr. Campbell stated, that he was one of the Committee for Affording Temporary Relief and Shelter to the Houseless and Destitute, at London-wall. On Tuesday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, while the Committee were engaged in relieving the poor applicants, the prisoner, at the head of about 150 others, btirst in the doors, and caused a great riot and confusion. Large sums of n:oney were lying upon the tables, and, fearing, an attack on these, witness rushed forward, and with a stick beat off the foremost of the intruders. The pri soner received some more severe blows than he (Mr. Campbell) could have wished to inflict; but the dread • • of losing the storey, and the fait of having cfiseo-. vexed two notorious pickpockets secreted in the room where the money lay, justified him, he thought, in resisting the outrage and intrusion of so large sr body of persons. He did not attribute any dishonest mo- . tive to the prisoner; and he would not shrink fr om the investigation, if the latter thought he had be 'hayed illegally or cruel towards him. Mr. Alderman THORP ' the Sitting Magistrate, thought the conduct of Mr. Campbell not only jus tifiable, but even laudable. R. Willis said, he was door-keeper at the Institu-, tion on the occasion in question. It was the rule not to softer more than three persons to enter the room for relief at any one time. Orr Tuesday evening, this order' was broken with great violence, and the prisoner, with about one hundred and fiity other's, overpowered him, and rushed in. Mr. Campbell said, he' did not seek the punish ment of the poor man. He had already suffered a good deal in the loss of his relief money, his supper, and a good lodging. All he had got for his impru dence was a night's imprisonment. 'The disorder, however, of which he (Mr. Campbell) complained, was of such a nature, that if net'checked,.the objects of the Charity must be defeated. The prisoner said, that he was a poor labourer, having a wife and four children dependant upon him, and had been without employment since Christ mas. lie declared his innocence,' and said he was shoved in by other persons. The Magistrate regretted the imprudence which had led him to so much suffering anti imprisonment, and hoped he would learn to conduct himself better. Mr. Campbell, and the other humane Gentlemen as sisting him, ought to be protected is the great good they were doing, and he would advise them to apply to the Lord Mayor, as head of the Institution, for his aid and advice.—The prisoner was discharged. MANCHESTER, JANUARY 24. SALFORD SESSIONS. Mr. WILLIAMS, as soon as the Chairman came into Court this morning, pressed for thesappointment of NVednesday and Thursday for the misdemeanours which were of a more public nature than other mis demeanours in the calendar. _ • The CHAIRMAN refused to fix any time, till the felonies should be disposed of; and assigned as a rea son, that it would be hard upon persons who might be acquitted, to be in Confinement till the end of the Sessions, which might not he till next week. The trial of one felony occupied the Court till four o'clock. Lletiry Lancaster, aged 6'2; Robert Walker, aged 30; Jonas Lancashire, aged *2O, the appeared but 17, of a very genteel and interesting, appearance),' were placed together at the bar; the two former charged with stealing, the last with receiving, nine •pieces of velveteen, the property of James Iloworth. The goods were taken away while the servants of Mr. llowo;th were carrying a considerable number, of pieces from one warehouse to another. They were recovered by Platt and Booth, •two of Nadin's men, who stated, that they had watched the entry into a warehouse in Back Piccadilly, belonging to George ,Lancashire, Jonas Lancashire's "fat'ker, and seen Lancaster enter with two pieces of velveteen; that they had followed him into the house, and fOund two pieces more concealed in a room in the warehouse. Walker, the third prisoner, had been previously seen to assist Lancaster in carrying the pieces. lie pleaded guilty. Lancashire was found in the warehouse, and was said to have discovered symptoms of agitation, ailsl to have attempted to rush out of the house. Platt and Booth found the rest 'of the goods in a field, by searching in the direction whence they had seen Lan caster and Walker coming, The Jury fOund Lancaster guilty of stealing, and I.Ancashire of receiving: Lancashire smiled at the verdict. The CHAIRMAN sentenced Lancaster and Walker to tiansportation for seven years ; and Lancashire, in consideration that the evidence against him left a supposition that he might not be really guilty, to im prisonment for six months. Belles has been mentioned as charged with clink ing a bell, and crying ". Cobbett's arrival." No Bill hai been preferred against him, but he remains in his c::11 6;1 the jail delivery, at the end of the Sessions. Oa Sunday night last the house of Mr. Jour!' GELLIBRAWES at the Terrace, Edmonton, was enter ed by means'ssf false keys, and robbed of property, consisting of plate, wearing apparel, &c. The fa mily were at prayers during •the time the robbers effecteJ.their purpose; they carried off the property untli*.covered. On Thursday night last two men entered the dove house of Mr. CHARLES PAINE, of Barron, in Suffolk, and killed and took from thence sixteen dc;zen and three pigeons, but having been seen by Mr. PAINE'S shepherd, they made their escape without their booty, which they left on the- premises in a sack. Monday se'unight, about twelve o'clock at noon, three men and tines boys, prisoners in Biidewell, Edinburgh, effected their escape in the following manner :—As the turnkey entered a cell where the prisoners were confined, for the purpose of removing one of them to another apartment, a quantity of snuff was-thrown in his eyes, and instantly the whole of the prisoners attacked and knocked him down ; they then attempted to put a rope round his neck, with the in tention to hang him ; but he, being a stout man, pre vented them carrying their purpose into execution. The noose of the rope getting into his mouth, pre vented him from giving the - alarm. They then dragged him into another cell, and locked him in, and made the best of their way through one of the under passages, and got clear over the back wall. Three of them have since been retaken. On the 17th December last, a fire broke out in the New Mill of Crimond, in Aberdeenshire, owing, as was thought, to overheating the kiln, and the build ing was in the utmost danger of being totally de stroyed ; but by the exertions .of some people who were at hand, particularly a young man of the name of George Leith, who, at the hazard of his life, cut through the roof, a stop was put to the fury of the flames, after their considerably injuring that part of the building. The premises were fortunately in sured at the Sun Fire Office, by whose agent the loss has since been paid in full • and a handsome gratuity bestowed on George L eith, and another young man, whe was active op the occasion. ..:.4ia%l' ~l'' t' • DUBLIN, JA . ligiift ve. Tsia ATTACK ON THE MAM-COACH.--Tiv !rich we gave in our last publication, of ' on the Dublin Coach for Cork, on Satur' ing, near Clonmel, was perfectly correct, the number of villains was greater than as they amounted to eleven. The wour' was, on Monday, obliged to submit to ane his arm, in Clonmel. The missing passenl name of Nugent, has since arrived in Cori published the following account of the tra, At about five miles before we reached the coach was stopped by sr number of cars across the road, and which, from the darknes night, were imperceptible at any distance, was at once fired from the hedge, at the side of the road, at the driver of the coaci parried by a shout of many voices eying " I was then sitting between the two guard shot was immediately fired at the guarcloi which took effect in his arm. No shot cm the opposite side, I at once descended for tin of removing one of the obstructing cars, reaching the ground, a ruffian, who had bi neath the seat of the coach, put a pistol on which I immediately stooped, and tin the ditch on the left hand side of • the roll, got but a few yards, when -I perceived moving off, and 1 number of armed men of me. I instantly. stopped, and, P ullin ; watch, offered it to them ; when one fe, very imperative tone, exclaimed—" St where is your arms?" On my exhibithe that I had none, they came up, upt'n wla offered my watch, sly ing I had no men: then, in a very emphatical manner, aske, was from, and to what place was goil plied, " from the lower part of Tipperary. quiry was made ," if 1 knew a certain Roscrea ?" I answered in the affiemalive; ing him to have rendered hirriself very some - persons in that part of the country : " that he was a great rascal." To this re! reason to think ? owe my life, as a voice " to go my way, for Roscrea saved my attempted to get off according,ly, but, at of about ten or twelve yard,, I was overta, old man, armed with a large bludgeon, hold of me, and said, " as they began thf they had .a right to finish it." I was in cr brought back ; a bludgeon was then love head, and, I am convinced, would hay effect contemplated by the old fellow, bi interference of him who accosted roe. . dismissed a second time, I was brought b. manner, at the suggestion of the old Wr( though he had no fire-arms, appeared inter der ; he placed roe on my knees, and I heard a gun (which was in the hands man before me) cocked for the purpose . me. They, however, entered into a cor..uh effect of which was to search my persori. ' from nay pockets Rank notes to a larg some silver, and my watch. On giving Sion to withdraw, which appeared much .‘ wish of the old fellow, I wasfollowed by or., party, who restored to me the watch, an, lings for the expenses of travelling. Th, permed to consist of about eleven or twelt. lows, six of whom had fire-arms, consisting carbine, two blunderbusses, and pistols, tin had large bludgeons, amongst whom w villain before mentioned, v hose importur murder was incessant, and had twice new successful: Their object was, lam sati arms, and not money ; and I have ever think, that, but for t;.e interfeveace in m: the young man by whom I was first a( should have fallen a victim to their disc pi Monday morning a young man was sparrows, from the door of a cottage at Lcddi near Maidstone. Just as he had taken his Horion, who was only 19 years of age,. a door adjoiningg,•and was entering the door cottage where he stood, at which moment, • fortunately, the loaded gun went off; and . tents at once carried away her nose and the part of her face. After the young wom. gered in great agony fa} about five hours, she ACCOUNT OF A BOY AT SEA IN A BOA DAYS, WITHOUT FOOD!—The Amaraatha, Row ETT Master, arrived at Genoa on the on the 16th ultimo, when about twel W.S.W. from Lisbon, took up a boat, in a boy, named JAMES STEPHENSON, in tressed. condition, who stated, that on till he was going on board the ship Benscr Shields, JOHN FAWCETT Plaster, then 1) Tagus, in company with the Master, who board, and that the boat was driven to he was taken up, he had not had anythini Ave days, and it was some time before h, from his exhausted state. .DIED. At Madras, on the 2cl of September, in the 48th year age, the Rev. J. Mousley, 1). D. Archdeacon of Madras. funeral was attended by his Excellency the Commander and the Civil and Military Gentlemen of the Settlement. Jan. 19, at Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Jannet 11 youngest daughter of the late Coloncj Russell, of Aahiesti Jan, 14, at Greenock, aged 86, 3lrs. Ann Fullartr of the Rev. John Monteath, Minister of the united Houston and Killellan. At Naples, Mrs. Walter Gram, relict of Walter 'Registrar and Master in Equity, at Madras. Lately, in Cavendish-square, the Hon. Mrs. Crewe. Lately, in Galway, Thomas Taylor, Esq: Lieutenant pay of the 88th Regiment. Jan. 5, at Patrington, aged 91, William Dolman Req. in early life he was eminent as a builder and • and his last work was the erecting of the present ' the Spurn Head, about forty years ago. COAL MARKET, JANILULT 26. Ships at Market. Skips Sold. Price. 70* Newcastle 35 37s ' 0 Sunderland .0 ....-3 MAILS THIS DAY.-..-Altl. Dux. Dublin 1 o j Lisbon Waterford 0 2 France Guernsey and Jersey 0 xl Ilamburgb Holland 0 0 Gottenburgh Flanders 0 - 0 Malta . HIGH.WATERat LONDON BRIDGR TO.. 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