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ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURE. rn n eittuLr -.tirtreried to the clergy of his diocess in October b, his Excellency the illustrious Senor Den Simon Lopez, by the Grace .4 fine, and the Pope Atclibis!iop of Valencia, Grand Cross of the Soaaihit Order of Charles 111. one of his Catholic Majesty's Council, &c. we find, atter an immense number of quotations from the followin ditcc , loos • •:- 1. No person shall print any book, pamphlet, or any paper, with cut "Pedal Vance tiom Lis Escellency, who will himself consult the God-fearing Censors.' " 2. The Cemors wilt read ail MSS. submitted to them, word by surd, taking special tare that there be no occult meaning, as the human wiati becomes daily more and more cunning, and there is often in mo. dery writing a diabolical meaning concealed in seemingly innocent *orals. 3. No person shun retol any book printed oat of Spain—nor any 4,11; printed in Spain during the years 1820, 1821, 1822, or 1823, Mit 1 10 a t aapecial licenre. • As it has hien observed that in this wicked age people care but lit for excommunications and ecclesiastical censure, we enjoin and direct all in authority, to fine, and enforce payment, one thousand ria'•. (P,01.) • All who may read or even poetess any book, &e. forbidden in the . . • All who print, or assist in printing any book or paper without lit, nee ; All who possess handkerchiefs with crosses, or lines making crosses (t toss-barred or checkertd,) and use them to wipe their noses, or for any dirty purpose." The fine is to be rigidly enforced for a first offence; and for those ob durate and wicked men +who shall sin a second time, his Excellency well knows how to deal witb them. SPECTRES. ( rum Sir Waller Stotts Leiter; on Demonology and Wilelierqfl, forming No. 16, of the Family Library.) A patient of Dr. Gregory, a person, it is understood, of some rank, having requested the Doctor's advice, made the following extraordinary statement of his complaint :—" I am in the habit," he said, " of dining at five, and exactly as the hour of six arrives, I am subjected to the fol lowing painful visitation t—the!door of the room, even when I have been weak enough to bolt it. which 1 have sometimes done, flies wide open; an old hag, like one of thaw who haunted the heath of Forres, enters with a frowning and incensed countenance, comes straight up to me with every demonstration of spite and indignation which could characterise her who haunted the merchant of Abudah, in the oriental tale; she rushes upon me ; says something, but so hastily, that I cannot discover the purport, and then strikes me a severe blow with her staff: I fall from my chair in a swoon, which is of longer, or shorter endurance. To the recurrence of this apparition I am daily subjected. And such is my new and singular complaint." The Dodos imme. diately asked whether his patient had invited any one to sit with him when :he expected such a visitation ? He was answered in the nega tive. The nature of the complaint, he said, was so singular, it was so likely to be imputed to fancy, or even to mental derangement, that he had shrank from communicating the circumstance to any one. "Then," said the Doctor, "with your permission , I will dine with you to-day, lets a tele, and we will sec if your malignant old woman wil l venture to join our company." The patient accepted the proposal with gratitude, for he had expected ridicule rather than sympathy. They met at dinner , and Dr. Gregory, who suspected some nervous disorder, exerted his powers of conversation, well known to be of the most varied and bril liant character, to keep the attention of his host engaged, and prevent him from thinking on the approach of the fatal hour, to which he was accustomed to look forward with so much terror. kle succeeded in his purpose better than he had hoped. The hour of six came almost un noted, and it was hoped might pails away without any evil consequence; but it was scarce a moment struck when the owner of the house ex. daimcd, in an alarmed voice, "The hag comes again !" and dropped :e.s..k in his chair in a swoon, in the way he had himself described. The r hy:dclan caused him to be let blood, and satisfied himself that the pe t shocks of which his patient complained, arose from a tendency apoplexy. VisION OF • CAT, AN USHER, AND • SYELETON..—" My visions," he said, " commenced two or three years,since, when I found ,ayself embarrassed by the presence of a large cat, which came and dis. eppeared I could not exactly tell how, till the truth was dually forced ~pnn me, and I was compelled to regard it as no domestic household eat. but as a bublcz of the elements, which had no existence, save in my ,:eranged visual organs, or depraved imagination. Still I h ad not that positive objection to the animal entertained by a late gallant Highland t in:Stain, who had been seen to change to all the colours of his own plaid, if a cat by accident happened to be in the room with him, even though he did not see it. On the contrary, lam rather a friend to cats, oil endured with so much equanimity the presence of my imaginary e, tends= that it had become almost indifferent to me ; when within the eeentse of a few months it gave plate to, or was succeeded by, a spectre of a more important sort, which at least had amore imposing appear. ..rce. This was teo other than the apparition of a gentleman usher, dressed as if to wait upon a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, or a Lord high Commissioner of the Kirk, or any other who bears on his brow the rank and stamp oldelegated sovereignty. This personage, arrayed in a court dress, with bag and sword, tam. Enured waistcoat, and chapeau.brax, glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash; and whether in my own house or in another, ascended the stairs befure me, as if to announce me in the drawing-room, and at .oene times appeared to mingle with the company, though it was suffi :lndy evident that they were not aware of his presence, and that I Ilene was sensible of the visionary honours which this Imaginary being seemed desirous to render me. This freak of the fancy did not produce .s.ach impression upon me, though it led me to entertain doubts en the nature of any disorder, and alarm for the effects it might produce pan my intellects. But that modification of my disease also had its appointed duration. After a few months, the phantom of the gentle a...a-usher was seen no more, but was su cceeded by one horrible to the sight, and distressing to the imagination, being no other than the image ..f death Itself—the apparition of a skeleton. Alone or in company,' said the unfortunate the presence of this last phantom never fiee:ls me. 1 in vain tell myself a hundred times over that it is no reality, but merely an image summoned up by the morbid acuteness of toy own excited imagination, and deranged organs of sight, but what ,veil such re fl ections, while the emblem at once and presage of mor tality is before my eyes, and while I feel myself, though in fancy only, the companion of a phantom representing a ghastly inhabitant of the: grave, even while I yet breathe on the earth? Science, f it : , even religion, has no cure for such a disorder; and I eel too ' surely that I shall die the victim to so melancholy a disease, although I have no belief whatever in the reality of the phantom which it places before me." The physician ;was distressed to perceive from these details how strongly this visionary apparition was fixed in the imagination of his patient. He ingeniously urged the sick man, who was then in bed, with questions concerning the circumstances of the phantom's appear ance, trusting he might lead him, as a sensible man, into such contra dictions and inconsistencies as might bring his bring his common sense, which seemed to be unimpaired, so strongly into the field, as might combat successfully the fantastic disorder which produced such fatal effects. " This skeleton then," said the Doctor, " [teems to p you to be always present to your eyes ?" " It is my fate, unhappily,' answered the invalid, " always to see it" i* Then, I understand,' continued the physician, " it is now present to your imagination ?" " To my ima gination it certainly is so," replied the sick man. " And in what put of the chamber do you now conceive the apparition to appear ?" the physician inquired. " Immediately at the foot of my when the curtains are left a little op en ," answered the invalid, " the skeleton, to in , : thinking, is placed between them, and fills the vacant space."— " You say you are sensible of the delusion ?" said his friend. • Have you firmness to convince yourself of the truth of this ? Can you take courage enough to rise and place yourself in the spot so seeming to be occupied, and convince yourself of the illusion ?" The poor man signed, and shook his head negatively. " Well," said the Doctor, " we will try the experiment otherwise." Accordingly, he rose from his chair by the bedside, and placing himself between the two half-drawn curtains the foot of the bed indicated as the place occupied by the apparition, asked, if the spectre was still visible " Not entirely so," replied the, patient, * because your person is betwixt him and me ; but I observe his skull peeping above your shoulder." I is alleged the man of science started on the instant, despite philo sophy, on receiving an answer ascertaining, with such minuteness, that the ideal spectre was close to his own person. He resorted to other swans of investigation and cure, but with equally indifferent success. The patient sunk into deeper anideeper dejection, and died in the same d of mind in which he had spent the latter months of his life ; and his ..;.se remains a melancholy instance of the power of imagination to lt; the ta.dy, even when its fantastic terrors cannot overcome the Intel -1 -t ci the unfortunate persons wbo suffer under them. The patient, tha present case, sunk under his malady ; and the circumstances of his singular disorder remaining concealed, he did not, by his death and last illness, lose any of the well-merited reputation for prudence and sa gacity which had attended him during the whole course of his life. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S OWN VISION Or LORD BTSON.---Ano thee illusion of the same nature we have the best reason for vouchsafing as a fact, though for certain reasons, we do not give the names of the ponies. Not long after the death of a late illustrious poet, who had titled, while living, a great station in the eye of the public, a li terary friend, to whom the deceased bas been well known, was en gaged, during the darkening twilight of an autumn evening, I. perusing one of the publications which professed to detail the habits and opinions of the distinguished individual who was now no mote. As the reader had enjoyed the intimacy of the de ceased to a considerable degree, he was deeply interested in the pub lication, which contained some particulars relating to himself and other friends. A visitor was sitting in the apartment who was also engaged in reading. Their sitting-room opened into an entrance-hall, rather fantastically fitted up with articles of armour, skins of wild animals, and me like. It was when laying down his b ook, and passing into this hail, through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the indi vidual of whom I speak saw, right before him, and in a standing pos ture, the exact representation of his departed friend, whose rceollecdon had been so strongly brought to his imagination. He stopped foe a single moment, so as to notice the wonderful accuracy with which fancy had impressed upon the bodily the l ej e e die peculiarities of dress and posture illustrious the ustrious poet. Sensi ble, however, of the delusion, be f e lt no sentiment save that of wonder at extraordinary accuracy of the re semblance. and stepped onwards towards the figure, which resolved itself, as be approached, into the various materials of which it was composed. These were merely a screen, occupied by great-coats, shawls, plaids, and such other articles as usually are found in a country enuanoe-hall The spectator returned to the spot from which he had seen the illusion, and endeavoured, with all his power, to recall the image which had been so singularly vivid. But this was beyond his capacity; and the person who had witnessed the apparition, or, more properly, whose excited state had been the means of raisi it, had only to return into the apartment, and tell his young friend u.w. what a striking hallucination be had foe a moment labosred.--p. 3849. LONDON ADJOURNED SESSION& Desist C'telliagken,an athletic Irishman, was convicted upon clear evidence of committing a brutal assault upon his wife. Mr. C. PHILLIPS, after the verdict was returned, stated to the Court that it was not long since the bad been convicted by the present Bench of a similar offence, w hen was bound in his own re. cognisance. to keep the peace towards the unfortunate complainant. Mr. Adolphus prosecuted him last time, and unless be was restrained, the violence of hip temper would find employment for every gentleman at the Bar. The RECORDER, in passing sentence upon the prisoner, said that he stood before the Court guilty of a double offence, for be had not only been convicted of a brutal assault upon his wife, but he had also been guilty of a contempt of Court, by breaking that peace he had pledged himself to keep. x sentence of the Court was, that the defendant be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year, and that be enter into security for his good behaviour for one year, himself in 401. and two sureties of 201. each, and that he be further imprisoned until such recognisance' were entered into. s_ Saasurc *the, Master of the Walbrook Charity School, was found guilty of an assault of a gross nature upon Matilda Haynes, aged 12 years, one of the children of the school, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Three butchers, of Farringdon market, named Piper, Weaver, and Tallenis,'were indicted for assaulting a City Officer in the ezecudon of his duty in the market. By the advice of their Counsel they pleaded Guilty, and escaped with the payment of Is. each. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Monday, S.s 27. Robert Sing, of Newington, Surrey, coach builder, wile opposed by Mr. BARRY on behalf of several creditors. This was the case of aperionWitilhad, after the filing of his peti tion, obtained from the Court a dispensation to reside within the rules of the King's Bench prison on the ground of 11l health. The dispen. sation was obtained in May, and the insolvent went to reside at his house in Newington (which is in the rules) where he carried on his business as usual. In August he came up to be heard on his petition, when evidence was adduced, showing that the insoltent had worked at his business since May, and had employed several persons, and had done considerable business. He appeared to be in excellent health, and after a lung examination in August, his case was adjourned to file fresh balance sheets, and he went and resided at his house from that period to :the present day, when he again came up, the balance. sheets having been Sled, and he was examined at great length as to the property be had been peessased of sines the last hearing. It appeared that his household expenses since that time amounted to 61. a week. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS asked him where he came from that morning ? when the insolvent replied, from his house at Newington. Commissioner lisaars.—Pray what was your serious illness, when you obtained the dispensation ? Insolvent.—l had a touch of the gout. Commissioner HARRlL—Nonsense, man ; why how long were you dangerously ill, as you have sworn in your affidavit ? Insolvent.—About three weeks, Sir. Commissioner Heaurs--And since then you here been perfectly well. Insolvent.—l have. Mr. Commissioner HAII an said, that the rule of Court in this cue had been most shamefully abused by the insolvent, who ought to have !rendered again to prison after the recovery of his health, and it was to be regretted that the Court had not ordered him to reside within the walls after his first hearing. Such conduct was not to be tolerated, and the Court would, in future, where dispensations were obtained, have them renewed every week. The humane intentions of the Legislature had been made a mockery of, and the Court would mark its sense of such conduct by ordering the insolvent back within the walls. " Let this man," added the Learned Commissioner, " be taken back to prison, there to remain until Thursday, and then be brought up for judgment." The insolvent was remanded accordingly. Hannah Wood, describing herself as late of Trafalgar-street, worth, baker, was opposed by Mr. COOKE, on behalf of a flour -factor named Wells. From the statement of the insolvent, it appeared that she had resided for a considerable time in Trafalgar-street, where she had contracted debts in the course of her business. On the 13th of March she left the premises, placing her sister, Mrs. Halls, in possession of the same, and she did this, she said, because " she wu under great obligations to i her sister.•' Her sister (Mrs. Halls) had merely desired her to go to her house in Peutonville, where she had resided until the same Mrs. Halls bad arrested her, and she then went to prison, and immediately' presented her petition to the Court. She had made no mention of her sister being in possession of the premises, who she said had possession of the books of account, and had since collected in some of the debts that were owing when she went to peison. She further stated, that the same Mrs. Halls had possession of the furniture and the fixtures which be longed to her, she having bought them in when the insolvent's husband was declared a bankrupt in 1826, and they had remained on the pre. tubes ever since. Mr. Commissioner Haft= said that this expedient to get rid of the insolvent's debts would nor dot the parties were able to pay the cre ditors. The insolvent had not described her last residence, and she must, in consequence of the omission, go back to re-advertise. Mr. Coon said it was a pity that the old woman had been sent to prison b her sister, her relations being well able to pay her debts. Mr. er Hams—This experiment will not dot the per. may find,themselves in jeopardy for meddling with the insolvent's Pr lr. 7 doomt said the creditors would take their debts by instalments. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said he hoped that the Court would not hear of this case again, and trusted that the parties would do that jus tice the case required, and in the mean time ordered the same to be ad journed to re-advertise, to produce the books of accounts, to amend the schedule, and also produce ?dn. Balls. Edward Sitelgrooe came up to be heard upon his petition, when the Court proceeded to examine the insolvent, who 'wed that the whole of his debts on his schedule did not amount to more than 291. that he was arrested in May last, and had been inWhitecross- street prison ever since that time. Soon after his render to prison, he petitioned under the Lords' Act, and obtained the sixpences, which had been regularly paid to him up to Monday last. Ile. Commissioner HAIM took occasion to remark, that the moment an insolvent petitioned this Court, the order for payment of the sixpences under the Lords' Act ceased, and added, that no person in future could receive this allowance, as it had been repealed under the late act of the Ist of William IV. The insolvent was discharged. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday evening an Inquest was held at the Fleet Prison, on the body of Mr. Edward Nettleford, aged 48 years, late a Commodore in The Royal Coronation Thames Fleet, who had been about six months a prisoner in the Fleet. Mr. Cooper, a surgeon, stated that he was sent for on Friday last, and found the deceased in a high state of fever, his pulse beating 130 in a minute. On the following day, when visited by the witness, 6a had become considerably worse, and gradually sank and died not long afterwards. The Jury when they viewed the body found it in such an offensive state, that they apprehended some danger in performing that necessary part of their duty. The COROXEN after the return of the Jury to the Inquest room, asked the Surgeon if he thought there was any danger of infection after death ? The Surgeon said that in some cases there were, but there was none in the present cane, and he hoped t h e gendesnen of the Jury would make their minds easy in that respect. One of the Jurors observed that there was much appearance of blood upon the body, and asked the occasion of it. 1 1 The surgeon said the deceased bad died of putrid fever ; after which there was generally a very rapid decomposition of the body, and the discolouration observed by the Jury, was a natural consequence. It appeared from the evidence of a nurse and other persons, that every attention had been paid to the deceased, and the Jury returned aver. diet of " Natural death," A REASON WORTH A PlNNT.—Cobbett, in his loctnre the other night. observed. . 4 That the petition which he proposed to present to his Majesty, and which he read to them on Monday, would be printed, and sold at the price of one penny. Hs would have given away copies gratis, had he not feared that the friends of the borough mongers would have applied them to very different purposes from those for which they were intended." IRISH PUGNACITY —At the trial of a butcher of Down ham, in Lancashire, on Saturday last, for stealing a cow, time was some difficulty in identifying the skin ; but the owner swore boldly to it, from some hurts that were in it. -* He was sure it was his cow, for she was an Irish cow, and had been fighting the day before she was stolen." POLICE REPORTS. Gunstuau..---Yesterelay, a respectable looking old man, named Risch, was brought before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, on suspicion of being insane. James Shaw, the Inspector of the Watch of Faningdon stated that he found the defendant on the steps of one of the clergymen's houses adjoining St. Paul's School, at two &clock in the mornift, and bearing he had been standing there some time, he asked whet ha he knew anybody there, and was waiting to be admitted ? Prisoner said he knew the gentleman who resided in that house, but he had not knocked yet. Witness rang the bell, although the prisoner attempted to prevent him, and he learnt from one of the inmates who opened a window, that this early visitor was unknown and nnwekome. The pd. stoner then said he had,only stayed in the door.way for protection spume a gang who were punning him, and which he kept off by exhibiting a pocket pistol; and he then pulled out what he called the pistol—..a pocket handkerchief tightly twisted up into a rolL Doubting his unity, he took him to the watch-house for protection, and by papers and cards which he found upon him, he discovered he was a native of Hanover, and a professor of music. There was a copy of a letter to the King, ap plying for an engagement in his Majesty's private band; and a note from Major-General Wheatley. His Majesty, it appeared, had made him a present of 61. In reply to questions from the Alderman, the prisoner said be had been Master of the band of the Ist regiment of Royal Dragoons for 22 years, but as he was hired, and not a part of the corps, he was not en titled to any pension on quitting the service. He came to London to press his application to his Majesty, and walked about till he was be wildered; and he had been standing an hour and a half at St Paul's School, because he was afraid to proceed, being followed wherever he went by some man. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY concluding he had been drinking a little too freely, dismissed him, with an admonition to keep better hours, and not to be found in such a situation again. Bow.sTUUET.—Mr. Clarks Newton was yesterda Charged by Captain Thomas Hopkins, with having threatened to do him some pet. sonal violence. Captain Hopkins stated that he resided at No. 6, New Ormond. street, and that at an early hour that morning the defendant called at his house, and declined that, unless he (Captain Hopkins) gave him a sum of 608 L he would adopt means to enforce his demand. He ( Hopkins) refused to let the defendant have any money, and the = ant thereupon became exceedingly violent, and uttered threats which left on his (Captain Hopkins's) mind serious apprehensions for his per. scowl safety. Sir R. Burris—Are you not related to the defendant, Captain Hop. kips P Captain Hopkins replied in the affirmative, and went on to say he had ample reaton for believing the defendant to be labouring under the influence of insanity, and that he was in an unfit state to be suffered at large. He had received a communication from the Duke of Welling. ton on the subject, and four medical gentlemen, residing in New York, bad forwarded certificates to that effect. Defendant—l ani ready to contradict all that has been stated against toe on oath. Sir It. Ilium—But I cannot swear you s you are the party charged, and cannot, therefore, give evidence; but if you have any witnesses they shall be heard. Defendant--I have no witnesses; no one was in the room but Capt. Hopkins and myself, and he has not spoken truth. Sir It. BIKXIE said he had received a letter from the defendant's son, Charles Newton, enclosing the certificates of medical men, to prove that he (defendant) was of unsound mind. This letter was written at the request of his distressed mother, Elisabeth Newton, the defendant's wife. The defendant declared the letter to be a fabrication, and added, that so far from his family being in a state of destitution, he had since his arrival in this country remitted them 6,000 dollars, besides hav ing left 1,200 dollars with his eldest daughter, before he took his departure from America. Captain Hopkins regretted that he should have been compelled to come forward against the defendant, who was his nephew, in that pub. lic manner. He did so, however, for the unfortunate man's own good, and to preserve for his family the little that remained of a considerable property. Sir R. Btaxiz said that the only alternative left him was to call on the defendant to find bail to ke2p the peace. Defendant.--That I cannot do. I have no persons wbo would give security for me. Sir R. Butwir.—Then you must go to prison. The gaoler accordingly removed the defendant, and locked him up. The night charges at this office were numerous yesterday morning, and were disposed of by Sir R. Birnle and Mr. Halls, the former of whom sat in the public office and the other in the front room, but none of them possessed any feature that was either interesting or novel. In the ease of some persons who were charged with picking pockets, Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent, add that a report was on Saturday circu lated that a large sum of money had been abstracted from the pocket of Lord Tenterden, near Contra's bank. There was no truth, however, in the report, Lord Tenterden not having been in town. Quxux-suusus,—Mary Miltotti Elisabeth Layeack, and Mary Parker, were charged with robbing Mr. Alexander, of the sum of 441. 13s. Mr. A. bad dined at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, when Mil. ton seeing him with his purse in his hand at e door, took the oppor tunity when he came out of the house to accost him, and pressed upon him, and shortly after she was gone, he missed his purse, which contained four lOL notes and four sovereigns, and some silver. Milton was ap. prehended in Kent-street, but none of the notes were found upon her.— She was remanded, and the other prisoners were discharged. Thomas Bealsisr, a lad, was charged with stealing one sovereign and some silver from George Long. They were locked up together in the station.house of Christ Church, Surrey ; Long being very drunk, and the prisoner having been found wandering about destitute. In the morning Long missed his money, which he found concealed about the prisoner. He was committed. Laren2Tll-STlligT...—Two mechanics, named Millar and Chts4lB, were charged with being riotous and disorderly at the Green on public-house, Stepney, on Saturday night. Mr. Polleni s er, the landlord, stated th at the:prisoners came into his house on Satu rday night, and called for some liquor, but perceiving them already tipsy, he refused to serve them, on which they became so riotous, that he was compelled to give theta into the charge of a policeman. The prisoners having conducted themselves with much propriety at the watch.house, and expressing much contrition for what had hap. penal, they were ordered to be discharged on the payment of the usual fee of a shilling. Maar.z..a-zoitsz.—Yesterday Martha Adams, a young woman pitted very much with the small.pox, was charged before Mr. Raw. Ltirsox with stealing a little boy. Mr. James Matthews, of Augusta Cottage, Regent's Park, builder, stated, that bevies occasion to go into the City that morning, he took the child with him fora ride. He stopped to look after some of his men who were upon a job In the New-road. and while his back was turned the child was stolen from the garden gate. He applied for in. formation to a woman who kept an apple stall on the opposite side of the road, and she told him a young woman had carried it away in the direction of Mary.la.bonne Church. He overtook the prisoner with the child in her arms, between Mary.la.bonue Church and the Yorkshire Stingo, and he gave her into custody. George Ball, a policeman, No. 21, of the Division 8, received the charge, and when he stopped the prisoner, she told him she had taken up the child out of compassion, for it said it had lost its father , and it was crying in the road, and she meant to carry it home after she had called upon a gentleman for some clothes at No. 3, North Baker-west, and take care of it until it was advertised. Mr. RAWLINSOY asked the child what the woman said to him ? He answered.—She say she take me for a walk. Mt. Hawr.rxsou asked Mr. Matthews whether the child appeared to be distressed when he recovered it ? He answered.—Yes ; very much so. The prisoner was remanded, that further Inquiry might be made re. sporting her. Wonsure-sraxzr.....George MOWS was charged with a fraud upon the parish of St. Luke, Olthstrest. Mr. Price, the relieving overseer, , stated that for six months past the prisoner had been receiving relief from the parish, upon his representing that he was out of and had a wife and two children depending upon him for support. a person employed in St. Luke's parish as a sort of overseer of the working paupers, stated that the pr ison er was employed under him, and received after the rate of 10s. Id. a week, and had received money so lately as last Thursday. The prisoner was committed in default of bail, for his appearance at the Sessions, on the charge of fraud, and the parish offioers seemed determined to remote. MAKE, PoLics.—George Davis and WilliantiPatt, two athletic excavators, were charged with assaulting several paeans, knocking down four police constables, nearly strangling • publican, breaking his windows, and other acts of outrage and disorder.—They entered the Bell public-house, and OD Mr. Burton, the landloni, refusing to serve theta with liquor, Potts seised him by the neckerchief, and nearly strangled him ; while Davis insulted the customers, and broke six panes of glass. Four officers bore the marks of the severe contusions they received in the fray. Mr. 13souxiun sentenced each of the prisoners to pay a fine of 401. or to be imprisoned one month, and topsy for the six panes of glass they hed broken. Lova! Lora !—Verbatim copy of a love letter lately sent by an enamoured swain to his beloved in Leeds. The buly, not having partaken of the march of intellect (u petticoats are excluded from the Institute,) handed it over to her master, who deciphered it foe her; and we publish it as a model for Yorkshire Corydon. D em Bessy mr A Ido bike thee—My love is stronger than iver-1 nivi r h a d ale of sleep sin lum at Leeds--Sun way melt mountains--and sand may run wick before I can change try love again—l ilk Poy better nor oughtibut I bike thee better than Poy—therefore thou may make up the mind to let me put spurring. in—and we will be wed and gang home in a chaise at Martinmas."..Leeda Ntellionacer. MIIRGIAM ON TIRE MARRIAGE GT TWO LEAN kLOPLL. But one-half of marriage alone, Can this married couple rakish ; Though he may make bee bone of his bone, He never can flesh of his flesh. MARIE MIONOT. Miss !Marie 111 ignot was a nice little maid, Her uncle a cook, and a laundress her trade, And she lovid, as dearly as any one can, Mister Legardie, a nice little man. But oh! but oh! Story of woe ! A sad Interloper, one Monsieur Modeau, Ugly and old, With plenty of gold, VI? Made his approach, In an elegant coach, Her fancy was chann'd with his splendour and obi N, And he bore off the fable-hearted Molly Mignot, Monsieur Modeau was any and old, And Monsieur Modeau caught a terrible cold, His nose was stuffed, and his throat was sore, ' He had physic by the quart, and doctors by the save , They sent squills, And pills, And very long bills; But all they could do did not make him get well, He sounded his 11's and his N's like an L. A shocking bad cough, At last took him off, And Mister Lagardie, her former beau, Came a courting again to the Widow Modeau. Mister Lsprdie, to gain him eclat, Had cut the cook's shop, and followed the law ; And when Monsieur Modeau set out on his journc-, , , Was an articled Clerk to a Spwial Attorney. He gave her a all, On the day of a ball, To which she invited the and all ; But "poor dear Lagardie," Was still too tardy, For a Marshal of France Had just asked her to dance; In a twinking the ci-devant Madame Modeau Was the wife of the Marshal, Lord Marquis Dinot. Mister Lagardie was shocked at the news, And went and enlisted at once in the Blues. The Angola Dinot Felt rather so so, Took physic, grew worse, and had notice top.. He died, and was shelved, and his Lady so gay Smiled again on Lagardie, DOW placed on full pay. A Swedish Field Marshal with a guinea a-day ; When an old Ex-King, Just show'd her the Ring, To be Queen she conceived was a very fine thing ; But the King turned Monk, And Lagardie got drunk, And said to the lady with a deal of ill-breeding, " You may go to the d — l, and I'll go to Sweden.' Thus, like most other fools, Between two stools, The lady came squat, On—l must not say what, So she cried and she stamped, and she sent for a Ilea, And she drove to a convent, and never came back. SCINTILLA?. EXCZLLENT MAXIMS. See much—admire lade hear much.—belleve little; know much—speak little; shun much— fear little; give muchtake little; work much—comman k little. Hem! ur TURN.—A. 4 Henry the Fourth was tra velling through a small town, several deputies tame to meet him, L. order to welcome him. When one of than had began his speech, he was interrupted by an ass, which stood twenty paces off, and began to bray. " Geniteasett," said the King, " lei cads speak in his turn, i' you please—otherwise I can not understand you." AN EMINENT BANKER,,—known by his great wealth and still more so for his stupidity, bad a fancy to have himself sculp tured In marble. When the statue was finished, he showed it to one his friends, and asked him whether it resembled him ? Exactly answered the latter, " both is body and wand." A wAIS SCHOOLMASTEIt, ILI Paris, wished to prove that he was the handsomest man on the face of the earth. He argued thus .—Europe is the finest vitt of the world ' • France is the finest count r y in Europe; Paris is t e finest city In Prance; the University is the finest quarter in Paris ; my room le the finest in the University ; 1 am the finest thing In my room—therefore, I am the handsomest man in the world TON. —There is no limit to the fanciful extravagances and freaks of fashion. I .of.ntttomsleeves, untied laced caps, capacious bonnets, and short ded extremities, are all exceedingly becoming in women s—but beh old I the gestknten. The other day, one of the fret and independent electors of a certain rotten borough in the north et Scotland, made his contpearanoe—era it is there called—ins cocked hat, a long coat "of many colours," a kilt of the same material, and topped boots, armed at the heel with iron spurs ! The figure of the toter— not the merits of the candidate—gained the day; and the starched Lt. shims of Consul Brunnucl are undone for ever I Queen Mary, having dealt severely with the Protestant: in England about the latter end of her reign, signed a commission t. take the same course with them in Ireland, and to execute the sane with greater force, she nominated Doctor Cole, one of the commissioners. This Doctor coming with the commission to Chester, on his jourmy, the Mayor of that city, hearing that her Majesty was striding messenger into Ireland, and he being a churchman waited on th e Doctet, who in discourse with the Mayor, taketh out of a c loak hag a hat her tm saying unto him " here is a commission that shall lash the heretics of In land V calling the Protestants by that name. The good woman of the how, being well affected to the Protestant religion, and also having a bre,tto named John Edmonds, of the same, then a citizen in Dublin,was muc: troubled at the Doctor's words,thut watching her convenient time, whit the Mayor took his leave, and the Doctor complimented him down ti t stairs, she opened the box, takes the commission out, and places in Ile : , thereof a sheet of paper with a pack of cards wrapped up therein, the knave of clubs being placed uppermost. The Doctor coming up to chamber, suspecting nothing of what had been done, put up the bra formerly. The next day, going to the water side, wind and ram serving him, he sails towards Ireland, and landed oa the 7th of October. 1658, at D ublin. Then coming to the Castle, the Lord FitzwalLr, being Lord Deputy, sent for him to come before him and the Privy Council, who coming in—after he had made a speech, relating upon what account became ova, be presents the box to the Lord Deputy, who causinj, it to be opened, that the Secretary might read the commission, there w - It nothing save a pack of cards with the knave of clubs uppermost ! which not only startled the Lord Deputy and Comcil, but the Doctor, who assured him be bad a commission, but knew not how it was gone. Then the Lord Deputy made answer,' Let us have another commis sion, and we will shuffle the cards in the mean while.' The Doctor, being troubled in his mind, went away, and returned into England, and coining to the Court, obtained another commission: but news came to him that the Queen was dead, and thus GOD preserved the Protestants of Ireland I"—Cor's Hibernia Angllcona, voL " Queen Elisabeth was so delighted with this story, laic!) was related to her by Lord Fhzwaltcr, on his return to England, that she sent for Elizabeth Edmonds, whose husband's name was Matters bead, and gave her a pension of 501. during ha lira.—llarkion MisetiJany. B 1 RTHS. On the 25th inst. in Cadogan.place, the 13.1 c ell A. Frvoch, Esq. of son.—On the 26th inst. at Stanley House, in the county of I/lona-sta. the Lady of D. Alaclean, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 25th inst. at Carobritige,&iv. .1. Athawes, of LougAwn. Bucks, to Mariam, youngest daughter of th e late J. B rowne, Esti, u Milner's-hall, B l uth Hunts . — On the 2Cth inst. in the Church of b:. Botolph, Aidgate, Mr. T. Cansdell, of the Hoop and:Horse.sboe T 3. 'ems Tower.hlll, to Mazy Ann, third daughter of Mr. M. Cooke, law of Ketninghall, in the county of Norfolk. DIED. On the 17th inst. at Brighton, Aratilda Durr.int, only daughter of Mr. T. Beeching, jun. banker, Tunbridge, aged five years.—On th. 26th inst. in his 79th year, Major. E. Jourdan, of Devonshire-stmt. Pordand-place.—On the 16th inst. at Greenwich, Mrs. E. Smith, agol 72, widow of the late W. Smith, Lant.street, Southwark.—Suddenly, on the 111th inst. In Regent-street, R. Strachan, aged 42.—0 n the 230 in st . Catherina Dorothea, wife of Mr. P. Spanjer, of Tower-hill, aged 60.—0 n the23d inst. at Dunmow, Essex. Jane, the youngest daughter of the late T. Clapton, Esq surgeon, formerly of Great Queen.stress. Westminster.—On the 16th inst. at Delaford, Bucks.:Ann Clown, re lict of the late C. Cloves, Esq. in the 00th year of her age.- —Suddslll, on the 23d of June. on hoed the Providence, on her passage how Cal mita to the Cape of Good Hope, D. Dale, Eaq. Hon. East India Com pany's Bengal Civil Service, aged 95.—0 n the 24th inst. in the 75th year of his age, W. Gillman, sen. Esq. late distributor of stamp, for West Kent, and of hair-powder certificates for the city of London. LONDON: Punted and rublishal by Joins BlaTss, at tbpfrral. , Orricr, No. 1, Pickett-place, Temple Bar. I yf 11, !