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MAN AND THE SEASONS *ROM !HE LITZRASY SbITIfiNIR, nit 1807. in verdant Spring the breeze which gently blew, 'Woke in the bean blithe echoes as it past— . Young Hope's food Istteries--whispering all wevidiest ; net wing'd with pleasures, fresh - aid fair, and - new; And bright and lovely—oh, how Springtime flew! Then like full manhood bursting from a boy, th sumer shone out—so rife in Sower, joy, That scarce the bosom owned what well it knew. How soon pale Autumn, like a dying frien4 &rendering solemn thoughts of life's deal, Would come and—withering—withering—Si Brings dark December on—and, 10, the end ! Leafless and fruitless, the year's pride is goat,-- And wintry man looks round, and Snds himself /dew/ by ay, THE WELLESLEY CASE. urns rums rx vus corm or CHOICELY ut tai &am cam. AFFIDAVIT OF THE HON. P. LONG WELLESLEY. SAith, that he did, in or about the month of Novem ber, in the year 1822, with his family, arrive at Naples, in Italy, where, very soon after his arrival, Thomas Bulkeley, then resident at Naples aforesaid, was by Captain Schomberg, of the Royal Navy, introduces/ to deponent, and was employed by deponent as medical attendant to his family. That an intimacy (which had arisen in the year 1912, between the late Catherine Pole Tylney Long Welles. ley, the deceased wife of deponent. and Helena Bligh, then Helena Patterson, and who then resided with her faher and mother, Colonel and Mt g. Patterson, in a house belonging to deponent, called the Banquetting House, in the immediate vicinity of Wanstead House, in the county of Essex, and who was in the habit of vi siting, with her said father and mother, at parties give A by deponent and his said deceased wife, at Wanstead Hons. aforesaid) was renewed by said Catherine Pole , Tylney Long Wellesley with the Said Mrs. Helena Bligh, on their arrival at Naples. That having himself a great disinclination to ferns any intimacy with the family of Captain Thomas [nigh, the husband of said Mrs. Helena Bligh, who were then at Naples, he urged, in tht strongest terms, to his late deceased wife, such his disinclination, and requested her on several occa.i , ms not to allow the acqusintahee which subsisted with Mrs. Helena Bligh to grow into intimate friendship ; but that deponent's said deceased wife, feel ing a great regard for the said Mrs. Helena Bligh, overruled such his advice, and did renew sdch acquaint *nee wi. h said Mrs. Bligh at the house of Mr. Hamil ton, the 11: i:ish Minister, then resident at Naples, un known to deponent, and invited said Mrs. Bligh to hii (deponent's) house, without his knostledge of cohcdt tenet, and contracted after Wards habits of intimacy with her, as appears by the following letter addressed by said Catherine Pole Tylney Long 'Wellesley td said Mrs. Paiterstin, the mother of said Helena !Nigh, Which copies deponent received from Captain Serie. of Upper Sermounstieet, Portaran-icluare, a friend of said Mrs. Patterson, a few days since; etsrms, Om 4, 1823. Due Matuitit—l ant Witted to take Of MO, of addrewih myself to you, for the F AIN* of contradicting a **poet, kvlikb ; I understand, has been propagated (I am convineed by son* WNW and malctrolent persons), namely, that I was illthpillell bp Mr. Long Wellesley to offer to your daughter, Mn.it Blith e nit ptiatee tion idler the unfortunate step she took a Pew seethe since ; I send you a copy of my note to Sir Richard Chunk upon that occasion, width must refute such au assertion, and, 1 liope i convince you, should you for one moment have entertained a doubt open the sub. ject; how entirely I wan actuated by ray own teelings,towards Mrs. Bli g h, to offer to ber all the comfort I possibly entild afford, in bit most dime:sing situation. Ido not hesitate to say, that I believe never was there so vile and deeply laid a plot to ruin two persons,' a s t h a t which has been formed against your daughter and Mr.. L o ng Wellesley. Every arrangentent bad been made for Mts. high s spitting Naples for Pais, or Thursday last; but it foreibif struck ' nie, salting a journey, to be performed alone, would be a wretched one; I , therefore, as it was our intention to leave this place a very few day, afterwards, requested her to remain with mat hr those few days, and then accompany us to Paris. It will perhaps be said, that I was also compelled to snake this offer ; however, pray believe, dear Madam, that all I have done, and can do for Mrs. B11 4 3b) ii from my sincere wishes for her *drift. She hail been titan groisly . persecuted and deserted by those persons W1%6101411 a hate been hit friends. We have every reason to believe, that sitars p letters she has written to some of her fr iends in Ibiglanch frill leiver reach them—Relict& me dear Madam, yours truly. C. LONG WELLESLEY. Anima 0, 18$3. blt imutiSiankumti—Will you forgive me fiat Mehl)/ of requesting yo u to send me the address of Mrs. h, which bear is known to jou. It was only last night thit I heard, from Mr. Long Wellesley. of the unfortunate business which has, within the last few days, occurred in her family. It is my intention to tall on Mrs. Kish to-day ; but I wish to make my first visit to her upon this occasion, without the knowledge of Mr. Long Wellesley; for will I even ask ties to give sue her &dank's. My reason for acting thus is, that an ill-catered world may have it not in ha power to bay, that Mr. Long Wellesley has influenced my conduct in any degree upon the subject.—Ptay forgive the' rouble I am giving yob, and believe'me, your Mud obliged, E. LONG WELLESLEY. That his said late wife subsequently is►fArrned hire she intended to proffer4.er protection to said' Helena Bligh ; and that, on such occasion, that he, deponent, remonstrated most earnestly with his said late wife on the imprudence of tier to doing, and urged her re peatedly not to allow said Helena Bligh to become en inmate in his, deponent's, family; but that his aid late Wife 'overruled his, deponent's, 'objection, mid eventually brought said Helena Wig% 610 brit, depo- , tent's, house, and partinstirly requested hire, deponent, to shew her, said Helena Bligh, the attention which her unhappy situation demanded. That his said late deceased wife did, as deportee( Minna, recommend the said Thome: Bulketey col surd Helenit Bligh, to attend ter. in ltis profeision, but on. what acceuqt in parfictilar, or when, or on what occasion the said Thomas Bulkeley did so attend Mrs. Helena Mgt, deponent does not know. That during his residence at Naples, a party, con sisting et a Russian Princess and her niece, the Hon., Colond Stanhope, Mr. Edward Bligh, the brother of, the husband of said Mrs. H. Bligh, Mrs. Bligh, two, English Gentlemen, friend of the said Princess, two foreign Gentlemen, and deponent, besides the gulden,; peasants, and attendants, amounting, in the *hole, to upwards of fifty pei sous. was made, to ascend Mount Vesuvius. That such excursions always commenced at night, from the tithe required to ascend and descend the, mountain, and also to avoid the great heat, which du. sing the day would render the ascent dangerous ; that the said late wife of deponent had always refused to attend a patty to Meant Vesuvius, having a bodily malady which prevented her from taking any ♦iolent; walking exercise, and particularly from walking up bill; that during the ascent and descent, deponent was constantly in company and conversation with the several persons composing the said party, and not one moment in the separate society of said H. Bligh. That the only] house on the mountain shoe persons stop to take r "refreshments, ceittsistwi at' elf as dlttionent-saw, of tst6 large rooms, which went filled, during the time the • party was there, by • the seeer2l perions. who teccomb pa-nied them.. That it is not true, is stated and sweita to by said Thomas Bulkeley, that he, deponent, told him, said - Thomas Bulkeley, during: , his residence at Naples, aforesaid, that he had sehi for said Thomas Bulkeley on account of said Mrs. H. •Bligh, who, he deponent feared, was with child, and that her husband was in very bad health, and not able to afford her the grad &scion she required; bet, on the contrary, deponent saith, such statement is a mere fabrication and invention - Of said Thomas Bulkeley, and is utterly false; and that ' the whole conversation which is stated by said Bulke fey to have taken place at the same time, between him 'and deponent, relative to said intercourse between de ponent and the said H. Bligh, on Mount Vesuvius, and Ns, deponent's, reply, as to boasting of atady's favours, is; in like manner, a mere fabrication of said Thomas Bulkeley, and utterly false. That the darkness of the streets, in Napier, when there is no Moon, is quite proverbial and well known—.it is like tee darkness of a cave or cell; and that it would be impossible so.diesinguish be tween persons walking in the streets after dark. • That the statement sworn to by nisi T. Bulkeley, that he was accosted by depopent one eve n in g ' , when it was quite dark, and induced to get into his, depts.. 4 nent s, ciatiage, and the conversation which is also stated by said T. Bulkeley to have passed in deponent's carriage, on that occasion, is wholly like, and never took place. Thit during hil residence at Riples he was subject to an intim nation of the eyes, Which tendered his sight ettremely defeetiee. That conversation* did take place between deponent and laid T. BM keley, regretting the health of said Mrs. Helena Bligh, which had been ninth affected in cot e quenee of her having remained very late, after a riding excursion to the Sago d'Agnano, in company with her htisband, Mr. W. Hamilton, and deponent, at a bad seisot of the year, which confined her to her house for some dirt; but that such conversations were Mete in- Tildes is to the general health of said Mrs. Helena Bligh. nit he is aware the laid Mrs. Helena quitted her husband, the said 'Morriss Nigh, in omesrquence of his having beat and other wise ill-treated her, and subsequently deserted his said wife, and left her destitute and without the means of support, at Naples. That said Helena Bligh having been so deserted by her said husband, said Catherine Pvle Tylney Long Wellesley, deceased, took said Helena Bligh under her protection, as appears by the letters aforesaii ; but de ponent inhst positively denies the conversation stated and sworn by said T. Bulkeley, to have passed between hint, said T. Bulkeley, and deponent, as to the advice he gave deponent respecting such alleged elopement. That said Thomas Bulkeley wa., as the Medical at tendant to the family, in the constant habit of visiting the house of deponent, and frequently two or three times a day; and that, on one occasion, he, deponent, Mentioned the circumstance of the dilrerences which 1 1 servant of :la Helena Bligh, as is customary in Italy. was ordered before the police, and desired to state if he had ever witnessed any impropriety on the part of said Helena high, which he repliei to on oath, to the effect that he had never 'witnessed* any impropriety in the con duct' of said Helena Bligh, during hisresidence in her service. Sot deponent most positively denies that such deposition was made at the instance of him, deponent, or to obviate any damage to him, or to screen him in any way, as regarded his conduct towards said Helena !High. That the statement sworn to• by said Thomas Bulkeley. of a cow variation which toe& place between said Thomas Bulkeky and do. pooeot relative to his, deponent, having hired the house adjoining Capt. Thomas Bligh, for the purpose of carrying on an intercourse with said irekna Nigh, is wholly false. That the allegation by said Thomasßulkeley,relative to a *errant named ilieheli Genfrini, having been placed in said Helena. Blish's bon" and his being a selettrated bravo, Is tonally untrue. That said Michell Genfrini, on the contrary, was re commended to deponent by his Dalian tutor, Bordeai, a man of amt• superior acquirements, and that be, said Genfrini, was recommended strongly to deponent, on account °this known integrity, as the favour ite and con- fidential gen.d'arme of King Murat, from whom he had received the decoration of the legion of honour, for his signal services as a soldier, and his tried probity, and the fact Of his having kept the pal ice doors closed against the populace during as insurrection, and wheie, it-as said, he killed with his own sword, being then gen ,d'arniepnine of the insurgents. That he, in his cooscience, believes, that these circumstances are well known to said Thomas Bulkeley. That when he bad arrived at Albano, he desired, 'contrary to the wishes both of his said wife and said HeletitiSligh, that she, said Helena - Bligh, should travel, not with deponent and his said wife to Florence, but should precede his family, and travel in company With said Thomas Nulkeley. And that when the intention of deponent was. communicated to said Helena Bligh, she appeared much affected, and retired to her apart tnent, apparently in much agitation of mind. That before be quitted Naples with his family, he was particu larly indent that said Mrs. HrlessaJ3ligh should not form a part of his travelling smite; and that he, therefore, purchased a carriage for her, and requested Mr. Landiton, the son of the Member of Par liament for Durham, who was more conversant with the modes of travelling in Italy than deponent. to hire what are called Veturini horses, which do not travel at the fate of those that post, and do not stop at the same Inns, in order to avoid the meeting with said Mrs. H. high and his family on the road; and that the agreement with the propr ietor of said Veuirini horses, to take said H. Bligh to Paris, Was completed, to the best ofdeponent's recollection, by Saidbir. iteMbton. (To be continued.) EDINBURGH, DEC. 13. Yesterday the fullest Meeting of the Faculty that is re- Membered was held, for the purpose of choosing a Gen tleman to be proposed to the Town Council to succeed Mar ving,now Lord Newton,in the Professorship of Civil Law, in the University. Mr. Dooglas Cheape was pro- posed by Mr. pandas, of Arniston, and seconded by Mr. IL Forsyth. Mr. Jeffrey proposed Mr. Robert f 341, which motion was seconded by S:r John Sinclair. Thete voted for Mr. Cheape 139, and for Mr. Bell 133. Saturday senn;ght a party of the Members of the Fafulty of Advocates, to the number of about fifty, chiefly consisting of the Gentlemen of the Circuit Bar. gave a dinner, at the Hopetotin Rooms, Edinburgh, to HEN RI( JORI/BTONII E.g. one of the principal clerks of the Circuit Court of .lu,s iciary, as a testimony of their respect for the characser of that Gentleman,' who hat now been at'ached to that Court for upwards of fifty years, and wherhas travelled no less than a hun dred circuits--Roseat DooDos, Esq. of Arniston, in the chair; PATRICK RoBIRTSON, Esq, croupier. The evening was spent in that genuine spirit of mirth and cordiality, which is well known invariably to charac• • tes ize the meetings. and to enliven the social intercourse of the members of that contentious profession. Tuesday night a widow woman, about 45 years of age, was found dead in a house in the Grammar School Wynd, Glasgow. Upon ()peeing her head, the surgeon of the police establishment found that she had died of apo plexy. Dropping down upon a candle which she had been carrying io her hand, had ignited her clothes, and burned the body in a shocking manner. Another instance of wilful fire-raising has occurred in Ayrshire. This is the third case of the kind in little More than a month. inc' dwelling-house and byre on the farm of Whiteridden, about a mile from the village of Kilbirnie, were consumed to ashes on the morning of Sunday serinight ; and those who discovered the fire first attribute it to nothing but the hand of an incendiary. assisted between said Helena Bligh and her husband, and the reports which had gained credit respecting the attentions which were paid to said Helena Bligh by this deponent and his said late wife; and on this occasion deponent skewed an affidavit which he had caused to be prepared, which he had sworn to before the British demur', and which set forth in the most positive terms, tfiat previously to the differences which existed between Said Helena Wig)* and her said husband, and previously to the period when the said Helena /high was taken under the protection of said Catherine i'Lle Tyiney Long Wellesley, deponent had never seen sad Helena Illigh, except in her own house in the society of her family, and in : general public society, and that the whole contents of such affidavit, deponent now again swears, were strictly true, and that he was induced to make such affidavit from a feeling of duty, and thereby to convince said Thomas Bligh, that no improper or criminal intercourse had been carried on between said Helena 13ligh and deponent, and to erase the unfounded imptessions which had been made oh the mind both of the public and said Thomas Bligh, respecting his said wife. That said affidavit was so far from having been in tended to quiet the mind of said late Catherine Pole I Tylney Long Wellesley towards said Helena Wig!), or Ito convince her of the innocence of said Helena Bligh, sad induce said Catherine Pole Tylney Long Wellesley to extend her countenance to her, deponent verily be lieves said Catherine Pole Wellesley, till some time after the residence of said Helena Bligh with said Cathe rine Pole Tylney Long Wellesley, was ignorant that such affidavit had been made by him, deponent, and which residence under his roof, as deponent bas before stated, was.expressly discountenanced at first by him. . That he most positiiely denies that conversation which said Thomas Bulkeley states took place between him and deponent, relative to deponent having shewn GUILDHALL. said affidavit to his said late wife, and also as to the George Garrett and dais Osbartoe were charged with a highway admission of the connexion then subsisting between de- robber', upon the person of Mr. Gutteridge, the Politic Onager. on may evening, in at. Paul's Churchyard. Tice complainantponent and said Helena Bligh, and that she was a lewd stated that be was passing round the much side of the Chareh about and abandoned woman, ever did take place, but that e i g h t e 'd n eh, w h en (m orns p us h e d aga t net .hun, an d, at the ea me the whole of such statement is totally untrue. itistsint, Garrett marched his Aver watok,wlth two gold seals, from That it is by no means improbable that said Tho- his fqb. es Th r e prisonersbet me Ste rited throughfol low ed dr L l ei l s ng Head be e cou rt Into closel Nat ever alas Bulkeley might have seen deponent, as " ell as lost sight of them till they were secured in the Old ! Chanse. other Gentlemen, in the bed-room of said Helena Bligh,l lan, a ram, bearing the alarm, stopped the pelsonent i who were as it is usual, and generally occurs in Italy, and fre-I bawling stop thief mere loudly than any body. Garrett broke away, quently 'in France, . that Ladies receive morning tisk: b in was *eared a raw Yards fvrtber on, end the watch, Peedeate ribbon reale were ilsarfnend lyinn the pavement. in their bedrooms , which, iiffact, answers to the Eng. Therms ' Tool, ' lad, stated, that he se w the rimier' and two fish drawing-room ; but deponent denies that said others in Aldersgatameest, snameavring to steal p some bons of bp Thomas Bulkeley ever addressed him on the impro- from a grocer's door, but be foiled them by giving the shopkeeper a hint. and s aw afterwards followed the gang into St. Paul's Mari& piety of such a visit, or that he remonstrated with him: on dee gross indecency of his conduct, (and, in fact, thatl pursuit, and kept prisoners rison e e iemeiit. the ew ou ror se e r ty. He joined the were secured, there was not such indecency of conduct) or that he In his defence, Garrett said Tool wets false-swearing vagabond, ever attempted, during his residence at Nnplet,to thew, and if his character wnsinquired into, it would be found that he was either by his conduct or in conversation, that he sus- not soccer hbwtttif. Osborne seas eiirrrt ..- Remanded. pected that there was any improper intercourse sub.' Was charged bin with robbing hrs an lod7lng7 "sithfied sassing between deponent and said Helena Bligh (and, his Landiady ,. tu in factahere was not any improper intercourse so subsist BOW-STRERT. ing) ; but, on the contrary, said Thomas Bulkeley more A young man, named Wm. Darks, was brought before Mr. than once spoke of 'the treachery and roguery of the Harts yesterday, charged with having robbed his master, Captain ° K r ug, oLliceld upwards. cautious of plate tad abet property to th amount Italian character, and advised deponent to be very cautious in his conduct to said Helena Bligh, lest the one day, about a fortnight since, C'aptah Knox had invited a friends of her husband might, by bribery, induce the, party to dine with him, and when the guests were assembled, the servant of said Helena Bligh to forswear himself against prison/sr was sent to ten the cook to put the dinner on the table.— deponent. . Instead of so doing, however, he Instantly left the house, taking with him his master's great coat, cloak and watch, and a hat be- That this servant had given him, said Thomas Bul- tonging to one of the guests. leaving his Own hat behind him; the Iceley, a significant nod, at the same time looking to- rest of the property he bad previously removed from the house, to wards said Helena Bligh and deponent.; an d t h at sa id gether with his own boxes. His absence was not perceived for inquiry time af ter t ie ba:l l left the house, and when it was discovered, Thomas Bulkeley stated, that from his knowledge of the Italian character, it was not improbable that this begfualrayalvas•Arplicaft was nude ma:e fter at him, but be e on w the as s no ul v ile . h et ere an t d o man might then be hired by those who were hostile to Bend, sea. an active cater, after ascertaining that the p risoner, the said Helena Bligb, to watch her and swear falsely when he left his master's house, proceeded to a coach office, from whence he started the same evening o n a B r i sto l coach, punned him against her ;and that, ere he left her service, it would' to Bristol, and apprehended him uh f d a y a f ter hi s arrival there, be prudent for her to take him before the police and drinking in a public-house with his wife and two infant children have his deposition upon oath, as to the conduct of the and his sister; all of whom bad accompanied him in his night from said Helena Bligh, and thereby prevent her husband,or London. Tart of the property and a great number of pawnbrokers' other persons, at a future period, from alleging f a l se ly duplicates were found with r said d nothing in his defence, than that" he had take', against her by means of this man's purchased testis, mane p r isoner mony. That in consequence of this Statement the be was remanded for further to exan p * tlo w n a on ra Ysi n es hi d s a ourn t e . y,' anti POLICE INTELLIGENCI. MARL/301tOtaiELSIltEIT. A man named .co,ep laces- lbfterearrier belonging to the ford s letter department at the Greneral Post Ogee. was brought to ail office In custody on Saturday evening, upon the followingebare e • The ball porter,in the service of Lord Grantham, stated, that the prisoner came on that, evening to his Lordship's house in St. James's-square, and having given the usual postman's knock at th: street door, banded in a letter, which be stated to be a Lisbon letirr, directed to Lord Grantham, just arrived in , the Lisbon packet, and demanded five shillings as the postage. The witness, although nt first be hada* suspicion of any fraud, because he knew the prim er to be a foreign letter curler. and did not know but he was s o yet on looking closely at the post inark f lee-eaw that it was a mes e effort to copy the foreign mark, very clumsily done with commo n ink, and he immediately charged the prisoner with the fraud, which the latter at once erasfeseed, on a constable being called to take him into custody: on elamining the supposed Lisbon letter, it ti os found to be a mere package of blank paper. The prisoner, in his defenoe, acknowledged that he was no long t t a letter-carrier. as he bad been dismissed front his situation, b., t said that he was driven to commit the fraud with which he teas charged by extreme distress. He was remanded for further examination on. Friday next ; s fin t the Magistrate immediately addressed a communication to mr. Freeling, the Secretary of the Post-ofilee, span the subject,—/b, prisoner is supposed to have practised this species of fraud to in2l: extent. XARY-LA-BOItNIL Thomas Stray'ont,dit &liver of dm amige.roach No. 6770, and James Gaysoood, the driver of another numbered 7221, both running from Paddington to the Bank, were conVieted upon the testimon4 of several Gentlemen of great respectability, living in the titig bourbool of the Regent's. Pork, of waiters amt. furious driving, &e. in the New Road, on Tuesday last, and were fined respeatively with costs. It further appeared, by the evidence of Ur. Clay, of Notting. ham-place see of the °endow * here sandal to, that, in the sum. petition, litatford'. coach came 'oaten wish a pony chaise, driven by Mrs. Herring, t Lady front the City ; she was not but much alarmed; the pony was thrown dower and injur4 that be was with difficulty got home, and an action is Mantled it be brought against the coach proprirtor for damages. UNION-MALL Yesterday, a man, who gave his name bend. ifullowny, wit brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged with belts:drunk an the preceding eight, and while ha that state, with Wrist' assaulted several watchmen. It was an easy matter enough to discover the country that gays Dennis his birth, the moment be opened hi, mouth; he sewed to have suffered a good deal in the conflict of the night before, scarcely a feature is his face being visible from the blows he had received. From the evidence of half a dozen watchmen, it appeared that a great number of Irishmen assembled at a house in Fryinepan-alley, for the purpose of " waking" one of their deceased countrymen:. Dennis was amongst the company, and as usual on such occasions, he, as well as others, got drunk in the apartment where the was placed. A fight took place between a Munster and a Coo. naught man, which was the prelude to a general row, in which it appeared Dennis joined with all his heart and soul, and in the midst of the affray the coffin containing the corpse, was knocked off the tsewles on which it was placed. The disturbance now became so great, that the neighbours were afraid to approach the house; when, after an interval, six watchmen proceeded to the spot, who, after meeting with some resistance on their entrance, at length got into the toots, where a same of the greatest confusion was described to have occurred. The moment the watchmen made their appearance, a general cry of " douse the glim" was raised, and in less than a second every candle in the room was extinguished. The battle now raged with great fury on all sides, the guardians of the night being attacked by the Irish party ; the former ultimately got the better of them, and cleared the room in a short time vied the rioters except Dennis Ilullowey. who swore that he should stick by the corpse of poor Larry wad he saw him safely laid in the ground. lie made an attempt to eject the watchmen by dourishisig a poket about, but be was at last drag ged away from the coins twilit's he clung round on finding that he was overpowered), and lodged in the watch-house. The watehmel one and all declared, that Dennis bad given them a great deal a trouble, and that they were obliged to use their cudgels over his head before they could reduce him to a state of tranquillity. Dennis—Your Worship, they have kilt me—they have knocked my head quite off my shoulders; and all for what ? why, for taking a little drat, too much to the memory of an mild friend. Cuaassizao—.Were you drunk, Mull/wily ?-111y my soul and that I was, your Honour, many a time. Magistrate—But I mean on this occasion. Yes, Sir, and that I was, as drunk as you please." Aleglstrate—Do you make a point of always getting drunk when you attend the " wake" of one of your countrymen ? blullowsp—Loed love peso, Sir, it would be au insult to the friends of the corpse, and es the corpse itself, if you iledis't get drunk at the wake. Mr. Cmastems--But when you get drunk at a wake, Mo booby, that it no reason that pow should keep a whole neighbourhood awake. I most floe yenis. fag being drunk. 14noway—Your Worship, if you gave me the King's dominions, I couldn't raise Ss. Mr. Cuamaxae—Will you promise me that drunk at a wake apin, for the next twelvemonth' Mill not get 0 By tay soul, ind abet 1 caret, your liswoor, for so nay as I p to a wake I most get Amok." Mr. CMAKURII:—Then you must promise that you wlll not woad a wake ? Mullowny—Then, Sir, I give you the word of a man, that teethe next twelvemonths I shall keep away from the wakes of all ay dear countrymen that die at this side of the water. Mr. Camas's* was satisfied with this undertaking, and Dennis was permitted to leave the office. The Pantomimes are announced; Mother Million, at Covent-garden ; the Man of the Moon, at Drury. lane ; and the Man of the Moon and his. Wife, at the Adelphi. AMIKICAN DUZLLINO.—A duel was fought on the Lousiana Bank of the Mississippi, between Colonel Jon S. Gibbs, of Port Gibson, and Mr: Allison Ross, Jefferson County. They fought with Ouskets loaded with fifteen buck shot, at thirty paces distant. Gibbs was wounded in three places, between his hip and knees. Ross received a buck shot in his breast, and the wound is most dangerous. tam ma NGIIIIILLI WHIG. Os Tuesday morning, October 25, a personal rencontre tea place on the public square in Shelbyville, between Major Phillip J. Scudder and Captain William O. Whitney, in which the latter was killed. The facts attending the transactions were as follow:—Cap tain Whitney advanced upon the square, in front of CoL Cannon's bane, where Major Scudder boarded, about nine o'clock in the morning, with a gun in his hand, ter the avowed purpose of killing Major Scudder, and sent him word to that eifeet. He halted about 40 or 41 yards in frost of the house. Major Scudder advanced on the pavement before the door without arms, and addressed Casio Whitney—told biro to go away and not molest him, for he did not wish to injure him. Upon this Captain 'Whitney drew his rat upon hint and raised kto a level Major Scudder then Nona into the house and got his gun, and steed ea the done sill, sheet the middle of the door, when Captain Whitney raised his pas a second time. Major Scudder thee presented and tired. Captain Whitney was shot through the Wadi awl fell dead. We certify the above fads to be arkset, being eye.wkwense to the crane sedan. • WM. T. COURTS. 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