Star. — London, England, 1830-08-07 00:00:00

LITERARY INTELLIG ENC E. Some grave moralist has called the Wks, "children five feet MOW and many a grave fool has talked in contemptuous tone of the " weaker sex," meaning thereby not only weakness of body, but of mind. The ladies of the present day, however, are driving such expressions out of use ; for the female literati, in the lines suited to their taste and habits, shew an excellence which is not a matter of queztipn, but of certainty. We do rot know whether ladies have much to do in writing the Ladies Magazine ; indeed, we rather suspect they only contribute a share ; but we cannot conceal that we have been amused by the Ladies Magasdee of this month, more than, by several of those appropriated for general reading. The ar ticles of this number are really all good, and the lady or gentleman alto cannot find amusement in its contents is, point de douse, too stupid to relish literature, and should give it up for more congenial pursuits. We shall abridge a lively tale for our specimen, entitled " 'flue Runaway." THE RUNAWAY. A JUVENILE REMINISCENCE. It was on the sth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety--, when I wanted two months of completing my fifteenth Ita', that being seriously in love with six ladies (four in their teens, el.e a widow of thirty, and the other a bouncing lass of two-and. ta enty,) I made my election, and ran away from home to follow the last. who had gone down into Nottinghamshire to reside with her mother. But though Fanny (that was the dear creature's name) hien played the very deuce with my heart, I do not think I should have deserted the other five, had she not possessed one charm which they all wanted. She could perform in tragedy as well as in court ship, and we had made love in acting, before love made me coin niit the rash act of running away. I had sighed and languished, sued and swore, in ten-syllable heroics; she had done the same, ex empt the swearing; and when, at last, 1 " threw off my disguise and appeared myself," she did the same too. Then it was we both vowed eternal fidelity ; and in the cruel moment of separation, she protested she would fly with me and take to the stage, if I would take to the stage and fly to her. I did so : but I was three weeks getting ready. First, I had to collect my travelling wardrobe,which, as 1 was not old enough to have the care of my own things, required due circumspection. l had to abstract front the family chest of drawers what I wanted, at convenient opportunities, and without ex citing suspicion. However, by the end of three weeks I collected two shirts, one pocket handkerchief, a best waistcoat, and three pair of stockings. These, with what I knew I should , have upon my back, would be sufficient, I thought ; they were dwposited in a trunk, big enough to hold them and myself too, which I had con cealed behind the water-butt in the back kitchen. Now I was equipped; and now I only wanted every body out of the way, that I might get out of the way myself. A favourable opportunity occurred. I seized it. With my trunk on my shoulder, and dressed in Indigo blue silk stockings, nankeen fy-for-shames, a white dimity waistcoat, a snuff-coloured jacket, and a hat quite good enough for travelling in the dark, (and that is the most I can say for it,) I sallied forth about eight o'clock in the evening, on the sth of November, running as fast as two short legs would catty me, to the George and Blue Boar, Holborn. I was in the very nick of time. The coach was just setting off. My l uggage was thrown into the basket ; I paid my fare • took my seat roof ; and in five minutes was fairly on my ;cod to my fair. Until this moment I had never been farther from London than a rural excursion to Putney on Sunday, or a visit to Greenwich Hill on Easter Monday. Judge, then, what my sensations were when the coachman told me, at three o'clock in the morning, that St. Paul's was sixty miles behind us ! I shall not attempt to desctibe them. believe Columbus himself (or Dr. Robertson for him) has told us what he felt when he first saw the shores of the new world. They were very like what I felt when 1 first saw a milestone sixty miles from London. arrived at my journey's end about nine o'clock the next morn ing ; and having inquired the road to where my Fanny lived, I flew, not only on the wings of love, but in a pair of new top-boots, which I bought before I set out of the Inn, to seek her. We met ! Al, Fanny ! your form was not moulded by the graces, I confess ; for of the three geometrical properties essential to all solids, Nature tad been most prodigal of the breadth and thickness. And you had a development of head, Fanny, with a circumference of throat, which could nog be called symmetrical. These are things I now rentem. Ger. I saw them not then • but what I did see, and what I still recollect with emotion, was , you had your hair screwed up in whity.brown paper. No woman, not if she were tinctured with the cestus of Venus herself, should ever let her lover see her head barbed with crackers, and the roots of her hair straining from the akin, as if imploring relief from the twiated torture. It is particular)] ugly ; and thetefore to be particularly avoided. As to husbands, Ido not s.c how the danger can be averted. So it must be left to take its chance, along with all the other dangers which menace love after it has been to church. We met. Such a meeting ! And we talked. "Oh ye gods, how we talked !" With a delighted ear, Fanny listened to all the perils I had encountered in my daring enterprise. The next morning I was to breakfast with the future partner of my histrionic glory, and be introduced to her mother. Quite the reverse. I was very much fn love ; that is a point no man shall dispute with me, and have the best of the argument, except it be in his own opinion. But I had an swear of sleep to settle, and I was still busy with the account when, at noon, and not before, the cisambennaid rapped at my bed-room door, to announce that It was twelve o'clock. And so I opine, it was entirely owing to the chambermaid at the Spread Eagle at —, leaving me to sleep till twelve o'clock in to? day, not only that I and Fanny never met again, but that 1, in toy own individual person, never eclipsed the fame of Garrick. Fur alas ! when I returned to the abode of my beloved, at dinner instead of breakfast time, I was met by her mother, a tall, thin, stately old lady, in a mob-cap, and a green silk gown, (I think I see her now !) who conducted me into a closet where she kept her best china and crockery. She bade me sit down. The old lady drew a letter from her pocket. I had no manlier of doubt it was all over with me. I had no manner of doubt it was a hue-and. cry after a certain person, who devoutly wished himself at that mo. meat in another country. Sly calamity was complete. It was overwhelming. People should never keep love-letters ; after they have once read them, and wept or smiled, kissed or crumpled them up, according as the nature of their contents may require, the very next moment they should be consigned to Vulcan, and suffered to flit up the chimney as parsons, clerks, and regiments of soldiers. He is the only sa f e onstos of such re cords.o Dilaceration leaves behind it a potentiality of discovery which may become a positive ease, by the aid of gum and curiosity. The world is full of fnstances of unlucky proofs, supplied by that tender indiscretion which hoards bits of paper, be cause they express in ink, what has been said in words a hundred coda hundred times before. Love's tablet should be the heart. It has "ample room and verge enough" for as much as would fill a ream of • gilt-edged vellum Bath letter-paper; and all other, save that invisible writing, should be treated as the ancient philosopher advised us to treat our best friend; like something that may one day become our worst enemy. In short, the very best of Bramah% patent locks, are as patent as the doors of the f reemasons' Tavern compared with the inflammatory process of combustion. Burn-- bum—burn, I say, to every discreet lover; as to the indiscreet lovers, who can pity them, when they sometimes burn their own fingers by neglecting to burn their love-letters ? I was the - victim of this neglect, and I " own the soft impeach ment." Three lettersof Fanny's, "warm from the heart and faith foi to its fires," which I had concealed as I hoped, in the bottom of a punch-bowl, never used except at christenings (and my mo ther had done breeding, and therefore it was not likely ever to be used again,) were discovered. These litters betrayed my plans, my 'Lancet, and the immediate object of my night ; and the letter which the' old lady drew from her pocket, and which was no Wet dons, was from my father ! The end of the matter was, l looked very sheepish while the old lady read me a lecture upon filial übedience, and all that ; very disconsolate when I heard my sentence, which wee, never to return to the house' n the expectation of seeing Falmagain. Id me then—l was going to say, like our first parents, dri ven forth from Paradise. I returned to the Spread Eagle, dejected, miserable, almbst heart • biolten, and as ravenous as a wolf. Boys at fifteen are notapt to be satisfied, like Octavian, in the filoutstaineers, with " drinking hiige draughts of sorrow down, and banqueting on tears." Their appetites are their masters, and keep company wttb grief in a very • amicable sort of way. SO I ordered a duck and pancakes for dinner, sod then sighed and meditated till it was ready. The landlady of the Sprmd JiLagle, a mother herself, and a kind, henetglent, gOod-hearted woman into the bargain, had penetrated my sebret Oo" thelollowitig morning, therefore, after I had break fasted, she • came into my* room, and faking hold of my • hind, " Young gentleman," said sbe; " I ant sure you have run away from home • Placed with her success, the good woman next strove to eta and spirits .• • and fiaished by telling me that a' coach for London would plus' th'roUgh in the evening, and that she would book me a place 'beide.' Ada she did so : nor did she suffer me to be once out of her sight, during the rest of the day ; but made Me dine with her own family, sia remain with them, till the hour When the coach arrived, *mkt set - off in it. • It was about ail o'clock id the morning. when I reached London. I took up my boa, walked down the yard, stepped into coach that was waiting, an d gave the man isle directions Where to drive. Theis( I at out; and just githe dawn of a chill November man. ins Was hating d wad at tisk threshold . ot 'sly bide AU the wiodoirs Were closed. • 1 b''C ad dot UTalf to )kea# ):y!t It s ev(illl hardly Ix added fear that withheld ate. ; • t)it but thee* use ass who bath watched sad weld. It was w) ma I Ms bad peered sleepless eights, aad aawksts days, during the absence of her wayward son. She had sought no bed that night; and beard, or thought she heard, sounds that told her of his return. Gently the door unclosed • and pale and are-worn my mother stood before me. The smile that brightened her pallid features was my welcome, and my pardon. She folded me in her arms, and wept for very joy. Nor then, nor ever, did an upbraid ing word fall from her lips; but then, and ever, my own heart s mote me, as I looked upon her wan and anxious face, or recalled its silent (and the keener because silent) reproaches. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Williams Dobson, late Quarter Muter in the Ist Hee:3:z! Life Guards came up to be heard on his petition, when his d was opposed by a creditor named Stevenson, a nen.draper, residing in Tottenham-court-road, for a debt of 61. odd, contracted for goods, and one sovereign money lent. The insolvent was very strictly examined by the creditor. It ap peared that he had previously taken the benefit of the act, so recently as the 14th of February, 1829. To a question put by the opposing creditor, as to whether he had not received the sum of 1001. from the Earl of Harrington, the insolvent replied in the negative • the Earl of Harrington was the Lieutenat Colonel of the regiment , he had never asked him, nor any other officer, for a loan of money. The insolvent stated hat he had been 36 years in his Majesty's service and was at the battle of Waterloo. rbe whole of his goods haj been taken in execution by a butcher: even the very sword he wore in the battle had been seized under the judgment, but it had since been returned, and was now in court. The veteran shed tears at the mention of his sword. . . . The opposing creditor said he thought the insolvent ought to set aside a portion of his pension, which was Os. a-day, for the liquida tion of his debts, amounting to 831. The insolvent said he had a family of five children, and one of these was deaf and dumb : his wife, too, who now carried on a shop in the green grocery line, had of late been severely afflicted by illness. The Court said that under such circumstances they could not think of apportioning any part of the pension, as it would only tend still further to embarrass the insolvent, who was ordered to be dis charged. James C. Harman was not opposed by any creditor, but examined by the Court. CHIEF Coustissiozza—What is your trade ? Insolvent—A coachmaker. What property did your wife take away from your house ? vent—Various articles. Cuizr Comtism/ma—You were married in 1825 P—lnsol. vent—Yes ; she had been married before, and her husband was transported for taking a second wife. He married her because he thought his being transported dissolved the marriage. His name was Denby. He had her taken to Bow-street, and charged her with robbing him, when Mr. Halls said she could not commit fe. lony in such a case against her husband, and she was dis tharged. The insolvent was discharged. It was stated that the wife was outside the court, and was a very pretty woman. jb Nathan, a Jew, was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe, on be holfagiati mailissr named David Cohen Alalgorius. An was sworn in this case, and from the questions put M the insolvent, it appeared that he was indebted to the opposing coeditor, who was a dealer in skins, in the sum of 701. The insol. vent had been recommended for credit by Dr. Herchell, the High Priest ; the skins (150 dozen) had been entrusted to the insolvent to make into caps, but neither the value of the goods nor the skins had been returned ; and be was opposed for concealing this pro. M gr ' . WOODROFFE asked the insolvent if he could speak Eng. lish ? He instantly replied, " Oh no, Sir." Here a voice in the Court said, " That interpreter does not put the questions rightly ; I am the most capable man." Cuts, Comuisstozza—Let that most capable man come forward. Mr.WoonnorrE—We are content, Sir,with the one we havegot. CHIEF Cosiuissiozza—Then let that most capable man be quiet. The Learned Gentleman then called a witness named Harris Emanuel, to establish his case, but he not answering to his name, the interpreter said he had seen him in Court the day before. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—SO you did me, Sir; but if I wareast sitting now, what would become of the cases? He then observed, that he never knew a case of this description, but the whole Court was sure to be filled with the children of Israel, one party denying what the other affirmed. Woonaorrz said that without the witness Emanuel he could not carry his case to a successful termination. The Court informed the insolvent, that if it should hereafter ap. pear that lie had secreted the property, his discharge would be re. yoked, and his imprisonment continued for a considerable period. The insolvent was then declared entitled to the benefit of the Act. POLICE REPORTS. MArroos-House.—John Williams, a well-dressed man of re. spectable appearance, who said he was a shoemaker, and two pri. vates belonging to the third company of Grenadier Guards, named Marshal and Price, were brought before the Loan MAYOR, charged, the two first with having stolen a 3001. Bank of England note, and the last merely with having been found in the company of his coin. rades soon after the attempt was made to pass the note. Mr. Joshua Freeman, a gentleman in the Inspector's Office in the bank, stated that, at a quarter past ten o'clock that morning, he was sent for at the cashier's office, and he received there a bank of England note for 3001. which had been stopped at the bank on the 14th of last December. He found that the prisoner Williams had presented it for payment, and he asked him his name and address, and from whom he had received it. Williams said he resided at No. 10, Friars-street, Blackfriars, and was a shoemaker, and that he bad received the note from a friend, but of the name and ad dress of that friend he knew nothing. The witness expressed a great deal of surprise at so singular a circumstance as that of Wil liams' being confided in so largely by one whom he did not know, and Williams then said he had received the note from a sergeant in the Guards, stationed at the Tower, but he did not know the ser geant's name, but a friend of his named Jack Murray, saw the sergeant give it to him. Witness had Williams apprehended.— Witness then went to Bartholomew-lane with Williams, who pointed out Marshal to him as the person who gave the note to him, and Price was with Marshal at the time, and was taken into Cu.. tody at the same moment. Marshal, in reply to the questions put to him on the subject, said that a gentleman had made a present of the Bank-note to him in the street, about six weeks ago. The wit. ness ascertained, with respect to Williams, that he was wholly un. known at the place which he had given as his address. Sergeant Samuel Pearce of the Guards, stated that he knew Mar. shal and Price, both of whom were privates. Marshal had been an officer's servant. Rowe the officer said that he apprehended Price because be was in company with Marshal. The Offim then produced a large Numb of picklock keys, which the officers said were as ingenious and mil. executed as they had ever seen. These keys he said he had found In Williams's pockets. He also produced a cash-box, which Wil. Hams took to the Bank with him, for the purpose Of protecting the change from thieves. . The LOAD MAYOR received an intimation that a military gentle. man had been robbed,of a three hundred pound note in the neigh. bouthood of Northampton last pecember, and these appears to be little doubt that the abovementhined note is that of which he had been plundered. • His Loaysnio then ordered that Price whose character, it seems, has been hitherto good , should be disc harged, apd that Wil. limns and Marshal should he committed for further examination. BowSTßEST.—Yesterday, Mr. Help the proprietor of • a divan in the Strand, appeared before Sir RICRARD Bums tai answer to an information which had been exhibited against bina under the Act of Ist of Charles the Second, called the fiabbeek.deg Act, for having kept his shop open during the hours of pie* asm vice, on Sunday last. Mr. Reis pleaded not guilty ; and Mr. Larmier, a constable in his own right, of St. Martin's parish, deposed that the defendsses shop was open at the hour of nine o'clock on Sunday night. Sir R. Mainz observed that, at the hour referred to, Divine service must have been over. Mr. Larnder admitted that the fact might have been so, but contended that it was quite enough for him to show that the dm team' carried on his business on the Lord's day. Mr. Reis said* that he Could not conceive how keeping a shop open, was to be tortured into a violation of the law. His divan was resorted to by young men who' preferred amusing themselves en a Sunday evening with a cigar, a cup of coffee, and a ite instead of spedding their time at a public - house or tavern:lle, it mat be admitted, he said, was not an immoral practice, and Certainly tended rather to the advantage than disadvantage of young men. Sir it 'h a m remarked, that coffee, cigars, or even newspapez were little known at the period the act referred to was he could not therefore understand how that statute could s t 7p d Ply them. The case wps one that might, with as good discretion, have been left undisturbed. ‘hi t ; G aun t er a) ..ked Whether the effect of this decision was to check his endeavours to have the Loan's day properly observed ? Sir R. Blasts declined answering the question observing, that every case turned upon its own hinges. He tho ught that in the Present instance he would not be justiffed, if he were to indict a pe nalty. • lie, h owe ver, recommended that Mr. Nth should pay the costs out of pocket, which Mr. Reis freely consented to do, and the matter mded. • SHIRT SDRARIifOA paper has been presented to the French Academy by • pg. Pmt g German, in which it is stated, as thermal' of experiments, that by shearing lambs early, and shear. ing them several times in.the year, a thicker and duet fleece is ob tained than by the present practice. TIM TURF. YORK AUGUST MEETING. YORK, THURSDAY EVENING. In consequence of the county election being fixed for this day, the rams did not commence till between four and five o'clock ; the at. tendance was more numerous than on either of the two preceding days, owing to the interest attaching to the great Produce Stakes, (value 1,2001) which will have a material effect on the great St. Ledger betting. The first race was for a Sweepstakes of WI. each, and 50 added by the Corporation; 6 yrs, &it. 71b ; 6 yrs, 121 b. iuul aged, 9st. Four Miles. Lind Milton's b. h. Madero, 6 yn. .. .. 1 Lord Scarborough's b. h. Cambridge, 5 yrs Even betting, Cambridge for choice. Produce Stakes of 100 sous. each ; colts Bst. bib. and fillies fist. 21b. Two miles. The owner of the second horse to receive back his stake. 20 subs. Sir. F. Itichaideon's St. Nicholas, Sat. 21b Mr. Petre's Brunswicker, Bst. 21b Mr. Houldsworth's Beagle, fist. Sibs 3 D. of Leeds's Redstart, list. 31b Lord Milton's c. by Cervantes, out of Clinkerina, bibs.... 6 5 and 6to 4 apt Nicholas-7 to 4 agst Brunswicker —and 4to 1 apt Redstart. Richardson and his party win largely, but nothing can be said of the three as regards their chance for the St. Leger. A Silver Tureen, value 100 sore. added to a handicap of 25 sore. each. Two miles. Ten paid five sous. 17 Subs. Mr. Ilouldsworth's Fortitude, 4 yrs, 7st. filb. Major Yarburgh's Laurel, 6 yrs, Bst. I Ilb. Mr. Dickson's Lucy, 4 yrs, 7st. Jib... • • 3 Lord Sligo's Brine, 3 yre, 6st. 81b I Lord Fitzwilliam's Ballad Singer, 5 yes, list. 61b .. 5 Sir. Scott's Barleycorn, 3 yes, bat. Gib Laurel made running all the way, beating every thing out except Fortitude, who at the end ran by him a length. Barleycorn and Ballad Singer beat above 100 yards before they passed bliddlethorp corner. 5t04 on Laurel, and 3to 1 against the winner. The following are the fixtures for Friday and Saturday : YKIDAY. Sweepstakes of 30 sovs. each—two miles—twenty subscribers. The following horses are here out of the twenty named :- 31r. Holdsworth's Beagle, Mr. Richardson's St. Nicholas, Mr. Richardson's Landrail, Lord Scarborough's f. by Swiss, out of Georgians's dam, Mr. Powlea's Lady Emeline, Mr. Riddell's Emancipator, Mr. Ridsdale's Bryan:, Mr. Walker's Splendour, Mr. Fowles's Lady Frances, Mr. Watt's Apantador, Lord Sligo's Brine, Mr. Shepperd's the Cardinal. The Hornby Stakes of 100 each. T.Y.C. Six subs. Mr. Houldsworth's Circassian and Mr. Petre's Lady Fractious are here. Sweepstakes of 100 each. Two miles. Five subs. Mr. Houldsworth's Abel, Lord Fitawililam's Sister to With. kenuidos, and Mr. Gascoyne's Cora colt, are here. Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, and 50 added. Two miles. Five Subscribers. Cambridge, Mendicant, Victory, Cutullus, and Lady Sarah. The renewed subscription of 25 soy. each for 3 yr olds. SATURDAY. The King's Purse iiiiyiolll mares. Four miles. Rosolia, Miss Pratt, Brinda, Ballad Singer, Jenny Mills, Bessy Bedlam, Fortitude, 4 yrs, Delphine, and Lady Sarah. The City Members' Plate of 501. Beats a mile and a half. HUNTINGDON RACES, Atm. 5. The Huntingdon Stakes of 5 son. each, for three yrs old, 7st. four, Sat. 41b. five, Bst. 121 b. six, 9st. 21b. and aged. 9st. 41b. The winner of a plate or sweepstakes in 1830 to wry 31b. extra. The winner to be sold for 120 sous. &c. Heats, once round. Seven Subscribers. Duke of Grafton's br. c. Paradox, 3 yrs. 1 I Mr. Hedley's ch. g. Blinker, 4 yrs . Mr. Boyers br. h. Talma, 6 yrs. Mr. Rogers's br. c. Suppleton, 3 yrs The winner was claimed. Members' Plate of £5O for all ages; the winner to be sold for 250 if demanded, &c. Heats, once round. Lord Exeter's f. 'peals, by Sultan, 3 yrs 1 2 1 Mr. Hunter's gr. f. Christiana, 3 yrs 3 3 2 Mr. Prince's br. c. Vortigern, 4 yrs 2 1 3 SALISBURY RACES—Tim RSDAY, Atm. 5. The Gold Cup, value 100 soy. by subscription of 10 son. each. Cup Course, about two miles ands half. (11 Subscribers.) Mr. Biggs's Tyke, 4 yrs, Bst. 31b. (J. Day) ... .. I Mr. Shard's ch. f. Acacia, 4 yrs, Bst. ... ... . 2 Sir A. Makes ch. in. Countess, 6 yrs, Bet. Illb ... .. 3 City Members' Plate of 50L for all ages. Two mile beats. Mr. Goddard's Sketchbook, by Rubens, 3 yrs (Chapple) ... 1 1 Mr. Radcliffe's Brownlock, aged .. .. ... 3 2 Mr. Shard a Harmony, S yes ... .. 2 3 Mr. Bigg'‘ Chiron, 4 yes ... ... .. 4 4 City Bowl, for all ages. Heats, the Cup Course. Wiltshire's Fadladeen, 6 yrs ... ••• .. Green's Maid of the Mill, aged .... .. DERBY RACES, Arlo. 4. Mr. Mr. 2d Sixty soy. given by his brace the Dais of Devonshire, for maiden hones, and that never paid or received forfeit. Two mile haus. Mr. Arnold's b. f. by Figaro, 3 yes Mr. W. Abbott's b. m. Poll Ratcliffe, 6 yrs Mr. Beardsworth's b. c. Goldstone, 3 yrs The Gold Cup, value 100 sov• a Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each, for horses of all ages. One heat of three miles. Mr. Giffard's Sampson, 6 yrs. Oat. 31b. .......... .. walked over Eight paid. The Devonshire Stakes of 25 sov. each, 15 ft. for three yrs old colts, fist. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 41b. Once round and a distance, about one mile . ani a half: Mr. Houldsworth's br. c. Crescent ...... Duke of Devonshire's Goldstooe, 3 pa REGISTER OF PUBLIC SALES, August 6. AUCTION MART. Mr. HOOGIART.—A Freehold Estate, in the parish of Painswick. near Stroud, Gloucestenhire, comprising the Painswiek Lodge Es tate. tithe free, and land-tax redeemed, with the ancient mansion and grounds, a farm-house, barn, stables, out-buildings , and 380 acres of pasture, meadow, arable, and wo od land; let at 8901. per annum, timber included in purchase—Knocked down at 13,960 L TheWassell Grove and Estate, in the parish of Kegley, three miles from Stourbridge, Worceste rshire, consisting of Wessell Grove Mansion, with pleasure grounds, gardens, and offices of every de scription, surrounded by a domain of 277 acres of rich land, with farm-houses, barns, stabling, and out-buildings, cottages, dte. The mansion, offices , and wood land in hand ; the remainder let to te nants fr om year to year, at 3941. per annum ; timber, &c. to be taken at a valuation-11,9301. Ma. CuNTIS.—A leasehold house, the second on the east side of Milton-street, Blandford-square ; held for 90 years, at 111. lls. ground rent--448 guineas. Leasehold premises, No. 40, Edward.street, Upper Park-place; let at 301. held fur 90 years. at 14 guineas ground.round-1851. The leasehold stabling, lice. Nos. 18 and 17, Grafton Mews, Fits. , ropaquare ; held for6B years from 1820,at 61.115. ground.rent-1801. A house, baker's shop and premises, No. 15. Hill-street, Park. road, Regent's.park ; held for . 8 years, at 71. 101. ground-rent 1. 1 -2951. A House, No. 18, adjoining-2751. A ditto, No. 17, ditto-2754. A ditto, No. 18, ditto-2751. Four Leasehold Houses, Nos. 56 to 39, East Field-street, Sal. mon's-lane, Lkrtehouse., held for 78 years, at 201. ground rent--40L Twelve houses, forming the whole of May's place, adjoining, held for the same term, at 351. a year-301. Mr. Rost.—Three Houses, Nos. 8,7, and 8, Claodon.street, near St. Peter's Church, Walworth, let at 441. 17s. a-year, held for 49 years at 141. 17s. ground rent and taxes-1001 A. Le asehold House, No. 89, Great Portland street, Alury-le. bone, let at 841. held fur 37 years, at 71. ground rent.-860L The Life Intereet of a gentleman, aged 40, to the sum of 251. a year, being an 'wonky or rent charge, secured on freehold property in Redford-2101. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, August 6. SUGAR.—There has been a very active demand during the week for Plantation Sugars. and more business has been done than fur some time past. Including the purchases of this morning. the roles during the week have amounted to upwards of 4,800 hhds, chiefly consisting of the middling and lower qualities. Prices may be quoted about h. per cwt. higher. (loud Sugars are scarce, and may be also stated to have improved from 6d. to Is. per cwt. The total stock is now 38,019 hhds. and 4.158 tree. In foreign Sugars little has been done. Low qualities are in rather better demand, and the fine sorts cheaper. In East India Sugars there is not much doing, in consequence of the large sale declared by the Company for the middle of the month, vit. 15,800 bags. Mauritius have gone off at from 81. to is per cwt. The importation up to the present month, is 331,420 bags, being 100,000 bags more than th e whole import of last year. - The refined Marta is firm, and fine lumps are in demand, for the Mediterranean. Corns.—The transactions in Coffee ate limited. Fine Jamaicas are firm Foreign Coffees are neglected. Tbe stocks on hand are about 11,000 hhd-; 5,088 bogs of Welsh Plantation ; 87 peke, And 15.144 bags of Foreign ; and 24.583 bags of East India, mkt. sine of the stock in the Sao India Company's warehouse. The estimated duty on Hops is stated at 130.0001. SCINTILLIE. TO CHARLES LAMB, OX TUE IIIEVIENAL OF HIS " ALOUD( VERSES" IN TIM LITERARY GAZETTE. Charles Lamb, to those who know thee justly dear For rarest genius, and for sterling worth, Unchanging friendship, warmth of heart sincere, And wit that never gave an ill thought birth, Nor ever in its sport infiz'd a sting ; To us who have admired and loved thee long, It is a proud as well as pleasant thing To hear thy good report, now borne along Upon the honest breath of public praise: We know that with the elder sons of song, In honouring whom thou ham delighted still, Thy name shall keep its course to after days. The empty pertness, and the vulgar wrong, The flippant folly, the malicious will, Which have assailed thee, now, or heretofore, Find, soon or late, their proper owed of shame ; The more thy triumph, and our pride the more, When witling critics to the world proclaim, In lead, their own dolt incapacity. Matter it is of mitthful memory To think, when thou wert early in the field, How doughtily small Jeffrey ran at thee A-tilt, and broke a bulrush on thy shield. And now, a veteran in the lists of fame, I ween, old Friend ! thou art not worse bested When with a maudlin eye and drunken aim, Dulness bath thrown a jerdaa at thy head. SOUTHEY. A LITTLE MONICEY.—The late Dr. Hamilton WAS sent for once in great haste by Lady P. to see, absolutely, a little favourite monkey, almost suffocated with its merging food. When the Doctor entered the room he saw only her Ladyship, her young son (a lad of ten years old, who was most absurdly dressed) and his patient. Looking at each of the two latter, he said, coolly, to Lady P. "My Lady, which is the monkey ?"—Blackwood's Magazine. TILE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—During the absence of the late Duke of Kent at Brussels, in the year 1816, his Royal Highness's birth-day, November 2, was celebrated by a splendid public festival, for which the stewards obtained the use of Fish mongers' Hall, where Alderman Wood, then just about commencing his second mayoralty, presided u chief magistrate, and the Duke of Orleans, u a personal and warmly-attached friend of the Duks of Kent, wu one of the numerous guests. On giving the health of the Royal visitor, the Lord Mayor particularly congratulated hint on the circumstance of England being the birth-place of the heir to his title; when his Serene Highness rose and returned thanks in a brief but elegant address, delivered with peculiar fluency of force. He bad been engaged, he said, as was flatteringly observed by the Lord Mayor, in rearing his infant family in this country, and the best acknowledgment he could make in return for the many kind. nesses he had received here, wastthe assurance that, in his parental instructions, he should ever inculcate in the minds of his children the purest principles of the British Constitution, and an endearing attachment to its institutions and liberties. DISEASE OF 'CBE SKIN COMMUNICATED BY Camett..—(From the Lancet.)—The following curious fact was related by 31. Biett in one of his lectures on diseases of the skin : Several years ago some camels were brought to the Jardin des Plantes, affected with an eruption which was speedily communicated to the persons under whose care they were placed. The disease was found to be of a psoric nature, but of great severity, and accompanied with a derangement of the digestive functions. The news of this affee. don made a great noise in the faubourg St. Alarceau • nobody tiered to approach the garden, which was, in the eyes of the people, a la zaretto with the plague. The rumour reached the ear o f the sutho. rules, and the minister requested the professors to report on this new scourge. The answer was, that the disease was the itch, but of a more malignant character than usual, and the insect of which was also different from that of the common itch. M. Biett, who was ex tremely anxious to have a sight of this insect, applied to the profes sors, but could not get any satisfactory answer, and his impressions are, that none of them had seen it, but had only concluded that the supposed insect of the camel's itch must be different from that of common scabies, and that the inference had actually been given as the bet. However this may be, some of the animals died, and the =mot them were sent to the Veterinary School at Alfort, where 3J. Batt renewed his researches, but with as little success as before.— The person albesed with the camel's itch suffered for a long time Mm it, modem after their recovery remained subject to itching, so as to make them believe themselves to be affected with an incurable ler* ; and No of them being two years afterwards affected with prurigo, adonlly from despair committed suicide. Another patient, who was one of the keepers of the camels, and was admitted at St. Louis with prurigo, which he considers as a sequels of the camel's itch, is extremely low spirited, and seems also to have a great ten antry to suicide, a sort of monomania, which indeed is not at all unfrequent duri ng the repeated relapses of the disease in question. RECOLLECTIONS.—Among the crowd of courtiers who followed in the train of their Majesties to Lord Combermere's splendid dejeuni in Kensington gardens, on Tuesday, the Duke of Wellington was the only one who seemed to have nothing at all to do there. His Grace graced the gay scene with his presence, it is true—" and pity it is 'cis true ;" for it was with a grace so exceed ingly melancholy that, had not the rest of the courtiers been too busy to note it, it would have gone near to damp their delights pretty considerably ; that is, if they built their delights upon his Grace s countenance, and deemed it necessary to their interest " to be glad, or sorry, as they saw him inclined." He alone, of all the courtiers there congregated, withdrew from the Royal presence as soon as the King had taken his seat in the Pavilion. Lord Com bemuse, " the observed of all observers"—helm'd, belted, and mag nificently jack-booted—had handed the Queen over the green sward with true knightly courtesy and most picturesque effect ; and having seated her in the Pavilion, he completed his devoir by taking his station behind her chair. His Royal Highness of Sussex smilingly paid his respects to Majesty and the marma lades at one and the same time. Prince Frederick of Prussia, in his tight buff jacket, stood dangling his helmet in his hand, and gazing around him—too much absorbed by the beauty of the ladles, or too tightly belted to participate in the good things , with which the table abounded. Prince George of Cumber land, a la hussar, sedulously occupied himself among the pines. sponge-cakes, and jellies. Lord Burghersh divided his attendees between royalty and the amateurs of the Italian opera, Lord Hill, Lord Cathcart, and a dozen other military lords, were busily occu pied in presenting " bevies of dainty dames" to the Queen, and •• shoals of rising young men" to the King; and every body else either eating or drinking, or laughing or chatting, mighty sociably. But the Duke of Wellington--he who was wont to take the lead in every thing—withdrew himself from all these delights, and wan dered about in melancholy mood, wherever he could find a bit of unoccupied turf to wander upon within the cordon limited by the public. Howbeit he did not wander entirely alone " for by his side a female form was seen"—a lady, short of stature, plainly at tired, and quite as melancholy as himself. She did not hang upon his arm, for his Grace made no arm for her to hang upon • but having his hands hooked listlessly together below his waistba nd by the extremities of their superior digits, she was constrained either to walk detached, or to let her hand find a resting-place somewhere between his forearm and his hip ; and this latter course she adopted; in despair, as it seemed, of any more comfortable arrangement. " Care is a canker," saith the old song ; and truly his Grace's de. penman and appearance gave mournful demonstration of the truth thereof. His Field Marshal's uniform illfittiog and somewhat superannuated ; his napless chapeau and stunted plume hie stooping shoulders; his sunken cheeks; and his eyes being con tinually bent intensely upon the ground ; all bespoke him not at all on fait to the gay and bustling scene around him. Ever and anon groupes of younger and ten times more beplumed soldiers passed him by and never stayed to greet him. Shouts reverberated through the air, but those shouts were for King William—not Duke Arthur. The Royal trumpets and trombones loudly proclaimed that " Britons never shall be slaves,"—but his Grace heard them not,—or if he heard he did not seem to hear. He seemed only to be entirely " wrappl in dismal thinking:" and if, perchance. some passing friend stop to inquire after his health, he seemed to sae, as King Job once said to his friend and Chemise?. lain, Hubert de Burgh : "I had a thing to fay. But let it go; The sun is in the Heaven, and the proud day, Attended with the pleasures of the world, IS all too wanton and too full of gawks To give me audience." Whether his Grace was poodsring upon Prince Polignac's pre dicament, or upon his own wont et due consideration in the new ceder of things at the Kneads Cain, it is impossible to say ; but area upon this blithe sondes be was evidently out of his element : and marvellously mambas •i• That the Duke of Wellington exclaimed a " That the Duke Woltioplos 9 (ion bless me ! I took him for portly gendenten loaning against one of the trees: fish oat qf sealer, or sows superannuated Colonel upon brand! -ay, and quite out of faces: !" • BIRTHS. At Queroeto, near Florence, 'on the 24th ult. the Lady of H. B• Warts Esq. of a daughter.—On the Sd inst. In Upper Berkeley street, Portinan.aqsate, die Lady' of It Janie*, Esq. Of a dkyt;hirr. • MARRIED. At Akl nega lteb /awes.•Pordiesta. eldeet .of th e Earl of Ca• Molltlotta Ansi, Whit • daughter of tne . rte Lord IL M. Howard, sad slope to the Duke orNorfolk. i Rimed by Joust 11•014 ai ' 1 . 14 51 " - OFitei K.. t. Nit•ft-ptiet:Teripie su. I