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gt r . .):: , ' ‘f i' 4 ' A ' . 4 •~ BIOGRA,PHY OF rAR THOLOMEW DE SANCTIS, M.D. From the. Monthly G az ette of Health. • MITI& ar awn. an ItIVCC, MD. &C. &C. Dr. Bartholomew 4e Sanctis was born of highly res pectable parents, in the 'neighbourhood of Rome. After receiving a classical education, and serving bis apprenticeship to an apothe cary. be went to Padua, where he applied himself to the study of all the branches of medical knowledge, and prosecuted, with a rare degree of ardour, sambetnatics and the higher departments of phi. losopby. Having resided the usual time at this celebrated school, and passed the ordinary examinations. be took the degree of M.D. He then repaired to Rome, where be settled as a physician; and here his extraordinary acquirements in mathematics, his generil knowledge, and his excellence as a physician, combined with pleas. log manner', soon procured him an extensive practice. He was afterwards appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Rome. Notwithstanding the extent of his practice, the duties of his chair, and hi, irlent love of the study of mathematics, be found time to cultivate vasious studiesond particularly physiology, pa thology, astronomy, poetry. music, and the dead languages. In the latter he made so great a proficiency, that he was considered the first Latin Mid Greek scholar in the Italian States. At Rome hr might have lived respected and happy, but his mind was natu rally too noble to allow him to remain a silent spectator of the efforts made by Pius VII. and his cardinals. to enslave, by pre venting the diffusion of knowledge and the enaction of bad laws, the human mind, and to perpetuate that system of ignorance, su perstition, hypocrisy, and vice, which' form the very foundation of the Catholic religion s and which have ever been more conspicuous within the walls of Rome than in any other part of Europe. Dr. de Sanctis, although brought up as a Catholic, detested the farces and immorality of the religion, and hoped to see the day when more rational principles would be inculcated from the pulpit of St. Peter's, and when the diffusion of knowledge would exert its influence over the Romans, probably the most ignorant and de based people which now exist among civilized nations. Detesting the bigotry and superstition of the 'Roman government as incar cerating the human mind, and rendering his fellow-subjects an easy prey to imposture and slavery, be evinced a spirit of indepen dence which rendered him obnoxious to the Pope, who kept such a surveillance over him, as to interrupt his favourite pursuits. His mind being of too noble a character to permit him to unction doc trines which he knew were intended to debase the human intellect, he resigned his chair as a professor, and determined to spend the residue of his life in a country when the human intellect is al lowed to expand and pursue its favourite studies without the fear of popish interference. • It may here be stated, that he bailed with pleasure the invasion of the Italian States by Napoleon, for be conceived that the great talents of that extraordinary man, would lead him to overturn the system of imposture, hypocrisy, and ignorance, which had so long exerted its baneful influence on "the Garden of Europe;' but when he found that his object was only to increase his dominions, and benefit his own immediate country, he conceived as great a hatred for him as he formerly had held him in admiration. Considering England the most free and enlightened nation in the world, about the year 1808 he embraced the oppo r tu nity ir of accompanying the brother of the celebrated Prussian, Von Humboldt, as his physician, to London. Here be was soon intro duced to the Duke of Sussex, with whom, for several years, he was in the habit of dining three times a month. He had the good fortune, through the interest of his patron, to be appointed Physi cian to the Danish Embassy. Ho also obtained an appointment at the Opera House, where his powers of composition in the Ita lian language were found useful. Through this appointment he was frequently consulted, particularly by his own countrymen. Having now's prospect of getting into practice, be was persuaded by a fellow Of the College to obtain a licence. Supposing that it would give him some rank in the medical profession, and conse quence among his immediate connexion, he offered himself for examination, and being found competent, the College granted him a license ;'but the Doctor not having the command of a greater MUM than 230, he could not pay the charge of the College, of nearly 270. The liberal censors, however, agreed to take the 230 and a bill for the remainder at two months date, accepted by one of his countrymen !!! a liberality !!! highly creditable to a body of philosophers, although it would have been disgraceful to a corporation of shoemakerr!! The bill not being paid when due, the attorney of this liberal body threatened him, and his friend th e acceptor, with legal proceedings! ! . Neither ;he Doctor nor his friend being able to muster the sum, the attorney, probably from shame, agreed to take a renewal of the bill, giving him to understand, that if not honoured, the Docbor's licence would be abrogated ! In no other part of Europe is a demand made for a licence to practice physic ; and the high charge for one by the London College operates to the injury of the inhabitants of the metropolis, by excluding fo reigners of superior talent and experience from practice. Medicine being in its infancy, and' numerous discoveries being daily made in sonic branch of the healing art, in different countries, the exclusion of physicians of experience, (if properly educated) from practice within the limits of the jurisdiction of the College, acts to the injury of " his 'Majesty's liege cideens," for the protection of whose health the charter of the College was originally granted. To an Englishman, the cunt demanded by the College for a license may appear a trifle, but to a foreigner, and particularly an Italian, it is a fortune. T he Doctot was so inconvenienced by the demand of the College, that be was afterwards never able to pay bis way; for although sometimes he had several Italian patients, yet according to the custom of the middling ranks of their country, he never received any thing from them but an invitation to dinner. About this time the Doctor formed a connexion with a French chemist, settled in New -street, Covent Garden, who agreed to make him an allowance on his prescriptions, which supplied him with pocket-money.' The chemist becom ing a bankrupt, the Doctor lost this source of ready money. At this period of his life he visited many foreigners of distinction in London, as well as the Dukes of Suffolk and Devonshire, and many others of the English nobility. The Earl of Baste' and Led Holland engaged his le instruct some of the members of their families in the Italian lan'. page. About this.time the Doctor •fancied he bad made some discove ries which would overturn the doctrine/ Of Newton. These he published in the Philosophical Magazine. He also communicated some papers to the Humane Society on the best means of resusci tating bodies apparently drowned. Owing to his independent spirit, the Doctor now lost his employment as instructor in the noble families mentioned above, and became so much inconveni enced, as to be under the necessity of betaking to a garret, and becoming valet to himself. His apparel now getting shabby, he was obliged to discontinue his visits to the higher classes, and in a abort time he was forced even to quit his garret. Instead of spend ing his nights in a bed, he now passed them in the park ; occupied, when the moon shone, in contemplating the celestial odies, and when they. were not visible, in sleeping under a tree. In the morning. to quiet his stomach, he took the bark of trees, and when bard pressed by hunger, frequently made a repast on the green grass ! During this time of distress, he often went without any other meal than what the park afforded for several days together. On meeting the son of a political lord, to whose family he had given lessons in the Italian language, be was informed, on inquir ing atter his father, that he was at his seat in Leicestenhire b where be would be glad to see him. The Doctor immediately determined to visit his Lordship, and accordingly marched'off with kis tele scope for Leicestershire. living by the way chiefly on raw vege tables, and at night sleeping in the fields. On arriving at his Lordship's mansion, he was told by the servant that his Lord• ship was not there, and that be had not been there for many months, and that he was at his residence near London. Without receiving any refreshment, the Doctor left the mansion, and determined to return to London by way of Oxford. that he might see the Colleges there, and receive some assistance from the Pro fessors. Being shabbily dressed; he was only permitted to view the exterior of the buildings, and from the heads of them, he re ceived nothing. Here, for a few shillings, be disposed of his fa vourite companion, the telescope, to provide some more solid nou rishment than what the green fields and hedges afforded. Between Oxford and London. being very fatigued, and his feet much blis tered, be took a seat on a stage coach, for which the coachman, on his arrival at the hotel in Piccadilly, demanded the sum of seven shillings. The Doctor having no money, the coachman threatened to'take him to a police office, to which the Doctor made no ob jection. Alter much " dunning," during which the Doctor evinced the greatest sang frsid, the coachman allowed him to depart. We have noticed this part of the life of Doctor de Sanctis to show the cruelty of this scion of a noble house playing off such a hoax on a distressed roan. The nights now getting cold, the Doctor's mis fortunes became so .ffiicting as evidently to, disturb his mind; and at one time his existence was so intolerable, that he made au at tempt to terminate it, which was prevented by the servant of the writer of this article, who bad not only occasionally fed him for some years, but had•also clothed him and supplied him with motley. About this period, when his mind was evidently unhinged, he wrote a note to the Duke ..f Wellington, offering his services to the country, either as a mei'ical officer or a private soldier.— His Grace not having noticed his application, be considered himself insulted, and accordingly' broke one of the windows of Apsley House, through which he introduced a note. • con taining the expression, " Answer or fight—Bartholomew de Sands." The Noble Duke, although informed that the Doctor might whop s do him some bodily injury. with his usual intrepidity sod nobleness of mind, disdained to take ary fe tics of him. The Doctor also supposing that the Duke of Dever. shire slighted him, sent his Grace a kind of challenge, by transmit ting to bins a bent sword. rbtough the humanity of a magiurate of Ilaribtarougb.street • 6.-_____ Police -office, (Sir George Farrant) the Doctor was sent to Saint George's* workhouse, where be found himself more happily situ ated than he had been for a long time. Here he spent his time In reading some old newspapers, and dispersing politics with his com panions to whom he paid as marked attention, and as great polite ness, *sit they had been noblemen. The parish edam% consider ing that be had no claim on them, took him to the Police-office in Marlborough-street, to ascertain his real parish, when it appeared, • from his own statement. that he belonged to that of Sr. Pancras, to the workhouse of which be was accordingly removed. His exa mination and distresses having appeared in the London papers, some beneielent people tranultifetd money to Sir George Farrant for him. The humane Mr. Webb, then at Paris, sent Sir George The money being given to him, the Doctor soon quitted the workhouse, and having purchased a few articles of apparel, the Doctor -wu " himself again." His money was, however, soon expended, and at this time he is again an inmate of St. Pancras workhouse, with a mind fat from being in a sound state, and with , no other property than his " College License." which was the cause of his ruin, and which is not worth to him so many farthings as he paid pounds fur It. ' • Thus we have traced a man of splendid talents and extraordinary acquirements through• a career' as singular and unfortunate as any that has eta been recorded. 'Had be never taken a license trona the College he might now have been in extensive practice, and benefiting the public by his talents, instead of lingering unnoticed and unknown in the wards of a workhouse. What a picture of wretchedness does this man's history display ! It ought to be a beacon to all foreign physicians, several of whom are at present starving in this metropolis, of the difficulties they may have to en counter when attempting to establish themselves in it. And what a dreadful specimen is here eihibited, of the melancholy conse quences of the cruel extortion of the London College of Physicians! MARSHAL SUCHET'S TOMB. . . The tomb of Marshal Suchet in the Cimetere of P. Lachaise attracts the attention of all who visit that house of death. The tomb is sheeted on the summit of the eastern pan of the • Cf• - in eeeee . It is of marble, distinguished by its elreadett, elegan ce ,_ and nobleness of form, from the surrounding objects. A vault, which occupies a square of 25 metres, is the base to exterior • objects. Solidity, first and most essential of qualities in .a *orb of this kind, seems to have been the principal design of the architect. M. Visconti. • The monument, of quadrangular form, being about twenty-di feet high by six feet of breadth , is constru cted with massy blocks of white marble, upon a granite subbasement, and surrounded by a railing enriched with military emblems. Upon the principal front, which meets the eye as you approach the monument, you see a bas.relief : the Muse of History bolding the graver in scribes the name of the Marshal; underneath appears his bust. sculptured by David. The opposite front bears a trophy,-and upon the most elevated pan they have placed the arms of the Duke of Albufera. Upon the two lateral fronts are seen crowns of laurel, with Marshal's heinous, and ducal coronets , placed on cushions. The whole is surmounted by Lida, having hula at the angles and crowns in the none. In these crowns appear the Or. den of the Legion of Honour, St. Louis, St. Esprit, and the Iron Crown. The architecture is evidently designed to convey, at one glance, all the honours of the deceased Marshal. _ . The inscriptions upon various parts of the base convey a sort of history of his life. History eng pon a cannon the principal theatres of his military glory—ltaly, Germany, Poland, Spain. The two superior crowns upon the lateral fronts contain three names in each, the Var ' i the Mincio, and Austerlitz • Saalfeld, Jena, and Puisuck—celebrated places, where Gen. Suc het parti cipated in the triumph of the grand army before be arrived at the highest rank. The crowns in the centre bear the names of the battles of Maria, and Beichite, of Margalef, and Ordal. The lower crowns those of Lerida, Mequinensa, and Tortosa, of Tarragona, Sagonta, and Va lentia ; places, the sieges of which raised.to the highest point the military fame of the General in Chief of the army of Arragon ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. In looking to an author's merits, one of the first things to consider is, whether be fills a place which there would be no one to supply were it vacant. and whether it is a place which it is useful to have filled? I think that Bloomfield will abide these two tests. More vigorous poets, and of a higher class of invention, may easily be found; but he is original. natural, moral, and paints a condition of society which has never been so naturally and beau tifully painted before. He has a set of simple and homely, but in teresting images, which have never before been ventured upon. His pathos, though not deep, is always touching and pure, and sur prises one at what seems to be at once within every day's observaa Lion and yet quite new. The very circumstance of its having been untouched because it was familiar, makes the boldneu of touching it the more captivating : as it is the reverse of exaggeration, so its contrast with modern poetry gives it the more striking attraction. Bloomfield has no artifice of poetry ; be never uses the political phraseology of the common place book ; his diction is admirably idiomatic ; he is every where the poet of real life—not of a factitious and fantastic enthusiasm ; his productions are the unaffected and glowing mirrors of his own sensitive and amiable mind. It is very true that be was not altogether a happy man : I saw him gloomy, constrained, uneasy, and even dull. He seemed to be thrown out ot his sphere, from habits too strongly contracted to relax again. He bad a lively sense, and even morbid fearful ness, of propriety. Long habits of corporeal labour made a life of mental abstraction dangerous to his health: he seemed over whelmed with ennui, and cheerless and despondent. He had leisure to ponder upon his forlorn condition, and to pine at the disappointment of those golden dreams of fame with which every genius enters life. His knowledge was not equal to those devouring faculties of intellect, which required perpetual food. He was totally free from fatigue and enterprise ; and from his probity and extreme guilelessness, be knew not how to make i fortune or procure a competence. Yet we must not judge of him from his hours of listless disap pointment, or constrained intercourse with society. He who could write such poems must have had days and even weeks of raptures. A shadowy half-gleaming image of the mind, drawn into shape, and embodied in breathing words—a tender and thrilling emotion of the heart forced out from Its fountain, and painted in glowing and fadeless colours—formed creations oa which he must have pored enamoured for weeks : and, as almost all his pieces were, in their characteristic excellencies. mimed up with the most tender and lovely moralities, his delight was sanctioned by his reflection, judgment, and conscience—and his raptures composed themselves into that "sober certainty of bliss," which the hope of a virtuous fame, and the trust to be kindly remembered after death, seldom fail to bestow. A large portion of those who aspire to be poets are mere artists in words, mere dealers in sounding metaphors, which only stir up a few vague ideas of the memory, and scarcely touch the surface of the higher powers of the mind, while they do not excite the weakest emotion in the bosons. And of this sort of compositions it may nut be uncandidly said, that, of all the barren products which load the press, it is the most fatiguing and the most artless. Bot Bloomfield never drew from books, and nester wrote after a model. He looked outward upon the real floe of the material world, and inward upon his own bosom; and his penetrating eye seized upon features, which brought back to his reader all the images and scenery which he wished to present to them. We hear of " The Romance of Real Life :" Bloomfield's is the real poetry of the cottage life. Peasants in their most uneducated condition must assent to the likeness of their better nature. Instead of find ing under a country gash Arcadian shepherds, and the fantastic ravings of impassive lovers, the humble labourer finds himself softened and contorted by this unadorned portrait of his better affections, and intellectual sympathy with the tastes of the edu cated and the rich. Among the numerous and scarcely calculable writers of English verse, I would hesitate to put twenty above Robert Bloomfield. It would be well if children were taught his poems among the earliest lessons of poetry ; and I am confident it would improve both their benevolence and their understanding. At every returning year the cottage children of the neighbouring vil lages should be taught to sing hymns over this amiable poet's grave. A tenant of Sir Tito mita LETUBRIDG E has placed the tin figure of a man as a weather-cock upon the top of his chimney, and every day walk. into his yard, and. looking up, inquire , . " Which way is Sir Thorns. this morning ?" Wollner's Eager Casette. On Tuesday evening, a very daring robbery was com mitted iu the New Kent Road, near New Cross Turnpike. A foreign gentleman, who was travelling in a post-chalse trout Do ver, while ►ittiog in the vehicle. observed two men jump up in front, and immediately commence cutting away the leather straps of a portmanteau that was made fast to that part of the chaise im mediately under the poatilliun's seat. On observing the fellows, the gentleman let down one of the front windows, and called out ; but before the post•boy had time to pull up, the men jumped off, together with the portmanteau, and ran down a narrow lane, fol lowed by the gentleman, who ran until he was alarmed to rue any farther, owing to the lanswimeness of the place, and the darknen which prevailed at the time. The gentleman, being likewise.ant ions to reach town, gave information of what bid OCcirrearneir • the spot, and.ffiorgess, the constable. proceeded in the direction the thieves bad taken, and at some distance from lift high, Fosd, pupery-ground, found the portmanteau," but emptied of Itlcoidents. The miner of it matrOated, iooteafter the:r l Obboil, titatit Contained; besides clothes, a ennelderable stud antotier,:in ..Nipolenei sod dollsn. PROFANATION OF THE SABBATH. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE. Monday, a Meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian In duction, was held at the Albion Chapel, Moot Totes for the pur pose of adripting such resolutions as would lead to a more perfect observation of the Loan's-Day, and the prevention of its pro fanation. The chapel, which is most spacious, was crowded nearly to suffocation ; and among the early arrivals, were the Rev. R. Taylor and Mr. Carlisle, with several of their followers, who took their places in the central pew of the aisle. THOMAS VELUM, Esq. its the Chair. 'The CHAIRMAN opened the business with some prefatory re marks, in which be attributed the profanation of the Sabbath to divers causes; among which, the low price of gin he thought to be the principal; and said that the report which was about to be read to them, would give a fun explanation of the causes of the evils which they had met, if possible, to mitigate, if not to abolish. The Rev. Mr. MACE/CRUZ was about to read the report, when a person at the extremity of the chapel protested against the objeet they had in view. It was whit they called a profanation of the Sabbath, but it really went, as he believed, to circumscribe the moral and fair indulgences of the poor. The Rev. Mr. TAYLOR, Mee, apparently for the purpose of of fering some observations In reply to those of the Chairman, but was at once cried down. He was strongly supported. how ever, and several persons called out, " Is this fair? or the conduct of Englishmen, to put a man down before you have heard him ?" After a scene of considerable uproar, which was anything but in correspondence with the Christian Instruction Society, Mr.Yock ney obtained a hearing, and submitted that every gentleman. who gave his name and address. should be listened to with calmness and impartiality. The Rev. Mr; TAYLOR : Well, Sir, I am the Rev. Robert Taylor, of No. 17, Carey-street. Lincoln's Inn-fields, and wish, before that Report is read, to make a few observations. This would not be listened to, and the uproar was renewed with additional violence, and repeated cries of " Turn him out !" and, in pursuance of this mandate, a stout-built man entered the pew. and was about carrying it into effect when the quietism which the Rev. Gentleman assumed prevented its necessity. • Order being restored, the Report was read. It was a most lengthy document, and dilated very digits* the disastrous results which followed from a profanation of the Sabbath. It traversed the markets from Carnaby, (at' the West. end), and taking its course through Billingsgate, arrived at - Whkee chapel, in the east. It castigated Ministerial dinners, and tV "baking of jolato on Sundsys ; it analysed the proceedings of the press, sad fulminated an anathema against the newspapers in general, but *se of the Sunday in particular, which, upon the most regular sows, distributed forty thousand per Sabbath-day, which con veyed innumerable lessons of infidelity, immorality, and vice, to above 200,000 persons. Even the Royal Parks did not escape the vigilance of the Committee, and it was despondingly stated that the Commissioners of Wo ods and Forests were so obdurate, and so heathenised, that, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the reli gious, refused to close St. James's and Hyde Parks un the Sunday, and keep the misguided public from committing the mortal offence of indulging in their hebdomadal relaxation. This wound up the Report, which passed amidst laughter, kisses, and applause. The Rev. Mr. TAYLOR spin endeavoured to address the Meet ing, but his efforts were as futile as before. He held a resolution in his hand, which, under the pledge given by Mr. Yockney, he wished, as an amendment, to be put from the Chairs Though be bad numerous supporters, he was not listened to, and the Chair man declared that, while he presided in an assembly of persons calling themselves Christians, be would never listen to any person who avowed himself as the champion of infidelity. Mr. TAYLOR, finding that the feelings of the Meeting were against him, retired, with Mr. Carlisle and their friends. After which several clerical and other gentlemen addressed the Meeting, bringing forward a series of resolutions in support of the object for which they bad assembled ; and thanks being voted to the Chair nun, &c. the Meeting dissolved. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 4. This was timsecood seal. WILDDG V. ZOLDEN. Mr. KNIGHT applied on motion fur the adjournment of the fur ther hearing of this petition (which would stand on the paper to morrow) till the first day of petitions after term; and also that the affidavits already made, and to be made, might be then read. 'The petition amtained allegations of a most serious nature against a So licitor of the Court, and prayed for the re.instatement of £17,000 which it alleged had been improperly abstracted from the Court.— The case occupied a considerable portion of time previous to the long vacation, Counsel were heard on both sides, and the matter ordered to stand over for further affidavits, the Court binding down the plaintiff to file his affidavits within the first, and the petitioner within the second month. The principal doubt originated in the pedigree of the petitioner, which his Solicitor (a gentleman residing in Birmingham) was determined. if possible, to clear up, and for that purpose excessive labour, great diligence, and innumerable journeys bad been taken, and every exertion used. The gentle. man undertook by his affidavit, upon which the present application was founded, fully to prove the case of his client, and the falsity of the registers produced by the other ads, if the present applica tion was granted. The delay could only injure the party asking for it. Mr. &soars followed on the same side. Mr. PZINURTOS did not oppose the adjournment of the Peti tioner. but resisted strongly the allowance of filing farther affida vits. If the Court was deciding the right of the parties to the 17,000/. then the evidence wished to be put in by the Solicitor for the Petitioner would be material. The question of pedigree was not now the one before the Court. The Soucteon-thamst. and Mr. LOWNDIS followed on the same side. _ _ _ _ __ _ The Vice-CnattcaeLos considered the Petitioner entitled to the prayer of his motion, as far as it related to the allidavits ; but, with reference to the Petition being heard on any particular day, it would be quite obvious the Court could not appoint one. The Pe tition was then ordered to stand over sloe die, upon the understand ing that if any thing material was stated in the new affidavits of the Petitioner, which the Respondents considered• it necessary to an swer, they should be at liberty to make an application for that pur. pose.—Costs reserved. In the course of the morning hie Honour intimated to the bar that he might probably dt in the interim between the last d.ty of term and the first seal This, however, was not finally deter. mined on ; but the Court would take care counsel should have full notice of such a step. The Court rose at half-past twelve o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 4. Sittings at Westminster, before Lord Tem iec AMITAITST P. ♦LDUD. Mr. HOICNIIIION said this was an action to recover £39 lls. the value of an amethyst necklace and suite, which got into the hands of the defendant, Mrs. Maria Aldred, under the following circum stances :—The plaintiff is a dealer in jewellery, but keeps no shop. The defendant formerly resided in Speldhurst-street, Burton crescent. In April last she sent him this letter : " Sia—l wish you to call, and bring with you a necklace or two, and some hair rings, different to those I refused; as I have a friend just arrived who intends purchasing some jewellery, provided it is of tke best quality. " MARIA ALMItIII." The next morning plaintiff carried several Snicks of jewellery, and, among others, a very handsome amethyst necklace. The lady had not left her bed when he called, but her anxiety to see the jewel lery was superior to ideas of common etiquette, and the plaintiff was ordered up. The lady examined the bijouterie, and very muck admired the amethyst necklace. The price demanded was thirty eight guineas. " Very well," said the defendant, " leave it with me, and if my friend approves of it, I will approve of it " The plaintiff said he could not leave It, but would take the necklace away and call some ether time. " No," replied the lady, " I will not give it up, I like it too well to part with it." At the same time she put it underneath the bed. The plaintiff finding he could nut get his necklace, went away, and returned to the house accom panied by a neighb our. All remonstrance was useless. The lady, addressing herself to the new comer. said, " Fellow. you are not wantsd here." The plaintiff declared he would not depart without the price of the article, but was finally obliged to go without it. The letter from the defendant was put in, and the band-writing proved. Edward James, a servant to the plaintiff, proved that his master carried the jewellery to the defendant on the 13th of April last. She was in bed. His master showed her the articles and the ame thyst necklace. She asked for it, and his master gave the necklace to her ; she said she liked it, and would keep it and show it to her friend. The lady then asked the price ; his master said 30 guineas, and told her be could not leave it, but that he would call another time. She then said she would nut give it up, and put it under the bed. His master was übl ged to leave the necklace. Robert Pitman said, he sold the amethyst necklace to the plain tiff. It was worth £4O to a customer. The plaintiff paitlldna for the article £93. Lord Teammate left the Jury to say what the plaintiff ought to receive for the necklace, for which he himself bad paid £25. The Jury foinld for the plaintiff—Damps 41910. auczecar w W1L41116. • - • Th• plaintiff is an Officer in the Guards, and the dating a, Solicitor. It was in actin 406 the warranty of a 112111,' for irllch tbi plaintiff eallet*defendant'lSegaineavi* ward was wadi a' blemish wis bbservkd M **Ad her hid lapis.. Mr. Penley, the agent of the plaintiff, savr'iffs..l4llsq. aa subject. who said it was of no consequence; it would stand train= ing. The mare, upon being rode at fall speed, broke down , and became unsound. Mr. Pesky was called to prove a warranty on the part of Mr. Wilson, but being unable to say the mare bad been warranted, the plaintiff was consulted. (Adjourned Sittings in Middlesez.—Special Juries.) CUSTOM V. /AMIS. This was an action brought by the Plaintiff; a surveyor and ar chitect, residing in Whitechapel, to recover a compensation in damages front the Defendant, for having wrongfully sued out a commission of bankrupt, whereby the Plaintiff. (who, It was con tended, was not liable to the bankrupt laws) suffered considerable injury in his business. It appeared the Plaintiff had entered into some budding speculations at Worthing, in conjunction with the Defendant, who was the owner of the land, and who advanced money upon the buildings erected. The Defendant afterwards sued out a commission of bankrupt, which was superseded, as it was found the Plaintiff bad not committed any act that could jus tify such a proceeding. Lord TIPTEIIIII3I suggested a reference, but the Plaintiff would not accede to it. Verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, Xl5O. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. &mous east.—Yesterday, a young woman, of respectable ap • penance, named Susasesseds Budd, was brought up for re-ezand nation. charged as follows : Ou Saturday evening last the prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Burrows, a surgeon, in High Holborn, to whom she was known as an occasional patient, and requested to have some medicine. Mr. Burrows observed something very peculiar in her manner, and asked what was the matter with her, and she said, 0 1 am iU— dreadfully ill—but it is in my mind—l have done wrong —you will soon hear of it." At this moment a man was brought in, ap parently in the agonies of death ; and the prisoner, the moment she saw him, exclaimed- 0 There.-1 told you so—he is poisoned—l know all about it—he won't live Ave minutes !" This prediction was verified, for in less than Ave minutes be was a corpse. and died with the usual appearances of having taken poison. Mr. Burrows was induced from the strange remarks made by the prisoner to give bar ha chug, : After else was in custody else said she had known the deceased for some time, and she knew the cause of his death. She was brought to this ogee, and remanded till yester day, when she was again brought up, and Mr. Hams inquired if the Coroner had held an Inquest upon the body of the deceased man, and was informed in the negative. • respectable looking elderly woman came forward, and said she was the mother *of the prisoner, who she declared bad never done wrong to any human being, and the conduct which had brought her into her present situation must be the consequence of an aberration of mind. - Mr. HALLS said be could not suffer her to go at large until the result of the Coroner's Inquest was made known. The prisoner was again remanded. Jain Powell, a young man rather smartly dressed, was brought up by Sergeant Riley, and Teasdale, a patrol of the police, charged with the following daring robbery : Benjamin Prior, a letter-carrier to the General Post-Ace, had occasion to call at a pawnbroker's in Holborn, about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, and was coming out of the shop, leading a child of his by the hand, when the prisoner came up to him, stared hint full in the face fur a moments, and then snatched his watch from his fob and ran off. Prior called—' , &op thief ;" and, before the prisoner had got a hundred yards, Riley had him in custody. The prosecutor's watch was not found upon him, but he had In his hand two gold seals, quite new, which there could be little doubt bad been stolen from some shop. Teasdale, the patrol, came up, and feeding convinced that the prisoner must have thrown the watch away, while running, be searched and found the watch on the ground near to the spot where Riley seized the prisoner. Riley produced two pawnbroker's duplicates which he found upon the prisoner, each relating to a watch. Prior stated the value of his watch and seals to be six guineas. The prisoner merely said that he was innocent of the charge. He was committed for trial: A decent-looking young female, who gave her name Eliza Mann. was brought before Mr. Maus yesterday morning. by a police constable, No. 170, who stated that she bad attempted to destroy herself by throwing herself from off the balustrates of Waterloo Bridge into the river. Mr. ;hue asked the unfortunate woman the reason that had driven her to so desperate ao alternative ? She said, as well as her tears would permit her, that the enmity of a man with whom she lived was the cause. The Magistrates ordered her to be detained until some of her friends should come forward. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday morning, Thomas Archer, a waiter at Series Coffee house, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was brought before Mr. Rousse charged with robbing an Italian musician, named Fran cesco D enarl, on the previous evening. Mr. Lawrence, the proprietor of Series Coffee-house, deposed that on Tuesday evening the complainant was playing at his house • at about half-past ten he was in a very drunken state, and he de sired the prisoner to see bim safely home to his house on Saffron bill, and the prisoner and prosecutor left his house together. James Mead, police officer No. 133, stated that on Tuesday night, about twelve o'clock, he saw the prisoner with the proae cutor, who was very drunk, at the corner of Brooke's market. The prisoner told him be had brought the prosecutor from Serle's Coffee-house, and. requested witness is take care of him. Wit nen attempted to pad prosecutor's house, but be could not, and he took him to the watchhouse for safety. Prosecutor was too drunk to walk, and be procured assistance, and carried bun. In the morning, when he was sober, prosecutor stated he had been robbed of a watch, value £4, and 225. in money. Witness went to Serle's Coffee-house, and on searching the prisoner, In the presence of Mr. Lawrence, he found the prosecutor's watch in the prisoner's pocket, when he confessed be had robbed the Italian, and took him tea place on the stairs, where be had secreted the money. The prisoner was fully committed for ttial. QUE E N. SQU A RE. Yesterday, Michael Casey, a schoolmaster , ; J.Whistaker, a chemist and druggist ; J. Irsionafen, a discharged police-cons:able ; and J. Woods, a butcher, were charged with obtaining money under false pretences. The prisoners bad formed themselves into a sort of so ciety for writing petitions for the new-police candidates on an entire new principle. Their office was in the tap.ronni of the Boar and Crown, the corner of Downing-street. The bighr.t sum which they received for one day was X 3 17s. their charge. were Is. cm making the application. Ss. for writing the petition, with an un derstandlng that if. appoiuted to the police, each candidate should pay an additional fee of 10s. 6d. The Magistrates, however, could not take cognizance of the charge, and they war dismissed with a precaution. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, Maria Bemis and Rebecca Markham. two fashionably attired Cypriot's, were brought before Messrs. BALLANTUIZ and BRODZIIP, the sitting Magistrates, charged with stealing. 20 yards of printed cotton from the shop of Mr. James Brown,. respectable linen draper in Shadwell. It appeared that on the previous evening, about six o'clock, the prisoners were observed lurking in front of Mr. Brown's shop, and the shopman suspecting their intentions was to weal some of the goods placed at the door, watched their motions. A few minutes afterwards, while the shopmen were engaged in servings cus tomer, the prisoners watched the opportunity, and displaced the piece of cotton, with which they decamped. They were, how ever, observed, and a pursuit being made, they were overtaken a short distance from the house, and the cotton was found in the pos session of the prisoner Beovis. The two women were instantly given into the custody of Ames, a constable of Shadwell, and taken to thowatchbouse. The cotton was here produced, and identified as being the pro perty of Mr. Brown; and the prisoners, who it appeared had only been released from the House of Correction on Tuesday morning, were committed to Newgate for trial. `HS. In Park crescent, Portland•place, the Hon. Mrs. Shaw, of a daughter. At Ramsgate, the Lady of Lieut. Colonel Charles King, of a daughter. MARRIED. • At the Cape of Good Hope, on the 4th June laa, John Murray, Esq. M.D. surgeon to the Forces, to Mrs. Eliza Grant, widow of the late Captain T. W. Grant, of the Hou. East India Compauy's service. DIED. At Ilamborgh, John Dl' Lean, Req. late merchant in Edinburgh. Oct. 23, at Lausanne, the 31arquis of Headfort. At Gorgunnock Mouse, Stirlingshire, Jame• Dennistoun, &gib' ter of ilso late Robetvikonicoon, Esq. Glasgow. At Barbeeck e Lochavreside. Ddr. Julia 111 4 Arthur, surgeon, is► the 55th year of his age. At lilanae of Farnen, the Rev. James Wilson, minister of that pati.t, in the 7341 year of his age, and Slat Sr his ministry. - • • • 4:1 1 ;te-W ATI I / 6 4H-LONDOII I -BRIDGE TO MORROW • • Morning . • 40 minute, atter '~attttnaM 4s walnutfre-stser 10 ~.aa.a, LOWNI 1 ) rin!ed sod Pilllsbed by Joss ; a t , 0461;licklett-ybohTi `ll, it, io the Sur. . ~i i