Star. — London, England, 1827-08-21 00:00:00

EY.;LISH OPERA HOUSE. tast night, a new 'Grancl Serio.Comie Opera wa. !produced, under 'he titte of 71te ireebooters,L--The •char..ctera weir supported is follow Chem de ArdiagheM . arr. 11. I'6lllps. ttggero de Anlingheili . Mr. J. Bland. L•louardu dei Ligozzi . . . Arr. Pearmsa. Gianni . . Alr. O. Mono& Art , lrea . . . . Mr. Irwin. Isabella . . . . . Sitis tacos. Leila . . Miss (inward. Cic. ins . . Aries Medea. The story tams wend the adventures of Wage de Arelingiselli, a Nobleman of illskeibte, driven from his country by a civil feud, - headed by a Chief of a company of freebooters, who bears a deadly animosity to Coosa Ligusi. another Noble, and the hereditary foe of the Ars'emboli The latter has recently married a yoeng and beautiful wile. /sobella Jet Ligessi . whom the former determines to get possessed it, and in CollgallictlCe sets his creatures to work in 'order to obtain her detention. Sbe unhappily, however, falls in his way, and is nude ',Owner, and confined without the knowledge of her husband in the Bandies Cattle. Upon discoverieg his hos, the Cheer sett out in swatch of her, and in the disguise of a shepherd traverses the mountainous passes amts; the Mps. Ile is accom panied by his servant, Gown, and a great deal of the interest of the Piece depends upon the etficulties which the couple have to sur mount In the end their endeavours are anceesstul, and the retreat of the Bandit is discovered. The interest of the scene is here coo• siderably heightened by the meeting of the husband and w ire, the horror and remorse of Mute de efedistikedi. and his subsequent joy in dbcoverine that Lobate; is his only daughter. whom tate carried away from him at - her earliest age. The parties are then made bappy.forgivettess follows, and the curtain falls. As a mus'cal producti .n the piece is excellent. The compositions are cbi.fly by F. Nun, and are both (has e and•brilliaist. Miss Bert. susta , red the p it f the heroine with the greatest eclat. .Th.s Opera his been delayed in its production in conseqorisce of the in disposition of Miss PATON. and Miss Brers.had but a shot time to• study the pint, in order to supply her placr. The task was therefore vety difficult. Miss BETTS met antis and deserved, great applause. Sae sang delightfully. Her fist song, a potacca, was en coied, and its repe item) justified the compl:ment. The path which she took in j,:ining duets, trios, &c. shewed that the hints which have been given to her, for the improvement of her style, were not thrown away. Mr. B. PHILLIPS executed two original airs with great applause. The pant which he took in the finale wa loudly applauded. Mr. PlItNilN was very comic in the chaiacter of (llama, a credulous attendant. He was encored in an eccentric song. which he gave in the best bravura style. Miss GOWARD, as a Country, Col, and Mi,s BODZN, as the wile of one, of the most d ring if the banditt;, kept up the interest of the Piece. The Duke of Sussex sat in a private fox, and appeared much delighted with the Opera; the different rots of %hit!) he frequently and loudly applauded Mr. ARNOLD, jun. has the merit of translating the Piece, which, ta do both the son and the father justice, we do is a hesitate to say, will be highly popular. The highest apptobsti us is due to the manner in which this Piece has been got up in its scenery, dresses, and deco. ralioni. There a.e several scenes executed in the highest sty le of modem art; among whit: , , we may particularly distinguish two romantic viesss in the Alps. The curtain fell amidst the loud and unanimous applause of a crowded house, and die antiouticetbent for tepetition was received with the warmest demon, stations of satisfaction. CAMBERWELL FAIR. The Beech of M•gistiaies; who are sitting daily in the Vestry Room of Carribei weil Parish, doting the , fir, acre yesterday occupied some time in the investi galiun 1.1 an assault charge, preferred by a 111 w-street pond, aga . nst a person named Perrin, which arose out of Me ti flowing eircnmstan, es : The Rev-rend Mr. Smith, of Penzai ce, who re cently app*ared .before the Lord Mayne, requesting permission to preach in the streets, within tl e juris diction m his Lordship, havir• publicly annnuoted his inttnt'on preaching the - Gospel," cii the Gr en, at Cantb:o well, last Sunday, a vast number of people assembled, among whom were numerons pickpockets. Alt. Smith was tequested by the constable•, who were iii attendance to preserve the peaco, to retire, but lie t!eclitied Joieg so in the first instance, • and formally calrd upon them to give their names, with those of the Magistrates who had einposeied them with t' e authority which they had exercised. Having taken down the names thus furnished, he called aloud for a chair, declari tg to the multitude that he would preach, and was again most civilly desired to retire, other site he would assuredly be taken into custody. A person by this time was observed with a char in his pessession, snaking way through the mob, towards the new. Gentleman. A. he approached the Tot, on the constable endeavouring to seize him, a fight ensued, when a Bow-stteet patrol was very roughly treated by Perim, who was ultimately captured and lodged in a place of . secusiii.. Mr. Smith, finding that he could tint obtain a q•ttet hearing to his doctrine, retreated with as much expedition as possible out of Camberwell pans'', and on the Cambers ell-road, in Lambeth pal ish, he held forth. In the course of his address, he corn tlained of the interference r f the Magi•trates, de slating at the same time that he would publish their tames to the would. Mt. l'cri in, when before the Bench, composed of Mr. Sergeant Scriven, Mr. Lett, and two other County Ilagiqrares, wist.ed to address them respecting Mr. Smith ; but at that Gentleman had declined attending, although the a%sault arose out of ' his conduct, the Ma gisttates declined beating him. Mr. Perrin, who, it seems, is a tradesman, and a ftiend of Mr. Smith's, was then held to bail, for assaulting the patrol in the execution of his duty. At the Assizes for Worcester, certain parties were indicted for stealing two ducks; bat as it came out in ividence that they killed the two ducks before they stole them, !dr. Justice LITTLEDAL6 directed the Jerry to It if them lint guilty, ou the ground in legal con struction, the words 'a two ducks" muit be taken to mean " two live ducks," whereas it was proved that l i me ducks were dead; and the parties were found not guilty accordingly. Tuesd a y a King's Messenger, who had been dis. reched Iv om London with the intelligence of the death CANNING to the Right Hon. MAURICZ FITZ• G "nn, the newly appointed Lord of the Treasury. m,:t within about twenty miles from Tralee, by a Furry of fellows, who plundered him of his money, and "''tad have maltreated him, but that he made known to them th e b us i ness on which he had come. The MA- Fis:rat e at the Petty Sessions' Court have instituted an Ing.riry jinn the subject. As soon as the intelligence of the death of Ir.CANNINo reached Tralee several of the oh l•keepers put up their shutters, and closed their shops Le time 1114litiCt 01 on the death of a near relative. noel Col ors Illlt d i y 0 5 rSO is . rich on Titt. A R. NI Y. , • Detackanessts belonging% the 4th, t Ith, and ISth Regiments of Llght Dragoons, marched this morning Irma Westminster, foe the Cavairy Depot at Itelaidstone. A Detachment beltneg?np to tbe BStb Regiment of Infantry, marched this morning from Westminster, for Dover. The heavy helmet worn by the Dragoons is 19 be removed for me lighter and more Jpyropriaite to active service. General Sir Cri• KUM Duets, VIII 'Tuesday arrived In Limerick, and assumed the compti..nd of that district. the Depot of the With Regiment, left Clontnel for Templernere. The 651% Regiment, which arrived at Naas last week, are de tached as follows--ileadquatters, Naas; tl e companies of Captains Ws. Morn UK, Skillet, MST, SMITH, IHOINHILL, and Fa anultaa sow, Atby Captain P. M. LAMM, with Lieutenant Jinn Yams and Ensign 'Wotan, Maryborough ; Captain Swuw, with Lieut. Casts., rbillipttaWll; Captain 11'4111Ra% with Ensigns H. and A. WYATT. Wicklow ; Captain Ballinglass; Ensign De . L'a vaaawa, and En-ign Bates, Gleninanbire. Ensign Wallkill, Mks liesintent, stationed at EllailtyttlOr, being out on Thursday at Labinch, with a pact of his detachment, for the purpose of bathing; observed two of his men go nut further into the sea than be thriti,:ht ptuthnt, and repeatedly ordered them to return ; but having confidence is their own swimming, they dis obeyed. The rssult was, that one of them sunk to rise uo more. and the other would inevitably have shared the same fate. lied not Ensign %Valium swans off to his assistance, and tbils saved hint front a watery grave. The body of the one drowned was found. shortly after list tide Eft, and ha. been buried with 111114ary Winona NAVAL. IN fhLLIGENCE. The F.mma, horn St. John's, New Brunswick, is sup posed to be arrived off Rye. The Wt.la Dutch corvette sailed from Malta on the t2ils ultimo with sit British vesseb, bound to Smyrna and Constantinople, under her convoy. 'Die Queensberry packet sailed from Malta on the 24th ultimo, fee Gibr.ltar. Cadiz, and F.lniouth. IPARI% AMOS? 18.—The lloppet, MALANDfIt. front N.nt , • to St. UK..., WAS wtreked on the Sererlli on the 4,11 mown. 1:A1,1011111, AUGUST 19. Wind ft —Arrived the unit). Fox, from CI tehec. baled the Bolivar, Betanc, for North America; alnd the Thomas, BAT YYYYYY for goehtc. Paratouvu, Amos: 19.—Wind E N P. = Arrieed the Nimble, from Riga. Sailed the Fiushing. kelt?, for Lisbon. POILTSSIOCTiI, Amur, 40.—Wand N.E. to N.—Areored the INSI.OW, for China; and Acacia, for N.w Yoik Fnur Russian lint-of-hattle ships, four frigates, and one corvette, saikd this sit...moon for the Mediterranean: the gentaintler of the squadron will return to Crnhatadt in a few days. Daaa, Aucsure 20.—Wind E 3lajesty's ship Rattkuulft, for the River. Alatveo.—At Hull, the Parker. Speed ; Anne; Spence ; At. wick, Ward; Britannia, Joe; Henry, Wat.on; Experiment, Bruce; Coriulanus, Hopwood; and Lord Wrllinginn. Brown, froM Archangel; Hebe, Gow; Alexander. Belton; awl Robert, Pace, from St. Pecersburgh; Robert, Leddell, from Wyhurgh; • Newland, Hunter, and Criticortlia, Luds!rom, from Riga; Juliana, Kreft, front Llantgic ; Sophia, Maria, , from Itostoci; America, Ptter.on, and Ch r i st i ana , Arum Copenhagen. At Lynne' Hoffitung, Kraft, front Straatind; .t Brigui, Wood, from Cad's. At Cardiff. Kate, 'HirOmarsh, trum Memel. At dusty, Charlotte, Ludingson, iron' Copenhagen. At Giern • sey, Ludovie %Wm, and S.lnhannis, &mow, from Lliautalc; and Bonne intention, from Antwerp. At Sigarei.ani. Kurope, Wood, front St. Peteraburgh. At Lerwick, Harriet, , and &hiatus, Bowte, from Archangel. At Limerick, Waltham, Webb, from Havre. At • Belfast, Anglem, Bell, from Quebec ; Craig Eldrchie-, Oliphant, from Se. Peteraborgh; and Mary, Anderson; from Archangel. At Dublin, Courier, Leckie, from Archangel; and the Jairt-a, Dallas, from St. Petershurgh. TATTAILD AT THE ClIaTOll.llOll3l, LONDON. lirwhatra--The London, Venus, (tons Sc. Petersburg's; Kitty, Cole, from Sr. Petershurgh; Expedition, Sim, front Cape Breton ; Harriet. Morley, froth Trieste ; Flora, Nlauldun, from Harlingen ; •Scotia, White, (torn Newstatlt ; and the Zwel Bruder, Thomas, from Koningsburgh. Csiazzo Ourivaans.—:The Twende Sodskende, Christensen. for liksineur and Copenhagen; Mangrove-Bay, 'Ritchie, for Dente rata; Landon, Jolly, fur St. John's- (Newfoundland); fatnes s for 'Paktum and Messina; lovidia, Siehr, for Hmhien, Hake, and Leer; 811111141 i Brown, Reed, for the Mauritius; Thames, Atherden fur itot:erdam • %Vibrant, Jolliffe,- Downie, fut liamburgh; flyndman, Sargrant, for Denierans •' Kren, Camper, for the Cape of Good Hope and Ilia Alauritios; Jupi ter, lierckholtz. for Stettin ; Cheso 4 -Morton, for • Bordeaux; Susanna, Clappison, for the Cape 6t Goad Hope and the Mauritius; Hoyt Charlotte, Duamaii, tor Madras -sod Prince of Wales's Island; Tamar, Mills, tor Cayenne and Den t ; Aurora, Thompson, for Gibraltar; Christiania Packet, Larsen, fur Chris tiania Jour: Wilhelm, Brink, f o r Rotterdam; Hayti, Stevenson, gee ii:Atera,m ; F.ying Fish, Smith, for Ostend ; Hope, Harris, rut Dublin; Zephyr, Fitzsimmons, fur Belfast ; Loudon Packet, At her den, for Limerick; Emerald Isle. More, for Dublin; Fame, Miller, for Waterfoid; Vrouw llirresa, I loltandrr, For Hatbden ; Belfast, Maim, for Calais; Chieftain, Salmund, fur Genoa anti seghorn; Tobago, Laidler. fur Miramichi ; Hope, Purritt, for Oporto; Minerva, Itichards,*and Eve. Stoddard, for Quebec; and the Asia, King, toe Liebau. Pins were first brough► from Fiance in 1543 and used by CATHIRINE HoWAND, Queen cf HENRI( VIII.— Brfcue that time both sexes used ribbons, loop-holes, laces with points and tags, clasps, hooks and eyes, and akesass of brass, silver, and gold. Lord NUGENT, during a- recent visit at Minton, Lad his thumb bitten by an adder. From she reptiles venom Luang imbibed by the absorbents, inflammation 'was excited up the arm, and ex ended from the axilla to the breast and stomach. The consequences were happily averted by medical assistance; and his Lord ship api e ►ed at Aylesbury on Saturday last iu his (dual state of health. The town and. neighbourhood of Birnet have been visited during the last fortnight bp - several dkpredAtots, who have carried c,ff undistotered a large quantity . of poultry and fruit. Juaday, during Divine Service, the house of the Mies QUILTEIt, at Hadley, was entered, and stripped of nearly all their plate and several other' articles. After an action near BA;SIISIOTe, doting the American war of 1814, several men were ob.erved hanging life less among the branches of the tree,. They Lad been American riflemen, who chose, during the battle, to fix them:elves in these elevated situations, fnr the com bined purrose of securing a good aim and avoiding danger. Whatev,r might be their success in the first of these de signs, in the last they fitted ; for our men soon discovered them, and considering the thing as Weir, refused to give them quarter, and shot them on thcir perches. Sunday afternoon, during the fashionable boors, an accident which had n. ants proved fatal in its re,ults, took place in Hyde Park, in the ride between the s•atue of Achilles and Stanhope-gate. A gig, in which was a Lady and Gentleman, drawn by a tine Spirited horse, took fright at something in the ride, and galloped with the utmost impetuosity from the direction of Grosvenor gate towards Hyde Park Corner. The Gentlem.n was incapable of reining it is, and c illed out repea eJly for some persons to impede the animal's course, but this was impossible, without the danger of being kn 'eked down and run over ; the Lady, in the meantime, was in .he greatest agitation. Tile animal ran the ch si se against the hind wheel of a carriage; so 4! eat was the shock, dist the Lady was thrown from her seat • into the toad, bet, happily, in a situation so as to_ clear the legs of the infuriated animal, aci also the chaise. She was instantly taken up, apparently quite. lifeless, and taken irsto the carriage which had unintentionally caused the accident; volatiles were immediately applied, and the carriage drove off in the ditection cot S anhope gate, for the pun• pose of procuring medical advice for the injured` L ady. ('he chaise was stopped near the milk•house, at Hyde rat k -cornet, without the Gentleman receiving any in jury. The chaise received considerable damage. POE I H Y. TO 11R. ON HI; TeRNINO EVIDENCE. 17. i ! taganhan Neathrks s 8 sup/ Lille following l'o;m, the concluding portion of which is worthy of Churchill, is the production of that fine old Cavalier, Al xtnde: Robertson of Stiowan, well known as t' e author of a volume of fu},itive pieces, honourably mentioned in .. W A vefiey." and the supposlci original of the g.liant and eccentric Baron of Bradwar dine. It has never, so far as we know, been publishel, though a few manuscript copies were circulated among the immediate connec.rons and friends of his family, from a younger brain's of which are have obtained, through the medium of a fi ienJ, that which we now lay before the public. Oar reaslets will be at no loss to conceive to whom it is addressed ; nor will they perhaps be inclined to condemn very strongly the keen severity of its satire, if they,tall to mind this the author was warmly attached to the losing side, and wrote tinder the. exasperation of defeat, occasioned, as he firm') believed, by t.eac' , et y.—The author of this Poem w as pre•ent at ti e battle of Killiecratikte. and was out both in 1715 and 1715 3—Cala/onion Mercury. To an that virtue's holy ties can boast To truth, to honour, and to manhunilost. HOW halt thou wandered tro it the sacred road, The paths of honesty, the pole to Goo! Mr! talk., fallen irom the high degree Of spotless fame and pure integrity! Where all that unwary th it filled your breast, The pride of sentiment, the thought protest, Th' unbiased principle, the generous strain That warm'd your blood. and beat in every vein? All! all are fl.d!—Oiler honest, steady, brave, 'low great the change—to coward, traitor,• knave! Oh, hateful love of life! that prompts the mind, The godlike, great, and good to leave behind! From wisdom's laws, form honour's glorious plan, From all on earth that dignifies the mail. With steps unhallOw'd wickedly to stray, And trust and friendship's 'holy hands betray! Curs'd fear of death! whose bugbear terrors fright lb' unmanly breast from suffering is the right; Tb t strike the man from th' elevated state— Front every character and name of great, And throws him doWit bctirath the vile degree Of galley'd slaves, or duogcutt villainy Oh! N—! Nl—! once of truth appealed, Xour Prince's darilitq, by his party lord,. ‘Vben all were !mid your worth and fame to raise, And expectation 'puke your future praise, 'low cold you sell that Prince, that cause, that fame, For life enchaiied to Infamy and shame? See gallant Arthur' whose undaunted soul • No dangers Lighten, and no fears confront, With unconctrn the axe and block surveys, And smiles at all the dreadful scene displays; While undisturb'd his thoughti so steady keep, • He goes to death as others go to sleep. Gay 'midst their gibbets and devouring fire, What numbers hardy in the cause expire! But what are these to thee?—examples vain; • Yet see, and blialk, If still the power remain. Behold tile meashal band that broke your bread, That wip'd your shoes, and with .you• crumbs was fed. When life and riches proffer'd to his view, Before his eyes the strong temptation threw, Rather than quit Integrity of heart, Or act like you th' unmanly traitor's part, Disdains the purchase of a, worthless And bares his bosom to the butchering knife; Each mean compliance gallantly detiies„ And in mute honesty is brave and dies: Wbile you, tho tutor'd from your early youth To all the principles of steady truth; Tho' fittlAtiOn, birth, and character conspire To kindle in your breast the manly fire; • Foetid:, tepuration,•elinselenee, all disclaim. To glory lost, and sunk in endless shame ;• For the dull privilege to larvOit the air. For evert..wing infamy declare, . And down to late posterity record, • A name that's curs'd, ahandon'd, and abhorred. Go, wretch, enjoy the purchase you have &rid, Scorn, and reproach your every step attend; By all mankind neglected and forgot, Retire to solitude, retire and rot. But whither, whither can the guilty fiie, . From the devouring worms that never die? Those inward stings that rack the villain's breast, Daunt his lone hoursi and break his tortued rest! 'Midst ,'midst rucks, and deserts you may dud A safe retreat from•all the human kind ; But to what foreign region can you run, Your greatest enemy, yourself, to shun? Whereor thou gu'st, wild anguish and despair, And black remorse attend, with hideous stare, Fear your distracted soul with torments fell; Your passions, devils, and your bosom, hell! Thus may you drag your heavy chain altrig. Some minutes more inglorious life prolong; And when the fates shall cut a coward's breath, Weary of being, yet afraid of death ; It crimes like thine hereafter are torgiv'n, dada@ and M both may go to heav'n. 1747. • Lord Da!merino. This brave but unfortunate Nobleman died as lie lived, with unsullied honour and heroic constancy. His fellow sufferer, it is well known, was the elegant and accomplished Bays!, Mari of Kilmarnock. The couplet of Horace Walpole is felicitously descriptive of the difer-nt feelings excited by the fate of these sedan: men. • ' beloved by gentle hearts Kilmarnock died; baltuerino, the brave were on (ily side. ' L ist week, a little boy from lnchinnan came to P.sis!ey Lair, and while there drank a gl4 .s of whisky and a tumbler of porter : on being taken home lie became un• well, and his parents, thinking it was only the effects of whisky, put him to bed to sle:p it.off, where he was not long in beture he fell into convulsion., which, alarming his parents, medical aid was procured, but unfortunat •ly it failed to afford any relief, and Is. died very shortly a'ter.—Paisley Advertiser, Amg. 18. _ . • A melanchOly accident occurred at Seaford onThirs darlast. W bile Mr. WiNDLIS, a young Gentleman who was lodg ing there, and who has been, during the summer, in the frequent bahit of bathing alone on our brach, was enjoying his favourite amusement without sufficiently appreciating the force of the swell, which bad been occasioned by the recent gale., he was, it is sup posed, taken off his feet by the retiring wave, and untortunately drowned. The body was discovered in about half an hour, by a person in the Blockade service, stationed in the tower; but before it could be rescued from the waves, the vital spark was extinct:— , The mother of Mt. Windus is a widow Lady, residing at Lewes. AYLESBURY, Atici.lB.—A dieulfill accident occurred on Monday se'rmight. A waggon and a timber carriage be longing to Mr. Cooling, of Lower Winchendon, had been to Aylesbury to fetch timber. When the carriages were at Stone, on their return to Winchendon, a boy who had been driving one of them imprudently endeavoured to get into the waggon as it was going on. In the attempt be slipped and fell, and his loot got entangled between the spokes of the wheel, whilst his smock frock was twisted round the nave or huh. The waggoner's attention was first attracted by the boy's screams, and be stopped his horses im mediately; but it was then too late; his foot was literally torn horn Main, and laying in the road. Mr. Seeley, Mr. Hayward, and other surgeons were sent fur, who proMptly obeyed the call, and found his leg dreadfully lacerated ; the foot had been separated from it a little above the ancle, and the bone was laid bare to the knee. They therefore thought it nee e yto amputate the mangled limb immediately above the knee—an operation which the poor lad bore with moch.fortitude. Wednesday, a fine gill, about 15 fears of age, was vending near %hat is termed the iengk door, in the fifth story of Mes•rs. M'CositigLes factory, in Ancoats, Man• chester, when an infant child that she had in her arms making a sudden spring, the poor girl was so startled and alarmed that she fell backwards through the open ling, and with the infant was killed Iron the spot The ,tufant's bead WAS lite:ally d.ishrd to pieces, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE. Arta. la. Men. 11108.-.--ADA Us O. DAIIENLY, E`Q• 14• P. Tnis was an action of trespass, for cat:sing down .nit carryFng awry the plaintiff's trees. Pica, ant guilts. The plaintiff's case was conducted by Nlr. MANatv4r. Mr. PoLtocit, and ifr. PLATT ; and the defendant's I,y Mr. Gunnel( and Mr. BOLLA ND. The c i.e, as pr.. e I MI the part of the plaintiff, waii.k.is ;—The plaintiff All accountant, generally rtsiding in London, but / • a small estate at Beckenham, in this count.. "I I.e defendant was a Gentleman of la.ge in tune, a Memlr r of Parliament, and possessed of very extensive est •1 contiguous to that of the plaintiff, where he 114.1 g• v. t quantities of game, which he preserve) m rst rigis!.y The plaintiff had granted a lease of his estate to a NI. . Wildman, rest ring to himself all tirinber of every • scriplion ; and the teservatiou expre,sly named, armor g other trees, alders, of wit:eh there were several clump • upon the land of particularly fine growth, and lii ) Ny valuable and ornamental. Mrs. W.l.lman underlet tr e e,ta e to the defendant, and her rent becoming in atm.'', and applications having been in van made to b parties for payment, the plaintiff distrained upon the defendant for the amount. This ;reduced some angry 'erlings between the parties, and a correspondence took place, in 'rich the defendant was made acquainted with the re,ervatinti in Mrs. Wildoian's lease of the alder trees. The defendant then gave the plaintiff no• tice that he should quit at the next Michaelmas ; an four days before Michaelmari Day he sent between 53 and 60 men upon the estate, who, under his direction, cut down miry one of the plaintiff's favourite alder trees, cut them up into bavins, and removed them in his waggons t r his own adjuining land, cutting gaps in the plaintiff's hedges, for the purpose of taking the waggons through, though they might have gone round by the road without having recourse in that expediro. When the meal first began to cut down the trees, the plaintiff sent to the delendant,and watned him to de sist, but the warning was not attaroled to. The trees, which were of SO years growth, and of considerable size, varying from three to twelve inches di .meter, were valued at 451 to sell; but as anairnament to the estate, they were described as being invaluable. After t e mischief was done, the plaintiff proposed to the defend ant to have the affair settled by arbitra ion ; but that course being rejected by the delendant, the present action was brought. It was contended on the part of the defendant 'hit he had acted under an honest, though, perhaps, an errone• ous notion, that the trees were the property o! the ten ant, and not of the landlord, and that hi, conduct kad been wholly uninfluenced by any feeling of malice against the plaintiff; and, therefore, that there was no pretence for awarding any damages against him in that respect ; and with respect to the trees, •everal witnesses were called, who swore that the clumps at alders well not in the least ornamental; Oar they were of much younger growth and much smaller size than they had been represented ; that.tbey were 6t for nothing but to use as firewood; and that•their extreme value was Irons 61.105. to 71. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the eae to the Jury. Our immortal Bard had st.ted, that " the better pa't of valour was discretion," and he had hoped that the Learned Counsel for the defendant, as he was unques tionablivaliant, would also have proved litm:elf c.eet on thi.oceasion,and : would have valued the Poet's assertion, by ahandoriin4 any attempt at defence to Ste action, e;peciallyso bad a .delence AS he had been stiadik advised ya adopt. -The-case had certainly been greatly aggravated by the defence which It id been set up, and he . suis only astoni.hed how so te•pect able a Gintleasan as the defendant could have come Or the resolution of bringing seek wicase imo oCotft t. hid..in - his opinion. been kuiltyOf A wilful, malicinti and mdst unkind and unnewhhoisrly tr. sp fSS. and the Jury, would be perNetly justiked in visiting his conduct .is There was, certainly, 'etintradictory evidence With respect to the value of the trees, but the idly would hardly doubt th it such trees were ornaisrentalto 1 1 the estate upon which they. grew ; and they would 'do no mote than was fair in t.king tl eir value in that re spect into the account, when they es:Malted the damages which they were to give. ' • The Jury, after a than deliberation, found a verdict for the' plaintiff— Da m ages, 801. • WARWICK, Almon. 17. LIBEL.—ADAMS, ESQ. V. MEKRIDEPIr. Mr. CLARICE, who was assisted by the COSIMON Sen. GIANT and Mr. HILL. stated that ti•e pl.iintiff in this case, who was a most re,pectable Magistrate of the county of Warwick, had be n grossly .ibelled by the defendant, who had thought proper to circula:e hand bills to the number of 2,000, casting the gr:•ssest aver ions on his char •cter as a Magi,ti ate, and imputing conduct to him of the most con upt a d dishonourable nature. Every person mu , t rect liter tire circumstances attending the last election for Coventr►. The tumults and riots which took place on that occasion were so serious, and the local Magistrates wete either so unable or so unwilling to suppess them, or i.reerve any thing like order, that a number of the inhabitants pre rented a Petition to Parliament, praying that the Magistrates of the County might receive a con cur,ent jurisdiction with the Aidirmen in the city of C..ventry, wherehy order and quiet would be more likely to he preserved in future. The prayer of this petiti..to having b en acceded to by the House of Com mons, a BM was introduced for that purpose, and it was wt,ilr it was under discussion that the libel i.ow complai ,ed of was published. It first appeared in the Coventry Heald newspaper; and lest it might not be sufficiently circulates! through that chant e', it was re published neat day in a handbill, enp:es of u !rich were industriously spread thioUgh all parts of the ‘oonty. It was in the shape of a letter signed by a " A Cnurch man,' and addressed "To the petitioners for opening the jurisdiction of the City to the County Magistrates." After describing these Gzinlemen as being mostly Clergythen, who could not find time, cowls( tidy with a due discharge of their spit itual duties towards their I , micas, particularly as some of them held several livings, to attend to the quarrels or differences of the people of Coventry, the handbill went on to say (and this was the part set out in the pleadings as the libel upon the plain tiff)—" The other two Magistrates having jurisd , ction within our county are H. C. Adams, Esq. and the Rev Mr. Gregory ; the latter of whom is upon the Contineut. With respect to Mr. Adams, he is Chairman to the Finance Committee of the County 'of Warwick, and has audited accounts contait.ing items of 12,0001. for the nominal purpose of furnishing lodgings, plate, &c. for the Judges, but which expenditure, in reality, was to find accommodation for the Magistrates,•as the Sheriff Assays found the Judges suitable 1 dgings, without „.utting the County to ally expente." The Writer than ~~ .~ Alllll l lt I i