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. . LBO ago /mai=n ET THE DZATII ON * HAEITII7V IO , TOinitt LASt, IN THE 15TH TEAR Or au MIL . reckon'd in the month of May, 'Twas cold, end Spring disovieNthrdht; ` ' A Pim, uatutor'd in Medias% ' Had 'prematurely rented its prime, Look'd for the Summer with a blids-- • But lookl, alas! and bladed in vain, • Old Winter hobbled back again, And, envious that it blomorn i d so, Instead of sunshine, gave it snow ; • Its cup was currd--its colour Std; And low it hung its drooping heal. And seem'd to those who taw the spot To perish—but it perish'd net ! An Angel came that wintry day • And pluck'd it from its frozen spray— Shook off the snow, and thaw 'd the ice. And carried it to Paradise— A fitter climate for a rose— • A climate where it never snows ! • • Among the thousands who have fallen victims to the - yellow fever, which has been so destructive in the. Island of Jamaica, for the last twelve months, may be mentioned the daughter of Sir Hosts POPHAM, a fne young woman, who died on the 31st of March last, after only three days illness. • Wednesday morning early, Mrs. FALCONER. of Burgh-in-the-Marsh, Lincolnshire, waif found life less, sitting in her chair near theAre-nlace. There was a storm of thunder and lightning . on the pre ceding evening, and from the position in. which she was found, it, is supposed that she was struck dead by the lightning, whilst in the act of unpinning her handkerchief, preparatory to going to bed, lier hus-, band died about nine months since, leaving eleven children, all of whom are now living. Wednesday afternoon, the following melancholy accident happened, during a very heavy thunder • storm, which was felt in Carlisle, and along a Very ex tended district :—Asa young man,named Joseph Bell, servant to Mr. WILLIAM BoRROWDALE, of Glasson Lonning-f'ot, parish of Bowness, was harrowing in a field, near the former place, the- electric fluid struck both him and his team dead upon the spot. He was about 21 years of age, and son of Mr. Joseph Bell, ship-carpenter, Bowness.—The storm was much more violent in the direction of the Solway Firth.. At Pooley, near Penrith, a dog was killed by the light ning, while lying under a table, in a room where there were seven persons, all of whom miraculously escaped uninjured. • Wednesday afternoon there were many vivid flashes of lightning and peals of thunder at Glasgow, accom panied by heavy rain. A haystack on the new Wood side was set on tire, but speedily extinguished. Wednesday week, at noon, a thunder storm passed , over Newcastle. The electric fluid struck a house at the foot of Dean-street, lately occupied by Mr. Fatt., auctioneer, threw • down part of the chimnies, and, penetrating the roof, passed through into the adjoin ing horse, without, however, doing any serious in jury. The peal of thunder that followed was tremen dotts beyond description: A _Gentleman, who, it appears from his papers, is. a Mr. SPEAR, of Bandon, near Cork, after landing, from one of the packets at Bristol, and dining at the Inn in that City, on Monday se'nnight, Went out to take a walk, when, on returning, be fell down, and, instantly expired. • 'A shocking accident took plaCe on Saturday at Bow Fair. A woman, who imprudently stood up in one of the ups- and-downs, notwithstanding advice to: the contrary, when at its height, fell otir, bloke both her legs and one arm; and was otherwise much in jured. She was taken to the London Hospital, where she expired in less than an hour. A providential escape from destruction by file was experienced by the family of Mr. CLAIM; farmer., of Pickworth, Rutland, on S.ittirday se'nnight. Just before the hamil y went to bed, Mrs. Cta !ME directed a female servant to cut a candle from several pounds which hung up in a closet ; the girl, instead of- cut tilg of the candle, Luna it .f at the wick, and sup posed that she then nipped out the flame so as to pre vent its spreading to the wicks of the other candles in the pound. The door of the closet was immediately closed, and the family retired to rest. Next morning, it was discovered that three or four dozen candles . were burnt in the closet, and that the flames had, in several places, made holes through shelves and drawers, and occasioned the destruction of a number of articles, bat providentially had died away before the fire extended beyond the closet door, owing, pro-' bably, to the want of a current of air. The door was, however, just burnt through ; and the degree of heat within the closet had been so great as to occasion se veral bottles of elder wine to burst, and a large jar, whicti contained starch, to moulder to pieces when removed. Had the flames extended beyond the closet, it is probable that the whole family Would have been burnt in their beds. AFRICA—By late information, it seems that thee*. dition under the command of-Major GRAY, an whom tte direction devolved after the death of Major PEn sit, has returned to Galam, on the senegal, after a most harassing journey through the country of the • Foolido . Mr. DOCITERD:the Surgeon attached to the expedition, had, with a few individuals, however, proceeded onwards to Bammakoo; in Bambarra, from whence accounts have been received from him, dated twelve months since, expressing his hopes of procuring the necessary permission to proceed further. Markets, it seems, were held twice every week at Sandsanding and lamina,. where provisions were reasonable, and Merysort of Ettropean merchandize in greattlemand, especially articles of finery for the dresses of the fe males, who are fond of shewy colours. Among other things *ere 'Manchester prints in great abundance, which seemed to meet a ready sale, and which must have been conveyed by the caravan from Morocco across the •Greit Desert. Lieutenant LYON, of the Royillgavy, %rho was the friend and fellow-traveller of the late Mr. ItirOnre, is appointed to succeed that Gentleman as British Vice-Consul at Mourzouk, the • capital of 'restart, in Africa, for the purpose of faci litating and attempting discoveries. By the Magnet, which left Cape . Coast on the 23d of March, we learn • that Mr. Duriurshacl proceeded to Cormassie, to enter "upon his functions as Consul at the Court of the Kingasf AbiIANTEE, and had arrived in safety and been well received. .- i -_.. --- • .LAlr inl 'COW OP W XINS et r *A4 it T molt P. stn s. Te. .Thirvaa inaction by the plaiwir, a builder, to Stove, from Sir G. P.4urner the balance of an ac cost* of work and labium done at Sir. GregOry'il-seat,, in- Northamptonshire. The plaintiff's original de mand was 06,260; but there had been paid on ac count £1,600, leaving a balance of £4,660. The - dafindant nowsontencled that the plaintiff was not .entitled to so large a sum, inasmuch as the work, - was badly done, especially the wood-work and tiling of the roof'of the picture • A number of witnesses were now called by the plaintiff, to prove the work .properly done, under the superintendence of Sir Gregory's agent surveyor, Mr. Hatchard ; whilst, on the part of Sir Gregory, a number of surveyors and builders, who had ex amined the work, were called; and stated that the work was badly done, especially the joiner's work, and the tiling of the roof of the picture gallery. The latter, it was said by some of them, would require at least £7O to complete it, and in their opinion a deduction of 8625 ought to be made from the whole bill. There was also a charge of £76 for a survey and estimate made on some occasion by the plaintiff, but he failed to prove it was done by the defendant's order. The Chief-Justice therefore directed the Jury to deduct that sum from the plaintiff's. demand ; they accordingly -did to, and also deducted £lOO from the bill, giving to the plaintiff a verdict, for £4,490. Costs 40s. H. W. TAIQCWED, ESQ. V. WETTENNALL. - ' This was in action of debt by a Gentleman of the Bar to recover from the defendant, a horse-dealer of some notoriety, the sum of £45, received of the plaintiff under the following circumstances: In the month df February, Mr. Tancred being in Wknt of a horse, in reading a newspaper, had his attention attracted by the following captivating advertisements • ___ " To be sold, a beautiful little thorough-bred cob hack, from the country, equal to 18 stone on the wont of roads; he can walk six miles in one hour with pleasure to his rider, and it is impossible to make him shy or stumble; bends his knees,viell in bis trot ; his canter is superior to any horse; has a high fore hand, and light in hand, with great courage, very bandy to mount and dismount, has carried a lady, and never been out of the breeder's hands; he is without blemish_or fault; verwarti cular circumstances are the cause of his being patted arid •' the owner is desirous of getting him into good hands; none need apply but who will insure the greatest care being taken of him; the saddle, &c. may be had, and the owner treated with.— Also a very grand tllbury horse, six years cld, sixteen hands high. To be seen at the stables, 'No. 42. Bow street, leading into Long-acre." The plaintiff immediately answered the advertlte .nent in person. He found that the defendant Was -the advertiier, and he desired to see the cob. He was introduced into a dark stable, and sawi the ani mal, as well as he could, through the pervading gloom: Upon asking the price, the defendant told him it was forty-five guineas. Mr. Tancred desired to have a trial before he thought of purchasing.-- This the.defendant consented to allow, provided he deposited the sum of 451. in his hands. The. plain tiff not having the money in his pocket, went . back to his chambers, provided himself with the nialfal, and returned to the stables, accompanied by Mr. .Pollen, another Gentleman of the Bar. The money was immediately depoiited in the defendant's bands, and Mr. Tancred required that he might have the use of the horse for an hour, to try how he liked him. The defendant pretended 'that he had not then a saddle in the stables, but promised to procure one at a neighbouring saddlers, and send the horse by a groom to Mr, Tancred's chambers, in Lincoln's Inn ,square, in half an hour, The plaintiff, preparatory :to the arrival of the horse, had invited Mr. Berens, another Barrister, and Mr. Le Blanc, the Master of the Pleas side of the King's Bench, to be present, and pass their judgment upon his paces and other accomplishments. In half an hour the groom brought thnhorse, but without any saddle. Mr. Tancred re monstrated at this. omission ; the ostler pretended :hat the saddle was not yet finished. The plaintiff being thus disappointed of trying the horse himself, desired the ostler to mount him and ride about the square, in order to shew his paces. The ostler did so; but be was found lamentably wanting in those extraordinary merits so luxuriantly pictured in the advertisement. Mr. Tancred, however, being unwil ling to give him up altogether, was anxious to see whether he might not latently possess the qualifica tions 'ascribed, and desired the Quiet to return with the horse again at four o'clock, with &saddle, that he might try him himself. This the ostler agreed to do; but asked in the meantime for Mr. Tancred's stables, that the animal might be delivered to his groom; cr, if he would give him the reference, to any livery-stables he would choose—it was all one to him—and deliver the horse into praiser . care. Mr. , Tancred replied, thin it was time enough to talk of, delivering the horse as soon as he tried it, and agreed to make a purchase. Upon which the ostler said, be had his master's ofders not to hting the horse back, that 'Mr. Tancred bad purthased it, and he litrustieare it-with the purchas.er, and leave him he would. Mr. Tancred and the ether Gentlemen im mediately remonstrated against this extraordinary proceeding, bat it was in vain.; the ostler was inex orable in obeying his instructions, and be actually turned the hor‘t loose in the square. The plaintiff repudiated any 'acquaintance with the Mute, and - the creature being allowed to take a tOpographical sur vey of Lincoln's Intl, was in the result taken away by the ostler. Richard Pollen, Esq : stated, that on the following morning the plaintiff and himself a ent to the de fendant's stables to demand the deposit money, the horse not being approved of. After some difiiculty, they were favoured with an interview. Mr. Tancred demanded his £45. The defendant asked for what ? and insisted that the horse was purchased, and that he had a demand against him for the balance of 455. , which he must immediately pay. Mr. Tancred de hied nied having topurchase the horse at all. The defendant sal 1 17 1 You won't have your trial of the horse." Mr. Tancred replied, " I don't like the horse; I will hale ftotling to do with it, and I must have. my money back.' Witness remonstrated with the defendant, and reminded him that Mr. Tancred hid• not bought the horse, but had merely desired to have atrial of him, and hid depOsited•the money with that view, aad.the,plaintif was not bound to take him, whe ther. he liked him or not. The defenchint asked what business it Irsts of whiles% and was el- :eillirs • • • li t lk m rtrhad t he thTleehoteliiir het& tad his money Le Slade, - Bsq. derma PI Ike othit cM -cu abote *amt. The horse, m Ide keg' 'Meat, was not worth more than one-third Of; • The•defen • dant did not appear. He had pleated a ahem plea of judgMent recovered, and had moved for a Special Jury, to delay the plaintiff as much as - possible. • The Jury immediately found their verdict for the plaintiff. The Cater Junteu:—The plaintiff has plenty of law, but I belieye he will get nothing else. Mr. Carsenau, informed his Lordship, that this was whet was termed shaunting—a species of swind ling mated of by Mr. Colquhoun, in his Police of the Metropolis, and enumerated with ring-dropping, and other modes of bubbling the unwary of this great Metropolis. MAY te. KINII V. HANNAH WHITEHORN. This was an indictment under circumstances which excited considerable interest. It will be recollected, that some time in August last, Captain Mills, of Smith-street, Chelsea, was charged by his servant, a girl nailed Whitehorn, with having committed a rape upset her person. Captain Mills was tried before Mr. Baron GRAHAM, at the Old Bailey, in the month of September, and acquit ted ; and he now, in his turn, became the assailant, and indicted hissci-deverseprosecutrix for perjury. Mr. ScaeLerr, in addressing the Jury on the part of the plaintiff, adverted to the extreme difficulty of establishing perjury in general, and the still greater difficulty in baking out such a charge in a case like theprestint. The Learned Counsel then entered into a copious detail of the circumstances of the case, froth which it appeitred, titat Captain Mills, who had. for merly-served in the Army, and was a man infirm in health and retired in habits, though of competentfor tune,- came, in the beginning of the year Ibl9, to re side at Chelsel, and, in the month of July, wanting a temporary servant, engaged the defendant, upon the recommendation of a person 'of the name of Price.— Upon the 28th of July the girl entered the service of the' plaintiff, who immediately perceived that she was in bad , health ; and, from some cause or other, extremely offensive in her person. After enduring that which was extremely unpleasant to him for about sixteen days, he found it impossible to keep his new servant any longer ; and accordingly sent for her mo ther, paid her her wages, and, as he imagined, got rid of her. The day upon which this dischatte took place was Friday ; a an that evening Capt. Mills went to Vauxhall, from whence returning about five o'clock on Saturday morning, he found a letter from Mr. Price, stating, that Hannah Whitehorn had pre ferred a charge of rape against him : much asto nished, he, before he went to bed, wrote to Mr. Price, who resided at Charing-cross, alleging the falsehood of the accusation,- and promising to come to town immediately. On the Monday morning, accordingly, Captain Mills did call upon Mr. Price, who then said that Hannah Whitehorn had not onlyaccused him of violence to her person, but also with hiving commu nicated to her a certain complaint; upon which he immediately caused himself to be attended by . Mr. • Astley Cooper and Mr. Brodie, who were - satisfied that, for the latter part of the charge, there could not, by possibility, be any foundation. The plaintiff then returned to the house of Mr. Price, end sent for the girl's mother; the mother came, attended by a constable; the plaintiff was carried before a Magis trate, and the girl, being produced, made a deposi tion against him. The result was, that Capt. Mills was, in the first instance, committed to prison ; next, upon the affidavits of some medical men as to the second part of the charge, admitted to bail ; and, in conclusion, tried at the Old Bailey, "and acquitted.— Mr. &arlett then proceeded to advert to portions of the evidence given by H. Whitehorn upon the trial. Mr. William Oliver, short-hand writer, proved the motes which he had taken at the trial. The assignment of perjury was upon the fate*. ing points : That the defendant bad sworn, first, that, atter the alleged injury, she had continued in the house of the plaintiff from the 29th July to the 19th August ; second, that she had not any opportunity to inform. her mother of what had passed ; and, third, that the illness of which she complained was not oc casioned by a certain disoider specified. Captain Mills was then called. This gentleman stated, that the defendant cairn to live with hita upon the 2fith of July—she was merely a temporary servant until he should arrange his establishment; as soon as she entered his em ploy he was disgusted with her - extreme dirtiness; and, on the 13th August, he sent her away. While she continued in his ser vice he never offered the *Matfett liberty to her. He went oat constantly—dined out every day, and that during his absence she might have gone out at her pleasure. He did repeatedly tend her of errands. Upon cross-examinatiOn he admitted that a girl named Sarah billy had come to Rye with him on the tame evening with the defendant, but had , - so little pleased with her new place, that she left it the next morning ; that, 'in the course of five months, he had had eight 'women servants ; and that two of them had lodged a complaint against him at the 'Polite-office, Ctueen4quare, which was corn-' founded upon his paying ki to each of the parties; that complaint was not of the tame 'nature as the charge of Hannah Whitehorn, Catherine Vigor was washerwoman to Capt. Mills, and saw Hannah Whitehorn at his .house between the 29th of July and the 13th of August; she made no complaint to witness of any. ill-treatment hiving been offered to her. Louisa Hodges, a child apparently not More than eleven years of age, said that she had lived as ser vant with Captain Mills ; she went to him four days before Hannah Whitehorn left him. _ Captain Mills was out during the greater part of two days, and she and Hannah Whitehorn were left together. -Hannah Whitehorn herself went out four times during his absence, but did not stay long. Remem bered that Hannah WhitehOrn Complained of illness on the third day that she (witness) was in the house, and wrote to her mother ; next day she went away. Mr. Brodie, Surgeon, saw the defendant in August last, after she bad accused Captain Mills. Mr. Roe and Mr. Pinchard, two ether Surgeons, saw her also. Witness thought, from the symptoms which he per. , ceived, that the defendant was most severely allicted with the malady which she had denied in her evi possible that those deuce %Too the trial. It Was ~,-, . - ', qmptoms migfitusiswirora ether emnplaints ; but it was very unlikely. 'He saw no math of violence Upon her. ` Mr. Bist, - Fiusgeos of gewgett, sad► captain immediately after his confinement, .and raw no ap pearance of any such complaint as that which the last witness had attributed to the defendant. Mr. DyneAs then commented upon the circum ottani:es whiCh had beets left unexplained in the case; the sudden departure of Sarah Dilly • and the rapid succession and eternal variety of the p laintiff's female domestics. Mr. M. Clark and Mr. William Priest then spoke to the defendant's character : and the Rev.Jobn Day, who keeps a day-school in Orange-court, Leitester square, and has done so for twenty years, bore wit ness` to the good conduct of the defendant at the time when (from nine o'clock till twelve, and frcm two till five) the enjoyed the advantage of Mrs- Day's tuition. The LORD Carer Jusiree, in summing up the evidence, directed the particular attentsob of the Jury, not to the charge of rape, whether disproved or not, but to the specific charges contained in the indictment before them. In cases of perjury, the law required the evidence of two witnesses ; and, therefore, upon that assignment which regarded the peculiar malady, the case was not made out; for one withess only (Mr. 'Brodie) had been called. Upon the second point, that she remained in the house of the plaintiff from the 29th of July to the 13th of August, the Jury must collect from the evidence which had been read to them (the evidence of Han nah Whitehorn upon the trial), whether she meant to say that she - all that while continued in hishrave, without going out, or that she only remained in his service. Upon the cross-examination, it had aelpeared that shit admitted, without hesitation, that she h:-.1 gone out of the hopse. Upon the third point, that she had not, between the'29th of July and 13th of August, had an opportunity of disclosing the injury of which she afterwards complained to her. mother, the Jury were to form their own opinion. It was to be observed, however, that the daughter was living at Chelsea, and the mother at Charing-cross; that there was no proof that she had, in fact, ever seen her mother; that there was no proof thar the had ever been absent, durinrany length of time, from her master's house;• and that; although If she had pushed her opportunities to the Utmost, she. certainly might have seen her mother; yet that, in speaking Of !, no opportunity" at the trial, she might have meant no opportunity which she considered a fair and proper opportunity, inA that there was no procf 'that any opportunity . hWrotcaried which a gill udder such eircumstancesaveuld be - absolutely bou:Lcl to topsider in that light. ' The Jury, without laesitation, found the defendant Nit Guilty. BOARD OF EXCIS£ Mr. Julies Thomas, a respectable malt salesman and warehouseman, appeared to complain of the duty on 520 quarters of maiti and to pray for the return of the duty which had been paid on the same, on the ground that it had been destroyed by fire. It appeared from the statpment of a number of witnesses, that 640 quartersvf wheat were sent from Stratford, in Essex, to the warehouses of Mr. Tho mas, in Shad Thames, which were entirely destroyed by fire on the 27th of February, on which occasion immense quantities of grain were destroyed, and, amongst the rest, 520 quarters of the malt which had been sent from Stratford, on which it was proved that a duty of 28s. per quarter had been paid, and of Which the complainant now prayed a return. After some discussion, the Board adjudged that the whole gfthe duty which had been paid on the ar ticle proved to have been destroyed should be re tutted. The amount of the duty was stated at £723. • • Dow-sraace.—lnformatiou haying been privately ectorrytd to Sir Rouse Ruda, that to - ag was abet* to tats plaee between Major Cam. ant . both of the Army, a loened-warrant wag put loot the hands of Ashes the oilicer, who apprehended the two Genderneo, and brought them ip the Oilice, together with Lieutenant of the 'autocorps, who was the friend of the tdajor • and was.to act as his second The two principals were required to give trail eadir tr £lOOO, and two sureties in Ohne each. listatenstat i, was held to bell In half that inseam *Wes bed bliss Sued won a• the geese of action, and the parties were about to leave town, whoa they were prevented byskebaterfersoce et rbe CUB Power. Harrow Gasomi.—llatutday, the soak nod Amman di "Mr. Rather, of James-street, Iliffard-row, wbobed oedergeor ern rol preview etaOdredeir, Igoe wait brae& op and eurratied, so seopidoe et babe eardareed is the robbery ado& asostor's house, to a very . large amount. *This etaudnatift Re she for mer,;xhibited the astonishing dissipation and estraveganee of servants when left to themvelves; dm& breakfast, Maher, ass, curd, and soldolartke, their atelier? sad their mosbetbdis, Ate. Ike: Nothing, however, occurred en the inweettadeot again tending so erbuisate the prisoners in the robb er y, n od t h e y were remanded. Mansion.lionsz..--Panrn to Jac: Rtents!-..Testreday, James Booting, who formerly olliciased at the Old Bailey as ikeeutionser, • but who is now deprived of the use of lib right hand, and, in fact,- of one half of his body. by the Drama Wing was carried to the Justice Room to give evidence 'latest Icia =a person accused of having forged bit pope, MI de him of a ruin of elaney.--11kaprierereiele eineedid. • mien'. - At 11111.1hant, the Nom lady &opted, 'of a datillter. , V • tRIED. . • nth! 0 6 11 11/114 at Bak Vrathunlikawi, R.lO ll Do"t sib Nistra,-111oomortet, to illizabeek may, Tiaintek &alba" of I.* Stir, of Clapham, Serer. At the celebration of this fts, the only two surviitag 'wheat** of Dr. Jaliaseo werowast, viz. Mrs. Plozzi and the Bev. Dr. &awe. DIED. Weilhiemday, at his house in Abbey-street,. Carlisle,- Linde nant-Cargiel Salkeld. March S, of the yellow few, its the 'shad of TaalPit; Lieu John Duty, of the 4th Regiaietat of 'Foot. May Is, at Dumfries, aged 6S, John Fergnsibn, Eon. ate Convener of the Incorporatlins. Sunday se'nnight, at Dumfries, aged -in, Mr. Ithdoch lrin law, Convener of the Incorporated Trades. . . Sunday mewled,. at Annan, Kite J. D. Maxwell, datiskeer of the late Provost Maxwell, of Lochmaben, aged 50 jean. May 16, at Langholm, Mr. John nati. Ibe preceding evert ing he went to bed in good health, but, at dx o'clock to the morning; wiOle dresdng, he fell, uttered a deep groan, and breathed his last. Sunday sennight, at Newport, while sitting in his chair, P''f ter dining with some frielids, Mr. John Gely, %rowdy builder of that place, aged 77. • COAL 11TAAILE'D, lilY O. - ' . - Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price. 6 21 Nevicascle 17 33s Od to 37s ei 2 Sunderland 2 ses 6d to 4 . 24 LI 1 Cinders 1 22s Od.to 08 041 1 Culm 1 34. Od to - Sip Od . HIGH:WATER at LONDON BRIDGE TO-MOR ROW _Murata; - ;2 minums after 4 . AN —........-:- 4 _ . 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