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I ~4 ^ ~•.. COLBURN AND BENTLEY. CLO UDESLEY. A TALE, By the Author of " Caleb Williams." From the Westminster Revivw for April. tioudesley, by the Author of " Caleb William-s," is *combination of syllables well adapted to excite expectation The reputation of Mr. Godwin's first able performance has thrown a light upon its successors, which, though it has relieved them from utter darkness, has not done much more. Caleb Williams was a chapter out of the human heart. rhe author's experience of the world, and his watch. ing of his own emotions were felicitously combined in a lively and striking frame.work. He wrote down what he had seen and thought. His subsequent works have each been, in different styles, imitations of the first born. He deemed, because he had once been successful in exhibiting the interior workings of the human mechanism, that he was master of it, and could take It to pieces and set it up again. But he has shewn us that he understood his instrument as the ite nerant player on the barrel.organ understands his: he can set it to a certain limited number of tunes. Mr. Godwin's organ, by nature, by accident and by education, which is but a series of accidents, was set to the tune of Caleb Williams ; and St. Leon, Fleetwood, Mandeville, and Cloudesley, are but very imperfect and often dis cordant variations of the same air. The staple of each is the writh. logs of a being under some complication of concealed feelings. Remorse chiefly : Remorse might be written as the title over the whole series of his writings. His long continued and protracted productions may be considered as a sort of practical or mechanical illustration of the "worm that never dies." Mr. Godwin has a fruitful, but not a vigorous imagination : he is copious, nay inexhaustible, but his offspring are feeble and sickly ; he does not tear a passion to tatters, but he wears it to a shadow. He works his way through a long history of crime and suffering, like a mole in the dark and under-ground, and with a sleekiness of style and an assumed unconsciousness of purpose that bears out the comparison. The smooth, measured and oily style of this author, which we have described by the term sleekiness, is a curious cha racteristic in works which dwell upon feelings of the most restless, and agitated kind. The thoughts burn, while the words are of honey. This is a touch of art that adds considerably to the effect of this author's compositions, and in none of the former novels is this dis tinction more marked than in Cloudesley : circumstances and feel ings of the most energetic force are detailed with the calm of his. tory. It might be, that a thousand years had passed over the heart of the autobiographer, while memory had left every minute trait of the events he relates as fresh and bright as the green of a spring church-yard. It is possible that this calm beauty of style which we hare always remarked in this writer, may have been lately height. ened by his habits of historical composition, to say nothing of the stealthy progress of age, which polishes a man's style as it does his brow. " Cloudesley" is a tale of guilt and sorrow. An uncle usurps the title and inheritance of his orphan nephew, a posthumous infant. ' The fruits of his crime be enjoys only in outside show. His ingra titude to his noble and affectionate brother; his base injustice to the helpless child he was bound to protect; the incessant dread of , detection and the threats of his accomplice ; an combine to render the honours and wealth he has usurped gall and bitterness to the taste. He becomes a gloomy and suspicious solitary; his children I all die as they grow up, his faithful and affectionate wife follows them to the tomb, and he is left alone in wretchedness to brood over the vanity and emptiness of the things, for the sake of which he has sold himself. The stings of conscience are not blunted by hearing of the noble and generous character:of the youth he has pushed from his right. Brought up in obscurity, though by means of the repen. tant accomplice of the crime placed in the way of all kinds of edu. cation and accomplishments, the boy turns out a model of talent, of love, and beauty. He has been bred in Italy, and grief at the death ' of his protector whom he takes for his father, and other eircumstan cos combined, have thrown him among char acters of a dissolute de. ' scription. His uncle, just prior to the death of his last child, his , only son, for whom he had so waded in crime, has the misery of learning that he who ought to have been wearing his own coronet, has become mixed up with a troop of banditti. The horror-struck and emaciated man arrives in Italy only in time to save his nephew from an ignominious death. The narrator of these circumstances is a nondescript person, whom the uncle employs to discover the retreat of his nephew, and to whom he discloses the whole of his own his. tory and the secret punishment of his crimes, previous to engaging him on the mission. This person plays a very secondary part in the drama, nevertheless, he is an adumbration of Caleb Williams, and only wants the influence of similar events. Cloudesley is the name of the servant and confidant of the elder brotherof the usurper, and on occasion of his master's death in a duel in Austria, he joins with the uncle in putting aside all evidence of the existence of a forthcoming heir to the title and vast possessions of his benefactor, who has been obscurely married to a Greek lady, the daughter of Colocotroni, not the robber.general of the present day, but, as it seems, some Mainote patriot of other times. The character of this Cloudesley is the great effort of the work which thence takes its name. He is in the first instance a simple and unsuspecting English yeoman, full of benevolence and good will to all mankind: his con fidence in a villain causes him to be thrown into prison; an entire revolution in his character is the result, his blind trust becomes as blind a mistrust, he discovers that all mankind are selfish and de ceitful, he becomes misanthropical, and in his heart declares war against the whole world. He is relieved from the distress in which he is involved, by the young nobleman, whom he afterwards serves in the campaigns carried on by Prince Eugene against the Turks, and whom after his death he so eminently disserves in the affairs of his child. The dogmas upon which he regulates his conduct are however simply dogmas, and though they influence his occasional actions, do not wholly a ffect the tenor of his life. Love and kind ness, the original impulses of his heart, mix strangely with the baser maxims of conduct, which a false calculation has led him to rest upon. This inconsistency is a notable point in the character : it leads him to join in the destitution of the orphan, and afterwards to adopt and cherish, almost to worship him ' • and when the noble qualities of the child reproduce in all its force the original warm and generous love of the yeoman, he even spends his life and dies in the hope of restoring him to his rights. Of the subordinate characters, the two Greek women are drawn with the clat•sical chasteness of a sculptor of antiquity ; we well remember all Mr. Godwin's por traits of female loveliness; his women are angels and might have been painted by one; they are unhumanized by a single earthly passion ; they are sweetness, they are tenderness, fidelity, beauty, but beauty as cold as moon-beams, and if we love them it is with only a fraternal glow. Such is Irene in Cloudesley, such is Mar guerite in St. Leon. Mr. Godwin's character will be a curious sub ject for the biographer when it comes under critical discussion. He has had the reputation of an incendiary, when he was breathing nothing but brotherly love to all mankind : his moral reputation hu been blasted because he was purer in his aims than other men, and • when perhaps his main fault has been a want of passion, he has been held as the prophet and precentor of licentiousness. After the beauty and innocence of women, Mr. Godwin dwells with most delight and success on the beauty and innocence of childhood. Now a day, nothing would seem to gratify this Nestorian author so much, as watching the little ways and registering the little spared of the third or fourth generation, whose budding he is s to witness. Men return in some respects to the state of childhood; but there is also a time when some men combine the wisdom of age, and the simplicity of infancy. We had thought of giving a long and touching pasuge, in which the wicked uncle, as the story of the Children in the IVood would call him, speaks of the infancy and the death of his offspring; but we must refrain, for such an extract, in truth, would be scarcely a fair specimen of a story which moves uniformly and regularly forward to its development, and does not offer any very prominent and striking portions. Enough has been said to invite the reader to the enjoyment of the work itself. DIGITAL SIGNS.—The Chinese have contrived avers neat and simple kind of digital signs for denoting numbers, greatly superior, both in precision and extent to the method of the Romans. Since every finger has three joints, let the thumb-nail of the other hand touch these joints in succession, passing up the one side of the finger, down the middle, and again up the other side , and it will give nine different marks, applicable to the Denary scale of ar rangement. On the little finger these marks signify units, on the next finger tens, on the middle finger hundreds, on the index thou. sands, and on the thumb hundred thousands. iVith the combined positions of the joints of the one hand, therefore, it was easy to ad. vance by signs as far as a million. It is said that the merchants in China are accustomed to conclude bargains with each other by help of those signs ; and that often, from selfish or fraudulent views, they conceal the pantomine from the knowledge of bystanders, by only seeming to seise the hand with a hearty grasp. TALLIES.—After the union with Scotland had been .concluded in 1707. a store of hazel rods for tallies was sent down to Edinburgh, being intended, no doubt, as a mighty refinement on the Scottish mode of keeping accounts. 'their advantage, however , were not perceived or acknowledged, and they have since been sue fired, we believe, to lie as so mush useless lumber. Vat the use is very different in England, where a blind and slavish attachment to endear forms, however ridiculous through time they may have become, Is almost constantly opposed to the general progress of society. Were a sensible traveller from India or China to visit our metropolis, and report, on his return home, that a nation highly polished, enlightened, and opulent, yet keep their accounts of the public revenue, surpassing annually many millions of wands, by means of notches cut on willow rods,--lie would mtaMy not be credited, but supposed to use the licence of substituting a description of the practice of the most savage tribes of the American continent. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. The following matches have been made for the first day. of the Newmarket Craven Meeting, Monday, April 12 a Mr. Haffenden's Captain Arthur, against Mr. Moreton's Prodigy, D. M. for 200, h. ft. (no weights mentioned.) Lord Ezeter's Acacia, against Mr. Cooper's Merman, list. 71b. each, R. M. 200. h. R. Mr. Sowerby's Coroner, Bst. 71b. against Lord Worcester's Felt, Bst. 21b. R.lll. 200, h. ft. Lord Ranelagh's Sontag, Bet. 121 b. against Lord Worcester's Coulon, fist. 21b. D.M. 150, h. ft. Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, Bst. 71b. against Mr. Gully's Clotilde, Bst. 31b. A.F. 200, h. ft. Sir M. Wood's Canary, against Mr. Cooper's Jungfrau, Bst. 41b. each, First Half of Ab.M. 100, h. ft. On the second day of the above Meeting— Mr. Gully's Baltic, list. 71b. against Sir M. Wood's Canary, Bat. 31b. A.F. 300, h. ft. On the fourth day : Mr. Thornhill's Merchant, Bst. 121 b. against Mr. Gully's Tyke, Bst. 121 b. D.M. 200, h. ft. Mr. Cooper's Jungfrau, Bst. 71b. against the Duke of Richmond's Confederacy, 7st. First Half of Ab. M. 100 b. ft. On the fifth day, Friday : Mr. Ramsbottom's Tamandra, /Ist. slb. against Mr. Marna man's by Whisker, Bst. T.Y.C. 50, h. R. No day mentioned • Lord Anson's Portrait, Bet. 71b. against Mr. Thornhill's f. Mouche, Bst. 41b. 200, h. R. Mr. Perkins's by Nicolo, against Mr. Ramabottom's Phrynis, Bst. 41b each, D.M. 108 h. ft. EAST SUSSEX HUNT....(Lrwrs CouRBE.) FRIDAY, MARCH 26. A Silver Cup and the surplus in Specie, a subscription of S loss. each, with 20 added by Mr. Craven, for hones, the property of Farmers. Heats, New Course. Gentleman Riders. 28 Sub. scribers. Mr. Harrison named b. g. Ploughby, 6 yrs. 12st. 41b. Mr. Stanford Mr. Pindar names b. g. Southdown, 6 yrs. 12st. 41b . 2 2 Capt. Richardson named b. m. Peggy, 6 yrs. 12st. 41b 0 3 Sir R. Wilmot named br. m. Winifred, 0 yrs. 12st. 41b 3 0 Nine others started. The East Sussex Hunters' Stakes of 5 WV/. Nth, for horses not thorough-bred. Heats, the New Course. Gentlemen Riders. 11 Subscribers. Mr. Campion named gr. g. Littlejohn, 5 yrs, list. 71b Captain Willard named ch. g. Young Whitworth, aged 12st. 21b Mr. Craven named b. g. The Clipper, aged, 12st. 21b Hon. F. Watson named br. m. Valentine, 5 yrs. list. 71b Mr. Gardiner named ch. g. 011apod, aged, who fell dead, the first heat, just before arriving at the winning chair. Four others started. HUNTING. The Duke of Grafton's hounds meet on Wednesday at AshLeys ; riday at Nash Common. Mr. Berkeley's hounds to-morrow at Hail Weston Wood ; Fri. ty at the Kennel; Saturday at Snelson. Mr. Drake's hounds to-morrow at Warden Kennel; Friday at 'usmore House. The Quorn hounds to-morrow at Lount Turnpike ; Wednesday at Ben's Cliffe ; Friday at Steward's Hay. Mr. Meynell's hounds Thursday at Chaddesden ; Saturday at Keddleston. Sir John Cope's hounds Wednesday at Vattendon ; Friday at Riseley Mill. The Brighton harriers Wednesday at the Race Course; Friday at the Dyke. The Suffolk and Norfolk Union harriers tomorrow at Brooke King's Head; Thursday at St. James's-street; Friday at Weathall HaIL Sir Jacob Astley's deer hounds, Thursday, at East Basham ; Friday, at Hindolveston Wood ; Monday, April 5, at Wood Bailin. Mr. Drake's house, to-morrow, at Warden Kennel ; Friday, at Mr. Caldwell's stag hounds, Friday, at Walton Greyhound. The East Kent hounds, Wednesday, at Moekbeggar ; Friday, at Arpringe. Mr. Wieksted's hounds, to-morrow, at Moreton ; Thursday, at Adbaston ; Saturday, at Bridgmere.lodge, Doddington. Mr. Lester's harriers, Saturday, at Lo ham. The H. H. on Saturday, at Tunworth Down. The N. F. hounds on Saturday, at Pondhead. ARCHERY. Saturday the Edinburgh Company of Archers, King's Body Guard, finished shooting for the gold medal, given by them fbr the beat shooter at butts, when, a ft er three days shooting, Nathan Spent, Esq. was declared victor, he having gained 30 points, and William Robertson, Esq. 27. BOXERS. The projected fight between Young Dutch Sam and O'Neale, is postponed nine (lie, and Sam has arrested for 2001. the stakeholder of the former match which did not take place, that being his portion of the battle money. The stakeholder has entered bail. IMPORTANT LIFE ASSURANCE CASE. THE LATE EARL OF MAR. Last week a trial came on before the Jury Court in Edinburgh, the result of which is highly important to Life Assurance Com panies, in which, Sir William Forbes, James Hunter, and Com pany, Bankers in Edinburgh, were pursuers, and the Edinburgh Life Assurance Company were defenders. The following was the issue to be tried :—lt being admitted, that on the 26th day of September 1826, the defenders granted the policy of insurance, No. 6 of process, whereby, in consideration of a certain premium, the defenders agreed to pay to :William Inglis, W.S. the sum of 3,0001. sterling, on the death of John Thomas Earl of Mar, and that the right to the said policy is now in the pur. suers :—lt being also admitted, that on the 20th day of September 1828, the said Earl died :—" Whether the defenders are indebted and resting owing to the pursuers in the said sum of 3,0001. con. tattled in the same policy r From the evidence adduced by the pursuers, it appeared that the late Earl of Mar went to England in 1812, and did not re. turn to Alba till 1825. Several gentlemen who knew his Lord. ship previous to his departure, deported that after his return they knew no change in his appearance other than time might be sup. posed to produce. His factor, gardener, and forrester, and several other witnesses, proved that his Lordship was an ea rly riser, that he was very tasteful in his gardens and plantations—that he paid particular attention to his businus.—that his memory was good, and that he spent much of his time in reading ; in short, that from his appearance, actions, and conversation, the witnesses were led to conclude that he was in the enjoyment of perfectly good health. On his arrival in this country after the death of his father, he believed that when all his debts were paid he would be enabled to live at the rate of 2,0001. a year, but when a statement of his affairs were laid before hint, according to the evidence of one of the witnesses, he found to his infinite disappointment that he would not be worth 2,000 pence. He subsequently kept no company, sunk gradually into a deep melancholy, and sometimes was not shaved for a week or two. Lord Abercromby had had several conversations with the Earl of liar. He never saw his Lordship under the influence either of ardent spirits or any kind of stupifying drug; on the contrary, be was always perfectly cool and collected; and he attributed his re tired habits, and settled melancholy, entirely to the embarrassed state of his Lordship's affairs. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL detailed the facts of the cue foe the defenders. He stated, In substance, that the grounds upon which the office resisted payment were in substance these-Ist. That when the policy was effected it was concealed that Lord Mar took lauda num and opium to a great and pernicious extent ; 2d. That it was untruly stated that Lord Mar was temperate and took exercise— when, in point of fact, he was not temperate, and was sedentary and inactive in the extreme. 3d. That it was untruly stated that his Lordship was in perfect health, and his general state of health good, when, in point of fact, he was in unsound and broken health. In the conclusion of his speech, the Learned Gentleman contended that when it was asserted that a person was in good sound health, when, at the same time he had been long to the destructive practice of in dulging in the use of opium and laudanum to a great and T= as extent, the life insured under such circumstances w no pretended life, but one of a great deal more hazard, notwithstanding the healthy appearance of the person whose life was insured. If k was urged that the Company were bound to be satisfied on this point, and were deceived, and that the loss should be entirely their own, this would be offering a bounty for falsehood and impositioa. ...The Solicitor-General then called three surgeons, who 'proved that they had supplied the late Lord Mar with laudanum anciopium pills to a great excess, but it is needless to give the details. One of his housekeepers proved, that when in England he was in the pate. ties of using these deleterious drugs; and further, that he was In the habit of drinking, in addition, brandy and water, both in the fore. noon and in the morning. Dr. Abercromby, Dr. Alison, Dr. 11 6 Laggan, and salmi ether' sordid gentlemen stated, that the use of opium and lantlimma th Mersa, was even more destructive to the bodily health, and Mold faculties, than indulging in the use of ardent spirits, and mos MIL cult to eradicate. The craving increased with increased and there were but few instances indeed, in which dyer , used laudanum to excess for any time were not debilitated in and mind, and brought early to the OWN. Thi .iiedieal tioners all agreed in stating, that in mania* tvine. to his having his life insured, if they were 10mm( dog b e in this punkt, though apparently in perfect bmitis, they weuld nevertheless feel themselves bound to inform the Company, as the life was rendered on that account one of a great deal more hazard. Mr. CO0E11171)1 addressed the Jury. for the pursuers, with his usual eloquence Ind ingenious reasoning. The Loan entry Coststrastowza summed up the evidence, and the Jury retimed a verdict for the pursuers. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Mmictt 27. PUBLIC CRARITIEBATTORNZT-OZNERAL V. EARL OF ITIADBROKE •AND OTHERS. _ _ A motion was this morning brought before the court, which in. volved some considerations touching the better administration of the various charities of the kingdom. Though the discussion occupied the whole day, in reading of affidavits, and the statements of counsel, the real merits of the case, which are certainly important, lie in a very narrow compass. It appeared that as long since as 1736, a Mrs. Mary Warner gave the living and manor at Boyton, in Suffolk, with several large farms, of nearly 1,000 acres, to trustees, for the erection of alms-houses at Stradbroke, in that county, and for the maintenance of the inmates. This charity became the subject of investigation by the commissioners for inquiring concerning cha-1 rides, who made a report thereon to the House of Commons in Ja nuary, 1820; in that report they suggested various improvements for the future government of the charity, and in strong terms expressed their regret that the surviving trustees should have mmitted a balance of between 4,0001. and 5,0001. to have remained In the hands of the receiver, without making any interest whatever. To correct this, and to extend the usefulness of the charity, an in. formation was filed in December last by the Attorney-General, at the instance of two relators, Messrs Gibson and Howland, who em ployed as their solicitor Mr. D. W. Harvey, the Member for Col cheater. On the Bth of March last Mr. Harvey was summoned to appear before the Attorney-General, to show cause why the infor. mation thus filed should not be dismissed upon the grounds that a petition, embracing the same object, was already before the Court, at the instance of the trustees, and that the relators were in indigent circumstances, and instead of " retaining Mr. Harvey to institute an inquiry into the Charity in question, their names had been used without their consent. Upon these representations the Attorney. General ordered that proceedings on the information should be sus.. pended until the result of an application to the Lord Chancellor should be known, to be made upon such grounds as the Defend. ants should be advised. Mr. HORNS and Mr. HORTON appeared in support of the motion—that the information exhibited against the Defendants should be taken off the file of the Court, and that the relators, or their solicitors, should be directed to pay the costs of the appli cation. Mr. HARVEY addressed the Court at considerable length, and in conclusion he trusted that his Lordship would dismiss the motion with costa. A long discussion took place between Counsel ; after which the LORD CHANCELLOR said that the information must be referred back to the Attorney. General, whose province it was to decide whether it ought to proceed. With regard to the present question, it appeared to him that, as the motion could not be sustained, it should be dismissed with costs. BOARD OF EXCISE, Ilf.tacH 27. ADULTERATION OF BEER. Several information; came on itthe;ringitgainst publicans for having in their possession a deleterious liquor used to adulterate beer, whereby they incurred penalties of two hundred pounds each. The first information was against John Davis, of the York Minster, Bunhill-row. The Excise officers proved having found the liquor in the de. fendant's cellar. Mr. Martineau, of the firm of Whitbread and Co. proved that a sample of beer taken by the officers from the defendant's stock, was not in the same state in which it had been sent to him. Mr. Farraday, director of the laborotary of the Royal Institution, proved his having analyzed a sample of the liquor found by the offi. errs in the defendant's cellar, and that it contained copperas. The defendant was convicted in the mitigated penalty of 201. Several other publicans were fined in mitigated penalties for the like offence. LENT ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-YORK, MARCH 24. MAIMING COWS AT WHITIT. . . . Reeves Witiors,;;liii, wee inaieteafoil;Xving, during the evening of the 12th of September, maliciously wounded three cows, the property of Messrs. Weighill, of Whitby. Mr. ALEXANDER and Mr. 'MARSHALL appeared for the prose cation ; and Mr. ARCHBOLD for the defence. Mr. ALExuttozn detailed the facts of the cue to the Jury. The prosecutors in this case are butchers atWhitby. In 1816, the prisoner married the sister of the prosecutors; and in 1826, in consequence of domestic dissensions, a deed of separation was prepared and executed by the prisoner, by which he gave up all claim to any property which his wife had or might become possessed of ; the prosecutors were made trustees, and they 'indemnified the prisoner from any respon sibility as regarded any debts she might contract ; he giving them a promissory note for 1201. whkh sum they received. They after. wards purchased with part of that money three cows ; took a farm for the prisoner's wife ; and she accounted to them for the receipts and payments respecting the farm. During the night of the 13th September last, the cows were all stabbed, and the prisoner was found the following forenoon lying in an outhouse adjoining the field. On being taken into custody, he declared that he had never been near the field that night. He was proved to have knocked at the door of a house close by the field, at two or three o'olock in the mornink ; to have been seen with a short pipe going in that direction ; and to have been in a hatchet's shop at Whitby, at seven o'clock the preceding evening, from which a knife had been taken. which knife and the prisoner's pipe were found in the field. A sharp pointed nail was also found in his pocket. His Lordship informed the jury. that as the law now stood, it was not requisite to prove that a person had malice against the owner of cattle to establish a case of this description. The Jury found the prisoner guilty.—To be transported seven yam. HEBDOMADARY. THIS DAY.—Set youitWeit 5 minutes faster than the time ac cording to the sun dial. Saturn sets 4 morning. To.atoaaow.—.Sicilian Vespers, 1282. WEDIIRSDAYIOOII enters first quarter 2 min. past 7 mornin g . THURSDAY, APRIL I.—Mercury rises 17 minutes past 5. On this day the antient Roman women offered sacrifices to Venus Verticordia, that she might Infuse chastity into their hearts. Their offerings were Bowers and myrtles. FRIDAY.—Noted in the Catholic Calendar. The sorrows of the Blessed Virgin.—Cambri dge Term ends. SAT uItDAY.--Bun rises half-past 5 —sets half-past 6.—Oxford Term ends. NEW STATE PAPER-OYFICE.—The well-known man sion which has been in the Suffolk family for many years past, and which was situated at the corner of the ornamental enclosure in St. James's Park, between the Treasury and Duke-street-steps, has, within the last three weeks, been levelled to the ground, and the whole of the materials disposed of in lots by public auction. On the site of the above mansion a building is immediately to be erected for the department belonging to the State Paper-office, the present building fn Great George-street being not only in a moat dilapidated state, but also considerably too contracted for the purpose. EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE Or A YouNG Max.—lnformation was given on Friday at the different Police offices in the metropolis, by Mr. Evans, printer, of Ilford, in Es sex, of the extraordinary disappearance of Samuel Green, his jour neyman, who had been for some time in his employment. He stated to the magistrate.. that he had a suspicion that his servant had been murdered. The young man is about twenty-five years of age, and on the night of Saturday week he received his weekly wages, be tween 305. and 2L and he went to a public-house, the sign of the Red Lion. There were a number of persons in the same house drinking, and some of them he had ascertained, were persons of very bad character. The young man left that house before one o'clock on the Sunday morning, and was afterwards seen with some of the parties who had been drinking in the public-house with him, on Ilford.bridge, but from that period to the present moment be had not been seen nor heard of. Handbills had been circulated in every direction, giving a description of his person, but no tidings could be heard of him. It was stated that the young man had been at sea, and his body was marked with an anchor and ship. INQUISITION or LUNACY.— Saturday, at the Cado gan Arms, Sloane-street, an Inquisition was held by order of the Loan CHANCELLOR, to ascertain whether a Lady of respectable family, residing in Sloane-street, a spinster, 44 years of age, was of unsound mind. The Chief Commissioner stated to the Jury that it was an amicable abaft . en. Mrs. Bradbury proved that she keeps a beige kr f disordered in mind, in Little Chaises. The lady in quads. has bon In bee house since 11145, and labours under great signals. of mind. fibs was melancholy, of wham& her throat cut, and bad attempled to commit suicide. —Aran liwards, her attendant la the betas of the last witness, pm Misused the impwandaus if the Lady's mind ; eight or nine *ass a itigUihe whams out of bed to get the chopper to cut of ber hood. fibs was gabs wild about money, and would give as mach as ars guineas for the most trifling service. A surgeon of the isnablishammt fully proved the onsoune.nm of the Lady's mind. Whorl*** saw her, two yews ago, she said she should give no wawa, WI kr bled was cut of. After hearing the evidence, the asainisslesmound Jury visited the Lady, in an adjoining mom, af. ter which the Jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict that the lady had been a lunatic, without lucid intervals, few the erstof May, 1825. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MATIggitrIOUSE. Saturday Robert Bright, porter to Mr. Tull, of Fenchurch. street, warehousemen, was charged on suspicion of having broken into his master's house on Tuesday night, and stolen between six and seven pounds in cash from his desk. Mr. Tull's clerk proved that the desk was forced open in the night and the money taken. Michael Riddle, a shoemaker, whose house adjoins Mr. Tull's, stated, that on Friday the pri;oner, whom he had known by sight for some time, called on him to order a pair of shoes, and asked him, in a joking way, if he could keep a secret ? Witness pro. Weed to do so ? The prisoner then said he had taken a fancy to Mr. Tull's servant-maid, and wanted to get to bed to her, and if witness would let him get from the top of his house on Mr. Tull's, he could get alongside of her. Witness consented, and the prisoner came on Tuesday night, and after some time went up panelling (a laugh.) After some time he came heck, and said the old cook was in the way and it was no go, and requested the witness not to say a word about the matter. The prisoner said that the account given by the witness was false. He was remanded to give time for further evidence. BOW.STREET. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. — Mary Moriarty •11111 charg ed with being drunk and disorderly in the street on Friday n ight. The policemen by whom she had been taken into custody, deposed to having found her in the street in a state bordering on madness, caused as they were credibly informed, by her having drank 14 l of gin. A drunken man charged her with having robbed glasses she knocked him down. They brought her to the watch. house, where she was put into the strong ;room, and there she stripped herself naked, and hung herself with her garters., but was cut down in time to save her life. After she recovered she took the garters off another prisoner and again hung herself, but was again cut down. When she became sober she expressed sorrow for what she had done.—The Magistrates committed her to the House of Correction. MARLBOROUGII-STREET. J. Marshall, coachman to Lord Chichester, was charged with having driven his lordship's carriage over Mr. Thomas Payne, of the firm of Payne and Cu ll en, importers of leeches, residing in Skier's. court, Cannon-street, City. Clements, the inspector, stated that about two o'clock on Satur. day morning the prisoner came to the watchhouse and said that he was anxious to give himself up to the police, in consequence of having accidentally killed a gentleman in Hyde-park. He ac. cordingly detained the prisoner, and in the course of the morn. ing he went to his lordship's residence. Upon his business being known, his lordship sent the following written communication to the Sitting Magistrate, explaining the nature of the accident " Between two and three o'clock in the afternoon of Friday, March 26, Lord Chichester's carriage, driven by the coachman, J. Mar. shall, accidentally came le.contact with Mr. Payne's gig, which was in consequence overturned, and the wheels of Lord Chiches. ter's carriage passed over the body of Mr. Payne, who was in stantly carried to St. George's Hospital, where he died the same night. The accident happened opposite Stanhope-street, Hyde. park." The prisoner, who appeared to be deeply affected at the melan choly accident, said that he was extremely sorry for the accident, which was innocently done by him, and the only explanation which he could give was, that one of the horses was "fresh," and he had not sufficient command over it. He was ordered to be remanded until Wednesday, when he will be committed on the coroner's warrant for manslaughter. QUEEN-SQUARE. Titoism Davies, a respectable-looking young man, shopman to Meurs. Sewell and Cross, the extensive linen-drapers of Compton. street and Knightsbridge, was charged' with stealing two pieces of silk, the property of his employers. It appeared that a manages of the business at Knightsbridge, where the prisoner was employed, suspected bim ; and, after the business of the day on Friday, fol lowed him into Piccadilly, and took from hint a bundle he was carrying in his hand, which contained two pieces of silk, proved by private marks to be the property of his employers.—The prisoner made no defence, but was remanded to give time for other charges to be brought against him. A man named William Sneld wad charged by Mr. Besford, silk. mercer, Southampton-street, Strand, with stealing a number of silk h andkkerchiefs from his shop. The prisoner, had a com panion, who escaped.—He was remanded. LA M BE TH -STR P:E T. John Myers, a Jew, was charged by Mary Mahoney with as. saultlng her. " What is your complaint?" asked Mr. MATTHIAS. " Plase your worship," said Mrs. Mahoney, " he came up to my basket and twin me for an orange, and I gave him one. What's the price of it ?' says he. A penny,' says 1, and its richly worth it, though I says that same that shouldn't say it.' No, it arn't, says be,' you b—y Irish mare—neither better nor worse—yer wor ship, ' and I'll knock yer eye out.' Ya expression is vety abominable,' says I, ' but you musn't strike me, though.' With that he says the same words back again, and I says, 0, you nasty baste,' says I".— Mr. MATTHIAII-0, he called you a mare, and you called him a beast. " Yes, says I, you nasty baste, and I won't be abused by the likes of ye. Then he knocked me down straight in the kennel ; but I didn't think nothing o' that, and was going to give him a slap again, when he took up his foot, and knock't my basket of oranges all ova with it." Mr. ifasTnras—Have you any witnesses? " 0 yes, plenty, yer honour, but they're not here." The prisoner said that the complainant struck 11:m first, and abused him ; and called a witness, another Jew, who was sworn. ' Mr. Miasmas asked him if he were any relation to the other ? " Eh !" replied he, cocking up his left ear. The question was repeated, but he did not comprehend it, anti said, " I'm rather hard of hearing, sir." " Well, what do you know about it ?" enquired Mr. M. " Vy, your vorship," said the Jew, " dish votnan called that young man a facabint thief, and I thinks I should be likes to do vot he did if I was called such names." Mr. MATTHIAS — WeII, but did you hear him call this woman any thing ? " No, replied the Jew, " 'pon my honour. shir." " Aye, you were deaf then," replied the Magistrate, " let the woman be remunerated for the mischief dune to her goods. How much will satisfy you, woman?" " GOD forbid, sir." said Mrs. Mahoney, " that I should wrong any_body. A shilling's the rich worth o' them." The defendant was ordered to pay the shilling accordingly, and the cost of the warrant. BIRTHS. This morning, at Bedford-place --- ,Rot itcrltithe, the Lady of Mr. Melville Shined; of &daughter. The lady of Philip Cross, Esq. of Shandy-hall, county of Cork. of a son. In London, the lady of Capt. B. Broughton, of the H. C. ser vice, of a daughter. At in the county of Berks. the lady of T. Bowles. Est. of a daughter. Sunday, the lady of Senhor Cabral, of a son. At Court Herbert, near Neatb, the lady of the Rev. T. Gronow, of a son. In Fleet-street, the lady of Bulkley J. M. Penal, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. At Bath, the Rev. J.S. Jenkinson, M. A. of Ilagdakn•ball, to Harriet Caroline Augusta, third daughter of the late Sir George Gray, Bart. DIJD. In Ennis, Blarcus Bolton, M. D. In Waterford, Mrs. Bates, relict of the late Captain Bates, 16th Foot. At his residence, Diamond-bill, county of Wicklow, after a protracted and painfull illness, George Jones. Esq. A. M. many years lecturer in the Feinaiglian Institution. Luxembourg, and au thor of the Hebrew Grammar and Hebrew Selections at present used in the University. At Boulogne, Mary, the wife of Sir .1. lionifray, ban. aged 59. The venerable John Eyre, archdeacon of Nottingham, in his 73d year. At Naples, the hon. Reginald Ashburhant. After a short illness, at Somerford-Keynes, Anne, the wife of the Rev. N. G. Woodroffe, vicar of that parish. Monday, Peter Edward O'Beirne, of Strokestown, county Hos 001111110n. At Port Elisabeth, Cape of Good Hope, Mrs. Friswood Ara bella Sheaffe, wife of Lieutenant Roger Neale Sheaffe, of the 56th Regiment. In Mayo, Jane, eecond daughter of Charles N. Knox, Esq. of Castle Lacken. At Ballynagh, in the county of Cavan, the Rev. James Pollock. aged N. This gentleman was bd years a curate in the diocese of Minim. He lived in the administration of four to one of whom be was curate when his lordship was dean. e com menced his clerical duties in the times of moderation, when the sa lary was 601. a year, but afterwards for a season enjoyed the mere ample provision of 7W. When age and infirmities, of which be bad not a few, interposed to prevent bis performance of the mien idveduties of his parish, he, of necessity, as well as to make way for a more oath, functionary, consented about two years since so re tire, /sod was, therefore, again set down with his early and old Mend, a stipend OWL per annum, and so died. H;€ H. VI ATER at Mons* Afternoon IN-BRIDGE TO MOkstO • 27 minutes atter 4 47 minutes after 4 • Lamm Printed and Published by Jove Menne, it die Omen No. I, Plekett.pisee.Temple Bar. ----=~--