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I ‘ Pr SLAVE TRADE • • • The following is a Proclamation from Gen. Sir George Don, Lieut.-Governor of Gibraltar, to prevent the sub jects of foreign countries from fitting up vessels at that place to carry on the Slave Trade: lirodansatidn by his FxceUency George Don, Knight Grand Cross of :he 'Most Honourable Order of the Bath, General "of his Ma jesty's Forces, Lleutenast•Gisrerner. and CoinsoanJer-in•Chief of . the Garrison and Territory of Gibraltar, Ste. Whereas representation has been made to his Ma jesty% Government, that certain ships and vessels, *wined by the subjects of Foreign States in amity with his Majesty, are suspected to have entered the Bay of Gib raltar, and the roadsted and anchorage ground of Gibraltar, for the purpose of fitting out or completing their outfit for voyages undertaken by them for the purpose of carrying on the trade in Slaves on the Coast of Africa: " HL Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, in pursuance of in structions received from Earl Bathurst, his "Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, bearing date the 6th July last— " Hereby warns all his Majesty's subjects w ith in the said Garrison and Territory of Gibraltar, and the port, road sted, and anchorage ground thereof, that any person who shall be engaged in the fitting out, &c. or contract for the fitting out, &c. of any ships, vessels, or boats, in order to accomplish any of the objects or contracts de• dared unlawful by the Statute made and enacted by his Majesty, with the advice and consent of Parliament, in the fifth year of his Majesty's reign, for the abolition of the Slave Trade; or who shall lend, or contract for the lending, &c. money, goods, or effects, to be em ployed in accomplishing any such illegal objects or con tracts; or who shall, in any other manner engage or contract to engage therein, or who shall ship, receive, or put oa board, or contract for doing the same, on board of any vessel such money, goods, or effects, to be employed in accomplishing any of the said illegal ob jects or contracts, shall incur and become subject to the pains and penalties, provided in and by the said statute for the punishment of persons guilty of all or any of the offences aforesaid ; and his Excellency does hereby suietly enjoin all Judges and Officers, &c. and all others of his Majesty's subjects within the town or garrison of Gibraltar, that they assist in the prevention or detention of all such offences ' as they will answer the contrary at their peril ; and his Excellency does hereby warn and strictly command and enjoin all his Majesty's subjects,within the said garrison and territory, that they do abstain from all such illegal practices, and , from aiding, &c. any person engaged therein, on pain , of his Majesty's highest displeasure, and of incurring tke several penalties provided by the said Act. "GEORGE DON, " Gibraltar, Sept. 43,1826." " Gen. and Lieut.-Governor." LAW REPORT. COURT OF ICING'S BENCH, Ocr. 24. JOINT STOCK. COMPA NIES.•••••.PA MEIN V. PRY. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover a compensation for services performed for the defendant, and other proprietors of the National Stone Road, Company. Mr. SCARLETT stated that Mr. Parkin was Secretary to the Company, and Mr. Fry one of the Directors. The plaintiff had obtained a patent for a new mode of making roads. By his process the roads becanie a solid mass —hard as granite. One horse, upon I toad made by his plan, could do as much a► five vpon the existing reads. The plan was not new invention. The city of Milan in hal blind Petersburgh in Russia, were paved' by the means Mr. Parkin held our, but the plan bad never been acted upon in thii country. In case it bad been universally adopted, the nation might have saved millions., Having_ obtained a patent, Mr. Parkin al lotted a Joint Stock Company to have the benefit of k. The Company had meetings, and the defendant being in the Chair, it was resolved that Mr. Parkin should act ass Secretary, for the purpose of opening negociations with the Commissioners of Sewers, for paving the roads upon the new plan. He accordingly entered upon the business, and also went to Guernsey and Jersey to make contracts: The Company was never dissolved, but when so many speculations proved to be bubbles, the project was not supported to the extent the plaintiff ex pected. In the present instance, the plaintiff thought he had a right to call for a remuneration of his services. Mr. SCARLETT called witnesses, who proved the Meeting of the National Stone Road Company, the ap pointment of the plaintiff as Secretary, and the business done by him for the Company. Mr. Por.Locx, for the defendant, addressed the Jury, and contended, that tire plaintiff being the sole pro jector of the plan, could not support the action against Mr. Fry. The LORD Cups arms said it would have been a different thing if the Gentlemen of the Committee had sent for the plaintiff to do their business, bat he did not find any one who employed him. He was the mover of all the proceedings, and was to have a benefit in the success of the project. It did not appear upon the whole that there was enough to enable his Lordship to leave to the Jury the question whether the plaintiff was em ployed by Mr. Fry ? therefore there must be a nonsuit. The plaintiff was nonsuited. THE KING V. JAMES LA THBURY. The defendant was indicted for perjury, assigned to have been committed in a certain affidavit, sworn by him in the Court of Con.mon Pleas, under the following circumstances:-Mr. Brown, the person at whose in stigation the prosecution was instituted, and the de fendant, were both carcass butchers in Aldgate market. The defendant having been arrested by Brown for some arrears of rent, thought proper to revenge himself for that proceeding, by abusing Brown wherever he met him. On the sth of November,lB24, Mr. Brown, who had a residence a short distance from town, was in his chaise, passing the defendant's shop, which was within ' a few doors of his own, when the defendant called out 4 , Hoy, boy," as if he wished to speak to him. Brown' returned, and asked him what he meant by calling him' back, and what he wanted ? some altercation ensued, when Brown's son, who had witnessed the commence nient of the affair, came to his father's assistance, and after some abusive language between him and Lath bury, struck the defendant, who said, that was all he wanted. An action was commenced by the defendant against Brown the younger, and his father, and having consulted Counsel, as there appeared no doubt that Brown, jun. had struck the first blow, they were advised t.' let judgment go by default, which was accordingly done, and the damastes were afterwards assessed by Mr. Callingridge, the Secondary, at 2001. The Browns, astonisi!eJ at the large sum f or w h at t h e y contended was so trifling an assault, on Application to the Court of e. mason Plc.'s, in Hilary Term, 1825, obtained a rule calling on the defendant to *hew cause why the result-i ,cif that inquiry should not be sat aside. l'hiedendant, in opposing that rule, made an affidavit denyingehat ha had called the elder Brown 'back for the purpo s e or insulting him,and on that, and several other allegations therein contained, the petjury was assigned to have been committed. The writ ofinquiry in the ease of" Lathborye. Brown," matted in hammy, let& hating. bees pat in, end the slimes* (Atha de fendant to the affidavit havitiffbeen proved, Mr. Brown, the elder. described the way in which the assault took place, the conduct of the defendant to his :an; and that, instead of the defendant being winch in jured by the blow behadreceived, he was seen winking about directly after. The witness also positively denied havin; struck the defendant, although he threatened to ram his whip down his throat. Thomas Carver, another witness, described the transaction nnwiy in the same terms. -' ..... The Loan (Misr Aroma here suggested, to prevents triumph on either side, that a Juror should be withdrawn, which, after some consultation, was assented to. The record in " the King v. Holloway." and' the King v. Body," two other indictments for perjury arising out of the same transac tion, were then withdrawn. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCTOZER 24. John Bell, James Riley, William Hamentoiee, and William Stoker, were indicted for assaulting George An drews. It appeared that the prosecutor was sent to an auction by his master to purchase some bricks ; but having purchased a wrong lot, his master, as soon as he learned what he had done, bestowed a hearty kick upon a certain part of his person for his pains, and sent him back to the sale room, to endeavour to rectify his mistake. As soon, however, as addressing the auc tioneer, he made known his luckless blunder, a general laugh pervaded the room, and a number of persons, amongst whom were the defendants, described as be longing to a society called 4 , the knock•outs," got around him, and so completely begrimed his face with soot, that no part of his countenance was recognizable to his nearest friends, save just so much of his nose as had been held while the ceremony of japaning was performing upon him. So great was the uproar pro duced by this proceeding, that the auctioneer was fain to make his escape from the tumult, by leaping out of , the window. Mr. Pumurs having called witnesses who proved these facts ' Mr. Ataxy, foe tbe defendants, produced others, who swore that his clients were not the parties who bad perpetrated the outrage. The Jury found them all Guilty, and The CHAIRMAN sentenced them,to pay a fine of 51. each, with liberty to speak to the prosecutor; in other words, to pay between them either 201. to the King, or WC to the prosecutor. William Paile was convicted of wantonly assaulting John Duckworth, and another, for which he was sen tenced to pay a fine of 251. in each case. ' David Andrade was indicted for a nuisance, in keep ing a tripe and dog's meat boiling house in High-street, Whitechapel. Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the prosecution, called several of the defendant's neighbours, who swore that the smell, which almost constantly issued from the' premises in question, *as intolerable. Mr. ALLEY, on the other side, contended, that the defendant was not liable to.an indictment for a public nuisance (however he might be liable to a civil action), because his business might be disagreeable to one or two of his immediate neighbours,: if it were not offen sive to the public at large; and to prove that such was not the case, he called several of the inhabitants of she same street.—The Jury having acquitted the defendants The CHAIRMAN advised him to adopt some measures towards abating the nuisance, as itimquestionably ex; posed bim to serious consequences, should his neighbours think fit to proceed against him by civil action. • Dtrumars.--Thursday, at College-street Police fee, Dublin, a Mr. John Holland was directed to immediately find ball to stand his trial, for having placarded a Gentleman named Valentine Borchill, and otherwise endeavoured to provok! him to fight a duel. They were both bound, before they left the. Office, in the sum of 1,0001. each, to keep the peace to emelt other, ace. At Hastings, a few days since, a youth threie a quan- Itity of lime into the face of a little boy named Cabby, 'some of which entered the right eye, and in a few mi nutes destroyed the cornea, the iris, and the pupil of the organ of sight. Two hawks of the common species having ventured near the tower of St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth, 00 Saturday week, they were surrounded by twelve jack= dews, who commenced a most determined attack on the intruders: They continued buffetting the hawks for nearly half an hour, confining their flight within a cer tain circle; and though the unfortunate birds of prey tried every manceuvre to escape, they were so roughly handled that the passengers who witnessed the singular exhibition expected every moment to see them fell to the ground. After the jackdaws had somewhat gratified their revenge, the hawks were suffered to wing their flight in a direct line, of which they gladly availed themselves, and retreated to their native wilderness, evidently in a very exhausted condition. Notwithstanding every precaution that could be de- ' 1 vised, drunkenness continued to prevail among the troops in one of the forts in India; when it was at length discovered that the soldiers' wives were in the habit of steeping their flannel petticoats in arrack, and then wringing them out into vessels, by which de licate means the hitherto undiscovered supply had been for some time introduced. TAs Ganz AND THE Gam:mt.—The following curious circumstance happened on Monday se'nnight, at Mogan, in Cornwall. A poor man named Blight, had 12 geese and a gander, which were fattening for sale at Redrnth fair on Thursday. He saw them on Monday evening. They were in prime condition, and in the pride of his heart he was calculating the hand some sum he should receive for them. Alas ! little did he imagine that he was then bestowing on them his last " look of love." When he went to revisit their domicile in the morning. the geese were gone; Gone I—dike traces from the deep— Gune !—like sceptres grasped in sleep !" He stood like one bewildered—recalled the realm brance of their beauty and their fatness, and the still more touching recollection of the grains he had given them—and again gazed on the happy spot where he had last beheld them. but " they were not," and nothing was before him but the blankness of desolation! And as one living thing in a solitude makes it yet more gloomy, so was the misery of the Wall heightened by the presence of the solitary, bereaved gander, around whose neck was fastened a small bag, in which the owner found a shilling, and a slip of paper, containing —not.a pound note, but the following exquisite stanza.: Mr. Blight, Mr. Blight, We wish you good night, For vre cannot stay any Longer; We have bought all your geese At a penny a-piece, , Aud have left the amount with the gander ! , POLICE nrrzucENCE. MANSION:MOUS& A waterman appeared, to answer a charge of having taboo More than his fare, and - using abusive language. A Gentleman went with the defendant front Rntberbithe to Tower Stairs, and offered him a thrning, which be refused, d—ing him for a mere humbug, and refusing to let him go for less than eighteen-pence. The Gentleman paid the money, but insisted on taking the defendant's number. and gat into the boat for that pur pose. It was then near nine o'clock at night, and it was extremely difficult to find the number. As he was poring about the boat for the purpose, a waterman's •apprentice gave it a tilt, and threw the Gentleman's bead into the water; he narrowly escaped going in all together. Finding be could not get at the number, he went as far as Billingsgate, to procure a 'anther/4;nd the defendant accom panied him, and " jawed him" all the way. When they returned to the Stairs, the defendant jumped into the boat, rowed it off, and left him on the Stairs with the lanthorn in his hand, telling hint to get the number how he could. Having, however, recognised the person of the defendant, he persevered on the following day, and found him out. The Loan Maros fined the defendant 201. and on Ms declaring its inability to pay it, committed him to prison. BOW-STIIRET. That notorious old pickpocket, Tit gale, was brought before Rif RICHARD Brame yesterday, charged with having picked the I pocket of Richard Paul Jodrell, Esq. of Portland place, of a purse containing nineteen sovereigns, and with having attempted to steal his watch. it appeared from the statement of Mr. Jodrell, who is a very old Gentleman, that he and a female friend went to the English Opera House, where there was a performance for the benefit of the widow and children of Mr. Connor, the actor, on Monday evening ; and when entering the Theatre by the passage which leads to the pit from Exeter-street, he was hustled and pushed about by more than a dozen fellows, who suddenly surrounded them; though, when they entered the passage, there were no per sons there but themselves. When he and the Lady had in some degree extricated themselves from these fellows, Mr. Jodrell leaned against the wall to rest himself, ana then the prisoner stepped up to him, and whilst pretending to assist him forward, took hold of his watch-chain, and was endeavouring to draw it from his pocket, when Miss Mills, the Lady who attended him, seized "Mister Tit" by the collar, but he got away front her, and disappeared In the crowd. Mr. Jodrell wis not till then conscious of having lost his purse, but when he put his hand to his pocket, supposing it to be secure be discovered, muck to his surprise, that it was gone. He and Miss Mills then took refuge in a frulterer's shop; and having described the person of the prisoner to a constable, be, in ten mi nutes after, apprehended his in the crowd, at one of the entrances to the Theatre, and bright him before them. He (the prisoner) begged very hard for mercy, and said, " Oh, let me go—for the sake of my wife and family, let me go, and my brother will make it up with Me Gentleman." What he meant by saying " his brother would male it up with the Gentleman," he could not explain; bat the officers said there was little doubt that be had robbed Mr. Jodrell of his purse, and this expression of the prisoner was in allusion to it. The prisoner was committed for re-examination as Friday next, to give time for the production of farther evidence. In the course of the Investigation a Gentientan recognised the prisoner, as a man whom be saw a bout the Theatre on the same evening, In company with several persons, who were pointed out to him (the Gentleman), by an °Geer of t his establishment. as noto rious thieves. There were amongst them a man named Hammond, a abort, slight young man, with a sharp visage , and resnarlibly genteel in his dress and general appearance; and another of the name of Smith, who, front his bulk, is known animist the pollee by the cognomen of The Bligagast. Two well-known young pickpockets, named debases and ri &est, were brought up by Morris and Purism, who found them lurking about the Theatre on Monday night, and who very pro perly took them into custody. They were committed for three months, under the Police Act, to the Tread. Mill. Two other pickpockets were committed fur a month. M A RLBOROUGH-ST RE ET. • • Yesterday, an elderly decent-looking man was placed at the bar, before Mr. COMMIT, the sitting Magistrate, upon the following sin gular charge: Withers, sea. 'the father of the youth who some weeks ago pre. 'erred a charge against Colonel Archdall, at this dice, stated, that the man at the bar came as* perfect stranger see night last week to sleep at the public-house where he (Wither) lodges, in Holborn, and the next day the prisoner thought proper to charge him with having robbed him during the night of a sum of money, because they happened to.deep in the same room, and the prisoner has ever singes:wee ragniarly every day to the house, causing a disturbance `and loudly charging him (Withers) with t he robbery; and when , asked to gist bis name and address, he refused to tell either; so that at Leith he (Withers) thought it proper to give him into cus tody, until •be should give some account of himself, because he , (Withers) had a sarong suspicion that the prisoner was set on to make this accusation, on account of Colonel Archdairs business. Mr. Conant asked the prisoner who and ghat he was ? He replied that his name was Richard Enos; that about a week ago be had loft the service of a Gentleman named Abbott, residing •at Church-end, near Harrow; be left there in consequence of ill ness, and arrived in town the day before the night on which he slept at this public house, and if he could have known beforehand the son of accommodation be was to have had there, no consideradon should have induced him to sleep there, for he was eramnied into a small miserable room with two other men, one of whom was Withers. He put his trousers carefully between the bed on which be slept and the matting for safety, as one of the pockets contained Li iii. but in the course of the night be bad occasion to get out of bed• several times, on account of illness, and the next morning he found his trousers not where he had placed them, but ' thrown upon the door, and the money that bad been in the pocket vanished from theses; he was satisfied, be said, that Withers was the permit who took it, because at a very early hour in the morning be observed him fumbling with eonsetking on the foot near to where the trousers were found. Withers positively denied the charge, and said that he bad merely stooped towards the floor to bundle up some linen that was to be given to the laundress. This charge, be repeated, was pan of a conspiracy against him to injure his character before the trial of Colonel Arch&ll. Mr. COstarr asked what had his character, be it good or bad, to do with the trial of Colonel Ardsdall ? He was no witness on the occasion ; his son was the person to give evidence in the case. Witness said yes, that was true, but still the friends of Colonel Archdall had an object to serve by blackening his character, if they could, with a view of shriving that he was a likely person to urge his son to make such an accusation for the purpose of extorting • money from Colonel Archdall. Mr. Cosatrr told the man at the bar, that be did not see any pounds for accusing Withers of this robbery. particularly as a third person had also slept in the room. The matter was then dismissed, and all the puttee went about their business. MARY-LA-BONNIL Yesterday Lola and Akio:, two men deemed in the garb of coun try Carmen, went brought in irons to this °See, from Baling, charged with being concerned in a burglary of a very daring and extraordi nar y cbancter, which was accomplished on &mday night last, at th house of Mr. W. Tidy, grocer and dealer, in the above village. The property taken amounted to nearly 2001. and the robbers bad not only to cut a panad through the back door, but bad to carry heavy parcels over several walls, one of which was seven feet high. Lake was discharged, and Atkins remanded till be should be able to give a better account of himself. Yesterday, Johnson laid an information against Mr. Ives, pro prietor of the Baling coach, No. 6,897. He brought forward his usual witnesses, Aaron Rawlins and John Brookes, to swear, that on the 10th of October, in the afternoon, they saw six outside pas orogen upon the coach, besides a hamper, which measured from two to three feet square, and stood upon the footboard of the sticky. In answer to this, a respectable inhabitant of Baling stated, that the hamper so desctibed was his property; that, instead of being three feet, it was not 18 inches square; it only contained four dishes, and did not weigh altogether IWbs. He carried it upon his knees until they arrived at Acton, because the coachman refused to take him unless he did so. Johnson then said, as the Gentleman was so positive, be did not wish to press a conviction, if his Worship would allow h im: his costs. Mr. Gemini said, it was a slight case, badly supported. He should dismiu the Information, and Johnson must pay the costs himself. Several informations were laid by the same party against different coach proprietors, for not having the name of the places marked on the patinel of each coach door; but they were all postpoued until nest Tuesday. Jfitillita Rabies was charged with beating his wife, to whom he had been married ten years. She said she went out with a female friend to buy some ribbons, on Saturday night, and returned at eleven o'clock ; her husband was gone to bed. She gave her friend some supper, and saw her part of the way home, and an coming back found the street-door locked, and she was et:impelled to return , totes, friend's to sleep: In the morning ha bullhead muse an best her while in bed, without the least provocation upon eanb.. • In reply, the husband said be retired to rest at his usual b one , and his wife went out without his knowledge ; he knew nothing o f the locking of the door, hat on awakening on the Sunday mo rn i ng be was astonished to find no wife by his side. He had long sus: peeled she was too intimate with a Mr. Hodge ; he set off to th e house, and while remonstrating with Mrs. 'Pair, who opened the 'door,tully dressed, upon her sanctioning the scandalous intercourse b the husband came down, naked, to know what was the matter. He rushed by him upstairs, and found his wife sitting up in the ,bed, also undressed, and he then bestowed on her the be a ting s h e can: plained of. The Magistrate dismissed her eomplakt, as she had so miscall. ducted herself. L AM BETH-STREET. Mr. Lambert a proprietor of several Black wall stages, appeared toi seven informations, filed by Biers, fur breaches of the Stage Coact Act. The Magistrate doubting whether as the provi,infi which had been disregarded, was merely made to protect the revenue, it was competent to any bet the Attorney General, ur the Excise, td be the infutmer—postponed the hearing to make inquiry. UNION-HALL Yesterday,' fellow named John Suit', one of a gang of desperalii thieves, that have long infested the district of this Office, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged with having committed so outrageous an assault upon the person of Captain DEvidson, of Nsl son.siquare, as to endanger that Gentleman's life. The Captain was unable to attend the examination in consequence of the injuries be had received, sod his son produced a medical certificate, describing the dangerous state in which his father you then lying, owing to a severe blow on the breast. A watchman, named Shepherd, stated, that on the preceding night about eleven o'clock, as he was sitting in his watchbos, which is placed in Counter-street, Southwark, he saw a Gentleman walk: Mg along the pavement, whom he has since ascertained to be Cap tain Davidson, who was followed by three common looking lows. The watchman kept his eye upon them, and when they had proceeded about twenty yards from where he was. be plaint,' observed the prisoner run up alongside the Captain, and give him a desperate blow on the breast that knocked him down like a shot; the prisoner then proceeded to turn Captain David.nn's pockets inside out, and at this moment the watchman h.'s. tened to the spot, secured the ruffian who bad committed the outrage, bu; unfortunately his associates escaped throng:l the labyrinth of bye lanes and alleys in that neighbourhood.-- The prisoner having been secured, the next thing was to discover who the Gentleman was that had been so desperately assaulted, as he lay in the road completely deprived of ail sense or motion, and to all appearance dead. In his pockets fortunately was found a card of his address, and be was instantly conveyed home, and sur gical aid being procured, after having been bled, he recovered in some degree, bat still remains in every dangerous state. The pri soner was known to most of the officers, and was identified by them as having been in company with a man named Edwards, upon as occasion of a tire in Bertnondsey, when Pople, an officer of this Es tablishment, was severely wounded with a knife in the hand and arm by Edwards, who was there for the purpose of picking pockets. The prisoner was remanded. A swindler has been traversing Berkshire soliciting change of sovereigns and half-sovereigns from poor cot tagers, with which he contrived to decamp. Sunday morning a monkey, the property of Mr. &arms, a hackney-coach proprietor, In North -street, City Road s broke his chain and made his way into the street, where be las toted on a child, about two years old. the son of a widow woman. of the name of ltmum.t., who keeps a chandler's shop in the same street. The mischievous animal tote the flesh off one of the child's cheeks, and severely scratched him in several places. At length a Gentleman rescued the child from further violence, and the monkey ran cif.. - • EAST-RIDING Suarows.-The Michaelmas Genet al Quarter Sessions of the Peace, for this Riding, com menced at Beverley on Tuesday last, before a full beach of Magistrates. The Rev. W. R. 611.111 f, Chair man, took occasion from the reading of the usual pro. clamation against vice and profaneness, to enforce the necessity of keeping the Sabbath, and preventing the 'system of tippling in public-houses during the hours devoted to Divine Service. An indictment for libel, to which be alluded, arose out of a letter addressed bp' General Wharton to Mr. Scotchburn, attorney, of Driffield. A true bill was found against the General, and the matter is expected to be tried neit Sebbions. Saturday evening as the sister of Mr. Barry, per ftnler, of Greek -street, Soho, was passing along Comp• ton-street, she was attacked by three or four thieves, one of whom snatched her reticule. As soon as she re covered from her surprise, she gave the alarm of ,4 Stop Thief r but it was too late, as he had made his escape with his booty, consisting of two sovereigns, and one half ditto, besides some silver. Several of the gang surrounded her, who, from terror, supported herself by holding a post ; bat fortunately a Gentleman passing at the time extricated her from her danger, and escorted her to her brother's house. Some evil-disposed person or persons entered the Tavistnck Chapel, Broad -court, Drury-lane, during last week, by forcing open one of the windows, and carried off two communion cups, a patten, and two surplices, The depredators appear to have remained some time in the Chapel, and to have ransacked it in various parts, in Order to discover, if possible, more articles of value. It is rather curious, that the same sounds which in England are used to make the horses quicken their pace, are those which the Swedes make use of when they intend to halt them ; so that an Englishman hav ing mounted, or having to drive a Swedish horse, is surprised to find the animal stop short, at the very ma meat when he expects him to quicken his pace. Tan LoTus.—Much learned disquisition has been en gaged in ascertaining what plant is the toles, which makes a great figure in the writings of antiquity. It is a native of Egypt, and it is now ascertained that it is a species of systphata, or water-lily, which, on the disap pearance of the inundation, covers all the canals and pools with its broad round leaves, among which its Bowers, in the form of cups of bright white or azure blue, rest with inimitable grace on the sni face of the water. The rose lily of the Nile, or the Egyptian bean, which is seen carved on the ancient mcnumt nts of Egypt, is not now found in that country, and would ,have been unknown to naturalists if they had nor found it in India. It is the nymphera welcomer) of LlNNzus. It was on this that the locus eaters lived. But the finks of the lotus, praised by HOSIIIR, and which so much delighted the companions of Messes, were those of the modern jujube, or rhatrasus Iota:. Di ED. The Rev. James Neilson, Senior Presbyterian Minister of Stranorlar. At the Sheds of Clontarf, James Clifford Keenan, P.M. many years a Master Ettraordinary of the Court of Chancery in I rebod. At his father's house, in the Castle of Dublin, John, sun of Major Mitchell, Royal Artillery. The 34 ult. at New York, after a short and severe illness of three days, Lieut. Thomas Turner, R.N. commander of his Majesty), packet Lady Wellingten t in his 31st year. MAILS—THIS DAY. MIL, DUE. • Dublin 1 0 Prance I Waterford 2 0 Hamburg!' Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Models Lisbon 0 0 I Malta ♦I R. nor. o 0 o u O 0 0 I 0 I Donaghadee 0 0 1 Sweden Leeward Wands 0 0 1 America 0 0 1 Buenos Ayres HIGH-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE?. TO JiclicicoW• Morning - • 4% rntuutr• ,Ul' 9 Afternoon 14 muiutr. alit 10 Losumus ; IWrsieti anti Palo/idled by J. F. Ks., r, al the Slallihttilitll. ..Vu. 1, Ilavi,-,e.ace, Tempt-bur. ~, Ii