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TH6 MONTHLY MAGAZIN& WOISTAKCS, TIMICRES, MID CO. A half-mad Grcek has lately written a volume to per !,iade the world that he has at length made the discovery of the true author of the Iliad. This author, who has evaded such a hos t ..1 inquirers in every age, from the days of Solon down to the days or Payne Knight, is no other than Ulysses, the man of craft, who took Penelope to wife, contrived to escape the swords of Hector and bis men at arms, which laid low so many of bis gallant coun trymen, was shipwrecked and "agitated over so many seas," re turned, found his Penelope as virtuous, fond, and deep in tapestry , I weaving, as in the hour be left her : and having nothing else to do, in his monarchy of Ithaca, which at present employs the diplo matic functions of a British corporal and a dozen men, busied his leisure in writing the history of the " Late War under Agamem non," as commander-in-chief, assisted by the documents from head-quarters, and the personal communications of several officers on the staff of the grand army. But leaving this Greek discoverer to settle his claims with the governors of St. Luke's, the subject is curious and cloudy enough to exercise the best skill of modern inquiry. This inquiry will probably be found, whatever other elucidations it may produce to conclude with the following propositions—that the two matchless poems of the Iliad and Odyssey were the work of one man—that they were preserved in writing in the Greek colonies along the eastern border of the Mediterranean—that the Athenian Pisistratus, a man of cultivated mind, seeing the con fusion into which those poems had fallen in Greece, by the habit of the rhapsodists, or reciters,—to break them up into fragments for popular recitation, and interpolate them with absurdities of their own, collected them, and brought them back into their original shape, a task in which be was assisted and directed by the use of authentic copies of the originals procured from the Greek colonies in Asia Minor. We may first very briefly cast aside the notorious hypothesis of the German school of Wolfe and Heyne, that the Iliad and Odyssey were written by a dozen, or a hundred dozen of rhymers. and finally compacted into their present form by some collector The Germans are a heavy people, and so conscious of their hea viness, that they are always labouring to appear light. A harlequin with wooden legs, is their tree emblem, and fantastic dulness their trite spirit. Heyne has the frivolous stupidity to expose himself to the world's laughter by wisdom of this kind—" Jam ingenium Died praclarum, ad cot:vapor hancce mine artis debeinus, nobis Homerus esto.”—(Hom. 7,8, p. 806•) The idea is altogether nonsense. The consecutive action, the similarity of style, and, above all, the brilliant and vivid genius which has made every age bow to the supremacy of Homer, vindicate the immortal work and the immortal author, from twenty generations of Goths and Vandals. The only attempt at argument on which this hypothesis relies, is the presumed difficulty of proving that the art of writing existed In the age of Homer. But it is clear that, at least in Judea, writing was known long before the time of Moses, and was in common use.—(Numbers, v. 23, Dent. xxiv. 1.) The Pentateuch was written about 1570 years before the Christian are. That, in Greece, prose works were not known before Pherecydes• (8.C.544) nor any laws committed to writing before those of Draw, is a matter unconnected with the question. Writing ex isted in Asia. But even if it had net existed, the habit of the time, of committing long poems to memory, as a livelihood, could have sufficiently preserved them. Even at so low a date as the time of Xenophon, there were many persons in Athens who had both the Iliad and Odyssey by heart.—(Sympos. 3 5.) But the Book of Job, which was undoubtedly committed to writing, was probably composed about 184 years before Abraham, and 2000 before our at.. The age of the great poet has been a more dubious matter of controversy. The ancients seem to have ascertained nothing defi nitively on the point. Strabo makes him a contemporary of Ly. curgus, and an adviser in forming the Spartan laws.—(Lib. x.) Cicero, himself an accomplished Greek scholar, and who had stu died at Athens, merely observes, that " his age is uncertain, but that he lived long before the foundation of Rome"—(De Oar. Orat. 10.) That Homer did not live in the immediate time of the Trojan war is declared by himself.—(lliad, B. 486.) There is some evidence in the name of the Nile, which he always calls JEgyptus, the ancient tame.—(Gen. xv. 18.) The great council of the Greek States, the Amphyctionii, is net mentioned by him, though its distinction was attained in a very remote age. The next point is to ascertain the downward limit. The most famous and important event of Greece, after the Trojan war, was the return of the Heraclitha, an event which produced a general revolution of territory. But Homer makes no mention of this great change. His catalogue of ships, which forms one of the most curious and complete documents of the state of ancient territory, is constructed wholly on the situation of the different little sovereignties before the invasion of the Heraclids. This invasion took place in 824 B.C. eighty years after the Trojan war in 904 B.C. Homer must have lived in this interval. But the date may be brought still closer, by observing that the last event to which he alludes is the possession of the Trojan sceptre by the descendants of Areas. in the third generation. Thus he would have flourished in the ninth century B.C. Herodotus already fixes him at the same period, for he gives the date of Homer 400 years before his own. Herodotus lived 444 B.C. The country of Homer was a celebrated source of controversy after his death. But the only probable narrative of his birth and career Is given In a life attributed to Herodotus ; one.half of which seems fabulous, yet which has undoubtedly formed the ground work of all the subsequent attempts. This life states that Homer was born in Smyrna, that his mother, Crytheis, was front Cams, and that Homer was illegitimate, and was born suddenly, iu the midst of a festival, on the banks of the river Metes. The Greeks subsequently accounted for this transaction in the national way. A descended inhabitant of the skies, as usual in the case of cele brated poets, was the parent, and the mother was afterwards mar ried to a king, Mson, who took upon himself the tutelage of the illustrious child. So says Plutarch, that grand collector of the gossip stories of his fabling country. But the more ancient narra tive is less lofty. Crytheis supported herself and her child by the labour of her hands, and was a spioner.—(lllad. M. 433.) She then married Phemlos, a schoolmaster. Homer was taught by Pronepides. After the death of Phetnins, he became master of his school, where, being found by Mentes, a rich Smyrnese wader, be was induced to take the opportunity probably of some of the traders' ships, and, fortunately for the fame of Greece, and the de. light of posterity, go forth to see the world. In Ithaca he was taken ill, and suffered mush from an affection of his eyes. In Ithaca he found himself surrounded with uadi tioas of Ulysses ; and an Ithacan, of the name of Mentor, pee him the narrative of those adventures ea which be afterwards con structed the Odyssey. This weakness of his eyes at last rendered him totally blind ;but there is an utter improbability in the story that he was born blind. His descriptions of Nature, sunshine, the heavenly bodies, storms, the human features and actions, are not the perceptions of a man been blind. They have in them the most distinct evidence of actual vision. The well-known saying of the Roman is perfectly founded—" Si quiz can esecum genitum putat, omnibus sensibus cocas est."—(Patercul. I. I. 3.) On this 'residence at Ithaca, a conjecture, similar to that of the Greek pro fessor. bad been hazarded by Jacob Bryant, a man of learning, but ~ scarcely less extravagant than any Gertnan.of thee* all, that Ho mer, in desaWilt Ulysses aced, rePattliev iat himself sod his wife. and that Ithaca was hie birtis t glilae..: But we mud recollect that Jacob a Bryant doubted, or mime dealid. the exist ence of Troy and the Trojan war altogether, auk had his mind re- • vainly mode up for s historical scenticila by the widest license of hypothesis. Homer, in conformity to a eu.toeu nearly c,ieval with mankind, seems to have made his livelihood on this journey by reciting his compositions at the banquets of the great. At Phase, he encoun tered the common adventure of a literary robbery. Thestoridss. a teacher of youth, engaged to give him a lodging and maintenance on condition of being allowed to transcribe his poems. Thestorides then ran away, carrying the MSS. with him to Chios, where he declared himself their author, and commenced reciting them as a rhapsodist. Homer was at this time advanced In life, and blind. But the spirit of the poet was alive to this injury of his property and fame. He ordered himself to be landed at Chios, and set out in pursuit of the delinquent pedagogue. On reaching the shore from Brythrte, he was bewildered, was near being torn to pieces by the dogs of Glaucus, a shepherd, but saved by their matter coming up, and was led to &limo, where he lived for some time, teaching children, and enjoying his triumph over his plagiary, who 11.4 fled immediately on his arrival. Chios, finally, was his resi dence; there he grew *anent, married, and had two daughters, one of whom died early, and the other was married to the father of one of his pupils. His career now drew near its end. Sailing to Athens, he fell sick at 10, died, and was buried in a plain, not far from that" ever-resounding main," which he had so often and so sublimely commemorated. . . The native country of this mighty genius was certainly Asiatic. All his descriptions are tinged with the colours of an Asiatic Greek, and are suitable only to lonia, or some Greek colony on the east of Greece. This has been strikingly illustrated in his allusions to winds, sunset, rains, sea, ice. by Wood, in his Essay on the Ge nius of Homer." Smyrna seems co have felt itself entitled to claim the honour, if we are to judge from its extraordinary homage to his memory. It burned Zollus in eMgy, as a revenge for his cri ticism; it struck medals in honour of the poet, some of which exist, and represent him, not blind,but reading ; and it even erected him into a demi-god, and built his temple. The claims of Chios, founded on his residence there, have been argued by many of the learned, ancient and modern. Sinmaides, and Tbeocritus, and Leo Anodus. are in favour of Chios ; but they can prove no more than that he lived in the island. The distich relative to this dispute is weD known— " Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, Salamis, Rhodes, Argos, Athens, Orbis de patria certat, Homere, ma." A multitude of poems have been attributed to Homer by the Greeks. But the art of verbal criticism was too negligently exer cised on the subject. The people, eager for every novelty, and inclined to receive with zealous delight every production that bore the name of their first poet, suffered a multitude of spurious works to usurp the honour. The only poems which establish in any con siderable degree a claim to authenticity, are the Batracho-muoma chia, or Battle of the Frogs and Mice; a humorous fragment, the Margites, of which but four stanzas remain ; and the Hymn to Venus. The Margites was universally supposed by the ancients to have been the production of Homer. Zeno calls it bit earnest. Aristophanes, Plato, and Aristotle state it decidedly as his work. The Hymn to Venus bears evidence of having been at least of the Homeric age ; yet the battle of the Frogs and Mice has been at tributed to Pigres, of Helicarnassua, brother of the Queen Arte misia. The thirty-three hymns, with the exception of the Hymn to Venus, are supposed to be by Cynathus--at all events, they are of high antiquity. Homer's travels were chiefly in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. His mention of Arabia and Lybia is cursory, and there is no evidence of his having seen either. Spain and Italy appear also to have been beyond his travels. But he speaks of Thebes with the force of a spectator; and he probably penetrated deep into Ethiopia. He is closely familiar with the habits of Phanicia and Egypt ; and his catalogue of the ships Implies a sin gularly close knowledge of the whole of Ggeee, from its eastern to its western boundary. How much MIAS it be regretted that he had not seen Jerusalem, the most magnificent seat of religion in the world. With what additional splendour must his genius then have show, front the majesty of the city, and the wisdom and worship of Sion. The language of Homer has been, by an absurdity possible only to a pedant, conceived to consist of the four chief dialects of Greece. We might as well conceive an English epic compounded of the Yorkshire, Somersetshire, Cornish, and Scotch. The great poet of course used the simple language of his country and his day. The divisions subsequently recognised in the language of Greece Proper, originated in the nature of the territory, which Is cut into fres meats by mountains and rivers. The slight assistance that history gives, is summed up in the knowledge, that Xolus and Dorus, the sons of Hellen, the son of Deucalloo, settling in separate portions of Greece, much of the accent and phraseology of the neighbouring native tribes naturally passed into the language which they brought from Asia And thus formed the peculiar dialect of their descendants' Achzus and lon, sons of the younger brother Xantbus, were born in Attlee, where their father had married the daughter of Erec theus the King. Achzus finally went into Laconia. lon remained in Attica, and his language was adopted by the people, who are thence called by Homer lonians. Neleus, the son of Codrus, went with a number of his countrymen into Asia Minor, and there planted the first lonian colony. Homer lived about the period of this emigration. He is supposed even to have been one of the esttlen.—(Knight's Proleg. 66.) He, of course, spoke the lan. page of Attica. But this being before the Athenians had excluded the peculiarities of the Doric and Rolle, they are still to be found in his writings. The Attic still differs but little from the lonic ; it is centrected lonic. The frequency of the broad vowel sounds was inconsistent with the refinement of the Athenian ear, and was gradually reduced. Homer's alphabet was by no means so copious as that of the sub sequent Greek. It probably had but sixteen letters. The vowels H and ri, and the double consonants, were later ; the former being represented by Hand 0, and the latter by their component sounds. The dissolute is still a subject of controversy. In writing and speaking, the meeting of two words, one of which ended with a vowel and the other began with one, was offenaive to the Greek ear. Thus, something like the vulgar pronunciation of London, which adds a consonant to every word ending with a vowel, as Maria-r, Diana-r, was the sign of elegance among the Greeks.— With the Londoner, the addition is r, with the Athenian the inter mediate was n. With the other tribes it was the custom to prefix to words beginning with a vowel, a 1", with a line across it, thus, F.—(Dionys. Halle. Antiq. Roos. 1.20.) The latter is supposed to have formed the sixth, or the original Felasgic alphabet. It was used by the Laconians, Barium, lonians, and Saint, but by the last to so late a period, that it was peculiarly called the iollc Di. gamma. It exists, however, in no MSS. But it is found in in scriptions—the Delian marble, and coins of Vella. The pronun ciation is still a matter of contest. Dawes declares it to be W. Marsh overthrows this supposition, and states It to be F. The probability is, that it had the force of V. The Fis actually found ht inscriptions for V. And several words which are transferred Iron the Greek to the Latin have the V, as Fogrot,.vinum; °Foe iv% Soc. The total disappearance of the digammi from the Homeric writings, is accounted foe on the idea, that at the period of revising the copies by Pisistratas, the digamma had either fallen into disuse, or perhaps bad become so substantially a part of the language, that its position in the words was as perfectly understood. as we understand the omission or use of an aspirate in tbecommon - words of a modernlanguage : Homer has been idly learned to have been the earliest poet of Greece. The expression Of Hero- dotus should be qualified into his being the best. Homer himself mentions Thamyris, and probably Licus.—(li. Z. 570.) But poetry is u old as the world. wseememmesemeneie Wednesday afternoon the body of a man was dis covered by some passengers floating in the basin in Hsi Greet Park, wMefi has newly been enclosed •by a wooden paling. An alarm was instantly given; and, drags being procured, the body was brousht.on shore. From the appearance of the deceased, be Must live been' some days in the water, and *bourse years of age. He was' rather genteelly dressed is's blaek'coat end temente, striped black silk waistcoat. and Wellington boots; but'tbene was nothing found on his person to discover who be was. The body was re moved to he. 31artin's workhouse to be owned. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was so dug that we can only subjoin the present state of the odds against all the horses now in the betting for the Derby, Oaks, and St. Legsr• BROST. 7 to 1 apt Sir M. Wood's Mummer 14 to I ---. Sir M. Wood's Cetus 14 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker IS to 1 Mr. Thornhill's Wit Tyler 17 to 1 --- Lord Exeter's Mabmoud 111 to I Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt 1$ to 1 --- Lord Sefton's Sal. Colt u 5 to 1 -- Lord Sefton's Mouche 20 to 1 Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt (taken) 20 to 1 Mr. Petre's The Major 25 to 1 --- Lord Exeter's Red Rover 25 to I Col. Wilson's Brother to Lamplighter 25 to 1 .-- Ld Anson's Mina colt 30 to I --- Mr. Roberts's Sister to Sailor (taken) 30 to 1 --- Mr. Vansittart's Darioletta colt (taken) OAKS. 15 to 2 Lord Sefton's /douche 10 to 1 -- Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly. 22 to 2 Shumla. 20 to 1 -- Filagree. 20 to 1 Sister to Emma. 2S to 1 --- Nina. K. LIOSS. 9 to 1 Ruby. IS to 1 Brunrwickers 16 to 1 Lady_ Mowbray. 16 to 1 -- St. Niels°las. 20 to 1 Reginald. The above are the present odds, bet not a bet was made. HUNTING. Mr. JotWe's bounds meet on Monday, the 16th, at Box Hill ; Wednesday, the 1110, at Horse Hills; Saturday , the 21 st , at WindmiU Walton. The Surrey, Monday, Hamsey Green ; Thursday, Rose and Crown ; Saturday, LimpsSeld. :5 Tice t"..ettl. ...-- v, • . ..,,, ~ . ot, .r , 1-_ ... s-k: . •••• 1 -, • . , ~-,- a -'O - 4 * 7v ‘ LITERATURE. --4.--- 1111111"Misit: THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 12. unsacv. A Gentleman behind the Bar applied on behalf of the Commit tees of a lunatic, for leave to transfer £10„000. three per Cent. Bank Annuities, into the name of the Accountant-General, to the credit of the lunatic, and also a sum of £1,500 as they should re ceive it. The object of this was to have the amount of their secu rities reduced; and the petitioners consequently further prayed, that they might be at liberty to bring in, pee taste, reduced securi ties, and have the old ones cancelled. The Loan CSAIIICILLUR granted the prayer, so far as went to the paying in of the monies, but considered it would be necessary for the Committees to make a separate application with regard to the nature of the securities, after the monies had been paid. VS TYL MATTZA OF HAIATFAD, ♦ lIANKIMPT. Mr. Wnensaassi applied upon a petition for an order to super sede a Commission of bankrupt that had issued, but bad not been opened. on the ground that all the creditors had agreed to take a composition in discharge of their claims, and were about entering into a deed to this effect. The Lout CHAINCELLOL inquired if all the creditors, without ex ception, had agreed to the proposed composition, and were desirous of having the Commiuloo superseded. Mr. WIIFMAIISH observed that the affirmative was distinctly sworn to.—Supersedeas ordered to issue. VICR-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 12. The Court took motions to-day, but no case of soy importance, except to the parties, came before his Honour previous to our leav ing the Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 12. DAVIS/ V. CAFFEIN. Lotd Tureen= gave judgment in this case this morning. The action was brought by a party for a malicious prosecution. The plaintiff having been charged with felony, was committed by the defendant, a Magistrate, for re-examination for fourteen days. The declaration stated that the plaintiff had been imprisoned for an unreasonable length of time,' the defendant having the improper motive of obtaining a confession of the felony by those mean•. The Jury on the trial found that the length of time was unreason able, and gave £lO damages for that count, but found that the act of re-commitment by the defendant was bona fide, and that he was not influenced by the undue motive of obtaining a confessloa. A motion was then made to this Court for a rule Nisi, to set aside the verdict, on the ground that the form of trial was improper, and that instead of bringing an action for a malicious prosecution, he ought to have brought it before the Court u a special case. as the Magistrate had been found to have acted bone jirk. The Court, however, were now of opinion that. as the cutest of time was found to be unreasonable.' the trespass, bad been continued from day to day beyond the time which mast have been consi. dered reasonable : they therefore decided that the plaintiff had used a proper form of action, and that the verdict ought not to be disturbed.—Rule refused. IWO& AND OTHISI P. DONCOMIIIL This action was tried at the last Sittings at Guildhall, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs, damages .C 2,370. It was brought on a guarantee given by the defendant to mown and Co. distillers, at Aberdeen, to secure them front incurring any loss from their Agent in London. The plaintiffs no the record were five in number, and it appeared that one of them was not entered at the Backe ()Mee as a member of the firm, but carried on the business of a retail dealer in whiskey, within two miles of the dis tillery, contrary to the Act of Parliament. Mr. Pou.oce now applied to the Court to enter a nonsult, on the ground that the plaintiffs could not recover, as they were carrying on an illegal business. The Learned Cou nsel cited several cases to support his argument, and contended that the retail business was carried on in frond, and not in error, for the parties had taken care not to enter the name of the partner in whose name the retail business was carried on. but he had joined ass plaintiff in this case. therefore the action could not be maintained. Lord Tensaw:it said that the Court would consider the case, and the decision would be mentioned on a fours day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 12. TOMS AND ANOTHaa v. eNAILLICI. This was an action to recover damages against the defendant, far r=it false character to a person named Jacques whereby the alleged that be had sustained great loss. Th e Jury gave a verdict for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Wane now moved for a rule for a new trial, co the ground that the verdict was contrary to the weight of evidence, and the Court granted his application. ralanin AND AMIN'S V. MILL AND ANOTnaa. This was an action to recover possesden of certain deeds film, the defendants, as belonging to the estate of a bankrupt.—Verdict for the plaintiffs. • Mr. Sergeant Tenor moved for a rule for a new trial, on eltiec• . dons to the proof of bankruptcy put in; but the Court reflood the application. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Nov. 12. TOWN 11. MeSCHANT. On the Lasso Cum Mum coming into Court, he proceeded to pronounce judgment la this case, which was a bill filed by the Vicar of Lisan la Hertfordski e to recoversan, all the tithes, except those of pain and corn, of the farm of Alnswkk, in that parish. The Defendant. says the Vicar, is not entitled to t h e small tithes of the farm. except a portion of it, consisting of 49 acres, it having formerly belonged to a monastery; and that the Vicar in consequence could not claim the tithes. There is no di rect evidence to show the Vicar's right, but there is a great quan tity of secondary evidence which clearly proves it. Some of this evidence escalated of vicarial hooks about the commence ment of the last century. The first' entry was in the year 1574, for small tithes of this fin= 21. ISt. in 1714, for tbe same, 51. Is. in 1715, 41. 14s. ad. in 1745. 41. 156. ad.. sad continued so until 17411 inclusive; in 1760 and 1761, the small tithes were 61. in the year 1770, they were 61. 17s. and re mained MI for some time afterwards • and latterly the tithes in. greased considerably. These entries proved that small tithes bad been paid for this farm, and there was. no hint that they were • for only a part of it. From the evidence that haa.been produced, it does not appear to me that tithes were paid for the twenty-nine acres only ; and it is my opinion that the Defendant has failed to establish his case; It is defective in a most important pinta, via. that of modern practice. The Defendant .has also produce d no evidence that the hod was the property of the monastery, and that at the dissolution it passed to the Crown. There is no evidence that the small tithes belonged to the impropriater and therefore • the Plaintiff is entitled to the prayer of his bill, which is, that an accOsint be taken of alt the small tithes of the farm in question doe since tte 29th of Oct. 1823, said that the sum found:lo doe may • be paid to the Plaintiff—the emus to go with the, decree. ADMIRALTY COURT. Nov. 12. Tea uceimealsot .11ALIFILGIL This was an action by the owners. officers, crew, and chatterers' of the Wanstead, for a-compensation for sesseices semiarid to aloe . Neinfiebel, which,is s voyage from Manilla to Lellien. had been run foal eit and damaged. When shalom was opened„freppeared to be the wish of the Judge, on a suggestion of am of the parties, that the Court should be assisted by Trinity Masers..;:The case, thereforeestual ever till neat Court-day for that purpose. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. At the clement this Office yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Frederick Masters, a Clergyman residing at present at Hackett's Hotel, in formed the Magistrate that be had been robbed, that morning, at Westminger-hall. The Reverend Gentleman stated, that he was interested in a trial that was appointed to take place in the Court of King's Bench, and the cause not coming on as was expected, he went into the Court of Exchequer to witness the ceremony of swearing in the Sheriffs. On coming out of Court he found that some thief had cut the ribbon of his watch, and had stolen two gold seal., value .E4O. Tam Laze Ckenaamica or Wasuatoo Barone.—Mr. Jonathan Henry Wilson, the brother of the young gentleman who was ex amined en Tuesday at this office. on the charge of riding over Carlo, the toll-collector on the Surrey side of Waterloo Bridge, by which his Ufe was placed in imminent danger, came en Wednesday night and surrendered himself to answer hie share of the charge-- The moment after hearing of the case against Mr. W. F. Wilson on Tuesday, a warrant was issued against his brother Jonathan, and Ford, the gaoler. went to Tooting on Wednesday morning, having lint, however, called at a house in the City, where the defendant was in the habit of visiting, and inquired foe him. Mr. Wilson called there in the course of the evening, and on being in formed that Ford bad inquired for him. be came immediately to this once, and surrendered himself. The Worthy Mann:awn said, Mr. Wilson had taken a wise and honourable course, in chewing his readiness to meet the charge. It would be his (Mr. Hall's) duty to commit him for further exami nation, until the fate of the injured man could be finally ascertained ; but every accommodation consistent with security would be af- forded Min. Mr. Wilson said, so one could more deeply lament the injuries which Carlo had sustained; but they were produced by unavoid able accident. The defendant was yesterday morning removed to the New Pri son, Clerkenwell, in the custody or Dodd, the gaoler. Carlo still condones ha Imminent danger. Mr. Ifilhons ncrrell, the landlord of the public-house known by t_h_e .. siin of the Plough, in Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, ap yesterday morning before G. It. !dnisaim. and Tuowas Ham, &qrs. to answer to an information which had been laid against him by Inspector Preece, for having allowed gambling in his home. A Police Sergeant and Constable stated that their attention was directed to the house by a Gentleman who happened to be passing, and on going to the door they heard a number of voices betting on some game that was going oo Mr. Mnisoura. asked in what manner the betting seemed to be carried on ? The Witnesses answered, that some cried out two to one, others five to fear and so on. The landlord admitted that his customers were in the habit of playing cards for drink, but he denied that betting w allowed. His house was the resort of Cornish men, and he could prove that it was as orderly a house as any in London. A number of respectable tradesmen, who frequent the house, gave it as excellent character foe good rule and order. The Akers said they knew nothing against the house of their own knowledge, otherwise than they had stated. Mr. Malsatura, observed, that the °Seers had acted in the most praiseworthy and impartial manner. No offence, however had been made out, and he should therefore allow the information to be withdrawn, which was done accordingly. HATTON GARDEN. Yesterday. Ma►y T7ayfo► was brought before Mr. Roosts. on the following charge : Dodd, a shopman to Messrs. Hewitt and Harrison, cutlers. &c. No. 23, High Holborn, deposed that yesterday evening, about half past seven o'clock, be beard a smash in the shop window : he im mediately ran out, and found the prisoner just drawing-out-her band, with she metal tea-pot, value 6s. produced by the officer. The woman did not attempt to make her escape, and ea his asking her what she bad done k for? she stated she bad committed the robbery for the sake of getting out of the streets. He then pre her in charge of an officer. Police officer Moore, No. 96, C. de posed to taking the prisoner Into custody, and that her arm was mach cut by the broken pane. The prisoner said she bad nothing to say, and what the luau had sworn was aU true. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. MARY-LA•BONNE. Yesterday John Means, a young man, who bad before stood at the bar, in this place, was dogged with stealing a gold watch. Joseph Metcalf, shepamiten Mr. Wiseet„ of Upper York-street. Bryanstone-square, pa maker, stated, that at six o'clock that evening he beard tho,elM. wi ndow break, and he went out, and saw the prisoner running down the street. He followed him through Circus-stmt into Nelson's-place. There the prisoner stopped, turned round. and walked hack ; the witness met him, and took him back to his master's shop, and when he was searched by one of the police constables. a gold watch, which had been taken from the window, was found in Isis pocket. The constable asked him bow he got it ? He answered. a man met him in the street, and saying d— it, take this, be gave it me. He was sent to Newgate for trial. At seven o'clock yesterday morning a man, who calls himself WiNiens Wilson s was stepped in Gloucester-place, New-road, by James Langtrey, a pollee constable, with a bundle, respecting Which he gave an unsadsfactory account. t, • illabsequenrinquiry led to the apprehension of William Dario, a hstmen, who had lived twelve months in the service of Mr. Cress. it No. 130, park-street, Grosvenor-square, and he admitted. before Mr. GRIfFIIII. that he bad stolen the contents of it, consisting of three cloth table-covers, and a blanket. from his master. and that . Wilson was removing them with a knowledge that they bad been • asebtained. The articles were proved by Letitia Lake, Mr. Cross's house keeper, to be the property of her master, and they were both com mitted for trial. QUEEN-SQUARE Shilicock, a private in the 34 Guards, WAS charged with rob bing Mr. G. Thomas, a medical student, of a pocket-book, con taining five sovereigns. It appeared, the prosecutor was paying a nocturnal visit to the prisoner's wife, when the prisoner very ttsof •propos made his appearance, leaving the cotoutor time to get under the bed with his clothes, whence, after kicking his wife down stairs, be was dragged by the enraged husband, who, after bestowing upon him a severe beating with a poker, kicked him likewise into the street with only hie shirt on. He then took refuge in the next house, whence be sent for a pollee officer, who procured his clothes, but the pocket-book and c , sh had flown. He could not, however, swear the prisoner bad taken them, and the Magistrate said no case had been made oat, except the assault, and as the prosecutor ac knowledges' he knew the female to be a married woman, and he had repeatedly visited her in the absence of the husband, he me rited the chastisement be bad received, and dismissed the case. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, George GsMgs was charged with fraudulently obtain ing gel& from Mr. J. Cane, the landlord of the French Horn Tavern, in Crotched-friars. by means of a forged letter. — On Wednesday, the 14th instant. the prisoner brought a letter to Mr. Cane. purporting to be written and signed by Mr. George Shanks, a respectable wine-merchant, residing in Little Eastcheap, with whom Mr. Cane has been for some time ac quainted, requesting the loan of £l5, and Mr. Cane supposing the letter to be genuine, paid the money to the prisoner with out hesitation. Mr. Shanks said the letter was a forgery. The primers . . in defence, said that, on the day named, be was employed by a gentleman to carry the latter to Mr. Canes house, and return immediately with an answer. He was on his way baek with the money, when he was met by the person who employed him, in America-square Miseries, wise took the cash. and gave h i m a shilling for his ;rouble and 2id. for a pint of bet r. It appearing that be was a very hard.worting man, who bad been employed about the Docks for 20 years, and there being no reason to doubt theirs* of his story, be was discharged, after being ordered by the Magistrates to apprehend the person who employed , him, if he ever came in his way. This the prisoner promised to do, and was liberated. Saturday night a fire broke.ous in a pig-stye in Bar raek.etreet, and the water-engines were on the spot with their usual activity and speed; but they mine too late to save the lives of the inmates, four pigs having been literally rivaqed to death!— The serums of the little sufferers were agonising in the extreme. :—Glaspw Courier. BIRTH& At Itaanymetle, the Hon. -Mrs. Neville field, of a daughter. • At Blvetbant, hi Hampshire, Lady Charlotte Calthespe,of a son. Ac Torquay, the Lady of Lieutenastt-Colooel Elpbioscoue, of daughter. . . • - .DIEt). 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