Star. — London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

LORD BYRON, FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. We were interrupted in the midst of our debate by the entrance of a stranger. whom, on the first glance I guessed to be an Englishman but lately arrived at Constantinope. He wore a scarlet coat richly embroi dered aith gold, in the style of as English aide-de camp's dress uniform, with two heavy epaulettes. His countenance announced him to be about the age of two and-twenty. His features were remarkably delicate, and would have given him a feminine appearance, but for the manly expression of his fine blue eyes. On enter ing the inner shop, he took off his feathered cocked hat, and skewed a head of curly auburn hair, which improved in r•-o small degree the uncommon beauty of his face. Tke impression which his whole appearance made on my mind was such, that it has ever since re mained deeply engraven on it ; and although fifteen years have since gone by, the lapse of time has not in the slightest degree impaired the freshness of the re collection. He was attended by a Janissary attached to the English embassy, and by a person who professionally acted as a Ciceroni to strangers. These circumstances, together with a very visible lameness in one of his legs, convinced me at once he was Lord Byron. I had already heard of his Lordship, and of his late arrival in the Salcette frigate, which. had come up from the Smyrna station, to fetch away Mr. Adair, our Ambassador to ' the Porte. Lord Byron had been previously travelling in Epirus and Asia Minor, with his friend Mr. Hob house, and had become a great amateur of smoking; he was conducted to this shop for the purpose of pur chasing a few pipes. The indifferent Italian, in which language he spoke to his Ciceroni, and the latter's sun more imperfect Turkish, made it difficult for the shop keeper to understand their wishes; and, as this seemed to vex the stranger, I addressed him in English, offa iog to interpret for him. When his Lordship thus dis covered me to be an Englishman, he shook me cordially by the hand, and assured me, with some warmth in his manner, that he always felt great pleasure when be met with a countryman abroad. His purchase and my bargain being completed, we walked out together and rambled about the streets, in several of which I had the pleasure of directing his attention to sonic of the most remarkable curiosities in Constantinople. The peculiar circumstances under which our ac tnaintance took place, established between us, in one day, a certain degree of intimacy, which two or three years frevienting each other's company in England would most likely not have accomplished. I frequently addressed him by his name, but he did not think of in gulling how I came to learn it, nor of asking mine.— Ilk Lordship had not yet laid the foundation of that lite rary renown which he afterwards acquired; on the con trary, he was only known as the author of his " Hours of Idleness and the severity with which the Edin burgh Reviewers had criticised that production, was still fresh in every English reader's recollection. I could not, therefore, be supposed to seek his acquaintance from any of those motives of vanity which have attuated - so many others since; but it was natural, that after our accidental rencontre, and all that passed between us on that occasion, I should, on meeting him in the courte of the same week at dinner at the English Ambassador's, have requested one of the secretaries, who was intimately acquainted with him, to introduce me to him in regular form. His Lordship here testified his perfect recollec tion of me, but in the coldest manner, and immediately after toured his back on me. This unceremonious pro c-eding, forming a striking contrast with previous oc currences, had something so strange in it that I was at a loss how to account for it, and felt at the same time much disposed to entertain a less favourable opinion of his Lordship than his apparent frankness had inspired me with at our fiat meeting. It was' not, therefore, without surprise, that, some days after, I saw him in the stie•ts, coming up to me with a smile of good na ture in his countenance. He accosted me in a familiar manner, and offering me his hand, said—" I am an enemy to English etiquette, especially out of England; and I always make my own acquaintances without waiting for the formality of an introduction. If you have nothing to do, and are disposed for another ram ble, I shAl be gl id of your company." There was that irresistible attraction in his manner, of which those who have had the good fortune to be admitted into his inti macy can alone have felt the power in his moments of good humour; and I readily accepted his proposal.— We visited attain more of the most remarkable curiosi ties of the capital, a description of which would here be but a repetition of what a hundred travellers have al ready detailed x ith the utn,ost minuteness and accuracy ; but his Lordship expressed much disappointment at their want of interest. He praised the picturesque beau ties of the town itself, and its surrounding scenery; and seemed of opinion that nothing else was worth looking at. He spoke cf the Turks in a manner which might • have given reason to suppose be had made a long resi dence among them, and closed his observations with these words—" The Greeks will stoner or later rise against them ; but if tney do not make haste, I hope Buonapaite will come and drive the - useless rascals a o ay.— New Monthly Magazine. Wednesday se'nnight, three vessels—the Grace, Row; the Bideford, MOLLARD, and the Betsey, Taaxaa—worked out of the pier at St. Ives, with the intention of keeping company to the Westein Islands, to which they were bouud. It blew a stiff breeze, which occasioned each to take an additional number of bands tu work them over the Ridge, as it is called ; on board the Betsey were several friends of the Muter, who intended to return after a short excursion. Having passed the Ridge, the additional bands took leave; the gig which was alongside the Betsey had on board seventeen persons, and in pushing off, it by some means got foul and was overact. The must prompt assistance was afforded, and fifteen persons were picked up; the other two, named Hodge and Williams, sunk almost instantly and were drowned. One of those picked up, named Sicily, expired almost immediately on being taken on board. The body of Hedge has been washed on shore, the head dreadfully cut, supposed by striking against the bottom of the vessel, as she passed over him. Williams was married; the ethers were single men.— West Brims. DZATH BY FIGHTINGHBR keswell, a coachman, and Buxton, a mason, having quarrelled at a public. l nu e at Kingston, on Monday evening, they agreed to decide it in the morning, for love and a sovereign, wltiah was staked. They both appeared at the scratch in fighting trim yesterday morning, and =nuzzled in earnest. They fought for an hour, and capped each other with telling hits until both were at a stand still. The mason appeared to have the best of the fight, but he was dropped at last by a blow on the head, of which he died in less than an boar. Two friends exchanging pinches of snuff at a coffee- house, an observer remarked, 0 You are making a pro fitable barter, Gentlemen." " That cannot Ise," said one of the snuLtakers, " as it is only pinch for pinch." •• N a y," rejoined the observer, " you each get scent per scent by it !" SIGNS OF A SEVERE WINTER. HAwits.—Tuesday se'nnight, the London of Dundee encountered a severe gale on her voyage up, when off :the Dogger Bank ; her rigging was almost covered with hawks, so much weakened, that Captain Wishart sue !eeeded in catching 25. One of them was large, and of 'a bluish colour; the others were of the common kind. Qtratut.—A bevy of ten in number of these beauti ful little, and very rare birds, was bred this year in the manor of Billingham, in a barley held near Wolviston, belonging to the Rev. L. C. Clarke,.of that place. It is remarkable that the bevy in question was invariably met with eitfer in the stubble in which they had been hatched, or in the one immediately adjoining, so much did the birds seem attached to the place where they were bred ; and on the approach of the staunch and wary pointer, they laid so close, generally within two or three feet of his nose, that they were almost trodden upon before they took wing, so that their flight was easily intercepted by the ruthless gun. The first time they were seen was hr the latter end of July, among.the barley, when they were mistaken for a very late brood of newly hatched partridges. PARTRlDWlL—Partridges seem to increase in the towns in proportion as the sportsmen follow their avoca• Lion on the moors. On Sunday se'nnight, a number of these birds were seen running upon the ground in the neighbourhood of New Bridge -street, Newcastle. Tues day one was caught in Major Anderson's yard, in Pilgrim•street ; and on Friday last, another *as taken by a Gentleman in Vie Spital. Thursday morning, during a thick fog, ten partridges were caught by scullermen, at North Shields, floating in the river. Another covey of twelve were drowned at the same time, one of which was only picked up—the rest were carried out by the ebb tide. A few days be fore, eight of these birds were caught in Tynemouth. Saturday sennight, at South Shields, four partridges were taken in the dock of Messrs. Laing, adjoining the Tyne, one in the yard of Mr. Walker, of Thrift•stteet, and no less than eighteen in a small close, contiguous to one of the most public thoroughfares. lii the same field, on Monday, four brace were shot, and several were seen in different parts of the town. Those that were caught, appeared to be in an almost inanimate state, as if they were lab luring under stupefaction. Monday se'nnight, a fine partridge was seen flying from one ship to another lying in Sunderland harbour, and was caught at length by a sailor boy on board a ship. On Thurs day evening, a little after dark, a partridge alighted in the shop of Mr. Robert Dixon, butcher, in Sadler-street, Durham, and was captured, as it was flying out again, by a young man standing outside. It was a fine bird, and appeared to be an old one. Another bird of the same species, walked into the shop of Mr. Fenwick, grocer, at the bead of El vet Br idge,where it was secured. A covey of 19 partridges mistaking, from mist, water for land, were found drowned in Windermere and picked up by some fisher men one morning last week. Monday se'roight, a covey of partridges were sprung in Moray-place, Edinburgh. Leith Links has this sea son been visited by partridges. On Saturday a hare made its appearance in Leith, when chase was imme diately given by the boys; and puss, in endeavouring to .escape into an inclosure near the riew.bridge,was caught. As Mr. Henry Sladen, surveyor of his Majesty's Customs, Faversham, was proceeding down the Creek in his boat, he observed a covey of partridges, which he supposed to be pursued by a hawk, making towards hem, when three of them fell into the water, which he picked up in an exhausted state, The Countess of Liverpool Cinque Parts pilot cutter sailed horn Dover on Friday morning, with twelve Do ver pilots on board, for the purpose of surveying the Thames and Medway, by order of the Lord Warden, Between five and six months ago, a boy between six and seven years of age, who lived with his grandfather in Leith, was missing. Minute search. was made, but no trace of him could be found till Friday-list, when some of the workmen,who are occasionally employed in pump. ing water from a well at the foot of the Bonnington road, near Leith, found something interrupting the wa:er. A person was in consequence sent for to clear the pump, when the head of a young boy was found to bt the cause of the stoppage! The remaining pins of the body were found, but in a eel! mutilated state, -from the length of time it had remained in the water. The mother of the above boy went and claimed the body, which she identified merely from the buttons on his clothes.- The boy's grandfather and grandmother were so much attached to him, that the grandmother died in a few weeks after missing him, and th• grand father in about two weeks, both of a broken heart, for the loss of a beloved grandchild. Saturday se'nnight, the teading room of the Mecha nics' Institute, in Hull, was crowded to witness the ex hibition of a model of a steam carriage to run on com mon roads. This machine weighs 82 oz. is eleven incites in length, has three wheels, and is guided by a lever in the float. Tne boiler and engine are placed in the hinder part of the carriage ; the steam cylinder is ball an inch bore; and the stroke of the piston is seven eighths of an inch. The eighth part of a pint of water being put into the boiler (which is heated by a tallow lamp), causes it to go for the space of half an hour. It will turn in a circle, the diameter of which is only 'twice the 'length of the carriage, and the inner wheel will form the centre of its motion. It is capable of being backed in a moment with the greatest ease, and Iwhen allowed to run in a straight direction, at its greatest speed, will proceed at the rate of upwards•of five miles per hour. The youthful inventor is a clerk, and the machine is the production of his leisure hours. On the evening of the 16th instant Mr. JOHN Quick, master of the schooner Tantivy r of St. Ives, landed from his vessel, then at anchor in the bay, from a fo reign voyage, intending to see his wife and children before going round the Land's End, to the place of his destination. Having reached the house of a relative, about one hundred yards from his own, he there found c.tveral of his children, and after the usual salutations, Ihe walked, accompanied by them, towards his own lh >use, eagerly anticipating a meeting with his wife and the rest of his family: He had not proceeded above half way from the house abovementioned, when he said " My head is light!" and falling upon one knee, he was caught by his children, and carried senseless to his home. Medical aid was instantly pro cured, but in vain, as life was extinct. It was formerly the custom of persons to close the shutters of their houses onany death occurring in them. A practice, however, has of late years arisen, of doing so on the death of any relation anywhere. A countryman was present at a recent Musical Fes tival in a small country town, when a young Lady was executing I rather iminferently. " 0 ha d Jubars lyre r-" Od rabbit it," ex claimed the astonished rustle with great simplicity, " 1 'bow% summit wur wrong; if yell just let on knew wheur it is, I'll gre k ye, Miss." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUFIX A woman complained_of the conduct of a respectable tradesman towards her daughter. The complainant stated, that her daughter was in the service of this Gentleman as a maid -servant, and that some of his daughters had, by shamming a ghost, frightened her int, fits. After her re covery from the fit, she remained in a state of stupor, which ended in absolute insanity. lie had turned her out of the house in that condition, and she was now taken to the Hospital, where no hopes were held out of her recovery, and she would be expelled, unless security were given for her maintenance. The manlier declared she bad no means of supporting her, and she applied to have the trades man compelled to do something in providing for the consequences of the calamity which his family had occasioned. The tradesman attended, and declared that the calamity had not been occasioned in the manner represented, but was the effect of accident, upon a girl who was extremely nervous and weakbeaded. She was about 14 years of age, and was subject to fits, and on that account she was not suffered to go to bed without care being taken afterward, to fetch the candle. His daughter was sent to fetch the candle, after the girl had gone to bed. It was very cold, and his daughter, who had drawn her frock over her bead and neck, entered the bed-room in this condition, when the girl, turning round- suddenly, took fright, and went into a fit. 'ilsere was not, be was assured, the slightest intention to frighten her—the conse quences were as stated. He had done all that humanity could direct; he had medical aid, and the girl was attended to assiduously for several days, when, as she did not recover, she was sent to the Hospital—more he could not do; it could hardly be expected of him that he should be at the expense of supporting the unfortunate lunatic. She had been predisposed to it ;as her father, who was a respectable 'butcher, must be well aware.—The complaint was dismissed. H ATTON-GARDEN. John Ball and James Lingo, two Islington watchmen were re manded, charged by II Wiltshire, a stonemason, near Ball's Pond, with robbing him of his watch. The complainant, who was rather inebriated, had seated himself on the step of a neighbour's door, having failed to wake his own family, when Bull told him he must not sit there ; if be wanted to lay down he had better retire to an adjoining field, to which, after a few words, he consented, and as 'by the assistance of the said prisoner. About three in the morning he awoke, and finding Ids watch gone, charged Buil with the robbery, desiring Lingo, his fellow watchman, to take him into custody, which he refused, when both were taken ; and on the way to the watch-house Bull confessed the fact, and having arranged with Lingo to sell the property ; but, if released, it should be returned, which was done. M A R LBO R OUG H-STREET. • Yesterday, the night constable of St. George's brought in a bag of letters which bad been delivered at the watchhouse by a watch man on the beat of Park-lane, and the upper part of Oiford-street, a man bad since claimed them of him, as the twopenny postman, who had lost them : but 'earful that be should not do right by sur rendering them, he kept the letters for the Magistrate's decision. _ Thomas Hill, the twopenny postman, said be was going on his delivery on Tuesday evening ; when at the corner of Park-lane, in Alford-street, he w‘s hurtled and assaulted by a number of Irish ; be gave hit bag into the hand of a friend who was walking with him for safety, till he could rescue himself, when both himself and his friend were knocked down, and the bag lost in the scuffle ; they both sought for the bag, but could not find it. The letters ought to have been delivered on Tuesdly night, and he was fearful -be should lose his situation at the Post-office in consequence. Not knowing bow to act, he made inquiries of the watchmen, and learned that one of them had picked up a bag of letters, and had taken it to the watchhonse. Mr. Dena inquired of the night constable and•watchman if 11111 and his friend were sober ; and being told they were, said he should write an ezoneratory lettt r, and send it with the bag to the Post. office. The worthy Magistrate then wrote a litter to Mr. Bridges, the clerk to the Comptroller of the department in Gerrard.orret, and sent it and the bag by the office messenger, who returned with a satisfactory answer to the Magistrate, which was told to MI, who kft the office seemingly much relieved. MARY-LA-BONNE. Mary DaviJ, the wife-of the Post Office keeper, at the corner of Spring•strect, Crawford-street, was charged with assaulting her servant, a young Irishwoman. The complainant stated, that after a hard day 's washing, she could not retire to her bed, because her master, who was tipsy, had taken possession of it. Her mistress insisted that she should go to bed in the kitchen, although the man servant of the lodger was actually there. She refused, and her mistress thereupon dragged her up stairs, and forced her into the street, although it was then raining fast, telling her she might sleep there. She afterwards altered her mind, and took her to the watch. house, where the charge was dismissed. The mistress ollered to take her back, hut the complainant preferred sleeping ou some door-steps all night. blrs. David denied using violence towards her, but admitted pushing her into the street, and the Magistrates ordered her to find bail, or make compensation. The affair was arranged by the mis tress giving the girl to.. and wages up to the 14th of November. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday this Office was crowded to excess; the circumstsnce were these : The Rgv. Mr. Smith, of Hatton-garden, hs/I been engaged as preacher for Upwards of two years in Cuniberland-street Chapel, Shoreditch. In September, 1825, a misundystanding took place between him and the Trustees of the Chapel; which induced him to resign the situation ; a few days after, a painted placard was distri buted through the parish, and some of ;lie inhabitants placed it in their shop windows. Mr. Smith and his friends considered the publication reflected on his character, and his brother, Richard Smith, an Officer on half pay, collected a number of them, and as there was no printer's name affixed, not leas than 25 informations were laid, under the 59th Geo. 111. 4.17, which subjects the printer or publisher to a flue of 201. upon each ; the offensive part ran thus : " Cumberland-greet Chapel, Shoreditch. •' The Trustees of the above Chapel feel peculiar pleasure in an nouncing to their Friends and the Public, that Dr. Smith has no more to do with the Chapel. They also beg to state, that neither pains nor expense will be spared to procure the very best Preachers. " September 25, 1825." Mr. Butler, clerk to Mr. Harmer, supported the informations, and Mr. Alley the defendants. Previous to the first case being entered upon, Mr. Alley said the placard being printed in 1825, they were ready to give tip the printer. Mr. Butler said they would not accept the printer, as the Act re quired the informations to be laid within six months. One case was then discharged, two were withdrawn, and the re mainder stand over for consideration. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Jizeids Gardiner, charged with cutting and stabbing Samuel Knight and John Gorman, was finally examined. The out-pensioner, Knight, deposed, that upon the 11th instant, between the hours of four and hve in the afternoon he saw Gar ' diner then coming up White Lion-street, where he lived, brandish ing a fearful knife; and having beard of his outrages, be endea voured to persuade him (Gardiner) to put the knife up, and seized his arm in order to prtvett more mischief. The prisoner bad, tint withstanding, then stabbed him upon the left side, and afterwards in the thigh. Witness soon fainted through the effusion of blood which gushed forth, in which situation he was taken to St. George's Hospital quite insensible. The prisoner. when called upon for his defence, said.that be had been employed to take care of a house, which was entered by three or four men, who stabbed him. He wag then cooking some po tatoes for the pigs. Hr therefore went out, when he met with Knight, who knocked him down, or he should not have touched him. %Jr. WRITE—Your story does not satisfy me. If, however, you can get any one to speak for you upon your trial, I should recotn mend you to do it, as otherwise, I rather think that the matter is likely to go bard with you. Gardiner was committed to Newgate lot trial: UNION HALL. Yesterday, a man named &Iwood, who described himstlf as a fruit salesman, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged with exciting a disturbance in the Coburg Theatre on the previous Night, and with having assaulted a Mrs. Moses, of the Jewish persuasion. From the statement of the 'complainant It appeared, that on the preceding night, she went to the Coburg Theatre, accompanied by her husband, who withdrew for a abort time, leaving her sitting in the pit. During his absence, the defendant intruded himself, and insisted on having the vacant seat, notwithstanding Mrs. Moses told him it belonged to her husband, whom she expected back every moment. The defendant, however, determined on taking possession of it, sat himself down, and commenced, in a strain of the most vulgar language, in the true Leadenhall-market style, to . . abuse the poor woman, calling her an ugly old Jewish b—h, and' vowing, that were all Christians like himself, not one of that persua sion but should be exterminated from the face of the e nit. During the disturbance caused by the defendant's conduct, the perform. ance was suspended, and a general cry of " Turn hint out," re sounded from sU puts of the house. Mr. blows entered the it during this scene of confuFion, when the defendant, observing that he was the person whose seat he bad so uncerenioniously taken possession of, reiterated his former denunciations against ail Jews, and stripped off his coat, to have ass set-to," a to Crib, wi t h poo r Mr. Moses, who, it appeared, was no fighting man, and he therefore lustily joined in the chorus of " Turn him out." Mr. Selwood was at length handed oot of the Theatre; but before his exit, he turned round, and, in a cowardly manner, gave Mrs. Moses a blow, for which be was taken off to the watch-house, and kept there until he procured bail for his appearance at this office. The assault having I been sworn to, the fruit-salesman, in his defence, endeavoured to prove an alibi, by calling a young woman to swear that he was not at the Theatre at the time the circumstances in question were said to have occurred; but, unfortunately for him, having failed in pro ducing such evidence as to the credibility of that fact, he was ulti. mately held to bail for the assault. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, Win. Brown, and a ►oy, named Jain Roberts, were put to the bar, charged with having in their possession base money. Mr. Powell, the solicitor of the Mint, attended. Thomas Mitchell, surveyor, stated, that in consequence of infor mation be had received, he sent Fox, an officer of this establishment, on Tuesday morning, to watch the prisoner (Brown) and another person • he went into the Nag's Head, on Tower Hill; he had been there about an hour, when the prisoner (Brown) came into the parlour, anti seemed as if waiting for some one—in a few minutes afterwards Fox brought the boy (Roberts) in with him, in com pany with Green, another officer ; the moment Brown saw the buy brought in by Fox, he attempted to escape. Green then searched the boy, and found on hint the oilcloth parcel now produced, con. taining four sovereigns and 41s. He asked the boy where be gm the money ? the boy, pointing to the prisoner (Brown) cad, I but thent from my brother. Brown immediately turned round, and looking fiercely at the boy, said, " What's that you say, sir, I don't know yoy," The boy then said, he got them from a man in WhitechapeL Mitchell further stated, that Brown's wife was only just out of Clerkenwell prison for the same offence. Fuz stated, that he was sent to observe the prisoner (Brown) and another person, and he observed the boy and Brown, for more than an hour. He had followed them through a great number of courts and alleys, and at last into the Nag's Head. He followed them in, and found the buy (Robert s ) b e hi n d t h e d oor i n t h e tap room. Fox then took him into the parlour, where he found Mit chell, and the prisoner (Brown). Mr. BALLAWTTNE asked the prisoner if he wished, to say any thing? at the same time cautioning him against doing so, as it might be very prejudicial to him elsewhere. The prisoner said, he should tell the truth, no matter what might be the consequence. He said, that on Monday fortnight be was passing through East Smithfield, when h e met a Jew. who seemed to observe him very closely, and followed him for some time ; and on coming up to him, said " Ah! vy you are the ver man I rant to see; come and have a glass of gin." He accepted the Jew's invitation, and they adjourned to the Nag's Head, where the Jew asked bim, could he raise any money? If he could, he would put him in the way of making a fortune, as he was a smuggling merchant, who was in the habit of bringing goods from France, and if he would undertake to sell them, he would make handsomely by them. He desired hint to call on hint on the Sunday following, which he did ; he said that he resided at No. 4, Mile yard, Cadle-street, his name is Prentz, and he keeps a house of ill fame. He bad appointed to meet him at the Nag's Head on Tuesday, and he thought it was for the purpose of giving some of the goods to sell ; but what was his astonishment, on bring taken into custody, to find the Jew in company with the officers. He de nied contradicting the bey when he said that he was his brother. The prisoner requeoed that the Jew might be examined.— Mitchell said he should produce him in a moment. Mr. BALLANTYNK said, that l►e should not examine the Jew, but the prisoner might have the benefit of his evidence at his trial. He should commit both the prisoners. At the Warwickshire Qu liter Sessions on Wednesday John Foxley was charged with -having, at Birmingham, on the 20th of July list, violated and distrirbod the remains of Jonaihan B .dford, who had been buried in St. Bei thllomew's Chapel-yard. The body which was that of a young man,l9 years of age, had been interred on the 19th of July. The prisoner who was a grave digger, was seen at the grave at eight o'clock the next morning by a little girl, who thought the grave had been opened. In consequence the chapelwardens were applied to, and they permitted the grave to be opened. Tne coffin lid was broken, the head of the deceased was shockingly cut and mangled, and the teeth had been taken from the j iws. On the prisoner being asked what he had been digging at the grave for ? he sad he had lost a rope in filling up the grave, and had taken out some of the eattu to look for it. He was found gulty, and sentenced to three calendar months in gaol. PERICLES wasonce, for a whole day, loaded with re j,roaches by a vile and abandoned fellow. He bore it with patience and silence, continued in public for the dispatch of some urgent affairs, and in the evening walked slowly home, the wretch following and insulting him all the way ; when he came to his own door, it being then dark, PmticLes ordered one of his servants to take a torch and light the man home. JOHN PALMER, the actor, was one of the finest men in the kingdom, and, perhaps, the most useful man in his profession, that ever trod the stage ; but it was a matter of doubt in the Green-room, whether the number of his debts or the extent of his gallantries were the mist numerous; the former, however, aceu mutated to such an amount, that at length be was obliged to make his dressing-room his constant residence, and take Ms daily airings on the flat leads at the top of the Theatre, from which be could look down in security on the myrmidons of John Doe and Richard Roe who closely besieged every door. At this time he was en gaged at the Haymarket as the principal performer. At the close of Drury-lane, it therefore became a matter of serious con•ideration bow he could get in safety from the former to the latter House; it was at last determined that he should be removed in a sugar hogshead ! One was immediately procured. and prepared for his reception by bin ing boles in it, to give him air during his transit.— The moment for his departure arrived, and he was comfortably packed up in the novel vehicle, and gently carted to the stage door in Great Suffoik-street, where he spent most of the summer season, as he had done that of the winter at Drury-lane; but having made an assignation, he unfortunately ventured out, and was instantly arrested. M A REIM). At Chorley, on the I Bth instant, Captain Hay, of the Carabineers, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Fowdee Hindle, Esq.'ef Gillibrand Halt, in the county of Lancaster. DIED. At Malta, co the 16th ult. Captain William Forbes, eldest son of Sir William Forbes of Pit:,ligo, Bart. At Ratbo Bank, on the 16th instant, George 'Witch, Esq. of Rath() Bank, writer to the signet, Edinburgh. At Edinburgh, on the 17th instant, the Rev. Dr. George Wright, one of the Ministers of Stilling. The 11th instant, at Newton Manse, Ayr, the Rev. William Peebles. D.D. in the 75th year of his age, and 49th of his Ministry. At Cheltenham, on the 19th instant, David M'Culloch, Esq. late of Calcutta, in his 56th year. The 16th instant, at Hamburgh, of a malignant fever, Richard Payne, of the Corn Exchange, London. At Croestadt, on the 12th ult. Mr. Alexander Annandale, sur geon of his Majesty's yacht Herald. At Arthuret, near Longtown, on Tuesday last, Jane, wife of the Rev. Perm Graham, Rector of that parish, and daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Paley. At on the llith instant, in his 70th year, after a few days ilinei r s, the Nev. John Nichol, of which parish he had been Curate for 40 years. The 9th of July, on his passage to England, Liettenant and Adju.. tant Fairbrass, of the Hon. Sat India Cooliany's service, in the 46th year of his MAILS-THIS DAT. JAM DIM Al'. DIM Dublin 1 0 France 1 0 Wawa. ,rd 1 0 Hamburg's 1 0 Guernsey and Jersey 1 0 Flanders 0 o Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 1 0 Donagbadee 00 i Sweden 0 0 Leeward Islands o o America o o Holland 0 0 Buenos Ayres 1 0 MGR-WATER at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORRO' Morning 46 minutes . after 10 Afternoon 18 minutes atter 11 IwsN►► PAWlaud PhidLl4•dbur J. F. KRALT, at the Stag OM CIo NO. Pitkett-Bace, 2iwple•Btr.