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' .a. •I II t 1\ i 1 1 II th , , I Of 1 eft th, . : 014 ~, , . i Fel Ka Thu 1 I Sril f lICI I. ele 11tU ti'( 1 ' . ii,/ -o I HI 1 il t Ar tl ser a p p , I. res of , i t i li an: ma I / .j La t 1 he I , the dir I, do i " , :j wh < . 1 col , I se: tilt .i .i otti • I LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. ALBANO, !RON ♦ TRAVELLER'S JOURNAL. (From S Englishman's Magazine.) How delightful to exchange the heat, the dust, Itt‘ vermin, the villainous smells, and the malaria •f Rome, in July, for the pure breezes, the shady .hestnut groves, end the magnificent scenery of le Aiban 1.1.15. The ancient Romans preferred ie heights of Tivoli, and the margin of the im- Anous Tcverone, notwithstanding the variable eatbEr and the humidity of the atmosphere ; but te moderns, with better taste, have abandoned ivoli, and bought the lakes and woods of the tearer Latin hills, which are now embellished with legant villas, well shaded walks, and cooling learns and fountains. The most inviting and fer le portion of the Alban hills is the side nearest the plain, which extends to the sea shore.— Icre, also, are the pleasant little towns of Albano, ricia, and Germano, where the Romans pass the Cason of the Villegiatura in cool and spacious )artments, and command all the comforts of a civic :sidenee at a moderate expense, while the traveller, contemplative or solitary habits, may hire a cell, or my of the above-named places, in the Capuchin ..ionasteries, or, better still, at Palazzuolo, on the Lake of Albano. Nowhere, in this district, will _ find a finer situation than the latter, where the monks have made arrangements to accommodate their lodgers, whether catholics or heretics, with 'inner in the refectory, for a moderate remunera 'on. The Romans call Albano the Lesser Rome ; and hen, on Sunday evenings, the streets, walks, and ' )flee-houses, are crowded with Romans of either x, the name would be truly appropriate, did not he imposing costume of the Alban women, which Algid to make the ladies of the antique capital blush for their adoption of Parisian fashions, dispel the illusion. When, indeed, will the ladies of Europe in general, and of England in particu lar, reject the absurdities of French fashions, ingeniously contrived to give apparent bulk and roundness to the diminutive and scanty fi gures of Parisian belles, but supremely dis figuring to the full and finely moulded proportions of British beauty. Commend me to a national costume, like the provincial garb of Spain and Italy ; at once graceful, commodious, and pictu resque ; and suited, by difference of texture, and the addition of a cloak, to all seasons of the year, , and every class of society. It is not only in costume that the women of Albano show themselves to be a peculiar and pri mitive race : they are easily distinguishable from the Romans, as well as from the inhabitants of all contiguous districts, by the superiority and dignity of their carriage, by the fine contour and gran deur of their countenances, which possess also the true ' volto sciolto,' of the Italian proverb. The men are less distinguished in form and feature, but they are said to possess more sincerity and good nature than any others in the vicinity of Rome. Their costume is less elegant than that of the females, but it is not ungraceful, and is at the seme time weil suited to the climate and its changes. A ticket jacket, in summer of nankeen, in winter of velveteen, with plated, or, if possible, with silver buttons ; breeches of the same material, with huge silver knee and shoo buckles ; a broad sash of coloured woollen around the waist ; often ear-rings in the ears ; a broad brimmed hut, and beneath it a cap of net work, which confines the hair. The cloak, except in wet or cold weather, is thrown over one shoulder, but rarely left at home ; hence the proverb, M d' estate ne d' in verno, comminar sung mantello. This fine race, however, compose but a small portion of the inha bitants of the Alban hills. They occupy the dis tricts between Frascati and Genzano. At Velletri, a widely different character of features may be discerned, resembling the people of the Volscian hills ; in form and expression more pointed and cunning. These people have also more fire and quickness in their tempers ; are more vindictive ; and it is said that most of the banditti in the Ro man states are natives of the heights of Cori and Velletri. To the philosophical observer it would be an in teresting speculation, to trace the primitive causes of such strong points of contrast in the appearance, character, and habits of a population, residing for ages in close neighbourhood and communication. The Albanese are loud, lively, and sociable ; and, like the Romans, pursue their avocations out of doors ; even the attentions of courtship are car ried on with amusing publicity, at the house door ; or the Zitella, leaning out of a first-floor window, listens complacently to the loud and passionate pleadings of her inamorato in the street below. The following popular Ritornello, a Romanza for two voices, is commonly sung in the streets of Albano. A young man in the street begs his mistress to come down to him, and assures her that he has seen her mother walking with a neighbour towards the sea-shore. She refuses, because her mother might return. The lover still urges his request, and the maiden, growing angry, exclaims Che pretensione a quells ! Sappi, ch'io son 'hells ! This dialogue-ballad is worth recording, not only as a specimen of the street ballads of Albano, but as a compendium of the moral code which rules the conduct of all the unmarried females in Rome and its environs. A free translation is given for the benefit of those who may be unacquainted with the language of the South. RITORNELLO. He. O why, Bettino, fear me 0 why not venture near me? This is the morn to hear me Discourse sweet tales of love. Come down, unkindest, dearest; A lover the sincerest, With sufferings the severest, Thy icy heart would move ! She. Young man, you vainly tease me, Ycur idle talcs displease me; Besides my mother sees me, (At least she shortly may.) I am an honest maid, sir, Of arta like yours afraid, air, Whatevees to be said, sir,_ I'm at the window—say. He. Your mother ►as been gone, love, Of hours more thao one, hive, With the iistuwife she passed on, love, (I saw her) to the shore. The dame, for once, looked sprightly, Tripped toward the Castle lightly ; I'm cettalti I guess rightly ; Her walk L not half o'er. You make extremelifree, air, Am I your slave to be, sir, An honest girl like me, sir, Must not be talked to so; Pray, think of what the town, sit, Would say, if I went down, sir, And then my mother's frown, sir— I will not go below. Young man, you're a deceiver, Should maiden trust you ever, You'd flatter first, then leave het; Your wicked ways I know. He. Deceiver I am none, love! This breast beau but for one, love ; And I shall be undone, love, If she shall answer, no ! She. If you're sincere, in proof, sir, I beg you'll stand aloof, sir, From this respected roof, air, (Some tell.tale may be near.) Your love says, don't forget hcr ; Expect an early letter ; And, meanwhile, study bettor Behaviour when you're here. SUBSTITUTESSIAN HEMP. The following arc the indigenous plants of this climate, which may serve as a substitute for Rus sian hemp in our navy, as well as the gums and ve getable juices requisite to render the ropes service able made of those substances ; and any quantity of either may be purchased on application at the Ga zette office : The fibre of the curagua is of great strength, and is as three to two stronger than the best hemp: lines and linen have been made with it ; and it re- mists the action of water better than the annual hemp or flax. With the gum solution spun in with it, the ropes are perfect. Sooner or later, it must put millions annually into the pockets of English men settled in the West Indies. Neither must it be imaginal that the cumgua is the strongest of the vegetable fibrous tribe, though a superior article ; for la pita (or silk grass) is still better : also the fibres from the leaves of the musa tribe, viz. the banana, plantain, and the palm, are equal : but, the best of all, is the fibre contained in the husk of the coco-nut. All leaf fibres are to be extracted by pressure, beating, and drawing through a split bamboo, im mediately after cutting ;—that from the coco-nut must be steeped in water some dayP, say four or five, and then beaten ; and many tons might be readily got of these admirable fibres. All of them must be washed by anchoring them in a stream, or otherwise ; then well dried, and packed at full length, pressed so as to take less room, and not made into bundles. One acre of such plants will grow where sugar will not, and would annually produce three times the worth of an acre of sugar. As to the highly-important rsticle of gum, the best is the ficus elastica ; next, ortocarpus, or breadfruit. If incisions are made in these trees, conducting them into a vessel, or copper, placed a slow fire under it, and mixing about two er three gallons of oil, (coco-nut, palm, or even linseed,) to about twenty of the concrete juice, keeping it simmering, it will acquire the consistence of a bird lime.—Port of Spain Gazette. Dr. Wilkinson, in his Pamphlet on Barbadoes Tar, states that in some excavations he lately made in Abbey-street, for the foundation of the Kingston Pump Room, which is situated direct on the on Roman springs, he came into the original marsh I which formerly covered the lower part of Bath, and found it replete with decomposed rushes, many por tions of the hazel, and numerous unbroken nuts. ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE —This So ciety always appeared to us among the humbugs of the day, and, except for the one hundred a year allowed ten men, should have been long since held up to the ridicule its pretensions so justly de served ; but charity is a redeeming virtue ;—the government of this country does little enough for science and literature, and we were therefore con tent that, the Society should drivel on at the price of a thousand a year : but a suspension of pay ments is the day of its dissolution.—Atheneum. SWEET LIPAFIAN MELON.—Mr. Knight says, tho taste and flavour of the fruit, under the mode of culture which he has adopted, appear to be now quite as perfect as when the variety first came into his possession. The weight of the largest fruit in the last season exceeded by more than 2lbs. the weight of the largest fruit raised under the same mode of culture from the first seeds, it having weighed 101 b. 6 ounces. He cultivates this variety generally in a brick pit surrounded by hollow walls, through which warm atmospheric air at all times enters abundantly ; putting each plant in a separate large pot, and suffering it to bear one me lon only. But the fruits set and succeed suffici ently well in a common hot-bed ; and the impor tant point fcr the attention of the gardener is, the weight of fruit which any given extent of glass roof is capable of producing in high perfection; 13 inches square of glass roof will afford 115. of fruit. This quantity will probably appear small to many who are in the habit of cultivating some other va rieties ; but, if the roof of a vinery were seen with a bunch of grapes of Ilb. weight, at 13 in. distance from each other over the whole extent of its roof, Idle crop would be thought extremely great. The rind of the Ispahan, as of other Persian melons, being very soft and thin, the fruit is apt to sustain injury upon its under side, if it be not properly supported ; therefore, when he raises any of those varieties in a hot-bed, always place the fruit, whilst very young, upon a little machine it the form of a short broad ladder. This, which has four slender cross bars, is supported at its corners by four forked pegs, which are stuck into the mould of the bed ; and the fruit is thus raised some inches above the surface of the mould of the bed, and ex posed to light, whilst the air is permitted to pass freely under it. Tuesday morning a young woman, of highly re spectable family in the neighbourhood of Ches hunt, was found under one of the arches of the New London-bridge, by a policeman of letter M division. She seemed to be so excessively ill, that the policeman, with the assistance of another man, carried her to St. Thomas's Hospital, and it was there discovered that she had taken poison. Active I remedies having been resorted to, her life was saved, although she still continues ♦ery much de bilitated from the effects of the dose she had taken. From-a letter found in her possession, it appeared that she had been seduced in the country by a young man, who had immediately afterwards left the place, and she came to town in search of him, without the unction of her family, and disappointed in her ex pectations of meeting him, she had, in the bitter ness of the moment, resolved on self-destruction. ROYAL YACHT CLUB LIST, COIMICTED TO :WM, 1831. • THE KING. THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER. Vessels. Class. Tons Anglesey, Marquis of Pearl Cut 113 Ashbrook, Viscount Belmore, Earl of Chine°, S. Esq Nora Cut Curtis, Sir W. ban Emma Seh Coventry, Earl of AHel Cut Grantham, Lord Nautilus Cut Guinan, Joseph, esq • Nelson Cut Halifax, T. esq Hamond, Rear Admiral Sir G. E. ban. C.B. Hare, Hon. W. Harman, T. esq Lindegren, J. earl Melville, Lord Via. Newman, R. W. esq Peget, Rt. Hon. Sir A. Peach, S. P. esq Yarborough, LII(Com) Puleston, Sir R. bert Sliedden, Colonel Smith, Jaraes, esq Thomas, Sir G. but Thomond, Marquis of Vernon, Lord Weld, Joseph, esq Weld, James, esq. Williams ' O. esq Perkins, H. esq Williams, T. P. esq Masse, James, esq Powell, J. P. esq White, Hon. William Saunders, W. H. esq Mackenzie, LL-Gen. K. Leeds, Sir G. ban. Norfolk, Duke of Talbot, C. R. M. esq. Pare, Rev. Frederick Wyndham, Capt. G. R.N. Janette Sch Herrington,Capt.W.A. R.N. Will o' the Wisp Cut Allen, Thomas, esq. Erin Sch Reynolds, J. esq. Seale, Colonel Lord of the Isles Cut 45 Belfast, Earl, Vice Com. { Emily is Cut 162 !Ship 33 Puget, John Hey. esq. Osprey Yawl 45 Gower, Lord F. L. Corbct, Andrew, esq, Hebe Cut 68 Kirkwall, Lord Viscount Browne, Capt. P. R.N. Fullerton, G. A. esq. Zephyr Cut 55 George, Rev. Denis Vampyre Cut 49 Scott, James, esq. Bereaford Cut 26 Greville, Hon. Capt. R. F. Dauntless Cut 81 Symonds, J. L. esq. Emerald Cut 58 Durham, Lord Campbell, John, esq. Listowel, Earl of Sheraton, I'. Davis, esq. Rivers, Sir Henry, ban. Earl St. Vincent Cut 41 Ilchcster, Earl of Petrel Cut 85 Garland, Capt. J. G. R.N. Thorold, Henry, esq. Coquette Brig 150 Compton, Henry, C. esq. Union a Cut 48 Johnson, ltlajor.fien. Mary Cut 53 Portland, Dukc of Clown Ketch 156 Martin, Vice Ad. Sir T. B. K.C.B. Navy Baud Yacht Best, T. Fairfax, esq. Georgians Cut 36 Richardson, Alborough, esq. Zebra Cut 51 Mills, John, Esq. Lyon, Janice, esq. Blue-Eyed Maid Cut Moore John, esq. Elisabeth Cut Rowdier, Charles, esq. Merlin !Cut Groahrell, John, esq. Zadors Cut Ward, Charles, esq. Guerilla Cut Stewart, Sir James, bast. Sappho Sch Byrne, Edward H. esq. Heneage, G. W. esq. Harriet Cut I Cut Donegal, t l, Marquis of i ZCoearo line Cut Chesterfield, Earl of Secret Cut Wilson, Sir T. M. ban. Syren Cut Garth, Capt. Thos. R.N. Eliza Cut IVyke, George, esq. Poetess Sch %Vest, Frederick, esq. Owen Glendower Cut Markham, William, esq. Mary Sch Gower, John L. en. Light, William, esq. (Janus Cut Gibson, Thomas, esq. Therese Cut Murray, John I)lgby, Esq. Peri Cut Errol, Earl of IVoohnore, J. esq. Trinity Yacht Cut Kingscote, Robert, esq. Nettle . Cut Newborough, Lord Sapphire Cut Saunderson, J. esq. Neuha Cut Clonbrock, Lord Scorpion Cut Kean, Ce.ptain, J. R.N. Turk Cut Ackers, George, esq. Arrow Cut Ruding, Clement, esq. Isabella Cut Brett, Charles, esq. Gem filch Challen, Rev. J. G. Giulia Cut Pratt, Charles, esq. Psyche Cut Gehl, Philip, esq. Arrow Sch Meikiam, James, esq. Fanny Cut Vivian, Maj -Gen. Sir R. Hussey Day, Richard, esq. Gulnare Cut Fleetwood, rein H. esq. Lancaster Rose Cut Bualeugh, Duke of Flower of Yarrow Cut Cosway, Sir William Call, George C. eq. Hind Yawl Raikes, Richard 51. esq. Dove Cut Suckling, Rev. A. Ruby Cut Pakington, John S. esq. Liberty Cut Scott, Lord John Ada Cut Ormsby, Sir T. ban. Witch Cut Courteaay, Geo. esq. Dolphin Cut Delafield, Wm. esq. Heron Cut Latham, Wm. esq. Druid Cut Ross, Horatio, esq. Peg a Ramsay Sch Hornby, William, esq. Forest Fly Cut Christie, John, esq. Zephyr Cut P.aCy, Capt. A. Ida R.N. ker, Sir Hyde Rob Roy Cut 52 Greg, Thomas, esq. Iris Cut 76 Greville, Algernon, esq. Phantom Cut 56 Kennedy, John, esq. Water Witch Cut 44 The new Yacht Club signals presented last year by the Commodore appear to meet general appro bation, more particularly from naval officers, and it is presumed will this season be brought into general use by the club. On Thursday, the Falcon, bearing the Noble Commodore's Broad Pendant, arrived from Spit head, and was saluted with 15 guns .by the shore batteries, which the Falcon returned. Lord Yar borough was received on his landing by the mem bers of the Royal Yacht Club, and a large con course of inhabitants, who gave evident expression of their joy on his return. At eight in the evening his Lordship weighed for Spithead, and yesterday anchored in our roadstead, and entertained the members at dinner on board the Falcon. which is now completely equipped and ready to join his Majesty's squadron under Sir Edward Codrington, whom his Lordship intends accompanying. The Royal Clarence Regatta will take place this year on the 7th, instead of the 21st July as here tofore. This is done with a view to give a suffi cient interval between the different regattas, to enable the members of the Royal Yacht club and yachts generally to attend them without inconveni ence ; and we trust other regatta clubs will make their regulations accordingly. The Cherbourg regatta is attracting the atten tion of our sea amateurs, and it is likely to be attended by such an assemblage of yachts, steamers, and pleasure vessels, as must alike gratify and astonish the inhabitants of that port and neigh bourhood. YACHT. AT Tll2 RENDEZVOUS.—FaIcon, Commodore Lord Yarborough; Mary schooner, Nelson, Emerald, Hebe, Frisk, Rob Roy, Ga latea, Juverna, Ann, Arundel, Gem. Arrow cutter, and Ondine, and several in the harbour fitting out.—Hampshire Advertiser. 34 132 71 103 93 Wombyru Cut 33 Sylph Cut 52 Nymph Cut 31 Ellen Cut 46 Falcon Sblp 351 Juverna Sat 64 Frisk Yawl 25 Amethyst Cut 21 Leonora Lug 20 Rostellan Sell GO Harlequin Brig 292 • J Lullworth Cut 127 I Alarm Cut 193 Cut 87 Hussar &h 120 Miranda Cut IG4 Briton Soh 92 Ondine Cut 57 Altiaidora Cut 28 Highland Lass Yawl 25 Arundel Cut 188 Galatea /3eh 190 Dream Ann Cut 66 Cut 42 43 121 69 LAW REPORT& COURT OF CHANCERY, iuwt The LORD Crtawczza.ow said, upon an application of the Solicitor-Oeneral to have a commission of bankruptcy resealed, that Solicitors were too apt, for the purpose of get- ting the carriage of commissions, to dash at striking docket', and which was often done before acts of bankruptcy were committed. This circumstance, however, had the effect of causing people's creditors to rush in upon them, and driving them into bankruptcy. It was • practice to be highly de precated, and requiring a check. MARINO APPEALS IN TH. HOUSE OF LOSDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that it had now been arranged that he should sit to hear appeals in the House of Lords on Mondays and Wednesdays, after this week• ; to morrow he must be there. The cue of Harris v. Kemble was to have come on on Monday next, but for Lord Lyndhurst's accommodation, it has been postponed till the Monday following. Tug ADDRZSI TO HI! HAMM The LOUD CHANCELLOR had to leave the Court at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of waiting on his 3lajcsty with the address voted by the House of Lords last night ; but he said be should return to hear Sir E. Sugelen make a motion, which he was desirous of moving at half.past two, and that, if necessary, he should remain in Court till five o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, 'awn 22. There were seven special jury causes set down for trial this day in this Court, all of which, with the exception of one, namely, Child v. Harris, were referred. The cause mentioned was struck out of the paper by Lord Tenterden, in consequence of the plaintiff's Counsel, Messrs. Campbell and Pollock, not being present. The Court rose at eleven o'clock. POLICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL.—Marin Shuissier, a middle.aged French. man, was brought before Mr. Alderman A ?ISLET yesterday, charged with attempting to murder Louis Henry Marche, a French merchant, in ths dark staircase between the stone gallery round the bottom of the dome of St. Paul's, and the iron gallery at the top of it, about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. The complainant gave his evidence in his native language. He had shipped his property to go to Brazil, and intended to take the prisoner, who bad been his servant ten years, with him as a companion. They were to sail in the same vessel with the goods, and everything was on board, as the ship would leave the Docks as early as Satuiday next. On Tuesday afternoon, lie and the prisoner went to view St. Paul's, and nothing remarkable occurred till they descended. Witness walked first, and while he was going down he felt his hat knocked off: It rolled down two or three stairs, and while he was stooping he felt himself seized from behind by the collar of his coat, and at the same instant tome dread. ful blcws were inflicted on the crown of his head. Ile shrieked, and broke away from the murderous grasp, with. out looking round to see who Isis assailant was, being satisfied in his own mind, at the moment, that it must be his companion. He was not aware that any other person was on the staircase. As he pursued his way down the stairs, his cries alarmed some person below; he was led into the vestry, where his wounds were attended to, and the prisoner was detained. He did not wish to prosecute the prisoner, as the detention till the Sessions would cause bin , to lose ha pa s sage. Wm. Folager, of 12, Fisher -street, Red Lion.square, was sitting at the bottom of the lowest staircase, when he heard a cry of murder and um running up about 120 stairs, he met the complainant with the blood streaming from him in all directions. He was crying stop the wait! but no one had come down that staircase for sometime, nor did he ob serve the prisoner following, and he did slot come down till seven or eight minutes afterwards, when he produced his hat, in proof that he also had been attacked. The side of his hat was broken, and the lining was protruding through the hole. The lining was stained with blood, but there was no cut or bruise on the prisoner's head. When the prisoner saw his master in the vestry, he went to him and embraced him. The complainant, on the contrary, as soon as he perceived him, shook his stick at Min, and expressed great alarm lest the prisoner should leave the church, run home to his lodg ing, add carry off some valuable property. Mr. Munton, of Windsor -terrace, Mile End-road, said ihe took his daughter up to the iron gallery on Tuesday afternoon, and they found three persons there, the two Frenchmen, and a third who was dressed in a blue coat and white ►rowsers. They were talking together. Wit ness had occasion to pass them three or four times, and the look of the prisoner made him fed singularly no. comfortable; it so strongly bespoke a feeling that their presence was very unwelcome. He did not hear the cries of the complainant, but when a man came up and said there had been an attempt to murder, lie perceived the three persons bad gone down, but he did not see them go. Langworth, an officer of the cathedral, who is stationed to show the visitors the ball, if required, stated that there are seven flights of stairs between the iron and the stone gallery. He stands about ten stairs down from the top, where the passage is narrow, and only one person can pass at the same time, and by running to the bottom of the second fight, he can command a complete view of the other five. The prisoner had been up two or three times before, and as he and his friend came down, he asked them if tncy would see the ball ? They passed on, and in about two minutes and a half he heard some dreadful screams. He ran to the bottom of the second flight, and caught sight of the prisoner's back just as he was going out into the stone gallery. The com plainant had gone on before him, and hearing no further cries, he concluded it was a specimen of French vivacity—a mere joke, and returned to his post. After this the gentle man with a blue coat and white trowsers came down, and he could swear most positively that no other persons were on the staircases at the time the complainant screamed, than the complainant and the prisoner. The vergers were examined, but their evidence did not carry the case any further. Two knives were found on the prisoner, but there were no marks of blood on them ; nor had any flint-stone or other thing by which the mischief might have been committed been found, either on the staircase, or in the stone gallery. The complainant's head seemed to have been dreadfully mangled., but the surgeon was not sent for to speak to the nature of the wounds. The prisoner vehemently protested his innocence, and de clared the attack was made by a third person. He had not quarrelled with complainant, and could have no motive to commit such a deed. Mr. Alderman AXILCY kindly falling in with the com plainant's desire not to prosecute, deliberated for some time on the best mode of disposing of the matter. The com plainant, dreading a further attempt on his life, seemed to wish that the prisoner should be detained till the ship had sailed ; but Mr. Alderman Ansley did not like that the poor fellow should be turned adrift destitute In this country, and it might be troublesome to get the Consul to pass him. The Alderman proposed to discharge him instanter, on com plainant's landlord undertaking not to suffer him to sleep in his house again t but finally, as we understood, his Wor t ship remanded the prisoner till this day, then to be liberated, his clothes given up to him, and his passage secured to France. Ustiost.iffar..—Yesterday, a respectable married woman, named Taylor, the mother of three children, was brought up in custody, on a charge of shoplifting. From the evidence, it appeared that the prisoner went into the shop of a Mr. Griffiths, a silversmith and pawnbroker, Ossulston.street, St. Pancras, to make some inquiries re specting a watch. On her entrance, a coral necklace, with gold clasps, value ten guinea*, was lying on the counter ; and while the shopman was taking pains to give her all the information in his power relative to the article about which she inquired, the prisoner nutnaged to slip the necklace into I her pocket. She left the shop about ten minutes before the article was missed, and, although pursued, *be escaped.— Some days after the robbery, the prisoner took the necklace to a shopkeeper In the Borough, where the article was idea. tided by the shopkeeper, who had received a description of it in the Police Report; and she was detained until the ar rival of Mr. Griffiths, who gave her into custody. The prisoner vehemently asserted her innocence of the offence with which she was charged, declaring that she was never in Mr. Griffiths's ahop in herlife; and accounted for the necklace being in her possession, by stating that abe had been presented with it by some individual who lodged in her house. She was committed. QUEEN-sou atm.—Yesterday, Sassuef Dukes, a porter In the employ of Mr. Whitehouse, a coach.plate manu facturer, was charged with absconding with bank notes and sovereigns, to *a amount of fifty pounds, and also with stealing a valuable mare. On Monday afternoon, Mr. Austen, the peelesswe's clerk, gave the prisoner fifty pseuds la bank ewes and sovereigns, to go to Lombard. MINI to take up a bill se that moat, and in order that he Id* net be tee into, In &abatable to take his master's 11111014 The prism; bourn!, Dew retwesed ; awl Tuesday alkent•we, a fen* Mlbeesull Mr. ingssiteuse, daubs pri mer was at Mabee& = Its Ineilially west &wit sad /sear. bin i be sided bade, Wolin MOW a aew of John clothes with part of the money, and gave up 13 stmereio. and 10s. but on searching him a 201. bank note was fout.d concealed in one stocking, and a 10L bank note in the other, and afterwards a sovereign was found in his mouth. The mare was also found at a livery stables. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. THAMES POLlCE.—Yesterday, a final examination totk place of the five youths, named Stenicken, Stapleton, Thomas, While, and Perkins, charged with having excited James Pink, aged 11 years, the son of Mr. J. C. Pink, of the King's Arms, Green Bank, Wapping, to rob his father of upwards of 1001. in money, during the last 15 'youths. Perkins was apprehended on Monday morning, on his re. lease from the House of Correction, where he had been con fined on another charge. He confessed to Ellis the office'. that he had received fifty pounds in gold alone, at various times, from young Pink, and that he had extorted in all from the boy about ninety pounds. He also said th a t th e other prisoners were in the habit of coming every day, and getting money from the boy, besides liquor.— Several witne‘ses proved that the prisoners had been in the habit of frequenting the house before Mr. Pink got up in tit( morning ; and others deposed to selling a pleasure-boat lot 81. to Stenicken, and a snuff-box for 255. which was paie for with money abstracted by the boy from his father's cash box. The prisoners were committed:to Newgate for trial. THE ASTELL EAST INDIASIAN.—Tues da y Mr. Henry Wise, the chief of of the Astell East Indianian, waitn! upon Mr. BALLANTINE, the sitting magistrate, respecting the application of two seamen of that vessel, for a summons against Captain Lawrence, their commander, who they alleged had kept them on short allowance while at sea for 21 days, and refused to allow them any compensation since they bad been ashore. Mr. Wise, who was accompanied by the other officers and 20 of the crew, said that one part of the report of the pro. ceedings mentioned that he had " expressed himself favour. able to their (the sailors') claim, and told the crew to enforce It by legal means." He begged leave to state that he had never given any such advice to the men, and the statement, unless contradicted, would do him considerable injury. Mr. BALLANTIXE said he was not the Magistrate to whom the application was made, but he had been informed the report was strictly correct, and he was confident that the respectable journals which had published the statement com plained or, would give publicity to the explanation of Mr. Wise. At the same tome he was of opinion, if the appli cant had given such advice as that mentioned by the sailors, his character as a gentleman and an officer of the Honourable Company's Service, would not have been at all com promised. Mr. Wise said it would have been incompatible with his duties as chief officer of the ship, to have excited the crew to lay a complaint against their captain, and he had nothing to do with their alleged grievances. It was a question over which he had no control, and it ,entirely rested .between the ship's company, their commander, and owner. The sailors present declared that Mr. Wise had never given them any advice on the subject, or spoken to them about their short allowance. The officers of the ship made the same assertion. Several persons who were preheat' when the application was made by the two seamen on Friday last, stated that they had beard them distinctly declare that Mr. ',Vise had ad. vised them to seek redress by legal means, and that 'no. thing could have been more correctly given than the report. Mr. Wise said the men had told a falsehood, and again declared that he bad never spoken to them on the subject. Mr. BALLANTIXE said the two sailors had no dJubr made an unwarrantable use of Mr. Wise's name in order to strengthen their application for a summons, aid he was quite satisfied he had not given them any advice about their short allowance compensation. • Mr. Wise thanked the Magistrate, and retired with bit brother officers. iaAWBET 11-S T .—Yesterday a youth, named Henry Brown, was committed to Newgste for trial, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of tools belonging to revcral jour. neymzn carpenters, and a part of which were found in his possession. TOWX•HALL.—Rober: Gray, an old man-of-war's.msn, was charged with not maintaining his wife. The wife had been in the pow-house for 12 years, the husband being no. where to be found, having, it appears, ban at sea, on board several ships of war, and at the battle of Trafalgar, and lastly on board the Louisa frigate, and was now laid up in ordinary upon a pension of 81. per year. The parish officers disco vering it, lodged a warrant at the Pay-office, on which he wu taken. The assignment of the pension being the main eta in view, that matter settled, the veteran WAS discharged with. out further security. COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Pri soners hereinafter named (the same bowleg been filed In the Court) are appointed to be beard at the Court-house, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's lon-fields, on Tuesday, July sth, at nine in the forenoon. ohn Scholefield, late of 26, High-street, Wapping, pew terer and beer-engine manufacturer. Chains Hawes, late of Adam-street, Rotherhithe, out of business. Henry Crane, late of 19, Counter-street, Borough Market, and of the Talbot Inn- yard, High-street, Southwark, coffee-roaster and keeper of coffee-rooms. Thomas Sawed, late of Tonbridge A ells. tailor. Frederick Rainger, late of 40 and 41, Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, milliner and jeweller. George Bagley, late of 24, Rockingham row, New Kent road, warehouseman. Benjamin Hall, late of King-street, St. Gorge's in the East, coffee roaster. James Chilton, late of 18, Queen.square, Bloomsbury, at torney at law. George Heard, late of 3, Kennington lane, Surrey, hair dresser. George Hutton, late of 3, Dobson terrace, Kennington road, Surrey, topographical writer. Robert Cross, late of 10, New Inn yard, Shoreditch, coal dealer. Wm. Vere, late of 2, Allen's place, Stratford, Essex, stone mason and surveyor. Michael Ryan, late of 21. Marine square, Brighton, and of Little Pultency street, Golden square, Middlesex, car penter and builder. George Andrew Fox, late of Little Hermitage street, Wap ping, shipwright. R. Prichard, late of 1, Park row, Mill's buildings, Knights. bridge, merchant's clerk and accountant. E. Jones, late of the Butter Market and Northgate street, Canterbury. Kent, and also of Edmonton, Middlesex, common brewer. Wednesday, July 6. William Mayon, late of Friday-street, Cheapside, out of business. James Launder, jun. late of Gray's Inn-lane, painter and gluier, and collector of the sewer rate. John Martin, late of Walthainstow Essex, farmer. Thomas Kettle, late of 143, Minories, stationer, wife car- Tying on the business of a pork butcher. Win. Delves, late of Belgrave-place, Pimlico, gentleman. Thomas Jones, late of St. James's-place, Hampstead-rood, out of business. Edward Horne Morgan, late of 20, Brook-street, Rattling ton-road, journeyman coachmaker. John Mepham, late of 8, Green street, Paddington, jour neyman carman. James Matson, late of 7, Park-street, Poplar, carpenter and chandler's shopkeeper. The 22d inst. at St.James's-place;the wife of Archdeacon King, of a daughter.—The 21st Inst. in Southampton-row. Mrs. Frederick Skey, of a son.—At KUlermont, North Bn. rain, on the 17th inst. the lady of John Colquhoun, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. At Leghorn, on the sth inst. in the British Chapel, A. Homfray, M. D. son of Sir J. Homfray, to Eustatia, daugh ter of Vice-Admiral Donnelly. and sister of Lady AudJey.-- The 21st inst. at Henley-on-Thames, the Rev. P. B. Mod. M.A. student of Christ Church, Oxford, to Agnes, fourth daughter of the Rev. J. G. Busaell, of the sibove place. — The 22d inst. at Battersea, T. A. Harkey. Esq. of Fen church-street, to Elisabeth, eldest daughter of G. Green. Req. of Blackwell. AJ , 413.11. The 29th of April last, W. Gilchrist, of the Wand or Antigua. Req.—The 20th lost. at Brighton, Ann, .trife of T. 8 Hewitt, of Clareinont.Teerace, The lBth inst. Edward, the eldest sou of Mr. Teary, of Hattoe-garden, aged 11.—The 21st. inst. at Clarence.pisee. Camborwell, Mr. Skilbeek, for many yams an ialsabbant of Vhaapside s Jo the 71st year of Ibis 18, at Priors Marston, the Rev. U. Harwood, AN. It e 7 : years, upwards of twenimlght years Canoe of Mantes and Lout fibucburt= county of Wiry" , mod Dieser of Lichfield rind ' 100 x Stool ( lout ice, Temple Par. ~~ • ,