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demand of payment, I had had to apply to him for my 'carotin!, that I had asked hint at times if he wanted money, and that he bad answered in the negative, or as he afterwards desired to qualify it, that he did net want it immediately, that be was in no great hurry. Will this evidence, Gentlemen, admit of the constructive dis obedience with which only in - the present month, September, am charged to have been guilty in June, 1821 ? In the lapse of time, and with an utter unconsciousness of having ever been eroilty of any act unbecoming the character of an Officer or a Gentleman, you niust he aware there may have been many facts and incidents that I might have adduced in my favour, which are now lost to me it was upon this wise principle that his Ma jesty has been pleased to signify his displeasure against,. and the Duke of York to prohibit, in General Orders, charges being tvithheld till they should accumulate, for the purpose of being eetlectivi ly brought forward at a distant period. It will, I ant sure, Gentlemen, he borne in mind by you, that Quartermaster Speed proved 'that I was not in debt to him in any way at the period of instituting these charges. He said my last payment was on the 19th of August. I think I can prove it was even much earlier; so that, in fact, I ant not charged with the evil, if any, till after 1 have evinced its entire remedy, and that without bring conscious of any necessity for it. On the second charge, Gentlemen, I shall trouble you but my shortly. The Messman, Corporal Bell, after a very inco herent testimony, proved, or rather I admitted my having given him a draft upon the Agents for my mess account, amounting to £25; that the Agents declined paying it; and that, on my being informed of it, I gave hint another for £52 (it was for £3l. 7s ), which included the £25, and what had occurred sub sequently ; and was not therefore, as would appear from the charge, two separate hills for two separate sums and separate accounts: that I expressed my surprise, and aconnmanied the new draft by a letter to Messrs. Greenwood and Co. Corporal 'Mayor, the Mess Clerk, besides something he had heard from the Messman, proved his hiving presented these at the Agents', and that their clerk said he would see Mr. Cox upon it, so that any application appears evidently to have been grounded. He did so, when :qr. Cox desired him to present Messrs. Green wood and Co.'s compliments to me, and that they regretted they could go no further. On being cross.examined, the Messman acknowledged that I had paid him, but with a legal precision of opinion, equal to that of the Quartermaster, had not done it in time, according to the order of the Mess Meeting; being pressed as to how long after,he answered at once, only about half an hour. —Gentlemen, the spirit of such evidence will be too obvious to you to require that I should obtrude any observations upon it; • you will, I dare say, be led to inquire, as I have done, whence such an extraordinary Regiment could have arisen against an O ffi cer telso has served in the Regiment little less than fifteen years, and nearly arrived at the rank of a Field Officer. I can only account, for it by that strange misconception which, as was observed on soy part on the commencement of these proceedings, would, it was hoped, be proved to.have alone produced the charge against me; and which would naturally act and re-act on their prmluc tian. Gen:lnnen, me. Pyle, a Clerk from Messrs. Greenwood rod Co.'s was called, and has confirmed what I admitted ; and 1 a 1 you alto, on my interrogating him, that I had previously sh posited with them two bills, to the amount of nearly £550, tt hielt bills remain still in their possession, not having yet been Laid, and that I had not received any money from the House on these two securities, and that my account with them was nearly balanced; at a rough guess, there probably might be esainst me ten or fifteen pounds. In regard to the third and last charge, it is of a more important character in its militaty application. It has been proved by Ad jutant Hirst, andsadmitted by me, that I was absent without leave on the 2d and 3d of March, from the 16th to the 19th of April, (tom the 30th of June to the 18th of July,, and from the 6th to the 9th of August, all in the present year. On being cross.examined, though tie could not recollect quite so clearly for the defence as he did for the prosecution, yet he did not lrn:Av of my ever having been absent without leave before, durit.g the whole time I have been in the Regiment, and must /lave known it if I had, from the official situation he holds; nor, its the same capacity, did he know of my having asked leave, from the time the Regiment left Windsor to the time at which I wrote hint, on the 29th of June, on an occasion which It appears, from the letter he produced, was one of the most important that can influence the human heart and mind. Of these periods of absence you will observe, that on one only does the prosecutor (Sir It. Hill) lay any stress, viz. that on the 30th of June.— Gentlemen, it is my duty to explain to you the whole. The first occurrence, of two days absence, arose simply from my having rode nut to St. Albans, intending to return the same day, when I was unexpectedly detained to the amount of time stated. rut I have nu doubt Sir Robert hill will admit that I *pole tized for my having been so detained, that be admitted my apo- I /y, and was perfectly satisfied. This was the first occurrence of the kited that had taken place during my whole service. On the second occasion, under the circumstances as I have already sated, I, on account of my friend, was suddenly taken into the custody of the Civil Power ; and as soon as I arranged matters, 1 .mmediately returned to my Regiment. 'I he third occasion.—lt will be proved-to you that I received inform ain't ef my father, who was in the 85th year of his age, havirg broken his leg, in consequence of which a mortification had ensued, and that he was in a most dangerous state. On this I immediately applied for leave of Sir Robert Hill, for the purpose of attending my father at Worcester. Sir Robert felt it neces sary to refuse me; which, under the circumstances, and being the first 'lime I had asked leave since the Regiment left Windier, as you have heard, I am sure he could not have refused me without some reason. The reason, as you have also heard given in evidence, was the absence of other Officers. Under standing, after my first note, that an Officer, then on pleasure at Ramsgate was about to return, I deemed the cause of refusal done away ; and, confident that ir R. Hill's filial feelings would so Longer detain me under the torturous anxiety which I suffered, I wrote to the Adjutant the letter which has been produced, and set off to attend my father. Gentlemen, if I have, in obey ing such a call, erred as a soldier, I trust you will deem me right as a man—my place was supplied, and no injury arose to the Reg iment front my absence : it is the only instance of such a kind during my servile in the Regiment, and was, I had hoped, forgiven ; and as no charge had arisen upon it, till the last in stance of which I ant about to speak. In the decision of your hearts upon this subject, Gentlemen, it is my duty to shew you that I do not impose upon you that in which you are not justified by the very letter of military law. The Articles of War, front their first regular institution to the present moment, as will be seen by the ith and Bth Articles of the 14th section, have even qualified the prohibition of absence without leave, by the exoeption of cases of evident and urgent'l necessity. A more evident or a more urgent necessity, I pre sume, can hardly be found, than that which I have just pub muted, Gentlemen, to your feelings, any more than the uncon troulahle arm of the Civil rower. _ The last instance, from the Gth to the 9th of August, is also one of the latter description. As in the former one, I arranged it as quickly as could be done, losing not an instant, and imme diately returned to the Regiment. Sir Robert Hill was fully acquainted with the circumstance, and if a regimental return had taken place, wmild, in course, not have returned me absent without leave, but in the custody of the Civil Power. Having necessarily spoken of being twice abstracted front my rolimeut by the Civil I'ower, it is now necessary, Gentlemen, that I should certain to you the cause of it, and thew you, as I shall prove, that it did not arise front any pecuniary defect of my own means, such as to render Me incapable of preserving the due crytti: or an Officer in his Majesty's service. I entered that khan with all the ardour of a young man of competent for tune, and always identified myself with my brother Officets, and considered their happiness as my owfl. Among those of a for mer teelmait was Mr. Haetiiif, whose fortune is ample, but it is in Jamaica, and the deterioration of such property of late years is toe well known to nerd description. Living up to his . income, he was not prepared for this evil, and he found a tem porary assistance necessary, which I was proud to afford him. Cirtunistancee have grown worse, instead of better as he ex pactead4 this asaistance, at the present moment, as will be shewn to you, amounts to ne less a sum than between five and six thousand pounds. Having come to an arrangement with the epulent firm of Boddington for the care of his estate, he con templated the speedy payment of the sums I had progressively advanced to• him, and I in consequence became his security fur one thousand guinea). His merchants having to make a die. Implement of many thousand pounds, were prevented fur the present being so liberal as they probably night otherwise have been, and in consequence Mr. Ratliff was not able to liquidate this security for one thousand guineas. loon after be retired to France, and this circuu!,tance, for the first time distrustful, made them feel it necessary to proceed against me, which, as you will learn front one of them, was the sole cause of my having bees so placed in the hands of the Civil 'cower for the day.; mentioosul in the second and fourth allegations of the charge. Pa bring than compelled, by the institution of these charges, to mention the same and circumstances of a brothel Meer, for, i whose lever entertained the highest regard, I trust it will not NAVAL INTELLIGENcf. be dinned to imply any imputation against him, convinced —_—.—.. i that he would not for worlds have subjected me to the incur- . Fatancren. Sam ffik—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Prince nb- Ireace °forte of these chlrger against me on his account , which • Sent packer, ffom the Meditern ' : salkd front Corfu the I . lse well knew would never have been incurred on my din.— • 12th A vows xf sita tho nth, ood i M rator the 7th &mem b er . 1 °Confiding, then, to your hunourable minds, Gentlemen, both Also arrived, the Mor qtr i s o f Salisbury packet, from Jamaica : the points which, as well at all-others of al:Wait nature, that sailed the 6tiefie s and from Crooked Island the I eth Au some who probably hear me know I have ever preserved at a gust. The f sacred trust, I shall not detain you longer than to shew that I , Whim, Rockingham Desire'. Trio, , f wellborn . , B 7 se ov nese , Is have safled for Landon : the Ann, : have net bitherits been deemed a character unworthy your at- Four Friends. • . 401 1. D uncan F or bes, Lci i vst, for Ham..l tendon. Nothing can he more repugnant to any wed-constituted hon ,,„ h. .1%. v we reported. yesterday as being run'i mind than to speak of one ' s self on any occasion, but in such a dow ' o off - Z o .. . ~ ~ case as this It is unavoidably becessary. From a multiplicity is f from Bristol to with a general cargo; and the brig p ,,, , , proves to be the smack Ann, MILLS, ' communications which I have been urged to examine, 1 there- Yi h ich rail on . :. : P her was the Lively, of Sunderland, which fore select a few, from which delicacy will only permit a small shin sheered off *those rendering. her nay assistance. extract of facts, which extract shall, if desired, be marked for r smack has received considerable damage. the inspection of the Court in the originals. Poaramourn, San. 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Surrey, Ram, from the Downs for New South Wales; Robert &i -v. It will thus be seen, as regards the Ist Regiment in which 1 served, that in October, 1604, Colonel Creagh, then of the 29th . A walls oHNIUSOUREZ, (EOM ditto for New York ; Hiram, WATT, and now of the illst Foot, an Officer not prodigal of compli- • from Leghorn ; and his Majesty's ship Lease, from the Medi ment, had the goodness to write to me from America, hoping terranean. Sailed his Majesty's skip SELEWAPALTAM and RlM drat they might see me there shortly ; obligingly adding, on the wise, to the We s t war d. subject of my probably rejoining that Regiment, that nothing DEAL SEM 26.---Wind N.E.—Canse down from the River could give him, or the Officers, more sincere pleasure ! PICEHOESE, for St. Jolla's, New Brunswick ; Antelope, finzairrz, and salle4 the Diligence, Ea:weans, for Teneriffe ; Elizabeth, In Decembe r ' of the same year, General Dugald Campbell announced to me that the Earl of Hardwick, then Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, had been pleased to recommend me to his for Gibraltar ; Op orto , o wn . for Oporto ; Dispatch, gamin, for Malta ; Venus, Rawly for for Dart, WHITE, for New- Royal Highness the Duke of York, and had written again to foundland and Demerara; Dutch frigate Eurydice , for Batavia.' urge it, previously to my return to America. Nor has the con- Remain the Brothers, Vibelia, N and Caledonia, for the descending kindness of this exalted person ceased up to this mu.. Riser. silent, nor, I trust, been forfeited by me in the slightest degree, Cone, San. 23.—S a lled the Ocean transport, for Gibraltar, since, so recently as January last, his Lordship was pleased to troops. Interpose his kind offices to endeavour to obtain for me a Ma-with " % , ESTM-HOUSE, SEIM 26.—Ships Entered Inwards : The jority by Brevet. In March, 1805, Major-General Sir J. W. Royal Eagle, from Faro; Recovery, from Guernsey; Catharina, Gordon announced the recommendation of me to the Duke of from Danteic ; Nonench, from Stangate Creek ; Nelson, from York by the late General Sir David Dundee, for an appoint- St. Petersburgb ; London, from ditto • Lady Ridley, from Rot merely in his own Regiment, the Greys. Another letter , hews terdam; Rockwood, from Davies St ' ralts • and Dundee, from merely the consideration in which I was held by Lieutenant- the Greenland Fishery.—Entered Outwards': The Africa, Castle General Sir George Cooke. In 1807, Lord W. G. Somerset Lachlan, Royal Charlotte, and Reward, all for Jimalca ; rwell, aid me the honour to announce, in the most obliging terms, that for St. Vincent's; Phcebe, for limerick ;Lark , for Ostend ; his brother, Lord Edward Somerset, would be glad to receive and Brothers, for Malta.—Cleared Outwards : The Edward me in the 4th Dragoon Guards. The succeeding period, to the for Bremen • Elbe, for Hamburgh ; Circassian. for Calcutta ; present time, will be seen to have been passed in my present Harriet, for ' Seville ; Neleus, for Hamburgh ; Samuel Thorn- Regiment, and therefore to forbid a similar selection; but while ton, for St. Peteraborgh ; and Elizabeth, far the Smith Seas. I must thus abstain from an obvious propriety, I must not omit to state that my communications have not been less satisfactory ; and that I ant sure my prosecutor will admit, that up to the mo ment of instituting these charges, I have ever been on good terms with all my brother Officers. One name I cannot forbear to mention, front the lastiug honour which it confers on our Regiment, and the high estimation in which it is holden every where ;—it is that of bleier-General Sir John Riley, K.C.B. lately in command of the Corps ; and I trust he will forgive me for desiring to put the seal of his most worthily distinguished name to those of the eminent persons I have before mentioned. I shall only presume to say, that he always did me the honour of his most condescending kindness while my Commanding Of ficer, and up to the last week continued the same conduct, hear tily wishing, in common with Lord Hardwick, that I could ob tain a Majority. Since I have been placed in this unhappy re verse of condition, I addressed, tither too late, a formal letter to each of my three Commanding Officers, and though in Eng land, Scotland, and Ireland, have received the answers which I lay before you. I cannot but feel gratified, in mentioning Sir John Byng (a name associated with England's glory), who, though employed with his usual activity in the command of the most extensive district in England, lost not a post in answering according to its terms. Nor can my gratitude be less to Major- General Balfour. Sir John Elley is the third. 1 shall now, Gentlemen, proceed to call only two witnesses to prove the facts I have stated in this address, and then leave my case in your bands; only returning my most grateful thanks for the attention which you have afforded to it throughout, and the desire which you have manifested to aid the search after truth, so honourable to the character of a British Court-Martial. Captain Jebb then observed, that something was said _about the Duke of Wellington having► repri manded him : if his Grace had been pleased to do so on any one of the charges before the Court, such a reprimand being a punishment, the charge could not be maintained here. The A Jamaica Mail arrived this morning, bringing the Papers to the 7th August. FROM TUE JAMAICA ROYAL GAZETTE OF AUGUST S. -- - - BOLIVAR'S PROCLAMATION. " COLOMSIANINOIV all our delightful country is free! The victories of Bombena and Pichencha have completed the object of your heroism. From the banks of the Orinoco to the Andes of Peru the liberating army marched in triumph, and has covered with its protecting arm the entire extent of Colombia, one place alone resists, but it must fill. "Colombians of the South, the blood of your brethren has redeemed you from the horrors of war, it has opened to you an entrance to enjoy the most sacred rights of liberty and equality the Colombian laws have consecrated the alliance of social prero gative with the rights of nature. " The-Constitution of Colombia is the model of a Represen tative Repailie, and a powerfuldovernment c a better will never be found among the political institutions of this world, where nothing** perfect. Rejoice that you belong to a great family, which noir reposes under the shadow of the laurels it has gained, and which has nothing more to desire than to see accelerated the march of time, to unfold the eternal principles of happiness that our laws contain. Colombians, partidpate with me, and erect your altars to the Liberating Army, which has given you glory, peace, and liberty. (Signed) " BOLIVAR." " Head-quarters, Porto, June 8." Lieutenant-Colonel Clement Hill was then called, who proved that he was in command of the Regiment on the 2d and 3d of March ; that Captain Jebb was absent; that when he returned be apologised for having been detained by his friend, but that it was the first time, and he readily excused it. Mr. George Whitehead proved that Captain Jebb had, in consequence of becoming a security for Mr. Itaetliff for £lO5O, been, on the departure of Mr. Raetliff; taken into the custody of the Sheriff by his clients in April and August last; that Mr..Raetliff was a man of £6OOO a year, as he knew from good authority, and that his bill would have been dis counted by witness's hankers, Chambers and Co. but for some difference between parties who had consi dered Captain Jebb as hardly used in the business, and would not have taken any proceedings against him but for the departure of Mr. Radcliff. S. Buxton, Esq. being called, stated his knowledge of those arrests of Captain Jebb in April and August; his having reason to expect liberation immediately, as he had sent to witness, who had paid the money in one instance, and Capt. Jebb's brother in the other. Mr. SCOTT then tendered the documents to be de livered in as evidence of what had been stated in the address, among which were securities for between £5OOO and £6OOO due to Captain Jebb. These letters were then produced, Is the answers to a letter of Captain Jebb to each of the Command bag Officers of the Regiments in which-he had served, the 29th Foot, Scotch Greys, and the Blues, being from Sir John Byng, General Balfour, and Sir John Elley, who all testified CO his character as an Officer and a Gentleman ; and the latter, that there was no duty which he would not perform with energy. The defence here closed.—Colonel Hill required half an hour to reply, which was granted. On the Court being opened; he read it. It was in substance, that his charges were chiefly proved ; that he knew nothing of Captain Jebb's being confined till he heard it in the Court ; and he trusted it would be believed he had only brought forward these charges for the good of the service, and not from any other motive. The Court then closed, but their decision will not transpire till it has received his Majesty's approbation. Yesterday, the Loan MAVoa dined at the Albion Tavern, with the great body of the paper-manufac turers f the kingdom. His Lordship, a few days ago, entertained a large party of these Gentlemen in a splendid manner at dinner at the Mansion-House. Deft..-About five o'clock on the morning of Thursday se'nnight, a meeting took place neat the turnpike, on the Cork toad, a small distance west of Waterford, between Mr. BARRON. of William -street, in that City, and Mr. CHARLES EYRE, a Lieutenant in the Ist Royals, quartered there—the former at tended by Doctor ALCOVE, the latter by an Officer of his regiment. The parties discharged two shots each; in the second fire, Mr. BARRON s ball passed through the fleshy part of Lieutenant Evaa's right thigh, and lodged in his left; fra:tering a part of the thigh bone; the ball was extracted on the spot The wound, though serious, was not considered of a very dangerous nature, and Mr. EYRIL was carried home to the barrack by a party of his regiment, on a litter. The duel originated in the discontinuance of some attentions on the pprt-ot Lleptetrant Evna to a Lady wbo is a cousin t, (r. 'Wilton. TO Tug EDITOR OF THE STAR. lately observed a paragraph in your inde pendent Paper, announcing that a discovery had lately been made " to Tan Leather in siz weeks that usually requires twelve months, at less than half the expense." The moment I read it I declared it must be a fable, but, for curiosity's sake, I was resolved to trace it, if possible, to its source. This I have done, and find it is quite as fabulous as I thought, though I must do the author's (who are respectable and treated me with every civility) the justice to acquit them of all wilful misrepresentations; but I have since every reason to believe that the rumours in question alluded to our Manufactory at Dorking, whereby (according to Advertisements) Crop Hides are tanned in four months instead of sixteen, without greater expense than oak bark, averaging 81bs. each above the raw halves or standard. Knowing, Str, that you never would wilfully give the smallest countenance to idle and fallacious ru mours in your columns, I have felt it my duty to address you upon this matter, being convinced you are always ready to correct mistatements, by giving them equally public contradiction. Having observed some remarks published last May in the British Traveller, also respecting our Ma nufactory at Dorking, we take this opportunity to add a few plain facts, proving The value and utility of our most providential discovery to the Trade, to the. Revenue, and to the Nation. Suppose a Tanner , turns out 1,000 raw hides per annum, of 801bs. each, making them weigh 401bs. each when tanned, accord ing to the rules of the old trade (confirmed by Mr. JOHN UNDERSHELL, acting Chairman of the Com mittee of the Leather Trade, at Bermondsey, as ad vertised in the Times of 27th May last), viz. « that two pounds of raw hide are required to make oae pound of leather." _ _ _ Such common Tanners may be enabled, by the use and knowledge of our process (which is both cold and vegetable), to tan 3,000 similar raw hides, in one year, making them weigh,. on fair average, Blbs. each above the raw halves, thus creating 24,0001b5. extra weight of leath e r, which, at ls.6d. per lb. is £l,BOO per annum additional profit. Computing the Excise Duty, as lately submitted to the House of Commons, at £65'5,424. Is. Bd. per annum, the weight of. leat her is above 52 millions of, pounds and one sixth increase of weight (as described above), nearly fine millions of pounds, at Is. 6d. per lb. is no less than £675,000 pest annum derivable by, the Trade and the Public ; and if the old duty had 'Rot been half repealed, the Revenue would have benefitted £109366 per annum, or £54,583, at the present rate of duty. But duly considering the great advantages of WEIGHT alone, it would have been impolitic to repeal the old duty, as the Tanners' might +rave been placed better than duty free, whilel the Revenue itself would then have really been about 0437,000 more than it is now, and thus (on mode -1 sate calculation) above one Million sterling may be annually saved. I deem alt farther remarks • superfluous, except that I hope every Editor who copied the fabaloots paragraph, will feel it a duty due to the British Lea ther* Company, and to the Public, to follow it, by lisertiag this letter likewise.—l am, with due respect, your moat obedient servant, JOHN BURRIDGE, Sec. . . • . _ sge, no part assigned .to her beneath het talents, - played' 'with great spirit ; indeed, much a s w e h ave a d m i re d her m more important characters, and in a larger scene of action, we were never better pleased than with her performance of the heroine in Tricks and Blunders. Mr. Doan,. as the prime plotter and chief blunderer, wiss extremely humorous and good siatured. In the course of the evening there was some good dancing, and a few smart jokes on the two im portant subjects which now divide the attention of the . town—Achilles, and the New Ma rr i age Ad The evening's entertainments, which were nume rous and diversified, closed with that deservedly old favourite, Catherine end Pstruchio, in which Mr. and Miss BRUNTON supported the principal characters with great spirit and effect. SPORTING .14% BETTING AT TATTI NEW ILA ILLIKI 2 to 1 apt Posth uma 5 to 1 apt Pastille 4 to 1 apt The Stag No more than six are expected to start. • 34A1CRES. Posthuma and Amy-5 to 4on Posthuma Gustavus and l3lack-and-AU•Biack-6 to 5 on Gustavus. BOXING. Art extra day's play took place yesterday, arising out of a Match made offhand on Wedneaday evening over the bottle, for Moss, the navigator, to fizlit Weeks, the wrestler, for ten guineas a-vide. The parties met at Tooting, jibbing even the Commissary, who is flash to a nice point. The men set-to most mischievously, and in the first round the hitting, though casual, told so verily, that each were alternately sent to dorse. The round lasted eleven minutes, and Moss, who had the best of hitting, was thrown heavily. 2. A gay round was fought after Moss bad recovered a hit in the mark, which set the wind-pipe at work. A desperate rally followed, both at give and take, at the scratch, until the claret flew in aU directions. Weeks was floored by aMt on the left jaw.-2 to lon Sloss. 2, The former two rounds occupied twenty-two minutes, and no time was lost. At the commencement of this round Weeks was bit heavy on the body ; but he bored in, and a determined rally took place. At the close of it, and the men having sepa rated, Weeks, in commencing a second attack, was bit down as if shot : the blow met him on the aide of the temple as he was advancing to make play, and he was not only out of time, but it was ten minutes before he knew what was the matter, and Moss purchased victory without owing' anything. A second and rare manly battle was fought between Bader, a sailor, and a good fighter named Solesby, considerably under his adversary's weight. The men punched each other to different stand-stills, forty minutes, and the sailor's weight won it, with the addition of courage, out and out. It was a better day's play than is witnessed in most of the crock fighting days. The ring looked as if sheep-stealers had been muUoning in it. It was in an eight acre field, two miles from the village. VI'ELLIGF:NCE. 'ERSALL'S, SEPT. 26. T ST. LIMES. I 4 to I agst Stamford 6 to 1 agst Mr. Wyndham Bow-searrr.—Yestrrciay, a person of respectable appearance, who gave his name Charles Thompson, No. 82, New Bond -street, silk mercer, was charged before Sir RICNAID BIILN/L the sitting Magistrate, frith having committed a most violent and unpro- • yoked assault on Robert Cross, of !leaflet's Hill, Doctors' Com mons, on Wednesday evening, at the English Opera House.--:It appeared from the statement of Mr. Cross, that he was leiving the Theatre with his wife, and on descending one of the stair- ' cases, met the defendant, who with several other persons were entering the Theatre. In passing each ocher the defendant thrust his elbow against Mr. Cross's side with great violence, when Mr. Cross called him a stupid fellow, and asked him what he meant by his behaviour? Mr. Thompson, without answering him, struck him very severely on the lace, and immediat e ly a scu ffl e • ensued ; the constables interfered, and Mr. Thompson was taken into custody. In his defence Mr. Thompson stated, that, in the rush to enter the Theatre, he was forced against Ma Cross, who directly called him a fool, and afterwards a liar, opon which he struck him. Mr. Cross denied, upon his oath, that he ever made use of the expression. Sir Itunimeu Mama remarked, that he had only to do with the breach of the peace, not as to the pro vocation which caused it, a Jury would decide upon It; and as Mr. Thompson admitted the assault, be must call upon hint to find bail to answer the complaint at the next Westminster See- . lion. Mr. Thompson produced his bail, who were accepted, and he was accordingly discharged. _ _ _ . Harroe-Gaaoai.—A man who had been thirty dines eon victed of unlawfully collecting duet, was brought up for a similar offence, and now had the foklowing dialogue with the Ma g i strate : Mr. Serjeant Szi.r.ox—Why, Bonner, I have not seen you foe some time, and was in hope you had left off the trade. Bonner—Why, your Worship, this case comes rather hard upon me, for I have been on "y out 0/prison three days. Mr. erjeant SzsLoy—That is the very reason you should leave off transgressing. Bonner—lf your Worship would but look this one case over, I shan't be caught again. My poor eld horse is clew!, and there fore 1 can't carry on the dust trade. Mr. Serjeant Sittox—You must be imprisoned for fourteen. days ; one of your companions for ten, and the other seven days. Bonner.-Goo bless your Worship!—you are very good, and I will never come here again, if I can help it—good bye! THE MUSEUM, No. XXIII. will be published To morrow, containing : Reviews of Allan Cunningham's Poems—Doblado's Letters front Spain—Gage's History and Antiquities of I ;engrave— Me moirs of Benvenuto Cellini.—Oasotum.:—Abdul Kheder, a Persian Tale—Habits of Children—Northumberland House, and Street Architecture—True Use of Itithes—The Hermirae of I ff. t Kandou.—Pony.—Tns Foie A area—Paintings of Seep TIER DIANA i— lmprovements at Covent Garden —VAR, : Original Letter of Charles the Second, with a Fac-simile of hi Hand-writing, Particulars of the blermaid now in London, Scientific Discoveries, Anecdotes, Literary Announcements, gc e . for July, August, Published by Juu.st AIII.I.PR, 69, Fleet-atreet, every Saturday Morning; aid may also be had of all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Postmasters. Prite 13d. in London and its environs, or free by post, le Seen,' ire '27. in consequence B e s r . s' lid. sewed. andce PA sras ts p ri mx l c . bi c ieA o r : G t is a g i l n u i As n it g apau Th icb.lii ii h t: ez, e d r: p N n o c m e b - • of adverse winds we have bad no arrivals of any Grain since _ Monday, yet the Wheat trade is very dull, the consumers not swishing to purchase, in expectation of large supplies as soon ite ' the wind becomes favourable ; but what few sales were made were at the prices of last Monday. New Barley, being scarce, fully supports Monday's quotations. The Oat trade is very brisk this !training, the supplies being rather small. In Beans, Peas, and other articles, there is little or no variation. Seirsterslo M•talt; SEPTEMBER 27.—Our market continues well supplied with all kinds of meat ; but, as the weather has become cooler, the salesmen are asking the prices of lam max : ket-day, which, it is supposed, the butchers must submit t 0..--: ' Current prices: Beef, °e. Od. to 3s. Od. per stone al sibs.; Mutton, 2s. 02. to Si. ed. VW, 31. od. to 4*. 0.1. Pork, 2s. Ids to 3s. GI Lamb, 3s. ftd. to 4s. Od.—Cattle at kluket : Beasts, 670; Cal.'s, 250 ; Sheep and Lambs, 10,!70; Pigs, 220.—Hay and Sant, pee loath day, EL 3.. so 351. 178.4 d Clover,44 Os. to 41. 10s. &v im , if. lON to if. 16s. . • 1' 111, ~i • • , . • 4 I . WEST LONDON 77 - 144T1M - • - • This elegant iittlr Theatre, Which comilleaced.thi seasnn very. auspiciously; has been managed so jusii- ' ciousli, and with so much spirit , as to secure to suc- cession . of elegant and crowdefaudiences every even- ing. Las t night, the audience was numerous and genteel, and..the performances throughout were re- . ceived with the m ost marked aptiroitation. After 'l Mrs. CispEa's Oracle, in which Miss llttuaro,t (so long popular at Covent-Garden Theatre) played ad- mirably, a new Piece was performed, entitled Tricks I • and Blunders. The plot is good, the dialogue spirited, . the incidents highly‘armising, the tricks ingenlons, and he blunders ludicrous. Miss BftuNroa, who pos. sesses that versatility of talent which enables her to sustain any character to advantage, and who thinks , . _.........iiiill , .