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DESCRIPTION OF A FINE COW. She's long in her face, she's Ewe in her horn, She'll quickly get fat, without cake or corn ; • She's clear in her jaws, and full in her chine, She's heavy in flank, and wide in her loin. She's broad in her ribs, and long in her rump, A strait and fiat back, with never a hump; She's wide in her hips, and calm in ber eyes, She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. She's light in her neck, and small• in her tail, She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail; She's line in her bone, and silky of skin, She's a grazier's without, and a butcher's within! • This epithet alludes to the lower part of the tail only ;—the higher part ought to be broad, according to the former description. Monday night, Mrs. MooaE, the wife of t'he keeper of the locks of the canal at Highgate, was acciden tally . drowned : she went out with a tea-kettle to fill it with water nut of the canal, lost her balance; and fell into the water. She has left six small children. Tuesday afternoon, four young men, named Tho mas Fenner, William Worder, Robert Childs, and William Black, were unfortunately drowned in the Mill River at Staines, Middlesex, by the overturning of the boat in which they were towing for pleasure— It is supposed they were rather in liquor at the time, and playing tricks with each other. Yesterday afternoon, Ann Caple, a girl about four years of age, whose parents reside in Duke's-court, Drury-lane, in the absence of her mother, went to amuse herself at Waterloo Bridge : she proceeded down the steps, and her bonnet falling into the water, she, in endeavoui ing to take it out, overbalanced her self, and fell, headforemost, into the River: an alarm was instantly made, and some watermen procured drags, and dragged for the body, but up to a late hour yesterday evening, it was not found. Tuesday night, about nine o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the workshop of Mr. Watts, car penter, at the corner of Wood-street and Church greet, opposite Spitalfields Church. The house was built on a very large scale, and was, about twenty years ago, the Three Tuns Tavern ; but the Magis trates refusing to renew the license, it was shut up for a length of time, till it was taken by the father of Mr. WILLts, who divided it into three houses, only separating . one from the other by a slight wooden partition, instead of a party wall, whereby the ra vages of the flames were greatly accelerated. Two of the houses were let in tenements to different poor famiFes, and the other was occupied by Mr. WILLIS and his family ; the whole of the former have lost every article they possessed, and are now in the greatest distress : Mr. WILLIS'S loss is very consider able, not having saved an atom of furniture, on ac count of the impetuosity of the fire. One man, named Squires, who lodged on the first floor, over the shop, jumped out of the window, but happily met little or no injury. The three houses were entirely destroyed. The greatest outrages were perpetrated by a most formidable gang of thieves.—See Police. Sir.CnARLEs WOLSELEY, passed through Litchfield onWednesday se'nnight,on his way from Abingdon to Wolseley-hall, his irn pi isonment expiring on that day. The tenants at Wolseley, and inhabitants of the neigh bourhood, paid their respects to him on the following day, and hailed with pleasure his return among them. Bonfires, feastings, and other demonstrations of joy, were exhibited at Itugeley, and the villages adjacent. Tie Will of the Right Hon. WILLIAM Assnitroir, late Lord Suffield, Baron of Suffield, in the county of Norfolk, was posed in the Frei ogative Court, Doc tors' Commons, on the 13th inst. It is dated the 29th of January, 1812, and devises all property, both real and personal, to CAROLINE HANS, Lady SUFFIELD, widow, the relict, who is nominated to be executrix, and took probate accordingly. The effects are sworn under £40,000. The present Lord SUFFIELD has visited all his numerous tenantry on coming to his estate, and has anticipated their wishes by a very con siderable reduction of their rents. RELIGION AND MORALITY AMONGST TIIE SOLDIERS. Saturday evening, a very numerous and highly re spectable Meeting was held at the Goat Tavern, Pim lico, to take into consideration the best means of raising a Friendly Society and Bethel Union, for the purpose of promoting lteligion and Morality amongst Soldiers. The Rev. Mr. SMITH, of Penzance, took the Chair, and was supported by several respectable and eminent individuals. The most conspicuous fea ture of the Meeting was that of two of the Life Guards being present, ss ho delivered speeche, of a very inte resting description, in support of the measures about to be adopted to raise an Institution for the purpose mentioned, and which met with great applause. Se veral other persons delivered their sentiments, and various Resolutions were framed. The Meeting lasted till a late hour, when the assemblage contributed to wards the object for which they had met, and departed. RETORT COURTEOUS.—Judge K. who presided in the County Court of an American State, was fond of indulging himself in a joke at the expense of Counsel lor B. a practitioner in the same Court, with whom he was very intimate, and for whom he had a high regard. On a certain occasion, when pleading a cause at the Bar, Mr. B. observed, that he would conclude his remarks on the following day, unless the Court would consent to set late enough for him to finish them that evening. " Sit, Sir," said:the Judge, " not set — hens set." " I stand corrected, Sir," said lie Counsel lor, bowing. Not long after, while giving an opinion, the Judge remarked, that under such and such cir cumstances an action would not lay. " Lie, may it please your Honour," says the Counsellor, " not /as— hen; lay !" The notes of hounds have a powerful influence on any horse that has been accustomed to follow the ' Chace. An instance of this occurred in 1807, when the Liverpool mail was changing horses at the Inn at Monk's Heath, between Congleton and Newcastle under-Line. The horses which had performed the stage were taken off and separated, when Sir Fruit WARBURTON'S fox-hounds were heard in full cry.— The horses then immediately started after them, with their harness on, and followed the chace until the last. One of them, a' lood mare, kept the track with the whipper-in, and gallantly followed him about two hours over every leap he took, uatil Reynard ran to earth in a neighbouring plantation. These spirited horses were led back to the Inn at Monk's Heath, and performed their stage back to Congleton on the salve evening. PREROGATIVE COURT, NOVEMBER 21. LANGDON V. LANGDON AND JONES. This was a testamentary cause. The testatrix left no regularly executed will. behind her ; but in her escrutoie a paper was found, without date, signa ture, or concluding sentence; the inception of which was conceited in these word:: " My dear children, having little to leave except my blessing, I make no Will; but I desire to make the following bequests, which I have no doubt will be complied with." —This paper was left in this unfinished manner: " In consideration of Mr. Mayo's having been very kind to several branches of the family, I trust he will accept my organ, with £BO to repair it, if he likes. I leave my harpsichord ---" —The property of the testatrix is of the value of be tween £ll,OOO and £12,000. She died a widow, leaving seven children ; and of these, six were enu merated by name in the paper in question as the ob jects of her testamentary bounty, but the name of her son Philip was omitted. This Gentleman, at the time of his mother's death, in June last, was resident at the Cape of Good Hope ; and the parties to the present suit were, on the one hand, the next of kin, and on the other, Mr. Philip Langdon, who opposed , the paper now propounded for, and as the last testa mentary disposition of the deceased, by which be would be excluded from all participation in the pro perty left by her. Dr. ADAMS and Dr. DODSON were heard in sup port of the paper before the Court. It was endea +toured to shew that Mr. P. Langdon had already re ceived in the life-time-of his father, and subsequently to his death, such a proportion of fortune, as was' equal to that which the lest of the family would be, entitled to take, under the provisions contained in this scrip : and that, from the embarrassments in which he found himself at length involved, in conse quence of his misfortunes or imprudence, he quitted England for the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1803, and had ever since remained in that settlement. The Learned Counsel further stated, that, from the evidence, it appeared that Mr. P. Langdon, during the whole of this interval, had left his wife and three children under the care and protection of his family. And they argued, that upon these and similar facts, it was to be assumed that the deceased was aware of the fact of his exclusion from this paper; that such exclusion was intentional ; that it was accounted for, and justified by the whole complexion of the case; that the paper, though informal, was clearly intended by the deceased to operate as the expression of her final testamentary intentions; and that the Court ought to pronounce for its effect and validity as such. l Dr. LIISHINGTON and Dr. JESSE ADAMS, on behalf of Mr. Langdon, contended that the paper was, on the face of - it, not merely informal and unfinished, but not even a paper originally intended to be opera tive by the deceased, and afterwards interrupted in i its progress towards completion by the act of Goo. They also dwelt upon the very affectionate terms of certain letters from the deceased to her son, as con tained in the evidence, and upon the strong regard and interest which she was proved on all occasions to have manifested in his favour. Upon the whole of these facts, they submitted that the inference to be raised was, rather that the deceased was more at- 1 tached to Mr. Philip Langdon than the rest of her family, than that she viewed with resentment his for- 1 mer misfortunes, or considered that he had already had the benefit of a sufficient proportion of that pro perty, which it should rather seem she was desirous of bestowing equally, and without exception, among the whole of her family. The Learned Counsel also submitted, that where a paper was thus professedly informal, nothing but the strongest evidence of tes tamentary.intention would so far satisfy the Court as to induce it to pronounce for it: they conceived that, in the present case, no such testimony had been sup plied ; that nothing had been shewn to warrant the exclusion of Mr. Philip Langdon, and that the paper ought to be rejected. Sir JOHN NICHOLL declared, that the Court felt itself bound to pronounce against the paper writing propounded. COURT OF EXCISE, NOrEMBER 21. Mr. J. Donadieu, a grocer, was charged, upon in formation, with having manufactured stone-blue and Queen's blue, from pipe-clay, flour, meal, and other ai tides than starch, and such materials as are neces sary as colouring, whereby he had incurred the penalty of 1.:100. William Dur , ey, an Excise-officer, stated that, on the 6th of June last, he went to a house, N 0.4, Corn court,Whitechapel, in company with a brother officer. They there discovered a complete manufactory for stone-blue, where they seized two hundred weight and two jars of materials for compounding an article to resemble stone-blue. The principal ingredient of which was pipe-clay ; there was but a very small pro portion of starch. The SOLICITOR for the defendant made a most in genious defence in his behalf, in which he admitted that some of the materials were improper. He had purchased the principal article, called British Smalt, from a man who had absconded, for a bad debt. He deprecated the infliction of any heavy penalties on his client, who was now under a commission of bank ruptcy, and was aged and infirm. The COURT, in pronouncing judgment, expressed their fears that the system, which was fraudulent to wards the consumers who gave five shillings for an' 1 article that was not worth two, as well as most in jurious to the trade, had been carried on most exten sively. It must, however, be understood, that the Act could not be evaded by introducing spurious materials as colouring, and that no more of the latter article than was strictly necessary would be allowed. Under the circumstances of this case, however, they _ . merely convicted the defendant in the mitigated pe nalty of £5, but condemned the whole of the appa ratus and goods found in the manufactory. Yesterday afternoon, the servant of Mr. T. WHITE, of Castle-street, Holborn, imprudently left the street door open whilst she went on an errand, and, during her short absence, some villains entered the parlour, and stole from thence a portable writing desk with valuable contents, and several books, with which they got clear off before the return of the maid-servant. The scheme of converting the prison at Dartmoor into an asylum for the London pauper children, is we are told, altogether abandoned. POLICE. MANSION. House.—Yesterday Josi-pli Norton, n hackney-coachman, was.charged by: sixteen brethren of the whip with defrauding them, by selling them seals as gold which were only base metal.—John Conlin stated, that about nine months' ago the de fendant-sold him a seal for 18s. which he said a Gen tleman had left in his coach. Some time after the complainant was informed that it was not gohi, in consequence of which he returned it to the defend ant, who took it back, but never returned the money. Since then he bought another from the defenda;:t for eight shillings; which, he said, had been given him by a friend to sell, and was certainly gold. This the complainant produced ; and several other purchasers also produced theirs, all of which resembieJ gold. All the cases were exactly the same ; and, in conse quence, no more were gone into.—ln deftnce, he said, he was out of employment, and took up the bu siness of selling seals. The person from whom he bought them would prove that he had not more than a reasonable profit on the sale; ar.d he solemnly de clared, that he never told his customers that the seals .were gold; but merely as good as gold.—J. Max well, of Rose-alley, Bishopsgate-street, said he made the seals ; they were petit-or. The one the defendant sold for Bs. he bought of him for 75.—His Lordship said, he did not think the evidence of the prisoner passing them as gold was complete, and therefore dismissed the charge, to the mortification of all the complainants. 61.1ILDRALL.--Joseph Nightingale was put to the bar, when John Whitehead, a countryman, stated, that he put into the Dolphin public-house, Ludgate hill, on Tuesday, and had a shilling glass of spi.its and water ; he had no money in his pocket but a £5 note, which the landlady was unable to give him change for. The waiter was sent out to try to pro cure it, but returned ur.successful. He then offered to leave his watch, at the same time laying it on the table. The prisoner, who heard this conversation, said, that if he would go with him to the Belle Sauvage,. he could get him change. The country man consented, and on their rising the prisoner's friend snatched the watch off die table, and ran off with it, and the countryman detained the prisoner as an accomplice. The landlady spoke positively to' having seen the watch in the hand of the prisoner's companion on his running out of the house. She did not know the prisoner nor his companion.—The pri soner, in his defence, allowed the truth of the facts, but declared his innocence of the whole affair. The young man with him was an ungrateful cousin of his, and to the best of his knowledge and belief, lived servant at the Stone's-End Coffee-house, in the Bo rough. He met hint by accident, and they had merely gone into the house to take a glass together. He described himself as a married man with a family, lodging in Baker's -court, Holborn ; that he had lived as a porter a short time since, at the Belle Sauvage, and left only on account of his inability to get through the work.—Bruce ' the o ffi cer, who had him in custody, however, produced no less than thirty eight duplicates found upon him, seven of which were for watches.—The prisoner accounted for these by stating, that on his coming to town he had a little money, and had been induced to give £2 for the du pl.cates of the watches, to the person who had them in pledge. The other property was his own and his wife's wearing apparel, which distress had compelled him to part with.—He was remanded. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. Edwards, a Gentle man residing at the Bedford Hotel, Piazza, Covent. garden, was brought from the watch-house, on a charge of assault, preferred against him by Mr. Morton Wilson, woollen-draper, of Newgate-street. Mr. Wilson's statement was, that on Tuesday even ing he had occasion to pass through the Piazza, at a time when there was a considerable closed about the door of the Bedford, and in his way thiongh the crowd he was robbed of his watch. He naturally felt vexed and indignant at the robbery, and he went I up to the door for the purpose of remonstrating against the permission of such a crowd ; he told seve ral of the people they had no business there, and ought to be dispersed. While he was doing so, the defendant came from the door, and said, I suppose you are one of the. fancy, if you are, I am your mane' or words to that effect, and at the same moment he put himself in a fighting attitude. The witness re• plied, that he was not one of the, fancy, and was turning away, when the defendant struck him on the head and knocked his hat off, and, while he was stooping to pick it up, be kicked him in the side, ac companying these acts with language of the lowest description. At length,-after some very high words, and rather a serious disturbance, a constable came, and Mr. Edwards was taken to the watch-!rouse.A private soldier of the Guards, who happened to be present at the affray, corroborated Mr.Wilsou's state ment, and said he had seldom heard such language as Mr. Edwards made use of; even in the lowest parts of Westminster.—ln answer to the charge, an elderly Gentleman, who stated himself to be the father-in law of the defendant, said, that they had been dining at the Bedford with some friends, and were sitting there when some musicians came to the door, and played several popular airs with more than ordinary skill. Witness sent them some money, and went out himself to tell them to play a favourite air of his in• a particular manner, when he found the complainant very loudly abusing and telling them they had no business to be playing there, collecting a crowd. He advanced to the complainant to remonstrate with him, when Mr. Edwards came out, and thinking him (the witness) in danger of some personal violence, he placed himself between. Mr. Wilson's hat might have been pushed off by accident, but Mr. Edwards did not strike or kick him.—Mr. Edwards positively denied the blow and the kick, and also the low lan guage which the witnesses had imputed to him.— Mr. Wilson, in the most positive manner, persisted in his statement, and said that the elderly Gentleman," when he first came out, did him the honour to tell -him he was a d—d scoundrel for interfering with his amusements! He (Mr. Wilson) did not know that any musicians were there when he first came up, for they were not then playing. The elderly Gentleman denied the terms imputed to him, and Mr. Wilson swore as positively that he did utter them. Mr. White, the proprietor of The hotel, stated that Mr. Wilson's behaviour was by no means of the quietest kind, for after the affray was terminated, he came into the coffee-room, and with great warmth insisted upon knowing the name of every Gentleman there. Mr. Mtststfutt, the sitting M i o;: trae . it was not at all surprising that Mr. Wilwn ,hould irritated at his los , . He wcrild advise the p art i e , settle the matter amicably if they could ; a:A if t h t was not practicable, Mr. Edwards muq put in brit The parties retired, and it was after wards understood that Mr. Wihon had acceded to terms which wools reader further proceedings unnecessary. Mr. It— B—, a Gentleman well known in sporting circles, appeared to put in bail to arnwerie an indictment which had been found a 7 ai nst a Mr. Frederick Oldfield (under the Statrepß, biting gaming for money, above a ceitain 3 1%1 , for having won at one time a sum exce e di n g from one Francis Powell, at a game tis•.eu twin A certificate of the finding of th e indictinem, signed by the Clerk of the Peace, was p u t in,andfic defendant was held to bail, himself in LA and tws sureties in £25 each. The wife of a respectable baker, in St. Maoin's ps.- rish, was brought up, charged by the constables wi t h creating a great deal of thscrdltness and uproar, 16 husband, who was in attendance, said the ch arrese , n but too true—" When he maled her i'the kirk Scotland, he thought she was a dainty lassie, but st e had turned out clean contrary—for the last three months, or there awa, she thought 0' northing b et trashy draps o' the gin bottle, and when she ge t dtap too much she was quite unsonsie Thep % fellow went on to say, that she had once aheaj " ruined him right out by her di iakir.g. ;" and th e when he was from home, she would have his sh e? shut up in the middle of the day, whilst she atel her sister, recently arrived from the land 0' c a k e% were taking " draps o the bottle" up stairs. Other witnesses deposed, that when she had taken a drop too much she was in the habit of sallying ti:!1 iete the street, and abusing every person who pas:,d, the great disquietude of the neigbbourhockl, & c . Th e Magistrate spoke in terms of commiseration of the husband's case, and ordered the wife to find sccnritin .for keeping the peace " towards all the King's sub. jects," & c. But she had not been locked up mu than three hours, when the husband came forwal and offered to become bound fur her future good be. haviour. His undettaking was accepted, and sie was delivered to his ca:e, with an instruction to his to keep the gin bottle out of her reach.—" Aued, your Worship, I'll do what I can," he replied, "Ira I canna expect muckle guid sae lang's the till o'the counter's at her commands" Some days ago we stated, that a notorious drff er , dressed as a sailor, and accompanied by a Jew, hal cheated a country bumpkin, from Hertfordshire, iaducing him to give five guineas for a flash watch, not worth twenty shillings. The soi•disont sailed rag fully cornmitted for trial, and orders were given the the Jew should be looked for. Accordingly Cohen was now placed at the bar, andthecountrytaaa identified him. s the very Jew who had assisted de sailor in cheating him. Honest Wolfe, however, stoutly denied the fact—" Your Worship," saidle, " it's all what he's pleased to say and nothing elt,se help me Got—Let him look well at me, your Wor ship-I'm a r emarkable man in all my points—so to markable as any man in all Vitechappler fie alighl have added, or anywhere else, for he had a head as large as his body, a pair of large heavy eyes, sur rounded by a broad circle of bright scarlet, anose of prodigious volume, and his legs were like two eel skins stuffed ! Notwithstanding his protestations, and his challenge of inspection, the bumpkin swore posi tively to him, and he was fuily committed to takehis trial with his companion. MA lILBOROUGH-STREET.—There are no less eon nine persons in custody on the charge of burglar!. x Mr. Orde's, in Berkeley-square. The plan of their bery has been rarely exceeded :—The house was Id in the charge of a female, who had a suitor, a ea of the name of Jago, a principal in the robbery.: be was before known to the Police. To carry his plan into execution, he married the servant in care of& house, and introduced the other prisoners at vanon times, five of whom are youths, and the othersfe Males. Plank, Jefferies, and Wales, have traced put of the stolen property to the shops of parenbrckers and others, and many of the prisoners are identilad The property lost amounts in value to several ho sired pounds. The prisoner , : were remanded. Wonssur-STREET.—Yesterday, the sitting Vage trate was occupied the whole of the morning lir the examination of eight fellows, some of whom wee notorious thieves, and forming part of a most formi. dable gang of pickpockets, who in the most barefaced manner committed numberless robberies, attended with great violence, at the conflagration in Church. street, Spitalfields, the preceding night. The prisoom gave their names, William Atkinson, John Chap^ John Oliver (who a short time since made his escape from the Borough Compter, where he had been con. milted on a charge of felony); Thomas Ridley, MO niel D. Haswell, Daniel Letter, Samuel Shored!, TJ John Castles.—Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, an aged Lady, who resides a short distance from where the firercei place, identified the prisoners Chapman and Oaser to be of a gang of six villains who attacked her lvar her own house, and robbed her of a pocket-boc. containing £4O. They were accompanied by a.m.° boy, who, whilst her confederates pinioned her arms, crept under her petticoats, and with a sharpn.strie ment cut her pocket from her hips, containing her property.—The Magistrate ordered the two prisorell . to be remanded till Tuesday next.—William Atilt son, Nath. D. Haswell, Daniel Leter, John Caslier Samuel Showell, and T. Ridley, were charged by& officers with various outrageous acts at the me. At' kinson was committed, under the Police Act, to 1.4 House of Correction for three months; Haswell, Let ter, and Showell, were permitted to find good ba ll ' and Castles was discharged. DIED. Nov. 13, at Windsor, the widow of the late Dr. Trindst Nov. 13, at I lousehill: Renfrew shire Colonel liotti Dug* Nov. 15, at Sheerness, aged C 6, Mr. ' John 11.,,ker, 1:1 years quarter/Inn of shipwrights in the DozL-yaid at ~itecrato Nov. 19, at Plaistow, aged 42, 311ry, the wile of the IteS Lacey, of Salter's-hall. Nov. 15, at Drightwell Rectory, Oxon, Einiaa, wife d My. J. K. Ra •tit.ll, and chtughtcr of tine LW Jos. I/agog ( ' Peoili•.-bout;e, Kent. Lei Octobvr CS, at Venice, aged C 3, Mr. George Forster..- - University College, Oxford. M HIGH.W A T ER at LON DON :i It I 1) r; I:: TO-U(60 01 g nal - - 55 minu:e; ?Ail II Afternoon - 18 - ------- I_, _ . _ -,..-..... LONDON ; Printrj 2nd publishrsi by Last. Nast, Place, Temple-Ha. 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