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, . • _ MID MANSFIELD'S WIG! • COURT OF REQUESTS. WILLIAMS e. LAWRENCE. This was a case which, by the parties concerned, was considered of no small importance ; and which, to the auditors, in- the course of its discussion, excited no small merriment. • Mr. Williams, who is-what is vulgarly called a barber, but in more refined language is termed a peru quier, appeared in this Court a few days back, and obtained a summons against the defendant, who is clerk to Mr. Reeves, an attorney in Tottenham-court road, calling upon him to attend on a given day, to spew cause why he should not pay a debt of thirty nine shillings and eleven pence three farthings. Mr. Williams, who spoke with a sort of lisping squeak. garrulously addressed the Commissioner:— " He had (he said) been a hair-dresser, man and boy, for sixty eight years. Ile had served his time in the Temple, where he had had the honour of making. wigs fur some of the greatest men as ever lived—ot all professions, and of all ranks—Judges, Barristers, and commoners—Churchmen as well as Laymen— illiterate men as well as literate men, and among the latter he had to rank the immortal Dr. Johnson; but of all the wigs he had ever set comb to, there was none on which he so much prided himself as a full state wig which he had made for Lord Mansfield: it was one of the earliest proofs of his genius : it had excited the warm commendations of his master, and the envy of his shopmates ; but, above all, it had pleased, nay, even delighted the Noble and Learned Judge himself."—" Oh ! gemmen," exclaimed Mr. Williams, " if you had known ss hat joy I felt when I first saw his Noble Lordship on the bench with that' wig on his head!" (lit an under-tone, but rubbing his hands with ecstacyl. " Upon my say so, I was fuddled for the three days after !" The CO3MISSIONLIt.—What has the wig to do with the defend ant's debt? Mr. Williams.—A great deal: that's this very bone of con tention, The CoatsussioNra.—Doubtless; but you must come to the marrow, if you can, as soon as possible. Mr. Williams.—l will. Well, as I was saying—where did I leave eff?-0h ! when I was fuddled— The ( . 03131155105ER.-1 hope you have left off that habit now, my good man. Mr. Williams.—Upon my say so, I have, trust me; but as I was a saying, to make a long story short, in course of time I left my master in the Teniple, let up for myself, and did a great stroke of business. Ay, I could tell you such a list of customers. 'There was— . The COUMISSIONER.—Never mind; we don't want your list. Go on. Mr. Williams.—Well, then, at last I set up in Boswell-court, 44neeu-square. gawk mc! what alterations •I have seen in that square, surely, in my time. I remember when I used to go to shave old Lord — The COMO.' Tarr story. • Mr. Willisms.—Well, I will. Where was I? 0:1! in Dos well.couri—(Costmisstosteu, aside—l wish you were there now.) —Well, then, you must know, when Lord Mansfield (Goo rest his soul!) died, his wig—the very, very wig I made—got back to my old master's shop, and he kept it as a pattern for other Judges wigs; add at last whO shaUltithe but my master himself. Ay, It's what we Must all'iodert4. - . '• - The Voitsttssundut.—Or/iiKOPOntssonOmd some to the end of your story. • s - • • Mr. Williams.—! will, I wilt Well, whkreleas I? Oh! in my poor master's shop. Well, so when lie died, my mistress gave me—for she knew, poor soul! hoW T loved it—this identical wig; and I carried It home with its•moth delight as if it had becu one of my children: •" Air; pOtoriatie things! they are all gone before me. The Costattssiosiert.—Come,ifYou don't cut this matter short I 'ad send you after them. .—For Goes sake, do come to the end of must, atlk , IL 11r. Williams .- I>~taetia Tel. you put Me out. Well, as I was a saying. I kept this here wig as the apple of my eye ; when, as ill lock woulst have it, that !ere. Lawr.ence came to my shop, and often asked me to lend It to hilt to act with in a play—l think he calledit Shycock, or Shyloek, for ke said he was to play the Judge. I lung refused, but ke ovei-pe — rsuaded me, and on an un lucky day-I let him have it, and have never (weeping and, wiping his little eyes with his white apron) seen it since. The Dawittasossea.—And su you have summoned him for the price of this wig? - Williams.—You have lan bit the nail on the head. The C03131154WN5a.- I %'ell, Mr. Lawrence, what have, you to say to this? Mr. Lawrence (with great pomposity).—Why, Sir, I have a great drat to say. The C.ommtssunnts.—Well then, Sir, I desire you will say as little as you can, fur there are a great many persons waiting here whose time is very precious. Mr. I.awrense.—Not more precious than mine, I presume, Sir. I submit that this case is in the nature of an action of no. yet., to recover. the possession of this wig; and, this admitted, Sir, I have humbly to contend, that the plaintiff must be non . suited ; for, Sir, you will not find one word of or concerning a wig in his declaration. The plaintiff , must. not travel out of his record. Co: .....ssionts.- I That record? • Dlr. I.awrence.—The record in Court. Comossursen..-L-Wehave no record. Mr. Lawrence.—You have a summons, on which T attend to defend myself ; and that is, to all intents and purposes, de facto, as well as de j•sre, a record, similar to, and of the eassnce uf, record in the Court above. , Cotssisstonsa.—Sir, we are not guided by the precedents of Courts above here. Our jUlisdiction awl our powers arc defined , by particular Acts of Parliament. Mr. Lawr:tarle.-Str, I contend, according td the common law of these reidnire that Tarn right. Comirsswinth.-1 say; according to the rules of common sense, you ;Ire Wrong. •'" Mr. Lawrence.-airs I have cases. The Costmissiones.—.Sir, .1. desire you will confine yourself to this cases Dlr. Lawrence.--What says Kitty upon the nature of these pleadings? The Coststlsssoxsa.---Ani pray who is Kitty? Mr. Lawrenee.—Tbe most eminent pkader oldie present day The Costssissiousis.—✓:sever heard Oa woman being a spe- dal pleader. Mr. Lawrence. —I le is.not a woman, Sir; he is a man, and a great man, Sir—and a man, Sir-- The Coststisstotnek.—.De you mean' Mr. Chitty Mr: Lawrence.— mean trite Gentleman you call Chitty, And most erroneously w call him ; for you *ought to know that the Ch in Italian sounds like an English K ; alai Mr. Kitty, by lineal descent, is an 'ltalian. It is a judger error to spe:l his name With a y final;. h baght to be and then it would properly sound Kitten. . . The Cossissisoncra.--4 'shotild rather take Mr. Chitty's autho rity foe tills than yours. ". • . , Mrs , Lawrence, cln atiger).Slf, do Tea contradict me ? • The Commissossa.=-Sir I will. bring .this case to a short Issue. Did you boil** , ibd man's wig?: Lmittedee.-4 disll.• • • , ThoCeitstnissoseit.—.Do•ynotecanCe return is: Mr. Lawrente.it is.destteyak.- The Voitittasteestsa—Dow destroyed ?, • • • ydrj LawMice. 4 -als,was burnt bT ,atcl4ie . Th e taissismiroots.—Who burnt It.l , Me.slatsvrenee.-0 ,1 did, in perfonning.the part a the .fieefgein Shakspeare's inimitable Play of the Merchant of *like. • While t i, o inteot eat the Pleadings Partin, the candle caught tit:: curls, so d' I witlitfifFecalty escaped having my eyes burnt out. The plaintiff here uttered an ejaculation of meutal suffering, something between a groan-and a curse. The Coatsassumra. — Well then, Sir, I have only to tell yon, you s ee responsible for the property thus entrusted to your caro,- oed,.witliout farther comment, I order and adjudge that you pay to the plaintiff the sum of ;Ps. iiaa. which is the saw. be is prepared to swear it is worth. • • • ' Mr. ; Lord love you, I% swear it wasktortii, a Jew's eye t Indeed, no money can compensate ma for its loss. 126ounsssowsw—I icannot order you a Jaw's'. eye, Mr. Wil liams, unless 31r.,Lawrence can persuade bli Wend Shyluck to part with one of his : but I will order you such a sum, in too , ales numbered, as you will swear this wig was fairly and ho nestly worth. A . long dispute followed as to the value of the wig, when Mr. Williams ultimately agreed to take 20.. and costs, and the parties were dismissed, mutually grumbling at each other. . VADMI . xi MOIMAT, JAr. 27.—Diike of Sussex born. TeemsAr—Day increased one hour and eight minutes. WenintsoAr—King Gnoitcx IV. Accession 1820. TuuasnAv—King Osmium I. illirtyrdom. FRIDAY—King Genesis IV. Proclaimed. SArttaisav, Fu t.—The sun rises at XS minutes atter seven t•c%. ./. ,P,BANCH PARMA- ' . . . c.: r ....implisixtilitiost4 • • Tol . cop i tertztrpostier. 'rhe-eewrii of rear gaiti itrerigtliesiere di I . dcid- L-tritetrareitsiken of, which would make as.bdierre that , the Army was put on a war footing. -The Re giments of the Royal Guard are. designa:ed,„ which are to'match after.heving drawn lots; the Generals • are mentioned who have received orders.toverre, for the campaign. The Duke of Angouleme vs to be General-in-Chief, it is said, and'have under fill:s i r:octets' the Marshals Dukes of Belluno and Reggie.. The cavalry is to be commanded by General 13ourdesouli. An Army of Reserve is also spoken of, to be formed at Tours, under the orders of Marshal Suchet. But what has carried the alarm of the citizens to an extreme, is the affectation with which some Jour nals insinuate that the Austrians are to move towards Nice—the Pru isians and Bavarians towards the Rhine. These are the reports which are constantly circulated by 'certain foreign agents, and that the IMO® Russians destined so long to sustain the Greeks, are coming with forced marches to chastise the Spaniards. Everybody knows that Fianca is the high road to the Pyrenees, - and it known what every day's ration and remaining in the country will cost. The finances of the three Governments which for merly divided Maud, to pacify it, ate not in a very brilliant state, but according to our fanatics, those of France can and ought to answer all demands ; for at present nobody' flatters himself that England will subsidize. Russia to ensure her dominion over the Continent, and to facilitate her acquisition of some important point in the Mediterranean. It was yesterday remarked, that the English sold large quantities of Rentes, and this circumstance con tributed not a little to the fall of the Funds. This is the more vexatious, as the time approaches for paying the liquidation, and all the calculatiant ofthe Minister of Finance for the two last Sessions will be very much deranged. It has been observed, however, with pleasure, that the Journal des DeGats preserves a profound silence on the reports of war. It was announced the day before yesterday, that yesterday it would contain a very warlike article. Perhaps it was better to post pone it, on account of the strong symptoms of a fall in credit, and of unquietness, which are so manifest. We are, however, in the most extraordinary posi tion that a country with a Representative Government can well be in. his a received axiom, that such a 'Government is a Government of opinion, but ninety. nine out of a hundred people in France ardently desire peace i •and that of the insignificant fraction which speaks for war, there is a large part which can not see it undertaken without uneasiness. How does it happen, then, that it is decided on ?!., This is a problem very difficult to resolve. The Etoile speaks, as we see, as .if war were al ready declared ; tt smiles at the public losses, and only sees in the invasion a. means of destroying French Revolutionists. This is the language of our fanatic*. What a future prospect for France, if the Governor ment is so weak as to allow itself to be conducted by these embittered people ! The same Journal quotes the triumphs of the Ar my of the Faith as if it believed them. When will it leave of Considering the French people as dupes? PROM Tile •Col7llI en 211.10:011. PARIS, JANUARY 23: The Public Funds have confirmed falling to-day. This fall, whiCh was stopped at themoment of shut-, ting the bar, has since continued. Ir is superfluous to say that this fall has been occasioned by the opinion more and more believed that war is resolved on, and. that the part of the Ministry till now favourable to the maintenance of peace, have thought necessary, for the preservation of their places, to join themselves, to the partisans of war. The Journal des Debars,' which, for theseven or eighth time within these two months, has changed its tone, doctrine, and line Of conduct, is quoted as indisputable authority by those who pretend that the Minister,' whose organ it hoe nouneed his pacific plan in order to keep his place; it is one of those sudden conversions very count:on in the time in which we live, the example of which M. de Montmorency has at least had the honour nod to imitate. There is also quoted today, in support of the rumours of war, an aswer of his - Excellency the Minister of the Interior to some represetitations that have been made in favour of commerce, from .which answer his Excellency appeared more struck with the doctrines developed in the Notes of the Allied Peletrs, than with that solicitude of whigh 'cOsno*Oe lieves, for the interest of Frances , it ought/Nth..the special object. •• ..1 1' I. •* • 'To corplete the disappoirittnont of atedsibleenten, or to rejoice those who are gifted With gaiety i4ffi-' ciently tenacious to laugh at the most scriotts.sUbjects, the Etoile giv es us this evening a view of•the4siskoors able chances that a Ware against'Spain presents. In it is also seen that the Ariei of the Faith, whkh have not been able ;o stand against a handful of Cons stitutional soldiers, will become invincible, Oise sup ported by 100,000 French, which litoidtetlAcrutpd French are reduced to a body of 40 • asseooo',iik n nt.; bled on the frontiers. • • It says also that the Army of . has arrived on the border of the Ebro- will clietii4 laws to the rest of Spain, nearly like the FtenCh Army, mistress of Madrid, of Seville, of Saragossa, of all the fortresses, and of all the towns, dictated laws to the Cortes of Cadiz , and to the population of Spain. Certainly, the French armies will sustain in Spain the mutation of bravery which they have so justly ac quired ; but it will he very difficult to preserve in Europe our reputatiou of. ass intelligent . and enlight ened nation, if strangers read with aris•-attentinn the miserable things that our Ministerial Jourtuill utter every day concerning si war, a country, and a . tintrie., of which they have not the slightest !lotion, The following is the article in time Etoik of Thaii. .day evening, to which the above extracts - allude t, Gs The Marquis de Lauriston, Minister of the King's Mousy hold, is to set out in a few days for,* Army of Observation. 4 . The • Htegeiwy of Spain has returned into Spanish Cerclagne. • 44 Yesterday evening General Quesada bad a tong Conference whir 71. de Villete. • 4. Don Santos Ladron has defeated a diyision of the Constl.: isitionalists, in Navarre. - • , • . • • • 4 The Duke de Guiclui#and fete MOM de, Minas, arearao4 the nuniber of the .General Officers whe Ere to accompany she • Doke d'Aegouleme. It is belieiett Shut 'his•aciyal - Highness will establish himself oaths side at.hlararre. • A coweany of the Gado du Corps is forming, by draughts from the fohr compsnles, to accompany his Rival Highness • the Duke d'Angouictne. " Yesterday, the Regiments of Cesar? wbtch are to be ** to Spain were drawn by lot. The int - fell on the two Regiments of Calrassiers, that of the Dragoons and that of the Cha.seura, Tice Regiments of infantry which are to march will lat: mu e. (flail)? selected. • - " The garrison of Lille has set out fof the' Army of Moil:: vation, and all the Regrments of the Gated Wended to be seta will -- begin their march. ,t • • .soon. " The Army of Obscrvidoo will . bs raises. to 100,0e0 MVO as speedily as possible. .; ..G e neral llourdesoA pppf446l Commander of tt.e Ca• valry of the Army of Observailoin: " The acpirafte tif thaillanot h 34w t • m e ntioned." ' " • . T F. 'lo.' F - 4 " . :11 IN 4: ...1.7,1`..4 LONDON. . NTONIM V, JANUARY 27, 1825. rit !CPS 01.' STOCKS . AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 210% 21.1-3 per Cent. Ited.77N 3 rer Cent Consols 765 t % 3 1 ,4 per Ct. 895 per Cents.old, 95% %VG 4. per Cents. New 4 . 5 .1 ,e2 POY4 Bank Long Anus. 19%'20 19 15-10 Imperial 3 per Cents. 76A India Bonds .10s. 375. pr.—South Sea Stock 87% • Ecchequerlls of 1 21,000, 134. 15t. pr Consols for Acct. 77 76n. . In another column we have given extracts. &cm" the principal French Papers of Thursday andEtidal i from which it will be seen that the rumours of war are becoming more consistent. The Ultra Jout;;;' the Etoile, has statement% of appointments,and movement.; which several of the other Papeis copy literally,'While the Monitcur, which also quotes the Etoide, only gives the substance of its statements, without a single remark. The observations of the more respectable of the other. Journals on these war- • like paragraphs we have given. The Constihttiounel asserts that "ninety.nine out rt every hundred of the French ardently desire peace. If this Journalist bad said that ninety-nine out of eves y hundred deprecated a war against the Spanish Con- stitutionalists, he would have been nearer the mull: for the fact is, that the Ultra partisans of the DoUR. BONS, and their enemies, equally wish for u%ii, though with very different views—the former in . order that the ancient despotism may be restora, while the lattet, in the threatened war, look forwar4 to the final overthrow of the BovnaoNs ; but that a war against the liberties of- Spain is deprecated in France,. is evident by the state of the Funds, which still continue to fall rapidly.. The French . Realer; which on the 12th of Decem - ber were at 90f. 40 c were on Thurslay last 'as low as 77 f. 50 c. Lad _closed at 78 f. 30 c. This fa is stated by the Courier Fransais to bate been occasioned by *the opinion, that war ii rocirc4 on, and that the pare of the Ministry till now five's:, able to the maintenance of peace, have thought)* cessary, for the preservation of their places, to . jbia themselves to the partisans of war." . • The Journal des Debars, the supposed organ of M. de VILLELE, which has veeredabout-coreidlrahly during the last two mouths,. has a,tautious artidc, complaining of the injury dime.:to:cOnimerce by 14 citculation of reports, which are fabricated, and base but twenty-four hotirs currency before they ate con , tradicted. Such, it states, •was the report that the Ambassadors of the [ldly Alliance had left Mediiiti long before the account could reach Paris; • This Journal denies that an Austro-Bavarian Arid will be formed'on the Rhine, or that a single military.: movement has taken place among the Coithitatat forces, not even to the changing of a military Corps All these reports are stated to be Stock jobbing rumours. The Doc de SAN LORENZO, the Spanish Arab* sador in Paris, has delivered to the French Ministas for Foreign Affairs l .the Circular Address of the 44' nish Government to their Legations ; but this ea* , municaticat,'Which Was merely matter of centre, w 4 not accorni.mied by any particular observation; mil the Duke has not demanded his passports. L The Russian Ambassador left Madrid on the 144 the Prussian on the 15th, and the Austrian on the 16th ; bet the Charge d'Affaires of the latter Pewee has left his Secretary of Legation as Charge d'Affaires foe.. the Hanse Towns. Austria .wai Ina, accre dited at the Spanish Court as the. Representatiye of these Towns. The French Chambers meet to-morrow, when 'ft is expected that the Kate's Speech will convey de e• sive information as to the question of , war'or peace: this we much doubt, for. it by no Means apPeui certain that the'French Cabinet is folly agreed tom _ that point. • Every account from France represents#St'rtsr as placing herself in as 'formidable an attittnie existing circumstances will alloVri and we that it is intended, in the fitsi'instance,"to' fiber* Army et Observation to 83,000 siren, , from the fortified places in the North,o4Kom irr Kingdom, where they hire hitherto greater part of theit garrisbets; lusiisopplyhig.slair places by means el _ 60dd , by this'means, to obtain about 30,066 infttaci 4 h° ll about 10,000 from - the troops who usually perfer• the service of the c7tpitirlaittellikaddett- - &fah this At yangivtent, the A rmY *l4 tbetleitifiilt coasistecliif about-40,000 men, which, erlsit the fei7ttorie*lii have stated, would make the slumber Atute, bit FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. . - BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. John Shackle, Milk-street, Cficapaide,bosier,from January Into March 8, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of LlAnk .. rupts, Ilasinghall-street. Ben John Johnson, Iloundsditch, cabinet-maker, from I)eeetn her 17 to Fehruary'4, at twelve, at . the Court of C,buamis sioners of Bankrupts, Itasinghall-street. BA NK RUPTCI SUPERSETW.D. Thomas Matthews, Lite of Starston, Norfolk, Sumer., BA NKItUPTS. James Jameson, Little Queen-street, I.incoln's Inn-fields, coach. maker, to surrender February 1,8, and March 8, at one, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Disinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Saunders and Bailey, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. William Stirk, late of Beeston, Yorkshire, wnolstapler, Februiry 7,8, and March 8, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds.- Attornies, Mr. Oates, Leeds; or Mr. Wilson, tireville-street, Hatton-garden. James Barton, Freckenham, Suffolk, innkeeper, February 19, at eight, 80, and Match 8, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Bury St. Falmund's. Attornies, Messrs. Holmes and Jackson. Bury St. Edmund's ;or Messrs. Dixon and Sons, Gray's Inn-square. Goodwin TAW, late of Taddington, Gloucestershire, farmer,' February 20, at four, 21. and March 8, at twelve, at the Crown Inn, Evesham, Worcestershire. Attornies, Messrs. Collett and Co. Chancery-lane ;or Mr. Byrch,• Evesham. Samuel Lister, jun. William Lister, and William Walker, Law rence-lane, Cheapside, stuff-manufacturers, February 1,8, and March 8. at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basingitall-street. Attorney, Mr. Pringle, Queen street, Cbeapside. William Criswell Dewsnop, St. Bride's-court, New Bridge street, painter, February 1,8, and March 8, at one, at the, Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. At tornies, Messrs. Keeling and Neck, Tokenbouse-yard. William Blunden, sen..late of East Malting, Kent, farmer, Fe bruary 1,8, and March 8, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Brace and Selby, Surrey-street, Strand. ;Tames Larbalestier and John Warrick, New Bninghall-street, wine-merchants, February 1,8, and March 8, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners a ßankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Butler, Watling-stmt. Daniel and John Hill agstaff, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, car pet-warehausemen, February 1, at ten, 8, ar.d March 8, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basing hall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Knight and Fyson, Basing ball-street. John Olken, Broad-street -buildings, merchant, February 1, at eleven, 15, and March 8 , at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners or Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Knight and Fyson, Basinghall.street. Charles Butler Greatrez, Abberley, Worcestershire, apothecary, I February 7,8, and March 8, at twelve, at the Swan Hotel, Birmingham. Attornies, Messrs. Norton and Chaplin t Grafa Inn-square; or Messrs. Spurrier and C. Birmingham, William Young, Lloyd's Coffee-house, ihsurance-broker, Fe. bruary 1,8, aid March 8, at eleven, at the Court of Corn. missinners of liankru2ts, Basinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Lavie and Oliverson,* Frederick's-place Old Jewry. Andrew Allan, juts. Topping's Wharf, Tt:oley-street, provision merchant, January 28, February 8, and . March 8, at ten, at the Court df Commissioners of Bankrupts, liasinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Tanner, Fore-street, Finsbury-square. Patrick flolaban, London-street, Fenchtirch-street, wine-mer chant, February I, at ten, 8, and March 8, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Ba.shighall-street.-;- Attorney, Mr. Lang, Fenchtach-street. John Littlefield, Portsea, plumber February 1,8, and March 8, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners of Binhropts, Ba tinghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Minchin and Son, Port sea ; or Mr. Young, Poland-street. William Stands, Old 'Change, baker, January 28, February 4, and Beret 8, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basioghall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Stevens and Wood, Little St. Thomas Apostle. DIVIDENI)B to be made in BASI N CITA LL-STREET. Feb. 15, W. Clarke, Leicester-street, Leicester-square, tailor, at twelve. Feb. 15, J. Ilysh, Paternoster-row, bookseller, at twelve. Feb. 24, J. 11. Prior, late of London-road, Southwark, ,cormslealer, at ten. Feb. 15, J. blather, Jewin-street, wine merchant, at twelve. Feb. 15, J. Rout, Whitechapel, linen draper, at twelve: Feb. 1, J. C. White, Mitre-court, Fen church-street, merchant, at ten. Feb. 22, W. Potts, Sheerness, linen-draper, at ten. Feb. 11, A. Barnaschina, Gravesend, hardwareman, at one. Feb. 15, F. Birmingham, (;harles-attest, City-road, brewer, at twelve. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. Feb. 18, J. Lytbgoe, Liverpool, timber-merchant, at one, at the Office of Mr. Avison, liznover-street, Liverpobl. Feb. so, W. Randall, late of i,erds, merchant, at eleven, at the Sessions house, Leeds. Feb. 18, George, William, and Frederick Blyth, Birmingham, merchants, at eleven, at the Royal lintel, Bir mingham. Feb. 18, R. Itiddiough, late of Liverpool, innkeeper, at twelve, at the Golden Lion Inn, Dale-street, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES.—Fga. 15. B. L. Bridgman, Fish-street-hill, undertaker. W. Ridley , and D. Wilson, Whitehaven, curriers. J. Green, Retinal', Worcestershire, molester. M. and J. Pulman, Goishrougb, Yorishire, brewers. T. Fairclough, late of Liverpool, slater. T. Clay, Worksop."Notts, grocer. 'B. Tucker, jun. Bristol, carpenter. J. l'itstow jun. Witham Ilssex. miller. T. Daw son, Parish of St. Diary, Staffordshire, miller. I). Gorely, Canterbury, batter. J. J. Stocllale, Strand, bookseller. The Public must be well acquainted with the la bours of Mr. cmtsratas;. of Holborn, in the most useful art of fure Writing, nor need We enumerate his various approved Publications in that essential attainment, but we cannot help noticing a very plea sant poetical effusion; by the same Author. lately published, entitled, a London as It Is ;• intended as a Gift for my Country Cousinsr at the very mode rate fee of 6d. To expect great poetical acunien from a Gentleman so actively and differently en gaged would be quite unreasonable, but still we can.. ' not but be pleased, on reading this poetical trifle, with many of its pleasant points *nd'deseriptions, as it will be found to contain it once - iiiiiiittuethe arid arousing description of the . great theatre of every thing grand and interesting, tbeilfitish 'Metropolis; ahough conveyed in ,an urios . tentatiout 'dress.' We would willingly present oat` fteederilwilh an varlet, and the trait is very inviting for that purpoit,•but conclude that our Readers, the charge being*sixess,y, will be induced rather' to prefer hiving 'the Work lentire, than be content with any part our limits would permit us to give.