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__ - .t ~, POETRY. WINTTEN ON TIM SLANE SPACE AT THlt END 01 CHAU CM'S TALL OF " THE PLOWER AND THE LIAR." This pleasant talk is like a little OW; The honied lines do freshly interface To keep the reader in so sweet a place, So that he here and there fsf•hearted stops ; And oftentimes be feels the dewy drops Conte cool sad suddenly against his face, And by the wend'rins eiteledy may trace Which way the tenderdegged linnet bops! u what a power has sweet Simplidtyl What mighty power bath this gentle story! 1 that do eCer feel a thirst for glory, Could at this moment be Content to lie Meekly upon the grata as these whose sobtoinp Were heard of none Leside the mournful robins! LITERATCRE. NARRATIVE OF A TEN YEARS' RESIDENCE AT THE Count. or Tuirott.—The Public will be pleases to hear that the new edition 'of this very curious and interesting work, which has been so long and impa. tiently looked for, is at length published. THE LITERARY GAZETTE AND JOERNAL or BELLES Larruzs, &c.—The Eleventh Number of this new Weekly Journal. published this day, contain', among other original articles— A Second Letter on the Poetical Talents of Lord Direr; ClAnforts of Old Ago, by Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart.; scott's New Poem ; French Travellen in England ; Adventures of the 11. Übe Captain Gotown's', a prisoner among the Japanese In 1811, it, and IS; History of Mozart's Requiem ; Sketches of Society ; the Elegant of the 18th and 19th Century ; Mceurs Prancolsrs; M. Jouy ; Progress of Science; Royal &witty ; Dr. Wollaston; Mode of determining Heights, Ste. ate.; French In stitute; Progress of the Am; Dr. Valli, fce. ice.; New Musi cal instruments; The Belloneon and Cardrulodion, ace ; Italian Opera; Mozart's Don Juan; Revival of The Double Gallant; First Representation of Les Deux Philiberts; Poetry; Le Flagellate Ministerial; Baron de Bergamo, &c.; Remarkable Occurrences; The Little Orphan of Vilna, Ike. ice.; Politics; /be South American Revolution; numerals Articles of Literary end Fashionable Intelligence, tee. &c. A partridge's nest of 16 eggs was found the week before list, on an grounds of Mr. CHAP►fAN, of Baddingham, in Norfolk. The old birds were disco. ♦eyed sitting on the nest, and their eggs in a forward state of incubation. The garden of Mr. Woowta, of Gatesfield, York shire, now presents the agreeable sight of a pear-tree and apricot tree is full blossom. It is a common saying, that u there is nothing new under the sun r" but, as there is no rule without an exception, so is the Scheme of the present Lottery a contradiction to the proverb. Never did any Lottery combine so many advantages, or contain so many ducements to Adventurers, as the present. But, as mere assertion is no proof, hear what the Scheme will tell you.—There are Four Prizes of £20,000 — there are Four Prizes of 02,000—there are 10,090 other Prizes—and there are only 4 502 Blanks—and every Prize above £2.5 will have a Ticket in another Lottery, by which means the Possessor of One of the Four Prizes of 420,000 in this Lottery. may also ob tain One of the Prizes of . £15,000 in the next. The Tickets are selling at only Eighteen Guineas, and Sixteenths only Twenty•six Shillings. at the Offices of G. Cannou., 7, CorMill, and-26, Oxford -street, where 7,735, the L:tst Prize of £30,000, was sold in Shares, with Seven other Capitals also sold in Shares in the last October Lottery. _ . . On the night of Saturday se'nnight a range of ont offices, belongirg to Alderman llone, at his farm, called Stormanston, in the county of Dublin, corn pri.ing stabling for twenty horses, a barn, and cow house, were maliciously set on fire, and totally con sumed ; as also a rick of straw, consisting of about la) loads. AU the farming utensils which bad been awed in the offices were burned, together with a horse, five cows, and a ♦ast quantity of seed, pota toes, and oats ; there were likewise a number of cattle severely injured. At the time the fire was first discovered, and the alarm given, the door of the apartments in which the steward and his family slept, which communicated with the out-offices, was on lie, and they narrowly escaped suff 'cation. Prom every opinion that can be formed, it must have been set on fire in many places, as the offices were nearly yards in extent, and all appeared in one general RAM at the same time. Tuesday night the house of Mr. Smith, the Ship, in Gate-street, Shad well, was broken open and robbed of £lO in notes, a dozen of shins, and other property. The thieves gained entrance by the cellar, at an hour too early to begin their depredatioos, and secreted I -themselves until the family retired to bed. A few evenings back, Mr. Jones, a farmer, was stopped near the Serpentine !Lisp by a boy of capti. rating address, who walked with him some distance, and then asked him for some money. Mr. Jones said be had none to give away ; upon which the boy made a signal, and a fellow jumped from behind a tree,, and with a horrible oath, said that Mr. Jones was talking improper liberties with the boy, and- that if be did not give him ten shillings he would follow him, and expose him to every person he met. Mr. Jones did net think proper to comply with this extra ordinary request, and was walking on, when the fellow pulled out a knife, and swore be would run it through his - body if he did not comply ; upon which the far met. from motives of fear, was compelled to give up ten shillings. Comma's INQUEST.—An Inquisition was taken yesterday before the Coroner for Westminste r , a t t h e eaitentiary, Milbank, on view of the body of Ann Stubbs, a convict who died on the 90th of March.— John Pratt, surgeon to the Penitentiary, deposed, that the deceased had been in confinement twelve' months; she was taken ill in January last ; be had regularly attended her ever since ; her complaint was a dropsy. She had been attended with all possible care, and had two nurses to wait on her during her illness. She was a ll owe d every thing to nourish her, fish, fowl, and rabbits, besides from a pint to a bottle of wine each day. She bad expressed to him her gratitude for bi s attention to hers she died with the usual symptoms awe:agog a dropsy.—The Coroner and Jury having viewed the body, expressed their great approbation of the treatment Of the deceased. and•returned a verdict " died by the visitation of Gun." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, APR TL IL MARTZ STORK IN THE MATTER OF STONE. Mr. Moirraour stated that this was a petition of the bankrupt, William Stone, praying his Lordship to take into his consideration the hardship of his case. The petition stated, that while he, the petitioner, was in France, a commission of bankruptcy had issued against him, of which he had no knowledge what ever ; that the respective meetings of his creditors had been held, and in the event he had been decla red, or in other words, proclaimed an outlaw. The gist of the petition now presented was, that the Com• missioners might be directed to appoint a time and place for the bankrupt to surrender himself, sad he examined touching the state of his affairs. Mr. Carttex, on the part of the Assignees, would not object to the prayer of the petition, though, from the instructions which had been given to him, !•e felt confident that be c'uld controvert all that the peti tioner had stated ii. his petition; but conceiving that it would better answer the ends of justice to grant the prayer of the petitioner, he should give no oppo sition to it. The Loan CHANCELLOR granted the prayer of the petition. bot at the same time desired it to he under stood that it was taken at the request of tl•e BAnk rupt himself. .The Lotto Ctraxtxmon, in the course of the yr orr jag, took occasion to notice the alarn,iug increase of Bankrupt petitions, which he regretted to srate. bad now arrived at a most alarming extent. From the increased number of petitions at present pre sented, the ensuing vacation would be of very short duration, but, however, his Lordship would exert himself to the utmost to get rid of them, and there fore he should devote the first week after the recess to the hearing of those petitions in particular. INSOLVENT DEB roßs' COURT, APRIL 3. TIM ZAN, OF MORLEY V. KBILSWiLL. Th:s day Mr. BASSET, on behalf of Lord Morh7„, opposed the defendant, who applied for his discharge. The Learned Counsel stated, that the defendant, in 1815, stood indebted to the Earl of Morley for rent and tyth.s, in arrear s and being arrested, he endea. vouted to get his discharge as an insolvent, at the Assizes for the county of Devon. Having been re manded on the ground of a fraudulent removal of his furniture, he put in specill bail to the action, and a verdict was found against him for £3550. After sae became a debtor in execution, he filed a fresh schedule without the leave of the Court, add, in the present instance, came most irregularly a second time to take the benefit of the Act. Mr. Basset said he had a certificate stating the ground on which the defendant was remanded, but as it was not transmit ted by the Clerk of the Peace, according to the provi sions of the Act, he was not allowed to read it. Mr. HZATH, for Kerswell, represented to the Court, that the defendant, who had becn tenant to Lord Morley, was totally ignorant how his debt, which was no more in the first instance than £2O, bad been swelled to the sum of ,83550. Mr. Bassin would not admit that the verdict bad been taken on oRe debt alone, but as the evidence he had to offer of the defetAlant's application at the De von Assizes was informal, he proposed to adjourn the beiring till regular information cotrk; be obtained from the Noble plaintiff. The hearing was adjour ned to the 22d inst. SURREY ASSIZES.--XINCSTON, APRIL S. Tug KING V. TINKLER.- This was the same case which was tried at the last Assizes. It was an indictment against the detem dant, the prnprmtor of some gunpowder mills in the neighbourhood of Guildford, fora nuisance. The evioei , ce given !fir the prosecution was the same as stated last year, namely, of two explosions, and the danger to certain houses within reach, particularly to the house of the prosecutor, if another explosion should take place. ' In answer to this Mr- MARRYAT stated, that last. year, when the close was tried, it was agreed to re ter the examination of all the works to some Officer of Engineers, who should direct what buildings should be altered or what defences made, and accts.. diugly the defendant bad called in the aid of Major Bye. of the Artillery, and under his orders he had constructed every delence, and made every alteration that the Major directed. Notwithstanding this the, prosecutor had preferred a second indictment. The defendant then wrote to him, and desired to know what more he wished should be done, promising .he would do it ; but to this letter .the prosecutor never returned any answer. The Learned Judge asked if it was referred the last time, under the advice of the Judge ? he was told that Mr. Justice Burroagh, vaLo tried the cause, advised it : he then said, if it turned out as stated, he certainly should advise the Jury to acquit the defer:. dant. Although the manufactory was one of danger, yet it was also one of absolute necessity. both for :cit. defence, and to repel foreign aggression. Major Bye was then called, who stated, he was Major of the Artillery, and had the superintendance 'of all his Majesty's powder mills. Hz stated, that being called in last year to examine the powder works in question, he had directed traverses to be erected for the protection of the prosecutor's house in case of explosion, and that his directions had been complied with to the utmost, and every thing he had ordered, punctually executed. He could say now, that it was much safer than NV d his Majesty's mills. The defendant was about to call other Military Engineers, when the Jury said they were satisfied, and returned a verdict of—Nht Guilty. By one - lease put in, it appeared that the powder mill bad existed 117 years. Awed, a labourer, was indicted for setting fire to a barley stack at Thorpe, in this cou n ty, the• property of Henry Brenshige. The prosecutor stated, that he was alarmed by the stack being on fire on the last day of October. It was upon a piece of land which he had boughs of the prisoner family. Several witnesses, who saw the stack on fire, also saw the' prisoner there ; he told them that he had done it, and that be bad a right to burn any thing on that land, which belonged to himself. They also spoke of him as a harmless an whom duly believed opt to be right in his head. A medical man deposed, - that about six months back be was called in to the prisoner, who was then, decidedly deranged. He recovered after a short time ; but he thought him so liable to a relapse, that he advised that he should always be watched. Ver. elict—Not Guilty ; but the Jut y found him lame. TRIAL. OF TI IF. lAI DDITES. LEICESTIN APRIL 2.—After a protracted trial of two days (on Monday ten hours, and Tuesday four teen), eight of the Luddites have been condemned to death—in the whole there were twelve committed. Blackburn and Burton were admitted evidences. Cald well, taken in fits during the trial, remains for next Assizes. Slaver, tried last Assizes, under the Black Act (that is, for shooting), was again put to trial for frame breaking, to which charge he pleaded guilty, and is to'be transported for life. The names of thosa , condemned are Savage, Willsert,Towk, rbncs, Crowder, Mitchell, Clark, and Watson. Much iiinpor tant evidence was given on the trial. Fifteen others for various offences have been condemned. One was stized with convulsion tits duting his trial, and being rlported by a medical person to be incapable of at tending to his defence, was remanded to prison. The town has been very peaceable during the Assizes. LINCOLN AB3IZES. At last Lincoln Assizes, Andrew Johnstsne, alias Afq%lady, Mary trf.iVal.ty, and Margaret Highland, falsely pretending to be wives of soldiers, wrre in dicted for obtaining money of the Ovetsess of Nlarket.D:eping, by means of forged passes for the women, And were convicted of that offence ; and It having been proved by one of the 3 ccvmplices, who turned King's evisknee, that Jossustiale had him. sell fabricated the passes in London, and had accom panied the party, directed their opt rations, and re ceived the greeter past of the money they coileckst ; he was sentenced to be transported for seven years, and the two women to be imprisoned in the House of Correction sind kept to hard Lthuur. IRISH CIRCUI rb. SEDUCTION CASE.—At the Galway Assizes, in the County Court, a trial for seduction, ‘, Bunter v. Homewood," came on before Baron SMITH, on ba turday the 22(1. The plaintiff was father to an in teresting young girl, in humble life, for the seduc tion of whom, by the defendant, who is a young man and a Captain of Dragoons, he brought his action. The damages were laid at £e3ooo. 'I ftc Jury, after a patient hearing and some deliberation, returned a verdict of £4.0 damages and W. costs. BREACII OF PROMISE OF MARHIACIE.—At toe same assizes on Tuesday, in the Town Court, an action for breach of promise of marriage came on to be tried before Baron SMITH, in which Peter Blike, Esq. a Lieutenant in the Navy, was plaintiff, and Mrs. Mary Wilkins, a widow lady, was defendant. The damages were laid at 55000, and, after the stat.- menu of the plaintiff's and of the defendant's cases, and of the examination of witnesses on both sides, the i parties consented to have a juror withdrawn. LONGFORD ASSIZES. TUE KING W. TUE REV. PATRICK SCALLY. Wednesday se'nnight this cause same on to be tried before 24r. Justice FLatcustit. A capital indictment had been fotnid at a former Assizes against the tra verser, a Roman clergyman, for sending a threaten ing letter, but the Counsel for the Crown declined prosecuting it ; and the present indictment was for a misdemeanour, in endeavouring to prevent a per son, wli had sworn examinations, from attending at the Assizes to give evidence. It appeared, that in the month of August, 181.5, one Patrick Dowling had sworn information against ten persons for a bur glary, and for taking out of his house arms belonging to some constables. The constables had also sworn examinations against the party who took the arms, in which they had included Dowling. In consequence of these informations, the following letter was written by the traverser, and sent to Dowling, who was af terwards murdered " Sir—A very bad philosopher could make me believe, that a square tower war round, or that black was white, since Patrick Dowling is become an iNru it at la. Oh! how I was stunned when I heard two men, who were passing me by, say that Dowling will destroy the country. mark, it is trebly worse in you to itn• form than any other person, because the people had placed thrice as much confidence in you as they had placed In any person. Did you ever see or know ot any of your family to inform before your self? Why did you not act ltks my uncle, .Barney—why did not you act like those Carders who died honourably in Mul- Ungar and Longford ? Perhaps you may say that y .0 did not wish to lose your life; that maybe—but, did you not take the best means to lose it since you informed—ad you ever know of an informer to be let live loos ? And what is still worse, you have disgraied yourself and your children, and your great grand children, ad all your relatious. How can they shew their laces in fair, market, or assembly ? Don't you know that Informer is the most internals name ever a man got. If a man be a thief or a robber, no person could blame him, except his own friends; , but an informer leaves au aching heart to hundreds. If any child sees Dick Brackey passing by, they immediately say, lia ! ha! there is Brackey, the damned intornier s may bad luck attend him!' 'I hey will say the same to you in So or 40 yens time, it you live an long. Beside every other bad consequence of your boor • the worst Is, that you have destroyed me ' • yes, you are the man that will UM e me to quit Ireland ; you have disgraced my mother's bates in the ground. If you Informed of she ten men who broke open your house, is corder to save your lit. , and then go to England, and not prove it against them, nu person could blame you so much—although, If you went to gaol, you never would be hanged by the evidence of Harriet, /cc. for Coates would not take then. oath. It is reported that you were not contented with informing of ten men, but that you said Lest night that you informed against Iso men. Oh ! it you did, may all the misery and 'niftiness.* on the surface of the earth surround you, and nay you nut live tong to prove against them ! Let me know are this. things false-, and what are you determined on doing. " Mr. Picin' Dowling, Abbeyshrule. " P. SCA LLY.* Maki' ‘Villiis a Magistrate, proved, that the tra , verger hid voluntarily acknowledged to him that he had sent the above letter, but added, that he had changed his mind since, and was sorry for it ; that he was not a clergyman at the time he wrote the letter, and that it could be proved that he had since preached peace to his Hock. On the part of the traverser, it was argued, that there was not sufficient evidence that he wrote the let• ter,l flowing that Dow ling had sworn the examinations. The Learned Judge told the Jury that it was for them to draw the conclusion from the letter, accord ing to good sense and right reason ; that th,:y must be satisfied in their mind that thi traverser, Imowing the fact that his uncle had sworn the examinations, intended to keep him back from giving his evidence; but that that must be collected- from the circum stances of theease, as it was impossible to prove what was passing in the mind of the/writer : his saying that he was an altered man, the Judge observed, 'hewed his own impression that he had acted improperly an writing it. 'must be presumed that the higher or den ot the Roman Catholic Clergy inquire into the character and conduct of the iutetior Clergy, and, from his having bccoan a elcagyagau, it lip to be hoped that he had altered his sentiments; but :la that did ndt lessen the criminality of the act. The Jury, after some deliberation, in'a verdict of Guilty ; and the Leatne4 Jo .ige. in a most impressive address to the traverser, dwelt on the eno.. mity of the °Fence, of which he had been convist,4 on the c'enest evidence, and widi every Atit'Afilqe on ht, fri.il ; and üb.srved on the lei.ity of these ceii.. t d for the Crown in giving up the capital indct.• menr.—The traverser seat sentenced to if,r c e imprisonment, and to ray A 4 ille of £5O, or in tailmre thereof to a torLi:er imprisorurent el tbreie rnontlif. PUBLIC CMCF, P'JW•STREET.—Yesterday Turner was brought to the office, charged wit.. tempting to c , :mmit a rape on a servant girl. Pe was charged with an assault upon the isome sno. '1 he Captain was ordtved to kind b.:11 to Ammer the complaint. GuitottaLt..—Serjeant John Alpin, of the 10:h Regiment ot Toot, earged Cathetioe Euler robbing him of £7, in Bank-notes—Fatly MANSIOI4•IICIUSE,....The LAM) MAYOR sat yesteiday in tl!e Justicc.room. fiha /Java was charged by titc+r, two slava, and a Itaskirae, with batting 0.7- Mined money, &c. under taiie otetences. The butcb-r rai,l, t! e risists.r c.:lled himself a re spectabh: farmer, and preten.ied be had a consiiis , - able quantity of live beet aasi mutton 'ma the mad, that he A' toted some hose silver to pay fssr drink, for his drivers. This complainant not only lent b: • 10s. upon such repres entation , but gave him a fp • . tity ot salt meat, cn uActstallies Oa. i:suo should be substituted. The first sweep Also rece;Ted the prisoner as a r:- potable farmer, agreed to ►end him it , quantity soot to improve his lend, and lent 'oho lOs. undertte impression of his respecubility, to discharge tome expenses attendant u uelay in timitlihei.!. The poi:titan received him, nut only gave hint tl'e e%t his larder afforded, but lent him a shin Ansi stotiongs, that he neigh: cut a creditable figure ..t Lord Nl , Don.tld's., white, he eAd. be was inviteA to dine ; and lea lon' It's. to disttibute am‘agst !!:1 servants, who vt ere to upon him witla Etc. Et dinner. Tn.! second sweep, obese face and bands bore les. timouy to file trade, c4bld not afford to lend so much money to the pr isomer as any of the other complai s.mt but gave him half the sum, and offered him, as he was going to dine with a Lord, part of his warefrotoo liiquities having been mane into the chsracto the prisoner and his faintly, the latter was found to be respectable. The pii.oner, upon promising isnra_- Jiately to discharge the debts so scandalously eon. tractetf, and expressing his sorrow for leis conduto, WAS dismissed with a reprimand. Qua:coo:LlLA:re. L'rejamis shoernak living with his father at Claptun, and William Iku, who stated himself to be a servant to Mr. Lansdow.o, Botogna sausage maker, Sharpe's-aliey, Cow.cris o were brought to the office by James LtTer, a watch man at Quesn's E!ms, on the Fulham-rued, on sus. picion of toealino a I.trge basket full of sav:llaus satoogeo weighing 6015. Witness st 'Led, that about half-past two this m)rn ing, being on his be it in the Fulham-road, he not the priSooer s, Hayes having the basket produced ar its contents on his shoulde• s, a:of Percival Carr ; • Hayes's hat. He stopped them and asked what :ha had got ? and on seeing such a mass of eatables *a these hungry times, ut such a time of the mornir;, he felt it his duty to apprehend and take them to t e watch house, from wbeisce he brought them tot office on suspicion of the basket, &c. bei ng Mr. Cobounotos having desired Hayes to be t kes out into the other room, asked Percival v:hat !:e ..k to say for himself ? to which he answered, th.t never saw Hayes in his life till yesterday ( WeJn, day), about three o'clock, p.m- at the Water:no . . Arms, kept by Scroggios, the pugilist; to vol . 'place he went to learn where the fight of the next was to be, and he could not obtain that inlormaso till half-past nine, when they were told it was to 10: on Twickenbam.common, or Heath, he could nc: say which. About eleven o'clock Hayes told In: he was going down to the fight, to sell some sat• sages and Bolognas for his master, at Cow-cross, an,! if he would assist him in carrying the basket, II would remunerate him for his trouble. He aceor.'- ingly went with Hayes to Cow•ctoss, where he i ; the basket and its contents, and they were on their a ay to the hght when stopped by the watchman. On Hayes being called in his story was so erIC:7 like the foregoing, scarcely varying in a si:7,:c tx pression, that the Magistrate desired the oatchrosa to accompany prisoners to Cow.cross, and if Mr. Lansdowne identified the property to be his, and that be had authorised Hayes to sell it at the liolo, desired the watchman to discharge the prisohers, and commended him tor his steady attention to his duty. Yesterday Mary I.iddle, who was only liberated from prison in the morning, was folly committed, Or fraudulently obtaining a quantity of linen, the ; perty of Mr. King, of Maiden-lane, Covent gard.n. The prisoner came to Mr. King's house, saying sot was scot by the laundress for the dirty linens rs has lull of linen was accordingly given to her. There.: laundress called about an hour after, and thus t;:c fraud was discovered. 1 ,- ,quiry was made for I' = prisoner, and her lodgings dOc• vs red ; bat the call not be met with until about three weeks ago, vr:ol she was found in Tothiloields Bride sell, where s' had been committed for unlawfully p .wning. ibIA4tRIED, At Ca:lll:ray, In Franee,on the 9th ul.. Deputy-A islet:sr C."' misaary-Cerwral liar, to Elizabeth, ekilst (laughter ct tLe : l'aptahs Botlan of Edinburgh. DIED. At Wick, on the 18th ult.M;s: Ann lnnes, relict of the ta . s Capral6 John Sutherland of Wester. At Mookten, on the Attt u;t. Mr. Robvrt.Clreoi, G yeah schuoltnaetcr of that rarisb. On the 19th off:ls:nary last, of the yelio.v fever. at Gr:T. Jetenviah Jellicoe '1 hompson, L,q. Attorney-General of laud. PRICE OF S LOC Bark Stuck, shut 3 per Ct. 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