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MISS LOVEDAT. This perverse young Lady, who has been the sub ject of so much conversation lately, has published a reply to the indiscreet and ill,digested Petition of her father to the Chamber of Peers on the subject of the conversion of herself and her cousin to the Roman Catholic religion. This reply, like the Petition, is of great length, and though much better written, is a very Jesuitical document. It commences with what ro one will believe, that Miss Loveday entertains great affection for her father—that she would gladly have remained silent and have " contented herself with seeking consolation at the foot of the Altar, and alleviating the weight of paternal wrath by offering up incessant prayers for the author of her days, but that eertidious adviser; have deceived him." She then states, that when she went to Mademoi selle IlEnno.'s school in 1819, " she was decidedly prepos , essed against the Catholic religion, but the example of piety which her companions daily pre tented w her eyes, gradually diminished her preju dice." In short, that " the sincere devotion, the im pressive pomp of the ceremonies," " the hymns of her young companions," prepared her imagination for a change, when at length BOSSUET fell into her bands, when " the powerful reasoning of that sub lime uliter, who could triumph over the strong mind of Turenne, soon convinced a young and flexible sour—she became convinced of " the superiority of ('atht'iic faith ti, Protestantism, and that she irrevo cably determined to embrace the religion of ALFRED the Great and Enwit RD the Confessor !" Miss Lovroay denies that anybody had prevailed on her to embrace the Catholic religion, and declares that " she studied it in stealth from her Governess." She then gces into a long statement of the reasons which iii.tuced her to quit the house of her lather and retns: to return, defending all the persons who assisted her escape, and vindicates herself against the charge of a want of filial duty. The monitor of the you Lady has made her quite pathetic on the sub ject. She says—" At the painful moment when her Lather's !age made her withdraw from him, did an insulting smile really appear on her lips? Ah ! how is that smile to be reconciled with the tears which Miss LOVEDAY shed when terrified by her father's-I imprecations ?—her limbs ceased to support her, and she sunk several times senseless to the ground."— This document (which is the production, we doubt not, of some artful Priest) concludes with imploring her father to receive his daughter to his bosom, but to leave her to her new faith. Mademoiselle REBODL, the schoolmistress, has also ventured to appeal to the Public in a letter to the Coblitutionnel, statingthat she has employed Messrs. BILLECOQ and HENNEGUIN to draw up her defence, which will soon appear; in the meantime she wishes the Public to suspend their opinion of her conduct. Tb ject reply lathe correc Cathc great very TO 01 great have with alley i up itu that r selle prep(' exam tenth dice." pressi her y for a bands lime v of 'Pc soul"— ('atht cable the (i Mis on het that " She tl whic!) and t•e aSSi%te charge yon . tg ject. father' insulti is that Miss I imp re( slte su This d rot, of her Lit to leav velum BILLEI which the Pu The, rot mt of East Lave b sequen In I L • yestert Sugar cline ' expect At I supply 1V heal prove Tnitnuf price we fee inane full er A Octob in tra job, at small. the co be in en, the Pi duals, in the woule all tho and • comet the cc five it you 1 won't cargo A COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. There is great abundance of money at present, and not much employment for it in trade. Several articles of East Indian prod uce,which had been extremely low, Lave become an object of speculation, and have con sequently undergone a considerable advance in value. In West India produce some business was done !sterday, particularly in Coffee, which is 4s. dearer. sugar also fully maintains its last advance. No de cline has taken place as yet in Rum, though it was expected in consequence of the fall in British spirits. At the Corn Exchange yesterday, there was a short supply of all kinds of grain. Barley Is. dearer. Fine Wheat likewise a shade higher, but Oats do not im prove in value. ImPRoVENI ENT IN TRAM—Several of the principal manufacturers in this town last week advanced the price of weaving 3d. and 6d. per cut or piece; and we feel pleasure in stating that the trade is at present in an improving condition, and that all hands are in full employ.—Blackburn Mail. A letter from an Englishman, dated Valparaiso, October 10, 1821, says, •"fhe only good to be done in trade in South America is with a small capital to , and a little agency. A cargo of goods should be small—a little of everything ; the best chance is along the coast. The duties in Chili are ruinous, as they will Lima. Power being in the hands of ignorant who have not a thought about the interests of :üblic, nor a feeling fur the sufferings of indivi ials, no honest or independent man can do business these countries; to pay duties, as fixed by law, would be to sink everything—he must go through all the filth of smuggling. The wise Senate of Five id Director of Chili have just passed the following lmercial law :—' That no foreigner is to have consignment of goods for sale.' They havenamed ie individuals, natives of the country, out of whom you may choose your consignee! In England you won't believe these things ; but come here with a cargo, and you have it in a tangible shape." A letter from Valparaiso, dated September 28, 1821, states,—" Sir Thomas Hardy has arranged every thing to his satisfaction with Lord Cochrane ;—his Lordship has declared he will not interfere with Bri tish vessels in future. Produce has experienced a considerable advance in consequence of the fall of Lima ; wheat is woi th 16 reals per fanega ; tallow ia Rama, eight dollars per quintal ; jerk beef, five (Vlars four cents ; copper, twelve dollars four cents to thirteen dollars ; hides, ox and cow, sixteen reals rach. Our arrivals, since last advices, are the Tran more, from Liverpool, on the 29th ult. Speculator, from Buenos Ayres ; Petrel, from ditto; the Will, from Rio de Janeiro ; the Mercury, American ship, from Bremen (sailed for the coast of Peru) ; His Ma jesty's ships Conway and Creole, from Callao; and Dauraless, from New South Wales; the United States fiigate Constellation, from the coast of Peru." TRADE TO MEXICO LAID OPEN.—A Glasgow paper says By letters from the Havannah, dated the 11th ult. received in Glasgow this morning, we learn, t! at a brig of war had just arrived at the former }.;ace, which brings the important advices that the t g ports of Mexico, viz. Vera Cruz, Tampico, Alvarado, on the east coast, and Acapulco, and St. lilas, on the west coast, had been declared open to fo p:ign commerce. The duties on imports by foreigners x. ere fixed at 25 per cent. and by Spaniards (na tives) 15 per cent. The produce of the country to be ti ported free of duties, except cochineal and vanilla, ).,-.ld two per cent. and silver six per cent. export du- I it.. The only prohibited articles for import are Boar ;Ind tobacco. We congratulate our merchants upon t. i i intelligence. By this opening Luna sinks into in .. ~..zinbcance." HUNTINGDON AGRICULTURAL MEETING • I Thursday, a Meeting was held at the George Inn, Huntingdon, on the subject of Agricultural Distress. The business of the day was preceded by an excellent dinner, at which nearly one hundred and thirty sat down. After a number of party toasts had been drank, Mr. S. WILLS, who had been called to the Chair, made a very long speech, in which he spoke on al most every subject but the ostensible business of the Meeting, and concluded with proposing the health of, Mr. Cobbett, who was present. Mr. COSSET; after returning thanks, spoke more to the purpose. He said he would proceed to the important business they were met to discuss. They knew that there were two documents that had been circulated in that, and perhaps every other county in England—he alluded to the Letter of Lord John Russell, and the statement of the truly noble conduct of Lord Fitzwilliam. Every honest man would not withhold his meed of praise for such truly patriotic conduct—he applauded it; but though Earl Fitz william had acted more noble and disinterested than any other great land•owner, Lord Suffield ex cepted, yet he should not be doing justice to them or to himself, if he were not to assert that the Noble Earl was in error, not an error of the heart, but of the head. Still his conduct was noble and generous, though founded on erroneous and mistaken principles ; and he (Mr. Cobbett) had thought it his duty, in the County near where the Noble Earl resided, and had large estates, to state his reasons why he believed that his Lordship was in error. His Lordship says that prices are come down to the lowest pitch, that they are reduced to the same standard as in the years 1792 to 1795 ; and though the Noble Earl could bind his tenants• down to their leases, yet he says, No, I will not ; I will reduce my rents to the same amount as in those years." This was highly praise worthy ; but still his Lordship would find himself mistaken. He spoke with diffidence towards the Noble Earl, not that he had any the least doubt of the truth of his assertions, for he would clearly prove that his Lordship was completely wrong. And Lord John Russell had also formed very erroneous opinions upon the existing situation of the land-owners and farmers. His Lordship has two propositions.- Ist, That prices have fallen now to the same reduced scale as in the year 1795, and would fall no lower. 2J. That if he reduces his rents to the same scale as in 1795, the tenant will be as well off as at that pe. rind. He (Mr. Cobbett) begged leave to dissent from his Lordship, for the prices had not fallen to the to a est mark, but would continue to fall lower and lower ; but supposing that they had fallen to the very lowest pitch, and the rent the same as the years referred to, the tenant would not be as well off. There were other things to be reduced besides his rent, before he would be as well off as in the year 1793, and every one must know and feel the truth of his assettions— (Hear).—His Lordship says, also, that gold and silver sovereigns and shillings are the circulating me dium, as it was at the period alluded to, and rent being the same, the quantity of gold and silver cannot have decreased, and, therefore, rents ought to 'oe, as the prices are, the same as in the years 1792 to 1795. They know (said Mr. Cobbett) that the cause of the evil was the diminution of the circulating medium; and, if so, he should like to know where that evil would stop, n hich was now urged on by the opera tion of Mr. Peel's Bib, which vats increased and in creasing by the Bank drawing in their notes in May last, and which would continue to increase till the Bill was in full effect in the year 1823 ? As the cir culating medium was decreased in quantity,whether that circulating medium consisted of Bank -notes, digold, or silver, so would prices decrease; and why ould it stop, when causes were at work tending to effect a further reduction ? No; as the (lank drew in their notes, the circulating medium would be les sened, and the evil would in that ratio increase. Several other Gentlemen addre.sed the Meeting, when the following Petition to the House of Com mons was proposed and adopted: " TO THE HONOURABLE THE CObISIONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PAR LIAMENT ASSEMBLED. • • The Petition of the Land-owners, Farmers, and Traders, whose names are undersigned, residing in t he vicinity of Huntingdon and parts adjacent, most humbly sheweth : " hat the affairs of your Petitioners are its a state of embar rassment, and themselves and families in a state of distress and alarm, of which they are wholly unable to lay an adequate de scription before your Honourable House—that it is their sincere conviction, that unless an efficient remedy be speedily applied, a convulsion of the most alarming nature must be the final conse quence; for thy see the hour approaching when rents must go unpaid, taxes and tythes uncollected, relief to the poor undis tributed, and when the labouring classes, raging with hunger, will he induced to satisfy that hunger by acts of violence. " The cause of this state of suffering and danger cannot, your Petitioners humbly presume, be other than manifest to your Ho nourable Ikuse • but your humble Petitioners beg leave to ex press their decided opinion, that the immediate cause Is that Act of your Honourable Home, which has, in fact, tripled the value of money compared with the price of p roduce, and which, leaving the taxes unreduccd and contracts unmodified has, in fact, tripled those taxes, and disturbed and violated all existing contracts. " Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Hon. House will be pleased to adopt measures to rectify all contracts according to the alteration in the value of money—that you will be pleased to abolish all sinecures and grants, all pensions not fully merited by real public services—to discharge the Standing Army, to curtail the Civil List and reduce the interest of the Public Debt,so that the burthen of taxation may be greatly alleviated ; hese measures being, in the fixed opinion of your humble Petitioners, absolutely necessary to put an end to the recent distress andmisery, and to turn aside the dangers which now menace every species of property, as well commercial as agricultural, and which, in the conviction of your Petitioners, threaten to produce scenes of disorder, confusion, and violence, which duty to their families, their country, and their King, coin- pels them to anticipate with a degree of sorrow and alarm not in their power to describe. " Your Petitioners are not insensible to the defective state of the Representation in the House of Parliament, as at present constituted, and cannot, therefore, help expressing their decided opinion that the manifold evils that at present amict this un happy country are increased, if not occasioned, by this unfortu nate circLmstance. We, therefore, earnestly hope your Honour able House will lose no time in instituting an inquiry into the present state of such Representation, in order that your Peti tioners and the People at large may receive that which they feel is their birth-right—a full, fair, and free Representation.' The reduction of rent anti tythe, in consequence of the low prices of agricultural produce, it is re marked, is now become quite general; so that it is, no longer necessary to specify particular individuals vho adopt tl►is excellent course of conduct. A certain Chairman at a late Quarter Sessions, held not one hundred miles from Durham, whilst examining a blind man, said, "Don't tell us what you heard, but what you saw r - ot . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ten vines* per cent. were yesterday given at Llojd's on the Bridgewater, the only direct ship Of the season which has not passed the &nits of Sunda outwards. It is generally supposed she may have taken one of the passages farther to the Eastward. The Princess Elizabeth packet was to sail from Jamaica the 18th of December. Captain Masher, of the Cleopatra, arrived at New Orleans, reports, that off the west end of St. Domingo he saw a pinti cal schooner capture an English brig, with yellow sides, and deeply laden. The Diana, Ormrsat, from Oporto to the Cape de Verdi, put Into Gibraltar on the 27th ult. and lost two anchors and cables on the 28th. The Delight, of Belfast, herring laden, is totally lost on the Isle of Jura. Crew saved. The Company's ship Repulse arrived at Tapanooly on the 10th of July, and proceeded on her voyage to China on the 11th of the sante month. The American brig Mary Ann, from London, was dismasted on the 17th ult. She was fallen in with about lat. 30. by the Bombay_ Merchant, arrived off Dover, which took out the crew. The Thomas and Ann, Matsu, from Dublin to Glasgow. was driven on shore on the 14th inst. near Girran, and it was feared would be totally lost. The George, BANITIO, of London, has been deserted by the Master and some of the Officers, at Coquimbo, and the cargo of oil plund e r e d b y t h e crew. The vessel had been on shore, and afterward s sailed fur Lima, with a car go o f corn, shipped by Americans. The Albion,Watean, from New Brunswick to Newry, was fallen in with on the 15th ult. in let. 42. long. 30. by the Olive Branch, arrived at Lisbon. The Master and six men were in 1 the foretop ; but the Olive Branch was only able to take out one of the seamen, the Albion having lost her boats. Doves, Jan. 23.—Arrived this afternoon from the River, his Majesty's new steam-packet Asaow, intended for the convey. ance of the Mails from this port to Calais : she is a very fine looking vessel ; and as a considerable time elapsed from her ar rival in the Roads till her entering the harbour, a great number of persons had assembled on the Pier to witness her entrance.— The new works which have been for some time carrying on in our harbour, for the purpose of preventing the accumulation of the Bar, are in a state of great forwardness—one of the line of tunnels is completed, and the back-water being let through It a few days ago, had a very great effect ; and there appears to be an doubt whatever that, when the whole of the tunnels arc com pleted, the trade of Dover will never again be obstructed. Jaw. 23.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Cincinnatus, CHAMPLIN, from New York ; Sappho, LAD'S, from the Cape of Good Hope; and two more, names unknown. Came down from the River, the Waterloo, Tua- Mal, for Gibraltar, and remains. Two anchors, one of 91 cwt. and the other of 12 cwt. have been landed here. JAN. 23.—Arrived the Leicester packet, with a Mail from Holland, and sailed again with another Mail for the same place. Also sailed, the Cobbold packet, with a Mail for Cuxhaven. An anchor of about 11 cwt. marked a Lady An dover, London," and about one fathom of cable, has been taken up in closely BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 20.—Arrived the Perseverance, Mortanox, from London, with loss of main and fore-topmasts. WHITBY, JAN. 22.—The Lord St. Helen's and Better-luck still, colliers, ran foul of each other off the harbour ; the former's starboard bow is stove—the latter has lost her bowsprit, fore topmast, &c. They have put in here. SCAASOROUCII, JAN. 22.—The Freedom, of Poole, and the Polly, of North Shields, ran on board each other on Sunday night, off this place, and received each considerable damage : the former lost her bowsprit, jib-boom, anchor, and.part of cable, and with starboard-bow stove in : she has put in here to repair. Custom-House, JAN. 23.—Ships Entered Inwards:—The Charente, from Charente; Sally, from Cherbourg; Haworth, from St. Lucia • Princess of Wales, from Calais • Fanny, from Newry ; and R a ikes , from Jamaica. Clear e d Ou twards: :—The Arno, for Naples; Thermutis, for Amsterdam; Ranger, for Sa vannah; Swiftsure, for Gibraltar; St. Patrick, for Belfast; Lady Collier, for Lima ; and Commerce, for St. Michael's.` Ammar's—At Pernambuco, the Lady Wellington Packet, from Falmouth. At Batavia, Condetcus. Macao, from Rio Ja neiro; Diana, Corbyn, from Ostend; Por t land, —; an d Catherine, Endreate, front Antwerp ; also the Margaret, Allen, from London. At Gibraltar, Cecilia, Carlile, from Liverpool. At Zante, Maria, Wakeham, from Labradore. At Oporto, Diana, Ferguson; and the Aurora, Blackstone, from New foundland. At Lisbon, Carvell° Sen) Vaquero and the An dessa da Pont, from Bahia; Eliza, —; Stag, Banks; and Maro, Tulloch, front Newfoundland ; Andromache, Stillman ; Patriot, ---; and Lady Mary Pelham, from New York; Voader, Matthews ; and Diligence, Nimts, from Cork : John Craig, Guy ; and Agnes, Cundy, from Liverpool. _ _ _ LOSS OF TILE SHIP LADY LUSHINOTON. CALGUTTA, AUGUST 27, 1821.—The following account of this calamity is from one of the surviving sufferers, and we insert it nearly in his own language :—" We sailed front Madras on the sth, and having four passengers to land at Coringa, saw the light house at midnight on the 7th ; tacked about, in hopes of being able to land the four passengers abovementioned in the morning, but owing to the strong currents, we were considerably to lee ward of the port by daylight ; we endeavoured two days and a night to regain the windward, but finding we only lost ground, cast anchor on the northward of Coringa. The surf ran very high for two days, so we could have uo communication with the shore ; we tried to weigh anchor, and drop down to Penticollah, but all endeavours were ineffectual, when the cable parted and night had come on. The Captain gave orders to stand out to sea until twelve o'clock at night, and then tack in to the land; the Chief Mate took the command of the deck at midnight, and thinking we had sailed so far from the land that we could not possibly reach it before day-break, the ship tacked—a breeze having sprung up we were alarmed by the ship striking slightly on the sand about four o'clock in the morning. Nothing can paint the distressing scene; the high land was just perceptible, and every wave driving over the ship added to our horrible si tuation. In half an hour every mast was over the ship's side (to leeward); the ship had drifted into a tremendous surf, every boat was staved in the attempt to lower them, and the land half a mile on our lee : we had nothing to trust to but the waves, and to place our confidence in the ALMIGHTY. The scene of hot ror and distress then became indescribable. The cries of the fe males and children were heart-rending. It was said that the bottom had parted from the upper works. Every person was naked, and up to the middle in water, and the distress was in creasing every moment. Three spars of wood were got over the side, on which six persons, including myself, providentially reached the shore; but we were so much exhausted, that had not the natives come to our assistance, the return of the surf would have carried us out again. We found on the shore a sailor who had been washed overboard, to whom the safety of so many lives is owing; he fortunately spoke the language, and succeeded in getting four catamarans from the shore to the assistance of the sufferers; a large boat was got off, b a t cou ld get no nearer , than one hundred yards, and with difficulty was kept above water. At eleven the ship parted across the centre, and all the crew and passengers were obliged to get on the masts to have the ship m a breakwater, from which many were washed away, being so fatigued they could not hold on. The catamarans kept at work till two o'clock, when the wind increased so that they could not get near the wreck, and had afterwards to desist, find ing it impossible to be of further use. A Frenchman, his wife and two daughters, with two of the crew, were seen on the wreck; at four o'clock the stern parted, on which the French' lady, with her eldest daughter, reached the shore ; the f a th er , with the other daughter, perished, as did the two sailors, one of whom was seen at dusk clinging to the remains of the bows, which was held by the anchors. The shore, for six miles, was strewed with the ship and cargo. The number lost was 22, among whom were Captain HAstrzon, 7th Madras Native In fantry, Ensign WHICH; Mr. WILSON, formerly Purser in the country service, Mr. llosseAu and his daughter, and Mr. Lys- Tea. second officer of the Lushington. The ship parted its two at eleven, A. M. and before evening scarce a vestige of her was visible. Mrs. Rossmu, who was saved, was on the stern, and her unfortunate husband was on the stem, when she parted.— Major WxAsisamst.l, and his Lady are safe, and Mr. Calms sus, only son of Colonel Caarvizsa. The situation of the sur vivors was truly deplorable; all were nearly without clothes.— The Commander must be acquitted of all blame." Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain T. F. BALDaRSTON was sworn into the command of the ship Asia, con signed to Madras and Bengal. Capt. W. timnsina, Commander of the ship Thames, took leave of the Court, previous to departing for lieucoolen and Chita. "t- ' Manssoirßoess.-.-Testeeday scene Members et the Own and Coal Committee, and two of the coal4neten of the City, attended, for the impuse of a charge against W. Walker a labouring coat-m e t er . M r . A one of the principal c oal-meters, stated that, on the 21 st of December, the defendant delivered twenty-six sacks of cods, which, upon being re-nseasured 4 were found to be deficient thirteen bushels which could not have taken place h a d t h e defendant poison:led his duty. Walker said, that he was sick on the morning the coals were measured, and had not attended until the coals had left the yard, which teak place before six o'clock in the morning.. He accounted for the deaCknel by stating that the waggons were detained in the street nearly three boars, and probably were pilfered during that period. Mr. Perkins, who had pur chased the coals, said, the sacks which were deficient had no marks whatever of having been pilfered ; and the deficiency, no dotffit, arose from' the understanding that too frequently took !dace between the sellers of coals and the labouring coal-meters. the Loan MATO& took the opportunity to state, that there were many persons in the habit of advertising " Cheap coals," but who were cheating the Public both in quality and quantity. They could not pursue such a system without the assistance of the labouring coal -meters, who had It in their power to put a complete check to the practice. It was necessary that such con duct, on the part of those wbo had such power, should be visited with punishment, and as this was not the first complaint that had been made against the defendant, he must cot,sider himself as no longer one of the body. Gon.oletu..—Yesterday, Robert Grout was charged with being concerned in the robbery, to the extent of between £.lOO and £6OO, at a hosiery warehouse in Castle-court, Milk-street, and for which a young man underwent examination a short time since. It was effected on a Sunday evening, in the absence of the servant, who, on her return about eight o'clock, stumbled over a bag of stockings in the passage. The officers discovered that the prisoner had induced one Bradfield to offer a pair of gloves for sale at a wine-vaults in Bishopsgate-street, and they gat him out under pretence that a Gentleman wanted him by Bishopsgate Church. When there, be was asked where he got the gloves? and he replied, that he picked them up, and appeared greatly alarmed. He was taken to the Compter, while the rest of the party searched his lodgings, and found a quantity of silk stockings, part of the stolen property, and three hags, corre-- spouting exactly in size and appearance:with the one left behind by the robbers. Four pair of gloves were also found on his per son. The prisoner, who is very lame, denied all knowledge of the robbery, or that he had introduced the property found at his lodging in Still-alley. He was fully committed. Bow-ersaire—Yesterday E. Bell underwent a third exami nation, charged with the crime of polygamy, he having married three females, neither of whom appeared. The Clerks belong ing to the parishes where the marriages took place attended with the registers; and J. Bacon, porter to the Duke of Buck ingham, knew the prisoner when steward to the Duke, but he could not speak with certainty as to his hand-writing.—Mr. ALLEY attended for theprisoner, and he was remanded. T. Shoots was charged on suspicion of stealing a mare.—T. Baker, a patrol, stated, that on Tuesday, betwce.s five and six o'clock, he was on duty in the F.dgeware-road, when he saw the prisoner riding a grey mare, which he offered for sale to- Mr. Barker for £5 ; and on. Mr. Barker refusing, the prisoner rode the mare to a livery-stable near the spot, where he else offered it for sale for £5. Baker asked the prisoner where he gut the mare ? he replied, he had bought it in the morning of that day of a man in Westminster, whose name he did not know, for 30s. This not being deemed satisfactory, he was remanded. QUEEN-SQUAlM—Yesterday Henry Thatcher and 11'd fans Brit ton, charged with robbing the printing-office of Mr. Nichols, in Parliament-street, of books and paper to a considerable amount, were finally examined before Elm: an Mae AAAAA and Anent- BALD WHITE, ESCIM—Mr. Eaton, the cheesemonger, to whom they sold the books for waste paper, attended. Mr. Eaton de tailed, as on the former examination, his being at first applied to by Thatcher, who said his master lived in Fleet-street, and had large quantities of paper to dispose of : produced a written paper, purporting to have been brought to his house, as if from Mr. Nichols, by one of the boys who sold the paper. He told this boy he would see his master, and pay him next morning ; but before he was up, Thatcher came, and conceiving all was right, he paid the sum then due to elm. When Thatcher brought paper, it was always in the middle of the day; he frequently watched to see which way he went home, and he always ob served he went towards where he said his master lived.—The Magistrate said he must, at all events, order him to find bail, and Thatcher and Britton must be committed. Mr. Eaton en quired what amount of bail? and he was answered, himself in £lOO and two sureties in £so.—Thatcher said Britton was in nocent; he only received les. part of some money got for waste paper, but not for any of the books.—The 'Magistrate observed, that itself rendered him culpable.—Alr. Nichols said, although be believed the robbery could not have been carried on to such an extent without Britton's knowledge, yet he fit disposed not to prosecute him. After a short consultation between the Magis trates, Britton was discharged with a suitable admonition, and Thatcher was fully committed. LAIIIIIMI-STREET.—Yesterday, John Woodfly, drayman to Mr. Stevens, brewer, in the Commercial-toad, was re-examined, and fully committed, charged with embezzling various sums he had received in trust for that Gentleman. Sophia Berry and Wllliant Racket were remanded, charged with sterling a bundle of apparel, the property of Mrs. Coleman, a dealer in old cldthes, in Cornwall street, St. George's in the East.—Seven shopkeepers were lined ss. and ss. costs, each, for serving on the preceding Sunday. DODSLEY'S ANNUAL REGISTER.—The Proprietors of this Work have the satisfaction to announce, that the printing of the Volume for 1820 will be completed in a very few weeks. The unusual delay which has occurred in the publication is at tributable to a change in the conduct of the Work, tba illness of its Conductor, and the unparalleled quantity of events, foreign and domestic, which required to be compressed within moderate, though not the usual limits. The commencement of anew Reign sugg.ated the propriety of introducing, for the first time, a va riety of useful Lists and Documents, to exhibit to future ages the present political state of the Empire. Three Revolutions abroad, and an extraordinary number of State Trials, all of which are given, and without which an Annual Register would be in complete, sufficiently account for at least a part of the delay. But a similar delay need not again be apprehended, as the Vo lume for 1821 will be published at the usual time. The Editor's object has been to omit nothing which it may hereafter be de sirable to know, and to leave nothing incomplete; and the Pub lishers are quite ready to rest their claims to the high public pa tronage which the Work has ever possessed, on the character of the forthcoming Volume. _ _ _ QUALIFICATIONS OF A STEWARD.—A Drogheda Paper has an advertisement for a land steward wanted, who is only half as much afraid to be honest, as he is to be a rogue !" A duel took place, on the 12th instant, in the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris, between Lieutenant C—k, of the British Navy, and a young French Officer.— The quarrel originated about a fair damsel, who was for some time theille entretienne of a leading Mem ber of the Chamber of Deputies. About two years ago the wife of the Deputy, hearing uf the connection, dispatched her son to Brussels, which her husband was leaving to attend the Session at Paris, for the purpose of preventing the Lady's following him to the capital. The young mats arrived too late to do any good ; the father was gone, and the Lady a stage on her journey. The son rode post after the diligence, and overtook it. His fist business was to abuse the Lady most soundly ; but, such is human nature, they had scarcely travelled twenty miles before the frail one had entrapped the son, as well as the father, and she entered Paris as his there arnie. It seems that Lieutenant C—k, who was a passenger in the coach at the time, lately saw the Lady in the gardens of the Thuillei ies, with a French Gentleman, who proves to be an Officer. The Lieutenant, taken by snrprize, uttered an exclamation, not very creditable to the Lady, and the Officer instantly challenged him to give satisfaction for having offended a Lady who was under his protection. They met, and (what does not always happen) they fought. The Fr. ceived a shot in the right arm, and there terminated. ti qenchm " re- ere the matter