The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-16 00:00:00

kt T s.. I ~; \ I ,- .17 • 'o" I 1 fIUMHP , tt 5809 SPANISH LOANS OF 1921 AND 1822: THE DIVIDEND Payable in London on the let No vember next, on the Spanish Five Per Cent. Consoli• e a sed Annuities, now In circnlation, of the Loans of 1821 and negotiated by Messrs. Ardolo, Hubbard and Co. and toot er sign ed by them, and Messrs. J. Lafitte and Co. of Pa- A L will be paid at the house of A. F. liuldimand and Sons, No. 24. Ceteaton-street, on that and every succeeding day (Spa days excepted), between the hours of ten and two. It will be necessary to leave the Dividend Warrants. with lists thereof. in numerical order. dis'inguislJng the different climes. for examination, at least TWO DAYS previous to the ap plication for payment. Zot QPANISH CERTIFICATES of RENTES deli verett to the Holders of Protested Bills and Orders in fa vour of British Claims, on Messrs. Bernales and Nephews. The Dividend payeli!e in London on the lit November next is the above Spanish Five per cent. Consolidated Annuities now circulation. and countersigned by James Campbell and Co. rill be paid at their house, No. V. Bank-street. on that and every aneceeding day (Sundays excepted), between the boars of ten and two. it will be necessary to leave Me Dividend Warrants. with Ists thereof in numerical order, distinguishing the difftwett lasses for examination, et least TWO DAYS previous to the tsp. plication for payment.—London, Oct. 0, 110YAIS LOAN.—Notice is hereby given, that the HALF YE %SLY DIVIDEND onihis LOAN will be paid to the Bond Holders, on the Ist day of November next, and any subsequent day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of ten end t••o o'clock ; the Divideed Warrants to be left for exa mination st she Counting house of the Suhacriber, one day previous to receiving the dividend. 7, Tokenhouselmed, HERMAN HENDRICKS. October 11. UTILITY AND AkIUSEMENT COMBINED. Tais Dey is Published, embellished with 29 spirited wood en , graving% Parts I. and 11. price Is. each, of THE MECHANICS MAGAZINE, MUSEUM, RE GISTER, JOURNAL, and GAZETTE, a Work Orroted to the instruction and amusement of the operative classes. The Mechanics Magazine is also published in Weakly ?lumbers, price 3d. SUBJECTS OF TITE ENGRAVINGS. Mr. Parkins's yaw Steam Engine of high pressure—View of the intended Tunnel under the Thames—Representation of the Method of Tunnelling— .A Portrait of James Watt—Diving Bell et Sheerness—Flying in the Air—Tantalus's Cup—Break water. Plymouth Snunfl—Map of Plymouta Sound—White's Pellet'—Aseent of Madame Garnerin in a Balloon from Paris, ad *tenant in a Parachute—Archimedes' Basing Mirror— Per. ins's Apparatus for Warming Warehouses, &e.—Mill stone Quarries of Nieder Mending—Machinery employed for raising Stone from Quarries—New double door Springs—Mr. Valiance's Method of warming I louses —lmproved Anvil—Two Views of Parker's Burning Mirror—New Mode of Securing Carriage Wheels—The first Steam Engine—The first Steam Beat—New inventinn in Talk ring—Spiendid Pulpit (specimen of Oak earving)—Eceentric Chuck—Smoke consuming Appa rent. _ _ •'i - here is spirit, good. sense. and)nbstanthl4nforreation In theteigidal pjeeec *nd the selectiols ire amid with topside. rob 4) tact."—Times. "Vbr skill In the composition of its unities variety in the tetineernantle d nematriels of eaelvdmPlibejlistrikint adoption tellordapaci Itol/Its of the rade avowedly kept in vittifftsste auty in the cats andprlnting, and, what dt no nolmOortant consideration to Mechanics, economy in the price, we cannot too hishly prairie this unpresumint. bet really ea cellent little periodietl."—Nottlnghom Review. •• The Mechanics Magazine is a very useful and meritorious publicatiou."—Nlorniog Post. London :—Published by Knight and Lacey, 23, Paternoster row; and sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen in the United Kingdom. ECONOMY IN DRESS. CrIART.E.3 and Co. Tailors and Drapers. No. 191. Fleet Street. two doors West of Fetter Lane, respetfully in • form Noblemen and Gentlemen, they can bare a Fashionahle Cut and well made Coat, of the best fliinerfine Cloth. made to measure.. from ./t. Its. fob tn 41.14. : llhie or Illack ditto. .Ct. Ito. Id. to XL 13.6,1, a Cloth Surtout, ss. N. to .£2. Od. ; Superfine Surtout. no. MI. to XL IS.. ed. ; Ckssiturre or Cloth Trowsers, tie, to 30..; a Suit of Livery emarlete...t4. 49. m. to £4. 10.. ad.; Bog. Chaise. and Fashionable Driving Coats, Visiting and Trarelling Cloaks. Shooting Jackets, Young Gentlemen's Suits, and Chita:l.ll%i Dresses elegantly made. C. and Co. ennanoting their Boldness on Ready Ironer Principles, are enabled to offer these articles at the alinke Low Pi lees,Querlity and Workman 'skip not to be eneelle•l be any Douse it the West-end ; each article bring made wailer their immediate Inspection. QIINTLENINN waited 'men at their (WI !looses, by directing a Letter. Post paid. Observe, the No. 181, Pleet•Qreet. PARSONS 1100 PING COCCI( MEDICINE. AN effectual find safe remedy for this dangerous complaint. hating been nolmin!.tered for many sears with constant eaece.. be Mr. Parson.. Surgeon, WCPt 11alina, Krut, he in 'winced by the prenaxion of hi. Friend., who hate nitner.ed its beneficial elect. in maw• reerot and mn4 . to offer it to the Subtle. It may be odiuinii. tette with perfect eafely to eh ildren of the most tender age as well as to those at a more advanced period. Sold in Packet.. at 2 , 91. each, by Butler.. Cherni.t..4. Cheardde. St Paula, 220. Relent street. (near the Argyle R0n01.,) London ; Waterlue- Place. Ittlinburgh; Saekeille Street. Dublin; and by the principal Medicine t enders throughout the United Kingdom. Ns' Be careful to ask for " PAZIONIe 1100117NIt COCCIN MEDICINZ." A ROWLAND and SON, Soh. Proprietors of the t% • ORIGINAL MACASSAR OIL, for the Growth of Hair. respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry. and Pub lie at large, they have Remove° to No. 20, Hatton-Garden ; aed also beg to CAUTION. That Flegrent Impostors are Vending a spu rious Article under this name ; they purchase the empty bottles. and attempt to deceive the Public with spurious Ma enstar Oil, composed of injurious ingredients, culling it the genuine, and offering it for sale at a lower price. and with i.ut the label, and others sign "Rowlendson, ' imitating the vienntoire. which renders it necessary on pnrchosing, to ask for ROWL AND'S MACASSAR OIL, and strictly to ob serve that none are genuine without the little hook inside the 'tripper ; and the label is signed on the outside, in Red, " A. ROWLAND and SON."—The prices are 35.611.-75.- 10s. 6d. and 21s. per bottle. AU other prices are imposi tioes.—The genuine has the address on the label, " No. 20, Hatton Garden." ISO, RED i'VNISICRIIS, GREY WHISK' FRS. Evv-Rnows„ liar on the Head, effectually changed to Drown or Mack, by the use of ROWLAND'S ESSENCE of TYRE: by merely wetting the Hair, it immediately produces a perreet change. Price 41.-7 s. 3d. and 10s. oh. per bottl,. Sold by the 14r)le Prvrietors, A. Rowland and S.V. No. Sn. ifatton Garden, llolborn, London; and by rippointinent, I +% Mes , rs. 11-n !ries. Titc:ibourne-siret ; Smyth, 117.(;ni ll.•and Pierce. 57, D. Rigge. 55, New Bond.s.reet ; Bayley eked Blew, Cockspnr-street; Sanger, 150, Orford-street; 'Jerry and Co. 17. Greek-street; Butlers. 4. Clienoside. gni :N. Regent-street; _Rowney, 103, Batton Garden; .I.'l'. Xisge, 05, Cliespside; Tnite, 41. Johnston, CS, Corobill ; Newberry, 43. Edwards, (ii. St. Paul's Chilrett-y4r.l S.d. tan, Row Church-yard: Burgess. ; Low. 130,Prout, 220, Strand; Rarelay and Sons. neet anrket; Ford, Fenchurch.street ; Colley. 24, Wharten, llishopssate-street ; Bartlett, Iletton.• irden ; Sem. Bleb Holborn; Fleet-market; Swift, ; Gras.w. Oxford-street ; Woodman. Piccadilly ; and Nix, Royal F.schange ; and by most Perfumers and Medicine Venders. Ask for " Rowland's Oil." or " Rowland's Dye," and observe the signature, " A. ROWLAND and SON." entano LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1823. “ The Cause for which HAMPDEN fell is the Field. aid SYDNRY died on the &gold!” WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS. —.-segeessa- The Old House of Lora', Guy Fawlres'a Cellar, &c have been entirely pulled down, the rubbish cleared away, the old bricks cleaned and this portion of Cotton Garden, which is behind the house of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, the Usher of the Black Ito 1 , presents a grand open apace for the formation of those improvements about the House of Lords that are in contemplation. In promotion of such improvements, the foundations are already laid for new Parliament Offices for the ('leeks, and Offices connected , with the House of Peers—their present Odic, s being at so inconvenient distance, in one of the Government, or "official" houses, in Abingdon street. The new Offices will he, as they ought to be, contiguous to the House of Lords ; and besides affording rooms for the official per sonages, there will be large and appropriate apartments for their Lordships' Parliamentary documents, consisting of the Parchment Rolls of Bills that may have received the Royal Assent, the Parliamentary Papers, . printed and manuscript, &c. Another portion of the improvements will be the continuation, or rather the completion of the Royal Entrance. The route heretofore taken by the Sove reign, when his Majesty went to Parliament for the pur pose of proroguing it, or of opening th,r Sessions, wash after having ascended the grand new staircase, communi cating with the covered way, &c. in New Palace yard, through the'Old House df Lords, thence alo a n i g le t r h y e i n Pai n ted into the Chamber, .across the end of the Long G Royal Robing Room, which directly communicates with the present House of Lords. The old House of Lords no longer existing, it will be seen that a portion of his ' jesty's route to the Robing Room, has thus been cut off, so that the projected improvement at this point, and which will form part of the buildings of which the foun fa toms are now laid, will consist of a gallery to perfect the Royal emote to the Robing Room and House of Lords. The works are proceeding very rapidly; there appear to be no fewer than 130 workmen daily engaged at this poist of the neighbourhood of Westminster Hall. These build. ions and improvements are carried on under the controal of the Board of Works. and Mr. Soane, the Head Surveyor or Architect of that Board, is in daily attendance, super. intending the progress of the works at the new Parliament Offices, the new Courts of Law, the alterations in %Vest. minster Hall, &c. The two" official" or Government stone fronted houses, forming the corner of New Palace-yard, and nearly facing the Royal entrance to the House of Peers, are also under going a thorough renovation, under the order. and inspec tion of the Board of Works, and at the public expense,. These houses are occupied by Sir George Rose and Mr. Cowper, the Clerks of Parliament ; and they communicate with the present Parliamentary Offices of the House of Lords in Abingdonostreet. The neighbourhood of the Treasury will also be the score of great alterations in the course of a day or two. — The office of the Board of Trade, which abuts upon the Treasury, and alongside which there is the Treasury pas. sage, leading into the Park, is to be forthwith entirely pull ed flown, and the old materials sold by , auction. The groundwork of these projected alterations is already sur rounded with high fences ; the several portions of the I buildings are being lotted, preparatory to the sale, and at the end of this week, workmen will begin to pull down the I old buildings, offices, &c., to make room for the erection of new premises for the offices, &c. of the Board of Trade. The extensive labours going on at the resilience of Lord Bexley, (the late Chancellor of the Exchequer), in George Street, which has been so much amended by the " West. minster Improvements," merit some notice, —not because they constitute what are called Government works, but because they have been mainly promoted by the opinions of officers connected with the Board of Works. Lord Bex ley's present residence did belong to General Fawcett, and his Lordshir previously to retiring from the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, bargained for the purchase of General F.'s fine house in George Street • but the sale was not com pleted, in consequence of the title not being so satisfactorily as was desired. Lord Bexley did not become the purchaser, but took the premises on a " repairing" lease, at a good rent. His Lordship had not long been in the possession of such house, when some of the timbers (" needles," as they are termed by the architects) gave way, and the walls began to sink in such a way as to create some alarm for the fate of the house. A surveyor was called in, and, eventually pull ing. down and rebuilding. were prescribed, which were soon afterwards commenced. The front of the house and a portion of the street are enclosed with palings, and a consi. derable number of workmen are daily proceeding with those " repairs," which some have calculated as not being likely to cost the Noble Lord less than 2or 30001. His Lordship has also most extensive works proceeding at Bexley,— alterations and improvements that will cost some thousands; so that his Lordship is likely to hare almost enough of " bricks and mortar." THE LATE GALES. .-....a...-- EARTHQUAKE AT SEA. —Un Sunday, February 10, 1523, at 1 p. on-, the East India Company's ship Winchehat, in her passage from Bengal to England, experienced a shock similar to that of an earthquake, which alarmed the whole chip's company. The slip had a tremulous motion as if passing over a reef of coral; at the same time a rumbling noise was heard, which continued from two to three minutes. As the vessel was at the time several hundred miles from land, and apparently out of soundings, E. lone. 83, N. lat. 25., the agitation can only be accounted for by referring it to a subterranean earthquake, connected probably with an eruption from some of the numerous volcanic islands which abound in the Indian seas. It is indeed to he regretted that the commanders of our mer chant vessels in general do not more frequently attend to the observation, and subsequent notice in some journal, of all such phtenomena, as it would doubtle s s be of great value to their successors. The whole of the Indian Archi pelago presents the strongest evidence of having been, at no very remote period, produced by volcanic agency, many of the islands being at present active volcanoes. It is therefore presumable that similar operations are still going on to a great extent, though concealed from our view by the depths of the ocean, till they present themselves to the incautious mariner as a sub-marine rock or shoal. In navigating seas contiguous to volcanic districts, a ship never ought to be considered, as a matter of course, " out of soundings." It would not he difficult to enumerate several instances wherein such fatal security have been attended with the most melancholy results.—(Literary .71 illettin,) (to Tuesday mornin L s, at one o'clock, twenty-live met convict: under sentence of transportation, the major part of whom Cr.' far life, were removed from Newi , ate /IF caravans, under a proper eicort, in order to be conveyed on hoard the Leviathan, Captain Stedman, now lying at Portsmouth, from thence to New Solidi Wales. On their quitting, they expressed their thai.ks to tiovernor tor his humanity. Not a single prisoner in the gaol is now in irons. A lot of bullocks from the Coonty Care, had L..eit intended for the Bristol 3larket. Wag I.n exposed for sale on the I'eradr; tits very lom priers at which they were offered, ind.ieed many gen•lewen r. siding in the Liberties to become Cr', and :he entire was disposed of in this manner-3 to 4 •ar 01,h fr )nt 4'. to 4 ,guiaeas. 7 (Cork Southern Reporter.) On Saturday morning, about half past eight, the Swedish brig Amphinn, Appelberg, Master, bound from Stockholm to Havre tie Grace, with a cargo of deals, iron, &e. was driven ashore between the Circular Redoubt anitDvnichurclr, having parted from her anchors during the very heavy gale from the south west, (then, in some degree subsided) and almost immediately fell on her beam ends in a terrible _surf. The crew consisted of right persona with one pas senger, who placed themselves on the vessel's side imploring that assistance which it seeme I almost impossible to bestow with sufficient promptitude. The Officers of the Coast Blockade got a boat from a station at some distance, and, at the most imminent peril of their lives, from the tremendous surf. Lieutenant Dyball of the Royal Navy, accompanied by four seamen, put off to the . 1, which they were not able, unfortunately, to reach, the boat having been upset at some considerable distance. The spectators, to the number of forty, headed by Mr. Ilrooman, Mr.Giloon, &r. of the Coast blockade, linked their hands together, and thus entering the surf, succeeded in getting the Lieutenant and his brave fellows ; ass/tore, whither the boat was driven some time afterwards; when Lieut. Dyball, having been disabled by a vrr' severe contusion on the right side (struck by the boat in cap sizing), his place was taken by Mr. Collins, Admiralty Midshipman, who had just succeeded in reaching the vessel, when a tremendous sea took the boat, carried away three of their four oars. and dashed them, to the horror of the spectators, amidst the breakers to the leeward of their object: here the seamanship and coolnesekef Mr. Collins excited the highest admiration. lie delibefately tore up a waste board of the boat, and using it as a pada-, assisted by the one remaining oar, brought the ho it out of the breakers safely on shore.—By this time several seafaring people from Sandgate had ar rived at the spot, who, assisted by Mr. Knott, of Hythe, with a waggon and harness procured a galley from that place, and on its arrival it was immediately manned by six able hands of Sandgate, Gr ires ' Blobs:As, Flischer, Overton, Cock, &c.; the blockade h ost was again most gallantly manned by Mr. Collins and men, and put off at the same time. The anperiority in size of the Sandgate boat enabled them first to reach the vessel, and they brought safely ashore seven of the nine persons; Mr. Collins quickly followed with the remaining two, amidst the plaudits of a great number of persons there collected, who alone can duly estimate the dangers braved, and the devoted gallantry of their conduct. The Swedes were conveyed to the Swsn Inn, Ilythe, where every kind ness and attention was manifested towards them. The cargo, as respects the deals, has been since discharged, but the vessel is completely a wreck, her side being total ly bilged. The brig Nottingham, of Weymouth, Scrivens, coal laden, was lying off Romney, the Captain and crew ashore (excepting the mate) seeking to sell their cargo, in the gale she drifted on a sand bank and sprung a leak. Cargo partly saved. Vessel bilged. In the course of this and last week, we have bad smell heavy gales of wind, especially on the night of the Ist inst. when a tremendous gale came on from N.E. veering' to IV.N.W. and continuing for about twelve hours with great violence. This, we learn, extended far to the east. ward, as well as along; this coast where it has pro ve d no t a little disastrous to shipping, as appears by the following particulars:—On Friday the 31 instant, the Unity, Ed ward Ward, of Faversham, from Archangel to London, saw a vessel to leeward, with a signal of distress flying, bore down, and having hailed without receiving any answer, hoisted out his boat, but on boarding her found no person. The vessel was a schooner of about 90 tons, under the Hanoverian flag, full of water,•and seemingly from Norway, being loaded with battens; there was no name, the mainmast was gone, the bulwarks carried away, and there was no boat, from which, and the circumstances of some clothes and a cask of bread being on deck, it was concluded the crew had been saved by some other vessel. While engaged in this endeavour, to render the assistance the first signal of distress seemed to call fur, the attention of Captain Ward was directed to another from a vessel on his lee bow, made all sail, and on coming up, found it to be a Galliot with her rudder gone, and very leaky, then by observation in Ist. .56. 15. N. long. 10. W. This vessel proved to be the Gato, Captain Schuth, of Groningen, which, on the 30th ult, sailed from Dunbar, for Stettin, with herrings, and in the gale of the Ist, being about sixty miles from St. Abb's Head, when under storm sidle, was struck' by a heavy sea, which carried away the bulwarks, boat, binnacle, and compasses, split the mainsail, and broke the tiller of the rudder, which, in consequence, soon after broke from the irons, so at to he altogether useless. The Gato was repeatedly taken in tow, and every exertion used to bring her to land, nntil Sunday the sth, when, from the violence of the gale of that day. from S. to S.S.E. the Galliot was literally covered with the waves, and the crew, four in ?timber, were now exposed to the utmost danger. In this trying situation, Captain Ward got into his small boat, and fair of his crew having also volunteered their services, pulled through the tremendous waves, and rescind the unfortu• nate t.'reigners from their perilous situation, at the most imminent hazard of sacrificing their own lives. The Galliot, then in lat. 56. 57. was soon after abandoned, the cable by which she was towed having broke, and although se e n vex: day, about eight miles off Peterhead, and on Wednesday last about six leagues off Rattray Head, the vessel, in all probability must be lost to the master and sole owner. Nor was the friendly regard of Captain Ward, to the relief of the distress of his fellow creatures, confined to the cases we have now stated ; for although short of provisions and water, from a long and severe passage of about seven weeks from Archangel, he, on Saturday, received from on hoard a Dutch Galliot, the crew of the sloop Fisher, Anderson, of Lerwick, from Sea lloway to Leith, with fish and kelp.- This vessel was no leas unrcrtunate than the foreigner, for it proved that' after having encountered very hard gales, she, in the storm, of the Ist and 2d, lost her boat, bulwarks, &c. had the coin . 1 passes upset and broke, and was afterwards laid to under the I try-sail, when he was run foul of by a Dutch fishing vessel or dogger. had his bowsprit carried away, and bow stove in, so that it was hardly possible to keep the vessel up with her pumps, until next day ; when, on the fisher hoisting his jack, another Dutc!4 fishing vessel, the Dejonge William, bore down and took out the crew, which were hauled on board by means of a rope : and think th fisher must have Knee down - anon afterwards. The day following they were taken on board the Unity, and Capt. Ward having now about twenty people on board, found it necessary, from the state of the weather, to bear up for this place, the wind still prevailing strong from the southward. Ile accordingly cause into this bay on Monday last, and landed the two notuttunate crews, who bore testimony to the kind aitention they had received from Captain Ward and crew, whose conduct throughout entitle them to the greatest credit for such meritorious exertions, and to that fav,toraYe regard of Lloyd's, as may prove an incentive to the imitalan of so nob'e an example in similar cams of difficulty and distress. The Unity spoke on the 25th Aognst, the ship Kingston, of Hull, all well, 69 miles to the northward of Cape Sweetnose, out days from London for Archangel.—(.le;deea CArunick) PROVINCIALS. ~r _ k ow, ••• / "71 h kt PRICE SEVEN PENCE. thRIIINGIUM POLICE. October 12.-4 IrOPEPUL Charlotte Woodward, a sort of Meg Merrilies personage: Thomas Woodward, a fine. gay, hold faced villain ; and Jan.:- Woodward. a very iisterestiag looking gipsey, though tainted with somewhat of the devil in her disposition—as will his shewn, were charged with kicking up a row, and mit t au as sault upon their landlady. It appeared that the poisoner!.. together with two stout bull dogs, occupied the slope apart ment, and all would have been as happy as the day was long,. had not our hostess looked with a somewhat too jealous eyes upon her cut Inc tenants; but, however, all jogg..d merrily on until last Monday evening, when the male prisoner. having. taken a trip to Harbarne Wake, returned with two mere tenants of the same species ; but, by'r Lady ! our hostess wall inexorable, end refused to welcome her guests ; the man stormed—the dogs growled, and " sweet eenfusion " reigned. The young female now appeared on the theatre of action— defended her husband—and the altered visage of the com plainant was a tolerable proof that the tittle glpsev was a pro ficient in the art of „ attack," as well as of " self defence."' The watch was charged, and the whole party (cx •epfing this dogs, who succeeded iu making their escaiie,) were taken into► custody, together with a precious assortment of property. con sisting of two boxes, containing a choice selection of "pins. needles, bobbins, and finery ;" fishing rods, nets, snares, anti other articles in the poaching line; a choice selection of gam in Materials, via. cards. dlce. balls, &c. and (though last, nut I least,) an assortment of cabalistical articles, which might have enriched the study of even a Friar Bacon. The latter article's the Magistretes took a fancy to, and retained; but the prison ers. titer a suitable admodition, were discharged. Tue LOST SOVERSIGN..-..—John Boner was charged with stealing a sovereign. Anthony Sheet, having bowed to the Magistrate!, stated hie case :—" Please your Honour, I had a sovereign, and I sewett it in my breeches, and always sleptwith them under my head; this morning I awoke at the hour of four, and I found my so vereign safe, but at the hour of five, when I awoke again, yode Honour, it was gone, and the prisoner was gone too." Chairman—Are you countrymen Witness—No, your Honour, (with a shake of his head) I should he sorry for that. Chairman—Why, where ire you from ? Witness—From the County of Down, your Honour. Chairman—And where does the prisoner come from ? Witness—From the County of Tipperary, your Honour. The prosecutor allowed there were five more prisoners in the room, hut he was quite sure that the prisoner was the thief, and I no one else. Chairman—But you canrot be sore that he was the man. Witness—Yes but 1 can, your 11,m)ur, and will take Ply oath of it ; lie left me, and • spoke a word at all to m and all the others rpmained in the room. The prisoner, taken and searched, had no sovereign 11 his possession, but silver to more than the amount, but whiz't he said he had received in wages: The Magistrate observed. that there was not evilence sa!t cient to commit the prisoner, and he must be di,rmarged. Diseharrd! (exclaimed the poor complainant in despair.) sute your Honour don't mean to discharge the man, till he na given me hack my sotrreign ? The simpli:.ity with which the poor creatare told his tale, an the distress which he exhibited at being robh'•ti of the who!.. of his herd earnings, excited the sympathy au. compassion e( the whole Court. AN sSetittsO Tot:Tn.—On Thursday a bra nourons hove was practised at Birmingham upon a yotrig man, who, from his manners, did not seem to have very extensive experience "in the ways of courts and cities." Mr. Sadler was to ascend in kis balloon, but n• arrangem•t had been treaties although it hail been the intention, at I that some one should accompany him. Some wag. bo.c. ever, wishing to play a little on the credulity of the rustic fellow in question, told him that Mr. Sadler was huntin4 ail over the town for some one to go up with him; and that he would give a very handsome sum to any adven turous youth who would become Ids companion. One hero thought this a good opportunity, not alone to im mortalize his fame, but to pot a little cash in his pocky. and therefore lost no time in proceeding to Mr. Sadler to secure the engagement. Mr. Sadler was not at home, line the candidate for aerial honours was introduced to Mrs. Sadler, to whom he opened the subject of his call.—" coon, ma'am," said be, stroking his well greased locks over his forehead with his right hand, while he dangled his hat in his left, "to offer myself to Mr. Sadler to weat upon an in this yere balloon journey as he's a goin tos take. I heard from some friends a mine as he was In wtrit of a young mon loike me to go up wee him, so I thowt I'd coons and affer myself." Mrs. Sadler was not a link astonished at the appearance of the candidate, and aike4 him whether he hail ever been up before? " Why, me Ma'am," answered he, " I can't say as I have, tlioao. maybap I've been in the clouds too—for when I was int Westmorcland t I've moray a time stood on the hills, ant seen the clouds under my feet."—" Do you want to matte any philosophical experitnents, that you are desirous .1 going up, Sir ?" "No, I can't say as f do; only I thought as Muster Sadler tveoted a young mon to go wi"im, moi't as well offer myself."—" Don't you think you be afraid ?" "Nom, Child; I'm not dears! of nothing—an.l. where any other mon will go, I'll go."—" %Vell, Sir, I will, mention your application to Mr. Sadler, bat it will also be, necessary to say what you will pay for the opportunity of taking this trip." "Pay:" said Jolterbead in astonish. mend—" pay! why I never thowt of paling any thing.- What! pay to run the risk of breaking ones neck betores one's time. No, no, ma'am, I thowt Measter Sadler was to pay me; and a main round sum, too, or I'm sure It never a thowt (WC _ _ "Oh, well, Sir, then I can relieve yon from all doubt oa the subject, and assure you Mr. Sadler does not want any. gentleman of your capacity to accompany him." "0! very will Ma'am, if paying is the order of Om day, I wish you good bye, for 1 would not go up at i:t under thirty pounds." And so retired Mr. Jolterbesd, with a scrape of his heel and a pull at the fore locks his hair. Last night there was a halo round the moon.—The following experiment. described by Dr. Brewster, illustrates, in a bents tiful manner, the actual formation of haloes.—Put a few lbws of a saturated solution of a'unt on a plate of glass, and in n lit tle time it will crystallize in minute octoltedron , . When this Is htld between the observer and the sun, or a candle, with Vas eye close to the smooth side, three beautiful haloes are ob served, at different distances from the luminous body. The in nermost, which is the whitest, is produced by the images re fracted by a pair of fares of the crystals, not much inclined to each other; tha second, which is more coloured, witii the blues rays outwards. is formed by a pair of faces more Inclined; and, the third, which is large, and highly coloured, by still ris , ,re . inclined facer:. Each separate crystal forms three images of the larninous object, placed at points 120 degrees distant front each other, in all the haloes; and as the faces are turn every possible direction, the whole circumference is e•smpletely tided up. The same may he produced by other ervitalt. am( the deers may be curiously varied by crystalizing together salts of di !retell: coleurt4. Duct..—.'s meeting took place in the fields at the back - of Canotibury House, early yesterday morning, betwe..n Mr. —r and Air. B—t, a gentleman of fortune, in the vicinity. of Burnham, Bucks. The dispute originated in covsegiteicet of allege:l misconduct to a niece of 31r It— in a bill IrOOUI. .1 he patties tired tWice, Mr. B. receiv ed a woun,l on !Le side on the second tire. :dr. 11. a • surgeon, a 1 attend, Coe parties , and the affair was e:tlctl Car as th:. wratia of the opposing parties went.