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FASHION.4III.E LVTELLICEIVCI. t e sed and Lady Holland entertained Earl and Countess sod a select pa•ty to dinner yesterday, at Holland !louse. p r neess Polignac tbtertained an elegant circle of kishionables • Monday evening, at her house in Port!anti:dare. The Earl and Countess of Pembroke and family left town oa Wider, for Itrighion. g. Reese, Esq. haw left town for his seat, Westowe Lodge, Ceskelietahfre• the harl of Egreastat has left town for lAs sent, Petworth, Sesser- Chutes and Lady Long have left town rot theft scat, Brom. , icy Hill, Kent. fhe Esti of Abergavenny has left town for his gem, Eridge Cgtla Susses. Lord and Lady Folkstone have left town for Longford Castle, Wilis. Ste William Houston, Bart. has tett town for his seat, vision% Suva. Deparesees hem Warren's Hotel, Regent -street t—Sit Wm. and Lady Twysdert, for their best, Itoydon Hall, Sent ; Edward 14ret. id& Keltfell 181144•06 . ikeemash t Re+ on the St. Georges Hotel, Albemarle. WM. Y Onsinind. Arrim e ra d t a tong's Mad. entsListreett —U. Nelson, Elq. from Amgen; R. H. Fesnallgsl ity and 5411, terms Paris . Depsrures OM dine . and dine, for Cheltenham ; Charles JA. Req. fertile Condasinb erne and lira. thatarkft the Burlington Hotel, Old Hurling. essessast, yssiorday, w lreland. Usmetnerta ken the lkitisb Hotel :—Captain and Mr,. Mak. h im , f or werditas I William Price, Elk. for his seat lit Norfolk; A etserweed. BB+ BB eriebton. Viscount Sydney, Rs,. and family have let! town for their seat, fregnal, Kist. • LiTERIBY GLEANINGS. No. ylll. Ma. Dar.—The following interesting particulars of the Author of Sandford and Merton exhibit a singularity of character and conduct, of which the whole range of bio graph, furnishes no example s— " Mr. Day looked the philosopher. Powder and fine clothes were, at that time, the appendages of gentlemen. Mr. Day wore not either. He was tall and stcr.,ped in the shoulders, full made, but not corpulent; and in his me ditative and melancholy air a degree of awkwardness and dignity were blended. We found his features interesting and agreeable amidst the traces of a severe small-pox. There was a sort of weight upon the lids of his large battle eyes; yet whets be declaimed, Of good and nil, • rank*, sod apathy, mad glory, and shame,` very eepremilve where the energies gleaming from them be neath the mime of sable hair, which, Adamlike, curled about his brevet. Less graceftd, less amusing, less bril liant than Mr. g., but more highly imaginative, more clas ecal, and a deeper reasoner: strict integrity, energetic friendship, open-handed bounty, sedulous and diffusive charity, giestly overbalaneed, on the side of tlrtue, the tincture of misanthropic gloom and proud contempt of common-life society, that marked the peculiar character which @Lail unfold itself on these pages. In succeeding yeses, Mr. Day pabilshed two noble poems, the Drying Negro, and the Devoted Legions ; also Sandford and ker bs which by wise parents is put into every youthful hands. " 3lr. Day's father died during his infancy, and left him an estate of twelve hundred pounds per annum, Soon after his mother married a gentleman of the name of Phillips. The author of this narrative has often heard Mr. Dav describe Ifni as one of those common characters, who are to supply their inherent want of consequence, by a bu,y teasing interference in circumstances with which they have no real concern. " Mrs. Phillips, jointured with three hundred pounds a year out of her son's estate, was left his sole guardian, or united with another person in the trust, whom she influ enced. Herself, influenced hv such a husband, often ren dered uncomfortable the domestic situation of a high spirited youth of genius. We may well suppose he im patiently brooked the preceptive impertinence, and trouble some authority of a man whom he despised, and who had no claim upon his obedience, though he considered it as 'duty to pay some outward respect to the husband of his mother. " She frequently repined at the narrowness of her join ture, and still oftener expressed solicitude lest Mr. Phillips, who bad no fortune of his own, should lose in the decline of life, by losing her, all comfortable subsistence. It was Mr Day's first act, on coming of age, and into possession of his estate, to augment his soother's jointure to four hundred, and to settle it upon Mr. Phillips during his life. ?his bounty, to a man who had needlessly mortified and embittered so many years of his own infancy and youth, evinced a very elevated mind. That mini had alto been wounded by the caprice of a young lady, who' claimed the triumph of a lettered heart,' without knowing how to value and retain Ilex prime. " Even at that period, `when youth, elate and gay, steps into life,' Mr. Day was a rigid moralist, who proudly im posed on himself cold abstinence, even from the most intwent pleasuree; nor would he allow an action to be virtuous, which was performed upon any hope of reward, hire, or hi reafter. This severity of principle, mote ab stract and specious, than natural or useful, rendered Mr. Day sceptical towards revealed religion, though by no means a confirmed deist. Most unlike Dr. Johnson in those doubts, he resembled him in want of sym pathy with such miseries as spring from refinement and the softer affections; resembled him also, in true comps:- Son for the sufferings of cold and hunger. To the power of relieving them he nobly sacrificed all the parade of life, and all the pleasures of luxury. For that mass of human eaarscter which constitut e s polished society, he avowed a Sovereign contempt ; above all things he expressed aversion to the modern plans of female education, attributing to I their influencz the fickleness which had stung him. He I thought it. however, his duty to marry ; nursed systematic idea of the f orce f philosophic tuition to produce future simile, and laved to mould the infant and youthful mind. " Ever despicable in Mr. Day's estimation were the dis tinctions of birth, and the advantages of wealth ; and he haillearnt to look back with resentment to the allurements Si the graces. He resolved, if possible, that his wife should have a taste for literature and science, for moral and pa triotic philosophy. So might she he his companion in that rttirement, to which h e h ai l d est i ne d hi mse lf ; an d ass i st him in forming the miuda of his children to stubborn virtue and high exertion. He resolved also, that she should be simple as a mountain girl, in her dress, her diet, and her manners ; fettles. and intrepid as the Spartan wives MI Roman heroines. There was no finding such a crea ture ready made ; philemphical romance could not hope it. He must mould some infant into the being his fancy had ' imsecd. " With the late Mr. Bieknel, then a banister, in consi I I - ileralile practice, and of taintless reputation, and several' !ars older than himself, Mr. Day lived oa terms of inti ive friendship. Credentials were procured of Mr. Day's n!rical probity, and with them, on his coming of age, these Ito friends journied to Shrewsbury, to explore the hospi tal in that town for foundling girls. From that little train Mr. Day, in the presence of Mr. Bicknel, selected two of twilve pars each, both beautiful ; one fair, with flaxen licks and light eves; her he called Lucretia. The other, h deer auburn brunette, with darker eyes, more glowing W orn and cheating tresses, he named Sabrina. These girls were obtained on written conditions, for, the performance of which Mr. Bieknel was guarantee. i tal trete to this effect; that Mr. Day 'herald, within the tsfelts momh after taking them, resign one into the pro teulor, of some reputable tradrawoman, giving one hundred ttautels to bind h er apprentice ; maintaining her, if she be'll rut w e ll, t ill she inert-it d, or began busines s for herself. ' UP% tidier of these events, he promised to advance four l eindrtd more. He avowed ' his intention of educating the I' I'll.rlhe should r eta i n , w i t h a v i ew to making her his future solemnly elignge.l never to vi o lat e h er i nnocence; sal if be should r nounce his plan, to maintain her de-1 "11l in some creditable family till she married, when he! !Tainted eve letudreil pounds as her wedding portion. ISay went instantly into France • ith thew gills tskirg an English *errant, that ' t might receive no W. except those which himself might choose to impact. , u " They tenet! and perplexed him ; they quarrelled, and dtight incessantly ; they sickened of the small-pox ; they i,sincil hien to their bed-sid e by cry i ng , an d scream i ng if t_tl : y wire ever left a moment with any person who could , 11 : , t speak t o t h em i n English . He was obliged to sit up terth them many n i g h ts to perform for diem the lowest (S of assistance. ruey lost no beauty by their disease. Soon after they *ad f i • covivert, crossing the Rhone with his wards in a tem 11`.4"tis day, the bust overact. Being an excellent swain viler he saved them both, drone) with ditEculty and dangei to himself. " Mr. Day came back to England in eight months, heartily glad to separate the little squabblers. Sabrina was, become the favourite. He placed the fair Lucretia with a chamber milliner. She behaved well, and became the wife of a respectable linen-draper in London. ()n his re turn to his native country he entrusted Sabrina to the are of Mr. Bicknel's mother, with whom she resided Bowe months in a country village, while he settled his affair, It his own mansion -house, from which he promised not to re move his mother. " It has been said before, that the fame of Dr. Darwin's talenta allured Mr. Day to Liebtiekl. Thither he led, in the spring of the year 1770, the beauteous Sabrina, then thirteen years old; and taking a twelvemonth's pos session of the pleasant mansion in Stowe Valley, resumed his preparations for implanting in her young mind the thiticteristit virtues of Arria, Portia, and Cornelia. His experiments had ntst the success he wished and expected. Her spirit toukl nit be armed against the dread of' pain, and the *appearance of danger. When he dropped melt ed sealing %via on her arms she did not endure it heroically, nor when he Bred pistols at her petticoats, which she be lieved to be charged with ball, could she help starting aside or suppress her screams. " When he tried her fidelity in secret-keeping, by telling her of well-invented dangers to himself, in which greater danger would result from its being discovered that he wan aware of them, he once or twice detected her having lay *pined them to the servants, and to her play-fellows. "She betrayed her averseness to the study of books, and of the rudiments of science, which gave little promise of ability that should one day be responsible for the education of youths, who were to emulate the Gracchi. " Mr. Day persisted in these experiments, and sustained their continual disappointment during a year's residence in the vicinity of Lichfield. The difficulty seemed to lie in giving her motive to exertion, self-denial, and heroism. It was against his plan to draw it from the usual sources, peguniary reward, Inxury, ambition, or vanity. His watch fill cares had precluded all knowledge of the value of money, the reputation of beauty, and its concomitant desire of ornamented dress. The only inducement, therefore, which this lovely artless girl could have to combat and subdue the natural preference, in youth so blossoming, of ease to pain, of vacant sport to the labour of thinking, was the desire of pleasing her protector, though she knew not how, or why he became such. In that desire, fear had greatly the ascendant of affection, and fear is a cold and indolent feeling. " Thus, after a series of fruitless trials, Mr. Dal re nounced all hope of moulding Sabrina into the being his imagination bad formed ; and ceasing to behold her as his future wife, 'lie placed her at a boarding-school in Sutton- Coldfield, Warwickshire. His trust in the power of edu cation faltered ; his aversion to modern elegance subsided. From the time he first lived in the vale of Stowe he had daily conversed with the beautiful Miss Vonore Sneyd of Lichfield. Without having received a Spartan education, she united a disinterested desire to please, fortitude of spirit, native strength of intellect, literary and scientific taste, so unswerving truth, and to all the graces. She was the very Honors Sneyd, for whom the gallant and un fortunate ::lajor Andre's inextinguishable passion is cib poetic, as his military fame and hapless destiny are on patriot record. Parental authority having dissolved the juvenile engagements of this distinguished youth and maid, Mr. Day offered to Honora his philosophic hand. Sho ad mired his talents ; she rereretl his virtues ; she tried to school her heart into softer sentiments in his favour. She did not succeed in that attempt, and ingenuously told him so. Her sister, Miss Elizabeth Sneyd, one year younger than herself, was very pretty, very sprightly, very artless, , and very engaging, though countless degrees inferior to the endowed and adorned Honors. To her the yet love-luck less sage transferred the heart, which Honore had with sighs resigned. Elizabeth told Mr. Day she could have loved him, If he had acquired the manners of the world, instead of those austere singularities of air, habit, and address. " He began to impute to them the fickleness of his first love ; the involuntary iciness of the charming Honors, as well as that for which her sister accounted. He told Elizabeth, that for her sake he would renounce his preju dices to external refinements, and try to acquire them. Ile would go to Paris for a year. and commit himself to danc ing and hoeing-masters. He did so ; ■tool daily an hour or two in frames, to screw back his shoulders and point his feet ; he practised the military gait, the fashionable bow, minuets,' and cotillions: but it was too late ; habits so long fist I could no more than partially be overcome. The endeavour made at intervals, and by visible effort, wigs more really ungraceful than the natural stoop and un fashionable air. The studied bow on entrance, the sud denly recollected assumption of attitude, prompted the risible instead of the admiring sensation ; neither was the showy dos, in which he came back to his fair one, a jot more becoming. " Poor Eliiaheth reproached her reluctant but insup. pressive ingratitude, upon which all this labour, these sacrifices had been wasted. She confessed that Thomas Day, blackguard, as he used jestingly to style himself, less displeased her eye than Thomas Day, fine gentleman. " Thus again disappointed, lie resumed his accustomed plainness of garb, and neglect of his person, and went again upon the Continent for another year, with pursuits of higher aim, more congenial to his talents and former principles. Returning to England in 1773, he saw that spring, Miss Ilonora Sneyil united to his friend Mr. ' Edgeworth, who was become a widower; and in the year 1780, he learned that his atestood love of that name Miss Elizabeth Sneyd, was also, after the death of Honors, married to Mr. Edgeworth. " It was singular that Mr. Day should thus, in the course of seven years, find himself doubly rivalled by his most intimate friend ; but his own previously rencunced pur suit of those beautiful young women, left him without either cause or sensation of resentment on their account. " From the year 1773, this hitherto love-renounced philosopher resided chiefly in London, and amid the small and select circle which he frequented there, often met the pretty and elegant Miss Esther Mills, of Derbyshire, who, with modern acquirements, and amongst modish luxuries, suited to her large fortune, had cultivated her understand ing by books, and her virtues by benevolence. The again unpolished stoic had every charm in her eyes, • She saw Othello's visage in his mind.' llut, from indignant recollection of hopes so repeatedly baffled, Mr. Day looked with distrust on female attention of however flattering semblance; nor was it till afar years of her modest, yet tender devotion to his talents and merit, that he designed to ask Miss Mills, if she could, for his sake, resign all that the world calls pleasures ; all its luxuries, all its ostentations; if with him she could resolve to employ, after Cie ortlimry comforts of life were sup plied, the surplus of her affluent fortune in clothing the naked and feeding the hungry, retire with him into the I country, and shun, through remaining existence, the infectious taint of human society. " Mr. Day's constitutional fault, like poor Cowper s, seemed that of looking with severe and disgusted eyes upon those venial errors in his species, which are mutually tolerated by mankind. This stain of misanthropy was extremely deepened by his commerce with the world, re strained as that commerce ever had been. Satiric, jealous, 'and discerning, it was not easy to deceive him ; yet, in a few instances was he deceived by the appearance of virtues congenial to his own • For neither man nor angel can discern • Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks ' Invisible, except to God alone.' "To proposals so formidable, so sure to be rejected by a heart lees than infinitely attached, Miss Mills gladly as sented, but something more remained. Mr. Day insisted that her whole fortune should be settled upon herself, totally out of his present or future control ; that if she grew tired of a system of life so likely to weary a woman of the world, she might return to that world any hour she 'chose, fully empowered to resume its habits and its pleasures. They married, and retired into the country about the lyear 1780, according to the best recollection of the author of theme memoirs. No carriage; no appointed servant about Mrs. Day's own person ; no luxury of any sort. Music, in which she was a distinguished proficient, was deemed trivial. She banished her harpsichord and music books. Frequent experiments upon her temper, arid her attachment, were made by him, whom she lived but to obey and love. Over these she often wept, but never re- 1 pined. No wife. bound in the strictest fetters, as to the incapacity of claiming separate maintenance, ever made more abiAnte sacrifices to At roost hiperlons husband, than did this lady, whon Independentle had been secured, and of whom nothing nes 'dethAded as a dun. " Thus Mr. Day f ou nd, a t last, the very clan he 'dreaded, that of fashionable women ' n a heart whose pissibn I for him sUppli e d all the requisitesor his higb-to'ned ek pectations. " Some eight or ten years Ad ha titirrlage, the life of this singular being became, in id Iteiritilan, a victim to otur of his uncommon systems. He thought highly of the gri , titude, generoeity, and sensibilitylit hones; and that when:. ever they were disobedient, unruly, at vicious, it was ettriiig, Ito previous 11l usage from men. He had reared. fed. Ind tamed a favourite foal: When it was time it should be come serviceable, disdaining tro employ a horsebenker, he would use It to the bit and the burden himself. He was not a good horseman. The animal s disliking his new situ ation, heeded not the soothing voice to which he had been accustomed. He plunged, threw his muter, and then, with his heels, struck him on the head en instantly fatal blow. It was laid that Mrs. Day never afterWarda saw the sun ; that she lay in bed, into the curtains Of which no light was admitted during the day, and only rose to stray alone through her garden, when night gave her sorrows congenial gloom. She survived this adored husband two years, and then died, broken-hearted, for his loss." —Min &wards Memoirs. RESTORATION OF GREECE. -- _ L . Thy glorious seased motet try reek Gilded by libedestitundna . Shall be the plat **Mei • leg Greece Shall turn her wee apse thy shores R at ak sh a lt oyes with shouts Of martial p • edit • 1 01 1 P0 To burst their drains, Ire arms. Then on thy Isthmus. 4 "t tat. In sleepless Connell. whets `Zr Paes'd lilke a pestilence' Thy warners shall liftp Mk' ma Again all stretch Its line And eery name of thy heroic dal.- Shall be a watch-word for the gath east vhie. And, 0 my country ! let thy voice be bleed Amidst the din of battle, like the cry Of the and eagle in the upeopeet's roar s When Hellas rises to esserther rights. Ile not far from her : let thy chleUns Direct the onset. and thy handy sons Be foremost in the fight which Britons lona The fight for liberty. %t'hen tortur'd Greve! !jailer her supplicating eyes to thee, Turn not away, nor let thy virtwoue nettle, Pledg'd to a faithless Itoerti of infidels. Be mule the safeguard of her tyrants-4%10-- Rather let your united legions guide The bolt of vengeance, that the Gress may shine Once more upon the Hell es po n t, and prae'rs Of Christian Sanctity again be baud Within Istambol's domes. To raise thine arm Between th' oppressor and oppresed, to bteak The fetters of the captive, and declare That the poor slave wh"o treads thy shores, is‘free, Has always been thy high prerogative: Hence thou art happy, and whilst Europe seems One dismal dungeon, circled in with walls Of steel. and watched by sleepless eentinels, The natives of thy soil still feel the breath Of Freedom fan their cheeks. Thou stand'st alone With thy few warriors in the narrow par, The world's Thennopyhe ; and whilst the one hand Waves the red sabre of thy righteous cause, The other profers to a sinfttl world The Gospel, and lets fall the healing dews Of charity upon the faster'd wounds Of sufrring mortalag hence my bottom glows With gratitude that I was born thy son ; And these thy deeds of mercy *odor peace, Shall more avail thee in the dreadful hear Of peril, than that thine uneon d lads Hate borne their thunders o'er die distant wave, Where keel ne'er plough'tl before; or that a Yost Of Eastern potentates, with bedded Crouch at the footstool of thy pegs 7 lIE AMERICAN MoCIING BIRD. The plumage of the American Mocking Bird, though none of the homeliest, has nothing gaudy or brilliant in it, and had he nothing else to recommend liim, would scarce entitle him to notice, but hisfigure is well proportioned and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays, in listening and laying up leasons from every species of the feathered creedal& within his heeling, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity bf his genius. To those qualities we may add that of a voice, full, strong and musical, and cepable almost of every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the Wood Thrush, to the savage scream of the Bald Eagle. In the measure and accents he faithfully follows the originals ; in force and sweetness of expression he greatly improves upon them. In his na tire groves, mounted on a bush or half grown tree, in the dawn of every morning, while the woods are already vocal with the multitude of warblers, his admirable song rites pre-eminent over every other competitor. The car can listen to Ins music alone, to which that of others seems a mere accompaniment; neither is the strain altogether imitative. His own native notes, which are easily distin guished by such as are well acquainted with those of the various song birds, are hold and full, and varied seemingly beyond all limits. They consist of short expressions of two, three, or at the most five and six syllables, generally interspersed with imitations, and all of them uttered with emphasis and rapidity, and continued with undimi nished ardour for half an hour at a time. His expanded wings and tail glistening with white, and the buoyant gayety of his action, arresting the eye as his song most irresistibly does the ear ; he sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstacy, he mounts and descends as his song swells, or dies away. While thus exerting himself, a bystandct', destitute of sight, would suppose the whole feathered tribe had as sembled together on a trial of skill, each striving to pro duce his utmost effect, so perfect are his imitations. Me many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that are, perhaps, not within miles of him, but whose notes lie exactly imitates; even birds themselves are frequently imposed on by this admirable mimic, and are decoyed by the fancied calls of their mate, or (live with pre= capitation into the depths of thickets at the scream of what they suppose to be the sparrowhawk. The mocking bird loses little of the power and energy of his song by confinement. In hie domestic state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested; he whistles for the dog, Cesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master ; he squeaks out like a hurt chicken, and the hen hurries about with hanging wings and bristled feather s c l uc ki ng to protect h er injured brood. The barking of a dog, the mewing of a cat, the creeking of a /taming wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity. He repeats the tune taught him [by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quivering of the canary and clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird with such superior execution and effect, that the Mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by re doubling his exertions. This excessive fondness for va riety, however, in the opinion of some, injures his song. His elevated imitations of the brown thrush are frequently interrupted by the crowing of cocks, and the warblings of the blue-birds, which he exquisitely manages, are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or cackling of bens ; 'amidst the simple melody of the robin, we are suddenly surprised with the shrill reiterations of the whip-poor-will ; while the notes of the killdeere blue-jay, martin, and twenty others, succeed with such Imposing reality that we look round for the originals, and discover with astonish ment that the sole performer in this singular concert is the admirable bird now before us. During this exhibition of his powers he spreads his wings, expands hie tail, and throws himself around the cage in all the ecstacy of enthu siasm, seeming not only to ring but to dance, keeping time to the measure of his music. Both in his native and I domesticated state, during the solemn stillness of the night, as 110011 as the tnoon rises in solemn majesty, he begins his delightful solo, and serenades us the live-long night with a full display of his vocal powers, making the whole neigh bourhood ring with his imitative melody.--.lnacricea Pa per. The average population of Ireland is 36,1 to the square mile, while that of England and Wales is hut 210, and of Scotland SG ; or, taking the whole island, less than 170. Mail coaches will shortly be established on the roads communicating between the principal cities in Ireland and the great Atlantic packet station now forming at Valcntia. We are also informed that a grand hotel, on a magnificent [ s cale, will be erected at that station for public accommoda tien.— Western Herald. }roatz cincurr. SURREY ASSIZES, CROYDON, Aceicer Ilanliah Shaer, a single woman, was indicted for the wilful murder of her f o e ca udellegitimate child at Lambeth, on t h e 113th of March, by sur In a privy. Second c oun t c h arge d pr i soner with concealing they irth.. Ur. TuesaYntit, whq 'conducted the prosecution, stated in the outset that he proposed to abandon the capital charge, itossmuch as 111 ; was in no entehtlon tomove that the child was horn alive. The Jury would thedebre hate to confine their attention solely to the cherof conceilment. r. lave conducted the aefentlt t appeared in evidese that the prisoner (who was I n the dews' distress during her t rial) .was n charwoman t she lodged a; the house of a gardener..nlltued Turner, to Lambeth. Fticatanti time previous to the loth of March, her landlady had "eared that she was pregnam,,,, The beadle of the parish 3i4io taxed her r; to her condition, and werqed her tp leye the parish, lest she should bring alurdch upon Lambeth, to, width she Jl4l not belong. She, however, denietl her pregnancy, On tie 18th Muech the. pri. sat*, thatead of goillg ,her to her work il'ctualned at horn:. In the course of the morning Mrs. Tbriter . 's. daughter obacied fief cat e something in a pail to tho Privy, taking fltlr.Ser a bi broom. Abut twelve o'clock Dim Turner, who had bees mat home; end learning front het...daughter, what the had observed, asked the prisoner what had happened to her, and remark„ mg thee her ship! Was very much altered ! taxed her Jelth having dispelled tither inthnt. The prisoner said nothing hid happen to her; and denied that sh e had had an infant. Upon being furthci pressed, she admittbd that she had become a mothiromd had thrown the Child into the privy. In consequence of this informa tion the pia was searched, and the child found ; the bi r ch b r o o m above having !glen used for the purpose of pushing the body lama dN saiL • 1 The pefasseat was too dutch distressed to attempt any defence. Her Cesilasel did avail thing that could be done on her behalf. i Mr. lamp Oita mot 'steamed up the evidence, and the Jury found hat Guilty of the concealment. SFaiiana.—Three awe* imprisonment in the House of Cor- I r• unM"gCodhatne Jetap, anti 1.11111i4 two &Ram a age it foartamorare indicted for a conspiracy to set lire! to the fitter/ ad lh:•J>tira Byng Banks, lace maker an Bertnond- sey, and *film trial of considerable length, were found--Not Cagily. OXFORD CIRCUIT. 3ION3IOUTH ASSIZES, MONDAY, Atro O. These Assizes commenced this day before Mr. Justice Bun. lovas oo the Crown side, and Mr. Baron °sallow at Nisi Prism. The calendar contained the names of nine prisoners, one of , them for murder. On the Civil sidt there were twelve causes en tered for trial, of which seven were disposed of as undefended causes, or by verdicts being taken by consent. This despatch of business caused some delay, as the Witnesses in several of the later cases had not arrived in the towns and alter a lapse of tome time the business ptoceeded. CIVIL SIDE. Before Mr. Baron Gaaanti. LEWIS I. isicifxn De. Mr. C. PIIILLIPS opened the pleading.. Mr. Ckst enexi. stated that the plaintiff was landlord or the Crown Inn at A bergavenny. The defendant was a timber merchant in the same town. The parties had both been in the habit of hay. ing their linen hung out to dry in apiece of waste ground called thE Priory-yard, for which the plaintiff paid the defendant sixpence a year. On the day in question the plaintiff's linen was drying, slid the defendant came in agrest passion and knocked down the clothh poles. The plaintiff 's servant replaced them, and the defendan,... a towering wrath fetched • carpenter's axe, and with th a t h e hschAssi a pair of sheets in pieces. The plaintiff came tip and renionstrite% and the defendant struck him twits with the pole of the axe. William Jones said, I am the plaintiff's servant ; our clothes used to dry in the defendant's pound ; on the day in question he pulled up the clothes-posts, and threw the clothes into the mud. I I replaced the pole, and the plaintilf came up and ordered the cldthes in, but the defendant trampled on them. The defendant then tau into a carpenter's shop and brought out an axe, with which he flat cut the clothes line, and then two table-cloths and a pair hf thy mis tress's pockets. The plaintiff tried to get the clothes away, knd the defendant with an oath told hint to begone, and hit Min on the I head with the pole of the axe , I mean the i ron h ea d o f the ate, op. posite to the edge. Cross-examined by Mr. Leto r.ow.—They had not been Scuffling I I before. 1 had seen their bands lifted up for ten minntes ; they were rather in a passion, I heard t h e d e f en d ant or d er the paintiff off his premises. Re-examined.—l knotty the clothes are here. Frances Jones proved the same facts, and produced the clothes. They presented some frightful gashes, and were in Put rendetsd wholly useless. Mr. lArrixow addressed the Jury in mitigation of damages, and at the express request of his client called a witness, who proved that be was present, and did not see any blow pass, brat l e !Minh tad that he saw that the plaintiff was bruised, but how it happened he did not knob. Mr. CAMPBELL replied. Mr. &WOO GA no* "toured up the MI to the Jury. Verdltt tbr the plaintif—Darnates, FADE IMPRISONMENT. JAMES I'. SWIFT , Eau. Mr. CAMPBELL said that the plaintiff was a small freeholder living at Pinhbrn, the defendant. Mr. Swift, filled the office of one of the bailiff's of the borough of Monmouth. Ile had the honour of knowing Mr. Swift, who a as they probably were aware, wss • magistrate of the, Borough, and however respectable on other oc casions, had certainly misconducted himself now. In the month of Novembet the flaintiff was going home, and on his way passed Troy-house, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, and there be met Mr. Swift, who said that the plaintiff had stblen his tim ber; on this a Mr. Powell came up, and said he would give his word fur the plaintiff's appearance. The plaintiff, hovrevet, would not accept of the interference, and the defendant said, " I'll be il—d if you shan't go to gaol ;" and Mr. Swift then sent him to the house of the sergeant-at-mace, on a charge of stealing this timber, and the Magistrate being resolved to ito his duty, ordered the plaintiff's pockets to be searched, no doubt in the hope of finding the itoien timber, but he should prove that they had only found Hton him a pocket handkerchief, a penknife, anti a smiff-box. owever, notwithstanding this, Mr. Swift sent the plaintiff to the Gate-lipuse s which, as they knew, was • bdilding near a thousand years old, having no light, except at some of those slits through which our ancestors shot arrows at the besiegers of the town. Here the plaintiff' was locked up, without chair, table, tire, or candle, anti was only let out at the intercession of Mr. Williams. the plaintiff's attorney, after having been locked up six hours. No charge was, however, attempted to be followed up against the plaintiff on account of the timber. The notice of the action being proved, George Powell said, I was near Troy House on the night in question; I saw Mr. Swift and the plaintiff; Mr. Swift's two men had hold of the plaintiff', anti I said, " What are you going to do— to kill the man or rob hint ?" Mr. Swift said, " No, he has robbed me." I said I had nothing at all to say if that wit, sd. Mr. Swift then asked me if I knew the man. and would become bail for him, to which I assented ; and Mr. Swift said he would deliver him over to me, but tile plaintiff said he would not film bail, he had done nothing to want bail for. Mr. Swift then Mid, " Now we will have him to the Tower," and Mr. Swift's men took him away. I The Tower is on the bridge; it is a bad place on a Novembrf night. There is no bed there—a good deal of straw, and plenty of company. (A laugh.) Cross-examined by Mr. Lodi-ow—The plaintiff mien be • little fresh, but not very drunk; he was not sober; he had not been drinking in my house. The NVye had been flooded, and timber had Hosted away. Mr. Swift said the plaintiff had robbed him, but did not say that the plaintiff had insulted him. John Jones, a sergsam-at-mace, said, I carried the plaintiff to the gate.hcuse, but before that he was searched, and some money, a pocket-book, a penknife, and s snuff-box found upon hint, but I did not find any pieces elf timber in his pockets. This was at about eight o'clock at night. There was straw in the lock.up house, but no fire ode candle. De was kept four or live hours. Mr. Swift directed me to lock him up. Cross-examined—Mr. Swift is a magistrate The plaintiff we; very drunk, and rather abusive. Mr. Luntow addressed the Jury for the defendant, and called Mr. Swift's men, who swoti that nothing was said about any dm ber, but that they took the plaintiff hp for being abusive to Mt. Swift. However, a third witness being called, he stated that the timber was mentioned when the plaintiff was taken, but that the plaintiff said he eared no more for a Monmouth Alderman than an apple dumpling. his, Swift then said, if he would riot be civil he would hate him locket up. Mr. CAMPBELL replied. Mr. Baron Ganctow said, that this mate had nothing to de with Mr. Swift's Mike of a Magistrate, and chid the Jury ought to give such moderate damages as they thought the plaintiff fairly en titled to. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 61. CROWN BIDE. Before MT. JettliCe Brit/101'CH. BURNING A WOOD. Edmund Young was charged with setting fire to a wood, the pro perty of his Grace Henry Heise of Beaufort, on the 19th day of April last. Mr. ('Ross stated the case. William Owynne said, I am one of the wocedwerds Of the Duke lof Beaufort. There was a fire in the Beacon Wood. I went to it ; about ten acres were burnt. I. had seen the prisoner M the rood,' near my house. There is way from my house to his; near the tire. I taw the prisoner go in a direction towards the place where the Ere was; but I saw no smoke for mere than half an hour. The Saturday following, I asked him which way he went home, and he told the through the wood. I asked if he bad seen any fire, and he Said he had not. It was short oak wood, but the wind blew very hard. I could find where it began, but not how it had been done. Margaret Hoskins. a little girl, said, I remember the ate. 1 was picking tip chips. I observed a smoke. lUM a man by the wall side, and soon after saw the smoke; the man wore a carer's frock and a black hat. I did not know him; he was a long way off me. I s►w the prisoner about half an hour after; lie wore • similar dres►, but all the country people wear nearly the same sort of dress. Mr. Justice Butiounn, on this evidence, directed an ac. quittal. Verdict—Not Guilty. lit IDL.4A'D CIRCUIT. WARWICK ASSIZES, WAnwscs, Ago. O. The Assiree commenced here this day, before Judge PARK itl the Civil, and Judge IllitlioKo it the Criminal Court. The Re. lendarls.rtniparat Ively 1404 Ai r. Justice Hot n 0 Ir hls!barge to the (hand Jury, no. fleed the case of Stockman, o.ugilittorhcn be reprobated the breaking of the pease by the 110 e g ht, which, causlid an eneeenhlead of thieves and persons of the Pont des/11140. tyke aided sod abetted in bre a ki ng the peace. The earned Jntlgeeuibplt•lX the borough ALogistrates for preventthg thb lite holing log place within their jurisdiction. The peace, bowerellPlß was broken at a very short distanc e f rom We shwa; bin the Mow Magistrates.were most probably not aware of so 3uddctt all nemnin+ Wage. The L earne d J u d ge next adverted td thi liba which blundy conflicts were, he 'aid, against all Christian an sop. ral feelings, by the torture of noble anioutls. He itt) Id. if 9 1 11 1 1- atom: at correct, the Magistrates had po wer t o supirkin such te r tore, as the Atiing 4bottt ittha ild beasts was illega l, It casaitd terror, and hazarded the live,' of hies Majesty's subjects. . There was ea tri a l o f th e s li g htf at i nterest during the day. gtoe.sr man's trial will probably take place on Wednesday. John Currier, from Birmingham, was b roug h t here teiterday, and fully We mined, as an accomplice in the robbery of_Mr. rata. LA IV INTALLIGRAti. COURT OF CHANCERY, Tuts l ar, Aucitts•r' . • • ABSENCE OF COUNSEL. The LORD CHANCELLOR prrived at, the Hall ae o'clock. When be took his olilr there *eve very fe C oun sel in attendance, and after lie had diOit died of all the cases he Mould p on with in the absence of Counsel lie left tlqe Court for nefirl; hall an hour, during which time fie sent repitedly to ktfolv if any gentleman had arrived to optic any case, albtd the moment any one came his Lordship returned, etl.fitkre bonne:7-r, IS THE wetted! of eta likihs.hir PAGE TURNER. 1%/r. HART renewed his applifiation that Alr. (Yrbett might bp:l libew it all times to have acpeas to Sir Brevet in theetratedj th.Vlarshal of the Kin g ' s Pencil prison, so that be might be en ab to prnsecute th e traverse Of the inquisition. r• opposed the' Mat ,11r. Corbett w as connee'.ed conducted themselves towards' LIM mid some affidavits, filth a Mr. TnEst.oe'E appeased for . along been stated that Sir Gregory traverse, but he ncber heard of every penny of his money So:leiter went to the prison !soul shnuld be permittnil The Loin CH ANCEL whose confidence had been gory Pagterumer's, and take care that if any fun . gentleman, he should proper authority and would not prejudge the be, and was, for any thi respectable Solicitors in connected with the persons not be very likely that the ' roue. However, regard fit matter, his Lordship di' order, without reading t sled in this matter, and . copies df the whole. Wh ner, upon which there had . be allotted fot her, her hat Ciregoby seemed to be much he had written a letter rant wife anything in the present something hid been allowed reference lea intt been, made should not be altowed. Lo tt z ip on w e e o n r t t irpo o n P i et he it Ve n t rn ru o p re t i i i n St. htn"Y wet., d"thilti lift VICE-CRAfSCELLOR'S COURT, Ttrreimi, Atii. 9. . . rup T t l s i . peC,uottiirotor of a n s o 6 generalecupiedtlit int erest. Of the day in heaths* bank= • COMMISSION OF 1,1.W.ACY.... ,, ,it.:GU5t 9. --........—, THE REV. EDWARD FRANK. ---7 , r IGHTIi Arb i.A't DA+ • , . .. The Cittitr CbststlSSlOWed. continued his summ t aig u p or th e evidence this morning. In alluding to the Influence whiCh Dr. t Dickenson had obtained over the mind °flit r. Frank, he commented on the fact of Dr. Dickenson'*l.d:idling to Mr. Frank (Wier re peated solicitationS for money) the sin of Hvn suvertagna, and argued that this circumstance proved lir. Dickenson'e ("mien of Mr. Frank was, that he was nett a man of solind mihil, end cer. tainly unlit to have money in Lis possession., n'hen the Lefirned, Commissioner had gone through the *hol e a the eokteneb in hip. Putt of the Inquiry, he observed that it fetched an swititt &pa coo:. nested chain of facts and cirCtuusuitiCes that had not bald bisoken and, theiefore. well-deserved rise consideration of the Jii4. , l'ltil evidence aS to tile sanity of Mr. Frank also merited their etibtition., consisting, as it did, of the testirtlony of sertainS,, dim liSei beers attending on his pelson, and df that of seieril highly ernmehl and respeeteble medical gentlemen, who stated their decided oSiniore that Mr. F. although a M3ll of weak mind, was not insane. It was, however, to be regretted that none of 111 r. Frank's private friends had been called—those friends who had been in habits of Intl. macy with him; or some of the tradesmen with whom be had dealt. As to rite observation of Mr. Broughdrn, Oita the ttfuSal of the Lord Chanoelor togtent a C'ormulssion two year: agh, id proof that lie d i d not st that time think Mr. Frank df Onsoun mind, he (Mr. Phillimor e ) must spy that no such itiferitiet ceulti, be fairly drawn from the fact, for his Ylortlablp hail fhlhawed et. ' course precisely similar in the case of Lord Portsmiinfh. Thb Lord Chancellor had to exercise 4 just dlicretitin in granting Cellar:lntone ofLttnacy,which wereattended with such sertoits consecitiencek to alt the parties concerned. Ile (:Ir. l'hillimbret would not be dbing hit duty properly, if he closed his remarks withodt calling the atten; tion of the Juiy to the conduct of Mr. Frank when etallithed be.: fore them. livery allowance ought to be made fot a gentleman circumstanced as he was, and ,ctilled for ticamindtion et: such a subject before a Jury, composed Of persons *hotter!, ail eirtingerd to him. It was true that his answers on many subjects had been correct, but his ideas on the subject of his, property were Muth run. fund. Ile did not knew what prope r ty hi pos.:eased. Mr. See wc E here suggested that 31r. FrAnk stetted ferfectlf aware of the amount of his rent-roll. The Cuter COsortsslow Ed ohattled, that Mr. Spence r s ob. serration was correct, hut the Jury would remember that his idea! of property were certainly pot sound: He had no barkers! he did I not know what the edticatmn of his children cost. He Mid vie vered in die opinion that Dr. Dickenson was a fit fthd pen per. ff son to conduct his affairs , and that Mrs. Frank we s a glidi e els tiro. t. l man. !laving stated those facts, he would leave the case in IN/ hinds of the,Jury.. /f, on considering all the etidente that bad been addifeed, they should make up their Mind* that ME Freak was oT aound mind, so as to be able to Manage hit propeetY, clie# would so declare their verdi c t. If , on t h e other hand, they belittled that he was so unsound in mind as to be unable to manage bit . pro: pertY and his person, they would only be doing jettlee th Mt Frani, and his family, by placing him under the protection of the Orear Seal. lie would altogether l ea ve it Lb th e Jur..Ohm:l thee be of opinion that unsoundness of mind laid existj 'to say at *hit time that unsoundness of mind commenced. The Court was then ordered to be Clearell, but the Jul ifs pressed a wish to retire to mother loom, ;Hitch they did at batik past eleven o'clock. At twenty minute* piat one o'clock the Jury retitle:el infti totili; and after the Waal form of calling . their names had beep gob. through, 81r Richard Birnle, ai their Foreman, read the folidittbe verdict . The first miceinti submitted to us Was, " ‘sliether the ReT. Ed/ ward Frank ea at the present time of insane mind, and unfit so bias nage his affairs ?" We are unanimoudy of opinion that fie Is Ms sane and unfit to manage his affairs: The next question watt, " 11 hen slid he first become inlini. 644 when did he cease being sti, if at all ?" Our answer is, that wa Ir unanimously of opinion that he was insane on 23th October 18 . and has continued tO bt insane ever since. ..0...........aatat Gtorciterrnsurat Per? Ctue.—The anniversiiir bf this club was holelCii on fridtly, at the Bell Inn, i n lliciuz cester. The Club reaired a considerable augmettatioti Id its ntimbeni by the election of new members • tftld ere the general business of the meeting vies toneltltledi tbl company, which was of the highest respeetaiirility, in fiifill , ber about 120, sat down to an elegant Mime, Belied daisin Mr. Marsh's best style ; th e Most Noble the Mar4uif of Worcester In the Chair, and Thomas Byteb, Esq. Viet , President. Boloccit or Mowitinrit.—tin Monett? tennight, S Court of Record, convened by the Mayor and Bailiffs fur the express purpoie of' electing burgesses, was held tut thud Town-hall. Each individual qualified to be preterit had been personally Served with a notice of the time and bhat• newt of the meeting ; and flue conflicting tattiest nssefithled in consielettble number!. Great irregularity and contain :3 prevailed ; so much so y that only two burgesses had butt elected at a late hot•r in the evening, when the Court was adjom-fred till the following morning. The ettenelanne next day was not so numerous ; and there being covet q flre i i t istes e ig ntl o y wre lz eieti i io r er i n te t.e r i t i u la p ni t it i :w on swp t oro o rteeed t i lit in ii t u ig, s w it ,i i t e h u alcoul , tho tl i t t i a r t f ra y- t o si.v o t t oiz ie edt u ri f i ; ennducted agreeably to the recent decision! in the Courts tilt Law upon the controverted points, Ore still objected to by the party adverse to the independent burgesses ; and litigation and warfare seem interminable in this delisted borough. On Thursday fifty-eight shopkeepers *rem entreieted $ Bradford in mitigated penalties atui coots, by the R ow Ladiphigh Need and .1. P. l'empeat, PA. for baying shut weights in their possession.—Nrwcastli CArdmicle. ....urw,o) me muumuu!). _,,,,,_,, ppused, the prayer or the pei!trin t he Is.teri conneced with certwin persteii who /vie- towards Sir Gregory. The lacrned 'We- irs, il•ith a vlhw to tetinect th se part/ . , I meanly! for Sir Gregory, and .. id, it. hail ail Sir Gregory had the p ow e r f o Ortlifecti,e thel 15 heard of anything half no abate" ; bicabse oney had been ton from him, and ikheti a rison to see him, the Alarehal ECM that nd c 4 1 0 enter !t. , • , Er. , %on...salit, be !idle Isnat 614 Ipdiyitrual been morn abused by Solicitors titan lie, Gbh ind thetiotirt , now tilt it m ost , inenro bealt td 'tun Solicitor was permitted to act fee WO act .propcdy ; that 1011, wjth this tut L tad concurrence,. CI Sir eregory. , Tbk anti he present 4plicaticin, Itr. bOrbeittbight hing his Lordship tnew, one of thS haat n this Court, but it it octe trisunikt i l k pa, Pions that had been ,ikiltided th, . It wistild t the COUrt could mak e on tiftlei Id, kii fa- rd being hsd to all that had paiied,jd thiii diM hot at all feel at li t 4rtY to milt:. bay the wholi of the atficlaritl.thit had bi,n. id therefore he desired to be etterr a ig lIIIIT With ?regatd to the petiO.ciii et ' • 'l'dr- had been a .relrence to incluite wtitird. r..r hosbtind's o.od child's intllntOri ..P, S ir much displmOril ' rich thlyreterend s ehitise • complaining 13 the r..! Otiii's illoilit ' hie regent state of things, taki n g i t Ty r iltedi 1 1 [lowed to her, inst ea d of on ly t i n a t b. made to know whether anytliinctihottld or 1