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10 EDITOR tf sLe BRITISII PRESS. .!C. !. wool.) perhaps become me, in sending you the Odes by my deceased friend, to apo for re4nmunications of this description, at a I:kt , the present, when we nmst no longer - -- • • ec,er nimbly , n* Lady'- clun.b r 1 . 9 !h lascivious pleasial of a lute, brit again, adjusting our " bruised arms" eagerly • • rk o, e pluni.nt trenrs, and the big war, That oaks ambitton vntue. You have indeed good reason at least to expel • • ..ietiring frpm me respetcting the First Consul, since ..1 cannot but imagine what all the rest of Europe excellent cause to believe, that no one is better :!conainted with hint, and all his anions, than my :At.. I grant it ; but to use an apposite, though —ulgar sing "there's honour amongst thieves," ...:.1, y nk %%hat You will, you shall be compelled .* I 0 *k Devil hi due, " and confess that, of his •;:itsn,l, no ill moral ever came from Tteople, Yam- 1. OLD NICK. S. I would observe by the way, that some or my family, OLD NI X mg, in his Preface to a 11!.toty of the Stuarts, sa s s, that Mr. Rowe, in his cf Lucan, " sticks not to call the Em yerur Julius Ccesar Malefagor, and his adherents ndaifsi." What a man would this have made for French Historian ! • •• • THR ARe,t'mrrr. VIOX THE ORM: OF AgACREON. Mm the fneyrr. fit' f')' me not, thou lovely fair ! Lot let my potion be return'd, Tholigh cruel Time my golden I; dr Hat all ro /aver ringl-rtt torn'd •. Jr, thee tho Rtners of beauty breathe, Yet neer detpiie them locks of mine; For think in Chaplet or in Wreath, How sweet the Rose and Lilly twine! • Thii idea is an improvement on An•e...no, IpirrovrNi from flctetrell, who talk:no, his Laura's growing old, makes this peaty antithrs'A : E i c.. 1.0 Bern fin fursi d'argento. . TkiE DREAM of ANACREON. 710 M TEE GREEK. Som. XI. Than rafAor KzaftZiP. As full of joy-inspiring graPet On purple down I steeping lay, 'With Nymphs of, soul-bewitching shape, la am'rous sport I seem'd to play. Now bloonilng youth around appear, Ali envious of the blis: I prove, And taunt ale sore with jest and jeer, liecaus►_ I still presume to love! insensible to .v'ry joke, At letigth I strove a kiss to gain, When, woe is me, a wretch ! I woken 04! heis . l bused to sleep again ! ! ! F.ISIIIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR TIIE WEEK. THIS EVENING. Mrs. King's Concert, 'Wimpole-street. WEDNESDAY. Lady Ellenborough's Rnut, Bloomsbury-square. Mot. llopres Wand, Supper, Grafton-'street. N. Cokes Rout, liauover-scuare. tvuutesi of Poitsmoutles Rout, Lincoln's-ina-Itelsit; Mts. Hartord's Rout. Art. Cod, ington's Rout, Park-lane. THURSDAY. Viscountess Carleton': Rout, George-street, Hai Mrs. Vaag.hau's Concert, Manchester-square. Mrs. Brown% Music, Seymour-street. Lady Cunll3€s Rout, Norfolk-street. Mrs. Metliven's Ruut, Lower Grove nor-street. FRIDA Y. Duchess of Marlborough's Rout, Pall-Mall. Mrs. Derlill Rost, M.nrcliester-square. Mrs. Fins's/lan, Portman-squa , e. SUNDA Y. Marchioness of Salisburv'i Music. Marchioness of Hertford's Party. Quitntens of Kenmare s Party. I'Lscountess Hamden': Matriu s ofEandford's Concert. Yesterday morning between nine and ten o ' clock, its Msi LS rv, attended by General GA aril, took an :airing on horseback by the Kings'-road to Kew, where His MAJssry remained a considerable time inspecting the new palace, and other works carrying ou there, and returned to the Queen's House at half past three. About eleven o'clock Her MAJESTY and the PAYNCLULS, attended by the Countess of lIA R RING. TON and Lady CA 1101.1 N EWA LDLOR AV L took an air ing in two coaches and four with the usual escort through Hyde park, on the Harrow road, by the I' ' addington canal, and viewed the new buildings in that neighbourhood, and returned by East Aeon. The Duke of Poar Loin was last night much better, but is not yet declared out of danger. Earl and Countess DARNI.Ev , the Honourable T. and W. RUCH, Lord CLIIIDEN, Mr. SCORES, and a large party have been, since Friday, on a visit at In consequence of the very critical situation of Mr. RICH, Mrs. DUPRE has postponed her intended hall of the sth instant until farther notice. Mr. Alen lives next door to Mrs. Dyr RE. Tie Hight • Hon. WILLIAM BR AIRAZON PON. '37N Y, and his 'brother GWROE Possori av, Esq. Lave left town for Ireland. Lady Esiii.v ' Qooxv.,.who was presented to the QCEEN last Saturday; is youngest daughter to the late Earl of BEtt.asicrN, r, and niece to the Duke of Yesterday morning the Hon. Miss LAM IE, daugh ter of Lord him .aoeitNs, died at her apartments near Kensington. The death of this most amiable young Lady, who was so much respefted and re vered by all the circles of fashion, caused the Du chess of Devonshire to postpone her intended Ball last night, and also ber public sad private parties till further notice. The idca equalizing, in some degree, the win dow tar, by measuring those evidently construfted : c oy the purpose of evaso.n, is hitchly meritorious.-- We trust, however, that a Entish Semite will see ”te policy, as well as the humanity, of exempting the windows which are 4onaide used for the ED.e iurpose the wurk-shope of the hard-w0rk .:143 otaratAttarers. - - SOLTHS'4I2K ELECTION. - Yesterday at one o'clock, being the time appointed 'oy the High Bailiff of the Borough of Southwark, for the nomination of the Candidates to represent the Borough in Parliament, the Right Hon. George rierney and Sir Thomas Turton, attended by their respedive friends, repaired to the Towu-hall otl St. Margaret's Hill. A - more inconvenient place for a popular meeting cannot possibly be conceived. It was ton small to have contained a twentieth part of the persons who pressed for admittance. Add to this, when the doors were thrown open for the public, not only every seat but every part of the hall appeared to have been filled by the friends of the Candidates ; the pressure was so great that several persons fainted, :rad were with difficulty got into the open air. These circumstances render it impossible for us to give so detailed an account of what passed as we otherwise intended to have done. When the Candidates made their entrance (an effort of some difficulty) a scene ensued which would have disgraced a bear garden ; a set of fellows, evi dently brought in for the purpose, assailed Mr. Tier ney with the most abusive language, while a more numerous party applauded that Gentleman. Every attempt to ob tain silence was for a considerable time in vain, but at length it was effeeted. The Deputy of the High Bailiff having read the precept, and gone through the preparatory forms, Mr. ALCOC e, the 'Treasurer of the County, corn- menced a speech, in which he enlarged upon the :merits and talents of Mr. Tierney, and inferred the ntegrity, zeal, and assiduity he had displayed in the discharge of his parliamentary duty. The present was an awful moment; the country was threatened to be attacked by a powerful nation, at the head of which was an ambitious ruler. It was therefore his Majesty had thought it necessary to avail himself of the assistance of men of known ability, and to call them to his Counsels. No man by his conduet ' in Parliament had shewn himself more calculated to give thet advice to his King which it was the .duty of every loyal, independent, and patriotic sub. jece, to offer than their late representative. He there fore begged leave to propose, as a proper objeet of I their choice, his friend Mr. Tierney, now the Right Honourable George Tierney. (Great aildasue fro,: at party and hisses from another.) One of the crowd exclaimed ; the Gentleman r , who has just addressed you is the Treasurer of the County, and the Gentleman who is going to address you is the Treasurer of the Navy. Mr. TIERNEY observed, that if Sir Thomas Tur ton's friends would not allow him to speak, perhaps his friends, in their turn, would prevent their having the pleasure of hearing Sir Thomas Turton. Sir THOMAS TUR TON requested that each Candi date might be indulged with a patient hearing. Mr. TI F.RNEY began by saying, that he now stood forward for a fenirth time as a Candidate to re• present the Borough of Southwark. On the three former occasions, he had had the support of the Eleetors, an honour which he should contemplate with pride to the latest period of his life—at present he appeared before them in a new situation. It had pleased his Majesty to confer an high and honour able office upon him ; he was aware, that, with ma ny who had stood on the popular interest, it had been considered that, by their acceptance of a place under Government, they had forfeited their preten sions to its continuance. With regard to himself, when he considered the motives which had induced • him to accept the office of Treasurer of the Navy, he felt himself perfectly at ease as to their approval by his late Constituents. He was afraid to meet no man upon the question of the consistency and pro. priety of his conduct ; for, he was well assured, , he had, in no instance, and particularly in the last, done any thing that merited the forfeiture of the esteem and confidence of his former friends. Anxi ous to make them the first depositories of his good fortune, he had, before he ventured to offer himself as a candidate, convened a meeting of those who had been most alive in promoting his former eleetion ; he had felt it his duty first to consult them, and he was happy to find; that the principles upon which he accepted his office had not injured them in their esteem ; he trusted that his acceptance of the office of Treasurer of the Navy would only be considered as affording him more extensive means of serving his country ; and that, so far from operating as a reason for the Eleetors of the Borough of Southwark with drawing their support, it would rather he an induce ment for their continuing it. (This speech was fol lowed by applause on one side, and disapprobation on the other.) Captain DUNC A N then rose to p ro p ose Si r TA O . IRAS Tu R TON. He enlarged on his merits and the services he had rend ere d the Borough, in his official situation as a Magistrate. He described him as a man of independent principles; and hoped the 'no mination of such a char after would be supported by the suffrages of th e Eleclore. 'the nomination having been seconded, Sir Tri'l”.l3 TURTON addressed the Eleetors He obser eed, that the Borough of Southwark had , ever made it its pride and boast to be represented by " men AV1:0 were perfectly independent of Govern ment. He took a general review of Mr; Tieeney's conduit, and the principles upon which he had been considered a fit person to represent the Borough; and he adverted to a book, formerly written by a friend of Mr. Tierney's, in explanation o f hi s ein ciples and co n d u et. H aving quoted many passages from it, he begged leave to ask, whether Mr. Tier ney could possibly be considered the character he described ? Could he possibly pretend to say it was in his power now to vote on any question with the Opposition ? Could h e s i t i n any part of the Hou s e of Commons, except upon the Treasury Bench ; or, could he vote o th erw i se t h an w i t h the Minister ? He considered that Mr. Tierney had forfeited all claim to the favour of the EleCtors of 'Southwark, and' he Crested, that, as that Gentleman had become an apostate from the principle, he had once professed, he had forfeited the title by which he had been re commended. • Mr. TIERNEY replied maintained, that his acceptance of the office of Treasurer of the Navy did ant render him, in the snsallese'degree, Open dent upon the Minister. He had, as a good subjeet, thought it his duty, a t this momentou s crisis, to give his support to Ministers, whose conduit heap proved of. If their condua should, at any future period, be deemed by him either improper or 'mon stitittioreal, he was at liberty to throw up his office, and oppose them ' • ha was not to be consid ere d lik e the Gentheman who had proposed his oPponent, once a Captain, always a Captain; lie was obliged • I g.' . .• • • ~- - - to remain Treasurer of the Nary, if he found his Mesty's Ministers deviating from that line of con duet, which was consonant to the principles it had always been his pride to profess ; if he should here after find them losing sight of those patriotic prin ciples by which they at present seemed to be aau ated, he should feel it his duty to withdraw his sup port from them as much as he now felt it his clu . ty . to give them his support, in the noble strugle in which they were embarked against the common foe. Sir TaoM4ITVRTON said, that Mr. 'limey had formerly professed himself the Chanioion of Peace and Parliamentary Reform, but lie had now come forward as the Champion of War, for, as Treasurer of the Navy, he must necessarily have an intere.t in the continuance of the war ; and he doubted not but he would soon come forward as the Champion of Corruption. Mr. TIERNEY raid, that it was easy for him to reply to : this illiberal insinuation. With regaid to the office of Treasurer of the Navy, an Ald of Par liament had passed by which the salary of that office was fixed ; it was the same in peace a in wit.; and as he had to pay his taxes out of his •Jary, he had as much interest in peace, as the worthy Baronet, or any other gentleman in the country. On the sub jed of Parliamentary Reform, he was :is sanguine as ever he had been ; butt he desired it tc be dis tinaly understood, that he neither now was, nor ever had been, a friend to the chimerical idea of universal suffrage—that degree of Parliamentary Reform, which the best friends of the country thought necessary, it should ever be his wish to promote. He therefore felt himself justified in say ing, that he should be as happy as ever to march under the banners of peace and reform. Upon the shew of hands, the majority was consi derably in favor of Mr. Tierney. The elelors and non-eleaors dispersed, and the Candidates proceeded to . their respeitive committee rooms, to prepare, by previous canvas, for the elec tion, which commences this morning. LAIV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KINGS BENCH, GUILDHALL, Jext 6. Siaings before Lord ELL EN BOROUGH. SHIT H V. SLEIGH. This was an action upon the statute of bribery, to recover of the Defendant the penalty of 500 pounds for taking a bribe to give his vote at the Durham election. _ The Plaintiff was Sir HENRY VANE TEMPEST'S coach-maker, and the Defendant ana tne 'Mena., a breeches-mazer, strolling player and fiddler, residing at Chippen ham. The fans of the case were briefly thus :—Dur ing the election which took place at Durham, in which Mr. Taylor and Mr. Wharton were candi dates, the Defendant was solicited, as being a free man of the above city, to give his vote in favor of Mr. Wharton. In reply to the request he returned a written answer, stating, that he was willing to give his vote upon certain conditions, namely, to have 301. given him before he left his place of residence, and 301. when he - arrived at Durham ; out of which 601. he agreed to defray the expences he should necessarily incur during his journey there and back. The terms were acceded to, and in addition to the 601. he was made a present of a fiddle, of the value of 301. for which further consideration he engaged to perform upon the instrument according to the best of his musical abiliti es , an d to take - his wife with him to join her vocal powers, during the time the denim lasted. The whole of the arrangement was strictly at tended to; the Defendant, accompanied by his wife, proceeded to Durham, where he gave his vote; and, during the five days he remained in that city, he was festively employ/1A with his fiddle, and his wife in singing, to pronto, the mirth of the p ar ty who voted for Mr. Wharton. On his return to Chippen ham, he incautiously explained the manner in which he had been passing the time while away ; men tioned the money he had been paid ; and sheered a copy of the letter that was wrote when he proposed the terms already stated ; in consequence of which this anion was brought. The Defendant's Counsel would not admit that a bribe had been taken, and contended that the money which had been given was scarcely sufficient to de fray the travelling expences during a journey of not less than 700 miles. Lord EL LENBo n ouou said, that to ascertain whe ther bribery had been used, it was necessary to enter into a calculation as to the expences which a person must be at, during a journey from Chippenhani to Durham and back. It was a distance of seven hun dred miles; and if the common charge of travelling ia a post-chaise, viz. eighteen pence per mile, was allowed, that sum would amount to 521. 10s. ,• there then remained (of the 601.) 71. 10s. which he con ceived to be barely enough to account for other charges which the Defendant must incur in the course of the time he was employed to give his vote. With respect to the musical instrument which had been given, the service performed upon the same, and the songs sung by the wile of the Defendant, plight account for the fnll value of it. If, therefore, the Jury were satisfied that the money given did not appear to be more than was necessary to defray the expence of going to vote, they had only to consider whether the money had been taken for that pur pose ; if they thought it had not, they would find a verdkl for the Plaintiff; if it appeared to them it had, they must decide in favour of the Defendant.— Verdict for the Defendant. SKELTON V. COOD. This was an anion to recover a compensation for damages for an assault. - The Plaintiff lived at Waltharnstow, where the Defendant also dealt in horses. It appeared from the statement of Mr. GA RRo w, that the parties were in company together at a club kept at a public horse, the Duke's Head, in the above town : the Defen dant, after having been sleeping on the table, sud denly rose up and commenced a dispute with the landlord of the house, and threw a pot of beer in his face. On the Plaintiff's getting up in order to pre vent t1:::m from fighting, Cood struck him a violent blow over the head with a pewter not, which occa sioned him to fall down dreadfully wounded, in which situation the Defendant had the inhumanity to drag him out of the house into the middle of the road, where he left him. The evidence called, proved however that the Plaintiff had taken hold of the Defendant's arm, and that the whole was a public house quarrel, in con- . 4:tence which the assault could not be p rove d, he Plaintiff was uonsuited. , .•. w: ;:~~ M: ;rep.) .1 ;' 1,:; FREEHOLDERS OF IREL.IIVD. ...____ _ Returns front the under.namext Countiev in Ireland, prtst.aot to the follow lug order of the Honourable House of COW louri•,-on the 2.1. Ma eh, 1893 ••,•-•" That there be laid before tiiii Neut!, forthwith, Returns of the Number of Freeholders to...t.dered by the Clerks of the Price in the ..everal Couuties of In.laftd. • I.; ,, intira. • General Tvtal. Antrim . . • . %Ai - math . Carlow . . .. • 4,286 Cavarr ".• . . - • 5,519 . (.3.ve . . 6,113 Cork . .. - 3,G fork (City .;. . . . 661 • .. lMnegal .. - . 3,938 Down • • . 16,145 . Drogheda . . . 191 Dubiin . . . . 2,4/3 Lublin (City). . . 8.99 . • Fermanagh . - 6,372 Galway . . 7,164 Galway (Town). . . • 361 Kerry . . 5,56, Kildare . . . 2,779 Kilkenny . . • 1,2.0 . Kilkenny (City). . . & King's County . 5,177 Leitrim . . .8,873 • Limerick . . 4 , 904 Li,.lerick (City). • 916 Londonderry (City and County) • 2 a /JO, Lnitgfonl . :4401 Louth . . 7.4 M, , yo . . . 13,174 Math. . 4,04 Mrnaghan • • . 5,161 Que.:ll4 County 4 923 Roscommon .• • • Z,527 'l'laperary . .. 6,90? Tvrone . . 11,559 Waterford . . 1485 Waterford (City) . . 29 Westmeath . . 2,378 IVe%tierd Wicklow . 4,699 N. B. The County of Sligo wanting to comrlete. MARRIED. On Saturday last, at St. John's, Westminster, John Boote, Esq. Surgeon, of Theobald's Road, to Miss Grind ley, eldest daughter of John Grindley, Esq. of Marsham. street, Westminster. DIED. 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