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MS AND PYEAIE.V. The Pyemen are destined to make a figure in this age. In the late dreadful crowd, at an execution at Cie Old Bailey, old Thomas, the Pystwee, fell ma r, n/ occasioned the pressure that caused so n y other deaths. General Lining, who de mafevded Buenos Ayres, is the son of a Pyeman at Madrid. A Pyeman was the Commander and Governor of Copenhagen, during its late siege ; and the Pyeman, of Cornhill, is famed as a Poet, a war r; )t. and a Dramatic writer. We have a Pie, a p, et Laureat and a worthy Magi-trate ; and lately bad a gallant Admiral of the same name, as entity a fellow as ever broke bread. Pye-bald horses are alo coming into fashion; and the Court of Pye p,, , ,dte was never more remarkable for the wisdom 0 • it s judicial deci-iens, than in its late sitting during B i n',,,lnmewfFair. As to fruit pyes, they never were !setter or more numerous than at the present season. MADAME CA7 ALAN!. Tlei: amiable and fascinating lady has capti ,!:e hearts and charmed the senses of the ylir. Although under the most pressing r:-g.igements at Belfast, Edinburgh, ace she was SO s..ll,ibly &died by the kindness of the Nobility and Gentry of Dublin, as to say—"" I cannot think of leaving this city, where I have been s• well rt reeved, and experienced so much kindness, without performing sonic charitable aa." In consequence of this ♦ery delightful trobrarary, a night was fixed far the benefit of the miserable poor captive debtors in that city, when the benevole , :ce of a stranger and a aerriimer wi!l sandy be assisted by the pahlic. Willi an beast filled with gratitude, Madame CATAL.t NI thus addresses the Editor of a popular J.)n!il Evening Pint : " 1 Dee ycu wilt, thtoth A lt tit- medium of your respectable ►a,•cr, exprers ntc sentim•oti of gratitude for the many Ala, of 4Liate,i conretreil 011 we be the inh.tbitant., of flit mew.- tha temembiasice of which never can be obittriated twos shy memory. 1 remain your otittio-ot s. mlt. "Sept. 15, " ANGELLCA CATALANI." mom'. flute!, Sackvi!re.st." . MI C.fir A1.A. , 1 it may be truly said, in the ldrguage of Mr. Eta, in his poetical atichess to Ley : keeps the promise we hid from the face.° PUBLIC WORKS. Setiraay night's Gazette contains a notice that application is intended to be made to Parliament in easu;ng Session, for leave to bring in a Bill, and obtain an aS to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Grand Surrey Canal, to supply with water the inaabrants of certain dietrias within the several pa tithes, townships, and hamlets of St. Mary, Re. rrhithe ; St. Nicholas and St. Paul's, Deptford s New.Crusi ; St. Alphage. Greenwich ; Lewisham; St. John's and St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey ; St. Giles, Camhei well ; St. Mary, Newington ; Sr. Mary, Lambeth ; Walworth, Camberwell, Ken eington, Stockwell, Peckham, Clapham, Brixton, and Brixti:n Causeway. and places adjacent, in the Lu.ties of Surrey and Kent. A similar application will also be made to Par- Lance in the next Session for leave to bring in a 6.1 er supplying with soft water the inhabitants of tie poishes of Plumstead ; St Mary, Woolwich ; ard St. Alphage, Greenwich ; the Hundred of Backe:Atli ; and Little and Lers Ness ; and the prieies et Lee, Lewisham, and St Nicholas, Dept lied, all in thr county of Kent ; the palish of St. leipttord, in the counties of K sit and Surrey; N.rw Cross, within the Manor of Hatcham, and in tirt part of the parish of St. Paul. DepttOrd, which i. in the county of Kent ; and the parish of St Mary, ar Rotherhithe, otherwise Redriffe, in the county of Surrey, and parts and places adjacent. Saturday ri;eht's Gazette contains a notice, that application is intended to be made to Parliament the ensuing sessions, for leave to bring in a bill for making and maintaining a bridge across the river Thames from or near Vauxhall turnpike, in the parish of Saint Mary's, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, to the opposite river bank, in the parish of Sault Jan's, with a new road to pan in a line across Le west of Tuthill-Fields, and nn other vair.lnt Pr 'tirtdr, opening a communication with Pimlico, Eaten -street, and Grosvenor-place, passing ihrou;ch the patish-s of Saint John's, Saint Margaret's, and Sant George's; and a road from near the foot of C'e s.ist hridge to the Neat House Row, near the ti' irtw Walk, in the parishes of Saint John's and Geerge's. Westminster ; and an Ent breech rad from the foot of the said intended bti4,e, f4.sing al sag the river bank to Mill Bank, in the earish sr St. John's ; •and a road pa s si n g o n th e hirer S an k op to the end of Chelsea Creek, West vie said i Itended Bridge, is the parish of Saint c:ge's ; all of which Parishes lie on the West of Lindue, is the County of Middlesex ; and, from Le end Vauxhall l'urnpike. a new road is a line crossing Ca! Cispham and Sueatham roads, on the West of KennitigtsneCommen, encoding to the Camberwell Brad, on tne s:u of Montpelier Pounds, then to Sass near Walworth Common, to the last of :iurrey-squere, into the Kent ReaJ, near verire crossed by the " Grand Surrey Canal," in the parishes of Si. Mary's, Lambeth; St. Mary's. Newingto n; and St. George's, lying on the South of I.lnd n, in the county of Surrey; which said leid ie and roads are for forming a more dire co:amen:cation with the western part of the me tropolva— Knightsbridge, Kensington, Erompton, Slim - le-street. and Pimlico , with Vauxhall, South Linsistth, Kennington, Stockwell, Clapham. Wal- Itorth, Camberwell. Peckham, and parts adjacent, ie the cosmic' if Middlesex and Surrey. The Knee has been pleased to confer the ho tmu of Knighthood oa Gaoaas COLLIZI4 Esq. a Captain in the Royal Navy. The Klll4l has been pleased to present the Rev. iettr Pit ass, Cork. Saldent in Civil Law. to tht Vicarage of Brod. kiompton. in the county of Delon, and !dioces e of Exeter. void b) the resig illtioll of the Reverend Joan PITMAN, Cleik, it ter cf Ans. The Kt o has also been pleased to present the P.av• ALIZANDI M Cassels to the / church and pa of Binik, in the Presbytery and S:swartry Kirliciidtizißh!, vacant by du death et hir. m•awst.s.. • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Sz.l4. 19. Andreas, the specul or in Boroughs, w brought op by Habra, Corpus, from Newgate, to take his trial for obtaining money under false lererenees from Major Davison ; when Mr. ALLar. as Coun- Irl for the Prisoner, told the Court. that in conse quence of the absence of a material Witness. the Prisoner was compelled to traverse his indiAment until Tuesday. the 27th of Oanber next. —The ap plication being made on proper affidavits, was ac d to. The Earl of Besnorough, and several persons of distinftion, attended the Court at an early hour, in expectation of the trial coming on. Andrews was genteelly dressed in black, and previ ous to being placed at the bar, conduced bintsAt with his usual effrontery and aan. fiord. He was conveyed back to Newgate, in Custody cf the Offi cers; and after Mr. M rmwe a :so. the Chairman, had explained to the Earl of BeAvirou g h the cause of postponing the trial, his Lordship kit the Court. William Brawn, Peter Dann, Catherine Paten. and Mary Merril, were coavicied of passiiig counterfeit shillings and sixpences. The two former, at the houses of several tradesmen in Kentish Town. The women at the shop of Mr. Brooks, linen-draper, D:ike-street, Manchester-square. The Court sen tenced Brown and Dunn to be imprisoned one year, and Morris and Patten six months. J.•bn Dowson was also ron,-ieled of uttering coun terfeit shillings, at the china shop of Mr. Byrne, in Leicester-hquare. He was sentenced to be impri soced six mouths. GUILD-HALL. ALIP.N3. Mrs. Hooke, a Lady of French extraaion, and a native born of France, but for 18 years last past domiciled in this country, and widow t fan Engli.di gentleman, underwent a long exami , leint, ou Satur day, before the Commissioners of Bankrupts. It VI AS ia the use of the Bar krupt,:y of a Mr. Corson, and Mn.s Hooke was examined to provc a debt doe to her from the estate of the Bankrupt, amounong to a sum r f 20001 !wing money lent by her to the Bankrupt (after h-r I.u.baud's death ), in the month of November. 1802. Phis Lady could speak but little En%eih, and of course there was a young gentleman sworn to inter pet truly her evidence. She was very firm in her ezamination, but seemed very much surprised at the many repetitilos of the same questions put through the interpreter and the Counsel against her alternately. It %%as alleged against her that she prevaricated in her evidence, and the Bankrupt being examined, swore most po sitively against her tescimuny respeslling the fall in issue between the parties. The faZt under examination was, whether Mrs. Hooke had le.tt the '2OOOl. in question to the Bank rupt separately, or to the firm of which he was then a partner t She stated, that having in her hands a sum of 30',01. part. of her own dower money, after her husband's death she sent it by a Mr. Cassano to be lodged in the house of which the Bankrupt was a partner, and had received cheeks for it ; and that in s •me time after she authorised the same Mr. Cis.- 11110 to take out 20001. of the 30001. and to lend It to the Bankrup: for his separate use. The Bankrupt swore positively that Mrs Hooke had in person delivered with her own hand the 30001. at the counting-house of the firm in his pre sence, and that the 29001. admitted to have been taken out. was afterwards lent to the firm, and nut to him solely. The Counsel for Mrs. Hooke emended, that this lady's evidence was clear, consistent, and per- Wily true in all its parts, and that the Bankrupt's account of the transanian was palpably take. To prove this he produced the books of the firm, the checks, and a letter, proving, to a demonstration, that this was a separate and not a joint debt These documents were so conclusive as to s.:•isfy Mr. Reeves. the chief in the comas:l,4'ton, and Isis brother Commissioners. Mr. Reeves observed, that no motive could be seen for taking out the 200u1 and patting it again back to the credit of the firm, and that it must have been lent to the Bankrupt se:iarately, as the lady had stated. _ _ _ The leading ground for this great and long oppo sition to this lady's demand, was to prevent her Irons having a voice upon the appointment of Assignees; but she was admitted to prove her deLt in the first instance, subject to the decision of the Commissioners, and afterwards of the Lord Chan cellor (if either party choose In move the Court upon it), on the question of this lady's legal incom pete..cy, as an alien, to sue for this property. A considerande time was spent in arguing this question, and upon the legal distindLion between an alien friend and an alien enemy; several books. of high authority, were produced and iiispeded on the occasion, and particularly &ewer .slralgaknt and Blechstemes Goremesteries. The law was admitted to be clear against an Ahen's right (however long domiciled in England), to inherit any real property. 'Mere appeared. likewise, general rub:s in the hooks, against the sights of Alleus to sue in certaiu dhow, and particularly in mixed anions. Dir. One's+ contended, that this was an excep tion to those general rules, as the Lady had a dear right to be deemed an alien friend, by her being domiciled in England 14 eighteen years, although she had, for the benefit of her health and the edu cation of ner svn, spent some of those years in France, without haring. however. acquired any fixed resi dence there. l'he Learned Counsel added, that her marriage with an English subjett confirmed this right, and left no doubt of her having been an alien friend, ,nttleJ to sue, and a resident in England. by the will and permission o. the Government of the country.. . . . . The opinion of the Commissioners PppeareJ clearly in favour of the Lady, up. this point of law, like wise. The Blank and Prim list of several Lotteries last past exhibited i.lact einem throughout. to a very considerable extent.—Far different will be the cows. tenancy, through the entire Drawing of the patent list of the present improved Le.ier) Plaa.—Scarce a chasm of a wail's breadth ww intervene between either a Money Prim. or a Ticket Pm:4 which is now guaranteed to be paid to gooey at whate►er office bought. OLD BAILEY. Styr. IL tuclousur FIRING OFF A PISTOL. illezettelr Mettrie was indisfed for wilfully and maliciously wounding Miss Emily Wyat, by di:- charging a pisto!•in the public highway, or. the 1101 of Juno. 11r. Ceawoot), Counsel for the prosecution, 'tared the lefts of the case, which were in SIDEIIICe as follow: —The Prrr.ecutrix was walking along Fleet street, On tyre day stated in the indiftment, when she heard the report of a pistol near to her, and from the alarm she fl rd into a shop, without having seen the per s on who fired it. Whilst in the shop the perceived the blond fl iw from her head, an: it was found that she had blen wounded. It would he pri,v r d in evidence that the Priwner was the person who fired the pistol, and if he Vli9 deranged, how necessary it was that sa:h a man should be put un der wholesome restraint ; but the Jury would du well not to suppse the istmer insane on account of his strange condoft, because some men were so n duraly depraved, as to commit such aas as the human mind would inter to be madness. Unless a plea could be advanced that the Prisoner was de ranged at the tirae ..t eomnsit:ny the aft, the evi dence well such as would induce them to deliver a verdk of guilty. . Miss Ernaly Wyat, a very handsome young lady, about 21 years of age, stated, that she was walking along Fleet -street. on the day stated in the iiidia ment, when she heard the report of a pistol, but she did not see the person who fired it. Witness went into a shop in a state cf alarm, and she per ceived that she had been wounded under the left Car. which woiind produced a good deal 01 blood. Mr. ltichard Nunn, who resides at 149. Fleet. street, saw the Pr isoner puil the pistol from his pocket and lire it, Lot he did not appear to level it at any pers in. Witness saw the Prosecurr ix go hit> a shop, arid she was about ten yards troth the Prisaacr, when lie hied tile pistol. Wm. March, an ctlic-r belonginz to the parish of St. Dunstan's, heard the report of a pistol, and in a moment afterwards saw the Prisoner put a pistol ii:to Iris coat packet. Witnesa searched the Pri soner, and he fund a pistol, two balls, and some powder in his pockets. Mr. Oivisho, pet turner, in Fleet -street, produced the ball WhiC:l was fired tram the pistol. which he had picked up i. 4 l.is .hop tilts runincut Alter the pis tol was tired. Mr. Carr...right, surgeon, proved that the wound which WAS units the ear of 1114 PLJSUL:triK, was made by... 4 , • - The Prvon e r being called on for his defence, said, that he tired the instA ID his Own tiCICIICe, 2i he tea; troubled. The Jeuiie asked if there •wzre any persons in Court who knew the Prisoner ? but no clic answered. At tlw suggestion of the Judge. etc keeper of New gate was es.imined as to the coi,dii.'t of the Prisoner whilst in prison. and on \lr. Newrn to being in:erro geed, he sail he hail no reason w siqyose the Pri soner deranged until that day. Ile had always conJua,:d himself in prison in a quiet nsinn...r. Mr. Justice /lasi -H, in his chAig: to the Jury, observed, that the offence with which the Prisons stood charged, amounted to murd.r, it the person willnied had died, and it was still complete in the eye of the law, if he even missed hi; aim, as it was construed a wilful and malicious aa. It behr.ved the Prisoner to offer some excuse for his condua, but he had not done so, nor had there been any plea of iusanity off-red. No flicads had appeared, and the gaoler Kid never, until the Prisoner ap peared to take :.is trial, any suspicion of his being ioissine. It the defence offered was sufficient to justify a Prisoner, it would be an easy matter fur a felon to elude jastiise.—Gisi:ry s (1,406. .7,,bn newly:, was indieed for feloniously assault ing Salty Liversage NlA:ravers, a child ten years td nor, an I committing a rape on her body. The Prosecutrix, an i.‘teresting little girl, after being ti tetrogAted as to her knowledge of an oath, gave ihr evidence in the most artless manner. She stated, that the Prisoner is a Schoolmaster, in Golden , lane, barbican ; she went to the school kept by bun on the 12th of August, and on the girls leaving seiool, the P:isoner desired her to stop to get more perfeil in her lesson. There was no other person lett in the school room but herself and the Prisonsr. The Pio•ecuirix then proceeded to de tail t. g: treatment eehteh she received from him, the pArtictilars of which are too horrid and disgus jag to be related in this Paper. The annals of the Old Bailey do not furnish any thing so shocking, so vile, and disgraceful to manhood. •• The Priso ner, who is 61 years of age. WAS ac quitted, only because the crime he committed was of A more aggravated nature than that for which he stood incifued. This hoary-headed miscreant looked the very wretch which his unnatural passions have stamped him ; the features and contour of his coun tenance strongly bespoke his ctiminality. The crowded Court was honor-struck at the disclosure of his unprecedented atrocity. John PoVer, a black sailer, lately arrived from China, was capitally inchaed for stealing, in the dwelling•house of John Hill. No. 123. Wapping. several Bank et Etighted Notes, half-a-guinea, and a few shillings, the property of John Parsons. one ef his brother sailors, and amounting to 471. sterling. It appeared, from the evidence, that the Prisoner and Parsons had arrived on shore in the same boat. at the Dundee Arms. on the 23ili June, after having had all arrears and wages paid them when on board. They went to lodge at Mr. Hill's. After dinner the Prosecutor fell asleep. and at that time had his money in his waistcoat pocket. When he awoke, however, he found all his money gone. and his clothes scattered about the room, The Prisoner had only received the sum of 31. 4s. Gd. as wages, but very incautiously gave Mrs. Hill a much larger sum to keep for him; and on the Prosecutor finding that he was robbed, and that the sum so given to Mrs. Hill, corresponded with the amount. be thaw ad the Pri,oner with the theft. He at first denied it datly, and said that he had received that sum of mon 1 front Sc seland r but as his messmate in sisted that the money was his, he offered him three ten pound notes to keep him quiet. This offer, how ever, not having the desired area, at the Prosecu tor would still have been a loser, and the Prisoner a gainer. he was accordingly taken into custody • I au! a crown-piece. which bid bean markart upon him, which was remised lo be dal Pions*: tor's property. The Prisoner, on firmer etaminations, • gave very contradietury accounts of how be got this large sam of money, and ma being now called up* tar his defence, made a very Jong statement to the Court, but in a manner almost unintelligible, both to Judge and Jury. The J•rry found him Gritty, but reemeassaded him to mercy, on account of his being a forgiver, totally unacquainted wit the Laws of this country. and the vain* of its money. The Prisoner. on hearing the sentence, again al. tempt-•d to address the C"urt, persisting that die :none)• belonged to himself. DEWL.OI . , SIIIPTESIBLII A general meeting of the Freeholders of d» Qtwen's County, convened by the Hital WAS held at Maryboroogh, on Saturday, the lath instant, when several R:s.dutions, declaring dos pro. sent system of tythes impolitic and gnomons, Wen§ unanimously agreed to. Ile Resolutions were moved by the Earl of Po It T • O.LINGTON, and monde ed by 14 icit•lgo I,S/41111W, TON. E5l. he Inez:mg was one of the most respedabte and most numemus that has taken place attics the county p:titiLned against the Union. SHAM FIGHT. Sunday list. at an early hour. emend corps if Yeomanry issenibled at their respedive ifinsaidella by command of Lord Harrington, /or the purpose af performing a Sham Fight, the Om of which wag sketctied by Major Cosby. The *Sion commenced by two columns of infantry, supported with ma non, attacking two of the Canal Bridges asdesir Barriers, to torte a passage into Dublin. The assailants were received and repulsed by two other euiumns, supported likewise by cannon, who drove thlrn over 13a11ybough and Annesley bridg-s, end by the two roads which lead to the plain of COO" lock, where, atter hgbtiag in lin- till their ammo. nition was expended, instead of rushing span each o.hir with fired sayonets, they presented arms, the bands pliiyirg " God save the King." The Elvis of Meath and Chat lesnor.t. Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Beristord, were at the head lit their several corps. Ihe Captains of Yeomanry met yesterday, and made Major Cosby a suitable acknowledgment of their trien.i.hip and respell. FV.VERAL OF sin WILLIAM ST4INES. The remains of this worthy man were on Satter* day removed from his house at Clapham, and f, ?o ,ii sit?d family vault is Crioplegete church-yard. The procession set out from CI Than), about tweive o'clock, proceeded over London-bridge. stopped fora very short time at the Mansiou.Hoese, and ar. rived at the church at two. 'there wet. ten mourn ing coaches, in one of which were eta civic sword and mace, accompanied by the proper officers ; it Cie next were the Lurd May lf and Recorder of Lest. den. In the others were Two Aldermen., several Common Councilmen, and many of the oscessed's friends. The mourning coaches woof followed by the private carriages ,f the &ceased. the Lord Mayor ate. At the enJ of Alder gate-street, the procession was met by the beadles sad charier eh:Write e# Cripple. gate p irish,who accompanied ins body to the church. Sir William Staines served the • ffice of Sheriff of London aLng with Mr. Langston, in the year 1797 • and that of Cord Mayor in 1801. These several offices he tilled with the utm-st integrity. He raja.* ed liirn,elf by honest industry to opulence; and al. ways had the g , ;().1 sense to ackrowleJge his hums bit origin. SHOGKMG AICCIDAsNT. Friday morning. at eight o'clock. the Cornier house of the Yowler-mills. at Fairers'iam. Wow up wit.i a Dreadful explosion : six men and twee tones were at wot k in it at the time t they all perished its a miserable manner. and presented a spettacle frightful to behold. Three of the men were ►itetally blown to pieces, a bead here. an arm thee, add a leg in some &ham place from the rest lr.eir tires aril friends gathered the scattered n.et. hers, and carried rhem away in baiikets. 'the sia u. for. (orate vita have lett wives and children. lhe qua thy of powder in Cie Corning mill was consider. Able, ..id the ex ilohno dreadful. By what accident the pow.ier took tire, can only be a matter of con je.:l :re. A similar misfor.e .e happened to the I'oader•mills at that place. in the summer of 18091. sL'l::/UB. Yesterday senn;glit an inquest was held at AJack. by, near Falkangi.am, by Mr. White, a Coroner for therenunry of on the body of William Bannister. who. on the previous Thursday evening, drowned himself in that parish. The deceased fa. lowed the business of a drover, was a young man of respedahle connedions. and in all the relations of life a chdraaer highly estimable. For a few days before he perpetrated the ad of self-destrudion, be had been evidently mentally distressed, and his health had been injured by the penurbation of his feelings. On l'hursday evening he requested a friend to walk with him in the deldi of Aslackby, a.td repeatedly said he had something of noose. quence to communicate. The tri..nd in vain re. quested him to disclose what it was ; and was suddenly astonished to see young /Manistee in the ad of tuning his throat with a penknife; he succeeded wiin great difficulty in getting the knife away from the deceased, before any fatal in cision was made, but was himself severely wounded in the struggle. Foiled in the meditated mans of destroying himself, Bannister (who was a remark. ably fine and stout man) knocked down the friendly interposer between him and a shocking death, and running with great speed up a hill, plunged into a mock-pond, and was drowned before he was ex tricated. He was 26 years of age. His fatal des. peration is attributed to a disappointed attachaseat. The jury returnei a verdiEt—Limaey. On Friday morning, Mr. Comport., dm Master of the Blur Coat School, in Chapel-street, West. miaster, left his rev d_nce with an intention of giving a lesson, bat nI e got opposite the Broadway Chapel, he was suddenly take.) di, dropped down, and expired in a few musatss k aNd was bikes WWI R". 7 II I