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Mt limy erily ed he FUN a ne , Meld advel tYCit attra iondi see slid t Her hos t. mat bout The of c antic ter and Was Weal Fart the voic "no secs fro by s I La Cato Rev. Mr Orai Rut Ur , Mn Mr. Mr. m., Fair ing bas her nigl from on I I •1 . Low Si 0 give bier oth • Part up, th et 110 • T is IC 44 a.; cc 1- tr le 0 r , at al C. re to r. el FA to it al •1 el e. is a at 71 . te re • tr • ti. • 1111 THEATRE. DUCT-L• 11.. Mrs. JORDAN'S riolante, in Mrs. Cantxtves's rely and elegant comedy, The Womder, awaited eve' flowing and must elegant audience, at a very ily hour last night. 'lle same enthusiasm greet her enure, as on Thursday evening. The re-ap pearance of Mrs. JORDAN. will, probably, produce a new era in the Theatrical world : every thing yields to the influence of her genius. All those iventitious eiretuastancts, usually employed to ache cutiosity, could not, combined, prove more .ttraElive than her Violanle of last night. The fondest espetlation did not look for more than to see Mrs. JORDAN equal to herself. Probably she iid not exceed her former exertions ; but, after an terra! of two seasons, that produced nothing to .mpare with her, the beauties of her Tiolonte tve struck the audience with new and irresistible Ice. All the elegance, delicacy. and vivacity, , %shish the part is susceptible, were given in a manner that excited the moat animated and un bounded applause. There is se part, whatever. of Theatrical delusion, mote essential than propriety Nf costume. a point too generally considered abordinate. Mrs. Jetties.. making every charac ter a perfeit whole, never fails to display an elegant and judicious taste in her dress. That of last night was extremely splendid and becoming. The fair wearer never appeared more fascinating. In the Farce of The Poo► Soldier, a lady made her &der. in the part of Pam k, her name is Da PONT. Her voice is rich and mellow, and her tones possess uncommon depth for a female. She certainly pos sesses much greater powers than she displayed, from her extreme embarrassment, though cheered by repeated plaudin• Arrivals at Clifton, near Bristol— Lady Page Turner, Lady Heathaste, Governor liontinek, talc Frazer, Rev. Itr. mad Mrs. Pretyman, Dr. Kirkland, Rer. Mr. and Mrs. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, Airs, Melee, Ball, M•Kenna, Brockbank, Mr. and three Moo Gums, Mssan. Elliuy Matihreson, Sykes, Walter, SeSem, Brun, Ds. Exley. Arrival, ot the Hot Wells, Bristol— Capon' Mrs. and Miss O'By ins, Mr. and Mss. Minot, Mr.. a.,,d Mr., Juliman. The last arrivals at Swansea are— The Hen. Mrs. Harley, 2 Mines Harley, Ray. Mr. Harley, Mo centred., Mr. and Mrs. :aside', Mr. sort Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Hugh Sat ii., Mr. and Mrs. Garserl, Mr. Wombwell, Mr. Loris Mr. sod Mrs Rosaaquet and Family, Mr and Mrs R.whe, 2 Misses Wy alas. Mr. and Mrs. Lacey and %ainfly, Act Mrs. EDWI N, who was much hurt by a scene fall ing upon her while performing at the Cork Theatre. has since sufficiently recovered to be able to resume her situation in the Theatre; and Saturday sein night was her benefit there. Earl NELSON and his son, Viscount TILAT•LOAA, from their Tour to the Lakes, passed through York. on Friday, for the south. The Countess of CLAas arrived, yesterday, at her Louse in Saville-row, from Ireland. Sit BkOOlC W• 711011 WU much better last night. Co Monday se'nnight an elegant dinner was given by Col. Harms' and the Officers of the Norwich regiment, to Col. Yoana. and the Field- Officers aT.d Captaias of the Cambridgeshire Mili lia. at Yarmouth TALMA, the celebrated ador, has returned to Paris. it :s said that he means to retire isnmedi sicly from the stage. M. Busrc;w, the Composer, to whom the world is indebted for the music of Aim, of Meoitatoth Ice. is apponted Direlitor of the Music at the Opera Muffs in Paris. Mrs. Estgrot's benefit, at Brighton, yesterday se'nntght, under the auspices of Mrs. 0111 Y Humans, netted 1601. Lau night, Mrs. W IGIA LI, patronised Leash whets ion (an, The Kinkel Soklieos, and Iwo Strings to your * Bow Laterdio, by Mr. Muuoers. And this night Lady Amax IA SPSSCsa patronises a favourite Comedy. lIOMA?AMTt, and Madame Bois AAAAA visited the Opera at Paris, on the 4th instant. On their entrance, the band played La ve:Thire est a SW, and On pent on e:re 111114 X 'seem Jibe de se faessile. The house expressed universal joy. Madame CATALAMI bad a concert, at Belfast, on Thursday last, on her way to Edinburgh. Do I not," said a Gentleman at Cheltenham, to the lovely Mrs. o'l3. •• speak like a book ? • Yes," answered the Lady, " like a book bound in salt." Master BITTY has been quite the ga at Chel tenham ; be has perfumed thowyn, Sdi., boreal. Loony Mactsuollar. (the Irish haymaker ' ) and Tris. trail Firhle. The French Poet, Ls Baum, died at Paris, on the ftsl instant, in an advanced age. He was a Member of the Institute, and of the Legion of Honour. The ifokh Dotoort, who seduced the butcher's daughter, and withdrew to the Cape, to avoid pay ing the dowses, soon got tired of the Cape Foist. and is returned to pay the debt of the lad s and look afiri :mother Ewe Lola , . !lasting, and East Bourne both retain a good of company ; at the latter place the Theatre i.een unusually successful, under the attentive u.a , :ageinent of Messrs. JON •s and POOLE,. l.auy ELISIO& BUT LI a, and her fair friend, Miss Namur:4 IT, who have, for so many years, been the fair recluses of the Vale of Llangollen, in Wales, are going to leave their beautiful seat, no longer a rlin o i fr om 1 , th e h om y h am of own," by two ex tensive vstion mills having been 'reefed near their abode. Lady E. Borten is aunt to the Earl of °autism. between six and seven o'clock, en last Monday evening, a beautiful cock pheasaat was observed perched on the roof of the Rev. Mr. Its Traces house, in Lewes, where be awaited the shot of an enemy, hat escaped without the loss of a feather. On Monday last, the price of beer was lowered at Chatham an halfpenny per pot, which has given Much satisfaCtion to the neighbourhood. Every tedudion of price, however trifling, in that whole. some and nutritious beverage, is certainly an °bird to a.l classes of the community, particularly to the labouring people. .J-~ A 110117-ST It RIOT IN ST. GILES'S Fur several Sundays, during the summer months, the peaceful inhabitants of St. Giles's and its vici nity were kept in continual alarm, by the ow rageous conduet of the lower kind of Irish. resident in that neighbourhood, and other parties of Irish, who came from Whitechapel, Shadwell, Wool wich, &c. for the express purpose of fighting with those of St. Giles's, in which contlias much niis. chief has been frequently done. The savage ferocity of those people, (both men and women,) indu:ing them to use bludgeons, knives, cutlasses, rusty swords, shovels, and other dangerous weapons, complaints of this shocking profanation of the Sabbath were made to the Magistrates, and a strong party of constables and paroles were ordered to attend, by whom several of the ringleaders were apprehended, and obliged to find bail for their good behaviour. which then had the desired effect of checking the nuisance. —For two or three Sundays past, this praEfice has been renewed. One of these riots continued almost the whole of Monday last, which being represented to Mr. Rein, the Chief Magistrate of this Office, he sent a number of the patrole there in the evening, who, notwithstanding they met with great re sistance, and were assaulted with sticks, brick-bats, Ike. they took four of the principals in the affray into custody, who were yesterday examined before Mr. GRAIIAN ; when, appearing to be very able fellows, and not in ady particular employ, the Magistrate very properly judged them fit persons to serve His Majesty at sea, and accordingly sent them on board the tender for that purpose ; which mode, we un derstand, will be adopted in future to all others found so offending, as the only means of effectually checking such dangerous tumults. FEMALE REVENGE. At a distinguished watering place, in the eastern pan of Sussex, four young men of the town lately gained frequent admission into the kitchen of a large family visiting there, under pretence of paying their respeOive addresses to four of the female domestics ; but, in the course of a few weeks acquaintance, matters ttanspired which convinced the girls that the young men only paid court to their master's pantry, instead of their fair persons ; they therefore con spired to revenge themselves of their perfidious sweethearts, by the following expedient ; Having procured and killed a large Tem Cat, the cook flayed and washed it. dexterously cut it up, and with proper seasoning put it into a pasty. The beaux were invited, as usual, to supper, and bad each partaken very heart , ly of the pie, when Mrs. Abigail, wlfo did the honours of the table, poked from the bottom of it the nether extremity of poor Tom, curled up like a pitch•cocked eel, and begged their inamoratas to pick a joint or two of tail, to finish with !—The catastrophe may be guessed at ; the sparks made a precipitate retreat to get rid of the contents of their stomachs; and the story get ting wind, they were in consequence so laughed and mewed at. th.•t one or t wo of them, to avoid tile =thugs of the multitude, have been induced to quit the neighbourhood ! The King of SWID•11. we lament to say, is seri ously indisposed with the Aux, attended with a low, intermitting fever. H. had the first appearance of it at Stralsund ; but, contrary to the advice of his physician, and the special exhortations of the officers of his guard, he re:used a temporary retirement from his military fatigues, and would take no me dicine which required confieeinent. The conse quence is said to he very alarming; a bulletin is daily issued—the last in:imated that His MAJZSTY coneinuedi in an alarming state of relaxation. On Saturday last, two fishermen, observing some. thing lying above the surface of the water, between Hearn Say and Whitstable. immediately put off in a small boat, to ascertain what it w. 16. They found it to be a surprising large fish ; returned on shore, and took out wit h them two ratlike's, with which they fired at it seven different times, without pro ducing aoy offal, so as to ascertain whether it was alive or not ; they then proceeded, and aftually ran the boat on the back cf the fish, and wounded it with ao axe upwards of a foot deep. The fish im mediately proceeded out to sea, and the next mashing was washed on shore, nearly on the same spot, dead of the wounds it received the pro• ceding day. Mr. Amu. a farmer in the neigh bourhood, went down with his men, and by the assistance of nine horses, drew part of the fish above high water mark. It proved to be a grampus, 31 feet in length, and weighed between 10 and 12 tons. The fat, or Woggle. when boiled, produced boo gallons of oil. Letters from an officer of rank in the navy, dated Sept. 10, off Copenhagen, state the great gal. lantry of the in-shore squadron, and that the I)ia patch, Is, Captain LILLTCRAF, bad a narrow escape, as she rounded near one of the enemy's batteries, but did not cease firing, when a fresh wind off shore backed her off without receiving the least damage. He describes the city of Copenhagen as almost reduced to ashes. He says it was a dreadt el and awful sight to se* the grand Church and its lofty spire all in lames, which curled to the top in a spiral direclion, when on a sudden, the whole mass of building fell in with a most tre mendous crash. Our troops marched inter the city on the evening of the eth. and occupied the citadel, the bands of all the regiments playing Reds Britatissie. The jolly tars took possession of the batteries and men of war. The greatest credit is said to be due to the troops and sailors for their very orderly and regular conduit during the whole of the siege ; it has been an honour to the British name and character. The advanced squadron bad many bard brushes, yet have lost but few men. One day the shells, shot, and carcasses, flew so thick about them, it was thought the whole squadron would have been knocked to atoms, but the aim was so very bad, and wide of their mark, that the ships comprising it nevi d with very little damage. A little advanced squadron have just had orders to join Commodore KZAT/th in the Great Belt, to Lterrupt any army that might at tempt to cross over from Holstein." '• We hope," this Officer says, to be home in an English port in about three weeks or a month, with the Danish fleet in tow." OLD mut Sim 22. DEFRAUDING OF CREDITOR'S. The fallowing case most be peculiarly in eresting to the mercantile world, both n account of i s melancholy issue, and the ualr.:quency of its oc currence : James Hulled, whose enndtra has been more than once noticed in the puhlic Prints, on his apprehzn sion, and various eliminations in the Police °Mee, WAS put to the Bar, chary :NI with tae above capita! ol'ence. The indtem.:nt charged the Pri- Sons!, cn three several counts, with not making a lair disclosure of 'his effells under a Commission of Bankruptcy. and in particular for concealing the sum of 80'dl. from his true and lawful vreJttors. The great length it the proceedings upon this trial occasions the necessity of our giving but a sum mary detail of them ; but we trust that the leading circumstances, as divulged in the evidence adduced. with a statement of the ultimate result, will be suf ficient to deter others, who unfortunately becoms bankrupts, from a commission of the like heinous offence. The case was opened on the part of the Prosecu tors by Mr. Guaira Y, who in an able and perspicn ous manner narrated the whole circumstances of the ease, nearly as they came out upon the evidence, and then proceeded to call the following witnesses : Mr. John Hubbert, a Clerk to Messrs. John and George Cowell, rum and brandy merchants, de posed, that Le knew Mr. Bullock, as being a wine, rum and brandy merchant, formerly in Lawrence- Pountney-lane, and latterly in Scots-yard. The Prisoner had transacted business several times with that house, and was considerably indebted to them. This the Witness knew, from his having access to the books. Upon the 28th of January last, the Witness delivered to the Prisoner, from the West India Docks. two puncheons of rum, amounting to 1891. 19s. 2d. and some time thereatter, four puncheons more, amounting in all, to upwards of 10001. For these, the Prisoner gave bills at three months, amounting to 14721. which were never paid, although the Prisoner accepted them. Thomas 011 y, the carman of Messrs. Cowell, confirmed the testimony of the former Witnesi, by saying that he delivered these puncheons into Mr. Bullock's vaults, in Suffolk-lane. Mr. Thomas Ward , clerk to Mem'. Prescott and Co. bankers, deposed, that- the acceptances were all in the hand-writing of Mr. Bullock, ani that they were payable at their house, but they had no drifts to pay them, their transaltions with the Pri soner having ceased upon the first of May, when the first bill became due. Mr. George Scoad, clerk to a notary public, de posed as to the protest of the Bills, upon pre.eut ing them at Messrs. Prescott's, and gettini tor an swer that there were no effeets. Mr. William Bryant, deposed, that he had been traveller to the Prisoner, in the month of March last, and that he was a creditor at the time of his bankruptcy. although he did not now stand in that situation. The Prisoner had then a counting.bouse in Scot a s•yard, and, as he understood, a dwelling house there, as well as at Dulwich. He (the Wit ness,) attended at this counting-house. in Scot's yetd, at the end of March. when he returned from a Southern journey. Hs also went swathe journey for him. in the month of April, and on hi. re turn, attended day aftct day, at said counting house, but could not find him ; always receiving as an answer to his inquiries, from Bullock's ser vants, that their maser was out. Various people came at that time, but were also regularly told that he (Bullock) was out. The Witness, by dint of in quiry, at length found the Prisoner at Gerrard's Hall Inn, in Basing-lane. Mr. Wallace, Lis clerk, went with bins to that place, where they saw Mr. Bullock and his wife. Atter asking how each other did, the Prisoner said to the Witness, that he supposed he (the Witness) imag.ned something was the matter. To this the Witness answered, that he thought it was very odd he hail not seen him, after having called so repeatedly. The Prisoner replied. that he had some bills becoming due for goads which he had at the B ltic. and mentioned other particulars as the cause of his keeping out of the way, which the Witness could not understand. The last•mentioned place was about a quarter of a mile from the Prisoner's counting-house, in Scot's-yard. the Witness was only once with him at that place, and that WAS about an hour, but did not ask bins for money ; as the Prisoner said, in a few days he would give him what he waited. John Tracey deposed, that he had been carman to the Prisoner for about nine or tea mouths. In the month of April last, the Prisoner did not come so regularly to his counting-house as be u.ed to do, he only coming once or twice &week. About that time the Prisoner's name was taken off his door, and the name of Lang, his cellarman and potter, was put thereon. The Witness did not know of any creditors applying for their debts at that time. James Mates stated, that he lived as gardener to the Prisoner, at his country-house, at Dulwich, and remembered that between the 11th and the 14th of May, he (the Prisoner) left that place. at eight o'clock in the morning. He afterwards learnt that the Prisoner had gone to town ; and he afterwards saw him at Wills s Coffer-house, Lincoln's Inn, and fur some time lived at Chelsea, in furnished lodg ings. The Witness saw some goods removed front Dulwich. at that time, in a cart. and understood from the carman that he took them to Bouverie. street, Fleet•street. The Prisoner assigned, as his reason lot leaving Dulwich, that something was not altogether right, but at the same time spoke of coming back. The Witi-ess afterwards understood. that another cart, containing several trunks full of goods, the Prison is ptcyerty. went from Dulwich to flungerford-Market, where they were left at an inn, near the waterside. Tracey, the catman, was again examined, and deposed, that he brought two cart loads of goods from Dulwich. by Mr. and Mrs. Bullock's direc tions ; the one he took to Bouverie,treet, and the other to Hungerford-Market. In doing so he met a Air. Atkinson, the Prisoner's nephew ant Clerk, in Fleets reel, and also the Prisoner himwlf, having pre►iously met Mr. Cowell's man, on 131sckfriar's bridge. Upon his acquainting the Prisoner with this last circumstance, he was desired. inttud of de livering all the goods at Bouverie-street, to tCite one of the e irts to Hungerford-street. Titere were in all sorra boxes. besides a book•case, which was in 1 the second tart Men)), had itette? die gel& into the public-house, at the wateinsid. be earn away. Here Mr. Conn, one of the C suns-I beh..:l of the Prisoner, In-reeled to state as o mliAns that the Witness, Bryant, having been a ere. hot at the time of the bankrup cy, and the 01111!7 but Jr. having heen issued opals s testimony, it was, 'here. fore, invalid, although rh indiß nent expressed. that the said Commission of aenkinptcy had been re gularly sued out against the Pr:inner. Mr. Avian, another of the Prisoner% Counsel. was proceeding to strengthen this onjedinn, when the Learned Judges (Ha•nit and Lawasece) ! nc. pressed their epininas, that the ebjnnion was In. timed, the whole of the evidence for the pros-csninn not being ccmpined, but intimated their willing. nen to hear any such statement in favour of the Prisoner, at a future states of the proceedings. Other objeCtions mare trivial were then att-mpt ed to be urged by the Prisoner's Counsel, as to the Commission not being neon a proper stamp, arid the impression of the Great Seal nut being at all conspicuous. These, however, were soon nye:- ruled by the deed being, upon examination, found perfellly regular. Tracey, the former Witness. further deposed, that he had afterwards seen the Prisoner at Cnelsea, at a house facing the water, but he did not know whether it was furnished by the Prisoner himself or not. He had been served with several summonses to attend the Commissioners, but Mr. Builink had • dissuaded hien front attending, saying he bad nn concern with the matter. and had therefore better let it alune, as no harm would thereby arise to him. James Spencer. a Messenger to the Commission ers, deposed, that he served the Prisoner regularly with notices to attend at Guildhall. The Commission was then read, and the three Commissioners proved their respective hand writing. and a Mr. Newman produced the warrant for ap. prehencling the Prisoner, which was dated 6th June. 1807. Joshu t Garnett. clerk to the Cwitmissinn. de posed, that the Prisoner was brought before the Commis loners in pursuance of said warrant, and was examined by teem, when their luestinss an 1 his answers were reduced to writing (here they were read.) The Prisoner's books were wept very regular in the beginning of May, the balance of cash in hand being stated correely at 1701 13s. At the time of the examination, the balance of cash in hand was 12001. The Prisoner attended the meeting of 231 June, for the choice of Assignees, when the Gentlemen that were chosen were Geom. Medley, John C well, and Richard Arnim. At one meeting, the Prisoner said he had paid to a Mr. Griffin Jones, the sum of 10501. and to a Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, a milliner, in Bon:lnner, 2141. when, upon inquiry. it turned out that l:e iced tint paid them any sum whatever. He attend d the last meeting of the Commissioners, upon the 1 eth July, 1807, when the bankrupt did nut at:end. Mr. Spencer being again called. stated that he also attended upon that day. at Guildhall, from one o'clock till twelve at night, with a shoit intermission, when another was appointed, to wait for the Bank rupt, who did not make his appearance. The Cots miesioners, after waiting a dee time during the day. went away, but returned at twelve o'clock at night. and made the regular and usual proclamation. against the, Bankrupt, for his nonattendance. Lewis, another Messenger, confirmed the above. Anthony Jones, an o:6:er of Police, deposed. that he was applied to on the 20:h of July, to search after Mr. Bullock, and went to the port of Leith, in Scotland, in pursuit of him. On his arrival be applied at the Wharf, where he found the several packages already an;ursed to, lying with the address or name of " Brown" upon each. There were in ill sixteen packages. ( rne Witness was here shown two of these cards rt :Wilier, and said Le thought they were the same he bad seen upon that occasion.) He waited at the Whart'. till Mr. Bullock came, and heard him claiming the goods, having brought teen to take them away. l'he Warless immedi ately took him ia.o custody. The Prisoner. upon this, said he had go: a proteetion from the Commis sioners. ('l'be witness was here sheen the paper produced upon that occasion, and swore that it was the same he had formerly seen. It was dated April 14, 1607, and the Commissioners then in Court also proved it to be false). He found upon the Prisoner a receipt or bill of lading, for sever teen packages, stated to be marked as upon the margin thereof. The Prisoner then went by name of Brown at his lodgings. The Witness rut a seal upon the packages, and lodged the Prisoner in the To:booth. at Leith. Bullock told him that he had left London upon Saturday, the lath of July. shoat tour o'clock in the afternoon, acd had arrived at Leith upon the Wednesday following ; end also stated, that the packages were, in all, only about 501. or 601. in value. When they arrived in town, he asked the Prisoner what he had done with the money, which it was known he had had at a Bank er'l? and he, Bullock, told him, be had left 4:301. at Leith. Mr. Griffin Jo7.es, a redos...l Army Of f icer, szid, he bad been acquaiate•J with Mr. Bullock; thr Prisoner did not owe him any sum of money, except a tew trilling advances made to him at Coffee houses. In the months of May and June last. he (the Witness) lived in Dartmouth-street, West minster, where he saw the Prisoner very frequttly as a friend. Walking one day together, Bullock mentioned something to him about his affairs, and as he (Witness) perceived he was e;zbarrassed, he did not wish to hurt his lettings with any observa tions. The Prisoner mentioned, that be had once owed him 10001. and bad paid him honourably; and the Witness understood by this that he (the Prisoner) warned a charaeler from him, should any inqtrries happen to be made concerninik him. he did not know a person of the name or f'i• zabeth Jones, a Jrns-maker, in Band-street. he Prisoner had never made my payments to the Wit. ness of 53v1 2 4 J01.. and '3701. as he had latterly stated. Mr. Thos. Wild, • wine -merchant. deposed, that the Prisoner had twice appliel to him to borrow money, and that be had lent him, upon two occa sions. two separate sum, of 40v1. upon the security of several puncheons sit rum. He knew of his bankruptcy.. and attended a meeting of his credi turs in August, 1806, when the Primmer produced a • o • , I