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.1 ::t R r ~ I' U ' 4 i first consequence in the county. The defendant had been in the whoa busting, of calling- at the pla . intilf 'a horse. fee, the v deliberately fanned orrdiniug the virtue of the plaintiff's be • ' was proof to his temptations, character .of her dusband. (endant sent a letter by a man tint's wife, with strict injanc. thing of it. This letter was 'Th.: Learned Counsel here This letter was delivered from home t and though nc aurae' ' :e twin of words using, yet in this ewe it was became a virtuous woman, ...e every other man who had the iudignatton,ard expressed it. The tid ry• ruin the wife, to &grey the his intentions towards 31 es. tier to Mr. Lloyd : it was in iticmaa here read this letter, t stated that Mr. Alyttan know that her husband This was the libel com. whether this au all sheer Did he wart to screen the him of his danger. The : night ; and men if Mr. not bare sent such a let - at Ohs wife. If Mrs. Ro. Sea 6100 to have met the abseil ea Very of the shoe. fter ateketlia, and the cons. , was called upon to give up plaintiff had been guilty of Ad though no justification wak An, but would dare the defers. accusation. But the defendant, =eking any , npology. said, rating it.peat, and which, before it was • justice, he must ask every lady would'give no explanation till he —..iplishinent of his wicked purpose. before them, he would IA them tf.eny, • being sent for to go on a mes: ' a letter from the deeghter 3Weitry I took the letter to net at home. with the plaintiff, Mr. Rogers. was married in July. IMP. I diful and attractive woman. I man of very large fortune; he t for Shrewsbury ; he lives Svc lives eight miles from Elle.. 'writing. (The witness proved id the letter to 31r. Lloyd con defendant's handwriting.) I know 'e plaintiff to Mrs. Rogers was now read. , Ellesm ere." —(No date.) you privately for a few mi. , that may tend very much to .to it. Ido it for four own good, 4, and I hope you will not fail to at. enough to write a line. and send it to daughter, and tell me when you y, Wednesday, or Thursday next. =ay emcee; near your own house 'ta save you trouble; try object is to gave you much probable trouble. " I am yours sincerely. JOHN IHYTTON." " Say exactly the hour and where I shall see you. for I have par. timber reasons for not being sacs, so let it be at dusk of evening." • The letter containing the libel was then couched in the following terms. We give it verbatim, widressed. • ' TO TROMAS LLOYD, ESQ. OSWEITRY. "DEAR LLOYD—I wan surprised to find from Jones, of Elks- Mere. that Mr. Roger+, of Sandford. is in an extravegare rage with me for having written to his wife, wishing to see her. As I 'was aware that he and another. his companion, were more than suspected of shooting at night in Sandford-pool.tail, I have spoken to him not perhaps three times In my life, but have cc membered his wife many years ; but I cannot remember to have spoken to her before her marriage, which has always been in her own house, where, when with the hounds, she was three or four times good enough to give me a draught of ale and bread and cheese. In consequence of that I determined to apprise her of tie &vier he Ives in is case of detection in shooting at night. tintelflie might net be Emcee is punishable by transportation. I abQpldggLwish it known to the person watching that I prevented the dietov cif any act of the kind, and wished to caution her as el : Wetly se possible. I found, however, that Mr. Kenyon wan aware of his being so employed, or at least suspected, and told 31r. Kenyon that if he would not proceed against him, I would take qt re he Md not do so again, especially as I heard he was leaving the country. I likewise spoke to Mr. Bridgman, who I conclude has Cauthmed a young man who lives at Knocking to avoid such prttlecs ip future. I hear from Jones he was at your house, and to you, as a re- Istion of his, I take the trouble of explaining it, apologising for tie length of this. If he chooses to remain in the state of extra tragai.t rage Jones describes, I cannot help it ; and he may thank himself for his uneasiness, as I belizee Mrs. Rogers will, if asked, dasclere Qat neither by word nor deed did I ever in her presence do what all the world was not welcome to witness. Excuse the trouble /live you, and " Relieve me, " Dear Lloyd, yours faithfully, J. MYTTON. . . Mr. Truss, croas.examined by Mr. Tat:NT ow—l am a friend of the plaintiff, and was formerly clerk to his brother, who is an attorney. The plaintiff brat employed his brother to bring the sailor, but his present stun-Deg is Mr. Edgerley. The plaintiff' *sensed to stay proceedings on being pelt' his expenses and Mr. 11Iyiton making an aenlogy. I wrote a letter on the subject , but • thattime I knew nothing about the apology being ore of the eon. ditions ; but the plaintiff said, that this and an anion against a person rained Jones should also be settled, and that Jones should give t. worth of bread to the poor of the parish of I;llesmere, and 31r. Al y tton making an apology. . Re-examined—At this agreement the plaintiff was not present, and lie disapproved of it. r. CAMPBELL—This agreement was set aside by order of the Court of King's Bench, on the ground t hat the plaintiff had not consented to it. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE recorimended a compromise: but this compromise was not acceded to on the part of the plaintiff. The Rules of the Court of King's Bench were read. By them the agreement (before alluded to) for the settling of thin action was crileredso be set aside. The lathes were now directed to withdraw ; arid Mr. Edwards was called. lie stated that he saw Mr. Mytton at the Hereford I Races, where a horse of Mr. Mitten's won the gold cup. The wit. • DWI .tated that he took wipe with Mr. Mytton at the Coffee-mom ' at Hereford, ant! that a conversation ensued between them, in which 314. Alytton mated that he thought Mr. Lloyd looked very cool, and he those li• ,•e was going to cut him, an lie supposed about the business ef Ise e ers ; anti that the witness en this said that he 010 , 101. that was all settled, when Mr. Mytton replied that he thought that lingers wanted an apology ; but (here the witness very reluetautly repeated some eaptessions used by Mr. Nlytton, which are quitc.uelit fur piAilication). 'Mr. Tee se ON addressed the Jnry for the defendant, and said that he should trouble them with but a few sentences in this rase, and those would be principally directed to their attention for the purpose of coneinciag diem that at least seven-eighths of Mr. • Campbell's address were beside the question before then,. That Learned Oentleman had nut put this case on the question of da mages far a libellous letter, but as it it was a claim for a compen sexton for the soliciting of the chastity of the plaintiff's wife. Now with that matter they hail nothing to do. Ile denied on the part 1 of Mr. Myttoit that there had ever been such a solicitation. There were in thte world a great many, matters of personal mis conduct over which the law had no jurisdiction. There must be many things done and attempted to be done, which, however • they might reprobate, they could not punish. If the seduction • of a person': wife was succeede d in, a compenkatian was to be given by law ; but if a mere attempt was made to seduce the wife of another, and by the virtuous conduct and steady fidelity et the woman whose Thine was attempted to be assailed that at. , mere- was frustrated a balsam titer, as moral ince. might blame one conduct of the party attempting such a seduction, yet for that they had not the power of giving damages, nor ought they to give larger damages for any other cause oaction which the plaintiff might have ; and the only question they had to try here 1 was. how much injury the plaintiff had recetred by the libel' imputing to him that be had killed game in the n i g ht. If Mr. Rogers had been tormented with a feeling with which many honest husbands were afflicted, lie might well be deceived by what was 'net at all Intent a, an injury to his wife. The Leaned Counsel en the other side had gone upon a supposed attaehment of a criminal nature, which he presumed tu exist is the mind of the defendant, but he would argue on the terms of the letters that that was by no means shown. The libel was written in corifftlence to s friend; it was not a let ter to a stranger, or to aft indifferent person, it was not un necessarily written to wound Mr. Rogers's feelings, but was sent to a near relation, and in the most friendly feeling. The question they would have to consider was, whether this letter contained a reflecting on the character of the plaintiff. (The Learned Gentleman titre read both the lettere.) He was little used to the writing of love letters., but he had made lose and succeeded, as they probably new; but though at one time of his' life he bed written love ,eltets, be could assure them that none of them were re cold as Otis to Mt:. Rogers; sad if the letters Mr. Mytton wrote werethis cold cast, he thought it probable that be sionhi never succeed with other ladies better than he had done now with Mr.. Rogers. (A laugh.) He, however, did not ask them to put any perimeter construction on this letter to the plaintiff's wife. as he contended that they ought to lay it entirely out of their cassideratioa. Ihe only question for them to determine was, what -.amount of tbedamages that the plaintiff had sustained by At summed up the whole of the eel lay to say, whether the libellous letter against the charaeter of the plaintiff ; defeedent imputed to the plaintiff thee eight, as For that ha would be liable to dirt say so in a letter, it must be taken y, unless he meld *hew the egetrary te t the Jury thought that the letter Wee plaintiff's made to apprise him of the . - risks the glided( who imining, and to caudon him, it would go to lessen the dermegpia ; but they ought to. look at the other lea ter which was tererted to, _and if that was shown to lie. Ro gers, it was 'well calculate d to alarm him. It was said it had not the warm stile of a love-letter, nor was it likely it should, as at that time the defendant had made no professions of attach ment to her, and visited only to excite her attentions and gain an interview; and besides that he could not be sure that it would not be elown to her husband, which in fact it afterwards was. On the whole that leiter was calculated to excite suspicion; bet I they had been properly told that in estimating the damage's they could nut give any thing for the plaintiff's tette, and in law they ought not to do so; however they had • right to consider, not merely the libel itself, but also under what circagnstances it was written ; and it did appear clear from the evidence of Mr. Edwards that the defendant had had improper intentions towards the plaintiff's wife, and that was material to show that the libel was written net to fairly warn Mr. Lloyd of the risks bis relation was running, but to give a colour to what he had prittento Mee. Regent ; and wherefore that he falsely accused the plaintiff of poaching to screen himself from the imputation of having solicited the chastity of the plaintiff's wife: and on the whole they would hare to say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to recover. Vetdict fur the plaintiff—Damagcs leo/. • NORTHERN CIRCUIT. LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.—LAXCASTiII, Jlottes 16. ' Bijbee Mr. Justice lIOLROYD and s Comnion Jury. • tuietrert V. TAYLOR. Mr. STARE'S Opened the pleadings. and the A rvorthsw-Gle- X fear. stated, t this ass an action brought by the mother for eouipet • • 'tweed's the loss of the servien of her daughter, Mitaw was an terestiZ young lady of the age of twenty-two when site was gati ceche . The plaintiff's husband, before he died, P a respe farmer, residing at Burnley. Their acquaint ing& MEW from their meeting together on the road as they were seating frost church, when he introduced himself to the plaintiff's daerghter's acquaintance in the character of a suitor, to whom he marriage, and was permitted to pay his addresses; he parsed erwards, from time to time, proposed marefege, and ap peared to have honourable intention. After repeated, proposals of •)atriage, be ef reted her seduction, the correquenn of which was a chili: it was one of those cases that but too often happened in • as well as in every other country ; and if ever there was an action that tilled for damages, these species of complaints were of that nature. The plaintiff had only one alternative left—which wax, to seek at the hands of a Jury of her country &compensation in damages for one of the moat cruel sets that a person could be guilty of. The Learned Gentleman, after suitable comments, called the following witnesses in support of his case:— Miss Sutcliffe, examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL —She is one of the daughters of the plaintiff (ales. Rose but. chile); she lives near 'rowdy Park; her father occupied the farm near Burnley; he died eight years ago, and left nine children, seven girls and two boys. tier mother continued to occupy the (ann. In 1823 she had three daughters living with her, Hannah, Rose, anti witness. Rose was aged twenty-two; her other sisters were married. She earned on the business of a million at her mother'', house. Rose was the same business. She assisted her mother in the business of the house. She knows the defendant, John Taylor; she knew him in Juno of the year Ife22. Witness and her sister met him on the road as they were returning from church. He then went part of the way home with them. He came to her mother's in August in the same year. Ile was in company with an apprentice of her brother-in-law. Ile came again in a fortnight afterwards. The defendant's father was a farmer, residing at Clifton, near Burnley, and a man of some pro perty. Ile died in September in the same year. The defendant, his son, had the farm afterwards; it was a large one: he told her so. lie came on a Monday evening fur the second time. He did not see witness's sister there alone. He came a third time in about a fortnight afterwards. she was present at the time. He said that be came to pay his addresses to her sister ljpee Anne. Her mother said that her daughter was only nineteen, and too young to be married. She believes that her inter was not at first willing to receive him, but afterwards she received his visits from time to time. He courted her sister. IMr. Brougham said the questions were irregular.] lie courted her sister. Ile said that his mother wished him to be married. This was in July in the same year (11323). He continued his visits. lie afterwards absented himself part of July and part of August. He visited her often. It was known that her sister was pregnant in the month of October. He continued his visits after her pregnancy was knots.. He let for about five weeks. Her sister and hermit* sent for the defendant by a friend. He sent word that he could not come that night, but he would come to her on the following morning. One sister of wit ness was married, and resided then at Burnley. Ile did not come as he promised the next day. Her sister was confined in June. Cross-examined by Mr. BROUGII•M—Her mother keeps a small tams—t) no! not a small or.e neither—she keeps four cows and one hone. The defendant is older than her sister; be is 23; he is a clogger and a cordwainer (a laugh); he has an apprentice; he has a shop at his mother's farm ; he has a shop at Burnley ; she (his mother) bee other servants on the farm ; it is the nos his father had ;he cobbles in clogs and old sh oes. (A laugh.) lie said that his mother wished him to be married. Ile was always saying what a comfortable home he had, and could make her sister haopy He mentioned March for their marriage. Ale. Baouostan—qchey cannot bring a promise of marriage into the question. The Learned Gentlemen then cited Tillage and Wane, 8 Wilson, p. 21134; and Dodd and Norris, 3 Campbell, where Lord Ellenlmmugh 'chased the evidence. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that this was a mistaken DO nem, and common sense had long ago exploded it. Mr. BROUGHAM—EccIes and Nicholls was in point. alr. Sergeant Caoss—Lord Elleuborough said the Jury should orly take into their consideration the seduction—not the breach of promise. Examination continued—He made a proposel of marriage in March ; she refused it. It wee, she said, too short an acquaint., ante. Ile visited her after that time frequently. Four of her sisters, are married. The eldest is married to a tailor in Bond-street, another to a shoemaker. One has children, and the others none. Benin*. bees the wedding of one of her sisters. Can't say how soon after the wedding she had a child. it was more than two or three, months. (A laugh.) It was about four. (Laughter.) Another sister was married to " Tom Smith." She was married at fifteen. Can't say how long after she had a child. (Continued latighter.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected. Her third sister was married to a cordwainer ; she don't know how soon after she had a child ; it was more than three or six months that her sister (Mrs. Crossey) had a child. " Ask Peter Parker behind you." (A loud laugh.) The fourth sister has no children ; she has been married three or four years, and has had he children. By the ATTORNEY-GENERAL — Peter Parker married the do. fendant's sister. The defendant's father had an estate at Pewee Forest ; defendant was the only child and heir to the estate. From the defendant's account it was a large farm ; she heard him say that the farm belonged to him—that he had an interest in it. Her father had property and residednu the farm in his lifetime. He had hun dreds of pounds, thiee.cottages, and personal property. (A laugh.) BormAnneFutcliffe, the daughter, was then called and examined. —She is twenty-two years or age. Became acquainted with the defendant in 1822. She was cowing from her sister's at Burnley, when the defendant joined them on the road. She saw him first a t I her mother's, in August in that year. lie came afterwards and pant his addresses to her. This was on the Christmas after. Before her mother allowed of hie visits he was received by the family. She saw him at Christmas, lie came often. lie was away part of July and August. He at firstabegan to take liberties with her, and she refused him. He said he wanted to be married, and that he had a house ready for her whenever ale pleased. He fixed the time for their marriage. He afterwards said that he had some fa.. folly affairs to settle, and could not. He was afterwards admitted in the family, and allowed to stay with her. She first found that she was withehild in September. The child was his. lie came again in August; she tuld him when she was first with child; his last visit was in September. He refused to be married, and they quarrelled. lie wished to put it °fie/ few weeks. S. he'was pressing him at the time. She sent for him in October to inform him that she was pregnant. He said that lie would nine the night following and fie a time Ihr their marriage. Ile came on the Sunday night. He refused to be married, and said that he would leave the country first. He has called on her twice about the marriage; that is all. she was delivered in June. , , Ceasiansamined by Ms. to haven *hare in 'what the damages may be. • firs BRO11431:AM-1 shall then draw my pen through her Evi dence. Witness—Well, the attorney Mist be paid. Never said she would make him pay for It ; it was not prudent to ask where* happened ; she would not tell. drone —Answer the question. ifirtness--ft happened at her mother's; she was not going to tit! what mitt of the house, and he did not go to bed with her (a loud laugh); it was its evening ;it was not light ;it was in i September t he used often to come in the evening ; he used to caine in the es cuing and stay till eleven o'clock; her mother sat up with her. Adam Meanly examined—lle is a surgeon at Burnley; lie is ac quainted with the defendant ; he kr.rw his father; he was a farmer; he knows he had an estate at Pendel Forest; it might be worth 1,0001. ; it was a very !rage farm; he attended the daughter during her confinement ; he has known the fatnily 9 orlo years • they hare lived in the same place some time; the daughters have beets brought tap very respectably. The ATTORage-GEIENKAL then Raid, "This is our case, way Loot;" when • - Mr. Baououax said—Well, Gentlemen of the Jury, what do you think of this farmer's daughter ? You have heard my Learned Friend open his case, and what he has brought to light on the sub ject. His beamed Friend had lamented the frequency of this crime, awl the evil tendency of which was bad enough, God knows. But what did they think of this little peacock, who had shown Herself up it, all her borrowed plumes, and, like that bird, all her merit appeared ter be in her tail? (Load laughter.) It' this young lady were to take off' her fine pelisse. her veil, and hat, what would aloe appear like ? What a farmer's. daughter ought to be. The Jury bad heard that she refused to say where the rifliir bad taken place. She was asked if it did not take place in the house, but she refused to say in what part. IVhat would the Jury think of this ? where did it take place ? The defendant, they had heard, was a aim*, eisinter, and possessed no estate whatever. It parents would 111/S . keep a tigilant eye on their children, they must take the corne a , guarani OU themselves; they were often the instruments of that seduction. As to damage', anything would answer the e n ds or, justice: dm least coin would be sufficient for that purpose-4, tads ofjosticc. corsideestidet. Ibe only qv S was the amount of the tlanlai the wiring of the libel. Mr. Justice bITTLICDALI Renee, and Lift it to the Jar, contained any imputauons and if is this letter the dei he had shot gains in the nie yawn:inns:inn, the saying so of law ; and if a pemon dud that he did se maliciously, itatelte ease. Bewerer, if e go fide nitwit to the pla L • habit whin buatiag, of canton at the I wpm deliberately formed orrnining the wife; sod when be found that sits wee• lee format the resolution of ruining the eb On the 711 t of February, 1821. the defends mated Jones addressed to the defendant'i boos not to let her husband know any thi addressed to Mn. Rogers, Sandford. (TI read the letter wbioh desired a meeting.) to «lira. Rogers when her husband was be knew not whether this letter was in the that 31r. Mythan was in the habit of uein net su cassfiti ; but Mrs. Rogers. as bee E r - .it to her husband, who, like aver • of a man, felt the greatest indignati t then resolved, as he could not ru ehisractee oftheltueband ; and to show that t R 4 were Lot dishonourable. he wrote a lett. the following words. [The Learned Gentli erMch wea.tbc libel complained of. It had wished to see Mrs. Rogers, to let her was engaged in shooting in the night.] '1 Veined of. Now he would ask theni wh kbdaess on the part of Mr. Alyuon ? I) band ? If so, be would have told l miff had, in fact, never shot in the now thought h had, be would n ter in such a way to the plaintiff, but i gas bad unfortunately been unguarded defendant, would he have told her abou jog ?—No ; his evident purpose was het Tileikio of her min ; The defendant wag the author of the report, that the ph& night shooting ; he refilled it ; and tte pleaded . , he would mile no objection, bi dant to prove a single word of the accuse wheli—oißed upon, so , Ise from making aaettpeestion that he would not repeat, giereelis'evldioee for the ends of justice, to redireerom the Court, that he would't bad succeeded in the Mt accomplishinen On *fie facts being proved before them, *well be too largo ? Jemes said, I remember being saga; it rase eo a Saturdity. I received of the leedlerd of the Black Lion at the the plaintifre wife; her husband wee net Jobn"Teuga sold, lain acquainted with He it a fanner it Sandford. He was ' home Me wife; she in a very beautiful know Mr. Mytton ; ire' is a gentleman was formerly ')ember of Parliament for or sikentleil from the plaintiff, who live Wave. T imiacquein.ed with his hands - Al the letter written to Mn. Roger., and th 'lining thelibeL to be of the defenclan Mr. ILloyd:ihe is the uncle of the plaint The letter deist by the defendant to 3. It 'realm the'foilowing terms : Adelresskd p ". dirs. Rogers, Sandford, "Tim exceedingly anxious to see yr niter, 'Awl stn aware of something thi beurAligisliKe if you will attend to it. being inxibinifot your welfare, and I h. teadlo my note. Be good enough to e Ellesmere, to 'the tan of Jones's delight will see me , either on Tuesday, Vi"edr THE BRITISH PRESS. The Learned Junot, in his address to the Jury, said that they wouldtake care not to mix the question of seductio n and a breach of promise together. It was for the seduction only that the action was brought. The evidence for the plaintiff brought home the crime of seduction to the deferdent, and he was answerable for this too peurdent act. The Jury had hrsrd the witnesses, and he law iwthing, in their testimony to shake the cue. They would give suck damages as the occasion required—temperate, yet jest. The Jury found forlhepisiot 111—Dem_,Iges 601. LIMERICK ASSIZES.—Father, Mancit 11. ••• • URDER AT BILBOA. o'clock, Judge Torreon took his sent on the Bench. Timothy Ryan, John Deegan, and Patrick Molony were put to Me bar, charged with the murder of Daniel Connell, at Confers, near Balboa, on thelth of December, 1821, and on several iodict. menus, with burglary, assaulting habitation dec. Michael Connell, the brother of the deceased, who walked on a crutch,and prevented a most melancholy picture of the dreadful treatment the Conuelts experienced on the night of the murder, proved that op that night an armed party broke into their hots, and coontrisuced an indiscriminate attack on the inmates, consisting of witness, thh deceased, their two sisters, and two female cousins s they inflicted twenty-eight wounds on the witness, murdered his brother, whose head they hacked in pieces with a sword, cut one of the females, who, from the effect of her wounds, was unable to !ewe the County Tipperary to give evidence, across both legs with a sword, and felled her se the ground. The reasons assigned for the outrage was, the Connell' having taken the lands of Coneen, from which theDwyers, near relatives of the Ryans, who had them selves bid for the lands previous to the Connells being declared te nants, had been ejected ; the prisoner, Ryan, having lost some of his apparel during the attack; was obliged to light a perm of bog. deal to search for it, when witness, who had then crept under a form for concealment, had a full view of the prisoner, and saw a rimed in his band ; he also identified alolony as one of the patty, whom he also saw light a piece of bog-deal, and go into the room to search for his shoes. Mary Hourigan, one of the mustn't:a' the deceased, proved that she saw Deegan, whom she described and identified the dal after the murder, standing at the room door, when another person, not in custody, came in with a light to seek for a pitchfork. The evidence foe the prosecution was of a very strong circum stantial and corroborative nature. The defence set up for the prisoner Ryan was a good character, which he obtained from the Rev. Messrs. Penelather and T. G'C. Costelloe, and from three highly respectable gentlemen, as to his integrity, good moral conduct, and general reputation in the coun try foe industry. For the prisoner Melons', an alibi was proved by three witnes,es, who severally deposed that he slept the night of the transaction in a house ie Mame, some miles from the scene of the murder. The prisoner Deegan set up no distinct evidence for his defence. Verdict—Timothy Ryan and John Deegan, Guilty ; Patrick Molony, Not Guilty. His Lordship proceeded to pass on the prisoners the awful sen tence of the law, after which the prisoner were removed, apparently not much affected. The acquitted man seemed greatly effected at his narrow escape, and burst into tears. They are to be exahted on Monday. The prisoners in the most solemn manner asserted their inno. cence.—Mr. Woulfe, foe the first time since his recent appoint. ment, assisted she Crown. Lawyers in the above prosecution. -- APPREHENSION OF THURTIkEL ROBBERY'S BROTHER ON A IIARGE OF . BOH-STREET.—Yesterilay Ilenry Thurtell, a finc.louking young man, brother to the late John Thurtell, who was executed for the murder of Mr. Nl'eare, was brought to this office in the custody of Wilson, the patrole, charged by Mr. Charles Brad bee, the proprietor of the White Swan, Green's-buildings, Chancery-lane, with having stolen his watch, chain, and seals, value 501. The prosecutor deposed, that the previous night, about eight o'clock, the prisoner, whom he had only seen once before, entered his house and proce eded to the parlour, where witness was sitting. The prisoner entered into conversation with him, in the course of which he rose, and contrived to steal the watch, &c. which were hanging over the mantle-piece, and quitted the place, saying to wit. ness that he was going over to Mr. Fean who keeps a public. ' house in White's-alley, Chancery-lane, a nd requested him to follow hint. Witness gave information of the robbery to Wilson, who ap prehended the prisoner at Mr. Fean's house. Wilson stated, that on taking the prisoner into custody, he de filed having the watch, but, no proceeding to the office, he took it eat of his pocket, and promised to give witness a sovereign if he would let him go, which he refused to do. The prosecutor was exceedingly evasive in giving his evidence, and said he conceived the prisoner had taken the watch out of a joke. The Magistrate thought it was a strange joke for a man whom ho had only once seen to take his watch. 'Sir R. Bloom asked what hehad to say. Prisoner.--I have nothing to ear. Sir RICHARD remarked, that &Meer knew a more cool aetion ; and asked him how long he had bgra from sea.—He answered, three years andistfalf. • He was dressed in blue clothes and a black handkerchief, and is the exact image of the late John Thurtell, with the exception of being rather thinner. The prisoner was then locked up until Mr. Fean, the landlord of the White Lion, could be sent for, and on his arrival he was again put to the bar. Mr. Fean said, he never saw the prisoner until about two days ago, when he called at his house and took a glass of beer. He did not tee him at all on 'Thursday, and of course could not have sent him to Mr. Bradbee's. tt hen the laten informed him of the loss of his watch, he went to Randall's and Fletcher's, anE teamed there that the prisoner would'most likely be found in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden. IVitness went there and met the prisoner in Hart-street. He seized him by the collar and 'taxed him with stealing Mr. Eratliate's watch, and his answer was—" I know I did it—l took it because I want to be sent out of the country—the public point at me, and lam sick of the world." When witness tcok him into the public-house, he said the watch was gone, but gave no answer when asked what he had done with it. The prisoner was asked what he had to say, and he answered, " nothing at all, 1 have no wish to say a word." Mr. HALLS said it was not his duty to press the prisoner to steak, but he was perfectly ready to hear any thing that he could effer in explanation. The prisoner repeated that he had nothing - to say. "I am ready," said he, 4 tto go wherever you choose to send me--and I wish to go." Mr. Hee cs—l toerceive by a document among these papers, that you have been honourably serving your country for more than four years, and that your conduct has been such as to obtain the written approbation of your rominanders. There are certain family cireametancer, of a very melancholy nature, to which I need not more particularly allude, which seem to hare produced a strong dial on your mind, and in consequence of which, perhaps, sonic Ignorant persona mny have cast :eflections on you; but tnosc cir cumstances can have no effect upottcne. I wish you to go to trial, if I should feel it my duty to commit you, perfectly free front pre judice; and it is therefore that I fed really anxious to hear any thing you can say in the way of explanation, in order that it may be recorded with the accusation against you. Prisoner—l can only repeat, Sir, that I have nothlne, to say. Mr. Heels—Well, I dare say you can perceive and will appre ciate pay object. I man it in kindness to yourself. Come now, answer me plainly, like an hottest man and a seaman—what do you think of the view I have taken of the subject ? The prisoner's lip quivered while the worthy Magistrate was last addressing him, and after a short pause he saA, " I feel pont kind ness, Sir, and 1 thank you. I came home some months ago, after an absence of four years in the service of my country, during which time, as you perceive by that certificate fr om Admiral Cochrane (we understood), I conducted myself as a British seaman ought to do. When 1 came to this country I mote to my father and friends, and the answer I received was that they did not want to see me— they wished to have nothing to say to me. Since that I have tared very little about myself—l am pointed at wherever I go, and the sooner I ant disposed of the better. I would rather —." Here the prisoner stopped ; bit feelings appearing to choke his utterance, and in spite of an evident endenvoer to repress them tears gushed from his eyes. He strwek his hand upon the bar and turucd hastily I from the spectators, as i t f to Jaidsialli emotion- Tr, 4.~ end linen. .1 n'er th which the address was delivered produced a very powerful effect upon the auditory, several of whom we observed could not help shedding a tear. The prosecutor stepped forward and begged that the case might proceed no further. He would rather lose his watch ten times Over. Mr. fleets—Thurtell, you are yet a fine young man, and may live to earn an honourable Lame. NYill you go to sea? Prisoner-1 will, Sir. Mr. Het-ea—Then you are discharged, and I hope I shall hear a good account of you. The prisoner bowed and quitted the office. GUILDHALL. A Solicitor of some emineoce in the City, who a few weeks ago was apprehended on a charge of forgery, slid after remaining in custody several days, was ultimately discharged, neither prosecutor nor witnesses appearing against him, was again taken up on Satur. day last, on a warrant Charging him with an offence scarcely less I criminal in the eye of the law--obtaining a considerable sum of money under false pretences. The complainant in this latter instance was a widow lady of the name of Long, and Mr. Whiting, of London Bridge Foot, South. the so licitor employed by her to conduct the proceedings sit the alleged offender, who has been brought up before the sitting Magistrate at this Justice Hoom several times in the course of the week, and upon every occasion again remanded whenever he has been so brought up, some plausii.lc reason having been given for not proceeding-111e Whiting was ill, or not yet prepared to roniplete the case—and the prisoner, by always sig.:tying his wilitegnots to be remanded, has prevented the necessity of anything even, like the shadow of evidence as to the particulars of the offence being laid 'adore the al agis..rate. Yesterday wan fixed for hie final exatoinaticm, but on his being placed at the table, Mr. Whiting informed the sating Magistrate, Mr. •Altirrman alaguay, that there was a difficulty to proceeding in the prosecution of this ease, which could not, be leered, be overcome, and he was therefore under the necessity of declining to call anr evidence in rapport of the charge against the prisoner. Mr. Alderman Mistiness, lambs lien circumstances, expressed no solicitude. to be inhumed of the particulars of the accusation, and the prisoner, who cautiously abstained from uttering a single sentence, was accordingly died:err& ioaloiliONWommeammi FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CAM. On Monday last a piety of ten Gentlemen went from Cross's boat-house, near this town, upon an aquatic excursion, in ten separate canoes, as far as Granichester. After having refreshed themselves they set oW on their return to Cambridge, about half, past two in the afternoon. Seven of them being more expert than the rest, rowed away from the others—Mr. Stanton, of Trinity College; Mr. Tyner, of St. John's ; and Mr. Field, of Trinity, being those behind. Mr. Tyner sooner tired, and begged of Mr. Stanton to tow his canoe, which he agreed to do ; Mr. fyner being cold, got on the bank to walk—lie soon came up with :llr. Field, and was taken into his canoe. The canoes ate only intended for one person. They were seen to row stexly h) seine boys, and on a sudden disappeared. Mr. Stanton bring hehind, on coming nearer heard a splashing in the water, and gave an alarm. The canoe was found upset, and a cap floating on the water—both bodies had dis appeared. The alarm being given e very exertion was made as speedily as possible to fi nd the b odies, but it wall not till after about three hours and a half searching and dragging the river that they were found. An immense crowd of University Gentlemen and others had now assembled, and Mr. Abbott. the surgeon, had been long in attendance ; but the length of time the bodies were under water rendered all hopes of restoring animation by any me. dical operations useless. The bodies were taken to Mr.. Wise man's, in Jesus-lane (at whose house 31r. Field lodged), and Mr. Chevell, the Coroner, was immediately sent for. The inquest was held at the Hoop Inn, at half past eight in the evening, and did not terminate till eleven at night. Several of the tutors, anti a great number of the students, were present, and the room was so completely full as almost to obstruct the proceedin gs, such intense interest being excited both in the University and the town for the fate of these unfortunate young Gentlemen. Several witnesses were examined. They proved that Mr. Tyner and Mr. Field were in the same canoe. None of them saw it upset, but it was clear that the catastrophe resulted from such an accident. 'The Coroner summed up the evidence, and the Jury immedi ately returned a verdiet—" Accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat."—Cambridge Piper. AFFLICTING EVENT. • I Early on Wednesday morning last the body of D aniel Reyn i er, Esq. a gentleman of considerable opulence, residing opposite the Terrace in ilighbury-rove. was found fluting in a hone-pond by the road aide, between the Bald-faced Stag and Finch.ley Church. at East Finchley. The deceased was well known in the City, and especially on the Stock Exchange, of which he was for several years a member, and from which he retired to the enjoyment of the otium cum dignitate about a year since. Shortly previous to that event the mind of the deceased sustained a shock, in the unexpected death of • beloved wife, and from that period it never regained its former healthful v gour. Ness Reynier had scarcely given birth to a sixth child when her offspring became motherless, and it is an afflicting consideration that a family of six children, by the un timely death of their father, is made doubly orphans. Of these the eldest is scacely fifteen, the youngest not two years old. His establishment at flighbury (front was auth as became his station, and although oppressed by occasional and indeed frequent aberra tion of intellect, the only ex'xeme hitherto consequent upon such a lamentable state was that of humanity, in liberally bestowing a portlon of his affluence on the poor and friendless of the neigh bourhood. To his servants he was ever a kind and considerate masts:—to his children a fond and affectionate father. He died at the age of 39, when the life of man is usually considered in its prime—at • period when his paternal counsel and countenance might be considered most essential to his now fatherless children. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Thursday evening, at six o'clock, an inquisition was taken 9n the body of deceased before T. Sr sauna, Esq., Coroner for 3lititilutex, at the Five Bells, East Finchley. The Jury having been sworn proceeded to view the body, upon which there were not any marks of violence; the countenance of deceased was perfectly placid. On their return to the jury-room the following evidence was adduced : Thomas Brett, servant to Mr. Brewster, farmer and cattle-sales. man, at East-end, Finebley, was proceeding across the rick-yard adjoining his master's house, about seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, when he observed a quantity of clothes by the side of one of the haystacks; he immediately returned to the house, and informed his muter and fellow-servants of the circumstance ; Mr. Brewster was in bed, but got up and accompanied witness and two other men to the spot ; on seeing the clothes his master observe), that they were those of a gentleman, and he feared some dreadful circumstance had occurred. They all left the rick-yard, and cross. ing an adjoining lane entered a field, by the road side of which was a horse-pond ; Mr. Brewster shortly afterwards drew their atten. Lion to the body in the pond, which lay partly concealed by the overhanging trees of the hedge ; he then went for Thomas } rest, the constable, and returning with him, the body was conveyed in one of his master's carts to the house where the inquisition was then being holden. The pond was very shallow—there was about three feet deptit of water where the body was found, and there was not any nut of it more than breast high : he thcught the deceased must have walked into the pond, and it world seem that he had done so with his clothes on, in the first instance, as the stockings and lower part of the trousers weft quite wet. The clothes were given into the possession of the constable. John Batchelor and Tarbox, two fellow-labourers of this witness, corroborated his testimony. Thomas Frost, the constable, produced the clothes of deceased ; there was not any money in the pockets; no watch had been found (although the servants of deceased stated that he usually wore a gold watch, chain, and seals); the only articles found he now pro. duced, viz. a pen-knife, comb, and a slip of paper, on which was written, " Mr. James, near the Turnpike, Stamford-hill ;" it was on application to Mr. James that the body was ascertained to be that of deceased. The Bow-street patrol, stationed between Finchlev Common and flighbury, overtook deceased in the mad across the Common abou. a quarter before eleven on Tuesday night ; he spoke to him, but received no answer ; he then asked him where he was going ; upon which he (the deceased) without uttering a word, ran away with all his speed. fie followed at a brisk trot, and at kilt)) overtook him ; deceased was then lying on his back in the road, having ran against a bricklayer, by which Cosh were thrown down. Witness dismounted and assisted deceased to rise. lie then said he lived at Ilighbury, and asked to be allowed to ride home behind witness. promising to give him half a sovereign for the trouble he hail taken ; witness told him he could not do so. Deceased asked if he could take him to a house where he could have a bed ; witness ob served that it was too late, as all thee houses were shut up, but that he could have a chair by the fire-side at the station watchhouse: this offer deceased refused. lie confirmed walking by the aide of witness for a considerable time, conversing rationally, and stating that he had dined out and drank nailer too much wine. Witness left deceased about • quarter past twelve o'clock, on the Common. Several tenants of some new-built cottages in Bull's-lane (lead ing from the Norni.road to East Fiochley), donned to having heard the dogs barking at about one o'clock on the morning in question ; they infernal that some pens: must they have passed up the lane. The horse pond is about 200 yards from the top of Bull's-lane. Mr. Saddler, an undertaker from London, and the housemaid and gardener of the deceased, deposed to the circumstance of his Irving been afflicted for a considerable time past with intermittent aberration of intellect. The Coroner, after detailing the evidence given, thought the Jury could not have any difficulty in arriving at a satisfactory con clusion. The Foreman almost immediately returned as their verdict— " That the deceased drowned himself when in an insane state of mind." On visiting the rick-yard, the female servant of deceased found, neat the spot whence the clothes of her late muter had been re moved, Ins gold pin : neither the watch nor money have, however, been discovered. The distance from the rick-yard to the pond is about 20 yards. A brother anti three sisters were at the Five Bells yesterday to identity the body. We regret to add, that such was the shock upon a third brother, sea:dent in London, that lie has been confined to his bed by serious illness ever since the afflicting communication was made to hint. We have been informed, that about nine o'clock on Tuesday night eleceastd called on the Rev. Mr. Williams, at Hornerton (to whom he was well known), requesting to be accommodated with a bed ; this, however, was refused hint, probably under the convic tion that lie would therefote return hone, and relieve his family Trinttnne 'nsittlnlY consequent upon his absence at that late hour. Deemed, it is said, then proceeded to the ho u se of another f r i e nd, and we believe that it was from bins that he received the written address of Mr. James, which was found in his pocket. The latter gentleman was, we understand, the solicitor to Mr. R. Thursday night, at a late hour, the body of deceased was re moved in a hearse to his residence, Highbury-grove. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Mr. 51eynell's hounds will meet on Monday next at Bradby, or. Thursday at Blithtield, and on Saturday at Herilturst—at half paet ten. The Ea.t Sussex fox hounds will meet on Monday next at, Newick Park, on Thursday at Plutnpton, on Saturday at Clayton, and on Monday, March 25, at Jeringtoo. Sir Bellingliant Graham's Imands will meet on Monday next at Withyford ‘Vood, on Tuesday at Pithian'a Gate, on Thurs day at Boreatton, and on Saturday at High Oon—at eleven. Earl Fitzwilliaro's houndr will meet on Monday next at Pack Meadow. and Thursday at Broughton Furze,-at ten. Lord Yarborough's bounds will meet on Monday next at Blyton Village, on Wednesday at Peak's Closes , on Friday at Langtuere Furze, and on Saturday at Kirrnington Vale--at eleven. THE L'uaTOt H usr•r—Sir Richard Sutton's bounds will meet on Monday next at Saxilby, on Wednesday, at Langworth Bridge, on Thursday at Coleby, and on Saturday at Glent- WOttn —at eleven. Mr. Hay has got the Warrickshire country, with a subscrip tion of Lamm per annum ; and at a meeting at Warwick on the 91h instant a pit•re of plate was voted to Evelyn Shirley, Esq. for hts very liberal and sportsman-like conduct whilst he had the ma nagement of the hounds. Hazard and Co. are selling for the Four Twenty Thou sands, all in ore day, 13th Apnl. Every nnmber entitled to M. Shares in proportion. Lotteries must entirely finish in this country in a few months. Hazard and Co. solicit public patronage at their old-e,dahlished Offi-es, Royal Exchange Gate • 26, Cornhill ; and 321, Oxford-street, end of Resent-street, Landon ; where for • century they have been successful in selling Capital Prises. and shoe, in the last year's Lotteries alone thq sold Five Prizes of al,thriti. and 20,000 L; ~~ EAST INDIA SNIPPING. THE KENT EAST INDIAMAN AND CAPTAIN cum ..- Our readers will be pleased to learn, from the folio sent to the agents of the merchant ship Cambria, that the and crew, and passengers, whose exertions saved mammy lives, Lave bad their services appreciated in the proper quarrh i r . " East India House, blared; 17, " Oentlemen,—ln reference to your cotnmunittathut of yeacc. day, I am instructed to acquaint you, that the Court. of Pisectomi of the Cast India Company have resolved, that, at agente.to ties owners of the ship Cambria and to Captain Cook, you be paid' t ' the under-mentioned sums, in compensation for the louts and expenses occasioned to them by the assistance 'rendered to the passengers and ship's company of the Kent Eat Indians, On account of the Captain— For payment of bill for provisions, &c. .£282 11 O .; 3 For diet, &c. of the passengers 287 HI 0 On account of the owners— For demurrage, &c. cam • 0 Warrants for the sums above.mentioned are now payable to yon at the treasury in this house ; also, warrants for the following sums. which the Court have resolved to present to Captain Cook, his °Meets, passengers, and crew, and regarding which a conununica tion has been this day addressed to Captain Cook, viz.:— To Captain Cook . - - £6OO 0 * To his first mate 100 0 0 To the carpenter, acting as second mate - 50 0 0 To the crew (nine persons) each 101. - 90 0 0 To the miners (26 persons) each 151. - 190 0 0 The Court have also authorised their agent at Falmouth to pre. sent the ten persons proceeding in the capacity of miners of a • superior class with such cabin stores as may contribute to their comfort and convenience during their intended voyage, to the ektent of 1061. 1 am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, • • (Signed) J. DART, Seeteiaiy. Si vcaeon r: VIA Dra;GAL.—The Providence, Pearson, bad ar tived from Bengal, and sailed for China Oct.B. The James Scott, Shipton, arrived at Singapore Sept. 29, bound to China. Passengers per Duke of Bedford, from Bengal for Bombay Captain Morgan, Bombay Artillery; Captain Stokeley, Hoo. Company's Service t and Mr. H. L. Ashmore. Passengers per Catherine, Captain Mackintosh, from Bengal (daily expected) :—Mrs. Porton, Mrs. Macal, Major H. Thomp son, Captain A. Syme, Lieutenant Balderston, 1/r. 3lacrop. Dr. Farquhar, Miss and Master Fullerton, three European and two native servants. SHIPI'ING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTC/31-HCM; Maacra 17. ENTERED want/N.—William, Cook, from Zedernb/ik ; Hero, 1/ye. from Buenos Ayres ; Seldenruat, Kluin, from Ant werp ; Bwitiaan, Van Beelen, from Rotterdam ; Forsoget, Noss. from Tonsberg; Conterenctraad, Inglesang, from Christiana ; Bro thers, Motley, from Batavia; Casus, Gronenwald, from Dantsic ; Alringweli, Rickmers, from Terenbulspeicker • Fox, Fox, from Ostend; Frue Goldberg, Larsen, from Fredericksladt ; Vriendschap, Efiut, from Amsterdam; Jonge Camilla, Walters, from Antwerp ; Lorimer, 'fammes, from ditto; Success, Perry, from Waterford. ENTERED OUTWARDS.—Sifent Arends, for Hamburgh ; Neptunus, Holm, for Elsineur and bopenhagen • Harriott, Mor. Icy, for Genoa and Leghorn; Lively, Spittle, for Pernambuco ; Hampton, lianilyn, for Grenada; Ruby, Corneby, for Lisbon; Comet, Lambton, for Smyrna and Constantinople; Alexander, Rickman, for Rostock and Lubeck ; Graham Moore, Dixon, for. Paraiba, Rio Janeiro, and 31aranham ; Eblana, Smale, for Dublin. CLEARED OUTWARDS YINALLY AT GRAVESEND.—Jane, Lindsay, for Pernambuco, Marsuthani, and Bahia; West Indian, Cook, tor Antigua; Friends, Ted, for Jamaica. CLEastwia Oct wasos.—Hope, Hint, for Madeira, Madras, and Calcutta; Arend, Eibring, for Amsterdam; Sarah, Benton, for Vera Cruz, Alvarado, And Tampico • Thomas and Alfred, Smith, Mr Grenada ; Success, Hodge, for Bahia, Pernambuco, and Rio Janeiro ; Persevergoce, Fowler, from Bergen ; Chance, Jack, son, for Hamburgh ; Philotaxe, Rituals, for Temeriffe; Nicholson, for Dantzic. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. DEAL, MARCh 17.—Passed through from the river. the Sym metry. 31oore, fur Leghorn; Sicilian, Jamieson, for Afrka; tha Lark, Orteur, for Cadiz; and the Sisters, Wrangles, for Demerara. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 17.—thf the par., toe Sir titxitiey Webster, from Bengal, and landed passengers. Arrived the Brice& , Pownd, from the Downs. PLYMOUTH, Al ARCH 16.—The Fortitude, Vanden Broeck, for Batavia, has commenced unloading her cargo, to enable her to go into dock for repair. FALMOUTH, Alancts 16.—Sailed the Neilson, Laughton, for Trinidad. Livvitroot., Maack 16.—Arrived the Charity, from Messina. LERWICK, MARCH d.—A ship, said to be the Resolution, of and front Hatalburish 9 laden with linen, calico, glass, spirits, &c.. . was wrecked on the island of Cnst on the 26th ult. and only the mate saved. • HEIAVESEWD, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Providentia, Flamer, from Norway; laria, Boltz, from Rostock; Fox, Fox, from Ostend; Eingkite, Brenlius, from Stralsund. Sailed the Tager, Kent, for Ceylon ; Eaple, Llewellyn, for Oporto; Sophia, Rutter. for ierra Leone; Igereules, Schipmata, for Havre; Britannia,. Blackburn, for kleayrna • Frances, Bet,tman, for Montserrat; Blenheim, Warran, for QUebee. • VESSELS SPOKEN NITH.—The Peovidentia, Plemer, flora Shein to London, in the North Sea, with loss of main and olizeu mast, and full of water, by the Ceres, Bloom, arrived at Truro. The 3largaret, Simpson, from London to Batavia, on the 2Stli January ; she fell in with, two days before, the N aria de bon Felicade, from Fago to the Cape tie Verds, in a sinking state; Captain Stinson took out the crew, consisting of bee men, and turned the schooner adrift. The Chevy Chase, Murphy, is lost on the S. W. coast of A:nerits. DEATHS IN INDIA. At Madras, the later and of August, -in the house of Herbert Compton, Esq. Advocate-General, Alfred Duvaucel, Esq. Nature. Sate du Roi, deputed to India by the Institute of France as a Cor responding '!ember in the Division of Natural History, 31o:zither of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, &e. &c. This gentleman, whose acquirements and information were as eminent as his manners and disposition were kind and amiable, landed in India in 1817, accompanied by M. Diard, a fellow labourer, who is now carrying on his researches in Cochin China, Siam, &c. Those of M. Duvaucel included the Island of Su matra, Bengal generally, Sylhet (loruckpoor, and a portion of Onde, and the collections made by him in every branch °lns:mai history are understood to be extremely valuable and extensive. His sod in the acquirement of objects both rare and impirn .t, and in classing and describing them scientifically, was utibout del; but, alas ! such labours in the tropical climate of Bengal, c snot long be carried on without paying the usual penalty; and such has been the tate of this unfortunate and highly-gifted gentleman. Repotted fevers terminating in the liver complaint, atter a tour thiough the forests of Goruckpoor, and for which he was averse from taking the usual English remedies, at length induced him to try the sea air, but too late. He died almost immediately on being landed from the ship at Mr. Comptim's house, after an illness of several months. It will be some consolation, perhaps, to his afflicted friends and relations in France to learn, that the late M. Duvaucel was held in high esteem, and is deeply regretted by all the English gentlemen to whom lie was known in Bengal. The deceased had served in the French army . • was Aide-de-Camp to General Carnot at the siege of Antwerp, by whom he was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. He was • man of vigorous mind and prin ciples greatly attached to his country and to his family, and has thus prematurely fallen a victim to his zeal for science in the 32d year of his age. At Penang, on Friday, the Bth of October, at his residence at Kelso, the Honourable John 3lacalister, Esq. Senior !!ember if Council of this Presidency, after a service on this ettablish ment of nearly twenty years; during the former part of aid .h period he frequently held charge of the settlement of Malacce, and once filled a seat at the Council Board of this government, at which lie permanently wok his place on the Bth October, 18111. By his death, at the early age of thirty-nine, the service and community of this island have been suddenly and unexpectedly deprived of one of its most highly esteemed and useful members. His extensive knowledge of the revenue and commercial affairs of the eastern part of India, joined to an easiness of access and peculiar gentleness and graciousness of manner with the Native populations, Ind created among them a stronger attaahment to him than has ever possibly been experienced by any other per sou in a similar situation, while his cheerful, unostentatious, and, liberal hospitality afforded to society the best example and en, coursgement. Mr. Muenster possessed in a pre-eminent degree all the genuine qualities and enthusiastic warmth of feeling which characterise the natives of his isles (the Hebrides), from which he derived a high descent—brave, open, charitable, unsuspecting, benevolent, wok kind-hearted to all mankind, and nobly geherous even to his enemies! In the softer and more amiable virtues of private and domestic life, he was the most affectionate husband and father, the firm, zealous, and disinterested friend, and the indulgent master. Those by whom be was best known and most beloved, feel it almost impossible to do justice to the many citimable (pddles which adornesl his character; but the general sorrow for his death, and the affection at.d respect universally evinced for his memory, are the surest evidences of departed worth. Long and deeply will his death be mourned by • numerous circle of fnends and acquaintance, and the numbers who experienced his never. failing bounty. He has left an amiable and inconsolable widow and a large family, to whom the bereavement of such a protector is irrepa. table. His death was sodden and unexpected. though he had !Ken in 4 disposed some time; but he died, as he always expressed a hope he should do. without protracted suffering ; ceasing to breathe so irns perceptibly, that it was some time btfore his attendants could be persuaded of the calamity that had befallen them. Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Miter, by J.W. clh i llUT 016 181, Strand, and pabliehed by R. 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