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All ERICA N PAPERS. NEW 'Foot, DEC. 27. re have great pleasure in announcing, that the proposition for j ot to tieneral Lafayette of two hundred thousand dollars, and lore t ownsliip of land ( 23 , 040 acres), ), has received the sanction l i th Ilousea of Congress. This Act, which passed the House ;presentative% on IVednesday, by a vote of 166 to 20, was • pin the Senate on Friday, and passed without a dissenting • - leo destrable, says voteelicen, that the measure should • been atlopnal by a entirely unanimous, and without de fi. But if it had not been debated, and if there had been con ae.g opinions upon the matter, it would have been out of unison i jithe character of our Government. The difference of opinion • see as to mode and quantity, and not as to principle. AVe re peat satisfaction in stating, that out of the dissentient voices, lbw werz opposed to the principle of the 11111, and nn one • ( id or disparaged the merits of the eminent individual foe Lon benelit it is intended. e ta ._The account of the defeat of the Colombian army in 5 :1 . ICH '.l we copied on Saturday from the Boston - Centime!, is i ai st Panama, Oct. 20, and begins by saying, " Ere this you Me no idaibt heard of the dreadful battle which was fought on the ix, Sept. near Truxillo. A schooner arrived yesterday from ~incharo, by which we have received some further particulars." • It is asked, how the writer could suppose that the news of i ta an event at Truxillo should reach !IMOD in 34 days ? The lola Papers receivzd sonic time since, contained extracts of let /from Panama of the 18th of October (within two days es late Ole above), which are silent as to this event. Vet it would sp ot, that the info-mation received at Panama on the 19th, was ily a confirmation, or " further particulars" of an octairrence be awknowu. A vessel has arrived here, which left Car:hagcna as lee as the 17stli Nov., which reported no wag. Had such a dis k occurred to the Liberating Army, would the news have been saw, or more, iii travelling from Panama to Carthagena ? On ileffth Nov. we published the following : I From the Panama Gazette (Extra) October 6.1 "The Intendant received to-day by the convoy vessels the fol lowing extraonlinary Gazette of the Government of Truant°, dated pi September last." That Gazette contained a statement of events that succeeded the bale of Junin on the 6th, up to the 27th of August, when Bolivar via in pursuit of the enemy far from Truxillo. Had he been &s -tated on the lith of September, near Truxillo, is it possible the coot should not have been known in that city on the 22d? At dot dine the inhabitants were rejoicing for the roccesses of their enty. On the whole, notwithstanding the circumstantial narration of be Panama letter, and the formal manner in which it is brought out in the Cottage; we think there are strong reasons to doubt its cc:beefless. The Boston Co:6nel. says, " The reports from South America, wcived at the south, continue to represent Bolivar as victorious. (It can only say, that the letter from Panama inserted in our last, dm opposite aspect . , is from an ardent Son of Liberty, and a re 'reelable character.' . BUENOS AYRES. A letter of October 18, says—" The King of New Zealand has ice arrived here on his way to England—reports say to raise a loan, 'tat more probably to procure arms and ammunition." A Buenos Al res paper says he arrived in the English ship Urania, that he erne cie board when the ship was at one of the islands, and insisted at proceeding to England, notwithstanding the Captain was op t.ael to it. The ship was loading for Liverpool, and the Zea 'oder would go in her. New You, DEC. M. The Baltimore Federal Gazette, in remarking on the account feism Pent recently received at Boston, states, that we have had ac counts fromllo to the Ist of October, 13 days later than the :;ported battle in that neighbourhood, that on the 13th of Septem leer the Patriot army was represented as approaching Guamanga, Tore then 500 miles from Trucillo, end that General Cordova, who :i said to have been killed on the 17th of September, died in the early part of August. Rate.—The cotton-factory, grist-mill, and clothier's shops, situate at the place heretofore known by the name of De Goes' mills, in Pittstown , in this county, with all their machinery, and the principal psrt of their other contents, were on Friday morning last destroyed by fire. The cotton factory was owned by Mr. De rick C. Van Veghon, and the loss is estimated at 7 or 8000 dollars. The grist-mill contained three run of atones, and was owned , o n e third by Mr. Van Veghten, and two thirds by Mr. W. C. Johnson ; loss estimated at about 4000 dollars. The clothier's shop was owned by Mr. De la Fayette Gorham ; loss about 1000 dollars. Messrs. N. and C. Bostwick and Co. who had a store of goods in the lover apartmcnt of the factory, sustained a loss of about 300 dollars ; and there was some machinery and other property destroyed In the fac.ory, w ich sor 600 dollars, belonging to Mr. Abraham L. Vide. The fire originated in the grist-mill. None of the pro perty was insured.—Lonsigreurgh Gazette. FAMILY Or GENERAL LATATETTE.—OrneraI Lafayette has one son and two daughters ; the son, George Washington La fayette, is now in this country ; the daughters are Madame Mau bourg, and Madame Lasteynie. Maubourg has three daughters ; Mrs. Brigone, Misses Louise and Jenny 51enhourg. Mrs. hasteynie has three daughter', named Paulin*, Melanie, sad Octavia i _and one son, named Jules. George Washington Lafayette has three daughters, named Natoli', Matilda, and Clementine ; and two sons, mimed Oscar rid Edmond. Mrs. Brigone has two daughters, Georgian' and Gabriella. These all reside at the hospitable mansion of Ls. Grange, and it said =dependent on the income of that farm for support. ---e NAFY OF THE UNITED STATES. vssatxs IN commissiow, 1825. North Carolina, stationed in the Mediterranean, 74 ; Constitu don, 44, ditto ; United States, 44, Pacific ; Constellation, 36, West Indies ; John Adams, 24, ditto ; Cyane. 24, editerranean ; Erie, 18. ditto; Ontario, 18, ditto; Peacock, IS, Pacifica Hornet, Id, \Vest Indies; Spark brig, 12, ditto ; Porpoise, Grampus, and ;hark, 12 each, ditto ; Dolphin, 12, Pacific ; Nonsuch, 12, 51e diterranean ; Decoy, 6, West Indies ; Sea (lull, Ferret, Beagle, Weasel, Fox, and Terrier, 3 each, West Indies. VESSELS IN ORDINARY AT TNT NAVY YARDS. AT CHARLESTON, m.s.—independence, and Columbus, ships of the line. Thine require an examination of their copper, ►nd light repairs before going to sea. Java frigate, mach decayed, but worthy of repairs. AT Baootxrw, N. w..—Ohio and Washington, ships of the ;me, require examination, and probably some repair': ; Franklin, eo, hoe' a three year's cruise, probably requires considerable re. Taira; Fulton Steam ship„ much decayed. • . AT GOSPORT, VA.—Delaware, ship of the line, requiring 'light repairs before going to aea ; Gumert, Congress, aid Mace donian frigates, requiring extensive repairs ; Alert, receiving TO- W; Asp, a small kulk,:unworthy of repairs. SHIPS BUILDING. One ship of line, and one frigate, at Portsmouth, N. H. might be launched in 60 days ; two ships of the line at Charlestown. 31s, might be launched in 30, and 60 days ; two frigates at New York, 30 and 90 days; one ship of the line at Philadelphia 160 days; one frigate at Philadelphia, 30 days; two frigates at W ashington, 30 days ; one ship of the line at Oosport, Va. 60 days ; the equipment of these ships would require a considerable longer time. Vrames are deposited as follows : for one frigate at Charleston, Ms. ; fo► two stears.'iattcries at New York? for one frigate at Norfolk; a con. 'liftable part of the co .per, iron, lead, two steav-engines, and other articles for these are procured ; for one frigate aad a steam battery at Washington. M. Pairbarn, a Frenchman, has invented a mortar which throws bombs horizontally, exactly in the same manner that cannon discharges balls. This bomb cannon, executed under the orders of the Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, was lately proved at Brest. It answered every expectation, and carried as far as the larf-eat ship guns. The bomb went true to the direction, and the effect pro duced was so powerful, that considerable changes are im mediately to he made In the naval materiel. In consequence of the new invention, large ships will no longer have the advantage of crushing mallet vessels without running any risk ; a well-directed discharge of one of these bombs may blow up or sink the largest ship. IMPORTANT brvaryrtox.—A person of: the name of Roberts, who is at present in Bolton, has constructed an apparatus, which will prove useful and valuable in the highest degree. Its object is the safety of Life and property, m case of fire, or where any suffocating or noxious vapour xists. It consists of a hood and mouth-piece, so contrived as render the wearer enabled to breathe. with perfect vise and safety, in the midst of the densess smoke. In case of dwelling-houses, warehouses, factories, ships at sea, &c. belngon flreb its advantages are incalculable. Roberts ex hibited the efficacy of the above extraordinary discovery at the mines of the Earl of Balcarras, a few weeks sines, to the complete satisfaction of those who witnessed it. On Wednesday last, at the recommendation of several persons in Bolton and the neighbourhood, of the highest respecta bility, be invited some of the principal tradesmen and in habitants of the tow r, to meet him at Messrs. Crook and Dean's foundry, Little Bolton ; when: he demonstrated the infallibility of his apparatus, to the utter astonish ment of a very respect:rho!. party of gentlemen. In the course of the trial, lie went into a stove-room, in which salphur, hay, &c. were burning at the same time. He was shut in for the space of twenty minutes ; and came out at the expiration of that time, perf Ttly sound and un injured. Had any one without the apparatus remained in the room longer than a minute, it would have been at tended with certain death.—Bolton Express. EDINItuaoN, JAN. 22.—The wind having changed to the northward on Thursday morning, the numerous Baltic vessels which have been detained in -various ports in Nor way, &c. by the long prevailing westerly winds, are daily xpected. ... BIBLE .3trE7'l NG. A numerous meeting of the Subscribers to the Bible Association for the parishes of St. Clement Danes, St. Mary-k-Strand, and Savoy, was last evening held at the Crown and Anchor l'asern. The chair was to have been taken by the Rev. Mr. Gurney, but in consequence of that gentleman's ❑lness, the Rev. Mr. IVebster was unanimously called to it. The Rev. CHAIR MAX said, that as he was called on unexpect edly to fill his present situation, he was convinced his best rule would be, to obey implicitly the directions of those who had under taken the management of the meeting: He could not but regret the absence of ►is friend Mr. Gurney ; still it was to him a satisfaction to state, that though he kept his house at present, it was as a mat ter of prudent precaution, and that ere long he would again be able to come forward and assist in that great cause they had met then to support. To those present the Bible Societies were no new sub. ject—they had been long and actively engaged in distributing the word of God; they had already reaped from it a rich reward—a re ward that must always attend those who lay themselves rut in well gluing. Convinced that this was their feeling, he would not longer occupy their time, but request the Report for the last year to be read. The Rev. Mr. You)ro -then read the Report, and we regret that I the low tone of voice in which the Rev. Gentleman spoke rendered • it impassible for us to catch much of its import. The Report was very voluminous, and was principaNy an exhortation to continue the same pious activity from which hitherto such good results had followed. The Rev. Doctor WINTER moved that it be received by the meeting. The Rev. Mr. EVANsoN said, that in rising to second the mo tion, he felt strongly inclined to expect an orthrly and a decorous hearing. lie was inclined to expect it from the respectability of the meeting, and he was sure that though a disagreeable word should jar on the ear of any one present, it would excite so angry feeling. Without any further remark, he would therefore apply himself to the subject on which they had met. When it was proposed to in. crease the funds of the Bible Associations, by a subscription of a penny a week among the poorer classes, it was called a serious en croachment, and, in Ireland particularly. it was said they were ton poor, and the friends of the Bible Associations had to combat that feeling, but a proof was lately given of the fallacy of that assertion. It was given, indeed, not by their friends, but by their enemies. It was shown that from this poor, this wretched, this starving peo• ple, a sum of 56,0001. could he annually extracted. ( Hear, bear.) One fact of this kind was more convincing than any thing h ai could address to them. Another Society more analogous and. more kindred to their own. had attempted and succeeded in a eirnibs place ; lie alluded to the Sunday bthool Society. There was also an outcry raised against them ; they were said to be monstrously unreasonable; and for what—for asking from their scholars not at penny a week, not a penny a month, but a penny a year ; and would It bee/edited, that, before the first year was over, they had actually realized no less a sum than 60W.? This surely was a strong argument for its adoption - and lie begged to say, that in the Ladies his principal hope Of success rested. A Clergyman residing at Bir mingham, anxious for the dissemination of the Scriptures, esta blished a society for that purpose ; at brat he was able to effect scarcely any thing ; he at length pressed the ladies into his service, and before that new steam-engine was long at work. he found he could do exactly 2iii times as much as heave. Now this led him to the conclusion that one lady was as good as 20i gentlemen. (A laugh.) The Reverend Gentleman then proceeded to say, that, in alluding to the Parent Society from whence this and all other so cieties had sprung, he trusted he would not be introducing extra neous matter. It appeared from the Reports of that areelety, that four million copies of the Testament had been distributed by it, but he suspected this referred only to those issuing directly front its own repositories ; he was the more inclined to think so, as he lately heard from Mr. Canning that at least seven million copies of the Bible Kul been distributed by the agents to the Foreign Bible So cizty. He would beg now to allude to a subject which (to use an English phrase) should be handled gingerly, anti which it was dangerous to touch on ; he meant a personage who had long stool. up 1,- infallibility, and from whose palace a nocument lately issued, setting forth, that if the dissemination of the Scriptures became go. neral, a certain system could not stand • but though lie (Mr. Evan-' son) thus railed at the system, he was ;he very antipodes to enter-1 mining a hostility towards any man on account of his belief—he could meet him as an acquaintance, he could hold him to his heart as a friend,—in fact, he could make all imaginable difference be tween the system and the person ' • but it was all useless,—he and his friends must succeed though opposed to the Pope of Rome, the Emperor of Austria, the King of Persia, and their brother of Constantinople. It was now too late to muzzle men, or to stop the march of intellect, and least of all could such an attempt succeed in that Green Isle of the Ocean, where lately such desperate efforts were made to perpetuate that system of ignorance and darkness that had so long prevailed there. He would mention a fact that seemed to shew the inefficacy of those attempts in a parish in Ire land. Orders had Matted that no person should, on any account, keep a Testament or Bible. A poor old woman, who was so for tunate as to have a copy, not wishing to part with what had been long her comfort, concealed it in a tea-pot, and thus it escaped the general search (for persons were sent round to examine all the houses)! A wealthy lady in the neighbourhood. whether struck with the singularity of the anathema, far these indices e.rpurgatocii always excite, and not damp, curiosity, or whether the flavour of the Testament became good and palatable, front its late biding place, front which cause it was he would not pretend to say, but she actually read it, and sent five guineas to the Association in Sackville-street. This is a day of light, and not a fitting time for these attempts to keep the world in moral thraldom, and they must end in the confusion and discomfiture of those who make them, for there is in man that elasticity that will burst open his chains, that will ensure hint a moral emancipation, and make him stand forth the independent keeper of his own conscience. If there was a place above others that &fielded n held for the study of the mor bid anatomy of politics, or where an experiment might be made on the regeneration of man, it was Ireland. There they would soon find hint burst his cords, like another Sampson, and the thun ders of the Vatican would roll around hint, harmless as a pop gun, or as a &man from Syria. Nor was it to be wondered at that the friends to the distribution of the Word of Truth met with opposition, for it was but natural that the great enemy of man should stir up the evil heart to cast impediments and ob structions in the way of God's word. The Catholics, it was true, had lately acquired an advocate in a great political reformer, who, after veering through all points, had at length settled in a faith which he found to be older than the creation. The Bible distributors hail been charged by one party with doing too little, and by another with doing too much. It is said to them, " What, though you distribute Bibles to such an extent, are the gaols less crowded?—has crime decreased ?" But we (said the Rev. Gentleman) never professed to clear the streets of vagrants, nor the prisons of criminals—that Herculean, that Augean task, we promised not to do; our hutuble object was, if possible, to cast salt into the bitter waters of life, and sweeten the bitterness of the world. The Rev. Gentleman proceeded to say, that, as a proof of the want of books in Ireland, there were in that country, three years ago, but fifty-three booksellers, exclusive of those in Dublin ; whilst in Scotland, that contained about one-third of the population of Ireland, there were, exclu sive of Edinburgh and Glasgow, 350. In that dearth of books, how could the people become e ducated? And was it from the Bible Captain Rock derived his doctrines ?—was it by a torch lighted from this sacred book that the incendiary and the as sassin went forth? No: for it was notorious that crime dimi nished as the Bible circulated. The Rev. Gentleman concluded by seconding the motion, which was carried unanimously. The next Resolution was proposed by the Rev. Mr. ()Rue. and seconded by the Rev. Dr. STYLES. It was a vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Gurney for their great exertions in support of the Society. The Officers of the Society were also included in the Re solution. The Rev. S. Daew proposed the next Resolution. After a few remarks on the necessity there existed for union among Protestants of all denominations at the present moment, he said, truth lately presented itself to him in an allegory. It was like a cone, whose bottom was on earth and whose head was in the sky. The rustics wondered at it—their amazement grew into admiration—they in voluntarily drew near—they admired its fine proportions and its 1 enchanting symmetry—they had gone round and round it, and con cluding all was the same—they cast anchor before it. One party seeing in it precepts, doctrines, and morality, reduced them to 39 articles ; another party saw in it Divine sovereignty, and became Calvinists; another saw in it moral liberty, and became Armenian Methodists; and there was a party who endeavoured to excavate it, and who bored holes in it for the purpose of extracting the the spirit (as they called it), and these became Quakers ; so far all was well ; but from selfish passions they( were induced to tug at the cone, and they tugged at it till they tore it asunder, and each dragged home his valuable prise. They soon dis covered the detect of the fracture. It has been said that a hand may destroy a palace, but would not be able to erect a hovel. 1 So it was with them : to make up the deficiencies they procured a kind of unteinpered mortar, they filled uo the cone, and they per suaded their followers that all suss genuine ; and it so happened that when the cone was broken the finest particles of it mixed with the atmosphere, and destroyed the organs of vision. At length there came a person named Impartial Inquiry ; he was furnished with al probe ; it possessed the qualities of the spear, with which the angel ' in " Paradise Lost," is furnished ; it was qualified for the detec tion of error; when he touched with it the real cone it was invul nerable, but it immediately pierced the mortar. They then em ployed the finest artisans, for the purpose of burnishing, polishing, and reducing it to a fine consistency, so that it was hard to say where the real cone ended or the false one commenced. There were, however, souse points less open, and these th covered with papers, on which were written • blasphemy," an d " everlasting perdition ;" and it was remelt keel , they always placed over a defence- . less part an anathema. At length, after a lapse of about twenty' years, liberal-minded men agreed to separate the real parts from the others, and bring them to a meeting something like this ; and it was found, on comparing them, that the protuberances on one fitted the indentations in the other, tad the cone looked as it was originally ; and so will it remain, washed by the waters of life, and on which the faithful may mount guard. And now (said the Rev. Gentleman) I leave it with you, as I would leave the Great Book of Life, without note or comment. (Cheers.) Two other Resolutions were then proposed and carried. They were declaratory of the benefit resultlug from the distribution of the Bible, and expressed a sense of the great good effected by the Bible Societies. The Rev. Mr. ANDERSON, in seconding the last Resolution, said, that he would commence as an honest Irishman once did, and say, " Now that all is said I must say the rest." Great deli cacy had been here observed by some gentlemen in talking of a certain personage, who was, by some, called Papa, by others Pope, he meant that person who was properly designated the " Man of Sin," and aim was long showing himself in llod's glory.—lle THE - 13RIfISH PRESS. supposed they all saw a book that sru lately printed—the frontis piece represented the Pope, or, as some may call him " Apollyon the Desuoyet," or, perhaps, Satin, with swoin clucks, trying to blow out the light of truth ; and, indeed, the attempts made by that person to destroy the great fabric of our Church, was likely to produce as numb effect as If a buy were to fire peas from a pop-gun at the dome of St. Padre. (great applause.) A Resolution of thanks Was toted to the Chairman, and the meet ing separated at half-ram ten o'clock. ATROCIOUS CRIMES IN FRANCE. An enormity, of a species u new as it is frightful, has just taken place at Toulouse. The victims arc four in number, among whom is comprehended the author of the crime. Elias Francis Triboulet, aged 44, lived in a state of concubinage with the woman Rouzil (surnamed sans ene), whose husband has suffered for several rears past the punishment of hard labour. Immorality had formed this union, and it was to have a termination worthy of its ' principle : the child, which was the fruit of this connexion, was eighteen months old, and had a half-brother, born se veral years before. Triboulet, threatened, as it is said, by the approaching return of Rouzil, sells his goods, and thinks of transporting his abode and industry else whete. He was a pedlar. The woman Rouzil re ' fuses to follow him. Furious at whin. he considers a testimony of disdain and hate, he goes to her house, and without intimating his intention, gives rein, for the last time, to the excess which has ruined him ; he first strangles the unhappy woman by the help of a handkerchief, which has been found in the throat of the victim, then murders the two children, places them with their mother upon a bed, which soon becomes a picy to the flames. He had placed himself on it after having lighted the fire under neath, and it was not long before be was stifled by the smoke. The four bodies were soon entirely unrecognizable. The police, advertised. in time, arrived soon enough to pre vent the house being consumed ; the apartment was enter ed by force, and the first object which jresented itself was the woman Rouzil, stretched on the boards, the fret towardi the door, and the head upon the bed, which was still burning ; the legs and left side bore strong marks of burn ing. T-lhoulet had the right leg stretched on the bed, and the other hanging. It was with difficulty that the flames could be extinguished, as it was attached to all the parts of his clothes. Notwithstanding the ravages of the fire, there may still be perceived on the two children the marks of the blows which they have received. There is no salvation for the drunkard in a warm climate. Of .5,000 Europeans who went to Colombia within a few years, not more than 300 survive; and flint parts in five of this mortality may be attributed to drinking. Halts Colombia. SWINDLING.—A few days ago a dextrous swin&er, dressed like a mariner, made his appearance at Glencaple Quay, and li:fbrmed the lieges that he had a vessel in the river loaded with fruit, imported from Portugal, part of which he meant to sell in the town of Dumfries, and then steer his course for Glasgow. The tale took ; the man produced a bundle of invoices, sent for the land-waiter, treated him to a cheerer or two of " good old ditto," paid for every thing cheerfully he ordered, and with the assist ance of his guest, proceeded to calculate the custom-hoilse dues. Here he counted over a, feet sovereigns, and while he expressed a fear that he " would be rather short," politely declined the offer of a check on one of our banks for ten pounds: " Springes to catch woodcocks." Tlie sharper rose rather early next morning, walked down the shore, returned to breakfast, stated that his vessel " was just coming up," and borrowed six pounds three shillings from his unthinking hostess, Mrs. Copland, a widow woman, with which he immediately decamped for Dum fries, where we may be sure lie did not sojourn over long. The vessel in the river was the Thomson's Packet, and so little did the people suspect the trick, that when the Captain civilly saluted his owner, he received for answer, " Ay, man, if this be the ship we were a' looking for, I think I should have some right to her tnysel . ."—Glasgow Free Press. Two girls are at present going about the town, cheating shopkeepers in the following legerdemain manner, the trick of which is not discovered till they precipitately leave the shop :—Entering a shop they hastily ask, " Do you want change of a sixpence ?"rhe shopman throw:l(l.3*n •six pence in silver; immediately on doing which the girl quickly throws back a sixpence, with sixpence in halfpence, saying ; "17l thank you for a shilling?' which the shop man, without reflection, and not immediately perceiving the trick, throws down, upon which they hastily leave the i v Paper. On Sunday last, during the absence of her husband and family at church, Mrs. Smith, an old woman, upwards of 60 years of age, resilivg in North Berwick, while sitting reading by the side of the fire, her clothes suddenly became ignited, and in a few minutes she was all in a blaze ; in this dreadful situation she ran to the street, where she was met by au individual, who succeeded in extinguishing the flames ; hut we are sorry to say she was so much burnt that she died in consequence on Monday night. SVICIDL.—On Monday morning last a melancholy cir cumstance occurred at Gravesend. A young gentleman of the name of Brown, Second Officer of' the Honourable East India Company's ship Waterloo, left Northfleet in a wherry, for the purpose of joining his ship, which lies o ff Gravesend, and, when in the act of standing up to ascend the ship's aide, he put a period to his existence by shooting himself through the bead with a pistol • the ball entered the right side, between the temple and the car. The body was brought back in one of the ship's boats, and conveyed to Mr. Johnstone's, the undertaker, at Gravesend, to await the Coroner's inquest. A Sast.r.toN.—A few weeks ago, while some workmen were employed in digging a new road, on the estate of Drumduan, near Forres, belonging to Colonel Fraser, 11.E.1.C.5., a gentleman happened to pus, when they were levelling the Gallow-hill, about 200 yards east of Nelson's monument, and directed their attention to a par ticular spot, where they found a human skeleton, entire, and in good preservation. The shoes were also found, containing the sinews of the feet, quite fresh. The cir cumstances connected with this discovery are curious, and indisputably true. About SO years ago, a soldier was sen tenced to be shot for desertion, and, to heighten the im pression, he was led out from the gaol of Fortes to the Callow-hill, dressed in his grave clothes, on a St. Lawrence inarket.day. The runner who had stopped at Burn-end (formerly a public-house, about two miles cast from Fo•Tes), arrived about an hour after the sentence had been executed, with, among other official despatches, a reprieve for the poor fellow. The spot where the skeleton was found was generally known by the name of the " sodger's grave;" and there are two or three of the inhabitants who remember the day on which he wan shot. It is not long since the man who made the coffin (James Smith) died. l'art of the shoe is in the possession of our informant. Several skeletons were found in the immediate neighbour hood, which, we presume, without any great violation of probability, may have lain there since the celebrated battle against the Danes and Norwegians. We are strengthened in this opinion, when we reflect that the hieroglyphic Obe lisk to the memory of Swenno, the Danish King, is within a quarter of a mile of the place.—lti vertu as I'aper. Iktt. If uNT.—Ycsterday, the people in the vicinity of Graham's-square, and a part of the Calton were again alarmed by the appearance of a raised sod. The animal appeared in a restless and unsettled state in the market on blends'', and as he was not im mediately needed by the purchaser, he was confireil in a byre there till required. Upon NVednesday the beast got out of the bughts, and wander don the Edinburgh road six or seven miles, till he was aecured by a person who knew him, and gave infenraion to the proprietor. Vestrday he was brought in by a young man, who deeming it imprudent to drive him through the town without as sistance, took him a second time to the blights, when he was lodged in a stable. Some lads went up who buund the animal's fore-leg to his head, and drove him out but the moment he emerged from the market-place ha snorted, bounded, and bellowed in a frightful manner. A number of dogs assailed him, as if by instinct, and he set off through the brick fields, where he sunk to the brisket in • hole filled with mod and water. With one exception, the dogs served only to increase the animal's fury, and render him corn. pletely unmanageable and outrageous. One dog excited the admi ration of the crowd. It was a fine white bull and terrier, about bulbs. weight. He instantly seized the stot by the nose, and though dashed about, trampled upon, plunged under the water, and repeatedly , tossed sprawling in the air, he continued to r us h fit the enraged animal with renovated courage and ferocity, till seized and held hack by its owner. Had thefiesbers been left ex clusively to the management of the animal, they would have se cured him with little difficulty or danger, but a crowd of fellows, in spite of every remonstrance, followed and pelted him with stones, so as to render all approach to him highly dangerous. Emerging from the hole in the brick-field, the mot was so exhausted that he was kept struggling with the dogs for about a quarter of an hour. The whole canine rate being taken up by their owners, the stot set through the Calton, along Monteith-row, and when passing though the frail wooden paling, he broke through it, and got into the Molendinu Burn, opposite the Episcopal chapel, where he was se cured by the ropes, hauled out, and conducted to the slaughter. house. Fortunately there was no person hurt, nor any material damage done during the whole career of the enraged animal.— Glasgow Paper. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING. Wind S.S.F.-Hi g h Water 4 minutes past 2. Arrived the Edinburgh, from Glasgow ; Colombia, from New York ; Majestic, from Charleston ; Ceres, from New York ; and Earl of Surrey, from the Isle of Man. The Corinthian packet ship, hence for New York, was going in when the Colombia sailed. The Nestor, hence for New York, lost on Long Island : crew saved ; cargo all damaged. Lose or THE SHIP Nrsvol.—We regret to have to state, that the ship Nestor, Pease, from Liverpool for this port, one of the old line of packets, went ashore at three o'clock on Saturday morning, off Hempstead (about es miles firm Sandy Hook), where she bilged, and we under stand will be totally lost. Fortunately the cargo was not so valuable as it is usual for those ships to bring. It con sisted of 100 tons coal, 100 tons lead, some salt, and from five to six hundred packages of merchandize, in die lower hold, the most of which it is feared will be lost. A few packages between (leeks are saved. The passengers (five in number) and all the crew are saved. The letter = bag yesterday reached town. The Nestor was of 400 tons,—She was launched in October, BM—New York Paper. SiiirwitEca.--At day-break on Tuesday morning last, during a tremendous gale of Wind, some fishermen ob served a trow, apparently in distress, and drifting at the mercy of the wind and tide, between King-road and the New Passage. She appeared to he laden, but they could see no person on board. They observed her for nearly two hours, till she went out of sight. Oa the receding of ' the title the body of a man was found, washed on shore at Lawrence Weston ; and soon afterwards the bodies of three others were picked up near the same place, and not far distant from the situation where the vessel was first seen. She proved to be the Hornet trow, of Abbey- Tintern, laden with wood, &c. for Bristol; and the men picked up were the Captain (Harwood), and three of her ill-fated crew, six in number. It is supposed that, finding the vessel unmanageable, and seeing their danger, they had endeavoured to reach the shore, which was very near, in the small boat, in which attempt she had swamped, and they all perished, as the boat was found sunk, and full of water, near the spot where the bodies wete discovered. A man and a boy, the remainder of the unfortunate crew, have not yet been found. The trow was afterwards fallen in with by a steam-packet, and towed into Newport. The names of the men found are, John Harwood, Aaron . Darby, Wm. Hopkins, and Isaac Howell, all from Brock wear, on the Wye.—lnquests have been taken on them by W. Joyner Ellis,Esq., and verdicts returned atTonlingly.— Gloucester Journal. Yesterday the despatches for Eragal and China, by the ship Royal George, Captain Thnits, were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Punier of that ship. Flat AT BRI3TOL.—FURTHER Psarrectass.*-Friday evening a dreadful tire brfoke out in the range of buildings over the High-street, Market-house, Bristol. The fire began about half-past ten o'clock, and so rapid was the progress of the devouring element, and so instantaneously did it communicate to the several premises held by differ ent occupants, that it has become a difficulty to say in what part it commenced. The livid glare of a volume of flame, nearly fifty yards in extent, excited the most painful ap prehensions in moat parts of Bristol, and those in the im mediate vicinity instantly sent all their books to a place of safety, and packed their furniture and other property ready for removal at a moment's notice. The engines speedily arrived, but the pipes belonging to several engines were so much out of repair as to be almost unfit for use. About 12 o'clock the roof of the western half of the buildings fell. in, and the fire rose in a tremendous sheet of livid fliune to the sky. All hopes of saving this extensive range of buildings were then abandoned. The whole of the Market-house, from Messrs. Courcall and Jennings's ' next the Arcade leading from High-street, to the Crown Cellar, were a prey to the devouring element; and the efforts of ? the firemen were directed to prevent its extending to High-atrcet, or down the range of butchers' shops to St. Nicholas's Church, and they succeeded, but it was not till nearly two o'clock I that it became a matter of certainty that the lire would be confined to its then limits. _ _ _ _ LIMERICK, SATCRD•Y, JAN.22.—On Saturdays Privy Council was held at the Castle, when proclamations were issued, declaring the county of Limerick, and the baronies of Bunratty and Tulla, in the county of Clare, restored to a state of tranquillity, and relieving them from the opera tion of the Insurrection Act. Captain O'Gtady, M.P., John Thomas Waller, jun. Esq. of Castletown, and other county gentlemen, Caine into town yesterday, in expecta tion of meeting Mr. Blackburn. His presence, however, ass totally unnecessary, and Mr. Yokes and another Ma gistrate attended in the County Court-house, and read his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, withdraw ing the provisions of the Insurrection Act from this county, the entire of which is now relieved from its operation. Since the restrictions of the Insurrection Act have been withdrawn from Kerry, that county continues in a peace able state.—Limerick Chronicle. SINGULAR GRANT TO WHALLEY ABBEY.—Among the grants to this abbey is a singular one by Henmy Duke of Lancaster, of two cottages, seven acres of land, a hundred and eighty-three acres of pasturage, and two hundred of wood in Blackborn-chase; and another grant of the same nature in the neighbourhood, for the support of a female recluse and two women servants within the parish church yard of Whalley, who were perpetually to pray for the souls of the Duke and all his posterity. The convent was to repair their habitation, and to provide a chaplain and a clerk to sing mass to them in the chapel be longing to their retreat; to bestow on them weekly seven teen loaves, of such bread as was used in the abbey; seven loaves of the second sort ; eight gallons of the better sort of beer, and threepence for their food. Besides, they had annually, on the feast of All Saints, ten large stock fish, a bushel of oatmeal for pottage, a bushel of rye, two gallon* of nil for their lamps, one pound of tallow for candles, six load of turf and one of faggots for their fuel. Upon the death of these recluses, the Duke or his heirs were to ap point successors. EXTRAORDINARY STRENOTII.-FOUIkeJOIICS, who lived at Tydu, was noted for his prodigious strength. The esteemed champion of Wales for boxing, wrestling, &c. came to see him from Denbighshire, for the sole purpose of trying their. relative strength. When the stranger ar rived Foulke was mowing bay in the field near to his house ; the stranger went up to him, and inquired if he knew one Foulke, not supposing from his size and appear ance this cou:d be the person he sought. Foulke answered that his master was in the house, or not far distant, at the same time begged to know what his business was? I have heard, the stranger replied, that he is accounted the strong est man in the Principality, and am come to try our strength together. If that be all, Foulke observed, I can soon in form you whether it will be worth js ur while to see my master, for I am a tolerably strong man myself, but nothing in his hands, as I have often experienced, to my cost, when I have had the temerity to contend with him ; there fore, I would have you try what you can r do with roc first. They immediately engaged, when Foulke, by his superior strength, flung his antagonist over a high wall into the road. Fully satisfied, he exclaimed, "if this be the man, what must the master be!" and mounting his horse rode home, fully convinced of his supetiority. Many are the feats of strength he performed; such as taking a cow upon his back, and bearing it home; carrying a tree he had felled, which seven other men were unable to perform, &c. From every account he seems to have been a more extraor dinary person than Margaret Evans; but while she has been noticed by several writers, Foulke has only been cele brated in the tradition of his neighbourhood. He died about thirty years ago, at the age of seventy-five. The in habitants of that country are remarkable for longevity. The registers contain many ages of a hundred years and upwards ; and it is common to find persons alive at a period little abort of it. • t LAW I.VTPLI,IGE.Vi COURT OF CHANCERY ; TursnAr, 3Ale. 25. There was no cause possessing the least public interest beforch!i Lordship. VICE-CAANCELLoII's COURT, TvEsrui, JAI. 2S. DC nr.attroti V. RHODES. Sir Joule Ltaen, Vice-Chancellor, delivered his judgment in • this case. This was an injunction soug h t to restrain the defendant ' front raising sand or gravel, on ground in the occupation of the de fendant, situate near the Regent's Canal at Itoiton„ and the lease of which had been obtained from the late Rev. Mr. Beauvoir, under the following eircaimatatiess:—The defendant (Rhodes) had rented the lands in question, subject to an annual payment of 5101. and for' a term of tfeenty.one years. In the month of March, 1018, having then hlne years of his lease unexpired, he applied to Mr. Beauvoir to renew his lease, which, it was alleged, he promised 'to do, and a Mr. Aspinall was employe to survey the farm. Alpi ne!! recommended that Mr. Ifestivoir should grant a lease at an increased rate, viz. 7001. per year for 21 years; and at the dale time he stated that if the lands were properly let on bitiltllfig leases, they would produce nearly 4,0100/. per year. The coatants of this letter were communicated to Rhoda:, who did not answer it, but made a second application to l'ir. Beauvoir that he should hold the lands for the unexpired term, and after that he would pay such an increased rent as Mr. Beauvoir thought fit. It hoivever appeared this arrangement was not carried into effect, but that at the instance of Mr. Tebbutt, the agent solicitor of Mr. Beauvoir, Rhodes applied for a building lease on December P, 1811 f, and on the 21st of September, Rhodes proposed to pay his fresent rent of 5101., after' five years 7501., and after that 1,200/. per year. This proposal Mr.' Tebhurt sent to Mr. Beattrnir, saying in his letter that he dill not think the proposal quite enough. Mr. Beauvoir, hcarever, re turned no answer, and on tire 13th ofJanuary following, Mr. Tab. butt went in person to him on behalf of Mr. Rhodes, and procured a minute fit= him, authorising Tebbutt to let the lands to Rhhdee on a lease for 149 years, on condi'inn that Le would surrender by the present lease, pay 5001. for the first year. and increa.:e the anneal rental 100/. per annum until it reached 1,34.101., at which rate he well to continue to hold the lands. There walidso to he a eovanaut that Mr. Tebbutt should ri:epare all the sub-lease, ac. is prise ip • the subsequent letting of the lands by Rhodes. to definite of Rhodes agreeing to these terms, Tebbutt was to be at liberty to let them on the &ante terms to any person elst. Tebbutt reirrfild to London on the same day. On the Monday fdllowir , g. 'IL 15th. Rhodes signed it; on 16th it was laid befbre a Conveyandircg Gran; @eland on the 17th the lease was pretiewed and brought dolen by Tebbutt to Mr. Beauvoir. who s eiceuted it. It appeared that previously to Mr. Tebbutt's going down, there had been a primate arrangement entered into. between h!rn and IlhodeS, which there was no reason to suppo s t was known to Mr. Beauvoir, that Teb: butt was to have drawn the tenants' leases; and previous to the execution of the !lease, !Diodes had executed a bond the 10,0001., binding himself, that so long as Tebbutt, nr any of his sons, con. tinued to practise as Solicitors, they should be employed by hint (Mr. Rhodes) to prepare them. On the 16th, the a- previous to the execution of this lease. Mr. Tebbutt, io a I.7tter to the present plaintiff, states, that he had been down to see hits, and that he was then very ill, that it was not likely he could live long (he was than In his filth year); and that as he (Tebbutt) knew Mr. Beauvoir was the person who would be most likely to be benefited by his testamentary bounty, he had &eight it right fa apprise hirh of his state of health, that he might receive his wishes respecting what he should do in the event of Iris decease; and concluding bye hope, as he had been so long engaged by the family, that his professional services would be continued. His Honour, after enumerating all these circumstance., was of opinion that Tebbutt had not acted in a manner consistent with hit' duty of agent, in Fusing by altogether the opinion of Aspinall, as to the value of the property in the event of its being let on a building lease, and in the haste with which he had got the negotiation completed, knowing, as he did, the state of health which he *as then in. The only excuse that was offered by him was that Mr. Beauvoir knew he had frequently acted as attorney for Mr. Rhodes, hut considering all the etrcum. stances be was bound to look at the transaction In a most sus. picious point of view, and he would therefore grant the motion for the injunction. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, ti - ksTitufsTin, TUESDAT, JAN. 25. ILLIsTON v. now.rost- The ATTORNET-GENEttal. said. the circumstances out of which the motion he was about td make arose, were these:—Hr. lilliston, who was the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre, had en. gaged 31r. Dowton, 'the celebrated comedian, to perform a certain number of nights at that house. The terms of the engagement were communicated to the defendant by a 3lr. Dunn. as the agent of the plaihtitt in a letter, a copy of which 3lr. Dunn had un. fortunately omitted to keep. The answer of the defendant was to the following purport Dear Dunn, I subscribe to all that al contained in your letter;" but none of the terms were mentioned in that answer. kir. l)uwtnn having committed a breaeh of the terms of his engagement, Mr. Elliston had been obliged to com. mence an action against hint ; butt as it was necessary that he should file hie declaration before the Essoign day, in order to prevent the defendant from being entitled to an impedance to the nest Term, it was impossible that the present motion could have been made to the Court before the declaration was tiled. The plaintiff, however, not having a copy of the original agreement by him, it was possible that there might be a variance between the terms of that agreement and the nue set out in thedeclaration. He (31r. At torney-General) was therefore instructed, and did now beg leave to Move fur a Rule, to call on the defendant Ballow cause why he should not produce to the plaintiff or his attorney, the letter written by .lily. Dunn to him, containing the terms of his engage. mein ? The Loan Curer JUSTICE—Takes Rule. DuircaN, it's. curie. V. TREND AND orness. The At TOnsEv-GrstElIAL Mowed for • rule to call on the de fendant to show cause why • new trial should not be granted in this ease. This was an action tried before the Lord Chief Justice at the late sittings at Guildhall. The plaintiff was an attorney, and the action was brought by hint against the defendants, who were the printer, pubriter, and proprietors of the Morning Advertiser, for a libel published in that paper on the 10th and 16th of July. 123, purporting robe a report of certain proceedings taken before the Magistrate at Bow -street, and in which the plaintiff's mono was introduced, and certainly moist grossly libelled. The only plea on the part of the defendants was the general issue. On the trial the publication was proved, anti there could be no doubt of its being of a most libellous nature, and yet notwithstanding this proof, and in opposition to his Lordship's txpresaed opinion that it was a libel, the verdict was, from certain circumatsnces, gir th can favour of the defendants. That there was a proof of the publics. related to the plaintiff was equally conclusive, from the evidence. The Lotto CHIEF JUSTICE—There miy be a doubt upon that point. The ATTORNEY-GE NERAL thought he should be able to show that there could be no doubt on the subject. The libel was con. tanned in two papers; the first part of it appeared in the paper of the 10th of J une 1823, without mentioning the name of the plaintiff. but in the other part, which appeared on the 16th of the same month, a report of further TwoCeedinfte at Bow.strect porported to be given, where the plaintiff's natae was mentioned, and which left no doubt remaining as to the plaintiff being the party intended. His Le-rned /client], Mr. Brougl•am, in his address to the dury. said, indeed, that it did not appear tram the evidence, nor from the lihel itself, that the plaintiff was the person alluded to. but he (the Attorrey.General) answered that objection by showing that • in the libel it was stated that Andrew Duncan, the tether, became bail for his son, and that therefore unless his Learned Friend could „ show that there was a grandfather concerned in the transaction, it followed as matter of course that the plaintiff was the son spoken of in the libel, and which in fact was the case. The LoaD CNIET Jttaxtex.—With regard to the proof that the plaintiff' was the person intended by the libel. it appears by my notes, that Mr. Brougham endeavoured to show that the plaintiff' was not the person intended, and that as there was an Andrew Duncan, the father, it ought to be inferred that the father was the person meant; to which the Attorney-Genctal said the answer was, that the father appeared in the libel itself to hare been bail for the son, and Mr. Brougham theta replied, that it might be that the father had a father. This was the point that was referred to me. Mr. Ilnotissirto said, he thought his Lordship had left it to the Jury to say whether or not the plaintiff was the person in tended to be mentioned in the libel. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.—rea, I did, but it was not proper to have left the question with me at all ; althtugh, Mr. Brougham, you acted with perfect candour in doing so, because you therefore gave the Attorney-General an opportunity to prove the fact, and that I believe was your object; you wanted him to produce another witness, that you might have elicited some:bine from him by a cross-examination. His Lounsu IP having consulted with the other Judges, then said, he certainly had expected, open the whole conviction of thr ease, that the verdict would have been for the plaintiff, although with very small damages. The ATTORNEY-IIyNNENAL said, it appeared to.him that the Jury thought they were constituting a Court of Error, when thy delivered their verdict. The Loup CutEr JUSTICE—I really think that Mr. Brougham. when he was add r e ss i ng th ere , endeavoured to prevail on the Jury to consider this as a decision of a point el law; but L remember that I said in my address to them, that if they did think so, I was happy to know that the question was reserved fur • . higher tribunal. Ido not mean to say that Mr. Brougham sail . t . any thing disrespectful to the ('curt, quite the contrary ; but at the a • rCf name time floosie could mistake his object.—Rule panted. THE Elie P. THE MAYOR MOD i.ORPORATIUX Or ELWOI... . rox-r PON-111.11.L. • •4.* Scaint.tyr said, that last Teem a Mk Hifi had been ob. talon}, calling upon the Mayor and Corporation of the town of Kingston-open-Hull to show cause why . a twausidne vs bhould r.ot,i issue, commanding them to permit certain CIIOIIIIiSsIiOIICTS of tbs. Court of Requests, created by Act of Parliament for that place, to • . meet in the Town or Guild Hall of that town, to conduct and carry on the business of the Court as usual. He now appeared to shove cause against the rule brio, made absolute. On the part of the Mayor and Aldermen of Hull he had to complain of tile coctloct of the person who made the affidavit, on which the prestutapplica. tion to the Court was grounded. That Gentleman was agptuted on the idth of November last that a propopitioq was about to be wade by the Mayor and Aldermen to the Coarimimionera, fat arranging the point in dispute ; but, notwithstanding this, ht had thought proper on the following day, via. the 10th , to sweat this atrularit s without at all alluding to the facts that bad beet comets. . , .I s. I • - 41X. 'c , I