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PILCR ON A PICTURE OF HYMEN CROWNED WITH ROSES. THY br,w4, 0 it , men ! b;nd, to show rut wrdloek%saau and warp togethcr grow. R EASON.‘BLE GRIEF. • Fam'd Cranial, when his (,'rite Mallet died, I.lltc a soft whimo'rhig female, sohti'd and died : But as (n peacmhle and virtuous men, All /tuition, he could slay his thousands ten. TO A PERSON WHO DESPISED POETRY AND POETS. Plow dar'st th.iu Atheist ' thus abuse Apollo, and insult the Muse! 1 see thou'st scap'd poor Marsrig' fate,. TIT Ate is whale--hut for thy pare. flick, had's' thou no preieging lean ? Peel. thou lust got dull Midis' ears. TITS QJLSTTON. Thy SersAn Lapert, dips, they they ay, In I..r6a's Rood, rase inuan and nlacale. BLIt where MCI that blest river *tr . iy Whrrie nraling w.ve ran wash away The Lepr,sy 1.5.414 ♦ Naansn. MISS ABRAMS' CONCERT. Miss A se•l4% gave. on 'Tuesday eveoirr; last, an elegant Concert to all the amateurs. and a select party of friends. at her house in Park-lane. The musical talents, combined with the power, elegance, and peniut of these young ladies, reader all praise superfluous. The music was chiefly of Miss A sasses' own composition, and had an astonishing di la. The Miss Asses us were aided by the power and talents of Messrs. NEVIT is and BAITLLIKAIII, &C. Among the company were— rarri.—Tallkervillt. a L., Kell and Welk Coodow,—..korliar., Tanker. , dle, and Ninunt Edgecumbe. Ledilra.Aluniuzus, Perin, Bromley, Ridley, L. Curry, .trid Cia/rs Srs—W. Phipps, L Phipps, M. Ridley, and J. Hort. Mows —Mrtlidesi, Francis, Hamiton, \Vuodroffe, Penn, Temple, Stani6wth, Upt ~,,, R Miry, W. Cassamajo7, toe, Lewis, M L•fari , .. G. Rittye, Moore, Clargua, M. P. An d:tree Lickl:e , Dunlop, Williams, and Warnm. !(Wrens —Methuen, St3mforth, Gosling, Hamilton, 11:a -don, Culbectran, Lushington.and Lewis. lisserp—Maltueu, Drummond, Curzon, and Rid (7. This day her MAJESTY will hold a Drawing-, Room. Yesterday morning his M.ussrv, accompanied by the Duke of CuUDER LAND, attended by General v NNE, took an airing on horseback by Fulham bridge to New, and iticpeaed the new Palace, and the improvements in Richmond gardens and re turned by Hammersmith to the Queen's-hoase, be tween two and three o'clock. The Earl of BARrY moot took yesterday an ele gant house in I)uke-street, Manchester-square. Part of the suite of Prince Esr tRH AzY arrived in town last night; his Highness, 3:c. is expefled in a few days from Paris. The presentation of Miss KUTZLENAN to her MAJESTY at St. James's, is unavoidably postponed in consequence of her indisposition. SALOMON'S third Lady's Subscripti on Concert will be given next Sunday at the 'ones: of SALIt buoy's, in Arlin gt on - street. Sir CLEJLINT COTTALLL DORNIIR left town last night for his seat in Oxfordshire. The Hon Tuomas Covtsr KY'S Sir "'dm runs this day a: Newmarket against Mr. DawsoN's Gulli ver, for 1000 guineas aside. Sir DIGIrr NIACEINO2TII and family, left BATT'S Hotel, yesterday, in Jermyn-street, for Oxford. The name of the beautiful German Countess who arrived in town lan Monday, and has taken up her residence in Manchester-street, is, we understand, L'INST A T I. Major TATO os, late Aid-de-camp to Lord Her emission in Egypt. ariived in town last night from lteland, at Barr's Hotel. in Jermyn-strect. Mrs. Rosipsene's Rout last night, in Albemarle street, was extremely splendid. Sir C. Aso; u. set off yesterday to take the com mand of the army in the Limerick district of lieland. Mr. Jona Masi:it's, brother to the Duchess of ST. At. a* Ns, lies dangerously ill at his lodgings in St. James's-street; his indisposition has been occa. sifted by the bursting of a b lood vessel. The Duchess of BOL TOP'S Rout. Grosvenor sqn.are ; Lady CitiItINGTON'S Ball, St. James's place ; Countess of CA etto•xrTow's Rout, Bruton street; blissesCAßDtir and LLActet Concert ; and Mrs. Ext.tot's Rout, will occupy the attention of the fashionable world this evening. Mr. Cost, Member of Parliament for Norfolk, has t..'sen up his residence for the season in Bennet street, St. James's. Sir R. Lt.:carom arrived in town last night, in Jermyn-street, from Bath. The Hon. T. Co v rt:T es• has been greatly bored by the report of his having matched his Sow to run against Mr. B-.11--T. There is no truth in the report. the green rear at Mr. ST. GEORG' CAUL g mut:is late supper cost an buttdrtdguirszas ! The Dowager Countess of Monroe has taken an elegant house in Lower Brock-street. Mr. Etas, of Stratford-place, is a candidate for the place of East India Diretior, vacant by the death of Si .1. SMITH &GESS. Mr. THOMAS, who for many years kept the hotel in Berkeley-square, died yesterday in consequence of the bursting of a blood-vessel in a tit of coughing. Mr. and Mrs. Mos-raw:a, arrived in town on Tuesday night, from his seat at Sandleford Priory, Ikrks, at Ins house in Upper Berkeley-street. The receipts•at Sadkr's !Ye& are greater in pro portion to the time since its opening, than at any lurmer season. From the unprecedented applause with which the New Grand Serious Speftacle called Louisa of Lom bardy; .r, the Scarce N u p t i a l', has met with, and in which Mrs. PARKER sustains the part of Lomita ; we are happy to inform our readers, that it will be repeated this Evening for the fourth time. The House was very crowded last night. Lire ThriPLLIGEINtE. COURT OF KINGS BENCH, We?. - rmticstEr, ir,te. 27. This being the first day of Easter Term, the Judges commenced the business of the respeetivo Courts with the accustomed soleMnitieF. Mr. Campbell made his report of the state of tha moviets employed on the River Thames, Woolwich Warren, and other places. It appeared they were, with very few exceptions, in perfeCt health. The report stated, that several of the men on board the Prudentia, who bad been convided of a mutiny, had particularly distinguished themselves by their good conduCt. CRIMINAT. INFORMATION. Mr. ERSKINE moved the Court for leave to file. a Criminal Information against Mr. John O'Riley, an apothecary at Windsor, and late surgeon in the Sixteenth Regiment of Cavalry. The affidavit of Dr. Mingay, of Windsor, stated, that he had in troduced Mr. O'Riley, and given him every assistance in his power ; that being called upon to prescribe for a Mr. Clode, he sent the prescription to the De fendant to be made up ; the Defendant, however, thought proper to do it in his own way • he did not chuse to make up the prescription conformably to its direftion, but he must throw in a dash of some ingredients of his own; upon Mr. Mingay's saying, he could not be responsible for the effea of the me dicines if they were not made up precisely as he or dered them, Mr. O'Riley had thought proper to send him the following letter : D: sot, Jail, 10,1803. The uitjustiiable and unwarrantable liberty yon have taken with my chararte., in eons:rim/ace of the misunderstanding betwerli you and me, demand+, on your part, full expiana von. I &rise you will appoint the time and place when: the menu of the dispute may b. discti•sed ; foe I tint it iieeeiiary t.• put a stop to the unbridled liretiee of your tompe. No one shall vilify win' impunity the cliaretcr of JOHN O'RILEY. The letter sent by Mr. Mingay in answer to this, stated, that as Mr. O'Riley had taken the liberty of altering his prescription,he could not think of sending any more to him. Some time after this, the Defendant met him, and said, " You d—d cowardly scoundrel, if you do not wish to go back with me to my house, and wait with me 6111 have got my pistols, and go with me to Long Walk, I will post you for a cow ard." Dots or Mingay took no notice of him, but he afterwards met him, armed with his pistols, and intercepting him in his path ; Dr. Mingay found it the more necessary to apply for the interference of the Court, as he had every reason to fear his life was in danger, and that the Defendant was still pursuing his malicious course.—Rule granted. Mr. Jutvis moved for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, to be direEted to the keeper of the gaol of Dorches ter, to bring up the bodies of Francis Hastings, Lieutenant of L'iligle; John Fortescue Morgan, the master's mate ; and several other persons ; in order that they might be bailed. And also for a Writ of Certiorari, to remove the proceedings be fore the Coroner and the Magistrates, respelling the nririers of which Hastings, Morgan, and others, stood charged. The Learned Counsel stated, that this referred to the unfortunate transac tion at Portland----the two prisoners had been com mitted for trial—an inquisition had been held on the bodies of the persons who fell in the conflia with the press-gang, and the Jury had found a verdid of wilful murder againv. the prisoners and the Captain of 12.1i.;/e. Of the validity of that verdiEt, their Lordships would judge when the p roceedings were before them. Mr..lLavis stated r om several affi &wits the whole of the case, at least as far as it can be developed by the rx parte statement of the accused. We feel that we '.houid be aEting in vio lation of the repeated direEtions of the Court, were we to presume to detail any part of the information conveyed by the affidavits. The subjeEt is too im portant to justify a partial statement of it ; we con sequently decline the least mention of any of the particulars. POLICE. M I ON-HOUSE. Yesterday, shortly after ten o'clock, Mr. R. Aslett, assistant to the principal Cashier in the Bank of England, was brought to the Mansion-house, privately; and, about eleven o'clock, he was ad mitted to the Lard Mayor's private parlour, where he underwent a final examination before his Lord- ship, Alderman Watson, Benjamin Winthorp, Esq. the Deputy Governor, &c. The examination lasted above two hours. The several examinations sworn against him were read over in his presence, and he was allowed to interrogate the several wit nesses who attended. After these forms were gone through, he was fully committed for trial for em bezzling Exchequer Bills, contrary to the Alt of the 15th of George 11. The charge does not, we be lieve, specify any thing on account of ommiuni.— Mr. Aslett, during his examination, seemed to pos sess much resolution ; but after the commitment was made out for Newgate, to which he was con veyed by Mr. tioldsw.)1111, the ( ity Marshall, he became very melancholy and tit jeded. juhn toper and 77motar St*: also underwent a private examination before his Lordship, on a charge of being concerned in committing several robberies, the most material of which was in a merchant's compting-house, in Thames-street. — Cooper, in consequence of being admitted an evi dence for the Crown, implicated several persons who appeared to live in credit ; among them is a person named Pritchard, who has been before exa mined. The latter, two days since, attempted to cut hi, throat, but was prevented from doing the same effeaually. He could not, from the dangerous si tuation which he was in, be brought up, but is or dered for further examination on a future day, with the other prisoner, Staples. As Doetor BOWEN, an eminent surgeon of Bath, was riding in his carriage on Friday evening last, near the Grove, his horses took fright, and run down the street with great violence ; his coachman was thrown from the box ; a poor labouring man in en deavouring to stop the carriage, was trampled under the horses feet, the carriage went over his body, and he was killed on the spot. Soon after the car riage was stopped, and the lloaor escaped unhurt. On ' Monday the workmen began pulling down the houses, which have been so long shut up, at the west end of St. Clement's Church-yard, for the pur pose of extending the noble improvement carrying on at the west side of Temple-bar. New and hand some houses are intended to be built for some dis tance up the Strand and Holywell-street, as well as at the end facing the Church-yard, many of the houses being already empty, and shut up for the purpose. or.n M'EIINIEFDAV, APKIL Before Join St LVLSTEIt, Esq. the Common SergeaM Patric!: Cop, alias William Boulton, was capitally indiaed for falsely personating Patrick Coffee, Scrje.tnt of Marines, belonging to his Majesty" ship Hetior, with intent to receive certain prize money, his property. John Crossdell said he was a clerk to Mess. Cook and Alfred, of Beaufort-buildings, Prize-agents for the.Beaor, of 74 guns. On the ‘,.!:id of March tic prisoner came to his office, and asked fur his pri;e money for the Hector; he said his name was Patrick Coffee, and produced a certificate which he had received from Lieutenant Rice of that ship ; witness looked at the hand-writing, and immediately dis covered the signature to be forged, a 4 he was ac quainted with Lieutenant Rice's writing ; he thc:c. fore took the prisoner before Mr. Alfred, who sent for an officer, and had him taken into custody. He was conveyed to Bow-street office, v.-here hathouvlit proper to say his name was not Coffee, but William I3oulton. Lieutenant I lenry Rice, of the He or, stated, that he had known such a man on board that ship as Seijeant Coffee, and that the prisoner Was not that person. The certificate which had been produced was a forded one, and the signature was not his hand-writing. Two Serjeants who had known Coffee, said that the prisoner tvas not that person. Admiral Montague stated, that he was Captain of the Haar at the time Coffee was on board ; he had known that person, and was certain the pri soner was not like him. A Clerk to the Navy-OGce produced the Hesor's muster-book, by which it appeared that Coffee had been drowned on the 24th of March, 1801. The prisoner had nothing to sty in his de fence. The Jury found him—Gwly, Death. • LONDONDEIIRY ASSIZES. John Dhumore, "Wm Stewart, George Stewart, IV. 111‘ Kay, Charles Stewart, and John Dontrey, being in. diaed for the murder of Neil M' Peer and John M'Reynolds, at Kilrea, ou the ith of June last, and for a riot ; and John Hanna, Hill Campbell, John Kane, Thomas Hart, Patri,:i Kane, Patrick Bradley, lobar M'Kcnna, John O'Neil, and liusbMooney, being indiaed fora riot at the same time and place. Mr. Jameson, Counsel for the Crown, having begged to refer the Court to the examinations of Henry Paterson, Esq. in which the whole case was fully disclosed, that the magnitude of the riot, in which some hundreds of Freemasons were engaged on the one side, and some Orangemen on the other, and for which the traverwrs stood indiaed, had arose to such a pitch that it seemed as if the late re bellion had still raged ; and that in the dreadful conflict two men had unhappily lost their lives, and several their limbs; that the Government of the country, determined to, punish all offenders against the public peace, whether Orangemen or Freema sons, Protestants, or Catholics, had sent the Crown Solicitor to the spot to investigate the fans ; that in consequence of his exhitions eight of the rioters had been convicted at the last assizes, and the persons charged with the murder, and the other persons now in the dock charged with the riot, had been broUght in for trial; that on the fullest and most minute ex amination of all the persons who could be produced on both sides, there appeared to be nothing cf mur der in the unhappy killing; that all parties, both Free masons and Orangemen, having felt the strength and effea of the laws, and being sensible of their own crime, had wished to become friends and re turn to their industry, to cultivate a good under standing with each other, and shake hands; that the Counsel for . the Crown thought it unnecessary to take up the time of the Court in further investigating a killing which was now so fully ascertained to be free from any of the circumstances which constitute the crime of murder ; and as the public justice of the country has been satisfied by the punishments which had taken plate, in order to assist in the re storation' of the peace of the country, he would not trouble the Court by producing any witnesses I against the traversers or prisoners. The prisoners and traversers having been acquit ted, the lion. Baron GEORCE, who presided on the trial, with a dignity peculiar to himself, said— " ou, prisoners, who are now going to be dis charged from the dock, being acquitted of the mur der, and you traversers, who have been acquitted of the riot, you are all about to return to your homes and your families, and before your departure I wish, to address a few words to you as your common friend. You have heard from the Counsel for the Crown, that the Government is determined to pro secute all descriptions of offenders against the public peace of the country, without respea to parties or persuasions, whether they be Freemasons or Orange men, whether Protestants or Catholics, until they shall have restored the morals of the people to that good order and peaceable disposition to each other from which they have been torn by the late horrid rebellion. I exhort you to embrace one another and return to your homes ; lay aside all differences ; vie with each other in obedience to the laws—vie with each other in industry—vie with each other in loyalty—yon are all subjeas of the same king, you are all inhabitants of the same country, you all worship the same Almighty God, you all hope for salvation through the merits of the same blessed Re deemer, you pray for forgiveness of your faults— forgive then one another; open your arms and em brace one another as friends and brothers, and bear enmity to none but the foes of your King and coun try, for they are your only mortal enemies: you will then live more peaceably, you will die more happily ; you will not be hunted by constables or officers of justice ; you will not be confined in a gaol, nor brought to the bar of a criminal court. Go home, then ; return to your habits of industry, peace, and obedience to the laws, and so May God bless you all." JOHN GRANT is fully committed for trial by N. Boso, Esq. and Sir W. PARSONS, under the Black Mt, charged with shooting at Joil SPENCER TOWNSIIEND, Lsq. in St. James's-place, with an intent to kill. The tide upon the Sussex coast, owing to the strong S. W. winds, rose last week unusually high. To such a height did it swell on Wednesday last, at Rye, and so rapidly, that upwards of 80 sheep, be longing to ha Esti A H CORMS, ESCI• were drowned by the overflowing of the sea on some salt marshes, before the least danger was apprehended. • - DE. AN KIR /i"..1/4 On Sunday sennight a Charity Sg.tton wig preached in 'St. Thomas's Chnrch, DWb,ln, by the:., P.Pv. Dean Kittran, in aid of the Diveniary for In; fain Poor. Neva:. was the celebrated Preacher heard to greater advantage--an eloquence so long the re source of the misery of the capital never bloornel in brighter colours ; never bore fruit of more ric:t and genuine oratorical flavour: those who listened and could not feel, were formed of " impenetrable stuti"—those whom he could not induce to charita ble exertion, must have been alike insensible to the influence-of eloquence, and of necessities which, but to be plainly told, were in themselves most elo quent. A correspondent who was present on that occa sion, and strongly felt the force of the appeal made to public benevolence in support of an institution fraught with most important benefits to society, presumes attempting a faint sketch of the Sermon, in the hope of communicating to persons, unable from distance or other causes to have been present, a portion of that charitable spirit which the discourse infused into himself, and if, after the first richness of the harvest, he can succeed in gleaning for the poor little objects of his solicitude, but a few scat teted ears in the field of benevolence, he will be fully gratified, not feel conscious that he owes anr • apology to any human being for the deliciencies which he must . display.—The eloquent Preacher chose his text from the 12th chapter of St. Luke, COth verse:— " Thou fol, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: " the.' whose Audi those tiling.; be winch thou hast pm " videcl?" On . thit text, so apposite to the °Ned of his dis course. he descanted with, perhaps, more than a common portion of his great talents: he began with observing, that amidst the revolutions of the world, and the mutability of all things, Christian Revela tion stood unchanged, and its judgments were' cer tain ; deemed certain, and expeikd, by all sincere believers—and that even those not wholly hardened by Infidelity, but involved in the indifference which the pleasures and occupations of the world produce. looked forward to the judgments of God, hut only as t hrough an inverted telescope, the terrors of futurity diminished by supposed distance, and the human pas sions and affedions taking refuge in that divine mercy which they wearyagainst thejusticewhich they are un ceasingly offending : this feeling. hesa id, had becomes° general ac to lea vesca rcely any other trace than an a:Fec cation of Cbri sti ani ty: a wretched corn promise between that invincible convi&ion of the future judgments of God which all must feel, and the immediate uncon trouled enjoyment of a life, of which we can be sure of nothing but the uncertainty of its duration. In vain is it that the warnings of mortality are daily multiplied around us ; we hear not, we see not, nar rowing all our senses within the little passion of the hour, we walk on with bold and idle stop in the path of life, unconscious or unmindful of the dangers that surround us, and as if every individual was ex clusively invulnerable to the missiles of death, which in so many varieties of form arrestthcheedless course of confident humanity. Nay, the victim is struck in our very arms. Our parents, our friends, our children ; the dearest firstlings of our hearts arc tons from our aching grasp, and consigned to the grave ; yet are we uninstructed of the uncertainty of life, and the very tomb which receives and records the evidences of our mortality, seems but to emit sparkles to rekindle our affedions for a perishable world! Alike insensible to the awful lessons of fads, and the solemn truths of religion, we go oft day after day the blind slaves of our passions, un-. mindful of death, forgetful of God, and totally neg ligent of those duties, the observance of which robs the one of his terrors, and propitiates the nier cies of the other. Here the reverend Preacher took occasion to ask how the last Lent was observed' in this metropolis ; that season so solemn and sacred' with the primitive Christians, and ordained far the purpose of more particularly calling back oar strayed affeEtions to God ? It had been marked, he said, by the indulgence of pleasures of all others the most n boldly licentious and abominable ; where vice, masking its approaches, ranges unshamed and un checked, and strews its path with the most deadly poisons ; where, under the licensed freedom of man-. ners and discourse, intrigue is busy to destroy do mestic peace and virtue. Libertinism throws off' the asramption of decency as an unnecessary burden, impurity mingles with purity, and the ear of the modest innocent maid is violated with language which she should never have heard, and which, it is but too probable, she would never forget. It was an amusement never known, nor would everhave been tolerated amongthe pure professors of Christianity ; it mattered not how laudable weretisepretexts assumed; or the precedents under which the pradice sought a sandion,theexample was but the more audacious,and no pretext or example could justify a species oflicen tiousness, which in the Season of Lent seemed a. particular and premeditated mockery of that absti nence and suffering by which our Saviour designed to instruct us in an occasional severity of duty, which, by freeing our souls, as much as possible, from the gross influences of humanity, would fit us for divine communion. From this subject, the Dean recurred again to that of his text, further enlarging on the uncertainty of life, the certainty of death, and the equal certainty of the divine judgments hereafter in the distribution of rewards and punish ments. The Gospel pronounces as a truth, admit ting of no modification or constructive subterfuge, that, "as we live, so shall we die," yet the greater part of mankind live as though they were never to die, or that living in sin they ware not to die in sin. Most men live as if there was no respon sible futurity ; or reposing in the mercy of their ne glected and offended GOD, they calculate on ba.. lancing the great account between them and their Maker, by appropriating to him a little remnant of that life which, when longest, is but too short for his' service : in this species cf traffic the world pays down, and is the purchaser: pleasure, avarice, am-. bition ; the lust of wealth and of power, are the pre miums for which we sell the invaluable inheritance- of eternal happiness 1 we say to ourselves as in the. context. "And I will say to my soul, soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many yearsi talc.: thine ease, cat, drink, and be merry." • But in the midst of our security, while we thit \ t'k that all these things are ours, and ours for many years, comes the fatal summons—" Thou fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee."—Vain it is that this great truth, the uncertainty of life, is 6. ; C• , w. - . I r' 11 w•