The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1824-11-02 00:00:00

NEW YORK. We have been favoured with the following extract from . a err sedum by a gentleman (for many year , a resident In Lee el), who is at present trevelling en America : —, Net. York, S ept. te 10, Plt. •• I got to this place the twiddle of last month, after a anewhat tedious passage of 44 days. The weather for a .trt time after my arrival proved inconveniently hot, which ..asiened a return of my bilious complaints. The tem retire being now mild, my health begins to improve. •• The late fall in the rates of interest en money through t: Europe, has induced me to inquire into the most ad ytaecous mode of employing part of my property in this entry, where the interest has not vet fallen to the Ett •,ean !evil ; and from the best information I can collect, ;:ors appear that 5 per cent. per annum may be obtained t sufficient and unexceptionable security. This. con- per cent. in Ett sted with the difficulty o f obtaining S ete is of some importance, and has determintd me to msfer a part oftny funds either front England or India to . s country. Before coming here I was led to believe ,it 1 might sell bills en Bengal at a favourable exchange I the United States. In this I ant mistaken. The Ante ot men-hams trading to India no tenger, as formerly, port s pecie for the purchase of return cargoe s . I nst e ad 'that they establish a credit in London, enabling them to 1 their hills in Bengal, on England, and thus turn : bee rte of exchange to good account. Bills 0111 k -weal t y, it is true, be sold here at a premium of from Si to wee c.ett. in exchange for prompt CAA) payment; that is, ,- every 100 dollars, the drawer receives in hand, say 0:e! dollars; hut as the late quotations give the Bengal ate of exchange at Sicca rupees, 210 to 212 per 100 del we this would be no very favourable operation to the seller It the bill. I have had a few Sicea rupees assayed at the ;et-ailment :dint, Philadelphia. The report states the met as equal to 46 cents. If we rate the dollar at 4s. 6t1.. r,hts would give nearly 2a, Id. perrupee ; but deduct inter -Ist, fttight, &c. anti the return for the nip c, if imported ere as bullion, will be somewhat less than 2s. ; and if it e • desired to remit the proceeds to Europe, that cannot be !Ices.] but at a Itea.of from 8 to 10 percent. From this new, therefore, instead of selling hills on Bengal, or re sitting from thence to America, the better plan vems to le to bring foods direct from England. more particularly 1 can sell bills on London at a premium of from 9 to 10 •• cent. " 1 have detained von thus long on the subject of renit ence and exchange between this country and India, lest, Other from interest or curiosity, you may desire information :1 that sulti: ct. •• So much has issued, and continues daily to issue, from , 'he 'loss, respecting the state and progress of this country, ! hat it would be a waste of time were I to attempt to enter • retelly on the field in any communication like the present. I Vet it tea:. perlistis be excusable to MKT a few cursory oh te:eeioes, that have pressed themselvew more particularly one try attention. These States appear to be rapidly ad-1 lacing in the scale of national importance, from their' ae:l progress in science, arts, and manufsetures. 'I heir erivetueuts in the latter, particularly in the various :Niches of the cotton manufacture, are incredible. The Sete of New York, though it dots not take the lead in point vt menVacture, is the first in rising commercial import- • ne • : and probably no other part of the world, in proportion to its population, can produce such numerous instances of :1,11.1'1y-equine' wealth—of men who began the world weletut a shilling, and who, by industry and good rna rtgeinent, have acquirtil large fortunes. This city contains a long list of individuals possessing capital of from three .2ruird theusand to 3 or 4 millions of dollars and upwards, acquired within the last twenty-fire or thirty years.— : ewe.: celleetively, the general mass of the better classes ocietv seem to part with their meney more easily and . aeglidessly than any other coinmunity that I have had ~ppertunity to observe. Owing, perhaps, to their for ,e s having ken so hastily acquired ; and there is no ler quarter of the glob?, perhaps, where an intelligent s n of 1 red: rice and management may more certainly 'are wealth. The scale of profits in general is very eh, u'terly disproportioned to the prices of the necessa .4,f lir, and of all kinds of provisions art agricultural - dom. Take a familiar example : some thousands of ~Itelable pcop'e, chiefly those of the higher classes, male .e emelt., families and single gentkmea, live constantly 'le. hotels tied numerous boarding-houst s of New York. i':c.: charge fir beard and lodging, exclu s ive of wine and Cr, is a dollar and a half per them. Wine, either port, terry, or inferior claret, is charged at 12s. currency, nearly .t.sterling p.r bottle. For hock, madeira, eke. the charge double the above. Yet all these, especially the French it:e.e, are purchaseabie wholesale or by the cask at l ess , eau oucehall the English cost. Agein, for a horse at a i Ney-stable yeti pay fourteen, generally , fifteen dollars per' :•utelt ; a carriage and pair, five dollars per day at the tarot ; the street hacks 75 cents. an hour ; and all this 'n a reentry where oats are six or eight-and -twenty mitts., y foureen or fifteen pence a bushel, and the finest wheaten tier at & penny farthing a pound; provisiens of all sorts reeenicually low. Ilouse-rent is high, though not quite s high as in the weetern- parts of London. The want of Feed ntvants is t riotously felt here and, as I understand, :hroutthout the United States. This is the natural effixt dieliat bus been just mentioned. Any fellow of corrnion knst sees that a little good management must secure his tlraneement. 'Wages are high, and as soon u he can ✓de up a small purse, he is enabled to quit service, to titr a small farm, to engage in trade, or to embark in su•ne other way on his os. n account. Hence the very reuse enly of the lower order remain on hand, from whom the housekeeper has to select the least drunken or the least enthless. Indulgence in liquor, 1 should say in spirits. it the great vice of the common people, and even of a part Vat; lietter order. The effect is visible in the complexions ▪ a large proportion of the min, which arc sallow and nevus, from their stomach:, being incessantly sur- Los t 1 with animal food and ardent spirals." THle ARM Y. ((nectar.) IVar Office, bth Oct. 1824. ,1 having been decided that the Accounts of Forage sup- Pl.t; to Regiments of Cavalry in Ireland should, hereafter, be mah.cirl in this (Kee, in the sante manner as the Forage Ac. woes of It-gime:lts in Ildreat Itritatn, I am directeti by the Se. ester v War to acquaint von therewith, and to desire that front ia 2 ith shi , n4 y ou will str i ctly conform to the Hulot laid down ::03 2 a the Collection of Regulations, pages 191, 224. aril .44 a fat as rids Supplies of Forage; and that you will to tl.is (lifer Forage Accounts and Extracts of Adju'ents l at the peu,d s th rein specified, agreeably to the Forms I aweigh trinswitud. and of which a further supply will be issued on sppliestien to this Gtlice. Duplicates of the k'orage Accounts to hrtendsred to the Deputy Commissary-General in Dublin, spool care Sting taken that the same are forwarded, at the latest, on the 15t of the Meath succeeding that in which the Supplies shall hart been issued. ix As it bat been arranged that the full price of the ration of forage u2scers' honks is to he paid by the Dcputy-eommissary Otne• 131 to th e Ceenarlor, yhu will tee care to collect the proper stop. Loges from the Misers, and remit the amount to the Agent of the . j. 11012, by whom the same will be paid urn to the Commis .,.at Dapartnent. The:4:h dal': of the Mutiny Act of the preaent Session. vier 6 .0.1 V. cap. 13. authorising horses if cavalry, .I.e. to be billeted 'Waal upon Innkeepers, Ike., and forage supplied in the same t; otter as hi England, according to the rates fixed by the Lord d'eutfent, I um directed, with ',keened to the regulation in page 'lll of the 2.1 volume of Item:lathing., to desire that when the Inn% or detaehm. nt thereof, shall be on a march and billsttd, r.,a adldraw bills for all welt sums as may be required for this :,7 40 , as well fur horses at grass and in straw yards, on the ! rr Eornti.i.saty.t ;metal. at thr.p dwys• sight. according to the ' 1 In use fur the regioontts in England; :Mil, if any euctun -1-I'er ihnekl arise to render the measure necessary, yeu natty. sr , twably t, the It egu l at ion, veg.! 2:10, draw on the Deputy ('um. ecenunt, but in this case the sem drawn shoald v of the su m rt quired ter the expense ut bill e ting during the ''gt: oll tli and the amount uh drdown upon account should, ,„ onm to the prnvice hi this courtry, he credited in the bill to for the balance as soon after the 21:11 of earl month as 'tls. all such 'urns being ap p roved of by the Conur.a•uling tut ete Emnsi of Itillet !tills may hr Mita:tied on application W the De' C4:14111N5.111• Crucial in Dublic. P *ltiaster of the(Signed) ---- ItegiMent of l am, Re. SCLIVAN. a. (I. IICC -. LAIL) 'War Office, Oct. As 1112.1- ' 91 .-1t having hem sleeideil that the full price of the ration of • ~• 1 irnishetl tcr the homes of Oiteers of Cavalry Regiments le:Ir "IS, turn the: rich ultimo , sho,tlsl he paid to the Contractors [ i'm Nary Cointr.iosAry-liarral, in Dublin. who is to receive. • .i it Rerimental Agents, the amount a the stoppages to c i el. I. Wirers are liable in respect thereof ; I am threctsd by z't zebu ! at War *.o desire:it:it you will take Cell to MAC early application to the Paymasters of the regiments in V(V.Ir agency, for the sums which play become due on account of the said stoppa::es, :tt order that the same may be regularly paid over to tle Deruty f:ommiss.try tieveral. I am, IS.c. L. SULIVAN. (Sittna!) Agent of the Rzgitnent of (CIRCI:tAft.) War ()Ir.cc, Oct. 12 : 11124. , . a.—W itli referenee to my Circular Letter dated loch May. ! Lave to acquaint you, that it nut kids:judged vain-client to resuire that Clergyraen of:lei:Mug to the Troops shall in 311 cases visit the sick twice in every AVeek, the Com 1113i:ding Officer will in future be expected to certify only, that the Clergyman has visited the rick once in each week, and has at 311 times, when sent for, performed with thou the tucessary 1 hare to nail, that in every Military linapital, a notice should LC attiactl to the wall in stnne conspicuous place, to the following Kee', ?17. ?-- Rev. officiating Clergyman to the troops on this station, resides at and is ready to attend the sick at this hospital whentra his spiritu —, al assistance may he requited. (Signed) PALM CRSTCN. Officer Commanding Regiment of —. (Cineukan.) War Office, Oct. 14, IIZIL St u„—With rctvrence to the Circular Letter, dated Office of Ord nance, Dublin, the 12th 31arch last, granting an additional allow some of one and a tor biodtels of coals per week to Officers in stationed singly, fur the purpose of separate cooking, I am directed by the Secretary at War to acquaint you, that when Offi cers so situated cannot be supplied in kind, his Lordship has been pleased to approve of a commuted allowance of Is. lid. a week being granted in lieu iliercof, which allowance may be charged in the Regimental Pay List under the head of Contingencies, sup por:vd by a declaration upon honour, from each Officer, that during the period of his claim he was stationed singly. and was not supplied with fuel in kind- I ant to add, that this allowance will u►e effect from the 23th ult. I base. tee. (Signed) Of congnanffing Regiment of --. FIELD SPO R7'S. (From the Annals of Sorting Crouse and partridge shooting may be considered as gone by ; a few may be killed after the month of October, under particular circumstances, but, generally speaking, these buds b e come so wild, and are so much inclined to take long flights, having renewed their new feathers, that, after this period the pursuit of them, if not altogether hopeless, cannot be abundantly successful. Even before the middle of October, partridges had become very shy ; while grouse might be regarded as unapproachable. The pheasant is a bird which always lives well, and is, therefore, easily approachable ; and, perhaps, had the sea son for shooting these birds been delayed till November, it might have been an improvement in legal regulation ; the young birds are seldom full, or even well grown, on the Ist of October, and in the present season many were not larger than partridges. From very considerable ob servation, it appears evident, that pheasants hatched later than usual ; but they have bred better, or more abundantly, titan the partridge. November may he justly considered as the woodcock shooting season : these birds are generally to be found in more abundance about the middle of this month, than at any other period. When these long-billed visitors make their appearance very early, it is generally regarded as a sign of approaching plenty. In the middle of September a woodcock was shut in Aughton, Lancashire ; and an other was seen a fortnight afterwards, iu Lathom, in the same county. If we calculate, therefore, according to the received opinion, we may confidently anticipate good sport. Hares seem to have bred well ; and as this is the season for coursing and hunting them, good diversion may he ob tained. There is no legal period appointed for pursuing this era little animal ; but it may justly be considered an outrage upon common law, as well as upon common sena . ; to pursue the bare with either greyhound or harrier, till the crops have been housed. Fox hunting, which has already begun, will now be eagerly followed. Melton-Mowbray will become the very focus of attraction ; and, as far es an opinion can be formed, from no very ambiguous indications, there is likely to be a greater ass: nblage at this place in the ensuing sea son, than has ever before been witnessed. ANGLING.—Much good bottom-fishing and sport may be bad in rivers, bat not so in ponds or any other still waters, except trolling and live-bait fishing for jack and pike, which may be practised in such places all through the winter. In rivers, chub and roach will feed freely, both of which are now fat, firm in flesh, and strong m body, and will take a bait in favourable weather, during the whole of the day. This month, the lover of trolling should lose no time in the pursuit of his favourite diversion, as the weather in December is generally subject to heavy rains and falls of snow, which either produce floods, or such thick and foul water. as to leavelittle chance of killing a fish with the angle, and as jack and pike arc now in the best possible state for the table, every advantage should be taken when a fine day occurs in November, as, after this month. the angler will probably have to wait till the latter end of February, before he can again wet a line. Barbel, dace, perch, carp, eels, and flounders, are now retiring to their winter haunts ; the tackle, therefore, used for these fish, way be laid aside till the winter has passed away. SPORTING !NTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, Nov. 1. Toe atfendanec of subscribers was very alight, and the betting exceedingly flat. The for be:s were on the matches at Newmarket and the Dtrhy, the aids being on Thursday on the watche!. The Derby retr.ains as under :- 10 to 1 apt Rufus 13 to 1 agst 111uletta 14 to 1 sgst Dokm 17 to 1 agst Diana 20 to 1 agpt Legacy 22 to 1 agat Defiant' NEWMARKET, tivsnay NlOlll% The inclemency of the weather for the last three days has pre cluded the possibility of the horses taking their usual exercise. This afternoon, however, between the showers, a great many of': them took gentle gallops fora short time. and we arc happy to add, that the disorder which lately prevailed here amongst them has' nearly subsided. For the reason above stated, there was not any meeting to-day on the exercise-ground, which is generally the case on the Sunday prior to the meeting, to view and comment on the action and con ditiun of the horses, betting. &c. The town is filling very fast. IF. Royal Highness the Duke of York. the Dukc of Rutland, Sir J. Shelley, and many mini fashionables, have been visitors to Mr. Thornhill, at Riddleswerth Hall, on a shooting party, and have been very sna:essful, killing, yesterday, 267 head of game, principally consisting cf pheasants, the greatest share of which were brought down by his Itnysl Ilighness. To-day the party left Itiddlesworth Ilia' for this place, to honour the heath with their presence. being the last, and one of this greatest meetings of the year. !Ls Royal Ilighness, Lord Itobert Manners, l'Arl Jersey, Lady C. Powlett, Mrs. Sloane, take up their abode at his Grace the Duke of Rutland's, at Cheveley Park, be sides many other distinguished characters. Amongst the arrivals at Newmarket arc—the Dukes of Grafton, R:elinumil, and Portland; Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter; Earls Strudbroke, l'erulam, Rivers, Jersey, l'ithridge, Orford, ' Sefton, tic. • Lords Dunwich, Anson, .1. fr - itzroy. T. Cecil. U. I.etniox, C. Fitzroy. Ac. ; Honourable, Mr. Grewille, Mr. Irby, 1 Mr. !four. and It. l'aret ; Generals tirosverwr, Sir J. Dyng, and Sir J. Shelley ; Colonels Synr, IVllsoo, Lee, Russell, dee. Ice. . _ . :Lome betting took plats at the following odes :- I)i:atty.-10 to 1 apt Rotes; 14 to 1 apt Muleteer; 15 to 1 agst Bolero ; 17 to 1 apt Matta ; 17 to 1 apt Canvass ; 20 to 1 apt ; and 22 to I agst Defiance. OArs.-7 to 1 apt Waltz ; 11 to 1 apt Sorttry ; and 12 to 1 apt Attica. ST. I.Eorn.-11 to I apt 3leninon ; 18 to 1 apt Redgauntlet ; and 25 to 1 ngst The celebrated Yorkshire jockey:, Rye and Scott, are here, ape. Bally engaged to ride. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Fail of DarEnron's Fox-hounds wiU meet on 'Wednesday at Camp /fill; and on Friday at 3lonson's near Itedale, each day at half-past 10. The Lamhton Fon-lionnds will meet on TOCA4IIIV at 3lowton-in the-lVhins ; Thursday, at Burnoplide; and, on Friday, at Tim one!, each day at 10. These hounds hunt front Sedgetield on 311,inday, Stir. Gth. The Quorndon Hounds meet on Weilnesilae. at Bunny Thursday, at ‘Vidmerpool ; Friday, at Kirkby ; and Saturday, at Swithland Wood, at half-past 11. 31r. Meynell's Hounds mect on Thursday, at the Flourish Inn ; Saturday, at :la:theme, at half-past 10. The !Treat match OW, was to linve been run at Newmarket be tween Augusin and Bizarre if off—the proprietor of the forma paid tortlit. THE BRITISH PRESS. COLOMBIA, PERU, .4A r D BUENOS-AIRES. We extract the following from a new periodical work, entitled . 7'.ce Arne, icon .1f.r411 , r, a work to which, as it is particularly devoted to the afflirs of South America, we arc desirona of attracting the attvution of our Comtuercial readers. " Colombia, a new state former! out of the old Spanish vice-royalty of New Grenada, and of the general captaincy or Caraccas, is, of all the new states of South America, that which has most attracted the attention of Europe for a long time, and created most interest and curiosity. Having entt rtsl one of the first into the career of a stormy inde parch nee, it has undergone all its vicissitudes with a per severance, which will command the admiration of posterity. Indeed, as soon as Venezuela had obtained an independent govr-rnment, in Iglu, the chiefs of the revolution wished to substitute in each produca their own private authority for die sovereign one, and to establish a federative republic after the model of that of the United States ; but the intellect of the Spanish Americans was not yet equal to that degree of liberty, and a few hundred men who came from Cora, under the orders of Monteverde, sufiiced to overthrow a feileratire F overnment, whose organic elements were al ready disunited by division. Thus, the provinces which now compote the republican unity, were for six successive years the sport of their intestine dimensions, tearing each other, and contending for sovereignty; and overthrowing one constitution after another, while the cannon of Morillo resounded in their cars. _ "The subsequent union of all the provinces under a central government, brought en It last a change in the state of things. Bolivar, who in the midst of the storm, hail never despaired of the public safety, was able to resist the veterans of Menlo,i to cross the Andes over the bodies of the Spaniards who defended thou, to change the cha racter of the war, and to compel his ferocious enemy to observe the laws sanctioned by civilized states, by con cluding an artnistice with a nation, which he had long af fected to consider as a horde of banditti. " From that moment, this extensive part of the New World, by dint of constancy and sacrifices, obtained at last its independence; ■nd consolidated, under one and the same commonwealth, the political existence of that im mense country, which extends from the Caribbean sea to Peru, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. "At the present moment, not only does Spain no longer possess a single inch of ground in that vast region, but she is actually pursued by the victorious arms of Colombia, who, after having cor.quered her own independence, is now tak.in up with the liberation of the neighbouring countries: Bolivar has himself led troops to Peru, to free the cradle of the Inas from the presence of the Spaniards. " The internal regeneration of Colombia keeps pace with the success of her arms. That republic has already acquired a degree of civilization which no other state of Spani;h Am:iica has yet attained, and one cannot see without ad miration, the rapidity with which each branch of her social existence is now improving under the protecting egis of her internal constitution. Tranquillity, general submission to the common law, security for all rights lawfully acquired, a wise and vigorous government acknowledged and res pected in every part of the territory—such are the characte ristic :features under which the republic of Colombia, so feeble, so insignificant, a few years ago, now offers herself to the view of the civilized uliverse. " Peru, which, once freed from the Spanish dominion, must be, by its geographical position, one of the states the least exposed to new attacks. is, however, the only ancient Spanish possession, where war has been carried on with any activity, for the two last years, and where the re mainder of the metropolitan army has fought with some success. Sheltered behind the mountains where it was very difficult to come at them, the enemy could, with im punity, range over various parts of that immense con tinent, and even attack the capital (Lima) which they have, by turns, taken and lost, and under the walls of which the independent armies of Chili and Colombia, commanded by General Bolivar, have probably, at this very moment, consummated the grand work of the !there tion of America, by the total annihilation of General Can ! tsrac's army. " Be it as it may, we cannot conceal that this country meets with great o b stacles on the road to its regeneration • that private ambitions have blazed out on all sides, and that, if, in order to put a stop to so many calamities, the National Congress bad not adopted the wise resolution of investing General Bolivar with the most extensive powers, it would be difficult to fathom the abyss into which anar chy, conjointly with the external enemies, would have hurled Peru. "Three distinct parties are still contending there for power, with advantages nearly equal at present. We may thus distinguish them: The partisans of absolute power ; the constitutional royalists ; and the republicans. " With respect to the real end aimed at by these three par ties, it seems that the constitutional royalists wish to do in Peru what O'Donojou did in Mexico, namely, to erect that country into an independent empire, and to call to the throne a prince of the house of the Spanish Bourbons ; and that the independents, ranged under the banners of the Congress and Bolivar, are openly fighting for the consoli dation of the republican government. As for La Serna and his satellites, it is useless to say that their only aim is the re-establishment of pure despotism. " Buenos-Ayres has long been secure from any hostile measure of Spain, which having no point contiguous to that country, to receive her fleets or equip her armies (a resource which, by-the-by, she has little need of) as site still possesses the Havannah, against Colombia and Mexico, must consider the provinces of the Rio de la Plata as irre trievably lost to her. " That portion of Spanish America was the first to throw off the colonial yoke, and which proved the most persever ing as well es the most successful in the defence of its inde jendence ; and the wisdom of its internal administration , oined to the dignity and loyalty of its relations with thej whole world, has long since proved that this country is worthy the liberty which it enjoys. However, civil dissensions have caused frequent changes in the form of the government of those provinces. The partisans of a central government, and those of a federal union of the independent provinces, have preserved a hos tile attitude till the moment when the direction of affairs was entrusted to the able hands of M. Itivadavia. The exaggerated pretensions of the province of Buenos Ayres have chiefly excited, at various times, the jealousy of the other provinces of the union, and even sometimes set them in arms. Those seeds of dimension were extirpated by the wisdom of the latter government; and it seems that, at this very moment, the only point in discussion is to determine which province shall be the seat of the National Congress, next session; every thing denotes that it will be Buenos- Ayres. "Phough perfectly secure with respect to the western frontiers, the republic of Buenos-Ayres is not unmindful of the dangers with which the political dissensions and civil war which desolate Peru, may threaten, if not the independence, at least the tranquillity of its western pro vinces. It bas therefore adopted, at Salta, such military measures as may, in case of need, repulse all the attacks that might be made by the enemy's vanguard ; and we learn from a sure source, that the government of Buenos- Ayres has addressed a circular letter to all tbeconfederates, to engage them to send a contingent of men, for the orga nization, at Buenos-Ayres, of an army intended to act conjointly with that of Salta, for the common safety ; and that in the plan adopted, a provision is made for remune rating every man who shall join the ranks for this object." BRISTOL. SESSIONS, OCT. 27. CONSPIRACY TO LOSE A PRIZE FIGHT. TRU ZINO, ON THE PROSECUTION OP JOHN COOS. JOHN rurtrx, AND JOHN LEWIS TRIPP, WM. Francs AND JAMES SATIXT. FA. t.a. • • These defendants wen fer a conspiracy to bribe one Strong (better known by the name of " Cabbage.' who drowned niself at Bristol. soon after the fight), to hue a prize battle, which he had agreed to tight with defendant Bailey, and thereby to de fraud certain persons, who had laid wagers on the said tight. Mr. TAU wroN stated the race for the prosecution. - . After evidence had been heard. Mr. 1. (1. SMITH. for the defendants, contended that they were not liable to conviction under the indictment, u the agreement to * ltt was an unlawful agreement. The Towx CLERK reserved the point. The Jury found both the defendants Not Guilty. At the same l4essions, a person named /Wks*. a elm* in a re spectable mercantile house at Brisol, was convicted of stealing a pocket-book (rum Mr. 31illuish, of Tsistnisn. MR..I AUNTLEROY. On the verdict of the Jury being known in the Sessions house yard on Saturday, its die case of Mr. Pentair:my, a well-dressed young man innitied;ately exclaimed, " Ofi ! " and fainted away ; fortunately he was caught in the arms of some persona standing near, which saved him from falling.. On his recovery, lie said—" Oh, my poor mas ter ! ' It appeared that he had been in the service of Mr. F. as footman, and gave him au excellent character as a master and a gentleman. Mr. Fauntleroy slept better on Saturday night than he had done on any night during the preceding week ; and on. Sunday morning lie attended Divine Servica at the chapel in Newgate. The Rev Mr. Cotton preached a very appro priate discourse. lie took for his text the following words : " Believe in the Lord Jaw Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Mr. Fauntleroy conducted himself in the most decorous manner, and appeared to have no hope on this side the grave. A Morning Paper has the following paragraph:—" It will appear from the report of Mr. Fauntleroy s trial, that in the years 1814 and 1815 lie disposed of stock to the amount of 170.900/. Extraordinary as it may appear, we have been informed, upon the most unquestionable an thority, that the total amount of stock sold by him since the year 1814, under forged powers, and neither replaced nor accounted for to the stockholder, amounts in sterling money to nearly 400,0001. This is independent of frauds committed by misapplying sums received for the purposes of investing stock, of steel sold under genuine powers to be used in events which did not arise, and of claims for securities deposited in the house, but improperly made away with. We understand that 1.50,0001. has be. 4111 frau dulently disposed of in this manner alone." We understand that Mrs. Fauntleroy is in London, with her son, an interesting youth, about twelve years of age. A gentleman, not knowing her, happened inadvertently to mention, on Saturday evening, in her presence, that the unfortunate Mr. Fauntleroy was found Guilty; she in stantly fainted away, and it was some time before she re covered her senses, when her anguish and distress'were ex treme, and it was in vain to attempt to console her.—Mura ing Paper. CONVICTS AND CONVICT SHIPS. It is surprising, that the frequent escapes of convicts from the various depots have not long since produced some investigation into the state of those prison-ships, and the discipline observed therein. A few nights since, William Harrison, a most desperate character, who was convicted of a capital offence at Pontefract Assizes, in 1820, •and was sentenced to seven years' transportation, effected his escape from on board the Dolphin, at Chatham, and though strict search has been made after him, no trace whatever has been obtained likely to lead to his apprehension, any snore than the many who have for the last twelve months been effecting their liberation in the same way. The future subsistence of those proscribed individuals can be derived only from a system of daring plunder ; the very act of proscription debars them from the prospect that opens to all other men, because, bearing the brand of infamy, they are scouted from society, and compelled to predatory pur suits. A person who, from his official knowledge, is well qualified to give a correct opinion on the subject, stated not many days ago, that the most prominent leaders in two notorious gangs of highway robbers, that now husk about the environs of the metropolis, were originally inmates of the Islilhank Penitentiary, and subsequently trans mitted to the hulks, from whence they contrived means to get away, and became rubbers by profession. Con nected with those two leading gangs, arc several minor fraternities, aho take their several ranges, or bents (to use a technical phrase) within the lights, and whose constantly recurring depredations, have at length spurred up a some what sleepy police to snore active exertions. Within the last three months upwards of sixty burglaries (we could enumerate them) have taken place in London, followed by almost as many robberies, of greater or lesser magnitude, and as far as we recollect there were not during the two last sessions, more than three convictions for offences of this nature. The calendar is always burdened with petty lar ceny, illegal ',awning, and the various minor offinces, which are, perhaps, more frequently to be attributed to momentary distress than absolute inclination ; whilst those offences which rank highest in the catalogue of crime, are rarely to be found. But this circumstance is easily ac counted fur; the former arc apprehended without either much trouble or much risk of person, but the latter are well able to pay for their manumission, and when that is declined, the very daringness of their character becomes a protection. Otte thing, however, is certain, as regards the escape of convicts—the pr:sonships are either shame fully insecure, or the discipline on board is grossly negligent. SULPIII:11 A PiIEbrItVATI7E ACAINSTMEASLE6.-.• M. For tual states, that all the children to whom he administered sulphur were protected from measles at a time when this disease was epidemic. The following is the formula which he prescribed :—Take of sulphur, half an ounce; sugar, in powder, a dram ; mix. 'fake, twice or thrice a day, half a tea-spoonful of the powder • and continue it during th e prevalence of the epidemic . - 2 Journal der Pratischat lled kande, Ar. The small-pox is raging with uncommon violence in Santigate and the lower suburbs of Newcastle; children are dying daily, and the misery and sufferings of the sick and surviving are indescribably deplorable. A writ of inquiry was held on Wednesday last, at the 1 , Guildhall, Plymouth, to assess damages for an assault committed by Mr. George Fitzroy (a relative of the Duke of Grafton), an Ensign of the Third Regiment of Foot- Guards, lately stationed in that garrison, on Mr. R. O. Backwell, ironmung'e, of Devonport, proprietor of the baths under Mount Wise. The damages were laid at .500 f. The proceedings excited great interest. The Jury, after being locked up for three-quarters of an hour, assessed the damages at 5150 f. Fiae.—About eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the neighbourhood of North-place, Gray's Inn-lane, was alarmed by the cry of " Fire !" proceeding from t he se cond floor at No. 61, in which a carpenter named Dennison resided. The family were out ; there was a fire in the stove, and a candle lighted on the table. The lower part of the cupboard was crammed with shavings and bits of wood, which the husband had brought home to light the fire. A few of the shavings lay on the floor about the fen der, and it is supposed a spark from the fire communicated to the shavings and set them in a blaze. The room was in flames in a few seconds. A woman residing in the room over, alarmed by the smell of fire, roused the neighbour hood, and before anyone came to her assistance, she exerted herself in extinguishing the fire, emptying all the water she could procure on the flames, in which laudable pursuit she had her face, hands, and various parts of her body so much burned, that she was obliged to be carried to the hospital. Several of the neighbours exerted themselves to che:k the progress of the flames till the arrival of the fire engines, when the devouring element was subdued • but not before the fluor, the joists, and the whole of the furni ture, were destroyed. The preservation of the house and property is entirely owing to the intrepidity of the female who first discovered the fire. The woman who occupied the room in which the fire broke out had only left it for an instant on some errand. She has lost all she possessed. Homily M cant R.—Saturtle e , an inquest was held on the body of John Ryan, of liallyvorneen, before James I Bennett, Esq. Coroner, Major Wilson, W. H. Burgh, and T. M. Wilson, Emi!. Magistrates of this county, attended with Surgeon Franklin, jun. awl Mr. Baliner, Chief ('on stable of the Barony. After the examination of five wit nesses, a verdict of " Wilful Murder" was returned against the following persons :—Patrick Cusack, Edward Hall, James Sheehan, Patrick Glennane, Eleanor Ryar, wife to the deceased, and Mary Cramer, the servant maid, all of whom Mr. Balmel, with a Featly of his police,lotiged in the county gaol that night. So horrible a murder as this has not disgraced this country for many years. After literally beating his brains out with a hatchet, and cutting him on sevtral parts of the body with the same deadly weapon, they laid him upon an immense fire, and, we s'hii.loler to relate it, netually roasted him! After which they buried the mangled body in a bog-bole, cierying it sewed in a bag about a quarter of a mile from the house. It is but justice to Mr. Balmel to mention, that it is owing to hit exertions that this mysterious murder has been detected. He has succeeded in establishing a chain of evidence which will certainly bring conviction home to the Tillty.-11 felt Observer. LETTER OF KING GEORGE We last weak (says the S ,ul,,amr un t•cti i) copied parsgrapl: (rent a I,ondon paper relative to an autograi., letter of George the Second's having bten discovered in L., British Museum. This has brought to our notice a past:.. in this tow:: who has in his possession a 'letter of the at:. Monarch's writing, the subject of wittch is a reprlmar• given by George the Second to his son Frederick, Prier of %Vales, great grandfather to oar present Sovereign, ft:: concealing from the King and Queen the situation of tlio Princess of Waler till the last month of her pregLancy. The following is a copy of the letter (feorgius Rex The Professions you have lately made in yocr Letters, of your particular Regan, to me, ere so contradictory to your Aotiors, that I cannot stiffer myself to be :wooled on by them. You ittiow very well you did rot give the least Intimation to no- or to the Queen that the Princess was with Child till within a month of the Birth of the young Princess. You removed the Princess twice in the week Immediately pre ceding the Day of her Dielivery, from the Place of my Itesidence in Expectation (as you voluntarily declared) of her !About, and both Tinits, upon ytair Return you intlustriousiiiconeesPd (roe. the knowledge of Mt & the (liieer, even. Circumiterce relating tu this important afikir & you at last, without giving Notice to me, or to the Queen, pNicipitsietv hurried the I'riticeos front Hampton- Court a Ctuttlition net to Le named; after having thus, in Exe cution of rune own deterntined measures. expeied both the Print. sit add ;her Child to the pcivest Periils, you now plead Surprize P`. Tenderness for the Princess, as the only Motives that occasien.• • those repeated Indignities to me. & the Queen your Mother. This extravagant & undutiful Behaviour, in so essential a Pohl.. as the Birth of an Heir to my Crown., is such an kividence of you. premeditated ILetiance of me, & such a contempt of my Authority . & of the natural Rigl.t belonging to your Parents as cannot be ea cured by the pretended Innocence of your It.tentions„ nor palliated or disguised by Specious• Words only, but the whole Ti-nor of your Conduct for a considerable Time, has beer. so entirely sold of all real! Duty to me, that I have long had reasnit to be highly offended with you, & until! you withdraw your Regard & (:ontidence from those, by whose Instigation and Advice, you are directed & en, couraged in your unwarrantable Behaviour to me & to die Queer., & untill you return to your Duty, you shall not reside in my Pa lace. which I will riot wirer to be made the Re.ott of them ' under the Appearance of an Attachment to you, foment the Div . Lion which you have made iti my Family, & thereby weakea'd ti. common trams: of the Whole. In this Situation, I will receive no reply; but when your A• lions manifest a just Sense of your Duty and Submission, ltat a, induce me to pardon what at pr.setit 1 must justly resent. In the mean Time, it in my Pleastite, that you !cave St. Jam& it • with all your Family. when au be done without Prejudice s inconvenience to the Princess. 1 shall for the present lesve to ti.e Princess the Care of (rand-daughter, until' a proper time calls upor. mu to consider .. her Education. . G. R. This document is alluded to it. Smollett's }list. of Eng. vol. p, 13 (1;37). Also in Cowley's, p. 478. The letter was saved front destruction by its present possessor, who is by profession a painter, and being some rears since em ployed in renovating an old hottse. this parer, with other of a cu rious kind, were swept one with some rubbish and condemned tc the flames. It was already on the bottling heap, when this person fixed Ilia eyes on '• Geormas Ilex" at the corner, and he revolye on preserving it, but he never till now attached to it any hop-nano: cono.v.rxs INQ C.ESTS. parapet:l. Srtetpx.—Yesterday afternoon, en inquisitior. was taken at the Rose and Crown, Church -street, King's-road. Chelsea, before T. ST/lILING, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex. on the body of James Conran, a prtvate of the 7th Regiment of Hussars, who put a period to his existence under the following me lancholy circumstances : Charles Edmonds, a private of the 7th fiegimer.t of Hussars, etc posed that he knew the deceased, who was in the same regiment. (In Thursday, about tixo o'clock, witness was in the Five-lields, Chelsea, when he heard the report of tire-arms ; on going to th:: spot, he found the deceased stretched on the ground, and a cabins lying near him. The deceased was bleeding profusely from as chest ; he was quite insensible, and appeared to be ex*ing • wi•- ness, with assistance, Flomd the deceased on a shutter, and con veyed him to the York hospital, in the King's-road, Chelsea; the deceased was 22 years of age, and bore a very good character in tit: regiment. COZIONER—Tiari the deceased any business with his arms in th.: fields at that time Witness—No ; at the time of the unfortunate act, the dee:wed was off duty, and had nn ocemion fur arms. By a Juror—flow many persons were there on the spot when you first came up? Witness—About four erfive persons : . . Francis Shearn, of Walley-stmt, Vauxhall-road, deposed. tau on Wednesday, about two o'clock, he was paning through t' Five Fields, when he observed the deceased walking - down a r.aree. lane contiguous. Witness saw him frequently present his piece : the birds which were eying about the hedges. lle (the (keen. afterwards asked a boy . who was passing where the most bads er r to be found, on receiving an answer to whim the tieetes.-d wal:.• away. Witness then proceeded on, but had not gone tar at ben • heard the report of same arms, and directly ,jeer rt..ep Witntis immediately ran to the spot, end perceiving the dicerrva lying on the round weltering in his blond, did not stop, but pro ceeded to Colonel Peters, who lives in a cottage cicse by, aud toil him that one of his regiment had shot himself.• ll'itness after. wards returned, and assisted to put the deceased upon a shutter. lie (witness) then wont about his business. Ily a Juror-110w was the deceased lying when you arrived at the spot ? Witness—On his back, in the middle of the lane. Cortorrra—Did the tleeeavAl he on the ground u if he had stumbled on a hedge or buk ? Witness—No; he was not near either. S. .I.Stratioril, surgeon, 17, Uprter Enton-steeeta Pimliro, de posed, that on Wednesday, about I o'clock, he was sent for to at. toad a man, who was statid to have shot himself. Witness went to a small lane leading out of the Old King's-road, Fire-lields, Chelsea. and there found the deceased I) ing on his back, with a severe wound in his chest, which hail pvtetnyttil through him: the deceased was bleeding profusely, and breathed with !Treat ; the deceased was totally insensible, and appeared to be in an ex piring state; witness accompanied him to the York Hospital, *hero further assistance ws*endered the unfortunate man, but he expired about four o'clock, in the afternoon ; witnesa is convinced the de cetsed's death was caused by the wound. - - Mrs. Ilarriet esi A t librow, of Eaton-plate Pimlico, deposed that k the deceased lod in her house. The it time witness saw him was on Wedn ay, about twelve o'clock, when he left his lodging and turned towards the Five Fields ; witness does not think he had his arms with him at that time; he (the deceased) complained to witness, before he left home, that he had a pain in the heart; wit ness, at the time, thought that the deceased appeared to be labour ing under a great depressiun of spirits; the deceased was a tine man, about 2l or 23 years of age, and of very steady sober habits; the deceased. a few days previous to his death, complained to witness that he had received a kick from his horse on the back ; he. however, appeared to have recovered from that accident. Louisa Wybrow, daughter to the last witnea, on her oath, de posed, that she lives with her mother, in Eaton-street. Witr.evt came from the country shout ten days ago, when the deceased was lodging in her mother's house. On Sunday last the deceased ag. peered to be very low-spirited, and took no food. On witness goes honing him, he said that he was greatly oppressed at the heart, aril suffered much pain. In the morning the deceased loaded his car. Line, which alarmed the witness. He fivemently, during Saturday and Sunday, cried. " Oh. my father! I shall nceiT see you more." COMONER—IIad he ever paid any attention to you ? Witness.—Nut that I was aware or. is letter was here produced, which was directed to Sergeant ' Clack, of the same regiment ; the words ran as follows t-- " Sergeant (dark-1 will he mach obliged to you, if you will write to my father, and let him knew that I have committed ens rash action through lore of a girl, who has made a fool of me since I have been in London; and if you do, I !hull be obliged to you. FateWal. 1 tkt adieu to all my comrades." The Jury, after viewing the body, consulted about ten mintiest, when they returned a verdict—" That the deceased destroyed him ' self, being at the time in a fit of temporary insanity." SIXCE LAO CAIIC OF SFlClDE.—Vegentay afternoon an it. Fore was held at the Blind fle;el,ear, in Whitechapol-road, be. fore J. W. UNIT.' v, Esq., on view of the body of George Co./ill, who put a period to his existence by hanging himself. It appeared from the testimony of several witnesses, that the de ceased, who was an inmate of the Trinity Alms Houses, in Mil • End Head, had, about twelve months since, got married to a wo. man of 30 years of age, who was much addicted to drink, and whose temper was very violent. Her conduct altogether had such an effen on td:: deceased, as to drive him to the commitment of the fatal ea:. (In Saturday morning he was found suspended by a cord from tt..- 1 bedstead. The following letter, which was directed byfthe deetaFed to the Governors of the Alms Houses, was read by the COttAtef n. the Jury. GENTLE Kt ir,—You will parelou use in troubling you, bat ne • cessity obliges me to unfold myself, and seek redoes, through you. as I am in the greatest distress since the unhappy marriagethet took place twelve months ago. I have had no comfort or peace a. mind since, but latterly it is more than I can bear.—Aly wire gets intoxicated, abuses and strikes me. and puts me in bodily fear. that I am even afraid to stay in the house, and have not slept in it these three nights. If you would have the goodness to suggest some means for our lep:71111;441. I may be kept slew ,:a3s from the gra:4*. 1 I au., Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant, G. COVILL. The Jary returned a verdict of temporary derangemeot. On inquiry yesterday at Queen's iVard, St. B:rtholomew ',lmpend, Mrs. Deyall, who was so ill-treated by her bus.. band on Saturday night in the Poultry. was not dead, tea going on well. It now appears that the pistol was loadzd with shot only.. A smuggling vessel was saptured last week in the Chan uci, by the Harrier and Pelorous, worth 8,0001. Ail