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A DREA3L FROM I, SSOLITE' LLS A LA MAIN OF THE V.Orsi AILSSIOOI, 'YEAR XII. 01 10T11 of JULY, tbui. N p iv• PACES 6 LT 7. prophets and Prophetesses pretend that day dream, are more to be depended upon than those of t he Melt my usual modesty prevents me, however, iincinee it upon my readers, either as a proba. Midi., or possibilny, though I think it both. ff, te i n g witnessed, with thousand other citizens, lately metamorphosed with myself into subjefts, the Brand pres-ntation of the grand diplomatic corps to t he grand Emperor of the grand nation, I went home, my body fatigued, from standing in the grand crowd for four hours, and my mind occupied with half serious and halt gay thoughts concerning the grand scent I had left. and of which die equal has not been seen in France, or heard of in Europe for fourteen centuries. Meditating on my sofa, on the grandeur and decline of Empires, on the misery of same kings, and on the fortune of some indivi afeals, I beganto slumber, and tinishcd by failing has: a sleep. In some few minutes I inia rt i»..l in - self in Paradise, where I was surprised to hear the rood, the virtuous, the Christian and forgiving Louis vI. reproaching sonic crowned members of his family with theW late inhuman and degrading COO duet, and be was going to forbid them his presence, anJ disown them as relations, when the young Duke of Eitgfeien entered, bleeding through all hi pores, and with a bashful modesty exclaimed, " Sir! 1, too, ant 2 Lianhou !" His sudden presence, and par ticularly his shocking appearance, caused a kind inernitir of pity —of abhorrence—sighs were heard every where, and tears were ruhning down the checks of Louis XVI. who opened Ms arms to embrace his Royal relative. "My son," said the kingly martyr, " thou art worthy our ancestors and better times—" litre His Majesty was interrupted by the arrival of several persons, unknown to all, except the Duke of Enghien, who 'su etched out his hand, and int! aduced 12 friends, whose virtues and sufferings upon earth Providence had rewarded with the eternal blessing of inhabiting the same paradise with a Saint Louis, Henry IV. and Louis XVI. One of them began to relate some occurrences which took place just before he was murdered, which caused a degree of sur prise and indignation that no words can describe. A contused noise of trumpets, di urns, &c. was then heard, which awoke me for an instant; but, falling asleep again, my bewildered imagination carried rue to the wood of Vincennes, where heralds, dressed in imperial liveries, proclaimed the following Se- Consu'llls " People of France !---your interest and welfare made Napoleun the first an Emperor of tile licoch; his virtues require from your duty and gratitude, that his Imperial Majesty should be wor stripped as a supernatural being. Your representa tives, the members of the Conservative Senate, de cree, that temples are immediately to be mated in every city, town, and village, of the French empire, where Napoleon the First is to be worshipped as the l'i omit:rice of Europe." The crowd immeihamly was on their knee!, re peating " Sancie ore pro •406 is !" As I distinguished several foreign accents, I approaciie.: neater to the place from whence they came, and, to my great surprise, saw the Kings of Spain, Na ples, &c. &c. all call out by proxy, "Soncte .korre, era pro ne6ll. !" I was freezing with horror at these blas t .liemies, when an invisMie hand carried me suddenly througn the air to tire inner most apartments of St. Cloud, where I observed, upon a bed decorated with an imperial crows., a short yellow figure of a man gnashing his teeth, tearing his bosom, and, by convulsi re movements, opening and shutting Ms eyes, turn from one side to another, jumping up, and laying down again; his eyes staring, and hi, tongue exclaiming, " `Cou lon! Paris! Italy! JAG! Eaghien ! Geetge ! Guards, seize them! Guards, do you not heaxl traitors you are sold to the Bourbons! at least give me my stilletto—my poisoned draft—my dagger— my pistols, er a rope ! ' Ms he repeated 50 laird, that tie apartment was instantly lilted with Marne- Jukes, Italian,, Corsicans, swiss, and henchmen, who frightened me so much, that Unlined through the windows, and ran away as fast asl could A clap of thunder and a flash of lighting caused me to look behind, when I saw nothing but tem ples, palaces, imperial crowns, sceptres, and robes, reduced to ashes, to rubbish : J'si rue jk,luea aux vow* lidever le ; J'ai pave is le v , ramps cumnie Placate In that instant my guardian angel appeared be fore me, and spoke, with a severe voice, as fol lows:—" Weak mortal, cease to murmur at the decrees of Providence, when you see that sentences of criminal tribunals and military comrnissons ten exchange the eatth for a paradise; whilst the Zertetar Con:sham as often make the earth an hell." Here my servant entered my room, and awoke me, in telling me that his Majesty the Emperor of the french had graciously fixed the day of his Corona tion on the 9th next November ! ANECDOTE OF FA Et:MUG 11. K 'HOOF PRUSSIA.—•• Ihe King, one day, travelling in his dominions, and staying for the night in a small country town, uas informed that a young clergyman, candidate for the vacant living of the place, intended to r reach the next moriang. '11:e King, being in a good humour, therefore sent for him, and asked him, whether he would undertake to preach upon the test that he should furnish him with ? to which the clergyman replied in the affirmative. The ser vice being begun, and the candidate having mounted the pulpit, instead of a text from the Holy Scrip tures, as lie expei9ed, nothing was found but a blank Piece of paper. Upon this the young divine lifts up the paper and exclaims: Here is nothiag (then turning it round), and there, is nothing, and out of nothing Cod created the world. Then pr-ached a most excellent sermon with which the King was so much pleased, th at he immediately bestowed upon him a living of con.iderable value. Yesterday died, aged 60, Mr. kJ A ItRISON, who has for many years kept the White Horse Cellar, in Picca dilly. This Gentleman rote, a: his villa, near Brotrip- RPpArently in good health ; having given some dire.ctions to his servants, preparatory to his going to his office in town, be went into the garden, where in half an hour I.e was found dead. LAW. COURT OF KING'a BENCH, WSSTMINSTSP, Now. 22. THE KING r. FKANCIS Tilos! IS CIIASIPNEYS. Mr. ERSKINE moved the Judgment of the Court upon the Defendant in this case. The I ndiFiment charged the Def mdant with send ing a letter ta James William Silk. with Mtent to provoke him to fight a duel, and which was in uched in wards nearly as follows : •' I wish I had been aware of your insolence, and I would have made your teeth chatter ; but I suppose, you cowardly rascal, you would not have been so bold, but you thought petticoats might have protected you ; the next time I meet you, if you have the spirit of a man, I'll fight you any way yoa please, &c. &c." To which I adiftm ent t h e Defendant suffered judg ment by default. The Prosecutor's affidavit was read, which stated, that the Defendant was married to Silk's sister, and that they carried on business, as attorneys, in part nership together, fur some time ; but, intconsequence of some disagreement, the partnership had been dis solved. O.r the I tith December, 1803, the Prose cutor was going through Gray's Inn-lane, in com pany with Eliza Blanch, when he was met by the Defendant, who, without any previous provoca tion, called him " a scoundrel and rascal," and swore he would knock him down. Immediately after, he received the letter stated in the Indiament ; in answer to which, he declared he would matte it the subje.ft of a prosecution. The Defendant's affidavit was then read ; which stated, that lie was brother-in-law to the Prosecu tor, and had been in partnership with him, till, ob serving something he did not liise in the Provcutor's conduCt, a dissolution took place, when it was agreed each should retain his own clients ; that there was a considerable balance due to the Delendaat, on the foot of the accounts, •vhich he was kept out of by the Prosecutor. On the day laid in the indidlment, he met the Vrosecutor in Gray's-Inmltne, in corn- PanY with a female, with whom he cohabited ; the former sneered at him in a most contemptuous man ner, and his mini being irritated and disturbed at the moment, he wrote the letter in question ; not withstandiag all which, he had no personal animo sity aga:nst the Prosecmor—and, so far from perse vering in an towards him, their office was kept in the very s trne house, at the present day. Several affidavits were then read, no behalf of the Defendant. One of the Rev. Mr. Champneys, uncle to the Defendant, and Sub-Dean of St. Paul's College ; also, one of Defendant's father and sister ; all tending to shew his contrition and sorrow for wily had happened, and stating letters of apology of his for his condua, and prrrposals to submit to araitration ; all winch had been deemed sufficient by the Prosectc•ir's own family. Mr. RE sore, on the part of the prosecution, con tended, that the affidavit of the Defendant was ra ther an aggravation of his offence, as he threw out insinuations against the Prosecutor's charaaer, which he requested time to answer. Lord ELLEN HOWL 1:11... 4 I think the letter both lose, vulgar. and abusive ; and much more de grading to the writer, than to the PEOSCCIVOt. As the proposition fhr accommodation came from the Prosecutor's family, and that they deemed the De fendant's letter of apology and submission to arbi tration satisfadory, let hint go before the Master, and make such compensation as he may think neces sary." 'Sumo! Miler was brought up to receive tit: , judg ment of the Court, for secreting various tools, and other articles stolen out of his Majesty's stores at Cha-ham, which had the King's mark upon them. The Defendant', affidavit stated, that be WAS up wards of 72 years of age, had been, in the early part of his life, engaged• in the Greenland Fishes y, and latterly earned his brea t as a daily labourer. Mr. Gu RPICV prayed the mercy of the Court, in behalf of the Defendant, on the grounds of his own affi•favit. Mr. G•unow observed, that their Lordships had so many and painiul occasions to observe upon this !deuce, he thought, on the part of the prosecution, it would be quite a waste of time to say any thing on it. "the Defendant was committed, and ordered to be brought up on Mondry. TILE KiNO V. TIMOTHY C2EIGATON. Mr. Palm moved the judgment of the Court in this case. The Defendant was tried, the last Assizes for Car lisle, before Mr. Justice Gut AII A My upon an inform ation for assaulting trVilliam Leckey, an officer of Excise, and obstruCting him in the discharge of his duty, while in the ad of seizing a quantity of smuggled salt. It appeared, upon the affidavits, that the De fendant was a poor man, and had been employed by another person to carry the salt away ; that he never had been concerned in a thing, of that nature befOre nor since, and maintained a very good clia rafter. to was sentenced to three months impri;onmeut in Nentgate. THE K - INGI V. 101114 LNG@ end MARK SAI"St CRSOM Mr. Serj..ant Bess moved the judgment of the Court upon these Defendant,. It appeared that they were inclined as stewards of a 13-nett Society, called the Uhiird Brethren, tor not obeying the or,ler of Magistrates, direding them to reinstate one Jeremiah Youa, as a member at that society. The cause was tried in the county of Surrey, before Mr. Serjeant RUNIIIINGTOS. On the pan of the prosecutioa it was stated, that the Prosecutor, Young, had been a member of the society for five years ; that he had been unlawfully dismissed ; and that the Defendants were authorised to give effeEt to the ant of the Magistrates, by re instating him ; and, that their non-compliance amounted to a misdemeanour. On the part of the Defendants it was contended, that they had no power to rein'tate. _ _ The Learned iudge, who tried the cense, direled the Jury to acquit she Defendants, inasmuch as there was no evidence to skew that they had the power to reinstate; but, to his utter astooishment, they found the Defendants fisibn. He then reconsmendod them to reconsider their verdift: bat they persisted in the tit st they h.L:i given. The report then stated the Learned Judge's opinion, that the vet<ti l of the Jury was unsup. ported by any fad, and contrary to evident-:. Mr. &least near s on behalf of the Defendants, :eat h unnecessary to urge any thing to the Cour:, as the Judge's Report was spite On the part of the Prosecution, Messrs. NOVI'LAN and WEIHEIAL argued in support of the verdia, upon the grounds of the competency of the Justices to make such order as was made in this case, and the obligation of the Defendants to obey it, which, by the statute of the 33J of his present Maksty, commonly called Mr. Dundas's ASR, they were boned to do. They contended that the indi&ment was tenable upon two' grounds; first, the disobedience of the order of the Magisttates, who were of competent jiirisdiaion to make such ; and, secondly, that it appeared in evidence that the Defendants were the stewards of the society, and, as such, bound to obey the order. This was not a criminal proceed'ng. but a legal remedy, to enforce them to re-inscribe a mem ber's name upon the roll of the society ; and, unless the Prosecutor had his remedy in this way, by com pelling the stewards, the Aiet of Parliament was per fealy nugat•lry. Lord ELLCSROROVCII observed, that.the verdid was by nn means disturbed ; but, notwithstanding the time for applying for a new trial was passed, and it was not in their power to apply for one now ; yet the Court was always at liberty to oriTr a nev trial, when there appeared any thing unexplaiacil upon the first ; and as Counsel on the part of the Ddendants had not been herd; and also, as there appeared much matter in this caw to be inve:tigated, the Court ordered a Rule to spew cauw, why there should not be a new trial. WARD V. LOWIIISo. _ _ Mr. ER SK I!SE moved the Court, that the Exche quer Bills, amounting to 2000 i. ladgeti in the hands of the clerk of Nist P 11,1,, to the cre.iit of this cause, should be paid over to the Plaintiff. The Aainn was cformenced in Hilary Term, 1803, and the money lodged in the month of May following, when this cause was about to be tried. In November, the Defendant died, and the next of kin having renounced administration, Mr. A! 1, the Plaintiff's Attorney, being a creditor of the Defendant's, took out letters of administration, and this day, by Mr. GILES, consented to the Plaintiff's receivint; the money. Mr. Gins chewed cause against this application, in the first instancc, and cgs-rved, that it was a conspiracy against the bail, who had lodged the money in Court, to exonerate themselves. In iSO'2, the Defendant was arrested upon a Bill of Exchange, to which he gave hail; he since had died, and of course the suit was abated ; the bail there ore sout t la so have their money back again. ird tu no novo it The money nac lodged to abide au event, which, by operati,,n of has abated ; and yea now want to do that which is impossible. The bail 1.i..17.,ed the money in ord..: to abide that event: it lies as a tried pledge for tae be nefit of those who I..ged it." Mr. ENSKIME—" Thew, my Lord, I take nothing by my motion ?" Lord ELI tssonouoit—' , Certainly not." Motion refused. DEWEY V IAYNTUN. This aCti in was brought against the High Sheriff of Wilts, for the purpose of trying the validity of a deed executed by Lnrd Arundel, to Trustees fir Lady Arundel, of his Lordship's seat, called Wardour Castle, io tha county, and all the furni ture, plate, pidures, &c. for the porpoise of raising a find for the payment of his Lordship's debts.— [ l'he particulars of tho trial, which was had the sit tings after last Term, and the subsequent Motion by Mr. Gras: to set asi,!e the verdid for the Plaint iff this Term, we have giver. in former Papers. Yesterday the Learned .1 Age's (Lord El. LEN. nonoc Gm's) Rep t t was read, and Counsel was heard on either si•ie this day . Me;sr.. GAItHOW, PARKE, and \Vic lAN, were heard in support of the verdid, who, in most able and learned arguments, contended that the deed was fraudulent, and intended to defeat the creditors of their just rights, and that there were fads sufficient before the Jury to warrant that verdict. Messrs ERiKINE, Giese, and Rica A RDSOtt, were heard on the part of the Defendant, who contended that the fads did not warrant the Jury to come to such a conclusion ; and that the deed, so far from being fraudulent, was executed for r.he express pur pose of raising a permanent fund for payment of creditors. The arguments on both sides took up nearly five hours of the time of the Court; and their Lori. ships, considering it a question of very great im. pottance, postpunei their final judgment to another y. COMMON PLEAS. Siftings st Nisi Prrf 6eforc S,r J A K ZS M•NSFIELD. MILLS r. GRAHAM. This was an a&ion brought by the Plaintiff; a leather-seller, itg.imst the Ddendant, a skin-finisher, to recover 21. 17s. the value of a quantity of skins that had been got from the Plaintiff. The Dcfendant went to the shop of Mills, and asked him had he any skins to sell d to which the Plaintiff answered, he had not ; the Defendant then, seeing some undressed skins lying in the shop, said he was a skin-finisher, and he would take them and finish them for him, if he had a mind, and he might as well give them to him as to any one else. Accordingly, he gave 111:n skins to the amount of 21 17s. the Defendant promising to finish them off as f ist as he possibly could. They remained a long, time in his possession. The Plaintiff having found that the mother of the Defendant kept a leather shop, and that several skins belonging to him were exposed for sale by her, went to the Defendant, and asked for his proprcty : but he refused to give it ; and took up a large knife that is used in finishing leather, and threatened to finish Aim, if he did not go about his business. The Plaintiff afterwards sent several times to the Defendant to demand his prsperty, but he always refused to give it up, of fering to pay hint for it at the rate of five pounds a month ; and, on that being refused on the part of the Plaintiff, the Defendant said he was a minor, and did not care a d—n for the law ; but if he proceeded against him, he would go into gaol and spend the money jo vially. The Plaintiff, finding it impossible to ge t h is skins from the Defendant in the rw.nner he had heretofore proved, agreed with a Mr. Fetherston, that they should go to the Defendant's house, and that Fetherstnn should pass himself on Graham AS a country gentleman, wanting to purchase skins ; they went there accordingly, bought the skins. and p icked them on a dray brought. for the purpose : out Graham, finding out the deception before thtt goods I:..ft the door, ordered his men to take them oil the dray, and bring them into his shop again. sayirg, " he'd he d—d if they should go." Serjeant EPPERD, for the Plaintiff, here closed his case, after establishing those fads by resp;:Cable. witnesses. • 1.- Serje.tnt BEST, for the Defendant, moved the Court that the Plaintiff should be non-suited, and argue I that this anion could not be maintained un der the declaration, which states that he unjustly detains them; and, as they were given to him for the purpose of finishing, it was not to be suppot.-ei ltr WAS to deliver them until that was perfeacd ; -that - this should not have bee.l an anion in o'etieue, a spe cies of anion which had not been tried this century past, but an anion in OiSallli'Sdi on a special bailment. Sir JAMCS MtNst , tets• slid, he would not pre tend to determine on this point ; that if the law %sea • with the Defendant, he should have the benefit of it ; but otherwise, it appeared to him to be a gross tra.td. T:le following speci 11 verd;.l was entered fir the Plaintiff; namely, " that the goods being. specia!!y bailed, an anion in &lint( was II the proper a iton to be brought.. but that it shoul-I have bk.vii anion in cAsidnepcit, and in case that the nhjeftiort should be established, that a non-suit uhuud .je entered." RANKIN r. Few. The Plaintiff in this anion was a china gilder; the Defendant sold china : the anion was brought to recover 141. 9s. fur work done for the De fendant. Serjcant SHCPOERO, for the Plaintiff, stated that the Defendant, on being app'aed to for the amount of the bill, offered to give his note for • 101. provided the Defendant would do one pound's worth of work for him, more than he had already done, which amounted to an acknowledgment of his ' being indebted 91 at a!iy rate. The D.-ferxiant had lodged seven guineas in Court, and grounded his detence on the Plaintiff's having cracked a quantity of the china in gildie7 it, and that it was an esta blished custom amongst people of that trade, that each party should be at a loss when a piece of china cracked in the gilding; that is, the owner should not charge the gilder for the china broke, nor the gilder charge the owner for the expe eof gilding. Many witnesses were called; bu. Sir .IA:4ES !V/AN:• rut o proposed to the gentleman at lee. sides, that • as the difference was about such a milt, a juror should be withdrawn, and no costs paid on either side; which, being agreed to by Serleants Suer- HEAD and BLST, a juror was withdrawn. • LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. - _ Mr. Dowling, of Tavistock-street, the s gentleman mentioned in our Paper of yesterdly, as being illegaPy pressed on board the Tender, was yestershr. at noon liberated, on producing to the Re ; a4iting Captain on beard, the affldits it of his father, sworn bctore a Magistrate at Bow-;,treet. that he had never been to sea, otherwise than as a passenger. The only satisfaCtion, however, that could he ob tained with respect to his forcible seizure and im poriionment, was the produCtion of ail anonymous letter, which the Captain said was received on board by the twnpenny.post, signed " ri F,;eeit to the Navy," stating the young man to be a deserter; that the Captain, therefore, consideied it his duty to send his officer and gang, to have him press ed. Upon representing, that it was somewhat extraordinary that such anonymotti a , i homy should be ent.Fi..tered sntficient to warrant the sei.ure of an min whatsoever, and his conveyance on hoard a tender, and that any malicious person, desirous if the ruin of another, had nothing more to do than to direCt an anonymous letter of this sort to the re gulating Captain, and have him seized and carried out of the country ; the Captain answered, " 'that in ailing upon such letter', he only did his duty, and should be liable to a complaint against him at the Admiralty, if he negleEted to aa upon such in. formation—that there was no horns d.n:e on the per sons seized, only lost amy .a rant, and they were liberated again, oaproduciii . ; proofs that they were not seamen." Thus, any man, at a distance from his friends, or a stranger in town,if anonymously informed against, may be seized, and sent on board the tender, and thence sent on board the fleet at the Nore, next day at eleven o'clock, as soon :1,4 the examining surgeon shall report him able to sctve. Amongst the prisoners at present on board the Tender, are the Master of a ship now in the River, and also the Suiprcargo of a Prussian vess, I, and also a naturalised subjeift of the American Star: •,, both seized on the Deptford -road. The C.,')• of a transport was, a few days since, carried on I;oard in the same manner. Amongst the many eases that have occurred in' this way, is that of a Mr. Jenkins, an industrioi working watch-maker, of Forster lane, Cheapside, who had never been on board a vessel in his life ; but who, about three months since, upon the author, ity of one of those anonymous Letters-de-C.:ch.-1, was seized by a press-gang, dragged from his family,' and sent down to the sore, from whence he wail drafted en board the fleet off Brest. lii. wife, a most industrious poor woman, made several capen sive trips to and from the Nore ; and, though she has actually paid in 491. some time since, to find r svo men in his stead, he has not yet been restored to his afflifted family. " To be in Fortune's way," is a vet y common saying ; yet is it An adage of more importanc.? than many imagine. The best mode, perhaps, of prov ing it, is by asking :—Can any good result from not being in the road to the Temple of the blind Cod. Jess ? Do people imagine that the skies rain For tunes ? or, that they spontaneously vegetate from t h e earth Now, to be indisputably in the way of many chances, at least, of meeting good Fortune, is to be in a Lor /tar ; and in so unprrcedently a rich one as that which is announced for January's Chewing, may fairly be said to he in a broad turn pike-road that leads to supreme wealth. The little payment of an sf4ce toll opens the gale, and entitles nit aJvcriturer to journey in the same path, whet, Fortune is to be found waiting for her votaries.—. Such as cannot clearly perceive this, are more bliza4 than the Goddess herself. lii