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to Irlll.. • -SOLTII END. SLer. 8. TUNBRIDGE W1.1.1.ti, SEPT. 10. pulimAr, 5E,,..5. r ce A. wV. , au i An lifig• Y• TWA e. in g irc a [.7. re:l Ole!. p lII` nttr Ariie fife led 7 fourfor A rem ,ded 1 treliere I told you the Theatre hal opened. It is quite new, and very elegant. This is the first season Mr. TRUTTEi t. the Manager. Alexander tle Greif was the play on Friday night ; and Mr. Tior rsit, the hew, who is a very eleg.int, tine look. ing man, as you ever saw; and if the country towns boast their YOIVi Z &nein., this place may boast ks Raariass tii4; fur I never saw mine just or decided :ipprobation bestowed by an :salience. Mrs. Taorsra, in Rada qa, had considerable met it, in deed the whole performance relleills the highest credit on the Manager. The greatest praise is due to Captain ASpLIN, who commands the cavalry her-, four their discipline and nu iitial appearance. Theo- tuliform, and lam told their pay. is the came :is the ninth dragoons. Sir THOMAS WILSON. a ho is a has hu manely tintitti all annuity upnn :he widow of the Sea Fencible, who lost his life in Sir T.I()%IAS'S plea ,ure boat a short time since. A sulAciiption is also opm at the Library for the widow, which is very cessful. We were much al Mlled yester tay by the disem l. a Ution of some soldiers, who had volunteered their services from the Army of 12.,v.erve at Sheernesc, and are going to join a regular regiment at Chelms fort : a report of the French basing landed was int• niediately circulated, and you would have been amused to have witnessed the consternation of the inhabitant-, who were not a little pleased to see the troop proceeding very leisurely on their route. Capt. Be Avt.n. who has the command of the Signal Post and Sea Fencibies, a few day , since, in a veto short but energetic speech, exhorted his men to hold themselves in readiness, stating that if ever their services were required, he presumed it would he shortly ; It BON AP A al- C. di,l make the attempt, it would most probably be in that quarter. The fineness of the weather has enabled our far mers nearly to finish the harvest ; the wheat in ge neral is gond I but in many places it was damaged by the heavy rains and winds; yet, the corn being harmed so perfealy nice, makes it a fit and accept rz,ble grist to the miller. The hop-picking is just begun ; the plantations in general appear well; but the hops are sm ill ; yet the farmers' expel them to weigh well, and make an excellent article for the market. Mr. PITT arrived here on Friday from the coast, accompanied by General Hurt, and two other gentlemen ; they left us in the morning early, being 01 A visit to the SPEAKER at KiJhrookt ; he looked rem ukably Kill, :tad was in excellent spirits. A few evening, ago, a large meteor was observed in the cast, about thirty degrees above the hmlzm. When first seen, it. was shout the size of the moon ; for an instant it WAS as light as day ; it flew rapidly towards the north. and, breaking into several parts, van;shed at once. It was VISIhIC three or four seconds, and was the largest that has been seen here fur many years. Among our arrivals for September are— The C ',tress of Shalbasurr, Cooote.c of Loran, Ladr Taylor. Liar Waster, la4l Rao, laxly ao I Rrrirtft, Sir G aod lAJ:r rap t 's, ale CIOS noriehtwi, errionet Grrrs;fle, Ca.t.sin CaulSeirl. Misses wenn., Mr 110 Mrs. ThM,T. %tr. and 4, reef. Mr. and Mu.. Co •grere. Madame i;auluer. 1100. P Jones, Sc de. is Among our departures are, The 1... d and C..u n •es. of Kedinare. V;seotintew I. dy Aubrey. Lady Pl-nriek, Lad/ Laws" M rq n.a 0.- sno:d, and Madame de lid;rs • ; the Inaner.al A ethaYyarlwr and 114 Lady, Cnunt.•rc rir Pntta Inietmi, P a .! o f Atanrcdon, Lard Noc1.11“.1, die. 3:e. Atli", Murray. tione.ant Hay ward, Ur. Parry, Dr. Tutt,, Mr. Sherd', Mr liarry,..te. Mr. LANS, the artist. k came to spew! a fealwecks with its, to recruit hiro.el: from his ou wearied atten tion to the labours.bl his pencil. TFIFIR EXCELLEKCIEs rtF. LORD LIFATTENANT AND COUNTESS OF DARDIVI , KF. Saturday evening last, 'bruit eight o'clock, their Excellencies the food l.ieut,•nant and Countess of Hardwicke, Lord Royston, Lady Anne and Lady Harriet York, and suite, arrived at the hospitable mansion of the Right Hon. John Foster, at his seat at Conon, where there was a most sumptuous enter taininrot prepared for their reception. On Sqnclay, their Excellencies and family, ac companied ay Mr. Foster, Lad!• Ferrard, and Co. betel Foster, went to church, where an excellent 19rm-in was preached by the Rev. Dr. Beaufort. Their Excellencies afterward: visited the beau!iful d.•mesne of Oriel, and returned to dinner A little after six o'clock Monday. his Excellency rode to Oidsbridge, to see the Obelisk rte tied in memory of the battle of the /krne, and from thence to Slane, &c. Tuesday. about half-rust twelve o'clock, their F.xcellencies the lewd Lieutenant and Countess of Hardwicke. Lord Royston. Lady Anne and Lady ilairiet York, and cube, accompanied by tile Right Hon. John Foster, were met near a mile from Drogheda, by :.lajor-General Arches and Staff, the Mayor, Sheriffs. Capt. Jones, &c. der. The Loyal Drogheda Cavalry, and a party of the 'id Dragoon Guards quartered here, commanded by Captain Smith, eszotted their Exzellencies to the Mall, A' here they were ?eerie, d by thi.s sslirile garrison, ceisisting of two companies of the Wexford militia, ':i'mrltansied by Capt. Glascott. the Loyal Drogheda Infantry. commanded by (7aptain Jones, and the Drogheda Supplementaries, commanded by Get:age Nl'Entagart, Esq Mayor, with Presented arms.— Tbtir Excellencies, alighted from their CAI riase, at the lisiase of El xard Hardman, Esq M. P. for Drogheda, whe.c his Excellency was presented with aa Address by the Mayor, attended by the ShAilf, Aldermen, and Commons. After which his Escelleney, attended by Majors General Archer, inspeded the troops, and was pleased to express his approbation of their military appearance ; and paid some handsome compliments to the truly soidier.like appearance of Captain Jones's c or p s . His Excellency, the Right lion. John Foster , Major Gen. Archer. with the otlicers of the garrison, then repaired to the Mayoralty !louse, where they`partook of a cold collation, pre- Eared by she Cirpnbation for the occasion. Their •el!eneici, after remaining about two hours. were ric.tted out 01 Dictsheda, on their (Cum to Out4ii.. QUARTER SESSIONS. GUILDHALL, Sm. 10. Before the Right Hon. the LORI) TL tvo it, RE. CORDER. Aldermen, and SIIEKIFES of the City of London. DErF.LuNe; ..... . Fredcrirk l'al?rr was iudi.fted for offering two pistols loaded with gun-powder and two leader halls to the Prosecutor, John Bendy Lloyd, and desiring the said John Bendy Lloyd to accompany him to an adjoining wharf, with the intent and for the pur pose of provoking and exciting the said Lloyd to fight a duel. And he was farther indiifted for corn• mitring a most violent assualt upon the person of the said Lloyd. The Prosecutor, Mr. John Bendy Lloyd, being sworn, deposed thnt he and the I/et - ea.:am had been clerks together, in the house of Me•srs. Harding and Jaques, grocers, in Upper Thames -street, for up wards or one year and a half ; during which they had been in habits of the closest intimacy and friendship, until within the last two months. That on . Tuesday, the t.?'.fi of May last, about ten o'clock in the morning, the Defendant came into the ware house, and called him aside, and told him lie wished to speak to llim. They walked down the warehouse, till they came to what they call t he gangway, when the Defendant pulled two double-barrelled pistols out of his pocket, desiring witness to accom pany him to the wharf. Ile was exceedingly surprised, and expressed a wish to know in what manner he had insulted the Defendant, who de4red he would immediately come to the wharf, at the same time holding one of the pistols to his head, and telling him they were loaded with ball. He then offered ' one of them to the witness, who begged and entreated to know his meaning or purpose. The Defendant then said, that Mr. lkey had informed him the day before, that he, the wit ness, had said, that the Defendant was afraid to fight him, which the witness declared was a fa brication, as he had never said any such thing ; the Defendant then insisted he should go to the wharf and fight him, and offered him his choice of the pistols which he held in his hand. Witness was exceedingly alarmed, and requested some ex planation. They then went together into the compt ing house to Mr. Ilsey, and the Defendant put his pistols into his pocket. He spoke to lkey in the presence of the Defendant: who, upon being charged with fabricating a repot t prejudicrl to the Defen dant as a man of Eon or, and alleging, that he was afraid to fight, denied the charge. Witness then observed upon the conduct of the Defendant, saying, he thought a man of his age ought to know hotter; upon which, he immediately struck the witness with has fist, who did not return the blow ; but the Defendant continued beating him till inter rupted by a customer who came into the shop. He was cross-examined by Mr. MA Runt, nn be. half of the Defendant. Ile said there had bean a coolness between him and the Defendant, for some time previous to the transaslinn in gliestien ; that he had never made any observation whatever upon the Defendant's charaler or courage. He then, at the desire of the Counsel, again repeated the former part of his evidence. He admitted, th it there was a foot path hetween the warehouse and the wharf, which was a great thoroughfare; and that there were from ten to twenty person; tv.utlle at work on the wharf ; it was a very public place. Mr. They was next examined : he nearly corrobo rated the testimony of the prosecutor, in the more material fags. He said he sew the pistols un screwed, there WAS a ball in each of them ; but he did not perceive any powder. Upon his cross exa mination, he allowed it was not usual to file pistols without powder; he stated, that on the eiening previous to the trans:Vtina in question, he went with the Defendant, and some other of the clerks, to take wine together : on their way home, they had a long conversation about Lloyd the prosecutor, but no. thing about fiAluing ; the Defendant said he was a little rascal, and called him other onprobrious names. Mr. Diag, another of the clerk, disosed, that he saw the pistols, and was the person who un screwed them. Ile found a ball in each, hut no appearance of any powder having been in them sitter they had been cleaned. lie afterward, loaded them for the purpose of firing them for a wager. On his cross-examination, he said the Defendant Was a very friendly man. Mr. liigledon, another clerk in the same house, stated, that he had had a conversation with the Defendant, who told him th..t he was informed Lloyd had said, he-heard that he would no; fight with pistols; he declared he would shew Lloyd he was not afraid of him, and would bring his pistols the next day ; that be had fought a duel before. and, therefore, Lloyd was not his equal ; that he would give Lloyd the first fire, and it he missed him, he would step up to him and blow his brains out immediately. Upon his cros.wwxamination, he said, that the Defendant hid remained at the ware house till a very late boor that evening, for the piirpose of seeing Llo3d. and having the matter explain. d. He admitted it was ten days before any examination took plisse upon the subjea before the Loaf, M AY OR. !tsetse DER observed, that, if the D-fendant was an desperate a f Dow, it was his, the Witness's, bounden duty to have given information to the L0..0 Mavol, and had them both taken up. The Witness said, that the !felendant told him he would see Lloyd in the mon:ins, and acme to some ea planatioo with him. The Prosecutor was again called and examined by Mr. blartior. He said, it was not until right days after the transaftion had taken place, that he applied to the Loso M A von. He did not make any entries at the samv desk with the Defendant after that time, as lie always wished to avoid him. The Loau MAYOR slid not recommend any com promise; but Mr. J agu es expressed a wish that the pasties should make it up over a bottle of wine. Ile admitted the Defendant was willing to do so ; but as his life was in danger, he could do no such thing, unless the Defendant would ask his pardon in the pooh: newspapers, which he refused to do. They were bah volunteers. Mr. MA RR lOT mi...de a very able defence for his the case at first appeared one of great danger, ar.d the charges against the Defendant were of the most serious nature, but it was then very evident that, though the Defendant was a little brave or so, yet he took special cars no mischief sbuuld ensue; • what he had done, wat mercy to keep Ll9yd in a little order, as he was at times very overbearing ; thing had the desired era, as I.loyd had been con toundently frieghtersed;scemuch so as not to know the one end from the other of the pistol. The Jury returned a verdia of G rill,, of Ike As- Int& only, and in consequence of the previous offs.] tithe Defendant to compromise they matter, they recommended him to the consideration of the Court. The II txt.i LIER sentenced him to pay a tine ot .red be then dischar g ed. Some other indi.!ments for assaults of no moment were disposed of. lIICKS's HALL, cLEKKENwELL. Yesterday the Middlesex QuArter Sessions corn• inenced here before WILLIAM MAsswArisso. Esq. tnd the Bench of Justices. .104 a Hooper, a fireman of the works at Wapping Docks, was indicted for violently assaulting Bar tholomew Mycr, a labourer of the same place. on the 13th of last March. While the Counsel for the prosecution was proceeding to cross•examine the witnesses, the CHAISSIAN, as well as every one pre , sent, were thrown into a burst of laughter by the extraordinary interference of one of t%e Jury, who called out aloud that they were perfealy satisfied. fhe CHAI a m As very properly asked him with what? when he gave the following uncommon verdict : That the prowention woe .fricalow and et-tattoo', the Dethilant Net Guilty, and no danta2cs. Ana lhath,:li was indicted for an assault upon George Jackson. lhe pat ties both live at Chelsea, where they have had several violent disputes, and prosecuted each other for assaults. Upon the day laid in the indictment, the Prosecutor, who is• a tradesman, went to the afendant's house to receive the amount of a bill from Capt. Tichboorn, who lodged in her house ; when the Defendant came up to him, while conversing with the Captain's lady, and told her the Delcinlant was a very im proder man to deal with, having murdned his Mother by dragging her through the streets by the hair of her head. At length she gave him such a violent blow in the back of his neck, as to knock hint down a very high flight of stairs. She in nantly followed him, and while he was on the ground, seized him by the nose, and twisted it for A considerable time. Sate was found Gliitv, and the Court sentenced her to pay a fine of forty shillings. jo.cph Tarontend, one of the patrole belonging to the Public Office, Be, ar-street, was indiCted by Jo seph Riley, a soldier belonging to the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, for violently assaulting him. Joseph Riley said, that on the King's Birth Day, he was stationed centinel at the Engine Court, near the great staircase, St. James's Place : while he was making way for the Nobility going into Court. the Defendant passed him, and went to Corroral Ta - lor, and asked him to lot him loss ; the Cornc ral answered, it was impuysilile, and told the D. tend ant his °triers. Upon which the Defendant drew a constable's stair from his pocket, and knocked him down by a violent blow upon tile head. The Wit ness asked hi n, how he could serve a ceutincl who WAS only doing his duty ? when the Defendant struck hint a violent blow under his left eye, and several others upon var..nas parts of his body ; one on his groin was so violent, as to break his watch. The Dolendant WAS at length secured, and held tiil Colonel Sullevan, the Commandi•sg Officer on duty, cairn:, and gay.: him in charge to Marriot, the Marshalman. Tha Witness, on his cross•esamin:tinn by Mr. Cases, could not tell whethim the re!ul aims to keep out strangers, eLcrpt those who had tickets from the Lord Chamberlain, was a new one or spa. William Taylor, the corporal, sail, selrla he tot.: the Defendant he could ni , t pass, he answered he WAS a police officer; but NYitness told him that did not entitle hint in ;ass : the Defendant innited that he would, when the Witness seized the De. fendant by his coat, to torn h.m out, but the De. fendant prevented him by knocking him down with his stair The Prosecutor, Riley, came to his assist 411Ce, when the Defendant asked wh at he had to do with it, and said, " I saw you tare sixpence for a pot of beer and tobacco ; and I will work the tele gragh in the mean time." Tie Court could not get this speech explained. On his cross-examination, he aeknowledged that numbers had been admitted by the officers without tickets, but dinned that shillings and sixpences were taken by him or any of his comrades, to his know. ledge. Several others of the military were examined. Mr. Gave?. addressed the Jury at considerable length for the Defendant. lie said he should prove, that the Defend:tit was struck first by the soldiers ; they hustled him, knoziced him down, and presented bayonets ; and he hat no hesitation in saying, if they had wounded him, and he had died, they would have been guilty of murder. He proceeded to call Christopher Jones, who said he is a CAII. iltiftor of the patrole, belonging to 131 w-street. who s,tid he parted with the Drtendant aboat a miatitc b e l,,re the dispute began, when he was ;n the engine yard, and saw the corporal holding the Defendant's collar; one of the soldiers struck him violently, and the corporal was very drunk. Mr. Kinnard proved that the Defendant Was going into the Palace for him, a of the treatment he re ceived from the soldier:. Mr. Bell, the high Constable for the Holbcra division, said, he w.ts on duty at St. James's on the King's his th day, and the ta.iliavione of tlr mi litary was so abominable, it was hardly possible to describe it. The Bishop of Chichewa applied to him to assist him in getting to his carriage, and when he attempted to go into the Palace to inform the Bishop his carriage was ready, the soldiers re. fused him admittance, although he had his silver staff in his hand, and told him the Bishop and he might be —, and he should not come in. Mr. Ar.r.i.v objected to his givirg any ?wire evi dence of the general behaviour of the withers. Mr. ALLAN., in his reply, observed, that he thought it had been lenity to bring the case into this Court ; for if it had been taken into Westminster 11411, it would have been tried. under an old Statute of King Henry the XVlllth, which clads. that any person drawing blood of another, within the verge of the Kin's Pal.ice, must have his right hand chopped off ' (Here the Cristiana,' inter rupted the Learned Gentleman, by laying, he had • " • . ~, no ple..surse ard he was sure no one else could, in hearing use recital of ra*s, made lobe executed in the most barbarbus times). The Learned Gendemart bowed, and went on to justify the soldiers. He slid, the Palace was a kind of garrison where thti police had no business. The CllAlaMala, in summing trp, obsert•ed s he believed, they were all agreed in lamentmg the • Case had ever come into conrt ; for his part it was a wonder to him. He concluded by stating to the jury; that it was a mistaken notion, if the Defend.irt supposed he ha !•:4 right to go inty the Palace; that wit the Sovereign's horse, and' I.e had no snore right to go into that than he ha. to • go into the house of an individual. The D,fendant was found Guilty, and senteLced to cr.e month's imprisonment: — ': ,SP();ITING. (Extrel frail The inri, Herrid.) 'fIiuRNVILLIt-ROYAL, SEPT. I. •Mg. EMTOR, HAVill read in your Paper that Mr. Flint paid me evil- , attention that could be shewis on the oc casion • f die Race, I request you will sillunit the followiog r.lements of Politeness to die Gentlemen of the 'Puri; for -them to sainflion or reject, upon any future Match of this kind taking place. .1 • ELEMENT I. Mr. Baker, who kindly offered to ride round with me, on account of the dangerous accident I met with oil the Wednesday before, from my saddle turninz round, was pontsrociy and peremptorily re fused this permission. . # ELEMENT e. At the starting-post the must distant species of common courtesy was studiously avoided ; and I received a sat of word c: command from Mr. Flint, AS thus, — Keep this side, Ma'am For a morning's ride this might he cowiplimentary; but it was here depriving me of the warp hand. I did nut expea :qr. M lint to shake bands with me, " that, I understand, being the common prelude to hos ing. kll.i4k.ST 3. Wiser: my horse bruke down in the terrible way lie did, all the course mast have , sitoessed the very handsome manner in which Mr. Flint brought me in, i. e. kt 7 me out, by distancing me as much as he possibly could. If these should he received as precedents, the art of riding against Ladies will be nude most coin plet.ely easy. Cif ),LIANGE. After all this, 1 challenge Mr. Flint to ride the same match, in all its terms, over the same muss next year—his horse Brown Thematic, As ainst any one he rna:cchoose to selea out of three horses I snail hunt this mason. A TIIOIOIEOII. ..41ARMISG FIRE. I • Yesterday evening, about five o'clock, a fir? br. out in the workshop t f Mr. Gillett, Carpenter at d Undertaker, in Titchborne strec:, top of the Ha- ! market, which burred w'o such fury, that it very soon consumed entirely Ole w.,01e dwelling house. Luckily the engines arrived very rsedily, an J,water 13.-ing instantly obtained, its fa;al ; . tc- were soon stol.rd. The tire burned backward , •.. •• Lut for two very strong party walls, must have etcze most extensive and irrepa. able Jam ige. Mr. Li;..:co's stables, lull of bay and straw ; and Mr, Hicknel's array cap mauufaSory, in Queen-street,. lo al.° foal of enmbustUe matter, were saved by the two party walls before mentioned ; had they taken fire, all itchborneostreet, (21Cell-street, and SheroL I rard-street, would, in all likelihood, have fallen a i sacrifice to the flames. As it is, we hear of no further damage than that of Mr. Collett's house and shop, and a very str.all part of the bask of Mr. Kirks, window-hi:ad-maker, which a.liosined Collett's. 'llea engines wets- playing at ten rt'ciock ; t bu: the danger was supp. eel too be entirely neon% The St. James's Volunteers attended uno!er arm., wi t h alacrity, to proteCt the property. .1:no..io• the , most naive Officers of the Corps, we noticed Noiaj it. Downes, Captain Cator, Lieutenant Rice, Kosogois Willock and Booth. A memb:r of the St. Clement's Danes Volunteers being present, and knowing that his Corps had a grand field day in Hyde Park, ran to inform them of the event, and brought them under the command of Major Blake to Mr. Collett's, where they did gaud service. The houses of Messrs. Page and Gordon, pawnbrokers, and of Mr. Hutchinson, berdwareman, were much damaged. • Colonel o*Relly distinguished himself much by his aCtivity, upon the occasion. The crowd about the place was immense, a report having been spread, that the tire was at the Opera House. A small detachment of the Ist Regiment of snot Guards proceeded on Sunday to St. Gi es's, o - prebend a deserter, an Irishman. of the name of ~,f. i:tc latter made an obstinate resistants., and received several wound% h.tt none of Cum d toigtr.ms. Several hundreds of the 1 swest class of people assembled, app trendy with intent to re scue him, but they dill n t proceed to any an of violence, and only M. 0... .1 h %cited at the military. 1.1 %As secored, and carted off by the *oldie!: in a coach. kit cu. Ic:;.^111 00X116 Md:el/POW rikeil. I'enses vi T-or,tvnsw.and Pounds. Thrre.Priscs of Tea Thsrsard P.w•rdt. Three Preset Ir . Ft.( Vomsa, d Puimis. This incomparable collelion of Gfand Prizes has en engaged the attention of the Pabiic, that we see the Licensed Offices crowded with adventurers of every class, eager to embrace the present and only opportunity this year of gaining rapid and prir.cely fortunes.—Monday the 24th is the day fixed for Drawing. Tiro Twens Theyonsi Pogue! Prise►, nee Tan Th•esond Aiwa Pr,7es, Three Free Thousand Pound Pet es, Besides .creral r Canals. The Volunteers (Male and Female), who usually enlist under the banner of Dame Fortune. are ac cit:airtcl that she will commence (for the only time this year) distributing the above Capital Prizes, at her head-qua.tc:s. Coopers' Hall, on Monday the £4.h instant. Apply in time. oche:wise all the Prize 'tickets will be disposed ot. FT