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DUBLIN, Nov. 16. PRIVATE CORR ES PONDENCE. The measures adopted at our Customhouse have, for some days past, engrossed almost all our atten tion. Yon must have heard from the Irish l'apers, that nearly the entire of the bfficers in the Excise Departm-nt, were on Mond iv last susljenly sus places fill i by a draft from the rade], and th eir country. A step of this kind, where no delinquency wa s prove I, or even insinuated, naturally ex=ited loud murmurs, against the person from whom it jlowe.l. ('.tr. Forster) the Chancellor of the Ex chequer; nor have these murmurs been confined to the displaced officers. The Revenue Board, who were not even consulted on the expediency of it, are hi g hly offended, and a very angry altercation is said to have taken place yesterday, on this subjea, be. to-en Mr. F. and ...ord D. the senior Commissioner. 1: is also said, that that branch of the Revenue, the colleftion of which is the immediate objet of Re- Isom, has considerably declined, within the last three nrnths. There is little or no business in our Courts Of LAW: Judge JOHNSTON has not taken his seat in the Common Pleas, since the commencement of term; and, it is supposed, will retire altogether. It was hoped, by the lovers of the Fine Arts, that the Bank Directors, in altering our late House of Co.nmons for a Bank, would confine themselves to the interior of the building, and that the exterior of that magnificent pile would be suffered to remain inviolate, a monument of national taste. Eat the work of devastation has begun, and the western colonnade, which cost the Irish people 60,0001 is now aftually in its progress of demoli tion. This is neither a work of necessity to increase the area of the building, nor of economy to save ez pence ; on the contrary, the alteration will cost a large SlM—bciag a pure effort of taste. In vain men of science exclaim against it, and pamphlets have been written to expose the absurdity of it ; the money-leaders go on. Almost opposite to this martyred edifice, at the termination of Church-lane, stands the ne-..; facade of St. Andrew's church, a solid and unornamented MASS Iredis ind , gestaque makes) of stone-work. It is, hawever, surmounted by a figure of St. Andrew bearing his cross. The archite& is said to be a good Protestant ; but the knowing ones in the Frish suspva him of being heterodox, and that he his imposed a St. Peter ups' them instead of S:. Andrew. A violent combustion has of course taken Face ; and the poor Saint is in danger of a second martyrdom. Some of the Public Prints lately asserted, that the banditti who robbed Farmer Walsh, on the nrun tains, placed him on a hot griddle, to extort a con frssion where he had concealed his money. We are now happy to be able to contradia so foul a libel on the national charaCter ; no such aft of cruelty having been committed. LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. At two o'clock, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Dow ling, 'a mpeiable 7cutn of 19, who has been some sir e employed as Librarian, at Creighton's Library, 'I a. istack-street. Covent-Garden, was seized behind the counter of his employer, by a pressgang ; who, upon the sole authority of a false and anonymous letter, which they exhibited and read, as their war rant, charged him with being a deserter from the Navy, being many years bred to the sea, and a pro fligate, whom his fri-nds desired to be rid of ; and, in spite of all remonstrance, and positive denial that ever he had been a week at sea in his late, they drag ged him through the streets, to the Tower, and hur ried him on board the Ea seprire tender, where he still remains confined. The youth's rather, wheresides in Lincoln's-inn Fields, went yesterday evening on board, to require the liberation of his son ; and gave every assurance, that his son bad never been a seek at sea in his life; that he had been f. .r i-ighteen manths past a Volart t:rr in the Royal 'sVestmii,ster Regiment; that he had never been Inns: under his own immediate eye, nor slept a night out of his house, since he was an infant. except eight months he was at an academy, near Birmingham. The lieutenant behaved with the most gentlemanly politeness ; but refused libera tion until the will of the Regulating Captain shall t,e known. Though the suffering of the individual may be tri vial, it is yet of some importance to the question of En;,slisb liberty, whether citizens may be seized going along the streets; .:ragged from behind their countess, by press gar.es, and under the mere warrant of anonymous and urn runded letters, charg ing them with desertion from the navy or the army, b.;:ried on board an impress tender. Lieutenant CHESTER is appointed to the eetnmar.d gla•brig, fitting for sea at s :ch. Captain Cris is appointed by Lord Natio:4 to the command of the Jalouse sloop, is the hledites r.tneln. Captain J. R. lAA is appointed to the For Lieute:iant ENIZILTOX is appointed to the M.,t //hair. Lieutenant Gismo:A is appointed to the Diana rd. _ Mr. Moon is nude Lieutenant, and appoincel to Old S e e.,, e . Yesterday morning, Mr. Sitoawooo. cornfa&cr (of Cie house of Me=srs. Gammeoo and Seto*. lan%. dropped down dead at the Caro Market. D:ed, at Nfadras, in Lord %VII. jw ALLAN 1.2 AMN GaAs?, DINT !SCR'S hr %Be, the 34 o f M a y LE, Ma T°Wn•Slai9C of that place, and Aid-du -Camp to his Loadstiip. INQtTSTS. A Coroner's Inquest was ye.terday held at three o'clock, at the Barley-Mow, Mount -street, Gros venor-square, before A. sorry GE'.l., Esq. Coro ner for %Westminster, on the body of a Mrs. Sower by, wife of a very eminent and respectable Pawn broker, at the corner of Cannon-street, and the Commercial-Road, Shadwell. It appe ired in evidence, that about 1 I o'clock on Tuesday, the deceased was noticed by several per s ins, walking in a state of gi eat agitation, on the hank of the Queen's Bason, in the Green Park, near Piccadilly. A nursery-maid observed her to take a phial from her pocket, and, after uuco: king it, drink the contents. His Excellency Baron de Roebeck, being at the same time at his drawing-room win dow, in his house, at the corner of Clarges-street, observed a female, elegantly dressed in white, jump into the Bason. His Excellency immediately rang his bell with violence, ran down stairs without his hat, desired his domestics to follow him, crossed Piccadilly through the private gate, immediately to the Bason, where he plunged into the seater ; after swimming with his clothes on for some considerable time, he perceived the lady rising to the surface of the water ; but, before be could reach her, she sank again. His Excellency, being an excellent swimmer, succeeded at length in bringing the lady ashore, but quite senseless. She was inn.nediately conveyed to Mr. Lawler's, a public-house, at the corner of Clarges-street and Curzon-street. Medi cal assistance was immediately called in, and, in a short time, animation was restored. The first words which she uttered, were, " Oh ! my children I my cliildren I my mother ! I have poisoned myself by the contents of the bottle !" She soon after fell into convulsions, which lasted for some time. Upon er : amining her pockets, a four ounce phial was found in one of them, with some aqua fortis, supposed to be the phial the servant saw her drink of; a hand some pocket-book, with a silver-pench, with a me morandum of the death of two of her children ; and also thedate arid agreement of the hiring of a servant, with a blank duplicate, in which was printed her husband's address. Between rive and six o'clock, not finding her better, it was thought proper to re move her to Mount-street workhouse. A messen ger being previously dispatched to acquaint her hus band with the melancholy event ; two medical men attended from the neighbourhood of Shadwell, who soon found that their aid could not be of any use. The violence of her convulsions increased, and she foamed shockingly at the mouth. These symptoms convinced them of her having taken the fatal draught before she jumped into the water; and at eight o'clock at night, she expired in great agony. The Jury being impannelled.• on a view of the body, found under her }eft breast a large wound, a, if perpetrated by a sharp instrument; also another upon t-:e left thigh, with some violent bruises nn the breast, apparently occasioned by blows. The first witness was an apprentice to her husband. who deposed. that his mistress and mater did not live happily ; that she had been of a very indifferent tem per, and was addifted to drink, and very often in a state of delirium. The brother of Mr. Sowerby de posed nearly to the same eflea. He said, that on Saturday last, he visited his brother arid the de ceased ; that they were then at words, and that they lived unhappily ; he attributed it to her unsettled state of mind, being of a jealous turn, and some times betraying symptoms of frenzy, as well as of Error. Upon the examination of a surgeon, he proved, that she had no wound or bruise such as could occasion her death, rid he was dearly of opinion that it was produced by drinking the contents of the phial, being aquafortis, which brought on suffocation. The Jury, after a short delibera tion, returned their verdia—Letiacy. This unfortunate Lady appeared to be about .16 years of age, of a middle stature, and a most beauti ful woman ; she was elegantly dressed in the first style, and has left three children. Mr. Sowerby, her husbatri, was at the workhouse, but did not at tend thi• Jury. Another Inquest was held, at the same place, be fore Mr. Gell, at four o'clock yesterday evening, upon the body of another Lady. It appeared, by the evidence of a baker, that as he was passing, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning last, near the bason or reservoir of water in Hyde Park, he observed a bonnet suspended from the rails of the bason ; curiosity led hint to approach the bacon, and he per ceived something floating upon the water. On giving tile alarm, a labouring man, passing by, ran to his assistance, and, on getting over the rails, per. ceived it was a woman. With difficulty they suc ceeded in taking her not, when she shewed symp t-ms of lire by the mt.ving of a leg and an arm. A crowd were soon colletted, and a window shutter being procured. she was immediately conveyed to the house appointed by the Humane Society, near the Serpentine River, where every means were used to restore animation, but without effete. The body was removid in the afternoon to the wool house. She app ared to be between 30 and 40 years of age, and must have been a very fine woman both in features and stature. Her skin appeared as white as alabaster, and, though dead, and lyirg in that situation, her countenance shewed a vermillion bloom. ller rCill was very shabby. It was said that duplicates of goods pawaed at a pawnbroker's office, in Westminster. were found in her pocket. As these, however, were not produced to the Jury. there were no means of ascertaining her name, or to whom she belonged. Verciie, /vend drv. ntd In the Barn. of Hyde Park. This week the 14th Regiment of Li `t Dragoons, which has for these IS mand.r past taken the coast duty from Dover to Rome!, uid march to Guild ford: they will be replaced ty the 11th Light Dragoons, which are upon the Susses coast duty. The 10th. or Prince of Wales; Light Dragoon s , ate oared from Guildford to the coast of Sussex, the line of coast now occupied by the 11th Ligh: Dragoons. The following Officers are ti cqnstit ire the Court Martial appointed for the trial ci the Ho.l. Col. A. C. it.ibllt4TultS, Littivrtia t tionfirraig Liar* and Sa J. Ceal ; 144 , w Ge tares D Baled, Fiacn, Lx t tzr.. wil Sit .1 Stain; 114.4adier Genet.' Sr S Amaa.l3 . . 114 ,aleglialli ; and 14..nareser ; and Coio.eeh G1•404. , a5, 'asal N . Stenos. The Court will not meet wail the arrival of Sir T. Tatou& from Gibraltar. lerWr.7 -7 COURT OF }CMG's BENCII, VlE:Tuttisttn o tiov 21. Thomas Price, alias juhrs trr:stia, Mathew Crease, alias George James, :sna Joioi Gilbert, were lircught up upon charges of perjury.. The three indictments aga inst them stated, that these persons severally voted at the late eleaion for the county of Middlesex,' for Sir Fran-ais Burdett, stating themselves upon oath (falsely) to be free holders Of that county, thereby injuring the eleaion of Mr. Mainwaring ; to v.hicis indictments they se verally pleaded Not Guilt', and were c.,mrnitted to take their trials after term. Mr. Glass moved the Court for a Rule to shew cause why a Mr. Watt, an Attorney of the Ccurt, should not answer the matters of an Affidavit, with respell to which, if the charges were true, he trusted the Court would deal scnh him in such a way as would be salutary to him,elf, and beneficial to the public. The Affidavit stated, that a Mr. Racy, brewer at Southampton, had commenced an anion against a Mr. Fricker, for defamation, in saying, he was failing in his business ; but, upon applying to Fricker, he assured him, he had beer, told by one Phelps, a servant of Racy's, that he must saun be looking out for another place, as his master (mean ing Racy) had neither malt nor hops to go on with in business. Upon this information Racy went away, but, owing some old grudge to Fricker, he was determined (as he himself expressed it) to trAtince him, and, after some conversation with Phelps, he consulted Watt upon bringing another anion against Fricker, who advised that he might bring one in the name of Phelps, but advised him to discharge him first, in order to give some colour to the proceeding, which, though he knew would be an inconvenience, yet, he might permit him to come privately and do his work ; he then said, he did not think it would be right, that he should he the Attorney, as he had been conterned in the former anion, and sent Racy to another Attorney, Mr. Shepherd, who, upon hearing the steel from Phelps, of his being thrown out of service, by the conduct of Fricker, and also having the reference to Watt, he undertook the cause, and the action was tried at the last Assizes, when it s was refereed to ar- bitratiun. The Arbitrator thought proper to exa mine the patties : Mr. Racy swore through the whole of it ; but when the Plaintiff, Phelps, came to be examined upon oath, lie told the whole truth, and then the real tart: of the case came out. Rule to thew cause granted. In a CAW wherein 1 bonus Rogers, an Attorney, was Plaintiff, Mr. ESP IN ASSL applied to the Court for a Rule to thew cause why the Plaintiff should not furnish the particulars of Ids demand against the Defendant, and also that the proceedings might be stayed. He stated, that the aßion was brought for money had and received to the Plaintiff's use, and the sum he soiulit to recover was Seven Shillings, and had brought the aCtion in that Court as an Attorney of it, being privileged so to do. The Court then asked, if the action Was to try any particular right of the p ? 'Po which Mr. ESP I PI •tsr. replied, he knew of no right : he understood the Defendant was a tailor, and the action was brought for an old black coat. He contended the parties were both within the jurisdiainn of the County Court, and submiued, that the Plaintiff should w.ve his privilege as an aatorney, and tty the aCtion there. Lord EL LENSIOROUGH..--" It would be no great harm to leave him to his eleartion, whether he still wave his privilege, or the seven shillings—Take a Rule to thew cause." THE KING c. GOOO ]IAN SOLOMON. Mr. Iloilo) v o moved for the judgment of the Court upon the Defendant. who, he said, was trifling with the award made in this cause, and kept the Prosecutrix, who was his mother, out of a cer tain allowance which mad been awarded her, and out of all her furniture which she was to have had from him ; he did not even allow her a bed to lie upon; and, so resolved was he not to obey the award, that he had actually sold off all his pro perty, and was going to Hamburgh, for the very purpose of defeating the effect of it. Mr. Eitszioe, on the part of the Defendant, stated, that the whole matter in controversy arose from family disputes, and was referred to Mr. Low ton, who had awarded a sum of money to be paid by the Defendant, which, in reality, he was unable, from various losses, to comply with. He war very willing to go again before Mr. Lawton, and using evidence of his inability. The affidavit of Goodman Solomon, the De fendant, was then read. It stated that, from his mother's violence of temper and bad sonduet, his father, Henry Solomon, was obliged to leave the country, and now resides at Hamburgh ; that while he was here, she was continually harassing him and Defendant with warrants from the Police- Office, under which they were frequently arrested and thrown into prison, and at last his aged lather was driven to the necessity of seeking peace and quietness in a foreign land. "l'hat he and his father had entered into a bond to allow her 0.. e guinea per week, as long as she should n.. 4 molest or aitsuarb them, which was regularly paid until they COISCA4I , el site had broken the contra& and forfeited that allowance, by commencing a second prc.secutidn, pending the first. The roarer wa, offered, on his part, to be left to the vestry of the Synagogue of the society to which they belonged, which was the usual way of terminating family disputes in that tribe. The second indiftment was referred to Mr. Lawton, wno awarded, that the Defendant should pay :.;01. to his mother, fr I uruiture of which he had pssessed himself, and a further sum of 441. odd, in three several payments; also, an allowance of one guinea per week during der life ; that, through losses by fire, and various other misfortunes, he was rendered wholly unable to pay this sum, and was obliged to sell all his stock in trade and furniture to pay his just anal lawful debts. Ile further stated, that, had his witnesses beta examined. it would have appeared that his mother was a woman of a most turious and unhappy temper, and that he was by no means adequate to pay her that or any other sum. The affidavit of Elizabeth Solomon, the Prose email, was then read : she stated. that the original disputes arose by her son Goodman's insisting on bringing home his wife, whom Le had lately mar ried, and she, thiaking young married people betur to bra by themselves, :missed tt ; that when she ap- ~t. , • plied for the. guinea per week, she was not only ictu.t.t,ISIICIIMIC a.satatcol„alti abused, in a vielrer, and cruel manner. That the Defendant reside.l in Rosemary-lane. .where be carried on a very 0,. sd trade is a salesmaster, and transalted 'n partnership with his father at flarrthurgh ; -I m he wits wen able to pay her alliiwanee. 'that t• had lately had a public auaion of all his primerty,' awl, among the rest, sold some of her furniture, zi;o1 wearing apparel ; and when she applied for her bed, his wife refused to glee it up until she should lie-in. That when he was applied to to pay the award, he' refused so to do, and threw it on the ground great v;olence and contempt. Mr. ti NOVO then observed, that the Defendant had also applied to the Court to set aside the *Weld) as improper, which motion was refused torgli eons. Lord ELLEN IOROLOH—" I think thee is a'. etrutssi siderable deal of contumacy in this I)efendent's eititH duet ; he has by no means a proper feeling al •thet . :Wien ; nor does it appear that any thing old be+ left to his sense of propriety, or of his feerangL7lit , humanity towards hi; inothzr. Nothing lost co ,i6i pulsion ..,•11 bring him to a true sense of his Anti ; let him therefore be eommitted to Newgittr, ~Ad= brought up next term."' At one o'cl• :1-, Lord ELLENSOROUGiI set at NOP- Pieu, at Guildhall. Eight causes were tried, moot: of which w :re undefended, and the remainder d ' little moment. ••1 COMMON PLEAS. No business was done here yesterday that conic, afford any gratification to our readers, the Court being the whole day taken up with law arguments,! totally ,utcinteresting. Yesterday morning were executed, in front of the Debtcrs' Door, Newgate. Rater Brews Premixes alias Jibs Dream, Thoincri Well, and Joseph Lloyd. The proposal of applying o Parliament for hill to enable :he Farmers of Gloucestershire. and the neighbouring commies, to draw their we.geona with live horses, meets with general approbatioo. On Thursday last the Comedy of Spe-d gad - "nick, and the after-pi-ce of TIE , Deaf Greet: were performed by Gentlemen and Ladies, at the:TrATIR. Hall. Horsham, f,r the Benefit of the Pooe. Bsth pieces were well represented, and tb: Perforeiers were gratified with reiterated plaudits from an over flowing audn-nce The parts of Henry, &envy- .4,4- Add, and bie Abel Handy, were particularly wen tip. I ported. - . . I On Wednesday . WlLLlAY GROVE, Esq. was sworn in Mayor of Salisburr ; on which oc:asiors he gave an elegant entertainment at the Council- blouse, at which were present. The a Pert:4l*e, ling Stiwant, the Earl of Radnor, 1 Record-r, a•, , 1 Ile,ey, Ley one of the It —.teientatives of th., City to Perthrerot, with the .11detto-n loot A.ti•eauts Cor;.,,t.toeo„ 11. P. weitahana, Eae al. P. kw the ...duty 05 WOt., the Kee. Canons Hume Sul Brptliet-:;ree ala Slate, Culuudt WarageiNAMOS Boo:her, ~oct ta.ltr Geat7,aren theca:) . and neighbutaihood, to the au:ober of alxott At four o'clock. an excellent dinner, includ;see great profusion of venison and game, was saneitet up in a capital style by Pews Y. of the Parade C life 6 house; after dinner, the King, t,2iieen, Pone. rf Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family, the Nay . , of England, the Duke of York and the .Irnos. with other loyal and Constitutional toasts, wereairti, k. 4. lo the evening, sever-al excellent sow's and the company broke ty at a late haw, much pleased with their hospi.able entertainment. : On Monday, the 12th inst. was held at Camps,tll, • the fourth anniversary meeting of the Female Friendly Society established by the three %dish , Fier xs.• About 14') young females assembled to • commemorate the institution of a society, by which many of them have been already much benefitted, and from which they May all cape& to derive Mesa. mable advantages. A ccompaniettby the patronesses t and by other hates desirous of encouraging the insti tution, they walked in pr %cession to the parish • church, whe e they heard aa exttedent and appro priate sermon. On Tuesday the I Sth inst. died, at an adraneed age, the learnedand celebrated .1 &cos 13 r. Esq. formerly of King's-college, in the universi y of Cambrid,ze, where he proceeded B.A. 1740, and M.A. 1;1.4. He was anthem of the elaborate work on Mythology, three volumes, qttatto ; a treatise oh the Authenticity of Scripture • a treatise on the Egyptian Plagues, and several other valuabto works. Whilst the Magistrates of Leicester were engaged in public teisiness, on Friday last, a criittint i nis i locked •tp in an adjoining roans, during the exeunt. nation of another prisoner, but heepening to meet with a f-)endly rape, he fastened it nn the ear .• and although hand-cafes!. with great dexteri out of the window, let himself down into the ket place, and takmq to les Weis, etre:led his 111:7 Some persons witnessed this Pantomimic Exhibit' without intetference, and some minntes elapsed fore any of the Police knew what had recurred. a On Monday se'nnight Mamas Jenii Isoll was milted to Grantham ga. 1, charged with having a.id slaughtered, at 'least, sir kn.: 'series. The nt sevt•ral of them, with varintas p tots of their c c uses, were fount .I.:msited in hic hnsise; some which he had dip of for dart. but the germ part he had s x-tea:chi appropriated for the su of swine. 11c lately mentioned, that on Wednesday last at GEORG' Let rl4 Esq. of %Veinier, was returnium from handwach Market to Deal, he was st,pped a place called Minn Gap. by three men, one in sot diets' regimentals, the other two in round whit frocks: they robbed him of upwards of sevent pounds and his watch, and left him for dead on th road. The men supposed to have committed the allot robbery are since found to be Grime linseed* R e Beer.”, and Alarren Moody. three soldiers bel:mgir to the Ist Regiment of Guards in the Barracks Weimer. The were discovered by the Serjeau guard; one of the men dropping a five guinea no but would not say it was his, on which they send his clothes, and in the sleeve of his waistcoat, tk found more of the notes concealed and the wee when he made a confession, and discovered whole. They hare since undergone an examination. were on hatardav lodged In the Ccunty gaol, it to take 411 triels at the neat Assizes.