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PIRs'ONAL CHARACTER OF LORD BYIRON• Lord ilyton's addreriVen the most affable and courteous p. 01114 ever seen ; his manners, when in a good humour, stet divining of being well with his puest, were winning— fascinating in the extreme, and tbOugh bland, still spirited, and with an sir of frankness and generoaity—qualities in svpich he certainly was not deficient. lie wait open to a elinractcristie probably the remit of his fearlessness and indepenikrice ul the world ; but so open was lie, that his friernts were obliged to lire upon their gum! with lie was die Melt person in the world to confide a secret to; anti if any charge against anybody was mentioned to him, it was probably the first communication lie made to the person in question. lie hated scandal and tittle-tattle —levet! the manly straightforward COUTLe ; he would har bour no doubts, and never live with another with suppl e:on. in his bosoili--out came the accusation, and lie called open the individual to stand clear, or be ashamed of him self. lie detested a lie—nothing enra7;xl him so much as he; he was by temperament and education excessively in i table, and ft lie completely unchained him—his indignation knew. no bounds. lie had considerable tact in ileteethe; untruth, lie world smell it Out almost instinctively ; he avoided the timid driveller, and generally chose his corn ! anions among the lovra and practiurs of sincerity and candour. A man tells the false and conceals the true, leiveure lie is afraid that the declaration of the 411.111 Ne IN it is will hurt him. Lord Byron was above all the fear of this sort ; he flinched from telling no one what he bought to his face ; from his infancy he bad been afraid of no one ; falsehood is not the vice of the powerful ; the Creek slave lies, the Turkish tyrant is remarkable for his adherence to truth. - - Lord Byron was irritable (as 1 have said), irritable in the extreme; and this is another fault of those who have teen aremmined to the unmurmuring obedience of obse quious attendants. If he heti lived at h and held un &muted sway over hired servants, led captain', servile apt/therm it v, and willing county magistrates, probably he might liner passed through life with an unruffled temper, 01 at least los escapades of temper would never have been beard of; but he spent his time fn adventure and travel amongst friends, rivals, and forrignets and doubtless, he Jiall often reason to find that his curly Whet, unfitted hint for dealing with men on an equal footing, of Cur submitting to untoward accidents with patience. vanity was excessive—unless it may with greater propriety be called by a softer name—a milder term, and perhaps a jester, would be, his love of fame. Ile was vitorlistantly desirous of being the sole object of interest ; ashetlwr its the circle in %hick he war living, or in the wider 'Thereof the world, he could bear no rival ; he could not tolerate thoopetsim w h o attracted attentim from him self; he instantly became alli tt sated with a bitter jealotsy, and hated. for the every greater or more celebrated titan than himself : he carried his jealousy up even to Mena pute ; and it was the secret of his contempt of IVelling ton. It was dangerous for his friends to rise ill the world, It they valued their own fame snore than Isis friendship— he hated them. Before he went to Greece, he imagined that he had grown very unpopular, and even infamous in England ; When he left Afiii ray, engaged in the Liherni, which Was Etrttectssful, published with the Hunts, he fancied, and dauhtless was told so by some of his aristocratic (rim's, Vitt he had become late, that the teller English thought him Quint fashion, and voted him vulgar; and that for the licentiousness of Den Juan, or for vices either practised or turpected, the public had morally outlawed him. This was oat of thedetermining causes which hal him to Grieco, that he might retrieve himself. lie thought that his name couplol with the tirrek cause, would sound w e ll at prone. When he arrived at Cephalonia, and found that he Was in good odour n ith the Authorities—that the regiment stationed there, and oilier English rcridents in the island, rytmrrit him Wi.4l the highest consideration, he was grafi fed to a h o st extiavvant pitch ; he talked of it to the last with a perseveranee, and in a manner which showed how anxiimit hie fears had been that he was lust • silt the English people. • • • Lord Byron emmot Iv said to have lien perninnlly vain in any sattioirilinary degree s --that not WWII more than men usually are. ile knew the power of his countenance, and he to L care that it should always be displayed to the gandr , t advantage. ric never failed to appear retsturkatle ; end no 11l ton, whether from the beauty of the expression of His features, the magnificent height of his forehead, or the singularity of his dress, could ever pass him in the street It ithout feeling that he was passing no common permit. Lord Byron has been frequently recollected when his portraits have been shown. " Aimr the spec win has exclaimed, on either picture or engraving being aeon, "I met that liersou in such or such a place, at such or such a time." 1111 lameneso a slight mal-formation of the foot, did not in the least impede his activity : it may, perhaps, ac count in some 1/11.1111UrC for his passion for riding, and swimming. lie nearly divided his time between these three exereiwa : he rode from four weight bannerol day when he was not engaged in boating or swimming. And io these exercises, a.) carefld was he of his hands (one of these little vanities which sometimes beset men) that he cute glovoi even in swimminr.. . . He in another practice, which is not coosidervil Enclaini gente.l—that is to it is not just now a t.ishion with the ulirct classes in this country—he cl.,L•ed 1,410cr0 to wane client. At times. too, he was excessively given to drinlinq ; but this is not 10 In Ilia passage from Chime to I '..phnlonia he npent the principal part of the time in drink -1•::, with the Captain of the vees.d. He eculil bear an int ee•tr • quantity of liquor without intesication, and a an by 1: tne.ins particithlr either in the nature or in the Okla of tlec fi n k he imbibed. I le was by no means adrinki•r sin; ly. er , inutile: word*, a drunkard, and could, bidet h :0 abstentious as any body ; but when his passion blew • way, he drank, as he did every thing else, hi erects. Thin was, indeed, thespirit of his life—a round of pen indulg •nee, and satiety. No tvi o uteri wire ever more unlike than Lou Byron es. till wet Lord Byron in the ordinary state of calm. 1111. in., ',d. about him used to call it inspiration; and when of their stamp talk about inspiration, there must no common change take place. When excited, his mai n c•ie woe noble, his ideas grand or beautiful, his language rit :a end enthusiastic, his views elevated, and all his feel er that disinterested and martyr-like cast a Melt marks the great mind. IV heti in the usual dull tuned which ever, body wearies their friends mile hours out of tell, bra 'leas were gross, his language crane, his sentiments not eertaie!y • but sat a low and sensual kind; his mood sneering acd satirical. unless in a very good humour, which indeed lie often. I may say generally, WAS. This in, bowevcr, the a tong side of the picture in Lord Byron : he ihay be soil here to be taken at the worst. Without being t•ltat 1 have called exeileJ, his conversation was atm very iie lightfnl, though almost always polluted by grossness-. yl 's e: e s of the very broadest and lowest description, like, saving again, like almost all his class-- do not live either in the fear of God, -eic. His grossness, too, had the a+ fertile lancl, and such subjects ws•re the rearq •••• kind of ezeirement ; the forbidden words, ies, the concealed actions of our nature. es of society, stimulated his imagination, ,c loved, and may be said at times to have !Willy did permit his fancy to feed ou this • now and then, indeed, even here be rrl ; but so dirty a pearl, few would be at ring it for all its price. ras not ill-tempered ner quarrelsome, but difficult to Lvt• with: he was capricious, apt to be offended, and wilful. ii'hen and he travelled in tireece together, they mile asunder, and though some of his him off anal on a long tunic% (Trellis ney, ...as not without serious trials of temper, affection. He could makes great point often it and most triduig thing imaginable, and ad apose with a pertinacity truly remarkable, iihiceountable. A love of victory might sonic littledisputes and petty triumphs, others and always unworthy of his great go. have said, he was only a great genius now lacitcd wheu out so t Lc 1131 SClLvtitua little in his conduct, and in hi. writings dull, or totally destitute of all powers of production. Ile used to boost of an iniliikrence about his writings which he did not feel, and would 'mark with pleasure that he never saw them in print ; and never met with anybody that did not know nirre about themthanliiinself._ Ile left very little behind him. Of late he had been too much occupied by the Greeks to write, and, indeed, had turned his attention very much to action, as has been ob served. Dos Juan he certainly intended to continue; and I believe that the real remora for his holding so many con ferences with Dr. Kennedy in Cephalonia was, that he might master the slang of a religious sect, in order to hit off the character with time verisimilitude. ilia religious principles were by no means fixed; habis tually, like most of his class, he was en unbeliever; at times, however, he relapsed into Christianity, and, in his interviews with Dr. Kennedy, maintained the part of a Unitarian. Like all men whose imaginations are much stronger than the reasoning power—the guiding and deter mining faculty—he was to danger of falling into fanati cism, sod some of his friends who knew him well, used to predict that he would die a Methodist ; a consummation by no means impossible. From the same cause—the preponderance of the ima gination—there might have been some ground for the fear which beset his later moments, that he should go mad. The immediate cause of this fear was, the dealt impression which the fate of Swift had made upon him. lie read the life of Swift during the whole of his voyage to tlreece, and the melancholy termination of the Deans life haunted his imagination. Strong, overruling, and irregular as was Lord Byron'a imagination—a rich vice which inspired him with his poetry, and which is too surely but the disease of a great mind—strong as was this imagination—scnaitive and sus erptible as it was to all externs! influence, yet Lord By run's reasoning faculties were by no means cif a low order; but they had never been cultivated, and, without cultiva tion, whether by spontaneous exertion, or under the guid- Inlet! of discipline, to expect a man to be a good reasoner, even on the common aTairs of life, is to expect a crop where the geed has not been sown, or where the weeds have been suKred to choke the corn. Lord Byron was shrewd, formed frequently judicious conclusions, and, though ho did not reason with any accuracy or certainty, very ofteu hit upon the right. lie hail occasional glimpser, and chap ones too, into the nature of the institutions of society and the foundations of morals, and by his expe rience of the passions of men speculated ably upon human life ; yet withal he was any-thing but logical or scientific. Uncertain and wavering, he never knew himself whether lie was tight or wrong, and was always obliged to write aid feel fur the monwnt on the supposition that his opinion was the true one. Ile used to declare that he had no fixed principles ; which means, h. knew nothing scientifically. In politics, for instance, he was a lover of liberty, from prejudice,, habit, or some vague notion that it was generous to be so ; but in whet liberty really consists—how it ope retta; for the advantage of mankind—how it is mitt ob tained, fecund, regulated, he was as ignorant as a child. Lord Byron was noted fur a kind of poetical misanthro py, but it exigual much more in the imagination of the pub lic than in reality. lie was fond of society, very goo& natured when not irritated, sail, so far from being gloomy, was, on the contrary, of a cheerful jesting temperament, and fond of witnessing even low huffionery ; such as set ting a couple of vulgar fellows to quaint making them drunk, or disposing them in any other way to thew their folly. In his writings he certainly dwelt with pleasure on a character whirl, had somehow or other laid hold of his fancy, end consequently undo- this character he has ap peared to the public • viz. that of a proud and scornful being, who pretende:l to be disgusted with his species, be cause he himself had been guilty of all sorts of crimes against society, and who made a point of dividing his time between cursing and blessing, murdering and saving, rob- Wog and giving, hating and loving, just as the wind of his humour blew. This penc4aqt for outlaws and pirates might naturally enough flow from his own character, and the els curnstances of his life, without there being the slight est resemblance between the poet and the corsair. Ile had a kind and generous heart, and gloried in a splendid piece of benevolence ; that in to say, the dearest exercise of power to hint was in unexpectedly changing the state of another front mis-ry to happiness,: he sympathised deeply with the joy lie was the creator of. But he was in great error with respect to the merit of such actions, and in a greater still respecting the reward which he thought awaited him. Ile imagined that he was laying up a great capital at compound interest. Ile reckoned upon a large return of gratitude and devotion, and was not content with the instant recom pense which charity receives. They who underatand the prineiples of human action know that it is foolish in a be nefactor to look further than the pleasure of' consciousness and sympathy, and that if he does, he is a creditor, and not a donor, anifint.st be content to be viewed as creditors are always viewed by their debtors, with distrust and uneasi ness. On this mistake were founded most f his charges against human nature; but his feelines, true to nature. and not obeying the false direction of his prejudices and minims opinions, still made him love his kind with can ardour which removed hint as far as possible from tnisan 'loopy. • • • Another cause of Lord Byron's lois antlitopical min of writing was his high respect for him self. Ile hal a vast reverence for his own person, and all he did and thought of doing, inculcated into him, as into other lords, by mothers, governors. grooms. and nursemaids. When he observed :moth' r man neglecting his wants for the sake of some petty gratification of his own, it appeared to him very base in the individual, and a general charge against all mankind ; he was positively fillr.l with ittiligoa tion. Ile locutions somewhere in his works with L coming scorn, that ens: of his relatives accompanied a female friend to a milliner's, in preference to corning to take leave of him when he was going abroad. The fact is, no one ever loved his fellow-man more than Lord Byron ; he steal in conti nual need of his sympathy, his resoect, his affection, his attentions,. and he was proportionably disgusted and de pressed when they were found wanting: this was foolish enough, but he was not much of a reasoner on these paints : he was a poet. When thing. he tlid net know his situation till a very short time before he fell into the profound lethargy from which he never awoke ; and after he knew his danger he could never speak intelligibly, but muttered his indistinct directions in three language*. Ile seems to have spoken of his with and his daughter—chiefly of the latter ; to this child he was very strongly attached, with indeed an intense mental feeling ; his wife 1 do tint believe he ever cared much for, and probably lie married her front mercenary motives. I shall net attempt any summing up of the desultory ob servations which I have thrown towther, in the hope of superseding the cant and trash that has, and will be said and sung about the dun teeter of this great man. All th at is necessary to add by way of conclusion, may be con. doused into a very . few words. Lord Byron was a Lord of very powerful intellect and strung passions ; these are almost sufficient dela for a moral geometer to construct the whole figure ; at leatt, add the following sentence. and sufficient is given : whether by early romantic ex perience, or by a natural t amine sensitiveness to ex ternal impressions, it was, of all his intellectual facul ties, the imagination which was chiefly developed. Put ting diem together, we may conclude, as was the &et, that he was irritable: capricious, at time* even. childish, wilful. dissipated, infidel, sensual; with little of that knowlvdt.7o which is got at school, and much of that acquired after wards: he was capable of enthusiasm: and thou:tit in tensely selfish. that is, enjoying his own sensatimis. he was able to make great sacrifloes ; or. in other words, he had a taste for the higher kinds of selfishness, i.e. the most use ful and valuable kinds : he was generous, fearless, open, veracious, and a cordial lover of meekly and of conviviality ; he was ardent in his friendships. but inconstant ; and. however generally fond of his friends, more apt to be heartily weary of than than purple usually are. No more epithets need be heaped together : ell that met: have in general, he had in more than ordinary force ' • some of the qualities which men rarely have, he possialsed to a splendid degre.: of perfection. Such is the personal character of Lord 'Syron, ati I base beets able to draw it from having had access to peculiar sources of information, and front being placed in a situa tion bast calculated, as I think, to form an impauial . . opmxtg. R. N. il /-: no,cm. in MC V Li I cannot help 4 ,11 of them that I * of the public A linage ot a raids source of a petty k the (whiskies% topic and the Keret sicel and stimulants he Manisa. lie ecru' dunghill garbage ; aoratched up a peat the paws of washis lard Byron was sail he was very d full of humours, Air. ilobliouse an; were generally a t fin uric lived with I fur instaisee, it ws pAtleere, am affix' . , %s hwa the least and here to his purpuac and A 11111eIst 11,1,10:01 times Recount fur I l' wise inexplicable, ants i but, as I ha amt t h en, VilICll6l THE BRITISH PRESS. MIDDLESEX IDJOURNED SESSIONS, TUURSDAY. SEPT. W. William crifibrd, who had been convletol laat Houton' of an assault on Mr. Fox, was now called up for judgment. It will be recollected that tide rrieoner had an objection to being tried by any other than the King himself. Lie is reputed. to be in no very sound mind. . . The Cu;; , .maw—Well, Mr. Clifford, bare you Ctalltidcred bet. ter ()fit since y ou _ were here last time / Friwner—My Lord, 1 don't understand you. Ull4llH;tAw—You rued, whets you was last hew; you would be triad by God and your country. Prisoner—No, my Lind—l said, by find and my King. Cue, amsx—fly (toil and your country. Prisoner—By 1.2 d anti my King. (Loud Laughter.) I have the piper. here to prove what 1 said—Py and toy King. Cstatumsw—Oh, sill, it matters not.—you have bc:n found guilty. flow has he behaved in prison ? thsoler—Very well indeed, your Worship—he his girth no trouble. eIIAIIINAX—WaI, IS the prosecutor has not been much in. jured, I will discharge you, on entering Into your own recogui. fence In 20/. to keep the peace towards Mr. For. that means I shall be under 11w lash of the man who has pen:rented me fur twenty Tears, robbed me. and reticecd me to beggary. I object to that mild, of proceeding, and that was the reason 1 objected to being tried before you and the Jury. 1 cannot enter into any tininess without being ilable tu the annoyance of the prosecutor. CHAlRMAN—Wslloiten, if you don't choose to accept the met cy of the Court, you must return to prison. After 'tune other bushiest had been gone through, the prisoner asked to be discharged without any recognizance, as it would be acknowledging his own guilt to enter lino any. The CltalllMAN could not assent to this request. Ile would Or cept the bail of any friend, if that would ease his conscience, bnt he could not liberate without. l'he prisoner was then sent back to prison. We ninh.lstanit be has served in the l'inansula, under the Duke of Wellington, in most of his campaigns. BHAM BAIL. Mr. C. rtitLLITS merle a motion on behalf of Mr. Henry Je. cobs, a gentleman residthig in tiootiman's.dields, VoiVAC Lame had been fAsely used as hail Ift a man named John Phillips, who was Indicted fur an assault. Mr. Jacobs received a notice that his re cognizance@ were forfeited. *Lich was the only thing he kacw of the affair. The attorney who procured the sham bail was in Court, and said. that he had given 116. for the accommodation of bail. Ile said he would willingly point out the man. if he could be found. Mr. Coxsr advised hitn to be active upon the occasion, or he might be surprised by something. Mr. C. l'uttl.t.ira stated, that it was his client's Intention to prosecute the attorney aril the sham bail. POf.ICG. 61.141)11ALL. Yesienlay two respeei;l;le:L.Z:g — gen tlemen, with young, well.dressed, pretty, simpering lady, were brought Wore slr. Alderman IVootr. The constable of the night stated, that the panics had been brought to the watch-house ou Wednesday night at ono o'clock, by a watchman, fur disorderly conduct, but that the gentlemen were sorry now. Alderman 'Woots—l dare say they are, like most persons who have spent a night in the watch-house but that's not enough for me. I can't bear your account of the affair, call in the watchman. I untientarid it has become quite an usual thing for officers to make up cases in this valet: before they c.mie before the Magistrates. watchman having ctitere4— Ablerman—M'cll, Sir, why did you take those persons to the watch.housc ? . . Watchman—This ere gentleman was standing by that ere lady a making a hell of a noise at one o'clock last night. Ahlerman—What sort of noise ? Watchman—Why a talking and grinning. Alderman—Grinning a noise I Watchman—laughing. 1 bidj cm to be Mt and walked away. earn hack again abouttia minutes; they mere not gone, so I tack stn to the watch-house. Alderman—Was there no more ? IValchntan—Ycs, I got a full. Alderman—What ! knocked down Wutehman—Ves—no—not exactly knocked down--pushed,— dred —dragged down. Alderman—How was it Watclunar—This ere gentleman wanted td rescue me. Alderman—You ? Watchman —To get away—pulled away hie hand, so I fell down—that was it. _ . Aldentim—Pretty fellow of • watchman you are. (To the const:tble.) Did he state anything more hat Light at the watch house emicalik—Yes, Sir ; he sail he was knocked about and struck. Allettnan--014. I see new light has broke in upon hint this morning. Well (to the laity), what 'rue you doing in the street at one o , clock this ming ? The lady let her countenance drop into deep sorrow, whined. squeeictl out a tear, Sad made the usual ■tempts nt looking pa. thctic. _ _ Alderman-4/h, I dare say rou have nothing to say, Itteam IV ell, Sir (to the young gentleman), I suppose this lady is no very particular acquaintance of yours ? l'risonry.—No, sir. (To the other)—Nor of yours, Sir I Second prisoner—No, Sir. IVhat have you tn say fer yourstlecs?—The gentlemen answered by a look of exquisite sheepishness. Well, as this 'origin has not been here before, and as no via knee has taken place, let them be discharged. Th.y "CU acconliegly discharged. 11014 STREET. - - - Yesterday Henry Se.kirntb, thttt;ll:eo Haim at the Queen's Elms tumpike.gate. on the Kensington trust, appeared upon mammon', to answer to an information exhibited against him by Mr. William l'obbett, jun., tor huvitm, on the I4th of October, 10V, taken three-halfpence more fur the toll of a one-horse cart then by low allowed. Mr. Cobbett, when heexhibited the information a foe days ago, In order to procure a summons, stated, by way of accounting for so big a delay, that when his father some months since detected and punished the abuses which had so long existed on the Ken. sington trust, it was understood that the lessees would refund all the money that they had been wrongfully taking for so long a period from a class of poor hardworking men but not a single farthing hod been refunded, and lie wu then fore determined to proceed for penalties in all the cases be couhi get hold of, howner long the lapse of time since the odium' were committed. Yesterday when the cue was called on, Mr. Cobhctt was com menting a speech to the Magistrates, when Mr. Williams, the solicitor, for the defence. said dint the env was very plain and shu ttle, and required no illustration, and lie must object to the intro duction of any int trane.7l.lB mutter. Mr. IVlLLtsms then took several objections in finite to the in. formation, which were ever rtt led. The 3laglstrate convicted the defendant in the penalty of U. and costs, and - 11 Ir. Williams gave notice of appeal. Mr. Cobbett said he bad other costs which he should bring for. ward, and he had no doubt that he should successfully defend the appeal given notice of. BATTON-GA R 11E N. SMASIIING.--Vesterdar a well-looking young man, about thirty years Or age, with Ilfarid Brows, his write, were hcaught up foe final examination, charged with uttering counterfeit win. The woman's tippearance was extremely prepossessing and genteel. The husboul win dressed in a frock-coat and top boots, having altogether the app.:ounce of what is termed " a sporting man. _ _ ....... Mr. Pow EL Solicitor to the Mint, attended In support of the KOSCCUt ion. It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses, that the pri. stoners have been in the habit of going separately, and in company, into little chandlers' shops, and asking for same trifle, such as ar egg, or 3 Kilfpenny.worto of nuts. and tendering a bad shilling, fur which they received the proper change. Mts. Ttamnpson, alto keeps a chandler's shop in White liar. road, lira 's Intl :lane. one infbemation to Calton, s emmtable, who apprehended the parties gear Tavistock.square, on,Tuevday even. ing last, a few minutes after they had passed a bad shilling. The man, a hen seized on, threw out of his pocket niee bad shillings, which 111,7 C picked up by Mr. l'larke, a coal-merchant residing in Speldhurstogreet, wttn witnessed the apprehension o f parties l'oltini had searched the house of the prkoinws in Britanni....street, eity.road, which was very genteelly furnished, but c mid discover nothing tit importance. The servant told hint that her master was a liorse.denler. _ During the examination the wretched young woman became hys terically aillcted, and excited general sympathy. Mr. l'owst.t. and SlTgeantKst.t.olt expressed their regret that the influence of the husband should have involved her in his Infamy. The husband. who had hstened witb great coolness to the whole of the evidence. was sensibly Directed on seeing the unhappy situ. anion of his wife. _ _ They made na important dcfetce, aid were fully committed for trial. MARY-LA.ITONNE OFFICE. .... (7ssr or EITIII:311t 311stUT.—Vestcrtlay, Genre pillar, a man. whose appearance ilisplaeed distress of the most abject cha racter, was brought before Mr. lisw &introit, charged with gaily pawning some furniture of his lodgings. lie wee social'. pioited into the ()dice by a young woman. his wife. who was sup. ported by her sister. seemingly with sickness, hunger, and aux: iny for her husband's f.ite, scarcely able to stand. From the ststotient of dies. Maio Granger, of No. 11, Great Check-Ale:a-street, Slary.la-bontte. it appeared that at a very eon. siderabie time past the prisoner and his wife took an apartment Inrnish.:d in her house ' and remained a month, having only paid • fortnight's rent of th at period, when they suddenly decamped, leaving the door locked, and carrying with them the key. tin her breaking upon the door, she found they hail stripped the apart ment of every portable article of valuer the bed.clothes were gone, as wove alsoi the knives, looking-glass, china-ware. &c. Puntig the time they were in the witnes.'s house, she believal than ro be exceedingly di.tresseil, and from what she had since learned, she was unwileing to dr the unfortunate prisoner any harm. lluckeridge, an ofEcer of this establishment, said he had re ceived the warrant obtained by tae last a itness against Mr. Ettll.tr, ant write tO 1. - V:t:1:11-green, none 11 - inSdial, to CX:ehte it. lie there, in a miserable habitation, found him supporting the languid and exhausted frame of his wife, without scarcely anyArtiede used for dotnestic purposes. The lire/rite seemed to bare been some time a stranger to fire, and ne very readily believed the roan, front the appearance of all he there saw, when he said neither he nor his wife had partaken of food for two days. The bed was destitute of covering, and the eompleat and chilly air of poverty, seemed to pervade the wretched habitation. Ile gave up the duplicates. and ut once admitted his guilt, but the admission was scarcely audible, his utterance was so conipleatly choked with grief. On the officer informing him that hie presesee was re quired elsewhere, his wife started up, and clitigicg to him, said nothing should part them. and she, accompanied by her odour, came Mai hist, to the Office. The unfortunate man, during the recital against him, stood at the bar, evidently labouring to suppress his emotions. On being race] to account for his aim:, he said that the keenest hunger had driven hint to pawn the articles, but with the intention not only of making them good, but restitution to their owner for detaining them. lie was by trade a caner and gilder, and was connected with an opulent and respectable family ; but he had, from a variety of misfortunes. which instead of decreasing almost daily accumulated, finally sunk beneath them; be even by journey.vork did all it, his power to maintain his family, but that failed hint, and he was left pennylcu, with an ill and delicate wife. and to procure Mod was compelled to resort to the act with which he stood Omega The officer, lie said, could bear testimony to his miserable situation, as he had, by a humane and generous net, produced a temporary alleviation of the pangs of hunger. A shopman to Mr. Neat, pawnbroker, of I)uke.street. Alan. cheatcr.square, with whom the sheets and blankets had been pawucd, stepped forward, and said he was instructed by Mr. Neat, is this was so distressing a case, to give up the property to the right owner, whit the view of stopping further proceedings against the intim tunate man. . . Mr. Raw xtusow—" This set does your employer honour, sir. and you 1112' tell him his conduct ought to be held up as an ex ample." Another pawnbroker, Mr. Gideon, of Siafford.atreet, luitson• green. said he would follow the example, and give up ghee:sand blanket to Mrs. Oranges, which had been palmed by the man at thr bar. The prisoner here bunt into tears tr. endeavouring to return thanks. Ile was (odet dto retire from the bar. mit the case was directed to sterol orto until the eretuitrig, until the other articles were obtained. '1 'he appeurarce of the poor woman excited general commiasera. tion. She appears r.early in the last stage of consumption, and the Muttering hectic flush of that Sect:Urnl complaint seemed frequently to dish over her countenance, displaying tie agitation of her mind, and mournful confidence in her unfortunate husband. The worthy Magistrate, Mr. RAW IN sow, seemed very sen. sibly &Meted, and ordered every attention to be paid the woman at his own expense. QUEEN-SQI!A Yesterday Mies Weeks, the proprietress of a hoarding school for young ladies, now at Little Ealing, and late of Grove H am mersiiiitli, gave information at this office of a robbery committed under very mysterious cireunwances, The lady Butted. that on her leaving Grove Hall she removed the most valuable part of her property to Ealing, and she employed two men to watch the goods which she left at thrive luau ; amongst which property Was a box containing I% silver tea-spoons, two dozen dessert-spoons, and several articles of family plate. (In her inquiring of Mr. Eyles, a builder, whore men had assisted her in removiiig her goods, whether lie had seen the box in question, he said that lie had not. :die then illy aired of the watchman who had been directed to look after the premises; but it appeared that he hub neglected the house entirely, and he said he supposed tbat it was empty, or at least that no articles of value were left in it. Mr. SI HITE, the Magistrate, said, that lie had no doubt but that one of the officers would soon be able to make some discovery that would lead to the detection of the robber; for, though the of. knee was wrapped in considerable mystery, he was of opinion that the perpetrator of it was well acquainted with the premises. and of the removal of the owner of the property from the house ; and lie bpromised to dispatch some of the police to use their endeavours to ring the offenders to justice. 1, 7 ,11 frilliarns, an Americou black, was charged with haring ',mien a dulcimer. . . . . . Houlton, a Bow.street patrol, stated, that he stopped the pri. loner near Chiswick. with the mu.ical instrument in his posses. sion t and suspecting that he had stolen it, he took him into custody. :11r. Thomas Nolan stated, that the prisoner wok lodgings in his house, and on Tuesday morning, while he was at bt.:aklabt. the dulcimer sru carried off. No person, except the prisoner, could have removed it. As soon as Ite missed the property, lw found the prisoner had decamped front his lodgings. The prisoner said he Lad bien years in the British nary, and he sus sorry fur what he had dune. fie was committed to Newgate for UNION-BALL Thomas Jena, a arch-dressed iniddle.aged man, was fully corn. mitted resterday on a charge of staling six ►lteep from Mr. l:. E. Adams: of Beckenham. Kent. J. ! Muirarle was also committed on a charge of stealing a hone, the property of Alfred IVapshott. a niilkmau at Chiswick. CIIILD.STEALLVC. This abominable practice has latterly become almost as prevalent as clilld-dropping ; and although both are distinguished by an equal degree of cruelty, yet It is somewhat singular that the latter 'is punishable to a ninth greater extent. The following case, cow tounteated from the best authority, exhibits a pretty fair picture of the brutality exercised towanls the little innocents thus spirited away from their natural protocol :-- About three weeks ago, James Thorpe. a fine boy nearly five years old, son to Mr. Thomas Thorpe, ship -carpenter. of Black. wall, suddenly disappeared from hone. As the boy had been in the habit of following his father to the river-side. it was at first appre hended that he had fallen into the i.ater and perished ; search was made, hut no tidings could be had of the poor buy for two days, when the child's mother happenin; to mention the circumstance at a neighbouring public-house, the bar-maid stated that she had seer: young Thorpe on the evening of his disappearance, in company with a strarge woman, and an itinerant tin k er, who were subse quently traced to Lo ndon, having taken a boat for the Tower. stairs, at Blackwell , arid brought the boy with them. The poor father, by dint of inquiry, and the offer of l a considerable reward, at length got some intelligence of the route they had taken. which was towards Islington; and at a house much frequented by those traielling gentry, he obtained further intelligence of the man and woman as described by him, but none of the buy t the woman was said to have quarrelled with her companion, who was then disposing of his merchandise, and the tonna. had, in the interim, carried away the boy somewhere towards town ; however, as the tinker bad left a donkey in the field, it was presumed he would re. turn to take ft sway, and Mr. Thorpe was advised to wait his ar rivel, as It was most probable he might be compelled to disclose the woman's haunts, or, at all events, be made to assist in the re. every of the child. Agreeable to expectation, the tinker returned to the usual rendezvous at night, intending to take to the road at an early hour on the following morning. Mr. Thorpe being apprised of hi* arrival, procured the assistance of one of the local constables, and took the fellow into custody ; at first he aueinpted to deny all knowledge either of the woman or child, but being threatened with prosecution for abetting in the crime, he confessed everything. The woman's name was Margaret Parker • she had been fur sonic years an active member in the cc lebratettgipsy gang that are known to infest the road from Muni low to l othdon, but from decrepitude and age, combined with many external causes, she has latterly abandoned tbe fraternity, and be come kidnapper, having carried off several children with the view of inducing the parents to offer large rewards fur their rourratieu ; and when that has failed, she generally disposed of them to her old confederates, who put them to the torture until they acquired a certain degree of agility in dancing and tumbling on the road-side, so as to attract the notice of passengers. I runt the tinker's statement, it appeared that he was not at all connected in the business. except occasionally meeting the old harridan in the outlets. Un the following morning he accompanied Mr. Thorpe to bondon, and the latter having availed himself of the assistance of the police, proceeded to a wretched hovel in Fox's court, St. Giles's, to which this dealer in human flesh generally re sorted. The woman of the house, who was the very prototype of the one sought fr, denied having any knowledge of such persons; but the officers being resolved not to take her word for it, proceeded to *earth the house, when, in one of die upper apartments, they discovered the principal object of their inquiry—poor little Thorpe, In a state of wretchedness that have melted to comras lion the most obdurate heart t wont to a skeleton by hunger, file little limbs exhibited on alternate shade of red and blue stripes, as he lay stretched on a truss of foul straw, with the tattered remnant of an old petticent, by way of covering. When restored to Warms of his fattier, the miserable infant b.carne so frantically overjoyed that he was shinty instantaneously attacked with convulsions; and if it bed not been for the prompt efforts of surg ical skill, there is little doubt that his sufferings and his lite s lave tertniusted together. The woman (if we may call her one) to whom this crime his been fully traced, had gone out on one of her predatory excursions, and therefore for the present esesped appreheasion. Information was yesterday sent to Peal, jun. of Jiatton garden Office, that a young tnan, named Robert Bowes, about nineteen years of age, acting as a goneral agent, has absconded, with 4751., the proikrty of Mr. Edward Grias, law of the Black Horse publiahouae, Mile End. Ile had resided with his father, who is a public-house broker, at 133, Goswell-street, St. Luker. Ibe draft fur the money was drawn by Messrs. Freeman and Banbury, on Messrs. Ilanbury, 'Tailor, and Lloyds, bankers. Since he presented the draft, a few days ago, and received the cash, he has not been heard of. A De-riret. Sow.—A jockey in this town wishing to make an advantageous display of a horse that he was dcti rous of selling to a bystandtr, placed his bey upon the back of the beast, ordering him to " ride hint around a short distance." The boy, though well instructed in his trade, unfortunately, in this instance, knew no: whether the horse was already his father's, or yet to be bargained for; being anxious,•therefore, to learn the will of his father, he stopped after riding a short distance. and inquired with a loud voice, " Father. shall I ride this horse to buy or to Haven SPORTING INTZLLIGENCE. OSWEsTRY RACES. A Gold Cup, value lan soverelgr.s in specie. Three rn.:es a t a half, starting at the winning post. J. R. Kynaston, br. e. Whittington . 3lr. J. Hogers's gr. S. Sir ELlWarkl • • I W. Ortnaby, Esq.'s gr. h. Rossilson . • . ' " • Earl Grosvenor'• bl. f. Etiquette . A finer race was neva run, and the Judges could only CHESTERFIELD RACES. MONDAY, sEPTIIIIra 7/ The Maitlrn Plate of GU gs. given ►y his Grace the ;ki te Devonshire, sae won at trro heat. 47 Mr Et ' ir.g sir George SitwelEs Post.7.csk. OP The Ten Guinea* ~talus • - TUESDAY, ,&pi YRPiI The Plate not having filled, a liaediesu *arcs., of 5 sovtreems mch, and fit sided by t.. 18 f.,s , round the Comae. Mr. Turner's hr. to. Palatihe 4 !fa Sr. ; Lord Fittwillaam's ch, m. L.uneJla, BTn 0.1. Pet. TCPs. . Both heats well otestesen.—Go.• race. A Sweepstakes of toe socerrixt eat's. with r• >r • , er't ry sli t t, One-r ,, la I 'este Mr. Snibeon's eb. m. Mani.of.al/. 1 4 orl , by f. 6 eh , , Mr. Smith's eh. h. 5 yrs old • . Mr. Sybray's b. h. by hqqu•.tor. S rri oie Seven started, but only them placed. The ..ler of Ns, , horse was thrown the 'mold .icat, but eot msc• r alt. ti A 3IPTON RACES. TIIIRD DAT.—.TWURSDAY. These rate terminated today, and though we cannot cotntre them to the rr,;ular meetings, the most fastidious , meat agree nth us, that, as etiniat ore races, they have eldoen been citeelft - d. The stakes, it is true, have not been very mirnerous„ nor t• any p m amount (a wetter of little moment to those who attended merely fur amusement), but they were well arranged and finely vault e d indeed, it would be an act of injustice if we omitted to notice the excellent manner in which the oktcif was conducted by 31r. (verbs The company, as on all last days, was not so numerous as yester. day, and, perhaps, fortunatily, for just as the races were mu lt i, noted, a limy heavy storm dispersed them, and, in some measure, counterbalanced the day's pleasure. some amusement we, nand each day by a farmer-looking man riding his horse throciti the Thames, tiotu the Hampton side to the course, and bark, in toiw to save the passage matey. The running, which we, tot ever till dusk, will be found correct as follows: The Ferry Gap for all ages. Heats one mile. Mr. Reeves's b. g. Sprightly • - •1011 Mr. Boress's be. 2. Fanny . - •1U 2 2 Mr. Ealing's hi. g. Nessman . . 2 3 3 3 Mr. Jacob's bl. f. Charcoal - . 3 d. Mr. Harvey's b. f. 'Veer.le - • . Mr. Watt's gr. g. Swap • . - • d The first heat was well contested, and the tuntirg rade was alternate, but principally rested between Fanny and Newsman, Sprightly keeping behind fur a lung day. The second hem was aallssoo a good one, and Fanny, Sprightly, and Newsman excite d their strength, and each looked f air for victoty. but vithm 204; yards of borne Sprightly pudied up, and digging and flanking Ltutight him and Fanny in so close that it was pronounced a dead heat, though murmurs arose, and several persons said that Fumy wee by half a head. The Judge, however. stuck to his &Titian. The third heat was won cleverly by Sprightly. The fourth excited greas iaterest. Fanny haring been backed at 6 and Gto 4. It wu wen after a fine heat by Sprightly by only half a neck. Match SO sous. p. p. Get. eaeh.--Otte Mile. Mr. Graves's ht. in. Fair Helen • • . Mr. Jacubs's bl. f. Charm' 2 An admire:de Race, and . w on by ' half a le . mh. n We are happy to arm, once, that these Raccs are to be renewel annually. TATTERSALL S, Strrtunte 3Cw. The attendance to-day WAS scanty. and the business slack— Cedric was backed for the (kind Duke Michael's subs text wed, but as some doubts are cntatained of his starting, most or the bee were p. p. lime few bets were made on the Derby and Se. Lego, I Doncaster) 1d23, but the betting on these stakes sill rot berm extensive tll after the Newmarket Meetings. Ths following it the present odds : carm DI:EIL IIICRAIL STARES. 5 to 4 Cedric against the Field. wrwaraaxtt ST. LEGER. The same as on 51 am:ay. DnauY, 1026. 10 to 1 apt Haus I 12 to 1 apt a-, tithe . DOYCASTER ST. LEGER. 10 to 1 apt Memnon 20 to 1 asst Ar0.r0g....s 12 to 1 apt :eveland I2oto 1 agst I'lllL.-:tr. 20 to 1 apt Tb? Alderman CORONERS' INQuEsrs. A Coronet's Inquest was yesterday held at Barth°lemes's Hospital, before T. su Euro it, Ken, on the body of. limn whc.c name was unknown, who was in the habit of sweeping the c:ussing opposite Swevting's-allev, near the Royal Exchange. John Conk, draper, deposed, that lie was sitting on the coach. box of Kendall's Clapton coach, and was going down towards Chaapside ; there was a cart laden a ith two pipes of wine going in the same direction. Witness was looking up at the clock of the Royal Exchange as the mach attempt lto pass the cart, and on looking down he saw the deceased near the splinter-bar of the coach in the act of falling; he immediately caught at the reins, and the coachman stopped as soon as possible ; the man. however, fell immediately under the off wheel of the cut, which eat ore the deceased's head ; the carman was on the other aide, and witues was convinced he was unconscious of theaccident ; the cart wet on at the usual rate, and the coach was going a gentle taut. The coachman stopped directly he heard of the accident. Richard Caton, a servant, stated that he wan pnasing by Conga at the time the accident happened, and saw the deceased standing in the middle of the street, with a broom in Ilia hand; the art and coach were going in the same direction. Thecae just brushed the deceased, when the off splinter-bar of the coach citight the deceased, and knocked him down, and he believed het the wheels of the coach went over his lead, and expind almost immediately. The first witness was recalled, who uhf, when he saw the de. ceased fall the wheel of the cart went over the head of the untorte. nate man, and that it was with much difficulty the conch avowed passing over his legs. John Storer corrol•orated the evidence of the tint witneefi erd conceived the occurrence ',Minutely accidental. William Birch, surgeon, said he saw the deceased in the Kee pital about two o'clock on AVedneeday ; he was quite dead; has skull was dreadfully fractured, sufficient to cause ms death. The Coroner summed upi the evidence, and The Jury, after a long consultation, returned a serene, thin " the deceased was aeridentallv killed by the wheel cf a tingutttg over his head, which caused his death," and a &velars! et Is. was levied on the wheel. FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was yesterday hc!d at Et. Thomas's Hospital, before T. SUELTOX, Esq. 0:1 6e body of George Malian, a private in the 3d foot gnaws. ll,•een Gnm wade, belonging to the 2,1 kattalion oldie same reg:rdent, d. posed, that he was at work last Monday week at the Iron Gate Wharf. at a warehouse belonging to Mr. Dell, with the dcma.t.4 and tr. whet comrades; they were above. lowering hams into a wzgeon mdcrneath, by means of a capstan, when, by a man :ask, they were overpowered. Witness and his two comrades succeeded ill avoiding any injury, but the deceased was so situated against a wall, tliat he could not retreat ; his left arm b.esatc entar.gled in the machinery, and the poles by which the capstan was worked striking against it in such rapid suet:amine, vnutilat..l the AITi in a most dr•adful manner. Ile was ininicaliatelv taken to a surgect• and from i thence conveyed to the Hospital. George MOM, dreamt to Mr. Green, stated, that he examined the deceased wen be was brought to the lierpital, tied found he had received a severe min pound fracture in the upper part of the left arm, and also a simp.e gq fracture oo the fore part ; assistance was rendered. tut ir consequence of his habit of . a mortification took place, and. he died on Tuesday last.—The ury returned a verdict of •• Ace. dental llsath." The Cheltenham police has been successfu: in breal...rrf up a gang of depredators, by whom robberies hare larc, been committed in that town and neighbouelocd ; rirk. persons are in custody, and an accomplice has renfcired various robberies. BIRTH. On the 19th ult. the lady of Collcton, Bart. or a son. .1311 Pf R. MARKLE!). On the 18th ult. at Oretna.tereen, l'harles Vaughan, Esq. ef Dublin, to Emily, only daughter and heiress to the late Cart. lehn l'okru!ge, R.N. A oroperta of nyovarda of 20.000 i., aconnulated by her late father in the Rest !main, twat one of the lovely brides shOlest attractions. I►IEV. On the 13th ult. at Kilearberey, l'ec:lte. relict of f'antrell Phillips, Esq. nephew to Lod Newport, l haneellot of Ireland, r.ntl of his brother, the Earl of Ro.!en. On the 23th ult. in Bryanston.street, Robert, eldest w nof Ro bert t.lby, Esq. and nephew of the Earl of Shrewsbury. 111611 WATER THIS DAY AT 1.01)()N !UMW& blunting 47 rain. after 8. I Afternoon 311 edn. after Printed at THE BRITISH PRESS Office. by J. W. Catapiox, Strand, and published by H. Caxxos, tram* Plow. / / i Pli .--- "UCH -A Jahn '.OI P"t" annexi ro thi Gler __r in TriU C egM NI QUCII 5..1 the 41 Months, toe ening Thwacks wad Wan at this Ot All thereon thereon • the Itth Propos Rotten, for the w and Aide wannexi urds a from • P . the Part) Bats • Breckna Chaim Cornea: W n erl Dorset Durham Esse: ff aannts T 47 That to remit DAY, willing I Awe the the Um left boil Oewbet Veda. f All 1 Quested within calling pawns by the: establee wariabl years d Noe SOU a - Atte ir,g un T. mini; Drevei the Su Adve.:l And? In tt • 1 Vin . Cl N I !lead al el pub! b A hi Pun 11,:_a Lin in I tiou er Pea the oT i Pn no, • q a 111 br ea iu tn 1 • ei . 6s • • 1 •