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?Bus e1L432. The rued raid Essen Fez Home asset to-ntorruw, al the Gram Demos ; Saturday, at Marks Nail ; Illosooday.ai Bank Hall; Thursday, the Ma, at General Eleven Parkepte, at ten. ' The Hatfield HounJe swat tomsarrow, at Breatiosittain and Saturday, at Kimmel. at kaH-psst lea. Lord Sas4e4 theme mat tinasenar, al Dotidiagtun ; Lad Salitroky, at Lain, mei day at halt past tea. The Duke of dirafter's Haunts meet this day, at Little flumes.% at hoarse. len. The Oakley Hoorieds meet to-mrsowrew, at Oak Close ; Ss terthoy, at Apisrand Bury, at baltpust tea each day. • The Quarto Hounds meet this day, at Norraanton , IT 0 111 46 ; igb-saarcsay. at Six Hills, sad Saturday, at Usetis. Awe Woad, each day at hall-past tem. St Bellingham Graham's Hauls& meet this day, at _fkrialren; 10-111turroW, at Calkei anal &Mirky at Cliff, each day at half-past teu. . • INCISE COURT, DUNKELD. Ou the 30th tilt. an Luise Court was held at Dunkeld. The ledges were the Duke of Athol', who was in the Chair, air A. M. Markeimie, of pelvis. tam Colour , &nth. of Medium, and the Bailie of Deakelil, who is alai a Justice .14 the Peace. The causes before them, conaidering the ex tent of the bounds from which they came, were not very nu merous. A great many of them were for malting without I%try. The Duke of ATRot.i.adilveseed the Court in a *hurt and ispproprtair email, itheervin, that while the Excise l.uw •-,oes such as aminoitail to a prolubitin of legal distillation Ise She Highlands, he use use of these who felt himself di.. ..slie IS mmty earl in tufted elensinigy to deliatmeuts, nom ape i owe Wes altered, AM Me low ima outdo apOltimble, and merit melt as he osoll *sit, M. was s •• used to muted Ike AN haler, and IssNtedt mothers 4 0:1: Is the individlials Mairerned in Them, es well as to the cerrime of the osiMety. li" had bag laboured to iihttio _such atieratietis of Ms taw u might emit the eiratenotauees • of the Higkinda, sb4 be Imes that his Majestre Omens _men, had very wish. to de all is their power to preente fair trade its that peed of the me**. Re regretted the poin ful duty which devolved ow him sad the other JuMiecal list ft was • wiener of imperious .Ba:realty, aril peopUt unto be taught. that, if they madame to violate the IMF of the land, they csaiset escape with impunity. Sir A 11. MACIIIIIIIIIV, is a speech of soave length, eon cowed in the amitimmits so well ,expeemed by the Noble Doke. lle knew well what pales be had taken to Natty she Jr:seise Law, a subject of a num complicated natio*, cud to procure sack au altelatiou es might cult the Circumstances of di.: Highlands. The Ones for malting without entry were ten shillings a bushel; for illicit distillation, in every . moo hut one, 801. sterling, soil In that of GOI.; for cell. Imittpteit. without halm, from four to bye pounds; fur bonfirg spirits withost permit, eight shilling the gallon, be sides the lose of the spirita.—(Caltidoxiint MeTerry.) IRELAND. DECRI4III6III 18. • Arrived the Earl or Clare, Lo►d Dutferin. sod Frederick and John Brownlow. Fsqrs from London. Moo Stephens made her first apilellfilllCC last '►vening' ar Belfast, in the part of Rosetta. in Lore ix a I aline. Miss Byrne is an fir recovered as to spni-ar on this evening ass Adein, in Me Haunted now. COMMON PLEAS, DrCEICIER 17. ECCLLS V. lOU H liL An action by the payee of a promissory note egoism the maker—Verdict for Plaintiff 131/. spirant, A. GIBBON V. RICHARD TOUTCHEIt. This was an action of wirer for a bill of exchange, amount 2001. British. In the year ISIS Cowan. Sweets Olson gave the Defendant, who was a ship broker, his draft of 2001. British,upon Messrs. Dixon and Silver, in Liverpool, for repairs dotty to the ►hip Illinerva, of which Olson, who was a Swede. was Captain ; and for law expenses incurred by the seamen, who were promovents in ■ libel in the Court of Admiralty ; the Captain drew upon Messrs. Dixon and Silver, because they were the corres pondents of the owner of his vessel ; Gibbon handed this bill, amongst others on 'Change, to 'Coutcher, the Plaintiff, with whom he had been in the habit of dealing, and he gave him cash fur it ; the bill was re turned to Toutcber from Liverpool, peotested fur non-acceptauce ; he immediately apprised the De fendant of its dishonour, who said there must have been some mistake, and took the bill from him, un dertaking either to return it to him r►gularly accept ed, or pay him the smonot in Bank antes ; Twitcher lent the bill to a correspondent of his in Liverpool, requesting of him to call upon Messrs. Dixon and Silver, and inquire why they refused to accept it ; Mao* and Silver persisted in refusing to accept the bill, stating that they had been instructed by the mate of the vessel who succeeded Sweets 01,on as Captain, not to accept for more than the costs of ►epasiiring the ship, and directing Mr. Twitcher to look to the seamen who were the promovents in the libel, fur the law expenses, and they accordingly paid Defendant something over 100/. pursuant to time instruction. lu the mean time the Plaintiff eeceived several letters from the Defendant, ',polo /jets% for the delay from time to time, until he at length stated that he had become a bankrupt, and was reluctantly compeller, to return bins a creditor in his schedule. The present action was brought under the form of an action of trove!, as the D r . fendant had given an undertaking to return the bill. which he never fulfilled. The Defendant's Counsel contended that he had an elect either to return the bill or its value in Bank notes; that he chose the latter, and for that the Plaintiff could not bring an actin', of trover, and he was barred of All assanipsit, by the Defendant's be►ng a certified bankrupt. The Court, howeter, decided the contrary in charging the Jury, who found fur the Plaintitf—es7/. _ The ',taut ut law i 4 saved for argument. 1 4 1411 AL MONtillEilT.- The public having taken more than an ordinary degree of interest in the Mo nument to be erected by the naval and marine tier. races to the memory of the late Lord Viscount thi.vii.t.E, it will perhaps he gratifying to dont to learn that the Committee have resolved to adopt the much -admired Sod justly celebrated Pillar of Taaists, one of the most approved talcs of anti quity (or a pillar modelled upon it), and to sur. monist it with a colossld stat u e of the late Lord MELVILLE. St. Andrew's-square haring beets sing gested u a very eligible and appropriate site for . ~,,, e such chaste and simple structure, application is, we understand, about to be made to the proprie tors fur permission to rear this Pillar in the centre of that elegant Square, to winch, as well as to the !sittrovotis its getter.ll, it cannot fail to prove highly ssawitnental.--(Adineargit Paper.) I , !. I) ' l / 4 ' RGNERAL OF DRISCOLL. On hada, last the meanie of this 'infuriated* yeast man was removed from the boom In which he lodged, in Illusemeryalistie, near the Tower, for intermeet, to White chapel Church. you, followed by thetoiands of spectators, comistiag chicly of Hibernime, he hie,, , eif being a native of Ireland. In couvremeace of • report bating been spread that he died eu eery poor T h at the borial.irronod was o u t paid foe, and the gates of the Chortle-yard bring closet' on the arrival of she funeral procrmius, the ntnrosl minfusion prevailed s and the streets adjoining the Church were crowd ed with persona, and it way much fumed they world break opts the place. Their conduct bordered on riot, said it was found Necessary to procure the aid of the police. Miller, Hallos, Freeman, Fortes,. Foster, aid other officers arrived or the spot, and with assistmice soon gut psesearion of the plate, aid restored peace ie a short time. The Clergyman was informed of the hosiness, sod it being satisfactorily settled about the ground, the messes, was goat through will' the usual foram INQUESTS. DEATH fIY POISON. On Monday night last an inquest was held at the sign or the Black Horse, High-street, Poplar, before JOHN %YRIGHT Dewitt, Esq. Cormier, on the body of Mr. Geurge Garrett, age 37 yeas., chief mate of the George Connie: East India annus now lying at the Export Dock, Poplar, chaise death wait ocessi •••• ed by his taking a large quantity or corrosive sublimate, by mistake. Captain Jame s Stephens, sworn. staled, that he had been arquisikted with the l'or al veral years past. and had frequently been in Ina company; he sometimes saw him in toxicatad with hquvr. Oa trethiesday morning last, ensures went Onboard the George Canning, ut which the deceased was the lest mate, and he was its cusiveeee with the Captain, with whom he hail quarrelled, who 411111 hint 11411 Ic would rather nut see him there again. Pievions to his leas , - Pig the ship he challenged some ilrraell% usi board, but they refined. witness afterwards ricried it letter from the deceased, Ilse controls of which indicated a dtsturbed mind. On the evening of Priddy last, the deceased came to tintnesa's ship in the Exhort Dock. and shortly after wit. nem arrived there, and the tkceased, who had gone into the cabin, called him down ; Ise immediately went to bus ▪ foond him appareutly in the moat excessive torture, laying on the lard in the cabin. Ile tohl witness that, on ' finding himself very ill, he had been to the medicine chest anal drank a bottle of stud* in hopes id doing him good. but he was fearful that he had taken something that had poisoned hum by mistake. He and, " Give me some cas tor oil, and it will fetch it up" inters gave ii to him. and be took it, but it operated but little, and had no effect. On inquiring what chest be had tskeu it oat of, he got up and stir wed witness the. hsittic; tie procured a light. sad there was written oil the labs I " corrosive suldimate."-- It was quite dark st the time the deceased took the mutt, told therefore could nut have ilicnverod the woods on the label The deceased, oh looking at the bottle, and read ing the words, he exclaimed " O God, it will kill toe Willies, immediately *cot for a surgeon, who slid not come, and be thew went for a 31r. Aimer, a sorgeon, aLo came instauily. On their rituals they found the deceased quite dead, add eery much insetted. Witness insinediatily in formed the Captain of the clicumstance. The deceased rime from Neweastk.inionl . .eue, nod has left a wife soil 'hies children. 'the mi.dirine chart was an ul.l one, brought (rum another ship, and cuotemed tither medicines. Mr. Joseph Aimee, surgeou of Poplar, being sworn, slated, that be was called opus by last witness to attend the dice:pea ; he went immediately, soil on his arrival found bin lying on the bed quite still and cold; he hail been ap.. patently dead for souse time. On exansinatuo witness found his mouthasid throat horned and swollen in a dread ful condition ; no doubt bait he died (rum baviug lakes, corrosive sublimate, which will produce those appearances. Wiillll4l saw the bottle whirls contained the medicine, and if the deceased look the whole of it when full. it was two onsets, whereas one scruple would have reused instant death. ths opeoing the body after death, the stumeeli and intestiues were bunted dreadfully. The Jury, after a few remarks from the Cormier, in which he stoke of the impropriety of leaving so fatal a medicine in • piece where others were kept, and the danger attached to H, they returned a verdict of—Acei•lentelly kited by taking Asege quanfily of poiaoa by mistake. On Monday night an inquest was lirld at the Cross Keys Wouil-steset, Cheapside, berme Taos. SIIELTON, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Misty Price, a young w,uman. w h o was found iu • dying state in the street, out Friday night last. Rickard Bolter, a porter belonging to the Saracen's Head Frelapstreet, stated, that uu Friday night hot, between sue and seven o'clock, the Portsmouth waggon torten' at the littracer's Head, sad the deceased, who was one of the passengers, came with it, in company with another young WOllllllll, who appeared to be acquainted with her. The de- cussed was very ill, and requested witness to assist her out of the waggon, which he did ; she then asked hint from whence th• Norwich waggon proceeded, when he told hi r from the White Horse, Cripplegate; she was scarcely stile to walk, sad asked witness to assist her to the place, but 1w having work to do could not go with her, sad nut bring able to get • porter (although she was willing to pay for owe), she left the place. She was sera shortly ahersar.ls sitting us the step of • dour, in Ftiday.street, in a dying condition, surror•dssl by a stub of people; and %lr. Brown, • Ishrsouger, seeing he► in ouch a &ingrnm• stale, con veyed her to the work boiler, where she shed slorrily after. While the deceased was sitting in this pitiable cussilitiou at the dour, • woman (it is supposed the Wit who cause with the deceased is the waggon) took her bundle away from her, saying she would go back to the inn, leave ben properly. and (Morn to her again. She weal away, but l returned to liar, nor did she leave the hurdle at the ism. Ou teas ch•ag her pockets • 11. mate was Coned, with some silver and • few halfpeace, sod a certificate of her marriage to Lewis Nitwit, of his Majesty's ship Salieltery. The deceased was very re spectably dressed. She was in mu weak • state when leaving Portsmouth, that the guard was fearful she world nut lice to arrive in London. A Surgeon, who was examined, gave evidence to prove that the deceased died • neon al death. The Jury returned a verditt of Died by Ike Visitation of God. • - ----• A poor Irishman, of the name of Pal. Murphy, came from, Monmouth to Chepstow on Mulirlsy r.r , 'lssisclit, and applied tu the overseer of the pariah for rrli•t'. A s oli. nem sum WY given him for sulanalesite and lodging for the sight, mid also to pay his passage to Bristol by the market hoot the following morning. He went on board the ve.ael at ilia usual lime, but appearing to be ill, he wag VIII oil shore. In his attempt to return to the todeiug-house, aw aited by another poor man. he dropped down in the street lifeless. It appeals, by a written certificate found in his packet, sinned by Captain Wornilry, that he sowed w hi. Majesty's sloop Minorca, as a swains°, from the year 1810 to 1814, when the ship was paid tiff at Portsmouth. ThiCurouer's Inquest, nn Tuesday, before JIB Evans, Esq. returned a verdict—" Liss by Ike Visitation of (it'd." _ _ COURSE OP ERCHANa imateraant,C.F. 11 8 Ditto at %hi ll 5 rotterdani 11 9 Antwerp ex-me ll 10 Hanibureh 34 U Alton 34 1 • Paris 3day's date 23 90 Ditto Sourdcanx du 24 20 Frankfort au the TVISDAY. DECLMOZR $2. Genoa Venice Ital.Lsv 25 50 Malta SO Pr!cult° 1:10,1 per oz. Ltshon... • Ng Oporto 581! Rio 1a0r 4 r0... • Wtk j)ul.tun .. Cork.... Sl•iiie l3' Madrid .. Cadiz Bilibpa ...... 364 ilarceloo; 38 Seville Gibraltar........ 34 Leghorn Portngit hold in E r• Coin. pct. 1/2, 0 0 Cjiulil ill Pars 0 0 0 New Diwililutniv —lO 0 0 New Dollars 0 0 0 Silver in Bars .... 0 0 0 New Luais, eadi.,ll 0 0 EDUCJTIOtV of the LOWER ORDERS. EXTRACT FROM THR MINUTES OF THE EVIDENCII BEFORE THZ SELECT COMMITTER OF THE HOUSE OF LA/SIMON*, ANNEXED TO TIIEIU THIRD RE PORT ON THE EDUCATION or THE LOWER ORDRES. (Coolheaded Pon oar Piper of l'osle7day.J , • YEOVIL. CHARITIF-i. I.v a, 1 die Josnii, INK HENRY BROUGHAM, Emi. in the Chair. M►. George Watts, Mr. Win. Wilatieron, and Mr. Henry Collins. wider arambustien. The persona chiefly commended to the prayers of the alms house, accuidiug to the custom of those times, as folkureth, viz.— . • For William Wubourn, minor canon of Paul's; John Wedmore' and Richard Hart, chaplains of Yeovil ; and Lady Veneer Puynings, widow, Comdex, of Northumber land, founders. For Mr. Ralph Baldoe and Mr. John Chetheed, ancestors of the said John Wohourn; Henry Percy, Earl of Northam berlaud, late husband of the said Eleanor Lady Porsiuza, For Henry Percy, then Earl of Northumberland, and Molly his wile; William Downie! Earl of Arundel!, brother of the said Eleanor; I leury Wilesern, and Harrower his wife, parents of the mid William and Julio ; Sir Thomas Harting, late parson of Yeovil. For the Lord Richard Populates, and Eleanor hits wife; of the said Ladv Purling*: Mr. Nicholas 1-yet and Eliza beth his wife; honeas Haling, and Agues his wifq- Fur Mr. Haploid Kentwood; Mr. John Cole; Sir Juhn Snell ; Sir Thorns. Darnel. • flu• rounder. principally to be commemorated are : John IWobitutto and Richard Hurt, chaplains of Yeovil, eurontaged by the roomy, and good ; 1111Iiaru Without'', minor anon of SA; lit LoOsen. Aud it is to h.. rslled the ihmsbuo.e of Wna. Wobouro. Anon Dow 1861 There is her a proh,hilioa to let for any term above seven ye;iss Is that sitalut. disregarded?—Yes; Isere is an adver tisement by • Mr. White ; an attorney, offering two lots; sine for the r of a term of ruse score and nineteen years, determinable us, Iwo live., the other for as tern, of Lour score tug oo ill elects years, ilielininable on three lives. The brat of 'lees hi longs to the pour almshouse; the second belongs to lViilroarn's. Have you the statutes of the poor almshouse Du you know whether that statote of that almshouse has any prohibition of leariiig ?—1 believe the fmuotslious of all the church charily and aliJshimars are destroyed. We went to one of the trustee's house after he was 111s/flier. about ✓um , church duals, and impaired of Aim, whose father was the rink of the town. some yerra before an athwart, and he said he was very sang, but since his father's death lie bail !mint a :rent many writings, which might have been of some use in the town ; and we mitlerstionl by the srrvallf, they were thing+ belonging In the old charity. They were biota almost 1/400; therefore I do not think the Committee will bail any foundations fur any of the charities except Wuhourn's. Are the custna, wardens and poor of the said Image, comic • corporal by this statute?—They tire. Have yon any usher deeds belouging to the corporatism '— I have nut. In *bum name are the leases granted ?—They are granted by the cusses anil wardens. To al is the rent paid ?—We know noshing at all of that, it bring 311 kept secret. Tu whom does the statute give the residue !—Entirt-ly to the poor, I believe. Are there any other charities hi•siiles those you have men. Honed?—Three is a fourth, the church lauds. What is the value of those?-1 would give 1501. a year fur them, if the houses wire built up. Who receives the rent?—l Whirr nobody ; the rhumb as:l-dram receive ahoy, 21. 16,441. yearly. lie sheet uccrepat• are those premises !—Mr. Mesaster, an attorney, told sue he bonen tlw interest of the house at Shasion fur inlay pounils..of the trusters. Tu whom did he pay the money ?—lle said to the trustora. Who are they ?—I [whey, Joins Hooper, Thomas 11 ' 11111111111cylaf, John Newman, and others. Do you know say thing of the other pi - unities do. In whose occupati 111 l are they?-11r. Tomlin's received the rent, sod gave a receipt Its almshouse property for some. lu whose occupation is the house in Grove-laire!--lea nings; but it is au a hied state. In whose occispation is the house, shop, and warehouse —Mr. Peter Daniel. What slurs he pay?-11. 7s. per year. %Vhat is its worth?-1 have set it dawn, in the paper be fore the Committee at eighty !moods ; ►t may be worth a bombed. The Nail where six houses stood, in whose occupation is that'—lie embody's. The trustees, as they call themselves, let the bowies fall down. The uorth iti whose occupation is that ?—Mr. Har bin. A cellar and bars, in whose occupation is that !—The cel lar appears to have beets leased nut In • person Si his was a trawler, with uthrr premnas, its 1778, nii a mused, ration of thirty pounds, which was never accounted to the town, as I Itchsve. What was it worth ?—The barn shout 41 or rat a year; it belong. to ihe pr. mi... above, at Soi. a 'ear. The ,ese,vrd rent was tascuty-three shillings, as above. Whir was the I..x's?—&sward Phillip, awl others, as (coffers nail lroslers of the resale. Who were the leasers?—Mr. Seward was the lessee of she cellar. And do any of these trustees let leases to iheruselves Dalin lensed our a great deal sit the almshouse to him self and Paul little or 110. fines. What rent did Ise tease it fur ?—Ten shilliusa , and it was worth twenty protilds. Did those trustees of those f ourrharitira, twins almost all the same persons, lease to each usher'—St o ur of them ; Mr. Greessliant has rot two or three of those things Mr. Penny bas got 111171 C of the almshouse broil. Is Mr. Greenhorn a truss..? of the th.srity of which he ha■ s lease ?-11e CAN himself* custos ur warden of the alms house. Is Mr. Penny ?—llais a churchwarden, and he holds same of the portrevire 'shamed some of ilw alrestrurow land. Mr. Grevesham is a burgess ?—Yes ; he says he is. What lease has he?—He ha► smite land of the pour alma house. 1 believe. What does he pay?—Very trifliiig, I believe. Is he a trustee of the pour almshouse'—He calla himself a hurgem. Is he a trustee of the iTohourai calla himself* imams or warden, and bolls, walla others, fallout-dont house, &e. What are the uses to which the church lands were drain. aryl ?.Fur beautifying the church, as we understood Is the (+mai 1/1111111iiiell 111 uraingly ?—1 received, s• churchwarden, money, V. la 411., and the land is estimated at 151)1. pol son r" into the court of Chancery soots after the year itlln !—We sustitinvil proceedings there in 1804. How Moe ware you in Chaucery ?—We are nut out yet ; we have paid twelve air thirteeu hundred pounds, said uuly received 1)h out there hundred irons the town. Have you found that court afford you relief?-0h! it has ruined me. Have you fouled the expenses heavy ?-01i, good Coil g. I have wished nipirlf mit of the world a 16,11111111 d lillll . ll soiree I have got into it ; it hits entirely ruined me; I haul a nor ha...turas, o bleb brought use in lour Of flare hundred a year, loth it hue sn n erd; and I have sow a wile anal family. To .I/r Witatingiuml Have you %offered any Hour IY thia roilri?—My heart all Iliniol.l broken. indeed my derma are so shook by the losses I have sustained lay this proceeiliog, that I acarcely know what I al o i s p rs ki a , g u at; stu d 1 have 4 a I mid eight children; it is the rang' grievous thing to nie I have ever kmovii; I was a elameliwaideli only too years o Collins.] %Vint have you found the coast of nuanta I y to Ix?—ht has cost me emit! 5001. and I am afr.lll Ido not know t h e worst or It yel ; 1 suppose the other part' will &in: in a bill azaiust us. To 31r. Marc] Be whose desire did you institute the prucerditif‘?—By au or.ler of the vestry, dated the 24th April, 1604, to the following effect:—" At a vestsy duly called and held, we whose unities are hereunto signed, do order and authorise the churchwardens to call upon. the oci oi piers of the choir% hinds, and every other persons whom it might concern, for payment of the rents and arrears thereof, and on nonpayment, to sae any person or permits fur the said rents and arrears thereof; and also to reqaest of the 'rosters of the choir+ lands, or any other person, to produce Its them all deeds and writings relative thereto fur their iiitirnsatiwo ; and further, to prosecute any suits, Ili the mainiaiiiing and re-establishing the charity and rights of this lawn ; and we hereby authorize ind cap...ler the said therein...role to reimburse themselves all costs and ca p. uses attending this lousiness aforesaid by rates. As wit ness our lianas this 11411 i April, 1804." Signed by fourteen principal inhahitants of the town. This was a meeting held after many different vestries had been called on the subject. The reason of this was, that Mr. Phillips, the vicar, pro mised to meet the vestry three weeks before on that day ; and instead of his rpoming, he sent a note by his curate, Mr. Tumkius, to say, the (catkin. n that bad any books, leads or writings relative to the charities, wets to withhold them; and if the town and churchwardens were not satisfied, there was a roue to apply to. Is it, aceordiug to your estimate, estates, Nome in bend, and some en leases ' to the amount of upwards of 2 , 0001 . a year, that ought to be applied to four charitable purposes in Yeovil ?--Yea, I know the property well ; I have been over it and setts it several times, moil I have no doubt of that being shoot the 'ablation, was it nut leased oat, or more. How came you to be so much money out of pocket, soul that you have not reimbursed yourself out of the rate ? Massy of the trustees would nut pay a farthing. Have yen any means of reimbursing yourself?—Only by the court of Chasseery; the parish is in our debt about 5231. as on the church book. Have you ever kvied a rate for it?—They will not grant any thing. Do you mean to say, that yon having been ousted of your place as churchwarden by the opposite party, in con sequence, as you represent, of having taken part is. these inquiries, they being in possession of the offices, refuse to les y a rate to reimburse yon ?—Yes. Might you nut have brought your action against your suc cessors of the parish, generally ?—Yes, but what call we du; we have isu MOW y to go to law with, we have spent so much already. Du you mean to represent, that having found the court of Chancery so expensive, you were unwilling to go to farther expense ?—We cannot gss further; we have dropped every thing. There was a mass who promised to pay his share, it 0000000 noble to fifty pounds of that 500/. ' • 1 wells to law wills busts ; it came km at the last Assizes, and it cost me uearly 200/. Did you recover the fifty pounds ?—No, they said it could out be slime, In it was o u t out of Chancery. VOW mock hiss it cost you altogether fur your proceedings in Chance. y and at law ?—.t bout 1,2001. besides our trouble and travelling expenses, and about SOO/. at the assizes the other day. Fur loin 1,100?. autl upwards what have you pined for the charity '—lt is almost as bad as ever it was. There is little or Ito dilfereaer, soul we suppose, have gut our oppos es-Ilk to pay likewise. !low toug have rut been in the collet of Chancery ?—Ever since ISOS ;itis c plete ruination ;it is worse uuw than ever it was, as the attorney employed as dead. Is the easy beard, and dues it stand fur judgment ; is it ready to hetlecidell ?—lt is in no state at all, that we know of ; it is nut two-pence better than it was at first. Were there any other other falls of timber, besides that in ISM ?-1(5 s, at the almshouse. I was up there to look at it some time ago. The will of the founder requires that it «hall be entitled " Wobouro Almshouse ;" and I saw upon the door ass Suss:6oon, " This almshouse was taken sloe it and new built, at the expense of Mr. II enry Dutso, of Versa." Dors he sauskriake the MAU:kip:Mein of the foods?—He did at that time. Was be bintselfiti the occupation of the lands?—lee leased oat lauds awl some premises to hiaalit if, without or no fines *hats vee, At what reads ?—Sosive at ten shillings a year; some more, some less, as 1 before stated. Smith°, ite'a Charity, founded 22d Edward 111. endowed with Seven Messoages, and This ty Acres of Land, in Yeovil, Kingston, and Ilarsh. 18 Edw. I 1476, John Wohnuin founded and en dowed an slinbhunse fur one mato, a master, two wardens, and iodate toast people of both sexes, and in 1177 settled on the said fuoudatausa, 128 acres of land:, Si;,mead :, and FA:, lying iu tneford Fitzpaiu, for support of slid poor, tool mouth...ante of it chaplain to perform SCrviCe every day in a alive' erected fur their use. 1 7 Edw. IV —Montan Bartlett, vicar of Yeovil, and others, cool. 'red 14 IMMO:121V SIDI 21 acres of land iu Yei.ril, Ash. Mgt ~,,, lituastots mad !Milord, all held under the abbot of Sll.ll, on the above institution, aud confirmed by Edward the Fourth. In the year 1619, a suit in Chancery iwas commenced by the pour of Yeaavtl against Francis Sutton and others, fur de mising and selling sundry parcels of land beluoging to the alinshause, considerably midair their known real value, i o the iujor y o f the said charily; on a hearing of the mow, the Lord Chancellor ordered a conimissiuti to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, mud Dr. Hussey, tole of the Mos ta r% iii Chancery, who passed a decree; Ist. That the tremolo and rooms of the said almshouse wegligilice was inexcusable, and that they should pay ten pounds to the poor of the said almshouse. 2al. '1 lint for a fuller smeuds unto the poor people, the tenant. a liai had t.kesi Irises for longer item than the sta tute for hospitals permit, flotilla surrender the saute. And ;Idly. That from henceforth they shonlal let no leases fo► looter ICI nn■ than the charter fur their foundation sod the laws of Ilse lastil permitted. Which bring certified by the said commissioners, the Lord Chaucellur confirmed the same. The rides and orders are by Mr. John Beal, vicar of Yeo vil, el clor attack Dennis, and sometimes fellow of King's Colic ge, in Cambridge, extraried oat of the trauslaled copy of one of Ilia tripartite indentures, which i■ attested by A. Maynard, to agteit with the writing indented, lying is the vestry of the Moults of Montacuto, and aids the wettings in dented, lyitig es the coffer of the Bishop Balduck, is the cha pel of Saud George, at Pools, to London. mem*. 5 die Jv,illl 1815. HENRY BROUGHAM, £9. 11/11w Chair. William Parnell, Esq. s MemGer of the House, examined Cu yen inform the Committee *hat is the state of edu dalton among the lower claws iu Ireland ?—There is al pre sent a great deal of activity with respect to the education of the lower el in Irelaud ; Ibi re are three great souiccs of instruction ; the chartered schools, the Hibernias aunt ly •ichools and the Sunday school society in Ireland. should ad.l, there is another society in Dublin, though par ticularly disigned in its oiiginal constitutiou to distribute 014 4111)10140. 460 reillirre giro' assistance. . . \►that kumber of children are iu the several Chartered Ibuol,o-1 .10 nut llus, the irx3ct slumber I think they are about 2,500. Are• those ibildren boarded as well as educated ?—They are boarded ag well as clothed. 11 hat is the expense of Moor schools ?—The gross expense of the a hole is abuul h 0,0001.; Ike parliamentary grant being UOOOI. and their uwn funds about 10,0001.; it is upvinsda of 50,0001 lA. )oei know what is the present state of the chartered schools ?—They have been very such improved since the examination which took place about ten years ago, in the Duke of Bedford's administration. They were formerly iti a very had state, were they Dot ? tcs, they were iu • very bad state. 11,e children uneducated and neglected in their health, and employed in manual service without much instruction ? —Vts but that glair ha• been cournkrably altered and improv ed ?-11t is better than it was formerly ; but it exists to a eettain &gm roma. Ide Was tbere tiny ieittiry the Irish Pat ham ut holms tate . ° f those schools , F-1 - bers s. Itici the Committee make any report ?—They Do you keen at what period it was?—•l du out exactly recollect. Do you conceive that so large a :aim as 50,00it1.a,, n i i tal y might imbibe expended in a more benehri 1 way in the eta callow of the huh poor *:—Ai the rate they charge for t h e day scholars that sum would educate ba,non children, aml calculating at the 'Aleut expense which a child cum to the Sunday school, it would caucate near 300,0011. Do you knuitri that• ill the national schools they calculate the expeone from sa. to 8.:. each et u kt ?—y ea . Upon the nutleatfitaystelli. from sine is. ton hundred mid eluldrwn mil& he tethicate.4 awn witty, 11•141•11i1 or 111 , 11111 I wl iiiy.fire 11(414111rd ?—li r. . Do you think that a .e.-apro plan of inhibition wusW be of great benefit to irehind —Very great ; though dare is * considerable extent of ethieatitio at pretient, there are vast trails of cunntry where no schoutt or any kiad exist. What is the nature of the I.niolun Hibcrujin soelely The London HltwrlllLll society is carried on by.* society in Loudon by voluntary suhicriptions.auii the wanner in which they pay schoolsoastets its Irelaud is secluding to t h e pro gress that the children make. Do you know, whether they have inspectors to vigil thy several schools ?—Thsy have. What number of children have they under their care?- 1 am not very ctviaiii as to she number; I believe amity thousands. You stie not perfectly acquainted with the lialure of that institution?—No. What do you know of the Irish Sunday school society?— The Sunday school is carried on by vuluidniy tuition cut....... ly e the teachers art gratuitous. How me they supplied with books?—They arc supplied Gum Dublin. Are there many of thole schools in different parts of Ire land ?—About te4 at prearnt. Do you know the number of children •hu attend them '— Lieber wort thou 59,000. (To as confintted,) NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Pammimnuin t mccusrmit 21. Came into harbour the Rosario brit, in be paid ntf. Arrived the Catharine Green. Holland, from the Drowns for Jamaica; Amet,ll, Atkins, from Amsterdam fur Hawaii. nab, and sailed on her voyage. PENZANCF,nrcrwort 19 Put back the Caroline, Cock, trust I.o6;dois to Bury; end Ann and Elizabeth, from ditto fur Bristol; the bolter with sails split. lam" orcrldarit Arrived, and moat of them sailed 6w the River, the Ann, Reynold', from liteutmay, 1"le of France, awl the Cape; Electra, Rubinson, (rum Philadelphia ; Licho, Miller, fauns Tencriffe ; Rolls, Sstitms, fr Newfmmundlatimi ; Windburn, late Marsh, frum Defermi Anna Maria, --, from blessios ; Betsey, Evans, from Dublin; Peter and Juke, (rum St. Michael's; Richard Mackin, —, (rum Odessa ; and Valiant, Tnyler, from Newsy. Came down flom the River and "ailed time Adamant. ; John and Robert, .lap; Orpheus. --r; and 31"..misrut. Arrived and sailed tire Lady Adventure, —, from ShieWo fur Gibraltar; Cummutrr?, front Greenock ftr Unties_ dam ; Ibis, (tom Newcastle fur Cis:triple; and Attila merles, —, fot Sirtin. The brig Effort, Baker, of London, from Crplimilouk h i m Roll, gut on shore this mur gMI the Gmiudwar Sind, and it is frayed sill he wrecked. Ti n master and cm ew ire us board the North Sritd.hrtmd light ;COWL, coder piaractine. Alan got on t'..e Coedwisi !land this inorisiuz, the b. Mary, ficui Ireland for Luudon l bulb her in tuts are cut nriy, and it is feared she will be lust ; if the * e a_ liter eontimata moderate, the chief part of her cirgu will be saved. Five o'Cloch.—The iF gout. to pieerts. MRIDLINGTOV, urcimacit 19. _ _ _ The Albino. of Perth., struck again►t toe roolit Pier yesterday 41 euterhoe this harbour during a gide of wind, utd hime to her alas boss d bow, MII.I 611011 ly aro, o.srihr sunk. She has been oeigkil with casks, s ou s go/ Into Lye harbour to be tcpaireJ. DARTMOUTH, DEMUR/A ID. Arrived the Helena, Sch. liaue, from the Brentru, id rt leaky stair; K le) to, fi um .141. warp fur Calcutta—hail. t-plit. mix.rono, lITCENIDER The Bee. Richard., ou Thursday lasi, !i:ta beau righted without annuli damage. conc, DFCRMSF.R. 17. The Undaunted, Carlton, from Bristol, for Nrw Itror%a irk, luta put back much strained awl leaky, baring been twelta pecks at aca. DELAMERE FOREST.—This vast tract of laud now 11.941111eS the appearance of cultivation, and a large portion of it is in tillage. About the half. way between and Stioiliway-heal, a c 'lira inn has been built by T. CHOLMON DELEY, E.N. of Vale Royal, which bear, the togn of toe arras of the ancient abbey of Vale (Chester Chronicle.) PRICE OF STOCKS VESTERIMY. Bank 5t0rk...'2674 ~ !6st I India 80ntb..... 78 7.; 3 per Ct. Heil... 771144 I 7 7 p r . 31 per Cent... 8644 I Ex. 11t11., 2... 9 16 pr. 4 per Cents...... Ditto, Coin— .1... per Cents, 1797... 10til I Lottery Tick. is2l/ 1. 4 . Bank L. An. 19 15.16 0 1 Oniunioi 1- di.. Irish 5 per Crut..... 104 i I Cons. for Arc. DEATH. On the 21st instant, at the advaueed age of 88, Franeet, widow of the late Ehinivl Masters, E•q. of Yolra Court, Merriworth. This Lady was great-auut to the rrevrat Viscount Torrington. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT lA)N Moritiug 40 after 9. j Evening 13 idler 10. Where an assemblage of talent and MX ile11 , 1( . 1 . concentrated in one hue of practice. t •u..'. -• 0 1 110 ', attend their application, not to be found el.,. here. Th.' has been evinced in the Establishment Ike at Charlotte-House, Blackfriarssroad, nuJ at lVo..ilstork• House, Woodstock-street, Oxford-street, where ewes ate every day performed io • ..,211 which have baffi..l the 4 . 11 of eminent professors. and excited theie astonishnirtit. The Medical Board have particularly attended to cm...- guessers of a certain disra...., whieh entails the most di,. trysails' debilities, and wilio.l.4es the constitution of Wilt vexes. They also remove the effects of those symptom• arising from juvenile indiscretion, from irregular 1 and from a lung residence in warm c•inirtes— of this srription they beg particularly to Notice obstinate ermoi in the skin, sore throat, pains in the !wad and limbs, i.e. iiiiestly mistaken fur rheumatism, strictures, fistulas, 14141 phula, &c. Messrs. COOPER sad Cu. after kart t )'s" practice in various Hospitals, are conaulied at W01..1-1.•• k. street, Oxford-street, daily, from eight till eight ; and at .he Medical Board, Charlottes/louse, Great Cliiiriuttr.st.e.t. Blackfriars.road, precisely from twelve until eight in 1[... rveiting. Mechanics. and pets sus of moderate ;new, •. have advice, gratis, if they attend at certain buss, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings, until one "'do( k • and every evening. from six to eight.- 9 4, 01 A a:de door, s;;; private rooms for females LONDON: Printed nod at WI 4)1 co, No. Strand; where Atlverllsemenit ate receive'', and 11. 0,01 (post paid) Inuit he addrcasert—C. 5.7 1 /ITI I , Oemeut's Inn. Prito•r —.I WHITE. Na 157 Si' •" Pleb!ither. I ~_. •