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MI:7.IOIRS OF CAPTAIN ROCK, gift CELLIMATEII IRlsll CHIEFTAIN I WITH SONE ACCOUNT OF lIIS ANCESTORS. WRITTEN BY lII3ISELF. [Continued front the British Press of Monday:l We Vest proceed to the reign of JA m Es 1., when we find 'on still extending her sceptre over the Irish, whose moral rights were trampled upon by each Monarch in his turn; they antlered patiently, hut their patience procured diem no relaxation, and their submission brought them no senility. This Sovereign had artfully contrived to intimate that he meant to dispense the blessings of civil liberty with ;an equal band ; but this intimation was thrown out when the reins of Government were not yet in his hands. No sooner did he find that he might safely treat Ireland as his predecessors had treated her, than he not only renounced all appearance of justice, but audaciously disavowed the very imputation of it, as though it had been a sort of seandalitin magsatum ; but we will give the relation in this writer's own words : That the theological quibbles of this vain pedant should hare puzzled the Catholics of Ireland into a belief that he vault to favour • their religion, is not at all surprising. Ile had also dace them pro. aims, before his accession to the throne, which they continued mum loyally to put their trust in, long after he had violated them all,—at Prince's promise being that kind of convenient talisman, which may be broken over and over, without, in the least degree, . !oiling its churl. , It is erne King James ore fair notice of his perfidy, and was so f ar h ontsrer t h r ,,, some other Princes; for though, like them, he wailed himself of the discontent and hopes of the Catholics, to r_nd arms the measures of the reign which had preceded his own, et did he not, like them, attempt to carry the deceit any further, OT to keep hopes alive which it was his secret intention to blast ; but this. by regular Proclamation, announced to his dupes the niis take they had been under in having the least reliance upon him : " Whereof', his Majesty is informed the: his subjects of Ireland have been deceived by a false report that his Majesty was disposed to allowthem liberty of conscience and the free choice of a religion : he hereby dechres to his beloved subjects of Ireland, that he will not admit any sash liberty of conscience as they were made to ex pect by such report," &c. ke And here, at least, his Majesty kept his word. The exercise of their religion was strictly forbidden,—their priests were banished, and severe penalties indicted on such as should harbour or entertain them. All Catholics were obliged to assist at the Protestant Church service every Sunday and holiday ; and thus they, who had been called " imps of Antichrist," &c. for list-ring to a Latin mass which they did not understand, were now forced to listen to an English liturgy, which they, being Irish, understood quite as lit tle. By a refinement of cruelty, too, Roman Catholics of condition we appointed hr the state, under the name of Inqiiisitont, to watch, and inform against Mare of their awn containsiiins who did not frequent the Protestant churches on thedsys appointed : and if, through any scruple of pride or conscience, they neglected or refused this degrading duty, they were heavily fined and con denined to a long imprisonment. This was a sorry specimen of the influence of that genainel and primitive Christianity, to which the Pmtestants were so outrageously zealous to bring over the whole Catholic Church. Thank !leaven, the sacred rights of conscience have come to be much better respected in the present mie ; but we are still sadly deficient in that enlightened libe rality, which should grant to every man the right to think and reason for himself: There are yet but too many amongst us who, extraordinary as it may appear, wadi cally reject the precept of that Gospel they profess, which commands us " to call no man sport earth father or muster." Our conduct is inconsistent, even to insanity. We enact penal laws in support of a religion which forbids all Feeney( ion. And the spirit of that Gospel, which breathes peace and good will towards men, is made the pre text for the most rancorous hostility, and the most galling oppression ! As Englishmen of the nineteenth century, this spirit is sadly unworthy of us. It is remarkable that many persons, in all other respects full of candour and be nevolence, lose both these virtues, and their temper into the bargain, when any concession to the Cothoties becomes the setblss:t of discussion. But why is this ? Surely our calmer reflection must acknowledge it to be unreasonable; and our better feelings must admit it to be unjust. 'f lie Irish have shed their best blood for England ; and the re turn we make her is, to despoil her people of their rights, and to withhold from them the best privileges of that con stitution in defence of which they have fou ght! _ __ _ . . . Who can read the following account of the abomina tions practise , ' towards this ill-fated kingdom, without stigmatizing the authority which sanctioned them, as the most execrable of all usurpations? Under the pretence of a judicial inquiry into defective tides, a system of spoliation was established throughout the whole country,, and the possession& of every man placed at the mercy of any (ves ture of the Crown, who could detect a flaw or failure in his tenure —to ensure the certainty of which result, all juries, who refused to find a tide in the King, were censured in the Castle.cflarnber, and committad to prison. In one case a whole county was swept into the treasury by this process. "In the year 1611, on the seizure of the county of Wex ford, when, upon a Commiesion to inquire out his Majesty's title to the county, the jury offered their verdict of ignommas to the King's title, the Commissioners refused to accept it, and bound the jury to appear before them in the Exchequer Court, where, when live of them still refused to tind the tide in the King, the Commis. sioners commiued them to prison." With the Caine regard to jus. tire, six entire counties of Ulster, tinder the pretence of a conspi racy, which (for once, In 'relied) did not exist, were forfeited •• at one swoop" to the Crown. It would certainly not be quite prudent to try such ex periments upon the patience of Ireland in the present day ; hut certain it is, the wisdom of ow ancestors so contrived it, that the spirit of rebellion was scarce active multi- all I this excitement. The historian of the Roc s throws out 1 a conjecture, with his usual shrewdness, as to the cause of this preteruatural tranquillity, and commemorates it in a strain of genuine Irish humour. May it not have been the management of Parliaments (a game at shich both Court ar.d country were now, for the first time. learning to play), that a good deal diverted the attention of the peolde from more violent modes of asserting their rights 1 las experiment, like the beainnings of steam navigation, was perilous. and accordingly the boiler exploded in the following reign. But, even at this early period, the use that might be made' of such a machine against the people was clearly Perceived, and the first rude essays of our political engineers in this line, if not in structive' are at least amusing. Thus, in order to procure a majority for those penal statutes which were proposed in the frish i l Parliament of 11513,a number of new boroughs were hastily created.' to which attorneys' clerks and some of the servants of the Lord , 1 Deputy were elected; and when a representation or this grievance, atomic others, was made to James, his kingly answer was :—‘• It was never before heard that any good subjects did dispute die K ing's ltower.in this point. What is it to you whether I make many or mew boroughs ! My Council may imosider the fitness if I require' it : but what if I had created forty Noblemen and four hundred boroughs? The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer." Mathematicians (says Rabelais) allow the same horoscope to princes and to fools, and, however irreverent the notion may be, there are times when one is inclined to think the mathematicians right. The impatience naturally felt by the adherents of the Boor family at the unusual tranquillity which prevailed during this period, has been well expressed by one of my ancestors, in a spirited Irish ode, of which 1 have ventured to translate the opening stanza,, though without the least hope of being able to give any adequate idea of the ahruix and bursting energy attic original. '* R upes savant cartuina."—V mon.. Where art thou, Genius of riot ? Where is thy yell of defiance ? Why are the Sheas and O'Sbaughnessies quiet ? And whither have fled the O'Rourke, and O'Brien' ? Up from thy -lumbers, O'Branigan! Rouse the Mac Stumm and O'Haggerties ! Courage, Sir Cooney O'Toole !—be a ma.. again—. Never let Heffernan say, •• What a braggart 'tie!" Oh ! When rebellion's so fewiable, kill:re is the kern would be slinking off? CON or TIIE RATTLES! what makes you so peaceable? NIAL. THE anamn! what the devil arc you thinking of? The gift:ll pact of Eats is equally successful, whether he tunes his harp to the Loner of the A NOELS or the Lamce hair's's of the Rocks. His laughable sten= must have put the reader in good humour, and in that humour it were a pity for the present not to leave him. (To be continued.) PIT/ONE'S IN Niteroi/vs.—There saw now 53 prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate, 47 males and 6 fe male'. all of %thous were convicted at the two last Old Bai ley Sessions. It has been long a matter of serious com plaint amongst those who have the superintendence of the prison, that some reform has not taken place in the tempo rary modest disposing of convicts under such circumstances, Jai :rent as are the degrees of guilt with which they are chargeable. The 47 males have been in habits cf daily in tercourse, This intercourse both prevents the great crimi nal from receiving the aid of religion, and tends to confirm the vouag convict in his vicious course. It is not the duty of the Sheriff or the gaoler to make any distinction amongst capital convicts. Until the Recorder's report reaches the gaol, all under sentence of death are supposed to be posi tively appointed to die, as they were told with the usual solemnity at the bar when judgment was given upon them from the Bench. It is imp ossible not to notice the gross absurdity of the Recorder 's solemnly passing sentence of death upon 30 persons, k 3 of whom are convinced they will not suKr. genus his cave In 0! PC of tie rich his TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. SlR—From the judicious impartiality with which you treat all subjects in your well written paper, I am encou raged to request a place in your columns for a few cursory obrervations I wish to make on a pamphlet understood to be written by Mr. J. H—, in favour of the proposed St. Katharine's Dock. In page 7, he brings forward as an argument for erecting ' new docks, the " ruinous charges, vexatious regulations, and mismanagement in certain water-side establishments." These heavy and sweeping accusations, it' correct, have every probability of being destroyed when the existing ex clusive privileges expire, without the erection of new docks, because, if the present establishments do not correct them, they will lose their business, which will then only he pre served to them by their superior management ; the ex istence of such evils is not to he attributed to the want of docks, but to the grant of exclusive privileges to docks, in place of leaving the trade free to docks, quays, and wharfs indiscriminately.He says—" l'he total number of ships and vessels that entered the Port of London in 1823 was 26,419; so that, .calculating an equal number of departures, no has than 5.2,838 vessels, exclusive of small craft, &c. entered and de parted from the Port of London during the year 1823." This is a most extraordinary inference, and incomprehen sible to my weak understanding. As well might he have said, that if this new project succeed, it will put 1,0001. into his pocket ; so that calculating the same sum will find its way out again, no less than 2,0001., exclusive of pence and farthings, will have entered and departed from the pocket of Mr. J. 11. during the year 1824. If this new Dock Company pay their Secretary's salary and all their expenses upon this principle, I can at once perceive how they are to make such amazing savings. Presuming, however, that raking together all the cod smacks, Margate boys, &c. he cannot muster more than the first-mentioned number (26,419), I would ask him how many of these are vessels seitkfbrrigir eargwes, likely Ito go into docks or alongside wharfs? He will find an answer in a document to which he refers. This paper is titled, " Accounts relating to the Port of London. Or- I eler by the House of Commons to be printed, 19th March, 1824. No. 148." In this paper the Customs make the following statement of vessels entered the Port of London : Britiah. Foreign. Total. The year 1811. 2 773 - . 5.870 1821 - - 3.527 571 - 4,0911 18:0 - 3,648 - 1105 - 4,513 This paper likewise states, that the total lineal frontage to the river, of the legal quays and sufferance wharf's, is 6,451 fret. Now, reckoning that only two-thirds of the vessels which entered this port in 1623 were discharged, in the West India. East India, London, Commercial, and East Country Docks, and Surrey Canal, and that they were the largest description of vessels; and allowing that the other third measure, on an average, 75 feet in length, and take each six days to discharge, there would not have been two months' employment for the legal quays and suf ferance wharfs last year ; but the fact is, that a much larger proportion go into those docks. Out of 60 sufferance wharfs, which is the number in the Port of London, not one-fifth part avail themselves of the privilege ; and if this small proportion are to have their trade invaded by a body offering accommodation equal to eve times what they can afford, backed by partners who are the employers of these wharfs, the consequent ruin of the wharlingers must he I obvious. 1 have been told that the two sufferance wharfs whose premises and business are to he absorbed by this new dock, land and house upwards of 26,000 tons of goods annually. If this is correct, it furnishes us with some idea of the magnitude of the accommodation afforded by the sufferance wharfs in general. The new (lock promoters have made a great noise, and appear very much alanned about the 200 additional articles which the Legislature hare been so imprudent as to invite into the port of Lon don, without providing lodgings for them. On referring to the list, I find that there is in fact only 163 articles (so notch for erroneous statements and anonymous publem tions, of which the anonymous defender of the docks com plains), and if I am not trespassing too much on your valuable columns, I shall beg leave to extract a few of the articles, in order that the public may judge how bulky they are; and whether they will require thousands of people to be turned out of their houses, and 26 acres of lard con verted into docks to receive them:—Jewellery, trinkets, lace, dice, tooth-powder, beads, prints and drawings. com fits, marmalade, tobacco-pipes, garnets, medals, snaps and charts, tel, scopes, wafers, amber, essences, pomatum, co ral, pencils, and a great many more such like, which my grandmother's china closet could with ease accommodate. As to what he says about the wharfs only being capable of receiving flat Dutch-built vessels under 200 tons ; this is absolutely false, as I, myself, have seen very fine British-built coppered vessels of upwards of 260 tons bur then discharging at the wharfs without the least injury, or rssk of it. From a paragraph, in page 21, of this dock pamphlet, it appears they are also to extend their paternal care to the coasting trade, whose charrfes they are also to reduce, so that not only the fraction of tlie sufferance wharfs, who still avail themselves of their privileges, are to be invaded, but those who, in the absence of other trade, have betaken themselves to coasting, are to be swallowed up. YO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Oxford, April 28, 1824. SIR,--I must apologise for troubling you with a com munication on a subject which may, perhaps, at first sight, he deemed of too local a nature to merit a corner in your Paper; but when you consider how shackled is the liberty of our newspapers in this place, in consequence of their dependence on academical favour, you will perhaps be good enough to notice it. Of how great importance it is, that into whatever other places corruptions may creep, the pulpit should ever be free from them, you are well aware; and it is with sincere regret I discover, that even this sacred channel is not un polluted by the most open and disgusting adulation. In a sermon delivered to the University of Oxford, on Easter-day, the preacher having gone through the evi dences of the Resurrection, requested that it might be expressly understood, that he had brought forward those evidences, not for the rwairmical but for the poruchi ti part lof his congregation, who, from their many other occupa tions, could not be expected to have bestowed attention to these things. He added, that he should not presume to offer instructions to that learned body, from whom he ought rather to come there to learn his own duty. Now if the preacher was really so happily conscious of the slenderness of his abilities, as to consider that he should be guilty of presumption in offering instruction to that body, why did he accept the appointment to fill the pulpit on that day, and not rather resign it into such hair% as might have done justice to the ample subject which the solemnity presented? Every clergyman osight to know, that it is not expected he should bring forward new theological matter, but press upon the attention that which, though often repeated, finds too easy an escape from the mind ; so that, in spite of his anxiety to establish a belief of his diffidence, the charge of presumption will return upon this gentleman, who considers the minds, even of the most learned, so naturally inclined to retain religious knowledge, as to render admonition unnecesszry,--stfen at those seasons which the wisdom of the chu, ch has set apart for this very purpose. Besides the courtier-like servility which the above pro fession displayed, it must not be unnoticed, that the preacher evinced a gross ignorance of the object of his ap pointment, in acknowledging that his remarks had been purposely prepared for the parochial hearers, because be was expressly chosen to preach to the academical body, there being distinct and separate services for the parishi oners, who are only present at the University sermon upon sufferance. The distinction, too, openly drawn, between the two parts of the congregation, at all times invidious, was here peculiarly unhappy, the parish being composed of the most enlightened and educated people in the city. Adulation so uncalled for, and so undisguised as that to , which I have adverted, could not but excite a suspicion, that the sermon looked farther than the profit of the people, and included that of the preacher too: and it is a fact most unfavourable to the removal of such a suspicion, that the Rev. Gentleman, who already enjoys the favour of the University in one situation, has a decided eye to another of the most lucrative posts therein, the appoint molt to which rests with the very body from whom he would rather learn his own duty than dictate it. It is submitted, whether such sneaking courtship of patronage, joined with so much ignorance, is likely to increase the chances of success to this individual in a future canvass for the Registrarship? or, whether, in all probability, it will not effectually obstruct those interests, which it was so palpably intended to promote? I am, Sir, your obedient Servant. SINCERUS. On Saturday last the annual dinner of the Yeomanry Officers of England took place at the Thatched House Tavern, Sir Thomas Turton in the Chair. Amongst the company, which consisted of between fifty and sixty, were Lord Grantham, Lord Cioninell. and several other distin guished Members of the Club. The dinner was excellent, die toasts of the usual description ; and after a very con vivial meeting, the company separated at about eleven o'clock. In page 61, he very liberally concedes that if the legal quays are aireettd, " it might hereafter afford a Fround for re-consideration in the amount of future rental ; that is to say, I suppose, that their present exorbitant rents, given on the faith of not being invaded, will probably at the end of their sixty-one years lenses be reduced, if the whartin gers, or their heirs and successors, are able to pay them up to the end of that period. Now, Sir, I shall not intrude farther on you, than merely to put a question which I have often heard asked: What is Mr. Dyng about? In all the debates on this Bill I have not observed his name mentioned, and yet I am told, that, in dependent of his constituents, he is personally interested in the question. Whether is it public or private reasons which seal his lips ? The revenue cruisers on the coast of Scotland have been placed on the same footing, with respect to con trol. as those in England ; the dmiral commanding at Leith has no longer the direction of them ; but this service will henceforward be vested in the Inspector-General for the Preventive Service in Scotland, which office is at pre sent held by Captain !Night; fortherly Inspecting-Com mander of the coast on Sussex. No license is required for a person to dispose of cider of his own making ; but such cider must he made from fruit of his own growth, and not from fruit purchased. A trades man in this county recently Rohl about forty hogsheads of eider, part of which was made of his own, and part of pur chased fruit ; the whole has been seized, and forfeited under the Excise Laws.— Worcestrr.harrnal. Rene tonarry.—Now living in the parish of Enville, near Bridg,north, a man aged serenly, who has drank a gallon of ale per day for the last forty years, independent of small beer ; and he is now in the habit of doing so daily. He therefore has drank the quantity of 228 hogs heads, 63 gallons each, in forty years.—Gleuerster Paper. ANOTHEN FOSPIT, Wirsr.r..—The workmen on the new line of road from the Alloa ferry to Glasgow, while cutting through some dry clayey land, a little distant from Dunmore park, discovered several immense sized bones lying in re gular order, and traced out the spine and ribs to a length of about 70 feet. Except a few, however, the hones crumbled to powder on long exposure to the atosphere, owing likely to the dry matrix is which they were incased. It is certainly very remarkable, that, in the comparatively few situations where excavations are made on the banks of the Forth, remains of these huge inhabitants of the deep should occur ; and it seems highly probable thnt a great number of these animals have been stranded about the same period, when the river flowed above the present level of the corn fields.—Stirling Journal. INTELLICENCE.—Copper Ores sold at Redruth on Thursday last, 2,291 tons ; average produce, 8.--Quan tity of fine ('upper, 184 tons.—Amount of sale, 13,7541. Is. —Average standard, 1091. On the night of IVednestlay last, a house was malici ously burned, the property of Coppinger Mac Mahon, Esq., at Lackanashane, in the barony of Clonderlaw, county Clare. The reason surmised is, the old tenants being rejected for non-payment of rent. FtzES.—The town of Wellington, Sbropshire, was, on Tuesday night, alarmed by a dreadful fire. About nine, the extensive printing-offices, binding-rooms, and ware houses of Messrs. Houlsten and Son, took fire, from a can dle being left a few minutes near some sheets hanging in the drying-room. The progress of the fire was uncom monly rapid, but from the speedy arrival of the engine, and an abundant supply of water, by two o'clock it was quite extinguished, after completely desttoying the greater part of the buildings (except the walls) extending nearly 100 feet, and also a valuable stock of books and printing Kistoirrs or MALTA.-It appear by the following let ter from Paris, which we received this morning, that the Holy Alliance entertains the idea of restoring the Knights of Malta to something like the rank which they formerly held in Europe :—" Paris, April 24.—Some sensation has been caused hereby the receipt of letters from Trieste, in which it is stated that the Allied Sovereigns intend to cede to the Knights of Malta one of the islands of the Archipelago. It is even said that the negociations on this subject are terminated. and that the result has been trans mined to Catania, in Sicily, where the heads of the Order reside. It is added, that as soon as the Knights are in stalled in their new residence, they will enter into a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, with the Greeks against the Turks. 1 give you this news as it is circulated here; all that I know positively is, that M. de Villele and M. de Chateaubriand have both unequivocally expressed them selves in favour of such restoration." NEWMARXET.—The Craven Meeting concluded on Fri day last. The report of each day's sport, and better run ning in general has scarcely ever been witnessed, has been given fully id our paper. Few Meetings have boasted of greater rank or a more numerous assemblage of sporting and professional visiters. The First Spring Meeting will commence on Monday next ; and we understand that an equal number of Nobility and Gentry is expected from the sport, which is more than anticipated. ilia Royal High ness the Duke of York, the Duke of Rutland, and Lord C. materials, which became a prey to the flames, or were de stroyed in the removal.—On Wednesday afternoon, a fire of a most destructive nature occurred at Long Compton, 11'arwicksbire, occasioned by a boy's going to a neighbour's house for the purpose of procuring live embers, part of which he dropped on some loose straw. The wind being very high at the time, the the quickly reached a thatehed cottage, from which it spread in every direction, and in less than two hours seven houses, several ricks of corn and Lay, and some live stock, were entirely destroyed. The inha . _ Manners, were the visitors to Mr. Douglas, at his apart ments at his Majesty's Palace, during the late races, at the conclusion of which most of the stars returned to town, but his Royal Highness the Duke of York, with the other visitors, and a few private friends, partook of a parting din tier with their host, and are again expected to join his con vivial board at the ensuing meeting. Newmarket has been placeusually designated a " s of business" during the races, but it has established its name as a delightful resort of the first characters in the kingdom, particularly during the season, for the hospitality and conviviality which then pre vail ; and the urbanity and attention of Mr. Pars, the pur veyor of the moms, fully justifies his appointment, which, by the last October Meetings, must be attended once at each meeting, by every member of the Jockey Club. bitsntsof the houses, who are poor people, are reduced to the greatest distress by this drtadful calamity.—G fouceeer Journal. On the 14th died, at his house in Sandymnunt Park, county of Dublin. aged 114 years, William Ashford, Esq., President of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and one of the original Members of the Incorporated Society of Arts of London. MELANCHOLY CA T A ATILOTII E.—Me. Jame! Milne, mason, and Mr. John Smith, manager of the Clayhills brick works, near Aberdeen, left ClaybiUs in a gig, drawn it appears, a very restive horse, on Monday, with die inten tion of going to the old salt works at the bay of Nigg. On their return, it is presumed, the horse had become unmanageable, and, in endea vouring to turn him into the right road, the reins broke; when darting off, the gin had come in contact with some large stones on The lovers of the Fancy will learn with Pleasure, that the road side, and both were thrown out and killed on the spot. They had been thrown with such extreme violence upon the stones, Ilanlan, the Irish pugilist, la to obtain his discharge im that it is supposed their deaths must have been instantaneous. mediately from the Ist Royals, stationed here, shortly after lt itt afflicting to state that th ey have each left a widow and family which he intends figuring again in the ring, for the honourtod eplore their loss, Mr. Smith having nine children, and Mr. of his country.—lrish raper. Milne bun—Cake/value Mercury. SHIPPING INTP,ELIG'ENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 27. ENTERED INWARDS. ISShelia, Maughan (Wilcox, broker), from Cadiz. Catherine, Holman (ditto), from ditto. Phylerea, Hill (ditto), from ditto. Ceres. My (Barry), from Almrria. :Merchant., Wilson (11.4tiley), from Charente. Sandwich Bay, Lance (Green), from Trieste. Jane, Mills (Archer). from Lisbon. Matilda and Susan, Power (Richardon), from Palermo, Brothers, Richards (Wilcox), from Cadiz. Quintillion, Gibbon (Bentley), from Memel. George, Davis (Archer), from Lisbon. Famalien, Na's ( Windle), from Frederickntadt Johanna, Duke (Footner), from Liabon. HereforAltire, !lope (Tower), from ('anon. Re!lie Cantle, Adana (ditto). from diqn. Jane, Every ( Arrher), from it. Michael's. Falcon, Row (Burnett), from ditto. Medleys. Croackley (Pirie), from Demerara. Ronk°. Hornsby ( Lender), from llamburgh. John, Lovell (Spencer), from Jamaica. Temple, Beady (F. Willitiota). from ditto. Sally, Cumming (Adam), from Lisbon. Aid, King (Coe), from Graveline Hero, Morris (Bloke). from Terceira. Dart, Stranack (Drihkald), from (Intend. Preceptor. Milne (Vertue „ from Tenerife. Fame, Owen (Buckland), from Charente. Arethusa, Anderson (Geddes), from Jamaica. Crawford, Thomas (Barry), from Bilboa. Juliana, Muller ( Bremer), front FAG,. Perseverance, Margolle (Redhead), from Calais. Vier Gebrooders, Niculand (Holman) from Iroreum. Young Phenix, Dundbar (Hoplina), front New York. Arnit, 211. ENTERED OUTWARDS—The Wilton, for Genoa; Prince of Waterloo, for Ostend ; Earl of Clancarty, for Rotterdam I Bri tannia, for Elaineur ; Po, for Calais; Cobham, for Africa; Hero, for Campeachy; Eddystone, for Prince Edward's Inland; Perth shire, for timid Canary ; and Phoenix, for Carthagena. CLEARING OUTWARDS—The Illulgrave Castle, for the Isle of France; Fanny, for Ellsineur ; Po, fur Calais: Ant, fur Ham. Wren; Mint, for Quebec ; and Columbus, for Bahia. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. FALMOUTH, APRIL 23.—Arrhied the John, Scott, from Memel, in twenty-one days. Sailed, the Lord Melville packet, for the Islands. The Danish ship Epaminondas, which put into this port 21st inst., has been surveyed, and it is found necessary to discharge the cargo to repair her, which is doing. PLYMOUTH. Aran. 25.—Arrived the Georgians, from Cape Haytien—asiled 3d of March, was dismasted in a gale on Friday, sad towed into this port last night by the Mary Jane, Nichol" from London, for Quebec. Off' the port, the Enterprise, from Jamaica; St. Vincent's Planter, Pew'lcy, from St. Vincent's, in forty-two days; Kitty, Haswell, from Lisbon, in eighteen days—Sailed the Zephyr transport, with troupe, for Falmouth and Cork. PosTswourit. APRIL 26.—Arrived the Surrey and Marquis of Huntly transports, from Depttbrd ; and his Majesty's cutter Atlas, from a cruise.—Sailed the Deverton, Wilson, for Van Dieman's Land. DEAL, APRIL ?G.—Passed through. the Lavinia, Sims; Eliza. Grandin ; Ariadne, Pitt; and Alexander, Just, outward-bound vessels, front London.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Blucher. Thomson, front Bahia; Minerva, Wickert', from St. Michael's; William, Johnson, front Jamaica; Louisa, Smith, from Madeira; Gazette, Anglesey, from Alexandria; and He mine, Simpson, from Sincapore. RA NSGAT E, APRIL 2G.—An anchor about 7 cwt., with a nun buoy, and a hawser-laid buoy rope, with a long splice in the middle, have been picked up on the Flats above Margate, and landed here to-day. A galliot iv on shore on the Southeast part of the Goodwin Sand. Several Deal boats have gone to her as sistance; nothing further known here. GRAVESEND, APRIL 2G.—Arrived the Phylerea, Hill; Isa bella, Alaryhan ; Brothers, Richards ; Hope, Clifton ; and Ca therine, Holman, front Cadiz. Herefordshire, Hope; and Kellie Casde, Adams, from China: Jane, Mills: Sally, Cummings; Gorge, Davis; and Brilliant, Hunter, from Lisbon: Thomas Grenville. .fanning ; and Princess Charlotte of ‘Vales, from Bengal : Hero, Morris, from Terceira ; Preceptor, Milne, from Tenerife; John, Loyd, from Jamaica; Young Piento, Dunbar, from New York; lithe, Trist, from Para; and about twenty others, names unkncwn. GREENOCK, Ara Ir. 20.—Arrived the Port Glasgow on Sunday, the Hallyards, Brown, from Demerara; sailed thence 6th ult. Left loading for Clyde, the Agnes, Lindens; and Paragon, Pol lock, to sail early in April; let outside the bar, the Alex ander, Kitchen, and Ellen, Ross, for Liverpool ; to sail next day. Spoke no vessels. Albion, 31`Caskey, at Salem, from St. John's, New Brunswick, 7th ult., for Greenock ; leaky, cargo shifted, three men bully frozen, and two others sick; and sailed from thence for this port, 20th ult. Orr Ewa', Aram 24.—The Celestin, A tdouin, from Bordeaux, for Dunkirk, with wins and spirits, put into this port on the night of the 234 inat, having lost her anchors and cables. It has been blowing hard off the coast the whole of the night. MAR3EILLEs, APRIL lii.—Hie Majesty's ship Revenge, Vice Admiral Sir li. Neale, anchored here lath inst., and will pro bably sail for Malta in a day or two. The ports of Algiers ae.d Bona remain strictly blockaded, and all attempts at negotiation with the Algerine Government have proved hitherto inc:Tectual. , JAMAICA (KIXORTOX) MARCIE Spanish ship. and the, Spanish ship Constitution, which sailed from St. Jam) de Cuba, for Cadiz, above a month since, have been captured by a Colum bian cruiser, and sent for LA Guayra. FATAL, Aram I.—On the 26th ult. it came on to blow vio lently from S.E. and continued to the night of 31st. On the 29th„ in the morning, the Isabela, Lilley, in ballast, parted both cables, drove on shore, and was completely wrecked. Crew and part or the stores saved. The Isis, Hutchinson, with nearly the whole of her cargo of wine on board, for London, was with difficulty saved ; she broke two anchors, and was supplied with anchors and cables tient the shore. APRIL 9. —The wrecks of the Isabella, and Probity, have been sold at public auction, together with their materials and stores. The Nelson, Wheeler, from Havre, picked up off the French coast. nine hogsheads of French wine, which have been secured in his Majesty's Customs Warehouse. at Southampton. The Probity, Cooper, bound to London with wine and fruit, and Isabella, Lillie, (in ballast) were totally wrecked at Faysl, during a heavy gale, which continued front the 26th to the 31st The Columbian, Brown, from Liverpool to Buenos A yres, yes on shore in the River Plate on the 6th of February—cargo expected to be saved. The Arrninius, Davison, from Baltimore, was wrecked in the River Plate the 30th January. The Diligence, Edwards, from London to Abevilovery, was on shore on the South Bank, near that poet, on Sunda}•. The Brisk, Capt. Charles Hope, sailed from Leith Roads for Sherrnets, on Tuesday. The Wellington, revenue cutter, arrived in Leith Roads on Thursday, from the West coast of Scotland. The same day the Royal Charlotte, revenue cutter, Lieutenant Fortescue, sailed frum the Roads. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Golden Fleece, English, Liver pool to Bahia, all well, 17th ult. ; Ethelred, for Jamaica, all well, fah inst., by the 11...roine, Simpson, arrived at Deal Venus, Tate, from Greenock, 13:h inst., all well; Friends, of London, tbr Jamaica, all wcll. 17th inst., by the Luna. Bishop, arrived off the Start. Jane, of Liverpool, Livingston, for Val paraiso, 27th ult., by the Clifton. arrived in the River, all well. Charles, of London, :41st Oct., with lOU barrels of oil ; out six months. 11'ellington, of London, 11th Nov., with four whales; and Victory, of Lo.)cloa, 1.4 I/ee., with eleven whales. Cam. brit'gc, of London, for the Cape of flood Hope, 18th February. Brothers, London, for Now South %Vales, let Feb. William ltothbone, Baldwin. Liverpool, for Africa, 31st Jan. Amity, Bristol, to Prince Edwarrra Island, 12th inst., by the Frances, lliwiinson, arrived at Liverpool. SUPERIOR EYE-WATER. • Take tour ounces of cyc-bright tea, cold, sixty drops of tincture of opium, three tea-spoonfuls of pure acetates! spirit of ammonia. Mix, and apply it to the eye by means of a bit of line old linen rag, so as Inlet some get within the eye-Sl—Be sure that the spirit of ammonia is genuine. Cold water dashed about the forehead and temples, or poured over the whole head, every morning on coming out of bed, is also one of the best things for strengthrning and brightening the eyes. A Score!! 'At oa.—We are sorry to any that the streets of this city exhibited last night scenes of disgraceful riot and vio lence. These took place on the North Ilridge chiefly, anti on the High Street, where a mob of blackguards assembled, and insisted that every respectable passenger should take off his hat. Those who demurred were instantly. pelted with dead eats and such other garbage as could he found. Fur some hours the streets were held possession of by this mob, and no passenger could venture with safety along the bridges. ‘Vhen these rioters were tired of mis chief in this quarter, they proceeded to the Mound, and wantonly attacked the caravans of the wild beasts and other public exhibi tions, some of which, in their brutality, they almost entirely de molished. The stage in front of Mr. James's caravans a part of the mob seized upon, and hurled down to Leith, where they threw it into the harbour. Ott their return they wantonly broke almost all the public lamps on each aide of Leith Walk.—We do not under stand how these outrages were suffered to continue for such a length of time, or why a sufficient force of policemen did not long before clear the streets and apprehend some of the ringleaders. It is not to be borne, that in a pt.pulous city. one of the leading streets should be kept possession of by a mob of blackguards, for two or three hours, so that no decent person could make his way without bring exposed to insult and outrage. The mob were driven from the Mound by the policemen, after which they returned to the Itridgcs, and kept possession of them to a late hour. They were prevented, however, by the police, from doing any farther mischief, and Revers! of them, we understand, are in custody—Cakdoslaa Alf crettry. Hazard and Co., who sold Three Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds to the present Lottery, respectfully rnnind the Public of the approaching conclusion of the ',cutesy. Next Satur day is the Last Hay but One. The Wheel contains Two Prizes of Twenty Thousand Pounds, besides other Capitals. Tickets and Shares are selliqj by Huard and Co. at their old-established and fortunate Offices, Hoye! Exchange-gate; enenhal ; and 324, Oxford-street, end of Regent-street. LAW INT P.Lita Excr. 1 COURT OF CHANCERY, Aram 27. The Loan CHANCELLOR resumed his sittings this mongag eleven o'cluck. HABEAS CORPUS. Mr. kiowniou applied for a writ of fl ebeas Corpse. to brim up before his Lordship Edmund Walker, a bankrupt, for the yat pose of applying to this Court for his discharge.—Writ EXPARTE AIR GREGORY PAGE. TURNER. Mr. TR r: s LOVE applied on the part of Sir Gregory Page Turner, that he might be at liberty to see at all proper times Mr. Davidson. as his solicitor, who purposes to conduct the traverse of this inqai. numb for Sir Gregory. This professional Gentleman has twice bass permitted to have an interview with Sir Gregory, but the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison hes now refused to admit him Roy more, unless by at order from his Lordship. Mr. PHILLIKORE appeared for the Committee of the rut estate, and after stating a few cireuinstanece which have been often stated before, he concluded by saying, it appeared that Mr. David son was not known to Sir Gregory until a very few days ago._wlitu he wan supposed to have been recommended to him by Mr. Thomas; and if his Lordship permitted Mr. Davidson to attend Sir f; and to go on with this traver s e, whi c h t wo different solicit ors already declined (aftet und.rtaking), he hoped that that (laudanum would be put upon terms to proceed without delay. His Lordship said, as by the Act of Parliament Sir Gregory wu clearly entilled to traverse if lie thought proper, if he was inclined to do so lie could get Mr. I)avidson, or any other Gentleman, to conduct the traverse for him ; and it was unreasonable to suppose that that Gentleman should not have ample seems to Sir Gulps,. which access he would now order to Mr. I havidson ; and after be has for a short time enjoyed it, he may be able to sty how soon he well can proceed with die traverse, which it wu mint desirable shies& be seen. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Amt. 27. NONTHEY PEARNE. Mr. KNIGHT moved to discharge an order that had beon oh. tamed by Mr. Beanies, to compel the plaintiff to make his election to prosecute his suit in that Court or at Common Law, and the innund on which he moved for this discharge was, that the eider had been procured on a talon suggestian. It appeared that the plaintiff had filed a bill against the defied. ant for the recovery of certain yenta, at,d had also instituted nee. tiun of ejectment against him at Common Law, but the= matters subatantially distinct, the Vlc 1-GiamicsaLOß d the order for election, with costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, TUESDAY, Arm 27. COOK v. WOODTV. This was an action against the defendant for keeping an h o spital for horse*, by whose coughing and kicking the plaintiff's Wilily and lodgers were disturbed and prevented from sleeping. The d. Pensive stench was also stated to be an intolerable nuisance. The landlord of both houses, who lodges with the *WC proved the nuisance. The 'cue was put In in evidence. It stipulated that the tilled. ant should carry on no businsis that should be noisome or 00011etre to the neighbours. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff for 5001. subject to a cos ference to some gentlemen who should inspect Ike priming, and direct what should be done. The parties reside in Ocorgc-street, Portman-square. MT. SCAR LET T and lUr. WILDE Conducted the plaintiff . . MM. The COMMON-SERGEANT and Mr. PLATT appealed he the defence. THE KING t'. THE PARISH or NARY.LA-DONNR. This was an indictment for not repairing the road on the north side of the Regent's Park, from Portland Town to Camden Town. In defence it was contended, that this road was included In the 33d of Geo. 111., which provides that certain roads in the *pet% Park should be made end repaired by the Crown and the Mho of Portland, and that the use of the roads should be limited by at tain restrictions. The road was admitted to be beyond and with out the Regent's Park ; but it was argued, that being within the limits of what had formerly been Mary.latonne Park, it cams within the provision of the Act. The LORD CUIEV JUSTICE had no doubt at all that this road was not included in the Act, but was free to all the King's sub jects. The only question, therefore, was, whether the road had ever been properly fanned. Mr. Hastings proved, that in 1818 the mad was properly formed, and that since then persons passed continually with carnage, and hones, until it becsine so bad that it was scarcely Mr. James Ellis contracted with Government re. r ilabl making this road, and completed it in Ow year 1818. Alr. Gaze'. Ee addressed the Jury at considerable length, and contended that the road wai never finished, so as to make it a pub lic road. In point of law he was prepared to maintain that it could not be a public road until the whole was completed. This toad was intended to form a commuiecauou from the x;dgeware.read, around the Regent's Park to Portland-place. That line of road had never yet been completed. :Several wile:inset were called to prove that the toad had never, in their opinion, been sufficiently mule. Mr. Scaat.reir r, in reply, contended, that if the road was formed and completed according to the discretio.) of the CAINOVOiIISiOOOII of Woods and Forests, it must be found a public road. The LORD (21IIEV JUSTICE, ID summing up, ookl, the Tee tion was, whether the road had been famed is a isemnahlo sod proper manner. Mr. Ellis had made the mad amording ruble ose tract twelve hiches deep of gravel in the middle, and Motgletimm ace, both sides. But the witnesses far the defence hail seed Mat bawl materials ought re" have hien laid upon the clay below ate grand.' It was for them to say whether the road, as actually made, as a road " formed and completed" in toe terms of the Act. The Jury retired for some time, and returned a verdict fur the de end: Gatti y. Mr...ilia:lElr and Air. A:111111AM Wire with Mr. ScanLETT„ and Mr. MERRYWEATIIER and Mr. DARTNELL with Mr. Gaset LiE. The trial Lasted nearly four hours. HASTINGS t•. HARDING. This was an action of nO;er t; Yee o;er the value of • rose diamond brooch, and two blue snaps, delivered for sale to the defendant, • jeweller ' in Oxford -street, by the plaintiff: John Tilbuty, the defendant's shopinan, proved the delivery*, the goods, and that the brooch had been sold for 31. Ills.; the sails were still in the defendant's shop unsold. Ou cross-examination he proved that there had been a hag ac count running between the parties, on which a balance was actaaUy due to the defendant. Another witness was called to prove that he went with a letter to the defendant. requiring the proceedsof the goods. lie was olfered the snaps back, but told that the brooch was sold. Two other witnesses were called on their sub's:eau, and the plaintiff' was then nonruited. Air. JONES conducted the case, and 3lr. SCARLETT the defence. STOCKDALE I*. TURLEY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff; the booksdkr ip Pall-mall, against the defendant, a cow-keeper, at Kensington, for damage sustained by a variety of noises and nuisances by which a house rented by the plaintiff, adjoining the defendant's cow-yard, was rendered exceedingly disagreeable, and almost unfit for the re sidence of the plaintiff's faintly. It appealed in evidence that the plaintiff took the house at Kensington, early in the year 1812. Six months afterwards, the defendant took the farm-yard, which had formerly been let with the house to Mr. Rhodes the cow keeper. Afar the defendant commenced the occupation of the yard for the purposes of farming and keeping cows, he sent there a great number, not only of cows but of pigs, who were in the day-time tumtd loose abcut the remises, and who had taken the liberty of rooting up the plaintiff's garden as well as their owner's grounds. It also appeared that horns bad been sometimes blown at unusual hours in the night and morning, and that the defendant had suf fered some indecent proceedings to take place almost immediately under the windows of the plaintiff's house, whose female lodgers had been in consequence driven away. The Jury, under his Lordship's direction, found a verdict forth° plaintiff, on the first count of the,deciaration, with reference to the blowing of the horn and the indecent practices suffered by tbe de fend,a.L to occur in front of the plaintiff's windows. As to the other alleged nuisances, his Lordship was of opinion they might perhaps he Inseparable front the management of a farm, white certainly the unnecessary noise of the horns, and the other practises were not. The damages were assessed at one shilling only, with consent of the plaintiff Mn. C. PHILLIPS and Mr. PATTESON conducted the plaintiff's case. Mr. SCARLIeTT and Mr. F. POLLOCK tne defendant's. SHERIFF'S COURT, KENT, Aran. 26. CRAFT ER u ITTISTV.I. This was enaction brought by the plainti ff ' against the defendant, foe a libel on his character. 'The detkodant having sufficed jufig ment to go by default, a Jury was this day summoned to We Green Man Tavern, irackheatli, to awes the damages. .Me. C. PHILLIPS appeared for the plaintiff: The der...admit couducted his case in person. Mr. Piticct PS said, that he appeared on the part of the plaintiff: to appcal on his behalf fn such dumages as he ought to receive tar a grows and malignant libel. published against him by the defendant. For forty or tiny years the plaintiff had been in the service of his Majesty. Mr. Crafter had, when he entered the service, found that the mode by which troops wire removed fiom the county of Kent to that of Essex was exceedingly expensive, and he suggested • plan that tended much to dimini.h the expense to Goverfftuent. His suggsitfon was adopted, and to himself was assigned the task of executing it. It was the termer custom to employ a number GI boats : thia custom was modified under Mr. Cratier's regulation, and a small sloop was engaged, and the boats merely employed to convey the troops to and from this sloop—he engaged at the rate ef 14a. lid. today, to furnish the sloop, and to keep her in repnir. The boats belonged to the Ordnance, and they were to be repaired at the expense of Government. Mr. Phillips then went on to state the libel, which visa charge by the defendant against the plaintitf. of the latter's having emb=sled ordnance to led the years 1807 and 1814. Sir O. Howe was examined for the plaintiff, and deposed, that the Duke of Wellington had directed the present action to be cum. meneed, or the plaintiff could not remain in the service. The defendant then addressed the Jury, complaining that the action had been commenced against him when he was In insolvent circumstance'', and urging the Jury not to give heavy ilan'ages. Colonel Landon, of the Engineers, and Genera/ Osabbett, gar, the plaintiff a very good character. The SHERIFF, in summing up the evidence, gloserve•l, that the Jury would give damages temperately and 1111:14111Iely, and not such as m let have the effect of immuring elle RAH an Ms within a prison. _ The Jury retired fur about a quarter of an hour, end returwd a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages atIlL vi 4 I I I • f i • I I 4 I JJ I# 4 l 1 ! i I ( ! 1 I I , , ti cared liaant ioned to an cially even Mel/u )(wig -1 and Bing, Id be loser. mu asure eye, o the ; anti leo of ruled mpg id be-