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an Old toilst,;e that said it was better Erbegiu et Isoisse.—Pros. Yes Sir, likely 'tie. "Q. Hail you a petition?—A. Yes. I Sad a peti. flow ; then. were some words at the top of it ; but o I can't partesd to say what it was about, bat I know 'it was for Parliamentary Reform. Mr. Dattecey—What is that Mr. D.—What is that Parlianitistary Reform ?, ....I slots% know jos*. Mr.'D.—No, you neither know nor eare, I sup .l/111e..111 lung you get your 3. * day ; did you get 'nothing. eke ?--Thrser who those gave • peony. or so, to send it up: this 1 .gave to Mr. Parkiron. Q. Dist you explain the Petition to ihUSW who 'tsigssed it ?—No ' it explained itself. I have used i tlw words butdon't know what they were. Q. Had you not a few little phrases of your own to treat them with ?—Little—what? Q. P. few phrases ; a few words to address them ? -.."Cot to tlw best of say knowledge. Q. Did yon not mention any thing about, • new King ?—Not Suit I know of. Q. Will you swear you did not?—Yes, I will swear it. Mr. D.—Thai's a good fellow.—tr.ssorkter„) I Q. A stew Constitution; what do you thin% of 'that ? Did you oily it was time and right that we should have a Dew Constitution ?—I fo r get wh a t I 'said to the people; I cannot paneled to my. Q. lloroughmouger• ! do you think you said • little about them ? —I did express some such words a- that; stow you use it. I think I did say nutmeg about ilsrowthisiwgering factions. but that is al most ont of my yheed. Q. Whet are Bonsughumnsering factions ?-1 , don't rightly know what it means, but 1 have heard Mr. Johnson speak about it. Q. Where did you hear him speak. goon Mr. I Illsacking-maker?At Handley, I think. Q. What time was that ?—I think about • week before I went about with the Petition. You went to hear him speak, did you ?—Yes. I Where did Johnson come from P—l don't know ; be might have stopped a dsy or two there. Was he acquainted wills the school-master ? Yea ; I have seen them together. Wh e re ?—Whew Mr. Johnson got op to speak, le spo k e f rom a waggo n. I was in the crowd. .1 don'tirecollect wring him before that. Flow long was it sifter that. that he agreed to give you 3t. a day was hired about two or three drys before. I was to gn from house to house to as people to he pleased to sign the Petition for Perlis,. mentary Reform. Did you know it was opposite Mr. Spode's ma• nufactory you pitched your tent ?—Yes I did. Were? you not told you were not wast ed there ?-- No. I was not. %Vete you going to his men ?-1 1 410 ; I only went there to get signatures. I had a table, which I put down in the place. What had you ?—A table. Where did you get it ?—f got it from • neigh bour ; lout I don't know who brought it tome, but I carried it to Mr. Spode's, opposite his manufac . tory. Mr. Jost ice BORROVOR —Did you go for the por poise of gettiog Ilse signatures of Mr. Spode's OW isufacturers ?—Yrm, L did. Mr. I)suSICST-1 should like to have the speech you snide ou that occasion, because it is likely I shall sever have ass opportunity to hear such an other F—(1104111,91-1 can't recollect whet I said ; it was upon the Petition. It is gone up, sold was received by Parliament. The Petition had two leaves, which were pinned together. Mr. DAUNCET—WeII, now that you have got your table, yourself, and your Petition, before the manufactory —now fire away—tell us what you said ?...Prlbti• I don't know. Q. Did you tell the people to go to church ? A. I did mention church or chapel ; I forget the words I said. Mr. DACIICZY—Give us the substance.—Pros. I don't know how ; all I recollect was, that 1 asked them to sign the Petition. Mr. Dsumcer—Did you see a Mr. Man ill A. I might have seen Martin on the road ; I know trot whether L SAW loion that day or not. Mr. Justice Boaaoumt—Did you not go to the manufactory purposely to catch the men as they came out from work ?--Pros. Yes; I went to get them to sign it, because I had nut gut any signs. hares frost any of the houses where I had called. Mr. Justice Buitaouou—How many signature" aid you get from the houses ?—A. I think not Omer thou live or six ; but I got a good many from the people at the table. _ _ Mr. Justice Buitaourtu—..What did you say to induce them to sign it ?—A. I forget what the words were I said to thetn—sthey were those used in the Petition. Cress-exwainalius lettainted.—lle had been de• sired to go away daring the time lie was accosted. When lie was getting siguateres, Clay told him to stand his ground. but he was much confused by the water being played upon him. He recollected saying. " I will make you repent of it—you have dune just whet I wanted." They laughed and shouted at his, sod that was the reason why he reed those words, and by using thew he thought they would give over. Mr. DAuNCgV — Yow thought that after a skewer would come a sunshine. Did the squib go through the Petihou thus ?—(taking up a sliest of his brief and pushing lois finger through it)—( Load laugh ter.)..A. I don't know thst it went through it ; it was very wet, but I think I put it under my coat. As soon as the water was all gone I went away ; a person took toe up and had We shifted. Mr. Davucay—l shall not follow you through that part of your story, as it might be dangerous. What did you do after you had shifted yourself ? A. I dried the papers and went petitioning again. I went as ttr a. the Vine Ism, at Stoke. M►. DAVNeelr—You exposed yourself and the Petition again. did you i—A. Yee, but not in the na me way ; I know I should not like to be exposed again i n th e sau t e way.—/ lareghter.)--1 then Sent to Mr. Porkiness and got paid. Mr. U.►uxcST—How much did you get in pence ?—A. It might be•ahuut a shilling. Several bundled* signed it that did not pay. Mr. DAUllealf —And you hare never been petit / s wim% since ?—A. No, I had enough of it.—( laugh )—I carry on my Llacking trade now. . Mr. Da.onceir—You mean to say you are a shining iharactstN—A. I don't snow much about law Mary Ankers was next railed. gibe stated that she was a married wo.nati; she was preseet when they were playing the entire upon the Prosecutor ; they were as violent as they could be. He walked off, but they atilt Inmates( hills, pouring the water sou him. Hazlelnirsr, Taylor, and Wood. were there. Drekiu conducted himself peaceably and , q.tetly. Mi. Diiilscrw now rose to addiess the Jury on helpilf pi the Defendants. Mr.*Justice BUssonen, in recapitulating the evidence to the Jury, begged that it might be un derstood, that he did not mean to say that the peo picked not a right to Petition rur the reform of any grievances they considered themselves laboorisig under; however blameable the conduct of the Prow secutor might have been, in placing himself before the manufactory. foc the perpose of catching the diets as they came Iset. his object must hose been this, as he had stated that. be could not get suffi cient siguitureisut the looses where he hail With respect, however, to the Defendants. he had no difficulty in israbounring. that what law called a riot had been committed. and if the Jury believed the two witnesses, the riot And assault upon his per son were made out ; if they believed this, they were sets highly illegal, and, the Defeinlants must be. found guilty. however improperly the Prosecutor might have behaved. The Jury merely turned round to each other, sad to the evident astonishment of the Court, pro nounced the Drfendanti Net (;rally ! ! ! MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—D cam LOVERS QVARRELS. 'HITT V. TAYLOR aid arcurrucw. Mr. DeullAN opened tins case. It was an action bronght by Miss Ann Britt, who was a minor, through the medium of her father, to recover the value of certain property which she had &Toltec! in the care of the Defendant and his wife, and which they had refused. on demand, to deliver up. Mr. SetYenta VAUGHAN addressed the Jury. His Lamed Friend had explained the nature of this ruse, which was an action to reenter certain articles that had beets lodged iu the hands If the Defend ants by Miss A ibis Britt, a young woman of respect able family and considerable personal attractions. The Plaintiff was an inse.keeper in the town of Chesterfield, said the Deteisitant, Taylor, carried on the business of a slater in the same town. It was his usizanni wish to hare *elided stating the circumstances which Ise had to disclose in • public Court of Justice, but he had no option, and was therefore forced to proceed. It would appear that the young female, whose name he had mentioned, had formed • very improper connection with a young mall of the name of Thirkill ; by inipro. per, he did not mean any thing of an immoral ria tore; site had. in fact, in clefiance of the wish of her father, come to a deter iii i t lotion to marry this her favoured lover, who held the humble situation of horse-keeper, at • neighlsonsing Inoue of public resort. Mrs. TA) 1.. r, one of the Defendants was the confidant of both parties, and in fact lent every encouragement to the pioposed connection : her house formed the rendezvous of the young couple, neither of tvlium muds excreded fifteen years of age ; and, in fact, thingt wrist so far; that Miss Britt, in the anticipations of her wedding, purchased a great number of articles, sudi as wearing apparel, silver spoon., &e. which site deposited its the cus tody of Mrs. Taylor, until the match should take place. As the young lady grew older, howevec, either from the effect of her father's exhortations, or from • consciousness of the imprudence of the con- lieclion which she cooteniplaied. she altered her o►iud. and resolved to abandon Mr. Thirkill. Al. _ . ter this prudent revoke, she communicated to her father the amount of the purchases which she had made, and the manner iii wli she had disposed of them. An applicaiion was, iu consequence, made to Mrs. Taylor to restore the property left iii her care, but she refused, and hence arose the necessity of the present action. The total value of the things sought to be recovered, among which were silver spoons. which were esigrived with the con. joint initials of the intended bride and bridegroom (namely, "J. A. T." John and Ann Thorkih), was about :23/. The only difficulty which he should have, would be to prove this value. Mr. George Wright. linen-draper, was then called. He proved that lie had sold to Miss Ann Britt linen-drapery goods to the amount of 61. Betty Beard proved that she hid been sent to Mrs. Taylor to demand some things for Miss Britt. and among others Miss Britt's picture, which had been taken fur Thirkill. John Short also proved that he was present when a written list waa drlir•rrd to Mrs. reybar, the contents of which were demanded as the pro perty of NIU4 Britt. She said she had not got them, but They knew where to find them. Some other witnesses were called to the same effect, when—. Mr. Ci.sexx addressed the Jury for the Defen dants, and expressed much surprise at the wanner an which this action had been brought. It did not appear Mr. T. had any participation whatever in the cosidoct imputed to his wile; nor, in point of fact. was Mrs. T. in the slightest degree to blame. His Lemmas! Friend (Serjeaut Vaughan) had, indeed, with his usual ingenuity. and with that happy facility which lee had of converting the most trifling occurrence to the most important, amid the most important to the most trifling. thrown about the case a sort of romantic veil which shut out from the eyes df Isis auditors every tiling which might look unseemly, or detract from the graces which lie had bestowed on the respectable and amiable young heroine of his tole. It was his busin e ss, however, to draw aside this magic curtain, and state facts as they really righted ; to &hew who the young womaii,was, amid who was the young man to whous.. she lad acted the part of au un kind and cruel jilt. The beautiful bliss Britt was neither more nor less than the chamber-Maid and waiter in her father's small Mu. Mule she waited upon her fathei's cus tomers within doors, her amended husband waited upon the horses at a oeinlibouring home without. In what the superimity of The one over the other cos.= therefore, die was at a loss to imagine. The young couple had known each other from their infancy, hod it was net unnatural they should have formed an attachment. to which the lady tirst proved false. Previously, however, she had purchased the articles alluded to, and gave them, not to Mrs. Taylor. but to Thirkill him self. directing him to keep them until they were married. He did keep them until he set out in the hope of obtaining a permanent place at Lin coin ; and 'baring his absence he intrusted them to Mrs. Taylor to take care of them o►► his account. She lila take care of them ; and on his return, un successful from his journey, she gave them bark to him. and consequently could not meet the Plain. tiff's demand. During the absence of Thirkill it was that Ann Britt prOvedlalse, and perhaps fillll ing somebody she liked better, abandoned all those vow* which she had before made, requiring even the resto►ation of the picture %%Inch she had had painted fur her lover, to which at least he was entitled. Mr. Baron G A attoW--The picture, as well as all letters. are invariably ritarned when lovers quarrel. —Marls laughter among the ladies.) Mr. CLARKS 6441, he should call young Thirkill to prove the facts he had opened. Jolla Thirkill, a decent-looking young man. about lg. wee then called into tl* witness box, and attracted general attention : his appearance was not that of a despairisig lover. Mr. Baron Gsaaow here suggested the expe diency, on both sides. of vtithdrawing a juror, and having the articles restored' to the Plaintiff. This was agreed to, and a juror was withdrawn. The picture of the young lady was then de livered to Mr. Selma Vaughan, as au earnest of the intention to give up the rest. THE POOR LAWS. • REPORT. FROM THE SEI.ECT COMMITTEE ON THE POOR LAWS. The Select Committee appoiutrel to consider of the Poor awl to report their Observations thereopuo from time to time to the Wow, herr, pursuant to the Order of the Mow, eoliemirred the same scrosilingly, sod weed to the following Report:— The Committee appointed by the House in the last Session of Parliament, having in their Report presented to the House such to comparative view of the assessments fur the relief of the poor at uhf ferent firs-hob., no the materials which they then possessed enabled them to form, have stow to snake some important additions and corrections to such statement. For they have been furnished with some Returns, 'roads in pursuance of the Orders of the House, of the assessments in the years 1748, 1739. nod 1750 ; which were not known to exist, till they were discovered by the researches of Mr. Speaker into the Records of the House during the reeves. And though those accounts, from all the counties except fsair, appear to have been more or less deficient, yet it will be found, by a reference to the Appendix, that such deficiencies have been supplied by the assiduity of Mr. Rickman, one of the Clerks Assistant. in o way that will probably be thought to render them sufficiently accurate for the purpose of costiparison with those of subsequent years. Nor is. this the only advantage to be derived from those documents; for it has suggested a more summary method of obtaining similar information, if it should be required by the. House, through the prompt and effectual means of the Post-office. The House hove now also, at length, in their possession, the returns made tinder the Act 55 Geo. 111, of the assessments for the yearvynthsig 25 March, 1813, 1814, and 1815. embracing an abundant and valuable mass of informatiors.--- From these it will appear, that the obstruct of the assevsment for the year ending 25th March, 1815, which was returned to the Committee in the last Semion, anti printed in the Appendix to their Re port, was materially incorrect, in consequence of mistakes made in preparing it, and deficiencies existing at that time in the returns, which were wholly u licerl. The whole sous raised by as sessment iu that year was stated to amount to 7,068,9991.: whereas it was really 7,457.675/. ; the sum expended on the poor was stated to he 5,072,028/. instead of 5,418.8451. The result of the whole of these additions and corrections, will afford the following Comparative View of the Sums raised by Assessment, and the Sums expended 011 the Poor, at the different periods to which those authentic documents relate. Teal Expended rah. d. on Poor. Avenge _1748, 1740, 1758.. t 730,135 .... Y 499,011 Ye5r....1778 ........ 1,790,310 .... 1,830,804 Averaae..l793, 1781, 1785.. 2,107,746 .... 14.104.237 Year ....1803 Arerage..lBl3, 1814, 1815, 8,164,490 .... 6,119,144 Your Committee have placed in the Appendix • summary of these latter Returns ; but to the vo luminous details contained in these Returos, they feel it unnecessary to refer, except to express their apprehension, that the eighth column, which ►tates, the °somber of persons relieved from the Poor Kate permanently, not nee/labi l e the children of such persons, must be, in a couside►able degree, calcu lated to Ind to an erroneous conclusion, from the prevalence of the practice of atrording relief no minally to parents, though it be really ou •ecouut of their children. Your Committee, upon their appointment in this Session, proceeded to consider which of their former sugeesti .... s it might be expedient to submit to the House, for the adoption of Parliament, without fur. titer delay. No time has been lost in putting such measures into the form of legislative cinicintepts, moil they have instructed their Chairman to more fur leave to bring in • Bill, or Bills, on those sug gestions (us the first instance), which, as far as they can judge, are moat generally upprovtd, and tend to amend the administration of the existing laws; while they are proceeding to reconsider other pions of the subject, in which snore doubt and dif f iculty muy naturally be expected to arise. hard 10,1818. On Saturday last the remains of Frederick Rymer, who cut his throat 111 the New Prison, elerkenwell, were interred in this new burying ground, St. laws, Claketawell, in s moat re spectable manner. He was attended to the gave by the turnkeys of the prison as einef mourners, followed by an inroteuse concourse of spett.settrs. ILBANic PAPERS RELATING TO TILE OEWERAL TENTIARY AT MILBANK. Ordered, ►y tho House of Corps, to be Priem!, Mara 2, 1218. Report of the Committee of the General Penitentiary at Milbank fur the reception of convicts, made hi pur suance of the 68 Gen. 111. cap. 83, sec. 39 ; speci fying, The state of the buildings, the behaviour and conduct of the respettive Officers, the treatment and condition of the convicts, the amount of. their cant ing., and the expenses of such Penitentiary. There are at present iu the Penitentiary, 11111 male, and 118 female convicts. The portion of IM • prisms now completed, was originally intended to contain 200 prisoners, and was represented in the Costner Report of the Committee, to be calculated to ac. cosnutudate that number. In consequence, however, of au alteration which was made last spring in the manlier of lodging the prisoners, the present buildings will he found ca pable of receiving nearly 300, instead of '2OO. Io the first distribution of the prisoners, they were all placed in differ rut cells by night, from those which they occupied by day ; No that two cells were 'Betted to each of the prisoners of the first clam (who are by the 56 Geo. 111. to be kept separate from each other during the hours of labour, as well as by night), but owing to the facility afforded to emstilation by the coostruction of this prison, it has heels found practica ble, without inconvenience, to make one cell serve both as • night cell and a day cell fur every prisoner of this deseription. The Committee reported at the commencement of the last Session of Parliament, that It would he necessary to adopt measure, fur giving addif I stability to some parts of the present buildings; ocecirdingly means have been used for that purpose, mid taro towers have been takes, down to be rebuilt un a better fonudatiun. The Committee are in formed that it may be necessary to take down two more towers, but they understand from their architect (Mr. Sasirke), that there is not any enure foe apprehension in regard to the other ports of the buildings. ' • The officers behave wish mildness to the prisoners in eon ' fortuity to the directions given by the Comsuittee ; and no instance has occurred of any complaint made by a prisoner of harshness or ill usage. The conduct and demeanour of the female poisoners is highly decorous; the male prisoners, many of whom are boys recently received from Beeville, and for the present without employment, are less orderly, but even in these much improvement has taken place since their arrival. The opinion of the Chaplain on the general state of the Penitentiary, will best appear from the following extract, takes, from she C.llitilielolll of his Journal fur 1817; at which time the prison had sot beta open to male offenders for one complete year, vie— " Is the course of she year one of the female convicts lies hcem baptised, and 17 males and 46 females have beets con firmed by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, at a ealpfirmation held by his Lordship in the Chapel. Sixty. ththe females sod ten males have received the Holy Sacra ment, but id' this number of communicants the C h aplain thought it neenesary that three elsonid not give their atten dance al the admiuistratioa of that solemn ordinance ou Christmas day, and on Sunday loaf; and he has always con sidered it es a duty to explain very fogy to them, that their attendance at the Lord's Table will not be marked by any forum.; but that it will rather cause their conduct lobe more strictly serutinited and watcbed. 1.4 • " The convicts who were first swat to the Penitenliao), bare inset of them conducted themselves in an exemplary manner; and indeed the general behaviour of all has far ex ceeded the - oxpectal of the Chaplain, when he reflects that many of them came b. re without education, and from the haunts of vice. From what be has already observed, be trusts that the system of moral and religious instruction adopted in the Perlin utiary, will be the means of reclaim ing many from the paths of vice, by breaking their con nexions with profligate and abandoned companions, and of restoring them to the society of their friends, and making them honest and industrious members of the community." Sufficient time Ina nut yet elapsed since the Penitentiary has been in operation, for the Committee to report any of the convicts Gr the Principal Secretary of State for the Hume Department, seder the 25th section of the 56th Gee.-111, as proper objects fur their merit in the prison, Ip, be WOWS waded to the Royal mercy; several have received pus Majesty's pardon, founded on circumstances unconnected with their behaviour, since they came nnder the care of the Committee; but is, every such instance, it has bred ascer tained by previous infinity from the Committee, that the conduct of the convict to the Peniteatiary, though nut the ground of his pardon, has nevertheless been such, as in no degree to dinaiiiish his claim to the mercy of the Crown. The general health of the prisoners appeari to have been good since the bat Rsport, especially whenit is considered how prevalent fevers have been In Loudon, and in many parts of the country. Foar female prisoners have died since the prison was opened fur females, in June, 1816, and one death has °cell, mil among the males since the first reception of male contacts, iii February, 1811. Of the four deaths among the females, three were occasioned by disorileis which were contracted previously to their admission i n to the Penitentiary ; vin, two by consumption, and one by eimpsy. The female prisoners have full employment, chiefly in needle-work. Their earnings during the last year will be stated separately from Mom of the males, at the cud of this Report ; but of the male prisoners many are yet unem ployed, and the whole earnings is that part of the prison are not very considerable. tl to übvions, that some time must elapse, before it can properly be a►certniurd what trades can be carried on with advantage within the prison; end even the trades in which the arrangerneuts of masufactere on be must easily recon ciled with the discipline of a Penitentiary, cannot be ex pected to be immediately productive, as almost all the bands employed are to be taught their trade before they eau make ai ticks 61_ for sale. Some of the prisoners are employed as tailors; and the Commissariat Department, with a view of giving them work in this line, has sent iu a quantity of cloth to be made into great-coats. The Committee have reason also to believe, that there will be no difficulty in finding employment for men, of the male prisoners in store-making, as soon as they shall be suffi ciently instructed to be able to make articles that are sale able; Node, ibis isn premie% a perms has been lately hired, in addition to the ordinary turnkeys of the prime, fur the purpose of teachiag this boldness. There are besides several male prisoners, who work at different trades, wart of which may be found advantageous, mid may be taught by them to other prisoners, such as earpet-making, turning, friuge-asaking, the manufacture of glom beads, Sic. he. ; aud although the collective earnings of the male prisoners during the first year after the opening of the prison, have not been considerable, owing to the causes which have been stated ; there are some among the tailors whose work Is sum worth from eve to six shillings a week, at the moderate prices fixed on their labour in the prisms ; and others who can earn from tea to fourteen shil lings weekly, as shoemaker', who had never worked at those trades before they tame iuto the Penitentiary, and iu regard to whom, it may be doubted whether they bad heels long ',s played its any holiest way previously to their imprisonment. The Committee see no myna to doebt s that when the system of manufacture within the Penitentiary shall be fairly brought into operation, most of the male prisoners will earn a sufficient sum to defray the coot of their food and clothing. The present charges of superintendence are, of course, very high, owe** to the °enmity °flaring a complete esta blisher:teat of superior °filar', while the prisoners ouster their rare bear only a small proportion to the uumlier which the prima will coutain when it is finished. Na complete sew building has beets added to the Peni tesitiary in the cerise of the last year, but the foondation, and • part of the brick-work for the portion of the prison which is eventually to be occupied by females, ars muted ; and the Committee suilenitand from The Supervisors, that it is intruded to raise sod cover is the whole of that building (calculated to curtain 400 &mak prisoners) before next winter. In this case the Committee will probably he able is the • count of the string of 1810, to rtmove the fernaleivri , :otie, from the portion of the prison which they WOW °mom, and to comply to their member to 400, taking in at the same time ISO inswe teals prisoners. . The Committee cannot couclude this Report without eargeatly recommending 'AA this plao should be proreeded In'Odtbourdelay, at their expeclatlna of advantage to the public, as well is regard to the produce of the work of the pritioners coafined in the Pesitentiary, se in respect to the moral effect. of such confinement on their habits and be. haviour, has beau increased by the experience of the last year, EARNINGS OP THE FEMALE PRISONERS From the Ist January to the 31st December, 1817. To the amoant of work received L. r. d. L. s. d. from sundry pervons 341 1 71 To the ammo of Prisoners' aro- imp fur work 110 a e for the lase of the establishment To the amount of earnings by Pri soners acting Wardsmen, and in the Wash-house, Laundry, ke. calculated at 64. per diem each 187 12 0 519 17 tl EARNINGS or THE MALE PRISONERS From their reception, which commenced in February, larl, to 31st December 1817. _ . To the amount of earaisgs for snak y L. s. sent out of the Prison To the amount of earnings fornork done for the establishment To earning. by Prisoners actin( as Wardsmen, Bakers, Cooks, &c 466 6 A Total amount of smutting' ..... 976 3 6% EXPENSE. To the amount of all expenses incsrred he. tweet) the Ist January and 31st December, 1,. s. d. 11(17 Of the above rum there has been expended, in fittings up and a:lerationa of the Prison for the temporary occupation of the Ft male Prisoners, the sum of 2,022 4 41 Expenses of the Establishment L 9,303 10 S CHAS. EDMONSTON E. GEORGE HOLFORD. CHAS SHAW LEFEVHE. W. MELLISH. DAVIES GILBERT. Dated this 2d Mardi, 11119. I MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT GUILDHALL TO-MORROW. M. w. T. Legg, Cooper's-row, merchsot S. Green, Umbelll, blacking-manufacturer 3 12' W. H. Ware, How-street. music seller DIVIDENDS. R. Collis, jun. Ronsford, watch-maker .1. Jameson and Cu. Little Queeii-street,coach-mikers lO J. Griffin Little Ryder-street, man-milliner Y. mod W. Pidgeon, Stock Excliati4e Coffee-hodse, ta vern-keepers CERTI FICATES. P. Shortman, of firi7l;l,shopieeper.—S. Card, jun. now or late of Mere, Willa, farmer.—H. Statue;, now or late of Liwer Thames.street, London, iroomooger.—W. fte,l‘, of Kings-Mews-ate, Ovate-street, Lei fields, Nllddleara, Ilneo.draper.—S. Price, of Clirow, Radoor, farmer, - We have heard from good authority, we appre. bend, that MATTHEW WYATT, Eq. the zealcnis and respectable agent of the late and present L0..(1 Drt.i.on, has recently tendered his resignation of that office. Impressed, as we are, with a due sens e • of the great advantages which the representative of a considerable landed proprietor, possessina ability. 'intelligence, and humanity in a high degree, and regulating his conduct by strict integrity and lin. smut, wrist confer upon the tenantry committed to his care; we cannot, upon public grounds, bot regret sincerely. that Mr. ii'VATT is about to take his departure from n country where the influence which those qualities beget, was, of course, readily acquired by and conceded to him, and which, by it. judicious application. was productive of the best effects, and afforded the most general mati•fitlion. The retirement of Mr. WYATT from office and licits hence will call forth the lively regret of every malt of every doss in ilia neight hood, who ktinw. the value of very active and disinterested frietai-hip combined with quick penetration and sound judg ment.—(Alumo toriaty Paper.) Extract of ak letter from the *gent to Lloyd's at Ostend, dated March 18, 1818: " On the 20th instant will be lighted op the new light am the Church of West Copelle, ut the island of Walcheren. This will be very conspi cuous on approaching the islaiid from the north ward or westward, as the light will consist of 3 2 lamps. with, 1 understand. eight reflectors of 3S inches. chewing a light on 51-20 degrees of it circle." From South America we are furnished with several articles in the American Journalr. The Commercial eldvertirer of the 17th February con tains the Iblluwit►g: " Captain Lane, of the brig Franklin, in 3S days from St. Martha, isifiormos in that the Patriots we.e e.rrying all before them to the windward. About the 26th January, the Patriot troops, four or six thunsand strong, were within a day's march of the city of Santa Fk which was garrisoned by only about 200 Royalists, sod they in a sickly state. " About the same time, • fleet of test sail came to the mouth of the harbour of St. Martha, and than stood to the west w*Bll for Carthagena, for the purpose, a. was supposed, of blocking that port." PRICE OF STOCKS ON SATURDAY. 3 per Ceut.Cutis. 78 771 I Ex. 13,11141... 14 la pe. 78 Ditto, 1-17 15 16 pr. 5 per Ct. N. An. 105 ii Lottery "idles 11. IR.. 106 I Cone. for Acc...... 78,1 t Indio f10w1g.... 90 pr. I MARRIAGE. Oa Saturday, at the New Church, Mary-le-lane, Lit-u -truest William Drew, R.N. of Braduinch, Devuushire, to Awe, youngest daughter of the late E. Baker, Esq. of Fu place, '-' ' DEATHS. On the 17th instant, after a fro days illness, at the !mutt of her invaluable fa ieud and near relation, Mrs. More, near Bromley, Mra M. Shitiln, daughter of the late John Shaw, M.P. fur the County of Durham, and sister oldie Idle Cunn ing of Lisburne. On Saturday, at 129, Strand, five tnitititra after top o'clock, Mrs. Owen, wife of Richard Owen, Req. late of the Secretary's Office, East India House, in her 70th year, On Wednesday, the ISth intl. Mrs. Jane Cowie, aged 61, widow of the late Mr. John Cowie, of Lea Bridge, Chiptun. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON GRUDGE. Morning 5? after 2. I Evening 10 after 3. LON.U4 I N . reinted auu l'ab;lalard at the Nice. Nu. 127, Stsand; where Ad.ati•etnenta are received, and Lenet• post raid) must he addressed—C NAIITH, N.- 1, Clements Inn, Printer—J. WHITE, No. 127. Stroud, Publi.ber. 1 ~„L ... __