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THEATRES. DRURT-LANS. Guy Manuring was performed on Saturday night to a crowded Slid fashionable audience. Mr. BR A lio,. as !kora Bertram. 11:111% with more than his accustomed effect. That splendid piece, the last words of Marmion, in which YUCII exquisite feeling i s un ited with so much science, was givcii in a style d iv est perfection f lint it was for the celebrated sir. 6 , Seats wha' hat." that Mr. BRAHAM reserved all bid „ ogles , We never witnessed a more over more surprising effect from any exer tion on the sta t s.e. The feelings of the singer hi m ,eff seemed to have ',ern wound up to a great degree of excitation. The i tis pis ur . lau guage of that beautiful composition received ad ditareel force and point from the coutitelialice and the action of Mr. GRAHAM. even i n d r p ent l eti t of the matchless sweetness of his voice. The performance created one blaze of enthusiasm through the house—it was like inspiration ;at that momen t,, we believe, every heart in the theatre would have drained its dearest veins" in the cause of liberty. The song was given a second and is third time amid the tumultuous applause of the h ogoe „ Miss Blume oppeared asJwliu Martiering. In her duet with Mr. BRAIIAM, and the substi l uent songs, she displayed her usual sweetness and exe cution. She was very deservedly applauded in the sang, "Why host Mott taught meta hire thee ?" She i n troduced with great propriety the charming melody sf 'Twos within n mile of Edinboro' town." which she sang with so much sweetness and simplicity as to he Mildly encored. Miss CAREW sang very charmingly. " Rest thee Babe" was an exquisite perform ance, displaying a great deal of science and a great deal of feeling. Mrs. EGERTON'S Meg tticriiks was, as usual, powerful and affecting. The rest of the characters in the opera were sus tained with much talent, particularly OxrEttax's Sunipscrit, and BUTLER'S Oundie mont.—The farce of High Life below Stairs fol lowed. and was supported by an unusual combina tion of talent. The united powers of ELLISTON mid lIARLET kept the audience in a continued roar of laughter. Mrs. GLovea's Mrs. Kitty displayed that lid, strain of comic humour for which thin ex culleitt actress has been so justly celebrated. COVENT-GARDEN. Public expectation had been fur some time very hi4hly raised by the announcement t h at SHAIC• SPE.% I:E . S Comedy of Errors would be revived at this theatre, with new scenery, dresses, and decora tions, and a selection of song', duets, glee., and Oioroses, entirely from his plays, poems, and son nvte. The revival took place on Saturday night ; and in consequence the house presented one of the most fashionable dress circles and the most over. flowing andiences we have witnessed during the present season. It is but strict justice to state, that the general curiosity was most amply repaid, and that the gratification derived from the repre sentation was proportioned to almost any degree of expectation which might have been entertained of it. This play is formed on a classic model, the plot having been taken from the likersechrni of PLA (ITO!, which was translated, by a person entitled %V. W. in 1695. Considering the number, the variety, and exceollence of SHAISPEARE'S works, and in how few instances he was indebted is a similar way to the productions of antiquity, we should think vain enough to imagine that ally thing coming from so humble a quarter at this period of time, could have that effect) that it would add to, rather than diminish his reputation, to observe that this comedy appeals es largely to the credulity and indulgence of the reader mid spectator, as almost any other effort of his mighty genius. However, the whim locality of the incideirts, the spirit of humour which pervades some of the parts. the constant fund of amusement and mirth, arising to the spec tators, who are its the secret, hotn the never ending confusion, perplexity, mistakes, and mis understandings between the parties, in a great degree compensate for the want of verisimilitude in the basis of the drama ; which perhaps, after all, provided the characters speak and act true to na ture, in the situations in which they are placed, is but a secondary consideration. The two Anti pholis's were ably supported by Me . DURVSET and Jots Es, and the two Dronsio's by Messrs. %V. FARREN and LISTON. The illusion was aided by means of an exact similarity of dress, and a com mon observer might easily confound the one Anti phohs at least with the other. Mr. CHAPMAN per fortivA &geun with great good sense. He delivered the long speech in the first scene, which opens his own sail history, and the early part of that of the princip d character', impressively and pathetically. Mr. BLA NCH ARD persousted very happily the self important empiric Doctor Pixels. But, perhaps, the performance of Saturday night should be looked on chiefly in the light of a musical drums, and iu that view it is entitled to the very highest praise. The poetry of the airs, duets. &c. always Slisk.pearian, is, in general, extremely beautiful, and, as well as the music, very appropriate to the passages where they are introduced. The overture STOS very highly applauded, and reflects great cre dit on Mr. Illsßuo's taste, in the selection and tolaptation of the airs. The new music, which, we believe, constitutes but a small proportion of the whole. was furnished by Mr. BISHOP, and the re mainder consists of selections from the works of Dr. Attu a, Sir J. STEVENSON, STEVENS, and Moz A KT. The characters of Adriona and Luciana were I,elformetl by Miss STEPHENS and Miss M. TREE, and as it was the first time these chitin. guielied vocalists appeared in the same piece. this clicurnstance alone conferred great interest on the revival. Both ladies exerted themselves e xtrem e ly, and executed two or three duets with almost equal skill and applause. It was the first time Miss STErHE.NS a ppeared after the indisposition tinder winch she laboured, and though the lingering tinge of illness might have weakened the full effect of her voice and powers, it certainly lieigidesivd the interest which her appearance always inspires. In the second act she gave a beautiful sang front Othello, commencing The poor soul sot sighing by a sycamore tree." with indescribable sweetness, ex prearton, and pathos, and was rapturously cc cored. She also, at the requisition of the awlience, mot eulficiently considering the recency of her recovery, repeated several other airs, However, after .ing ins; the last song allotted to her, from the poem of Venus and Adonis, " Lo, here the gentle lurk," &c. and retiring of the stage, the audieoce ! having testified their desire of hearing it twin s Mr. DURO , . sre, after a short pause, came forward and said. " 6 Ladies and Gentlemen. Miss STEPHENS would be ning happy to repeat the song, but finds herself finable to attempt it in consequence or iwlispositinet." This slicingy was received with the utmost indul gence. The glees rent choruses were admirably executed by Messrs. DURUSET. TAYLOR. PYNR. and ISAACS. The scenery is well painted, and the piece wit% on the whole, got up in such an .'G-owe sty le N. promises to ensure it • long pos session of the stage. RACE AGAINST TIMR. Ou Saturate morning Richard Clanton, commonly called Unpping Dick, was backed for twenty guineas, to go 21 miles in three hours. The Regent's Park was fixed upon fur the merle of idiot,. He completed more than seven miles in the first Innis-, and something more id the second, but haring or•ersirainrd himself he lost by five minutes, how ever, hr was ready in his exhausted state to waxer Ave pounds that he would bop 130 yards on one leg in the space of a minute; this bet was not accepted, but a subseription sans prniewed, and he completed this short, though h ing feat, in the given time. The Gentleman who lost the abuis wag►r has backed Stanton fifty pounds to complete it on some future day. COURSING. At Newmarket CfPUrSillg Meeting last week, Mr.Northey's Newby, twit Mr. H. Redhead's Yeoman con the fourth day, Second Chippenham Field), and won the Cup.—Same day, a Cop, value 100 gs. was won by Mr. Seott's lago, beating Mr. FOX'S Empress. In the See days upwards of 125 matches were decided; on the last day (Saturday) Lord Rivers's RoJucy beat Mr. Hoskins' Hamlet, and won the main. THE CHASE. -.81.- On Monday last a buck was snbarboured from a covert near Mrs Bronlbwayes Park, at Tiverton', by the hounds belonging to E. Dewing, Esq. and a most numerous field of well-mounted sportsmen. He went off in ■ most gallant style towards the plantation of Neils. Micklethwayt, Esq at Att'divide, when he was there headed back, and took a di rection on the bark of Taverhom towards Dray ton, rit nolo?: i nearly a parallel line with the Reephom road trotting to Nor with, when he turned off to the left to Mulford, sad in great style bore the hounds, making head for Horsford Heath. brie the bigh•mettlesl busters had to contend with murk bug and quagmire, when, on the verge of Hursford Hratb, he crossed to the turnpike-road leading from Norwich to Aylaham, and to the woods of Robert Mai-shunt, Esq at Stratton Sirawleta; front thence he was headed bark across Haiuford Heath to tht• village of Newton St. Faith's, where he was taken (as some sportsmen say) after a chase of twenty-three miles. Great merit is due to that excellent sportsman Mr. Dewing, fu► the moaner in which he hunted his tumults, which he has only lately collected. Considering the mixfore of sportsmen on such an occasion, there were uo serious accidents. Topples and tar not a few, with a bloody fate or so. FOX CHASE. The hounds of John Hylton, Esq. noel at Knightley covers on Thursday week, but not finding there, they pro ceeded to Hight/nu Wood, where reynard was immediately ankeonelled, and afire one minute's delay is cover he quitted ii. and passed over a fine scenting country fur the New House, Brimet.or, Blymholl, Beighierion, to Weston, where he leapt the park wall of Lord Bradford, and crossed the park for the Cow Hay : this distance was run over *Rimed Lose moment's check, and at full speed, both of bounds and horses.— Before forced out of his cover, myelin! again gallantly leapt the Park watt anti directed his course for Chilliogtun, but being too hard p d, he changed it for Ireton, Bank, Wheaton Aston, and Shushiona, where he was viewed out of a rover belonging to Richard Crockett, Esq. and run into in the highest style, after a chase of two bourn and five mi. nutea. " We see," says The Bath Herald. " that Mr. PHILIPPS is playing at the Bristol Theatre. The Observer thus speaks of his pert irmance in The Devil's Bridge Mr. PHILIPPS was in excel lent condition, and gave the songs of Count Bell's° with all the force a rich and powerful voice, com bined with science, is capable of yielding. Wil liams Tell was rung in a manner that well deserved the rapturous applause it elicited, and she unani mous call for its repetition. Mr. PHILIPPS is not only an excellent singer, bat an exceeding good actor: qualities but rarely united. On Wednesday Mr. Put LIPP! appeared as Prince Orlando, in The Cabinet. and was honoured by a respectable audi ence, considering the inclemency of the night, whom lie delighted by the masterly execution of Isis songs, and his excellent acting'." We are informed that • new serio-comic drama, written by Mr. BALL (the successful author of Bertha), raid to be founded on one of Mrs. OPleli popular Tales, will be produced this season at Norwich theatre. The theatre at Chichester has been opened under the management of a Mr. IVmsou. Mr. BOOTII is engaged for three nights, in which he will perform his beat characters. PREWIRRED.—The Hon. and Rev. AUGUSTUS LTGGE. to the Chancellorship of the Diocese of Winchester, and to the Living of North IValtliain; the Rev. Mr. HSATHCOTS, to the vacant Arch_ deaconry ; and the Rev. Mr. GAIINIER. to the Rectory of Brightwell : patron, the Lord Bishop of WlNctiasvia. N ATILT. PROMOTlONB.—Lieutenant C. GOSSETT is appointed to the Favourite ; Mr. T. M•NTON, Master, to the Clinker. Mr. It. MALCOLM is pro. motel to the rank or Soreeon, and appointed to the Redpole. Mr. C. VICKERY. late Surgeon or the Superb. is appointed Surgeon of the Ordinary at Sheerness. The Shipley, from Botany Buy. which arrived on Tuesday at Portsmouth, brought home two women, who, according to the report sent home with them by the Governor. are or too infamous character to continue longer residents in the Colony ! STEAM PI:OUOHING !-Mr. PLATFAIR. in his Curious Memoir of J. WATT. E•4l. Liyi, that the power of steam may be employed to the ploughing of land ; and we believe that there are at this time projects in embryo for that very purpose. A new mor't has been proposed by Dr. THORN TON of putting animals to death without pain, from which the meet looks better, tastes better. keeps better. and salts better. The animal bleeds freely. It is by the means of used air. Several carcass butchers are said to have adopted it. On Saturday, in Wolverhampton, • quantity of imitation entree was seized upon the premises of T. WonTu. twin for the Argils. Black Dwarf, and other *edit publication% its that town. He calls it Radical Breakfast Powder ; it is composed of red wheat soul Scotch barley, and ha has been selling at Is. per lb. what could not con more titan 3.1. MILITARY MOVEMEN7t The 33J regiment, Colonel Elphinstone,• C.D. is Mite►ed to remove from Portsmouth garrison into the interior. They trill march to Oxford. The right sing nt thr 211 battalion Grenadier Guards leave London thin day for Portsmouth. Pour companies of the Nth regiment, ender the•eisminnrot of Colonel Campbell, arrived at she Interstits its Leeds last week. 000 Tunably the troop of Ruled Horse Atolllery, antler the roonintanol of Major Mantunsld , left Pontefract fur Turk, Where they are to remain fur the resent. ITNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DIVE/.FR 11. The following subjects are proposed fur the Chancellor's Prizes, fur the emotes' year, sic— For Laths Verses—Newtooi Systeasa. For an Naglisle Esrey—TM. influence of the Dream. For a Latin Essay—Quenon, lurch Conc.hi Atrophicty. °Mei Cunstitiiiin, et ;ram vim in tuendis Gramm Liberia tibias et iii Popolurum Morihus formandis haloserit ? The first of the above subjects is Mimic.' fur those Gen• Unarm of the University who have not exceeded furor year• fruns the lime of their matriculation ; and the tither two fur such as have exceed.l four, but nut completed seven Sir Honer Nerdigates Prise—For the heat enrupoait•nn is English Verve, sot eentainierg either more or fetter them fifty lists, by any Under.Grailuste who has nut exceeded flour years from the time of his matriculation—The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. CASIIIIIIDGE, DCCVNIBtIt 9. The following is the subject of the Nurri•oin Prir! Ears, for the present year:—"Shew (rum a rrrierr of the civil, moral, amid religious state of •snkind at the time when Christ eame ism the world, how far the reception vrbirb his religion mitt with, is a proof of its Divine origin." TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Stit—ln the report of the cense Wright r. Clement, in your Paper of yesterday, • very materiel Ayer, as it relates to me, has taken place. It is there stated, that I said the letter of Mr. Cubbett, releilVe to Mr. Hunt, which I read at the hustings is Covent-garden the last General Election, I received from Mr. Wright. My evidence was, that I re. ceired it from Mr. Place, of Charing-crues, on the slay 1 read it from the hustings; that 1 did out sorted it omit after Mr. Hoot read two private letters of mine to him, and 'bat I wan toot acquainted with Mr. Wright nod after Mr. Coh. belt went to America. 1 trust in your liberality to set this mailer right. 1 am, Sir, your most obedient bumble Servant, THOMAS CLEARY. Alfred place, Bedford-square, Dec. 11 , 1819. LOSSES AT SEA. It is with regret we state the loss of the Vigilant cutter, commanded by Lieutenant Nazer. She gut under way in Torbay, un Sunday sennight, half-past one a at. wheel the wind shifted to the E.N.E ; she attempted to work out till three a.m. thinking to weather the Berry Head, but such a tremendous gale aad heavy We came on. as had not been known for a length of time. Oa wearing the Berry Head, they were obliged to bear up fee a brig at anchor; hauled their wind, and stood on a little way; hove her in slxys, Mimed, no room to wear, let go both anchors, maimed the large boat to take out a kedge, for the purpose of canting her to go on the other tack, sad then eat; she boat in such a heavy sea was capsized—all hands saved. The vessel then begun to drift; struck betweea the Berry and Military Hospital, tired guns of distress, with sky rockets. blue &c. but could get no assistance. Wood, the chief mate, was the last to leave her, and in half • minute after she sunk in deep water; not a siagle article saved hat the mast and yard.—Crew all saved. The Cameleer'. Captain !gimpy, sailed from Spithead nn Tnesday, to pick up the stores, and bring Lirat. Neter and his crew to Portsmouth. le the above gale the Cameleer' cutter, Lieut. Powney, was driven on the bar of Bye harbour, but fortunately sus tained very little injury. The hull of the smack Brothers, of Colchester. wills her rings. was towed into purl on Tuesday, having been wrecked near Sekey. The crew got on board the Owen' light. On Monday last the Lapwing. GaaTLE, from Smyrna, for London. was driven into Portsmouth by a strong easterly gale. During her stay at Smyrna no case of plagut was known in the city for 37 days ; but two days previous to her leaving, three cares made their appearance. She was con sequently placed gimlet strict quarantine un her art ival at Portsmouth. Ships in ;tort A t Spilhead—Leander. Tamar, Pioneer, and Grecian. In Portsmouth Harbour—Queen Charlotte, Ramifies, Albion, Vigo, Phaeton, Brazes, Raleigh, Redpole, Choker, Petite, and Weymouth. In Gm Sound—Lacy, Lee, and Vanderwerf, Dutch frigate. in Catmater —Prins Frederick, and Courier, Dutch. A novel mode of disposing of an estate has been publicly announced in Suffolk. A house with garden and orchard. at Thorisdon, near Thwaite, is to be raffled for by one hundred subscribers, at five pounds each. Should the nuusher he - pleted the winnbr is to pay twenty bounds. and the present proprietor ten pounds for the good of the company. On Fridge last the Ilev. GALE TOWNLEY. of Tollthorpe. Lincolushire„ was in seriously hurt from a fall in hunting with the Cotteamore hound., near Uppingham. that he was obliged to be felllOV. ed to that ',lace for surgical assistance, and has nut yet beets able to return home. A brother of Baaay, the celebrated painter, is at this time a common beggar in the streets of London, suffering under the accumulated evils of poverty, old age, and total blindness. He Ilse led • wandering and adventurous life, having been a sailor, a corporal of artillery in the service of the East India Company, and again a sailor. He was struck blind by lightning while on board a West dismiss). Its persons and features lie is said to bear a strong resemblance to hie brother, and his manner of expressing himself is very superior to the ordinary language of low life. It were to be wished that regard for the memory of a mats of whom Ireland has so much season to he proud. would induce some of his noble and opulent countrymen to provide this pour creature and his wife (a very d. cent woman) with an asylum from the danger of perish• mg with cold and hunger in the present inclement season. Tim STOLEN CHILD.—In our Paper of Satur day we mated that a child had been stolen front a person at Deptford. We are happy to state 'that the little sufferer was found the sane evening, stripped of its clothes. which were not worth hall s-crown. A labouring man, from Petwott h, in StliWIN was found frozen to death on Thursday morning near Portslade. A companion of the deceased, nearly stirred the same fate. Both had intoxicated them. selves with spirits on the preceding evening. and 'had loin down to rest on the bare ground. expoord to the dreadful severity of Wednesday night's frost. • . OLD BAILEY, SATURDAY. DECCIIBER 11. D. Callaghan wa• indicted for stealing II cart, the property of T. Chi,wrii. Ile spas seen ►.e the owlier of the vehicle, awl (littera, in Ih,• slim'''s of the cart. walking wane with it, a• 'notch ease • if lie 11:011 lwn the aiiiinal th-it aervice.. Ile rail away with great awifitieso, nu ▪ ry of " Slop thief!" tiring raised against hnn ; hot lw was overpowered, and taken, though a mint gigantic In hi. slrfrilve he said, lie had received a winiod in hi. hew!, whirl; rendered loin mad when drunk. ■od that he wan in . that state whet he was found with the cwt.—Guilty. POL(CE. • MANSTON-NOVIII. CONVICTION OF TILE KEEPER OF A NOTORIOUS GA MINI/MOUSE. Jelin Morley, the keeper of billiard rooms, Sweeting's reals, in the parish of St. Bartholomew by the Exchange, pas chimed upon Inform:dm(' tinder the ' l2lh of George 111. cap. 28. sec. I. fur setting up, maintaining, and keeping a certain fratidulent game, to be dcierinined by the chance of thee, under the denomination of the game of Hazard, by whirls he was liable to the penalty of 2001. The information was kid by an emiosenS merchant, a resi dent in the io.rish of St. Stephen, Coleman-street, who was led to adopt the proceeding In cousequence of having expe rienced io the proton of a vrologe, 19 years of age, the dreadful of which gamintt establishments, or, as they are filoratively called, Hello," are daily prodticing. The prospects of the yotmg person, whose indiscretion has been alluded to, were a short lime ago splendid, but a few visits to Morley's put an mill to them. Northfield, the officer, swore that he served the notice of attendance at Murtey's &letting's-rents. The Defendant did nut appear, . _ _ The Overseer ut the .parish deviled, that he hail been in Morley's house. No. 2, Sneeting's rents, a month or five weeks ago; that Murky voted as an inhabitant fur an or, anist. The Churchwarden who collected the Pon/A-Mrs in the parish deposed that Marley was rated as an inhabitant. A number ut young men, most of wham are clerks, were called to confirm the evidence as to the system, but nuue ut thew appcired. The lord Mayor, after having made some comments upon the vice of gaming, convicted Morley in the penalty of 2001. We understand that the Defendant left this country fur Ire. land the moment proceedings were instituted. lOW frfattT. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT. Uo Saturday IVilliane Clue was fully committed fur steal ing • gold ring set with pearly, a pair of silver knife -rests, and a number of dollars, the property of Mr. Barnard, jeweller, iu the Strand, with whom he lived as porter. The !invert, was found concealed in a hole curiously contrived 1,11 She ceding of the cellar. The Primmer confessed the fact, but said he had taken the article. fur the purpose of provi• h ag fur soy emergency, iti cue he should be owl of employment. WORSHIP STREET. A RADICAL APPRENTICE. On Wortley last Mrs. Sarah Funned, of Nelson-street, City-road, appeared to a summons to answer Ilse complaint of George Green, an apprentice. The Complainant, • lad about 13 years of age, slated, that be bad been apprenticed to Mr. George Fursight, to learn the holiness of brush-making; lint his master bail no work for him to do, and he wss leot by his master to his sister, who was in the same business, ; bat she also had nu work, whereby be was p ted from learning his business. The Defendasit, as also three of her sisters, had threatened to set tire to the house, and burn bias slier, and he was ac tually in danger of his life. Mrs. Forsight said, that she bad plenty of work for him to du, but be was very much addicted to publics, and ab arnica himself night after night in attending places were those persons called Radicals resort, and, in fact, that was his delight, and be would not work when he was asked. Reform in Parliament was his constant study and conifer vat iou. He attended the Smithfield Meeting, and, upon Isis return ►one, he said he was determined to take up arm; against the Government. Magistrate—So, Sir, your mind is occupied with the stale of Government and the country, instead of the honest trade of bruslainakiug ? The lad, in a loud tone of voice, soil with a deal of action, as if be belonged to some sporting Society, slid, he certainly bad been to several private meetings to discuss the Impropriety of the Hills now pending in Parliament, bat he would not do so if there was work for him to .to at his trade. The Magistrate advised him to go home to his master, and be attentive to his business, and not devote his time to meetings of Radicals, which he agreed to, and the parties left the office evidently moth satisfied with the decision of the worthy Magistrate. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday afternoon an inquisition was taken at the house of Mr. Cuthbert, the Goat Tavern, in Pall wall, before Mr. Higgs, Coroner, on vine of the body of Mr. Griffith Jenkins,aged 33 years. The &Tensed had been an officer in the nay), and had lost ose of his thumbs and a finger i■ boarding an eseiny'• ship. Ile had been married only three months, and on Thursday afternoon he was fo un d d ea d i n his bed•ruuu. Verdict—Died by the Vieffalioa of God. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.-08; Thursday morning HALL. the wile of WILLIAM HALL, of Greengate, Salford, was passing the pimp in the yard, the timbers of the covering of the well gave way, and she was precipitated to the bottom, which is twenty-two feet deep, with four feet of water.— Mr. HAt.t. and his son were in the yard at the same instant, the latter of whom witnessed the heart rending scene of his mother's sudden exit ; Mr. HALL Mood with his back towards her at the lime. Vhat made it more alarming, Mrs. HALL is far advanced in pregnancy; but we are happy to state that she escaped without any limb+ being broken or serious injury, to the great satisfaction of Mr. !lila. and ►ix small children. A dreadful accident occurred on Saturday venni& at Mr. HUMPHRIES'S. Foregate-street, IVorcerier. MARY DAVIS. the cook-man!, was melting some turpentine and bees-wax. f..r clean ing the furniture; whole shsking it over the lire in it saucepan it communicated with the filmes, and the girl haring long sleeves they instantly caught fire. She ran immediately up stairs, which. of course. increased the flames ; her screams brought Mr. IlustruittEs in her assistance. IVith the greatest d►ffculty Mr. IL prevented her horn bursting into the room in which were three of his youngest children. At length. by his exertions. lie succeeded in extinguish.ng the Haines, but tint till they had consumed nearly the vslinle or the clothes ►he had on. One of the beds hail already caught lire. Medical assistance WAS immediately procured. She wait afterwards taken to the Infir mary, most severely injured, where she now lies with little hope of recovery. The unhappy suf ferer was warned by a fellow servant of the danger she ran in melting the mixture. 4...by,,j.010‘01*. LAW INTELLICENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Dsoninut 11. Before thO LORD CHIRP JUsTICE eels Specks/ Ai?. THE [!WO V. I.IrDIARD,. This was a rriminal nulicum•ut, at thss pewees'. firm of several iishalsitasit• of the twri►h of Stepfiey, far a nuisance, sigmas' the Dtfent:ent, who s. au eminent practical cliesni.t, who has erected a 1.41)0. ra i n . ! ou an .wensive .1.41 r. in Or•rsn-street. Ten folgar.stptare. 9!rptiry. for she manufacture of nitric acid. oxv-mnriasse acid, gl.soller salt, and other chemical pr. paratlalat, » ht. re Ity ibr 11.1541.1f:tut% sa his vicinity were greatly a iiheyral in Own- habit*. Sion% the vegetatson of their gardens, and the'r personal health. The penceetlinge for the prosecution were briefly opened by Mr. Anosenes. and tire case stated by Mr. DENMAN. SS Mr. Hubbard, a ma n o f ch em i ca l sc i ence , C* l / tain Duncan, formerly of the commercial manor, and his wife, and alcove twenty other wilne.s e s, were examined for the prosectiii.in, marl the generel purport of their testimony was, that the Defendant had erected his works in the piece libelee stated. some time subsequent to their established reeiderice in that quarter, sod that for six years past lii• bassi tress had been continually in progressive increase; that the gaseous fumes arising from his lalisinttory, produced by the 'materials employed in his ope rations, had caused the most noxious effects upon their health, their comforts, and the vegetation in their gardens; that many of them were so auttoyed in their houses as to be outride to hear their back win dows open in the direction of the Defesielatri's works; and that in pessiog and re-paioing the works, and even in their own gardens, they were 511 incommoded by the youth-used vapours and gasroiss effluvia arising from the works, as to tw afrecttd by violent coughs, contractions of tint chest, nausea., and other ill effect., frequently almost to suff o cati on ; th at mail o f the m h ad corn. planted of these annoyances to the Defendant, hut without effect; that the condensed vapours arising from the noxious ingrediesits used by the Defeo dant descended like fogs into their gardeos, and not only destroyed there the vegetation of fruits trees, and other pistils, but corroded into holes the linen hung out by their servants to dry slier wash. lug, whereby they sustained great injury. Mr. SCARLETT (alio with Mr. GVItIVEY and Mr. MARRYATT, conducted the derelict) aildreaved the Jury on behalf of his client, and contended, that this was a protecution fulintle4l in preju dice. and ma lice; and that a verdict against the. Defendant, who was an able and most ingeilious chemist, would tn. ruinous to him, as he load erected his works st en expense of ten thousand 'sounds, the removal of which works to any other place would put him to IS most ruinous charge. But in opposition to the evi dence adduced by his Lesresed Friend for the pros secution, he would prove by tint disinterested tecis mossy of men of the first science, that so far front being productive of autsoyance or ill health to the inhabitants, the vapours arising from those wool's were ins high degree salutary to health, and were actually applied by men of medical skill its the chambers of the sick, and in crowded ships so d prisons to check infection. and prevent diverse ; and he would also adduce numerous witnesses of respects able rank and character, resident in the same vici nity, to prove that they never experienced the slightest inconvenience from the causes of which the witnesses for the prosecution complained ; and that it was, in fact, utterly impossible that the effects complained or could arise from she causes stated. The Learned Counsel adduced above thirty wits nessts in support of this assertion. The first of whom was the celebrated chemist, .Ir. Braude, Chemical Lecturer at the Royal Institution. and successor iu that department to Sir H outlw). I hey. He stated, that he had visited the laboratory of the Defendant, and that his apparatus was the best con structed and most perfect he had ever known; that the materials used its combination. viz. sulphtsti4 sad, sea salt, nitre, lime, and manganese, were so massaged there as to produce no effects injurious to health ; more especially as it was the interest of the Defendant to prevent the evaporation of gas, being the object of his profit ; and that the retort-, receivers, and other vessels used in the works were so adapted as almost to prevent the possibility of any gas escaping. And that even if suds gases did era. 'orate in such small quantity as were there likely to escape, they could not, whets diluted with the memo.. itheric air, be liable to produce the effect attributed to them ; hut, on the contrary, that their eff.ct would be to purify the air. On his crane-exesni• nation, however, he admitted, that the fermentatunt of those ingredients would produce gas injuniais to health, if co d d 11—el1PC— in ally great quantity 111 confined situation, and that those gases were of greater specific gravity than the atmospheric air. Mr. Clinkr. also an eminent practical chemist. said, he had frequently visited the Defendant's works, and bore testimony of their superiority to nll he had ever seen, though he had sten Autost all the chemical works in the kingdom ; that he had himself made trial in the laboratory of the effect on his own constitution of the gases that escepe4i then, sad felt not the least ill effects: all the other witnesses, amongst whom were the Rector soil Co. rote of the parish, and the Chuichwardrei• de posed, that they had daily isossed, and resided is the immediate vicinity of those works and never experienced the slightest inconvenience. _ Mr. DENMAN Mode a rn9r4 able and • Inaineht reply in his address to the Jury ; after whirl., itt.• Chief Justice summed top the whu.le. of th e e%. frocr with appropriate observaiinha ; and the Jul) ' , ..t t. a diort deliberation, found 11.eir verdict aganwt the Defendant --Guilty. The tattle occupied the Court from nine iu t . c moritiog till hall-least live. FRIDAY. DECEMBER W. NACIRONI V. MURRAY. uso t►is eaue was :ire'. in our Piper ipi tir. rimy; st was an adios Nought •Ernst Mr. Morro!. She pub lisher of the Cirorlesly I:triew, fur au allege., lile I esiiitaiiseJ in thst wok, Nu. XXXVII. article 5, its the Galkissi..2 There ie only ono circumstance in the prlbrer , lirgs yf the Congress on which we shall say A ptiti:aeil wont. rye Ike story of the weforiseuste sad vareilatiug Murat u .• are referred to Count Marlton'. As Ibis is sot t►e rely ocessios or winch the authority of that Groslrina', has hero quoted. ter She purpose of vilifyies; Eaghied, N Misr he wel; to we to what tleg& ee of coedit be is entatkil. Macitoni acknowledges losoself to have bent elopeort 'tit 'amb,••4114‘..4. , • ~..,,....,_..,.., , ....,,t . ,-.;...*• •• 14 - ..~: