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I yr,' , 'Sr.flliSTEß SCHOOL THMITRIC.ILS. • Th , f„11,-,,e;^q is the Prologue to the Play of The sonken on rueslty night. The Epdogue we win gie.• to-morrow. pßoto3us TN ANDRIANI. • M. itaTtaLL. "nvere—Orator pr , c 18) in Pruscatnium Pro rum., veteri rot salatatum, pries Qualm proferantur, iota' guy parata taunt. Stith. q.,:e !pubis h74ie agenda est fabuht, Et qua !, uatu, saris—'vool quicquam novi att. Ni rairum relu•:, h. to .qotarrt in exterat Largest tucmur traditam a majoribut o Vici,au.l; csrtis ;limas, et cultu par., Da amt Tcrcnti quattv.r eamaci..o, Jam forte aitio I (rue hoc 'tutus dui., Q 'viva. quad sit Mil tli VU'Llfll, Vs. el clelectum fahulara•t. An:lst.: nimium continto. finitoo. ; lit, tither*. a uscuttot pauca que yespanleast, Ut ituaprti morurnqi ttostinr.i.a iioc a.leo palmurn inteUige—aihil minus P,oilcr.itutn ibt notait, Tutu facers histrioniam Nee nester, ut nos turbo noiret,n, labor ; fed apyaratum °miters et turauitum. et cx:era Q. eulgn fiant intheratris puboci., Alan& nowt prwerweesso ingetai; MCC Alai to Tiliettltil stun torta m. At iste tandem mortals ho, um temp •runs. 12,,inrsum iw n estakt, iadies gliscent magi', MiC etentm state vas haboo.nihd hodie Popellue sins carat in re eeenie:i, Ac es (tourism; dramatis. swat abaoua— Diartasticc nit vitt king m Se Milt I. • cut, Quid ergo minim est si qui maw. ratia Itatiojudicio plebis obsequi student. quoSsinnis comminiscantur 110Vti. II splasagelis asagarcinaut insptiis. einem histsiosem, ct spectra mutt paints Denique Slialtspeari muscular; intintibus Salbutientibus cothumos induant ; Ab i 4.1. ratio nears prevails diseremit. Unum id nasoti scilicet no.iis taut,. Ut sit Terentiana puts orate, I.:lmmunises cum decant ge-tibus. At tog, sores stadia imam jam 1111111, carles s Quotient vitiates •mtdati dismmus, quint vos Tetentl sapitu eleganttant. Seim women., et lepers, Ammo ; Non talet, credo, fabuktura quatuat QUArtillt mantis sat *cis, vet unlearn Autism, geese 011111011. owniago Comely.— None Andric, Tog aro, site ante*. racing Astierso math us facilitate. Studiusisqese nostrum vaster sdjutst favor. imicamucimisem •MR. L UDite4 AL . A Meeting of the Sobseribets to the Philanthropic Alnuity Society, proposed. ie Mr. Ludlam. of Weliege:einem. Marysla-honlie. took place at the Lsrokm Tavern, yesterday evening. Mr. Ludlam sedered a dinner for himself. after the Meeting was over, is one of the parloors,which looks intollishops gate-street. Mr. Peaanck, one of the proprietors. as is engtornerl, took its the first dish, and remaining a:ter the waiters had left the room, Mt L. in a few militates produced two large horse pistols, and swore he would blow Mr. Peacock's brains out. if he attempted to leave the room. Ina short time, one of the waiters gemmed, when he found Mr. L. abusing his master, and threaten'ng to shoot hint ; Mr. L. attacked the waiter with very violent swage. and said he would shoot him also, and as he was leaving the room, snapped a pistol at him, which, previdentially, did net go off. fhe waiter informed Mr. Farley. another of the proprietors, of the perilous situation of Mr. Pea cock.. and what had happened. At this moment tie Lord Mayor entered the Tavern ; Mr. Farley communicated the circumstance to his Lordship, who immoliately sent for Mr. Nalder, one of the City Marshals. While the Messenger was gone, Mr. Peacock task an opportocity to rush out of the room; but. as he was leaving it, Mr. Ludlam diSe2yeti a pistol at hint. and immediately jumped ou. of the window. and into nit carriage, which was waiting ; be elan the door of the carriage with such force as to break the glass The pistol that was discharged at Mr Peacock proved to be loaded with several balls. They were sound lodged a little above the door of the rem. The pistol that was atternosed to be discharged at the waiter was found rte ir Mr. L.a chair. and proved to be loaded With three bullets. Mr. Noble. clerk to Mr. Ludlam, was also in the room et the London Tavern, being invite to dine with him. When the waiter entered the room. the second time, he caned a message, from Mr. Ludlam's primer ' which he delivered in a low tone to Mr. Noble. Mr. Ludlam expressed great in dignation at 'the impudence of the waiter, in daring to whisper to hit dell, in his presence ; and began to Ring the plates and dishes at him.Mo‘t r.f these missiles, however, doh not reach their destination, but canoe in con.act with the walls, sod destroyed several valuable paintings—among others, a portrait of Mr. Welsh, which was cut so several places, by Ole fragments of a soup-dish. Mr. Pea cock appears to have offended, by attempt - rig to quit the room without asking leave. hit. Ludlam punished him for his insolence, as nurses some times ds naughty children, by ordenng him to stand in the corner, with his hands hehind his backs lb-evening every moment to shoot him if he dared in change his position. As an aggravation of his punishment, he occasionally shrew boats full of melted butter and gravy at bias, made him drink fool or five lasses of Madeira, by way of penance. aid afterwards irrgated his clothes with the re mainder of tier bottle. A bottle of claret and ano ther of port, which also stood upon the table, abated the same fate. The Lcrd Mayor, as soon as Iris Lord•hip was duly apprized of ohs fad, *Mei a walla, t for his a l oproitemion, and We of Bets set out to caecux it. . • • THE COURT. Yesterday, abnnt twefv., o'clock, Their MAJES TIES and the PRINCESSES. attended by Lady ELY, arrived in town, in their travelling carriages, from Wiadsor, at th , Quetta's Palace. At two o'clock, His MAJESTY held • private I.,rer, which was attended by .it • • • r.,e Archbishop n( Canterbury. The Lord Chancellor. The Fast 1.0141 of the Treasury. The Secreunes of State fur the Huse anill Fors;gn Depart- Tito First Lord of ths Admiralty. The Master Generei of the Ordnance. 1 he Judge Advocate. The Lout Steward of the Household. Count MuJajov Frobarg. htucluta of Saibbury. Pitzgera:d, Heathfiehl. Hodley, and Ards*. Sir H B Neale. G •ueral Hu ge. The foitowing had the honour of being presented to His tvIAJE,T Count Mon.juy F.onerg, Chamberlain to the late Dike of Rroiliwicii, by Vivcoont Novick; when the Count delivered to II s hla . ,estv the rrrapua of the Order of the Gaiter wo,n by the lot Doke, Lord lies,lley, on coming to his title, by the Maiquis of Sa:ishurv. Lord Robert Fitzgerald, by Viscount Hetrick, upon his re turn from h:s Embmy at Lisbon. General Hope, upon hi being appointed to the Command of the yth Royal West India Regiment. His MAJESTY gave audiences to Lord; Gars 'lt La and NovricK. - Her Maieary and tia• Patac ants laosourad Lady CNARLDTTS FINCH with a visit, soon after two o'clock, at her house in St. James's Palace, and afterwards went to dine with the Duke of CAM• sal nose, at his apartments in the Palace. At five o'clock the Royal. FAMILY set off no their return to Windsor, escorted by a party of light horse. His MAjssr• is expefted in town again on Mon. day. when it is supposed the addresses of the two Houses of Parliament will be presented to him. OXFORD. Dec. 13. Weinesday last, the Rev. Stephen Preston, of Lincoln College; Mr. Thomas Hawkeshead, of Brasenose College ; the Rev. Henry Watts Wilkin son, of Worcester College; the Rev. George Street, of St. bon's College; and the Rev. Win. Bayly, el New College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Ans. M-ssrs Francis Bickley Astley, awl James Vo.. lent Voshen, of Oriel Colter ; Enoch H Warriner, of Lincoln College; Thomas Wood Simpson, of Worcester College ; and John Cox Russell, of ' Hertford College ; were admitted Bachelors of Arts. Yesterday, Mr. J. K.-ble was admitted Scholar of Corpus Christi College. On Friday, the Eleßion for Procurators took place at Hereford Cathedral; tile Chapter met in tue rColleetate Library. and unanimously eleßed the Rev. J. Napleton, D. D. to represent them. Af er Divine Service, the beneficed Clergy assembled in the Consistory Court, and the Rev. H . Morgan, D D. having opened the Meeting, with an elegant address, stated, that the Lord Bishop recommended as proper persons to represent the Diocese, the Rev. G. 1) Yates. L. L. D. and the Rev. G. Gees. D. U. oboes the Elellors instantly honoured with ri heir approbation, and they were accordingly cltesen. LEWES, Dec. 15. • One night last week, a brace of horse pistols, 'loaded. •and two pair of stockings, were dug up in a plantation, behind the house of John Boys, Esq. at Ashcomb, where, it is supposed, they had been ouried by some soldier, at the period of his deser tion from our barracks. The stock of each pistol is marked with the figure 3. The heavy and almost constant rains that fell during the last few days, produced, yesterday, in our Levels. higher Bonds, and at the Bridge, a greater swell of water, than had been remembered tor many years before. The Cliff cellars were in undated, and the Bear Inn, and Sir Henry Black man's house, adjoining the river, of the east and west sides, were nearly surrounded by the water. To secure timber And other property, which the rapid rise of the flood had fleeted from their situa tions, it became necessary, during a part of the tlay, to employ a number of men in boats ; among these were four paper-makers. wbo, haying embark ed in a little punt from their mill, enluckily upset it, in Mailing-brooks, and had to struggle with the difficulties attendant on six feet water, a considera ble distance from any shore; under which, however, they managed to sustain themselves, some by swim ming, and others by seizing hold of their capsized punt, until some persons, • who witnessed the accident, put off in boats to their assistance, and by whose exertions, they were all fortunately preserved, and safely landed at the tan-yard belonging to Mr. Chatfield. Neither cattle nor sheep were exposed to danger in these Levels, having been all driven from their pastures, by the timely precaution of toeir owners. Last Thursday, as the young Gentlemen of Mr. Button's school were taking their walk on Cliff-hill, a portion of the turf that appeared to have been newlybroken up. nigh to a small inclosum of trees, called Spence's Folly, attracted their notice, and to gratify their curiosity, they removed the sod, when they tound concealed under it a sack, containing woman's apparel, by which their curiosity was so much increased. that they ponied their search to the Folly, and there discovered a broken caravan trunk. from which they had no doubt, the contents of the sack had been taken. ;Phis proved to be the fae. for on inquiry being afterwards made, it ap peared that the articles were the property of a mi litia serjeant's wife, who had travelled in a carrier's wagaon from tHailsham, and on her arrival at the Darter Arms, not choosing to cucumber herself with the trunk, delivered it to the care of the land lord, telling him at the same time, that she would get a grenauier to call for it ; which being spoken in • the hearing of a soisliev that was carnally standing ►y, he quickly afterwards personated the grenadier whom Cie woman was toilette commissioned, and demanded the trunk of the landlord, in his own name. and:obtained it ; which he had ac sooner done. than he marched off to the Hill, and dis posed of it as above stated. We her he has situ, deserted. • --- -- - - ....•. . . • - • . .4,AW INTELLIGENCE. .THATFORD'S COWAN?' O COURT OF ICING'S ititfreff,-Oott.owaLt., Dee. 17. An lixtrae of a Let e. ti on Cot Sittings at Nlri ['Pia*. &fine Lord Chief Yiestice Isle of Wigs t, December 16th, si to have to announce to yen. the atIVISOKOUGU, and Speeirl Jam:. ' otinetts is HMIs. , 5 , cumstance of-tee lo,s of the shnv In this base it appeared, that Mr. Dunklb, tlie•• W illiam nlkiwaYs mas.et. a n W Plaintiff, ketps warehouse: for the reception ottert,": - 1 lii ast, ntf Gh•iet Chureh-haad, hay and had received from the Defendant 810 quarter/ - I cOmegneane of a. heavy sijualt.., of wheat, orl'ich were, accordingly, deposited in hit j mans passengers wee had w. .r 1 tt granary, of whieh a considerable quantity remained ' hew. , for P.,. •le; and amine then in his stores, for the space of fifty-three weeks; the say, the *.ola . tsf Shetturd's Co Plain'iff had applied for payment to the Defendant, diens; wit-t the. exception of two, for the storage of the above-mentioned wheat, ac- Miss Strat 7. 'n .Amorag thWISIIPS cordiale; to the' usual and establi4sed eves, viz for "'lt the Ma P ngart and hit *an'il - storage of the entire' wheat (830 quartets) dining Mr. and Mrs. Qaantr.:ll,. Ur, an the space of fifty-three week, at the tate of Gs. per \lost, Gisidner, Curtis or*. cai:ri r- hundred quarters each week ; and in consequence of men, sin of tl.e late M John. the refusal of the Defendant to pay such charge, 'stir, and several eotheis,. oblong the present affirm was brought. On the part of the tee .heft.—A" sad fatatke see** Plaintiff a number of witnesses were produced, to the whole &Ai* Cqnspany. firs'em prove the existence of the above-mentioned custom. i n this Island—poor D" ari ll u b a which they all agreed did exist, and was in general former, and who was well k..werai enforced, when the corn did rot remain in the stoles been here ugly a few days tutor' for more than two or three months ;or if the charge and died." • . , did not take place in the above-mentioned way, the CC* RUNE //I'S /VI store.keepet had recourse to another, which was neatly as usual, viz. that of raising the weekly rate ~ of storage per 100 quarters . They concurred in An inquisition peas taltellb thinking the rate charged by the Plaintiff very tea- Triumphant Cataliccadilly, befe ceresfake, and represented it impossible, in general, Coroner, on the 494 of tosifsas for any stotekeeper to nay the heavy rent and taxes stns.' a t ~ Hammersmith "" smain necessarily attendant on seer nettincerit, without /I ' "'genius iris .6 teGaelYffea' that the deceased *as brought d exacting equal charges on the storage of corn. five o'clock on Monday evanin The Defendant's witnesses, who were equally nu from the discharge of a gun, ds it serous, admitted the existence of such a custom, A full charge appeared to have but maintained it was seldom enforced, except in cases where the corn remained but a short time on and the arm of the deceasestipsed were lodged in Ile substance OE4 the premises; but where it had remained a very ascertain.- d velum the body was qf considerable time, they being in general warehouse -- I3ediord; - 1 - Gardener in 4 men themselves, had never attempted to exact it. [ They conceived the custom justifiable, ethen the Brooks, of Hammersmith. stated warehouse was occupied but for a short spite 01 whom he bad long known, was time, as the proprietors of warehouses frequently in a Nursery en Monday, and had them unemployed for more than one-third of o'clock they retired tagetleer to " the year. On which account they conceived then- their tools ; a faun was standing ' selves justified in making those who had only con- witness took it up, and said, sulted weir own convenience, pay handsomely for Pm ;" meaning has y oun g mast ' the time they had occupied their stores. ly touched the piece, when it we The Learned Jena& interposed in part of them- the "men* in the body and arm mittation, and begged to be informed, if a eorn• This was the only witness who sp faeor should deposit in the granary of the Witness n°^ itself, none others being one hundred quarters of corn, the greater part of other persons proved that the part which should be drawn out in the first six months, friends, and that the latter, pies leaving only one quarter remaining in the mores six had attributed it to as amide's*. months longer, whether the custom in question that the gun had been left ct.tk would justify a chenand for the storage of the whole cidentai Veda. for twelve months ? - SHOCKING afCCII The Witness answered, that according to the —. a s-- principle generally established, he conceived " it would not be irregular or extraordinary. On Wednesday seeing:it, abet Upon which the Junoc observed, that however a man, 66 years of ages who " long established, it was tine to put an end to so in the service 01 Mr. Wilkinson, iniquitous • praftise ;he recommended the Jury to Chatham, was gt.ing to bed with consider accurately every circumstance that held ing to pass through the upper Pa' appeared in the course of the trial; he felt satisfied, too*, the greater part of Whim that whatever might be their determination, it would i flooring, he slipt down between be worthy of themselves and of the dignified situa- his fall, is supposed to have strut lion they had in .. s.a.e. pa 0 1.6.1;1. 24 Lae«. a...1.a_ ...1 - - - - milk& dm siWuld they deem its cintineance necessary fc; the interest or the commercial world. they would be justified is finding a /radii! for the Mastiff s or perhaps the best mode of adjusting the differeoce would be, since the Plaintiff's Counsel had in the latter part of the trial resorted to the principle of quantum merest, to find a Verdi& for the Plaintiff, proportioned to the loss he might be reasonably supposed to sustain. The Jury, in a short time, brought in a Verdill for the Plaintiff, 341. damages; which, together with the sum deposited in Court, they coasidered an ample compensation; at the same time, they wished their Verdie might be considered as only applicable to this particular case, and not at all saa&iening the custom. WILNMAN V. TOPPING. The Plaintiff brought an affirm against the De fendant, who had been formerly his clerk, for up wards of 3,0001. advanced in goods, ecc. to the Defendant and his Fanner, a Mr. Bailor. since de ceased. gigiFtWilirbelow: rt rhe endi of site to that on which itr feU, fl against one of the joists. opp,s d as if it had been a fixed bar of part of the forehead of ite wrifort to coniiia with the edge of thebea to the bone, and, from the ra nearly the whole of the scalp scraped off and lacerated, that t fore part of /lie back of the hea bare. Thar bead nest struck against the reale, and tie viol. te frattured the skull ; the bon.- bsi lion of the fradface. vt o ss dfsibbr sine kefont the poor fellow was diats slat gical aid was called its, conveyed to the poor.houst, writ tlemea who Were present, ja!ge operation of the trepan should b ed, as a 'Fording the only possible two pieces (,t the skull were ace() by the trepbine, eel two other wards separated by the forceps, of the skull taken sway, when oblong triangle, containing abt ches. The pulse of the untortti the operation ; he appeared bent but he languished through the died about eight o'clock on the rorszeeres=e It appeared, Mr. Wildman had, on account of the faithful services of Nailor, who had also been his clerk, advanced to Nailor and Defendant, the goods, ice. mentioned, in order to establish them in trade, in the bland, of Jamaica whither they ac cordingly went; but Nailer dying in Jamaica, pre vious to the setting out of the Defendant, the busi ness declined; and, finally, the Defendant returned to England, was kindly received by the Plaintiff, notwithstanding his ill success, and placed in his counting-house as clerk, where he acquitted him self in such a manner as to excite the indignation and resentment of the Plaintiff, whose debtor he was, to so Considerable an amount. Several Witnesses, the clerks of Mr. Wildman, proved, that the Defendant, to whose care the books of the house were committed, had endeavoured to throw off the responsibility necessarily attached to him as partner in the film of Mellor mid Co. by sub stituting in the books of Mr. Wildman, the Plaintiff, the title of the Executors of Nailor," to which account he carried over the balance of the ac count of Nail*, and Co. Not satisfied with thus vitiating the ledger, lie gave orders to Haslip, the clerk who regulated the journal from which the entries are always transferred to the ledger, to make no entry in future under the title of 'shallot. and Co. but under that of the Execu:ors of Nailor. This being at length discovered by the Plaintiff, led him to investigate the matter more hilly, when he found to hi. great swill ise, that the vouchers or dot aments relating to his ttamaSiotis with the House of Nailor and Co. were removed. Mr. GA a ROW, the Plaintiff's Conarel, was pro ceeding to Vitamin, witnesses further, when, at the recommendation rif the Learned Judge, the Counsel for Defendant consentcd to submit the case to the decision of any of the gentlemen of the Jury, to which Mr. Ganow agreed. The College of Physicians ha. D, or for his work against bra The plunder of West India tofore took place in the Rivet checked. The Dlreaor, a the are putting the wh.selesomr pro, Parliament in force, under the Mr. Roason„ of Goodmait's-fie pacity of Magistrate, heats causes as they arise. About twelve o'clock, on Mi bridge latelg stette d over the r Hiles troat 'Cardiff. which tile Glamorgan and belonnwstith, 1 nsendous crash I fortulnately, ernphiyed in wheelialg. gravel theer work osly a tow minion harp-ned. The bride* would. in a few weeks. The old brid veer score. One day Is‘t week, as the h roar), of Uditnote, near Rye, hare, a bitch of the pack. stroppad one iotoluntately in instantly abandoned the sce .t, imperious call of netture. y-ung ; which she affeodett, whelp tenderly in her mouth, (several miles) to Her kennel, her litter, consiting of lie tie It is reporwl Ana* tae p traftors hod a very nar'uw es large quantity licksts to I I previous to Berta v * posi It is a settisfantort, therefore, snense capatl ?rites with 's so pre-emei..emly ithourids, piv the: BaiLisb adventurers. The uncommon mildness of the present seasrn, has produced, in the garden of Mrs. Ross. at Guils held, aim- Shrewsbury, some well-flavoured straw herrles, and teveral dishes cf green peas i which v. ere gathered a few days ago.