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-:- , " , 111. (TRES. wer-- DRURY-LANt. of T4e Cal).net was per lition of Mr. BA MIMS.. WhilittiCidu, and displayed . Mr. Bgt AMAIN was rap ral of his beautiful airs:— in high spirits, and gave est manner. The whole ch applause, as such ace , must always,. command. meat of Tekeli followed with its performance; i t rarmest manner, by one id fashionable audiences cf oiled `the character of the absence, with great etre& ; absence of Miss DUNCAN. !den and serious indisposi commanding powers its the COVENT-GA fiECN. ClOrell T ale of Alysiery towe, and Mr. M Lt. van le. the part of Ceuta Re tailer of which is so op- MELVlWS.genius has not only surprised, *mo p nod sense, and just oasaingw 11 by his commanding voice, e is competent to shine in all drama. His delivery of the for shelter Oader those very )jell! Cover gas earth! Cover Lbouaded applause. In his vas also extremely interest nuance was honoured with crowded audience. useefee Dr.c. 2. D-day, en ieeount of our jai ; the streets are crowd lily, sad plebeian farmets. Lbis, and the sarrour.ding sus dinner is provided by first and second elms ; the ilicteselves pe;:eelly al 'ow, Cast and Horses, Jolly yesterday, with a. amuse d; thaba ; celebrated sawn n, Messrs. Gall;, Belcher. 'herins, ,gratified the lovers pital sparring snatch, at 2ittance enly half.a-crov ren, particularly in a se-to :hirken, in whia the gime, atage. Amon the eons. 3. Hunt, akes, yerts,S; sir G. Colebrooke, Megietr, te also attended, ce to tell ti:e keeper of the it he had been there. he Prince of Wass i 1 el anday, from Brighton. It t, that His Royal Highness but we sincerely hope the :inn. the Duke of KENT Cams Richmond, and Lad a con al Highness the Duke of artmanss in Saint James's s at Bath, in consequeoce cf . .'ounteas. Loa is going to Bath for e meeting of Parliament. w Bishop of St. *sap's, arts BucFuton/At and Mr. T. emeosemon, and the King's h• Court of Kir.g's ns and weepers, not of re. le late Duke of BEENEW EON t left town, yesterday; sod CoWess of DeneY, et area is expelled, in a few Burlington-street, from bier intolerance; loyalty without nal and laudablk motto of sw. 4iss Ikf•swies orr;sed. is tro.venot-square, from Mess of Raistor. will leave righton o where they lowed re. en Westminster lEtteices pleasant Comedy they displayed much comic ded by a -most crowded and Stalin left town, yesterday, t.e„, Esq. and family ar r house in Great Stanhope- Ingleficld -green. q. arrived yesterday at se-street, Oxford-Mafia ffrin n Sussex. posing the Committee for the Witenis A res E.leflion; met, es Head Tavern, in Holborn. ounefs upon which they sv...re er of the evening was spent in and ft iendship. Several re amongst which it was pro .ly agreed, that there shouli to celebrate the event. One irable Secretary's tasth-day. 14th of May, and the ether on being the day on which he or the tautly of Norfolk.nsv ar liC till a LW hour. -‘ of School. • • PROLOO&B TA Tut CONROY '0? MAIDS ►nd BACHELORS ; MY HEART for YOUR=S. b► LUMLEY ST GEORGE SICEIfriNGTON, Esq. iiy N;t (Never before publishea.) Let Truth's elrr eye, to equity reOstn'd, ' Mirk eery fear that atutteA the mind, Search thorns conceal d, eitatimie thrAe ennfes`d, And meet the greatest in an sethor's This night is filed to as anxious bard, Whose diffidence 'elicits your regard. Though whispi:ii hopes first used his treniblini lyre, Those hopes, alas! now one by one retire; For apprehensions, crowding on his view, , Wake ey'ry and ev'ry wish pimue Nor flattery on eninfAt will he hear : The terrors thicken se the dome draws near. The Drama's Muse Mould, like • Painter, bac: Feel. trimled esprenion el the human face; Gotip'd with illict, the imitated skew, With force should strike, with animation glow; Till, tow.h'd by emir, in wiry part, The ernes to o the caritas start r.w can eme.4; since few an well inspirit The legless ;atm, and the blushing, tint, Winch fairly setts, valwesdrawn from Nature's bent, T`. at very Natus*, which they repriment. The trawling freedom of a bold design a wraith isiewaii breathe, in liberty refine ; White Ishii sal Media &mingling aid corapme, Sofatunl by them, mad waited by Mom r Those bright VW Orbits& - gal withalt glitti-r, without liars •n ail veld. Rides mil .asti4l vide, yet no restraint timpani Art follows genies genius governs lit OM IMOD hi,PelUe44. one twellant touch, Transcends all laboiNa, when it servos as sub Mittens, and only Macre, an inspire, btrengui,, iresions, tins, the fames, and Meets! .1 In het they live, in hattlieir tome declare, Arrest the hart, and Is an empire there ! t late treinlslini artist, elan. asseas'4l by ker. This shebasieddrsensia fur toilittritiwn hews, Anon.' to dusk (tbeettrossneines 4 dant) Centra.ted peesionsi and crsenho'il 'het. If he, tow daring. want J 114141611 na mach Thaw! nobles lines„ w kb !LW, which mimes teach, T.it mit se reo4ect, re erttie hands The aiele..nbast 00..04, inks a abasteet bait Herd is tie Mt "Nib mirth Nelms Oinewatels &gene% and Guide's aer at patens easinawif oggievated mese Osmium olis tiesser, or rebel wish boat, ,_lloolbrest doll Nil hobos to stale. I.4•PayeitemardSt, are Mae fawns bag stii,o4asifiniani• bogies sesiOnett e re. Ls by yam weak era e almeing f • -ammisamemonwesivo SIR ROGER RIIII,3IGATE, BART. ' On Tuesday seitoilht died. at his seat at Arbury in the Ccunty of Warwick, after an illness of less than a wick. Sir Roger Newdigate. Bart. aged up wards of 88 years. Sir years Roger r as for many one of the Hrpressintatives in Parliament for the Un:versity of Oxford. to which he has for a long period been a liberal benafaitor : be was svelter of one of the horn estates of coal in the kingdom. and hit exreasive coal- storks, near Bedsworth, have for a long time been very produeive. - He several years ago cut manly miles in length of navigable can il through his toll'er es and wr.odas to join the Coventry Canal; by far the greatest length of canal, solely helonging to an individual, in the kingdom. Sit Rog-r was an alive promoter of the Coventry, the Oaford, and Grand Junetion Cass* and of she Turnpike -read from Coventry to Leitester, which has so much benefited those parts of the country. Sir Roger, .who enjoyed his faculties unimpaired almost to the last, was a liberal bveefaeor to the prior, particularly in finding them employment ; he vomited a fine estate at Harefield. in Middlesex, where his remains are to be interred in the family rank to-morrow. OXFORD, Nov. Wednesday lest, the Rev Thomas Welles, B.D. of Worcester College, wag admitted I)ciftor in Di friaity. Mr. Town fiend Selwyn, of Christ Church, and Rep. Christopher D'Oyly Aplin, of Lincoln College. B.A. were admitted Master, of Arts.— Messrs. William Mullett Hohlyn, of Christ Church; Thomas Knox, of lit aseriose College ; Charl a Lewis Merlon, and Charles John Craven, of St. John's College, were admitted Back lora of Arts. On Tuesday last, the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, and the Ri ht Hon. Charles Abbott, the newly elefted Me in Parliament for this Uni versity, arrived in Oxford. and on that and the fol lowing day returned thanks to their respeaive friend` for the honour of their eleelion. The Right Hoe. Charles Abbott, Speaker in dte last Parliensent, having, previous to his becoming a Candidate to represent the University, resigned ass Orme of Recorder of this city, the Deputy Re corder. Wilbarn Elias Taunton, Esq. was, on Mon day last, unanimously elected to succeed hien in that boeourable and important offts.e. On Thursday last, the Worshipful the Mayor, and a Imputation of Member, from the Council Cham ber, waited on the Right Hon. Mr. Abbott. at the Deanery at Christ Chinch, and presented to him au Address ut Thaaks tor his very able and faithlul ser vices during the time Ise filled the office of Recur ter of tis city. To this Mr Abbott made an ..ppro- P ri a t e reply. *sprits. mg Ms tanks tor the way dis tinguished manner is which the city Lad thought proper to manifest their approbation of his conduits aid eongratuadtiog the city in terms of the lushest •Inegyric on their chow* of his successor. HIS MAJIITY'S ships :traps ♦nd C,.wlla, which railed from Plymouth nit the 17th, and from Fal mouth on the Syth of Augert, in c nii.an with His MAJ 'a ship nom. der . tried for the Crelph of St. Laurence, arrived at Sc. John's, Nearionncl- Liu I, co the 1 9th of Oitober. . • . . LAW INTEELIVENCE. COURT OF KING'S Bitten. YVF.STMINSTKR —llse. 3. Sittings - at Ned Prier, 5 tare Lard Chief pities • THOMAS HICKEY iv .MasidAßlT DONoTAH. This was an action for work and labour, :Ind for goods sold And delivered, amounting to 121. 14s. 74.1 to which the Defendant had pleaded a set off, and lodged 31. 3s in Court. Mr. GAititOW, for the Plaintiff, stated, that his client was a mason And stone-cutter, and, in the course of his trade, had erected a marble mantle ' piece in the house of the Defendant, who foll.weed the trade and occupation , of a milk-woman, in the neighbtiurhood of ‘Vhiiechapet, and having gained a considerable property by her milk, she wished to become genteel, and accordingly employed the Plaintiff to decorate and modernize the interior of her state chamber, by ereetog the mantle-piece in question. However, like other fashionable folk. when the work was completed, she did not choose to pay for it Thomas Carrington proved the charges to be reasonable, and said, the mate, ials alone cost up. wards of 101. Sir VICART Gins, for the Defendant, said, that these parties had hitherto been upon extremely inti mate terms of friendship, and were once very likely to become much more so, as a treegr of marriage. - had beet) on foot between them, and the banns of matrimony &finally published: hat...after this I:aid hearted man of marble had hewn a deep impression upon the milk of human kindivis of Mrs. Donovan, a certain coolness came suddenly over him, and !,e found another objet for his affeitio.is in his *um ney, an attachment which, on many occasions, took • most violent and absolute possession of its objett.— The defame he had to set up was. that this mantle piece had originally been intended as a bridal gift to Mrs. Donovan, the Plaintiff having declared, he only intended to sharge her for s. ttmg it up; but,: as he had thus Chnopc; to solo law about the m a tter, she was also at liberty to set up her claim, and there fore charged him for seven weeks board, at the rate of one guinea per work, which was consid.: , ed a rea sonable allowance ; beside., 3i. I Is. which had been paid on account of tie mantle-piece, and three gui neas paid into Court. Eleanor Call n proved the boarding ; she knew they were making love together, bet could not speak II to publishing the banns. Lord St.t. seen motion observe.', that most cer tainly, it - the Plaintiff 'hose to Ming his at the Defeodai , t ha t an equal right to retaliate, The Jury found& Yenta& for the Ds tendant. 11•11111DEH V. MILLI.M. This 11121 an aPtion broug‘t tin the Endorser of a Bill of ffechange, for 1001. against the Ac mapiair. Sir Vichs• Gins owed, that the bill in qiestion was drawn in favour of a third person, rotti ae copted by the Windom, • G sideman of fas.drin c able notrxiety, aad well knows spec the tat at Newmarket. The bill became doe on the 6th September. 184)4, and when desql.ed at Goslin's, in Fleet-street, where it was made Is, the answer was, that they had so cads wherewith ropey it. The asecessery p-uefs being made. Mr. Gasauw, for the Defendant', said, he had a ease to make, which would contilielely defeat the Plaintiff's action, namely. a gambling transaCtinn ; hut even this ihrence his client dit net wish to Arai, himself of. bet for the following circumstances t Mr. Mellish having lost et play SUSI.. at the Smyrna Coffee-hose, to she payee, gave him his three acceptances, of 1001. each. ow of which was the bill in qh-stion. If nothirs more had oectured, he would not noe ham been an 'steed to take advantage of the defence the leat has pat iam his hands; but, en the mune of a few &ye after, Ise 'net tee party, and had the good forma to *in back his 3001 ; and the latter p, iced torment the bills in a day or two; that period, however, sever arrived, and he was under the necessity of making this defence. The payee was thee called to prow this twee, but after being called three times open his vibrant'. he did nor appear, and the Jury accordingly foiled a verdilt for the Plaintiff. MOODY t. Dove wad This was an thine ie. wort and pal our, and for goods sold and delivered, arnounting to I M. brought by a tailor, against the Defendants, attorneys of this Court. Mr. G4tIIOW, in stating the Plaintiff's case, ex preaid great surprise that Mr. Dove, the Attorney, had so soon set his feathers to sights, as to come again into Court, after what had passed a few days age (alluding to the case of Tyers g. Verson, re ported he our Paper of Monday lest.) He then ' seated, thee a Clerk of the Defaidaties (John Smith being iir wive of clothes, applied to the ?Wail, who turnished him with them to the amount of W. (tint being able in pay for them himself, the De fendants entered into ea agreement together with Smith, by which they stipulated to pay the demand at the rate of sixteen shillings per month; and in ease of the failure of payment of any of the instal menu, the whole was to become due. This case being proved, Sir Vic* air Guest, for the Defendants, objected to the agreement, as it hail been stated to have been ma e jointly acd severally. but upon the tea of it this did not appear. TboCourt acquiescing in the *Nation, Mr. Gamow, to prevent a non.suit, consented to a verdict to be taken fur the Defendants, which was accordingly done. teammares In the case of Tv tee a. Palmist, reported in this Paper on Monday. in which there was a verditt for the Detentlast, we understand that Mr. Trees mewls to move for &sew trial. Admiral Pose had an interview of two hours. yesterday, with His Royal Highness the Duke of Otaaence, at his apaunents in St. James's General Fit:by a has arrived at Limerick; to take die command of that district. Cuxhaven is oacupied by the French. A corps ,eopposed to amount to about *OOO men, entered the just as the valuable convob . whicla was coi gnes'', bad taken its de e. One of the vela*. signs arrived at %Teri sip - - NIP amps. I' • • • • • OLD 11.111. Er SESSIONS. • I The Sessions commenced here yesterday, befcwo ' Mr. Justice Cayce, BAtOR GII Alllll4, the Loan MAYOII. &c. Waal. Herirrt, a private in the First Regiment of Foot Guards, was charged with assaulting and nabbing Samuel dames of a 101. Bank Note, on the night of the 2d November last. I r appeared. that S. James, 'the Prosecutor, is butler 'o Mr. Stacko te, rot Gro,venor-square. That coming from Charles -street, thrru A h Hyde Park, he met the Prison-r near th- beidn. about the hour of nine in the everome. The Prisoner. a: he passed, struck him in the f 'cc. trippid op his herds, an proceeded to rifle his pockets, damning him for a scoundrel. During this transaelim, the Prose tutor had an opportunity of accura'ely examining the Prisoner's countenance and uniform. as the night was very bright. and the moon risoy.. The Prisoner. imm-diately after, `fled with lit booty, and was pursued by the Prosecutor a short distaste:. Concrivi.ig that the offeneer belonged to the barrack in the neighbourhood, he called at Portman-street barrack, but could not then disenvet the Poisoner. He was afterwards sent for on the 9th. in consequence of some suspicion attaching to' • One Gibbons, who was observed to spend muc • more money than could be expelled from a privax soldier. Gibbons having been examined by his Ser "pants, confessed. that he was privy to the robbery, And had received part of the property, to conceal the circumstance. On his going a second time to the barrack, the Serjeant shewed him seven men, in drill uniform, "and chaired him to sale& the person' he could charge with the robbery. Whereupoo be instantly pointed mit the Prisoner at the bar. 'The Counsel far the prose.ntion, humanely recom mended the Prosecutor to &insider well the conse quence of his testimony, arid whether the Prisoner twos positively thy perom who 'had robbed him. he Proseestor againaook.ed at him, and affirmed, be had not the least doubt of his being the person William Gibbone, the neat witness, deposed, that being on guard the evening of the robbery at Port man-street Barrack, he had seen James tall at the Barrack, and being induced to believe Herbert guilty of the robbery, had challenged him on the morning site' with the fact. Whereupon Herbert confessed it, gave him the hill, and requested him to keep it. lest a search should be made ; and that he should have an equal share of the booty ; they divided the money that day at a porter-house in King -street, St. Jamos's, while they sat drinking. Wm. Shaw, publican, con& meet the evidence of Gibbons, and identified the Primmer and Gibbons as the persons who had changed the bill. The Prisoner adduced nis Serjeant in his be half, who said he had known him some time. He gave him the *charafter of a good soldier , but could give no testimony with respell to his private character. The Jury found the Prisoner Guilty—Deetb. George Seeah was indifteri for stealing, in the house of G. Soley Foyle, in Brunswick -street, two silver candlesticks, the property of the said Soley Foyle. Mrs. Handcock, housekeeper to Mr. Foyle, de posed. that on the 20th of November last, she places" the eandlebticks in q restion in the Butler's pantry, Oaten n'elrick in the ns sing; *Coolly att,:rwards Mrs. Foyle desired her to run attar a person whom she had observed with one of the candlesticks in his possession, and escaping by the area steps into the street. Mrs H. I siloweil him, and abed out— " Stop thief," hut lost sight of him whoa he mined the corner. The Prisoner was shortly after brought hack with the candlesticks (which were found on him) by a constable, and two other perms in the neighbourhood, who were alarmed ,by Mrs. H.'s outcries Mrs. Foyle, the wife of Mr. S. Foyle, corralsa rated the above testimooy in almost every pertienimil sad added, she had seen a man, with the caw diatirk in his possession, in the passage leading to the bother poetry, which occasioned her stspiekM; on being asked by the Learned Judge the video of the candlestick, she stated it at about thirty, shil lings. Neither she nor Mrs. Handcock could iden tify the Prisoner at the bar see the person Isiah to the . paring, or area. but swore positively ts the pasposty, being marked with the arms of the family. England, a constable; met the Prisoner in the colonnade, on the 20th, with the caache sticks in his possession, mid stopped him on hear ing the outcry ; and with the assistance: of Ran. dal and Roby, neighbours, brought him back. whereupon he was committed to prison ; from the time of his being seen is the area, to his appre hension, was not above three minutes. The Prisoner pleaded his ignorance of any thing relating to the robbery : stated he had found the candlesticks tying in part of the colonnade, but could adduce no witness with respect to his chuadar. The Learned Judge observed, there could nos ex ist a doubt with respell to the Prisoner's guilt, from the conneeed chain of circumstantial evidence ad. dosed f the only plausible defence he could urge, considering the quickness of his detedion and arrest), would have been that he had received them from another, which defence the Prisoner had not attempted to make. The Jury. without retiring, found the Prisoner Guilty-11846. srmeememaieserr MIDDLES, EX SESSIONS, Dsc 3. ASSAULT 3. Mr. &gage, A respeOatile looking old gentleman, of about 7i years of age, stood enarged with as. sAulting a person of the manse of Jo. .n Burge's, an Officer of the Customs, while is the execution of his duty. From Bergen's evidence it gnome& that on the 29th of August last, in ccmsequi.nc_ ut information he had received, he went to the List India COM. pany's Vkarebouses, where he saw several chests of 'tea taken out, and put upon a cart under the &ruc tion of the Defendant. Suspeiting that a regular permit had nt.t been obtained, he followed the cart to Hatton Garden, where two of the chests were taken cut, and left at a tea dealer's. He mit fol. flwed toe cart to Omit turnstile, Lincoln's Inn. felds, where the remaining chests, Ole, in num ber, Were taken out, and put into the shop of a Mr. Barnet, a lea Dealer in Lincoln's Isatields Oa perceiving this. he, with the assistinca it two other 04:41r5, seised the goods, and conveyed than tow • • • • e coach . : m doing of *which they es by the Drferdant, and •he Proseetitc snmeerbat hurt. One ir the chests td out of the coach, and a mob e ls , m while strugOing. The Defends rime :insisted that t ,e duties were and that be had a permit. This pet put Oortrt - Tirxt the chi-sts of tea been delivered to Mess-s Fermet an iderchants. in Ce:teeei uich-street The evideisze of the imei two Ott m the URIC pulp •. 1; hut it appe4• h*J rt.v•r read the pe; mi. p v and,lll4i i! Was impossible th at g• rbiliM/CMAR Itra ....alas. ase .ilthaugh he had Aeon er ti. kit tts -- - The Jury, • ar - er a , ni , a'te . . Learned Magi,:tate, tully e-crs , charge. A. M. Termeni, a • tailor in Awl charprd with 2:sank ng a Mr. K; Cone Sots of the Income !'art. on t gust lasi. The Protect:foe was aftestlitig h Ccmnsissinner , ' Johns. w en Trent.- purpo.e of making .0.1 ap , .41. C , w had been 'aaJotit4, icy rt !,, .f the for the pimp , se , f pi r:e wing r• v o. issuing Oche:s. with wirn!lers, to I numerous appellants, hr the order came. The &lumber given to the 117, so that he ha o proopet! of lug ; and. coneequecl?. became a patient He, however, ((reed Imam 9 , lecerded in getting adatttesco fa The Cnmraltstosers etlitrint him owl in co-nplying with that order, r blows from the Defendant. Mr. 'Marna% Smallwood. a ear oenfirmed the Prosecutor's evidewee The Jeff found a ve:die 'cf eloi fondant was milerasl to pay IN fine el Moms Siefert, a ternpike-keeps for assaulting a Nfr. George Kent. from Egham Itaces. oc the event Septew sw tat. The . vlJetsce of Mt. Kent @bowel to dr Reeve In company with a Mr Wilson. The latter of them psi horseback, and this other two 11Per. _ _ . passing thrones the tuospits. bop ant, Mr. Nilsen paid the tail - dr and companions, and received a them all to repass, on their retatiti saying, that be woldd know than Geademen returned about crcl ing. and Mr. Warm happenintt ahmit one hnnlied yards, presents; was alowtel to paw; hat on the at/ up, the Defendant shot the vie this some argament ensued. and hatiel ; but the Defendant insive ticket from each of them. nth/twin be allowed to paw. The 111(00 el was then inquired unto; inn be rats inquiries, and persisted in his den ing so, used most *Atkins lens Kent attempting to get into the t 4 ...talcs his mat name, be . wiss was &Meat, and was obli ge d, in hi, a hearty drubbing. Us happen. The Defendant called a.) wi Counsel, Mr. As LILT, eadesenurei I his criat.ezarainsticas, abet the coney' inns were the 6.st a srei he caopletely faded: It a fenda It also threatening . r. Coli_ j tossk hint isiTiollti t ursog v ,ao,!M biro ores t h e tornpik .......-: .111s4 .Ce5..411,4: Istritte Ale circumstance statadotittlor.Preldi soles Toefois PrisemegiaiibagiA ting ... . . . ... _ . --111 , 1 ! . S . ' I.ioriesisi Yeremshoy, o root Wiselliservet Ott of the 'treys AID -trawl phorto tti'tbia 11 , 44 Ille riel ceoceind a gaireittcw, the Alto: artwawich liCepiaal and the Tr their wages. The Captain soil .the India-Hnose artencted, whet only regularly paid. bat their attended tot and that they had g manner to the Captain's bow.. them, if they cnncfnaid themes the city, he should send them tot they went away very quietly. of them &polo, English, ----.eatTime Nardi, the unforumate foreig gate, charged with the murder during the late Westminster F.:lg a very respetlable tradesman in ti6c.al-fl i.ver-maker ; and was mild and proper demeanour. 5 went to Germany ; and, since hi stand, has displayed many syrn such as carrying out boxes or va trade, into the street, selling blot or giving them away to the pas. the bargain with a tune no b•s el was disposed of in the same rue state of cnmparative opulence, 1 to indigence and misery. We the maniac who csitturbei the a , night of Miss B )t.1%,N . S appear Korean, is the Doers of Low in Garden Theatre; he repeat: performers, calling out to them reed ; and at length became cons.eties were sent for, aiurhe out ot the boo". Piavers at games of cards, of amazing run of good lock,frort winnings, zr.d by d-übling thei to rain even a few hunch eds of it single stake only ot Six and ' less a sum than nearly Iwo Ti be acquired, at one wiaiing, 1 of ,icier if the two Noble Pri' . present most rnornen:uus Loth- SvveM id Adveniure, mar rl Can rent, CUR po,sitsly• prod such a Gilt of Fortune.